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Subject : trivia
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1. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






2. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






3. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






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






5. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






6. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






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






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






9. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






10. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






11. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






12. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






13. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...






14. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






15. Who killed the literary character Grendel?






16. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






17. First film shown on HBO?






18. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






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






20. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






21. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...






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






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






24. What state is home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?






25. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






26. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






27. First studio film with a black director?






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






29. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






30. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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31. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






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






33. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






34. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






35. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






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






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






38. What thirteen-year-old's 1963 hit 'Fingertips' was the first live recording ever to top the pop charts?






39. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






40. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?






41. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






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






43. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?






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






45. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






46. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






47. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






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






49. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






50. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?