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1. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
The Mona Lisa
Montreal
The Hula Bowl
Donner Pass
2. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Texas and New Mexico
Spellbound
Extras
3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Grape(s)
Maya Angelou
Fontanelles
Bicycle(s)
4. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Moby Dick
Jenny McCarthy
Rulon Gardner
Palau
5. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
New York - New York
Nicky
D. H. Lawrence
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
6. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
The Mona Lisa
Blue
Beetle Juice
Home Improvement
7. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Colonel Tom Parker
Jack Russell
Baden-Baden
SD-6
8. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Hercules
(PE)6-5000
Heloise
9. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Stevie Wonder
Darwin's
Hannah
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
10. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
LeBron James
(PE)6-5000
(The) Rolling Stones
Ernesto
11. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Ian Fleming
American Beauty
Yellow (and key!)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
12. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Melville
1
Portland( - OR)
Genesis
13. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Mulan
Jive
K. d. lang
14. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Ohio and North Carolina
James Cook (English - 1770)
Fish
15. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Sleeping Beauty
About Schmidt
Tarzan
John Speke (English - 1856)
16. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Mia Farrow
The Others
Lamar Alexander
40
17. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
Tsetse fly
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Banana
The Little Mermaid
18. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Oedipus
Vivendi
(Songs in) A Minor
19. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
(Sperm) Whale
Paradise Lost
Ohio and North Carolina
Jorge Luis Borges
20. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Tupac Shakur
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Brain Boitano
Pink
21. How many band members were there in Toto?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Frank Zappa
Foo Fighters
6
22. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Gypsy Rose Lee
Brian De Palma
Baltimore
Boxing
23. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
Topper
Jorge Luis Borges
Mickey Finn
U.N.C.L.E
24. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?
Motor Trend
Philadelphia
(Sperm) Whale
Spain
25. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Green
Paul Newman
The Dome of the Rock
Fontanelles
26. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?
John F. Kennedy
Victoria Falls
Pachyderm
Oort cloud
27. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Venus
Your Girlfriend
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Ozone
28. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Canada
She shot JR (Dallas)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Jurassic Park
29. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
1606
(the) bishop
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Oedipus
30. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Mahi mahi
St. Louis Cardinals
Uruguay
Orange
31. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Delaware
Do The Right Thing
Eddie Matthews
Finland
32. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Almonds
Benito Mussolini
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
33. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
Ali MacGraw
Philip Marlowe
The Boston Celtics (21)
Please Mr. Postman
34. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Roger Maris
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
35. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
Darwin's
Dharma & Greg
Jim Lovell
Murphy Brown
36. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Curly Howard
Turkey
Jamaica Bay
Murray Gell-Mann
37. First film shown on HBO?
James Cameron
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
38. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Real estate (investment)
Israel
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
39. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
(the) Great Train Robbery
Terminal velocity
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
40. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Pippa Passes (1909)
Boxing
Jorge Luis Borges
Ashlee
41. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Pear(s)
Tarzan
Coal
Hips
42. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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43. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
Sonic Youth
Mecca
S(ain)t Louis
44. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Mitch
Emma
Wilco
Coal
45. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Louisville (Kentucky)
James Cook (English - 1770)
Capybara
Avocado(s)
46. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?
Happyness
Teddy Roosevelt
Nicaragua
Topper
47. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Jeremy Bentham
Montgomery - Alabama
The Boston Celtics (21)
48. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
The Canterville Ghost
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Pakistan
49. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
3
Roswell( - NM)
Texas and New Mexico
Nevada
50. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
J. K. Rowling
EMForster
Arkansas