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1. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Curly Howard
Orange
Betty (Rubble)
2. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Sugar Ray Leonard
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
CONTROL
Grenada
3. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
(planetary) rings
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Orangutan
Jurassic Park
4. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Jack the Ripper
(the) Jack of diamonds
Capri
Kitty Genovese
5. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Bob Dylan
John Cassavets
(the) Boston Tea Party
6. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Home Improvement
V2 (rocket)s
Eve
Mulan
7. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?
Theodore
(the) Motorwagen
Earl Morrall
Jim Calhoun
8. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Night Court
EMForster
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
The gingerbread man
9. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
The Tell-tale Heart
Hannibal
(Dallas) Love Field
Motor Trend
10. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
Beverly Cleary
Chile
Carbon dioxide
Oscar and Lucinda
11. 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?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
It Happened One Night (1934)
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
12. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Jim Calhoun
Yellow (and key!)
13. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
George Wilson
(Sperm) Whale
Uruguay
Manhunter
14. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Thanksgiving
B. J. Armstrong
Seven
15. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Charles Starkweather
James Cook (English - 1770)
Kitty Genovese
Hydrogen and oxygen
16. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Rene Descartes
John Speke (English - 1856)
Solipsism
Ohio and North Carolina
17. Which company merged with BP?
Becky Sharp (1935)
30 Rock
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Montgomery - Alabama
18. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Mitch
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Texaco
Paradise Lost
19. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Fahrenheit 451
Mau Mau
Croatia
20. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Solipsism
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Salzburg
Strawberries
21. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
Cullinan
Hoop Dreams
Banana
(The) Marines
22. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
Mars
Sao Paulo
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Robert Scott
23. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
The Fantastic Four
Sweden
Apocalypse Now
24. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Everybody Hates
XTC
Brazil
Coffee
25. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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26. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Country (West Point motto)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
27. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Aliana
Parking meters
(The) NHL
Temple prostitute
28. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
Texaco
Jeremy Bentham
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Farting
29. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
The Pope
Draw
J. K. Rowling
Antonin Scalia
30. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Joel Cohen
MCI
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Mia Farrow
31. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
(the) ear
Frank Zamboni
The Weekly World News
Pearl Harbor
32. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Sullivan Ordinance
Darwin's
Couscous
Yellow (and key!)
33. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
O. J. Simpson
The Descent
Racecar
34. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
Alsatians
Hamlet
1606
(the) evacuation of Saigon
35. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Pulp Fiction
Fontanelles
Gorilla
Aurora australis
36. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Gene Roddenberry
Kali
(Ford) Excursion
37. First use of the 'f-word'?
The Three Musketeers
IMF
Ulysseys (1967)
The Cincinnati Reds
38. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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39. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
Frank Zamboni
The Three Musketeers
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Coffee
40. First all-sound film?
Lights of New York (1928)
J. K. Rowling
The Fantastic Four
Joanne Woodward
41. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)
M. C. Hammer
Silicon and oxygen
Argentina
Palau
42. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Hips
Babette March
The Maltese Falcon
Wales
43. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(Albert) Einstein
Roger Vadim
(Sperm) Whale
44. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Jeremy Bentham
Burberry
Ghost
45. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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46. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
The Tell-tale Heart
Small intestine(s)
Topper
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
47. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Padre
Hope & Faith
Emeritus
The Tell-tale Heart
48. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
Upset
Judiciary
Green
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
49. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
3
V2 (rocket)s
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Parking meters
50. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Theodore Roosevelt
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Hope & Faith
Almonds