| 6701. |
Ever hear of the Upsetters? They had a rep for hard-partying; for their day job, they were the backup band for ____ Richard, seminal 50's rocker.
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1 |
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| 6702. |
Before 'Please Please Please', James Brown spent three years in jail for ___ theft.
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| 6703. |
The band Lynyrd Skynyrd was derived from their teacher (Leonard Skinner), who had suspended the band for their ___ ____.
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| 6704. |
What title by Madness was banned from radio because, figuratively, it gave censors a heart attack? (a medical term; two words)
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| 6705. |
Born Henry Fredericks, what singer got a degree in animal husbandry, then changed his name to a memorial in Asia?
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| 6706. |
'Papa' John Phillips, born at the Marine base at Parris Island, attended the _____ Academy (briefly), later had a liver transplant; he died in 2001.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6707. |
Singer Jackie DeShannon penned two hits for Britain's Searchers, 'When You Walk In the Room', and what other song? (three words)
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1 |
1 |
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| 6708. |
Early in his career, soul singer James Brown's dancing on stage was legendary; he could stand flat-footed and flip over into a ____.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6709. |
Relationship of the two Memphis music Phillips (Dewey, the DJ, and Sam, the discoverer of Elvis)?
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1 |
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| 6710. |
First 'AOR' meant 'Album Oriented Rock', then 'Adult Oriented Rock', now it means '___ ___ the Road'.
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1 |
1 |
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| 6711. |
Rhoades Scholar Kris Kristofferson once worked as a janitor in Nashville, is said to have cleaned ashtrays while ___ recorded Blonde on Blonde.
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1 |
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| 6712. |
When wife Tammy Wynette hid his car keys, singer ___ ___ (it is said) drove 10 miles to get booze on his riding mower.
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1 |
1 |
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| 6713. |
Age at which country singer Grandpa Jones first used his 'old man' disguise on stage (because he sounded older on radio than he looked)?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6714. |
What is purple and lives at the bottom of the sea? The metal band ___ ___ knows.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6715. |
'Carryout' food in New York is known as '___' in London.
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1 |
1 |
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| 6716. |
What is the word Chuck Berry coined in his first hit: 'I was ____ over the hill, I saw Maybelline in a Coupe de Ville.'
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1 |
1 |
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| 6717. |
Chuck Berry coined the word 'motorvating' for his song 'Maybelline'; for which song did he similarly coin 'botheration'? (four words)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6718. |
I wrote novels about my home town (Sauk Centre, MN), won a Noble for Literature, but died of alcoholism, I was _____ Lewis.
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1 |
1 |
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| 6719. |
Economist (and famed intellectual) John Maynard Keynes' wife was Lydia Lopokova, a noted Russian ____.
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1 |
1 |
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| 6720. |
When Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman separated (so the joke goes), they returned their 2 adopted children to their studio's ___ department.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6721. |
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's ex has filed (in January 2002) for $ ____,000 per month, for support of their 3 yr old daughter.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6722. |
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian is 84; he fathered a daughter, now 3, with his third, wife, Lisa, who (as of January 2002) is how old?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6723. |
Lisa Kerkorian, 36, has filed for $320,000 per month in child support from her billionaire ex; $144,000 of that is for travel by ___ ____.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6724. |
French songbird Edith Piaf recorded 'Les Trois Cloches', which, translated into English, later became a hit for the Browns as ___ ___ ___.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6725. |
Nickname of Wilson Picket ('The Midnight Hour')?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6726. |
Born Edith Giovanna Gassion in Paris in 1915, blind for several years as a child, I sang of death, drugs and sex; I was better known as Edith ____.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6727. |
When NBC wanted to build a TV show around a music group in the 60's, first they rejected the Lovin' Spoonful, before hand-picking which group?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6728. |
Before NBC picked the Monkees, the only 'real' _____ of the four was guitarist Mike Nesmith of Texas.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6729. |
Jimmy Davis composed 'You Are My Sunshine'; he later became governor of which Southern state?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6730. |
If 'MOR' radio stations play 'middle of the road' music, what do 'AOR' stations play? (four words)
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6731. |
Diminutive country star Little Jimmie Dicken's well-known expression about himself was, 'I may be little, but I'm ____.'
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6732. |
Leonard and Phil Chess, founders of Chess records, were born in the Jewish Ghetto in what European capital city?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6733. |
What metal UK band, found in 1968, singers of 'Aqualung', was named for the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill? (two words)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6734. |
The median house price in Rockford, IL, is $99,000; in what city is it $520,000?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6735. |
If a 'Liverpudlian' is from Liverpool and a 'Tynesider' is from Newcastle, where is a 'Brummie' from?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6736. |
In 'Roots', the father holds his son, Kunta ____, up toward the starry night 'to behold the only thing greater than himself.'
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1 |
1 |
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| 6737. |
In 'Roots', the father, holding his son up to the heavens, saying, 'Kunta Kinte, behold the only thing greater than ____.'
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6738. |
What football star, who was later to stand trial for murder, had a bit role in the TV mini-series 'Roots' 25 years ago? (last name only)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6739. |
'Lady Fuschia', 'Lay Down', and other 70's hits were hits for the Strawberry Hill Boys, who were better known by what name?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6740. |
What 60's hit by the Troggs was considered to be so sexually suggestive that, on occasion, it was banned from radio airplay?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6741. |
What 70s band took its name from the concept of 'de-evolution,' the idea that instead of evolving, mankind has actually regressed?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6742. |
A dinosaur ('Masiakasaurus Knopflerihas') been named after Glasgow-born guitar player Mark _____.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6743. |
What British music weekly magazine, established in 1926, merged with it's long-standing rival New Musical Express in 2000?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6744. |
To the question posed by an Ohio band in the 1970s: 'Are We Not Men?', the answer is, 'We Are ___!'
