Question: 'Hua HIn is a favorite seaside resort of this country's ruling Chakkri family; their summer palace is there'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison'

Answer: Attica


Question: 'In the U.S. Navy this petty officer performs clerical duties'

Answer: Yeoman


Question: 'Martin Behaim made a globe based on the writings of Ptolemy & this Italian traveler among others'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'His younger brother Josef composed waltzes too'

Answer: Johann Strauss


Question: 'This party fruit drink may take its name from the Hindi word for five, for its 5 original ingredients'

Answer: Punch


Question: 'He rescues Friday from cannibals & later rescues Friday's father as well'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Due to the great falls on this river, large ships can't go past Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Potomac


Question: 'John Wayne won his Oscar for playing marshall Rooster Cogburn in this 1969 film'

Answer: "True Grit"


Question: 'On April 9 this "magnificent" Florentine died at Careggi'

Answer: Lorenzo De Medici


Question: '(AUDIO Daily Double):<br />Composer of the opera that included the following; it premiered in Vienna, May 1, 1786:'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'Squab is generally used to refer to one of these birds under 4 weeks old'

Answer: Pigeon


Question: 'Dickens novel containing the line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, that I have ever done"'

Answer: "A Tale of Two Cities"


Question: 'More than 30 bridges in Paris pass over this river'

Answer: Seine


Question: 'Role played by Wayne in "The Alamo"'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'Ajaccio, capital of this French Mediterranean island, was settled by Genoese colonists'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'Born in Bergen in 1843, he's been called "The most distinguished Norwegian composer of the 19th century"'

Answer: Edward Grieg


Question: 'This Japanese "rice wine" is traditionally served hot in an earthenware bottle called a tokkuri'

Answer: sake


Question: 'The Houyhnhnms in this 1726 satire have the forms of horses'

Answer: "Gulliver\'s Travels"


Question: 'The world's largest delta is formed by the Brahmaputra & this sacred river'

Answer: Ganges


Question: 'Mervyn LeRoy assisted Wayne in directing this 1968 film about the special forces in Vietnam'

Answer: "The Green Berets"


Question: 'Casimir IV was succeeded as king of this country by his son John Albert'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'This "Babes in Toyland" composer helped found the organization known as ASCAP'

Answer: Victor Herbert


Question: 'Peach melba was one of the creations of this famous French chef'

Answer: Escoffier


Question: 'This Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel is set in 79 A.D.'

Answer: "The Last Days of Pompeii"


Question: 'Canals connect this 2200-mile long river to the Baltic, Black & White Seas & to Moscow'

Answer: Volga


Question: 'It's said this 1939 John Ford western was the first movie filmed at Monument Valley in Utah & Arizona'

Answer: "Stagecoach"


Question: 'This last Moorish stronghold in Spain fell to the Spaniards in January'

Answer: Granada


Question: 'His "Pomp And Circumstance" is actually a set of 5 marches'

Answer: Edward Elgar


Question: 'Named for an Austrian city, it's a buttery pastry with raspberry jam & a lattice-top crust'

Answer: Linzer Torte


Question: 'The title of this 1910 E.M. Forster novel refers to the home of Henry & Margaret Wilcox'

Answer: "Howards End"


Question: 'It flows 626 miles across the Iberian peninsula before entering the Atlantic near Lisbon'

Answer: Tagus


Question: 'Maureen O' Hara & her brother appeared in this 1952 film made in Ireland'

Answer: "The Quiet Man"


Question: 'Books by this man include "North West Passage" (1908) & "The South Pole" (1912)'

Answer: Roald Amundsen


Question: 'JFK established the "Peace" one; LBJ established the "Job" one'

Answer: Corps


Question: '3 body parts in a doctor's specialty:<br />ENT'

Answer: ear, nose, & throat


Question: 'This reptile's long, tapered snout distinguishes it from the alligator, which has a broad, round one'

Answer: the crocodile


Question: 'In a song title, rap group Public Enemy complained that this emergency number "is a joke"'

Answer: 911


Question: 'For the familiar typing exercise, it describes the "brown fox" who jumps over the "lazy dog"'

Answer: quick


Question: 'Among Campbell's condensed soups, it considers the 2 "classics" to be chicken noodle & this one'

Answer: tomato


Question: 'In 1964 some thought Robert Kennedy would get the running mate spot that went to this man'

Answer: Hubert Humphrey


Question: 'What you don't want to be when you show up at the hospital:<br />DOA'

Answer: dead on arrival


Question: 'We're not lying, the beaded lizard has a forked one'

Answer: a tongue


Question: 'This Beatles song begins "When I get older, losing my hair many years from now..."'

Answer: "When I\'m Sixty-Four"


Question: 'The first permanent French settlement in North America; today it's Canada's largest province'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'Campbell tanked in the '50s with FR-8, a fruit counterpart of this juice'

Answer: V-8


Question: 'LBJ kept his cool when Fidel Castro cut off the water supply to this U.S. naval base'

Answer: Guantanamo Bay


Question: 'Critical section of a hospital:<br />ICU'

Answer: intensive care unit


Question: 'The tuatara, which waits until it's about 20 to mate, has one of these that grows back after it breaks off'

Answer: a tail


Question: 'In 1999 Lou Bega had a little bit of Top 5 in his life in this song with "A little bit of Monica in my life"'

Answer: "Mambo No. 5"


Question: 'In the animated "Hunchback of Notre Dame", Tom Hulce was the voice of this character'

Answer: Quasimodo


Question: 'In 1973 Campbell's collection of these serving dishes for soup went on exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum'

Answer: Tureens


Question: 'This LBJ press secretary seen here later joined the press'

Answer: Bill Moyers


Question: 'Field of medicine that delivers:<br />OB'

Answer: obstetrics


Question: 'Most reptiles with toes have these on them, but the leatherback sea turtle doesn't'

Answer: claws


Question: 'A No. 1 hit in March, 1976, this "dated" song by the Four Seasons is subtitled "Oh, What A Night"'

Answer: "December, 1963"


Question: 'It can mean to extinguish a fire, or to satisfy one's thirst'

Answer: quench


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tisha Campbell-Martin.)  The name of this brand of sauces is Italian for "please", "thank you", or "you're welcome"'

Answer: Prego


Question: 'Name shared by a cabinet department LBJ created & a Paul Newman movie that won 3 Oscars'

Answer: HUD


Question: 'Relating to the heart & blood vessels:<br />CV'

Answer: cardiovascular


Question: 'Unlike the feline leopard, the longnose leopard lizard can do this, so no proverbs for him'

Answer: change its spots


Question: 'Appropriately 17 years after its release, this 1982 Prince song got a lot of airplay'

Answer: "1999"


Question: 'In geometry, a square, rhombus, or trapezoid'

Answer: a quadrilateral


Question: 'Campbell's main rival over the years has been this Pittsburgh processed foods concern'

Answer: Heinz


Question: 'Taking its title from "Song of Myself", the book "Containing Mutitudes" traces his influence on recent poetry'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'In 1961 Castle & Cooke, founded by Hawaiian missionaries, became the parent company of this fruit giant'

Answer: Dole


Question: 'Twiggy'

Answer: London


Question: 'Ms. Ball's solo sitcom aired under this title from 1962 to 1968'

Answer: The Lucy Show


Question: 'Not to skirt the issue, but the name of this Scottish garment goes back to Middle English'

Answer: a kilt


Question: 'George Bernard Shaw wrote the part of this flower girl for actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell'

Answer: Eliza Doolittle


Question: 'His nonsense poem "The New Vestments" says, "his buttons were jujubes, and chocolate drops"'

Answer: Edward Lear


Question: 'In an 1899 switch, this subsidiary of Bell Telephone became Bell's parent company'

Answer: AT&T


Question: 'Placido Domingo'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'In the '70s "The Streets of San Francisco" teamed him with Michael Douglas & briefly with Richard Hatch'

Answer: Karl Malden


Question: 'From the Dutch for "a twisted cake", it's a twisted doughnut'

Answer: a cruller


Question: 'She was the first black woman to appear on the covers of French & British Vogue'

Answer: Naomi Campbell


Question: 'Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" is based on an episode from this work of classical literature'

Answer: The Odyssey


Question: 'In 2000 3Com Inc. "handed" over this maker of handheld computing devices to stockholders'

Answer: Palm


Question: 'Marie Curie'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'In the '80s this captain played by Daniel J. Travanti ran the Hill Street police station'

Answer: Frank Furillo


Question: 'Lettuce tell you the term salad comes from the French "salade" meaning with this seasoning'

Answer: salt


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tisha Campbell-Martin.) This man won the 1977 Heisman Trophy, then led the NFL in rushing from 1978 to 1980'

Answer: Earl Campbell


Question: 'In 1945 this poet was elected a senator in Chile'

Answer: Pablo Neruda


Question: 'In 1994 the parent company of this airline became the world's largest majority employee-owned company'

Answer: United Airlines


Question: 'Sonja Henie'

Answer: Oslo


Question: 'On the '90s "Two of a KInd", Mary-Kate Olsen played Mary-Kate & her sister played this character'

Answer: Ashley


Question: 'From the Greek for "generalship", it's a plan of action, like those employed by the military'

Answer: strategy


Question: 'This singer of "Wichita Lineman" fame was born to an Arkansas sharecropping family'

Answer: Glen Campbell


Question: '"One calm summer night" this title character "went home and put a bullet through his head"'

Answer: Richard Corey


Question: 'In 1999 the Southland Corp. took the name of this chain store, once a mere subsidiary'

Answer: 7-Eleven


Question: 'Javier Perez de Cuellar'

Answer: Lima


Question: 'This April 9, 2000 live broadcast starring George Clooney was a remake of a Henry Fonda film'

Answer: Fail Safe


Question: 'This emotion you feel at a grave seems to come from the same root as "grave"'

Answer: grief


Question: 'This U.S. senator is also the award-winning designer of the jewelry seen here:'

Answer: Ben Nighthorse Campbell


Question: 'The state motto of Ohio, adopted in 1959, was ruled unconstitutional in April 2000 as it included this word'

Answer: God


Question: 'Go Ba Soup, a specialty of this country, makes a sizzling sound when poured over deep-fried rice patties'

Answer: China


Question: 'Since 1947 teams competing in this Pasadena bowl game have come from the Pac 10 & Big 10 conferences'

Answer: Rose Bowl


Question: 'Larry King is seldom seen without these, which the British call braces'

Answer: Suspenders


Question: 'A carol is a simple occasional song most often associated with this holiday'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'It publishes Travel & Leisure Magazine as well as selling traveler's checks'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'Clock warning<br />        (5)'

Answer: Alarm


Question: 'The 2 houses of this large country's parliament are the Lok Sabha & the Rajya Sabha'

Answer: India


Question: 'On Nov. 5, 1994 he became the oldest to win a heavyweight title -- or any boxing title -- at age 45'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'The sandalfoot style of these does not have reinforcements at the toes & heels'

Answer: Pantyhose


Question: 'This form of light opera with spoken dialogue evolved from the opera comique & led to the musical'

Answer: Operetta


Question: 'Its roots go back to Bell Telephone in 1877'

