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Music:
1. For 1 point, name the classic American Movie that has the following line, "We have both kinds of Music, Country and Western."

2. I really like country music, so here is a chance to score up to five points, with a bonus point for all of them. I will give the first name of a country star, you provide the last name.
Hank
Johnny
Lefty
Willie
Waylon
Kris
Merle
Conway
Loretta

3. Last Music Question. Johnny (See above) won a Grammy in 2003 for a video and cover of a modern rock song. Name both the original artist and song for 1 point.

Cinema:
4. How many Oscars did the American film legend John Wayne win?

5. George Lucas was taken under the wing of an important Hollywood director. Name that Director.

6. Name the classic film actor most noted for playing gangsters who starred in "Some like it hot" and "Key Largo."

Literature:
7. Hemingway's books involve a lot of drinking and death and raw human emotion, which maybe why I like them. He won a pulitzer prize for which work?

8. An American biography book helped immensly with the colonization of California. For 1 point each, name the book and the Author.

9. I really like Classic French literature, most notably Dumas and Hugo. For one point each, name the leading character of several of the most famous of their works
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"The Three Musketeers"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
"Les Miserables"

Geography
10. Name 2 Major rivers that flow North, one point for each.

11. In Puritanical American, what was "West Indies Product," and for which industry was it considered vital? (2 points total)

History
12. Name the battle in France where the Muslims were stopped from their conquest of Europe.

13. The Mongol Empire decimated the land of Iran, destroying the remnants of what religion?

14. In what year was the Transcontinental Railroad constructed (finished)in the U.S?

Science
15. Name the process for the first mass production of steel?

16. Nanoparticles are my friend as they are my area of research. For whom was much of the early work on Carbon nanoparticles named?

17. Who is credited with the quote, "Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic?"



Please PM the answers to me. Deadline is Thursday my time. I.e, I will check and post answers on Thursday.