Question: 'In 2005 this actor walked the line as Johnny Cash'

Answer: Joaquin Phoenix


Question: 'A shako is a stiff, cylindrical one of these worn by soldiers'

Answer: a hat


Question: 'Russia's lowest point, 92 feet below sea level, is along the shore of this large "sea"'

Answer: the Caspian


Question: 'Bastille Day in France commemorates an event on this date in 1789'

Answer: July 14


Question: 'Hospital staff nurses work in these, & a recent study shows that nearly half of them exceed 12 hours'

Answer: shifts


Question: 'On TV, Boo Boo was his sidekick'

Answer: Yogi (Bear)


Question: 'Him as Charlie Chaplin in a 1992 biopic'

Answer: Robert Downey, Jr.


Question: 'It's your medium of travel if you're in a hoy'

Answer: water


Question: 'These 2 Russian federal cities have "special region" status'

Answer: Moscow & St. Petersburg


Question: 'The Sons of Liberty threw one heck of a tea party in Boston on Dec. 16 of this year'

Answer: 1773


Question: 'Many personal injury lawyers work on this basis, for a percentage of what they recover for you'

Answer: contingency


Question: 'From the Middle English for "to boast", it's a short, sharp cry from a dog in pain'

Answer: a yelp


Question: 'He was Heathcliff to Merle Oberon's Cathy in 1939's "Wuthering Heights"'

Answer: Laurence Olivier


Question: 'A celesta is one of these, struck by hammers'

Answer: a musical instrument (an instrument accepted)


Question: 'The highest peak in Russia, 18,510-foot Mount Elbrus is found in these mountains'

Answer: the Caucasus


Question: 'King John affixed his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede in June of this year'

Answer: 1215


Question: 'In Austin, Texas they work 140 calendar days in odd-numbered years'

Answer: the state legislators


Question: 'In "The Canterbury Tales", one of these sturdy workers serves the knight & squire'

Answer: a yeoman


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew watches a wire walker practice at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.)  Moving the parasol in the air helps the wire walker keep the point known by this three-word term directly over the wire'

Answer: center of gravity


Question: 'In 1973, at the tender age of 13, this Osmond's career blossomed with the No. 1 country hit "Paper Roses"'

Answer: Marie Osmond


Question: 'In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'A student at Sandhurst, he later served in British military intel. before creating his British superspy'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: 'In fiction diablerie is representation of these'

Answer: devils


Question: 'A fire-eater makes sure the flame is out before opening his mouth--otherwise a rush of this will revive it'

Answer: oxygen


Question: '(Hello, I'm Linda Park of Enterprise.)  A joke in the Star Trek universe is you haven't read Shakespeare until you've read him in the original this language of Worf'

Answer: Klingon


Question: 'Letitia Baldridge wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on this Baltimore-born etiquette expert'

Answer: Emily Post


Question: '(I'm Julie Chen.)  In 1999, on our first "Early Show" broadcast on CBS, I reported on a possible N.Y. Senate race between these 2 people; it didn't happen, but they may still face off for president'

Answer: (Hillary) Clinton & Rudolph Giuliani


Question: 'Robert Heinlein, the author of "Starship Troopers", was a graduate of this Maryland Military Academy'

Answer: Annapolis


Question: 'An arctophile loves these cuddly items named for a U.S. president'

Answer: teddy bears


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches a juggler pracice with clubs at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.)  It's time to throw the next club when the previous club reaches this point, also an astronomy term for the greatest distance from Earth'

Answer: apogee


Question: 'On October 2, 1999 this city's Thrashers thrashed around in their first regular season NHL game'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'This Roman historian paired ancient heroes in his "Parallel Lives"'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'The idea of these people who actually vote for president comes from the Holy Roman Empire'

Answer: the electors


Question: 'Lew Wallace served as a Union Major General in the Civil War before penning this biblical epic'

Answer: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ


Question: 'Someone who housels you administers this, & is probably a priest'

Answer: communion (or the eucharist)


Question: 'Between its show & a conservation center, Ringling Bros. has the W. Hem.'s largest sustainable pop. of the Asian this'

Answer: elephants


Question: 'Guilty as charged: In 2002 this cable TV network aired its first original movie, "Guilt by Association"'

Answer: Court TV


Question: 'In the 1920s this vitamin C advocate toured Europe, spending a month with Niels Bohr'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'This type of committee is supposed to be temporary, but there's a House "Permanent" one on intelligence'

Answer: Select Committee


Question: 'Edward Gibbon was a captain in the Hampshire Grenadiers before writing this epic of imperial decline'

Answer: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


Question: 'Put the 2 items seen here together & you get this word for a low-class person'

Answer: a guttersnipe


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches some trapeze artists rehearse at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.)  At the start of the trick, the trapeze artist has maximized her P.E., this; at the moment of the catch, she wants to maximize it again so she's not moving'

Answer: potential energy


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.)  I was directing Julia Roberts in this film about medical students when "Pretty Woman" came out, & suddenly she was a megastar'

Answer: Flatliners


Question: 'In 1831 Liszt heard him play violin & tried to re-create that virtuosity for piano with a fantasia'

Answer: Paganini


Question: 'This Kentuckian, the GOP leader in the Senate, thinks major campaign finance reform restricts free speech'

Answer: (Mitch) McConnell


Question: 'This Grecian fought at Salamis & Marathon, & his 70 plays include the "Oresteia" & "Prometheus Bound"'

Answer: Aeschylus


Question: 'You might promenade along this flat stretch near the shore that also ends in -nade'

Answer: an esplanade


Question: 'The landmark site known to the Lakota as "6 Grandfathers" was renamed this after a prominent lawyer'

Answer: Mt. Rushmore


Question: 'No. 1 of these by Shakespeare, "From fairest creatures we desire increase", urges a handsome man to have kids'

Answer: his sonnets


Question: 'The type-2 of this weapon had a max power setting of 16 & could be set to heat, disrupt or stun'

Answer: a phaser


Question:
'Aug. 4, 1901,
New Orleans:
Got his first cornet about 6 years later'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question:
'Australia,
South Africa,
New Zealand'

Answer: South Africa


Question: '(Bobby Flay of the Food Network reads the clue.)  Of 145, 155 or 165 degrees, the one that's the minimum internal temperature for safely cooked turkey according to the U.S.D.A.'

Answer: 165


Question: 'It's the state flower of both Kentucky & Nebraska'

Answer: the goldenrod


Question: 'Lord Byron was a major influence on this later poet lord who wrote 1842's "The Lord of Burleigh"'

Answer: Tennyson


Question: 'This Star Fleet missive prohibits interference with other civilizations'

Answer: the Prime Directive


Question:
'Jan. 4, 1809,
Coupvray, France:
Modified the Barbier point writing system for the Royal Institute for Blind Children'

Answer: Louis Braille


Question:
'Israel,
Lebanon,
Syria'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'In "A Christmas Carol", the Cratchit family has this bird, stuffed, for Christmas dinner'

Answer: a goose


Question: 'Then-last name of the current U.S. senator who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969'

Answer: Rodham


Question: 'Blake asked,<br />"Little" this, "who made thee?... Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing, woolly, bright"'

Answer: lamb


Question: 'This device briefly converts a person to energy, beams the energy, then reassembles the person'

Answer: a transporter


Question:
'February 18, 1848,
New York City:
The piece seen here is a creation of this opalescent glass pioneer'

Answer: Tiffany


Question:
'Switzerland,
Sweden,
Swaziland'

Answer: Sweden


Question: '(Paula Deen stirs something up.)  Hey, y'all--I make a very easy version of this classic Christmas gift with pecans, dates, cherries &, of course, 1/2 a cup of good old-fashioned bourbon'

Answer: a fruitcake


Question: 'A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature'

Answer: a parody


Question: 'Leaving his girl for his duty, Lovelace wrote, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, lov'd I not" this "more"'

Answer: honor


Question: 'When Spock checks chronometric data he's looking at measurements of the space-this continuum'

Answer: time


Question:
'Dec. 27, 1822,
Dole, France:
Founding father of microbiology'

Answer: Pasteur


Question:
'Pakistan,
Bangladesh,
Indonesia'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'The song "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" says, "Oh, bring us" this dessert "and a cup of good cheer"'

Answer: figgy pudding


Question: 'His 5th century B.C. writings traced the struggles between the Greeks & the Persian Empire'

Answer: Herodotus


Question: 'This British poet got romantic about "La Belle Dame sans Merci"'

Answer: Keats


Question: 'This crystal regulates matter/antimatter reactions that provide energy for travel faster than light'

Answer: dilithium


Question:
'May 11, 1933,
The Bronx:
This guy who changed his name to Minister Louis X in the '50s'

Answer: Louis Farrakhan


Question:
'Portugal,
Colombia,
Peru'

Answer: Colombia


Question: '(Duff Goldman from the Food Network TV show Ace of Cakes decorates some cookies.)  Fit for a king, a favorite touch on Christmas cookies is this type of icing that hardens to a smooth finish'

Answer: royal icing


Question: 'Noah's great-grandson, he was remembered as a mighty hunter'

Answer: Nimrod


Question: 'The guillotine has been retired per article 66-1 of the French constitution, prohibiting this'

Answer: capital punishment (beheading accepted)


Question: 'It's the only Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'His sculpture of Victor Hugo got a "miserable" reaction; later it was placed on the avenue named for Hugo'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'In 2001 the oldest known pair of this company's jeans sold for more than $46,000 on eBay'

Answer: Levi


Question: 'Whaddayamean, funny?  I'm funny how?  I make you laugh?  I amuse you?  Tell me.  Tell me what's funny'

Answer: a clownfish


Question: 'A bee with no sting'

Answer: a drone


Question: 'Since 1958 France's government has been the Fifth of these'

Answer: a Republic


Question: 'A tagline for this 1983 horror film is "She'll possess you.  Then destroy you.  She's death on wheels.  She's..."'

