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






2. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






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






4. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






5. First studio film with a black director?






6. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






7. Which company merged with Verizon?






8. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






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






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






11. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






12. First three-strip Technicolor?






13. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






14. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






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






16. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






17. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?






18. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






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






20. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






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






22. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






23. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?






24. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






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






27. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?






28. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






29. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






30. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






31. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






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






33. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






34. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






35. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?






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






37. First film of the 3-D boom?






38. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






39. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






40. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






41. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






42. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






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






44. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






45. First use of Steadicam in film?






46. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






47. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






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






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






50. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?