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1. How old was Judy Garland when she started the filming for The Wizard of Oz?
2. Which classic film was promoted under the slogan, "Don't give away the ending - it's the only one we have?"
3. Do you remember a movie with Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn where they want to install a computer to replace the girls working at some place?
4. What classic Christmas movie did the following quote come from: "Well how do you like that? Not so much as a 'kiss my foot' or 'have an apple'!"
5. Was there a sequel to the classic 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts called Jason and the Golden Fleece?
6. What is Dorothy’s last name in the Wizard of Oz?
7. Didn't a Disney cartoon character visually identical to Mickey first appear in a cartoon called Steamboat Willy?
8. What was the song played by the pocket watch in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly?

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1. How does 2001: A Space Odyssey end?
2. How does 8MM end?
3. How does A Beautiful Mind end?
4. How does About A Boy end?
5. How does American Outlaw end?
6. How does American Pie end?
7. How does Analyze This end?
8. How does Apollo 13 end?
9. How does Armageddon end?
10. How does Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me end?
11. How does Austin Powers in Goldmember end?
12. How does Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever end?
13. How does Basic end?
14. How does Big Daddy end?
15. How does Blade II end?
16. How does The Blair Witch Project end?
17. How does Cast Away end?
18. How does Catch Me If You Can end?
19. How does Charlie's Angels end?
20. How does The Count of Monte Cristo end?
21. How does Die Another Day end?
22. How does Donnie Darko end?
23. How does Dude, Where's My Car? end?
24. How does First Knight end?
25. How does Get Shorty end?
26. How does Gladiator end?
27. How does Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone end?
28. How does Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets end?
29. How does Highlander end?
30. How does Highlander: Endgame end?
31. How does I Spy end?
32. How does In The Bedroom end?
33. How does Independence Day end?
34. How does Insomnia end?
35. How does It Could Happen To You end?
36. How does The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring end?
37. How does The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers end?
38. How does Memento end?
39. How does Men In Black II end?
40. How does Minority Report end?
41. How does The Mothman Prophecies end?
42. How does Mr. Deeds end?
43. How does National Lampoon's Van Wilder end?
44. How does Nurse Betty end?
45. How does Ocean's Eleven end?
46. How does Punch-Drunk Love end?
47. How does Red Dragon end?
48. How does Reign of Fire end?
49. How does Road to Perdition end?
50. How does Scooby Doo end?
51. How does The Shawshank Redemption end?
52. How does Signs end?
53. How does Spider-Man end?
54. How does Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace end?
55. How does Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones end?
56. How does Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope end?
57. How does Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back end?
58. How does Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi end?
59. How does Starship Troopers end?
60. How does True Romance end?
61. How does Unfaithful end?
62. How does The Usual Suspects end?
63. How does Vanilla Sky end?
64. How does What About Bob end?
65. How does XXX end?
66. What movies ending is: The lead girl is at the airport getting on a plane to go to school (art school, france, maybe??) and the lead guy is chasing after her and is afraid he's late. So he gets on the PA system and proclaims his love for her. But she can't hear him because she's got headphones on. So his friends finally track her down, get her attention, and then the guy catches up, proclaims his love, and so on. I believe that this movie part is parodied in Not Another Teen Movie.

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1. What recent movie was filmed at Turlock High School?
2. What was the top grossing movie for 2001?
3. Last year, a motion picture was released in Japan called "Avalon." Its soundtrack was written by Kenji Kawai, and was performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, with several vocal tracks performed by.... someone. Was it Lisa Gerrard, the vocalist from the group Dead Can Dance?
4. Have you seen anybody ever take a shit in a movie and you were forced to watch them wipe their ass?
5. What movie, if it's origin was a film, did the phrase "Strong like bull" come from?
6. What movie is this quote from by actor Robert Prosky: "You can't polish a turd."   NEW

