Question: 'It comes before both Greco & Alamein'

Answer: El


Question: 'This highest social class, whose name still refers to aristocracy, once made up the entire Senate'

Answer: Patricians


Question: 'Named for the variety of designs & stitches on it, this type of pillow can bear a homily or a homemade design'

Answer: sampler


Question: '1978:<br />"An Elk Tracker"'

Answer: The Deer Hunter


Question: 'This state's sports hall of fame includes Herschel Walker, Bobby Jones & Ty Cobb'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Some consider this 1932 novel, the first in a trilogy, a blight on Captain Bligh's character'

Answer: "Mutiny on the Bounty"


Question: 'On TV she's Sheriff Andy Taylor's aunt'

Answer: Aunt Bee


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome)  The water for the Trevi Fountain is supplied by one of these structures, completed in 19 B.C.'

Answer: aqueduct


Question: 'He wrote his son Kermit from the White House in 1903 about his being ambushed in a pillow fight'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: '1960:<br />"A Residential Rental Unit"'

Answer: The Apartment


Question: 'Instead of just "standing on a corner in" this Arizona city, drop by an Astronaut Hall of Fame'

Answer: Winslow


Question: 'A real Edinburgh prison nicknamed "The Heart of Midlothian" is featured in his 1818 novel of the same name'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'From the Latin for seat, it's the official seat of a bishop'

Answer: see


Question: 'Basically a garage without side walls, it's associated with 1950s architecture'

Answer: carport


Question: 'Visited by Columbus, it shares an island with Haiti'

Answer: Dominican Republic


Question: 'At 1921's "Shuffle Along", you could sing along with Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle's "I'm Just Wild About" this man'

Answer: Harry


Question: 'In 1963 this company produced its billionth tire'

Answer: Goodyear


Question: 'Before his famous transatlantic flight, this man parachuted out of damaged planes 3 times while delivering mail'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'William Tecumseh's Berliners'

Answer: Sherman\'s Germans


Question: 'Adobe was a common material in the Southwest U.S. style of architecture named for these church outposts'

Answer: missions


Question: 'People from this country are known as Kiwis'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'In a 1921 edition of Ziegfeld's "Follies", she introduced "Second Hand Rose"'

Answer: Fanny Brice


Question: 'You might catch a glimpse of the doomed ship "The Flying Dutchman" off this African cape'

Answer: Cape of Good Hope


Question: 'Proverbially, "Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are" this'

Answer: open


Question: 'Cody's cash registers'

Answer: Bill\'s tills


Question: 'Anatomical architectural terms include hip, cell, groin & this, a projecting band along a vault'

Answer: rib


Question: 'If you're stealing money from people in this Central American country, you're removing their colons'

Answer: Costa Rica


Question: 'This composer's "Easter Parade" first turned up in 1933's "As Thousands Cheer"'

Answer: Irving Berlin


Question: 'This classic novel begins on Wang Lung's wedding day'

Answer: "The Good Earth"


Question: 'A blanketlike membrane of furry skin acts like a parachute when this "flying" rodent glides through the air'

Answer: flying squirrel


Question: 'Ancient war city's great happinesses'

Answer: Troy\'s joys


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam)  These houses have examples of the neck type of this roof section'

Answer: gable


Question: 'This west African country's city of Freetown was founded in 1787 as a haven for freed slaves'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'This tune from 1929's "Hot Chocolates" is the title of a more recent Fats Waller musical'

Answer: Ain\'t Misbehavin\'


Question: 'It was the 1930s "policy" for promoting harmony between the U.S. & Latin America'

Answer: Good Neighbor Policy


Question: 'Though neither was built, around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute, too'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'Agnew's nothings'

Answer: Spiro\'s zeros


Question: 'A type of bridge, or any horizontal construction that projects out past its vertical support'

Answer: cantilever


Question: 'Day-to-day stuff in this country has been handled by its king's half-brother, seen here'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: '"The Little Show" of 1931 featured Herman Hupfeld's "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on" this instrument'

Answer: the Tuba


Question: 'James Hilton wrote this sentimental tale of an English schoolmaster in 4 days'

Answer: "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"


Question: 'In Nov. 1971 this man hijacked a plane, then parachuted out of it with $200,000 & was never seen again'

Answer: D.B. Cooper


Question: 'President Arthur's searchers'

Answer: Chester\'s questers


Question: 'These 2 states both have airplanes from the 20th century's first decade on their quarters'

Answer: North Carolina & Ohio (as a tribute to the Wright Brothers)


Question: 'Every spring the Alaska Folk Festival attracts lots of folks to this state capital'

Answer: Juneau


Question: '"You Oughta Know" that her "Jagged Little Pill" is the best-selling debut solo album by a female in the U.S.'

Answer: Alanis Morissette


Question: 'An unattractive person is sometimes said to have a "face that only" this person could love'

Answer: A mother


Question: 'This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Mesopotamian brewers made at least 16 different types of this potent potable'

Answer: Beer


Question: 'Like the governor of Illinois, the Simpsons live in a city named this'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'The origins of this Idaho city date back to a fort built in 1863 to protect gold miners'

Answer: Boise


Question: 'Yes Sir!  In January 1997 this former Beatle & former leader of Wings was made a knight'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'This word meaning "not reciprocated" is found with "love" in many dictionaries'

Answer: Unrequited


Question: 'His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'The earliest cultural level discussed by anthropologists is the hunter-this'

Answer: Gatherer


Question: 'Second-grader Lisa Simpson is a prodigy on this jazz instrument'

Answer: Saxophone


Question: 'You'll find this capital of Montana in Prickly Pear Valley'

Answer: Helena


Question: 'Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered this planet in 1930, passed away in 1997; he was 90'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'Psychologist Robert Sternberg's 3 parts of love are passion, intimacy & this step that men allegedly fear'

Answer: Commitment


Question: '18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel'

Answer: Sister Carrie


Question: 'Khayyam, as in Omar Khayyam, means this, a maker of yurts, pups & big tops'

Answer: Tents


Question: 'Famous Simpsons expressions include Bart's "Don't Have A Cow" & this Homeric syllable of frustration'

Answer: "D\'Oh!"


Question: 'In Sept. & Oct. you may watch salmon swim up the fish ladders in this Washington city's Capitol Lake'

Answer: Olympia


Question: 'Dana Owens is the real name of this actress & "royal" rap star'

Answer: Queen Latifah


Question: 'An ancient Greek philosophy of the ideal gave us this term for love without desire'

Answer: Platonic


Question: 'In this Orwell novel, the  Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'Before becoming a disciple & an apostle, Peter had this occupation'

Answer: Fisherman


Question: 'Pronounced correctly, the name of this Simpsons creator rhymes with "caning"'

Answer: Matt Groening


Question: 'This city's zoo is only 2 blocks away from a museum devoted to Father Damien'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'This retired cartoonist was recently quoted as saying, "I couldn't conceive of ever going back to 'The Far Side'"'

Answer: Gary Larson


Question: 'Chaucer, Shakespeare & Blake are among the poets who have written that love has this disability'

Answer: It\'s blind


Question: 'In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to "Finnegans Wake"'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'Ahmes, one of these copyists, made an ancient Egyptian math table papyrus that is still in existence'

Answer: Scribe


Question: 'Simpson kids' favorite TV fare includes Krusty the Clown & this insanely violent cartoon'

Answer: "Itchy & Scratchy"


Question: 'In April 1796 this French officer defeated the Sardinians at Mondovi, gaining Savoy & Nice for France'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'In 1996 this "Doonesbury" creator received the Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year'

Answer: Garry Trudeau


Question: 'Though a teacher & not divine, temples in China have been erected to this man also called K'ung Fu-Tzu'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'You'll find the word "infinite" within the calculus term for infinitely small, but not quite zero'

Answer: Infinitesimal


Question: 'In 1918 this automaker was nominated for a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan but narrowly lost the election'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'It's a room where a scientist carries out his experiments'

Answer: Laboratory


Question: 'In 1517 Cordova became the first Spaniard to reach Mexico when he landed on this east coast peninsula'

Answer: Yucatan Peninsula


Question: 'The Daily News on St. Thomas in this U.S. territory won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service'

Answer: U.S. Virgin Islands


Question: 'A shrine of the Bab, a forerunner of the Baha'i, is in Haifa in this country'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'A perfect number is the sum of all of these except itself; for example, 28 is the sum of 1, 2, 4, 7 & 14'

Answer: Its factors


Question: 'On January 22, 1997 the U.S. Senate confirmed this former Maine senator as Secretary of Defense'

Answer: William Cohen


Question: 'A group of people with common interests, or a Greek letter society for men'

Answer: Fraternity


Question: 'In a 1797 Canary Islands battle, this British naval hero's right arm was wounded & later amputated'

Answer: Lord Nelson


Question: 'In 1997 this "Fahrenheit 451" author received the Silver Award from the U.S. Nat'l Commission on Libraries'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'In 1533 Thomas Cranmer became the first nonpapist archbishop of this see'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'It describes the shortest line between 2 points on a surface, or a dome made with the least possible material'

Answer: Geodesic


Question: 'In December 1996 former Tennessee senator Howard Baker married this state's senator Nancy Kassebaum'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'From the Latin for "hand written", it's the original text of an autnor's work'

Answer: Manuscript


Question: 'On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'This country's Bharat Ratna is awarded for exceptional work in art, literature, science or public service'

Answer: India


Question: 'One of the precepts of this nirvana-seeking group is to avoid intoxicating drinks, as they may cause stupidity'

Answer: Buddhists


Question: 'This term for complex shapes or the geometry that deals with them comes from the word "fractional"'

Answer: Fractals


Question: 'In 1996 this state's Jay Rockefeller won re-election as senator with over 75% of the vote'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'It describes food such as fruits & vegetables that are subject to spoilage'

Answer: Perishable


Question: 'In 490 B.C. this Persian king sent an army into Greece but it was defeated at the Battle of Marathon'

Answer: Darius


Question: 'In 1918 this German received the Nobel Physics Prize for his quantum theory of radiation'

Answer: Max Planck


Question: 'The Ramayana is one of the great epics of this religion'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Represented by an arrow, it's a quantity, like velocity, with both direction & magnitude'

Answer: Vector


Question: 'In 1996 Arcata, California became the first city in which this Ralph Nader party won a majority in the city council'

Answer: Green Party


Question: 'South Africa first issued this 1-ounce gold coin in 1967'

Answer: Krugerrand


Question: 'From Latin for "under penalty", you're under penalty if you don't obey one'

Answer: a subpoena


Question: 'A blue triangle on the Solomon Islands' flag represents this surrounding body of water'

Answer: the Pacific


Question: 'Astronaut Jim Lovell'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'I wonder what my leaded glass table lamp with a peony design is worth--it was made by this man who died in 1933'

Answer: (Louis Comfort) Tiffany


Question: 'One who fears that he is suffering from a major undetected disease, despite medical evidence to the contrary'

Answer: a hypochondriac


Question: 'Aw, man!  I stepped in this product, maybe a brand such as Carefree or Trident'

Answer: gum


Question: 'It's in the dictionary as a short, high-pitched sound used to replace an expletive in a broadcast'

Answer: a bleep


Question: 'The main industries in the Solomons include mining, timber & fishing for this fish'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'Women's baseball coach Jimmy Dugan'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'Why, it's a 19th c. Minton cup, a fine example of this type of china, named for its animal material ingredient'

Answer: bone (china)


Question: 'Prolonged exposure to the cold causes this condition in which the body's temperature drops below 95 degrees'

Answer: hypothermia


Question: 'In this deathtrap I'm sinking fast; I'll go flat on my back to float, then move to the side & roll to firm ground'

Answer: quicksand


Question: 'An artist may have one of these boards with a thumbhole on which to mix his paints'

Answer: a palette


Question: 'Due to historic ties, this person is traditionally still considered the sovereign of the Solomon Islands'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: 'Book store owner & Internet messaging fan Joe Fox'

Answer: You\'ve Got Mail


Question: 'It's a highly collectible "Gal-Leg" pair of these, made by John Robert McChesney around 1900--giddyup!'

