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1. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
North America
Gordie Howe
(the) ear
Cameroon
2. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
The Sparrow
The Ritz (hotel)
Roger Maris
Venice
3. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
When a Man Loves a Woman
Thailand
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
4. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Teapot Dome
By Love Possessed (1961)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Betty (Rubble)
5. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Pear(s)
Charles Lindbergh
Wiley Post
6. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
SD-6
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
White
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
7. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
IMDb
Austria
Rat
8. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
1606
Kenneth Branagh
Sri Lanka
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
The Three Musketeers
(the) ear
Robert Scott
10. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Ski slopes
Koran
Guy Ritchie
Dharma & Greg
11. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Stevie Wonder
Duran Duran
(Honda) Civic
12. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Gordie Howe
Jurassic Park
Carbon dioxide
Robert De Niro
13. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Mars
Scrooged
Yes
Model railroad
14. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
(The) Marines
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Jamaica
Six
15. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
Edsel
I'm a Believer
Douglas
CTU
16. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Austria
Colombia
Windsor - Ontario
Renny Harlin
17. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Randy Quaid
Wiley Post
Country (West Point motto)
18. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Hamlet
Limp Bizkit
Aramis
Gomer Pyle
19. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Coffee
Renny Harlin
London Bridge
Eugene Onegin
20. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Radar
The Learning Tree (1969)
The White Witch
Temple prostitute
21. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Mitosis
Jessica Lange
Spellbound
Oregon (or New Jersey)
22. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
Jim Calhoun
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Intercourse
The Lion King
23. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Lady Marmalade
TheName of The Rose
Intercourse
24. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Texaco
Ambrose Bierce
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Stalingrad
25. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
(George Bernard) Shaw
Douglas
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Llama
26. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Parking meters
Clownfish
Eric
Hydrogen and oxygen
27. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Kali
The Satanic Verses
Scrat
28. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
You Keep Me Hangin' On
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
William Tell
Aladdin
29. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Iran
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Six
Simon Legree
30. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
New Zealand
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Mitch
The Age ofInnocence
31. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Heloise
Oscar and Lucinda
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
32. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Guy Ritchie
Heloise
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Flowers for Algernon
33. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Chrysler Building
Travelers Group
Peach(es)
Israel
34. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
The Sparrow
Frank Zappa
Subaru
Cream
35. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Jerusalem
Nuclear disarmament
Heaven's Gate (1980)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
36. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Hong Kong
Hamlet
Bicycle(s)
37. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Ukraine
Seal (played by a sea lion)
A Room With a View (Forster)
38. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Gypsy Rose Lee
The Pope
Judiciary
Garo Yepremian
39. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Hindenburg (explosion)
Night Court
By Love Possessed (1961)
40. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
XTC
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Jorge Luis Borges
41. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?
Burberry
Kenneth Branagh
1
Roger Vadim
42. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
Egypt
Tsetse fly
James Cagney
Little Rock
43. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
HP Lovecraft
Intercourse
Thrust
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
44. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Murphy Brown
Home Improvement
Harold and Maude
Ashlee
45. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Mashed potatoes
Jenny
Mostly briefs
Polo
46. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
Joel Cohen
(Adolf) Hitler
Philadelphia
47. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Sleeping Beauty
Panama
London Bridge
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
48. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Jamaica Bay
Laverne & Shirley
Mars
49. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Motor Trend
The Mini (Cooper)
Buster Douglas
Peach (also contains orange)
50. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Murphy Brown
Jamie Lynn
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