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1. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Clownfish
1606
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Candyman
2. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Brent Spiner
Mahi mahi
Humbert Humbert
3. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Gordie Howe
(street) lanes
Haiti
Color blindness
4. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
The Three Musketeers
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
The valley of the shadow of death
Plum(s)
5. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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6. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Dollar
(Hector) Berlioz
Topper
7. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
Betty (Rubble)
Robert Scott
(the) giraffe
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
8. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
China
Dr. James Bedford
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Gordie Howe
9. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?
Cat
Red Dawn (1984)
Lulu
Joel Cohen
10. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Delaware
Pearl Harbor
Martin Scorsese
Jamaica Bay
11. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Lemon(s)
Gorilla
Hips
Gorilla
12. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Will & Grace
Mulan
Wales
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
13. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Intercourse
De Beers
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Randy Quaid
14. How many band members were there in Madness?
CONTROL
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
The gingerbread man
7
15. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Mitsubishi
Rochelle - Rochelle
Dharma & Greg
Apocalypse Now
16. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
Theodore Roosevelt
Renny Harlin
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Alfred Hitchcock
17. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Christina Aguilera
Parrot
(The) Jordan (River)
18. First film with Dolby sound?
Solipsism
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
10
Bucket
19. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
The Ritz (hotel)
Silicon Valley
Jack Kevorkian
20. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Babar
(Gerald)Ford
Windsor - Ontario
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
21. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Jorge Luis Borges
TheName of The Rose
Fontanelles
Boxing
22. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Ali MacGraw
40
Shel Silverstein
Rulon Gardner
23. 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?
She shot JR (Dallas)
Mostly briefs
5
London Bridge
24. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?
In Cold Blood
Old Time Rock and Roll
Pear(s)
(Hector) Berlioz
25. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Colombia
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
Couscous
St. Louis Cardinals
26. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
Peru
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
(Ford) Excursion
Oort cloud
27. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Yellow (and key!)
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Judiciary
Fahrenheit 451
28. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Croatia
Will & Grace
Switzerland
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
29. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Muhammad
Jack the Ripper
Angkor Wat
Smerdyakov
30. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Silicon and oxygen
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
James Cagney
Darwin's
31. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Flowers for Algernon
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Frank Zamboni
32. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Walter Raleigh
Oahu
(The) Rolling Stones
33. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Cape Hatteras
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Cullinan
Manhunter
34. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Couscous
The Others
Pachyderm
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Montreal
Tomato(es)
Fig newtons
Avocado(s)
36. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
Cat
(Ford) Excursion
Thrust
(Sperm) Whale
37. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Somewhere in Time
Peach(es)
Rebecca
Westward Ho!
38. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Marcel Marceau
Ken Davitian
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Victory
39. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Flowers for Algernon
Roger Maris
Motor Trend
Sullivan Ordinance
40. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Country (West Point motto)
Inspiration (1915)
Howard Hughes
Jack the Ripper
41. Which company merged with Boeing?
MMMBob
(the) giraffe
Mitch
McDonnell Douglas
42. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Brain Boitano
Judy Garland
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
43. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Martin Landau
Naomi
You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Chrysler Building
44. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Romania
John Speke (English - 1856)
Naomi
Martin Scorsese
45. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Eddie Matthews
Colonel Tom Parker
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Beowulf
46. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
Dollar
4
Couscous
Grape(s)
47. First studio film with a black director?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
The Mona Lisa
The Learning Tree (1969)
Chile
48. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Wales
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
3
Bank One
49. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
Rebecca
George Wilson
Desiderata
Mitosis
50. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?
Otto
Venus
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Eve