A new waterway opened in 1872 let large ships reach which Dutch city, now one of the world's top ports?

A U.S. president elected in 2008 would finish a first term in January of which year? New software installed on which online auction site shut it down on June 10 and 11, 1999? A new Revised Standard Version of which book topped the nonfiction charts in 1954? A theory says which author died on October 7, 1849, of rabies rather than alcoholism or drug abuse? Which 1928 Democratic presidential candidate was known as "the Happy Warrior"? In which 1993 film is a TV weatherman stuck in a snowy Pennsylvania town? A newspaper article "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip" partly inspired which 1971 bestseller? Which character says "A nice pickle we have landed ourselves in, Mr. Frodo" in "The Lord of the Rings"?