Answer: AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph)


Question: 'River for tall women<br />       (6)'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'Most of this country's people live in hamlets called kampongs but about a million reside in Kuala Lumpur'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'In 1993 this Philadelphia 76ers player nicknamed "Dr. J" was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame'

Answer: Julius Erving


Question: 'Vienna-born designer Rudi Gernreich introduced this extremely revealing swimsuit in 1964'

Answer: Monokini


Question: 'This brass instrument may be fitted with valves either replacing the slide or in addition to it'

Answer: Trombone


Question: 'Foot Locker & Kinney Shoe Stores are owned by this five & dime company'

Answer: Woolworth\'s


Question: 'Knightware<br />       (5)'

Answer: Armor


Question: 'Sometimes this country is referred to as East Bengal'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'The 4 basic events in women's gymnastics are floor exercise, uneven parallel bars, vault & this event'

Answer: Balance Beam


Question: 'Low necklines & high waists were features of the Empire Style popularized c. 1805 by this French empress'

Answer: Josephine


Question: 'An instrumental piece usually for one musician, its name comes from Toccare, Italian for "to touch"'

Answer: Toccata


Question: 'May we be so "Bold" in this "Era" as to "Cheer" this "Charmin" company'

Answer: Procter & Gamble


Question: 'It leaves when winter comes<br />      (6)'

Answer: Autumn


Question: 'Indonesians call this third-largest island in the world Kalimantan, or "River of Diamonds"'

Answer: Borneo


Question: 'On Sept. 5, 1993 Noureddine Morceli of Algeria set the world record in this event at 3:44.39'

Answer: The Mile


Question: 'The name of this hip-length Japanese-style lounging robe makes us feel "glad"'

Answer: Happi Coat


Question: 'Malaguena is a sub-type of this Spanish or Andalusian song style'

Answer: Flamenco


Question: 'It's America's largest maker of commercial aircraft & that's the plane truth'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'Deer playmate<br />      (8)'

Answer: Antelope


Question: 'While living by Walden Pond in 1846, he was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'You can find the Bill of Rights on display in this D.C. building's Exhibition Hall'

Answer: The National Archives


Question: 'Legend says this Japanese mountain was created during an earthquake in 286 B.C.'

Answer: Mt. Fuji


Question: 'These colored chalklike sticks are made with a pigment & a weak adhesive such as gum tragacanth'

Answer: Pastels


Question: 'On Nov. 21, 1620, after a 66-day voyage, this ship reached Cape Cod'

Answer: The Mayflower


Question: 'In addition to Buck & White Fang, this author wrote about Jerry, an Irish terrier pup'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'He & William MacGillivray wrote "The Ornithological Biography" to go with his "Birds of America"'

Answer: John James Audubon


Question: 'He's the only U.S. president to have served as director of the CIA'

Answer: George (H.W.) Bush


Question: 'This highest Greek mountain wasn't scaled until 1913'

Answer: Mt. Olympus


Question: 'In 1546 Pope Paul III appointed this artist architect of St. Peter's Basilica'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'In 1607 Edward M. Wingfield was ousted as president of the Virginia colony at this site'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'Early collections of his stories include "Flappers And Philosophers" & "Tales Of The Jazz Age"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'Studying these in the Swiss Alps, Louis Agassiz postulated the Earth was once covered by them'

Answer: Glaciers


Question: 'National grasslands are administered by the Forest Service, an agency of this cabinet department'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: 'Encyclopedia Americana calls it the "most photographed peak in Europe"'

Answer: The Matterhorn


Question: 'The final layer of plaster prepared for this type of wall painting is called intonaco'

Answer: Fresco


Question: 'George Fox, leader of this British religious group, toured the American colonies in 1672'

Answer: The Quakers


Question: 'In "David Copperfield", Wilkins is the first name of this kindhearted optimist'

Answer: Mr. Micawber


Question: 'He was only 22 when he boarded the Beagle in 1831'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: 'Montana's Marc Racicot & this state's Jim Guy Tucker are the USA's lowest-paid governors'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'In 1949 a U.S. expedition spent 12 futile days searching for Noah's Ark on this mountain'

Answer: Mt. Ararat


Question: 'In 1930 Grant Wood's reputation was established by a Chicago showing of this painting'

Answer: "American Gothic"


Question: 'In 1631 this governor of New Netherland was removed due to liberal policies toward wealthy landowners'

Answer: Peter Minuit


Question: 'This B. Traven novel about 3 Americans looking for gold in Mexico was first published in Germany'

Answer: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"


Question: 'While in Holland in 1735, this Swede published his "Systema Naturae", a taxonomy system'

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus


Question: 'This Ohio Republican won election to the U.S. Senate in 1938 & served until his death in 1953'

Answer: Robert Taft


Question: 'The Karakoram Mountains include this famous peak also known as Mount Godwin Austen'

Answer: K2


Question: 'She was commissioned to paint a mural for the woman's building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi & claimed the valley for France'

Answer: LaSalle


Question: '"To Let" was the last novel in this John Galsworthy series'

Answer: "The Forsyte Saga"


Question: 'Frederick, Maryland was named for the 6th Baron this'

Answer: Baltimore (the Barons Baltimore; the Calvert family)


Question: 'His service in the Air Force gave him the background to write about a madcap bombardier in "Catch-22"'

Answer: (Joseph) Heller


Question: 'In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian"'

Answer: Johnny Gilbert


Question: '"The Windy City",<br />Illinois'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'In 1881 this man's International Allied Shows joined with P.T. to promote "The Greatest Show on Earth"'

Answer: Bailey


Question: 'If writing to this board game's association in Greenport, N.Y., send them a double letter (it scores more)'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'Beer-related term describing the average blue-collar guy'

Answer: Joe Six-Pack


Question: 'James Thurber shared this middle name with the 22nd & 24th president of the U.S.'

Answer: Grover


Question: 'Dennis Hopper played the son of Rock Hudson & Elizabeth Taylor in this 1956 classic'

Answer: Giant


Question: '"The City of Witches",<br />Massachusetts'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has one quote attributed to Barnum--this one about gullible people'

Answer: "There\'s a sucker born every minute"


Question: 'Horrified at the treatment of horses, Henry Bergh founded the American version of this humane society'

Answer: the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals


Question: 'Don Hutson, Paul Hornung & Lou Brock (no, not that Lou Brock) are in this team's Hall of Fame'

Answer: the Green Bay Packers


Question: 'This "Stuart Little" author wrote the "Talk of the Town" column for the New Yorker for several years'

Answer: E.B. White


Question: 'This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", & that's no "Raging Bull"'

Answer: (Jake) LaMotta


Question: '"The Crescent City",<br />Louisiana'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'While publishing The Herald of Freedom in Danbury in this state, Barnum was sued for libel 3 times'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Founded as the Christian Mission, it changed its name to this in 1878'

Answer: the Salvation Army


Question: 'A brand of quick-drying, plaster-like material to fill small holes in plasterwork'

Answer: spackle


Question: 'The Snopes family appeared in 6 of his novels, including "The Hamlet", "The Town" & "The Mansion"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller'

Answer: Basic Instinct


Question: 'As in a Navy song, "Crabtown On The Bay",<br />Maryland'

Answer: Annapolis


Question: 'Barnum offered $15,000 to Lavinia Warren & this man to delay their wedding for more publicity; they declined'

Answer: Tom Thumb


Question: 'Tin Can Sailors is the name of a group of sailors who served on these ships that defend warships from attack'

Answer: destroyers


Question: 'A large bushy-tailed rodent, or a person who saves small useless items'

Answer: a packrat


Question: '"Dragon's Teeth", one of 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, won this muckraker the Pulitzer Prize for 1942'

Answer: Upton Sinclair


Question: 'Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing)'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question: '"The Emerald City",<br />Washington'

Answer: Seattle


Question: 'In 1860 this pair originally from SE Asia came out of retirement for a 6-week exhibition at Barnum's American museum'

Answer: Chang & Eng (the original Siamese twins)


Question: 'Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in 1881, it's the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization'

Answer: the Knights of Columbus


Question: 'Lupine term for a group of subs operating together in hunting down enemy convoys'

Answer: a wolfpack


Question:
'JFK AIRPORT - NEW YORK
0720 HOURS
(Agent Sarah of the JCC phones in.)  I was tailed through this borough where JFK International is, but I lost them, & I'm on schedule to meet the man with the package'

Answer: Queens


Question: 'We're asking about this 1985 hit by Katrina & The Waves & "don't it feel good"?'

Answer: "Walking On Sunshine"


Question: 'In addition to being the mother of Catherine of Aragon, this Spanish queen was also mother to Joan the Mad'

Answer: Isabella


Question: 'Veloute, made of stock thickened with a flour & butter roux, is named for this fabric--it's that smooth'

Answer: velvet


Question: 'An important specimen is coded KNM-ER 1470, KNM for the "National Museums" of this African country where it lived'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'The OED says the origin of "quaff" is unknown, but it's probably this kind of word imitative of sound'

Answer: an onomatopoeia


Question:
'NILE VALLEY, EGYPT
0915 HOURS
(Agent Jimmy of the JCC checks in via camel phone.)  I've been set up--Ahmad said he'd bring the package & meet me in this suburb of Cairo, but he never showed'

Answer: Giza


Question: 'Title command of a No. 1 hit for the 4 Seasons in 1963 & a Top 20 for Grand Funk in 1974'

Answer: "Walk Like A Man"


Question: 'Sauce a la duxelles calls for mushrooms; sauce perigueux, for these ritzier fungi'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'This type of man, reconstructed here, lived in Europe until about 30,000 years ago'

Answer: Neanderthal


Question: 'This 5-letter word refers to a joyous or triumphant song & is derived from Paia, a title for Apollo'

Answer: a paean


Question:
'NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
1140 HOURS
(Agent Sarah of the JCC puts some information on the grapevine.)  I talked to Menzies--the package is headed for the Bay Area's busiest airport with this 3-letter code'

Answer: SFO


Question: '"Holly came from Miami F.L.A., hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A." in this classic'

Answer: "Walk On The Wild Side"


Question: 'A bigarade is a bitter one of these; bigarade sauce is often used on duck'

Answer: (Seville) orange


Question: 'Homo erectus reached this island between 1 & 2 million B.C.; Homo Dutch traderensis, in 1596 A.D.'

