Question: 'The name of this strong beer made from roasted barley is also an adjective meaning thickset or heavy'

Answer: stout


Question: 'His groovin' combo is heard here'

Answer: Dave Brubeck


Question: 'In 1999 the city of Usti Nad Labem tried to wall off these residents AKA the Romany, but had to take the wall down'

Answer: Gypsies


Question: 'In "Spy Kids", this "Nash Bridges" co-star helped the kids rescue their kidnapped parents'

Answer: Cheech Marin


Question: '"So little done -- so much to do" were the 1902 last words of this British Empire bulider in Africa'

Answer: Cecil Rhodes


Question: 'This phrase meaning a reliable method comes from the brewing practice of dipping in a digit to check temperature'

Answer: rule of thumb


Question: 'The name of this armored warrior maiden of German opera is from the Old German for "armored warrior maiden"'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: '1997 floods on this river caused 50 billion korunas in damage -- & the smell!'

Answer: Oder River


Question: 'This 1997 Nicolas Cage film featured the hit song "How Do I Live"'

Answer: Con Air


Question: 'Before his 1915 execution, this radical labor leader wrote, "Don't waste time in mourning -- organize"'

Answer: Joe Hill


Question: 'In 1655 the British Royal Navy began to replace its sailors' beer rations with this alcoholic beverage'

Answer: rum


Question: 'The name of this Belgian city famous for its bridges means "city of bridges"'

Answer: Bruges


Question: 'This company was named for the sound made by its top product -- a slingshot hitting its target'

Answer: Wham-O


Question: 'It flows over 2300 miles before entering the Mississippi just north of St. Louis'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: '1931:<br />Boris Karloff as his monster'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: 'Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these'

Answer: a hot air balloon


Question: 'Traditionally, this man who writes a lot of checks gives the first toast at an engagement dinner'

Answer: bride\'s father


Question: 'For best movie, Reader's Digest chose 8 films, including this one set at Rick's Cafe Americain'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Whether the man or the decor, Louis Quatorze means this king'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: '1,645 feet deep, this beautiful blue lake on the California-Nevada border is one of North America's deepest'

Answer: Lake Tahoe


Question: '1986:<br />Jeff Goldblum'

Answer: the Fly


Question: 'The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'For rich apartment dwellers, Emily Post recommends tipping a helpful super & a helpful one of these $50 at holiday time'

Answer: a doorman


Question: 'America's "best lost cause" is this team whose fans have been waiting since 1908 for another World Series title'

Answer: the (Chicago) Cubs


Question: 'Quebec first decreed that all these signs must say "arret", then decided to allow this as a French word'

Answer: stop


Question: 'A major traffic route, the Arlington Memorial Bridge spans this river'

Answer: Potomac


Question: '1933:<br />Claude Raines'

Answer: The Invisible Man


Question: 'Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these'

Answer: elements


Question: 'It's the only fork ever placed to the right of the plate'

Answer: a cocktail fork


Question: 'Lasting a scary 4 minutes, Revenge of the Mummy at 2 of this studio's theme parks is "America's Best Roller Coaster"'

Answer: Universal


Question: 'This organization whose name comes from the French for "sun" calls its bungee routine "ballet without gravity"'

Answer: Cirque du Soleil


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on a lakeshore.)  I'm standing near the shore of this body of water that was once known as "Lac Des Illinois"'

Answer: Lake Michigan


Question: '1979:<br />Frank Langella'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type'

Answer: back-up file


Question: 'This 7-letter courtesy title for lawyers is never used in a personal introduction'

Answer: esquire


Question: 'Housing the world's largest indoor swamp, this Nebraska city's Henry Doorly Zoo is "America's Best"'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'Mon dieu!  In 1933 this famous French cooking school opened a London branch'

Answer: Le Cordon Bleu


Question: 'This river winds its way through Grand Teton National Park, as well as Hell's Canyon'

Answer: Snake River


Question: '1951:<br />James Arness'

Answer: the Thing from Another World


Question: 'An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this'

Answer: sunshine


Question: 'When the band strikes up this appropriate serenade from 1911, it's time to get your hat, coat & spouse'

Answer: "Good Night, Ladies"


Question: 'The Digest calls this city America's best tourist attraction saying it has "its own king" & is home to the blues'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Formed by flowing water, the channel called a moulin gets its name from this structure'

Answer: mill


Question: 'In 1585 John Davis sailed to find the Northwest Passage with 2 ships: Sunneshine & this one (hic!)'

Answer: Moonshine


Question: 'On this show, J.R. slept with his sister-in-law, who shot him; Bobby died but then didn't & both ran Ewing Oil'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'In Greek myth, young children were fed to this monster in the labyrinth in an annual tribute'

Answer: the Minotaur


Question: 'The largest of the 4 modern countries Jose de San Martin helped liberate from European rule'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'The "blue dawn" is a variety of this climbing vine whose flowers open with the first light of dawn'

Answer: a morning glory


Question: 'Lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott key penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" during this war'

Answer: the War of 1812


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before an aircraft carrier.)  The U.S.S. Tarawa takes its name from an atoll where a fierce battle between the U.S. and this nation took place'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This '80s show, let's see... Krystle & Alexis fell into a pond during a catfight... Blake ran the family oil company'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'In one West African myth, Anansi, a trickster in the form of this, traveled the world on his web strings'

Answer: a spider


Question: 'Former Archbishop Jose Sanchez is a member of this "college"'

Answer: the College of Cardinals


Question: 'Originating in this country, Alboradas, "dawn songs", are peices originally performed in the morning'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'It's the very last word of the song'

Answer: brave


Question: 'Noted Dandy George Crowninsheild Jr. built the USA's 1st seagoing yacht & called it this woman's "barge''

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'This TV title character worked for the L.A. Tribune under autocratic publisher Mrs. Pynchon'

Answer: Lou Grant


Question: 'In Hindusim Ganesha, the god of wisdom, has a human body & the head of this mammal'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Congressman Jose Serrano represents a district in this Eastern state'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Longfellow's sonnet about this 14th century British tale spinner calls him "the poet of the dawn"'

Answer: Chaucer


Question: 'Today, the enormous flag mentioned in the song is on display here'

Answer: the Smithsonian


Question: 'Take a Blush Magazine quiz written by Maya Gallo & you'll be watching this workplace comedy'

Answer: Just Shoot Me


Question: 'Both the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl & the Mayan god Kukulcan were these creatures adorned with feathers'

Answer: snakes


Question: 'Of the opera stars known as "The Three Tenors", he's the one born in Barcelona'

Answer: (José) Carerras


Question: 'In a series of works from around 1894, this French impressionist painted Rouen Cathedral at Dawn'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'It's the U.S. state where the original poem was written'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'For Thanksgiving, this sitcom's radio station manager dropped turkeys from a helicopter, thinking they could fly'

Answer: WKRP


Question: 'Nessus, one of these, half-horse half-man, was killed by Hercules after he tried to rape Hercules' wife'

Answer: a centaur


Question: 'Serving for a time under Simon Bolivar, Jose Antonio Paez eventually became the 1st president of this country'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'The name of this small prehistoric horse of North America comes from Greek for "dawn horse"'

Answer: eohippus


Question: 'The poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first published as "The Defense of " this military compound'

Answer: Fort McHenry


Question: 'The Arab-Israeli War that started on June 5, 1967 ended with a cease-fire on this date in Israel'

Answer: June 10, 1967


Question: 'In 1848 the U.S. got 1/2 million square miles from Mexico, including land north of the Gila River & this Intl. border river'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'There's a 9.6 million-square-foot mall in Dongguan in this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'The grunt of a sow'

Answer: an oink


Question: 'The sting-happy European fire ant is polygynous, meaning it has lots of these royals per colony'

Answer: queens


Question: 'In the 1960s for some reason it was great fun to smash these instruments to bits; perhaps a baby grand?'

Answer: a  piano


Question: 'In the 1971-72 NBA season, this team won a record 33 games in a row (without Kobe!)'

Answer: the Lakers


Question: 'In 1864 this NYC politician set up a printing company, then assigned all city printing to it'

Answer: Boss Tweed


Question: 'Malls of South America include Cidade Jardim in this largest Brazilian city'

Answer: São Paulo


Question: 'The first word of the Lord's Prayer'

Answer: our


Question: 'There are some 1,400 known species of this arachnid that has pincers up front & a stinger in the tail'

Answer: a scorpion


Question: 'Ah, the 1950s...<br />time for panty raids & the stuffing of these small structures with as many people as possible'

Answer: phone booths


Question: 'USC football's 34-game win streak from 2003 to 2006 set a record for this conference'

Answer: the PAC 10


Question: 'On Oct. 18, 1867 General Lovell Rousseau formally received this territory purchased 7 months earlier'

Answer: the Alaska Territory


Question: 'The West Edmonton Mall is this province's top tourist attraction'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'Without purpose, perhaps because you don't have your favorite instant messenger'

Answer: aimless


Question: 'The "killer" honey bee <i>Apis mellifera scutellata</i> is also known by this "continental" name'

Answer: an African killer bee


Question: 'The campus lunacy of swallowing these members of the carp family peaked in the 1930s'

Answer: goldfish


Question: 'This swimmer won at least 6 gold medals at each of the last 2 summer Olympics'

Answer: Michael Phelps


Question: 'This Ill. senator sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing each territory to decide the issue of slavery'

Answer: Stephen Douglas


Question: 'Art & commerce do mix, as you'll find at the Paris Mall Carrousel du this'

Answer: Louvre


Question: 'It's the only state that fits the bill'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'Ecch! The wasp <i>D. longicaudata</i> oviposits in the larvae of the Caribbean fruit fly, meaning it does this there'

Answer: lays its eggs


Question: 'In the 1980s groups of students started forming circles & kicking these little bags back & forth'

Answer: hackysacks


Question: 'He led the NHL in scoring for 7 straight years in the '80s with Edmonton'

Answer: Gretzky


Question: 'In August 1812 this future president was put in charge of the Northwestern Army'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'This rhyming London street runs between Regent & St. James' Streets'

Answer: Pall Mall


Question: 'This word referring to a Roman soothsayer has become a verb meaning "to predict"'

Answer: augur


Question: 'Xylocopa is this bee that chews holes in wood; it's named for a job that does more constructive wood work'

Answer: carpenter


Question: 'Originally worn by sailors, these flared jeans became popular on college campuses in the '60s & '70s'

Answer: bell-bottoms


Question: 'After his 56-game hitting streak ended in 1941, this Yankee hit in 16 straight; that's 72 out of 73 games'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'The Granddaddy of all modern fraternities, this organization began accepting non-stoneworkers in the 1600s'

Answer: the Masons


Question: 'Hindi actor Dev Patel cashed in as the title character in this 2008 Best Picture Oscar winner'

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire


Question: 'Dill & bread-&-butter are types of these'

Answer: pickles


Question: 'Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky was lauded for his translation of "The Inferno of" this other poet'

