Question: 'The Hundred Years' War, 1337 to 1453, was fought between England & this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'This scientist is the only woman to be a Nobel Prize winner as well as the mother of a Nobel Prize winner'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'It shares its name with a type of musical piece: Forward--Move It!'

Answer: March


Question: 'You are so smart, your brillance matches that of this ancient philosopher who was a student of Plato'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'It's the weakest of the 4 basic forces, but it's strong enough to keep the moon orbiting the Earth'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Brazil's version of this long-running PBS kids show is called "Vila Sesamo"'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'I could be a big wheel in the circus because I'm learning to ride this vehicle named for its one big wheel'

Answer: a unicycle


Question: 'For gamers:<br />This company makes PSP & PS3'

Answer: Sony


Question: 'Although it was discovered in 1610, the Canadian bay's west coast wasn't mapped until about 210 years later'

Answer: Hudson Bay


Question: 'The name of this extinct critter comes from words meaning "terrible lizard"'

Answer: dinosaur


Question: 'A cubic inch of material contains a million billion billion of these, each with protons & neutrons in its nucleus'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'This inquisitive monkey's favorite food plays a part in the number game "Banana 411" on his PBS website'

Answer: Curious George


Question: 'I go to the cafe at American Girl Place to dine with my doll at this "afternoon" meal named for a beverage'

Answer: tea


Question: 'A food company:<br />A bunch of different soups (& SpaghettiOs too)'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'This British river that flows through London is also known as the Isis as it flows through Oxford'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'This term for a mechanical human comes from a Czech word for "forced labor"'

Answer: robot


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew puts a lid on it--literally.) The candle in the small jar will burn out first because it has the least amount of this to burn'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'Hosted by LeVar Burton, this literary show sounds like something you might see in the sky'

Answer: Reading Rainbow


Question: 'I'm mastering this outdoor game, but I don't use a flamingo for a mallet like Alice did in "Alice in Wonderland"'

Answer: croquet


Question: 'A tech company:<br />Internet Explorer, Vista'

Answer: Microsoft


Question: 'Tidal ranges in this ocean vary from 38 feet to 2 feet just south of Perth, Western Australia'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'Changes in the tropospheric layer of this are what gives us weather'

Answer: the atmosphere


Question: 'On their PBS show, Piggley Winks, Dannan & Ferny often use this title expression on Raloo Farm in Ireland'

Answer: Jakers!


Question: 'I'm studying this language because I want to go to Crete & speak to the people in their native tongue'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'A breakfast giant:<br />Froot Loops, Pop-Tarts'

Answer: Kellogg\'s


Question: 'This river flows about 1,150 miles from Lake Hazar in Turkey through Baghdad, on its way to the Persian Gulf'

Answer: the Tigris


Question: '"He's an angel" is a metaphor: "Smart as a whip" is one of these comparisons'

Answer: a simile


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M.) To test deep water structures the wave tank generates waves, wind, and this water flow,from the Latin for running'

Answer: currents


Question: 'Paco the talking parrot is a friend of these 2 title animated PBS kids whose names both start with the letter "M"'

Answer: Maya & Miguel


Question: 'Instead of playing with my yo-yo I'm playing like Yo-Yo Ma on this instrument'

Answer: the cello


Question: 'An automaker:<br />Yaris, Corolla'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'This largest lake in the Swiss Alps is actually a wide spot in the Rhone River'

Answer: Lake Geneva


Question: 'You can learn about all types of animals at the zoo--& that "zoo" is short for this type of park or garden'

Answer: zoological


Question: 'The 2 adjectives that describe Miss Wheaton in the title of an award-winning book & TV movie set in the Midwest'

Answer: plain & tall


Question: 'This river's drainage area covers about 1.25 million square miles in 31 states'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'Jolly Time was the first brand name of this snack food'

Answer: Popcorn


Question: 'If you can't make any of your programs run, you can take out a deck of cards & play this game, AKA Patience'

Answer: Solitaire


Question: 'The Beatles' first No. 1 song in America, it's one of the biggest-selling British singles of all time'

Answer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand"


Question: 'This British prime minister lived in his home of Chartwell in Westerham, Kent for the last 41 years of his life'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Grand or petty crime<br />(7)'

Answer: Larceny


Question: 'The highest peaks in this colorful mountain range of the Appalachian system lie in North Carolina'

Answer: Blue Ridge Mountains


Question: '"Frosty the Snowman was a jolly, happy soul, with a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of" this'

Answer: Coal


Question: 'Downloading off the net may have infected your system with one of these programs, Latin for "poison"'

Answer: Virus


Question: 'Mary Wells told us that "Nothing you could say can tear me away from" him'

Answer: "My Guy"


Question: 'The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'Where Henry Cabot might bunk<br />(5)'

Answer: Lodge


Question: 'Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County is the westernmost point of this state'

Answer: California


Question: '(Hi, I'm Katherine Kelly Lang from "The Bold and the Beautiful")  On TV, my dad Keith Wegeman played this "jolly" advertising icon first used in canned peas'

Answer: The Jolly Green Giant


Question: 'One of the signs that things aren't working correctly is when you get one of these "exceptions"'

Answer: Fatal exception


Question: 'This hit whose intro is heard here topped the charts in both England & the U.S. in the fall of 1964:'

Answer: "Oh, Pretty Woman"


Question: 'In international message flags, a red one stands for danger; a yellow one means this'

Answer: Quarantine/disease


Question: 'Philosophically, it makes sense<br />(5)'

Answer: Logic


Question: 'The 2 main branches of this inlet in Washington state are Hood Canal & Admiralty Inlet'

Answer: Puget Sound


Question: 'This poem calls Santa "A right jolly old elf"'

Answer: "The Night Before Christmas"


Question: 'If your E-mail crashes, you may have to use this rhyming 2-word term for letters delivered the old way'

Answer: Snail mail


Question: 'The Detergents' "Leader of the Laundromat" was a parody of this Shangri-Las hit'

Answer: "Leader of the Pack"


Question: 'From 1849 to 1956, a drawing by Richard Doyle graced the cover of every issue of this satiric British humor magazine'

Answer: Punch


Question: 'Numbers game<br />(7)'

Answer: Lottery


Question: 'Haleakala on this "Valley Island" of Hawaii has the world's largest dormant volcanic crater'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'This Australian song says, "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree"'

Answer: "Waltzing Matilda"


Question: 'Difficulty clicking on icons to enter commands might indicate trouble with your GUI, this kind of interface'

Answer: Graphical User Interface


Question: 'Billboard says this Louis Armstrong hit was the first song from a Broadway show to hit No. 1 in the rock era'

Answer: "Hello, Dolly!"


Question: 'French term for a thickener of soups & white sauces, made from flour & butter heated to form a paste'

Answer: Roux


Question: 'Parsifal was his pop<br />(9)'

Answer: Lohengrin


Question: 'This fictional doctor was listed as "author" of "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"; Nicholas Meyer was "editor"'

Answer: Dr. Watson


Question: 'Later a "rebel", he was playing a wicked Arab boy on Broadway in 1954 when "discovered" by Elia Kazan'

Answer: James Dean


Question: 'One cause of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War was the nationalization of this by Egypt'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'Made from benzene, lidocaine is a "local" one of these'

Answer: Anesthetic


Question: 'Without an "E", it comes before "squat"; with an "E", it comes after music legend "Bo"'

Answer: Diddly/Diddley


Question: 'Interjection of annoyance aimed at a boy pharaoh'

Answer: Tut, tut


Question: 'This Jack Higgins novel of 1975 isn't about the Apollo 11 moon touchdown, it's a WWII tale'

Answer: "The Eagle Has Landed"


Question: '(Hi, I'm Carol Burnett)  This hilarious actor won 4 Emmys for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show"'

Answer: Harvey Korman


Question: 'The First through Fourth Macedonian Wars pitted Macedonia against this republic'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Milk thistle reportedly lowers fat deposits in this organ as well as acting against cirrhosis in it'

Answer: Liver


Question: 'This word follows "nothing" in an expression meaning "the shortest possible time"'

Answer: Flat


Question: 'A form of Louise, it's used to describe something remarkable'

Answer: Lulu


Question: 'Super-selling '77 saga set on a sheep station'

Answer: "The Thorn Birds"


Question: 'Sean Connery's introduction to show biz was as a sailor in a British production of this musical'

Answer: "South Pacific"


Question: 'Between 1019 & 1919 there were at least 10 wars between Poland & this eastern neighbor'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Vitamin D speeds the body's production of this mineral'

Answer: Calcium


Question: 'Mary Richards can take one of these "and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile"'

Answer: A nothing day


Question: 'In a popular kids' game, this phrase precedes "Send Richard right over"'

Answer: Red Rover, Red Rover


Question: 'In 1978 he came up with "The Holcroft Covenant"'

Answer: Robert Ludlum


Question: '(Hi, I'm Nathan Lane)  In my (sad little) career I've played a priest, a gangster, a Roman slave & a wisecracking one of these in the film "The Lion King"'

Answer: Meerkat


Question: 'It was a cat fight when the Burmese went to war against these people in 1764'

Answer: Siamese


Question: 'Used to treat headaches, this mint family member's name may come from the Latin lavare, "to wash"'

Answer: Lavender


Question: 'It can mean zero; something of no value; or a coded message'

Answer: Cypher


Question: 'Fleischer's cartoon clown who grew "out of the inkwell", his name sounds like a chocolate drink'

Answer: Coco the Clown


Question: 'As this Gore Vidal novel came out in 1976, it has to wait until 2076 to celebrate its centennial'

Answer: "1876"


Question: 'World drama was changed forever in 1898 when this director & acting teacher opened the Moscow Art Theater'

Answer: Constantin Stanislavski


Question: 'In 1790 Cornwallis was leading this company's campaigns to annex Mysore'

Answer: British East India Company


Question: 'These seeds of the carum carvi plant are used to stimulate the appetite'

Answer: Caraway seeds


Question: 'In math, a set containing no elements is called an empty set or this type'

Answer: Null set


Question: 'A 1930s hit told about the "Flat Foot Floogie with" this'

Answer: Floy, floy


Question: 'She told Women's Sports & Fitness, "Strangers, fans, people on the street...always want to pick me up and carry me"'

Answer: Kerri Strug


Question: 'A 1960 Grammy went to Marty Robbins for his tune named for this west Texas town on the I-10'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'Formerly mayor of San Juan, in 2001 Sila Calderon became the first woman governor of this U.S. commonwealth'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'On a "Manic Monday", this group taught us to "Walk Like An Egyptian"'

Answer: Bangles


Question: 'Franklin P. Adams:<br />"Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: 'Tinker to Evers to'" him'

Answer: Chance


Question: 'Skelton or Buttons'

Answer: Red


Question: 'A stop bath is one of the steps in doing this'

Answer: Photo developing


Question: 'It's the largest city in population on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay'

Answer: Oakland


Question: 'Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly across this, 14 years before Gertrude Ederle swam it'

Answer: English Channel


Question: 'Soap star Katherine Kelly Lang was in many of this group's music videos, as the modern "California Girl"'

