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Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






2. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?






4. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?






6. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






7. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






8. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






9. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






10. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






11. 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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12. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






13. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?






14. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






15. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






16. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






17. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






18. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






19. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






20. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






21. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






22. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






23. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






25. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






26. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






27. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






28. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






29. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?






30. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






31. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






32. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






33. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






34. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






35. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






36. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






37. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






38. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






39. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






40. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






41. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






42. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)






43. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






44. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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45. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






46. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






47. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






48. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






49. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






50. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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