1990s / Mystery Theme by BruceM

Champion(s):

AnthonyBianca
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.


Runner(s)-Up:

IvixorB


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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Money Value (% Incorrect): 63 69 57 00 75 69 75 75 07 38 38 75
1 AnthonyBianca 510 96 15
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2 IvixorB 351 90 00
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3 SorensonG 338 81 15
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3 Matto 338 81 15
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5 RautY 300 71 15
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6 jsparkyp 256 65 00
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7 KonkelT 236 59 15
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8 CoenM 210 53 15
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9 Timm 204 46 00
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10 KPope 180 37 00
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10 HortonR 180 37 00
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12 MCB 165 28 00
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13 DFisher 121 18 00
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13 SokolM 121 18 00
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15 LynchT 90 9 00
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16 DouglasLovesVixey 15 3 00
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Questions:

In 1984 IBM spent $2.4 billion to buy a controlling interest in what company founded 22 years earlier by Ross Perot?

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Electronic Data Systems

Fill in the blank. (We want one word, in plural form.)

"Dr. Laura shows you—with real-life examples and real-life solutions—how to wield that power to attain all the sexual pleasure, intimacy, love, joy, and peace you want in your life."

So reads the blurb for The Proper Care and Feeding of [BLANK].

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Husbands

Which Spike Lee joint features Larry Fishburne as an activist named Dap and Giancarlo Esposito as a frat boy named Julian?

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School Daze

Correct spelling required. What six-letter word did Dan Quayle misspell—more precisely he mistakenly claimed that a 12-year-old student's correct spelling was wrong—when the vice president judged a sixth grade spelling bee?

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potato

Which FX crime drama, set in California, added Courtney Love to its cast (playing a Pre-K teacher) for its seventh season (2014)?

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Sons of Anarchy

As aired in 2019, Tonya Harding won the fifth celebrity edition of which reality competition show, hosted that season by Anne Burrell (red team) and Tyler Florence (blue team)?

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Worst Cooks in America

As a child preacher, Al Sharpton was the opening act (at the 1964 World's Fair and on tour) for what gospel singer? Her notable songs include "Move On Up a Little Higher" and "His Eye is on the Sparrow."

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Mahalia Jackson

Tom Arnold returned to The Best Damn Sports Show Ever for a 2006 April Fools prank in which Arnold and Michael Strahan pretended to fight. Two co-hosts tried to break up the fight, thinking it was real: Rodney Peete and what relief pitcher, a Nasty Boy who in September 1992 had gotten into a very real fistfight with manager Lou Piniella?

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Rob Dibble

Where the stone age meets the rock age is the tag line of what 1992 Paulie Shore movie?

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Encino Man

Rosie O'Donnell brought the musical Taboo to Broadway in 2003. Compared to the West End original, the Broadway version gives greater focus to which pop star, who wrote the lyrics of the show and who (with ensemble) ends Act 1 singing a medley that features "Church of the Poisoned Mind"?

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Boy George

Two answers required. First and last names required.

A (badly designed) Soap Box Derby racer, a father-son rafting trip (the stranded rafters find a burger place on an offshore oil rig), and the liberation of a lemon tree (from a rival town's impound lot), are among the decades worth of (mis)adventures of what fictitious father-son duo?

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Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson

In the TV episode that inspired this quiz, the answers to question 11 are depicted, along with the celebrities named in the body of questions 1-10, on a journey with what intended destination?

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the sun