Question: 'The name of this son of Jacob means "Son of the right hand"'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'While Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", this state is his birthplace'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'In 1977, Edwin Land and this Kodak camera developer entered the National Inventors Hall of Fame'

Answer: George Eastman


Question: 'Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper'

Answer: Porgy and Bess


Question: 'From a French phrase for "mobile hospital", it's a vehicle for transporting the sick or injured'

Answer: Ambulance


Question: 'This precious stone is crystalline carbon'

Answer: Diamond


Question: 'It's an alphabetical llist of terms, names, and facts, along with the page numbers they appear on'

Answer: Index


Question: 'He was the only president to obtain one of these; it was for a hydraulic device to lift ships over shoals'

Answer: Patent


Question: 'Named for John Chapman, this award is given to pioneers in agriculture'

Answer: Johnny Appleseed Award


Question: 'Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress'

Answer: La bohème


Question: 'The corous triumphalis was one of these vehicles that victorious Roman generals rode into the city'

Answer: Chariot


Question: 'This aluminum ore was discovered at Le Bau, France'

Answer: Bauxite


Question: 'Related books you may also want to read on the same subject are provided in this source list'

Answer: Bibliography


Question: 'In 1858 Lincoln ran against this man for the U.S. Senate, but lost by a vote of 54 to 46'

Answer: Stephen Douglas


Question: 'In 1895, Louis Pasteur received this country's Leeuvenhoek Medal for microscope research'

Answer: The Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'This "Lohengrin" composer's first opera, "Die Fein", wasn't performed until 1888, five years after his death'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'In 1994, British Airways found and repaired hairline cracks in the wings of these jets that crack the sound barrier'

Answer: Concorde


Question: 'You'll find stalactites and stalagmites in caverns made of various types of this sedimentary rock'

Answer: Limestone


Question: 'In the back of a geometry book, you may find these lists of trigonometric ratios or square roots'

Answer: Tables


Question: 'In 1832 during Lincoln's brief service in this Indian conflict, he was elected captain of his volunteer company'

Answer: Black Hawk War


Question: 'In 1974 this company was recognized by the Fragrance Foundation for its new "Charlie" perfume'

Answer: Revlon


Question: '"Savitre", by this composer of "The Planets", is based on an episode in "The Mahabarata"'

Answer: Holst


Question: 'Add two letters to the end of sled and you get this synonym'

Answer: Sledge


Question: 'Since it doesn't transmit an eathquake's S-waves, scientists believe this must be partly liquid'

Answer: Earth\'s Core


Question: 'From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions'

Answer: Glossary


Question: 'It's the play Lincoln was attending the night he was assassinated'

Answer: Our American Cousin


Question: 'In 1975 this physicist became the first citizen of the Soviet Union to win the Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Andrei Sakharov


Question: 'Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'It's a streetcar or bus that runs on electricity supplied by an overhead wire'

Answer: Trolley


Question: 'The process of coalification runs from peat to this type of coal'

Answer: Anthracite


Question: 'It's the supplementary information put into the book after the initial publication'

Answer: Addendum


Question: 'Though he spent most of his life in Europe, he was governor of the Bahamas for most of World War II'

Answer: Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor


Question: 'This inventor's Feb. 7, 1804 birth made William & Sarah his plowed, er, proud parents'

Answer: John Deere


Question: 'A popular exhibit at the Hall of Fame is the actual cornfield used on this "corny" TV show'

Answer: Hee Haw


Question: 'If you know that El Castillo del Morro looms over this city's harbor, have a cigar'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'Sip some port while lounging on the port side of a ship in one of these chairs named for part of a ship'

Answer: a deck chair


Question: 'Babies' bottoms can rest a little easier with Balmex, a diaper rash ointment made by "JNJ", this company'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: 'A group of commuters traveling together in one vehicle'

Answer: a carpool


Question: 'In 1804 Rhode Island College was renamed this'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'Before getting "On The Road Again", he donated a blue bandana & a pair of sneakers to the Hall'

Answer: Willie Nelson


Question: '(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.)  A few years after I graduated from Yale, I spent 5 months studying Vietnamese at the University of this world capital'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'If you want to be crowned King of England, this rock has to be in your coronation chair'

Answer: the Stone of Scone


Question: 'Let's see... I need a new hot tub, insulation, a belt sander & some 2x4s; time to head over the "HD", this company'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'A rapidly rotating current of water'

Answer: whirlpool


Question: 'Napoleon, who once remarked, "It is with baubles that men are led", presided over the first presentation of this in 1804'

Answer: Legion of Honor


Question: 'This inductee and one-time San Quentin inmate has his pardon from Governor Reagan displayed at the Hall'

Answer: Merle Haggard


Question: 'There are many places to buy pesos in this capital's Benito Juarez Airport'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'A Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair with a back often shaped like one of these'

Answer: a balloon


Question: 'If you enjoy squeezing its Charmin, you can thank this company, "PG"'

Answer: Procter & Gamble


Question: 'An underground container for sewage'

Answer: cesspool


Question: 'A 2004 biography of this president born November 23, 1804 is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son"'

Answer: Franklin Pierce


Question: 'The Country Music Hall of Fame has a dress made & worn by this Kentucky-born singer as a 14-year-old newlywed'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'It's difficult, but try picturing George Bernard Shaw as a baby when you visit his birthplace in this world capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Don't "DIS" this company, though shareholders did just that when 43% voted against its CEO at the '04 annual meeting'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'English port city on the Mersey River'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'This British chemist took his last breath of oxygen Feb. 6, 1804'

Answer: (Joseph) Priestley


Question: 'This "Singing Brakeman" was in the first group of performers inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame'

Answer: Jimmie Rodgers


Question: 'This city on Honshu Island was once the capital of Japan, & its name means "capital city"'

Answer: Kyoto


Question: 'IBM (stock symbol IBM) is short for this'

Answer: International Business Machines


Question: 'A military installation's centrally managed group of vehicles intended for the use of personnel'

Answer: the motor pool


Question: 'Around 1915 Debussy composed 12 etudes in memory of this Polish-French composer'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'The starch in a British meal might be a "jacket", or baked, one of these'

Answer: a potato


Question: 'Around 1550 the British called the Spanish arquebuses "calivers", a corruption of this word'

Answer: caliber


Question: 'In a real spoiler, the prologue of this play says that "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'Double feature companion to the main attraction'

Answer: a B movie


Question: 'He designed a steam-powered submarine as well as the steam-powered Clermont'

Answer: Fulton


Question: 'Beethoven's father tried to promote him as a child prodigy, like this Salzburg-born genius'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'Jack the Ripper is Cockney rhyming slang for this breakfast favorite'

Answer: kippers


Question: 'In the 19th century Sir William Congreve turned a pyrotechnic device into one of these red-glaring weapons'

Answer: a rocket


Question: 'This tragic title character's first words are "So foul and fair a day I have not seen"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Cobalamine or pyridoxine or riboflavin'

Answer: vitamin B


Question: 'This first lady christened the first U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus'

Answer: Mamie Eisenhower


Question: '"The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this "Appalachian Spring" composer'

Answer: Copland


Question: '"Digestive biscuits" is British for these crackers we named after an American'

Answer: Graham crackers


Question: 'Introduced in World War I, the Mills bomb was actually one of these flung weapons'

Answer: a grenade


Question: 'Caius Marcius, a Roman general, receives this name after capturing the city of Corioli'

Answer: Coriolanus


Question: 'Symbol for 1.094 yards'

Answer: m (for meter)


Question: 'The U.S. Naval Submarine School is located in Groton in this state'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'This Austrian composer's Symphony No. 8 is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand"'

Answer: (Gustav) Mahler


Question: 'John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word'

Answer: cornmeal


Question: 'A British weapon during WWI had a cover name of "Water-closet for Russia", which became water-this, then just this'

Answer: tank


Question: 'The Bard's version of this Trojan prince's death "Troilus and Cressida" has him killed by the Myrmidons'

Answer: Hector


Question: 'International vehicle I.D. for you & your car if you're both Walloons'

Answer: B (for Belgium)


Question: 'The historical claim to fame of the German submarine known as U-20 was this action on May 7, 1915'

Answer: sinking the Lusitania


Question: 'He supervised a 1907 phonograph recording of his own "Pagliacci"'

Answer: Leoncavallo


Question: 'A fruit's seeds become these in Britain, like Sherlock Holmes' case of the "Five Orange" ones'

Answer: pips


Question: 'The name of this short-barreled cannon goes back to the Czech houfnice, "slingshot"'

Answer: a howitzer


Question: 'Shylock asks Bassanio, "What news on" this commercial heart of Venice?'

Answer: the Rialto


Question: 'Subatomic particle referred to as an intermediate vector boson'

Answer: a W boson


Question: 'For his work in developing nuclear-powered subs, this admiral was known as the "Father of the Atomic Submarine"'

Answer: Hyman Rickover


Question: 'Of the Social Security Administration's top 10 boys' names in 2000, the 2, ending in the same letter, on a list of the 12 Apostles'

Answer: Matthew & Andrew


Question: 'In the Netherlands:<br />this'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'This 25-year-old golfer holds the tournament records for low scores at the Masters, U.S. Open & British Open'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'In an orchestra, horns like the trumpets & trombones belong to this section of instruments'

Answer: brass


Question: 'Coal & crow are shades of this color'

Answer: black


Question: 'This African river's drainage basin, the world's longest, covers 35 degrees of latitude'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'In law, when you're doing something that's offensive to the community, you're a public this'

Answer: nuisance


Question: 'In Bolivia:<br />Quechua, Aymara & this'

Answer: Spanish


Question: '(Hi, I'm Charles Barkley)  In 1993 I was named the league's MVP while with this team whose name reflects its year-round tropical climate'

Answer: Phoenix Suns


Question: 'Praise the Lord!  This Handel oratorio includes the famous "Hallelujah Chorus"'

Answer: "The Messiah"


Question: 'Barbie's boy toy, in March 2001 he celebrated his 40th birthday'

Answer: Ken


Question: 'In area this Canadian bay is more than 3 times as large as all the Great Lakes combined'

Answer: Hudson Bay


Question: 'NBA team that makes its home at 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, Colorado'

Answer: Denver Nuggets


Question: 'In Lebanon:<br />French & this'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'Known as "The Intimidator", he was killed in a tragic accident on the final lap of the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18, 2001'

Answer: Dale Earnhardt, Sr.


