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1. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
Sirhan Sirhan
American Beauty
Mel Brooks
Topper
2. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Judiciary
Salzburg
Fish
The Dick Van Dyke Show
3. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?
About Schmidt
Lord of the Flies
Philadelphia
10
4. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
Scoop
Lean on Me
Pippa Passes (1909)
Peach(es)
5. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Tarzan
Aglet
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Norma Jean
6. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Bambi
Wings (1927)
I've fallen and I can't get up
Muammar Qaddifi
7. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?
Topper
What's Up - Doc?
V8 (juice)
(an) e
8. First studio film with a black director?
The Learning Tree (1969)
Emma
Senegal
Aglet
9. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?
20
The gingerbread man
Dharma & Greg
Britney Spears
10. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?
Lillian Hellman
Humbert Humbert
Model railroad
Capri
11. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
Atom Egoyan
Parrot
Apocalypse Now
Teddy Roosevelt
12. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?
Kenneth Branagh
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Roger Vadim
Jim Valvano
13. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell
Hugo Chavez
Kate & Allie
Charles Starkweather
(the) giraffe
14. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?
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15. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Antawn Jamison
The Fantastic Four
NineInch Nails
16. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
Moby Dick
The Sixth Sense
(The) House of Seven Gables
17. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
Pulp Fiction
3 2 1 Contact
EMForster
Kayak
18. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Jim Lovell
New York - New York
10
19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?
Thrust
Spain
Rochelle - Rochelle
Carbon dioxide
20. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?
Ganesh
Italy
Wiley Post
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
21. How many band members were there in UB40?
Darwin's
Pulp Fiction
8
Marian the Librarian (the Music Man)
22. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Ohio and North Carolina
Black
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
23. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
Banana
Bound for Glory (1976)
Cameroon
James Cook (English - 1770)
24. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
(The) Yucatan Peninsula
Ione Skye
Jeremy Bentham
Ken Davitian
25. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?
Home Improvement
Boxing
Farting
(the) giraffe
26. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?
Ozone
Darwin's
Italy
The gingerbread man
27. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Milk Duds
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
Colonel Tom Parker
28. First New York Times movie review?
Bank One
Body Count
The Ritz (hotel)
Pippa Passes (1909)
29. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Venus
In Cold Blood
Nicky
A Room With a View (Forster)
30. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Ganesh
Thailand
Palm Sunday
Theodore Roosevelt
31. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Dracula
Canada
Jerusalem
Lean on Me
32. 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?
Rochelle - Rochelle
Martin Landau
By choice - man!
The (Buffalo) Sabres
33. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?
Jorge Luis Borges
India
Lillian Hellman
Bling bling
34. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Baden-Baden
Switzerland
Gerry Goffin and Carole King ('Go Away Little Girl' and 'Do the Loco-motion')
35. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
'A Spoonful of Sugar
Robert Scott
(George Bernard) Shaw
(the) Great Train Robbery
36. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Tarzan
The Tell-tale Heart
Ambrose Bierce
Teddy Roosevelt
37. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
Nicaragua
Becky Sharp (1935)
Seven
Pippa Passes (1909)
38. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?
Fish
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Rocky Balboa
Body Count
39. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Tammy Faye Bakker
4
1606
Ken Davitian
40. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Aurora australis
Dharma & Greg
State quarters
Manhunter
41. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?
Jenny McCarthy
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
42. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?
Uruguay
Eric Bogosian
Balthasar (Magi)
Limp Bizkit
43. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?
S(ain)t Louis
Llama
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Bambi
44. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
Philip Marlowe
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Salt Lake City
Paramount
45. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Oregon (or New Jersey)
The (Dodge/Plymouth) Neon
Amoco (Standard Oil Company)
Subaru
46. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Steven Spielberg
Ski slopes
Alsatians
Liar Liar
47. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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48. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Eddie Matthews
Howard Hughes
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
49. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?
(Gerald)Ford
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
Shrek 2
It Happened One Night (1934)
50. First film with Dolby sound?
(Archbishop) Desmond Tutu
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
Bob Dylan