Question: 'A  major figure in logic & semantics, he's best known for falling in love with a student'

Answer: Abelard


Question: 'Family Matters:<br />to do his dance, "hitch up your pants, bend your knees, & stick out your pelvis--it's better than Elvis!"'

Answer: Urkel


Question: 'John Tyler--<br />but not for long'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'Born under the sign of the goat? You may be this synonym for "flighty"; it starts with the same 6 letters'

Answer: capricious


Question:
'Quartz:
____O2'

Answer: silicon


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York.)  Central Park's Belvedere Castle was designed in 1865 as one of the fanciful Victorian-era structures called by this rather pejorative name'

Answer: a folly


Question: 'This man of Ockham was "razor" sharp in stating that philosophy should be kept as simple as possible'

Answer: William (of Ockham)


Question: 'This '60s TV Batman started a national craze dancing the Batusi'

Answer: Adam West


Question: 'Chester Arthur--<br />but not for long'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'The 2 signs made of of 2 separate but identical creatures'

Answer: Gemini and Pisces


Question:
'Methanol:
____H3OH'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'The basic designs of these include cross, saltire & border; the USA's is a canton style'

Answer: a flag


Question: 'His headstone, using a line from one of his scripts, says, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect"'

Answer: Billy Wilder


Question: 'Although Emile Zola's gravestone still rests at this city's Cimetiere de Montmartre, his body was moved to the Pantheon'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'The last major one of these "glacial" time periods came during the Pleistocene Epoch'

Answer: an ice age


Question: 'Historically it was the goods, money or property that a bride brought to her husband at marriage'

Answer: dowry


Question: 'Jackson,<br />pop. 180,000'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'Gore Vidal said this pop artist was "the only genius with an IQ of 60"'

Answer: (Andy) Warhol


Question: 'His boat wasn't swift enough as this ex-candidate for President & Navy man earned 3 Purple Hearts'

Answer: (John) Kerry


Question: 'With more than 1 million burials, Rookwood Necropolis in this largest Aussie city is one of the world's largest'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'This 277-mile-long gorge of the Colorado River was primarily formed during the Pleistocene'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'A group of full-time employees, or the set of 5 horizontal lines on which notes of music are written'

Answer: staff


Question: 'Louisville,<br />pop. 556,000'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'This "insult comic dog" said to "Star Wars" fans, "Who wants to hear a spoiler?  Here's a spoiler: you will die alone"'

Answer: Triumph


Question: 'In 1521 he could have used a fountain of youth when he was severely wounded in a battle vs. the Calusa Indians'

Answer: Ponce de León


Question: 'About 250 people were buried in this Tombstone, Arizona Cemetery from 1878 to 1884, including Billy Clanton'

Answer: Boot Hill


Question: 'If you had a Smilodon smiling down on you, you were in trouble with one of these Pleistocene cats'

Answer: a saber-tooth tiger (or a lion)


Question: 'I'd like to call the meeting to order, but I need one of these small mallets'

Answer: a gavel


Question: 'Bridgeport,<br />pop. 140,000'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Attributed to this "Mr. Warmth" comic: "Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?"'

Answer: Don Rickles


Question: 'A WWII platoon leader in Italy, this future presidential candidate was severely wounded in April 1945'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'The world's largest historical mosaic, "The Birth Of Liberty", can be found at this Southern Calif. cemetery'

Answer: Forest Lawn


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on a screen) During the Pleistocene Epoch, the ocean receded, and Beringia emerged, an example of this 2-word type of isthmus, allowing humans to come from Asia to America,'

Answer: a land bridge


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Boudin Bakery in San Francisco, California) It once meant a notch used to record a tally in a game.  That meaning is still used for the cuts that will make your sourdough bake and look better'

Answer: score


Question: 'Manchester,<br />pop. 110,000'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'A fellow MLBer said of this "juiced" author that, like Michael Jackson, he wore one glove "for no significant reason"'

Answer: José Canseco


Question: 'In 1821 this poet had a hard time counting the ways she loved thee, what with injuring her spine in a fall'

Answer: Elizabeth Barett Browning


Question: '368 American servicemen from WWI are buried in this "field", a U.S. Military cemetery near Waregem, Belgium'

Answer: Flanders Field


Question: 'Utah's Great Salt Lake is a remnant of this much larger Pleistocene lake that lent its name to some salt flats'

Answer: Bonneville


Question: 'From French for "to ward off", it means to ward off a blow, especially in fencing'

Answer: parry


Question: 'Burlington<br />pop. 39,000'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'Later a Texas governor, in 1988 she said George H.W. Bush was "born with a silver foot in his mouth"'

Answer: (Ann) Richards


Question: 'On Oct. 18, 1859 he was found wounded & his 2 sons dead at a federal armory'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'In the 1660s puppet shows featuring this pair, a hook-nosed hunchback & his shrewish wife, became popular'

Answer: Punch & Judy


Question: 'The glaze lipstick that this ex-intern wore for a 1999 TV interview was discontinued, so women clamor for it on eBay'

Answer: (Monica) Lewinsky


Question: 'Named from Hebrew words for "father of many", this Patriarch has a shrine built for him in Mecca'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'In Mon., Oct. 23, 2006's Times you may have read of Panamanians' vote to modernize this at a cost of $5.25 billion'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'With about 12 million barrels each day, this country leads the world in oil imports, followed by China & Japan'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'A snail in Strasbourg'

Answer: escargot


Question: 'After John Milton died in 1674, his widow sold all the rights to this work for a paltry 8 pounds'

Answer: Paradise Lost


Question: 'Director M. Night Shyamalan played the doctor who sees Haley Joel Osment after he's traumatized at a party in this film'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: 'This Athenian philosopher who died in 399 B.C. was highly regarded for his self-control & moral outlook'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'On Tues., Dec. 9, 2006 the Times said the U.S. would now sell nuclear fuel to this Asia country'

Answer: India


Question: 'This country is the world's largest producer of crude oil & is home to the world's largest oil reserves'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'A burrowing "terrestrial" annelid'

Answer: an earthworm


Question: 'He developed the first reflecting telescope, which featured a concave mirror, a flat mirrow & an eyepiece'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'In 1999, Broadway audiences could see "The Lion King" or Laurence Fishburne plying King Henry II in this "Leonine" play'

Answer: The Lion In Winter


Question: 'This Muslim Sultan was devoted to Jihad & recaptured Jerusalem in the 12th Century'

Answer: Saladin


Question: 'Wed., Dec. 21, 2005's Times said a judge stopped a Penn. district from teaching this as an alternative to evolution'

Answer: intelligent design


Question: 'In 2004 producers said high prices partly result from not building any new ones of these in the U.S. since the '70s'

Answer: refineries


Question: 'This part of a music mixing board controls features like treble & bass'

Answer: equalizer


Question: 'The Restoration began in 1660 when this royal house was returned to the throne with the crowning of Charles II'

Answer: the Stuart family


Question: 'A tongue-in-cheek tribute on the Emmy Awards featured the many deaths of this animated character'

Answer: Kenny


Question: 'The subjects of this Greek's writing included anatomy, dreams & the theory that diseases are not divine in origin'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: 'On Thurs., Jan. 11, 2007 the Times reported the first public U.S. Military action in this African nation since 1994'

Answer: Somalia


Question: 'The largest known oil field in the U.S. is at Prudhoe Bay in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: '11-letter word meaning to use known facts to infer or draw conclusions about something unknown'

Answer: extrapolate


Question: 'In his 1690 work "Two Treatises of Government", he argued against the Divine Right of Kings'

Answer: (John) Locke


Question: '8 years after their farewell concert, this duo reunited for a New Year's Eve show--sort of a "Girls Night Out"'

Answer: Naomi & Wynonna Judd


Question: 'This orator, 106-43 B.C., tried to uphold Republican principles in the Civil War that destroyed Rome'

Answer: Cicero


Question: 'Fri., April 13, 2007 had unlucky news for Don Imus: "off the air" for remarks about female athletes from this school'

Answer: Rutgers


Question: 'Leading to the end of whale oil use, Abraham Gesner distilled a new fuel from coal in 1846 & named it this'

Answer: kerosene


Question: '"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong", says chapter 9 of this book of the Bible'

Answer: Ecclesiastes


Question: 'Among its 13 founding members in 1950 were Louise Suggs, Patty Berg & Babe Zaharias'

Answer: the LPGA (Ladies\' Professional Golf Association)


Question: 'Mark 10 says a man shall "cleave to" this person "...so they are no more twain, but one flesh"'

Answer: his wife


Question: 'The Monarchs'

Answer: the Kings


Question: 'If you played the Hungry Hungry Hippos board game you'd know that the hippos were trying to eat these objects'

Answer: marbles


Question: 'Many people claim to have seen a ghost in the White House bedroom named for this president'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'The minneola is the best-known variety of the tangelo; Minnehaha is his best gal in a Longfellow poem'

Answer: Hiawatha


Question: 'The ADA says to do this gently, once a day; it "helps keep your gums healthy"'

Answer: floss


Question: 'While eating at the Pharisee's house, Jesus had these washed, wiped with hair, then anointed with ointment'

Answer: His feet


Question: 'The Great Whites'

Answer: the (San Jose) Sharks


Question: 'Hippopotami eat grass, leaves & fruit, meaning they're this, from the Latin for "plant eater"'

Answer: herbivores


Question: 'One of 3 to do so, he was the first president to die on July 4'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'Marmaduke is a comic-strip dog; this is a preserve usually made from Seville oranges'

Answer: marmalade


Question: 'Did you know I could bench-press 250 lbs.?  But I do this, a 7-letter term meaning to deviate from the main topic'

Answer: digress


Question: 'He'd been dead 4 days before Jesus raised him back to life'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'Electrical Discharge'

Answer: the (Tampa Bay) Lightning


Question: 'In this 1940 Disney flick, prima donna Hyacinth Hippo cavorts with Ben Ali Gator to the "Dance Of The Hours"'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: 'So far, he's the only president sworn into office by a woman'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'Cirrhosis is a liver disease; the name of this chronic skin disorder is from the Greek for "to have the itch"'

Answer: psoriasis


Question: 'From the Greek for "bottomless", it's a vast chasm'

Answer: abyss


Question: 'Call Greenpeace!  In Matthew 4 Peter & Andrew left these in the sea when Jesus called them'

Answer: their nets


Question: 'Tropical Storms'

Answer: the Hurricanes


Question: 'Back in the day, if you were the Bishop of Hippo, you were based in what's now this North African country'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'While he was president, his residence was a house on Cherry Street in New York City'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Carlsberg is a Danish brewery; this Swiss-style cheese from Norway has a similar name'

Answer: Jarlsberg


Question: 'Yuck!  It can often be found before national product, ton or anatomy'

Answer: gross


Question: 'In Mark 1 Jesus "healed many that were sick... and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to" do this'

Answer: speak


Question: 'The Cavalry Swords'

Answer: the (Buffalo) Sabres


Question: 'Is it any wonder that this Flemish artist, whose early 17th century work is seen here, painted hippopotami?'

