After wandering all over the Southeast, which Spanish conquistador died near the Mississippi River in 1542?

After some 17 years in the service of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo returned home in 1295 to which city? Albert Bierstadt's 1869 painting depicts which emigrant route that led to Oregon's Willamette Valley? After the TV sitcom "Townies", which former Brat Pack actress starred off-Broadway in "How I Learned to Drive" in 1998? After visiting them in 1829, Felix Mendelssohn wrote an overture named for which Scottish islands? After wearing glasses through his PGA career, Tom Kite had which kind of laser eye surgery in 1998? On October 31, 1517, who reputedly posted 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church? Who won the Best Actor Oscar for playing boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" (1980)? After winning the disputed 1876 election, which president was inaugurated to cries of "Rutherfraud"?