Which "Brideshead Revisited" author launched his career with the 1928 comic novel "Decline and Fall"?

Which word names both a fairground's strip of games and rides and a pivotal 1942 naval battle in the Pacific? Which art book publisher took its name from the rivers flowing through London and New York City? Which author of "The Fountainhead" graduated from the university in Petrograd in 1924? Which breed, whose German name means "badger dog," was bred to keep its legs short so it could follow a badger into its… Which British earl financed the excavation of King Tut's tomb but died months before the pharaoh's sarcophagus was open… In the Book of Genesis, which city already had a wicked reputation when Lot decided to settle there? Which "Nash Bridges" co-star voiced the hyena Banzai in "The Lion King" and returned in "The Lion King 1½"? Which Baltimore school, not to be confused with the Fighting Irish's home in Indiana, fields a tough Gators field hocke…