What New York banker did bridezilla Star Jones marry in a 2004 extravaganza?
Al Reynolds
What king was executed in part for the excesses of his inquisitional "Star Chamber"?
Charles I
Many Bothan spies died to ensure the destruction of what?
the second Death Star
What 1984 hit repeated says "Come on, shine your heavenly body tonight"?
Lucky Star
What future secretary of state became America's first 5-star general in December 1944?
George Marshall
What nation has the second-most number of stars on their flag, with 27?
Brazil
In 3000 BC it was Thuban. In 12000 years it will be Vega. was is it today?
Polaris
Who merged with the struggling Cleveland Barons in 1978?
The Minnesota North Stars
What famous Don McClean song is named for a painter?
Vincent
What other late-night veteran succeeded Ed McMahon as the host of Star Search in a 2003 revival?
Arsenio Hall
Bart Starr was the winning quarterback of the famous 1967 "Ice Bowl" NFL Championship. Who was the losing quarterback?
Don Meredith
What kind of star will our sun become in 5 billion years?
red giant
Judy Garland:James Mason::Barbra Streisand:______________
Kris Kristofferson (A Star is Born costars)
Not until 2002 did Sony end production of its recorders using what doomed video standard?
Betamax
What hit 2004 film, though set in the present day, features a high school dance where Alphaville's "Forever Young" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" play?
Napoleon Dynamite
A California Chumash Indian woman, apparently killed by a blow to the head 9,000 years ago, is the only human ever to be found where?
The La Brea Tar Pits
The time-traveling scientist in TV's Quantum Leap shares his name with what absurdist playwright?
Samuel Beckett
Because it's been retired to honor Jackie Robinson, what NY Yankee is the last person allowed to wear uniform number 42
Mariano Rivera
Who shocked Pittsburgh fans in the summer of 1999 when he returned home from Italy shorn of his trademark mullet?
Jaromir Jagr
What was the first decade revisted by VH1's I love the... series?
1980s
Who draft-dodged the Trojan War by dressing as a woman in the court of King Lycomedes?
Achilles
What 1993 film's title character has the first name Euphegenia?
Mrs. Doubtfire
Who often performed as falsetto-voiced middle-aged housewives called "pepperpots" in their sketches?
Monty Python
The US's first law school for women was named for what cross-dressing Shakespearean character?
Portia
The protagonists of Some Like it Hot dress as women because they're in hiding, having witnessed what real-life event?
The Saint Valentines Day Massacre
What was the famous pseudonym of crossdresser Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin?
George Sand
Who won an Oscar for playing a cross-dresser going by the name of Thomas Kent?
Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
In Hedwig and the Angry Inch, what was Hedwig's birth name?
Hansel
What actor died in Malta after 3 bottles of run during the filming of Gladiator?
Oliver Reed
What's the claim to fame of Beacon Hill's Bull & Finch Pub?
Exterior was the Cheers bar
On what island is Paddy's Pub, the site of a 2002 terrorist bombing?
Bali
What protests inspired John Lennon's 1968 song Revolution?
the Sorbonne, Paris
What current (2008) world leader began his plan to take power after the 1989 Caracazo riots?
Hugo Chavez
What poison disfigured Ukrainian reformer Viktor Yushchenko, leading to the Orange Revolution of 2004?
Dioxin
What Morris Day-led band faces off against Prince and the Revolution in the film Purple Rain?
The Time
Shirley Temple Black was the US ambassador to what nation at the time of its 1989 revolution?
Czechoslovakia
The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 is sometimes known by the name of what month, in which it began?
October
Whom did the Daughters of the American Revolution bar from singing at Constitution Hall in 1936?
Marian Anderson
What state's Old Man of the Mountain, which began appearing on their state quarters in 2000, collapsed in 2003?
New Hampshire
What European country is named for the Dinaric Alps?
Montenegro
What two US states have the word "Mountain" in their official nicknames?
West Virginia (the Mountain State) and Vermont (the Green Mountain State)
What fictional village sits in the shadow of Mount Crumpit?
Whoville
What was known as "Bolshaya Gora" when it was part of Russia?
Mount McKinley (Denali)
Sir Edmund Hillary appears on the currency of what nation?
New Zealand
What was first marketed with hillbilly themed advertising, since its name is a euphemism for moonshine?
Mountain Dew
What distinction is usually claimed to belong to Gangkhar Puensum, a 24,000-foot peak in Bhutan?
Highest unclimbed mountain in the world
What three Disneyland attractions have the world "Mountain" in the name?
Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
What harbor is overlooked by Victoria Peak?
Hong Kong
Who covered Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "Aint No Mountain High Enough" and made it into a number one hit?
Dianna Ross
Where would you find the 89,000-foot peak Olympus Mons?
Mars
What Titan did Perseus turn to stone in Morocco?
Atlas
What New England peak famous for its bad weather was the site of a record 231-mph wind gust in 1934?
Mount Washington
What two members of Brokeback Mountain cast have siblings who are also award-winning actors?
Jake Gyllenhaal (Maggie) and Randy Quaid (Dennis)
What range contains the world's highest mountains not located in Asia?
Andes
Who designed the Washington Memorial Arch in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan's Washington Square to celebrate the centennial of the first president's inaurguration?
Stanford White
Kellogg's PopTarts outcompeted what Post rival?
Country Squares
What legendary capital is famously square-shaped?
Kublai Khan
What color is the square that's the logo for H&R Block?
Green
What former Broadway Annie and future Emmy winner was the star of TV's Square Pegs?
Sarah Jessica Parker
What country borders both of the world's only two nations with square flags?
Italy (Switzerland and Vatican)
What is the name of the flat square prison that holds the Kryptonian criminals in the Superman movies?
the Phantom Zone
Wenceslas Square is in what European capital?
Prague
New Deal : FDR :: Square Deal : ____________
Teddy
Code Talkers" who joined the marines in 1942 and spoke a secret code based on their tribal language were of what tribe?
Navajo
What scriptural phrase spoken by Balaam in Numbers 23:23 is now closely associated with Samuel Morse?
What hath god wrought
What civilization lived by the code of Hammurabi?
Babylonians
At the end of the Da Vinci Code, the Holy Grail is revealed to be buried at what popular spot?
The Louvre
The Hollywood "Production Code" of the 1930s was named for what former postmaster general and chairman of the RNC?
Will Hays
What country founded Greenpeace (initially, the Don't Make A Way Committee)?
Canada
What military contractor, famous for making the Patriot missiles, also invented the first microwave ovens?
