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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?






2. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






3. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965






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






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






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






7. First film with Dolby sound?






8. First scheduled in-flight movie?






9. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






10. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






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






12. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?






13. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






14. On TV's Mission: Impossible - what organization did Jim Phelps work for?






15. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






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






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






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






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






20. Name the two-time number one song sung by both LaBelle and Christina Aguilera - Lil' Kim - Mya - & Pink






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






22. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






23. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






24. First New York Times movie review?






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






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






27. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






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






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






30. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'






31. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






32. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






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






34. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'






35. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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36. How many band members were there in Toto?






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

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38. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?






39. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






40. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






41. What is frozen to make dry ice?






42. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






43. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Supremes and Kim Wilde

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






45. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?






46. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






47. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






48. What 1963 song led to a thirty-one-month FBI investigation into supposed obscenities hidden in its unintelligible lyrics?






49. What kind of animal is the title character of My Friend Flicka?






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






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