Question: 'Michael Ainger wrote a dual biography of these 2 Victorians known for their Savoy fare'

Answer: Gilbert and Sullivan


Question: 'Cut a baguette, brush with olive oil & bake until golden; now you've got this appetizer, Italian for "little toasts"'

Answer: crostini


Question: 'A clumsy social error'

Answer: a gaffe


Question: 'He reprised the role of Robert Langdon in "Angels & Demons"'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'Mormons believe that the angel Gabriel & this sailor of Genesis are the same person'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'A company called Happy Camel offers "The Secrets of" this desert, a 15-day tour of remote areas of Mongolia'

Answer: the Gobi desert


Question: 'Logician Saul Kripke said he refused a job offer from this Camb, Mass. Univ,: his mom wanted him to finish H.S.'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'I ate curry at bedtime & had one of these in which Richard Simmons & my grandmother chased me through a circus'

Answer: a nightmare


Question: 'He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind"'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'In Jewish mythology, this demon & child-killer was the first wife of Adam; then came Eve'

Answer: Lilith


Question: 'Alice Springs in the Australian Outback is the starting point for the 5-hour drive to see this remote monolith'

Answer: Ayers Rock


Question: 'Future geneticist J.B.S. Haldane began research in his teens on his sister's 300 of these rodents'

Answer: guinea pigs


Question: 'John Nixon commanded a company of minutemen at this inaugural battle of the Revolutionary War'

Answer: Lexington


Question: 'A traditional police weapon'

Answer: a nightstick


Question: 'He's worked with Ron Howard twice, playing astronaut Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13" & Jack Brennan in "Frost/Nixon"'

Answer: Kevin Bacon


Question: 'In the book of Tobit, this archangel who shares his name with a renaissance artist saves Sarah from a demon'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'One way to reach this remote British island in the South Pacific is via a research vessel, the Bounty Bay'

Answer: Pitcairn island


Question: 'Paul Morphy so dominated chess in the 1850s, he offered to play anyone using only 7 of these'

Answer: pawns


Question: 'Warren Burger got his law degree at one of these & rose to be Chief Justice of the United States'

Answer: a night school


Question: 'Ron Howard was on fire with this film in which Kurt Russell & William Baldwin starred as firefighting brothers'

Answer: Backdraft


Question: 'In art, cherubim have 4 wings; these highest-ranking angels, guardians of god's throne, have 6 wings'

Answer: seraphim


Question: 'The inhabitants of this remote British dependency in the south Atlantic call themselves "saints"'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'On Sept. 19, 1952 he was working on compound helixes & a character with his same first name joined "Peanuts"'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'From 1777 to 1779 George Frost of New Hampshire was a delegate to the second edition of this legislative body'

Answer: the Continental Congress


Question: 'In Manhattan this series of arraignments at 100 Centre St. from 5:30 P.M. to 1 A.M. has become a tourist attraction'

Answer: a night court


Question: 'This actor & Nicole Kidman light out for the Oklahoma territory in 1992's "Far and Away"'

Answer: Tom Cruise


Question: '"Well-known" term for a demon who aids a witch & assumes an animal form, like a cat'

Answer: a familiar


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.)  Communication satellites orbit in a belt 22,300 miles above the Earth; the belt is named for this science fiction writer who proposed geostationary orbits in 1945'

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke


Question: 'In November 2008 Jefferson county native Jay Nixon was elected this state's governor'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'ATN Corporation recommends its Cougar model of these for nocturnal crime prevention, security & fishing'

Answer: night vision goggles


Question: 'In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'UNESCO lauded the art & architecture of Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas in this country'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: '2005:<br />"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'NASA took up JFK's 1961 challenge to do this by decade's end & met it with 5 months to spare'

Answer: put a man on the Moon


Question: 'Quasimodo gets plastic surgery & really rings Esmeralda's bell'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: 'He co-starred with an orangutan in the 1970s:<br />ACTED TWO LOINS'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) A visit starts with the 74-foot marble tablet bearing words attributed to this man, the fourth president'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'This concentration camp in Poland is on the list as evidence of the inhumane nature of the racist Nazi policy'

Answer: Auschwitz


Question: '2006:<br />"Taking the Long Way"'

Answer: The Dixie Chicks


Question: 'NASA took up W's 2004 challenge to do this as the first of "the next steps of space exploration"'

Answer: put a man on Mars


Question: 'Scarlett wins "Project Runway" with her fierce design of a dress made from green velvet curtains'

Answer: Gone With the Wind


Question: 'He co-starred with a chimp in the 1950s:<br />AN OLD AGER RAN'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) One of the great scoops of the 20th century started with suspicious tape stuck on this door from this complex just about 2 miles from here'

Answer: the Watergate Hotel


Question: 'This entire country is a site, but then it's only 108.7 acres'

Answer: the Vatican


Question: '1973:<br />"Innervisions"'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question: 'NASA radar checks out ECAs, Earth-orbit crossing these, in case one is about to wipe out civilization'

Answer: an asteroid


Question: 'Sal Paradise decides to see America; Dean Moriarty tells him gas is 5 bucks a gallon; Sal calls off his trip'

Answer: On the Road


Question: 'On his deathbed he admitted he didn't tell half of what he saw:<br />A COOL ROMP'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a bullet-riddled pickup in teh Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  Time magazine journalists dubbed this truck "the metal magnet" after it kept them safe in this Winter Olympic city that was besieged in the 1990s'

Answer: Sarajevo


Question: 'Construction continued on this fortification up to the Ming Dynasty'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: '1996:<br />"Falling into You"'

Answer: Céline Dion


Question: 'Named for this rocketry pioneer, NASA's first space flight center was set up when NASA was 1'