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1. Who was the actor in the very first Batman movie?
2. In the Disney movie Toy Story, how many times does the character Mr. Potato Head get his pieces knocked off?
3. In Back to the Future, what was Jennifer's grandmother's phone number?
4. In the movie The Matrix, how many times does Agent Smith take his sunglasses off?
5. Why does Christopher Lambert (The Highlander, sequels) have such a weird accent?
6. How many people get their heads cut off in the original Highlander movie?
7. Who was the producers' first choice to play the title role in the 1989 screen version of Batman?
8. What did Jenny die of in Forrest Gump?
9. What is the extremely obscure origin/meaning of the eighties phrase "wax on, wax off"?
10. What "ridiculous" future event, predicted in jest in Back To The Future III, actually happened in the 1990s?
11. In the movie Joy Ride who was Lewis played by?
12. What's the film called that is about two gangs who spray their territory borders in green and another color down the middle of streets?
13. In the movie Pulp Fiction, what the hell was in the suitcase?
14. So what ever happened to Felicity Shagwell from Austin Powers 2? She just disappeared in Austin Powers: Goldmember.
15. What is the make and model of the vehicle Heather Graham drives up in at the end of the movie License to Drive?
16. What's the exact number of people that died in the movie Natural Born Killers?
17. What video game was Josh playing in the 1988 movie Big, starring Tom Hanks?
18. There is an urban legend that the stuntman playing "Goose" actually died in the filming of Top Gun.  Is it true?   NEW
19. In the film “From Dusk ‘Til Dawn” George Clooney and Quentin Tarrantino are heading to a place called “El Rey”. What or where is the fabled “El Rey” supposed to be?
20. During the first battle scene in Gladiator, Russell Crowe actually got wounded quite badly. how did he get hurt?
21. Was Joaquin Phoenix snubbed at the Oscars for his role of Commodus in Gladiator?   NEW
22. Who's name was inscribed on the antique pistol that the predator gave Danny Glover in the movie Predator 2?   NEW
23. What monument is behind Forrest Gump when he's sitting on the bench telling his story?
24. What is the name of the movie in which Sharon Stone shows her vagina?   NEW
25. What was the name of the song from Shipwrecked 3, and who was it by?

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1. Who were the only recurring two (I think) human characters in the Japanese Godzilla films? What films did they appear in and what are the actors' names?
2. What was the only (I think) Godzilla film that was a sequel to another Godzilla film other than the Godzilla film?
3. How many monsters have appeared in all the Godzilla films? This includes suit changes in different movies.
4. Based on the powers, strengths and weakness of each, who would win Godzilla or Gamera?
5. Are there plans for a sequel to the American version of Godzilla?
6. Are there any plans to release the two newest Godzilla films, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora: All Monsters Attack?

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1. What is the name of the main star destroyer in Star Wars?
2. Where did Lando get the Millennium Falcon?
3. What happened to the wookie race?
4. Who is Princess Leia's uncle?
5. In the 6th Star Wars film--Return of the Jedi-- what is the name of the bounty hunter Leia disguises herself as in order to break into Jabba's Palace?
6. Who was the president of the New Republic during the Thrawn Crisis (in Star Wars)?
7. How many languages can Han Solo speak?
8. Where did Jar Jar Binks's name come from?
9. What is the name of the race that Yoda is?

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1. What was the name of the girl who appeared on the front of the Whipped Cream album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass?
2. What was the first album produced on CD?
3. What band recently released an album titled ()?

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1. What famous person's real name is Percy Miller?
2. What artist has won more Grammy awards than any other?
3. Sorry. Let me be more specific.  What singer (neither Sir George Solti nor Quincy Jones sings) has won the most Grammys?
4. Where did the band "Dynamite Hack" get its name?
5. Who was the "King of Hillbillies": Roy Acuff or Hank Williams?
6. When is Linkin Park coming out with a new CD?
7. Is Marilyn Manson really that Paul guy on "The Wonder Years?"
8. What is a Shondell, as in "Tommy James and the Shondells?"
9. Please give me the 21 songs that Stevie Wonder won Grammys with.
10. By what name was Clement Campbell better known as?
11. Is there actually a picture of every member of Slipknot together with their face masks off?
12. Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, the man who wrote and sang the song, The Ballad of the Green Beret, was also a successful author. How did he die and why was it so strange?
13. What commonly known rock group used to be called Wheatus?

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1. What type of wood is Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" guitar body made out of?
2. Who created Jerry Garcia's specialty guitars? How many were there and what were their names? Who owns them now?
3. Where can I find a Fernandes Dragonfly X Lava Burst guitar for less than $240?
4. How many grooves are on a single side of a record album regardless of size and speed?

