Misc: This sport is called the 'American pastime'?

Questions

Which word can precede the following; -count -bath -bank?

Where would you find tricounis, clinkers and muggers?

Written by Richard Ford, and made into a box office smash at the cinema, which book won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

Which German City is the home to the Becks brewery?

What was set up in 1792 due to the treat of a French Invasion, and published its first official series in 1805?