tv/ movies: born jan 18, 1955, he starred in this movie: waterworld - 1995?

Questions

In which modem country was there a region called Acadia?

Name the old type of window which housed cords attached to counterweights in order to hold it open at any height?

In the game of draughts, what term means to remove from the board for failing to make a possible capture?

On the coast of which modern country did the Phoenicians live?

In which group of islands was Ferdinand Magellan killed?