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1. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Sullivan Ordinance
Brazil
St. Louis Cardinals
2. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Colonel Tom Parker
(Dallas) Love Field
Donner Pass
3. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Come by here
Roger Vadim
4. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Spinal Tap
Montreal
LeBron James
Brain Boitano
5. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
John F. Kennedy
Maya Angelou
The Robe (1953)
Capri
6. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
When a Man Loves a Woman
Rome
The Ring
Turkey
7. First studio film with a black director?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Vivendi
Venice
3 2 1 Contact
8. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Christopher Columbus
Alsatians
The Boston Celtics (21)
Thrust
9. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'
Iran
MMMBob
The Artful Dodger
Coruscant
10. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Montreal
China
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Dharma & Greg
11. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Paul Newman
A Room With a View (Forster)
Portland( - OR)
(the) Boston Tea Party
12. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Rocky Balboa
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
New Zealand
Frank Zamboni
13. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Wales
Ione Skye
Pegasus
Ernesto
14. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Murray Gell-Mann
(Adolf) Hitler
Victory
15. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
North Korea
Switzerland
Louisville (Kentucky)
Philip Marlowe
16. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Steven Spielberg
1606
Beck (Odelay)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
17. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
The Weekly World News
Solipsism
Ukraine
Travelers Group
18. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Boxing
Apocalypse Now
19. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
India
Kali
Yes
Westward Ho!
20. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Tammy Faye Bakker
(planetary) rings
Five
Humbert Humbert
21. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Coffee
STP Motor Oil
(The) Jordan (River)
10
22. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
The Lion King
I'll Be There
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Sri Lanka
23. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
(the) Jack of diamonds
Melville
Thailand
Judy Garland
24. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Sean Connery
Aladdin
(Adolf) Hitler
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
Body Count
O. J. Simpson
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
(the) Motorwagen
26. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
Sullivan Ordinance
EMForster
Darwin's
27. Which company merged with NBC?
Emeritus
Vivendi
Dairy Queen
Tiger Woods
28. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
U.N.C.L.E
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Billy Martin
Jurassic Park
29. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Dentin
American Beauty
Tupac Shakur
20
30. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
De Beers
Beverly Cleary
Night Court
31. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Egypt
B. J. Armstrong
James Cagney
32. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Sri Lanka
Sullivan Ordinance
Please Mr. Postman
Hamlet
33. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Jorge Luis Borges
Stevie Wonder
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Rome
34. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
(a) clergyman
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
The Others
Foo Fighters
35. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Bob Dylan
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Do The Right Thing
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
36. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Christina Aguilera
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Tarzan
Aladdin
37. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
John Cassavets
Topper (1937)
The Canterville Ghost
Roswell( - NM)
38. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Pearl Harbor
Bwana Devil (1952)
Chile
39. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
40
Spinal Tap
H. G. Wells
D. H. Lawrence
40. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
American Beauty
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Canada
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
41. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ashlee
White
Baden-Baden
42. First New York Times movie review?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Montgomery - Alabama
Queen Anne's Lace
Pippa Passes (1909)
43. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Home Improvement
Kate & Allie
Dr. James Bedford
Chile
44. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Do The Right Thing
Pulp Fiction
Mexico
Utah
45. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
William Tell
J. M. Barrie
Jim Lovell
Dollar
46. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Salt Lake City
Tsetse fly
Mashed potatoes
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
47. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(The) House of Seven Gables
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Utah
48. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Silicon and oxygen
Eugene Onegin
Jack Russell
Shrek 2
49. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Ali MacGraw
Ernie
Wilco
Carrie Underwood
50. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Come by here
112
Sao Paulo
Sonic Youth