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1. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Babar
Apocalypse Now
Crunk
2. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Tiger Woods
Fontanelles
What's Up - Doc?
Jack the Ripper
3. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
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Ben Hogan
Roger Maris
The Maltese Falcon
4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Cameroon
Benito Mussolini
Mashed potatoes
Orange(s)
5. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Utah
Everybody Hates
Babette March
6. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Gorilla
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Lean on Me
Milk Duds
7. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Home Improvement
STP Motor Oil
Brain Boitano
Steven Spielberg
8. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
The Age ofInnocence
Martin Landau
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
9. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Sweden
Mashed potatoes
Pear(s)
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
10. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Ohio and North Carolina
Aglet
Canada
Wiley Post
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Jurassic Park
Jean-Luc Goddard
Louie Louie
8
12. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
China
3 2 1 Contact
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Eric Bogosian
13. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Alsatians
The Sparrow
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
14. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
The Fantastic Four
Ohio and North Carolina
Draw
The gingerbread man
15. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Jenny McCarthy
Boxing
Mashed potatoes
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
16. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Ambrose Bierce
Lights of New York (1928)
(the) bishop
Tiger Woods
17. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Betty (Rubble)
Sullivan Ordinance
LeBron James
Angkor Wat
18. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Switzerland
Brain Boitano
Grape(s)
(George Bernard) Shaw
19. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Louisville (Kentucky)
Germany
Britney Spears
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
20. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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21. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Texaco
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Red Dawn (1984)
22. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Ken Davitian
Yellow
Judy Garland
23. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Sugar Ray Leonard
Larry Nance
TheAtlas (A)
24. First 'Director's Cut'?
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25. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
(Songs in) A Minor
Mel Brooks
Moby Dick
2
26. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Leopard
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Judy Garland
27. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Night Court
The Little Mermaid
Please Mr. Postman
28. What is a female donkey called?
Chantilly
HL Mencken
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Norma Jean
29. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
(George) Clooney
Ben Hogan
(The St. Louis) Blues
30. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
(Dallas) Love Field
Christopher Columbus
She shot JR (Dallas)
31. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Rochelle - Rochelle
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Home Improvement
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
32. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
Marcel Marceau
Six
New Zealand
The Learning Tree (1969)
33. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Cream
The Loco-motion
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
A Room With a View (Forster)
34. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
Coal
The Fantastic Four
Pachyderm
Fish
35. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
A-ha
3 2 1 Contact
(The) House of Seven Gables
(an) e
36. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
Flowers for Algernon
A Room With a View (Forster)
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
37. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'
MMMBob
Ashlee
Pennsylvania
Topper (1937)
38. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Llama
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Milk Duds
Royal jelly
39. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Nicky
Red Dawn (1984)
J. K. Rowling
Panama
40. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Jorge Luis Borges
Basalt
Douglas
Mahi mahi
41. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
State quarters
Mexico
Ernesto
1
42. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
The Robe (1953)
Underoos
Parking meters
43. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Your Girlfriend
What's Up - Doc?
Travelers Group
Babar
44. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?
TheAtlas (A)
Little Rock
Mashed potatoes
Orange(s)
45. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Montgomery - Alabama
Polo
Sonic Youth
The Sixth Sense
46. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Hips
Lazarus
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Bucket
47. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Jeremy Bentham
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Coal
Little Rock
48. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?
Banana
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Martin Landau
Romeo and Juliet
49. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Tiny Bubbles
(the) bishop
I'll Be There
Travelers Group
50. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Will & Grace
Apocalypse Now
Lord of the Flies