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1. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
(George Bernard) Shaw
Aurora australis
Jack Russell
St. Louis Cardinals
2. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Colonel Tom Parker
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Romania
Scrooged
3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Jack Russell
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Palau
Silicon Valley
4. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
George Deukmejian
Billy Martin
Bob Dylan
Jeremy Bentham
5. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Blue
Cape Hatteras
Temple prostitute
Foo Fighters
6. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Color blindness
Llama
Lights of New York (1928)
(George) Clooney
7. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
The Artful Dodger
Sonic Youth
(a) Yo-yo
Aaron Copland
8. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
(an) e
Tarzan
Tammy Faye Bakker
Ozone
9. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Mars
Venice
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Mexico
10. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Tarzan
Hong Kong
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Flowers for Algernon
11. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Dollar
Horse
Night Court
The Tell-tale Heart
12. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Joanne Woodward
The Stanley Cup
(a) Yo-yo
Jim Jones
13. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Little Rock
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Frank Zamboni
14. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
Orange(s)
Sally Ride
K. d. lang
Silicon Valley
15. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
Hannibal
Red
China
16. What is a female donkey called?
Somalia
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Nicaragua
Senegal
17. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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18. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Roger Vadim
Condoleezza Rice
Mau Mau
19. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Dr. James Bedford
Coffee
Geyser
Harold and Maude
20. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Grenada
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Canada
Seal (played by a sea lion)
21. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Chrysler Building
Color blindness
Melville
Afghanistan
22. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Hips
112
Jamaica Bay
Tongue
23. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Lillian Hellman
John Cassavets
Crunk
Palmer
24. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
George Deukmejian
Capri
Austria
Humbert Humbert
25. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
(Pablo) Picasso
Ozone
Billy Martin
Paradise Lost
26. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
About Schmidt
Hope & Faith
(her) hair
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
27. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
The Learning Tree (1969)
SD-6
Strawberries
28. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
Lamar Alexander
Elvis Costello
Eeyore
1
29. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
Emma
Banana
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
30. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Ken Davitian
Sean Connery
The Others
Fahrenheit 451
31. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Altamount
John F. Kennedy
(The) Rolling Stones
Jorge Luis Borges
32. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Your Girlfriend
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
CONTROL
33. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Westward Ho!
St. Louis Cardinals
Bonnie and Clyde
(The) Jordan (River)
34. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Ellery Queen
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Pear(s)
35. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
Lady Marmalade
Joanne Woodward
Senegal
Avocado(s)
36. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Rene Descartes
Argentina
Hugo Chavez
James Cameron
37. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
Babette March
38th Parallel
Jim Lovell
Will & Grace
38. Which company merged with Boeing?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Mexico
McDonnell Douglas
Finland
39. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Grenada
Jean-Luc Goddard
Michigan
(a) Yo-yo
40. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
Egypt
Tupac Shakur
(Pablo) Picasso
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
41. 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)
Edsel
Pear(s)
Mexico
42. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
France
Fish
Eric Bogosian
MCI
43. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Salt Lake City
Cherries
Sir Walter Raleigh
Rene Descartes
44. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Orange
(Dallas) Love Field
Yes
Cornea
45. 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?
France
Federico Fellini
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
William Tell
46. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Benito Mussolini
Scoop
Mickey Finn
Pippa Passes (1909)
47. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
STP Motor Oil
J. M. Barrie
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
40
48. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Cullinan
The Artful Dodger
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
49. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Vincente Minnelli
(The) Jordan (River)
Brent Spiner
1606
50. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Lulu
The Ritz (hotel)
Babar
Theodore Roosevelt
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