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1. Which two US states salute the Wright brothers on their license plates?






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






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






4. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






5. Who both married and directed Joanne Woodward?






6. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'






7. Who married his own cousin Celeste in an elaborate 1931 ceremony?






8. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






9. Whose album Some Hearts is the fastest-selling debut in country history - having gone five times platinum by 2007?






10. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






11. What country was invaded in Operation Just Cause?






12. According to the 1980s slogan - what was 'underwear that's fun to wear'?






13. Last names instead of first names: Truman & Adler






14. Who won two Emmys for Lou Grant before HBO returned her to stardom in 1999?






15. What word comes to us from the Greek for 'thick-skinned'?






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






17. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






18. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






19. Albert Fall became the first US cabinet officer to serve jail time for his part in what scandal?






20. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






21. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






22. How many band members were there in Green Day?






23. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?






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






25. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






26. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






27. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?






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






29. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






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






31. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






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






33. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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34. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?






36. What city requested area code 865 - spelling 'VOL -' when it was split off from area code 423






37. Which artist had the double album Bitches Brew?






38. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






39. Who 'discovered' New Zealand?






40. 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?






41. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'






42. Who joined Alicia Keys on the 2002 hit 'Gangsta Lovin'?






43. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?

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44. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?






45. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?






46. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?






47. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






48. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?






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






50. What media company's logo is a black dog whose left eye is a five-pointed star?