Infinite What?

Top-of-my-head list of unresolved questions in Infinite Jest ranked in order of what seems to matter most to me.

1) What does Joelle really look like? [possibly resolved and I'm just in denial?]

2) How did Marathe [and to a lesser extent Steeply] get down the mountain?

3) What happened to Hal?

4) Did Marathe just give up on finding Joelle or what?

5) Was the Pakistani M.D / Ferocious Francis scene just Gately's hallucination?

6) What about the Whataburger?! And who took Pemulis' DMZ?

7) Wait... what happened at the fundraiser gala match between ETA and Quebec/ALF- the climactic final scene that never happens!

8) What happened to Stice's forehead? How did his bed really get up there?