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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The Hula Bowl
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Ernie
2. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Victory
(a) Yo-yo
Blue
Pink
3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Oahu
NineInch Nails
Tiny Bubbles
Plum(s)
4. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Gorilla
(Honda) Civic
Dentin
Humbert Humbert
5. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Oscar and Lucinda
Rat
Kenneth Branagh
6. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
4
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
(her) hair
Buffalo
7. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Argentina
Beck (Odelay)
Trapped in the Closet
When a Man Loves a Woman
8. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
(Adolf) Hitler
Terminal velocity
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
6
9. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
(planetary) rings
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Charles Lindbergh
Oahu
10. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Wiley Post
(The) NHL
Fraternite
Jim Valvano
11. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
(an) e
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Venus
Frank Zappa
12. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Old Time Rock and Roll
Elvis Costello
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
13. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
TheAtlas (A)
Bank One
Christopher Columbus
Elvis Costello
14. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
Everybody Hates
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
The Ritz (hotel)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
15. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Barry Sanders
Frank Zappa
Ambrose Bierce
Tomato(es)
16. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
4
Yellow (and key!)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Renny Harlin
17. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
China
CONTROL
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Koran
18. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Norma Jean
Llama
Ashlee
New York - New York
19. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Wings (1927)
Thanksgiving
20. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
The Maltese Falcon
Austria
Martin Scorsese
21. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Miles Davis
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Colonel Tom Parker
H. G. Wells
22. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Montreal
Banana
Emma
23. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Happyness
(The) NHL
Hannibal
Times Square
24. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
The Loco-motion
Upset
H. G. Wells
(a) ginny (or jenny)
25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Black
(the) giraffe
Pocahontas
26. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?
Model railroad
Ernesto
Utah
The Tell-tale Heart
27. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
India
Edith Head
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
28. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
Roger Maris
Kate & Allie
Bicycle(s)
29. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Ambrose Bierce
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
John F. Kennedy
Renny Harlin
30. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
Home Improvement
Ulysseys (1967)
Arkansas
Egypt
31. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
John Speke (English - 1856)
Thrust
Plum(s)
Mexico
32. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Cat
J. M. Barrie
Michelle Wie
Thelma and Louise
33. In 2002 - the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions.Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of its two 'North' division counterparts?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Please Mr. Postman
Roger Vadim
(the)Indianapolis Colts
34. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
V2 (rocket)s
The Others
Ski slopes
35. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
SD-6
(the) giraffe
(Pablo) Picasso
Pennsylvania
36. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Wendy
North Korea
Mostly briefs
Hannah
37. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Brian De Palma
Royal jelly
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Mia Farrow
38. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Fistfull of Dollars
Stevie Wonder
What's Up - Doc?
39. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Rulon Gardner
(Songs in) A Minor
(the) New York Mets
Spinal Tap
40. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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41. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
John Cassavets
Ashlee
Dharma & Greg
Joanne Woodward
42. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Eeyore
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Argentina
43. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
Switzerland
Babar
Seven
The Sixth Sense
44. Which company merged with NBC?
Rat
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Vivendi
45. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
38th Parallel
(The) Rolling Stones
Westworld (1973)
Draw
46. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Wendy
STP Motor Oil
The Tell-tale Heart
The Pope
47. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
The Ewings (Dallas)
New Zealand
Roswell( - NM)
48. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Theodore Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
(an) e
49. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
(the) Motorwagen
Tarzan
Cream
50. First use of the 'f-word'?
Maya Angelou
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Home Improvement
Ulysseys (1967)
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