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1. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Condoleezza Rice
Ben Hogan
Five
Britney Spears
2. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Beowulf
Will & Grace
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Royal jelly
3. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
The Stanley Cup
John F. Kennedy
Ellery Queen
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
4. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?
Brent Spiner
Roger Bannister
(street) lanes
Subaru
5. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
HP Lovecraft
Mostly briefs
(the) bishop
6. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Italy
Mitosis
Jim Valvano
Orange(s)
7. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Simon Legree
Eve
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
8. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Genesis
Wilco
Lord of the Flies
Silicon Valley
9. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Bambi
A Fistfull of Dollars
Chantilly
Britney Spears
10. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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11. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
When a Man Loves a Woman
Six
Mel Brooks
Lulu
12. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Theodore Roosevelt
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Ben Hogan
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
13. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
Radar
Trapped in the Closet
(Adolf) Hitler
Thailand
14. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?
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15. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Blue
Richard Cory (himself)
Elvis Costello
Watermelon(s)
16. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Snape
Mitch
Simon Legree
Richard Cory (himself)
17. First studio film with a black director?
Kitty Genovese
Salzburg
Aramis
The Learning Tree (1969)
18. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
A-ha
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
(Hector) Berlioz
19. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Truly - Madly - Deeply
(street) lanes
Beverly Cleary
20. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?
Humbert Humbert
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Judy Garland
Red Dawn (1984)
21. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
(Hector) Berlioz
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Green
Cream
22. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Eugene Onegin
23. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Fig newtons
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Haiti
24. 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?
Mostly briefs
Wings (1927)
The Frighteners
Desiderata
25. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
The Stanley Cup
Aaron Copland
Body Count
What's Up - Doc?
26. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
(The) Jordan (River)
Sir Walter Raleigh
(the) Boston Tea Party
(the) Republican Party
27. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Iran
White
It Happened One Night (1934)
Night Court
28. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Steven Spielberg
Seven
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Jamaica Bay
29. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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30. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
Benito Mussolini
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
When a Man Loves a Woman
Venice
31. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Wendy
By Love Possessed (1961)
Ants
32. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Italy
Ernie
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Babette March
33. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Silicon and oxygen
Dr. James Bedford
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
34. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Baltimore
Colonel Harland Sanders
Roger Maris
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
35. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Dharma & Greg
Beetle Juice
The Learning Tree (1969)
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
36. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?
(Adolf) Hitler
Orangutan
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Sweden
37. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Britney Spears
Baden-Baden
Dr. James Bedford
Field of Dreams
38. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Jive
George Deukmejian
Alfred Hitchcock
39. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Salzburg
Rene Descartes
(the) Motorwagen
40. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Silicon Valley
Antawn Jamison
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Turkey
41. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Donner Pass
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Omega
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
42. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
Pocahontas
Billy Martin
The Fantastic Four
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
43. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
Muammar Qaddifi
Llama
Louisana (Superdome)
The Artful Dodger
44. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Oedipus
Canada
Scrooged
Tiny Bubbles
45. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Hindenburg (explosion)
Wiley Post
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Atom Egoyan
46. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Afghanistan
Small intestine(s)
Lazarus
47. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
Carbon dioxide
The Little Mermaid
HL Mencken
Chantilly
48. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
Howard Hughes
Seven
Jenny McCarthy
Germany
49. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
The Fantastic Four
Turkey
Mitch
Afghanistan
50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
China
Chinese Democracy
Chile