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Subject : trivia
Instructions:
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1. First studio film with a black director?






2. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






3. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






4. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?






5. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






6. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






7. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?

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8. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






9. Which artist had the double album Being There?






10. What kind of trust is a REIT?






11. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






12. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






13. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?






14. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?






15. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






16. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?






17. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






18. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?






19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?






20. Which company merged with BP?






21. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






22. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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23. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






24. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






25. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?






26. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






27. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






28. What's Cartman's first name on South Park






29. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?






30. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






31. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?






32. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






33. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






34. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






35. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






36. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






37. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






38. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






39. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






40. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






41. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






42. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






43. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






44. First film with Dolby sound?






45. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?






46. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






48. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






49. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






50. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?