Question: 'In office from 2004:<br />Kathleen Blanco'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'A concluding part added to a literary work where you might read, "Billy would become Canada's P.M. in 2022"'

Answer: epilogue


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports on a Grecian urned)  It was from the Acropolis that this king. believing his son dead, supposedly threw himself in the sea named for him'

Answer: Aegeus


Question: 'In 1964 Elvis bought a yacht owned by this ex-president for $55,000, then donated it to the March of Dimes'

Answer: FDR


Question: '2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th'

Answer: Samuel Beckett


Question: '"At this last pres. inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us"'

Answer: Clinton


Question: 'For 1966, this squad from near South Bend was but one of 3 undefeated teams; there should be playoffs'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'This wine-growing region in eastern France shares its name with a deep reddish-purplish color'

Answer: Burgundy


Question: 'You'll see lots of stars on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, including that of this "King of Ragtime"'

Answer: (Scott) Joplin


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's the first animal in the American Heritage Dictionary'

Answer: an aardvark


Question: 'The top county cop'

Answer: the sheriff


Question: '"I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some"'

Answer: (Thomas) Jefferson


Question: 'Hail to the victors... kind of!; this Big 10 team was 12-0 in 1997 but could not play 13-0 Nebraska; there should be playoffs'

Answer: University of Michigan


Question: 'Words used for the smell of wine include aroma, bouquet & this body part'

Answer: nose


Question: 'At Westminster College, there's a memorial & library honoring this man who gave his "iron curtain" speech on campus in 1946'

Answer: (Winston) Churchill


Question: 'There are this many feet in 2 statute miles'

Answer: 10,560


Question: 'Fashionably bared area seen here'

Answer: a midriff


Question: 'What his March 4, 1841 speech should have included: "Sorry, I'm cutting this short.  The weather's awful & I should go inside"'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'In January 1979 there were 5 teams with 1 loss, including this bear Bryant-led one, a co-champ (!) wth USC; playoffs, please'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Sauternes & ice wine are 2 of the wines named for this dinner course'

Answer: dessert


Question: 'With more than 40 theaters & 100 live shows, this city calls itself the "live music show capital of the world"'

Answer: Branson


Question: 'This worldwide secret society founded its first British Grand Lodge in 1717'

Answer: the Masons


Question: 'A minor argument; I'm sorry, honey'

Answer: a tiff


Question: '"Let the word go forth from this time and place... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans"'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'After the 1996 slate, 5 teams had but one loss, including the 14-1 Cougars from this Utah school; how about playoffs?'

Answer: BYU (Brigham Young)


Question: 'This 4-letter word indicates that a champagne is dry; "extra" this means it's extremely or totally dry'

Answer: brut


Question: 'A June 26, 2010 re-ride to celebrate the 150th anniv. of the Pony Express ended with a procession through this city'

Answer: St. Joseph


Question: 'This planet is 318 times as massive as Earth'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'A small, light boat for one person'

Answer: a skiff


Question: '"I have approved a research program (for) a security shield that would destroy... missiles before they reach their target"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Cincy & this Horned Frog school were both unbeaten in the 2009 regular season but didn't play for the title; why no playoffs?'

Answer: TCU (Texas Christian University)


Question: 'This Italian word for "foaming" is used of sparkling wines; the Asti one is quite famous'

Answer: spumante


Question: 'A natl. monument near Diamond, Missouri preserves the birthplace of this "plant doctor" born a slave around 1864'

Answer: (George Washington) Carver


Question: 'In area, it's the second-largest country in South America'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another'

Answer: tariffs


Question: 'We wonder if James Hardy held his breath as he performed the first transplant of one of these on a human in 1963'

Answer: a lung


Question: 'Oh, for the days street gangs fought it out... in dance; we met a girl named Maria; J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: 'Mr. Antolini was an English teacher of this "Catcher in the Rye" narrator'

Answer: Holden Caulfield


Question: 'What some call the first car was an 1886 motorized one of these, now mainly ridden by little kids'

Answer: a tricycle


Question: 'Who needs a brush?  According to a student of Titian's, the master would do his final retouching using these'

Answer: fingers


Question: 'Ursine'

Answer: bearlike


Question: 'News of his rabies vaccine spread throughout the world after it proved successful in 1885'

Answer: (Louis) Pasteur


Question: 'Great show at the Colosseum; all roads lead to Crowe; at my signal, unleash a hell of a movie'

Answer: Gladiator


Question: 'On her deathbed, this angelic little girl asks her dad to free Uncle Tom'

Answer: Little Eva


Question: 'The wheel lock mechanism later used in lighters was invented around 1500 to ignite the powder in these'

Answer: guns


Question: 'Get hold of "Marine Painting in Oil" by E. John Robinson to learn how to paint this 8-letter type of work'

Answer: a seascape


Question: 'Taurine'

Answer: bull-like


Question: 'Her scoring system that assesses the health of newborn babies was introduced in 1952'

Answer: (Virginia) Apgar


Question: 'Cruise into Vegas; Babbitt is rich; a big plug for Qantas' air safety, definitely, definitely'

Answer: Rain Man


Question: 'In "To Kill a Mockingbird", this recluse saves Jem & Scout from Bob Ewell'

Answer: Boo Radley


Question: 'Improved care in WWII meant more soldiers badly hurt but not dead; that prompted George Klein to motorize this'

Answer: the wheelchair


Question: 'Avoid cracking by applying pigment with more oil over pigment with less oil--& more of this thinner made from pines'

Answer: turpentine


Question: 'Columbine'

Answer: a dove


Question: 'In 1987 the drug known by these 3 letters became the first approved for treating AIDS'

Answer: AZT


Question: 'A Renner runs through it; time to Iraq & roll; that movie is the bomb!'

Answer: Hurt Locker


Question: 'Kilgore Trout, the fictional author of several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels, is a character in many of his books'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'Homer uses the image "as when" this artisan "makes trial of his wheel... to see if it will run smooth"'

Answer: a potter


Question: 'This technique of applying thin layers gives richer color than if you'd just mixed the paint; you can do it with ham, too'

Answer: glazing


Question: 'Cervine'

Answer: deer


Question: 'In 2006 this vaccine that protects against HPV, a cause for cervical cancer, was approved for females 9 to 26'

Answer: Gardasil


Question: 'A Ludacris carjacking; L.A. stories; Matt Dillon is an officer, not a marshal'

Answer: Crash


Question: 'In "The Sun Also Rises", Jake Barnes struggles with his feelings for this fickle British lady'

Answer: Lady Brett Ashley


Question: 'Around 1700 this, a ship's steering system, was improved by adding a wheel'

Answer: the helm


Question: 'Rembrandt used the other end of a brush to depict curls, a technique called scraffito, from the Italian for this action'

Answer: scratching


Question: 'Murine'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900'

Answer: Hershey


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.)  In 1970 this man dropped in at the White House, gave Nixon this gun & bullets, & asked to become a federal drug agent'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Robert Redford & Jane Fonda begin married life in a tiny walk-up Greenwich Village apartment in this 1967 comedy'

Answer: Barefoot in the Park


Question: 'Don't get all stressed out by an EKG, which stands for this'

Answer: electrocardiogram


Question: 'Don't wash dishes wearing your 1932 "Duo Dial" one of these from Longines'

Answer: a wristwatch


Question: 'The Grand Turk & the Friendship were the original ships pictured on this brand of toiletries for men'

Answer: Old Spice


Question: 'Start spreading these critters around'

Answer: gnus


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew poses with a green telephone in the Nixon Library.)  In 1969, Nixon used this phone on what he called the most historic phone call ever made with these 2 men'

Answer: (Neil) Armstrong & (Buzz) Aldrin


Question: 'This Warren Beatty-Natalie Wood film about teen love & desire took its title from a Wordsworth poem'

Answer: Splendor in the Grass


Question: 'This end-of-life legal decision is abbreviated DNR'

Answer: do not resuscitate


Question: 'If you own one of these, made with the first successful photographic process, never try to polish it'

Answer: a daguerreotype


Question: 'In 2003, this food brand unveiled its redesigned logo seen here'

Answer: Chicken of the Sea


Question: 'Those choosing to play one of these creatures in Everquest 2 get a nice intelligence bonus'

Answer: a gnome


Question: 'There's a replica of the study in the ex-president's home in this state, kept as it was when he fell fatally ill'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'George C. Scott lived the good life as a sculptor in the Bahamas in this movie based on a posthumous Hemingway novel'

Answer: Islands in the Stream


Question: 'The P in a PSA test, used to detect cancer in men, stands for this'

Answer: prostate


Question: 'Designed in 1936, it makes holidays & other days special for collectors'

Answer: Fiestaware


Question: 'Gertrude the Kangaroo has long been the logo of this Simon & Schuster division'

Answer: Pocket Books


Question: 'Carb-filled favorites served here'

Answer: gnocchi


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.)  The library has a replica of this room that hosted Nixon's daughter's wedding reception & his farewell to his staff'

Answer: the East Room


Question: 'In this 1995 drama, Christian Slater takes on Kevin Bacon's defense after he's accused of killing a fellow inmate'

Answer: Murder in the First


Question: 'When talking about cholesterol, its the "D" in HDL & LDL'

Answer: density


Question: 'From the Greek for "one day", campaign buttons & cruise ship menus are these items not meant to last'

Answer: ephemera


Question: 'This food brand has been hamming it up with its Little Red Devil trademark since 1870'

Answer: Underwood


Question: 'The 2 related words that mean to grind your teeth or to chew with them'

Answer: gnash & gnaw


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out the bust of a world leader in the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.)  World leaders at the library include this premier who greeted Nixon on his historic arrival in China'

Answer: Zhou Enlai


Question: 'On the verge of blindness, Bjork must save her son from a similar fate in this Cannes Film Festival winner from 2000'

Answer: Dancer in the Dark


Question: 'CLL is the chronic lymphocytic type of this cancer'

Answer: leukemia


Question: 'Hang onto that sturdy c. 1930 glassware from this company's designers Vicke Lindstrand & Edvin Ohrstrom'

Answer: Orrefors


Question: 'Dive into life with sportswear made by this company whose logo is seen here'

Answer: Jantzen


Question: 'The bands seen here are typical of this'

Answer: gneiss


Question: 'Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'On '50s TV he played the man with badge 714'

Answer: Jack Webb


Question: '"The Camera City"'

Answer: Rochester


Question: 'Eliza crossing the frozen Ohio River barefoot is a memorable moment in this novel'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'The John Paul II International Airport is in this country'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'It comes in colorful 1-to-500-dollar denominations, & it's a metaphor for frivolous spending'

Answer: Monopoly money


Question: 'This "Great" Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf'

Answer: Alfred


Question: 'Jose Melis was his "Tonight" show bandleader'

Answer: Jack Paar


Question: '"The Summer Vacationland & Winter Wonderland"'

Answer: Lake Placid


Question: 'Colorful title of Anna Quindlen's tale of domestic violence'

