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1. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Coal
Orangutan
Renny Harlin
Marcel Marceau
2. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Charles Lindbergh
Moby Dick
Mitsubishi
Victoria Falls
3. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
What's Up - Doc?
Subaru
(Albert) Einstein
40
4. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
Smerdyakov
The Mona Lisa
Ukraine
(the) Republican Party
5. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Nicaragua
Delaware
Silicon Valley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
Mickey Finn
(The St. Louis) Blues
IMF
Candyman
7. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
Jim Lovell
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Crunk
Czechoslovakia
8. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Kenneth Branagh
Queen Anne's Lace
Jim Jones
9. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Bling bling
Jim Calhoun
Manhunter
Venice
10. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
I've fallen and I can't get up
John Cassavets
Jamaica
11. What are divided by Botts' dots?
(street) lanes
I've fallen and I can't get up
Polo
Foo Fighters
12. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
The Pope
Body Count
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
(Pablo) Picasso
13. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
S(ain)t Louis
North America
George Wilson
Melville
14. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
S(ain)t Louis
1606
15. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
Benito Mussolini
Judiciary
CTU
16. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Six
Brain Boitano
(Gerald)Ford
Tsetse fly
17. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
The Tell-tale Heart
Algeria
Tammy Faye Bakker
Bunker Hill
18. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Panama
O. J. Simpson
Eric
19. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Uruguay
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
8
Oahu
20. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Blue
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
The Boston Celtics (21)
Murray Gell-Mann
21. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
Marcel Marceau
Romeo and Juliet
1
Mashed potatoes
22. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Louisville (Kentucky)
Judiciary
Rulon Gardner
(the) World Cup (trophy)
23. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?
Simon Legree
New York - New York
Mia Farrow
James Cameron
24. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Humbert Humbert
(the) giraffe
Mashed potatoes
(planetary) rings
25. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?
Texaco
8
Martin Landau
Humbert Humbert
26. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Cherries
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Ghost
Mickey Finn
27. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Peach (also contains orange)
Antonin Scalia
Christina Aguilera
Westward Ho!
28. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
V8 (juice)
Switzerland
Mitsubishi
Ulysseys (1967)
29. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Hamlet
Orange
State quarters
Nicaragua
30. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Spellbound
Hannah
Federico Fellini
Color blindness
31. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
MASH
Panama
Hannah
Mulan
32. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
(street) lanes
Michelle Wie
Kitty Genovese
Foo Fighters
33. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
MASH
George Deukmejian
Koran
(planetary) rings
34. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Oscar and Lucinda
Heloise
By Love Possessed (1961)
Snape
35. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Brent Spiner
Queen Anne's Lace
Leopard
Renny Harlin
36. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Grenada
The Descent
Federico Fellini
Michigan
37. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Mashed potatoes
Kenneth Branagh
Mecca
(Dallas) Love Field
38. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Brain Boitano
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
State quarters
Dannii
39. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
Wendy
Martin Scorsese
The Fantastic Four
Sugar Ray Leonard
40. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Tomato(es)
Romania
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Capri
41. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
I'll Be There
Arkansas
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Omega
42. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Elle
By Love Possessed (1961)
(George) Clooney
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
43. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Bling bling
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Jorge Luis Borges
A Christmas Carol
44. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Betty (Rubble)
Romeo and Juliet
(The) NHL
The Dick Van Dyke Show
45. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Jean-Luc Goddard
Radar
Billy Martin
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
46. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
Peach (also contains orange)
Foo Fighters
New York - New York
V2 (rocket)s
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Grape(s)
Edith Head
Italy
48. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
E. B. White
Kitty Genovese
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
The Learning Tree (1969)
49. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Body Count
(The) Rolling Stones
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(the) Jack of diamonds
50. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Cameroon
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
10
Jive