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1. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Somalia
Atom Egoyan
Austria
(The) dodo
2. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
Eris (Discord)
Miles Davis
Racecar
(The) House of Seven Gables
3. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Darwin's
Night Court
Federico Fellini
Martha Stewart
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Topper
The Maltese Falcon
Terminal velocity
Compaq
5. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Theodore Roosevelt
Betty (Rubble)
Rebecca
McDonnell Douglas
6. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
Lulu
Kitty Genovese
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Larry Nance
7. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(Honda) Civic
MCI
8. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Jerusalem
Yes
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Pachyderm
9. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
Peach (also contains orange)
About Schmidt
The Lion King
Ben Hogan
10. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Gorilla
Joel Cohen
The Loco-motion
Pulp Fiction
11. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack Russell
9
Jack the Ripper
London Bridge
12. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
B. J. Armstrong
Arkansas
13. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Tiger Woods
Ellery Queen
Bunker Hill
Donner Pass
14. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Palau
Mulan
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Trapped in the Closet
15. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Murmur
The Hula Bowl
Colombia
(the) Boston Tea Party
16. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
Theodore
Orangutan
Mitch
(Sperm) Whale
17. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
The Ritz (hotel)
Texas and New Mexico
Hercules
D. H. Lawrence
18. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Theodore
Oedipus
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Charles Lindbergh
19. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
The Canterville Ghost
Marcel Marceau
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Beverly Cleary
20. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Charles Starkweather
Senegal
Apocalypse Now
John Cassavets
21. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
James Cameron
Clownfish
Martin Scorsese
Will & Grace
22. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Boxing
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Motor Trend
Victoria Falls
23. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Spain
G. E. Smith
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Rene Descartes
24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Algeria
Real estate (investment)
Randy Quaid
Red Dawn (1984)
25. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Antonin Scalia
Basalt
Liar Liar
Blue
26. First New York Times movie review?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
India
Palmer
Pippa Passes (1909)
27. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Lights of New York (1928)
Paradise Lost
(Ford) Excursion
28. First three-strip Technicolor?
Pink
Six
Becky Sharp (1935)
In Cold Blood
29. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
112
Bunker Hill
Ione Skye
40
30. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
(a) clergyman
Smerdyakov
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
(Songs in) A Minor
31. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
Ian Fleming
Dentin
Joel Cohen
De Beers
32. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Pearl Harbor
K. d. lang
J. K. Rowling
The gingerbread man
33. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Topper
(an) e
The Bridge over the River Kwai
34. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Bob Dylan
Naomi
Orange(s)
35. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Nevada
Guy Ritchie
IMDb
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
36. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
China
Oscar and Lucinda
(the) ear
HP Lovecraft
37. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Hindenburg (explosion)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Norma Jean
Aglet
38. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
9
Victoria Falls
Shrek 2
Red Dawn (1984)
39. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Mexico
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Pink
40. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Eddie Matthews
Venus
Teapot Dome
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
41. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Larry Nance
Flowers for Algernon
Darwin's
(tested positive for) marijuana
42. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?
Gordie Howe
V2 (rocket)s
The Satanic Verses
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
43. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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44. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Rocky Balboa
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Hindenburg (explosion)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
45. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Go Away Little Girl
Sally Ride
Teapot Dome
Tiger Woods
46. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
Terminal velocity
It Happened One Night (1934)
Murphy Brown
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
47. First film shown on HBO?
Douglas
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Scoop
48. Which company merged with NBC?
Rebecca
Argentina
Vivendi
Pocahontas
49. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
V2 (rocket)s
Pete Seeger
Dannii
50. 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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