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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}
51. What 1968 sexual comedy by Gore Vidal was described by one critic as "a virtuoso exercise in kinkiness"? {Myra Breckinridge}
52. What novel did James Michener dedicate: "To all the peoples who came to Hawaii"? {Hawaii}
53. Which did Alfred Kinsey write first, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male or Sexual Behavior in the Human Female? {Sexual Behavior in the Human Male}
54. What European country was the birthplace of spaced-out author Erich von Daniken? {Switzerland}
55. What magazine did former teen idol Fabian pose nude for in 1973? {Playgirl}
56. Who did Charles Schulz take to "featuring" in Peanuts? {Good ol' Charlie Brown}
57. What was the name of the Yokums' pet hammus Alabammus? {Salomey}
58. What Don McLean tune's lyrics were critiqued by Time, Life and Newsweek in 1971? {American Pie's}
59. What cartoon acknowledged reader contributions with a "tip of the Hatlo hat"? {They'll Do It Every Time}
60. Who won a 1952 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Caine Mutiny? {Herman Wouk}
61. What nonfiction work sold a half-million copies in the first week after its release in 1966? {Death of a President}
62. What rock group did Hunter Davieswrite the first official biography of? {The Beatles}
63. What comic strip once featured a group called S.W.I.N.E., standing for Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything? {L'il Abner}
64. What guru did Kurt Vonnegut Jr. write about in an Esquire article titled Yes, We Have No Nirvanas? {Maharishi Mahesh Yogi}
65. What caused Britain to be evacuated at the beginning of William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies? {A nuclear war}
66. What comic strip introduced Churchy La Femme, Albert the Alligator and Moonshine Sonata? {Pogo}
67. What author of many a racy tale received a $2.5-million advance in 1969 for his novel The Inheritors? {Harold Robbins}
68. What Russian defector made herself a millionaire by writing two bestsellers after arriving on American shores in 1967? {Svetlana Alliluyeva}
69. Who scaled the bestseller heights with Only Cowgirls Get the Blues? {Tom Robbins}
70. What magazine got the last interview with Jimmy Hoffa before his 1975 disappearance? {Playboy}
71. What 1965 Bel Kaufman novel looked at life in a contemporary urban high school? {Up the Down Staircase}
72. What book was published on April 7, 1967, despite Jacqueline Kennedy's court suit trying to block it? {Death of a President}
73. How many sons did Willy Loman father? {Two}
74. Which of Archie's friends owned a dog named Hot Dog? {Jughead}
75. What black author conducted the first Playboy Interview, in 1962? {Alex Haley}
76. Whose 1963 collection of sappy poems was titled Listen to the Warm? {Rod McKuen's}
77. What pseudonym was adopted by David John Moore Cornwell, noted for his realistic tales about aging, weary spies? {John Le Carre}
78. What was the second book in James Jones's World War II trilogy? {The Thin Red Line}
79. What was Veronica's last name? {Lodge}
80. Who wrote about Kilgore Trout? {Kurt Vonnegut Jr.}
81. What dark realm did the Lord of the Rings call home? {Mordor}
82. What member of the Warren Commission wrote Portrait of the Assassin? {Gerald Ford}
83. What feminist wrote an expose of Playboy clubs titled A Bunny's Tale? {Gloria Steinem}
84. What visionary novel contained the slogans: "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength" and "War Is Peace"? {Nineteen Eighty-Four}
85. What bedded-down peace activist penned a book titled Grapefruit? {Yoko Ono}
86. What Jack Kerouac book was described by Truman Capote with the line: "It isn't writing, it's typing"? {On the Road}
87. What folksinger wrote the 1971 novel Tarantula? {Bob Dylan}
88. What catalogue did Stewart Grand found and edit? {The Whole Earth Catalog}
89. What 1897 6,000-item catalogue was a 1968 bestseller? {The 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co., Inc., Catalogue}
90. What did Joseph Heller rename the adage: "Damned if you do and damned if you don't"? {Catch-22}
91. What James Bond novel was released in the U.S. in 1954 under the title Too Hot to Handle? {Casino Royale}
92. What reporter was assigned by The Washington Post to cover the Watergate burglars' first court appearance? {Bob Woodward}
93. What comic-book superhero debuted in the last issue of Amazing Fantasy, in August, 1962? {Spider-Man}
94. What's the first thing Clark Kent takes off in his transition to Superman? {His glasses}
95. What boxer posed as a black Santa Claus on the cover of the December, 1963, issue of Esquire? {Sonny Liston}
96. What 1969 John Fowles novel centered on abandoned mistress Sarah Woodruff? {The French Lieutenant's Woman}
97. What Norman Miller novel published in 1948 used the word "fug" as a euphemism for a less-acceptable expletive? {The Naked and the Dead}
98. What was Josephine in Jacqueline Susann's first bestseller, Every Night, Josephine!? {A French poodle}
99. What rank did Beetle Bailey rise to? {Private First Class}
100. What comic-strip character did Joe Corntassel take up with? {Little Orphan Annie}