movie trivia: Animal of which Indiana Jones is afraid?

Questions

After the U.S. Civil War, Iowa was the first state to give the vote to -----------------.?

------------------ became the first woman to receive a diamond engagement ring. It was given to her by Maximilian I of Germany in 1477.?

At funerals in ancient ------, when the lid of the coffin was closed, mourners took a few steps backward lest their shadows get caught in the box.?

At the height of its power, in 400 B.C., the Greek city of ------ had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.?

At the height of the teddy bear's huge popularity in the early 1900s, there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy would lead to the destruction of the instincts of ------------ and eventual racial suicide.?