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1. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
30 Rock
Judy Garland
The Others
Little Rock
2. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Bucket
4
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Cocoon
3. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Topper
Barry Sanders
Your Girlfriend
(the) Jack of diamonds
4. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
She shot JR (Dallas)
Extras
Bob Dylan
Philip Marlowe
5. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Farting
Lean on Me
Cat
6. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Eugene Onegin
Theodore
State quarters
7. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
(the) Motorwagen
Barry Sanders
Oort cloud
Cream
8. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
Spellbound
Peach(es)
(Songs in) A Minor
Dentin
9. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
The Sixth Sense
Bunker Hill
Gordie Howe
Cape Hatteras
10. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Jim Jones
Cat
Red Dawn (1984)
11. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Six
Tiny Bubbles
Geyser
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
12. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
Avocado(s)
The Cincinnati Reds
Foo Fighters
Wales
13. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Antonio Stradivarius
Ione Skye
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Inspiration (1915)
14. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Cocoon
Vincente Minnelli
Miles Davis
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
15. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Ben Hogan
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
(The) dodo
16. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
3
Farting
London Bridge
Nevada
17. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Model railroad
Eeyore
Bob Dylan
Hoop Dreams
18. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Murmur
Almonds
(Dallas) Love Field
Blue
19. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Wilco
Pictures of Matchstick Men
The Others
Coffee
20. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Peach(es)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Peach (also contains orange)
(George Bernard) Shaw
21. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
Peru
Lights of New York (1928)
Pocahontas
Padre
22. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
(Sperm) Whale
Sally Ride
SD-6
Stalingrad
23. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
The Lion King
(Sperm) Whale
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Snape
24. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Sleeping Beauty
Brent Spiner
Red
Spellbound
25. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Tiger Woods
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
The gingerbread man
Chantilly
26. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Sirhan Sirhan
(street) lanes
Ulysseys (1967)
The Age ofInnocence
27. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Country (West Point motto)
Robert Scott
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Extras
28. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
Rocky Balboa
Banana
Judy Garland
Pearl Harbor
29. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
Gomer Pyle
Turkmenistan
Westward Ho!
Thailand
30. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
James Cameron
Brent Spiner
Hydrogen and oxygen
Kayak
31. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Venus
(street) lanes
32. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Nicaragua
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
MASH
Jenny
33. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Laverne & Shirley
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Aladdin
34. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Truly - Madly - Deeply
(The) Jordan (River)
Jeremy Bentham
35. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Trapped in the Closet
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Chinese Democracy
Renny Harlin
36. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Judiciary
Frank Zappa
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Simon Legree
37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
(the) bishop
Capri
Pocahontas
Aaron Copland
38. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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39. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Ernesto
Hercules
E. B. White
Atom Egoyan
40. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Nauruan
Louie Louie
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Czechoslovakia
41. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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42. First computer graphics in film?
Pink
Westworld (1973)
Snape
Ants
43. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Silicon Valley
Betty (Rubble)
Topper (1937)
Kenneth Branagh
44. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Dracula
Hannah
Ghost
Couscous
45. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?
Hong Kong
Everybody Hates
Mars
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
46. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Frankenstein('s monster)
Portland( - OR)
Tiny Bubbles
The Sparrow
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
The Three Musketeers
Iran
Sirhan Sirhan
Gordie Howe
48. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Robert De Niro
Dannii
Country (West Point motto)
Colonel Tom Parker
49. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Old Time Rock and Roll
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Thanksgiving
38th Parallel
50. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
North America
Theodore
Murmur
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