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1. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?
Hong Kong
Scoop
Seven
(an) e
2. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Carbon dioxide
Austria
Pakistan
Louie Louie
3. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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4. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Mel Brooks
Ben Hogan
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Montreal
5. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
1
Kayak
Chile
6. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
Elvis Costello
Charles Lindbergh
U.N.C.L.E
Paramount
7. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
About Schmidt
The Frighteners
Queen Anne's Lace
8. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Palmer
Paul Newman
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Coal
9. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Ellery Queen
Tarzan
Pete Seeger
Lamar Alexander
10. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Pegasus
(The) NHL
Palau
Trapped in the Closet
11. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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12. First computer graphics in film?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Westworld (1973)
James Cameron
Salzburg
13. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Edith Head
Geyser
The gingerbread man
White
14. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
I've fallen and I can't get up
The Others
(a) clergyman
Norma Jean
15. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Gorilla
Thailand
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
China
16. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Mahi mahi
Prince
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
The Sparrow
17. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Limp Bizkit
Leopard
Lady Marmalade
Dracula
18. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
India
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
A Room With a View (Forster)
In Cold Blood
19. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Sri Lanka
By choice - man!
Czechoslovakia
Lord of the Flies
20. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
IMF
Prince
Jessica Lange
Jamaica
21. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Larry Nance
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Frankenstein('s monster)
Fish
22. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
The Artful Dodger
Hydrogen and oxygen
James Cook (English - 1770)
Condoleezza Rice
23. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Thailand
Mahi mahi
3 2 1 Contact
Yellow
24. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Terminal velocity
Colonel Tom Parker
Salt Lake City
Judy Garland
25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Fish
Bambi
Tarzan
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
26. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
The Canterville Ghost
Eve
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
2
27. Who called his elephant Tantor?
I've fallen and I can't get up
The Stanley Cup
James Cagney
Tarzan
28. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
Joanne Woodward
Moby Dick
The Mona Lisa
Christopher Columbus
29. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
3
Algeria
Argentina
Windsor - Ontario
30. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Chinese Democracy
1606
Happyness
Heaven's Gate (1980)
31. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
Mahi mahi
XTC
7
32. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Edith Head
Stalingrad
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Peach(es)
33. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Parrot
Louie Louie
Donner Pass
Prince
34. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?
Desiderata
Garo Yepremian
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
35. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Alsatians
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Royal jelly
36. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
(Adolf) Hitler
Cocoon
A-ha
37. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Chile
Rebecca
Small intestine(s)
Koran
38. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Wiley Post
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
The Dome of the Rock
North Korea
39. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Royal jelly
9
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
40. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
(The) Marines
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(Pablo) Picasso
Judy Garland
41. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Liar Liar
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Dairy Queen
Color blindness
42. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Gene Roddenberry
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Tupac Shakur
Silicon Valley
43. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Eeyore
Palm Sunday
Hong Kong
Go Away Little Girl
44. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
Please Mr. Postman
Renny Harlin
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Ohio and North Carolina
45. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Ganesh
Crunk
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Fish
46. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
(a) clergyman
Colonel Harland Sanders
Shel Silverstein
HL Mencken
47. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
India
Switzerland
Turkmenistan
Kitty Genovese
48. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
D. H. Lawrence
Mitosis
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
49. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Cornea
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
EMForster
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
50. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Eugene Onegin
Color blindness
John Cassavets
Buster Douglas