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1. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?






2. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?






3. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






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






5. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






6. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






7. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






8. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?






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






10. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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






12. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






13. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?






14. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






15. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






16. 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






17. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






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






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






20. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






21. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






22. Which company merged with Boeing?






23. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?






24. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






25. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






26. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






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






28. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?






29. Which company merged with Citicorp?






30. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






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






32. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






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






34. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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35. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






36. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...






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






38. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?






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






40. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






41. 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?






42. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






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






44. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






45. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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46. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






47. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






48. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






49. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?






50. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?