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1. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






2. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?






3. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






4. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






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






6. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?






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






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






9. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?






10. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






11. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






12. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






14. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






15. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






16. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






17. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






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






19. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






20. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






21. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






22. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






23. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






24. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?






25. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






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






27. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?






28. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000






29. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?






31. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






32. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






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






34. Who was famously named for a Joni Mitchell song covered by Judy Collins in 1969?






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






36. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






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






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






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






40. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






41. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






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






43. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?






44. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






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






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






47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






48. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






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






50. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?