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1. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






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






3. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






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






5. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?






6. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






7. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






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






9. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






10. What issue was addressed by congressman Henry Dawes's namesake Act?






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






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






13. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






14. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






15. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






16. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?






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






18. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






19. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






20. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






21. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






22. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for






23. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






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






25. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?






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






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






28. First film of the 3-D boom?






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






30. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?






31. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






32. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






33. Who both married and directed Geena Davis






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






35. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






36. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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






38. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






39. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?






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






41. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by The Coppertone girl - in the original ad?






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






43. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






44. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






45. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






46. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






47. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?






48. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






49. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






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