What word names a score like 22-22 and a piece of neckwear?

The University of South Carolina, or USC, is in which state capital? What word names a school's teachers and also an inherent power or ability? A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in which American author's 1844 story "Rappaccini's Daughter"? What kind of scientist studies animals, from clams to camels? A. Scott Berg won a 1999 Pulitzer for a biography of which man, who won a 1954 Pulitzer for "The Spirit of St. Louis"? A scraggly tree makes many people nostalgic for which animated special that debuted on December 9, 1965? "A screaming comes across the sky" is the first line of which novel? A script of "The Godfather" with notes by which actor sold for more than $300,000 at a 2005 auction?