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1. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Christina Aguilera
Colonel Harland Sanders
Tsetse fly
Murphy Brown
2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
China
Motor Trend
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Orange(s)
3. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Naomi
(the) ear
Utah
4. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
The Dome of the Rock
Emma
(The) NHL
Christopher Columbus
5. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
Louisana (Superdome)
Robert Scott
New York - New York
STP Motor Oil
6. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Christina Aguilera
Rene Descartes
The Robe (1953)
Emeritus
7. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Aurora australis
3 2 1 Contact
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Randy Quaid
8. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Rat
Jamaica
Steven Spielberg
9. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Go Away Little Girl
Aaron Copland
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Tiny Bubbles
10. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Ken Davitian
France
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Beetle Juice
11. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Ken Davitian
Jenny McCarthy
Royal jelly
Small intestine(s)
12. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
North America
John Speke (English - 1856)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
13. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Rochelle - Rochelle
The Ewings (Dallas)
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Jack the Ripper
14. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
The Robe (1953)
Aramis
Romania
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
15. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Aurora australis
Scrooged
Rene Descartes
Jeremy Bentham
16. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Arkansas
Edith Head
K. d. lang
17. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
De Beers
Foo Fighters
(tested positive for) marijuana
Angkor Wat
18. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Jim Valvano
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Can-Can
Brazil
19. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Topper (1937)
Six
The Others
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
20. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Five
Parking meters
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
21. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Buster Douglas
Hamlet
Melville
Prince
22. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Melville
Beetle Juice
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Capri
23. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Spellbound
Thailand
Antawn Jamison
Gene Roddenberry
24. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
1
LeBron James
Grenada
Italy
25. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Charles Starkweather
J. K. Rowling
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
26. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Frankenstein('s monster)
Orangutan
Panama
Peach(es)
27. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?
Kali
Polo
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Jamaica
28. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Mau Mau
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Gene Roddenberry
Billy Martin
29. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
The (Buffalo) Sabres
D. H. Lawrence
EMForster
Czechoslovakia
30. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Aladdin
The Age ofInnocence
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
31. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
Dannii
7
(The) Marines
Vincente Minnelli
32. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Capybara
Ohio and North Carolina
The Age ofInnocence
Happyness
33. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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34. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Curly Howard
Fig newtons
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
35. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
2
Robert De Niro
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Wendy
36. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?
Jamaica Bay
The valley of the shadow of death
Chinese Democracy
Colonel Tom Parker
37. First New York Times movie review?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Pippa Passes (1909)
Intercourse
38. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
The Little Mermaid
Wales
Turkey
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
39. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'
Peach(es)
(The) dodo
Pink
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
40. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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41. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Elle
The Ring
Cherries
Ambrose Bierce
42. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Garo Yepremian
Tiger Woods
Wilco
Turkey
43. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?
E. B. White
Dentin
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Stalingrad
44. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
XTC
Oedipus
New York - New York
Murmur
45. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
IMDb
Aglet
46. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Leopard
Gordie Howe
Antonio Stradivarius
47. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
North Korea
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
The Boston Celtics (21)
Colonel Harland Sanders
48. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Brent Spiner
Bound for Glory (1976)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Aladdin
49. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
Babar
(the) Republican Party
The Frighteners
Spellbound
50. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Deer
G. E. Smith
The Ritz (hotel)
Maya Angelou