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






2. What movie begins with actress Elise McKenna giving playwright Richard Collier an old pocket watch?






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






4. What country was invaded in Operation Restore Hope?






5. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?






6. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Costa Rica and Honduras?






7. What nation's only female leader has beenIndira Gandhi?






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






9. First film shown on HBO?






10. First use of the 'f-word'?






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






12. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?

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






14. What Three Faces of Eve star got the first star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame?






15. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






16. Deuteranopia - or Daltonism - is one of the most common varieties of what condition?






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






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






19. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?






20. What novel begins with this first chapter: Spade & Archer?






21. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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22. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






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






24. Which company merged with JP Morgan Chase?






25. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






26. In 1960 - what craft reached the lowest point on the sea floor - a feat that hasn't been repeated with a manned craft since?






27. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?

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






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






30. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects question when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?






31. What issue was addressed by congressman James Robert Mann's namesake Act?






32. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?






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






34. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?






35. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin






36. What White Stripes hit - off their album Elephant - is titled after singer Jack White's childhood name for a well-known religious organization?






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






38. What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word 'potato' when he misspelled it in 1992?






39. Who's the younger sister of Paris Hilton?






40. Who killed the literary character Grendel?






41. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Faline?






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






43. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Master of the Universe?






44. What TV series is about this show: The Girlie Show?






45. What peninsula is located between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea?






46. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?






47. In what movie does Charles Laughton play a ghost?






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






49. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?






50. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?