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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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2. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Solipsism
Texaco
Charles Lindbergh
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
3. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Victoria Falls
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Robert Scott
4. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
New Zealand
H. G. Wells
5. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
The Robe (1953)
Texas and New Mexico
Old Time Rock and Roll
(the) giraffe
6. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
38th Parallel
The Ring
(Honda) Civic
MASH
7. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Ben Hogan
Tammy Faye Bakker
Pearl Harbor
Martha Stewart
8. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Melville
St. Louis Cardinals
Draw
9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Jurassic Park
Westworld (1973)
Mau Mau
Jack the Ripper
10. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
Miles Davis
The Satanic Verses
Louisana (Superdome)
Croatia
11. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
New York - New York
Hope & Faith
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
12. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Wiley Post
Grenada
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Omega
Panama
Hercules
14. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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15. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Murphy Brown
The Descent
Mau Mau
Scrooged
16. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Canada
HL Mencken
St. Louis Cardinals
Rene Descartes
17. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
H. G. Wells
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Small intestine(s)
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
18. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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19. First PG-13 rated film?
Six
Babar
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Red Dawn (1984)
20. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Egypt
Pearl Harbor
Jerusalem
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
21. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Manhunter
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Kornfield Kounty
22. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
Sleeping Beauty
Steven Biko
Montgomery - Alabama
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Fontanelles
Avocado(s)
(PE)6-5000
(The) Jordan (River)
24. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Colonel Harland Sanders
Go Away Little Girl
Color blindness
Tomato(es)
25. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
Michelle Wie
Hoop Dreams
(Adolf) Hitler
Ukraine
26. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Polo
Padre
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Ukraine
27. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
Peru
Can-Can
Kali
The Cincinnati Reds
28. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Country (West Point motto)
Colonel Harland Sanders
XTC
Model railroad
29. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Nicaragua
Mexico
Earl Morrall
Pulp Fiction
30. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Body Count
Seal (played by a sea lion)
K. d. lang
31. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Manhunter
Douglas
Curly Howard
Louisana (Superdome)
32. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Teddy Roosevelt
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Oscar and Lucinda
33. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
Louisana (Superdome)
(the) Boston Tea Party
Dollar
Extras
34. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
J. M. Barrie
Bicycle(s)
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
35. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Capybara
Paradise Lost
Tomato(es)
36. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Jenny McCarthy
Rebecca
Aglet
(The St. Louis) Blues
37. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Thailand
Fish
Mecca
Prince
38. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Rene Descartes
Beverly Cleary
Pete Seeger
(Albert) Einstein
39. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?
Geyser
Leopard
Martin Scorsese
France
40. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Subaru
The Mini (Cooper)
Desiderata
Chaminade
41. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Jim Calhoun
James Cameron
Antawn Jamison
Fish
42. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Edsel
White
Ulysseys (1967)
(the) Jack of diamonds
43. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Fahrenheit 451
Christina Aguilera
Snape
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
44. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Jorge Luis Borges
2
Steven Spielberg
Sonic Youth
45. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Condoleezza Rice
Model railroad
Rocky Balboa
Mahi mahi
46. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Red
3
Panama
47. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Charles Lindbergh
Jenny
Alsatians
Antonin Scalia
48. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Beverly Cleary
Tsetse fly
Nicaragua
Benito Mussolini
49. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?
Martin Scorsese
Tiger Woods
William Tell
Teapot Dome
50. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
Llama
Finland
Sir Walter Raleigh
It Happened One Night (1934)