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1. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
8
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Lemon(s)
The Sparrow
2. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Mau Mau
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
(PE)6-5000
3. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Miles Davis
Blue
Mahi mahi
4. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Home Improvement
Mitch
Austria
Burberry
5. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Utah
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
6. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Lulu
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Banana
(Dallas) Love Field
7. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Panama
Lord of the Flies
By Love Possessed (1961)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
8. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
Judiciary
Underoos
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
SD-6
9. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Ganesh
Foo Fighters
Pulp Fiction
Orangutan
10. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
(the) Jack of diamonds
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Brian De Palma
Mashed potatoes
11. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Ian Fleming
Brain Boitano
Edith Head
12. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Tongue
Colombia
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Cameroon
13. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Rebecca
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Mulan
14. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
The Ritz (hotel)
Louie Louie
The Sixth Sense
Grenada
15. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Tsetse fly
Thailand
Ants
16. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Beck (Odelay)
Murphy Brown
Bucket
Eve
17. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
(PE)6-5000
Duran Duran
Gorilla
Altamount
18. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
(the) evacuation of Saigon
The Maltese Falcon
Austria
19. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
Plum(s)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Mecca
Louisana (Superdome)
20. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Lulu
Smerdyakov
Somalia
Strawberries
21. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
Norma Jean
Happyness
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Cocoon
22. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Prince Valiant
The gingerbread man
Benito Mussolini
23. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Gene Roddenberry
Michigan
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Hugo Chavez
24. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
The Weekly World News
Donner Pass
(the) giraffe
Parking meters
25. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Aladdin
Martha Stewart
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Mashed potatoes
26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Please Mr. Postman
Baltimore
Chaminade
(Albert) Einstein
27. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
Elvis Costello
Tsetse fly
Vincente Minnelli
(The) Rolling Stones
28. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Tiger Woods
Polo
(Ford) Excursion
Richard Cory (himself)
29. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
William Tell
Ghost
S(ain)t Louis
TheAtlas (A)
30. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Real estate (investment)
Jim Valvano
Romania
Bob Dylan
31. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
40
Humbert Humbert
The Cincinnati Reds
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
32. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Haiti
Ozone
Motor Trend
St. Louis Cardinals
33. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
Alfred Hitchcock
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Jack Kevorkian
34. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Sonic Youth
Rocky Balboa
Victory
3 2 1 Contact
35. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Mitosis
Otto
Delaware
Compaq
36. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
McDonnell Douglas
Sullivan Ordinance
Larry Nance
G. E. Smith
37. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
2
Teddy Roosevelt
Parking meters
Westward Ho!
38. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Sally Ride
Dracula
Mitosis
Sleeping Beauty
39. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Baden-Baden
Jim Jones
D. H. Lawrence
1606
40. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Tammy Faye Bakker
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Hannibal
Rocky Balboa
41. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
Iran
Yellow
De Beers
Switzerland
42. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
The Weekly World News
Radar
Walter Winchell
(Honda) Civic
43. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Color blindness
Romeo and Juliet
Amos 'n' Andy
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
44. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
Sullivan Ordinance
1
George Deukmejian
(a) ginny (or jenny)
45. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
The Stanley Cup
Gypsy Rose Lee
Orangutan
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
46. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Portland( - OR)
The Boston Celtics (21)
(an) e
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
47. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Balthasar (Magi)
Snape
TheName of The Rose
Randy Quaid
48. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Turkmenistan
3 2 1 Contact
Victory
Angkor Wat
49. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Michelle Wie
Draw
Miles Davis
Limp Bizkit
50. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Clownfish