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1. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?
Roger Vadim
Aglet
Cape Hatteras
(Pablo) Picasso
2. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Will & Grace
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Somewhere in Time
3. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
(Songs in) A Minor
The Pope
(the) giraffe
A Fistfull of Dollars
4. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Tsetse fly
(The) Rolling Stones
Charles Starkweather
China
5. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Milk Duds
Mashed potatoes
(a) clergyman
6. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Otto
Pakistan
Hugo Chavez
Parrot
7. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Mahi mahi
Lazarus
Koran
8. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Topper (1937)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Jack the Ripper
Ali MacGraw
9. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Dharma & Greg
Snape
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
10. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
Altamount
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Westward Ho!
Ali MacGraw
11. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Elvis Costello
By Love Possessed (1961)
Almonds
Hong Kong
12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
White
EMForster
Norma Jean
Bambi
13. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'
It Happened One Night (1934)
Eve
The Fantastic Four
Hindenburg (explosion)
14. First all-sound film?
Prince Valiant
Martin Landau
Pete Seeger
Lights of New York (1928)
15. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
10
Westward Ho!
Duran Duran
(Dallas) Love Field
16. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Scrat
Ants
Mickey Finn
Beverly Cleary
17. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?
(Honda) Civic
Manhunter
Randy Quaid
A Midsummer Night's Dream
18. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
Mexico
Marcel Marceau
Queen Anne's Lace
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
19. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Come by here
Hannah
Ozone
20. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk
Pearl Harbor
Finland
Geyser
The Loco-motion
21. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'
Condoleezza Rice
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
MMMBob
Peach (also contains orange)
22. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
Gypsy Rose Lee
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Cream
J. K. Rowling
23. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?
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24. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)
G. E. Smith
V8 (juice)
NineInch Nails
(the) evacuation of Saigon
25. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Colonel Harland Sanders
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
26. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
Deer
SD-6
Nauruan
Mulan
27. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
The Descent
S(ain)t Louis
2
Beverly Cleary
28. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?
Rat
The Three Musketeers
Jim Jones
Colombia
29. First film in CinemaScope?
Panama
(Songs in) A Minor
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
The Robe (1953)
30. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Rome
Fig newtons
Simon Legree
Gypsy Rose Lee
31. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
A-ha
Everybody Hates
Mashed potatoes
Lamar Alexander
32. 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?
Tongue
Brain Boitano
Tupac Shakur
Model railroad
33. What is a female donkey called?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Mars
Naomi
Antawn Jamison
34. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
Body Count
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Senegal
35. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Israel
Switzerland
Emeritus
STP Motor Oil
36. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Turkey
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
30 Rock
Pink
37. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Christopher Columbus
Michelle Wie
Eugene Onegin
(Dallas) Love Field
38. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Lord of the Flies
Roger Maris
Bambi
The Ring
39. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
John F. Kennedy
The Descent
Rocky Balboa
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
40. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Tiger Woods
Apocalypse Now
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Wilco
41. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Benito Mussolini
2
Amos 'n' Andy
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
42. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Compaq
Grenada
Blue
Almonds
43. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
The Ring
Muammar Qaddifi
44. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
(street) lanes
White
Cornea
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
45. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
North Korea
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
46. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
4
(the) giraffe
Model railroad
The Cincinnati Reds
47. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Chile
Carbon dioxide
Harold and Maude
Cornea
48. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Lady Marmalade
Pancreas
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
49. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
James Cameron
Texaco
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
1606
50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?
Underoos
Austria
The Pope
Terminal velocity