Answer: Christine


Question: 'Monet & this fellow Impressionist often painted the same scene, like Monet's wife & son in 1874'

Answer: Auguste Renoir


Question: 'Pop Secret Homestyle is a brand of popcorn you make in this device, used for popcorn since the 1940s'

Answer: a microwave


Question: 'This is formed by a rocklike accumulation of calcareous skeletons'

Answer: coral


Question: 'A type of star, sequoia or slalom'

Answer: giant


Question: 'France's highest one of these is the one of cassation, a word meaning annulment or reversal'

Answer: court


Question: 'Not several shrubs, they're actually Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk & Kim Walker (Winona's name was Veronica)'

Answer: Heathers


Question: 'Maurice Utrillo often painted scenes of this area of Paris & its best-known landmark, Sacre Coeur'

Answer: Montmartre


Question: 'You pour the pancake syrup right out of the top of the lady's head with this brand's bottle'

Answer: Mrs. Butterworth


Question: 'It warms the depths of my heart to know you're about to tell me the name of this clammy species seen here'

Answer: cockle


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated angle on the monitor.)  With a measure of less than 90 degrees, an angle like the one seen here is referred to as this type of angle'

Answer: acute


Question: 'This son of a Hungarian immigrant became president in 2007'

Answer: Sarkozy


Question: 'Jessica Lange got a lobotomy in this 1982 biopic detailing one of Tinseltown's saddest starlet stories'

Answer: Frances


Question: 'This Dadaist exhibited ready-mades like "Fountain", a urinal that he signed R. Mutt'

Answer: Duchamp


Question: 'In 1920 the U.S. Post Office approved this Connecticut company's postage meter'

Answer: Pitney Bowes


Question: 'Whales belong to this order'

Answer: cetaceans


Question: 'A usually nonmalignant tumor causing obstruction'

Answer: a polyp


Question: 'There are about 36,000 of these, the basic unit of local government; there was an ill-fated one of Paris in 1871'

Answer: a commune


Question: 'For this 2004 film, Catalina Sandino Moreno was the first Best Actress Oscar nominee to speak all her lines in Spanish'

Answer: Maria, Full of Grace


Question: 'In 1940 this Dutch abstract artist moved to NYC, which influenced his masterpiece "Broadway Boogie-Woogie"'

Answer: Piet Mondrian


Question: 'In 1990 for $1.36 billion, ConAgra bought this food brand that is also a woman's first name'

Answer: Beatrice


Question: 'This rare fish has been called a living fossil'

Answer: the coelacanth


Question: 'To voluntarily give up a claim or a right, maybe with a gesture meaning bye-bye'

Answer: waive


Question: 'He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'Post-medieval ballads about this outlaw are the source for his companion Marian'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'This title guy is No. 7 in your Quidditch programs'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'This daughter of Henry VIII signed the Religious Settlement of 1559 reestablishing the Church of England'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'Valances, lambrequins & jabots may be part of these treatments'

Answer: window treatments


Question: 'The Valley of the Kings lies on the west bank of this river, across from Luxor'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'To cast aside or get rid of'

Answer: discard


Question: 'Oliver from Harvard & Jennifer at Radcliffe survive every obstacle except mortality in this bestseller'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'This lucky 7 "spiced up" England's national soccer team as its captain from 2000 to 2006'

Answer: (David) Beckham


Question: 'The full name of this country's queen is Margrethe Alexandrine Thorhildur Ingrid'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'For some folks one of these with a timer, like from Melitta, makes it possible to keep their eyes open in the morning'

Answer: a coffeemaker


Question: 'In 1990 he revised his 1978 novel "The Stand"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'An unpredictable element, or a team that makes the playoffs without winning its division'

Answer: a wild card


Question: 'This Shakespearean tragedy, one of his last, is based on Plutarch's "Lives"'

Answer: Anthony and Cleopatra


Question: 'In 1969 this alliterative athlete's No. 7 was retired by the New York Yankees'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'The higher the speed on this wash cycle, the less time & energy used by the dryer'

Answer: the spin cycle


Question: 'This bluesman's first Top 40 hit was 1964's "Rock Me Baby"'

Answer: B.B. King


Question: 'Let me just peek at these at dinner--I'm seated between Gisele--fabulous!--&... aw crud, Hugo Chavez!!'

Answer: a placecard


Question: 'Marguerite Duras' "L'amant", about an affair in Indochina, translates as this romantic person in English'

Answer: the lover


Question: 'This QB who wore No. 7 led the Broncos to 3 Super Bowl losses before winning back-to-back ones'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'A dimmer works by cutting power for an instant with each reversal of polarity in this type of electric current'

Answer: alternating current


Question: 'In 1955 this Atlanta-born man got a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University'

Answer: Martin Luther King


Question: 'It's a paperboard sign carried by a picketer'

Answer: a placard


Question: 'During WWI, Lt. Henry goes AWOL & escapes to Switzerland to be with his love Catherine in this Hemingway novel'

Answer: A Farewell to Arms


Question: 'He wore No. 7 for the New Orleans Jazz, but as No. 23 in college, this "Pistol" averaged 44.2 points per game'

Answer: ("Pistol" Pete) Maravich


Question: 'Had she been a man, this Dutch queen would have inherited Luxembourg in 1890'

Answer: Queen Wilhelmina


Question: 'That limited edition artwork "Lamplight Bridge" by this painter really sets off your couch'

Answer: (Thomas) Kinkade


Question: 'In 1926 W.L. MacKenzie King was prime minister of this country twice (he gave it up in June but had it back by September)'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Medically, it's the "CP" in CPR'

Answer: cardiopulmonary


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some column styles on the monitor.)  Of the three Greek orders, Doric is the simplest, Ionic has spiral volutes, & this order decorated with Acanthus leaves is the most elaborate'

Answer: Corinthian


Question: '1982:<br />Dudes!  Sean Penn has a pizza delivered during class'

Answer: Fast Times at Ridgemont High


Question: '(Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.)  No visit to Jordan would be complete without a visit to the largest mosque in Amman, which bears the name of this man, my late father-in-law'

Answer: King Hussein of Jordan


Question: 'Fittingly, this music-themed cafe is the "official venue" for Grammy viewing parties'

Answer: the Hard Rock Cafe


Question: 'Hobart,<br />Adelaide'

Answer: Australia


Question:
'What's What's
now now
this this
company company
began began
in in
1906 1906'

Answer: Xerox


Question: 'Egypt's Old Cataract Hotel is an example of this architectural style named for a North African people'

Answer: the Moorish style


Question: '1955:<br />James Dean gets in a knife fight on a school field trip to Griffith Observatory'

Answer: Rebel Without a Cause


Question: '(Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.)  To get more information on events going on in Jordan today, visit my website at queenrania.jo & read it in either of these 2 languages'

Answer: English or Arabic


Question: 'We could just go on & on forever about this Nissan division, an official sponsor of Cirque du Soleil'

Answer: Infiniti


Question: 'Manzanillo,<br />Tampico'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'It's the object heard here'

Answer: a xylophone


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a floor plan on the monitor.)  In a cruciform church, the central part is called the nave; it ends in a recessed area that is usually vaulted called this'

Answer: the apse


Question: '1976:<br />A telekinetic Sissy Spacek gets her revenge on mocking classmates & a loony mom'

Answer: Carrie


Question: '(Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.)  Wadi Rum in southern Jordan is where Prince Faisal & this British officer played an important role in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1917'

Answer: Lawrence of Arabia


Question: 'Give me 60 seconds, lass, & I'll tell you this name of the official juice of NASCAR'

Answer: Minute Maid


Question: 'It's the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: Xi


Question: 'This word for a domed roof, often covering a rotunda, is from the Latin for "little cask"'

Answer: cupola


Question: '1989:<br />Robin Williams instructs his private school charges to "seize the day"'

Answer: Dead Poets Society


Question: '(Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.)  Jordan's coat of arms bears an eagle, which is a symbol of this 12th century Muslim leader who fought Richard the Lionheart'

Answer: Saladin


Question: 'Hard to figure, but this company that also owns Frito-Lay makes the official soft drink for both the Yankees & Mets'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'Ramsgate,<br />Kirkcaldy'

Answer: the United Kingdom


Question: 'It describes one who is attracted to foreign peoples & customs'

Answer: a xenophile


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a castle wall on the monitor.)  The name of this defensive wall comes from words meaning "protect" & "chest"; it's still used as a protective barrier on bridges & balconies'

Answer: a parapet


Question: '1991:<br />Cuba Gooding chills in the ghetto cramming for exams & dodging gang violence'

Answer: Boyz n the Hood


Question: '(Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.)  In Jordan, the daytime fasting of this 9th month of the Muslim calendar helps us appreciate simple pleasures & makes us aware of those in our communities who are deprived of them'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'Budweiser was the official international beer & this was the official domestic beer for the 2008 Olympic games'

Answer: Tsingtao


Question: 'New Mangalore,<br />Pondicherry'

Answer: India


Question: 'This colorless, monatomic gaseous element is used in stroboscopes & lasers'

Answer: Xenon


Question: 'This book begins, "June 17, 1972.  Nine o'clock Saturday morning"'

Answer: All the President\'s Men


Question: 'The Indonesian flag has 2 colors:  red on top for courage & this below for purity'

Answer: White


Question: 'The University of Alabama'

Answer: Crimson Tide


Question: 'In 1762 he moved to New Haven & became a druggist; traitor came later'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'The "Schu" was on the other foot when Schumann discovered this man's "Great" symphony in manuscript'

Answer: Franz Schubert


Question: 'In this play, Cicero's speech leads Casca to state the obvious:  "It was Greek to me"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'The vulture that Quechua-speakers gave this name was probably of the Andean species, not the California'

Answer: Condor


Question: 'Government buildings are found around Medan Merdeka, or Freedom Square, in this capital'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: 'The U.S. Naval Academy'

Answer: Midshipmen


Question: 'While the Miss U.S.A. pageant moves around, the Miss America pageant is always held here'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'Wilhelm Friedemann & Johann Christian, 2 of his composer sons, were born 25 years apart'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'When he asks the Merchant of Venice for "a pound of flesh", he means it, literally'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'Today, the Quechua word for "flat plain" is used as the name of this vast Argentine plain'

Answer: Pampas


Question: 'Indonesia is a member of OPEC as one of the chief producers of this in the Far East'

Answer: Oil


Question: 'The University of Tennessee'

Answer: Volunteers


Question: 'It's the cabinet post that advises the government on legal matters'

Answer: Attorney General


Question: 'He won a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" & an Oscar for the score of "The Heiress"'

Answer: Aaron Copland


Question: 'He hoped King Duncan's death would be the first "Be-all and end-all"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Still popular with convenience store boys, these strips of dried beef have a Quechua name'

Answer: Jerky


Question: 'Good news -- you're elected to a 5-year term in the main assembly; bad news -- it only has to meet this often'

Answer: Every 5 years


Question: 'Penn State'

Answer: Nittany Lions


Question: 'In 1966 he was elected governor of Maryland'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'First & last name of the composer of the following ("Thus Spake Zarathustra")'

Answer: Richard Strauss


Question: 'The phrase "fair play" is introduced & the Magna Carta is left out of the play named for this king'

Answer: King John


Question: 'The word for this kind of South American cowboy is derived from Quechua'

Answer: Gaucho


Question: 'The first president of the country; like many Indonesians he only used one name'

Answer: Sukarno


Question: 'The University of Arizona'

Answer: Wildcats


Question: 'He was Secretary of State in Sam Houston's cabinet'

Answer: Stephen F. Austin


Question: 'The last name of this "Pagliacci" composer translates to "lionhorse"'

Answer: (Ruggiero) Leoncavallo


Question: 'After mistakingly killing this man, Hamlet describes himself as "Cruel only to be kind"'

Answer: Polonius


Question: 'Neighboring Aymara-speakers named the alpaca, but this related but larger beast of burden has a Quechua name'

Answer: Llama


Question: 'In 1054 the Chinese observed one of these "super" astronomic cataclysms that ends a star's life'

Answer: Supernova


Question: 'This star of "Slumber Party '57" & "Terms Of Endearment" was one of the voices used to create E.T.'s voice'

