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1. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
(PE)6-5000
The Robe (1953)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
James Cook (English - 1770)
2. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
Mars
(Albert) Einstein
Cherries
Gene Roddenberry
3. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
E. B. White
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
By choice - man!
4. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Paramount
Balthasar (Magi)
S(ain)t Louis
Pete Seeger
5. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
The Tell-tale Heart
Bank One
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Colonel Harland Sanders
6. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Pakistan
7. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Tiger Woods
Home Improvement
Brian De Palma
Roger Vadim
8. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Sonic Youth
Scrooged
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
(the) ear
9. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
The Mona Lisa
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Clownfish
Gordie Howe
10. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Windsor - Ontario
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
11. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Gomer Pyle
Maya Angelou
Moby Dick
Howard Hughes
12. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Field of Dreams
The White Witch
13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Finland
Prince
Bank One
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
14. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?
Switzerland
Philadelphia
Charles Lindbergh
Chantilly
15. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
The Age ofInnocence
Prince Valiant
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
James Cameron
16. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Ernesto
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Bringing up Baby (1938)
17. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Curly Howard
Gene Roddenberry
Clownfish
Hamlet
18. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Tomato(es)
(the) bishop
2
The Boston Celtics (21)
19. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Foo Fighters
Kate & Allie
The Little Mermaid
Tsetse fly
20. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Martha Stewart
Algeria
(tested positive for) marijuana
(Gerald)Ford
21. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Coruscant
Bob Dylan
Ganesh
Leopard
22. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Beowulf
Brazil
Jurassic Park
James Cameron
23. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Bob Dylan
Solipsism
James Cook (English - 1770)
24. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Melville
Delaware
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
25. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
St. Louis Cardinals
7
Times Square
Darwin's
26. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Field of Dreams
Colonel Harland Sanders
Christina Aguilera
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
27. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Your Girlfriend
Apocalypse Now
James Cagney
Dannii
28. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Tiger Woods
Jack the Ripper
9
EMForster
29. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
5
(The) dodo
The Cincinnati Reds
Solipsism
30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
A Christmas Carol
Ernesto
Tupac Shakur
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
31. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
MASH
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
LeBron James
Somewhere in Time
32. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Bunker Hill
Sweden
Leopard
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
33. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Nevada
Babar
Ernesto
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
34. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Pippa Passes (1909)
Ali MacGraw
Dentin
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
35. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Humbert Humbert
Jim Jones
About Schmidt
Curly Howard
36. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
The Artful Dodger
Michigan
Cocoon
Model railroad
37. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Capri
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Jim Jones
Pear(s)
38. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
112
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Brian De Palma
Turkmenistan
39. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Five
Mitch
Coal
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
40. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Mashed potatoes
A Fistfull of Dollars
Draw
Kali
41. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Martin Landau
Mitch
Victoria Falls
(Dallas) Love Field
42. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Beowulf
Teapot Dome
Westward Ho!
Padre
43. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Six
Plum(s)
The Hula Bowl
Ernie
44. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Seven
Dr. James Bedford
4
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
45. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Motor Trend
(Honda) Civic
The Three Musketeers
Ozone
46. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Llama
Charles Starkweather
Elle
Chinese Democracy
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Emeritus
Prince
Seven
Lemon(s)
48. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
The Lion King
Wings (1927)
White
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
49. 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)
Nauruan
Elvis Costello
Prince
50. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Tupac Shakur
Radar
Tarzan
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)