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1. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
The Others
China
State quarters
(George) Clooney
2. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Strawberries
Ants
Cornea
Curly Howard
3. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Bank One
SD-6
Pearl Harbor
Brian De Palma
4. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Peach (also contains orange)
About Schmidt
Ozone
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
5. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Yellow
The Robe (1953)
Hope & Faith
Benito Mussolini
6. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Coal
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Horse
7. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Country (West Point motto)
Mitch
Buffalo
H. G. Wells
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
The Ritz (hotel)
India
Times Square
Robert De Niro
9. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
Trapped in the Closet
Venice
Everybody Hates
S(ain)t Louis
10. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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11. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Teapot Dome
I've fallen and I can't get up
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Candyman
12. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
Ants
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Steven Biko
Rocky Balboa
13. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Emma
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Eugene Onegin
20
14. First scheduled in-flight movie?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Roger Maris
V8 (juice)
Rene Descartes
15. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Martin Scorsese
(Sperm) Whale
16. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
Beck (Odelay)
Murphy Brown
When a Man Loves a Woman
Turkmenistan
17. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Body Count
Ganesh
U.N.C.L.E
18. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Humbert Humbert
Beetle Juice
Hong Kong
Grape(s)
19. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Betty (Rubble)
In Cold Blood
Hannah
Omega
20. How many band members were there in Toto?
6
Sean Connery
Yellow
I've fallen and I can't get up
21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?
Jenny McCarthy
American Beauty
Spinal Tap
Nicaragua
22. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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23. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
NineInch Nails
Tiny Bubbles
Sirhan Sirhan
Tammy Faye Bakker
24. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'
Finland
Fahrenheit 451
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Cocoon
25. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
(her) hair
Hong Kong
New Zealand
Peach(es)
26. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Fraternite
Shel Silverstein
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Orange
27. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Prince
McDonnell Douglas
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Rat
28. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Italy
India
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Apocalypse Now
29. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
MCI
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Roger Bannister
Brian De Palma
30. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
V8 (juice)
(the) New York Mets
Gorilla
Gordie Howe
31. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
Chantilly
Baden-Baden
Mia Farrow
Sri Lanka
32. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
XTC
Cocoon
Jean-Luc Goddard
(The) House of Seven Gables
33. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Paul Newman
Bob Dylan
Seven
Bicycle(s)
34. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Murmur
Frank Zamboni
Crunk
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
35. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Philadelphia
(a) Yo-yo
Silicon Valley
(the) World Cup (trophy)
36. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
Pulp Fiction
Eric Bogosian
New York - New York
Muammar Qaddifi
37. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Foo Fighters
Michigan
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
38. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
(planetary) rings
The Learning Tree (1969)
Charles Lindbergh
Palm Sunday
39. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Teapot Dome
Edith Head
Earl Morrall
Mars
40. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Texaco
(the) Jack of diamonds
5
B. J. Armstrong
41. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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42. Which company merged with Viacom?
Paramount
Murmur
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
The Loco-motion
43. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
(street) lanes
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Lillian Hellman
Jorge Luis Borges
44. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Horse
Silicon and oxygen
Pig
45. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Cocoon
1
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
46. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Roswell( - NM)
Christina Aguilera
Italy
Douglas
47. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Coruscant
The Age ofInnocence
Grenada
Harold and Maude
48. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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49. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Capybara
The Ewings (Dallas)
Lady Marmalade
The gingerbread man
50. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
Czechoslovakia
Becky Sharp (1935)
North Korea
38th Parallel