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1. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(the) Jack of diamonds
Jessica Lange
Christina Aguilera
2. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
MMMBob
Lemon(s)
The Sparrow
3. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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4. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Cameroon
Thailand
Aaron Copland
5. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
3 2 1 Contact
Ambrose Bierce
3
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
6. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
(the) ear
(The) Marines
Joanne Woodward
7. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
Mel Brooks
Pachyderm
Cullinan
Liar Liar
8. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
France
Mashed potatoes
MCI
Earl Morrall
9. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Color blindness
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Ellery Queen
V2 (rocket)s
10. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Portland( - OR)
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
(the) New York Mets
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
11. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Chinese Democracy
Capri
Tarzan
MASH
12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Hannibal
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Orange
Padre
13. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Ganesh
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
14. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Genesis
Victoria Falls
Croatia
Switzerland
15. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Eric
Racecar
Boxing
Hope & Faith
16. First film in CinemaScope?
White
The Robe (1953)
Frank Zappa
Louisana (Superdome)
17. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Your Girlfriend
Judiciary
Manhunter
18. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Ozone
(street) lanes
Seven
19. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
Palau
Garo Yepremian
Ozone
Edsel
20. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
John F. Kennedy
Tupac Shakur
Somewhere in Time
40
21. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
(George) Clooney
The Three Musketeers
I'm a Believer
22. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Cornea
Victoria Falls
The Little Mermaid
Pakistan
23. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
The Satanic Verses
Royal jelly
Bucket
(a) ginny (or jenny)
24. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Austria
(The) Jordan (River)
Heloise
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
25. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Westward Ho!
Vivendi
Mostly briefs
(The) House of Seven Gables
26. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Norma Jean
New York - New York
Mau Mau
27. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Mashed potatoes
Larry Nance
NineInch Nails
Thelma and Louise
28. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Topper (1937)
Frank Zappa
Bank One
D. H. Lawrence
29. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Judiciary
Temple prostitute
30. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Extras
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Kenneth Branagh
The Boston Celtics (21)
31. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
Roberto Rossellini
Pakistan
Cameroon
Roswell( - NM)
32. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
The Little Mermaid
Pegasus
Brian De Palma
Elle
33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Spain
Blue
Panama
Leopard
34. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
The Dome of the Rock
(a) clergyman
Oedipus
Royal jelly
35. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
(Hector) Berlioz
Emeritus
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Cullinan
36. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Canada
Travelers Group
Trapped in the Closet
37. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(her) hair
Nevada
E. B. White
Walter Winchell
38. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
Louisville (Kentucky)
The Canterville Ghost
Oedipus
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
39. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Naomi
Walter Winchell
1606
40. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Tomato(es)
Nicaragua
Pippa Passes (1909)
41. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
Blue
Croatia
Mars
Prince
42. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
India
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Upset
43. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Humbert Humbert
Tarzan
Ione Skye
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Theodore Roosevelt
Kitty Genovese
Mahi mahi
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
45. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Sally Ride
Kenneth Branagh
Alfred Hitchcock
46. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?
Chantilly
Walter Winchell
The Chrysler Building
Nicaragua
47. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Compaq
STP Motor Oil
Victory
48. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
(Honda) Civic
A Room With a View (Forster)
Somewhere in Time
Liar Liar
49. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Mexico
The Pope
Victory
Douglas
50. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?
V2 (rocket)s
The Boston Celtics (21)
Mecca
Jim Jones