In a 1997 film, absent-minded professor Philip Brainard invents which bouncy rubber-like substance?

Agent J, Agent K and Chief Zed are characters in which 1997 film? In 1997, AltaVista introduced a free online translator named after an animal from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy… In which 1997 film does an MIT janitor turn out to be a math genius? Anthony Hopkins played which former president, arguing before the Supreme Court, in 1997's "Amistad"? "Back to the Cul-de-Sac" was a 1997 reunion miniseries of which prime-time soap? "Collide with destiny" was a tagline for which 1997 film? Which 1997 film involves a cute dog, a gay artist, an earthy waitress and an obsessive, rude author? Which author won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for "Angela's Ashes"?