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1. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






2. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?






3. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






5. Who both married and directed Madonna?






6. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?






8. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?






9. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






10. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






11. 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?






12. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






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






14. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






15. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...






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






17. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






18. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






19. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






20. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?






21. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?






22. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






23. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






24. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






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






26. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






27. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






28. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






29. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






30. First use of the 'f-word'?






31. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






32. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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33. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






34. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






35. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






36. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






37. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas






38. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






39. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?






40. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






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






42. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






43. First all-sound film?






44. Which company merged with Viacom?






45. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






46. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






47. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






48. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?






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