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1. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Mitosis
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
(street) lanes
Cocoon
2. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?
Fig newtons
Uruguay
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
9
3. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
Gordie Howe
Hannah
Mashed potatoes
Ernesto
4. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
Kate & Allie
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Haiti
(tested positive for) marijuana
5. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Sean Connery
MASH
(the) Boston Tea Party
Ernie
6. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Joanne Woodward
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Llama
7. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Orangutan
Hamlet
Hamlet
You Keep Me Hangin' On
8. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Tarzan
Jamie Lynn
Crunk
Pancreas
9. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Rebecca
Flowers for Algernon
Hugo Chavez
Ohio and North Carolina
10. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
James Cook (English - 1770)
Salzburg
Boxing
Larry Nance
11. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
Venice
Eve
Philip Marlowe
The Hula Bowl
12. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Chile
(Ford) Excursion
Smerdyakov
(Songs in) A Minor
13. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Donner Pass
Montreal
14. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Night Court
Robert Scott
Tammy Faye Bakker
Topper (1937)
15. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
(the) Great Train Robbery
Cornea
Dracula
Louisville (Kentucky)
16. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Eeyore
Antonin Scalia
A-ha
17. First use of Steadicam in film?
(Dallas) Love Field
Jive
Croatia
Bound for Glory (1976)
18. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
(Dallas) Love Field
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
19. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Liar Liar
Kitty Genovese
Ian Fleming
Pachyderm
20. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Snape
Wings (1927)
(Dallas) Love Field
Condoleezza Rice
21. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Pachyderm
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Ben Hogan
Kitty Genovese
22. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Can-Can
Manhunter
Stalingrad
Emeritus
23. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Hope & Faith
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
24. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Kali
Aurora australis
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
25. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Canterville Ghost
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
26. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Atom Egoyan
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Brain Boitano
Antawn Jamison
27. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Thailand
Cocoon
(Hector) Berlioz
Koran
28. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Texas and New Mexico
Go Away Little Girl
James Cameron
Brazil
29. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Larry Nance
(the) Boston Tea Party
Federico Fellini
Brazil
30. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Somewhere in Time
Hips
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
What's Up - Doc?
31. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Somewhere in Time
Joanne Woodward
Charles Lindbergh
Antonin Scalia
32. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
James Cagney
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Fig newtons
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
33. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Beck (Odelay)
3 2 1 Contact
Sleeping Beauty
Yellow
34. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Aladdin
Romania
Donner Pass
(a) Yo-yo
35. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
Thailand
Ski slopes
Dannii
(The) Jordan (River)
36. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Fig newtons
Brent Spiner
Fig newtons
Horse
37. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
(The) dodo
Gypsy Rose Lee
Edsel
Odor Eaters (insoles)
38. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
(Dallas) Love Field
(The St. Louis) Blues
The (Buffalo) Sabres
39. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
De Beers
What's Up - Doc?
Lord of the Flies
Texaco
40. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
J. M. Barrie
(the) bishop
Flowers for Algernon
41. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Turkey
Rome
Jack Kevorkian
Seven
42. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Muhammad
Frank Zappa
Body Count
(the) New York Mets
43. Which company merged with SBC?
Palm Sunday
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
CTU
Palau
44. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Bambi
Roger Maris
Ken Davitian
Inspiration (1915)
45. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Red
Spinal Tap
Apocalypse Now
Frank Zamboni
46. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Avocado(s)
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Bicycle(s)
MASH
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Eris (Discord)
Jurassic Park
48. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Draw
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Home Improvement
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
49. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
G. E. Smith
(The) dodo
Theodore Roosevelt
Roger Bannister
50. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Tupac Shakur
Model railroad
Little Rock
A-ha