Answer: Dante


Question: 'Just average 3.75 miles a day for a week & you'll have totaled about this marathon distance'

Answer: 26 miles (& 385 yards)


Question: '"Mythical bird", whether you're in Arizona or not'

Answer: a Phoenix


Question: 'Founded in 1888, the Loyal Order of this large deer once had Warren G. Harding & Charlie Chaplin as members'

Answer: moose


Question: 'Sadly, in 2009, the bell tolled for 15-year-old Gigi, a dog of this breed, who gained fame starring in Taco Bell commercials'

Answer: a Chihuahua


Question: 'Bing,<br />Lycos'

Answer: search engines


Question: '"The Twa Dogs" & "Scotch Drink" are among his "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"'

Answer: (Rabbie) Burns


Question: 'Just average 101 & 297 to get this prime number'

Answer: 199


Question: '"False name"; that's it, really. A false name'

Answer: a pseudonym


Question: 'Key Club is a high school branch of the fraternal organization begun in 1915'

Answer: the Kiwanis


Question: 'Popular magazines from Food Network chefs include "Cooking with Paula Deen" & "Every Day with" her'

Answer: Rachael Ray


Question:
'All Terrain,
Mud Terrain,
Radial'

Answer: tires


Question: 'Robert Herrick gave us the line "Gather ye" these "while ye may"'

Answer: rosebuds


Question: 'The average is also called the arithmetic this'

Answer: mean


Question: '"A band of dancers & singers"; it's sung after some verses'

Answer: a chorus


Question: 'Founded in 1882, they were named for the discoverer of the Americas'

Answer: the Knights of Columbus


Question: 'After a short stint on "Melrose Place", Ashlee Simpson-Wentz was Broadway bound as Roxie Hart in this musical'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Power "I",<br />Spread'

Answer: offenses in football


Question: 'This American poet wrote, "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Just average Joe & Josephine to get this average number of letters in their names'

Answer: six


Question: '"Going out"; it's a book in the Bible'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'To be a member of A.O.H., the ancient order of these, you must be a Catholic & either Irish or of Irish descent'

Answer: Hibernians


Question: 'This star of "The Nanny Diaries" has a twin brother named Hunter'

Answer: Scarlett Johannson


Question:
'Coptic,
Pashto,
Nadsat'

Answer: languages


Question: 'This Boston-born poet was related to astronomer Percival & to fellow poets Amy & James Russell'

Answer: Robert Lowell, Jr.


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of an equation.)  Items get different importance when calculating slugging average. A single counts as one, a triple as three, making it this type of average that sounds heavy.'

Answer: weighted average


Question: '"relating to memory"; one is "every good boy does fine"'

Answer: a mnemonic


Question: 'The genes of this organism were discovered to be 2 parts pig, 1 part human & 1 part bird'

Answer: H1N1 (or swine flu)


Question: 'Multiple homicides, regicide via poison in ear; unit dispatched to nunnery for further investigation'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'In drag as a peasant in this Monty Python film, Terry Jones tells King Arthur, "I didn't vote for you"'

Answer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail


Question: 'German Eiswein, meant to go with this course, is so concentrated, some recommend it in place of the course'

Answer: dessert


Question: 'This doctor found Victoria Falls but never discovered the source of the Nile'

Answer: Dr. Livingstone


Question: 'It's a small whirlpool'

Answer: an eddy


Question: 'From Cyprus PD: Man smothered or strangled wife, TBD by coroner; man confirmed suicide at scene'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Barry Humphries, the voice of Bruce the Shark in "Finding Nemo", also performs as this "Dame", possums'

Answer: Dame Edna


Question: 'With spaghetti & meat sauce, try Classico, one of the 7 subzones of this Italian red wine'

Answer: Chianti


Question: 'This smallest of the British breeds was in huge demand after children were banned from coal mining'

Answer: a Shetland pony


Question: 'On Oct. 12, 1492 he thought he'd reached Asia; in fact, the closest he ever got was an Aegean island as a young man'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Avid Xpress DV, Final Cut Pro & Adobe Premiere are software for this use'

Answer: (film) editing


Question: 'Death by stabbing & then drowning in "Malmsey-Butt"; regicide, presumably for lack of equine'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Tim Curry was dressed for success as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this 1975 cult movie'

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show


Question: 'Orange muscat goes well with this feminine-named treat that's doused with orange liqueur & set aflame'

Answer: Crêpe Suzette


Question: 'Cavalry horses trained for battle; it's also an NFL team name'

Answer: Chargers


Question: 'In 1999 software & navigation issues kept the Polar Lander & the Climate Orbiter from exploring this planet'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'In "The Sound of Music", this is "small and white, clean and bright"'

Answer: Edelweiss


Question: 'Impersonating an officer of the court, attempted flesh mutilation & loan sharking'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'This 1959 movie ends with Jerry saying, "You don't understand... I'm a man!" & getting the reply, "Well, nobody's perfect"'

Answer: Some Like It Hot


Question: 'In the film "Sideways", Miles makes a speech in praise of this red that goes well with roast fowl'

Answer: Pinot


Question: 'To do this to a horse, you'd need a comb; to do it to Indian food, you'd need the powder'

Answer: curry


Question: 'He named the ocean "Pacific" after many turbulent detours in South America while searching for Asia'

Answer: (Ferdinand) Magellan


Question: 'The term for excess fluid can be cerebral or pulmonary'

Answer: edema


Question: 'From Rome PD:<br />Dismemberment, homicide, cannibalism, emperor-cide, unauthorized tongue-ectomy'

Answer: Titus Andronicus


Question: 'At 6'7", this one-named African-American dragster was hard to miss in the video for "Love Shack"'

Answer: RuPaul


Question: 'With sardines, perhaps a white Vinho Verde from this nation that fishes for them'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'As an adjective, the name of this breed of horse can mean pure or genuine'

Answer: Thoroughbred


Question: 'Verrazano discovered this Rhode Island bay but made a bad turn & disappeared in Central America'

Answer: Narragansett Bay


Question: 'There's this type of decree of Nantes, Milan, Toleration & Worms'

Answer: an edict


Question: 'This New Mexico town was founded in 1706 & today is the largest city in the state'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: '"Waterloo at Southfork"'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'The $6 Million Man could tell you that this word lost the "electro" from its middle'

Answer: bionic


Question: 'Cindy, you're a nice girl, but I only want a relationship named for this philosopher of ideal forms'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'An Ivoirian culinary specialty is foutou, often made from this, which gets confused with the sweet potato'

Answer: a yam


Question: 'In movie titles this kind of threat has been "Red" & "Phantom"'

Answer: a menace


Question: 'Francis Hauksbee developed a generator of this type of electricity, a glass globe you rotated & rubbed'

Answer: static electricity


Question: '"The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club"'

Answer: Magnum, P.I.


Question: '2 men at the U. of Washington's Department of this won the 1992 Nobel Prize for studying cell protein regulation'

Answer: biochemistry


Question: 'Though not a lingerie designer, this doctor has a "slip" named for him'

Answer: Freud


Question: 'If you go, remember your Malarone for protection from a disease carried by this creature'

Answer: mosquito


Question: 'It describes the fight in "The Star-Spangled Banner"'

Answer: perilous


Question: 'In 1706 Charles XII of this Scandinavian country invaded Saxony as part of the "Great Northern War"'

Answer: Sweden


Question: '"Three Brides for Hoss"'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew sits by a machine that's playing with a shoe at the Nike Campus in Oregon.)  The three main areas studied at the Nike Sport Research Lab are physiology, sensory perception & this, defined as the way forces act on the body'

Answer: biomechanics


Question: 'The name of this late Italian moviemaker plus -esque has come to mean grotesque or surreal'

Answer: Fellini


Question: 'Not Rome but Yamoussoukro features the world's tallest of this special type of cathedral'

Answer: basilica


Question: 'Referring to an unsuspected danger, the Latin phrase "anguis in herba" literally means this'

Answer: a snake in the grass


Question: 'In 1706 she was queen of England & involved in a North American war bearing her name'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: '"Elaan of Troyius"'

Answer: Star Trek


Question: 'If you doubt the need for a pink-eared antgrubber & a hollow-tailed antgrubber, you aren't recognizing the value of this'

Answer: biodiversity


Question: 'To describe a society where the government knows everything about you, add -ian to the name of this British author'

Answer: Orwell


Question: 'Though no longer the official capital, this city is still the commercial & cultural center'

Answer: Abidjan


Question: 'The federal "Office of" this type of "Materials Safety" bans sending anhydrous ammonia by passenger plane'

Answer: hazardous


Question: 'This acclaimed Baroque composer whose work is heard here died in 1706'

Answer: Pachelbel


Question: '"Fallon's Father"'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'Biblical-sounding term for the principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms'

Answer: biogenesis


Question: 'The first French colonial capital, Grand Bassam, is perched on the shore of this gulf'

Answer: the Gulf of Guinea


Question: 'This adjective for the position you're in teetering on the edge of a cliff comes from the same root as "prayer"'

Answer: precarious


Question: 'The 2 GOP vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency & were later elected president in their own right'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt & Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'In 1977 he became the first veep to move into the vice president's current official residence'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question:
'1982:
"The Lady In My Life",
"Billie Jean"'

Answer: Thriller


Question: 'One of the bestselling grapes in the U.S. is the Thompson this'

Answer: seedless


Question: 'This name of a boy who can fly can be applied to any emotionally undeveloped man'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Armed with just a sling & some pebbles, David took out this Philistine giant'

Answer: Goliath


Question: '"Queen of Mean", indeed: her will gave her grandkids nothing but left $12 million in a trust fund for her dog'

Answer: Leona Helmsley


Question: 'Pinch-pitching for this man, his boss, in 1912 James Sherman became the first VP to make an opening day baseball toss'

Answer: Taft


Question:
'1984:
"Glory Days",
"Dancing In The Dark"'

Answer: Born in the U.S.A.