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1. In the song Silver Shifter by the band Tsar, in the second verse, I think, what "stuff" is he referring to?  It says, "...slide on into the stuff"  What stuff?
2. What song has the lyrics in it "And then something flies by the window." Who was the artist?
3. Does anyone remember the lyrics to a WW2 song that came out of the period of time when Germany had sustained bombing of London? I think the name of the song was "My Sister and I". I remember one of the lines was "My sister and I recall the day, we said goodbye and we sailed away. Now we think of the ones who had to stay."
4. Are there any words to the piano song Chopsticks?
5. What song contains the lines "If you want a hit, you have to make it fit, so they cut it down to three-o-five."  Who is the artist?
6. Okay, I've been listening to this song for about 2 months.. and I've searched every lyrics site I can find... and I still don't know the name of the song or who its by.. PLEASE... help me! Lyrics are:  "Dark clouds on a rainy day; push and shove and almost find a way..."
7. What's the song with the following lyrics, (came out in the mid to late 80's): "Don't want you giving me the run around; Keep talking I don't wanna come down; Can't stop wanting you around me; Do what you wanna do; Don't walk."
8. In the Dandy Warhols song Bohemian Like You, does the singer say "See where looking pretty cool will get you" or "See, we're looking pretty cool. Getcha."?
9. What are the words to the song "People Will Say We're In Love" from the Broadway musical Oklahoma!?

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1. Is I'm dreaming of a White Christmas by Irving Berlin is the top selling single ever?  If not, what is?
2. Who wrote the piano song Chopsticks?
3. Who played the sax solo in the single Baker Street by Jerry Rafferty?
4. What was Motown's first chart topper and by whom?
5. Who sang the rock song Alcohol?
6. In the song Our House by Madness, where is the house?  We all know it's in the middle of their street, but where?
7. In the 80's song Safety Dance by Men Without Hats, does he really have no friends that don't dance? Because the lead singer states: "Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, Well they're friend of mine."
8. What is the longest song in the world?
9. Who was the first British rock group to have a hit in the U.S. in the 60's and what was the title of the song?
10. Who is the shiny demon in the Tenacious D video, Tribute?
11. What does the title to the Chicago band's hit 25 or 6 to four mean?
12. Where did the kids song Do you know the Muffin Man begin?
13. How does that the B-double E-double R-U-N song go?
14. What was the longest single song title ever to make it to #1?
15. What is "Johnny Yen" (I heard it in a David Bowie song)?
16. In the song Hotel California by the Eagles, the phrase "Warm smell of Colitas rising up through the air" is sung. What is a colita?

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1. What do the Chinese believe they must do to make themselves "bulletproof?"
2. Where and why did people start machine up the myth of Bigfoot?
3. Why do artistic illustrations of mermaids and mermen traditionally show the mermaids with one "leg" ending in a tail and the mermen with two? Why not the other way around?
4. I have heard that if you suck on a penny before getting a breathalyzer test, the test will show up negative for alcohol.  Is this true?
5. Have you ever heard of a myth about an angle of a thousand eyes?  When she closes one eye some one dies and when she opens an eye someone is born?
6. What are the names of Apollo's four horses that pulled the Chariot of the Sun?

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1. What is the best way for me to create a website?
2. How do you check all of the sites that you have been to if you have AOL, and how can you hide them from parents?
3. What's bandwidth?

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1. How the the wave come to be a welcome gesture?
2. How did the handshake come to be a gesture of good will, or of welcoming?
3. What's the origin of giving someone the finger?
4. The phrase "shame on you" usually has the gesture of rubbing one index finger over the top of the other one. Do you have any idea of the origin of the gesture?

