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1. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Hips
Hamlet
Muammar Qaddifi
2. Who was Time Magazine's first Man of the Year in 1928?
Charles Lindbergh
Edith Head
The valley of the shadow of death
Gene Roddenberry
3. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?
Ulysseys (1967)
The Fantastic Four
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Liar Liar
4. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
IMF
Dharma & Greg
Ashlee
5. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...
Beowulf
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Beetle Juice
Brian De Palma
6. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?
Gordie Howe
Limp Bizkit
Ants
Wiley Post
7. Which company merged with NBC?
Czechoslovakia
Vivendi
Croatia
Seven
8. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Tomato(es)
Ants
Rulon Gardner
The Dome of the Rock
9. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?
Mitch
Can-Can
Pulp Fiction
Turkey
10. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Bling bling
Fig newtons
(a) ginny (or jenny)
11. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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12. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Madame (Marie) Tussaud
Mostly briefs
Ben Hogan
13. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Montreal
Alfred Hitchcock
(Songs in) A Minor
Rochelle - Rochelle
14. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Martin Landau
(The) Marines
Wales
15. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?
Eugene Onegin
Tiny Bubbles
Pear(s)
Motor Trend
16. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?
Scrooged
Steven Spielberg
(the) Republican Party
State quarters
17. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?
Basalt
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Hoop Dreams
Cullinan
18. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Pete Seeger
Red Dawn (1984)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Mitch
19. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?
The Satanic Verses
LeBron James
Charles Lindbergh
Silicon Valley
20. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?
Louie Louie
EMForster
Nicaragua
Peach (also contains orange)
21. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?
Aliana
Mostly briefs
Terminal velocity
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
22. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
(Ford) Excursion
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Italian - 1524)
Llama
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
23. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
Limp Bizkit
Martin Landau
(tested positive for) marijuana
Deer
24. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
Thailand
MMMBob
Victoria Falls
25. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!
Orange(s)
Ants
Guy Ritchie
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
26. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?
Tongue
Teapot Dome
The Ritz (hotel)
Altamount
27. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?
Jeremy Bentham
Bwana Devil (1952)
The Tell-tale Heart
(Dallas) Love Field
28. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)
The Robe (1953)
Simon Legree
B. J. Armstrong
Pear(s)
29. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler
Kayak
Hamlet
New York - New York
Will & Grace
30. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?
Windsor - Ontario
Bringing up Baby (1938)
CTU
Sugar Ray Leonard
31. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Nevada
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(Albert) Einstein
32. What kind of trust is a REIT?
Real estate (investment)
Chaminade
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
33. First scheduled in-flight movie?
By Love Possessed (1961)
Lights of New York (1928)
Billy Martin
China
34. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Ian Fleming
Pearl Harbor
(tested positive for) marijuana
35. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?
Jim Lovell
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Mitsubishi
Desiderata
36. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?
3 2 1 Contact
I've fallen and I can't get up
(The) Upper Peninsula of Michigan
(Albert) Einstein
37. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?
Harold and Maude
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Jamaica
Cornea
38. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Beck (Odelay)
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Frank Zappa
Come by here
39. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?
Watermelon(s)
Yes
Garo Yepremian
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
40. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?
TheAtlas (A)
Afghanistan
Bicycle(s)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
41. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Lights of New York (1928)
Kitty Genovese
42. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?
Balthasar (Magi)
Foo Fighters
(a) ginny (or jenny)
M. C. Hammer
43. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
Mulan
40
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
(the earth's) crust and mantle
44. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
Antonio Stradivarius
Fraternite
Brazil
Arkansas
45. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Your Girlfriend
Lazarus
Hercules
46. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?
In Cold Blood
Eeyore
Tsetse fly
Subaru
47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?
Spinal Tap
Joel Cohen
Altamount
Algeria
48. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?
Mitosis
(The) Jordan (River)
France
Lulu
49. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?
Haiti
Bonnie and Clyde
Benito Mussolini
IMDb
50. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?
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