Question: 'Popular in the early 1900s, it's the style of music & piano playing heard here'

Answer: ragtime


Question: 'The Girl Scout badge seen here represents fun with this machine'

Answer: computer


Question: 'At the point where it enters the Caspian Sea, this Russian river is 92 feet below sea level'

Answer: the Volga


Question: 'Referring to the things going on at a marriage ceremony, they may be impending'

Answer: nuptials


Question: 'In the Bahamas:<br />this'

Answer: English


Question: 'This Green Bay Packers quarterback was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player 3 years in a row, 1995-97'

Answer: Brett Favre


Question: 'Italian for "in chapel style", it's the term for singing without instrumental accompaniment'

Answer: a cappella


Question: 'The barn variety of this bird doesn't give a hoot, but rather a raspy, hissing screech'

Answer: owl


Question: 'Colombia's Gulf of Uraba is the southernmost extremity of this sea'

Answer: the Caribbean Sea


Question: 'Meaning "stupid", it's how Moe referred to Larry or Curly'

Answer: numbskull


Question: 'In Tanzania:<br />English & this'

Answer: Swahili


Question: 'In 2000 Stacy Dragila set a women's world record in this track & field event: 15 feet, 2 1/4 inches'

Answer: pole vault


Question: 'He composed the holiday favorite heard here'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'Seen here is a Byzantine mosaic of this pope & apostle'

Answer: St. Peter


Question: 'Large banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found on this gulf's western shore on the Arabian Peninsula'

Answer: Persian Gulf


Question: 'It's a family group of a father, mother & children (not necessarily radioactive)'

Answer: nuclear family


Question: 'On July 4, 1776 this head of the Army was in New York preparing for a British attack'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'A college student in real life, Zhang Ziyi played the daughter of a nobleman in this 2000 film'

Answer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


Question: 'In 1863:<br />Edwin Stanton'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'A name for a class of French fighter jets comes from this term meaning a desert optical illusion'

Answer: Mirage


Question: 'This poem begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..."'

Answer: "The Raven"


Question: 'It's the type of speech Al Gore gave about a month after George W. Bush wanted to hear it'

Answer: concession speech


Question: 'The musical "1776" includes the song "Sit Down, John", addressed to this gabby guy from Massachusetts'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'The Aussie teen film "Blackrock" introduced this young hunk who played Mel Gibson's son in "The Patriot"'

Answer: Heath Ledger


Question: 'In 1812:<br />William Eustis'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'Originally flown August 27, 1939, the world's first jet plane was the Heinkel He 178 from this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'He coined the words "brillig", "slithy" & "mimsy" in "Jabberwocky"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'By definition, it's an injury to the brain caused by a jarring blow'

Answer: concussion


Question: 'Army doctor Benjamin Rush believed in the "depletion" of this, sometimes removing 80% of it from a patient'

Answer: blood


Question: 'The new Broadway musical "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" features Kristen Bell as this young lady'

Answer: Becky Thatcher


Question: 'In 1916:<br />Newton Diehl Baker'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Weighing over 315 tons, the 747 made by this company is the world's largest commercial jet'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'The poetry of Attila Jozsef, immortalizing his washerwoman mother, is a monument of this language'

Answer: Hungarian


Question: 'Brief,<br />7 letters'

Answer: concise


Question: 'Samuel "Bacon Face" Chase became a justice of this 20 years after signing the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'Heather Headley, seen here, won a Tony Award in 2000 for playing the title role in this Elton John musical'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'In 1801:<br />Henry Dearborn'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Occuring at high altitudes, it's the jet engine by-product seen here'

Answer: vapor trail


Question: 'He wrote "Song of the Broad-Axe" & "Song of Myself"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'It's been said "The opposite of progress" is this 535-member D.C. institution'

Answer: Congress


Question: 'The last hour of this patriot is seen here'

Answer: Nathan Hale


Question: 'Jena Malone played fledgling astronomer Ellie Arroway in this 1997 film; Jodie Foster played Ellie as an adult'

Answer: Contact


Question: 'In 1947:<br />Kenneth C. Royall'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Once flown by Francis Gary Powers, it's the famous U.S. reconnaissance jet of the '50s & '60s seen here'

Answer: U-2


Question: '"The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality" is a famous line from a poem by this woman'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'This style of cuisine includes the better-known dishes of various western European nations'

Answer: continental


Question: 'Of 60 battles fought in the U.S. Civil War, 55 were commanded on both sides by graduates of this school'

Answer: United States Military Academy (West Point)


Question: 'One of the signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence, she became prime minister in 1969'

Answer: Golda Meir


Question: 'Now that you're flush, consider the "whole life" type of this, unless you're planning to die soon'

Answer: Insurance


Question: 'The apartment complex located at 4616 on this title L.A. street is home to some "FOX"y ladies'

Answer: Melrose Place


Question: 'It's "The shortest distance between two points"'

Answer: Straight line


Question: 'You can see a miniature replica of this city's Forbidden City at Splendid China, a park in Kissimmee'

Answer: Peking/Beijing


Question: 'During my long relationship with Woody Allen, I starred in 13 of his films'

Answer: Mia Farrow


Question: 'Before designing the first successful steamboat, he worked as a portrait painter'

Answer: Robert Fulton


Question: 'To minimize your risk, buy these "colorful" stocks in established, reliable companies'

Answer: Blue chips


Question: '"Promised Land" with Gerald McRaney is a spinoff of this heavenly CBS series'

Answer: Touched by an Angel


Question: 'It's where something embarrassing is swept'

Answer: Under the rug/carpet


Question: 'The "Terrors of the Deep" attraction at this park might even scare Shamu'

Answer: Sea World


Question: 'From 1961 to 1964, I invited TV home viewers to "Sing Along With" me'

Answer: Mitch Miller


Question: 'This "Nine Days' Queen" of England was a granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary'

Answer: Lady Jane Grey


Question: 'Don't blow your money on Hanson CDs (compact discs), put it in one of these bank CDs'

Answer: Certificates of Deposit


Question: 'He's played Pete Ryan, Alexander Mundy & Jonathan Hart'

Answer: Robert Wagner


Question: 'Pool table piece you don't want to be "behind"'

Answer: The 8 ball


Question: 'The Cypress Roots Museum traces the history of this famous floral site'

Answer: Cypress Gardens


Question: 'In 1505 I was summoned by Pope Julius II to create his tomb'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'This redshirts leader led his final campaign when he fought for France in the Franco-Prussian War'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'The new Roth type of this "account" allows tax-free withdrawals when you're in your 60s'

Answer: IRA (Individual Retirement Account)


Question: '(Hi, I'm Julie Pinson)  "Port Charles" is a spin-off from this soap that's also set in Port Charles'

Answer: General Hospital


Question: 'Shifting your debts is "Robbing Peter to pay" this saint'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'For years Gomek the giant crocodile was the big attraction at this oldest Florida city's alligator farm'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'Since leaving Czechoslovakia, I've directed films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & "Amadeus"'

Answer: Milos Forman


Question: 'Guess what?  This Cherokee who devised an alphabet took the English name George Guess'

Answer: Sequoya


Question: 'If buying corporate mutual bonds, you should know this is Moody's highest rating'

Answer: AAA


Question: 'After NBC canceled this Sam Waterston series in 1993, PBS produced a movie to wrap up its loose ends'

Answer: I\'ll Fly Away


Question: 'Alexander Pope criticized these who claimed to be authorities with "Fools rush in where angels" do this'

Answer: Fear to tread


Question: 'The Wallendas' poles, rigging & costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city'

Answer: Sarasota


Question: 'You can hear me doing what I did best in the following:<br />(playing his trumpet)'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question: 'The mouthpiece of an oboe contains a double one'

Answer: Reed


Question: 'Huck, as in Huck Finn, is short for this'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'Leonard Maltin said this '84 mermaid film was "A bit too long, but...I really don't want to carp"'

Answer: Splash


Question: 'For his books on the Cossacks of the Don River Mikhail Sholokhov won this top prize in 1965'

Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature


Question: 'After this bird rose up from its ashes, it would gather them into a ball & fly them to Egypt'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'Most members of an ant colony are these, as opposed to resters'

Answer: Workers


Question: 'A flamenco dancer should also be accomplished on these percussion instruments'

Answer: Castanets


Question: 'He gave Charlie a tour of his chocolate factory'

Answer: Willy Wonka


Question: 'As Eliot Ness, Kevin Costner cleaned up the mess in Chicago in this 1987 film'

Answer: The Untouchables


Question: 'While there were a few mechanized units, the Cossacks in WWII mainly served in these units'

Answer: Cavalry


Question: 'The name of Agni, the Hindi fire god, gave us this word meaning "to start a fire"'

Answer: Ignite/ignition


Question: 'Like termites, ants are this type of insect, not solitary'

Answer: Social


Question: 'Heard here & in a 1997 film, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band is this type of "heavy metal" band:'

Answer: Brass band


Question: '1938 Daphne Du Maurier novel in which you find the second Mrs. De Winter of our discontent'

Answer: "Rebecca"


Question: 'Robin Williams "sail"ed into movie stardom as this title character in a Robert Altman film'

Answer: Popeye


Question: 'For a while the city of Kharkiv, founded as a Cossack outpost, replaced Kiev as capital of this republic'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'When Phaeton borrowed his dad Helios' chariot, he was joy-riding on this heavenly body'

Answer: Sun


Question: 'If you want a mound built to damage farm machinery, "hire" these ants'

Answer: Fire ants


Question: 'It's played tilted back on the right shoulder; the shortest of the 47 strings are closest to the body'

Answer: Harp


Question: 'This author felt he had no choice but to create Sophie Zawistowska'

Answer: William Styron


Question: 'It's the last name of the politician played by Paul Newman in the clip seen here:'

Answer: (Earl) Long (from the movie "Blaze")


Question: 'In 1992 this Russian president granted the Cossacks the status of an ethnic group'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'Siegfried discovered this woman asleep in a ring of fire'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'Amazon ants become masters when they steal the young from other nests & make them these'

Answer: Slaves


Question: 'Popularized by Lionel Hampton, you have to plug it in first'

Answer: Vibraphone/vibes


Question: 'Where's Mr. Waldo?  In this Welsh poet's "Under Milk Wood"'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'This offbeat director cast himself as a nutty psychiatrist in his own film "Hairspray"'

Answer: John Waters


Question: 'The name Cossack comes from "Kazak", a word in this language that also gave us the word yogurt'

Answer: Turkish


Question: 'Apollo tells this Roman blacksmith god that Venus is cheating on him, in the painting seen here:'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'The extinct passenger pigeon & this African army ant are both known for moving in huge swarms'

Answer: Driver ants


Question: 'In 1814 & 1815, before he was president, he served simultaneously as Sec. of State & Sec. of War'

Answer: James Monroe (under President Madison)


Question: 'John Quincy Adams used to skinny dip in this river that runs through Washington, D.C.'

