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1. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
The valley of the shadow of death
Yellow
Roger Bannister
Walter Winchell
2. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
(her) hair
Ione Skye
Pippa Passes (1909)
Fish
3. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Pulp Fiction
Curly Howard
Ambrose Bierce
4. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?
Spain
What's Up - Doc?
Otto
Chile
5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Spain
Judy Garland
HP Lovecraft
Panama
6. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
7. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Oahu
(Gerald)Ford
France
Montgomery - Alabama
8. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Ski slopes
(The) House of Seven Gables
Peach(es)
Teddy Roosevelt
9. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Baltimore
CONTROL
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Stevie Wonder
10. Which company merged with Chevron?
Baltimore
Vivendi
Texaco
(the) giraffe
11. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Altamount
(the) giraffe
E. B. White
12. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Elvis Costello
Inspiration (1915)
Bambi
(planetary) rings
13. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Colonel Harland Sanders
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Koran
(the) Boston Tea Party
14. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Gordie Howe
Rene Descartes
Thanksgiving
Roger Maris
15. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
(the) New York Mets
Gypsy Rose Lee
EMForster
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
16. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
Wales
Chinese Democracy
Federico Fellini
Hindenburg (explosion)
17. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
A Christmas Carol
Spain
Ganesh
Portland( - OR)
18. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Chinese Democracy
Billy Martin
Snape
The Stanley Cup
19. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Windsor - Ontario
Coffee
Black
20. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
10
Bambi
21. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
I'm a Believer
Five
Ken Davitian
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
22. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Betty (Rubble)
Fahrenheit 451
Snape
(a) Yo-yo
23. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Babar
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Hong Kong
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Tomato(es)
(Gerald)Ford
Egypt
Snape
25. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Ukraine
Liar Liar
(The) Jordan (River)
In Cold Blood
26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Michelle Wie
(the) ear
Please Mr. Postman
Somalia
27. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Thailand
The Canterville Ghost
Portland( - OR)
Lazarus
28. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Edith Head
Bonnie and Clyde
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
The Stanley Cup
29. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Kali
M. C. Hammer
A Room With a View (Forster)
Hamlet
30. 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?
Yes
William Tell
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
I'm a Believer
31. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
New York - New York
Philip Marlowe
The Lion King
Motor Trend
32. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
XTC
Christina Aguilera
New Zealand
H. G. Wells
33. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
(her) hair
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Alfred Hitchcock
Bling bling
34. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Five
Scrooged
HP Lovecraft
35. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
Wales
40
(her) hair
Chaminade
36. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
3
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Smerdyakov
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
37. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Austria
Ali MacGraw
Sir Walter Raleigh
Llama
38. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Roberto Rossellini
Clownfish
Genesis
Howard Hughes
39. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
The valley of the shadow of death
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Melville
Yellow (and key!)
40. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Dannii
J. M. Barrie
Britney Spears
(Ford) Excursion
41. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?
Couscous
Thanksgiving
Aurora australis
Coruscant
42. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
(The) Jordan (River)
Frank Zamboni
Montreal
Deer
43. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
O. J. Simpson
Hips
Aramis
44. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Silicon Valley
Cream
Dannii
Capri
45. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
(George) Clooney
Oahu
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Louisana (Superdome)
46. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
(Dallas) Love Field
Eris (Discord)
Alfred Hitchcock
Sally Ride
47. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Tongue
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
EMForster
A-ha
48. 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
Scrat
Six
Ellery Queen
49. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?
Aaron Copland
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Judiciary
Rene Descartes
50. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
Ken Davitian
It Happened One Night (1934)
Michigan
Babette March