Question: 'The metro area of this Victoria capital contains more than 70% of the state's population'

Answer: Melbourne


Question: 'Word of query addressed to Romeo'

Answer: wherefore


Question: 'The Dot Earth blog had an interview with the maker of this documentary about dolphin slaughter that just won an Oscar'

Answer: The Cove


Question: 'In one episode of USA's "Burn Notice", she reunited with her old TV partner, Tyne Daly'

Answer: Sharon Gless


Question: 'On an electrical diagram, the symbol here denotes this device that steps current up or down'

Answer: a transformer


Question: 'Hecuba became the second wife of this king of Troy & had 19 children with him'

Answer: Priam


Question: 'It was named for William IV's wife, who was queen when it was founded in 1836'

Answer: Adelaide


Question: 'As a result or inference of what has been stated'

Answer: therefore


Question: 'nytimes.com/health has a handy primer on the PSA blood test done on older gents, PSA standing for this'

Answer: prostate-specific antigen


Question: 'Timothy Hutton leads a crew of crooks who help the downtrodden get revenge against bigwigs on this TNT drama'

Answer: Leverage


Question: 'The symbol here could stand for the U.S. as alchemists used it to mean a crucible, also called this 2-word term'

Answer: melting pot


Question: 'Hecuba lays a guilt trip on this eldest son for going into his final combat'

Answer: Hector


Question: 'ANZAC Square War Memorial in this Queensland capital honors Aussie war vets'

Answer: Brisbane


Question: 'A garment worn by a child, perhaps aboard an operatic ship'

Answer: a pinafore


Question: 'He had previously been a U.S. senator, minister to France, England & Spain, Secretary of War, Secretary of State & Governor of Virginia'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'Bolivia's longest border is with this neighbor to the east'

Answer: Brazil


Question: '"Welcome to the ___ ___, such a lovely place, such a lovely face"'

Answer: Hotel California


Question: 'Its original Irish cream is a blend of Irish whiskey with hints of vanilla & chocolate'

Answer: Bailey\'s


Question: 'In 1803 this "Buckeye State" entered the union, the first state in which slavery was illegal from the outset'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'It's the first 3-syllable word in the text of the King James Bible'

Answer: beginning


Question: '(Cesar Millan walks several large dogs) Notice that I walk ahead of the dogs; I am communicating that I'm the pack leader, the equivalent of this leader of a wild pack'

Answer: the alpha


Question: '"And another one gone and another one gone, another one ___ ___ ___"'

Answer: bites the dust


Question: 'This brand of frozen veggies uses the logo seen here'

Answer: Birds Eye


Question: 'Years before his book of watercolors, he conducted America's first bird-banding experiments'

Answer: Audubon


Question: 'In 1966 Bobby Darin sang, "If I were a" this, "and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway? would you have my baby?"'

Answer: carpenter


Question: '(Cesar Millan is holding a dog) One of the most powerful tools in working with dogs is giving rewards, what psychologists call this type of reinforcement'

Answer: positive


Question: '"Upside, inside out she's livin' ___ ___ ___"'

Answer: la vida loca


Question: 'This "fraternal" company was the official supplier of typewriters to the 1984 Summer Olympics'

Answer: Brother


Question: 'About 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the "Trail of" these in the late 1830s'

Answer: tears


Question: 'This highly poisonous semi-metallic element, As, is often used in insecticides & weed killers'

Answer: arsenic


Question: '(Cesar Millan stands next to a seated dog) Dogs look to us for reassurance & notice fear immediately; in an entire city, a dog could find 1 gram of butyric acid, a component of this human secretion'

Answer: sweat (or perspiration)


Question: '"And then while I'm away I'll write home ev'ry day and I'll send ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"'

Answer: all my lovin\' to you


Question: 'This company is known for its Weejun loafers'

Answer: Bass


Question: 'On May 11, 1894 workers at this Chicago railroad car plant began a strike that lasted almost 3 months'

Answer: the Pullman


Question: 'In the 1960s Speaker of the California Assembly Jesse Unruh said, "Money is the mother's milk of" this'

Answer: politics


Question: '(Cesar Millan stands by a small group of dogs) With a little bit of help from me, the pack rehabilitates unstable dogs by showing them by example how to be calm & this, the opposite of dominant or assertive in behavioral science'

Answer: submissive


Question: '"What goes up must come down, ___ ___ got to go 'round"'

Answer: spinning wheel


Question: 'This company developed the Apollo lunar surface drill'

Answer: Black & Decker


Question: 'In an 1830 debate this senator said, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable"'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'In 392 B.C. Isocrates founded a school to teach this skill of using language effectively & persuasively'

Answer: rhetoric


Question: '(Cesar Millan snaps his fingers and makes a short vocal sound to a dog before giving the clue) Operant conditioning is a fancy way of saying learning from consequences, like the simple act of correction; it is part of this school of psychology that deals with actions, not inner states, so it works well with dogs'

Answer: behavioralist/behaviorism


Question: 'A local news blog that debuted in 2007 is called this "room", conjuring up visions of fedoras & copy boys'

Answer: city room


Question: 'A pair of pliers is an example of this type of simple machine'

Answer: a lever


Question: 'In the Pledge of Allegiance'

Answer: all


Question: 'In 1974 this beat poet for "The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971"'

Answer: (Allen) Ginsberg


Question: 'In happier times the royal Grimaldi family of this country kicked up its heels'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'It's a cosmetic used to color the cheeks'

Answer: rouge


Question: 'Between 2001 & 2010 the Times won 26 Pulitzers, including one in 2009 for covering the stunning downfall of this governor'

Answer: Eliot Spitzer


Question: 'Types of these fast-moving air currents found in the troposphere include polar & subtropical'

Answer: the jet stream


Question: 'In the constitutional text of the presidential oath of office--a 6-letter word'

Answer: States


Question: 'In 2001 for his novel "The Corrections"; it was also an Oprah selection'

Answer: Franzen


Question: 'This spy novelist is seen here with a drink in hand, though it looks more like wine than a vodka martini'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: 'It's another name for the mountain lion'

Answer: cougar


Question: 'The 1st Timescast of newsroom video aired in 2010 & 1 story discussed was this tech co.'s rocky relationship with China'

Answer: Google


Question: 'Thin slabs of itacolumite, a rare kind of this "grainy" rock, can actually be bent or squeezed out of shape'

Answer: sandstone


Question: 'In the first sentence of a Miranda warning'

Answer: silent


Question: 'In 1952 for her nonfiction bestseller "The Sea Around Us"'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'Let the name of this French scientist ferment in your brain'

Answer: Pasteur


Question: 'Impel or goad'

Answer: urge


Question: 'Around this event in the fall of 2010, nytimes.com ran a "word train" to gauge readers' moods--no. 1 was "disgusted"'

Answer: the mid-term election


Question: 'In 1911 Heike Onnes first observed superconductivity when he cooled this slippery element to -452 degrees Fahrenheit'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'In "America the Beautiful"'

Answer: sea


Question: 'In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater"'

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: 'This Massachusetts man was still a student at Yale when he spoke with Vice President Hubert Humphrey'

Answer: John Kerry


Question: 'This carpenter's tool bores holes in wood'

Answer: auger


Question: 'In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook'

Answer: Goldman Sachs


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a display of the sun.) Nuclear fusion in the sun's core produces energy that eventually flows to the photosphere - first, by radiation and then by heat currents using  this process, also used in a type of oven'

Answer: convection


Question: 'In the "Flintstones" theme'

Answer: time


Question: 'In 1974 for "Gravity's Rainbow"'

Answer: Thomas Pynchon


Question: 'This soprano is seen in profile; the gentleman blindfolded next to her is Aristotle Onassis'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'It's just "I" in Latin'

Answer: ego


Question: 'A 1984 country hit, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is the basis for its theme song'

Answer: Monday Night Football


Question: 'The Moray variety of this fish is sharp-toothed & can be vicious if provoked'

Answer: eel


Question: '"Feel the city breakin' & everybody shakin' & we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive ah ha ha ha, stayin' alive"'

Answer: the Bee Gees


Question: 'In 1959, a chapter of Gamblers Anonymous was formed in this city-- how apt!'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'This enclosed glass container is used to keep plants & small animals such as turtles & lizards'

Answer: terrarium


Question: 'See Marion Monroe train as a child psychology & co-write the books starring this unexciting boy-girl pair'

Answer: Dick & Jane


Question: 'Suspect Rocky Mountain fever even in patients from the Carolinas, as it's an area with lots of these critters'

Answer: ticks


Question: 'The ability of the creature seen here to get airborne gives it this two-word name'

Answer: flying fish


Question: '"I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"'

Answer: Queen


Question: 'Far from the Caribbean, Jamaica Bay is on this New York island'

Answer: Long Island


Question: 'When its wind speed hits 74 MPH, a tropical storm is then designated one of these'

Answer: hurricane


Question: 'In 1948 she had one line in "Love Happy", the last Marx Brothers movie'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'A cold that lasts longer than a week may indicate inflammation of these airspaces in the skull'

Answer: sinuses


Question: 'On Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492, brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships'

Answer: Nina & Pinta


Question: '"Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad, I'm hot for teacher... I got it bad, so bad, I'm hot for teacher"'

Answer: Van Halen


Question: 'A type of humorous poem bears the name of this Irish port city'

Answer: Limerick


Question: 'In this dive, you bend in midair to touch the toes while keeping the legs straight, then straighten the body'

Answer: jackknife


Question: 'Forget DiMaggio and Berra-- the secret to the Yankees' 11 pennants from 1947 to 1960 was Lucy Monroe's singing of this'

Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner


Question: 'A stent is a tube often used to hold these open, especially the coronary ones'

Answer: arteries


Question: 'Queen variety of this heavenly sponge eater and reef dweller is seen here'

Answer: angel fish


Question: '"Oh oh oh, I wanna be free, to feel the way I feel, man! I feel like a woman!"'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'The 2 Baltic nations that qualify'

Answer: Lithuania & Latvia


Question: 'This identifying design pressed into some paper products dates back to late 13th century Italy'

Answer: watermark


Question: '1940s singing star Vaughn Monroe had a rich voice in this middle male range, hence the nickname "old leather tonsils"'

Answer: baritone


Question: 'The pelvic bones are where doctors get this stuff they transplant into cancer patients'

Answer: bone marrow


Question: 'Built in 1816, the first private yacht to cross the Atlantic shared its name with this ancient craft that cruised the Nile'

Answer: Cleopatra\'s barge


Question: '"In the jungle, welcome to the jungle, watch it bring you to your sha na na na na na na na knees, knees"'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: 'One of the driest & most parched regions on earth is found in this country of North Africa'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'Some believe this substance emanates from a medium during a seance'

Answer: ectoplasm


Question: 'In 1912 Harriet Monroe launched the magazine simply called this; it soon published T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound'

Answer: Poetry


Question: 'The air puff test, a measure of eye pressure, is used to diagnose this condition'

Answer: glaucoma


Question: 'It's a plane figure bounded by 3 straight lines that intersect at 3 vertices'

Answer: a triangle


Question: 'Wah wah wah! Burgess waddled into this TV villain part in 1966'

Answer: the Penguin


Question: 'In this Remarque novel, Paul Baumer spends the night seeking forgiveness from a soldier he killed'

Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front


Question: 'This Pennsylvania-born quarterback is the NFL's only 3-time Super Bowl MVP'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: '"E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial" was released, grossing more than $300 million that year'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'In arteries, it can cause arteriosclerosis; on the teeth, in can cause decay'

Answer: plaque


Question: 'With a name meaning "many angles", these shapes may or may not be convex'

Answer: polygon


Question: 'As Mickey, Burgess had some advice for this 1976 title guy: "Women weaken legs!"'

