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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






2. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?






3. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






4. 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?






5. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






6. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






7. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






8. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






9. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






10. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






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






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






13. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






14. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?






15. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?






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






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






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






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






20. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






21. What was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?






22. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...






23. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?






24. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






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






26. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






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






28. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?






29. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






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






31. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






33. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






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






35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?






36. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






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






38. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






39. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






41. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






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






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






44. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






45. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






46. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






47. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?






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






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

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50. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?