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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey

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






3. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






4. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






5. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?






6. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?






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






8. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?






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






10. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






11. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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12. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






13. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?






14. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?






15. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






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






17. What was the name of HenryFord's only son?






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






19. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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20. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?






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






22. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






23. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?






24. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






25. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala






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






27. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






28. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






29. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?






30. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea?






31. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






32. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






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






34. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?






35. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury






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






37. What Alban Berg opera is based on the same play as the classic Louise Brooks movie Pandora's Box?






38. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






39. What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?






40. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?






41. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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






43. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






44. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






45. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?






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






47. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






48. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Morocco and Tunisia?






49. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






50. What famous figure becomes an anti-Semitic US president in Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America?






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