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1. What 1997 megahit asks - 'When you get old and start losing your hair - can you tell me who will still care?'






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






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






4. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






5. Who called his elephant Tantor?






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






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






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






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






10. Last names instead of first names: Parker and Barrow






11. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?

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






13. Anthracite and bituminous are two types of what mineral?






14. Anciently - what was the job description of a 'hierodule'?






15. What novel begins with this first chapter: The Bertolini?






16. What is divided into the duodenum - the jejunum - and the ileum?






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






18. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






19. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?






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






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






22. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?






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






24. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






25. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






26. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






27. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?






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






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






30. Who's the only US President since WWII never to have been named Time's Man of The Year?






31. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






32. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






33. First Best Picture Oscar?






34. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?






35. What kind of trust is a REIT?






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






37. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?






38. 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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39. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






40. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






41. 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?






42. What's the word for the small plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?






43. In 1988 - who became the only male figure skater ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?






44. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?






45. What kind of animal is the title character of Ben?






46. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?






47. What founder of Utilitarianism could read Latin and Greek at age five and went to Oxford at twelve?






48. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






49. Who killed the literary character Laius?






50. In what movie does Michelle Pfeiffer play a ghost?