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1. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
(The) Jordan (River)
Jive
The Ring
Finland
2. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Hugo Chavez
Guy Ritchie
Sally Ride
3. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
Ohio and North Carolina
(Gerald)Ford
Can-Can
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
4. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Theodore Roosevelt
The Lion King
Lord of the Flies
Burberry
5. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Eugene Onegin
De Beers
Venus
6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
(Adolf) Hitler
China
7
Ukraine
7. First film with Dolby sound?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Garo Yepremian
38th Parallel
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
8. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
Panama
The White Witch
Mia Farrow
Teapot Dome
9. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Times Square
MCI
XTC
The (Buffalo) Sabres
10. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Charles Starkweather
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Mexico
11. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Scrooged
Spain
Rome
Hindenburg (explosion)
12. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Hercules
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
1606
Eugene Onegin
13. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Mickey Finn
The Canterville Ghost
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
14. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Elle
The Lion King
Marcel Marceau
NineInch Nails
15. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
Extras
Peach(es)
Hannah
Basalt
16. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
The Frighteners
(The) Marines
Geyser
Salt Lake City
17. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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18. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
40
Green
Beck (Odelay)
19. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
S(ain)t Louis
Aglet
8
Ione Skye
20. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Nevada
Sullivan Ordinance
Venice
Carrie Underwood
21. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
A-ha
Tiny Bubbles
Lean on Me
The Canterville Ghost
22. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Sao Paulo
Nuclear disarmament
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
23. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
France
Dr. James Bedford
(the) giraffe
Ski slopes
24. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
The Mona Lisa
Brain Boitano
(George) Clooney
Hong Kong
25. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Maya Angelou
Brain Boitano
Scrooged
26. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Mexico
Betty (Rubble)
(Pablo) Picasso
Aramis
27. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Murmur
Brain Boitano
Ozone
A Fistfull of Dollars
28. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
Smerdyakov
Barry Sanders
Almonds
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
29. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Intercourse
Tarzan
The Hula Bowl
30. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Orange
Emma
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Dracula
31. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Jim Calhoun
(Dallas) Love Field
India
Orange(s)
32. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
(The) Rolling Stones
Frankenstein('s monster)
Gypsy Rose Lee
The Stanley Cup
33. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Red Dawn (1984)
Pearl Harbor
Romania
Haiti
34. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
30 Rock
Ants
Queen Anne's Lace
35. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Brian De Palma
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Barry Sanders
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
36. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Romania
Coruscant
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
37. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Portland( - OR)
(the) Motorwagen
Wendy
38. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
The Mini (Cooper)
Heloise
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
39. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
E. B. White
Ulysseys (1967)
Hugo Chavez
40. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
TheName of The Rose
By choice - man!
(planetary) rings
41. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Christopher Columbus
Thelma and Louise
G. E. Smith
Switzerland
42. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Duran Duran
Larry Nance
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
(the) bishop
43. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Darwin's
Clownfish
(the) ear
44. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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45. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Royal jelly
Thailand
CONTROL
46. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
Benito Mussolini
Sri Lanka
Romania
Leopard
47. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Robert Scott
Switzerland
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
48. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Cornea
(a) clergyman
112
Curly Howard
49. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(tested positive for) marijuana
50. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Thailand
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
North America