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1. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
(a) clergyman
The Boston Celtics (21)
Padre
Watermelon(s)
2. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
State quarters
Trapped in the Closet
Dannii
Thailand
3. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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4. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
China
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
When a Man Loves a Woman
5. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Lillian Hellman
Mecca
Chantilly
6. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
Peach(es)
Kitty Genovese
Louisville (Kentucky)
7. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Laverne & Shirley
Beetle Juice
Judy Garland
8. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Prince
The Weekly World News
Orange
9. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
Model railroad
The Age ofInnocence
Six
Larry Nance
10. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Egypt
De Beers
J. M. Barrie
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
11. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Ganesh
Orange(s)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Robert De Niro
12. First Best Picture Oscar?
Wings (1927)
The Sixth Sense
Texaco
Frank Zappa
13. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
Small intestine(s)
U.N.C.L.E
Pancreas
The Descent
14. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(the) bishop
(the) New York Mets
Orange
15. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Orange(s)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Robert De Niro
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
16. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Brazil
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
The Weekly World News
17. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
(the) ear
Melville
(George Bernard) Shaw
18. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
(Pablo) Picasso
(Albert) Einstein
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Eve
19. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Teddy Roosevelt
Jenny McCarthy
Grape(s)
Fish
20. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?
Nuclear disarmament
Can-Can
The Weekly World News
Vivendi
21. First film of the 3-D boom?
Bwana Devil (1952)
Robert Scott
Rome
(Hector) Berlioz
22. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Mickey Finn
MMMBob
Almonds
Happyness
23. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
Pegasus
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Ganesh
Ali MacGraw
24. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Sleeping Beauty
Gypsy Rose Lee
Afghanistan
IMDb
25. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
Crunk
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
CTU
In Cold Blood
26. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
(The) Marines
Robert De Niro
John Cassavets
Frank Zappa
27. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
Edith Head
(Ford) Excursion
Color blindness
Chinese Democracy
28. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Senegal
Martin Landau
The Lion King
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
29. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Ski slopes
Temple prostitute
J. K. Rowling
Palmer
30. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
Draw
Beck (Odelay)
(Albert) Einstein
Wendy
31. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Martin Scorsese
Arkansas
Roberto Rossellini
Naomi
32. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Radar
Peach (also contains orange)
Hugo Chavez
Christopher Columbus
33. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
Murray Gell-Mann
The Age ofInnocence
The Chrysler Building
Stevie Wonder
34. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Bonnie and Clyde
Oort cloud
Oahu
35. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Thelma and Louise
Silicon and oxygen
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Guy Ritchie
36. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bicycle(s)
Bank One
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Banana
37. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
London Bridge
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Uruguay
(her) hair
38. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
Sleeping Beauty
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Hindenburg (explosion)
Earl Morrall
39. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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40. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Italy
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Beverly Cleary
James Cameron
41. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
(George) Clooney
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Muammar Qaddifi
42. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?
She shot JR (Dallas)
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
The Ring
A Midsummer Night's Dream
43. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
Altamount
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Thelma and Louise
TheName of The Rose
44. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Banana
Wales
Hannah
Donner Pass
45. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
Jamie Lynn
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Prince Valiant
46. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
10
E. B. White
Senegal
47. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Stevie Wonder
Lights of New York (1928)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
48. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
Ants
The Descent
(the) bishop
Topper (1937)
49. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Hamlet
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The Canterville Ghost
Boxing
50. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?
Jack Russell
Eddie Matthews
1
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)