Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1.  What 1984 movie, after becoming a surprise hit (the #5 box office success of the year) spawned a sequel set almost entirely in Okinawa?  The Karate Kid
2.  Between 1958 and 1978, the United States released 13 unmanned probes out into the solar system and beyond that shared what name?  Voyager?
3.  Most of the greatest works of architect Antoni Gaudi are found in what city, where he died in 1926?   Barcelona
4.  What word that originally referred to Helicoverpa zea, a moth larva that attacks corn crops, has more recently come to refer to a hard-to-forget song or melody?  ear worm.  Wow, there is a real worm with that name?
5.  What Asian country is home to over 2% of the world's population despite a smaller area than the state of West Virginia?  7 billion people on the planet means a country of 140 million people crammed into a small area.  Indonesia has a large population too.  But with 1000 islands in the country, you would expect the sum total area to be larger than WVa.  Bangladesh?
6.  The latest installment in the Elder Scrolls video game franchise is set in what titular province of Tamriel?  I pass on all video game questions
7.  What unusual distinction is shared by these albums?  All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 19 by Adele, Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash, Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds, Up-Tight by Stevie Wonder, Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses, The White Stripes by The White Stripes. Competitors for the KJ prize are not supposed to do online research for Q7.  I am under no such restriction.  All albums appear to include a Dylan cover.

LAST WEEKS' ANSWERS
1.  What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?  The eye--or the eyelid, to be more precise.  This is the fold of skin that sometimes covers the upper inner part of some people's eyelids, most associated with people of Asian descent but present in all races to some degree.  not correct.  Two weeks in a row with questions about eye related anatomy.
2.  What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"?  Tripp Palin is the son of Lifetime's own Bristol Palin.  correct
3.  Australia's Rod Laver was the first person ever to become a career millionaire in what field?  Professional tennis.  correct
4.  What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"?  These are cute little pet names for his famous "Grecian urn."  Answers that came back with some variant of the old "Oh, about 20 drachmas an hour!" joke were counted wrong, burned, and then the ashes were re-burned just to be on the safe side. correct
5.  Name one of the two American candidates since the Civil War to lose a presidential election both as president and vice president on a major-party ticket.  Only two men have lost as vice president and then again as president, and both are fairly recent: Walter Mondale and Bob Dole.  correct
6.  What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials?  That's a newspaper's "morgue," even if the old newsprint doesn't roll out on slabs.  I guessed graveyard which is close but not close enough
7.  What unusual distinction is shared by these entertainers, and no others big names that I can find?  Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli.  Some, but not all, are offsprings of showbiz families.  Some, but not all, were child actors.  But all started their filmographies before they started potty-training.  All made their screen debuts as babies.  correct!