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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
A Christmas Carol
The valley of the shadow of death
IMF
Scoop
2. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Joel Cohen
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Scrat
Sweden
3. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Walter Winchell
Orange
Peach(es)
Edsel
4. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
20
Bound for Glory (1976)
Murphy Brown
Racecar
5. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
Ukraine
Panama
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
(the) evacuation of Saigon
6. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Liar Liar
Jack Russell
Mars
7. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Douglas
Billy Martin
(Dallas) Love Field
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
8. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Jessica Lange
Compaq
(the) Great Train Robbery
9. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Capri
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Nicaragua
India
10. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
1606
(the) Boston Tea Party
It Happened One Night (1934)
(The) NHL
11. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
J. K. Rowling
Sean Connery
Aaron Copland
Palm Sunday
12. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Muammar Qaddifi
Carbon dioxide
Senegal
Martin Landau
13. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Mia Farrow
Hoop Dreams
Sullivan Ordinance
Duran Duran
14. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Coal
Dannii
Bob Dylan
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
15. Which company merged with BP?
Couscous
Extras
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
16. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Beck (Odelay)
Muammar Qaddifi
Hamlet
William Tell
17. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
In Cold Blood
The White Witch
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Happyness
18. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
(PE)6-5000
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Jim Jones
(Hector) Berlioz
19. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
The gingerbread man
IMF
Hannibal
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
20. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Rat
Padre
Edsel
Fahrenheit 451
21. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Hong Kong
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Jerusalem
Draw
22. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
(the) ear
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gene Roddenberry
Delaware
23. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Avocado(s)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Victoria Falls
Windsor - Ontario
24. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
Kenneth Branagh
HP Lovecraft
Compaq
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
25. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Jerusalem
Bicycle(s)
Somalia
Richard Cory (himself)
26. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Iran
Egypt
(The St. Louis) Blues
LeBron James
27. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Mia Farrow
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Steven Spielberg
Rulon Gardner
28. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
The Chrysler Building
Theodore
Darwin's
Almonds
29. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
(a) clergyman
(PE)6-5000
Seven
30. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
Mitosis
Cameroon
The Fantastic Four
Hips
31. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
The Robe (1953)
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Rat
'A Spoonful of Sugar
32. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
112
Sally Ride
Queen Anne's Lace
Jamaica
33. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Trapped in the Closet
Eric
Oahu
Ali MacGraw
34. How many band members were there in Green Day?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Egypt
Jurassic Park
3
35. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Topper
Ernie
Couscous
John Speke (English - 1856)
36. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Mecca
Norma Jean
37. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Steven Spielberg
(Pablo) Picasso
Pearl Harbor
Carbon dioxide
38. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Harold and Maude
Curly Howard
She shot JR (Dallas)
39. Which company merged with SBC?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Wendy
Eugene Onegin
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
40. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Night Court
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Pegasus
James Cameron
41. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
Brazil
Richard Cory (himself)
Renny Harlin
Thanksgiving
42. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Rochelle - Rochelle
Philadelphia
Somewhere in Time
Sao Paulo
43. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
The White Witch
Arkansas
Red Dawn (1984)
Babette March
44. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Romeo and Juliet
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
American Beauty
Leopard
45. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Mecca
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
20
TheName of The Rose
46. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Montreal
Elle
India
Extras
47. 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?
Stalingrad
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Mel Brooks
Radar
48. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Radar
Pig
(the) Republican Party
New York - New York
49. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?
Chantilly
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
India
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
50. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Nicaragua
Prince Valiant