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What record-breaking hit movie used "A Boy's Life" as a working title to conceal its real subject until the release date?
A: E.T.- the Extra-Terrestrial.

What woman's name was originally used in the old barbershop quartet favorite "Sweet Adeline"?
A: Rosalie. Written by Richard Gerard (music) and Henry Armstrong (words) in 1903, it was originally entitled "You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Rosalie." When the song didn't sell, they renamed it for popular Italian soprano Adelina Patti and shortened the title.

Where was St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, born?
A: In Scotland, in the town of Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton. He was captured at age 16 by Gaels and taken to Ireland, where he was sold as a slave.

Artanis was the movie/television production company of which entertainer?
A: Frank Sinatra. "Artanis" is "Sinatra" spelled backwards.

How much did Levi Strauss get for his first pair of jeans in 1850?
A: Six-dollars--in gold dust.

In classical mythology, what god dressed as a woman, spun wool and performed other womanly tasks for three years to appease his fellow gods?
A: Hercules.

What is the name of the alum Madonna released in 1990 to coincide with her appearance in the movie Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty?
A: I'm Breathless. Madonna played Breathless Mahoney in the film.

What cities served as the seat of government for the fledgling U.S.A. before Washington, D.C., became the nations capital in December 1800?
A: Philadelphia, :York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland; Princeton and Trenton, New Jersey; and New York City.

In the 1968 Beatles cartoon fantasy Yellow Submarine, what did Jeremy Boob, Ph.D., use to repair the sub's propeller, enabling the Fab Four to escape His Meaniness and the Blue Meanies?
A: Bubble gum.

The fictitious name John Doe was first used in British Courts to represent the unknown plaintiff in a real--property suit. What fictitious name was used for the defendant?
A: Richard Roe.

Split is an important seaport--in what European country?
A: Yugoslavia. It's on the Adriatic Sea.

What is the Temple of the Tooth?
A: A Buddhist temple in Kandy, in central Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), where a sacred relic reputed to be a tooth of the Buddha has been enshrined since the fourth century A.D.

What British writer and noted wit claimed "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up"?
A: Oscar Wilde.

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