Answer: Debra Winger


Question: 'In the novel, this cape is referred to as "The Italy, so to speak, of Massachusetts"'

Answer: Cape Cod


Question: 'Shortly before "The Lord is my shepherd", this same book asks, "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"'

Answer: Psalms


Question: 'As ham radio fan Roger Mahoney holds this rank in Los Angeles, it must mean no ham on Fridays'

Answer: Cardinal


Question: 'Brick cheese was invented in 1877 in this state, America's Dairyland'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'At Clermont on Nov. 27, 1095 the first of these holy missions was proclaimed'

Answer: The Crusades


Question: '"The Blackboard Jungle" was the debut film of this actor, Jennifer Jason Leigh's father'

Answer: Vic Morrow


Question: 'Last name of the hero of "The Bostonians", or a Mel Gibson film about kidnapping'

Answer: Ransom


Question: 'This outdated word for a type of food poisoning is from Greek for "corpse"'

Answer: Ptomaine


Question: 'If you'd like to talk to royalty, try calling JY1, this king of Jordan'

Answer: King Hussein


Question: '"Like" this cheese is a synonym for holey'

Answer: Swiss cheese


Question: 'Pope Gregory VII did this to German emperor Henry IV, but relented when Henry begged for 3 days'

Answer: Excommunication


Question: 'John Huston's "The Misfits" was the last complete film for these 2 screen superstars'

Answer: Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'Some say Miss Birdseye is a satire of this "Scarlet Letter" author's sister-in-law'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'The pterodactyl had pteeth but, as its name indicates, this later pterosaur didn't'

Answer: Pteranodon


Question: 'In addition to the car radio waves, he's heard on the ham bands'

Answer: Joe Walsh


Question: 'Societe is considered by some as the world's leading brand of this blue cheese'

Answer: Roquefort


Question: 'Son-of-a-gun, we'll have big fun on this work that depicts the Norman invasion of England'

Answer: The Bayeux Tapestry


Question: 'This Frenchman spoke the only word heard in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie"'

Answer: Marcel Marceau


Question: 'Basil thinks Doctor Prance would look like this novel's Esmeralda, "If she....only had a goat"'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />She's the woman in the Francois Gerard painting seen here'

Answer: (Cupid And) Psyche


Question: 'The address for this ham radio operator's call sign, EA0JC, is Royal Palace, Madrid, Spain'

Answer: King Juan Carlos


Question: 'This cheese is also called "rat cheese"'

Answer: Cheddar


Question: 'By 1018 Emperor Basil the Bulgar-Slayer had put the Balkan Peninsula under this empire's control'

Answer: Byzantine Empire


Question: 'Playing Zira, she was the only performer to appear in each of the first 3 "Planet Of The Apes" movies'

Answer: Kim Hunter


Question: 'Henry James thought his novel resembled the work of this French author of "La Comedie Humaine"'

Answer: Honore de Balzac


Question: 'This hallucinogen is found in the type of mushrooms used in Aztec religious rituals'

Answer: Psilocybin


Question: 'Houston, we have a ham, this first American woman to walk in space'

Answer: Kathryn Sullivan


Question: 'This protein that's about 3% of milk's weight is the chief ingredient in cheese'

Answer: Casein


Question: 'In Mexico, this beloved American musical is sometimes known as "La Novicia Rebelde"'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'This Venezuela waterfall was named for the American aviator who discovered it in 1935'

Answer: Angel Falls


Question: 'This big ape was billed as the "eighth wonder of the world" by promoter Carl Denham'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'This 1869 novel's 16th chapter is titled "A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea"'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Question: 'His earlier nickname was "Dippermouth" & he learned how to play the bugle in reform school'

Answer: Satchmo Armstrong


Question: 'It's what the Ph. stands for in Ph.B. & Ph.D.'

Answer: philosophy


Question: 'About 8 hours elapse during the night while you're this'

Answer: asleep (for elapse)


Question: 'This continent's highest waterfall, Wollomombi, drops 1580 feet in New South Wales'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Raymond Burr was a reporter investigating this fire-breathing lizard in Tokyo in 1956 & 1985'

Answer: Godzilla


Question: 'In Chapter 3 of this book wagers are made whether Phileas Fogg can complete his journey in the allotted time'

Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days


Question: 'On radio, Dick York played Billy Fairfield, best friend of this all-American boy'

Answer: Jack Armstrong


Question: 'A D.V.M. is a doctor of this kind of medicine'

Answer: veterinary


Question: 'While eating a sandwich, Paul got a few crumbs of it in his beard'

Answer: bread (for beard)


Question: 'California's Ribbon Falls, the highest single waterfall in North America, lies in this national park'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'The movie monster played by David Hedison, Brett Halsey, Jeff Goldblum & Eric Stoltz'

Answer: the fly


Question: 'While living in Paris, Verne got advice on writing from this "Three Musketeers" author'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas


Question: 'Henry Armstrong is the only pro to hold 3 world championships simultaneously in this sport'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'An M.S. in M.E. is a Master of Science in this kind of engineering'

Answer: mechanical


Question: 'The plot may not thicken, but the sauce does in this room'

Answer: kitchen (for thicken)


Question: 'This waterfall on the Zambezi River is called "Mosi oa Tunya", or Smoke that Thunders, by local natives'

Answer: Victoria Falls


Question: 'In 1951 James Arness played this vegetable-like monster "from another world"'

Answer: The Thing


Question: 'Verne's first published book, it describes an aerial journey over Africa lasting more than a month'

Answer: Five Weeks in a Balloon


Question: 'He's Wapakoneta, Ohio's most famous Armstrong'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'Captains of industry know than an M.B.A. is this'

Answer: Master of Business Administration


Question: 'Before tossing one of these, McTavish takes a drink to brace himself'

Answer: caber (for brace)


Question: 'Much of the electrical power for this mainland area of Newfoundland comes from Churchill Falls'

Answer: Labrador


Question: 'Claude Rains beats Lon Chaney, Jr. to death with a silver walking stick in this 1941 film'

Answer: The Wolfman


Question: 'In 1828 Verne was born in this port city, 230 years after Henry IV signed an important "edict" there'

Answer: Nantes


Question: 'In 1933 American engineer Edwin Armstrong came up with this new radio system'

Answer: FM, or frequency modulation


Question: 'The field in which the honorary degree LL.D. is awarded'

Answer: law


Question: 'One of these machines powers the press at the Tribune'

Answer: a turbine (for tribune)


Question: 'Mazaces, the Persian governor of Egypt, surrendered to this Macedonian in 332 B.C.'

Answer: Alexander


Question: 'In 1930 General Electric introduced this throwaway device to provide artificial light'

Answer: a flash bulb


Question: 'The Jamestown Exposition set of 1907 included a 5-cent stamp of this Indian maiden'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nation's system of writing'

Answer: China


Question: 'At its closest approach, Jupiter is 367 million miles from this planet'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'Hindus believe its waters cleanse the soul'

Answer: The Ganges


Question: 'At Stanley, capital of this island group, the Argentines surrendered to the British June 14, 1982'

Answer: the Malvinas (the Falklands)


Question: 'Of ultriaviolet, polarizing or color, the type of filter you'd use to reduce glare'

Answer: polarizing


Question: 'In 1861 Wells Fargo & Co. issued a stamp for this new service'

Answer: Pony Express


Question: 'When Alfonso I was proclaimed king in 1143, it became independent of Castilian & Moorish control'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'On the surface this force is 2.64 times ours; a 100-pound object would weigh 264 lbs.'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'The Netherlands' largest market square is in this town known for its cheese'

Answer: Gouda


Question: 'On July 3, 1754, during this war, George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity'

Answer: the French and Indian War


Question: 'The oldest existing battlefield photos are those taken in 1853 during this war'

Answer: Crimean War


Question: 'A 3-cent stamp of 1956 honored the 50th anniversary of this Wyoming national monument'

Answer: Devil\'s Tower


Question: 'Prior to independence in 1917, Finland had been a grand Duchy of this country for 108 years'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'He discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter, but Simon Marius gave them names'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'John Cabot was one of the famous explorers from this Italian city'

Answer: Genoa


Question: 'Admiral Nimitz signed the Japanese surrender for the U.S.; he signed as Supreme Allied Commander'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'In 1839 this French inventor created one of the 1st practical processes of photography'

Answer: (Louis) Daguerre


Question: 'In 1989 a record $1.1 million was paid for a block of 1918 stamps with an inverted image of this'

Answer: an airplane


Question: 'In 1512 this king seized Navarre, completing the unification of what is now Spain'

Answer: Ferdinand (II)


Question: 'The "trail blazing" name of the first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter, in 1973'

Answer: Pioneer


Question: 'This Polish city known for its shipyards is part of a tri-city area with Gdynia & Sopot'

Answer: Gdansk


Question: 'His uncle, Spotted Tail, convinced this Oglala Sioux warrior to surrender in 1877'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'In 1936 she became one of the first 4 staff photographers at Life magazine'

Answer: Margaret Bourke-White


Question: '2 of the classic films honored by U.S. stamps in 1990'

Answer: 2 of (Gone with the Wind, Stage Coach, The Wizard of Oz, and Beau Geste)


Question: 'During his 67-year reign, this pharaoh completed many projects, including the temple at Karnak'

Answer: Ramses (the Great)


Question: 'This colorful feature centered at 22 degrees south latitude is about 22,000 miles long & 9,000 miles wide'

Answer: (Great) Red Spot


Question: 'The city where the Volga & Oka rivers meet was renamed this in 1932 after a popular writer'

Answer: Gorky


Question: 'The patriarch of this family was born Herbert Blythe in 1847; he took a stage name in 1872'

Answer: the Barrymores


Question: 'The full popular name of this military personnel policy announced in 1993 included "Don't Pursue"'

Answer: Don\'t Ask, Don\'t Tell


Question: 'It's the title couple played by Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie in a 2005 movie'

Answer: Mr. & Mrs. Smith


Question: 'This rock legend is, to our knowledge, not a secret agent'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: 'An archipelago'

Answer: the Bahammas


Question: 'Site of a famous flag raising, Mount Suribachi s found on this isle'

Answer: Iwo Jima


Question: 'Basically jail on a ship, it's the boat compartment where prisoners are confined'

Answer: brig


Question: 'Congress approved $50M for the celebration of this, part of which is seen here'

Answer: the Bicentennial


Question: 'For that dude to look like a lady in this 1993 film, Robin Williams had to undergo makeup sessions 4 1/2 hours long'

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire


Question: 'She wasn't in Jeopardy against Gabriele Seyfert when she won a gold in figure skating at Grenoble in 1968'

Answer: Peggy Fleming


Question: 'Has the highest population of the 3, with about 9 million'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'The 2 colors on this Scandinavian country's flag are blue & yellow'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'To decrease in strength; moon-wise, it's the opposite of wax'

Answer: wane


Question: 'On his 70th birthday, December 21, 1949, this Soviet leader set up his own "peace prizes"'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) tells this character, "I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends"'

Answer: Mrs. Robinson


Question: 'This mother seen here died in a four-hour battle with the FBI in 1935'

Answer: Ma Barker


Question: 'Member of the British Commonwealth'

Answer: the Bahamas


Question: 'On the flag of Malawi, one of these represents the dawn of hope & independence for Africa'

Answer: a sun


Question: 'To avoid taking unnecessary risks, "play it close to" this piece of clothing'

Answer: the vest


Question: 'Having missed out on this ceremony at age 13, Henny Youngman had one in 180 at age 73'

Answer: a Bar Mitzvah


Question: 'In a 1967 movie, this actor spoke the line "They call me Mr. Tibbs"'

Answer: Sidney Poitier


Question: 'Newlyweds know that he wobbled as coach of the Jets in Super Bowl III but didn't fall down'

Answer: Weeb Ewbank


Question: 'Uses the Lev as its unit of currency'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: 'The cross of this saint is seen on the flag of Scotland'

Answer: St. Andrew


Question: 'Greek to me, it means a very small quantity (like this word's total number of consonants--one)'

Answer: iota


Question: 'In April 1955, Great Britain became the garden of this man, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister'

Answer: Sir Anthony Eden


Question: 'In a 1992 movie, he played comic Buddy Young Jr., "Mr. Saturday Night"'

Answer: Billy Crystal


Question: 'He fought terrorism for Reagan, Clinton & Bush I, but accused Bush II of doing a terrible job'

Answer: Richard Clarke


Question: '12% Muslim'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: 'It's the constellation seen on the flags of New Zealand & Australia'

Answer: the Southern Cross


Question: 'The nerve of this ancient region of Europe, consisting of Cisalpine & Transalpine divisions!'