Answer: Rocky


Question: 'In this Dalton Trumbo novel, Johnny returns home from the war with his body shattered but his mind intact'

Answer: Johnny Got His Gun


Question: 'A chef at Delmonico's in New York named this dessert in honor of a big purchase the U.S. made from Russia'

Answer: Baked Alaska


Question: 'The 20th century began'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'A clever or witty remark'

Answer: quip


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.)  A pair of angles that  add together to make a straight line are called this type of angle'

Answer: supplementary


Question: 'There's the signpost up ahead; Burgess appeared in many episodes of this TV series & was its narrator in movie form'

Answer: The Twilight Zone


Question: 'Oskar the Dwarf revels in the destruction & insanity of Nazi Germany in this novel'

Answer: The Tin Drum


Question: 'The University of Iowa gave this future 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright a B.A. in 1938'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces; U.S. forces rescued the crew of 39'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'To multiply by 5'

Answer: quintuple


Question: 'From the Greek for "worthy", this kind of statement is also called a postulate'

Answer: an axiom


Question: 'Burgess swigs some booze & calls it breakfast as Grandpa Gustafson in this 1993 Lemmon-Matthau film'

Answer: Grumpy Old Men


Question: 'In this Ancient Greek play, women deny their husbands bedroom visitation rights until they stop fighting'

Answer: Lysistrata


Question: 'A museum in New Mexico is devoted to this artist famous for bleak landscapes & cow skulls'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'The Alien & Sedition Acts were adopted by Congress'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'To excite the curiosity (perhaps by looking through a keyhole)'

Answer: pique


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the clue on the monitor.) It's the property that expresses why the third equation follows from the first two'

Answer: transitive


Question: 'In 1945's "Story of G.I. Joe", Burgess played this Pulitzer-winning war journalist who was killed by a sniper that year'

Answer: Ernie Pyle


Question: 'This American humorist's "War Prayer", about the Spanish-American War, was published in 1923, after his death'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Jessica Biel found a "7th Heaven" in California & found a Hell in the remake of this 1974 Tobe Hooper classic'

Answer: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre


Question: 'The Telstar Communications satellite relayed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The ship in "Moby Dick" that gets its name from an Indian tribe destroyed by the Puritans'

Answer: Pequod


Question: 'He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957'

Answer: Stephen Sondheim


Question: 'Underwater--or 80% of its largest city anyway, in August 2005'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: '2009:<br />Austrian fashionista Bruno'

Answer: Sacha Baron Cohen


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a courtroom.)  The judge might not literally sit on one, but his predecessors did, as in the Shakespeare line, "To pluck down justice from your awful" this'

Answer: the bench


Question: 'A history of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus was one source of this 5-act tragedy'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'It's a soft rubber container with a stopper, filled with warmed liquid & used when you're ill'

Answer: a hot water bottle


Question: 'This is "under god" in the Pledge of Allegiance'

Answer: one nation


Question: 'Confused--in Nov. 2008 this state was unsure who got elected as its new senator, Mark Begich or Ted Stevens'

Answer: Alaska


Question: '2009: <br />Zed, who lives in "year one"'

Answer: Jack Black


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a courtroom.)  To plead a case before the court, attorneys must literally do this 3-word phrase; many just out of law school struggle to do it'

Answer: pass the bar


Question: 'Bassanio gets some skin in the game & asks to borrow some money from his pal Antonio to woo a woman in this play'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'Fractional term for a bottle of liquor that holds 750 milliliters'

Answer: a fifth


Question: 'The three musketeers' motto'

Answer: all for one and one for all


Question: 'On fire--on Oct. 8, 1871, 90,000 people in a major city were left homeless in this state'

Answer: Illinois


Question: '2009: <br />Skynet fighter John Connor'

Answer: Christian Bale


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a courtroom.)  Rather than have the jurors choose this person, some states automatically appoint the juror who's in the seat I'm in'

Answer: the foreman


Question: '"You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, and bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst" is spoken in this play'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Perhaps from the Arabic for "drinking cup", it's used for serving wine in a restaurant'

Answer: a carafe


Question: 'Proverbially, to double your efficiency is to kill 2 birds with this'

Answer: one stone


Question: 'Frozen--specifically at Mt. Washington in this New England state, where it was around -47 degrees on Jan. 29, 1934'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: '2009: <br />Public enemy John Dillinger'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a courtroom.)  The officer of the court is responsible for maintaining security, guarding juries &, in most courts, giving this 2-word order when the judge enters'

Answer: all rise


Question: 'Menteith, Caithness & Angus are among the noblemen in this tragedy'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'This brand name is also a generic term for what technically are vacuum bottles that maintain temperature'

Answer: Thermos


Question: 'Slang for a slot machine in Vegas'

Answer: a one-armed bandit


Question: 'Extremely windy, seen here is the April 11, 1965 double tornado in Elkhart in this state'

Answer: Indiana


Question: '2008: <br />Mary, "The other Boleyn girl"'

Answer: Scarlett Johansson


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a courtroom.)  The court reporter who sits here must record up to 250 words per minute for CVR certification, the "V" standing for this exact adjective'

Answer: verbatim


Question: 'This title guy dies of a broken heart as he kneels over the body of his youngest daughter'

Answer: King Lear


Question: '4-letter name for a small glass bottle used to hold medicine'

Answer: a vial


Question: '4-word term meaning the garment is suitable for all body types'

Answer: one size fits all


Question: 'Alfred Whitehead said that Europe's philosophical tradition "consists of a series of footnotes to" this Greek'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'This "Double Fantasy" songwriter was said to be legally blind without his glasses'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: '2009: <br />This Denver paper'

Answer: The Rocky Mountain News


Question: 'At one time, he was first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Party Committee'

Answer: Yeltsin


Question: 'Found in warm coastal waters, it's an explosion of fish-killing, toxin-secreting dinoflagellates'

Answer: red tide


Question: 'Favorable regard, often high'

Answer: esteem


Question: 'Ralph Waldo Emerson once employed this thinker as a gardener & handyman'

Answer: Thoreau


Question: 'Earl Scruggs, once a member of the Foggy Mountain Boys, gained fame playing this instrument'

Answer: a banjo


Question: '2008: <br />This New Mexico city's Pulitzer-winning Tribune'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'In 1979, this leader had to flee his own country'

Answer: the Shah


Question: 'An erythrocyte'

Answer: a red blood cell


Question: 'A steady flow, as "of consciousness"'

Answer: stream


Question: 'In the 19th century he attacked Denmark's Lutheran church, questioning its true Christianity'

Answer: Kierkegaard


Question: '"Walk On By", made famous by Dionne Warwick, was written by Hal David & him'

Answer: Burt Bacharach


Question: '2009: <br />This hyphenated Seattle paper (it survives online)'

Answer: the Post-Intelligencer


Question: 'He was the longest serving prime minister of his country & is seen here in his trademark outfit'

Answer: (Jawaharlal) Nehru


Question: 'This salad ingredient, <i>capsicum annuum grossum</i>, has been allowed to ripen on the vine'

Answer: a red pepper


Question: 'A topic or motif'

Answer: theme


Question: 'The first years of the life of this 5th c. philosopher are mostly known from his autobiographical "Confessions"'

Answer: Saint Augustine


Question: 'This jazz singer & pianist is Mrs. Elvis Costello'

Answer: Diana Krall


Question: '2008: <br />This revived newspaper that once brightened up New York City'

Answer: The Sun


Question: 'This king of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew in 1975'

Answer: King Faisal


Question: 'A small, dim star; Proxima Centauri is one'

Answer: a red dwarf


Question: 'To use a coupon, or to make up for'

Answer: redeem


Question: 'According to his "razor"-sharp philosophy, a problem should be stated in its simplest & most basic terms'

Answer: (William of) Occam


Question: 'Known as a jazz renaissance man, he screamed up the '80s charts with tunes like "Rockit"'

Answer: Herbie Hancock


Question:
'2009:
This Conde Nast foodie magazine (Bon Appetit is staying around ...for now)'

Answer: Gourmet


Question: 'This former law professor was prime minister of his country for parts of three decades'

Answer: Pierre Elliott Trudeau


Question: 'Due to the Doppler effect, it's an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a moving celestial body'

Answer: red shift


Question: 'This monetary unit was 1/100th of a French Franc'

Answer: a centime


Question: 'When this animated TV show premiered, it was sponsored by One-A-Day vitamins & Winston cigarettes'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: 'In the 1750s naval surgeon James Lind showed that this could be cured & prevented by eating citrus fruit'

Answer: scurvy


Question: 'In 1999 this city's Colts won 10 more games than in 1998, the biggest one-season improvement to date'

Answer: Indianapolis


Question: 'In 1960 this acting legend & Freemason played another Freemason, Davy Crockett, in "The Alamo"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  Health regulations often call for some restaurant employees to wear these on their heads'

Answer: hairnets


Question: 'This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'This kind of person doesn't deny that God exists, he just believes it's impossible to know'

Answer: agnostic


Question: 'He developed the live-attenuated vaccine for polio, which is given orally & requires no booster shot'

Answer: Albert Sabin


Question: 'Until 1989 this was the only head coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had'

Answer: Tom Landry


Question: 'This American conjurer, escapologist & Freemason was born in Budapest in 1874 as Ehrich Weiss'

Answer: Harry Houdini


Question: 'It can mean to wash shampoo off hair, or a solution to color hair'

Answer: rinse


Question: 'Damien Hirst is known for his dead-animals-in-tanks artworks, notably a tiger one of these fish in formaldehyde'

Answer: tiger shark


Question: 'This ancient medical oath begins, "I swear by Apollo physician..."'

