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1. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






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






3. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






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






5. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






6. Who killed the literary character Aslan?






7. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






8. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?






9. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






10. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






11. What suburb of Paris produced the silk lace later made famous by the Big Bopper?






12. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?






13. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?






14. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?






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






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






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






18. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






19. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






20. What song is playing during Tom Cruise's iconic underwear dance in Risky Business?






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






22. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






23. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






24. What country was invaded in Operation Enduring Freedom?






25. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?






26. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?






27. What fruits come in these varieties: Bing and Rainier?






28. Who both married and directed Madonna?






29. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






30. Who produced the movie 'The Elephant Man' - casting his wife in a lead role and hiring director David Lynch - but insisted on going without screen credit to avoid confusing audiences?






31. What's the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?






32. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






33. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






34. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Old Pyncheon Family?






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






36. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






37. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






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






39. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






40. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






41. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






42. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






43. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






44. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






45. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






46. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?






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






48. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






49. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






50. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?