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1. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Germany
V2 (rocket)s
Brain Boitano
Jorge Luis Borges
2. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Sir Walter Raleigh
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Little Rock
Switzerland
3. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?
Times Square
Condoleezza Rice
Blue
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
4. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Salzburg
Dracula
Dharma & Greg
Alsatians
5. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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6. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Eeyore
Radar
Gene Roddenberry
(a) ginny (or jenny)
7. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Lulu
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Fig newtons
8. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Jerusalem
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Scrat
Charles Lindbergh
9. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
(the) giraffe
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Renny Harlin
(Ford) Excursion
10. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Silicon Valley
State quarters
Chantilly
Eve
11. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Baltimore
Humbert Humbert
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Rene Descartes
12. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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13. 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?
Mel Brooks
3
De Beers
MASH
14. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Small intestine(s)
Seven
Ukraine
Rene Descartes
15. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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16. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
(Gerald)Ford
Ghost
1
Smerdyakov
17. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(Gerald)Ford
Mickey Finn
Orange(s)
18. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
Eugene Onegin
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Leopard
(The) Marines
19. 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?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
(the) New York Mets
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
20. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Tomato(es)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
G. E. Smith
21. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Sweden
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Emeritus
Bicycle(s)
22. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
(the) giraffe
Jack Russell
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Roger Maris
23. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
William Tell
Brent Spiner
Douglas
Palmer
24. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Fig newtons
George Deukmejian
(street) lanes
25. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Motor Trend
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
S(ain)t Louis
EMForster
26. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Michigan
Hips
(The) NHL
Limp Bizkit
27. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Judy Garland
Romeo and Juliet
Buster Douglas
Red
28. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
M. C. Hammer
Jim Jones
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Colonel Tom Parker
29. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
The Satanic Verses
Coruscant
1606
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
30. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Lean on Me
Clownfish
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
31. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
White
IMF
Victory
Buster Douglas
32. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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33. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Plum(s)
TheName of The Rose
Lord of the Flies
(an) e
34. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
The gingerbread man
Clownfish
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
HP Lovecraft
Jive
Brazil
Windsor - Ontario
36. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
1
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Ali MacGraw
Iran
37. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Motor Trend
Horse
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
London Bridge
38. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Cullinan
Come by here
Jenny
Pear(s)
39. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
(Hector) Berlioz
Ozone
Mitsubishi
40. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Temple prostitute
Royal jelly
Aglet
(the) Motorwagen
41. How many band members were there in Madness?
Gypsy Rose Lee
7
Night Court
Hindenburg (explosion)
42. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Michigan
Eric
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Rulon Gardner
43. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Barry Sanders
The Others
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
44. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Mexico
The Ritz (hotel)
A Christmas Carol
Paul Newman
45. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?
112
TheAtlas (A)
Rulon Gardner
Bringing up Baby (1938)
46. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
1
(The) NHL
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
47. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
(The) dodo
Eris (Discord)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Aliana
48. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Haiti
Tiny Bubbles
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Sirhan Sirhan
49. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Ernie
Victory
It Happened One Night (1934)
(Ford) Excursion
50. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
TheName of The Rose
White
Mitosis