Answer: Rubens


Question: 'He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of a president'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'Ernesto Miranda's case gave us the rights read to a suspect; Carmen Miranda sang the aptly titled "The Lady In" this "Hat"'

Answer: The Tutti-Frutti


Question: 'Hemingway wrote anything was "better than Ezra learning to play" this low-range woodwind instrument'

Answer: bassoon


Question: 'Botanist John Ray made Linnaeus' work possible by establishing this unit of taxonomy, from the Latin for "form"'

Answer: species


Question: 'In "Dead Man's Curve" the driver of a Jaguar XK-E challenged the driver of this Chevy sports car to a drag race'

Answer: a (Stingray) Corvette


Question: 'In 1916 this nobel winner became a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen'

Answer: Niels Bohr


Question: 'In Hebrew this book of the Bible is Bereshith, the "resh" related to "rosh", meaning "beginning"'

Answer: Genesis


Question:
'"Sweet Bird of Youth"
&
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"'

Answer: (Tennessee) Williams


Question: 'Members of the Somoza family ruled this Central American country for 38 of the 42 years between 1937 & 1979'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'The father of this "father of antiseptic surgery" was one of the first to describe red blood cells'

Answer: (Joseph) Lister


Question: 'In "The Letter" the Box Tops didn't have "time to make the fast train", so they got a ticket on this'

Answer: an airplane


Question: 'The glasses & beret were classy, but this somewhat suicidal fish mascot was never good enough for StarKist'

Answer: Charlie (the) Tuna


Question: 'It's Latin for "from", as when it precedes "cathedra" or "nihilo"; I get along pretty well with mine'

Answer: ex


Question:
'"After the Fall"
&
"The Crucible"'

Answer: (Arthur) Miller


Question: 'In the 1840s fur trader Robert Campbell of this company became the first white person to explore the Yukon region'

Answer: the Hudson\'s Bay Company


Question: 'In 1990 IBM scientists created the first structure made by moving individual ones of these on a surface'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'The Hollies' first Top 10 hit, it told of the romance that developed under a shared umbrella'

Answer: "Bus Stop"


Question: 'Sharing her first name with Robin Hood's sweetie, this African-Amer. contralto earned the 1963 Pres. Medal of Freedom'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew finds a clue engraved in heiroglyphs in Abu Simbel, Egypt.)  This Egyptian word for "good" or "beautiful" came before "titi" & "tari" in the name of Egyptian women'

Answer: nefer


Question:
'"Hedda Gabbler"
&
"An Enemy of the People"'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'This city of 20 million is the westernmost capital city in the Americas'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'In the 1780s Gaspard Monge was the first to do this to a substance that's normally a gas, sulfur dioxide'

Answer: liquify it


Question: 'Completes the Gary Numan lyric "Nothing seems right in..."'

Answer: cars


Question: 'Ambrose by any other name...  He wrote "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" & "The Devil's Dictionary"'

Answer: (Ambrose) Bierce


Question: 'Now a 5-letter suffix, it was the Greek term for the type of community we call a city-state'

Answer: polis


Question:
'"California Suite"
&
"Plaza Suite"'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'Of the Western Hemisphere countries with both an Atlantic & a Pacific coast, it's the smallest in area'

Answer: Costa Rica


Question: 'Poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a treatise on this scientific instrument later replaced by the sextant'

Answer: the astrolabe


Question: 'In Kathy Mattea's song these "And A Dozen Roses", a trucker is retiring "after 30 years of drivin' up & down the interstate"'

Answer: "18 Wheels"


Question: 'Let's "Z" about this German-born publisher of the N.Y. Weekly Journal, acquitted of libel in 1735'

Answer: (John Peter) Zenger


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points out circles animated on a plot on the monitor.)  On a curve, the circles that best approximate the curvature at each point are called "osculating circles", from the Latin "osculare", to do this'

Answer: kiss


Question:
'"Major Barbara"
&
"Arms and the Man"'

Answer: (George Bernard) Shaw


Question: 'This former name of Suriname reflected its status as a colony of the Netherlands'

Answer: Dutch Guiana


Question: 'A silent film of this Russian tale was released in 2 versions: in one, Garbo commits suicide; in the other, Garbo lives'

Answer: Anna Karenina (by Leo Tolstoy)


Question: 'Of the Loire, the Seine or the Drome, the river that runs through a national capital city'

Answer: the Seine (through Paris)


Question: 'According to the series title, parcel delivery man Doug Heffernan is the "King of" this'

Answer: Queens


Question: 'A squirrel uses this fluffy appendage for balance when it leaps & climbs'

Answer: its tail


Question: 'Cream cheese was invented in this country in 1872'

Answer: United States


Question: 'On this date in separate years "America" was first sung publicly and "America the Beautiful" was first published'

Answer: July 4th


Question: 'Sensitive names for kids who get these include "Train Tracks", "Metal Mouth" & "Tin Grin"'

Answer: braces


Question: 'Of the Shannon, the Boyne or the Mackenzie, the river that's not in Ireland'

Answer: the Mackenzie


Question: 'On "Just Shoot Me", this "SNL" alum plays Dennis Finch, the power-hungry assistant of Jack Gallo'

Answer: David Spade


Question: 'Wow!  The upside-down type of this "feline" fish really does swim upside-down'

Answer: catfish


Question: 'Nationality of the cream cheese-filled pastry seen here'

Answer: Danish


Question: 'Yitzhak Rabin is seen here shaking hands with this adversary on Sept. 13, 1993'

Answer: Yasser Arafat


Question: 'Lipslide, tailslide & mongo-foot are terms from this activity'

Answer: skateboarding


Question: 'Of the Gabon, the Gallego or the Ganges, the river that's named for a Hindu goddess'

Answer: the Ganges


Question: 'A 1998 CD of music from this sitcom featured "Cleveland Rocks" & "Five O'Clock World"'

Answer: The Drew Carey Show


Question: 'The basket type of this undersea animal seen here probably isn't the kind you have in your bathtub'

Answer: sponge


Question: 'This form that cream cheese is sold in is perfect for the third pig's home'

Answer: bricks


Question: 'On May 20, 1921 President Harding presented to this woman a capsule of radium with a street value of $100,000'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Bart Simpson once observed of a show that he didn't think it was possible, but it "both sucks and" does this'

Answer: blows


Question: 'Of the St. Joseph, the St. Lawrence or the St. Francis, the river that serves as a border between 2 nations'

Answer: the St. Lawrence (Canada & the U.S.)


Question: 'Mrs. Mamie Dubcek is the colorful landlady of this alien family on "3rd Rock from the Sun"'

Answer: the Solomons


Question: 'Some of these fleshy growths that top roosters' heads are V-shaped & some look like a walnut'

Answer: combs


Question: 'Philadelphia cream cheese advertises itself as "A Little Taste of" this'

Answer: Heaven


Question: 'In 1825, 50 years after this June 17, 1775 battle, the Marquis de Lafayette helped dedicate a monument to it'

Answer: Bunker Hill


Question: 'Mom & Dad, or what they probably don't make kids pay'

Answer: rent


Question: 'Of the Tagus, the Tarsus or the Taro, the river that runs through southern Turkey'

Answer: the Tarsus


Question: 'It's the New York City coffee house where the "Friends" gang hangs out'

Answer: Central Perk


Question: 'This arthropod is nicknamed the "hundred-legger", though some may have 170 pairs of legs'

Answer: centipede


Question: 'Yiddish term for a thin pancake folded around a filling of cottage & cream cheese'

Answer: blintz


Question: 'This Spanish conqueror of Peru & the Incas was killed by his former followers June 26, 1541'

Answer: Francisco Pizarro


Question: 'To college kids Za isn't a chemical element, it's this popular delivery item'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'He complained to Tom Sawyer that the widow Douglas "makes me wash"'

Answer: Huck Finn


Question: 'When dissecting something in biology, that bad odor may be this preservative derived from methyl alcohol'

Answer: formaldehyde


Question: 'So far it's had 16 chief justices, starting with John Jay & ending with William Rehnquist'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'In Philly in 1974 Dr. Audrey Evans & the Eagles' Fred Hill built this fast-food character's first "House"'

Answer: Ronald McDonald


Question: '"After Eden" dramatizes what happened to this couple after they left the garden'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: 'It's the White House room where the president works'

Answer: Oval Office


Question: 'Ishmael called him the incarnation of "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought"'

Answer: Moby Dick


Question: 'This appropriately-named insect uses its disagreeable odor to protect itself from enemies'

Answer: stinkbug


Question: 'It's what EPA stands for in the name of a government body established Dec. 2, 1970'

Answer: Environmental Protection Agency


Question: 'This male R&B group was formed in Philly & its hits include "Motownphilly"'

Answer: Boyz II Men


Question: '"Coppelia" is subtitled "The Girl with Enamel Eyes" because Coppelia is one of these toys'

Answer: a doll


Question: 'Confidentially, it's a 3-word journalistic phrase meaning "not to be quoted"'

Answer: off the record


Question: 'This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy'

Answer: "The Catcher in the Rye"


Question: 'Skunk musk is actually an organic compound of this element, symbol S'

Answer: sulphur


Question: 'As of Jan. 20, 2001, it's the annual salary of the U.S. president, double what it was for the previous office holder'

Answer: $400,000


Question: 'He first went to Philadelphia in 1723 because he heard printer Andrew Bradford's best worker had died'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'The Royal Danish Ballet marked the start of its 2000 season with a free outdoor show in this Danish capital'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Differing from the usual or expected, or a description of bad drumming'

Answer: offbeat


Question: 'Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of" this place'

Answer: Sleepy Hollow


Question: 'These "salts" contain ammonium carbonate, which, when inhaled, relieves faintness'

Answer: smelling salts


Question: 'This amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that no person has to be a "witness against himself"'

Answer: Fifth Amendment


Question: 'Philadelphia-born anthropologists include this "Coming of Age in Samoa" author seen here'

Answer: Margaret Mead


Question: 'If you're "Home Alone", you may want to rent the 1993 film of "The Nutcracker", with this young star in the title role'

Answer: Macaulay Culkin


Question: 'It's the California rock group that asked us to "Come Out and Play" in '94'

Answer: The Offspring


Question: 'This Jack London title canine is tormented by one of his owners to make him savage enough to win dogfights'

Answer: White Fang


Question: 'The corpse flower's repulsive stench attracts pollinators in the Sumatran rain forests of this country'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: '(Jimmy Carter gives the clue from the Carter Center in Atlanta)  The Democratic Party's donkey dates back to this presidential candidate's 1828 campaign'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'The work of John Peto, shown here, used the technique of trompe l'oiel, or "do this" to the eye'

Answer: fool the eye


Question: '"This Property is Condemned " is based on a 1-act play by this author of "The Glass Menagerie"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'It's professional drama in NYC in small theaters; its awards are called Obies'

Answer: off-Broadway


Question: 'The name of this provincial capital means "queen" in Latin'

Answer: Regina, Saskatchewan


Question: 'This 1939 Steinbeck novel about a family of migrant workers won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction'

Answer: The Grapes Of Wrath


Question: 'This appendage may be considered lucky but not for the oryctolagus cuniculus'

Answer: Rabbit\'s foot


Question:
'Parker Ranch,
Kilauea Volcano,
Monument to Captain Cook'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'In October 1871 fire destroyed most of this city's buildings erected in the previous half century'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'You can order a copy of this fitness guru's "Sweatin' To The Oldies" from his web site'

Answer: Richard Simmons


Question: 'Completes the timely proverb "Every dog has..."'

