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1. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Cherries
Brazil
Humbert Humbert
(The) Marines
2. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Night Court
Thanksgiving
Martha Stewart
38th Parallel
3. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Turkmenistan
7
(The) dodo
Pakistan
4. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Theodore
Robert Scott
By Love Possessed (1961)
Koran
5. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Country (West Point motto)
Texaco
Eddie Matthews
Rebecca
6. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Emma
(The) House of Seven Gables
Mitosis
1
7. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Czechoslovakia
Clownfish
Jeremy Bentham
Parrot
8. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Simon Legree
Mel Brooks
Pig
Angkor Wat
9. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Underoos
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Clownfish
Truly - Madly - Deeply
10. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
Aladdin
Chinese Democracy
It Happened One Night (1934)
Sean Connery
11. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Pink
Alfred Hitchcock
Trapped in the Closet
Body Count
12. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Candyman
Mahi mahi
Sirhan Sirhan
Sao Paulo
13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Frank Zappa
(the) giraffe
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Bambi
14. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Ian Fleming
10
Alsatians
Mashed potatoes
15. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Hugo Chavez
Pocahontas
Lemon(s)
Somalia
16. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Bicycle(s)
Sullivan Ordinance
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
17. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?
Louisana (Superdome)
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Draw
Racecar
18. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
Milk Duds
Hope & Faith
A Fistfull of Dollars
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
19. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Home Improvement
Marcel Marceau
Green
Scrooged
20. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
(her) hair
Salt Lake City
Betty (Rubble)
Joel Cohen
21. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
TheName of The Rose
Czechoslovakia
Bob Dylan
Thailand
22. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
23. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'
Racecar
The Fantastic Four
(an) e
Pictures of Matchstick Men
24. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
HP Lovecraft
Watermelon(s)
St. Louis Cardinals
Ohio and North Carolina
25. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
North Korea
Radar
Jenny
Curly Howard
26. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
IMF
Vivendi
Ali MacGraw
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
27. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
5
Horse
Ulysseys (1967)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
28. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Everybody Hates
Rocky Balboa
Ian Fleming
29. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
Chile
The Loco-motion
Argentina
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
30. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Hamlet
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Fraternite
31. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Philadelphia
Ellery Queen
Palmer
Capri
32. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
Iran
Travelers Group
Babar
Spain
33. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Martin Landau
Baden-Baden
Kali
Fahrenheit 451
34. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Renny Harlin
Earl Morrall
(a) Yo-yo
Uruguay
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Algeria
Ghost
Liar Liar
NineInch Nails
36. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Rochelle - Rochelle
Green
Ernesto
37. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Sean Connery
Jean-Luc Goddard
Travelers Group
(PE)6-5000
38. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Sleeping Beauty
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Ganesh
Brian De Palma
39. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Pakistan
Buffalo
Do The Right Thing
Model railroad
40. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
The Stanley Cup
Jurassic Park
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
41. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Marcel Marceau
8
Cameroon
Tsetse fly
42. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Westworld (1973)
Carbon dioxide
Nicaragua
Underoos
43. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Five
(the) Great Train Robbery
Gypsy Rose Lee
Clownfish
44. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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45. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
The Loco-motion
H. G. Wells
The Ritz (hotel)
(the earth's) crust and mantle
46. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Mau Mau
(the) ear
Billy Martin
Colonel Tom Parker
47. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Ali MacGraw
Mitsubishi
In Cold Blood
Laverne & Shirley
48. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Basalt
Topper (1937)
Theodore
49. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Roberto Rossellini
James Cameron
Oahu
The Artful Dodger
50. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Ione Skye
Limp Bizkit
Palm Sunday
Venice