Question: 'Though born in San Francisco, he is best known for his verse dealing with New England life, as in "North of Boston"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'She's the only first lady whose first name was Mary'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'It makes up about 21% of the air we breathe'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'In astronomy, Ptolemy's geocentric model gave way to the Copernican one described by this adjective'

Answer: heliocentric


Question: 'Among the many game shows hosted by this man seen here was one called "How's Your Mother-In-Law?"'

Answer: Wink Martindale


Question: 'In 1980, Dr. Robert Schuller dedicated this 10,000-window glass edifice in Garden Grove, California'

Answer: Crystal Cathedral


Question: '"In Flanders Fields" these flowers "blow/between the crosses, row on row"'

Answer: poppies


Question: 'Nickname of Ms. Mallon, who infected at least 50 people with a certain disease between 1900 & 1915; 3 died'

Answer: Typhoid Mary


Question: 'International relief organization founded in England'

Answer: Oxfam


Question: 'Hydrogen molecules are formed by this type of bond in which 2 atoms share a pair of electrons'

Answer: covalent


Question: 'This TV game show producer also hosted "This is Your Life" & "Truth or Consequences"'

Answer: Ralph Edwards


Question: 'In 1974 Reims Cathedral added stained-glass windows by this Russian-born artist'

Answer: (Marc) Chagall


Question: 'Gloriana is the title character in this epic poem by Edmund Spenser'

Answer: The Faerie Queene


Question: 'Her 1875 book would ultimately be named "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"'

Answer: Mary Baker Eddy


Question: '"Deafening silence", for example'

Answer: oxymoron


Question: 'A common word for polymers; in physics, it means material that can be deformed & keep its new shape'

Answer: plastic


Question: 'He played Danny Tanner on "Full House" & now has his hands full as the host of the game show "1 vs. 100"'

Answer: Bob Saget


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Temple Church in London.)  London's Temple Church was built by the crusading Knights Templar to resemble this Jerusalem church on Jesus' burial site'

Answer: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre


Question: 'This British poet wrote, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'In 1959 she found the skull of a human-like creature that lived about 1.75 million years ago in Olduvai Gorge'

Answer: Mary Leakey


Question: 'Pacific coast California city in Ventura County'

Answer: Oxnard


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.)  Because the structure of oil doesn't allow certain bonds, it's called this type of molecule, from words meaning "fear of water"'

Answer: hydrophobic


Question: 'Nicknamed the "Queen of Mean", she's hosted both an American & a British version of "The Weakest Link"; goodbye!'

Answer: (Anne) Robinson


Question: 'In Ulm, Germany the tallest spire in the world rises 528 feet above a cathedral built in this style'

Answer: gothic


Question: 'Romantic poet who wrote, "St. Agnes's Eve--ah, bitter chill it was!  The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold"'

Answer: (John) Keats


Question: 'This 19th century author's maiden name was Godwin'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: '"Incident"ly, it's a U-shaped piece of wood placed around the neck of a beast of burden'

Answer: oxbow


Question: 'He wrote that if a person in custody "cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for him... if he so desires"'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'It's believed that Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of this conqueror, commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'This Saturday night "TV" show is inspired by the magazine that gave us Alfred E. Neuman'

Answer: MADtv


Question: 'The name of the oil additive STP stands for Scientifically Treated this'

Answer: Petroleum


Question: 'They're the two chemical elements that make up steam'

Answer: hydrogen & oxygen


Question: 'You can make a dark vegetarian stock from the red or black type of these legumes'

Answer: beans


Question: 'To cheat or swindle'

Answer: bilk


Question: 'Archduchess Maria Theresa was one of the finest rulers born into this Austrian family'

Answer: Hapsburgs


Question: 'Stuttering John & Jackie the Joke Man are featured on his late-night show on E!'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: '(Hi, I'm Deidre Hall from "Days of Our Lives")  This California company that began in 1945 turned Erica Kane & my character, Marlena Evans, into dolls'

Answer: Mattel


Question: 'In central heating systems using steam, this is the equivalent of a furnace'

Answer: boiler


Question: 'This 4-letter word is seen after "apple" less often than after "cole"'

Answer: slaw


Question: 'Some worms make it'

Answer: silk


Question: 'Alaric II, king of this branch of the Goths. was defeated in battle & slain in 507 A.D.'

Answer: Visigoths


Question: '(Hi, I'm Al Franken)  ABC's 11:30 P.M. reports on "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage" evolved into this regular program'

Answer: Nightline


Question: 'Headlines in January 2000 said of this company, "You've Got Time Warner"!'

Answer: America Online (AOL)


Question: 'Steam well above the temperature where it condenses into liquid isn't just heated, it's this'

Answer: superheated


Question: 'The main ingredients of the Greek dish spanakopita are cheese & this green vegetable'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'An assassin's middle name'

Answer: (John) Wilkes (Booth)


Question: 'This Dutch queen, born in 1880, was the daughter of King Willem III & his second wife, Queen Emma'

Answer: Wilhelmina


Question: 'This saxophonist played "Heartbreak Hotel" when he appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show" June 3,1992'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Hilton's first hotel in this city opened in 1999; the earlier "Hilton" there was actually a prison'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'Most of the world's electriic power comes from steam turning the wheels of this type of machine'

Answer: turbine


Question: 'As a vegetarian Jimmy Buffett "made it nearly 70 days...drinkin' lots of" this juice "and soakin' up rays"'

Answer: carrot juice


Question: 'Irish home of legendary fighting cats'

Answer: Kilkenny


Question: 'This U.S. president was nicknamed "Matty"'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'In 1980 NBC cut the "Tonight" show to 60 minutes & extended this Tom Snyder program to 90'

Answer: Tomorrow


Question: 'This soap for "All Your...Parts" was introduced in 1990'

Answer: Lever 2000


Question: 'One of this Scotsman's big ideas was using the expansion of steam to complete a piston stroke'

Answer: James Watt


Question: 'The name of this fragrant type of rice means "queen of fragrance" in Sanskrit'

Answer: Basmati


Question: 'Austrian poet & sonneteer "To Orpheus"'

Answer: Rainer Maria Rilke


Question: 'Today it's Brasilia, but a map from 1950 would have shown this city as its nation's capital'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'This 9-letter word evolved around 1960 for a fictional movie or TV show based on real events'

Answer: docudrama


Question: '"Don't Fall Off the Mountain" is a memoir from one of the lives of this actress'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: 'With the U.S. boycotting the summer games, this host country won 197 medals'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'The first swarm of these to enter the U.S. was destroyed'

Answer: killer bees


Question: 'This actress & Ted Turner announced their separation after 8 years of marriage'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'This European nation occupied 42,000 square miles in 1949; 41 years later it ceased to exist'

Answer: East Germany


Question: 'The Ford Falcon was the first Big 3 version of this smaller type of car'

Answer: compact


Question: 'This 1970 Irwin Shaw book became a TV miniseries in 1976'

Answer: Rich Man, Poor Man


Question: 'This woman who had been perfect in 1976 fell off the uneven parallel bars in 1980'

Answer: Nadia Comaneci


Question: 'The FDA approved Simplesse, a "fake" type of this'

Answer: fat


Question: 'This "geographic" police outfit announced it had foiled a kidnap plot against Posh Spice'

Answer: Scotland Yard


Question: 'Today known as Belize, this colony in Central America had a population of only about 70,000 in 1950'

Answer: British Honduras


Question: 'This word altered the term for a follower of Jack Kerouac to mean someone compulsively tidy'

Answer: neatnik


Question: 'In 1970 Maya Angelou wrote about a "Caged Bird" & he flew up the charts with "Love Story"'

Answer: Erich Segal


Question: 'He's the hero of Lake Placid seen here:<br />(speed skater)'

Answer: Eric Heiden


Question: 'A genetic cause was found for some cases of the "osteo" type of this joint disease, the most common form'

Answer: arthritis


Question: 'In 1950 delegates from the Italian colonies Fezzan, Cyrenaica & Tripolitania met to discuss union as this nation'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'A libel trial is the focus of this "Exodus" author's riveting 1970 novel "QB VII"'

Answer: Leon Uris


Question: 'This man was elected president of the IOC just before the summer games; he's still there'

Answer: Juan Antonio Samaranch


Question: 'The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed by this space shuttle; 3 years later the Endeavour fixed its mirror'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'Traveling to Timbuktu in 1950 would take you through French Sudan, today known as this country'

Answer: Mali


Question: 'His "Hard Times" was "An Oral History of the Great Depression"'

Answer: Studs Terkel


Question: 'Lutz Dombrowski's 28 feet 1/4 inch was the longest ever of these at sea level'

Answer: long jump


Question: 'This mapping project begun in 1990 is less than 50% done, though a private firm, Celera, claims to have 90% finished'

Answer: Human Genome Project


Question: 'Besides Bush, McCain & Forbes, 1 of the 3 other participants in the Republican debate held Jan. 10, 2000'

Answer: Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch or Alan Keyes


Question: 'This nursery rhyme character's name goes back to the Jacobites' satiric nickname for the Prince of Orange'

Answer: Wee Willie Winkie


Question: 'Holland & Belgium surrender to the Nazis'

Answer: 1940


Question: 'Maneuvers used in this sport include schussing, traversing & the snowplow'

Answer: skiing


Question: 'This Canadian province's wine region includes Jordan & Vineland on the Niagara peninsula'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'It's thought that in the early universe, this element made up 75% of all mass'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'Steve Case was chairman of this Internet service provider from 1995 to 2001; then it had a big merger'

Answer: AOL


Question: 'According to Eric Clapton, it's when "we're gonna let it all hang down"'

Answer: "After Midnight"


Question: 'Nixon & JFK face off in the first televised presidential debate'

Answer: 1960


Question: 'Kinds of these sold in the U.S. include milds & robustas'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'It's somewhat ironic that this Romanian region produces mainly white wine, like Tirnave Riesling'

Answer: Transylvania


Question: 'Of 75, 90 or 105, the closest to the number of elements that occur naturally on earth'

Answer: 90


Question: 'Kenneth lay went from riches to rags running this company from 1985 to 2002'

Answer: Enron


Question: 'Wilson Pickett's Top 40 hits include "I'm A Midnight Mover" & this one'

Answer: "In The Midnight Hour"


Question: 'Babe Ruth begins playing for the Yankees'

Answer: 1920


Question: 'Writer Roald Dahl created this small race of people who have orange complexions & green hair'

Answer: oompa-loompas


Question: 'South Dagestan has this country's longest wine-growing tradition'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Around 3500 B.C. people were mixing copper & arsenic to make this; they soon found copper & tin worked better'

Answer: bronze


Question: 'Last name of brothers James & Charles, who sold heaps of processed cheese to the U.S. Army during WWI'

Answer: Kraft


Question: 'It's the "swift" '80s band that gave us "Come On Eileen"'

Answer: Dexys Midnight Runners


Question: 'The U.N. strongly deplores the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan'

Answer: 1980


Question: 'From the Narragansett for "child", it's a Native American infant or very young child'

