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1. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
U.N.C.L.E
Simon Legree
Jenny
Ghost
2. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
3 2 1 Contact
Michigan
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
James Cameron
3. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
Llama
Smerdyakov
(The) Jordan (River)
A Room With a View (Forster)
4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
Strawberries
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dr. James Bedford
Elle
5. 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?
Parrot
Antonio Stradivarius
Bank One
SD-6
6. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Topper
Mickey Finn
Salzburg
Thailand
7. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Ali MacGraw
Milk Duds
Silicon and oxygen
Frank Zamboni
8. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Pearl Harbor
Padre
(the) giraffe
Pachyderm
9. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Ghost
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
MMMBob
10. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Mickey Finn
The Maltese Falcon
Yes
The Dome of the Rock
11. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
The Dome of the Rock
Donner Pass
Dr. James Bedford
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
12. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
Hugo Chavez
Yes
(Songs in) A Minor
13. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Robert De Niro
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Theodore Roosevelt
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
14. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(The) dodo
IMF
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Paradise Lost
15. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Judy Garland
Cameroon
Pakistan
Fontanelles
16. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Fig newtons
The Sparrow
Michelle Wie
17. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Real estate (investment)
IMF
Jeremy Bentham
18. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Snape
Orange
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
19. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Delaware
Old Time Rock and Roll
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Cocoon
20. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
(Dallas) Love Field
Sleeping Beauty
Utah
Travelers Group
21. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Texaco
France
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Thanksgiving
22. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Martin Landau
Emeritus
Aliana
Field of Dreams
23. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
V2 (rocket)s
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Color blindness
Flowers for Algernon
24. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Rochelle - Rochelle
By Love Possessed (1961)
Green
8
25. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
Otto
Carbon dioxide
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Italy
26. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
Colonel Tom Parker
1606
George Deukmejian
The Cincinnati Reds
27. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
Pippa Passes (1909)
Norma Jean
Cameroon
Country (West Point motto)
28. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Theodore
Salt Lake City
(PE)6-5000
Becky Sharp (1935)
29. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Horse
Martin Scorsese
Bicycle(s)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
30. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Eddie Matthews
Seven
The Canterville Ghost
Ghost
31. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Atom Egoyan
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Bank One
32. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
Jack the Ripper
CTU
Mecca
Prince Valiant
33. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Westward Ho!
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Finland
Jive
34. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Paramount
The Cincinnati Reds
The Mini (Cooper)
Parrot
35. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Hamlet
White
Yellow (and key!)
Queen Anne's Lace
36. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Orange
Ashlee
Peru
St. Louis Cardinals
37. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
James Cagney
Fahrenheit 451
Ken Davitian
Yes
38. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
TheAtlas (A)
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Mitsubishi
The Frighteners
39. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Jive
Gene Roddenberry
Elle
Jim Valvano
40. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
The Three Musketeers
Hamlet
U.N.C.L.E
(the) evacuation of Saigon
41. Which artist had the double album Being There?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Everybody Hates
9
Wilco
42. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Ambrose Bierce
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Manhunter
Somewhere in Time
43. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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44. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Nicaragua
Thanksgiving
Ian Fleming
45. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?
10
Croatia
Douglas
Times Square
46. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Padre
Black
Come by here
Scoop
47. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Prince Valiant
Five
38th Parallel
Omega
48. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
(The) Rolling Stones
Guy Ritchie
Spain
49. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Home Improvement
Will & Grace
Italy
Odor Eaters (insoles)
50. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Field of Dreams
Cornea
Frank Zamboni
The Robe (1953)