Ma and Pa of the 1940s and '50s film comedies share their surname with which cooking pot?

A controversial 1979 war film was based on a 1902 work by which author? Which term means both a controversial problem and a steaming tuber? A conversation with Miles Davis became the first of the Playboy Interviews in 1962. Who conducted it? Which Japanese prime minister at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was hanged as a war criminal in 1948? Which word names both a cook's accessory and the part of a stage that extends in front of the curtain? A statue of which 1960s space hero welcomes visitors to Star City, the cosmonaut training center near Moscow? A copy of the New Testament in Arabic was given to Mark Twain during the cruise that inspired which 1869 travel classic? What is a sandwich of corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese on rye called?