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1. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
Jorge Luis Borges
Jim Jones
Wiley Post
(The) Marines
2. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Jessica Lange
I'm a Believer
Ghost
Silicon and oxygen
3. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
S(ain)t Louis
The Ritz (hotel)
Blue
Hope & Faith
4. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Spellbound
North America
Dharma & Greg
Teddy Roosevelt
5. What is frozen to make dry ice?
Marcel Marceau
Buster Douglas
Carbon dioxide
Genesis
6. 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?
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Venice
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Roger Bannister
7. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Topper
Polo
Michelle Wie
Banana
8. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
IMF
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Nicky
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
9. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?
Nauruan
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Roger Vadim
The White Witch
10. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Philip Marlowe
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Salt Lake City
Tomato(es)
11. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Will & Grace
CONTROL
Model railroad
5
12. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Egypt
Topper (1937)
Sweden
Come by here
13. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Capybara
Judy Garland
Haiti
Thanksgiving
14. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Topper (1937)
Judiciary
Martin Scorsese
Jack Kevorkian
15. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
V8 (juice)
Atom Egoyan
Angkor Wat
Tiger Woods
16. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Humbert Humbert
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
Times Square
17. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Sean Connery
Jack Kevorkian
The Cincinnati Reds
18. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Solipsism
White
Wiley Post
Manhunter
19. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Aliana
Laverne & Shirley
Omega
IMDb
20. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Prince
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Underoos
21. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Kayak
Naomi
Alsatians
Jack Russell
22. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Rat
Theodore
Cocoon
Manhunter
23. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
Sugar Ray Leonard
B. J. Armstrong
NineInch Nails
Romeo and Juliet
24. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
Bucket
I'm a Believer
Eddie Matthews
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
25. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Hips
Dannii
Bucket
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
26. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
The Ring
Israel
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Come by here
27. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey
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28. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'
Fish
Canada
Bunker Hill
(a) clergyman
29. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...
(planetary) rings
Aramis
Jack the Ripper
Ukraine
30. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
10
Thailand
Somalia
White
31. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Wendy
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Brazil
32. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Travelers Group
Extras
The Sixth Sense
State quarters
33. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?
Country (West Point motto)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Nicaragua
Edith Head
34. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?
(The) House of Seven Gables
Lady Marmalade
Turkmenistan
Terminal velocity
35. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
Thailand
Judy Garland
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Tongue
36. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
(Ford) Excursion
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Palau
Grenada
37. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?
Ohio and North Carolina
(The) Rolling Stones
Dentin
Texaco
38. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
40
Altamount
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Humbert Humbert
39. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Chantilly
Blue
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Turkey
40. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?
Jurassic Park
Moby Dick
Michigan
(Dallas) Love Field
41. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?
The Three Musketeers
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Thailand
42. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
I've fallen and I can't get up
Blue
Louisville (Kentucky)
Brian De Palma
43. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
Candyman
Mel Brooks
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Amos 'n' Andy
44. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Ellery Queen
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Pear(s)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
45. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?
Louisana (Superdome)
Richard Cory (himself)
Angkor Wat
2
46. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Thailand
The Artful Dodger
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
47. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
Tiny Bubbles
Cream
Edith Head
Jeremy Bentham
48. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
(the) World Cup (trophy)
North Korea
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Iran
49. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?
White
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Queen Anne's Lace
What's Up - Doc?
50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
(planetary) rings
Charles Starkweather
The Fantastic Four
Austria