Answer: Gaul


Question: 'A 1631 edition was known as "the wicked Bible"; it had left this word out of the 7th Commandment in Exodus 20:14'

Answer: not


Question: '(Julie Chen of CBS' Big Brother reads the clue.) Charlie Sheen's films with this big brother include "Men At Work" & "Young Guns"'

Answer: Emilio Estevez


Question: 'In an email that surfaced after her murder, she said if anything happened to her, Pres. Musharraf was responsible'

Answer: Benazir Bhutto


Question: 'Mark Twain said he began writing a new Tom Sawyer book narrated by this scamp but, sadly for us, "destroyed it"'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands between two large men holding diapers.) Quite a lot of this rich fabric goes into a "mawashi", which wraps several times around the sumo wrestler'

Answer: silk


Question: 'A pointed fastener used on bulletin boards plus an apex'

Answer: a pushpinnacle


Question: 'Festus interrupted a speech by this apostle claiming, "Much learning doth make thee mad"'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'In 2008 quarterback Jordan Palmer signed with the Cincinnati Bengals to back up this big brother'

Answer: Carson Palmer


Question: 'Only religious music was broadcast on the radio for 2 weeks after her July 26, 1952 death in Buenos Aires'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'Charles Dickens gave this family 6 children, but only named 4 of them: Martha, Belinda, Peter & Tim'

Answer: the Cratchets


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands near a sumo match.) Sumo's ties to this native Japanese religion are symbolized in many ways; the canopy suspended above the ring is made to resemble the roof of a shrine'

Answer: Shintoism


Question: 'One who is possibly the perp plus a muscle in the chest'

Answer: a suspectoral


Question: 'The stories of Gideon & Samson are found in this book of the Bible'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'Dave Davies of this band hasn't always looked up to big brother Ray as they're known for fighting on stage'

Answer: The Kinks


Question: 'After her coffee plantation failed, this author got out of Africa & returned to Denmark'

Answer: (Isak) Dinesen


Question: 'In "The Big Four", Agatha Christie gave him a mysterious "twin brother" named Achille'

Answer: Hercule Poirot


Question: '(Cheryl reports again from ringside.) The object is to power your opponent out of the ring; punching & choking are not allowed and are called "kinjite", which means "forbidden" this body part'

Answer: hand


Question: 'Cone-shaped dwelling plus hide-your-face game played with youngsters'

Answer: teepeekaboo


Question: 'I Corinthians states, "As in" this man "all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive"'

Answer: Adam


Question: 'The 8th of 9 Wahlberg children, he was the "new kid" until he became big brother to Mark'

Answer: Donnie Wahlberg


Question: 'Before opening her own schools, she had her own methods of teaching anthropology at the Univ. of Rome'

Answer: (Maria) Montessori


Question: 'In "Wide Sargasso Sea", West Indian author Jean Rhys wrote about the West Indian 1st wife of this "Jane Eyre" hero'

Answer: Rochester


Question: '(Jimmy reports again from the match.) Sumo wretlers take new names, sometimes ending with "kawa", meaning "river", or "yama", which is this appropriate geographical feature'

Answer: mountain


Question: 'Elastic synthetic fabric plus skill & grace in physical movement'

Answer: Spandexterity


Question: 'According to Jeremiah, this place seems to be short of balm & physicians'

Answer: Gilead


Question: 'Siblings Elisabeth & Andrew in this family made the 2007 film "Gracie", a tribute to their late older brother William'

Answer: the Shues


Question: 'In the 1980s this South African singer & political activist clicked with Paul Simon, joining him on his Graceland tour'

Answer: (Miriam) Makeba


Question: 'This author was the son of a doctor, & he made the father of his alter ego Nick Adams a doctor, too'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: '(Cheryl indicates a wrestler's haircut.) Top sumo wrestlers may wear the topknot in a fan-like shape to resemble the leaf of this sacred tree'

Answer: ginkgo


Question: 'Annual publication with tables & forecasts plus something out of place in time'

Answer: an almanachronism


Question: 'In 1824 Anglican priest William Buckland wrote a pioneering paper on Megalosaurus, a creature whose name means this'

Answer: lizard


Question: 'Saying it was in the national interest, he kept baseball going during World War II'

Answer: F.D.R.


Question: 'This term for a large sandwich with a variety of fillings is named for a character in the comic strip "Blondie"'

Answer: a Dagwood


Question: 'You get the sweats thinking about this car company's Silver Shadow, Silver Cloud or Phantom model'

Answer: Rolls-Royce


Question: 'When it comes to this flat container, you can stuff it, lick it, or "push" it'

Answer: an envelope


Question: 'Physicist Owen Garriott & physician  Joe Kerwin were science pilots on missions to this '70s space station'

Answer: Skylab


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Robie House in Chicago, IL.)  Part of Robie House is called by this term for the front of a ship--the house looked to some like a ship set on land'

Answer: prow


Question: 'It's the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners'

Answer: the Texas Rangers


Question: '"BLAT" is a BLT with this "a"dditional ingredient'

Answer: avocado


Question: 'Shortness of breath ordering 2 boxes of Cohiba cigars, first made in this country'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Any one apostolic letter in the New Testament'

Answer: an epistle


Question: 'John Grunsfeld, grandson of a planetarium designer, flew on the 1999 shuttle mission to repair this'

Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope


Question: 'For his prairie houses, Wright called for one big chimney, which justified one big one of these inside'

Answer: a fireplace


Question: 'One of his first jobs was re-creating Cubs games over the radio in Iowa'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'One story says that this alternate name for a hero sandwich comes from its creation on Hog Island'

Answer: a hoagie


Question: 'You get weak-kneed fondling a tournament mallet used during chukkers in this sport'

Answer: polo


Question: 'Listen to me: it's soft, it's pendulous, it's on your head'

Answer: an earlobe


Question: 'The book "The Right Stuff" describes his 2 personalities as "The Icy Commander" & "Smilin' Al"'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, IL.)  The symbolism Frank Lloyd Wright used on this house includes the stork for this quality, which is fitting as Wright raised 6 kids here'

Answer: fertility


Question: 'Before his Army years, he played baseball under an assumed name in the Kansas minor leagues'

Answer: (Dwight) Eisenhower


Question: 'GAC is an abbreviation for this classic sandwich'

Answer: a grilled American cheese


Question: 'Heart palpitations when mentioning the Carnegie Abbey Members Only Club at Narragansett Bay in this state'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'To appropriate money or property fraudulently for one's own use'

Answer: embezzle


Question: 'One of the three men on the mission whose NASA patch is seen here'

Answer: (1 of) James Lovell, Fred Haise, & Jack Swigert


Question: 'Though he isn't primarily known for church designs, this shape was Wright's favorite in the early 1900s'

Answer: the cruciform


Question: 'On April 19, 1909 Taft attended a home game of this team & probably had a hot dog or 9'

Answer: the Washington Senators


Question: 'Disneyland's Blue Bayou restaurant serves this classic sandwich that's dipped in egg & fried'

Answer: a Monte Cristo


Question: 'Shivers walking through 718 Fifth Ave., the jewelry house of this "King of Diamonds"'

Answer: Harry Winston


Question: 'From the Latin for "turned out of doors", it means to get rid of, maybe as in "the negative"'

Answer: eliminate


Question: 'On Apollo 11 this man got to say, "OK, Eagle... you guys take care"'

Answer: Michael Collins


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, IL.)  Wright said he tried to make furnishings like this type of architecture, which is interconnected like a living thing'

Answer: organic


Question: 'He came to America in 1847 to join his brothers' dry goods business; his jeans came later'

Answer: Levi Strauss


Question: 'A 1979 Neil Diamond hit says, "Long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be" this, the song's title'

Answer: "Forever In Blue Jeans"


Question: 'This popular 1920s dance style was named for a 1923 song which was named for a city in South Carolina'

Answer: the Charleston


Question: 'In the fir tree, not flowers but these hold the seeds'

Answer: cones


Question: 'In "Goodbye to Berlin", Isherwood wrote, "I am" this "with its shutter open", giving the later play version its title'

Answer: a camera


Question: 'Guten tag'

Answer: German


Question: 'Frank Capra & Charles Atlas made names for themselves after both emigrating from this country in 1903'

Answer: Italy


Question: '"Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do, but there ain't no cure for" these'

Answer: the summertime blues


Question: 'In 2000 Governor Jim Hodges signed a bill to remove this from atop the Capitol dome in Columbia, South Carolina'

Answer: the Confederate Flag


Question: 'Welwitschia mirabilis, a plant of this continent's Namib Desert, gets water no one knows how'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'In Shakespeare, one of his last declarations before he's killed is "I am constant as the Northern star"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'Konnichiwa'

Answer: Japanese


Question: 'A little bird told us this artist, born in Santo Domingo in 1785, came to America when he was 18'

Answer: Audubon


Question: 'Bing Crosby introduced this song in 1937's "Waikiki Wedding" (Elvis sang it almost 25 years later)'

Answer: "Blue Hawaii"


Question: 'When the NHL is up & running, this pro hockey team plays its home games in Raleigh'

Answer: the Carolina Hurricanes


Question: 'A plant that forms a furry carpet on forest floors is known as the club type of this, but isn't a true one'

Answer: a moss


Question: '19th century New Yorker who wrote, "I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'Ni Hao'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'Born in Paris of Asian heritage, this world-famous cellist came to the U.S. at age 8'

Answer: Yo-Yo Ma


Question: 'This No. 1 hit also includes the line "Softer than satin was the light"'

Answer: "Blue Velvet"


Question: 'In the 1920s, this insect devastated South Carolina's cotton industry'

Answer: the boll weevil


Question: 'Sori are clusters of spore-producing structures on these nonflowering plants'

Answer: ferns


Question: '20th century New Yorker who wrote, "I am the darker brother" but "I, too, am America"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'Jambo'

Answer: Swahili


Question: 'Great Scot!  He came to America in 1848 & rose from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to a steel magnate'

Answer: Carnegie


Question: 'This title completes the line "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man..."'

