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1. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
Jenny
J. M. Barrie
The Ewings (Dallas)
(Albert) Einstein
2. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Pippa Passes (1909)
Kornfield Kounty
LeBron James
3. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?
O. J. Simpson
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
John Cassavets
(the) ear
4. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Ernesto
Ambrose Bierce
North Korea
Salt Lake City
5. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?
Crunk
Aaron Copland
40
Montreal
6. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?
James Cagney
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Ernie
7. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
LeBron James
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
S(ain)t Louis
8. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
James Cameron
Small intestine(s)
What's Up - Doc?
Topper (1937)
9. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Mel Brooks
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Model railroad
10. First film of the 3-D boom?
Bwana Devil (1952)
Parrot
Cameroon
Subaru
11. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Oregon (or New Jersey)
30 Rock
Pachyderm
You Keep Me Hangin' On
12. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Canada
Tiger Woods
Texaco
Judy Garland
13. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Rebecca
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Marcel Marceau
Rome
14. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Hindenburg (explosion)
Howard Hughes
Dharma & Greg
The Satanic Verses
15. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
LeBron James
Philip Marlowe
MASH
Nicaragua
16. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Limp Bizkit
(The) Marines
Tongue
17. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
Hydrogen and oxygen
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Buster Douglas
Montreal
18. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
Rome
Philip Marlowe
Gypsy Rose Lee
Topper
19. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Brian De Palma
China
Topper (1937)
Altamount
20. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Ernesto
Foo Fighters
Stalingrad
A Fistfull of Dollars
21. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Muammar Qaddifi
Gordie Howe
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
38th Parallel
22. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Kornfield Kounty
Carbon dioxide
Balthasar (Magi)
Emeritus
23. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)
Jenny McCarthy
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Plum(s)
M. C. Hammer
24. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Carbon dioxide
Hamlet
Cape Hatteras
Colombia
25. First use of Steadicam in film?
(the) Boston Tea Party
Bound for Glory (1976)
The Satanic Verses
D. H. Lawrence
26. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
Pancreas
Sweden
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
The Bridge over the River Kwai
27. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Ken Davitian
Tarzan
Pippa Passes (1909)
Mexico
28. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Go Away Little Girl
Theodore
Bambi
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
29. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
112
LeBron James
Milk Duds
James Cameron
30. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Thailand
Mitsubishi
(the) Republican Party
Rulon Gardner
31. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Scrat
Teddy Roosevelt
Pachyderm
Lamar Alexander
32. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?
(Honda) Civic
Fish
London Bridge
The (Buffalo) Sabres
33. How many band members were there in UB40?
8
The Artful Dodger
Frank Zappa
Jive
34. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Blue
MCI
(The) House of Seven Gables
Sirhan Sirhan
35. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Turkey
Marcel Marceau
J. M. Barrie
Simon Legree
36. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Orangutan
Louie Louie
Black
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
37. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?
About Schmidt
Hips
Balthasar (Magi)
Alfred Hitchcock
38. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Pig
Judiciary
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Edith Head
39. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Boxing
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
The Ritz (hotel)
40. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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41. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Coffee
Aladdin
42. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Egypt
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Milk Duds
Jorge Luis Borges
43. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?
Charles Lindbergh
E. B. White
Extras
Philadelphia
44. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
(PE)6-5000
Switzerland
(the) Republican Party
New York - New York
45. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Spellbound
India
(Albert) Einstein
Martha Stewart
46. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
Jamaica Bay
1606
Sugar Ray Leonard
30 Rock
47. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Silicon Valley
Sullivan Ordinance
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Lamar Alexander
48. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Ernesto
Candyman
(an) e
(the) evacuation of Saigon
49. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?
10
Manhunter
Jamaica
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
50. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
China
Douglas
38th Parallel