-1. What is the name of the Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan?
2. Sacred to both Muslims and Hindus, the mountain known as Adam's Peak is located in which country?
-3. What are fans of the band The Grateful Dead called?
-4. The name for which popular pasta sauce stems from the Italian word for 'charcoal burners'?
-5. What is the scientific scale used for measuring the hardness of rocks and minerals?
-6. Left out of the Hollywood film version, Tom Bombadil was an important character in which book?
7. What is the largest nest-building mammal in the world?
-8. The world champion of which sport wins the Swaythling Cup?
-9. What is the name of the river that runs through Amsterdam?
-10. Which Greek is known as 'the father of modern medicine'?
-11. Which name is given to the war in which the United States gained Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines?
-12. Who painted this?

1. Nana

3. Deadheads

jb, oldbroad - both good!

10. Hippocrates

The original Hippocratic oaf

8. Table Tennis

4. carbonara

5. Mohs scale

All three are spot-on!

6. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings)

9. Amstel

...as are both of these!

12. Canaletto painted many scenes in Venice, so he's my guess.

11. Spanish American War

Excellent reasoning, LadyK

Had never heard of it, michele

2. Sri Lanka

7. Gorilla