Answer: The Beach Boys


Question: 'Dorothy Parker:<br />"Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well" do this'

Answer: Live


Question: 'A possession costly to maintain, or a rare variety of pachyderm'

Answer: White elephant


Question: 'An auto racer makes one of these to refuel'

Answer: Pit stop


Question: 'If you want "mo" money, go to this Missouri city, home to the Tenth Federal Reserve Bank'

Answer: Kansas City


Question: 'In 1993 Sheila Widnall was flying high as the first woman secretary of this military branch'

Answer: Air Force


Question: 'Elvis' last Top 10 hit, it says, "I feel my temperature rising, help me I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine"'

Answer: "Burning Love"


Question: 'George S. Kaufman:<br />"I saw the play under bad conditions." This "was up"'

Answer: The curtain


Question: 'If your business is turning a profit, you're "in" this'

Answer: The black


Question: 'A cask has a hole named for this stopper'

Answer: Bung


Question: 'Skinner's Mudhole is a nickname of this Oregon city; it was named for Mr. Skinner'

Answer: Eugene


Question: 'In the '70s this former child star was America's first female chief of protocol in the State Department'

Answer: Shirley Temple Black


Question: 'Adam Yauch & Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group'

Answer: The Beastie Boys


Question: 'Harold Ross, upon founding this magazine:<br />"(It) will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque"'

Answer: The New Yorker


Question: 'As an adjective it can mean either sexually explicit or Puritanical'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'On a typewriter the width of these 2 areas & the range of the printing are determined by stops'

Answer: Margins


Question: 'This New Mexico town was named for the grave markers of some of its earlier settlers'

Answer: Las Cruces


Question: 'Calling herself a conservative & conservationist, Gale Norton is the first woman to head this cabinet dept.'

Answer: Department of the Interior


Question: 'Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary & Wanya Morris are this "Boy" group'

Answer: Boyz II Men


Question: 'Robert Benchley:<br />"In America, there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with" these people'

Answer: Children


Question: 'Jaundice & liver degeneration mark the second stage of this viral disease'

Answer: Yellow fever


Question: 'Term for a political campaign along a train route'

Answer: Whistle stop


Question: 'My name is C2H5OH & I'm this type of compound found in some beverages'

Answer: Alcohol


Question: 'G'day mate!  He's the actor who plays "Crocodile Dundee"'

Answer: Paul Hogan


Question: 'Danny Kaye sang "Inchworm" & "Thumbelina" in a delightful musical about this children's author'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'This "Star Search" host recently launched a new search for the "Next Big Star" on the Internet'

Answer: Ed McMahon


Question: 'In 1602 Henry IV of France declared in an edict that participation in a duel was punishable by this'

Answer: Death


Question: 'An ardent pursuer of political or social ends'

Answer: Activist


Question: 'This synonym for "fragrant" is used of a group of hydrocarbons that includes Benzene'

Answer: Aromatic compounds


Question: 'In 1973 this media mogul made his first U.S. acquisition, the San Antonio Express & News'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'In the movie "In Love & War", Chris O'Donnell played this American author wounded in Italy during WWI'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: '"The Future of Poison Gas" was among the condensed articles in this magazine's 1922 premiere issue'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: 'Time's Man of the Year in 1980, he was famous for an edict or fatwa to silence an author'

Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini


Question: 'NYC school of Palance, Brando & Newman'

Answer: Actors Studio


Question: 'Instead of this bath product brand name, you could cry "Sodium hexametaphosphate, take me away!"'

Answer: Calgon


Question: 'Look out for this "Great White Shark" seen here'

Answer: Greg Norman


Question: 'His relationship with his wife & with Anais Nin was the basis for the movie "Henry & June"'

Answer: Henry Miller


Question: 'This baseball team plays its home games at Cinergy Field'

Answer: Cincinnati Reds


Question: 'In 1616 books based on this Pole's heliocentric theory were censored by church edict'

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus


Question: 'Full title of the fifth book of the New Testament'

Answer: Acts of the Apostles


Question: 'Rhyming names of 2 common petroleum products, one used in your tank & one on your skin'

Answer: Gasoline & Vaseline


Question: 'A little thorn bird told us that before she took up writing, she was a neurophysiologist'

Answer: Colleen McCullough


Question: 'Bette Midler got all "dolled up" to play this '60s bestselling author in "Isn't She Great"'

Answer: Jacqueline Susann


Question: 'This state is the traditional home of the Passamaquoddy & Penobscot Indians'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'After Charles V, this priest is the next person mentioned by name in the 1521 edict of the Diet of Worms'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'An insurance statistician'

Answer: Actuary


Question: 'This character seen here is played by Barry Humphries'

Answer: Dame Edna Everage


Question: 'In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'At his death in 1941, this pianist was president of Poland's exiled government'

Answer: Jan Paderewski


Question: 'The 1598 edict of this put a temporary end to a long series of wars between French Catholics & Protestants'

Answer: Edict of Nantes


Question: 'A mythological hunter turned into a stag by Artemis'

Answer: Actaeon


Question: 'A highlight of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the bell from this ship that sank in 1975'

Answer: Edmund Fitzgerald


Question: 'Like Saturn, Neptune has a series of these & they're mainly made up of dust particles'

Answer: Rings


Question: 'The News'

Answer: Huey Lewis


Question: 'In 1999 Oscar Goodman, once a lawyer for Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, was elected mayor of this Nevada city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'It's the "relative" synonym for Ben-Franklin-style glasses'

Answer: Granny glasses


Question: 'This sixteenth president of the U.S. followed James Buchanan into the White House'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'It's an annual publication documenting the preceding months at a high school'

Answer: Yearbook


Question: 'If the planet had been named for the Greek equivalent of Neptune, it would have been called this'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'The Pacemakers'

Answer: Gerry


Question: 'In 1993 Thomas Menino became the 1st non-Irish American since 1929 elected mayor of this city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'A string of the black or Tahitian type of these is particularly striking'

Answer: Pearls


Question: 'The sixteenth film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, it teamed Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Climbing to No. 8 in 1977, it was Al Stewart's biggest hit'

Answer: Year of the Cat


Question: 'Neptune's Great Dark Spot was named for its resemblance to this on Jupiter'

Answer: Great Red Spot


Question: 'The Imperials'

Answer: Little Anthony


Question: 'In 1999 Mayor Wellington Webb of this state capital asked the NRA to cancel its convention there'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'The trademark of '20s socialite Nancy Cunard wasn't baubles or beads, but these ivory bracelets'

Answer: Bangles


Question: 'In 217 A.D. Callistus I became the sixteenth man to hold this lofty post'

Answer: Pope


Question: 'Collaborating with Garth won her a 1997 Grammy'

Answer: Trisha Yearwood


Question: 'This astronomer's notes show he may have seen Neptune in 1609; he just didn't recognize it as a planet'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'The Blue Belles'

Answer: Patti LaBelle


Question: 'It was a historic event when this man was sworn in in 1990'

Answer: David Dinkins (first black mayor of NYC)


Question: 'From a Catalan word, it's a belt worn over the shoulder that has loops to hold cartridges'

Answer: Bandolier


Question: 'In Super Bowl XVI this team led by Joe Montana defeated the Bengals, 26-21'

Answer: San Francisco 49ers


Question: 'Troubled 1965 Indonesia is at the heart of this Mel Gibson film'

Answer: The Year of Living Dangerously


Question: 'Neptune's largest moon, it orbits the planet in the opposite direction of the rest of the moons'

Answer: Triton


Question: 'The Detroit Wheels'

Answer: Mitch Ryder


Question: 'Ed Rendell was elected mayor of this city when Frank Rizzo died after the primary'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Founded in 1837 to make saddles, this French firm is renowned for accessories like scarves & handbags'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'In music, it's what the British call a sixteenth note'

Answer: Demi/semi quaver


Question: 'This novel won 1939's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction'

Answer: "The Yearling"


Question: 'He received his famous nickname when General Bee told his men to look at him "standing like a stone wall"'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: '2 anatomical features common to all insects are 6 mouth parts & 6 of these appendages'

Answer: Legs


Question: 'Sean was born in this capital city in 1930'

Answer: Edinburgh, Scotland


Question: 'Many of the Protestant denominations got their start during this 16th Century movement'

Answer: The Reformation


Question:
'Pickled condiment/
also a former Spice Girl/
topper of sushi'

Answer: Ginger


Question: 'FCC chairman Mark Fowler called it "just another appliance...a toaster with pictures"'

Answer: Television


Question: 'His march to the sea began in Atlanta in November 1864 & ended in Savannah about a month later'

Answer: William T. Sherman


Question: 'The females of these insects lay their eggs only in water'

Answer: Mosquitos


Question: 'It was Sean's first James Bond film'

Answer: Dr. No


Question: 'Brooke Shields may say nothing comes between her & this early Protestant born in Noyon, France in 1509'

Answer: John Calvin


Question:
'Found in old carvings/
not seeing, hearing, speaking/
these animals pose'

Answer: Monkeys


Question: 'She told Vanity Fair in 1991 "I didn't... vote against my father but I couldn't vote for him"'

Answer: Patti Davis


Question: 'Although the charge up Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg is named for him, it was commanded by Gen. Longstreet'

Answer: George Pickett


Question: 'Bees feed on both nectar & this granular dust-like substance necessary for germination'

Answer: Pollen


Question: 'Like Bond, Sean spent time in this military branch in his youth'

Answer: Navy


Question: 'This Anabaptist offshoot related to the Amish was named for its leader, a Mr. Simons'

Answer: Mennonites (Menno Simons)


Question:
'World War II fighter/
nothing equaled its value/
Air Force "less than" one'

Answer: Japanese Zero


Question: 'He told Boswell, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money"'

Answer: Dr. Samuel Johnson


Question: 'Known as "Young Napoleon" & "Little Mac", he served as governor of New Jersey after the war'

Answer: George McClellan


Question: 'The 3 basic body parts of an insect are the head, abdomen & this part'

Answer: Thorax


Question: 'Sean won his Oscar for his work on this 1987 Kevin Costner film'

Answer: The Untouchables


Question: 'This movement whose roots go back to Kansas in 1901 took its name from a day disciples spoke in tongues'

Answer: Pentecostal


Question:
'Top soy sauce maker/
Coke, Ragu, Lea & Perrins/
it distributes too'

Answer: Kikkoman


Question: 'Gen. Curtis Lemay wanted to tell the North Vietnamese to draw back or "We'll bomb them back" to this'

Answer: The Stone Age


Question: 'Before his Civil War service, this "bewhiskered" general invented & manufactured a breech-loading carbine'

Answer: Ambrose Burnside


Question: 'Insects are members of this largest animal kingdom phylum that also includes spiders & crustaceans'

Answer: Arthropods


Question: 'This 1964 film was the only time Sean worked with Alfred Hitchcock'

Answer: Marnie


Question: 'This edict in effect from 1598 to 1685 allowed the Huguenots in France the freedom of worship'

Answer: Edict of Nantes


Question:
'Using no weapons/
only arm strikes, thrusts & kicks/
karate means this'

Answer: "Empty Hand"


