Which guitar effect, controlled with the player's foot and named for the sound it makes, was invented by accident by an engineer in 1966?

Based on Xavier Roberts's soft sculptures, which dolls were a hugely popular item for "adoption" in 1983? What basic material is used to make casts for broken bones and sculptures? Military basic training is also known by what nickname? What roofed shelter for a car, basically a garage without side walls, is associated with 1950s architecture? Basketball history changed on October 30, 1954, with the introduction of which device in NBA games? Bastille Day in France commemorates the storming of the Bastille on which date in 1789? "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell" was a 1993 album by which singer? What bath sponge is really the dried fiber of a tropical gourd?