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1. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Hamlet
5
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
(the) bishop
2. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
George Deukmejian
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Oedipus
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
3. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Leopard
When a Man Loves a Woman
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
4. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Ben Hogan
Dracula
Louisville (Kentucky)
Elle
5. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Cat
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Mostly briefs
6. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Lillian Hellman
Beverly Cleary
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Wiley Post
7. First three-strip Technicolor?
Thelma and Louise
(The) Marines
Becky Sharp (1935)
Jamie Lynn
8. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Beverly Cleary
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Theodore
(PE)6-5000
9. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Mickey Finn
Argentina
Martin Scorsese
Prince Valiant
10. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Crunk
Hong Kong
Sirhan Sirhan
11. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?
Green
(the) New York Mets
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
12. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Limp Bizkit
Lillian Hellman
(the) evacuation of Saigon
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
13. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
New York - New York
LeBron James
I'm a Believer
14. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
About Schmidt
White
Your Girlfriend
15. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Cat
Geyser
(a) Yo-yo
Stevie Wonder
16. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
Baltimore
(Adolf) Hitler
The valley of the shadow of death
Peach(es)
17. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Color blindness
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Douglas
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
18. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Wendy
CONTROL
Jim Lovell
The Learning Tree (1969)
19. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
The Pope
Genesis
Tammy Faye Bakker
Eric Bogosian
20. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Romeo and Juliet
Cameroon
India
Yellow (and key!)
21. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Naomi
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
D. H. Lawrence
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
22. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
The Lion King
Delaware
Hindenburg (explosion)
Will & Grace
23. Which artist had the double album Being There?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Wilco
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
24. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Sao Paulo
B. J. Armstrong
Teapot Dome
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
25. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Amos 'n' Andy
Argentina
Mitsubishi
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
26. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
HL Mencken
7
The Dome of the Rock
Snape
27. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
Billy Martin
Oahu
(the) Motorwagen
S(ain)t Louis
28. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Jorge Luis Borges
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Thelma and Louise
29. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
U.N.C.L.E
John Speke (English - 1856)
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Hips
30. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Louie Louie
3 2 1 Contact
Dollar
(George) Clooney
31. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Yellow
Lady Marmalade
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Bound for Glory (1976)
32. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Hannibal
Amos 'n' Andy
Wiley Post
The Hula Bowl
33. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Cocoon
Polo
The Canterville Ghost
S(ain)t Louis
34. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Capybara
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Dr. James Bedford
35. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
Yellow (and key!)
8
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
A Fistfull of Dollars
36. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Martin Scorsese
Panama
The Maltese Falcon
Pennsylvania
37. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Cream
Grenada
Mahi mahi
The Mini (Cooper)
38. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
The Artful Dodger
IMF
Temple prostitute
The Sixth Sense
39. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Topper
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Becky Sharp (1935)
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
40. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
Come by here
Rebecca
Jamaica
Cream
41. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
(Honda) Civic
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Aramis
Muammar Qaddifi
42. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?
IMF
William Tell
Go Away Little Girl
Hope & Faith
43. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
Jeremy Bentham
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Peru
Sir Walter Raleigh
44. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
1
Hercules
Tarzan
Spellbound
45. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Billy Martin
Teapot Dome
SD-6
State quarters
46. First Best Picture Oscar?
White
Peach(es)
(Honda) Civic
Wings (1927)
47. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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48. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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49. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
Tomato(es)
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Mickey Finn
H. G. Wells
50. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Betty (Rubble)
1606
Stalingrad
By Love Possessed (1961)