Answer: the Potomac


Question: 'Tina Fey knew she had a look-alike when her child saw this politician on TV & said, "That's Mommy"'

Answer: Sarah Palin


Question: 'For letter-writers of any age ND and SD are the postal abbreviations of these 2 states'

Answer: South Dakota & North Dakota


Question: 'You won my heart when you knew this is 85 minus 21'

Answer: 64


Question: 'This chain known for its conveyor belts full of hot glazed donuts opened its first store in North Carolina in 1937'

Answer: Krispy Kreme


Question: 'It's hard to show some backbone if you're classified as this type of creature that lacks one'

Answer: an invertebrate


Question: 'Put on your croc repellent if you swim in this river as it passes through Khartoum'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'At wedding receptions, this actor slips the DJ money to not play "Footloose"; folks form a circle & want him to dance'

Answer: Kevin Bacon


Question: 'When played in a minefield, the game of tag endangers this 2-letter word, the player chasing the others'

Answer: it


Question: 'You drive me wild when you tell me it's 51 minus 14'

Answer: 37


Question: 'This Mass.-based donut chain says that if its yearly output were lined end to end, it'd circle the Earth 5.8 times'

Answer: Dunkin\' Donuts


Question: 'On many reality shows, the winner of a challenge may be granted this, making him or her safe until the next episode'

Answer: immunity


Question: 'You can bank on the fact that this river runs through Paris, dividing it into "left" "right" sections'

Answer: the Seine


Question: 'Seen here, he hit the Top 40 with an autobiographical song about being mistaken for Bruce Springsteen'

Answer: Rick Springfield


Question: 'A gendarme has this job in France'

Answer: police officer


Question: 'Whisper in my ear this result of 253 minus 61'

Answer: 192


Question: 'A familiar sight in TV & movies is the giant donut at Manchester and La Cienega boulevards, blocks from this international airport'

Answer: LAX


Question: 'Until proven otherwise, in the title of a Sue Grafton novel "I Is for..."'

Answer: innocent


Question: 'In the U.S., this river runs through the cities of Sioux City & St. Joseph'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: 'In 2002 this New Orleans pianist & singer patented a device that lets musicians read the score off computer screens'

Answer: Harry Connick, Jr.


Question: 'Magen David Adom is this country's Red Cross'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'Tell me what I long to hear: 315 minus 213'

Answer: 102


Question: 'To celebrate this movie's DVD release, fans in Australia built a 20-foot, 7,000-lb. "D'oh"nut'

Answer: The Simpsons Movie


Question: 'Divided into 24 books or sections, it ends with Hector's funeral'

Answer: the Iliad


Question: 'You can have a light beer as you stroll along this river in Amsterdam'

Answer: the Amstel


Question: 'His first name means "gift from God", and his last name means "the beef"; he says his name means "thank God for beef"'

Answer: Shia LaBeouf


Question: 'An I, an N & a G end a verb that functions as a noun & is grammatically called this'

Answer: a gerund


Question: 'We'll have a happy ending if you know it's what's subtracted from the minuend'

Answer: the subtrahend


Question: 'He was among the first to use the word, in an 1809 reference to a N.Y. Dutch treat of sweet dough fried in hog fat'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'This 3-letter disease of tropical fishes sounds really yucky'

Answer: ich


Question: 'In the '70s this Secretary of State taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: '"Everybody Loves ____"'

Answer: Raymond


Question: '"How do I love thee?"<br />L.M.C.T.W.'

Answer: Let me count the ways


Question: 'Giotto's realistic technique revolutionized painting & was a strong influence on this art era of the 1400s'

Answer: the Renaissance


Question: 'Sometimes called the K.I.S.S. principle, it's also the title of a Judge Judy book'

Answer: keep it simple, stupid


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew builds her own fuzzy puppet at FAO Schwarz in New York.)  At FAO Schwarz, you can channel Jim Henson when you customize a Whatnot from the world of these creatures first seen in 1954'

Answer: Muppets


Question: 'This Secretary of Defense was also the youngest-ever director of the CIA'

Answer: (Robert) Gates


Question: '"According to ____"'

Answer: Jim


Question: '"Take thy beak from out my heart, & take thy form from off my door!"<br />Q.T.R., N.'

Answer: Quoth the raven, "Nevermore"


Question: 'One exhibit at this country's 1982 Sydney biennial was the creation of the largest indoor sand painting'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'There may be stupid answers, but proverbially, there are no these'

Answer: stupid questions


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew dances on a giant piano to play "Heart and Soul" with a friend at FAO Schwarz in New York.)  A major attraction at FAO Schwarz is piano dancing, just like Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia did in this 1988 film'

Answer: Big


Question: 'Once Deputy Attorney General, in 2009 he became the first African-American Attorney General'

Answer: Eric Holder


Question: '"____ in Charge"'

Answer: Charles


Question: '"In the room the women come and go"<br />T.O.M.'

Answer: talking of Michelangelo


Question: 'Hard to tell, but Frans Hals is said to have used 27 different shades of this--look at the garb of "Adriaen Van Ostade"'

Answer: black


Question: 'A 2006 photo shows politician John Howard next to a man wearing a T-shirt with this motto; the arrow points to Howard'

Answer: I\'m with Stupid


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows her big Wookiee at FAO Schwarz in New York.)  Chewbacca here was constructed of thousands of plastic pieces from the Lego Company whose name was derived from two words that mean "play well" in this language'

Answer: Danish


Question: 'She was Arizona's first female Attorney General & was later its governor before heading up Homeland Security'

Answer: (Janet) Napolitano


Question: '"Judging ____"'

Answer: Amy


Question: '"By the shores of Gitche Gumee,"<br />B.T.S.B-S-W'

Answer: by the shining big-sea-water


Question: '"Revelations ", an exhibit of her photos of '50s & '60s weirdos, has been seen in San Francisco, L.A. & New York'

Answer: (Diane) Arbus


Question: 'Famous 4-word advice from James Carville in the 1992 campaign'

Answer: It\'s the economy, stupid


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew's friend is old hat at FAO Schwarz in New York.)  If you want Harry Potter gear, you can get this type of hat that assigns students to a Hogwarts house'

Answer: the Sorting Hat


Question: 'Not paying $34,000 in taxes didn't stop him from becoming Treasury Secretary (next time carry the 1, sir!)'

Answer: (Timothy) Geithner


Question: '"____ & ____ Plus 8"'

Answer: Jon & Kate


Question: '"I am the master of my fate;"<br />I.A.T.C.O.M.S.'

Answer: I am the captain of my soul


Question: 'The first civic sculpture financed by federal & private funds was by this artist (notice it's not hanging)'

Answer: (Alexander) Calder


Question: '1967 No. 1 hit for Frank & Nancy Sinatra'

Answer: "Somethin\' Stupid"


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a shelf of plush dogs at FAO Schwarz in New York.)  These puppies are an FAO exclusive, a collaboration of the American Kennel Club and this German stuffed animal maker'

Answer: Steiff


Question: 'According to Chuck Jones, whenever possible, this force of nature was to be Wile E. Coyote's greatest enemy'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Fillmore filled in as Utah's territorial capital until this city took over in 1856'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'Spencer Tracy's in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'In March of 1867 Secretary of State Seward arranged to buy this "icebox" for a total of $7.2 million'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'A San Pedro, California packer first put this fish into cans in 1903; its casserole wasn't introduced until the '30s'

Answer: Tuna


Question: 'In 1492 Martin Pinzon commanded this ship; his brother Vicente commanded the Nina'

Answer: Pinta


Question: 'The "culture" type is emotional disruption caused by living in a society not one's own'

Answer: Shock


Question: 'The "American" breed of this dog is Virginia's official state dog -- Tallyho!'

Answer: Foxhound


Question: 'Michelle Pfeiffer's in "The Story of Us"'

Answer: Bruce Willis


Question: 'In 1864 this motto first appeared on a U.S. coin, a 2-cent piece'

Answer: "In God We Trust"


Question: 'George Bush vetoed this veggie 62 years after it was brought to the U.S. from Italy'

Answer: Broccoli


Question: 'In 1981, just before becoming president of Egypt on Sadat's death, Hosni Mubarak held this post'

Answer: Vice president


Question: 'Edmund Bergler, credited with inventing the term "writer's" this, must not have felt it -- he wrote several books'

Answer: Block


Question: 'Music lovers know this city is home to the Rhode Island Philharmonic'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'Meg Ryan's in "When A Man Loves A Woman"'

Answer: Andy Garcia


Question: 'In 1865 this man began making distinctive cowboy hats in his one-man factory in Philadelphia'

Answer: John Stetson


Question: 'In 1949 Charles Lubin introduced a cheesecake with this name, his daughter's'

Answer: Sara Lee


Question: 'Irving Thalberg produced "A Night at the Opera" as a unit producer at this studio'

Answer: MGM


Question: 'A metal measuring rod that's poked into a car's crankcase'

Answer: Dipstick


Question: 'Sounds fishy, but Mystic Aquarium is one of the top attractions in this state'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Jeff Daniels' in "Terms of Endearment"'

Answer: Debra Winger


Question: 'On October 4, 1861 the U.S. Navy authorized the construction of this ironclad ship; it was launched 118 days later'

Answer: Monitor


Question: 'Reuben Mattus created this ice cream (& its Danish-sounding name) in the Bronx in 1961'

Answer: Haagen-Dazs


Question: 'In 1877 Bat Masterson was elected sheriff of Ford County, Kansas with this "car" town as his headquarters'

Answer: Dodge City


Question: 'They're barrel's 2 partners in an expression meaning "the whole thing"'

Answer: Lock & stock


Question: 'At 306 feet high, the Bennington Battle Monument in this state was once the tallest battle monument in the world'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'Richard Dreyfuss' in "Close Encounters..."'

Answer: Teri Garr


Question: 'In 1868 this lodge, the B.P.O.E., was founded in New York City by 15 entertainers'

Answer: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks


Question: 'Mr. Cardini's 1924 invention, it was called "The greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years"'

Answer: Caesar salad


Question: 'This 11th century poet held the post of astronomer in the Persian royal court'

Answer: Omar Khayyam


Question: 'Athletic position in which the thighs are against the chest & the arms wrap around the shins'

Answer: Tuck


Question: 'Poe poem containing the line "What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!"'