Answer: Black and Blue


Question: 'Kahului Airport, in the town also called "Dream City", is a gateway to this second-biggest Hawaiian island'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'In Melville's prose, with "ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness", it "darted through the weltering sea"'

Answer: the White Whale


Question: 'Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing'

Answer: Darius the Great


Question: 'In 1994 this "General Hospital" alum joined the cast of "Melrose Place"'

Answer: Jack Wagner


Question: '"The Nickel City"'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'In "The Master", Colm Tóibín enters the mind of this great 19th & 20th century novelist'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'The Flint, Michigan airport is named for Arthur Bishop, who was on this company's board for 29 years'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'Playing on his nickname, in a close NBA game, coach Don Nelson might have been this type of anxious person'

Answer: a Nervous Nellie


Question: 'In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand'

Answer: Tamerlane


Question: 'This fitness guru brought exercise to TV in 1951'

Answer: Jack LaLanne


Question: '"The Crystal City"'

Answer: Corning


Question: 'In April 2005 this Marilynne Robinson novel won the Pulitzer Prize'

Answer: Gilead


Question: 'Montreal's Dorval airport is now named for this late prime minister, a Montreal native'

Answer: (Pierre Elliott) Trudeau


Question: 'Leviticus 23 says to bring these of your harvest to be presented to the Lord'

Answer: the first fruits


Question: 'For defeating Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War, Scipio was granted this Latin surname'

Answer: Africanus


Question: 'He played Sgt. Nick Yemana on "Barney Miller"'

Answer: Jack Soo


Question: '"The Birthplace of the Union"'

Answer: Albany


Question: 'Wintry title of Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel about a hacker/pizza deliveryman'

Answer: Snow Crash


Question: 'The airport at Latacunga in this country is called Cotopaxi, though the city has suffered from the Cotopaxi volcano'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'Terminal term for the spot where a spy leaves secret papers or film'

Answer: a dead drop


Question: 'This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker'

Answer: The customer is always right


Question: 'Mathew Brady took the photo seen here of this author & West Point dropout'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'Joe Namath,<br />Joe Montana'

Answer: quarterback


Question: 'For electronics:<br />RSH'

Answer: RadioShack


Question: 'This uncola originally had the name "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"'

Answer: 7 Up


Question: 'What Helen Keller called Anne Sullivan'

Answer: Teacher


Question: 'Kofi Annan is the seventh person to hold this highest U.N. executive position'

Answer: secretary-general


Question: 'Pioneering Nebraska novelist seen here in 1915'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Bill Russell,<br />Bill Walton'

Answer: center


Question: 'For kitchenware as well as sheets & towels:<br />BBBY'

Answer: Bed Bath & Beyond


Question: 'A kir is white wine & creme de cassis; a kir royale is this & creme de cassis'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Hold hair at ends, comb toward scalp; cracking gum optional'

Answer: tease


Question: 'In 1991 Kofi Annan negotiated the release of U.N. workers held in this country during the Persian Gulf War'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'Called one of the greatest practitioners of the historical novel, he was born in Edinburgh'

Answer: Walter Scott


Question:
'Bob Feller,
Bob Lemon,
Bob Gibson'

Answer: pitcher


Question: 'For DVDs:<br />BBI'

Answer: Blockbuster


Question: 'It doesn't take breaking a world record to tell us this Irish brew is "brilliant"'

Answer: Guinness


Question: 'Daniel Tobin headed this union from 1907 to 1952, bringing its membership from 40,000 to more than a million'

Answer: the Teamsters


Question: 'In June 2000 Kofi Annan was the commencement speaker at this university near Palo Alto, Calfornia'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'This British author seen here first "Bloom"ed in 1882'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Jack Lambert,<br />Jack Ham'

Answer: linebacker


Question: 'For auto parts:<br />PBY'

Answer: Pep Boys


Question: 'This beverage that can be "sweet" or "hard" is made from freshly pressed deciduous fruits'

Answer: cider


Question: 'It has about 40,000 people & it's right near Hackensack'

Answer: Teaneck


Question: 'Kofi Annan's first job in the U.N. was in 1962 as an administrator & budget officer of this "organization"'

Answer: the World Health Organization


Question: 'Seen here in 1976, this playwright served prison time for his dissident views'

Answer: (Vaclav) Havel


Question:
'Gump Worsley,
Shrimp Worters,
Rat Westwick'

Answer: hockey goalie


Question: 'For fine furniture:<br />ETH'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'Vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry juice & grapefruit juice make up one version of this "on the beach"'

Answer: sex


Question: 'This great trombonist was part of Louis Armstrong's band from 1947 to 1951'

Answer: Jack Teagarden


Question: 'The first U.N. head from Africa south of the Sahara, Kofi Annan was born in the city of Kumasi in this country in 1938'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'A 1751 book by David Hume in this area of philosophy argues that altruism is human nature'

Answer: ethics


Question: '1978:<br />"You'll believe a man can fly"'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'In March 1879 law school grad Belva Lockwood became the first woman allowed to argue here'

Answer: before the Supreme Court


Question: 'This Western Hemisphere country has the most Spanish speakers of any country in the world'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'The U.S. Internet Industry Association posts an FBI-esque list of these, like worm netsky.p'

Answer: viruses


Question: 'In English it's a figure of speech, like "a sea of troubles"; in Greek it refers to moving companies'

Answer: a metaphor


Question: 'Nominalism is so called from considering only objects real, & abstractions like "animal" & "circle" merely these'

Answer: names


Question: '1977:<br />"We are not alone"'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question: 'As a girl in the 1830s she nursed her brother David through a 2-year illness (came in handy later)'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'Holy cow!  There are more head of cattle in this nation than anywhere else'

Answer: India


Question: 'ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, dates back to this decade when ENIAC came on line'

Answer: the \'40s


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by a small belfry overlooking the sea at Santorini, Greece.)  Historian Herodotus said the island of Santorini was once called "Kalliste" meaning the utmost in this quality'

Answer: beauty


Question: 'Separating mind from matter was a big step for this philosopher who died in 1650'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: '2002:<br />"America was born in the streets"'

Answer: Gangs of New York (The Gangs of New York accepted)


Question: 'Before she was the first black woman in Congress, she was the second in the New York State Assembly'

Answer: Shirley Chisholm


Question: 'Golden opportunities await in this African country that leads the world in gold production'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'The ICGA website tells us Deep Fritz, this type of program, earned a draw with Vladimir Kramnik'

Answer: chess


Question: 'To get this word for a place to eat & drink in Greece, add "A" to a similar English word'

Answer: taverna


Question: 'This idea that God & the universe are identical was powerfully stated by Spinoza in the 17th century'

Answer: pantheism


Question: '1960:<br />"They trained him to kill for their pleasure... but they trained him a little too well..."'

Answer: Spartacus


Question: 'The motto "semper paratus" game us this nautical acronym for the WWII Women's Coast Guard Reserve'

Answer: SPAR


Question: 'This Asian country has the world's largest armed forces'

Answer: China


Question: 'The AAAI, American Association for this, has only human members--we think'

Answer: Artificial Intelligence


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by a stone wheel in Naxos, Greece.)  Related for the English "to bear", "pherein" gave us the name of this traditional container to bear oil'

Answer: an amphora


Question: 'This was a real 4-letter word for Schopenhauer, as it urges us on to pointless desires & death'

Answer: will


Question: '2000:<br />"Some memories are best forgotten"'

Answer: Memento


Question: 'This alliterative-named woman who spied for Stonewall Jackson was not the most ladylike Southern belle'

Answer: Belle Boyd


Question: 'People on this European island nation read more books per person annually than any other'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'The OSI is the "Initiative" to promote this, free access to software code'

Answer: open source


Question: 'Meaning "fighter" or "contestant" (as on "Jeopardy!"), it follows "Samson" in the title of a Milton work'

Answer: agonistes


Question: 'In 1993 it became the first state to adopt an official flavor, which, incidentally, comes from its state tree'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'This author's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was involved in a sex scandal in 1874'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'Playing an artist in this film earned Greg Kinnear an Oscar nomination'

Answer: As Good as It Gets


Question: 'On July 21, 1997 this "old" ship celebrated the 200th anniversary of its launch by sailing into Boston harbor'

Answer: the Constitution ("Old Ironsides")


Question: 'SAY CURSE,<br />New York'

Answer: Syracuse


Question: 'This multi-decade movie star is Skull Island's favorite son'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'In Wonderland, she cries "Off with" Alice's "head"!  What a card!'

Answer: the Queen of Hearts


Question: 'In 1870 he published his "National Photographic Collection of War Views and Portraits...."'

Answer: Mathew Brady


Question: 'Tim Roth played the artist Van Gogh & Paul Rhys played his brother in this 1990 film'

Answer: Vincent and Theo


Question: 'In 1808 this ship's John Adams was found on Pitcairn Island; he was the only adult male still there'

Answer: the Bounty


Question: 'NEDGO,<br />Utah'

Answer: Ogden


Question: 'As his many ex-wives could tell you, he's the "live wire" seen here'

Answer: Larry King


Question: 'It's the state indicated here, mate'

Answer: Queensland (in Australia)


Question: 'This New York "boss" fled to Europe but was captured by Spaniards who recognized him from a cartoon'

Answer: Boss Tweed


Question: 'In the 1998 film version of this Dickens novel, the hero not only pines for Estella, he sketches her'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'In 1960 Johnny Horton had a No. 3 hit with a song about the sinking of this German battleship'

Answer: the Bismarck


Question: 'SNAIL IS OUT,<br />Missouri'

Answer: Saint Louis


Question: 'Fierce "royal" ready to strike here'

Answer: a king cobra


Question: 'There's no mystery that this sleuth solved "The Roman Hat Mystery" & "The French Powder Mystery"'

Answer: Ellery Queen


Question: 'This lady bandit & her Cherokee husband lived in a cabin that served as a hideout for western outlaws'

Answer: Belle Starr


Question: 'This 1996 film takes its title from Valerie Solanas' confession of attacking a pop artist'

Answer: I Shot Andy Warhol"


Question: 'On March 25, 1961 Elvis Presley performed at Honolulu's Bloch Arena to raise money for this ship's memorial'

Answer: the Arizona


Question: 'OLE SAP,<br />Texas'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'Clergyman seen here in 1956'

Answer: Martin Luther King


Question: 'She's the egg-laying pest seen here'

Answer: Queen termite


Question: 'The provisional constitution of the Confederacy was adopted on February 8, 1861 in this city'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'Liv Tyler posed for a sculptor played by Donal McCann in this 1996 Bertolucci film'

Answer: Stealing Beauty


Question: 'The arrival of this Cunard liner shortly after the Titanic sank prevented further loss of life'

Answer: the Carpathia


Question: 'PLAINS,<br />Georgia'

Answer: Plains


Question: 'The "belted" type of this beauty is seen here'

Answer: a kingfisher


Question: 'The 9th man with this title, he was responsible for the laws of left hooks & right jabs'

