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1. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Pete Seeger
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Cullinan
Naomi
2. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Thanksgiving
Beetle Juice
Orangutan
Racecar
3. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Nauruan
Ohio and North Carolina
Baltimore
4. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Haiti
Algeria
Victoria Falls
Benito Mussolini
5. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
John F. Kennedy
Lady Marmalade
Alfred Hitchcock
Dharma & Greg
6. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
The Sixth Sense
Hydrogen and oxygen
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Pig
7. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
New Zealand
Humbert Humbert
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Spellbound
8. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Beverly Cleary
By Love Possessed (1961)
Miles Davis
Peach (also contains orange)
9. First American film nudity?
Mostly briefs
Inspiration (1915)
TheName of The Rose
Prince Valiant
10. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Rome
Ants
Aglet
Martha Stewart
11. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Spinal Tap
The Descent
Ione Skye
Blue
12. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
Eddie Matthews
Baltimore
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Maya Angelou
13. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
China
White
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Jive
14. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Carrie Underwood
Colonel Tom Parker
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
15. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
20
Lady Marmalade
Jim Valvano
Oedipus
16. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Old Time Rock and Roll
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Nicky
Jack the Ripper
17. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Blue
U.N.C.L.E
Portland( - OR)
Judy Garland
18. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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19. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
The Artful Dodger
Prince
MCI
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
20. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
Mau Mau
St. Louis Cardinals
(Honda) Civic
Wilco
21. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Aglet
London Bridge
1
22. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
India
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
The Cincinnati Reds
23. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Jack the Ripper
The Canterville Ghost
The Cincinnati Reds
Murray Gell-Mann
24. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
Shrek 2
(The) House of Seven Gables
Michelle Wie
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
25. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?
Watermelon(s)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Condoleezza Rice
Blue
26. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Candyman
(Adolf) Hitler
Snape
A Room With a View (Forster)
27. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Windsor - Ontario
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Ashlee
The (Buffalo) Sabres
28. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Smerdyakov
Angkor Wat
Alsatians
29. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
The Sparrow
Ian Fleming
Ernesto
The Loco-motion
30. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Joel Cohen
Green
(the) ear
Aramis
31. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Brazil
MCI
Compaq
32. First all-sound film?
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
M. C. Hammer
Lights of New York (1928)
Snape
33. Which company merged with Boeing?
Hannibal
McDonnell Douglas
Jamaica
Pancreas
34. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
The Canterville Ghost
Brain Boitano
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Alfred Hitchcock
35. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
MASH
Michelle Wie
Murphy Brown
Jurassic Park
36. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Humbert Humbert
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Randy Quaid
Eddie Matthews
37. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
The Maltese Falcon
Eve
Ghost
Ulysseys (1967)
38. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Chaminade
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Nicaragua
Red
39. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
D. H. Lawrence
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Sweden
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
40. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
The Ring
Ambrose Bierce
41. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Grape(s)
Home Improvement
Flowers for Algernon
Llama
42. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
(the) ear
Lillian Hellman
The Lion King
Beverly Cleary
43. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Body Count
Brian De Palma
Deer
Lord of the Flies
44. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Jamaica Bay
Mahi mahi
Sirhan Sirhan
Tiger Woods
45. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
(a) clergyman
(the) Great Train Robbery
Everybody Hates
Babar
46. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
The Mona Lisa
G. E. Smith
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Dentin
47. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
Llama
A Room With a View (Forster)
I'm a Believer
IMDb
48. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Angkor Wat
Harold and Maude
Finland
Ione Skye
49. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Scrat
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Capri
50. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Otto
Green
Bambi
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
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