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1. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Arkansas
Charles Lindbergh
Amos 'n' Andy
3 2 1 Contact
2. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Eric
STP Motor Oil
Sonic Youth
3. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
The Hula Bowl
Snape
Beowulf
LeBron James
4. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Betty (Rubble)
Judy Garland
Genesis
5. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
(the) Great Train Robbery
The Loco-motion
Underoos
Brian De Palma
6. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Martin Landau
M. C. Hammer
Lulu
7. First scheduled in-flight movie?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Royal jelly
S(ain)t Louis
Somewhere in Time
8. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
I'll Be There
Westward Ho!
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Can-Can
9. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Ganesh
Senegal
Ernesto
10. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Theodore Roosevelt
By Love Possessed (1961)
Montreal
Theodore
11. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
Stalingrad
Sri Lanka
(a) clergyman
12. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Iran
Scrat
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
13. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
5
Beetle Juice
Intercourse
Brian De Palma
14. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Colonel Harland Sanders
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Colombia
Sao Paulo
15. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Jack Russell
HL Mencken
Uruguay
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
16. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Nevada
Algeria
Iran
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
17. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
Babar
Harold and Maude
Muhammad
Nevada
18. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
I've fallen and I can't get up
Snape
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Hydrogen and oxygen
19. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Please Mr. Postman
Joanne Woodward
MASH
20. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Naomi
Ian Fleming
Theodore
Vivendi
21. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
(Hector) Berlioz
Almonds
(Adolf) Hitler
James Cook (English - 1770)
22. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
LeBron James
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Baltimore
23. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Jurassic Park
Utah
Elle
24. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
Seven
Avocado(s)
E. B. White
George Wilson
25. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Jim Lovell
Salzburg
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Seven
26. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
(The) NHL
Blue
HP Lovecraft
Donner Pass
27. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Red
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Babette March
Victory
28. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
Duran Duran
Baden-Baden
Carrie Underwood
Christina Aguilera
29. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Silicon and oxygen
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Coal
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
30. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
Jack Russell
Bound for Glory (1976)
Hope & Faith
(her) hair
31. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
M. C. Hammer
Milk Duds
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
32. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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33. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Murphy Brown
Solipsism
Thrust
Hips
34. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Bank One
St. Louis Cardinals
Bunker Hill
Mahi mahi
35. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(The St. Louis) Blues
The gingerbread man
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Montreal
36. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
The Dome of the Rock
Beverly Cleary
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Fish
37. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Eric
Babar
Pancreas
Seal (played by a sea lion)
38. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Ione Skye
Upset
TheName of The Rose
39. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
I'm a Believer
Lemon(s)
Scoop
Cocoon
40. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Hong Kong
Plum(s)
Compaq
Intercourse
41. First American film nudity?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Simon Legree
The Canterville Ghost
Inspiration (1915)
42. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
(Dallas) Love Field
About Schmidt
Antonin Scalia
43. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
(The) Marines
Ghost
The Mini (Cooper)
Turkmenistan
44. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Aramis
Pakistan
St. Louis Cardinals
(the) Jack of diamonds
45. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Please Mr. Postman
The Mona Lisa
Blue
46. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Ali MacGraw
Scoop
Go Away Little Girl
(The) House of Seven Gables
47. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Mickey Finn
Body Count
48. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Jerusalem
Vincente Minnelli
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Edsel
49. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
(The) Jordan (River)
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Salt Lake City
Sugar Ray Leonard
50. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
The Weekly World News
Michigan
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)