Entertainment Trivia

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The highest-rated series episode in TV history was the February, 1983 broadcast of what show (and what event)?

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Which fictious family from television and the movies has the address 000 Cemetery Lane, Cemetery Ridge?

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In 1988, after the US Congress passed the National FIlm Preservation Act, 25 films were selected as "culturally, historically, or esthetically significant." All these films were made before 1977, except which one?

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Many alternative rock musicians consider this Asian woman to be a foremother of alternative rock music. Who is she?

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In which 1992 film did Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante play brothers who flee Cuba with dreams of Latin music stardom in New York City?

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This operatic tenor who died in 1921 was the first singer ever to sell over one million records. What was his name?

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In the 1994 no-brainer comedy Ace Ventura, Pet Dectective , Jim Carrey's character was hired to find what?

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Rock music drummer Tommy Lee was married to, and divorced from, which two blonde TV babes?

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Since 1962 this musical group from New Jersey amassed 48 entries on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been said that they were to the East Coast what the Beach Boys were to the West. What group is this?

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Beloved actor and director Charlie Chaplin, accused of being a Communist sympathiser, left the USA in 1952 and settled in what country for the remaining 25 years of his life?

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After the stabbing death of two teenagers by another teenager in 1959, some radio stations banned this Bobby Darin hit record from "The Threepenny Opera." What was the song title?

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Tom Hanks won Best Actor Oscars in 1993 and 1994 for his roles in which films?

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The first time Clint Eastwood was nominated for an Oscar, he won - for best director and best picture. For what film?

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BONUS: In 1968, the motion picture rating system debuts with four ratings: G, PG, R and X. One year later, in 1969, an X-rated film won the Academy Award as Best Picture - the first and only time. (today that film would be rated "R." The movie had two str

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On Feb. 26, '97 the Grammy Award for Best New Artist went to what 14 year-old country singer born in Mississippi, raised in Texas, whose album -- Blue -- sold more than seven million copies?