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1. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






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


3. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?






4. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






5. 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?






6. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






7. What city's famous Mozart-platz memorial was donated by Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria - a big fan of the composer?






8. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






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






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






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






12. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






13. How many band members were there in Madness?






14. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?


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






16. Which company merged with Verizon?






17. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






18. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






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






20. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






21. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






22. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)






23. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






24. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






25. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?






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






27. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






28. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?






29. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






30. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






31. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






32. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






33. Which company merged with Boeing?






34. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






35. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






36. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?






37. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






38. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






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






40. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






41. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






42. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?






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






44. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






45. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






46. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?






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






48. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






49. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






50. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?