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






2. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






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






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






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






6. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






7. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






8. What Islamic shrine is today built on Jersualem's Temple mount?






9. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?






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






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






12. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






13. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






14. First PG-13 rated film?






15. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






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






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






18. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






19. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






20. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






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






22. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






23. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






24. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






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






26. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






27. Mohammed Khatami is both a former national librarian and a former president of what nation?






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






29. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






30. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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31. Who killed the literary character Grendel?






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






33. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






34. How many band members were there in Green Day?






35. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?






36. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






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






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






39. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






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






41. The Carboniferous period - 300 million years ago - is divided into two epochs with the names of US states.What two states?






42. What team had seven of the eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team - thanks to ballot stuffing?






43. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






44. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






45. Rupert Giles was the librarian-mentor on what TV hit?






46. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






47. First Best Picture Oscar?






48. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






49. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named John Smith?






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