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1. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?






2. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






4. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






5. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






6. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?






7. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






8. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






9. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






10. Who called his elephant Tantor?






11. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






12. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






13. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






14. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)






15. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






16. What is a female donkey called?






17. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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18. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






19. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?






20. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






21. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






22. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






23. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






24. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






25. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






26. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield






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






28. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






29. What kind of trust is a REIT?






30. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






31. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






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






33. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






34. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?






35. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






36. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






37. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?






38. Which company merged with Boeing?






39. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






40. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?






41. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?






42. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






43. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?






44. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






45. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






46. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






47. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)






48. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






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






50. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?







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