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1002. Ted Williams was the last Major Leaguer to hit over .400 in a season. What was his final average?

1003. Who were the three artists who founded United Artists Studios?

1005. Who is the only US president not to live in the White House?

1006. The National Rifle Association is based in what state?

1007. What cartoon character was given the name 'Sweet Patootie' by her strong-armed partner?

1008. What does amylase do for the body?

1009. Harvard University was founded for the training of what profession? I think it was law, but that seems too obvious.

1010. Which rock band has the all-time best selling album for a group?

1011. Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College in the most lopsided game ever. What was the score?

1012. Who was the commander in chief of the Soviet navy from 1956 to 1985?

1013. As of 1997 which country had the most money invested in the United States? Is it Japan?

1014. Who was the original voice of Mickey Mouse? Was it Walt Disney himself?

1015. Who invented the television?

1018. Who is the only US president to work for the CIA?

1019. Who was the first US president who was not born in either Virginia or Massachusetts?

1022. When was the flyswatter invented?

1025. Which author is a partial owner of the Baltimore Orioles?

1027. When was Thanksgiving made a national US holiday, and who was the president?

1029. Who was the first person to suggest the idea of atoms?

1030. In the movie 'Lost in a Harem' what happens to Lou Costello whenever he asks directions?

1033. Pat Brady, Roy Rogers' sidekick, had a favorite expression. What was it?

1040. Where was the card game poker invented?

1043. In which of these four places - Wrangel Island, Alaska, Mexico, or sub-Saharan Africa - did the mammoths first appear 3 or 4 million years ago?

1044. Which of the following inspired the name '1984' for George Orwell's novel: a poem by his wife, numerology, Nostradamus' work, or a railway ticket?

1046. What singer won the 1943 Alabama-Mississippi State Fair talent contest?

1047. What book is subtitled 'JFK in the White House'?

1049. I heard that the world's largest McDonalds is in Orlando, Florida. Is this true?

1050. Look! Up in the western sky! The Moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter is aligned with Mars! That means we're in the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. That celestial event was foretold in a 1969 hit song by The Fifth Dimension. What Broadway musical was the song originally from?

1051. What famous actor was part of the acrobatic team of Lang and Cravat?

1052. Who portrayed Mozart in the movie 'Amadeus'?

1053. What are the names of the two New Jersey born comedians whose first Broadway show was 'The Streets of Paris'?

1054. In what film, based on a broadway musical, is this monologue heard, "I think my biggest problem is being young and beautiful. It's my biggest problem because I've never been young and beautiful?"

1055. What is the name of the song whose subtitle is 'Or How I was McNamara'd into Submission'?

1059. What musician started with the Pilgrim Travellers in the 1950's?

1061. What TV crime and mystery series was known in France as 'Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir'?

1062. What program did UPN inaugurate on January 16, 1995 with an episode called 'Caretaker'?

1063. In the movie 'Copland' what is the name of the bar where the officers meet?

1064. In 1848 the population of San Francisco was 800. What was the estimated population in 1850?

1065. What company slogan is "Work hard, fly right?"

1066. In the 1984 movie 'The Natural' what was the name given to Roy Hobbs' bat?

1067. What movie is Jabberwocky from?

1077. Fact or fiction, do bats really bite?

1078. Who invented the fire escape?

1079. What product used the slogan, "Promise her everything but give her ..."?

1084. What is the name of the 'adult' book by Henry Miller that contained all the 'dirty' dialogue?

1097. How many strings are on a guitar?

1098. Why was the hula hoop outlawed in Japan in the 1950s?

1102. What was the name of Sir Gordon Richards first winning horse?

1103. For which county in England did Sir Alec Douglas-Home play cricket?

1104. The White House burned down in what year, and how long did it take to rebuild?

1105. This European born hockey player last won in Stanley Cup in 1994 with the New York Rangers. Wayne Gretzky once wrote that he would like his final NHL goal to bounce off this player's butt. Who is he?

