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1. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?






2. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?






3. What is the easternmost point of the Outer Banks?






4. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






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






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






7. What was the appropriate name of the only horse ever to beat Man o' War?






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

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9. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






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






13. In America - the lacy plant that Europeans call wild carrot is given what monarchical name?

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14. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?






15. What 42-to-1 underdog KO'd Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990?






16. Who both married and directed Madonna?






17. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






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






19. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






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






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






22. Between 1944 and 1945 - almost 1400 of what rockets fell on London?






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






24. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






25. What city at the intersection of I-5 and I-84 is home to America's most courteous drivers - according to a 2007 study?






26. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?






27. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?






28. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






29. Which artist had the double album Sign o' the Times?






30. What controversial novel begins with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding jetliner?






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






32. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?






33. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






34. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






35. What's the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the 'southern lights'?






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






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






38. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






39. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer






40. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






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






42. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






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






44. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






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






46. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






47. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC's first season of The Bachelor - who was brought back as the first Bachelorette?






48. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






49. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






50. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?







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