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1. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
6
George Wilson
The Tell-tale Heart
2. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
By Love Possessed (1961)
Czechoslovakia
8
Christina Aguilera
3. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Yellow
Roger Vadim
North America
Topper
4. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
10
Genesis
Switzerland
The Bridge over the River Kwai
5. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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6. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Emeritus
Eeyore
Colombia
Mau Mau
7. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Louie Louie
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Bob Dylan
8. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
(street) lanes
Bob Dylan
(a) Yo-yo
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
9. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
7
Farting
Gypsy Rose Lee
Rat
10. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
The Age ofInnocence
Mia Farrow
Philip Marlowe
Martin Scorsese
11. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Lazarus
Thailand
India
12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
Murphy Brown
Wings (1927)
Switzerland
White
13. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Colombia
Sweden
Kayak
Wilco
14. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Queen Anne's Lace
Westward Ho!
(Adolf) Hitler
Martin Landau
15. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Jamie Lynn
North America
Ernie
Lord of the Flies
16. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?
Wales
Condoleezza Rice
Egypt
Sirhan Sirhan
17. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Kornfield Kounty
Ukraine
Rebecca
18. First 'Director's Cut'?
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19. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Kenneth Branagh
(Adolf) Hitler
Lady Marmalade
Mahi mahi
20. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
S(ain)t Louis
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
George Wilson
Yellow
21. First use of Steadicam in film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Plum(s)
Six
Truly - Madly - Deeply
22. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
20
Brian De Palma
Topper
Tiger Woods
23. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
Cameroon
Field of Dreams
By Love Possessed (1961)
24. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?
Eric Bogosian
Desiderata
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
25. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Windsor - Ontario
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Snape
Bob Dylan
26. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Robert Scott
(the) New York Mets
The Lion King
27. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
Ian Fleming
A Room With a View (Forster)
Spinal Tap
Brazil
28. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Hannah
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Ski slopes
(the) bishop
29. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
4
Stalingrad
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
John Speke (English - 1856)
30. First all-sound film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Lights of New York (1928)
Donner Pass
Grape(s)
31. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
The Canterville Ghost
Carrie Underwood
Jack Russell
Portland( - OR)
32. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Thelma and Louise
Palm Sunday
Tupac Shakur
China
33. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Color blindness
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Arkansas
34. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Ellery Queen
Racecar
Louie Louie
Lillian Hellman
35. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Cape Hatteras
Michigan
Sao Paulo
Seven
36. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Royal jelly
Gorilla
37. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Bucket
38. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Finland
Liar Liar
Howard Hughes
39. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
John Cassavets
Ernesto
Lights of New York (1928)
40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Frank Zappa
Tomato(es)
Judy Garland
41. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
HL Mencken
(The) House of Seven Gables
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
42. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Tiny Bubbles
She shot JR (Dallas)
Aladdin
Odor Eaters (insoles)
43. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Duran Duran
Babar
Christina Aguilera
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
44. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?
Cameroon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Condoleezza Rice
Ernie
45. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Royal jelly
10
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Joel Cohen
46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Yellow
The Ring
Pegasus
Orange(s)
47. First American film nudity?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Inspiration (1915)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
48. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Five
Donner Pass
Intercourse
(the) bishop
49. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
E. B. White
TheName of The Rose
John Speke (English - 1856)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
50. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Rene Descartes
Watermelon(s)
Humbert Humbert
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