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1. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Christina Aguilera
Yes
Almonds
(Ford) Excursion
2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?
Almonds
Senegal
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Eeyore
3. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
J. M. Barrie
B. J. Armstrong
Joanne Woodward
STP Motor Oil
4. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Howard Hughes
Sullivan Ordinance
Travelers Group
William Tell
5. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Lion King
Theodore
Sri Lanka
6. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Steven Biko
Jamaica Bay
The Three Musketeers
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
7. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Beck (Odelay)
Vincente Minnelli
Chinese Democracy
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
8. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Frank Zappa
Muhammad
Peru
9. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
LeBron James
Ozone
Sir Walter Raleigh
Odor Eaters (insoles)
10. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(Dallas) Love Field
Home Improvement
Otto
11. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Cat
12. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Milk Duds
Banana
V8 (juice)
13. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Heloise
Pocahontas
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
14. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Kayak
George Wilson
I'll Be There
15. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
(the) giraffe
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
John F. Kennedy
Texas and New Mexico
16. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Lemon(s)
Baltimore
Couscous
Maya Angelou
17. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Flowers for Algernon
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Federico Fellini
18. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Snape
Scrat
Heaven's Gate (1980)
19. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Aladdin
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
HP Lovecraft
Thrust
20. First computer graphics in film?
Bunker Hill
Westworld (1973)
Portland( - OR)
Mars
21. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(her) hair
Buffalo
Salt Lake City
Brain Boitano
22. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
(a) Yo-yo
HL Mencken
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Cornea
23. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Eeyore
Go Away Little Girl
Miles Davis
24. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
The Sparrow
Compaq
Joanne Woodward
Wilco
25. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
LeBron James
Eris (Discord)
The White Witch
New York - New York
26. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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27. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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28. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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29. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Coruscant
Red
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
30. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Edith Head
Rebecca
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Tell-tale Heart
31. How many band members were there in Madness?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Lulu
7
The Mona Lisa
32. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
(street) lanes
Hugo Chavez
Compaq
K. d. lang
33. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Muammar Qaddifi
When a Man Loves a Woman
Charles Starkweather
Peach (also contains orange)
34. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Tupac Shakur
The Canterville Ghost
35. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Montgomery - Alabama
Roger Vadim
Boxing
Cream
36. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Trapped in the Closet
Murray Gell-Mann
Becky Sharp (1935)
Cocoon
37. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
(the) Motorwagen
Melville
STP Motor Oil
Blue
38. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Mitosis
Oort cloud
Couscous
39. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
3 2 1 Contact
Mexico
Wiley Post
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
40. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Beverly Cleary
Red Dawn (1984)
Mahi mahi
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
41. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Happyness
The Artful Dodger
Judiciary
(the) New York Mets
42. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
MCI
Murray Gell-Mann
Desiderata
Tongue
43. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Body Count
Coffee
Ellery Queen
44. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Renny Harlin
Palau
Jamie Lynn
45. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
(the) Jack of diamonds
Your Girlfriend
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
46. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
St. Louis Cardinals
(PE)6-5000
James Cook (English - 1770)
Cornea
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Horse
Colonel Harland Sanders
A Christmas Carol
Cocoon
48. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Times Square
Temple prostitute
Jessica Lange
Capybara
49. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Tiny Bubbles
(a) clergyman
Senegal
Prince Valiant
50. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Home Improvement
Arkansas
MCI
Texaco