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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?






2. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






3. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






4. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






5. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?

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6. First studio film with a black director?






7. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






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






9. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






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






11. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






12. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






13. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?






14. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






15. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






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






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






18. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






19. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






20. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin






21. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?






22. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?






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






24. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?






25. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






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






27. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?






28. First American film nudity?






29. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






30. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






31. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






32. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






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






34. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






35. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






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






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






38. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?






39. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






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






41. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






42. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






43. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






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






45. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?






46. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






47. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






48. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?






49. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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50. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?