Answer: papoose


Question: 'Chateau Musar is a respected label from this Mideast country between Syria & the sea'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Named for a planet, it's the transuranic element with the lowest atomic number'

Answer: Neptunium


Question: 'Roger B. Smith (& not me) ran this mega-company from 1981 to 1990'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'Maria Muldaur sang us this desert tune'

Answer: "Midnight At The Oasis"


Question: 'Lord Roberts commands British troops in Africa during the Boer War'

Answer: 1900


Question: 'Words taken from this language include apartheid, trek & meerkat'

Answer: Afrikaans


Question: 'You know about Argentinian wines, but try the rose from this country, Argentina's littlest neighbor'

Answer: Uruguay


Question: 'The name of this chemical element is from the Greek for "light-bearing"'

Answer: phosphorus


Question: 'Over 60+ years, William Paley was pres., chairman of the board, founder chairman, acting chairman & chairman of this'

Answer: CBS


Question: 'This Australian band broke up in 2002 after 25 years of politically charged rocking'

Answer: Midnight Oil


Question: 'When his "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" was first exhibited in 881, it had fabric ballet shoes, a tutu & a wig'

Answer: (Edgar) Degas


Question: 'In this 1983 film Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd switch lives'

Answer: Trading Places


Question: 'In 1668, 1748 & 1818 diplomatic congresses were held at Aix-La-Chapelle, now Aachen in this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Hey hey, it's this Monkee--or rather his name--that precedes "locker", meaning the graves of all those lost at sea'

Answer: Davy Jones


Question: 'While working at an ad agency in 1953, he started work on a book called "Catch-18"'

Answer: (Joseph) Heller


Question: 'Away from the coast in Helsinki<br />(6 letters)'

Answer: inland (from Finland)


Question: 'When Jacob Epstein was frowned on as a cathedral sculptor because hew was a Jew, the architect said, "So was" this person'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'Nicolas Cage gambles he can drink himself to death before his money runs out in this movie'

Answer: Leaving Las Vegas


Question: 'The Triple Alliance at the 1668 Congress was England, Holland & this Nordic country under Charles XI'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'It's no joke--the dog seen here is noted for sniffing out lost travelers'

Answer: a Saint Bernard


Question: 'Zelda Sayre broke her engagement with him (a broke adman) in 1919, but married him (now a successful novelist) in 1920'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'An ache in Pamplona'

Answer: pain (from Spain)


Question: 'Anthony Caro is known for placing works on the ground instead of this support, from the Latin for "foot"'

Answer: a pedestal


Question: 'In this 1988 movie Melanie Griffith schemes to take over when her boss takes a leave of abasence'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'The 1748 Congress had global reach with agreements from Cape Breton to this fabric city of India, now called Chennai'

Answer: Madras


Question: 'This patron saint of lost causes shares a feast day with Simon the Zealot on October 28'

Answer: St. Jude


Question: 'He wrote snappy ad copy before turning to light verse like "The Bronx? / No, thonx!"'

Answer: Ogden Nash


Question: 'Numerous in Nuremberg'

Answer: many (from Germany)


Question: 'Aristide Maillol devoted his life to sculpting naked ladies, including "three" of these mythical maidens of the meadows'

Answer: nymphs


Question: 'Drama in which Diane Keaton cruises nightclubs seeking one-night stands & more'

Answer: Looking For Mr. Goodbar


Question: 'Completes the Gertrude Stein quote about post-WWI young people: "You are all a" this 2-word phrase'

Answer: lost generation


Question: 'This controversial Bonbay-born Brit is the author of "Midnight's Children" & of the cake slogan "Naughty but nice"'

Answer: Salman Rushdie


Question: 'Intense enthusiasm in Bucharest'

Answer: mania (from Romania)


Question: 'This 20th-century sculptor is known for his almost painfully thin figures, like the one seen here'

Answer: Alberto Giacometti


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue in Bethel, New York.) This 2009 movie is the true story of Elliot Tiber who helped launch a legendary rock concert, but he was only trying to get business for his family's hotel here in Bethel, New York'

Answer: Taking Woodstock


Question: 'King Ferdinand of Nevarre vows to basically set up a 3-year He-Man Woman-Haters Club in this Shakespeare play'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'He left advertising to get a Ph.D. with a thesis on detective novels & then created his own Shamus, Spenser'

Answer: (Robert B.) Parker


Question: 'Longing in Ljubljana'

Answer: love (from Slovenia)


Question: 'A 1912 speech said the Bull Moose Party "comes from" these; "it has grown from the soil of...people's hard necessities"'

Answer: grass roots


Question: 'In the "Unelectable Founders" section, an "achievement" of his is "all-time record holder, most places slept"'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'At the theatre it's the sole job of--Line!--following the script & reminding actors what to say next'

Answer: prompter


Question: 'Ernest Hemingway'

Answer: both


Question: 'Stroll down this avenue if you want to shop at Bergdorf's or Saks'

Answer: Fifth Avenue


Question: 'Ths science of dealing with the structure of animals'

Answer: anatomy


Question: 'The Rolling Stones were inducted into it in 1989; meanwhile, The Comateens remain unjustly excluded'

Answer: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame


Question: 'If this woman "was alive and sewing American flags today, she'd be a 13-year-old Laotian boy"'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Elmer Booze has gained (moderate) fame doing this for piano virtuosos as they perform'

Answer: turn pages


Question: 'Norman Mailer'

Answer: Pulitzer


Question: 'The Empire State Building took the title of tallest building in the world away from this Manhattan skyscraper'

Answer: the Chrysler Building


Question: 'From the Greek for "theft", it's a person with an irresistible need to steal'

Answer: a kleptomaniac


Question: 'In this movie Jack Black plays Dewey Finn, who tries to turn a prep class into a band'

Answer: School of Rock


Question: 'He "wrote immortal maxims like '$2,145.34 saved is $2,145.34 earned.'  (Figures adjusted for inflation)"'

Answer: Franklin


Question: 'In 1999 & 2000 some of these employees at the Natl. Gallery sat for David Hockney; sitting might have felt odd to them'

Answer: security guards


Question: 'Robert Frost'

Answer: Pulitzer


Question: '(Hi, I'm Christie Whitman.)  My grandfather's company built this "city in a city", Midtown Manhattan's famous Art Deco complex'

Answer: Rockefeller Center


Question: 'The witty line "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than" this has been attributed to Tom Waits'

Answer: a frontal lobotomy


Question: 'In 1990 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were part of the first campaign by this org. to interest youth in politics'

Answer: Rock the Vote


Question: 'A listed "cause" of this country's 1978 revolution was "too much 'Shah

Answer: Iran


Question: 'William Hamilton is the consulting one of these muscle & joint doctors to American Ballet Theatre'

Answer: orthopedist


Question: 'Saul Bellow'

Answer: both


Question: 'Take in a show at the Public Theater or Shakespeare in the Park, both founded by this producer/director'

Answer: (Joseph) Papp


Question: 'Southeast of Tucson, Arizona, this city bills itself as "the town too tough to die"'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'This 2001 movie was inspired by a singer in a Judas Priest cover band who ended up joining that band'

Answer: Rock Star


Question: '1885 "last words" from this president: "Bury me next to my wife.  But nothing too fancy"'

Answer: Grant


Question: '13-letter word for the "super" job of nonspeaking actor onstage in an opera'

Answer: supernumerary


Question: 'Isaac Bashevis Singer'

Answer: Nobel


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square in New York.) In the Roaring '20s, Times Square nightclubs included the El Fey, hosted by this gal from Waco'

Answer: Texas Guinan


Question: 'The functions of this federal agency were transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission'

Answer: the Atomic Energy Commission


Question: 'Cannons fire during AC/DC's song "For" these people "We Salute You"'

Answer: "Those About To Rock"


Question: 'The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'A verb meaning "to forbid", or a leading anti-perspirant'

Answer: ban


Question: 'This country calls an 1846 to 1848 military conflict "The War of American Aggression"'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Felix E. Dzerzhinsky oversaw the system of forced labor camps now known by this Russian name'

Answer: gulag


Question: 'It can be an Empire-period dress, a more shapeless flapper dress, or just the French word for shirt'

Answer: chemise


Question: 'Benedetto is the original last name of this man who's been crooning great music for decades'

Answer: (Tony) Bennett


Question: 'The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'This short form of a Biblical name can also mean to banter with or tease'

Answer: josh


Question: 'The city of Tangier in this country lies on the strategically important Strait of Gibraltar'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'Felix III was Rome-in' around when he held this post from 483 to 492'

Answer: pope


Question: 'Classy backless shoes include slides & these, named for an animal'

Answer: mules


Question: 'Before she worked with Nelson Eddy, this singer starred in stage shows like "Yes, Yes, Yvette"'

Answer: (Jeanette) MacDonald


Question: 'The Irgun was a secret underground organization fighting to establish this nation'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'You can do it to a ball, your voice, or a game you're losing on purpose'

Answer: throw


Question: 'This island country uses the lira as its basic unit of currency'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'Heard here is one of the most popular works by this Felix'

Answer: Mendelssohn


Question: 'A pencil one is narrow, hopefully not to the point that the wearer has trouble walking'

Answer: a skirt


Question: 'This much-married bandleader's 1938 hit "Begin The Beguine" set him up as a rival to Benny Goodman'

Answer: (Artie) Shaw


Question: 'A record of all the land in England, this "Book" was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085'

Answer: The Domesday Book


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands behind a woodworking project.) You can shape moldings to fit by mitering, or by doing this, a term you'll just have to deal with'

Answer: coping (cope accepted)


Question: 'Cyberjaya, a city billed as an Asian Silicon Valley, was recently founded in this Muslim nation of 20 million'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'In 1999 he became a welterweight boxing champion'

Answer: (Felix) Trinidad


Question: 'The slenderer among us can wear the wide contour type of this, also called a cincture'

Answer: a belt


Question: 'Of Gypsy heritage, he became a great jazz guitarist despite losing the use of 2 fingers on his left hand'

Answer: (Django) Reinhardt


Question: 'World leaders met at the Congress of this city in 1815 to decide the fate of Europe after Napoleon's defeat'

Answer: Vienna


Question: '"Happy" manual term meaning to extend hearty, perhaps insincere greetings'

Answer: glad-handing


Question: 'Timbuktu in this country was a dusty town when first visited by Europeans in the 1820s; today it bustles with 30,000'

Answer: Mali


Question: 'His book "Bambi" first appeared in print in 1923; a Disney movie made it world famous'

Answer: Felix Salten


Question: 'This brand of beret that dates to 1930 suddenly got street cred when L.L. Cool J. wore it & Slick Rick sang about it'

Answer: the Kangol


Question: 'This baritone who died in 2004 was a star at the Met & at Yankee Stadium with his national anthem rendition'

Answer: (Robert) Merrill


Question: 'Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words'

Answer: Green Eggs and Ham


Question:
'Middlesex,
New London,
New Haven'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Voiced by Harry Shearer, President Schwarzenegger says, "I was elected to lead, not to read" in this animated film'

Answer: The Simpsons Movie


Question: 'When meeting the pope, non-Catholics may shake his hand but Catholics are expected to take his hand & kiss this'

Answer: his ring


Question: 'Roger Chillingworth is Hester's wronged husband in this 1850 novel'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Recently joining the original & Honey Nut versions of this cereal is a new flavor: Banana Nut'

Answer: Cheerios


Question: 'Retrieve a hare hidden within your beret'

Answer: pull a rabbit out of your hat


Question:
'Middlesex,
Essex,
Worcester'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'As Pres. Merkin Muffley in "Dr. Strangelove", he says, "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"'

Answer: Peter Sellers


Question: 'In England, guests arrive 15 minutes after the invited hour, but in these 2 countries of Great Britain, be prompt'

Answer: Scotland & Wales


Question: 'In 1975 The New York Times ran an obituary stating that this "famed Belgian detective" was dead'

Answer: (Hercule) Poirot


Question: 'Emmental, produced since the 13th century, is the original variety of this'

Answer: Swiss cheese


Question: 'My nostrils detect the aroma of a gnawing rodent'

Answer: I smell a rat


Question:
'Cobb,
Peach,
Oglethorpe'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Jimmy Stewart has a few things to say to the Senate in this 1939 film & he goes on... & on... & on...'