Raytheon
What French New Wave director plays the UFO expert in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Francois Truffant
What famed Motown songwriting trio had their first Top Ten hit with "Heat Wave"?
Holland-Dozier-Holland
What battle, in which the Mexican Army faced off against Napoleon III is celebrated during Cinco de Mayo, even though the namesake town was eventually taken by the French?
the Battle of Puebla
In 1988, Cesar Chavez conducted a thirty-six-day fast to encourage Americans to boycott what fruit?
Grapes
What last name is shared by Clinton cabinet member Henry and the House on Mango Street author?
Ciseneros
Ugly Betty is based on a telenovela from what country?
Venezuela
Because his father was from Minorca, Spain, what Civil War hero was the US Navy's first Hispanic admiral?
David Farragut
What four-word catchphrase of the 90s was popularized by Gidget, a three-year-old actor who went on to appear in Legally Blonde 2?
yo queiro taco bell
The first Latino members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were three members of what band, inducted in 1998?
Santana
What Mexican general who governed California for four months in 1835 would probably be surprised by how he's remembered in San Francisco today?
Jose Castro (Castro district)
Who is the "say hey kid
Willie Mays
What's the real name of the Gary Glitter track often called the Hay Song?
Rock and Roll (Part 2)
What TV show's announcer was Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley?
The Larry Sanders Show
What's the last name of A Streetcar Named Desire's Stella, of "Hey Stella" fame?
Kowalski
Whose 2000 death from cancer led to the E! headline "Hey, Vern!" Guy Dies (he also did the voice for Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies?
Jim Varney
Besides Hey Jude, what other Beatles song title begins with the word Hey?
Hey Bulldog
What are Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird known for?
creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic
What comic book superteam consists of, in its original lineup, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter?
The Justice League (of America)
What comic book superteam consists of, in its original lineup, Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl?
the X-Men
What comic book superteam consists of, in its original lineup, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp?
The Avengers
What comic book superteam consists of, in its original lineup, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl?
Teen Titans
What comic book superteam consists of, in its original lineup, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Boy?
The Legion of Super-Heroes
What did Golden and F Nephi Grigg invent in 1953?
Tater Tots
What did Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson share a Nobel Prize for, though it was predicted by many others (include Robert Dicke)
CMB radiation
Which two castaways were the "and the rest" in the first version of the Gilligan's Island theme?
The Professor and Mary Ann
The last two surviving jurors from the film 12 Angry Men were actors who shared what first name?
Jack (Warden and Klugman)
What popular destination was built on the land left over when Metropolitan Stadium, where the Twins and Vikings played, was torn down?
the Mall of America
What Australian beat Roger Bannister's 4-min mile time just 46 days later?
John Landy
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "The NBA's first black head coach"?
Bill Russell
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "The prime mover and also the heart of the Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine"?
Pete Rose
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "The 1975 Wimbledon champion... fought diligently for human rights"?
Arthur Ashe
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "The 27 year old 'Hammer' send Patterson to the canvas with a vicious fight"?
Ingemar Johansson
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "In 1972... she became the first female player to win more than $100,000 in a year"?
Billie Jean King
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "Suspending and firing star players Paul Hornung and Alex Karras"?
Pete Rozelle (Commissioner of NFL, 1960-1990)
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: Won 27 Grand Prix races during his career and popularized Formula One racing?
Jackie Stewart
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "Most decorated female Olympian in US history"?
Bonnie Blair (Speed skating)
What former Sportsman of the Year does Sports Illustrated describe with the citation: "Radically redefined the role of the NHL defenseman"?
Bobby Orr
During what war was this book set: The African Queen?
World War I
During what war was this book set: For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Spanish Civil War
During what war was this book set: Simplicius Simplicissimus?
Thirty Years War
During what war was this book set: The Short-Timers?
Vietnam War
During what war was this book set: The Hornet's Nest?
American Revolution
What group's honor society is the Order of the Arrow?
Boy Scouts of America
For an SNL monologue, who once played the banjo with an arrow through his head?
Steve Martin
What are the arrow-like projectile fired by a crossbow called?
bolts
What slot on the back of an arrow's shaft keeps it on the bowstring?
nock
In what fictional midwestern city did Sinclair Lewis set Babbitt and Arrowsmith?
Zenith
What popular movie website took its name from a John Travolta line in Broken Arrow?
Ain't it Cool News
What third-century martyr was ordered shot full of arrows by Diocletian?
St. Sebastian
Whose emblem, a white arrowhead, came from a sketch Lamar Hunt drew on a napkin in 1963?
Kansas City Chiefs
The constellation Sagittarius is usually depicted as aiming its arrow at what fierce neighbor?
Scorpio
Who first appeared in the 1939 children's book Cecily G and the Nine Monkeys?
Curious George
What team's fans were inspired by the Rally Monkey?
Anaheim Angels
Which character is most seriously injured by the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz?
the Scarecrow
What did Pipsqueak the marmoset captivate America by doing on November 2, 1979?
peeing on Johnny Carson
What two people appear in the famous photo taken aboard the yacht Monkey Business in May 1987?
Gary Hart and Donna Rice
What brightly colored monkey is the world's largest?
mandrill
what power does "The Monkey's Paw" possess in the 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs?
it grants three wishes
Capuchin monkeys are from what continent?
South America
What contest, first held at NY's Gilmore Gardens in 1877, is America's second oldest continuously held sporting event (after the Kentucky Derby)?
the Westminster (Kennel Club) Dog Show
What kind of "pet sounds" are actually heard at the end of the Beach Boys album?
dogs barking
Who's the most famous resident of Mr. Peebles' pet shop?
Magilla Gorilla
What pet bird takes its name from Australian Aborigine words for "good eating"?
the budgerigar
What baseball team plays its home games at Petco Park?
the San Diego Padres
What common aquarium fish is named for the naturalist who discovered it in Trinidad in 1876?
the guppy
The Clintons' White House cat Socks now lives with what woman, Clinton's personal secretary, who became famous during the Monica Lewinsky hearings?
Betty Curie
Nepetalactone is the active ingredient in what pet product?
catnip
What kind of dinosaur is the Fintstones' Dino?
snorkasaurus
What imports from a Baja California beach made Gary Drahl a millionaire in late 1975?
Pet Rocks
The title character of what 2000 film is a Norwich terrier named Winky?
Best in Show
What city is home to the world's first pet cemetery, in which Rin Tin TIn is buried?
