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1. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston - Milwaukee - andAtlanta?






2. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






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






4. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?






5. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?






6. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






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






8. What company's famous plaid pattern is called 'novacheck'?






9. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?






10. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'






11. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?






12. What kind of trust is a REIT?






13. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






14. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






15. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as 'the Wall for Generation X'?






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






17. What playwright's friendship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies' family inspired a 2004 movie? (Two initial names)






18. First classic film to be 'colorized'?






19. Who both married and directed Anna Karina?






20. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






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






22. What BlackForest town was called 'Aurelia Aquensis' by the Romans?






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






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






25. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






26. On TV's Alias - what organization did Sydney Bristow work for?






27. First film shown on HBO?






28. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about 'A Diamond as Beg as' what NYC landmark?






29. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






30. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?






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






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






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






34. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






35. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






36. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






37. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?






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






39. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?






40. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?






41. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?






42. For his tenacity - nineteenth century biologist Thomas Huxley was named whose 'bull dog'?

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43. All the numbers in titles of Michael Apted's Up documentary series are multiples of what number?






44. What is a female donkey called?






45. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?






46. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






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






48. The title tale in the best selling children's book The Stinky Cheese Man is an updating of what classic story?






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






50. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...







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