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1. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Brian De Palma
India
Tiger Woods
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
2. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Montgomery - Alabama
Jim Jones
Somalia
(her) hair
3. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Mau Mau
Extras
State quarters
Jenny
4. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
(Gerald)Ford
The Tell-tale Heart
Coal
Czechoslovakia
5. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Turkmenistan
The Ewings (Dallas)
Lights of New York (1928)
Grape(s)
6. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
William Tell
Clownfish
MMMBob
Brazil
7. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Otto
Larry Nance
Edith Head
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
8. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Spain
Sugar Ray Leonard
Kate & Allie
9. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Jamaica Bay
Temple prostitute
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
SD-6
10. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Ernie
Coffee
Sally Ride
Candyman
11. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
A Fistfull of Dollars
4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Teapot Dome
12. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
The Descent
Otto
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Czechoslovakia
13. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Vincente Minnelli
Lillian Hellman
Yellow (and key!)
Baltimore
14. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
The Mona Lisa
What's Up - Doc?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
15. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
(the) Republican Party
Cherries
A-ha
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
16. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Mitosis
The Loco-motion
Times Square
Betty (Rubble)
17. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
3
Martha Stewart
Rome
Jamaica
18. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
Seven
Do The Right Thing
(PE)6-5000
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
19. First PG-13 rated film?
Red Dawn (1984)
Heloise
TheName of The Rose
Mel Brooks
20. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
Ozone
Lights of New York (1928)
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
(her) hair
21. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Watermelon(s)
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Dairy Queen
Nauruan
22. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
38th Parallel
Radar
(the) giraffe
23. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Arkansas
Michigan
Delaware
24. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
NineInch Nails
Red Dawn (1984)
Banana
Gomer Pyle
25. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
The Pope
Wendy
George Wilson
The Mona Lisa
26. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Cherries
Marcel Marceau
Robert De Niro
Melville
27. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Roger Bannister
Edsel
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Mashed potatoes
28. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Your Girlfriend
Hips
A Room With a View (Forster)
Eve
29. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
The Pope
Draw
Babette March
Thrust
30. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
(Pablo) Picasso
Richard Cory (himself)
TheName of The Rose
Hamlet
31. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
Manhunter
Czechoslovakia
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
John Speke (English - 1856)
32. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
Bunker Hill
White
(Songs in) A Minor
George Wilson
33. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Prince Valiant
Little Rock
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
34. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Aaron Copland
J. K. Rowling
The Ring
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
35. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Little Rock
Baden-Baden
(a) Yo-yo
Simon Legree
36. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Teapot Dome
Capybara
Iran
The Weekly World News
37. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
(Honda) Civic
Tiger Woods
Grenada
38. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Palm Sunday
Mostly briefs
Topper
Oscar and Lucinda
39. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
American Beauty
Sweden
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Hannibal
40. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
112
Roswell( - NM)
New Zealand
Louisville (Kentucky)
41. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Tiny Bubbles
Antonio Stradivarius
Rulon Gardner
42. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Venice
Ernesto
Bucket
43. Which company merged with SBC?
Coffee
Murray Gell-Mann
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Orangutan
44. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
CONTROL
Tiger Woods
D. H. Lawrence
When a Man Loves a Woman
45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Red
Lemon(s)
Eris (Discord)
Mexico
46. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Judy Garland
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Amos 'n' Andy
47. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Ellery Queen
Wilco
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Muhammad
48. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Black
Mashed potatoes
Austria
49. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Wings (1927)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Arkansas
50. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Burberry
Portland( - OR)
Richard Cory (himself)
The Lion King
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