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1. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?
Nicky
Sonic Youth
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
The Mini (Cooper)
2. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Omega
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Jack the Ripper
Teapot Dome
3. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?
Stevie Wonder
Benito Mussolini
The Hula Bowl
Tiny Bubbles
4. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?
Tongue
The Sixth Sense
Bicycle(s)
Eric Bogosian
5. First New York Times movie review?
Lady Marmalade
Pippa Passes (1909)
Montreal
Pocahontas
6. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?
(the) New York Mets
Tiger Woods
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Pachyderm
7. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?
(The) Rolling Stones
Silicon and oxygen
Naomi
Mars
8. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?
Norma Jean
Atom Egoyan
V8 (juice)
Benito Mussolini
9. Who was Time Magazine's first Man of the Year in 1928?
Charles Lindbergh
Romeo and Juliet
Senegal
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
(George Bernard) Shaw
Radar
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pocahontas
11. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?
(a) clergyman
Bound for Glory (1976)
The Tell-tale Heart
Marcel Marceau
12. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
John Cassavets
MASH
(the) Boston Tea Party
13. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?
Kayak
Judiciary
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
14. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?
Everybody Hates
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Hong Kong
Thrust
15. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
The Mini (Cooper)
Maya Angelou
Humbert Humbert
The Artful Dodger
16. First film with Dolby sound?
(a) Yo-yo
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Sparrow
Oedipus
17. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?
The Pope
Thailand
The Three Musketeers
Eeyore
18. 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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19. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Tarzan
The Three Musketeers
Tomato(es)
The Sparrow
20. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Donner Pass
(the)Indianapolis Colts
Parking meters
21. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
The Stanley Cup
Pulp Fiction
Banana
(the) Motorwagen
22. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
Cullinan
8
Candyman
Walter Winchell
23. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Clownfish
Hong Kong
Crunk
Pig
24. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?
Nuclear disarmament
In Cold Blood
Hoop Dreams
Mitch
25. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?
Ohio and North Carolina
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Paradise Lost
26. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
Pegasus
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
Subaru
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
27. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Dentin
Bank One
Extras
28. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?
Brazil
Pachyderm
The Three Musketeers
Hindenburg (explosion)
29. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Nicaragua
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Rebecca
Parking meters
30. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
Sweden
Switzerland
Palmer
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
31. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Eugene Onegin
Plum(s)
Ken Davitian
Your Girlfriend
32. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?
Mitosis
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
Fontanelles
8
33. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Sleeping Beauty
Liar Liar
Hamlet
34. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Elle
The Boston Celtics (21)
James Shields (illinois - Minnesota - and Missouri)
35. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?
(Smoot-Hawley) Tariff (Act of 1930 - raised tariffs to promote US industry - backfired)
Martha Stewart
John F. Kennedy
Upset
36. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
(tested positive for) marijuana
Curly Howard
Chile
Texas and New Mexico
37. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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38. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?
A-ha
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
(the) bishop
Oahu
39. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
John Cassavets
The gingerbread man
Boxing
(Ralph Hinkley's name was changed when) John Hinckley - Jr. (shot Ronald Reagan)
40. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
Spinal Tap
The Dome of the Rock
The Weekly World News
Seven
41. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
J. K. Rowling
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
(planetary) rings
Christina Aguilera
42. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
New York - New York
Lamar Alexander
MASH
Alfred Hitchcock
43. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?
CTU
Jean-Luc Goddard
Lights of New York (1928)
Beverly Cleary
44. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?
Blue
Somewhere in Time
Afghanistan
The Sparrow
45. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?
Tiger Woods
Extras
Paul Newman
Cream
46. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Boxing
The Mini (Cooper)
Stalingrad
Uruguay
47. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
Finland
Betty (Rubble)
Happyness
Wendy
48. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?
Mulan
Prince
Howard Hughes
Kayak
49. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?
Beowulf
(The) Bonfire of the Vanities
Judy Garland
6
50. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?
Bambi
1
The Descent
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld