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In WHAT NOVEL does Charles Marlow captain a steamboat from Outer Station to Central Station and back again? He returns with a report for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs, with a postscript reading simply "exterminate the brutes!", but conceals it from its intended recipients.

WHAT TELEVISION SHOW features Richard "Old Man" Harrison, his son Rick, and his grandson Corey, as well as Corey's childhood friend Austin "Chumlee" Russell? Spin-off shows have been set in the UK, Australia, and Louisiana.

WHAT ARTHROPODS are members of the order Xiphosura and (despite their name) most closely related to spiders? They have nine eyes (some of which can see into the ultraviolet spectrum) and their blue copper-based blood contains amebocytes, a white blood cell analogue harvested for use in the LAL test for detecting bacterial endotoxins.

WHAT ANIMAL FARM CHARACTER, one of two mares on the farm, generally represents the Russian proletariat along with her male counterpart Boxer? (The other mare, Mollie, represents czarist Russians and flees the farm early in the novel.)

WHAT BREWING COMPANY is a sub-company of Tenth and Blake Beer Company, which is itself the craft and import division of MillerCoors? The company's namesake flagship product, formerly known as Bellyslide Belgian White, is a Belgian-style witbier brewed with white wheat, coriander, and orange peel.

WHAT VESSEL was sunk at Auckland, New Zealand in 1985 by French intelligence operatives? A Greenpeace vessel involved in a wide variety of environmental activities, it took its name from a spurious Hopi legend (actually created by 20th century Christian missionaries) and was in no way a member of a men's athletic team from the University of Hawaii.

WHAT 1956 FILM was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making it the only short film to receive an Academy Award nomination for anything other than Best Short Film? Set in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris, it tells the story of a boy named Pascal and his titular (and very unusual) friend.

Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard / Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore / Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout / Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown

Those lyrics are taken from WHAT 1987 SONG, the highest-charting song in the US by Squeeze?

WHAT PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL, a physiologist by training, is the author of The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, and Guns, Germs, and Steel? The last of those titles won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

WHAT DIRECTOR is best known for four classic horror movies of the 1930s: Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man, and Bride of Frankenstein? The 1998 movie Gods and Monsters was a somewhat fictionalized version of his last days, in which he was portrayed by Ian McKellen.

WHAT EDIBLE SEEDS are frequently used in Levantine cooking, where they're commonly found in kibbeh and baklava? In the West they're sometimes used as a salad topping, but they're most important as an essential ingredient in proper alla genovese pesto.

To WHAT GROUP do all the other questions in this quiz allude? As a hint: the first question refers to the only constant member of the group, the next seven to the other current members, the ninth to a former long-time member, and the last two to former members for only very brief periods.