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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
B. J. Armstrong
Hannibal
Underoos
2. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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3. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
IMDb
Ben Hogan
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Naomi
4. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Benito Mussolini
Pearl Harbor
Field of Dreams
Pear(s)
5. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Liar Liar
Mashed potatoes
Philip Marlowe
Wendy
6. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
Boxing
Brian De Palma
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1
7. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(Songs in) A Minor
About Schmidt
Joel Cohen
8. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Candyman
Charles Lindbergh
Genesis
(George Bernard) Shaw
9. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Kali
Ganesh
Foo Fighters
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
10. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Geyser
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Lillian Hellman
Roswell( - NM)
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Cameroon
Kali
Jim Calhoun
Dracula
12. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
NineInch Nails
Afghanistan
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
John F. Kennedy
13. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
The Artful Dodger
Egypt
Jenny
James Cook (English - 1770)
14. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?
Teddy Roosevelt
EMForster
In Cold Blood
Baden-Baden
15. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Bunker Hill
Donner Pass
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
When a Man Loves a Woman
16. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
(the) Motorwagen
The Ewings (Dallas)
The Sixth Sense
Delaware
17. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Kali
Lemon(s)
Candyman
Grape(s)
18. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
D. H. Lawrence
Theodore
Brain Boitano
Hindenburg (explosion)
19. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Hugo Chavez
Thailand
(Dallas) Love Field
20. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Wings (1927)
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
MASH
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
21. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
Hope & Faith
Rome
New York - New York
22. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Scrat
Bling bling
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Jenny
23. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?
7
Your Girlfriend
Joanne Woodward
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
24. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Afghanistan
Switzerland
Happyness
The Stanley Cup
25. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
The Sparrow
40
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Montreal
26. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
40
Beck (Odelay)
Canada
Spinal Tap
27. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
Lazarus
Aurora australis
Aglet
Jim Calhoun
28. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
John F. Kennedy
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Candyman
29. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Frank Zappa
Sleeping Beauty
Austria
Becky Sharp (1935)
30. Which company merged with Verizon?
MCI
Bwana Devil (1952)
(The) Marines
Westworld (1973)
31. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Paradise Lost
Darwin's
32. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Argentina
The Age ofInnocence
Thailand
I'll Be There
33. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
Gypsy Rose Lee
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Gordie Howe
E. B. White
34. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
(her) hair
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
The Three Musketeers
35. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Antonin Scalia
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Elle
Alsatians
36. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Czechoslovakia
Capri
McDonnell Douglas
The Weekly World News
37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Peach(es)
Marcel Marceau
Rocky Balboa
Sirhan Sirhan
38. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Antonio Stradivarius
The Satanic Verses
39. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
(Pablo) Picasso
Mulan
Romeo and Juliet
Sweden
40. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
38th Parallel
Somalia
(The) Rolling Stones
(Adolf) Hitler
41. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
The Stanley Cup
The Dick Van Dyke Show
MASH
Yellow (and key!)
42. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
The Little Mermaid
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Sirhan Sirhan
Jamaica Bay
43. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Peach (also contains orange)
Seven
George Deukmejian
44. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Lights of New York (1928)
Sally Ride
Nicaragua
(The St. Louis) Blues
45. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Eeyore
3
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
46. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
CTU
(the) giraffe
Babar
A Christmas Carol
47. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Murphy Brown
Rocky Balboa
Chantilly
48. First scheduled in-flight movie?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Bank One
London Bridge
Afghanistan
49. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?
Cocoon
Steven Spielberg
Stalingrad
Limp Bizkit
50. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Boxing
The gingerbread man
Rat
Jerusalem
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