Question: 'Successor to the AEC:<br />NRC'

Answer: Nuclear Regulatory Commission


Question: 'Four of her works, including the one seen here, were recently featured on U.S. stamps'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'The mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, this owl wore a Robin Hood-style hat & told us to "Give a Hoot!  Don't Pollute!"'

Answer: Woodsy


Question: 'The chief cities on this river in Oregon include Portland, Salem & Eugene'

Answer: the Willamette


Question: 'The messages left by this lost colony were "Cro" on a tree & "Croatoan" on a post'

Answer: Roanoke Island


Question: 'Seen here, this Purple Heart recipient & veteran ABC newsman was laid to rest in 1983'

Answer: (Frank) Reynolds


Question: 'A measure of distance equal to 93 million miles:<br />AU'

Answer: astronomical unit


Question: 'She's the only female character in all the A.A. Milne "Winnie The Pooh" stories'

Answer: Kanga


Question: 'When Iraq invaded this neighbor, its emir, Sheik Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, fled to Saudi Arabia'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: 'Don't like doing this?  You can use a sponge in a saucer or just lick the corner of the envelope instead'

Answer: Licking stamps


Question: 'Experts suggest you begin this game by moving 1 or 2 pawns before bringing knights into play'

Answer: Chess


Question: 'This building in Albany is bounded by Washington Avenue & Swan, State & Eagle Streets'

Answer: Capital building


Question: 'On June 10, 1996 her syndicated talk show debuted with George Clooney & Susan Lucci as guests'

Answer: Rosie O\'Donnell


Question: 'Romanians call this day Joi, while Swedes know it as Torsdag'

Answer: Thursday


Question: 'Of 10, 100 or 1000, the length of the ground war in hours'

Answer: 100


Question: 'Heloise suggests filling this in your car with potpourri; it smells nice & keeps others from using it'

Answer: Ashtray


Question: 'Rich Uncle Pennybags is the name of the mustached character on this game's box, board & cards'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'Troy, New York was home to the meatpacker who inspired this national symbol'

Answer: "Uncle Sam"


Question: 'The theme song to this Tim Daly sitcom is based on the fourth movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A Major'

Answer: "Wings"


Question: 'When sightsseing in France, you should know that entree libre means this'

Answer: Free admission


Question: 'As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he played a leading role in directing the coalition war effort'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'Don't have one in your hotel room?  Use a hot light bulb or hang your clothes in the bathroom while you shower'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'Among this company's games are Boggle, Risk & Sorry'

Answer: Parker Brothers


Question: 'A N. Tarrytown bridge named for this Washington Irving rider once stood where US9 crosses the Pocantico River'

Answer: The Headless Horseman


Question: 'This Phil Silvers character was master sergeant of the motor pool at Fort Baxter, Kansas'

Answer: Sgt. Bilko


Question: 'In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde'

Answer: Early & late


Question: 'This general who commanded the Allied forces is the son of a brigadier general'

Answer: Norman Schwarzkopf


Question: 'After buying flour, store it here for at least a week to destroy any infestations'

Answer: Freezer


Question: 'In one version of this game, 108 tiles are grouped into 3 suits:  dots, bams & craks'

Answer: Mah Jongg


Question: 'Val-Kill in Hyde Park was this first lady's retreat'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'In 1996 he won the first acting Emmy for a cable TV series for playing Artie on "The Larry Sanders Show"'

Answer: Rip Torn


Question: 'In Spain you might go shopping for una chaqueta -- a jacket -- made of cuero, this'

Answer: Leather


Question: 'Saddam Hussein's elite military force, reportedly the best trained & best equipped of the Iraqi army'

Answer: The Republican Guards


Question: 'To remove an excess of this from soup add slices of raw potato to absorb it'

Answer: Salt


Question: 'In 1931 architect Alfred M. Butts developed this board-&-tile game, calling it Crisscrosswords'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'The top of the Skylon Tower soars 775' above this natural landmark'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'In this 1950s sitcom Theodore's classmates at Grant Ave. School included Larry Mondello, Gilbert Bates & Whitey'

Answer: "Leave It To Beaver"


Question: 'In the Netherlands this popular winter sport is called schaatsenrijden'

Answer: Ice skating


Question: 'In 1749 he was appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'In 1996 this popular star directed his first feature film, "That Thing You Do!"'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'This duke of jazz composed an original score for Alvin Ailey's brilliant modern ballet "The River"'

Answer: Duke Ellington


Question: 'According to the title of Flannery O'Connor's first book pf short stories, this kind of "man is hard to find"'

Answer: A good man


Question: 'This term for meat-eating mammals encompasses fish eaters like seals'

Answer: Carnivores


Question: 'In October 1996 its peso fell to 8 to a dollar'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'On June 16, 1858 he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'David Lean's sweeping saga of this British adventurer was reissued in 1989 with previously unseen footage'

Answer: "Lawrence of Arabia"


Question: '"Concerto Barocco" is danced to a concerto for 2 violins by this great Baroque composer'

Answer: J.S. Bach


Question: 'This "Lolita" author remembers his childhood in St. Petersburg in his memoir "Speak, Memory"'

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov


Question: 'This group of mammals lost out to placental mammals in much of the world but hung tough in Australia'

Answer: Marsupials


Question: 'If you're off on the road to this north African country take some dirhams, its currency'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'While he was vacationing at his father's Vermont home, word reached him that Harding had died'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'In this 1995 comedy Damon Wayans starred as an ex-Marine hired to train junior ROTCs'

Answer: "Major Payne"


Question: 'In 1998 she performed with the Kirov Ballet for the first time since her defection 18 years earlier'

Answer: Natalia Makarova


Question: 'This English poet's "Ode On Indolence" wasn't published until after his death'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'Using feelers on its snout, the star-nosed type of this nearly blind mammal finds food underground'

Answer: Mole


Question: 'After it broke from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece objected to its use of Hellenic symbols'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'While governor of New Jersey, he enacted the state's first workmen's compensation law'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'It's the film in which Tom Cruise played up-&-coming lawyer Mitch McDeere'

Answer: "The Firm"


Question: 'Eugene Loring played the devil in this female choreographer's 1941 ballet "Three Virgins and a Devil"'

Answer: Agnes de Mille


Question: 'She published "Exit To Eden" under the pen name Anne Rampling'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'The pygmy species of this amphibious mammal reaches a mere 3' high, 6' long & 400 lbs.'

Answer: Hippopotamus


Question: 'It's been ruled by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Knights, France, Britain & since 1964, itself'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison's distant cousin'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Liam Neeson won critical acclaim for his recent portrayal of this Irish revolutionary'

Answer: Michael Collins


Question: 'George Balanchine created 10 ballets for this impresario's Ballets Russes'

Answer: Sergei Diaghilev


Question: 'He wrote "I, Claudius" for adults & "The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star" for children'

Answer: Robert Graves


Question: 'Bush babies are tree-dwelling members of this order that includes human babies'

Answer: Primates


Question: 'Formerly the Caroline Islands, its name sounds like it's the smallest country in the world'

Answer: Micronesia


Question: 'In the 1830s settlers gave this city its name in the hope of having the University of Mississippi placed there'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Despite their name, these partly tax-exempt bonds aren't just issued by cities & towns but by hospitals & colleges too'

Answer: municipal bonds


Question: 'In our Constitution's preamble'

Answer: We


Question: 'In 1957 he produced & starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men"'

Answer: Henry Fonda


Question: 'In music, it's also called a quaver'

Answer: an eighth note


Question: 'Head to this franchise for a Brownie Earthquake'

Answer: Dairy Queen


Question: 'He died on Independence Day in 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'In 1998 Californians OK'd a $9.2-billion bond measure to help these; seemed like a lot to borrow back then'

Answer: schools


Question: 'In Melville's "Moby Dick"'

Answer: Call


Question: 'Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show'

Answer: Laugh-In


Question: 'In 1948 Citation became the eighth to win this, & the last for 25 years'

Answer: the Triple Crown


Question: 'This fictional detective solved his first mystery in 1929'

Answer: Ellery Queen


Question: 'Pneumonia claimed this president's life on April 4, 1841'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'This term refers to bonds issued in U.S. dollars from foreign issuers, not to bonds issued by George Steinbrenner'

Answer: Yankee bonds


Question: 'In Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"'

Answer: Marley


Question: 'King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'This eighth book of the Old Testament is named for a Moabite woman'

Answer: Ruth


Question: '"O Canada" is Canada's national anthem; this song is its royal anthem'

Answer: "God Save The Queen"


Question: 'His March 8, 1930 death occured a month after he resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court due to heart trouble'

Answer: (William) Taft


Question: 'The Treasury's post-9/11 "Patriot Bond" is considered this type, last seen in the U.S. in the 1940s'

Answer: war bonds


Question: 'In Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford"'

Answer: It


Question: 'Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott & Costello movie'

Answer: Mancini


Question: 'Louis IX of France died during the eighth of these campaigns'

Answer: crusades


Question: 'At the time of its construction, this span over the East River was the longest cantilever bridge in the U.S.'

Answer: the Queensboro Bridge


Question: 'He died in his sleep on February 3, 1924, 6 months after Warren Harding'

Answer: (Woodrow) Wilson


Question: 'In 1909 he started publishing letter ratings of the bonds of America's railroads'

Answer: (John) Moody


Question: 'In Shakespeare's 18th sonnet'

Answer: Shall


Question: 'Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film'

Answer: The Last Emperor


Question: 'The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail & fines & these 2 kinds of punishment'

Answer: cruel & unusual


Question: 'It was Anne Rice's second followup to "Interview with the Vampire"'

Answer: Queen of the Damned


Question: 'This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question:
'1989:
Tom Hanks &
a slobbering junkyard dog'

Answer: Turner and Hooch


Question: 'Lucio Costa designed this South American city for 500,000 people; today the population is over 2 million'

Answer: Brasilia


Question: 'This steak is named for the letter-shaped hard substance separating the tenderloin from the top loin'

Answer: T-bone


Question: 'This Pole died in 1543, days after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"'

Answer: Copernicus


Question: '...this, a boat, bowl or blood-carrier'

Answer: vessel


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Venetian canal.) Much of this Shakespeare play is set here in the title city, including the trial where Shylock demands a pound of flesh'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question:
'1973:
James Coburn &
Kris Kristofferson'

Answer: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid


Question: 'The U.K. helped fund the design of this capital after Belize City was destroyed by a hurricane'

Answer: Belmopan


Question: 'This rib roast is typically only rated as a "choice" cut, but its name signifies the highest-quality meat'

Answer: prime rib


Question: 'Although known as the founder of microbiology, this French chemist's first discoveries were in crystallography'

Answer: Pasteur


Question: '...this style of house, a specialty of artist Debbie Patrick'

Answer: Victorian


Question: 'This "Andrea del Sarto" poet spent his final days at Ca' Rezzonico, the palatial home of his son Pen, & died there in 1889'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question:
'1989:
Sylvester Stallone &
Kurt Russell'

Answer: Tango and Cash


Question: 'Punjab's capital Chandigarh was designed by this largely self-taught Swiss architect'

Answer: Le Corbusier


Question: 'This cut's name derives from a N.Y. liquor establishment & contains the tenderloin & the top loin muscle'

Answer: porterhouse


Question: 'While serving as secretary of the Geological Society of London, 1839-41, he wrote the "Journal of Researches"'

Answer: Darwin


Question: '...this material, what old phonograph records are made of'

Answer: vinyl


Question: '"Yes, this was Venice... half fairy-tale, half snare", wrote this author in "Death in Venice"'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question:
'1952:
Katharine Hepburn &
Spencer Tracy'

Answer: Pat and Mike


Question: 'This architect served at Valley Forge before his appointment by Washington to design the new capital'

Answer: L\'Enfant


Question: 'This geometric-sounding section of the hind leg extends from the rump to the ankle'

Answer: the round


Question: 'In 1938 Mussolini let him travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize for Physics; he then defected to the U.S.'

