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1. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






2. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey

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3. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






4. In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?






5. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






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






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. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?






9. Which artist had the double albumIn Your Honor?






10. What playwright inspired her lover Dashiell Hammett's character Nora Charles?






11. What novel begins with this first chapter: Jonathan Harker's Journal?






12. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






13. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?






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






15. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in a 1846 snowstorm?






16. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






17. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?






18. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...






19. Who 'discovered' The Cape of Good Hope






20. What is unusual about the 'In God We Trust' motto on the US mints recent presidential dollar coins?






21. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?






22. In Tommy Tutone's song - who lives at 867-5309?






23. Max von Sydow - Donald Pleasance - and Telly Savalas--three stars of The Greatest Story Ever Told--all when on to play what film role?






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






25. Who killed the literary character Cock Robin?






26. What band's album Smell the Glove was released with an all-black cover because Polymer records and retailers balked at the misogynistic original cover






27. Who has coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?






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






29. Which artist had the double album Tinsel Town Rebellion?






30. Which company merged with Verizon?






31. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?






32. What nation's only female leader has been Isabel Peron?






33. Who collaborated with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? before turning to more family-friendly books? (Two initial names)






34. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






35. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain - due to lingering anti-German sentiment following WWII?






36. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?






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






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






39. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet






40. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?






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






42. What lagoon south of Queens - NY - is named for a localIndian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?






43. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






44. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






45. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood's first Poohsticks competition?






46. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?






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






48. First scheduled in-flight movie?






49. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






50. From Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Poor _____'







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