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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






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






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






4. First film in CinemaScope?






5. First American film nudity?






6. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






7. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






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






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






10. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






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






12. In 2001 - who gave the first concert in Oslo's Vallhall football arena?






13. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?






14. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






15. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?






16. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?






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






18. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?

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






20. Who both married and directedIngrid Bergman?






21. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






22. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






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






24. What issue was addressed by congressman Sonny Bono's namesake Act?






25. What former Civil War general became the only man to serve as US senator for three different states?






26. What website began with a 1989 Usenet post called 'Those Eyes -' listing actresses with beautiful eyes?






27. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?






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






29. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






30. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






31. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'






32. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






33. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?






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






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






36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






37. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?






38. For what famous son is Genoa's airport named?






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






40. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






41. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?






42. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






43. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






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






45. 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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46. First film shown on HBO?






47. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






48. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






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






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







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