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1. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Ian Fleming
Spinal Tap
2. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
U.N.C.L.E
Murphy Brown
Dollar
Croatia
3. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Cream
Mia Farrow
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Bambi
4. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Candyman
Altamount
Hong Kong
Nicky
5. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
Dracula
When a Man Loves a Woman
(a) clergyman
Oscar and Lucinda
6. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...
(Gerald)Ford
Country (West Point motto)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
(planetary) rings
7. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Silicon and oxygen
Coruscant
(PE)6-5000
8. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?
38th Parallel
Extras
Sean Connery
The Fantastic Four
9. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
MMMBob
Romeo and Juliet
Jeremy Bentham
10. First film of the 3-D boom?
Bwana Devil (1952)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Louisville (Kentucky)
Ganesh
11. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Dentin
Victory
Happyness
Red
12. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Ione Skye
Texas and New Mexico
Walter Winchell
Jive
13. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Coffee
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
By choice - man!
14. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Rocky Balboa
Deer
Flowers for Algernon
The Ewings (Dallas)
15. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Finland
Colombia
O. J. Simpson
16. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Everybody Hates
112
(The St. Louis) Blues
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
17. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Condoleezza Rice
The Little Mermaid
Britney Spears
E. B. White
18. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Bucket
Arkansas
The Lion King
19. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
M. C. Hammer
Can-Can
Altamount
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
20. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Shrek 2
HP Lovecraft
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Turkey
21. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
The valley of the shadow of death
The Mona Lisa
Uruguay
22. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Llama
Boxing
Peach (also contains orange)
(The) Marines
23. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?
Go Away Little Girl
Wendy
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Terminal velocity
24. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Wings (1927)
In Cold Blood
Vincente Minnelli
Pink
25. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
China
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Do The Right Thing
Naomi
26. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Pear(s)
Cream
Basalt
27. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Mahi mahi
Leopard
(the) New York Mets
Humbert Humbert
28. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Polo
Orangutan
She shot JR (Dallas)
Beverly Cleary
29. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Hong Kong
10
The Lion King
Theodore Roosevelt
30. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
North Korea
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Model railroad
Bunker Hill
31. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Alfred Hitchcock
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Yes
Terminal velocity
32. First use of the 'f-word'?
Ian Fleming
Oscar and Lucinda
Blue
Ulysseys (1967)
33. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Robert De Niro
Portland( - OR)
The Loco-motion
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
34. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
New York - New York
Texaco
Hercules
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
35. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
1
(The) House of Seven Gables
Emeritus
Colonel Tom Parker
36. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Murray Gell-Mann
Delaware
Pearl Harbor
John Speke (English - 1856)
37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Almonds
Plum(s)
Victory
38. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
(the) bishop
The Hula Bowl
Ozone
Dracula
39. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Mitosis
Becky Sharp (1935)
(planetary) rings
Truly - Madly - Deeply
40. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Buster Douglas
Yellow
Thelma and Louise
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
41. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Couscous
Temple prostitute
Texas and New Mexico
Spellbound
42. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
I'm a Believer
Sean Connery
38th Parallel
'A Spoonful of Sugar
43. First Best Picture Oscar?
Aliana
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Wings (1927)
New Zealand
44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Hamlet
Mulan
Thailand
Roger Maris
45. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
Apocalypse Now
Lulu
Sally Ride
NineInch Nails
46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
M. C. Hammer
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Orange(s)
Ashlee
47. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Moby Dick
Red
Lulu
Geyser
48. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Peach(es)
Moby Dick
Jenny
Sleeping Beauty
49. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
SD-6
Solipsism
Murray Gell-Mann
Pearl Harbor
50. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Garo Yepremian
Silicon and oxygen
Portland( - OR)
Little Rock