Answer: spurs


Question: 'The FDA does not require testing to back up claims that cosmetics are this, meaning causing fewer reactions'

Answer: hypoallergenic


Question: 'It comes in maple, raspberry & cough varieties & is no fun to step in'

Answer: syrup


Question: 'A public lodging house, or the river that forms part of the border between Germany & Austria'

Answer: the Inn


Question: 'The first European to visit the Solomons was Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana in this century'

Answer: the 16th century


Question: '12-year-old Josh Baskin'

Answer: Big


Question: 'Cha-ching!  The scrollwork in the chairback makes it a fine example of the style named for this man who died in 1779'

Answer: (Thomas) Chippendale


Question: 'Low blood sugar'

Answer: hypoglycemia


Question: 'I got chills... they're multiplyin'... 'cause I stepped in this rendered fat of animals, also a lubricant... this is the word'

Answer: grease


Question: 'It's any heavy material placed in the gondola of a balloon or the hold of a ship to enhance stability'

Answer: a ballast


Question: 'The capital Honiara is on this isle that inspired a "diary" during World War II'

Answer: Guadalcanal


Question: 'Stand-up comic Steven Gold'

Answer: Punchline


Question: '"I want you for U.S. Army" reads an ungrammatical WWI version of this artist's poster; bet it's worth a fortune'

Answer: James Montgomery Flagg


Question: 'This structure of the brain directs the workings of the autonomic nervous system'

Answer: the hypothalamus


Question: 'Ow ow ow ow...!  Formerly magma, when it gets to the surface, it can be 10 times hotter than boiling water!'

Answer: lava


Question: 'The name of this dark Chinese tea that has been fermented before drying is from the Mandarin for "black dragon"'

Answer: oolong


Question: 'Fawn Brodie, niece of a president of the Mormon Church, wrote "No Man Knows My History" about this prophet'

Answer: Joseph Smith


Question: '"Stop! In The Name Of Love" & "Love Child"'

Answer: Diana Ross & The Supremes


Question: 'In 1989 he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier'

Answer: Nureyev


Question: 'This monument is mentioned by name (but not depicted) on South Dakota's state flag'

Answer: Mt. Rushmore


Question: 'Facing massive starvation during the Peloponnesian War, Athens surrendered to this rival city in 404 B.C.'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'It's the currency of Mexico, Senor'

Answer: the peso


Question: 'Horowitz & Collier wrote the family bios "The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty" & them: "An American Drama"'

Answer: the Kennedys


Question: '"What's Going On" & "Let's Get It On"'

Answer: Marvin Gaye


Question: 'In 1939 she danced the role of Princess Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty"; 17 years later, she became a Dame of the British Empire'

Answer: (Margot) Fonteyn


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew explains an image of a state flag on a monitor.)  The motto, "Union, Justice and Confidence" is on this state's flag, below a mother pelican feeding her babies'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'More than half of the first settlers of this American colony died of disease or starvation during the 1607-08 winter'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'A type of wooden flooring with the blocks laid out in a decorative pattern'

Answer: parquet


Question: 'Hollywood bios include Scott Eyman's life of Louis B. Mayer & Scott Berg's 1989 life of this Mayer associate'

Answer: Samuel Goldwyn


Question: '"Heat Wave" & "Jimmy Mack"'

Answer: Martha & The Vandellas


Question: 'In 1990 he & choreographer Mark Morris founded a touring company called the White Oak Dance Project'

Answer: Baryshnikov


Question: 'Yes, honey, one of these structures appears below the word "industry" on Utah's state flag'

Answer: a beehive


Question: 'After seceding from Nigeria in 1967, this region soon faced widespread starvation & surrendered'

Answer: Biafra


Question: 'It's a British word for a fistfight; in Hollywood, it's to add jokes to a comedy script'

Answer: a punch-up


Question: 'A bio of Rosalind Franklin, whose photos were used by James Watson, is subtitled "The Dark Lady of" this molecule'

Answer: DNA


Question: '"War" & "Twenty-Five Miles"'

Answer: Edwin Starr


Question: 'Audiences fauned all over this Kiev-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909'

Answer: Nijinsky


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew talks about an image of two state flags on a monitor.)  On an alphabetical list of states, these two states with somewhat similar flags are next to each other'

Answer: Tennessee & Texas


Question: 'On his deathbed, this English king remarked, "Let not poor Nelly starve"--referring to his mistress'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'It can be a nuclear reactor or an assemblage of things laid one upon the other'

Answer: a pile


Question: 'Eric Enno Tamm's "Beyond the Outer Shores" is about Ed Ricketts, the model for Doc in this 1945 Steinbeck novel'

Answer: Cannery Row


Question: '"Shoo-be-doo-be-do-da-day" & "Overjoyed"'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question: 'This ballerina known for her "Dying Swan" role starred in the 1915 silent film "The Dumb Girl of Portici"'

Answer: Pavlova


Question: 'You'll find a Seminole woman scattering flowers on this state's flag'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This 1922 film subject "of the North" perished from starvation shortly after the film was completed'

Answer: Nanook


Question: 'The unscheduled temporary replacement of a TV show, often by a newsworthy event'

Answer: preemption


Question: 'Born in Predappio, Italy in 1883, he was named for a famous politician born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1806'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'It took 6 tries, but in 2002 Steve Fossett became the first man to fly solo around the world in one of these'

Answer: hot air balloon


Question: 'Some believe these 2 water fetchers represented Cardinal Wolsey & the Bishop of Tarbes'

Answer: Jack & Jill


Question: 'Some of this company's fine chocolates are embossed with its naked lady on a horse logo'

Answer: Godiva


Question: 'Robin Marantz Henig's recent masterful essay on evolutionary biology was titled this 19th century scientist's "God"'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: '( Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a science lab. ) The heat from the lamp causes the snake to dance, as hot air is less this five-letter term than cold air and therefore rises and spins the snake'

Answer: dense


Question: 'To loosen, as a grip, or just to take it easy'

Answer: relax


Question: 'In 1935 drivers in Oklahoma City became the first to "feed" these; a nickel in the slot'

Answer: parking meters


Question: 'This month "brings breezes, loud and shrill"'

Answer: March


Question: 'Chick-O-Sticks aren't chicken-flavored; they're made from peanut butter & this tropical treat'

Answer: coconut


Question: 'Feb. 2007's "From 0 to 60 to World Domination" explored this Japanese auto company's rise to prominence'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'In the nervous system, calcium ions crossing the gap between these cause a release of acetylcholine'

Answer: neurons


Question: 'An 1852 Dickensian title "house"'

Answer: bleak


Question: 'Produced by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, the first ones of these in rolls were issued in 1908'

Answer: stamps


Question: 'This nursery rhyme heroine may have been a veiled reference to Mary, Queen of Scots & the "spider", to John Knox'

Answer: Little Miss Muffet


Question: 'In 1997 this candy introduced a female character who's green; she called her autobiography "I Melt For No One"'

Answer: M&M\'s


Question: 'In March 2007's "Choosing a Sect", Noah Feldman studied the USA's feelings with these 2 main Iraqi Muslim sects'

Answer: Shi\'ite and Sunni


Question: '( Kelly delivers the clue from the lab. ) Normally, an ice cube floats; this one, however, sinks right to the bottom because it's made of heavy water, or D2O; the D standing for this isotope'

Answer: deuterium


Question: 'This can be a large drinking vessel or a small lipped one used for science experiments'

Answer: beaker


Question: 'Still in operation, the world's first pay-one-price theme park opened in this U.S. state in 1961'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'She was commanded to "put the kettle on, and we'll have tea"'

Answer: Polly


Question: 'The candy once marketed as "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" is sold under this brand name today'

Answer: Russell Stover


Question: 'Dec. 2006's "The Lives They Lived" covered the 2006 passings of such notables as this founder & namer of Pink Floyd'

Answer: Syd Barrett


Question: 'As opposed to what arthropods have, vertebrates have this internal framework'

Answer: endoskeleton


Question: 'Thai kings considered this a "royal tree" under strict protection'

Answer: teak


Question: 'In 1967 Carl Stokes defeated Seth Taft to become the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, this one'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'Various verses in this nursery rhyme had the dog "smoking a pipe", standing "on his head" & "dancing a jig"'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'It was the last name of the brothers who perfected their now-famous English toffee bar back in 1928'

Answer: Heath


Question: 'A new one of these "super" nuclear physics accelerators was the subject of Jim Holt's "Where Protons Will Play"'

Answer: supercollider


Question: '( Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue. ) Though the top book appears to be suspended in air, more than half the weight of the stack rests on the table - the principle is used to build this type of bridge'

Answer: cantilever bridge


Question: 'In the 1820s this British university's campus was a farm that served Devonshire cream to strollers'

Answer: Exeter


Question: 'This subject of a Longfellow poem watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church"'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'When the Monorail opened at Disneyland in 1959, it was dedicated by this man who was then the U.S. vice president'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'To shine something, or an adjective meaning something from Warsaw'

Answer: polish & Polish


Question: 'In a classic nursery rhyme, there are 24 of these baked in a pie'

Answer: blackbirds


Question: 'According to the proverb, it's what a "stitch in time" does'

Answer: saves nine


Question: 'It's home to close than 110 million people'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This beat poet's father, Louis, was a teacher & a poet in his own right'

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'Pat Carroll, Carl Reiner & Nanette Fabray all won Emmys in 1957 for their work on this comic's "Hour"'

Answer: Sid Caesar


Question: 'To direct an orchestra, or someone's behavior'

Answer: conduct & conduct


Question: 'In 1924 this Russian leader died, & Stalin began purging rivals to take over the top spot'

Answer: Lenin


Question: 'You might clip these, from the Old French for "piece cut off", for discounts at the grocery store'

Answer: coupons


Question: 'The Socialist republic highlighted here, it was much in U.S. news four decades ago'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'A literary scholar who visited her in Amherst in 1870 described her as plain & having a soft, frightened, childlike voice'

Answer: Emily Dickenson


Question: 'On his 1958 Christmas card, Elvis wore his Army uniform; this man, his manager, was dressed up like Santa'

Answer: Col. Parker


Question: 'Tiny, or 60 second collectively'

Answer: minute & minute


Question: 'Discovered in 1908 & named for the mother of the Minotaur, Pasiphae is the 24th moon of this planet'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'An incentive to save aluminum cans for recycling; the return of this money paid as security'

Answer: deposit


Question: 'A colony of Genoa in the 13th century, it's the tiny country indicated here'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'This beauty is seen here, reigning as Miss America 1955, long before she co-starred on "Barnaby Jones"'

Answer: Lee Meriwether


Question: 'A seamstress, or an underground channel for wastewater'

Answer: sewer & sewer


Question: 'The 24th amendmant to the U.S. constitution abolished this tax, by name, as a requirement for voting'

Answer: poll tax


Question: 'Your nest egg might be this type of individual retirement account named for a Delaware senator'

Answer: Roth IRA


Question: 'Elevations in <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-07-12_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">this </a>kingdom often reach above 20,000 feet'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica" contains the line "A poem should not mean/ but" this'

Answer: be


Question: '"Fate"fully, Alexander Borodin won a 1954 Tony as composer of this musical-- even though he'd died in 1887!'

