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1. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?
Koran
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Underoos
(The) Jordan (River)
2. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
(the) ear
Aladdin
Kali
Peru
3. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Palm Sunday
Colombia
Bob Dylan
Beck (Odelay)
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
The Maltese Falcon
Babar
Windsor - Ontario
Dairy Queen
5. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Mitch
Red
6. In 2002 - the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions.Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of its two 'North' division counterparts?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Kitty Genovese
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
7. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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8. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Solipsism
Prince
Model railroad
Sri Lanka
9. Which company merged with Chevron?
Texaco
Switzerland
Topper (1937)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
10. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Kali
Carrie Underwood
Bicycle(s)
Chantilly
11. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Federico Fellini
Sri Lanka
Benito Mussolini
Jim Jones
12. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Lulu
Mostly briefs
Bringing up Baby (1938)
13. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Cullinan
In Cold Blood
Stalingrad
14. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Peach(es)
Farting
10
Sally Ride
15. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Ganesh
(Honda) Civic
Jack Russell
Lillian Hellman
16. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Cornea
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Real estate (investment)
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
17. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
IMF
(an) e
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Jerusalem
18. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
Pocahontas
TheAtlas (A)
The gingerbread man
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
19. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Ozone
New York - New York
Body Count
Sri Lanka
20. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
Mars
North America
Real estate (investment)
Ian Fleming
21. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
Jack the Ripper
Old Time Rock and Roll
(the) bishop
Kali
22. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Jack Kevorkian
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
The Lion King
23. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
V2 (rocket)s
Elle
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Will & Grace
24. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
Finland
The Ring
Do The Right Thing
Hercules
25. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Lord of the Flies
A Room With a View (Forster)
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Colonel Harland Sanders
26. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Sugar Ray Leonard
Jive
Sullivan Ordinance
(The St. Louis) Blues
27. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Martin Scorsese
Temple prostitute
Six
Parking meters
28. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Victoria Falls
Palm Sunday
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
29. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
Montgomery - Alabama
8
J. M. Barrie
30. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
John Speke (English - 1856)
Roger Maris
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
31. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
Cat
Happyness
By choice - man!
Underoos
32. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
Murmur
The Others
When a Man Loves a Woman
(Adolf) Hitler
33. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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34. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
John Cassavets
Antonio Stradivarius
Ben Hogan
Hannah
35. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Aaron Copland
(Ford) Excursion
Nicaragua
Kornfield Kounty
36. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Shel Silverstein
The Canterville Ghost
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Hope & Faith
37. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Muammar Qaddifi
30 Rock
Turkey
(Songs in) A Minor
38. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Grape(s)
Sri Lanka
Hugo Chavez
Deer
39. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Martin Scorsese
The Tell-tale Heart
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
40. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
The Artful Dodger
(the) ear
Sullivan Ordinance
Mulan
41. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Country (West Point motto)
Baltimore
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
42. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Rebecca
Marcel Marceau
She shot JR (Dallas)
Federico Fellini
43. First Best Picture Oscar?
Texaco
Deer
Pulp Fiction
Wings (1927)
44. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Simon Legree
Liar Liar
North Korea
Mau Mau
45. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Hugo Chavez
(a) Yo-yo
Steven Spielberg
The Ring
46. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Plum(s)
Darwin's
Tsetse fly
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
47. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Bucket
Lamar Alexander
Panama
48. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Frank Zamboni
(The) dodo
Murray Gell-Mann
Pippa Passes (1909)
49. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Humbert Humbert
Czechoslovakia
50. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Trapped in the Closet
(The) Marines
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Odor Eaters (insoles)