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1. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
Inspiration (1915)
H. G. Wells
Rochelle - Rochelle
Salzburg
2. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Colonel Harland Sanders
Field of Dreams
Somalia
(Pablo) Picasso
3. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?
Dollar
Chantilly
Farting
Yellow (and key!)
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Coffee
The valley of the shadow of death
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
5. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala
Simon Legree
Lord of the Flies
The Lion King
Eugene Onegin
6. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Fontanelles
Lean on Me
The Ewings (Dallas)
Pear(s)
7. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
Chantilly
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
8. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
XTC
CTU
Ski slopes
Babar
9. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
James Cameron
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
10. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Nicky
Jerusalem
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
The Ritz (hotel)
11. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
IMDb
Montgomery - Alabama
Kornfield Kounty
Westward Ho!
12. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Benito Mussolini
Sean Connery
Edsel
Judiciary
13. First American film nudity?
Switzerland
Scrat
Inspiration (1915)
Mulan
14. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Seven
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Seal (played by a sea lion)
15. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Pearl Harbor
Jamie Lynn
Frank Zappa
Spellbound
16. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Curly Howard
EMForster
Crunk
Banana
17. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Ganesh
Harold and Maude
Sonic Youth
Renny Harlin
18. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?
Bwana Devil (1952)
Burberry
Grape(s)
Aladdin
19. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Fontanelles
Dharma & Greg
The Little Mermaid
(street) lanes
20. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
CTU
112
Teapot Dome
21. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
(Honda) Civic
Terminal velocity
Barry Sanders
22. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Boxing
Jamaica Bay
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Hugo Chavez
23. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
Jeremy Bentham
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
24. Which company merged with Boeing?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
McDonnell Douglas
(the) New York Mets
(a) Yo-yo
25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
(the) Motorwagen
Theodore Roosevelt
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
26. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Aglet
(the) ear
Tupac Shakur
Lemon(s)
27. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Harold and Maude
Dracula
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
28. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Bambi
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Blue
3
29. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
Spinal Tap
Topper (1937)
George Wilson
North America
30. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Cameroon
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Simon Legree
31. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Wiley Post
Frank Zamboni
Chinese Democracy
Martha Stewart
32. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Salzburg
Peach (also contains orange)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Travelers Group
33. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Aliana
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Cream
London Bridge
34. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Do The Right Thing
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Yes
Chinese Democracy
35. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Mostly briefs
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
40
36. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Jenny McCarthy
Hamlet
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Louisville (Kentucky)
37. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
A Christmas Carol
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Rome
Pakistan
38. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
(the) ear
I'll Be There
Mitch
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
39. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Eric
Venus
Subaru
40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Plum(s)
Shrek 2
Horse
Bonnie and Clyde
41. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Louie Louie
Kornfield Kounty
Kali
Limp Bizkit
42. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
(Adolf) Hitler
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Robert Scott
Sugar Ray Leonard
43. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?
Mia Farrow
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
(The) dodo
Cullinan
44. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Murray Gell-Mann
Compaq
Temple prostitute
45. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Silicon Valley
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Heaven's Gate (1980)
(Albert) Einstein
46. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Tongue
A Christmas Carol
Martin Landau
Buffalo
47. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Jack Kevorkian
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Aramis
48. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Pakistan
Kayak
Beverly Cleary
Earl Morrall
49. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Martha Stewart
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Hindenburg (explosion)
Chaminade
50. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(a) Yo-yo
Jack Kevorkian
White