Answer: Kismet


Question: 'An exterior door, or to magically captivate someone'

Answer: entrance & entrance


Question: 'Because of this 3-word optical phenomenon, still images projected at 24 frames per second seem to be moving pictures'

Answer: persistence of vision


Question: 'The logo of this website that allows parents to save for their kids' college educations is seen here'

Answer: UPromise


Question: 'Hurricanes are a weather phenomenon not to be ignored in this country'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'His later works include 1949's "The God-Seeker", about a missionary in his own native Minnesota'

Answer: Sinclair Lewis


Question: 'Every year since 1992, the World Invitational Hula Festival has been held in this state capital'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'In the 1950s Ernesto Guevara de la Serna began going by this name'

Answer: Che


Question: 'He was twice jailed in the 1990s for assisting the suicides of terminally ill patients'

Answer: Kevorkian


Question: 'Queen Elizabeth II has this many children'

Answer: 4


Question: 'At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark'

Answer: the Empire State Building


Question: 'The final frontier for Kirk & the crew'

Answer: space


Question: 'This city's 4th of July celebration includes fireworks & music on the Charles, near the Longfellow Bridge'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'During WWII a Vietnamese leader born Nguyen Sinh Cung began using this name meaning "bringer of light"'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'This Jack & his 3 brothers founded one of the "Big Five" Hollywood studios in 1923'

Answer: (Jack) Warner


Question: 'After Elizabeth became Queen, her first regional tours included a controversial visit to this smallest U.K. country'

Answer: Nothern Ireland


Question: 'The next feature he directed after "The Return of the King" was a new version of "King Kong"'

Answer: Peter Jackson


Question: 'Home hearth'

Answer: fireplace


Question: 'This city's annual Three Rivers Regatta features live concerts & the National Dragon Boat Championships'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Have a cocktail & tell us this pseudonym adopted by Russian revolutionary Vyacheslev Skryabin'

Answer: Molotov


Question: 'It's a mild, smooth cow's-milk cheese named for a town on California's central coast'

Answer: Monterey Jack


Question: 'During WWII, Elizabeth & her sister were evacuated to this castle where their grandfather George V is buried'

Answer: Windsor Castle


Question: 'Until he was ape-napped, King Kong was the undisputed king of this "bony" isle'

Answer: Skull Isle


Question: 'It can mean to hug or to take up a cause eagerly'

Answer: embrace


Question: 'An annual Michigan event is the Labor Day walk over this bridge between the Upper & Lower Peninsulas'

Answer: the Mackinac Bridge


Question: 'Pseudonym of labor activist & magazine namesake Mary Harris Jones'

Answer: Mother Jones


Question: 'Fox-hunting dog breed named for a 19th century British clergyman'

Answer: Jack Russell


Question: 'When Elizabeth was born, her parents were the Duke & Duchess of this Northern English city'

Answer: York


Question: 'In its last line the 1933 film stressed that "it wasn't the airplanes, it was" this that "killed the beast"'

Answer: beauty


Question: 'A runner's rate, or a popular brand of salsa'

Answer: pace


Question: 'An annual festival in Caraquet, New Brunswick celebrates the culture of these French settlers'

Answer: the Acadians


Question: 'Lev Bronshtein is thought to have taken this pseudonym from one of his jailers, probably without axing'

Answer: (Leon) Trotsky


Question: 'This raspy-voiced DJ & "Midnight Special" host was a fixture of American radio in the 1960s & '70s'

Answer: Wolfman Jack


Question: 'To marry Elizabeth, Prince Philip had to renounce claims to this southern European country's crown'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In the 1976 version she spoke the lines "Oh, come on, Kong, forget about me. This thing's just never going to work"'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'A porch adjoining a building, like where Mummy often served tea'

Answer: terrace


Question: 'Barney Fife'

Answer: Andy Taylor


Question: 'Big Bend National Park is on a Big Bend of this river in western Texas'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn)'

Answer: (Woody) Guthrie


Question: 'About Sgt. Croft's platoon:<br />"The ____ and the Dead"'

Answer: Naked


Question: 'Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out'

Answer: billion


Question: 'Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman'

Answer: Lenny


Question: 'The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is in this Texas city'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'Last name of Ferdinand II, born in 1610 & the 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany, where his family name carried a lot of weight'

Answer: Medici


Question: 'An autobiographical 1913 novel:<br />"____ and Lovers"'

Answer: Sons


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's the first Roman numeral'

Answer: C


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.)  In January, the red star appears to be in front of a group of stars, while in July, it appears to be in front of a different group; the term for that apparent shift caused by change in the observer's position is this'

Answer: the parallax view


Question: 'Kato'

Answer: the Green Hornet


Question: 'This Texas port was named for a Roman Catholic feast day celebrating the body of the Savior'

Answer: Corpus Christi


Question: 'We're sure there were plenty of "Cries and Whispers" when this Swedish film director was born in 1918'

Answer: Ingmar Bergman


Question: 'A Dickens tale:<br />"____ and Son"'

Answer: Dombey


Question: 'This multiple of 10 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order'

Answer: forty


Question: 'This is a star with a sudden increase in brightness; the super this can be 100 times as luminous as the regular one'

Answer: nova


Question: 'Chester Goode'

Answer: Marshall Matt Dillon


Question: 'Cattleman C.W. merchant apparently named this Texas city after a Kansas cattle town'

Answer: Abilene


Question: 'On July 14, 1938 Abbie Hoffman was in short pants when this future "Chicago 7" leader made the scene as the "Cincinnati 1"'

Answer: Jerry Rubin


Question: 'Made into a Ralph Fiennes/Cate Blanchett film:<br />"____ and Lucinda"'

Answer: Oscar


Question: 'When spelled out this number has as many letters as its value'

Answer: four


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.)  The perigee is the point of the Moon's orbit at which it's nearest to the Earth; similarly, this term is the point at which the orbiting object is closest to the Sun'

Answer: the perihelion


Question: 'Ken Hutchinson'

Answer: Starsky


Question: 'First called Isla Blanca, it was later renamed for a priest'

Answer: Padre Island


Question: '"Rock-solid" writer of fictionalized biographies who had a "Lust for Life" on July 14, 1903'

Answer: Irving Stone


Question: 'A struggle to write:<br />"The ____ ____ & the Butterfly"'

Answer: Diving Bell


Question: 'This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!)'

Answer: seventeen


Question: 'In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945'

Answer: the Allies


Question: 'The Earth is the only planet in our solar system to have 2/3 of its surface covered by this'

Answer: Water


Question: 'In the 19th century Baccarat made prized examples of these objects, to be used on a desk when the window's open'

Answer: Paperweights


Question: 'He appeared in films with his first wife Jane & his second wife Nancy'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'His classic characters on "SNL" included the Killer Bee, Joe Cocker & the Samurai Warrior'

Answer: John Belushi


Question: 'You can cuddle a koala at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane in this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'A light blow, as on a door or across the knuckles'

Answer: Rap


Question: 'The Earth's crust & lithosphere are broken into these whose movements against each other cause earthquakes'

Answer: Plates


Question: 'A popular porcelain item is this type of bowl in which a party drink is served'

Answer: Punch bowl


Question: 'He met wife Mamie Doud in 1915 at Fort Sam Houston when they were introduced by the wife of a fellow officer'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'In the fall of 1976, this star of "Fletch" became one of the first cast members to leave the show'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: 'The 50-story replica of the Eiffel Tower seen here isn't in Paris, France, but in this city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'A mass of mineral matter'

Answer: Rock


Question: 'The name of this phylum that includes lobsters & spiders means "jointed foot"'

Answer: Arthropods


Question: 'In 1998 a drinking flagon made of this tin alloy sold for a record $145,500'

Answer: Pewter


Question: 'In his 1805 inaugural, he said, "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'The show's original cast members were billed as these "players"'

Answer: "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players"


Question: 'If it's August & you're in Austin, Texas, indulge in a romantic dinner cruise to watch these flying mammals'

Answer: Bats


Question: 'The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John'

Answer: Gospel


Question: 'In 1952 she quit her job at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to devote all her time to her writing'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: '3-word name for the piece of antique furniture seen here'

Answer: Chest of drawers


Question: 'Some opponents called him the "Raw Dealocrat"'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'For 2 seasons Don Novello appeared regularly on the show as this "Father"'

Answer: Father Guido Sarducci


Question: 'Consider riding a narrow-gauge train into a salt mine at Bex in this country's Vaud canton'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'To burst, like a balloon'

Answer: Pop


Question: 'In 1911 Arthur Holmes used the decay of this element to lead to measure the age of the Earth'

Answer: Uranium


Question: 'The "Antiques Roadshow" website calls this "a fancy word" for who owned an object, when & where'

Answer: provenance


Question: 'He died of a stroke on August 2, 1923, right after his wife read an article about him, "A Calm View of a Calm Man"'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'Cast member Nora Dunn boycotted the final show of the '89-90 season when this controversial comedian hosted'

Answer: Andrew Dice Clay


Question: 'A snowman known as Bonhomme is the symbol of Le Carnaval D'Hiver, the winter carnival in this Canadian city'

Answer: Quebec City


Question: 'A rural district, or a nation'

Answer: Country


Question: 'In Olympic track & field events, this many runners make up a relay team'

Answer: 4


Question: 'A farming vehicle with large, heavily-treaded tires'

Answer: Tractor


Question: 'James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel "The Pioneers" was the first in a series of these 5 "Tales"'

Answer: "Leatherstocking Tales"


Question: '"You're So Vain" singer & pieman meeter'

Answer: Carly & Simple Simon


Question: 'State in which the Hall of Fame is located'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Until 1912 it was the capital of British India (black hole & all)'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'She won 3 track & field gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'It's a commercially released album of music used in a film'