Paris
Paris Hilton's chihuahua is named for what character from a 1928 play?
tinkerbell
In what country did the domesticated "potbellied pig" originate?
Vietnam
What physical condition were Dan Aykroyd, Alexander the Great, and Kate Bosworth born with?
Heterochromia
WW Hodkinson created Paramount Pictures in 1914; the logo he drew is of Ben Lomond, a mountain in what city (his hometown)?
Ogden, Utah
What author set his most famous works near his Ashdown Forest home in Sussex, the same home where Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowned in 1969?
A.A. Milne
Who shares lead vocals with Bono on the U2 song "When Love Comes to Town"?
B.B. King
What famous poets' parents were killed when a train struck their car in 1926?
e.e. cummings
Who based his hit comic book character "Dyno Woman" on his own sister Thelma?
J.J. Evans (Goodtimes)
What name is given to the shape of Ohio's state flag, consisting of double triangles?
Burgee
What Shakespeare play features a "love rectangle" between Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
What's the only Canadian province whose boarders form a rectangle?
Saskatchewan
Whose painting Homage To Matisse sold at auction for a record $22 million in 2005?
Rothko
Who is the famous mother of Liza Minnelli?
Judy Garland
Who is the famous mother of Kate Hudson?
Goldie Hawn
Who is the famous mother of Carrie Fisher?
Debbie Reynolds
Who is the famous mother of Larry Hagman?
Mary Martin
Who is the famous mother of Jamie Lee Curtis?
Janet Leigh
Who is the famous mother of Gwyneth Paltrow?
Blythe Danner
Who is the famous mother of Ben Stiller?
Anne Meara
Who is the famous mother of Melanie Griffith?
Tippi Hedren
Who is the famous mother of Sean Astin?
Patty Duke
Who is the famous mother of Jason Schwartzman?
Talia Shire (Connie Corleone, Adrian Balboa)
Who is the famous mother of Miguel Ferrer?
Rosemary Clooney
Who is the famous mother of Joely Richardson?
Vanessa Redgrave
Who is the famous mother of Mia Farrow?
Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane)
Who is the famous mother of Rashida Jones?
Peggy Lipton (and Quincy Jones)
Who is the famous mother of Campbell Scott?
Colleen Dewhurst (and George C Scott)
What superhero had the secret identity Bruce Banner?
the Hulk
What superhero had the secret identity Matt Murdock?
Daredevil
What superhero had the secret identity Billy Batson?
Captain Marvel
What superhero had the secret identity Scott Summers?
Cyclops
What superhero had the secret identity Reed Richards?
Mr. Fantastic
What superhero had the secret identity Stephen Strange?
Doctor Strange
What superhero had the secret identity J'onn J'onzz?
the Martian Manhunter
What superhero had the secret identity Susan Storm?
Invisible girl/woman
What superhero had the secret identity Warren Worthington?
Angel
What's the first name of Grandpa Simpson?
Abraham
What's the first name of Principal Skinner?
W. Seymour (Armin)
What's the first name of Mr. Burns?
C(harles) Montgomery
What's the first name of Mr. Smithers?
Waylon
What's the first name of Chief Wiggum?
Clancy
What's the first name of Mayor Quimby?
Joe
What's the first name of Reverend Lovejoy?
Timothy
What's the first name of Mrs. Krabappel?
Edna
What's the last name of Barney (from the Simpsons)?
Gumbel
What's the last name of Krusty the Klown (from the Simpsons)
Krustofski
What's the last name of Dr. Nick (from the Simpsons)
Riviera
What's the last name of Jimbo (from the Simpsons)
Jones
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by George Steinbrenner?
New York Yankees
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Mario Lemieux?
Pittsburgh Penguins
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Mark Cuban?
Dallas Mavericks
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Al Davis?
Oakland Raiders
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Jerry Jones?
Dallas Cowboys
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Dan Rooney?
Pittsburgh Steelers
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Wayne Gretzky
Phoenix Cyclones
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Jerry Buss?
LA Lakers
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Paul Allen (2 teams)
Seahawks and Trailblazers
What sports team is or was owned or co-owned by Senator Herb Kohl?
Milwaukee Bucks
What different animals are merged to form a sphinx?
woman and lion
What different animals are merged to form a harpy?
woman and bird
What different animals are merged to form a Griffin?
eagle and lion
What different animals are merged to form a Cockatrice?
rooster and serpent
What different animals are merged to form a Hippocamp?
horse and fish
What different animals are merged to form a Lamia?
woman and serpent
What different animals are merged to form a Chimera?
lion, goat, serpent
What different animals are merged to form a Manticore?
human, lion, dragon/scorpion
What is Jacopo Robusti better known as?
Tintoretto
Who was the Sistine Chapel named for?
Pope Sixtus IV
What is Michelangelo's only signed work?
Pieta
Which Alice in Wonderland character is a reference to its author, who used to stutter when saying his own name?
Dodo (from Do-Do-Dodgson)
The stutter on the chorus of what 1974 hit was a joke aimed at the singer's stuttering brother, George Bachmann?
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
What British actor, fittingly founded the London Centre for Stammering Children?
Michael Palin (who stuttered in A Fish Called Wanda)
Because of her stammer, whose wife Annie shunned the spotlight following her husbands' sudden 1962 fame?
John Glenn
What rapper, currently prison at Louisiana's Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, raps on the hit 2001 remix of Joe's song Stutter?
Mystikal
Who was Christopher Marlowe's roommate and wrote the play on which Shakespeare based Hamlet?
Thomas Kyd
What director was the college roommate of J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, until, ironically, he kicked Wolf out for being "too weird"?
David Lynch
What rocker was briefly Rick James' roommate while they were playing together in a band called the Mynah Birds?
Neil Young
Erich Segal has said that he based Oliver Barrett IV, the protagonist of his novel Love Story, on what Harvard roommates of his acquaintance, a future actor and a future politician?
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore
Mousy actor Wally Cox once formed a real-life Odd Couple with what manly actor, though Cox hated his pet raccoon so much he finally moved out?
Marlon Brando
What Big Ten coach with four Final Fours under his belt was the college roommate at Northern Michigan of future NFL coach Steve Mariucci?
Tom Izzo
What comedian, Christopher Reeve's Juilliard roommate, was, Reeve said, the first person to make him laugh following his 1995 incident?
Robin Williams
Some Washington eyebrows raised when US vice president William R King and what future president lived together in the capital for 16 years?
