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1. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Mitch
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Mulan
Coffee
2. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
John F. Kennedy
MMMBob
Thelma and Louise
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
3. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Switzerland
Ernesto
Chaminade
Parrot
4. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Tongue
Draw
5. First American film nudity?
Yellow (and key!)
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Inspiration (1915)
Larry Nance
6. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Naomi
Canada
Topper (1937)
I'm a Believer
7. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
Topper (1937)
Gordie Howe
Angkor Wat
Extras
8. Which company merged with Boeing?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Charles Lindbergh
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
McDonnell Douglas
9. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Renny Harlin
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Do The Right Thing
Czechoslovakia
10. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
Watermelon(s)
Salzburg
Louisana (Superdome)
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
11. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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12. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Jack the Ripper
Llama
Ghost
Tongue
13. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?
Heloise
John Speke (English - 1856)
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
She shot JR (Dallas)
14. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Pakistan
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Brazil
15. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Gene Roddenberry
Limp Bizkit
TheName of The Rose
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
16. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack the Ripper
Blue
Milk Duds
Texaco
17. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
The Cincinnati Reds
Dr. James Bedford
The Sixth Sense
(the) bishop
18. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Gene Roddenberry
Delaware
EMForster
The valley of the shadow of death
19. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?
Home Improvement
(Hector) Berlioz
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Racecar
20. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Edsel
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Emeritus
Hoop Dreams
21. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Ganesh
Milk Duds
White
Donner Pass
22. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Murphy Brown
Real estate (investment)
Buster Douglas
Wales
23. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
John Cassavets
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Hannah
24. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Italy
(a) clergyman
Field of Dreams
25. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Guy Ritchie
(an) e
Your Girlfriend
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
26. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Jenny
Billy Martin
Farting
27. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
TheName of The Rose
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Argentina
28. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(her) hair
The Others
Cocoon
29. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Mars
Robert De Niro
Rulon Gardner
Scrooged
30. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
Fahrenheit 451
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
(George Bernard) Shaw
Compaq
31. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Chile
Omega
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Orange(s)
32. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Wilco
Sri Lanka
Ganesh
Judy Garland
33. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
(the) Boston Tea Party
(an) e
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Christopher Columbus
34. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
The Little Mermaid
The Robe (1953)
Leopard
Smerdyakov
35. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
The Satanic Verses
Theodore Roosevelt
Couscous
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
36. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Aurora australis
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Old Time Rock and Roll
37. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Almonds
Pete Seeger
Almonds
Tomato(es)
38. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
The Three Musketeers
Fontanelles
Aurora australis
Shel Silverstein
39. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Buffalo
Roger Vadim
Go Away Little Girl
40. First film of the 3-D boom?
India
Banana
Bwana Devil (1952)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
41. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Cat
(The) Jordan (River)
Queen Anne's Lace
Emma
42. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Elvis Costello
Antawn Jamison
Model railroad
George Wilson
43. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Stevie Wonder
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Afghanistan
Hannibal
44. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Salzburg
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
India
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
45. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
TheName of The Rose
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Pig
Parking meters
46. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Liar Liar
Louie Louie
(Hector) Berlioz
(the) World Cup (trophy)
47. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Palmer
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Eve
40
48. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Ukraine
HP Lovecraft
Westward Ho!
Roger Maris
49. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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50. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Otto
Oscar and Lucinda
Steven Spielberg
(The) Yucatan Peninsula