Answer: Soundtrack


Question: 'In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams"'

Answer: "The Magnificent Ambersons"


Question: '"Cruelty" singer & chocolate chip cookie maker'

Answer: Tori & Famous Amos


Question: 'His historic 1962 orbital flight was marked by drama over a possibly loose heat shield'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'In this city you'll find the National Museum & the Rashtrapati Bhavan or President's House'

Answer: New Delhi


Question: 'In 1985 this American middle-distance runner married discus thrower Richard Slaney'

Answer: Mary Decker


Question: 'Oops!  It's a newspaper's printed correction'

Answer: Retraction


Question: 'In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated"'

Answer: "The Old Man and the Sea"


Question: 'Etiquette expert promoting restraint & a parking place to hold your horses'

Answer: Emily & hitching Post


Question: 'While others moonwalked, this vehicle was piloted by Michael Collins on Apollo 11 & Ronald Evans on Apollo 17'

Answer: Command module


Question: 'This heavily populated port city & capital of Maharashtra state is the leading financial center of India'

Answer: Bombay/Mumbai


Question: 'Finland's Olympic Stadium prominently features a statue of this distance runner'

Answer: Paavo Nurmi


Question: 'It can mean a passage from a book or a concentrated food flavoring like vanilla'

Answer: Extract


Question: 'In "A Scandal in" this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his "Boswell"'

Answer: "Bohemia"


Question: 'Ring in with these, a "JAG" star & a Philadelphia landmark'

Answer: Catherine & Liberty Bell


Question: 'The other Mercury astronauts knew him as "Wally"'

Answer: Wally Schirra


Question: 'Over 2,000 died when the Union Carbide chemical plant in this city leaked toxic gas in 1984'

Answer: Bhopal


Question: 'Runners must clear hurdles & water jumps in this 3,000-meter track & field event'

Answer: Steeplechase


Question: 'It can be a type of non-representational art or a printed summary of a longer text'

Answer: Abstract


Question: 'Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" was published in the U.S. under this title'

Answer: "This Gun For Hire"


Question: '"Lady's Not For Burning" playwright & potato product not for burning at McDonald's'

Answer: Christopher & French Fry


Question: 'This astronaut's sunken Mercury capsule was recovered in 1999'

Answer: Gus Grissom


Question: 'Mumtaz knows it's the northern India city that's home to the Pearl Mosque & the Taj Mahal'

Answer: Agra


Question: 'The action of this 1959 film moves from New York to South Dakota'

Answer: North by Northwest


Question: 'Total digits on all my hands & feet'

Answer: 20


Question: 'Toronto's pro hockey team is named for this, also seen on Canada's flag'

Answer: a maple leaf


Question: 'Chimu won't defeat anyone nowadays: it's a people of Peru defeated by this empire in the 1400s'

Answer: Inca


Question: 'Assembled from dead bodies, the monster in this Mary Shelley book turns against his creator'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'On a farm who needs an alarm clock when you have this bird's cock-a-doodle-doo to wake you?'

Answer: a rooster


Question: 'The person who lives next door'

Answer: neighbor


Question: 'You've got 24 of these in the front of your chest, protecting your inner organs'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'This 4-letter word is the second "a" in NASCAR'

Answer: auto


Question: 'Melodeon's only power is to give enjoyment: it's a reed one of these'

Answer: an instrument


Question: 'Title monsters in this skin-crawling R.L. Stine series include a mummy, a scarecrow & a snowman'

Answer: Goosebumps


Question: 'It's a 4-letter wired cage or enclosure for chickens, though they may wish to fly it & go free'

Answer: a coop


Question: 'Legally, adult status is achieved at this age'

Answer: eighteen


Question: 'Of 106, 206 or 506, the approximate number of bones in the human body'

Answer: 206


Question: 'The Spare Tires, a male dance team, perform at this NBA team's home games'

Answer: Detroit Pistons


Question: 'If you put down in your pokedex that you have anorak, you've got one of these, similar to a parka'

Answer: a coat


Question: 'In a Jules Verne work, the Nautilus has to deal with a big one of these, referred to as a devilfish'

Answer: a squid


Question: 'Hey! usually the hay you use on a farm is tightly compressed in this 4-letter bundle'

Answer: a bale


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)

Blood vessels called arteries are connected by means of capillaries to this other type of blood vessel'

Answer: veins


Question: 'There are about 700 of these in the human body, including biceps & triceps'

Answer: muscles


Question: 'This baseball team plays its home games in the Miami area's Sun Life stadium'

Answer: Marlins


Question: 'Scimitar could help you win some battles: it's a type of this'

Answer: a sword


Question: 'This offspring of a woman & a bull is one of the monsters in the Percy Jackson books'

Answer: the minotaur


Question: 'It's the time when ripened crops are gathered, or the yield of crops themselves.'

Answer: harvest


Question: 'Not native'

Answer: foreign


Question: 'These are the largest of the 6 major pairs of joints in the human body'

Answer: knees


Question: 'This golfer dominated her sport like no other in recent decades'

Answer: (Annika) Sorenstam


Question: 'Plateosaurus was a grass type of dinosaur; it wasn't a carnivore or omnivore but this third type'

Answer: a herbivore


Question: 'In a Barbara Jean Hicks story, monsters are tricked into eating these veggies when told they're giant trees'

Answer: broccoli


Question: 'Important breeds of this on a farm include the brown Swiss & Holstein'

Answer: cows


Question: '5-letter adjective meaning unusual or eccentric'

Answer: weird


Question: 'Lincoln wrote 5 different versions of this Nov. 19, 1863 speech & made several changes as he spoke; nice ad-libbing, Abe!'

Answer: the Gettysburg Address


Question: 'Shades of white include oyster & this oyster gem'

Answer: pearl


Question: 'It can precede nog, plant & beater'

Answer: egg


Question: 'Before -naut & -physics, it means "star"'

Answer: astro-


Question: 'Once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, it's now the capital of Austria'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'You might have seen this country gal singing the National Anthem at the 2010 Super Bowl'

Answer: Carrie Underwood


Question: 'From Nov. 1864 through April 1865, this Union general led a march of 62,000 troops through the South'

Answer: (General) Sherman


Question: 'A pale tan, like the color of a certain oval-shaped nut used to make marzipan'

Answer: almond


Question: 'The tasty treats seen here are called these in blankets'

Answer: pigs


Question: 'The manu- in manuscript literally means it was written this way'

Answer: by hand


Question: 'The Ionian Sea & the Tyrrhenian Sea are parts of this larger sea'

Answer: the Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'This young singer-actress is the daughter of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader'

Answer: (Demi) Lovato


Question: 'On Jan. 21, 1861 he made a moving farewell speech in the Senate pleading for peace; a month later, he was the Confederate Pres.'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'A moderate to brilliant shade of yellow is named for this citrus fruit'

Answer: a lemon


Question: 'A good source of vitamin C & some B vitamins, it's German for "sour cabbage"'

Answer: sauerkraut


Question: 'It it lived up to the milli-part of its name, a millipede with have this many feet'

Answer: a thousand


Question: 'Hokkaido is one of this country's main islands'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Hey, Steven, or whatever your name is, we hope you know the name of this singer'

Answer: Taylor Swift


Question: 'Site of the first battle, this fort was incomplete & its 60 guns pointed out to sea'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'Something that demands attention, or a warning banner you might want to "raise"'

Answer: a red flag


Question: 'A New Jersey diner sold a 50-pound burger named for this home of ancient Greece's gods'

Answer: Olympus


Question: 'Before sphere, it means "half"'

Answer: hemi-


Question: 'In Australia, this city is second only to Sydney in population'

Answer: Melbourne


Question: 'He's the only alliteratively-named singer in his sibling-based band'

Answer: Joe Jonas


Question: 'On July 21, 1861 Gen. Barnard Bee said, "There is Jackson, standing like" one of these & a nickname was born'

Answer: a stone wall (Stonewall)


Question: 'This organization was founded in 1971; its efforts to save the whales gained worldwide attention'

Answer: Greenpeace


Question: 'The origin of this pastry dates back over 300 years'

Answer: a croissant


Question: 'An -ologist who specifically studies birds gets this Greek prefix before his or her name'

Answer: ornith- (or ornitho-)


Question: 'This mountain range separates Spain & France'

Answer: the Pyrenees


Question: 'You're just in time to name this singing sensation'

Answer: Justin Bieber


Question: 'In Wonderland, Alice comes upon a mad tea-party attended by the Hatter, March Hare, & this creature, who's asleep'

Answer: the dormouse


Question: '1948:<br />"The Clothed & the Living"'

Answer: The Naked and the Dead


Question: 'Rampage was the name of an actor in this film; Faceman was the name of a character'

Answer: The A-Team


Question: 'beeradvocate.com offers a history of this autumn celebration, begun in 1810'

Answer: Oktoberfest


Question: 'Keep pieces of this in special flannel bags that are infused with particles of this to stop the pieces from tarnishing'

Answer: silver


Question: 'In 1863 this president declared a national day of Thanksgiving to be held in November'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'In the last episode of "Family Matters", this character & Laura became engaged'

Answer: Urkel


Question: '1978:<br />"The Sit"'

Answer: The Stand


Question: 'This character took on "the World"--his new girlfriend's 7 evil ex-boyfriends, to be more specific'

Answer: (Scott) Pilgrim


Question: 'Google Coors, cold & window & find out about the packaging that shows these mountains blue'

Answer: the Rockies


Question: 'To keep a picnic table pest-free, spray with water mixed with the oil from this plant; take note of its color'

Answer: lavender


Question: 'This department store's beloved Thanksgiving Day parade has been floating through New York City since 1924'

Answer: Macy\'s


Question: 'From the Old English for "dark", this adjective can mean gloomy or unclear'

Answer: murky


Question: '1946:<br />"None of the Queen's Gals"'

Answer: All The King\'s Men


Question: 'Nicolas Cage was magic as Balthazar, but as this film's title indicates, he needed a little help'

Answer: The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice


Question: 'Google links to the site for this American beer that's sponsoring a LongShot American Homebrew Contest'

Answer: Samuel Adams


Question: 'For spots on this soft leather, blot with white vinegar & use a shoe brush to rework the nap'

Answer: suede


Question: 'Traditionally used to make Thanksgiving pies, this gourd is rich in vitamin A'

Answer: a pumpkin


Question: 'The intro to radio's "The Shadow" told us that evil does this in the hearts of men'

Answer: lurk


Question: '1988:<br />"The Godly Prose"'

Answer: The Satanic Verses


Question: 'One line sums up this film: "Release the kraken!" (we certainly saw it enough in the trailers!)'

