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1. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?






2. First film in CinemaScope?






3. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






4. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






5. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






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






7. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






8. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






9. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?






10. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






11. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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12. 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?






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






14. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






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






16. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






17. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






18. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde

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19. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






20. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






21. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?






22. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?






23. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






24. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?






25. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






26. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?






27. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?






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






29. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...






30. Which company merged with Citicorp?






31. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?






32. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






33. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?






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






35. Who killed the literary character Laius?






36. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






38. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






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






40. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?






41. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






42. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






43. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






44. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?






45. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






46. First film with Dolby sound?






47. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?






48. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






49. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






50. What is 'the sweet science -' according to AJ Liebling - who popularized the term?