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1. First PG-13 rated film?






2. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000






3. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






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






5. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






6. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?






7. How many band members were there in Madness?






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






9. Which company merged with Chevron?






10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?






11. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






12. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






13. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






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






15. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






16. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






17. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






18. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?






19. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






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






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






22. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






23. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






24. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?






25. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






26. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






27. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






28. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






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






30. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






31. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?






32. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






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






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






35. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?






36. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






37. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






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






39. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






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






41. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?






42. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






43. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






44. 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?






45. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?






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






47. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?






48. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






49. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






50. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?