1111. Just before graduating law this future US president tried for a job with the FBI but got no reply. Who was he?

1115. Besides humans, what other mammal can get leprosy?

1117. What was the previous name of the Hawaiian Islands?

1119. How old is B.B. King?

1122. What was first introduced into gasoline by Mobil in 1956?

1124. When did Richard Petty win his first Nascar event?

1130. How much money do you get when you win the Hart Trophy?

1131. Who invented the lava lamp?

1132. Who is the only player in baseball history to hit an inside the park grand slam?

1134. What is Harry Truman's middle name?

1135. Who was the only person to fool Houdini?

1136. What was the original name of the Elmsley count?

1140. Who were Dismas and Gestas?

1141. Who won the first Cy Young award?

1147. Which country was the last to declare war on Germany in World War I?

1152. What female actress played in the movie 'Maisie'?

1153. Who sang the song 'When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose'?

1161. What is the only breed of dog with a black tongue?

1167. Who answered the first telephone call at the White House?

1168. How long did the Hundred Years' War last?

1174. What are pyramids made of?

1177. How many rooms are in Buckingham Palace?

1178. What is LOC paper?

1179. Which of the following is most mentioned in the Bible: figs, olives or corn?

1180. What was the name of the last witch to be burned at the stake in Scotland?

1182. Which actor on M*A*S*H* was really in the Korean War?

1184. What was Mary Ann's real occupation on 'Gilligan's Island' before the shipwreck?

1188. What is the record amount of pennies collected in a fund-raiser event?

1191. What was John Wayne's real name?

1200. Who was the 'Father of the Constitution?'

1201. On Jackie Gleason's variety show in the sixties, one of the most popular segments was 'Joe, the Bartender.' Joe's regular visitor at the bar was what slightly off-center, but lovable character?

1204. On the TV show 'WKRP in Cincinnati' what did the character Les Nessman wear in every episode?

1205. Where does a pyroclastic flow originate?

1209. What author was first to use the word 'nerd'?

1211. In which film did Rene Russo play a librarian?

1215. What was the name of Paul Revere's horse?

1216. In what country was the first gun made?

1218. What do people call a group of bats?

1219. What was the first movie Kevin Costner played in?

1220. When and how was the sugar cube invented?

1225. Who posed for the torch bearing goddess that is seen at the opening of every Columbia Pictures film?

1239. What city has the world's longest subway system?

1240. Who led the uprising of the gladiators?

1241. What is the name of Pepe le Pew's girlfriend?

1243. Paul Revere was only one of two men to ride that famous night and warn that the British were coming. Who was the other?

1244. Man o' War never won the Kentucky Derby but his sons sure did. Can you name them?

1245. Who was the first woman governor in the United States?

1248. How many days did Julia Butterfly Hill sit in a redwood tree?

1249. That patriotic song did Julia Ward Howe write lyrics to?

1250. Who used the pen name Mark Twain before Samuel Clemens?

1251. Which one of these actors did not play Vincent van Gogh: Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, or Anthony Perkins?

1252. How many dozens are in a baker's dozen?

1253. I need to know if turkeys can really smell?

1256. What is the origin of the term 'rule of thumb'?

1261. What was Mrs. Brown's favorite dessert to make Uncle Martin in the TV show 'My Favorite Martian'?

1263. Who invented the game of Lacrosse?

1264. Where does the term 'hoodwink' come from?

1266. In what year, month and day was cigarette advertising banned on American television?

1267. How many moons does Mars have?

1268. How many miles from the sun is the planet Mars?

1274. There were two ties in two different years. What four Broadway musicals were the only ones to tie for a Tony award?

1275. What is the longest running crime series in the history of American television?

1282. What is the most frequently used word in the English language?

1283. When was the microwave invented?

1286. What did Bart Simpson name his crowbar?

1298. After Hitler commited suicide his body was taken out of the bunker, thrown in a ditch and burned. What happened to his remains?

1299. What is the name of Latka's girlfriend on the TV show 'Taxi'?

1303. What TV crime series was based on the book 'Poor, Poor Ophelia'?

1307. How many dollars was Pizza Hut awarded last winter after it sued a competitor whose ads claimed it made 'better' pizza?

1311. What is the largest ethnic group in Nebraska?

1315. On the show 'In the Heat of the Night' Deputy Parker Williams has three cats. What are the cats' names?

1317. What two famous Americans have appeared on more U.S. stamps than any others?

1319. Why do men's suits have buttons on the sleeve?

1322. Which US president was the first to take the oath of office in his own home?

1327. What team was the last team to win three World Series in a row?

1328. What was the first children's novel that began with, "It was a dark and stormy night"?

1337. Three horses have sired three Kentucky Derby winners to tie for the most Derby winners out of one stud. Can you name all three of these 'studly' sires?

