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1. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Slovenia and Bosnia?






2. What kind of animal is the title character of Finding Nemo?






3. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy - which was stolen in England in 1966?






4. First studio film with a black director?






5. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






6. First American film nudity?






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






8. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?






9. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?






10. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






11. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






12. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






13. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






14. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






15. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?






16. The famous 'peace symbol' was designed to combine the semaphore positions for N and D.What do the N and D stand for?






17. What kind of sporting event is divided into chukkas?






18. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?






19. The 'pinna' is the outer - visible part of what?






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






21. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






22. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






23. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






24. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?






25. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?






26. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






27. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






28. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?


29. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?






30. What organization's 1999 conference in Seattle led to massive street protest?






31. What Oscar winner for Ed Wood turned down the role of Spock on Star Trek?






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






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






34. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






35. First computer graphics in film?






36. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






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






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






39. An 'umiak' is a larger version of a what?






40. Dollar - Budget - or Enterprise--Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?






41. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?


42. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






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






44. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






45. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






46. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Burma and Malaysia?






47. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Philip?






48. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Three Presents of D'Artagnan the Elder?






49. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






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