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1. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Tiny Bubbles
Angkor Wat
(the) Boston Tea Party
Mitosis
2. 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?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Topper (1937)
Mars
(The) NHL
3. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Ski slopes
Jenny McCarthy
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
4. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
(planetary) rings
Roger Bannister
Pennsylvania
Marcel Marceau
5. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Randy Quaid
Mau Mau
Wendy
Panama
6. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
(Songs in) A Minor
Colonel Tom Parker
Mickey Finn
Hugo Chavez
7. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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8. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Somalia
Mitosis
Humbert Humbert
Aaron Copland
9. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
Chinese Democracy
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Somewhere in Time
10. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
The Hula Bowl
Bicycle(s)
HL Mencken
Theodore Roosevelt
11. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Hannibal
The Sixth Sense
Carrie Underwood
Jack the Ripper
12. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Balthasar (Magi)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Sir Walter Raleigh
Couscous
13. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Everybody Hates
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Rochelle - Rochelle
14. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
M. C. Hammer
Nicaragua
(Ford) Excursion
Humbert Humbert
15. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Green
U.N.C.L.E
K. d. lang
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
16. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Sullivan Ordinance
(PE)6-5000
Polo
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
17. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
London Bridge
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
George Wilson
Nevada
18. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
The Chrysler Building
The White Witch
Orange
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
19. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Angkor Wat
Lemon(s)
Pete Seeger
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
20. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
The Loco-motion
Orange
I'll Be There
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
21. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
De Beers
Sri Lanka
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
22. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
The Ring
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
23. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
Frank Zamboni
Simon Legree
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Go Away Little Girl
24. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?
3
Cat
EMForster
Germany
25. 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?
Liar Liar
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Roswell( - NM)
Mostly briefs
26. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Jim Jones
Benito Mussolini
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
27. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
The Maltese Falcon
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Pulp Fiction
Bonnie and Clyde
28. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Brazil
Afghanistan
Thailand
Aurora australis
29. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Afghanistan
Frank Zamboni
The Artful Dodger
Wilco
30. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Beowulf
NineInch Nails
Barry Sanders
Bicycle(s)
31. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Model railroad
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Roswell( - NM)
Rat
32. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Benito Mussolini
6
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Alfred Hitchcock
33. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
(the) ear
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
The Stanley Cup
Antawn Jamison
34. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Little Rock
O. J. Simpson
Condoleezza Rice
Coffee
35. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Model railroad
(George Bernard) Shaw
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
36. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Pennsylvania
Sullivan Ordinance
Lemon(s)
The Sparrow
37. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
2
Jorge Luis Borges
Czechoslovakia
CONTROL
38. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
CONTROL
Omega
Mostly briefs
39. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
V2 (rocket)s
Emeritus
North America
I'm a Believer
40. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Pulp Fiction
New Zealand
John Cassavets
Brain Boitano
41. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Cat
Travelers Group
Eeyore
(street) lanes
42. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
(a) ginny (or jenny)
(Albert) Einstein
(a) Yo-yo
Tiger Woods
43. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
1
Bonnie and Clyde
Arkansas
Roger Bannister
44. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Condoleezza Rice
Britney Spears
The Lion King
Switzerland
45. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?
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46. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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47. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Ganesh
2
10
Kitty Genovese
48. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
I've fallen and I can't get up
Emeritus
Wiley Post
49. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Ganesh
Venus
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
50. Which company merged with Boeing?
McDonnell Douglas
Solipsism
Lulu
Wiley Post