Answer: the Hippocratic Oath


Question: 'Neatness doesn't always count -- a moldy petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria led to the discovery of this antibiotic'

Answer: penicillin


Question: '2 of the 3 cities that had been home to the team now called the Titans'

Answer: (2 of 3) Houston, Memphis & Nashville


Question: 'He regularly attended Masonic lodge meetings until 1911 when he became England's first Lord of the Admiralty'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'In this process, a stone surface is cleaned with tiny grains fired at high velocity'

Answer: sandblastng


Question: '"Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" is one of this artist's best-known mobiles'

Answer: Alexander Calder


Question: 'This term for a reckless or foolish person is from the Latin for "moon-struck"'

Answer: lunatic


Question: 'Neatness does count -- his discovery of antiseptics reduced deaths from surgical infections'

Answer: Joseph Lister


Question: 'This Dolphins quarterback retired after the 1999 season with a record 420 career touchdown passes'

Answer: Dan Marino


Question: 'This Austrian Freemason used references to Masonry in his "Magic Flute"'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'It's the car care product whose symbol is seen here'

Answer: Turtle Wax


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  From the French meaning "to cut out", it's the decorative art I'm demonstrating here'

Answer: decoupage


Question: 'A synonym for rural, it can also mean simple or artless'

Answer: rustic


Question: 'Interferon alone or combined with the antiviral drug Ribavirin is used to treat the C-type of this disease'

Answer: hepatitis


Question: 'In 1967 this Green Bay Packers quarterback was named MVP of the first Super Bowl'

Answer: Bart Starr


Question: 'This former VP & Freemason launched a conspiracy to take over the U.S. Southwest'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'Andy Warhol gave this steel wool product free publicity by sculpting its boxes'

Answer: Brillo


Question: 'Christianity & Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'It's the principal Christian church in Egypt'

Answer: Coptic


Question: 'The Limpopo River also has the name of this reptile that some want to make into "coil decor"'

Answer: crocodile (coil decor)


Question: 'Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage'

Answer: strike


Question: 'In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house'

Answer: La Scala


Question: 'In "An Hour Before Daylight" this former president shares memories of growing up in rural Georgia'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Napoleon's forces suffered about 40,000 casualties losing this June 18, 1815 battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'After the robin goes bob-bob-bobbing along, it lays an egg of this color'

Answer: blue


Question: 'Though Botswana has little or no gold, these mineral products might get the "Midas nod"'

Answer: diamonds (Midas nod)


Question: 'Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: 'In English "Il Trovatore" means this, a wandering minstrel'

Answer: a troubadour


Question: 'This anthropologist told about her early years in 1972's "Blackberry Winter"'

Answer: Margaret Mead


Question: 'In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'A pound of this egg delicacy from Russia could set you back $1,200; from Iran, over $1,600'

Answer: caviar


Question: 'In this area that covers much of Botswana, you might take "a rash ideal trek"'

Answer: Kalahari Desert (a rash ideal trek)


Question: 'Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film'

Answer: Battleship Potemkin


Question: 'The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester'

Answer: Rigoletto


Question: 'Title of Billie Holiday's 1965 autobiography & of the movie it later inspired'

Answer: "Lady Sings the Blues"


Question: 'The Third Republic began after France lost the war to this Bismarck-led German state'

Answer: Prussia


Question: 'The Sauropod, a dinosaur the size of a bus, came from eggs discovered in this country's Patagonia region'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'If you lose all your clothes in this capital, just "go on bare"'

Answer: Gabarone (go on bare)


Question: 'The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year'

Answer: 1917


Question: 'Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'Read up on this longtime speaker of the House in his 1987 memoir "Man of the House"'

Answer: Tip O\'Neill


Question: 'The English won most of the battles in this 1337-1453 war but in the end France drove them out'

Answer: Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while'

Answer: thousand/hundred-year-old eggs


Question: 'When Botswana was this British protectorate, it was perhaps more of a "can and ale hub"'

Answer: Bechuanaland (can and ale hub)


Question: 'Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV"'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'This TV news producer tells his own story in "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years & 60 Minutes in Television"'

Answer: Don Hewitt


Question: 'The 1520s weren't good for France either; it lost Milan to Charles V, leader of this "empire" that began in 962'

Answer: Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'The Franklin Mint has the eggs named for this artisan ranging from $37.50 to the eggs-pensive $6,900'

Answer: Faberge


Question: 'Upon this nation's independence in 1903, it was "moved" from one continent to another'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Frank O' Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer'

Answer: Billie Holiday


Question: 'This amusement park near Harrison is named for famous Al Capp comic strip community'

Answer: Dogpatch USA


Question: 'Mycology is the branch of biology that studies mushrooms, yeasts, molds, and other types of these'

Answer: fungi


Question: 'The name of this monetary unit of the Netherlands is from the Dutch for golden'

Answer: the guilder


Question: 'This Detroit stadium was formerly called Bennett Park, then Navin Field, then Briggs Stadium'

Answer: Tiger Stadium


Question: 'Until he was six, his name was Michael Luther King, Jr.'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'Though not noted for its Chinese restaurants, Arkansas produces more of this grain than any other state'

Answer: rice


Question: 'Fibrogen is a protein material that helps the blood in doing this'

Answer: clotting


Question: 'No. of groschen in an Austrian shilling or no. of centime in a French franc'

Answer: 100


Question: 'In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Frank Paul Lovecchio; he rode a "Mule Train" to fame'

Answer: Frankie Laine


Question: 'It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy'

Answer: Miniver


Question: 'The state's only national park; it's famous as a health resort'

Answer: Hot Springs


Question: 'Common term for a female gamete'

Answer: egg


Question: 'Canada has issued a series of ten sterling coins marking this 1988 event in Calgary'

Answer: Winter Olympic Games


Question: 'Major League Baseball's oldest stadium is this one in Chicago'

Answer: Comiskey Park


Question: 'Helen Louise Leonard got this stage name from Tony Pastor and her diamonds, we assume, from Jim Brady'

Answer: Lillian Russell


Question: '"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled"'

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'The 2 states that border Arkansas across the Mississippi River'

Answer: Tennessee & Mississippi


Question: 'People usually refer to adipose tissue as this'

Answer: fat


Question: 'You'd use bills in this monetary unit to buy a tuba in Cuba or magazines in the Philippines'

Answer: the peso


Question: 'While Huskie Stadium<br />(-skie) belongs to Northern Illinois University, Husky Stadium (-sky) is this school's home field'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Born Edith Mariner in Brooklyn, she was nominated for Oscars five times and won for "I Want to Live"'

Answer: Susan Hayward


Question: 'He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize'

Answer: Josef Brodsky


Question: 'In 1967 he became the first Republican governor of the state since the Reconstruction days'

Answer: Winthrop Rockefeller


Question: 'In any vertebrate, the occiput is the posterior part of this'

Answer: the skull


Question: 'It's the monetary unit of Greenland'

Answer: the krona


Question: '1 of 4 Major League ballparks named for the counties they're in'

Answer: the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (or the Kingdome, Milwaukee County Stadium, or the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum)


Question: 'The famous alias of Doroteo Arango, the Mexican revolutionary who was killed in 1923'

Answer: Pancho Villa


Question: 'First successful 5 & 10; from August '82 to August of '87, it outperformed all other stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average'

Answer: Woolworth\'s


Question: '1960's Vice-President who called his autobiography "The Education of a Public Man"'

Answer: Hubert Humphrey


Question: 'The Florida Keys stretch some 150 miles from Virginia Key, near Miami Beach, to this one'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'Varieties of it have included the fire, the white, the black, but not the Buick'

Answer: opal


Question: 'A "dynamite" medicine for hearts'

Answer: nitroglycerin


Question: 'This largest US hot dog maker also makes sauerkraut and pickles which can go with the hot dogs'

Answer: Oscar Mayer


Question: 'Both sons of Methodist ministers, they were the party's Presidential nominees in 1972 and 1984'

Answer: George McGovern & Walter Mondale


Question: 'This man's Viennese office is the setting for "A Far Country"'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'According to Guinness, the greatest explosion in the past 3,000 years occured August 27, 1883, on this island'

Answer: Krakatoa


Question: 'Color of a peridot'

Answer: green


Question: 'To set the record straight, Thucydides wrote a history of this war'

Answer: the Peloponnesian War


Question: '1 of the 7 regional phone companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and commonly called the "Baby Bells"'

Answer: (1 of) Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, NYNEX, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, or US West


Question: 'At the start of his Presidential campaign, he said "I'm not from Washington and I'm not a lawyer"'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: '"Becket" opens with this monarch saying, "Well, Thomas Becket, are you satisfied?  I am naked at your tomb"'

Answer: Henry II


Question: 'Most of this Scandinavian country's people live on islands'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'The name of this gemstone is from the Persian "zargun" meaning gold-colored'

Answer: zircon


Question: 'As Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire & Nanette Fabray could tell you, "That's" it'

Answer: entertainment


Question: 'On August 19, 1987, the AFL-CIO ended its 10-year old boycott of this Colorado-based company'

Answer: Coors


Question: 'Missouri congressman who's making some countries' trade practices a major issue in his Presidential campaign'

Answer: Richard Gephardt


Question:
'193 years after the events it portrayed, this 1969 musical featured the following:

"For I am yet happy, the first family, in the southern colony of Virginia..."'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'Only independent island nation in the Persian Gulf'

Answer: Bahrain


Question: 'The largest blue diamond and the largest pearl have been given this name'

Answer: Hope


Question: 'A sin, for example'

Answer: transgression


Question: 'After creating the US Steel corporation, he went on to head the Bethlehem Steel corporation'

Answer: Charles Schwab


Question: 'Currently ambassador to Japan under Reagan, he was formerly Senate majority leader'

Answer: Mike Mansfield


Question: 'The familiar shortened title of the Peter Weiss drama set at the Asylum of Charenton'

Answer: Marat/Sade


Question: 'After Britain relocated all the inhabitants, the US built a naval base on this Indian Ocean island'

Answer: Diego Garcia


Question: 'The two gem names that end in the letters  <br />-nyx'

Answer: onyx and sardonyx


Question: 'Only state that fits the category'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'This former British colony, which gained independence in 1960, is the most populous country in Africa'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'In 1870 this "Goober State" became the last to be permanently readmitted to the Union'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'His 1927 salary with the Yankees was $70,000, or $1,166.67 per homer'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'Title of both Judy Sheindlin & her husband Jerry'

Answer: judge


Question: 'Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high"'

Answer: Lilliput


Question: 'Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the code DCA but is located in this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'It begins at the Place de la Concorde'

Answer: the Champs-Élysées


Question: 'This term was coined to refer to Northern whites who went South seeking opportunities'

Answer: carpetbaggers


Question: 'Say hey!  Say what?  In 1965 he hit 52 homers & won his ninth straight Gold Glove--& made $105,000'

Answer: Willie Mays


Question: 'A vicereine is the wife of one of these officials'

Answer: a viceroy


Question: 'These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans'

