In hunting, dogs sometimes chased their quarry up a tree but picked the wrong one, giving us which idiom?

In Game 2 of the 1956 World Series he was knocked out in the second inning; in Game 5, he was perfect. Who is he? In "Henry VI, Part 1" it's a setting; in "Romeo and Juliet" it's a suitor for Juliet's hand. What is it? In his 1841 essay "Self-Reliance", who wrote "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"? Whose oath begins "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country"? Which board decides whether prison inmates are released early under supervision? In July 1965, the No. 1 hit in the U.S. was which Rolling Stones classic? In July 1941, who was made a lieutenant general and named commander of U.S. Army forces in the Far East? In Latin America, which largest New World cat is commonly called "el tigre"?