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1. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






2. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






3. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






4. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






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






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






7. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






8. Who killed the literary character Aslan?






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






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






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






12. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






13. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






14. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






15. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?






16. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






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






18. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






19. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






20. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






21. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






22. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






23. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






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






25. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery






26. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






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






28. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?






29. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?






30. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






31. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?






32. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






33. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?






34. Who both married and directed Madonna?






35. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






36. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






37. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






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






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






40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






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






42. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






43. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






44. First studio film with a black director?






45. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?






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






47. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






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






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






50. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?