Question: 'Scottish-born John Muir wrote the 1902 Ency. Britannica article on this valley in the Sierra Nevada of California'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: '(Hi, I'm John McCain.)  In 1912 this president proclaimed Arizona a state after forcing it to remove recall of judges from its constitution'

Answer: Taft


Question: 'Harry Bentley & Tom & Helen Willis were neighbors of this TV title family'

Answer: The Jeffersons


Question: 'To suffer or tolerate'

Answer: Brook


Question: 'Cite the embarrassment wife Winnie Madikizela caused you to get a 1996 divorce'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'In his famous 1976 Playboy interview, he spoke of lusting after women in his heart many times'

Answer: Carter


Question: 'In the 1945 magazine article "Extra-Terrestrial Relays", Arthur C. Clarke suggested these devices be used'

Answer: satellites


Question: 'During his administration, Custer made his last stand'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'Its theme is heard here'

Answer: Taxi


Question: 'To pry open a door, as with a crowbar'

Answer: Jimmy


Question: 'Marry anthropologist Reo Fortune in 1928, lose Fortune in '35, marry anthropologist Gregory Bateson in '36'

Answer: Margaret Mead


Question: 'Hugh's daughter, she's CEO & chairman of the board of Playboy Enterprises'

Answer: Christie (Hefner)


Question: 'You can't escape the fact that the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica article on conjuring was done by him'

Answer: Houdini


Question: 'Before his election, he was part of a group of politically influential lawyers, the "Concord Clique"'

Answer: Pierce


Question: 'In 1970 he was back as Danny Williams in "Make Room for Granddaddy"'

Answer: (Danny) Thomas


Question: 'To wade across a river'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Hopefully for him, this controversial author won't need a fifth way after marrying wife No. 4, Padma Lakshmi, in 2004'

Answer: (Salman) Rushdie


Question: 'It's the 3-word "subtitle" that appears below the name Playboy on the magazine cover'

Answer: Entertainment for Men


Question: 'In an 1850 article, Dickens described his visit to this "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street"'

Answer: the Bank of England


Question: '(Alex reads from the Barnes Foundation.)  In a large painting called "Models", this pointillist included a glimpse of his picture "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"'

Answer: Seurat


Question: 'In 2004 this tennis great, at 47, became the oldest tennis competitor in Olympic history'

Answer: Martina Navratilova


Question: 'In 1987 the AIDS Quilt was displayed on the National Mall and this became the first drug approved by the FDA for AIDS'

Answer: AZT


Question: 'A gallbladder or a kidney'

Answer: an organ


Question: 'In 1785 he wrote "Gie me ae spark o'nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire"'

Answer: Bobby Burns


Question: 'On July 4, 1928 Jean Lussier crawled inside a 6-foot diameter rubber ball & passed over this landmark'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'He was going full throttle in Arles, France in 1888 & 1889, turning out more than 200 paintings'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'In March 1995 she hung up her speed skates after setting her personal best in the 1,000-meter race'

Answer: Blair


Question: '(Hi, I'm CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.)  I've reported on the threat of H5N1, better known as this potential pandemic transmitted by fowl'

Answer: the avian flu


Question: 'Greek muse whose name means "beautiful voice"'

Answer: Calliope


Question: 'His first published poem was 1833's "Pauline"'

Answer: Browning


Question: 'In 1931 the leading U.S. organization advocating this -ism changed its name to the American Sunbathing Assoc.'

Answer: nudism


Question: 'This artist's portrait of his wife sold in 1875 for 290 francs, hardly covering the cost of the frame & materials'

Answer: Claude Monet


Question: 'The first WNBA player to reach 4,000 points, in 2004 this L.A. Sparks center was named the league's MVP'

Answer: (Lisa) Leslie


Question: 'In 1991, 8 entered this replica of the Earth's ecosystem to test the feasibility of a self-contained space colony'

Answer: the Biosphere


Question: 'Reddish-brown antelopes with white stripes'

Answer: bongos


Question: 'He wrote, "Better to go down dignified/ With boughten friendship at your side/ Than none at all. Provide, Provide!"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vineyard.)  In California, "Wine Country" often means this valley, that planted its first wine grapes around 1840'

Answer: Napa


Question: 'This Swiss painter who died in 1940 called his art a line on a walk'

Answer: (Paul) Klee


Question: 'In the 1990s Christy Martin was probably the best-known woman in this sport'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'It's the alphanumeric problem that for many marred the celebration seen here'

Answer: the Y2K bug


Question: 'Architect Renzo'

Answer: Piano


Question: 'The next 3 words of lyric poet Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to make much of time", "Gather ye rosebuds..."'

Answer: while ye may


Question: 'With a population of about 210,000, Bergen is this country's second-most populous city'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'This 16th century Flemish painter depicted a cold landscape in "Hunters in the Snow"'

Answer: Bruegel


Question: 'She's the all-time winningest female jockey, with more than 3,000 wins'

Answer: Julie Krone


Question: 'On Dec. 2, 1982, this surgeon, seen here, implanted the first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, into Barney Clark'

Answer: Dr. William DeVries


Question: 'The bellows-mender in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"'

Answer: Flute


Question: 'The USA's first Poet Laureate, he taught at Louisiana State from 1934 to 1942 & edited the Southern Review'

Answer: (Robert Penn) Warren


Question: 'Latin for "None farther beyond", this 3-word phrase refers to the highest level of excellence'

Answer: ne plus ultra


Question: 'Now meaning nearly identical, these 2 names were applied to rivals Handel & Bononcini in a 1720s British verse'

Answer: Tweedledum & Tweedledee


Question: 'This organ's oil is a good source of vitamins A & D'

Answer: Liver


Question: 'Robert Duvall felt Sally Kellerman's "hot lips" when he played Major Frank Burns in this 1970 film'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'For women's health, Cosmopolitan Magazine recommends wearing 4" ones for only an hour'

Answer: Heels


Question: 'Familiar proverb about elderly canines & their learning ability'

Answer: "You can\'t teach an old dog new tricks"


Question: 'As you might guess, it's the only continent a bat doesn't call home'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Number of balls you need to get a base on balls'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Of up to 8,000, 80,000 or 8,000,000, the number of eggs one cod may spawn at one time'

Answer: 8,000,000


Question: 'In 1996 this "Lawrence Of Arabia" star released the 2nd volume of his memoir "Loitering With Intent"'

Answer: Peter O\' Toole


Question: 'This rhyming term refers to a short shirt that may show off a toned tummy'

Answer: Crop top


Question: 'Roald Dahl wrote the script for this 1967 James Bond film that took 007 to Japan'

Answer: You Only Live Twice


Question: 'As it's nocturnal, a bat has only these cells in its eyes, no cones'

Answer: Rods


Question: 'In tournament play, this sport's 2 1/2-inch diameter ball must be white or yellow'

Answer: Tennis


Question: 'Most of the cod caught is of the species named for this body of water'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'This "Tasmanian Devil" played Robin Hood but was perhaps most perfectly cast as Don Juan'

Answer: Errol Flynn


Question: 'A horizontal blade on the back of a car, or a back-of-the-pack competitor who affects the outcome'

Answer: Spoiler


Question: 'Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent for this '50s TV series that recreated historical events'

Answer: You Are There


Question: 'Like ants, most bats live in large groups called these'

Answer: Colonies


Question: 'This type of store is indicated by the sign of the 3 balls'

Answer: Pawn shop


Question: 'He gave Lauren Bacall a gold bracelet with her name engraved on one side & "The Whistler" on the other'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart (her husband)


Question: 'The classic men's hat seen here, it was the trademark of saxophone great Lester Young'

Answer: Porkpie hat


Question: 'Van Halen & The Kinks' first Top 40 hit, or a good reply if you don't know it'

Answer: You Really Got Me


Question: 'Chiroptera, the order to which bats belong, means "with" these "on their hands"'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'Keene, New Hampshire is known for manufacturing miniature & precision ones'

Answer: Ball bearings


Question: 'Before starring on film as Ike Turner & Othello, he played Cowboy Curtis  on TV's "Pee Wee's Playhouse"'

Answer: Laurence Fishburne


Question: 'Though its name is associated with cheap flash, this glazed cotton fabric is still a popular choice for sofas'

Answer: Chintz


Question: 'This Thomas Wolfe title proved sadly prophetic; it was published posthumously'

Answer: You Can\'t Go Home Again


Question: 'The horseshoe bat doesn't emit its echolocation squeaks through its mouth; they come out of this'

Answer: Nose


Question: 'This racquet court sport was named after the sound the rubber ball made when it hit a wall'

Answer: Squash


Question: 'In a 1995 autobiography, this star of "Frasier" told of his life "So Far"'

Answer: Kelsey Grammer


Question: 'Col. Thomas S. Lubbock, who had a city named for him, was a signer of this state's Declaration of Independence'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'This cartoon series made its prime time yabba dabba debut September 30, 1960'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: 'In a Gershwin tune, this phrase qualifies "They're writing songs of love" & "A lucky star's above"'

Answer: "But not for me"


Question: 'In 1993 these hot, dry winds made Malibu firefighters feel like defenders at the Alamo'

Answer: Santa Ana winds


Question: 'When this man reached Mexico in 1519, Montezuma mistook him for the god Quetzalcoatl'

Answer: Hernando Cortez


Question: 'He was Clint Howard's 650-pound constant companion'

Answer: Gentle Ben


Question: 'Saying based on a quote by John Bradford on seeing criminals led to their execution'

Answer: "There, but for the grace of God, go I"


Question: '2 union leaders were convicted in the 1910 bombing of this major daily newspaper'

Answer: Los Angeles Times


Question: 'In the 1980s Robin Norwood had a bestseller with "Women Who" do this "Too Much"'

Answer: Love


Question: 'This traitor founded Norway's equivalent of the Nazi party in 1933'

Answer: Vidkun Quisling


Question: '"(Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery)  On this Allen Ludden game show, a contestant scored 10 points if she guessed right on her first clue"'

Answer: Password


Question: 'This current pop duo took its name from a store that would sell almost any item'

Answer: Everything But The Girl


Question: 'The flashpoint of the 1992 riots was the intersection of Florence & this street'

Answer: Normandie


Question: 'Don't laugh, but this expert on chimpanzees wrote a 1971 book about hyenas called "Innocent Killers"'

Answer: Jane Goodall


Question: 'A mountain range called the Lomonosov Ridge lies at the bottom of this ocean'

Answer: Arctic Ocean


Question: 'In April 1945 this dictator, his mistress Clara Petacci & more than 10 of his henchmen were executed'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'Fred Astaire frequently appeared on this series as Robert Wagner's father Alistair Mundy'

Answer: It Takes A Thief


Question: 'Romeo quiets himself with this interjection when Juliet appears at her window'

Answer: "But, soft!  What light through yonder window breaks?"


Question: 'The magnificent Ambassador Hotel, where he was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, closed its doors in 1989'

Answer: Robert F. Kennedy


Question: 'Betty J. Eadie recently embraced readers with "The Awakening Heart", a sequel to this inspiring book'

Answer: Embraced By The Light


Question: 'A series of canals links the Volga River to this sea via the Gulf of Finland'

Answer: Baltic Sea


Question: 'Boer generals Louis Botha & Jan Smuts were the first 2 prime ministers of this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Among the cast of this scandalous serial were Lee Grant, Gena Rowlands & of course, Mia Farrow'

Answer: Peyton Place


Question: 'It completes Bette Davis' line to a suitor in "Cabin In The Cotton", "I'd love to kiss you...."'

