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1. 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?
Baden-Baden
The (Buffalo) Sabres
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Randy Quaid
2. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Judy Garland
Hindenburg (explosion)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
State quarters
3. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
John Cassavets
Kornfield Kounty
Austria
4. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Darwin's
Shrek 2
Hugo Chavez
Sullivan Ordinance
5. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
Roberto Rossellini
De Beers
Terminal velocity
(George Bernard) Shaw
6. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
(The) NHL
Canada
Eddie Matthews
New York - New York
7. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Teddy Roosevelt
London Bridge
Israel
Night Court
8. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Mahi mahi
Buster Douglas
James Cook (English - 1770)
Extras
9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
Tupac Shakur
The Three Musketeers
Portland( - OR)
Inspiration (1915)
10. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Philip Marlowe
(the) New York Mets
Scoop
You Keep Me Hangin' On
11. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Sally Ride
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hamlet
XTC
12. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
30 Rock
Roger Maris
The Fantastic Four
Tupac Shakur
13. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Czechoslovakia
Cream
Guy Ritchie
14. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Edith Head
James Cameron
Edsel
Ambrose Bierce
15. How many band members were there in Toto?
V2 (rocket)s
6
Padre
(the) giraffe
16. Which company merged with Verizon?
Tiger Woods
MCI
Mitosis
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
17. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Michelle Wie
Martin Scorsese
Judiciary
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
18. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Texas and New Mexico
Upset
Barry Sanders
19. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Frank Zamboni
Earl Morrall
S(ain)t Louis
Stevie Wonder
20. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Burberry
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
21. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
Michelle Wie
E. B. White
112
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
22. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Dr. James Bedford
The Tell-tale Heart
Somewhere in Time
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
23. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
Jim Jones
Muammar Qaddifi
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Seven
24. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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25. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Foo Fighters
Jim Valvano
Douglas
26. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
Fig newtons
The Bridge over the River Kwai
France
(the) Republican Party
27. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Roger Vadim
4
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
(Gerald)Ford
28. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Croatia
(an) e
The Pope
(PE)6-5000
29. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Cameroon
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Roger Maris
30. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
North Korea
38th Parallel
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
31. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Pink
The Mona Lisa
Bob Dylan
32. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
Douglas
(the) ear
Lean on Me
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
33. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Babar
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Stevie Wonder
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
34. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Rebecca
Wings (1927)
Kitty Genovese
Scoop
35. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Kitty Genovese
The Robe (1953)
Babar
Yellow
36. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
E. B. White
Ernie
Scrooged
Miles Davis
37. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Sugar Ray Leonard
Nicaragua
Delaware
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
38. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Nicaragua
Steven Biko
Heloise
Sonic Youth
39. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Carrie Underwood
Sleeping Beauty
Aaron Copland
Ghost
40. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Garo Yepremian
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Brian De Palma
Small intestine(s)
41. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Jenny
Polo
Utah
China
42. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Ukraine
When a Man Loves a Woman
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Jenny McCarthy
43. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Pippa Passes (1909)
10
Coruscant
Mashed potatoes
44. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
(the) giraffe
Billy Martin
New York - New York
K. d. lang
45. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Brent Spiner
Jeremy Bentham
Fraternite
Curly Howard
46. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Jurassic Park
Christopher Columbus
Britney Spears
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
47. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Thanksgiving
(Honda) Civic
Antawn Jamison
48. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Pear(s)
Jamie Lynn
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
49. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
(planetary) rings
Llama
Gene Roddenberry
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
50. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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