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1. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Salt Lake City
Aladdin
Jerusalem
Tiger Woods
2. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Sean Connery
Eris (Discord)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
3. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Fahrenheit 451
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Nauruan
Mitsubishi
4. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Ski slopes
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Five
5. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Gene Roddenberry
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Argentina
Hercules
6. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
K. d. lang
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Steven Biko
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
7. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Bucket
(The) House of Seven Gables
The Stanley Cup
Hindenburg (explosion)
8. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Hugo Chavez
Old Time Rock and Roll
Thailand
Hannibal
9. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Oort cloud
Sri Lanka
Sonic Youth
10. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Tupac Shakur
Delaware
Real estate (investment)
India
11. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Elle
Mitch
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Scrooged
12. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
The Loco-motion
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Algeria
Thailand
13. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
Uruguay
Gene Roddenberry
Teapot Dome
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
14. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
The Boston Celtics (21)
(The) Jordan (River)
Milk Duds
Inspiration (1915)
15. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Germany
Dharma & Greg
Donner Pass
Clownfish
16. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Wendy
Thelma and Louise
Body Count
Muammar Qaddifi
17. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
Sally Ride
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
U.N.C.L.E
Plum(s)
18. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Thailand
Lamar Alexander
Sleeping Beauty
3
19. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Chrysler Building
George Wilson
Desiderata
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
20. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Pig
Llama
Ione Skye
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
21. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Royal jelly
The Sixth Sense
Thailand
22. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Brent Spiner
The Little Mermaid
Somalia
Haiti
23. Who killed the literary character Laius?
Moby Dick
Louie Louie
Oedipus
Baltimore
24. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
(a) clergyman
Buffalo
Lady Marmalade
NineInch Nails
25. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
Louisville (Kentucky)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
The Mini (Cooper)
(Ford) Excursion
26. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Mitsubishi
(Pablo) Picasso
Dentin
27. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
The Chrysler Building
Jenny
Israel
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
28. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Victoria Falls
Texaco
Tiger Woods
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
29. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
Atom Egoyan
Lamar Alexander
Fish
30. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Mashed potatoes
Snape
Rocky Balboa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
31. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(her) hair
Salzburg
32. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
A Fistfull of Dollars
Michelle Wie
(George Bernard) Shaw
Mulan
33. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
Teapot Dome
Topper
Kitty Genovese
Salt Lake City
34. How many band members were there in Green Day?
Kitty Genovese
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
3
35. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Wings (1927)
Laverne & Shirley
Seven
(her) hair
36. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
38th Parallel
Douglas
Smerdyakov
Jim Jones
37. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
American Beauty
Pegasus
Bob Dylan
Scrat
38. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
Night Court
Kate & Allie
Roswell( - NM)
Bunker Hill
39. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
Pancreas
(the earth's) crust and mantle
The Artful Dodger
Israel
40. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Austria
(the) Jack of diamonds
(a) ginny (or jenny)
41. 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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42. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
Lamar Alexander
(Adolf) Hitler
Teddy Roosevelt
112
43. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Scrat
Italy
Dannii
44. 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?
Mostly briefs
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Cullinan
She shot JR (Dallas)
45. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?
I'll Be There
Nicaragua
McDonnell Douglas
Ambrose Bierce
46. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
State quarters
Otto
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Angkor Wat
47. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Victory
Ellery Queen
Grape(s)
48. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Jorge Luis Borges
Parking meters
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Jessica Lange
49. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Ski slopes
The Hula Bowl
Switzerland
50. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Judiciary
James Cagney
George Wilson
Ernie