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1. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?






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






3. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






4. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






5. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?






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






7. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






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






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

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10. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






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






12. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






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






14. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?






15. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






16. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






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






18. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






19. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






20. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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21. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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






23. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






24. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






25. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!






26. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)






27. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






28. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






29. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






30. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






31. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?






32. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






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






34. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






35. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?






36. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






37. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?






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






39. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?






40. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






41. Who killed the literary character Aslan?






42. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






43. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






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






46. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






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

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






49. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






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