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1. What city and stadium was the host of Super Bowl XLII?
2. What teams competed in Super Bowl XLII?
3. Who was the pre-game entertainment headliner?
4. The New York Giants were the pre-game favorite to win the game.
5. For the coin toss, the NFL brought out a few Hall of Famers joined by the deceased Bill Walsh's children. Which of these was not one of the Hall of Famers present for the coin toss?
6. Which team and by which method, scored the first points of the game?
7. Who sang the National Anthem?
8. What was the score at the end of the 1st half?
9. Who performed the halftime show?
10. In the 3rd quarter, one of the teams had a controversial penalty due to having 12 men on the field during a punt. The call was controversial because it came as a result of a coach's challenge. What team was the penalty against?
11. Neither team scored a single point in the 3rd quarter.
12. In the beginning of the 4th quarter, Giants' QB Eli Manning finally threw the Giants' first touchdown pass of the game. Who was the wide receiver that caught that TD pass?
13. With 2:45 left in the game, the Patriots finally answered with a touchdown pass of their own. Who did QB Tom Brady find in the end zone for this TD pass?
14. After a Patriots fourth quarter TD, how many timeouts did the Giants have left when they assumed possession with 2:39 left in the game?
15. Facing a 3rd down and 5 yards to go with 1:15 remaining, to whom did Eli Manning escape intense pressure to throw the now-famous 32-yard completion for a 1st down?
16. Who caught the game-winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning with just 35 seconds remaining in the game?
17. How much time was remaining on the clock when Bill Belichick and certain members of the Patriots team walked off the field thinking the game was over?
18. Who was the Super Bowl XLII most valuable player?
19. Upon winning the Super Bowl, how many consecutive road games had the Giants won, setting a new NFL record?
20. Which wide receiver caught the most passes in Super Bowl XLII, and how many passes did he catch?
21. Yet another Super Bowl record was set in XLII, but what was the record for?
22. Who were the U.S. national announcers in the booth for the game?
23. Super Bowl XLII set a record for highest TV ratings in Super Bowl history.
24. What company/brand featured a commercial with Naomi Campbell and about 30 lizards doing the dance from Michael Jackson's 1980s hit "Thriller"?
25. What is the name of the trophy awarded to the Super Bowl winning team, in this season's case, the New York Giants?
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