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1. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Orangutan
The Sixth Sense
2. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
(The St. Louis) Blues
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Baltimore
Iran
Silicon Valley
Padre
4. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
About Schmidt
K. d. lang
Egypt
5. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Hugo Chavez
Mexico
I'll Be There
Basalt
6. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Czechoslovakia
Capybara
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
7. Who killed the literary character Laius?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamie Lynn
Oedipus
Hannibal
8. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
The Frighteners
Victory
The Sparrow
Iran
9. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Ali MacGraw
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Fahrenheit 451
McDonnell Douglas
10. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
Roger Vadim
She shot JR (Dallas)
Do The Right Thing
Capybara
11. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Gordie Howe
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Spinal Tap
Rocky Balboa
12. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Ernie
Home Improvement
Lemon(s)
Geyser
13. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
40
Capri
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Tongue
14. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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15. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
S(ain)t Louis
Grape(s)
Mulan
Sirhan Sirhan
16. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Panama
Eugene Onegin
Tiny Bubbles
Cullinan
17. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Scrat
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Wales
The Ring
18. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
Ski slopes
William Tell
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Country (West Point motto)
19. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Argentina
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Ken Davitian
The Three Musketeers
20. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Banana
The Fantastic Four
Topper (1937)
The Three Musketeers
21. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Oscar and Lucinda
Aliana
The Frighteners
Walter Winchell
22. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Ohio and North Carolina
Terminal velocity
Louie Louie
Chaminade
23. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Home Improvement
Gene Roddenberry
7
Michelle Wie
24. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Harold and Maude
China
Egypt
Spinal Tap
25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
Eugene Onegin
Palmer
(the) Motorwagen
Atom Egoyan
26. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Seven
Hannibal
Victory
Mostly briefs
27. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Kornfield Kounty
Palau
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Will & Grace
28. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Turkmenistan
Mahi mahi
Five
Bicycle(s)
29. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
I'm a Believer
Lemon(s)
Shel Silverstein
Fraternite
30. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
(Gerald)Ford
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
31. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Kayak
Bob Dylan
Beverly Cleary
32. First three-strip Technicolor?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Germany
Hamlet
Muhammad
33. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
Come by here
(planetary) rings
Scrat
38th Parallel
34. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
4
Curly Howard
Venice
35. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
It Happened One Night (1934)
Vincente Minnelli
Larry Nance
I've fallen and I can't get up
36. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
Barry Sanders
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Yellow
New York - New York
37. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Mecca
Iran
Wiley Post
Amos 'n' Andy
38. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Bonnie and Clyde
I've fallen and I can't get up
The Frighteners
39. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Scrat
Old Time Rock and Roll
40. Which company merged with NBC?
The Pope
Vivendi
The Mini (Cooper)
Bank One
41. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Joel Cohen
Plum(s)
1
42. 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)
Ghost
Somalia
Cornea
43. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Humbert Humbert
Rulon Gardner
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Jim Jones
44. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Radar
Ambrose Bierce
Duran Duran
Subaru
45. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
(Dallas) Love Field
Simon Legree
Spellbound
(Sperm) Whale
46. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
The Age ofInnocence
Theodore
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Nuclear disarmament
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Grape(s)
Jack Kevorkian
The Cincinnati Reds
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
48. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Tsetse fly
Avocado(s)
Mecca
Rome
49. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
It Happened One Night (1934)
Texas and New Mexico
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Joel Cohen
50. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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