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






2. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






3. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






4. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






5. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






6. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?






7. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






8. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?






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






10. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin






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






12. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






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






14. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






15. First scheduled in-flight movie?






16. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?






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






18. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?






19. 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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20. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






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






22. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?






23. How many band members were there in Toto?






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






25. Which company merged with Boeing?






26. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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






28. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






29. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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30. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






31. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






32. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






33. 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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34. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






35. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?






36. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






38. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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39. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






40. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)






41. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






42. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






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






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






45. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?






46. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






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






48. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






49. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?






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