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1. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
Chinese Democracy
Lights of New York (1928)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
2. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield
Marcel Marceau
Hope & Faith
Jim Valvano
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?
The Hula Bowl
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Moby Dick
4. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?
Liar Liar
Michigan
Pocahontas
(the) Great Train Robbery
5. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
The Canterville Ghost
Pear(s)
Clownfish
Colonel Tom Parker
6. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
Ian Fleming
Nuclear disarmament
Blue
Beowulf
7. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?
Larry Nance
Michelle Wie
Dracula
Jack Russell
8. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?
(the) Motorwagen
Sugar Ray Leonard
Buffalo
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
9. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
Muhammad
(the) ear
The Three Musketeers
Alsatians
10. 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?
Melville
Stalingrad
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
LeBron James
11. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Lemon(s)
Gene Roddenberry
The Pope
Coffee
12. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Intercourse
Ian Fleming
XTC
13. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Tiny Bubbles
Baltimore
Thailand
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
14. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Go Away Little Girl
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Colonel Harland Sanders
Ambrose Bierce
15. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Ants
Palm Sunday
MMMBob
Silicon Valley
16. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
Cornea
Mitch
(George) Clooney
St. Louis Cardinals
17. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Omega
The Ritz (hotel)
Tiny Bubbles
Curly Howard
18. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?
Leopard
Douglas
Beck (Odelay)
Lord of the Flies
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
(Sperm) Whale
(Pablo) Picasso
(George) Clooney
India
20. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Candyman
Cameroon
Avocado(s)
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
21. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?
Intercourse
Seven
Night Court
Mecca
22. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Cherries
Dharma & Greg
William Tell
Coffee
23. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Rulon Gardner
Heloise
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
24. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
Salzburg
(Albert) Einstein
The Lion King
Deer
25. Who called his elephant Tantor?
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Tarzan
The Cincinnati Reds
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
26. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Portland( - OR)
Joel Cohen
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
27. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Clownfish
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Jack the Ripper
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
28. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
Coruscant
The Ewings (Dallas)
The gingerbread man
The Cincinnati Reds
29. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
S(ain)t Louis
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
The valley of the shadow of death
30. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
Buster Douglas
Hercules
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Stanley Cup
31. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Peru
Shel Silverstein
Ohio and North Carolina
Everybody Hates
32. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Hannibal
Frank Zamboni
Betty (Rubble)
33. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Mau Mau
New York - New York
Bunker Hill
Coffee
34. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
U.N.C.L.E
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Lamar Alexander
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
35. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Naomi
V8 (juice)
Sullivan Ordinance
Alfred Hitchcock
36. First classic film to be 'colorized'?
Shrek 2
Romania
Hoop Dreams
Topper (1937)
37. First New York Times movie review?
Pippa Passes (1909)
Upset
De Beers
The Ewings (Dallas)
38. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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39. Which artist had the double album Being There?
Koran
Aaron Copland
Wilco
Seal (played by a sea lion)
40. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Tsetse fly
Mitch
Foo Fighters
41. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?
Peach(es)
Tongue
The Cincinnati Reds
'A Spoonful of Sugar
42. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?
Baden-Baden
Leopard
Beowulf
H. G. Wells
43. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?
Bling bling
Jeremy Bentham
Kornfield Kounty
(The) Rolling Stones
44. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?
Venice
Judiciary
Pegasus
Leopard
45. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?
Crunk
Bank One
Frank Zappa
Six
46. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
China
Charles Lindbergh
Pete Seeger
47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
Eve
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
The Maltese Falcon
Turkmenistan
48. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
Balthasar (Magi)
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Walter Winchell
Muammar Qaddifi
49. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Brain Boitano
Roger Vadim
Mickey Finn
Jamie Lynn
50. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Milk Duds
Colonel Tom Parker
Howard Hughes
(George) Clooney
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