Question: 'Former governor Al Smith is credited with remarking in 1936, "No matter how thin you slice it, it's still" this'

Answer: Baloney


Question: 'This fast food magnate subtitled his 1991 autobiography "A New Approach to Old-Fashioned Success"'

Answer: Dave Thomas


Question: '"Fantasia 2000" presents the Jazz Age with this composer's "Rhapsody in Blue"'

Answer: George Gershwin


Question: 'SUV's, pickups & minivans are all classified as these trucks'

Answer: light trucks


Question: '8 feet below sea level at New Orleans'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'In 1984 Gene married this woman with whom he later had a "Haunted Honeymoon"'

Answer: Gilda Radner


Question: 'Tunisia's flag features a red crescent & star, symbols of this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Hans Christian Andersen's princess stacked 20 mattresses & 20 eiderdown quilts on one of these'

Answer: a pea


Question: 'When "Fantasia 2000" features "Carnival of the Animals", this pink bird shows off its yo-yoing skills'

Answer: a flamingo


Question: '2-word phrase for the apparatus seen here'

Answer: landing gear


Question: '282 feet below sea level in Death Valley'

Answer: California


Question: 'In his first movie, Gene played a mortician kidnapped by Warren Beatty in this 1967 film'

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde


Question: 'The flag of this Canadian province features 4 white fleur-de-lis on a blue background'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'It's the only one of the 5 W's in journalism that fits the category'

Answer: why


Question: 'The original "Fantasia" included a minor masterpiece, Bach's "Toccata &" this "in D Minor"'

Answer: Fugue


Question: 'They attach a wheel to a car & are removed with a wrench of a similar name'

Answer: lugnuts


Question: '710 feet above sea level at the Snake River near Lewiston'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'This man directed Gene in "The Producers" & "Blazing Saddles"'

Answer: Mel Brooks


Question: 'A yellow sphere represents the world discovered by 15th & 16th c. navigators on the flag of this Iberian nation'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'You can't play billiards without this stick'

Answer: cue


Question: 'Used in 1940's "Fantasia", this piece is a "night" to remember'

Answer: Night on Bare Mountain (or Night on Bald Mountain)


Question: 'Altered type of vehicle seen here'

Answer: a lowrider


Question: '3,350 feet above sea level at the Arkansas River'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'Gene was nominated for a Screenwriting Oscar for this film that also starred Marty Feldman as Igor'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'The cedar tree on the flag of this nation represents peace & holiness'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Mike Hammer was a private one'

Answer: eye


Question: 'This "moonlit" Debussy piece, dropped from "Fantasia" 1940, appears on the "Fantasia Anthology" DVD'

Answer: "Clair de Lune"


Question: 'Audi now owns this Italian company that can get you from 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds'

Answer: Lamborghini


Question: '95 feet above sea level at the eastern shore of Lake Champlain'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'Gene's first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train'

Answer: Silver Streak


Question: 'The Ivory Coast's flag is orange, white & green, the reverse of the flag of this republic'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'A metric unit equivalent to 100 square meters, or the present tense plural of be'

Answer: are


Question: 'Germans asserted that this passenger liner was carrying arms when it sank in May 1915'

Answer: Lusitania


Question: 'Sitcom star, author & creator of Fat Albert'

Answer: Bill Cosby


Question: 'To find a climbing partner, put an ad in this country's Kathmandu Post'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'She's interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. near her sisters, who were models for Beth & Meg'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'This sci-fi anthology premiered on October 2, 1959 with the episode "Where Is Everybody?"'

Answer: The Twilight Zone


Question:
'33 down:
Ex-head of Iran
            (4)'

Answer: Shah


Question: 'America's top ace of the war, he won the Medal of Honor & the French Croix de Guerre'

Answer: Eddie Rickenbacker


Question: 'Basketball player-turned-senator-turned-presidential hopeful'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: 'The latest reunification possibilities are dissected in this nation's Chosun Ilbo & Joongang Ilbo'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Want to dig up the dirt on Dashiell Hammett?  Head to this noted Virginia cemetery'

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery


Question: 'Popular kids' show on which you'd hear Jimmie Dodd say, "Why?  Because we like you!"'

Answer: The Mickey Mouse Club


Question:
'64 across:
Lee or Musial
             (4)'

Answer: Stan


Question: 'President Wilson put this future president in charge of the Food Administration'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'Ex-Rolling Stones bassist'

Answer: Bill Wyman


Question: 'The times of this nation are covered in the daily Zamboanga Times & the Mindanao Times'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'Though he won a Pulitzer for "New Hampshire", you'll find this poet's remains in a cemetery in Vermont'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'On September 18, 1955 the "Toast of the Town" variety series changed its title to this'

Answer: The Ed Sullivan Show


Question:
'10 down:
Phaser setting on "Star Trek"
             (4)'

Answer: Stun


Question: 'In 1918 Germany began to shell Paris with these "huge" guns that had a range of up to 75 miles'

Answer: Big Berthas


Question: 'Former Jets, Giants & Patriots coach'

Answer: Bill Parcells


Question: 'Whip up some excitement for this city-state's Straits Times'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Stores around the town square of Oxford, Mississippi closed during his funeral at St. Peter's Cemetery'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'In the 1950s bandleader Ray Anthony had 2 TV theme songs reach the Top 10:  "Dragnet" & this one heard here'

Answer: Peter Gunn


Question:
'48 down:
Small fight
             (4)'

Answer: Spat


Question: 'U.S. officials had planned to send only 650,000 troops, but this AEF commander convinced them to send 3 times that'

Answer: John J. Pershing (in charge of the American Expeditionary Force)


Question: '"Calvin and Hobbes" creator'

Answer: Bill Watterson


Question: 'This nation's Gulf Times, published in Doha, often reports on the emir & his activities'

Answer: Qatar


Question: '"Called Back" is the epitaph on this poet's Amherst grave'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'Doberman wasn't a dog, but a dog-faced private on this army sitcom'

Answer: Sgt. Bilko (or You\'ll Never Get Rich)


Question:
'35 down:
Awaken
            (4)'

Answer: Stir


Question: 'This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!"'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'The Lord’s Prayer begins by addressing God who "art in" this place'

Answer: heaven


Question: 'Punch a wick hole in the bottom of an empty milk carton, melt some wax & you're on your way to making this'

Answer: a candle


Question: 'The Great Lake Aquarium featured fish that live in this kind of water, as opposed to saltwater'

Answer: freshwater


Question: 'If string licorice is 20 cents a foot, a yard costs this much'

Answer: 60 cents


Question: 'Rode a mule from the south rim to the floor of this landmark to go whitewater rafting on the Colorado River'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'It took 48 pigs (& an animatronic double) to play this '95 title ham role'

Answer: Babe


Question: 'God told Abraham to sacrifice his son, then sent one of these messengers to say, "never mind"'

Answer: an angel


Question: 'Go dotty & make a pair of these out of clay; the opposite sides should add up to 7'

Answer: dice


Question: 'It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audobon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'If Fred can eat 5 figs in 5 minutes, he can eat this many in a half hour'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Learned to surf while staying on Waikiki on this Hawaiian island'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'In a nod to the TV show of Tim Allen, voice of Buzz Lightyear, a "Binford Tools" toolbox appears in this '95 film'

Answer: Toy Story


Question: 'From the Latin for "threefold", it's the understanding of God as including Father, Son, & Holy Spirit'

Answer: a trinity


Question: 'String together one of these Hawaiian necklaces using construction paper flowers, straws & yarn'

Answer: a lei


Question: 'These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium'

Answer: penguins


Question: 'If 25% of the total U. S. Senate voted yea on a law, this many Senators voted nay'

Answer: 75


Question: 'Went to Yellowstone & saw this geyser erupt right on schedule, as its name promised'

Answer: Old Faithful


Question: 'The "First Movie" from this card game features an evil clone, Mewtwo, who wanted to rule the world'

Answer: Pokémon


Question: 'In the Bible God often speaks through these people, like Isaiah & Jeremiah'

Answer: prophets


Question: 'With a brown lunch bag, white yarn for the top stitching & a little imagination, you can make one of these; hike!'

Answer: a football


Question: 'Seen here, the beluga type of this mammal is one of the main attractions at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium'

Answer: a whale


Question: 'Number of kids you need to form 16 3-legged race teams'

Answer: 32


Question: 'Stayed at the Ahwahnee Hotel in the valley of this national park; saw Glacier Point & Half Dome on a hike'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Alec Baldwin played Mr. Conductor on this title steam engine's "Magic Railroad"'

Answer: Thomas the Tank Engine


Question: 'Psalm 50 declares that God is this, like those found on Earth in a courtroom'

Answer: a judge


Question: 'You can shake things up after making this wintry item using a baby food jar, water, sparkles & tiny figures'

Answer: a snow globe


Question: 'On April 13, 2001 a bottlenose one of these mammals was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore'

Answer: a dolphin


Question: 'As the school yearbook can fit 12 student photos on a page, it would need this many pages for 144 students'

Answer: 12


Question: 'Loved the Gown Gallery--an exhibit about the First Ladies--in this Smithsonian museum'

Answer: the Museum of American History


Question: 'Dickie Jones voiced this Disney wooden puppet who dreamed of becoming a real boy'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew does his darndest to topple at an exhibit at the California Science Center.) On the high-wire bike, a weight lowers the rider's center of this, so it's almost impossible to fall! ...Whoa!'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'The icon seen here is also the founder, spokesman & namesake of this fast-food chain'

Answer: Jack in the Box


Question: 'MN'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'Style of music that's the main subject of Word Up! Magazine'

Answer: rap (or hip-hop)


Question: '"Rumple Who?" is an interactive musical based on this fairy tale'

Answer: "Rumplestiltskin"


Question: 'He got more popular votes for president than George W. Bush in 2000 but lost the election'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew visits Tess, the 50-foot-tall woman at the California Science Center.) As Tess' heart pumps to supply extra oxygen, the lights represent this system that distributes blood'

Answer: the circulatory system


Question: 'Head chef since 1993, Andrew Selvaggio has served billions & billions for this restaurant'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'MD'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Gimme a C.  Gimme an H.  Gimme a couple of Es--soon you'll have the mag for the "American" one of these'

Answer: cheerleading


Question: 'When this animated film became a Broadway musical, Rafiki became a female character'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'The first book of the Bible, or a Phil Collins rock band'

Answer: Genesis


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew picks up some chicks at the California Science Center.) Directional term for the short, fluffy feathers seen on this newly hatched chick'

Answer: down


Question: 'The girl seen here is the logo of this burger chain'

Answer: Wendy\'s


Question: 'ME'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'These twins seen here launched their own magazine in 2001'

Answer: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen


Question: 'Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's book, this musical is named for the "secret" place'

Answer: The Secret Garden


Question: 'Last name of the brothers who first published their fairy tales in 1812'

Answer: Grimm


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs the rock climbing wall at the California Science Center.) A climber who shouts "Give!" to his belayer is asking for more of this--give!'

