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1. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Pachyderm
Sally Ride
The Fantastic Four
Bringing up Baby (1938)
2. First use of Steadicam in film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Teapot Dome
(tested positive for) marijuana
Italy
3. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Richard Cory (himself)
Wilco
Parrot
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Spain
Grape(s)
Mia Farrow
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
5. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
(tested positive for) marijuana
Buffalo
Capri
Muhammad
6. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Body Count
Brian De Palma
Kitty Genovese
7. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
China
Christina Aguilera
XTC
Upset
8. First Best Picture Oscar?
Basalt
Ernie
Emma
Wings (1927)
9. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
American Beauty
Richard Cory (himself)
Germany
(Ford) Excursion
10. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Babette March
Ukraine
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Yellow
11. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Murphy Brown
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Couscous
Black
12. Who called his elephant Tantor?
(the) bishop
1
The Weekly World News
Tarzan
13. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Gordie Howe
Martin Scorsese
Buffalo
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
14. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
M. C. Hammer
Lazarus
40
Draw
15. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Ulysseys (1967)
Motor Trend
By Love Possessed (1961)
Flowers for Algernon
16. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Please Mr. Postman
Guy Ritchie
STP Motor Oil
TheName of The Rose
17. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
Heloise
Avocado(s)
The Satanic Verses
Sally Ride
18. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Renny Harlin
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Brain Boitano
Jenny
19. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Almonds
(the) evacuation of Saigon
(Gerald)Ford
Desiderata
20. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
Oahu
The Weekly World News
Colonel Tom Parker
21. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
Jenny
Avocado(s)
The Frighteners
22. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
By Love Possessed (1961)
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Little Rock
What's Up - Doc?
23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Limp Bizkit
(a) ginny (or jenny)
India
Cameroon
24. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Salt Lake City
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Kayak
Night Court
25. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
The Mona Lisa
CONTROL
Deer
The Cincinnati Reds
26. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Kate & Allie
China
Eugene Onegin
27. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Dharma & Greg
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Venice
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
28. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Benito Mussolini
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Teapot Dome
Candyman
29. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
Benito Mussolini
Thailand
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Jim Jones
30. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
V2 (rocket)s
(The) Rolling Stones
Oscar and Lucinda
The Three Musketeers
31. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Brazil
Cream
Koran
32. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Finland
G. E. Smith
33. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Charles Lindbergh
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Almonds
34. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Brain Boitano
The White Witch
Delaware
35. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Come by here
LeBron James
Brian De Palma
36. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Jim Jones
(the) evacuation of Saigon
The Weekly World News
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Germany
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Bambi
Bob Dylan
38. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Pippa Passes (1909)
Wings (1927)
Sonic Youth
James Cagney
39. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Pancreas
Britney Spears
Palm Sunday
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
40. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack the Ripper
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Frank Zappa
41. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Walter Winchell
Rome
Egypt
The Lion King
42. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Montreal
Cornea
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Beowulf
43. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
112
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Heloise
Cream
44. 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?
Ernie
I've fallen and I can't get up
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Eddie Matthews
45. How many band members were there in Madness?
7
Teapot Dome
'A Spoonful of Sugar
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
46. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
Gordie Howe
Basalt
Hamlet
Victory
47. First film with Dolby sound?
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Billy Martin
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Jurassic Park
48. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Teddy Roosevelt
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Tammy Faye Bakker
Thailand
49. First film in CinemaScope?
The Robe (1953)
Hugo Chavez
Emma
The Sparrow
50. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Judy Garland
Miles Davis
A Room With a View (Forster)