Answer: (Robert) Goddard


Question: 'Jake Barnes gets a prescription for Viagra & settles down with Lady Brett Ashley'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question:
'He's on the FBI's Most Wanted list:
A BAD MAN
NO LIES'

Answer: Osama bin Laden


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  2 weeks after it opened in April 2008, the Newseum celebrated the 100th birthday of this CBS radio & TV journalist, & personal effects here include his uniform; good night & good luck'

Answer: Edward R. Murrow


Question: 'This Arab quarter of Algiers is called "a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city"'

Answer: the Casbah


Question: '1997:<br />"Time Out of Mind"'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'The 50th anniversary logo shows a grand design galaxy in which these anatomical features curl pleasingly inward'

Answer: the arms of the galaxy


Question: 'Gregor Samsa awakes one day transformed into a gigantic insect; family sprays him with industrial-sized can of Raid'

Answer: Metamorphosis


Question: 'This scientist co-wrote the book "Why War?" with Sigmund Freud:<br />TEN ELITE BRAINS'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a flak jacket in the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  The Newseum has several exhibits on the dangers of journalism; this flak jacket was worn by this ABC anchor who was severely injured by a bomb in Iraq but, thankfully, returned to work'

Answer: Bob Woodruff


Question: 'French sculptor Francois Girardon's most famous work was the tomb of this cardinal, completed in 1694'

Answer: Richelieu


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Question: 'Narcissistic personality disorder includes snobbery... Sounds like this Seattle radio host to me'

Answer: Frasier Crane


Question: 'Will Somers held this post in the Tudor court for many years; his job was to lift the spirits of the king'

Answer: court jester


Question: 'Many Civil War photos credited to this man were taken by Alex Gardner & other members of his staff'

Answer: Mathew Brady


Question: 'I feel the need, the need for speed on this, the German equivalent of the Italian Autostrada'

Answer: the Autobahn


Question: 'In 1998 Lender's made a 714-pound one of these; where are 714 pieces of lox when you need 'em?'

Answer: a bagel


Question: 'Bartolomeo Ammanati's large marble statue of Neptune adorns a fountain in this city's Piazza della Signoria'

Answer: Florence (or Firenze)


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Question: '(An image of America Ferrera is displayed.) Clearly this current prime-time fashion assistant has issues with approval-seeking, especially self-esteem; look at the title of her show'

Answer: Ugly Betty


Question: 'During her "bloody" reign, she had more than 300 Protestants & heretics burned at the stake'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'A 1991 cover shot by Annie Leibovitz showed this actress nude, holding her pregnant belly'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'GHz'

Answer: gigahertz


Question: 'Vincent Pilkington set a record by plucking one of these in 1 min. 30 sec., but no word if he fell asleep soon after'

Answer: a turkey


Question: 'The original of Myron's statue of a nude athlete hurling one of these no longer exists, only copies'

Answer: a discus


TV PSYCHOLOCY  WITH  DR. JOYCE  BROTHERS

Question: 'After she stabbed Angel & sent him to Hell, she was quite depressed & had to leave Sunnydale-- I hope she got some help'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'When the Countess of Salisbury was executed here for treason, the executioner needed 11 chops!'

Answer: the Tower of London


Question: 'His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio II: The National Parks & Monuments"'

Answer: Ansel Adams


Question: 'Tree that yields hard, reddish-brown wood for furniture-making; do you know where it's going to?'

Answer: mahogany


Question: 'In 2007 Bryan Berg built a free-standing house, 25' 9" high, using 93,600 of these; that's a big deal'

Answer: playing cards


TV PSYCHOLOCY  WITH  DR. JOYCE  BROTHERS

Question: '(An image of Ken Osmond is displayed.) Social psychologists studying ingratiation have a perfect case in the way this friend of Wally Cleaver acted toward adults'

Answer: Eddie Haskell


Question: 'Dona Elvira was the governess of this woman who married 2 Tudor princes, Arthur & Henry'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'This photographer who tragically took her own life in 1971 said she wanted to portray people "without their masks"'

Answer: Diane Arbus


Question: 'In India, it's a 5-letter term of respect meaning "sir"'

Answer: sahib


Question: 'In 2006 Jackie Bibby held 10 of these pit vipers by their tails; oh, did we mention he held them in his mouth?'

Answer: rattlesnakes


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Question: 'This saloon owner on "Gunsmoke" repressed her real needs by not telling Marshal Dillon her feelings for him'

Answer: Miss Kitty


Question: 'Barnaby Fitzpatrick was the whipping boy & close friend of this Tudor crown prince & future king'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: '1870s photos proved a horse does have its four feet off the ground at once, satisfying this railroad magnate's curiosity'

Answer: Leland Stanford


Question: 'Now coming to the plate, it's this paper money of Thailand equal to 100 satang'

Answer: the baht


Question: 'It's not a takeoff--Guinness says David Huxley pulled a 206-ton one of these about 300 feet in 1 min. 27 sec.'

Answer: an airplane (a Boeing 747)


Question: 'One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film'

Answer: (1 of) Peter Sellers or Lee Marvin


Question: 'These flowers are seen here in bloom at Itsukushima-jinja shrine'

Answer: cherry blossoms


Question: 'Gwyneth Paltrow keeps her 1998 Oscar for this film in storage, saying, "I don't want that thing in my house"'

Answer: Shakespeare in Love


Question: 'McCullough gave this 33rd U.S. president the biography treatment in 1992 & won a Pulitzer for his efforts'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'It comes between "Carnival" & "Lines"'

Answer: Cruise


Question: 'This violent, large-scale public protest gives its name to the "gear" worn by policemen dealing with it'

Answer: a riot


Question: 'A pinball palace, or a covered passageway, usually with shops on one side'

Answer: an arcade


Question: 'This lily blooms and dies within 24 hours and has a name that reflects its brief life'

