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                                                  Round 1
 
 1  The 2006 Golden Globe nominations were announced last week. What film, beginning w/the letter B, received the most nominations -- 7?  Babel
 
 2  What painter, used his wife as a model for the lone female figure in his work The NighthawksEdward Hopper
 
 3  Dustin Diamond, he of Saved by the Bell fame, recently starred in a video where certain nasty acts were depicted. Name his Saved by the Bell character.  Screetch
 
 4  The Ardennes Offensive, which began on December 16, 1944. (called Unternehmen: Wacht Am Rhein by the German military of the time), officially named the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army, is better known by what name?  We know that battle as The Battle of the Bulge
 
 5  Who directed the following films?  Big Trouble in Little China, The FogGhosts of Mars, & Village of the Damned  John Carpenter
 
 6  In The Great Gatsby, what event did Meyer Wolfsheim supposedly rig?  The 1919 World Series -- could NEVER happen!
 
 7  Close personal friend of mine, Suzette Charles was the 2nd African American to hold the title of Miss America. Who was the first?  Vanessa Williams
 
 8  This state had Cahaba & Tuscaloosa as capitals in the early 19th century, before it was changed to its present capital.  Alabama
 
 9  The alloy pewter is usually 85% to 99% composed of what metal?  tin
 
10  What song by The Cure starts w/the line: "whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again?"  Lovesong
 
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                                               Round 2
 
 1  What product mascot is naked except for a hat, gloves, spats, & a monacle?   Mr. Peanut
 
 2  The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church. Who is the head of the Anglican Church?   Archbishop of Canterbury
 
 3  Besides Woody Allen, who's the only actor to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for a Woody Allen joint? BTW, he didn't win that time, but he won one eventually.  Sean Penn (Sweet and Lowdown)
 
 4  What Europena became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula were united under King Victor Emmanuel II?    Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along w/Sardinia & Sicily, were united.
 
 5  TV guide's list of Biggest Brats on TV listed this Danielle Spencer role from the late 1970s. If you're not sure how to spell it, you can just put one letter.  Dee
 
 6  This British author was fluent in 7 languages & dabbled in 6 more. From Malay to Russian to Chinese to Hebrew. He used this expertise in languages to create a new language for the prehistoric film Quest for Fire & to create the Nadsat slang used by the Droogs in his most famous novel.   The author of A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
 
 7  The 1919 World Series really was fixed. To what National League team did the Chicago Black Sox lose?   The Cincinnati Reds
 
 8  What New Mexico city was founded in 1706 & named for a viceroy of New Spain?    Albuquerque
 
 9  Which one of these automobile divisions from days gone by did not belong to Chysler: De Soto , Eagle, Oldsmobile, or Plymouth ?   Oldsmobile (GM)
 
10  After being introduced as the final act @ Woodstock , this lead singer & guitar player informed the audience that his group was called Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Name that dude.   Jimi Hendrix
 
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                    Round 3 --Speed Round
 
31 different TV series or programs received @ least one Golden Globe nomination. Those shows appeared on 12 different television networks. Name 10 of those networks.
 
 1  HBO             14
 2  ABC              11
 3  NBC               9
 4  Showtime       6
 5  PBS                4
 6  AMC               3
 7  Fox                 3
 8  BBC America  2
 9  TNT                2  
10  CBS                1
11  FX                   1
12  USA               1
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Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote The Hokey Pokey died peacefully last week @ the age of 93. The most traumatic  part for his family was getting him into the coffin They put his left leg in & then the trouble started.
 
 
shout-out  The name of this VPOTUS is an anagram of "grow a penis."     Spiro Agnew
 
shout-out  In Scream, Sydney laments that w/her luck, she'd be portrayed by this TV actress if her story were ever filmed. Sure enough in the film-within-a-film in Scream 2, this actress does in fact play Sydney.   Tori Spelling
 
shout-out  In Scream, Sydney laments that w/her luck, she'd be portrayed by this TV actress if her story were ever filmed. What is the name of the film-within-a-film in Scream 2?   Stab
 
shout-out  This band, formed in Bellvue, Washington in 1981 is believed to be the first to put an umlaut over the letter y.   Queensryche
 
shout-out  In 1950, glamorous actress & talk show hostess Faye Emerson became the woman to ever do what on TV?     She inadvertently showed her boobies
 
shout-out  In The Night of the Hunter what 2 words does the Reverend Harry Powell have tattooed on his hands? (One word on each hand.)   LOVE on one hand & HATE on the other
 
shout-out  In the first 10 minutes of a 1981 film Alice Hardy, played by Adrienne King, is stabbed in the temple w/an icepick: This character's first on screen victim of many.  Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th, Part 2)
 
shout-out  What 1990 Janet Jackson album spawned the #1 hit Black Cat?   Rhythm Nation 1814
 
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                            Round 4
 
 1  Mark David Chapman claims he killed Lennon because he'd become a "phony". What book that makes extensive use of the word "phony" was Chapman carrying @ the time of his arrest?  Catcher in the Rye
 
 2  Multiple choice: Which of the following breeds is not considered part of the terrier family? Airedale, American Pit Bull, Beagle, or Miniature Schnauzer.  Beagle
 
 3  What basketball team offered Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a contract worth $1 million while he was still a student @ UCLA?   The Harlem Globetrotters
 
 4  The woman on this state's seal represents equal rights, since it was the first state to grant women the right to vote.     Wyoming
 
 5  Name this acting family. Older brother has 10 Emmy nominations; Younger brother has 4 Oscar nominations including one for playing the POTUS & one for playing an alien. Their dad has 2 Emmy nominations; one in 1957 & another 41 years later for an episode of Seinfeld. What is their last name?   Jeff Bridges starred in The Contender & Starman. Lloyd Bridges played Izzy Mandelbaum. Beau -- who cares?
 
 6  Time's first Man of the Year issue was 1927 when this dude took the honor.   Charles Adolph Lindbergh
 
 7  What year gave us the death of the American Basketball Association & the birth of Peyton Manning. Hint: It was a leap year.   1976
 
 8   Built between 1929 & 1940, this series of fortresses stretching North to South across Europe was named after a man who served as a Minister of War & Minister of Veterans Affairs.  The Maginot Line
 
 9  Alexander Litvinenko died November 23, 2006 after a 3-week battle against the effects of ingesting polonium 210, a radioactive isotope. Who discovered polonium?Also called tentatively Radium F, polonium was discovered by Marie Curie & her husband Pierre in 1898 & was later named after Marie's native land of Poland.
 
10  Pass around the picture. Who am I?  xxxxxxx
 
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                               Tiebreakers

 

 #   Including this past weekend (December 17, 2006), how many regular season touchdown passes has Jeff Garcia thrown for in his career    135