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1. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Michelle Wie
China
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Shrek 2
2. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
Bank One
Montgomery - Alabama
James Cook (English - 1770)
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
3. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Kitty Genovese
Elle
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
(Dallas) Love Field
4. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
The Mini (Cooper)
Fraternite
Clownfish
Ganesh
5. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Pulp Fiction
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Murphy Brown
Spain
6. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Dairy Queen
The Fantastic Four
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
7. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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8. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Thailand
Elle
Avocado(s)
38th Parallel
9. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Sally Ride
EMForster
Baltimore
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
10. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
Westworld (1973)
Chaminade
Hope & Faith
11. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tiger Woods
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
1606
12. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Carbon dioxide
Kornfield Kounty
Christina Aguilera
Romeo and Juliet
13. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Jenny McCarthy
Field of Dreams
Sri Lanka
TheName of The Rose
14. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Norma Jean
Rulon Gardner
K. d. lang
Sirhan Sirhan
15. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?
Draw
Shrek 2
McDonnell Douglas
Aurora australis
16. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Dharma & Greg
Benito Mussolini
Queen Anne's Lace
17. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Carbon dioxide
Michelle Wie
Wilco
Michelle Wie
18. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Roger Bannister
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Grenada
19. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
White
(Ford) Excursion
Sean Connery
Colonel Harland Sanders
20. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Eve
Will & Grace
30 Rock
Hugo Chavez
21. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
(Songs in) A Minor
Michelle Wie
Nicky
Roger Vadim
22. What are divided by Botts' dots?
(street) lanes
Five
Deer
Kate & Allie
23. Which company merged with Chevron?
Murmur
Texaco
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Gorilla
24. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
(an) e
Ian Fleming
Koran
Antawn Jamison
25. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Hugo Chavez
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
Atom Egoyan
Happyness
26. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Little Rock
Judy Garland
Capybara
Charles Lindbergh
27. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Somalia
O. J. Simpson
2
28. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Humbert Humbert
Baden-Baden
Fontanelles
Sirhan Sirhan
29. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Yes
Nicaragua
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
30. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Stanley Cup
(planetary) rings
Ali MacGraw
31. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Colonel Harland Sanders
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Teddy Roosevelt
32. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
China
Tarzan
Hannah
(the) Jack of diamonds
33. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Salzburg
Cocoon
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Lemon(s)
34. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
Turkey
Frankenstein('s monster)
Mars
Michelle Wie
35. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?
(Adolf) Hitler
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(PE)6-5000
36. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Ken Davitian
(The) Rolling Stones
Llama
Spain
37. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Radar
Jeremy Bentham
Kornfield Kounty
Bonnie and Clyde
38. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
(Gerald)Ford
Theodore
Elle
Curly Howard
39. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Steven Spielberg
Tongue
Couscous
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
40. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Amos 'n' Andy
Topper
Lady Marmalade
Larry Nance
41. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Couscous
Bound for Glory (1976)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
42. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Palau
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Beck (Odelay)
Limp Bizkit
43. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Lean on Me
Jamaica
Laverne & Shirley
McDonnell Douglas
44. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Intercourse
Geyser
Bling bling
(George Bernard) Shaw
45. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Edith Head
Grape(s)
The Others
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
46. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Britney Spears
Tarzan
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Sean Connery
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Jack Kevorkian
Peach(es)
Renny Harlin
Bound for Glory (1976)
48. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
Oedipus
The Frighteners
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
J. K. Rowling
49. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
American Beauty
(the) Republican Party
Roger Maris
Stalingrad
50. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
Theodore
Pegasus
Plum(s)
Spinal Tap
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