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1. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






2. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






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






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






5. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






6. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...






7. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






8. What TV series is about this show: When the Whistle Blows?






9. How many band members were there in UB40?






10. First film of the 3-D boom?






11. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?






12. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






13. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






14. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






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






16. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?






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






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






19. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






20. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






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






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






23. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?






24. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






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






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






27. What name is given to the dolphin fish to make it sound more appetizing on menus?






28. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






29. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






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






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






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






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






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






35. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name






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






37. What fruit comes in these varieties: Damson and Mirabelle?






38. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






39. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?






40. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?






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






42. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






43. First Best Picture Oscar?






44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






45. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?






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






48. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






49. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






50. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?