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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?






2. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






3. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






4. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






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






6. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






7. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?






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






9. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






10. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






11. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






12. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






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






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






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






17. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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18. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






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






20. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?






21. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?






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






23. How many band members were there in UB40?






24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?






25. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






26. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






27. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






28. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






29. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






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






31. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?






32. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?






33. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?






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






35. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






36. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






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






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






39. What is frozen to make dry ice?






40. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?






41. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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42. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?






43. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






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






45. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






46. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






47. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






48. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






49. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






50. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000