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What is Mos Eisley?In the original Star Wars movie, TIE fighters were used by the rebels. TIE is an acronym - what does it stand for?
What is Twin Ion Engines (should have known that!) =)The Star Wars expanded universe uses a BBY/ABY dating system. What does BY stand for?
What is the Battle of Yavin?This man started publishing Poor Richards Almanac in 1733.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?In Chinese philosophy, this concept is used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world.
What is yin and yang.(trick question) What is the first name of the second Mrs. deWinter in the book Rebecca?
She is never referred to by her first name!According to the Guinness Book of Records, this song, written by Patty and Mildred Hill, is the most recognized in the English language.
What is Happy Birthday To You! This album remained on the Billboard charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988
What is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?Delmonico's in NYC is credited with creating this brunch dish served on an English muffin, with hollandaise sauce
What is eggs benedict?This cocktail is made up of equal parts of cognac (brandy) and Bénédictine.
What's a B&B?Cloud ears and wood ears are types of these
What are mushrooms?Scientists just discovered that this food is more addictive than cocaine.
What are Oreos? These twin brothers were notorious gangsters in England in the 1950s and 60s
Who were the Kray brothers? In antiquity, this two-handled ceramic container held wine and other food stuffs
What is an Amphora?French cookware manufacturer best known for its colorful enameled cast iron French ovens, also known as "casseroles" or "dutch ovens".
What is Le Creuset?British scientist just discovered that "yetis" may actually be descendents of this animal
What are polar bears?What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
What was 1919?This is the last year that the Ed Sullivan show aired.
What is 1971?Which band when appearing for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show refused to change the lyrics of their song to "Girl, we couldn't get much better"
Who are The Doors?
Deep Purple based their song "Smoke on the Water" after a fire broke out at this rock star's concert
Deep Purple based their song "Smoke on the Water" after a fire broke out at this rock star's concert
Who is Frank Zappa?How high is the U.S. debt ceiling?
What is $17 trillion? (scary)This movie starred Michael Caine and Tobey Maguire and was set in New England.
What is the Cider House Rules?This member of the weasel family can grow to a length of six feet and only lives along the Amazon, Orinoco, and La Plata river systems.
What is the Giant Otter?The huge stately home served as the filming location for the BBC tv series 'Brideshead Revisited'
The Godfather"Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork. ”
What is Castle Howard?This actor was the first to play Albus Dumbldore.
Who is Richard Harris?Daniel Radcliffe played this famous Dickens character as a young boy before he was Harry Potter.
Who is David Copperfield?This observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934
Leigh wrote: "The Godfather"Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork. ”"
Leigh, I think you meant to post this under "Name That Quote!" :-)
What is Radcliffe Observatory?This song begins "I read the news today, oh boy".
What is "A Day in the Life" by John Lennon?These are the first names of the three Bronte sisters.
Who are Emily, Charlotte, and Anne?This young prince was Christened today in London.
Who is Prince George, future King of England.The Governor of the Imperial Outland Regions and commander of the Death Star
Who is Grand Moff Tarkin?This is the name for a group of villages on Italy's western coast off the Ligurian Sea.
What is Cinque Terre?World Bank economist who defied the medical establishment to treat his suffering son with 'Lorenzo's Oil'
Who is Augusto Odone?This Palestinian city will run out of drinking water in 2016.
What is Gaza?This singer died yesterday of a liver problem.
Who is Lou Reed?The current movie is the true story of pirates off the coast of Somalia.
What is Captain Phillips?What country is Usain Bolt from?
What is Jamaica?This actress who appeared on The Bob Newhart Show and on The Simpsons recently died at the age of 70.
Who is Marcia Wallace, voice of teacher Edna Krabappel on "The Simpsons"This unit of measure is the distance a burst of light travels in one year, about 5.8 trillion miles
What is a light year?This is the number 1 movie on AFI's top 100 movies of all time.
What is 'Citizen Kane'?
This author is considered the father of science fiction
This author is considered the father of science fiction
Who is Isaac Asimov? This spectacular African waterfall pours into the Batoka Gorge
Richard wrote: "Who is Isaac Asimov?
This spectacular African waterfall pours into the Batoka Gorge"
The answer I was looking for is Jules Verne. I can see where that might be confusing because at the time Verne's books were publish the term Science Fiction was coined yet, instead he wrote under what was called Science romance, but most critic consider him the earliest to have written that style.
New Question: This artist design one of the album covers for the band Velvet Underground (RIP Lou Reed)
This spectacular African waterfall pours into the Batoka Gorge"
The answer I was looking for is Jules Verne. I can see where that might be confusing because at the time Verne's books were publish the term Science Fiction was coined yet, instead he wrote under what was called Science romance, but most critic consider him the earliest to have written that style.
New Question: This artist design one of the album covers for the band Velvet Underground (RIP Lou Reed)
Who is Andy Warhol?This ambassador has been summoned by Angela Merkel to explain allegations of American spying on her cell phone.
Who is the American ambassador to Germany (John Emerson)?The abbreviation URL stands for this.
What is a Uniform Resource Locator.This character by Shakespeare is described as "a howling monster", "a most scurvy monster" & "some monster of the isle"
Who is Caliban?This singer wrote "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" for Midnight Cowboy, and sang the theme song "Everybody's Talking" for the movie.
Who is Harry Nillson? (great song/movie)In 1934 he caught "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph Theater; then he caught some government bullets
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