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1. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






2. What are Butch and Etta riding during the 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?






3. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond






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

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






6. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Halle Berry - in Die Another Day?






8. Which artist had the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans?






9. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?

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10. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?






11. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






12. What peninsula is located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?






13. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?






14. What discoverer of quarks entered Yale at the age of fifteen?






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






16. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: TheLast to See Them Alive?






18. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






19. 'White Christmas' playing on ArmedForces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30 - 1975 event?






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






21. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






22. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?






23. First all-sound film?






24. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






25. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?






26. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?






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






28. In 1961 - who sent in troops to eject the Portuguese from their colony of Goa?






29. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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30. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






31. First all-sound film?






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






33. What kind of trust is a REIT?






34. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?






35. What's the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary feature?






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






37. What literary pickpocket's real name is Jack Dawkins?






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






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






40. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






41. First computer graphics in film?






42. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






43. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






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






45. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?






46. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?






47. First New York Times movie review?






48. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?






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






50. At what nation does Panama attach onto South America?