After his defeat in the English Civil War, Charles I was beheaded in 1649 outside the Banqueting House of which London palace?

After nearly 10 years of continuous occupation by astronauts, which space station was deorbited in 2001? After nearly 100 years, which company dropped its Oldsmobile brand in 2004? Annexed by Russia in 1801, which Caucasus country regained its independence in 1991 after nearly 200 years of Russian a… In which 1954 sci-fi classic do giant ants, mutated by nuclear tests, terrorize Los Angeles? Who, after observing a comet in 1682, showed that it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531 and 1456? Which satirist, author of "A Modest Proposal", died in Dublin on October 19, 1745? After oil was found there in 1932, which island nation became the Persian Gulf's first oil-rich state? Which word can be a prefix meaning "after" and also a verb meaning "to station as a sentry"?