Which cool cocktail combines gin, lime juice and club soda?

Controversial even when serialized in The National Era, which novel sold about 300,000 copies in book form in 1852? A 2003 ruling to remove a monument from an Alabama judicial building sparked controversy. What did the monument feature? What word means conversation marked by quick, witty replies? Explorer James Cook was killed on Valentine's Day 1779 in which island group? Which bandleader titled his 1939 autobiography "The Kingdom of Swing"? Coors beer is brewed in which Colorado city? "Cooties" is a slang name for which pesky insects? Coots, rails and limpkins are all types of what?