Answer: His day


Question: 'Wordsworth's poem about her begins, "Hail Virgin Queen!  O'er many an envious bar triumphant...."'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: '"Find" one of these & "pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck"'

Answer: Penny


Question:
'Victoria Peak,
Kai Tak Airport,
Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'In 1952 Congress passed Public Law 359 to protect this symbol of the Forest Service from exploitation'

Answer: Smokey The Bear


Question: 'This singing group is featured on a video subtitled "One Hour Of Girl Power!"'

Answer: The Spice Girls


Question: 'In other words, "There's no way to educate one ancient canine in up-to-date actions"'

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


Question: 'Title character who says, "I shall grow old...and dreadful.  But this picture will remain always young"'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'St. Patrick might have told a different story if he'd been "looking over" this lucky plant'

Answer: Four-leaf clover


Question:
'Lake Balaton,
Bela Bartok Memorial House,
Buda Concert Hall'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'This hot Universal Studios attraction based on Ron Howard's film recreates a warehouse fire'

Answer: Backdraft


Question: 'This company offers a motivational tape for experienced users of its exercise ski machines'

Answer: NordicTrack


Question: '"Dogs that" do this "at a distance seldom bite"'

Answer: Bark


Question: 'The Ministry of Love, also known as Miniluv, maintains law & order in this Orwell novel'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'Pitch one of these for points or hang one on the wall with the points up for luck'

Answer: Horseshoe


Question:
'Senate Square,
Mannerheim Museum,
Sibelius Park'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'This performer reached the Top 10 for the first time in 1970 with the song heard here: "I've seen fire and I've seen rain...."'

Answer: James Taylor


Question: 'This talk show host's video of clips edited from his show is subtitled "Too Hot For TV"'

Answer: Jerry Springer


Question: 'In Latin it's "Qui me amat, amat et canem meam"'

Answer: "Love me, love my dog"


Question: 'He wrote "Song of The Broad-Axe" as well as the much more famous "Song Of Myself"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'This man founded a religion, so go ahead & rub his tummy for luck'

Answer: Buddha


Question:
'The Malecon,
Morro Castle,
Revolution Square'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'This Green Bay Packers coach once said, "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm"'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'This animated dinosaur film by Don Bluth spawned 4 video sequels'

Answer: The Land Before Time


Question: '"Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good" one of these'

Answer: Bone


Question: 'This "stampede" city lies in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, so it's nicknamed the "Foothills City"'

Answer: Calgary


Question: 'Canis lupus, the animal seen here:'

Answer: Wolf


Question: 'This team notched a modern record of 120 losses in 1962, its first season'

Answer: New York Mets


Question: 'In 1993 this Fairfield-born actress starred with husband Dennis Quaid in "Flesh And Bone"'

Answer: Meg Ryan


Question: 'In a 1983 hit Billy Joel was a "downtown man" in love with her'

Answer: Uptown Girl


Question: 'He not only developed an oral polio vaccine but vaccines for dengue fever & encephalitis'

Answer: Albert Sabin


Question: 'On some weekdays in July & August, you can have tea with the mayor in this Nova Scotia capital'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'Equus caballus'

Answer: Horse


Question: 'Almost matching the number in its name, this NBA team lost a record 73 games in the '72-'73 season'

Answer: Philadelphia \'76ers


Question: 'This star of "The Big Chill" & "Dangerous Liaisons" is a 12th-generation New Englander'

Answer: Glenn Close


Question: 'The highest social class, or maybe their favorite part of a pie'

Answer: Upper crust


Question: 'Many Americans can give their heartfelt thanks to this Houston surgeon, the first to repair an aneurysm'

Answer: Michael DeBakey


Question: 'It's been called "Britain's Oldest Colony", but it's Canada's "new"est province'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'Panthera Leo'

Answer: African lion


Question: 'This northwestern team wasn't "flying" when it set the NFL record of -7 yards against the Rams in 1979'

Answer: Seattle Seahawks


Question: 'In 1933 Marion Bergeron of West Haven became the first & only Connecticutie crowned this'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'Theatrical term meaning to draw attention to oneself at the expense of another'

Answer: To upstage


Question: 'In 1967 this pediatrician resigned as a college teacher to join the antiwar movement full-time'

Answer: Dr. Benjamin Spock


Question: 'Lady Slipper Drive, a scenic route in this tiny island province, is named for the province's official flower'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'Ursus maritimus'

Answer: Polar bear


Question: 'In 1944 the NHL's Detroit Red Wings froze out these "Broadway Blueshirts" 15-0, the biggest shutout ever'

Answer: New York Rangers


Question: 'Born in Hartford, this blonde went west to play Krystle Carrington on "Dynasty"'

Answer: Linda Evans


Question: 'This city north of Stockholm is home to Sweden's oldest university'

Answer: Uppsala


Question: 'In 1778 this smallpox vaccine developer  wrote a paper on the murderous habits of the young cuckoo bird'

Answer: Edward Jenner


Question: 'Two of these marine mammals, seen here, adorn the coat of arms of Canada's Northwest Territories'

Answer: Narwals


Question: 'The yellow-eyed bird megadyptes antipodes'

Answer: Penguin


Question: 'They changed colors in 1997, perhaps to ditch painful memories of 26 losses in a row, an NFL record'

Answer: Tampa Bay Buccaneers


Question: 'This star of TV's "China Beach" is the heiress to a toilet flush valve fortune'

Answer: Dana Delany


Question: 'The granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, Bel Kaufman wrote this 1964 bestseller set in a NYC high school'

Answer: Up The Down Staircase


Question: 'Hans Selye pioneered the study of this & wrote a book about it "without distress"'

Answer: Stress


Question: 'He first recorded in 1939, "retired" in 1971, returned & had a Top 10 album in 1993'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'Around 1668 Isaac Newton built the first reflecting one of these'

Answer: a telescope


Question:
'A plane crashes,
people die (though it doesn't slow some of 'em down much),
much DHARMA but little Greg'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'Twain said of this dance, "I placed my hands before my face for very shame, but I looked through my fingers"'

Answer: the cancan


Question: 'Movie theater chain AMC is "American" this "Cinema"--a prefix often found in front of "plex"'

Answer: Multi


Question: 'You might score with this speech's first line, but the second begins, "Now we are engaged in a great Civil War"'

Answer: the Gettysburg Address


Question: 'The scowl of a circus buffoon'

Answer: a clown frown


Question: 'Newton made some of his greatest discoveries while Cambridge University was closed because of this in 1665'

Answer: the plague


Question:
'Gary Coleman co-stars,
at home with the Drummonds,
what'chu talkin' 'bout, contestants?'

Answer: Diff\'rent Strokes


Question: 'We don't know if she was statuesque, but Rose Beuret was the longtime love of this sculptor'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'H&R Block was named for founding brothers Henry & him'

Answer: Richard


Question: '"These united colonies... are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown" is a statement from this'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'The mark of Zorro, when he doesn't charge you for it'

Answer: a free "Z"


Question: 'In 1676 Newton opined, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of" these'

Answer: giants


Question:
'Love was all around the newsroom,
Chuckles bit the dust,
Lou, Lou, Louuuuuuu...'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: 'He designed a towering Gallery of Machines for the Paris Exposition of 1867'

Answer: (Gustave) Eiffel


Question: 'The "SC" in NASCAR'

Answer: Stock Car


Question: '"Promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty" are 10 of the 52 words of this'

Answer: the Preamble to the Constitution


Question: 'An African equine born under the sign of the scales'

Answer: a zebra Libra


Question: 'Force equals mass times acceleration is the second of these Newtonian formulations'

Answer: the laws of motion


Question:
'Lonely astronaut hits the bottle,
2,000-year-old woman pops out of it,
wackiness ensues'

Answer: I Dream of Jeannie


Question: 'In the 1870s this type of bon vivant, so called for the wide streets he frequented, came into vogue'

Answer: a boulevardier


Question: 'The 3 Ms in the original name of 3M'

Answer: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing


Question: 'A speech by him included the line "In a sense, we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check"'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'The only tibia'

Answer: a lone bone


Question: 'This British queen knighted Newton in 1705'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question:
'Alaskan adventures,
Cicely but not Tyson,
ah, the casual moose-about-town'

Answer: Northern Exposure


Question: 'This son of the King of Holland followed uncle Napoleon's example & became Emperor of the French in 1852'

Answer: Napoleon III (or Louis-Napoleon)


Question: 'The "C" in the name of department store founder J.C. Penney; how appropriate'

Answer: Cash


Question: '"I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" is the last line of this poem'

Answer: "The New Colossus"


Question: 'An aristocratic prestidigitator'

Answer: a patrician magician


Question: 'The surgeon begins by making an incision above the hairline in this cosmetic procedure aka rhytidoplasty'

Answer: a facelift


Question: '"No. 5 is alive" in this robotic film:<br />"S____ C____"'

Answer: Short Circuit


Question: 'This capital is located in the historical region of New Castile'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Typical movie opening credits: producer(s), writer(s), this person'

Answer: director


Question: 'His 1380s poem "The Parlement of Foules" isn't about idiots in government; it's about birds choosing mates'

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer


Question: 'Calling HAZMAT!  It's the act of making something impure or polluted'

Answer: contamination


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.)  Named for a 19th-century surgeon, McBurney's point, 2/3rds the distance between the umbilicus & the iliac crest of the pelvis, is the most tender abdominal area when this organ is inflamed & often requires surgery'

Answer: the appendix


Question: 'Duracells weren't given with this Cronyn-Tandy epic about tiny spaceships:<br />"*b____ n____ i____"'

Answer: *batteries not included


Question: 'For a short time in the 1950s, La Plata, Argentina was named for her'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'The stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, this--also an economic term'

Answer: depression


Question: 'An anonymous genius known as "The Pearl Poet" is thought to have been the author of this colorful tale of 2 knights'

Answer: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


Question: 'This word means to put off until another day or time'

Answer: procrastinate


Question: 'Hip replacement entails removing the arthritic head of this bone & preparing a new socket in the pelvic bone'

Answer: the femur


Question: 'Lea Thompson & an extra-terrestrial fowl; 'nuff said:<br />"H____ T____ D____"'

Answer: Howard the Duck


Question: 'Pusan is this country's second-largest city & main seaport'

Answer: South Korea


Question: '"The Story of Civilization": "The Age of Faith", "The Renaissance", this religious event'

Answer: The Reformation


Question: 'In this circa 1470 work, the Brown Knight Without Pity is as bad as his name until Sir Gareth gets 'im'

Answer: Le Morte d\'Arthur


Question: 'It's known as both glandular fever & the kissing disease'