Answer: "But I just washed my hair"


Question: 'In 1943 mobs attacked & beat Mexican-Americans sporting this elaborate suit style'

Answer: Zoot suit


Question: 'He was the first incumbent vice president to be elected president since 1836'

Answer: George (Herbert Walker) Bush


Question: 'There's New York, New Jersey, New Mexico & "New" this as well'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Sally jumps on one foot into numbered squares drawn with chalk in this game'

Answer: Hopscotch


Question: 'Its thick, gray skin weighs about a ton & is so tender mosquitos can bite it on the trunk -- can I keep it?'

Answer: Elephant


Question: 'Summer Sanders is the host of this game show'

Answer: Figure It Out


Question: 'An ant has this many legs'

Answer: 6


Question: 'Dial "O" & you get this person'

Answer: Operator


Question: 'Its capital is Salem, but its largest city is Portland'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'Sally is good at this game of hitting a ball to completely coil a cord around a post'

Answer: Tetherball


Question: 'Just standing there on the ground, it can get my frisbee off the roof with its tongue -- can I keep it?'

Answer: Giraffe


Question: 'These 2 guys were on Nickelodeon's "All That" before getting their own show'

Answer: Kenan & Kel


Question: 'On the Celsius scale, water freezes at this temperature'

Answer: Zero


Question: 'Month when you're most likely to see leaves like the ones seen here'

Answer: October


Question: 'This state is the smallest in area'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'Sally plays on the jungle gym, which has a connecting set of bars named for this jungle animal'

Answer: Monkey


Question: 'You can use it to serve pieces of cheese at a party, stick them on its quills & let it walk around -- can I keep it?'

Answer: Porcupine


Question: 'This character got her secret powers after being doused with a chemical in a freak accident'

Answer: Alex Mack


Question: 'An octopus has this many arms (or is it legs?)'

Answer: 8


Question: 'This state's flag includes the design seen here'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Ponce de Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth in this "Sunshine" state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'On Saturdays Sally plays this team game; she pretends she's Mia Hamm'

Answer: Soccer


Question: 'I'll let it build a dam in the bathtub & it can cut down old trees in the neighborhood -- can I keep it?'

Answer: Beaver


Question: 'Henry & June live inside a comic book filled with mind-scrambling cartoons on this show'

Answer: KaBlam!


Question: 'The total number of years in a millennium'

Answer: 1000


Question: 'They're like a classical musical; Richard Wagner wrote them'

Answer: Opera


Question: 'Points of interest in this state include the San Joaquin Valley & the Sacramento River'

Answer: California


Question: 'On the track, runners practice for a race by jumping over these fencelike obstacles'

Answer: Hurdles


Question: 'I fit between its humps & can ride it to school; I don't have to give it water for months -- can I keep it?'

Answer: Camel


Question: 'Hey!  This cartoon boy has a football-shaped head & is bullied by Helga'

Answer: Arnold


Question: 'A decagon has this many sides'

Answer: 10


Question: 'Without this endangered layer of the atmosphere, you'd get a real bad sunburn'

Answer: Ozone layer


Question: 'This largest of the Great Lakes is also the highest above sea level at 600 feet'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'Apple made a computer called Lisa before they introduced this famous one in 1984'

Answer: Macintosh


Question: 'He was first famous as a comedian, but now he's into more serious stuff in movies like "Patch Adams"'

Answer: Robin Williams


Question: 'Alchemists of the Middle Ages tried to turn lead into this yellow metal'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'This is the home of the Whopper'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'In Mexico City'

Answer: Spanish


Question: 'It's the longest river in the world'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'Intel says it had "the internet in mind" when it designed the new III model of this processor'

Answer: Pentium


Question: 'This actress who's been in "E.T." & "Never Been Kissed" was a little scamp when she was your age'

Answer: Drew Barrymore


Question: 'When Mom shakes the thermometer, it's to get this liquid metal to go down'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Panda Express serves the gourmet type of this national cuisine'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'In Sydney, Australia'

Answer: English


Question: 'This river runs from Three Forks, Montana to its mouth 17 miles north of St. Louis'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'If your PC freezes up, a handy way to restart is to hold down Ctrl & Alt & hit this key'

Answer: Delete


Question: 'This actor from Scotland plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"'

Answer: Ewan McGregor


Question: 'To make water put together 1 O, oxygen, with 2 H's, which are this element'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'Using his recipe of 11 herbs & spices, Colonel Harland Sanders founded this restaurant'

Answer: Kentucky Fried Chicken


Question: 'In Tokyo'

Answer: Japanese


Question: 'This lake on the French-Swiss border shares its name with the Swiss city at its southern end'

Answer: Lake Geneva


Question: 'It works like a photocopy machine, but it copies images into the computer'

Answer: Scanner


Question: 'On "Home Improvement", 3-name kids included Zachery Ty Bryan, Taran Noah Smith & him as Randy'

Answer: Jonathan Taylor Thomas


Question: 'The fifth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, it helps build strong bones in your body'

Answer: Calcium


Question: 'This "Pizza! Pizza!" company's logo is a small man in a toga & sandals'

Answer: Little Caesars


Question: 'In Dijon & Bordeaux'

Answer: French


Question: 'Despite its huge size, this saltwater "sea" bordering Iran has no tides'

Answer: Caspian Sea


Question: 'The number of MHz, which stands for this, tells you how fast a computer you have'

Answer: Megahertz


Question: 'This "Suddenly Susan" star sadly split from tennis star Andre Agassi in 1999'

Answer: Brooke Shields


Question: 'Elements like uranium & plutonium are classified as this, meaning they emit rays or waves of energy'

Answer: Radioactive


Question: 'On April Fool's Day 1996 this fast-food chain advertised that it had bought the Liberty Bell'

Answer: Taco Bell


Question: 'In former Leningrad, now St. Petersburg'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'In the end this Dickens character says, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"'

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge


Question: 'Dostoyevsky:<br />"Crimen y Castigo"'

Answer: Crime and Punishment


Question: 'An elasticized cord that's handy for jumping safely from a great height'

Answer: a bungee cord


Question: 'In a remake of "True Grit", Jeff Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn, a role first played onscreen by this legend'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'The 2006 swimsuit issue of this athletic magazine featured a $30 million diamond bikini'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'The tail of the death-stalker type of this arachnid delivers poison that can cause paralysis & heart failure'

Answer: a scorpion


Question: 'V.C. Andrews:<br />"Flores en el Atico"'

Answer: Flowers in the Attic


Question: 'In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden led a "Wild" one'

Answer: bunch


Question: 'Russell Brand was just a kid when this actor originated the role of "Arthur" in 1981'

Answer: Dudley Moore


Question: '2010, not a good year for this U.K. oil co.; in Sept. the EPA fined it $15 million for Clean Air Act violations at a refinery'

Answer: BP


Question: 'This 2nd-largest land mammal has its eyes & ears on top of its head so it can keep track of things from underwater'

Answer: a hippopotamus


Question: 'Since 1927 Prestone has been making this for temperature-challenged engine parts'

Answer: anti-freeze


Question: 'Mitch Albom:<br />"Las Cinco Personas que Encontraras en el Cielo"'

Answer: Five People You Meet in Heaven


Question: 'Western ranch hands often live in this 9-letter cabin or dormitory'

Answer: bunkhouse


Question: 'In the "National Treasure" movies, he plays archaeologist extraordinaire Ben Franklin Gates'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'In 1979 the final construction cost of the JFK Library & Museum, designed by this Chinese American, was $12 million'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'Seen here, the satanic leaf-tailed this won't save you 15% on your car insurance'

Answer: gecko


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of car brakes on the monitor.) If your brakes squeal, it may indicate that these parts the engage the rotors are wearing thin & should be replaced'

Answer: the brake pads


Question: 'A bestselling memoir:<br />"Come, Reza, Ama"'

Answer: Eat, Pray, Love


Question: 'This adjective meaning very large refers to a mythical lumberjack'

Answer: Bunyanesque


Question: 'In 2010 this Oscar winner had a recurring role as Washington lobbyist Marilyn Densham on "Big Love"'

Answer: Sissy Spacek


Question: 'This co-founder of Facebook agreed to donate $100 million to Newark public schools'

Answer: (Mark) Zuckerberg


Question: 'In Madagascar, the male ring-tailed this slashes a tree trunk with a spur to mark his troop's territory'

Answer: a lemur


Question: 'This converter reduces the level of harmful pollutants in a car's exhaust'

Answer: a catalytic converter


Question: 'Beverly Cleary:<br />"El Ratoncito de la Moto"'

Answer: The Mouse and the Motorcycle


Question: 'To botch'

Answer: bungle


Question: 'This dame's roles have included the Mother Superior in "Sister Act", Granny Wendy in "Hook" & Miss Jean Brodie'

Answer: (Maggie) Smith


Question: 'A man who bought 65 negatives at a garage sale said they were the work of this landscape master & worth $200 million'

Answer: (Ansel) Adams


Question: 'Follow your nose to go pro & name this type of monkey seen here, a surprisingly good swimmer'

Answer: proboscis


Question: 'Al-Jaza'ir isn't a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'If you can read this, you're a genius like this Italian born in 1452 who made notes in mirror writing'

Answer: da Vinci


Question: 'Maureen Boyle gave birth to quadruplets known as the "Four on the Fourth" in this month, 1990'

Answer: July


Question: 'He played child psychologist Malcolm Crowe in "The Sixth Sense"'

Answer: (Bruce) Willis


Question: 'The day he left office after 10 years in 2007, he had a new job as a Mideast envoy'

Answer: (Tony) Blair


Question: 'Because of his loyal slave, a Greek known for introducing performers was known as the master of him'

Answer: Ceremonies


Question: 'The Luzon Strait separates Taiwan from this country to the south'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'If you can read this, you're the only one in the world who can decipher Rongorongo, a script from this island, 2,200 miles off Chile'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'Number of babies (boys & girls, not cephalopods) birthed by Nadya Suleman in January 2009'

Answer: eight


Question: '1980's "Hungry Heart" was his first Top 10 hit'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'This early 1830s PM lives on in the name of a popular tea'

Answer: Earl Grey


Question: 'Boy, how he used to talk about these mountains on the edge of Iberia; not like he ever went there'

Answer: Pyrennees


Question: 'This large island forms an autonomous region of Italy along with smaller islands, like Pantelleria'

Answer: Sicily


Question: '...you could transcribe the dictation from the Pitman system of this'

Answer: shorthand


Question: 'How lucky--in 1997 Bobbi McCaughey of Des Moines, Iowa gave birth to the first surviving set of these'

Answer: septuplets


Question: 'This icon of martial arts wrote the book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'Harold Wilson of this party was the last PM to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms, 1964-70 & 1974-76'

Answer: Labor


Question: 'He got this name because of what he was known for "taking" by expressing rude intimacy with a stranger'

