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1. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Wilco
Hips
Silicon Valley
2. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
The gingerbread man
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
3 2 1 Contact
Green
3. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Small intestine(s)
Judy Garland
Kenneth Branagh
Orange
4. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Pink
The Mini (Cooper)
Trapped in the Closet
Thrust
5. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Finland
Wings (1927)
St. Louis Cardinals
Fish
6. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
E. B. White
Charles Lindbergh
Renny Harlin
Delaware
7. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Switzerland
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
8. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Christopher Columbus
EMForster
HL Mencken
Philadelphia
9. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?
New York - New York
Cat
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Altamount
10. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
J. K. Rowling
Blue
Mecca
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
11. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
John Speke (English - 1856)
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Palmer
Fish
12. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Eris (Discord)
Rome
State quarters
E. B. White
13. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
(an) e
Pennsylvania
14. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Wilco
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Israel
Padre
15. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
The Ewings (Dallas)
Seven
Frank Zamboni
Nuclear disarmament
16. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
George Deukmejian
Pippa Passes (1909)
Darwin's
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
17. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Limp Bizkit
Murray Gell-Mann
Victoria Falls
Mickey Finn
18. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?
Coffee
John Speke (English - 1856)
Afghanistan
Do The Right Thing
19. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Ambrose Bierce
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Robert De Niro
20. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
J. K. Rowling
Capybara
Germany
21. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
Joanne Woodward
Emeritus
Truly - Madly - Deeply
22. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
5
(the) giraffe
23. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
Solipsism
IMF
NineInch Nails
Pear(s)
24. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Genesis
Night Court
Emma
The Pope
25. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Venice
The Sparrow
Parrot
Paradise Lost
26. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Judiciary
Grape(s)
S(ain)t Louis
Hamlet
27. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Judy Garland
Paramount
U.N.C.L.E
(the) Republican Party
28. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Louisville (Kentucky)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Babar
Hannah
29. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
Koran
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Ski slopes
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
30. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
What's Up - Doc?
Uruguay
(the) bishop
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
31. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Old Time Rock and Roll
112
Trapped in the Closet
James Cagney
32. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Pink
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Spinal Tap
Heloise
33. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Ukraine
Charles Lindbergh
34. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
Rulon Gardner
Somewhere in Time
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Strawberries
35. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
Argentina
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Pakistan
A-ha
36. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
Jorge Luis Borges
Real estate (investment)
Gypsy Rose Lee
Ben Hogan
37. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Antawn Jamison
Aladdin
Spain
Frank Zappa
38. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
Spellbound
Frankenstein('s monster)
XTC
The Mona Lisa
39. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Six
Frankenstein('s monster)
China
Murray Gell-Mann
40. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Go Away Little Girl
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
(the) Motorwagen
Douglas
41. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Coffee
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
42. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
The Ring
Edsel
Hope & Faith
B. J. Armstrong
43. First use of the 'f-word'?
Donner Pass
Underoos
Ulysseys (1967)
5
44. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
The Ewings (Dallas)
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Britney Spears
Brain Boitano
45. 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'?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Pablo) Picasso
Murmur
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
46. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Manhunter
Babette March
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
47. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Roberto Rossellini
Barry Sanders
Tsetse fly
Buffalo
48. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
James Cagney
Jim Jones
Marcel Marceau
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
49. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Liar Liar
Jerusalem
When a Man Loves a Woman
State quarters
50. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Yellow (and key!)
Jack the Ripper
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)