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1. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






2. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






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






4. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






5. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?






6. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






7. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






8. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?






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






10. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






11. How many band members were there in Toto?






12. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






13. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






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






15. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






16. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?






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






18. What are divided by Botts' dots?






19. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






20. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?






21. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






22. First all-sound film?






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






24. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






25. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






26. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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27. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'






28. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...






29. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






30. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






31. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






32. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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






34. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






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






36. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000






37. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






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






39. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?






40. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?






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






42. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?






43. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?






44. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






45. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?






46. 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?






47. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?






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






49. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?






50. First three-strip Technicolor?