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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






2. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?






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






4. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






5. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






6. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






7. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






8. First use of the 'f-word'?






9. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?






10. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






11. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...






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






13. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






14. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?






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






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






17. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






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






19. 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?






20. How many band members were there in UB40?






21. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?






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






23. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






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






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






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






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






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






29. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






30. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






31. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






32. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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






34. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






35. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?






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

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37. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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38. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






39. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






40. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






41. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






42. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






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






44. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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45. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?






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






47. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






48. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






49. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






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