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100
What musician was deported from Japan in the 1980s for possession of marijuana?
Paul McCartney
100
Which popular female clothing item was introduced by Allen Gant in 1959?
pantyhose
100
1950: You might not have made the football or baseball team in school and you might not have been the most popular kid in America. But what made its debut in this year that was guaranteed to take your mind off your troubles and raise a "chuck"le or two?
"Peanuts" comic strip
100
Lódz, Wroclaw, and Poznan are the third, fourth, and fifth most populous cities (respectively) in what European nation?
Poland
100
An average human performs what basic eye function about 20 times a minute, or over ten million times a year?
Blink
100
You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
200
What was Elvis Presley’s first hit in 1956?
“Heartbreak Hotel”
200
Fill in the blank: “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz _____________.”
Oh, what a relief it is!
200
The movie "Love Me Tender" premiered in November 1956. Which celebrities were the three MAIN stars of the movie?
Elvis Presley/Debra Paget/Richard Egan
200
Used in ancient times by the poet Tibullus, "The Eternal City" is a nickname given to what European capital?
Rome
200
Twenty percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is provided exclusively by what large rainforest?
The Amazon
200
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy, and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
300
Brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb formed which pop group in the late 1950s?
The Bee Gees
300
What company was best known for its Salisbury Steak TV dinners?
Swanson
300
1950: This comedian's show premiered on CBS in October and ran through 1965. The program featured the star's wife, Mary Livingstone, and the skits frequently lampooned his supposed cheapness. What is the name of this famous comedian?
Jack Benny
300
Located on the south of Honshu and the northern shore of Osaka Bay, what K-word Japanese city gave its name to a type of beef and a famous Los Angeles Laker?
Kobe, Japan
300
The prevalence sexual cannibalism in which after mating the female consumes the male inspired the name for what type of spiders?
Black widow spiders
300
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
A die (dice).
400
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is situated in what US State?
Ohio
400
What was the term to describe the rise of the Beatles in America?
It’s Beatlemania
400
What legendary radio newsman brought America "See It Now" in 1951?
Edward R. Murrow
400
D.C. is considered a "planned city" which makes some sense considering the avenues radiating out from rectangles that make up the core of the city. The architect and city planner was commissioned in 1791 by President Washington and was a man from what country?
France
400
An anoxic environment wouldn’t be great for humans, but certain organisms thrive in them. Anoxic means that which element needed by most life to survive is absent?
Oxygen
400
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
500
What decade is the hit single “Love Shack” by the B-52s from?
The Eighties
500
What was Elvis’s favorite sandwich?
fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich.
500
What was DuMont?
A TV network
500
Lake Como and Lake Garda are both located in which Southern European country?
Italy
500
What bacterium, better known in its partially abbreviated name, is Gram-negative and rod-shaped? It had a famous outbreak in 1993 when “Jack In The Box” inadvertently spread it across four states.
E. Coli
500
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Drop the "S"
600
What pop singer is known as “The Material Girl”?
Madonna
600
Fill in the next line: “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold.”
“And she’s buuuuuuying a staaaaaaaairway to heaven.”
600
On what TV show did a young Richard Crenna play the recurring role of a lovesick school boy?
Our Miss Brooks
600
Boxing made its official debut at the 1904 Summer Olympics, which was held in what U.S. city that is home to the “Gateway To The West”?
St. Louis
600
Name the species of bird that has a tongue so long it wraps around the back of their skull when not in use, protecting their brains while they tap into trees.
Woodpecker
600
How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
F I V E Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV which is the Roman numeral for four.
700
Which group recorded the hit single “Karma Chameleon” in 1984?
Culture Club
700
Who played the first James Bond?
Sean Connery
700
Name the number 1 song on the Billboard Charts in 1951:
'Be My Love'
Mario Lanza
700
What capital of Western Australia is over 1,300 miles from Adelaide, its nearest sizeable neighbor, making it one of the most isolated major cities in the world?
Perth
700
Beginning with L are which molecules that are the primary building blocks of the plasma membrane in cells?
Lipids
700
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
A chick in an egg.
800
Which pop star played 27 different instruments on their debut album “For You”?
Prince
800
Where did George Jetson work?
Spacely Sprockets.
800
1951: In this year, the Topps company first released what form of collectable items?
baseball cards
800
The largest county in Texas by population, Harris, contains what major Texas city?
Houston
800
Sometimes, foxes are able to pounce upon small prey because they can sense what kind of fields that are naked to the human eye?
Magnetic fields
800
I'm not clothes but I cover your body; The more I'm used, the thinner I grow. What am I?
Bar of soap.
900
Elton John’s 1976 hit “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” was a duet with which vocalist?
Kiki Dee
900
Howdy Doody
900
1951: The title of the best selling book of this year came from a Rudyard Kipling poem. The plot centers on a group of Army officers and the women in their lives in Hawaii just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Which James Jones novel is this?
From Here to Eternity
900
Costa Rica is bordered by two countries: Nicaragua and what Central American country whose largest cities include San Miguelito and Las Cumbres?
Panama
900
The most common DNA test used for paternity testing is performed by collecting buccal cells, which are found in what specific body part?
Cheek
900
If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there?
Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet.
1000
Who was the lead guitarist of Queen?
Brian Harold May
1000
Cigarette Machine
1000
What were viewers shown in the first live commerical coast-to-coast broadcast?
Bridges
1000
What major world capital sits on the site of an ancient body of water named Lake Texcoco, which was almost entirely drained in by Spanish colonists the 17th century?
Mexico City
1000
All amino acids contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and what other element that starts and ends with the same letter?
Nitrogen
1000
Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?
Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.