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1. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






2. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?






3. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






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






5. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?






6. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






7. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






8. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?






9. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






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






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






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






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






14. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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15. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






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






17. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?






18. First film shown on HBO?






19. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






20. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?






21. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






22. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






23. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






24. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






25. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






26. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)






27. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






28. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!






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






30. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






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






32. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






33. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






34. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






35. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?






36. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?






37. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






38. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






39. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






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






41. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






42. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






43. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?






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






45. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






46. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






47. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






48. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?






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






50. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?