Answer: Clash of the Titans


Question: 'Google "keg" & you'll discover that one can hold 58.67 of these metric units'

Answer: liters


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shakes things up.) Adding rice to a saltshaker does two things: the rice knocks apart salt lumps during shaking, & this carbohydrate of the rice, C6H10O5, absorbs moisture, so the salt won't clump'

Answer: starch


Question: 'One of the 2 NFL teams that traditionally hold games on Thanksgiving Day'

Answer: the Detroit Lions (or the Dallas Cowboys)


Question: 'This political wit who goes by 2 initials says, "God is a Republican and Santa... is a Democrat"'

Answer: P.J. O\'Rourke


Question: '1st century A.D.:<br />"Intersecting Deaths"'

Answer: Parallel Lives


Question: 'Variety said this Sly Stallone pic had enough pyrotechnic displays to alter the planet's orbit'

Answer: The Expendables


Question: 'A Google hit for this Pottsville, Penn. beer that sounds like a panda reveals that it's America's oldest brewery'

Answer: Yuengling


Question: 'To get lipstick out of washable clothing, dab the stain with the isopropyl type of this'

Answer: alcohol


Question: 'Since 1957 this country has been celebrating Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Known for their courage & ferocity, these Nepalese soldiers have been a part of the British army for 200 years'

Answer: Gurkhas


Question:
'A 1912 telegram:
This "we are sinking fast.
Passengers are being put into boats"'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'John Birks Gillespie'

Answer: "Dizzy"


Question: 'It's said this Spaniard who painted "Three Musicians" in 1921 paid for some meals by doodling on napkins'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Mentha piperita is peppermint; this is Mentha spicata'

Answer: spearmint


Question: 'For his actions during the invasion of the Philippines in 1945, Sgt. Raymond Cooley of Dunlap received this high award'

Answer: the Medal of Honor


Question: 'In earlier times, it was someone who arranged marriages for others'

Answer: a matchmaker


Question: 'From this city, Robert Benchley sent the witty wire "Streets full of water.  Please advise"'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Armando Anthony Corea'

Answer: "Chick"


Question: 'Toulouse-Lautrec had some dance hall days at this hangout that opened in 1889 in Montmartre'

Answer: the Moulin Rouge


Question: 'Cilantro comes from this plant whose name is derived from koris, meaning "bug"; they emit a similar odor'

Answer: coriander


Question: 'From 1827 to 1831 & 1833 to 1835, this frontiersman represented Tennessee in Congress'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'An area where a group of colonists live together'

Answer: a settlement


Question: 'In 1897, hearing his obituary had been published, he cabled that the report of his death was an exaggeration'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'McKinley Morganfield'

Answer: "Muddy Waters"


Question: '"A Fair Wind", an 1876 work by this U.S. painter, shows a catboat at sea bearing the name Gloucester; d'oh!'

Answer: (Winslow) Homer


Question: 'These grayish-blue seeds used to garnish the tops of breads & pastries are so tiny that 900,000 equal a pound'

Answer: poppy seeds


Question: 'During the Civil War, this Tennessee native fought for the North & delivered his "Damn the torpedoes!" line'

Answer: Admiral Farragut


Question: 'A wildlife minder on an animal preserve'

Answer: a gamekeeper


Question: 'A historic message from them began, "Success. Four flights Thursday morning"'

Answer: the Wright Brothers


Question: 'Leon Beiderbecke'

Answer: "Bix"


Question: 'Paintings by this man include 1913's "Paris Through the Window" & 1914's "Over Vitebsk"'

Answer: Marc Chagall


Question: 'This nutmeg spice has an aroma reminiscent of cinnamon & pepper'

Answer: mace


Question: 'Adolph S. Ochs, who started in newspapers in Knoxville, adopted this motto for the New York Times'

Answer: "All the news that\'s fit to print"


Question: 'A rooster bred for fighting'

Answer: a gamecock


Question: 'Edward Teller notified this New Mexico lab site about the first successful H-bomb test with "It's a boy"'

Answer: Los Alamos


Question: 'Jean Reinhardt'

Answer: "Django"


Question: 'Known for his regionalism, this Missouri muralist taught Jackson Pollock at NYC's Art Students League'

Answer: Thomas Hart Benton


Question: 'Once called Indian saffron because of its yellow color, it's used to color cheese & butter'

Answer: turmeric


Question: 'Running with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, this Tennessee Democrat was a candidate for vice president'

Answer: Estes Kefauver


Question: 'Type of golf scoring measured by holes won, not strokes'

Answer: match play


Question: 'This American breed was named for its ability to race a distance of 1,320 feet'

Answer: quarter horse


Question: 'This man's aria "Ombra Mai Fu" from "Xerxes" is not as famous as his "Hallelujah Chorus"'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'John Wooden<br />(1949-1975)'

Answer: UCLA


Question: 'In 1976 Steve Wozniak co-founded this company in his partner's garage; it went public in 1980'

Answer: Apple


Question: 'Dr. Jeremy Stone tries to contain an out-of-this-world biological agent in this Michael Crichton novel'

Answer: The Andromeda Strain


Question: 'Alexander Hamilton can be found gazing out from the front of this bill'

Answer: the $10


Question: 'To put on the character & appearance of someone else, like a police officer, in which case it's a crime'

Answer: impersonate


Question: 'Liszt, Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov all wrote variations of this simple waltz'

Answer: "Chopsticks"


Question: 'Bobby Knight<br />(1972-2000)'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995'

Answer: Lockheed


Question: 'You wouldn't want to be operated on by Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing" here'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Big Bill McKinley was on this big bill last issued in 1945; it's worth 5 Franklins'

Answer: the $500 bill


Question: '3-letter animal verb meaning "take more than your share of"'

Answer: hog


Question: 'Born in Verona in 1743, composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga wrote many opera buffas, known by this 2-word term in English'

Answer: comic opera


Question: 'Dean Smith<br />(1962-1997)'

Answer: University of North Carolina


Question: 'A 1981 plane crash left Steve with this, from the Greek for "to remember", & he had to take a sabbatical'

Answer: amnesia


Question: '"The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men'

Answer: Dr. Moreau


Question: '"Walking Liberty" preceded ol' Ben on the obverse of these U.S. coins'

Answer: the 50-cent piece


Question: 'To express one's own opinions, as if in a newspaper you ran'

Answer: editorialize


Question: 'This term for a concert given by an individual musical performer sounds like reading something from memory'

Answer: a recital


Question: 'Jim Boeheim<br />(1976-present)'

Answer: Syracuse


Question: 'CL9, a Wozniak home electronics venture, gave us the programmable universal this, but you'd never hit mute on me, right?'

Answer: a remote


Question: 'Dr. Constantine is the coroner on the train who helps Poirot gather evidence in this novel'

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson fans know that these were first issued in 1862 & last in 2003'

Answer: $2 bills


Question: 'Verb commonly used with "a letter", "a lecture" & "a baby"'

Answer: deliver


Question: 'This composer's "Enigma Variations" contain cryptic references to his friends that he never revealed'

Answer: Sir Edward Elgar


Question: 'Phog Allen<br />(1920-1956)'

Answer: the University of Kansas


Question: 'Woz was the creator of this '80s event that brought music fans out to see an all-star lineup'

Answer: the US Festival


Question: '"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds", claims Dr. Pangloss in this French novel'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'When this coin was redesigned in 1946, anticommunists alleged engraver John Sinnock's initials stood for "Joseph Stalin"'

Answer: the Roosevelt dime


Question: 'From the German for "punish", it's to fire on ground troops from a plane'

Answer: strafe


Question: 'This colorful guy always left me with a great Impression'

Answer: Renoir


Question: '"On the Other Hand" is the autobiography of this "King Kong" actress'

Answer: Fay Wray


Question:
'March 1942:
He "says 'I shall return'";
April 1951:
"Harry Orders Big Mac To Go"'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'Yvette Sanchez Fuentes is the head of this program that got its start in 1965 to help kids out of poverty'

Answer: Head Start


Question: 'In the 1910s Alexander MacRae responded to the growing beach culture by creating this swim brand'

Answer: Speedo


Question: 'To burn to ashes'

Answer: to cremate


Question: 'The worldview of this American master came through strongly in works like the one seen here'

Answer: Andrew Wyeth


Question: 'There were "Holy Cow"s in the high mass & a banner reading "Heaventh Inning Stretch" at his Chicago funeral in 1998'

Answer: Harry Caray


Question:
'1916:
"Pershing comes to shove in Mexican pursuit of" this rebel;
1923:
"The 'Town' is Down"'

Answer: Pancho Villa


Question: 'It's the term for a period of service, like a senator's 6 years'

Answer: term


Question: 'An ardent spokesman for small countries, Herbert Vere Evatt helped write the charter for this organization'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'A deadlock in which no action can be taken'

Answer: a stalemate


Question: 'This Italian was a contemporary of the Cubists'

Answer: Modigliani


Question: 'He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre"'

Answer: Jack Black


Question: '1966:<br />"French Kiss-off!"  He "Kicks NATO HQ out of France"'

Answer: De Gaulle


Question: 'Kalpen Modi, who works for the Obama admin. doing outreach to Asian Americans, is better known to moviegoers as this'

Answer: Kal Penn


Question: 'During WWII Nobel Prize winner John Cornforth worked on the structure of this antibiotic'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'An archbishop ranking first in a province or country'

Answer: a primate


Question: 'Kiss & tell me the name of this Art Nouveau Austrian who painted the work seen here'

Answer: Gustav Klimt


Question: 'On "Saturday Night Live", she played Judge Judy & also Melissa Rivers'

Answer: Cheri Oteri


Question: 'October 21, 1520:<br />"Strait to the Pacific!"  He "finds passage, hopes one day for portable GPS machine to be named for him"'

Answer: Magellan


Question: 'The Ohio House of Representatives makes state law in this building'

Answer: the State House


Question: 'Colleen McCullough wrote this 1977 novel about generations of sheep ranchers'

Answer: The Thorn Birds


Question: 'To become accustomed to a new environment'

Answer: acclimate


Question: 'In 1923, "Bird" was the word for this innovative sculptor'

Answer: Constantin Brancusi


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the museum at Bethel Woods in New York.)  This psychedelic suit was worn by this Woodstock emcee who told the crowd, "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000"'

Answer: Wavy Gravy


Question:
'Around 342 B.C.:
"Aristotle Tutors Tot";
323 B.C.:
He's "Gone in Babylon"'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'In this post James Clapper serves under Secretary of Defense Gates, who turns to him for intelligence'

Answer: the Undersecretary of Defense (for Intelligence)


Question: 'Graeme Clark invented this type of surgically implanted multi-channel hearing aid'

Answer: a cochlear implant


Question: 'This word is from the Latin for the punishment of every tenth man chosen by lot'

Answer: decimate


Question: 'This plant's name may have come from its use by Italian Renaissance women to dilate pupils, which, they felt, augmented beauty'

Answer: belladonna


Question: 'Until 1875 its dual capitals were New Haven & Hartford'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Though faster than a speeding bullet, he was ruled 4-F'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'Type of auto engine, or a tomato cocktail'

Answer: V8


Question: 'A grandma before her 30th birthday, she's the real "Coal Miner's Daughter"'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'The 2 digits that give James Bond license to kill'

