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1. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?






2. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






3. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






4. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






5. First American film nudity?






6. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






7. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?






8. Which company merged with Boeing?






9. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






11. 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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12. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






14. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






15. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?






16. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






17. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?






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






19. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






20. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






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






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






23. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?






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






25. Who both married and directed Madonna?






26. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






27. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






28. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






29. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






30. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






31. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?






32. Which artist had the double album Being There?






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






40. First film of the 3-D boom?






41. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






42. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?






43. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






44. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






45. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






46. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






47. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?






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






49. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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