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1. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






2. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






3. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






4. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






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






6. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






7. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






8. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






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






10. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






11. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






12. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?






13. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






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






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






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






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






18. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






19. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?






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






21. How many band members were there in Toto?






22. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






23. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






24. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






25. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






26. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






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






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






29. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






30. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






31. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






32. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?






33. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






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






35. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?






36. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?






37. First film shown on HBO?






38. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






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






40. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






41. Who called his elephant Tantor?






42. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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43. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






44. Which artist had the double album Being There?






45. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






46. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?






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






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






49. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






50. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)