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1. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
Salt Lake City
Ernesto
Roger Vadim
James Cagney
2. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Jorge Luis Borges
Somewhere in Time
Palau
(the)Indianapolis Colts
3. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Hoop Dreams
Otto
Colonel Harland Sanders
10
4. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?
Orangutan
Earl Morrall
Go Away Little Girl
Salzburg
5. First Best Picture Oscar?
Wings (1927)
American Beauty
Jenny
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Parrot
Turkmenistan
Ozone
7. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Theodore
Desiderata
Pink
Turkey
8. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Turkey
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Humbert Humbert
9. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Lazarus
Llama
Emeritus
Haiti
10. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Orange
Charles Starkweather
Rome
11. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
The Stanley Cup
Country (West Point motto)
Aramis
12. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
IMF
Kate & Allie
Your Girlfriend
India
13. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Norma Jean
Wendy
Coffee
Hoop Dreams
14. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Cat
(a) Yo-yo
Paradise Lost
Pear(s)
15. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Hannah
XTC
(Adolf) Hitler
Louisana (Superdome)
16. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Bucket
Eric
4
Sir Walter Raleigh
17. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
(street) lanes
(Dallas) Love Field
Atom Egoyan
North Korea
18. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
Delaware
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Orangutan
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
19. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
Aurora australis
Brian De Palma
(her) hair
Babar
20. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
NineInch Nails
Stalingrad
The Mini (Cooper)
Spellbound
21. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
The Age ofInnocence
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Guy Ritchie
Ukraine
22. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Humbert Humbert
Parrot
Portland( - OR)
Mars
23. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?
Capri
Thrust
Emma
(planetary) rings
24. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Coffee
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Tsetse fly
25. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
(a) clergyman
John Cassavets
Fish
Theodore Roosevelt
26. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
(the) Boston Tea Party
Muhammad
Jurassic Park
Chantilly
27. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
Hamlet
Watermelon(s)
Jim Valvano
Salzburg
28. First all-sound film?
Lights of New York (1928)
When a Man Loves a Woman
The Artful Dodger
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
29. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Barry Sanders
(the) New York Mets
Charles Lindbergh
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
30. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Federico Fellini
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Milk Duds
Peach(es)
31. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Roswell( - NM)
5
Bound for Glory (1976)
32. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Gordie Howe
Vivendi
J. M. Barrie
The Robe (1953)
33. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
The gingerbread man
Tomato(es)
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Royal jelly
34. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Paradise Lost
The Maltese Falcon
George Deukmejian
35. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Kenneth Branagh
State quarters
Maya Angelou
36. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
Panama
Candyman
The valley of the shadow of death
Real estate (investment)
37. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Condoleezza Rice
Kayak
Foo Fighters
Leopard
38. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Curly Howard
Switzerland
1606
39. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Curly Howard
The Fantastic Four
Aliana
Brent Spiner
40. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Teapot Dome
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Geyser
41. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Guy Ritchie
(the) New York Mets
Bambi
Harold and Maude
42. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Gypsy Rose Lee
Walter Winchell
Topper (1937)
43. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
The Frighteners
Coruscant
Montgomery - Alabama
Nicky
44. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
MMMBob
Royal jelly
Pig
Balthasar (Magi)
45. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
The Tell-tale Heart
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
London Bridge
5
46. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
When a Man Loves a Woman
James Cagney
Elle
Heaven's Gate (1980)
47. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Aladdin
Shel Silverstein
Rome
48. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
49. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Hercules
Palmer
Pear(s)
Louisville (Kentucky)
50. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Apocalypse Now
Ellery Queen
V2 (rocket)s
Grape(s)