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1. 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?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Robert De Niro
Snape
James Cagney
2. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Jorge Luis Borges
Maya Angelou
Nauruan
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
3. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Ali MacGraw
Theodore
Yellow (and key!)
(George Bernard) Shaw
4. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Aurora australis
Pippa Passes (1909)
Pete Seeger
5. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Pig
MASH
Frank Zappa
D. H. Lawrence
6. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Ben Hogan
John Speke (English - 1856)
Nicaragua
Mel Brooks
7. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
J. K. Rowling
Sullivan Ordinance
Aramis
8. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Mitosis
Sugar Ray Leonard
The Dome of the Rock
Colombia
9. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Eddie Matthews
Fahrenheit 451
When a Man Loves a Woman
Dharma & Greg
10. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Seven
Pete Seeger
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
11. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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12. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
McDonnell Douglas
Laverne & Shirley
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Lemon(s)
13. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Omega
Teddy Roosevelt
14. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Seven
Avocado(s)
Coffee
Jurassic Park
15. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?
Antonio Stradivarius
Thrust
(PE)6-5000
Chaminade
16. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
(the) New York Mets
Tongue
James Cook (English - 1770)
5
17. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
3 2 1 Contact
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Eeyore
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
18. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Paradise Lost
CONTROL
U.N.C.L.E
Atom Egoyan
19. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Fig newtons
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Aglet
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
20. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Ghost
Michelle Wie
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
21. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Pearl Harbor
John Cassavets
Rocky Balboa
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
22. Which company merged with NBC?
Vivendi
Panama
Gorilla
Sleeping Beauty
23. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
The Pope
France
Pulp Fiction
Mashed potatoes
24. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Cullinan
Colonel Tom Parker
Hercules
Old Time Rock and Roll
25. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Texas and New Mexico
Jamaica
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Orange
26. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Scrooged
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Pink
LeBron James
27. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Colonel Tom Parker
Israel
Nevada
28. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'
Pictures of Matchstick Men
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
The Little Mermaid
Avocado(s)
29. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
(the) Republican Party
Montgomery - Alabama
Amos 'n' Andy
Apocalypse Now
30. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Orangutan
(the) Jack of diamonds
Sao Paulo
31. How many band members were there in Green Day?
Judy Garland
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
3
Dracula
32. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Black
(an) e
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Jive
33. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Germany
John F. Kennedy
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Jim Valvano
34. First use of Steadicam in film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Yes
William Tell
State quarters
35. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Old Time Rock and Roll
8
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Duran Duran
36. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Britney Spears
Tsetse fly
Aglet
37. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Can-Can
Joanne Woodward
Please Mr. Postman
Manhunter
38. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Miles Davis
Jenny
Five
39. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Lights of New York (1928)
Go Away Little Girl
Extras
Montgomery - Alabama
40. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Kate & Allie
Coal
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Christina Aguilera
41. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
Jack Kevorkian
(The) Marines
Salzburg
Mostly briefs
42. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
HL Mencken
Deer
43. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Nicaragua
It Happened One Night (1934)
Bwana Devil (1952)
Oscar and Lucinda
44. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Avocado(s)
Alfred Hitchcock
Joanne Woodward
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
45. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Mashed potatoes
Lemon(s)
46. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Guy Ritchie
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
The Frighteners
(the) Great Train Robbery
47. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Fraternite
Cape Hatteras
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Pete Seeger
48. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Gomer Pyle
Victoria Falls
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
49. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Green
Rocky Balboa
Paradise Lost
Edith Head
50. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Ski slopes
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
The Chrysler Building