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1. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






2. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?






3. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






4. What are divided by Botts' dots?






5. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






6. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






7. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






8. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






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






10. First film shown on HBO?






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






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






13. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...






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






15. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






16. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?






17. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






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






19. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






20. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






21. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






22. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






23. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






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






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






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






27. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






28. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?






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

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30. Which company merged with Boeing?






31. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?






32. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






33. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






34. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






35. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






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






37. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






38. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






39. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






40. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






41. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






42. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






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






44. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






45. Who killed the literary character Aslan?






46. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






47. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






48. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






49. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?






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