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1. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






2. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?






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






4. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






5. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






6. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






7. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






8. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






9. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






10. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?


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






12. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






13. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?






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






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






16. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






17. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






18. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






19. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?






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






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






22. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






23. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






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






25. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






26. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?






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






28. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?


29. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?






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






31. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






32. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






33. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






34. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






35. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






36. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






37. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






38. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






39. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






41. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?






42. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






43. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






44. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






45. First film in CinemaScope?






46. What kind of trust is a REIT?






47. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






48. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






49. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






50. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?