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1. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
The Mini (Cooper)
Montreal
HP Lovecraft
John F. Kennedy
2. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
CONTROL
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Humbert Humbert
3. First film shown on HBO?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Balthasar (Magi)
4. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
1606
Amos 'n' Andy
Pink
Grenada
5. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
A-ha
China
Jim Valvano
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
6. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Jessica Lange
MASH
Nicaragua
Blue
7. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Babette March
It Happened One Night (1934)
Pear(s)
Thailand
8. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Cameroon
Old Time Rock and Roll
Bonnie and Clyde
Balthasar (Magi)
9. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
E. B. White
Rene Descartes
Eeyore
Eric
10. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Texaco
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Mau Mau
Rome
11. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Tiger Woods
HP Lovecraft
Switzerland
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
12. How many band members were there in UB40?
Canada
Rene Descartes
Brian De Palma
8
13. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Martin Landau
China
The Descent
Haiti
14. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
The Loco-motion
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Pear(s)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
15. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Lady Marmalade
Romeo and Juliet
White
16. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Angkor Wat
Mau Mau
Pig
Crunk
17. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
E. B. White
Silicon and oxygen
STP Motor Oil
She shot JR (Dallas)
18. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Silicon and oxygen
Sri Lanka
Charles Lindbergh
Prince
19. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Marcel Marceau
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Boxing
20. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
Ali MacGraw
MCI
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Mars
21. 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?
(planetary) rings
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Romeo and Juliet
Tongue
22. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Bank One
Delaware
Rome
The Three Musketeers
23. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Finland
Uruguay
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
24. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Aliana
The Hula Bowl
China
Wings (1927)
25. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Extras
Ozone
Fontanelles
The Dick Van Dyke Show
26. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
Romeo and Juliet
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Pete Seeger
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
27. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Salt Lake City
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Earl Morrall
28. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Martin Scorsese
Chinese Democracy
Aladdin
(the) Republican Party
29. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
HL Mencken
Bonnie and Clyde
Burberry
30. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
(Albert) Einstein
Bambi
Capybara
Hannibal
31. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
Tupac Shakur
Royal jelly
Kayak
The Loco-motion
32. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
I've fallen and I can't get up
Come by here
Jeremy Bentham
33. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Lazarus
The Ring
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
(a) clergyman
34. Which company merged with NBC?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
The Little Mermaid
In Cold Blood
Vivendi
35. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Edsel
Heloise
(The) dodo
Thailand
36. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
The Weekly World News
Antonin Scalia
Mia Farrow
Lean on Me
37. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Edsel
(The) Rolling Stones
Colonel Harland Sanders
Mia Farrow
38. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
Martin Scorsese
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
CTU
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
39. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
The Others
The Ewings (Dallas)
Chile
Heloise
40. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
Buffalo
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Louisana (Superdome)
Amos 'n' Andy
41. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Mashed potatoes
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Judiciary
Larry Nance
42. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Lights of New York (1928)
Jorge Luis Borges
Nicaragua
Sean Connery
43. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?
EMForster
Upset
The Tell-tale Heart
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
44. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
1606
White
George Deukmejian
Tiger Woods
45. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Humbert Humbert
(Sperm) Whale
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Trapped in the Closet
46. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Scoop
Jamie Lynn
Ashlee
Roger Bannister
47. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Queen Anne's Lace
8
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Beowulf
48. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Solipsism
Switzerland
Aladdin
Jamaica Bay
49. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Cat
(George Bernard) Shaw
V8 (juice)
Ants
50. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Earl Morrall
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Baltimore
Jean-Luc Goddard