Answer: Java


Question: 'A Victorian author who rewrote Shakespeare to be less offensive lent his name to this word meaning "to censor"'

Answer: bowdlerize


Question:
'SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE
1635 HOURS
(Agent Jon of the JCC practices spycraft with Agent Kelly.)  The location of the package is in a code in this English-language newspaper based in France'

Answer: the International Herald Tribune


Question: '"Here comes Johnny" with this Dire Straits tune'

Answer: "Walk Of Life"


Question: 'The name of the sauce chaud-froid means this; it's prepared one way but served the other'

Answer: hot-cold


Question: '6-mil.-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis may be the first this, a term covering us & our humanlike ancestors'

Answer: hominid


Question: 'From the Latin bullire, "to bubble", comes this cheery adjective meaning "overflowing with enthusiasm"'

Answer: ebullient


Question:
'ATHENS, GREECE
2130 HOURS
(Agent Cheryl of the JCC checks in.)  Yes, I found Nikkos, but I just missed the package--it left last night out of this city, Athens' main port since 1834'

Answer: Piraeus


Question: '"Put on my blue suede shoes... touched down in the land of the Delta blues" begins this 1991 song'

Answer: "Walking In Memphis"


Question: 'This British queen who reigned from 1702 to 1714 was the last monarch of the royal House of Stuart'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: 'Also called balsamella, this basic French white sauce is made by adding milk to a roux'

Answer: béchamel


Question: 'Australopithecus has the foramen magnum, the hole in the skull for this, facing down rather than back as it did earlier'

Answer: the spinal column


Question: 'Though it sounds like a chaste astrological sign, this word now means an ill-tempered woman'

Answer: virago


Question: 'His twin daughters both married generals, & his portrait of one of his sons-in-law is seen here'

Answer: Jacques-Louis David


Question: 'Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons September 30, 1924 in this Southern U.S. city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'This breakfast meat comes in links or patties & its name is from the Latin for "salted"'

Answer: sausage


Question: 'Tiffany gemologist George Kunz was instrumental in the adoption of this unit as the standard weight for gems'

Answer: the carat


Question: 'In 1992 Bill Clinton famously remarked "I didn't" do this'

Answer: inhale


Question: 'Of 12°, -12° or -112° F., the lowest-ever recorded temperature in Hawaii, back in 1979'

Answer: 12 degrees


Question: '"Shadow of the Vampire" details the production of this 1922 F.W. Murnau film'

Answer: Nosferatu


Question: 'She's the lead character in Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's"'

Answer: Holly Golightly


Question: 'The name of this breakfast item is also used as a verb meaning to speak or write evasively'

Answer: waffle


Question: 'Tiffany's website says in 1886 it introduced this ring as we know it today, with the diamond set above the band'

Answer: the engagement ring


Question: 'A prayer to begin a religious service or public ceremony'

Answer: invocation


Question: 'At a place appropriately called Northice on this largest world island, temps dropped to -87° F. in Jan. 1954'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'The Coreys go after vampires in this 1987 film'

Answer: The Lost Boys


Question: 'He won an Oscar in 2007 for playing Truman Capote on the big screen'

Answer: Philip Seymour Hoffman


Question: 'This fancy egg dish is said to have been created at Delmonico's in the 1800s; even then, Hollandaise sauce was used'

Answer: Eggs Benedict


Question: 'For its boxes, Tiffany chose a shade of this primary color, recognized as a trademark today'

Answer: blue


Question: 'Kin-Tiki was a god of this South American people'

Answer: the Incas


Question: 'The coldest annual mean temp over 30 years in the U.S. was 9.3° F. in this state's town of Barrow'

Answer: Alaska


Question: '"The one name they all fear" was a tagline for this 2004 blockbuster that starred Hugh Jackman'

Answer: Van Helsing


Question: 'Capote invites the world's greatest detectives to his house for a contest in this 1976 film spoof'

Answer: Murder by Death


Question: 'In 1890 a woman named Nancy Green represented this character, the symbol for a pancake mix'

Answer: Aunt Jemima


Question: 'In 1861 she received a Tiffany seed-pearl jewelry set from her husband'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'Because they were too inexperienced or low in rank for the cavalry, foot soldiers came to be called this'

Answer: infantry


Question: 'Charlotte Pass in this 3-named state holds Australia's cold-temperature record with -9° F. in 1994'

Answer: New South Wales


Question: 'It's the vampiric Death Dealers vs. the Lycans in this slick 2003 movie'

Answer: Underworld


Question: 'Capote gained fame with this "other" worldly 1948 novel about a teenager in a crumbling Southern mansion'

Answer: Other Voices, Other Rooms


Question: 'In England this dish, bread dipped in an egg-&-milk batter & fried, is called "Poor Knights of Windsor"'

Answer: French toast


Question: 'This daughter of an artist has had her jewelry collections at Tiffany since 1980'

Answer: Paloma Picasso


Question: 'The Spanish one was officially founded by Ferdinand & Isabella in 1478'

Answer: the Inquisition


Question: 'In 1954, temps at Rogers Pass in this "Treasure State" plunged to -70° F., a continental U.S. record'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'In 2002 Aaliyah played this "royal" from Anne Rice's vampire menagerie'

Answer: Queen of the Damned


Question: '"Cartesian" refers to the ideas of this man, the "Father of Modern Philosophy"'

Answer: Descartes


Question: 'Gridiron stars:<br />Peyton & Eli'

Answer: Manning


Question: 'A recent discovery reveals that the oldest mammals, large & small, average about 1.5 billion of these per lifetime'

Answer: a heartbeat


Question: 'We were both at a meeting of this organization founded in 1957 for those who can't stay away from gaming'

Answer: Gamblers Anonymous


Question: 'Although this country's flag is square, during WWII a rectangular flag was adopted for its boats'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The first Greek philosophers tried to understand the universe, practicing this -ology, from the Greek for "order"'

Answer: cosmology


Question: 'Music makers:<br />Branford & Wynton'

Answer: Marsalis


Question: 'The Delta 32 genetic mutation prevents HIV; it's been found in the DNA of those who didn't get this Medieval scourge'

Answer: the plague


Question: 'What a nice chat we had on this country's Garuda Airlines, going from Jakarta to Hong Kong'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'The red triangle on this country's flag, a modified Arab revolt flag, represents the Hashemite Dynasty'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'Christmas carol with the line "Born is the King of Israel" becomes a witty English playwright'

Answer: The First Noël Coward


Question: 'Fideists say that the source of religious belief is not reason but this'

Answer: faith


Question: 'Actresses:<br />Meg & Jennifer'

Answer: Tilly


Question: '(Jon  of the Clue Crew reports from the lab, where he rolls a coin down an inclined plane.)  Inside vending machines, magnets pick up steel slugs, but U.S. coins go right in, because they're minted from non-magnetic mixed metals, known as these'

Answer: alloys


Question: 'Why it was just 2 Saturdays ago we met after services at the Tabernacle of this church in Battle Creek, Mich.'

Answer: Seventh Day Adventists


Question: 'The 3 colors of this Asian island republic's flag once stood for nationalism, democracy & socialism'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'The round  glove worn by a baseball backstopper runs for president as a Mormon ex-Mass. governor'

Answer: catcher\'s Mitt Romney


Question: 'This German philosopher's idea of the Ubermensch included included people like Frederick the Great'

Answer: Nietzche


Question: 'Filmmakers:<br />Joel & Ethan'

Answer: Coen


Question: 'In this type of bomb, 2 atoms of deuterium collide to produce a helium atom & extra neutrons'

Answer: a hydrogen bomb (or a fusion bomb)


Question: 'I lent you 300 of these, the local currency, last summer in Poland-- oh, of course you've forgotten'

Answer: złoty


Question: 'Columbus landed here; the 5 stars represent the federation it was once a part of'

Answer: Honduras


Question: 'The spectacular company that does the "O" show in Vegas becomes the star of "Punky Brewster"'

Answer: Cirque du Soleil Moon Frye


Question: 'The opposite of determinism is this 2-word phrase used in an 1889 Henri Bergson book title'

Answer: free will


Question: 'Figure skaters:<br />Sarah & Emily'

Answer: Hughes


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew spins purple plastic tube.) When the tube spins, high pressure pushes air through it to the lower pressure end, producing sound & demonstrating this principle named for a Swiss mathematician'

Answer: the Bernoulli principle


Question: 'I knew you weren't a fellow vegetarian when I saw you order carne asada, made with this meat'

Answer: beef


Question: 'The white bar of this country's flag represents the minority & the green is for the Muslim majority'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: ''60s TV actress who played identical cousins (identical cousins? seriously?) who brought us "Take The A Train"'

Answer: Patty Duke Ellington


Question: 'He's the only sitting vice president since Martin Van Buren elected to the presidency'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'She 1st met husband while complaining to S.A.G. about unwanted Communist literature'

Answer: Nancy Reagan


Question: 'It's where relief pitchers, not matadors, warm up'

Answer: the bullpen


Question: 'The Middle East's popular pocket bread'

Answer: a pita


Question: 'A German river or the wine grown on its banks'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'What the farmer's wife did to 3 unlucky mice'

Answer: cut off their tails with a carving knife


Question: 'This western topper actually holds only about 3 quarts'

Answer: a ten-gallon hat


Question: 'After 1st breaking the engagement, Lincoln went on to marry her'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'Because of this rule, no horse has ever won the Kentucky Derby twice'

Answer: (only) a 3-year old (can run)


Question: '16th century development of a pig muzzle was a landmark in harvesting this fungus'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'The end of a river that empties into a lake or ocean'

Answer: the mouth


Question: 'Slang for a construction worker'

Answer: a hardhat


Question: 'Virginia Governor Charles Robb's mother-in-law'

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson


Question: 'These 2 former Olympic athletes became movie Tarzans'

Answer: Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'A small Oriental orange or a division of Chinese cuisine'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'Sam Rayburn Reservoir is this state's largest lake'

Answer: Texas


Question: ''50s fuzzy frontier fad'

Answer: a Davy Crockett coonskin hat


Question: 'In '62 Adlai Stevenson eulogized: "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness"'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'He shouts the commands in crew racing'

Answer: coxswain


Question: 'City Wiener Schnitzel is named for'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'Located in Oregon, it's the deepest lake in North America'

Answer: Crater Lake


Question: 'Graduate's cap, it sounds like a plasterer's tool'

Answer: a mortarboard


Question: 'Only wife of 1 president & mother of another'

Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'Either of 2 Marilyn Monroe films with "watery" titles'

Answer: (1 of) Niagara and the River of No Return


Question: 'Finned on fish, scaly on lizards, nonexistent on humans & manx cats'

Answer: tails


Question: '"The Eternal City"'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'In 1978, this pope reigned for only 34 days'

Answer: Pope John Paul I


Question: 'Number of degrees in a circle'

Answer: 360


Question: 'The 1st permanent English settlement in America'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'Liz's Nicky'

Answer: Hilton


Question: 'From Latin "to gnaw", there are more of this group than all other mammals combined'

Answer: rodents


Question: 'Hitler said this Polish capital "must cease to exist; level it"'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'Colonial Maryland was founded as haven for members of this church'

Answer: the (Roman) Catholic Church


Question: 'Mathematical function people in the Bible were always going forth & doing'

Answer: multiplying


Question: '"Reconstruction" was the 13-year period following this'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'The film in which Bing sang about a white Christmas & an Easter parade'

Answer: Holiday Inn


Question: 'In mammals, trait determined by presence or absence of Y-chromosome'

Answer: sex


Question: 'Moscow park that was scene of murders investigated in recent best-seller & film'

Answer: Gorky Park


Question: 'Logarithmic tool outmoded by the calculator'

Answer: a slide rule


Question: 'Only U.S. civilians ever executed in America for espionage'

Answer: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg


Question: 'According to Andy Griffith, "Everything's good that sits on" this cracker'