Answer: line


Question: 'The BK Broiler & Chicken Tenders are on the menu at this chain'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'MA'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'In the Girls' Life story "Can I Date My BFF's old BF?", BFF is best friend forever & BF is short for this'

Answer: boyfriend


Question: 'In "Starmites 2001" Eleanor enters the world of this kind of "book" & becomes a "superhero girl"'

Answer: a comic book


Question: 'This "thirst quencher comes in such flavors as Citrus Cooler, Tropical Burst & Cool Blue Raspberry'

Answer: Gatorade


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shakes things up at the California Science Center.) I'm learning how earthquakes happen, when these continental sections are pushed together or pulled apart'

Answer: tectonic plates


Question: 'The Big Montana is one of the signature roast beef sandwiches from this restaurant'

Answer: Arby\'s


Question: 'MI'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'The supplement seen here came with a 2000 issue of this magazine'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'Mrs. Potts & Lumiere both wear wigs made of yak hair in this popular musical'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'In computers, it's a measure of storage capacity equal to 1 billion bytes'

Answer: a gigabyte


Question: 'It's the only U.S. state that touches 2 oceans'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Christmas 1977 wasn't very merry for this silent film star who died that day'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'A voting paper'

Answer: a ballot


Question: 'Sal Paradise found, we got the beat writer, '50s 'Frisco fun'

Answer: On the Road


Question: 'On Dec. 26, 1919 the Red Sox traded this man to the Yankees for cash; the cash would not equal his 714 home runs'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'It's the common word for a prayer of thanks before meals'

Answer: grace


Question: '(Alex reports from the National Archives.)  In 1940 in a letter to the President, this then 14-year-old future world leader asked FDR for a $10 bill, yet he doesn't cash the checks we send him for Guantanamo'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'Notorious pirate Charles Gibbs made an 1831 exit by hanging at this New York island later famous as an entrance'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: 'A sentimental or romantic song'

Answer: a ballad


Question: 'The big chief looms large, sanity is a relative term, a small-time crook is treated ratched-ly'

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest


Question: 'In 1996 the Hornets traded the rights to this then H.S. scoring phenom to the Lakers for Vlade Divac; ouch'

Answer: Kobe Bryant


Question: 'Its Catholic version forgives trespasses & trespassers; in some Protestant versions, debts & debtors'

Answer: the Lord\'s Prayer


Question: '(Alex reports from the National Archives.)  American history might have been very different if this future country had agreed to the offer of statehood contained in Article 11 of the Articles of Confederation'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Charles Arthur Floyd, better known as this, was shot dead by G-men in 1934'

Answer: "Pretty Boy" Floyd


Question: 'Proverbially, it doesn't stand a chance in hell'

Answer: a snowball


Question: 'Lara, but not Flynn Boyle, remembrance of things Pasternak, title physician, heal thyself'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'In 1988 the Oilers sent this "Great One" (& 2 others) to the L.A. Kings, getting 2 players, 3 picks & $15 mil. in return'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'The Vidui prayer is recited on this holiest Jewish day & also on one's deathbed'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: '(Alex reports from the National Archives.) Well, we're not going for mood lighting on this one, but there has to be dim lighting in order to protect & preserve the important documents.  Here's the clue.)  No one knows how it got there, but there is a handprint in the lower left-hand corner of this important national document, just beneath the concluding words, "and our sacred honor"'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'As a consequence of his drug & alcohol problems, this jazz pioneer was confined to a mental hospital in 1946'

Answer: Charlie Parker


Question: 'Heavy material placed in a ship's hold'

Answer: ballast


Question: 'Lockwood tells the tale, Yorkshire putting, Heathcliff is one wild cat'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'In '04 the Rangers traded this 3B to the Yanks for Alfonso Soriano & a minor leaguer; he's since had a controversy or 2'

Answer: Alex Rodriguez


Question: 'In 2000 Venka-Tachalapathi Samuldrala became the first of this faith to open the U.S. House with an invocation'

Answer: Hindu


Question:
'(Alex reports from the National Archives.)  One of the Archives' treasures is a 1912 wax cylinder recording, like this one, of this American president talking about his Progressive Party's movement for social & industrial justice

"Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves?"'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'He was executed in London January 30, 1649'

Answer: King Charles I


Question: '"Giselle" or "Les Sylphides"'

Answer: ballet


Question: 'The Trask at hand, California dreamin

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'In 1993 the 49ers sent this QB (along with a safety & a 3rd round pick) to the Chiefs for a 1st rounder'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'A prayer of this saint included the line "Who am I, worm of the Earth..."; always with the animals'

Answer: St. Francis of Assisi


Question: '(Alex reports from the National Archives.)  The Constitution was signed by representatives of each of the 13 colonies, except for this one which opposed increasing federal power; because it was the last to ratify, it is now our 13th state'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'Radically opposed to slavery, William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent figure in this 12-letter movement'

Answer: abolitionism


Question: 'This 2002 movie starred Eminem as Rabbit'

Answer: 8 Mile


Question: 'Hilo Tropical Gardens, Koko Crater Botanical Garden'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Red & savoy are types of heads of this'

Answer: cabbage


Question: 'In May Stanley McChrystal replaced David McKiernan as top U.S. commander in this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Wear your maghio (bathing suit) to the paralia (this) to swim in the okeanos'

Answer: the beach


Question: 'Although nominally a pacifist, Garrison supported this man's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'He played Gator McKlusky in "White Lightning" as well as in "Gator"'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'Chesapeake Arboretum, Williamsburg Botanical Garden'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Eggs sardou is poached eggs served with the hearts of these'

Answer: artichokes


Question: 'The G8 summit was moved from Sardinia to the town of L'aquila, which had been devastated by this 3 months earlier'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'Protos means "first"; this holiday is proti ianouariou or protohronia'

Answer: New Year\'s


Question: 'After the Civil War Garrison kept defending rights, of blacks, women & also of Asian immigrants, mainly from this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'In this film Denzel Washington is a '40s detective whose muscle is named Mouse'

Answer: Devil in a Blue Dress


Question: 'Navajo Nation Zoological & Botanical Park, Desert Botanical Garden'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'This veggie that looks like a giant scallion is a national symbol of Wales'

Answer: a leek


Question: 'In November 2009 President Obama hosted a town hall meeting with students live from this Chinese city'

Answer: Shanghai


Question: 'This part of a car is porto gaz'

Answer: the trunk


Question: 'A ferocious enemy of slavery, in 1831 Garrison started this newspaper, also a nickname of Simon Bolivar'

Answer: The Liberator


Question: 'Jon Cryer's aquatic name in "Pretty in Pink"'

Answer: Duckie


Question: 'The Sarah P. Duke Gardens,<br />Cape Fear Botanical Gardens'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'The most common type of this in the U.S. is the calabrese, whose green stalks are topped by green florets'

Answer: broccoli


Question: 'On Sept. 3 Michael Jackson was finally laid to rest at the Glendale branch of this cemetery'

Answer: Forest Lawn


Question: 'Knowing Greek is helpful in studying anatomy; for instance pnevmonas is this organ'

Answer: the lungs


Question: 'Tim Matheson's aquatic name in "Animal House"'

Answer: Otter


Question: 'Edison & Ford Winter Estates, Flamingo Gardens'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'You can pronounce these leaves a la European to rhyme with long sleeve or the regular American way'

Answer: endive


Question: 'Army troops seized a pajama-ed Manuel Zelaya, president of this central American nation, & sent him into exile'

Answer: Honduras


Question: 'To drink, you may want metaliko nero, this non-potent potable'

Answer: mineral water


Question: 'Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive"'

Answer: Hank Williams


Question: 'Well, I declare, "Gone With the Wind" premiered in this southern city on December 15, 1939'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'Scottish word preceding lomond or ness'

Answer: loch


Question: 'The "RC" on an RC cola stands for this'

Answer: Royal Crown


Question: 'Ermines & ferrets brought into New Zealand to control rabbits have reduced the numbers of this national bird'

Answer: the kiwi


Question: 'Pure gold is 24 of these units'

Answer: karats


MC J-GIL IN DA HIZZ-OUSE (FEAT. DJ T-BEK)

Question:
'(Alex: Name this rapper being covered by MC J-Gil...)
"Hi! My name is...
(What?)
My name is...
(Who?)
My name is...
Slim Shady"'

Answer: Eminem


Question: 'This Pennsylvania steel city was named on Christmas Eve in 1741'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'A type of music, or jes' your common people'

Answer: folk


Question: 'A French doctor who died in 1912 was happy to give his name to this sparkling mineral water'

Answer: Perrier


Question: 'This flightless bird of Australia can grow to 100 pounds and 5 feet tall'

Answer: the emu


Question: 'A bricklike bar of gold is called this, from the Old English for "pour"'

Answer: an ingot


MC J-GIL IN DA HIZZ-OUSE (FEAT. DJ T-BEK)

Question: '"If there was a problem, yo I'll solve it, check out the hook while my DJ revolves it"'

Answer: Vanilla Ice


Question: 'On Dec. 2, 1942 the first nuclear chain reaction was set off at the University of this Midwest city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'To remove or tip one's hat in greeting'

Answer: doff


Question: 'Philadelphia pharmicist Charles Hires commercialized this type of soda in the mid-1800s'

Answer: root beer


Question: 'Care of the young of this large South American bird is the exclusive province of males who incubate the eggs'

Answer: the rhea


Question: 'Issued from 1849 to 1933, it's a U.S. gold coin that was worth $20; it's also 3 under par on a hole in golf'

Answer: double eagle


MC J-GIL IN DA HIZZ-OUSE (FEAT. DJ T-BEK)

Question: '(Alex: Here's our next rapper...)<br />"Crib for my mom on the outskirts of Philly, you trying to flex on me don't be silly...Gettin' jiggy wit it"'

Answer: Will Smith


Question: 'In December 1773 this brewer-patriot launched the Boston Tea Party'

Answer: Sam Adams


Question: 'In "Lord of the Flies", you couldn't speak unless you held this shell'

Answer: a conch


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.)  Legend says the Viennese began their love affair with coffee after fending off these invaders, who in 1683 left behind sacks of coffee beans'

Answer: the Turks


Question: 'Although this bird was extinct on Mauritius by 1681, one species survived on Rodriguez Island up until about 1800'

Answer: dodo


Question: 'Voltaire's "Candide" mentions the story of this fabled city of gold whose name means "The Gilded"'

Answer: El Dorado


MC J-GIL IN DA HIZZ-OUSE (FEAT. DJ T-BEK)

Question: '(Alex: This artist is pure money...)<br />"My flow, my show brought me the dough that bought me all my fancy things, my crib, my cars..."'

Answer: 50 Cent


Question: 'Portugal gave up its last colony on Dec. 20, 1999 when it turned over this territory to China'

Answer: Macao


Question: 'A living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition'

Answer: a host


Question: 'An Arnold Palmer is a refreshing mix of these 2 drinks'

Answer: iced tea and lemonade


Question: 'This large flightless bird of New Guinea is identifiable by a huge bony helmet, or casque, on its head'

Answer: the cassowary


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Golden Lane in Prague, Czech Republic.)
Prague's Golden Lane gets it name from the goldsmiths who worked here, but it was also famous for these people who were trying to concoct gold'

Answer: alchemists


MC J-GIL IN DA HIZZ-OUSE (FEAT. DJ T-BEK)

Question: '(Alex: Check out this gang...)<br />"I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie"'

Answer: The Sugarhill Gang


Question: 'This body of water covers about 64 million square miles, more than all the land on Earth'

Answer: the Pacific Ocean


Question: '"Oh, God!"'

