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






2. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






3. Which company merged with Citicorp?






4. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






5. First Best Picture Oscar?






6. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






7. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






8. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






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






10. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






11. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






12. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?






13. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?






14. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






15. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






16. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?






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






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






19. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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20. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?






21. What are divided by Botts' dots?






22. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?






23. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






24. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






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






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






27. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?






28. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






29. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






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






31. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






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






33. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'






34. First film of the 3-D boom?






35. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






36. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






37. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






38. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






39. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






40. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






41. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






42. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?






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






44. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?






45. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






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






47. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






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

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49. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






50. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?