Question: 'Serve it on a bun'

Answer: (Warren) Burger


Question: 'In 1902 Dutch settlers signed the Treaty of Vereeneging, ending hostilities in this war'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'Reported final resting places of this man who disappeared in 1975 include Giants Stadium & under Pulaski Skyway'

Answer: Jimmy Hoffa


Question: 'Like a book such as <I>Moby Dick</I>, the Sierra Club has many of these divisions'

Answer: chapters


Question: 'Hiawatha's "swift Cheemaun for sailing" comes from the bark of this tree'

Answer: the birch


Question: 'Porter was the last name of this title character played by Keri Russell'

Answer: Felicity


Question: 'Actors Wagner & Redford'

Answer: Roberts


Question: 'The peace settlement brokered at this Congress in 1815 reunited Belgium & the Netherlands, but not for long'

Answer: the Congress of Vienna


Question: 'This inventor of a sport got slam dunked on November 28, 1939'

Answer: (James) Naismith


Question: 'Pie?  Well, maybe just...not a slice, heavens no.  I only want this, from ths Middle English for "split"'

Answer: a sliver


Question: 'Hiawatha might be frustrated when sent on a wawa chase, as "wawa" means this creature'

Answer: a wild goose


Question: '(I'm Miguel Ferrer.) On this '90s TV series I played an FBI agent who helped Kyle MacLachlan investigate the murder of Laura Palmer'

Answer: Twin Peaks


Question: 'Rabbit breeding place'

Answer: (Earl) Warren


Question: 'In a treaty of 1824, this current country's city of Malacca was given to the English by the Dutch'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'In 1851 this author of "The Prairie" could no longer stay alive no matter what occurs'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'In the "Star Trek" universe, it's 1/4 of the Milky Way; Deep Space 9 is in the Alpha one'

Answer: a quadrant


Question: 'Hiawatha "crossed the rushing Esconaba, crossed the mighty" this river'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'This sitcom debuted on Fox in August, 1998, 22 years after its setting'

Answer: That \'70s Show


Question: 'To pursue with intent to capture'

Answer: (Salmon P.) Chase


Question: 'The Dutch got their independence from this country in 1648 when the Peace of Westphalia was signed'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'On April 13, 1917 this U.S. businessman & lover of lavish meals found that diamonds weren't forever'

Answer: "Diamond" Jim Brady


Question: 'An 1885 British-German agreement dividing up part of Africa was the first to refer to these "of influence"'

Answer: spheres of influence


Question: 'Wenonah is the mother of Hiawatha & the daughter of this woman of Wigwam fame'

Answer: Nokomis


Question: 'This title assassin seen here debuted on MTV's Liquid Television in 1991.  Charlize Theron played her in the live action film'

Answer: Aeon Flux


Question: '14 pounds, Squire'

Answer: (Harlan) Stone


Question: '"U" might know that from 1713 to 1715, several treaties were signed in this Dutch city'

Answer: Utrecht


Question: 'In 1881, this president, not Cleveland, was buried in Cleveland'

Answer: James A. Garfield


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a diagram of a circle on a screen.) In geometry, it's the proper name for the part of a circle bounded by two radii and an arc'

Answer: a sector


Question: 'Despite being the personal physician of 2 British kings, he was derogatorily known as "The Circulator"'

Answer: (William) Harvey


Question: 'Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral stands on an island in this river'

Answer: the Seine


Question: 'The Ha'penny Bridge spans the Liffey River in this Irish metropolis'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Rod Tidwell is an underpaid (by his lights) wide receiver in this film about a sports agent'

Answer: Jerry Maguire


Question: 'The Adirondack route hits NYC, Albany & this second-largest Canadian city'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'Edible fruit matter, or lurid fiction'

Answer: pulp


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.)  Bananas grow in hands of ten fingers or more; after harvesting, each hand is cut into what we call a bunch--growers refer to it as a corona, Spanish for this'

Answer: a crown


Question: 'The cathedral was built on the site of an ancient temple dedicated to him, Rome's supreme god'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Onions, potatoes & this meat go into the traditional dish called Irish Stew'

Answer: lamb


Question: 'This 1989 Oscar nominee was based on the  W.P. Kinsella book "Shoeless Joe"'

Answer: Field of Dreams


Question: 'I'm the train route they call the City of this, which also hits Memphis & Chicago; I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done'

Answer: the City of New Orleans


Question: 'Old-time sailors' drink made from rum'

Answer: grog


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.)  Banana plants with thin leaves produce good fruit; young plants with wide leaves are called hijos del agua--or "sons of" this, & are culled because too much of it is directed to the leaves'

Answer: water


Question: 'In 1431 Notre Dame held the coronation of King Henry VI & in 1804, the coronation of this man'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'This Roman missionary brought Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century'

Answer: St. Patrick


Question: 'Director Martin Scorsese had a bit part as a stagehand in this bio of Jake La Motta'

Answer: Raging Bull


Question: 'The Southwest Chief route takes a "right toyn" after stopping at this 11-letter N.M. city (relax, we won't make you spell it)'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'An invisible emanation, or an intangible quality'

Answer: aura


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.)  Bananas stay green while attached to the plant; picking one releases a gas that changes the fruit's color & turns its starch into this sugar, from the Latin for "fruit"'

Answer: fructose


Question: 'In 2009 a memorial was held at Notre Dame for victims of this airline's Flight 447, which crashed after leaving Rio'

Answer: Air France


Question: 'The Irish town of Kerry lends its name to this colorful breed of pooch'

Answer: A Kerry blue terrier


Question: 'This 1976 Oscar winner used the tagline "You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest Bicentennial in history"'

Answer: Rocky


Question: 'The express route named for this Fort Ticonderoga hero has stops in Rutland & Castleton, Vermont'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'Pertaining to the lips'

Answer: labial


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.)  Though a banana bush can grow to 20 feet in height & is commonly referred to as a tree, it contains no woody tissue; it's actually a huge one of these plants common to cooks like sage or basil'

Answer: an herb


Question: 'For organizing Band Aid & other good works, this Irishman received an honorary knighthood in 1986'

Answer: Bob Geldof


Question: 'Several major league ballplayers had cameos in this 1942 Gary Cooper flick, including Babe Ruth & Bill Dickey'

Answer: The Pride of the Yankees


Question: 'The Keystone Route serves NYC, Philly & this capital; Three Mile Island's nearby if you're the nuclear plant gawker type'

Answer: Harrisburg


Question: 'A noble gas, atomic number 10'

Answer: neon


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.)  The string inside a banana carries nutrients such as sugars between parts of the plant; it's called the phloem, from the Greek word for this tough stuff that covers trees'

Answer: bark


Question: 'It's full of magic:<br />"Stormen" & several called "Der Sturm"'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'You can't make a sandwich without this band whose hits include "Make It With You" & "If"'

Answer: Bread


Question: 'The 1606-07 Zebrzydowski Rebellion was an uprising of nobles against this country's king'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'The 7th isn't so lucky if your skin is sensitive to this natural fabric, though the Merino type is finer'

Answer: wool


Question: 'The art of this center named for an oilman is housed in a Los Angeles hilltop complex designed by Richard Meier'

Answer: (the) Getty (Center)


Question: 'This scientific field that might study pandas or pumas'

Answer: zoology


Question: 'Shifting the title's focus:<br />"Jessika"'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'This artist's "Bat Out of Hell" album contained music originally intended for a Peter Pan project'

Answer: Meat Loaf


Question: 'In the 1799 Fries Rebellion, Pennsylvania took up arms against a tax on this, including land & slaves'

Answer: property


Question: 'You can buy a gift of this for the 9th anniversary from the store called this "Barn"'

Answer: Pottery


Question: 'From 1887 to 1893 he was chief draftsman for the Chicago firm of Adler & Sullivan'

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright


Question: 'This musical instrument with strings stretched across a soundboard'

Answer: a zither


Question: 'An enchanting work:<br />"The Faery Queen"'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: '"30 Days in the Hole" if you can't name this old Peter Frampton band whose name refers to a forced apology'

Answer: Humble Pie


Question: 'For 2 decades, Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been the focal point of resistance to this country's ruling regime'

Answer: Burma


Question: 'For the 14th anniversary, you could give a piano, whose keys symbolize this traditional gift'

Answer: ivory


Question: 'In the 1970s this Chinese American designed the aluminum-clad skyscraper at 88 Pine Street in New York City'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'This getup popular in the '40s that lent its name to a wartime L.A. riot'

Answer: zoot suit


Question: 'Love that sparring:<br />"Beatrice et Benedict"'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'This "Airborne" country rock band included Gram & Gene Parsons, who, despite the group's name, are unrelated'

Answer: The Flying Burrito Brothers


Question: 'The 17th & 18 century Jacobite Rebellions attempted to return this royal house to the British throne'

Answer: the House of Stuart


Question: 'The traditional gift for a 12th anniversary is this luxurious fabric, in the name of an ancient trade route from China'

Answer: silk


Question: 'In 1657 he was appointed professor of astronomy at London's Gresham College'

Answer: Christopher Wren


Question: 'This African island which, oddly, once was home to the capital of Oman'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'What a farce:<br />"Sir John in Love" & several called "Falstaff"'

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor


Question: 'This band was once named for NBA star Mookie Blaylock, but decided to go with a more well-"preserved" name'

Answer: Pearl Jam


Question: 'Maoists known as the Shining Path have tried to overthrow this South American country's government'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'The 35th warrants this, which is also the orangy color of the material in the necklace seen here'

Answer: coral


Question: 'His designs are seen in the film "Triumph of the Will"; after WWII he spent 20 years in Spandau Prison'

Answer: Albert Speer


Question: 'This Babylonian temple tower'

Answer: a ziggurat


Question: 'Discovered in the early 20th century, these 2 particles, 1 with a positive charge, the other a packet of energy, differ by a letter'

Answer: a proton & a photon


Question: 'In the old railway line it fell between Atchison & Santa Fe'

Answer: Topeka, Kansas


Question: '"Postcards from the Edge" is loosely based on her life & her relationship with mom, Debbie Reynolds'

Answer: Carrie Fisher


Question: 'This Boomtown Rat organized Band Aid'

Answer: Bob Geldof


Question: 'GB'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'Noted for its rich acoustics, it's located on NYC's West 57th Street'

Answer: Carnegie Hall


Question: 'From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: 'Capitals named for women include the capital of Maryland & this Maine capital'

Answer: Augusta


Question: '"Peggy Sue Got Married" is one of the movies he directed that featured nephew Nicolas Cage'

Answer: Francis Ford Coppola


Question: 'This man with a grandmother from Cork played an Irish-American boxer in 1952's "The Quiet Man"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'BR'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Once a popular talk show host, he's now the 1-800-COLLECT Man'

Answer: Arsenio Hall


Question: 'One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964'

