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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Arkansas
Please Mr. Postman
The Satanic Verses
John F. Kennedy
2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Prince
Algeria
(Dallas) Love Field
V2 (rocket)s
3. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Mary Decker (Slaney)
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Intercourse
Palmer
4. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Lillian Hellman
Somewhere in Time
Ben Hogan
5. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
(The) dodo
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
30 Rock
6. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
Jeremy Bentham
Parrot
Pippa Passes (1909)
Coal
7. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Hugo Chavez
40
In Cold Blood
Jack the Ripper
8. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
CONTROL
MMMBob
Antawn Jamison
Carbon dioxide
9. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
(Hector) Berlioz
Moby Dick
Muhammad
Subaru
10. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Ghost
Altamount
D. H. Lawrence
William Tell
11. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
CTU
Jive
Amos 'n' Andy
When a Man Loves a Woman
12. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Country (West Point motto)
(The) NHL
Mashed potatoes
Horse
13. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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14. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
Edsel
Hercules
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Crunk
15. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
(the) ear
North Korea
Kornfield Kounty
Coffee
16. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?
TheAtlas (A)
Charles Starkweather
Palm Sunday
Laverne & Shirley
17. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Roger Vadim
Jim Valvano
(the) Great Train Robbery
18. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
(Hector) Berlioz
Rulon Gardner
The Sixth Sense
Duran Duran
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
Hong Kong
Jorge Luis Borges
The Robe (1953)
France
20. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Emeritus
Jean-Luc Goddard
40
21. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
What's Up - Doc?
Sleeping Beauty
MMMBob
Eddie Matthews
22. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Spellbound
Aglet
Jerusalem
Jim Calhoun
23. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
(Songs in) A Minor
(Dallas) Love Field
Wilco
24. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
(the) Republican Party
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Brazil
Bonnie and Clyde
25. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
B. J. Armstrong
Walter Winchell
Mahi mahi
CTU
26. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
(Pablo) Picasso
The Cincinnati Reds
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
(The) dodo
27. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
The Descent
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Oahu
Rome
28. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
V8 (juice)
Philadelphia
Padre
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
29. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
Hannah
Yellow
Baltimore
The Hula Bowl
30. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
3
Tiger Woods
Hugo Chavez
Extras
31. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
James Cameron
Nicky
Afghanistan
Windsor - Ontario
32. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Martin Landau
Ukraine
Temple prostitute
Field of Dreams
33. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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34. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
Jim Lovell
9
Body Count
Solipsism
35. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Dr. James Bedford
Old Time Rock and Roll
36. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
Jean-Luc Goddard
Jim Jones
Christina Aguilera
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
37. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Seven
It Happened One Night (1934)
Portland( - OR)
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
38. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Jean-Luc Goddard
Mexico
Somewhere in Time
39. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Oort cloud
It Happened One Night (1934)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
John Cassavets
40. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
The Hula Bowl
The Robe (1953)
Richard Cory (himself)
Tsetse fly
41. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Victory
Upset
Ellery Queen
42. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
Subaru
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Amos 'n' Andy
43. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Bucket
Couscous
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
44. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
(The) Jordan (River)
Michigan
In Cold Blood
George Deukmejian
45. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Rat
Yellow (and key!)
(George Bernard) Shaw
Horse
46. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Renny Harlin
Intercourse
Bound for Glory (1976)
Argentina
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Duran Duran
Queen Anne's Lace
Walter Winchell
48. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Gene Roddenberry
Rat
Color blindness
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
49. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Do The Right Thing
Fahrenheit 451
LeBron James
Brain Boitano
50. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Dairy Queen
Turkmenistan