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- Shaped like a flat disk, it's about 100,000 light years in diameter, and about 10,000 light years thick. What is it? (Milky Way)
- What are the two top candy-producing companies in this country? (Hershey's / M&M / Mars)
- It is said that when Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba in the 1940's, he would visit his favorite bar every day and consume up to a dozen of his favorite exotic cocktails, named for a Cuban city. Which drink? (Daiquiri)
- Silver is the traditional gift for what numbered wedding anniversary? (25th)
- Cinderella, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel are a few of the fairy tales written by 19th century German brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm whose last name was what? (Grimm)
- What does it mean for a bowler to score a turkey? (To hit three strikes in a row)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, and Cecil B. Demille were among the 36 people who, on May 11, 1927, founded what organization that today has about 6,000 members, and bestows annual major awards? (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, (AMPAS), who bestow each year the Academy Awards)
- What 6-word phrase has achieved cult status after being uttered in every Star Wars film? ("May the Force be with you")
- The musical, Jersey Boys, tells the story of what singer and music group? (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
- The suspenseful 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, the Birds, was set in what San Francisco Bay coastal town? (Bodega Bay, in Sonoma County)
- What was the title of the first James Bond movie, in 1962 -- it contained the name of a profession in the title -- and what 32-year old actor first starred as James Bond? (Sean Connery / Dr. No )
- Who are the parents of young actor Jason Gould? (Barbra Streisand / Elliot Gould)
- Three of the highest rated shows of the 90's were all on NBC. What were they? (ER / Seinfeld / Friends)
- On Feb. 26, '97 the Grammy Award for Best New Artist went to a 14 year-old country singer. What's her name? (Leann Rimes)
- What was the title of the 1993 film about a young boy with an incredible fastball pitch, who earns a spot pitching for the Chicago Cubs? (Rookie of the Year)
- What two countries shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola? (Dominican Republic and Haiti)
- Who is the main female character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? (Scarlett O'Hara)
- The female Danish writer Isak Dineson spent 20 years in Kenya on a coffee plantation, and wrote what autobiographical work in 1937 which became a film in the 1980's? (Out Of Africa)
- In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for literature, for what novel? (The Old Man and the Sea)
- What Academy Award winning Best Picture from 2002 had the name of a city as its title? (Chicago)
- According to Greek mythology, every time one of this dragon-like monster's heads was cut off, two more grew in its place. It was finally killed by Hercules. What was it? (Hydra)
- One of the most significant political works of the 20th century, "Mein Kampf" was written in 1924 by whom? Where was he when he wrote it? (Adolf Hitler / In Prison)
- In the film, The Lion King, the voice of the hyena was played by which humorous woman? (Whoopie Goldberg)
- She was born in 1964 in Sunnyvale, in the Bay Area. She attended DeAnza College, then became a dancer in San Francisco. Lately she starred in the hit T.V. series, Lois and Clark. Who is she? (Teri Hatcher)
- The two male actors who won Academy Awards as Best Actor in 1970 and 1972 both refused the awards. Who were they, and for which films? (George C. Scott - Patton / Marlon Brando - Godfather)
- The Houston Comets defeated the New York Liberty in 1997, in the first-ever championship game in what new sports league? (Women National Basketball Association (WNBA))
- The earliest vineyards in California were planted in 1769 by members of which religious order? (Franciscan Monks)
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