Answer: an opera


Question: 'It's the capital of the state nicknamed "Heart of Dixie"'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'Between the 2 of them, Dionne Warwick & this cousin have had more than 50 Top 40 hits'

Answer: Whitney Houston


Question: 'Hey, 20 bucks says that you know this president's father was from County Antrim & his mother was Irish, too'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'DK'

Answer: Denmark


Question: '1996's "Brain Candy" was this troupe's big screen debut'

Answer: Kids in the Hall


Question: 'This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 & some historians believe he was mistaken for a god'

Answer: Hernando Cortez


Question: 'In 1999 the team once known as the Houston Oilers made a slick move to this capital'

Answer: Nashville (Tennessee Titans)


Question: 'She's mum to actresses Joely & Natasha Richardson'

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave


Question: 'The record says in 1759 he opened his brewery at St. James Gate'

Answer: Arthur Guinness


Question: 'KZ'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'Specific term for the place where Jehovah's Witnesses meet to practice their faith'

Answer: Kingdom Hall


Question: 'Reputedly, Montezuma drank as many as 50 cups a day of this drink which the Spanish made sweeter'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'A synonym for this New England state capital could be what's symbolized by the sign here<br />[Deer Crossing]'

Answer: Hartford, Connecticut


Question: '(Hi, I'm Candice Bergen.)  My father Edgar Bergen created 2 of the world's most beloved ventriloquist dummies... Charlie McCarthy & this goofy sidekick'

Answer: Mortimer Snerd


Question: 'Everyone knew when it was windy, but not how windy until this Irishman came up with his scale in 1805'

Answer: Sir Francis Beaufort


Question: 'SGP'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'It's the former name of the college football bowl game now known as the Outback Bowl'

Answer: the Hall of Fame Bowl


Question: 'With some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings, Montezuma Castle National Monument is in this state'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Now at the Huntington Gallery, it's the "colorful" Sir Thomas Lawrence work seen here'

Answer: "Pinkie"


Question: 'The December 1995 & July 1997 editions of Playboy featured revealing photo spreads of this ex-Angel'

Answer: Farrah Fawcett


Question: 'Term for 1/36 of a yard'

Answer: an inch


Question: 'In an Ernest Thayer poem, Cooney, Burrows, Flynn & Blake preceded this man to the plate'

Answer: Casey


Question: 'Ballerina Julie Kent told Vogue she wears lots of the waterproof type of this instead of false eyelashes'

Answer: mascara


Question: 'Sam Goldwyn stood on the deck of a departing ship & shouted this to his friends on shore'

Answer: Bon voyage !


Question: 'Edouard Manet painted his portrait of this American author seen here from a daguerreotype'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'She's had a clothing line at K-Mart since 1985'

Answer: Jaclyn Smith


Question: 'The Greek letter lambda, which stood for 30, was adopted by the Romans as this value'

Answer: 50 (L)


Question: 'In "Sea Fever" all John Masefield asked for "is a tall ship and a star to" do this'

Answer: steer her by


Question: 'This shy Disney dwarf shares his name with a shade of Club Monaco's Cheek Dew'

Answer: Bashful


Question: 'A volte-face is the French equivalent of this military maneuver'

Answer: an about-face


Question: 'This innovative painter & print maker seen here passed on to his surrealistic reward in 1989'

Answer: Salvador Dali


Question: 'She's Midge Pinciotti on "That '70s Show"'

Answer: Tanya Roberts


Question: 'To get the paper size known as an octavo, you fold the paper this many times, creating 8 parts'

Answer: 3 times


Question: 'Whitman's "When Lilies Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" was an elegy for this man'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Madame Curie would like this shade of Urban Decay eyeliner named for a radioactive element'

Answer: Radium


Question: 'This severe epileptic seizure, literally "great illness", involves a wide area of the brain'

Answer: a grand mal seizure


Question: 'He's the masterful German composer seen here in a 1746 portrait by Haussmann'

Answer: J.S. Bach


Question: 'A star of the 1973 TV movie "Satan's School for Girls", she was back in the 2000 remake'

Answer: Kate Jackson


Question: 'To figure out your latitude you need the exact time & this instrument that replaced the octant'

Answer: a sextant


Question: 'This Harlem Renaissance poet wondered, "What happens to a dream deferred?"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'The Max Factor make-up inspired by this 1999 Shakespeare film features colors like Cob Web & Mustard Seed'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'An impressive display of power or skill; you might say Lance Armstrong put one on in 1999 & in 2000'

Answer: a tour de force


Question: 'The clouds tell you why this work by Giorgione shares its name with a Shakespeare play'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Kris Munroe as an Angel, she later set up shop at TV's "One West Waikiki"'

Answer: Cheryl Ladd


Question: 'Quick, it's the term for 1 billionth of a second'

Answer: a nanosecond


Question: 'By the title, it's what Keats' "La Belle Dame" was "Sans"'

Answer: Merci


Question: 'The name of this Cristina Carlino cosmetics line is from the Greek for "love of wisdom"'

Answer: philosophy


Question: '(Hi, I'm Mick Jones of Foreigner.)  In French, this title of a Foreigner album means someone who incites others to civil unrest'

Answer: Agent Provocateur


Question: 'The petrous temporal bone, the hardest in the body, encases the delicate structures of this organ'

Answer: Inner ear


Question: 'He's the famous fictional father seen here'

Answer: Homer Simpson


Question: 'To distinguish between its Mels, this singing group labeled them B. & C.'

Answer: the Spice Girls


Question: 'The son of Venus, this Roman god of love carried a bow & arrows to shoot his victims'

Answer: Cupid


Question: 'Cheery people say a frown is just a smilie turned this way'

Answer: upside down


Question: '"I scream, you scream, we all scream for" this dessert'

Answer: ice cream


Question: 'In the toe-counting rhyme, it's where the second little piggy stayed'

Answer: at home


Question: 'In professional golf, this "cat" is the No. 1 ranked player in the world'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'He played the Big Daddy in "Big Daddy"'

Answer: Adam Sandler


Question: 'The son of Cronus & Rhea, he's the chief god of Greek mythology'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'Many people like the smell of this cushioning material in a brand new car'

Answer: upholstery


Question: 'To make Ants on a Log, fill a celery stalk with cream cheese or peanut butter & top with these dried fruits'

Answer: raisins


Question: 'John Hancock was the first & Charles Thomson the second signer of this, July 4, 1776'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'He's the legendary performer seen here on a popular 1993 postage stamp'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Katherine Heigl & Jason Behr play aliens on this WB series'

Answer: Roswell


Question: 'When she opened the box that released all the misfortunes on the world, she shut it in time to keep hope inside'

Answer: Pandora


Question: 'Denver's victory over Green Bay in the Super Bowl was one of these'

Answer: an upset


Question: 'In fish & chips, the chips aren't Ruffles but what we would call these'

Answer: french fries


Question: 'In 1969 Buzz Aldrin became the second to set foot here'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'This influential minister & civil rights pioneer won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1960s'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'This pop group created for British TV has had TV shows here set in Miami & L.A.'

Answer: S Club 7


Question: 'This Greek mountain was the home of the gods'

Answer: Mount Olympus


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

Answer: upright


Question: 'Sink your teeth into a Granny Smith & you'll be eating this'

Answer: apple


Question: 'This group's second CD was a holiday special, 1998's "Home for Christmas"'

Answer: \'N Sync


Question: 'This singer's blue-collar music is a celebration of the common man'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'The rainbow from her 1999 "Rainbow" CD was plastered on T-shirts & sold via the Internet'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'Athena gave this maiden snaky hair & a face so hideous that a glimpse of it would turn men to stone'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'Often done to trees, it's also done to people who are removed from their native land'

Answer: to uproot


Question: 'It's the 4-letter term for soybean curd that can be used to make cheesecake & even hot dogs'

Answer: tofu


Question: 'This title character in an 1876 novel asks, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: '3-D crowds cheer on Mia Hamm in the SouthPeak Interactive game in this sport'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'Over 98% of the people in Austria speak this official language of Austria'

Answer: German


Question: 'For many years even scientists refused to believe in the existence of this duckbilled, egg-laying mammal'

Answer: platypus


Question: 'An improper fraction is rude enough to have a numerator greater than or equal to this'

Answer: the denominator


Question: 'Signs of the Zodiac'

Answer: 12


Question: 'In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to "chase that white whale on both sides of land"'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'In "The World is Not Enough" you're this agent, secret agent'

Answer: James Bond


Question: 'You might tiptoe through the tulips when you're in this country, seen here'

Answer: the Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'The Maine coon cat is named for its resemblance to this ring-tailed critter'

Answer: raccoon


Question: 'In its lowest terms, a .400 batting average in baseball is this fraction'

Answer: 2/5


Question: 'Days of Christmas in the popular song'

Answer: 12


Question: 'He's the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'In "Hey You", this Pokemon, you control the little critter on your Nintendo with voice commands'

Answer: Pikachu


Question: 'The University of British Columbia is based in this city, British Columbia's largest'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'The Japanese giant salamander is the largest of these animals that spend part of their lives in the water'

Answer: amphibians


Question: 'It's the decimal form of the fraction 3/1000'

Answer: .003


Question: 'Amendments in the Bill of Rights'

Answer: 10


Question: 'The one word uttered by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"'

Answer: "Nevermore"


Question: 'Simon & Schuster sent Red (plain) & Yellow (peanut), stars of this candy line, on a search for "The Lost Formulas"'

Answer: M&Ms


Question: 'A symbol of the millennium, the big wheel seen here is officially known as this British city's "Eye"'

Answer: London


Question: 'Peba is another name for the 9-banded type of this armored creature that's found in Texas'

Answer: armadillo


Question: 'To divide a number by 3/4, multiply the number by this fraction'

Answer: 4/3


Question: 'Players on each side of the ball in an NFL game'

Answer: 11


Question: 'Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called "The Last of" this group'

Answer: the Mohicans


Question: 'Abe & now Munch take "Oddysees" on this planet'

Answer: Oddworld


Question: 'Inca Kola has been called the national beverage of this South American country in which it's made'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'When disturbed, the 6-foot-long common species of this lizard will drop from its tree into water'

Answer: iguana


Question: 'It's how you express the fraction 7/4 as a mixed number'

Answer: 1 3/4


Question: 'Faces on a decahedron'

Answer: 10


Question: 'In the 1860s an early version of this was called the velocipede, from Latin words meaning "quick" & "feet"'

Answer: bicycle


Question: 'Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'No. 7 in pinstripes, this pride of Oklahoma was honored in 1969'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'To score an eagle in golf is to score this many shots under par on a hole'

Answer: two under par


Question: 'In 2000 he considered a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket'

Answer: Mr. (Donald) Trump


Question: 'This term for a certain group of undergraduates is from the Latin for "elder"'

Answer: seniors


Question: '"White Christmas" crooner who joined 2 other guys to form a "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" supergroup'