Question: 'This kind of environmentally friendly office is still a dream: printing out email totally defeats the point'

Answer: paperless


Question: 'This money-lending character from a 1596 play now refers to any heartless or demanding creditor'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'A trebuchet, a medieval weapon with a sling for hurling missiles, worked much like this playground apparatus'

Answer: a see-saw


Question: 'Talk about throwing your money away: ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski spent $2,200 on a gilt metal one of these'

Answer: a trash can


Question: 'She was the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party'

Answer: Geraldine Ferraro


Question:
'1976:
"Life In The Fast Lane",
"New Kid In Town"'

Answer: Hotel California


Question: 'An abyss can be described as this 3-syllable type of "pit"'

Answer: bottomless


Question: 'Seen here is a 19th century illustration of this Rabelais character'

Answer: Gargantua


Question: 'In the 16th c., both the Incas & these Nahuatl-speaking people used the sling against Spanish conquistadors'

Answer: the Aztecs


Question: 'In 2003 Calvin Klein paid $30 million for a mansion in the "south" one of these Long Island enclaves; now he's tearing it down'

Answer: the Hamptons


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

Answer: John Tyler


Question:
'1986:
"Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes",
"You Can Call Me Al"'

Answer: Graceland


Question: '[in Spanish accent] Si, señor, it's the type of dog seen here'

Answer: a Mexican hairless


Question: 'Someone exhibiting attributes of these 2 related characters from an 1886 mystery might have a split personality'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde


Question: 'This sign of the zodiac is sometimes represented by an arrow drawn across a bow'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'In August 2009 the sultan of this spent $21,000 to get a trim from his favorite hairdresser'

Answer: Brunei


Question: 'He was the first (& only) veep to assume the presidency under the provisions of the 25th amendment'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question:
'1987:
"Welcome To The Jungle",
"Sweet Child O' Mine"'

Answer: Appetite for Destruction


Question: 'The Department of Labor reported that this rate stood at 10% in December 2009'

Answer: the jobless rate


Question: 'This Thurber character from a 1939 short story now refers to anyone with elaborate daydreams'

Answer: Walter Mitty


Question: 'The English army's slings & spears were effective at this battle, but it ended for Harold II with an arrow in the eye'

Answer: the Battle of Hastings


Question: 'So many choices: this Philippine first lady had 508 floor-length gowns to wear with her 1,060 pairs of shoes'

Answer: Imelda Marcos


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a map of Wyoming and Montana.)  The caldera of a supervolcano that last erupted 640,000 years ago covers much of the 2.2 million acres of this national park'

Answer: Yellowstone National Park


Question: '"Hud"'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'Victoria is the capital of this Pacific coast province'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'Genesis 19 says that this man's wife "looked back from behind"... and she became a pillar of salt"'

Answer: Lot


Question: 'Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" & "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees'

Answer: Homer


Question: '"C" is generally soft when it comes before "E", but not at the start of this musical instrument'

Answer: the cello


Question: 'This class of rock is made by changes in heat, pressure or shearing to pre-existing rocks'

Answer: metamorphic rock


Question: '"Dr. Strangelove"'

Answer: Peter Sellers


Question: 'Halifax, the capital of this province, is the home port of the Canadian Atlantic fleet'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: 'One reason for building this waterway was to transport salt from deposits in Syracuse to the coast'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: '"Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'English words that end in "int" usually have a short "I" --oops, not this measurement'

Answer: a pint


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an atomic diagram on the monitor.)  Used to date artifacts because it has a half-life of 5,730 years, this isotope has 6 protons and 8 neutrons in its nucleus'

Answer: carbon-14


Question: '"Saving Private Ryan"'

Answer: Matt Damon


Question: 'Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a bear owned by a WWI soldier from this Manitoba city'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'Many chefs prefer this coarse-grained salt named for the fact that it was originally used to meet Jewish dietary rules'

Answer: Kosher salt


Question: 'I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases & my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: '"SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length'

Answer: grasshopper


Question: 'The Mohorovicic discontinuity separates the Earth's crust from this'

Answer: the mantle


Question: '"What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: 'Charlottetown, the capital of this island province, is named for the wife of King George III'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'Bars of salt called amoles were once a basic currency of this country formerly known as Abyssinia'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'This British distinction, like the order of the thistle, includes "th" but not as in thistle'

Answer: knighthood


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  South America & Africa fit together like puzzle pieces; this theory says they were connected 200 million years ago & have been moving away from each other up to 4 inches a year'

Answer: plate tectonics


Question: '"The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" (all 3, per favore)'

Answer: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach


Question: 'Iqaluit, the capital of this territory created in 1999, means "place of fish" in the Inuktitut language'

Answer: Nunavut


Question: 'Popular with racers, they cover about 100 square miles in Utah, & in some places the salt is 6 feet thick'

Answer: Bonneville Salt Flats


Question: 'For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! & please take better care of it'

Answer: Pericles


Question: 'There's a "PH" but no "F" sound in this type of difficult, tiring battle'

Answer: uphill


Question: 'It's not one of the Bard's better-known comedy titles, but has the distinction of containing the most apostrophes'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'Yonsei University in Seoul is this country's oldest university'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'This soft drink's secret formula is stored in a safe deposit box at the Trust Company of Georgia'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'In the pilot of "Seinfeld", Jerry lived across the hall from Hoffman, not this Michael Richards character'

Answer: Cosmo Kramer


Question: 'A person who illegally took possession of another's mining area was called this kind of "jumper"'

Answer: Claim jumper


Question: 'Only a groan man should attempt this "lowest form of wit"'

Answer: Pun


Question: 'It says, "If anything can go wrong, it will"'

Answer: Murphy\'s Law


Question: 'This state's Transylvania University in Lexington was once called the "Harvard of the West"'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99%" this'

Answer: Perspiration


Question: 'This character & his friends brew Buzz Beer in his garage -- "It's the Beer That Throws Up Smooth"'

Answer: Drew Carey


Question: 'His "1873", known as The Peacemaker, was a favorite of quick-draw gunslingers'

Answer: Samuel Colt


Question: 'The name of this comic imitation that lacks the moral aspect of satire also means a strip show'

Answer: Burlesque


Question: 'Payback term for gastrointestinal distress experienced by American travelers to Mexico'

Answer: Montezuma\'s Revenge


Question: 'This Washington, D.C. Catholic school maintains the Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Research Center'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: '11/2 ounces vodka, chilled tomato juice, salt & pepper & other spices to taste'

Answer: Bloody Mary


Question: 'In 1997 this show's season premiere drew 43 million viewers to NBC'

Answer: ER (they did it live)


Question: 'It cost $5 to send a 1/2-ounce letter via this service when it began in April 1860'

Answer: Pony Express


Question: 'It's defined as a tumble in which one lands on the buttocks'

Answer: Pratfall


Question: 'This song was written to tease a Civil War sergeant who had the same name as the abolitionist'

Answer: John Brown\'s Body


Question: 'This New York City university's school of medicine was founded in 1767'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'The 3 witches in "Macbeth" brewed up a charm from such items as tooth of wolf & eye of this amphibian'

Answer: Newt


Question: 'In February 1997 TV sleuths Joe Mannix & Ben Matlock made guest appearances on this Dick Van Dyke series'

Answer: Diagnosis Murder


Question: 'Virginia City was booming in the 1860s with its proximity to this major Nevada strike'

Answer: Comstock Lode


Question: 'Stout Shakespearean character "Not only witty myself; but the cause that wit is in other men"'

Answer: Sir John Falstaff


Question: 'Painted in 1948, it's considered Andrew Wyeth's most famous work'

Answer: "Christina\'s World"


Question: 'The Lown School of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies is part of this school named for a Supreme Court justice'

Answer: Brandeis


Question: 'The Chinese did a bang-up job in discovering its formula as 75% saltpeter, 15% charcoal & 10% sulfur'

Answer: Gunpowder


Question: 'During 27 years of "On The Road" reports, he had 5 motor homes; the last is now in the Henry Ford Museum'

Answer: Charles Kuralt


Question: 'The famous hideout in Wyoming's Powder River country used by the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy's gang'

Answer: Hole In The Wall


Question: 'Canine term for a long, drawn-out, complicated, overinvolved & even purposely irritating story'

Answer: "Shaggy Dog" story


Question: 'Sydenham's Chorea, a condition in which the body jerks involuntarily, once had this name'

Answer: St. Vitus\' Dance


Question: 'Major tributaries of this beautiful blue river include the Inn of Austria & Germany & the Tisza of Hungary'

Answer: Danube


Question: 'Scribes in ancient Greece were usually educated members of this servile group'

Answer: Slaves


Question: 'This group famous for "I'm Henry VIII, I Am", didn't play instruments on most of their hits'

Answer: Herman\'s Hermits


Question: 'Young families started after World War II produced this phenomenon'

Answer: Baby boom


Question: 'In a H.C. Andersen tale, a girl has no luck selling these on a cold New Year's Eve'

Answer: Matches


Question: 'It's what the Morton Salt Girl is holding in her right hand'

Answer: Umbrella


Question: 'This lake in Banff National Park was named for Queen Victoria's fourth daughter'

Answer: Lake Louise


Question: 'Early Chinese scribes usually wrote on wood, bamboo or this fabric'

Answer: Silk


Question: 'The Searchers' biggest U.S. hit, it begins, "I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth..."'

Answer: "Love Potion No. 9"


Question: 'This expression comes from the mouths of crapshooters to bring them good luck & footgear'

Answer: "Baby needs a new pair of shoes"


Question: 'By her own claim, the poems of Susan Polis Schutz have appeared on more of these than any other poet's'

Answer: Greeting cards


Question: 'Term for the salt water of the sea, or a type of shrimp'

Answer: Brine


Question: 'The Atlantic & Indian Oceans are separated by a line from Antarctica to Cape Agulhas on this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'A modern judge may ask a person in this position to "Read that testimony back"'

Answer: Court reporter


Question: 'On Sept. 23, 1997 this aged rock group kicked off its "Bridges To Babylon" tour to everyone's "Satisfaction"'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'It was developed by Steinway & Sons during the Depression for money-strapped musicians'

Answer: Baby grand piano


Question: 'This 1992 novel about a 4-day affair in Iowa was written in 14 days'

Answer: The Bridges of Madison County


Question: 'Some ancient civilizations used salt cakes as a form of this, as Indians used wampum'

Answer: Currency


Question: 'The 4-mile-wide Perekop Isthmus connects the Ukranian mainland with this peninsula'

Answer: Crimean Peninsula


Question: 'The earliest scribes in Egypt wrote in hieroglyphics & those in Babylon wrote in this style'

Answer: Cuneiform


Question: 'When Gerry Marsden formed his new band in 1959, he didn't have the "heart" to call it anything but this'

Answer: Gerry & the Pacemakers


Question: 'He was born in Chicago in 1908 & hooked up with Dillinger in the '30s'

Answer: Baby Face Nelson


Question: 'She wrote "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" before "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"'

Answer: Fannie Flagg


Question: 'Liquid sodium, made from salt, is used as this in some nuclear power plants'

Answer: Coolant


Question: 'Once Portugal's colony, this country is separated from Madagascar by a channel of the same name'

Answer: Mozambique


Question: 'In ancient Rome scribes who took dictation from "public" meetings were called these'

Answer: Notaries


Question: 'He sang lead on the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun", their only chart-topper'

Answer: Eric Burdon


Question: 'This Henry Mancini song comes from the 1962 film "Hatari!":'

Answer: The Baby Elephant Walk


Question: 'Johnny Gunther is the subject of this 1949 memoir by his father, with a title taken from John Donne'

Answer: Death Be Not Proud


Question: 'Table salt is iodized to help prevent this condition in humans'

Answer: Hyperthyroidism or goiter


Question: 'Dennis Conner is the only representative of the U.S. ever to lose this race -- he did it twice'

Answer: The America\'s Cup


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's the first mammal that could be in a "Starts With 2 Vowels" category'

