Sparky Mystery No. 3 by jsparkyp

Retail – What Chicago based department store, which filed for bankruptcy in 2000, issued its first catalog in 1872?

British TV – What was the name of the 1982 British programme that consisted of four flatmates named Vyvyan, Rick, Neil and Mike, which shared its name with a Cliff Richard song?

College Basketball – The trophy that is given out to best Division I Basketball Player by the United States Basketball Writers Association is named for what player, who was the first recipient in 1959 and 1960 while at the University of Cincinnati? He would also play professionally there and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. (Note: I will not accept his nickname.)

Literature - What author, who died in 2004, was best known for three posthumously published crime novels known as the Millennium Series?

Movies – Meryl Streep earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for what film?

Game show hosts - Besides his two most familiar shows, what game show host also mc’d the shows The End of the Rainbow (1957-58), The Family Game (1967), Simon Says (1971), and That’s My Line (1980-1981)?

Olympics – Who won two gold medals in women’s figure skating in the 1980’s?

Television – What was Rose Marie’s character name (first and last) on The Dick Van Dyke Show?

Music - Who was the first solo female Motown artist to have a Billboard #1 hit?

Mathematics - The formula "V=1/3 Area of base times height" is used to determine the volume of what?

Movies – What 1941 movie was the first film score for Bernard Herrmann?

And now, the punchline – Homophonically (in some cases), the answers (or portions thereof) to these eleven questions are part of a list of twenty-three people who have done what achievement?