On highways, what does "HOV" stand for, as in a lane for buses and carpools?

Which word can mean a bundle of wheat or a bundle of paper? Which word can mean a burial place or, as an adjective, serious and fraught with danger? A badly burned man is the title figure of which Michael Ondaatje novel set in 1945? A bus boycott in which state in 1955 helped launch the civil rights movement? Which word for a wealthy, powerful businessperson comes from a Japanese title for the shogun? A bust of which rock icon was stolen from atop his grave in Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery in 1988? A bustling hotel is the setting for Chapter 17 of which Salem native's 1852 novel "The Blithedale Romance"? Who was King of Italy from 1900 to 1946, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1936 to 1941 and King of Albania from 1939 to 1943?