Answer: "The Bells"


Question: 'President of Uganda:<br />1971-1979'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: 'The Best Chamber Music Performance was this German's sonatas with Lambert Orkis, not Schroeder, on piano'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'Leo I's Petrine Theory established that the popes inherit this man's authority'

Answer: Saint Peter


Question: 'A kip is a deadweight load equivalent to this many pounds, half a short ton'

Answer: 1000


Question: 'Form of address for a foreign ambassador or a bishop'

Answer: Your Excellency


Question: 'His epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929'

Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet


Question: 'Prime minister of Japan:<br />1941-1944'

Answer: Hideki Tojo


Question: 'The Best Long Form Music Video featured this "fiery" rock guitarist who died in 1970'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'In an 1895 letter Leo XIII wrote against this country's separation of church & state'

Answer: USA


Question: 'Don't wine, a jeroboam is just 2 of these you might find in your wine Selleck...er, cellar'

Answer: Magnums


Question: 'From the Latin for "up high", it means to glorify or honor'

Answer: Exalt


Question: 'This 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work was an assemblage of over 200 self-inscribed epitaphs from a Midwestern town'

Answer: "Spoon River Anthology"


Question: '"Magnificent" dictator of Florence, Italy:<br />1478-1492'

Answer: Lorenzo de\' Medici


Question: 'Burning Spear won for Best Album in this musical category with "Calling Rastafari"'

Answer: Reggae


Question: 'Leo IV rebuilt Rome after it was sacked by the Saracens, people of this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'A centistere is this fraction of a stere, a measure of stacked wood'

Answer: Hundreth


Question: 'Spit'

Answer: Expectorate


Question: 'This Longfellow schooner "Sailed the wintry sea; and the skipper had taken his little daughter to bear him company"'

Answer: Hesperus


Question: 'Prime minister of Canada:<br />1984-1993'

Answer: Brian Mulroney


Question: 'Los Palominos won for Best Performance in this Mexican-American style made famous by Selena'

Answer: Tejano


Question: 'After being attacked on the streets of Rome in 799, Leo III took refuge with this king of the Franks'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'It can be a unit of circular measure equal to 60 degrees, or an instrument used by navigators to measure angles'

Answer: Sextant


Question: '"Extrude" means to thrust out; drop 2 letters & you get this similar word meaning to ooze forth'

Answer: Exude


Question: 'This Shelley poem is subtitled "An Elegy on the Death of John Keats"'

Answer: "Adonais"


Question: 'Prime minister of Great Britain:<br />1916-1922'

Answer: David Lloyd George


Question: 'Richard Burton won a Grammy in 1976; this man, no relation, won in 2000 for reading the words of Martin Luther King'

Answer: LeVar Burton


Question: 'Term for the buying of religious offices; Leo IX was the pope who put a stop to it'

Answer: Simony


Question: 'Last name of the child star of "Terminator 2"; he'll go the whole 220 yards for you'

Answer: (Edward) Furlong


Question: 'In 1978 this group topped the pop charts with "Kiss You All Over"; since then they've had 10 No. 1 country hits'

Answer: Exile


Question: 'Venetians called him "Il Milione", man of the million lies'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'Suprisingly, South Dakota's nickname is this, the same as Florida's'

Answer: the Sunshine State


Question: 'Dr. Spock says though it's fun to apply this to baby after a bath, it's not usually needed'

Answer: powder


Question: 'Moses saw one of these burning but not consumed'

Answer: a bush


Question: 'Mrs. Olson'

Answer: Folgers Coffee


Question: 'By the 1300s, knights were losing importance in warfare due to growing use of this explosive'

Answer: gunpowder


Question: 'A grandstander, or one especially good at pistol target practice'

Answer: a hot shot


Question: 'Produced by bacterial action, the chief cause of diaper rash is this, NH3'

Answer: ammonia


Question: 'Psalm 92 says, "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in" this country'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Snap!, Crackle!, and Pop!'

Answer: Rice Krispies


Question: 'In battle with his face covered, a knight's only identification was often this, emblazoned on his shield'

Answer: crest or heraldic emblem (or coat of arms)


Question: 'Counterfeit cash'

Answer: funny money


Question: 'It's rare for this manual dominance to appear before the age of two'

Answer: being right-handed (or left-handed)


Question: '1963 Sidney Poitier film whose title comes from the flowers Jesus referred to in Matthew 6:28'

Answer: Lilies of the Field


Question: 'Brother Dominic'

Answer: Xerox


Question: 'Despite its name, this protective armor worn by a knight was not delivered by a postman'

Answer: mail


Question:
'[AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE]
Title of the following, it was Shirley Ellis' follow-up to "The Nitty Gritty"'

Answer: "The Name Game"


Question: 'It's the process that starts when the cup begins to replace the bottle or breast'

Answer: weaning


Question: 'Isaiah predicted, "The desert shall rejoice & blossom as" this flower'

Answer: the rose


Question: 'Mother Nature'

Answer: Chiffon Margarine


Question: 'This word for a tilting match comes from the Latin for "close together", "juxta"'

Answer: jousting


Question: 'This fruit-garnished rum cocktail isn't indigenous to Hawaii but arrived there in 1953'

Answer: a mai tai


Question: 'Common in babies, this ocular condition, "strabismus", can improve spontaneously, tho rarely so'

Answer: lazy eye (or cross-eyes, wandering eyes)


Question: 'In Mark chapter 11, Jesus found 1 of these trees w/out fruit & said, "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever"'

Answer: the fig tree


Question: 'Euell GIbbons'

Answer: Grape-Nuts


Question: 'Before a boy could become a knight, he usually had to serve these 2 apprenticeships'

Answer: a squire and a page


Question: 'The queue at the cashier's widow to pay your traffic ticket, or what's drawn by a pen with a 0.3mm point'

Answer: a fine line


Question: 'Spanish department stores now stay open through this traditional 3-hour period'

Answer: the siesta


Question: '"Another" or "otherwise" in Latin, either way it's an assumed name'

Answer: an alias


Question: 'Pearl Buck's only Pulitzer-winning novel'

Answer: The Good Earth


Question: 'Before the founding of New England in our country, New France was founded in what is now this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The "Rimsky" in Rimsky-Korsakov's name is Russian for this Italian city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Long before she "fell to pieces", she won 1st prize on Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts'

Answer: Patsy Cline


Question: 'A statue of them, Cervantes' famous pair, rides through a plaza in Madrid'

Answer: Don Quijote and Sancho Panza


Question: 'Shortened from "procuracy", it's the power of attorney given to another to vote your shares of stock'

Answer: proxy


Question: 'John Steinbeck's 1940 novel about the Joad family's journey'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: '3 of the 5 main cities of the 13 colonies'

Answer: Philadelphia, New York, and Boston (or Newport and Charleston)


Question: 'He was born under the sign of Pisces, the fish, so it's not surprising he wrote "Water Music"'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'This Oklahoman, a former rodeo rider, won CMA's female vocalist of the year in '84, '85, and '86'

Answer: Reba McEntyre


Question: 'For a brief time in the early 19th c., his brother was installed as King Joseph I'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'You can win a case by this if the other party doesn't show up in court'

Answer: default


Question: 'Booth Tarkington won in 1919 for this novel, perhaps best known as an Orson Welles film'

Answer: The Magnificent Ambersons


Question: 'In colonial times, this state, which doesn't touch Massachusetts, was part of it'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'One of the "Three B's" himself, he was an ardent admirer of the other two'

Answer: Brahms


Question: 'Meaning "the red" in Arabic, this famous fortress in Granada was originally built by the Moors'

Answer: the Alhambra


Question: 'Type of warrant issued by the court itself for the arrest of a party'

Answer: a bench warrant


Question: 'He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"'

Answer: Thornton Wilder


Question: 'This founder of Georgia lived to see the colony he established become a state'

Answer: (James) Oglethorpe


Question: 'It's said the pathetic life of this Russian composer is the real subject of his "Pathetique" symphony'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'By 1825, Spain had lost all its American colonies except these 2 islands, which it lost by 1898'

Answer: Cuba and Puerto Rico


Question: 'An article of personal property as distinguished from real estate'

Answer: chattel


Question: 'Virginia-born Wm. Styron won for his book, "The Confessions of" this actual leader of a slave revolt'

Answer: Nat Turner


Question: 'The mother of this founding father's illegitimate son William has never been identified'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'While writing "Tannhauser", he also wrote a funeral cantata for C.M. von Weber who'd been dead 18 years'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'This musical drama was made in 1927 & remade in 1953 and 1980'

Answer: The Jazz Singer


Question: 'Peary & Henson reach the North Pole'

Answer: 1909


Question: '1997:<br />"My Heart Will Go On"'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'Yankee Scents of New England makes a red, white & blue potpourri named for this holiday'

Answer: Independence Day (the 4th of July)


Question: 'These 2 oceans meet at South Africa's Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa'

Answer: the Atlantic & the Indian


Question: 'It was the only animal raised purely for consumption; the snout was a particular delicacy'

Answer: pig


Question: '10-letter word for the owner of an establishment'

Answer: proprietor


Question: 'Robert Fulton patents the steamboat'

Answer: 1809


Question: '1999:<br />"Blame Canada"'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'Eli Whitney probably knew that many potpourris use the fruit of this plant of the genus Gossypium'

Answer: cotton


Question: 'Stop at the Falls Bridge or the Boiling Pot when you visit this magnificent African waterfall'

Answer: Victoria Falls


Question: 'The Magister Bibendi determined the proportion of water to this in the mixture that was drunk; 2 to 1 was common'

Answer: wine


Question: 'Profusely productive, like some authors'

Answer: prolific


Question: 'The first major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches the Carolinas'

Answer: 1709


Question: '1976:<br />"Gonna Fly Now"'

Answer: Rocky


Question: 'Potpourri is often used to fill these small scented packets with a French name'

Answer: sachets


Question: 'It's the North African capital considered the center of Coptic Christianity'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'The finest type of this substance used in almost every dish came from Croatia; the cheapest kind was only for lamps'

Answer: olive oil


Question: 'This gas used primarily as a fuel is also called dimethylmethane'

Answer: propane


Question: 'Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers'

Answer: 1609


Question: '1969:<br />"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'Though they can irritate skin, the red hot fruits of this edible plant, Capsicum annuum, are found in some potpourris'

Answer: jalapeño (Cayenne accepted)


Question: 'Dakar, the capital of this country, is the westernmost city in continental Africa'

Answer: Senegal


Question: 'The equivalent of "soup to nuts" was "ab ovo usque ad mala"--meals began with these & ended with fruit'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'This Titan was the father of Deucalion'

Answer: Prometheus


Question: 'King Henry VII of England dies'

Answer: 1509


Question: '1983:<br />"Maniac"'

Answer: Flashdance


Question: 'The Royal Botanic Gardens at this London estate has a research collection of more than 700 types of potpourri'

Answer: Kew Gardens


Question: 'Aside from the Republic of the Congo, one of the 3 countries once known together as French Equatorial Africa'

Answer: (1 of) Chad, Gabon & the Central African Republic


Question: 'A dish called placenta resembled a cheese version of this gooey Greek pastry'

Answer: baklava


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of three footprints on the monitor.)  An imprint of your foot can determine if you have a normal, high or low arch; a low arch causes the foot to roll inward too much when running, called over- this'

Answer: pronating


Question: 'Sadly, Poe's still-mysterious death happened just 10 days before this event he'd planned with Elmira Shelton'

Answer: his wedding


Question: 'Mary Ann Mobley was Miss Mississippi before winning this national title'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'One study in this "Last Frontier" state showed that ravens have more than 30 distinct vocalizations'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In 2006, brothers Jim & Dean Thomas helped catch a thief selling stolen Civil War letters on this auction website'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'Among the items found in this boy king's tomb were bows & arrows, toys, games & jewelry'

