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1. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
India
Ellery Queen
Eddie Matthews
(Albert) Einstein
2. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Black
De Beers
Romania
Randy Quaid
3. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Upset
(a) Yo-yo
Dannii
Limp Bizkit
4. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Babette March
The Weekly World News
Ghost
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
5. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Beowulf
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
By choice - man!
Ali MacGraw
6. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
The Cincinnati Reds
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Murray Gell-Mann
Eugene Onegin
7. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Ambrose Bierce
Red
(tested positive for) marijuana
Field of Dreams
8. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
Mostly briefs
Temple prostitute
Jim Valvano
Douglas
9. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Marcel Marceau
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Switzerland
Teapot Dome
10. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
11. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Ian Fleming
Pink
40
Christopher Columbus
12. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Underoos
Old Time Rock and Roll
Radar
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
13. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Mulan
Turkey
G. E. Smith
Pearl Harbor
14. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Night Court
Robert De Niro
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
(the) bishop
15. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Algeria
Ukraine
Hercules
16. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Mahi mahi
Martin Scorsese
EMForster
17. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Emeritus
Lemon(s)
Jessica Lange
Bucket
18. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Trapped in the Closet
19. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Tongue
White
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
20. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
Hoop Dreams
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Pete Seeger
Guy Ritchie
21. 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
Simon Legree
Montreal
A-ha
22. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Montgomery - Alabama
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
23. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
Your Girlfriend
The Boston Celtics (21)
Mitch
Mashed potatoes
24. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Lillian Hellman
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Lean on Me
Peru
25. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
S(ain)t Louis
Venice
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Nevada
26. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Shel Silverstein
Balthasar (Magi)
Finland
(George Bernard) Shaw
27. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Upset
CONTROL
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
(an) e
28. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
29. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
Jive
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
(the) Boston Tea Party
2
30. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Plum(s)
Old Time Rock and Roll
John Cassavets
Spinal Tap
31. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Paramount
Mecca
32. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Eeyore
Switzerland
Happyness
Coruscant
33. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
30 Rock
IMF
5
Llama
34. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
The Canterville Ghost
(street) lanes
Rat
Tupac Shakur
35. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Beetle Juice
Jessica Lange
Jeremy Bentham
The Maltese Falcon
36. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
Buffalo
Roger Vadim
Gordie Howe
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
37. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Yes
Fish
Roberto Rossellini
(The) Rolling Stones
38. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Mahi mahi
Mitosis
(an) e
39. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Arkansas
Emeritus
William Tell
The Robe (1953)
40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Roger Maris
Aladdin
Kornfield Kounty
41. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
It Happened One Night (1934)
Old Time Rock and Roll
Ski slopes
A Room With a View (Forster)
42. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Murray Gell-Mann
The Others
Bicycle(s)
Czechoslovakia
43. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6
Roger Vadim
TheName of The Rose
44. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Fontanelles
Terminal velocity
Joel Cohen
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
45. First film in CinemaScope?
Scoop
The Robe (1953)
Ukraine
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
46. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
Maya Angelou
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Pear(s)
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Blue
Tiny Bubbles
Dracula
Seven
48. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Renny Harlin
4
Nicaragua
Afghanistan
49. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Rocky Balboa
(a) clergyman
Balthasar (Magi)
Geyser
50. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
TheAtlas (A)
Israel
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Romania