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1. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Tsetse fly
Oedipus
Fraternite
Carbon dioxide
2. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Oscar and Lucinda
Desiderata
Naomi
Old Time Rock and Roll
3. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
Kenneth Branagh
D. H. Lawrence
De Beers
Terminal velocity
4. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Can-Can
Genesis
Jim Jones
Strawberries
5. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
7
Ken Davitian
G. E. Smith
Mashed potatoes
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
Dharma & Greg
(The) Jordan (River)
HL Mencken
The Ritz (hotel)
7. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Hercules
8. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Maya Angelou
Otto
Model railroad
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
9. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Peach(es)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
10. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Texaco
Buster Douglas
Ozone
Mexico
11. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
Martin Scorsese
The Descent
SD-6
You Keep Me Hangin' On
12. What chain introduced the 'Blizzard' in 1985?
Stevie Wonder
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Wings (1927)
Dairy Queen
13. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Brain Boitano
Ozone
(a) clergyman
J. M. Barrie
14. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Rebecca
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Mulan
Sirhan Sirhan
15. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Panama
Black
Deer
Pegasus
16. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Douglas
Upset
(planetary) rings
Apocalypse Now
17. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Jeremy Bentham
Charles Starkweather
Emma
Jack Kevorkian
18. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Brazil
Melville
Mary Decker (Slaney)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
19. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
(street) lanes
Padre
Muhammad
1
20. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
U.N.C.L.E
(Gerald)Ford
30 Rock
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
21. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
M. C. Hammer
Humbert Humbert
Jack the Ripper
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
22. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Almonds
Farting
Peach(es)
23. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
The Artful Dodger
Dharma & Greg
Thrust
George Wilson
24. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
North Korea
Intercourse
3 2 1 Contact
25. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
HP Lovecraft
Duran Duran
James Cagney
Arkansas
26. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Dharma & Greg
Basalt
Roger Vadim
27. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Pennsylvania
Pippa Passes (1909)
A Room With a View (Forster)
Nevada
28. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Nicaragua
Montgomery - Alabama
Canada
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
29. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
112
Beverly Cleary
Dollar
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
30. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Simon Legree
Pachyderm
Otto
(George Bernard) Shaw
31. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
(a) clergyman
112
HL Mencken
Czechoslovakia
32. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
James Cameron
The Canterville Ghost
Radar
Fish
33. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Wendy
London Bridge
(the) bishop
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
34. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Lean on Me
Jack Kevorkian
(The) House of Seven Gables
Marcel Marceau
35. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
The Chrysler Building
Sirhan Sirhan
Deer
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
36. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Pennsylvania
Orangutan
The Tell-tale Heart
Theodore
37. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
London Bridge
Intercourse
Eric
The Robe (1953)
38. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Teddy Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Solipsism
39. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Christina Aguilera
112
Lillian Hellman
Deer
40. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Kayak
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Salt Lake City
41. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Rocky Balboa
Manhunter
The Ring
Palau
42. First studio film with a black director?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
K. d. lang
Senegal
The Learning Tree (1969)
43. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Renny Harlin
Colonel Harland Sanders
J. M. Barrie
Jim Calhoun
44. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Ozone
Peach (also contains orange)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
45. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Tiny Bubbles
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Thelma and Louise
Otto
46. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Pink
The Weekly World News
(The) House of Seven Gables
Bling bling
47. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Capybara
Haiti
Nicaragua
48. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Foo Fighters
Banana
Kornfield Kounty
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Orange(s)
Basalt
The Cincinnati Reds
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
50. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
Coruscant
The Dome of the Rock
Bank One
Hercules