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1. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






2. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






3. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






4. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?






5. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






6. Which artist had the double album Being There?






7. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






8. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






9. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?

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






11. What is frozen to make dry ice?






12. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?






13. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?






14. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






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






16. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






17. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






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






19. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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20. Which company merged with BP?






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






22. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






23. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






24. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






25. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






26. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?






27. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






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






29. First three-strip Technicolor?






30. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?






31. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?






32. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






33. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






34. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?






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






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






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






38. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?






39. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






40. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






41. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?






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






43. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






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






45. Which company merged with Citicorp?






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






47. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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48. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?






49. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






50. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?