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1. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
Mahi mahi
Do The Right Thing
(planetary) rings
112
2. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
The gingerbread man
Chile
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Scrooged
3. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Carrie Underwood
London Bridge
Mitch
4. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
IMDb
Theodore Roosevelt
Altamount
5. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Tarzan
Sullivan Ordinance
CONTROL
6. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
John Cassavets
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Brian De Palma
Temple prostitute
7. First film in CinemaScope?
Foo Fighters
James Cagney
The Robe (1953)
Oscar and Lucinda
8. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
10
The Ritz (hotel)
The Sparrow
Afghanistan
9. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Cullinan
Atom Egoyan
Jurassic Park
A Fistfull of Dollars
10. First computer graphics in film?
Westworld (1973)
Edsel
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Country (West Point motto)
11. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
William Tell
Silicon Valley
Everybody Hates
St. Louis Cardinals
12. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
Bling bling
The Frighteners
Strawberries
Switzerland
13. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
(Honda) Civic
Frank Zamboni
Eve
Walter Winchell
14. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Roger Maris
(an) e
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Tongue
15. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(tested positive for) marijuana
The Three Musketeers
Will & Grace
16. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Germany
Dollar
A Christmas Carol
Moby Dick
17. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
8
Gypsy Rose Lee
Hong Kong
Couscous
18. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Eugene Onegin
American Beauty
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
19. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Jim Valvano
Ernie
20. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Topper (1937)
Jurassic Park
Amos 'n' Andy
Fontanelles
21. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Nuclear disarmament
Tammy Faye Bakker
Kornfield Kounty
22. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
Coal
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Capri
India
23. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Buster Douglas
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Milk Duds
(Songs in) A Minor
24. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Stalingrad
Mulan
Louisana (Superdome)
25. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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26. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Mashed potatoes
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Lemon(s)
The Others
27. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Baltimore
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Hannibal
10
28. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
EMForster
Mitsubishi
Arkansas
Go Away Little Girl
29. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Pete Seeger
Afghanistan
Fig newtons
U.N.C.L.E
30. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Ken Davitian
(Sperm) Whale
Moby Dick
Otto
31. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
Iran
Venice
D. H. Lawrence
Real estate (investment)
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. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Fraternite
Ernie
The Weekly World News
Chantilly
34. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Polo
Home Improvement
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Angkor Wat
35. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
The Satanic Verses
Underoos
Koran
Lamar Alexander
36. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Emma
Pocahontas
(Ford) Excursion
Mashed potatoes
37. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Green
Dentin
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Foo Fighters
38. First studio film with a black director?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Cape Hatteras
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
39. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
30 Rock
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
White
Eric
40. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
E. B. White
Louisville (Kentucky)
Colonel Harland Sanders
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
41. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
(the) Jack of diamonds
Beck (Odelay)
Tammy Faye Bakker
Gordie Howe
42. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Martin Scorsese
Murphy Brown
3
The Little Mermaid
43. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Haiti
Murmur
Little Rock
Roger Bannister
44. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Coffee
Jenny
The Artful Dodger
Nicky
45. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Trapped in the Closet
A Christmas Carol
Scrat
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
46. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
Color blindness
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Christopher Columbus
Wilco
47. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
Finland
H. G. Wells
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Crunk
48. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
I'll Be There
Smerdyakov
Ants
Texaco
49. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
Peru
(the) bishop
Ants
(her) hair
50. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Roger Maris
Padre
Harold and Maude
Chaminade