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1. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






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






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






4. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






5. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?






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






7. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






8. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






9. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






10. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






11. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?






12. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






13. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






14. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






15. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






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






17. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






18. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






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






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






21. Which company merged with Chevron?






22. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?






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






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






25. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?






26. Which company merged with Citicorp?






27. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow






28. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






29. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?






30. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






31. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






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






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






34. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






35. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?






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






37. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






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






39. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






40. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?






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






42. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






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






44. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






45. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






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






47. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






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






49. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






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