Answer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


Question: 'In Colombia, avoid the subject of this country, which the Colombians think the U.S. stole from them'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Edward & Bella get married in this fourth novel in the "Twilight" saga'

Answer: Breaking Dawn


Question: 'At this donut chain, you can buy donuts with holes, or the holes themselves, called Munchkins'

Answer: Dunkin\' Donuts


Question: 'Spending an interlude anticipating the descent of the additional slipper'

Answer: waiting for the other shoe to drop


Question:
'Hill,
Big Horn,
Custer'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'Mel Brooks deals with Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr as Governor Le Petomane in this 1974 comedy'

Answer: Blazing Saddles


Question: 'When answering the phone in the Netherlands, it's traditional to say this; just saying "hello?" is rude'

Answer: your name


Question: 'In 1992 tart-tongued Aurora Greenway returned in "The Evening Star", the sequel to this McMurtry novel'

Answer: Terms of Endearment


Question: 'It's been described as "an unsweetened donut with rigor mortis", oy!'

Answer: a bagel


Question: 'Seize a male bovine with grips to its forehead protuberances'

Answer: grab the bull by the horns


Question:
'Dauphin,
Lackawanna,
Susquehanna'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Local accountant Charles Grodin goes over the nation's books for President Kevin Kline in this 1993 movie'

Answer: Dave


Question: 'In this New Zealand culture, it's appropriate to close your eyes & press noses with another man while saying, "mm-mm"'

Answer: Maori


Question: 'In "The Chronicles of Narnia", Jadis is better known as this icy alliterative villainess'

Answer: the White Witch


Question: 'The holes in this type of pasta make it look like little wheels'

Answer: rotelle


Question: 'Pilfer from Mr. Pan in order to enrich Mr. Bunyan'

Answer: steal from Peter to pay Paul


Question: 'The flag of this nation that no longer exists depicted a hammer, a sickle & a star'

Answer: the U.S.S.R. (the Soviet Union)


Question: '"Seinlanguage"'

Answer: Jerry Seinfeld


Question: 'Blood flows through a network of vessels known collectively as this system'

Answer: the circulatory system


Question: 'We ain't just whistlin' this tune here... oh, yeah. actually, we are'

Answer: Dixie


Question: 'The 2 participants in a conversation up on Mount Sinai in Exodus 3'

Answer: God & Moses


Question: 'An extravagant short-lived passion'

Answer: an infatuation


Question: 'A flock of flamingos taking wing inspired these 2 main colors on Peru's flag'

Answer: red & white


Question: '"Leading with my Chin"'

Answer: Jay Leno


Question: 'Specialized white blood cells called lymphocytes begin as this type of cell in the bone marrow'

Answer: a stem cell


Question: 'This classic TV show's theme is just made for the category'

Answer: The Andy Griffith Show


Question: 'George W. Bush said that at 40 he gave up booze & renewed his faith after a conversation with this evangelist'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'Better-known name of billiards master Rudolf Wanderone'

Answer: Minnesota Fats


Question: 'The one nation whose official flag is not rectangular is this Himalayan country'

Answer: Nepal


Question: '"I am America (and So Can You!)"'

Answer: Stephen Colbert


Question: 'Made mostly of water & salts, this fluid component of blood is usually yellow due to dissolved proteins'

Answer: plasma


Question: 'A legend about this British king recounts that he was seen having a conversation with an oak tree in 1788'

Answer: George III


Question: 'He was the head of the P.L.O. from 1969 to 2004'

Answer: Yasser Arafat


Question: 'Adopted in 2008, the new flag of this middle eastern country is seen here'

Answer: Iraq


Question: '"Naked Pictures of Famous People"'

Answer: Jon Stewart


Question: 'These blood cell fragments are also called thrombocytes'

Answer: platelets


Question: '"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was deeply rooted in the conversations with this author who helped write it'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'Abbreviated CFS, this medical condition is called "the thief of vitality"'

Answer: chronic fatigue syndrome


Question: 'The flag of these South Atlantic islands features a Union Jack, a sailing ship & a ram'

Answer: the Falklands


Question: '"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot"'

Answer: Craig Ferguson


Question: 'One of these, also called a syncope, is that blood flow to the brain is diminished'

Answer: fainting


Question: 'Conversations between Joseph Campbell & this journalist grew into the bestseller "The Power of Myth"'

Answer: Bill Moyers


Question: 'It's a mirage over water named for a female figure of Arthurian legend'

Answer: fata Morgana


Question: 'This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long'

Answer: We Are the World


Question: 'They strike croquet & polo balls'

Answer: Mallets


Question: 'It's an oven or a furnace in which pottery is fired'

Answer: Kiln


Question: 'In 1998 the Cincinnati Enquirer apologized for stealing voice mails from this giant U.S. banana company'

Answer: Chiquita


Question: 'We enjoy our cups of this more when servant John Brown adds whisky to them'

Answer: Tea


Question: 'For pioneering work in finance theory, Merton Miller won this prize in Economic Science for 1990'

Answer: Nobel Prize


Question: 'For lunch, how 'bout a Hawaiian pizza, topped with ham or Canadian bacon & this fruit'

Answer: Pineapple


Question: 'It's the creature seen here<br />[type of duck]'

Answer: Mallard


Question: 'Majolica, a type of Italian pottery, is named for this Spanish island'

Answer: Majorca


Question: 'In this country the Chapare region east of La Paz is fertile banana terrain'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'When this London residence is freezing, we'd like to return it to the dukes for whom it's named'

Answer: Buckingham Palace


Question: '18th C. English comedian Josias Miller won lasting comic fame as first gravedigger in this play by Shakespeare'

Answer: "Hamlet"


Question: 'If you're in the mood for Mexican fast food, try a gordita or chalupa from this chain'

Answer: Taco Bell


Question: 'Candice Bergen was married to this French director of "Pretty Baby" & "Atlantic City"'

Answer: Louis Malle


Question: 'The name of this type of earthenware means "baked earth" in Italian'

Answer: Terra cotta


Question: 'Bananas are a culinary mainstay in Bahia, an Atlantic coast state in this South American country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'We can't forgive our son Edward for his follies that helped kill this man, our husband'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'Born in Cromarty in this U.K. country in 1802, Hugh Miller did much to arouse public interest in geology'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Treat yourself & stop by one of the stores named for the woman seen here<br />[cookie mogul]'

Answer: Mrs. Fields


Question: 'From the Latin for "hammer", it means flexible or pliable'

Answer: Malleable


Question: 'Named for founder Josiah, it's the pottery seen here'

Answer: Wedgwood


Question: 'Don't confuse this banana-producing nation whose name means "Sunday" with the country on Hispaniola'

Answer: Dominica


Question: 'This country that we fought in the Crimean War deserves a good beating & if we were a man we'd go give it to them'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'One of the most popular musical comedy actresses of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller appeared in these "follies" in 1918'

Answer: Ziegfeld Follies


Question: 'Stay as long as you want & check out this salad made with apples, celery, walnuts & mayo'

Answer: Waldorf salad


Question: 'This late mountaineer's most famous quote is "Because it is there"'

Answer: George Mallory


Question: 'Named for founder Josiah, it's the potttery seen here'

Answer: Spode


Question: 'This country bordering Kenya, Tanzania, Congo & Sudan is one of Africa's leading banana producers'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'When this prime minister kisses our hand, we don't care about his Jewish origins'

Answer: Benjamin Disraeli


Question: 'In 1919 American lawyer David Hunter Miller helped compose the charter of this international organization'

Answer: League of Nations


Question: 'It may be Greek to you, but it's minced lamb meat, served in a pita & topped with a cucumber-yogurt sauce'

Answer: Gyro


Question: 'This city that's home to the Naval Academy was capital of the U.S. in 1783 & 1784'

Answer: Annapolis, Maryland


Question: 'To Supreme Court watchers, strict construction isn't a building code but a narrow interpretation of this document'

Answer: Constitution


Question: 'In 1999 Tom Rouen led the NFL with a 46.5-yard average on these'

Answer: Punts


Question: 'In this 1850 novel the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale reveals himself to be the father of Hester Prynne's child, then dies'

Answer: "The Scarlet Letter"


Question: 'In 1903 the Museum of Islamic Art was created from museum displays in this Egyptian city'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, it was named by Spanish colonists for St. Joseph'

Answer: San Jose


Question: 'Subjects in the Milgram obedience experiment obediently agreed to administer these to others, who simulated pain'

Answer: Electric shocks


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jayson Williams of the NBA.) In '97-'98 I was second in the NBA overall in this category, but first in the offensive type'

Answer: rebounds


Question: '"In token of my appreciation for his genius," Melville wrote, this book "is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne"'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'The National Postal Museum of the Smithsonian has exhibits on U.S. stamp history & this service that ran in 1860 & '61'

Answer: Pony Express


Question: 'Jupiter's aromatic spices'

Answer: Jove\'s cloves


Question: 'It's the state capital where you can cruise Garth Brooks Blvd., or stroll through Will Rogers Park'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'The 1992 book "Reinventing" this inspired Al Gore to try to do just that'

Answer: Government


Question: 'Robin Roberts has the dubious distinction of allowing more of these, 505, than any other Major League pitcher'

Answer: Home runs


Question: 'This novel begins, "Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house..."'