Answer: (Enrico) Fermi


Question: '...this uplifting Italian import heard here'

Answer: "Volare"


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.)  I'm at Caffe Florian, a favorite spot of this U.S.-born author, who wrote about it in "The Wings of the Dove" and "The Aspern Papers"'

Answer: Henry James


Question:
'1974:
Clint Eastwood &
Jeff Bridges'

Answer: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot


Question: 'This planned "City of Peace" includes the National Mosque as well as the Atomic Research Institute'

Answer: Islamabad


Question: 'French for "between the ribs", this tender cut comes from the meat between the 9th & 11th ribs'

Answer: entrecôte


Question: 'In the 1820s this British scientist discovered the laws of electrical induction forming the basis for the magneto & dynamo'

Answer: Michael Faraday


Question: '...this official who rules over a province or colony in the name of a king'

Answer: viceroy


Question: 'In 1960 European journalists gave her the nickname "La Gazzella"'

Answer: Wilma Rudolph


Question: 'English is official, but about half of Guyana is of East Indian descent, so many there speak these 2 Indic languages'

Answer: Hindi & Urdu


Question:
'2007: Big robots,
explosions,
Michael Bay,
explosions,
an Allspark,
explosions'

Answer: Transformers


Question: 'It's the term for a regular Quaker gathering; like at a business one, minutes are read'

Answer: a meeting


Question: 'Cyrus Dallin made the sculpture of this man that's near the Old North Church'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'In 1919 this school was established as the southern branch of the University of California'

Answer: UCLA


Question: 'At 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches, Mike Powell holds the world record for this'

Answer: the long jump


Question: 'The city of Recife, "reef" in this language, is so named for its location behind a long & protective coastal reef'

Answer: Portuguese


Question:
'1986: Principal Rooney has a bad day;
a Ferrari meets a bad end--
Broderick...? Broderick...?'

Answer: Ferris Bueller\'s Day Off


Question: 'Illinois has the Diocese of Peoria, Diocese of Joliet & this of Chicago, headed by cardinal George'

Answer: archdiocese


Question: 'The American Museum of Natural History in New York honors this president'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: '"The Lottery" or "The Gold Bug"'

Answer: a short story


Question:
'1984: Sarah Connor... duck!
When Arnolds attack;
Your clothes.  Give them to me.  Now'

Answer: The Terminator


Question: 'John Adams & John Quincy Adams were members of this religion, meaning they believed in 1 divinity, not 3'

Answer: Unitarian


Question: 'San Diego has a statue of this 11th-century chivalrous Spanish warrior'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America'

Answer: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Question: 'Traditionally, the main ingredients in these Scottish cookies are flour, sugar & an ample amount of butter'

Answer: shortbread


Question: '1988: A cop comes to L.A. for Christmas, goes to his wife's holiday party, kills a lot of party crashers'

Answer: Die Hard


Question: 'In the main Hare Krishna mantra, it's the word that's not Hare or Krishna'

Answer: Rama


Question: 'Kiev remembers Khmelnitsky--a leader of these mounted warriors of Ukraine & Russia'

Answer: the Cossacks


Question: 'This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power'

Answer: Marshall


Question: 'Tinker, of "Tinker to Evers to Chance", was one of these'

Answer: a short stop


Question:
'2010: Affleck-ted directing;
Massachusetts mayhem;
you can bank (rob) on it'

Answer: The Town


Question: 'This 20th-century leader rides in Anatolia'

Answer: Kemal Ataturk


Question: 'The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university'

Answer: the University of Arizona


Question: 'This California port city is home to an aquarium & the Queen Mary'

Answer: Long Beach


Question: '(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.)  The recent increase in gentoo penguin numbers may be due to decreased sea ice coverage caused by this phenomenon of rising average air temperatures'

Answer: global warming


Question: 'Last name of Mark & Donnie; their family is a funky bunch'

Answer: Wahlberg


Question: 'The classic French soup vichyssoise is traditionally made with leeks & these tubers'

Answer: potatoes


Question: '...this anti-slavery author; her Hartford home was next door to Twain's'

Answer: (Harriet Beecher) Stowe


Question: 'Tinnitus'

Answer: the ear


Question: 'Colorful piles of it are often strewn about on Christmas morning'

Answer: gift wrapping


Question: '(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.)  Because the chicks of this largest penguin take so long to mature, females lay their eggs in winter so that the chicks can be independent by summer'

Answer: the emperor penguin


Question: 'Tattooed twins Benji & Joel Madden front this band'

Answer: Good Charlotte


Question: 'In 1897 Campbell's introduced this flavor of soup, condensed in a can'

Answer: tomato


Question: '...this young British author who was traveling from India to England via the U.S. in 1889'

Answer: (Rudyard) Kipling


Question: 'Plantar fasciitis'

Answer: the foot


Question: 'The tongue of a bell'

Answer: a clapper


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Antarctica.)  This 7-letter term for a breeding place for penguins comes from the name of a colony of another black bird'

Answer: a rookery


Question: 'Last name of Jimmie, who taught his younger brother Stevie Ray how to play guitar'

Answer: Vaughan


Question: 'Don't send it back: this soup from the Andalusian region of Spain is supposed to be cold'

Answer: gazpacho


Question: '...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee"'

Answer: Tennyson


Question: 'Coccydynia'

Answer: the tailbone


Question: 'A hiking route that goes from Maine to Georgia'

Answer: the Appalachian Trail


Question: '(Lindblad and National Geographic naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This species of small penguin is distinguished by a narrow black band that runs across its throat & seems to be holding a black cap upon its head'

Answer: the chinstrap penguin


Question: 'Rich & Chris Robinson didn't fly as solo acts, so they reformed this group'

Answer: The Black Crowes


Question: 'The name of the Italian soup pasta e fagioli means "pasta &" these'

Answer: beans


Question: '...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous'

Answer: (Henry Morgan) Stanley


Question: 'Acromioclavicular joint separation--the joint'

Answer: the shoulder


Question: 'A bluefish is one of the fish also called this'

Answer: a snapper


Question: '(Underwater specialist Lisa Trotter delivers the clue from Antarctica.)  Though efficient swimmers, penguins must come up for air, & do so in a method called this, after the way a certain cetacean leaps in and out of the water'

Answer: porpoising


Question: 'Last name of brothers Eddie & Alex, who lent that name to a hard rock band in 1974'

Answer: Van Halen


Question: 'Tamil gives us the name of this soup that's flavored with curry'

Answer: mulligatawny


Question: '...this newspaper publisher, when Twain was chased out of his office at the New York tribune'

Answer: Horace Greeley


Question: 'Medial cruciate ligament sprain'

Answer: the knee


Question: 'Russian word for a member of the ruling power, especially in a Communist country'

Answer: apparatchik


Question: 'At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world"'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'David Rittenhouse invented a device in 1767 showing the positions of several of these in the solar system'

Answer: planets


Question: '1940:<br />Jiminy Cricket'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Upon leaving the White House, this president with the middle name Howard told his successor, "I'm glad to be going"'

Answer: Taft


Question: 'The first movie close-up was of Fred Ott sneezing & was filmed in this man's West Orange, N.J. studio'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'Gordon Bowker, who helped found this chain in 1971, wanted to call it Pequod'

Answer: Starbucks


Question: 'In football, the defense commits this violation by crossing the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped'

Answer: offsides


Question: 'There were 3 types of colonies in America: corporate, proprietary & this one controlled by the British king'

Answer: royal


Question: '1995:<br />"Woody"'

Answer: Toy Story


Question: 'For $500 million, this comedian got Sirius & ended his terrestrial radio career'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: 'The first of these came out in 1959 & was named for Barbara Handler'

Answer: the Barbie doll


Question: 'This fish-canning business famous for its mermaid is now owned by a Thai company'

Answer: Chicken of the Sea


Question: 'A lateral stem from the main branch of a plant'

Answer: an offshoot


Question: 'In 1721 Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gave the first inoculations in America against this disease'

Answer: smallpox


Question: '1994:<br />Scar'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'At the end of the day, you can bunk at one of this chain's more than 400 hotels in 18 countries'

Answer: Howard Johnson


Question: 'The first of these was by Aleksey Leonov in 1965 & took 12 minutes, 9 seconds; he was attached to a 16-foot cord'

Answer: a spacewalk


Question: 'Enhancing business ventures, the first money transfers by telegraph were done by this company in 1871'

Answer: Western Union


Question: 'To serve as the main priest at a religious service'

Answer: officiate


Question: 'In 1765 the Colonists burned Cadwallader Colden in effigy because he tried to administer & enforce this "act"'

Answer: the Stamp Act


Question: '1942:<br />Thumper'

Answer: Bambi


Question: 'Reports have this billionaire's fingernails ending somewhere between 2 to 12 inches in length, at their peak'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: 'in 1752 the first lightning conductors were installed on public buildings in this city'

Answer: Philladelphia


Question: 'Last name of a businessman George, who bought the rights to a game called Monopoly in the 1930s'

Answer: Parker


Question: 'Not only Orpheus but also Jupiter pursues Eurydice into the underworld in this composer's 1858 work'

Answer: Offenbach


Question: 'Lawbreakers were often punished by this 7-letter device that locked the head & arms between 2 wooden boards'

Answer: the pillory


Question: '1955:<br />Jock'

Answer: Lady And The Tramp


Question: 'This failed 2004 presidential candidate once got an "A" rating from the NRA'

Answer: Howard Dean


Question: 'The first record of fireworks on this British man's infamous "day" came in 1660 & was mentioned in Pepys' Diary'

Answer: Guy Fawkes


Question: 'The first practical typewriter was manufactured in the 1870s by this famous gun-making company'

Answer: Remington


Question: 'The Village Voice sponsors the Obies for these productions'

Answer: Off-Broadway


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew Reports from Catalina Island.) The tiny pinchers that keep starfish free of algae are called pedicellaria, from the Latin for this body part'

Answer: the foot


Question: 'U.S. national figure skating champion Sasha Cohen took silver at the 2006 Winter Olympics in this city'

