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1. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Old Time Rock and Roll
5
Avocado(s)
Crunk
2. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Ernesto
The Frighteners
Naomi
Miles Davis
3. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Dracula
Ken Davitian
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
4. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
The Weekly World News
Kayak
Lillian Hellman
(planetary) rings
5. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
Pachyderm
Hannah
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Jack the Ripper
6. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Christopher Columbus
Bank One
H. G. Wells
Pocahontas
7. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Bwana Devil (1952)
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
(Ford) Excursion
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
8. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
The Mini (Cooper)
The Three Musketeers
Grenada
Boxing
9. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Argentina
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Murphy Brown
Edith Head
10. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Lillian Hellman
Grenada
Harold and Maude
11. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Tupac Shakur
China
(PE)6-5000
Please Mr. Postman
12. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Apocalypse Now
Oahu
Lillian Hellman
Field of Dreams
13. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
The Satanic Verses
Gomer Pyle
Judiciary
Cream
14. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
8
Melville
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
IMDb
15. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Tsetse fly
By Love Possessed (1961)
Mecca
Pocahontas
16. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
(Albert) Einstein
Venus
(the) Great Train Robbery
Cape Hatteras
17. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Orange(s)
Ken Davitian
George Wilson
Condoleezza Rice
18. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Beowulf
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Little Rock
(The) NHL
19. 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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20. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Little Rock
Garo Yepremian
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Robert Scott
21. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Ambrose Bierce
Louisville (Kentucky)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Chaminade
22. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Teapot Dome
EMForster
Ian Fleming
Deer
23. How many band members were there in Toto?
The Artful Dodger
(the) Jack of diamonds
6
Carbon dioxide
24. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Gene Roddenberry
Chile
Rulon Gardner
(Songs in) A Minor
25. Which company merged with Boeing?
Randy Quaid
Gene Roddenberry
Your Girlfriend
McDonnell Douglas
26. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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27. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Kitty Genovese
10
Jessica Lange
Louisana (Superdome)
28. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Sir Walter Raleigh
Kate & Allie
Hamlet
Shrek 2
29. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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30. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Frank Zamboni
Donner Pass
EMForster
Mel Brooks
31. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Deer
Queen Anne's Lace
Czechoslovakia
MCI
32. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
(The) Rolling Stones
India
John F. Kennedy
Orangutan
33. 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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34. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Eve
Will & Grace
Murmur
Antawn Jamison
35. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
The Little Mermaid
Jack Kevorkian
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
36. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Palmer
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Pocahontas
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
J. M. Barrie
Spellbound
Carrie Underwood
Sleeping Beauty
38. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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39. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
Sugar Ray Leonard
2
Becky Sharp (1935)
H. G. Wells
40. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)
(George Bernard) Shaw
Bwana Devil (1952)
M. C. Hammer
V8 (juice)
41. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
E. B. White
Oscar and Lucinda
Teddy Roosevelt
Finland
42. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
The Ewings (Dallas)
(street) lanes
Aladdin
Charles Lindbergh
43. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
D. H. Lawrence
Austria
Jim Jones
Paul Newman
44. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
D. H. Lawrence
Christina Aguilera
Mitsubishi
Venice
45. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
Terminal velocity
IMF
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Nuclear disarmament
46. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Arkansas
Eris (Discord)
Liar Liar
Hannah
47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Babette March
Scrooged
Gordie Howe
India
48. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Maya Angelou
Clownfish
Tsetse fly
Padre
49. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?
The Hula Bowl
She shot JR (Dallas)
The Age ofInnocence
McDonnell Douglas
50. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Martin Scorsese
Arkansas
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Hunchback of Notre Dame