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






2. Who was Time Magazine's first Man of the Year in 1928?






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






4. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






5. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






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






7. Which company merged with NBC?






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






9. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?






10. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






11. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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12. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?






13. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'






14. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






15. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






16. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






17. In 1905 - the largest rough diamond ever discovered - weighing in at 3100 carats - was found in South Africa--what is its name?






18. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






19. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






20. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?






21. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






22. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






23. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?






24. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






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






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






27. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






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






29. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






30. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?






31. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






32. What kind of trust is a REIT?






33. First scheduled in-flight movie?






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






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






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






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






38. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






39. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?






40. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






41. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






42. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






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






44. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






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






46. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?






47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?






48. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






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






50. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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