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1. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






2. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






3. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






4. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?






5. Which company merged with Verizon?






6. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






7. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






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






9. Which artist had the double album Being There?






10. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






11. 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?






12. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






13. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






14. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?






15. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?






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






17. How many band members were there in Green Day?






18. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






19. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






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






21. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?






22. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?






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






24. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






25. Who killed the literary character Laius?






26. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?






27. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






28. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






29. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?






30. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






31. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?






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






33. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






34. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






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






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






37. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






38. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






39. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?






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






41. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






42. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






43. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






44. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






45. Which company merged with SBC?






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






47. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






48. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?






49. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






50. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?