One answer per person in the first 24 hrs please

-1. Which French painter born in 1834 is famous as a painter of ballet scenes?
-2. In which game might you employ a zwischenzug?
-3. In medical terms, what is the name given to a fracture where the broken bone pierces the skin?
-4. Which 19th century composer wrote the opera La Gioconda?
-5. Japanese film director Akira Kurosowa's film The Throne of Blood was based on which Shakespeare play?
-6. What does it mean to cook something "en papillote"?
-7. What sea lies between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
-8. Which French jazz violinist was one of the members of the Hot Club de France?
-9. In heraldry, what name is given to a cross in the shape of an X?
-10. In which game do players wear a shaped wicker basket on their wrist or forearm to propel the ball?
-11. Discovered at the Premier Diamond mine in Transval in 1905, what is the name of the largest diamond ever found?
-12. This is the closing shot from which 1971 action thriller?

3. compound fracture

6. I think it is enclosing food inside of dough of some kind.

Good start, jb

It's enclosed oldbroad, but not in dough. Want to try again?

1. Edgar Degas

It was indeed, michele!

6. in lettuce leaves? or cabbage?

Afraid not - nothing "organic"

5. Macbeth

Good call, Marian!

The only other thing I can think of at the moment:

6. parchment paper

Looks good to me!

Argh! I knew I should have started with that as I was thinking that the term meant something like "wrapped in paper" (like an envelope). I just never trust my instincts!

11. Cullinan ??

4. Ponchielli (I think I spelled it right.)

10. Jai Alai

Three good ones!

Would also have accepted pelota, manxman

9. St. Andrew's Cross?

Also known as, Fil?

7. Red Sea

12. Duel

9. Sorry, that's all I got

michele, anxman - spot-on!

No problem Fil - apparently "officially" known as a saltire

2. It's a sneaky move in chess.

So sneaky I'd never heard of it!