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1. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Somalia
De Beers
Austria
Ben Hogan
2. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
Yes
Mickey Finn
The Age ofInnocence
(tested positive for) marijuana
3. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
The Age ofInnocence
Ellery Queen
4. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Gene Roddenberry
Paradise Lost
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
William Tell
5. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
(street) lanes
Pegasus
Liar Liar
Wilco
6. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
(the) Great Train Robbery
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
6
4
7. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Scrat
Black
Boxing
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
8. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Lazarus
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Omega
9. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
(Gerald)Ford
Mashed potatoes
Turkmenistan
Rebecca
10. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Nicaragua
Sally Ride
India
The Dome of the Rock
11. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
A Room With a View (Forster)
Aladdin
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(Ford) Excursion
12. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Smerdyakov
Brent Spiner
Vivendi
Michelle Wie
13. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
The Artful Dodger
Heloise
Norma Jean
Hydrogen and oxygen
14. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
New Zealand
1
Scrat
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
15. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
MCI
Mia Farrow
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Six
16. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Robert Scott
Topper (1937)
Yes
B. J. Armstrong
17. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Charles Lindbergh
Hong Kong
Howard Hughes
Jurassic Park
18. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Six
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Country (West Point motto)
(Ford) Excursion
19. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
The Chrysler Building
20. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
(the) Jack of diamonds
Jack Kevorkian
Angkor Wat
Red
21. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?
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22. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Pippa Passes (1909)
Texaco
Aurora australis
23. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
Salzburg
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Scrat
24. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Seven
Blue
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Edsel
25. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
John Speke (English - 1856)
Silicon Valley
26. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
(an) e
Oscar and Lucinda
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Renny Harlin
27. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Queen Anne's Lace
Shel Silverstein
(the) ear
Liar Liar
28. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
U.N.C.L.E
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Chantilly
29. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Turkey
Hindenburg (explosion)
Roberto Rossellini
30. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Vincente Minnelli
Bambi
Federico Fellini
Mickey Finn
31. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Roger Vadim
Home Improvement
Westworld (1973)
S(ain)t Louis
32. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Tongue
Seven
Strawberries
Yellow
33. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
(planetary) rings
Kali
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
34. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
G. E. Smith
Barry Sanders
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
(the) bishop
35. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
IMDb
Lights of New York (1928)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
S(ain)t Louis
36. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Fraternite
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bob Dylan
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
37. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Eric Bogosian
Larry Nance
Pig
Come by here
38. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Peach (also contains orange)
Muammar Qaddifi
Jim Lovell
Sri Lanka
39. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
The Pope
Beck (Odelay)
Finland
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
40. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Windsor - Ontario
Roger Maris
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Ulysseys (1967)
41. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Atom Egoyan
The Loco-motion
Aramis
(the) Jack of diamonds
42. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Jean-Luc Goddard
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Inspiration (1915)
Gene Roddenberry
43. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
Basalt
Moby Dick
Orangutan
American Beauty
44. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
North Korea
Wiley Post
Polo
20
45. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Hugo Chavez
O. J. Simpson
Kali
Edsel
46. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
TheAtlas (A)
Roger Vadim
Muammar Qaddifi
Jim Valvano
47. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Colombia
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Country (West Point motto)
U.N.C.L.E
48. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Norma Jean
White
Times Square
Mitsubishi
49. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
IMDb
The valley of the shadow of death
Orangutan
Oedipus
50. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cocoon
The Ring
Betty (Rubble)