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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






2. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?






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






4. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






5. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?






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






7. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'






8. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






9. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






10. First scheduled in-flight movie?






11. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






12. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






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






14. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






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






16. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?






17. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...






18. First PG-13 rated film?






19. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






20. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






21. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?






22. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






23. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






24. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?






25. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






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






27. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






28. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






29. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






30. Who killed the literary character Grendel?






31. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






32. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






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






34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk






35. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






36. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






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






38. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






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






40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






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






42. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...






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






44. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






45. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






46. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?






47. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






48. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






49. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






50. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?







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