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1. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Algeria
IMF
The Ritz (hotel)
2. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Pegasus
Bicycle(s)
E. B. White
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
3. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
John F. Kennedy
Go Away Little Girl
Beverly Cleary
Dairy Queen
4. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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5. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring
Emma
Jerusalem
Oort cloud
About Schmidt
6. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Tsetse fly
Jeremy Bentham
Randy Quaid
Candyman
7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?
Orange
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
(The) NHL
Steven Biko
8. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Yes
Arkansas
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Deer
9. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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10. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Tongue
Bicycle(s)
The Stanley Cup
11. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?
(The) Jordan (River)
Ukraine
5
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
12. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
TheAtlas (A)
Ellery Queen
Sleeping Beauty
13. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
Brain Boitano
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
China
(the) Great Train Robbery
14. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?
Jamaica
Murray Gell-Mann
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Mary Decker (Slaney)
15. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?
Robert Scott
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Boxing
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
16. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?
Oort cloud
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
40
Pictures of Matchstick Men
17. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
In Cold Blood
18. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Laverne & Shirley
Hydrogen and oxygen
Thailand
(the) bishop
19. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?
Portland( - OR)
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Darwin's
(the) evacuation of Saigon
20. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?
Old Time Rock and Roll
Michelle Wie
Jack Russell
Randy Quaid
21. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
The Loco-motion
Moby Dick
By Love Possessed (1961)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
22. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
Beetle Juice
Jive
Jamaica Bay
North Korea
23. First all-sound film?
Murphy Brown
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Lights of New York (1928)
Apocalypse Now
24. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?
Underoos
LeBron James
Teapot Dome
Body Count
25. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?
Everybody Hates
Jack the Ripper
(Gerald)Ford
Texaco
26. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
Germany
Victoria Falls
Chinese Democracy
Brazil
27. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
Robert De Niro
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Sally Ride
(the earth's) crust and mantle
28. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
The Maltese Falcon
Odor Eaters (insoles)
I'll Be There
29. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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30. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Wiley Post
Hamlet
By choice - man!
Jean-Luc Goddard
31. First all-sound film?
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Liar Liar
Pearl Harbor
Lights of New York (1928)
32. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?
Croatia
Federico Fellini
About Schmidt
(planetary) rings
33. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
George Deukmejian
Mars
Tongue
34. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
Heloise
Eve
Oahu
Coffee
35. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?
Clownfish
Spellbound
Chinese Democracy
Palmer
36. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?
Pegasus
John F. Kennedy
The Canterville Ghost
Britney Spears
37. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?
Basalt
The Artful Dodger
Blue
The (Buffalo) Sabres
38. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
Times Square
Peach (also contains orange)
J. K. Rowling
Charles Lindbergh
39. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Bwana Devil (1952)
Hoop Dreams
Romania
Philip Marlowe
40. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?
Kali
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Ian Fleming
Solipsism
41. First computer graphics in film?
Westworld (1973)
Aliana
Sleeping Beauty
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
42. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Coruscant
(her) hair
Moby Dick
43. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Lillian Hellman
(The) Rolling Stones
Uruguay
Donner Pass
44. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
St. Louis Cardinals
Muammar Qaddifi
Manhunter
38th Parallel
45. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Bound for Glory (1976)
Oedipus
Argentina
46. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
V2 (rocket)s
Oahu
Hugo Chavez
Aaron Copland
47. First New York Times movie review?
Germany
Pippa Passes (1909)
The Pope
Flowers for Algernon
48. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
(the) New York Mets
Peach(es)
Montreal
(the) Great Train Robbery
49. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
(street) lanes
Mashed potatoes
Roberto Rossellini
James Cook (English - 1770)
50. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?
Somewhere in Time
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
TheName of The Rose
Colombia