Answer: Liberties


Question: 'The gulf of Venezuela, bordering Venezuela & Colombia, is an inlet of this sea'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: 'If you can read this, you know this ancient language of the Bhagavad Gita, but may have trouble keeping up your conversation skills'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'In Canada Elzire Dionne gave birth to this many babies May 28, 1934'

Answer: five


Question: 'He gets a gold medal for being Kim Kardashian's stepdad'

Answer: Bruce Jenner


Question: 'This man "the Younger" took over in 1783 & probably looked much older by 1801'

Answer: William Pitt


Question: 'Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic'

Answer: Miniseries


Question: 'Asia's 2 smallest mainland nations are Qatar at 4,473 square miles & this country west of Syria at 4,015 square miles'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'If you can read this, you can read chapter 3 of the Old Testament book of this man, in the original Aramaic; the first word is "Nebuchadnezzar"'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'On Jan. 11, 1974 mother Susan gave birth to the Rosenkowitz sextuplets via this method'

Answer: caesarean section


Question: 'I'll confess that this "Burn Notice" actor seen here has a killer chin'

Answer: Bruce Campbell


Question: 'Monopoly creator Charles Darrow's sole quote in "the Yale Book of Quotations" includes this 3-digit number'

Answer: 200


Question: 'These minute blood vessels connect arteries & veins'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'David Spade joined the cast of this sketch-comedy show in 1990'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: 'This eye part is also a Greek rainbow deity'

Answer: iris


Question: 'Atahualpa, the last king of these people, was murdered on the orders of Pizarro in 1533'

Answer: the Inca


Question: 'For his "Super Size Me" documentary, Morgan Spurlock gorged himself on 3 meals a day at this chain for 30 days straight'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'Sibling's son<br />(6)'

Answer: nephew


Question: 'Bile, which breaks up large molecules of fatty foods, is made by this organ & stored in the gallbladder'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'In commercials, David got really good at saying this word to customers of a credit card that wasn't Capital One'

Answer: no


Question: 'The title of this Beatty/Hoffman flick refers to a tiny nation, not a Babylonian goddess'

Answer: Ishtar


Question: 'Forced to abdicate in 1918, the last German kaiser had this royal name & number'

Answer: Wilhelm II


Question: 'When this big burger debuted at Burger King in 1957, it cost a mere 37 cents'

Answer: the Whopper


Question: 'Addictive tobacco stimulant<br />(8)'

Answer: nicotine


Question: 'Funny, but the name of this bone is Latin for "upper arm"'

Answer: humerus


Question: 'For all 6 years of this sitcom's run, David played the obnoxious & devious Dennis Quimby Finch'

Answer: "Just Shoot Me!"


Question: 'On "Star Trek" T'Pol, Sarek & Tuvok are full-blooded members of this race'

Answer: the Vulcans


Question: 'The last Romanov ruler of Russia, he was shot to death with his family by Bolsheviks'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: '"Think outside the bun" & enjoy the Mexican food from this chain'

Answer: Taco Bell


Question: 'Elm Street dream<br />(9)'

Answer: nightmare


Question: 'In the Middle Ages, this word referred not only to the finger joints but to the knee as well'

Answer: knuckles


Question: 'David co-starred with this late comedian in "Tommy Boy" & "Black Sheep"'

Answer: Chris Farley


Question: 'Its atomic number is 80 & one of its uses is in barometers'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'Losing power in November 1918, Charles I was the last monarch of this hyphenated empire'

Answer: the Austro-Hungarian Empire


Question: '"Oven toasted tastes better", according to this sandwich chain with more than 3,000 restaurants worldwide'

Answer: Quiznos


Question: 'Ornamental recess<br />(5)'

Answer: a niche


Question: 'The sticky alkaline mucus on your stomach's wall is there to protect it from this corrosive acid'

Answer: hydrochloric acid


Question: 'David's first big-screen role was in "Citizens on Patrol", the fourth film in this series'

Answer: the Police Academy series


Question: 'The original requirements for this workhorse plane, the C-130, included carrying 30,000 pounds of troops or gear'

Answer: "Hercules"


Question: 'Deposed in 1893, she was the last royal ruler of Hawaii'

Answer: Lili\'uokalani


Question: 'The founders of this chain named their famous subs after comparing them to a picture in the dictionary'

Answer: Blimpies


Question: 'Lump of wisdom or chicken meat<br />(6)'

Answer: a nugget


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a scenic fountain in Omaha, NE.)  It opened in downtown Omaha in 1917 with 3 lads in juvenile court & 2 homeless newsies; it's now on 900 acres near the city'

Answer: (Girls and) Boys Town


Question: '1996:<br />Billy Bob Thornton for this story of a mentally handicapped man'

Answer: Sling Blade


Question: 'This Verdi title character is an Ethiopian slave to Pharaoh's daughter'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'A town & gown struggle at Oxford in the early 1200s led some scholars to leave & found this school'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'In 1965 Nicholas Katzenbach replaced this man as LBJ's Attorney General'

Answer: Bobby Kennedy


Question: 'It's the last name of TV's SpongeBob'

Answer: SquarePants


Question: 'Founded in 1917, the company Omaha these brings superb marbling to your dinner table'

Answer: Omaha Steaks


Question: '2004:<br />Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor for this trip through wine country'

Answer: Sideways


Question: 'His opera "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" was inspired by Hans Sachs, who wrote more than 4,200 Meisterlieder'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'The logo for this Ivy League school is seen here'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'In 1997 she took over for Warren Christopher as Secretary of State'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'This type of canoe is propelled with a double-bladed paddle'

Answer: a kayak


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from in front of an Omaha museum.)  In 1865 the first spike of this railroad was driven in Omaha; in 1869 it became part of the transcontinental system'

Answer: the Union Pacific


Question: '1996:<br />Joel & Ethan Coen for this tale of Midwestern murder & mayhem'

Answer: Fargo


Question: 'Heard here in a Gluck opera, this mythological character is lamenting the loss of his beloved'

Answer: Orpheus


Question: 'Its official address is on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh'

Answer: Carnegie Mellon


Question: 'From 1904 to 1908 he was Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of War; in 1909, he became president'

Answer: Taft


Question: 'Often served on Passover, this pungent root is (luckily) not made from the animal in its name'

Answer: horseradish


Question: 'In a museum near the city you can see missiles of the S.A.C., this part of the Air Force that ended with the Cold War'

Answer: the Strategic Air Command


Question: '2005:<br />Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco for this tale of racism in L.A.'

Answer: Crash


Question: 'In operas by Massenet & Puccini, it's the given name of Mlle. Lescaut'

Answer: Manon


Question: 'Harvey Mudd & Pomona Colleges are part of this California consortium of schools'

Answer: Claremont


Question: 'In 1959 Christian Herter didn't "make a fool of himself over" this man; he just replaced him as Secretary of State'

Answer: John Foster Dulles


Question: 'This term is used for items made from clay, including bricks as well as pottery'

Answer: ceramic


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from behind the "bamboo curtain" in Lied Jungle.)  Omaha's renowned zoo includes the Lied Jungle, one of the world's largest one of these vanishing ecosystems'

Answer: a rainforest


Question: '2000:<br />Stephen Gaghan for this look at America's war on drugs'

Answer: Traffic


Question: 'In opera, that "dum-dee-dee-dee-dum" every time the merry carpenter shows up is called one of these'

Answer: a leitmotif (a motif accepted)


Question: 'Along with his wife Sarah, Peter, the founder of this New York "Union" of Art & Architecture, invented Jell-O'

Answer: Cooper


Question: 'Daniel Roper, Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones & Henry Wallace were Commerce Secretaries for this president'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'The Flamenco is a rhythmic dance of this region in Southern Spain'

Answer: Andalusia


Question: 'The only place where 4 countries meet at one point is found on this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Alexander disagreed with this teacher of his, who thought all non-Greeks should be treated as slaves'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Emilio Estevez accesses an embassy's surveillance system in this 1996 Tom Cruise film'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: 'Ladies who gather over needle & thread make up a sewing one of these shapes'

Answer: circle


Question:
'Fiji,
Finland,
France'

Answer: France


Question: 'This tea that's flavored with bergamot was named for a nobleman who was a prime minister to King William IV'

Answer: Earl Gray


Question: 'The tip, point or summit'

Answer: apex


Question: 'This Persian ruler offered Al 10,000 talents & all lands west of the Euphrates for the return of his family'

Answer: Darius


Question: 'Clarence Gilyard Jr. cracks security to open a vault & help take over an office tower in this 1988 film'

Answer: Die Hard


Question: 'Numerical name for the group that includes Smith, Bryn Mawr & Mount Holyoke'

Answer: the Seven Sisters


Question:
'Bahamas,
Bahrain,
Bulgaria'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew dumps her tea and pours a fresh cup of water from the kettle.)  Pour off the hot water after 30 seconds of steeping & replace it, if you prefer your tea without this chemical'

Answer: caffeine


Question: 'In 1613 some 60,000 died of this infectious disease in southern Europe'

Answer: anthrax


Question: 'Alexander grouped his infantry into these formations from the Greek for finger or toe bone'

Answer: phalanx


Question: 'In this 1999 film a character named for the god of dreams searches for the one who will destroy a computer world'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: 'Number in the name of the group of concerts Bob Geldorf organized for July 2, 2005'

Answer: 8


Question:
'Denmark,
Norway,
Sweden'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Manufacturers classify tea in 3 main types; the flavor, color & aroma of this type fall between black & green tea'

Answer: oolong


Question: 'To officially incorporate territory into a country's domain'

Answer: annex


Question: 'This general of Alexander's governed Egypt & Libya & began the dynasty that included Cleopatra'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'Matthew Broderick almost starts WWIII when he hacks into a military computer in this film'

Answer: War Games


Question: 'As president, Andrew Jackson had an informal group of advisors popularly called this cozy 2-word name'

Answer: the Kitchen Cabinet


Question:
'Ethiopia,
Somalia,
Djibouti'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Blueberries & dried cranberries are often added to this Scottish quick bread, a classic with tea'

Answer: scones


Question: 'The word vermiform, meaning wormlike, often precedes this body part'

Answer: the appendix


Question: 'Cyrano could have told you the name of this Bactrian princess who became Alexander's first wife'

Answer: Roxane


Question: 'Seth Green invents an algorithm to change the color of traffic lights in this 2003 L.A. heist film'

Answer: The Italian Job


Question: 'Sometimes these goddesses of destiny are identified as Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos'

Answer: the Fates


Question:
'Panama,
Colombia,
Venezuela'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'This black tea grown in the foothills of the Himalayas is named for an Indian district'

Answer: darjeeling


Question: 'A conclusion that is far less important or less powerful than expected'

Answer: anticlimax


Question: 'Staffer Alexander Butterfield shocked the U.S. by saying that this president taped his Oval Office conversations'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'To answer this hit canine question from the Baha Men, sorry, it was me, so please stop asking me about it'

Answer: "Who Let The Dogs Out?"


