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1. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
(Songs in) A Minor
Altamount
New Zealand
Cornea
2. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
The Stanley Cup
Moby Dick
Manhunter
Larry Nance
3. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Michigan
McDonnell Douglas
Kitty Genovese
Sirhan Sirhan
4. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?
Naomi
China
Tongue
(George) Clooney
5. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Kornfield Kounty
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Scrat
6. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?
Westward Ho!
The Loco-motion
Red Dawn (1984)
Beck (Odelay)
7. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Antonio Stradivarius
Colombia
Grape(s)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
Night Court
Horse
Dollar
The Lion King
9. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Babette March
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
The valley of the shadow of death
Mau Mau
10. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
Bound for Glory (1976)
Eugene Onegin
Rochelle - Rochelle
George Deukmejian
11. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Aglet
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Pennsylvania
Federico Fellini
12. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Jorge Luis Borges
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Basalt
Darwin's
13. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
(The) dodo
(a) clergyman
K. d. lang
Dracula
14. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Go Away Little Girl
Boxing
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Amos 'n' Andy
15. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Eeyore
Murray Gell-Mann
EMForster
16. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
(a) Yo-yo
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Travelers Group
17. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Compaq
(The) Rolling Stones
Britney Spears
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
18. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
The Weekly World News
Nauruan
De Beers
Inspiration (1915)
19. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Peach(es)
She shot JR (Dallas)
Aladdin
Louisana (Superdome)
20. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Frankenstein('s monster)
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
(The) Rolling Stones
Jamaica
21. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
(planetary) rings
Colonel Tom Parker
Queen Anne's Lace
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
22. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
Emeritus
Grape(s)
Jessica Lange
Plum(s)
23. What is a female donkey called?
Mitsubishi
(the earth's) crust and mantle
Nuclear disarmament
(a) ginny (or jenny)
24. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
SD-6
Murray Gell-Mann
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Antonin Scalia
25. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Curly Howard
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Tongue
26. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?
Jack the Ripper
A Fistfull of Dollars
E. B. White
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
27. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Romeo and Juliet
Aaron Copland
28. First film in CinemaScope?
Ohio and North Carolina
Miles Davis
Marcel Marceau
The Robe (1953)
29. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
The Ewings (Dallas)
Condoleezza Rice
Pancreas
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
30. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Howard Hughes
Pulp Fiction
The Stanley Cup
Sugar Ray Leonard
31. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
Seven
Bonnie and Clyde
Murmur
Stalingrad
32. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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33. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Sonic Youth
Howard Hughes
Orange(s)
34. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
IMF
Green
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
India
35. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Sullivan Ordinance
The Robe (1953)
Seal (played by a sea lion)
36. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
Mulan
The Mona Lisa
Extras
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
37. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
Polo
The Canterville Ghost
Almonds
Aglet
38. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Renny Harlin
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Pulp Fiction
39. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Royal jelly
Spinal Tap
Buster Douglas
Emma
40. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Foo Fighters
Palmer
Germany
Louisville (Kentucky)
41. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
Cocoon
North America
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Bank One
42. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Couscous
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Angkor Wat
Country (West Point motto)
43. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Philadelphia
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Jim Jones
D. H. Lawrence
44. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
Ellery Queen
Martin Landau
De Beers
John Speke (English - 1856)
45. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
The Robe (1953)
(Ford) Excursion
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Bling bling
46. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
Texas and New Mexico
The Artful Dodger
Almonds
India
47. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Tammy Faye Bakker
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
The Lion King
North America
48. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Royal jelly
Subaru
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Humbert Humbert
49. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Oort cloud
Lillian Hellman
Bank One
Afghanistan
50. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?
Mexico
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Charles Lindbergh