Answer: Torino


Question: 'The United States Pacific Fleet is headquartered at Pearl Harbor on this most populous of the Hawaiian islands'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'His "Hornet's Nest" was said to have "stunningly salty language that probably would have delighted Miss Lillian"'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'The ground controller hands off to the local controller when your plane is ready for this part of the flight'

Answer: the takeoff


Question: 'To put an end to, often used in terms of slavery'

Answer: abolish


Question: 'As the Beagle sailed through the Strait of Magellan, Darwin noted the forests of this under the water'

Answer: kelp


Question: 'Fighting in the great arenas of Latin America, Sidney Frumkin was the first successful American one'

Answer: a bullfighter


Question: 'Isle Royale in this Great Lake is the source of a green stone called chlorastrolite, Michigan's state gem'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'Mid-interview, Stephen Colbert read aloud steamy passages of this "pugilistic" Calif. senator's "A Time to Run"'

Answer: Barbara Boxer


Question: 'Planes are monitored by radar & radio, & from the VCR, short for this "control room"'

Answer: visual


Question: 'Excruciating suffering or pain'

Answer: anguish


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Catalina Island.) When an octopus feeds on crab, it punctures the shell with one of these avian tools, injecting a poison and liquifying the meat'

Answer: the beak


Question: 'Sanford was the real first name of this 1963 National League MVP'

Answer: Sandy Koufax


Question: 'Tottenville on this island southwest of Manhattan is New York state's southernmost point'

Answer: Staten Island


Question: 'In 2004's "Those Who Tresspass", this Fox "Factor" man penned, "Okay, Shannon Michaels, off with those pants"'

Answer: Bill O\'Reilly


Question: 'Control begins with a flight progress strip that contains all of a plane's data, including this'

Answer: the model of the plane


Question: 'To expel from a place or condemn to exile'

Answer: banish


Question: 'When it's in a sea "pickle", this creature of class Holothuroidea may eject its organs as a decoy for predators'

Answer: a sea cucumber


Question: 'In 1933 Max Baer wore a star of David on his boxing trunks when he beat this German champion'

Answer: Schmeling


Question: 'The Chamorro language is native to this U.S. territory, the largest of the Mariana Islands'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'One reviewer compared parts of this ex-VP Chief of Staff's 1996 novel "The Apprentice" to Penthouse Forum'

Answer: Scooter Libby


Question: 'Controllers tell pilots of changes in the weather, like this condition of an abrupt shift in the wind'

Answer: shear


Question: 'A glossy transparent coating, or what the Brits call nail polish'

Answer: varnish


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Catalina Island.) The inner cavities of sea urchins contain 5 sets of invertebrate eggs, known by this 3-letter name'

Answer: roe


Question: 'When competing in this pro sport, Scott Levy is better known by his ring name, Raven'

Answer: wrestling


Question: 'Home to a huge carnivore, this Alaskan island was discovered in 1763 by fur trader Stephan Glotov'

Answer: Kodiak


Question: 'Bizarrely, her 1981 novel "Sisters" has a Republican VP's heart giving out during an intimate time with his mistress'

Answer: Lynne Cheney


Question: 'The "blip" on an FAA radar screen is the signal that identifies an aircraft's call sign & these 2 numerical values'

Answer: altitude and speed


Question: 'Treat as dear, or a 1966 hit by The Association'

Answer: cherish


Question: 'Well known to "Jeopardy!" fans, this 10-letter word originally meant a stew of many different ingredients'

Answer: hodgepodge


Question: 'This man was the last president of his country<br />(Soviet Union)'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'It can be a platform extending outdoors from an upper floor, or a place for cheaper theater seats'

Answer: Balcony


Question:
'Laughlin,
Elko,
Sparks'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'In 1864 this man joined his father-in-law Eberhard Anheuser in the brewing business'

Answer: Adolphus Busch


Question: 'This group's "Surfin' U.S.A." says, "We're waxing down our surfboards, we can't wait for June"'

Answer: The Beach Boys


Question: 'Shhhhh!!'

Answer: Quiet


Question: 'He's the long-time prisoner seen here<br />(in South Africa)'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'It's a raised section of a room where you store hay, or an upper-story room for artists'

Answer: Loft


Question:
'Heber Springs,
Hot Springs,
Hope'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'In 1789 this president announced that he would henceforth only drink porter beer made in America'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '"Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street", says this group's "Street Fighting Man"'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'Last name of cartoon adventurer Jonny, who was voiced by Tim Matheson'

Answer: Quest


Question: 'This prime minister was also the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'Somebody may "bet on" this window that forms a recess in a room'

Answer: Bay


Question:
'Rhinelander,
Appleton,
Eau Claire'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In 1612 Adrian Block & Hans Christiansen established the New World's first known brewery on this island'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'This girl group's "Cruel Summer" heated up the summer of 1984'

Answer: Bananarama


Question: 'Last name of the British designer credited with the introduction of hot pants around 1970'

Answer: (Mary) Quant


Question: 'He's the Canadian NAFTA signer seen here'

Answer: Brian Mulroney


Question: 'The minibar is found in a hotel room; the minbar is the pulpit in one of these Islamic structures'

Answer: Mosque


Question:
'Woodstock,
Dunwoody,
Fort Oglethorpe'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Formed one year earlier, this "Service" began taxing beer at a dollar a barrel in 1862 to finance the Civil War'

Answer: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)


Question: 'On Aug. 13, 1966 this group's "Summer in the City" began a 3-week stay at No. 1'

Answer: The Lovin\' Spoonful


Question: 'This corrugated steel hut is now a trademarked name'

Answer: Quonset


Question: 'Dapper Downing Street denizen depicted here'

Answer: John Major


Question: 'It can be a school of music, or as part of a building, a glass-enclosed room for plants'

Answer: Conservatory


Question:
'South Holland,
Northbrook,
East St. Louis'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Beverage World reports that in 1996 the U.S. exceeded this country in number of breweries for the first time'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'A song from this opera says, "Summertime and the livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high"'

Answer: "Porgy and Bess"


Question: 'In Poe's "Raven", this adjective precedes "and curious volume of forgotten lore"'

Answer: Quaint


Question: 'Commodus did fancy himself one of these, as seen in the Russell Crowe film, but didn't really die in the arena'

Answer: Gladiator


Question: 'J.R.R.<br />(7)'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'Reddish color in the name of the tanager seen here'

Answer: Scarlet


Question: 'When the Musee D'Orsay opened in 1986, some of its oldest works came from this museum established in 1793'

Answer: The Louvre


Question: 'Benjamin Hoff brought us "The Te of Piglet" & "The Tao of" this character'

Answer: Pooh


Question: 'He made Shakespeare fans of many young women when he played Romeo on film in 1996'

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio


Question: 'This Greek philosopher recognized 4 types of cause: material, efficient, formal & final'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Mark Twain's Becky<br />(8)'

Answer: Thatcher


Question: '2-word name for the bird seen here, or, for a brand of bourbon'

Answer: Wild Turkey


Question: 'This Spanish museum is home to Pedro Pablo Rubens' version of St. George & the Dragon'

Answer: The Prado


Question: 'Tao's tenet of wuwei is to "do" this, something Seinfeld could handle'

Answer: Nothing


Question: 'In 1935 onstage in London, he alternated with John Gielgud as Romeo & Mercutio'

Answer: Sir Laurence Olivier


Question: 'This woman's mother, Herodias, hated John the Baptist for condemning her marriage'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'First name of a Fielding foundling<br />(3)'

Answer: Tom (Jones)


Question: '"Great" blue bird seen here'

Answer: Heron


Question: 'It claims on its website to have "The Largest Collection of Ancient Egyptian Material Outside Cairo"'

Answer: The British Museum


Question: 'Peter Frampton could have sung "Show Me Tao", as it means this'

Answer: The way


Question: 'In a 1966 Royal Ballet version, he was Romeo to longtime partner Margot Fonteyn's Juliet'

Answer: Rudolf Nureyev


Question: 'In Rome's festival of Lupercus, god of this quality, women were hit with goatskins to transmit it to them'

Answer: Fertility


Question: 'Shakespeare's frisky fairy queen<br />(7)'

Answer: Titania


Question: 'This adjective in the name of the owl seen here also applies to its Arctic home'

Answer: Snowy


Question: 'Original Aboriginal art has been shown in the National Gallery of Australia in this city'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'Tao began in China as a reaction to the ideas of this philosophy'

Answer: Confucianism


Question: 'Harry Hilliard was Romeo in a 1916 silent film & this vamp was his Juliet'

Answer: Theda Bara


Question: 'For 400 years China was ruled by this 3-letter dynasty that shares its name with a river'

Answer: Han


Question: 'Melville's "peep at Polynesian life"<br />(5)'

Answer: "Typee"


Question: 'The Carolina type, seen here, is one of the spiffier species of this small bird'

Answer: Wren


Question: 'His urban estate at 900 East Ave. in Rochester, N.Y. is a museum of photography & film'

Answer: George Eastman


Question: 'In addition to influencing Taoism, Chuang-Tzu helped shape this branch of Buddhism'

Answer: Zen


Question: 'For his classic 1968 film, this Italian director cast Leonard Whiting as Romeo'

Answer: Franco Zeffirelli


Question: 'In 1888 he wrote he was working on an invention "which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear"'

Answer: Thomas Alva Edison


Question: 'Owned by tiny Denmark, it's the world's largest island'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'To treat it "you're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion"'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: 'Currency where you'll find Lincoln's name on front & back'

Answer: the five-dollar bill


Question: 'South-of-the-border setting of the '68 Olympics'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'Rubber is an ingredient in this type of chewing gum'

Answer: bubble gum


Question: 'New York's largest, it has more people than 41 of our 50 states'

Answer: Long Island


Question: '"She was afraid to come out of the water" because she wore this scanty outfit'

Answer: an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini


Question: '4 little words carried on all U.S. currency'

Answer: In God We Trust


Question: 'First visual effects Oscar went to Kubrick's look 33 years into the future'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'Easter creature created by Gene Autry in '55 hit record'

Answer: Peter Cottontail


Question: 'Until 1949 a Dutch colony, now the world's most populous island nation'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'He offered this prescription:'

Answer: the Witch Doctor


Question: 'Replaced Adams in the presidency & the Indian on the nickel'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Camelot "ended" when Jackie married him'

Answer: Aristotle Onassis


Question: 'Though a northern state, N.J. didn't abolish it until 1860'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'Made up of over 7,000 islands, only Far East country with a Roman Catholic majority'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Herman's Hermits' song about widow whose 8 husbands all had the same name'

Answer: "Henry the Eighth"


Question: 'The only U.S. coin with the Presidential Seal'

Answer: the fifty-cent piece


Question: 'He broke S. Africa's race barrier by transplanting black man's heart into white body'

Answer: Christiaan Barnard


Question: 'U.S. coin 97.6% zinc'

Answer: the penny


Question: 'According to Ray Stevens, "He swings through the trees without a trapeze in his B.V.D.'s"'

