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1. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?






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






3. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






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






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






6. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?






7. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






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






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






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






11. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?






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






13. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde

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14. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






15. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






16. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






17. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






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






19. Which company merged with Chevron?






20. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






21. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






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






23. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






24. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






25. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?






26. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?






27. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






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






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






30. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






31. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






32. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






33. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






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






35. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?






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






37. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






38. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






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






40. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






41. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?






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






43. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






44. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






45. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






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






47. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






48. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






49. What are divided by Botts' dots?






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