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1. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
William Tell
Benito Mussolini
(The) Jordan (River)
2. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
Brent Spiner
Naomi
Color blindness
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
3. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Thelma and Louise
Ali MacGraw
Babette March
Louisana (Superdome)
4. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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5. Who killed the literary character Laius?
Oedipus
Muhammad
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Cape Hatteras
6. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Trapped in the Closet
8
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Wales
7. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Yellow
Eric Bogosian
Antonin Scalia
Angkor Wat
8. Which company merged with SBC?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Sleeping Beauty
9. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Oscar and Lucinda
(the) ear
10. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Nicaragua
Frank Zappa
Body Count
Chinese Democracy
11. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Chaminade
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Inspiration (1915)
12. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
The Age ofInnocence
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
4
Texas and New Mexico
13. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
30 Rock
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Britney Spears
Tupac Shakur
14. Which company merged with BP?
Panama
Hannah
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
15. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Alfred Hitchcock
Thailand
Texaco
Mitosis
16. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Field of Dreams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Watermelon(s)
17. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?
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18. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Inspiration (1915)
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Christopher Columbus
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
19. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Underoos
(the) Republican Party
20. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
Cocoon
Do The Right Thing
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Uruguay
21. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
The Learning Tree (1969)
30 Rock
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
The Dick Van Dyke Show
22. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Spain
Rulon Gardner
Eugene Onegin
China
23. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
Aglet
Altamount
Thanksgiving
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
24. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Larry Nance
Almonds
Pete Seeger
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
25. First three-strip Technicolor?
Thanksgiving
Becky Sharp (1935)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
IMDb
26. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Muammar Qaddifi
Mulan
George Deukmejian
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
27. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Becky Sharp (1935)
(The) NHL
Orange(s)
Six
28. Which company merged with Viacom?
Real estate (investment)
Mostly briefs
Paramount
Elvis Costello
29. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Arkansas
Christopher Columbus
Baden-Baden
Judy Garland
30. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Donner Pass
Prince
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
31. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Hercules
Your Girlfriend
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Jerusalem
32. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
Kate & Allie
Farting
Nicky
Mel Brooks
33. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Rulon Gardner
Bunker Hill
(Adolf) Hitler
34. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
What's Up - Doc?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Ants
35. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
Chantilly
(Honda) Civic
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
(Gerald)Ford
36. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
112
John F. Kennedy
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
A Christmas Carol
37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?
Senegal
(George) Clooney
Ants
A-ha
38. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Michigan
Kenneth Branagh
Seal (played by a sea lion)
The Lion King
39. How many band members were there in Toto?
Antonin Scalia
6
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Austria
40. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Temple prostitute
Radar
(a) clergyman
Kornfield Kounty
41. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
Altamount
Murmur
Emeritus
(The) Jordan (River)
42. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
Wiley Post
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
The Dome of the Rock
(a) clergyman
43. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?
Milk Duds
Altamount
Somewhere in Time
Shrek 2
44. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
M. C. Hammer
Jive
Almonds
Basalt
45. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Kate & Allie
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Croatia
Cocoon
46. First PG-13 rated film?
Polo
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
China
Red Dawn (1984)
47. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Duran Duran
Haiti
John F. Kennedy
Extras
48. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
K. d. lang
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Red
Bonnie and Clyde
49. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Vincente Minnelli
Candyman
50. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Otto
Barry Sanders
Jive
The Others