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1. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
A-ha
(The St. Louis) Blues
2. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
India
Ants
Harold and Maude
3. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
The Hula Bowl
Richard Cory (himself)
John Cassavets
Topper (1937)
4. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Fish
Cape Hatteras
Wilco
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
5. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Eric Bogosian
Coruscant
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Mahi mahi
6. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?
Racecar
Ski slopes
Teapot Dome
Coffee
7. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Hips
(the) Jack of diamonds
The Others
Aaron Copland
8. Which company merged with Viacom?
Afghanistan
Paramount
Betty (Rubble)
Fig newtons
9. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
D. H. Lawrence
Jorge Luis Borges
Douglas
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
10. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Sugar Ray Leonard
EMForster
Coal
Aurora australis
11. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
3
Topper
Strawberries
Orangutan
12. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
Mahi mahi
A Room With a View (Forster)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
13. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Palm Sunday
Muhammad
Jive
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
14. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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15. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Billy Martin
Lamar Alexander
10
Palmer
16. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Scoop
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Steven Spielberg
(tested positive for) marijuana
17. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Nauruan
Alfred Hitchcock
Grenada
Roger Vadim
18. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Eve
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Moby Dick
(The) House of Seven Gables
19. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Babar
Chinese Democracy
Hugo Chavez
The Little Mermaid
20. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Dharma & Greg
Dracula
Christina Aguilera
21. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Martha Stewart
Sirhan Sirhan
CONTROL
Seal (played by a sea lion)
22. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
Palm Sunday
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Jorge Luis Borges
Bob Dylan
23. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
40
Altamount
24. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
Palmer
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Murphy Brown
25. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Garo Yepremian
Mecca
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Arkansas
26. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)
E. B. White
30 Rock
Spain
Westward Ho!
27. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Mitch
Melville
Beowulf
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
28. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Fraternite
Peach(es)
Laverne & Shirley
Prince Valiant
29. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Scrat
Ukraine
Pig
H. G. Wells
30. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
3
Murray Gell-Mann
Atom Egoyan
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
31. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Underoos
Oedipus
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Wales
32. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Banana
Theodore
Underoos
Tongue
33. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
(the) giraffe
Chaminade
Dharma & Greg
Thelma and Louise
34. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Gordie Howe
(planetary) rings
Tupac Shakur
Kenneth Branagh
35. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
New York - New York
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Barry Sanders
Duran Duran
36. 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?
Brain Boitano
Dannii
TheName of The Rose
James Cagney
37. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
The Dome of the Rock
Fish
Travelers Group
Eugene Onegin
38. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Westward Ho!
Rene Descartes
Genesis
Romania
39. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Douglas
4
The Canterville Ghost
40. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Naomi
Brain Boitano
Times Square
The Dick Van Dyke Show
41. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Motor Trend
(planetary) rings
Maya Angelou
Polo
42. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Brain Boitano
Happyness
Germany
(The) NHL
43. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Oedipus
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
John Cassavets
Ernesto
44. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Judy Garland
Pancreas
Mostly briefs
TheAtlas (A)
45. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
The Ritz (hotel)
Jeremy Bentham
Scrooged
(Pablo) Picasso
46. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Steven Biko
Germany
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Cat
47. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Brain Boitano
Mexico
(the) Great Train Robbery
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
48. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Coruscant
(The) Rolling Stones
Steven Spielberg
Black
49. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Topper
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Theodore
Mashed potatoes
50. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Westward Ho!
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Inspiration (1915)
Kate & Allie