Answer: the Marquess of Queensbury


Question: 'This nice principality is 10 miles from Nice'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'This big name in women's fashion launched her DKNY Menswear collection in 1993'

Answer: Donna Karan


Question: 'In "Sense And Sensibility", this part of a letter is called the direction'

Answer: Address


Question: 'Aaay!  Fonzie called this character "Shortcake" on "Happy Days"'

Answer: Joanie Cunningham


Question: 'In 1968 Placido made his debut at this New York opera house with only 35 minutes notice'

Answer: Metropolitan Opera House


Question: 'This type of show with broad humor arose in the 1860s; the striptease came about 60 years later'

Answer: Burlesque


Question: 'Helsinki is situated on the Gulf of this'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'Her gold medal vault at the 1984 Olympics was a perfect "10"'

Answer: Mary Lou Retton


Question: 'In this novel, Jonathan Harker overhears the word "vrolok" & finds out it means "werewolf or vampire"'

Answer: "Dracula"


Question: 'Get intelligent & tell me Barbara Feldon's numerical TV nickname'

Answer: Agent 99


Question: 'Placido is associated with the title role of this 1887 Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean tragedy'

Answer: "Othello"


Question: 'In an Edgar Allan Poe story, Prince Prospero gives one in which the Red Death appears'

Answer: Masque


Question: 'Catalan cuisine is featured at Set Portes, a 161-year-old restaurant in this Catalonian city'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'Born in Tarlac province in 1933, her original name was Maria Corazon Cojuangco'

Answer: Corazon Aquino


Question: 'His novel "Lord Jim" uses the term cat's-paws for breezes that ruffle the surface of the sea'

Answer: Joseph Conrad


Question: 'As Sherman Hemsley could tell you, this actress played "Weezie"'

Answer: Isabel Sanford


Question: 'In the 1984 movie of a Bizet opera, Placido was Don Jose & Julia Migenes-Johnson was this title character'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'Suggestive of impropriety, such as a joke or manner of dress'

Answer: Risque


Question: 'When in Prague, this saint's cathedral may make you want to "dance"'

Answer: St. Vitus


Question: 'In the 1920s she wrote, "In soloing....it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it"'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'In "1984" standard English is known as this, in contrast to newspeak'

Answer: Oldspeak


Question: 'It's the nickname of the "M*A*S*H" character from Crabapple Cove, Maine'

Answer: Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce


Question: 'Placido has conducted this Puccini opera, as well as sung the part of Rodolfo'

Answer: La bohème


Question: 'Tchaikovsky died a few weeks after the debut of this symphony which has been called his "swan song"'

Answer: Pathetique Symphony


Question: 'The Kalamatianos is one of the most popular wedding dances of this country'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Hanna Suchocka became this eastern European country's first female prime minister in 1992'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Cedric spoke of this kind of knife in "Ivanhoe" years after Hamlet mentioned a "bare" one'

Answer: Bodkin


Question: 'This actor turned the tables as "Venus Flytrap"'

Answer: Tim Reid


Question: 'On a 1984 TV special, Carol Burnett sang "Be A Clown" & Placido sang an aria from this clown opera'

Answer: "Pagliacci"


Question: 'Medical use of the rhesus species of this monkey declined when India halted its export in 1978'

Answer: Macaque


Question: 'His 1830 last testament read, "I aspire to no other glory than the consolidation of Colombia"'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: 'Little Rock is this state's capital'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'The night sky on Brazil's flag represents the one seen from this city'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'He was just 3 years old when he was proclaimed Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 -- hmm, not so "terrible"'

Answer: Ivan


Question: 'In "A Study in Scarlet", he told Holmes, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them"'

Answer: Watson


Question: '1993, starring Robin Williams'

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire


Question: 'Dr. Spock wrote, you don't have to teach a child to do this at 12-15 months; "You won't be able to stop him"'

Answer: Walk


Question: 'In 1979, at age 32, he moved into the governor's mansion in Little Rock'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'In 1984 Egypt replaced the hawk on its flag with this other bird of prey'

Answer: Eagle of Saladin


Question: 'Andrea Dandolo was the doge of this city when it was devastated by the plague in 1348'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Pioneers", the first in the series of these "tales"'

Answer: Leatherstocking Tales


Question: '1960, starring Anthony Perkins'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'It means food, especially a "mein" course'

Answer: Chow


Question: 'In 1957 Gov. Faubus tried to prevent this in Little Rock's Central High'

Answer: Integration


Question: 'Afghanistan's flag has a mosque in a wreath made of stalks of this grain'

Answer: Wheat


Question: 'Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the grandson of this Spanish royal pair'

Answer: Ferdinand & Isabella


Question: '"I must go, Cathy", said Heathcliff, seeking to extricate himself from his companion's arms in this novel'

Answer: "Wuthering Heights"


Question: '1959, starring Lemmon & Curtis'

Answer: Some Like It Hot


Question: 'A spot of light on a radar screen, perhaps denoting an incoming plane'

Answer: Blip


Question: 'This national frozen yogurt chain was founded in Little Rock & has a big tower there'

Answer: TCBY (The Country\'s Best Yogurt)


Question: '"Wat"'s new for this country?  Its flag seen here, adopted in 1993'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Born around 1849, this leader of the Oglala Sioux was praised even by his enemies as a military strategist'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'George Du Maurier introduced this evil hypnotist in his 1894 novel "Trilby"'

Answer: Svengali


Question: '1982, starring Dustin Hoffman'

Answer: Tootsie


Question: 'In Major League Baseball, you're out if you do this with 2 strikes & the ball goes foul'

Answer: Bunt


Question: 'The old mill at Lakeshore Dr. & Fairway Ave. was used in the opening of this 1939 film'

Answer: Gone With The Wind


Question: 'The blue & red in the flags of Chad & Andorra are from this country's blue-white-red flag'

Answer: France


Question: 'He became Kenya's first prime minister in 1963 & its first president in 1964'

Answer: Jomo Kenyatta


Question: 'Wilkins is the first name of this "David Copperfield" character who's always waiting "In case anything turned up"'

Answer: Mr. Micawber


Question: '1992, starring Jaye Davidson'

Answer: The Crying Game


Question: 'A promise in God's name, or an expression that takes God's name in vain'

Answer: Oath


Question: 'It's how Ringo Starr wailed he'd get by'

Answer: "With A Little Help From My Friends"


Question: 'This Greek goddess of wisdom sprang fully armed from the head of her father Zeus'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'In the 1920s businessman Marcus Loew combined 3 movie production companies to form this one'

Answer: MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)


Question: 'She named Polonium & had an element named after her & her husband'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Sofia'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: '"I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come?" said he'

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge


Question: 'The 1996 Grammy Album of the Year was this Morissette masterpiece'

Answer: "Jagged Little Pill"


Question: 'Utu, the Sumerian god of this celestial body, judges the dead in the underworld at the end of the day'

Answer: Sun


Question: 'His first mail order catalog in 1872 was 1 page thick'

Answer: Montgomery Ward


Question: 'It was named after the elder gods of Greece'

Answer: Titanium


Question: 'Skopje'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'Twain novel containing the line, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"'

Answer: "Huckleberry Finn"


Question: 'The moment Dionne Warwick woke up, before she put on her makeup, she did this'

Answer: "I Say A Little Prayer For You"


Question: 'False face societies cured illnesses among the tribes of this Native American group, the Six Nations'

Answer: Iroquois


Question: 'In 1983 he sold his discount brokerage company to Bankamerica & in 1987 he bought it back again'

Answer: Charles Schwab


Question: 'Holmium was named for this city'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'Vaduz'

Answer: Liechtenstein


Question: 'L. Frank Baum wrote, "The road to the city of emeralds is paved with" this'

Answer: Yellow bricks


Question: 'Freddie Mercury said he thought up this, Queen's first No. 1 hit, while lounging in a tub'

Answer: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"


Question: 'Heimdall guarded the Bifrost Rainbow Bridge which led to this realm, the home of Valhalla'

Answer: Asgard


Question: 'At age 19 in 1984 he founded PCs Limited, selling souped-up IBMs from his dorm room'

Answer: Michael Dell


Question: 'Silver is from an Anglo-Saxon word; this element's name is from the Spanish for "silver"'

Answer: Platinum


Question: 'Tashkent'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: '"When we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea" is a line from this Hans Christian Andersen tale'

Answer: "The Little Mermaid"


Question: 'It's what Otis Redding in 1967 & Three Dog Night in 1969 wanted you to "try"'

Answer: "Try A Little Tenderness"


Question: 'The Tuatha de Danann, early inhabitants of this island, are said to live in the hills with faeries'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'The Mirage was the first resort venture he built in Las Vegas; Treasure Island, his second'

Answer: Steve Wynn


Question: 'The element symbolized Fm was named for a scientist, Fermi; Am was named for this'

Answer: America


Question: 'Abuja'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'In this poem Robert Browning wrote, "Rats!  They fought the dogs and killed the cats"'

Answer: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"


Question: 'In 1995 a library at the Glasgow Veterinary School was named in his honor'

Answer: James Herriot


Question: 'The Rev. Heber Jentzch heads this L. Ron Hubbard religion'

Answer: Scientology


Question: 'A hit in 1997 with new lyrics, it was originally on Elton John's 1973 album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"'

Answer: "Candle in the Wind"


Question: 'Rose Fitzgerald'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'Pompadour & Dutch Bob were once popular styles of this'

Answer: Hairstyles


Question: 'Lititz, Ephrata & Strasburg are communities in this state's Amish Country'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'The 2 of journalism's 5 Ws that fit the category'

Answer: Who & Why


Question: 'When this Unification Church leader says, "Say I do", 20,000 grooms may respond at one time'

Answer: Sun Myung Moon


Question: 'She's the only performer to have 3 songs debut at No. 1: "Fantasy" & "One Sweet Day" in 1995 & "Honey" in 1997'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'Hannah Milhous'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'For their wedding many grooms are opting for this retro style of jacket named for an Indian prime minister'

Answer: Nehru jacket


Question: 'Of East, West, North or South St. Louis, it's the Illinois city across the river from St. Louis'

Answer: East St. Louis


Question: 'You do it to "the line" or it may be dipped to test the waters'

Answer: Toe


Question: 'Patriarch Alexy II has been credited with the revival of the church in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In 1992 she became the only former Miss America to have a No. 1 hit, "Save the Best for Last"'

Answer: Vanessa Williams


Question: 'Virginia Cassidy'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'The low-cut Empire dress was derived from one popularized by this woman during the Napoleonic era'

Answer: Josephine


Question: 'In Oklahoma, only Oklahoma City has more people than this oil town'

Answer: Tulsa


Question: 'In 1993 Eugene Trivizas wrote the children's book "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad" this'

Answer: Pig


Question: 'A Turk, Bartholomew I leads the Eastern Orthodox Church from this city'

Answer: Istanbul (Constantinople)


Question: 'As a producer, he had several No. 1 hits in 1997, including his own "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"'

Answer: Puff Daddy (Sean Combs)


Question: 'Jane Knox'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tava Smiley & I play fashion designer Chloe Morgan on "General Hospital")  In 1995 this clothier famous for his red, white & blue sportswear was named Menswear Designer of the Year'

Answer: Tommy Hilfiger


Question: 'The origin of this Kansas nickname is unknown; there's no such bird'

Answer: "The Jayhawk State"


Question: 'The sentry will shoot you if you answer this when challenged'

Answer: Foe


Question: 'The second pope of this name, reigning from 1503 to 1513, patronized artists including Michelangelo'

Answer: Julius


Question: 'In 1999 Will Smith scored with a No. 1 hit with this film title track featuring Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee'

Answer: Wild Wild West


Question: 'Abigail Smith'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'This cool brand of shoes & sneakers with big thick soles has been "drawing" business since 1992'

Answer: Skechers


Question: 'A canal across Wisconsin's Door Peninsula connects Lake Michigan with this bay'

Answer: Green Bay


Question: 'It's the gaping jaws or mouth of a carnivore, or perhaps, a rural matriarch'

Answer: Maw


Question: '2 forts were founded in Idaho in 1834: Fort Hall & this one that bore the name of the future capital'

Answer: Fort Boise


Question: '1992:<br />"You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Hurl."'

