Which word meant a guardian spirit of a place in Latin but means a person of exceptional talent or intelligence in English?

Jus gentium, Latin for "law of nations," is an ancestor of which type of law that diplomats need to know? Who played a trucker whose sidekick is an orangutan named Clyde in "Every Which Way but Loose"? Trace back its Greek roots and you'll find that heliolatry is the worship of what? Daniel Pierce Thompson wrote an 1839 novel about which Vermont militia led by Ethan Allen? Budget-minded students often build which furniture from concrete blocks and wooden planks? For about 10 years after his master's death, Hachiko, a dog of which breed, waited daily for his return at a Tokyo trai… Which people lived in Belize before Europeans arrived and give their name to the mountains where Victoria Peak stands? Which 1969 Philip Roth novel takes the form of a comic monologue delivered by a young man to his psychoanalyst?