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1. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?






2. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






3. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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4. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






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






6. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






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






8. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






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






10. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






11. Who called his elephant Tantor?






12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






13. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






14. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?






15. What's Cartman's first name on South Park






16. First film in CinemaScope?






17. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






18. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






19. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?






20. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?






21. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






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






23. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






24. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






25. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






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






27. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






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






29. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?






30. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






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






32. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






34. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






35. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






36. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






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






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






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






40. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






41. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






42. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






43. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






44. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






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






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






47. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






48. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?






49. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?






50. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?