Answer: Wayne\'s World


Question: 'Talc is at one end of the Mohs scale of hardness & this is at the other'

Answer: Diamonds


Question: 'The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'This other term for a person from Bulgaria is just 2 letters shorter than the country itself'

Answer: Bulgar


Question: 'He appeared in the Henry James-inspired film "The Nightcomers" the same year he played "The Godfather"'

Answer: Marlon Brando


Question: 'Decade that saw the Freedom Summer & the Freedom Riders'

Answer: 1960s


Question: '1994:<br />"Drink From Me and Live Forever"'

Answer: Interview With the Vampire


Question: 'This phosphate popular in the jewelry of the Southwest U.S. derives its name from a Eurasian country'

Answer: Turquoise


Question: '"God Bless the Child" & God bless this blues singer who co-wrote the song'

Answer: Billie Holiday


Question: '"Cajun" is an alteration of this 7-letter word for a person from a former French colony in Canada'

Answer: Acadian


Question: 'On "90210" in '97, Kelly got amnesia & didn't remember this character, her boyfriend'

Answer: Brandon Walsh


Question: 'The only state Reagan didn't carry in 1984 was this one, Mondale's home state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: '1997:<br />"Collide With Destiny"'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'Minerals like pyrite, galena & sphalerite all contain this element, S, so they are grouped together'

Answer: Sulphur


Question: 'A powerful political figure, Maxine Waters has represented this state in Congress since 1991'

Answer: California


Question: 'The people of this British dependency in the Atlantic are nicknamed "Onions"'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: 'Founded in 1948, its symbol is seen here:<br />("Even Unto Its Innermost Parts" & "Truth")'

Answer: Brandeis University


Question: 'It's the war that was opposed by some Copperheads'

Answer: Civil War


Question: '1999:<br />"Every Saga has a Beginning"'

Answer: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace


Question: 'The white sands of New Mexico's White Sands National Monument are this plaster material'

Answer: Gypsum


Question: 'Pictured here on a stamp, she was the first black woman to speak publicly against slavery - honest!:'

Answer: Sojourner Truth


Question: 'This term for a native of Rio may come from a Tupi Indian expression meaning "white man's house"'

Answer: Carioca


Question: 'This suggestive song about roller skates was a No. 1 hit for Melanie in 1971'

Answer: "Brand New Key"


Question: 'The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build'

Answer: James Gadsden


Question: '1999:<br />"Catch Her if You Can"'

Answer: Runaway Bride


Question: 'A form of magnetite that has natural magnetic polarity is known as this "stone"'

Answer: Lodestone


Question: '6 years after her 1957 Wimbledon win, this tennis great turned pro golfer'

Answer: Althea Gibson


Question: 'Burkinabes live in this African country whose capital is Ougadougou'

Answer: Burkina Faso


Question: '1721 group of works that includes the following:'

Answer: "Brandenburg Concertos"


Question: 'In 1498 Vasco Da Gama landed at Calicut, India, "in search of Christians and" these'

Answer: Spices


Question: 'Hilary Swank won in 2000 for pretending to be a boy; this actress won for the same thing the year before'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'Alabaster,<br />Eggshell'

Answer: White


Question: 'He's the Monty Python member heard here reading from Dante's "Inferno"'

Answer: John Cleese


Question: 'Decorate your den with an NBA retired number banner, like this team's featuring Walt Frazier & Willis Reed'

Answer: New York Knicks


Question: 'Goldthwait's moniker'

Answer: Bobcat


Question: 'A major NYC cancer center was endowed by 2 GM executives, Alfred Sloan & him'

Answer: Charles F. Kettering


Question: 'After winning for "Philadelphia", Tom Hanks followed it up the next year with a win for this role'

Answer: Forrest Gump


Question: 'Jet,<br />Raven'

Answer: Black


Question: 'He's the singer reading here from "The Eye of the Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'This container is named for its purpose of keeping cigar tobacco moist'

Answer: Humidor


Question: 'It's his political party<br />[JFK]'

Answer: Democrat


Question: '(Hi, y'all, we're the Dixie Chicks.) In 1999 we hosted the most lucrative concert ever for this children's research hospital in Memphis'

Answer: St. Jude\'s


Question: 'She lost with 2 Oscar nominations for 1993 films, "In the Name of the Father" & "The Remains of the Day"'

Answer: Emma Thompson


Question: 'Cobalt,<br />Powder'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'It's the last name shared by the musician who wrote the book heard here & of his son who's reading it<br />["I can see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar..."]'

Answer: Guthrie


Question: 'True Temper distributes golf clubs with shafts of this metal named for mighty Greek gods'

Answer: Titanium


Question: 'Omar Khayyam's handiwork'

Answer: "The Rubaiyat"


Question: 'This Harvard Med School teaching hospital is the oldest & largest general hospital in New England'

Answer: Massachusetts General Hospital


Question: 'They're the 2 actresses named Hunt who've won acting Oscars'

Answer: Helen & Linda Hunt


Question: 'Mustard,<br />Honey'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" is read here by this literary giant who knew him'

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'If your office has burl walnut trim, you might want to get this company's XK8 Coupe to match it'

Answer: Jaguar


Question: 'This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers'

Answer: Cravat


Question: 'An L.A. hospital is named for this fellow, the subject of a parable in Luke'

Answer: The Good Samaritan


Question: 'James Gleason was nominated for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" & Jack Warden was nominated for this 1978 remake'

Answer: Heaven Can Wait


Question: 'Carnation,<br />Salmon'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'Made into a movie starring Leo DiCaprio, the "diaries" heard here are read by this man who wrote them<br />["Today was my first City League game & my first day in any organized basketball league..."]'

Answer: Jim Carroll (\'The Basketball Diaries")


Question: 'The Flavorizer Bar is a feature of this company's Genesis Platinum gas grill'

Answer: Weber


Question: 'The Captain & Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love'

Answer: "Muskrat Love"


Question: 'Some politicians made fun of this president's fussiness by referring to him as "Granny Hayes"'

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes


Question: '"Kidnapped By UFOs?" was a probing episode of this PBS series whose name is Latin for "new"'

Answer: Nova


Question: 'In the 18th century Charles Messier was known as "The Ferret" of these tailed bodies'

Answer: Comets


Question: '"Chairman" & singer Albert'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'This talk show host said in 1988, "If there had never been a Phil, there never would have been a me"'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'Carlsbad Caverns,<br />White Sands'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'He was born on a farm near the Pedernales River on August 27, 1908'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: '[Hi, I'm Wallace Langham]  My mother was a costume designer on this first TV variety series hosted by this brother-&-sister duo'

Answer: Donny & Marie Osmond


Question: 'Edouard Stephan's "quest" for these collections of stars & gas got his name on a quintet of them'

Answer: Galaxies


Question: '"People" lover & star born with the middle name Joan'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'Carol Burnett quipped that doing this "Is like taking your lower lip & forcing it over your head"'

Answer: Giving birth


Question: 'The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum,<br />Edwards Air Force Base'

Answer: California


Question: 'In 1905 he celebrated St. Patrick's Day by marrying one of his distant cousins'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'On this D.C.-set sitcom, Phil faked his own death & went into hiding because he knew too much about Whitewater'

Answer: Murphy Brown


Question: 'In 1932 Karl Jansky, studying these waves, detected them coming from space'

Answer: Radio waves


Question: 'Surgeon (pediatric & general) Everett'

Answer: Dr. C. Everett Koop


Question: 'Jacqueline Roque said of him, "If my husband ever met a woman...who looked like one of his paintings, he would faint"'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'The Valentine Museum,<br />The Museum & White House of the Confederacy'

Answer: Virginia


Question: '[Former president Jimmy Carter from the Carter Center in Atlanta]  This man was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'It isn't quite as harrowing as "ER" when real people get makeovers on the E! series known as "Fashion" this'

Answer: Fashion Emergency


Question: 'Willy Ley brought this man into the German Rocket Society, but unlike him wouldn't work with the Nazis'

Answer: Wernher von Braun


Question: 'Current Supreme Court justice Hubbs'

Answer: William H. Rehnquist


Question: 'This cartoonist calls "Mothers, food, love and career: the four major guilt groups"'

Answer: Cathy Guisewite


Question: 'Wounded Knee Village,<br />Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'A member of the Warren Commission, he co-wrote "Portrait of the Assassin", a book about Lee Harvey Oswald'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'On "SNL" this performer with a rhyming name portrayed Arianna the Cheerleader, Mariah Carey & Judge Judy'

Answer: Cheri Oteri


Question: 'The name of this Project Mercury flight director sounds like a famous brand of powerboat'

Answer: Chris Kraft


Question: 'Canadian prime minister Elliott'

Answer: Pierre Trudeau


Question: 'She told Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation"'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'Cumberland Caverns,<br />Lookout Mountain Incline Railway'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'The eastern variety of this language is based on the dialect of the city of Yerevan & the Ararat Valley'

Answer: Armenian


Question: 'The first gorilla born in captivity was born in this Ohio city's zoo in 1956'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'This actor turned 13 years old on July 9, 1989 -- that's 13 "Wonder Years" old'

Answer: Fred Savage


Question: 'In this game the "scotch" refers to a line'

Answer: Hopscotch


Question: '"Spooky" term for a person who writes a book for someone else'

Answer: Ghostwriter


Question: 'If you walk on grass in early morning, you might step on these tiny waterdrops condensed from the air'

Answer: Dew


Question: 'Pyramus & she didn't have a ball for they were separated by a wall'

Answer: Thisbe


Question: 'Franklin Pierce had a home in & is buried in this New Hampshire capital'

