Which island city-state, granted self-government by Britain in 1959, is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia?

A brief thaw in Soviet repression is named for which Soviet leader, who rose to power after Stalin's death? Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" and Stephen Coonts's "Flight of the Intruder" are both books about which war? Which vivid purplish-pink color is named for a flowering plant that honors a 16th-century German botanist? A British act of 1732 prevented American colonists from exporting which items made of beaver fur or anything else? A British Columbia city is named for which Royal Navy captain who surveyed the Pacific Northwest coast in the 1790s? In 1957 a British crew sailed a replica of which ship from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts? A British naval force killed which notorious pirate off North Carolina in 1718? A brutal 1959 mass murder in Kansas was the basis of which Truman Capote "nonfiction novel"?