Answer: George Burns


Question: 'Jean Bodin defined 3 political systems: democracy, aristocracy & this, which he & Louis XIV preferred'

Answer: monarchy


Question: 'Sadly, this author who hammered out the Mike Hammer novels passed away in 2006'

Answer: (Mickey) Spillane


Question: 'Massachusetts' Sen. Ted & Rhode Island's Rep. Patrick are father & son'

Answer: Kennedy


Question: 'In Latin America this largest new world feline is commonly called El Tigre'

Answer: a jaguar


Question: 'This freshwater body stretches about 350 miles from Duluth in the west to Whitefish Bay in the east'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: '"The Ten Commandments" (The Burning Bush voice) (He was also Moses)'

Answer: Charlton Heston


Question: 'Benedetto Dei, a merchant of this city, bragged in a letter that it "is more beautiful and 540 years older" than Venice'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Irving Stone's 1971 bestseller "The Passions of the Mind" was a fictionalized "Novel of" this man'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'Connecticut's Sen. Prescott was Texas's Rep. George's dad; other family folk have government gigs, too'

Answer: Bush


Question: '"Charley's Aunt" is one of these stage comedies featuring improbable plots'

Answer: a farce


Question: 'The airline flight from Sydney to Johannesburg lasts 14 hours, most of it over this body of water'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: '"The Prince of Egypt" (Voice) (He was also Moses)'

Answer: Val Kilmer


Question: 'The Elizabethans were already creating a word for "devious" out of this Italian's name'

Answer: Machiavelli


Question: 'With his "Rabbit At Rest", he turned to today's news for his 2006 novel "Terrorist"'

Answer: John Updike


Question: 'New Mexico's Rep. Tom & Colorado's Rep. Mark are cousins; Mark's dad Morris repped Arizona'

Answer: Udall


Question: 'At a college or university, this official keeps the records of enrollment & academic standing'

Answer: the registrar


Question: 'In its middle, the bulge of the Crimean Peninsula narrows it to about 150 miles north to south'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: '"Dogma" (Isn't it ironic?)'

Answer: Alanis Morissette


Question: 'Ingres' "Francis I Receives the Last Breath" of this genius represents artistic supremacy passing from Italy to France'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'He introduced the Sackett family in his 1960 Western novel "The Daybreakers"'

Answer: Louis L\'Amour


Question: 'Alaska's Sen. Lisa took over for her dad, Frank'

Answer: Murkowski


Question: 'Writing about this absence of political authority, Sophocles said, "Show me a greater evil"'

Answer: anarchy


Question: 'This strait that opens into the Chukchi Sea once had a land bridge, but there's no bridge now'

Answer: the Bering (Strait)


Question: '"Bruce Almighty" (Not Bruce)'

Answer: Morgan Freeman


Question: 'Bob Newhart imagined asking this man about tobacco: "Oh, between your lips. Then...you set fire to it!"'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: '"Mother died today" is the first line of this Camus novel'

Answer: L\'Etranger or The Stranger


Question: 'Rhode Island's Sen. Lincoln took over for his late father John in 1999'

Answer: Chafee


Question: 'The name of this Greek god with 100 eyes who guarded Io is now used to refer to a guardian or alert person'

Answer: Argus


Question: 'A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006'

Answer: a telegram


Question: 'In 1898 Roosevelt resigned as Asst. Secretary of the Navy to help organize this cavalry unit'

Answer: The Rough Riders


Question: 'It's the number of playing cards in a standard deck (not counting the jokers)'

Answer: 52


Question: '"Four And Twenty" of these "Baked Into Pie; All Survive"'

Answer: Blackbirds


Question: 'On "Home Improvement", Tim seeks advice from this neighbor whose face is always partly obscured'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'This company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1998'

Answer: Motown Records


Question: 'Bare with us:  it's the 4-letter term for a painting like the one seen here'

Answer: Nude


Question: 'Roosevelt was famous for saying, "Speak softly, but carry" this'

Answer: A big stick


Question: 'These fortune telling cards include "The Lovers", "The Magician" & "The Wheel of Fortune"'

Answer: Tarot cards


Question: 'Her "Sheep Mutilated; Come Home Tailless"'

Answer: Little Bo Peep


Question: 'Archie Bunker's neighbors, they moved on up to the East Side & got wacky neighbors of their own'

Answer: The Jeffersons


Question: 'In 1998 he went to his first owners meeting since 1989, to try to stop rival Murdoch's Dodgers buy'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: 'The name of this earthworm should tell you it creeps around in the evening'

Answer: Nightcrawler


Question: 'Roosevelt was only 42 whern he succeeded this man as president in 1901'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'The Donald knows one of these is a "key resource to be used at an opportune moment"'

Answer: Trump card


Question: 'This family "Invents New Diet:  Only Eat Fat Or Lean"'

Answer: Jack Sprat & his wife


Question: 'This sitcom cartoonist gets inspiration for her strip from the antics of neighbor Annie Spadaro'

Answer: Caroline ("In The City")


Question: 'It shouldn't take you overnight to deliver the name of this company Fred Smith founded in 1973'

Answer: Federal Express


Question: 'Some creatures are nidicolous, meaning they remain in these for a while after birth'

Answer: Nest


Question: 'Roosevelt, who often participated in this sport, was virtually blinded in his left eye during a match'

Answer: Boxing


Question: 'If you're "carded" while buying cigarettes in Calif. it's because you don't look old enough to be this age'

Answer: 18


Question: '"Giant Threatens To Grind Englishman's Bones To Make" this'

Answer: His bread


Question: 'Guys seen here entering their neighbors' apartment'

Answer: Lenny & Squiggy (from "Laverne & Shirley")


Question: 'With a yardstick & a piece of plywood, Edwin Shoemaker felt inclined to design this recliner in 1928'

Answer: La-Z-Boy


Question: 'Derived from the Greek for "ship", this unpleasant condition can affect you on dry land'

Answer: Nausea


Question: 'In 1912, as a candidate of this new party, Roosevelt lost his third bid for president'

Answer: Bull Moose Party


Question: 'The most valuable of these is the T206 Honus Wagner'

Answer: Baseball card


Question: '"Three Wise Men Of" this city "Drown When Boat Sinks"'

Answer: Gotham


Question: 'In 1966 Sandra Gould replaced Alice Pearce in the role of this nosy neighbor on "Bewitched"'

Answer: Gladys Kravitz


Question: 'This inventor of vulcanization was sent to debtor's prison; maybe for bouncing checks?'

Answer: Charles Goodyear


Question: 'A big bottle that holds about 20 quarts of champagne, or a Babylonian king who probably couldn't'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: 'In 1997 Slobodan Milosevic left the presidency of Serbia for that of this larger country'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'The first woman to win 3 Best Actress Oscars, she was also the first to win 4'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'According to the title of a 1967 Tom Stoppard play, "Rosencrantz And" this character "Are Dead"'

Answer: Guildenstern


Question: 'Socrates narrates this philosopher's "Republic"'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'The whale type of this fish can weigh as much as 2 elephants'

Answer: Shark


Question: 'Near the bottom of column 2 comes this 2-letter abbreviation for pound'

Answer: lb.


Question: 'F.W. De Klerk became president of this country in 1989, shared the Nobel Prize in 1993 & quit politics in 1997'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'In 1971 this tennis player became the first woman athlete to earn $100,000 in one yeat'

Answer: Billie Jean King


Question: 'Marion Paroo, the River City librarian, teaches piano to the town's youngsters in this show'

Answer: "The Music Man"


Question: 'His "Thus Spake Zarathustra" says, "The world presented itself" as a "golden apple with a....velvety skin"'

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche


Question: 'This pit viper, also called the cottonmouth, is belligerent, so don't try to make shoes out of it'

Answer: Water moccasin


Question: 'Sluggish, indolent & slothful are synonyms for this adjective used to describe the writer of the category'

Answer: Lazy


Question: 'Carlos Fuentes, author of "The Old Gringo", is one of this country's leading novelists'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'In 1991 Sarah Williamson became the first girl mayor of this Nebraska community'

Answer: Boys Town


Question: 'In 1995 this musical won 6 Tonys including acting awards for Glenn Close & George Hearn'

Answer: "Sunset Boulevard"


Question: 'This woman & her New Bohemians sing, "Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box"'

Answer: Edie Brickell


Question: 'This substance is fed to all honeybees in the first 3 days of their lives, then only to future queens'

Answer: Royal jelly


Question: 'It's "A jumping one-hand shot in basketball made off the backboard"'

Answer: Lay-up


Question: 'Native country of the man seen here ("Solidarity" leader)'

Answer: Poland (Lech Walesa)


Question: 'Soon after she opened the USA's first birth control clinic, the police raided it & sent her to jail'

Answer: Margaret Sanger


Question: 'Big Daddy's youngest son, he ends up in a cast after jumping hurdles while on a drunken binge'

Answer: Brick


Question: 'This Jean Jacques Rousseau work says, "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"'

Answer: "The Social Contract"


Question: 'Of the water flea, the fish louse or the sand fly, the one that isn't a crustacean'

Answer: Sand fly


Question: 'Color of the head & neck of the lazuli bunting, a finch found in the western U.S. & on page 1282'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'When King Charles II of this country died in 1700, a "war of" its "succession" ensued'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Among the first 6 women chosen for this program in 1978 were Margaret Seddon & Kathryn D. Sullivan'

Answer: Astronaut program


Question: 'In "Six Degrees of Separation" Ouisa Kittridge is charmed by a young black man claiming to be this actor's son'

Answer: Sidney Poitier


Question: 'One of the most important philosophers, he spent his entire life, 1724-1804, in Konigsberg, East Prussia'

Answer: Immanuel Kant


Question: 'This crocodilian found in India is sometimes called the gharial'

Answer: Gavial


Question: 'Biblical beggar whose name gives us a synonym for "leper"'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'This current senator's great-grandfather fought against Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn'

Answer: Ben Nighthorse-Campbell (Cheyenne Indian)


Question: 'WWI's famous Sgt. Alvin York was born on Dec. 13, 1887 in Pall Mall in this "Volunteer State"'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'In 1970 this "Travelin' Band" wondered "Who'll Stop The Rain"'

Answer: Creedence Clearwater Revival


Question: '"Open That Bottle Night" was created by the Wall Street Journal's columnists on this subject'

Answer: wine


Question: 'When it's this brand of frozen potatoes, "it's all-righta"'

Answer: Ore-Ida


Question: 'In 1858 Frederick Law Olmsted submitted a plan for this, America's first great urban park'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'George Herman Ruth'

Answer: babe


Question: 'Ironically, York didn't volunteer for service; he asked for a draft exemption as one of these, Latin for "peacemaking"'

Answer: a pacifist


Question: 'In 1984 Prince "Never meant 2 cause U any sorrow" with this colorful tune'

