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1. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Ben Hogan
Spellbound
Vivendi
The (Buffalo) Sabres
2. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Czechoslovakia
The Bridge over the River Kwai
(The) dodo
Hindenburg (explosion)
3. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
(The) Rolling Stones
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Jack the Ripper
The Mona Lisa
4. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Mashed potatoes
Kenneth Branagh
Pete Seeger
XTC
5. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Austria
The Cincinnati Reds
The Weekly World News
Will & Grace
6. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
Mitch
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Jorge Luis Borges
The Fantastic Four
7. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Sugar Ray Leonard
Lazarus
Louisville (Kentucky)
8. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Nauruan
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Scrooged
9. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Cullinan
Deer
Dracula
NineInch Nails
10. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Randy Quaid
Smerdyakov
Rat
(street) lanes
11. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Jessica Lange
Colonel Harland Sanders
Almonds
Roger Maris
12. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Everybody Hates
Temple prostitute
Rome
Jenny McCarthy
13. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
TheAtlas (A)
John Speke (English - 1856)
K. d. lang
(her) hair
14. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Humbert Humbert
Betty (Rubble)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Judiciary
15. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Amos 'n' Andy
(her) hair
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Rulon Gardner
16. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
D. H. Lawrence
Cat
Delaware
Elvis Costello
17. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Teapot Dome
Bwana Devil (1952)
Body Count
Cherries
18. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Kayak
Iran
Hong Kong
19. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
(an) e
John Speke (English - 1856)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
20. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
Real estate (investment)
(The) Rolling Stones
Louisana (Superdome)
Wales
21. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
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Joanne Woodward
Rebecca
Baltimore
22. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Thanksgiving
Judy Garland
STP Motor Oil
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
23. Which company merged with SBC?
What's Up - Doc?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Ulysseys (1967)
State quarters
24. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Teapot Dome
Upset
Travelers Group
You Keep Me Hangin' On
25. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
Sally Ride
Lillian Hellman
The Three Musketeers
26. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Palau
Romania
Ganesh
Philadelphia
27. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Burberry
Jessica Lange
Louisana (Superdome)
Martha Stewart
28. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Spinal Tap
Joel Cohen
Can-Can
Roger Maris
29. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Peach (also contains orange)
Teapot Dome
George Deukmejian
Bicycle(s)
30. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Gorilla
Jenny
Tammy Faye Bakker
LeBron James
31. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
Oedipus
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Judiciary
The Ewings (Dallas)
32. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Nauruan
(The St. Louis) Blues
James Cameron
Steven Spielberg
33. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Night Court
Foo Fighters
Federico Fellini
34. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Cameroon
Gene Roddenberry
A Fistfull of Dollars
Beck (Odelay)
35. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
De Beers
The Sixth Sense
Cocoon
(The) Jordan (River)
36. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Pachyderm
Rome
Aliana
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
37. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Coal
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
CONTROL
Chaminade
38. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
38th Parallel
SD-6
(the) Great Train Robbery
Larry Nance
39. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Lean on Me
American Beauty
Lights of New York (1928)
(planetary) rings
40. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Jessica Lange
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Harold and Maude
Moby Dick
41. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Polo
Tammy Faye Bakker
Hindenburg (explosion)
Teapot Dome
42. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Beck (Odelay)
A-ha
Hope & Faith
Roswell( - NM)
43. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Mau Mau
Judiciary
Thailand
44. Which company merged with NBC?
Watermelon(s)
Vivendi
Underoos
Heaven's Gate (1980)
45. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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46. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Manhunter
(a) Yo-yo
(The) Marines
47. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Blue
Balthasar (Magi)
Trapped in the Closet
48. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
The Fantastic Four
Gorilla
M. C. Hammer
Pakistan
49. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Frankenstein('s monster)
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Bob Dylan
Cameroon
50. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Antonio Stradivarius
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Wales
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