Answer: mononucleosis


Question: 'Laser surgery can fix the acute type of this eye disease in which the iris obstructs the flow of the aqueous humor'

Answer: glaucoma


Question: 'Nastassja Kinski unleashes the animal within:<br />"C____ P____"'

Answer: Cat People


Question: 'A center of tulip-growing, this Dutch city gave its name to a section of Manhattan'

Answer: Haarlem


Question: 'Royal succession: Princes Charles, William, Harry, him'

Answer: Andrew


Question: 'The Chester, Wakefield & York cycles are the major surviving collections of these popular religious dramas'

Answer: mystery plays


Question: 'Indelibly impressed on the memory, like Nat King Cole'

Answer: unforgettable


Question: 'Surgery may be necessary if this, an enlargement of the thyroid, causes difficulty in breathing & swallowing'

Answer: a goiter


Question: 'Famous fall doesn't kill big ape; he only needs transfusion:<br />"K____ K____ L____"'

Answer: King Kong Lives


Question: 'They're the two rhyming names of the two cities indicated on the map'

Answer: Minsk & Pinsk


Question: 'Hominids: Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus robustus, this first Homo'

Answer: Homo habilis


Question: 'A popular Middle English lyric begins, "Sumer is icumen in / Lhude sing" this bird'

Answer: the cuckoo


Question: 'This military officer is charged with providing shelter, clothing & transportation for troops'

Answer: the quartermaster


Question: 'Amounts on the banknotes in this country, one of the world's 10 largest, are in 17 different official languages'

Answer: India


Question: 'This restaurant's Original Recipe features a secret blend of 11 herbs & spices'

Answer: KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)


Question: '"And I am telling you I'm not going" to try & sing that song from this 2006 film; I'll leave it to Jennifer Hudson'

Answer: Dreamgirls


Question: 'Upon its 1914 completion, this shortened a ship's voyage between NYC & San Francisco by about 8,000 miles'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'We learned about these caravans of prairie schooners that rolled over Western trails, & I wish I could have been aboard'

Answer: wagon trains


Question: 'Fine hairs from squirrels' tails are used in brushes for this painting medium whose name tells you it uses H2O'

Answer: watercolor


Question: 'Need something?  Well, just come to the point & stop "beating around" this'

Answer: the bush


Question: 'The logo of this theme park chain is seen here'

Answer: Six Flags


Question: '"Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable!  But that is called 'cannibalism

Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Question: 'Looking like it's going to get the boot & covering nearly 10,000 sq. miles, it's the largest island in the Mediterranean'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'For the school play, this process of choosing actors & assigning parts started--I hope they pick me!'

Answer: casting


Question: 'This brand introduced its Extra Fine Point marker in 1979 & went Ultra Fine in 1989'

Answer: Sharpie


Question: 'People who meet briefly & then go their separate ways are like these "that pass in the night"'

Answer: ships


Question: 'The first ad sign in the U.S. using these lights went up on a Los Angeles car dealership in 1923'

Answer: neon


Question: 'starwars.com described this character as "A loathsome slug of a gangster" & under gender listed "Neither"'

Answer: Jabba the Hutt


Question: 'It's the state capital highlighted here'

Answer: Boise


Question: 'The kids were too lazy to learn about this measure of energy transfer that equals force times distance'

Answer: work


Question: 'To cook up a persillade to add to your escargots, finely chop this herb, "persil" in French'

Answer: parsley


Question: 'This 5-word phrase meaning to proceed as normal, no matter what happens, is associated with the theatre'

Answer: the show must go on


Question: 'Company lore says that a shiny black bathing suit gave this clothing store its name'

Answer: Wet Seal


Question: 'Matt Damon gave this title character an "Identity" & a "Supremacy"'

Answer: Bourne


Question: 'Take me to your lemur!  This island country lies about 240 miles east of the African mainland'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'By 7-2 we agreed with the Supreme Court in Ring v. Arizona that only this group can impose the death penalty'

Answer: a jury


Question: 'Rhyming phrase for what can lie between a positive & a negative situation, like between genius & madness'

Answer: a fine line


Question: 'Probably at least once, you've gotten in trouble with your parents & they've "read" you this "act"'

Answer: the riot act


Question: 'This Colorado ski resort was named for Buchanan's VP John C.'

Answer: Breckinridge


Question: 'Jack Black wrestles with a problem & cooks up a scheme to save a monastery in this 2006 film'

Answer: Nacho Libre


Question: 'Antarctica's not too far from this country, seen here in red'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'I daydreamed in the geography class about this warm region defined as lying between two famous lines of latitude'

Answer: the tropics


Question: 'The beaches of Playa del Carmen in the Yucatan in this country are noted for the fineness of their sand'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'It means to relieve someone of a lot of money, or it's what you'd do with a stained silk dress'

Answer: take it to the cleaners


Question: 'The invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are described as having tentacles & "a peculiar V-shaped mouth"'

Answer: War of the Worlds


Question: '"Les Mis" is probably the most famous musical set partly in the sewers of this city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'About 300,000 people in Africa suffer from sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse variety of this insect'

Answer: a fly


Question: 'Study at Ohio's Heidelberg college & you could spend your jr. year abroad at this country's U. of Heidelberg'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Cut up this tuber that was native to South America before becoming a major crop in Europe at the end of the 17th c.'

Answer: a potato


Question: 'In basketball, this ball handling infraction will cost you possession'

Answer: double dribble


Question: 'This gangly schoolmaster in "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" gives singing lessons to Katrina Van Tassel'

Answer: Ichabod Crane


Question: '"The Color Purple" takes place in this "peachy" Southern state, & it premiered there before it came to Broadway'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social, parasitic & "killer" types'

Answer: bees


Question: 'Go to Georgetown & wear these school colors that signify the union of the North & South afer the Civil War'

Answer: gray & blue


Question: 'Use a few green stalks of this, which is a good dip scoop & is also the log in an "ant"sy snack'

Answer: celery


Question: 'A condition of low priority; in a cooking phrase, it usually follows "on the..."'

Answer: back burner


Question: 'If it was named for a different character, this 1899 Chekhov play would be "Niece Sonya"'

Answer: Uncle Vanya


Question: '"Practically Perfect" is one of the new songs written for the stage version of this 1964 Julie Andrews movie'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'Responsible for millions of cases of malaria each year, the Anopheles variety of this insect is one deadly bug'

Answer: the mosquito


Question: 'Don't just study history, but live & breathe it at this college just steps away from Colonial Williamsburg'

Answer: the College of William and Mary


Question: 'Use a bunch of these orange taproots, rich in provitamin A'

Answer: carrots


Question: 'You'll get a charge over this critter, an Amazon River dweller that can pack a 650-volt wallop'

Answer: an electric eel


Question: 'In "A Scandal in Bohemia" & other early stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave this physician a wife, Mary Morstan'

Answer: Dr. Watson


Question: 'A fair-haired law student is the heroine of the musical based on this 2001 Reese Witherspoon film'

Answer: Legally Blonde


Question: 'Of the one million species of insects, more than 300,000 are of this type, including the ladybug'

Answer: beetles


Question: 'Cornell's Dept. of this study would prep you for the "INSECT INVASION" category; it has more than 6 million specimens'

Answer: entomology


Question: 'Don't forget to add this bulb; you can use the Walla Walla, Maui, Bermuda or Vidalia variety'

Answer: onion


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the desk of the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.)  The Weather Channel believes that 1 degree can change the world, & that the lowering of these alliterative emissions can help'

Answer: greenhouse gases


Question: 'In "A Christmas Carol" the ghost of this dead partner is the first spirit to visit Scrooge'

Answer: Marley


Question: 'We loved him as Niles Crane on "Frasier"; now it's "Curtains" for him--he's in the Broadway musical "Curtains"'

Answer: David Hyde Pierce


Question: 'Noisy bug seen here'

Answer: a cricket


Question: 'You could learn to play the bagpipes & march with the pipe band at this S.C. school whose name means "The Fortress"'

Answer: the Citadel


Question: 'Toss in some florets of this vegetable whose name comes from the Italian'

Answer: broccoli


Question: 'R.R., as a description in mail delivery'

Answer: rural route


Question: 'In 2003 Allied Command Europe & Allied Command Atlantic, parts of this organization, merged'

Answer: NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)


Question: 'After they fell asleep at the drive-in the Everly Brothers had this to say'

Answer: "Wake Up Little Susie"


Question: 'The 2nd of Egypt's plagues was hoards of this amphibian'

Answer: frogs


Question: 'Where you'd be going "by the old mill run... in the noonday sun"'

Answer: "Up The Lazy River"


Question: 'Jeremiah rhetorically asked, "can it change its spots?"'

Answer: leopard


Question: 'In '80, Diana Ross was "inside out" with this #1 hit'

Answer: "Upside Down"


Question: 'They licked the sores of Lazarus & ate the flesh of Jezebel'

Answer: dogs


Question: '"Just Men" had 7 keys & 1 of these, while "Split Second" had 1 key & 5 of these'

Answer: cars


Question: 'Term for what Cain did to Abel'

Answer: fratricide


Question: 'Starsky & Hutch's David Soul made his recording debut with this soulful plea'

Answer: "Don\'t Give Up On Us"


Question: 'Joseph explained Pharaoh's dreams of 7 clean ones who ate 7 fat ones but still remained lean'

Answer: kine or cows (or cattle)


Question: 'No. 1 show in history of syndicated TV, its theme is the following:'

Answer: Wheel of Fortune


Question: 'DDT commits this'

Answer: insecticide


Question: 'When asked about his condition this president said, "I don't have ulcers, I give 'em"'

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson


Question: 'Waylon Jennings' maternal admonition'

Answer: "Mamas Don\'t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"


Question: 'Samson killed one of these with his bare hands'

Answer: lion


Question: 'Jon Bauman & Gene Rayburn passed the mike for an hour when these games combined in 1983'

Answer: Match Game & Hollywood Squares


Question: 'From Greek for "easy death", painlessly pulling the plug'

Answer: euthanasia


Question: 'Until their near extinction in the 1880s, they were the plains Indians main source of food'

Answer: buffalo (bison)


Question: 'National chain of hotels often referred to as "HoJo's"'

Answer: Howard Johnson\'s


Question: 'In "Thus Spake Zarathustra" this 19th century German declared, "God is dead"'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'Asian nation 2nd only to U.S. in meat production'

Answer: (mainland) China


Question: 'Today very few Hollanders can be found clompin' around in these "klompen"'

Answer: wooden shoes


Question: 'A retailer of fresh fruits & vegetables, or TV's Joe Carcione'

Answer: Green Grocer


Question: 'An American Indian word for food, now the basis for a common style of grits'

Answer: hominy


Question: 'In 1977, The Eagles checked into the #1 spot on the charts with this song'

Answer: Hotel California


Question: 'While prisoner of the Germans in WWII, this French existentialist wrote some of his greatest work'

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre


Question: 'Recently, New Jersey had the highest value per farm acre & this other "New" state the lowest'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'As of March 1985, 3.46 of these equaled the American dollar'

