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1. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






2. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






3. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






4. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






5. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






6. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?






7. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...






8. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?






9. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






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






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






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






13. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?






14. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






15. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






16. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






17. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






18. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






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






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






21. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






22. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






23. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






25. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






26. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






27. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






28. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






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






30. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






31. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






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






33. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






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






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






36. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?






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






38. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






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






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






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






42. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






43. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?






44. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?






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






46. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






47. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






48. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






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






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