Alger Hiss got five years after his 1950 perjury conviction, thanks largely to which California congressman who later had legal troubles of his own?

After winning an Emmy for playing Ellenor Frutt on "The Practice," which actress declared, "This is for all the fat gir… Alan Ladd got shanghaied in which 1946 film based on Richard Henry Dana's seafaring memoir? Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens called which boss "weak and vacillating, petulant, peevish, obstinate"? Bernard Lovell's giant Jodrell Bank radio telescope was completed in 1957, just in time to track the launch of which fi… ALS, the most common form of motor neuron disease, is also named for which baseball star? Sometimes called the "17-year locust," which loud insect can produce sounds of more than 100 decibels? Which snake, associated with Cleopatra's death, is also known as the Egyptian cobra? Although adopted by Congress in 1777, which temporary constitution of the United States did not take effect until 1781?