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1. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
Edsel
Tammy Faye Bakker
Field of Dreams
William Tell
2. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?
Nicaragua
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Silicon and oxygen
SD-6
3. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
HP Lovecraft
Real estate (investment)
Mulan
Roger Vadim
4. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Sao Paulo
E. B. White
Leopard
Body Count
5. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Nuclear disarmament
Llama
Red
Larry Nance
6. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?
Jeremy Bentham
Field of Dreams
Joel Cohen
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
7. What are divided by Botts' dots?
Montreal
(Honda) Civic
112
(street) lanes
8. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Humbert Humbert
Maya Angelou
Come by here
(the) Republican Party
9. 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)
Parrot
Harold and Maude
HL Mencken
10. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
I'm a Believer
(Honda) Civic
Laverne & Shirley
The Little Mermaid
11. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...
Balthasar (Magi)
Ghost
Kali
Ukraine
12. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Silicon and oxygen
(the) Motorwagen
Judy Garland
Mashed potatoes
13. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?
Koran
Vivendi
Grape(s)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
14. Who killed the literary character Polonius?
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Hamlet
Mickey Finn
Cullinan
15. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
Muhammad
George Wilson
Hannibal
The Canterville Ghost
16. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?
Beverly Cleary
Bonnie and Clyde
Nicaragua
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
17. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
TheAtlas (A)
Rulon Gardner
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
LeBron James
18. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
(Dallas) Love Field
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Melville
Jim Valvano
19. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?
(George Bernard) Shaw
Extras
Desiderata
Emma
20. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Canada
A Room With a View (Forster)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Yellow
21. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?
Carrie Underwood
(the) New York Mets
Candyman
(The) House of Seven Gables
22. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
Kayak
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Antonin Scalia
23. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Ghost
Steven Biko
Beetle Juice
Afghanistan
24. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?
The Age ofInnocence
Nicaragua
The Sixth Sense
France
25. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Czechoslovakia
Tupac Shakur
(the) Motorwagen
Brain Boitano
26. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Mecca
Louisville (Kentucky)
Milk Duds
The Canterville Ghost
27. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
Jamaica
Red
38th Parallel
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
28. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Nicaragua
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Antonin Scalia
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
29. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Rebecca
2
Babar
Colonel Harland Sanders
30. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Bling bling
Moby Dick
Croatia
Buster Douglas
31. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Fish
Aramis
Nauruan
32. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?
Rene Descartes
Grenada
Steven Biko
Cocoon
33. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Field of Dreams
Brian De Palma
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Satanic Verses
34. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Laverne & Shirley
Little Rock
Mitosis
35. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Nicaragua
20
Grape(s)
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
36. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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37. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?
Turkmenistan
Angkor Wat
MASH
Orange(s)
38. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Uruguay
Six
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
39. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?
NineInch Nails
Ione Skye
Chinese Democracy
(Ford) Excursion
40. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?
Gene Roddenberry
Colonel Harland Sanders
Texaco
Bonnie and Clyde
41. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Hydrogen and oxygen
Boxing
Ski slopes
42. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
St. Louis Cardinals
Brain Boitano
Cornea
Miles Davis
43. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?
The Others
Carrie Underwood
Orange
Extras
44. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
Charles Lindbergh
M. C. Hammer
Melville
Ellery Queen
45. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Ski slopes
Fig newtons
Paramount
Jim Jones
46. In 2002 - the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions.Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of its two 'North' division counterparts?
Westward Ho!
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Please Mr. Postman
(the)Indianapolis Colts
47. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
Bicycle(s)
Charles Starkweather
The Cincinnati Reds
Mia Farrow
48. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Kate & Allie
MMMBob
Sir Walter Raleigh
Austria
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Sean Connery
Aladdin
Hoop Dreams
Plum(s)
50. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Alfred Hitchcock
(Songs in) A Minor
Do The Right Thing
Moby Dick