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1. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
India
Ski slopes
Victoria Falls
Five
2. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Windsor - Ontario
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
MCI
Thailand
3. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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4. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Nicaragua
Kali
Wales
Portland( - OR)
5. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
6. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Pig
Ganesh
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
7. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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8. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
IMF
Hannah
Randy Quaid
9. How many band members were there in Toto?
Jim Lovell
Palm Sunday
Terminal velocity
6
10. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Billy Martin
New Zealand
Norma Jean
Padre
11. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
D. H. Lawrence
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Topper (1937)
(The) NHL
12. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Nicaragua
Will & Grace
Aliana
G. E. Smith
13. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Tupac Shakur
3 2 1 Contact
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Dr. James Bedford
14. What kind of trust is a REIT?
(the) Boston Tea Party
Martin Scorsese
Mitch
Real estate (investment)
15. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Gene Roddenberry
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Lights of New York (1928)
16. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
(The) NHL
Barry Sanders
Cameroon
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
17. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Emma
Robert De Niro
Vivendi
Cornea
18. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Buffalo
Chile
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
The Dick Van Dyke Show
19. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Radar
LeBron James
Pancreas
(George Bernard) Shaw
20. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Liar Liar
Come by here
Prince
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
21. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Llama
Pocahontas
Scoop
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
22. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
I'm a Believer
The Hula Bowl
Argentina
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
23. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Hannah
3
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Scrat
24. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
Orange(s)
The Boston Celtics (21)
Crunk
Germany
25. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
112
(The) Marines
India
Steven Biko
26. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Judy Garland
Apocalypse Now
Garo Yepremian
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
27. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Queen Anne's Lace
Green
Tupac Shakur
John Cassavets
28. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Topper
Somalia
S(ain)t Louis
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
29. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
(The) dodo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Melville
Kornfield Kounty
30. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
James Cagney
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
The Mona Lisa
J. M. Barrie
31. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Seven
Antawn Jamison
Field of Dreams
I've fallen and I can't get up
32. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Argentina
Carrie Underwood
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
33. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Sweden
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Philip Marlowe
Mary Decker (Slaney)
34. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Model railroad
Avocado(s)
Peach(es)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
35. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
MCI
Apocalypse Now
40
Mitosis
36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
TheAtlas (A)
O. J. Simpson
Lord of the Flies
Texas and New Mexico
37. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Panama
(The) NHL
Banana
4
38. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
De Beers
Times Square
Jack Russell
Sean Connery
39. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
Romania
Brain Boitano
Ian Fleming
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
40. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
France
The Satanic Verses
The Tell-tale Heart
Montgomery - Alabama
41. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Humbert Humbert
Foo Fighters
The Stanley Cup
V2 (rocket)s
42. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Ulysseys (1967)
Hoop Dreams
(Adolf) Hitler
43. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
(Dallas) Love Field
North America
Smerdyakov
Antonin Scalia
44. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Theodore Roosevelt
Beverly Cleary
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Lady Marmalade
45. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
38th Parallel
Harold and Maude
Fish
Mia Farrow
46. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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47. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
John Speke (English - 1856)
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Iran
Charles Lindbergh
48. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Cherries
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
(tested positive for) marijuana
MASH
49. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Cape Hatteras
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Ants
Pancreas
50. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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