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1. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






2. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






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

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4. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






5. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






6. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?






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

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8. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






9. How many band members were there in Toto?






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






11. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






12. Who was already Gilda Radner's ex-husband when he was hired as bandleader on Saturday Night Live in 1980? (Two initial names)






13. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






14. What kind of trust is a REIT?






15. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?






16. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?






17. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






18. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






19. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






20. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






21. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?






22. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






23. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






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






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






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






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






28. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






29. In what 'Kounty' were the antics on Hee Haw set?






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






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






32. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






33. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






34. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






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






36. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






37. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?






38. The name of what 19th century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?






39. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






40. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?






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






42. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






43. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?






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






45. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






46. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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






48. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






49. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






50. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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