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1. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Dannii
Lulu
Scrooged
Cream
2. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
(the) World Cup (trophy)
V8 (juice)
Motor Trend
3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Dairy Queen
M. C. Hammer
Plum(s)
The Ewings (Dallas)
4. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
Watermelon(s)
Thailand
Steven Biko
Amos 'n' Andy
5. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Come by here
Salt Lake City
Peru
Model railroad
6. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Wales
Uruguay
Emeritus
St. Louis Cardinals
7. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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8. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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9. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
9
Somalia
10. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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11. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Haiti
The Robe (1953)
Humbert Humbert
Scrooged
12. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Roger Vadim
Ian Fleming
Watermelon(s)
13. First computer graphics in film?
North America
Christina Aguilera
Westworld (1973)
The Three Musketeers
14. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Paradise Lost
Palau
S(ain)t Louis
Louisana (Superdome)
15. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
XTC
Fig newtons
16. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Wings (1927)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Roberto Rossellini
17. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Antonio Stradivarius
Pennsylvania
18. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Mashed potatoes
D. H. Lawrence
Cornea
19. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Coal
The Satanic Verses
Mars
Clownfish
20. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Stanley Cup
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
The Chrysler Building
Amos 'n' Andy
21. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Blue
Inspiration (1915)
Silicon and oxygen
22. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
(Pablo) Picasso
Rome
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
23. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
(Sperm) Whale
Wendy
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
24. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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25. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Beetle Juice
V2 (rocket)s
Jamaica
Federico Fellini
26. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Palau
Black
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Yes
27. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Harold and Maude
Jamaica Bay
Salzburg
Ali MacGraw
28. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Almonds
Gordie Howe
29. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
De Beers
Rochelle - Rochelle
Chaminade
Mashed potatoes
30. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
J. K. Rowling
Watermelon(s)
Judiciary
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
31. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Bicycle(s)
Red
Blue
Dracula
32. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
Cape Hatteras
Israel
China
MMMBob
33. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Dr. James Bedford
Hydrogen and oxygen
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Model railroad
34. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
France
Charles Starkweather
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Pennsylvania
35. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Rulon Gardner
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Jenny
Coffee
36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Oahu
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
(The) House of Seven Gables
37. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Norma Jean
Montreal
Ants
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
38. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Kenneth Branagh
Christina Aguilera
Jamaica Bay
Carrie Underwood
39. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Brian De Palma
Fahrenheit 451
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Colonel Harland Sanders
40. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
The Fantastic Four
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Charles Starkweather
41. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Genesis
(Sperm) Whale
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
42. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
The Satanic Verses
Jessica Lange
Laverne & Shirley
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
43. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Kenneth Branagh
2
M. C. Hammer
Orange(s)
44. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Oort cloud
Color blindness
Hannah
Delaware
45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
2
Orange(s)
The Dome of the Rock
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
46. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Mitch
Jeremy Bentham
London Bridge
Go Away Little Girl
47. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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48. First 'Director's Cut'?
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49. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Gomer Pyle
MMMBob
Kayak
Motor Trend
50. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Sao Paulo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pig