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6745. |
Japanese pilots in WW II generally disdained from using ____ as not befitting a 'warrior'...thus many pilots died with their crippled aircraft.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6746. |
The British complaint about American troops in England before D-Day: 'They are overpaid, oversexed and over____.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6747. |
Japan bombed what US state in 1942? (OK, they only dropped 4 bombs, and caused no significant damage).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6748. |
The Germans flew their 'Amerika Bomber' over what US city in 1944? (they took photographs, hoping to later drop bombs)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6749. |
WWII aircrews abstained from eating beans (etc.) because ___ at high altitudes in unpressurized planes could be very painful, even fatal.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6750. |
No. 1 songs? Well, Elvis and the Beatles are #1 and #2, but which singer (at one point, anyway), is #3? (hint: initials are M.C.)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6751. |
The B-52 dates from 1951, the DC-3 from 1935, however, a bi-plane (the PO-2), still used for crop dusting in Russia, was 1st produced in what year?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6752. |
Average number of pedestrians killed by automobiles nightly in London, due to the blackout during the Blitz in WW II?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6753. |
The first German bomb to fall on Leningard during WW II killec the only ___ in the city zoo.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6754. |
What country claimed (only half in jest) that 'General Mud' and 'Marshall Winter' defended it from invaders in WW II?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6755. |
Per cent of Russian men born in 1923 who survived WW II?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6756. |
Skydiver's joke: 'What if your parachute doesn't open?' You have a second one. What if that one fails? WALK TOWARDS THE ____.'
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6757. |
What is the brownish vegetable extract with a toxic odor, saline taste and axle grease consistency that Brits love?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6758. |
Marmite, the salty stuff Brits spread on toast, was first made 100 yrs ago using spent ____ from the nearby Bass Pale Ale factory.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6759. |
Marmite, the salty yeast-based spread, has helped British soldiers in foreign lands ward off deficiency diseases such as _____.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6760. |
Kiss someone who has been eating ___ (it is said about this British food), and you'll think you are licking paint.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6761. |
After Denmark was overrun by the Nazis in WW II, which Danish territory declared their independence and became a separate country?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6762. |
In WWII, thousands of soldiers did it when they reached the Rhine; General Patton was even photographed doing it. What were they doing (one word)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6763. |
Only 2 men out of a company of 235 men landing at Casablanca remained by January of 1945, a supply sergeant, and Medal of Honor winner ___ Murphy.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6764. |
Entire ships are sometimes devoted to the manufacture of ice cream for the US Navy. The slang term for ice cream in the Navy is ___.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6765. |
General Douglas McArthur was an eighth cousin of Winston Churchill, and a(n) ___ cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6766. |
After graduating from the military academy at ___, when David Niven wasn't acting, he had a distinguished military career.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6767. |
In the 1933 original movie, King Kong's roar was a lion's and a tiger's roar combined and played _____.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6768. |
On occasion, in 'big' games, to intimadate Bulls' opponents, Michael Jordan would shoot free throws with his ___ closed.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6769. |
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, where the ex-Taliban soldiers are currently incarcerated, has it's own ___ code (it is 5399).
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6770. |
The US first occupied Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 1898, during the ____-____ War.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6771. |
Length of the lease the US and Cuba signed, giving the US right to occupy Guantanamo Bay Naval Base? (one word)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6772. |
in the early 60's, Fidel Castro began sendinb ack the lease checks to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and cut off the base's ____ supply.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6773. |
Kind of animal spotted on closed-circuit TV running into the garage under the US Supreme Court in January 2002? (it has not yet been located)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6774. |
In 2001 comedian Paula ___, who is raising 5 children, pleaded guilty to child endangerment and a count of inflicting injury upon a child.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6775. |
Per cent of men in a recent college survey who had pierced tongues?
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6776. |
Per cent of piercings (not including earrings) which result in an infection?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6777. |
On what day of the week is Harlem's Apollo Theater's famed 'Amateur Night'?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6778. |
What does BLT stand for in McDonalds?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6779. |
An allele is one of two alternative forms of these.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6780. |
Capital of Comoros.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6781. |
Which herb sends cats into ecstacy?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6782. |
Overbearing pride
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6783. |
Another term for trinket
|
1 |
1 |
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| 6784. |
A choice without an alternative.
|
1 |
1 |
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| 6785. |
what is anthophobia a fear of
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6786. |
Which planet in Earth's solar system is the largest?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6787. |
Who recorded this album; 'So What?'
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6788. |
Where does GroundsKeeper Willie Hail From (specific)?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6789. |
what's the answer to the ultimate question?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6790. |
In what year was the Spanish Armada defeated?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6791. |
Napoleon was a general but he wore the uniform of a ________.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6792. |
MicKinley Morganfield is also know as ______ ______.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6793. |
Who was the 21st President of the United States?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6794. |
Saul Hudson is also know as ______
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6795. |
What day did god create the club?
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6796. |
slipknots new albums is called
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6797. |
the name of the hidden song on slipknots self titled album
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6798. |
Say my name!
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6799. |
What was Pearl Jam was orginally named for an NBA player...name him
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 6800. |
What was Alfred Nobel's most famous invention?
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1 |
1 |
100 |