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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First 'Director's Cut'?

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2. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






3. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






4. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






5. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






6. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






7. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






8. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?






9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






10. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






11. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






12. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






13. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






14. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






15. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






16. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






17. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






18. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






19. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






20. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






21. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






22. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






23. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






24. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?






25. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






26. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






27. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






28. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?






29. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






30. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






31. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






32. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?






33. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






34. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






35. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?






36. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






37. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?






38. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?






39. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






40. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






41. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






42. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






43. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?






44. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






45. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






46. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






47. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






48. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?






49. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?







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