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1. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
NineInch Nails
Nicaragua
XTC
Altamount
2. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?
Hercules
Condoleezza Rice
Terminal velocity
Pennsylvania
3. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Orange(s)
Sally Ride
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
4. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Kornfield Kounty
Hope & Faith
Jorge Luis Borges
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
5. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hong Kong
Jorge Luis Borges
Jessica Lange
6. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Humbert Humbert
The Maltese Falcon
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
7. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Sullivan Ordinance
Steven Spielberg
Christopher Columbus
(the)Indianapolis Colts
8. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Cherries
Hong Kong
9. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Draw
Cameroon
Martin Scorsese
Brian De Palma
10. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Bob Dylan
Candyman
G. E. Smith
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
11. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Switzerland
Betty (Rubble)
Ali MacGraw
Murmur
12. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Judy Garland
Portland( - OR)
Happyness
13. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?
George Deukmejian
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Seven
Horse
14. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
1
Body Count
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Jack Russell
15. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Dharma & Greg
Larry Nance
Alfred Hitchcock
Romania
16. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Motor Trend
CTU
The Learning Tree (1969)
Wilco
17. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...
Lady Marmalade
Yellow (and key!)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Royal jelly
18. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Little Rock
Switzerland
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Kornfield Kounty
19. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Parrot
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
The Frighteners
20. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Michelle Wie
Marcel Marceau
(the) bishop
Peach (also contains orange)
21. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover
Leopard
Country (West Point motto)
Alsatians
Spinal Tap
22. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?
Palmer
Green
The Descent
Aurora australis
23. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Lights of New York (1928)
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Jenny McCarthy
24. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
10
Aliana
Richard Cory (himself)
London Bridge
25. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Solipsism
Thelma and Louise
Temple prostitute
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
26. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?
Thelma and Louise
Upset
Clownfish
Padre
27. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Federico Fellini
Argentina
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Small intestine(s)
28. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?
The valley of the shadow of death
Mitosis
Roger Bannister
Pig
29. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
By Love Possessed (1961)
The Fantastic Four
Gorilla
Texaco
30. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Baltimore
Czechoslovakia
Bicycle(s)
Orange(s)
31. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?
Paradise Lost
(The) Marines
Carbon dioxide
(street) lanes
32. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
J. M. Barrie
Terminal velocity
Heloise
De Beers
33. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Baltimore
William Tell
Cocoon
Iran
34. Which company merged with NBC?
Shel Silverstein
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Vivendi
Martha Stewart
35. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
10
Mexico
Aurora australis
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
36. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
The gingerbread man
Everybody Hates
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
37. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?
Jeremy Bentham
Douglas
Philadelphia
Charles Starkweather
38. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
U.N.C.L.E
Apocalypse Now
Everybody Hates
The Little Mermaid
39. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Color blindness
Jorge Luis Borges
J. K. Rowling
The Mini (Cooper)
40. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
Kenneth Branagh
Tongue
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
41. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
Wilco
10
Cullinan
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
42. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
(an) e
The Cincinnati Reds
Aaron Copland
China
43. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
I'll Be There
Fraternite
Martin Scorsese
A-ha
44. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Mulan
Ali MacGraw
Kornfield Kounty
45. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Chile
Bwana Devil (1952)
The Frighteners
J. K. Rowling
46. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Sleeping Beauty
The valley of the shadow of death
Ghost
47. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
Dannii
Pink
Bound for Glory (1976)
O. J. Simpson
48. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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49. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?
Bob Dylan
Pictures of Matchstick Men
(The) House of Seven Gables
Wiley Post
50. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?
Lulu
Texas and New Mexico
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bambi