Answer: guilder


Question: 'Where actors wait, or 1st time comedians on "The Tonight Show" try to keep their dinner down'

Answer: green room


Question: 'The 2 "superpower" adversaries of the French & Indian War'

Answer: French and English


Question: 'California's famous Ahwahnee Hotel is in the heart of this national park'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Greek philosopher whose works were the basis for most scientific study well into 17th C.'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Farms on this continent average about 5000 acres'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Until the 1700s, this city was noted for its fine blue patterned china'

Answer: Delft


Question: 'Central Park's famous eating establishment'

Answer: The Tavern On The Green


Question: 'Gall & he led the attack on Custer's 7th cavalry'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'This payment plan includes both lodging and meals'

Answer: American plan


Question: 'French soldier & mathematician whose motto was "I think, therefore I am"'

Answer: (René) Descartes


Question: 'Over 90% of the world food supply comes from farms or ranches & the rest from these 2 methods'

Answer: hunting and fishing


Question: 'Queen Juliana's daughter, she is the present queen of the Netherlands'

Answer: Beatrix


Question: '2 of the 5 "Civilized Tribes", so called because they resembled European nations in structure'

Answer: (2 of) the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Cherokee, the Creek & the Seminole


Question: 'In 1954 Conrad Hilton wrote checks for $97 million to purchase this entire hotel chain'

Answer: Statlers


Question: 'This 17th C. Dutch Jew was excommunicated from his synagogue for his independent thinking'

Answer: (Baruch) Spinoza


Question: 'In 1975, independence of this S. American country caused mass emigration to the Netherlands'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'Compass directions of the Wicked Witches killed in "The Wizard of Oz"'

Answer: west & east


Question: 'About 75% of all Hawaiians live on this island'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'Spaghetti partners, or a Bill Murray film'

Answer: Meatballs


Question: 'She retired from tennis in August 1999 & was soon seen getting cozy with Andre Agassi'

Answer: Steffi Graf


Question: 'The First Amendment says that this body "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."'

Answer: Congress


Question: '"Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye"; this many "blackbirds baked in a pie"'

Answer: Four and twenty


Question: 'It's cranny's partner, or a cozy corner for eating breakfast'

Answer: Nook


Question: 'The New York state barge canal system connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic via this river'

Answer: Hudson River


Question: 'In 1969 Hasbro made a Mickey Mouse bank that dispensed these'

Answer: Gumballs


Question: 'On Jan. 30, 2000 this Rams quarterback threw a clutch TD pass to win Super Bowl XXXIV & was named MVP'

Answer: Kurt Warner


Question: 'This fourth president was largely responsible for drafting the Bill of Rights'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet has this many lines'

Answer: 14


Question: 'Gibberish, or mumbo jumbo'

Answer: Gobbledygook


Question: 'This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Alabama to Canada's Gaspe Peninsula'

Answer: Appalachians


Question: 'Since 1920 the Purdys have been raising these nuts on a Molokai farm'

Answer: Macadamia nuts


Question: '(Hi, I'm Marcus Camby, forward for the New York Knicks)  Knicks is short for this longer name which dates back to a style of pants worn by Dutch settlers in the 17th century'

Answer: Knickerbockers


Question: 'On November 20, 1789 this "Garden State" became the first to ratify the Bill of Rights'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: '(Alex reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange)  Dec. 15, 1886 was the first time that more than this benchmark number of shares were traded in one single day here on the NYSE'

Answer: A million shares


Question: 'For over 40 years this actor has brought Mark Twain to life in a one-man show'

Answer: Hal Holbrook


Question: 'At an altitude of 6,225

Answer: Lake Tahoe


Question: 'Named for a Moroccan port, it's also known as a mandarin orange'

Answer: Tangerine


Question: 'Only 3 pitchers reached 20 wins in 1999 with this Red Sox hurler leading the majors with 23 victories'

Answer: Pedro Martinez


Question: 'This amendment protects the individual from double jeopardy'

Answer: 5th Amendment


Question: 'A catalog of athletic wear for women is named "Title" this, after part of a 1972 education law'

Answer: IX (9)


Question: 'This one's a breeze: it's the largest of the Pacific salmons'

Answer: Chinook


Question: 'Made famous in song, this river begins in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp & empties into the Gulf of Mexico via Florida'

Answer: Suwannee River


Question: 'These are mashed to make hummus'

Answer: Chickpeas/garbanzo beans


Question: 'On Nov. 13, 1999 Lennox Lewis defeated him in a unanimous decision, becoming the undisputed heavyweight champ'

Answer: Evander Holyfield


Question: 'In a 1998 documentary Myles Berkowitz tried to find Ms. Right & get a movie made in this many title "dates"'

Answer: 20


Question: 'As a result of this scandal, in 1992 H. Lawrence Garrett 3rd stepped down as Navy Secretary'

Answer: Tailhook


Question: 'The heroine of this "Beloved" author's first novel, "The Bluest Eye", wishes her eyes were blue'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'Alma Reville, this director's wife, co-scripted his films "The 39 Steps" & "The Lady Vanishes"'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'His second voyage, beginning in 1493, included visits to Jamaica & Puerto Rico'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'The Dayton Daily News said that this 1999 scarefest "does for the woods what 'Jaws' did for water"'

Answer: The Blair Witch Project


Question: 'In a dream, Jacob saw God at the top of one of these implements'

Answer: Ladder


Question: 'The pirate hero of his first novel, "Cup of Gold", is a far cry from Tom Joad'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Alma Schindler's list of spouses included composer Gustav Mahler & Walter Gropius, best known as one of these'

Answer: Architect


Question: 'In 1999 China confirmed that this girl really existed & served in China's army 1,300 years ago'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'Premiere magazine said of this raunchy 1999 teen comedy, "There's something about pastry"'

Answer: American Pie


Question: 'Abraham tried to reason God out of destroying this city where his nephew Lot lived'

Answer: Sodom


Question: 'A house party in the country is the setting for this "Brave New World" author's first novel, "Crome Yellow"'

Answer: Aldous Huxley


Question: 'Silent star Alma Rubens appeared in this D.W. Griffith film whose 1-word title is a synonym for bigotry'

Answer: Intolerance


Question: 'From India the Arabs got the point of this number system also called the Hindu-Arabic System'

Answer: Decimal System


Question: '"Bard to the Bone" was the headline of Entertainment Weekly's review of this 1998 romance'

Answer: Shakespeare in Love


Question: 'As the father of Ishmael, Abraham is also considered a patriarch of this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: '4 years after graduating from Duke, this "Sophie's Choice" author published his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness"'

Answer: William Styron


Question: 'The name Alma was popularized by an 1854 Anglo-Russian battle on the Alma River during this war'

Answer: Crimean War


Question: 'Though of unsound mind, Afonso VI ruled this country from 1656 to 1667, when deposed by his brother Pedro'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Faltering at the box office, this 1999 Cruise & Kidman film was dubbed "Risque Business" by People magazine'

Answer: Eyes Wide Shut


Question: 'Ishmael's favorite son wasn't Jacob, but this hunter who brought him venison'

Answer: Esau


Question: 'Verbs are divided according to whether this form ends in -ar, -er or -ir'

Answer: Infinitive


Question: 'We don't know "Who's Afraid of" reading her first novel, "The Voyage Out"'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Soprano Alma Gluck had one of her great successes as this coughing heroine of "La boheme"'

Answer: Mimi


Question: 'Russia's Peter I was just "Great"; the Turkish Suleiman I was this'

Answer: Magnificent


Question: 'The L.A. Times said this 1999 Liam Neeson movie about a possessed house "had all the...terror of a jury notice"'

Answer: The Haunting


Question: 'Fearing the Philistines, Isaac tried to pass off this woman, his wife, as his sister'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'This irregular comparative form of grande, "big", is spelled like the English word for someone who runs a city'

Answer: Mayor


Question: 'Winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, this group once used the slogan "We Have Two Billion People in our Waiting Room"'

Answer: Doctors Without Borders


Question: 'In Act I, scene 1 of this play, 3 witches chant, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair; hover through the fog and filthy air"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Has starred with Pitt & Cruise'

Answer: Kirsten


Question: 'Its history stretches back more than 5,000 years'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This cabinet member: "To those Iraqis... mistreated by members of the U.S. Armed Forces, I offer my deepest apology"'

Answer: Rumsfeld


Question: 'Avast, me hearties!  In 1995 Malcolm Glazer paid $192 million for this Florida football team'

Answer: the (Tampa Bay) Buccaneers


Question: 'Jeff Foxworthy says, "If your dad walks you to school because you're in the same grade, you might be" one of these'

Answer: a redneck


Question: 'This king tells Buckingham, "I am not in the giving vein today" & soon has Buckingham executed'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Born of a Danish father'

Answer: Scarlett


Question: 'This kingdom has both an Atlantic coast & a Mediterranean coast'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'Citing his "degrading and outrageous" behavior, in 1990 this ex-D.C. mayor wrote he was "deeply sorry"'

Answer: Marion Berry


Question: 'In 1999 she was the commencement speaker at CCNY (perhaps lining up some votes for 2000)'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'A British soldier during the American Revolutionary War'

Answer: a Redcoat


Question: 'She tells the Duke of Venice, "That I did love the Moor to live with him"'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'Married, with children'

Answer: Reese


Question: 'For more than 50 years in the 20th century, it was a colony of Belgium'

Answer: Congo


Question: '"To the degree I was too brash, too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize", this Speaker of the House said in 1997'

Answer: Newt Gingrich


Question: 'This blonde proved that "Les" is more when she joined the "60 Minutes" team in 1991'

Answer: (Leslie) Stahl


Question: 'High-flying critter seen here'

Answer: a robin redbreast


Question: 'This, which Shylock demands, "is dearly bought, 'tis mine, and I will have it"'

Answer: a pound of flesh


Question: 'The tallest at 5'7"'

Answer: Kirsten


Question: 'Trouble spot seen here'

Answer: Somalia


Question: 'He was "sorry for... the events that led to my withdrawal from the race... I should not have been with Miss Rice"'

Answer: Gary Hart


Question: 'In 1991 he made his first official public appearance, with his parents, on St. David's Day at Llandaff Cathedral'

Answer: Prince William


Question: 'His film credits include "Hatari!" & "The Poseidon Adventure"'

Answer: Red Buttons


Question: '"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in" this part "of him that makes it"'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Born in the 1970s, she's the oldest'

Answer: Reese


Question: 'For many years, its territory was controlled by South Africa'

Answer: Namibia


Question: '"I want to... ask for forgiveness (for my) arrogant lifestyle", said this ex-PTL leader (even his doghouse had A/C)'

Answer: James Bakker


Question: 'In 1990, 100 years after this artist's suicide, medical researchers said that he may have suffered from Meniere's disease'

Answer: van Gogh


Question: 'It's Stendhal's novel about the pathologically ambitious Julien Sorel'

Answer: The Red and the Black


Question: 'Ciaran, who founded an abbey in Clonmacnoise in this country, has his own feast day'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Clint Howard was a small child when he provided the voice of a baby elephant for this 1967 Kipling classic'

