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






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






3. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






4. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






5. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






6. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






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






8. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






9. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






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






11. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?






12. First New York Times movie review?






13. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






14. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






15. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?






16. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?






17. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






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






19. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






20. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






21. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






22. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






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






24. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






25. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






26. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






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






28. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






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






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






31. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






32. What issue was addressed by congressman George Pendleton's namesake Act?






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






34. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






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






36. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?






37. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






38. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






39. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?






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






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






42. How many band members were there in Green Day?






43. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?






44. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?






45. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






46. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






47. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






48. First use of Steadicam in film?






49. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






50. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name







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