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1. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






2. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






3. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






4. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






5. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






6. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






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






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






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






10. What company takes its name from the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades?






11. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?






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






13. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?






14. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






15. What son of Italian immigrants received a 1953 patent for his invention - the 'Model A Ice Resurfacer'






16. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






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






18. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






19. How many band members were there in Madness?






20. In what model of SUV is Krayzie Bone 'Ridin' -' according to the second verse of the 2006 Chamillionarie hit?






21. What wonder of the ancient world was destroyed by arson the same night that Alexander the Great was born?






22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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23. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






24. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






25. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






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






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






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






29. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






30. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?






31. What's the EU equivalent of our 911 emergency number?






32. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania - where Witness was filmed - is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?






33. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name






34. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






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






36. What kind of animal is the title character of Mighty Joe Young?






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






38. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






39. First scheduled in-flight movie?






40. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?






41. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'






42. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 movies?






43. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?






44. First American film nudity?






45. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






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






47. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?






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






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

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50. 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?







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