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1. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Germany
Banana
2. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Richard Cory (himself)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Hamlet
Victoria Falls
3. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Somalia
Jamaica
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
4. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
Spellbound
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Wings (1927)
Harold and Maude
5. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Orange(s)
Nevada
(gave a) black power salute (on the Olympic medal stand)
Brazil
6. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?
AT&T (renamed AT&T)
Billy Martin
Cat
Charles Starkweather
7. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
(The) Jordan (River)
20
Brent Spiner
Rochelle - Rochelle
8. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
Mulan
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Inspiration (1915)
9. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Michelle Wie
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Murmur
Racecar
10. First film shown on HBO?
Westward Ho!
Royal jelly
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
G. E. Smith
11. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Body Count
Hannah
Alfred Hitchcock
Fig newtons
12. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)
Aramis
3 2 1 Contact
Padre
O. J. Simpson
13. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
Lean on Me
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Victory
By choice - man!
14. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
Louisana (Superdome)
Lillian Hellman
Cherries
Fontanelles
15. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Peach (also contains orange)
The Canterville Ghost
Eric Bogosian
(Songs in) A Minor
16. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
Romeo and Juliet
Ambrose Bierce
Llama
SD-6
17. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Cameroon
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Mitch
18. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Brazil
Ian Fleming
Canada
Jurassic Park
19. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Pink
Rome
20. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Coal
Country (West Point motto)
Eve
21. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Steven Biko
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Tiny Bubbles
22. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
Texaco
Jenny McCarthy
(planetary) rings
Miles Davis
23. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?
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24. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?
Prince
Jim Jones
Body Count
Mickey Finn
25. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
Jamaica
Vivendi
Christopher Columbus
Kenneth Branagh
26. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?
Ernesto
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Montgomery - Alabama
Turkmenistan
27. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
4
Shel Silverstein
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
(the) New York Mets
28. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Nicky
Dairy Queen
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Condoleezza Rice
29. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Llama
Amos 'n' Andy
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
30. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?
The Canterville Ghost
Desiderata
Hindenburg (explosion)
Murray Gell-Mann
31. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?
Kornfield Kounty
5
Aladdin
The Boston Celtics (21)
32. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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33. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
V2 (rocket)s
The Three Musketeers
De Beers
34. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Murphy Brown
Strawberries
Home Improvement
Buster Douglas
35. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Babette March
Lillian Hellman
Subaru
Teapot Dome
36. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?
Cocoon
George Deukmejian
Laverne & Shirley
Intercourse
37. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
(the) Boston Tea Party
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Lillian Hellman
The Dome of the Rock
38. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Model railroad
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Candyman
Brazil
39. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...
Fraternite
M. C. Hammer
Texaco
Solipsism
40. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
The Mini (Cooper)
Hannibal
The Pope
41. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?
North Korea
Uruguay
Theodore Roosevelt
Night Court
42. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Thailand
(Songs in) A Minor
Ski slopes
Joel Cohen
43. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Bob Dylan
Shrek 2
Pakistan
Red
44. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Cherries
Extras
45. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?
Pakistan
Mashed potatoes
Mahi mahi
Tarzan
46. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?
Richard Cory (himself)
H. G. Wells
Five
(the) Jack of diamonds
47. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Sirhan Sirhan
About Schmidt
48. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?
Joanne Woodward
TheName of The Rose
Pulp Fiction
Genesis
49. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Victoria Falls
Norma Jean
Tiny Bubbles
50. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(The) Rolling Stones
Moby Dick
Tsetse fly
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