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1. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
Paramount
By choice - man!
The Sixth Sense
Jim Valvano
2. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
Spinal Tap
Orange
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Avocado(s)
3. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?
Cape Hatteras
Hannibal
Alsatians
Egypt
4. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
Aaron Copland
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Seven
Tongue
5. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?
Night Court
Alfred Hitchcock
Colonel Harland Sanders
Ski slopes
6. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Martin Scorsese
Cornea
Laverne & Shirley
The Artful Dodger
7. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?
(The) dodo
Upset
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Louisana (Superdome)
8. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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9. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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10. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Delaware
1
Capri
Seven
11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?
Federico Fellini
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Gene Roddenberry
Jurassic Park
12. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Ali MacGraw
Westward Ho!
Portland( - OR)
13. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?
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14. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
IMDb
Muammar Qaddifi
Can-Can
Hoop Dreams
15. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?
Bucket
Lamar Alexander
Rome
Buster Douglas
16. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Manhunter
Guy Ritchie
Horse
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
17. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Ian Fleming
Lemon(s)
40
Moby Dick
18. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Red
Rochelle - Rochelle
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
19. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?
Aglet
Nicky
Lord of the Flies
Desiderata
20. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Montreal
Upset
Capybara
21. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
1
The valley of the shadow of death
Couscous
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
22. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?
Subaru
Jorge Luis Borges
Walter Winchell
V2 (rocket)s
23. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Extras
Larry Nance
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
24. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
New York - New York
Country (West Point motto)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
25. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
Alfred Hitchcock
Portland( - OR)
Plum(s)
Chinese Democracy
26. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Pennsylvania
Omega
Pocahontas
Bunker Hill
27. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
Real estate (investment)
Orangutan
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
28. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Bunker Hill
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
Kali
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
29. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
Prince
Mecca
Sleeping Beauty
The Mona Lisa
30. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?
Parrot
Sri Lanka
The Satanic Verses
Beetle Juice
31. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
Yes
Carrie Underwood
(The) Rolling Stones
Judy Garland
32. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Real estate (investment)
Richard Cory (himself)
The Three Musketeers
Tammy Faye Bakker
33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Bonnie and Clyde
Spain
Salt Lake City
De Beers
34. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?
New York - New York
Walter Winchell
Candyman
Judy Garland
35. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?
Aurora australis
Omega
Czechoslovakia
Can-Can
36. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?
Subaru
The Mona Lisa
Hips
(The) dodo
37. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?
The Frighteners
Barry Sanders
Romeo and Juliet
Tongue
38. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?
Duran Duran
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Mitch
39. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
Hannah
Thelma and Louise
A Room With a View (Forster)
Compaq
40. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?
Peach (also contains orange)
Rene Descartes
Brazil
Alsatians
41. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
The Age ofInnocence
Bank One
Capri
42. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?
Teddy Roosevelt
(the) World Cup (trophy)
Hoop Dreams
Burberry
43. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?
(the) Motorwagen
Scrooged
The Bridge over the River Kwai
New Zealand
44. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
Omega
Portland( - OR)
Tiny Bubbles
The Dome of the Rock
45. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?
Hydrogen and oxygen
The Tell-tale Heart
Do The Right Thing
Ellery Queen
46. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Jean-Luc Goddard
Red
Howard Hughes
Bling bling
47. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Home Improvement
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Ski slopes
Frank Zappa
48. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
India
Bound for Glory (1976)
(Adolf) Hitler
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
49. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?
Watermelon(s)
Pippa Passes (1909)
Hong Kong
Judiciary
50. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Temple prostitute
Pete Seeger
Lemon(s)
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