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1. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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






3. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






4. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?






5. Which company merged with NBC?






6. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?






7. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






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






9. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?






10. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?






11. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






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






13. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






14. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






15. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






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






17. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






18. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?






19. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?






20. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






21. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






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






23. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






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






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






26. 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?






27. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






28. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






29. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






30. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






31. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






32. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






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






34. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?






35. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






36. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






37. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






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






39. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






40. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






41. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






42. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






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






44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






45. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






46. How many band members were there in Green Day?






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






48. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?






49. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






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






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