James Buchanan
What actor got his unusual nickname from his college roommate Stanley Tucci who didn't like calling him "Irving"?
Ving Rhames
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis used to play pranks on what Hall of Fame quarterback while they bunked together in college?
Joe Montana
What tow acting legends, Pasadena Playhouse friends and New York roomies back in the day, never worked on screen together until 2002's Runaway Jury?
Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman
Of what city was Jerry Springer mayor, from which post he had to resign after patronizing a prostitute?
Cincinnati
Except during WWII, what team has hosted an NFL game everything Thanksgiving Day since 1934?
Detroit Lions
What game show host took his stage name from the college in his West Virginia hometown?
Peter Marshall
What detective novel begins with a dinner hosted by the mysteriously absent "Mr. U.N. Owen"?
And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians)
The Egyptian plover is a bird best known for its symbiotic relationship with what host animal?
the crocodile (whose teeth it picks)
What food item shares its name with Brand and Janet's hospitable host in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
frankfurter (Frank N. Furter)
The host country's flag typically arrives last in the Parade of Nations that opens each Olympic Games. What was the only Games where this didn't happen?
Athens 2004 (Greece always goes first)
What actor has guest-hosted SNL 13 times, more than anyone but Steve Martin?
Alec Baldwin
Who made his West End debut playing alongside his mother in South Pacific?
Larry Hagman
Who plays the drums on the track "Back in the USSR"?
Paul McCartney
Who called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604?
James I
Who was the only person to be nearby at three different presidential assassinations?
Robert Lincoln
What famed paleontologist was also the first head of the Kenyan Wildlife Service?
Richard Leakey
What video game was originally called Snots and Boogers and then @!#?@!?
Q*bert
In the shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept" (John 11:35), who is Jesus weeping for?
Lazarus
What thin yellow fluid do the mammary glands secrete before lactation begins?
Colostrum
In what film is General Jack Ripper obsessed with America's precious bodily fluids?
Dr Strangelove
What element did alchemist Hennig Brand discover in 1669 when, boiling his own urine in the hopes of making gold, he observed glowing fumes?
Phosphorus
Who sang "You Light Up My Life" (1977)?
Debby Boone
Who sang "I've Had the Time of My Life" (1987)?
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
Who sang "All My Life" (1998)
K-Ci and JoJo
Who sang "Love of My Life" (1975)?
Queen
Who sang "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (1982)
Indeep
Who sang "Story of My Life" (1990)
Social Distortion
Who sang "Welcome to my Life" (2004)
Simple Plan
Who sang "It's My Life" (1965)?
The Animals
Which of TV's Golden Girls plays the title character in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot?
Estelle Getty
Whose first book was the 2006 memoir Peace Mom?
Cindy Sheehan
On what TV show is Momcorp the world's largest megacorporation?
Futurama
Who played Janine, aka "Stifler's mom" in the American Pie movies?
Jennifer Coolidge
What 1949 building is located in New Canaan, Connecticut, which catapulted its architect to fame?
Glass house (Johnson)
Who or what lives in Gracie Mansion?
the Mayor of New York
Who or what lives in a log cabin or hut with chicken legs?
Baba yaga
Who or what lives in A Florida estate called Xanadu?
Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)
Who or what lives in the tippy-top floor of the Plaza Hotel?
Eloise
Who or what lives in a holt?
otters
Who or what lives in a hogan?
Navajos
Who or what lives in a deluxe apartment in the sky?
Jeffersons
Tattoo yells "De plane! De plane!" for the last time in 1983, when Herve Villechaize was dropped from what show?
Fantasy Island
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether
Cat Woman
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Dick York, Dick Sargent
Darrin Stephens (Bewitched dad)
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Eve Plumb, Geri Reischl
Jan Brady
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Phyllis Coates, Noel Neill
Lois Lane
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Richard Thomas, Robert Wightman
John-Boy Walton
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Barbara Bel Geddes, Donna Reed
Miss Ellie" Ewing
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Lecy Goranson, Sarah Chalke
Becky Conner (Roseanne)
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Mike Evans, Damon Evans
Lionel Jefferson
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Tom Baker, David Tennant
Dr. Who
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Philip Bruns, Barney Martin
Morty Seinfeld
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Janet Hubert-Whitten, Daphne Maxwell Reid
Aunt Vivien Banks (Fresh Prince)
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Emma Samms
Fallon Carrington Colby (Dynasty)
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Dixie Carter, Mary Ann Mobley
Maggie McKinney (Diff'rent Strokes)
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Beverley Owen, Pat Priest
Marilyn Munster
Name the TV character that has been played by these actors: Lisa Robin Kelly, Christina Moore
Laurie Forman (That 70s Show)
What is the title object of the 2006 film Brick a brick of?
heroin
What teenage trauma did Ben Folds commemorate in his 1997 hit "Brick"?
his girlfriend's abortion
The Brick Testament" is a website that recreates the Bible in what form?
Lego
What Tennessee Williams character is married to Brick Pollitt?
Maggie (the Cat)
What port, its state's largest city, is nicknamed the Brick City?
Newark, NJ
Saluting a 1977 hit, what soul band was inducted into the National Brick Distributors' Hall of Fame in 1991?
The Commodores (Brick House)
What TV show's eateries include the Brick Tavern and Roslyn's Cafe?
Northern Exposure
What redbrick complex lies between the Alexander Garden and Red Square?
Kremlin
In 1997, the Washington NBA team was rechristened "Wizards"... what were they known as before?
Bullets
What was the real name of TV's first "science guy" Mr. Wizard?
Don Herbert
Who did sportsfans known as "the Wizard of Westwood"?
John Wooden (Basketball, UCLA coach)
Who sings "Pinball Wizard" in the film Tommy?
Elton John
What former KKK imperial wizard used the pen name Dorothy Vanderbilt to pen a 1976 book of sex tips for women?
David Duke
What wizard is seduced and left powerless by the evil Nimue?
Merlin
What baseball player titled his memoir Wizard?
Ozzie Smith
Who met her first husband, Victor Willis of the Village People, while understudying the role of Glinda in The Wiz on broadway?
Phylicia Ayers-Allen (now Rashad)
What name is given, in the HP books, to someone who can't do magic, despite having wizard heritage?
squib
What kind of dental specialist performs root canals?
endodontist
What slave name does Kunta Kinte's owner force him to adopt in Alex Haley's Roots?
Toby
What plant's roots are used to make tapioca?
cassava
The Root's album Things Fall Apart begins with a snatch of dialogue between Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes, taken from what movie?
