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In 1985 what band did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor play keyboards for?
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The Innocent
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In 2003 what TV show did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor have a song on?
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C.S.I.
3.
What 2005 movie based on a video game included a song by Nine Inch Nails?
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Doom
4.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails appeared on what show in 2005?
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React Now: Music & Relief
5.
What all night music video show from Australia did Nine Inch Nails appear on in 2000?
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Rage
6.
What tribute album to Nine Inch Nails was released in 2000 by Vitamin Records?
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Radiant Decay
7.
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor filed a cease-and-desist order in 2006 against whom?
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Fox News
8.
What did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor say about politics in a 1996 interview?
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Politics Is Just So Uninteresting
9.
The line "Sometimes I forget I'm alive" comes from which Nine Inch Nails song?
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Sunspots
10.
Trent Reznor calls what city and state his hometown?
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Cleveland, Ohio
11.
What college did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor drop out of in the 80's?
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Allegheny College
12.
In which years did Nine Inch Nails win Grammys?
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1992 And 1995
13.
To whom did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor's piano teacher compare him in the 70's?
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Harry Connick Jr.
14.
In high school in the 80's what instruments did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor play?
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Saxophone And Tuba
15.
What did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor do at Right Track Studio in the 80's?
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He Was Their Handyman
16.
What 1996 movie included Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"?
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The Fan
17.
What 2004 movie did Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor serve as music consultant for?
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Man On Fire
18.
How long did it take Nine Inch Nails to sell 228,000 copies of "The Fragile"?
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1 Week
19.
Where was 2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, author of "Istanbul: Memories and the City", born?
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Turkey
20.
What British politician won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953?
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Winston Churchill
21.
What was the nickname of author Ernest Hemingway, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Papa
22.
Nobel Prize-winning writer Jean-Paul Sartre subscribed to what school of thought?
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Existentialism
23.
What Nobel Prize winning Frenchman declined the award in 1964 "in protest of bourgeois society"?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
24.
Which Nobel Prize Winner in Literature wrote "Siddhartha" and "Demian"?
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Hermann Hesse
25.
What play written by Nobel Prize winner Eugene O'Neill was revived in 1998-99 starring Kevin Spacey?
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The Iceman Cometh
26.
What Nobel Prize-winning writer studied marine biology at Stanford University, but never graduated?
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John Steinbeck
27.
What family does Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck write about in "Grapes of Wrath"?
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Joad
28.
From what book of the Bible is the title of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's "Grapes Of Wrath" taken?
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Revelations
29.
In which nation was Pearl S. Buck, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature, raised?
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China
30.
What adoption agency for Asian-American children was founded by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck?
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Welcome House
31.
1933 Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin's work focused mostly on the struggle of people in what nation?
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Russia
32.
What was the pen name of 1929 Nobel Prize winner Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault?
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Anatole France
33.
What political party was Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France affiliated with?
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French Communist Party
34.
What book by Rudyard Kipling was made into a popular animated feature by the Disney studios?
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The Jungle Book
35.
What Nobel Prize winning author wrote "Just So Stories: For Little Children"?
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Rudyard Kipling
36.
Where was Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw born?
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Dublin, Ireland
37.
The musical "My Fair Lady" is based on what play by Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw?
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Pygmalion
38.
Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature for what monumental work?
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The Growth Of The Soil
39.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Albert Camus is best-known for what existential novel?
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The Stranger
40.
What type of literature is 2005 Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter best known for?
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Plays
41.
What Spanish language poet won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Octavio Paz
42.
The Broadway musical "Cats" was based on the poetry of which 1948 Nobel Prize winner?
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T. S. Eliot
43.
From what country did Nobel Prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway hail?
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United States
44.
Under what name did Nobel Prize in Literature winner Hermann Hesse first publish "Demian"?
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Emil Sinclair
45.
What is the name of the god that is the focus of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's "Demian"?
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Abraxas
46.
What Nobel Prize-winning novelist also wrote screenplays, including "The Big Sleep"?
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William Faulkner
47.
From what Ivy League university was Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O'Neill expelled?
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Princeton
48.
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a semi-autobiographical play by what 1936 Nobel Prize winner?
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Eugene O'Neill
49.
Where was 1930 Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis born?
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Minnesota
50.
Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1930?
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Sinclair Lewis
51.
Who played Lennie Small in the 1992 film of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"?
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John Malkovich
52.
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow was the first American to receive what other literary honor?
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International Literary Prize
53.
Where was Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow born?
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Lachine, Quebec
54.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck wrote under what male pseudonym?
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John Sedges
55.
What Irish playwright accepted the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, but declined the monetary prize?
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George Bernard Shaw
56.
What Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner founded The Rhymer's Club with Ernest Rhys?
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William Butler Yeats
57.
What religion was Nobel Prize-winner Jean-Paul Sarte?
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Atheist
58.
What French poet won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901?
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Sully Prudhomme
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