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1. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?






2. Which company merged with Boeing?






3. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






4. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






5. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?






6. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






7. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






8. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?






9. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






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






11. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






12. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






13. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?






14. Who called his elephant Tantor?






15. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






16. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






17. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?






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






19. Who killed the literary character Laius?






20. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






21. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






22. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






23. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?






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






25. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






26. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?






27. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






28. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?






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






30. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






31. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






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






33. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?






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






35. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?






36. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






37. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






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






39. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






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






41. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






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






43. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?






44. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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45. How many band members were there in Green Day?






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






47. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?






48. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






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






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