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1. What black stone is the most common volcanic rock on Earth?






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






3. Who 'discovered' Alaska?






4. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?






5. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

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






7. What 1985 movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?






8. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






9. How many band members were there in Madness?






10. Who called his elephant Tantor?






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






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






13. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?






14. What actor and former SNL cast member voiced the 'hip' animated Colonel Sanders in recent KFC commercials?






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






16. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






17. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?






18. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?






19. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






20. What fruit comes in these varieties: Navel and Blood?






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






22. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






23. What modern-day conglomerate built the Zero fighter planes used to bomb Pearl Harbor?






24. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?






25. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?






26. What owner-bartender of Chicago's Lone Star Saloon was famous for his drug-laced drinks?






27. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






28. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Uruguay and Venezuela?






29. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






30. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






31. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






32. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?






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






34. Who both married and directed Madonna?






35. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






36. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?






37. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






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






39. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?






40. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Megara?






41. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






42. In what movie does Jake Busey play a ghost?






43. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






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






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






46. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?






47. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?






48. Who published his last novel - A Passage toIndia - in 1924 - thought he lived 46 more years?






49. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique - having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?






50. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?