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1. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






2. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






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






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






5. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






6. Who killed the literary character Laius?






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






8. Give the missing last member: Brahma - Vishnu - and...






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






10. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






11. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?






12. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama






13. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






14. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?






15. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






16. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?






17. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






18. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






19. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






20. Who was married five times - though she had children only with her second husband and her third - Sid Luft?






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






22. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






23. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?






24. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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






26. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






27. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?






28. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?






29. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?






30. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






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






32. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






33. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






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






35. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






36. First film shown on HBO?






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






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






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






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






41. What would you use to 'Walk the Dog -' 'Rock the Baby -' or 'Pop the Clutch?'






42. Which company merged with Chevron?






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






44. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






45. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






46. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?






47. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






48. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?






49. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






50. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?







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