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1. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






2. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






3. First three-strip Technicolor?






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






5. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






6. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






7. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






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






9. What thirteen-year-old became the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002?






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






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






12. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?






13. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






14. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






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






16. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






17. Who killed the literary character Polonius?






18. What record-breaking pilot discovered the jet stream in his plane the Winnie Mae?






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






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






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






22. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






23. After his death - who was hung upside down from an Esso filling station in Milan's Piazzale Loreto?






24. What novel begins with this first chapter:In which the foot of the abbey is reached - and William demonstrates his great acumen?






25. Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks's 'Silent Movie'?






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






27. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






28. Who won an Oscar for portraying musical prodigy David Helfgott?






29. What is Charlie's last name in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?






30. Whose 1957 killing spree began with the murder of Lincoln Nebraska gas station attendant Robert Colvert?






31. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






32. Who 'discovered' Brazil?






33. What care lost 96 percent of its sales in the four years following the publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed?






34. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






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






36. What novel begins with this first chapter: Not Dick Clark?






37. What famous fictional librarian's last name was Paroo?






38. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?






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






40. Name either of the two LA area streets mentioned in the lyrics of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin''?






41. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






42. What Cthulhu creator was a child prodigy who recited poetry at age two and composed a verse retelling of the Odyssey at seven?






43. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






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






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






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






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






48. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






49. What nation's only female leader has been Portia Simpson-Miller?






50. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?