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1. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Harold and Maude
Burberry
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Alfred Hitchcock
2. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
Ozone
IMF
CTU
Yellow (and key!)
3. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
(The) NHL
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
A Christmas Carol
Can-Can
4. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Heloise
Ali MacGraw
Mia Farrow
3 2 1 Contact
5. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Colonel Tom Parker
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
2
Flowers for Algernon
6. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Pearl Harbor
J. M. Barrie
Buster Douglas
XTC
7. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Baltimore
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
8. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Bunker Hill
Dentin
Steven Biko
E. B. White
9. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?
Portland( - OR)
Sirhan Sirhan
Roswell( - NM)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
10. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Charles Lindbergh
(Songs in) A Minor
Jim Calhoun
Your Girlfriend
11. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Ellery Queen
Jack the Ripper
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
12. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Jenny
Tammy Faye Bakker
(Adolf) Hitler
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
13. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Lemon(s)
India
Bringing up Baby (1938)
14. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
(The) Marines
Hannibal
Benito Mussolini
Sean Connery
15. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Sally Ride
Earl Morrall
Limp Bizkit
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
16. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?
Dairy Queen
Brazil
Jenny
Snape
17. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?
Rebecca
A Room With a View (Forster)
State quarters
The Little Mermaid
18. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?
Bambi
Theodore Roosevelt
Thelma and Louise
EMForster
19. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Jenny McCarthy
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Deer
20. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Will & Grace
Thrust
Antonio Stradivarius
21. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Thelma and Louise
Nicaragua
Croatia
Heaven's Gate (1980)
22. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Theodore
MCI
Geyser
(street) lanes
23. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Panama
State quarters
Ghost
B. J. Armstrong
24. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
'A Spoonful of Sugar
S(ain)t Louis
25. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?
Sri Lanka
The White Witch
Parking meters
Antawn Jamison
26. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Peach(es)
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Earl Morrall
27. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
Benito Mussolini
Theodore
HP Lovecraft
Boxing
28. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Naomi
(the) Jack of diamonds
Dracula
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
29. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Fontanelles
William Tell
Pocahontas
Buffalo
30. First film shown on HBO?
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Palm Sunday
Crunk
I've fallen and I can't get up
31. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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32. Which company merged with BP?
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Hamlet
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Hamlet
33. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Turkmenistan
20
Heloise
Colonel Tom Parker
34. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
Smerdyakov
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(PE)6-5000
35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Stevie Wonder
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Strawberries
36. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Fontanelles
North America
Nicaragua
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
37. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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38. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Judy Garland
Mashed potatoes
Simon Legree
CTU
39. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Venice
Shel Silverstein
Foo Fighters
India
40. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?
Spinal Tap
Hugo Chavez
Mitsubishi
Draw
41. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Royal jelly
Italy
Wales
St. Louis Cardinals
42. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Cocoon
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Gorilla
Fahrenheit 451
43. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
(a) clergyman
Salt Lake City
Palm Sunday
44. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Chile
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Renny Harlin
Afghanistan
45. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Gene Roddenberry
The Descent
Snape
Llama
46. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Geyser
Body Count
Odor Eaters (insoles)
The Loco-motion
47. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
(the) bishop
Moby Dick
Delaware
Fish
48. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
The Frighteners
Panama
Horse
Sirhan Sirhan
49. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
The Descent
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Pancreas
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
50. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?
Hips
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Billy Martin