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1. What famous structure was transplanted to Lake Havasu City - Arizona - in 1971?






2. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?






3. Give the missing last member: Cyan - magenta - and...






4. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?






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






6. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






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






8. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?






9. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?






10. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






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






12. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






13. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






14. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?






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






16. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?






17. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






18. In 1973 - who left her husband - producer Robert Evans - to marry her costar Steve McQueen?






19. What was Jane Austen's last novel - on which the film Clueless was loosely based?






20. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






21. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






22. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama






23. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






24. Greenwich Village's 1969 Stonewall riots took place just hours after what gay icon's funeral?






25. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?






26. What organ produces insulin and glucagon - the hormones that regulate blood sugar?






27. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






28. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






29. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






30. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 before switching missions with what astronaut?






31. What kind of animal is the title character of Andre?






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






33. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?






34. In 1944 - who was the intended assassination victim of the July 20 Plot?






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






36. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






37. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






38. First PG-13 rated film?






39. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






40. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






41. Which artist had the double album Exile on Main Street?






42. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






43. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?






44. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






45. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






46. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






47. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






48. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Betty Grable - in her World War II pin up?






49. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Captain Li?






50. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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