Bavaria and Brandenburg are two of Germany's 16 what?

An old saying claims that eccentric people have bats in which part of a church tower? The word for battle was "gefeoht" in which language, spoken in London until about 1100? "Battleship" is a shade of which color, named for the paint used on naval warships? In 1952, Bausch & Lomb introduced the Wayfarer, a famous style of what? Which Bavarian village is world-famous for the Passion Play its residents stage about once every ten years? In the 1985 memoir "My Mother's Keeper", B.D. Hyman described life with which movie star mother? "Be all that you can be" was a longtime recruiting slogan for which U.S. military branch? Which bebop alto saxophonist, nicknamed "Bird", was born on August 29, 1920, and died on March 12, 1955?