Answer: aardvark


Question: 'Rich guy Ralph Fiennes falls in love with hotel employee Jennifer Lopez in this Cinderella story'

Answer: Maid in Manhattan


Question: 'The name of this large land creature is from the Greek for "nose-horned"'

Answer: rhinoceros


Question: 'The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik's ballet based on this man's fables'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'The first 2 ingredients listed in Cheez Whiz are whey & this (it does a body good)'

Answer: milk


Question: 'To save someone costs when replying to your letter, enclose an SASE, which stands for this'

Answer: self addressed stamped envelope


Question: 'It's the main metal in both bronze & brass'

Answer: copper


Question: 'When asked what she got on this standardized college placement exam, Jen quipped, "Nail polish"'

Answer: the SAT


Question: 'This 6-letter word for the spout at the end of a hose is a diminutive form of "nose"'

Answer: nozzle


Question: '"Something" tells us the ABT presented a ballet tribute to this former Beatle who passed away in 2001'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'This company's Wheat Thins are thin, baked wheat crackers; its Triscuit thin crisps, thin, baked wheat wafers'

Answer: Nabisco


Question: 'In chat room abbreviations, WYSIWYG is "what you see is what you get"; YGWYPF is this'

Answer: you get what you pay for


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Cape Cod, Massachusetts)  When lightning strikes the sand, it can melt & fuse it into a type of this, called fulgurite'

Answer: glass


Question: 'Ben Affleck plays a lowly thug who falls for female gangster J. Lo. in this 2003 romantic comedy'

Answer: Gigli


Question: 'Henry I of England fixed this unit of measure as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his outstretched arm'

Answer: yard


Question: 'Czar Nicholas II & this empress appear in "Anastasia", a ballet about one of their daughters'

Answer: Alexandra


Question: 'In 1932 Elmer Doolin paid a guy in Texas $100 for his corn chip recipe & founded this brand'

Answer: Fritos


Question: 'Computer users should know that BBS stands for this'

Answer: bulletin board system


Question: 'From their size, about 2.5 cm. & how they crawl, caterpillars of the moth family Geometridae are often called this'

Answer: inchworm


Question: 'When Jen wore that now-infamous green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammys, he was her date'

Answer: Puff Daddy


Question: 'Edmond Rostand won international fame with this 1897 play about a long-nosed, star-crossed poet'

Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac


Question: 'Arrgh!  A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'As you can see, the logo on this product's can has had some work done over the years'

Answer: Pringles


Question: 'EOE in a job listing in the newspaper classifieds stands for this'

Answer: equal opportunity employer


Question: 'This property is the reason a rubber ball bounces & a stretched rubber band springs back to size'

Answer: elasticity


Question: 'The video for this song pays homage to the movie "Flashdance", with Jen as the welder/dancer'

Answer: "I\'m Glad"


Question: 'This Indian tribe's name comes from the French for "pierced noses", ironically a practice they rarely engaged in'

Answer: Nez Perce


Question: 'In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of "St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet"'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'What would you do for this ice cream treat introduced by the Isaly family in 1922'

Answer: a Klondike bar


Question: 'The abbreviation for pound, lb., stands for this Latin word that means pound'

Answer: libra


Question: 'In the history of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong were 2 of the greatest players of this instrument'

Answer: the trumpet


Question: 'Inventor of the telephone who's a nice salad ingredient'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell pepper


Question: 'She makes her first entrance with "Her ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'A second grade science experiment includes labeling magnets with these 2 math symbols'

Answer: plus & minus


Question: 'Lizard Point, from the Cornish for "court on a height", is this island's southernmost point'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'From 1980 to 1998 this rose worldwide from 61 to 67'

Answer: life expectancy


Question: 'Once called "The Capstone of Negro Education", this Washington, D.C. university opened its doors in 1867'

Answer: Howard University


Question: 'This new Dynamic Duo is made up of Bruce Wayne's superhero self & a famous bandit of Sherwood Forest'

Answer: Batman & Robin Hood


Question: 'Title adjective Shakespeare used to describe Mistresses Ford & Page'

Answer: merry


Question: 'Sixth grade social studies teach about renewable energy, like solar, & nonrenewable, like this solid fossil fuel'

Answer: coal


Question: 'At Pittsburgh's "The Point", the Allegheny & Monongahela meet to form this third river'

Answer: the Ohio


Question: 'Of 2,4,8 or 16, the number of hours a day the TV's on in the average American home'

Answer: 8


Question: 'While an editor for Random House books, she wrote her first novel, "The Bluest Eye"'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'Macedonian world conqueror who became a tragic F. Scott Fitzgerald hero'

Answer: Alexander the Great Gatsby


Question: 'This daughter of Prospero was but a few years old when they were exiled'

Answer: Miranda


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at a chalkboard)  Eighth graders should be able to deal with this type of equation [y = 3x + 7 is shown as the example] that uses variables without exponents'

Answer: linear equation


Question: 'A high point of your trip to Santiago might be seeing this hemispheric high point nearby'

Answer: Mount Aconcagua


Question: 'According to Conde Nast, in the U.S. the average cost of this event is now $22,360'

Answer: a wedding


Question: 'Currently, they're the 2 highest-ranking African-Americans in President Bush's administration'

Answer: Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell


Question: '"Colorful" 14th century plague that became a hit play by Arthur Miller'

Answer: The Black Death of a Salesman


Question: 'Figure it out: she has the third line in "Macbeth"'

Answer: the third witch


Question: 'Ninth graders know that electrically neutral atoms have the same number of these 2 particles'

Answer: protons & electrons


Question: 'Cape Andreas is at the pointy end of this island in the eastern Mediterranean'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'In March 2003 astronomers said this grayish light brown was the average color of the universe'

Answer: beige


Question: 'In 2003 the Postal Service did him justice by honoring him with the stamp seen here'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'Snoopy's owner who's one of the most poisonous types of spiders in the U.S.'

Answer: Charlie Brown Recluse


Question: 'Briseis in Homer's "Iliad" evolved in tales over time to wind up as this Shakespeare title character'

Answer: Cressida


Question: 'Tenth grade?  Time for this 1840s French novel about a man falsely imprisoned who wants revenge'

Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo


Question: 'The instantaneous North Pole is the point where this imaginary line would poke out'

Answer: the (Earth\'s) axis


Question: 'A Frenchman eats 53 pounds of this a year; an American, 31; a Japanese, 4'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'At the end of the American Revolution, this country controlled New Orleans'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'If you make a house for these flying mammals, mount it at least 15 feet above the ground to attract them'

Answer: bats


Question: '"Medium" heats up in this Arizona city'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'This university 50 miles west of London dates back to the 12th century'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'In 2004 Somalia issued 6 coins in the shape of this instrument, including a fender Stratocaster'

Answer: guitar


Question: 'Peking'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'To give up or resign'

Answer: quit


Question: 'In an annual contest in Oatman, Arizona, folks try to fry these on the sidewalk with solar power'

Answer: eggs


Question: '"Everybody Hates Chris", who lives in this borough'

Answer: Brooklyn


Question: 'Attending the university founded in 1348 in this Czech capital might make you feel like a real Bohemian'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'A map of Europe on this country's 1997 1,000-lire coin had such errors as depicting Denmark as part of Germany'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Leningrad'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'The coverlet for a bed'

Answer: quilt


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some colored-changed objects.)  When exposed to air, a cut apple turns brown & copper turns green because of a chemical process called this'

Answer: oxidation


Question: 'Abby, Kovac & Neela played doctor in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Cairo's Al-Azhar university was founded in 970 around this type of religious building'

Answer: mosque


Question: 'A 2008 Cook Islands 5-dollar coin issued in this shape depicts Cupid, 2 roses & the words "my everlasting love"'

Answer: heart


Question: 'New Amsterdam'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm'

Answer: quaint


Question: 'Add 4 tbsp, vinegar & 3 tbsp. baking soda to a glass of water & this gas will make raisins bounce in it'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'The green spaces of "Parks and Recreation" can be found in fictional Pawnee in this real Midwestern state'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'This country's Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo was founded in 1538, 98 years before Harvard'

Answer: Dominican Republic


Question: 'In 2007 this late pope was honored with a coin in nauru; his image pops up perpendicular to the coin'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'Danzig'

Answer: Gdansk


Question: 'An adventurous expedition'

Answer: quest


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a little veggie before & after.)  Put celery in red-colored water, & after 24 hours, the leaves turn red because of this process by which plants absorb fluids, from the Greek for "push" or "thrust"'

Answer: osmosis


Question: 'Lilly Rush of this city's P.D. tries to find the killer of each "Cold Case"'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Bethlehem, Penn.'s St. Luke's Hospital School of this offers the oldest diploma program for it in the nation'

Answer: School of Nursing


Question: 'In 2006 Canada issued a 25-cent coin depicting a pink ribbon to raise awareness of this disease'

Answer: breast cancer


Question: 'Salisbury, Rhodesia'

Answer: Harare


Question: 'An arc of 90 degrees'

Answer: quadrant


Question:
'Moses goes-es,
the Ark of the Covenant is made,
the tabernacle is tented'

Answer: Exodus


Question: '(Dennis Leary delivers the clue.) Firefighters have to deal with this dangerous phenomenon that can happen when super-heated gases are fed with oxygen'

Answer: backdraft


Question: 'After a mating flight, male ants wander off & die; queen ants tear these off & search for a nesting site'

Answer: wings


Question: 'A golf course worker who carries clubs & assists golfers'

Answer: a caddy


Question: 'As a colony of that country, from 1521 to 1821 Mexico was known as New this'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'To contaminate, as with germs<br />(6)'

Answer: infect


Question:
'In the beginning was the word,
resurrection,
gospel but not synoptic'

Answer: John


Question: '(Hey, I'm Michael Lombardi.)  On "Rescue Me" along with remembering our lines we often have to lug these heavy tanks around; know as SCBA's, they provide air in hostile environments'

Answer: self-contained breathing apparatuses


Question: 'This largest of spiders spins a tripwire to signal when something approaches its burrow'

Answer: tarantula


Question: 'Not as superfluous as it sounds, it's a person with a nonspeaking background part in a movie'

Answer: an extra


Question: 'President from 2000 to 2006, this "sly" guy had formerly been president of Coca Cola de Mexico'

Answer: (Vicente) Fox


Question: 'Free from stain, like a certain conception<br />(10)'

Answer: immaculate


Question:
'God & Satan debate about him,
has it super rough,
patience gets him "twice as much as he had before"'

Answer: Job


Question: '(Hi, I'm Larenz Tate.)  Wounded are dealt with on a case by case basis determined by medical priority, termed this, from the French for "sorting"; the term also applies to the order in which engulfed structures are fought'

Answer: triage


Question: 'This "pocket" rodent's name is from the French for "honeycomb", referring to its labyrinth of burrows'

Answer: the pocket gopher


Question: '11-letter word for one who acts for others in buying shares in a business or corporation'

