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1. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






2. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






3. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






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






5. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






6. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






7. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?






8. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






9. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






10. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?






11. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?






12. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






13. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?






14. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






15. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






16. First film of the 3-D boom?






17. First film shown on HBO?






18. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!






19. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






20. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






21. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?






22. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?






23. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






24. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






25. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






26. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






27. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






28. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






29. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






30. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






31. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






32. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






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






34. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






35. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






36. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






37. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






38. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?






39. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






40. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






41. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?






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






43. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






44. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






45. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






46. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






47. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






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






49. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...






50. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?