Answer: Oompa Loompas


Question: 'In 1966 London Airport was renamed this, which uses the code LHR'

Answer: Heathrow


Question: 'City & state of the place known until 1860 as West Urbana'

Answer: Champaign, Illinois


Question: 'This man's impeachment trial brought Senate president pro tem Ben Wade within 1 vote of being U.S. president'

Answer: Johnson


Question: 'This player nicknamed "Big Papi" pulls down $12.5 million with the Red Sox'

Answer: David Ortiz


Question: 'Deposed in 1797, Ludovico Manin was the last of these chief magistrates to rule Venice'

Answer: the doges


Question: 'L. Frank Baum's Oz books include these underground folk, spelled without the silent "G"'

Answer: Nomes


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a Qantas flight simulator in Australia.)  The Qantas A380 flight simulator has a training visual database of over 130 airports, naturally including Australia's busiest one, which goes by this 3-letter code'

Answer: SYD


Question: 'In this idiom that refers to an impatient horse, many people substitute "chomp"'

Answer: champing at the bit


Question: 'In 1868 this Amendment gave African Americans full citizenship'

Answer: the 14th


Question: 'In 1979 this no-hit king became the first major leaguer with a guaranteed $1 million salary'

Answer: Nolan Ryan


Question: 'In "The Mikado" this grand fellow was the "Lord High Everything Else"'

Answer: the Pooh-bah


Question: 'Say "a prayer for" this tiny boy who kills his pal's mom with a foul ball'

Answer: Owen Meany


Question: 'From the initials of the man it's named for, the larger of Paris' 2 airports has this 3-letter code'

Answer: CDG


Question: '4 old buddies relive glory days of high school hoops in this play'

Answer: That Championship Season


Question: 'Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens were leaders of this "extreme" Republican group'

Answer: the Radical Republicans


Question: 'After hitting .350 in 1907, this Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop got his salary doubled for 1908--to a whopping $10,000'

Answer: (Honus) Wagner


Question: 'An ataman was the leader of a village of these horsemen who gave a Tolstoy novel its title'

Answer: the Cossacks


Question: 'Tyrion's last name in "A Game of Thrones"'

Answer: Lannister


Question: 'Jorge Chavez International Airport has the 3-letter code LIM & is in this country'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'By age 16, this translator of the Rosetta Stone had mastered 8 ancient languages'

Answer: Champollion


Question: 'On a scale of 1 to 10, his "Earthquakes" article for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was a 10'

Answer: Richter


Question: 'Author of the New York Star's "Sex & the City" column'

Answer: Carrie (Bradshaw)


Question: 'Adonijah, the fourth son of this biblical king, was killed by his brother Solomon'

Answer: David


Question: 'Zeus'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'You're not yourself today; you're this 8-letter word OED defines as "one who assumes a false character"'

Answer: impostor


Question: 'Round 2 included this French-derived word for the supporting frame of a car'

Answer: the chassis


Question: 'Tragically, in 1864, his nitroglycerin factory blew up, killing several people, including his younger brother Emil'

Answer: Nobel


Question: 'Title blood-splatter expert for the Miami police'

Answer: Dexter


Question: 'Robert the Steward was heir presumptive to his grandfather, this Scot, who suddenly had a son in 1324'

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: 'Odysseus'

Answer: Ulysses


Question: 'One who speaks ill of you when you're not around, or who implants a dagger in your dorsal region'

Answer: a backstabber


Question: 'A young man lost after placing an "h" in the middle of this Italian bacon'

Answer: pancetta


Question: 'An institute of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist'

Answer: (Niels) Bohr


Question: 'Former longtime Red Sox employee, later a bartender at Sam Malone's side'

Answer: Coach


Question: 'A December 2010 news story said this product was angling for Prince William, who was just 28, as a spokesman'

Answer: Rogaine


Question: 'Artemis'

Answer: Diana


Question: 'This term for a rowdy British soccer fan may come from an Irish surname'

Answer: a hooligan


Question: 'From its etymology you can figure out that "sangsue", from Round 15, is a name for this worm'

Answer: leech


Question: 'In the 1700s this Italian discovered that electricity could make a dead frog's muscles contract'

Answer: Luigi Galvani


Question: 'Mustachioed director of the Pawnee Parks & Recreation Department'

Answer: Ron


Question: 'June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir to a European throne'

Answer: Archduke (Franz) Ferdinand


Question: 'Demeter'

Answer: Ceres


Question: 'Originally one who renounced his faith, it's now one who "re"bels & becomes an outlaw'

Answer: renegade


Question: 'Early in Round 3 was this Spanish word for cowboy'

Answer: vaquero


Question: 'According to his law, electric current is equal to the ratio of the voltage to the resistance'

Answer: (Georg) Ohm


Question:
'Original series:
Male Viper pilot.
Series reboot:
Female Viper pilot with the same name'

Answer: Starbuck


Question: 'In June 1461 Prince Carlos' father made him Governor of Catalonia, but in September Carlos died in this city'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'Cronus'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Miles Davis recorded "Freddie Freeloader"; Cab Calloway recorded "Minnie" this'

Answer: "the Moocher"


Question: 'Round 8 served up this 10-letter Japanese word for meat & vegetables cooked tableside on a griddle'

Answer: teppanyaki


Question: 'A member of the Hanseatic League, this city with a 4-letter name was once known as the "Paris of the Baltic"'

Answer: Riga


Question: 'In the womb a baby receives nourishment from this, also called the afterbirth'

Answer: the placenta


Question: '"All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"'

Answer: Eleanor Rigby


Question: 'It has no army, just a 131-man civil defense force &  a palace guard that looks after Prince Albert & family'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'In June 2009 this car co. organized by William Durant in 1908 filed for bankruptcy; it emerged from Chapter 11 in July'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'One course was "Introduction to the History of Art:  Prehistory to" this cultural movement that began in Italy in the 1300s'

Answer: the Renaissance


Question: 'Seeing this baby animal is like a balm to me'

Answer: lamb


Question: 'As you might guess by its name, the nasalis is a muscle in this facial feature'

Answer: the nose


Question: '"You were only waiting for this moment to arise"'

Answer: Blackbird


Question: 'Southernmost of the Lesser Antilles, it hasn't had an army since a 1983 U.S. invasion'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'A French company went bankrupt in 1889 after digging out 76 million cubic yards of earth to make this waterway'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: '"Introduction to" this explored its "approaches to the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional bases of behavior"'

Answer: psychology


Question: 'One of these mammals barged into my front yard'

Answer: badger


Question: 'Appropriately, part of this organ's name is an archaic term for bile'

Answer: the gall bladder


Question: '"My baby don't care, my baby don't care"'

Answer: Ticket to Ride


Question: 'France & Spain share the defense of this little country nestled between them'

Answer: Andorra


Question: 'The 1836 bankruptcy of the dad of this "Peer Gynt" author disgraced the family'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: '"The Chinese House from Courtyard to City" was a course offered in 2010 by this department'

Answer: architecture


Question: 'Unlike the raptor, this pet bird isn't predatory'

Answer: a parrot


Question: 'Allowing for almost no movement between 2 bones, a suture is a joint only found here'

Answer: the skull


Question: '"You know I feel all right"'

Answer: Hard Day\'s Night


Question: 'This island country, a charter member of NATO, has a Coast Guard but hasn't had an army since 1869'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Last name of the brothers whose "Steamer" company lost steam with the popularity of gas cars & went bankrupt in 1924'

Answer: Stanley


Question: 'I think the title for this department's S100 01 was "Happiness", therefore I am'

Answer: philosophy


Question: 'These spotted cats are the coolest!'

Answer: ocelots


Question: 'From the Latin for "thigh", these main arteries of the thigh supply blood to the lower extremities'

Answer: the femoral arteries


Question: '"Jai guru deva"'

Answer: Across the Universe


Question: 'The United States is responsible for the defense of these "little" federated states in the western Pacific'

Answer: Micronesia


Question: 'This "Moll Flanders" author started a business career but went bankrupt & turned to writing'

Answer: (Daniel) Defoe


Question: '"Modern American Literature, 1900-1950" looked at Cather, Eliot & this "Rose is a rose is a rose" writer, among others'

Answer: (Gertrude) Stein


Question: 'Some unusual sounds emanate from this sea mammal'

Answer: the manatee


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu, Peru.)  A kallanka was an Inca great hall; drinking vessels found here show that festivities included drinking chicha de jora, beer made from this grain'

Answer: corn


Question: '1984: Reckless jungle treasure hunter Jack Colton'

Answer: Romancing the Stone


Question: 'The "I" in the name of this General Mills cereal is dotted with a piece of the cereal'

Answer: Cheerios


Question: 'Linda Loman is the supportive wife of Willy in this American tragedy'

Answer: Death of a Salesman


Question: 'By 1905 this college sport had gotten so violent, TR urged important rule changes that were soon adopted'

Answer: football


Question: 'Where the relievers wait, talk & chew until the latter stages of a baseball game'

Answer: the bullpen


Question: 'From the Latin for "earth", they're the structures the Incas evolved for growing crops on forbidding hillsides'

Answer: terraces


Question: '1989: Oliver Rose, locked in a vicious divorce battle'

Answer: War of the Roses


Question: 'It says right on the bottle: Absolut Vodka is from the country of this'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Martha & her husband George host Nick & his wife Honey in this play by Edward Albee'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'TR had one of these set up in the White House, & he would regularly don the gloves'

Answer: a boxing ring


Question: 'Hit the double this in the pub & you'll score 50 points'

Answer: bull\'s eye


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu, Peru.)  If one Inca met another here at the Three Windows, "napaykullayki" was the standard greeting in this language'

Answer: Quechuan


Question: '2010: Greedy Gordon Gekko (full title, please)'

Answer: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps


Question: 'This light beer brand comes in a "cold activated can"--"When the mountains turn blue, it's as cold as the Rockies"'

Answer: Coors Light


Question: 'Alice More, wife of Lord Chancellor Thomas, is a character in this Robert Bolt drama'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'Having reconciled with Teddy only a short time before, this ex-president attended TR's funeral'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Developed in 19th century England, it's the breed of guard dog seen here'

Answer: a bullmastiff


Question: 'On an Inca cross, the three steps stood for three tiers of being--condor aloft, puma on earth, and this reptile in the underworld'

Answer: a snake


Question: '1992: San Francisco police homicide detective Nick Curran'

Answer: Basic Instinct


Question: 'The logo of this brand of baking soda features the slogan "The standard of purity"'

Answer: Arm & Hammer


Question: 'Tony arranges to have his wife killed to inherit her money, but she kills her attacker in this drama, later a Hitchcock film'

Answer: Dial M for Murder


Question: 'In 1906 TR became the first American to win a Nobel Prize: he helped to end this Asian war'

