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1. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
(the) Motorwagen
30 Rock
TheAtlas (A)
LeBron James
2. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
The Sixth Sense
SD-6
(Gerald)Ford
Somewhere in Time
3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Manhunter
Avocado(s)
Aaron Copland
The gingerbread man
4. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Snape
Polo
1606
Muhammad
5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Cameroon
9
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Ashlee
6. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(The St. Louis) Blues
The Others
The Boston Celtics (21)
7. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
Fontanelles
Ali MacGraw
The Descent
Aladdin
8. 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?
James Cagney
Hamlet
(The) dodo
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
9. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
(The) dodo
Baltimore
Earl Morrall
Carrie Underwood
10. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
The gingerbread man
Mau Mau
Eris (Discord)
Richard Cory (himself)
11. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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12. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Edsel
Orange(s)
Llama
Jim Jones
13. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Panama
Scoop
Judiciary
14. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Pig
Lamar Alexander
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Yellow (and key!)
15. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Joanne Woodward
Emma
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
16. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
American Beauty
The valley of the shadow of death
Buffalo
Mexico
17. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
U.N.C.L.E
Delaware
CONTROL
Guy Ritchie
18. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
The Frighteners
Theodore Roosevelt
Lemon(s)
Alsatians
19. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
New York - New York
(Sperm) Whale
Benito Mussolini
The Artful Dodger
20. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Babette March
Ski slopes
George Wilson
Uruguay
21. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?
Donner Pass
Jim Jones
Venus
Jeremy Bentham
22. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Judy Garland
23. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Geyser
Mecca
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Steven Biko
Spain
Turkmenistan
Somewhere in Time
25. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
Roger Bannister
Dollar
Stevie Wonder
Britney Spears
26. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
Happyness
Thailand
Garo Yepremian
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
27. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Mia Farrow
Howard Hughes
(Hector) Berlioz
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
28. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Compaq
Brazil
Topper (1937)
29. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Somewhere in Time
Lillian Hellman
Parrot
Uruguay
30. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?
Tupac Shakur
Beetle Juice
(the) Jack of diamonds
Babar
31. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
Jean-Luc Goddard
The (Buffalo) Sabres
St. Louis Cardinals
4
32. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Jenny McCarthy
Philip Marlowe
Colombia
Ozone
33. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
Roger Vadim
Rebecca
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Red Dawn (1984)
34. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
Red Dawn (1984)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Elvis Costello
Lulu
35. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Ernesto
Jeremy Bentham
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Christopher Columbus
36. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
The Mini (Cooper)
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Trapped in the Closet
The Boston Celtics (21)
37. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Victoria Falls
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Texas and New Mexico
Nevada
38. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
Czechoslovakia
Mulan
(her) hair
John Speke (English - 1856)
39. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
Chaminade
John Speke (English - 1856)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Ukraine
40. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Wendy
Gene Roddenberry
HP Lovecraft
Canada
41. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Harold and Maude
Joel Cohen
Aglet
42. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
Go Away Little Girl
Canada
K. d. lang
Roger Bannister
43. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
Wilco
Charles Lindbergh
Switzerland
Federico Fellini
44. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Blue
Blue
Scoop
Lemon(s)
46. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
(Adolf) Hitler
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
CTU
Peach (also contains orange)
47. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Sri Lanka
Delaware
48. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Naomi
Philadelphia
Upset
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
49. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Steven Biko
3 2 1 Contact
State quarters
Barry Sanders
50. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Radar
Cream
Philip Marlowe
Dollar
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