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1. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Miles Davis
Philip Marlowe
India
Israel
2. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Omega
Nevada
The gingerbread man
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
3. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Theodore
Dentin
4. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
France
Ken Davitian
Elvis Costello
4
5. Which company merged with Verizon?
Manhunter
Mecca
Roswell( - NM)
MCI
6. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Hercules
Humbert Humbert
Stevie Wonder
Clownfish
7. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Eugene Onegin
Desiderata
K. d. lang
8. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
(Pablo) Picasso
Edsel
Jorge Luis Borges
The gingerbread man
9. Which artist had the double album Being There?
The Mini (Cooper)
Wilco
Pear(s)
Tammy Faye Bakker
10. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Hope & Faith
Coal
V8 (juice)
Aglet
11. 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
Thailand
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Curly Howard
12. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Paul Newman
Topper
Burberry
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
13. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Mitsubishi
Genesis
The Dome of the Rock
Peach(es)
14. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Babar
William Tell
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
15. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
Ellery Queen
Douglas
The White Witch
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
16. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Old Time Rock and Roll
(Songs in) A Minor
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Real estate (investment)
17. How many band members were there in Green Day?
Wiley Post
Sirhan Sirhan
De Beers
3
18. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
The Satanic Verses
Turkmenistan
Altamount
James Cagney
19. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Atom Egoyan
Laverne & Shirley
5
Nicky
20. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Parking meters
Avocado(s)
Iran
(the) Jack of diamonds
21. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Rome
HP Lovecraft
Nuclear disarmament
2
22. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Aurora australis
Mary Decker (Slaney)
HP Lovecraft
Ken Davitian
23. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Amos 'n' Andy
Delaware
Pancreas
24. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Six
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Cocoon
25. Who killed the literary character Laius?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Oedipus
Color blindness
The Mini (Cooper)
26. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Aurora australis
Aliana
Rene Descartes
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
27. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Portland( - OR)
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Donner Pass
Ashlee
28. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
The Cincinnati Reds
Coal
The Fantastic Four
Deer
29. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
Dollar
Mulan
Texaco
Lean on Me
30. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Ski slopes
Llama
Field of Dreams
State quarters
31. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Venus
China
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Color blindness
32. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Tiger Woods
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Venus
Fahrenheit 451
33. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Parking meters
Motor Trend
The Age ofInnocence
34. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Otto
Tiny Bubbles
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
35. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Czechoslovakia
Yellow (and key!)
Coruscant
Radar
36. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
30 Rock
Jim Valvano
Alsatians
Venice
37. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
James Cameron
Terminal velocity
Rulon Gardner
Victoria Falls
38. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Couscous
Bwana Devil (1952)
Algeria
39. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
(The) NHL
Five
Renny Harlin
Prince Valiant
40. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
(George) Clooney
Pearl Harbor
Lord of the Flies
Brain Boitano
41. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Jerusalem
Delaware
Roberto Rossellini
42. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Betty (Rubble)
Palm Sunday
Emma
43. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Buster Douglas
Beck (Odelay)
TheAtlas (A)
William Tell
44. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
STP Motor Oil
Algeria
The Canterville Ghost
Uruguay
45. Which company merged with SBC?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
William Tell
Mickey Finn
46. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
Antawn Jamison
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Charles Lindbergh
47. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Tongue
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Temple prostitute
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
48. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Rocky Balboa
(tested positive for) marijuana
Rat
Jessica Lange
49. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Omega
Lean on Me
50. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
7
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Kenneth Branagh
Austria