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1. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






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






3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






4. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






5. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






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






7. Who killed the literary character Laius?






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






9. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






10. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






11. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






12. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






13. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






14. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?

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






16. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?






17. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?






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






19. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?






20. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






21. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






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






23. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






24. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






25. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?






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






27. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






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






29. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






30. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






31. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






32. First three-strip Technicolor?






33. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






34. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






35. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






36. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






37. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






38. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






39. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






40. Which company merged with NBC?






41. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






42. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






43. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






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






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






46. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?






47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






48. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






49. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






50. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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