Answer: Bing Crosby, Stills and Nash


Question: 'Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'He was so good--& indecisive--that his team retired his jersey twice, in 1994 & 1999'

Answer: (Michael) Jordan


Question: 'The symbol of this youth organization is an eagle superimposed on a stylized iris'

Answer: the Boy Scouts


Question: 'Do the 'do of the New York politico seen here'

Answer: (Rudolph) Giuliani


Question: 'With close to 50,000 students, this Columbus-based university is one of the USA's largest'

Answer: Ohio State


Question: 'Men's fragrance that wants to be a "Wannabe" group'

Answer: Old Spice Girls


Question: 'Buried treasure found on an islet in the Tuscan Archipelago makes this character wealthy'

Answer: the Count of Monte Cristo


Question: 'Appropriately, his was retired in 1999'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'In 1969 he commanded the "Eagle" lunar module'

Answer: Armstrong


Question: 'His would-be boss joked that this man had better hair than Dick Cheney'

Answer: John Edwards


Question: 'Also known as a city college, it's a local junior college without residential facilities'

Answer: a community college


Question: 'Reggae widow who appears to Scrooge'

Answer: Rita Marley\'s Ghost


Question: 'This Albert Camus novel begins with the discovery of a dead rat outside Dr. Bernard Rieux' door; more dead rats follow'

Answer: The Plague


Question: 'This legend hit the rafters in 1993'

Answer: Larry Bird


Question: 'The bald eagle became our national emblem in 1782 with the adoption of this "Great" object'

Answer: the Great Seal


Question: 'This Mississippi congressman has seen his "hair share" of controversy'

Answer: Trent Lott


Question: 'The first black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded at this university in 1908'

Answer: Howard


Question: 'Pizza restaurant chain mogul who composed "Stars & Stripes Forever"'

Answer: Papa John Philip Sousa


Question: 'In 1902 Kipling published a volume of these "Stories", including "The Cat that Walked by Himself"'

Answer: the Just So Stories


Question: 'State this man whose jersey was retired in 1997'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'This constellation that features the star Altair is in the shape of an eagle with considerable wingspan'

Answer: Aquila


Question: 'He's the powerful Texas congressman partially seen here'

Answer: (Tom) DeLay


Question: 'Larry McMurtry & Joyce Carol Oates are among the alumni of this Houston university'

Answer: Rice


Question: '5-star general who rocked out the South with "Fire On The Mountain"'

Answer: George Marshall Tucker Band


Question: 'Robert Hooke spent lots of time arguing over who made discoveries first, notably with this man over gravitation'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'Computer expert Angela Bennett'

Answer: The Net


Question: '3 of these leaves appear on Ontario's coat of arms'

Answer: the maple leaf


Question: 'Statue-torily, there's one of these at the center of Indiana's flag, representing Liberty'

Answer: a torch


Question: 'To her friends, this exotic "Sarong Girl" of the movies was just plain "Dottie"'

Answer: Dorothy Lamour


Question: 'Don Evans was the 34th secretary of this cabinet department'

Answer: Commerce


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secret Jeopardy! science lab.)  Laplace published the equation named for him in his treatise on these mechanics--the mathematics of the heavens'

Answer: celestial


Question: 'Chicago "L" token seller Lucy, in love with the comatose Peter'

Answer: While You Were Sleeping


Question: 'In 1953 a dramatic festival devoted to the works of Shakespeare appropriately began in this Ontario town'

Answer: Stratford


Question: 'The Confederacy's second flag (above) was replaced with the third flag (below) because the second could be mistaken for this'

Answer: a flag of truce (or surrender)


Question: '"The only thing I didn't like about 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' was the play", said this Algonquin wit'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: '1-word term for fellowship, or the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements'

Answer: communion


Question: 'It took a Russian, Lomonosov, to first record the freezing temperature of this metallic element, at about -40'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'Newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings, who enters rehab for 4 weeks'

Answer: 28 Days


Question: 'Founded in 1836, an Ontario univ. that's part of the University of Toronto bears the name of this British queen'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'The flag of this place "Where America's day ends" features an eagle holding symbols of chiefs' authority'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'She appeared with her sister Lillian in the 1912 film "The New York Hat"'

Answer: Dorothy Gish


Question: '2-word Latin term meaning mentally sound; we usually hear about the reverse that starts with "non"'

Answer: compos mentis


Question: 'Snell measured the Earth by first using this geometric method to measure the distance between towns'

Answer: triangulation


Question: 'Lenina Huxley, a cop in 2032 who unfreezes John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone)'

Answer: Demolition Man


Question: 'Along with the smaller James Bay, this large body of water forms Ontario's northern coastline'

Answer: the Hudson Bay


Question: 'The fleur-de-lis, on the flag & license plates of Quebec, was a symbol of the man in this position'

Answer: the King of France


Question: '"Introducing" this African-American actress who appeared briefly with her sister in the Marx Bros.' "A Day at the Races"'

Answer: Dorothy Dandridge


Question: 'Controversial 1969 Philip Roth novel that was made into a 1972 film'

Answer: Portnoy\'s Complaint


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the top secret Jeopardy! science lab.)  This great experimenter also gave lectures to London kids; in 1860, he showed them combustion requires air'

Answer: Michael Faraday


Question: 'Geeky research scientist Diane Farrow'

Answer: Love Potion No. 9


Question: 'The War of 1812 Battle of Moraviantown in Canada was also known as the Battle of this Ontario River'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'When there was just 1 of this country, emperor Kojong chose white as the flag's background color'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Connect the dots; the British author of "Pilgrimage" or a 2-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist softball player'

Answer: Dot Richardson


Question: 'A Native American tribe belonging to the Shoshonean division of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic stock'

Answer: Comanche


Question: 'For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year'

Answer: 1914


Question: 'After killing Duncan, he tells his wife, "I have done the deed"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'The last line Ted Danson delivered as the star of this NBC show was "Sorry, we're closed"'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'I didn't just fall off a truck of these globe-shaped veggies with purple tops, you know--but have some anyway'

Answer: a turnip


Question: 'An unmarried young woman from Bern'

Answer: a Swiss miss


Question: 'On June 25, 1876 this leader & his 650 men expected to find a few Indian warriors; surprise!  There were over 2,000'

Answer: (George) Custer


Question: 'On Sept. 8, 1504 this Michelangelo statue was completed, in all his glory'

Answer: David


Question: 'Cobweb & Moth are 2 of these beings in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"'

Answer: fairies


Question: 'In 1994 Ted was "home alone" with this star who was "getting even with Dad" as son Timmy'

Answer: (Macaulay) Culkin


Question: 'Pass the oil made from these fancy fungi; I splurged & bought the black & the white types'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'A live animal park in Lima'

Answer: a zoo Peru (or Peru zoo)


Question: 'On March 29, 1952 he surprised Democratic leaders by saying he would not seek re-election'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Annie Leibovitz' Dec. 8, 1980 photo of this naked man lying next to his clothed wife was taken on the last day of his life'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'Brabantio, Desdemona's father, asks this aide to Othello, "What profane wretch art thou?"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'In 1995 Ted guest-starred with an old friend on this sitcom in the episode titled "The Show Where Sam Shows Up"'

Answer: Frasier


Question: 'Hope you can "stomach" this variety meat; I'm serving it the classic French way, a la mode de Caen'

Answer: tripe


Question: 'A Havana horn'

Answer: a Cuba tuba


Question: 'John Man, author of "Gobi: Tracking the Desert", says that, surprisingly, it's the safest season to visit'

Answer: the summer


Question: 'Among the hundreds of paintings by this Dutch master is the nude "Bathsheba at the Bath"'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'This tragic & foolish king's last words are "Do you see this?  Look on her!  Look--her lips!  Look there!"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'This title sitcom doc played by Ted has been described as the AMA's "answer to Basil Fawlty"'

Answer: (Dr. John) Becker


Question: 'Instead of making the wet land type of this Polynesian tuber into poi, I've used the dry land type to make chips--have some!'

Answer: taro


Question: 'Central American ricotta'

Answer: Belize cheese


Question: 'Meep Meep!  This animal, Geococcyx californianus, likes to use its swiftness afoot to reach safety when surprised'

Answer: a road runner


Question: 'In 1876 "The Vanquished", a male nude, later called "The Age of Bronze", was this sculptor's first masterwork'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'He tells Cressida's uncle, "I tell thee I am mad in Cressid's love"'

Answer: Troilus


Question: 'In 1998, Danson was WWII Capt. Fred Hamill as Tom Hanks attempted this film title feat'

Answer: Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'I'm serving turkey in this style named for opera star Luisa, & I'll be singing some of her arias as you eat it'

Answer: Tetrazzini


Question: 'Southeast Asian country's ointment'

Answer: Vietnam balm


Question: 'On Oct. 21, 1805 Admiral Nelson surprised the enemy by cutting through the French line at the Battle of this'

Answer: Trafalgar


Question: 'Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, it's the one starring an over 100-foot guy in his birthday suit'

Answer: the Colossus of Rhodes


Question: 'It's the larger of the 2 countries that occupy the Iberian Peninsula'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'In "For Love of the Game", Kevin Costner is an A.L. pitcher, so a player with this position bats for him'

Answer: designated hitter


Question: 'On trips in the 1920s, he was an American in Paris, & he gave that title to his 1928 orchestral work'

Answer: (George) Gershwin


Question: 'It's the first ordinal number that doesn't contain the letter "T"'

Answer: second


Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'A council or conference among North American Indians'

Answer: a powwow


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mississippi.) Some of the best catfish is caught in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, better known around here as this area'

Answer: the (Mississippi) Delta


Question: 'Roy Hobbs' first at-bat in "The Natural" came as this type of substitute'

Answer: pinch hitter


Question: 'In the 1860s Borodin & Balakirev were 2 of "The Mighty Five" who created a national style in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Counting up from one, it's the first number that contains a "G"'

Answer: eight


Question: '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-05-25_DJ_09.jpg" target="_blank">1948- </a>'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'Arrrrr!  September 19 is "International Talk Like" one of these "Day"'

Answer: a pirate


Question: 'This peninsula that accounts for most of Denmark's land area shares a 42-mile-long border with Germany'

Answer: Jutland


Question: 'This 9-letter term is how Bernie Mac's "Mr. 3000" selflessly ended his team's season in a 2004 film'

Answer: sacrifice


Question: 'Beethoven said this great predecessor's name, which means "brook", should really be Meer, meaning "sea"'

Answer: Bach


Question: 'Counting up from one, it's the first number that contains a "B"'

Answer: one billion


Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to inhabitants of this Caribbean island'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Hundreds of waterfalls make up the spectacular Iguacu Falls on the border of these 2 countries'

Answer: Brazil & Argentina


Question: 'Numeric position on the scorecard for Crash Davis of "Bull Durham" fame'