Question: 'Afloat since 1879, it was originally to be called "The White Soap"'

Answer: Ivory soap


Question: 'This 2005 Nobel Laureate's 1st wife, Vivien Merchant, appeared in many of his plays, including "The Homecoming"'

Answer: Pinter


Question:
'"Christmas Carol",
Bob's boy,
sickly sort'

Answer: Tiny Tim


Question: 'North & South America, to the Europeans following Columbus' discovery'

Answer: the New World


Question: 'In the War of 1812 this Baltimore fort endured a day-long bombing by British Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane'

Answer: Fort McHenry


Question: 'Tom Jones purr-fectly crooned this 1965 Top 5 hit'

Answer: "What\'s New Pussycat?"


Question: 'You might have this "for life" as well as for the Aqua Pure variety of this body bar'

Answer: Zest


Question: 'He co-starred in his own play "Private Lives" with Gertrude Lawrence, a close friend of his since his youth'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question:
'Pure poet,
liked Lincoln,
suffered stroke,
lovely "leaves"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'Collective name for the 1930s policies of reform introduced to end the Depression'

Answer: the New Deal


Question: 'Richard Dreyfuss played this "in charge" secretary of state in the TV movie "The Day Reagan Was Shot"'

Answer: Alexander Haig


Question: '1987 Madonna tune that was No. 1 & 1987 Madonna movie that wasn't quite as popular'

Answer: "Who\'s That Girl"


Question: 'This soap brand sponsored a "Radio Theatre" from 1934 to 1955 & a "Video Theatre" on TV from 1950 to 1957'

Answer: Lux


Question: '(Edward Albee reads the clue.)  I once hoped that this woman would star in the film version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; her famous line "What a dump!" is quoted in my play'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question:
'"Twelve Traditions",
positive program,
William Wilson's will'

Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous


Question: 'Modern cultural movement emphasizing alternative approaches to spirituality'

Answer: New Age


Question: 'Alexander V got this "negative" title after a 1409 election by the invalid Council of Pisa; he was later poisoned in 1410'

Answer: Antipope


Question: 'The Bee Gees also asked, "How can a loser ever win?" in this 1971 song about fixing a serious medical problem'

Answer: "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart"


Question: 'Once "the soap of beautiful women", this fragrant bar with a French-sounding name  was introduced in 1926'

Answer: Camay


Question: 'Lily Rabe, who appeared in the 2005 revival of "Steel Magnolias", is the daughter of Jill Clayburgh & this playwright'

Answer: David Rabe


Question:
'Denison designed,
Westminster wow,
classy clock'

Answer: Big Ben


Question: 'He discovered calculus & formulated the laws of motion'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'Pope Alexander VI sired Cesare Borgia & this notorious sister'

Answer: Lucrezia Borgia


Question: 'Ray Charles wondered (repeatedly) about words he spoke to his "baby" in this 1959 tune'

Answer: "What\'d I Say"


Question: 'The original transparent soap, this fruity British brand long used the painting seen here in its advertising'

Answer: Pears


Question: 'Frances Farmer had a disastrous affair with this playwright while appearing on Broadway in his play "Golden Boy"'

Answer: Clifford Odets


Question:
'Delightful dancer,
African-American,
radiant "Revelations",
Manhattan man'

Answer: Alvin Ailey


Question: 'First awarded in 1922, this medal is given out for excellence in U.S. children's literature'

Answer: the Newbery


Question: 'Its name includes the county of which it's the seat & the state of which it's the capital'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'In 1998 Congress designated this Little Rock high school a National Historic Site'

Answer: Central High


Question: 'Riding without a saddle'

Answer: bareback


Question: 'In WWII, Germany built more than 1,100 of these subs; more than half were sunk at sea'

Answer: U-boats


Question: 'If you're using the ol' bean, you're using this'

Answer: your brain


Question: 'Roy Blunt of Missouri is the majority one in the House of Representatives'

Answer: a whip


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shuffles uphill on skis in Park City, UT.)  As well as a suit pattern, it's a technique of climbing a hill by pointing your skis outward'

Answer: herringbone


Question: 'A portion of this avenue between the Capitol & the White House was designated a National Historic Site in 1965'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'The legal instrument to spring you after an arrest'

Answer: a bail bond


Question: '"As we live a life of ease, every one of us has all we need" aboard this colorful 1966 vessel'

Answer: a Yellow Submarine


Question: 'Puritan women in this city baked beans on Saturday & served them for Sunday dinner, thus the nickname "Beantown"'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Playing Lieutenant Howard Hunter, James B. Sikking led this team on "Hill Street Blues"'

Answer: a SWAT team


Question: 'In this type of skiing that includes moguls, shorter poles are used for maneuverability'

Answer: freestyle skiing


Question: 'The only college listed as a National Historic Site, it was founded by Booker T. Washington'

Answer: Tuskegee


Question: 'A menorah is the symbol of this international organization founded in 1843'

Answer: B\'nai B\'rith


Question: 'Decommissioned in 1980, this first nuclear-powered sub is on display in Connecticut'

Answer: the Nautilus


Question: 'This term is sometimes applied to a tall, lanky person'

Answer: string bean (or beanpole)


Question: 'A cord used on laundry day in sunny weather'

Answer: a clothesline


Question: 'It's the sound of the skis bouncing rapidly off hard snow--keep your knees & ankles flexed to make it shut up'

Answer: chattering


Question: 'This poet & biographer's site isn't in Illinois but in Flat Rock, N.C.; he moved there & raised goats'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'In Internet domain names, this country of the West Indies'

Answer: Barbados


Question: 'A supposed sea creature, actually a sub, sinks Professor Pierre Aronnax' boat in this classic 19th century tale'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by Jules Verne)


Question: 'This bean curd product is sometimes substituted for sour cream in dips'

Answer: tofu


Question: 'On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark'

Answer: a slash


Question: 'An amphitheater in Vail, Colorado is named for this U.S. president, a skiing aficionado'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'The Golden Spike National Historic Site commemorates the completion of this in 1869'

Answer: the Transcontinental Railroad


Question: 'Friction reducers noted on technical drawings'

Answer: ball bearings


Question: 'On Feb. 17, 1864 it became the first sub to sink an enemy ship, the Union's Housatonic'

Answer: the Hunley


Question: 'In November 1969 Pete Conrad & this man became the third & fourth humans to set foot on the Moon'

Answer: Alan Bean


Question: 'It precedes "Monaco" in this name of a brand owned by Ralph Lauren'

Answer: club


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew skids to a stop on skis in Park City, UT.)  Introduced in 1868, this turn that ski jumpers use to stop is named for what Norway's capital was then called'

Answer: christiania


Question: 'He was ordained a priest in 1507 & in 1508 became an instructor of philosophy at the University of Wittenberg'

Answer: Luther


Question: '"Belle" & "Be Our Guest" were nominated, too, but it was this film's title song that won the Oscar'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'Surname of Romeo's father<br />(8)'

Answer: Montague


Question: 'We're not sure, but this word for "Q" might try to secede from Canada'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'One final electoral college tally was Alf Landon, 8, this Democrat, 523'

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt


Question: 'National Polish-American sports hall of famers include Ted Kluszewski, Pete Stemkowski & this former Eagles QB'

Answer: Ron Jaworski


Question: 'January 28 if the feast day of this 13th c. man who proved the existence of God, among other feats'

Answer: (Thomas) Aquinas


Question: 'This song about precipitation won Burt Bacharach & Hal David a 1969 Oscar'

Answer: "Raindrops Keep Fallin\' On My Head"


Question: '"Midsummer" fairy with an insect name<br />(4)'

Answer: Moth


Question: 'It shouldn't take you a month to come up with this word for "N"'

Answer: November


Question: 'Strom Thurmond got 39 Electoral College votes in 1948, the year this Republican didn't defeat Truman'

Answer: Dewey


Question: 'Part of Korczak Ziolkowski's family is seen here with a model of his huge statue of this Indian leader'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'This Scottish reformation leader helped revise the Church of England's prayer book in 1552'

Answer: Knox


Question: '"Lose Yourself" won this rapper an Oscar in 2003, but he took its title to heart & didn't show up to accept'

Answer: Eminem


Question: 'Prospero is the deposed Duke of it<br />(5)'

Answer: Milan


Question: 'Hello?... Hello?... Is there this word for "E" in here?... Hello?... Hello?...'

Answer: echo


Question: 'Don't think George McClellan needed a recount when this man gave him an electoral smackdown, 212-21'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'This Pole in exile met an American in Paris & soon found himself fighting for American freedom'

Answer: Pulaski


Question: 'Shortly after writing "Institutes of the Christian Religion", he settled in Geneva & made it a center of Protestantism'

Answer: John Calvin


Question: 'This 1968 winner was from "The Thomas Crown Affair", not "Man of La Mancha"'

Answer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind"


Question: 'The last proper name spoken by Macbeth<br />(7)'

Answer: Macduff


Question: 'Give me this word for "W" & don't be stingy, baby'

Answer: whiskey


Question: 'This 19th century president ran 3 times & got a total of 664 electoral votes'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'This "Being There" novelist escaped the Holocaust but committed suicide in New York in 1991'

Answer: Jerzy Kozinski


Question: 'During King Philip's War, this minister acted as captain of the Providence Militia & fought the Indians'

Answer: Roger Williams (from Providence, Rhode Island)


Question: 'It isn't hard to name this song from "Nashville" that won Keith Carradine an Oscar'

Answer: "I\'m Easy"


Question: 'Feminine form of address for character Quickly<br />(8)'

Answer: Mistress


Question: 'They're the 2 dances on the list'

Answer: tango & foxtrot


Question: 'This 19th century man lost the popular vote by about 250,000 but took the presidency by 1 electoral vote'

Answer: Hayes


Question: 'He's the early 20th century prime minister seen here'

Answer: Paderewski


Question: 'In 2004 Brenda Christian became the first woman mayor of this island with a population of about 47'

Answer: Pitcairn Island


Question: 'The scrolls are written in Hebrew, Aramaic & this, just like the Bible'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'This industrialist from Michigan ran for the Senate in 1918, & lost'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'Bataan'

Answer: The Philippines


Question: 'Genevieve Bujold starred in this shaky disaster pic originally released in Sensurround'

Answer: Earthquake


Question: 'In a famous title, Irving Stone paired it with "Agony"'

Answer: Ecstasy


Question: 'Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 & married Tatum O'Neal in 1986'

Answer: John McEnroe


Question: 'A shepherd found the scrolls after he threw a rock into a cave & heard it break one of these'

Answer: Ceramic pot


Question: 'This N.Y. radio host dropped out of the governor's race in 1994, refusing to disclose his finances'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: 'Kruger'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'The survivors climb higher & higher to the bottom of the ship in this Irwin Allen spectacular'

Answer: The Poseidon Adventure


Question: 'The part of an atom that orbits around the nucleus'

Answer: Electron


Question: 'Born Garri Weinstein in Azerbaijan in 1963, he was a Soviet chess champ at 13 & world champ at 22'

Answer: Garry Kasparov


Question: 'In 1954 a Syrian Orthodox bishop sold 4 scrolls through an ad in this financial daily paper'

Answer: The Wall Street Journal


Question: 'This author of "The Jungle" ran for governor of California in 1934'

Answer: Upton Sinclair


Question: 'Gallipoli Peninsula'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'This Pierce Brosnan vehicle preceded the similar disaster film "Volcano" in 1997'

Answer: Dante\'s Peak


Question: 'Elands are grouped among these hoofed animals'

Answer: Antelopes


Question: 'Born in Liverpool, he sang a bit, produced Monty Python movies & later became a Wilbury'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'The scrolls tell of life in the Holy Land during the time of the second of these, destroyed in 70 A.D.'

