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                                                                                     Round 1
 
 1  Whose image is on the front of the new dollar coin just released late last month? (February 2007)       George Washington
 
 2  In the entertainment guild known as the WGA, what does the W stand for?  The WGA is the Writers Guild of America
 
 3  Who is the last actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a fictional character?   Forest Whitaker just won for portraying Idi Amin. Last year Seymour Hoffman won for Capote. The year prior, it was Jamie Foxx for Ray. Sean Penn in Mystic River
 
 4  What POTUS had daughters named Linda & Luci?    Linda Bird (1944) & Luci Baines (1947) were sired by Lyndon Baines Johnson
 
 5  On The Simpsons, the full name of this character is Robert Underdunk Terwilliger.     Sideshow Bob
 
 6  In what Shakespeare play would you find the line, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?"  Act 3, Scene 1; The Merchant of Venice
 
 7  Thomas Eagleton died last week. He ran for VPOTUS in 1972 but resigned from the race after admitting to being hospitalized for depression. Who replaced Eagleton on the Democratic ticket?  Sargeant Shriver
 
 8  Industrial exports from this state include food processing & apparel.. These industries play a small role in the state's economy. The main agricultural exports are nursery stock, & flowers, coffee, macadamia nuts, pineapple, livestock, & sugar cane. What state is this?   Hawaii
 
 9  You're walking down Broad Street & you come across a caiman. Shocking, since these animals are not indigenous to Philadelphia. Caiman in Spanish is what animal in English?   alligator (also accept crocodile)
 
10  From the year 2000, what Canadian wrote & sang the top 10 hit, I'm Like a Bird?Nelly Furtado
 
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                                              Round 2
 
 1  Who is Sargeant Shriver's famous son-in-law?    Arnold Schwartzenegger
 
 2  What 9-letter word is defined as disowning allegiance to one country & taking up residence in another?   defection
 
 3  Who am I? I was born in 1963. & my parents named me Daniel Lawrence Whitney. One of my nicknames is The Freight Train of Comedy. Who am I?    Larry Cable Guy
 
 4  Prior to Elizabeth II, who was the last English monarch to rule in 2 different centuries?  Victoria
 
 5  Actor John Sylvester White played vice-principal Michael Woodman in what 1970s sitcom?  Welcome Back Kotter
 
 6  Which classic Judy Blume taught girls this chant to help them enlarge their breasts, "I must, I must, I must increase my bust?"     Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?
 
 7  A 3-point star inside a circle is the symbol of what auto manufacturer?           Mercedes-Benz
 
 8  What U..S. capitol city, East of the Mississippi was originally known as Marthasville & features a Phoenix on its city seal.   A city that rose from the ashes after the Civil War; Atlanta
 
 9  The album cover for the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers featured a functional zipper & was designed by this influential artist.      Andy Warhol
 
10  In 2002, a guitar owned by this man who died in 1995, sold @ auction for $850,000. Name that frontman.  Jerry Garcia
 
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                    Round 3 The Speed Round
 
W/the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, & the Target Foundation, Opera America worked w/Boston Lyric Opera, The Minnesota Opera Company, & Sarasota Opera to create Cornerstones, a Web site listing & giving information about the 20 most performed operas in North America. Name 10 of those operas.
 
 1. Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
 2. La bohème by Giacomo Puccini
 3. La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
 4. Carmen by Georges Bizet
 5. The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini
 6. The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 7. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 8. Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
 9. Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
10. The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11. La Cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini
12. Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
13. Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizet
14. Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
15. Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
16. Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
17. Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
18. Faust by Charles Gounod
19. Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
20. L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) by Gaetano Donizetti
 
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& now we've reached Gay Doug's favorite moment of the Quizzo festivities -- the occasionally told, sometims regrettable, often reviled, but mostly, not very funny -- Robert's Internet Joke of the Week.   On a plane bound for London the flight attendant approached a blonde sitting in the first class section & requested that she move to economy since she did not have a first class ticket.
The blonde replied "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to New York & I'm not moving."
Not wanting to argue w/a customer the flight attendant asked the co-pilot to speak w/her. He went to talk w/the woman asking her to please move out of the first class section.
Again, the blonde replied, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to New York & I'm not moving." The co-pilot returned to the cockpit & asked the captain what to do about her.
The captain said, "I'm married to a blonde, & I know how to handle this." He went to the first class section & whispered in the blonde's ear.
She immediately jumped up and ran to the economy section mumbling to herself, "Why didn't anyone just say so?"
Surprised, the flight attendant & the co-pilot asked what he said to her that finally convinced her to move from her seat.
He said, "I told her the first class section wasn't going to London.
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shout-out  What was Sally Field's character's name in the Smokey and the Bandit movies?      Carrie
 
shout-out  What should you put in your mouth to stop you from crying while chopping onions?  chewing gum
 
shout-out  In GQ's 2006 list of the top 12 movie dicks, Billy Zabka hit the top of the list; not for his turn as school bullies in Just One of the Guys or Back to School, but for playing Johnny Lawrence the quintessential school bully in what 1984 classic?   The Karate Kid
 
shout-out  In Mexico a folk remedy for infertility calls for eating the tail of a creature known as "tlacuache", most likely because they have many babies that they store in their pouch. What do we call it here in the states?    oppossum
 
shout-out  What actor's resume includes the roles of Tick Tock McLaughlin, Little Bill, Donnie Smith, Jerry Lundegaard, & The Shoveler?   William H. Macy
 
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                                              Round 4
 
 1  If all goes according to plan, what city will become the first to host 3 modern Summer Olympics?   London
 
 2  From 1961 to 1966, Sargeant Shriver served as the organizer & first Director of this organization, where he developed volunteer activities in Africa, Asia, & Latin America.  The Peace Corps
 
 3  In 1976, who became the first woman to anchor a news broadcast on a major network?        Barbara Walters
 
 4  What Spanish warrior seized Valencia, a Muslim stronghold, in 1094 & ruled it until his death about 10 years later?   Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, aka El Cid
 
 5  Who played Eve in the 1957 film The Three Faces of Eve?   She won the Oscar for Best Actress; Joanne Woodward
 
 6  This 1948 Nobel Prize winner shares his first initials w/the titular character of John Irving's The World According to Garp?   Garp's name was T.S. Garp. T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature
 
 7  What Ivy League school's athletic teams go by the name Big Red?  Cornell
 
 8  In the War of the Triple Alliance from 1864 to 1870, Argentina, Brazil, & Uruguay ganged up & beat the snot out of what country?   Paraguay
 
 9  Before his geometric designs like Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, this Dutchman was a landscape painter.   Piet Mondrian
 
10  What metal band fronted by Brandon Boyd takes its name from a male demon that likes to have its way w/women?   Incubus
 
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