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1. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
3 2 1 Contact
Jim Valvano
XTC
(The) Rolling Stones
2. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
Pear(s)
The Loco-motion
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Trapped in the Closet
3. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?
MMMBob
Panama
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Burberry
4. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Times Square
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
(the) Boston Tea Party
112
5. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
Watermelon(s)
O. J. Simpson
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Muammar Qaddifi
6. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
Wendy
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
1
(the) World Cup (trophy)
7. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
J. M. Barrie
Benito Mussolini
China
Pictures of Matchstick Men
8. Who called his elephant Tantor?
Brent Spiner
Tarzan
HL Mencken
George Deukmejian
9. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
Peach (also contains orange)
Cullinan
Everybody Hates
O. J. Simpson
10. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
(Honda) Civic
(George Bernard) Shaw
Chaminade
I'll Be There
11. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
Sleeping Beauty
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
(Gerald)Ford
Somewhere in Time
12. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
The Dome of the Rock
Murmur
Brain Boitano
Pig
13. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Westward Ho!
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Guy Ritchie
14. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Cameroon
Alsatians
Deer
Benito Mussolini
15. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
Ghost
Randy Quaid
IMF
Banana
16. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
Michigan
Country (West Point motto)
Israel
Five
17. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Hoop Dreams
6
IMF
18. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?
Frankenstein('s monster)
Dannii
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
19. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
North Korea
James Cook (English - 1770)
Fontanelles
American Beauty
20. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
McDonnell Douglas
Peru
Salzburg
Thelma and Louise
21. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Dracula
Come by here
(Pablo) Picasso
The Three Musketeers
22. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Delaware
John Cassavets
Judiciary
Austria
23. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?
Joanne Woodward
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Sally Ride
Smerdyakov
24. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981
It Happened One Night (1934)
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Simon Legree
Happyness
25. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
D. H. Lawrence
J. K. Rowling
9
Mashed potatoes
26. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Desiderata
Pearl Harbor
Tsetse fly
27. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
Romania
Lamar Alexander
Palau
Nevada
28. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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29. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Bunker Hill
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Padre
Please Mr. Postman
30. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Mel Brooks
White
Pear(s)
2
31. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
Jack the Ripper
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Tarzan
Ali MacGraw
32. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?
Sally Ride
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Haiti
Terminal velocity
33. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Humbert Humbert
Fraternite
Otto
34. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
India
Guy Ritchie
Venice
35. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Judy Garland
(planetary) rings
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
U.N.C.L.E
36. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
(a) clergyman
James Cook (English - 1770)
The Ritz (hotel)
37. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
(The) NHL
The Ritz (hotel)
The Loco-motion
30 Rock
38. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Baden-Baden
(The) NHL
Jim Lovell
Smerdyakov
39. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Seven
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
(The) NHL
40. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
Oort cloud
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
George Deukmejian
Pink
41. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
India
Hugo Chavez
Kayak
Baden-Baden
42. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?
Nicky
Bank One
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Frank Zappa
43. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Turkey
Vivendi
Scrat
Judy Garland
44. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
Night Court
A-ha
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Ellery Queen
45. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
Prince
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Cocoon
46. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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47. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
Six
M. C. Hammer
O. J. Simpson
(Gerald)Ford
48. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Shrek 2
Gypsy Rose Lee
Field of Dreams
49. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Aladdin
Tsetse fly
James Cameron
Aglet
50. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
20
Hoop Dreams
Home Improvement
Italy