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1. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
A Fistfull of Dollars
Philip Marlowe
Jessica Lange
2. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Teapot Dome
Carrie Underwood
3. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Elle
Douglas
Llama
Cullinan
4. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Mulan
Underoos
Pippa Passes (1909)
Panama
5. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
State quarters
Pulp Fiction
Frank Zappa
Peach(es)
6. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
The Mini (Cooper)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Trapped in the Closet
Israel
7. First use of the 'f-word'?
Ulysseys (1967)
Manhunter
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Alfred Hitchcock
8. 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?
Stalingrad
Body Count
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
9. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
The Frighteners
Eris (Discord)
Hong Kong
Ernie
10. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Brian De Palma
'A Spoonful of Sugar
The Maltese Falcon
Louie Louie
11. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Lemon(s)
Delaware
Ohio and North Carolina
12. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Heloise
Leopard
Orange(s)
Thrust
13. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Iran
Pennsylvania
Billy Martin
Mitsubishi
14. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
Peru
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Beck (Odelay)
Lady Marmalade
15. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
The White Witch
Leopard
Argentina
Intercourse
16. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Algeria
(her) hair
Jim Valvano
Angkor Wat
17. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
HL Mencken
Milk Duds
Betty (Rubble)
Cape Hatteras
18. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
The Three Musketeers
Naomi
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
The Descent
19. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Spellbound
Travelers Group
Aramis
Kenneth Branagh
20. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Fraternite
Aladdin
Cocoon
Beverly Cleary
21. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Benito Mussolini
Montgomery - Alabama
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Mitosis
22. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Ants
Small intestine(s)
Dollar
Algeria
23. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
The Stanley Cup
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Kitty Genovese
'A Spoonful of Sugar
24. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Murphy Brown
Underoos
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
K. d. lang
25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala
(Pablo) Picasso
Walter Winchell
Palau
The Lion King
26. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Aliana
Simon Legree
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Theodore
27. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Lord of the Flies
Atom Egoyan
Beck (Odelay)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
28. 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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29. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?
Palm Sunday
Desiderata
(the) Great Train Robbery
Beverly Cleary
30. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Teapot Dome
Balthasar (Magi)
Fish
Pear(s)
31. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Peach (also contains orange)
Lazarus
Farting
London Bridge
32. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Blue
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Rat
Night Court
33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
France
Mia Farrow
Peru
The Bridge over the River Kwai
34. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
The Mona Lisa
Rat
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Randy Quaid
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Somewhere in Time
Thailand
About Schmidt
Mitsubishi
36. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
Christina Aguilera
Dr. James Bedford
HL Mencken
Portland( - OR)
37. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Jive
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Yellow (and key!)
Black
38. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
The Artful Dodger
Carrie Underwood
(the) Republican Party
Peach (also contains orange)
39. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Louisville (Kentucky)
Paradise Lost
The Little Mermaid
40. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Nauruan
Seven
Michelle Wie
Banana
41. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Capri
Rene Descartes
Afghanistan
The Mona Lisa
42. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
XTC
Sirhan Sirhan
Leopard
Ione Skye
43. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(street) lanes
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Elle
44. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
Please Mr. Postman
Robert De Niro
4
45. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Norma Jean
George Deukmejian
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Wendy
46. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Howard Hughes
Joel Cohen
Norma Jean
The Stanley Cup
47. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Orange(s)
Jamaica Bay
Murmur
Romeo and Juliet
48. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Fahrenheit 451
Simon Legree
Czechoslovakia
Chantilly
49. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Snape
Nevada
Windsor - Ontario
Wings (1927)
50. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
4
Theodore Roosevelt
Avocado(s)
It Happened One Night (1934)