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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Haiti
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Model railroad
Beck (Odelay)
2. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
The Mini (Cooper)
The Robe (1953)
Melville
Red Dawn (1984)
3. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
LeBron James
Chile
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Banana
4. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Lamar Alexander
Sugar Ray Leonard
'A Spoonful of Sugar
LeBron James
5. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Emeritus
Do The Right Thing
Charles Lindbergh
6. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Thelma and Louise
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Jive
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
7. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
(the) Boston Tea Party
HP Lovecraft
Kenneth Branagh
Motor Trend
8. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Topper
9. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Babette March
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
10. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Horse
Dr. James Bedford
Coffee
(the) ear
11. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Argentina
J. K. Rowling
The Dick Van Dyke Show
12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Tupac Shakur
Red
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Brent Spiner
13. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Silicon Valley
Vincente Minnelli
The Little Mermaid
Yes
14. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
Will & Grace
(the) ear
Thelma and Louise
Aramis
15. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
North America
Sri Lanka
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Coffee
16. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Jerusalem
Oscar and Lucinda
Pig
The Little Mermaid
17. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
I'll Be There
Crunk
The Lion King
18. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
(the) giraffe
Humbert Humbert
Douglas
James Cameron
19. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Ian Fleming
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Robert Scott
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
20. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Scrat
Chinese Democracy
Joanne Woodward
21. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Pete Seeger
(The) NHL
B. J. Armstrong
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
22. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Mitsubishi
Shel Silverstein
Stalingrad
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
23. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Philadelphia
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Peach (also contains orange)
Buffalo
24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
MMMBob
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
25. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
John F. Kennedy
North America
Betty (Rubble)
Beverly Cleary
26. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Renny Harlin
Silicon and oxygen
Five
Ghost
27. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Colonel Harland Sanders
A Room With a View (Forster)
(the) New York Mets
The Stanley Cup
28. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Rene Descartes
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
29. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Rome
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Jim Lovell
Naomi
30. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Oort cloud
Ellery Queen
4
Eve
31. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Wales
Iran
Ukraine
The Dick Van Dyke Show
32. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Sonic Youth
Bambi
Jive
8
33. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
Sonic Youth
Benito Mussolini
Bob Dylan
34. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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35. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
Kitty Genovese
Pennsylvania
Radar
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
36. 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
Spinal Tap
Vivendi
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Jamaica Bay
37. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Grenada
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
38. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
(The) NHL
Baden-Baden
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Randy Quaid
39. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
Grape(s)
Desiderata
The Ritz (hotel)
Ozone
40. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roger Vadim
Mickey Finn
41. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Prince Valiant
Israel
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Theodore Roosevelt
42. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Croatia
France
Iran
G. E. Smith
43. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Flowers for Algernon
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Robert Scott
Martin Landau
44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?
Senegal
SD-6
Fahrenheit 451
Rocky Balboa
45. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Curly Howard
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
She shot JR (Dallas)
Gorilla
46. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Portland( - OR)
Marcel Marceau
Flowers for Algernon
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
47. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Laverne & Shirley
Seal (played by a sea lion)
3
Stalingrad
48. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Theodore
Marcel Marceau
49. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Jenny McCarthy
Fig newtons
Barry Sanders
The Lion King
50. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Flowers for Algernon
Banana
Beverly Cleary
A Fistfull of Dollars