Answer: "The House of the Seven Gables"


Question: 'This country's Transvaal Museum is noted for such fossilized remains as Australopithecus Africanus'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Sound repeater's small tropical lizards'

Answer: Echo\'s geckos


Question: '"Health, History, Horses" is the motto of this city in upstate New York'

Answer: Saratoga Springs


Question: 'Linguists call the hypothetical ancestor of the Germanic & Romance languages P.I.E., Proto-this'

Answer: Indo-European


Question: 'In 1938 Sam Snead was the PGA's money leader with $20,000; in 1998 it was this alliterative golfer with $2.6 million'

Answer: David Duval


Question: 'The Grande Galerie is the main picture gallery of this museum which is housed is one of the world's largest palaces'

Answer: The Louvre


Question: 'Rainbow goddess' disease-spreading particles'

Answer: Iris\'s viruses


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kristoff St. John of "The Young and the Restless") For many years, this Connecticut city where I grew up was the winter headquarters for the Barnum & Bailey Circus'

Answer: Bridgeport


Question: '17-letter word for one whose studies may cover the Scottish bagpipes & the Indian tabla'

Answer: Ethnomusicologist


Question: 'In 1999 Pete Sampras tied this Aussie's record of 12 Grand Slam singles titles'

Answer: Roy Emerson


Question: 'The central metaphor of this 1860 novel is a sculpture of a deity (not a young deer)'

Answer: "The Marble Faun"


Question: 'The International Museum of the Horse is raising funds for a life-size statue of this 1973 Triple Crown winner'

Answer: Secretariat


Question: 'Pollux' twin's hunger strikers'

Answer: Castor\'s fasters


Question: 'This movie was dedicated to the 10,000 Gloucester fishermen who have lost their lives since 1623'

Answer: The Perfect Storm


Question: 'He died in Vienna March 26, 1827, during a thunderstorm like the one depicted in his Pastoral Symphony'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'This "Hollaback Girl" took a cinematic turn, playing Jean Harlow in "The Aviator"'

Answer: Gwen Stefani


Question: '4-letter term for living creatures, such as worms, attached to a hook to entice fish'

Answer: bait


Question: 'David Herbert'

Answer: (D.H.) Lawrence


Question: '1st popular in the 1960s, these pants are named for the area below the waistline where they embrace the body'

Answer: hip-huggers


Question: 'It might be crewel to tell you that the Bayeux Tapestry is an example of this kind of needlework'

Answer: embroidery


Question: 'Death defeated him March 16, 1971, 23 years after Truman did'

Answer: (Thomas) Dewey


Question: '"The Emancipation of Mimi" & "E=MC2 are albums from this multi-octave gal'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'An auger is the device used to cut holes for this kind of fishing'

Answer: ice fishing


Question: 'Henry Louis'

Answer: (H.L.) Mencken


Question: 'Every woman should have one of these, LBD for short'

Answer: a little black dress


Question: 'A humanoid robot'

Answer: android


Question: 'This Scotsman died March 11, 1955, 10 years after he won a Nobel Prize for his 1928 discovery of penicillin'

Answer: (Sir Alexander) Fleming


Question: 'This "lady" took her stage name from a Queen song after she was likened to Freddie Mercury'

Answer: Lady Gaga


Question:
'Possible subjects for an entomologist, or the fishing accessory
seen here.'

Answer: flies


Question: 'Phyllis Dorothy'

Answer: (P.D.) James


Question: 'Complete the look of the powder blue tuxedo with a ruffled one of these detachable false shirt fronts'

Answer: a dickey


Question: 'For spreading this disease, food handler Mary Mallon spent the last 23 years of her life in detention'

Answer: typhoid


Question: 'Crispus Attucks, an African American, was one of 5 men killed in this Beantown event March 5, 1770'

Answer: the Boston Massacre


Question: 'Last name Kilcher, she restyled herself as a country singer in 2008 with the album "Perfectly Clear"'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'Often made of cork, it's a float attached to your line to suspend it at a set depth'

Answer: a bobber


Question: 'Edward Morgan'

Answer: (E.M.) Forster


Question: 'Making a comeback for women in 2009, these 5-letter pants, aka genie pants & worn by MC Hammer, were too legit to quit'

Answer: harem pants


Question: 'Take these anabolic lipids only under a doctor's supervision'

Answer: steroids


Question: 'This British statesman whose 1917 declaration supported a Jewish homeland died in England March 19, 1930'

Answer: (Arthur James) Balfour


Question: 'With a name like a Wild West outlaw, she set off some alarms with her 2009 country-pop tune "Blue Jeans"'

Answer: Jessie James


Question: 'This synonym for a fisherman is in the title of Izaak Walton's classic 1653 book on the subject'

Answer: an angler


Question: 'Howard Phillips'

Answer: (H.P.) Lovecraft


Question: 'The name of this Tyrolean get-up is German for "leather trousers"'

Answer: Lederhosen


Question: 'Because it carries 2 sets of chromosomes, a zygote is this type of cell'

Answer: diploid


Question: 'In Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Maid of Pskov", this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod'

Answer: Ivan (the Terrible)


Question: 'O'Casey & Yeats were both born in this capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Brat Pack detention in a 1985 film leads to a meal with 3 slices of toast, turkey, bacon & mayo'

Answer: The Breakfast Club Sandwich


Question: 'Mathew Brady learned about daugerreotypes from this cocded inventor'

Answer: Samuel Morse


Question: 'Pulled behind a truck'

Answer: towed (toad)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  The Grand Prix was once an F1 event; 2009 is the first time it's part of this series, whose name is derived from a big May race with cars bigger and some say faster than F1'

Answer: Indycar


Question: 'In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'This German city is on the Rhine River about 20 miles north of Cologne'

Answer: Dusseldorf


Question: 'Charlton Heston goes crazy when he finds out a revolutionary new foodstuff is "haricots verts" in French'

Answer: Soylent Green Beans


Question: 'The government ordered 1,000 pistols from him during the Mexican War'

Answer: Samuel Colt


Question: 'Bread begins as this'

Answer: dough (doe)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gets lowered in a racecar at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  You or AAA change tires with a mechanical jack; at the Long Beach Grand Prix, they use this more powerful type, from the Greek for "wind", built into the car's body'

Answer: pneumatic


Question: 'On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan's Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it'

Answer: La Scala di Milano


Question: 'It occupies 18,600 square miles in the West Indies & shares its island home with another nation'

Answer: the Dominican Republic


Question: 'War is afoot in this Marx Brothers classic about the daily changing of broth at a restaurant'

Answer: Duck Soup du Jour


Question: 'He went to a J.C. Penney management training program; later he opened his own five-&-dime store in Arkansas'

Answer: (Sam) Walton


Question: 'Too sick, can't speak'

Answer: hoarse (horse)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  There's no smell of gasoline in the air; the cars run on 100% this 100% biodegradable fuel'

Answer: ethanol


Question: 'This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar'

Answer: Amahl and the Night Visitors


Question: 'This Scottish river flows into the North Sea at Aberdeen'

Answer: the Dee


Question: 'Stephen King's tale of Nebraska young 'uns who go homicidal when a frankfurter is battered & put on a stick'

Answer: Children of the Corn Dog


Question: 'His diary gives a picture of Restoration London from Jan. 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669'

Answer: (Samuel) Pepys


Question: 'Trendy hair gel'

Answer: mousse (moose)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  The two basic types of United States auto racing are stock car and this type, named for the exposure of the wheels; with no fenders, drivers are more careful to avoid collisions than in NASCAR'

Answer: open-wheeled vehicles


Question: 'This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda"'

Answer: Die Fledermaus


Question: 'Once part of the French Protectorate of Somaliland, this nation gained its independence in 1977'

Answer: Djibouti


Question: '"Larger" than life animated tale from Roald Dahl served as a dessert that sounds like it should be for shoe menders'

Answer: James and the Giant Peach Cobbler


Question: 'In the 1610s this explorer was made a commandant of New France'

Answer: (Samuel de) Champlain


Question: 'Blood pumper'

Answer: heart (hart)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  The area between the track and the pit lane is called this 12-letter zone; it's the action the driver has to do from over 200 to 60 miles per hour, the top speed in the pits'

Answer: the deceleration zone


Question: 'Dialogue from this play: "He didn't say for sure he'd come."  "And if he doesn't come?"  "We'll come back tomorrow"'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'Travel is murder on hair: local water & levels of this, not the heat, can destroy even a perfect hair-care regimen'

Answer: Humidity


Question:
'Freddy Eynsford Hill,
Col. Pickering,
Henry Higgins'

Answer: "Pygmalion"/"My Fair Lady"


Question: 'Songbird seen here, or a girl's first name'

Answer: Robin


Question: '"'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try..."'

Answer: "Satisfaction"


Question: 'On September 18, 1999 Heather French got to put this before "America" on her resume'

Answer: Miss


Question: 'Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster'

Answer: Great Fire of London


Question: 'Mademoiselle says, before you wed, try dating a wealthy older man described by this candy phrase'

Answer: Sugar Daddy


Question:
'Natasha Rostova,
Pierre Bezuhov,
Napoleon'

Answer: "War and Peace"


Question: 'Yes Sir!  This term for the seeds or grains of wheat sounds like a military rank'

Answer: Kernel


Question: '"But if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need"'

Answer: "You Can\'t Always Get What You Want"


Question: 'Brenner is a famous one of these in the Alps'

Answer: Pass


Question: 'While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one'

Answer: Popes


Question: 'These are back, not just combed over the forehead, but swept to the side & layered'

Answer: Bangs


Question:
'Rusty Trawler,
Sally Tomato,
Holly Golightly'

Answer: "Breakfast at Tiffany\'s"


Question: 'A variety of this endangered mammal is seen here'

Answer: Manatee


Question: '"Now you always say that you want to be free but you'll come running back, you'll come running back..."'

Answer: "Time is on My Side"


Question: 'Word that completes the Wordsworth line "Behold her, single in the field, yon solitary highland..."'

Answer: Lass


Question: 'In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city'

Answer: Geneva, Switzerland


Question: 'Whether in tones of aubergine or plum, this, the color of royalty, is chic again'

Answer: Purple


Question:
'Bertha Mason,
Grace Poole,
Mr. Rochester'

Answer: "Jane Eyre"


Question: 'When destroying cotton seed pods, the snout beetle is more commonly known by this name'

Answer: Boll weevil


Question: '"It's a gas, gas, gas"'

Answer: "Jumpin\' Jack Flash"


Question: 'As good old Ludwig Mies van der Rohe used to say, this "is more"'

Answer: Less


Question: 'In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa'

Answer: Angola


Question: 'Turning on the waterworks to avoid a fight is a girlfriend gaffe, so don't play this, the title of a 1992 Stephen Rea film'

Answer: The Crying Game


Question:
'Amelia Sedley,
George Osborne,
Becky Sharp'

Answer: "Vanity Fair"


Question: 'One example of the six endangered varieties of this animal is seen here'

Answer: Salamander


Question: '"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"'

Answer: "Sympathy for the Devil"


Question: 'This synonym for kiss also ends in "ss"'

Answer: Buss


Question: 'Corfu is the most northerly of this country's 7 main Ionian islands'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Pioneer heard here<br />["Johnny B. Goode"]'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: '"Otto e Mezzo", starring Mastroianni & Cardinale'

Answer: 8 1/2


Question: 'A "vein" aristocrat may think of himself as one of these'

Answer: Blue blood


Question: 'Go through the 4-year Semikhah program at Yeshiva University & you're ordained as one of these'

Answer: Rabbi


Question: 'Goya, like his contemporary Beethoven, lost almost all of this at about age 47'

Answer: Hearing


Question: 'Germany has Worms & this country that borders Germany has a district called Wormerveer'

