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Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






2. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






3. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






4. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






5. First Best Picture Oscar?






6. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






7. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






8. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






9. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






10. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






12. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






13. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






14. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?






15. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






16. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






17. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






18. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






19. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?






20. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






21. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






22. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






23. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






25. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






26. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?






27. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






28. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






29. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






30. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?






31. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?






32. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?






33. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






34. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






35. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






36. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






37. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?






38. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






39. First use of the 'f-word'?






40. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






41. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






42. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






43. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






44. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






46. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






47. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






48. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






49. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






50. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






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