Answer: a daylilly


Question: 'Jodie Foster kept hers in this room because "they looked good with the faucets"--until they began to corrode'

Answer: the bathroom


Question: 'History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883'

Answer: the Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'From the French, it's a lightly armed, speedy ship, or a Chevy sports car model'

Answer: a corvette


Question: 'Mick sang, "gimme" this, a place where homeless people can get something to eat & spend the night'

Answer: shelter


Question: 'It's an IRS examination of a tax return'

Answer: an audit


Question: 'Seen here are the flowers of this plant that yields a cooking oil low in saturated fat'

Answer: canola


Question: 'He gave his "Philadelphia Story" Oscar to his dad, who kept it in the window of the family hardware store'

Answer: Jimmy Stewart


Question: 'McCullough's book about this title 18th century year was released in 2005'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'In the U.S. Navy Relief & Solace were this type of medical vessel'

Answer: hospital ships


Question: 'An area that goes upscale, driving out low-income folks & maybe some character, is undergoing this'

Answer: gentrification


Question: 'This word comes from the Greek for "star sailor"'

Answer: astronaut


Question: 'The name of these herbaceous flowers is from the Latin for "wolflike"'

Answer: lupines


Question: 'He reportedly keeps his 2000 Best Actor Oscar in a chicken coop on his Australian ranch'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: '"The Path Between the Seas" covers the sweeping saga of the building of this from 1870 to 1914'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'From its prey, it's the term for a 19th century vessel loaded with spermaceti'

Answer: a whaler


Question: 'In society it's denying one's identity to be accepted by another group; in sports it's done by Jay Cutler'

Answer: passing


Question: 'Some criminals seek this type of sanctuary in a church'

Answer: asylum


Question: 'It sounds like herds of sheep, but it's the flowering plant seen here & common on the American prairies'

Answer: phlox


Question: 'His acting Oscar for "Ordinary People" is in his sister's fridge to surprise guests in search of beer'

Answer: Timothy Hutton


Question: 'A collection of short bios, "Brave Companions" includes an account of this "little woman who made the big war"'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'A VLCC, meaning very large crude carrier, is this type of ship'

Answer: a tanker


Question: '2-word term for the world as a single small community linked by mass media'

Answer: the global village


Question: '8-letter term for a short, humorous account of an incident'

Answer: an anecdote


Question: 'Barbara Tuchman's history of the events that led to World War I is called these "of August"'

Answer: The Guns


Question: 'In this type of wager, you win by selecting the first 3 horses in the exact order of finish in one race'

Answer: the trifecta


Question: 'This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day'

Answer: Q-U-E-E-N


Question: 'In 1923 his Endeavour journal was acquired by the National Library of Australia'

Answer: Capt. Cook


Question: 'The Air Massif, rising from this desert in Niger'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: '"Court" a sporty look with a diamond bracelet named for this game'

Answer: tennis


Question: '"Summer sisters" was the third novel for adults by this woman who wrote the children's classic "Superfudge"'

Answer: Judy Blume


Question: 'A female horse, age 4 or under; Rags to Riches became the first in 102 years to win the Belmont Stakes in 2007'

Answer: a filly


Question: 'It's the common name for the big, fuzzy members of the bombini tribe'

Answer: B-U-M-B-L-E-B-E-E


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  In 1728, sailing from the Kamchatka Peninsula up along the Siberian coast and through the passage here, he proved that Asia & North America were separate continents'

Answer: (Vitus) Bering


Question: 'Skyros Island in this sea'

Answer: the Aegean


Question: 'How about a spritz of this bestselling perfume, which debuted, appropriately, on May 5, 1921'

Answer: Chanel No. 5


Question: 'Spoiler alert! A character is murdered & eaten by cannibals in this drama by Tennessee Williams'

Answer: Suddenly Last Summer


Question: 'In 1934 this track opened in its current location in Arcadia, near Los Angeles'

Answer: Santa Anita


Question: 'Honeybees of this industrious caste are all female, but they never reach sexual maturity'

Answer: W-O-R-K-E-R-S


Question: 'In 1858 John Speke & this explorer, not the actor, made the European discovery of Lake Tanganyika'

Answer: Richard Burton


Question: 'The Parana Valley in this country with the same first 4 letters'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'Both Katy Perry & Justin Bieber have collaborated on collections for this 3-letter brand of nail polish'

Answer: O.P.I.


Question: 'This memoir by Ron Kovic begins, "The blood is still rolling off my flak jacket from the hole in my shoulder"'

Answer: Born on the Fourth of July


Question: 'Known as "America's turf authority since 1894", it began in Chicago as a 4-page newspaper'

Answer: Daily Racing Form


Question: 'This stingless honeybee drudge caste is only around in summer'

Answer: D-R-O-N-E


Question: 'Though he didn't live to complete it, this Portuguese explorer's 1520s expedition proved that the earth is round'

Answer: Magellan


Question: 'Wapusk National Park, in this province one east of Saskatchewan'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: 'Paint the walls of the ladies' room in this, Pantone's color of the year for 2011; it also precedes "rose" in a Fats Waller title'

Answer: honeysuckle


Question: 'Joe Christmas, who doesn't know if he's black or white, is at the center of this Faulkner novel'

Answer: Light in August


Question: 'In this thoroughbred's "smokin"' career, he won a then-record $9,999,815'

Answer: Cigar


Question: '11-letter "continental," adjective that describes the honeybee hybrid'

Answer: A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-Z-E-D


Question: 'Louis Jolliet became official hydrographer of this "new" North American territory'

Answer: New France


Question: 'This temple complex 4 miles north of Siem Reap, Cambodia'

Answer: Angkor Wat


Question: 'This designer seen here recently introduced his women's line, saying, he's just trying to make pretty clothes'

