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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
Please Mr. Postman
The Cincinnati Reds
When a Man Loves a Woman
Ganesh
2. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Colonel Harland Sanders
When a Man Loves a Woman
Sugar Ray Leonard
3. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Jenny
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Randy Quaid
Sonic Youth
4. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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5. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Subaru
A Room With a View (Forster)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Joel Cohen
6. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Pear(s)
Deer
Jack Kevorkian
Mel Brooks
7. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
(Songs in) A Minor
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Jim Jones
Ants
8. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
The Dome of the Rock
Roswell( - NM)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
3 2 1 Contact
9. First 'Director's Cut'?
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10. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
(The) dodo
Bank One
Sally Ride
Steven Biko
11. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Cherries
Nauruan
Egypt
Delaware
12. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Grape(s)
(The St. Louis) Blues
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Model railroad
13. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
The Tell-tale Heart
Geyser
McDonnell Douglas
14. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Your Girlfriend
Pakistan
John Cassavets
Utah
15. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
(Dallas) Love Field
Simon Legree
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Mexico
16. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
The Stanley Cup
EMForster
Mostly briefs
Switzerland
17. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Louisville (Kentucky)
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Gorilla
Silicon and oxygen
18. Which company merged with Citicorp?
Extras
Iran
Travelers Group
Night Court
19. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Antonio Stradivarius
Hamlet
Steven Biko
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
20. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
Lights of New York (1928)
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Sleeping Beauty
21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Spain
Martin Scorsese
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Bwana Devil (1952)
22. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
The Canterville Ghost
The Ewings (Dallas)
(The) Marines
Victoria Falls
23. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Real estate (investment)
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Ozone
A Room With a View (Forster)
24. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Israel
Elle
Jorge Luis Borges
A Christmas Carol
25. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Uruguay
Wales
Humbert Humbert
Laverne & Shirley
26. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Cape Hatteras
30 Rock
The Loco-motion
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
27. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Bank One
Dracula
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
28. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
(George Bernard) Shaw
Trapped in the Closet
Seven
Thailand
29. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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30. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Murmur
Red Dawn (1984)
(a) clergyman
Temple prostitute
31. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Grape(s)
Aurora australis
Scrat
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
32. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
(planetary) rings
Snape
When a Man Loves a Woman
Kate & Allie
33. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
The Sixth Sense
Sullivan Ordinance
India
Jurassic Park
34. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Times Square
(a) Yo-yo
Little Rock
Dentin
35. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Parking meters
TheAtlas (A)
Mickey Finn
B. J. Armstrong
36. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
Green
China
Douglas
Sean Connery
37. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
About Schmidt
CONTROL
Christopher Columbus
38. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Mitch
Will & Grace
The Artful Dodger
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
39. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Teddy Roosevelt
Finland
20
The Dome of the Rock
40. First film in CinemaScope?
Betty (Rubble)
Charles Lindbergh
(tested positive for) marijuana
The Robe (1953)
41. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Mitch
Capri
Royal jelly
The Satanic Verses
42. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Chaminade
Jim Lovell
TheAtlas (A)
43. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Aurora australis
The Bridge over the River Kwai
The Little Mermaid
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
44. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
V8 (juice)
Teapot Dome
Czechoslovakia
Sean Connery
45. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Horse
George Wilson
John Cassavets
Brent Spiner
46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Grape(s)
Portland( - OR)
Mitsubishi
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
47. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Lamar Alexander
Moby Dick
Extras
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
48. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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49. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
Hannah
The Ewings (Dallas)
Altamount
Temple prostitute
50. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Coffee
Richard Cory (himself)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
The valley of the shadow of death