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1. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
I'll Be There
LeBron James
The gingerbread man
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
2. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
The Loco-motion
The Hula Bowl
John F. Kennedy
Ganesh
3. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Capri
Orange(s)
Britney Spears
4. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
John Cassavets
Compaq
(Songs in) A Minor
Mashed potatoes
5. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
American Beauty
Nauruan
Ken Davitian
(the)Indianapolis Colts
6. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Alfred Hitchcock
Charles Lindbergh
China
(Gerald)Ford
7. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
Windsor - Ontario
Venice
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Hydrogen and oxygen
8. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Tsetse fly
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
The White Witch
NineInch Nails
9. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
Mecca
J. M. Barrie
Gorilla
American Beauty
10. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Austria
(an) e
(the) Motorwagen
By Love Possessed (1961)
11. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Betty (Rubble)
HL Mencken
Roswell( - NM)
Montgomery - Alabama
12. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Bonnie and Clyde
Mitch
The Tell-tale Heart
Mars
13. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Mulan
Tupac Shakur
Jeremy Bentham
Beetle Juice
14. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Flowers for Algernon
The Mona Lisa
I'm a Believer
15. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
MASH
New Zealand
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
16. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Wales
Romeo and Juliet
Michigan
Ellery Queen
17. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Theodore Roosevelt
Norma Jean
Judiciary
Night Court
18. First PG-13 rated film?
Roger Bannister
Red Dawn (1984)
Nuclear disarmament
XTC
19. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Kayak
Murray Gell-Mann
Tsetse fly
Hong Kong
20. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Nicaragua
Charles Starkweather
Color blindness
Polo
21. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Murmur
Douglas
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Ganesh
22. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Elle
Bonnie and Clyde
Aladdin
Mostly briefs
23. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
Jim Lovell
Aaron Copland
Gypsy Rose Lee
Aladdin
24. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Chantilly
Llama
Muammar Qaddifi
Martin Landau
25. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Simon Legree
Orangutan
Somalia
Renny Harlin
26. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
SD-6
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Pink
Salzburg
27. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Chantilly
Billy Martin
Peach (also contains orange)
28. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
India
When a Man Loves a Woman
Happyness
29. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Buster Douglas
Come by here
Theodore Roosevelt
30. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Beowulf
Temple prostitute
White
Beetle Juice
31. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Ozone
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
32. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'
Tsetse fly
MMMBob
Jamaica Bay
(Pablo) Picasso
33. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
North Korea
Night Court
Thelma and Louise
Charles Lindbergh
34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
The Loco-motion
Betty (Rubble)
Charles Starkweather
(the) giraffe
35. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
Charles Lindbergh
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Atom Egoyan
Please Mr. Postman
36. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Royal jelly
Carrie Underwood
Crunk
Westworld (1973)
37. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
Mau Mau
Pippa Passes (1909)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Richard Cory (himself)
38. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Cat
Horse
Germany
Sao Paulo
39. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
Wendy
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
A Room With a View (Forster)
Roberto Rossellini
40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Scoop
Federico Fellini
Hercules
41. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Douglas
STP Motor Oil
Geyser
Colonel Tom Parker
42. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
India
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Muhammad
43. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
(Songs in) A Minor
(the) New York Mets
Emma
44. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Chile
Sao Paulo
Tiny Bubbles
45. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Edith Head
The Ring
The Dome of the Rock
(The) Jordan (River)
46. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Humbert Humbert
Subaru
Gordie Howe
Vincente Minnelli
47. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Paul Newman
The Tell-tale Heart
Six
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
48. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
(planetary) rings
Polo
Bonnie and Clyde
(Albert) Einstein
49. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Aramis
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Beverly Cleary
Pete Seeger
50. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
China
Donner Pass
Flowers for Algernon
Dannii
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