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1. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Teddy Roosevelt
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
J. K. Rowling
2. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Roger Vadim
The Sixth Sense
India
3. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
112
The Cincinnati Reds
Liar Liar
4. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
D. H. Lawrence
Everybody Hates
Bound for Glory (1976)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
5. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Lights of New York (1928)
MCI
Omega
Green
6. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?
(The) NHL
The valley of the shadow of death
Pulp Fiction
Koran
7. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
Fish
Jack the Ripper
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
8. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
TheName of The Rose
Egypt
NineInch Nails
John F. Kennedy
9. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
The Frighteners
By Love Possessed (1961)
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Six
10. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Murmur
Seven
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Roger Maris
11. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
China
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
London Bridge
The valley of the shadow of death
12. How many band members were there in UB40?
Thrust
Donner Pass
Almonds
8
13. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Bank One
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Eric Bogosian
Mary Decker (Slaney)
14. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
10
Stevie Wonder
Simon Legree
K. d. lang
15. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
Tomato(es)
Candyman
The (Buffalo) Sabres
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
16. First film shown on HBO?
New Zealand
Will & Grace
(The St. Louis) Blues
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
17. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Robert Scott
Oscar and Lucinda
Humbert Humbert
Rome
18. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
Can-Can
Gordie Howe
Earl Morrall
A-ha
19. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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20. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
(Adolf) Hitler
Eris (Discord)
21. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
Aurora australis
Rulon Gardner
A Room With a View (Forster)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
22. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
Buster Douglas
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Seven
Oahu
23. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Marcel Marceau
Mashed potatoes
Somewhere in Time
24. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Canada
Pete Seeger
Thanksgiving
EMForster
25. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Queen Anne's Lace
Coffee
Teddy Roosevelt
Pakistan
26. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
The Artful Dodger
M. C. Hammer
Gorilla
Duran Duran
27. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
Blue
Israel
TheAtlas (A)
Kayak
28. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
Prince
Amos 'n' Andy
When a Man Loves a Woman
Bringing up Baby (1938)
29. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
V2 (rocket)s
The valley of the shadow of death
Douglas
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
30. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
Canada
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Rocky Balboa
31. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
(the) ear
In Cold Blood
American Beauty
(Ford) Excursion
32. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
Ione Skye
Couscous
Peach (also contains orange)
33. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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34. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Seven
Rochelle - Rochelle
The (Buffalo) Sabres
(planetary) rings
35. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Hugo Chavez
Christopher Columbus
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
36. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Theodore
Old Time Rock and Roll
Philadelphia
Wilco
37. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
H. G. Wells
Fig newtons
Sally Ride
38. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
Paul Newman
(George) Clooney
(The) House of Seven Gables
What's Up - Doc?
39. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Babar
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Pocahontas
40. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Crunk
Afghanistan
K. d. lang
Gordie Howe
41. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
France
Pachyderm
Joel Cohen
5
42. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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43. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
Salt Lake City
The Chrysler Building
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Pig
44. First three-strip Technicolor?
Basalt
Becky Sharp (1935)
Judy Garland
Babar
45. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Peach (also contains orange)
John Speke (English - 1856)
India
Curly Howard
46. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
Kitty Genovese
North Korea
O. J. Simpson
(an) e
47. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Nicaragua
9
Hamlet
Stalingrad
48. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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49. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Rulon Gardner
Victory
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Small intestine(s)
50. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Croatia
Kenneth Branagh
Aliana
Chinese Democracy
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