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






2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?






3. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






4. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






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






7. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?






8. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






9. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?






10. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






11. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






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






13. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






14. First film with Dolby sound?






15. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






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






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






18. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






19. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






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






21. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?






22. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






23. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






24. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






25. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






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






27. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






28. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?






29. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)






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






31. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






32. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?






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






34. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






35. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






36. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






37. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






38. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






39. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






40. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






41. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






42. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?






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






44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






45. How many band members were there in Green Day?






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






47. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?






48. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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49. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






50. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?