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1. Ante up
2. Back-seat driver
3. Bald-faced lie
4. Ballpark price
5. Bar and grill (a tavern)
6. Bat out of hell
7. Bean counter
8. Beat you like a redheaded stepchild
9. Beats the shit out of me
10. Beck and call
11. Black dallion
12. Bless You (after a sneeze)
13. Bobby pin
14. Brand new
15. Bridge mix
16. Bugging out
17. Bum fuck (referring to a great distance or a rural area)
18. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker
19. Card shark
20. Cat's got your tongue
21. Chalk & Cheese
22. Clean as a whistle
23. Clean your clock
24. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
25. Cock and bull story
26. Colder than a witch's titty in a brass bra
27. Cool beans
28. Corner the market
29. Cradle robbing
30. Crap shoot
31. Crazy as a shithouse rat
32. Daylight robbery
33. Dead Ringer
34. Deese nuts
35. Dirty South
36. Down pat
37. Drunk as Cooter Brown
38. Dry as a bone
39. Dumber than a sack of hammers
40. Easy as pie
41. Extend an olive branch
42. Fall guy
43. For Pete's Sake
44. Garbage in, garbage out
45. Get a kick out of this
46. Get off the snide
47. Go west, young man
48. God speed
49. Going to hell in a hand basket
50. Goodnight Vienna
51. Goose is cooked
52. Hairlips the governor
53. He's wound up tighter than Dick's hatband
54. Higgledy-Piggledy
55. Hot shit
56. I don't give a rat's ass
57. I stand corrected
58. I'll be a monkey's uncle
59. I'll be a suck-egg mule
60. I'll be there with bells on
61. I have to go talk to a man about a horse
62. In one fell swoop
63. It's better than a sharp stick in the eye
64. It's not what you know, it's who you know
65. It's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock
66. It's snowing (or raining) to beat the band
67. Jane Doe
68. Jesus H. Christ
69. John Doe
70. Katie, bar the door
71. Kick the bucket
72. Knocked up
73. Know thy enemy
74. Lickety-split
75. Life is hard, then you die
76. Living high on the hog
77. Lookin' for a snake, chug went the frog
78. Mighty white of you
79. Monkey dish
80. Mud shark
81. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast
82. Never look a gift horse in the mouth
83. Nigger rigged
84. No great shakes
85. Not for nothing
86. Okie dokie
87. On the nose
88. "P.U." (as in smelly)
89. Paid on the nail (meaning paid on time)
90. Pardon my French
91. Pee-hockey and tator
92. Piping hot
93. Piss like a racehorse
94. Pro from Dover
95. Pure-D (meaning pretty)
96. Rank and file
97. Ring Around The Rosy
98. R.S.V.P.
99. Run out of town on a rail
100. Ruptured duck
101. Saved by the bell
102. Scat cat, get your tail out the gravy (bless you - after sneezing)
103. Sharing is caring
104. Shoot a wad
105. Shot glass
106. Sky flea (an old pilot expression)
107. Son of a gun
108. Standing on a Soapbox
109. Stark raving mad
110. Stool pigeon
111. Strong Like Bull
112. Suicide doors
113. Sweat like a pig
114. Taken down a notch
115. That sucks
116. The Big Easy
117. The cat's pajamas
118. The life of Riley
119. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
120. The whole kit and kaboodle
121. The writing is on the wall
122. Third time's a charm
123. Three on a match
124. Three sheets to the wind
125. Tie one on (meaning getting roaring drunk)
126. To railroad someone
127. Tow head (meaning a blond haired person)
128. Up the wazoo
129. Urban legend
130. We have thought enough of wisdom which moves knowledge and makes it useful
131. Wet your whistle
132. When in Rome, do as the Romans
133. When the shit hits the fan
134. Who gives a shit
135. With a lick and a promise
136. You ain't just whistling Dixie
137. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
138. You can't have your cake and eat it, too
139. You talk like a man with a paper asshole!
140. You're fired
141. Your goose is cooked

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1. 86 (throw something away)
2. Ain't
3. Asshole
4. Attitude
5. Bagel
6. Bar-B-Que
7. Belt
8. Bikini
9. Blowjob
10. Boob (for breast)
11. Bossy
12. Boycott
13. Bubonic
14. Bugger
15. Bullpen
16. Bumbleberry
17. Chintzy
18. Civilization
19. Cockpit
20. Cocktail
21. Copasetic
22. Cowabunga
23. Crap
24. Cunt
25. Dick (short for Richard)
26. Dick or cock (slang for penis)
27. Dork
28. Doughnut
29. Drawers (underpants)
30. Duet
31. Earth
32. Eddy (backwards turning water behind an object in a river)
33. Fender washers
34. Fore (golf term)
35. Fuck
36. Gentiles
37. Gigs (musician's term)
38. Godspeed
39. Golf
40. Grand ($1,000)
41. Guinea (as in an Italian person)
42. Gymnasium
43. Hamburger
44. Hockey
45. Hoosier
46. Jaywalking
47. Juggernaut
48. Kike
49. Kudos
50. Lottery
51. Mafia
52. Mayday
53. Nigger
54. Pew (as in church pew )
55. Pee or peeing
56. Pi
57. Piccaninny
58. Picnic
59. Police
60. Poop
61. Pound (meaning money)
62. Odsbodikins
63. Razor
64. Sandwich
65. Shit
66. Shithead
67. Shortening (lard)
68. Skipper
69. Smarmy
70. Sorry
71. Taxi
72. Tombstone
73. Trim (vagina)
74. Trivia
75. Utopia
76. Wakes (for funerals)
77. Washers
78. Wooooo!

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