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1. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?
Silicon and oxygen
Tongue
Scrooged
Ohio and North Carolina
2. How many band members were there in UB40?
New York - New York
8
Lord of the Flies
Mostly briefs
3. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Silicon Valley
Pink
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Please Mr. Postman
4. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Beverly Cleary
Jeremy Bentham
A Christmas Carol
James Cameron
5. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Buster Douglas
Avocado(s)
CTU
6. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Pear(s)
The Three Musketeers
7. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
CONTROL
Mitosis
Spain
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
8. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Ernie
Romania
Carrie Underwood
EMForster
9. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
India
(The) Kamchatka (Peninsula)
Heloise
(her) hair
10. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Wings (1927)
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Polo
Humbert Humbert
11. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown
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12. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Ian Fleming
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Bling bling
(The) dodo
13. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Peach(es)
H. G. Wells
China
The Robe (1953)
14. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Fraternite
Red Dawn (1984)
Gordie Howe
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
15. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Nuclear disarmament
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Gomer Pyle
The Satanic Verses
16. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?
Basalt
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Tiny Bubbles
Wiley Post
17. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
Jenny McCarthy
Crunk
Koran
Texas and New Mexico
18. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Antonio Stradivarius
Judy Garland
Pancreas
19. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Mostly briefs
Capri
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Nauruan
20. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
North Korea
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Rene Descartes
Thailand
21. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Banana
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Avocado(s)
Dairy Queen
22. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Finland
Alfred Hitchcock
Simon Legree
Betty (Rubble)
23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?
Thailand
Fraternite
Peach(es)
John Speke (English - 1856)
24. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Ambrose Bierce
Topper
John Cassavets
Paul Newman
25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?
(the) ear
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Little Mermaid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
26. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?
Do The Right Thing
Blue
The (Buffalo) Sabres
(the) evacuation of Saigon
27. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?
Buffalo
Buster Douglas
Farting
38th Parallel
28. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
The Mona Lisa
Renny Harlin
Capri
The Frighteners
29. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Brazil
The Ring
Aramis
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
30. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Capri
Ghost
Model railroad
Tsetse fly
31. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Philip Marlowe
Charles Lindbergh
Lazarus
James Cook (English - 1770)
32. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
The Tell-tale Heart
Upset
(The) Rolling Stones
Cocoon
33. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Joel Cohen
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
40
John Speke (English - 1856)
34. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Victory
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Pachyderm
35. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
(street) lanes
The Chrysler Building
Kornfield Kounty
Temple prostitute
36. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Montreal
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Carbon dioxide
Pear(s)
37. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
The Loco-motion
Omega
Humbert Humbert
Federico Fellini
38. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Ben Hogan
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Rome
The Ewings (Dallas)
39. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Padre
Mickey Finn
Color blindness
Orangutan
40. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Seal (played by a sea lion)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Go Away Little Girl
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
41. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
HP Lovecraft
Philip Marlowe
Richard Cory (himself)
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
42. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
Jamaica Bay
Spinal Tap
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Barry Sanders
43. First film in CinemaScope?
(The) dodo
(street) lanes
The Robe (1953)
Becky Sharp (1935)
44. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
American Beauty
Liar Liar
Almonds
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
45. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Mitosis
Thelma and Louise
Topper (1937)
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
46. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?
(the) bishop
France
Terminal velocity
J. K. Rowling
47. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
Ozone
Salzburg
John Speke (English - 1856)
(PE)6-5000
48. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Little Rock
The Artful Dodger
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Leopard
49. Which company merged with Viacom?
Paramount
(the) World Cup (trophy)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Douglas
50. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
K. d. lang
Silicon Valley
Sri Lanka
Lean on Me