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1. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Jive
Yellow (and key!)
Mitch
Judy Garland
2. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?
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3. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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4. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Pearl Harbor
Romeo and Juliet
Tiger Woods
5. First three-strip Technicolor?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Turkmenistan
Becky Sharp (1935)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
6. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
Hercules
Underoos
Theodore Roosevelt
McDonnell Douglas
7. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Oort cloud
Louisville (Kentucky)
New Zealand
Night Court
8. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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9. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Jenny
Eddie Matthews
10. What kind of trust is a REIT?
2
Coal
Dracula
Real estate (investment)
11. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Michigan
Czechoslovakia
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
12. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Murray Gell-Mann
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Carrie Underwood
Ali MacGraw
13. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Oort cloud
38th Parallel
Sullivan Ordinance
Peach(es)
14. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
(tested positive for) marijuana
New York - New York
Martha Stewart
Subaru
15. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?
Motor Trend
Chantilly
Koran
Charles Lindbergh
16. First film of the 3-D boom?
Everybody Hates
Bwana Devil (1952)
Ione Skye
Wales
17. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Peru
Oscar and Lucinda
S(ain)t Louis
18. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Jean-Luc Goddard
Ali MacGraw
Underoos
19. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Aurora australis
Oscar and Lucinda
Jim Lovell
Ski slopes
20. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
Federico Fellini
State quarters
Charles Starkweather
Stevie Wonder
21. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Old Time Rock and Roll
V8 (juice)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Mashed potatoes
22. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Argentina
Smerdyakov
Aliana
Afghanistan
23. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Fahrenheit 451
Flowers for Algernon
Mahi mahi
LeBron James
24. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
6
Aurora australis
The Dome of the Rock
25. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
B. J. Armstrong
Plum(s)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Ellery Queen
26. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
Mel Brooks
Federico Fellini
Judy Garland
The Dome of the Rock
27. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Inspiration (1915)
Louie Louie
Kate & Allie
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
28. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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29. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
Limp Bizkit
Lady Marmalade
Palau
Roberto Rossellini
30. Who killed the literary character Laius?
The gingerbread man
Oedipus
Jive
Texas and New Mexico
31. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
The Frighteners
Fraternite
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Alfred Hitchcock
32. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
V2 (rocket)s
Peru
(an) e
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
33. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Dairy Queen
The Ritz (hotel)
Muammar Qaddifi
34. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Nicaragua
Ian Fleming
Oscar and Lucinda
Paramount
35. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Prince
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Cape Hatteras
D. H. Lawrence
36. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
Pegasus
Solipsism
(the) Great Train Robbery
Thanksgiving
37. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?
Alsatians
Cat
112
Murphy Brown
38. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Solipsism
Cat
40
Jamaica Bay
39. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
George Wilson
10
Couscous
Otto
40. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Jerusalem
Motor Trend
Leopard
Times Square
41. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Geyser
Colombia
Plum(s)
Grenada
42. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Sullivan Ordinance
North Korea
Intercourse
Frank Zappa
43. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Hips
Pennsylvania
Tiger Woods
Michigan
44. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Model railroad
China
Angkor Wat
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
45. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
B. J. Armstrong
D. H. Lawrence
Vincente Minnelli
46. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Miles Davis
Teapot Dome
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Black
47. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Rome
Haiti
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
48. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?
Pearl Harbor
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Senegal
6
49. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Muhammad
Ben Hogan
Jamie Lynn
Capri
50. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Body Count
Bonnie and Clyde
(a) clergyman
Judy Garland