Answer: the Russo-Japanese War


Question: 'Even the tires on the presidential limousine are this'

Answer: bulletproof


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu, Peru.)  In 1500, it took over a week to cover the 50 miles on the Inca Trail, from here, the capital of the Incas, to the retreat of Machu Picchu'

Answer: Cuzco


Question: '1989: American cop Nick Conklin, on assignment in Japan'

Answer: Black Rain


Question: 'Breyers ice cream has a green briar one of these on the carton'

Answer: a leaf


Question: 'Captain Keller & his wife Kate think that Annie's methods are too harsh for their daughter in this drama'

Answer: The Miracle Worker


Question: 'Valentine's Day, 1884 was doubly tragic for TR-- these 2 women in his life both died'

Answer: his wife and his mother


Question: 'It's not a compiler of mythic tales, it's the creature seen here'

Answer: a bullfinch


Question: 'In 170 A.D. Melito of Sardis compiled a list of religious works to be included in this, a 2-word term he coined'

Answer: the Old Testament


Question: 'If you're tall & tan & young & lovely, head to Ipanema Beach in this city'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'This Queen of Soul is No. 1 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll'

Answer: Aretha Franklin


Question: '...among the 50 states'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'These items, occasionally sold by an unnamed woman by the seashore, "make good soap dishes"'

Answer: sea shells


Question: 'Born in Cambridge in 1921, he went on to be a senator & an astronaut'

Answer: (John) Glenn


Question: 'The National Enquirer or The Weekly World News, for example'

Answer: a tabloid


Question: 'Vikings founded the first permanent settlement in this national capital around 874'

Answer: Reykjavik


Question:
'She's the angelic-voiced singer from Canada heard here

"In the arms of the angels..."'

Answer: (Sarah) McLachlan


Question: '...among the zodiac signs'

Answer: Aquarius


Question: '"Take off flight tags to avoid confusion about your destination" to prevent losing this (& your mind)'

Answer: your luggage


Question: 'Born in Darke County in 1860, she developed her amazing proficiency with firearms at an early age'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'This name of this muscle that covers the  shoulder joint tells you that it's triangular'

Answer: the deltoid


Question: 'Give me this state capital where the "Give me liberty or give me death" speech was delivered'

Answer: Richmond, Virginia


Question: 'She first joined 10,000 Maniacs when she was 17 and still in college'

Answer: (Natalie) Merchant


Question: '...among the Balkan states'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'Repotting this warm-weather plant "can be a sticky situation unless you have... carpet scraps to handle" it'

Answer: a cactus


Question: 'Appropriately enough, this writer of Westerns was born in Zanesville in 1872'

Answer: Zane Grey


Question: 'A Domino's Pizza ad campaign said to "avoid" this mascot'

Answer: The Noid


Question: 'Founded in the 13th century, this major Dutch port was heavily damaged by German bombing in World War II'

Answer: Rotterdam


Question: 'During the disco era, teacher Anita Ward chimed in with this No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Ring My Bell"


Question: '...among the books of the Old Testament'

Answer: Amos


Question: 'In summer "when nobody nice can help you", use a "sponge-type... mop" with a long handle to apply this to your back'

Answer: sunscreen


Question: 'Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion & a WWI flying ace'

Answer: Eddie Rickenbacker


Question: 'Mary Mallon was famously a carrier of this fever'

Answer: typhoid


Question: 'Situated on the road to Mecca, it became the seat of the Saud dynasty around 1824'

Answer: Riyadh


Question: 'Her 1992 hit "I Can't Make You Love Me" features Bruce Hornsby on piano'

Answer: (Bonnie) Raitt


Question: '...among the 13 original Colonies'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'After pinching off its "green hat", slice this fruit with an egg slicer; "no stains on your fingers"'

Answer: strawberries


Question: 'This late jazz pianist, famous for his trio, was born blind in Toledo, Ohio in 1910'

Answer: Art Tatum


Question: 'Alexander Parkes developed this synthetic plastic material in 1856'

Answer: celluloid


Question: '(Jeff Probst reports from Vanuatu.)  The largest of Vanuatu's more than 80 islands, Espiritu Santo is Spanish for this member of the Trinity'

Answer: the Holy Spirit


Question: 'Tim played inmate number 37927 in this 1994 film'

Answer: The Shawshank Redemption


Question: 'He left home in 1206 to devote himself to caring for the lepers & rebuilding churches in & around Assisi'

Answer: St. Francis


Question: 'One of the largest herds of these animals in the U.S. is found at South Dakota's Custer State Park'

Answer: bison


Question: 'In 1997 this television network's president called Exxon Mobil "our corporate Medici"'

Answer: PBS


Question: 'Musical foursome with a "cutting" edge'

Answer: a barbershop quartet


Question: 'Vanuatu's capital, this "port" sounds like it's named for the former host of "This Old House"'

Answer: (Port) Vila


Question: 'This title Robbins character runs for Senate against a liberal incumbent played by Gore Vidal'

Answer: Bob Roberts


Question: 'Japan's emperor was worshipped as a descendant of Amaterasu-Omikami, this religion's sun goddess'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'Basil Fawlty asked a guest unhappy with the view if she'd expected to see "herds of" these "sweeping majestically..."'

Answer: wildebeests


Question: 'Putting its name on Columbus' arena, this company insured that Ohioans would know it's "on your side"'

Answer: Nationwide


Question: 'Shared historic nickname of the San Francisco waterfront & the North African shore'

Answer: the Barbary Coast


Question: 'A WWII liner named for this "silent" president is one of the world's largest intact scuba-accessible shipwrecks'

Answer: Coolidge


Question: 'Tim also felt the need for speed as Merlin in this 1986 blockbuster flick'

Answer: Top Gun


Question: 'Construction on Borobudur, a temple of this religion on Java, was begun in 750 A.D. & took 92 years to complete'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'This organization, the AKC, classifies sheepdogs as a herding breed'

Answer: the American Kennel Club


Question: 'It has sponsored sports since 1927 when Mercedes Gleitze swam the Channel with its Oyster model on her wrist'

Answer: Rolex


Question: 'While cats have whiskers, catfish have whiskerlke feelers called these'

Answer: barbels


Question: 'This type of "cult" believes that a pilot named John Frum will arrive some day bearing a wealth of consumer goods'

Answer: a cargo cult


Question: 'Tim gets some valuable advice from a teammate in this film: "Don't think. It can only hurt the ball club"'

Answer: Bull Durham


Question: 'Hindu traditions say the creator god Brahma emerged from this, which grows from the navel of Vishnu'

Answer: a lotus


Question: 'For centuries, reindeer herding was the main economy of these people of Northern Scandinavia'

Answer: the Lapps


Question: 'Aptly, this Kellogg's product has sponsored the "American Idol" live tour'

Answer: Pop-Tarts


Question: 'Its capital is Bridgetown'

Answer: Barbados


Question: '(Jeff Probst reports from Vanuatu.)  In colonial times, Britain & France ruled Vanuatu in a joint arrangement known as this; locals just called it pandemonium'

Answer: condominium


Question: 'Tim jumped through (hula) hoops in this '94 Coen Brothers flick with Paul Newman'

Answer: The Hudsucker Proxy


Question: 'The Talmud consists of the Mishnah, the written version of Jewish oral law, & this, commentary on the Mishnah'

Answer: the Gemara


Question: 'Herds of this antelope lookalike, the only member of its family, once ranged from Canada to Mexico'

Answer: pronghorns


Question: 'In 1996, this fast food poultry purveyor from Georgia added its name to football's Peach Bowl'

Answer: Chick-fil-A


Question: 'Mid-19th century "school" of French painters that included Millet'

Answer: Barbizon


Question: 'When his tomb was opened in 1102, a fragrance filled the air, & his body was perfectly preserved'

Answer: Edward the Confessor


Question: 'Achan went against Joshua's order not to take any spoils from this dis-walled city'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'The seal of this government cabinet department is featured on the front'

Answer: Treasury


Question: 'His 1973 album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" was from a televised concert said to have reached 1 billion people'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Type of document concerned with pelicans'

Answer: The Pelican Brief


Question: 'In a holiday rhyme this precedes "Give me something good to eat"'

Answer: Trick or treat


Question: 'The first ingredient listed on the label is this type of water'

Answer: Carbonated water


Question: 'Sisere commanded a fleet of 900 of these vehicles'

Answer: Chariots


Question: 'Total number of signatures that appear on the bill'

Answer: 2


Question: 'The Beatles sang "Come Together" on this, their last album recorded together, though not the last released'

Answer: Abbey Road


Question: 'Specifically, Bendini, Lambert & Locke'

Answer: The Firm


Question: 'To Hamlet, this "Is the question"'

Answer: "To be or not to be"


Question: 'Regular Coke may contain this, also called fruit sugar'

Answer: Fructose


Question: 'Haggith was one of his wives, but she was no Bathsheba'

Answer: David


Question: 'The Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid on the back represent this year'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'With this 1995 album, Alanis Morissette became the first Canadian woman to top Billboard's album chart'

Answer: Jagged Little Pill


Question: 'For lawyer Reggie Love, it's young Mark Sway'

Answer: The Client


Question: 'Phrase associated with the following:<br />[video clue]'

Answer: Dead or alive


Question: 'Regular Coke contains the phosphoric type; Diet Coke has citric, too'

Answer: Acid


Question: 'Hoglah, a daughter of Zelophehad, could sing with Shirley & Keith, as her name means this'

Answer: Partridge


Question: 'This artist's 1796 portrait of George Washington appears on the bill'

Answer: Gilbert Stuart


Question: 'This Who album's title refers to the double schizophrenia of Jimmy, its protagonist'

Answer: Quadrophenia


Question: 'Group that was "Runaway"'

Answer: The Jury


Question: 'This 3-word question covers your preference for payment & for bags at the grocery store checkout stand'

Answer: Paper or plastic?


