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1. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Ashlee
Bonnie and Clyde
Westward Ho!
Aaron Copland
2. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
North America
Canada
The Dome of the Rock
A-ha
3. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Martin Scorsese
The Three Musketeers
Sri Lanka
J. K. Rowling
4. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Polo
LeBron James
Emma
5. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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6. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Mashed potatoes
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Dharma & Greg
Nicaragua
7. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
1
Genesis
Howard Hughes
Rebecca
8. How many band members were there in UB40?
Pete Seeger
8
New York - New York
Padre
9. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Cornea
When a Man Loves a Woman
Charles Lindbergh
Walter Winchell
10. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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11. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Banana
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
12. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Tupac Shakur
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Carbon dioxide
13. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...
Croatia
Salzburg
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
14. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
Hips
4
K. d. lang
The Robe (1953)
15. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?
Wings (1927)
Upset
Baden-Baden
Christopher Columbus
16. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Brain Boitano
Body Count
Jack Kevorkian
Orange(s)
17. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Horse
Tsetse fly
Oort cloud
Cullinan
18. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Sullivan Ordinance
Montreal
Grape(s)
19. Which company merged with Boeing?
By Love Possessed (1961)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
McDonnell Douglas
Murphy Brown
20. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Basalt
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Judiciary
Lean on Me
21. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sleeping Beauty
Hannibal
Peach(es)
22. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
9
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Fahrenheit 451
Ken Davitian
23. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Atom Egoyan
Jenny McCarthy
Lord of the Flies
Sweden
24. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?
Roberto Rossellini
Peach (also contains orange)
Hydrogen and oxygen
Eddie Matthews
25. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Thailand
The Pope
Murphy Brown
Fahrenheit 451
26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Charles Lindbergh
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
The Loco-motion
27. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
Hoop Dreams
The Robe (1953)
MMMBob
TheAtlas (A)
28. First use of Steadicam in film?
The Loco-motion
Bound for Glory (1976)
Aglet
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
29. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Sean Connery
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
CTU
30. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?
Beck (Odelay)
Sweden
Ghost
The Tell-tale Heart
31. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Hugo Chavez
Edsel
Thailand
32. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
Home Improvement
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Eve
Mecca
33. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Walter Winchell
34. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Christopher Columbus
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
35. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Orange(s)
38th Parallel
Vincente Minnelli
36. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Lights of New York (1928)
Radar
Lemon(s)
Michelle Wie
37. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Flowers for Algernon
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Black
Rulon Gardner
38. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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39. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Moby Dick
8
Mostly briefs
(The) House of Seven Gables
40. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Kenneth Branagh
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Coruscant
China
41. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
(George) Clooney
Ukraine
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
42. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?
Walter Winchell
Elle
Joel Cohen
M. C. Hammer
43. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Lean on Me
Rat
Italy
XTC
44. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
(Hector) Berlioz
The Weekly World News
Coal
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
45. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Cameroon
Manhunter
Nauruan
Sao Paulo
46. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
You Keep Me Hangin' On
D. H. Lawrence
Panama
47. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Joanne Woodward
Victory
Blue
48. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Gypsy Rose Lee
Pete Seeger
Eugene Onegin
Harold and Maude
49. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
Royal jelly
Happyness
Extras
India
50. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Judy Garland
Nuclear disarmament
Algeria
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)