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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Stevie Wonder
Christopher Columbus
Foo Fighters
2. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Burberry
China
Black
Texaco
3. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Wales
The Loco-motion
Mars
Can-Can
4. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Eeyore
Smerdyakov
Vivendi
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
5. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Westward Ho!
HP Lovecraft
30 Rock
Manhunter
6. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Jamaica Bay
Mau Mau
Jim Calhoun
Jim Lovell
7. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
(The) House of Seven Gables
James Cook (English - 1770)
Upset
Roger Bannister
8. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?
TheAtlas (A)
Kitty Genovese
Genesis
Jurassic Park
9. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
The Tell-tale Heart
Can-Can
Jenny McCarthy
STP Motor Oil
10. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Rebecca
Bling bling
Harold and Maude
11. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
Steven Biko
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Old Time Rock and Roll
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
12. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Geyser
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
China
Fahrenheit 451
13. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Westward Ho!
Ali MacGraw
Christina Aguilera
(the) Boston Tea Party
14. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Burberry
Mecca
Ian Fleming
The Cincinnati Reds
15. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
(PE)6-5000
IMDb
A-ha
Times Square
16. First film shown on HBO?
Bucket
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Barry Sanders
17. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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18. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Canada
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Judy Garland
19. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Palau
The Three Musketeers
State quarters
3 2 1 Contact
20. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Hindenburg (explosion)
Padre
Koran
Emeritus
21. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Pulp Fiction
Randy Quaid
The Ring
22. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Rocky Balboa
Bunker Hill
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Balthasar (Magi)
23. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
The Sixth Sense
White
Silicon and oxygen
Philip Marlowe
24. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
The Maltese Falcon
Dharma & Greg
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Billy Martin
25. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
Somalia
(tested positive for) marijuana
Norma Jean
Capybara
26. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Milk Duds
Thailand
Mecca
27. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
Hoop Dreams
Rocky Balboa
The Learning Tree (1969)
3
28. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
40
Silicon and oxygen
Wendy
Atom Egoyan
29. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Genesis
Pear(s)
Murphy Brown
30. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Switzerland
K. d. lang
31. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
(The) Jordan (River)
(The) NHL
Charles Lindbergh
Thelma and Louise
32. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
Panama
Harold and Maude
Murray Gell-Mann
The Chrysler Building
33. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Switzerland
Palmer
Brain Boitano
Mau Mau
34. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Lemon(s)
James Cameron
Your Girlfriend
Capybara
35. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Frank Zamboni
Kayak
Hugo Chavez
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Romeo and Juliet
Hercules
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Jurassic Park
37. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Mia Farrow
Miles Davis
Elle
Nicky
38. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Hindenburg (explosion)
The Fantastic Four
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Ambrose Bierce
39. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
India
H. G. Wells
(a) Yo-yo
Miles Davis
40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Buffalo
Cape Hatteras
Dannii
Lemon(s)
41. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
MCI
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Kali
Lillian Hellman
42. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Steven Spielberg
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
30 Rock
43. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
Subaru
About Schmidt
IMF
The Artful Dodger
44. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Martha Stewart
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Croatia
Subaru
45. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
Switzerland
Limp Bizkit
Westward Ho!
Jamaica
46. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Sonic Youth
Inspiration (1915)
Mia Farrow
Lulu
47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Ashlee
Brazil
7
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
48. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Jenny McCarthy
Aladdin
Strawberries
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
49. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Federico Fellini
Tarzan
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Cory (himself)
50. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Louisana (Superdome)
Jim Valvano
Six
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang