- 1. Which comic strip character has 24 college degrees? ...who is also a glutton. Thinking spinach may help
-2. Which epic poem by Dante begins on Good Friday in the year 1300?
-3. Who shot John Lennon?
-4. Who was Edward Kennedy's companion during the Chappaquiddick incident?
-5. Pb is the chemical symbol for what?
-6. In which Italian city is the opera house La Scala?
-7. Which disease carried by bark beetles was first described in The Netherlands in 1921?
-8. What music is used as the theme for Monty Python's Flying Circus?
-9. What type of portrait is named after an 18th century French finance minister?
-10. According to the Bible, whom did Jesus raise from the dead?
11. In 1989 a state of emergency was declared after what disaster claimed nearly 300 lives in the US?
-12. On the left, who is this rock god pictured in 1957 aged 13?

4. Mary Jo Kopechne

Good start, jb!

5. Lead

10. Lazarus

Yes and yes!

2 - The Divine Comedy

3. Mark Chapman

7. Dutch elm disease

Ladies - I salute you!

12. That would be Jimmy Page

That would indeed, Cheryl - I'm impressed!

And thanks for setting the link up - saves me doing it

6. Milan

8. I think it's called the Liberty March.

1. Doonesbury

Indeed, flotsam!

Near enough, Lady K - "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa

Afraid not, michele

1. Batman or one of the Marvel characters

11. Hurricane Sandy??

Hi Rog.

Afraid not, michele -- hints later...

Apologies, Remi - looks like my source was wrong. It claims it was the San Francisco earthquake, but when I checked on Wiki, I could find no trace of a National Emergency being declared. I'll kil this one

9. Silhouette

That's the one!

There is a character in Popeye (seeing as we are supposed to think spinach) called Whimpy or Wimpy who eats a lot of hamburgers I recall.
No idea about his college prowess but is it him?

I want to say Garfield but he likes Lasagna, not spinach.

flotsam gets the cigar!

Have to see if we can't sneak a Garfield question in one week, oldbroad...