Answer: "Behind Blue Eyes"


Question: 'Both Carolinas were named for this English monarch'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'The maidenhair is the only living plant in this genus of ornamental trees long held sacred in Asia'

Answer: Ginkgo


Question: 'Soon before his mental collapse in 1889, this European thinker wrote, "I am not a man I am dynamite"'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'Kalimera'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'Though he was already emperor of one country, Franz Joseph was crowned in this city June 8, 1867'

Answer: Budapest


Question: '"La Marseillaise"'

Answer: France


Question: 'Stacy Edwards as Lisa Catera is a doctor with commercial appeal on this series'

Answer: Chicago Hope


Question: 'Joseph Town is the seedy part of this area of Hungary's capital, across the river from Buda'

Answer: Pest


Question: 'Wolves are members of this "best friend" animal family'

Answer: Canis/canidae


Question: 'Word completing the film titles "Cast a Dark...", "Cast a Giant..." & "Cast a Long..."'

Answer: Shadow


Question: 'Ride the waves, or the net<br />(4)'

Answer: Surf


Question: '"Deutschland-Lied"'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'He played Chicago-based psychologist Bob Hartley'

Answer: Bob Newhart


Question: 'As heard in a 1958 rock oldie, the town of Chantilly is known for its production of this'

Answer: lace


Question: 'It's the Galapagos Islands' slow-mover seen here'

Answer: Tortoise


Question: 'It's what you're trying to catch when you're fly-casting'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'Puny shellfish<br />(6)'

Answer: Shrimp


Question: '"Marcha Real"'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Long-running sitcom that began with the shot of Chicago seen here<br />(a fountain)'

Answer: Married... with Children


Question: 'In 1872 this city replaced Spanish Town as capital of British Jamaica'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'This "thousand-footer" would be popular at a shoe store for invertebrate arthropods'

Answer: Millipede


Question: 'From Middle English for "to contrive", it's a guess at what the weather will be tomorrow'

Answer: Forecast


Question: 'Biblical wise guy<br />(7)'

Answer: Solomon


Question: '"Hatikva"'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'On "Early Edition", it's the pet that delivers the Chicago Sun-Times to Gary Hobson, a day earlier than to everyone else'

Answer: Cat


Question: 'Large island on which you'd find Holsteinsborg, also called Sisimiut & Julianehab, also called Qaqortoq'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'This taxonomic troublemaker from Australia is known scientifically as Ornithorhyncus anatinus'

Answer: Duck-billed platypus


Question: 'The closing theme of this TV show sings of "Seven stranded castaways"'

Answer: Gilligan\'s Island


Question: '"Here's the church, here's" this tower<br />(7)'

Answer: Steeple


Question: '"Kimigayo"'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Marlo Thomas could tell you that from 1974 to 1984 he was the last name in Chicago talk show hosts'

Answer: Phil Donahue


Question: 'Ikorodu is a town near Lagos Lagoon in this country'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'A colony of these fertile insects of the order Isoptera may contain more than 3 million tiny chewers'

Answer: Termites


Question: 'Julius Caesar said, "Iacta alea est", which is usually translated as this'

Answer: "The die is cast"


Question: '1964 movie song<br />(34)'

Answer: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"


Question: 'In 1633 the Inquisition in Rome forced him to recant his belief in the Copernican theory'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Seth, in Genesis'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: 'The Karolinska Institute is a Swedish medical college that picks the physiology or medicine winners of these prizes'

Answer: Nobel Prizes


Question: 'Billionaire business giant who said, "In the personal computer industry, innovation is the path to success"'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'We won't ruin the plot for you, but watch out for Uncle Scar when you see this show based on a Disney film'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'A representation of the birth of Christ, as in a painting'

Answer: Nativity


Question: 'Born in Germany in 1879, he became a Swiss citizen around the turn of the century & a U.S. citizen in 1940'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: '20th century princes William & Henry'

Answer: Prince Charles & Princess Diana


Question: 'This British university is the oldest institute of higher learning in the English-speaking world'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Her 63-year reign over England was the longest of any British monarch'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'When this TV star played Sweeney Todd in 1999, one critic dubbed him "'Frasier' with a razor"'

Answer: Kelsey Grammer


Question: 'This term for the state of absolute blessedness in Buddhism is from the Sanskrit for "to blow out"'

Answer: Nirvana


Question: 'In 1703 he became president of the Royal Society & was reelected annually until his death in 1727'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'Frances Bean Cobain'

Answer: Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love


Question: 'With over 200,000 students, the largest university in South America is the one of this Argentine city'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: '"Analyze" this, he is the notable seen here'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'The musical based on this Stephen King novel featured an incendiary high school prom'

Answer: Carrie


Question: 'From Latin for "to take a husband", this adjective describes a girl of marriageable age or condition'

Answer: Nubile


Question: 'This German bacteriologist gave his name to a shallow dish used for cultivating microorganisms'

Answer: Julius Richard Petri


Question: 'Irene Joliot-Curie'

Answer: Pierre & Marie Curie


Question: 'The university of this city grew out of the cathedral schools of Notre Dame'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'During WWII this Geodesic Dome inventor headed mechanical engineering for the Board of Economic Warfare'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'Fyvush Finkel played Mr. Mushnik the florist in this off-Broadway show about a bloodthirsty plant'

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors


Question: 'Vice president Spiro Agnew once called journalists "Nattering Nabobs of" this'

Answer: Negativism


Question: 'He published his quantum theory in 1900 while a professor of physics in Berlin'

Answer: Max Planck


Question: 'Laura Dern'

Answer: Bruce Dern & Diane Ladd


Question: 'In 1701 the school of Mathematics & Navigation was founded in Moscow by this "Great" leader'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'This author & expert on Greek & Roman mythology was among the first women admitted to the University of Munich'

Answer: Edith Hamilton


Question: 'Leon Czolgosz, Charles Guiteau & this 19th century thespian appear in the offbeat Sondheim musical "Assassins"'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'One of these "cities of the dead" at Hallstatt, Austria dates back to the Bronze Age'

Answer: Necropolis


Question: 'Add one letter to a word meaning a religious rite & you get this U.S. state capital'

Answer: Sacramento, California


Question: 'It's what the "L" stands for in "laser"'

Answer: light


Question: 'Tarte makes a dual-ended lip gloss named for this romantic pair, swingin' in the jungle since 1912'

Answer: Tarzan & Jane


Question: 'Words meaning "equitable" & "direction" combine for this part of a golf course'

Answer: the fairway


Question: 'Wild West fun abounds during Cheyenne Frontier Days in this state'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'No script overlap here: Barry O'Brien both wrote for "CSI: Miami" & co-created this Miley Cyrus phenomenon'

Answer: Hannah Montana


Question: 'In 2007 this Apple CEO pocketed his annual $1 salary...<br />it's probably also worth noting his stake in Apple was $765 million'

Answer: Steve Jobs


Question: 'The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning "divided into one hundred parts"'

Answer: centigrade


Question: 'Sephora.com describes its "Sexy Jungle" lipstick as a "cool toffee shade of" this'

Answer: brown


Question: 'Part of an envelope meets something to raise your car, putting this word on the breakfast menu'

Answer: a flapjack


Question: '8 presidential eyes gaze down on the National Presidential Wax Museum-- it's 2 miles from this attraction'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: '"A Benihana Christmas" by Jennifer Celotta had this comedy's Michael Scott canceling the holiday itself'

Answer: The Office


Question: 'Initially yours: in 1895 his syndicate bought all of a $62 million bond issue, ending a gold shortage in the U.S. treasury'

Answer: J.P. Morgan


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment.) By mixing baking soda, a chemical base, with the acid in the lime juice, this gas is produced, resulting in a bubbly liquid'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'Type of African trip whose name precedes "Blaze" in the name of a Laura Geller lipstick'

Answer: Safari


Question: 'Take a brief interval of time, put it before a pointer on a clock & you get this preowned word'

Answer: secondhand


Question: 'Log on to your computer to learn that Knott's Berry Farm claims to have the very first one of these "log" rides'

Answer: a flume


Question: 'The truth is out there: Ken Biller co-wrote "Eve", an episode of this Fox drama from which the band Eve 6 got its name'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'Start Microsoft with Bill like he did & you too can own stuff like NFL & NBA teams & a 60-ft. submarine (for your yacht!)'

Answer: (Paul) Allen


Question: 'This one of the simple machines is made by using a wheel & a rope'

Answer: a pulley


Question: 'Iman named one of her company's lipstick shades for this wildcat that's also a luxury car'

Answer: Jaguar


Question: 'You can deceive someone by doing this, made from a part of some sweatshirts plus closing an eye'

Answer: hoodwink


Question: 'Visit the automobile museum at this famous home to see the red MG Elvis drove in "Blue Hawaii"'

Answer: Graceland


Question: 'Carol Barbee co-wrote the "Why We Fight" episode of this CBS show which fought its own cancellation (at least briefly)'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'Italy's richest man as of 2007, this ex-prime minister has been estimated to be worth a cool $11.8 billion'

Answer: Berlusconi


Question: 'Shock researcher Walter Cannon coined this word for an organism's ability to maintain internal equilibrium'

Answer: homeostasis


Question: 'Sultry, Hot & Passionate (Excuse me--I need to cool down) are just 3 of the shades in this co.'s Lipfinity line'

Answer: Max Factor


Question: 'Words meaning "to catch a fish" & "to grade a paper" combine to make this type of important site'

Answer: a landmark


Question: 'Feel like a female deity when you eat this "verdant" salad dressing at S.F.'s Palace Hotel (it was invented there)'

Answer: green goddess (dressing)


Question: 'Before writing for "AFV" & "Freaks and Geeks", J. Elvis Weinstein was the original voice of Tom Servo on this cult classic'

Answer: Mystery Science Theater


Question: 'Starting Google worked out well for Larry Page & him; as of 2007, they were worth $16.6 billion--apiece'

Answer: (Sergey) Brin


Question: 'In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australia's fertile east coast, which he named "New" this'

Answer: South Wales


Question: 'In a 1939 film,  he played Mr. Jefferson Smith, an appointee to the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Jimmy Stewart


Question: '"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light"'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'Larry Bird was called the "Hick from French Lick"--this state was his home'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'A type of boxing knockout'

Answer: a TKO, or technical knockout


Question: 'The Navajo are noted for their "paintings" done with this material that can be glued to a board'

