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1. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Real estate (investment)
Rulon Gardner
Norma Jean
Oort cloud
2. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Cream
Romeo and Juliet
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
3. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Charles Lindbergh
Yellow
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Chantilly
4. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Judy Garland
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Koran
5. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Nicaragua
(Songs in) A Minor
Christopher Columbus
Mary Decker (Slaney)
6. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Jenny McCarthy
Fraternite
Mulan
Bonnie and Clyde
7. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Ben Hogan
Orange(s)
John Speke (English - 1856)
(Adolf) Hitler
8. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
Rat
Ukraine
Pegasus
The Tell-tale Heart
9. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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10. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Bicycle(s)
Bambi
(the) Boston Tea Party
(Gerald)Ford
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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12. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
North America
STP Motor Oil
Cherries
Burberry
13. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Grape(s)
XTC
Bank One
Bob Dylan
14. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Ukraine
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Mecca
Sao Paulo
15. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Topper
Mitsubishi
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Hydrogen and oxygen
16. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Yellow
Duran Duran
17. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Country (West Point motto)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Green
Underoos
18. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Almonds
Fahrenheit 451
Martin Scorsese
Nuclear disarmament
19. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Couscous
Garo Yepremian
Frank Zamboni
American Beauty
20. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Candyman
Philip Marlowe
Finland
Parking meters
21. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Montgomery - Alabama
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Horse
The Three Musketeers
22. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
The valley of the shadow of death
Renny Harlin
Christina Aguilera
Muhammad
23. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Parrot
Spain
Larry Nance
24. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Simon Legree
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Howard Hughes
(Sperm) Whale
25. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Teapot Dome
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Ernesto
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
26. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
I'm a Believer
Rebecca
Sugar Ray Leonard
Martha Stewart
27. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?
Fahrenheit 451
Aladdin
Duran Duran
Miles Davis
28. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
(Gerald)Ford
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Blue
29. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Palau
Sally Ride
Home Improvement
Limp Bizkit
30. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
The Lion King
Kayak
Norma Jean
Aladdin
31. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Fraternite
Fish
Sir Walter Raleigh
32. First all-sound film?
Small intestine(s)
Lights of New York (1928)
(The) NHL
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
33. 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?
Jim Calhoun
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
CONTROL
Mostly briefs
34. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
Christopher Columbus
Boxing
Mau Mau
Angkor Wat
35. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
Vincente Minnelli
Cherries
J. M. Barrie
(tested positive for) marijuana
36. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Sugar Ray Leonard
(George Bernard) Shaw
The Hula Bowl
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
37. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Chile
The Satanic Verses
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
38. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
Extras
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Bicycle(s)
39. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Delaware
Ulysseys (1967)
Victory
Laverne & Shirley
40. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
LeBron James
Lamar Alexander
41. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Yes
Philip Marlowe
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Parking meters
42. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Hugo Chavez
The Ritz (hotel)
Frank Zappa
43. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Solipsism
Wiley Post
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Basalt
44. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Alfred Hitchcock
(the) Jack of diamonds
Moby Dick
45. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Louisville (Kentucky)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Switzerland
46. First film in CinemaScope?
U.N.C.L.E
Rome
The Robe (1953)
Becky Sharp (1935)
47. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Otto
Michigan
Peach(es)
Rene Descartes
48. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Earl Morrall
Smerdyakov
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Colombia
49. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
Martin Scorsese
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Prince
The Hula Bowl
50. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Oahu
Jeremy Bentham
(planetary) rings