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1. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






2. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?






3. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






4. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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5. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






6. Which company merged with SBC?






7. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






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






9. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






10. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






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






12. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






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






14. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






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






16. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






17. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






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






19. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






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






21. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






22. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






23. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






24. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






25. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






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






27. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






28. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






29. Who replaced John Paxson as Chicago Bulls point guard and was later replaced by him as the Bull's general manager? (Two initial names)






30. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?






31. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?






32. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?






33. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






34. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






35. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






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






37. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






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






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






40. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






41. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






42. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






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






44. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






45. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






46. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






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






48. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






49. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...






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






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