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1501. In what novel does Master Blifil bear false witness against the title character, his half-brother?

1502. Captain Smollett commands what ship on which Long John Silver is the cook?

1504. Who was born on Bread Street, Cheapside, London in 1608?

1505. Who was Eric Arthur Blair?

1506. What is considered to be the world's first detective story?

1507. What famous child did this couple have: Harmen Gerritszoon van Rihn and Neeltgen Willems van Stuydtbrouck?

1508. Who wrote The Paradox of Acting (1773-1778)?

1509. Who is the artist that produced eleven paintings of the Saint-Lazare station in Paris?

1510. In Jainism what is the term for any saviour who transcends rebirths and makes a path for others to follow?

1511. What books of the Bible are known as the Early Prophets?

1512. In what work will you find the character Chadwick Newsome?

1513. In what novel will you find these opening words, "All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?

1514. Which character's home was located in Floral Heights in the town of Zenith?

1515. On what two ships did Billy Budd serve?

1517. In what Shakespeare play does the Battle of Agincourt occur?

1520. What English poet, philosopher and artist prepared engravings for the Book of Job and the Divine Comedy?

1523. Also a deacon, a lecturer in mathematics and an accomplished photographer, who was this English writer who died in 1898?

1526. What author owned a 92-foot yacht named Saint-Michel III?

1531. What novel offers a history of the Salinas Valley and re-creates the Cain and Abel story?

1532. In what work will you find Sans Foy, Sans Loy and Sans Joy?

1533. In what Strindberg play is the captain driven to insanity by his wife and rejected by his own daughter?

1535. In the preface to his famous collection of poems, who advises, "Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother!"

1536. What novel has the subtitle, "or the Modern Prometheus"?

1538. Who said, "No self respecting fish would be wrapped in a Murdoch newspaper"?

1539. In which year was the 999 emergency number launched in London?

1540. What was the most massive dinosaur on land?

1541. What is the name given to the pieces of a Scrabble game?

1546. What is the fastest sea animal?

1547. What is the fastest land animal?

1552. Who was the last right-handed US president?

1554. What animal was named athlete of the year in 1973?

1555. What is a 'blue moon'?

1557. Who was the last American president to wear facial hair?

1558. What fictional family lived at 328 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn?

1560. What TV series was originally prepared as 'The Linda Evans Project'?

1561. What fictional characters lived at 730 Hampton Street?

1562. Why do the English people drive on the left side of the road and why are the steering wheels in their cars on the right side of the car?

