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1. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Please Mr. Postman
Philadelphia
Cameroon
Britney Spears
2. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
40
Fraternite
Wendy
Ken Davitian
3. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Pearl Harbor
8
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Lazarus
4. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Padre
Coffee
(The) Rolling Stones
Texas and New Mexico
5. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
B. J. Armstrong
Stevie Wonder
Manhunter
Flowers for Algernon
6. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Rene Descartes
Bank One
Simon Legree
Six
7. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Motor Trend
Frank Zappa
Melville
Snape
8. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Blue
Finland
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
9. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
Austria
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Ambrose Bierce
Sullivan Ordinance
10. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
G. E. Smith
(The) NHL
Michelle Wie
Martin Scorsese
11. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Intercourse
Jessica Lange
Ken Davitian
Randy Quaid
12. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Red Dawn (1984)
J. M. Barrie
Ukraine
Jim Valvano
13. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Billy Martin
When a Man Loves a Woman
14. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
State quarters
Snape
Mahi mahi
Eddie Matthews
15. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Christopher Columbus
Ashlee
Cullinan
16. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Judiciary
Humbert Humbert
Polo
5
17. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
Can-Can
Everybody Hates
The Stanley Cup
Tsetse fly
18. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Desiderata
U.N.C.L.E
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
19. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Brent Spiner
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
The Chrysler Building
Louisana (Superdome)
20. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Fish
Martin Landau
Wilco
Small intestine(s)
21. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Gene Roddenberry
Pegasus
22. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
(Dallas) Love Field
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Grape(s)
The Mona Lisa
23. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
Joel Cohen
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
(Albert) Einstein
The Mini (Cooper)
24. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Cream
Condoleezza Rice
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
25. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Mau Mau
Betty (Rubble)
Capri
26. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Brian De Palma
The Weekly World News
Real estate (investment)
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
27. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
The Others
Harold and Maude
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Hamlet
28. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
Jean-Luc Goddard
(PE)6-5000
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
MCI
29. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
TheName of The Rose
Plum(s)
Almonds
Manhunter
30. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Limp Bizkit
Beetle Juice
The Three Musketeers
Murphy Brown
31. Which company merged with Chevron?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Pear(s)
HL Mencken
Texaco
32. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Baden-Baden
MMMBob
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
33. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Angkor Wat
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Joanne Woodward
The Frighteners
34. First New York Times movie review?
Alsatians
Pippa Passes (1909)
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Otto
35. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
The White Witch
Dharma & Greg
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Mitsubishi
36. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
Intercourse
(the) giraffe
Kornfield Kounty
Orange(s)
37. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
Ben Hogan
Lady Marmalade
Red Dawn (1984)
Mau Mau
38. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
Philip Marlowe
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Tammy Faye Bakker
Spain
39. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Cameroon
The Ritz (hotel)
Texaco
Judy Garland
40. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Aliana
Seven
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
41. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Otto
Shrek 2
Cullinan
42. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Chinese Democracy
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Temple prostitute
43. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
The Chrysler Building
Bob Dylan
It Happened One Night (1934)
44. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
IMF
(a) clergyman
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
About Schmidt
45. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
The Artful Dodger
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Eric Bogosian
46. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
Norma Jean
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(the) Jack of diamonds
Dollar
47. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
(PE)6-5000
Ellery Queen
Ski slopes
Mahi mahi
48. First American film nudity?
The Artful Dodger
Orange
SD-6
Inspiration (1915)
49. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Bank One
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Aglet
Gorilla
50. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Scrat
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Grenada
Jurassic Park