Answer: a stockbroker


Question: 'They're the 3 colors of the vertical stripes on Mexico's flag'

Answer: red, green & white


Question: '"Fishy" science<br />(11)'

Answer: ichthyology


Question:
'Has only 1 chapter,
deals with false teachers,
nanana na... hey this'

Answer: Jude


Question: '(Dennis Leary delivers the clue.)  In the Crusades the knights of this Mediterranean island had to contend with fire-hurling Saracens; the FDNY later adopted their cross as a badge of honor'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'Kalahari, one of these at a California wildlife center, was the model for Timon in "The Lion King"'

Answer: a meerkat


Question: 'A Japanese woman who plays classical Japanese music & performs traditional dances at private parties'

Answer: a geisha


Question: 'Mexico celebrates Labor Day on the same date as many European nations & this holiday 4 days later'

Answer: Cinco de Mayo


Question: 'Bliss, proverbially<br />(9)'

Answer: ignorance


Question:
'7 seals,
7 trumpets,
Satan gets his,
don't add "S" to the response'

Answer: Revelation


Question: '(You may not know this.  I know I didn't know it before Rescue Me, but...)  The radioactive element americium-241 knocks off electrons from oxygen & nitrogen in this type of smoke detector named for the process'

Answer: ionization


Question: 'Earthworms give off waste matter via organs called nephridia, the counterpart of these human organs'

Answer: kidneys


Question: 'From the Latin for "goddess", it's a distinguished female opera singer'

Answer: a diva


Question: 'This archduke of Austria who became emperor of Mexico died before a firing squad in 1867'

Answer: Maximilian


Question: 'Poetic foot<br />(4)'

Answer: iamb


Question: 'A professor's 2007 address at Carnegie Mellon on "really achieving your childhood dreams" inspired millions under this title'

Answer: The Last Lecture


Question: 'City where you'll find the USA's tallest man-made monument'

Answer: St. Louis


Question:
'A singer/actress:
"Baby Boy",
"Crazy In Love",
"Irreplaceable"'

Answer: Beyoncé


Question: 'In an Olympic swimming medley relay race, this "insect" stroke is the third leg'

Answer: butterfly


Question: 'Fruit pectin combined with sugar forms the substance that makes this sandwich spread'

Answer: jelly


Question: '...in this religion that considers Abraham & Sarah its patriarch & matriarch'

Answer: Judaism


Question: 'It doesn't take a genius to figure out that in educational testing, IQ stands for this'

Answer: intelligence quotient


Question: 'Bigger than 10 states, it's our largest lake'

Answer: Superior


Question:
'A duo:
"St. Elsewhere"
"Go Go Gadget Gospel",
"Crazy"'

Answer: Gnarls Barkley


Question: 'This U.S. president was elected to an unprecedented third term in 1940'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'This type of sugar used in making baked beans gets its color from the molasses retained in its refining'

Answer: brown sugar


Question: '...in this religion that considers Abraham & Hagar its patriarch & matriarch'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'D.O.B. is this bit of biographical info'

Answer: date of birth


Question: 'California has the tallest trees, tallest dam, and tallest waterfall, which shares its name with this national park'

Answer: Yosemite


Question:
'A Las Vegas group:
"Mr. Brightside",
"Somebody Told Me",
"When You Were Young"'

Answer: The Killers


Question: 'The third witch has the third line in this Shakespeare play'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Dentists dislike these "ursine" candies born in Bonn, Germany because they're high in sugar & stick to your teeth'

Answer: Gummi Bears


Question: '...in this religion whose name is derived from a river in India'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'On your PC's keyboard, Alt is short for this'

Answer: alternative


Question: 'The peregrine type of this is the fastest bird, reaching 200 mph while plunging after prey'

Answer: falcon


Question:
'A singer-songwriter:
"Gravity",
"Belief",
"Waiting On The World To Change"'

Answer: John Mayer


Question: 'In the Bible, he's the third son born to Adam & Eve'

Answer: Seth


Question: 'This fruit of the genus Musa is rich in potassium & also has a surprisingly high sugar content'

Answer: bananas


Question: '...in this religion whose sacred scriptures were first published in Palmyra, New York'

Answer: Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a CPR mannequin.)  Rescue breathing, which is mouth to mouth, or mouth to nose for infants, puts the "P" in CPR. The "P" stands for this word'

Answer: pulmonary


Question: 'More than 350 miles of passages have been mapped in this longest cave'

Answer: Mammoth Cave


Question:
'A 3-named woman:
"Like A Star",
"Enchantment",
"Put Your Records On"'

Answer: Corinne Bailey Rae


Question: 'With Armstrong & Aldrin, he was the third man along for the journey to the moon in July 1969'

Answer: (Michael) Collins


Question: 'This soda whose logo was created by a Georgia bookkeeper has more than 9 tsp. of sugars in a 12-ounce can'

Answer: Coke


Question: '...in this faith whose name comes from the Greek for "universal"'

Answer: Catholic


Question: 'MFA is an abbreviation for this graduate degree'

Answer: Master of Fine Arts


Question: 'At Giza you'll come face-to-face with the nearly 14-foot-wide face of this famous monument'

Answer: the Sphinx


Question: 'As Harry Potter lived overseas, Harry Dresden of "The Dresden Files" is the only listed one of these in Chicago'

Answer: a wizard


Question: 'Howdy.  I'm off fightin' the Clanton Gang with my brothers Virgil & Morgan.  I'll be back.  Leave a message'

Answer: Wyatt Earp


Question: 'With 1.8 million members, the largest service one of these organizations in North America is the SEIU'

Answer: a union


Question: 'Per the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this began March 11, 2007, 3 weeks earlier than in 2006'

Answer: Daylight Savings Time


Question: 'To say "you're welcome" in Italian, use this word, also a brand of spaghetti sauce'

Answer: prego


Question: '5 days into the fifth month, Mexicans celebrate the holiday they call this'

Answer: Cinco de Mayo


Question: 'Per the title of a weekly show, real-life researchers Jason & Grant aren't Ghostbusters but these'

Answer: Ghost Hunters


Question: 'Hi, my dad invented "visible speech", & I'm out inventing an item that will make this message possible; wait for the beep'

Answer: (Alexander Graham) Bell


Question: 'The USA's biggest private employer is this chain of large discount stores with over 1.3 million employees'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'The 2006 firing of 8 people in this position came back to haunt the Justice Department in 2007'

Answer: U.S. attorneys


Question: 'If you were born between August 23 & September 22, this is your zodiac sign'

Answer: Virgo


Question: 'Seen here, the national flag of this European kingdom is believed to be the oldest in the world'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Lemuria & the Iron Enforcer showed their powers in season one of "Who Wants to Be" this'

Answer: a Superhero


Question: 'Hi, I'm out leading my "Axis of Evil" country, as I have since '94--& FYI, I didn't think much of that "Team America" movie'

Answer: Kim Jong-il


Question: 'The Kongo Gumi Construction Co. in this Asian country was family owned for more than 1,400 years until a 2006 sale'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This man who died in 1902 would have turned in his grave at the conditions in a D.C. facility named for him'

Answer: Walter Reed


Question: 'This river carries more water than any other except the Amazon'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'This Canadian bay covers more than 3 times the area of the Great Lakes combined'

Answer: Hudson Bay


Question: 'Seen here, they're the team based in the Rockies but able to step through a portal to other planets'

Answer: Stargate SG-1


Question: 'Hello, if you're calling to say Alaska's my "Folly", I'm still getting Russia to sell it, so leave a message'

Answer: (William) Seward


Question: 'Covering 29 acres, the world's largest office building is this structure in Arlington, Virginia'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'It's the 5-letter word usually applied to the increase in Iraq troop levels announced Jan. 10, 2007'

Answer: surge


Question: 'Sometimes considered part of the visible spectrum, it's also a deep blue dye used to color cotton & wool'

Answer: indigo


Question: 'It's the highest point in Pakistan & the second-highest mountain in the world'

Answer: K2


Question: '"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man", says the intro to this old show seen on Sci-Fi'

Answer: The Twilight Zone


Question: ''Allo all!  What a day in 1759, eh what?  My boy's been born!  Guess I'll be "The Elder" P.M. now!  Wait for the beep, ta!'

Answer: (William) Pitt


Question: 'Ladies & gentlemen, children of all ages, this person works as the M.C. under the big top'

Answer: the ringmaster


Question: 'When this "Cat's Cradle" author died on April 11, the N.Y. Times called him a "darkly comic literary hero"'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'It's the term for an adult insect after metamorphosis'

Answer: imago


Question: 'In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV--later that day'

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower


Question: 'In the 1763 Treaty of Paris France ceded to England all its land east of the Mississippi, except for this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'She's not only the center square on "Hollywood Squares", she's the show's executive producer'

Answer: Whoopi Goldberg


Question: 'In baseball, it's also known as a round-tripper'

Answer: Home run


Question: 'The red on the flag stands for this spilled by the patriots'

Answer: Blood


Question: 'Dan Aykroyd played Mack Sennett in this 1992 biopic starring Robert Downey, Jr.'

Answer: Chaplin


Question:
'Victor Emmanuel II,
Umberto I,
Victor Emmanuel III'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The August 1857 Indian Massacre of surrendered American & English troops is in this 1826 Cooper novel'

Answer: "The Last of the Mohicans"


Question: 'She's the stand-up comic seen here:'

Answer: Paula Poundstone


Question: 'This Tim Allen show premiered on September 17, 1991'

Answer: Home Improvement


Question: 'It stands to reason Colombia's highest peak is named for this explorer'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Of "Bingo!", "Birdy" or "Bugsy", the one that starred an animal'

Answer: Bingo! (dog)


Question:
'Olaf I Tryggvason,
Olaf II Haraldsson,
Olaf IV Haakonsson'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'In 1753, concerned over French fort-building in the Ohio Valley, Virginia sent this 21-year-old to check things out'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'She didn't become a zany redhead until MGM dyed her hair that color for a movie'

Answer: Lucille Ball


Question: 'It's the classic American song heard here:'

Answer: "Home on the Range"


Question: 'Lying in a basin high in the Andes, it's Colombia's largest city'

Answer: Bogota


Question: 'The cover of the video to this 1997 comedy features Jack Nicholson & a dog'

Answer: As Good as it Gets


Question:
'Albert I,
Leopold III,
Baudouin'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'In 1692 a 14-year-old girl defended a Canadian fort against warriors from this 5-nation Indian group'

Answer: Iroquois


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kathy Griffin from "Suddenly Susan")  This funny lady, my TV mom, had the first show on the Fox network when it premiered in 1986'

Answer: Joan Rivers


Question: 'Incorporated in 1978, this company claims to be the largest do-it-yourself retailer in the U.S.A.'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'Unable to conclude a treaty with Colombia in 1903, the U.S. helped this country secede & made one with it'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'First name of the former first lady guarded by Nicolas Cage as Doug Chesnic'

Answer: Tess


Question:
'Talal,
Hussein,
Abdullah II'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'On May 9, 1712, during Queen Anne's War, this American colony split into 2 parts'

Answer: Carolina


Question: 'She "takes on" such characters as spinster Kay Clark & airport security guard Sheneesha Turner'

Answer: Tracey Ullman


Question: 'Many Yanks know "The Kids in the Hall" first aired in the U.S. on this cable channel in the late 1980s'

Answer: Home Box Office


Question: 'It may not be the gem of the ocean, but this gem is the "green gold" natives once threw into Lake Guatavita'

Answer: Emeralds


Question: 'This actress has played Shelby Eatenton Latcherie & Mary Reilly'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'Ferdinand VII,<br />Juan Carlos'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Familiar songs in this opera include Don Jose's "Flower Song" & Escamillo's "Toreador Song"'

Answer: "Carmen"


Question: 'This industry is the subject of Robert Cringely's column & of his PBS documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds"'

Answer: Computer industry


Question: 'Ford Madox Ford's trilogy "The Fifth Queen" centers on Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: '322 Maple Road, Mayberry, N.C.'