Question: 'If you don't like this Coke ingredient, there's a brand that's called "free" of it'

Answer: Caffeine


Question: 'Doeg the Edomite was a henchman of this man, Israel's first king'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'As stated on the front, the one-dollar bill is legal tender for these 2 kinds of debts'

Answer: Public & private


Question: '(Hi, I'm Brian McKnight.) In 1993 I sang on & also co-produced these guys' "Christmas Interpretations" album'

Answer: Boyz II Men


Question: 'Its prequel might be "The Last Will"'

Answer: The Testament


Question: 'Ed Wood starred in this 1953 schlockfest, his debut as a feature film director'

Answer: Glen or Glenda


Question: 'What's called this on a Diet Coke label is also marketed as NutraSweet'

Answer: Aspartame


Question: 'Like Pillsbury's Poppin' Fresh, an American soldier during WWI was called this'

Answer: Doughboy


Question: 'Vampire with a soul David Boreanaz'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'Ukraine-born composer Prokofiev lost some headlines by dying March 4, 1953, the day before this leader'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'This business mogul & his future partner Paul Allen met while students at Seattle's Lakeside School'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'The calcaneal tendon is better known by this well-heeled name'

Answer: Achilles tendon


Question: 'This term for a male horse at stud also refers to a virile man'

Answer: Stallion


Question: 'As a result of this war, America gained the islands of Puerto Rico, Guam & the Philippines'

Answer: Spanish-American War


Question: 'Cranky cop Abe Vigoda'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'Ukrainian patriot Ivan Mazepa often rode with these fierce steppe-dwelling people'

Answer: Cossacks


Question: '2-word name for a strait, a bridge or a San Francisco university'

Answer: Golden Gate


Question: 'When warts are on the sole, this is the sole adjective applied'

Answer: Plantar


Question: 'Freed slaves were told they'd get "40 acres and" one of these, so the phrase now signifies an empty promise'

Answer: A mule


Question: 'The 50th anniv. of this Asian conflict often called "The Forgotten War" was observed nationally July 27, 2000'

Answer: The Korean War


Question: 'SFPD special investigator Don Johnson'

Answer: Nash Bridges


Question: 'First name shared by the first 2 presidents of post-USSR Ukraine, Kravchuk & Kuchma'

Answer: Leonid


Question: 'Gateway of India, a landmark in this busiest port, was named because it was the 1st thing seen by visitors to the city'

Answer: Bombay (Mumbai)


Question: '3 to 5 vertebrae fuse to form the tailbone, also called this for its resemblance to a cuckoo's beak'

Answer: Coccyx


Question: 'Shakespeare's character named Pistol says the world is his this, "Which I with sword will open"'

Answer: Oyster


Question: 'In 1779 John Paul Jones defeated the Serapis but lost this ship, named in honor of Ben Franklin'

Answer: Bonhomme Richard


Question: 'Orphaned 7-year-old Emmanuel Lewis'

Answer: Webster


Question: 'Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950'

Answer: Vaslav Nijinsky


Question: 'This unfinished Rodin work depicts scenes from Dante's "Inferno" on 2 bronze doors'

Answer: "The Gates of Hell"


Question: 'You can call this pair of leg bones the pin & pipe; that's what their names mean'

Answer: Tibia & fibula


Question: 'Philosophically speaking, "All" of these "are gray in the dark"'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'This future president became a hero after defeating Santa Anna during the Mexican War'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Futuristic talking head Matt Frewer'

Answer: Max Headroom


Question: '19th century author of "Dead Souls", "The Nose" & the Danny Kaye inspiration "The Inspector General"'

Answer: Nikolai Gogol


Question: 'This Roman god of gates & doors is depicted with 2 faces:  one looking to the past & one to the future'

Answer: Janus


Question: 'The major pressure point for leg injuries is where this artery crosses the joint between the pelvis & leg'

Answer: Femoral artery


Question: 'A type of fish, or a short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle that was big in the '80s'

Answer: Mullet


Question: 'She was on the April 22, 1974 cover of People magazine, holding an Oscar'

Answer: Tatum O\'Neal (for Paper Moon)


Question: 'This city, the birthplace of Jesus, was also where Samuel anointed King David'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'If you push each of these birthday items into a marshmallow, wax won't drip onto the cake'

Answer: candles


Question: 'In 1845 the fungus disease phytophthora infestans rotted these vegetables all over Europe'

Answer: potatoes


Question: 'This creator of "Peanuts" was once a free-lance cartoonist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press'

Answer: Charles Schulz


Question: 'Regret, Genuine Risk & Winning Colors are the only fillies to win this Triple Crown race'

Answer: Kentucky Derby


Question: '"The Breakfast of Champions"'

Answer: Wheaties


Question: 'In Genesis God told this creature it would eat dust "all the days of thy life"'

Answer: the serpent


Question: 'To keep your refrigerator smelling clean, use baking soda or this barbecue fuel'

Answer: charcoal


Question: 'To aid its nocturnal habits, these facial features on a tarsier are each as big as its brain'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'This "Great Gatsby" author was related to a woman hanged in connection with Lincoln's assassination'

Answer: (F. Scott) Fitzgerald


Question: 'This sterling silver yachting trophy was designed by London's Robert Garrard Crown jewelers in 1848'

Answer: the America\'s Cup


Question: '"The Great American Chocolate Bar"'

Answer: Hershey\'s


Question: 'After he was called forth from the dead, he appeared "bound hand and foot with graveclothes"'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'To keep this guacamole ingredient from darkening, leave the pit in it'

Answer: an avocado


Question: 'Pick up a walking stick & you'll see that it has this many legs'

Answer: six


Question: 'This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931'

Answer: (Warren) Burger


Question: 'American winners of this Olympic event include Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson & Bruce Jenner'

Answer: the decathlon


Question: '"You deserve a break today"'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'The Latin Vulgate calls this book of the Bible "Liber Judicum"'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'When cutting these flowers, use a spring clothespin on the stems to keep from getting pricked'

Answer: roses


Question: 'The cormorant is related to this "pouched" creature'

Answer: the pelican


Question: 'This oilman who founded a Malibu, California museum was born in Minneapolis in 1892'

Answer: (John Paul) Getty


Question: 'The insignia of this National League baseball team features a mountain peak'

Answer: the (Colorado) Rockies


Question: '"Let your fingers do the walking"'

Answer: the Yellow Pages


Question: 'The single longest of Paul's epistles is addressed to these people'

Answer: the Romans


Question: 'You can do this to many wrinkled fabrics over a hot light bulb'

Answer: iron them


Question: 'The Douglas fir is not a true fir; it belongs to this evergreen family'

Answer: the pine


Question: 'in 1977 he was voted deputy president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, a position created for him'

Answer: (Hubert H.) Humphrey


Question: 'Bill Walton of this school was the outstanding player of the NCAA basketball tournament in 1972 & 1973'

Answer: UCLA


Question: '"Because time goes by"'

Answer: Kodak


Question: 'The Normans built many of these with mottes & baileys around the country'

Answer: castles


Question: 'This "fair lady"s radiant performance in "The Nun's Story" earned her a 1959 Oscar nomination'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'This branch's memorial in Arlington, Va. depicts the flag raising on Iwo Jima'

Answer: the Marine Corps


Question: 'Alabama's general coastline, only 53 miles, is along this gulf'

Answer: the Gulf of Mexico


Question: 'High rise, harem & hip-hugger are 3 types of these'

Answer: pants


Question: 'Many scholars believe that the white knight is a caricature of this author of the book'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'This new form of football was invented in 1823 when a boy carried the ball instead of kicking it'

Answer: rugby football


Question: 'In 1956 he made his movie debut in a Civil War film called "Love Me Tender"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'In 1952 the U.S. Army formed the special forces group later nicknamed this'

Answer: the Green Berets


Question: 'Cities on this river include Aliquippa, Pennsylvania & Louisville, Kentucky'

Answer: the Ohio River


Question: 'To evaluate these gems, run them across your teeth; the real ones are rough'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'This wonderland tea party pair reappears under the new names Hatta & Haigha'

Answer: the Mad Hatter and the March Hare


Question: 'Henry II referred to him as a "turbulent priest"'

Answer: Becket


Question: 'Poetic pair played by Jennifer Jones & Bill Travers in 1957's "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"'

Answer: the Brownings


Question: 'The U.S. has built over 50 of the F-117A planes with this "sneaky" nickname'

Answer: stealth


Question: 'The Los Angeles aqueduct crosses the western part of this desert'

Answer: the Mojave


Question: 'This clothing chain "fell into" a 1988 Woolmark award from the Men's Fashion Assoc. of America'

Answer: the Gap


Question: 'These brothers are enantiomorphs, or mirror-image forms of each other -- nowhow! Contrariwise'

Answer: Tweedle-Dee & Tweedle-Dum


Question: 'The "rump" parliament wanted him to be the last king England would ever name'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'His children Michael, Josephine & Geraldine played street urchins in his 1952 film "Limelight"'

Answer: (Charlie) Chaplin


Question: 'During World War II Oveta Culp Hobby was director of this new force'

Answer: the Women\'s Army Corps


Question: 'Georgia's highest point is Brasstown Bald Mountain in this range of the Appalachians'

Answer: the Blue Ridge Mountains


Question: 'In 1958 he designed the trapeze dress for the house of Dior'

Answer: Yves Saint-Laurent


Question: 'This ovoid character tells Alice, "My name means the shape I am -- and a good handsome shape it is, too"'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'Thie became a royal palace after Henry VIII confiscated it from Cardinal Wolsey'

Answer: Hampton Court


Question: 'Dean Stockwell was a teenager when he played the title lad in the 1950 film of this Kipling classic'

Answer: Kim


Question: 'Until rear-admiral was created in 1862, this was the highest non-honorary U.S. Navy rank'

Answer: captain


Question: 'This twin city of Urbana, Illinois was once called West Urbana'

Answer: Champaign


Question: '"Bouncy" term for the wide ruffle attached to a skirt'

Answer: a flounce


Question: 'Tenniel's illustrations of the unicorn & the man in white paper represent this Victorian prime minister'

Answer: Disraeli


Question: 'The title of this 1987 novel comes from the burning of valuables in Florence, Italy in the 1490s'

Answer: Bonfire of the Vanities


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Herald Square, New York.)  The title of a classic Christmas film, refers to Macy's location on Herald Square at the intersection of Broadway and this street'

Answer: 34th


Question: 'After 27 years as heir, in 1888 Frederick III spent 99 days as this nation's monarch, unable to talk due to illness'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Johnson & Johnson first sold this brand in 3" wide, 18" long strips in 1920; precut ones came in 1924'

Answer: Band-Aids


Question: '"The Great" Enrico<br />(6)'

Answer: Caruso


Question: 'Magician Ralf Laue held a record 326 of these in one hand so that the value & color of each one was visible'

Answer: playing cards


Question: 'One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory'

Answer: ice


Question: 'Painter John F. Kensett helped found it in the 1870s & his works launched its American Paintings Collection'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'This teenage girl who had a brief 1553 reign knew Latin, Greek & Hebrew'

Answer: Lady Jane Grey


Question: 'This flour brand took its name from the award won at the 1880 exhibition in Cincinnati'

Answer: Gold Medal


Question: 'The Royal Danish Opera's home city<br />(10)'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Craven Walker is credited with inventing these oozing illuminators in 1963'

Answer: lava lamps


Question: 'When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online'

Answer: Google


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square, New York.)  The Times Square subway station is between Broadway and 7th Avenue on this road, also the name of a hit Broadway Musical'

Answer: 42nd Street


Question: 'The twit who was czar for 6 months in 1762 was the grandson & husband of these 2 "Great" leaders'