Answer: Gitarzan


Question: 'After 11 months in captivity, crew of this ship was released by N. Koreans'

Answer: the Pueblo


Question: 'Ohio City named for an ancestor of the 24th president'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'Though historians debate it, she's called "The Virgin Queen"'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: '"The mother of invention"'

Answer: necessity


Question: 'Judith Krantz "princess" who reigned in novel & mini-series'

Answer: Princess Daisy


Question: 'A 1939 college baseball game was the first sports event shown on this medium'

Answer: television


Question: 'His only signed work is the "Pieta" in the Vatican'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'You can call me "merry" or you can call me "hairy" but you doesn't has to call me "Santa"'

Answer: Saint Nicholas


Question: 'Country credited with invention of pasta, porcelain, & paper'

Answer: China


Question: 'Playwright Edward Albee asked "Who's afraid of" this respected British novelist'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art has 200,000 of them'

Answer: baseball trading cards


Question: 'A gold statue of Prometheus towers over the ice rink of this N.Y.C. landmark'

Answer: Rockefeller Center


Question: 'When John Wayne always arrived with the cavalry'

Answer: in the nick of time


Question: 'Of Henry VIII's six wives, the number that lost their heads over him'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Tissue originally used as a WWI gas filter, but now literally something to sneeze at'

Answer: Kleenex


Question: 'Colleen McCullough's Australian saga'

Answer: The Thorn Birds


Question: '1 of 3 Major League Baseball teams with state rather than city names'

Answer: (1 of) California Angels, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins


Question: '"Disarming" statue unearthed by peasant of Greek island of Melos in 1820'

Answer: the Venus de Milo


Question: 'Things are never "hoop" less for this Manhattan team'

Answer: the New York Knicks


Question: '1st developed for the blind, they've become the most widely used business machine'

Answer: the typewriter


Question: 'Author, columnist, & TV wit who said, "Housework, if you do it right, can kill you"'

Answer: Erma Bombeck


Question: 'Ironically, ex-con Ron LeFlore led the N.L. in these in 1980'

Answer: stolen bases


Question: 'The Berlin museum is home to the famous bust of this Egyptian queen'

Answer: Nefertiti


Question: 'He was Eddie Murphy's partner for 48 hours'

Answer: Nick Nolte


Question: 'Printing press inventor associated with the world's most valuable book'

Answer: Gutenberg


Question: 'Long-time companion of Dashiell Hammett, she was played in "Julia" by Jane Fonda'

Answer: Lillian Hellman


Question: 'To help their owner pay off gambling debts, the 1920 Red Sox sold him to the Yankees'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'Though it represents a woman, his 5-story Chicago structure has been called a baboon'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Gambler who paid the "Brice" for marrying a famous Fanny'

Answer: Nick Arnstein


Question: 'Only 1 of 9 planets not named for a Greek or Roman mythological figure'

Answer: the Earth


Question: 'In his teens, this star of "Easy Rider" & "Blue Velvet" was a Shakespearean actor at the Old Globe in San Diego'

Answer: Dennis Hopper


Question: 'In 1984 Annie Leibovitz' photo of Bruce Springsteen's denim-clad behind appeared on this album cover'

Answer: "Born in the U.S.A."


Question: 'The stamp seen here representing the first decade of the 1900s features this automobile:'

Answer: Model T


Question: 'Buenas noches'

Answer: Good night


Question: 'Named for the large rocks in the area, it's home to the University of Colorado'

Answer: Boulder


Question: 'Mae, played by Madonna, considered flashing a ballpark crowd in this 1992 film'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'Helen Mirren was only about 20 when she played this Egyptian at the Old Vic in 1965'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In 1987 he took his Graceland tour to Africa where the concert was captured on film'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'The 1910s are remembered on the stamp seen here for the 1914 oprning of this canal:'

Answer: Panama Canal


Question: 'Ankthay ouyay'

Answer: Thank you


Question: 'Of 4, 54, or 104, the number of peaks over 14,000 feet you'll find to climb in Colorado'

Answer: 54


Question: 'This product's 1998 makeover included closing her mouth, changing her nose & lessening her bust'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'We'd like to see the 1953 TV production of "Othello" -- it featured Walter Matthau as this villain'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'In 1986 she took "Control" with her first No. 1 hit, "When I Think of You"'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: '1920s Art Deco architecture is exemplified by this New York building on the stamp seen here:'

Answer: Chrysler Building


Question: 'Silenzio!'

Answer: Silence/be quiet


Question: 'Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs can take you to this academy's south gate'

Answer: Air Force Academy


Question: 'Harangued sitcom husband whose favorite magazine was Big 'Uns'

Answer: Al Bundy


Question: 'A 1955 production of this play featured Roddy McDowall as Ariel, Jerry Stiller as Trinculo & Jack Palance as Caliban'

Answer: "The Tempest"


Question: 'This leader of Brasil '66 resurfaced in 1983 with "Never Gonna Let You Go"'

Answer: Sergio Mendes


Question: 'She's the lady in the blue hat on the 1930s stamp seen here:'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'Entrez!'

Answer: Enter/come in


Question: 'The Hakushika Sake Brewery is in this city, more famous for a beer'

Answer: Golden


Question: 'In addition to "Goodbye, Columbus" & "The Anatomy Lesson", he wrote "The Breast"'

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: 'Christopher Walken played this famous "heel" in "Troilus and Cressida" in 1973'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'They should take "Pride" in knowing that Rolling Stone named them "The Band of the '80s"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'The stamp seen here commemorates this "bill" of the 1940s:'

Answer: GI Bill


Question: 'Auf wiederschen'

Answer: Good bye


Question: 'The mint in Denver made its last of these that were 90 percent silver in 1934'

Answer: Silver dollars


Question: 'The Sun tabloid in London apologized in May 1999 for printing a topless photo of this royal bride-to-be'

Answer: Sophie Rhys-Jones


Question: 'A 1906 disaster in this city destroyed about 28,000 buildings & killed hundreds, maybe thousands'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Eric McCormack & Debra Messing'

Answer: Will & Grace


Question: 'Take photos of the women in the windows of this colorful "district" & you may lose your camera'

Answer: Red Light District


Question: 'Logically enough. sending a file from computer to network, the opposite of downloading, is called this'

Answer: Uploading


Question: 'The Oscar-winning film about this bruiser was titled "Raging Bull"'

Answer: Jake LaMotta


Question: 'This -ocracy is rule by God or by his priests'

Answer: Theocracy


Question: 'In 1878 an amendment for this was introduced in Congress; its adoption didn't occur until 1920'

Answer: Women\'s suffrage


Question: 'Rock Hudson & Susan Saint James'

Answer: McMillan and Wife


Question: 'You get 2 free glasses of beer at the end of the tour of this company at Stadhouderskade 78'

Answer: Heineken


Question: 'Common 3-letter word for a unit of about 1,000 megabytes'

Answer: Gig


Question: 'From 1987 to 1992 William Conrad starred on this series'

Answer: Jake and the Fatman


Question: 'From Greek for "The Best", it's the elite, or government by them'

Answer: Aristocracy


Question: 'His funeral on April 21, 1790 drew 20,000 mourners in Philadelphia, the largest U.S. public gathering to that time'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Jane Curtin & Susan Saint James'

Answer: Kate & Allie


Question: 'At Gassan's in the Old Jewish Quarter you can see demonstrations of how these are cut'

Answer: Diamonds


Question: 'From Greek for "circumference", this term applies to printers, monitors & keyboards'

Answer: Peripherals


Question: 'In 1990, this man directed & starred in the "Chinatown" sequel "The Two Jakes"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'It's not government by Ford & Chrysler, but by one absolute ruler'

Answer: Autocracy


Question: 'In 1913 Pancho Villa used this Texas city on the Rio Grande as his headquarters'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'Redd Foxx & Demond Wilson'

Answer: Sanford and Son


Question: 'In Dutch this product is pronounced "how-duh"'

Answer: Gouda cheese


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kari Wuhrer of a little show called "Sliders")  My CD "Shiny" is available at my website on this letter-&-number format for sending music across the web'

Answer: MP3


Question: 'He was on a mission from God as Jake Blues in the first "Blues Brothers" movie'

Answer: John Belushi


Question: 'Type of people in charge in a gerontocracy'

Answer: Elderly


Question: 'The Webster-Ashburton Treaty set parts of the St. Francis & St. John rivers as the border for this state & Canada'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul'

Answer: Starsky and Hutch


Question: 'It's Dutch for "state", as in the name of Amsterdam's most famous "state museum"'

Answer: Rijks


Question: 'It's the techincal "language" seen here:'

Answer: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)


Question: 'In 1985 this Utahan became the first lawmaker in space'

Answer: Jake Garn


Question: 'A movement of the early 1930s advocated this, rule by engineers & scientists'

Answer: Technocracy


Question: 'On Dec. 7, 1995 this state officially renamed its portion of Interstate 10 as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway'

Answer: Arizona (because of the Arizona battleship that was sunk at Pearl Harbor)


Question: 'This "colorful" classic is finding renewed life in a popular United Airlines commercial'

Answer: "Rhapsody In Blue"


Question: 'To Tell the Truth, he & Bill Todman were behind some of the greatest game shows of all time'

Answer: (Mark) Goodson


Question: 'In 1816 timid Dr. Rene Laennec's reluctance to listen to patients' hearts the usual way caused him to invent this'

Answer: the stethoscope


Question: 'You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley'

Answer: a Tyrannosaurus rex


Question: 'Bundestag &<br />Bundesrat'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The Rock Island was this type of line'

Answer: a railway


Question: 'It's the title of the oratorio that contains the following'

Answer: "The Messiah"


Question: 'Before going to the Olympics, Michael Phelps met with this man whose record he was hoping to break'

Answer: Mark Spitz


Question: 'In late 1943, a U.S. warship carrying this man to a summit in Tehran narrowly missed being destroyed by friendly fire'

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt


Question: 'Artificial green grass used on a playing field'

Answer: turf


Question: 'The Knesset'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'If the distinguished Cherry Jones asks you to run lines with her, you're probably a fellow one of these'

Answer: an actor


Question: 'This snoozer is listed as the composer's Opus 49, No. 4'

Answer: "Brahms\' Lullaby"


Question: 'In 1986 he was People's Sexiest Man Alive; now he's the star of TV's "NCIS"'

Answer: Mark Harmon


Question: 'In 1907 only the repurposing of the Eiffel Tower as one of these spared it from being torn down'

Answer: a radio antenna


Question: 'It's the art of trimming your green bushes & hedges into geometric shapes & animals'

Answer: topiary


Question: 'The Cortes'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'As one of these, The Toledo Blade might feature a banner line'

Answer: a newspaper


Question: 'The work heard here follows the transformation of an opera character into this title creature'

Answer: a bumblebee ("Flight Of The Bumblebee" accepted)


Question: 'It's Mark Messier's sport'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'This 1925 event was staged in Dayton, Tenn. to give the city publicity, with the defendant & the law in on it'

