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1. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Tupac Shakur
Peach (also contains orange)
Louisville (Kentucky)
Coruscant
2. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
The Three Musketeers
8
The Frighteners
Hoop Dreams
3. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
Aglet
Kali
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Ukraine
4. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Oort cloud
Trapped in the Closet
5. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Chantilly
Steven Spielberg
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
John F. Kennedy
6. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Times Square
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Wings (1927)
Lord of the Flies
7. How many band members were there in Toto?
Elle
Farting
Tiny Bubbles
6
8. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
The Ring
The valley of the shadow of death
Fig newtons
Almonds
9. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
I'm a Believer
O. J. Simpson
The Cincinnati Reds
10. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
The Descent
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Mitosis
The Mini (Cooper)
11. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
I'll Be There
S(ain)t Louis
Seven
Chinese Democracy
12. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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13. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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14. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
The Satanic Verses
A-ha
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
15. First computer graphics in film?
Sao Paulo
Mickey Finn
Westworld (1973)
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
16. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Roger Bannister
Happyness
V2 (rocket)s
Charles Lindbergh
17. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Turkmenistan
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Lean on Me
18. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Louie Louie
Palau
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Prince
19. First American film nudity?
Montgomery - Alabama
Inspiration (1915)
Padre
Becky Sharp (1935)
20. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Cameroon
Larry Nance
Chinese Democracy
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
21. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Teddy Roosevelt
Coruscant
1606
22. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
By choice - man!
(a) clergyman
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
23. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Thailand
Gypsy Rose Lee
(PE)6-5000
New York - New York
24. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Mashed potatoes
Hannah
'A Spoonful of Sugar
25. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
The Pope
Hannibal
Sao Paulo
Radar
26. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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27. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
J. M. Barrie
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Altamount
Milk Duds
28. 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
EMForster
Tomato(es)
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
29. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Pig
(The) NHL
38th Parallel
30. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
The Fantastic Four
Alfred Hitchcock
Harold and Maude
Jeremy Bentham
31. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Jack the Ripper
Nevada
Finland
32. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Ione Skye
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Gorilla
33. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Will & Grace
Aaron Copland
Thelma and Louise
34. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
Desiderata
Victoria Falls
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Watermelon(s)
35. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Gordie Howe
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Old Time Rock and Roll
Hamlet
36. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Red
Oort cloud
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Robert De Niro
37. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
Prince
Venice
Emma
Basalt
38. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
(George Bernard) Shaw
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Babette March
39. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Cocoon
Nicaragua
Ukraine
Otto
40. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Westworld (1973)
Pictures of Matchstick Men
41. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
(the) giraffe
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
STP Motor Oil
Lean on Me
42. How many band members were there in Madness?
7
Blue
Bank One
The Dick Van Dyke Show
43. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?
Oort cloud
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Sally Ride
44. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Robert De Niro
(the) Jack of diamonds
Clownfish
45. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Extras
STP Motor Oil
Oort cloud
46. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Jamie Lynn
The Three Musketeers
The Pope
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
47. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
The Mona Lisa
(George Bernard) Shaw
Night Court
Pulp Fiction
48. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Barry Sanders
Oscar and Lucinda
S(ain)t Louis
Simon Legree
49. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Ski slopes
Ernie
50. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Murmur
Clownfish
Eric Bogosian
Candyman
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