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Who does Ben Tennyson become after finding an alien watch-like
device called the Omnitrix?
a. Ben 25
b. Ben 100
c. Ben 1000
d. Ben 10
Ben 10 - By using it, he can transform into a variety of alien life forms, each with its own powers.
What writer was discovered doing a tiny cameo in Double
Indemnity, reading a newspaper?
a. William Faulkner
b. F Scott Fitzgerald
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler - Pretty much the only other recording of him is a conversation with Ian Fleming in
1958.
Which Lady Gaga song was rush-released a week early after two
snippets of the song were leaked online on August 10th 2013?
a. Born This Way
b. Bad Romance
c. Applause
d. The Edge of Glory
Applause - The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
What writer appears as a TV commercial director in Breakfast of
Champions, and plays himself in Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School?
a. Raymond Chandler
b. Norman Mailer
c. Marshall McLuhan
d. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut - He also appears as himself in his books, as Kilgore Trout.
According to a study, what percentage of Twitter users use
their real photo for their avatar?
a. 50 Percent
b. 70 Percent
c. 90 Percent
d. 40 Percent
40 Percent - There are more than 200 million active Twitter users worldwide.
What unusual form of time machine is powered by an illegal
Russian energy drink called Chernobly?
a. Comfy chair
b. Phone booth
c. Hot tub
d. DeLorean
Hot tub - This is a reference to the 'Hot Tub Time Machine' at the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort.
French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier created 954 costumes
for what SF film directed by France's Luc Besson?
a. Blade Runner
b. A Clockwork Orange
c. Barbarella
d. The Fifth Element
The Fifth Element - The movie includes Chris Tucker in a notable role as a Prince-inspired DJ.
Police officer Michael Arthur Long (played by Larry Anderson)
was shot in the face and hired by FLAG. What car did he drive?
a. Batmobile
b. KITT
c. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
d. General Lee
KITT - He became Michael Knight, played by David Hasselhoff.
Dead at the young age of 48 in 2012, where was Whitney
Houston's body found?
a. Floor
b. Bathtub
c. Chair
d. Bed
Bathtub - The manner of her death was listed as an accident.
Adrianne Curry won the first "cycle" of America's Next Top
Model. She went on to marry what minor 70s TV star, whom she met on The Surreal Life?
a. Adam Rich from Eight is Enough
b. Christopher Knight from the Brady Bunch
c. Erik Estrada from CHIPS
d. Sherman Hemsley from the Jeffersons
Christopher Knight from the Brady Bunch - After this, they had their own reality series, called My Fair
Brady.
When CBS put up a second $1 million prize for America's Tribal
Council, after Survivor All Stars, what self-styled pirate won the popular vote?
a. Rupert Boneham
b. Ethan Zohn
c. Russell Hantz
d. Colby Donaldson
Rupert Boneham - Hantz won that prize after Heroes vs Villains, shortly before he was arrested for
shoving a woman down on the street.
What future president's diary entries, starting with an 1809
diplomatic trip to Russia, were so short the Massachusetts Historical Society put them on Twitter?
a. John Quincy Adams
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Andrew Jackson
d. Martin Van Buren
John Quincy Adams - It offered his daily entries one day at a time
News personality Lauren Sanchez hosted the first season of what
show, which was hosted thereafter by British kids show host Cat Deeley?
a. America's Next Top Model
b. Hell's Kitchen
c. The Apprentice
d. So You Think You Can Dance
So You Think You Can Dance - For season 7, all-stars from previous seasons were brought back as partners
for the new contestants, just like on Dancing with the Stars.
In Hot Shots Part Deux, Charlie Sheen is sailing down a river
in Vietnam thinking about the horrors of war, when he spots what Apocalypse Now star, going the other way,
doing the same thing?
a. Martin Sheen
b. Dennis Hopper
c. Robert Duvall
d. Marlon Brando
Martin Sheen - When they see each other, they both say, 'I loved you in Wall Street.'
The name of what 1875 William Ernest Henley poem inspired the
name of a Morgan Freeman/Matt Damon movie?
a. Invictus
b. Million Dollar Baby
c. Deep Impact
d. The Departed
Invictus - Written as Henley was having his foot amputated, the poem sustained Mandela while he was in
prison. Invictus means 'unconquered'.
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