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1. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






2. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






3. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






4. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






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






6. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






7. First studio film with a black director?






8. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






9. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






10. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?






11. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






12. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






13. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






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






15. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






16. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?






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






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






19. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






20. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






21. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?






22. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






23. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?






24. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






26. How many band members were there in UB40?






27. Which company merged with NBC?






28. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






29. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






30. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






31. 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?






32. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






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






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






35. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...






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






37. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






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






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






40. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






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






42. First New York Times movie review?






43. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






44. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






45. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






46. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






47. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






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






49. Which artist had the double album Being There?






50. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?