Answer: the Scopes trial


Question: 'The main ingredient in salsa verde, this small green vegetable, is native to Mexico'

Answer: the tomatillo


Question:
'Dail Eireann
&
Seanad Eireann'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'If you have some lines by Edgar Guest in your house, it's likely they're lines of this'

Answer: poetry


Question: 'The 1943 classic heard here is the work of this uncommon composer'

Answer: (Aaron) Copland


Question: 'In 2004 this Dire Straits leader rocked out with his fourth solo album, "Shangri-La"'

Answer: Mark Knopfler


Question: 'In 1945 a U.S. unit saved the life of this Vietnamese guerrilla leader then helping the Allied cause'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'This republic of West Africa with a 4-letter name has 3 green striped on its flag representing its natural resources'

Answer: Togo


Question: 'The Storting'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Type of -ologist most preoccupied with isothermal lines'

Answer: a meteorologist


Question: '"Sartoris" published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'Of "Summer Catch", "Summer Rental" or "Summer Camp Nightmare", the one that's a John Candy comedy'

Answer: Summer Rental


Question: 'Here's the skinny on this diet plan:<br />WTW'

Answer: Weight Watchers


Question: 'Cuspids are another name for these teeth that tear & shred food'

Answer: canines


Question: 'Appropriately, you can see the world's largest potato chip at the World Potato Exposition in this state'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'You can be "guilty as" this, or guilty of this 3-letter word'

Answer: sin


Question: 'In England his 1950 science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" was titled "The Silver Locusts"'

Answer: Bradbury


Question: 'A 1987 movie comedy was named for this seasonal institution that some kids dread'

Answer: summer school


Question: 'Get the door, it's this company that really delivers:<br />DPZ'

Answer: Domino\'s Pizza


Question: 'Blood returns to the heart from the head & neck by way of these 2 large veins on each side of the neck'

Answer: the jugular veins


Question: 'In Kenner, Louisiana, go marching in to the museum & hall of fame for this pro football team'

Answer: the (New Orleans) Saints


Question: 'The familiar "as old as" these appears in "David Copperfield"'

Answer: the hills


Question: '1926's top 2 fiction sellers were John Epskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" & this Anita Loos book'

Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes


Question: 'It's the charming 1963 Disney film that features the song heard here'

Answer: Summer Magic


Question: 'A large breakfast cereal producer:<br />GIS'

Answer: General Mills


Question: 'Its 3 main sections are the duodenum, the jejunum & the ileum'

Answer: the small intestine


Question: 'Frank Lloyd Wright is pictured here with his model for this museum'

Answer: the Guggenheim


Question: 'After a bad night, change the meaning of this common simile by adding "I woke up every hour crying"'

Answer: I slept like a baby


Question: 'This 1925 novel contains the line "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy"'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'Geraldine Page yearned for Laurence Harvey in this 1961 film based on a Tennessee Williams play'

Answer: Summer and Smoke


Question: 'It's been on the NYSE in some form since 1824:<br />ED'

Answer: Con Edison (Consolidated Edison)


Question: 'This flap of cartilage prevents food & fluids from entering your windpipe'

Answer: the epiglottis


Question: 'At the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, you'll find his handwritten manuscript for "Ulysses"'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'Many writers have used Shakespeare's simile "bestride the narrow world like" this'

Answer: a colossus


Question: 'This 140-pound character in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard'

Answer: Buck


Question: 'Judy Garland's "Get Happy" number was filmed months after the rest of this movie musical, & she's strikingly thinner in it'

Answer: Summer Stock


Question: 'A maker of fancy watches:<br />MOV'

Answer: Movado


Question: 'This "hard mother" of a membrane forms the outermost of the 3 meninges covering the brain'

Answer: the dura mater


Question: 'Bushman, a famous gorilla who once lived at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, lives on forever at this nearby museum'

Answer: the Field Museum (of Natural History)


Question: 'This 3-word simile is also the title of a Joseph Heller novel; the hero's first name is Bruce'

Answer: good as gold


Question: 'Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year'

Answer: 1861


Question: 'He directed 5 of the movies on the list including No. 9, "Schindler's List"'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'FYI'

Answer: For Your Information


Question: 'Judith Leiber makes tiny evening bags from the skin of this largest bird'

Answer: Ostrich


Question: 'The vernal equinox signals the end of this in the Northern Hemisphere'

Answer: Winter


Question: 'When taken orally, it's the average body temperature of a healthy human at rest'

Answer: 98.6 F.


Question: 'You can climb to the crown of this NYC landmark but you have to take the stairs, all 354 of them!'

Answer: Statue of Liberty


Question: '1 of only 2 animated films on the list'

Answer: Fantasia &/or Snow White


Question: 'PLS'

Answer: Please


Question: 'Hermes named a popular bag after this '50s film star turned princess'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'Walk like a duck'

Answer: Waddle


Question: 'On the Fahrenheit scale, water freezes at 32 degrees & boils at this temperature'

Answer: 212


Question: 'The Hillary Step, a 40-foot spur of snow & ice, is the last obstacle you must climb before reaching its summit'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'This classic seen here is planted firmly at No. 21'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'OTOH'

Answer: On the other hand


Question: 'A bag owned by this woman who "handbagged" British political foes was purchased in 2000 for $150,000'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'They might be giants, but in Don Quixote's case, he was tilting at these'

Answer: Windmills


Question: 'Term for the increase in the Earth's average temperature; by 2100, the Earth may be 3 to 8 degrees hotter'

Answer: Global warming


Question: 'When attempting this African mountain, use the Marangu Route; you'll find it's the easiest & most comfortable'

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro


Question: 'This Oscar-winning western from 1992 rode in at No. 98 on the list'

Answer: Unforgiven


Question: 'FCOL'

Answer: For cryin\' out loud


Question: 'These bags as sold by Karen Millen are more chic than those given away on PBS pledge drives'

Answer: Tote bags


Question: 'Ah-one & ah-two, it's the marine snail in the photo looking at you'

Answer: Whelk


Question: 'At 136 degrees F., the hottest place ever recorded on Earth was near Tripoli in this country in 1922'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'You might follow in astronaut James Irwin's footsteps up this mountain in search of Noah's Ark'

Answer: Mount Ararat


Question: 'This 1972 movie is No. 3 on the list; its sequel is No. 32'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: 'GG'

Answer: Got to go


Question: 'Stars like Julianne Moore have advertised leather bags for this company whose name is a type of transport'

Answer: Coach


Question: 'Don't let dull knives dampen your spirit, use one of these abrasive items to sharpen them'

Answer: Whetstone


Question: 'In 1971 Prospect Creek in this state reached a record low temperature in the U.S. of -80 degrees F.'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'You'll see some Inca ruins during the 1-hour climb to the top of Huayna Picchu in this country'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'He was born in Dublin, the son of noted Irish painter John Butler Yeats'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'At the 1998 Winter Olympics, "Happy" Harada helped this home team win gold in ski jumping'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This Greek city didn't allow deformed children to live & boys began military training at age 7'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'One of these struck Boston in 1755, Missouri in 1811 & Charleston in 1886, so it's not west coast-specific'

Answer: Earthquake


Question: 'Gauguin collected art by painters of this movement, like Pissarro & Monet & exhibited with them from 1880 to 1882'

Answer: Impressionism


Question: 'From a winning finish in a race, drop this letter to get a closed hand'

Answer: R (first/fist)


Question: 'These brothers known for their 1857 collection of "fairy tales" shared the middle name Karl'

Answer: Grimm brothers


Question: 'Byron & Wayne Black are tennis stars from this country that wasn't kind to blacks when it was Rhodesia'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'Around 480 B.C. this north African city-state was not so Puny-c;, it controlled most of the western Mediterranean'

Answer: Carthage


Question: 'Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one accounts for about 75% of all the exposed rocks on land'

Answer: Sedimentary


Question: 'Bernini designed the colonnade around the piazza at this basilica to represent the church's embrace'

Answer: St. Peter\'s Basilica


Question: 'From a 2-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, drop this letter to get a 4-wheeled power vehicle'

Answer: T (cart/car)


Question: 'This "Fahrenheit 451" author's ancestors include a woman who was tried for witchcraft in Salem, Mass.'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'Spanish golfing phenom Sergio Garcia has this "weathered" nickname meaning "The Boy Child"'

Answer: "El Nino"


Question: 'This first capital of ancient Egypt was at the apex of the Nile delta'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'From the Greek kryos, "ice", it's the shape a mineral grows into when unrestricted'

Answer: Crystal


Question: 'A landscape by this "elder" Flemish painter is seen here'

Answer: Pieter Bruegel the Elder


Question: 'Drop this letter from 30 days to get a lepidopteran'

Answer: N (month/moth)


Question: 'When Elinor Wylie married William Rose Benet, she became the sister-in-law of this poet & novelist'

Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet


Question: '7'2" Dikembe Mutombo led the NBA in this defensive move 3 straight years, 1994-1996'

Answer: Blocked shots


Question: 'Lycia, like Nicaea, was in what's now this Eurasian country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Term for a plate pulling apart; a great valley in Africa has been formed by & named for it'

Answer: Rift/rifting


Question: 'This Belgian surrealist painted a pipe & the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe")'

Answer: Rene Magritte


Question: 'From darkness or depression, drop this letter to get a weaving apparatus'

Answer: G (gloom/loom)


Question: 'This author of "The Virginian" was the grandson of famed 19th century British actress Fanny Kemble'

Answer: Owen Wister


Question: 'Boxer Roberto Duran became a national hero in this, his native country'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Not to inflate its importance, but this top city in Phoenicia was trading with Spain by 800 B.C.'

