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1. Which company merged with SBC?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
The Maltese Falcon
Lazarus
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
2. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Real estate (investment)
Grenada
Night Court
Duran Duran
3. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Pete Seeger
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
4. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
The Tell-tale Heart
Jack the Ripper
Red
Oahu
5. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Foo Fighters
Tsetse fly
Thailand
Gene Roddenberry
6. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
The valley of the shadow of death
The Sparrow
(the) ear
Turkmenistan
7. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
Manhunter
When a Man Loves a Woman
Utah
(tested positive for) marijuana
8. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
(The) dodo
Milk Duds
Parking meters
9. First film in CinemaScope?
Hamlet
Roger Maris
The Robe (1953)
Theodore Roosevelt
10. Which company merged with Viacom?
J. K. Rowling
Paramount
Ernie
Tammy Faye Bakker
11. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Ants
Tiny Bubbles
Bling bling
The Bridge over the River Kwai
12. First film with Dolby sound?
Sean Connery
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Tiger Woods
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
13. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Afghanistan
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Eric Bogosian
14. Who killed the literary character Laius?
Peru
Condoleezza Rice
3
Oedipus
15. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
Ian Fleming
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Geyser
Roswell( - NM)
16. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Kate & Allie
LeBron James
McDonnell Douglas
Rat
17. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
Chile
Panama
Rene Descartes
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
18. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
McDonnell Douglas
Emeritus
Donner Pass
Fish
19. First computer graphics in film?
Murray Gell-Mann
Upset
LeBron James
Westworld (1973)
20. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?
Oort cloud
Paramount
She shot JR (Dallas)
Hamlet
21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
France
New York - New York
Six
Romania
22. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
(planetary) rings
George Deukmejian
Sao Paulo
Snape
23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
China
Roger Bannister
Genesis
Happyness
24. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
Charles Starkweather
Mostly briefs
Teddy Roosevelt
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
25. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
Aurora australis
(The) Marines
Sally Ride
Thelma and Louise
26. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Cocoon
Small intestine(s)
Sirhan Sirhan
27. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
The valley of the shadow of death
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Canada
28. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Condoleezza Rice
Strawberries
Spellbound
Solipsism
29. First use of Steadicam in film?
E. B. White
Bound for Glory (1976)
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
30. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Oort cloud
Crunk
Joel Cohen
Rebecca
31. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?
Lulu
Lillian Hellman
Venus
Lights of New York (1928)
32. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Eris (Discord)
Jerusalem
Mars
33. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Mitosis
2
By Love Possessed (1961)
Capri
34. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Judy Garland
Louisville (Kentucky)
American Beauty
The Others
35. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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36. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Fig newtons
Delaware
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Times Square
37. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Argentina
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Duran Duran
Elvis Costello
38. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
James Cook (English - 1770)
Texaco
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Eve
39. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Pink
Carrie Underwood
Hugo Chavez
Tupac Shakur
40. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Nicaragua
(planetary) rings
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Curly Howard
41. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
(the) Republican Party
Jack the Ripper
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Ski slopes
42. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
(Sperm) Whale
HP Lovecraft
Hips
Charles Lindbergh
43. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
The Hula Bowl
D. H. Lawrence
The Others
Flowers for Algernon
44. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Martha Stewart
Dollar
Kayak
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
45. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Banana
Cornea
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Nevada
46. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Chinese Democracy
E. B. White
Country (West Point motto)
(George Bernard) Shaw
47. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Iran
Padre
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Jenny
48. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Draw
Ernie
(Hector) Berlioz
(street) lanes
49. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Jack the Ripper
The Frighteners
Bling bling
Pictures of Matchstick Men
50. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Pennsylvania
Jorge Luis Borges
Tarzan