Sherry Stringfield practiced law on which ABC cop show before getting her medical degree on "ER"?

On September 30, 1899, New York City held a huge parade for which admiral, home from his victory at Manila Bay? 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? Silver comes from an Anglo-Saxon word; which element's name comes from the Spanish for "little silver"? Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, which has been the largest country in the world by area? Which singer's ex-son-in-law, Sidney Lumet, directed her as a witch in "The Wiz"? Sir, to toy with a woman's affections makes you a cad, a bounder, and which body part, technically the calcaneus?