Answer: Tyre


Question: '1 of the 3 minerals on the Mohs scale that can be scratched with a copper penny'

Answer: Calcite, gypsum or talc


Question: 'Around 1884 Edgar Degas painted the portrait seen here of this fellow impressionist'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'Drop this letter from quick & active to get a Jewish circumcision'

Answer: K (brisk/bris)


Question: 'Russian, Chinese, Arabian & Spanish dances are highlights of this ballet that premiered December 18, 1892'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: 'Psychologists refer to this sense as olfaction'

Answer: smell


Question: 'You should hard-boil these breakfast items before adding them to your chiffonade dressing'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Whidbey Island is the largest of the many islands in this inlet'

Answer: Puget Sound


Question: 'In the Mother Goose rhyme, he "was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he"'

Answer: Old King Cole


Question: 'In Geoffrey of Monmouth's version of this legend, this wife of King Arthur is called Guanhumara'

Answer: Guinevere


Question: '"Needful Things" is a recent tale of terror by this author of "It" & "Cujo"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'The length of this on Jupiter is less than 10 hours'

Answer: the day


Question: 'Olympia ones are often eaten on the half shell'

Answer: oysters


Question: 'The portrait of Washington on the state seal is from a portrait by this artist'

Answer: (Gilbert) Stuart


Question: 'In song, Stephen Foster said these people stay "way down upon the Swanee River"'

Answer: the old folks at home


Question: 'In the Bible, Jesus cautioned his followers to "Remember" this man's "wife" who turned to salt'

Answer: Lot


Question: 'In 1931 Jean de Brunhoff wrote the first of several children's tales about this elephant'

Answer: Babar


Question: 'Palynology seeks knowledge about past plant distribution by studying grains of this'

Answer: pollen


Question: 'Nationality whose name often precedes chard, steak & fondue'

Answer: Swiss


Question: 'Washington's state fish is the steelhead species of this'

Answer: trout


Question: 'According to a proverb, these "die hard"'

Answer: old habits


Question: 'In memory of his wife Arjumand Banu Begum, who died in childbirth, Shah Jahan built this mausoleum'

Answer: the Taj Mahal


Question: 'This author was one of the first to use the term "Jazz Age" in his "Tales of the Jazz Age" in 1922'

Answer: Fitzgerald


Question: 'Consisting of 3 atoms, water is an example of a triatomic one of these units'

Answer: a molecule


Question: 'Of chocolate, cheese or chili peppers, the one you're most likely to find in bishop's bread'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'Completed in 1942, this dam contains about 12 million cubic yards of concrete'

Answer: Grand Coulee


Question: 'Because its tail is usually clipped, this shaggy dog is also called a bobtail'

Answer: the Old English sheepdog


Question: 'In September 1991 this fourth & last wife of Charlie Chaplin died at age 66'

Answer: Oona O\'Neill


Question: 'The general prologue to this monumental work describes the meeting of 30 pilgrims at the Tabard Inn'

Answer: The Canterbury Tales


Question: 'American Arthur Compton's work proved the existence of these "particles" of light'

Answer: photons


Question: 'A boule-de-neige is a dessert named for & resembling one of these spheres'

Answer: a snowball


Question: 'Once head of the Atomic Energy Commission, she became the state's 1st woman governor in 1977'

Answer: Dixy Lee Ray


Question: 'For its loyalty to the British Crown, Charles II gave Virginia this nickname'

Answer: the Old Dominion


Question: 'With her mother superior's blessings, Maria Kutschera became the wife of this Austrian baron in 1927'

Answer: Baron von Trapp


Question: '"The Last of the Mohicans" is among the novels that make up this series of tales'

Answer: The Leatherstocking Tales


Question: 'Japan's Showa reign ended in 1989 with the death of this emperor'

Answer: Hirohito


Question: 'The term for regular payments you get from your employer after retiring'

Answer: a pension


Question: 'Major hotels in this city include Shepheard's & the Nile Hilton'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Ira Gershwin wrote, "Summertime and the livin' is" this'

Answer: easy


Question: 'One Saxon name for this month was Aefter-Yula or "after Christmas"'

Answer: January


Question: 'At Carnegie Hall in 1935, she talked about "Adventures in Flying"; she disappeared 2 years later'

Answer: (Amelia) Earhart


Question: 'On Christmas Day, 800, as he prayed at St. Peter's Church, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'NASDAQ deals in OTC stocks, OTC standing for this'

Answer: over the counter


Question: 'This city on the Tiete River accounts for about 40% of Brazil's industrial output'

Answer: São Paulo


Question: 'According to playwright William Congreve, "You must not" do this "and tell"'

Answer: kiss


Question: 'The name of this month might come from a Latin word meaning "to open", being a time when flowers open'

Answer: April


Question: 'Oceanus Hopkins was born on this ship while it was at sea; Peregrine White, after it got to New England'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'After becoming emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, he gave the country its first written constitution'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'It provides transportation & utility stock averages as well as its famous industrial'

Answer: (the) Dow (Jones)


Question: 'The tombs of Michelangelo & Machiavelli are in the Church of Santa Croce in this Italian city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Milton Friedman said, "There's only one place where inflation is made: that's in" this city'

Answer: Washington (D.C.)


Question: 'The 11th of this month once marked the beginning of winter; now it commemorates the end of WWI'

Answer: November


Question: 'Milan Stefanik, a Slovakian astronomer & soldier, helped found this nation in 1918'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'It's uncertain whether this Aztec emperor was killed by Cortez' troops or by his own people'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: '"Geographic" term for corporations registered in places where taxes are less, like the Caymans or Bahamas'

Answer: offshore


Question: 'Nymphenburg Palace, the summer residence of the Bavarian kings, lies on the outskirts of this German city'

Answer: Munich


Question: '17th century poet Jean de la Fontaine said, "A hungry" one of these organs "cannot hear"'

Answer: a stomach


Question: 'The Greeks honored Demeter & the Romans honored Ceres during this harvest month'

Answer: September


Question: 'As captain of the Queen's Guard, this courtier watched the execution of his rival, Lord Essex'

Answer: (Sir Walter) Raleigh


Question: 'Maximilian, who became emperor of Mexico in 1864, was the brother of this Austrian emperor'

Answer: Franz Josef


Question: 'A strike is a stoppage of work by the workers & this is a stoppage decided by management'

Answer: a lockout


Question: 'Regina, this Canadian province's capital, was originally called Pile O'Bones'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: 'In "The People, Yes" this poet wrote, "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'In the part of South America south of the equator, summer begins during this month'

Answer: December


Question: 'This 1st wife was legally married to Henry VIII longer than anyone else: over 23 years'

Answer: Catharine of Aragon


Question: 'An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since'

Answer: George Frideric Handel


Question: 'I will just scream if one more tourist asks me how to get to zis Paris cathedral on the Ile de la Cite'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'The first illustrations of his "Birds of America" were printed in 1827'

Answer: John James Audubon


Question: '"I Would Die 4 U" & "When Doves Cry" are songs on this 1984 soundtrack'

Answer: "Purple Rain"


Question: 'In June 1999 he made a return visit to his homeland'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'Georgetown University'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'Before the grand jury, Bill Clinton said, "It depends on...your definition of" this word'

Answer: Is


Question: 'Sacre bleu!  My aspirateur, one of these "inhaling" household appliances, is on ze fritz again!'

Answer: Vacuum cleaner


Question: '"Be it ever so humble", John Howard Payne wrote this song with a 3-word title for the 1823 opera "Clari"'

Answer: "Home, Sweet Home"


Question: '(Hi, I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray.) My band's album title "14:59" is a reference to this man's quote about 15 minutes of fame'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'This pope who called for a Vatican council was beatified in 2000'

Answer: Pope John XXIII


Question: 'University of Westminster'

Answer: London


Question: 'In the "Little House" books, it's what Laura Ingalls calls her father'

Answer: Pa


Question: 'It is an artistic tragedy that zis American director & star of ze "Bellboy" has not made any recent films'

Answer: Jerry Lewis


Question: 'This art of sculpting with whale bone was popular in the 1820s'

Answer: Scrimshaw


Question: 'This girl group is waterskiing on the cover of 1982's "Vacation"'

Answer: Go-Go\'s


Question: 'He was a cardinal for 5 years and a pope for considerably less time'

Answer: Pope John Paul I


Question: 'Jawaharlal Nehru University'

Answer: New Delhi


Question: 'In tennis it's "In" when the server has game point, "Out" when the receiver does'

Answer: Ad


Question: 'Een ze American restaurant, I cannot believe it's not beurre, which translates as zis'

Answer: Butter


Question: 'On 12/12/1822 the U.S. recognized the independence of this nation ruled by emperor Agustin de Iturbide'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This Trent Reznor band's album "The Downward Spiral" debuted at No. 2 on the charts in 1994'

Answer: Nine Inch Nails


Question: 'This pope's actions, or lack thereof during World War II, have been the subject of controversy'

Answer: Pope Pius XII


Question: 'Keio University'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'This Yiddishism means "So?" or "Well?"'

Answer: Nu


Question: 'Modern politicians?  Poo!  Bring back zis general who became premier in 1958 & president in 1959'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'This famous keelboatman was probably killed near the mouth of the Yellowstone River in 1823'

Answer: Mike Fink


Question: '"Learning to Crawl" was a hit album for this Chrissie Hynde group'

Answer: The Pretenders


Question: 'Before this man, seen here, became pope, he served as the Archbishop of Milan'

Answer: Pope Paul VI


Question: 'Kim Il Sung University'

Answer: Pyongyang, North Korea


Question: '20th century style of art represented here'

Answer: Op Art


Question: 'The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia says this tool has largely replaced the axe in forestry'

Answer: Chainsaw


Question: 'A "cowardly" variety of sapsucker'

Answer: Yellow-bellied


Question: '1939:<br />Henry Fonda'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln ("Young Mr. Lincoln")


Question: 'Designed by John Roebling, when it opened in 1883, it was the world's longest suspension bridge & not for sale'

Answer: Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'Izaak Walton's most famous work, it's subtitled "The Contemplative Man's Recreation"'

Answer: "The Compleat Angler"


Question: 'An 1852 survey by the government of India said it was the tallest mountain in the world'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal'

Answer: Copper


Question: 'It can be a restrictive burden or a wooden frame for harnessing draft animals'

Answer: Yoke


Question: '2000: <br />Jeff Daniels'

Answer: George Washington (in "The Crossing\')


Question: 'In 1608 he became president of Jamestown'

Answer: John Smith


Question: 'Walton lived the majority of his life in this century'

Answer: 17th century


Question: 'In 1760 Horace Benedict de Saussure of Geneva offered a prize to the first to scale this Alpine peak'

Answer: Mont Blanc


Question: 'Without this Wallace Carothers invention, WWII G.I.s would have had only chocolates to offer women'

Answer: Nylons


Question: 'From the Sanskrit for "joining", it's a Hindu discipline aimed at training the mind & body'

Answer: Yoga


Question: '1995:<br />Nick Nolte'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'He went from working in a coal mine, working up, up, up to become UMW president from 1920 to 1960'

Answer: John L. Lewis


Question: 'Izaak knew this "No Man is an Island" author when he was vicar of St. Dunstan's'

Answer: John Donne


Question: 'The Virunga Range is renowned as the habitat of these vegetarian primates'

Answer: mountain gorillas


Question: 'This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft'

Answer: Ejection seats


Question: 'Paul Williams wrote the music for this "worldly" Helen Reddy Top 10 hit'

Answer: "You and Me Against the World"


Question: '1974:<br />William Devane'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'In 1638 this non-ordained minister left half his fortune & his library to a college in New Towne, Mass.'

