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1. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Baden-Baden
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
2. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Grenada
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
3. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Bound for Glory (1976)
10
Christina Aguilera
Douglas
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?
Naomi
Sally Ride
Dracula
The Maltese Falcon
5. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?
Grenada
8
Shrek 2
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
6. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Color blindness
Panama
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Billy Martin
7. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Sri Lanka
Ghost
Romania
A Christmas Carol
8. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Carbon dioxide
Barry Sanders
(the) New York Mets
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
9. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Capybara
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Prince Valiant
10. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Six
Eric
Everybody Hates
John Cassavets
11. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Eve
Tiny Bubbles
Palau
Intercourse
12. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Pearl Harbor
HP Lovecraft
Ambrose Bierce
Roger Vadim
13. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Dr. James Bedford
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Please Mr. Postman
14. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Wings (1927)
Curly Howard
The Fantastic Four
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
15. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Liar Liar
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Elle
Seal (played by a sea lion)
16. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
James Cagney
George Deukmejian
Peru
17. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Orange(s)
Otto
STP Motor Oil
Travelers Group
18. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Pancreas
Fontanelles
Lillian Hellman
19. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Nicky
Mau Mau
Dr. James Bedford
Jerusalem
20. Which company merged with Viacom?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Vincente Minnelli
Paramount
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
21. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Mexico
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Avocado(s)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
22. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Spellbound
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(the) evacuation of Saigon
23. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
The Chrysler Building
Hamlet
Hannah
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
24. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
James Cagney
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Blue
25. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Dollar
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Nuclear disarmament
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
26. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Sonic Youth
Flowers for Algernon
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
27. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?
Limp Bizkit
Jean-Luc Goddard
Burberry
Kate & Allie
28. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
Couscous
Baden-Baden
Tarzan
29. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Body Count
The Fantastic Four
Austria
MMMBob
30. 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?
Algeria
Beetle Juice
Prince
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
31. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Victoria Falls
Seven
Charles Lindbergh
Jack the Ripper
32. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
Theodore Roosevelt
112
Dollar
The (Buffalo) Sabres
33. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Grape(s)
The Maltese Falcon
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Gene Roddenberry
34. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Coruscant
(Gerald)Ford
Haiti
(Dallas) Love Field
35. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Victoria Falls
Oscar and Lucinda
Marcel Marceau
36. First film with Dolby sound?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Thailand
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Dentin
37. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Topper
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Grenada
38. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Mitosis
The Lion King
Otto
A-ha
39. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Elle
Humbert Humbert
Ellery Queen
Turkey
40. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Oedipus
The Boston Celtics (21)
Scoop
Leopard
41. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Victory
(a) clergyman
Milk Duds
42. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Balthasar (Magi)
Wiley Post
I'll Be There
Beverly Cleary
43. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Six
Gordie Howe
A-ha
Sirhan Sirhan
44. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Victoria Falls
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Smerdyakov
Venice
45. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
New Zealand
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(the) Motorwagen
Eric
46. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Haiti
Louisville (Kentucky)
47. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
She shot JR (Dallas)
Victory
Salzburg
Cullinan
48. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Scoop
Crunk
Renny Harlin
(a) clergyman
49. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
M. C. Hammer
Czechoslovakia
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
1
50. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Country (West Point motto)
George Deukmejian
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)