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1. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Bound for Glory (1976)
Tiger Woods
Grenada
Nevada
2. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
Sean Connery
Cream
Betty (Rubble)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
3. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Ambrose Bierce
Beverly Cleary
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Temple prostitute
4. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?
Mecca
Bicycle(s)
Subaru
Vincente Minnelli
5. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Wendy
North Korea
Larry Nance
Canada
6. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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7. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
The Bridge over the River Kwai
E. B. White
Compaq
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
8. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?
Buffalo
Nicaragua
Pennsylvania
Ernesto
9. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
Times Square
Dentin
James Cook (English - 1770)
Lady Marmalade
10. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Tomato(es)
Barry Sanders
Victory
(Ford) Excursion
11. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
Ken Davitian
Peru
Baltimore
Melville
12. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
Ali MacGraw
Richard Cory (himself)
20
Fraternite
13. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Bank One
3
Hindenburg (explosion)
Humbert Humbert
14. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Shrek 2
(the) bishop
Jorge Luis Borges
Gene Roddenberry
15. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'
Hercules
Egypt
Buffalo
Brent Spiner
16. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?
Oahu
Rebecca
112
Come by here
17. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Sonic Youth
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Pakistan
V2 (rocket)s
18. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?
Maya Angelou
Oregon (or New Jersey)
The Sparrow
Hindenburg (explosion)
19. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Nauruan
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Oscar and Lucinda
Salt Lake City
20. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Arkansas
21. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
The Cincinnati Reds
Clownfish
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Lamar Alexander
22. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Emeritus
Murray Gell-Mann
Fontanelles
New York - New York
23. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
Red Dawn (1984)
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
You Keep Me Hangin' On
24. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Home Improvement
Hong Kong
The Sixth Sense
The Tell-tale Heart
25. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
Bucket
V2 (rocket)s
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Jamie Lynn
26. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?
Mitsubishi
Cherries
Thrust
Pakistan
27. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
Llama
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
Windsor - Ontario
Bambi
28. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Six
Guy Ritchie
Deer
Roger Vadim
29. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
The Others
Mahi mahi
The Mini (Cooper)
30. First American film nudity?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Inspiration (1915)
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Lazarus
31. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
EMForster
Ione Skye
John F. Kennedy
32. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
Cocoon
India
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Happyness
33. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?
Ernesto
Jenny
Bicycle(s)
Mitch
34. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Douglas
Judiciary
Dairy Queen
35. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
The Artful Dodger
Randy Quaid
Eve
Chinese Democracy
36. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?
Paul Newman
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
XTC
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
37. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Haiti
Hamlet
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
(The) Marines
38. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
John Cassavets
Pippa Passes (1909)
John Speke (English - 1856)
Emeritus
39. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
Ganesh
Martha Stewart
S(ain)t Louis
Night Court
40. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?
Stevie Wonder
Mexico
James Cameron
The Dick Van Dyke Show
41. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
The Chrysler Building
Palmer
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Aramis
42. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
Arkansas
Liar Liar
(Adolf) Hitler
Condoleezza Rice
43. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'
Italy
Peru
Darwin's
(a) Yo-yo
44. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?
Mostly briefs
Gorilla
Topper (1937)
I'll Be There
45. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Vincente Minnelli
Pancreas
K. d. lang
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
46. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama
The Boston Celtics (21)
Oort cloud
Venus
Foo Fighters
47. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
(The) Rolling Stones
The Satanic Verses
Grenada
Lazarus
48. First film in CinemaScope?
Prince Valiant
Mitosis
The Robe (1953)
Ali MacGraw
49. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
CONTROL
Steven Biko
Moby Dick
Peach (also contains orange)
50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Brazil
Topper
Senegal
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