Answer: Concord


Question: '"Star Trek" star heard here:'

Answer: Leonard Nimoy


Question: 'In some versions of this game a crowned piece becomes a "queen", not a king'

Answer: Checkers


Question: 'You don't have to be a bee to know this 6-letter synonym for "bungle" or "blunder"'

Answer: Bumble


Question: 'A dry spell that continues long enough to affect agriculture or other activities'

Answer: Drought


Question: 'Prometheus' brother, you may know the fact he was cursed to bear the sky upon his back'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'A school known as USC is in this state capital'

Answer: Columbia (University of South Carolina)


Question: 'To save money, this star & exec. producer of "Major Dad" bought his TV wardrobe at Camp Pendleton'

Answer: Gerald McRaney


Question: 'The 2 utilities in "Monopoly"'

Answer: Electric Company & Water Works


Question: 'This word for an assembly of witches comes from the same Latin root as convent'

Answer: Coven


Question: 'The lake effect, most pronounced near the Great Lakes, causes this type of solid precipitation'

Answer: Snow


Question: 'Imagine that, he had wings on his hat; & we could add this bit of news -- he also had them on his shoes'

Answer: Mercury/Hermes


Question: 'Closest capital to the Comstock Lode'

Answer: Carson City, Nevada


Question: 'You're too young to remember him as Dr. Kildare, but he also played Dr. Kulani on "Island Son"'

Answer: Richard Chamberlain


Question: 'Pepys reported his wife & her friends played this game known as "Blind Fly" in Italy & "Blind Buck" in Sweden'

Answer: Blind Man\'s Bluff


Question: 'Meaning made or done in the Arabic fashion, this adjective is used in music, interior design & ballet'

Answer: Arabesque


Question: 'The prevailing winds that blow across most of the U.S. come from this direction'

Answer: West


Question: 'Juno cursed her, have you heard?  So she'll always have the very last word'

Answer: Echo


Question: 'Major General Grenville Dodge named this Union Pacific terminal site after a local Indian tribe'

Answer: Cheyenne, Wyoming


Question: 'This teenage actress played Jerry Lee Lewis' teenage bride in "Great Balls of Fire!"'

Answer: Winona Ryder


Question: 'In the Black Lady version of this game the Queen of Spades counts for 13 points'

Answer: Hearts


Question: 'You could be described as lupine if you resembled one of these animals'

Answer: Wolf


Question: 'Severe tropical storm having winds in excess of 74 MPH & an eye in the middle'

Answer: Hurricane


Question: 'In the underworld he's busy still pushing a rock to the top of a hill'

Answer: Sisyphus


Question: 'Saturn's satellites help to keep these distinctive features intact'

Answer: Rings


Question: 'By the end of "Salome" this character has lost his head'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'Proprietors of the Carolinas hoped to raise worms to make this fabric, but the attempt failed'

Answer: Silk


Question: 'Treasures from the tomb of Philip II of Macedon can be seen in Salonika, this country's 2nd largest city'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Ancient Chinese medical practice in which needles are inserted in the skin at key points'

Answer: Acupuncture


Question: '"The Stand"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'Our atmosphere has 21% oxygen & a little of this gas; Venus has just a trace of oxygen & 95% this gas'

Answer: Carbon dioxide


Question: 'She marries King Mark, but Tristan is her consuming passion'

Answer: Isolde


Question: 'This country's neutrality was fully respected until 1798 when the French invaded'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Schwarzwald is the German name for this region noted for its mineral springs'

Answer: Black Forest


Question: 'Both the Epstein-Barr virus & the cytomegalovirus cause this "kissing disease"'

Answer: Mononucleosis


Question: '"The Thorn Birds"'

Answer: Colleen McCullough


Question: 'Astronomers think the Andromeda Spiral may have one of these collapsed stars at its center'

Answer: Black hole


Question: 'In English the title of this Richard Strauss opera is "The Knight of the Rose"'

Answer: Der Rosenkavalier


Question: 'This country lost Minorca, Sicily & Gibraltar when it signed the Treaty of Utrecht'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This London park has a "Speaker's Corner" where anyone can voice his opinions on any subject'

Answer: Hyde Park


Question: 'The cervical spine has 7, the thoracic spine - 12, the lumbar spine - 5, the sacrum - 5, & the coccyx - 4'

Answer: Vertebrae


Question: '"Absalom, Absalom!"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'During a total eclipse this part of the sun, ordinarily not visible, can be seen'

Answer: Corona


Question: 'Berlioz's opera about "The Damnation Of" this man features the "Dance of the Sylphs"'

Answer: Faust


Question: 'He discovered New Zealand & spent 6 mos. there before exploring Australia & its Great Barrier Reef'

Answer: Captain James Cook


Question: 'Fluency in this Romance language would be useful when visiting the Republic of San Marino'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'The A.M.A. says most fatal cases of poisoning from these in the U.S. are caused by the death cap variety'

Answer: Mushrooms


Question: '"Princess Daisy"'

Answer: Judith Krantz


Question: 'Using this method, in 1838 F.W. Bessel was first to gauge the distance between Earth & a star accurately'

Answer: Parallax Method


Question: 'In the last scene of "The Maid Of Orleans", a fire is lit in this city'

Answer: Rouen


Question: 'Robert Clive was one of the major architects of British power in this colony'

Answer: India


Question: 'This travel editor's "guides" now total over 80 titles, many of which are published annually'

Answer: Eugene Fodor


Question: 'Athletes who use these steroids to bulk up muscles risk damage to the adrenal glands & liver'

Answer: Anabolic steroids


Question: '"Green Mansions"'

Answer: William Henry Hudson


Question: 'Son of a famous poet, this oldest justice ever didn't retire until he was 90'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Question: 'The first person to see Jesus after he arose from his tomb was this woman'

Answer: Mary Magdalene


Question: 'In several "SNL" parodies, Will Ferrell played me & Darrell Hammond impersonated him'

Answer: Sean Connery


Question: 'In 1951 they called the wind this in "Paint Your Wagon", but Ms. Carey might challenge the spelling'

Answer: Maria


Question: 'This ship, Columbus' favorite, made at least 5 trips to the New World'

Answer: the Niña


Question: 'Hail this name, full of grace; from the 1880s all the way through the 1950s, it was the No. 1 baby girl name'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'In L.A. County you can sue for no more than $7,500 in this court'

Answer: small claims


Question: 'Elijah's prophecy that dogs would eat this wicked woman was fulfilled in 2 Kings'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: 'This "Dead Man Walking" actor also starred in "Shanghai Surprise"'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'In April 1934 Mt. Washington had a wind gust reach 201 of this unit equal to 1 nautical mile per hour'

Answer: knots


Question: 'The captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until Judgment Day unless he is saved by love'

Answer: the Flying Dutchman


Question: 'About 4 1/4% of 1960s baby boys were named this, whether they rowed the boat ashore or not'

Answer: Michael


Question: 'Young fish or young children'

Answer: small fry


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vineyard.)  The first Biblical man who plants a specific crop, in Genesis he planted a vineyard & promptly drank too much wine'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'Brother to Keenan Ivory & Damon'

Answer: Shawn Wayans


Question: '2-word "aeronautical" term for the strong, generally westerly winds in the Earth's upper troposphere'

Answer: the jet stream


Question: 'This boat famously sank in Lake Superior in 1975'

Answer: the Edmund Fitzgerald


Question: 'Perhaps a "Giant" acting icon helped this be the most popular name for 1950s boys'

Answer: James


Question: 'In a hymn by Cecil "Fanny" Alexander this line follows "All things bright and beautiful"'

Answer: "All creatures great and small"


Question: 'This apostle, an effective missionary, is sometimes called the "second founder" of Christianity'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'He's Fox News Channel's conservative counterpart to the more liberal Alan Colmes'

Answer: Sean Hannity


Question: 'It has a low-pressure center & circular wind motion; the Coney Island ride opened June 26, 1927 is much more fun'

Answer: a cyclone


Question: 'Later fired as governor of New Zealand for defending Maori claims, Robert Fitzroy captained this survey ship'

Answer: the HMS Beagle


Question: 'So far, the fave name for girls in the 2000s is this; we're sure an etiquette expert would approve'

Answer: Emily


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a world map.)  The alliterative, somewhat counterintuitive term for a map of a large area at 1 to more than 1 million'

Answer: small scale


Question: 'He's the elder of Isaac & Rebekah's twin sons'

Answer: Esau


Question: 'He played a teen detective on TV's "The Hardy Boys"'

Answer: Shaun Cassidy


Question: 'Volkswagen aficionados know this hot, dusty wind that blows from North Africa & affects Southern Europe'

Answer: scirocco


Question: 'In a famous naval battle of 1779, it was the ship that defeated the Serapis'

Answer: the Bonhomme Richard


Question: 'This name of Shylock's daughter was the favorite name for 1980s & '90s girls'

Answer: Jessica


Question: 'In 1863 Abe Lincoln came down with varioloid, a mild form of this'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'Marine biologists call this gelatinous invertebrate of class Scyphozoa & Hydrozoa a medusa'

Answer: a jellyfish


Question: 'It was tempting to go shoeless to the 2006 revival of this Neil Simon comedy about newlyweds'

Answer: Barefoot in the Park


Question: 'HHH'

Answer: Hubert Humphrey


Question: 'Brom Bones freaks this man out by telling him the tale of the headless horseman'

Answer: Ichabod Crane


Question: 'This city has the largest Hispanic, Asian & African-American populations in the U.S.'

