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1. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
Chaminade
Lemon(s)
Wales
London Bridge
2. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Blue
Dollar
It Happened One Night (1934)
Michigan
3. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
(street) lanes
Yellow (and key!)
China
Rocky Balboa
4. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
(the) ear
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
James Cagney
Thanksgiving
5. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Fontanelles
MCI
Romania
6. 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'?
(Albert) Einstein
The Maltese Falcon
Blue
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Montreal
(planetary) rings
Lillian Hellman
Sullivan Ordinance
8. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?
Parrot
Silicon and oxygen
Richard Cory (himself)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
9. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?
Italy
James Cagney
Finland
Couscous
10. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Curly Howard
Desiderata
Canada
Pearl Harbor
11. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
A Christmas Carol
Italy
Old Time Rock and Roll
The Satanic Verses
12. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Oahu
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Alfred Hitchcock
(PE)6-5000
13. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Finland
St. Louis Cardinals
Pink
14. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Christina Aguilera
Rochelle - Rochelle
Pakistan
Salt Lake City
15. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Robert De Niro
A Christmas Carol
The Hula Bowl
Elle
16. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Haiti
Mostly briefs
You Keep Me Hangin' On
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
17. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Emeritus
The Dick Van Dyke Show
(the) giraffe
Sullivan Ordinance
18. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Wings (1927)
Ali MacGraw
Will & Grace
Simon Legree
19. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Tiny Bubbles
Louie Louie
Emma
(The St. Louis) Blues
20. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
Texas and New Mexico
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
The Bridge over the River Kwai
1
21. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?
Mulan
Lady Marmalade
Fig newtons
(Honda) Civic
22. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Venus
Elvis Costello
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Jack the Ripper
23. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Germany
John Cassavets
Beetle Juice
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
24. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
CONTROL
Judy Garland
(the) Boston Tea Party
About Schmidt
25. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
James Cook (English - 1770)
Dr. James Bedford
Pancreas
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
26. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Martha Stewart
Mau Mau
Jeremy Bentham
Pancreas
27. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Rat
Mitch
Oort cloud
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
28. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Murray Gell-Mann
(the) bishop
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
29. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Cat
Spinal Tap
Snape
1606
30. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Jim Lovell
Tiny Bubbles
(the) Boston Tea Party
31. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Sirhan Sirhan
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Hindenburg (explosion)
Thrust
32. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
Wendy
The Fantastic Four
Aliana
The Three Musketeers
33. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Aglet
Subaru
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Howard Hughes
34. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
(Adolf) Hitler
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Rome
Barry Sanders
35. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
B. J. Armstrong
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Murphy Brown
Gorilla
36. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Red Dawn (1984)
Gomer Pyle
Jorge Luis Borges
Cherries
37. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
(Gerald)Ford
Orange
Capri
Steven Biko
38. First PG-13 rated film?
Spinal Tap
Red Dawn (1984)
Maya Angelou
(the earth's) crust and mantle
39. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
Manhunter
Delaware
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Odor Eaters (insoles)
40. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Hugo Chavez
Darwin's
Intercourse
J. K. Rowling
41. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Upset
Martin Landau
De Beers
(The) Rolling Stones
42. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Jorge Luis Borges
India
Tiger Woods
Cullinan
43. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
Flowers for Algernon
Jean-Luc Goddard
Sir Walter Raleigh
Oregon (or New Jersey)
44. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
(The) NHL
Betty (Rubble)
Vincente Minnelli
Spain
45. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
(Gerald)Ford
The Cincinnati Reds
Watermelon(s)
Your Girlfriend
46. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
MASH
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
John Speke (English - 1856)
47. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
O. J. Simpson
Montreal
Antonio Stradivarius
(George) Clooney
48. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
White
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Somewhere in Time
Ganesh
49. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Joanne Woodward
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mulan
50. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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