Weekend trivia

To entertain yourselves while I camp at the lovely Cape Lookout State Park, you might want to answer these trivia questions. I am shooting for hard, but not so hard as Jimmy's at Beulahland (although question six is straight from Beulahland.) Email or post your answers below. No Internet use allowed.

1) With which number album did Danzig stop using numbers in the title?

2) What are the names of the main character elves in a Year Without Santa Claus? Bonus, what former Portland band shares a name with another character?

3) Which war was ended by the Peace of Westphalia? In what year was it signed?

4) What is oxygen's atomic number?

5) What is the longest river in Europe?

6) In what country would you find the Rub' al Khali? What is it called in English?

7) Who is the current prime minister of Germany?

8) Necco, the candy maker, is a contraction of what name?

9) Who appeared in all of the following films? Alien, Singles, Steel Magnolias and the Rookie.

10) What is the publication order of the following Stephen King books: Tommyknockers, Carrie, Cell, 'Salem's Lot and Insomnia.

One of these things just doesn't belong

Can you guess which of these statements about renowned literary authors is not true?

A) Thomas Pynchon has a niece that directs "adult" movies.

B) Ian McEwan's mother gave his older brother away at a railway station in 1942. McEwan learned of this in 2002.

C) Margaret Atwood's brother was arrested in the 1970s for attempting to overthrow the government of Guinea-Bisseau.

Answers
A
B
C