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






2. 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?






3. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?






4. Which company merged with BP?






5. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






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






7. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






8. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






9. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






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






12. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






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






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






15. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






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






17. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






18. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?






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






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






21. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?






22. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






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






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






25. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






26. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






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






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






29. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






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






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






32. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






33. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






34. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






35. First all-sound film?






36. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






37. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






38. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?






39. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






40. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






41. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?






42. Which company merged with Boeing?






43. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?






44. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






45. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






46. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






47. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






48. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?






49. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






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







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