Answer: "Purple Rain"


Question: 'Type of show that draws hundreds of thousands to the Miramar Military Base in San Diego every October'

Answer: an air show


Question: 'Kraft introduced this brand of processed cheese way back in 1928'

Answer: Velveeta


Question: 'Born in Canton, China in 1917, he designed Boston's John Hancock Tower'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'An A-line or a mini, starting at the waist'

Answer: a skirt


Question: 'Solo, York killed over 20 of the enemy & captured 132 during the Argonne-Meuse Offensive in this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'The 2 title items in this Carpenters' tune, No. 2 in '71, "always get me down"'

Answer: "Rainy Days And Mondays"


Question: 'Every May 13 in Fatima, Portugal a crowd of thousands waves farewell to her with white hankies'

Answer: the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Fatima accepted)


Question: 'Appropriately, these Nabisco cookies are in the shape of a peanut'

Answer: Nutter Butters


Question: 'Completed in 1930, this William Van Alen skyscraper in NYC is in the Art Deco style'

Answer: the Chrysler Building


Question: 'The late, lamented "voice of the Los Angeles Lakers" Hearn'

Answer: chick


Question: 'York's many medals included this, introduced in 1862, which he got for charging a machine gun nest'

Answer: Medal of Honor


Question: 'Though this 1969 No. 1 hit may occur, "that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red"'

Answer: "Raindrops Keep Fallin\' On My Head"


Question: '(Hi, I'm Maria Bartiromo.)  As a proud Italian-American, I've anchored this parade live for several years on New York City TV'

Answer: the Columbus Day Parade


Question: 'Pastry maker Pietro Ferrero created this, "The original hazelnut spread"'

Answer: Nutella


Question: 'Danish architect Jorn Utzon's plan for this New South Wales landmark was chosen in 1957 from 233 entries'

Answer: the Sydney Opera House


Question: '"There is nothing like" one: Judi Dench, for example'

Answer: dame


Question: 'One condition York demanded in selling the movie rights to his life was that this man would play him'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: '"I Go Swimming" appeared on the album this British singer "Plays Live"'

Answer: Peter Gabriel


Question: 'In Northern Ireland every July brings a holiday honoring the Protestants known by this colorful name'

Answer: the Orangemen


Question: 'This brand of Mexican food got its start in 1918 as the Mountain Pass Canning Co. of New Mexico'

Answer: Old El Paso


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)  This American architect, born in 1906 and known for his work in glass, designed PPG Place, made with 20,000 pieces of glass'

Answer: Philip Johnson


Question: 'It precedes "way", "cast" & "minded"'

Answer: broad


Question: 'Dick York played this sitcom role from 1964 to 1969'

Answer: Darrin Stephens


Question: '"Beloved, thou hast brought me many" of these "plucked in the garden, all the summer through"'

Answer: flowers


Question: 'This small creature is the only bird that can fly backwards'

Answer: the hummingbird


Question: 'The Log is the monthly newspaper of a union of these'

Answer: sailors


Question: 'Born in the metropolis of Vienna in 1890, he directed the movie "Metropolis"'

Answer: Fritz Lang


Question: 'Chicago's first paid one was organized in 1858; not surprisingly, it was reorganized in 1871'

Answer: a fire department


Question: 'Dick Sargent played this sitcom role from 1969 to 1972'

Answer: Darrin Stephens


Question: '"Open my heart, and you will see graved inside of it", this peninsular country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The deepest-diving bird in the world is this "regal" variety of penguin'

Answer: the emperor penguin


Question: 'Members of this Detroit-based union also make lawn mowers in Tennessee & Radio Flyer wagons in Illinois'

Answer: United Auto Workers


Question: 'Born in Vienna in 1832, he was executed in Mexico in 1867'

Answer: Maximilian


Question: 'Roman Catholic priest who helped the lepers of Molokai'

Answer: Father Damien


Question: 'In 1961 Sargent & York appeared on this Richard Chamberlain medical drama in episodes airing a week apart'

Answer: Dr. Kildare


Question: '"Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us", this Scot & "Shelley, were with us--they watch from their graves!"'

Answer: (Robby) Burns


Question: 'We were "wandering" if you knew this Diomeda exulans seabird has one of the largest wingspans'

Answer: the albatross


Question: 'California's CCPOA, representing this type of peace officer, has been known to put the screws to politicians'

Answer: prison guards (or correction officers)


Question: 'Born near Vienna in 1797, he died at age 31 after being a "lieder" in his field'

Answer: Schubert


Question: 'This army training base is located just outside of Trenton, New Jersey'

Answer: Fort Dix


Question: 'Sargent could have heard, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Mr. Stone?" in a 1984 episode of this sitcom'

Answer: Diff\'rent Strokes


Question: 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning called this French novelist "true genius, but true woman!"'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'A bird of prey, the harpy species of this bird is even known to attack monkeys for food'

Answer: the eagle


Question: 'The advent of sound in movies put many members of the AFM, this union, out of work'

Answer: the American Federation of Musicians


Question: 'Born in Vienna in 1882, this little sausage joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939'

Answer: (Felix) Frankfurter


Question: 'Richard Wagner wrote an opera in 1843 about this spectral ship doomed to sail the seas for eternity'

Answer: the Flying Dutchman


Question: 'You'll be "rollin

Answer: Rawhide


Question: 'Completes the line from "Pippa Passes", "God's in His heaven--"'

Answer: all\'s right with the world


Question: 'The feathers of this arctic grouse pturn white in winter'

Answer: the ptarmigan


Question: 'When several unions of these workers struck in 1970, troops had to replace federal employees for the first time'

Answer: postal workers


Question: 'Born in Vienna in 1791, she became an empress by marrying a Frenchman in 1810'

Answer: Marie Louise


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Diego, CA, aboard the U.S.S. Tarawa.)  It's the two-word term for this platform area of the Tarawa, where helicopters and Harrier jets are launched'

Answer: the flight deck


Question: 'Opened in 1937, it got its name in response to the George Washington Bridge, north of it'

Answer: the Lincoln Tunnel


Question: 'During a fight, he shouts, "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries 'Hold Enough'"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'The Friars Club is known for these gatherings in which the honorees get lovingly insulted'

Answer: roasts


Question: 'These fish do not flap their pectoral fins; they leap into the air & glide'

Answer: flying fish


Question: 'A person who's hemophobic can't stand the sight of this'

Answer: blood


Question: '"Norma Jean"'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'George thinks he's a tough & rumble kind of guy -- he hangs out with the East Side Gang'

Answer: rough & tumble


Question: 'He agrees to loan Antonio 3,000 ducats but asks for "an equal pound of your fair flesh" if it's not repaid on time'

Answer: Shylock


Question: '1 out of every 4 players in one of these card clubs is a dummy'

Answer: Bridge club


Question: 'These deadly fish have been released into U.S. lakes when owners found that feeding them was expensive'

Answer: piranhas


Question: 'If you have pyrophobia & go camping, don't sit here'

Answer: near the fire


Question: '"His Way"'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'When I tempted them with candy if they worked hard, my students bit the hooks & went to do this'

Answer: hit the books


Question: 'After he & Cassius team up to kill Julius Caesar, he says, "Let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood up to the elbows"'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'One of the few words in the dictionary with 3 "W"s, it's a Native American get-together'

Answer: pow-wow


Question: 'Including over 300 species, this fish has reserve rows of teeth & 5 types of fins which enhance its swimming'

Answer: sharks


Question: 'Whoa, don't look down!  This is the fear of heights'

Answer: acrophobia


Question: '"A Rocky Life"'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'Can you give me one of these for our date tonight?  There's a chain wreck on the freeway & I can't make it'

Answer: rain check


Question: '"The rest is silence" are this prince's dying words'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Another name for a costume ball; it's also in the title of a George Benson hit'

Answer: masquerade


Question: 'Seen here, these small fish have been widely introduced to control mosquito populations'

Answer: guppies


Question: 'If Drew Barrymore were amaxophobic, she'd avoid doing this, with or without boys'

Answer: riding in cars


Question: '"Mr. Strangelove"'

Answer: Peter Sellers


Question: 'When your army is ready to take flight, wag this'

Answer: white flag


Question: 'In "Romeo and Juliet", this line precedes "Deny thy father, and refuse thy name"'

Answer: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?


Question: 'This island in the Indian Ocean shares its name with a type of get-together'

Answer: Reunion Island


Question: 'Feeding on other fish's entrails, it gets its name from a 3-letter word for an ugly old woman'

Answer: hagfish


Question: 'It's the 17-letter term for fear of the number 13'

Answer: triskaidekaphobia


Question: '"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" & "Rebel"'

Answer: James Dean


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.)  An orbital facility is being built for the ISS that bears the name of this man born in Genoa in 1451'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'In 2002 country fans mourned the death of this singing "Outlaw"'

Answer: Waylon Jennings


Question: 'In the familiar nursery rhyme, she went boom right after Jack'

Answer: Jill


Question: 'This was the last name of the woman seen here when the photo was taken'

Answer: (Hillary) Rodham (Clinton)


Question: 'Patriot & silversmith Paul Revere'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Disney musical about a pretty girl named Belle & her hideous camel'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast of Burden


Question: 'About one-third of U.S. studies aboard the ISS deal with the phenomenon known as zero this'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'In the '80s he hopped up the charts with songs like "Step by Step" & "I Love a Rainy Night"'

Answer: Eddie Rabbitt


Question: 'If you think about it, you've really got to wonder what he saw in Fay Wray in 1933...I mean, think about it'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'Late, great actor seen here'

Answer: Jason Robards, Jr.


Question: 'Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr.'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'Don't leave home without this credit card that was a 1989 Madonna hit'

Answer: American Express Yourself


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.)  This Asian country's first manned space facility is Kibo, which means "hope"'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'One of the big concert tours of the '90s was the "Black & Wy" tour; he was the Black & she was the Wy'

Answer: Clint Black & Wynonna Judd


Question: '"Yeah, sure...I'm a 10-foot Philistine warrior & he's a little punk shepherd twerp named Dave -- Ow!"  (boom)'

Answer: Goliath


Question: 'The book "O Holy Cow!" makes poetry of the words of this New York Yankees broadcaster called "Scooter"'

Answer: Phil Rizzuto


Question: 'Ex-governor L. Douglas Wilder'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'Margaret Hamilton on her broomstick terrorizes the Oval Office on this NBC drama'

Answer: The Wicked Witch of The West Wing


Question: 'This pressurized chamber is where spacewalks from the station begin & end'

Answer: airlock


Question: 'In 2002 this movie soundtrack won ACM awards for Album of the Year & Vocal Event for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"'

Answer: O Brother, Where Art Thou?


