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1. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
New Zealand
Chile
Milk Duds
Oscar and Lucinda
2. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Sirhan Sirhan
Everybody Hates
Go Away Little Girl
Tsetse fly
3. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Mostly briefs
Rebecca
Philip Marlowe
4. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
(George) Clooney
MASH
(George Bernard) Shaw
Rome
5. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Guy Ritchie
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Fish
China
6. First New York Times movie review?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Bambi
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Pippa Passes (1909)
7. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Hugo Chavez
London Bridge
Subaru
Curly Howard
8. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(Gerald)Ford
Please Mr. Postman
Snape
9. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Venice
De Beers
10. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Candyman
(The) Rolling Stones
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Jurassic Park
11. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
(the) bishop
Eric Bogosian
The Others
J. M. Barrie
12. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Your Girlfriend
Venice
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Humbert Humbert
13. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
The Dome of the Rock
Hips
Silicon Valley
Darwin's
14. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
The Sixth Sense
Aglet
Bank One
Mahi mahi
15. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Hips
Apocalypse Now
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A Room With a View (Forster)
16. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
Ione Skye
Coal
Inspiration (1915)
Jim Calhoun
17. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Sally Ride
Jorge Luis Borges
Compaq
18. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Louisville (Kentucky)
Tongue
Miles Davis
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Cherries
Chantilly
Algeria
Windsor - Ontario
20. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Tiny Bubbles
Brazil
Mostly briefs
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
21. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
Jean-Luc Goddard
Thanksgiving
Black
Deer
22. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Tongue
Iran
Queen Anne's Lace
Can-Can
23. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Mitosis
Pig
Foo Fighters
Judiciary
24. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
The Satanic Verses
Can-Can
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
New Zealand
25. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Bling bling
Chaminade
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Cullinan
26. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
4
9
Naomi
Mashed potatoes
27. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
Lillian Hellman
20
Alsatians
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
28. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
Uruguay
IMDb
Pig
Capri
29. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?
Roberto Rossellini
Carbon dioxide
Aglet
Queen Anne's Lace
30. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
(a) Yo-yo
Real estate (investment)
Gorilla
Avocado(s)
31. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Charles Lindbergh
(street) lanes
Michigan
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
32. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
Cameroon
Manhunter
(a) ginny (or jenny)
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
33. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
The Ring
MCI
Roger Maris
The Ewings (Dallas)
34. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Roger Vadim
Come by here
Montreal
Jeremy Bentham
35. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
The Satanic Verses
Yellow
Ernie
(Gerald)Ford
36. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
Charles Starkweather
The Dome of the Rock
Beverly Cleary
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
37. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
(The) Jordan (River)
Ukraine
Mecca
Motor Trend
38. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Almonds
Emma
39. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Gordie Howe
Lemon(s)
Edith Head
Sri Lanka
40. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
I'm a Believer
Brian De Palma
Salzburg
Beetle Juice
41. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Llama
Michigan
Ulysseys (1967)
Jamaica Bay
42. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Eris (Discord)
Avocado(s)
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
43. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Antonio Stradivarius
(The St. Louis) Blues
Mexico
Milk Duds
44. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Red Dawn (1984)
Carrie Underwood
Coruscant
45. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
Candyman
Lord of the Flies
1
The valley of the shadow of death
46. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
I've fallen and I can't get up
Lamar Alexander
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Theodore
47. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
The Artful Dodger
Alfred Hitchcock
Dr. James Bedford
Canada
48. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
1606
8
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
(The) Jordan (River)
49. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Benito Mussolini
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Thanksgiving
50. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
James Cameron
Kali
(the) Boston Tea Party
Sean Connery