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1. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?






2. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






3. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






4. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?






5. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






6. Who lost a toe in frostbite in 2002 - two years after stealing a gold medal from undefeated Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin?






7. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






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






9. Who killed the literary character Grendel?






10. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






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






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






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






14. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






15. Who became the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 1995?






16. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?






17. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






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






19. Whom did George Steinbrenner hire and fire five separate times?






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






21. 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'?






22. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






23. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






24. What was Doogie Howser - MD's real first name?






25. What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos do to make headlines in 1968?






26. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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27. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






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






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






30. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






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






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






33. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






34. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






35. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






36. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






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






38. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






39. What US state depicts a large - round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?






40. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






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






42. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






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






44. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?






45. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?






46. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?

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47. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Tajikistan and Russia?






48. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?






49. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink






50. Which artist had the double album Being There?