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






2. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






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






5. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






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






7. 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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8. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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






10. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde

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






12. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






13. First computer graphics in film?






14. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






15. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






16. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






17. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






18. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






19. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






20. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






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






22. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?






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






24. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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25. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






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






27. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?






28. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?






29. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'






30. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...






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






32. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?






33. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






34. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






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






36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






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






38. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






39. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






40. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






41. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?






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






43. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






44. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






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






46. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?






47. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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48. First 'Director's Cut'?

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49. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






50. 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'?