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1. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Mulan
Atom Egoyan
Simon Legree
(a) ginny (or jenny)
2. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
Jeremy Bentham
Lean on Me
Cape Hatteras
Ellery Queen
3. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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4. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Five
Ben Hogan
Palau
Edith Head
5. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Mitosis
Bringing up Baby (1938)
The White Witch
Topper
6. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Afghanistan
Spellbound
Fraternite
The Ritz (hotel)
7. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert De Niro
8. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Cape Hatteras
Fahrenheit 451
Lulu
Pocahontas
9. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
The Cincinnati Reds
Orange
Harold and Maude
Elvis Costello
10. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
James Cagney
Hoop Dreams
E. B. White
Hope & Faith
11. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Stalingrad
Wales
Jamie Lynn
China
12. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Lazarus
Topper (1937)
13. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Tarzan
30 Rock
Deer
Chile
14. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Tongue
John F. Kennedy
O. J. Simpson
Barry Sanders
15. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Uruguay
Antawn Jamison
Model railroad
Aglet
16. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Intercourse
The Stanley Cup
Nuclear disarmament
17. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Snape
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
18. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Cameroon
Grape(s)
Roswell( - NM)
Little Rock
19. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
Bicycle(s)
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Liar Liar
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
20. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Scrat
Arkansas
Mel Brooks
Algeria
21. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Vivendi
John Speke (English - 1856)
Eeyore
Norma Jean
22. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Tarzan
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
23. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Edith Head
Crunk
(The) Marines
The Mona Lisa
24. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
Ali MacGraw
D. H. Lawrence
Spellbound
Steven Biko
25. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Alsatians
Clownfish
Leopard
Charles Starkweather
26. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
(an) e
Sri Lanka
Times Square
Emeritus
27. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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28. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Chaminade
Paradise Lost
Harold and Maude
Roger Maris
29. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Pancreas
Earl Morrall
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Venice
30. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Colonel Tom Parker
Babar
Joanne Woodward
Edith Head
31. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Brazil
Thailand
Orangutan
Victory
32. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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33. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Coal
Royal jelly
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Carrie Underwood
34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
HL Mencken
Mia Farrow
The Little Mermaid
Go Away Little Girl
35. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Cullinan
(Hector) Berlioz
Peach (also contains orange)
Babette March
36. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
XTC
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Bank One
37. 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?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Eeyore
Field of Dreams
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
38. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
1606
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Nicaragua
Lazarus
39. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
Kitty Genovese
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
India
Salt Lake City
40. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Ben Hogan
CONTROL
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Murmur
41. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Queen Anne's Lace
Can-Can
A Room With a View (Forster)
Emma
42. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Ian Fleming
The Robe (1953)
Will & Grace
Frank Zamboni
43. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Foo Fighters
Ali MacGraw
3 2 1 Contact
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
44. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
Jean-Luc Goddard
Cream
Murmur
45. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Fahrenheit 451
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Royal jelly
46. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Orange
Gorilla
Jorge Luis Borges
Elle
47. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Jenny
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Fahrenheit 451
Peach(es)
48. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Dr. James Bedford
Moby Dick
Melville
7
49. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Mau Mau
MASH
In Cold Blood
James Cameron
50. 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
Rome
Pulp Fiction
Humbert Humbert
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