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1. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bank One
Jeremy Bentham
Uruguay
Model railroad
2. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?
Desiderata
Heaven's Gate (1980)
(a) clergyman
Westward Ho!
3. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Bicycle(s)
Otto
Charles Starkweather
4. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Jim Valvano
Prince Valiant
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Intercourse
5. Which company merged with Verizon?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
MCI
Yes
Scrooged
6. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Crunk
Omega
Moby Dick
Blue
7. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Nicky
Paradise Lost
8. First Best Picture Oscar?
XTC
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Wings (1927)
Horse
9. What is frozen to make dry ice?
The Others
(The) dodo
Dairy Queen
Carbon dioxide
10. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
The Little Mermaid
Darwin's
Bicycle(s)
Simon Legree
11. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
By choice - man!
1606
Eric
(the) Republican Party
12. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Balthasar (Magi)
Hope & Faith
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Ben Hogan
13. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Austria
Sally Ride
Old Time Rock and Roll
14. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Hamlet
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Lazarus
Jim Jones
15. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Sirhan Sirhan
Wiley Post
Maya Angelou
Kornfield Kounty
16. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Richard Cory (himself)
The Ewings (Dallas)
Ellery Queen
17. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
Jim Calhoun
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Charles Lindbergh
Ellery Queen
18. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
I'm a Believer
Home Improvement
Sally Ride
IMF
19. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Topper
Wings (1927)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Philip Marlowe
20. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Home Improvement
Your Girlfriend
Nuclear disarmament
Avocado(s)
21. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Paul Newman
Black
Nevada
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
22. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Senegal
STP Motor Oil
40
23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
(the) ear
Beetle Juice
Peach(es)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
24. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Cream
Babar
Llama
Romania
25. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
De Beers
Tongue
Darwin's
26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Five
Lean on Me
Tongue
Tammy Faye Bakker
27. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Germany
Tarzan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Paradise Lost
28. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Stalingrad
Underoos
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Victoria Falls
29. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
The Sixth Sense
NineInch Nails
Victoria Falls
30. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Jenny
(PE)6-5000
Ian Fleming
31. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Flowers for Algernon
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Nicaragua
A-ha
32. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
St. Louis Cardinals
Aliana
Philip Marlowe
33. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
IMF
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Jim Jones
Parrot
34. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Mitsubishi
Stevie Wonder
Robert Scott
(a) Yo-yo
35. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
(the) Great Train Robbery
Green
Sir Walter Raleigh
36. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Babar
Pink
37. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Scrooged
Model railroad
Turkey
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
38. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Rochelle - Rochelle
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Real estate (investment)
Judy Garland
39. First all-sound film?
Topper (1937)
(street) lanes
Lights of New York (1928)
(Albert) Einstein
40. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Brazil
Sleeping Beauty
Grenada
Curly Howard
41. First film shown on HBO?
Croatia
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Mau Mau
42. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
The Sparrow
Times Square
Prince
D. H. Lawrence
43. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
About Schmidt
Federico Fellini
Howard Hughes
Uruguay
44. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Roger Bannister
James Cagney
Genesis
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
45. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
John Cassavets
The Age ofInnocence
Czechoslovakia
Stevie Wonder
46. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
The Artful Dodger
The White Witch
Red Dawn (1984)
47. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
Garo Yepremian
The Canterville Ghost
Gypsy Rose Lee
Everybody Hates
48. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Bonnie and Clyde
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Frank Zamboni
James Cook (English - 1770)
49. What is a female donkey called?
Argentina
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Manhunter
Romeo and Juliet
50. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
Subaru
The Sixth Sense
Hercules
Stalingrad
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