Answer: King Tut


Question: 'We're rich!  Oh, wait... it's only this, iron pyrite'

Answer: fool\'s gold


Question: 'Instead of happy hours, the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va. celebrates Poe with these antonymic events'

Answer: unhappy hours


Question: 'Louisville belles wear custom-made hats for this equine event on the first Saturday in May'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'In Norse myth, this god had 2 ravens that flew about the world each day & came back to tell what they had seen'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'A 1783 letter signed by this general (& future president) was stolen in the 1940s but turned up at a 2006 auction'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Peter II, Czar of Russia from 1727 to 1730, died at age 14 in an outbreak of this now-eradicated disease'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'You earn one of these with 500,000 sold copies of your latest musical single'

Answer: a gold record


Question: 'Visit Poe's room at the University of Virginia & you'll notice that it has this appropriate number'

Answer: 13


Question: 'The title of a play & a film written by Robert Harling popularized this 2-word "floral" term for Southern women'

Answer: steel magnolias


Question: 'The raven is part of this bird's family, but "as the raven flies" just doesn't sound as good'

Answer: crow


Question: 'Oh, "The Sound and the Fury" when 6 of this novelist's letters were stolen in 2002 (they were later found)'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'His son Hamnet died of unknown causes in 1596 at the age of 11'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'It's the variety of tall herbs seen here'

Answer: goldenrod


Question: 'Take a tour of St. John's Church Cemetery, where Eliza, this relative of Poe's, is buried, led by an actress portraying her'

Answer: his mother


Question: 'Born in N.C. in 1768, this cupcake was the belle of Washington society even after she was first lady'

Answer: Dolley Madison


Question: 'A raven's not picky, eating rodents, insects, grain & garbage in this kind of diet, from the Latin for "all eating"'

Answer: omnivore


Question: 'Somehow, this fascist dictator stole Clara Petacci's heart, & hundreds of their love letters are missing'

Answer: Mussolini


Question: 'Both his sons with Catherine of Aragon were Henry, Duke of Cornwall, & both died in infancy'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'This cartoonist drew intricate diagrams of impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing'

Answer: (Rube) Goldberg


Question: 'The Casemate Museum in Fort Monroe, Va. has an exhibit on Poe's military life, including his appt. to this school'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'His Southern belle play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his more famous "Summer and Smoke"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'The motto of Raven Beer, based in this appropriate city: "The taste is poetic"'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'Stolen letters & blackmail were part of the ill luck leading to this "Earnest" playwright's rack & ruin'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'This romantic poet was only 25 when he died in Italy of tuberculosis in 1821'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'When FDR took the U.S. economy off this, his budget director asserted, "This is the end of... civilization"'

Answer: the gold standard


Question: 'Of the 30 corporations that make up the Dow Jones index, it's the only one that began as an entertainment company'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'The largest state in area'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: 'The Bible says this wise king's ships went to Tarshish to bring back "gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Death came for him in 1170: T.S. Eliot resurrected him in 1935'

Answer: Thomas Becket


Question: 'It's the state animal of Kansas & Oklahoma'

Answer: a buffalo


Question: 'It was the phase of the moon on Nov. 16, 2009, the date the movie "New Moon" premiered'

Answer: the new moon


Question: 'The next state, alphabetically'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'In this 1977 woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike'

Answer: Annie Hall


Question: 'Procter & Gamble calls this 2-word laundry detergent "a gentle clean that you can trust"'

Answer: Ivory Snow


Question: 'Philippe Nguyen Kim Dien, an activist archbishop of Hue, died under house arrest in this country in 1988'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Variety has long used this word for a box office hit'

Answer: boffo


Question: 'Canada's Swan River empties into this lake'

Answer: Swan Lake


Question: '1 of 3 states with a smaller population'

Answer: Wyoming (Vermont & North Dakota)


Question: 'This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus"'

Answer: It Happened One Night


Question: 'This African nation's population includes 4 major tribal groups: Akan, Kru, Voltaic & Mande'

Answer: Ivory Coast


Question: 'Ealdred, archbishop of York, died in 1069, a few years after crowning this Norman in Westminster Abbey'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'It frequently refers to a help-yourself all-you-can-eat meal'

Answer: a buffet


Question: 'Captain William Mynors named this island in the Indian Ocean on Christmas Day, 1643'

Answer: Christmas Island


Question: 'the state with the highest mountain'

Answer: California


Question: 'This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date'

Answer: The Departed


Question: 'You live in an ivory one if you're isolated from the real world'

Answer: an ivory tower


Question: 'Vissarion Tikas, who became archbishop of this church in 1974, died in Athens in 1998'

Answer: the Greek Orthodox Church


Question: 'This officer maintains order in the court & also has custody of the jury'

Answer: a bailiff


Question: 'You can form your own rock band & tour the world with this 2007 video game from MTV games'

Answer: Rock Band


Question: 'The state with the longest coastline'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner'

Answer: The Lost Weekend


Question: 'Called "king of the woodpeckers" & "Elvis in feathers", it may not be extinct'

Answer: the ivory-billed woodpecker


Question: 'This N.Y. archbishop died in 2000, 2 months after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal'

Answer: Bishop John O\'Connor


Question: 'I'm confused, perplexed, absolutely this'

Answer: baffled


Question: 'In the web address of the federal motor carrier safety administration, it comes just before "dot gov"'

Answer: DOT (Dept. of Transportation)


Question:
'William Hodges,
official artist
to this captain and explorer, painted "Tahitian War Canoes" in 1774'

Answer: (Captain) Cook


Question: 'The korat doesn't lose hair easily, so cat lovers who suffer from these can get a korat & ditch the Claritin'

Answer: allergies


Question: 'From the Greek for "far feeling", it's communication between minds by paranormal means'

Answer: telepathy


Question: 'It's a small thin disk of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist'

Answer: a wafer


Question: 'Tarzan, lord of the jungle, encounters Numa, this royal animal of the jungle'

Answer: a lion


Question: '...who played a Conehead on "Saturday Night Live" & in the movies'

Answer: Jane Curtin


Question:
'Here, army officer
Rouget de Lisle
tries out this new
patriotic song he's written
in 1792'

Answer: "The Marseillaise"


Question: 'A tank with a large surface increases the supply of D.O., dissolved this, which fish take from the water'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'If your street address is 1234 & you were born 5/6/78, this -ology has a lot to say to you'

Answer: numerology


Question: 'Snout beetle is another name for the true type of this insect'

Answer: a weevil


Question: '"And so it was that...Tarzan stripped to" this garment 8 was "armed after the primitive fashion he best loved"'

Answer: a loincloth


Question: '...who created a jewelry design called "Open Hearts"'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question:
'Seen here,
Nader Shah of what's now
this Mideastern land loved conquering places
like Bahrain and Oman'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'After cuddling your common box type of this reptile , wash your hands to prevent salmonella'

Answer: turtle


Question: 'It's fortunetelling by analysis of the creases of the hand'

Answer: palm reading (or palmistry)


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.)  Fingerprints are impressions of the friction ridges on the skin that form an overall pattern.
 The three main ones are loops,
 arches, and these'

Answer: whorls


Question: 'This author of the Tarzan stories was expelled from Phillips academy in Andover, Massachusetts'

Answer: (Edgar Rice) Burroughs


Question: '...who plays Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock"'

Answer: Jane Krakowski


Question:
'Now hanging in the Capitol, the 20th-century work
seen here depicts a scene in this building in 1787'

Answer: Independence Hall


Question: 'One of the oldest breeds of this type of dog, the Lakeland comes in handy if you have vermin in your house'

Answer: the terrier


Question: 'A type of medieval chemistry, it aimed in part to transmute base metals into gold'

Answer: alchemy


Question: 'This verb meaning to twist like someone in pain comes from the Old English for "twist"'

Answer: writhe


Question: 'Tarzan is the son of John & Alice Clayton, Lord & Lady this'

Answer: Greystoke


Question: '...who directed the movie "The Piano" & won an Oscar for writing the screenplay'

Answer: Jane Campion


Question:
'The battle here
is off South Africa
in 1757 during this conflict that's been called the "real first world war"'

Answer: The Seven Years\' War


Question: 'The Syrian or golden type of this isn't a good child's pet as it's nocturnal & can be crabby & nippy by day'

Answer: a hamster


Question: 'Analysis of someone's character by feeling the bumps & shape of their skull'

Answer: phrenology


Question: 'A stratagem or trick: when used as a verb with "away", it means "to pass the time"'

Answer: wile/while


Question: 'Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: 'In the summer of '93, parts of Illinois, Iowa & 7 other states became disaster areas due to this disaster'

Answer: Flooding


Question: 'It can be a group of desert travelers journeying together, or the name of a Dodge minivan'

Answer: Caravan


Question: 'Gene Siskel was such a fan of this film that he once owned Travolta's white disco suit from it'

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Question: 'California<br />1967-1975'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'This popular fortune-telling device takes its name from the German & French words for "yes"'

Answer: Ouija board


Question: 'During WWII, this mythical American soldier left the impression that he "Was Here"'

Answer: Kilroy


Question: 'Patricia Brentrup fought for custody of her 6 children, including this "Home Alone" star'

Answer: Macaulay Culkin


Question: 'This Ford model is named for the Zodiac sign of the wives of several men who developed it'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'It's the Travolta film that featured the memorable music heard here:'

Answer: Pulp Fiction


Question: 'New York<br />1983-1995'

Answer: Mario Cuomo


Question: 'A popular game show shares its name with this tarot card'

Answer: Wheel of Fortune


Question: 'The raised ribs on this fabric are also called wales'

Answer: Corduroy


Question: 'In 1992 U.S. forces left these Pacific islands occupied in the Spanish-American War'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'General Motors' first new nameplate in over 60 years, it bears the name of the sixth planet'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'John played a Miami mobster who wanted to make movies in this 1995 film'

Answer: Get Shorty


Question: 'Alabama<br />1963-1967; 1971-1979'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'Depossession & releasement are synonyms for this ritual designed to drive out spirits'

Answer: Exorcism


Question: 'He's George Jetson's boy'

Answer: Elroy


Question: 'She was the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial'

Answer: Marcia Clark


Question: 'The name of this rear-engined Chevy model brought out in 1959 was originally on an experimental Corvette'

Answer: Corvair


Question: 'John was a real "knockout" in the movie seen here:'

Answer: Phenomenon


Question: 'Arkansas<br />1979-1981'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'PK, the ability to move objects with one's mind, stands for this'

Answer: Psychokinesis


Question: 'In a children's book, Cedric Errol of New York City becomes this little lord'

Answer: Fauntleroy


Question: 'This filmmaker is heard reading from a book based on one of his PBS series:<br />("A resourceful young Otsego player named Abner Doubleday sat down & on the spot drew up the rules for a brand new game & called it baseball.")'

