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1. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






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






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

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4. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






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






6. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






7. First Best Picture Oscar?






8. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






9. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






10. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey

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11. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






12. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






13. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






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






15. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?






16. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






17. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?






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






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






20. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






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






22. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?






23. How many band members were there in UB40?






24. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






25. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






26. 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?






27. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






28. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?






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






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






31. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






32. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






33. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






34. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?






35. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






36. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'






37. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






38. First use of Steadicam in film?






39. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






40. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?






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

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42. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?






43. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?






44. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






45. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






46. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






47. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?






48. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?






49. Which company merged with SBC?






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