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






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






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






4. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






5. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






6. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?






7. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






8. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






9. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






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






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






12. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?






13. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






14. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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






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






17. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






18. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






19. What two words begin the title of every episode of Chris Rock's CW sitcom?






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






21. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






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






23. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






24. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?






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






26. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?






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






28. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






29. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






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






31. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow






32. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






33. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






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






35. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






36. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?






37. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






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






39. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






40. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield






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






42. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






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






44. Which company merged with Chevron?






45. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






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






47. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






48. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






49. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey

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50. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?