Answer: a Ritz


Question: 'Since 300 A.D., this region of N.E. France has been traded 7 times by Germany and France'

Answer: Alsace-Lorraine


Question: 'Total meters in a hectometer'

Answer: 100


Question: 'In 1959, "Maverick" won the Emmy for this category, only year it was given'

Answer: Best Western


Question: 'Bavarian village famous for its passion play'

Answer: Oberammergau


Question: 'The formula for its volume is V equals pi r²h'

Answer: a cylinder


Question: 'Muppets commenting from the balcony in the following'

Answer: Statler and Waldorf


Question: 'Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'The "Practical Traveler" reports on budget types of these small, trendy hotels with the name of a kind of shop'

Answer: boutiques


Question: 'Joe provided the voice of Jacques the Shrimp in this 2003 Oscar winner'

Answer: Finding Nemo


Question: 'Anne Sullivan spelled out lectures in this woman's hand, helping her to graduate with honors in 1904'

Answer: Hellen Keller


Question: '"Batch me"'

Answer: MacBeth


Question: 'The introduction to a 1950s TV show called him the "daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains"'

Answer: The Lone Ranger


Question: '8-letter word for knives, forks & spoons when used at the dinner table'

Answer: flatware


Question: 'The New York Times website's "Where To Stay" feature suggests the Pensione Maria Luisa De' Medici in this Tuscan city'

Answer: Florence


Question: '"Be our guest" & name this enchanting 1991 Disney film that Joe co-wrote'

Answer: Beauty & The Beast


Question: 'Graduating <i>cum laude</i> with a degree in American history, she'd later become First Lady--on "The West Wing"'

Answer: Stockard Channing


Question: '"Hell too"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'The oldest state law enforcement agency in the U.S., it began in 1823 with 10 men'

Answer: the Texas Rangers


Question: 'Swimming competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used'

Answer: freestyle


Question: 'The Times' "36 Hours" tour of this capital begins at a plaza where people look like extras in an Almodovar film'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Not only the voice of Peterbilt, Joe Ranft co-directed & helped write this Oscar-nominated 2006 Pixar hit'

Answer: Cars


Question: 'Before moving to Paris & meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: '"Regal kin"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: '[There's a theme here]<br />A Ranger spacecraft shot 300 close-up photos per minute to help select moon landing sites for this NASA program'

Answer: Apollo


Question: 'Adjective for a section of Beijing historically reserved for the Emperors'

Answer: Forbidden City


Question: '"What to do" at this Greek site is to visit the Museum of the History of the... games in antiquity'

Answer: Olympia


Question: 'Joe ate some of the scenery as Heimlich the Ravenous Caterpillar in this 1998 animated feature'

Answer: A Bug\'s Life


Question: 'A 1973 degree in political science was just the beginning for this first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan'

Answer: Benazir Bhutto


Question: '"Casual Juries"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In WWII Rudder's Rangers attacked the Germans on this cliffs on Pointe Du Hoc in this part of France'

Answer: Normandy


Question: 'An opera from 1900 gave wing to this popular "insect" composition by Rimsky-Korsakov'

Answer: Flight Of The Bumblebee


Question: '"When to go" to Australia? If it's summer (Dec.), try southern (cooler) states, like this one named for a queen'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'Also the voice of Elmo St. Peters, Joe was Emmy-nominated as a writer of 1987's "Brave Little" this'

Answer: Toaster


Question: 'This poet & author of "The Handmaid's Tale" received a Master's from Radcliffe'

Answer: (Margaret) Atwood


Question: '"It runs a discount"'

Answer: Titus Andronicus


Question: 'Rogers' Rangers was a Colonial unit commanded by Robert Rogers during this 1754 to 1763 war'

Answer: the French-Indian War


Question: 'A 17th Century conspirator against British royalty, he has his own "day" each November'

Answer: Guy Fawkes


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Institute of Marine Sciences in UC Santa Cruz) Some crabs go through this shell-shedding process all their lives, but the sheep crab has a terminal one, after which it can't grow'

Answer: molting


Question: 'When it's time for a little "sex and the city", spray on Lovely, the signature fragrance of this actress'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'On the Bay of Bengal:<br />BD'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'On April 7, 1891 this showman folded his big top for the last time'

Answer: (P.T.) Barnum


Question: 'At the Alamo gift shop in San Antonio, you can buy a toy version of "Old Betsy", the rifle of this frontiersman'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'One of these devices enables data transmission over a phone line'

Answer: a modem


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) Sea urchins' body symmetry makes their teeth fit together in a way that this pupil of Plato compared to a five-sided lantern.  2300 years later, it's still known as his lantern'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'The 1991 miniseries "A Woman Named Jackie" featured this future Vampire Slayer as the teenaged Jacqueline Bouvier'

Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar


Question: 'It occupies half an island:<br />PNG'

Answer: Papua New Guinea


Question: 'In 1908, 27 years after killing Billy the Kid, he was shot to death by a New Mexico rancher in a land dispute'

Answer: Sheriff Pat Garrett


Question: 'While in the Military, this 34th president of the U.S. was stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'Traditionally, a cabinet containing a chamber pot, or colloquially, any toilet'

Answer: a commode


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz) The bones of the blue whale's flipper compare to those of the human hand.  Ulna, carples, and these, like your finger bones'

Answer: the phalanges


Question: 'Mel Torme said this jazz great had "the single best vocal instrument of any singer...in the popular field"'

Answer: Sarah Vaughn


Question: 'This African country's name is flip-flopped in French:<br />CI'

Answer: the Ivory Coast


Question: 'This lawyer got liberty & death at Red Hill in Virginia on June 6, 1799'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'This "watery" promenade promoted by the Paseo Del Rio Association claims to be Texas' No. 1 tourist attraction'

Answer: the Riverwalk


Question: 'Adjective meaning obsolete or no longer fashionable'

Answer: outmoded


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) As a bottom-dweller, the sculpin has smaller dorsal fins, but holds itself steady with these big fins, from the Latin for breasts.'

Answer: pectoral fins


Question: '(I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber) "The Music Of The Night" was originally written for this performer: she reclaims it in her stage act'

Answer: Sarah Brightman


Question: '2 West Indian islands, one republic:<br />TT'

Answer: Trinidad & Tobago


Question: 'His "Song Of Myself" ended on March 26, 1892'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'In the 19th C. San Antonio was a training site for the African-American Cavalry Soldiers given this animal name'

Answer: the Buffalo Soldiers


Question: '"People Are People" & "Personal Jesus" were hits for this synth pop group'

Answer: Depeche Mode


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) Scientists here at UC Santa Cruz discerned that the sunburst species of this flowerlike creature was a separate species and not just a type of the aggregating species'

Answer: a sea anemone


Question: 'Once fired by Lincoln, this Union General took a New Jersey exit on Oct. 29, 1885'

Answer: (George) McClellan


Question: 'San Antonio was founded in 1718 when an expedition built a mission & one of these Spanish-named forts'

Answer: Presidios


Question: 'Mussorgsky's moniker'

Answer: modest


Question: 'He won 3 straight Emmys for dramatic acting & a record 6 straight Grammys for comedy albums'

Answer: Bill Cosby


Question: 'Yuri Shaporin's 1925 opera "The Decembrists" was set in this country 100 years earlier'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'This Jim Carrey character had a follow-up film subtitled "When Nature Calls"'

Answer: Ace Ventura


Question: 'He's troubled: <br />HALT ME'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'In May 1998 the Justice Dept. & 20 states charged Microsoft with violation of these laws designed to stop monopolies'

Answer: antitrust


Question: 'This African-American folklore laborer: "Before I let that steam drill beat me down I'll die with my hammer in my hand"'

Answer: John Henry


Question: 'U can't touch this: it's far away, its diameter is 865,000 miles & the part of it we can see is 10,000 degrees'

Answer: the sun


Question: '1977's "Royal Hunt of the Sun" tells the story of the Spaniards' 16th century conquest of this empire'

Answer: the Inca Empire


Question: 'This Rob Schneider character had a follow-up film subtitled "European Gigolo"'

Answer: Deuce Bigalow


Question: 'Jealous jerk: <br />HELL TOO'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question: 'Known for its cephalofoil, this fierce fish can grow 20 feet long'

Answer: a hammerhead shark


Question: 'Good luck, boy-o, gettin' yer hands on one o' these folklore fairies; the word derives from old Irish fer "little body"'

Answer: a leprechaun


Question: 'In Act 3 of an 1846 Verdi opera, this "Scourge of God" is stabbed to death by his lover Odabella'

Answer: Attila (the Hun)


Question: 'Her roles include Motormouth Maybelle in "Hairspray" & Matron Mama Morton in "Chicago"'

Answer: Queen Latifah


Question: 'Magic man:<br />PROPOSER'

Answer: Prospero


Question: 'In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house more than 1.5 million people'

Answer: Habitat for Humanity


Question: 'U can't touch this lunar lander Neil Armstrong used; it was released & crashed back into the moon'

Answer: the Eagle


Question: 'Thea Musgrave's opera about her, "Harriet, a Woman Called Moses", has 2 acts: "From Bondage" & "To Freedom"'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'Matt Stone's writing & producing partner, he's the voice of Eric Cartman'

Answer: Trey Parker


Question: 'Demented dad:<br />LINK RAGE'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'In the 1960s the French military stopped using this fortified line of defense named for a war minister'

Answer: Maginot


Question: 'House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer"'

Answer: Tom DeLay


Question: 'Touching the bottom of the Challenger Deep in this trench SW of Guam?  Nuh uh--it's 35,840 feet below the surface'

Answer: the Mariana Trench


Question: 'Except for a concert version, Massenet's opera of this 11th c. Castilian hero wasn't staged from 1902 to 1999'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'This star of "Sin City" & "The Spirit" was named after the Bionic Woman'

Answer: Jaime King


Question: 'Venice disguiser:<br />AIR TOP'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'On Nov. 5, 1605 he wanted to blow up Parliament to stop the persecution of Roman Catholics in England'

Answer: Guy Fawkes


Question: 'This tough guy private detective was the main character in the 1952 novel "Kiss Me, Deadly"'

Answer: Mike Hammer


Question: 'This, Pu-239, has a half-life of 24,100 years; yours would be a lot shorter if you touched it'

Answer: plutonium


Question: 'On June 15, 2009 President Obama addressed this group to try to get them to scrub in & agree to health care reform'

Answer: the AMA (the American Medical Association)


Question: 'On May 5, 1904 he pitched the first perfect game in A.L. history; no wonder that big pitching award is named for him'

Answer: Cy Young


Question: '"The City of Paul Revere"'

Answer: Boston


Question:
'Fiesta,
Gala,
Rome Beauty'

Answer: apples


Question: 'The playoff type of this isn't just for athletes; It's also "grown by male college students during... finals week"'

Answer: a beard


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.)  Because of its heavy defensive armament, including .50 caliber machine guns, the B-17 was dubbed the "Flying" this; Nazi propaganda tried to change that to "Flying Coffin"'

Answer: Fortress


Question: '"We are their voice" is the motto of this 5-letter group, the first animal protection organization in the United States'

