Twelve Days of Christmas by LuskT

Which variety of pear tree, favored by landscapers for its rapid growth, has fallen out of favor due to its susceptibility to storm damage and the occasionally objectionable odor from its blossoms?

A pair of turtle dove ornaments, gifted to the protagonist by toy store owner Mr. Duncan, are featured in which Christmas movie?

What breed of French hen, developed in the 1860s in north-central France, takes its name from one of the towns where it was first raised?

Many of the older variants of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" do not refer to them as "calling birds" but rather as "colly" birds, with the word colly used as a regional English expression for what color?

What metal, other than gold (of course), is the primary element used to produce pink, rose, and red gold alloys?

The goose in which classic children's book notably spells the word "terrific" as "T, double-E, double-R, double-R, double-I, double-F, double-I, double-C, C, C!"

The constellation Cygnus (the swan) is home to object Cygnus X-1, a high-powered X-ray source that is widely considered to be the first confirmed observation of what type of object?

The Milkmaid is a 1658 oil-on-canvas work by which Dutch Master?

Which American prima ballerina gained widespread fame as the star of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and was the first American to perform at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow?

Lord's, a sporting venue in St. John's Wood, London, is considered the "home" of what sport, where one of the players might have to leap to avoid a well-placed Yorker?

Piper Aircraft has, since 2009, been owned by the government of what Southeast Asian nation located entirely on the island of Borneo? (edited at 6:57 am, December 28, 2017 (EST))

Everett Joseph "Vic" Firth founded his eponymous company in 1963, focused on producing what critical component of drumming?