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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






2. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






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






4. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?






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






6. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






7. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






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






9. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






10. What Quechua word is also sometimes used to refer to a vicuna or guanaco?






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






12. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'






13. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






14. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






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






16. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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17. First all-sound film?






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






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






20. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






21. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






22. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






23. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






24. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






25. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?






26. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?






27. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?






28. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






29. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






30. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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31. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






32. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?






33. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






34. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






35. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






36. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






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






38. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






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






40. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






41. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






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






43. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?






44. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






45. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?






46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






47. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






48. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






49. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?






50. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?







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