Who nearly defeated President Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, then won the nomination and the presidency four years later?

Nearly 200,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed when what struck Kobe, Japan, in 1995? Nearly 480 of whose hymns appeared in the 1780 Methodist hymnal compiled by his brother John? Which Backstreet Boy, born January 28, 1980, is almost eight years older than his singer brother Aaron? Almost all the poetry of which New England poet was first published after her death in 1886? Which metric base unit was originally defined as the mass of 1,000 cubic centimeters of water? Which actress starred in the films "Along Came Polly", "Office Space" and "Love Happens"? Along with 10 other former Soviet republics, Turkmenistan joined which group on December 21, 1991? Along with much of Lorraine, which French province was annexed by Germany in 1871?