In 2011, about 45,000 workers struck which telecom company in one of the largest U.S. strikes in years?

Mike Sorrentino, known as "The Situation," became famous on which MTV reality show? A 2011 ad for Pretzel M&M's used which song from the "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack? A 2011 phone-hacking scandal ended the 168-year run of which British tabloid? A 2011 stamp marked the 50th anniversary of whose flight aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7? Which 20th-century U.S. president was nicknamed "Poppy"? A 21-hour production of which Goethe work was a highlight of Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany? A 22-year-old Belgian soldier was the model for which French sculptor's 1877 work "The Age of Bronze"? A 24-carat gemstone weighs 4.8 of which metric units?