Answer: sand


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Ginza in Tokyo.) Not much keeps the spirit of Tokyo down; this event in 1923 basically destroyed the city, but it was completely rebuilt in 1930'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'This director of "Clerks" played Warlock in "Live Free or Die Hard"'

Answer: Kevin Smith


Question: '"In this best of all possible worlds...Everything is for the best"'

Answer: French


Question: 'William Jennings Bryan, the "Boy Orator of the Platte", knew the Platte primarily runs through this state'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'According to Ben Franklin, death & this were life's only certainties'

Answer: taxes


Question: 'Her "Grey's Anatomy" character, Dr.Yang, had a difficult romance with Dr. Burke'

Answer: Sandra Oh


Question: 'In the 1540s John Calvin made this Swiss city a center of Protestant might'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'This actress gives Lisa Simpson her distinctive voice'

Answer: Yeardley Smith


Question: '"The unexamined life is not worth living"'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'Brian Mulroney, "The Boy From Baie Comeau", grew up along the north banks of this river in Quebec'

Answer: St. Lawrence


Question: 'Style of Mexican-American pop music made famous by Selena'

Answer: Tejano


Question: 'William Sydney Porter started using this name while writing short stories from jail in Ohio'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'By 1833 Spain had lost all of its empire in the New World except Cuba & this island; 65 years later, it lost those, too'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Dodie Smith wrote this classic tale about a plethora of puppies'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: '"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood"'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'Nicolae Ceausescu was the "Butcher of" this Romanian city'

Answer: Bucharest


Question: 'This Belgian cartoon character & amateur detective has been an international favorite since 1929'

Answer: Tintin


Question: 'In 1893 he was chief engineer of Detroit's Edison Illuminating Company; 6 years later he'd form his own company'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'At the urging of this general now on the 5-peso note, Argentina declared its independence from Spain July 9, 1816'

Answer: (Jose de) San Martin


Question: 'On the Grammys in 2008, this partner of Louis Prima found "That Old Black Magic" in a duet with Kid Rock'

Answer: Keely Smith


Question: '"Joy, beautiful radiance of the gods, daughter of Elysium..."'

Answer: German


Question: 'Union Gen. George Henry Thomas was known as the "Rock of Chickamauga", Chickamauga being in this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Emperor from 14 to 37 A.D., he mailed it in the last 10 years from Capri'

Answer: Tiberius


Question: 'This novelist founded the English Review in 1908 & helped launch James Joyce's career'

Answer: Ford Madox Ford


Question: 'In 1900 the Atlantic Monthly published his story "An Odyssey of the North", his literary breakthrough'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'Just weeks after leaving office, he & son Kermit left on a year-long African hunting expedition'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'TV & film star Kiefer'

Answer: Donald Sutherland


Question: 'It's the nickname of the sports teams at the University of Miami'

Answer: Hurricanes


Question: 'Harwich, Mass. celebrates the harvest of this berry about 2 months before it's needed at Thanksgiving'

Answer: the cranberry


Question: '(Cheryl for the Clue Crew makes a small "C" with her fingers.)  The gesture here means "small word", like this word followed by "the Good Old Summertime"'

Answer: in


Question: 'In a nursery rhyme, she loses her sheep'

Answer: Little Bo Peep


Question: 'In July 2003 he returned to the White House for a special dinner in honor of his 90th birthday'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'Latin heartthrob singer Enrique'

Answer: Julio Iglesias


Question: 'A '60s TV variety show filmed in Miami featured skits using characters from this Jackie Gleason sitcom'

Answer: the Honeymooners


Question: 'Gala & Cortland are types of this'

Answer: apples


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tugs on her ear lobe.)  If you're stuck with a word you can't act out, you may want to resort to this sign'

Answer: sounds like


Question: 'One of the few condemned English royals not axe-cuted, in 1536 she was done in with a sword'

Answer: Anne Boleyn


Question: 'Though not in the best of health, in 1840 he went to New Orleans to celebrate his battle victory's 25th anniversary'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia'

Answer: Francis Ford Coppola


Question: 'It began as SIN, the Spanish Int'l. Network, & its production facilities are headquartered in Miami'

Answer: Univision


Question: 'Its name refers to the resemblance of its blossom end to a human umbilicus'

Answer: navel orange


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up seven fingers.)  If it's an Indiana Jones movie, it has to be this big screen adventure'

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom


Question: 'Capital city situated on a plateau in the eastern Andes'

Answer: Bogota


Question: 'On his 80th birthday, May 8, 1964, he became the first former President to address a regular Senate session'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: '"Lord of the Rings" co-star Liv'

Answer: Steven Tyler


Question: 'Called "America's Riviera", Miami's South Beach is home to 800 buildings built in this early 20th century style'

Answer: Art Deco


Question: 'Ribier & Thompson Seedless are among the bestselling kinds of these'

Answer: grapes


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes a streching motion with her fingers.)  Someone guessed "dark", so I'm trying to get them to this word in an Arthur Koestler title'

Answer: darkness


Question: 'Sherlock Holmes faced "A Scandal in" this former central European kingdom'

Answer: Bohemia


Question: 'In February 1930 illness forced him to resign as U.S. Chief Justice; he died a month later'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Jewelry designer Paloma'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'The Fontainebleau Hotel was the HQ for this political event that took place in Miami in early August 1968'

Answer: the Republican National Convention


Question: 'A symbol of fertility in mythology, it's been called "Nature's most labor-intensive fruit"'

Answer: the pomegranate


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes "air quotes".)  Next, I'll act out one of these, from the Latin for "word"--maybe "Murder will out" or "All rivers run into the sea"'

Answer: a proverb


Question: 'Ancient British queen who fought the Romans'

Answer: Boadicea


Question: 'It's the oldest age you can be & still be a sexagenarian'

Answer: 69


Question: 'An American seal hunter named John Davis is believed to be the first person to set foot on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'In 1961 the Highwaymen urged him to "row the boat ashore, hallelujah"'

Answer: Michael


Question: 'Now making news in the lower 48, at age 9 he was the host of his own Canadian radio show'

Answer: Peter Jennings


Question: 'In a 2003 CNN poll, this former First Lady was voted "The Most Admired Woman in America"'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: '"He that is unmarried careth ... how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth ... how he may please" her'

Answer: his wife


Question: 'Mark McGwire's Sept. 8, 1998 homer, this record number for the season, went a paltry 341 feet'

Answer: 62


Question: 'Related to Old Norse, Islenska is the official language of this island country'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Bob Dylan's first LP had 2 original songs: "Talking New York" & "Song to Woody", a tribute to this folk singer'

Answer: Woody Guthrie


Question: 'Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" concerns Pizarro's conquest of this South American empire'

Answer: the Incas


Question: 'Using faulty poll figures, Literary Digest predicted his defeat for President in 1936; the Digest folded in 1937'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: '19th c. humorist Artemus Ward called this Utahan "dreadfully married ... the most married man I ever saw"'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'A TV anthology series was based on the book "What Really Happened to the Class of" this'

Answer: \'65


Question: 'With temperatures as low as -94 F., Oymyakon in this large region is the world's coldest inhabited place'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'In 1968 she reached the top 10 for the first & only time with "Both Sides Now", a song written by Joni Mitchell'

Answer: Judy Collins


Question: 'After retiring from medicine in 1840, he began work on his thesaurus in London'

Answer: Peter Roget


Question: 'A recent "Youth Wired" poll by this online service revealed that nearly 20% of American kids go online every day'

Answer: AOL


Question: 'William Congreve wrote, "Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we may" do this'

Answer: repent at leisure


Question: 'Number of years in Queen Victoria's record reign or number of yards in Tom Dempsey's record NFL field goal kick'

Answer: 63


Question: 'he "Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run" is an annual event held in International Falls in this U.S. state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'This Calypso singer won 3 folk Grammys in the 1960s, including one for his 1965 album with Miriam Makeba'

Answer: Harry Belafonte


Question: 'In 1725 Peter the Great sent this Dane to explore the Pacific coast'

Answer: Vitus Bering


Question: 'The first of these held in the U.S. was in 1790 & revealed a total population of nearly 4 million'

Answer: the (national) census


Question: 'In "The Rainbow", he wrote, "If I am to become an angel, it'll be my married soul, and not my single soul"'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'In music, it's also known as a hemidemisemiquaver'

Answer: a 64th note


Question: 'The Gulf of Finland, which freezes over for several months during winter, is the easternmost arm of this sea'

Answer: the Baltic


Question: 'Glenn Yarbrough, formerly with the Limeliters, had his only top 40 hit with this title song of a 1965 Steve McQueen film'

Answer: Baby, the Rain Must Fall


Question: 'Seen here is "The Garden of Love" by this Flemish Old Master'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: 'A 2004 Gallup poll showed this East Asian country has the highest negative rating among Americans -- 83%'

Answer: North Korea


Question:
'Shakespearean character speaking here

"...the world must be peopled.  When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.  Ah, here comes Beatrice.  By this day, she's a fair lady!"'

Answer: Benedick


Question: 'First designed as a surgical disinfectant, in 1895 it was available to dentists & by 1914 was sold OTC'

Answer: Listerine


Question: 'In 1945 Harry served just 83 days in this job'

Answer: vice president


Question: 'If the show's named after you, they can't kill you off over a contract spat, can they?  Hmm... ask this "Valerie" star'

Answer: Valerie Harper


Question: 'In 1925 Victor Lustig sold this 984-foot Paris landmark--twice!  Now that's a bargain for Victor at twice the price!'

Answer: the Eiffel Tower


Question: 'This ducky superhero of 1970s comic books was brought to the big screen by George Lucas in 1986'

Answer: Howard the Duck


Question: '"Annie Hall" quotes the joke "Boy, the food at this place is... terrible"--"Yeah I know, and such small" these'

Answer: portions


Question: '"And so on"'

Answer: Et cetera


Question: 'It was the 4-word motto Truman kept on his desk in the Oval Office'

Answer: "The buck stops here"


Question: 'He co-starred as Detective Falconer on "Sisters" until he was needed for "ER"--uh oh, car bomb!'

Answer: George Clooney


Question: 'Wow--this "Citizen Kane" star's 1938 radio show had many convinced Martians had invaded New Jersey'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: '"The Story About Ping" is a children's tale about a family of Chinese ducks who live on a boat in this river'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: 'In a reference like "Othello IV, ii", the big & little Roman numerals refer to these 2 things'

Answer: Act & scene


Question: '"I came, I saw, I conquered"'

Answer: Veni, vidi, vici


Question: 'Each May 8 this state officially celebrates Harry Truman's birthday'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'The actress voicing Maude, wife of this "Simpsons" guy, asked for weekly flights from L.A. to home--Bye-diddily-eye!'

Answer: Ned Flanders


Question: 'In 2008 his multi-billion Ponzi scheme was exposed; you won't find that shamelessness anywhere else!'

Answer: Bernie Madoff


Question: 'Dab-Dab the duck is a talkative companion of this literary doctor'

Answer: Dr. Dolittle


Question: 'Insects' body sections are made up of parts called these; the thorax has 3'

Answer: segments


Question: '"It's my fault"'

Answer: Mea culpa


Question: 'It's the month Truman began a famous speech with the line "We have just dropped a new bomb..."'

