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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?






2. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






3. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






4. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?






5. First film in CinemaScope?






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






7. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






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






9. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






10. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






11. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






12. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






13. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






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






15. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






16. 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'?






17. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






18. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






19. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






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






21. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?






22. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






23. Which company merged with NBC?






24. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






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






26. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?






27. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






28. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






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






30. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






31. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






32. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






33. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






34. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






35. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






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






37. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






38. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






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






40. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






41. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






42. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






43. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau?






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






46. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






47. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






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






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






50. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?