1) According to Christian tradition, which apostle wrote the Book of Revelation?
2) Which Stephen King novel was his self-described attempt to “do the Lord of the Rings with an American background”?
3) What bestselling series of novels, named after the first book in the series, includes Tribulation Force, Soul Harvest, The Indwelling, Armageddon, and Kingdom Come?
4) After writing his post-apocalyptic novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and had his first television interview. Who interviewed him?
5) What movie ends with these lines: “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
6) What 1983 foreign-language song did VH1 select as #10 on their list of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders?
7) R.E.M.’s song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” mentions four famous people with the initials LB. Name two of them.
8) Henry Bemis had all the time he wanted to read — but now he’s “just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself.” What ironic thing happened to Henry Bemis that inspired these closing comments on The Twilight Zone?
9) “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper” are the last lines of what TS Eliot poem?
10) In May of this year, CBS canceled Jericho. To protest, fans sent over 20 tons of what to CBS headquarters?
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Used as Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Jan. 23.
1) In the US, it’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In Britain, it’s Harry Potter and what?
2) In 2004, it suddenly became a lot easier to tell the Olsen twins apart when Mary-Kate made what change to her appearance?
3) What country is the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
4) Dick York and Dick Sargent played the same character on what sitcom?
5) Who was sued because his #1 hit “My Sweet Lord” was thought to be too similar to the Chiffons’ #1 hit “He’s So Fine”?
6) Because of its association with good fortune, what color is the bride’s gown in traditional Chinese weddings?
7) The twist ending to Tim Burton’s version of Planet of the Apes features an ape-ified statue of whom?
8) What sweetener does the Dr Pepper bottling plant in Dublin, Texas, use instead of corn syrup?
9) Add one proton to a molecule of gold and it turns into what element?
10) Foreign and DVD releases of Angel Heart include several seconds cut from its US theatrical release — Mickey Rourke having sex with whom?
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