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






2. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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3. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






4. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






5. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?






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






7. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






8. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






9. What are divided by Botts' dots?






10. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






11. What nation did the US hockey team beat in the finals of its improbable ('miracle') gold medal run at Lake Placid in 1980?






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






13. What artist's first word was lapiz - meaning pencil?






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






15. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






16. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






17. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






18. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?






19. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






20. What's the pen name of Kiah Michelle Cruse - who inherited her mother's helpful hints column in 1977?






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






22. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?






23. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends - 'Be cheerful. Strive to be happy'?






24. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?






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






26. Last names instead of first names: Finklestein & Montgomery






27. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






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






29. Which company merged with Citicorp?






30. From 1968 on - what group used the so-called Southern strategy?






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






32. How many band members were there in Toto?






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






34. The first foreign country you'll hit traveling south from Detroit is Canada.What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?






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






36. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






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






38. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






39. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






40. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






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






42. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






43. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






44. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






45. 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?






46. What sitcom lost both Selma Diamond and her replacement - Florence Halop - to lung cancer?






47. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






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






49. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






50. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?