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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Ambrose Bierce
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
LeBron James
2. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Thailand
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Prince
Bonnie and Clyde
3. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Tupac Shakur
Miles Davis
Royal jelly
(street) lanes
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Shel Silverstein
Colonel Harland Sanders
Earl Morrall
In Cold Blood
5. Which company merged with BP?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Otto
Heloise
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
6. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Royal jelly
Strawberries
Limp Bizkit
7. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
India
Elvis Costello
Pippa Passes (1909)
Hindenburg (explosion)
8. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Paradise Lost
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Travelers Group
Bound for Glory (1976)
9. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Parrot
(the) Jack of diamonds
Afghanistan
Flowers for Algernon
10. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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11. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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12. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
Pete Seeger
Tsetse fly
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Boston Celtics (21)
13. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Ken Davitian
Capri
De Beers
Eve
14. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
Muhammad
(The) House of Seven Gables
Intercourse
15. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Jamie Lynn
Emeritus
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
STP Motor Oil
16. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
The Hula Bowl
Theodore Roosevelt
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Little Rock
17. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Randy Quaid
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Shel Silverstein
Ambrose Bierce
18. What is a female donkey called?
(Songs in) A Minor
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Dentin
Nicaragua
19. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
The Maltese Falcon
The Lion King
Grape(s)
20. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
4
Rulon Gardner
Jurassic Park
Eddie Matthews
21. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?
Mickey Finn
Baden-Baden
Thrust
The Tell-tale Heart
22. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Prince
New York - New York
Green
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
23. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
Jamaica
Dannii
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
(The) dodo
24. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
Country (West Point motto)
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Ukraine
Tongue
25. First PG-13 rated film?
Lights of New York (1928)
Red Dawn (1984)
Pete Seeger
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
26. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Eric Bogosian
Salzburg
MASH
Rocky Balboa
27. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Jack the Ripper
Spellbound
Naomi
28. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
(George) Clooney
Upset
(the) ear
(planetary) rings
29. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
The Little Mermaid
Hydrogen and oxygen
Strawberries
Parrot
30. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Jim Valvano
Ellery Queen
Hope & Faith
Montreal
31. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
Peach(es)
V8 (juice)
Sonic Youth
(her) hair
32. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Little Rock
Algeria
Westworld (1973)
33. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Polo
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Hindenburg (explosion)
Delaware
34. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Fontanelles
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Prince
35. What is a female donkey called?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Sally Ride
36. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
TheName of The Rose
Capri
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
37. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Red
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Iran
Flowers for Algernon
38. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
(Adolf) Hitler
New York - New York
Jack Kevorkian
Bunker Hill
39. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Mel Brooks
Field of Dreams
6
40. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Model railroad
Scrooged
Bicycle(s)
41. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Ione Skye
(a) clergyman
The Ritz (hotel)
Pulp Fiction
42. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Pachyderm
Randy Quaid
Algeria
Roger Vadim
43. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Pulp Fiction
Solipsism
Night Court
44. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Please Mr. Postman
Judy Garland
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
45. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
Coal
Eris (Discord)
Thailand
Teddy Roosevelt
46. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Haiti
10
The Lion King
The Dome of the Rock
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Sean Connery
HP Lovecraft
(the) World Cup (trophy)
48. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Switzerland
Eric
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Tupac Shakur
49. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Martin Scorsese
It Happened One Night (1934)
Philip Marlowe
Mary Decker (Slaney)
50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Egypt
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Blue
Martha Stewart
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