Answer: 2


Question: 'In 1794, aged 62, he hit the century mark with his 100th symphony'

Answer: Joseph Haydn


Question: 'Between negative 576 & positive 576, it's the last integer alphabetically'

Answer: zero


Answer: (Pierre) Trudeau


Question: 'A larval toad or frog'

Answer: a pollywog


Question: 'St. John, New Brunswick lies on this bay that's noted for its high tides'

Answer: the Bay of Fundy


Question: 'Wild Thing, Charlie Sheen's character in "Major League", becomes a popular RP, short for this'

Answer: relief pitcher


Question: 'Counting up from one, it's the first number that contains a "Y"'

Answer: twenty


Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'The holy scriptures of the Sikhs are written in this 7-letter language spoken by about 70 million'

Answer: Punjabi


Question: 'This president said, "We remain accountable... for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth"'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'In 1943 Georgia became the 1st state to lower the voting age to this'

Answer: 18


Question: 'Gov't naturalist Daniel James predicts someday this national symbol will no longer be endangered'

Answer: Bald Eagle


Question: 'Persia's animal art persisted even after the introduction of this religion that forbade making images'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Jane Powell starred in MGM musicals long before playing Alan Thicke's mom on this sitcom'

Answer: "Growing Pains"


Question: 'The Dharma Chakra, the symbol seen on India's flag, is one of these "of law", not "of fortune"'

Answer: Wheel


Question: 'If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink'

Answer: Red


Question: 'Black Friday, September 24, 1869, resulted from Gould & Fisk's attempt to corner the U.S. supply of this'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'NYC is building nesting boxes for barn owls in some city parks because they like to eat these rodents'

Answer: Mice/Rats


Question: '"The 12 Tribes of Israel" is a series of windows by Marc Chagall using this material'

Answer: Stained Glass


Question: 'His real life mom, Julia, played mom to his character, Louie, on "Taxi"'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'This city has a population density of about 79,000 people per square mile, the country's highest'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink'

Answer: Paper Mate


Question: 'He was the last Dutch governor of New York, which was New Netherland at the time'

Answer: Peter Stuyvessant


Question: 'The venom of these bees is actually less poisonous than European bees, but they attack in large groups'

Answer: African Bees/Killer Bees


Question: 'Characteristic of Queen Anne furniture, the cabriole style is used for this part of a chair or table'

Answer: Leg


Question: 'The president of this country that sold India its 1st nuclear-powered sub in Feb. 1988 visited in Nov. 1988'

Answer: Soviet Union/USSR


Question: 'From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent'

Answer: Indelible


Question: 'At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner'

Answer: Santa Anna


Question: 'The 2 orders of ungulates are distinguished by the number of these they have'

Answer: Toes (on the hoof)


Question: 'A chevron is a decorative motif resembling this letter'

Answer: V


Question: 'This group outside of the caste system has seats reserved for it in Parliament'

Answer: Untouchables


Question: '1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing & re-appearing ink'

Answer: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"


Question: 'Swedish-born John Ericsson designed this 1st of the ironclads with a revolving turret'

Answer: Monitor


Question:
'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
The following song popularized a dance named for this animal:
"Now the dance that the people do, I don't know how it started, all I know...."'

Answer: Monkey ("Monkey Time" by Major Lance)


Question: 'The Pazzi Chapel in this city was one of the 1st buildings designed in the Renaissance style'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'India became independent 1 day after this country was created'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots'

Answer: Herman Rohrshach


Question: '1 of 8 flexible arms on an octopus'

Answer: Tentacle


Question: 'The Knights of St. John who ran a Jerusalem hospital for sick pilgrims wore white, not red ones'

Answer: Crosses


Question: 'Danny Kaye starred as this Biblical character in the 1970 show "Two By Two"'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'Japan has 3 separate observances marking this man's birth, enlightenment & death'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'When this author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" died in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc De Triomphe'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'It's the British royal yacht'

Answer: Britannia


Question: 'It's a male singing voice producing tones in an upper register beyond its normal range'

Answer: Falsetto


Question: 'Habichtsburg, or Hawks Castle, built in 1020 in present-day Switzerland gave this dynasty its name'

Answer: Hapsburgs


Question: 'It was billed as "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical"'

Answer: "Hair"


Question: 'Festivals in Dutch-American communities are highlighted by Klompen Dances, named for these'

Answer: Wooden Shoes


Question: 'His 19th century novels such as "The Mysterious Island" foretold the submarine, the aqua lung & TV'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'Dubbed "Captain Outrageous", this media mogul skippered the Courageous & won the America's Cup twice'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: 'From the Latin for "boxer", it's another name for a prizefighter'

Answer: Pugilist


Question: 'This crusade led by Stephen of Vendrone may have been the inspiration for the Pied Piper'

Answer: Children\'s Crusade


Question: '"People" & "Don't Rain on My Parade" are from this show based on the life of Fanny Brice'

Answer: "Funny Girl"


Question: 'It's the original name for Memorial Day'

Answer: Decoration Day


Question: 'This author of the novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is also credited with the screenplay'

Answer: Pierre Francois Boulle


Question: 'The Santana, not the "African Queen" was this actor's favorite yacht'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'This gas is the most abundant element in the universe'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'The Mongol chief Temujin was given this title when he was proclaimed supreme ruler'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: '1968 musical that featured "45 Minutes From Broadway", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" & "Harrigan"'

Answer: George M!


Question: '1 of 2 European countries that honor the martyred St. Lucia on December 13'

Answer: Italy & Sweden


Question: 'Born Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, she chose this pseudonym for her 1st novel, 1832's "Indiana"'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'Hemingway named this powerful heroine in "For Whom The Bell Tolls" this, after his 40-foot yacht'

Answer: Pilar


Question: 'This plant with a bulbous root is also known as a "Swedish Turnip"'

Answer: Rutabaga


Question: 'This French dynasty that began in 987 may have been named for the cloak that King Hugh wore as an abbot'

Answer: The Capetian Dynasty


Question: 'She & partner Adolph Green wrote numerous B'way musicals; among them "Peter Pan" & "Applause"'

Answer: Betty Comden


Question: 'The 2nd Sunday in May is Mother's Day while the 3rd Saturday in May is this day'

Answer: Armed Forces Day


Question: 'This avant-garde author's "Les Enfants Terribles" was written in a 3-week period in 1929'

Answer: Jean Cocteau


Question: 'This yacht skippered by Dennis Conner won back the America's Cup from Australia in 1987'

Answer: Stars & Stripes


Question: 'Before Prince Andrew, he was the last Duke of York'

Answer: King George VI


Question: 'It's called the "Smallest State" for a reason'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'These rappers remixed Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" into a Top 10 hit in 1986'

Answer: Run–D.M.C.


Question: 'Shape Up U.S. Month &<br />Get Organized Month'

Answer: January


Question: 'In 1793 Jean-Paul Marat was retired in the bath with one of these'

Answer: a knife


Question: 'Before it went preppy, this pair's store outfitted expeditions such as Charles Lindbergh's & Admiral Byrd's'

Answer: Abercrombie & Fitch


Question: 'In this technique, a slow process such as plant growth is photographed at intervals & unfolds at high speed'

Answer: time-lapse photography


Question: 'It's "the Peninsula State" because, well, because most of its area is a peninsula'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Their Texas boogie rock hits include "Gimme All Your Lovin" & "Sharp Dressed Man"'

Answer: ZZ Top


Question: 'Library Lovers' Month &<br />Black History Month'

Answer: February


Question: 'In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "Take Me Out" but was anyway, via this'

Answer: a gunshot


Question: 'This 3-word legal "order" is issued to one whose business practices are deemed to be illegal or unfair'

Answer: cease and desist


Question: 'Arrangement in which employees set their own work schedules, especially their starting & finishing hours'

Answer: flex time


Question: 'It's not only the "Mother of Presidents", it's the "Mother of Statesmen" as well'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Their hit song "Man On The Moon" is a musical tribute to comedian Andy Kaufman'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'National Craft Month &<br />Irish-American Heritage Month'

Answer: March


Question: 'In 1940 Leon Trotsky, not one of his employees, got this'

Answer: the axe


Question: 'According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by these twins; one died & the other named the city for himself'

Answer: Romulus & Remus


Question: 'A schedule listing arrivals & departures for buses or trains'

Answer: a timetable


Question: 'The vast quantities of grapes grown there have caused this state to become known as "the Grape State"'

Answer: California


Question: 'This '80s hair band from Illinois topped the charts with "Keep On Loving You" & "Can't Fight This Feeling"'

Answer: R.E.O. Speedwagon


Question: 'Navajo Code Talkers Month &<br />National Salsa Month'

Answer: May


Question: 'In 1880 outlaw Ned Kelly was doing this around Melbourne'

Answer: hanging


Question: '"Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons" is a collection of comics with this boy & tiger combo'

Answer: Calvin & Hobbes


Question: 'Scott Joplin wrote, "Never play" this style of music "fast"'

Answer: ragtime


Question: 'Arbor Day likely helped it become "the Tree Planters State"'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'This U.K. reggae-pop band with hits in the '80s & '90s took its name from a British unemployment form'

Answer: UB40


Question: 'PTA Membership Enrollment Month (in many states) &<br />National Preparedness Month'

Answer: September


Question: 'In 1946, in order to avoid the noose, Hermann Goering picked his this'

Answer: poison pill (cyanide accepted)


Question: 'Judges 16 details the hairy adventures of this noted twosome'

Answer: Samson & Delilah


Question: '"Army Wives" is the most-watched original series in this cable network's 25-year history'

Answer: Lifetime


Question: 'The college named for this historic duo is in Williamsburg, Virginia'

Answer: William & Mary


Question: 'Me: Mary McCauly, known as this for bringing water to the Patriots at the Battle of Monmouth'

Answer: Molly Pitcher


Question: 'Some postage stamps from the animal rescue series that say adopt a pet from one of these'

Answer: a shelter


Question: '"Boardwalk Empire"'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'It's what you leave behind--money, wisdom, something that's part of your history'

Answer: your legacy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) In 1973, "The Magic Flute", which included a queen character, was the first performance given here, & in the hall on opening night was this woman, who officially opened the Opera House'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'The university named for him is in Bristol, Rhode Island'

Answer: Roger Williams


Question: 'Me: Mary Anne Talbot, known as the "British" this type of warrior woman for serving in the army & navy disguised as a man'

Answer: an Amazon


Question: 'My rewards card from this bookstore chain that has its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan'

Answer: Borders


Question: '"The Practice"'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'The name of this Japanese religion actually comes from Chinese words'

Answer: Shinto


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.)  To compensate for the high ceilings in the concert hall, acrylic rings were hung to reflect the sound of the instruments back to the orchestra & to improve this, from the Greek for "to hear"'