Answer: New York


Question: 'In grave terms, it's from the Greek for "sleeping place"'

Answer: cemetery


Question: 'The African rock species of this is the continent's longest snake, reaching more than 25 feet in length'

Answer: a python


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is upstaged by a chandelier in the Majestic Theatre in New York.)  A real accident at the Paris Opera House in 1896 inspired the famous falling chandelier in this musical'

Answer: Phantom of the Opera


Question: 'AAG'

Answer: Albert Gore


Question: 'The characters of "Murder in the Cathedral" include Becket, 3 priests &--uh-oh--4 of these noble soldiers'

Answer: knights


Question: 'The first U.S. census counted 3.9 million people, which is also the current population of this U.S. commonwealth'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'To withdraw formally from an alliance, as from a political union'

Answer: secede


Question: '3 flightless birds are native to the South Pacific: the kiwi, the cassowary & this one in Ausralia'

Answer: the emu


Question: 'There are gory goings-on in "The Lieutenant of Inishmore", a black comedy set in this country's Aran Islands'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'JDQ'

Answer: Quayle


Question: 'In this Dostoyevsky novel, it was Raskolnikov, in the apartment, with a hatchet'

Answer: Crime and Punishment


Question: 'The Census Bureau became an agency of this Cabinet department in 1913 after it was split with labor'

Answer: the Department of Commerce


Question: 'A genealogical table or record of a purebred animal'

Answer: pedigree


Question: 'The greater long-nosed species of this is found only in the rain forest & usually has 7 or 8 bands, not 9'

Answer: armadillo


Question: 'Love means never having to say you're sorry you saw this movie actress make her stage debut in "Festen" in 2006'

Answer: Ali McGraw


Question: 'STA'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'Updike described his "white face, the pallor of his blue irises, and a nervous flutter under his brief nose"'

Answer: Rabbit


Question: 'Of the 1 million immigrants admitted to the U.S. in 2002, only 422 settled in this "Treasure State"'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'A title of honor, applied to cardinals (more for Rome than Arizona)'

Answer: eminence


Question: 'This hairy "ursine" caterpillar grows into the Isabella tiger moth'

Answer: the wooly bear


Question: 'Hey there!  Harry Connick, Jr. donned sleepwear for the 2006 revival of this hit musical'

Answer: The Pajama Game


Question: 'WFM'

Answer: Walter F. Mondale


Question: 'Edwin Reardon is a struggling writer in George Gissing's "New" this "Street" associated with hack writing'

Answer: Grub


Question: 'For 19 years in a row, it has had the highest- percentage population increase of any state'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'French term for the neckline of a dress cut low in the front & often across the shoulders'

Answer: decolletage (or décolleté)


Question: '2 of the 4 people who've had a Billboard No. 1 pop album & also won a regular acting Oscar'

Answer: (2 of) Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, & Jamie Foxx


Question: 'It follows Miami in the name of Florida's most populous county'

Answer: Dade


Question: 'Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce'

Answer: Alan Alda


Question: 'Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin & this man were the first astronauts to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'Ford Motors goes public, Dr. Seuss pens "The Cat in the Hat" & Ronald Reagan weds wife No. 2'

Answer: the 1950s


Question: 'Suriphobia, fear of these, may set a housewife screaming while standing on a kitchen chair'

Answer: mice


Question: 'Bram Stoker novel you can "count" on<br />(7)'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'As you might expect, its state domestic animal is the dairy cow'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Dr. Michaela Quinn'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'In 1912 the Int'l Committee of the Red Cross created a medal for nursing named for this 19th century British woman'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question:
'(Al Franken reads.)  Chernobyl, Iran-Contra & Flock of Seagulls haircuts weren't exactly what I had in mind when I named this decade after me...

"Al Franken"'

Answer: the 1980s


Question: 'Gallophobia is not a fear of wine, but a fear of this country that produces a lot of wine'

Answer: France


Question: 'Samson's locks-smith<br />(7)'

Answer: Delilah


Question: 'The westernmost town in the lower 48 states is La Push in this state'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Dr. Doogie Howser'

Answer: Neil Patrick Harris


Question: 'The Thailand edition of this CBS series won a 2003 People's Choice Award for best reality program'

Answer: Survivor


Question: 'This decade sees a congressional "compromise", the first Lincoln-Douglas debate & the death of Kierkegaard'

Answer: 1850s


Question: '"Erythrophobia is the fear of doing this", he said, showing some embarrassment'

Answer: blushing


Question: 'Greek gelt<br />(8)'

Answer: drachmas


Question: 'The highest temperature ever recorded in this state was 117 degrees on July 5, 1985 in St. George'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy'

Answer: DeForest Kelley


Question: 'The Hugo & Nebula awards are presented to writers in this genre'

Answer: science fiction


Question: 'Edison invents the phonograph, U.S. Grant is re-elected & Bizet writes "Carmen"'

Answer: 1870s


Question: 'Hey dude, surfers aren't cymophobic; they don't fear these, man'

Answer: waves


Question: 'Perry Mason's Street<br />(5)'

Answer: Della


Question: 'This state's Kennebec River meets with its main tributary, the Androscoggin, northeast of Brunswick'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Dr. Joe Gannon'

Answer: Chad Everett


Question: 'In 1965 this U.N. Secretary-General from Asia became the first to win the Nehru Award for Int'l Understanding'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'Pre-"The West Wing", the real Josiah Bartlett governs N.H., John Paul Jones gives up the fight & the Jay Treaty is inked'

Answer: 1790s


Question: 'A person with ornithophobia & apiphobia may avoid a talk on this subject feared by erotophobics'

Answer: the birds and the bees (or sex)


Question: '"American Tragedian" Theodore<br />(7)'

Answer: Dreiser


Question: '6th century B.C. Greece must have been a happy place, as this facial expression is characteristic of its sculpture'

Answer: a smile


Question: 'Since 1986 when Joan left "The Tonight Show", this host has reportedly said "No" when asked "Can we talk?"'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"'

Answer: Falstaff


Question:
'Scope,
Lavoris,
Listerine'

Answer: brands of mouthwash


Question: 'He also said, "Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'It's the action heard here; someone talking in fantasies is said to be doing it'

Answer: whistling "Dixie"


Question: 'Carlo Carlone's team painted these, originally an Italian term, on palace & church walls across Europe'

Answer: frescoes


Question: 'Ms. R was Miss Piggy's coworker (we can only imagine the office dish) when the Muppets took this title place in '84'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'During his brief time on stage, Curtis, this man's aged servant, does get to say "Shrew"'

Answer: Petruchio


Question:
'Coral,
krait,
moccasin'

Answer: snakes


Question: 'On Oct. 6, 1951, this magnate died in Battle Creek, Michigan'

Answer: Kellogg


Question: 'To "pay" him is to bear the consequences of your action'

Answer: the piper


Question: 'The frolicsome painting seen here dates from this century'

Answer: the 18th


Question: 'Joan voiced Julie, Bruce Willis' new baby sister, in this 1989 comedy'

Answer: Look Who\'s Talking


Question: 'Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don't have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines'

Answer: Hamlet


Question:
'Quicksilver Messenger Service,
Hues Corporation,
Big Brother and the Holding Company'

Answer: rock bands


Question: 'On August 10, 1996 Bob Dole picked this man to be his running mate'

Answer: Jack Kemp


Question:
'This expression for what's being done here is found in Psalm 9

"You are magnificent, you're marvelous, you're triumphant, and you're grand..."'

Answer: singing his praises


Question: 'The analytic type of this style broke the world into fragments; the synthetic type put it together'

Answer: Cubism


Question: 'Joan gave a robotic performance as Dot Matrix in this Mel Brooks "Star Wars" spoof'

Answer: Spaceballs


Question: 'In this fairy tale, Snug doesn't get the lion's share of lines, but he does get the lion's lines'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question:
'Movies,
prospective employees,
back doors'

Answer: things that are screened


Question: 'This playwright's "Man Who Came to Dinner" character Sheridan Whiteside was such a plum role he even played it himself'

Answer: George S. Kaufman


Question: 'This 2-word phrase can mean a counterfeit bill or, when you "strike" it, a mistake in tone'

Answer: a false note


Question: 'Georges de la Tour mastered candlelight in the type of painting called this, also a musical term'

Answer: Nocturne


Question: 'Joan narrated The Electric Co.'s "Adventures of Letterman" starring him, though it wasn't in Wonka Vision'

Answer: Gene Wilder


Question: 'In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question:
'The Rhine Valley,
a chessboard,
Vernon & Irene's Dance School'

Answer: things with castles


Question: 'Anita O'Day & June Christy were singers for this man's 1940s big band'

Answer: Stan Kenton


Question: 'This 2-word part of the piano is also a verb meaning to downplay something harsh or upsetting'

Answer: soft-pedal


Question: 'Of the 5 times Congress has declared war, the 3 during the 19th century were against these 3 nations'

Answer: Britain, Spain, & Mexico


Question: 'On Sundays, in front of the Gothic Cathedral, people perform the Sardana, one of these'

Answer: Dance


Question: 'These important pieces of evidence might contain loops, arches & whorls'

Answer: Fingerprints


Question: 'In 1690 "Publick Occurrences" became the first one of these published in the colonies; it lasted one issue'

Answer: Newspaper


Question:
'1987:
"Greed...is good!
Greed is right!
Greed works!"'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'He said, "What a good boy am I!" after pulling a plum out of his Christmas pie'

Answer: Little Jack Horner


Question: 'It's not a 100-meter dash for rodents, but a tiring, meaningless competitve activity'

Answer: Ratrace


Question: 'A statue of this explorer points to the sea from atop a 167' column near Barcelona's harbor'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'It's the "unfashionable" name for officers who do not wear uniforms when on duty'

Answer: Plainclothes


Question: 'In 1694 Anne Arundel Town became the capital of Maryland & soon changed its name to this'

Answer: Annapolis


Question: '1989:<br />"I'll have what she's having"'

Answer: When Harry Met Sally...


Question: 'French for plum, it means a dried plum in English'

Answer: Prune


Question: 'This hit song reached No. 2 twice, by Bobby Day in 1958 & by Michael Jackson in 1972'

Answer: "Rockin\' Robin"


Question: 'The women of Barcelona's Carrer Avinyo inspired this cubist's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon"'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'From the Middle English for "lively", it's the police activity seen here:'

Answer: Frisking


Question: 'In 1694 this Virginia college received a coat of arms from the College of Arms in London'

Answer: William and Mary


Question: '1976:<br />"Is it safe?"'

Answer: Marathon Man


Question: 'In Chinese restaurants plum sauce is also known by this "fowl" name'

Answer: Duck sauce


Question: 'Like John Doe, this name is often used in legal proceedings to designate an unidentified male'

Answer: Richard Roe


Question: '(Hello, I'm Jay Leno)  In this year, Barcelona hosted the Olympics & I became the permanent host of "The Tonight Show"'

Answer: 1992


Question: 'When cops put out an APB on a suspect, APB stands for this'

Answer: All Points Bulletin


Question: 'On July 6, 1699 this pirate was captured in Boston'

Answer: Captain Kidd


Question: '1984:<br />"The numbers all go to 11...right across the board..."  "Most amps go up to 10?..."  "These go to 11"'

Answer: This Is Spinal Tap


Question: 'This famed horticulturist developed the Santa Rosa plum'

Answer: Luther Burbank


Question: 'This engine is used to arrest or reverse the motion of a missile'

Answer: Retrorocket


Question: 'Once suppressed under Franco, this native language is again widely used in Barcelona'

Answer: Catalan/Catalonian


Question: 'It's the numerical response that means "Message confirmed", good buddy'

Answer: 10-4


Question: 'With the French & Indian War, some New Hampshire towns considered a re-annexation to this colony in March 1690'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: '1939:<br />"You all think I'm licked.  Well, I'm not licked, & I'm going to stay right here & fight for this just cause"'

Answer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


Question: 'A wild European plum, this fruit of the blackthorn is steeped in gin to make a type of liqueur'

Answer: Sloe


Question: 'Officially, this celebrated regiment was named the First United States Volunteer Cavalry'

Answer: Rough Riders


Question: 'These devices use electromagnets to increase the velocity & energy of charged particles'

Answer: Accelerators


Question: 'This Wyoming city known for its planetarium was named for a cavalry lieutenant, not for a friendly ghost'

Answer: Casper


Question: '1904:<br />Never-Never-Land'

