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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
(a) turtle (or tortoise)
Orange(s)
Go Away Little Girl
Candyman
2. 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
Seven Nation Army (for the Salvation Army)
Gorilla
The Dome of the Rock
3. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Extras
A Room With a View (Forster)
4. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?
Prince
Antonio Stradivarius
Wiley Post
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
5. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?
Oscar and Lucinda
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Palmer
Bwana Devil (1952)
6. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
Buster Douglas
Jim Calhoun
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
Cameroon
7. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
Jim Valvano
Ozone
Romania
New Zealand
8. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?
XTC
Paul Newman
Carrie Underwood
Grape(s)
9. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?
Rocky Balboa
The Boston Celtics (21)
Yes
Lady Marmalade
10. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?
Sullivan Ordinance
Manhunter
I'm a Believer
Small intestine(s)
11. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?
Genesis
Everybody Hates
TheName of The Rose
Tarzan
12. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Sleeping Beauty
Sullivan Ordinance
(Sherman) Antitrust (Act - 1890 - prohibited certain business practices that reduce competition)
13. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Clownfish
Turkmenistan
Egypt
Jive
14. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?
Somewhere in Time
Mitch
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
White
15. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
TheName of The Rose
(The) House of Seven Gables
Kenneth Branagh
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
16. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?
Jorge Luis Borges
Beowulf
Manhunter
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
17. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
O. J. Simpson
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Murmur
St. Louis Cardinals
18. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?
Color blindness
Canada
Muhammad
Polo
19. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)
J. K. Rowling
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Tupac Shakur
1606
20. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Ashlee
Jive
Nicky
Travelers Group
21. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Scrat
India
Shel Silverstein
22. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan)
(Sperm) Whale
Jessica Lange
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
23. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?
Pakistan
Cream
Bob Dylan
Sir Walter Raleigh
24. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Brent Spiner
Michelle Wie
(The) NHL
25. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Antonio Stradivarius
Theodore Roosevelt
Mia Farrow
26. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?
Becky Sharp (1935)
Underoos
Charles Lindbergh
Seven
27. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Aliana
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Apocalypse Now
Palm Sunday
28. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters
Gypsy Rose Lee
Please Mr. Postman
Fraternite
Lady Marmalade
29. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
TheName of The Rose
Oahu
'Tusk' (by Fleetwood Mac)
Thelma and Louise
30. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?
Haiti
Argentina
Italy
Mickey Finn
31. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?
Humbert Humbert
Buster Douglas
Pearl Harbor
(the earth's) crust and mantle
32. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
(The) NHL
The Tell-tale Heart
Pancreas
33. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
Senegal
The Pope
Hong Kong
Tammy Faye Bakker
34. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?
Subaru
Temple prostitute
Beowulf
Ozone
35. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
Dairy Queen
De Beers
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Emeritus
36. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
Travelers Group
Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
Dr. James Bedford
Windsor - Ontario
37. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
B. J. Armstrong
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
M. C. Hammer
38. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?
Nod (Eugene Field poem)
When a Man Loves a Woman
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Heloise
39. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?
Black
Muhammad
Wilco
Jenny
40. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
(the) Motorwagen
Grape(s)
China
41. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
20
Polo
Lamar Alexander
42. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
Trapped in the Closet
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Robert De Niro
Christopher Columbus
43. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?
Tupac Shakur
Beverly Cleary
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
Kate & Allie
44. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?
Cream
The gingerbread man
Six
Vivendi
45. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas
It Happened One Night (1934)
Motor Trend
46. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?
Geyser
Tupac Shakur
A Room With a View (Forster)
Mashed potatoes
47. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Tammy Faye Bakker
(Adolf) Hitler
48. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?
(The) Rolling Stones
LeBron James
Salzburg
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
Mau Mau
Pear(s)
Yes
Llama
50. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?
(PE)6-5000
(Songs in) A Minor
Cat
Jean-Luc Goddard