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1. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Percy Sledge and Michael Bolton






2. What boxer's eye injuries led to his retirement's in 1982 - 1984 - 1987 - and 1991?






3. Which artist had the double album Daydream Nation?






4. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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5. Who both married and directed Frances McDormand?






6. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?






7. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?






8. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?






9. First 'Director's Cut'?

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10. What celebrated antiapartheid activist died in South African police custody in September 1977?






11. What language is spoken in the Pacific capital city of Yaren?






12. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






13. In what Edgar Allan Poe story does an old man's oddly clouded eye lead to murder?






14. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






15. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






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






17. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?






18. Which company merged with Citicorp?






19. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?






20. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?






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






22. What branch of the ArmedForces first popularized the phrase 'gung-ho'?






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






24. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?






25. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






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






27. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiments on authority?






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






29. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?

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30. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






31. What's the name of the 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by the director in Ice Age?






32. Last names instead of first names: McCardle & Lowell






33. In what movie does Bruce WIllis play a ghost?






34. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?






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






36. In 1989 - what 59 year old became People's oldest Sexiest Man Alive?






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






38. What storm name was retired and replaced by 'Matthew' after the deadliest hurricane in recorded history - in 1998?






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






40. First film in CinemaScope?






41. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






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






43. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Prince Erik?






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






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






46. What fruit comes in these varieties: Muscat and Scuppernong?






47. What Tennessee politician always ran for office in a trademark red-and-black plaid shirt?






48. What TV catchphrase was first utter - in 1990 - by retired nurse EdithFore - portraying 'Mrs. Fletcher'?

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49. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






50. Who killed the literary character Richard Cory?