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1. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
Kitty Genovese
Muhammad
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Fish
2. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
China
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Sri Lanka
Guy Ritchie
3. First all-sound film?
Lights of New York (1928)
Frank Zamboni
I'm a Believer
(the) bishop
4. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
The Canterville Ghost
K. d. lang
Otto
Emeritus
5. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Sally Ride
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Charles Starkweather
6. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
(PE)6-5000
Philip Marlowe
I've fallen and I can't get up
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Teddy Roosevelt
Oscar and Lucinda
Thelma and Louise
Philadelphia
8. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
Garo Yepremian
Joel Cohen
Cat
(Gerald)Ford
9. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Mexico
TheName of The Rose
Miles Davis
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
10. First Best Picture Oscar?
Wings (1927)
U.N.C.L.E
Jim Calhoun
Chaminade
11. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Theodore
Hannibal
1606
Spellbound
12. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
30 Rock
Jive
Shrek 2
The Others
13. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Ken Davitian
Westward Ho!
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
14. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?
Dharma & Greg
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Joel Cohen
Fig newtons
15. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
Chaminade
The Boston Celtics (21)
Travelers Group
White
16. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
China
Dentin
Emeritus
Six
17. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Coffee
(The St. Louis) Blues
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
H. G. Wells
18. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
(The) NHL
Pocahontas
Ione Skye
Aliana
19. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Chile
Theodore
Edith Head
20. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Mitsubishi
(Gerald)Ford
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Simon Legree
21. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
Roger Maris
Six
Muhammad
Michelle Wie
22. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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23. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Spain
Humbert Humbert
(an) e
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
24. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Green
Barry Sanders
LeBron James
(Ford) Excursion
25. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
London Bridge
Koran
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Amos 'n' Andy
26. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Colonel Harland Sanders
Lady Marmalade
Everybody Hates
North America
27. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
V2 (rocket)s
38th Parallel
Orange(s)
Mitosis
28. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Laverne & Shirley
William Tell
London Bridge
29. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
China
Bambi
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
30. Which company merged with SBC?
Tomato(es)
Mashed potatoes
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Peach(es)
31. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Spain
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Seal (played by a sea lion)
32. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Ghost
Dollar
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Royal jelly
33. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Barry Sanders
Gorilla
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Basalt
34. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Louisville (Kentucky)
China
Oscar and Lucinda
Portland( - OR)
35. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Jenny McCarthy
Argentina
Deer
Palm Sunday
36. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Delaware
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
John Speke (English - 1856)
Victory
37. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Times Square
Rocky Balboa
Ski slopes
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
38. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
(Pablo) Picasso
Iran
Hamlet
39. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Hugo Chavez
Judiciary
Nicaragua
The Weekly World News
40. First all-sound film?
Baden-Baden
Field of Dreams
The valley of the shadow of death
Lights of New York (1928)
41. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
(the) ear
Tupac Shakur
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Fontanelles
42. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
New Zealand
U.N.C.L.E
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Gypsy Rose Lee
43. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?
8
Condoleezza Rice
Earl Morrall
Jim Calhoun
44. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Louisana (Superdome)
Frank Zamboni
Ben Hogan
45. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
I'm a Believer
Eeyore
India
Cherries
46. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Inspiration (1915)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Palmer
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
The Loco-motion
The Descent
48. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
J. M. Barrie
William Tell
(The) dodo
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
49. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Solipsism
The Descent
50. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Rebecca
Bling bling
Hannibal