A pie in the face, a pie in the ear; Name us and tell why we’re famous; All countries great and small; Twisting gospel truth into fiction; Toe-tapping and thunder-clapping at the castle

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Welcome to our April 20th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured puzzle this week comes from Mathew Huffman, a very good friend of Puzzleria! who is also a creative and clever puzzle crafter. His puzzle, titled “Name us and tell why we’re famous,” appears under our Appetizer Menu; it involves mystery and history, names and fame.

Also on our menus this week are:
ONE Palace Thunderclapping Slice;
ONE “Parabiblical” Dessert;
ONE “Pie (but not in the sky)” Dessert; and
FIVE Wild World Kingdom Riffing-Off-Shortz Slices.

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Pre-Y2KAppetizer:
Name us and tell why we’re famous?

Take the last name of a famous person from the 20th century in six letters. 
This name contains a general word for why this person is famous. Remove this word, and the remaining letters sound like the last name of a predecessor known for the same reason.  
Who are the people and why are they famous?

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The King Of Iamb Slice: 
Toe-tapping and thunder-clapping at the castle

The king decreed, “Each liege for supper sings... Our castle’s filled with frowners!”
Yea, when the minstrel crooned ’twas like the court downed uppers, flushed their downers.
Such sweet “deluteful” lightning-up precipitated thundrous clapping...
“What signs and wonders!” whooped the king, his joyful royal toes a-tapping.

The quatrain above (in iambic octameter) contains six words of interest, or rather, three word-pairs of interest. 
What are these three word-pairs? What makes them interesting?
Hint: You can totally ignore one of the quatrain’s four lines in solving this puzzle. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:
All countries great and small

Will Shortz’s April 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Alan Hochbaum of Atlanta, reads:
The letters of SWITZERLAND can be rearranged to spell LIZARD and NEWTS — LIZARD being the singular name of an animal, and NEWTS a plural. Name another country with this same property. That is, name another country whose letters can be rearranged to spell two animals — one singular and one plural. It's a major country. What country is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Hochbaum Slices read:
ONE:
The letters of SWITZERLAND can be rearranged to spell LIZARD and NEWTS. Name another country whose letters can be rearranged to spell another country and a surname of a writer who is responsible for the name of an NFL franchise.  What country is it? What are the other country and the writer’s surname?
TWO: 
The letters of PALESTINE can be rearranged to spell TEAL and SNIPE. Name another country whose letters can be rearranged to spell three creatures — a 5-letter tree-dweller, a 3-letter insect and a 2-letter plodder. 
The same country’s letters can be rearranged to spell three creatures — a 4-letter hybrid, a 4-letter potential insect and the same 2-letter plodder mentioned earlier in this puzzle. What country is it?
THREE:
The letters of ARMENIA can be rearranged to spell the creatures MARE and ANI. 
Find another name on the world map, one that contains two pairs of triple letters (as in “Aegean Sea,” for example, which has three a’s and three e’s). Remove two of those six letters. 
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell what begins at the 4:26 mark of the album version of a hit song by Rod Stewart, in two words. 
What country is it?
What begins at the 4:26 mark of the album version of a hit song by Rod Stewart? 
FOUR:
Take the first four letters a well-known world capital. Rearrange the letters of a country to form two words: a 5-letter noun and a 3-letter plural noun. Place the 5-letter noun after the first four letters of the world capital to form a compound word that often precedes the plural noun to form a 2-word phrase for what body builders work to accomplish. 
What are the world capital and the country?
What do body builders work to accomplish?
FIVE:
Think of the title of a buddy cop action movie that includes, besides its cast of typecast characters, a typographic character in its title. Replace the typographic character with the word it usually represents, resulting in a 3-word movie title.
Name a 5-letter country whose letters can be rearranged to spell the first word in this movie title. Combine the 4 letters of a second country with the 3 letters in the first word of a third 2-word country. Rearrange those seven letters to form the second and third words of the movie.
What is this movie title? What are the three countries?

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Biblical “Pair-able” Dessert:
Twisting gospel truth into fiction

Name the subject of a biblical parable, in two words. 
Reverse the order of the words. Replacing the new first word with a synonym and saying the result aloud will sound like a fictional chararacter associated with a board game.
What is the subject of the parable? 
Who is the character associated with a board game?

Tragicomic Dessert:
A pie in the face, a pie in the ear

Name a comedy pioneer recently in the news, first and last names.
Flip the first letter of the first name upside-down.
Capitalize and duplicate the fifth letter of the first name.
Move the third and fourth letters of the first name to the end of the last name so as to replace the final letter in the last name.
The result will appear to be the name of a modern-day pioneer in a different field of entertainment.
Who are these two pioneers?

NOTE: Those of you who have solved the very curious and rare property in last week’s Two Week Creative Challenge Appetizer are welcome to explain your solutions below in our comments section. This will give others an opportunity to compose similar curious and rare questions of their own.
The five questions, again, were:

What helps undo eskimos’ overcoats?
Why outlaw antigun statutes? 
Who prepares ingestibles, sushi, miso? 
When do fittest hearts expire?
Who overtaxed America’s hierarchy?
Also, those of you who create similar questions my post them here anytime you wish. Thank you.

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