Answer: The Jungle Book


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an optical illusion on the monitor.) The duck-rabbit figure with a duck's bill here and a rabbit's nose here was first commented on by Joseph Jastro who studied the brain's role in perception as one of America's first professors of this'

Answer: psychology


Question: 'Before sending this ape expert to Africa in 1966, Louis Leakey asked her to get a pre-emptive appendectomy'

Answer: (Dian) Fossey


Question: 'The world leader & former judo champion seen here calls this world capital home'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'It precedes wagon, Bednarik or Yeager'

Answer: chuck


Question: 'Polynesians believe the deity Maui learned to make this in the underworld'

Answer: fire


Question: 'Princess Jasmine's singing voice in "Aladdin" sounds a bit like this Chinese heroine's; Lea Salonga sang for both of them'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'Light distorted by heated air leads to illusions known by this French word'

Answer: mirage


Question: 'Born in Danzig in 1686, he improved on a Galileo invention by using mercury instead of a gas'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: 'In 2001 he was sworn in as his country's prime minister'

Answer: Junichiro Koizumi


Question: 'A theater stage completely surrounded by seats for the audience is "in the" this'

Answer: round


Question: 'The Panchen Lama was the abbot of Tashilhunpo in this autonomous region of China'

Answer: Tibet


Question: 'Amanda Plummer, Paddi Edwards & Carole Shelley were destined to play the fates in the film about this mythical hunk'

Answer: Hercules


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows another illusion on the monitor.)  You think the two green vertical lines are different lengths, but they're not--it's the illusion of depth created by the horizontal lines doing this, from the Latin for "inclined together"'

Answer: converge


Question: 'During WWI this Brit debated the use of antiseptics on wound infections, finding they did more harm than good'

Answer: (Alexander) Fleming


Question: 'Seen here, he was his country's chancellor from 1998 to 2005'

Answer: Gerhard Schröder


Question: 'A slang term for a type of car accident, or music's Mr. Burnett'

Answer: T-bone


Question: 'The name of these oldest sacred books of Hinduism means "knowledge"'

Answer: Vedas


Question: 'Brian Bedford was the voice of this title character who out-foxed a British sheriff in a 1973 film'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'The 1965 exhibition "The Responsive Eye" popularized this art movement based on illusions'

Answer: Op Art


Question: '"Vous etes invité a venir voir tourner la terre" was how this "swinger" extolled his 1851 experiment'

Answer: Foucault


Question: 'The extreme left or right side of an army'

Answer: flank


Question: 'The 71 members of this Jewish religious council that ruled in Roman times were mostly Pharises'

Answer: the Sanhedrin


Question: 'Eleanor Audley played Eddie Albert's mother on "Green Acres" after voicing this villainess in "Sleeping Beauty"'

Answer: Maleficent


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows one last illusion on the monitor.)  The image seen here is called figure & this; the shape that has more meaning to you is the one that you'll see as the figure'

Answer: ground


Question: 'This bongo-playing Manhattan Project physicist told how Challenger's O-rings failed in 1986'

Answer: Richard Feynman


Question: 'Name given to the English Parliament during the civil war in the mid-1600s'

Answer: rump


Question: 'He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive'

Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman


Question: 'It's the technical name for a tetrahedron with triangular sides'

Answer: a pyramid


Question: 'He wrote all The Who's Top 40 hits except "Summertime Blues"'

Answer: (Pete) Townshend


Question: 'A buoyant jacket used to keep a person afloat'

Answer: a life saver


Question: 'Discovered in 1806 by Zebulon Pike's expedition, the Royal Gorge is found in this state'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'The saxophone is a member of this instrument family, not the brass family'

Answer: woodwinds


Question: '...who was awarded the distinguished Flying Cross'

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush


Question: 'In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this triangle'

Answer: the Golden Triangle


Question: 'The Who's demo of "I Can't Explain" featured this Led Zeppelin guitarist'

Answer: Jimmy Page


Question: '"Cabaret" club'

Answer: Kit Kat


Question: 'Along its 277-mile length it ranges in width from 1/10 of a mile to 18 miles wide'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: '56 miles from Hopewell, Virginia is this city that has been restored to the way it was in Colonial times'

Answer: Williamsburg


Question: '...born in Midland, Texas & earned a masters degree at the University of Texas'

Answer: Laura Bush


Question: 'The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square'

Answer: the Kremlin


Question: '"Won't Get Fooled Again" includes the line "Meet the new" one of these, "same as the old" one'

Answer: the boss


Question: 'Giant lies'

Answer: whoppers


Question: 'The Brech de Roland, a narrow French gorge in these mountains, leads into a large natural amphitheater'

Answer: the Pyrenees


Question: 'He was the British prime minister from 1964 to 1970 & again from '74 to '76'

Answer: Harold Wilson


Question: '...who was the first Republican reelected governor in his state's history'

Answer: Jeb Bush


Question: 'From the Greek for "uneven", it's the term for a triangle in which no sides are the same length'

Answer: scalene


Question: 'In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Adam Clayton & this Irish group'

Answer: U2


Question: 'A tract of land covered in scrubby evergreen plants'

Answer: a heath bar


Question: 'The ruins of this terraced Inca city lie perched above the Urubamba River Gorge in the Andes Mountains'

Answer: Machu Picchu


Question: 'When measuring a horse using hands, you measure from the ground up to these, not the ears'

Answer: the withers


Question: '...who wrote a bestselling nonfiction book in 1990'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers'

Answer: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory


Question: 'This 1970 live album contained extended versions of "Magic Bus" & "My Generation"'

Answer: Live at Leeds


Question: 'Ninepins'

Answer: skittles


Question: 'This gorge in Tanzania was made famous by the work of the archaeologists Louis & Mary Leakey'

Answer: Olduvai Gorge


Question: 'Considered the greatest poet of Medieval Germany, this man from Eschenbach wrote an early epic poem about the Grail'

Answer: Wolfram von Eschenbach


Question: '...who served as an artillery captain in World War I'

Answer: Prescott Bush


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the waterfront in Charleston, SC.)  Colonel William Rhett of Charleston, who captured the notorious pirate Stede Bonnet, may have inspired the name of this fictional Charlestonian'

Answer: Rhett Butler


Question: 'In a 2004 biopic, the wife of this scientist says, "I hardly ever see him since he took up sex"'

Answer: Kinsey


Question: 'Venetian concerto master Antonio'

Answer: Vivaldi


Question: 'According to Aesop, the country mouse of the fable was this type also called a vole'

Answer: a field mouse


Question: 'If you're motoring through Alberta, take in this rodeo, the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth"'

Answer: the Calgary Stampede


Question: 'It's 5 plus 4 numerals used on your letters & packages now'

Answer: a ZIP code


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a boat off Charleston, SC.)  In its 1863 assault on Battery Wagner,  the Union's first black unit earned this--also the title of a 1989 film about it'

Answer: Glory


Question: 'Henry Fonda & Glenn Ford were Admirals Nimitz & Spruance in the 1976 movie about this crucial battle of World War II'

Answer: Midway


Question: 'Giacomo, who found Giuseppe Verdi influential'

Answer: Puccini


Question: 'Like many mice, it's how genus Oxymycterus creates its refuge'

Answer: burrowing (or digging)


Question: 'Mile zero of the Trans-Canada Highway is marked by a monument in this city on Vancouver Island'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'Carl Jung taught at a university here'

Answer: Zurich


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the waterfront in Charleston, SC.)  On September 21, 1989, Charleston wasn't quite so peaceful, as this hurricane made landfall here with 135 mile-per-hour winds'

Answer: Hugo


Question:
'He's the famed Apache leader portrayed here

"I break the arrow.  I will try the way of peace."'

Answer: Cochise


Question: 'Gioacchino, of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" fame'

Answer: Rossini


Question: 'An endangered California mouse is named for the salt type of this damp area'

Answer: a marsh


Question: 'A symbol of this Montreal World's Fair, the Biosphere served as the U.S. pavilion & now is an ecology museum of water'

Answer: Expo 67


Question: 'Between 1883 & 1885 Nietzsche turned out a 4-part work about this wandering teacher'

Answer: Zarathustra


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC.)  At Fort Sumter, early one morning in this month & year, South Carolinian Henry Farley fired what may have been the Civil War's first shot'

Answer: April, 1861


Question: 'Both Ray Liotta & D.B. Sweeney have portrayed this gifted baseball player'

Answer: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson


Question: 'Ottorino; he pined for Rome'

Answer: Respighi


Question: 'Tall grass is the favored habitat of the mouse named for this agricultural event'

Answer: harvest


Question: 'The eastern terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway is at this provincial capital'

Answer: St. Johns, Newfoundland


Question: 'In the Bible, he predicted the messiah would arrive in Jerusalem by donkey'

Answer: Zechariah


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a boat off Charleston, SC.)  Sullivan's Island held thousands of quarantined Africans who survived the Atlantic crossing known by this 2-word term'

Answer: the Middle Passage


Question: 'The title Westerner of a 1972 Robert Redford film; in real life, he was said to eat his enemies' livers'

Answer: Jeremiah Johnson


Question: 'Vincenzo, who made a "Norma" conquest'

Answer: Bellini


Question: 'The mouse that's called Britain's most common mammal isn't the "forest mouse" but this synonym'

Answer: wood mouse


Question: 'The summit of Rogers Pass in British Columbia was the site of the 1962 opening of the highway by this Prime Minister'

Answer: John Diefenbaker


Question: 'This charismatic religious reformer brought the Reformation to Switzerland'

Answer: Huldrych Zwingli


Question: 'It sided with Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, & the Bible includes 2 letters to its Christians'

Answer: Corinth


Question: 'Camelback Mountain is a prominent landmark in the metropolitan area of this Arizona capital'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'A butter made from this nut (really a legume) was developed in 1890 & promoted as a health food at the 1904 World's Fair'

Answer: a peanut


Question: 'Sienna Miller made the winner's circle in a metallic gown by this designer, YSL for short'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'You might want to start with the S.B.A., this government administration'

Answer: Small Business Administration


Question: 'As it would have been too gory in color, this director opted to shoot "Psycho" in black & white'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'It means shining & precedes "-eyed & bushy-tailed"'

Answer: bright


Question: 'North America's most visited mountain is this "Peak" near Colorado Springs'

Answer: Pikes


Question: 'These nuts, chopped, are traditionally part of Waldorf salad, like the one you can dine on at the Waldorf'

Answer: walnuts


Question: 'People noted this color of royalty; Vanessa Hudgens rocked it in a Dior dress & Brian Atwood shoes'

Answer: purple


Question: 'When a great idea hits you, protect yourself by getting a copyright, a patent or one of these registered product symbols'

Answer: a trademark


Question: 'A knife plunging into a melon was used to create the sound of the stabbing in this motel room amenity'

Answer: the shower


Question: 'When both people pay for dinner on a date, they go this nationality (& home alone, probably)'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'Seen here in the background, this highest peak in North America was named for a U.S. president'

