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1. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






2. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






3. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






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






5. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






6. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?






7. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?






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






9. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






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






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






12. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas






13. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?






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






15. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?






16. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






17. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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18. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






19. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






20. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






21. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






22. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






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






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






25. What are divided by Botts' dots?






26. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?






27. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?






28. Which artist had the double album Wheels of Fire?






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






30. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?






31. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






32. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?






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






34. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?






35. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)






36. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






37. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






38. First use of 'gay' as slang term in film?






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






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






41. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?






42. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






43. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






44. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?






45. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






46. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






47. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






48. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






49. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






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