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Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






3. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






4. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






5. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






6. First studio film with a black director?






7. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






8. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






9. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






10. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






11. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






12. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






13. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






14. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






15. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






16. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






17. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






18. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?






19. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?






20. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






21. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






22. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






23. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






24. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?






25. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?






26. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?






27. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?






28. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






29. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






30. Who called his elephant Tantor?






31. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






32. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)






33. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






34. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






35. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?






36. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?






37. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






38. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






39. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






40. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






41. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






42. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?






43. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






44. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






45. Which company merged with Viacom?






46. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






47. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery






48. First computer graphics in film?






49. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?






50. Who killed the literary character Polonius?