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1. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
Farting
Country (West Point motto)
Robert De Niro
2. Which company merged with Viacom?
Paramount
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Otto
The valley of the shadow of death
3. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?
Gordie Howe
Lamar Alexander
Bank One
Jurassic Park
4. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Lamar Alexander
Eric Bogosian
Red Dawn (1984)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
5. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Babar
Theodore
A-ha
Apocalypse Now
6. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
Prince Valiant
1
Fig newtons
Do The Right Thing
7. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Sugar Ray Leonard
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Parrot
Elvis Costello
8. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?
(the) giraffe
30 Rock
Texas and New Mexico
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
9. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Steven Biko
Spellbound
10. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
Lemon(s)
James Cook (English - 1770)
Judy Garland
11. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Jamie Lynn
New York - New York
Pig
George Wilson
12. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
(the) bishop
Victoria Falls
(Gerald)Ford
Vincente Minnelli
13. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Silicon Valley
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
(The St. Louis) Blues
Canada
14. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
Nevada
The Dome of the Rock
Algeria
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
15. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Topper
Pearl Harbor
James Cook (English - 1770)
16. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Federico Fellini
Thailand
CONTROL
Ambrose Bierce
17. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
Spellbound
Cherries
Walter Winchell
18. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
The Age ofInnocence
Dollar
Ski slopes
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
19. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?
Ben Hogan
Sugar Ray Leonard
Gypsy Rose Lee
The Artful Dodger
20. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Joanne Woodward
John F. Kennedy
Ohio and North Carolina
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
21. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
Earl Morrall
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Subaru
Parrot
22. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?
Romania
(Hector) Berlioz
Capri
Underoos
23. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Joel Cohen
Baltimore
Texas and New Mexico
24. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?
Palau
Rulon Gardner
Inspiration (1915)
Everybody Hates
25. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Eeyore
Night Court
Watermelon(s)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
26. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Teapot Dome
20
Pig
Radar
27. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Shel Silverstein
Switzerland
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Howard Hughes
28. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Hannah
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Tiny Bubbles
Marcel Marceau
29. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Beck (Odelay)
Flowers for Algernon
Times Square
Jamaica Bay
30. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
The Hula Bowl
Strawberries
Cherries
Pear(s)
31. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Hannah
By Love Possessed (1961)
Subaru
32. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?
The Hula Bowl
The Loco-motion
Colonel Tom Parker
Portland( - OR)
33. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?
V8 (juice)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Geyser
Genesis
34. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Happyness
Prince Valiant
Sao Paulo
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
35. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Racecar
Atom Egoyan
Antawn Jamison
Thailand
36. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Michigan
Please Mr. Postman
Paradise Lost
Hindenburg (explosion)
37. First film edited digitally - via Avid?
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Oahu
3
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
38. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?
STP Motor Oil
Scrat
When a Man Loves a Woman
Sri Lanka
39. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Go Away Little Girl
France
Finland
Kayak
40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
Palmer
Tsetse fly
Mulan
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
41. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Solipsism
Orange
TheAtlas (A)
New York - New York
42. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
India
The Canterville Ghost
Nicky
Lights of New York (1928)
43. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
(tested positive for) marijuana
Frankenstein('s monster)
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
(a) ginny (or jenny)
44. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
Kitty Genovese
Mel Brooks
Frank Zamboni
45. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
Haiti
Prince Valiant
Lord of the Flies
Mitch
46. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Couscous
The Tell-tale Heart
Kornfield Kounty
Mashed potatoes
47. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?
Prince Valiant
Charles Lindbergh
IMDb
Simon Legree
48. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
Donner Pass
Tupac Shakur
Garo Yepremian
Colonel Tom Parker
49. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Tammy Faye Bakker
38th Parallel
G. E. Smith
50. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Tomato(es)
Roger Vadim
Leopard
Simon Legree