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






2. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






3. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






4. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?






5. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






6. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?






7. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






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






9. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






10. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






11. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






12. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






13. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






14. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






15. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?






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






17. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?






18. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






19. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?






20. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink






21. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






22. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






23. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?






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






25. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






26. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






27. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?






28. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






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






30. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






31. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






33. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






34. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






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






36. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






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






38. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






39. First American film nudity?






40. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






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






42. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






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






44. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






45. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






46. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






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






48. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?






49. How many band members were there in UB40?






50. First three-strip Technicolor?