Question: 'If Rhett & Scarlett hadn't bought this girl that damn pony, Rhett might never have said that famous last line'

Answer: Bonnie Blue


Question: 'This courtier & explorer's death sentence, commuted in 1603, was uncommuted & he was executed in 1618'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'Current senator Patrick Leahy'

Answer: Montpelier, Vermont


Question: '"1876" novelist who also styles hair'

Answer: Gore Vidal Sassoon


Question: 'His recent hits include "Who's Your Daddy?" & "I Wanna Talk About Me"'

Answer: Toby Keith


Question: 'Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure'

Answer: Icarus


Question: 'The story of the lovestruck Francesca da this appears in Dante's "Inferno"'

Answer: Rimini


Question: 'Mass murderer Charles Starkweather'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'Tall blonde actress & playwright who wrote "Uncle Vanya"'

Answer: Susan Anton Chekhov


Question: 'She was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1853'

Answer: Lillie Langtry


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from next to a fighter jet.)
I'm at Nellis Air Force Base, just 8 miles from this city's downtown; in the 1940s, the site was chosen for the vast desert wasteland in the area'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Our top story...<br />in Aug. 2008 the GAO reported this troubled Mideast country could have a $79 billion budget surplus'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'A meaty leg of turkey, or "The Original Sundae Cone"'

Answer: a drumstick


Question: 'In "Patriot Games" this character stops Irish terrorists & joins the CIA'

Answer: (Jack) Ryan


Question: 'Any new car that breaks down 60 times a day<br />(5)'

Answer: a lemon


Question: '"The prostitution rests", Kelly Bundy declared during a trial scene on this long-running show'

Answer: Married...With Children


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Michigan.)
I'm not at Gerald R. Ford's presidential library in Ann Arbor, but at his museum in this city, Michigan's second largest'

Answer: Grand Rapids


Question: 'In domestic news, this Speaker of the House touted 2008's American Housing Rescue & Foreclosure Prevention Act'

Answer: Nancy Pelosi


Question: 'General Mills makes this snack with an unusual funnel shape in 6 flavors'

Answer: Bugles


Question: 'In this novel Jack Merridew, a red-haired choir boy, tells Piggy, "You're talking too much!"'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: 'A lariat's shorter name<br />(5)'

Answer: a lasso


Question: '"I am your density", George tells wife-to-be Lorraine in this 1985 Michael J. Fox film'

Answer: Back to the Future


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Washington, D.C.)
I'm at the National Sustainability Design Expo on this great space, known as America's Common'

Answer: the Mall in Washington, D.C.


Question: 'At the movies, in July 2008 this flick made $158 milIion in its opening weekend;<br />holy box office!'

Answer: The Dark Knight


Question: 'This ConAgra sweet popcorn treat comes in butter toffee & caramel flavors'

Answer: Fiddle Faddle


Question: 'Ralph Ellison writes in this novel that the one-eyed Brother Jack was "a little bantam rooster of a man"'

Answer: Invisible Man


Question: 'Entice, perhaps with artificial bait<br />(4)'

Answer: lure


Question: 'This veep said, "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child"'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a New Mexico amphitheater.)  I'm at this New Mexico national park, where every night from April to October 300,000 to 400,000 hungry flying mammals delight the crowds with an amazing bat flight'

Answer: Carlsbad Caverns


Question: 'In business:<br />the 158-year-old Wall Street firm named for these brothers went belly-up in September 2008'

Answer: Lehman Brothers


Question: 'To soak up some of the food, let's quaff this golden Irish lager'

Answer: Harp


Question: 'Patrick O'Brian wrote this series of novels about British Capt. Jack Aubrey; Russell Crowe played the role on film'

Answer: Master and Commander


Question: '"Mother" deposit, in mining<br />(4)'

Answer: a lode


Question: 'On "All in the Family", Edith Bunker referred not to V-E Day or V-J Day but this, um, relative'

Answer: VD Day


Question:
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Mississippi.)
I'm at Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home of 32 years in this town in Mississippi'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Now for a look at the weather; expect these dense 12-letter thunderclouds stretching from 6,500' to 30,000''

Answer: cumulonimbus


Question: 'This Scandinavian specialty is made with unsalted dried cod soaked for several days in water & potash lye'

Answer: lutefisk


Question: 'Gov. Jack Stanton, the main character in this 1996 Joe Klein book, was loosely based on Bill Clinton'

Answer: Primary Colors


Question: 'Accolades one might "rest on"<br />(7)'

Answer: laurels


Question: '"I'm not going to make a skeptical out of my boxing career", said this skater-turned-felon-turned-pugilist in 2004'

Answer: Tonya Harding


Question: 'The anther of a flower usually has 4 sacs that produce this'

Answer: pollen


Question:
'When 4
goes into 12,
3 is this'

Answer: the quotient


Question:
'Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,
"Mao",
died Feb. 22, 1987'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'The uniform that Harry Truman wore during his military service in this war is in his presidential library'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'The $1 coin featuring Susan B. Anthony's likeness was first minted in this decade'

Answer: the 1970s


Question: 'In 1986, '87 & '88, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire & Walt Weiss won Rookie of the Year playing for this team'

Answer: the Oakland A\'s


Question: 'Also called ling, this shrub that grows in the moors of Britain is often mentioned in Scottish songs'

Answer: the heather


Question: 'Did this "the raven, 'nevermore"''

Answer: quoth


Question:
'Born 1606 in the Netherlands,
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp",
died 1669'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'If you take a swamp tour in Louisiana, you may see the American type of this, Louisiana's state reptile'

Answer: an alligator


Question: 'Susan was fined for illegally voting in 1872--she cast her ballot for this president who was re-elected'

Answer: Ulysses Grant


Question: 'Muhammad Ali regained his title from George Foreman by employing this rhyming ring strategy'

Answer: rope-a-dope


Question: 'Harison's Yellow is a hybrid of the Persian Yellow & Scotch Briar varieties of this flower'

Answer: a rose


Question: '2-word term for the same old, same old'

Answer: the status quo


Question:
'Born 1834 in Massachusetts,
"Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle",
died 1903'

Answer: Whistler


Question: '"There's no place like" this town for the annual Miners & Mushers ball'

Answer: Nome


Question: '14 years after her death, the movement created by Susan won passage of this women's voting amendment'

Answer: the 19th


Question: 'This 9-time U.S. & 5-time world champion figure skater got her start after seeing her brother play hockey'

Answer: Michelle Kwan


Question: 'This plant has blue flowers; the black candy that uses it comes from the roots & root stems'

Answer: licorice


Question: 'Old British game that's the ancestor of horseshoes'

Answer: quoits


Question:
'Born 1912 in Wyoming,
"Lavender Mist",
died 1956 in East Hampton, New York'

Answer: Pollock


Question: 'A mule driver in Uzbekistan sent in 21 cents to help fund National Mule memorial in Muleshoe in this big state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'At the age of 41 she competed in her fifth Olympic Games, the most of any U.S. swimmer'

Answer: Dara Torres


Question: 'The beard species of this symbiotic plant is often confused with Spanish moss'

Answer: lichen


Question: '1951 epic in which the lions take on the Christians in Rome; lions give 'em a real licking'

Answer: Quo Vadis


Question:
'Born 1859 in Paris,
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
died 1891'

Answer: (Georges) Seurat


Question: 'This Iowa city was named for a French Canadian, the first white man to settle permanently in what is now Iowa'

Answer: Dubuque


Question: 'This racer who wrote the memoir "Every Second Counts" used a wind tunnel in training to minimize his drag'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'Sails that ran free & fluttered without control caused a ship to stagger like a drunk, giving rise to this phrase'

Answer: 3 sheets to the wind


Question: 'On June 16, 1858 this man gave his "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Michigan,<br />Ohio State'

Answer: the Big Ten


Question: 'In 2010 the D.O.T. issued rules banning this new form of communication by truckers while driving'

Answer: texting


Question: 'Rebecca is an unrepentant spender in Sophie Kinsella's "Confessions of" this'

Answer: a Shopaholic


Question: 'Nothing, or perhaps everything, is fishy about Neptune being one of the 2 planets said to rule this sign'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'A kleptomaniac could be accused of having "sticky" these'

Answer: fingers


Question: 'Acrobat Charles Blondin crossed this North American landmark on a tightrope on June 30, 1859'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'Oregon,<br />Oregon State'

Answer: the Pac-10


Question: '"Massive" rhyming term for your standard tractor-trailer truck'

Answer: big rig


Question: '6 Californians read & discuss "Persuasion", "Emma" & 4 other novels in Karen Joy Fowler's novel her "Book Club"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'The 10th sign of the zodiac, this cardinal earth sign really gets your goat'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'Intimidation using looks or words is called this kind of "beating"'

Answer: brow beating


Question: 'In June 2006 this newsman ended his 44-year career at CBS'

Answer: Dan Rather


Question: 'Baylor,<br />Oklahoma'

Answer: the Big 12


Question: 'In 2008 Atlanta truckers protested the rising price of this type of fuel, their lifeline'

Answer: Diesel


Question: 'Andrea Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine, is the protagonist of this novel by Lauren Weisberger'

Answer: The Devil Wears Prada


Question: '"The Astrology Encyclopedia" says the key phrase for this sign is "I balance"'

Answer: Libra


Question: 'If you're earning money rapidly, you're said to be making it this body part "over" this partner body part'

Answer: hand over fist


Question: 'According to calculations by  Eratosthenes, it was June 11, 1184 B.C. that this mythic city was sacked & burned'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'Alabama,<br />Georgia'

Answer: the SEC


Question: 'Also called splash guards, these on a truck help prevent splashing on following cars'

Answer: mud flaps


Question: 'A sisterly rivalry to give Henry VIII a male heir is the basis for this Philippa Gregory historical novel'

Answer: The Other Boleyn Girl


Question: 'A person born under this May 22-June 21 sign is said to have a 2-sided personality & to often change moods quickly'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'This 2-word phrase means space to work comfortably & mentions a certain joint'

Answer: elbow room


Question: 'This leader did some sightseeing around a newly defeated Paris on June 23, 1940'

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: 'Boise State,<br />Fresno State'

Answer: the Western Athletic Conference


Question: 'Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles & federally limited power of 4 watts'

Answer: C.B. radios


Question: 'Her classics of the genre include "Lipstick Jungle", "4 Blondes" &, of course, "Sex and the City"'

Answer: Candace Bushnell


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two zodiological signs on the monitor.) The symbol for Virgo & this sign are sometimes confused, but the difference is the tail pointing outward'

Answer: Scorpio


Question: 'To seriously apply oneself or redouble one's efforts is to this body part "down"'

Answer: knuckle


Question: 'The 2006 film "Superman Returns" contains a dedication to this actor who died in 2004'

Answer: Christopher Reeve


Question: 'Events in 1849 certainly helped California earn this official state nickname'

Answer: The Golden State


Question: 'Ballistics, the science of projectiles, comes from the Greek "ballein", to do this to something'

Answer: throw


Question: 'In 1986 the world came to this Canadian city for an expo; in 2010 the world was back'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'A small one is a cascade; a large one, a cataract'

Answer: a waterfall


Question: 'Crocuses grow from corms, sometimes called "solid" these objects from which tulips grow'

Answer: bulbs


Question: 'The title superhero of this 2008 film shares his name with a signer of the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: Hancock


Question: 'This great fracture of California's crust is the principal fault of a 600-mile network of faults across the state'

Answer: the San Andreas Fault


Question: 'A projectile's trajectory is subject to gravity, lift & this force that's heavily dependent on nose shape'

