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1. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?






2. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






3. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






4. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






5. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






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






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






8. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






9. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






10. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






11. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






12. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






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






14. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






15. Which company merged with Viacom?






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






17. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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18. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?






19. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






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






21. First Best Picture Oscar?






22. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?






23. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?






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






25. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?






26. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






27. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






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






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






30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






31. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






32. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






33. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






34. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






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






36. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






37. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?






38. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






39. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?






40. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






41. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






42. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






43. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






44. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?






45. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






46. Which company merged with SBC?






47. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?






48. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






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






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