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1. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






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






4. Who both married and directed Madonna?






5. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






6. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






7. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?






8. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?






9. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






10. First film shown on HBO?






11. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?






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






13. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






14. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






15. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?






16. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?






17. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






18. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






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






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






21. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






22. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






23. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






24. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






25. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






26. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






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






28. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






29. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?


30. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?






31. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






32. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






33. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






34. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






35. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






36. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






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






38. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?






39. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?






40. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?






41. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?






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






43. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






44. What are divided by Botts' dots?






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






46. First film in CinemaScope?






47. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






48. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?






49. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






50. First American film nudity?