A writer of action-packed novels for young people, who published the quiet "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885?

A special 1996 comic book put Superman in the world of which classic 1927 German film? Betty Friedan's 1963 book was about the "feminine" what? What is a special edition of a newspaper called? A special luncheon at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo for which president's wife went on without her? A species of fire ant that reached the U.S. at which Alabama port city around 1918 has been a pest in the South? A style of volcanic eruption is named for which Caribbean volcano that erupted in 1902, killing thousands? What word names a spiny sea creature or a mischievous child? A spirometer measures the capacity of which organs?