Richard Burbage, Queen Elizabeth and Viola de Lesseps are characters in which 1998 film?

In which 1998 film is a comet on a collision course with Earth? 1998 marked the centennial of which war? Matt Damon played the title paratrooper in which 1998 war film? Who defeated New York senator Alfonse D'Amato in 1998? Which actor played "The Dude", who says his rug "really tied the room together"? In 1998, which Mideast nation announced it would no longer cooperate with UN weapons inspectors? Which 1998 film imagines the love affairs of the young author of "Twelfth Night"? In November 1998, who became the first British prime minister to address the Irish parliament?