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1. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
The Ring
Stevie Wonder
Queen Anne's Lace
Czechoslovakia
2. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Richard Cory (himself)
Naomi
Hugo Chavez
Queen Anne's Lace
3. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Country (West Point motto)
The Hula Bowl
Rocky Balboa
William Tell
4. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Mau Mau
Naomi
Romania
Mexico
5. First studio film with a black director?
6
Emma
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
The Learning Tree (1969)
6. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Utah
Melville
NineInch Nails
Field of Dreams
7. Which company merged with Verizon?
MCI
Ukraine
Eve
(the) New York Mets
8. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
(the) bishop
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Roger Bannister
Almonds
9. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Edsel
Baltimore
Candyman
Westworld (1973)
10. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Christina Aguilera
9
Yes
Seal (played by a sea lion)
11. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
Cherries
The Mona Lisa
Murphy Brown
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
12. First three-strip Technicolor?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Babette March
Benito Mussolini
Becky Sharp (1935)
13. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?
Emeritus
Motor Trend
Montgomery - Alabama
8
14. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
H. G. Wells
(The) dodo
Roger Maris
Small intestine(s)
15. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Switzerland
Murphy Brown
State quarters
Brazil
16. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Joel Cohen
V2 (rocket)s
Kornfield Kounty
Roberto Rossellini
17. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Sleeping Beauty
Paul Newman
Ellery Queen
Ken Davitian
18. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
IMF
20
Guy Ritchie
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
19. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Wales
Finland
Bucket
Spinal Tap
20. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Canada
Robert Scott
(a) ginny (or jenny)
21. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
She shot JR (Dallas)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
The Boston Celtics (21)
Buffalo
22. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Edsel
(Gerald)Ford
Frank Zappa
Tupac Shakur
23. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
38th Parallel
Windsor - Ontario
About Schmidt
Angkor Wat
24. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Lemon(s)
Prince
(her) hair
Charles Lindbergh
25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
(the) Motorwagen
Roberto Rossellini
Jamaica Bay
Fish
26. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Alfred Hitchcock
Ian Fleming
Jamie Lynn
Inspiration (1915)
27. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Eve
Bob Dylan
(the) bishop
Polo
28. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Lillian Hellman
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Capri
29. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Aramis
Palau
Spain
Uruguay
30. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Hong Kong
Tongue
Bling bling
Aramis
31. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
The Ring
Venus
Rocky Balboa
32. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Babette March
Aurora australis
Beowulf
Little Rock
33. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?
Genesis
Eugene Onegin
Red
Condoleezza Rice
34. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Extras
Queen Anne's Lace
Egypt
Parking meters
35. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
The Fantastic Four
Victoria Falls
Rome
LeBron James
36. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
Dannii
Jim Calhoun
Dracula
Benito Mussolini
37. First film of the 3-D boom?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Bwana Devil (1952)
Turkmenistan
Palau
38. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Pippa Passes (1909)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Tongue
Candyman
39. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Bling bling
Rocky Balboa
(Sperm) Whale
U.N.C.L.E
40. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Montgomery - Alabama
A-ha
Mary Decker (Slaney)
41. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Nauruan
MASH
Somewhere in Time
(Dallas) Love Field
42. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Antonin Scalia
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Douglas
43. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Louisana (Superdome)
Roger Vadim
Buffalo
Field of Dreams
44. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Heloise
Wiley Post
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
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45. First use of Steadicam in film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Night Court
John F. Kennedy
Peru
46. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
(a) clergyman
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
47. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Fig newtons
Tupac Shakur
Prince Valiant
De Beers
48. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Bucket
Palm Sunday
Moby Dick
Somewhere in Time
49. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Pakistan
Portland( - OR)
When a Man Loves a Woman
Texaco
50. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Ski slopes
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Hong Kong
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn