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1. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Scrooged
Scoop
Lemon(s)
The Dome of the Rock
2. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Dollar
Flowers for Algernon
Louie Louie
3. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Flowers for Algernon
France
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
The Sixth Sense
4. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?
EMForster
A Room With a View (Forster)
Croatia
Chantilly
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
Deer
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Sullivan Ordinance
The Ritz (hotel)
6. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Earl Morrall
Orangutan
The Little Mermaid
Ohio and North Carolina
7. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
D. H. Lawrence
Oahu
Jim Jones
8. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
McDonnell Douglas
Pocahontas
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Hercules
9. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Home Improvement
Parking meters
Roswell( - NM)
White
10. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Teapot Dome
Venice
Croatia
11. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Peach(es)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Michigan
Portland( - OR)
12. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Nuclear disarmament
Sullivan Ordinance
Peach(es)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
13. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
Judiciary
Aladdin
Mel Brooks
M. C. Hammer
14. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
G. E. Smith
Antonin Scalia
(Hector) Berlioz
15. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
China
Ulysseys (1967)
Kate & Allie
16. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
Dharma & Greg
Grenada
(Gerald)Ford
The Hula Bowl
17. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Eve
Ulysseys (1967)
J. K. Rowling
18. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Fahrenheit 451
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Dairy Queen
Judy Garland
19. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?
Sweden
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Cat
Tupac Shakur
20. 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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21. 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
Odor Eaters (insoles)
A-ha
Edsel
22. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Black
(the) Republican Party
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
(street) lanes
23. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
Leopard
Theodore Roosevelt
H. G. Wells
Jack Russell
24. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Paradise Lost
Terminal velocity
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
25. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
Pachyderm
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Peach (also contains orange)
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
26. First scheduled in-flight movie?
(street) lanes
By Love Possessed (1961)
Frank Zamboni
Upset
27. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Guy Ritchie
The Mini (Cooper)
Eddie Matthews
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
28. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Dairy Queen
Horse
James Cameron
Nevada
29. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Otto
It Happened One Night (1934)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Gomer Pyle
30. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?
Scrooged
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Nuclear disarmament
John F. Kennedy
31. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
IMDb
Eris (Discord)
Gomer Pyle
The Others
32. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Tupac Shakur
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
(Sperm) Whale
Night Court
33. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
When a Man Loves a Woman
Aramis
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Martin Landau
34. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
Motor Trend
Peru
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Sonic Youth
35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Spain
China
Lemon(s)
Renny Harlin
36. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Lean on Me
Philadelphia
Ambrose Bierce
Orangutan
37. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Ernie
Martin Landau
Becky Sharp (1935)
38. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
SD-6
Betty (Rubble)
Edith Head
The Sparrow
39. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Fig newtons
Somewhere in Time
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
40. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Wings (1927)
Buster Douglas
Llama
Martin Scorsese
41. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
A-ha
Body Count
Randy Quaid
Black
42. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
(The) dodo
Pig
Lazarus
The Cincinnati Reds
43. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Rulon Gardner
(the) Great Train Robbery
Peach(es)
44. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Czechoslovakia
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Yellow (and key!)
Teapot Dome
45. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Aurora australis
Temple prostitute
Rene Descartes
46. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Martin Landau
Theodore
(The) Jordan (River)
47. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Duran Duran
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
(Songs in) A Minor
Orange(s)
48. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Mulan
Cat
XTC
40
49. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
Roger Maris
K. d. lang
(Albert) Einstein
Antawn Jamison
50. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
TheAtlas (A)
(the) Boston Tea Party
Bringing up Baby (1938)
India
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