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






2. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






3. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






4. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?

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5. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






6. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






7. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






8. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






9. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






10. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






11. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






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






13. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






14. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






15. First film with Dolby sound?






16. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






17. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






18. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






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






20. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






21. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






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






23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?






24. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?






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






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






27. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






28. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






29. 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?






30. Who killed the literary character Laius?






31. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?






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






33. Who both married and directed Madonna?






34. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?






35. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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






37. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?






38. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






39. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?






40. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






41. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






42. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?






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






44. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






45. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?






46. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?






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






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






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






50. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?