Answer: the ASPCA


Question: 'On May 18, 2004 it was no runs, no hits, no errors when this 6'10'' Arizona "Big Unit" baffled the Braves'

Answer: Randy Johnson


Question: '"The Big Heart of Texas"'

Answer: Austin


Question:
'Cardinal,
Catawba,
Concord'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'It's one way to make use of an unwanted present; a usage example begins, "Grandma gave me a horrible sweater"'

Answer: regifting


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from outside a B-17.)  One of the B-17's key targets was Schweinfurt, a manufacturing center for BBs, not air rifle pellets, but these round items vital to the German war effort'

Answer: ball bearings


Question: 'Garrison Keillor would be proud of this denomination's "Services in America", helping 6 mil. people a year'

Answer: the Lutheran Church


Question: 'On May 8, 1968 Catfish Hunter was unhittable for this Charlie Finley-owned team'

Answer: the Oakland A\'s


Question: '"The Green Mountain City"'

Answer: Montpelier


Question:
'Sweetheart,
Kansas Sweet,
Rainier'

Answer: cherries


Question: '"Love and affection shared by two straight males" is this type of affair'

Answer: a bromance


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.)  I'm at the station used by this crew member, who would carry the mission flight plan on rice paper, so he could eat it if he had to bail out over enemy territory'

Answer: the navigator


Question: 'The veterans group for this Cold War alliance's military forces is based in New Brunswick'

Answer: NATO


Question: 'You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em; on July 28, 1994 this Texas Ranger with a familiar name did'

Answer: Kenny Rogers


Question: '"The Queen of the Golden Empire"'

Answer: Sacramento


Question:
'Burbank,
Santa Rosa,
Green Gage'

Answer: plums


Question: 'Title of a dy-no-mite '70s sitcom, it's said ironically about something not all that fun & "often used in a repetitive manner"'

Answer: good times


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.)  One of the great poems of World War II is about the death of a gunner in this turret named for its shape; crewman routinely flew 12-hour missions crammed in here'

Answer: the ball turret


Question: 'This society for conservative & libertarian lawyers has the name of an early U.S. political party'

Answer: the Federalist Society


Question: 'This "Husky" White Sox lefty was perfect against Tampa Bay on July 23, 2009'

Answer: Mark Buehrle


Question: '"The Bluegrass Capital"'

Answer: Frankfort


Question:
'Sugarloaf,
Red Spanish,
Hilo'

Answer: pineapples


Question: 'Rhyming with "juiced", it's "to lose one's job because of one's blog", coined by blogger Heather Armstrong'

Answer: dooced


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a B-17.)  The bombardier took aim through this top-secret bombsight that was said to be able to drop a bomb in a pickle barrel from 18,000 feet'

Answer: the Norden bombsight


Question: 'The Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits says this song brought mail from history teachers who hailed it as an educational aid'

Answer: \"We Didn\'t Start The Fire\" (by Billy Joel)


Question: 'He wrote the verse "Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Christopher Robin is saying his prayers"'

Answer: A. A. Milne


Question: '...& the Gang'

Answer: Kool


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the set of The Producers.)  According to the cast of "The Producers", actors say this three-word phrase, instead of "Good luck"'

Answer: "Break a leg"


Question: 'On April 10, 1849 Walter Hunt received a patent for this cloth diaper fastener'

Answer: a safety pin


Question: 'In Sweden, if you hear funny noises in your home or in your chest, dial 112 instead of this U.S. equivalent'

Answer: 911


Question: 'It's the year in which the last U.S. Census was taken'

Answer: 2000


Question: 'This author's "Lord of the Flies" has been turned into films directed by Peter Brook & Harry Hook'

Answer: (William) Golding


Question: '...& the Miami Sound Machine'

Answer: Gloria Estefan


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew is backstage at the Gershwin Theatre.)  These are the areas just offstage, and actors wait in them to make their entrances'

Answer: the wings


Question: 'In 1825 Hannah Montague, tired of washing her husband's shirts because this was soiled, invented a detachable one'

Answer: a collar


Question: 'The British may call home by "reversing the charges", which we know as calling this way'

Answer: collect


Question: 'It's a big lie, or a big burger from Burger King'

Answer: a Whopper


Question: 'Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross'

Answer: Tale of Two Cities


Question: '...& the Blackhearts'

Answer: Joan Jett


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew has snuck into the dressing room of Hairspray.)  It's considered bad luck to mention the name of this play in the dressing room; actors call it "The Scottish Play"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Eli Whitney's model for this was stolen & manufactured by competitors before he received his patent in 1794'

Answer: the cotton gin


Question: 'By our informal estimate, this question from the "Scooby-Doo" theme song also begins 70% of cell phone calls'

Answer: "Where are you?"


Question: 'The name of this dark brownish red comes from the French word for "chestnut"'

Answer: maroon


Question: 'The traveller in this 1895 tale finds himself in the year A.D. 802,701'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: '...& the Funky Bunch'

Answer: Marky Mark


Question: '(Oooooooklahoma!  Where Sofia's standing on the set.)  It's the term for raising or lowering scenery above the stage; it's also what Mary Martin did in "Peter Pan"'

Answer: fly


Question: 'His father Robert attempted to build a mechanical reaper but failed; he succeeded & became quite wealthy'

Answer: (Cyrus) McCormick


Question: 'Including a transmitter & a receiver, the part of a telephone you pick up has this "manual" name'

Answer: handset


Question: 'It's the answer to the sphinx's riddle: <br />"What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening?"'

Answer: man


Question: 'It's J.G. Ballard's saga of a British boy separated from his parents & interned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII'

Answer: Empire of the Sun


Question: '...& the Range'

Answer: Bruce Hornsby


Question: '(Jimmy and the rest of the Clue Crew, on stage at the St. James Theatre.)  It's the two-word term for the event after a play when the actors appear to take their bows'

Answer: a curtain call


Question: 'His 1769 patent was for "a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines"'

Answer: James Watt


Question: 'Dude, your mobile phone is, like, so bad; call me back on this alliterative term'

Answer: a land line


Question: 'By definition, orogeny is the geologic process by which these are formed on earth'

Answer: mountains


Question: 'Richard Nixon's Checkers speech said that his wife was named Patricia Ryan & born on this holiday; neither was true'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day


Question: 'He wrote the short story "The Sentinel" on which the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based'

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke


Question: 'You'll find the island of Madagascar in this ocean'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'This ribbed cotton fabric can be wide-wale or pin-wale depending on the width of the ribs'

Answer: corduroy


Question: 'Britain's National Army Museum says she used the lantern seen here, not the glass one she's usually pictured with'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'A public burial ground for poor or unidentified people'

Answer: a potter\'s field


Question: 'Mexicans under Gen. Zaragoza won a great victory on this date in 1862, celebrated with a fiesta on L.A.'s Olvera Street'

Answer: the fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo)


Question: 'I'm sorry, Dave, Douglas Rain provided the voice of this ultimately murderous computer'

Answer: HAL


Question: 'Bermuda's capital city, it shares its name with the last name of a man of U.S. currency'

Answer: Hamilton


Question: 'The Federal Trade commission classifies wool that is new, pure & unrecycled as this'

Answer: virgin


Question: 'A volunteer nurse for the union, this little woman published her wartime letters in 1863's "Hospital Sketches"'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'A wood or coal-burning stove with a rounded, bulbous body'

Answer: a potbelly stove


Question: 'On the festive day of April 5, 1722 Jakob Roggeveen visited this South Pacific island'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'He directed "2001: A Space Odyssey" between "Dr. Stangelove" & "A Clockwork Orange"'

Answer: Stanley Kubrick


Question: 'Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, married Queen Jadwiga & became King Wladyslaw II of this country in 1386'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'This brocaded fabric uses gold or silver metallic threads; Elvis had a famous gold tuxedo made of it'

Answer: lame


Question: 'Called the "Moses of Her People", she served as a cook & a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'It's formed by the confluence of its North & South branches near Cumberland, Maryland'

Answer: the Potomac


Question: 'In 1970 this country moved carnival from before Lent to late July'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Starring Roy Scheider, it's the sequel to "2001" filmed in 1984'

Answer: 2010


Question: 'Communities on this "potent potable" island N. of Venezuela include Emmastad, Nieuwpoort & Julianadorp'

Answer: Curacao


Question: 'Before this can be made into linen, it must be retted, or partially decomposed, to separate the fibers'

Answer: flax


Question: 'Trained as a nurse at White Plains hospital, she's credited with coining the term "birth control"'

Answer: Margaret Sanger


Question: 'The Big 3's last meeting during World War II took place in July 1945 in this city near Berlin'

Answer: Potsdam


Question: 'Appropriately, this 1846 California "Revolt" began on Flag Day, June 14'

Answer: the Bear Flag Revolt


Question: 'This composer's tone poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra" has become virtually synonymous with the film'

Answer: Richard Strauss


Question: 'The Mosel is a tributary of this 820-mile-long European River'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'The name of this crinkled, striped fabric is from Persian for "milk sugar"; it's both smooth as milk & bumpy as sugar'

Answer: seersucker


Question: 'This Australian nurse devised a method for treating polio'

Answer: Sister Kenny


Question: 'In the Bible, he buys Joseph as a slave'

Answer: Potiphar


Question: 'This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'A spot in this California nat'l park is the lowest place in the Western Hemisphere -- 282' below sea level'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'Heloise suggests dyeing your kids' pancakes this color on Saint Patrick's Day'

Answer: Green


Question: 'It's the site where the mission seen here began in 1995 (space shuttle liftoff)'

Answer: Cape Canaveral


Question: 'Here's the naked truth:  this 1997 film is the highest-grossing British movie in history'

Answer: "The Full Monty"


Question: 'The papers with this name in NYC & L.A. have combined daily circulations of over 2 million'

Answer: Times


Question: 'Administered by Pakistan, it's the second-highest mountain in the world'

Answer: K2


Question: 'Paul Revere Mall, a park in this city, has bronze tablets honoring the people of the North End'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'You can make pudding, as well as pie, from the pulp of this jack-o'-lantern gourd'

Answer: Pumpkin


Question: 'They're the 2 historic former presidents seen here in 1992 (at a ranch)'

Answer: Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'Of "Carousel", "Rollercoaster" or "Midway", the film that featured a very young Helen Hunt'

Answer: "Rollercoaster"


Question: 'Meaning of the name of Nicaragua's La Prensa, or what Nicaragua hasn't always had "freedom of"'

Answer: The Press


Question: 'In 1970 McDonnell Douglas introduced this jetliner to compete with the Boeing 747'

Answer: DC-10


Question: 'About 1/3 of this state's visitors arrive by cruise ship, many from Vancouver, British Columbia'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Cheese kreplach & cheese blintzes are suggested dishes for Shavuot, a holiday of this religion'

Answer: Judaism


Question: 'Rhyming nickname of the man seen here who kept the world informed in 1991'

Answer: "Stormin\' Norman" Schwarzkopf


Question: 'This "heavenly" Meg Ryan film shares its name, but not its plot, with a Tony-winning musical'

Answer: "City Of Angels"


