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1. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Inspiration (1915)
(Hector) Berlioz
J. K. Rowling
A Room With a View (Forster)
2. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
A Christmas Carol
K. d. lang
Maya Angelou
(the earth's) crust and mantle
3. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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4. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Michigan
Ernesto
Ganesh
5. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
James Cagney
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Draw
6. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
Portland( - OR)
Condoleezza Rice
Hoop Dreams
(the) bishop
7. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Nicaragua
Underoos
Portland( - OR)
Finland
8. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Ambrose Bierce
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Judy Garland
Foo Fighters
9. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?
Racecar
Body Count
Hindenburg (explosion)
Jamaica Bay
10. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Eric Bogosian
Pig
Flowers for Algernon
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
11. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Tiny Bubbles
The Maltese Falcon
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Michigan
12. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Solipsism
Brian De Palma
J. K. Rowling
James Cagney
13. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Parking meters
Frank Zappa
Leopard
14. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
The White Witch
Windsor - Ontario
Joel Cohen
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
15. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Antonio Stradivarius
NineInch Nails
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Turkmenistan
16. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Naomi
Palmer
Eddie Matthews
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
17. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Fahrenheit 451
(The) dodo
Rochelle - Rochelle
Vivendi
18. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
When a Man Loves a Woman
London Bridge
Wendy
Night Court
19. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Compaq
Ellery Queen
Crunk
Louisville (Kentucky)
20. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Montgomery - Alabama
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Britney Spears
21. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
The White Witch
5
20
Bonnie and Clyde
22. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
Robert De Niro
Jamie Lynn
De Beers
The Age ofInnocence
23. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Five
Colonel Harland Sanders
Upset
24. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
India
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Algeria
25. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
James Cook (English - 1770)
Llama
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Bringing up Baby (1938)
26. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Pennsylvania
Westworld (1973)
MMMBob
27. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Jack Russell
Paradise Lost
Chinese Democracy
Small intestine(s)
28. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Scoop
Peach (also contains orange)
State quarters
29. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
Come by here
K. d. lang
Czechoslovakia
(Sperm) Whale
30. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Palm Sunday
Ants
Hamlet
Jack Kevorkian
31. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
(Sperm) Whale
When a Man Loves a Woman
American Beauty
Teddy Roosevelt
32. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Germany
Eric
Murphy Brown
Romeo and Juliet
33. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Miles Davis
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Carbon dioxide
Moby Dick
34. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Condoleezza Rice
Wilco
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
35. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Moby Dick
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Travelers Group
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
36. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Brent Spiner
Jamaica
Rebecca
37. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
Mars
Brian De Palma
The Ritz (hotel)
Richard Cory (himself)
38. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Eeyore
Teddy Roosevelt
The Sparrow
Scrat
39. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
The Robe (1953)
Bunker Hill
Please Mr. Postman
Padre
40. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
5
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tiny Bubbles
41. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Tiny Bubbles
Miles Davis
Baltimore
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
42. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Bob Dylan
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
The Frighteners
43. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Eric
(The) dodo
Brian De Palma
Murphy Brown
44. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Roberto Rossellini
Do The Right Thing
Edsel
45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Federico Fellini
Romania
Chile
Avocado(s)
46. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Omega
Panama
Romania
47. Which company merged with NBC?
Theodore
Vivendi
Green
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
48. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Temple prostitute
Mars
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Jack Russell
49. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
3
Murphy Brown
Joanne Woodward
Extras
50. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Radar
Liar Liar
Coruscant
India