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1. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Beetle Juice
John Cassavets
Hips
(the) Bathyscape Trieste

2. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Bunker Hill
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard

3. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
The Artful Dodger
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Croatia
The Mona Lisa

4. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Maya Angelou
Bling bling
Mickey Finn
Angkor Wat

5. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
Cherries
Scoop
Victoria Falls
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)

6. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Babette March
Real estate (investment)
Eddie Matthews

7. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Michigan
(the earth's) crust and mantle
(The St. Louis) Blues
Milk Duds

8. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
Spellbound
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Ganesh
Chinese Democracy

9. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Peach(es)
Subaru
Grenada
Inspiration (1915)

10. First studio film with a black director?
The Learning Tree (1969)
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Oedipus
Farting

11. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
(the) Great Train Robbery
Hamlet
Edsel
Italy

12. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Bucket
The Pope
Snape

13. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
The gingerbread man
(a) clergyman
Clownfish
Hips

14. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Beowulf
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Tomato(es)
(the) Great Train Robbery

15. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Steven Spielberg
Spinal Tap
Jerusalem

16. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Buffalo
Everybody Hates
Llama
Windsor - Ontario

17. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Gordie Howe
Italy
Teapot Dome
Pennsylvania

18. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Coffee
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Babar
Dannii

19. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Mecca
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Cornea
Jim Calhoun

20. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
Antonio Stradivarius
Jenny McCarthy
Altamount
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)

21. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Aaron Copland
SD-6
Blue
Topper (1937)

22. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Your Girlfriend
Wendy
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
The Three Musketeers

23. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Travelers Group
Sally Ride
2
SD-6

24. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Aglet
Ozone
Watermelon(s)
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)

25. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
Haiti
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(Sperm) Whale
The Bridge over the River Kwai

26. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Jurassic Park
Candyman
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
What's Up - Doc?

27. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
John Cassavets
Jack Russell
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)

28. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Judiciary
Becky Sharp (1935)
John F. Kennedy
Green

29. First use of Steadicam in film?
Hamlet
Padre
Bound for Glory (1976)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)

30. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Mashed potatoes
Eve
Jamaica

31. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Westworld (1973)
Michelle Wie
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Czechoslovakia

32. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
(planetary) rings
Rocky Balboa
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Bambi

33. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Hamlet
Palmer
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Aglet

34. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Britney Spears
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Otto

35. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Palmer
Ghost
(The) House of Seven Gables
Truly - Madly - Deeply

36. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
The Fantastic Four
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Banana
Orange(s)

37. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
The Satanic Verses
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Finland

38. First film in CinemaScope?
The Robe (1953)
6
Brent Spiner
Edsel

39. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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40. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
France
When a Man Loves a Woman
Frankenstein('s monster)
Steven Biko

41. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Gorilla
Dr. James Bedford
Gorilla
Heloise

42. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Eris (Discord)
Orangutan
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
LeBron James

43. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
1
Lulu
Roberto Rossellini
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)

44. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Martin Landau
Elle
(a) turtle (or tortoise)

45. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
The Ritz (hotel)
20
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Crunk

46. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Ukraine
Orange(s)
Montgomery - Alabama
Small intestine(s)

47. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Sweden
Nauruan

48. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
Tiger Woods
Silicon and oxygen
D. H. Lawrence
Babar

49. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
(Sperm) Whale
Louie Louie
Polo
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

50. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Texaco
Hong Kong
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Gypsy Rose Lee