Mo Betta Blues
The Bitterroot Range of the Rockies is located on the border between what two states?
Montana and Idaho
What plant takes its name from the Chinese words for "man root"?
Ginseng
What country is home to Roots, the company that outfits the US Olympic team?
Canada
What year was the first Academy Awards?
1929
What novelist's most famous character is the aptly named Isadora Wing?
Erica Jong (Fear of Flying)
The Detroit Red Wings are one of the only two NHL teams with a monochromatic logo. What's the other?
Toronto Maple Leafs
Whose friend Stewart always wears a Winger T-shirt?
Beavis and Butthead
On what island is the TV series Wings set?
Nantucket
What hinged surfaces on a plane's wingtips allow the aircraft to roll?
ailerons
Before he formed Wings, what's the only song Paul McCartney ever composed with the word "wings" in the lyrics?
Blackbird
Where would you find the countries of Qumar and Equatorial Kundu?
The West Wing
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie There's Something About Mary?
Brett Favre
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie The Naked Gun?
O.J. Simpson
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie The Dirty Dozen?
Jim Brown
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie Action Jackson (later Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky)?
Carl Weathers
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels?
Vinnie Jones
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie Blazing Saddles?
Alex Karras
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie Steel?
Shaq
What athlete tried his hand at acting in the movie Dumb and Dumber?
Cam Neely
Give the missing last member: Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and...
Anni-Frid
Give the missing last member: Reading, Short Line, B&0, and...
Pennsylvania
Give the missing last member: Swords, wands, coins, and...
cups
Give the missing last member: Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and...
Euphrates (garden of eden rivers)
Give the missing last member: Adenine, thymine, guanine, and...
cytosine
Give the missing last member: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and...
Little Gidding
Give the missing last member: Joe Greene, LC Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, and...
Dwight White (steel curtain)
Fleet Street is (really, was) a UK metonym for what?
the Press
What famous street follows the line of a 12-foot stockade begun in 1653 by Peter Stuyvesant?
Wall Street
What thoroughfare was the site of Hollywood scandals like River Phoenix's death and Hugh Grant's arrest?
Sunset Strip
The city of Liverpool recently stalled plans to rename streets historically linked to the slave trade when it realized that what famous street was on the list?
Penny Lane
What road, which names a 2002 film, divides Wayne County from affluent Oakland and Maycomb counties?
8 Mile Road
NY's Tribeca neighborhood is so named because it's the triangle south of what major street?
Canal Street (TRIangle BElow CAnal)
Spartacus and his fellow slaves were crucified alongside what Roman highway, the "queen of the long roads
the Appian Way
What is the official name of NY's 6th Avenue, though it's used only by clueless out-of-towners?
Avenue of the Americas
What runs from the Stratosphere in the north to McCarran Airport in the south?
the Las Vegas Strip
What American street is best known for its eight switchbacks between Hyde and Leavenworth?
Lombard Street (san francisco)
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Terry Bradshaw?
Pittsburgh Steelers
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Ken Griffey, Jr?
Seattle Mariners
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Mario Lemieux
Pittsburgh Penguins
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Peyton Manning
Indianapolis Colts
What team drafted this number one draft pick: LeBron James?
Cleveland Cavaliers
What team drafted this number one draft pick: John Elway
Baltimore Colts
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Chipper Jones
Atlanta Braves
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Rick DiPietro?
New York Islanders
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Lew Alcindor
Milwaukee Bucks
What team drafted this number one draft pick: Larry Johnson?
Charlotte Hornets
Who was the lead singer of the Animals, of "House of the Rising Sun" fame, who later went on to sing in the funk group War?
Eric Burdon
What European city do Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy wander in Before Sunrise?
Vienna
What provides the red color in a Tequila Sunrise?
Grenadine
What NHL team plays its home games in a suburb called Sunrise?
Florida Panthers
In the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the earliest sunrise falls in what month?
July (not June!)
Who witnessed the Grinch stealing Christmas?
Cindy Lou Who
What Big East school took the cryptic name for its sports teams from the Greek word for "what"?
Georgetown (Hoyas)
What Dublin, Ohio-based company trades under the ticker symbol WEN?
Wendy's
After the 1990 NFL draft, who found himself teammates with his Heisman Trophy successor Andre Ware?
Barry Sanders
Who had the last number one hit of the 1950s with his song Why?
Frankie Avalon
What kind of dots did Roy Lichtenstein use?
Benday dots
How many pips are there on the two sides of the domino in the Domino's Pizza logo?
two and one
What is the more common name of retinal scotoma caused by the optic nerve?
blind spot
Why is "Lady bird, lady bird" told to "fly away home"?
Her house is on fire and her children are gone
Each Pac-Man maze features 240 regular dots and how many larger "power pellets"?
four
What officially replaced CQD on July 1, 1908?
SOS
What is counted by the Wolf Number, named for a Swiss mathematician who helped discover their influence on geomagnetism?
Sunspots
What world nation has three consecutive dotted characters?
Fiji
What singer of Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini was in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963 waving at the motorcade just blocks before Kennedy was shot?
Brian Hyland
What painter's masterpiece contains, in addition to its human subjects,, three dogs, a horse, a monkey, and a butterfly?
George Seurat
What's the name of the phony university in Animal House?
Faber College
What's the name of the phony university in Dawson's Creek?
Worthington University
What's the name of the phony university in Family Ties?
Leland College
What's the name of the phony university in Old School?
Harrison University
What's the name of the phony university in Revenge of the Nerds?
Adams College
What country's flag has seven-pointed stars?
Australia
What country's flag has a star in a circle?
North Korea
What country's flag has a 24-pointed star?
Marshall Islands
Complete the magazine analogy O: Oprah Winfrey :: Living : __________
Martha Stewart
Complete the magazine analogy: The Devil Wears Prada : Runway :: Ugly Betty : ___________
Mode
Complete the magazine analogy Alfred E. Neuman : Mad :: Sylvester P. Smythe : ___________
Cracked
Complete the magazine analogy Time : the US :: Maclean's : ____________
Canada
Complete the magazine analogy Playboy : Playmate :: Penthouse : ____________
Pet
Complete the magazine analogy George : Cindy Crawford :: People : ____________
Mia Farrow (first cover girl)
Complete the magazine analogy YM : "Your" :: FHM : ____________
For Him
Complete the magazine analogy Vogue : Teen Vogue :: Cosmopolitan : ____________
Cosmo Girl
Complete the magazine analogy Shattered Glass : The New Republic :: Almost Famous : _____________
Rolling Stone
Complete the magazine analogy 500 top-grossing companies : Fortune :: 500 fastest-growing companies : ______________
Inc.
