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1. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?
Teapot Dome
Bonnie and Clyde
Darwin's
Jim Lovell
2. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?
Blue
Israel
Wales
Argentina
3. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Your Girlfriend
D. H. Lawrence
Gordie Howe
4. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?
Ganesh
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Egypt
Seal (played by a sea lion)
5. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Hoop Dreams
Bunker Hill
(a) clergyman
Wales
6. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
XTC
Color blindness
John Speke (English - 1856)
Watermelon(s)
7. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Pink
Times Square
Koran
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
8. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Jerusalem
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Otto
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
9. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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10. What's Cartman's first name on South Park
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
Eric
Thelma and Louise
Mitch
11. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Come by here
Limp Bizkit
Ghost
Hoop Dreams
12. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
(the) Great Train Robbery
France
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Pig
13. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?
Emma
The Lion King
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Eeyore
14. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
John Speke (English - 1856)
The valley of the shadow of death
Beverly Cleary
Rene Descartes
15. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Buffalo
Black
The Little Mermaid
16. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Llama
Theodore Roosevelt
Nuclear disarmament
Couscous
17. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
Avocado(s)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
(Honda) Civic
Germany
18. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Omega
Gorilla
(an) e
Humbert Humbert
19. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
The valley of the shadow of death
Pear(s)
Duran Duran
(The St. Louis) Blues
20. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?
The gingerbread man
Germany
Hoop Dreams
Babar
21. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
Cullinan
Portland( - OR)
Oscar and Lucinda
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
22. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Eric Bogosian
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Jenny McCarthy
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
23. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Hong Kong
Hamlet
The Dome of the Rock
Rome
24. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?
CTU
Topper
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Manhunter
25. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
K. d. lang
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Cocoon
26. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Do The Right Thing
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Chrysler Building
Mitsubishi
27. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
(a) clergyman
Edith Head
(National) Prohibition ('Volstead' Act - 1919 - enabled the 18th amendment)
Eeyore
28. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Ali MacGraw
Bwana Devil (1952)
Happyness
Six
29. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?
Darwin's
Judy Garland
Finland
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
30. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
10
Dr. James Bedford
Seal (played by a sea lion)
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
31. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?
Mecca
Royal jelly
Pippa Passes (1909)
Humbert Humbert
32. First American film nudity?
Hamlet
Inspiration (1915)
The Stanley Cup
Pippa Passes (1909)
33. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?
Garo Yepremian
(a) clergyman
Fish
Farting
34. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
S(ain)t Louis
The Ring
Salzburg
Edsel
35. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
Foo Fighters
Judy Garland
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Cherries
36. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Will & Grace
Compaq
Condoleezza Rice
Sally Ride
37. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Kornfield Kounty
Aurora australis
Mitsubishi
Tiger Woods
38. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Texaco
Darwin's
The Others
Kornfield Kounty
39. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Underoos
Limp Bizkit
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
40. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?
Real estate (investment)
Red
4
Everybody Hates
41. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
Wendy
(George Bernard) Shaw
Yes
Six
42. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Robert De Niro
Theodore Roosevelt
Horse
Scrooged
43. First film with Dolby sound?
Norma Jean
The Mona Lisa
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Blue
44. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Orange
Humbert Humbert
Motor Trend
Pig
45. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
Liar Liar
Upset
V8 (juice)
Orangutan
46. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
MASH
V2 (rocket)s
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Venice
47. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Nauruan
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Aramis
Orangutan
48. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
(The) NHL
G. E. Smith
Jamie Lynn
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
49. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Romania
Somewhere in Time
Windsor - Ontario
Sleeping Beauty
50. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Texaco
Jive
Mecca
Basalt