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1. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






2. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






3. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






4. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






5. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






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






7. First three-strip Technicolor?






8. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...






9. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






10. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?






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






12. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?






13. At just twenty-one - who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?






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






15. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'






16. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?






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






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






19. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






20. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?






21. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






22. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






23. Which artist had the double album Being There?






24. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






25. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






26. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






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






28. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






29. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






30. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?






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






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






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






34. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas






35. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






36. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






37. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






38. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






39. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






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






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






42. 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?






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






44. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






45. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






46. First Best Picture Oscar?






47. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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48. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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49. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






50. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?