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1. What nation's only female leader has been Benazir Bhutto?






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






3. What longtime world leader has retained the rank of colonel rather than promoting himself--to demonstrate - he says - the rule of the people in his country?






4. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bite of the Raptor?






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






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






7. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






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






9. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?






10. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






11. What issue was addressed by congressman John Sherman's namesake Act?






12. According to the four experts on women in the movie Say Anything - why are the hanging out alone at the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night?






13. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?






14. What Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






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






16. 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






17. What cloud of comets - out beyond Pluto - was named for a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer?






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






19. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






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






21. Who both married and directed Linda Hamilton?






22. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?

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23. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?






24. First film edited digitally - via Avid?






25. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Sound of the Shell?






26. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






27. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






28. What TV series is about this show: Tool Time?






29. Which artist had the double album English Settlement?






30. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






31. Who beat out FDR and Gandhi to be named Time's Person of the Century in 1999?






32. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






33. Peanut butter - coffee - or roses--according to a Yale study - what's the most recognized smell among American adults?






34. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






35. Who retired from the screen after 1961's One - Two - Three - except for a brief return in 1981's Ragtime - ironically playing a police commissioner?






36. Which company merged with BP?






37. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?






38. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?






39. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?

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40. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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






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






43. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






44. Give the missing last member: Kukla - Fran - and...






45. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?






46. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?






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






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






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






50. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?