Answer: John Harvard


Question: 'Young Izaak apprenticed as one of these metal & hardware salesmen in London'

Answer: Ironmongers


Question: 'Israel, Lebanon, Syria & the U.N. all have presences around Mount Hermon, the highest peak on these heights'

Answer: Golan Heights


Question: 'If you're using a GPS device to get around, you should know GPS stands for this'

Answer: Global Positioning System


Question: 'As in Anno Domini 2000, it's what Anno Domini means in English'

Answer: The Year of Our Lord


Question: '1997:<br />Anthony Hopkins'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'In 1842 he mapped most of the Oregon Trail; 8 years later he was a California senator'

Answer: John C. Fremont


Question: 'Walton wrote a life of this "The Altar" poet after whom former Pres. Bush could have been named'

Answer: George Herbert


Question: 'It's the famous pass in the Safed Koh Range of northeastern Afghanistan'

Answer: Khyber Pass


Question: 'Around 3 years on the bestseller list, this book is subtitled "An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson"'

Answer: \"Tuesdays With Morrie\"


Question: 'You can see some of Pablo Casals' favorite cellos at the museum devoted to him in this Puerto Rican capital'

Answer: San Juan


Question: '"The Sun Also Rises", which first saw the light of day in 1926, is considered to be his finest novel'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Director John Lasseter earned a 1995 Oscar for this first all-computerized animated feature'

Answer: Toy Story


Question: 'This travel organization responds to almost 30 million emergency road service calls a year'

Answer: AAA


Question: 'The December 1996 National Rodeo Finals in this Nevada city had $3.2 million in prize money'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Every artist we canvassed said it holds up their work'

Answer: Easel


Question: 'Spice baskets are popular souvenirs of St. George's, the capital of this country invaded by the U.S. in 1983'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'In 1922 she provided tips on "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home"'

Answer: Emily Post


Question: 'White Zombie's album sales soared after this MTV cartoon duo pronounced their video "cool"'

Answer: Beavis and Butt-head


Question: 'Dedicated in 1962, the Thatcher Ferry Bridge spans the Pacific entrance to this canal'

Answer: Panama Canal


Question: 'As one of these rodeo personalities, Rob Smets has broken his neck twice; that's not funny'

Answer: Rodeo clown


Question: 'Proverbial amount of prevention that's needed'

Answer: Ounce


Question: 'Road Town is not only the capital but the only urban area in this British island group'

Answer: British Virgin Islands


Question: 'He was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he published "All Quiet on the Western Front"'

Answer: Erich Maria Remarque


Question: '"Teen Wolf" debuted on TV in 1986 & these teenage terrapins hit the air the next year'

Answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


Question: 'In 1995 this agency, the ICC, issued Santa a permit to operate "as a common carrier by 2-runner sleigh"'

Answer: Interstate Commerce Commission


Question: 'Bareback & saddle bronc riders start in this, with the clock beginning when they leave it'

Answer: Chute


Question: 'Just the thing for a stroke on the water'

Answer: Oar


Question: 'Dance lovers know there's an annual merengue festival in this capital of the Dominican Republic'

Answer: Santo Domingo


Question: 'He called the original version of "Sartoris", his 1929 novel, "Flags in the Dust"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Characters from this Nickelodeon show are seen here:<br />[Lil, Phil, Chuckie & Tommy]'

Answer: Rugrats


Question: 'Features on this luxury liner include the Grand Lounge & the Queens Grill, one of 5 gourmet restaurants'

Answer: QE2


Question: 'The 2 continents that fit the category'

Answer: Australia & Europe


Question: 'Willemstad, the capital of Curacao, has an 18th century fort named for this European capital'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'In the title of a 1927 Willa Cather novel, "Death Comes for" him'

Answer: The Archbishop


Question: 'This "sizzling" star provided the voice of Balto, the heroic sled dog in a 1995 feature'

Answer: Kevin Bacon


Question: 'In 1887 Canada's Transcontinental Railroad reached from Montreal to this west coast city'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'In this order of architecture, the entablature on the column is more intricate than in the Doric'

Answer: Ionic


Question: 'George Ross, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was this seamstress' uncle by marriage'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Letter used with a number to denote "power", as in the magnification power of binoculars'

Answer: X


Question: 'Janis Joplin asked the Lord to buy her one of these to make up for her Porsche-driving friends'

Answer: Mercedes-Benz


Question: 'Perhaps imitating gorillas, grouses beat these in front of their chests to warn intruders'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'If right-handed, they aim for the "pocket" between the 1 & 3 pins'

Answer: Bowlers


Question: 'A canine term for youthful infatuation; it's also called "calf love"'

Answer: Puppy love


Question: 'In 1836 he set up shop in Paterson, New Jersey to manufacture his famous revolvers'

Answer: Samuel Colt


Question: 'When at sea, use this measurement equal to about 6,076 feet'

Answer: Nautical mile


Question: 'Model of car mentioned in the song heard here:'

Answer: T-Bird (Thunderbird)


Question: 'These southwestern birds can attain ground speeds of 15 MPH, even with nary a coyote in sight'

Answer: Roadrunners


Question: 'They use loud, colorful spiels to entice customers into carnivals'

Answer: Barkers


Question: 'French for "love", in English it means romance, especially a secret one'

Answer: Amour


Question: 'Confederate VP Alexander Stephens was later elected governor of this state -- how peachy'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'It's true, abrasives like sandpaper are graded & sold by the size of this on them'

Answer: Grit


Question: 'In 1988 Natalie Cole covered the Bruce Springsteen song about this pink luxury auto'

Answer: Cadillac


Question: 'When this bird of the family Apodidae slows down, it often nests in a chimney'

Answer: Swift


Question: 'On trains they assist conductors; on bobsleds their main duty is slowing things down'

Answer: Brakemen


Question: 'It's love of yourself, especially if you're a handsome youth or a pretty white flower'

Answer: Narcissism


Question: 'With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the Women's Loyal National League, to fight for slaves' freedom'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'There are 100 ares in one of these metric units of land area measure'

Answer: Hectare


Question: 'In a 1995 ode to this GM car, Moonpools & Caterpillars rhymed it with "knew it"'

Answer: Buick


Question: 'The red-footed type of this seabird lays one egg at a time so the chicks are more robust when they "hatch"'

Answer: Booby


Question: 'Only these bigwigs may argue before Britain's high court'

Answer: Barristers


Question: 'As chief justice from 1864 to 1873, he presided at the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson'

Answer: Salmon P. Chase


Question: 'Norman, engineer & Norwegian are names for sizes of these, a ton of which may hit you at any time'

Answer: Bricks


Question: 'Prince drove this title car into the Top 10 in 1983'

Answer: "Little Red Corvette"


Question: 'The king type of this well-feathered duck dives as far "down" as 180 feet'

Answer: Eider


Question: 'In a symphony orchestra, these speed reeders sit next to the clarinetists'

Answer: Bassoons


Question: 'Sanskrit for the pursuit of love, it's the subject of a famous sutra, or collection'

Answer: Kama


Question: 'Current European head of state whose last name means "cabbage"'

Answer: Helmut Kohl (of Germany)


Question: 'The "Cover Curse" of this Time, Inc. magazine is notable for athletes; appear & your career may soon disappear'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'As a pet, the border type of this may have to learn to relax & stop herding everything in sight'

Answer: a collie


Question: 'Nicorette is a gum designed to help your dad stop doing this'

Answer: smoking


Question: 'Some suggest eliminating this coin; the mint spends $134 million a year to produce $80 million worth'

Answer: the penny


Question: 'In 1682 he came to the throne at the age of 10, along with his weak-minded half-brother, Ivan V'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'It means to yield or admit, perhaps to a point of argument'

Answer: concede


Question: 'The Madden video game cover curse claimed this QB; first he got hurt & we won't even get into the dog thing'

Answer: Michael Vick


Question: 'Yes, comrade, the Borzoi is also known as the Russian this'

Answer: wolfhound


Question: 'Born Frances Gumm, she made her singing debut at age 2 in her dad's theater & then went on to visit Oz'

Answer: (Judy) Garland


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.)  I'm at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with a replica of the current $2 bill, which has an engraving of this event on the back; limited space on the note meant five guys got left out'

Answer: the signing of the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'The last name of this Peter, a British navy man, is on a Columbia River island & a Washington sound'

Answer: Puget


Question: 'Let's take a pregnant pause for this 8-letter verb, meaning to construct an image or idea'

Answer: conceive


Question: 'Curse averted!  The Yankees dug up a buried jersey of this rival team out of the concrete of the new stadium in 2008'

Answer: the Boston Red Sox


Question: 'Appropriately, the mountain pass with this dog's name is in the Alps, between Italy & Switzerland'

Answer: Saint Bernard


Question: 'When a man with this last name offered gum with his dad's soap, it started a chewing gum empire'

Answer: Wrigley


Question: 'From the 1970s, some quarters commemorating this featured a Colonial drummer'

Answer: the Bicentennial


Question: 'Last name of the Peter whose hall in Boston was completed in 1742'

Answer: Faneuil


Question: 'Exclusive attention to one object, or a game that requires memory skills'

Answer: concentration


Question: 'A black cat in 1969 & a fan's try for a foul ball (let him be, folks!) have been blamed for this team's woes'

Answer: the Cubs


Question: 'This prestigious dog show was first held in New York City in 1877 & showcased 1,201 pooches'

Answer: the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show


Question: 'Gumby's father has this name, also a Bantu word for "okra"'

Answer: Gumbo


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.)  Defacement of currency is a criminal offense, punishable by a fine up to this much, also the largest denomination the U.S. now issues'

Answer: $100


Question: 'In 1626 this Colonial gov. spent the best 60 Dutch guilders of his life when he bought Manhattan Island'

Answer: Minuit


Question: 'If I'm holding this spiral shell of a gastropod, a fabled trumpet of the tritons, I get to speak'

Answer: a conch (shell)


Question: 'Norm Van Lier was so upset this NBA team didn't retire his No. 2, he put a hex on anyone who wore it; lucky it wasn't 23'

Answer: the (Chicago) Bulls


Question: 'For 10 years after his master's death, a dog of this breed waited daily for his return at a Tokyo train station'

Answer: akita


Question: 'This "colorful" gum-chewing girl has a golden ticket that gets her & her dad in to see Willy Wonka'

Answer: Violet Beauregarde


Question: 'The dime known as this "Head" was designed by Charles Barber, the Mint's chief engraver from 1879 to 1917'

Answer: the Liberty Head


Question: 'World Book says it, flat out: this man "was the greatest Flemish painter of the 1600s"'

Answer: (Peter Paul) Rubens


Question: 'From the Latin for "to run together", it means existing simultaneously or side by side'

Answer: concurrent (concurrently accepted)


Question: 'Kharkov is the second-most populous city in this republic of 46 million'

Answer: the Ukraine


Question: '"I've always been a broad, now it's a great honor to be a dame", said this violet-eyed actress in 1999'

Answer: (Elizabeth) Taylor


Question: 'A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet:<br />St. Vincent'

Answer: (Edna St. Vincent) Millay


Question: 'Eat twice as much of this English dessert that features berries & vanilla custard--its name means "a trivial matter"'

Answer: a trifle


Question: 'Most orchestral scores place this group of instruments, which includes the oboe, at the top of the page'

Answer: woodwinds


Question: 'An area for playing racquetball & a seagoing vessel'

Answer: a courtship


Question: 'This country's president Museveni, seen as a godsend after leaders like Idi Amin, has been in power since 1986'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'In 1995 she was "Victor/Victoria" onstage; maybe she could get a knighthood, as well'

