Pop Culture Trivia Questions XXIV

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In a 1996 ad for Nissan, whose remake of The Kinks "You Really Got Me" played as an action figure rescued a doll from her Ken-like boyfriend?

       a. Ozzy Osbourne
       b. Ted Nugent
       c. Van Halen
       d. KISS


Believed to be the subject of the song "You're So Vain," whose sexual conquests include Madonna, with whom he apparently copulated on the set of Dick Tracy?

       a. Warren Beatty
       b. Mick Jagger
       c. Colin Farrell
       d. Jack Nicholson


You'd think radio and TV stations in the western US would have call letters that start with a W, but that's eastern stations. What do they use in the west?

       a. K
       b. C
       c. R
       d. V


After Dick York's back problems, pill popping and nervous breakdown, he was replaced on "Bewitched" by Dick Sargent. What role did they both play?

       a. Rob Petrie
       b. Darrin Stephens
       c. Anthony Nelson
       d. Jethro Bodine


Ads for what dot-com featured a canine sock puppet created by actor Michael Ian Black?

       a. Amazon.com
       b. Priceline.com
       c. Pets.com
       d. Etrade.com


In its 1970s ads, what company acknowledged being number two, saying that, as a result, "We try harder"?

       a. Avis
       b. Alamo
       c. Tilden
       d. Hertz


In reference to the six flags that had flown over the state, the first Six Flags theme park was built just outside what city?

       a. Dallas
       b. Atlanta
       c. Baltimore
       d. St Louis


Mike Nichols's "The Phantom Edit", drops 20 minutes from the Star Wars movie, including almost all appearances of what character?

       a. Obi-Wan Kenobi
       b. Jar-Jar Binks
       c. Anakin Skywalker
       d. Yoda


What 2000s NBC show had current stars duplicate "American Bandstand" performances, such as LeeAnn Rimes as Connie Francis, Chris Isaak as Roy Orbison and Third Eye Blind as the Kinks?

       a. American Idol
       b. American Dreams
       c. American Pop
       d. American Grandstand


Comedian Tom Lehrer set what scientifically oriented song to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"?

       a. The Elements
       b. The Bones
       c. The Planets and Moons
       d. The Eras of Geology


In what movie do we hear these lines? "It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."

       a. Beauty and the Beast
       b. King Kong
       c. Frankenstein
       d. Godzilla


What stand-up comic wrote a novel called Shopgirl and published a collection of his New Yorker items called "Pure Drivel"?

       a. George Carlin
       b. Steve Martin
       c. Bob Newhart
       d. Sam Kinison


When Meryl Streep won a Best Actress Oscar for The Iron Lady, it was her first win in that category since her turn in what movie?

       a. Kramer vs Kramer
       b. The Deer Hunter
       c. Sophie's Choice
       d. The French Lieutenant's Woman


Helen Hunt won three Emmy Awards for her work on "Mad About You". Who else won three Emmy Awards for that show?

       a. Hank Azaria
       b. Mel Brooks
       c. Paul Reiser
       d. Jerry Seinfeld


This ABC program was not only the first non-CBS show to win the best comedy Emmy since 1970, but it won three years in a row.

       a. Taxi
       b. Cheers!
       c. Soap
       d. Barney Miller




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