Answer: Ken Burns


Question: 'One of the longest-lived model names, this Buick line dating from 1959 means "the sword" in French'

Answer: Le Sabre


Question: 'In "Carrie" & again in "Blow Out", Travolta was directed by this man'

Answer: Brian De Palma


Question: 'Texas<br />1963-1969'

Answer: John Connally


Question: 'Named for its Russian discoverers, this type of photography captures auras'

Answer: Kirlian photography


Question: 'Title for an official who rules a colony in the name of a king'

Answer: Viceroy


Question: 'Before WWII this German city was the most populous city on the European mainland'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'American buffalo'

Answer: Bison


Question: '"Picture yourself" in this psychedelic classic about "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes"'

Answer: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"


Question: 'Oscar Wilde attended Trinity College in this city'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'It's the sign that weighs in between Virgo & Scorpio'

Answer: Libra


Question: 'Begun again, like a magazine subscription'

Answer: Renewed


Question: 'Pull out the stopper!  It's Ireland's second most populous city'

Answer: Cork


Question: 'The caribou'

Answer: Reindeer


Question: 'This girl group's first No. 1 hit was 1964's "Where Did Our Love Go?"'

Answer: The Supremes


Question: 'Basil Hallward painted the title picture in this book, Wilde's only novel'

Answer: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"


Question: 'It's what the Romans called their month that came between Junius & Augustus'

Answer: Julius


Question: 'A small beer-making operation is considered a "micro" one of these'

Answer: Brewery


Question: 'Si, this city is noted for its oranges, its barber & its 1992 World's Fair'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'The dugong or the manatee'

Answer: Sea cow


Question: 'Bobby "Boris" Pickett recorded this classic Halloween song with the Crypt-Kickers'

Answer: "Monster Mash"


Question: 'Wilde wrote of inhuman prison conditions in this 1898 "ballad"'

Answer: "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


Question: 'In tenpin bowling, it's the number of the pin in the middle of the triangle'

Answer: 5


Question: 'A stereoscope is a 3-D one'

Answer: Viewer


Question: 'The U.S. signed a famous treaty in this city December 24, 1814'

Answer: Ghent, Belgium (treaty to end the War of 1812)


Question: 'The stoat'

Answer: Weasel


Question: 'For ? (question mark) & the Mysterians, this many was "Too many teardrops for one heart"'

Answer: 96 tears


Question: 'A fan is given as a birthday present in this comedy of manners'

Answer: "Lady Windermere\'s Fan"


Question: 'He rode west with Melchior & Balthasar'

Answer: Gaspar


Question: 'This type of embroidery using worsted yarn sounds harsh'

Answer: Crewelry


Question: 'After Marseille, this city on the English Channel is France's busiest seaport'

Answer: Le Havre


Question: 'Hard-shell or littleneck clam'

Answer: Quahog


Question: 'The Beach Boys made "good" use of the strange musical device known as a theremin on this 1966 No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Good Vibrations"


Question: 'One of Oscar's last plays, it was made into a film starring Rupert Everett & Minnie Driver in 1999'

Answer: An Ideal Husband


Question: 'Staying in the U.S. & going by land, you can't go from Massachusetts to Maine without going through this state'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" became this TV miniseries'

Answer: The Jewel in the Crown


Question: '"'Yes,' said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly" was the reply to this 1871 question'

Answer: \"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?\"


Question: 'Jim Davis named this cat after his grandfather, not the 20th president'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Used as early as 230 B.C., the 1st successful electric one was developed by the Otis Bros. in 1889'

Answer: an elevator


Question: 'Movie question posed by Barbra Streisand & Bugs Bunny'

Answer: What\'s up, doc?


Question: 'The only mammal capable of sustained flight'

Answer: a bat


Question: 'Herbs anise & fennel resemble the flavor of this common black candy'

Answer: licorice


Question: '"Tinsel Town"'

Answer: Hollywood


Question: 'John Steinbeck wrote the preface of a book about this Al Capp character'

Answer: Li\'l Abner


Question: 'Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome'

Answer: the Appian Way


Question: 'Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'Of a rat, a raven, & a spineless jellyfish the one which can be taught to count'

Answer: raven


Question: 'From the Romanian word for "to preserve", it's served hot with mustard on rye'

Answer: pastrami


Question: 'Unable to speak'

Answer: speechless


Question: 'Standard comment of Little Orphan Annie's dog Sandy'

Answer: Arf!


Question: 'Type of well named for the French region of Artois where 1 was 1st drilled in 1126'

Answer: an artesian well


Question: 'Some of the character names rejected for this classic were "Gaspy", "Daffy", & "Snoopy"'

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


Question: 'A luna moth's are feathered, a june bug's leaflike, & a cockroach's are feelers'

Answer: antennae


Question: 'When it was 1st introduced into England from France, it was called "butterine"'

Answer: margarine


Question: 'Soft white Italian cheese often used as pizza topping'

Answer: mozzarella


Question: 'A 1984 survey found an additional 2,500 miles to this barrier, now totaling 6,200 miles long'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: 'The make of car that starts up immediately after 200 years in Woody Allen's "Sleeper"'

Answer: Volkswagen Beetle


Question: 'Since 1955 ultrasonic vibrations have repelled these crusty creatures from ship hulls'

Answer: barnacles


Question: 'Named for an English dr. who recommended meat as cure-all, it's a hamburger without a bun'

Answer: a Salisbury steak


Question: 'A gathering at which Pete Seeger & Joan Baez, or an owl & a goat might sing'

Answer: hootenanny


Question: 'This 15th century artist built fortresses, bridges, harbors, & locks'

Answer: Leonard da Vinci


Question: 'Often called the panther, its name was originally given to the cat now known as the cheetah'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'Not a fabric but a cake that's a cross between an angel & a sponge'

Answer: chiffon


Question: 'This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'This British/Australian group's name was taken from oldest brother Barry's initials'

Answer: The Bee Gees


Question: 'Dorothy Parker said, "Men seldom make passes at girls who" do this'

Answer: wear glasses


Question: 'Presidents Hayes, Garfield, & Benjamin Harrison were all generals in this war'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'In 1965, Pope Paul VI formally exonerated this group of blame for the death of Jesus'

Answer: the Jews


Question: 'Largest Chinese community outside Asia lives in this city's Chinatown'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Aldous Huxley's 1932 version of "1984"'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'In '72, he sang "Song Sung Blue"'

Answer: Neil Diamond


Question: 'Emerson said, "If a man makes a better" one of these, "the world will beat a path to his door"'

Answer: a mousetrap


Question: 'General who told Congress in 1951, "There is no substitute for victory"'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'It's what the P.T.L. in TV's "P.T.L. Club" stands for'

Answer: Praise the Lord (or People that Love)


Question: 'Of a North, East, South & West Side, the 1 Chicago doesn't have'

Answer: East


Question: 'James Hilton's schoolmaster father was the model for this novel's title character'

Answer: Mr. Chips


Question: 'In '67, this "Lady of Soul" got due "Respect"'

Answer: Aretha Franklin


Question: '"The doctor can bury his mistakes, but we can only advise clients to plant vines", said this architect'

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright


Question: 'Generals Lee, Grant, Sherman, Pershing, & Patton have all had a type of these named for them'

Answer: a tank


Question: 'Well-known nickname of Siddhartha Gautama'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'The Village Stompers stomped around this part of Greenwich Village:'

Answer: Washington Square


Question: 'The hero's clubfoot in "Of Human Bondage" represented this author's stammer'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'Completes the quote "Go west, young man"'

Answer: and grow up with the country


Question: '"Old Fuss & Feathers", general Winfield Scott, captured this foreign capital in 1847'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'North American Protestant group featured in the movie "Witness"'

Answer: the Amish


Question: 'Founded in 1683, Germantown is now an historic part of this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Ironically Catherine, wife of this poet, painter, & printer, was illiterate'

Answer: William Blake


Question: '"Reading is to the mind as" this is "to the body"'

Answer: exercise


Question: 'With under 200 men, this Revolutionary War general captured 3 British forts in Ill. & Ind.'

Answer: George Rogers Clark


Question: 'Prayer taken from salutation of Gabriel, it's now said as commonly as the Lord's Prayer'

Answer: the Hail Mary (or Ave Maria)


Question: 'Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'The Sikorsky Skycrane, this type of aircraft, can lift 10 tons while hovering'

Answer: helicopter


Question: 'At Market Square Arena on June 26, 1977 this king of Rock 'n' Roll gave his last live concert'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'The screenplay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" was written by this partner of Gene Siskel'

Answer: Roger Ebert


Question: 'You might have to go to a whse (warehouse) to get something this way, whsle'

Answer: wholesale


Question: 'A freshwater fish's tail, like a marine fish's bill, resembles this weapon, & gives both fish their names'

Answer: Sword


Question: 'According to Guinness, a cookie made Oct. 15, 1993 contained over 3 million of these'

Answer: chocolate chips


Question: 'This city's subway system, made up of the IRT, BMT & IND, has 238 route miles & 469 stations'

Answer: New York


Question: 'The RCA Dome, formerly known as the Hoosier Dome, is this home of this National Football League team'

Answer: Indianapolis Colts


Question: 'It's love all for Brooke Shields and this tennis star who tied the knot in April of '97'

Answer: Andre Agassi


Question: 'The <b>cc</b> on an office letter refers back to this now little-used office supply'

Answer: carbon copy (or carbon paper)


Question: 'It's a term loosely applied to any small fish, but also to the 2- to 4-foot Colorado squawfish'

Answer: minnow


Question: 'This chip-off-the-old-Flintstone was born February 22, 1963'

Answer: Pebbles


Question: 'In 1996 this company began leasing electric-powered EV1s through its Saturn dealerships'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'Union Station has a hotel that features these sleeping cars converted into hotel suites'

Answer: Pullman cars


Question: 'Before starring on "Hill Street Blues" & "NYPD Blue", he was a mailman'

Answer: Dennis Franz


Question: '3-letter abbreviation for a fight stopped by the referee to prevent a disabling injury'

Answer: TKO


Question: 'This food fish of the herring family shares its name with a fat-averse nursery rhyme character'

Answer: sprat


Question: '(Hello, I'm Kathy Ireland.)  It's the chip of choice of Vendela, Naomi Campbell, Miss Piggy & moi'

Answer: Baked Lays


Question: 'The British SRN 4 type of this machine was designed to ferry people & cars across the English Channel'

Answer: hovercraft


Question: 'Crown Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of 3 Vice Presidents & this Public Enemy No. 1'

Answer: John Dillinger


Question: 'She's Ben Stiller's famous mom'

Answer: Anne Meara


Question: 'At the coroner's office in our nation's capital, D.C. is an abbreviation for this document'

Answer: death certificate


Question: 'Croakers, named for the noise they make, are also called by the name of this percussion instrument'

Answer: drumfish


Question: 'The Las Vegas Hilton has a $100,000 chip for this elegant game; hope you don't say goodbye to that chip, Mister'

