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1
The first album to include synthesizer music.
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. by The Monkees
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles
Tommy by The Who
2
In "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski, the Witcher infuriates a genie with this highly unusual wish.
A very small musician
Go *%#& yourself
A mountain of turnips
Lots and lots of ducks
3
This tv show set a world record for the longest car jump
The Dukes of Hazzard
Knight Rider
Hannah Montana
Hill Street Blues
4
This rock band broke up mostly because one member's wife couldn't get along with the other members.
Queen
The Rolling Stones
The Pretenders
The Beatles
5
In this Agatha Christie novel, every suspect has a seemingly perfect alibi, vouched for by multiple witnesses.
Death on the Nile
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Murder on the Orient Express
They Do It With Mirrors
6
Which classic American novel is about struggles to survive in the Great Depression?
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
7
In the Korean anime
The Haunted House,
The house is haunted by a ghost
The house is haunted by a ghoul
There is no house
The house is haunted by a zombie
8
The top song of the 1960s (held the No. 1 spot the longest) was performed by...
The Beatles
Some anonymous set musicians
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
9
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin playing the first electromagnetic musical instrument, called a
Synthesizer
Moog
Theremin
Vocaloid
10
A novel, hailed as brilliant anti-war fiction despite the author claiming otherwise, it was later made into a hit movie.
Neither
M*A*S*H
Both
All Quiet on the Western Front (original German: Im Westen Nicht Neues)
11
Papa Louie, possible criminal mastermind, uses what secret ingredient in his food to make customers crave it?
Illegal drugs
Hot fish pudding with whipped cream, stolen from the neighboring cafe
A sauce stolen from the barren remains of an alternate universe
Sugar
12
Which of these higher education facilities is a fictional setting of multiple classic horror stories?
Faber College
Medfield College
Miskatonic University
Barnett College
13
Wayne's World
has multiple endings, including one in the style of
The Matrix
Scooby Doo
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Twilight Zone
14
'39 is a song by
Queen
about
The theory of relativity
Word War II
Fast cars
Aging actors who play teenagers on TV
15
H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories frequently mention an ancient book filled with evil magic. Its name?
The Grimoire
The Necronomicon
The Tome
The Ledger
16
J.R.R. Tolkien once said this was the main character in
The Lord of the Rings.
Aragorn
Sam Gamgee
Gandalf
Frodo Baggins
17
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Thomas Payne on trade and tyranny in colonial times
F. Scott Fitzgerald on luxury and depression in the 1920s
Charles Dickens on progress and inequality in the Victorian era
Isaac Asimov on freedom and materialism in the 1980s
18
John Madden insisted that the football video game with his name have this improvement over earlier games.
Real NFL player names
The option to try an onside kick
The option to trade players to another team
11 players on each team, like real football
19
The
Voyager
space probes carry a golden record of music, including this song.
"Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry
"Happy Jack" by The Who
"Rock n Roll All Nite" by Kiss
"Revolution" by The Beatles
20
In the
Star Trek
episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," what was the trouble with the cute, furry blobs?
They eat and reproduce extremely quickly
They explode when they touch water
They put everyone to sleep
They kill people with a horrible sound
21
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
Audiences loved it, critics hated it, and
Mel Brooks made a parody movie.
it spawned a surprisingly good video game.
it was Kevin Costner's last film.
it was banned in Finland.
22
W.E.B. Griffin is best known for his gritty war fiction. Before he was famous, he wrote...
A book on the history of sound recording devices
Ghostwritten sequels to M*A*S*H
All of these
Sappy romance novels
23
What is the plot of Puyo Puyo Sun?
The Dark Prince enlarges the sun using a magical ray so girls will like him
Basically the same as Puyo Puyo Moon
The puyos turn into suns and everyone has to get rid of them
Everyone goes to the beach and enjoys sunshine
24
Which of these performed at
Live Aid
, a 1984 concert to raise money for starving children in Ethiopa?
All of these
Duran Duran
The Pretenders
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
25
Bram Stoker's story "The Judge's House" is about a judge ...
who hunts vampires
who is a vampire
who invites young women to tea and tells them stories about vampires
who was so evil he now haunts his old house as a giant demonic rat
26
The
Haruhi Suzumiya
franchise started out as a...
Video game
Novel
Anime
Manga
27
Thomas Hardy's early novels were light and cheerful, but
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
ends with the heroine...
being executed
being jilted by her fiance
getting cancer
dying in childbirth
28
The Stained Glass Knight, the first entirely CGI character in a film, was in which movie?
The Matrix (1999)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Tron (1982)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
29
This musician was murdered by an obsessive fan who felt betrayed to learn that his real life was nothing like his songs.
John Lennon
Meat Loaf
Mick Jagger
Sonny Bono
30
All members of this band released solo albums on the same day.
U2
The Beatles
Metallica
KISS
31
In the song "Come Sail Away" by
Styx
, the singer
thinks he's talking to angels, but is being abducted by aliens
is a pirate
is a pilot
is captain of a cruise ship
32
This Hayao Miyazaki film is inspired by Maurice Leblanc's novels about a gentleman thief.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Spirited Away
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Kiki's Delivery Service
33
The
Knight Rider
episode about race cars powered by alternative energy is a parody of an episode of this show
The Dukes of Hazzard
Speed Buggy
My Mother the Car
Car 54... Where are You?
34
The first of Crypton Future Media's Vocaloids
Meiko
Hatsune Miku
Megurine Luka
Kaito
35
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
ends with
Scooby and Shaggy eating a lot.
Wayne and Garth playing air guitar.
The entire universe being destroyed.
The villain's rubber mask being pulled off.
36
The first tactical RPG, it spawned eight sequels and its game engine was made available to the general public.
Pool of Radiance (1988)
Doom (1993)
Dragon Quest (1986)
Final Fantasy Tactics (1997)
37
Stage and film always portrayed witches as old hags until this "cute witch" series.
Little Witch Academia
The Littlest Witch
Harry Potter
Bewitched
