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1. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Roger Bannister
Texas and New Mexico
Rocky Balboa
2. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?
Condoleezza Rice
3 2 1 Contact
Coffee
Delaware
3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
Renny Harlin
A Christmas Carol
Silicon Valley
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
4. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?
Topper
Labor (Management Relations Act - 1947 - reduced effective power of labor) unions
Jack the Ripper
Sirhan Sirhan
5. What TV series is about this show: FYI?
Beverly Cleary
Murphy Brown
Fig newtons
'A Spoonful of Sugar
6. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
John F. Kennedy
Dentin
Topper (1937)
Czechoslovakia
7. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?
(The) Marines
Bicycle(s)
The Mona Lisa
Beetle Juice
8. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
The Hula Bowl
About Schmidt
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Orange
9. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?
The White Witch
Vincente Minnelli
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Gordie Howe
10. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Bob Dylan
Fish
Thelma and Louise
John F. Kennedy
11. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
Please Mr. Postman
Muammar Qaddifi
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
12. Which company merged with Boeing?
Crunk
Pegasus
Couscous
McDonnell Douglas
13. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Aglet
Gene Roddenberry
Naomi
14. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Oort cloud
Coruscant
Cameroon
15. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
The Hula Bowl
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
16. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sweden
Bonnie and Clyde
Maya Angelou
17. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
Sally Ride
8
Extras
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
18. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?
Pig
State quarters
Larry Nance
Pegasus
19. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
Czechoslovakia
Sweden
(the) giraffe
Teddy Roosevelt
20. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
Field of Dreams
Michelle Wie
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
21. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Peach (also contains orange)
Rome
Hercules
22. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?
Babette March
Otto
Motor Trend
The Learning Tree (1969)
23. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Murray Gell-Mann
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Buster Douglas
Jim Calhoun
24. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?
The Frighteners
Grenada
Do The Right Thing
Roger Maris
25. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Happyness
Afghanistan
The food pyramid (though now it's been changed to a plate)
26. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Jive
Robert Scott
The Lion King
Atom Egoyan
27. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?
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28. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
Murmur
Betty (Rubble)
Muammar Qaddifi
Shel Silverstein
29. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Prince Valiant
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Your Girlfriend
Victoria Falls
30. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?
(a) clergyman
Hamlet
Algeria
Edsel
31. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
Ski slopes
Pocahontas
Hydrogen and oxygen
New York - New York
32. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Westward Ho!
Lazarus
Charles Starkweather
Brian De Palma
33. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?
Michigan
Kali
A Christmas Carol
(the) ear
34. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
Pachyderm
Murphy Brown
Queen Anne's Lace
The Ring
35. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Westward Ho!
Lady Marmalade
Crunk
36. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Silicon and oxygen
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Thailand
37. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?
Ants
(the) Jack of diamonds
Thanksgiving
Go Away Little Girl
38. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?
Bob Dylan
Judy Garland
Pippa Passes (1909)
The Mini (Cooper)
39. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
Coal
J. K. Rowling
Edith Head
Tupac Shakur
40. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?
The (Chevrolet) Corvair
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Randy Quaid
John F. Kennedy
41. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Ulysseys (1967)
Hercules
Ellery Queen
The Mini (Cooper)
42. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?
Murray Gell-Mann
Charles Starkweather
Orangutan
Plum(s)
43. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
STP Motor Oil
She shot JR (Dallas)
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
The Chrysler Building
44. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?
George Deukmejian
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Rochelle - Rochelle
Ken Davitian
45. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?
Simon Legree
IMDb
The Lion King
(the earth's) crust and mantle
46. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?
The Stanley Cup
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Wendy
Bank One
47. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Gene Roddenberry
Judy Garland
The Ring
2
48. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
North America
NineInch Nails
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Paramount
49. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
Ione Skye
Britney Spears
Odor Eaters (insoles)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
50. Which company merged with Chevron?
Alsatians
Texaco
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
The Age ofInnocence
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