1338. What does PVC stand for?

1339. Who where the six people shipwrecked in 'Swiss Family Robinson'?

1344. Can camels swim?

1345. What do you catch at a 'stazione ferroviaria' in Italy?

1346. What word looks exactly the same when read forward, in reverse or upside down?

1348. Who was the only US president to serve nonconsecutive terms?

1349. What is the longest book in the Bible?

1355. From where comes the expression "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water"?

1361. Viagra would have helped what character in 'Sex, Lies and Videotape'?

1362. What sitcom character wore a band-aid in every episode?

1363. What does "M.G." stand for in the name Booker T and the M.G.s?

1365. What Broadway musical is based upon the music of Alexander Borodin?

1367. Who appeared in a Disney film and on a US $20 bill?

1368. On what TV show will you find the Narn Regime and the Vorlon Empire?

1370. How many minutes of new footage were in the new release of Star Wars?

1371. What was Spock's blood type on 'Star Trek'?

1375. What are the two melody types in Hindu music?

1377. TV detective Tony Baretta lived in what hotel?

1379. Who wrote 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me' and 'Sleeping with the Television On?'

1381. What jazz trumpeter won a Grammy Award for his work on the 'First Light' album?

1382. How long does 'Peaceful, Easy Feeling' last in its original recording?

1383. In what film will you find the character President Skroob?

1385. In what film will you hear the following dialogue, "Do you have such a thing as a reliable atlas?"

1387. Dr. Joel Fleischman worked in the town of Cicely, which had a population of how many people?

1389. What singer made it big in 1956 with 'Please, Please, Please'?

1390. Whose 1966 Liverpool concert broke an attendance record previously set by the Beatles?

1396. What great jazz superstar got his first professional job with Eddie Randall's Blue Devils?

1397. In November 1925 what radio program eventually led to the creation of the Grand Ole Opry?

1399. What Woody Allen film uses the music of Mendelssohn?

1400. What was the name of the original pilot for TV's 'Star Trek'?

1402. Who was the first person to win two consecutive Grammy awards for Best Album of the Year?

1403. What was the first Beatles song to win a Grammy?

1405. In the 1970's what TV program won three Emmy awards for best drama?

1406. What was the first film to win an Oscar for best film in the foreign language category?

1407. Marvin Hamlisch wrote the score of what film produced by ITC Entertainment Presentation and Pakula-Barish Productions?

1408. Which well known singer, guitarist and songwriter formed his first group in St. Louis with pianist Johnny Johnson and drummer Ebby Harding?

1409. 'It's Uptown' released in 1965 featured the work of what Pittsburgh-born jazz guitarist?

1410. Who is the 720-year old with two hearts from the planet Gallifrey?

1412. What Hawthorne, California pop group's first smash hit was recorded on the Candix label?

1414. In what film's opening scenes do we see an accountant working in a funeral home and a florist shop and a woman in a restaurant throwing water onto the lap of her date and saying, "Kiss my aspirations"?

1415. Three garrulous musicians met at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s to go on and form what quirky pop group?

1417. What were the names of the three Paul Butterfield series of bands?

1418. What famous singer was discovered by Harry James at the Rustic Cabin in New Jersey in 1939?

1419. Who worked for the Syracuse University radio station and then got a job as a summer replacement at WFIL in Philadelphia in 1952?

1420. After being recorded on Columbia and Asylum, record companies, who started his own firm called Ashes and Sand?

1422. The A-Team was imprisoned for robbing which bank?

1423. Which musician started with Pilgrim Travellers in the 1950s and issued his first LP in 1962 called 'Stormy Monday'?

1424. Who is the Buffalo born musician who played the national anthem for the Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Eagles and was a founding member of the Four Clefs?

1428. What was the name of the musical group that game show host Chuck Woolery was part of and what was their top 40 hit?

1429. What is the Oregon Myrtle also known as in California?

1430. In what city was the first U.S. movie theater built?

1432. Which TV series was set at 165 Eaton Place, London?

1434. When did Carole King release 'Tapestry'?

1439. Which faith teaches that only a camel knows the 100th unmentionable name of Allah?

1442. Who created 'Beavis and Butt-Head'?

1444. Who is the pop musician whom Elvis Presley called the greatest singer in the world and who toured with the Beatles in 1963?

1445. In 1957 before the opening of one of the most successful Broadway musicals ever, who said, "I don't know how many people begged me not to waste my time on something that could not possibly suceed, a show full of hatefulness and ugliness"?

1454. Which artist painted a work that could be called 'moo moo with lemon color countenance?"

1457. Who called herself 'Clematis'?

1459. In what novel will you find the Compson family?

1460. Who wrote the score for 'On the Waterfront'?

1467. What German critic and dramatist said "We have actors but no art of acting"?

1470. What Depression-era photographer produced 'Elevator Garage' and 'Girl with Leica'?

1472. Who was the leader of the Barbizon School?

1473. Who painted 'The Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine'?

1474. What Florentine artist was nicknamed 'little barrel?'

1476. What is the name of the Boston, Massachusetts artist who painted 'The Boy with the Squirrel' in 1765?

1477. Who was appointed architect to the Florence Cathedral in 1334?

1479. Who painted the 'Inspiration of the Poet'?

1481. What is the actual title that Daniel Defoe gave to the novel 'Robinson Crusoe'?

1482. Who painted 'A Scene from the Beggar's Opera'?

1485. What is the 'Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo'?

1486. What movement was inaugurated by Wertheimer, Kohler and Koffka?

1487. What is the complete name of the author Virgil?

1491. In what work will you find the following characters: Subtle, Pertinax, Surly, and Tribulation Wholesale?

1492. Which Shakespeare character says, "Simply the thing I am shall make me live"?

1494. Who began his autobiography in Twyford, England at the age of 65 and wrote about such key people in his life as Josiah, James William Keith and Mr. Meredith?

1495. Who wrote about Crazy Jane and Michael Robartes?

1496. What character in a novel is attracted to a Polish boy named Tadzio?