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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






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






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






4. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






5. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...






6. First American film nudity?






7. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






8. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






9. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






10. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






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






12. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






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






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






15. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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16. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?






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






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






19. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?






20. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






22. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






23. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






24. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'






25. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?






26. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?






27. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






28. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






29. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






30. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?






31. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






32. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






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






34. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






35. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






36. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






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






38. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






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






40. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






41. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?






42. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






43. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...






44. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






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






46. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?






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






48. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






49. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






50. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?