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1. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?
Charles Lindbergh
Spellbound
Buster Douglas
Extras
2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Humbert Humbert
Montgomery - Alabama
Lean on Me
Watermelon(s)
3. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Iran
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Tupac Shakur
4. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Dentin
Hercules
The Pope
Sally Ride
5. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Martin Landau
Cat
(The) NHL
The Stanley Cup
6. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Theodore Roosevelt
Horse
Pakistan
Afghanistan
7. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
The Loco-motion
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
CONTROL
The Weekly World News
8. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Buster Douglas
Prince Valiant
India
Teapot Dome
9. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
Seven
Chinese Democracy
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
10. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Tongue
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Romeo and Juliet
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Lord of the Flies
Subaru
Grape(s)
George Wilson
12. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Limp Bizkit
The Mini (Cooper)
Montreal
Scrat
13. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Oort cloud
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
A-ha
2
14. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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15. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Compaq
Limp Bizkit
Dharma & Greg
Antonio Stradivarius
16. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
(Gerald)Ford
Ken Davitian
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
S(ain)t Louis
17. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Hamlet
Red
Finland
18. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
TheAtlas (A)
Parrot
Tiny Bubbles
(the) World Cup (trophy)
19. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
G. E. Smith
Everybody Hates
Judiciary
20. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Roswell( - NM)
(her) hair
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
21. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
4
Sirhan Sirhan
Field of Dreams
V2 (rocket)s
22. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Paul Newman
CONTROL
30 Rock
Jerusalem
23. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Geyser
Scrat
Darwin's
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
24. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Oort cloud
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
TheAtlas (A)
25. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
Israel
Roger Bannister
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Bound for Glory (1976)
26. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Lights of New York (1928)
In Cold Blood
9
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
27. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Mahi mahi
Canada
John Cassavets
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
28. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Colombia
Peach (also contains orange)
Trapped in the Closet
Colonel Tom Parker
29. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Walter Winchell
Rulon Gardner
Martha Stewart
Oahu
30. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Roswell( - NM)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
(the) evacuation of Saigon
31. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Pancreas
Bonnie and Clyde
32. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?
Sweden
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Christopher Columbus
Utah
33. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
The Mini (Cooper)
Iran
Wales
34. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Chaminade
(George Bernard) Shaw
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Model railroad
35. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Jack Russell
EMForster
Garo Yepremian
Five
36. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Ganesh
Douglas
Motor Trend
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
37. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
North America
Mars
Elle
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
38. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
De Beers
The Loco-motion
Genesis
H. G. Wells
39. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Red
Louie Louie
Tarzan
Roberto Rossellini
40. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Emma
Hope & Faith
John F. Kennedy
41. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Coruscant
Hoop Dreams
Egypt
Oahu
42. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Draw
Randy Quaid
(planetary) rings
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
43. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Walter Winchell
Body Count
Chaminade
Salzburg
44. Which company merged with Chevron?
Stalingrad
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Windsor - Ontario
Texaco
45. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Eris (Discord)
Rene Descartes
Chaminade
Lamar Alexander
46. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Thanksgiving
Ben Hogan
The Canterville Ghost
Ski slopes
47. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Wales
STP Motor Oil
Vivendi
Mitosis
48. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Underoos
MCI
Ohio and North Carolina
The Fantastic Four
49. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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50. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Avocado(s)
HP Lovecraft
The Mini (Cooper)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)