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1. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?
Eeyore
Martin Scorsese
Lady Marmalade
Mashed potatoes
2. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?
Color blindness
Iran
Shrek 2
The Age ofInnocence
3. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
Capybara
38th Parallel
Buffalo
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
4. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
Tongue
Snape
George Wilson
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
5. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?
Otto
Temple prostitute
Dracula
Pearl Harbor
6. Who killed the literary character Grendel?
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
(the) Republican Party
Beowulf
J. K. Rowling
7. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?
Body Count
Oedipus
Lights of New York (1928)
(the) Bathyscape Trieste
8. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
The Artful Dodger
Spellbound
Windsor - Ontario
40
9. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?
New York - New York
Jerusalem
Roger Vadim
(Adolf) Hitler
10. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
Dentin
Home Improvement
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
Mexico
11. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?
Truly - Madly - Deeply
E. B. White
By choice - man!
God's number (in Bruce Almighty)
12. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)
Spinal Tap
IMDb
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
J. M. Barrie
13. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
Barry Sanders
MMMBob
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
American Beauty
14. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...
Moby Dick
Vivendi
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
The Ring
15. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?
Antawn Jamison
Gomer Pyle
Ian Fleming
Home Improvement
16. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?
Pete Seeger
John F. Kennedy
When a Man Loves a Woman
Pearl Harbor
17. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Christina Aguilera
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Bwana Devil (1952)
18. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?
Apocalypse Now
Steven Spielberg
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Brazil
19. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Finland
The Hula Bowl
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
20. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Solipsism
Joel Cohen
Odor Eaters (insoles)
21. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?
HP Lovecraft
Hercules
Wendy
Roger Vadim
22. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?
(The) NHL
Hugo Chavez
Germany
Vincente Minnelli
23. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?
Manhunter
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Pachyderm
Bunker Hill
24. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?
Ollie (TV puppet show in the 50s)
Sullivan Ordinance
U.N.C.L.E
Federico Fellini
25. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?
Smerdyakov
Somalia
Fish
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
26. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?
Fig newtons
Please Mr. Postman
Cullinan
The Lion King
27. Which company merged with Citicorp?
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Thailand
Travelers Group
Jim Valvano
28. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?
(The) Marines
Underoos
Oedipus
Mulan
29. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Jack Russell
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Bucket
30. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?
Brazil
Gorilla
Hamlet
Pocahontas
31. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
The Hula Bowl
London Bridge
Roger Maris
The Pope
32. First use of Steadicam in film?
Bound for Glory (1976)
10
France
The Weekly World News
33. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?
Romeo and Juliet
IMDb
Sonic Youth
Apocalypse Now
34. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
Alsatians
Country (West Point motto)
Pancreas
Jim Calhoun
35. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?
Ganesh
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Douglas
Your Girlfriend
36. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?
(the) Great Train Robbery
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
37. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?
Christina Aguilera
Omega
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Duran Duran
38. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'
Algeria
Muammar Qaddifi
Frank Zamboni
Canada
39. What chain introduced the 'Blizzard' in 1985?
Queen Anne's Lace
Kali
Dairy Queen
(the) World Cup (trophy)
40. Who both married and directed Geena Davis
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
George Deukmejian
Renny Harlin
Leopard
41. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Yellow (and key!)
Brent Spiner
Jenny McCarthy
Philadelphia
42. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Thailand
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Teapot Dome
Tammy Faye Bakker
43. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?
China
MASH
Pink
Finland
44. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
(tested positive for) marijuana
Antonio Stradivarius
George Wilson
John Speke (English - 1856)
45. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?
Harold and Maude
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Carrie Underwood
Eddie Matthews
46. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?
Colombia
Yellow (and key!)
40
Utah
47. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?
The Tell-tale Heart
Chinese Democracy
Candyman
(the) Boston Tea Party
48. Who 'discovered' Brazil?
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
1
8
Jim Valvano
49. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
Panama
A Christmas Carol
(the) Boston Tea Party
Joel Cohen
50. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Honky Tonk Woman (Country Honk)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Rebecca