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1. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






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






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






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






5. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






6. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






7. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






8. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?






9. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






10. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






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






12. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)






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






14. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






15. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?






16. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






17. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






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






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






20. Which artist had the double album Being There?






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






22. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






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






24. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






25. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






26. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?






27. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






28. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?






29. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






30. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






31. Which company merged with Chevron?






32. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?






33. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






34. First New York Times movie review?






35. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






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






37. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink






38. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






39. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






40. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






41. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






42. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?






43. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






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






45. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






46. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






47. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?






48. First American film nudity?






49. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






50. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?