1563. What baseball fan caught the baseball from Roger Maris' 61st homerun?

1564. Who said, "I have quit smoking a hundred times"?

1566. Who was the first PGA pro player to win a tournament using a colored ball?

1570. What other name is Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus known by?

1571. What is the most abundant mineral on earth?

1574. What was Oscar Wilde's prison number?

1575. What is the number one destination for children partictipating in the 'Make a Wish' program?

1581. What is the best selling car colour?

1582. What is the number one selling brand of water?

1584. What was the size of Albert Einstein's brain?

1585. Who played Dr. Moreau in the three movie versions of H.G. Wells' novel?

1586. What was the name of the Godzilla movie released in 1964?

1587. Who won the MTV award for the best villain in 1995?

1588. What film received the Golden Raspberry Award as the Worst Picture of 1996?

1589. In which film did Danny Glover play a serial killer?

1591. Why did Kate Nolan leave the Real McCoys in 1963?

1593. Where was the first subway in the world?

1594. According to Nicole Kidman in 'The Peacemaker' what is her father's occupation?

1596. In the movie 'The Jerk' what was the name of Steve Martin's dog?

1602. What US city is home of the first subway system?

1604. What is Donald Duck's middle name?

1605. Which goaltender has been awarded the most Vezina Trophies in NHL history, and how many?

1607. Which Hawaiian Island was the home of a leper colony?

1608. On average how many eggs does a chicken lay per day?

1613. What are the two most common surgical operations in the USA?

1623. What did the FDA approve on May 9, 1960?

1628. What was the MITS Altair 8800?

1649. What was the full name of the observatory launched into space in 1978 to study x-rays?

1653. What is calcium sulphate hemihydrate more commonly known as?

1654. What is a circumorbital hematoma?

1655. What is the significance of gp120?

1656. Where will you find the Equal House System used?

1658. What communicable disease is the leading cause of death worldwide?

1660. Who discovered that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen?

1670. What does the Einstein-Rosen bridge connect?

1671. What species is also known by a shorter name than Australopithecus afarensis?

1675. What part of the brain distinguishes humankind from other animals?

1676. What lobe of the brain governs smell?

1678. What is Jacobson's organ?

1680. How many electron volts are in 1 GeV?

1683. What kind of species is the Moapa coriacea?

1693. What radio wave broadcasts at 21 centimeters?

1697. The name of which constellation means 'furnace?'

1702. What part of the brain accounts for 85% of its weight?

1706. Who originally proposed the GAIA concept?

1708. What do massive vector bosons carry?

1714. What are the three largest families of flowering plants?

1715. The melting point of which element is 2,444 degrees F?

1716. How many hearts does an octopus have?

1722. Who was the first person to be executed in the electric chair?

1724. Who was the only British king to be crowned on the battlefield?

1726. Who was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ?

1738. What was the Great Schism?

1739. In the 15th century which two countries in a treaty divided the world by a line 370 leagues west of the Azores?

1761. Which four US presidents have served an entire term without a vice president?

1766. Which group chopped off the left foot and right hand of a convicted robber in a sports stadium in Afghanistan?

1779. What nation gained its independence from the USSR on September 23, 1991?

1780. Which explorer died of dysentery on board his ship the Defiance in 1596?

1782. Which US inventor, at the age of 12, published the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper ever printed on a train?

1784. Who was known as L'ambassadeur electrique?

1786. What nation, that once had two official languages, now has eleven?

1791. How many words were in George Washington's second inaugural address?

1805. The coastline of which geographic location is 18,950 miles long?

1812. What country has a coastline of 151,492 miles?

1813. What nation comprises more than 1200 islands, of which about 220 are inhabited?

1814. What nation's ethnic groups are primarily Mestizo and Amerindian?

1815. The Arab-Berber ethnic group makes up 99% of which nation?

1816. What country's name is derived from a Mayan word that means 'muddy waters'?

1817. In area, what is the largest county in the United States?

1819. What city lays at the head of the Pearl River?

1821. What present day city stands where the Berber village of Anfa stood in the 12th century?

1825. What islands get their name from the Spanish word 'cayo' meaning rock or islet?

1827. What island, which was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1964, is home to a US Coast Guard base?

1829. What county is located in the province of Munster and comprises most of the Golden Vale?

1830. In 1781 what was the Spanish name for what would become Los Angeles?

1831. What European city is located on the Maseta plateau?

1832. What city was founded in 1671 and given the name Nueva Zamora?

1835. What nation is known to Arabs as Al-Maghreb al-Aqsa or 'farthest west'?

1840. What is the weight of the blue whale at birth?

1844. How many known elements are there in the Periodic Table?

1852. Where can't the US president and vice president be at the same time?

1853. What is the only mammal that lays eggs?

1855. In 'Deceiver' what is the date as the film opens?

1857. Who holds the world record for running 100 yards backward?

1858. Who filed a lawsuit against Adidas claiming he was forced to stitch together World Cup '98 soccer balls in a Chinese labor camp?

1859. In 'Deceiver' what is Chris Penn's character's IQ?

1862. What is the official name of the World Cup?

1863. Who holds the record for most goals scored in a World Cup tournament?

1864. What do these names represent: Magic, Columbia, Sappho, Madeleine, Mischief, and Resolute?

1866. What NFL team had the very first number one draft pick?

1870. Where and when was the first professional basketball game played?

1873. How many female competitors were there in the first modern Summer Olympics?

1874. What Indy 500 winner had the slowest time?

1875. What team scored the most points in which Super Bowl game?

1876. What four categories comprise the NFL quarterback rating system?

1880. How many times have NBA teams won the world championship by four games to none?

1881. In what film did Richard Widmark portray Comanche Todd?

1886. What horse won the Eclipse Award five years in a row?

1887. Who is the only Penn State University football player to be a number one pick in the NFL draft?

1888. Who holds the NFL record for the highest career rushing average?

1889. In Super Bowl history which kicker missed what would have been the winning field goal with eight seconds remaining in the game?

