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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






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






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






4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?






5. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






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






7. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






8. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






9. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






10. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






12. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






13. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






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






15. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






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

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






18. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






19. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






20. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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21. What are divided by Botts' dots?






22. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?






23. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






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






25. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






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






27. Who called his elephant Tantor?






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






29. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






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






31. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






32. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?






33. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






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






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






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






37. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






38. Which company merged with Chevron?






39. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






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






41. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






42. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?






43. Which company merged with Chevron?






44. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?






45. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






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






47. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






48. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






49. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






50. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?







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