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






2. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






3. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






4. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






5. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






6. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






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






8. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






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






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






11. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?






12. 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?






13. 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?






14. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






15. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






16. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






17. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






18. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






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






20. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






21. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






22. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






23. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






24. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






25. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






27. Whose song 'Clubland' begins his 1981 album Trust?






28. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000






29. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






30. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






31. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






32. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?






33. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






34. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






35. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






36. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






37. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






38. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






39. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






40. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






41. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?






42. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






43. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






44. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






45. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






46. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






47. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






48. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?






49. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?






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