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1. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
Antawn Jamison
India
(the) Republican Party
Alfred Hitchcock
2. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Somewhere in Time
Senegal
Muhammad
Larry Nance
3. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
TheName of The Rose
Austria
Radar
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
4. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?
Sleeping Beauty
Somalia
Hindenburg (explosion)
Tarzan
5. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Come by here
Mahi mahi
Beetle Juice
Italy
6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?
Jim Valvano
Koran
Nicaragua
Ken Davitian
7. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Israel
India
Tsetse fly
Aramis
8. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Cape Hatteras
3
Tammy Faye Bakker
It Happened One Night (1934)
9. First film shown on HBO?
(Sperm) Whale
Frank Zappa
Bling bling
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
10. First use of the 'f-word'?
Leopard
Judiciary
Ulysseys (1967)
Thanksgiving
11. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton
When a Man Loves a Woman
Larry Nance
Desiderata
Llama
12. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Night Court
Harold and Maude
Crunk
Aladdin
14. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
Wiley Post
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
112
Joanne Woodward
15. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Beck (Odelay)
Melville
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
16. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?
Color blindness
Harold and Maude
India
Model railroad
17. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
Maya Angelou
Colonel Tom Parker
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Lulu
18. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Maya Angelou
Parking meters
Chaminade
Carbon dioxide
19. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Please Mr. Postman
Jenny
The Ewings (Dallas)
20. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Eeyore
Argentina
The Maltese Falcon
Dairy Queen
21. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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22. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
(The) dodo
Barry Sanders
Germany
Avocado(s)
23. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?
Capri
(The) Jordan (River)
Oahu
(the) World Cup (trophy)
24. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Theodore
Little Rock
Bank One
Black
25. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
Joel Cohen
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
The Sparrow
26. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
Bringing up Baby (1938)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Romania
Aglet
27. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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28. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
William Tell
Prince
V8 (juice)
Rochelle - Rochelle
29. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Genesis
Hamlet
State quarters
(Ford) Excursion
30. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
The Mona Lisa
Stevie Wonder
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Marcel Marceau
31. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Robert De Niro
Watermelon(s)
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Cat
32. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Gordie Howe
STP Motor Oil
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Jamie Lynn
33. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Ozone
Alsatians
(The) Rolling Stones
Fontanelles
34. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
Joel Cohen
The Stanley Cup
A Fistfull of Dollars
Shel Silverstein
35. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Ambrose Bierce
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Harold and Maude
Tiger Woods
36. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
North Korea
Bank One
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Travelers Group
37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
Egypt
Sonic Youth
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Orange(s)
38. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Bling bling
Seven
Bucket
(an) e
39. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
The Mini (Cooper)
Hamlet
Little Rock
Nicky
40. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Beowulf
Colonel Tom Parker
U.N.C.L.E
Jim Lovell
41. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Hoop Dreams
Peach (also contains orange)
India
Bambi
42. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Wings (1927)
When a Man Loves a Woman
3 2 1 Contact
Dr. James Bedford
43. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Horse
Jessica Lange
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Ozone
44. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Ukraine
Spinal Tap
30 Rock
Louisana (Superdome)
45. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
J. M. Barrie
Seven
Banana
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
46. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
A Fistfull of Dollars
Red
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
The Canterville Ghost
Ulysseys (1967)
(The) dodo
IMF
48. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Five
Mashed potatoes
Rene Descartes
49. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Coruscant
Pulp Fiction
Leopard
Switzerland
50. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
Sean Connery
Portland( - OR)
Chaminade
Ernesto