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1. First American film nudity?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Inspiration (1915)
Times Square
Elvis Costello
2. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
Pegasus
James Cook (English - 1770)
Duran Duran
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3. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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4. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
H. G. Wells
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
North Korea
5. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Venice
Brain Boitano
Amos 'n' Andy
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
6. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
TheName of The Rose
Muammar Qaddifi
7. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Montgomery - Alabama
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Royal jelly
The Lion King
8. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?
Burberry
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Dracula
The Robe (1953)
9. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
Oscar and Lucinda
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Compaq
Switzerland
10. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Mashed potatoes
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Scrat
Murphy Brown
11. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Genesis
Brazil
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
12. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Bonnie and Clyde
Mau Mau
(the) Republican Party
Delaware
13. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
Bonnie and Clyde
Coal
Eeyore
Ambrose Bierce
14. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Bound for Glory (1976)
James Cagney
Venus
Chinese Democracy
15. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Black
Terminal velocity
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
By Love Possessed (1961)
16. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
Angkor Wat
(PE)6-5000
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Happyness
17. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Howard Hughes
Gomer Pyle
EMForster
Teddy Roosevelt
18. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Frank Zamboni
(the) World Cup (trophy)
7
Alsatians
19. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Jim Valvano
Angkor Wat
Small intestine(s)
Ambrose Bierce
20. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
Philip Marlowe
Plum(s)
London Bridge
Couscous
21. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Muhammad
Rene Descartes
STP Motor Oil
A Christmas Carol
22. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
The Satanic Verses
Ohio and North Carolina
IMF
Omega
23. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Pear(s)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Pennsylvania
6
24. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
The White Witch
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
(Songs in) A Minor
Ione Skye
25. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
1
Nicky
India
Afghanistan
26. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
STP Motor Oil
27. First use of Steadicam in film?
Rocky Balboa
Mexico
8
Bound for Glory (1976)
28. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
George Wilson
Motor Trend
Jean-Luc Goddard
Tupac Shakur
29. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Topper
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Lady Marmalade
Deer
30. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Ghost
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
31. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
(Dallas) Love Field
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
J. M. Barrie
Ghost
32. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Hercules
Tsetse fly
New Zealand
Avocado(s)
33. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Vivendi
White
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
MASH
34. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
John F. Kennedy
Bucket
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Lemon(s)
35. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Pete Seeger
Billy Martin
Flowers for Algernon
Shrek 2
36. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Mostly briefs
Upset
Martin Scorsese
Uruguay
37. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Banana
Haiti
Oregon (or New Jersey)
The Sixth Sense
38. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Judy Garland
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
39. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Argentina
Algeria
Yellow (and key!)
The Frighteners
40. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Louisana (Superdome)
Guy Ritchie
Texaco
Orange(s)
41. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Avocado(s)
(a) clergyman
Prince Valiant
Padre
42. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Beetle Juice
Pachyderm
Antawn Jamison
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
43. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Theodore
Tammy Faye Bakker
Somalia
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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45. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
Egypt
(Gerald)Ford
1
Mashed potatoes
46. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Night Court
Somewhere in Time
Angkor Wat
U.N.C.L.E
47. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
H. G. Wells
Seven
Uruguay
48. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
(the earth's) crust and mantle
K. d. lang
Happyness
TheName of The Rose
49. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Thailand
(the) World Cup (trophy)
A Christmas Carol
Joanne Woodward
50. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
IMDb
Romeo and Juliet
The Learning Tree (1969)
Stevie Wonder