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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






2. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?






3. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






4. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






5. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






6. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?






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






9. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Belgium and Spain?






11. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






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






13. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






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






15. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






16. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






17. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?

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18. How many band members were there in Madness?






19. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






20. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






21. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






22. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






23. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






24. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






25. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






26. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






27. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






28. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?






29. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






30. First 'Director's Cut'?

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31. First film shown on HBO?






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






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






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






35. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






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






37. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






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






39. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?






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






42. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?






43. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






44. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?






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






46. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?






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






48. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






49. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






50. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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