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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






2. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Ecuador and Bolivia?






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






4. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?






5. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






6. 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?






7. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






8. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






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






10. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






12. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?






13. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






14. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






15. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






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






17. First New York Times movie review?






18. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






19. How many band members were there in Slipknot?






20. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?






21. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






22. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






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






24. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






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






26. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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27. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






28. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?






29. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)






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






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






32. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






33. With what metal band did Ice-T record the controversial 'Cop Killer'?






34. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






35. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?






36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






38. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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






40. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






41. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






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






43. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






45. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?






46. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?






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






48. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?






49. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






50. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?