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1. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Murray Gell-Mann
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Victoria Falls
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
2. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
New Zealand
James Cook (English - 1770)
The Sixth Sense
Six
3. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
112
Teapot Dome
Colombia
Federico Fellini
4. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
10
Bank One
Aglet
(the) Republican Party
5. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Thanksgiving
Red
Clownfish
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
6. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
MASH
Melville
Venus
Palmer
7. First computer graphics in film?
Westworld (1973)
Paul Newman
Heloise
Leopard
8. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Elle
Motor Trend
Deer
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
9. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
(a) Yo-yo
Hindenburg (explosion)
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
10. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Color blindness
Jenny McCarthy
Pennsylvania
11. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Dairy Queen
The Loco-motion
Pegasus
Heloise
12. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Emma
Deer
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
13. First use of the 'f-word'?
J. M. Barrie
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Utah
Ulysseys (1967)
14. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
(Hector) Berlioz
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Subaru
V2 (rocket)s
15. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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16. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Westward Ho!
(The) Rolling Stones
XTC
38th Parallel
17. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
Palmer
Go Away Little Girl
(George) Clooney
Palm Sunday
18. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Ben Hogan
Black
(the) New York Mets
19. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Robert Scott
Martha Stewart
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
The White Witch
20. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Mahi mahi
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
The Weekly World News
Royal jelly
21. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
Romania
Kate & Allie
New Zealand
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
22. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Times Square
Lazarus
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
23. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Sleeping Beauty
Upset
Larry Nance
24. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Rocky Balboa
SD-6
Frank Zappa
Jack the Ripper
25. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Field of Dreams
Ambrose Bierce
Martin Scorsese
Mitsubishi
26. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
G. E. Smith
(The) Marines
Cream
J. K. Rowling
27. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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28. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
Louisana (Superdome)
Theodore
John Speke (English - 1856)
(George) Clooney
29. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Wiley Post
XTC
John F. Kennedy
The Others
30. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Randy Quaid
Body Count
Chaminade
Eve
31. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
(a) clergyman
Britney Spears
Mary Decker (Slaney)
32. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Mitosis
Six
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Hips
33. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Kali
Prince
Panama
Nuclear disarmament
34. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Stevie Wonder
Sao Paulo
Ian Fleming
Brain Boitano
35. Which company merged with Verizon?
Country (West Point motto)
Roswell( - NM)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
MCI
36. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Mitch
Nuclear disarmament
Christopher Columbus
Blue
37. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Pocahontas
Palmer
About Schmidt
American Beauty
38. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
The Sparrow
Eddie Matthews
Mickey Finn
Miles Davis
39. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Manhunter
George Wilson
(the earth's) crust and mantle
H. G. Wells
40. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Dharma & Greg
NineInch Nails
Subaru
41. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Antonin Scalia
Pakistan
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
42. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Rebecca
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Old Time Rock and Roll
Humbert Humbert
43. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
Blue
Aurora australis
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Jeremy Bentham
44. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Delaware
Colonel Tom Parker
John F. Kennedy
Oscar and Lucinda
45. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Nicaragua
(George Bernard) Shaw
XTC
Cherries
46. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Murray Gell-Mann
E. B. White
MASH
Brain Boitano
47. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
White
Theodore Roosevelt
Bank One
Colonel Harland Sanders
48. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Robert De Niro
Banana
What's Up - Doc?
Donner Pass
49. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Seven
The Tell-tale Heart
The White Witch
50. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Murray Gell-Mann
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Austria
Scrooged