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






2. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






3. What magazine gives out the Style Awards every October?






4. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






5. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






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






7. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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8. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?






9. From Hairspray: 'Good Morning _____'






10. How many band members were there in UB40?






11. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






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






13. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






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






15. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






16. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






17. What is frozen to make dry ice?






18. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






19. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?






20. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






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






22. What are divided by Botts' dots?






23. Which company merged with Chevron?






24. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?






25. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






26. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






27. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






28. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






29. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






30. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






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






32. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






33. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?






34. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






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






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






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






38. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...






39. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






41. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






42. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






43. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






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






45. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






46. Who called his elephant Tantor?






47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






48. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






49. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






50. What mythological creature was the longtime mascot of Mobil gas?







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