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1. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Desiderata
Spinal Tap
The Tell-tale Heart
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
2. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
(tested positive for) marijuana
Judy Garland
Hoop Dreams
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
3. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Fig newtons
Your Girlfriend
White
4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
The Tell-tale Heart
Pearl Harbor
Dannii
Strawberries
5. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?
Douglas
Billy Martin
SD-6
Argentina
6. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
The Ritz (hotel)
MMMBob
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Renny Harlin
7. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Eric
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Horse
8. First use of the 'f-word'?
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Michelle Wie
Ulysseys (1967)
Dracula
9. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Randy Quaid
Scrooged
Robert Scott
(the) bishop
10. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?
S(ain)t Louis
D. H. Lawrence
Iran
(the) evacuation of Saigon
11. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Fish
Earl Morrall
Jenny McCarthy
Jeremy Bentham
12. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
(the) Republican Party
Hercules
Ione Skye
Gomer Pyle
13. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Portland( - OR)
Sirhan Sirhan
Oscar and Lucinda
Peru
14. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
India
40
(the) giraffe
Simon Legree
15. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
China
Roberto Rossellini
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
16. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
Mars
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Ski slopes
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
17. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
Flowers for Algernon
Ohio and North Carolina
Ants
Cocoon
18. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Uruguay
Kali
19. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?
Times Square
Pocahontas
Motor Trend
Montreal
20. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?
Basalt
Sean Connery
Strawberries
Walter Winchell
21. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
The Cincinnati Reds
The Three Musketeers
Joanne Woodward
40
22. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
The Loco-motion
5
Steven Biko
A-ha
23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
India
Home Improvement
(planetary) rings
24. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
North America
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Aramis
25. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Rulon Gardner
The Ring
Gene Roddenberry
Pearl Harbor
26. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
V8 (juice)
IMF
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
27. Which company merged with Boeing?
McDonnell Douglas
Louisville (Kentucky)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Kate & Allie
28. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Foo Fighters
Gypsy Rose Lee
Darwin's
29. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Sri Lanka
Edith Head
Palm Sunday
1606
30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
Atom Egoyan
Lemon(s)
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Kornfield Kounty
31. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
State quarters
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
New York - New York
EMForster
32. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?
Earl Morrall
Stevie Wonder
Hamlet
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
33. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
(the) bishop
Elvis Costello
Algeria
34. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Capybara
Eric Bogosian
(her) hair
35. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
(a) Yo-yo
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
George Wilson
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
36. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Mars
Mashed potatoes
IMF
37. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
China
Rulon Gardner
Cape Hatteras
20
38. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Turkmenistan
Aaron Copland
Colonel Tom Parker
XTC
39. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Pancreas
Spinal Tap
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Nicky
40. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Dracula
G. E. Smith
U.N.C.L.E
Philadelphia
41. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Jack Kevorkian
MASH
American Beauty
Charles Lindbergh
42. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Moby Dick
Candyman
Robert Scott
Farting
43. How many band members were there in Toto?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
6
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
44. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bank One
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Pulp Fiction
(the) evacuation of Saigon
45. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
A Christmas Carol
Turkmenistan
2
Nicaragua
46. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Antonio Stradivarius
Snape
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
47. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
Palm Sunday
Beck (Odelay)
Martha Stewart
Genesis
48. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Elle
Lord of the Flies
Babette March
London Bridge
49. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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50. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
Limp Bizkit
Thanksgiving
Your Girlfriend
Pippa Passes (1909)