Answer: drag


Question: 'It's the structure representing a country; at the 1937 Paris Expo, you could see "Guernica" at the Spanish one'

Answer: a pavillion


Question: 'A booth where items are displayed for sale'

Answer: a stall


Question: 'A king by the name of Crocus was a leader of the Alamanni Tribe when it attacked forces of this empire in 260 A.D.'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'This hero-studded film is set during Nixon's fifth term, as the world is on the brink of nuclear war'

Answer: Watchmen


Question: 'This 25,000-square-mile California desert includes Joshua Tree National Park'

Answer: the Mojave


Question: 'This 2-word term that includes part of the gun refers to a bullet's speed as it leaves; 2,000 F.P.S. is not uncommon'

Answer: muzzle velocity


Question: 'Nearly 20,000 homes were demolished in preparation for this Chinese city's 2010 expo'

Answer: Shanghai


Question: 'Ocular orb'

Answer: an eyeball


Question: 'Crocus is a shade of this color, as are primrose & jonquil'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'Cutlery was the chosen weapon of the Blue Raja, played by Hank Azaria in this 1999 superfilm spoof'

Answer: Mystery Men


Question: 'At 14,495 feet, this peak is California's highest point'

Answer: Mt. Whitney


Question: 'An early forensic ballistics debate was central to the 1921 murder trial of these 2 Italian-American anarchists'

Answer: Sacco & Vanzetti


Question: 'A 1906 Milan fair celebrated the opening of the Simplon Tunnel under these'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'Type of commercial site the Westfield Group specializes in running'

Answer: a shopping mall


Question: 'Botanically, the crocus is a member of this 4-letter plant family named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow'

Answer: iris


Question: 'A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director'

Answer: Nick Fury


Question: 'Named after a companion of St. Paul, this "San" county is the largest in area in the lower 48'

Answer: San Bernardino County


Question: 'Internal ballistics studies the conversion of a propellant's chemical energy into a projectile's energy of this type'

Answer: kinetic


Question: 'A 21-hour production of this Goethe tale was a highlight of the 2000 expo in Hanover, Germany'

Answer: Faust


Question: 'On a Volga River cruise, Uglich & Yaroslavl might be these 3-word stops'

Answer: ports of call


Question: 'Early cultivation of crocus is depicted in frescoes found in this Mediterranean island's Knossos Archaeology Site'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'In July 1959 he traveled to the Soviet Union to open an American exhibit in Moscow'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Weighing in at No. 6, this son of Sarek & Amanda is the only alien in the Top 10'

Answer: Mr. Spock


Question: 'A popular tongue twister concerns its rubber bumpers'

Answer: Baby buggy


Question:
'Spacey,
Bacon,
Kline'

Answer: Kevin


Question: 'Sadly for the tiger, these features on its face are thought in Chinese medicine to cure toothaches'

Answer: Whiskers


Question: 'Though it's made of brass, as part of an orchestra the saxophone is classified as this'

Answer: Woodwind


Question: 'We'll bet this Minnesota senator was pleased as punch to accept the nomination as LBJ's running mate in 1964'

Answer: Hubert Humphrey


Question: 'No. 3 on the list, this character was once pinned to a kitchen cabinet by a giant loaf of bread'

Answer: Lucy Ricardo


Question: 'On a cattle drive, Cookie works out of this vehicle that carries his supplies'

Answer: Chuck wagon


Question:
'Carver,
Chandler,
Kroc'

Answer: Ray


Question: 'Most tigers have yellow eyes, but the eyes of the rare white tiger are this color'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'Comic character seen here<br />[In "Peanuts"]'

Answer: Woodstock


Question: 'In 1900 Republicans put this "Rough Rider" on the ticket to counter the appeal of Democrat William Jennings Bryan'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'No. 11 on the list, this backstabbing, bed-hopping oil baron was once shot by a mysterious assailant'

Answer: J.R. Ewing


Question: 'It's a child's vehicle with 2 wheels on a low footboard, or a motor-powered adult vehicle'

Answer: Scooter


Question:
'Banneker,
Britten,
Bratt'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'One of the havens for tigers is Royal Chitwan National Park in this Himalayan country'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'It's the Boy Scout merit badge seen here'

Answer: Woodworking


Question: 'He served as vice president for only a month before succeeding to the presidency'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'No. 46, this princess wears a leather & metal outift'

Answer: Xena


Question: 'A serving cart for desserts, if you're "off" it you're crazy'

Answer: Trolley


Question:
'Braun,
Peron,
Gabor'

Answer: Eva


Question: 'The tiger's fatal attack on its prey usually centers on this body part'

Answer: Throat


Question: 'A visit to this small structure might mean you're retrieving fuel or disciplining a child'

Answer: Woodshed


Question: 'In 1976 Bob Dole & this running mate of Jimmy Carter met in the first televised vice-presidential debate'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question: 'This cop ranked No. 18 is the only totally bald character on the list, baby'

Answer: Kojak


Question: 'A tumbrel, a farm tipcart used to haul manure, was used to haul people to this during the French Revolution'

Answer: Guillotine


Question:
'Dunhill,
Eisenstaedt,
Tennyson'

Answer: Alfred


Question: 'With only a few hundred left in the wild, the huge tiger named for this Russian region faces extinction'

Answer: Siberian tiger


Question: 'Type of print seen here in a 19th century example'

Answer: Woodcut


Question: 'This eastern Mediterranean nation famous for its cedars declared its independence on Nov. 26, 1941'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'A 1920s hit by Sammy Fain & Irving Kahal wanted you to "let" this "be your umbrella"'

Answer: Smile


Question: 'Your blood pressure has 2 measures, diastolic & this'

Answer: Systolic


Question: 'North Carolina:<br />Pop. 396,000'

Answer: Charlotte


Question: 'Carry off the prize; it's what the peasants might have done after Marie Antoinette's exclamation'

Answer: Take the cake


Question: 'Tiger must love Mickey Mouse: he went to school in Anaheim, California & lives in this Florida city'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'On trial for his 1953 raid on the Moncada barracks, he declared "History will absolve me"'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'This R&B great, singer of "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", once sang backup for Sam Cooke'

Answer: Lou Rawls


Question: 'Hopefully, these connections between your nerve cells aren't misfiring at the moment'

Answer: Synapses


Question: 'Alabama:<br />Pop. 266,000'

Answer: Birmingham


Question: 'Type of theater you're doing if you're surrounded by the audience'

Answer: In the round


Question: 'When Tiger became the youngest Masters winner, he broke this man's records for low 72-hole score & margin of victory'

Answer: Jack Nicklaus


Question: 'On Feb. 23, 1997 a report revealed scientists had cloned an adult sheep in this U.K. country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Harry Chapin sang "Taxi" & she had a hit with "Fast Car"'

Answer: Tracy Chapman


Question: '[Hi, I'm Nicole DeBoer of "Deep Space Nine"] From the Greek for "to live together", it describes the relationship between Ezri & the Dax within her'

Answer: Symbiotic/symbiosis


Question: 'Alaska:<br />Pop. 226,000'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: 'Make an exhaustive search to flush out birds, or what the Gores want to do'

Answer: Beat the Bushes


Question: 'In 2000 Tiger won the U.S. Open at this California course by a staggering 15 strokes'

Answer: Pebble Beach


Question: 'On May 2, 1965 President Johnson sent 14,000 U.S. troops to this Caribbean "republic"'

Answer: Dominican Republic


Question: 'The '60s LP "Cuba y Puerto Rico Son" paired for the first time Celia Cruz & this mambo bandleader'

Answer: Tito Puente


Question: 'It's a balanced arrangement in geometry, or an agreement in the number of parts in botany'

Answer: Symmetry


Question: 'South Dakota:<br />Pop. 101,000'

Answer: Sioux Falls


Question: 'Something irrelevant to the matter is this, where you'll find the units in a decimal'

Answer: Beside the point


Question: 'Tiger was this California university's male freshman of the year in 1995'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'China ceded this strategic territory to Portugal on December 1, 1887'

Answer: Macao


Question: 'She had a No. 1 hit in each year of the '90s, the only singer to do so'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'It's a conclave at which a bunch of scientists get together to discuss a special topic'

Answer: Symposium


Question: 'Vermont:<br />Pop. 39,000'

Answer: Burlington


Question: 'Relinquish responsibility, especially on the way to the Olympics opening ceremony'

Answer: Pass the torch


Question: 'In a thrilling playoff, Tiger beat this man at the 2000 PGA Championship'

Answer: Bob May


Question: 'In a famous novel this type of tree grows beneath a bedroom window at Tara'

Answer: Magnolia


Question: 'June 2, 1731 in New Kent county, Virginia'

Answer: Martha Washington


Question: 'An innocent, unsuspecting person is said to be this "in the woods"'

Answer: a babe


Question: 'Beginning sushi eaters often start out with unagi, this fish that's been cooked & basted with a sweetish sauce'

Answer: eel


Question: 'A:<br />This Utah park that has the natural sandstone formations in its name, plus the Fiery Furnace'

Answer: Arches


Question: 'For her starring role in "Country Strong", she learned to play guitar & sang 4 songs on the soundtrack'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'In 2011 this Seattle-based company dropped its name from its green logo but kept the mermaid'

Answer: Starbucks


Question: 'January 17, 1964 in Chicago'

Answer: Michelle Obama


Question: 'A place for keeping grain or ballistic missiles (probably not both at once, though)'

Answer: a silo


Question: 'All we need is some wine & crackers to go with this cheesy import'

Answer: Edam


Question: 'B:<br />This national park in South Dakota whose name refers to the difficulty of traveling through its rugged terrain'

Answer: Badlands


Question: 'Before doing comedy & hosting a game show, this fellow seen here was in the Marine Corps Reserves'

Answer: Drew Carey


Question: 'This website was originally "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"'

Answer: Yahoo!


Question: 'December 22, 1912 in Karnack, Texas'

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson


Question: 'A river on the Nicaragua-Honduras border, or Ms. Chanel'

Answer: Coco


Question: 'A recipe for the world's largest one of these calls for 750 lbs. of ground corn for the tortilla & 175 lbs. of cheese'

Answer: an enchilada


Question: 'G:<br />This Arizona national park that's also a UNESCO World Heritage Site'

Answer: Grand Canyon


Question: 'In 2010 this beloved funny lady made a guest appearance as Sue Sylvester's mom on "Glee"'

Answer: Carol Burnett


Question: 'In 1998 this subsidiary of Walmart opened its first pharmacy in its Tulsa, Oklahoma store'

Answer: Sam\'s Club


Question: 'December 13, 1818 in Lexington, Kentucky'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'It's a tubular pasta in short pieces, often baked in a tomato sauce'

Answer: ziti


Question: 'Chambers Dictionary describes this cream-filled pastry as "long in shape but short in duration"'

Answer: an eclair


Question: 'S:<br />What is now this California national park was established in 1890 to protect a grove of big trees'

Answer: Sequoia


Question: 'This actor with 2 presidential names played fictional president James Marshall in "Air Force One"'

Answer: Harrison Ford