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






2. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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3. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






4. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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5. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






6. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






7. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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8. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?






9. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






10. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






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






12. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






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






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






15. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






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






17. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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18. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






19. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?






20. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






21. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






22. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?






23. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






24. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






25. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






26. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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27. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






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






29. Who both married and directed Madonna?






30. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






31. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






32. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






33. First film in CinemaScope?






34. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






35. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






36. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield






37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






38. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






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






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






41. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?






42. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






43. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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44. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






45. First PG-13 rated film?






46. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






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






49. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






50. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?