Answer: the acoustics


Question: 'The university named for this 27th president has no classrooms (or bathtubs); it teaches all its courses online'

Answer: (William Howard) Taft


Question: 'Me: Mary of Lorraine, regent of this country for my 12-year-old daughter, Mary Stuart'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'A ticket stub from a concert at this outdoor venue, the summer home of the L.A. Philharmonic'

Answer: the Hollywood Bowl


Question: '"The Mentalist"'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'Breaker, breaker--it's a nickname used by a CB enthusiast while broadcasting'

Answer: a handle


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia)  In March 2010, just shy of 90, this sitar virtuoso performed on the opera house stage with his daughter Anoushka in his "Farewell to Australia" tour'

Answer: Ravi Shankar


Question: 'The university named for this river is just across the street from Oregon's Capitol building'

Answer: the Willamette


Question: 'Me: Mary Mallon, & I'm not too crazy about this nickname--anyone can be a carrier'

Answer: Typhoid Mary


Question: 'My Red Cross blood donor id card with my blood type, AB positive, known as the universal this'

Answer: recipient


Question: '"Castle"'

Answer: New York


Question: 'The fur of this rodent seen here is said to be 30 times softer than human hair'

Answer: the chinchilla


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from in front of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia) As the story goes, Danish architect Jorn Utzon's winning design for the opera house was saved from the rejection pile by this famed architect from Finland'

Answer: (Eero) Saarinen


Question: 'The university named for this Quaker leader is in Oskaloosa, Iowa, not Altoona or Monongahela'

Answer: William Penn


Question: 'Me: Mary Rowlandson, author of an account of my 1676 captivity during the war of this Native Amer. "king"'

Answer: King Philip


Question: 'A picture of my pooch--this Swiss mountain dog'

Answer: a Bernese


Question: '"Thirtysomething"'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'It's a temporary stopping of warfare by mutual consent'

Answer: an armistice


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the stage of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.)  In September 2009, this 65-year-old dame of Maori descent thrilled audiences here on the Opera House stage, singing Strauss & Puccini'

Answer: (Kiri Te) Kanawa


Question: 'Michael Foldy examined "The Trials of" this author: "Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'This "liberty or death" guy turned down an invite to be a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, saying he "smelt a rat"'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'At Yankee Stadium, pucker up for some frickles, fried these'

Answer: pickles


Question: 'Digitus'

Answer: a finger


Question: 'The name of this -ology, the study of atmosphere & weather, comes from a book title by Aristotle'

Answer: meteorology


Question: 'This guy in charge of the crew shares his title with a jury leader; don't mess with him--he's a real heavyweight'

Answer: the foreman


Question: 'The Wrecking Crew were L.A. studio musicians who played on dozens of hits, including this band's "Good Vibrations"'

Answer: the Beach Boys


Question: 'Rhode Island was the only state not to send delegates to the convention & the last of the 13 to do this, 3 years later'

Answer: ratify the Constitution


Question: 'A Pittsburgh institution, Primanti Brothers' sandwiches are served at this home of the Steelers'

Answer: Heinz Field


Question: 'Caput'

Answer: the head


Question: 'Physical & cultural are 2 of the main branches of this study of mankind'

Answer: anthropology


Question: 'This term for the person who wraps pipes & ducts in heat-resistant material comes from the Latin for "island"'

Answer: an insulator


Question: 'Micky, Davy, Mike & Peter sang, but the Crew did all the playing on this band's 1966 No. 1 album'

Answer: the Monkees


Question: 'As it permitted this practice, William Lloyd Garrison branded the Constitution "a covenant with death"'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'While Boston has the Fenway Frank, L.A.'s National League baseball team has this alliterative equivalent'

Answer: a Dodger Dog


Question: 'Umbilicus'

Answer: the belly button


Question: 'It's the science & application of X-rays'

Answer: roentgenology (or radiology)


Question: 'If you're building with stone, call this expert; he might bring lunch in the same-named jar'

Answer: a mason


Question: 'Wrecking Crew bass queen Carol Kaye added the bottom end to the No. 1 "Theme from" this 1971 detective film'

Answer: Shaft


Question: 'The 2 presidents to sign the document were George Washington & this one who was very involved in its formation'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'A few years back Wrigley Field introduced the Northside Twist, a 4-pound one of these with 3 dipping sauces'

Answer: a pretzel


Question: 'Bracchium<br />(this limb)'

Answer: the arm


Question: 'In 1512 Martin Luther earned the degree doctor of this'

Answer: theology


Question: '"Pargeter" is an old term for a worker who applies this stuff to walls & ceilings; he doesn't have to be from Paris'

Answer: plaster


Question: 'On "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", Herb Alpert played the trumpet, but the Wrecking Crew was this "south of the border" band'

Answer: the Tijuana Brass


Question: 'Since 1952, all 4 pages of the Constitution have been on display behind protective glass at this facility in D.C.'

Answer: the National Archives


Question: 'Florida's Sun Life stadium features such Latin cuisine as Cuban sandwiches & these meat-filled turnovers'

Answer: empanadas


Question: 'Auris'

Answer: the ear


Question: 'Mycology is the study of fungi; myology is the study of these body parts'

Answer: muscles


Question: 'Let's see if Jennifer Beals is available for this job of heating & joining metal'

Answer: welding


Question: 'Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine used tire chains to lay down the crashing sounds on this Simon & Garfunkel No. 1'

Answer: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"


Question: 'This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air'

Answer: helium


Question: 'To decaudate is to do this, like the farmer's wife did to the 3 blind mice'

Answer: cut off tails


Question: 'In this author's "Debt of Honor", Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question: 'Moats were crossed via this device; it was lowered & raised depending on who wanted to cross'

Answer: a drawbridge


Question: 'It's not shocking that in 1928, Philip Labre added a third prong, for grounding, to this'

Answer: an electrical plug


Question: 'In 2011 Larry David & the gang went to New York City on this uncomfortably funny HBO show'

Answer: Curb Your Enthusiasm


Question: 'Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'A nummular thing is shaped like one of these; if you know Latin, it makes cents'

Answer: a coin (a penny accepted)


Question: 'If you haven't read this first novel in Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", say "neigh"'

Answer: All the Pretty Horses


Question: 'Great Britain's second largest, after Windsor, the Castle of Caerphilly, moat & all, is found in this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Avon salesladies thank Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian, for inventing the electric this'

Answer: a doorbell


Question: 'The focus shifted from 40-something Courteney Cox dating men in their 20s, but the show was stuck with this title'

Answer: Cougar Town


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue as she and Kelly demonstrate a potato gun.)  A potato gun demonstrates Boyle's Law using a simple tube & a stick; pushing the stick reduces the volume of air and increases this 8-letter term, making the potato go ballistic'

Answer: pressure


Question: 'To the Pennsylvania Dutch, smearcase is this, both large & small curd varieties'

Answer: cottage cheese


Question: 'The title character loses 72 pounds (but gains 74) during the year recorded in this Helen Fielding novel'

Answer: Bridget Jones\'s Diary


Question: 'In the late 1100s what's now the site of this in Paris was Philip Augustus' castle, with a wide moat & not much art'

Answer: the Louvre


Question: 'MIT gives a prize for design named after Carl Sontheimer, who invented this food processor in the 1970s'

Answer: the Cuisinart


Question: 'Kyra Sedgwick stars as tough cookie interrogator Brenda Leigh Johnson on this drama'

Answer: The Closer


Question: 'Slow-motion video shows this bug evading a swat in 250 milliseconds; for 240 of those, it's repositioning itself to jump'

Answer: a fly


Question: 'This verb can refer to making & serving sodas or to cutting meat into long strips to be dried in the sun'

Answer: jerking


Question: 'Anne Rice cast a spell on readers with her saga of the Mayfair family begun in this "timely" 1990 novel'

Answer: The Witching Hour


Question: 'A remnant of the former moat at this Copenhagen pleasure garden was turned into a lake for boating'

Answer: Tivoli


Question: 'John Hammes invented the food waste disposer a few blocks from the current HQ of this company that makes them'

Answer: InSinkErator


Question: 'Thomas Gibson & Shemar Moore star as members of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit on this drama'

Answer: Criminal Minds


Question: 'It's the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise'

Answer: dextrose


Question: 'Oneiromancy is the practice of foretelling the future by the interpretation of these'

Answer: dreams


Question: 'In 1991 John Updike won a Pulitzer for this fourth & final novel about Harry Angstrom'

Answer: Rabbit at Rest


Question: 'To keep fans off the field, a deep moat surrounds the playing area of this South American city's Maracana Stadium'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'Zalmon Simmons accepted a patent on a woven-wire one of these in lieu of cash, & the "rest" is history'

Answer: mattress


Question: '"Family Guy" Peter Griffin's African-American neighbor moved to Stoolbend, Virginia for this cartoon spin-off'

Answer: The Cleveland Show


Question: 'Invented in 1943, this toy was flung over tree branches by soldiers in Vietnam & used as a makeshift radio antenna'

Answer: the Slinky


Question: 'Polypropelene containers melt at 320 deg., so they are safe to put in this appliance that uses 140-degree water'

Answer: a dishwasher


Question: 'This term for any ideal or perfect place comes from the title of Sir Thomas More's opus'

Answer: utopia


Question: 'Tolkien once wrote, "I am in fact" one of these "in all but size"'

Answer: a hobbit


Question: 'You know the drill, it's the colorful monkey species seen here'

Answer: a mandrill


Question: 'To vodka, add dry vermouth & a lemon twist to make this; shaken, not stirred, you got it'

Answer: a martini


Question:
'1992:
"There's no crying in baseball!"'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'The "V" in PVC, it's energy-efficient because it's made more of salt than petroleum'

Answer: vinyl


Question: 'It comes in radioactive isotopes like 235 & 238'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'While at Oxford, Tolkien formed a literary group called the Inklings with this man who wrote of Narnia'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'These large ground-dwelling monkeys native to Africa & Asia have prominent snouts resembling a dog's'

Answer: a baboon


Question: 'Bust out some gin, Benedictine, cherry brandy & club soda & you've got a "sling" named for this island'

Answer: Singapore


Question:
'1982:
"They're here!"'

