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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Aaron Copland
Beck (Odelay)
Brent Spiner
2. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Llama
Happyness
(The St. Louis) Blues
Clownfish
3. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
The Satanic Verses
Colombia
The Descent
Romania
4. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Egypt
Sullivan Ordinance
Beetle Juice
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
5. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Your Girlfriend
The Mona Lisa
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Roswell( - NM)
6. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
Fontanelles
Paradise Lost
Maya Angelou
Chile
7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Little Rock
Temple prostitute
Blue
Seven
8. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Nicaragua
Dannii
Balthasar (Magi)
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
9. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
V2 (rocket)s
Elvis Costello
New Zealand
Charles Lindbergh
10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
France
Almonds
Topper (1937)
Senegal
11. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
Llama
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Apocalypse Now
12. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
(the) New York Mets
The Robe (1953)
Chaminade
Louisville (Kentucky)
13. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Michelle Wie
Beverly Cleary
Heloise
Germany
14. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Underoos
Chaminade
Jive
Royal jelly
15. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Mel Brooks
Nuclear disarmament
Aramis
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
16. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
(the) ear
Gordie Howe
Polo
The Boston Celtics (21)
17. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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18. How many band members were there in Madness?
Palmer
China
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
7
19. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Hamlet
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Richard Cory (himself)
Rebecca
20. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Rocky Balboa
Pakistan
Radar
Victoria Falls
21. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
Arkansas
Peru
Brent Spiner
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
22. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Donner Pass
Little Rock
Texaco
Deer
23. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
CTU
Jeremy Bentham
North America
Switzerland
24. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
Carbon dioxide
Mia Farrow
Martin Scorsese
Jim Calhoun
25. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Buster Douglas
(The) Rolling Stones
Shel Silverstein
Happyness
26. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Harold and Maude
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Czechoslovakia
Deer
27. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Sao Paulo
Norma Jean
Spellbound
Bonnie and Clyde
28. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Silicon and oxygen
Kenneth Branagh
Seven
29. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
I've fallen and I can't get up
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Lean on Me
Grenada
30. First 'Director's Cut'?
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31. First film shown on HBO?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
(her) hair
TheName of The Rose
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
32. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Seven
8
The White Witch
Geyser
33. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
Salt Lake City
Tiny Bubbles
H. G. Wells
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
34. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
Harold and Maude
Hugo Chavez
Mashed potatoes
Melville
35. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
Smerdyakov
Kayak
Emma
When a Man Loves a Woman
36. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Jenny
The Ritz (hotel)
Pancreas
37. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Avocado(s)
Genesis
Night Court
Steven Biko
38. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
Delaware
Tammy Faye Bakker
A-ha
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
39. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Ken Davitian
Christina Aguilera
40. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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41. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
LeBron James
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Loco-motion
Altamount
42. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
Silicon Valley
Senegal
The Mona Lisa
Peru
43. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
The Chrysler Building
Mexico
Jeremy Bentham
44. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
John Speke (English - 1856)
6
(Albert) Einstein
(Sperm) Whale
45. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
Hope & Faith
Grape(s)
Chantilly
(The) dodo
46. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Beck (Odelay)
Red
V8 (juice)
The Boston Celtics (21)
47. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Portland( - OR)
Ernesto
Omega
The Cincinnati Reds
48. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
The (Buffalo) Sabres
(The) Marines
Cape Hatteras
49. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Temple prostitute
Philip Marlowe
(Dallas) Love Field
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
50. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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