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1. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Nauruan
The Robe (1953)
The Fantastic Four
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
2. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
Model railroad
A Fistfull of Dollars
Alsatians
Sugar Ray Leonard
3. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Ohio and North Carolina
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Jessica Lange
Cat
4. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?
Robert Scott
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
(an) e
Bicycle(s)
5. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Tammy Faye Bakker
Polo
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Hong Kong
6. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Aglet
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Rat
Colonel Tom Parker
7. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Switzerland
Lights of New York (1928)
Bonnie and Clyde
Thailand
8. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
Night Court
Odor Eaters (insoles)
The Mona Lisa
Nicky
9. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
10. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Intercourse
Ione Skye
Hips
11. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Martha Stewart
The gingerbread man
I'm a Believer
Color blindness
12. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Capybara
Grape(s)
Emma
13. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Oort cloud
Texaco
Algeria
James Cagney
14. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Lamar Alexander
J. K. Rowling
Cape Hatteras
15. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Little Rock
Pennsylvania
Kayak
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
16. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
Kenneth Branagh
Mulan
Jurassic Park
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
17. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
Desiderata
Beck (Odelay)
Jenny McCarthy
Pocahontas
18. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Watermelon(s)
Utah
NineInch Nails
19. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Senegal
Naomi
Darwin's
Seal (played by a sea lion)
20. First film in CinemaScope?
The Robe (1953)
Pakistan
CONTROL
Bunker Hill
21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
Aramis
4
Kate & Allie
China
22. What are divided by Botts' dots?
(street) lanes
Mars
Guy Ritchie
Finland
23. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
(the) Republican Party
Mitosis
Times Square
Austria
24. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
The Dome of the Rock
Balthasar (Magi)
Come by here
Mitsubishi
25. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Peach(es)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Colonel Harland Sanders
Hannah
26. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Hercules
The Weekly World News
New York - New York
27. How many band members were there in Madness?
Eugene Onegin
7
The Three Musketeers
4
28. 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?
Laverne & Shirley
Rat
Ulysseys (1967)
William Tell
29. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
TheAtlas (A)
Tsetse fly
Palmer
TheName of The Rose
30. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
The Artful Dodger
V2 (rocket)s
40
Humbert Humbert
31. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
George Wilson
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Canterville Ghost
India
32. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Gorilla
(tested positive for) marijuana
Real estate (investment)
Hamlet
33. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
London Bridge
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
34. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Beetle Juice
Rulon Gardner
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
35. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Charles Starkweather
The Artful Dodger
36. First three-strip Technicolor?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Rome
Temple prostitute
Red
37. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
Amos 'n' Andy
Roger Bannister
Frankenstein('s monster)
Pig
38. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Buffalo
3
Almonds
39. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
The Artful Dodger
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Lemon(s)
Roswell( - NM)
40. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Turkey
(a) clergyman
Hope & Faith
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
41. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Small intestine(s)
The Age ofInnocence
Lulu
42. What chain introduced the 'Blizzard' in 1985?
Candyman
St. Louis Cardinals
Dairy Queen
Finland
43. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Dharma & Greg
Melville
H. G. Wells
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
44. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Utah
Brain Boitano
Christopher Columbus
45. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Ali MacGraw
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Cape Hatteras
Tupac Shakur
46. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
S(ain)t Louis
Steven Biko
Ganesh
Tammy Faye Bakker
47. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
(The) Jordan (River)
Roberto Rossellini
John Speke (English - 1856)
Altamount
48. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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49. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
Louie Louie
Cape Hatteras
The Sparrow
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
50. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Switzerland
Dairy Queen
Peach (also contains orange)
Nevada