Answer: "Peter Pan"


Question: 'After Othello stabs him, this villain says, "I bleed, sir, but not kill'd"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'A telly that isn't black & white must be this'

Answer: C-O-L-O-U-R


Question: 'It's the hypothetical fusion of atomic nuclei at a lower temperature & pressure than now required'

Answer: Cold fusion


Question: 'Alabama's official state one of these is the tarpon'

Answer: Fish


Question: '1901:<br />Baskerville Hall'

Answer: "The Hound of the Baskervilles"


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wesley Walls of the Carolina Panthers)  I played in this building for the 49ers in the Super Bowl; later, I played there for the Saints'

Answer: Louisiana Superdome


Question: 'This mischievous trickster delivers the epilogue to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"'

Answer: Puck


Question: 'It's the British version of the word we spell C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N'

Answer: C-O-N-N-E-X-I-O-N


Question: 'These elementary particles can be designated up, down, strange, charm, beauty, bottom, truth or top'

Answer: Quarks


Question: 'Shoppers love Freeport, the "Birthplace of" this state; it has more than 100 stores, including L.L. Bean'

Answer: Maine


Question: '8th or 9th century B.C.:<br />The Land of the Lotus-Eaters'

Answer: "The Odyssey"


Question: 'For first-class Thai kick-boxing action, head for Rajadamnoen Stadium in this city'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'In the lottery of the caskets in "The Merchant of Venice", Bassanio chooses a casket made of this element'

Answer: Lead


Question: 'When parked facing down Notting Hill, turn your tyres into this pavement edge'

Answer: K-E-R-B


Question: 'Named for a German physicist, this device detects the radiation of subatomic particles'

Answer: Geiger counter


Question: 'This city is home to the University of Vermont'

Answer: Burlington


Question: '1667:<br />Pandemonium'

Answer: "Paradise Lost"


Question: 'Fondly remembered Flatbush Avenue structure seen here:'

Answer: Ebbets Field


Question: 'As he dies in Alexandria, his last words are "Now my spirit is going.  I can no more"'

Answer: Antony


Question: 'A game of tic-tac-toe is a game of these & crosses'

Answer: N-O-U-G-H-T-S


Question: 'This Boston library was founded in 1807; its name may be "Greek" to you'

Answer: The Boston Athenaeum


Question: '1949:<br />Oceania'

Answer: "1984"


Question: 'Remember this arena -- the 1999 NBA champions play there'

Answer: Alamodome (San Antonio Spurs)


Question: 'This title character imprisons his brother, the Duke of Clarence, in the Tower of London'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Comedian Harry Anderson was among those who gave eulogies at this singer's June 1999 funeral'

Answer: Mel Torme


Question: 'Spring Grove, Illinois claims the world's largest corn this, seen here'

Answer: a corn maze


Question: 'He impersonated moody psychic Carnac the Magnificent'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'Franz the butler is initially comedic but takes a dark turn as a Nazi sympathizer in this '60s film musical'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'You've been dealt a "speed limit" if you hold a pair of these'

Answer: fives


Question: 'May is green (but not with envy) with this birthstone'

Answer: emerald


Question: 'It means to go away, or get out; it's famously paired with "23"'

Answer: skidoo


Question: 'You can see a replica of a hunk of this Soviet craft; it crashed into Manitowoc, Wisc. in 1962'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: 'He played wacky bachelor Jack Tripper'

Answer: John Ritter


Question: 'Butler Thomas Rogers, as well as his wife, are murdered in her novel "And Then There Were None"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'There are "snowmen" in your mitts when holding a pair of these'

Answer: eights


Question: 'In song this July birthstone precedes "Tuesday"'

Answer: ruby


Question: '8-letter term for the end of the world as we know it (& I feel fine)'

Answer: doomsday


Question: 'Springfield, Missouri has America's only tram ride through a real one of these'

Answer: a cavern


Question: 'He starred as recent immigrant Chico Rodriguez'

Answer: Freddie Prinze


Question: 'Barrymore the butler is a red herring, as it's really Stapleton who's the killer in this Holmes mystery'

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles


Question: 'A pair of these face cards is referred to as "fishhooks"'

Answer: jacks


Question: 'Jim Brady was born on August 12, 1856 but April would have been more appropriate, with this as its stone'

Answer: diamond


Question: 'Now go do this polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians that you do so well!'

Answer: voodoo


Question: 'In northern Michigan you can see a plate of this type of pie 14 feet across--but with only 1 slice'

Answer: cherry


Question: 'He was private investigator Dan Tanna'

Answer: Robert Urich


Question: 'Mr. Poole the butler is concerned for the good doctor & breaks into the lab with Utterson in this novel'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde


Question: 'A hand consisting of a 5 & 10 is nicknamed this, like a famous chain of stores'

Answer: Woolworth


Question: 'Mother-of-this!  It's June's stone, along with moonstone & alexandrite'

Answer: pearl


Question: 'The folks in this musical village are awake for 24 hours, once every 100 years'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a giant apple basket.) Attractions in this midwest state include a giant rubber stamp, a giant cuckoo clock, & the almost-30-ft-high Longaberger apple basket'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'He played out of this world chief engineer Montgomery Scott'

Answer: James Doohan


Question: 'At the end of this Kazuo Ishiguro novel, the butler Stevens regrets not being intimate & cultivating his own experiences'

Answer: The Remains of the Day


Question: 'If you're holding a "magnum", you've got a pocket pair of these'

Answer: fours


Question: 'Thailand & Montana are important sources of this blue September gem'

Answer: sapphire


Question: 'It's the musical instrument being played here'

Answer: didgeridoo


Question: 'From work using hypothermia for heart surgery, Wilfred Bigelow helped develop this implanted stimulator'

Answer: pacemaker


Question: '"Carry On Wayward Son",<br />"Dust In The Wind"'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital'

Answer: Sarajevo


Question: 'Do get this organization founded in 1980 & get even'

Answer: Mothers Against Drunk Driving


Question: 'You could call Ronald Lo Presti's "suite for 8" of these instruments a "toot suite"'

Answer: french horns


Question: 'Turkey talk<br />(6)'

Answer: gobble


Question: 'The Smithsonian has the alkaline battery Lewis Urry created for Eveready, which named it this'

Answer: the Energizer


Question: '"You're The Inspiration",<br />"Saturday In The Park"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '(I'm Nicholas Kristof) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan'

Answer: Darfur


Question: 'This 1994 pact, better now, or now?'

Answer: North American Free Trade Agreement


Question: 'This country's national anthem, heard here, was written by cousins Rikard Nordraak & Bjornstjerne Bjornson'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Thumbs up or thumbs down<br />(7)'

Answer: gesture


Question: 'It was only in the spring that Izzy Sharp created this luxury chain by opening his first hotel in Toronto in 1961'

Answer: The Four Seasons


Question: '"More Than A Feeling",<br />"Amanda"'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader"'

Answer: Imam


Question: 'This government agency to the rescue'

Answer: the Federal Emergency Management Agency


Question: 'A narrative song of folk origin, from an old Provencal word for "dancing-song"'

Answer: ballad


Question: 'Begin to sprout<br />(9)'

Answer: germinate


Question: 'To find out who was the better game player, Chris Haney & Scott Abbot created this '80s phenomenon'

Answer: Trivial Pursuit


Question: '"Ventura Highway",<br />"A Horse With No Name"'

Answer: America


Question: '(I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president'

Answer: (Kenneth) Starr


Question: 'In 1960, Iraq co-founded this association'

Answer: the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries


Question: 'This Romanian has so mastered the pan flute that he's been called "the reincarnation of the god pan"'

Answer: Zamfir


Question: 'The science of good eating<br />(10)'

Answer: gastronomy


Question: 'This 2000 medal of freedom-winning economist & adviser to JFK wrote "The Affluent Society"'

Answer: Galbraith


Question: '"The Final Countdown",<br />"Carrie"'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case'

Answer: Gideon\'s Trumpet


Question: 'This labor organization should be coming into focus'

Answer: the Service Employees International Union


Question: 'This baroque composer must have been in a fugue state when he wrote his "giant fugue" in 1739'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'Little by little<br />(9)'

Answer: gradually


Question: 'Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines'

Answer: Marlon Brando


Question: 'Rembrandt sold paintings from his anteroom, usually meeting clients with a chilled glass of this potent potable'

Answer: wine


Question: 'This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker'

Answer: a rake


Question: 'Mario Lanza & Fabian are among those from this directional part of Philadelphia known for its Italian flavor'

Answer: South Philly


Question: 'This artist was born in Figueras, Spain on May 11, 1904 & died there on Jan. 23, 1989'

Answer: (Salvador) Dalí


Question: 'Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda & Jimmy Stewart won Oscars when starring with this lady'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'A tunable laser is one that can be manipulated into emitting its beam over a continuous range of frequencies'

Answer: tuna (in tunable)


Question: 'In 1966 this Russian painted a pair of large murals for the opening of the NYC's Metropolitan Opera House'

Answer: Marc Chagall


Question: 'This portable motor-driven tool used to cut wood was employed in a Texas massacre (on film)'

Answer: a chainsaw


Question: 'Its capital has moved about 750 miles inland from Karachi to Rawalpindi to Islamabad'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Madonna drooled over this Spanish-born actor in the 1991 documentary "Truth or Dare"'

Answer: Banderas


Question: 'In "Honeymoon in Vegas", poker player James Caan wins a weekend with Nicolas Cage's girl, played by her'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'Woodwind instruments include the oboe, clarinet & bassoon'

Answer: bass (in bassoon)


Question: 'In this Brit's etching "Myself and My Heroes", he pictured himself with Walt Whitman & Mahatma Gandhi'

Answer: David Hockney


Question: 'The working tools of a blacksmith include a bellows, a hammer & one of these sturdy, iron hammering blocks'

Answer: an anvil


Question: 'To cool off, a seal on the Pribilof Islands can take a dip in this body of water named for a person'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Toledo, Spain.) This great Spanish writer was a soldier, slave & tax collector before publishing his most famous work'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'His many roles have ranged from villain to Jesus'

Answer: Willem Dafoe


Question: 'Cortisone shots or wrist splints are some of the treatments recommended for carpal tunnel syndrome'

Answer: carp (in carpal)


Question: 'In the late 1700s this painter of the "The Family of Charles IV" created designs for tapestries in Madrid'

Answer: Goya


Question: 'From old French for "maul", it's a large wooden hammer with 2 flat faces'

Answer: a mallet


Question: 'Tierra del Fuego is separated from South America by this strait'

Answer: the Strait of Magellan


Question: 'This Castilian military leader & national hero is also known as "El Campeador"'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'Jose Ferrer in 1952 & John Leguizamo in 2001 played this artist'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'The techniques for jujitsu were codified in the late 19th century when samurai were forbidden to carry swords'

Answer: cod (in codified)


Question: 'In 1874 this American moved permanently to France where she developed a friendship with Edgar Degas'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'This term for forceps or pliers also refers to little kids'

