20 Questions 20: 1

1. What is the title of the 1967 album by The Doors whose cover (photographed by Joel Brodsky) features a troupe of circus performers, the band having been relegated to a poster on the wall in the background?

2. What movie director, best known for silent films including Nosferatu (1922) and Sunrise (1927), was killed in a car accident in 1931 shortly before the premiere of his final film, Tabu?

3. Which Old Testament figure had three wives: Adah (also called Basemath), Aholibamah, and Mahalathor (also also called Basemath)?

4. What specific sports occurence was the inspiration for the Ogden Nash poem "Prognostications Are for the Birds; Lay Off Me Please While I Eat My Words"?

5. What is typically indicated by the typographical mark known as the pilcrow?

6. The annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, is part of a festival dedicated to what saint (the city's patron)?

7. What actress appeared on the cover of the May 3, 1991, issue of Entertainment Weekly, next to the headline "The Sexiest Man Alive"?

8. What two-letter word—a valid play in Scrabble—refers to the concept in ancient Egyptian mythology of the eternal soul or one's after death existence?

9. What modern Japanese martial art was developed in the 1880s by Kano Jigoro?

10. A 2008 album by Elvis Costello and the Imposters is named for the inventor of instant Ramen noodles, since "all we had to do to make this record was add water," according to Costello. Name the album.

11. Sir Edward Denham, whose "great object in life was to be seductive", is a character in which novel, left unfinished by Jane Austen at her death in 1817?

12. Name the province of the Basilicata region of Italy where much of the films The Gospel According to Matthew (1964), The Passion of the Christ (2004) and The Nativity Story (2006) were filmed.

13. Discovered in 1966, which moon of Saturn was given its name because although it was first in order when the satellites were listed in closeness to the planet, it was also the last to have been discovered (up to that time)?

14. Who is the protagonist of Raymond Benson's 2002 novel The Man with the Red Tattoo?

15. What 7-letter word appears in the titles of Academy Award-nominated songs from the films The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Muppet Movie (1979) and A Mighty Wind (2003)?

16. Named for the island near which he was usually sighted, what name was given to the white sperm whale known to Pacific ocean seafarers of the early 19th century, who was killed in 1938, and was the obvious inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick?

17. "Models and Mortals" and "Bay of Married Pigs" were the second and third episodes of what TV series?

18. What is Barry Bonds's current (and likely, career) Major League regular season home run total?

19. In 1964, Masanori Murakami became the first Japanese player in Major League baseball, pitching in 54 games over 2 seasons before returning to Japan in a dispute with his home team. Which American team did he play for?

20. Who took the photo of Koko the Gorilla that appeared on the cover of the October 1978 issue of National Geographic?