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1. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
Please Mr. Postman
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Emeritus
2. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Capri
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Panama
Oscar and Lucinda
3. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
Red
Thailand
Jamie Lynn
E. B. White
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Theodore Roosevelt
George Wilson
Jurassic Park
MASH
5. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
CTU
Snape
Turkey
France
6. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Wings (1927)
A Christmas Carol
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
7. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Lamar Alexander
Gorilla
Pennsylvania
The Weekly World News
8. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Pennsylvania
Mitsubishi
9. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
(a) clergyman
Fraternite
10
SD-6
10. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Ghost
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Panama
11. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Sally Ride
Jean-Luc Goddard
Trapped in the Closet
Blue
12. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Banana
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
13. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Darwin's
Randy Quaid
Vincente Minnelli
14. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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15. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
MMMBob
Jive
(the) ear
(the) New York Mets
16. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Compaq
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Topper
TheAtlas (A)
17. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
Jim Valvano
Brazil
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
J. M. Barrie
18. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Judiciary
Mostly briefs
Rebecca
Liar Liar
19. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
IMDb
Somewhere in Time
Moby Dick
Topper (1937)
20. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Cherries
Color blindness
Vincente Minnelli
Horse
21. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
James Cameron
(The) Rolling Stones
Walter Winchell
Parking meters
22. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Sixth Sense
Ben Hogan
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
23. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Bank One
(Hector) Berlioz
Tammy Faye Bakker
9
24. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Muammar Qaddifi
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Field of Dreams
The gingerbread man
25. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Go Away Little Girl
The Weekly World News
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
(PE)6-5000
26. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Draw
Fig newtons
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Nauruan
27. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
(the) Jack of diamonds
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Benito Mussolini
The Satanic Verses
28. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Bling bling
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Elle
Christopher Columbus
29. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Howard Hughes
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Atom Egoyan
The Satanic Verses
30. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
The Weekly World News
The Others
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
(the) ear
31. First scheduled in-flight movie?
By choice - man!
Prince Valiant
By Love Possessed (1961)
(The) Marines
32. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Almonds
(Songs in) A Minor
Teddy Roosevelt
Sean Connery
33. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
Ali MacGraw
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
The Ewings (Dallas)
Inspiration (1915)
34. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
(her) hair
35. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Melville
Little Rock
Color blindness
Nicaragua
36. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
Seven
Racecar
Louisana (Superdome)
Pegasus
37. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
Alsatians
Couscous
Murmur
Panama
38. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
(planetary) rings
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
The Chrysler Building
North Korea
39. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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40. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Naomi
Cat
Texas and New Mexico
Louisana (Superdome)
41. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Rocky Balboa
TheName of The Rose
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
42. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Murray Gell-Mann
Fraternite
Bling bling
Hips
43. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Draw
Robert De Niro
The Mona Lisa
North America
44. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Trapped in the Closet
Kayak
Pearl Harbor
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
45. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Horse
The Mona Lisa
Home Improvement
46. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Arkansas
Royal jelly
Antonio Stradivarius
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Grape(s)
Sugar Ray Leonard
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Burberry
48. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
7
Oahu
Rome
49. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Cat
Mia Farrow
2
Thanksgiving
50. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Sullivan Ordinance
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Beowulf
Topper