iPad keyboard in Landscape mode (Simulator)

[Pitfall]

At the end of an iPad-specific game, to capture a player's name for the High Score board I instantiate an editable text field with UITextField. The game is running in Landscape mode (as specified in the Info.plist).

The iPad Simulator correctly displays my specified orientation, so I know that the plist data is working. But when the user touches the editable field, the keyboard pops up sideways - as if in Portrait mode.

Question 1: Is there a setting that I need to make to orient the keyboard?

In a related problem, since this editable text field is for name entry it doesn't need (or want) spell checking, text replacement, or even a magnifier with cut and paste. (I might not otherwise care but the text replacement window pops up in the wrong orientation as well.)

Question 2: Can I turn off that helper function (just for that instance)?

Thanks in advance for any response.