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1. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






2. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?






3. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






4. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?






5. Which company merged with Verizon?






6. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






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






8. First Best Picture Oscar?






9. What is frozen to make dry ice?






10. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






11. What's Cartman's first name on South Park






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






13. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...






14. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?






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






16. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






17. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






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






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






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






21. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






22. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?






23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






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






25. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






27. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






28. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






29. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






30. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






31. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






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






33. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?






34. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






35. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






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






37. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






38. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






39. First all-sound film?






40. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






41. First film shown on HBO?






42. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?






43. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?






44. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?






45. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






46. Who killed the literary character Aslan?






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






48. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






49. What is a female donkey called?






50. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?







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