Answer: Tom Ford


Question: 'When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, its cargo included more than 7 million pieces of this, in some 3,400 sacks'

Answer: mail


Question: 'Poe rhymed, "Thy naiad airs have brought me home / To the glory that was Greece / And the grandeur that was" this'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Shirley Schmidt &<br />Murphy Brown'

Answer: Candice Bergen


Question: 'From plants of the genus Strychnos, this was the prescription of 19th c. killer Dr. Thomas Cream'

Answer: strychnine


Question: 'The town of Lobo in Culberson County, Texas is one of these "haunted" communities'

Answer: a ghost town


Question: 'It's a hidden advantage you keep "up your sleeve"'

Answer: an ace


Question: 'Duran Duran sang, "Her name is Rio & she dances on the sand... Oh Rio, Rio, dance across" this 2-word Texas river'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'Bar owner Sam Malone &<br />Dr. John Becker'

Answer: Ted Danson


Question: 'Hosmany Ramos, a plastic surgeon from this country, smuggled drugs, committed murder & stole Pele's watch'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Joe Eubanks uses the name Lobo when competing in this pro "sport" that often involves tag teams & pile drivers'

Answer: wrestling


Question: 'The military strategy used in the early days of the Iraq War was known as shock & this'

Answer: awe


Question: '"See the pyramids along the Nile, see the sunrise on" this'

Answer: on a tropic isle


Question: 'Thomas Magnum &<br />Chief Jesse Stone'

Answer: Tom Selleck


Question: 'In 2010 a Detroit doctor was convicted in a $4.2 million scheme to defraud this program for the elderly'

Answer: Medicare


Question: 'The band Los Lobos "Goes Disney" in a 2009 album whose tracks include "The" this this this "Room"'

Answer: Tiki Tiki Tiki


Question: 'Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" ends with the sound of this striking a tree'

Answer: an axe


Question: 'Springsteen said to "Put your make-up on, fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight" in this N.J. gambling town'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'Detective Mary Beth Lacey &<br />Maxine Gray'

Answer: Tyne Daly


Question: 'The 1962 film "The Legend of Lobo" told the story of the life & adventures of one of these critters in the Southwest'

Answer: a wolf


Question: 'Newcastle is a popular brand of brown this'

Answer: ale


Question: 'Ogden Nash started a limerick, "There was an old man of" this city in India "who coated his tonsils with butta"'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'Charlie Salinger &<br />Jack Shephard'

Answer: Matthew Fox


Question: 'The web browser called Lobo uses this programming language that sounds like an Indonesian island'

Answer: Java


Question: 'It can also mean to mimic, ya big hairy...'

Answer: ape


Question: 'This day once usually fell every 4 years on March 4; now, it's Jan. 20'

Answer: Inauguration Day


Question: 'YouTube'

Answer: the 21st century


Question: 'The name of this little colony may come from a Greek isle'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: '"Thriller-Live", which opened in London in 2009, is a song & dance celebration of his career'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'This company goes by GE'

Answer: General Electric


Question: 'Songs in this 1942 film include "Little April Shower" & "Thumper Song"'

Answer: Bambi


Question: 'The first play of a soccer or football game'

Answer: a kickoff


Question: 'The neon light'

Answer: the 20th century


Question: 'What's now this "Granite State" was named for a county in South Central England'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Rowan Atkinson recently picked a pocket or 2 as Fagin in this musical'

Answer: Oliver!


Question: 'Smile & say cheese for this picture-perfect company, EK'

Answer: Eastman Kodak


Question: 'This character's patronus spell summons a magic stag that's good for warding off dementors'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'It's a 5-syllable formal ceremony for admission into an organization such as a college fraternity'

Answer: an initiation


Question: 'The motorcycle'

Answer: the 19th century


Question: 'This southern colony was named for a king of England, the II of that name'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'With the haunting taking place in Coney Island, "Love Never Dies", the sequel to this musical, opened in London in 2010'

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera


Question: 'Dinner should be delivered in less than 30 minutes from this, DPZ'

Answer: Domino\'s Pizza


Question: 'In this 1978 film Robert De Niro says, "One shot is what it's all about"'

Answer: The Deer Hunter


Question: 'This 5-letter word is from the French & means "to make one's first appearance"'

Answer: debut


Question: 'The cotton gin'

Answer: the 18th century


Question: 'Virginia was named for this "Virgin Queen", maybe at the suggestion of Sir Walter Raleigh'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'In 2000 she made a "Splash" in London playing the Marilyn Monroe role in "The Seven Year Itch"'

Answer: Daryl Hannah


Question: 'BAC: It's in the money biz'

Answer: Bank of America


Question: 'In this film Helen Mirren encounters a fitting stag, an "imperial 14 pointer"'

Answer: The Queen


Question: 'On June 7, 2007 Bill Gates spoke at this graduation ceremony at Harvard'

Answer: commencement


Question: 'The telescope'

Answer: the 17th century


Question: 'The wife of King Charles I gave her name to this colony'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'In 2007 Jessica Lange took to the London stage as Amanda Wingfield in this Tennessee Williams drama'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'What's really rad is that the stock symbol for this drugstore chain is really RAD'

Answer: Rite Aid


Question: 'In the film version of a Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tale, this title creature keeps returning to Jody Baxter's farm'

Answer: The Yearling


Question: 'The title of this Beatles song is a Yoruba phrase that means "life goes on"'

Answer: \"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\"


Question: '...1924 saw the first of these, held in Chamonix, France'

Answer: Winter Olympics


Question: 'The Eagles checked into this structure in the title of their 1976 No. 1 album'

Answer: the Hotel California


Question: 'Also a chemical element'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'This word can apply to plant latex as well as to nourishment for mammals' young'

Answer: milk


Question: 'Hold on to this idiom; don't take a chance on finding a better one'