Answer: The second Temple


Question: 'When Norman Mailer ran for NYC mayor in '69, his running mate was this "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" author'

Answer: Jimmy Breslin


Question: 'Darien'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Rene Russo fights to stop a deadly virus from spreading in this 1995 thriller'

Answer: Outbreak


Question: 'Ocean in which you'd find Ellesmere Island'

Answer: Arctic Ocean


Question: 'Born near Ancona in 1870, she was Italy's first woman to get a medical degree & taught kids in a new way'

Answer: Maria Montessori


Question: 'Arabic name of the area on the shore of the Dead Sea where the first scrolls were found'

Answer: Qumran


Question: 'It was wait, loss, wait, loss when this comedian failed at tries to be mayor of Chicago & U.S. president'

Answer: Dick Gregory


Question: 'Exuma Cays'

Answer: Bahamas


Question: 'In 1935 one of the earliest disaster movies told the story of the "Last Days" of this city'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'City & country in which the dynasty of the Ptolemies was founded'

Answer: Alexandria, Egypt


Question: 'This 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner was born near Stavropol & in 1970 became that city's Communist party secretary'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'This soft-stemmed swamp plant is named for its skunk-like odor'

Answer: Skunk cabbage


Question: 'It's not unusual that this hipster had his first hit with "It's Not Unusual" in 1965'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'Barbara Cook won a Tony for playing Marian the Librarian in the original production of this musical'

Answer: The Music Man


Question: 'In March of 1957, this rock star sold the home seen here at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis & moved into bigger digs'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Morgan Freeman film where he drives his web-footed boss to her boyfriend Donald's house'

Answer: "Driving Miss Daisy Duck"


Question: 'Chickweed & soapwort, as well as carnations, are members of this "colorful" family'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'He's the "animal" seen here'

Answer: Davy Jones (of The Monkees)


Question: 'He read almost as well as he wrote:  "Do not go gentle into that good night..."'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'Gwen Verdon kicked up her heels as Claudine in this classic Cole Porter musical named for a dance'

Answer: Can-Can


Question: 'Scout's Rest Ranch in North Platte, Nebraska was the home of this great western showman'

Answer: Buffalo Bill Cody


Question: 'One of the quartet of fighting terrapins uses it to give his shell a brilliant shine'

Answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Wax


Question: 'Cloth-of-gold & saffron are species of this hardy perennial in the iris family'

Answer: Crocus


Question: 'She's Mrs. Marty Ingels'

Answer: Shirley Jones


Question: 'In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married & published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole"'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'Adelaide & the chorus girls at the Hot Box Club sing "Take Back Your Mink" in Act II of this musical'

Answer: Guys And Dolls


Question: 'This American author's estate outside Havana was called Finca Vigia, or Lookout Farm'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Dick Clark's dance show featuring U.S. citizens who misbehave abroad'

Answer: "The Ugly American Bandstand"


Question: 'In the 1700s Linnaeus standardized this system of giving each species a genus & a species name'

Answer: Binomial nomenclature


Question: 'This "large" 3-time All-Pro Dallas Cowboy took time off from football to box in 1979'

Answer: Ed "Too Tall" Jones"


Question: 'In 1998 this young pop star published her poems in the book "A Night Without Armor"'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'Mary Tyler Moore stepped lightly as Holly Golightly in a short-lived musical based on this short novel'

Answer: Breakfast At Tiffany\'s


Question: 'Now a memorial to him, his Arlington house was inherited by his wife, Mary Randolph Custis'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'The end of his Rico character comes when he's marooned on an island'

Answer: Edward G. Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'The pollen of a perfect flower is contained in this enlarged tip of the stamen'

Answer: Anther


Question: 'A left-wing American magazine bears the name of this labor union official born in Cork, Ireland in 1830'

Answer: Mother Jones


Question: 'Author heard here reading an entire poem:<br />"So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens"'

Answer: William Carlos Williams


Question: 'Tom Thumb, The Ringmaster, & Jenny Lind are all characters in this musical'

Answer: Barnum


Question: 'The ceiling of the great hall in this Cornelius Vanderbilt home in Rhode Island is painted as a cloud-swept sky'

Answer: The Breakers


Question: 'Opera diva who was Nazi Germany's last major counteroffensive in December 1944'

Answer: Kathleen Battle of the Bulge


Question: 'To defeat some of his enemies, this son of Zeus turned them into stone'

Answer: Perseus


Question: 'According to Leviticus 20:10, it's death to both parties involved who committeth this'

Answer: Adultery


Question: 'The owner of the stud farm where this "talking" horse was bred is seeking landmark status for the site'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'The usual color of the flesh of a honeydew melon'

Answer: Green


Question: '"Superstition" singer that builds strong bodies 12 ways'

Answer: Stevie Wonder Bread


Question: 'During World War II, the Russian species of this yellow lawn weed was used as a source of rubber'

Answer: Dandelion


Question: 'Blasphemeth his name & it's bye-bye you'

Answer: The Lord


Question: '"Men Are Pigs", Tim Allen's Showtime special about men's love for hardware, inspired this series'

Answer: "Home Improvement"


Question: 'The scallion is also known as this "onion"'

Answer: Green Onion


Question: 'Outdoor magazine that says "You like me....you really like me"'

Answer: "Sally Field And Stream"


Question: 'Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'This U.S. city has been called "The Rubber Capital of the World"'

Answer: Akron, Ohio


Question: 'Exodus 21:12 says if you smiteth a man so much that he does this, so do you'

Answer: Die


Question: '(Hi, I'm Chris Hardwick.)  In 1985 MTV launched this sister channel to play adult contemporary & soft-rock videos for an older generation'

Answer: VH1


Question: 'It's also called a snap bean from the sound it makes when broken in half'

Answer: Green Bean


Question: 'Walt Whitman poem about Mr. Green Jeans' buddy'

Answer: "O Captain! My Captain Kangaroo"


Question: 'This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops'

Answer: Caesars Palace


Question: 'In the 1830s this inventor bought the rights to a process for treating rubber with sulfur'

Answer: Charles Goodyear


Question: 'St. Stephen became the first Christian martyr after being killed by this method'

Answer: Stoning


Question: '"Laverne & Shirley" was the top show of 1977-78; this series from which it was spun off was No. 2'

Answer: "Happy Days"


Question: 'Term for the edible leaves of the turnip, beet & collard'

Answer: Greens


Question: 'Daily newspaper of the group founded by Mary Baker Eddy's komodo dragon'

Answer: "The Christian Science Monitor Lizard"


Question: 'Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826'

Answer: Quincy Market


Question: 'In 1823 he cemented 2 pieces of wool with a rubber compound to create the garment now named for him'

Answer: MacIntosh


Question: 'According to Exodus, "Thou shalt not suffer" one of these "to live"'

Answer: witch


Question: 'In "Newhart"'s final episode, Bob Newhart woke up with this former TV wife by his side'

Answer: Suzanne Pleshette


Question: 'A mature Rome beauty apple has skin of this color'

Answer: Red


Question: '"Atlas Shrugged" atlas maker'

Answer: Ayn Rand McNally


Question: 'This L.A. street noted for its Mexican handicrafts is named for Los Angeles' first county judge'

Answer: Olivera Street


Question: 'In 1770 this oxygen discoverer found that rubber could be used to erase pencil marks'

Answer: Joseph Priestley


Question: 'The camera might travel on this wheeled platform to track a character down Madison Ave.'

Answer: a dolly


Question: 'On August 2, 1964 a U.S. destroyer was attacked by the North Vietnamese in this gulf'

Answer: the Gulf of Tonkin


Question: 'Wind 12-18" of it around your index fingers, slip it between 2 teeth to the gum & scrape both sides'

Answer: dental floss


Question: '"Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there un-dead."'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'Big ones first held in the 1860s include Canada's Queen's Plate & the Belmont Stakes'

Answer: horse races


Question: 'In this football play, linebackers rush a quarterback to sack him'

Answer: a blitz


Question: 'The best man attends the groom & this person assists the head electrician'

Answer: best boy


Question: 'On Oct. 30, 1995 voters in this Canadian province narrowly rejected a proposal for independence'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'Put the point at the center of the desired circle & swing the pencil around it'

Answer: a compass


Question: '"Four legs good, <br /> two legs bad!"'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: '1890s outfielder Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot tribe inspired this name of Cleveland's baseball team'

Answer: the Indians


Question:
'(AUDIO Daily Double):
Song title that follows the line heard here:
"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits...."'

Answer: "Puttin\' On The Ritz"


Question: 'This term for a handler of animals on the set can also mean a cowboy'

Answer: wrangler


Question: 'On April 6, 1909 he & his assistant Matthew Henson reached 90 degrees N. latitude'

Answer: Robert Peary


Question: 'To add 14 to another number, shift 4 beads on the 1s wire & 1 bead on the 10s wire'

Answer: an abacus


Question: '"I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester:  I could not unlove him now"'

Answer: Jane Eyre


Question: 'In 1875 the All England Croquet Club added this other lawn sport to its activities'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow'

Answer: a sitz mark


Question: 'Medical term for one who revises a script without credit; writer Robert Towne is a "specialist"'

Answer: a script doctor


Question: 'Hammer it into a crack in the rock & clip a carabiner to its eye through which to run rope'

Answer: a piton


Question: '"Lennie said, 'I might jus' as well go away.  George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now.'"'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'They were successively stuffed with feathers, molded of gutta-percha & wound with rubber'

Answer: golf balls


Question: 'John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather sported this "sweet" nickname'

Answer: "Honey Fitz"


Question: 'A jump one is an abrupt transition; a rough one is a stage in editing'

Answer: cut


Question: 'Place the electric pads to the chest, press down, yell "Clear!" & hit the button'

Answer: defibrillator


Question: '"'What a pretty little Nell!' cried Quilp."'

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop


Question: 'Jackson Haines, previously a teacher of this art, introduced its moves to figure skating'

Answer: ballet


Question: 'Synonymous with "meddle" or "snoop", this Yiddish word means to offer unsolicited advice'

Answer: kibitz


Question: 'He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday'

Answer: Alf Landon


Question: 'This North American country declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939'

Answer: Canada


Question: '1979:<br />"The ___ Horror"'

Answer: Amityville


Question: 'This 1813 novel about the Bennet sisters has been called a chick lit classic'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question:
'(Alex chats with Elmo on Sesame Street.)
"Elmo, did you know that kiwis are an excellent source of vitamin C, which is also known as this acid?"
"Well, Elmo love kiwis!"
"Good!"'

