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1. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Jamaica
2
Dentin
Mau Mau
2. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
Finland
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Robert De Niro
Edith Head
3. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Jack the Ripper
E. B. White
Fish
Victory
4. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Lillian Hellman
Nauruan
Country (West Point motto)
Palmer
5. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
(Dallas) Love Field
Mecca
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Naomi
6. Which company merged with Viacom?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Paramount
Senegal
TheName of The Rose
7. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
The Robe (1953)
Vincente Minnelli
Almonds
Capybara
8. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
(George) Clooney
Jessica Lange
Eric Bogosian
North America
9. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Body Count
Victory
Gomer Pyle
Subaru
10. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
Couscous
20
Senegal
North America
11. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Nevada
Howard Hughes
Delaware
The Maltese Falcon
12. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Will & Grace
Curly Howard
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Plum(s)
13. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Ellery Queen
In Cold Blood
Trapped in the Closet
Hindenburg (explosion)
14. First Best Picture Oscar?
Wings (1927)
China
Mau Mau
J. M. Barrie
15. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Jessica Lange
Israel
Lean on Me
Christina Aguilera
16. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Strawberries
Parrot
Ashlee
Tupac Shakur
17. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Rebecca
Benito Mussolini
Renny Harlin
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
18. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Wiley Post
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
The Cincinnati Reds
19. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Orange(s)
Bob Dylan
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Prince
20. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
21. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Sirhan Sirhan
James Cameron
Aurora australis
Sullivan Ordinance
22. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Lights of New York (1928)
Green
Rocky Balboa
The Ritz (hotel)
23. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala
Prince Valiant
James Cameron
The Lion King
Times Square
24. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Senegal
Rulon Gardner
Marcel Marceau
Padre
25. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
(the) Motorwagen
About Schmidt
Cornea
Green
26. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Others
James Cagney
Hope & Faith
27. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
Texas and New Mexico
3 2 1 Contact
Frank Zamboni
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
28. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Prince Valiant
(Pablo) Picasso
Bob Dylan
Duran Duran
29. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Dentin
U.N.C.L.E
Charles Starkweather
30. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Israel
Omega
Mashed potatoes
STP Motor Oil
31. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Balthasar (Magi)
Solipsism
Alsatians
Scrat
32. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
38th Parallel
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Alsatians
Pink
33. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Humbert Humbert
Ski slopes
The Artful Dodger
34. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
U.N.C.L.E
The Fantastic Four
Nicky
Antonio Stradivarius
35. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
The Ring
Elvis Costello
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Brain Boitano
36. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Milk Duds
Mau Mau
Palm Sunday
Silicon and oxygen
37. First film in CinemaScope?
Thanksgiving
Charles Starkweather
The Robe (1953)
Switzerland
38. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
(The) Jordan (River)
Tupac Shakur
(The) Rolling Stones
McDonnell Douglas
39. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
TheName of The Rose
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Fish
40. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Ellery Queen
Green
Antonio Stradivarius
Tiny Bubbles
41. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Rome
Palm Sunday
John F. Kennedy
Salzburg
42. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
V2 (rocket)s
The White Witch
Martin Scorsese
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
43. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
Nevada
Humbert Humbert
Federico Fellini
Marcel Marceau
44. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Lord of the Flies
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Pennsylvania
10
45. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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46. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
V8 (juice)
Sugar Ray Leonard
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
47. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Canada
(the) New York Mets
Pearl Harbor
Avocado(s)
48. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Marcel Marceau
Texaco
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Silicon and oxygen
Jean-Luc Goddard
Watermelon(s)
Somewhere in Time
50. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Prince Valiant
Jenny
Compaq
Thelma and Louise
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