Before "Titanic", which actress played Sue Bridehead in "Jude", the 1996 film version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure"?

Before Soviet tanks rolled in, a manifesto called "Two Thousand Words" urged reform in which country in 1968? Before these were mechanized in the 1930s, horse races were often started by waving a flag or beating a drum. What are… Which Lakota leader, who died in 1877, is said to have prophesied, "I will return to you in stone"? Before he died on October 25, 1400, which poet was living in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey? For more than a thousand years before the capital moved to Tokyo in 1869, which city was Japan's imperial capital? Before it became a television network, CBS got its start in which medium? In which 1976 horror film did John Travolta play one of the tormentors of the shy title girl? Which Vietnam veteran, awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, won the Best Director Oscar for 1986's "Platoon"?