The Wednesday Quiz forgets the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.

It's:

The new weekly game of knowledge, intuition, inductive reasoning, and willingness to risk public embarrassment in a friendly and moderately supportive environment!!

Answers come out Fridayish.

1. Her other books included Daniel Deronda (1876), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), and Romola (1863).

2. What country are we looking at here?

3. Who said this?

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

4. What Italian novelist created William of Baskerville and his young protege Adso?

5. It's the amount of work done by a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimeter. Or in layman's terms, it's equal to about 100 nanojoules.

6. Built in 1964 as the first of its kind, this ship is still in use today.

7. Who was the television character who mentioned this bisque in this line:

I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.

8. What's that word that means "a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge arises from sense experience, and thus supports observation and experimentation."

9. What city are we looking at here?

10. Some think that this stanza of poetry is, as they say, "better than Cats."

I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.

Who wrote both?

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The tie-breaker: Name five important people, living or dead, whose last name begins with this week's letter.

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, put your answers in the comments.