Answer: 00


Question: 'This N.M. town is the oldest city that's a state capital'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: 'By war's end, they had banked over 13 million units of blood for plasma'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'Lindbergh was not first to fly the Atlantic, but first to do it this way'

Answer: solo


Question: 'Nashville's Ryman Auditorium was its home for years'

Answer: the Grand Ole Opry


Question: 'Three Dog Night called this the loneliest number'

Answer: "One"


Question: 'Crossing the Delaware on Xmas, 1776, Washington defeated the Hessians at this N.J. capital'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'Not his singing, but a lack of lunch caused fan to swoon at his Paramount Theater concert'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'Derived from words "American", "travel", & "track", it provides most U.S. passenger rail service'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: 'In "True Grit", he played a cowboy, but not his famous Rhinestone one'

Answer: Glen Campbell


Question: 'Number of red stripes on current U.S. flag'

Answer: 7


Question: 'It actually <u>is</u> 5,280 feet above sea level'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'Destination of MacArthur's "I shall return"'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'London's, not New York's, was the first ever built'

Answer: subway (underground, metro)


Question: 'His famed San Quentin concert inspired inmate Merle Haggard'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'Total of Disney's Dalmatians and dwarfs'

Answer: 108


Question: 'The name shows its founder, Roger Williams, believed God led him there'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'Wartime pseudonym of Mrs. I. Toguri D'Aquino'

Answer: Tokyo Rose


Question: 'Changing lines, you could have at one time ridden these from Freeport, IL to Utica, NY'

Answer: streetcars


Question: 'Broadway hit that takes Fellini film a ½ step further'

Answer: Nine


Question: 'One of its newspapers was appropriately called "The Epitaph"'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'The Lone Ranger's theme is the opera's overture'

Answer: (The) William Tell (Overture)


Question: 'The Greeks reckoned time from this event, first held in Olympia in 776 B.C.'

Answer: the Olympics


Question: 'Genus <u>Rana</u>; frequent victim of biology class dissections'

Answer: a frog


Question: 'In Germany, said before a toast & after a sneeze'

Answer: Gesundheit


Question: 'He was the doubter among the Apostles'

Answer: (St.) Thomas


Question: 'She once shot a cigarette from the mouth of the German crown prince'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'Profession of Rossini's Figaro'

Answer: a barber


Question: 'L.B.J.'s hound dog or Darwin's ship'

Answer: the Beagle


Question: 'American equivalent to English "the bonnet on a lorry"'

Answer: the hood of a truck


Question: 'Continent with the largest Jewish population'

Answer: North America


Question: 'In 650,000 miles the mail was lost only once'

Answer: the Pony Express


Question: 'This aria from "Pagliacci" gave him the first million-selling record ever'

Answer: Enrico Caruso


Question: 'The basic unit of life; 3 billion die every minute in your body'

Answer: cells


Question: 'From French, it literally means "a pen name"'

Answer: nom de plume


Question: 'Color of smoke signifying election of new Pope'

Answer: white


Question: 'Brothers Virgil & Morgan were shot here, but Wyatt Earp emerged unscathed'

Answer: (the gunfight at) the OK Corral


Question: 'Lt. Pinkerton's girlfriend Cio-Cio-San'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'It puts the green in greenery'

Answer: chlorophyll


Question: 'The vidi, in "Veni, vidi, vici"'

Answer: I saw


Question: 'This Buddhist sect seeks truth through concepts like "the sound of one hand clapping"'

Answer: Zen


Question: 'It ran 2,000 miles, from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon'

Answer: the Oregon Trail


Question: '1976 was also the bicentennial of this famed Milan opera house'

Answer: Teatro alla Scala


Question: 'Deoxyribonucleic acid'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'This word for the Mohammedan religion means "submission to the will of God"'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Calendar date with which the 20th century began'

Answer: January 1, 1901


Question: 'You were in my class as a manager trainee at this company's Hamburger University in Illinois'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras'

Answer: Dean Martin


Question: 'One reason for plowing is to aerate the soil, especially with this, making up about 1/5 of the air'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'You'll be "sky high" (naturally) at SkyCity Restaurant atop this Seattle landmark'

Answer: the Space Needle


Question: 'Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons" is about the trials & tribulations of this man knighted in 1521'

Answer: (Sir) Thomas More


Question: 'Hop over to this hare relative'

Answer: a rabbit


Question: 'You showed me pictures of your kids while we were delayed in Terminal 4 of this London airport'

Answer: Heathrow


Question: 'In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times'

Answer: Dizzy Dean


Question: 'The USDA's Risk Management Agency provides this, protecting against loss due to drought, hail & falling prices'

Answer: (crop) insurance


Question: 'The Adventuredome at this Vegas hotel spreads out over 5 acres; one of you "3, ring" in now'

Answer: Circus Circus


Question: 'Knighted in 1585, from 1603 to 1616 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London & wrote his world history there'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'You can't make sauerkraut without this vegetable'

Answer: cabbage


Question: 'If I wore my serape, it might refresh your memory of our meeting in Saltillo in this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'The then-new fad of skateboarding was celebrated in this duo's 1964 hit song "Sidewalk Surfin'"'

Answer: Jan & Dean


Question: 'A round type of this structure, with the silo inside it, was popular in the early 1900s; it's rare now'

Answer: a barn


Question: 'Anytime the head or tail of this Danish statue is vandalized, it's repaired using the original 1913 mold'

Answer: the Little Mermaid


Question: 'Following the release of his masterpieces "Rob Roy" & "The Heart of Midlothian", he was made a baronet in 1820'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'From the Hebrew for "day of rest", for most Christians it occurs on Sunday'

Answer: the Sabbath


Question: 'We were stationed together with the III Corps Artillery at Fort Sill in this state'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961'

Answer: Jimmy Dean


Question: 'Starting in 1939, the Haughley Experiment tested this type of farming, based on natural pesticides & fertilizers'

Answer: organic


Question: 'In Venice you're sitting by this famous square if you're sipping an espresso at Florian's, est. 1720'

Answer: St. Mark\'s Square


Question: 'This director of "Doctor Zhivago" was directed to pick up a knighthood in 1984'

Answer: David Lean


Question: 'It surrounds Jamaica'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: 'We had a wild time on the Reeperbahn in this second-largest German city'

Answer: Hamburg


Question: 'This author's thrillers turned into films include "Phantoms" & "Demon Seed"'

Answer: Dean Koontz


Question: 'As part of this plant family that can get nitrogen from the air, soybeans don't need nitrogen fertilizers'

Answer: legumes


Question: 'When this country broke away from Ethiopia in 1993, Haile Selassie Avenue in the capital became Harnet Avenue'

Answer: Eritrea


Question: 'It's the funky ape species seen here'

Answer: a gibbon


Question: 'In "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor, the last chapter is on this element on which life is based'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'On a teen drama, the upscale Newport Beach, as opposed to the downscale Chino'

Answer: The O.C.


Question: 'On Dec. 29, 1812 this U.S. ship nicknamed "Old Ironsides" defeated the British frigate Java off Brazil'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'It describes the cooking surface of a Teflon-coated frying pan'

Answer: non-stick


Question: 'This movement began in 1950s Britain, but it's based on American mass media & advertising images'

Answer: Pop Art


Question: 'The inability to cooperate or coexist, it's grounds for divorce in some states'

Answer: incompatibility


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on a monitor.)  The columns on the periodic table are of atoms with the same configuration of these  as they fill the atom's shell'

Answer: electrons


Question: 'Meredith, a surgical resident at Seattle's Grace Hospital'

Answer: Grey\'s Anatomy


Question: 'In 1812 Serbia was pushing for independence from this empire under Sultan Mahmud II'

Answer: Ottoman Empire


Question: 'A 1990s pop group was called 4 Non these'

Answer: Blondes


Question: 'Around 1450, with big commissions drying up, sculptors turned to these head-&-shoulders portrait pieces'

Answer: busts


Question: 'This process that makes someone more U.S. citizen-like happens to "Emily" in the title of a William Huie novel'

Answer: Americanization


Question: 'Of 101, 111, 121 or 201, the highest atomic number of an element fully authenticated by the people who do that'

Answer: 111


Question: 'Jennifer Love Hewitt, who sees & talks (softly) to dead people'

Answer: Ghost Whisperer


Question: 'This Mass. gov. signed a law to redistrict Essex County, ensuring a favorable majority in the legislature'

Answer: (Elbridge) Gerry


Question: 'MLK Jr. said the "Gandhian emphasis on love and" this led him to the method for social reform that he'd been seeking'

Answer: non-violence


Question: 'Noun for a work in which ideas are personified, like the book "Pilgrim's Progress" or de Troy's "Time Unveiling Truth"'

Answer: allegory


Question: 'The removal from land or a person of unwanted chemical or radioactive impurities'

Answer: decontamination


Question: 'In the table setting seen here, 50 is the atomic number and 118.7 is this'

Answer: the atomic weight


Question: 'Opening in 2005, a look back at some members of the high school class of 1986'

Answer: Reunion


Question: 'One type of geometry is called non-this, after a Greek mathematician'

Answer: Euclidean


Question: 'This "Rake's Progress" satirist was a British patriot, as seen in his 1748 work "O the Roast Beef of Old England"'

Answer: (William) Hogarth


Question: 'The emission of light by living organisms like fireflies'

Answer: bioluminescence


Question: 'German Johann Dobereiner had diddled around with the patterns, but the periodic table was codified in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'The Philadelphia homicide squad that investigates old, unsolved crimes'

Answer: Cold Case


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a lab in NC State University, Raleigh, NC.)  North Carolina State has a research center for fabrics that are bonded by heat or chemicals, in other words, non this'

Answer: woven


Question: 'The puzzling, distorted skull in his 1533 portrait "The Ambassadors" may refer to his name, meaning "hollow bone"'

Answer: (Hans) Holbein (the Younger)


Question: 'The process of making 2 or more things work together in unison'

Answer: synchronization


Question: 'She was the 31st person--& the first woman--to lie in state or honor in the U.S. Capitol'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'No petting allowed!  A rabid bat turns a lovable mutt into a monster in this King shaggy dog tale'

Answer: Cujo


Question: 'This man who started some major fires in physics was a high school dropout'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'Most newspaper stands carry this financial daily paper published by Dow Jones & Co. Inc.'

