Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1.  Before the mid-1970s, 85% of what industry was controlled by a consortium of American and European companies known as the Seven Sisters?  I thought that the computer industry was IBM and the 7 dwarves.  I'll guess that the Seven Sisters controlled the steel business.
2.  The Holy or the Broken is a 2012 book about the history of what song, originally written in 1984 but better known in a series of more recent cover versions?  this is a cryptic question to me.  I cannot imagine a book written about a pop song.  Must have some broader social impact.
3.  What largest tributary of the upper Missouri River, flowing through Montana and Wyoming, is named for the pale color of the sandstone bluffs that line its canyons?  the Yellowstone River.  nicely written question
4.  This fall, Ralph Fiennes will play what author in the movie The Invisible Woman, as well as playing the author's character Abel Magwitch in a second film?  isn't Abel Magwitch a character from a Dickens novel?
5.  What is a person performing his or her "ablutions" doing to him- or herself?  washing him- or herself
6.  Since 2005, the world record for fastest men's 100-meters has been owned by runners from what nation?  Jamaica
7.  Based on what they all have in common, what once-and-future TV show is most obviously missing from this list?  Dark Angel, Ed, The Family Guy, Friday Night Lights, Glee, Joan of Arcadia, Justified, Lost, Oz, Private Practice.  the "once-and-future" part of the clue is helpful.  An actor friend of mine is on tonight's episode of Ironside.  All shows had a wheelchair bound character.

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1.  What famous American wrote the bestselling 1928 autobiography Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women, and Music?  The "March King" himself, John Philip Sousa.  correct
2.  What's the only letter of the alphabet that appears in lowercase on a Boggle cube?  The 'Q' in Boggle (unlike Scrabble) comes with a helpful 'u' attached, so 'u' is the only lowercase letter that can show up in the grid.  Alex knew this.
3.  In what country were hundreds killed in the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising?  Soweto started out as an apartheid-era township of Johannesburg, South Africa.  correct
4.  Since 1881, the standard unit of electrical current has been named for what French "father of electrodynamics"?  The "amp" is named for Andre-Marie Ampere.  correct I did not get this correct.  I guessed the other French physicist whose name is a unit of measure, Coulomb
5.  In 1953, who was forced to find a new name for his magazine after legal threats were made by the men's adventure magazine Stag?  Originally, Hugh Hefner planned to have the servers at his clubs wear little   antlers.  He switched to bunny ears after Stag magazine made him rename his "Stag Party" magazine "Playboy."  correct
6.  What ends on Eid al-Fitr?  For Muslims, that religious feast ends the month of fast called Ramadan. 
correct
7. What increasingly unusual distinction is shared by these musicians?  James Blunt, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, Jerry Garcia, Hammer, Jimi Hendrix, Ice-T, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Bjorn Ulvaeus.  They all served in the military--some famously (Elvis), some with distinction (Ice-T was an Army Ranger!) and some, uh not (Jerry Garcia, discharged for going AWOL too many times).  I am trying to picture Hammer in the Navy wearing parachute pants