Answer: Catherine & Peter


Question: 'The striding man seen here is featured on labels of this brand'

Answer: Johnny Walker


Question: 'Sultry Sevillian cigarette-maker<br />(6)'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'The two projectiles in Olympic track & field that weigh 16 pounds'

Answer: the shotput & the hammer


Question: 'From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car'

Answer: detail


Question: 'You'll hear some cutting remarks in the 47th St. "district" named for these brilliant items'

Answer: diamonds


Question: 'In Steinbeck's satire "The Short Reign Of Pippin IV" a descendant of Charlemagne takes this country's throne'

Answer: France


Question: 'After sipping Kool-Aid & sticking with Krazy Glue, have a pudding from this shack'

Answer: Kozy Shack


Question: 'The Maria who played Medea in 1953<br />(6)'

Answer: Callas


Question: 'It's official state vegetables are the frijole pinto bean & the chile pepper'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind"'

Answer: birth


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tribeca, New York.)  The name Tribeca was adopted in the mid-1970s; it stands for "Triangle below" this street'

Answer: Canal Street


Question: 'The biblical Ahaziah followed the evil ways of this mother, but luckily only ruled Israel briefly'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: 'Its Big Bertha Clubs have helped drive up sales for this golf equipment maker'

Answer: Callaway


Question: 'Vocal range of Dame Clara Butt<br />(9)'

Answer: contralto


Question: 'An 8,000-piece collection of this fencing material is featured at Oklahoma's Natl. Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum'

Answer: barbed wire


Question: '"Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation'

Answer: grandfather


Question: 'An example of a plant that's a parasite is this one hung from ceilings at Christmas'

Answer: mistletoe


Question: 'Billy Beane, this team's wizard of a general manager, is profiled in Michael Lewis' "Moneyball"'

Answer: the Oakland Athletics


Question: 'The 40-foot tall Boston landmark seen here is a bottle for this; it would hold 50,000 gallons if it were real'

Answer: milk


Question: 'In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected from this political party'

Answer: the Republican


Question: 'An attempt to overthrow the authority of the government'

Answer: revolt


Question: 'As they are made up mostly of this compound, mushrooms are a low-calorie food'

Answer: water


Question: 'Bob Seger only needs to fear nefarious record execs, not werewolves, when this backup band is around'

Answer: The Silver Bullet Band


Question: 'This book by Eric Schlosser has made some people rethink that double-cheese mongoburger'

Answer: Fast Food Nation


Question: 'Goodland, Kansas has an 80-foot easel with a reproduction of a Van Gogh painting of what else but these'

Answer: sunflowers


Question: 'In January of 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American elected to this body'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'It's the 9-letter term for the instrument seen here'

Answer: voltmeter


Question: 'The woody, jointed stems of these plants in the grass family are called culms'

Answer: bamboo


Question: 'Naming themselves after a Natalie Wood film, this band went to No. 1 in 1989 with "She Drives Me Crazy"'

Answer: The Fine Young Cannibals


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tavis Smiley.)  I had this title for my book of stories from Black America long before that Edward Norton-Ben Stiller movie'

Answer: Keeping the Faith


Question: 'Seen here, the sculpture of this largest member of the pike family houses Hayward, Wisconsin's shrine to anglers'

Answer: muskellunge


Question: 'The disputed 2004 elections in this former Soviet republic included charges of poisoning by dioxin-spiked soup'

Answer: the Ukraine


Question: 'In 1776 sculptor Jean Baptiste Pigalle created a nude statue of this author'

Answer: Voltaire


Question: 'It's no stretch to tell us the Ficus elastica is better known as the India this'

Answer: rubber plant


Question: '(Hi, I'm Scott Ian.)  Some historians say this cattle-killing disease (as well as the name of my band) was the 5th plague of Egypt'

Answer: anthrax


Question: 'This novel by Sue Monk Kidd about a 14-year-old southerner Lily Owen is a honey of a read'

Answer: The Secret Life of Bees


Question: 'An 8-foot statue in Douglas, Wyoming honors this antlered jackrabbit created by a local taxidermist'

Answer: jackalope


Question: 'John Winthrop, who landed in the Americas in 1630, was elected governor of this colony 12 times'

Answer: the Massachusetts Bay Colony


Question: 'Until 1984, the African county of Burkina Faso was known by this 2-word name'

Answer: Upper Volta


Question: 'The large, starchy root of this plant, also known as the manioc, has its roots in the new world'

Answer: cassava


Question: 'A group of deadly arachnids, or the German combo that went platinum with "Love At First Sting"'

Answer: the Scorpions


Question: 'Every 4 minutes in the U.S. someone buys a book by this woman who also writes as J.D. Robb'

Answer: Nora Roberts


Question: 'This mystical alignment of autos seen here is just north of Alliance, Nebraska'

Answer: Carhenge


Question: 'In 1948 he was elected as the oldest U.S. vice president ever'

Answer: (Alben) Barkley


Question: 'A reversal in policy, it's from words meaning "turning the countenance"'

Answer: volte-face


Question: 'In 1986 the Texas Department of Transportation began using this 4-word slogan as part of a campaign to prevent litter'

Answer: \"Don\'t mess with Texas\"


Question: 'Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" is set in the 1920s in a tenement building in this capital city'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Possessing 5 faces & 15 eyes, Pancanana is a demon god of this Asian religion'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Used by bird watchers, these items are simply a connected pair of handheld telescopes'

Answer: binoculars


Question: 'Composer & priest Giovanni Martini is known by this "fatherly" title'

Answer: Padre


Question: 'In 2010 this site removed its adult services listings'

Answer: Craigslist


Question: 'Hemingway's "The Dangerous Summer" was inspired by Dominguin, who worked in this type of sporting arena'

Answer: a bullfighting arena


Question: 'William Inge set both "Picnic" & "Bus Stop" in this Midwestern state'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'According to Christopher Marlowe, hers was "The face that launched a thousand ships"'

Answer: Helen of Troy


Question: 'President Obama says one of his worst habits is frequently checking this handheld device from RIM'

Answer: a BlackBerry


Question: 'Saddle up!  It's from the Middle English for "enclosure"'

Answer: paddock


Question: 'In this rural social networking game from Zynga, you start with 6 plots of land'

Answer: Farmville


Question: 'In 1975, the USS Kirk had to push helicopters off its deck as it helped people fleeing from this Asian capital'

Answer: Saigon


Question: 'Many believe that this hamlet in the play "Our Town" represented Peterborough, New Hampshire'

Answer: Grover\'s Corners


Question: 'This military marching command to reverse is the title of Col. David H. Hackworth's "Odyssey of an American Warrior"'

Answer: about-face


Question: 'They're the handheld percussion instruments heard here'

Answer: castanets


Question: 'Princess Amidala, to her friends'

Answer: Padmé


Question: 'Online ABC & Disney users know to type these 2 letters prior to ".com" to use those sites'

Answer: G-O


Question: 'The Kangshung Face, the North Col & the Khumu Icefall are all parts of this dangerous place'

Answer: Mt. Everest


Question: 'In a musical, MacConnachy Square is in the heart of this enchanted Scottish village'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: 'In Catholic lore, when this female saint wiped the sweat from Jesus' face with her veil, an image of him remained there'

Answer: Veronica


Question: '4-letter word for any article used to dress a stage for a scene, or any object carried by hand onstage'

Answer: a prop


Question: 'This device has a U-shaped bar that goes through a loop called a staple'

Answer: a padlock


Question: 'Julian Assange runs this site known for posting U.S. military documents, to the Pentagon's displeasure'

Answer: WikiLeaks


Question: 'A train platform spells final jeopardy for this Tolstoy title heroine'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'This title swordsman & poet visits Roxane, whom he loves, at her convent every week for almost 15 years'

Answer: Cyrano


Question: 'In 1910 this man published his story collection "Lost Face", which includes "To Build a Fire"'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'On "Star Trek" handheld devices included tricorders & these weapons with a "stun" setting'

Answer: phasers


Question: 'Found at the confluence of the Ohio & Tennessee Rivers, it's the seat of McCracken County, Kentucky'

Answer: Paducah


Question: 'Wake up, pops!  Danica Patrick can be seen in ads for this domain-procuring site'

Answer: GoDaddy.com


Question: 'Alliterative term for a feat done by 1920s barnstorming pilots; the man who did it first had less than a 2-year career'

Answer: wing walking


Question: 'This style of home named for a Massachusetts peninsula features a gabled roof & a central chimney'

Answer: a Cape Cod


Question: 'Starting in 1915, Carl Laemmle built this "city" named for his studio, complete with its own mayor & fire department'

Answer: Universal City


Question: 'This piece of Edgar Allan Poe-try asks, "Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"'

Answer: "The Raven"


Question: 'Combine the last name of writer Virginia & the strong safety who rushes the QB to get this newsman<br />(5, 7)'

Answer: Woolf Blitzer


Question: 'The fountains in this French palace express the power of the king over nature'

Answer: Versailles


Question: 'It follows blue, cran & straw'

Answer: berry


Question: 'This British architectural style began with the accession of Henry VII in the late 15th century'

Answer: Tudor


Question: 'These brothers brought sound to the big screen with "The Jazz Singer"'

Answer: the Warner Brothers


Question: 'In "Song of Myself", he asked, "Do I contradict myself?"'

Answer: Whitman


Question: 'A courteous & respectful set of dishes & utensils, as for afternoon tea<br />(5, 7)'

Answer: civil service


Question: 'This European capitol is famous for its fountains, like the one seen here depicting Triton'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'This synonym for shy is derived from abash, meaning to embarrass'

Answer: bashful


Question: 'From 1938 to 1952 this Bauhaus creator headed Harvard's architecture department'

Answer: (Walter) Gropius


Question: 'The moguls proved their patriotism with movies like this one, in which Bogey battles Germans in the title desert'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Do I dare disturb the universe?"'

Answer: Eliot


Question: 'A depressed young southern lady; perhaps her beau is gone<br />(4, 5)'

Answer: blue belle


Question: 'Take in a night show every 15 minutes in front of this Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: the Bellagio


Question: 'Slower than a gallop, this horse's gait is named for a pilgrimage site in England'

Answer: canter


Question: 'Craftsman homes feature these on the porch, but they're square, not round as in ancient Greek temples'

Answer: columns


Question: 'Under siege by TV, Darryl F, Zanuck publicly declared every picture he made would now be in this widescreen process'

Answer: CinemaScope


Question: 'This poet innocently wondered, "Little lamb, who made thee?"'

