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1. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Beowulf
Muammar Qaddifi
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Pakistan
2. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
Antawn Jamison
Benito Mussolini
Mia Farrow
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
3. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Muammar Qaddifi
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Pearl Harbor
Koran
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
(street) lanes
Hamlet
Wales
Jurassic Park
5. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Jurassic Park
Pachyderm
Texaco
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
6. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
The Canterville Ghost
1606
Palmer
(the) Boston Tea Party
7. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
STP Motor Oil
Judiciary
Mau Mau
Jack Russell
8. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
J. K. Rowling
Ohio and North Carolina
9. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
(Dallas) Love Field
Garo Yepremian
Brazil
Eve
10. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Lamar Alexander
Murmur
Dollar
Tiny Bubbles
11. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Jamaica Bay
Heloise
In Cold Blood
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
12. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?
Palmer
Panama
By choice - man!
The Hula Bowl
13. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
(Albert) Einstein
Oahu
A Midsummer Night's Dream
George Wilson
14. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
Mulan
John Cassavets
Roger Bannister
Jenny
15. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
3
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Coruscant
16. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Chinese Democracy
Stevie Wonder
Spinal Tap
17. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?
Oort cloud
1
Everybody Hates
(street) lanes
18. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Capybara
Vincente Minnelli
By Love Possessed (1961)
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
19. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
John Cassavets
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Brazil
Texaco
20. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
Roswell( - NM)
Steven Biko
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Martin Scorsese
21. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Padre
Parrot
James Cameron
22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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23. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
MASH
Pakistan
Do The Right Thing
1606
24. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Eric Bogosian
Mel Brooks
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Montreal
25. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
William Tell
The Learning Tree (1969)
Windsor - Ontario
Lord of the Flies
26. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Hercules
Hannah
Salt Lake City
Oahu
27. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Hannibal
Earl Morrall
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Thrust
28. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
U.N.C.L.E
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Capri
Home Improvement
29. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
The Others
XTC
Lord of the Flies
30. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Solipsism
(PE)6-5000
Little Rock
Bringing up Baby (1938)
31. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
1
Desiderata
Brain Boitano
(Albert) Einstein
32. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
Couscous
1606
Jean-Luc Goddard
Babar
33. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Coffee
Hercules
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Muhammad
34. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Rocky Balboa
Laverne & Shirley
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
35. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Candyman
James Cagney
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
36. Which company merged with BP?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Seven
Randy Quaid
37. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
The Little Mermaid
(Pablo) Picasso
(Songs in) A Minor
Wales
38. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Croatia
Beetle Juice
Rene Descartes
Leopard
39. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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40. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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41. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
(Pablo) Picasso
Beowulf
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
42. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Underoos
The Little Mermaid
Vivendi
Heaven's Gate (1980)
43. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Cherries
Pocahontas
O. J. Simpson
Mexico
44. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
(The) Rolling Stones
Mashed potatoes
Rebecca
45. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Michigan
38th Parallel
Howard Hughes
Oscar and Lucinda
46. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Real estate (investment)
Fig newtons
Candyman
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
47. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Beetle Juice
Rebecca
The Boston Celtics (21)
40
48. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Mickey Finn
(the) Great Train Robbery
Louisville (Kentucky)
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
49. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
J. K. Rowling
TheAtlas (A)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
E. B. White
50. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Brian De Palma
Aramis
Mickey Finn
Christopher Columbus