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1. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Night Court
Leopard
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Louisville (Kentucky)
2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
Draw
Rocky Balboa
China
Paul Newman
3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Coruscant
Pear(s)
Almonds
(the) Boston Tea Party
4. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Colonel Harland Sanders
TheName of The Rose
Aglet
Guy Ritchie
5. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Panama
Mel Brooks
6. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
William Tell
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Louisville (Kentucky)
Britney Spears
7. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Orangutan
Topper
Jerusalem
Fig newtons
8. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Chaminade
Earl Morrall
Emma
Balthasar (Magi)
9. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Philip Marlowe
Oedipus
Color blindness
Bling bling
10. First film shown on HBO?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Nuclear disarmament
The Artful Dodger
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
11. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
The Cincinnati Reds
Richard Cory (himself)
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Heaven's Gate (1980)
12. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Oahu
(the) bishop
Home Improvement
IMDb
13. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
The Mona Lisa
Manhunter
Martha Stewart
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
14. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Ken Davitian
Silicon Valley
Trapped in the Closet
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
15. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
De Beers
NineInch Nails
Milk Duds
Mary Decker (Slaney)
16. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Dentin
Watermelon(s)
17. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Shrek 2
Westward Ho!
Benito Mussolini
Afghanistan
18. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Otto
Oscar and Lucinda
Brain Boitano
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
19. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Miles Davis
Uruguay
Pig
Cullinan
20. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Lord of the Flies
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Thailand
21. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
MMMBob
Hamlet
Ian Fleming
Paradise Lost
22. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Omega
Crunk
Small intestine(s)
Nicaragua
23. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
6
Edsel
Green
24. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Boxing
Radar
(Gerald)Ford
Tsetse fly
25. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Pippa Passes (1909)
James Cook (English - 1770)
Frank Zamboni
Mau Mau
26. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Montreal
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Arkansas
(the) New York Mets
27. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Dr. James Bedford
Pearl Harbor
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
28. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
India
Eve
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Underoos
29. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
30. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Pig
Jim Calhoun
Brian De Palma
Yes
31. 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 Artful Dodger
The (Buffalo) Sabres
London Bridge
Body Count
32. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Ambrose Bierce
Flowers for Algernon
Eugene Onegin
Pig
33. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Jamie Lynn
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Muammar Qaddifi
34. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Sullivan Ordinance
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Mecca
Dharma & Greg
35. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Billy Martin
Baltimore
Orange(s)
Bling bling
36. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
TheAtlas (A)
The Ritz (hotel)
The Sparrow
Cornea
37. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Jorge Luis Borges
By choice - man!
38. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
(the) Great Train Robbery
Aglet
Roswell( - NM)
39. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
London Bridge
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
40. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
H. G. Wells
Marcel Marceau
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Paradise Lost
41. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
Roberto Rossellini
Austria
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Eve
42. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
The Age ofInnocence
Parrot
Baden-Baden
Ian Fleming
43. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Bob Dylan
Stevie Wonder
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lazarus
44. What are divided by Botts' dots?
(street) lanes
What's Up - Doc?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
(the) Great Train Robbery
45. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Fontanelles
Philadelphia
Rocky Balboa
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
46. First film in CinemaScope?
The Robe (1953)
Mitch
Brazil
India
47. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Temple prostitute
Elle
Fahrenheit 451
Jamaica Bay
48. 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
Chaminade
(Dallas) Love Field
Carrie Underwood
49. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Turkey
Temple prostitute
Chile
SD-6
50. First American film nudity?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The White Witch
Nicaragua
Inspiration (1915)