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1. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
10
Horse
Farting
Milk Duds
2. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Louie Louie
Iran
The Others
Duran Duran
3. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
Little Rock
Montgomery - Alabama
Coruscant
9
4. First film with Dolby sound?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
(The) Marines
Spain
(The) NHL
5. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Ski slopes
William Tell
(The) NHL
Rocky Balboa
6. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Mostly briefs
Jurassic Park
XTC
Hamlet
7. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Joel Cohen
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Flowers for Algernon
8. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
(The) Jordan (River)
Robert De Niro
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Marcel Marceau
9. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Draw
Beck (Odelay)
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Buffalo
10. First film with Dolby sound?
10
Hercules
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Prince
11. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
Billy Martin
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Mitosis
12. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Hercules
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
30 Rock
Frank Zamboni
13. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Rebecca
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Canada
Fontanelles
14. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Eris (Discord)
Kenneth Branagh
Stevie Wonder
(The St. Louis) Blues
15. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
O. J. Simpson
Nicky
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Silicon and oxygen
16. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Limp Bizkit
17. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
1606
(George) Clooney
Jamie Lynn
18. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Banana
Nicky
Fontanelles
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
19. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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20. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
Eris (Discord)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Model railroad
Geyser
21. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Chile
Temple prostitute
Montgomery - Alabama
Melville
22. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Argentina
Cocoon
Mostly briefs
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
23. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Rulon Gardner
XTC
James Cameron
(a) Yo-yo
24. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
LeBron James
Pulp Fiction
Paradise Lost
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
25. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Mel Brooks
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Sally Ride
Banana
26. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
3 2 1 Contact
Thelma and Louise
Clownfish
The Mona Lisa
27. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Palau
Extras
28. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Scrat
(Sperm) Whale
Jamie Lynn
Watermelon(s)
29. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Altamount
Orange
Antonin Scalia
Temple prostitute
30. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
Pink
(Pablo) Picasso
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Walter Winchell
31. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Uruguay
Montgomery - Alabama
Beowulf
Rat
32. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Nicaragua
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Underoos
Pictures of Matchstick Men
33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Steven Spielberg
Austria
Snape
34. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
(the) giraffe
Kenneth Branagh
Louisana (Superdome)
Aladdin
35. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
The Fantastic Four
The Canterville Ghost
Tongue
Jeremy Bentham
36. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
The Stanley Cup
North Korea
Jive
Kayak
37. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Louisana (Superdome)
A Room With a View (Forster)
Somewhere in Time
(street) lanes
38. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack the Ripper
Hope & Faith
Yellow
Chantilly
39. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Palm Sunday
Cat
O. J. Simpson
(The) Jordan (River)
40. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Oedipus
Coal
Ashlee
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
41. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
Hindenburg (explosion)
J. K. Rowling
Richard Cory (himself)
North America
42. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
LeBron James
Radar
Texaco
Maya Angelou
43. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Pachyderm
Garo Yepremian
Bwana Devil (1952)
44. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
Cat
Coruscant
Texaco
Robert Scott
45. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Yes
Come by here
(the)Indianapolis Colts
France
46. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Mashed potatoes
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Underoos
47. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Ian Fleming
Nicky
Rome
Mostly briefs
48. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
(The) Rolling Stones
Israel
38th Parallel
Richard Cory (himself)
49. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Ants
Romania
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Go Away Little Girl
50. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Garo Yepremian
Hoop Dreams
Bambi
Hugo Chavez
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