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






2. First film in CinemaScope?






3. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?






4. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






5. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






6. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






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






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






9. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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10. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






11. 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'?






12. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






13. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






14. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






15. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?






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






17. 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?






18. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






19. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






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






21. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






22. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






23. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?






24. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






25. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






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






27. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






28. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






29. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






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






31. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






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

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






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






35. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?






36. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






37. Who both married and directed Madonna?






38. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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






40. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






41. Currently - only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?






42. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






43. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






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






45. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






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






47. Which company merged with SBC?






48. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






49. 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?






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