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Big Trivia Test

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1. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






2. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






3. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






4. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






5. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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6. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






7. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






8. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






9. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






10. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






11. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






12. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?






13. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






14. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






15. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?






16. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






17. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?






18. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






19. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






20. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






21. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?






22. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






23. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






24. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






25. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






26. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






27. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






28. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






29. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






30. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






31. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






32. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






33. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






34. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






35. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






36. 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?






37. First New York Times movie review?






38. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?






39. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






40. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






41. First PG-13 rated film?






42. First all-sound film?






43. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






44. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






45. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






46. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?






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






48. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






49. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






50. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?