Answer: The Andy Griffith Show


Question: 'Of the Haunted Mansion, the Jungle Cruise or the monorail, the one that's been at Disneyland since opening day'

Answer: Jungle Cruise


Question: 'Orchestra conductors & public speakers often have this element under their feet'

Answer: Podium


Question: 'Cio-Cio-San's better-known name'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'This humorist writes for The Miami Herald & plays lead guitar in an all-author band, The Rock Bottom Remainders'

Answer: Dave Barry


Question: 'It's the first book in a historical trilogy that continues with "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island"'

Answer: "Mutiny on the Bounty"


Question: 'Paradise Cove Trailer Colony, Malibu Beach, Calif.'

Answer: The Rockford Files


Question: 'A contest for blowing these shells is a highlight of Old Island Days in Key West, Florida'

Answer: Conch shells


Question: 'This element has the distinctive aroma of high school assemblies & basketball games'

Answer: Gymnasium


Question: 'This Ethiopian princess was captured by the Egyptians & made a slave to Princess Amneris'

Answer: Aida


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wendi Malick from "Just Shoot Me")  I played both of these columnists in a 1999 TV movie titled "Take My Advice"'

Answer: "Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren) & Ann Landers


Question: 'Books titled "The Town" are part of trilogies by Conrad Richter & by this Mississippian'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: '1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA'

Answer: The Munsters


Question: 'The International Rose Test Gardens may be the most fragrant attraction in this, Oregon's "City of Roses"'

Answer: Portland


Question: 'You buy, not rent, units of this element'

Answer: Condominium


Question: 'Its 4 musical dramas are "Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", "Siegfried" & "Gotterdammerung"'

Answer: "The Ring of the Nibelung"


Question: 'The Chicago Tribune filled his empty column with tributes from readers the day after his April 1997 death'

Answer: Mike Royko


Question: 'Olivia Manning's "Balkan Trilogy" depicts a British couple living in the Balkans during this war'

Answer: World War II


Question: '1619 Pine Street, Boulder, Colo.'

Answer: Mork and Mindy


Question: 'Ape Cave in this state is named for the St. Helen's Apes, the local Boy Scout troop who first explored it'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'This "element" comes in red & white types, seen here:'

Answer: Geranium


Question: 'In this opera Violetta bids farewell to the past by singing "Addio Del Passato"'

Answer: "La Traviata"


Question: 'She quit her New York Times column in 1994, the same year she published her novel "One True Thing"'

Answer: Anna Quindlen


Question: '"Coningsby, or the New Generation" is the 1st book in a trilogy he wrote before becoming a Victorian prime minister'

Answer: Benjamin Disraeli


Question: '148 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, N.Y.'

Answer: The Dick Van Dyke Show


Question: 'This Tennessee city boasts a 32-story pyramid with a base the size of 6 football fields'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'A large store selling a variety of articles might be built from this element'

Answer: Emporium


Question: 'A change of procedure in 1979 led to 3 of these being named Bob, David & Frederic'

Answer: Hurricanes


Question: 'According to USGA rules, 1 of 2 types of golf course hazards'

Answer: Bunker & Water


Question: 'Philip Nolan, who died on board the U.S. Corvette Levant, was called this by Edward Everett Hale'

Answer: "The Man Without a Country"


Question: 'Colcannon, a dish of potatoes, leeks, cabbage & cream, is associated with this country's cuisine'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'In 1924 Mexican anthropologists found the bones of Cuauhtemoc, the last ruler of this Indian tribe'

Answer: the Aztecs


Question: 'This organ, which is also a gland, secretes a hormone called gastrin'

Answer: the stomach


Question: 'A design made from tiny pieces of colored material, or anything pertaining to the prophet Moses'

Answer: a mosaic


Question: 'In 1987 Jim Abbott became the 1st in this sport to win the Sullivan Award for amateur athletes'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel'

Answer: A Confederacy of Dunces


Question: 'The 3 ingredients needed to make this sweet treat are concord grape juice, sugar & pectin'

Answer: grape jelly


Question: 'This city on the Pacific coast is Mexico's No. 1 resort for foreigners & Mexicans too'

Answer: Acapulco


Question: 'These glands secrete an oily substance which lubricates your hair & keeps it soft'

Answer: the sebaceous glands


Question: 'Harvard professor who's hosted "Ethics in America" on PBS, or the author of "A View From the Bridge"'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'In women's Olympic fencing, only this weapon is used'

Answer: the foil


Question: '"Other Voices, Other Rooms" was this author's 1st published novel'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: 'Craig Claiborne says you can substitute this type of cheese for the ricotta when making lasagna'

Answer: cottage cheese


Question: 'These people of mixed Spanish & Indian ancestry comprise the majority of Mexico's population'

Answer: Mestizos


Question: 'This gland which regulates growth is also called the hypophysis'

Answer: the pituitary gland


Question: 'The CEO of General Motors, or the actor who costarred with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on "77 Sunset Strip"'

Answer: Roger Smith


Question: '1 of 2 National Hockey League teams to retire Gordie Howe's uniform number'

Answer: Detroit Red Wings & Hartford Whalers


Question: 'She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her'

Answer: Frances Hodgson Burnett


Question: 'If you order Coquilles St. Jacques in a restaurant, this is what you will be served'

Answer: scallops


Question: 'Established in 1929, this political party has won every presidential election since'

Answer: PRI


Question: 'Your pineal gland is inside this organ'

Answer: the brain


Question:
'John Dos Passos work, or the group heard here:

"Ooh wah ooh wah cool cool kitty /
Asks about the boy from New York City..."'

Answer: Manhattan Transfer


Question: 'The 3 cities that the National Football League Cardinals have represented'

Answer: Chicago, St. Louis & Phoenix


Question: 'Best known for "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight", he published at least a dozen volumes of poems'

Answer: Vachel Lindsay


Question: 'The method you would use to cook shirred eggs'

Answer: baked


Question: 'This general was elected president in 1877 & ruled as a dictator for 30 of the next 34 years'

Answer: Porifirio Diaz


Question: 'This gland that controls cell metabolism has 2 lobes, 1 on each side of your trachea'

Answer: the thyroid gland


Question: 'Contrary to their name, they didn't wreck Rome's art treasures while taking the city in 455'

Answer: Vandals


Question: 'In 1891 this Russian composer conducted his own "Marche Solennelle" opening week at Carnegie Hall'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'Completes the title of the Eugene O' Neill play "A Moon for the..."'

Answer: Misbegotten


Question: 'This language was originally based on a form of Dutch called Hollands, but has words from Khoi & Zulu'

Answer: Afrikaans


Question: 'Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'China's wall wasn't so great; by 1208 this conqueror had a foothold inside it'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'Maria Theresa kissed him when he played for her court, but in France, Mme. de Pompadour refused to do so'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'Schiller's play about this man has the line "By Heavens!  The apple's cleft right through the core"'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'This modern language has its roots in the vernacular of Tuscany'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'She was born at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 & died there in 1886'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'After conquering this African country around 1650 B.C. the Hyksos introduced horses & chariots'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'In 1802 he wrote his famous "Heiligenstadt Testament" to his brothers'

Answer: L.V. Beethoven


Question: 'Produced by John Rich, this John Gay musical play was said to have "made Gay rich & Rich gay"'

Answer: "The Beggar\'s Opera"


Question: 'This is the only European language where adjectives don't change to agree with the nouns they modify'

Answer: English


Question: 'He was born in U.S. Indian Territory in 1879 & died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'Known as the liberator of this country, Bernardo O' Higgins lived his last years exiled from it'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The process of changing from one key or tonality to another is called this'

Answer: Transposition/Modulation


Question: 'The apparent change in the pitch of the whistle from a moving train is due to this effect'

Answer: the Doppler effect


Question: 'The title of Karel Capek's play "R.U.R." stands for this'

Answer: "Rossum\'s Universal Robots"


Question: '2 of 3 independent South American countries where Spanish is not an official language'

Answer: Brazil, Guyana, Suriname


Question: 'Author who was born in Edinburgh in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: 'The last stronghold of the Moors in Spain, it was conquered by Ferdinand & Isabella in 1492'

Answer: Granada


Question: 'This Viennese emigre created a new method of atonal composition & later taught at UCLA & USC'

Answer: Arnold Schoenberg


Question: 'Carnot's theory that heat is interchangeable with work formed the basis for this branch of physics'

Answer: thermodynamics


Question: 'Hamm sees the world decaying while his parents live in trash cans in this S. Beckett play'

Answer: "Endgame"


Question: 'The official languages of the east African country of Djibouti are Arabic & this'

Answer: French


Question: 'Artist who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 & died in London in 1903'

Answer: James MacNeil Whistler


Question: 'The "T" in TASS, an agency founded in the Soviet Union in 1925, stands for this'

Answer: Telegraph


Question: 'It's the multi-branched candelabrum used in celebration of Hanukkah'

Answer: Menorah


Question: 'Ed Wynn provided the voice of this loony "Alice In Wonderland" character; keep it under your hat'

Answer: The Mad Hatter


Question: 'It's the early 20th century "dromedary" that Snoopy flies'

Answer: Sopwith Camel


Question:
'Dust,
frying,
Peter'

Answer: Pans


Question: 'During swallowing, your epiglottis prevents food from entering this air tube'

Answer: Trachea


Question: 'On a menu:  BLT'

Answer: Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato


Question: 'This spinning top is used by both children & adults to play games of chance'

Answer: Dreidel


Question: 'After turning down Deanna Durbin, Disney chose Adriana Caselotti to play this "pristine" heroine'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'Sneaky name for the bomber seen here'

Answer: Stealth Bomber


Question:
'Moose,
medicine,
Henry Cabot'

Answer: Lodges


Question: 'After childbirth, a hormone called prolactin stimulates the production of this'

Answer: Milk


Question: 'At the airport:  ETA'

Answer: Estimated Time of Arrival


Question: 'Despite its calendar date, as a Jewish holy day Hanukkah technically begins at this time on the previous day'

Answer: Sundown


Question: 'Oscar-winner Linda Hunt was a real "tree"t as the voice of Grandmother Willow  in this 1995 film'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'First flown in 1952, this bomber was built to meet U.S. nuclear strategic needs'

Answer: B-52


Question:
'Your heart,
your cool,
your marbles'

Answer: Things you lose


Question: 'Blood is carried to & from the head by the carotid arteries & these principal neck veins'

Answer: Jugular veins


Question: 'In a letter to your sweetie:  SWAK'

Answer: Sealed With A Kiss


Question: 'Each morning during Hanukkah, selections known as Hallel from this Biblical book are sung in synagogues'

Answer: Psalms


Question: 'Gilbert Gottfried did a lot of squawking as the voice of Jafar's pushy parrot Iago in this 1992 film'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'Due to its maneuverbility & range, American pilots quickly learned to respect this fighter'

Answer: Japanese Zero


Question:
'Sweat,
stretch,
stirrup'

Answer: Pants


Question: 'Drumroll please....the eardrum is also known as this membrane'

Answer: Tympannic membrane


Question: 'To the Secret Service:  POTUS'

Answer: President Of The United States


Question: 'According to tradition, a minute quantity of this oil miraculously burned for 8 days in 165 B.C.'