Answer: Poltergeist


Question: 'The "bubble" types of this headgear associated with early astronauts were made of GE's Lexan'

Answer: helmets


Question: 'The lending of money at an exorbitant rate of interest'

Answer: usury


Question: 'Tolkien lectured on this king of the Geats, the title character of an Old English epic poem'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'The pygmy variety of this small South American monkey is seen here'

Answer: a marmoset


Question: 'An ounce each of vodka, gin, light rum & tequila highlight this N.Y.-themed drink'

Answer: Long Island iced tea


Question:
'1967:
"What we've got here is failure to communicate"'

Answer: Cool Hand Luke


Question: 'Dow Chemicals says this trademarked polystyrene insulation material isn't used to make cups, as often thought'

Answer: Styrofoam


Question: 'On the web, it's the U in URL'

Answer: universal


Question: 'Tolkien translated an Arthurian work about this knight who matches wits with a "Green Knight"'

Answer: (Sir) Gawain


Question: 'Name common to the 2 types of primates seen here'

Answer: a Capucin


Question: 'If you like light rum, crushed ice, pineapple juice, coconut cream, a cherry & getting caught in the rain, you like this'

Answer: piña coladas


Question:
'1950:
"I am big!  It's the pictures that got small"'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'Used in plastic bags, HDPE & LDPE stand for these two types of "polyethylene"'

Answer: high-density & low-density


Question: 'Lucknow is the capital city of this most populous state of India'

Answer: Uttar Pradesh


Question: 'The title "The Lord of the Rings" refers to this dark lord'

Answer: Sauron


Question: 'Nasalis larvatus is the scientific name for this type of monkey seen here'

Answer: a proboscis monkey


Question: 'Add a splash of creme de cassis to white wine to make this aperitif; use champagne to make it "royale"'

Answer: a kir


Question:
'1927:
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"'

Answer: The Jazz Singer


Question: 'The first NEA grant was awarded to save this Manhattan ballet company'

Answer: the American Ballet Theatre


Question: 'In song Elton John said goodbye to Princess Diana, referring to her as this flower'

Answer: a rose


Question: 'Thucydides, though from this city, tried to be fair to Sparta in narrating the Peloponnesian War'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'She argued 6 cases on women's rights before the Supreme Court in the 1970s; now she’s on the court'

Answer: Ginsburg


Question: 'Rossini:<br />"William ____"'

Answer: Tell


Question: 'A child who shares his date of birth with 4 of his siblings'

Answer: a quintuplet


Question: 'The NEA helped to fund & choose the design for this 1982 memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: the Vietnam Memorial


Question: 'This Whitney Houston hit begins, "If I should stay, I would only be in your way, so I'll go"'

Answer: "I Will Always Love You"


Question: 'Theophrastus followed this man's teachings in physics & metaphysics & followed him as the Lyceum's head'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'In March 1996 the Supreme Court ruled New York & other cities couldn’t change the results of this 1990 event'

Answer: the census


Question: 'Wagner:<br />"The Ring of the _____"'

Answer: Niebelung


Question: 'Seen here, this building in Ohio's capital was built by 19th-century convicts'

Answer: the Statehouse


Question: 'Guy Noir knows the NEA gave early, critical funding to start this Minnesota Public Radio variety show'

Answer: A Prairie Home Companion


Question: 'Michael Jackson protested in this hit, "I've seen the bright get duller, I'm not going to spend my life being a color"'

Answer: "Black Or White"


Question: 'The most economically important tree, a branch from it symbolized the birth of a boy'

Answer: an olive


Question: 'From Latin for "to move", one of these, such as a traffic ticket, requires you to pay a fine or appear in court'

Answer: a citation


Question: 'Mussorgsky:<br />"Boris _____"'

Answer: Godunov


Question: 'To talk to the Fish-Footman or the Mock Turtle, this is where you have to go'

Answer: Wonderland


Question: 'In 1967 the NEA helped found this organization set up to preserve our country's movie heritage'

Answer: the AFI (the American Film Institute)


Question: 'In 1990 Paula Abdul observed, "I take 2 steps forward, I take 2 steps back, we come together cuz" of this'

Answer: "Opposites Attract"


Question: 'The modern men's discus weighs 4.4 pounds; the ones found at this site in Greece's Elis Valley weighed up to 9 pounds'

Answer: Olympia


Question: 'O. Henry, Boss Tweed & Nikolae Ceausescu were all tried & convicted of this crime'

Answer: embezzlement


Question: 'Mozart:<br />"____ Fan Tutte"'

Answer: Cosi


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads as she & Jon play cards.)  Jon's keeping his cards under the table; I have mine above the table, which gave us this word meaning "without deceit"'

Answer: aboveboard


Question: 'Actor Gary Sinise co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre in this city & expanded its repertoire with NEA grants'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Celine Dion hit whose chorus is "'Cause I'm your lady & you are my man, whenever you reach for me, I'll do all that I can"'

Answer: "The Power Of Love"


Question: 'The name of this wise lawgiver of around 600 B.C. has come to mean any legislator'

Answer: Solon


Question: 'A 1969 case said the phrase "with all" these 2 words from Brown v. Board of Education wasn’t being followed'

Answer: deliberate speed


Question: 'Beethoven:<br />"______"'

Answer: Fidelio


Question: 'When you write a paper, you don't copy directly, but do this, a verb meaning restate or put into other words'

Answer: paraphrase


Question: 'Of all the U.S. states with 2 current NFL teams, it’s the only state the Mississippi River touches'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'In May 2001 Gerald Ford stopped into this president's library to pick up its Profiles in Courage Award'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The eggs in Eggs Benedict aren't fried or scrambled, but cooked this way'

Answer: poached


Question: 'To start with, S. is for this'

Answer: single


Question: 'In 2001 he was "Bringing It All Back Home": a Golden Globe & an Oscar for "Things Have Changed"'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names'

Answer: South Africa and/or North Korea & South Korea


Question: 'Your wife or husband'

Answer: spouse


Question: 'Pres. Bush chose Bob Mueller to replace Louis Freeh, who had resigned as head of this agency'

Answer: FBI


Question: 'In the Persian dish Dolmeh Sib, this fruit is stuffed with a mix of peas, onions & meat -- a little too much to give to a teacher'

Answer: apple


Question: 'She's an S.A.F., the A. for this ethnic origin'

Answer: Asian


Question: 'Melanie Griffith had "A Bod in Sin" in this film, but it was Carly Simon's "Let the River Run" that won an Oscar'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'They're the 2 western European island countries whose names differ by only one letter'

Answer: Iceland & Ireland


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  When your campfire is over, you should do this to it, preferably with water'

Answer: douse


Question: 'The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume exhibited erotic works this artist did between ages 13 & 92'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'This salad green, a variety of Italian chicory, is usually reddish'

Answer: radicchio


Question: 'Physically, this S.A.F. is H.W.P., height & weight this'

Answer: proportional


Question: '"Georgy Girl" & "Alfie" lost to this 1966 song that lionized a lioness named Elsa'

Answer: "Born Free"


Question: 'It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country'

Answer: Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud)


Question: 'Peasant is a popular type of this, & so is tunic'

Answer: blouse


Question: 'This 125-year-old women's magazine was briefly recast as "Rosie"'

Answer: McCall\'s


Question: 'An Austrian fingerling is a light-skinned, yellow-fleshed one of these'

Answer: potato


Question: 'Nothing casual for this S.A.F., H.W.P. -- she wants this, an L.T.R.'

Answer: long-term relationship


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome)  It's the title of a 1954 hit that won an Oscar for Best Song, & here's your big clue'

Answer: "Three Coins in the Fountain"


Question: 'Of the countries named for saints, the one that's completely surrounded by Italy'

Answer: San Marino


Question: 'Kevin Kline played a down-on-his-luck architect in the movie "Life as a" this'

Answer: House


Question: 'In July 2001 a cargo plane brought the salvaged parts of a U.S. spy plane back to the U.S. from this country'

Answer: China


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  This term for crimped decorative edge of a pie crust includes the name of a musical instrument'

Answer: fluted


Question: 'The S.A.M. whom this S.A.F. wants an L.T.R. with has to be N.S.N.D., for this'

Answer: non-smoking, non-drinking


Question: 'This legendary Broadway duo won only one Best Song Oscar, for the theme to "Gigi"'

Answer: Lerner and Loewe


Question: 'It's the only nation in the world with "name" in its English name'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'Species of this bird include the blue, spruce & ruffed'

Answer: grouse


Question: '"Bubba"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Rolling Stone said of this Ashley Judd-Sandra Bullock chick flick, "Ya-Ya is a definite no-no"'

Answer: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood


Question: 'Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, Prussia, which is now known as Kaliningrad in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Forms of this religion include Mahayana, Theravada & Zen'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Eye exactly 8 tentacles on a marine mollusk & you're looking at one of these animals'

Answer: octopus


Question: 'Proverbially, it's a difficult place to put "a square peg"'

Answer: in a round hole


Question: '"The Great Communicator"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'A review of this 2002 "love" story by P.T. Anderson marveled, "Adam Sandler!  In an art film!"'

Answer: Punch-Drunk Love


Question: 'Kant wrote a title one of these "of Pure Reason" & one "of Practical Reason"'

Answer: Critique


Question: 'In 300 A.D. Armenia became the first country in the world to make this faith its official religion'

Answer: Christianity


Question: 'Eye 8 points on one of these religious symbols  & it's probably a Maltese one'

Answer: cross


Question: '2-word term for a gathering place where drinks are sold'

Answer: watering hole


Question: '"The Sage of The Hermitage"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'The L.A. Times said, "The South takes another beating" in this film where Reese Witherspoon is a "Dixie Holly Golightly"'

Answer: Sweet Home Alabama


Question: '2 ways of gaining knowledge described by Kant were "a posteriori" & this Latin opposite'

Answer: a priori


Question: 'Conquering soldiers brought this young religion to north Africa around 642 A.D.'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Behold 8 historic bathhouses preserved along Bathhouse Row & you're in this nat'l park in Arkansas'

Answer: Hot Springs


Question: 'Named for a trapper who once lived there, it's a fertile valley in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park'

Answer: Jackson Hole


Question: '"The Hangman of Buffalo"'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'One review said that "The inspirational hooks" in this 2002 Eminem movie "reek of an After-School Special"'

Answer: 8 Mile


Question: 'Immanuel Kant said the work of this 18th century Scottish philosopher awoke him from a dogmatic slumber'

Answer: David Hume


Question: 'On October 20 followers of this religion celebrate the birth of the Bab'

Answer: Baha\'i Faith


Question: 'Spot John Cusack as one of 8 disgraced Chicago White Sox & you're watching this 1988 film'

Answer: Eight Men Out


Question: 'A research vessel from this oceanographic institute on Cape Cod located the Titanic in 1985'

Answer: Woods Hole


Question: '"The Idol of Ohio"'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'Newsweek called this film directed by Guy Ritchie "Madonna's Shipwreck"'

Answer: Swept Away


Question: 'According to Kant, any unavoidable requirement of moral law was this kind of "imperative"'

Answer: categorical


Question: 'When members of this offshoot of Hinduism perform important rituals, they use water stirred with a ceremonial sword'

Answer: Sikhism


Question: 'Gaze upon paintings by the American school known as "The 8" & remember this, their other "trashy" name'

Answer: Ashcan School


Question: 'These heavenly phenomena are defined in part by their Schwarzschild radii'

Answer: black holes


Question: 'Walter Cronkite said it was first used in 1952 for "Not exactly a reporter, not exactly a commentator"'

