David Bowie
1. David Bowie's wife Iman attended boarding school in Egypt for much of her childhood, attended college in Kenya, and started her modeling career in the United States, but in what horn of Africa country was she born?
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2. Duncan Jones, Bowie's son from his marriage with Angie Barnett, impressed audiences with his directorial debut MOON, which starred what actor, who has played Chuck Barris, George W Bush, and Bob Fosse, as the lone human inhabitant of a mining station on the title location?
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3. Bowie leaned into his public persona by playing the lead role in Nicolas Roeg's THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, which was based on a novel by Walter Tevis who also wrote the source material for what popular Netflix miniseries about a young chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy?
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4. The video for Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" features what industrial rock icon turned Academy Award-winning composer for THE SOCIAL NETWORK and SOUL, who also played on the song?
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5. A member of The Spiders from Mars, he appeared on five Bowie albums beginning with THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD, and the two co-produced Lou Reed's TRANSFORMER. Who is this legendary sideman who also worked with Ian Hunter and Bob Dylan before dying of cancer in 1993?
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6. In 1989, Bowie formed the band Tin Machine, one-half of which was comprised of the sons of what slapstick comedian, born Milton Supman, who was known for the characters Pookie and White Fang and for receiving a pie to the face at the end of his skits?
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7. Bowie played FBI Agent Phillip Jefferies in a movie subtitled FIRE WALK WITH ME, which was a prequel to what cult TV series that ran for two seasons on ABC starting in 1990 and returned for a third in 2017 on Showtime?
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8. Bowie's albums LOW, "HEROES", and LODGER are often collectively referred to as a trilogy named for what European city that at the time they were recorded was split metaphorically by the Iron Curtain as well as physically?
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9. In 2016, a large portion of Bowie's art collection was put up for auction. The highest selling piece, entitled AIR POWER, was painted by what artist in whose 1996 biopic Bowie appears as Andy Warhol?
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10. On what Adult Swim animated series, a spoof of JONNY QUEST, does a shapeshifter known as The Sovereign lead The Guild of Calamitous Intent and often take on the appearance of David Bowie?
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Recent Events
1. Starting in the Old Assembly building early on January 2, a fire believed to have been started intentionally did severe damage to the parliamentary complex in what city, the legislative capital of South Africa?
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2. Working with Industrial Light & Magic, what Swedish pop quartet that released their first studio album in 40 years in 2021 is set to "perform" a series of concerts this year at a purpose-built arena in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in which the members will appear as avatars created through motion capture and other techniques?
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3. In December, after they were forced to move their other dog, Major, back home to Delaware due to two biting incidents, the Bidens welcomed a new puppy with what similarly militaristic name to the White House?
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4. As designated by the United Nations, 2022 is both the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture and the International Year of what material made of silica that has been used for millennia with applications ranging from architecture to fiber optics?
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5. Starring in a movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, a frequent collaborator of his father, what late actor's son was announced as a 2022 Golden Globe nominee in the Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category for his role in LICORICE PIZZA?
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6. Supporters of an independent New Caledonia boycotted a December 12, 2021 referendum due to what they saw as a lack of time to campaign, which insured a landslide victory for those wishing to remain a part of what country?
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7. What much in the news Democratic US Senator and "roadblock" is the senior counterpart of junior Senator Shelley Moore Capito?
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8. On December 24, Park Geun-hye received a pardon, reversing her 22-year sentence for abuse of power and coercion, close to five years after becoming the first president of what East Asian country to be impeached?
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9. On Christmas day, in a joint effort between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, a successor to the Hubble Telescope was launched from a spaceport in French Guiana. That telescope has what name in honor of the second administrator of NASA who served from 1961 to 1968?
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10. As of January 1, what do the books WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE SUN ALSO RISES as well as the movie THE SON OF THE SHEIK, featuring Rudolph Valentino's last appearance on screen, and all sound recordings released before 1923 have in common?
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Trivia Grab Bag
1. What two-time world heavyweight champion and kitchen appliance entrepreneur, who named all five of his sons after himself, did Mohammed Ali fight in the "Rumble in the Jungle"?
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2. What type of Trinidadian music, which usually features a percussion instrument called the steelpan, has the same name as a mythological Greek nymph?
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3. What western state, where the Republican Party recently voted to no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member, elected Nellie Tayloe Ross as the first woman governor in the US in 1925?
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4. Bryce Canyon, Arches, and Zion Canyon are three of the five national parks in what state, which has the third most behind California and Alaska?
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5. What popular board game with a 15x15 grid that has spawned knock offs like LITERATI and UPWORDS was first developed in 1932 by Alfred Mosher Butts with the name LEXIKO and later CRISS-CROSSWORDS before getting its current name in the late 1940s?
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6. What US President's official aircraft was named THE INDEPENDENCE, a nod to the Missouri city where he grew up?
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7. While waiting for the police after killing John Lennon, Mark David Chapman was reading what novel by a reclusive author, whose only other published works were short stories, including "Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"?
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8. When underwater divers suffer decompression sickness or "the bends," air bubbles of what element, the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere, form in the blood causing agonizing pain?
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9. What current NBA team, which began as the Buffalo Braves and is now named for a type of sailing vessel, played in San Diego from 1978 to 1984?
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10. Child star Drew Barrymore played the lead character in the film version of what novel by Stephen King about a girl with the power of pyrokinesis?
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Look Within: Movie Directors Edition
Instructions: Each question contains the title of a movie directed by a well-known director. However, some of the letters have been replaced by question marks. The letters that have been replaced are the last name of the director in the correct order. The letters may wrap around from the end of the title to the beginning, but they will not overlap. The example below is THE LAST BOY SCOUT directed by Tony Scott. Scott starts with S in SCOUT, uses all of the letters in the word except the U, and then wraps back around to use the T as the front.
ex. ?HE LAST BOY ???U?
1. ??U? MEN AN? A PRAYER
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2. ??D BO?S
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3. NO ??UNTRY FOR OLD M??
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4. T?OROUGHLY MODERN M???IE
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5. TH? G?OD THE BAD A?D TH? UG?Y
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6. RID? WITH TH? DEVI?
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7. C??SH BY ?I?HT
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8. ???HU?TER
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9. TH? AME?ICAN P??S?DE?NT
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10. NA?URAL B?R? KILL?R?
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