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1. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Robert De Niro
Boxing
Hope & Faith
Renny Harlin
2. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Texaco
George Wilson
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Scrat
3. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
De Beers
Jamaica Bay
Balthasar (Magi)
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
4. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Brent Spiner
Sally Ride
Muammar Qaddifi
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
5. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Beck (Odelay)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Mitch
6. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Peach (also contains orange)
Pink
Britney Spears
Norma Jean
7. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Martha Stewart
Real estate (investment)
The Chrysler Building
Murmur
8. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Blue
James Cameron
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
9. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Can-Can
Bank One
Pulp Fiction
10. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
Finland
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Grape(s)
Silicon and oxygen
11. How many band members were there in Toto?
Blue
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6
The gingerbread man
12. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Sri Lanka
The Frighteners
Come by here
13. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Scrooged
Scrat
Romania
14. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Chrysler Building
John Cassavets
Teapot Dome
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
15. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Fontanelles
Fig newtons
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
16. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
SD-6
(street) lanes
Elvis Costello
Hips
17. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Stevie Wonder
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
STP Motor Oil
Norma Jean
18. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Victoria Falls
(street) lanes
Martha Stewart
19. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Buffalo
Czechoslovakia
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
(The) Jordan (River)
20. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?
Ohio and North Carolina
(the) ear
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Curly Howard
21. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
The Mona Lisa
Montgomery - Alabama
2
Home Improvement
22. First all-sound film?
Aaron Copland
Jessica Lange
Lights of New York (1928)
Humbert Humbert
23. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Coffee
Federico Fellini
Bonnie and Clyde
Temple prostitute
24. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
India
Portland( - OR)
Argentina
Eddie Matthews
25. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Gene Roddenberry
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Thelma and Louise
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 would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Aladdin
(a) Yo-yo
The Maltese Falcon
Sleeping Beauty
28. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Vincente Minnelli
Victoria Falls
James Cook (English - 1770)
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
29. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
Roswell( - NM)
Green
D. H. Lawrence
Real estate (investment)
30. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Jenny
Edsel
Bunker Hill
Gorilla
31. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thrust
(street) lanes
32. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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33. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
(Songs in) A Minor
Hydrogen and oxygen
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
34. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
(The) House of Seven Gables
Brazil
The valley of the shadow of death
Romeo and Juliet
35. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
White
Gordie Howe
Pulp Fiction
Kate & Allie
36. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
(the earth's) crust and mantle
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Austria
Tiger Woods
37. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Yellow
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
CONTROL
State quarters
38. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
Walter Winchell
(PE)6-5000
The Ring
Angkor Wat
39. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
By Love Possessed (1961)
(the) ear
Cream
(the) giraffe
40. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(George Bernard) Shaw
Nicky
Harold and Maude
41. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Norma Jean
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Artful Dodger
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
42. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
STP Motor Oil
Montgomery - Alabama
The Canterville Ghost
43. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?
Earl Morrall
Donner Pass
Ellery Queen
Lights of New York (1928)
44. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Uruguay
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Tomato(es)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
45. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Grenada
Llama
The Maltese Falcon
J. M. Barrie
46. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Beck (Odelay)
Theodore Roosevelt
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Radar
47. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Jamaica Bay
Martin Landau
'A Spoonful of Sugar
48. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
Limp Bizkit
Texas and New Mexico
Upset
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
49. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?
Farting
Utah
Sao Paulo
(the) Jack of diamonds
50. First three-strip Technicolor?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Dairy Queen
The gingerbread man
Guy Ritchie