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






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






3. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






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






5. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?






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






7. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?






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






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






10. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






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






12. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink






13. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






14. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?






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






16. 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?






17. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?






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






19. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?






20. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






21. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






22. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?






23. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?






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






25. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






26. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?






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






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






29. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?






30. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?






31. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






32. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






33. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






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






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






36. First three-strip Technicolor?






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






38. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?






39. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






40. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






41. Which artist had the double album Being There?






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






43. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






44. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






45. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






46. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






47. What is frozen to make dry ice?






48. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






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






50. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?