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1. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
Motor Trend
Bank One
Steven Spielberg
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
2. Which company merged with Chevron?
Norma Jean
112
Muammar Qaddifi
Texaco
3. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
2
Benito Mussolini
Rocky Balboa
Hindenburg (explosion)
4. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Judiciary
Chinese Democracy
Dairy Queen
CONTROL
5. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Hugo Chavez
Your Girlfriend
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
6. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Colombia
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Stevie Wonder
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
7. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Gomer Pyle
Country (West Point motto)
Intercourse
Pachyderm
8. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Simon Legree
Silicon Valley
Ben Hogan
Mashed potatoes
9. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
A-ha
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Capybara
(the) Great Train Robbery
10. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Philadelphia
Hannibal
Desiderata
Aramis
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Little Rock
A Christmas Carol
38th Parallel
Atom Egoyan
12. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Jorge Luis Borges
Curly Howard
James Cameron
The Little Mermaid
13. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Heloise
(The) dodo
(Ford) Excursion
Scrat
14. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
Chile
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Couscous
Fahrenheit 451
15. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Martha Stewart
Richard Cory (himself)
Tongue
16. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Venus
Compaq
Home Improvement
V8 (juice)
17. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Jenny
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Carbon dioxide
18. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
St. Louis Cardinals
John Cassavets
19. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Jessica Lange
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Wendy
Babar
20. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
H. G. Wells
Charles Starkweather
Jim Calhoun
21. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Brent Spiner
Mitosis
Curly Howard
Happyness
22. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Bling bling
Small intestine(s)
Queen Anne's Lace
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
23. Which company merged with Boeing?
1606
McDonnell Douglas
Baltimore
George Deukmejian
24. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
Teddy Roosevelt
(The) dodo
Mexico
Desiderata
25. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
Gomer Pyle
Sean Connery
Oort cloud
Watermelon(s)
26. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Austria
Basalt
Orange(s)
27. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
3
A Room With a View (Forster)
28. First scheduled in-flight movie?
J. K. Rowling
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Edsel
29. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
I've fallen and I can't get up
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
North America
Can-Can
30. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Eeyore
Jenny
Horse
Peach(es)
31. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
NineInch Nails
Emma
Body Count
Jorge Luis Borges
32. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
The Sixth Sense
Gorilla
(The) dodo
Hercules
33. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
IMF
Aliana
Eugene Onegin
James Cook (English - 1770)
34. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(planetary) rings
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
France
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Watermelon(s)
Royal jelly
Algeria
40
36. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?
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37. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Rochelle - Rochelle
Hamlet
Chinese Democracy
The Hula Bowl
38. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Turkey
3
U.N.C.L.E
The Mini (Cooper)
39. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Pink
Beck (Odelay)
Texaco
10
40. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
SD-6
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Mecca
Eeyore
41. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
London Bridge
Eric
Red
Louisana (Superdome)
42. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
Bank One
Home Improvement
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Martha Stewart
43. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
The valley of the shadow of death
Louisville (Kentucky)
Lamar Alexander
Baden-Baden
44. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
(a) Yo-yo
She shot JR (Dallas)
NineInch Nails
(planetary) rings
45. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Melville
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
46. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Aliana
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Night Court
Miles Davis
47. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
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Ali MacGraw
Dentin
(the) Great Train Robbery
48. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Leopard
Walter Winchell
De Beers
Atom Egoyan
49. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Jim Calhoun
Cat
Pig
50. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
IMF
EMForster
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Frankenstein('s monster)