What tuber, also called the sunroot or topinambur, is actually native to North America?
Jerusalem artichoke
Besides corn, what's the other principal ingredient in succotash?
Lima beans
What carmaker produced the 1974 Toronado, the first car to have airbags
Oldsmobile
What carmaker produced the 1959 Amazon, the first car with 3-point seatbelts?
Volvo
What carmaker produced the 1990 Cosmo, the first car with GPS navigation?
Mazda
What carmaker produced the 1895 L'Eclair, the first car with pneumatic tires?
Peugeot
In the movie Speed, dropping below what speed with blow up the bus?
50 mph
A statue of what TV character stands outside the Eighth Avenue entrance of NY's Port Authority us Terminal?
Ralph Kramden
In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?
Montgomery, Alabama
What has coast-to-coast commuter John Madden dubbed his famous luxury bus?
The Maddencruiser
What Ken Kesey-led group toured America in a psychedelic school bus called "Furthur"?
The Merry Pranksters
When was the voting age lowered to 18 by the 26th Amendment?
1971
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Self-incrimination?
5
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Freedom of speech?
1
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Searches and seizures?
4
Which amendment to the constitution deals with The right to bear arms?
2
Which amendment to the constitution deals with the income tax?
16 (1913)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Instituting prohibition?
18 (1919)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with abolishing slavery?
13
Which amendment to the constitution deals with women's suffrage?
19 (1920)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with poll taxes?
24 (1964)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Washington DC?
23 (1961)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with How senators are elected?
17 (1913)
Which amendment to the constitution deals with Presidential succession?
22 (1951)
Who is the only president to hold a patent, and what was the patent for?
Abraham Lincoln, lifting boats over shoals
What celebrity invented the artificial heart?
Paul Winchell
What celebrity invented a bongo-drumskin tightening device?
Marlon Brando
What celebrity invented a noisemaking, chum-dispensing fish attractor?
Gary Burghoff
What celebrity invented an electronic sheetmusic display?
Harry Connick, Jr.
What celebrity invented a 45-degree-antigravity illusion?
Michael Jackson
What celebrity invented a hot-tub with naughty water jets?
Penn Jillette
What celebrity invented an unjammable torpedo guidance system?
Heddy Lamarr
What celebrity invented a diaper with outer pockets (for wipes)?
Jamie Lee Curtis
What celebrity invented the pulse rate monitor?
Zeppo Marx
What celebrity invented a guitarlike keyboard instrument design?
Prince
What celebrity invented a leg-plate guitar support?
Eddie Van Halen
What celebrity invented an accordian-shaped ashtray?
Lawrence Welk
In a notorious 1995 cliffhanger, Kimberly blows up the titular apartment building on what TV show, in which Tiffany Hart was the only fatality?
Melrose Place
In what apartment complex was Rose Mary Woods living in the early 1970s?
The Watergate (Woods was Nixon's secretary)
Since 1961, where have Margo Magee, Tommie Thompson, and Lu Ann Powers lived?
Apartment 3-G
The Apartment and Annie Hall are the only two Oscar-winning Best Pictures to each mention another Best Picture winner within the film. What are the other two films referenced?
Grand Hotel and The Godfather
In the 1996 movie, what kind of animal shares Joe's Apartment with him?
cockroaches
What two music stars died in the same London flat, then owned by Harry Nilsson, in 1974 and 1978?
Mama Cass and Keith Moon
What color were the walls in Monica's apartment on TV's Friends?
purple
In 1966 Johnny Cash briefly shared a Nashville apartment with what other country legend?
Waylon Jennings
What 1967 film classic was filmed at the Dakota, the same apartment building where John Lennon was later shot?
Rosemary's Baby
According to the title of a 1947 play, how does one get from the New Orleans train station to the apartment at 631 Elysian Fields?
A Streetcar Named Desire
What was Mickey Mouse's first spoken line, voiced in the Karnival Kid in 1928 by Disney himself?
Hot dogs, hot dogs!
Who provided the original voice for Buzz Lightyear?
Tim Allen
Who provided the original voice for Marge Simpson?
Julie Kavner
Who provided the original voice for Daffy Duck?
Mel Blanc
Who provided the original voice for Shrek?
Mike Meyers
Who provided the original voice for Stewie Griffin?
Seth McFarlane
Who provided the original voice for The Iron Giant?
Vin Diesel
Who provided the original voice for Hank Hill?
Mike Judge
Who provided the original voice for The Lion King (as an adult)?
Matthew Broderick
Who provided the original voice for Mr Magoo?
Jim Backus
Who provided the original voice for Inspector Gadget?
Don Adams
Who provided the original voice for Spongebob?
Tom Kenny
Who provided the original voice for Garfield?
Lorenzo Music
Who provided the original voice for Winnie-the-Pooh?
Sterling Holloway
Who provided the original voice for Yogi Bear?
Daws Butler
Who had a 2495-game winning streak ended by the New Jersey Reds on January 5, 1971?
Harlem Globetrotters
Pitchers for what MLB team have owned the record for the "most consecutive scoreless innings" since 1962?
LA Dodgers (Don Drysdale and Orel Hershiser)
What author wrote America's bestselling novel every year from 1993 to 2000, with a different novel every year?(!)
John Grisham
What Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men collaboration topped the Hot 100 chart for a record sixteen weeks in 1995?
One Sweet Day
What's the only name ever used by four British kings in a row?
George
After his famous hitting streak ended, DiMaggio said he'd been one game away from an endorsement by what company?
Heinz (57 games)
What William Hurt movie is the box-office Nancy Zerg that ended Titanic's 15-week earnings streak?
Lost in Space
Forty five lines of what poem begin with "who"?
Howl
What did the Federal Reserve System do a record 17 consecutive times between 2004 and 2006?
raised interest rates
What event was won by the same team the first 25 times it was held, from 1851 to 1983?
The America's Cup
What's the only TV show to top the Nielsen ratings five seasons in a row, from 1972 to 1976?
All in the Family
Whose thirty-year-old record did Roger Federer break in 2007, with 161 straight weeks atop the men's tennis rankings?
Jimmy Connors
In 2004, what replaced The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest running american sitcom?
the Simpsons
What NFL quarterback shattered Ron Jaworski's old record for most consecutive starts?
