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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






2. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






3. What is frozen to make dry ice?






4. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






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






6. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






7. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






8. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...






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






10. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?






11. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?






12. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?






13. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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






15. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?






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






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






18. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






19. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






20. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






21. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?






22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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23. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






24. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






25. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






26. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?






27. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'






28. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






29. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






30. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?






31. Which company merged with BP?






32. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?






33. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?






34. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






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






36. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






37. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?






38. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






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






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






41. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






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






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






44. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






45. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






46. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?






47. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






48. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






49. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






50. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?







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