Answer: William Blake


Question: 'Complete demolition of a tall grass that produces sugar<br />(6, 4)'

Answer: razing cane


Question: 'This Chicago fountain seen here has the same name as a palace'

Answer: the Buckingham Fountain


Question: 'With a small circle above it, this letter represents a unit used to measure light wavelengths'

Answer: an A


Question: '( Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.)  A cupola is the top structure of a dome; when the windows or walls are opened to illuminate the dome interior, it's this type of cupola, sharing its name with a certain portable light'

Answer: a lantern


Question:
'William Randolph Hearst was said to have spent
$7 million promoting the career of this actress, his companion'

Answer: Marion Davies


Question: 'Keats' ode to this bird ends, "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: --do I wake or sleep?"'

Answer: the nightingale


Question: 'The area or subject covered by 19th c. writer Bret when he was a reporter<br />(5, 4)'

Answer: Harte beat


Question: 'The fountain seen here is a symbol of this Swiss city; note that it's in a lake'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'From the Italian for "little property", it can be a trifle or a short, light piece of music or verse'

Answer: bagatelle


Question: 'These 3 nations each border the world's largest & smallest oceans'

Answer: Russia, the United States & Canada


Question: 'The highest low temperature of any U.S. state is the 12 degrees F. recorded in this state on May 17, 1979'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: '"You're despicable!"'

Answer: Daffy Duck


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Fort Bragg, NC, holding a parachute.)  Packing of all reserve chutes in the United States, even those used by the Army's Golden Knights, is overseen by this federal organization'

Answer: the FAA


Question: 'Each member of the House of Representatives represents one of these territorial divisions of a state'

Answer: a congressional district


Question: 'She was still a teenager when Howard Hughes discovered her in 1940'

Answer: Jane Russell


Question: 'I go to the spa in the nude'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'On a weather map, 3 horizontal & parallel lines indicate this weather condition'

Answer: fog


Question: '"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"'

Answer: Groucho Marx


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds open a parachute at Fort Bragg, NC.)  Though they may still say "hit the silk", the Golden Knights use a ripstop version of this synthetic fabric, created by Dupont in the '30s'

Answer: nylon


Question: 'She was the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress'

Answer: Elizabeth II


Question: 'In 1976, this high-flying woman was simply gym-dandy'

Answer: Nadia Comaneci


Question: 'Chair and table'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'The Fujita scale that ranks the intensity of these goes from F-0 on up; an F-5 has wind speeds exceeding 261 mph'

Answer: a tornado


Question: '"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a parachute at Fort Bragg, NC.) Also found on cars,  when these steering lines are used dually, they slow the parachute; singly, they allow turning'

Answer: brakes


Question: 'We swear, the very first law passed by Congress concerned how these pledges were to be made'

Answer: oaths of office


Question: 'He's the famous Russian seen here in 1961'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: 'Hype rubber chickens'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Sadly, in 2005 many learned this alliterative 2-word term for a rise in sea level accompanying fierce winds'

Answer: storm surge


Question: '"I'm lookin' at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a runway at Fort Bragg, NC.) The Army employs two jumping methods: a static line in which the jumper is tethered to the plane, & this style, reminiscent of a Tom Petty tune'

Answer: freefalling


Question: 'Frustrated with his own political party, in 2001 this senator from Vermont switched to indepedent'

Answer: Jeffords


Question: 'Before her time as a First Lady, this woman was a radio & film actress'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'I've been through analysis'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'This type of weather radar calculates the speed & direction of a weather system'

Answer: Doppler


Question: '"You're the man now, dog!"'

Answer: Sean Connery


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew prepares to jump from an aircraft at Fort Bragg, NC.)  Beginning parachuters usually jump with a partner, referred to as this term from the Latin for "at length"'

Answer: tandem


Question: 'Former senators are allowed back on the Senate floor, but they're restricted from doing this the first year out of office'

Answer: lobbying


Question: 'He's the World War I military leader & member of royalty seen here'

Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II


Question: 'Hug and accept it'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'George Custer was wounded only once during the war but had 11 of these killed under him'

Answer: horses


Question: 'The 2005-2006 TV season marks this famous Ed's 25th year on "60 Minutes"'

Answer: Ed Bradley


Question: 'This city is the capital of the high-altitude autonomous region that until 1965 was its own country'

Answer: Lhasa


Question: '"Green Coca-Cola Bottles" (1962) & other pieces of pop art are part of this science'

Answer: Warhology


Question: 'It was during this war that Lt. Andrew Rowan delivered his famous "Message to Garcia" from Pres. McKinley'

Answer: the Spanish-American War


Question: 'Small dry twigs used to start a fire'

Answer: kindling


Question: 'A young conscript from North Carolina was called this, slang for the peanuts grown there'

Answer: a goober


Question: 'He was nominated for an Oscar for playing an abstract expressionist in a 2000 film that he directed himself'

Answer: Ed Harris


Question: 'Chengdu is the hot & spicy capital of this province that lends its name to a hot & spicy Chinese food variety'

Answer: Szechuan


Question: 'If you avidly follow Latin American soccer, you're gaining knowledge in this area'

Answer: futbology


Question: 'In August 1858 the first transatlantic cable message was sent from this monarch to Pres. Buchanan'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Congo capital founded by Henry Stanley'

Answer: Kinshasa


Question: 'During the war, this Ozark state had 2 competing governments'

Answer: Arkansas (Missouri later deemed also acceptable)


Question: 'This conservation-conscious co-star of St. Elsewhere was once L.A.'s environmental affairs commissioner'

Answer: Ed Begley, Jr.


Question: 'This capital of the island province of Hainan sounds like a short Japanese poem of 17 syllables'

Answer: Haikou


Question: 'Get a Ph.D. studying products released in a spray through a nozzle & you're an expert in this'

Answer: aerosology


Question: 'After defeating a British fleet on Lake Erie, he sent out the message "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: 'A film of a transmitted television program'

Answer: a kinescope


Question: 'This Confederate submarine was recovered in 2000; its crew was buried in Charleston in 2004'

Answer: the Hunley


Question: 'He showed off his singing pipes when he played Drew Barrymore's fiance in the film "Everyone Says I Love You"'

Answer: Ed Norton


Question: 'Its former capital was Victoria'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'Need a minty flavoring for candies or cigarettes?  Call someone who knows about this'

Answer: menthology


Question: 'On May 24, 1844 he sent the famous message, "What hath God wrought"'

Answer: (Samuel) Morse


Question: 'From the Greek for "movement", this real -ology studies mechanics with respect to human anatomy'

Answer: kinesiology


Question: 'This term that means an ambusher & also inlcudes "B-U-S-H" gets that meaning from Civil War guerrillas'

Answer: a bushwhacker


Question: 'In 1995 he wrote, directed & starred in his first film, "The Brothers McMullen"'

Answer: Edward Burns


Question: 'This capital of Hubei province lent its name to a deadly flu virus'

Answer: Wuhan


Question: 'The examination of the Russian tale "Dead Souls" & other works by the same author'

Answer: Gogology


Question: 'Before this battle, Lord Nelson sent the message to his sailors that "England expects that every man will do his duty"'

Answer: the Battle of Trafalgar


Question: 'Honey of critter seen here'

Answer: a kinkajou


Question: 'Appropriately, this villainous movie character's name comes from the Dutch word for "father"'

Answer: Darth Vader


Question: 'Most of the colonists on this ship that landed at Plymouth in December 1620 were not Pilgrims'

Answer: Mayflower


Question: 'It's the feline equivalent of a stray mutt'

Answer: Alley cat


Question: 'This top yodeler fronted the Saddlemen before dropping the cowboy image & going with the Comets'

Answer: Bill Haley


Question: 'Peru's El Misti volcano was of great importance to this ancient Indian civilization'

Answer: Incas


Question: 'For musicians, it's a job'

Answer: Gig


Question: 'I tawt I taw this bird on a 1998 postage stamo, along with Sylvester the Cat; "I did! I did!"'

Answer: Tweety


Question: 'It's the crop John Rolfe planted in Virginia that became a major cash crop'

Answer: Tobacco


Question: 'Classic comic strips include "Gasoline Alley" & this title caveman'

Answer: "Alley Oop"


Question: 'He released his first records under the name Charles Berryn'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: 'Its May 18, 1980 eruption was the first in the lower 48 states since California's Lassen Peak in 1921'

Answer: Mount Saint Helens


Question: 'A junior reporter (& not just of Chicago baseball)'

Answer: Cub


Question: 'This classic party game from Milton Bradley will tie you up in knots'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'In 1652, in defiance of English law, Massachusetts set up one of these producing the pine tree shilling'

Answer: Mint


Question: 'Type of venue in which you'd hear the terms turkey, strike & split being bandied about'

Answer: Bowling alley


Question: 'His "Tutti Frutti" only made it to No. 17 in the U.S.; Pat Boone's version of it went to No. 12'

Answer: Little Richard


Question: 'On March 29, 1947 Hekla in this north Atlantic nation erupted, spreading ash as far away as Finland'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Ed Ames' "Runneth Over With Love"'

Answer: Cup


Question: 'NYU's main campus is located in this Manhattan area, a haven for many Bohemian artists'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: 'John Smith, hurt in an explosion, was ousted from his leadership of this settlement & sailed back to England'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'On August 25, 1991 she took home an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series'

Answer: Kirstie Alley


Question: 'It was Dick Clark who suggested that this man record "The Twist"'

Answer: Chubby Checker


Question: 'Currently inactive, at 19,340 feet it's Africa's highest volcano'

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro


Question: 'To udderly intimidate someone'

Answer: Cow


Question: 'A little hobbit told us this author was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892'

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien


Question: 'In 1684 William Penn tried to settle his boundary dispute with Maryland, & this lord'

Answer: Lord Baltimore


Question: 'A mistaken course or direction may take you up one of these'

Answer: a blind alley


Question: 'This soulful singer's hits include "You Send Me" & "Cupid"'

Answer: Sam Cooke


Question: 'Only one person survived Mount Pelee's 1902 eruption, which totally destroyed St. Pierre on this West Indies island'

Answer: Martinique


Question: 'If you've been this, you've been cheated'

Answer: Had


Question: 'This Muslim nation is alphabetically first among Africa's countries'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Last name of Flaubert character Charles, whose wife Emma has an affair with Leon Dupuis'

Answer: Bovary


Question: '3 chimpanzees travel through time to 20th century Earth in the 1971 sequel "Escape From" this place'

Answer: The Planet of the Apes


Question: 'February 12, 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'A book is the example of the "hand" type of these; a bookcase is an example of the "set" type'

Answer: Props


Question: 'This company proudly produces the delicacy known as Spam'

Answer: Hormel


Question: 'Clothing, linens & other possessions assembled by a bride for her marriage'

Answer: Trousseau


Question: 'A Paris crowd selects this character as King of Fools for the Epiphany celebrations of 1482'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo)


Question: 'Clint Eastwood played a convict in this 1979 prison film based on a true story'

Answer: Escape From Alcatraz


Question: 'February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: '"Edible" name for a common type of water-soluble stage makeup'

Answer: Pancake