Answer: The Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'This judge was "The Law West of the Pecos"'

Answer: Judge Roy Bean


Question: '1998's "Central do Brasil"'

Answer: Central Station


Question: 'Cartman on "South Park" insists he isn't fat, he's this'

Answer: Big-boned


Question: 'U.S. president who recognized the new state of Israel; first president Chaim Weizmann gave him a Torah'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Like his inspiration Velazquez did in "Las Meninas", Goya added this person to his painting of "Charles IV and his Family"'

Answer: Himself


Question: 'Easter Island lies about 2,300 miles from this country that governs it'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The 15th Chief Justice of the U.S., he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988'

Answer: Warren Burger


Question: 'From Almodovar, "Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios"'

Answer: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown


Question: '"Infantile" African animal seen here'

Answer: Bush baby


Question: 'On the Sabbath table, you may see 2 of these with 3 braids each'

Answer: Challah/loaves of bread


Question: 'One of Goya's few foreign patrons was Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of this'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'The Irrawaddy River flows about 1,300 miles before emptying into this bay'

Answer: Bay of Bengal


Question: 'This recently retired "hot" Yankees DH was born in Kingston, Jamaica'

Answer: Chili Davis


Question: 'The high-speed "Lola rennt"'

Answer: Run Lola Run


Question: 'An expression meaning "Just like that!", or a bar where TV's "The Sopranos" conduct business'

Answer: Bada Bing


Question: 'Of the 12 Tribes, the number that inhabited the kingdom of Judah; they didn't get lost'

Answer: 2 (Judah & Benjamin)


Question: 'Goya was in this city May 2 & 3, 1808 when the populace rose against the French; later he did a painting about each day'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'The Israeli town of Eilat is located at the head of this gulf'

Answer: Gulf of Aqaba


Question: 'Once a Secretary of the Treasury, he donated $15 million to the U.S. government to build the National Gallery of Art'

Answer: Andrew Mellon


Question: 'Bergman's "Sommarnattens leende"'

Answer: Smiles of a Summer Night


Question: 'This astronomer seen here helped survey Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Benjamin Banneker


Question: 'This Nobel Prize-winning author adapted a version of his mother's name, Bathsheba, as part of his pen name'

Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer


Question: 'The world's first one of these opened in 1925; it was in San Luis Obispo, CA. & had parking in front of each door'

Answer: Motel


Question: 'The auricle is the fleshy outer portion of this organ'

Answer: Ear


Question: 'Traditionally, nothing is worn under this garment seen here'

Answer: Kilt


Question: 'Sonny Bono,<br />Gregg Allman'

Answer: Cher


Question: 'A member of the thistle family, its leaves are tasty when dipped in melted butter or hollandaise sauce'

Answer: Artichoke


Question: 'It's the royal title held by Heliogabalus, assassinated in his bathroom by his own Praetorian Guard'

Answer: Emperor


Question: 'In 1912 Butte's new one of these judicial buildings cost twice as much as the state capitol'

Answer: Courthouse


Question: 'Also called the voice box, it's larger in men than in women'

Answer: Larynx


Question: 'Brand name for the boating shoes from Sperry seen here; they've been sold in the same style for over 60 years'

Answer: Top-Siders


Question: 'Amy Irving,<br />Kate Capshaw'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'The richest women, each worth $16 billion, are the widow & daughter of Sam Walton, founder of this chain'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'In 1789 pesky revolutionaries imprisoned this king & his family in the Tuileries Palace'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'Seen here, a 90-foot statue overlooking Butte is called Our Lady of these mountains'

Answer: The Rockies


Question: 'Estradiol is the strongest form of these female hormones'

Answer: Estrogens


Question: 'In "Flashdance" this actress wore the top that inspired the fashion seen here'

Answer: Jennifer Beals


Question: 'Judy Carne,<br />Loni Anderson'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'This adjective can describe a poorly executed painting or Paul Simon's solo career'

Answer: Artless


Question: 'Bad report card?  In the 1580s this royal Russian killed his son & heir in a fit of rage'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: '"Southwest Montana's Premier Performing Arts Center" has this "maternal" name of a vein of ore'

Answer: Mother Lode Theatre


Question: 'The longest muscle in a human, the sartorius is flat & narrow & lies within this part of the body'

Answer: Thigh/leg


Question: 'Similar to a djellaba & a dashiki, this tunic is worn from north Africa to the Middle East'

Answer: Kaftan


Question: 'William Powell,<br />Clark Gable'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'In a 1941 film he said, "Let's talk about the black bird"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Famous Butteites (Butte-ies?) include this motorcycle daredevil, born there in 1938'

Answer: Evel Knievel


Question: 'Ligaments in the elbow connect the radius & the ulna to this bone'

Answer: Humerus


Question: 'This Scottish hat seen here is also the first word of a David Mamet play title'

Answer: Glengarry


Question: 'Jeff Goldblum,<br />Renny Harlin'

Answer: Geena Davis


Question: 'Made of plastic & aluminum, the Jarvik-7 is this type of device'

Answer: Artificial heart


Question: 'In 711 a large Muslim army crossed this strait & defeated Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain'

Answer: Strait of Gibraltar


Question: 'Led by the Anaconda Company, by 1900 Butte was the world's largest producer of this metal'

Answer: Copper


Question: 'In the original Grimm Brothers version, after the miller's daughter guessed his name, he tore himself in two'

Answer: Rumpelstiltskin


Question: 'August 29, 1941:<br />Pozarevac, Serbia'

Answer: Slobodan Milosevic


Question: 'The first of his Playboy Clubs opened in 1960; the last closed in 1988'

Answer: Hugh Hefner


Question: 'This famous martyr is the heroine of many operas, including "The Maid of Orleans"'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'For men they're 42 inches high at the 110-meter distance, 36 inches high at 400 meters'

Answer: Hurdles


Question: 'Middle name of appeasing British PM Arthur Chamberlain'

Answer: Neville


Question: 'She got only crab shells to eat, while the witch gave her brother all the best food to plump him up for eating'

Answer: Gretel


Question: 'April 28, 1937:<br />Tikrit, Iraq'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'While serving as vice president in the 1960s, he chaired the Council on Economic Opportunity'

Answer: Hubert H. Humphrey


Question: 'Thea Musgrave's 1995 opera about this South American liberator premiered in Virginia, not Venezuela'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: 'Ty Cobb led the league in these in 1911, but lost out in 1912 to Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan'

Answer: Stolen bases


Question: 'This NHL team whose logo is seen here calls East Rutherford home'

Answer: New Jersey Devils


Question: 'For fetching her golden ball out of the well, the princess promised this animal she'd eat, sleep & play with him'

Answer: Frog


Question: 'May 19, 1925:<br />Kompong Thom, Cambodia'

Answer: Pol Pot


Question: 'This author was a bookseller & mechanic before writing such books as "Steppenwolf" & "Siddhartha"'

Answer: Hermann Hesse


Question: 'The Seattle Opera is famous for its back-to-back productions of this composer's "Ring" cycle, in German & English'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'In 1954 Diane Leather was the first woman under 5 minutes in the mile & he was the first man under 4'

Answer: Roger Bannister


Question: 'From a Spanish place name, it's a shade of orange'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'One-Eye & Three-Eyes hated their sister because she had these, like the common folk'

Answer: Two eyes


Question: 'September 11, 1917:<br />Sarrat, Philippines'

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos


Question: 'This Peter Noone-led group was originally called The Heartbeats'

Answer: Herman\'s Hermits


Question: 'She wrote the libretto for "The Mother of Us All"; maybe that's why it features a character named "Gertrude S."'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'This winged horse follows "Fusaichi" in the name of the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner'

Answer: Pegasus


Question: 'This verb's synonyms include vilify, abuse, berate & disparage'

Answer: Revile


Question: 'Guys who failed to figure out how the 12 princesses wore these out each night were killed, simple as that'

Answer: Shoes


Question: 'January 26, 1918:<br />Scornicesti, Romania'

Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu


Question: 'In the 1530s this "Younger" German became court painter to King Henry VIII; his duties included designing jewelry'

Answer: Hans Holbein


Question: 'The 1981 opera based on this Tolstoy novel begins, & ends, at a Moscow railway station'

Answer: "Anna Karenina"


Question: 'This Wisconsin running back won the Heisman Trophy in 1999 & was Rose Bowl MVP in 2000'

Answer: Ron Dayne


Question: '"Colorful" Tennessee town that's home to President Andrew Johnson's tailor shop'

Answer: Greeneville


Question: 'A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species'

Answer: Dolphins


Question: 'The deepest part of the Mississippi River is 200 feet at Algiers Point across from the French Quarter in this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'This light wood used to make toy airplanes was a standard material for surfboard manufacture through the 1950s'

Answer: balsa


Question: 'During WWII, the total number of stars on the U.S. flag'

Answer: 48


Question: 'I wrote a book about serving Kublai Khan, but if I hear one more kid scream my name playing in a pool, I'm gonna lose it!'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'A pack of playing cards'

Answer: a deck


Question: 'An ovum'

Answer: egg


Question: 'Point Pelee, the southernmost point in Canada, is a peninsula in Ontario that juts into this Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Erie


Question: 'Seal skin is a slang term for a very thick or heavy one of these that you'd wear surfing'

Answer: a wetsuit


Question: 'This "sweet" age is the legal drinking one in Belgium'

Answer: 16


Question: 'I made a women's branch of my hubby's political party in 1949 but died 3 years later; still, don't cry for me, Argentina'

Answer: Evita Perón


Question: 'With "and scrape", it means to be excessively polite'

Answer: bow


Question: 'Buried by Vesuvius in 79 A.D.'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'Point Success is one of the 3 named summits of this mountain in Washington State'

Answer: Mount Rainier


Question: 'This 2-word term means all your toes are on the nose of the surfboard'

Answer: hang ten


Question: 'In the Great Seal of the U.S., an eagle's right talon holds an olive branch with this many leaves'

Answer: 13


Question: 'I disagree with the Supreme Court's dissolving my Standard Oil Co., but I'm not mad; here's $530 million for charity'

Answer: John D. Rockefeller


Question: 'Radio's Howard knows it means harsh, severe or firm'

Answer: stern


Question: 'To recede from the land, like the tide'

Answer: ebb


Question: 'This Caribbean nation's oldest lighthouse sits on Morant Point about 40 miles from Kingston'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'A classic surfing documentary is 1966's "Endless" this, what all surfers hope for'

Answer: Summer


Question: 'Playing blackjack at Caesar's in Vegas, the highest number the dealers have to take a hit on is a soft this'

Answer: 17


Question: 'France, you refused my proposals for constitutional changes in 1969, so I quit as pres.!  Bonne chance!'

