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Big Trivia Test

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Instructions:
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1. First Best Picture Oscar?






2. What is a female donkey called?






3. What is a female donkey called?






4. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






5. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?






6. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






7. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






8. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






9. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






10. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






11. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






12. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?






13. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






14. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?






15. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






16. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






17. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






18. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






19. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






20. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






21. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?






22. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






23. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






25. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






26. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






27. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






28. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






29. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






30. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






31. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






32. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






33. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






34. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?






35. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






36. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'






37. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'






38. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






39. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?






40. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






41. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






42. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






43. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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44. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






45. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?






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






47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






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






49. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






50. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?