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1. Which company merged with Verizon?






2. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery






3. First PG-13 rated film?






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






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






6. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






7. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?






8. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






9. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






10. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






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






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






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






14. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






15. Which company merged with Boeing?






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






17. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






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






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






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






21. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






22. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






23. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?






24. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






25. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






26. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?






27. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?






28. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?






29. What is frozen to make dry ice?






30. What does a 'screever' do on a sidewalk?






31. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






32. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






33. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






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






35. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






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






37. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






38. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






39. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






40. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






41. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






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






43. Which artist had the double album Being There?






44. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






45. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






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






47. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






48. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






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






50. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?







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