Answer: de Gaulle


Question: 'If you faint due to the heat, you're said to do this 4-letter word "over"'

Answer: keel


Question: 'Any bishop, but especially the pope'

Answer: pontiff


Question: 'The USA's northernmost point, it was named for the founder of the Royal Geographic Society'

Answer: Point Barrow (Alaska)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some fin models on the monitor.)  Surfboards once used boat rudders as fins; the first high-aspect-ratio fin was created in the '60s using a template from the tail fin of this colorful fish'

Answer: a bluefin tuna


Question: 'Number of theses Martin Luther posted on a church door in 1517'

Answer: 95


Question: 'The Communist Party booting me in '27 wasn't so bad; I intend to live in Mexico, which has no ax to grind with me'

Answer: Trotsky


Question: 'A fortified wine from the Douro Valley'

Answer: port


Question: 'The pilgrimage to Mecca for Muslims'

Answer: hajj


Question: 'She didn't write the original, but Helen Halstead did write a sequel to this novel--"Mr. Darcy Presents his Bride"'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'When does 22 equal 600 million?  This film's 22 ABBA hits helped it rake in $600 million'

Answer: Mamma Mia!


Question: 'He painted his first major work, "The Potato Eaters", in 1885 while living with his parents in Nuenen'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'Roman:<br />MNRV'

Answer: Minerva


Question: 'Goya or Pizarro'

Answer: Francisco


Question: 'Animals on the endangered species list may be listed as "E", endangered, or "T", this'

Answer: threatened


Question: '"The Lost World" was Michael Crichton's sequel to this No. 1 bestseller'

Answer: Jurassic Park


Question: 'Would you believe I have 99 reasons this comic spy film made $230 million?  Would you believe 86?'

Answer: Get Smart


Question: 'His 1653 work "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" was one of the few sent  abroad during his lifetime'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'Toltec Indians:<br />QTZLCTL'

Answer: Quetzalcoatl


Question: 'Marked by uncontrollable excitement or emotion'

Answer: frantic


Question: 'This alphabetical roster of top-level celebs is the title of a book series by Zoey Dean'

Answer: the A-list


Question: 'In "Closing Time", the sequel to this novel, Yossarian lives in Manhattan, not far from Milo Minderbinder'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'Mr. Bond could take a little comfort in the fact that this film about his quest for vengeance took in $570 million'

Answer: Quantum of Solace


Question: 'In 1632 Charles I gave this Dutch master known for his beard a house in London & a summer residence in Kent'

Answer: Van Dyck


Question: 'Norse:<br />LK'

Answer: Loki


Question: 'An admirer of all things French'

Answer: francophile


Question: 'Lists were roped-off enclosures where mounted medieval knights did this'

Answer: joust


Question: '"Catriona", a sequel to this Stevenson novel, follows the further adventures of David Balfour'

Answer: Kidnapped


Question: 'With an estimated budget of $37 million & a gross of $351 million, expect a few sequels to this vampire flick'

Answer: Twilight


Question: 'As a diplomat in the 1620s, this 3-named artist helped negotiate a treaty between England & Spain'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: 'Egyptian:<br />SRS'

Answer: Osiris


Question: 'This 1961 Salinger work was adapted from 2 New Yorker stories'

Answer: Franny and Zooey


Question: 'In a restaurant this menu might include a nice Poully-Fuisse'

Answer: the wine list


Question: 'Irwin Shaw continued the story of the Jordache family in this 1977 sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man"'

Answer: Beggarman, Thief


Question: 'Reality & Hollywood collide in this Ben Stiller-directed film that made $185 million'

Answer: Tropic Thunder


Question: 'In 1917 this "square" Dutch Neoplasticist founded the art magazine De Stijl'

Answer: (Piet) Mondrian


Question:
'Greek:
LS
(This one's rough, so we'll tell you he's the keeper of the winds)'

Answer: Aeolus


Question: 'Gray-cloaked Catholic monastic order'

Answer: the Franciscans


Question: 'I pulled a groin running out that grounder--put me on the 15-day this'

Answer: disabled list


Question: 'Sir William Herschel coined this word in 1802 writing, "They resemble small stars so much..."'

Answer: asteroid


Question: 'In 1609 this settlement had about 500 people, but disease & starvation cut the number to 60 by spring 1610'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'This famous brand of "100% Pure Petroleum Jelly" is sometimes used as a moisturizer'

Answer: Vaseline


Question: 'St. Etheldreda's, built in 1251, survived Henry VIII & is London's oldest church of this faith'

Answer: Roman Catholic


Question: '1941:<br />Newspaper tycoon dies; no one knows meaning of his last word'

Answer: Citizen Kane


Question: 'Ghosts may account for a mysterious chill in cell 14-D of this former California island prison'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'Alternative to "by crook"'

Answer: By hook


Question: 'In 1614 this husband of Pocahontas sent the first export cargo of tobacco to England'

Answer: John Rolfe


Question: 'Origins makes a product called "Underwear for Lashes" that's meant to be applied under this cosmetic'

Answer: Mascara


Question: 'Milan's Santa Maria Delle Grazie features what's left of this mural masterpiece by Leonardo'

Answer: "The Last Supper"


Question: '1983:<br />Girl welder dreams of being a ballerina'

Answer: Flashdance


Question: 'The father of Jennie Wade, the lone civilian casualty of this PA. battle, haunts the home in which she was killed'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Status of a doctor available by phone or beeper'

Answer: On call


Question: 'In 1635 the Public Latin School, the first public school in British America, was established in this city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Some women use a gel instead of a pencil to shape & contour these & hold them in place all day'

Answer: Eyebrows


Question: 'It's a synonym for a tomb, & Jerusalem's "Church of the Holy" one is said to stand over Jesus' tomb'

Answer: Sepulchre


Question: '1996:<br />Nurse tries to learn identity of man burned in Saharan plane crash'

Answer: The English Patient


Question: 'Some say the ghost in this city's Hilton Hotel may be a murder victim or the volcano goddess Madame Pele'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'On November 8, 1977 he was elected mayor of The Big Apple'

Answer: Ed Koch


Question: 'On January 5, 1665 the New Haven colony was formally annexed by this colony'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'It may be Paris' most famous street; maybe that's why Guerlain named a perfume for it'

Answer: Champs-Elysees


Question: 'The domes seen here top the Church of the Deposition of the Virgin's Robe in this world capital'

Answer: Moscow


Question: '1992:<br />Women play pro baseball during World War II'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'The Shaft Alley Spectre is one of many ghosts haunting this Long Beach luxury liner first launched in 1936'

Answer: Queen Mary


Question: 'This negative response also describes a craps table without important equipment'

Answer: No dice


Question: 'On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi River & claimed the region for Louis XIV'

Answer: La Salle


Question: 'Sri Lanka's former name, or an exotic floral fragrance from Robert Isabell'

Answer: Ceylon


Question: 'Even Scrooge might have enjoyed services at this Atlanta church where Martin Luther King was co-pastor'

Answer: Ebenezer Baptist Chruch


Question: '1992:<br />2 brothers fly-fish'

Answer: A River Runs Through It


Question: 'The white-haired ghost of this fiery leader walks alongside a black dog at Harpers Ferry in West Virginia'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'As one word it's part of the foot; as 2, it means you're conforming with the troop'

Answer: In step


Question: 'In Italy, a kindly witch called Befana delivers Christmas gifts, riding from house to house on one of these'

Answer: Broom


Question: '0 degrees longitude, this line passes through Greenwich Observatory in England'

Answer: Prime Meridian


Question: 'On radio, William Conrad played this rugged Dodge City marshal; James Arness got the role on TV'

Answer: Matt Dillon


Question: 'In 1999 Brian Dennehy played Willy Loman on Broadway in a 50th anniversary production of this play'

Answer: Death of a Salesman


Question: 'One of the 2 days on which summer can begin in the Northern Hemisphere'

Answer: June 21 or 22


Question: 'In a courtroom:<br />D.A.'

Answer: District Attorney


Question: 'The Bharata Natyam is a highly stylized dance that originated in this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'In 1752 Great Britain imposed this calendar on all its possessions, including the American colonies'

Answer: Gregorian Calendar


Question: 'He started playing LAPD detective Joe Friday on radio in 1949'

Answer: Jack Webb


Question: 'A ritzy New York hotel provides the setting for this program of 3 1-act comedies by Neil Simon'

Answer: Plaza Suite


Question: 'This war began with an attack across the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950'

Answer: Korean War


Question: 'In a letter:<br />P.S.'

Answer: Post script


Question: 'Azeri is the official language of this country'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: 'Timepiece mentioned in the introduction to "Days of Our Lives"'

Answer: Hourglass


Question: 'Irwin Shaw was a writer on the adventures of this Chester Gould comic strip detective'

Answer: Dick Tracy


Question: 'Leapin Lizards!  This Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde Resort in Mexico'

Answer: Night of the Iguana


Question: 'After a revolt in Algeria, this man became premier of France in June 1958 with almost unlimited authority'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'To an auto mechanic:<br />BMW'

Answer: Bavarian Motor Works


Question: 'Assiniboine Park in this capital of Manitoba boasts a miniature railway'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'The world is divided into 23 full time zones & 2 half zones; the half zones are separated by this'

Answer: International Date Line


Question: 'This crime fighter's faithful companion was Kato'

Answer: The Green Hornet


Question: 'Part I of "Murder in the Cathedral" begins with the return of this archbishop after 7 years in exile'

Answer: Thomas Becket


Question: 'The Romans named the month for Juno, patron goddess of women & this social rite'

Answer: Marriage


Question: 'In the physics lab:<br />LASER'

Answer: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation


Question: 'Miss Universe 1992, Michelle McLean, founded a children's trust in this country once known as South West Africa'

Answer: Namibia


Question: 'Time in the U.S. is determined by the National Institute of Standards & Technology whose atomic clock is in this Colorado city'

Answer: Boulder


Question: 'Santos Ortega & Sydney Greenstreet both played this stout detective'

Answer: Nero Wolfe


Question: 'Malicious rumors ruin the lives of 2 teachers in this Lillian Hellman play'

Answer: The Children\'s Hour


Question: 'On June 4 this country honors Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, a leader in its fight for independence from Russia'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'In medicine:<br />HIV'

Answer: Human immunodeficiency virus


Question: 'A hot stock in 1999, this internet site began as a place to buy & sell Pez dispensers'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Saving Time'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'A fedora, homburg or derby'

Answer: a hat


Question: 'He'd build you a Model T "in any color, so long as it was black"'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: '4-letter play about 9-lived creatures'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'Scooby-Doo, Goofy & Pluto are cartoon versions'

Answer: dogs


Question: 'While on the Riviera, she made "To Catch a Thief" & caught a prince'

Answer: Princess Grace


Question: 'On the eve of the Civil War, some 2,000 slaveholders were of this race'

Answer: black (or negro)


Question: 'Quixote or Drysdale'

Answer: a Don


Question: 'This toy company builds more cars than Ford, G.M. & Chrysler combined'

Answer: Mattel


Question: '"The avenue we're taken to" in this long-running toe-tapper'

Answer: 42nd Street


Question: '"Eager" animal that symbolizes Canada'

Answer: the beaver


Question: 'King for 72 years, he devoted more than 40 to building Versailles'

Answer: Louis XIV (of France)


Question: 'Opposite of flow, tides do it'

Answer: ebb


Question: 'Powered by this, the Stanley Special won in Daytona in 1907 at 197 MPH'

Answer: steam


Question: 'Nickname of the American Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry Award'

Answer: the Tony


Question: 'They include killers, humpbacks & sperms'

Answer: whales


Question: 'Temporarily exiled in '53, this Islamic ruler was permanently banished in '79'

Answer: Shah of Iran


Question: 'Where things are nipped in, or Lou's partner'

Answer: bud


Question: 'In Japan it's called "rasshu awa"; in L.A, 4 to 6 P.M.'

