Crunches are a shortened version of which abdominal exercise?

Gustav Vasa, who became Sweden's king in 1523, ended the Kalmar Union of Sweden with which two countries? Lara Dutta, a University of Mumbai graduate crowned Miss Universe in Cyprus in May 2000, represented which country? What word describes crudely written verse, often of a humorous nature? Which cruise company trades under the stock symbol CCL? Secret Service agent Clint Eastwood protects the president from assassin John Malkovich in which 1993 thriller? Which word means to make a loud, wailing screech like a yowling cat? Crystal Bernard, who also launched a country music career, played Helen on which sitcom set at a Nantucket airport? The deaths of C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley on November 22, 1963, were overshadowed by whose death in Dallas?