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1. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?






2. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?






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






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






5. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






6. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






7. What are divided by Botts' dots?






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






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






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






11. Give the missing last member: Gaspar - Melchoir - and...






12. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






13. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






14. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






15. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






16. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






17. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






18. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






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






20. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?






21. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






22. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?






23. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






24. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?






25. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






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






27. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






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






29. How many band members were there in the Eurythmics?






30. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






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






32. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?






33. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






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






35. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






36. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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37. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






38. How many 'dendirtes -' or arms - does a typical snowflake have?






39. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?






40. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






41. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?






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






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






44. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






45. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






46. In 2002 - the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions.Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of its two 'North' division counterparts?






47. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






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






49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






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