Answer: Sacred/olive oil


Question: 'This talk show host supplied the singing voice of Prince Charming in "Cinderella"'

Answer: Mike Douglas


Question: 'It's the American bomber seen here during a '40s atomic bomb test run'

Answer: B-29


Question:
'Moon,
cake,
Lambeth'

Answer: Walks


Question: 'While the elbows are hinge joints, the shoulders & hips are this type'

Answer: Ball and socket


Question: 'To a diver:  SCUBA'

Answer: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus


Question: 'In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise'

Answer: The Divine Comedy


Question: 'He's the subject of the Holbein portrait seen here (had six wives)'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'A Democratic campaign catchphrase in 1992 was "It's" this, "stupid"'

Answer: The economy


Question: 'Frequent brushing is the lot of owners of this dog called "Yorkie" for short'

Answer: Yorkshire Terrier


Question: 'Laura Branigan & Michael Bolton both asked the pathetic question "How Am I Supposed To" do this'

Answer: Live without you


Question: 'This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964'

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre


Question: 'Bernini's 1623 statue of this Biblical hero has his privates covered, unlike Donatello's or Michelangelo's'

Answer: "David"


Question: 'In a 1960 song it preceded "ko-ko-bop"'

Answer: "Shimmy, shimmy"


Question: 'This breed is noted for its loyalty, energy, curiosity & of course, intelligence - "What is a logarithm?" (watching "Jeopardy!" contestant on TV do the same)'

Answer: Chihuahua


Question: 'The second verse of this Glen Campbell hit begins, "By the time I make Albuquerque"'

Answer: By The Time I Get To Phoenix


Question: 'This Flaubert title character commits suicide because of mounting debt & lies told to her husband Charles'

Answer: Madame Bovary


Question: 'Degas was known for his works in this medium that has to be fixed so it won't blow off the canvas'

Answer: Pastels


Question: 'In 1959 the car-making city of Koromo, Japan changed its nameplate to this'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'If Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy played bridge, Charlie would always be this'

Answer: The dummy


Question: 'The name of the papillon means this; a drop-eared type is called phalene, "moth"'

Answer: Butterfly


Question: 'Cyndi Lauper sang, "I'm sorry, babe, I'm leaving you tonight" because this "changes everything"'

Answer: Money


Question: 'In the epic poem "Beowulf", Beowulf destroys this monster by tearing off his arm'

Answer: Grendel


Question: 'This French impressionist based his "Olympia" of 1863 on Titian's "Venus Of Urbino"'

Answer: Edouard Manet


Question: 'Discovered in 1535, this province of Ecuador is 600 miles off the mainland'

Answer: Galapagos Islands


Question: 'A full bottle in front of me is better than a full frontal one of these'

Answer: Lobotomy


Question: 'The schipperke's name can be translated as "little captain", reflecting its role guarding these'

Answer: Ships


Question: 'In 1998 Ty Herndon had a country hit about "A Man Holdin' On To A Woman" doing this'

Answer: Letting go


Question: 'This 1872 Samuel Butler satire has the alternate title "Over The Range"'

Answer: Erewhon


Question: 'This Belgian's "Pandora's Box" & "Golconda" feature men in bowler hats'

Answer: Rene Magritte


Question: 'You have to "gimme five" to get to this book of the Old Testament'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />This breed is named for the region of present-day Germany where it was first bred'

Answer: Pomeranian


Question: 'Completes Randy VanWarmer's 1979 lament "You left me just when..."'

Answer: I needed you most


Question: 'Major Bill Hendricks, a Warner Bros. publicist, founded this holiday charity in 1947'

Answer: Toys for Tots


Question: 'Goddess Pele made the earth shake, but some say her sister made Hawaiians shake by giving them this dance'

Answer: the hula


Question: 'Any issued in the U.S. since 1860 are valid to use on letters'

Answer: postage stamps


Question: 'To "wreck a pair" is to do this to 2 eggs'

Answer: to scramble


Question: 'Ehrich Weiss escaped the shackles of his name by changing it to this'

Answer: Houdini


Question: 'During WWII, these tobacco products were used as "money" in many prisoner-of-war camps'

Answer: cigarettes


Question: 'Separate proverbs state they "don't bite" & "tell no tales"'

Answer: dead men


Question: 'Meaning "big" or "grand" in Russian, it's the name of Moscow's big grand ballet company'

Answer: the Bolshoi


Question: 'Its 1st digit identifies geographical area, & the 4th & 5th identify the post office'

Answer: the zip code


Question: '"Whistle berries" refers to these Boston legumes'

Answer: baked beans


Question: 'Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy was renamed this when a customer said it "knocked my eczema"'

Answer: Noxema


Question: 'U.S. dollar bills are 25% linen & 75% this fiber'

Answer: cotton


Question: '"Old habits die" this way'

Answer: hard


Question: 'Twyla Tharp "car"eographed a ballet to this Beach Boys hit:'

Answer: "Little Deuce Coupe"


Question: 'Of AK, AL, or AS, the approved postal abbreviation for Alaska'

Answer: AK


Question: 'In the early days, a glass of this was "Adam's ale" or "Potomac phosphate"'

Answer: water


Question: 'In July 1986, U.S. Steel crossed out the "Steel" in their name & replaced it with this letter'

Answer: X


Question: 'In 1986, Shelly Long & Tom Hanks found themselves caught in this'

Answer: The Money Pit


Question: '"There are more ways to" do this "than choking it with cream"'

Answer: kill a cat


Question: 'Gwen Verdon kicked her way to fame doing this in the 1953 musical of the same name'

Answer: Can-Can


Question: '4th class mail, including merchandise, printed matter, & mailable live animals, is better known as this'

Answer: parcel post


Question: 'Number that Mel might have called out to say "We're all out of it"'

Answer: 86


Question: 'In 1819, the southern towns New Philadelphia & E. Alabama merged to form this city, later a capital'

Answer: Montgomery


Question: 'On the Kennedy half, it wears a shield; on the Susan B. Anthony dollar, it's landing on Moon'

Answer: the eagle


Question: 'Proverb from Matthew 8:22 implying that the living have better things to do'

Answer: Let the dead bury the dead.


Question: 'Scientifically, this party dance could be called "The Infant Oryctolagus Bipedal Spring"'

Answer: the Bunny Hop


Question: 'Black envelopes are nonmailable since this wouldn't be legible'

Answer: the postmark


Question: '"Bossy in a bowl"'

Answer: beef stew


Question: 'In 1909 he became the first U.S. president ever to appear on a coin'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'A soldier might say "Every" one of these "has its billet"'

Answer: a bullet


Question: '"2 households both alike in dignity,<br />In fair Verona where we lay our scene..."'

Answer: the first line of Romeo and Juliet


Question: '1st town attacked by the israelites under Joshua, its 1st walls were built about 8000 B.C.'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'Nonbelievers in the Trinity, this group's name reflects their traditional belief in God as a Unity'

Answer: Unitarians


Question: 'Before starting out in this game, "It" usually shouts "Ready or not, here I come"'

Answer: hide and seek


Question: 'It's said Chancellorsville was the unnamed battle in this Stephen Crane Civil War novel'

Answer: Red Badge of Courage


Question: 'Of "Merrie Melodies", "Silly Symphonies", & "Looney Tunes", the ones that didn't come from Warner Bros.'

Answer: Silly Symphonies


Question: '"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York..."'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'This twin-tube tunnel under the Hudson was named for its designer, who died during its construction'

Answer: (Clifford) Holland


Question: 'Their name comes from Greek for "to immerse", a rite they usually reserve for adults affirming faith in Jesus'

Answer: Baptists


Question: 'Popular parlor game also known as "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?"'

Answer: 20 questions


Question: 'After the Gauls besieged this city in 390 B.C., they were bought off so they'd go home'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Director of films "The Outlaw" & "Hell's Angels", he dies in 1976 leaving estimated $1.5 billion estate'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question:
'"Who's there?"
"Nay, answer me.
Stand & unfold yourself."'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'The Buffalo Bayou was widened & deepened to open this inland Texas town to shipping'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'Of 40, 60 or 80%, the approximate # of Americans who belong to organized religions'

Answer: 60


Question: 'Dollar poker, which uses serial numbers, is often called this; yeah, that's it!'

