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1. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






2. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






3. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






4. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






5. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






6. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






7. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






8. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?






9. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






10. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?






11. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






12. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






13. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?






14. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?






15. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






16. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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18. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






19. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?






20. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?






22. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?






23. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






24. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






25. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






26. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






27. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?






28. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






29. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?






30. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






31. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






32. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






33. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?






34. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






35. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






36. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






38. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?






39. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






40. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






41. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?






42. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?






43. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






44. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?






45. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






46. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






47. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






48. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






49. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






50. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?