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Big Trivia Test

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






2. 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?






3. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






4. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






5. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






6. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk






7. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






8. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






9. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






10. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






11. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






12. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






13. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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14. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






15. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






16. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






17. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






18. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






19. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






20. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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21. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






22. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






23. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?






24. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






25. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






26. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






27. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






28. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






29. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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30. Who called his elephant Tantor?






31. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






32. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






33. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






34. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






35. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?






36. First film of the 3-D boom?






37. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'






38. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






39. First New York Times movie review?






40. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






41. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






42. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






43. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






44. What kind of trust is a REIT?






45. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






46. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...






47. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






48. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






49. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






50. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?