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1. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Happyness
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Bonnie and Clyde
When a Man Loves a Woman
2. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Murray Gell-Mann
Beck (Odelay)
3. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Frank Zappa
Ghost
Extras
(the) Republican Party
4. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Emma
Jack the Ripper
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
(planetary) rings
5. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Solipsism
McDonnell Douglas
Red
Sally Ride
6. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Black
Mecca
Victory
(a) ginny (or jenny)
7. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Simon Legree
The Dick Van Dyke Show
MASH
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
8. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Desiderata
Jenny
Charles Lindbergh
9. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
CONTROL
Silicon Valley
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Ganesh
10. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bank One
By Love Possessed (1961)
Mitsubishi
Pocahontas
11. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
1
G. E. Smith
Hugo Chavez
Edith Head
12. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Banana
Please Mr. Postman
Extras
India
13. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Little Rock
Muhammad
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
MMMBob
14. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Roger Vadim
Peach(es)
Jessica Lange
Red Dawn (1984)
15. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
Lord of the Flies
Roger Bannister
Jim Calhoun
Altamount
16. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Melville
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Clownfish
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
17. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?
Solipsism
Pegasus
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
18. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Switzerland
Dr. James Bedford
Clownfish
Plum(s)
19. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Seven
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Six
CTU
20. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Fontanelles
Travelers Group
Texaco
Mickey Finn
21. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
Salzburg
John Speke (English - 1856)
Chantilly
Liar Liar
22. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Tiger Woods
Snape
State quarters
Marcel Marceau
23. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
Solipsism
Paul Newman
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Scoop
24. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
Kenneth Branagh
Jive
HL Mencken
Turkmenistan
25. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
Walter Winchell
Avocado(s)
Upset
Aliana
26. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
Shrek 2
Jorge Luis Borges
Murphy Brown
HL Mencken
27. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Aglet
Atom Egoyan
Eeyore
Joel Cohen
28. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Mecca
Gorilla
Jenny
Gypsy Rose Lee
29. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
(the) New York Mets
Billy Martin
Couscous
Eric Bogosian
30. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Thailand
Ashlee
The Hula Bowl
31. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Cocoon
(The) NHL
Blue
The Satanic Verses
32. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Nevada
Lady Marmalade
Rene Descartes
Dharma & Greg
33. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Mahi mahi
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
34. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?
Rulon Gardner
Rocky Balboa
The Maltese Falcon
What's Up - Doc?
35. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
She shot JR (Dallas)
Sugar Ray Leonard
(The) dodo
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
36. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
The Maltese Falcon
Stevie Wonder
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
(the) bishop
37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Ambrose Bierce
Cameroon
The Mini (Cooper)
Pictures of Matchstick Men
38. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?
(an) e
Guy Ritchie
Westward Ho!
Steven Biko
39. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
The Satanic Verses
Somalia
State quarters
Topper (1937)
40. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Lord of the Flies
Kitty Genovese
Hannah
Jim Calhoun
41. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
Mashed potatoes
Charles Lindbergh
The Artful Dodger
Blue
42. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
U.N.C.L.E
Can-Can
Balthasar (Magi)
Sirhan Sirhan
43. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Nicaragua
Romania
Tarzan
George Deukmejian
44. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Mia Farrow
Coal
The Dome of the Rock
45. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Lady Marmalade
The Dome of the Rock
Lillian Hellman
Terminal velocity
46. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Compaq
Jack Kevorkian
Lazarus
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
47. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
John Speke (English - 1856)
Gypsy Rose Lee
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
48. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Jive
Austria
Arkansas
49. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Frank Zamboni
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
Rene Descartes
Capybara
50. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
The Lion King
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Lean on Me