Answer: baccarat


Question: 'This type of fishing boat drags a large conical net behind it'

Answer: trawler


Question: 'The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza is next to the headquarters of this largest veterans' organization'

Answer: American Legion


Question: 'This actress daughter of Vanessa Redgrave is named for the heroine of "War and Peace"'

Answer: Natasha (Richardson)


Question: 'Affectionate synonym for father that's an abbreviation for the number of all the people in a country'

Answer: pop


Question: 'A Pinellas County, Florida city is named for this fish that often "springs" from the water when hooked'

Answer: tarpon


Question: 'It's a microchip integrated circuit that contains organic material'

Answer: bio-chip


Question: 'Marlon Brando played Fletcher Christian to Trevor Howard's Captain Bligh in this 1962 film'

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty


Question: 'In 1990 champion surfer Fred Hemmings lost his bid to become governor of this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'He composed the "King Cotton" March in 1897, the same year as "The Stars & Stripes Forever"'

Answer: John Philip Sousa


Question: 'In February George VI died & this woman was proclaimed Queen by the Privy Council'

Answer: Elizabeth II


Question: 'Hampton Court in England has an "amazing" one made out of high hedges'

Answer: a labyrinth


Question: 'In "In Love and War", Chris O'Donnell portrayed this author during WWI'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'In 1997 he set a record, becoming the longest-serving senator in U.S. history'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: 'Though at birth his first name was spelled Fryderyk, he preferred the French spelling Frederic'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'On July 26 this Argentinian first lady succumbed to cancer at age 33'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'Pueblo'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'This Ancient Greek city was so wealthy it had its own isthmus'

Answer: Corinth


Question: 'Humphrey Bogart played an escaped killer in "High Sierra" & a gold prospector in this film'

Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


Question: 'Russell B. Long, who was chairman of the Senate Finance committee from 1966 to 1981, was the son of this politician'

Answer: Huey Long


Question: '19th century composer whose work is heard here'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'In November most of the nation liked Ike, but some went "madly" for this Democrat'

Answer: Adlai Stevenson


Question: 'Great Falls'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'Since the rediscovery of this ancient fish in 1938, only a few hundred have been caught'

Answer: coelacanth


Question: 'At the end of this film, Elaine Robinson, about to be married, runs off with Benjamin Braddock'

Answer: The Graduate


Question: 'In 1994 Ted Kennedy's son Patrick was elected to the House from this state, not too far from Mass.'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This "Hansel und Gretel" composer also wrote incidental music for Shakespeare's plays'

Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck


Question: 'In October the British deployed troops to stamp out a rebellion of this secret society in Kenya'

Answer: the Mau Mau


Question: 'Lincoln'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'If you're an architect you may want to base your column on one'

Answer: plinth


Question:
'Multiple Oscar-winning 1966 film seen here:

"I die his majesty's good servant, but God's first."'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'Though he had 250,000 fewer votes than Samuel J. Tilden, he became president in 1877'

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes


Question: 'In 1993 Spillville, Iowa celebrated the 100th anniversary of this Czech composer's summer visit there'

Answer: Dvorak


Question: 'In 1952, with a Swiss team, he came within 1,000 feet of the summit of Mount Everest; he reached it in 1953'

Answer: Tenzing Norgay


Question: 'A violet colour, or a plant in the lily family with spiky flowers'

Answer: hyacinth


Question: '13th century invading Asian people who brought the idea of eating raw, chopped meat into the Germany area'

Answer: the Tatars


Question: 'The novel it was derived from was written by a doctor who'd actually served in the Korean War'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'An anemometer is an instrument used to measure the speed of this'

Answer: wind


Question: 'More people in county Galway speak this language than in any other county'

Answer: Irish Gaelic


Question: 'The name of this gemstone came from the Greek "Smaragdos", which probably meant any green stone'

Answer: the emerald


Question: 'He is "a friend indeed"'

Answer: a friend in need


Question: 'In a 1987 show, Matt Frewer played a dual role, Edison Carter & this title character'

Answer: Max Headroom


Question: 'Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family'

Answer: the Medicis


Question: 'The THI, it tells you exactly how miserable you are on a hot summer day'

Answer: the temperature-humidity index


Question: 'Gullah is still spoken by some blacks in this country'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'The 787-carat Great Mogul Diamond was the largest found in this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Finishes the saying, "Friendship is a plant which must be often..."'

Answer: watered


Question: 'Edith Bunker's caustic cousin'

Answer: Maude


Question: 'During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Word used to describe rain, snow or fog with a pH value of less than 5.6'

Answer: acid rain


Question: 'The Ciceronian Age followed by the Augustan Age created the Golden Age of literature in this language'

Answer: Latin


Question: 'Many of the red stones are classified as the "fire" variety of this fiery gem come from Mexico'

Answer: opals


Question: 'Christ said, "Greater love hath no man" than to do this "for his friends"'

Answer: to give up his life (or to lay down his life)


Question: 'In 1970-71 this show about an M.D. became the first ABC series to rank No. 1 for a full season'

Answer: Marcus Welby, M.D.


Question: 'This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy'

Answer: (Heinrich) Schliemann


Question: 'The Rocky Mountain equivalent of the Alpine wind called a foehn'

Answer: the chinook


Question: 'R. Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, wrote in this language of Bangladesh'

Answer: Bengali


Question: 'Rubies are a form of this stone, the hardest in the world after diamond'

Answer: corundum


Question: '"Prosperity makes friends" but this "tries them"'

Answer: adversity


Question: 'This show's first season included a 12-part presentation of "The First Churchills"'

Answer: Masterpiece Theatre


Question: 'More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983'

Answer: Benigno Aquino


Question: 'The Humboldt Current is also called this, for the S. American country off the coast it's found'

Answer: Peru (current)


Question: 'Hausa, Yoruba & Ibo are the principal African languages spoken in this country'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'According to Britannica, this August birthstone is also called precious olivine'

Answer: peridot


Question: 'Friends are "the thieves" of this'

Answer: time


Question: 'Poe wrote, "They tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night!"'

Answer: the bells


Question: 'Jacob was born into this family in 1785 & his brother Wilhelm in 1786 & we're not telling tales'

Answer: Grimm


Question: 'When spaghetti is cooked "al dente", it means it's firm to this body part'

Answer: the teeth


Question: 'He was the first man in Indiana history to get more than 60% of the votes for senator, in 1986'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: 'This barren Italian island became famous after a fictional "Count" uncovered a treasure there'

Answer: Monte Cristo


Question: 'In 1967 Pearl Bailey led an all-black cast in this musical'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'This Illinois poet wrote what many consider to be the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'Her sister-in-law Anett Potzsch is also an Olympic gold medalist in figure skating'

Answer: Katarina Witt


Question: 'Pumpernickel bread is made primarily of this grain'

Answer: rye


Question: 'Christian Herter succeeded this man as Eisenhower's Secretary of State'

Answer: John Foster Dulles


Question: 'Once called Oyster Island, it became part of the Statue of Liberty nat'l monument in 1965'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: 'In this musical based on a Roger Corman film, no one heeds the musical warning, "Don't feed the plants!"'

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors


Question: 'He wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'German who designed the Me-262, the first jet plane used in war'

Answer: Willy Messerschmitt


Question: 'It's the culinary term for burnt sugar or a candy made from browned sugar'

Answer: caramel


Question: 'The grandson of this longtime Philadelphia A's manager has been Florida's junior senator since 1989'

Answer: Connie Mack


Question: 'One of Iowa's quad cities & a railroad bear the name of this island'

Answer: Rock Island


Question: 'In 1990 this ex-TV cop won a Tony for her Broadway role as Gypsy's mom'

Answer: Tyne Daly


Question: 'This 1928 poem by Stephen Vincent Benet includes lines from the song "Dixie"'

Answer: "John Brown\'s Body"


Question: 'German director Wim Wenders cast her in her 1st film, "The Wrong Move", & used her again in "Paris, Texas"'

Answer: Nastassja Kinski


Question: 'Halal meat is slaughtered according to the laws of this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Nixon's running mate in 1960, he was ambassador to South Vietnam under JFK & LBJ'

Answer: (Henry Cabot) Lodge


Question: '3 of the 4 islands that make up the Greater Antilles'

Answer: (3 of) Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico


Question: 'As the witch, P. Rashad went "Into the Woods" on Broadway to sing this composer's ditties'

Answer: (Stephen) Sondheim


Question: 'While in prison he wrote, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more"'

Answer: Richard Lovelace


Question: '19th century German whose name is synonymous with guidebook'

Answer: Baedeker


Question: 'The herb also called Chinese parsley or fresh coriander is called this in Mexican cooking'

Answer: cilantro


Question: 'In 1984, the year after he switched to the G.O.P., he was elected a senator from Texas'

Answer: Phil Gramm


Question: 'Named for a fire god, Surtsey emerged from the Atlantic in '63 & became part of this country'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'This actress, who originated the role of Anna in "The King & I", died during its run in 1952'

Answer: Gertrude Lawrence


Question: 'This country contains South America's highest & lowest points'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'This volcano on the side of Hawaii's Mauna Loa once contained a lake of bubbling molten lava'

Answer: Kilauea


Question: 'Pratt & McClain were a one-hit wonder with a theme to this Ron Howard TV show'

Answer: Happy Days


Question: 'The first cover, & many since, showed Eustace Tilley, a fop wearing this on his head'

Answer: Top hat


Question: 'In June 1991, 15 days after vets from the Gulf War got a parade, vets from this war 40 years earlier got one'

Answer: Korean War


Question: 'The IRS now allows some deductions for treatments, not including the over-the-counter patch, to quit this'

Answer: Smoking


Question: 'They "Bring Good Things to Life"'

Answer: GE


Question: 'This Argentinian peak near the Chilean border is only 623 feet higher than nearby 22,211-foot Cerro Mercedario'

Answer: Mount Aconcagua


Question: 'Jeannie C. Riley hit No. 1 with this 1968 story song about a small-town widow & an uptight school group'

Answer: "Harper Valley PTA"


Question: 'After his "In Cold Blood" ran as a 4-part series, he never published in The New Yorker again'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: 'He was the first man to win golf's Grand Slam & the first to receive 2 Broadway ticker-tape parades'

Answer: Bobby Jones


Question: 'To deduct these, your new job must be over 50 miles farther from your former home than your old job was'

Answer: Moving expenses


Question: 'In 1939 this organization introduced its 12-step program'

Answer: AA


Question: 'This Alpine peak rises 14,692 feet on the border of Switzerland's Valais Canton & Italy's Piedmont region'

Answer: Matterhorn


Question: 'In a 1980 hit Lipps, Inc. asked, "Won't you take me to" this title place'

Answer: "Funkytown"


Question: 'A New Yorker staffer coined this term for a biographical sketch, meant to show just one side of a person'

Answer: Profile


Question: 'The October 28, 1886 parade was for the dedication of this piece of art'

Answer: Statue of Liberty


Question: 'If you've been selected for one of these, the IRS cheerfully informs you that many of them result in refunds'

Answer: Audit


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  Before the CD, there was this'

Answer: LP


Question: 'In 1896 an Alaskan mount was named for this man elected president that year'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'This TV comedienne had a big hit with 1973's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"'

Answer: Vicki Lawrence


Question: 'The cartoon seen here is from this creator of Gomez & Morticia, & is still funny'

Answer: Charles Addams


Question: 'Filing jointly, families with 2 or more kids & making under $34,178 a year may receive the EITC, this credit'

Answer: Earned Income Tax Credit


Question: 'On "Law & Order", Sam Waterston plays an assistant one'

Answer: D.A.