Answer: anchorman


Question: '"Mendicant" religious orders made their money the hard way, they did this to earn it'

Answer: Beg


Question: 'He's the slugger seen here'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'In 1998 Washington state processed 43,500 tons of grapes into white wine, about half of it this variety'

Answer: Chardonnay


Question: 'A finger stick is done to draw this'

Answer: Blood


Question: 'In 1964 & 1965 this group had 5 No. 1 hits in a row; included in them was "Baby Love"'

Answer: The Supremes


Question: 'Type of pie:<br />"PZZ"'

Answer: Pizza


Question: 'Old traditions of the Jewish holiday Lag Ba-Omer include bonfires & 3-year-old boys getting this cut for the first time'

Answer: Hair


Question: 'In 1950, 3 years after he entered the major leagues, he played himself in his own movie biography'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'With 13 offensive linemen totaling almost 2 tons, UW's football team lives up to this nickname'

Answer: Huskies


Question: 'Patch & scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these'

Answer: Allergies


Question: 'The champ on "Tic Tac Dough" in the 1980s had to get 3 of these in a row'

Answer: X\'s or O\'s


Question: 'The cruelest month:<br />"PRL"'

Answer: April


Question: 'The "Oxford Dict. of World Religions" calls it "the reverse side of blessing" (Mom didn't like it either)'

Answer: Cursing


Question: 'This Detroit Tigers outfielder hit .401 in 1922 but lost the AL batting title to George Sisler, who hit .420'

Answer: Ty Cobb


Question: 'The "Freighter" type of this huge Boeing jetliner has a maximum takeoff weight of over 430 tons'

Answer: 747


Question: 'Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract'

Answer: Gastrointestinal


Question: '2-word term for the ladies who are "all in a row" in Mary Mary's garden'

Answer: Pretty maids


Question: 'A place for bill collectors:<br />"WHT HS"'

Answer: White House


Question: 'Sawm, the fourth pillar of Islam, is this & it's done at times for a whole month'

Answer: Fasting


Question: 'On September 30, 1972 this Pittsburgh Pirate got his 3,000th & last career hit'

Answer: Roberto Clemente


Question: 'Oddly, in 1997 state aquaculture produced 28 tons of the Pacific type of this fish but 6,326 tons of the Atlantic type'

Answer: Salmon


Question: 'From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study'

Answer: Biopsy


Question: 'In bowling, 3 strikes in a row & you get this bird'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Hawkeye & Buckeye states:<br />"W" & "H"'

Answer: Iowa & Ohio


Question: 'Rastafarians have roots in 2 places: Ethiopia & this island'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'Signed by the Indians in 1948, this pitcher became the oldest rookie in major league history at age 42'

Answer: Leroy "Satchel" Paige


Question: 'This structure that created Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake weighs about 24 million tons'

Answer: Grand Coulee Dam


Question: 'CTs & MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group'

Answer: Spinal tap


Question: 'Modeled after the Italian form of the word, in architecture it's a bunch of columns in a row'

Answer: Colonnade


Question: 'A heavenly body:<br />"RNS"'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'Viking artifacts have been found on this large "new" Canadian island'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'Born in Berlin in 1901, she's the actress seen here'

Answer: Marlene Dietrich


Question: 'This discovery in 1959 turned Libya from one of the poorest into one of the wealthiest countries in Africa'

Answer: Oil


Question: 'Mummy told me to empty the bin, known as this 2-word name in the U.S.'

Answer: Trash can


Question: 'This liquid, especially the white type, usually provides the sour in sweet-&-sour sauce'

Answer: Vinegar


Question: 'A prominent identifying feature, like the Empire State Building'

Answer: Landmark


Question: 'This West Coast province is third largest in both area & population'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'Also a star of "Ewiger Walzer", Gert Frobe played the title "metallic" villain in this 1964 James Bond movie'

Answer: Goldfinger


Question: 'In 1986 this president ordered U.S. warplanes to bomb Libyan military installations'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'The 2 old age pensioners we've got in our attic would qualify as these "citizens" in the U.S.'

Answer: Senior citizens


Question: 'Though it has a liquid name, this edible tuber of Chinese sedge adds a solid, crunchy texture to stir-fry'

Answer: Water chestnut


Question: 'The practice of enhancing property with shaping, trees & plants'

Answer: Landscaping


Question: 'Canada's oldest city, it lies on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'He acted in 9 German films before playing Ugarte in "Casablanca" & Mr. Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon"'

Answer: Peter Lorre


Question: 'In the 7th century B.C., the Phoenicians founded this city as Oea; today it's the capital'

Answer: Tripoli


Question: 'Oh goody!  After tea we're going to play draughts, known as this in the States'

Answer: Checkers


Question: 'Famous rank of Tso, AKA Tao, a 19th C. warrior after whom a chicken dish was named'

Answer: General


Question: 'This New Orleans style of jazz is characterized by its improvisational solos'

Answer: Dixieland


Question: 'Middle Island, Canada's southernmost point, is found in this eastern Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Erie


Question: 'The father of Nastassja, he sank his teeth into the role of "Nosferatu" in 1979'

Answer: Klaus Kinski


Question: 'In 1969 he led a military revolt that overthrew the ruling monarchy'

Answer: Muammar Gaddafi


Question: 'Be careful around one of these, known as a power point; you may get a shock'

Answer: Electrical outlet


Question: 'Martin Yan's recipe for the crab version of this egg dish features ginger & cilantro as well as crab & eggs'

Answer: Egg Foo Yung


Question: 'Term for a country with no ocean access'

Answer: Landlocked


Question: 'Igniting a new rush, in 1989 Charles Fipke discovered diamonds in these barren "territories"'

Answer: Northwest Territories


Question: 'She starred in many movies before directing "Olympia" & "Triumph of the Will"'

Answer: Leni Riefenstahl


Question: 'From the 1500s to the 1800s, these pirates used the area as a base for raids on European shipping'

Answer: Barbary pirates


Question: 'My first aid kit contains an elastoplast, one of these'

Answer: Bandage


Question: 'The dried buds of this type of lily are called "golden needles"'

Answer: Tiger lily


Question: 'One once spanned what is now the Bering Strait'

Answer: Land bridge


Question: '2 of the 3 current Supreme Court justices appointed from the D.C. Court of Appeals'

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia & Clarence Thomas


Question: 'She "Went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone"'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'Ireland'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Before the 1912 Cadillac, we risked broken bones turning these to start the car...& we liked it!'

Answer: Cranks


Question: 'The first edition of the "Air Jordan" product from this company came out in 1985'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'Henry VIII married 3 Catherines, 2 Annes & this many Janes'

Answer: 1 (Jane Seymour)


Question: 'It's not me seen here coming out of the voting booth in 1962, but it is this woman who would later become first lady'

Answer: Pat Nixon


Question: 'Based on the number of commanders in chief born there, it's a nickname for the state of Virginia'

Answer: "Mother of Presidents"


Question: 'Australia'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'If King Gillette hadn't started mass-producing these, we'd still be sharpening them constantly...& we'd like it!'

Answer: Razor blades


Question: 'Born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His Airness is this air sign of the Zodiac'

Answer: Aquarius


Question: 'King Pedro IV of Portugal was also emperor Pedro I of this South American country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'It's not me in the 1968 photo seen here, but it is this victorious former Maryland governor & running mate'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'For miners, it's the main vein of ore in a region'

Answer: Mother lode


Question: 'Canada'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'Until Roy Plunkett invented this material, we spent hours scraping food off cookware...& we liked it!'

Answer: Teflon


Question: 'It's the alma mater that retired Michael's No. 23 jersey'

Answer: University of North Carolina


Question: 'Bohemond I was a great leader of the first of these expeditions, in the 1090s'

Answer: Crusades


Question: 'It's not me in the 1981 photo seen here, but it is this famous Georgian'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'It's another name for your native language'

Answer: Mother tongue


Question: 'Pakistan'

Answer: Karachi


Question: 'Until the photocopier, we always had stained fingers from the paper named for this element...& we liked it!'

Answer: Carbon


Question: 'MJ won Olympic gold in 1992 in Barcelona & in 1984 in this city'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: 'Catherine de Medicis was this Scottish queen's first mother-in-law'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'It's not me in the 1959 photo seen here, but it is this debatable Soviet leader'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'This courageous Nobel Prize-winning nun was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'Morocco'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Before calculators were common, every student had this jutting from his pocket...& we liked it!'

Answer: Slide rule


Question: 'In 1993 Jordan joined this man as the only 2 players in NBA history to win 7 consecutive scoring titles'

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain


Question: 'Prince Andrew's younger daughter shares this first name with the wife of emperor Napoleon III'

Answer: Eugenie


Question: 'It's not me in the 1959 photo seen here, but it is this famous political pet'

Answer: Checkers


Question: 'Jamie Lee Curtis'

Answer: Janet Leigh


Question: 'The defect called deuteranopia usually causes confusion of red & this color; a possible problem at traffic signals'

Answer: Green


Question: 'From the Middle Greek for "small vessel", they're the famous canalcraft of Venice'

Answer: Gondolas


Question: 'Opened to the West in the 1850s, this nation learned fast & defeated China in war in the 1890s'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Supremes superstar running as a third party option in 1992 & 1996'

Answer: Diana Ross Perot


Question: 'In his last "Tonight Show" monologue, on May 22, 1992 he took a parting shot at Dan Quayle'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'Carrie Fisher'

Answer: Debbie Reynolds


Question: '2 colors called this aren't praising each other, they're directly opposite each other on a color wheel'

Answer: Complementary colors


Question: 'First name given to Disney's "The Love Bug" who starred in 4 movies'

Answer: Herbie


Question: 'These 2 comrades' first major joint work, 1845's "The German Ideology", went unpublished for decades'

Answer: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels


Question: '"City Slickers" funnyman who built Rev. Schuller's Orange County church'

Answer: Billy Crystal Cathedral


Question: 'Viaticum, confession & anointing of the sick are part of this Roman Catholic procedure'

Answer: Last rites


Question: 'Natasha Gregson Wagner'

Answer: Natalie Wood


Question: 'A prism breaks sunlight into the visible part of this, containing the colors of the rainbow'

Answer: Spectrum


Question: 'The Speedwell was this famous ship's companion in August 1620'

Answer: Mayflower


Question: 'Industrialists said "Bessemer Mucho" in 1856 when Henry Bessemer announced a new process for making this'

Answer: Steel


Question: 'NYC museum on 53rd Street that was Paul Simon's singing partner'

Answer: The Museum of Modern Art Garfunkel


Question: 'The last line of this Jack London tale is "...he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack"'

Answer: "Call of the Wild"


Question: 'Melanie Griffith'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'This 3-letter word for a basic color like blue is one element of the Munsell Classification System'