Question: 'Portland's largest paper is The Oregonian; this is Nashville's'

Answer: The Tennesseean


Question: 'Slang for "square", it's the name of an all-female rock band of the 1990s'

Answer: L7


Question: 'Elfreth's Alley, not far from Betsy Ross' home in this city, is the USA's oldest continuously occupied street'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Cinco de Mayo is the perfect time to serve margaritas & this classic avocado dip'

Answer: Guacamole


Question: 'The "thrilling" Manila brawler seen here in 1975 (he lost)'

Answer: Joe Frazier


Question: 'This sister of Francis Ford Coppola appeared in all of his "Godfather" films'

Answer: Talia Shire


Question: 'Correct pronounciation of the name of a 234-year-old Hartford paper, or the type of "events" it covers'

Answer: Courant (as in "current")


Question: 'Abbreviation for the period of one's education from age 4 to 6 through high school'

Answer: K-12


Question: 'A statue of this Spanish explorer is displayed at Fountain of Youth Park in St. Augustine, Florida'

Answer: Ponce de Leon


Question: 'This Hawaiian island celebrates its famous onions with an annual festival that includes a recipe contest'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'He's the deposed dictator seen here in custody (captured in 1989)'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'Kirk Douglas played the "gentleman caller" in the film version of this Tennessee Williams play'

Answer: "The Glass Menagerie"


Question: 'This Tulsa morning paper is a translation of Germany's Die Welt'

Answer: The Tulsa World


Question: 'Vernon Kell, known as "K", headed this British security service when it was founded in 1909'

Answer: MI5


Question: 'Sweden's got a Gota one  -- it was dug at the same time as the USA's Erie one'

Answer: Canal


Question: 'Last name of the mother & son who were "Miss Lillian" & "Grits"'

Answer: Carter


Question: 'Pepsi canceled a deal with her after complaints over the "Like A Prayer" video'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In the 1970s this state gave the U.S. Nixon's disgraced VP & a governor convicted of mail fraud'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'You can't see the "end" of this colorful arc in the sky because it doesn't have one'

Answer: Rainbow


Question: 'If you taste-test Cortlands against Valencias, you're comparing these'

Answer: Apples and oranges


Question: 'In 1792 King Gustav III was shot at this type of ball; he thought he wouldn't be recognized'

Answer: Masquerade


Question: 'Nickname shared by football's Vernon Smith & baseball's James Hunter'

Answer: "Catfish"


Question: '"Everyday Is A Winding Road" for this singer who used to back Michael Jackson'

Answer: Sheryl Crow


Question: 'In 1996 an ex-cop pleaded guilty to trying to have this Texas team's wide receiver Michael Irvin killed'

Answer: Dallas Cowboys


Question: 'Haptic means of or relating to this tactile sense'

Answer: Touch


Question: 'To pursue an activity full force is to do it this way, like a blacksmith'

Answer: Hammer and tong


Question: 'Gangster Martin Goldsmith was nicknamed this, with 2 "G"s; Benjamin Siegel had only one'

Answer: Buggsy


Question: 'Her album "Pieces Of You" has been on Billboard's top pop catalog album charts for over 100 weeks'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'The last pitcher to win 30 games in a season, he's since done time for extortion & mail fraud'

Answer: Denny McLain


Question: 'Peas contain this bone-building material whose name is from the Greek for "light-bearing"'

Answer: Phosphorus


Question: 'Famed duo seen here ('70s song & dance/comedy)'

Answer: Shields and Yarnell


Question: 'You've got this nailed if you know this is Louis Terkel's nickname'

Answer: Studs


Question: 'The chorus of this Beck song mentions "Two turntables and a microphone"'

Answer: "Where It\'s At"


Question: 'In the 1790's William Ireland "discovered" (actually wrote) this man's play "Vortigern And Rowena"'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Last name of British fashion designer Vivienne, or the L.A. community that's home to UCLA'

Answer: Westwood


Question: 'One founder of this jet engine manufacturer was a cousin of the inventor of the cotton gin'

Answer: Pratt and Whitney


Question: 'Born in 1861, this Chicago businessman was known as "Monarch of Mastication"'

Answer: William Wrigley (chewing gum)


Question: 'In this band's "Only Happy When It Rains", Shirley Manson sings, "It Feels So Good To Feel So Sad"'

Answer: Garbage


Question: 'The prehistoric "man" named for this English place turned out to be part modern corpse & part ape'

Answer: Piltdown Man


Question: 'Oh, yes!  An oenochoe is an ancient Greek pitcher or jug made to hold this'

Answer: Wine


Question: 'George Bernard Shaw play in which John Tanner philosophizes about evolution'

Answer: "Man and Superman"


Question: 'The name of this Asian country contains the name of a Mediterranean volcano'

Answer: Vietnam (contains the volcano Etna)


Question: 'As the dictator of this country from 1950 to 1971, Walter Ulbricht oversaw the construction of a famous wall'

Answer: East Germany


Question: 'A handful of actors play more than 100 roles in "The 39 Steps", based on this director's 1935 suspense classic'

Answer: Hitchcock


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew kneads in the kitchen.) Masa is the dough you get from soaking corn in water, then grinding it; the masa is then cooked to make these, from the Spanish for "cake"'

Answer: tortillas


Question: '"Get along little" this, the word for a motherless calf'

Answer: dogie


Question: 'Cabriolet'

Answer: drive it


Question: 'An uninvolved onlooker or spectator'

Answer: a bystander


Question: 'Talk about a strongman-- he was the heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda for 9 years before becoming dictator'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: 'In the musical "Legally Blonde", blonde ambition takes Elle Woods all the way to this university's law school'

Answer: Harvard


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew gets his hands dirty.) These delicacies have been around for centuries; sometimes wrapped in the leaves of bananas or avocados, today they're usually wrapped in corn husks'

Answer: tamales


Question: 'A condor is a type of this bird; it's related to the turkey type & also enjoys eating carrion'

Answer: a vulture


Question: 'Hambo'

Answer: dance it


Question: 'A standing rule governing a corporation's internal affairs'

Answer: a bylaw


Question: 'One of his legacies was restoring the Spanish monarchy in 1969'

Answer: Franco


Question: 'The musical "Here's Love" was based on this 1947 film in which the real Kris Kringle is hired to work at Macy's'

Answer: Miracle on 34th Street


Question: '(Kelly is back in the kitchen.) As well as a fried pastry rolled in sugar and cinnamon, churro means a type of this animal, and the pastry's name may have come from the nomads who herded it'

Answer: sheep


Question: 'Scientists are scrambling to find out the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, which is occurring with this insect'

Answer: bees


Question: 'Kirsch'

Answer: drink it


Question: 'Don't have a coronary, it's just a road enabling motorists to avoid a city'

Answer: bypass


Question: 'His military dictatorship of Japan from 1941 to 1944 ended after the loss of Saipan'

Answer: Tojo


Question: '"A Wonderful Life" is a charming musical adaption of this director's classic film "It's A Wonderful Life"'

Answer: (Frank) Capra


Question: '(Kelly points to more food.) Although traditionally made with poblanos, here at the Little Diner this dish is made with Anaheim chiles stuffed with cheese, ,and fried until the outside is nice and crisp'

Answer: chiles rellenos


Question: 'The plains variety of this animal has gray markings that are known as shadow stripes'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'Trabant'

Answer: drive it


Question: 'A secondary substance made from the manufacture of something else'

Answer: a byproduct


Question: 'Saloth Sar was the real name of this murderous Cambodian dictator'

Answer: Pol Pot


Question: 'X marks the spot where the musical inspired by this Olivia Newton-John film about a roller disco rolled onto B'way'

Answer: Xanadu


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew puts together a tasty snack.) These deep-fried pockets of cornmeal dough get their name from the Spanish for "fat"'

Answer: gorditas


Question: 'Named for features on its skull, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-08_J_19.jpg" target="_blank">it's </a> the swiftest mammal in the New World'

Answer: the pronghorn antelope


Question: 'Huapala'

Answer: drink it


Question: 'Adjective meaning past or former'

Answer: bygone


Question: 'Kauai Channel separates the island of Kauai from this most populous of the Hawaiian Islands'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'Last name of the title P.I. who lived at Robin Masters' estate'

Answer: Magnum


Question: 'Darnay's arrested; Sydney Carton drugs him & takes his place in jail'

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Question: 'The Passport Services Office'

Answer: State


Question: 'He reported from the Spanish Civil War & used his experiences in his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls"'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'A covering for the blade of a knife'

Answer: sheath


Question: 'Located on the Colorado River, it's the USA's largest man-made lake'

Answer: Lake Mead


Question: 'First name of the TV title P.I. Mr. Steele, whose word wasn't necessarily his bond'

Answer: Remington


Question: 'Judah h its a bigwig of Judea, meets Jesus, becomes a rower, wins a race, rescues family, meets Jesus'

Answer: Ben-Hur


Question: 'The Minority Business Development Agency'

Answer: Commerce


Question: 'Later a prime minister, he covered the Boer war as a correspondent for the London Morning Post'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'You'll be a contender if you know this term for a boxer who jabs with his right'

Answer: southpaw


Question: 'Ranchers formed the territory of Cimarron in 1887; it lasted until 1890 when it became this state's western panhandle'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Quasi-related pair time: last name of "Clerks" director Kevin & a cooking oil hawked by Florence Henderson'

Answer: Smith & Wesson


Question: 'Maj. Heyward escorts Col. Munroe's daughters to Fort William Henry; Hawkeye helps, Magua doesn't'

Answer: The Last of the Mohicans


Question: 'The U.S. Geological Survey'

Answer: Department of the Interior


Question: 'Bringing WWII into American living rooms, his radio reports during The Blitz famously began "This... is London"'

Answer: Edward R. Murrow


Question: 'The deliberate destruction of property or equipment by resistance fighters or enemy agents'

Answer: sabotage


Question: 'Austin is the seat of this county named for the Lt. Colonel who commanded the Texans at the Alamo'

Answer: Travis


Question: 'Slash must love the NRA; he went from Guns N' Roses to join STP's Scott Weiland in forming this supergroup'

Answer: Velvet Revolver


Question: 'Hank makes guns, gets into fight, wakes under tree & is captured by Sir Kay; remembers about an eclipse...'

Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court


Question: 'The Food & Drug Administration'

Answer: Health & Human Services


Question: 'The first famous war correspondent, William Howard Russell reported on this 1853-56 war for British papers'

Answer: The Crimean War


Question: 'Old-school inhalant to give you a nicotine rush'

Answer: snuff


Question: 'The Connecticut River, like the Quinnipiac & Saugatuck Rivers, flows into this sound'

Answer: Long Island Sound


Question: 'In the 1940s he was billed as the "Smartest Horse in the Movies"'

Answer: Trigger


Question: 'A "century" transpires in Macondo; a virgin ascends to heaven, angels appear, children are christened'

Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude


Question: 'The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation'

Answer: Department of Transportation


Question: 'Covering stories from Las Guasimas to San Juan Hill, Richard Harding Davis was this war's best known reporter'

Answer: The Spanish American War


Question: 'From the Urdu for "soldier", it was an Indian native who served in the British army in the 1800s'

Answer: Sepoy


Question: 'This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493'

Answer: discovery of the New World


Question: '1973:<br />"People have got to know whether or not their president is" one of these; "well I'm not" one of these'

Answer: a crook


Question: '2002:<br />"The Pianist"'

Answer: Adrien Brody


Question: 'Its national anthem is called "Deutschlandlied" & is based on a melody by Joseph Haydn'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Clusius, a botanist, is credited with growing the first tulips in this country back in the 16th century'

Answer: the Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'One knows Easter falls on this date in 2018, so you might have to watch out for rotten eggs left as a joke'

Answer: April 1/April Fools Day


Question: 'Sport of "Downhill Racer"'

Answer: skiing


Question: '1970:<br />This Asian nation is "A great & vital people who should not remain isolated..."'

