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1. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Seven
Kayak
Lights of New York (1928)
Colonel Tom Parker
2. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
Lillian Hellman
The valley of the shadow of death
Jessica Lange
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
3. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Hamlet
(the) New York Mets
Salt Lake City
Dharma & Greg
4. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
(Songs in) A Minor
TheAtlas (A)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
(George) Clooney
5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?
Atom Egoyan
Nicaragua
Terminal velocity
Chantilly
6. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Royal jelly
State quarters
Happyness
Colonel Harland Sanders
7. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Aramis
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Thailand
8. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
Ken Davitian
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Clownfish
(the) Motorwagen
9. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Harold and Maude
Model railroad
10. What kind of trust is a REIT?
(The) Marines
Real estate (investment)
China
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
11. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?
TheAtlas (A)
Naomi
Bambi
The White Witch
12. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
India
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Peach(es)
13. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Norma Jean
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Rat
Kate & Allie
14. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Ellery Queen
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(Albert) Einstein
Heloise
15. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Rulon Gardner
Hindenburg (explosion)
Mitosis
Will & Grace
16. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Philip Marlowe
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Cherries
Gorilla
17. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Do The Right Thing
Shel Silverstein
Jim Jones
Jack the Ripper
18. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Cape Hatteras
Ellery Queen
Ambrose Bierce
The Fantastic Four
19. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
Pulp Fiction
Roberto Rossellini
Baden-Baden
Vivendi
20. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Montreal
Britney Spears
The Frighteners
Padre
21. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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22. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Sri Lanka
XTC
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Green
23. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
(Pablo) Picasso
Extras
Subaru
(Ford) Excursion
24. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
TheAtlas (A)
Stalingrad
Peru
Mel Brooks
25. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Argentina
Mahi mahi
26. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Brian De Palma
Curly Howard
7
The Boston Celtics (21)
27. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
9
Body Count
28. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
Harold and Maude
Jamie Lynn
Eris (Discord)
Boxing
29. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Brazil
Montgomery - Alabama
U.N.C.L.E
Hope & Faith
30. What is a female donkey called?
Mexico
(Dallas) Love Field
Murray Gell-Mann
(a) ginny (or jenny)
31. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Desiderata
HL Mencken
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Capybara
32. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Lillian Hellman
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Michelle Wie
Mitosis
33. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Curly Howard
Emma
Gene Roddenberry
Smerdyakov
34. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?
V2 (rocket)s
Louie Louie
Scrat
Jim Calhoun
35. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
Fontanelles
HL Mencken
Ambrose Bierce
Chantilly
36. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Five
Colonel Harland Sanders
George Deukmejian
Green
37. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
(the) ear
She shot JR (Dallas)
Milk Duds
Ohio and North Carolina
38. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Apocalypse Now
A Christmas Carol
Barry Sanders
Plum(s)
39. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
Jack Russell
Blue
Bob Dylan
Tongue
40. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Edith Head
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Nicaragua
41. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Colonel Tom Parker
Texas and New Mexico
Aglet
42. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Paramount
Afghanistan
TheName of The Rose
2
43. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Paul Newman
George Deukmejian
Stevie Wonder
Mary Decker (Slaney)
44. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Thailand
Yellow (and key!)
Dairy Queen
45. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
Sullivan Ordinance
(PE)6-5000
Scoop
(Adolf) Hitler
46. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier
Ashlee
Walter Winchell
HL Mencken
Oscar and Lucinda
47. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Yellow (and key!)
Prince Valiant
Lillian Hellman
7
48. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Pink
Pear(s)
Ione Skye
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
49. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Mitsubishi
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Little Rock
Kali
50. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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