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1. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Sri Lanka
Arkansas
Melville
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
J. M. Barrie
Peru
The Three Musketeers
Robert Scott
3. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Mars
Ohio and North Carolina
Texas and New Mexico
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
4. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?
Kornfield Kounty
Senegal
Farting
Naomi
5. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
George Deukmejian
(the) giraffe
STP Motor Oil
Salzburg
6. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
John F. Kennedy
Truly - Madly - Deeply
XTC
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
7. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Small intestine(s)
Cat
Fish
8. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
Westworld (1973)
Eugene Onegin
Horse
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
9. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
Laverne & Shirley
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The White Witch
Nicaragua
10. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Walter Winchell
Alsatians
IMF
Ukraine
11. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Roger Maris
Jenny McCarthy
Brent Spiner
12. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Rome
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
CONTROL
Wales
13. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Lord of the Flies
Cherries
Rebecca
Venus
14. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Mitch
(The) Jordan (River)
Jive
Crunk
15. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
Texaco
Come by here
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
16. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Home Improvement
Rocky Balboa
Mahi mahi
The Others
17. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Ken Davitian
MASH
Frank Zamboni
Richard Cory (himself)
18. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Melville
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Weekly World News
Michigan
19. First film of the 3-D boom?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Bwana Devil (1952)
William Tell
Cullinan
20. How many band members were there in Green Day?
The Stanley Cup
(a) Yo-yo
3
(Dallas) Love Field
21. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Philadelphia
Orange(s)
Somewhere in Time
(George Bernard) Shaw
22. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Elle
Compaq
Sullivan Ordinance
Eric
23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Red Dawn (1984)
Watermelon(s)
Topper (1937)
Buster Douglas
24. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Bunker Hill
Martha Stewart
Llama
Do The Right Thing
25. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Sleeping Beauty
Eris (Discord)
Pulp Fiction
26. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Ski slopes
Topper (1937)
Senegal
Humbert Humbert
27. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Snape
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
D. H. Lawrence
McDonnell Douglas
28. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
(the) Boston Tea Party
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Sri Lanka
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
29. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Charles Lindbergh
Christina Aguilera
John Speke (English - 1856)
Ernie
30. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Steven Spielberg
Orangutan
Sleeping Beauty
(The) Rolling Stones
31. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Jack the Ripper
Hoop Dreams
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
32. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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33. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(her) hair
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Jim Calhoun
North Korea
34. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Roger Vadim
Melville
J. K. Rowling
Color blindness
35. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Hips
Silicon Valley
Thailand
Capybara
36. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Joel Cohen
Romeo and Juliet
Ganesh
Times Square
37. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Pachyderm
IMDb
Farting
Yellow (and key!)
38. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
10
Little Rock
New York - New York
Garo Yepremian
39. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
China
38th Parallel
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Wiley Post
40. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Kate & Allie
Ellery Queen
O. J. Simpson
Polo
41. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
(The) Marines
Rulon Gardner
Venus
MASH
42. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Shrek 2
Trapped in the Closet
Yellow
Coal
43. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
K. d. lang
Aramis
Jeremy Bentham
44. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
Pegasus
Ernie
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
(The) dodo
45. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Inspiration (1915)
Mars
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
46. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Westworld (1973)
Aurora australis
Harold and Maude
Beck (Odelay)
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Wilco
Red Dawn (1984)
The Maltese Falcon
48. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Pearl Harbor
St. Louis Cardinals
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Times Square
49. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
(the) giraffe
The Weekly World News
Peach (also contains orange)
Judiciary
50. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Genesis
Croatia
Finland
Pachyderm
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