Answer: China


Question: '1978:<br />"Superman"'

Answer: Christopher Reeve


Question: 'Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed it in one night during the French Revolution'

Answer: "La Marseillaise"


Question: 'Normally, you should buy & plant your tulip bulbs in this season'

Answer: fall


Question: 'One knows Percival liked quests, like this Everest climber whose middle name is Percival'

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary


Question: 'In a circle, 2 of these make up a diameter'

Answer: radii


Question: '1977:<br />"When the president does it, that means that it is not" this'

Answer: illegal


Question: '1982:<br />"Blade Runner"'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'Greenland has the same national anthem ("Der er et Yndigt Land") as this country'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'This tune featured in the 1929 film "Gold Diggers of Broadway" was famously revived in 1968'

Answer: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"


Question: 'One knows in January 2000 1 of the 3 Wilson volleyballs used in this film sold at auction for $18,400'

Answer: Cast Away


Question: 'In 79 A.D. it was 1 of the 3 cities burned by Vesuvius'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: '1969:<br />"It's time for the great" this "of Americans to stand up and be counted"'

Answer: the silent majority


Question: '1967:<br />"The Graduate"'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'This country probably isn't neutral about "Schweizer Psalm", its national anthem'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'His first volume of poetry was "Tulips and Chimneys"; so in 1923 he was still using some upper case letters'

Answer: E.E. Cummings


Question: 'One knows sitars are stringed instruments & these are Greek deities that have the legs of a goat'

Answer: satyrs


Question: 'Dark & meaty, it's used in Oriental dishes'

Answer: shiitake mushrooms


Question: '1962:<br />"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last" of these'

Answer: press conference


Question: '1982:<br />"Gandhi"'

Answer: Ben Kingsley


Question: '"La Brabanconne" is the national anthem of this Low Country'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'Characterized by "broken" colors, this late-flowering tulip group has the name of a noted artist'

Answer: the Rembrandt Group


Question: 'One knows ABC is owned by Disney, CBS by Viacom & NBC by this company'

Answer: General Electric


Question: 'A nene is this type of goose that leis eggs'

Answer: Hawaiian goose


Question: 'Kurt Vonnegut called it "Skyscraper National Park"'

Answer: New York City


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at a ski resort in Squaw Valley, California)  In the international trail marking system, green circle means easy; blue square, tougher & black these, hardest'

Answer: diamonds


Question: 'Maybe you can help those Scotland Yard bozos catch him in 1888; here's a sketch to work with'

Answer: Jack the Ripper


Question: 'Office fixture that lent its name to what early Internet users posted their messages on'

Answer: bulletin board


Question: '"Shadow Warriors" from this novelist is a look at our military's special forces'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question: 'In crosswords a swamp may be a fen or this'

Answer: bog


Question: 'Its nicknames include "Home to Walt Disney World" & "Heart of the Sunshine State"'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'In this sport the short track is an oval, 364 feet in circumference'

Answer: speed skating


Question: 'For your trip to the 1980s, I got you this exclusive-sounding brand of jacket from Aris Industries'

Answer: Members Only


Question: 'Listen up: one of the first commercial items to use transistors was one of these listening devices'

Answer: hearing aid


Question: 'This Washington Post veteran attempts to give the inside story on "Bush at War"'

Answer: Bob Woodward


Question: 'It's a crowlike bird, often blue'

Answer: jay


Question: 'The completion of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in this city in 1932 largely ended the threat of floods from the Mississippi'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: '(Sarah)  Phrase for what snowboarders are now known for doing...as well as hoboes'

Answer: riding the rails


Question: 'You're going to the battlefields of World War I -- find a safe one of these but avoid the foot problems named for it'

Answer: trench


Question: 'In 2003 a closed caption said Alan Greenspan was treated "for an enlarged prostitute" instead of this'

Answer: an enlarged prostate


Question: 'The title of Lisa Beamer's memoir, it's her husband Todd's famous phrase aboard Flight 93 on 9/11/01'

Answer: Let\'s Roll!


Question: 'It's a section of pineapple skin, an apple seed, a spot on a die or a Dickens character'

Answer: pip


Question: 'New Hampshire's largest city, it was first named Harrytown, then Derryfield; it got its present name in 1810'

Answer: Manchester


Question: 'Job of Wayne Maki, Dave Forbes & Tiger Williams, who each made news when charged with criminal assault'

Answer: hockey player


Question: 'It's set to 383 years ago & you'll swim aboard this; I'm afraid your bunkmate Edward Tilly snores'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'A strike was organized in 1870 by these "Knights of the Key"'

Answer: telegraph operators


Question: 'Including Lee's surrender, in a current title it was "The Month That Saved America"'

Answer: April 1865


Question: 'A sailor may be a tar or this, also a mass or a lump'

Answer: gob


Question: 'Connecticut's largest city, its Mountain Grove Cemetery has a life-size statue of Tom Thumb'

Answer: Bridgeport


Question: '(Sarah)  This type of turn is named for a mountainous region of Norway'

Answer: Telemark


Question: 'Let's crank it back 150 million years -- don't get trampled by this long-necked 88' dinosaur, thought the longest ever'

Answer: diplodocus


Question: 'Mark Twain said this slug-making machine could work like 6 men & do everything but drink, swear & go out on strike'

Answer: Linotype machine


Question: 'This author of "High Fidelity" has a songbook out in which he discusses his favorite tunes'

Answer: Nick Hornby


Question: 'No mistake, according to Confucius, "The cautious seldom" do this'

Answer: err


Question: 'In 1981 this man's company issued its first syndicated CSI, Customer Satisfaction Index'

Answer: J.D. Power (and Associates)


Question: 'Enjoy a glass-bottom boat ride at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park near Key Largo in this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'How embarrassing!  Annie & Dixon's dad is the principal of West Beverly, their high school, on this soapy series'

Answer: 90210


Question: 'Logically enough, TestTube is the ideas incubator area of this website'

Answer: YouTube


Question: 'First name of young Mr. Fowl, whose adventures include "The Time Paradox" & "The Lost Colony"'

Answer: Artemis


Question: 'He's not just the patron saint of love & lovers but also of bee keepers & young people'

Answer: St. Valentine


Question: 'This system of linking Internet documents contains cross-references so you can jump easily between them'

Answer: hypertext


Question: 'Dating from about 1730, Stratford Hall was the birthplace of Robert E. Lee in this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Green Arrow & his team take matters into their own hands when Clark struggles to take a human life on this show'

Answer: Smallville


Question: 'The birdie seen here from this web site must say "tweet, tweet, tweet"'

Answer: Twitter


Question: 'This Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is the biography of a certain Witch of the West'

Answer: Wicked


Question: 'On New Year's Day, 2009, this celebrated "Catcher in the Rye" author celebrated his 90th birthday'

Answer: (J.D.) Salinger


Question: 'It's the underlying or implicit meaning of a literary work'

Answer: subtext


Question: 'Check out Nassau Hall, the U.S. capitol in 1783, located at Princeton Univ. in this state'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Teyona, seen here, is the new cover girl for the 12th cycle in this competition'

Answer: America\'s Next Top Model


Question: 'Did Chris Hughes write on Mark Zuckerberg's wall & send a friend request when they started this website?'

Answer: Facebook


Question: 'Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials" begins with "The Golden" this'

Answer: Compass


Question: 'The name of this physicist is used to describe measurements of supersonic speed'

Answer: (Ernst) Mach


Question: 'People quoted as saying horrifying things often protest that their words were taken out of this'

Answer: context


Question: 'This state's Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport is one of the world's largest electric railway museums'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Damaging emails liven things up at the Constance Billard & St. Jude's graduation on this show'

Answer: Gossip Girl


Question: 'On holidays, this website's homepage may use a Doodle for its name; Wes Craven created one for Halloween 2008'

Answer: Google


Question: 'In 2009 she headed out of "The Hills" & published her first novel, "L.A. Candy"'

Answer: Lauren Conrad


Question: 'This city named for a marquis was North Carolina's capital from 1789 to 1798'

Answer: Fayetteville


Question: 'This is an ostensible reason put forward to conceal a true purpose or object'

Answer: a pretext


Question: 'The development of nuclear energy is featured at Los Alamos' Bradbury Science Museum in this state; no lead vest is required'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Chad Michael Murray & Hilarie Burton might be gone, but North Carolina holds plenty of drama on this series'

Answer: One Tree Hill


Question: 'Note the shovel in the logo of this web site seen here; it can be used whether you like a story or want to bury it'

Answer: Digg


Question: 'In a book by Trenton Lee Stewart, 4 gifted kids answer an ad & become "The Mysterious" this "Society"'

Answer: Benedict


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew repeatedly drops onto the table a springed apparatus that lands on four feet, like a cat.)  Cats are able to land on their feet because their flexible spines allow them to rotate in midair without violating the principle of conservation of this angular quantity'

Answer: momentum


Question: 'A 2007 government report was titled "Turn the Page: Making College" these "More Affordable"'

Answer: Textbooks


Question: 'It initially left England August 15, 1620 along with another ship, the Speedwell'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'In 1869 the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team in this sport'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'If your sheet music is marked "strepitoso", you must play this way, no matter who's asleep'

Answer: loudly


Question: 'Though this "syrupy" tree is common in the U.S., about 2/3 of its species are native to China'

Answer: the maple


Question: 'In Arthurian legend, pure knight & grail finder Galahad was the son of this not-so-pure knight'

Answer: Lancelot


Question: 'No surprise here--the name of this birthstone is from the Latin for "red"'

Answer: ruby


Question: 'In the most famous mutiny in history, Fletcher Christian & his mates seized control of this ship in 1789'

Answer: the Bounty


Question: 'The name of this ball game is derived from the "soc" in the term "association football"'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'Trumpet players use an object called a mute; a French horn player just puts this in his instrument'

Answer: his hand


Question: 'Types of this tree include the black, weeping & pussy'

Answer: the willow


Question: 'In the fourth crusade, this Christian capital, now Istanbul, was plundered by Christian knights'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'The name of this leader of a Jewish congregation is from the Hebrew for "my master"'

Answer: rabbi


Question: 'During the War of 1812, this frigate earned its nickname Old Ironsides'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'Originally, the name of this racquet sport included "lawn"--Victorian ladies & gentlemen played on grass courts'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'If a fingerboard has ridges to help players find their notes, it may be called this kind of board instead'

Answer: a fretboard


Question: 'Let's rest under the shade of the English type of this acorn-bearing tree; many live 200 to 400 years'

Answer: the oak


Question: 'In the "Song of Roland", this code asked knights "to keep faith" & "to fight for the welfare of all"'

Answer: the code of chivalry (or the chivalric code)


Question: 'From the Latin for "to come to mind", it's a memento that you might buy as a reminder of a place you visited'

Answer: souvenir


Question: 'Tragically, in December 1941 this battleship sank in less than 9 minutes, with 1,177 of her crew'

Answer: the Arizona


Question: 'In 1457 Scotland's parliament banned this links game, which interfered with archery practice'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Anne Sofie von Otter is a noted one of these voices between soprano & alto'

Answer: a mezzo-soprano


Question: 'The thin, papery leaves of this tree of the genus Fagus turn gold in the fall; knowing that is no day at the...'