Brett Favre
Who has won more Senate elections--nine straight--than any other politician in history?
Robert Byrd (WV)
What legendary chief's death on Dec 15, 1890 led directly to the famous massacre at Wounded Knee?
Sitting Bull
What US state has the slogan "Native America" on its license plate?
Oklahoma
What great Onondaga orator persuaded five Indian nations to form he Iroquois Confederacy?
Hiawatha
Who played the blind character in the movie Wait Until Dark?
Audrey Hepburn
Who played the blind character in the movie Ray?
Jamie Foxx
Who played the blind character in the movie Scent of a Woman?
Al Pacino
Who played the blind character in the movie Daredevil?
Ben Affleck
Who played the blind character in the movie The Miracle Worker?
Patty Duke
Who played the blind character in the movie Red Dragon?
Emily Watson
Who played the blind character in the movie Tommy?
Roger Daltrey
Who played the blind character in the movie Jennifer Eight?
Uma Thurman
Who played the blind character in the movie The Village?
Bryce Dallas Howard
Who played the blind character in the movie Butterflies are Free?
Edward Albert
What song does this mondegreen come from: There's a bathroom on the right?
Bad Moon Rising
What song does this mondegreen come from: We split up on the docks at night?
Tangled Up in Blue (we split up on a dark, sad night)
What song does this mondegreen come from: Last night I dreamt of some bagels?
La Isla Bonita (last night I dreamt of San Pedro)
Though his seat had been Republican for 144 years, who reshaped the Senate by becoming an independent in 2001?
James Jeffords (Vermont)
What was pioneering transsexual Christine Jorgensen's first name before her surgery in Copenhagen?
George
The last major league team to switch from the AL to the NL and the last NFL team to switch from the AFC to the NFC both originated in what city?
Seattle (Brewers and Seahawks)
Seafloor spreading at midoceanic ridges is how scientists first discovered the periodic reversal of what?
the earth's magnetic field
The only two sitting US Senators ever to go into space shared what pair of initials?
JG (John Glenn and Jake Garn)
Which space shuttle is named for the ship on which Robert Scott first sailed to Antarctica?
Discovery
What does Mir, the name of the Russian space station, mean?
Peace
Before the 2004 launch of Space Ship One, who was the last American ever to go into space alone?
Gordon Cooper
Who did the US media nickname Muttnik?
Laika
Who's the only character to have a speaking role in both The Right Stuff and Apollo 13?
Deke Slayton
What foot did Neil Armstrong first set on the moon?
Left
Why did the Shire of Esperance in Western Australia issue the US a $400 fine for littering in 1979?
pieces of Skylab fell there
What is the theme from M
A
S*H, which was written by Robert Altman's 14 year old son?
Suicide is Painless
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Who Are You?
CSI
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Love and Marriage (Sinatra)
Married... with Children
What TV show uses this song as its theme:With a Little Help from My Friends (Cocker)
The Wonder Years
What TV show uses this song as its theme: How Soon Is Now (Love Spit Love)
Charmed
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Woke Up This Morning (A3)?
Sopranos
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Reflections (Diana Ross and the Supremes)?
China Beach
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Save Me (Remy Zero)
Smallville
What TV show uses this song as its theme: A Little Less Conversation?
Las Vegas
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Stand (REM)
Get A Life
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Here with Me (Dido)?
Roswell
What TV show uses this song as its theme: Bad Reputation
Freaks and Geeks
What is Indiana Jones' real first name?
Henry
What was the nickname of 6'9'' Cowboys defensive end Ed Jones?
Too Tall
On what "Special" Illinois Central route was Casey Jones the engineer?
The Cannonball Special
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, PJ?
Family Circus
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Alexander, Cooke?
Blondie
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings Michael, Elizabeth, April?
For Better or For Worse
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings Peter, Paige, Jason?
Foxtrot
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings Honi, Hamlet?
Hagar the Horrible
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Arn, Karen, Valeta, Galan, Nathan?
Prince Valiant
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Zone, Hammy, Wren?
Baby Blues
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Huey, Riley?
Boondocks
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Chip, Dot, Ditto, Trixie?
Hi and Lois
In what newspaper comic strip would you find these siblings: Hans, Fritz
The Katzenjammer Kids
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Brazil, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Kenya, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, Uganda?
The equator passes through them
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Argentina, Australia, China, Nepal, Russia, Tanzania, USA
Home to the highest peak on their continent
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Austria, Burma, Egypt, Ghana, Norway, Peru, South Korea, Sweden
Their flags are only blue and white
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Austria, Bosnia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, USA
Home countries of UN Secretaries General
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Chad, Finland, Iran, Ireland, Oman, Spain?
They form a word if you remove their first letter
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Afghanistan, Australia, Burma, Canada, French Polynesia, Indian, Iran, Nepal, New Zealand, Sri Lanka?
All have unusual time zones (offset by an uneven number of hours)
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Benin, Bolivia, Chile, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania?
They have more than one capital city (?)
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, the Sudan, Syria, the UK?
Their currency is the pound
What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others: Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Uruguay?
They've won World Cups
Whose trademark hat always had a $1.98 price tag hanging off one side?
Minnie Pearl (Grand Ole Opry, Hee Haw)
What organization has never cashed the $3.67 check it got from the NFL after "winning" a 1985 lawsuit?
The USFL
What short story begins "$1.87. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies"?
The Gift of the Magi
Whose life savings had dwindled down to $1.73 by the time he decided to shoot George Wallace in 1972?
Arthur Bremer
On July 12, 1979, the White Sox let fans into a double-header for just 98 cents if they brought with them what item, to be blown up at second base between games?
A disco record (infamous "Disco Demolition Night")
As fans of her 2004 comeback album might know, in what town did Loretta Lynn grow up a "Coal Miner's Daughter"?
Van Lear, Kentucky (Van Lear Rose)
What John Sayles coal-mining movie was filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia, not in the title town?
Matewan
What is the town of Hay-on-Wye on the Wales-England border famous for
Book festival
What Arab political party is named for a bookstore that Zaki al Arsuzi opened in Damascus, Syria, in the 1940s?
Ba'ath Party
What British author wrote Keep the Aspidistra Flying about his years working as an assistant in a used bookshop in Hampstead?
George Orwell
Who ran Dartmouth, England's successful Harbour Bookshop, from 1951 to 1972 and spent his days avoid fans of his characters who came into the store?
Christopher Robin Milne
What rock anthem includes the immortal lyric: "Put me to work in the school bookstore/ Check-out counter and I got bored?
