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1. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Apocalypse Now
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Billy Martin
2. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
Elvis Costello
38th Parallel
Ernie
Emma
3. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?
Italy
Salzburg
Salt Lake City
Terminal velocity
4. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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5. Which company merged with NBC?
Times Square
Vivendi
V8 (juice)
Ernie
6. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
(planetary) rings
Jack Kevorkian
10
Old Time Rock and Roll
7. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?
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8. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
(planetary) rings
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Topper
Pancreas
9. What is a female donkey called?
Chaminade
Everybody Hates
Roswell( - NM)
(a) ginny (or jenny)
10. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Ernesto
A Fistfull of Dollars
Bound for Glory (1976)
Upset
11. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Foo Fighters
Walter Winchell
Rene Descartes
Lean on Me
12. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Royal jelly
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Cape Hatteras
Candyman
13. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Six
Humbert Humbert
Silicon Valley
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
14. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?
(the) Motorwagen
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Stalingrad
15. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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16. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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17. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Humbert Humbert
Dharma & Greg
Orangutan
18. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Please Mr. Postman
Draw
Thanksgiving
XTC
19. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(Pablo) Picasso
Jim Lovell
Jeremy Bentham
20. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Liar Liar
Hamlet
Lemon(s)
Please Mr. Postman
21. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Parking meters
Christina Aguilera
IMF
22. Which company merged with NBC?
Vivendi
Ernesto
O. J. Simpson
The Pope
23. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
(Pablo) Picasso
Liar Liar
Times Square
(George) Clooney
24. 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
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Ellery Queen
China
25. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Sullivan Ordinance
Ganesh
Antawn Jamison
North Korea
26. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Brain Boitano
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Rochelle - Rochelle
Lemon(s)
27. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Aaron Copland
Muammar Qaddifi
O. J. Simpson
28. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Cream
Fraternite
S(ain)t Louis
Aramis
29. First three-strip Technicolor?
Becky Sharp (1935)
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Snape
Elle
30. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Pearl Harbor
Uruguay
Judiciary
31. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Colombia
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Koran
The (Buffalo) Sabres
32. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Venus
Earl Morrall
TheName of The Rose
I've fallen and I can't get up
33. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Dentin
American Beauty
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
34. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Maya Angelou
(the) New York Mets
Ski slopes
35. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Lean on Me
Come by here
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Bucket
36. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Curly Howard
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Pope
Baltimore
37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Thailand
Kate & Allie
The Ritz (hotel)
Venus
38. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Ashlee
Ernesto
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Thailand
39. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Aurora australis
Ambrose Bierce
40. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Brian De Palma
The Tell-tale Heart
Jeremy Bentham
The Dick Van Dyke Show
41. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?
Cat
Eris (Discord)
Tiger Woods
Rulon Gardner
42. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Gorilla
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Tiny Bubbles
43. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Martha Stewart
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Prince
O. J. Simpson
44. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Mahi mahi
The Stanley Cup
Steven Biko
Douglas
45. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
S(ain)t Louis
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
(Adolf) Hitler
3 2 1 Contact
46. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Subaru
James Cameron
Mahi mahi
40
47. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Kenneth Branagh
Texaco
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Sullivan Ordinance
48. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Laverne & Shirley
Bob Dylan
Britney Spears
Delaware
49. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Walter Winchell
Sao Paulo
About Schmidt
Jim Calhoun
50. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Jack Kevorkian
Small intestine(s)
Upset
Richard Cory (himself)