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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey

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2. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






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






4. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






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






6. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?






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






8. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?






9. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






10. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






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






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






13. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






14. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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






16. What nation's only female leader has been Kim Campbell?






17. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






18. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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19. First PG-13 rated film?






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






21. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?






22. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?






23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?






24. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






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






26. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






27. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






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






29. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






30. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?






31. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






32. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






33. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?






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






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






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






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






38. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






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






40. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?






41. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






42. In addition to the Queen of spades - what's the diamond card in a 'pinochle' hand?






43. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






44. Who both married and directed Kate Capshaw?






45. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






46. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?






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






48. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






49. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






50. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?