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1. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Emeritus
Dairy Queen
Couscous
2. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
Miles Davis
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
(The) dodo
(the) Motorwagen
3. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
1606
Jamaica Bay
Times Square
It Happened One Night (1934)
4. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Fig newtons
Hamlet
Wiley Post
Judy Garland
5. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
Motor Trend
(the) giraffe
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Emeritus
6. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Limp Bizkit
(planetary) rings
U.N.C.L.E
Victoria Falls
7. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Moby Dick
Eugene Onegin
Beck (Odelay)
8. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Peru
Sirhan Sirhan
Hoop Dreams
9. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
Philip Marlowe
Lamar Alexander
Orangutan
North Korea
10. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Paramount
Eric
Bunker Hill
Model railroad
11. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Kayak
Red
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
The Chrysler Building
12. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Czechoslovakia
Lamar Alexander
Ambrose Bierce
Basalt
13. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Betty (Rubble)
Capri
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Simon Legree
14. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
8
Hugo Chavez
Salzburg
Roger Maris
15. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Jive
Your Girlfriend
Judy Garland
Gomer Pyle
16. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?
Delaware
Montreal
Small intestine(s)
20
17. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Clownfish
Oedipus
Victory
India
18. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
The Cincinnati Reds
North America
Rat
Douglas
19. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
D. H. Lawrence
Condoleezza Rice
Cherries
Walter Winchell
20. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Murray Gell-Mann
Murphy Brown
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Avocado(s)
21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?
Pennsylvania
A Room With a View (Forster)
Croatia
Ganesh
22. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Ken Davitian
Emeritus
Eric Bogosian
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
23. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Victory
Almonds
Louisville (Kentucky)
Victoria Falls
24. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Rene Descartes
Jessica Lange
Lazarus
Hydrogen and oxygen
25. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
(the) evacuation of Saigon
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Capri
26. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?
Sonic Youth
Ben Hogan
Can-Can
(The) Rolling Stones
27. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?
The Robe (1953)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Fahrenheit 451
Earl Morrall
28. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Spain
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Laverne & Shirley
Theodore Roosevelt
29. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
Darwin's
In Cold Blood
Blue
Lemon(s)
30. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Blue
Joel Cohen
Ulysseys (1967)
Tiny Bubbles
31. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
Charles Lindbergh
Cornea
Aramis
E. B. White
32. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Germany
China
Palmer
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
33. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Cullinan
Murray Gell-Mann
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Nicaragua
34. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Darwin's
35. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
The Three Musketeers
Tiger Woods
(The) Jordan (River)
Murmur
36. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Becky Sharp (1935)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Yellow (and key!)
Paradise Lost
37. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Canada
I'm a Believer
Marcel Marceau
38. First American film nudity?
Koran
Avocado(s)
Nicaragua
Inspiration (1915)
39. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
Antonio Stradivarius
The gingerbread man
(planetary) rings
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
40. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Body Count
J. M. Barrie
The Stanley Cup
Paramount
41. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
Edith Head
Jenny McCarthy
I'll Be There
Hindenburg (explosion)
42. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Ellery Queen
Ganesh
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
(Pablo) Picasso
43. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
B. J. Armstrong
Martin Scorsese
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Eric Bogosian
44. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
(The) dodo
Dharma & Greg
A Room With a View (Forster)
Britney Spears
45. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
Brazil
(Pablo) Picasso
TheAtlas (A)
Barry Sanders
46. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Ozone
Arkansas
Black
Earl Morrall
47. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
Rat
9
Yellow
Amos 'n' Andy
48. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
(The) dodo
Scoop
Home Improvement
Bling bling
49. Which company merged with Chevron?
(Sperm) Whale
(The) dodo
Wendy
Texaco
50. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
The Little Mermaid
Scrat
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
Chinese Democracy
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