Question: 'According to the Bible, Moses saw the Promised Land from this mountain in Jordan's Pisgah Range'

Answer: Mount Nebo


Question: 'He's the tech-savvy artist heard here with a 1983 hit:<br />("She Blinded Me With Science")'

Answer: Thomas Dolby


Question: 'About 9% of the individual returns for 2000 checked the box to donate this much to the Presidential Election Fund'

Answer: $3


Question: 'A Fleetwood or Winnebago'

Answer: RV


Question: 'A spectacle one performed by the Visigoths in Spain, this sport is featured in Shakira's "Te Dejo Madrid" video'

Answer: Bullfighting


Question: 'Remarkably, using only the jawbone of an ass, he slew 1,000 men in the Old Testament'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'Emil Fischer must have been in a coffeehouse when he identified this stimulant as part of the purine group'

Answer: Caffeine


Question: 'His "Four Dancers" was not one of the 24 works he submitted to an Impressionist show in 1876'

Answer: Edgar Degas


Question: '1990s Lakers general manager who became a state in 1863'

Answer: Jerry West Virginia


Question: '"I'm just talking about" the figurine seen here of this actor in a 2000 action blockbuster'

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson


Question: 'From the Latin for "to lie upon", these hospital machines are used to help control preemies' oxygen supplies'

Answer: Incubators


Question: 'The 1956 summer games in this country were the first not held in Europe or the U.S.'

Answer: Australia (Melbourne)


Question: 'At first Camille Pissarro used comma-shaped strokes, but after seeing this artist's work, switched to dots'

Answer: Georges Seurat


Question: '"Blame it on" this dance & Canadian province'

Answer: Bossa Nova Scotia


Question: 'In 376 when this Asian group threatened them, the Visigoths appealed to Rome for help'

Answer: Huns


Question: 'Found in Bonham, Texas, the library named for this Speaker of the House features a replica of his U.S. Capitol office'

Answer: Sam Rayburn


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in a science lab)  With chicken manure & water you can make an anaerobic digester that produces this gas, CH4, which can be used as a fuel'

Answer: Methane


Question: 'The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius", or "Faster, Higher", this'

Answer: Stronger


Question: 'Manet's impression of this city is seen here:<br />("The Grand Canal")'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Bunny home that turns up in the study on the JFK assassination'

Answer: Rabbit Warren Commission


Question: 'He's directed "Evil Dead", "Army of Darkness" & "Spider-Man"'

Answer: Sam Raimi


Question: 'During the 1970s this British physicist made the unexpected discovery that black holes emit thermal radiation'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'In 1976 this 14-year-old Romanian gymnast earned 7 perfect scores of 10'

Answer: Nadia Comaneci


Question: 'At the famous April 15, 1874 exhibition in Paris, this artist had the only work with "Impressionist" in the title'

Answer: Claude Monet


Question: 'After it was opened all that was left in it was hope, a sandwich, chips, an apple & a juice carton'

Answer: Pandora\'s box lunch


Question: 'This "Christabel" poet defined the sonnet as "A small poem, in which some lonely feeling is developed"'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Question: 'Seen here is this 2-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'This Spaniard served as president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001'

Answer: Juan Antonio Samaranch


Question: 'Painter of "The Wave", he was the father of French first wave filmmaker Jean'

Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir


Question: 'Air Force general & George Wallace running mate celebrated by pole dancers in the spring'

Answer: Curtis LeMay Day


Question: 'The National Mall is bounded by these 2 avenues whose names recall historic documents'

Answer: Constitution & Independence Avenues


Question: 'He played a stuntman-mobster in "Get Shorty" before becoming the big boss Tony Soprano'

Answer: James Gandolfini


Question: 'Con Thien ambush, Hamburger Hill'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Don't type in all these--the reader might think you're yelling'

Answer: capitals


Question: 'A 1987 Accord (made by this company) said "four sale"; something tells me you can talk the seller down'

Answer: Honda


Question: 'This large carnivorous marsupial was declared endangered in 2008'

Answer: the Tasmanian Devil


Question: 'Al Gore's environmental film that's a drug administered to get a subject to spill the beans in interrogation'

Answer: An Inconvenient Truth serum


Question: 'This "jersey boy" made several appearances as mobster Rusty Millio, till he got whacked'

Answer: Frankie Valli


Question: 'Sedan, Crecy'

Answer: France


Question: 'Ask before sending a big attachment; big or small, this office product usually represents it'

Answer: a paper clip


Question: 'A minivan bore a "Child in Car" sign, an obvious ripoff of this sign from Safety 1st Corp,; C'mon, spring for the original!'

Answer: "Baby on Board"


Question: 'Abel Tasman, the explorer for whom the island is named, first charted it in this century'

Answer: the 17th Century


Question: 'Star of 2008's "Incredible Hulk" who is a software program that gives spyware protection'

Answer: Edward Norton Anti-Virus


Question: 'For business or pleasure, Tony & the boys frequented this strip club owned by Silvio'

Answer: the Bada Bing!


Question: 'The Battle of the Piave River, Anzio'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'If you email in this "directional" fashion to group recipients, don't disclose everyone's email addresses'

Answer: forward


Question: 'A store had this word after "ATM", making it redundant; what a waste of money on that sign!'

Answer: machine


Question: 'It's the ocean to the east of Tasmania'

Answer: the Pacific Ocean


Question: 'Houston Rockets center who ruled over China from 1368 to 1644'

Answer: Yao Ming Dynasty


Question: 'On a trip to L.A. Tony's nephew Christopher jumped this "to have and have not" star & stole her gift basket'

Answer: Lauren Bacall


Question: 'The Battle of the Boyne, the Easter Rising'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Let people know their message was received; sometimes email falls prey to an overeager filter for this'

Answer: spam


Question: 'A cinema marquee says "The Dark Night", leaving this letter off the Batman title; Seriously? No one notices this?'

Answer: K


Question: 'Illegal almost everywhere, the growing of these poppies for medicinal purposes is legal in Tasmania'

Answer: opium poppies


Question: 'Coldplay singer known for portraying Jiminy Glick'

Answer: Chris Martin Short


Question: 'Lorraine Bracco played Tony's therapist & this director-actor played Elliot Kupferberg, her therapist'

Answer: Peter Bogdanovich


Question: 'The Battle of Arnhem, the Siege of Haarlem'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'If not all the recipients know each other, don't give out their addresses--use bcc, short for this'

Answer: blind carbon copy


Question: 'To the guy with a "Perot/Choate" bumper sticker: scrape it off already! they lost their White House bid in this year'

Answer: 1996


Question: 'The rough waters of Bass Strait separate Tasmania from this Australian state'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'Jack London story about the dog Buck who joins a Nick cartoon about Eliza, who can talk to animals'

Answer: The Call of the Wild Thornberrys


Question: 'Kathleen Battle's debut with the Metropolitan Opera was as the shepherd in this composer's "Tannhauser"'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'CBS sitcom star Carlos Estevez'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'To calculate the ratio of this, divide the total level by the HDL level; a desirable result is below 4'

Answer: cholesterol


Question: 'In may 2008 she tied the knot with Henry Hager at the family ranch in Texas'

Answer: Jenna Bush


Question: 'Subtract 2 symbols from the Olympic logo created in 1914 & you get this'

Answer: three rings


Question: 'This 3-word fairy tale ending tells us how the main characters lived from that point onward'

Answer: Happily Ever After


Question: 'Sadly, this "bubbly" soprano & longtime general director of the NYC opera passed away in 2007'

Answer: Beverly Sills


Question: 'Illusionist David Kotkin'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'On the BMI, this index, 25.0 to 29.9 is overweight; 30.0 & above is obese'

Answer: the Body Mass Index


Question: 'While only 2 of the 6 children from his marriage lived to maturity, he may have fathered others with Sally Hemings'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'This product from Adobe lets you create & share documents in PDF form'

Answer: Acrobat


Question: 'Many religions believe in this time yet to come, post-death'

Answer: the hereafter


Question: 'One of Lily Pons' well-known roles was that of the beautiful Rosina in this Rossini opera'

Answer: The Barber of Seville


Question: 'Cool rapper O'Shea Jackson'

Answer: Ice Cube


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents a chart.)  Before working out, try this excercise:  subtract your age from 220. Taking 60% and 80% of that number will give you the lower and upper end of your optimal this for training'

Answer: your heart rate


Question: 'Her father's only daughter, she was called on to christen a new battleship, the USS Missouri'

Answer: Margaret Truman


Question: 'Though named Marlin, Marlin in "Finding Nemo" was actually this type of fish'

Answer: a clown fish


Question: 'In 1973 Maureen McGovern sang, "There's got to be" one of these "if we can hold on through the night"'

Answer: a morning after


Question: 'In 1960 she performed "Aida" at La Scala, becoming the first black woman to sing a leading role there'

Answer: Leontyne Price


Question: 'The pulse-quickening Raquel Tejada'

Answer: Raquel Welch


Question: 'He made his last major public appearance in 1922 at the dedication of his father's memorial in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Robert Todd Lincoln


Question: 'You'll go head over heels for these stemless cocktail glasses with thick bottoms'

Answer: tumblers


Question: 'From the Old Norse for "beam", it's a wooden beam forming the framework of a roof'

Answer: a rafter


Question: 'Maria Jeritza sang the title role of this composer's "Turandot" at its U.S. premiere in 1926'

Answer: Puccini


Question: '1940s bombshell Margarita Cansino'

Answer: Rita Hayworth


Question: 'A chip off the old block, this president's son Fred graduated from West Point in 1871, while dad was in the White House'

Answer: Ulysses Grant


Question: 'Aussie Medicare features this, what the AHD defines as "a guarantee, as of professional or financial security"'

Answer: a safety net


Question: 'More than 100 million viewed this 1983 TV movie set in Lawrence, Kansas about a nuclear strike on the U.S.'

Answer: The Day After


Question: 'In 1865 he wrote the line "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'Gavin Menzies makes a big claim for Admiral Zheng He in "1421: The Year" this nation "Discovered America"'

Answer: China