Answer: Hue


Question: 'It was Captain Nemo's deadly submarine in the Jules Verne classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"'

Answer: Nautilus


Question: 'Charles Lyell's "Principles of" this science said processes that have changed the Earth continue to operate today'

Answer: Geology


Question: '"Sling Blade" actor who chronicled "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton Wilder


Question: 'This "Home Run King" played in his 3,298th & last game for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'Kate Hudson'

Answer: Goldie Hawn


Question: 'In violet, this distance is a short 3,800 to 4,500 angstrom units'

Answer: Wavelength


Question: 'Espionage was the charge when North Korea captured this 83-man U.S. vessel in January 1968'

Answer: Pueblo


Question: 'The U.S. formally acquired it in 1821; it became a territory in 1822 & a state in 1845'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Grammy-winning ex-Menudo singing sensation who became the 8th U.S. president'

Answer: Ricky Martin Van Buren


Question: 'His "New World" symphony was his ninth & last'

Answer: Antonin Dvorak


Question: 'This recent hit film was based on the book "Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter"'

Answer: Patch Adams


Question: 'Marshall entered Virginia politics & in 1787 was a delegate to the convention to ratify this'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'A U.S. president: <br />USG'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'The American alligator can be found from Texas to as far east & north as this "Tar Heel State"'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Kim Il-Sung Stadium'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'In 1959 he took the honor as leader of the Green Bay Packers'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'It's an organized group or association, like the Red Hat or Humane'

Answer: a society


Question: 'In 1807 Marshall presided over the treason trial of this man'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'A presidential assassin: <br />JWB'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'Being terrestrial, the cape speckled padloper isn't called a turtle, but this'

Answer: a tortoise


Question: 'Stadio Giuseppe Meazza'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Da 1985 NFC choice was this coach of da bears'

Answer: (Mike) Ditka


Question: 'Get some sun in one of these glass-enclosed rooms or porches'

Answer: a solarium


Question: 'Marshall was a cousin, friend & finally adversary of this president who raged at his pro-Federalist rulings'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'A composer & a baroque'n man: <br />JSB'

Answer: (Johann Sebastian) Bach


Question: 'In 1992 babies of this largest lizard hatched for the first time outside of Indonesia at Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo'

Answer: a Komodo dragon


Question: 'Estadio Azteca'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'He was honored as coach of the Dolphins in 1971, even though he lost some games that year'

Answer: (Don) Shula


Question: 'Paul Hindemith composed many of these, including ones for solo harp, English horn & bassoon'

Answer: sonatas


Question: 'As minister to this nation, Marshall became an American hero for refusing the demands made in the XYZ Affair'

Answer: France


Question: 'She's a suspenseful contemporary novelist:<br />MHC'

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark


Question: 'Although called a "toad", this North American animal is actually a lizard that feeds mainly on ants'

Answer: a horned toad (horny toad accepted)


Question: 'Malmo Stadion'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'In 1990 he rode with the Dallas Cowboys to NFC honors'

Answer: Jimmy Johnson


Question: 'This capital near the center of the Balkans region was named for a church'

Answer: Sofia


Question: 'Marshall's first major case, Marbury v. him, established the court's right to review federal laws'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'A fashion designer, nee halfin: <br />DVF'

Answer: (Diane) von Fürstenberg


Question: 'This snake can range in size from the 23-inch ant-hill species to the reticulated, which may reach 33 feet'

Answer: a python


Question: 'Estadio Presidente Peron'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'This hoodied genius was named in 2007 for the Patriots'

Answer: Bill Belichick


Question: 'It's the 2-word chemical name for table salt; pass it around!'

Answer: sodium chloride


Question: 'This "explosive" term refers to a period of rapid economic growth'

Answer: a boom


Question: 'The New York Times headlined a review of this show "Pulling Heartstrings, Racy Puppets Return"'

Answer: Avenue Q


Question: 'Stieg Larsson: <br />"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's ___"'

Answer: Nest


Question: 'In 1429 at about age 17, she left home to fulfill her mission; she said god sent her to drive the English from France'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'A 3-year-old chestnut colt named Aristides won the first of these, now an annual event, at Churchill Downs'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'Society of Friends member who believes he's a subatomic particle'

Answer: a quarker


Question: 'Before becoming fed chairman in 2006, he served 6 months as chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisors'

Answer: Bernanke


Question: 'The Times said of a 2011 production of his "Cymbeline", "the comedy, poignancy & unlikely magic... surface gently"'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: 'Alexander McCall Smith:<br />"The No. 1 ___ Detective Agency"'

Answer: Ladies


Question: 'This Greek "Father of Medicine" could not heal himself, dying around 377 B.C.; he was buried at Larissa in Thessaly'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: '2010 saw the 40th anniversary of this pro-environment observance'

Answer: Earth Day


Question: 'Poor Richard's tome that's a slang term for a drug enforcement agent'

Answer: an almanarc


Question: 'Among the duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is to release monthly data on the CPI, which stands for this'

Answer: the Consumer Price Index


Question: 'The Artsbeat blog talked of how this "360" CNN anchor landed the gig as the "book voice" in "How to Succeed in Business..."'

Answer: Anderson Cooper


Question: 'John Grisham:<br />"Theodore Boone: Kid ___"'

Answer: Lawyer


Question: 'In 1584 this Golden Hind sailor represented the town of Bossiney in the House of Commons'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'An old belief says that if the sun shines on Candlemas Day, now observed on this date, 6 weeks of winter will ensue'

Answer: February 2


Question: 'German WWII air force that goes great with syrup & butter for breakfast'

Answer: a Luftwaffle


Question: 'From the French for "undertake", it's an individual who undertakes a business venture with much risk'

Answer: an entrepreneur


Question: 'The Times said Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is "the highlight" of the "effervescent" 2011 revival of this Wilde comedy'

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest


Question: 'Mireille Guiliano: <br />"French Women Don't Get ___"'

Answer: Fat


Question: 'In 1209 the pope excommunicated this king known for the Magna Carta; 4 years later, all was forgiven'

Answer: John


Question: 'Marian McQuade created a holiday for these people to champion the cause of the lonely elderly in nursing homes'

Answer: grandparents


Question: 'Third-largest Japanese city that's a pioneering Kraft decaf brand'

Answer: osanka


Question: 'In 1944 this British baron traveled to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where the IMF was created'

Answer: John Maynard Keynes


Question: 'Bucking tradition, critics, including the Times

Answer: Spider-Man


Question: 'Barbara Kingsolver: <br />"Pigs in ___"'

Answer: Heaven


Question: 'In February 1940 the Soviets became a Mannerheim line steamroller & invaded this northern country'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'The items seen here are used in celebration of this'

Answer: Kwaanza


Question: 'Greek king who led a war against Troy as a noble gas'

Answer: Agamemneon


Question: 'Opened in 1971, his presidential library is the farthest south'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'In 1811 the first of these to ply the Ohio River was built in Pittsburgh--the New Orleans, named for where it was headed'

Answer: a steamboat


Question: 'This show that debuted in '02 has cursing by mom, dad, son & daughter, & dogs that aren't housebroken'

Answer: The Osbournes


Question: 'This animal's horns, seen here, are made entirely of keratin, a fibrous hair protein'

Answer: the rhinoceros


Question: 'He was a Teke, a Tau Kappa Epsilon, & founded a hotel chain, but you probably just know him as Paris' great-granddad'

Answer: Conrad Hilton


Question: 'Ogden Nash said these people were "Tinglish"'

Answer: the English


Question:
'…that means of secondary importance:
A. ancillary
B. fiduciary
C. habilimentary
D. pecuniary'

Answer: ancillary


Question: 'It's the geographically appropriate name of the Pittsburgh landmark seen here on Feb. 11, 2001'

Answer: Three Rivers Stadium


Question: 'On "Newlyweds", Nick Lachey had to explain to her that Chicken of the Sea is actually fish'

Answer: Jessica Simpson


Question: 'Though closely related to sheep, this animal has a beard & its horns are not spirally twisted'

Answer: a goat


Question: 'Nike founder Phil Knight went tropical at Oregon by joining Phi Gamma Delta, known by this "national" name'

Answer: the Fijis


Question: 'It's "burning bright in the forests of the night"'

Answer: Tyger, Tyger


Question:
'…that means to perplex:
A. acrimonious
B. congruous
C. nonplus
D. tremulous'

Answer: nonplus


Question: 'In 1753 this Virginian with a future in politics said the area was "extremely well situated for a fort"'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Each season, 7 strangers share a home, as well as their lives, loves & libidos, on this long-running series'

Answer: The Real World


Question: 'Life is unfair for the males of this animal, seen here; they're bald on top of their horns, while the female has hair'

Answer: a giraffe


Question: 'An Alpha Sigma Phi at Penn, this Berkshire Hathaway man was worth a tidy $42.9 billion in '04'

Answer: Warren Buffett


Question: 'It's the mournful type of poem "written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray'

Answer: an elegy


Question:
'…that means face up:
A. prostrate
B. prone
C. supine
D. incline'

Answer: supine


Question: 'The photo of this national hero seen here was taken in Pittsburgh on August 3, 1927'

Answer: (Charles) Lindbergh


Question: 'On one episode, Halle Berry is denied entrance to her own movie premiere on this prank-filled show'

Answer: Punk\'d


Question: 'This North American animal's population had dropped from almost 50 million to under 1000 by 1889'

Answer: the buffalo (or the bison)


Question: 'Last name of the Michigan State A.T.O. [alpha tau omega] who, in '99, followed in Dad's footsteps & became president of the Teamsters'

Answer: (James P.) Hoffa


Question: 'He believed "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question:
'…that means verbal abuse:
A. abrogation
B. cogitation
C. sinistration
D. vituperation'

Answer: vituperation


Question: 'On July 4, 1826, a historic date, this "Oh! Susanna" composer was born in what's now a part of Pittsburgh'

Answer: (Stephen) Foster


Question: 'Contestants must complete a mission in order to get to a new location on this x-treme travel adventure series'

Answer: Road Rules


Question: 'It was one of the largest of the horned dinosaurs; 2 of its 3 horns were up to 3 feet long'

Answer: triceratops


Question: 'Alpha Phi Alpha John H. Johnson founded this magazine in 1951, 6 years after Ebony'

Answer: Jet


Question: 'His "Ulalume" rhymes "sober" with "lonesome October"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question:
'…that means not sincere:
A. dissentious
B. disputatious
C. disingenuous
D. discommodious'

Answer: disingenuous


Question: 'Brad played this Greek hero in the epic "Troy"'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'This event that began in 1789 embodied many Enlightenment ideas, but is thought to have ended the era'

Answer: the French Revolution


Question: 'Don Young from this state with 27 boroughs, including Sitka & North Slope'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'By examining these in some trees, you can figure out what the weather was like thousands of years ago'

Answer: the rings