Smoking in the Boys Room
What historic San Francisco bookstore was also America's first all-paperback bookstore when it set up shop in 1953?
City Lights Bookstore
What was the magical original name of the online bookstore that changed its name to Amazon.com in 1995?
Cadabra.com
Who started America's first lending library in 1730s?
Ben Franklin
What poet slammed the unscrupulous bookseller Edmund Curll in his 1728 poem "The Dunciad"?
Alexander Pope
What is the traditional fruit ingredient in a rickey?
lime
What is the traditional fruit ingredient in Tarte tatin?
apple
Who was the first black actor to play Othello in film?
Laurence Fishburne (III)
What onetime NBA Finals MVP was the last owner of the CBA before its 2001 shutdown?
Isiah Thomas (III)
Bono shared Time Man of the Year honors with what other man and his wife?
William Gates (III)
What former governor currently heads the Democratic National Committee (2008)?
Howard Dean (III)
What future radio star had a number one hit with his novelty number "Disco Duck"?
Rick Dees (III)
Who took Barry Goldwater's seat when the longtime senator retired in 1986?
John McCain (III)
What regular character did Larry David always voice on Seinfeld, even after he left the show?
George Steinbrenner (III)
What rapper's younger cousin Michael Francis raps under the stage name "Two Five"?
Curtis Johnson (III; fifty cent)
What actor took his name of his directorial debut, 2006's Shortcut to Happiness, which sat on the shelf for a record 6 years before being released?
Alec Baldwin (III)
Who won Pulitzers for his plays A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women?
Edward Albee (III)
In 1998, which Spice Girl missed her Oslo concert and, two days later, announced that she has left the band?
Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell)
How many herbs and spices are in the KFC secret recipe?
eleven
Ninety percent of the world's true cinnamon comes from what island nation?
Sri Lanka
What slightly hallucinogenic spice did Malcolm X use to get high while in prison?
nutmeg
What kind of flower does saffron come from?
crocus
What was the date marking the 1660 reentry of Charles II into London and the completion of the Restoration known as, thanks to a tree that sheltered him after the battle or Worcester
Oak Apple Day
What building was a dilapidated ruin in 1831 when a bestselling novel that year prompted architect Viollet-le-Duc to lead a restoration effort?
Notre Dame
What is the primary ingredient in the silvery amalgam still used in dental restoration?
mercury
A four-hour restoration of what 1927 epic restored the reputation of forgotten silent film director Abel Gance shortly before his 1981 death?
Napoleon
Who's the only president whose three initials spell a word?
James A Garfield
What brand is known as PFK in Quebec and Puerto Rico?
KFC
Whose children's books involve a mysterious secret organization known only as VFD?
Lemony Snicket
Citigroup jumped on the stock ticker abbreviation C after what company dropped it in a 1998 merger?
Chrysler
What's the only US state whose postal code is two vowels?
Iowa
What is special about Sioux Falls Regional Airport's 3-letter airport code?
SUX
Who hit a 1946 home run into the clock at the Brave's Ebbets Field, inspiring Bernard Malamud to write the Natural?
Bama Rowell
What kind of natural disaster destroyed 3 of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World?
earthquakes
What famous director asked that his name be removed from the screenplay credit to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers?
Quentin Tarantino
What Chicago natural history museum features Sue, the world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton?
the Field Museum
What future game show host (e.g., original host of Wheel of Fortune) had a top 40 hit with 1968's Naturally Stoned?
Chuck Woolery
What cartoonist created the bearded guru named Mr. Natural?
R. Crumb
What French obstetrician revolutionized childbirth with his 1956 book Painless?
(Dr.) Fernand Lamaze
What state has adopted the new official nickname of The Natural State?
Arkansas
What gas is the main component in natural gas?
Methane
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Kate in Mermaids?
Christina Ricci
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Velvet in National Velvet?
Elizabeth Taylor
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Gertie in E.T.
Drew Barrymore
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Opie in Andy Griffith?
Ron Howard
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Iris in Taxi Driver?
Jodie Foster
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Kyra in The Sixth Sense?
Mischa Barton
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Luke on Growing Pains?
Leonardo Dicaprio
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Huw in How Green Was My Valley?
Roddy McDowall
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Lauren in Heat?
Natalie Portman
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Danny in City Slickers?
Jake Gyllenhaal
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Joe in Radio Days?
Seth Green
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Derek on Silver Spoons?
Jason Bateman
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Molly in Home Alone 3?
Scarlett Johansson
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Mickey in Our Gang?
Robert Blake
What future celeb made a child-actor appearance as Lauren in A Little Romance?
Diane Lane
Which NASA space shuttle shares its name with the most subscribed-to cable network in America?
Discovery
Which NASA space shuttle shares its name with the deepest point of the Mariana Trench?
Challenger
Which NASA space shuttle shares its name with the ship that carried Captain Cook to Australia?
Endeavor
Which NASA space shuttle shares its name with the company that introduced the first LP record albums?
Columbia
Which NASA space shuttle shares its name with the largest resort on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas?
Atlantis
What's the major river running through Boston?
Charles
What's the major river running through Baghdad?
Tigris
What's the major river running through St. Petersburg?
Neva
What's the major river running through Cleveland?
Cuyahoga
What's the major river running through Florence?
Arno
What's the major river running through Seoul?
Han
What's the major river running through Dublin?
Liffey
What's the major river running through Amsterdam?
Amstel
What's the major river running through Melbourne?
Yarra
What's the major river running through Buenos Aires
Rio de la Plata
In what organ of the human body would you find Bowman's capsules and the loop of Henle?
kidney
In what organ of the human body would you find the duct of Wirsung?
pancreas
In what organ of the human body would you find Sertoli cells?
testes
In what organ of the human body would you find the caudate lobe?
liver
In what organ of the human body would you find the Eustachian tube?
ear
In what organ of the human body would you find the pleurae?
lungs
In what organ of the human body would you find the endometrium?
uterus
In what organ of the human body would you find parietal cells?
stomach
Whose wife Adrienne claimed in a 1988 DUI trial that she should enjoy diplomatic immunity for having married the "Ambassador of Soul"?
James Brown
What Colorado congresswoman called Ronald Reagan the "Teflon President" for his seeming immunity to criticism?
Pat Schroeder
In 1991 who received immunity from nineteen counts of murder after he agreed to testify against Mob boss John Gotti?
Sammy "the Bull" Gravano