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1. How many band members were there in Madness?






2. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






3. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






4. What is frozen to make dry ice?






5. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






6. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






7. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






8. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






9. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Jasmine?






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






11. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?






12. Kiribati - Tuvalu - or Palau--in 1994 - what tiny Pacific nation became the last UN Trust Territory to gain independence?






13. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?






14. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






15. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






16. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






17. From 42nd Street: 'Shuffle Off to ____'






18. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?






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






20. What mythical Guns N' Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?






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






22. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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23. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?






24. The space shuttle's engines run on what two supercooled liquids?






25. What kind of animal is the title character of Bringing up Baby?






26. What 1957 film made the Colonel Bogey March famous?






27. What TV series is about this show: FYI?






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






29. What's being released five times a year from January 1999 to fall 2008?






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






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






32. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






33. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?






34. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






35. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






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






37. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?






38. The US's first successful ICBM was what rocket named for a Titan of Greek myth - later used to launch John Glenn into orbit?






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






40. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






41. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson






42. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






43. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?






44. Who cowrote both 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' and 'If I Had a Hammer'?






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






46. What stadium hosted college football's Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?






47. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?






48. First three-strip Technicolor?






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






50. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?







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