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1. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






2. What kind of animal is the title character of Them!






3. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






4. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






5. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






6. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?






7. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?






8. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?






9. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'






10. 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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11. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






12. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?






13. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?






14. First scheduled in-flight movie?






15. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






16. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?






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






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






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






20. How many band members were there in Toto?






21. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?






22. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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23. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






24. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






25. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






26. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






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






28. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






29. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






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






31. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?






32. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






33. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






34. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






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






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






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






38. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?






39. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?






40. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






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

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42. Which company merged with Viacom?






43. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






44. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?






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






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






47. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?






48. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde

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






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