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1. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






2. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






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






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






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






6. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






7. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






8. What nation refers to its current dictator as 'Dear Leader'?






9. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?






10. What incendiary novel is divided into three sections: 'The Hearth and the Salamander -' 'The Sieve and the Sand -' - and 'Burning Bright'?






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






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






13. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






14. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?






15. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






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






17. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






18. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






19. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






20. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






21. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






22. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






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






24. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






25. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






26. 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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27. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






28. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...






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






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






31. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?






32. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow






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






34. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






35. The 1991 doc Hearts of Darkness follows what movie's chaotic production?






36. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






37. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






38. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?






39. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






40. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






41. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






42. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin






43. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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44. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?






45. Which company merged with Verizon?






46. Whose posthumous album Loyal to the Game was produced by Eminem?






47. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






48. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






49. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






50. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?