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1. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
Vivendi
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
The Fantastic Four
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
2. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
The Artful Dodger
Go Away Little Girl
Bringing up Baby (1938)
The Sparrow
3. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Baltimore
Jim Jones
LeBron James
4. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Tarzan
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Somewhere in Time
Beverly Cleary
5. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Beetle Juice
Racecar
Lazarus
(the) Great Train Robbery
6. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Brain Boitano
McDonnell Douglas
Cream
Sullivan Ordinance
7. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
Seven
Spinal Tap
Dharma & Greg
Salt Lake City
8. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Benito Mussolini
Kitty Genovese
Lights of New York (1928)
Hydrogen and oxygen
9. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
B. J. Armstrong
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Aramis
Fig newtons
10. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
London Bridge
(Ford) Excursion
(the) evacuation of Saigon
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
11. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
CTU
Orangutan
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Tiny Bubbles
12. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
XTC
Jurassic Park
Salzburg
Gene Roddenberry
13. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Body Count
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Beetle Juice
Egypt
14. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Jack Kevorkian
Sir Walter Raleigh
Orange(s)
Lights of New York (1928)
15. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Harold and Maude
North Korea
Can-Can
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
16. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
Flowers for Algernon
The Satanic Verses
(the) Great Train Robbery
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
17. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
NineInch Nails
Eric
Harold and Maude
Ukraine
18. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Plum(s)
Solipsism
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Jurassic Park
19. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
(the) Republican Party
Candyman
Topper
Beowulf
20. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Guy Ritchie
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Delaware
21. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
3 2 1 Contact
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Red
10
22. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
(the) Great Train Robbery
You Keep Me Hangin' On
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Ohio and North Carolina
23. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?
Martin Landau
Robert De Niro
Tupac Shakur
Bob Dylan
24. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Murphy Brown
Everybody Hates
(street) lanes
Jamaica
25. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
Rene Descartes
Spain
Palm Sunday
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
26. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Baltimore
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
The Cincinnati Reds
Shrek 2
27. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
(Adolf) Hitler
Tiny Bubbles
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
28. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
The Weekly World News
Sean Connery
Intercourse
TheName of The Rose
29. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Yellow
(the) giraffe
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Silicon and oxygen
30. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
Wings (1927)
Happyness
It Happened One Night (1934)
Roger Maris
31. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Topper
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Limp Bizkit
32. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Jamie Lynn
Ulysseys (1967)
Mecca
Colonel Tom Parker
33. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Jamaica Bay
Frank Zappa
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Peach (also contains orange)
34. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Roswell( - NM)
Scrat
Inspiration (1915)
(a) clergyman
35. How many band members were there in Toto?
6
What's Up - Doc?
Seven
Aramis
36. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
(the) New York Mets
The Loco-motion
Baltimore
Ian Fleming
37. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
MCI
Naomi
India
Babar
38. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
The Lion King
Stalingrad
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Ken Davitian
39. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
McDonnell Douglas
4
112
Bambi
40. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
China
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Ione Skye
Paul Newman
41. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Canada
(the) Jack of diamonds
(Ford) Excursion
Banana
42. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Horse
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Model railroad
Judy Garland
43. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Parking meters
The Boston Celtics (21)
7
Alfred Hitchcock
44. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Eric
Atom Egoyan
Ants
Brain Boitano
45. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Cherries
Jamie Lynn
Jenny
Aladdin
46. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
(street) lanes
Hugo Chavez
5
Thailand
47. Which company merged with BP?
State quarters
Capybara
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
48. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Lulu
Iran
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Murray Gell-Mann
49. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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50. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
The Sparrow
(the) Motorwagen
Jamaica Bay
Wales
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