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1. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






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






3. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?






4. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






5. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?






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






7. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






8. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?






9. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






10. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






11. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






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






13. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






14. Which artist had the double album Being There?






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






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






17. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






18. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






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






20. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






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






22. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






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






24. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






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






26. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






27. Which company merged with Chevron?






28. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






29. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






30. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






31. First American film nudity?






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






33. First film shown on HBO?






34. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






35. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






36. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






37. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






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






39. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






40. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






41. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






42. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






43. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






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






45. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?






46. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?






47. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






48. First all-sound film?






49. Which company merged with Boeing?






50. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?