Answer: ascorbic acid


Question: 'In this 1987 film Holly Hunter's tears are real but William Hurt's are not'

Answer: Broadcast News


Question: 'Celia Cruz, who passed away in 2003, was long hailed as the "Queen of" this style of music'

Answer: salsa


Question: 'On May 27, 1941 this German battleship was sunk in the East Atlantic'

Answer: the Bismarck


Question: '1957:<br />"The Spirit of ___"'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'Becky, who can't stop buying stuff, was introduced in "Confessions of" this pathological type'

Answer: a Shopaholic


Question:
'(Alex visits Oscar the Grouch's aluminum abode on Sesame Street.)
"You know what, Oscar?  On my pizza, I'm one of those people who really likes this calcium-rich herring relative.  What about you?"
"Well, I like 'em in my milkshakes."
"What?  You're not serious."
"Heh heh."'

Answer: anchovies


Question: '"Let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks", says this title Shakespeare guy to daughter Regan'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Better not miss this one--it's Spanish for "miss", as in an unmarried woman'

Answer: señorita


Question: 'On April 28, 1945 Clara Petacci died alongside this man, her lover for more than a decade'

Answer: Mussolini


Question: '1987:<br />"Born in ___"'

Answer: East L.A.


Question: 'Cate longs for love while in multiple weddings in Whitney Lyles' "Always" one of these'

Answer: a Bridesmaid


Question:
'(Alex habla con Rosita en Sesame Street.)
"Rosita is very familiar with this word, naranja."
"And Alex knows that naranja means this."'

Answer: orange


Question: 'I defy you not to lose it when Travis Coates has to shoot this 1957 movie dog'

Answer: Old Yeller


Question: 'Referring to mountains with a saw-toothed appearance, it precedes Madre & Nevada'

Answer: sierra


Question: 'This battle & German counterattack began on December 16, 1944'

Answer: the Battle of the Bulge


Question: '1931:<br />"Sidewalks of ___"'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Samantha longs for love on Capitol Hill in "Sammy's Hill" by Kristin, daughter of this politician'

Answer: Al Gore


Question:
'(This next clue is brought to you by the letter P.)
"Hey, Big Bird, isn't it true that good nutrition is one of the special themes on 'Sesame Street' this year?"
"Oh, yes, it is, & did you know that eggs are incredibly rich in this?"
[Alex opens the egg carton, to the eggs' delight.]
"Yayyy!  Yayyy!"
"Quiet, you guys, quiet!"'

Answer: protein


Question: 'He went from front-runner for the '72 Democratic nomination back to simply senator after reportedly crying in N.H.'

Answer: Edmund Muskie


Question: 'At a fiesta, you might raise a glass of sangria & make a toast using this word that means "health"'

Answer: salud


Question: 'At 8:15 A.M. on the 6th of this month in 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima'

Answer: August


Question: '1960:<br />"Sunrise at ___"'

Answer: Campobello


Question: 'This HBO series originated with Candace Bushnell's newspaper column'

Answer: Sex and the City


Question:
'(Alex visits Oscar once more.)
"You know, Trebek, I don't know why people throw away perfectly good apple peels."
"I don't either, Oscar, because they're a great source of this material, also called bulk, which is really needed for digestion."
"Hmm."'

Answer: fiber


Question: 'This head coach shed a few public tears as he led the Rams to a Super Bowl win in 2000'

Answer: Dick Vermeil


Question: 'If you see this word on a door, you've found the exit'

Answer: salida


Question: 'This childhood disease is caused by a paramyxovirus that causes the parotid glands to swell up'

Answer: mumps


Question: 'If a girl gets a small charm, she'll most likely wear it attached to this piece of wristwear'

Answer: a bracelet


Question: 'Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in "Lohengrin" by ad-libbing, "What time is the next" this graceful bird'

Answer: swan


Question: 'In book titles, it follows "Prozac" & "Fast Food"'

Answer: Nation


Question: 'Groucho Marx played Captain Spaulding in this 1930 film adapted from a hit Broadway show of the same name'

Answer: Animal Crackers


Question: 'Before beginning his famous search, this Welsh-born journalist covered the Indian campaigns in the American West'

Answer: Stanley


Question: 'This disease caused by a parasitic protozoan was once thought to be caused by swamp exhalations'

Answer: malaria


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from horseback in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.)  On the Western saddle, a cowboy can attach his lariat to the high one of these parts, also called the horn'

Answer: a pommel


Question: 'His new "Tosca" was the toasta Roma in 1900'

Answer: Puccini


Question: 'An early motion picture theater, or a present-day cable network'

Answer: nickelodeon


Question: 'In the 1950s the song "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" was the theme song for this Groucho Marx TV show'

Answer: You Bet Your Life


Question: 'On seeing one of these Paul du Chaillu wrote, "He was not afraid of us.  He stood there, and beat his breast..."'

Answer: a gorilla


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a laboratory at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  An artificial retina developed with the aid of North Carolina State University engineers may cure this type of degeneration named for a spot at the center of a retina'

Answer: macular


Question: 'The calcaneofibular one of these bands of tissue attaches your fibula to your heel bone'

Answer: a ligament


Question: 'Verdi's first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'Vitamin B3'

Answer: niacin


Question: 'While in character as the African explorer Captain Spaulding, Groucho wore this type of distinctive helmet'

Answer: a pith helmet


Question: 'In 1849 missionary Ludwig Krapf sighted the 2 snow-capped peaks of this "national" mountain but did not climb it'

Answer: Mt. Kenya


Question: 'The lower portion of the brain stem, its name means "long marrow" in Latin'

Answer: the medulla oblongata


Question: 'Fountains of Wayne sang of "working all day for a mean little man with" this kind of tie "and a rub-on tan"'

Answer: a clip-on tie


Question: 'This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna'

Answer: Don Giovanni


Question: 'This university's address is 633 Clark Street, Evanston'

Answer: Northwestern


Question: 'At the center of the Captain's antics is a quest for one of these expensive items that has been stolen'

Answer: a painting


Question: 'Between 1420 & 1432 this prince sponsored many expeditions to round Cape Bojador; the 14th succeeded'

Answer: Henry the Navigator


Question: 'This heart valve connects the left atrium & the left ventricle'

Answer: the mitral (valve)


Question: 'Actors attach false beards with this "ghostly" substance'

Answer: spirit gum


Question: 'Fragments of the "Ode to Joy" appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer's only one'

Answer: Fidelio


Question: 'This university's address is 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston'

Answer: Northeastern


Question: 'Groucho's line that he'll "try to make her" was cut from the final film following demands by this censorship office'

Answer: the Hays Office


Question: 'On July 21, 1796 Mungo Park became the first European to sight this long West African river'

Answer: the Niger


Question: 'He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title'

Answer: Henry Kissinger


Question: 'It's the spice in Connecticut's state nickname that you might sprinkle into your eggnog on a cold Connecticut night'

Answer: nutmeg


Question: 'Track 7 on his "30 No. 1 Hits" album is "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"'

Answer: Elvis


Question: 'Vote did he get, this 900-year-old "Star Wars" character'

Answer: Yoda


Question: 'Aristotle was a tutor of this world conqueror'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'An inexpensive establishment of dubious hygiene is known as a "greasy" this utensil'

Answer: a spoon


Question: 'Honey-making hive homey'

Answer: bee


Question: 'Connecticut's official state hero is this native son who was executed by the British in 1776'

Answer: Nathan Hale


Question: 'In 2002 the teddy bear, or as it was originally called, Teddy's Bear, celebrated this anniversary'

Answer: its 100-year anniversary


Question: 'AKA Forsythe Pendleton Jones in the "Archie" comics series, he got a vote'

Answer: Jughead


Question: 'It's the more familiar way that Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great is known'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'If Giuseppe is a trattore, or restaurateur, this is the type of Italian restaurant he runs'

Answer: a trattoria


Question: 'Wynken & Blynken's buddy'

Answer: Nod


Question: 'Bridgeport, Connecticut has a P.T. Barnum museum & a statue of this tiny "General"'

Answer: Tom Thumb


Question: 'American Greetings turned these into a card line, a stuffed animal line & an animated film series'

Answer: the Care Bears


Question: 'This "everyman" name, also the bassist/vocalist of the punk band X, got 4 votes'

Answer: John Doe


Question: 'King Darius the Great of this empire sent an army into Greece in 490 B.C., but it was defeated at Marathon'

Answer: the Persian Empire


Question: 'At a sushi bar, spice wimps should learn the word "sabinuki", or "no" this'

Answer: wasabi


Question: 'A large, unruly crowd of people, perhaps headed by Lucky Luciano'

Answer: mob


Question: 'Joe Lieberman & this man are Connecticut's U.S. Senate team'

Answer: (Christopher) Dodd


Question: 'Subject of a 1930s novelty song; in 1993 9,750 bears & their owners attended one set up in New Zealand'

Answer: teddy bear\'s picnic


Question: '1 vote for this Missouri-born talk show host whom Al Franken called "a Big Fat Idiot" in a 1996 book'

Answer: Rush Limbaugh


Question: 'A prolific fighter & builder, he ruled Egypt from about 1290 to 1223 B.C.'

Answer: Ramses the Great


Question: 'Buca dell'Orafo is in the cellar of what was once a goldsmith's shop near the Ponte Vecchio in this city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'A beam of light, or Mr. Charles'

Answer: ray


Question: 'New London, Connecticut is the home of this U.S. military academy'

Answer: the Coast Guard Academy


Question: 'An old stuffed bear from this German company sold at auction in 1994 for a lot of the green stuff--$158,000'

Answer: Steiff


Question: '3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934'

Answer: Donald Duck


Question: 'The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was a retaining wall this "Great" king had built to shore up the temple platform'

Answer: Herod the Great


Question: 'When Hiltl opened in Zurich in 1898, its customers were called Grasfresser, as it's this kind of restaurant'

Answer: a vegetarian restaurant


Question: 'Top-fermented beer relative'

Answer: ale


Question: 'This large lake straddles France & Switzerland; Switzerland has the largest part'

Answer: Lake Geneva


SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Question: '1996 & 2000:<br />A golfer'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'The Everly Brothers sang close two-part ones'

Answer: harmonies


Question: 'Poe:<br />"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered ____ and ____"'

Answer: weak & weary


Question: 'The finger of this man (d. 1642) was snipped off as his remains were moved & is now at Museo di Storia della Scienzia'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Use your birr to buy a beer in this country that borders Djibouti & Eritrea'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Oregon.)  On October 16, 1805, Lewis & Clark reached this river--the final water link to take them to the Pacific'

Answer: the Columbia


SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Question: '1991:<br />A pro basketball player'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'Liszt was among the customers of Bosendorfer, a firm that's been making these since 1828'

Answer: pianos


Question: 'William Blake: <br />"Tyger!  Tyger!  _____ _____ in the forests of the night"'

Answer: burning bright


Question: 'This "Mont Blanc" poet was exhumed due to a Tuscan act that required all bodies that washed ashore be burned'

Answer: Shelley


Question: 'Thinking green, biologist Ernst Haeckel coined this term for the way animals interact with the environment'

Answer: ecology


Question: 'This country's Lake Taal sits in the crater of an old volcano on the island of Luzon'

Answer: the Philippines


SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Question: '2004:<br />A baseball team'

Answer: the Red Sox


Question: 'Da gamba, or "for the leg", follows this in the name of the instrument seen here'

Answer: viola


Question:
'Coleridge:
"____, ____ everywhere and all the
boards did shrink"'

Answer: water, water


Question: 'This 1982 movie revolved around a house built on top of a graveyard where the headstones had been removed'

