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1. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?






2. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






3. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






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






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






6. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?






7. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?






8. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






10. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






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






12. 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?






13. Which company merged with Citicorp?






14. What's Cartman's first name on South Park






15. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






16. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?






17. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






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






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






20. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?






21. First New York Times movie review?






22. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






23. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






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






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






26. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






27. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






28. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?






29. First film of the 3-D boom?






30. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






31. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






32. First film shown on HBO?






33. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






34. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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35. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?






36. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






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






38. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






39. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?






40. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?






41. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






42. Which company merged with Boeing?






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






44. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






45. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






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






47. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






48. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






49. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






50. Who was Time Magazine's first Man of the Year in 1928?