Answer: Mount McKinley


Question: 'The name of this nut can also mean a stale joke or a reddish-brown horse'

Answer: a chestnut


Question: 'People gave a first look at Nicole Richie's signature maternity line for a store called "A Pea in the" this'

Answer: Pod


Question: 'Instead of buying equipment, you can arrange this type of long-term rental & write some of it off on your taxes'

Answer: a lease


Question: 'This actress beat out Shirley Jones for the female lead in "Psycho", but Shirley beat her for the Oscar'

Answer: Janet Leigh


Question: 'A rough cabin or shanty; in song, the "love" this "is a little old place where we can get together"'

Answer: shack


Question: 'Cyanide is said to have the odor of bitter these'

Answer: almonds


Question: 'From the Latin for "that which is found", it's a detailed list of all your goods in stock for sale'

Answer: an inventory


Question: 'In a memorable line, Anthony Perkins says, "A boy's best friend is" this person'

Answer: his mother


Question: 'A quick search of a person for concealed weapons'

Answer: frisk


Question: 'The shell of this kidney-shaped nut contains a caustic oil (the nut is related to poison ivy)'

Answer: a cashew


Question: 'Feeling fierce? Try an animal print dress by Dolce & this designer partner'

Answer: Gabbana


Question: 'After you make your millions, do this "watery" act to your assets, meaning to convert them all to cash'

Answer: liquidate


Question: 'The role of Marion's boyfriend Sam was played by this actor, later a U.S. ambassador to Mexico'

Answer: John Gavin


Question: 'We bet you're "itching" to say it means to withdraw an entry from a race'

Answer: scratch


Question: 'Rocco Landesman, a producer of Broadway's "The Producers", was named to chair this federal arts organization'

Answer: the NEA


Question: 'Early in his career, he "walked the line" with the Tennessee Two'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'The third longest-serving senator in history, Kennedy represented this state for 47 years'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'It's a nickname for the U.S. flag'

Answer: "Stars and Stripes"


Question: 'He wrote "Oliver Twist" against the background of the Poor Law of 1834, which ended the supplemental dole to the poor'

Answer: Dickens


Question: 'Ford proclaimed the 1957 launch date of this car "E-Day"; let's say sales were disappointing'

Answer: the Edsel


Question: '"Mucho Gustavo", said L.A. music lovers as 28-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel took over this orchestra'

Answer: the L.A. Philharmonic


Question: 'The Jordanaires have been called "the sound behind the King" for their work with him'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Destined for a political career, Ted Kennedy was born Feb. 22, 1932, the 200th anniv. of this president's birth'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'These fruit chews by Wrigley are advertised as "a pack of contradictions"'

Answer: Starbursts


Question: 'While creating Alice in Wonderland, he was serving as a math lecturer'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'If you want to see GM's revolutionary EV1, watch the documentary "Who Killed" this type of "Car"'

Answer: the electric car


Question: 'In London Oscar winner Rachel Weisz took on this iconic stage role in "A Streetcar Named Desire"'

Answer: Blanche DuBois


Question: 'This "Soul Brother Number One" was backed by the Famous Flames & the JBs'

Answer: James Brown


Question: 'This governor said Uncle Teddy was "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortunate... the rock of his family"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'This multiple-armed marine animal is harmful to oyster beds but tough to eradicate, since it can regenerate body parts'

Answer: a starfish


Question: 'He followed up "Treasure Island" with a volume of children's poetry, "A Child's Garden of Verses"'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: 'The attempt to change the car world by this man didn't quite work out'

Answer: (John) DeLorean


Question: 'Children in Belfast made a 22,500-square-foot artwork using this juvenile type of painting'

Answer: finger painting


Question: 'This backing band includes saxophonist Clarence Clemons & guitarist Steve Van Zandt'

Answer: The E Street Band


Question: 'Kennedy called this the cause of his life & was hoping to see a reform bill passed before he died'

Answer: health care


Question: 'Both Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson won Golden Globe awards for their roles in this 1976 musical remake'

Answer: A Star Is Born


Question: 'On film Jeff Bridges played this man whose 1940s car venture was crushed by Detroit'

Answer: Tucker


Question: 'To honor the 400th anniv. of Hudson sailing to NYC from this Dutch city, Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" took the same trip'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'He's worked with both The Attractions & The Imposters'

Answer: Elvis Costello


Question: 'After a funeral mass in Boston, Ted was laid to rest near John & Bobby at this cemetery'

Answer: Arlington


Question: 'Meaning "ill-fated" & usually paired with "lovers", this term was used by Shakespeare in his prologue to "Romeo and Juliet"'

Answer: star-crossed


Question: '"The Land Beyond the Forest", a book on Eastern European folklore, was one of his influences in writing "Dracula"'

Answer: (Bram) Stoker


Question: 'In 2008, an assembly line in Serbia produced the last of these, which never caught on in North America'

Answer: the Yugo


Question: 'Created in 1950, he finally hit a home run on March 30, 1993'

Answer: Charlie Brown


Question: 'To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Bob Hope grew up in Cleveland, Ohio but was born in this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'Soothing lotion meant to be applied to the face following a trimming of your stubble'

Answer: aftershave


Question: 'It's not me, it's a homophone for this female sheep that can weigh more than 225 pounds'

Answer: a ewe


Question: 'In the Middle East, the 992-foot Kingdom Center is this country's tallest building'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Underground tombs often used to hide the dead'

Answer: catacombs


Question: 'A Civil War song popular with Confederate troops celebrated goober peas, another name for these'

Answer: peanuts


Question: 'In April 1961 he played with John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Alliterative sudsing powder added to your tub water'

Answer: bubble bath


Question: 'This doctor wrote that dreams "are simply... realizations of wishes" & I've had a breakthrough; I wish to be single'

Answer: Freud


Question: 'The world's largest-capacity office building is this 29-acre structure outside Washington, D.C.'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a lock'

Answer: a combination


Question: 'Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar'

Answer: the British navy


Question: 'The onscreen & offscreen antics of this "Hogan's Heroes" star inspired the 2002 film "Auto Focus"'

Answer: Bob Crane


Question: 'In the early '60s this "directional" brand introduced aerosol deodorant'

Answer: Right Guard


Question: 'Our timing was all wrong, just like my '69 Camaro from this car line; you know a good mechanic?'

Answer: Chevrolet


Question: 'From street level you have to look up 86 floors to observe this NYC landmark's observation deck'

Answer: the Empire State Building


Question: 'Someone walking on the sands hunting for curious objects'

Answer: a beachcomber


Question: 'During the Revolutionary War, Congress passed a resolution making peas a part of this army's rations'

Answer: the Continental Army


Question: 'Known as "Bullet Bob", he won Olympic gold & a Super Bowl ring'

Answer: Bob Hayes


Question: '"Chilly" name for a mineral oil compound used to remove cosmetics & soothe the skin'

Answer: cold cream


Question: 'Sorry, I'm going to concentrate on my career & never marry, like this woman born in 1830 who wrote over 1,700 poems'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'Called a "Dzong", a fortified one of these religious residences often serves as an admin. center for regions of Bhutan'

Answer: a monastery


Question: 'A rooster's crest'

Answer: a coxcomb


Question: 'In the 1940s General Mills produced dried peas for these "alphabetical" (& infamous) army rations'

Answer: K-rations


Question: 'Grilled pizza is a favorite dish of this host of the Food Network's "Hot Off The Grill"'

Answer: Bobby Flay


Question: 'It's the removal of stray hairs by coating with hot paraffin & stripping it off when cooled'

Answer: waxing


Question: 'I only have eyes for this White House bigwig & ex-Congressman seen here'

Answer: Rahm Emanuel


Question: 'Hollywood's American Cinematheque is based at this theater built during the 1920s King Tut craze'

Answer: the Egyptian


Question: '9-letter word for a tool used to groom a horse'

Answer: a currycomb


Question: 'The part of a pear with the seeds'

Answer: the core


Question: 'Mrs. Ben Affleck'

Answer: Jennifer Garner


Question: 'Nicknamed El Niño, this Spaniard started playing golf at age 3 & became club champ at 12'

Answer: (Sergio) García


Question: 'The commemoration of each full year's passage from the original event; if I forget mine again, my wife will kill me'

Answer: an anniversary


Question: 'This Irish wit did 2 years of hard labor for "gross indecency"'

Answer: (Oscar) Wilde


Question:
'Claw or ball-peen
+
Disney's Ariel'

Answer: hammermaid


Question: 'In astronomy the barycenter is the center of mass of 2 bodies, usually one doing this in relation to the other'

Answer: revolving around (or orbiting)


Question: 'Mrs. Keith Urban'

Answer: (Nicole) Kidman


Question: 'After wandering all over the southeast, this explorer & conquistador died in Louisiana in 1542'

Answer: DeSoto


Question: 'This 5-letter adjective means to be late to class or in paying your club dues'

Answer: tardy


Question: 'This "Sometimes a Great Notion" author served time for marijuana possession'

Answer: (Ken) Kesey


Question:
'Cheops' ancient structure
+
noon'

Answer: pyramidday


Question: 'Your cells are eukaryotic, from the Greek for "nut", meaning they have a true one of these'

Answer: a nucleus


Question: 'Mrs. Freddie Prinze Jr.'

Answer: (Sarah Michelle) Gellar


Question: 'On May 22, 2004 this Crown Prince of Spain wed Letizia Ortiz, a former TV anchorwoman & a commoner (!)'

Answer: Felipe


Question: 'This ordinal "hour" on the clock refers to the last possible moment to take effective action'

Answer: the eleventh hour


Question: 'This "Junky" author was arrested for killing his wife in a drunken game of "William Tell"'

Answer: (William) Burroughs


Question:
'Overhead interior room surface
+
pasta type'

Answer: ceilinguini


Question: 'In "Journey to the Center of the Earth", this "great fish lizard" kills a Plesiosaurus in savage combat'

Answer: Ichthyosaurus


Question: 'Mrs. William H. Macy'

Answer: Felicity Huffman


Question: 'In English, this opera singer's name means "peaceful Sunday"'

Answer: Plácido Domingo


Question: '"In the gloaming" usually refers to this 4-letter time of day'

Answer: dusk


Question: 'TMZ went on the literary beat in 2009 when this partner of Jessica Lange was busted for a DUI'

Answer: Sam Shepard


Question:
'Someone who mixes drinks at a pub
+
treats your skin ailments'

Answer: bartendermatologist


Question: '10-letter term for the structure of the universe as explained by Ptolemy of Alexandria'

Answer: geocentric


Question: 'Mrs. Josh Brolin'

Answer: Diane Lane


Question: 'Vicennial means occurring once every this many years'

Answer: 20


Question: 'He was imprisoned after writing a letter critical of Stalin & wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" on his experiences'

Answer: Solzhenitsyn


Question:
'Legal excuse to avoid blame
+
having 2 legislative branches'

Answer: alibicameral


Question: 'In 2008, Middlebury College in Vermont won its 2nd straight championship in this sport introduced in a 1997 novel'

Answer: Quidditch


Question: 'Cornwallis surrendered on this Virginia peninsula in 1781; message to George III: Game over'

Answer: Yorktown


Question:
'Bears,
Bulls,
Cubs'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Hair gathered into a round coil at the nape of the neck is this 3-letter style but please, hold the sesame seeds'

Answer: a bun


Question: 'Too many 6-packs will kill your 6-pack of these sheetlike muscles attached to the ribs above & the pelvic bones below'

Answer: the abs


Question: 'In September of 2009 a would-be burglar met up fatally with a resident wielding this Japanese warriors' sword'

Answer: a samurai sword


Question: 'If a prisoner has done this, he's either got new acne or he's escaped'

Answer: broken out


Question: '3 legions were massacred in the 9 A.D battle of the Teutoburg Forest; message to this empire: Don't cross the Rhine!'

