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Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






2. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






3. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






4. First film with Dolby sound?






5. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






6. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






7. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






8. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?






9. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?






10. First film with Dolby sound?






11. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






12. 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?






13. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






14. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






15. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






16. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






17. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






18. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






19. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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20. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






21. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






22. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






23. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'






24. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






25. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






26. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






27. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






28. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






29. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






30. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?






31. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






32. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?






33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






34. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






35. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






36. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?






37. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?






38. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






39. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






40. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






41. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?






42. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






43. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






44. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?






45. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






46. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






47. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?






48. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






49. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?






50. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?







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