Answer: nippers


Question: 'This Florida city was named in 1909 in hopes it would attract canal traffic from Central America'

Answer: Panama City


Question: 'This Jewish philosopher, rabbi & doctor was born in Cordoba in 1135; his family left the city around 1159'

Answer: Maimonides


Question: 'Kate Winslet was Ophelia to Branagh's Hamlet & she was Ophelia to Mel Gibson's'

Answer: Helena Bonham Carter


Question: '"To sleep! Perchance to dream: Ay, there's the rub" is a famous line from a Shakespeare soliloquy'

Answer: perch (in Perchance)


Question: 'Harry Burt was the man who in 1920 created this famous ice cream bar on a stick'

Answer: a Good Humor bar


Question: 'In July 1990 this Russian president stunned his country by resigning from the Communist Party'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'At the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, a 35'-long replica of one of these "tyrant lizards" actually moves & roars'

Answer: a Tyrannosaurus rex


Question: 'Exiting the Lunar Module, Pete Conrad said, "Whoopie!... That may have been a small one for" him "but that's a long one for me"'

Answer: Armstrong


Question: 'Billie's first recording session featured jazz legends Gene Krupa & this "King of Swing" bandleader'

Answer: Benny Goodman


Question: 'A lychee is a rough-shelled red fruit given as a good-luck charm for the New Year in this country of its origin'

Answer: China


Question: 'In 1927 he grossed an estimated $105 million, most of it derived from bootlegging'

Answer: Capone


Question: 'In the early 1700s he gave books & other goods to Connecticut's Collegiate School, which was later named for him'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'Vegas Vic is the name of the famous neon sign depicting one of these men; it has lit up Vegas for half a century'

Answer: a cowboy


Question: 'He may have been second to walk on the moon but he's the guy MTV modeled the "Moon Man" VMA trophy after'

Answer: Buzz Aldrin


Question: 'In 1939 "Lady Day" began a long engagement at Cafe Society, a club in this NYC haven for poets & artists'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: 'Missionaries discovered this plant, whose flowers resemble a crown of thorns, in South America'

Answer: the passion fruit


Question: 'Like audiences today, 1920s filmgoers roared at the antics of this comedian seen here'

Answer: Buster Keaton


Question: 'For capturing a German machine gun nest in WWI, he was awarded the medal of honor'

Answer: Sergeant York


Question: 'You can get really close to Brad Pitt at the Vegas version of this world-famous wax museum'

Answer: Madame Tussaud\'s


Question: 'Apollo missions 7-10 were not designed for moon landings; this mission was, but did not'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'In 1939 Billie's "Strange Fruit" got her picture in this newsmagazine, which called the song NAACP propaganda'

Answer: Time


Question: 'The kumquat's name comes from words meaning "golden" this fruit'

Answer: orange


Question: 'The leasing of government-owned oil reserves to private parties in the 1920s caused this notorious scandal'

Answer: Teapot Dome


Question: 'On May 8, 1899 the Irish Literary Theatre opened with his play "The Countess Cathleen"'

Answer: Yeats


Question: 'In a balloon, the Wizard of Oz once hovered over this hotel's main casino'

Answer: the MGM Grand


Question: 'The USA's first man in space, he cracked a 6-iron golf shot "miles & miles" on the moon 10 years later'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: 'In 1933 John Hammond signed her to this record company that shares its name with a state capital'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'The cherimoya's name comes from Quechua, a language spoken by the native peoples of Bolivia & this nation'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'They received life sentences plus 99 years for the kidnap & murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks'

Answer: Leopold & Loeb


Question: 'The architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was later killed when the Allies shot down his plane'

Answer: Yamamoto


Question: 'Shark Reef, seen here, is a jaw-dropping attraction at this hotel-casino, whose name makes us think of Burma'

Answer: Mandalay Bay


Question: 'On April 12, 1981 John Young (Moon, Class of '72) became the first to command one of these vehicles'

Answer: a Space Shuttle


Question: 'With this signature song subtitled "(Oh, Where Can You Be)", Billie helped pioneer her new sound at Decca'

Answer: "Lover Man"


Question: 'The mangosteen is a strange fruit: the rind contains tannins which are used for dyeing this material'

Answer: leather


Question: '"Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634'

Answer: Johannes Kepler


Question: '(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In my first address to the State Department, I said U.S. foreign policy stands on 3 legs: defense, development & this one for which State is responsible'

Answer: diplomacy


Question: 'In "The Ballad Of" these 2, they were getting "married in Gibraltar"; you know it ain't easy'

Answer: John and Yoko (Ono)


Question: 'This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'Though it sounds like it, this type of massage was not developed in Stockholm'

Answer: Swedish massage


Question: 'Thespian'

Answer: an actor


Question: 'The misty fog left behind by President Rutherford B.'

Answer: Hayes haze


Question: '(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In March 2009 I got the chance to meet with a female counterpart, Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, when I visited this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '"In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass and in his pocket is a portrait of" this gal; go figure'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'Novel that says, "Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight"'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'You can't beat a circular saw from this "man"ly brand of power tools from Sears'

Answer: Craftsman


Question: 'Lexicographer'

Answer: a dictionary writer


Question: 'The semicircular path taken by a biblical boat'

Answer: an ark arc


Question: '(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)  In 1781, the State Department's precursor, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established for the purpose of "friendly correspondence" with other nations by this legislature'

Answer: the 2nd Continental Congress


Question: 'In "Revolution" "if you go carrying pictures of" this guy "you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"'

Answer: Chairman Mao


Question: 'This character says, "Having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Daniel Craig's James Bond wears the Seamaster, a watch from this Greek letter company'

Answer: Omega


Question: 'Philatelist'

Answer: a stamp collector


Question: 'An undecorated aircraft'

Answer: a plain plane


Question: '(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)  After the 1995 Conference on Women, I co-founded Vital Voices, a non-governmental organization that promotes female leadership, along with this first female Secretary of State'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'From 1964 to 1976 Mr. Wilson & Mr. Heath, mentioned in "Taxman", held this post in England'

Answer: prime minister


Question: 'He wrote in "Rabbit is Rich", "We are cruel enough without meaning to be"'

Answer: John Updike


Question: 'Forget the GV; I want the G550 large-cabin ultra-range jet from this company'

Answer: Gulfstream


Question: 'Ichthyologist'

Answer: a scientist who studies fish


Question: 'Motionless writing paper'

Answer: stationary stationery


Question: '(Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)  The State Department is responsible for treaties, & one of the most important is this one that helps control the spread of nuclear arms, NPT for short'

Answer: the Non-Proliferation Treaty


Question: '"Man, you should have seen them kicking" this American poet in "I Am The Walrus"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'This novel begins, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up"'

Answer: On the Road


Question: 'How about a made to measure suit from the collezioni of this designer born in Piacenza, Italy in 1934'

Answer: Giorgio Armani


Question: 'Terpsichorean'

Answer: someone who dances


Question: 'An infant wildebeest'

Answer: a new gnu


Question: 'In 1861 this "La Traviata" composer became a member of the first Italian Parliament'

Answer: Verdi


Question: '"The Ten Commandments"<br />(1956)'

Answer: De Mille


Question: 'You can smell like Dr. McDreamy with Unscripted, an Avon fragrance created by this actor'

Answer: Patrick Dempsey


Question: 'You have to descend 25,000 feet in this sea to reach the bottom of the Cayman Trench'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: 'Ferociously fast falcon type'

Answer: a peregrine falcon


Question: 'It's also been called the great white bear'

Answer: the polar bear


Question: 'Gianandrea Gavazzeni was best known for his nearly 50 years of conducting at this opera house in Milan'

Answer: La Scala


Question: '"Family Plot"<br />(1976)'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'For the swashbuckler in you, there's this classic scent that bears the name of a musketeer'

Answer: Aramis


Question: 'This sea, part of the Pacific, is divided by Taiwan into East & South parts'

Answer: the China Sea


Question: 'This derisive nickname for a non-Spanish speaker may come from the Spanish word for "Greek"'

Answer: gringo


Question: 'The only bear of the Southern Hemisphere is the spectacled bear, found mostly in these mountains'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'Hard tellin' why, after 1829's "William Tell", he wrote no more operas the last 39 years of his life'

Answer: Rossini


Question: '"A Prairie Home Companion"<br />(2006)'

Answer: Robert Altman


Question: 'I've been fixated on this 9-letter Calvin Klein scent ever since it hit fragrance counters in the 1980s'

Answer: Obsession


Question: 'Bordered by Romania to the west, it's called Marea Neagra in Romanian'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'All usages of this word meaning "spoilsport" trace to Dr. Seuss' 1957 book'

Answer: a Grinch


Question: 'The honey bear of India & Sri Lanka is also known as this bear for its verrrrrrrrry slow movements'

Answer: the sloth bear


Question: 'His last opera, "Turandot", was first performed 2 years after his death; Franco Alfano finished it for him'

Answer: Puccini


Question: '"Curly Sue"<br />(1991)'

Answer: John Hughes


Question: 'The name of this classic scent from Nina Ricci is French for "the air of time"'

Answer: L\'Air du Temps


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier in the Netherlands.)  Projects like the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier with its 800-foot doors prevent inundation of the Western or Low Netherlands by this sea'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'It's what many New Englanders call a hero sandwich'

Answer: a grinder


Question: 'The "clan" of this extinct bear variety, Ursus spelaeus, lived in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch'

Answer: the cave bear


Question: 'In 1907, he recorded his "I Pagliacci", the first complete opera to be recorded in Italy'

Answer: Leoncavallo


Question: '"The Dead"<br />(1987)'

Answer: John Huston


Question: 'There's no mistaking this company's Brit fragrance; it has a distinct check pattern on the bottle & the box'

Answer: Burberry


Question: 'The Strait of Otranto links this arm of the Mediterranean with the Ionian Sea'

Answer: the Adriatic


Question: 'To my this, I'll have this strong feeling of embarrassment if you fail to respond'

Answer: chagrin


Question: 'Also a name of an Alaskan island, this bear variety is one of the largest carnivores on Earth'

Answer: the Kodiak


Question: 'Its creator said its parts represent our nation's founding, expansion, development & preservation'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'Germane to your answer is this German, credited with making good use of his organ in the work heard here'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: '"This is rock and roll!  Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ!"'

Answer: Good Morning, Vietnam


Question: 'An airport in Queens is named for this son of an Italian bandmaster in the U.S. Army'

Answer: LaGuardia


Question: 'This country is about 2,700 miles long & averages 110 miles wide'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'In 1839 Kirkpatrick Macmillan added pedals to a draisienne, producing the first one of these'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'To a cop, B&E is short for this'

Answer: breaking & entering


Question: '3-word title of the celebratory composition heard here'

Answer: "Pomp And Circumstance"


Question: '"My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flashes"'

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire


Question: 'In 1932 Chou En-Lai succeeded this man as political commissar of the Red Army'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung