Popular Trivia Questions

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Which author wrote Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove ?

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What's the name for the chain of islands located between the Straits of Florida and Florida Bay?

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Kevin Kline played two different characters in each of two different films. Can you name them?

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Born Jewish in Minnesota in the 1940's, he became a world famous musician in the 1960's, converted to Christianity in the 1970's, but returned to his faith as an orthodox Jew in the 1980's. Who is he?

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Who was the first actress to make $20 million dollars to star in a film?

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Which person was sentenced to death in 1964 as a result of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?

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In order of area: What are the three largest countries in the world?

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What company in the 1970's developed the high-tech concept of a mouse clicking graphical icons to open programs, but dropped the idea, allowing Apple to adopt it as the basis of the Macintosh?

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The first one of these ever built, complete with luxurious accessories and a piano, was built in Pittsburgh in 1905. The price of admission was 5¢. What was it?

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The world's longest running play opened in London's west end on November 25, 1952, and is still playing today, to about 80% of capacity, after 20,000 performances. What's the title, and who wrote it?

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Hong Kong is not only home to many large international businesses, but also world-famous for a certain kind of hand work. What is it?

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In what 1989 Spike Lee film does Danny Aiello play a Brooklyn pizzeria owner involved in a racial conflict?

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Her parents were Zeus and Leda. Legend has it that her exceptional beauty caused the Trojan War. Who was she?

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This glamorous, mysterious German movie star, first popular in the 1920's, refused an offer to return to Nazi Germany, and instead became an anti-Nazi propagandist during WWII. Who is she?

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Can you name the author and main character of the popular 1950s novel about a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school, The Catcher in the Rye ?