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






2. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?






3. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






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






5. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






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






7. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






8. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






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






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






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






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






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

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14. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?






15. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






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






17. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)






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






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






20. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






21. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






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






23. 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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24. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






25. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?






26. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






27. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






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






29. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?






30. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






31. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






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






33. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






34. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






35. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






36. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






37. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






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






39. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






40. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?






41. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?






42. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?






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






44. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






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






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

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47. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






48. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?






49. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






50. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?