On September 30, 1899, New York City held a huge parade for which admiral, home from his victory at Manila Bay?

Martin Scorsese played Vincent van Gogh in a segment of which Japanese director's film "Dreams"? Scottish-born John McDouall Stuart's 1861–62 south-to-north crossing of which continent won him a prize? Seen on talk shows with her furry friends, who was the goodwill ambassador for the San Diego Zoo? Senator J. William Fulbright's book "The Arrogance of Power" proposed an 8-point plan to end which conflict? Which author departed from her theme of Chinese-American mothers and daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish from Drowning"? Who had never held public office before she was elected governor of Alabama in 1966? Sherman Minton was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949 by which president? Sherry Stringfield practiced law on which ABC cop show before getting her medical degree on "ER"?