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1. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?






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






3. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






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






5. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?






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






7. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






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






9. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






10. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






11. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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






13. First film shown on HBO?






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






15. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?






16. What chain introduced the 'Blizzard' in 1985?






17. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






18. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






19. Who was Time Magazine's first Man of the Year in 1928?






20. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






21. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






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






23. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






24. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?






25. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






26. What are divided by Botts' dots?






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






28. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






29. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






30. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






31. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






32. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)






33. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






35. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






36. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






37. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






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






39. How many band members were there in Toto?






40. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






41. First use of the 'f-word'?






42. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






43. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






44. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






45. Which company merged with Viacom?






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






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






48. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






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






50. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?