A library stands on the site of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field. In 1939 the university dropped which sport to focus on academics?

A libel trial is the focus of which "Exodus" author's 1970 novel "QB VII"? A library at the UN serves as a memorial to which secretary-general, killed in a 1961 plane crash? A library in a villa in Herculaneum, buried by which volcano's eruption in A.D. 79, was found in the mid-1700s? A library in which state capital includes a near-complete collection of Kansas newspapers since 1875? Which librettist was born in London on November 18, 1836? Which word means a light, sharp blow, as on a door or across the knuckles? Which word means both a light stroking touch and a dense growth of bushes? A light-year is a unit that measures what?