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1. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Sean Connery
Red Dawn (1984)
Murphy Brown
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
2. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Algeria
Temple prostitute
Ashlee
3. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Alsatians
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Mau Mau
(The) dodo
4. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Hannibal
J. K. Rowling
Dr. James Bedford
5. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?
Jim Calhoun
Hamlet
Jack Russell
Aaron Copland
6. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
38th Parallel
Bambi
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Limp Bizkit
7. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Wiley Post
Intercourse
38th Parallel
8. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Hannibal
Charles Starkweather
Oscar and Lucinda
Limp Bizkit
9. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
Balthasar (Magi)
The Ewings (Dallas)
George Deukmejian
Basalt
10. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Betty (Rubble)
9
India
Baltimore
11. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Frankenstein('s monster)
Nicky
(tested positive for) marijuana
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
12. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Wales
Tupac Shakur
The Dome of the Rock
Humbert Humbert
13. Which company merged with SBC?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
John F. Kennedy
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Simon Legree
14. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
MMMBob
Argentina
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Gorilla
15. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
I'm a Believer
Night Court
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Edith Head
16. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Texas and New Mexico
Edsel
Spinal Tap
Happyness
17. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Jeremy Bentham
Topper (1937)
Rebecca
18. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Dharma & Greg
Pulp Fiction
Pancreas
Nicky
19. First American film nudity?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Radar
Inspiration (1915)
Carbon dioxide
20. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
North America
Topper (1937)
3 2 1 Contact
Judiciary
21. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
LeBron James
Steven Spielberg
Eve
22. 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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23. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Antonio Stradivarius
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Small intestine(s)
Howard Hughes
24. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Mashed potatoes
Boxing
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Burberry
25. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
Otto
What's Up - Doc?
B. J. Armstrong
Germany
26. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
North Korea
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
27. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Fish
Eric Bogosian
Mahi mahi
Draw
28. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Billy Martin
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Shrek 2
Do The Right Thing
29. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Betty (Rubble)
New Zealand
Spain
Bank One
30. What is a female donkey called?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Ellery Queen
McDonnell Douglas
(a) ginny (or jenny)
31. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
The Stanley Cup
(the) giraffe
Frank Zappa
Venus
32. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Sean Connery
Italy
Alsatians
Blue
33. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Elle
Snape
Mostly briefs
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
34. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Brazil
Brent Spiner
Oscar and Lucinda
35. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Murphy Brown
Everybody Hates
Palm Sunday
Terminal velocity
36. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Wales
Eric
The Age ofInnocence
(Albert) Einstein
37. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Cullinan
Jerusalem
(planetary) rings
HP Lovecraft
38. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
When a Man Loves a Woman
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Fish
39. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Rocky Balboa
SD-6
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Rat
40. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
(the) Great Train Robbery
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Martha Stewart
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
41. First 'Director's Cut'?
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42. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Balthasar (Magi)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
(The) dodo
Sweden
43. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Ali MacGraw
New Zealand
44. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
Queen Anne's Lace
Jim Lovell
Roger Maris
Nicky
45. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Baltimore
Heloise
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
46. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
De Beers
Antonin Scalia
(Songs in) A Minor
Pete Seeger
47. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
(Albert) Einstein
Antonin Scalia
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Steven Spielberg
48. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Six
Ants
Aliana
Tsetse fly
49. 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?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Antonio Stradivarius
Jenny
Melville
50. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
(the) giraffe
Czechoslovakia
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Gorilla
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