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1. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Beowulf
TheName of The Rose
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
2. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Eric Bogosian
The Others
Antonin Scalia
112
3. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
Douglas
Teapot Dome
Jamaica
Eric
4. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Teddy Roosevelt
By choice - man!
Wilco
Candyman
5. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Colonel Tom Parker
Turkmenistan
Country (West Point motto)
John Cassavets
6. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?
Body Count
Betty (Rubble)
Robert Scott
Aramis
7. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
(Honda) Civic
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Tomato(es)
Jenny McCarthy
8. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?
Colonel Tom Parker
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Prince Valiant
9. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
4
Peach (also contains orange)
Jack Kevorkian
Simon Legree
10. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?
Subaru
Mitosis
Buster Douglas
The Satanic Verses
11. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Thailand
Milk Duds
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Atom Egoyan
12. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Sri Lanka
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Charles Lindbergh
Jack Kevorkian
13. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
Radar
Martha Stewart
Rome
New Zealand
14. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
The valley of the shadow of death
Emeritus
Dracula
Wales
15. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Jamaica
Switzerland
Frank Zamboni
16. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Paramount
Chantilly
Smerdyakov
Ohio and North Carolina
17. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
Murray Gell-Mann
Ernesto
Trapped in the Closet
About Schmidt
18. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Padre
D. H. Lawrence
Moby Dick
Model railroad
19. How many band members were there in Madness?
Nuclear disarmament
7
Old Time Rock and Roll
Richard Cory (himself)
20. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
Dracula
3
(Ford) Excursion
Jorge Luis Borges
21. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Vincente Minnelli
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Tongue
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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23. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Mitosis
Coal
Montreal
Padre
24. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Ione Skye
Oscar and Lucinda
Trapped in the Closet
Times Square
25. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Muhammad
Mecca
The Ritz (hotel)
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
26. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
The Three Musketeers
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Thailand
Theodore Roosevelt
27. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Night Court
Eris (Discord)
Aglet
2
28. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Home Improvement
Pictures of Matchstick Men
The Ritz (hotel)
29. 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?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
William Tell
A Christmas Carol
Silicon Valley
30. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
HP Lovecraft
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Blue
Christina Aguilera
31. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
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(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Lillian Hellman
Queen Anne's Lace
32. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
E. B. White
Balthasar (Magi)
Peach (also contains orange)
Intercourse
33. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
A Christmas Carol
Tiger Woods
Melville
34. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Tarzan
Condoleezza Rice
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Texaco
35. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Egypt
(planetary) rings
36. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Desiderata
Gorilla
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Sao Paulo
37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Avocado(s)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Egypt
4
38. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Upset
Cocoon
Bob Dylan
(street) lanes
39. First scheduled in-flight movie?
The Age ofInnocence
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
By Love Possessed (1961)
Draw
40. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
Dentin
Sean Connery
Racecar
XTC
41. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
(Honda) Civic
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Jack Russell
Rochelle - Rochelle
42. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Texaco
Martha Stewart
Underoos
Llama
43. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Algeria
Robert De Niro
Mickey Finn
Aramis
44. First American film nudity?
Motor Trend
Inspiration (1915)
Wilco
Becky Sharp (1935)
45. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Italy
Elvis Costello
46. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Mostly briefs
Panama
Your Girlfriend
Frankenstein('s monster)
47. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Bwana Devil (1952)
Fontanelles
Venus
48. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Argentina
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Apocalypse Now
49. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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50. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
Mel Brooks
China
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Lazarus
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