Misc: The Smithsonian Institute houses this 44 & 1/2 carat, cursed blue diamond?

Questions

Also know as Mistress Betty this English adventuress is a creation of Defoe?

In Melville's 'Moby Dick' he hails from the south sea island of Kovovoko?

American expatriate who joins the loyalists in 'For whom the bell tolls'?

Liquor whose name is derived from uisge beath, Gaelic for aqua vitae?

Mead is made from this?