Answer: rush hour


Question: '2-time Academy Award winner who reprised "Little Foxes" in 1980'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'Royal families of Germany, Russia, Denmark & Greece could call her "the grandmother of Europe"'

Answer: Queen Victoria (of England)


Question: 'Some people have a quick one, which beats a ½ one'

Answer: a wit


Question: 'Models of Ford, Chrysler, & Cadillac are all named for cities in this S. European country'

Answer: Spain


Question: '100s of former cast members appeared onstage when it became longest-running show'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'Tibetan ox used to carry travelers and mail'

Answer: a yak


Question: 'Country where Queens Beatrix, Wilhelmina & Juliana were inaugurated, not crowned'

Answer: the Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'Jesus' first miracle was to turn water into this'

Answer: wine


Question: 'A type of shoe or cloth, or where a Rhodes scholarship will get you'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Like chop suey, this Chinese sweet was invented in America'

Answer: the fortune cookie


Question: 'Before 1859 they sat in padded rocking chairs behind the catcher'

Answer: umpires


Question: 'Self-luminous gaseous body, or hollywood "celeb"'

Answer: a star


Question: 'According to both New & Old Testaments, how "thou shalt love they neighbor"'

Answer: as thyself


Question: 'Home of over 52,000 Buckeyes'

Answer: Ohio State University


Question: 'When its coffee crop was destroyed around 1870, Ceylon switched to growing this'

Answer: tea


Question: 'The evening or morning "star" is really this planet'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'The "sea" that Jesus walked on'

Answer: the Sea of Galilee


Question: 'Latin for field, or college grounds'

Answer: campus


Question: 'First volcano to erupt in continental U.S. since 1921'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'What Merv has a lovely bunch of in this song:'

Answer: coconuts


Question: 'Planet once thought unique, it no longer runs "rings" around its neighbors'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'In Damascus, "the scales fell from his eyes"'

Answer: Paul (Saul)


Question: 'In 1934, Gerald Ford was voted MVP of this school's football team'

Answer: (University of) Michigan


Question: 'Home to alpacas & llamas'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'French for "sour wine", one variety is literally just that'

Answer: vinegar


Question: 'Launched Oct. 4th, 1957, it was Earth's 1st artificial satellite'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: '"Blessed are" these "for they shall be called the children of God"'

Answer: the peacemakers


Question: 'Women's college that shares Harvard's classes, housing & facilities but still is separate'

Answer: Radcliffe


Question: 'Tibetans call it Chomolunga, Nepalese call it Sagarmatha, both call it theirs'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'Stem of a variety of lily, known in Old England as "sparrow grass"'

Answer: asparagus


Question: 'Only planet to have seasons similar to Earth's'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'It is the 2nd most spoken language in the world'

Answer: English


Question: 'In May 1994 the Security Council ended the arms embargo against this country due to the end of apartheid'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Hey old chum, Val Kilmer played this man, but to me, no one could ever replace Mr. Adam West'

Answer: Batman


Question: '"Becky in a Dilemma" & "Lost in the Cave" are found in "The Adventures of" him'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: 'In 2004 Coca-Cola introduced this version of Coke with half the sugar, carbs & calories'

Answer: C2 (Coke 2 accepted)


Question: 'In the 1920s you needed a password to get into Frankie & Johnnie's in NYC because it was one of these'

Answer: a speakeasy


Question: '...azure, the color of the "main", meaning this in "Rule, Brittania"'

Answer: the sea


Question: 'In 1971 the General Assembly voted to oust this nation; the Beijing government replaced it'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'Gary Cole eased into Robert Reed's polyester wardrobe taking over this role'

Answer: Mr. (Mike) Brady


Question: '"The Pequod meets the Virgin" is chapter 81 of this novel'

Answer: Moby Dick


Question: 'In 2004 Pepsi introduced this version of Pepsi with half the sugar, carbs & calories'

Answer: Pepsi Edge


Question: 'A swindler who duped swimmer Spitz out of his money would refer to him as this'

Answer: an easy Mark


Question: '...ace, another term for this golf feat'

Answer: a hole in one


Question: 'Originally, this agency was formed to provide food, clothing & medical supplies for child victims in World War II'

Answer: UNICEF


Question: 'This character ran from David Janssen to Harrison Ford'

Answer: Dr. Richard Kimble


Question:
'"I Am Born",
"I Observe" &
"I Have a Change"
are the first 3 chapters of this Dickens classic'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'Kiki, Sophia, Lola & Capri are the gals who ask, "Don't you wanta" this fruit soft drink'

Answer: Fanta


Question: 'It's another popular nickname for that rollicking place known as "the crescent city"'

Answer: the Big Easy


Question: '...Aesop, who gave us the moral "the gods help them that" do this'

Answer: help themselves


Question: 'To date he's the only Asian to have served as Secretary-General of the United Nations'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'Raul Julia matched John Astin creepy for kooky as this character'

Answer: Gomez Addams


Question: 'You'll find "What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628" & "Porthos' Mistress" in this 1844 novel'

Answer: The Three Musketeers


Question: 'kashrut.com notes that the original & ruby red versions of this soda are kosher'

Answer: Squirt


Question: 'Before he was TV's Grizzly Adams, Dan Haggerty helped build some of the custom motorcycles for this 1969 film'

Answer: Easy Rider


Question: '...Arlington National Cemetery, which is home to the mast of this ship that blew up in 1898'

Answer: the Maine


Question: 'After losing 2 presidential races in the 1950s, he was appointed U.N. Ambassador by JFK in 1960'

Answer: Adlai Stevenson


Question: 'Word on the steet is Snoop Dogg stepped in for Antonio Fargas as this guy'

Answer: Huggy Bear


Question: 'Chapters 1-4 of this classic start with "Jonathan Harker's Journal"; later we also get a peek at "Dr. Seward's Diary"'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'The musical "Annie" features a song about this proverbial place, home to folks like Daddy Warbucks'

Answer: Easy Street


Question: '...Aberystwyth, the town that's home to the National Library of this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Leon Wagener's biography of him is entitled "One Giant Leap"'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'Of 1/2, 1/3, or 1/5, the amount by volume of oxygen in the air'

Answer: 1/5


Question: 'This first No. 1 by the band involved a desire to grasp the prehensile, terminal part of the upper limb on a human'

Answer: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"


Question: 'The Teamsters Union is formally called an "International" one of these'

Answer: a brotherhood


Question: 'Venezuela & Haiti'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: 'Check ouf all the jazz going on in Orem, Ogden & Ophir in this state'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'He was the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'The moon has an albedo of 0.07, meaning it only does this with 7% of the sun's light falling on it'

Answer: reflect


Question: 'No. 2 in the Fabs' No. 1 hit parade, it re-charted again in '64 with the German title "Sie liebt dich"'

Answer: "She Loves You"


Question: 'Woodrow Wilson lived to see this organization grow out of the last of his 14 points'

Answer: the League of Nations


Question: 'Turkey & Ukraine'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'At a height of 6,214 feet, Mount Narodnaya is the tallest peak in this range'

Answer: Urals


Question: 'Before a famous 1973 tennis match between these 2 people, they exchanged a 6-foot lollipop & a live pig'

Answer: Bobby Riggs & Billie Jean King


Question: 'This adjective describes organisms purposely grown in a petri disk, whether they like opera or not'

Answer: cultured


Question: '"I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend" if you know this became the Lads' third No. 1 in a row in April that year'

Answer: "Can\'t Buy Me Love"


Question: 'A mountain pass is home to the "Christ of the Andes" statue symbolizing peace between these 2 countries'

Answer: Chile & Argentina


Question: 'Sweden & Finland'

Answer: the Baltic


Question: 'He hit a home run organizing the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles'

Answer: Peter Ueberroth


Question: 'A famous line in one of his plays is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'The ratio of the speed of galaxies to their distance from Earth is the "constant" named for this astronomer'

Answer: Hubble


Question: 'This hit was also the title of the band's first film, which one critic called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals"'

Answer: "A Hard Day\'s Night"


Question: 'The E that's "packaged" in this organization's acronym used to stand for Europe; now it stands for everywhere'

Answer: C.A.R.E.


Question: 'To lumbermen it's the notch that decides which way a tree falls; as a verb it's to hamper someone's efforts'

Answer: undercut


Question: 'After helping Jefferson Davis make bail in 1867, this New Hork Tribune publisher lost about half his readers'

Answer: Horace Greeley


Question: 'Jons Berzelius gave this name meaning "salt formers" to the elements iodine, bromine & chlorine'

Answer: halogens


Question: 'Ringo drummed on the first British release of this harmonica-driven hit but not on the American one'

Answer: "Love Me Do"


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew, wearing a tool belt, stands in front of a frame house under coustruction.)  Habitat for Humanity's program of short international trips is called "Global" this'

Answer: Village


Question: 'Sudan & Saudi Arabia'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'The manatee & elephant are sometimes classified as "sub"-this group of mammals'

Answer: ungulates


Question: 'They're the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson


Question: 'It became independent from Britain on Aug. 15, 1947, the day after Pakistan did'

Answer: India


Question: 'In this activity, your leg is tied to that of the kid next to you & you're off to the finish line'

Answer: Three-legged race


Question: 'The title time of day when everybody deserted Gary Cooper in a classic 1952 western'

Answer: High Noon


Question: 'This "Godfather" author calls "The Fortunate Pilgrim", re-released in 1997, his best book'

Answer: Mario Puzo


Question: 'The hypothetical primate some say could bridge the gap between man & his simian ancestors'

Answer: The Missing Link


Question: 'Heloise suggests putting cheap sandwich bags over your hands before you pump this'

Answer: Gas


Question: 'This country is situated on an isthmus between Colombia & Costa Rica'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'It's the shortest sprint of the current Olympic track & field events'

Answer: 100 Meter Dash


Question: 'When it's 2300 hours to a soldier, it's this to a civilian'

Answer: 11 P.M.