Answer: a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush


Question: 'The center of this city, the capital, lies near the southern shore of the Firth of Forth'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: '...1000 was when he lived in Vinland, where he built a house & a shed to protect his ship'

Answer: Leif Erikson


Question: 'The Animals said this place was "the ruin of many a poor boy"'

Answer: the House of the Rising Sun


Question: 'She's a tennis superstar'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Used to prepare a surface for painting, it's spelled the same as a textbook for children'

Answer: primer


Question: 'It's something I probably shouldn't have said'

Answer: a slip of the tongue


Question: 'In the late 19th c. the R&A Golf Club of this place became the sole authority on the rules of the game in Great Britain'

Answer: St. Andrew\'s


Question: '...330 B.C. was when he had his army march on Persepolis & burn the palaces'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'This '80s group reminisced that "our house was our castle and our keep"'

Answer: Madness


Question: 'Popular chocolate bar made in England since 1933'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'Naked, founded in 1983, is a brand of this'

Answer: juice


Question: 'Fixing sprinklers is this for me'

Answer: a labor of love


Question: 'A New Year's celebration, Hogmanay features this national dish, presented to the accompaniment of bagpipes'

Answer: haggis


Question: '...1846 included this party in the Sierra Nevada that only 45 people survived'

Answer: the Donner party


Question: 'They Might Be Giants sang about putting a little one of these "in your soul"'

Answer: a birdhouse


Question: 'Lighthouse city near Palm Beach, Florida'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'It precedes "shrimp" in the name of a shrimp species that lives in the Great Salt Lake'

Answer: brine


Question: 'It means working hard, not hardly working'

Answer: putting your nose to the grindstone?


Question: 'This Scottish seaport is the seat of the Strathclyde state'

Answer: Glasgow


Question: '...1939 & 1940 was when the USSR fought this country in "the Winter War"'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'Led Zeppelin's alliterative fifth album title, it referred to the large stadiums where the band played'

Answer: Houses of the Holy


Question: 'Husband to Gaea & father of the Titans'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'The longleaf & slash pines are the USA's main source of this solvent & thinner'

Answer: turpentine


Question: 'Expounding a position with which you know your audience agrees'

Answer: preaching to the choir


Question: 'The Scots type of this Celtic language is still spoken in the Hebrides'

Answer: Gaelic


Question: '2-word term for Oleson's n Laura Ingalls Wilder's books'

Answer: the general store


Question: 'Eros is a pungent type of this spice (hint: eros is a Hungarian term)'

Answer: paprika


Question: 'It's the 5-letter term for the advancing edge of an air mass'

Answer: a front


Question: 'To regard with horror or loathing'

Answer: abhor


Question: 'Bruce Golding, this country's premier, is also the MP for West Kingston'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'This weather man does "happy birthday" greetings on the "Today" Show'

Answer: Willard Scott


Question: 'In this novel John Galt leaves the Twentieth Century Motor Company when it goes Socialist'

Answer: Atlas Shrugged


Question: 'It's used medically to treat colic (oh, & in Japan to cleanse the palate)'

Answer: ginger


Question: 'Gulf of Mexico moisture meets dry wind from the rockies to form twisters in this dangerous U.S. "Alley"'

Answer: Tornado Alley


Question: 'Awry, or to one side'

Answer: askew


Question: 'Premier Juncker of this Grand Duchy ran for EU President, saying that though his country is small, "I am not a dwarf"'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'This actor was "Charles in Charge", the male governess on an '80s sitcom'

Answer: Scott Baio


Question: 'The St. Gregory is the title establishment in this Arthur Hailey novel'

Answer: Hotel


Question: 'This spice resembles an onion seed (oh yeah, the hint--it shares its name with TV chef Lawson)'

Answer: nigella


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure.  A line that connects areas with the same temperature is called this'

Answer: an isotherm


Question: 'Very pale'

Answer: ashen


Question: 'French Premier Francois Fillon is seen here visiting this city of his birth known for a major sporting event'

Answer: Le Mans


Question: 'He's seen here on his way to winning Olympic gold in 1984'

Answer: Scott Hamilton


Question: 'The full title of this Dickens work begins, "Dealings with the firm of..."'

Answer: Dombey & Son


Question: 'In this temperature condition, a layer of warm air surmounts cooler air & traps pollutants near the ground'

Answer: an inversion


Question: 'It's a saying that sets forth a general truth & has gained credit through long use'

Answer: adage


Question: 'Manmohan Singh, of this religion, is India's first non-Hindu prime minister'

Answer: Sikh


Question: 'He directed 2000's "Gladiator"'

Answer: Ridley Scott


Question: 'This type of agency is spiraling downward in "Then We Came To The End" by Joshua Ferris'

Answer: an advertising agency


Question: 'These "equine" regions straddle the equator & are characterized by high pressure & relative calm'

Answer: the horse latitudes


Question: 'It can mean passion or zeal, or the intense heat or glow of a fire'

Answer: ardor


Question: 'Sometimes sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Hun Sen was first elected PM of this country in 1985'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Campbell was the middle name of this actor who refused an Oscar in 1971'

Answer: George C. Scott


Question: 'Riding the subway in New York in 1908, Jack Norworth saw a sign for the Polo Grounds & was inspired to write this song'

Answer: Take Me Out To The Ball Game


Question: 'This brother of Prometheus had the whole world on his shoulders'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'Will Smith married this actress in 1997'

Answer: Jada Pinkett


Question: 'The earliest kites date back around 3,000 years, when the Chinese made them from silk & this tall grass'

Answer: bamboo


Question: 'Barrow is the northernmost city in this state & thus the United States'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Ladies wore this headgear that ties under the chin, like the tunnel vision-inducing "coal scuttle" type'

