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1. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






2. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






3. Who killed the literary character Laius?






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






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






6. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






7. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






8. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






9. First American film nudity?






10. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






11. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?






12. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






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

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14. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?






15. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






16. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






17. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?






18. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






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






20. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






21. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






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






23. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?






25. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






26. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?






27. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?






28. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






29. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk






30. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






31. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






32. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






33. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






34. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






35. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






36. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






37. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






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






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






40. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






41. 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?






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






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






44. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






45. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






46. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






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






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. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






50. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk