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1. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
North America
Germany
James Cameron
Moby Dick
2. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Happyness
6
Austria
3. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Can-Can
Egypt
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Ernesto
4. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Real estate (investment)
Orange(s)
Foo Fighters
Mickey Finn
5. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Bonnie and Clyde
Cullinan
Douglas
Nicaragua
6. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Jessica Lange
Frank Zappa
Coffee
Montreal
7. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Do The Right Thing
Baltimore
5
The Hula Bowl
8. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Seven
Mary Decker (Slaney)
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Barry Sanders
9. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Prince
The Sixth Sense
Grape(s)
Arkansas
10. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Upset
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
New York - New York
Victoria Falls
11. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Mia Farrow
Home Improvement
Oscar and Lucinda
12. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
Texas and New Mexico
Seven
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Leopard
13. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
Randy Quaid
Dollar
(The) NHL
A Fistfull of Dollars
14. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
A Fistfull of Dollars
Bound for Glory (1976)
William Tell
Martin Scorsese
15. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Cornea
Sonic Youth
Boxing
(Dallas) Love Field
16. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
Llama
The Canterville Ghost
Charles Starkweather
Michigan
17. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Tsetse fly
Brent Spiner
Palm Sunday
Chaminade
18. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Sir Walter Raleigh
LeBron James
Peach (also contains orange)
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
19. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Brain Boitano
Frankenstein('s monster)
Fraternite
Montgomery - Alabama
20. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
Thelma and Louise
McDonnell Douglas
Eric Bogosian
The Satanic Verses
21. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
Antonin Scalia
When a Man Loves a Woman
Norma Jean
Harold and Maude
22. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Cat
Dollar
Cocoon
Liar Liar
23. 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?
James Cagney
Kornfield Kounty
Mitch
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
24. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Hamlet
38th Parallel
Bucket
Britney Spears
25. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Kitty Genovese
Spain
A-ha
Bunker Hill
26. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?
Texaco
Croatia
Basalt
112
27. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?
Renny Harlin
Deer
Mia Farrow
J. M. Barrie
28. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
H. G. Wells
Antawn Jamison
Deer
Coffee
29. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Hips
Mia Farrow
Solipsism
Elle
30. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Argentina
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Eddie Matthews
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
31. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(her) hair
James Cook (English - 1770)
Ulysseys (1967)
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
32. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Larry Nance
Judy Garland
(The) dodo
CTU
33. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Sleeping Beauty
Pulp Fiction
Lillian Hellman
Theodore
34. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Crunk
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
The Pope
35. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
A Room With a View (Forster)
SD-6
Antonin Scalia
112
36. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
O. J. Simpson
Parking meters
James Cook (English - 1770)
M. C. Hammer
37. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Mashed potatoes
MMMBob
Crunk
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
38. First computer graphics in film?
Westworld (1973)
Jive
Otto
Tarzan
39. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Martha Stewart
Six
Brazil
Jenny McCarthy
40. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(Adolf) Hitler
India
LeBron James
41. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Teapot Dome
France
Austria
42. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Color blindness
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Ritz (hotel)
Elle
43. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Clownfish
Wings (1927)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Cameroon
44. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
Howard Hughes
Pete Seeger
Turkey
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
45. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
Shel Silverstein
Jamie Lynn
Ghost
Yellow (and key!)
46. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
The Hula Bowl
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Aladdin
Pippa Passes (1909)
47. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
Stevie Wonder
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
In Cold Blood
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
48. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Michelle Wie
Hannibal
Hamlet
Sullivan Ordinance
49. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
30 Rock
Salzburg
50. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Ian Fleming
Colonel Tom Parker
Padre