Answer: a bonnet


Question: 'This 4-syllable word can refer to a stage of youth or the youths themselves'

Answer: adolescence/adolescents


Question: 'Sound the alarm!  It's the term for a nymph who lures sailors & ships onto the rocks'

Answer: a siren


Question: 'This CW series explores the world of collegiate cheerleading'

Answer: Hellcats


Question: 'Isaac Asimov's book "The Kite that Won the Revolution" told the story of this man & his kite experiments'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'A 2007 brawl forced some to be airlifted from the Amundsen-Scott Station on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'In 1848 Ellen Craft, a slave from Macon in this state, escaped north disguised as a top-hatted white man'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'A hiding place, or the moolah you might put there'

Answer: cache/cash


Question: 'The cyclopes gave headwear to Hades that rendered him not invincible, but this'

Answer: invisible


Question: 'The duo Gnarls Barkley is Danger Mouse & this singer'

Answer: Cee Lo Green


Question: 'Cpl. William Eddy took the first aerial wartime surveillance photos from a kite during this 1898 conflict'

Answer: the Spanish-American War


Question: 'Pico Bolivar is the highest mountain in the Venezuelan part of this chain & is covered in part by a glacier'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'Women knew how to salt; this animal was the main source of meat, with slaves getting about 3 pounds a week'

Answer: the pig (pork accepted)


Question: 'This word can refer to a boat's large hooked pole or a social blunder'

Answer: gaffe/gaff


Question: 'She pined away over Narcissus until only her voice was left'

Answer: Echo


Question: 'In 2010 this British star of "Get Him to the Greek" was cast in the title role in a remake of "Arthur"'

Answer: Russell Brand


Question: 'Samuel Cody crossed this waterway in 1903 in a dinghy pulled by kites, reaching Britain after a 13-hour trip'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'The limit of a cannonball's flight from shore once marked the beginning of this area that limited sovereignty'

Answer: international waters


Question: 'Edgeworth & Johnson were 2 schools called "female" these, more associated with training priests'

Answer: seminaries


Question: 'Operated a small boat, or operated a horse'

Answer: rowed/rode


Question: 'He tamed the winged horse Pegasus with a bridle given to him by Athena'

Answer: Bellerophon


Question: 'The name of this WWE TV show is slang for a decisive defeat'

Answer: SmackDown


Question: 'In 1893 Lawrence Hargrave flew the first of this type of kite, which he called a cellular kite'

Answer: a box kite


Question: 'About halfway between S. Africa & South America is the isolated Tristan da Cunha, this 11-letter type of island group'

Answer: an archipelago


Question: 'Ladies learned this French square dance whose name hints that it's for 4 couples'

Answer: the quadrille


Question: 'Shortcuts to webpages, or certain wildcats'

Answer: links/lynx


Question: 'The U.S. combat mission in this country ended in August 2010'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'In "Charlie St. Cloud", he has trouble letting go of his little brother, who dies in a car accident'

Answer: Zac Efron


Question: 'Per NASA, with 16 participating nations, it's the largest cooperative scientific project in history'

Answer: the International Space Station


Question: 'The "Aeneid"'

Answer: Virgil


Question: 'If someone intends to tan your hide, he's going to turn it into this fabric'

Answer: leather


Question: 'The second oldest U.S. college breaks out the flying umbrella & disciplines the Banks kids'

Answer: William & Mary Poppins


Question: 'Originally a cavalry officer, he transferred to the German air service in 1915 & shot down 80 planes'

Answer: the Red Baron


Question:
'She's the title character
who returns in a 2010 film'

Answer: Nanny McPhee


Question: 'Launched by the soviets in 1957, this first artificial satellite was less than 2 feet in diameter & weighed 164 lbs.'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: '"Light in August"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'This fabric that's on the tips of markers is also used in blackboard erasers'

Answer: felt


Question: 'A Utah school stages a black & white Mel Brooks classic'

Answer: Brigham Young Frankenstein


Question: 'World Book says this 20th century so-called war that lasted decades was actually an "intense rivalry"'

Answer: the Cold War


Question: 'In 2007 Johnny Depp did double time playing both Jack Sparrow & this "Demon Barber"'

Answer: Sweeney Todd


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a film of the Space Shuttle in flight.)  The speed needed for a rocket to break free of Earth's gravity--6.96 miles per second--is called this, E.V. for short'

Answer: escape velocity


Question: '"The Member of the Wedding"'

Answer: Carson McCullers


Question: 'Cobweb is a type of this fabric known for its open, networked quality'

Answer: lace


Question: 'Paterno sends his "Happy Valley" boys to get some "neighbor"ly life insurance'

Answer: Penn State Farm


Question: '2 days before this war was declared, the British said they'd repealed the laws that were the chief reason for fighting us'

Answer: the War of 1812


Question: 'In this movie based on a classic novel, Jackie Chan plays Passepartout, Phileas Fogg's travel companion'

Answer: Around the World in 80 Days


Question: 'A giant elliptical one of these may contain more than 10 trillion stars'

Answer: a galaxy


Question: '"Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust"'

Answer: Nathanael West


Question: 'Used with other fibers like nylon, this 5-letter fiber makes swimwear fabric stretchy'

Answer: Lycra


Question: 'Tulsa university named for a preacher who was very skilled in parliamentary procedure'

Answer: Oral Robert\'s Rules of Order


Question: 'Meaning "lightning war", it's the method of warfare Germany pioneered in the 1939 invasion of Poland'

Answer: blitzkreig


Question: 'In 2001's "Moulin Rouge!", John Leguizamo portrayed this real-life artist'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'A spectacular show of summer is this meteor shower that peaks annually around August 13'

Answer: the Perseids


Question: '"The Portrait of a Lady"'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'Harris is a trademarked type of this rough fabric used in sport coats'

