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1. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






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






3. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






4. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






5. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






6. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






7. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






8. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?






9. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






10. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






11. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






12. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






13. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






14. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






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






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






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






18. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






19. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?






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






21. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






22. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






23. Which company merged with SBC?






24. Which company merged with Citicorp?






25. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






26. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?






27. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






28. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






29. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






30. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






31. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






32. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






33. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






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






35. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?






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






37. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






38. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






39. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






40. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin






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






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






43. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






44. Which company merged with NBC?






45. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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






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






48. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






49. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?






50. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?