1890. Which two players has scored the most points in NBA history?

1891. Who drove in the most runs in a World Series?

1892. What was the first US pro football team to have emblems on its helmets?

1894. What city holds the Oldsmobile Classic?

1895. What is the record for fewest points scored in an NBA game?

1897. How many male competitors were there in the first modern Summer Olympics?

1899. In Europe what activity are you undertaking if you belong to the FICC?

1901. What board game was called Tric-Trac by the French and Germans in the 17th Century?

1904. What song is being played on Raymond's Walkman while he is in the elevator with Susanna in 'Rain Man?'

1905. What was the title and number of the first song that Raymond memorized from the jukebox in the diner in 'Rain Man?'

1907. What are five films in which Sean Connery's character dies?

1908. In what film does Harrison Ford's character die?

1912. What pastime uses objects such as the Malay, three-sticker and the box?

1915. What game has a court size of six feet wide and 52 feet long, and an actual playing surface of 39 feet long?

1917. What is the longest single word palindrome in the English language?

1919. Whose AOL username was Boysrch?

1922. What is the meaning of the word 'karojisatsu?'

1924. John H. Johnson heads what major magazine?

1931. Whose motto is "Das Beste Oder Nichts?"

1933. Who composed the music for the national anthem of Lesotho?

1934. In 'Hope Floats' Sandra Bullock watches a movie on TV. The movie shows a scene with William Holden in it. What film is it?

1937. What was the name of the little boy's bus driver in 'Mercury Rising'?

1938. What is the name of a film featuring Jim Carrey and Helen Hunt?

1939. Who played the janitor in 'Beetlejuice?'

1940. In 'The Simpsons' episode in which Homer started an internet company, what was the name of the service or equipment that the Comic Book Guy wanted to buy from him?

1945. Which one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings has a UFO hovering in the background?

1949. What famous statesman said, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac"?

1950. What year did the first movie theater open in Los Angeles?

1951. In what city was the first US parachute jump made?

1953. Who is the only US president to have won the Pulitzer Prize?

1955. How long do you have to be married for a diamond anniversary?

1956. What is the most common name for dogs in the United States?

1960. Who is Phyllis Diller's daughter?

1964. What is known as the 'Gay Science'?

1967. Which of the following countries consumes the greatest amount of chocolates in the world: Switzerland, United States, Brazil or Singapore?

1970. Which of the following people wanted to dedicate one of his works to Charles Darwin, but Darwin said no: Bernard Shaw, Garibaldi, Karl Marx or Louis Pasteur?

1971. What is the name of the actor who plays Captain Hook in the movie 'Hook'?

1973. What was the name of the far-sighted Indian who is considered to be the 'father of modern plastic surgery' and devised an artificial nose in the 4th century BC?

1975. What was Alfred Nobel noted for?

1977. If someone who has never worked is sent to jail at age 17 for 45 years and gets out when he or she is 62, can that person collect Social Security?

1979. Who said, "I made a personal mistake and they spent $50,000,000 trying to ferret it out because they had nothing else to do"?

1980. What was the name of Hop-A-Long Cassidy's horse?

1981. Is pork really a white meat or is poultry the only 'white meat'?

1982. Has anyone every played all nine positons in a single baseball game?

1983. What golfing accessory was patented by George Grant on December 12, 1899?

1984. What is the world's largest dog?

1986. What is the largest US agricultural crop by weight?

1988. From where did marriage originate?

1992. If a group of lions is called a pride and a group of crows is called a murder, what is a group of foxes called?

1995. How many tons of US chicken feet are exported to China each year?

1997. Whose mother is Fatima Nevic?