Answer: (Harris) tweed


Question: 'A Jesuit school in Worcester competes in running that's off-track'

Answer: Holy Cross country


Question: 'During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'She worked hard choreographing the dancers for the 1990 Oscars; today she's a bit "Idol"'

Answer: Paula Abdul


Question: 'According to the Beatles hit, it's when "love was such an easy game to play"'

Answer: Yesterday


Question: 'The temperature on this scale is 273.15 degrees lower than the temperature on the Kelvin scale'

Answer: Celsius


Question: 'This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious"'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'To rough it in comfort, supplement your sleeping bag with an inflatable one of these'

Answer: a mattress


Question: 'Bacardi-flavored Chiclets'

Answer: rum gum


Question: 'He represented the U.S. at the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'The jester borrows James Dean's coat in this Don McLean classic'

Answer: "American Pie"


Question: 'A bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is appropriately called this'

Answer: a finger


Question: 'The works "Far East Suite" & "Liberian Suite" were created by this jazz composer seen here'

Answer: (Duke) Ellington


Question: 'Boy Scouts know it's easy to build one of these using structures called pyramid, tepee or cross-ditch'

Answer: a campfire


Question: 'Communist rye or pumpernickel'

Answer: Red bread


Question: 'In gardening news, a pink climber was named for this mystery author to celebrate her centenary'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'In the Janis Joplin hit "Me And Bobby McGee", this is "just another word for nothin' left to lose"'

Answer: freedom


Question: 'In 1593 this English queen changed the length of a mile from 5,000 feet to the current 5,280 feet'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'This Super Bowl MVP quarterback who retired in 1999 played his college football at Stanford'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'Hanging food between trees to keep it from a certain animal is called this alliterative "bagging"'

Answer: bear bagging


Question: 'A dijon-flavored, puddinglike dessert'

Answer: mustard custard


Question: 'Colorado voters legalized a limited form of this in Black Hawk, Central City & Cripple Creek'

Answer: gambling


Question: 'Little Jackie Paper is friends with this magical beastie'

Answer: Puff the Magic Dragon


Question: 'A "long" one of these is 2,240 pounds'

Answer: a ton


Question: 'In the Bible he traded away his birthright for a bowl of soup'

Answer: Esau


Question: 'Mary, let John attach this from the side of the tent to a stake--"it's a" this "thing"'

Answer: guy


Question: '"The Star Wars Cookbook" includes recipes for Wookiee Cookies & this pop drink named for a Jedi master'

Answer: Yoda Soda


Question: 'This son of Japanese immigrants beat novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to become president of Peru'

Answer: Alberto Fujimori


Question: 'John Brown is the title lawman who gets gunned down in this Bob Marley song'

Answer: "I Shot The Sheriff"


Question: 'In common practice electrical power is billed in terms of this hyphenated term, equal to 3.6 million joules'

Answer: a kilowatt-hour


Question: 'This prince of Wales was also known as the Black Prince'

Answer: Edward


Question: 'Like some antiseptics, water purification products like Potable Aqua are based on this element'

Answer: iodine


Question: 'Exotic dance for the exotic fruit seen here'

Answer: mango tango


Question: 'The leader of' this former Soviet republic renamed April for his mom & January Turkmenbashi (his official name)'

Answer: Turkmenistan


Question: 'The over 240-year-old vampire known as Angel first appeared on this TV show'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'Machine for which Glenn Curtiss produced the aileron'

Answer: an airplane


Question: '417 years after Machiavelli, Antonio Gramsci wrote "The Modern" this'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway's first woman P.M., became director of this U.N. agency for global well-being'

Answer: the World Health Organization


Question: 'Bubbly booze<br />(9)'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Until Independence Guyana was spelled Guiana & had this adjective before its name'

Answer: British


Question: 'He's the number-happy Muppet version of Dracula who lives on "Sesame Street"'

Answer: The Count


Question: 'Reportedly, the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time'

Answer: golfing


Question: 'Hemingway knocked out "A Farewell to Arms" & he punched out "Farewell, My Lovely"'

Answer: (Raymond) Chandler


Question: 'A fellow cop noticed Magnar Solberg's straight shooting & sent him on to Winter Olympic gold in this'

Answer: biathlon


Question: 'Beany's seasick sea serpent<br />(5)'

Answer: Cecil


Question: 'Botswana is one of the 32 African countries that gained independence in this decade'

Answer: the 1960s


Question: 'On the wacky 1960s comedy "The Munsters" it's the one-word familial name of Al Lewis' 350-year-old vampire'

Answer: Grandpa


Question: 'In 1654 a famous demonstration had 2 horses trying to pull apart halves of a sphere with this inside it'

Answer: a vacuum


Question: 'Christopher Isherwood wrote "I Am A Camera" & he wrote "Decameron"'

Answer: Bocaccio


Question: 'In the '40s the husband of soprano Kirsten Flagstad was jailed for his association with this Norwegian'

Answer: (Vidkun) Quisling


Question: 'English field game, or field insect<br />(7)'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'The 1968 photo seen here is from this country that was born & died in the 20th century'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: '(Alex shows off some Sony tech at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada.)  The Sony display unit used here at Air Canada Centre & around the world has this suitably colossal name'

Answer: a JumboTron


Question: 'Leopoldo Lugones gave us "Twilights in the Garden"; John Berendt, this time "in the Garden of Good and Evil"'

Answer: Midnight


Question: 'He's the renowned Norwegian mariner seen here doing a little trip planning'

Answer: Thor Heyerdahl


Question: 'Aid's treasonous partner<br />(7)'

Answer: comfort


Question: 'Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work'

Answer: AC (alternating current)


Question: 'Machado de Assis did "Philosopher or" this; Dylan Thomas, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young" this'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'In 1858 violinist Ole Bull insisted that this 15-year-old Norwegian go to Leipzig to study music'

