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1. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
Humbert Humbert
Do The Right Thing
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Hong Kong
2. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Ione Skye
Ganesh
Padre
The Maltese Falcon
3. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
Heloise
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Mona Lisa
It Happened One Night (1934)
4. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
Dannii
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Joel Cohen
Switzerland
5. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
TheName of The Rose
Spellbound
The Others
6. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamie Lynn
Haiti
Cullinan
7. First use of the 'f-word'?
Somewhere in Time
Steven Spielberg
Brian De Palma
Ulysseys (1967)
8. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
(George Bernard) Shaw
John F. Kennedy
(a) clergyman
9. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Palmer
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Roswell( - NM)
Times Square
10. 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?
Brazil
Tongue
Mickey Finn
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
11. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
E. B. White
The Sparrow
Jean-Luc Goddard
I'm a Believer
12. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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13. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
The Hula Bowl
Desiderata
The Weekly World News
Lights of New York (1928)
14. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
Westward Ho!
Roger Vadim
Hydrogen and oxygen
Terminal velocity
15. First computer graphics in film?
Westworld (1973)
NineInch Nails
Coruscant
Paul Newman
16. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
1606
Howard Hughes
The Others
Solipsism
17. 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 Ritz (hotel)
B. J. Armstrong
Cameroon
Beetle Juice
18. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
The Satanic Verses
Teddy Roosevelt
Stalingrad
Intercourse
19. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Aglet
Ben Hogan
The gingerbread man
Oscar and Lucinda
20. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Dracula
Kenneth Branagh
Otto
Delaware
21. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Buffalo
Aramis
Sri Lanka
Chaminade
22. In 2002 - the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions.Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of its two 'North' division counterparts?
The Satanic Verses
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Pearl Harbor
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
23. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
(the) ear
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
(the) Great Train Robbery
24. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
(the) Great Train Robbery
Amos 'n' Andy
The Lion King
Six
25. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
Aliana
Roger Maris
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
The Sixth Sense
26. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
(George) Clooney
Teddy Roosevelt
Miles Davis
White
27. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
In Cold Blood
Aliana
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Christina Aguilera
28. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Cape Hatteras
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Subaru
29. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Iran
Romeo and Juliet
Peach (also contains orange)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
30. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Muhammad
Teapot Dome
Clownfish
(Honda) Civic
31. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Vivendi
Padre
Grape(s)
Brazil
32. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
The valley of the shadow of death
Ulysseys (1967)
The Maltese Falcon
33. Which company merged with Verizon?
Cat
MCI
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
George Wilson
34. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?
Koran
Martin Scorsese
Bank One
G. E. Smith
35. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Thanksgiving
Texaco
K. d. lang
Ashlee
36. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Ione Skye
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Genesis
Small intestine(s)
37. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Silicon and oxygen
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
St. Louis Cardinals
38. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
The Ritz (hotel)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Nicaragua
39. Which company merged with BP?
(Songs in) A Minor
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
40. First use of the 'f-word'?
Ulysseys (1967)
Kali
Bwana Devil (1952)
M. C. Hammer
41. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Lord of the Flies
Cameroon
(her) hair
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
42. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
The Descent
Vincente Minnelli
(Adolf) Hitler
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
43. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Lean on Me
S(ain)t Louis
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Jack Kevorkian
44. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
(the) New York Mets
Pink
Christopher Columbus
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
45. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Ashlee
20
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Kayak
46. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
Tammy Faye Bakker
The Canterville Ghost
Pete Seeger
Bunker Hill
47. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
India
(the) ear
The Tell-tale Heart
Jamaica
48. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
By Love Possessed (1961)
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Almonds
Chile
49. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
112
Nevada
Liar Liar
Jamie Lynn
50. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Vivendi
Solipsism
Rocky Balboa