Answer: the beech


Question: 'In 1226 the Teutonic Knights demanded & received this area, later the dominant state in Germany'

Answer: Prussia


Question: 'This word for a large piece of artillery comes from the Italian for "great tube"'

Answer: cannon


Question: 'During his 1570s circumnavigation of the world, he renamed his Pelican flagship the Golden Hind'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'The phrase "a sticky wicket" comes from this British sport'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'If playing in G major, get out your knife & do this to any F's'

Answer: sharpen


Question: 'Most male cones from this 4-letter conifer measure less than 1 inch; females are much larger, with woody scales'

Answer: a pine


Question: 'Amadis of Gaul & Don Quixote are examples of this kind of knight who wanders in search of adventure'

Answer: knights-errant


Question: 'Meaning tearful & foolishly sentimental, it comes from Magdalene, as in Mary Magdalene'

Answer: maudlin


Question: 'De Maupassant, Zola & Dumas fils were among those signing a petition decrying it as "a gigantic... factory chimney"'

Answer: the Eiffel Tower


Question: 'Term for the commander of a "century", a group of about 100 soldiers'

Answer: Centurion


Question: 'After parting ways with Burt Bacharach, he wrote "To All the Girls I've Loved Before"'

Answer: Hal David


Question: '(Hefner's "bunny")'

Answer: Playboy


Question: 'He carries Badge 2211'

Answer: "Dirty Harry" Callahan


Question: 'If a coin shows heads on 99 straight tosses, these are the odds on heads for the 100th toss'

Answer: 1 in 2/even


Question: 'In 1997 "Coach" & this show co-starring John Goodman both ended 9-season runs on ABC'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: 'At the 31 B.C. Battle of Actium, this pair commanded the combined Roman-Egyptian fleets'

Answer: Antony & Cleopatra


Question: 'He & Elton John met when both answered an ad placed by Liberty Records in 1967'

Answer: Bernie Taupin


Question: '(Maker of Life cereal)'

Answer: Quaker Oats


Question: 'At a banquet James Cagney told impressionist Frank Gorshin, "I never said, 'Mmm'", this'

Answer: You dirty rat


Question: 'Ads for these state-run games, like Pick 6, often mention the jackpot, then give the odds on winning any prize'

Answer: Lotteries


Question: 'In 1942 this PM said beating Rommel wasn't the beginning of the end but might be the end of the beginning'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Marcus Gavius Apicius wrote one of these in the first century; that's why Apician means gourmet'

Answer: Cookbook


Question: 'In 1989 this singer-songwriter of "Alison" wrote the hit "Veronica" with Paul McCartney'

Answer: Elvis Costello


Question: '("When it rains, it pours")'

Answer: Morton Salt


Question: 'Cajun grain dish so-named because the chopped livers & gizzards in in made it appear "soiled"'

Answer: Dirty rice


Question: 'The odds against throwing a 6 with one die, or a Doors song that announced, "No one here gets out alive"'

Answer: 5 to 1


Question: 'Ex-PM Ian Smith was speaking in South Africa & missed the 1980 ceremony ending this country's 15-year history'

Answer: Rhodesia


Question: 'This "Younger" orator & letter writer whose "Elder" was killed by Vesuvius was governor of Bithynia'

Answer: Pliny


Question: 'This first great collaborator of Richard Rodgers wrote "My Funny Valentine" & "Isn't it Romantic?"'

Answer: Lorenz Hart


Question: '("You're in Good Hands")'

Answer: Allstate


Question: 'After leaving the Eagles in 1982, Don Henley went gold with this first solo hit'

Answer: "Dirty Laundry"


Question: 'You can find the odds on your early death on these tables used by insurance companies'

Answer: Actuarial tables


Question: 'Symphony whose ending is heard here; its opening is more famous'

Answer: Beethoven\'s "Fifth Symphony"


Question: 'His second wife, Pompeia, was a granddaughter of Sulla who, like him, ruled Rome as a dictator'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In 1992, a year after his death, his & Alan Menken's "Beauty and the Beast" won an Oscar as Best Song'

Answer: Howard Ashman


Question: '(They're "bullish" on America)'

Answer: Merrill Lynch


Question: 'In 1998 Michael Caine was one of these title sleazeballs'

Answer: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels


Question: 'They're the odds of pulling 1 of the 4 aces from a full, shuffled deck'

Answer: 1 in 13


Question: 'This movie's original ending, with Glenn Close's suicide, was reshot; test audiences wanted her killed'

Answer: Fatal Attraction


Question: 'This German's attacks on the Roman Catholic church began the Reformation'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'Add a new twist to your London vacation & visit the home at 48 Doughty St. where he wrote "Oliver Twist"'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'A 1925 dinosaur film based on a Conan Doyle tale or a 1997 dinosaur film based on a Crichton book'

Answer: The Lost World


Question: 'Horace Bixby, who was nicknamed "The Lightning Pilot", taught this famous author how to pilot a riverboat'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'What you use to look in a mirror, or what you see there'

Answer: Eye (I)


Question: 'This symbol of Judaism consists of 2 overlaid triangles'

Answer: the Star of David


Question: 'This Frenchman's mistress lived near Hauteville House , his home on Guernsey, making him less "miserable"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: '"What's Up, Doc?" & "Bullitt" both featured chase scenes through this city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'In 1938 Hank Luisetti became the first college player in this sport to score 50 points in a game'

Answer: Basketball


Question: 'Paul Bunyan could have done this to a barge using just one of these pedal digits'

Answer: Toe (tow)


Question: 'In Dec. 1945 the supreme commander of the Allied Powers in Japan disestablished this religion'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'You'll find his birthplace "Far From the Madding Crowd" in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'One of these tumbled down the steps in 1925's "Battleship Potemkin" & in 1987's "The Untouchables"'

Answer: Baby carriage


Question: 'This first lady graduated from Chicago's Maine South High School in 1965, in the top 50% of her class'

Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton


Question: 'Your auditory organ, or what a Cockney says it does'

Answer: Ear (\'ear)


Question: 'This Milan opera house opened in 1778 with a performance of a work by Antonio Salieri'

Answer: La Scala


Question: 'Hymns in the Avesta are the only record, in his own words, of what this Persian prophet believed'

Answer: Zoroaster


Question: 'This American was living at Lamb House in Rye when he wrote "The Ambassadors" in 1903'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'Stephen Frears in 1988 & Milos Forman in 1989 used this French novel as a basis for their films'

Answer: Les Liaisons dangereuses


Question: 'This Kansas-born dramatist set his play "Picnic" in a small Kansas town'

Answer: William Inge


Question: 'It seems like it's hopping away when some guys take a shower'

Answer: Hair (hare)


Question: 'In 1997 14-year-old Etienne Bacrat became the youngest ever grand master of this game'

Answer: Chess


Question: 'Hindus believe that all gods are part of this one universal spirit'

Answer: Brahman


Question: 'The heart of this romantic poet is buried with his wife Mary at St. Peter's Church in Bournemouth'

Answer: Percy Shelley


Question: 'Harrison Ford lost his in "Frantic"; Kurt Russell lost his in "Breakdown"'

Answer: Wife


Question: 'In the 1940s she created her "Pelvis Series" paintings which feature blue sky seen through bovine bones'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'It contracts in your arm when you pull this from a tide pool'

Answer: Muscle (mussel)


Question: 'Explorer Cabeza de Vaca wrote about this "Animal with a pocket on its belly, in which it carries its young"'

Answer: Opossum/possum


Question: 'In 2008 a homeless advocacy group reported that one in 25 of this Southern city's 300,000 residents is homeless'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'This American woman was the first to win 20 Wimbledon titles'

Answer: Billie Jean King


Question:
'Irish,
Brunswick,
mulligan'

Answer: stew


Question: 'Westminster Abbey'

Answer: London


Question: '"To eat lead" in old gangster slang meant to be exposed to these coming your way'

Answer: bullets


Question: 'Zeppelins were named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Given cause of death of Adam Sandler's dad in "The Waterboy"'

Answer: dehydration


Question: 'This Bruin won the 1971 NCAA men's tennis title & later became professional tennis' all-time tournament winner'

Answer: Jimmy Connors


Question:
'Crescent,
kaiser,
Parker House'

Answer: rolls


Question: 'The Mormon Tabernacle'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'This country is the world's main user of lead & the main recycler'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'The first military use of Zeppelins came during this war'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'Appropriately, Amy Freeze was this age when she became a meteorologist for WFLD in January 2007'

Answer: 32


Question: 'Arthur Ashe called this 1960s Aussie tennis star's left arm "a two-by-four with freckles"'

Answer: Rod Laver


Question:
'Brown,
beurre-blanc,
bordelaise'

Answer: sauces


Question: 'The Dome of the Rock'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'Lead ores such as galena are also the main mining sources of this precious metal often found with it'

Answer: silver


Question: 'In 1924 this U.S. company acquired all the Zeppelin patents'

Answer: Goodyear


Question: 'In Spanish, this bird is un pajaro carpintero'

Answer: a woodpecker


Question: 'Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, she became a tennis pro at age 14'

Answer: Gabriela Sabatini


Question:
'Blood,
bockwurst,
chorizo'

Answer: sausages


Question: 'The Cathedral of St. John the Divine'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'Whether in a hearing aid or a hot rod, most lead is used in these'

Answer: batteries


Question: 'This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929'

Answer: the Graf Zeppelin


Question: 'Isaac Asimov coined the word "millihelen" as the quantity of beauty it would take to do this'

Answer: launch one ship


Question: 'This Californian gave birth in June 2007 & returned to the pro tour that fall'

Answer: Lindsay Davenport


Question:
'Button,
enoki,
chanterelle'

Answer: mushrooms


Question: 'Brunelleschi's Duomo of the 1420s & '30s'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'The "lead" used in pencils is actually this form of carbon once thought to be a type of lead'

Answer: graphite


Question: 'These 2 lighter-than air gases that lift the Zeppelin are carried in balloons called cells'

Answer: hydrogen & helium


Question: 'The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'The Marne joins this river at Charenton-le-Pont, a suburb of Paris'

Answer: the Seine


Question: 'In November, scientists said they'd found a way to reprogram skin cells to behave like these embryonic cells'

Answer: stem cells