You didn't italize or mark the phrase, but I see one good candidate:
"The circus animal trainer" is in a way another name given to Mervin, a kind of "renaming" him: this is called an appositive phrase, so if this was the phrase appositive phrase is the answer! (also, I don't see the other phrases here).
Answer: pokes.
Explanation: Verbs indicate actions, so the only action in the sentence is describing what the baby is doing to Ray Palmer, which is poking.
Answer:
Black panther party (BPP) and deputy chairman of the national
First is none
Second is strauss waltz