Q1: It precedes "XM" in the name of an entertainment company--ooh, I love this song!

Turn
it up!?

The crrect Answer is: Sirius

Q2: Many of the items attached to a 2-D surface in this French-named art form are objets
trouves, aka found objects, aka junk?

The crrect Answer is: a collage

Q3: Thomas Macaulay rudely said John Dryden's imagination resembled the wings of this
large African bird?

The crrect Answer is: the ostrich

Q4: Name shared by a 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & a 1930s gangster
nicknamed "Machine Gun"?

The crrect Answer is: George Kelly

Q5: This late gadfly of American letters showed Abe's dictatorial side in his novel "Lincoln"?

The crrect Answer is: Gore Vidal

Q6: A cyclone in the northern hemisphere usually turns in this direction?

The crrect Answer is: counterclockwise

Q7: 2-word term for one who prefers to live & act independent of others, like Mr.
"McQuade"?

The crrect Answer is: a lone wolf

Q8: A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American
monkey, leading to its name?
 The crrect Answer is: a howler monkey

Q9: This word for clothes now usually worn to bed translates as "leg garments"?

The crrect Answer is: pajamas

Q10: This fish common in North America is also a word for a type of spear?

The crrect Answer is: pike (dart)

Q11: Pass this birthday & you're too old to enlist, but you can now become president?

The crrect Answer is: 35

Q12: Smallest in Virginia, it has no incorporated cities or towns, and was once part of
Washington, D.C.?

The crrect Answer is: Arlington

Q13: Rescinding a 19th c. ban, a new rule allows House members to mention this "other
body" by name?

The crrect Answer is: Senate

Q14: Continuing the alliteration, it follows "ding-dong" in a kid's prank that involves ringing
a doorbell & running away?

The crrect Answer is: dash (ditch)

Q15: Its monuments include an Arch of Triumph higher than the one in Paris & a statue of
Kim Il Sung 66 feet high?

The crrect Answer is: Pyongyang