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1. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?






2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?






3. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?






4. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?






5. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






6. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






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






8. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?






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






10. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






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






12. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?






13. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






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






15. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






16. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?






17. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






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






19. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






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






21. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?






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






23. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






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






25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala






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






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






28. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






29. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






31. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






32. First three-strip Technicolor?






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






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






35. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






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






37. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






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






39. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






40. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






41. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






42. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






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






44. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery






45. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






46. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






47. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






48. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






49. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






50. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?