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1. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?






3. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






4. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?






6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?






8. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






9. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'






10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?






11. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






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






13. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






14. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






15. First film shown on HBO?






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






17. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






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






19. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






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






21. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?






22. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






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






24. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...






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






26. 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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27. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






28. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






29. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?






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






31. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






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






33. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






34. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






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






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






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






38. What kind of trust is a REIT?






39. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






40. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?






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






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






43. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?






44. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






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






46. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






47. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






48. Which company merged with Citicorp?






49. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






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