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Where is the Tallahatchie Bridge, the site of Billie Joe McAllister's suicide leap in the popular 1967 Bobbie Gentry folk ballad, "Ode to Billie Joe"?
A: In Greenwood, Mississippi.

How old was Billy the Kid when he was shot to death by Sheriff Pat Garrett?
A: 21.

Who invented rubber dental plates in 1855?
A: Charles Goodyear, who accidentally discovered how to vulcanize rubber in 1839 when he dropped a mixture of rubber and sulfur on a hot stove.

What special-interest magazine featured a photo of Demi Moore on its cover with a line promoting a story on her "secret passion"?
A: Cigar Aficionado in its fall 1996 issue. Moore's secret passion, the magazine reported, is cigar-smoking.

How many member nations were there in NATO--the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--when it was founded in 1949?
A: Twelve: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France Ireland Italy Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,  Portugal, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Four others--Greece, Spain, Turkey and West Germany--joined later.

What name did cartoonist Al Capp give the hero in his Li'l Abner parody of Gone With the Wind?
A: Wreck Butler.

How long did the jury deliberate at the sensational 1925 "Monkey Trial" of Tennessee science teacher John Scopes?
A: Nine minutes. Scopes--whose trial was the setting for the play and film Inherit The Wind--was found guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

What rock band was the first to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera House?
A: The Who, in 1970--for a performance of the rock opera Tommy.

What popular movie thriller was the first Hollywood film to include footage of a flushing toilet?
A: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, in 1960. A long-standing taboo was violated when Janet Leigh was filmed flushing scraps of paper down a toilet.

In the Alley Oop comic strip, who was the king of Moo?
A: King Guzzle.

Who was the famous wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry?
A: Lady Godiva, who accepted her husband's challenge to ride naked through the marketplace in return for his vow to lower Coventry's taxes.

What was the fitting name of the first miniature golf course in the United States?
A: The Tom Thumb Golf Course. It was built in 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by John Garnet Carter.

What special clause, relating to clothes, did actor James Stewart have included in all his movie contracts?
A: The right to select the hats he wore on camera.

Who kept Thomas Edison's dying breath in a bottle?
A: Henry Ford. It's now on display at the Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, Michigan.

What is the given name of football coach Weeb Ewbank, the only coach to win championships in both the National and American Football Leagues?
A: Wilbur. The nickname Weeb originated with a younger brother's mispronunciation of his name.

Where is the world's highest railway?
A: In Peru. The Central Railway climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel, 108 miles from Lima. Tourists take it to get from Cuzco to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu.

The novel Ulysses takes place in Dublin on one day--June 16, 1904. What significance did that day have for writer James Joyce?
A: It was the day of his first date with Nora Barnacle. the woman he eventually married.