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  1. What public figure was the subject of Peter Yessne's 1969 book partially titled Quotations from Mayor...? {Richard Daley}
  2. What American writer gained renown for her realistic novels for pre-teens and teenagers? {Judy Blume}
  3. What was King Features's response to Mary Worth? {The Heart of Juliet Jones}
  4. Whose foil did Dimwit Dog become? {Heckle and Jeckle's}
  5. Who was the first Pope to be named Time's Man of the Year? {John XXIII}
  6. Who appeared on the May, 1951, cover of Modern Screen, priced at 15 cents? {Ronald Reagan}
  7. What wonderboy of the horror genre penned Dead Zone? {Stephen King}
  8. What did The Official Preppy Handbook say a V&T was? {A vodka and tonic}
  9. What was the name of Josie's backup band in Archie comics? {The Pussycats}
  10. What Mario Puzo novel opened with the quotation from Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime"? {The Godfather}
  11. What John Steinbeck novel was subtitlted In Search of America? {Travels with Charley}
  12. What guide was subtitled A Lovemaking Companion to the Joy of Sex? {More Joy of Sex}
  13. What war was the setting for Robert Penn Warren's 1955 novel Band of Angels? {The U.S. Civil War}
  14. What wife of a prime minister told her side of the story in Beyond Reason? {Margaret Trudeau}
  15. Who's the most successful writer of western novels ever? {Louis L'Amour}
  16. What athlete said: "I bet my poetry gets printed...more than any that's turned out by the poem-writers that them critics like"? {Cassius Clay}
  17. What poet earned $500,000 in 1968? {Rod McKuen}
  18. What Ayn Rand novel inspired the creation of the Whole Earth Catalog? {Atlas Shrugged}
  19. What actress wrote a combination autobiography and candy cookbook in 1964 titled Pitt's Hits? {Zasu Pitts}
  20. What John Steinbeck work was banned by the Oil City, Pennsylvania, school board in 1977 for its profanity and mention of prostitution? {Of Mice and Men}
  21. Who put butter in The Mad Hatter's watch? {The March Hare}
  22. What magazine introduced the regular features Conservation, Shooting, Fishing, and Boating? {Field & Stream}
  23. What was the name of the 300-pound duck who found fame in the comics? {Baby Huey}
  24. What Hermann Hesse novel told the story of Emil Sinclair, who fell under the influence of Max Damien? {Damien}
  25. What red shape did Wonder Woman adorn her golden tiara with? {A star}
  26. What color boots did Wonder Woman don? {Red}
  27. What magazine offered up such stories as I Can't Stop Stealing, 16--And a Loser in Love, and I Was Born with Second Sight? {True Confessions}
  28. What's Penthouse's sister publication for women? {Viva}
  29. What magazine took to noting on its masthead: "Never underestimate the power of a woman"? {Ladies' Home Journal}
  30. What comic strip was dropped from the Tokyo edition of Stars and Stripes for its flippancy and lack of respect for officers? {Beetle Bailey}
  31. What Pierre Boulle novel of 1963 was decidedly simian? {Planet of the Apes}
  32. What American poet and chronicler's 1953 autobiography was titled Always the Young Strangers? {Carl Sandburg's}
  33. How much did Playboy pay for a Party Joke in 1976? {$50}
  34. What zany entertainer did Esquire name in 1969 as its Bridegroom of the Year? {Tiny Tim}
  35. What Nevada town did Hunter S. Thompson find fear and loathing in? {Las Vegas}
  36. What Gail Sheehy book chronicled the changes age brings? {Passages}
  37. What did you have to buy to read the comic adventures of Pud? {Double Bubble bubblegum}
  38. What credit card company publishes Travel & Leisure magazine? {American Express}
  39. What 1960 John Steinbeck novel focused on New Englander Ethan Allen Hawley? {The Winter of Our Discontent}
  40. What Agatha Christie novel was made up of two parts, England and Egypt? {Death on the Nile}
  41. Whose political potboiler was 1967's Washington, D.C.? {Gore Vidal's}
  42. How many times was Lyndon Johnson named Time's Man of the Year? {Two}
  43. What did 16-year-old Deborah Blau suffer from in Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden? {Schizophrenia}
  44. Who lived aboard the Busted Flush and drove on shore in Miss Agnes? {Travis McGee}
  45. Who authored The Subterraneans? {Jack Kerouac}
  46. What year saw the publication of a book by Philip Wildash titled Birds of South Vietnam? {1968}
  47. What former British prime minister published the second volume of his autobiography in 1967 under the title The Blast of War? {Harold Macmillan}
  48. What did Libby Jones, author of 1968's Striptease, a guide for domestic ecdysiasts, suggest you "hold like a veil and peek over"? {A garter belt}
  49. Who was the ill-tempered queen of Wonderland? {The Queen of Hearts}
  50. What literary character did spy novelist John Le Carre call "the ultimate prostitute"? {James Bond}