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1. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?






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






3. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






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






5. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






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






7. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






8. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?






9. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






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






11. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






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






13. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






14. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






15. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






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






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






18. Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' first appeared on what movie's soundtrack?






19. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






20. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






21. How many band members were there in UB40?






22. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?






23. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






24. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?






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






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






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






28. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






29. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






30. Which chess piece was originally called 'the elephant'?






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






32. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






33. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






34. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?






35. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






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






37. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






38. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






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






40. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






41. What Margate City - New Jersey - housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?






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






43. First use of the 'f-word'?






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






45. 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'?






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






47. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






48. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






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






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