Answer: the Roman Empire


Question:
'Angels,
Chargers,
Warriors'

Answer: California


Question: 'Lennox Lewis, Lenny Kravitz & Bob Marley all sported this "fearsome" long-haired style'

Answer: dreads (or dreadlocks)


Question: 'Shaped like a dome, this large muscle separates the chest from the belly; take a deep breath!'

Answer: the diaphragm


Question: 'Named for the French town of its origins, this steel weapon is attached to a gun's muzzle for hand-to-hand combat'

Answer: a bayonet


Question: 'If Granny asks for these, they could be her eyepieces or the tumblers for her gin'

Answer: glasses


Question: 'The Viet Cong launched a major offensive on this lunar festival in 1968; message to LBJ: Hell, no!'

Answer: Tet


Question:
'Broncos,
Nuggets,
Rockies'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'Named after an 18th century French marquise, this style has a man's hair brushed up high from the forehead'

Answer: a pompadour


Question: 'The name of this arm muscle comes from the Latin for "two-headed"'

Answer: the biceps


Question: 'The M26 Pershing & the M4 Sherman are types of this war vehicle'

Answer: a tank


Question: 'It can mean a TV show prototype or someone who steers a boat'

Answer: a pilot


Question: 'The English crushed the Highland clans at Culloden Moor in 1746; message to this would-be king: Stop pretending!'

Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie


Question:
'Timberwolves,
Vikings,
Wild'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'It's said that this cut once favored by Billy Ray Cyrus is "business in the front, party in the back"'

Answer: a mullet


Question: 'With a Latin name, this outermost muscle of the... ahem... rear helps with the extension of the thigh'

Answer: the gluteus maximus


Question: 'Remember, the knife seen here was named for this Alamo man'

Answer: (James) Bowie


Question: '3-word phrase meaning "Stop that right now!" or "Medically excise that thing from my body"'

Answer: Cut it out!


Question: 'On "Black Thursday" 1943, the U.S. lost 60 of these bombers on a single raid; message: Need escort fighters!'

Answer: B-17


Question:
'Bobcats,
Hurricanes,
Panthers'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'In the '60s this British "founder of modern hairdressing" devised a new look with the "five point" haircut'

Answer: Vidal Sassoon


Question: 'You use this broad, flat muscle to raise your shoulders; it's the daring young man on the non-flying...'

Answer: the trapezius


Question: 'Is this a 6-letter short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade, used for stabbing, which "I see before me?"  Yep!'

Answer: dagger


Question: 'If your friend tells you this happened, she might have been robbed, gotten delayed or needed help standing'

Answer: She got held up


Question: 'Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing'

Answer: vitamin E


Question: 'Richard Harris played this murderous character from Genesis in 1966's "The Bible: In the Beginning"'

Answer: Cain


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from an estate.)  I'm at this Virginia residence that definitely is entitled to put up a "George Washington slept here" sign'

Answer: Mount Vernon


Question: 'In 1991 this then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added another medal to his collection'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: '"Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber: take thou this vial..."'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'To defer'

Answer: to postpone


Question: 'It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin'

Answer: cocoa butter


Question: 'Pop singer Yvonne Elliman played Mary Magdalene in this 1973 musical film'

Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from near a metal gateway.)  I'm on the campus of this university in the Bay Area, where 1960s student activism sparked the Free Speech Movement'

Answer: Berkeley


Question: 'In 1977 this author went back to his "Roots" & won the Spingarn'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: '"Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try the last"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'It serves as a cancellation of a stamp & indicates the place & date of mailing'

Answer: a postmark


Question: 'Many massage oils have the scent of this purplish plant, the "herb of love" that's a member of the mint family'

Answer: lavender


Question: 'One of the "Greatest" Bible epics, it has Max von Sydow as Jesus & David McCallum as Judas'

Answer: The Greatest Story Ever Told


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew sits amongst boxes of crayons.)  I'm at the Crayola factory in this state's city of Easton, part of an industrial complex with Allentown & Bethlehem'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'This 1946 winner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: '"I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin and let him find it, trifles... are to the jealous confirmations strong"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'It's the type of bed seen here'

Answer: a four-poster bed


Question: 'Essence of this, which Thomas More called "the herb sacred to remembrance", is used as a scent in massage oils'

Answer: rosemary


Question: 'More known for his gangster roles, this actor played the weaselly Dathan in "The Ten Commandments"'

Answer: Edward G. Robinson


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from amongst rocket fuel tanks.)  Kennedy Space Center is in Florida; I'm in this state, at NASA's White Sands test facility'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Born Marguerite Johnson, this poet won the medal in 1994'

Answer: Maya Angelou


Question: '"You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'This 12-letter adjective means "after a meal"'

Answer: postprandial


Question: 'If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior'

Answer: aromatherapy


Question: 'Harvey Keitel played the role of Judas Iscariot in this controversial 1988 film'

Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ


Question: '(Kelly reports from a USMC base with some parked helicopters.)  I'm at this United States Marine Corps base, an area that was visited by the Spanish 40 years before Jamestown was founded'

Answer: Quantico


Question: 'This civil rights leader won in 1963, the year of his murder; his wife Myrlie won in '98'

Answer: (Medgar) Evers


Question: '"I am all the subjects that you have... here you sty me, in this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me the rest o' the island"'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'PCW, a recycling term, stands for this'

Answer: post-consumer waste


Question: 'Since the 1100s Dunmow, England has rewarded newlyweds who go a year & a day without arguing by letting them "bring home" this'

Answer: the bacon


Question: 'The Normans called their knights this; one may have been Maurice's ancestor'

Answer: Chevaliers


Question: 'A dab of phytospecific relaxer might have controlled this standout on Alfalfa's head'

Answer: Cowlick


Question: 'Robin,<br />a boy wonder'

Answer: Batman


Question: 'A children's song in which rodents lose their tails, or a Ken Auletta book about CBS, NBC & ABC'

Answer: "Three Blind Mice"


Question: 'On this observance, a Dutchman will wish you "Vrolijke Kerstmis"'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'Twins advertise this flavor of Wrigley's gum'

Answer: Doublemint


Question: 'It takes a fief to run this system that the Normans learned from the Carolingians'

Answer: Feudalism


Question: 'The bobby pin was introduced in this decade known for its bobbed hair craze'

Answer: 1920s


Question: 'Cheetah,<br />a chimp'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'Appropriately, "Will" this animal "Survive" is from a 1984 album by Los Lobos'

Answer: The wolf


Question: 'This holiday would certainly make "World News Tonight"'

Answer: Columbus Day


Question: 'It's slang for the old 55-mile-per-hour national speed limit'

Answer: "Double Nickel"


Question: 'This battle of October 14, 1066 established the Normans as rulers of England'

Answer: Hastings


Question: 'In 1954 the "No More Tears" formula of this product was introduced'

Answer: Johnson\'s Baby Shampoo


Question: 'Teller, <br />a magician'

Answer: Penn


Question: 'The Muffs complain about gossipy friends in 1997's "You and" this bird'

Answer: Parrot


Question: 'Eel & watercress were on the menu of the first celebration of this'

Answer: Thanksgiving


Question: 'The Fifth Amendment protects against it'

Answer: Double jeopardy


Question: 'Norman crusader Tancred of Hauteville became prince of this region of Palestine known for its sea'

Answer: Galilee


Question: 'Hair care line headed by the man seen here'

Answer: Paul Mitchell


Question: 'John Watson,<br />a medical doctor'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Flanders & Swann's song about this African animal goes, "Let us wallow in glorious mud"'

Answer: Hippopotamus


Question: 'We shouldn't need to "egg" you on to name this holiday'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'A 1984 Melanie Griffith movie, or the function Shelly Michelle served for Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman"'

Answer: Body Double


Question: 'The first Norman foothold in France was near Rouen, around the mouth of this river'

Answer: Seine


Question: 'An archive of this shampoo's "Girls", including Brooke & Cybill, is housed at the Smithsonian'

Answer: Breck


Question: 'Renfield,<br />nearly a vampire'

Answer: Count Dracula


Question: 'Lyricist Don Black co-wrote the lion serenade "Born Free" & this Michael Jackson ode to a rat'

Answer: "Ben"


Question: 'It's about "time" we did this holiday'

Answer: New Year\'s Eve


Question: '"(Just Like) Starting Over" is one of the songs from this 1980 John Lennon & Yoko Ono album'

Answer: "Double Fantasy"


Question: 'Before his Gulf War exploits, he was deputy commander of U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada'

Answer: Norman Schwarzkopf


Question: 'Luigi Moretti designed buildings for Mussolini & this Washington, D.C. complex that led to Nixon's fall'

Answer: Watergate


Question: 'Santiago'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'This basketball star is the only man picked AP's Athlete of the Year 3 years in a row: 1991, 1992 & 1993'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: '"Ugly Hell, gape not!  Come not Lucifer!" is a line from a play about this doctor'

Answer: Doctor Faustus


Question: 'This type of whiskey bears the name of the Kentucky county where it was first produced'

Answer: Bourbon


Question: 'The parents of this Bengals QB & pro football announcer first named him Norman, not Boomer'

Answer: Boomer Esiason


Question: 'This style influenced by the Romans is named for England's 4 kings between 1714 & 1830'

Answer: Georgian


Question: 'Riga'

Answer: Latvia


Question: 'Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999, he walked 2,795 batters but struck out twice as many'

Answer: Nolan Ryan


Question: 'Written around 1589, "The Massacre of Paris" was about the 1572 slaughter of these Protestants'

Answer: Huguenots


Question: 'Possibly from the Latin for "farewell to meat", it's a time of pre-Lenten merrymaking'

Answer: Carnaval


Question: 'Landlord Stanley Roper on "Three's Company", he also played Dustin Hoffman's landlord in "The Graduate"'

Answer: Norman Fell


Question: '524 firms competed to design a new library at this city to recall the ancient one'

Answer: Alexandria, Egypt


Question: 'Port Moresby'

Answer: Papua New Guinea


Question: 'This ski event comes in regular, giant & super giant varieties'

Answer: Slalom


Question: 'His most famous (& maybe most imitated) poem is titled "The Passionate" this "to His Love"'

Answer: Shepherd


Question: 'This term for a steaming hot spring comes from the name of a famous Icelandic hot spring like this one'

Answer: Geyser