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1. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'
Pink
(Honda) Civic
MMMBob
Cream
2. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
(an) e
Jenny
(the) Great Train Robbery
3. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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4. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Ghost
Lillian Hellman
Buffalo
Kitty Genovese
5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Judy Garland
Thailand
Lights of New York (1928)
6. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
John F. Kennedy
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Michelle Wie
(the) Motorwagen
7. First Best Picture Oscar?
It Happened One Night (1934)
A Room With a View (Forster)
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Wings (1927)
8. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Alfred Hitchcock
Martha Stewart
By Love Possessed (1961)
Sally Ride
9. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Donner Pass
Eris (Discord)
10. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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11. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Jack Russell
Polo
Rocky Balboa
MMMBob
12. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Pink
(George) Clooney
The Little Mermaid
13. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Sonic Youth
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Emeritus
14. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Humbert Humbert
Cullinan
IMF
Romeo and Juliet
15. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Cameroon
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
(The St. Louis) Blues
Theodore
16. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
20
Antonin Scalia
3 2 1 Contact
Cocoon
17. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
3 2 1 Contact
Murray Gell-Mann
Wiley Post
Thailand
18. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
Darwin's
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Brian De Palma
(The) Jordan (River)
19. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Philadelphia
Ambrose Bierce
(The) Jordan (River)
(The) NHL
20. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Jenny McCarthy
Scoop
Charles Starkweather
SD-6
21. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Romania
The Others
K. d. lang
Czechoslovakia
22. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
(Gerald)Ford
When a Man Loves a Woman
Emeritus
Haiti
23. How many band members were there in UB40?
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Harold and Maude
Vincente Minnelli
8
24. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
James Cagney
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Eric Bogosian
Ian Fleming
25. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Tupac Shakur
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fontanelles
(Songs in) A Minor
26. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
(tested positive for) marijuana
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Antonio Stradivarius
Seal (played by a sea lion)
27. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Mitosis
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hips
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
28. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Watermelon(s)
Murray Gell-Mann
The Maltese Falcon
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
29. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Paradise Lost
(the) bishop
Buffalo
30. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Temple prostitute
Pegasus
Pink
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
31. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Brent Spiner
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Leopard
32. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Deer
Ione Skye
Tammy Faye Bakker
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
33. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Roger Bannister
Eve
Joanne Woodward
34. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Colonel Tom Parker
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
35. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
Cat
Liar Liar
Aglet
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
36. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
Venice
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Rebecca
(the) World Cup (trophy)
37. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Parrot
Beverly Cleary
Simon Legree
Czechoslovakia
38. First use of Steadicam in film?
V2 (rocket)s
Oscar and Lucinda
Bound for Glory (1976)
Brian De Palma
39. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Germany
Gypsy Rose Lee
V8 (juice)
John Speke (English - 1856)
40. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
Apocalypse Now
(The) Marines
(planetary) rings
Darwin's
41. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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42. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Roger Bannister
France
STP Motor Oil
Rene Descartes
43. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Austria
U.N.C.L.E
44. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Finland
The Frighteners
Scrat
7
45. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Martin Scorsese
The Cincinnati Reds
Compaq
Romeo and Juliet
46. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
9
Cocoon
Snape
Gene Roddenberry
47. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Turkmenistan
Jim Valvano
Lights of New York (1928)
Bucket
48. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
China
Baden-Baden
(Adolf) Hitler
Laverne & Shirley
49. Which company merged with SBC?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Baltimore
The Cincinnati Reds
Condoleezza Rice
50. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Pink
(PE)6-5000
40
IMF