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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






2. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow






3. What are divided by Botts' dots?






4. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?






5. Which company merged with BP?






6. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






7. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






8. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






9. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?






10. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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11. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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12. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






13. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






14. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






15. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






16. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?






18. What is a female donkey called?






19. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






20. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






21. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






22. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






23. 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?






24. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?






25. First PG-13 rated film?






26. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






27. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






28. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






29. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






30. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield






31. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?






32. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






33. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






34. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






35. What is a female donkey called?






36. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?






37. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






38. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






39. 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?






40. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






41. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






42. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






43. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






44. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






45. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






46. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?






48. What's Cartman's first name on South Park






49. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






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