1. Which Russian composer wrote the music for the opera The Snow Maiden?
2. Which woman has won the New York marathon nine times?
-3. Lestat was an evil character in which book and film?
4. What were the names of the 3 musketeers in the novel by Alexandre Dumas?
-5. Gram flour, a staple ingredient in the Indian cuisine, is made from what?
6. The name for which month stems from the Latin word for "purification"?
-7. Which husband and wife were executed in the US in 1953 for providing the Soviets with nuclear secrets?
8. Which astronaut said "Okay Houston… we've had a problem here"?
9. What was the name given to the CIA trained militia that tried to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 1980s?
10. What TV fictional piece of property bordered on Lake Tahoe?
-11. Which vegetable symbolised eternal life in ancient Egypt?
-12. This is part of the cover of which album?

7. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

'twas them, jb!

5. I believe it is Chick Peas

3. Interview with the Vampire

I guess nobody else is having trouble with the image for #12? It will not show for me. I think I had a problem with it last week also and with some of Pandora's images too.

I would certainly not know the answer anyway.

Spot-on, ladies!

It is not showing up for me either, ob. Otherwise, the images of late have all been fine.

It didn't show for me, either.

hmm - comes up fine for me. I'm the owner, but that shouldn't make a difference

Oh, well, good to hear I am not alone. Thank you Marian and jboliver!

Now it's showing up for me. Knew it right off the bat.

I had that problem with Squiggle - like you jb just had to wait...

11. Onion

Indeed, michele - interesting...

I can also see it now.

I think the interior circular rings of the onion signified immortality to them.

I see it now, too.

12. Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits

Good call, flotsam!

6. February