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






2. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






3. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






4. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






5. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?






6. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






7. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






8. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






9. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






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






11. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






12. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






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






14. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






15. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






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






17. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






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






19. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






20. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






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






22. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






23. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






24. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?






25. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






26. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?






27. The Beatle's 'Dear Prudence' is named for the sister of what actress - who didn't enjoy her stay in Rishikesh -India?






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






29. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?






30. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






31. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






32. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






33. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






34. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?






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






36. What running back won the biggest landslide in Heisman voting history - beating Leroy Keyes of Purdue by 1 -750 points? (Two initial names)






37. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






38. First computer graphics in film?






39. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






40. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






41. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






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






43. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?






44. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?






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






46. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






47. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






48. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






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






50. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?