Answer: August (of 1945)


Question: 'Jay Thomas talked smack about Rhea Perlman, his TV wife on this show; look out for that Zamboni, Eddie!'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'In 1983 2 Germans sold 62 bogus volumes of his "Diaries" to Stern magazine; okay, that's just wrong on so many levels'

Answer: Hitler


Question: '"Ducks are a dabbling" is a line of poetry included in this Kenneth Grahame work'

Answer: The Wind in the Willows


Question: 'A new area parceled into lots to be sold for housing, with a name like Glen View or Canyon Acres'

Answer: a subdivision


Question: '"My other self"'

Answer: alter ego


Question: 'He was the last person beaten by Harry Truman in an election'

Answer: Thomas Dewey


Question: 'When Susan St. James asked for a raise on this Rock Hudson show, the "and Wife" met with an accident'

Answer: McMillan & Wife


Question: 'Let me save you time & money!  No dead leader's assets need moving from this country's capital of Abuja; ignore the e-mail!'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'The title of this controversial Ibsen play refers to a pet that's been tamed & kept in an attic'

Answer: The Wild Duck


Question: 'This word for the mental activity of separating a subject into parts has "part" & "mental" in it'

Answer: compartmentalization


Question: '"From the chair of authority"'

Answer: Ex cathedra


Question: '"Unto Us A Child Is Born" is for this day'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'This director used insights from growing up in little Italy for his film "Mean Streets"'

Answer: (Martin) Scorsese


Question: '"...Two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive"'

Answer: Genesis


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sandeman Winery in Portugal.)  In Portugal corks are made from this variety of oak tree'

Answer: cork


Question: 'This word for any house of worship is from the Latin for "tent"; the Mormon one is famous for its choir'

Answer: tabernacle


Question: 'This religious leader wrote the text to "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"'

Answer: (Martin) Luther


Question: 'He directed episodes of "CSI" & "ER" between "Reservoir Dogs" & "Grindhouse"'

Answer: Tarantino


Question: '"...The children of Israel came nigh: & he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai"'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'Prune producers know to do this to plum trees each year to maintain vigorous fruiting wood'

Answer: prune them


Question: 'It's the nickname for any poisonous mushroom, as opposed to the edible ones'

Answer: toadstool


Question: 'A girl who cannot give up this hot drink is the odd subject of Cantata No. 211'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'He started the "X-Men" series before flying over to "Superman Returns"'

Answer: Bryan Singer


Question: '"And the armies which were in heaven followed him on white horses"'

Answer: Revelation


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Central Terminal, New York.)  When the 2-year restoration was unveiled in 1998, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that this has  truly been put back into the Grand Central Terminal'

Answer: Grand


Question: 'In 1976 a deadly tsunami swept through the Moro Gulf region of this country, killing thousands on Mindanao'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Hans Christian Andersen's story "Thumbelina" is also redundantly titled "Little" this'

Answer: "Tiny"


Question: 'A cantata for the Leipzig town council inauguration is titled "Wir Danken Dir, Gott" or we do this, God'

Answer: thank you


Question: 'Nora Ephron tried to create magic with Nicole Kidman as Samantha in this adaptation from the small screen'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: '"Then went Haman forth that day... with a glad heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai... he was full of indignation"'

Answer: Esther


Question: 'Hofstadter's law is formulated as "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account..." this'

Answer: Hofstadter\'s law


Question: 'The Tigris & Euphrates rivers flow together before emptying into this gulf'

Answer: the Persian Gulf


Question:
'Monotony,
boredom,
sameness'

Answer: tedium


Question: 'The title of the cantata melody heard here describes Jesus as "Joy Of Man's" this'

Answer: desiring


Question: 'Half of a sibling duo, he directed his wife Frances McDormand to an Oscar in "Fargo"'

Answer: Joel Coen


Question: '"Then Peter said, silver & gold I have none... in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk"'

Answer: Acts


Question: 'Giambologna's Fontana di Nettuno, seen here, is a monument in this Italian city'

Answer: Bologna


Question: 'In 1989 over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into this sound in the Gulf of Alaska'

Answer: Prince William Sound


Question: 'It can be an expanse of land or time, or a pamphlet'

Answer: a tract


Question: '"Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how slaves escaped to freedom guided by a song about this star group'

Answer: the Big Dipper


Question: 'La Boca, an area of this Argentine capital, is often called "Little Genoa" because of its large Italian community'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: 'Played Bluto in "Animal House"'

Answer: John Belushi


Question: 'Proverbially, "A miss is as good as" this, but I still don't want to run one'

Answer: a mile


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a drawing on the monitor.) In Edison's light bulb patent, m represents the tube leading to a pump that creates one of these in the glass bulb'

Answer: a vacuum


Question: 'In 2005, Judd Gregg, a millionaire Senator from this "Granite State", won $853,492 in the Powerball lottery'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'As a noun, it's a condiment; as a verb, it means to hit with rapidly repeated short jabs'

Answer: pepper


Question: 'In this city's Plaza de Armas, you're walking in the footsteps of Francisco Pizarro'

Answer: Lima, Peru


Question: 'Played "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"'

Answer: Rob Schneider


Question: 'If you're lucky, you'll get one of these "in the door"; if not, you might have one "in the grave"'

Answer: a foot


Question: 'Encouraged by Firestone, Edison patented a way to get this material out of herbs & shrubs, but it wasn't practical'

Answer: rubber


Question: 'He's seen here riding some gnarley waves'

Answer: John Kerry


Question: 'Something that restores one's depressed spirits; Bounty paper towels are the "quicker" one'

Answer: picker-upper


Question: 'This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song'

Answer: Ipanema


Question: 'Played anchorman Bill McNeal on TV's "NewsRadio"'

Answer: (Phil) Hartman


Question: 'Going "all 9" of these means in all ways, in every respect'

Answer: 9 yards


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates another drawing on the monitor.) Edison writes: "A is a cylinder, having a helical indenting groove" in the 1877 patent application for this device'

Answer: a phonograph


Question: 'Seen here at the 11th Annual Kenai River Classic, Lisa Murkowski of this state shows off her 63-pound king salmon catch'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'It's a roundish or oblate variety of apple'

Answer: pippin


Question: 'Punta Arenas, the southernmost large city in the world, lies at the tip of Chile on this strait'

Answer: the Strait of Magellan


Question: 'Did a regular stint as a commnetator for "Monday Night Football"'

Answer: Dennis Miller


Question: 'The arrangement of words in feet in each of a poem's lines; the "Iliad"'s is dactylic'

Answer: meter


Question: 'In the 1870s Edison battled Western Union over the patent on the quadruplex type of this device'

Answer: the telegraph


Question: 'This Arizonan penned the bestseller "Faith of My Fathers"'

Answer: (John) McCain


Question: 'A fun kind of this is a children's book with 3-D cutout artwork; a not-so-fun kind happens while Internet surfing'

Answer: a pop-up


Question: 'Cali, this country's 2nd-most populous city, is a center of paper production & the sugarcane industry'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Starred as the "Beverly Hills Ninja"'

Answer: (Chris) Farley


Question: 'Go deep & comprehend or understand this 6-letter term'

Answer: fathom


Question: '(Jimmy describes a third drawing on the monitor.) The film goes over pulley 41, under spring 42, through the slit, and over pulley 38 in this forerunner of the projector'

Answer: a kinetoscope


Question: 'This Utah man & Senate Judiciary Committee member wrote songs for a 2003 "Christmas Eve" CD'

Answer: Orrin Hatch


Question: 'Nonsense!  Bosh!  Balderdash!  Bunk!  Falderol! & this word!  I kind of went Mr. Burns on you there, didn't I?'

Answer: poppycock


Question: 'A family doctor who treats common medical problems'

Answer: a general practitioner


Question: 'Yich-h-h!  It's the yucky name for 12 dozen'

Answer: a gross


Question: 'The husband of a famed love sonneteer, he wrote, "Escape me?  Never--Beloved!  While I am I, and you are you"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'Joseph's brothers stripped this off him & threw him into a pit'

Answer: his coat of many colors


Question: 'The main temple on the Acropolis was built in the 5th century B.C. to honor this goddess'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'Ken Burns & Ted Turner both had cameos in this epic TV movie bearing the name of a July 1863 battle'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'This food industry giant produces products like Cheerios & Hamburger Helper'

Answer: General Mills


Question: 'Bruce Willis must avoid plague-filled air in this time-travel thriller that gets its name from an animal rights group'

Answer: Twelve Monkeys


Question: 'He's the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton seen here'

Answer: Robert Reich


Question: 'Not just the seventh day but the seventh year can be this restful interlude, per Leviticus 25'

Answer: the Sabbath


Question: 'Forces of this Italian city-state destroyed many of the structures on the Acropolis during a 1687 artillery barrage'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'This Stanley Kubrick film follows a group of Marines from basic training to bloody battles in Vietnam'

Answer: Full Metal Jacket


Question: 'The U.S. government's Comptroller General is head of the GAO, which until 2004 stood for this'

Answer: General Accounting Office


Question: 'Founded by a relative of a flying ace, this company became famous for its 12-string guitars'

Answer: Rickenbacker


Question: '"Remembrances" & "Postcards" are works by this choreographer who founded his own ballet company'

Answer: Joffrey


Question: 'The Torah-reading pointer is called a yad, Hebrew for this, also what Moses stretched forth in Exodus 10:22'

Answer: a hand


Question: 'This empire seized the Acropolis in 1458 & raised a minaret on the site'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: '"Leave no man behind" was the tagline for this 2001 film about army choppers shot down in Somalia'

Answer: Black Hawk Down


Question: 'With products like the Virginia class nuclear sub, this company is one of the USA's biggest defense contractors'

Answer: General Dynamics


Question: 'Chapter 12 was introduced in 1986 to the code for this & deals with the reorganization of family farms'

Answer: bankruptcy


Question: 'He edited "Citizen Kane" & directed "The Sound of Music"'

Answer: Robert Wise


Question: 'In the original Hebrew, this biblical question that Cain asks is "Hashomer akhi anokhi?"'

Answer: "Am I my brother\'s keeper?"


Question: 'The Acropolis complex built by the ancient architects Ictinus & Callicrates was in this simple classical order'

Answer: Doric


Question: 'The U.S. Civil War's first all-black military unit fights prejudice as well as the Confederates in this 1989 film'

Answer: Glory


Question: 'Abbreviated GATT, it's governed world commerce since 1947'

Answer: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade


Question: 'Nennius famously lists Badon, Agned, Guinnion & Dubglas among this legendary king's 12 messy battles'

Answer: Arthur


Question: 'In 2005, at age 86, he was elected to his ninth term as Manhattan D.A.'

