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1. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Senegal
Charles Lindbergh
Pakistan
2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
White
India
Ukraine
3. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Silicon Valley
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Teapot Dome
Colonel Tom Parker
4. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?
Judy Garland
NineInch Nails
Wiley Post
Philip Marlowe
5. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
(the) New York Mets
Peach (also contains orange)
Paradise Lost
Harold and Maude
6. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
20
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Larry Nance
(The) Marines
7. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
State quarters
Fig newtons
Yellow
Oahu
8. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
Elle
Martin Scorsese
Brain Boitano
Eugene Onegin
9. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
John F. Kennedy
CONTROL
Eris (Discord)
It Happened One Night (1934)
10. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Atom Egoyan
The Others
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
(a) Yo-yo
11. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
3 2 1 Contact
Elle
Shel Silverstein
Manhunter
12. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?
Tiger Woods
Upset
(Albert) Einstein
Italy
13. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
5
Spinal Tap
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
14. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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15. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?
O. J. Simpson
Home Improvement
Ohio and North Carolina
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
16. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope
Teddy Roosevelt
Candyman
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
McDonnell Douglas
17. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?
Gene Roddenberry
Extras
Haiti
Utah
18. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?
Clownfish
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
19. First studio film with a black director?
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Spellbound
The Learning Tree (1969)
Texas and New Mexico
20. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Canada
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Royal jelly
I'll Be There
21. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Wales
Mia Farrow
(Tiananmen Square's) Unknown Rebel
Pennsylvania
22. Which company merged with NBC?
Larry Nance
(The) Jordan (River)
Pachyderm
Vivendi
23. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Red
Judiciary
Montgomery - Alabama
(The) Rolling Stones
24. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack the Ripper
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
The Cincinnati Reds
Pakistan
25. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Kayak
26. Who 'discovered' Alaska?
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Antonin Scalia
Mars
27. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Gomer Pyle
Windsor - Ontario
(her) hair
De Beers
28. First scheduled in-flight movie?
Ambrose Bierce
By Love Possessed (1961)
Jeremy Bentham
Robert De Niro
29. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?
J. K. Rowling
Llama
Nicaragua
Upset
30. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?
The Dome of the Rock
Cherries
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Mars
31. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Wendy
Louisville (Kentucky)
China
(The) dodo
32. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?
The Descent
Lillian Hellman
Beck (Odelay)
Sleeping Beauty
33. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
A Christmas Carol
Rulon Gardner
Victoria Falls
Manhunter
34. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Somewhere in Time
The Little Mermaid
Hannah
8
35. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
Happyness
Pegasus
Body Count
John Speke (English - 1856)
36. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Westworld (1973)
Fahrenheit 451
Almonds
Roger Bannister
37. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
Venice
Michigan
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
38. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
John Cassavets
(Pablo) Picasso
Orange
39. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?
(The) NHL
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Lean on Me
Chile
40. How many band members were there in Green Day?
Polo
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
Murmur
3
41. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Harold and Maude
Uruguay
H. G. Wells
42. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
The gingerbread man
Six
Jorge Luis Borges
CONTROL
43. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Yellow
Jack Russell
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Morning)
Grenada
44. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
Buffalo
Marcel Marceau
Jim Jones
Thailand
45. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Silicon and oxygen
Radar
The Robe (1953)
46. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
Intercourse
Liar Liar
Six
Dannii
47. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow
The White Witch
Bonnie and Clyde
38th Parallel
Bucket
48. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?
Richard Cory (himself)
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
Fish
Peach (also contains orange)
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?
White
Bicycle(s)
Orange(s)
Temple prostitute
50. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Guy Ritchie
5
About Schmidt
Algeria