Answer: liar


Question: 'During the battle for Okinawa, the leader of U.S. forces was killed & the enemy commandant committed this'

Answer: hara-kiri


Question: 'Composer Bernard Hermann used an all-string orchestra for "black & white music" for this '60 Hitchcock film'

Answer: Psycho


Question: '"If music be the food of love, play on..."'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'Major branch of engineering concerned with design of public bridges, roads, & canals'

Answer: civil engineering


Question: 'Not until 1978 were blacks admitted to the priesthood in this religion'

Answer: Mormons


Question: 'Variation of croquet whose name is derived by dropping 2 letters from croquet'

Answer: roque


Question: 'This 1805 event discouraged a Napoleonic invasion & set British naval supremacy for over 100 years'

Answer: the Battle of Trafalgar


Question: 'In 1969's "Once Upon a Time in the West", this likeable actor guns down an 8-yr-old freckle-<br />faced boy'

Answer: Henry Fonda


Question: '"Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace..."'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Costing about $1 billion & stretching from St. Johns to Victoria, it opened in 1962'

Answer: the Trans-Canada Highway


Question: 'Their belief in the "inner light" states there is "that of God in everyone"'

Answer: the Quakers


Question: 'About 1940, a U.S. gambling craze involved use of one type of this children's toy'

Answer: a top


Question: '"Intoxicating" name of 1777 battle where Gen. Howe defeated Washington'

Answer: Brandywine


Question: 'Dr. Venkman, Dr. Spengler, Dr. Stantz, & Winston Zeddmore'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'In 1985, autobiographies of these 2 men topped hardcover best seller lists'

Answer: Chuck Yeager & Lee Iacocca


Question: 'On August 14, 1935 FDR signed this act establishing old-age benefits & unemployment insurance'

Answer: Social Security


Question: 'In 1996 the founding members of this group including Gene Simmons reunited for a world tour'

Answer: KISS


Question: 'Pouring beer to produce this foamy top lets you savor its aroma & lessens the gas you'll consume'

Answer: Head


Question: 'The largest country in the world, it has 21 republics, 49 oblasts & 6 krays'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'This character jumped out of his first biscuit can on TV in 1965'

Answer: the Pillsbury Doughboy (or Poppin\' Fresh)


Question: 'This product changed the proverb "It never rains but it pours" to "When it rains it pours"'

Answer: Morton salt


Question: 'On August 12, 1867 President Johnson named this Civil War general his new Secretary of War'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: '"Bohemian Rhapsody", one of this group's early hits, returned to the Top 10 in 1992'

Answer: Queen


Question: 'Cutter, O'Douls & Sharp's are this type of beer'

Answer: Non-alcoholic beers


Question: 'It uses the Monegasque franc'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'The earliest form of this weapon was a dagger that fit into the muzzle of a musket'

Answer: Bayonet


Question: '"Even a worm will" do this'

Answer: Turn


Question: 'In 1936 this American tied or set 3 Olympic records in individual track & field events'

Answer: Jesse Owens


Question: 'In a 1995 hit she posed the question, "What if God was one of us?"'

Answer: Joan Osborne


Question: 'A black & tan mixes light-colored ale & this dark brew that made Guinness famous'

Answer: Stout


Question: 'There are no permanent lakes in this country that's home to Mecca'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'To play Milton Bradley's "Channel Surfing" you need one of these hand-held devices'

Answer: Remote control


Question: '"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man" does this "for his friends"'

Answer: Lay down his life


Question: 'On August 14, 1900 more than 2,000 U.S. troops helped capture Peking, thus halting this uprising'

Answer: Boxer Rebellion


Question: 'In 1974 this singer had her first No. 1 hit with "I Honestly Love You"'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John


Question: 'These small, specialized beer producers, like Sierra Nevada, became popular in the 1980s'

Answer: Microbrewers/craftbrewers


Question: 'In this country's parliament, the Dail has 166 seats, the Seanad, 60'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'He bequeathed $2 million to Columbia University to establish a school of journalism'

Answer: Joseph Pulitzer


Question: 'This is "forearmed"'

Answer: Forewarned


Question: 'On August 2, 1927 this president said, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928"'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'In the '80s this group had U.S. hits with "Lost In Love", "All Out Of Love" & "The One That You Love"'

Answer: Air Supply


Question: 'The Boston Beer Co. makes a lager named for this brewer, patriot & cousin of a U.S. president'

Answer: Samuel Adams


Question: 'Its borders with Bolivia & Peru are much shorter than its border with Argentina'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Christmas Seals were first sold in 1907 to raise funds to fight this disease'

Answer: Tuberculosis


Question: 'Do this but, "Prepare for the worst"'

Answer: Expect/hope for the best


Question: 'In 1995 Kodak lodged a trade complaint that this company had an unfair advantage in Japan'

Answer: Fuji Film


Question: 'In "Mein Kampf" he wrote, "Germany will either be a world power or there will be no Germany"'

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: 'A simple way to make a room seem bigger is to hang one of these glass objects on the wall'

Answer: Mirror


Question: 'Tours of the headquarters of this network & its Headline News leave every half hour 9-5:30 daily'

Answer: CNN (Cable News Network)


Question: 'It's the only game show whose writers have won more than 1 Daytime Emmy'

Answer: Jeopardy!


Question: 'This Washington Irving title character had "An insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor"'

Answer: Rip Van Winkle


Question: 'In 1994 it made over a quarter of a million Camrys in U.S. plants'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'In 1981 this religious leader dismissed Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president of Iran'

Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini


Question: 'The crown type of this decorative strip of wood is found where the wall meets the ceiling'

Answer: Molding


Question: 'His presidential center & library on Copenhill Avenue contains in excess of 27 million documents & other artifacts'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'The Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series of 1974-75 was a cartoon based on this '60s sci-fi series'

Answer: Star Trek


Question: 'James Thurber's story of this daydreaming husband first appeared in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker'

Answer: Walter Mitty


Question: 'The largest ones of these in the world are Japan's Sanwa & Dai-Ichi Kangyo'

Answer: Banks


Question: 'While serving as New York governor, this first chief justice signed a bill ending slavery in that state'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'Using white walls & natural materials, Michael Taylor created "the look" named for this U.S. state'

Answer: California


Question: 'Atlanta had only about 13,000 inhabitants in 1865 when captured & partially burned by this general'

Answer: William T. Sherman


Question: 'He's won Best Actor Emmys for the comedy "Father Knows Best" & the drama "Marcus Welby, M.D."'

Answer: Robert Young


Question: '"The Pastures Of Heaven" is his collection of stories about the people of a farm community of Salinas'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Setting out to make the world's smallest transistor radio, it marketed a pocket-size one in 1957'

Answer: Sony


Question: 'This Israeli military leader lost his left eye in 1941 while scouting positions in Syria'

Answer: Moshe Dayan


Question: 'If you want a fancier name for your knickknacks or tchotchkes, use this hyphenated French term'

Answer: Bric-a-brac


Question: 'The Scenic Skylift offers cable-car service to the top of this nearby mountain'

Answer: Stone Mountain


Question: 'Keith Michell won for playing this king in the "Catherine Howard" episode of a 1971 series'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'This Kafka story in which a man turns into a gigantic insect was published as "Die Verwandlung"'

Answer: The Metamorphosis


Question: 'This brand name meaning "precision" first appeared on Hattori's watches in 1924'

Answer: Seiko


Question: 'This governor of New Netherland was nicknamed "Wooden Leg Pete"'

Answer: Peter Stuyvesant


Question: 'This Chinese method arranges furniture & artifacts within a space for the smoothest energy flow'

Answer: Feng shui


Question: 'This agency of the U.S. Public Health Service found the causes of Legionnaires' Disease & Toxic Shock Syndrome'

Answer: CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)


Question: '1989-90 Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Mark Goodson & this "Wide World of Sports" announcer'

Answer: Jim McKay


Question: 'This author's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is set on an African safari'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'In the U.S. it's the latest date in November on which Thanksgiving can fall'

Answer: November 28


Question: 'Bangkok is the leading port on this gulf, an inlet of the South China Sea'

Answer: Gulf of Thailand


Question: 'The Sailor Boy & his dog seen here are a symbol of this snack brand'

Answer: Cracker Jack


Question: 'This 18th century queen reportedly used mannequins to send home the latest fashions to her native Austria'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Work your legs, arms & upper back on a machine simulating this, an Olympic sport since 1900'

Answer: rowing


Question: 'The first classic, issued in 1946, was this Homer tale of heading home'

Answer: "The Odyssey"


Question: 'Aesop was known for these, from the Latin for "story" or "tale"'

Answer: fables


Question: 'This European country's most populous province is Katowice in the south'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Amateur Night at this former Harlem theater was the brainchild of showman Ralph Cooper Sr.'

Answer: Apollo


Question: 'The mannequin seen here is used in the teaching of this procedure'

Answer: CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation)


Question: 'A gym rat may eat a Powerbar to load up on energy, 75% of it coming from these'

Answer: carbohydrates


Question: 'The cover seen here is from the new edition of this classic 1605 novel'

Answer: "Don Quixote"


Question: 'Of the 3 virtues mentioned in the King James Version of I Corinthians 13;13, the 2 that are from Latin'

Answer: faith & charity


Question: 'This south Pacific nation has over 800 islands & islets, but Viti Levu & Vanua Levu provide more than 85% of its area'

Answer: Fiji


Question: 'In December 1995 Bill Watterson ended this comic strip about a 6-year-old boy & his stuffed tiger'

Answer: Calvin and Hobbes


Question: 'Unfortunately for window dressers, many early mannequins were made of this & didn't last in the heat of summer'

Answer: wax


Question: 'In 2002 strength equipment maker Nautilus acquired this cardio brand that has you stepping lively'

Answer: Stairmaster


Question: 'The cover seen here is from a Penguin Classic of this 1726 novel'

Answer: "Gulliver\'s Travels"


Question: 'Pronounced one way, this word from the Latin for "to make smaller" means "tiny"; another way, it's a unit of time'

Answer: minute


Question: 'It precedes "kush", which means "killer", in the name of a central Asian mountain range'

Answer: Hindu


Question: 'Gin or vodka & sour apple schnapps (instead of vermouth) go into this trendy variation of a mixed drink'

Answer: apple martini


Question: 'In a magazine called The Show Window, this Oz creator dispensed advice on mannequins & creative display'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew working out in the gym)  The name of this type of bike comes from the Latin for "to lie down"'

Answer: recumbent


Question: 'New to Penguin Classics is this 1953 play, a parable about McCarthy's witch hunts'

Answer: "The Crucible"


Question: 'From the Latin for "seed", it's one particle of sand or a seed of corn or rice, for example'

Answer: grain


Question: 'This area that was created in 1960 & has oil companies licking their chops is dominated by the Brooks Range'

Answer: ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)


Question: 'It's the brand name of the transporter seen here'

Answer: Segway


Question: 'A wooden torso mannequin was found near a clothing chest when this man opened King Tut's tomb in 1922'

Answer: Howard Carter


Question: 'Named for its inventor, this trendy, new "method" of body conditioning actually dates back to the 1920s'

Answer: Pilates


Question: 'Penguin Classics has sold 300,000 copies of this ancient Sanskrit poem whose title means "song of the lord"'

Answer: the Bhagavad Gita


Question: 'From the Latin for "hiss", it describes sounds like the first letter of sigh, speck & the correct response'

Answer: sibyl


Question: 'The naval base the U.S. got on this island came out of the Platt Amendment we forced into its 1901 constitution'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'As a teenager this "Gladiator" star recorded the song "I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando" under the name Rus Le Roc'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'He was elected president of Russia shortly before the Soviet Union broke up'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'Currently the federal government sets it at $5.15 an hour'

Answer: minimum wage


Question: 'He was a successful sculptor; his son, also named Alexander, made a stable living out of mobile art'

Answer: Alexander Calder


Question: 'A laid-back lemon-colored stringed instrument'

Answer: mello yellow cello


Question: 'Called "The Soldier's General", in 1949 he became the 1st permanent chairman of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff'

Answer: Omar Bradley


Question: 'Actor heard here in the Broadway musical "Greenwillow" the same year he starred in a Hitchcock film'

Answer: Anthony Perkins