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1. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?
(the) giraffe
Salt Lake City
The Ritz (hotel)
Compaq
2. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Roswell( - NM)
Geyser
Christopher Columbus
Bwana Devil (1952)
3. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Eve
1
Brian De Palma
Fraternite
4. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
(The) Jordan (River)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Beowulf
James Cameron
5. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
Dentin
Strawberries
20
Jim Jones
6. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
American Beauty
(the) Republican Party
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Elle
7. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
Can-Can
Israel
Jim Jones
(the) Motorwagen
8. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
The Little Mermaid
Panama
India
Old Time Rock and Roll
9. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Gypsy Rose Lee
10. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?
Christopher Columbus
Venice
Louie Louie
I've fallen and I can't get up
11. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Colombia
Lazarus
Elvis Costello
Orange
12. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Pocahontas
Turkey
Eric
Blue
13. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Eris (Discord)
Hips
Wales
Times Square
14. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Somalia
Thelma and Louise
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Oahu
15. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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16. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Venus
Palmer
(her) hair
Ali MacGraw
17. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Wendy
Ellery Queen
G. E. Smith
18. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
The valley of the shadow of death
Crunk
Howard Hughes
Pennsylvania
19. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
(Gerald)Ford
Pearl Harbor
Elle
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
20. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
Aladdin
The Ewings (Dallas)
Judiciary
Grenada
21. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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22. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Aladdin
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Utah
Baltimore
23. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Topper (1937)
Aaron Copland
Aglet
Pig
24. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Do The Right Thing
Cape Hatteras
Strawberries
Bwana Devil (1952)
25. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Murmur
(the) Jack of diamonds
H. G. Wells
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
26. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
Murray Gell-Mann
Naomi
Romania
The Satanic Verses
27. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
The Tell-tale Heart
Sao Paulo
Hannah
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
28. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Nicky
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Scoop
Pear(s)
29. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Peach(es)
Hugo Chavez
Sonic Youth
(the) Motorwagen
30. First PG-13 rated film?
The Stanley Cup
Red Dawn (1984)
Couscous
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
31. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
5
Michigan
Buster Douglas
32. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Eve
Robert De Niro
Condoleezza Rice
Silicon and oxygen
33. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Spinal Tap
MMMBob
Deer
Leopard
34. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Rulon Gardner
Alfred Hitchcock
Body Count
A Christmas Carol
35. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jenny
Turkey
Fish
36. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
It Happened One Night (1934)
Cullinan
The Descent
Cat
37. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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38. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
30 Rock
Coal
Edsel
Ernie
39. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Rebecca
Avocado(s)
Nauruan
Rome
40. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
(Songs in) A Minor
(Albert) Einstein
Beowulf
North America
41. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?
Real estate (investment)
Smerdyakov
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Martin Landau
42. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Happyness
40
Mickey Finn
43. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
6
Austria
Eris (Discord)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
44. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Rene Descartes
Theodore
Come by here
MMMBob
45. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
Charles Lindbergh
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Christina Aguilera
STP Motor Oil
46. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
O. J. Simpson
Ernie
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
5
47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
1
SD-6
India
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
48. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
(the) bishop
(the) ear
Paradise Lost
49. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?
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50. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Paradise Lost
White
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Melville