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1. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






2. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






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






4. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






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






6. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?






7. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






8. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






9. Which company merged with Viacom?






10. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...






11. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






12. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






13. 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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14. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






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






16. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






17. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






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






19. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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20. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






21. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






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






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






24. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?






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

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26. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






27. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






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






29. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






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






31. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?






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






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






34. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






35. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






36. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






37. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






38. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?






39. 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?






40. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?






41. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






42. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






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






44. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






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






46. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






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






48. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






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






50. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?