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1. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






2. 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?






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






4. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






5. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






6. Which company merged with NBC?






7. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?






8. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






9. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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10. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






11. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






12. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?






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






14. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?






15. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?






16. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






17. First film with Dolby sound?






18. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?






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






20. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






21. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






22. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






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






24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






25. Who both married and directed Madonna?






26. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






27. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






28. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?






29. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






30. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






31. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?






32. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?






33. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






34. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala






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






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






37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






38. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?






39. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?






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






41. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






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






43. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






44. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?






45. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






46. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?






47. Who was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Queens apartment in 1964 - though her neighbors didn't report the incident for half and hour?






48. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






49. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






50. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?