Answer: Robert Morgenthau


Question: 'Aaron is described as a priest, or in Hebrew, this common Jewish surname'

Answer: Cohen


Question: 'Many of the friezes & panels that adorned the Parthenon were sold to the British Museum by this man'

Answer: Lord Elgin


Question: 'The brutal 10-day battle for heavily defended Hill 937 unfolds in this 1987 film'

Answer: Hamburger Hill


Question: 'John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'The Games of the Fifth Winter Olympiad opened Jan. 30, 1948 in this country's city of St. Moritz'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: '"On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time", beginning his novel "The Deerslayer"'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'In English, Montreal's Hotel Quatre Saisons is known as this'

Answer: The Four Seasons


Question: 'Catchier name of the service once called wired radio; some call it elevator music'

Answer: Muzak


Question: 'Change one letter in the herb yarrow & you'll get this foodstuff found in bones'

Answer: Marrow


Question: 'Bridal aide-de-camp'

Answer: Maid of honor


Question: 'California celebrated the 100th anniversary of the gold find at this man's sawmill'

Answer: John Sutter


Question: 'Marianne is described as "sensible and clever" in chapter one of this Jane Austen novel'

Answer: "Sense and Sensibility"


Question: 'This rodent is considered a national symbol of Canada'

Answer: Beaver


Question: 'Brian Eno's relaxing "Ambient Music" includes the album "Music for" these places, like LAX'

Answer: Airports


Question: 'This zesty sauce named for a Mexican state includes peppers fermented for 3 years'

Answer: Tabasco


Question: 'An event, like a tornado or earthquake, that your insurance may not cover'

Answer: Act of God


Question: 'This New York governor said, "If nominated" by the Republican Party, he'd run for president'

Answer: Thomas Dewey


Question: '"Nobody tells fibs in Boston", says Mrs. Luna in chapter one of his 1880s novel "The Bostonians"'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'If you visit this province in July, you may enjoy the Festival of the Tartans in New Glasgow'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: '"Weary Blues" was the unlikely title of a 1956 hit from this purveyor of upbeat champagne music'

Answer: Lawrence Welk


Question: 'Whether red, black or Nassau, a grouper is a type of this'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'Your closest blood relative'

Answer: Next of kin


Question: 'On January 1, 1948 GATT, a general agreement on these 2 "T"s, went into effect'

Answer: Tariffs & trade


Question: 'In chapter one of this E.M. Forster novel, Lucy complains that her window doesn't overlook the Arno'

Answer: "A Room With a View"


Question: 'Miminegash in this tiny island province is home to the Irish Moss Interpretive Centre'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'Woman heard here in a solo album released posthumously in 1996:'

Answer: Karen Carpenter


Question: 'Of cannoli, cannelloni & cannellini, the one that's not tube shaped'

Answer: Cannellini


Question: 'The adjustment that a "COLA" in your contract gives you'

Answer: Cost of living


Question: 'He was nominated to succeed Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff'

Answer: Omar Bradley


Question: 'Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" opens on a January day in the little town of Hanover in this U.S. state'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Some of the plays in this Ontario city's famous theatre festival are presented in the Avon Theatre'

Answer: Stratford


Question: 'Annunzio was the first name of this maestro of strings, the first to sell a million stereo records in the U.S.'

Answer: Mantovani


Question: 'The French dessert croquembouche consists of these stacked in a pyramid & coated with caramel'

Answer: Puff pastry


Question: 'Cornucopia'

Answer: Horn of plenty


Question: 'In what's commonly called the Bay Area, San Pablo Bay lies just north of this one'

Answer: San Francisco Bay


Question: 'Infinity Broadcasting, employer of several "shock jocks", has often been fined by this federal agency'

Answer: FCC (Federal Communications Commission)


Question: 'In 1965 Congress barred several states from requiring that voters be able to do this'

Answer: Read


Question: 'Banana & butternut are 2 of the most popular "winter" varieties of this food'

Answer: Squash


Question: 'Nobody knew it then, but the "high" period of this epoch ended with the sack of Rome in 1527'

Answer: Renaissance


Question: 'This country's island of Leyte was the site of MacArthur's return in 1944, better Leyte than never'

Answer: Philippines


Question: '[I'm Robin Quivers]  On NPR, Tom & Ray Magliozzi, AKA Click & Clack, give advice on this subject'

Answer: Automobile repair


Question: 'He led efforts to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi & was killed there June 12, 1963'

Answer: Medgar Evers


Question: 'This singing rival of Tom Jones had a big hit with "Winter World of Love" in the winter of 1970'

Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck


Question: 'It can mean any occupation, or a calling to a religious career'

Answer: Vocation


Question: 'Sail strait south through the Bering Strait, & you'll hit this state's St. Lawrence Island'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Was that light red?  This defect is also known as Daltonism, for a chemist who described it'

Answer: Colorblindness


Question: 'In 1965, after being assaulted in this Alabama city, Martin Luther King led a march from there to Montgomery'

Answer: Selma


Question: 'Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "If winter comes, can" this "be far behind?"'

Answer: Spring


Question: 'It means to weaken a support; it could mean to take too little out of the ground'

Answer: Undermine


Question: 'It's the divided peninsula that divides the Yellow Sea from the Sea of Japan'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Ampicillin & Amoxicillin are semisynthetic forms of this antibiotic'

Answer: Penicillin


Question: 'This convicted Watergate burglar began airing his conservative views on talk radio in 1992'

Answer: G. Gordon Liddy


Question: 'This league was founded in 1910, largely to help black migrants to New York City'

Answer: The Urban League


Question: 'In the winter the city of Bemidji in this state celebrates Brrr Midji Polar Days'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'It can mean "rebelling against authority" or "gross"'

Answer: Revolting


Question: 'At over 36,000 feet, it's the deepest spot in the North Pacific, or anywhere else on Earth'

Answer: the Marianas Trench


Question: 'In 1913 Bela Schick developed a skin test for this disease, not for shaving'

Answer: diptheria


Question: 'She was a sports commentator before pioneering call-in therapy in the 1950s'

Answer: Dr. Joyce Brothers


Question: 'As head of the SNCC, Stokely Carmichael rejected this doctrine that put the "N" in the group's name'

Answer: Non-violence (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)


Question: 'Autolycus is a lovable rogue in this Shakespeare play'

Answer: "The Winter\'s Tale"


Question: 'The name of this piece of direct mail advertising means "indirect"'

Answer: Circular


Question: 'A limited edition of this 1980 Stephen King novel featured an aluminum-coated asbestos-cloth cover'

Answer: Firestarter


Question: 'This ABC sportscaster long associated with the Olympics didn't get to see the Beijing games, as he died in June'

Answer: Jim McKay


Question: 'This senator'

Answer: John Kerry


Question: 'On July 6, 1935 he was born in Tibet for either the 1st or 14th time'

Answer: the Dalai Lama


Question: 'The safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a building equipped with one of these, invented by Ben Franklin'

Answer: a lightning rod


Question: '11 gents conferring on a plan of attack on a football field'

Answer: a huddle


Question: 'Bea Arthur played this signature role on the small screen from 1972 to 1978'

Answer: Maude


Question: 'He became the world's most famous beekeeper when he conquered Everest in 1953'

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary


Question: 'This Supreme Court justice'

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Question: 'Missionary?  Not impossible for him, born in Assisi in 1181 or 1182'

Answer: St. Francis


Question: 'Of 1 in 500, in 5,000 or in 5 million, the odds of being struck in one's lifetime, according to the NOAA'

Answer: 1 in 5,000


Question: 'What's that, Mr. Kane?  Someone said you wanted this?'

Answer: a rosebud


Question: 'Bea turned out to be Larry David's real mother on a 2005 episode of this series'

Answer: Curb Your Enthusiasm


Question: 'Sadly, we'll never again hear this comedian do his "7 words you can never say on TV" routine'

Answer: George Carlin


Question: 'This edifice'

Answer: the Chrysler Building


Question: 'This writer began communing with nature on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'This lord of Olympus punished wayward mortals & lesser gods by hurling lightning bolts at them'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'A person who does distasteful work; it's also in the name of an online "Report"'

Answer: a drudge


Question: 'In 1964 Bea shot to fame as Yente the matchmaker in the original Broadway production of this musical'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question: 'A nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, he also hosted the TV show "Firing Line" 1966-1999'

Answer: William F. Buckley (Jr.)


Question: 'This assassin'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'His Oct. 2, 1869 birth in Porbandar, India would change the world'

Answer: (Mohandas) Gandhi


Question: 'Roy Sullivan, who had this outdoorsy job, holds the Guinness record for being hit by lightning: 7 times'

Answer: a park ranger


Question: '10-letter term for a difficult, cantankerous person'

Answer: a curmudgeon


Question: 'Bea won her second Emmy for playing Dorothy Zbornak on this sitcom'

Answer: The Golden Girls


Question: 'This Oscar-winning director's very literary output included "Cold Mountain" & "The English Patient"'

Answer: Anthony Minghella


Question: 'This ship's memorial'

Answer: the Arizona


Question: 'No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922'

Answer: Charles Schulz


Question: 'The leading cause of indoor lightning injuries involves the use of this everyday device'

Answer: the telephone


Question: 'This Bible book covers the period between Joshua's death & Saul's accession to the throne'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'In 1979 Bea hosted this late night comedy show & The Roches were the musical guest'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: 'The name of the hypoglossal nerve tells you it's situated under this'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Romijn or De Mornay'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'A tiny, hilly wedge, it lies 9 miles east of Nice, France'

Answer: Monaco


Question:
'Harvey
____
of magnesia'

Answer: milk


Question: 'Macbeth asks, "Is this" this "which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"'

Answer: a dagger


Question: 'Oh, it's the golden dollar coin, featuring this woman, that was released into circulation on January 27, 2000'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.)  The knee is the joint where the femur, the body's longest bone, meets this large shin bone'

Answer: the tibia


Question: 'Members of the class Aves'

Answer: The Birds


Question: 'This nation comprises more than 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean'

Answer: Micronesia


Question:
'Heavy
____
skier'

Answer: water


Question: 'Act IV of this writer's 1904 play has the line<br />"Do you believe in fairies?"  (He didn't add "Yes!")'

Answer: J.M. Barrie


Question: 'The cutter here is used to remove the end of one of these before its use'

Answer: a cigar


Question: 'The name of this gland found only in men is from the Greek for "standing before"'

Answer: the prostate gland


Question: 'Held, as if by some magical charm'

Answer: Spellbound


Question: 'Greece is possessive about this name, so the U.N. has a member nation called the Former Yugoslav Republic of this'

Answer: Macedonia


Question:
'High
____
rose'

Answer: tea


Question: '"'What's to-day?' cried" this Dickens guy, "calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes"'

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge


Question: 'So you're not neutral on having the Ranger type of this knife with a wood saw, can opener &, of course, toothpick'

Answer: a Swiss Army knife


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a diagram of the heart on the monitor.)  Deoxygenated blood is carried back to the heart via the body's two largest veins, the superior & inferior this'

Answer: the vena cava


Question: 'Duran Duran tune that means "unfavorably famous"'

Answer: Notorious


Question: 'It's slightly larger than Alaska; Siberia borders it to the north'

Answer: Mongolia


Question:
'Gastric
____
box'

Answer: juice