A conversation with Miles Davis became the first of the Playboy Interviews in 1962. Who conducted it?

A contemporary review of which 1851 novel asked "Who would have looked for poetry in blubber"? Which author published "Wuthering Heights" in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell? A controversial 1979 war film was based on a 1902 work by which author? Which term means both a controversial problem and a steaming tuber? Which Japanese prime minister at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was hanged as a war criminal in 1948? Ma and Pa of the 1940s and '50s film comedies share their surname with which cooking pot? Which word names both a cook's accessory and the part of a stage that extends in front of the curtain? A statue of which 1960s space hero welcomes visitors to Star City, the cosmonaut training center near Moscow?