Answer: Julie Andrews


Question: 'He wrote "O.T.: A Danish Romance" & lived a fairy tale life:<br />Christian'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'Joseph Haydn's brother Michael succeeded Mozart as this city's cathedral organist'

Answer: Salzburg


Question: 'Obstructing a defensive player in football & silent film's Mr. Keaton'

Answer: a blockbuster


Question: 'Its national team won soccer's World Cup in 1930 & 1950'

Answer: Uruguay


Question: 'This Helen was in 2004's "Raising Helen"; she plays queens pretty well, too'

Answer: (Helen) Mirren


Question: 'A poet & a 6-year member of the Irish Senate:<br />Butler'

Answer: (William Butler) Yeats


Question: 'Berlioz never intended "The Damnation of" him to be staged, but damned if opera companies don't do it anyway'

Answer: Faust


Question: 'The heart of downtown Chicago & an animal's burrow'

Answer: a loophole


Question: 'Part of the Soviet space mission Project Juno, Helen Sharman was this country's first astronaut'

Answer: the United Kingdom


Question: 'This actress now portrays James Bond's M; she plays queens pretty well, too'

Answer: (Judi) Dench


Question: 'A Polish-born writer of short stories:<br />Bashevis'

Answer: Singer


Question: 'Mmm... ladyfingers soaked in brandy & espresso!  Quite a "pick me up", as the name of this Italian dessert says'

Answer: tiramisu


Question: 'The ballet "Pulcinella" has music by this Russian-born composer who dominated early 20th c. ballet music'

Answer: Stravinsky


Question: 'To fit together 2 corresponding items & to fight with gloves in a ring'

Answer: matchbox


Question: 'Islam Karimov has been the president of this Central Asian nation since 1991'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'Hello, possums!  In 2006 her (?) face was on Australian stamps as an "Australian Legend"; so was Barry Humphries''

Answer: Dame Edna


Question: '"Cross Creek" chronicler:<br />Kinnan'

Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings


Question: 'The name of this caramel-like mixture is Spanish for "sweet milk"'

Answer: dulce de leche


Question: 'Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer was among the few who saw the genius of this fellow Franz' music'

Answer: (Franz) Schubert


Question: 'A gymnastics trestle & a drama'

Answer: horseplay


Question: 'In a policy begun in 2002 as a symbol of the War on Terrorism, U.S. Navy ships fly the 18th c. flag with this 4-word motto'

Answer: Dont tread on me


Question: 'In 1812 he completed his 7th & 8th Symphonies & wrote a letter in which he asked, "Can our love endure..."'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'Patented March 1, 1921 was an improved "Diver's suit" by this escape artist'

Answer: Houdini


Question: 'The storming of the Bastille & death carts filled with human cargo are features of this Dickens novel'

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Question: 'Very taxing:<br />HRB'

Answer: H&R Block


Question: 'Sean Connery went shoeless when imprinting his feet in the cement at this Hollywood theater'

Answer: Grauman\'s Chinese Theater


Question: 'A card game, or an unflattering term for an elderly unmarried woman'

Answer: Old Maid


Question: 'In October the capital of Pennsylvania moved permanently from Lancaster to this city'

Answer: Harrisburg


Question: 'In 1993 this "Billie Jean" singer co-patented a "Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion"'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: '"Helm's Deep" & "The Taming of Smeagol" are chapters in this "Two"-titled book'

Answer: The Two Towers


Question: 'Athletically, it's a shoe-in:<br />FL'

Answer: Foot Locker


Question: 'L.A.'s city fathers renamed Weyse Avenue this street; "Hollywood & Weyse" just didn't cling'

Answer: Vine


Question: 'Put on your thinking chapeau & give us this apparel-related term for something trite or out of date'

Answer: old-fashioned (or old hat)


Question: 'In November this president was re-elected, defeating DeWitt Clinton'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'This guitarist patented a device to permit total freedom of the player's hands... think David Lee Roth got a cut?'

Answer: (Eddie) Van Halen


Question: 'This Belgian detective doesn't buy suicide as the cause of a dentist's death in "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"'

Answer: (Hercule) Poirot


Question: 'More than makeup:<br />EL'

Answer: Estee Lauder


Question: 'This L.A. arena, home to the Lakers & the site of 9 Grammy Awards, is named for an office-supply company'

Answer: the Staples Center


Question: '"Educational" term for something from an earlier era'

Answer: old school


Question: 'City this of New York opened in 1812: 200 years later it's still around, with the "y" now a second "i"'

Answer: Bank


Question: 'In 2004 he was mayor of NYC when he officially co-designed a new telephone handset'

Answer: (Michael) Bloomberg


Question: 'Proteus loves Julia, but another woman catches his eye in this Shakespeare play'

Answer: The Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'For upscale handbags:<br />COH'

Answer: Coach


Question: 'The Nisei Week Festival is held every August in the section of Los Angeles known as "Little" this city'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'A painting by a distinguished artist, or the artist himself'

Answer: an old master


Question: 'On February 27 this poet addressed the House of Lords for the first time, speaking on the Luddite rioting'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'No. 4,753,647 went to this Activia-selling actress for a diaper with a handy sanitary wipe tucked inside'

Answer: (Jamie Lee) Curtis


Question: 'Dominick Dunne wrote about a pair of women in a navy ensign's life in "The Two Mrs." these'

Answer: Grenvilles


Question: 'The casino went boom, but the corporation endures:<br />LVS'

Answer: Las Vegas Sands


Question: 'Simon Rodia built the folk art towers named for this South L.A. community between 1921 & 1954'

Answer: Watts


Question: '"Earthy" term for one's country of origin, especially if it's Ireland'

Answer: the Old Sod


Question: 'On James Lind's advice, in 1795 the British navy began issuing daily rations of lemon juice to prevent this disease'

Answer: scurvy


Question: 'The signature appetizer at P.F. Chang's is chicken in cups of this vegetable'

Answer: lettuce


Question: 'She... that's all you need, really; of roughly 4 score to hold the post, she's the only she'

Answer: (Janet) Reno


Question: 'U. of Washington,<br />UConn'

Answer: Huskies


Question: 'The city seal of Omaha features a farmer & a Native American standing on the banks of this river'

Answer: the Missouri River


Question: 'This opposite of analog comes from the Latin for "finger"'

Answer: digital


Question: 'Edward Jenner came up with the first successful vaccine, one that prevented this deadly disease'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'A delicious hors d'oeuvre is this French cheese, perhaps de Melun, baked in pastry'

Answer: Brie


Question: 'In 1992 he authored "With Reagan: The Inside Story"; his name isn't the plural of "mouse"'

Answer: (Edwin) Meese


Question: 'Gonzaga,<br />Yale'

Answer: Bulldogs


Question: 'St, Anthony Falls & a suspension bridge across the Mississippi River are on this Minnesota city's seal'

Answer: Minneapolis


Question: 'This "holy" synonym for wedlock comes from the Latin for "marriage"'

Answer: matrimony


Question: 'In 1895 he began replacing hypnosis as a form of therapy with free association'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'This French-named type of appetizer, seen here, can feature a wide variety of toppings'

Answer: canapé


Question: 'He became Attorney General in 2001, shortly after losing his re-election race as a senator from Missouri'

Answer: John Ashcroft


Question: 'West Virginia,<br />Appalachian State'

Answer: Mountaineers


Question: 'You'll find a hornet's nest on a tree branch depicted on this North Carolina city's seal'

Answer: Charlotte


Question: 'That's funny--the name of this arm bone is from the Latin for "shoulder"'

Answer: humerus


Question: '"Penicillin Man" is a book about this bacteriologist & his discovery'

Answer: (Alexander) Fleming


Question: 'Baba ghanoush is a dip made with this large purplish member of the nightshade family'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'He's the only Attorney General ever convicted of a felony'

Answer: John Mitchell


Question: 'Temple,<br />Rice'

Answer: Owls


Question: 'This peak is depicted in the background of the seal of Portland, Oregon'

Answer: Mt. Hood


Question: 'This word meaning to compel into military service comes partly from the Latin for "to write"'

Answer: conscript


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the human circulatory system on the monitor.)  The theory that blood circulates from the heart through the body's arteries & back to the heart through the veins was first explained by this Englishman in 1616'

Answer: (William) Harvey


Question: 'A popular Louisiana appetizer, crawfish tails that have been shelled, battered & deep-fried are called Cajun this'

Answer: popcorn


Question: 'As Deputy A.G. 1997-2001, he made a controversial recommendation of a presidential pardon for Marc Rich'

Answer: Eric Holder


Question: 'University of Houston,<br />Washington State'

Answer: Cougars


Question: 'Approved in 1939, the seal of this city in New York State features a barge being towed through a canal'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'Ovid used this Latin plural meaning "transformations" for a title'

Answer: metamorphoses


Question: 'In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Oh, thank heaven for this largest chain of convenience stores where you can get a Big Gulp day or night'

Answer: 7-Eleven


Question: '"No thanks, Mrs. Robinson.  I don't know what a 'cougar' is & I don't think I want to find out.  Is Elaine home?"'

Answer: The Graduate


Question: 'This type of doll represents a particular person; sticking pins in it is said to reinforce spells cast on that person'

Answer: a voodoo doll


Question: 'Taking the 'go" out of escargot, this mollusk is said to be able to lie dormant for months at a time'

Answer: the snail


Question: 'January 1:<br />This Southeast Asian sultanate gains its full independence from Great Britain'

Answer: Brunei


Question: 'Zeppo or Gummo'

Answer: Marx Brothers


Question: 'Ante up the money & you can have one of these hardware stores; it's "the helpful place"'

Answer: Ace


Question: '"Oh, geez... George, it turns out Bedford Falls would be better off if you'd never been born.  Now...this is awkward"'

Answer: It\'s a Wonderful Life


Question: 'In the 1880s this inventor reduced the size of a phonograph so that it could fit inside a doll & make it "talk"'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'The peregrine type of this bird can reach speeds of 200 mph in a dive'

Answer: a falcon


Question: 'January 24:<br />Apple introduces this influential  computer model'

Answer: the Macintosh


Question: 'A sibling by marriage, not genetics'

Answer: a brother-in-law (or stepbrother)


Question: '"Grill & chill" with this franchise that's been serving up its soft-serve ice cream since 1940'

Answer: Dairy Queen


Question: '"No, no, no, I'm Antoninus! I'm not that guy!  You want him!  He's right there!  The one that looks like Kirk Douglas"'

Answer: Spartacus


Question: 'Mattel has announced 2 new "I Can Be..." dolls of her: news anchor & computer engineer'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'See this alliterative sea creature?  It can pack a 300- to 650-volt wallop'

Answer: an electric eel


Question: 'May 19:<br />Led by a Great One, this Canadian team takes its first Stanley Cup'

Answer: the Edmonton Oilers


Question: '5-word nickname of Philadelphia'

Answer: "The City of Brotherly Love"


Question: 'This women-only circuit-training fitness center began franchising in 1995'

Answer: Curves