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1. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Thailand
HP Lovecraft
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
2. First film in CinemaScope?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
The Robe (1953)
Somewhere in Time
Beck (Odelay)
3. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Robert Scott
(The) Rolling Stones
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Ione Skye
4. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Ski slopes
Algeria
Ali MacGraw
Sally Ride
5. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Sonic Youth
Pulp Fiction
Darwin's
Royal jelly
6. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Louie Louie
(the) Republican Party
Larry Nance
Silicon and oxygen
7. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
(Pablo) Picasso
Ukraine
Charles Starkweather
MASH
8. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
A Christmas Carol
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Mashed potatoes
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
9. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
(the) Motorwagen
Judy Garland
Coal
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
10. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
IMDb
Coal
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Aliana
11. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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12. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Antonio Stradivarius
U.N.C.L.E
Field of Dreams
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
13. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Cherries
U.N.C.L.E
Hamlet
14. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
H. G. Wells
Edith Head
15. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
CONTROL
Carrie Underwood
New York - New York
Hoop Dreams
16. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Frank Zamboni
Mau Mau
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Croatia
17. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Pink
Judy Garland
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Kornfield Kounty
18. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
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19. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Kayak
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
The Maltese Falcon
20. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Padre
Gypsy Rose Lee
Moby Dick
Kali
21. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Afghanistan
Green
Beck (Odelay)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
22. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Basalt
Bank One
Pulp Fiction
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
23. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Deer
Garo Yepremian
Nauruan
24. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Nevada
Paradise Lost
Jim Jones
Spellbound
25. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Paramount
White
Clownfish
The Chrysler Building
26. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Red Dawn (1984)
Babar
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
27. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Yellow
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Trapped in the Closet
I'll Be There
28. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Barry Sanders
Can-Can
29. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Intercourse
Body Count
Judiciary
Tammy Faye Bakker
30. Which company merged with Citicorp?
(Songs in) A Minor
Travelers Group
Robert De Niro
Parrot
31. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
(Gerald)Ford
Marcel Marceau
Scoop
Federico Fellini
32. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
38th Parallel
Charles Lindbergh
Edith Head
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
33. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?
France
Pegasus
(Dallas) Love Field
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
34. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Texaco
Black
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Hindenburg (explosion)
35. Who killed the literary character Laius?
Thelma and Louise
Oedipus
It Happened One Night (1934)
Dharma & Greg
36. 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
Venus
Dentin
Babette March
37. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Oscar and Lucinda
(the) Jack of diamonds
Sally Ride
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
38. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
(the) Republican Party
Model railroad
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Ozone
39. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Shrek 2
Smerdyakov
Brain Boitano
Thailand
40. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
6
It Happened One Night (1934)
Bwana Devil (1952)
Coruscant
41. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Delaware
The Mini (Cooper)
Will & Grace
Brazil
42. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Sweden
Elvis Costello
The Stanley Cup
Mashed potatoes
43. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Turkmenistan
Deer
Ambrose Bierce
Murphy Brown
44. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
(the) giraffe
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
45. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Ohio and North Carolina
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Michelle Wie
46. First film with Dolby sound?
Royal jelly
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Eris (Discord)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Philadelphia
Jim Jones
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
48. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
Algeria
Barry Sanders
Mars
Ben Hogan
49. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Jenny McCarthy
Topper (1937)
50. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Boxing
Michelle Wie
Crunk
Coal