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1. Which company merged with Boeing?
The Lion King
Yellow
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
McDonnell Douglas
2. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Blue
Hindenburg (explosion)
Geyser
Theodore Roosevelt
3. 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
Seven
Bob Dylan
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
4. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Nevada
Britney Spears
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Bank One
5. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
XTC
The Satanic Verses
Hannah
6. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
Charles Starkweather
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Grenada
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
7. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Coffee
Small intestine(s)
Murphy Brown
A-ha
8. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
3
Randy Quaid
Texaco
Manhunter
9. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Beck (Odelay)
6
Ski slopes
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
10. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
France
Topper
The Others
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
11. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Mecca
Atom Egoyan
Sao Paulo
Grape(s)
12. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
STP Motor Oil
Colonel Harland Sanders
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
13. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Night Court
Candyman
Eddie Matthews
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
14. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
112
Cream
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Country (West Point motto)
15. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Ganesh
Somewhere in Time
A Fistfull of Dollars
16. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Balthasar (Magi)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
HP Lovecraft
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
17. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Thrust
Body Count
A Fistfull of Dollars
Panama
18. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
(planetary) rings
Turkmenistan
Foo Fighters
Hong Kong
20. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
The Descent
Mitsubishi
St. Louis Cardinals
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
21. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?
Angkor Wat
Czechoslovakia
Bucket
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
22. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
Thelma and Louise
Orangutan
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
23. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
Pulp Fiction
Omega
4
(The) Marines
24. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Orange(s)
James Cook (English - 1770)
Padre
Atom Egoyan
25. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Kornfield Kounty
India
Moby Dick
Mel Brooks
26. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Dentin
The gingerbread man
Germany
30 Rock
27. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
(Sperm) Whale
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Your Girlfriend
28. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
29. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Maya Angelou
Scrooged
The Lion King
John Cassavets
30. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Muammar Qaddifi
Jim Jones
Topper (1937)
Somalia
31. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Victoria Falls
Tarzan
Aurora australis
Black
32. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
Kali
Mecca
Fish
The Artful Dodger
33. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Coffee
Nicaragua
Turkmenistan
Laverne & Shirley
34. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
The Maltese Falcon
Senegal
Robert De Niro
U.N.C.L.E
35. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Ashlee
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Bound for Glory (1976)
36. How many band members were there in Toto?
Omega
The Age ofInnocence
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
6
37. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
CONTROL
Liar Liar
Bank One
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
38. Who killed the literary character Aslan?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
I'm a Believer
The White Witch
Sullivan Ordinance
39. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Eugene Onegin
Foo Fighters
John Speke (English - 1856)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Oahu
Grape(s)
Happyness
Ernie
41. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Martha Stewart
Bank One
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Genesis
42. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Mecca
Please Mr. Postman
Roger Bannister
43. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
Body Count
Sri Lanka
Portland( - OR)
Mahi mahi
44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Aaron Copland
Body Count
Brent Spiner
Thailand
45. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Draw
Black
Home Improvement
Romeo and Juliet
46. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Baltimore
Miles Davis
47. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?
Clownfish
Mia Farrow
Pegasus
Germany
48. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
(the) New York Mets
Mickey Finn
Rulon Gardner
Avocado(s)
49. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
Jenny McCarthy
Your Girlfriend
Desiderata
Martha Stewart
50. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Terminal velocity
Plum(s)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
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