Which mountain range forms the western part of the central Appalachians?

Which Welsh dog breed has a fox-like head and short legs? A were-beaver turns up in Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about which famous pair of surveyors? West Point graduate Jefferson Davis fought for the U.S. in which 1840s conflict? Frontier Days, a Western celebration, has been held each year since 1897 in which state capital? Which Western state's name is Spanish for "snow-covered"? Which Western won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1992? Which word names both a stroke of a whip and one of the hairs fringing your eyelid? A white concrete and steel structure spans the hull of which sunken battleship, a national memorial since 1962?