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






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






3. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






4. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






5. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






6. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






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






8. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






9. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






10. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?






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






12. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






13. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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14. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






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






16. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?






18. What chain introduced the 'Blizzard' in 1985?






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






20. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






21. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






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






23. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






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






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






26. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?






27. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






28. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






29. First film with Dolby sound?






30. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






31. Which company merged with Boeing?






32. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






33. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?






34. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






35. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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36. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






37. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?






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






39. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






40. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?






41. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






42. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






43. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?






44. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?






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






46. First studio film with a black director?






47. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?






48. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






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






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