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1. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?






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






4. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?






5. Stone Temple Pilots' name was inspired by what Clorox brand's logo?






6. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?






7. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






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






9. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






10. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






11. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






12. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?






13. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






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






15. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






16. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)






17. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






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






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






20. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






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






22. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






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






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






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






26. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






27. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






28. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






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






30. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






31. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?






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






33. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?

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34. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






35. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






36. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






37. First New York Times movie review?






38. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?






39. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






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

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41. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






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






43. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






44. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






45. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?






46. What craftsman used willow - spruce - and maple woods to make the 'Christian Hammer -' which sold for auction for a record $3.5 million in 2006?






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






48. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?






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






50. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)