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Which state averages the greatest number of shark attacks annually?
A: Florida, with an average of 13 a year.

What was the name of the baby in the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby?
A: Mary.

What was Babe Ruth's won-lost record as a big-league pitcher?
A: 94-46.

What novel provided the story line for the 1975 Robert Redford-Faye Dunaway movie Three Days of the Condor?
A: Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady.

How many British bullets tore through the flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 bombardment that inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner?
A: 11.

What famous "American actress was the first woman to run a U.S. airline?
A: Maureen O'Hara. From 1978 to 1981, she was president of 27 plane Antilles Air boats, an airline based in the Virgin Islands that had been operated by her pilot husband until his death.

Who were the two women who joined Napoleon during his 10-month exile on the Italian island of Elba?
A: Maria Walenska, the Polish countess who bore him a son, and his mother, Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte.

Who was the first rock or pop performer to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines in the same week?
A: Bruce Springsteen, in 1975--after the release of his third album, Born to Run.

What actor served as Ronald Reagan's best man when he married Nancy Davis in 1952?
A: William Holden.

Who coined the phrase "Third World"?
A: Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru.

What state is nicknamed the Pelican State?
A; Louisiana. Its state bird is the pelican.

Within what range must the water temperature be in competitive swimming events at the Olympics?
A: Between 78F and 80  F.

In the original script for the 1931 film The Public Enemy, what was James Cagney supposed to rub in Mae Clarke's face?
A: An omelet. In the famous scene Cagney ended up squashing a grapefruit in her face.

How many motion pictures did Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton make together?
A: 10--Cleopatra, The VIPs, The Sandpiper, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Comedians, The Taming of the Shrew, Dr. Faustus, Boom, Under Milk Wood, and Hammersmith Is Out.

The title of what Broadway show and popular movie was inspired by a painting by Marc Chagall?
A: Fiddler on the Roof. The title came from the Russian-born artist's painting The Green Violinist, which depicts a violinist floating over village rooftops.

The Dow Jones average closed at over 3,000 for the first time in 1991. When did it first top 2,000? How about 1,000?
A: It passed 2,000 in 1987; 1,000 in 1972.

What famous American novelist has written several mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box?
A: Gore Vidal.