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1. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
The Loco-motion
H. G. Wells
Otto
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
2. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
(The) Jordan (River)
The Little Mermaid
Chinese Democracy
Ozone
3. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
(an) e
The Cincinnati Reds
Intercourse
4. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Ohio and North Carolina
Turkmenistan
Apocalypse Now
Sir Walter Raleigh
5. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Westward Ho!
Oedipus
Iran
6. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
Jenny
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
(Pablo) Picasso
7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Joanne Woodward
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Orange
(The St. Louis) Blues
8. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Come by here
A Fistfull of Dollars
Bringing up Baby (1938)
France
9. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
V8 (juice)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
M. C. Hammer
Your Girlfriend
10. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
(Albert) Einstein
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Jenny
Plum(s)
11. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
Somalia
(a) Yo-yo
(Sperm) Whale
Sean Connery
12. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Ian Fleming
Nauruan
Finland
I'll Be There
13. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Thrust
Bwana Devil (1952)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Geyser
14. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
McDonnell Douglas
Rocky Balboa
Louie Louie
Humbert Humbert
15. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
EMForster
(the) ear
Buffalo
Red Dawn (1984)
16. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Germany
Jamaica Bay
Kali
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
17. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Senegal
Roger Maris
(the)Indianapolis Colts
The Hula Bowl
18. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Teddy Roosevelt
A Christmas Carol
Lulu
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
1606
(the) Boston Tea Party
Peru
Montgomery - Alabama
20. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Gene Roddenberry
Jamaica
I've fallen and I can't get up
D. H. Lawrence
21. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Frank Zamboni
Will & Grace
Baltimore
H. G. Wells
22. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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23. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?
Wiley Post
Egypt
G. E. Smith
Federico Fellini
24. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Desiderata
Balthasar (Magi)
Salzburg
When a Man Loves a Woman
25. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Donner Pass
Elvis Costello
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Jack Russell
26. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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27. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
MCI
A Fistfull of Dollars
Christopher Columbus
Sullivan Ordinance
28. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Muammar Qaddifi
Stalingrad
The Pope
Manhunter
29. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Texas and New Mexico
When a Man Loves a Woman
CONTROL
The (Buffalo) Sabres
30. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Bonnie and Clyde
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Mashed potatoes
Deer
31. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Spinal Tap
Amos 'n' Andy
Cornea
Spain
32. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Garo Yepremian
Mashed potatoes
Amos 'n' Andy
Douglas
33. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
(The) Rolling Stones
Colonel Harland Sanders
(Honda) Civic
34. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Dollar
Algeria
Pete Seeger
35. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
(The) NHL
Tupac Shakur
Donner Pass
North Korea
36. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Sonic Youth
(street) lanes
Yes
Truly - Madly - Deeply
37. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Fish
London Bridge
Melville
38. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
(Songs in) A Minor
Tiny Bubbles
TheName of The Rose
Temple prostitute
39. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
North Korea
Ione Skye
G. E. Smith
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
40. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
Sally Ride
St. Louis Cardinals
Peach (also contains orange)
Eddie Matthews
41. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Oedipus
Solipsism
Nuclear disarmament
42. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Times Square
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Hannibal
The Age ofInnocence
43. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Topper
Beowulf
The Little Mermaid
Lazarus
44. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Elle
A Fistfull of Dollars
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Martha Stewart
45. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
The Chrysler Building
Leopard
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Gorilla
46. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Times Square
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Gene Roddenberry
Colombia
47. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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48. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Lillian Hellman
Judy Garland
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
49. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
(a) Yo-yo
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Tarzan
Aladdin
50. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Laverne & Shirley
Field of Dreams
Pennsylvania
George Milton (of Mice and Men)