Answer: the Wall Street Journal


Question: 'Numbered in the 6th century by St. Gregory the Great, they include pride, envy & anger'

Answer: the seven deadly sins (or vices)


Question: 'Most butterflies need them to smell; many humans use them to hear radio waves'

Answer: antennae


Question: 'This black nationalist leader, born in Omaha, moved to Michigan when he was still "Little"'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'This book, King's first published novel, hit the big screen starring Sissy Spacek in 1976'

Answer: Carrie


Question: 'Depicted here in stone, this Greek was a teacher of Aristotle'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'This supermarket tabloid claims "the largest circulation of any paper in America"'

Answer: the National Enquirer


Question: 'Former members of this "thankful" band have begun touring again as "The Other Ones"'

Answer: The Grateful Dead


Question: 'You'll need one of these for your head in most synagogues, so they're often provided'

Answer: yarmulkes


Question: 'Omaha native who was a football player in "North Dallas Forty" & a coach in "The Prince of Tides"'

Answer: Nick Nolte


Question: 'King published the stories "Rage", "The Long Walk" & "The Running Man" under this pseudonym'

Answer: Richard Bachman


Question: 'He made a "monkey" out of all of us in his 1859 book'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: '"The Hollywood Reporter" & this "Daily" constitute "the trades" of the TV & film industry'

Answer: Variety


Question: 'A Bedouin shepherd found these priceless manuscripts in 1947'

Answer: the Dead Sea Scrolls


Question: 'Some horsehairs & light pernambuco wood are necessary to make this musical accessory'

Answer: bow


Question: 'Johnny Carson grew up in Nebraska & so did this one-time talk show rival'

Answer: Dick Cavett


Question: 'King's 1981 overview of the horror genre shares its name with this Saint-Saens "Dance"'

Answer: Macabre


Question: 'Revolution was in the air when this man met his writing partner in the Paris of the 1840s'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'One of the better-selling issues of this women's magazine was the April 1972 issue featuring Burt Reynolds'

Answer: Cosmopolitan


Question: 'Deceased Quasimodos, or 2 very similar-looking people'

Answer: dead ringers


Question: 'Garlic & lime are found in this sauce that is essential to a classic Bloody Mary'

Answer: Worcestershire sauce


Question: 'She wrote her Nebraska-set "O Pioneers!" while living in Greenwich Village'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: '(Hi, I'm Stephen King, master of horror.)  In the 1980s I stated, "I've seen the future of horror, and its name is" this author"'

Answer: Clive Barker


Question: 'He's the reform-minded former Catholic priest seen here'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'Josef Stalin, Newt Gingrich & Adolf Hitler have all been this magazine's "Man of the Year"'

Answer: TIME


Question: 'This beautiful lady seen here is extremely poisonous'

Answer: deadly nightshade


Question: 'From Greek for "primary", this necessity should make up 10-11% of your caloric intake'

Answer: protein


Question: 'This recipient of the Medal of Honor is Nebraska's senior senator'

Answer: Bob Kerrey


Question: 'Scholars have it down on paper that the bulrushes on the Nile were probably this plant'

Answer: Papyrus


Question: 'You'll find the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico in this city's Rio Piedras district'

Answer: San Juan


Question: 'It completes the line, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."'

Answer: "Ask what you can do for your country"


Question: 'This waltz king brought us the "Tales From The Vienna Woods"'

Answer: Johann Strauss II (a.k.a. "The Younger")


Question: 'Any sap knows it was the instrument of Cleopatra's demise'

Answer: Asp (for "sap")


Question: 'Sometimes Aaron felt like a nut, especially when his rod budded & brought forth these'

Answer: Almonds


Question: 'This state university of New Jersey has campuses in New Brunswick, Newark & Camden'

Answer: Rutgers


Question: 'In his fourth inaugural address, he told us, "Today we work and fight for total victory in war"'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Cato the Younger, great-grandson of Cato the Elder, supported Pompey & killed himself when this man took power'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'A big "Hello To" lovers of this tragedy'

Answer: "Othello" (for "Hello To")


Question: 'Esau sold his birthright for a soup made with these similar to peas'

Answer: Lentils


Question: 'Lawrence of Arabia earned first-class honors in history at this university's Jesus College'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'President heard here:<br />"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on Earth..."'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'This star of "Elmer Gantry" earned his last Oscar nomination for Louis Malle's 1981 film "Atlantic City"'

Answer: Burt Lancaster


Question: 'His uncle Sigmund, his brother Ambrosius & his father, Hans the Elder, were painters too'

Answer: Hans Holbein the Younger


Question: 'Ah, the "sad cries" heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!'

Answer: Cressida (for "sad cries")


Question: 'Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to this seed'

Answer: Mustard seed


Question: 'Of the schools known as the Seven Sisters, this one in Massachusetts is alphabetically last'

Answer: Wellesley


Question: 'Liam Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for playing a man named Oskar in this 1993 film'

Answer: "Schindler\'s List"


Question: 'Among his letters is one to Sora about a haunted house in Athens'

Answer: Pliny the Younger


Question: 'An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear'

Answer: Regan (for "range")


Question: 'This grain that was cheaper than wheat was used to feed cattle & in the loaves that fed 5,000'

Answer: Barley


Question: 'Queen Elizabeth I founded this city's Trinity College in 1591'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'He was the only president to deliver 2 nonconsecutive inaugural addresses'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'For the 1998 Oscars this nominee wore a $20 million diamond inspired by the gem in "Titanic"'

Answer: Gloria Stuart


Question: 'He was P.M. of England during the Napoleonic Wars, his father, the elder, during the Seven Years War'

Answer: William Pitt


Question: 'He had a "real set" of gripes with Hamlet, especially after Hamlet killed his dad'

Answer: Laertes (for "real set")


Question: 'Hemingway described this writer's 1961 book "Out of My League" as "The dark side of... Walter Mitty"'

Answer: George Plimpton


Question: '"The Hunt for Red October"<br />(1984)'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question: 'In this first No. 1 country hit of his, Johnny Cash kept a close watch on his heart & his "eyes wide open all the time"'

Answer: "I Walk The Line"


Question: 'Women 18 or older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of this event can join a group founded Oct. 1890'

Answer: the American Revolution


Question: 'Smooth versus rough skin is one difference often given between frogs & these'

Answer: toads


Question:
'D.C.-you there!
132 rooms on 18 acres.
Boasts 140-guest dining room.  Its main office is 1 of a kind!'

Answer: the White House


Question: 'Nutty candy bar-eating group of women in an Amy Tan novel'

Answer: the Almond Joy Luck Club


Question: '"Carrie"<br />(1974)'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'It begins, "Oh yeh, I'll tell you something, I think you'll understand..."'

Answer: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"


Question: 'The BPOE is the Benevolent & Protective Order of these'

Answer: Elks


Question: 'Of 1 year, 10 years or 20 years, the approximate age at which the tuatara starts breeding'

Answer: 20 years


Question: 'Arlington County, Virginia: 3.7 mil. sq. ft. usable floor space here!  Can hold approx. 25,000 ppl!  5 sides of fun!'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'Southern California Spanish mission town that became a first lady & a first mom'

Answer: Santa Barbara Bush


Question: '"The Naked and the Dead"<br />(1948)'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: 'We first heard Helen Reddy roar a version of this No. 1 anthem in 1972'

Answer: "I Am Woman"


Question: 'Hebrew for "Sons of the Covenant", this service organization was founded in New York in 1843'

Answer: B\'nai B\'rith


Question: 'What's the matamata? An odd aquatic one of these that bends its neck instead of withdrawing it into the carapace'

Answer: a tortoise or turtle


Question: 'Memphis, Tenn.:<br />23 rooms on approx. 14 acres.  Bought in '57 for about 100K. Must keep family plot there intact'

Answer: Graceland


Question: 'Old cat & mouse team who throw chairs at each other on a daytime talk show'

Answer: the Tom and Jerry Springer Show


Question: '"A Time to Kill"<br />(1989)'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'It's the Simon & Garfunkel hit that ends, "and an island never cries"'

Answer: "I Am A Rock"


Question: 'This group, MSF, was founded by French doctors & journalists--to bear witness as well as provide medical help'

Answer: Doctors Without Borders


Question: 'The amphibian order Caudata consists of newts & other of these moist, short-legged creatures'

Answer: salamanders


Question: 'Italy:  Begun in 1173!<br />About 300 steps to top of 180-ft. landmark!  Full disclosure: it's 14-ft.-plus out of line'

Answer: the Leaning Tower of Pisa


Question: 'Famous tobacco heiress in a Gene Chandler hit song'

Answer: Doris Duke of Earl


Question: '"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"<br />(1893)'

Answer: Stephen Crane


Question: 'In 1962 Ray Charles turned this country song into a No. 1 Pop & R&B hit'

Answer: "I Can\'t Stop Loving You"


Question: 'The logo of this international group that campaigns for human rights is seen here'

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: 'Instead of eating the Egyptian variety of this bird, a crocodile lets it into its mouth to clean the croc's teeth'

Answer: plover


Question: 'Egypt: 240-ft.-long, 66-ft.-high landmark!  Its limestone stands test of time!  No nose is good nose!'

Answer: the Sphinx


Question: 'Former "SNL" comedienne who is a musical about the demon barber of Fleet Street'

Answer: Julia Sweeney Todd


Question: '"Ah, but the strawberries... that's where I had them!" says Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in this film'

Answer: The Caine Mutiny


Question: 'This port on the Tyrrhenian Sea is Sicily's capital & largest city'

Answer: Palermo


Question: 'Thomas Wolsey asked the pope to annul this king's marriage, but the pope said no & Tom got the ax (fired, not killed)'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'In European tradition the 23rd of this month brings midsummer's eve frolic'

Answer: June


Question: 'In 1984 this Yank received the French Legion of Honor award for his work with muscular dystrophy'

Answer: Jerry Lewis


Question: 'Rocky Mountain NBA Team'

Answer: the Nuggets


Question: '3 years after "Sunset Boulevard", he won an Oscar for "Stalag 17"'

Answer: William Holden


Question: 'An anchor from Columbus' ship the Santa Maria is on display in a museum in this Haitian port'

Answer: Port au Prince


Question: 'A little birdie told me in 1669 Charles II gave him the important architectural job of Surveyor of the King's Works'

Answer: Christopher Wren


Question: 'My answer to the musical question "What are you doing" then is "sitting home, drinking, watching the ball drop"'

Answer: New Year\'s Eve


Question: 'His surname sounds French, but this Yank ended up in Paris by winning the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 & 1990'

Answer: Greg LeMond


Question: 'Wintry activity seen here'

Answer: tobogganing


Question: 'This Tony Curtis-Sidney Poitier film could have been calleed "We Are Two Fugitives from a Chain Gang"'

Answer: The Defiant Ones


Question: 'Until 1991 this sprawling port on the Gulf of Guinea was Nigeria's capital city'

Answer: Lagos


Question: 'This nephew of a king took on the Green Knight but in some tales was killed by Mordred'

Answer: Sir Gawain


Question: 'Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'What Harry Potter would consider me as a non-practitioner of magic'

Answer: a muggle


Question: 'James Dean starts an oil empire in this film'

Answer: Giant


Question: 'This Ukrainian Black Sea port was the site of a 1905 naval mutiny portrayed in the film "Battleship Potemkin"'

Answer: Odessa


Question: 'This Brit became Chancellor of the Exchequer at age 23 & Prime Minister at 24; was the Younger-est to hold either post'

Answer: (William) Pitt the Younger


Question: 'On this day, October 1, in 2006, Jews are encouraged to eat & drink'

Answer: the day before Yom Kippur


Question: 'Named for latitudinal lines, these 2 novels were penned by Henry Miller while he was in Paris'

Answer: Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn


Question: 'Some linguists claim this word can mean only "to make worse" & never "to irritate"'

