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1. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






2. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?






3. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






4. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






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






6. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'






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






8. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






9. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






10. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






11. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






12. Which company merged with Boeing?






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






14. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Nigeria and Gabon?






15. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






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






17. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






18. What kind of animal is the title character of Babe?






19. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?






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






21. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?






22. Who - in 1964 - was the first-ever Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl?






23. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?






24. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






25. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






26. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






27. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?

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28. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






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






30. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?






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






32. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?






33. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






34. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






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






36. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?






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






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






39. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






40. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






41. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?






42. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






43. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?






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






45. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






46. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






47. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?






48. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






49. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






50. Which company merged with Chevron?







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