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1. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
Chinese Democracy
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Roger Bannister
Mau Mau
2. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Charles Lindbergh
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Benito Mussolini
Louisana (Superdome)
3. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
The Weekly World News
Wendy
Stevie Wonder
Elle
4. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Harold and Maude
Coruscant
Babar
Philip Marlowe
5. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?
Thrust
Stevie Wonder
China
Eeyore
6. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Westward Ho!
Nicaragua
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Wilco
7. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Fahrenheit 451
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
8. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Kayak
Walter Winchell
Oedipus
Aurora australis
9. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?
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10. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Banana
(a) clergyman
It Happened One Night (1934)
(a) clergyman
11. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Carbon dioxide
V2 (rocket)s
12. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Ghost
De Beers
Wiley Post
Aladdin
13. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
Deer
(Sperm) Whale
Aladdin
White
14. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Aladdin
Kayak
(Sperm) Whale
Blue
15. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Peach(es)
Coal
J. M. Barrie
16. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
Sleeping Beauty
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Truly - Madly - Deeply
(the) Jack of diamonds
17. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Lazarus
Jack the Ripper
Argentina
2
18. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Gene Roddenberry
Terminal velocity
Theodore Roosevelt
India
19. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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20. Which company merged with BP?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Angkor Wat
Gypsy Rose Lee
Philadelphia
21. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Happyness
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Teapot Dome
22. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Ken Davitian
Blue
Lillian Hellman
Parking meters
23. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
A Room With a View (Forster)
(The St. Louis) Blues
Britney Spears
Frank Zappa
24. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Yellow (and key!)
Eddie Matthews
Almonds
Tammy Faye Bakker
25. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
(Dallas) Love Field
J. K. Rowling
Kenneth Branagh
Haiti
26. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Brain Boitano
Marcel Marceau
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
(Songs in) A Minor
27. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
D. H. Lawrence
Simon Legree
The Tell-tale Heart
28. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Martin Landau
Jorge Luis Borges
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Eve
29. First three-strip Technicolor?
Becky Sharp (1935)
John Cassavets
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Lazarus
30. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Michigan
Brian De Palma
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Douglas
31. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
John F. Kennedy
Murphy Brown
Pakistan
Babette March
32. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Ali MacGraw
Michelle Wie
Gypsy Rose Lee
Nauruan
33. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Steven Spielberg
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Humbert Humbert
Afghanistan
34. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?
Nuclear disarmament
Charles Lindbergh
Tsetse fly
Jamaica Bay
35. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
Peach(es)
The Age ofInnocence
Robert De Niro
Ian Fleming
36. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Walter Winchell
Topper (1937)
(the) Great Train Robbery
Brain Boitano
37. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Jack the Ripper
Mitosis
Philadelphia
38. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
The gingerbread man
Emma
Boxing
Orange
39. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Rebecca
Green
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Laverne & Shirley
40. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Oscar and Lucinda
Dr. James Bedford
A Room With a View (Forster)
The valley of the shadow of death
41. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Ali MacGraw
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Hercules
Grenada
42. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Ernie
M. C. Hammer
Dr. James Bedford
Milk Duds
43. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
Thanksgiving
The Chrysler Building
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Algeria
44. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
Somewhere in Time
O. J. Simpson
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Lemon(s)
45. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Travelers Group
Humbert Humbert
Argentina
Peach (also contains orange)
46. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Will & Grace
Cream
47. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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48. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Trapped in the Closet
Aurora australis
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
49. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Milk Duds
Pennsylvania
Bling bling
50. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Red Dawn (1984)
Montgomery - Alabama
Joel Cohen
Walter Winchell