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1. 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?






2. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






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






4. Who started the Colt's Super Bowl III loss to the Jets - while Johnny Unitas sat on the sidelines?






5. First Best Picture Oscar?






6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?






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






8. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






9. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?






10. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?






11. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...






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






13. What two words appear in the original recording of 'Candle in the Wind' where 'England's rose' appear in the 1997 version?






14. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






15. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






16. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






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






18. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?






19. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






20. Which artist had the double album The Fragile?






21. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






22. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






23. What term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?






24. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas






25. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






26. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?






27. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






28. First all-sound film?






29. What TV character's trademark song was 'Smelly Cat'?






30. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?






31. Most of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry research took place at what western city - now associated with a different kind of spacecraft?






32. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)






33. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






34. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?






35. Who read the poem 'On the Pulse of Morning' at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?






36. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






37. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






38. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






39. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?






40. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?






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






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






43. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?






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






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






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






47. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






48. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?


49. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






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