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1. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?






2. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?






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






4. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?






5. At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales the same?






6. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?






7. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






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






9. What horror movie title character will appear if you chant his name five times in a mirror?






10. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?






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






12. Who killed the literary character Clare Quilty?






13. The 'crawlers' are the predators in what 2005 horror film?






14. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?






15. What was developed thanks to Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 inventions of the 'telemobiloscope'?






16. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






17. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






18. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?






19. What nation's only female leader has been Golda Meir?






20. What battle in American history was the origin of the famous quote 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes?'






21. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?






22. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






23. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?






24. Who called his elephant Tantor?






25. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?






26. What issue was addressed by congressmen Reed Smoot and WC Hawley's namesake Act?






27. What is a female donkey called?






28. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






29. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau






30. What late-breaking news story kicked Dumbo off the cover of Time magazine six weeks after the elephant cartoon's release?






31. What nation's only female leader has been Tansu Ciller?






32. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?






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






34. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






35. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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36. What company advises - 'Trust your car to the star'?






37. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?






38. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






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






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






41. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?






42. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






43. What is frozen to make dry ice?






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






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






46. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






47. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






48. What 'Good Little Witch' is Capser the Friendly Ghost's friend?






49. What then-struggling English teacher did Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes divorce in 1993 (Two initial names)






50. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?