Answer: Poltergeist


Question: 'Colonel Paul Tibbets was at the controls of this B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945'

Answer: the Enola Gay


Question: 'The Green River is its largest tributary; they meet up in southeastern Utah'

Answer: the Colorado River


SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Question: '1977:<br />A teenage jockey'

Answer: Steve Cauthen


Question: '"Checkout" this term for an area of the vocal range, like the middle one & the lower or chest one'

Answer: register


Question:
'Robert Burns:
"O, my luve's like a
___, ___ ___ that's newly sprung in June"'

Answer: red, red rose


Question: 'After Charles II was restored in 1660, he had this man exhumed from Westminster Abbey, hanged & decapitated'

Answer: Cromwell


Question: 'In a movie this type of shot lets the audience know where the ensuing action is taking place'

Answer: an establishing shot


Question: 'The south arm of this sea, named for the Englishman who explored it in 1841, is an ice shelf'

Answer: the Ross Sea


SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Question: '1959:<br />A Swedish boxer'

Answer: Ingemar Johansson


Question: 'Webster's defines this word as "a chord of three tones consisting of a root with its third and fifth"'

Answer: a triad


Question: 'Frost:<br />"The woods are lovely, ___ and ___ / But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep"'

Answer: dark & deep


Question: 'Matthew Henson, author of "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole", was reinterred aptly near this admiral in 1988'

Answer: Peary


Question: 'In 1817 at age 51, Eli Whitney wed the 31-year-old granddaughter of this "Great Awakening" clergyman'

Answer: Jonathan Edwards


Question: 'Henry James called her "the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom"'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: '"Alexey...was the third son of Fyodor...who became notorious...because of his tragic...death"'

Answer: The Brothers Karamazov


Question: 'Casaba & Santa Claus'

Answer: melons


Question: 'A dangerous new virus is actually 2 files which share their names with these 2 Shakespearean lovers'

Answer: Romeo & Juliet


Question: 'Now starring on "Touched by an Angel", in the '50s she brought gospel music to Las Vegas'

Answer: Della Reese


Question: 'Begun in 1815, America's first large-scale monument to this man towers above Mount Vernon Place'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Bats love to hang out in this church tower'

Answer: belfry


Question: '"Dean was having his kicks; he put on a jazz record, grabbed Marylou...and bounced against her with the beat"'

Answer: On the Road


Question: 'Acorn & Hubbard'

Answer: squash


Question: 'A virus was sent as a picture of this 20-year-old tennis star; needless to say it was a popular virus'

Answer: Anna Kournikova


Question: 'This singer's shapely shaved head stars in the video for R.E.M.'s "Strange Currencies"'

Answer: Michael Stipe


Question: 'The 1814 bombardment of this nearby site is commemorated on Defenders' Day'

Answer: Fort McHenry


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew ready to dive into a pool)  Unfortunately, it's what I'm about to do here'

Answer: bellyflop


Question: '"Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength"'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'Savoy & Bok Choy'

Answer: cabbage


Question: 'A type of virus is named after this surreptitious instrument of war used by ancient Greeks'

Answer: Trojan Horse


Question: 'The vocals of this country singer were featured in Disney's "Robin Hood"'

Answer: Roger Miller


Question: '"Liberty Heights" & "Diner" are among the Baltimore-set movies by this Baltimore-born writer & director'

Answer: Barry Levinson


Question: 'As 1 word. it's a poisonous palnt also called deadly nightshade; as 2 words, it's a Stevie Nicks album'

Answer: belladonna/"Bella Donna"


Question: '"40 years ago, certain persons went up to Laputa...and...came back with a very little smattering in mathematics"'

Answer: Gulliver\'s Travels


Question: 'Greengage & Santa Rosa'

Answer: plums


Question: 'Every March 6 your computer can be infected by this virus named for a Renaissance artist'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'Shawn Colvin said her life was changed by this singer whose biggest album was "Court and Spark"'

Answer: Joni Mitchell


Question: 'Famous for its medical school, this university celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2001'

Answer: Johns Hopkins


Question: 'Eric Clapton had these title "Blues" in 1973'

Answer: "Bell Bottom Blues"


Question: '"'Miss Jean Louise, stand up.  Your father's passin.'"'

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird


Question: 'Scarlet Globe & White Icicle'

Answer: radishes


Question: 'This "pest" virus that originated in the Philippines was sent via an amorous attachment'

Answer: Love Bug Virus


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew on the stage of the Apollo Theatre in New York City)  This "Sassy" singer won an amateur contest here in 1942 with her rendition of "Body and Soul"'

Answer: Sarah Vaughan


Question: 'Horse racing's Preakness Stakes runs each May at this racetrack'

Answer: Pimlico


Question: 'This 1940 novel is set near Segovia, Spain in 1937'

Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls


Question: 'In 1804 Joseph Gay-Lussac went up, up & away in one of these to research the atmosphere'

Answer: balloon


Question: 'The roof of the mouth; a cleft one may lead to difficulty in articulation'

Answer: palate


Question: 'In a 2001 book David Brock said he lied in a 1993 book slamming her, Clarence Thomas' nemesis at confirmation'

Answer: Anita Hill


Question: 'Herr Drosselmeyer brings Clara a special Christmas gift in this 1892 ballet'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: 'Born in 1943, Princess Margriet was named for the Marguerite flower, a symbol of resistance against this group'

Answer: the Nazis


Question: 'You can be "as dead as" this, a word combining a portal & a fastener'

Answer: doornail


Question: 'New data seem to confirm the "negative gravity" that this 20th century genius proposed & then abandoned'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'The national association for this disorder says not to fill in sufferers' words or tell them, "just relax"'

Answer: stuttering


Question: 'Eisenhower said his 2 biggest mistakes as president were nominating William Brennan & this chief justice'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'Act three, scene one of this ballet is called "The Awakening"'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'When Princess Laurentien studied at UC Berkeley, she wrote a thesis on "Street Prostitution in" this nearby city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Meaning "to peddle", it attaches to iron or war'

Answer: monger


Question: 'Georges Lemaitre's idea of the explosion of a primeval atom gave rise to this theory'

Answer: Big Bang Theory


Question: 'Type of "stop" heard in a Cockney pronounciation of "little"'

Answer: glottal stop


Question: 'This current Supreme Court justice's first & middle names have a papal sound'

Answer: John Paul Stevens


Question: 'Prince Siegfried & Odette drown themselves toward the end of this classic ballet'

Answer: Swan Lake


Question: 'Seen here, Prince William-Alexander, the heir to the throne, is the eldest child of this queen'

Answer: Beatrix


Question: 'Meal to end a period of non-eating'

Answer: breakfast


Question: 'In 2000 a group of physicists finally found evidence of the Tau type of this subatomic particle'

Answer: neutrino


Question: 'One "intonation contour" is the rising pitch at the end of a sentence that's the standard signal for this'

Answer: a question


Question: 'In 1778 he was president of the Continental Congress; 11 years later, he became chief justice'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'This ballet by Agnes De Mille is subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch"'

Answer: Rodeo


Question: 'In 1980 she celebrated her 71st birthday by abdicating the Dutch throne'

Answer: Queen Juliana


Question: 'As an afterthought, P.S. is short for this'

Answer: postscript


Question: 'In the 19th century this 3-named British scientist established the kinetic theory of gases -- smart!'

Answer: James Clerk Maxwell


Question: 'Read my lips -- the consonants M & B are phonetically this type of sound'

Answer: labial


Question: 'The biography "The Judge from Beacon Hill" covers his life & his 3 decades on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Question: 'This title character has the face & arms of a woman & a body of feathers that tapers off in flames'

Answer: The Firebird


Question: 'This mother of Queen Wilhelmina had the same first name as a Jane Austen heroine'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'Words meaning "academy" & "court" merge to form this place where me & Julio hung out'

Answer: schoolyard


Question: 'It was based on the true story of the 4 Niland brothers of Tonawanda, New York'

Answer: Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'Though it's one of the driest states in the U.S., "Nevada" means this-covered'

Answer: snow


Question: '"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble tres bien ensemble"'

Answer: "Michelle"


Question: 'A 2006 issue of a magazine called this Spectator included articles on Chardonnay & Southern France's best reds'

Answer: Wine


Question: 'Let this company's Solara shine into your Matrix'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Thomas Paine called monarchy evil & this monarch a "royal brute"'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Not a consonant'

Answer: a vowel


Question: 'Wanting to become a state, Nevada telegraphed a 16,543-word copy of this to Lincoln so he could review it'

Answer: its state constitution


Question: '"Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for?"'

Answer: "Eleanor Rigby"


Question: 'The name of this fashion mag is French for "she"'

Answer: Elle


Question: 'This carmaker is a Trailblazer in Malibu'

Answer: Chevrolet


Question: 'Thomas Paine First published "Common Sense" in this appropriate year'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'A gaucho in Galveston'

Answer: a cowboy


Question: 'The first live telecast of one of these originated in Nevada on April 22, 1952'

Answer: a nuclear explosion (or detonation)


Question:
'"You say yes
I say no
you say stop and
I say go go go"'

Answer: "Hello Goodbye"


Question: '"An ounce of" this magazine on healthy living "is worth a pound of cure"'

Answer: Prevention


Question: 'Cut through the Crossfire in this company's Sebring'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'A member of this religious denomination, Tom couldn't support the death penalty, even for the aristocracy'

Answer: the Quakers


Question: 'When domesticated, they're called poultry'

Answer: fowl


Question: 'The pinon has racked up fame as one of Nevada's 2 official state these'

Answer: the tree


Question: '"Beep beep mm, beep beep, yeh!"'

Answer: "Drive My Car"


Question: 'Hopefully this magazine with editor-in-chief Rosemary Ellis earned its own seal of approval'

Answer: Good Housekeeping


Question: 'No one can Eclipse this automaker's Lancer'

Answer: Mitsubishi


Question: 'Paine wrote "The Rights of Man" in support of this foreign upheaval'

Answer: the French Revolution


Question: 'The superciliary ridge over the eyes'

Answer: a brow


Question: 'Just southeast of Las Vegas, it began as a WWII magnesium-supplying town & is now Nevada's 2nd-largest city'

Answer: Henderson


Question: '"I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me"'

Answer: "Norwegian Wood"


Question: '"The Devil Wears Prada" is said to be a novelized portrait of Anna Wintour, this magazine's editor'

Answer: Vogue


Question: 'This company's Impreza could very well be your Legacy'

Answer: Subaru


Question: 'In "The American Crisis, No. 1", Paine scorned "the summer soldier" & this other fair-weather fighter'

Answer: the sunshine patriot


Question: 'Hughes or Stern'

Answer: Howard


Question: 'In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this'

Answer: the Great Wall


Question: 'An umpire, accused of not seeing if a ball was fair or foul: "On a clear day, I can see" this "& that sucker is 93 mil. miles away"'

Answer: the sun


Question: '"T.P.P. "<br />by John Bunyan'

Answer: The Pilgrim\'s Progress


Question: 'The origin of "spam" as a term for unwanted e-mail is disputed; some say it stems from a skit by this comedy group'

Answer: Monty Python


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C'

Answer: 90 degrees


Question: 'It's anyone who lives in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin--that part of the U.S.'

