Misc: who starred in the film 'fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe'?

Questions

Because metal was scarce, the oscars given out during WW II were made out of what?

Because Moses felt he was "slow of speech and slow of tongue", who often acted as his spokesperson?

Belgian Joseph Merlin invented this form of "transportation" in 1760?

Ben Hurs rival in the great chariot race?

Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France's unknown soldier?