Question: 'In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared'

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien


Question: 'You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know it's the command center for a manned space flight'

Answer: Mission Control


Question: 'These desktop items can be unbent to be used as hooks for your Christmas ornaments'

Answer: Paper clips


Question: 'This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'It combines swimming, bicycling & a cross country run all in one race'

Answer: Triathlon


Question: 'According to the Greenwich Observatory, this date will be the first day of the next millennium'

Answer: January 1, 2001


Question: 'His first novel "The White Peacock" preceded "Sons and Lovers" by 2 years'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'A written message, perhaps a letter'

Answer: Missive


Question: 'After munching on moo goo gai pan, Heloise uses these as stakes for indoor potted plants'

Answer: Chopsticks


Question: 'Bohemia is the most populous region of this republic'

Answer: Czech Republic


Question: 'In 1995 Jeff Gordon became the second youngest driver to win this organization's Winston Cup'

Answer: NASCAR


Question: 'The Beatles' first No. 1 single of 1965 had this impossible title'

Answer: "Eight Days a Week"


Question: 'Title of Kitty Kelley's 1997 bestseller about Britain's House of Windsor'

Answer: "The Royals"


Question: 'In titles of films, it precedes "Mermaid", "Gambler", "Burning" & "Masala"'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'It's all downhill from here: Heloise recycles these masks by making them into little doggie sweaters'

Answer: Ski masks


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's first among the Balkan countries'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'Racers lie on their backs on modified skateboards for the "street" version of this winter sport'

Answer: Luge


Question: 'In a marvelous poem, he wrote, "At my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near"'

Answer: Andrew Marvell


Question: '"Perchance to Dream" with Philip Marlowe, is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this Raymond Chandler novel'

Answer: "The Big Sleep"


Question: 'This synonym for "squandered" often describes a wastrel's wasted youth'

Answer: Misspent


Question: 'Ding-a-ling!  Heloise hangs these books on wire coat hangers & stores them in the closet'

Answer: Phone books


Question: 'Rudolf Flesch said this was the system that should be used to teach kids to read -- sounds right'

Answer: Phonics/phonetics


Question: 'Eccles cake is a sweet confection named for a town in Lancashire in this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'Anthony Quayle & this man were the 2 "A.Q."'s in "The Guns of Navarone"'

Answer: Anthony Quinn


Question: 'Legend says it was Coco Chanel's lucky number -- hence, the name of her first perfume'

Answer: Chanel No. 5


Question: '1984: <br />Champ Daniel Greenblatt correctly spelled...'

Answer: L -U-G-E


Question: 'Heloise sprinkles dry salad dressing mix on this movie theater treat; we suggest she try butter'

Answer: Popcorn


Question: 'This diva began 1958 by walking out on opening night in Rome & ended it by being fired by the Met in NYC'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'Larousse Gastronomique says the tripe of this gator relative is a delicacy in Ethiopia'

Answer: Crocodile


Question: 'He's been "Under Siege" twice as Navy Seal turned cook Casey Ryback'

Answer: Steven Seagal


Question: 'You don't have to win an Oscar to wear this famous Oscar's Volupte perfume'

Answer: Oscar de la Renta


Question: '1982:<br />The champ was Molly Dieveney, & the final word was...'

Answer: P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S


Question: 'We wish Heloise would sew these back on her clothes but she uses stray ones to decorate thumbtacks'

Answer: Buttons


Question: 'The Omaha company that introduced the following product in 1954:<br />(TV Dinner)'

Answer: Swanson


Question: 'Inca Kola, a soft drink from this country, is known for its distinctive flavor'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Long before Warren Beatty, actor Ralph Boyd played this cop'

Answer: Dick Tracy


Question: 'A temperature scale, or a Dior scent for men that could make a woman's temperature rise'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: '1989:<br />Scott Isaacs became the champ with...'

Answer: S-P-O-L-I-A-T-O-R


Question: 'Heloise sets this appliance to "grate" to make liquid soap; well, it keeps her margaritas clean'

Answer: Blender


Question: 'In 1959 an ex-VP of Wurlitzer testified it was tough to sell these without an underworld connection'

Answer: Jukeboxes


Question: 'In this 1973 film Woody Allen reads a 1990 New York Times headline, "Pope's Wife Gives Birth to Twins"'

Answer: Sleeper


Question: 'Men who want to smell like a winner wear the Bijan cologne named for this man, its logo is seen here:'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: '1994:<br />Ned Andrews said a mouthful with...'

Answer: A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N


Question: 'Heloise loves to smear this sticky stuff on her face to clean her pores; we prefer it in tea'

Answer: Honey


Question: 'His resume:<br />May 31, 1958 -- made premier; Dec. 21, 1958 -- elected president; Jan. 5, 1959 -- "Time Man of the Year"'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'In the Middle East, this thick paste made from ground sesame seeds flavors hummus & salads'

Answer: Tahini


Question: 'In this 1996 film D.A. Brad Pitt prosecutes 2 friends for a murder he's connected to'

Answer: Sleepers


Question: 'Pablo Picasso created pictures of minotaurs, & this woman, his daughter, made a Minotaure scent for men'

Answer: Paloma Picasso


Question: '1987:<br />Stephanie Petit really earned her win with...'

Answer: S-T-A-P-H-Y-L-O-C-O-C-C-I


Question: 'Mission that put the third man on the moon'

Answer: Apollo 12


Question: 'Captain Charles Wilkes spots what will become Wilkes Land, a part of this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'When asked on TV about charges over illegal stock tip-offs, she responded, "I just want to focus on my salad"'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: 'The Federal Railroad Administration'

Answer: Transportation


Question: 'In 1901 James Dole founded a company in Hawaii to process this'

Answer: pineapple


Question: 'Seen here is the new flag of the post-Taliban Islamic Republic of this'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Sickle-shaped weapon of the Australian Aborigines'

Answer: a boomerang


Question: 'The second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 317 as it destroys this state's city of Natchez'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'This lead singer of Hole first got in trouble when she stole a Kiss T-shirt as a youngster'

Answer: Courtney Love


Question: 'The Federal Bureau of Prisons'

Answer: Justice


Question: 'In 2006 he pledged 85% of his shares in Berkshire Hathaway to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation'

Answer: (Warren) Buffett


Question: 'Once dominated by numerous city-states, this nation was unified around 1870'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Enormously popular in the 1890s, this song heard here takes its name from the first line of its lyrics'

Answer: "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Ay"


Question: 'This big Whig is elected president of the U.S. in November; he enjoyed the job for a short time'

Answer: Willam Henry Harrison


Question: 'A video of her stealing clothing from Neiman Marcus was ruled inadmissable at her trial'

Answer: Winona Ryder


Question: 'The U.S. Mission to the United Nations'

Answer: State Department


Question: 'In 1982 this auto executive was tapped to head up a private-sector effort to restore the Statue of Liberty'

Answer: Iacocca


Question: 'Tree's company for this Middle Eastern nation's flag'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Slang term for a large portable music player'

Answer: a boombox


Question: 'Sir Charles Barry lays the cornerstone for these "Houses" in London'

Answer: the Houses of Parliament


Question: 'By 1970, this former Harvard professor & '60s psychedelic guru was on the run & living as a fugitive in Algeria'

Answer: Timothy Leary


Question: 'The Bureau of Land Management'

Answer: the Interior


Question: 'He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas'

Answer: (Michael) Dell


Question: 'The current flag of this former British Crown colony is seen here'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'In 2006 the Census Bureau noted that these people started turning 60 at a rate of 8,000 a day'

Answer: the baby boomers


Question: 'Britain issues this "dark" postage, the world's first stamp'

Answer: the Penny Black


Question: 'This German tennis star was sentenced to 2 years probation for his failure to pay millions of euros in taxes'

Answer: Boris Becker


Question: 'Citizenship & Immigration Services'

Answer: Homeland Security


Question: 'Ty Warner worked for Dakin before starting his own company & introducing this line of small plush toys in 1993'

Answer: Beanie Babies


Question: 'Two-word name of the U.S. Pacific territory whose flag is seen here'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'Bob Geldof headed up this band of rock & roll rodents'

Answer: The Boomtown Rats


Question: 'Throughout the decade, he cranked out sequels like "Ozma of Oz"'

Answer: (Frank) Baum


Question: 'Buddy Love was the suave alter ego of this title "professor" played by Jerry Lewis'

Answer: The Nutty Professor


Question: 'A state capital:<br />"Holy Faith"'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: 'Paul Rudolph, longtime head of Yale's School of this, designed the building that houses it'

Answer: Architecture


Question: '"JFK" director & the deciphering rock found near Rashid, Egypt'

Answer: Oliver & Rosetta Stone


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew enlightens us from the Consumer Reports photography lab in Yonkers, NY.)  To judge digital prints, Consumer Reports simulates the bluish color temperature of daylight with a setting of 5000 K, the "K" standing for this'

Answer: kelvin


Question: 'Also in the title, it's the last word of the Joseph Conrad tale about the mysterious Mr. Kurtz'

Answer: darkness


Question: 'Diane Keaton succumbs to a mysterious murderer in this morbid 1977 study of the singles-bar scene'

Answer: Looking for Mr. Goodbar


Question: 'A state:<br />"Flowery"'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'She left her D.C. job & boss Clarence Thomas to teach at the U. of Oklahoma but returned to do some testifying'

Answer: Anita Hill


Question: 'A 21st century British P.M. & a U.S. female speed-skating gold medalist'

Answer: Tony & Bonnie Blair


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through the Consumer Reports stroller testing lab in Yonkers, NY.)  At Consumer Reports, strollers take 50,000 bumpy rolls to test durability; then plastic gets checked for this weakness in material resulting from stress, from the French for "tire"'

Answer: fatigue


Question: 'Date in 1900 on which Thomas Hardy wrote, "The land's sharp features seemed to be / The century's corpse"'

Answer: Decemer 31st


Question: 'Don Johnson & a talking pooch were the stars of this 1975 film based on a Harlan Ellison story'

Answer: A Boy and His Dog


Question: 'A border city:<br />"The Passage"'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'In 1902 this Princeton professor became the first layman president of the school; he'd later go into politics'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Famed director of "Sweeney Todd" on Broadway & Haitian capital'

Answer: Hal & Port Au Prince


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is a (child safety) gate crasher at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY.)  Child safety gates get both the dynamic test & this opposite type with a six letter name that uses 100 pounds of horizontal force for 10 seconds'

Answer: static


Question: '1903 Irish literary works included Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" & this poet's "In the Seven Woods"'

Answer: (William Butler) Yeats


Question: 'In a tour-de-force performance, he played 8 different roles in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"'

Answer: Sir Alec Guinness


Question: 'A California city:<br />"The Cats"'

Answer: Los Gatos


Question: 'This 3-named woman who wrote 2005's "Missing Mom" has found time to teach at Princeton since 1978'

Answer: Joyce Carol Oates


Question: 'Highest Alpine peak & the Robert Mondavi white wine you might drink there'

Answer: Mont & Sauvignon Blanc


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Consumer Reports' anachoic chamber in Yonkers, NY.)  Measurements at 416 points test speakers with this type of noise, a wide band signal; its name comes from being halfway between red & white noise'

Answer: pink noise


Question: 'Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk'

Answer: the octopus


Question: 'This director of 1931's "Frankenstein" was the subject of the film "Gods and Monsters"'

Answer: James Whale


Question: 'A western state:<br />"Snow Covered"'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew winds up the category on KP duty at the dishwasher at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY.)  The government gives a star for this type of efficiency; Consumer Reports washes dirtier loads, so you know when they rate a machine efficient, it can also perform'

Answer: energy efficiency


Question: 'Part of the 4th-most populous country, it's the world's most populous single island with about 120 million people'

Answer: Java


Question: 'These can carry 1,000-pound loads & go for 10 days without water'

Answer: Camels