Answer: a Midwesterner


Question: 'Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in what's now this country'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'Garry Maddox, reflecting on hitting a grand slam: "As I remember it, the bases were" this'

Answer: loaded


Question: '"B."<br />by Toni Morrison'

Answer: Beloved


Question: 'In 2007 this company lost a trademark suit against Spam Arrest, a Seattle maker of anti-spam software'

Answer: Hormel


Question: '75% of 200 plus 200% of 75 equals this'

Answer: 300


Question: 'Originally a computer term, it now refers to doing any number of jobs at the same time'

Answer: multitasking


Question: 'Overthrown by the revolution of 9 Thermidor, he died on the guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror'

Answer: Robespierre


Question: 'Ralph Kiner: "If" this Ol' Perfesser, an ex-Yankee & Met manager, "were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave"'

Answer: Casey Stengel


Question: '"A.T.P.H." by Cormac McCarthy'

Answer: All The Pretty Horses


Question: 'One of the first major spam outbreaks was a 1994 "global alert for all" because this man "is coming soon"'

Answer: Jesus


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates an equation on the monitor.) It's the more familiar way to express this equation'

Answer: E=mc2


Question: 'It's the more common term for a dactylogram'

Answer: a fingerprint


Question: 'In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Pitcher Mike Flanagan said, "You're having a bad day when the 5th...rolls around & they drag" this outfield area'

Answer: the warning track


Question: '"B.R."<br />by Evelyn Waugh'

Answer: Brideshead Revisited


Question: 'It's the practice of angling for e-mail users' private info using spam as bait'

Answer: phishing


Question: 'This trigonometric function is the ratio of an angle's opposite side to its hypotenuse'

Answer: sine


Question: 'Almighty or infinite in power, as god is'

Answer: omnipotent


Question: 'At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king & his son Edward were defeated & captured by Simon de Montfort'

Answer: Henry III


Question: 'Tommy Lasorda, asked in 1981 about contract negotiations for this Mexican lefty pitcher: "He wants Texas back"'

Answer: Fernando Valenzuela


Question: '"M.N."<br />by Kurt Vonnegut'

Answer: Mother Night


Question: 'Spam sent via instant messaging systems is known by this portmanteau term'

Answer: spim


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.)  If a line's slope equals 3, "X" equals 1 and "B" equals 1, then "Y" equals this'

Answer: 4


Question: 'It means next to last'

Answer: penultimate


Question: 'Pope Sixtus' death in 1590 ended his plan to convert this, still in Rome today, to a wool factory to employ city prostitutes'

Answer: the Colosseum


Question: 'The Denver Zoo has the world's largest indoor habitat for this giant Indonesian lizard'

Answer: the komodo dragon


Question: 'The 1993 hit "Something In Common" was a duet featuring Whitney Houston & him'

Answer: Bobby Brown


Question: 'Hey, it's your funeral director'

Answer: mortician


Question: 'This weapon that vaporized an island in a Nov. 1, 1952 test was Edward Teller's brainchild'

Answer: the hydrogen bomb


Question: 'First to win golf's Masters tourney 4 times'

Answer: Arnold Palmer


Question: 'William Congreve wrote, "Heaven has no rage, like love to" this opposite "turned"'

Answer: hatred


Question: 'Located at 1340 Pennsylvania Street, the house of this storied Titanic survivor is preserved as it was in 1910'

Answer: Molly Brown


Question: 'In 1983 Ian Gillan became the new lead vocalist of this group; Ozzy Osbourne had left 4 years earlier'

Answer: Black Sabbath


Question: 'Job whose traditional obligations include kissing babies'

Answer: a politician


Question: 'St. Rene Goupil was martyred in 1642 with this hand-axe for making the sign of the cross over a Mohawk child'

Answer: the tomahawk


Question: 'Memorably coifed female star of 1945's "Hold That Blonde"'

Answer: Veronica Lake


Question: 'A piece of harness, or what the horse may do when it's put on'

Answer: bridle


Question: 'The Kirkland Museum has examples of many decorative styles including this one, named for two types of handiwork'

Answer: arts & crafts


Question: 'This 1984 film about a young Minneapolis musician featured the title tune & "When Doves Cry"'

Answer: Purple Rain


Question: 'Luke, according to Colossians 4:14'

Answer: a physician


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from a field.)  For defense & hunting, Lewis & Clark used this type of gun; named from the Latin for "little fly", it was one of the English words Indians knew'

Answer: a musket


Question: 'Wrote an 1841 essay entitled "Self-Reliance"'

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Question: 'A jail's temporary detention area where suspects are fingerprinted'

Answer: the lockup


Question: 'Denver supports two major morning papers: The Denver Post & this "News"paper founded in 1859'

Answer: the Rocky Mountain News


Question: 'The melody of this 1967 Procol Harum hit was based on the Bach cantata "Sleepers Awake"'

Answer: "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"


Question: 'Master the thumb tip & the Chinese sticks & you have a future as one of these'

Answer: a magician


Question: 'This Medieval weapon, named for its wide blade, weighed about 3 pounds & was swung one-handed'

Answer: a broadsword


Question: 'Character played by Sheryl Lee on David Lynch's TV series "Twin Peaks"'

Answer: Laura Palmer


Question: 'Screwball comedies are either zany or this word that includes an old synonym for "head"'

Answer: madcap


Question: 'Lookout Mountain has a shrine dedicated to this first U.S. saint who founded a camp there for orphan kids'

Answer: (Mother) Cabrini


Question: 'Fats Domino hated this day of the week because he had to "work like a slave all day"'

Answer: "Blue Monday"


Question: 'Vocation of Charles Dodgson & of Bertrand Russell'

Answer: mathematician


Question: 'Calcium permanganate once powered the V-2 type of this weapon; it's now available as a disinfectant'

Answer: a rocket


Question: 'In Arthurian legend, she is sometimes known as the fairy Vivienne & foster mother of Lancelot'

Answer: the Lady of the Lake


Question: 'A craven poltroon'

Answer: a coward


Question: 'To defeat the Lernean hydra, this hero cut off 8 of its heads & buried the ninth under a big rock'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'One-act plays by this politician include 1975's "Audience" & 1978's "Protest"'

Answer: Havel


Question: '1967:<br />Benjamin Braddock'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'In TV cartoons, Sherman was this animated dog's boy'

Answer: Peabody


Question: 'On trial for war crimes, he was found dead in his cell in The Hague March 11, 2006'

Answer: Milosevic


Question: 'A small hospital, or the large institution bearing the Mayo family name'

Answer: a clinic


Question: 'Ometotl (who created himself) was the first god to exist in this culture's mythology'

Answer: the Aztecs


Question: 'This Czech-born playwright directed the film version of his "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"'

Answer: (Tom) Stoppard


Question:
'1972:
Kay Adams;
1974:
Kay Corleone;
1990:
Kay Adams Michelson'

Answer: Diane Keaton


Question: 'Sherman Minton was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949 by this president'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'On March 4, 1913 Chief Justice White had ham for breakfast & went to the Capitol to do this (OK, the ham is a guess)'

Answer: swear in the president


Question: 'Preliminary training for military recruits'

Answer: basic


Question: 'Thought to live in the Kilauea volcano, this goddess is the daughter of Hina in one legend'

Answer: Pele


Question: 'Known for his short stories, this writer got a law degree from Charles University in 1906'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: '1981 & 1996:<br />Snake Plissken'

Answer: Kurt Russell


Question: 'General William Tecumseh Sherman was born in 1820 & saw action during this 1846-48 war'

Answer: the Mexican-American War


Question: 'This man's reforms in 45 B.C. made March the third month rather than the first'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'An overpowering fear; you might have a "room" for it'

Answer: a panic


Question: 'Rhea stopped Cronus from swallowing him, her sixth consecutive child, by replacing him with a rock'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'In 1892 this composer became director of New York's National Conservatory of Music'

Answer: (Antonin) Dvorak


Question:
'1994:
Lieutenant Dan Taylor'

Answer: Gary Sinise


Question: 'One of the 2 important "Acts" written by U.S. Senator John Sherman in 1890'

Answer: the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (or the Sherman Silver Purchase Act)


Question: 'One of the 2 astrological signs that fall in March'

Answer: Pisces (or Aries)


Question: 'A high-quality French brandy from white grapes'

Answer: cognac


Question: 'Egyptians made sure tombs contained one of these tomes so the "soul" could get by Osiris & his 42 demons'

Answer: The Book of the Dead


Question: 'This writer coined the word "robot" from the Czech word for forced labor'

Answer: Karel Capek


Question:
'1941:
Joel Cairo &
1942:
Ugarte'

Answer: Peter Lorre


Question: 'Fittingly, Congressman Brad Sherman represents this L.A. suburb, home of the Galleria of "Valley Girl" fame'

Answer: Sherman Oaks


Question: 'This celestial event happened on March 20, 2006 at 1:26 PM EST'

Answer: the vernal equinox


Question: 'From the Greek for "vault", it can mean secret or hidden, like some crossword clues'

Answer: cryptic


Question: 'For over a decade starting from 1807, this nation's capital was moved to a city in South America'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Wanted for a 12-year crime spree of eating King Hrothgar's warriors; officer Beowulf has been assigned the case'

Answer: Grendel


Question: '"And anytime you feel the pain, hey" this guy "refrain, don't carry the world upon your shoulders"'

Answer: Jude


Question: 'Milorad Cavic almost upset this man's perfect 2008 Olympics, losing to him by one hundredth of a second'

Answer: Michael Phelps


Question: 'Disneyland opens & the peace symbol is created'

Answer: the \'50s


Question: 'It's Michelangelo's fresco on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, depicting the saved & the damned'

Answer: The Last Judgment


Question: '4-letter word for a vantage point or a belief'

Answer: a view


Question: 'His victims include Charity Burbage, Mad Eye Moody & Severus Snape; he'd be easier to catch if you'd just name him!'

Answer: Voldemort


Question: 'This title gal, "children at your feet, wonder how you manage to make ends meet"'

Answer: Lady Madonna


Question: 'In 1908 in this city U.S. flag-bearer Ralph Rose caused controversy by not lowering the flag when passing the king'

Answer: London


Question: 'The Empire State Building opens & the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast causes a panic'

Answer: the 1930s


Question: 'From the Latin for "end", this is where trains can also originate'

Answer: terminus (terminal)


Question: '4-letter word for the iron fitting on the hoof of a horse or a card-dealing box in a casino'

Answer: shoe


Question: 'Wanted for general evil-ness; last seen at the Tower of Barad-Dur; it's a giant eye, folks, kinda hard to miss'

Answer: Sauron


Question: '"Bang bang" his "silver hammer came down upon her head"'

Answer: Maxwell\'s silver hammer


Question: 'A 1976 entrant in the "modern" this was kicked out for wiring his epee to score points without touching his foe'

Answer: pentathlon


Question: 'Klaus Barbie is sentenced to life in prison & DNA is first used to convict a criminal'

Answer: the 1980s


Question: 'To push one of these paper products is to stretch established limits'

Answer: the envelope


Question: 'A piece of wood from a tree, or to puncture with something pointed'

Answer: stick