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1. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
The Stanley Cup
The Chrysler Building
Geyser
Hamlet
2. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
The Sparrow
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Colonel Tom Parker
(George) Clooney
3. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Extras
STP Motor Oil
Mashed potatoes
Romeo and Juliet
4. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
Oscar and Lucinda
Parrot
Prince Valiant
Cat
5. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Cullinan
M. C. Hammer
6. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
The Sixth Sense
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
40
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
7. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
Texaco
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
8. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Grenada
Dharma & Greg
9. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Orange
Atom Egoyan
Solipsism
Travelers Group
10. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
Westworld (1973)
Garo Yepremian
Humbert Humbert
11. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Salt Lake City
London Bridge
Romeo and Juliet
Lights of New York (1928)
12. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Germany
Yellow (and key!)
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Ritz (hotel)
13. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Aaron Copland
Smerdyakov
1
The Mona Lisa
14. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Nuclear disarmament
Pachyderm
Edith Head
15. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Burberry
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
16. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Babar
Lady Marmalade
Cape Hatteras
(The) NHL
17. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Vincente Minnelli
Leopard
Cullinan
18. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Babar
Beetle Juice
XTC
IMDb
19. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Pachyderm
Green
Michigan
Silicon Valley
20. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
(planetary) rings
Victoria Falls
Michigan
Portland( - OR)
21. First studio film with a black director?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Lady Marmalade
The Learning Tree (1969)
22. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Times Square
Somewhere in Time
Palau
Happyness
23. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Hoop Dreams
Colonel Harland Sanders
Orangutan
24. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Italy
Fahrenheit 451
Murphy Brown
Bambi
25. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Geyser
Kayak
Sugar Ray Leonard
Dracula
26. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Blue
Theodore Roosevelt
Eric
Wales
27. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
Steven Spielberg
Can-Can
Mel Brooks
St. Louis Cardinals
28. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Draw
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
(the) bishop
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
29. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
TheName of The Rose
Lights of New York (1928)
The Loco-motion
Mulan
30. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
E. B. White
Kitty Genovese
China
Jack Russell
31. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
The Robe (1953)
Humbert Humbert
Pakistan
32. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Barry Sanders
(the) Great Train Robbery
I've fallen and I can't get up
Carbon dioxide
33. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Stevie Wonder
Turkmenistan
Jim Valvano
Thanksgiving
34. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Clownfish
North America
Panama
XTC
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Thailand
Harold and Maude
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Parking meters
36. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
Mel Brooks
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
V8 (juice)
Elvis Costello
37. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Louisana (Superdome)
Algeria
Eric Bogosian
38. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Pear(s)
Jenny
Draw
Apocalypse Now
39. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
The Fantastic Four
Martin Landau
Thelma and Louise
Parrot
40. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Judiciary
Yellow (and key!)
Federico Fellini
41. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Mostly briefs
Kali
Aurora australis
Truly - Madly - Deeply
42. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
The Satanic Verses
New Zealand
XTC
43. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala
Truly - Madly - Deeply
The Lion King
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Mexico
44. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Christopher Columbus
Melville
Babette March
Martin Scorsese
45. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Naomi
Jamie Lynn
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Fraternite
46. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Hong Kong
Humbert Humbert
Mashed potatoes
Cullinan
47. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Pearl Harbor
Inspiration (1915)
Steven Biko
The Maltese Falcon
48. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
Antonin Scalia
(Honda) Civic
Liar Liar
Somewhere in Time
49. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Can-Can
(The) Jordan (River)
Thelma and Louise
Gordie Howe
50. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
What's Up - Doc?
She shot JR (Dallas)
Terminal velocity
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