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1. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Angkor Wat
Fish
Bucket
Desiderata
2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Pear(s)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Charles Starkweather
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
3. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Eddie Matthews
Capri
Louie Louie
The Ewings (Dallas)
4. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Bicycle(s)
Dollar
Frank Zamboni
(the) Boston Tea Party
5. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Murmur
India
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
6. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
The Mona Lisa
Shel Silverstein
7. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Britney Spears
Hips
Farting
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
8. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Aramis
Aladdin
Pocahontas
Frank Zamboni
9. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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10. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Eddie Matthews
Rebecca
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
11. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
(street) lanes
Kate & Allie
Brain Boitano
The Learning Tree (1969)
12. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
Senegal
Louisana (Superdome)
Mashed potatoes
Coffee
13. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Mexico
Brian De Palma
Hugo Chavez
Pulp Fiction
14. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Simon Legree
Green
Jamaica
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
15. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(a) Yo-yo
Extras
Egypt
16. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?
Roberto Rossellini
Jamaica
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Little Rock
17. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Come by here
Small intestine(s)
Wales
(the) Motorwagen
18. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
White
Buster Douglas
Scrooged
Christopher Columbus
19. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Mecca
Harold and Maude
S(ain)t Louis
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
20. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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21. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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22. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Philip Marlowe
Pulp Fiction
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Mitch
23. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
The Canterville Ghost
(PE)6-5000
The Loco-motion
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
24. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Ali MacGraw
(a) Yo-yo
Romania
M. C. Hammer
25. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Joanne Woodward
Ants
Lady Marmalade
Go Away Little Girl
26. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
B. J. Armstrong
Benito Mussolini
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
27. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
E. B. White
Pig
Mitosis
28. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Italy
Rulon Gardner
Senegal
D. H. Lawrence
29. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Britney Spears
The Maltese Falcon
Bound for Glory (1976)
30. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
About Schmidt
Aaron Copland
Ali MacGraw
31. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Palau
32. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Bicycle(s)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
33. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
Chile
(The) dodo
Mulan
Salzburg
34. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Horse
(Adolf) Hitler
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
35. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
Nicaragua
(Honda) Civic
Stevie Wonder
The Mona Lisa
36. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
MASH
Pearl Harbor
Racecar
37. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
Cherries
Leopard
Go Away Little Girl
38. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
(a) clergyman
Steven Spielberg
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Truly - Madly - Deeply
39. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Mickey Finn
(a) clergyman
Argentina
Apocalypse Now
40. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
(Songs in) A Minor
Almonds
Jim Calhoun
Michelle Wie
41. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
Tongue
Jack the Ripper
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
The White Witch
42. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(the) New York Mets
Eric Bogosian
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
43. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Chantilly
Renny Harlin
Bunker Hill
Heloise
44. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Motor Trend
Kali
China
Venice
45. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
Capri
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Apocalypse Now
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
46. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Mahi mahi
Omega
Moby Dick
Cullinan
47. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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48. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Nicaragua
Fahrenheit 451
Palmer
The Loco-motion
49. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Racecar
1
Norma Jean
Walter Winchell
50. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
John Cassavets
2
Gorilla
Go Away Little Girl