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1. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Moby Dick
Edsel
Come by here
Kenneth Branagh
2. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
By Love Possessed (1961)
Aliana
Cat
3. First use of Steadicam in film?
What's Up - Doc?
Colonel Harland Sanders
Thelma and Louise
Bound for Glory (1976)
4. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Lamar Alexander
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
5. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Fontanelles
Almonds
Robert De Niro
Ben Hogan
6. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
The Loco-motion
Small intestine(s)
Rene Descartes
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
7. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
James Cook (English - 1770)
Pulp Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Murmur
8. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Underoos
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Fraternite
9. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Rene Descartes
Eugene Onegin
Fontanelles
Robert De Niro
10. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
S(ain)t Louis
Aliana
Louisana (Superdome)
Lights of New York (1928)
11. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Jim Lovell
10
Hydrogen and oxygen
Theodore Roosevelt
12. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Louie Louie
Portland( - OR)
Pearl Harbor
13. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Burberry
Hugo Chavez
Curly Howard
14. Which company merged with Boeing?
McDonnell Douglas
Alsatians
The Sixth Sense
Kate & Allie
15. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Hong Kong
Your Girlfriend
Balthasar (Magi)
Dr. James Bedford
16. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?
(Gerald)Ford
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Ambrose Bierce
17. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Liar Liar
William Tell
Emeritus
18. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Smerdyakov
Parrot
Egypt
James Cook (English - 1770)
19. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ants
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Jamaica Bay
20. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Ganesh
Nauruan
Your Girlfriend
Aaron Copland
21. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
(PE)6-5000
Sweden
3 2 1 Contact
22. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Avocado(s)
Aglet
4
De Beers
23. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
I'm a Believer
Blue
Shel Silverstein
Eve
24. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Altamount
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Algeria
Upset
25. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
Italy
Judy Garland
Christina Aguilera
Charles Starkweather
26. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
The Sparrow
State quarters
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
(Hector) Berlioz
27. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Bob Dylan
Vincente Minnelli
Sullivan Ordinance
Ian Fleming
28. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
Coffee
(the) Boston Tea Party
Eric Bogosian
29. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'
Jerusalem
Happyness
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Inspiration (1915)
30. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
Fig newtons
Model railroad
Wendy
STP Motor Oil
31. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
Jerusalem
New York - New York
Spinal Tap
The Frighteners
32. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
Genesis
Kitty Genovese
Maya Angelou
Leopard
33. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
XTC
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Dentin
Tammy Faye Bakker
34. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
Red
Grenada
Will & Grace
35. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Iran
MASH
Turkey
Coffee
36. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
About Schmidt
The Artful Dodger
Terminal velocity
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
37. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Field of Dreams
Garo Yepremian
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Liar Liar
38. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Nauruan
Emeritus
The Tell-tale Heart
Orangutan
39. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Guy Ritchie
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Small intestine(s)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
40. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Rome
Texaco
The Sixth Sense
Palm Sunday
41. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Tiny Bubbles
Small intestine(s)
Murmur
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
42. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bank One
K. d. lang
Bling bling
Turkey
43. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
Motor Trend
The Sixth Sense
G. E. Smith
44. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
1606
Delaware
Canada
Wilco
45. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Prince Valiant
Murray Gell-Mann
Frank Zamboni
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
46. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Black
Hannah
47. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Ski slopes
(George Bernard) Shaw
(a) Yo-yo
Westworld (1973)
48. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
Fahrenheit 451
M. C. Hammer
Humbert Humbert
Pulp Fiction
49. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
The gingerbread man
Stevie Wonder
Walter Winchell
Tongue
50. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Vincente Minnelli
She shot JR (Dallas)
The Stanley Cup
Palmer
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