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1. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






2. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?






3. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






4. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






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






6. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...






7. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






8. How many band members were there in Toto?






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






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






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






12. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






13. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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






15. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






16. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?






17. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala






18. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






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






20. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






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






22. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






23. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






24. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






25. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






26. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






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






28. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






29. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






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






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






32. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






33. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?






34. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






35. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






36. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?






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






38. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






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






40. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?






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






42. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






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






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






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






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






47. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?






48. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?






49. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






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







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