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1. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Will & Grace
Carrie Underwood
The Frighteners
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
2. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
Eddie Matthews
(Albert) Einstein
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Orange
3. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Bob Dylan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I've fallen and I can't get up
Carbon dioxide
4. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Murmur
Pocahontas
Leopard
Uruguay
5. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
George Deukmejian
Radar
A-ha
Brazil
6. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Lemon(s)
Pachyderm
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
7. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Jorge Luis Borges
Hamlet
Victoria Falls
Spellbound
8. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Country (West Point motto)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
LeBron James
Louisville (Kentucky)
9. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Watermelon(s)
The Robe (1953)
Ganesh
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
10. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
STP Motor Oil
Uruguay
Oedipus
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
11. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
30 Rock
Guy Ritchie
Mashed potatoes
Brazil
12. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Pete Seeger
Pink
The Boston Celtics (21)
Texaco
13. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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14. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Louisville (Kentucky)
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Montgomery - Alabama
15. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
Hannibal
Almonds
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
The Ewings (Dallas)
16. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
London Bridge
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Billy Martin
17. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
About Schmidt
Happyness
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
18. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Foo Fighters
I've fallen and I can't get up
The valley of the shadow of death
Sir Walter Raleigh
19. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Blue
Babette March
Hydrogen and oxygen
China
20. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
TheName of The Rose
Algeria
Paradise Lost
Somalia
21. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
Gordie Howe
3
Texaco
Jack Russell
22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Thailand
STP Motor Oil
S(ain)t Louis
24. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
I've fallen and I can't get up
Do The Right Thing
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Nicaragua
25. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Go Away Little Girl
Babette March
Elvis Costello
Carbon dioxide
26. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
The Artful Dodger
Frank Zappa
Charles Lindbergh
Somewhere in Time
27. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Rochelle - Rochelle
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Jeremy Bentham
Ali MacGraw
28. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Polo
Vincente Minnelli
Sao Paulo
The Cincinnati Reds
29. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Peach(es)
Stevie Wonder
Frank Zamboni
30. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Antawn Jamison
The Canterville Ghost
The Robe (1953)
John F. Kennedy
31. Which company merged with BP?
Manhunter
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Bunker Hill
32. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
Cherries
Colonel Tom Parker
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
J. M. Barrie
33. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
Beetle Juice
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Chantilly
Do The Right Thing
34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Lean on Me
Fish
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
St. Louis Cardinals
35. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
(Honda) Civic
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Dharma & Greg
Muammar Qaddifi
36. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
Wendy
Carbon dioxide
20
37. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
Donner Pass
Ozone
Blue
(Albert) Einstein
38. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Gypsy Rose Lee
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
The Maltese Falcon
Buffalo
39. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Beverly Cleary
30 Rock
China
Venice
40. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
(a) Yo-yo
Betty (Rubble)
Padre
Cream
41. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Dairy Queen
Apocalypse Now
Paramount
Little Rock
42. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
(her) hair
The Three Musketeers
Aaron Copland
43. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Edith Head
30 Rock
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Hips
44. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Germany
The Hula Bowl
45. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Eric Bogosian
Jamie Lynn
Cocoon
Portland( - OR)
46. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Little Rock
(PE)6-5000
Murray Gell-Mann
(Songs in) A Minor
47. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Jerusalem
Lean on Me
Humbert Humbert
Senegal
48. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Polo
Maya Angelou
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Argentina
49. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Pear(s)
Romeo and Juliet
Black
Victoria Falls
50. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Judy Garland
Wiley Post
Mel Brooks
Tiny Bubbles
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