-1. Who had a hit with In The Year 2525 ?
-2. In which 1947 film did Charlie Chaplin, the worlds greatest clown, play a serial killer?
-3. What is a mondegreen?
-4. Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?
-5. Whose side was China on in world war II?
6. Who wrote Beau Geste?
-7. Which sign of the Zodiac is not an animal or a mythical being?
-8. What is a barrique?
-9. Which land mammal has the highest blood pressure?
-10. What was the name given to the first nuclear test in the USA on the 16th of July 1945?
11. Which two semaphoric letters are found on the famous anti-war peace symbol from the 1960's?
-12. This is the flag of which country?

4. hypothalamus

Impressive, jb - thought michele would leap in with that

12. Iceland

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy!

You got it, soot!

7. Aquarius

Bernie

9. Giraffe

7. Libra - the scales

michele - good one

Fil - likewise

1. Zager and Evans

Another classic one-hit wonder!

3. A mistakenly heard song lyric (as in "Alex the seal" )

10. The Manhattan Project

Correct, flotsam!

Not quite, Mad - the whole project was the Manhattan project, but the detonation of the first bomb had another code name

8 - barrel used to age wine

10. Are you asking for “Trinity” then ??

I always considered them one and the same .. obviously incorrectly ..

That's the one!

5. I think Japan attacked China so after Pearl Harbour I assume it was on the side of the allies?

Bernie

OB, Bernie - both good!

2. Monsieur Verdoux

It was indeed!

11. N and D (for nuclear disarmament)

6. P. C. Wren