Answer: aggravate


Question: 'People often cite this 1950 Japanese film when describing situations seen differently by different people'

Answer: Rashômon


Question: 'In 1980 this port SW of Havana was the site of a mass "boatlift" of humans seeking freedom from Castro'

Answer: Mariel


Question: 'You should know to a "tea" that he was Prime Minster of England from 1830 to 1834'

Answer: Earl Grey


Question: 'On the eve of the feast day of this saint symbolized by a lamb, girls are supposed to dream of their future husbands'

Answer: (Saint) Agnes


Question: 'This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook'

Answer: Alice B. Toklas


Question: '"Worn out" surname of a "King Solomon's Mines" author'

Answer: H. Rider Haggard


Question: 'Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'From the Latin for "brother" comes this term for some mendicant monks; Tuck was one'

Answer: Friars


Question: 'On maps, this rodent's name precedes creek, falls, island, &, of course, dam'

Answer: Beaver


Question: '"Scream",<br />"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"'

Answer: Courteney Cox


Question: 'These "lip-smacking" treats were introduced by Hershey's in 1907'

Answer: Kisses


Question: 'It's the breed of dog seen here<br />(just 1, not 101)'

Answer: Dalmatian


Question: 'Her father is Fred; her mother, Wilma'

Answer: Pebbles Flintstone


Question: 'In Zoroastrianism, water & a liquid called haoma are sacrificed in the presence of this substance'

Answer: Fire


Question: 'Belomancy is a form of divination in which these are drawn at random from a quiver or other container'

Answer: Arrows


Question: '"Clockwatchers",<br />"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion"'

Answer: Lisa Kudrow


Question: 'This original Herman Munster on TV wrote the children's book "A Chocolate Moose for Dinner"'

Answer: Fred Gwynne


Question: 'This breed might want to change its name to Beijingese'

Answer: Pekingese


Question: 'Keith, Brian, Mick, Bill & Charlie on drums'

Answer: the Rolling Stones


Question: 'Between February 11 & July 16, 1858, the Virgin Mary made a reported 18 appearances at this site'

Answer: Lourdes


Question: 'Some foreign X-ray scanners may ruin rolls of this, so keep them in a special lead-lined bag'

Answer: Film


Question: '"Kissing A Fool",<br />"The Pallbearer"'

Answer: David Schwimmer


Question: 'Chocolate for eating is divided into 3 tastes: sweet, semisweet & this, which has little sugar'

Answer: Bittersweet


Question: 'The dog seen here is the English, not the pit type, of this terrier'

Answer: Bull terrier


Question: '"Large rock" city northwest of Denver'

Answer: Boulder, Colorado


Question: 'The Theravada school considers itself the closest to the original form of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'The Kennedy Center's grand foyer is lit with 18 of these crystal items; they each weigh a ton'

Answer: Chandeliers


Question: '"Leprechaun",<br />"Picture Perfect"'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: 'Introduced in 1896, these chewy chocolates were the first wrapped penny candy'

Answer: Tootsie Rolls


Question: 'Everyone "nose" this is the breed of the mug seen here'

Answer: Pug


Question: 'He's the principal anchor of "Dateline NBC"'

Answer: Stone Phillips


Question: 'The Hindu trinity is Brahma, Vishnu & this god'

Answer: Shiva


Question: 'Dedicated in 1910, the capitol building in this Kentucky city was designed to resemble the U.S. capitol'

Answer: Frankfort


Question: '"Ed"'

Answer: Matt LeBlanc


Question: 'This British company makes about 300 million creme eggs a year, exporting about 1/3 of them'

Answer: Cadbury


Question: 'This breed used to guard monasteries'

Answer: Lhasa Apso


Question: 'From 760 feet up on this crater, you get a great view of Honolulu'

Answer: Diamond Head


Question: 'In 1998 Washington National Airport was renamed in honor of this president on his 87th birthday'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'The U.S. signed its first international treaty Feb. 6, 1778 with this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'This man who's Jakob's father & is old enough to be your grandfather won for the album "Time Out of Mind"'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'From the Hindi word jagannath, it's an advancing force crushing all in its path'

Answer: Juggernaut


Question: 'Think back and spell...'

Answer: P-R-I-M-O-R-D-I-A-L


Question: 'Geologists dig up & study these organic remains, whose name is from the Latin for "dug up"'

Answer: Fossils


Question: 'His assassination in 1865 came only 5 days after the surrender at Appomattox'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'The first joint American-Russian spacewalk was April 29, 1997 outside this space station'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'Singer heard here with her Record & Song of the Year<br />("Sunny Came Home")'

Answer: Shawn Colvin


Question: 'French for "stroke of mercy", in reality it's a death blow'

Answer: Coup de grace


Question: 'Feel no pain as you spell...'

Answer: A-N-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A


Question: 'Slate is this type of rock, the result of alterations to existing rocks'

Answer: Metamorphic


Question: 'Between his 2 nonconsecutive terms as president, he practiced law in New York City'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'On Dec. 28, 1832 Andrew Jackson said John C. ya later to this man, the first vice president to resign'

Answer: John C. Calhoun


Question: '"I Believe" this R. Kelly hit was named Best R&B Song'

Answer: "I Believe I Can Fly"


Question: 'Literally "god from a machine", this term refers to a god introduced to resolve a plot'

Answer: Deus ex machina


Question: 'Don't lose your way as you spell...'

Answer: L-A-B-Y-R-I-N-T-H


Question: 'A speleologist studies caves; this is another name for a caver who explores caves as a hobby'

Answer: Spelunker


Question: 'Many Americans blamed the Great Depression on this man who was president when it began in 1929'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'On Oct. 10, 1920 Bill Wambsganss caught a line drive & tagged 2 players for the first of these in a World Series'

Answer: Triple play


Question: 'Following Ellen DeGeneres & Paul Reiser in previous years, this sitcom star hosted the show'

Answer: Kelsey Grammer


Question: 'French for "famous case", it's any celebrated controversy that attracts great public attention'

Answer: Cause celebre


Question: 'Overflow with knowledge & spell...'

Answer: C-O-R-N-U-C-O-P-I-A


Question: 'Until it's cooled, the object seen here was this substance'

Answer: Lava


Question: 'Good looks & support of compromise got this New Hampshirite elected in 1852 at age 47'

Answer: Franklin Pierce


Question: 'This model seen here became the first commercially available modern car of its type, Dec. 5, 1996'

Answer: General Motors EV1


Question: 'This band from Oxford got their diploma, a Grammy for the album "OK Computer"'

Answer: Radiohead


Question: 'This noun from the Italian for "skilled" is often applied to top musicians'

Answer: Virtuoso


Question: 'It'll be peculiar if you can't spell...'

Answer: I-D-I-O-S-Y-N-C-R-A-S-Y


Question: '2-word term for the branch of geology that studies the phenomenon of continental drift'

Answer: Plate tectonics


Question: 'Phoenix lies on a river named for this substance found in the name of another state capital'

Answer: Salt


Question: 'Of Northwood, Eastwood, Westwood or Southwood, last name of Allison who acts, like her father'

Answer: Eastwood


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris)  The Arc de Triomphe is inscribed with the names & dates of this man's victories'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'There are actually few American breeds of the chicken, the Lamona & Holland among them, that lay this color eggs'

Answer: white


Question: 'What's age got to do with it?  People Magazine put this sexy sexagenarian on its 2000 list of the World's Most Beautiful People'

Answer: Tina Turner


Question: 'The Phi Beta Kappa honor society was founded at this college in 1776'

Answer: William and Mary


Question: 'A runner-mounted snow vehicle'

Answer: dogsled


Question: 'Of North Sea, East Sea, West Sea or South Sea, location of the island nation of Tuvalu'

Answer: South Sea


Question: 'Major ones of these serving Paris include Le Bourget & Orly'

Answer: airports


Question: '"To get to the other side" is usually the answer to this classic riddle'

Answer: Why did the chicken cross the road?


Question: 'This future glamour girl was born in Gary, Indiana on May 16, 1966'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: 'In 1960 this piano-playing pair made the Billboard Top 40 with their theme from "Exodus"'

Answer: Ferrante & Teicher


Question: 'A white-flowered shrub'

Answer: dogwood


Question: 'Of northern, eastern, western or southern, what the Aurora Australis lights are'

Answer: southern


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris)  The Eiffel Tower opened in 1889 for the Universal Exposition, celebrating the 100th anniversary of this'

Answer: The French Revolution


Question: 'Rufus Thomas clucked about this "fowl" dance in a hit song from 1970'

Answer: "Funky Chicken"


Question: 'The 2002 revival of the fairy tale musical "Into the Woods" starred this beautiful singer seen here'

Answer: Vanessa Williams


Question: 'Irene Curie paired up with Frederic Joliot; this man was the famous partner of Louis Jolliet'

Answer: Marquette


Question: 'The hottest period of the summer'

Answer: Dog Days


Question: 'Of Northlake, Eastlake, Westlake or Southlake, the author who created John Dortmunder'

Answer: Donald Westlake


Question: 'A cease-fire agreement to end this war was signed in Paris January 27, 1973'

Answer: Vietnam War


Question: 'This term for a group hiearchy is based on the social behavior of poultry'

Answer: pecking order


Question: 'This country music blonde looked stunning when she sang "There You'll Be" from "Pearl Harbor" at the Oscars in 2002'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question: 'This acting couple who wed in 1922 starred in 1925's "Arms and the Man" & 1935's "Taming of the Shrew"'

Answer: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne


Question: 'A sharp bend in a road'

Answer: dogleg


Question: 'Of North, East, West or South, the prime minister under George III'

Answer: Lord North


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris)  It was the first stone bridge on the Seine, not the ninth, as you might think by its name'

Answer: Pont Neuf


Question: 'Proverbially, to make these chicken neck feathers rise on someone is to produce anger or hostility in him'

Answer: hackles


Question: 'In 2000 this great Scot co-starred with David Cassidy in "At the Copa", a show at the Rio in Las Vegas'

Answer: Sheena Easton


Question: 'Congressional pair that sponsored the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947'

Answer: Sen. Robert Taft & Rep. Fred Hartley


Question: 'A set of religious beliefs'

Answer: dogma


Question: 'In 1954 this man faced the press after being rebuked by his fellow senators'

Answer: Joseph McCarthy


Question: 'Catherine Bach's character on "The Dukes of Hazzard", she lent her name to a style of short shorts'

Answer: Daisy Duke


Question: 'Bosnia and...'

Answer: Herzegovina


Question: 'In July 1846 he spent a night in jail rather than pay a tax; that led to his essay "Civil Disobedience"'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'These manufacturing centers that make workers "perspire" were originally in the workers' homes'

Answer: sweatshops


Question: 'Eye-poking, skull-bashing brother of Curly & Shemp & quirky millionaire who flew the Spruce Goose'

Answer: Moe Howard Hughes


Question: 'In 1958 this piano virtuoso won first prize in the Tchaikovsky International competition in Moscow'

Answer: Van Cliburn