Answer: (Edvard) Grieg


Question: 'Language of Sequoyah's syllabary<br />(8)'

Answer: Cherokee


Question: '2 of the 4 teams in the NFL with completely alliterative names'

Answer: (2 of) the Seattle Seahawks, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Buffalo Bills, & the Tennessee Titans


Question: 'A 1561 hurricane destroyed the Spanish settlement at what is now Pensacola in this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This Lakers star won a 1992 Grammy for the best spoken word album:  "What You Can Do To Avoid AIDS"'

Answer: Earvin "Magic" Johnson


Question: 'The longest of these ice cream desserts measured 4.55 miles; it had a lot of ap"peel"'

Answer: Banana Split


Question: 'In a standard-size symphony orchestra, 35 of the 100 or more musicians may play this instrument'

Answer: Violin


Question: 'The U.S. Presidential Inauguration Day Parade takes place on this street'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'It precedes stew, setter & potato'

Answer: Irish


Question: 'This city became the capital of the Louisiana territory in 1722'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'In the 24 seasons he's owned this team, George Steinbrenner has changed managers 20 times'

Answer: New York Yankees


Question: 'The largest of these sweet treats featured more than 3 million chocolate chips'

Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie


Question: 'In the musical styles of this island, reggae came after ska & rock steady, mon'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church lie at the end of Kurfurstendamm, this city's most famous boulevard'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'He was chairman of the Chrysler Corporation from 1979 to 1992'

Answer: Lee Iacocca


Question: 'This Pilgrim & his wife, the former Priscilla Mullins, had 11 children'

Answer: John Alden


Question: 'Between 1937 & 1950, this American boxer fought in 27 heavyweight title fights, winning 26'

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: 'The biggest of these pies weighed 30,115 lbs. & contained over 600 bushels of fruit; Mom was jealous'

Answer: apple pie


Question: 'In America this Italian term for "master" is applied only to conductors'

Answer: Maestro


Question: 'This main street running through downtown San Francisco once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks'

Answer: Market Street


Question: 'In math, the symbol for this looks like an 8 on its side'

Answer: Infinity


Question: 'In Delaware colonists from this Scandinavian country built some of the first log cabins in America'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'In May 1995 this country's Black Magic yacht beat the Young America to win the America's Cup'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'A bottle of 50-year-old Glenfiddich, this potent potable, was sold in 1992 for about $71,200'

Answer: Scotch Whiskey


Question: 'In 1922 Ravel orchestrated "Pictures At An Exhibition", a suite Mussorgsky wrote for this instrument'

Answer: Piano


Question: 'It's said Saint Paul lived on a street called Straight in this present-day Syrian capital'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'Named for a prophet, it's the only book of the bible that begins with an "I"'

Answer: Isaiah


Question: 'The Penobscot Indians, whose homeland is in this state, first encountered Europeans in the early 1500s'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'The backwards one-revolution jump in this sport is named for Ulrich Salchow'

Answer: Figure Skating


Question: 'The world's oldest cake, made around 2200 B.C., is in a food museum in Vevey in this Alpine country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'John Dowland was a notable Renaissance composer of pieces for this medieval stringed instrument'

Answer: Lute


Question: 'The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts & Columbia University are located on this NYC thoroughfare'

Answer: Broadway


Question: 'It's any plant or animal that feeds mainly on bugs'

Answer: Insectivore


Question: 'In 1941 this dictator replaced Vyacheslav M. Molotov as Soviet premier'

Answer: Josef Stalin


Question: 'He refused to patent or to profit from his lightning rod, a device he first described in a 1751 article'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Seattle's "gem" of a nickname, or Dorothy's destination'

Answer: The Emerald City


Question: 'In the "genesis" of his career, Phil Collins played the Artful Dodger onstage in this musical'

Answer: Oliver!


Question: 'Her lover Grigory Orlov helped her seize the Russian throne in 1762'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: '"Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads..."'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'Yale architecture student Maya Yang Lin won a 1981 competition to design this memorial'

Answer: Vietnam War Memorial


Question: 'With his 1886 wax recording cylinder, he could have made an answering machine for his phone'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'The Wax Museum of Witches And Seafarers opened in this New England city in 1993'

Answer: Salem, Massachusetts


Question: 'This member of the Jackson family had some good times playing Penny on the TV sitcom "Good Times"'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: 'Liver cells break this red blood cell pigment into substances including iron & bilirubin'

Answer: Hemoglobin


Question: '"next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth...."'

Answer: E.E. Cummings


Question: 'This leader of the Silver Bullet Band was born on May 6, 1945 in Michigan'

Answer: Bob Seger


Question: 'This Scottish engineer had to invent the flyball governor to control the speed of his steam engine'

Answer: James Watt


Question: 'This Alabama city known for its Azalea Trail should have been Alexander Calder's favorite'

Answer: Mobile


Question: 'We're "mad about" this sitcom star who played Jessica Walter's daughter on the '70s series "Amy Prentiss"'

Answer: Helen Hunt


Question: 'On a giraffe the tongue is prehensile; on the kinkajou this 15-20" feature is'

Answer: Tail


Question: '" 'Charge' was the captain's cry; theirs not to reason why, theirs not to make reply"'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Charge of the Light Brigade")


Question: 'In 1957 this senator received a Pulitzer Prize for his book about decisive moments of famous Americans'

Answer: John F. Kennedy ("Profiles in Courage")


Question: '1950s German "engine"eer who could have founded his own "rotary" club'

Answer: Felix Wankel


Question: 'If you recall the first words spoken on the moon, you'll know Tranquility Park is in this city'

Answer: Houston


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Former child star heard here in a 1962 movie musical; he now works behind the camera:'

Answer: Ron Howard (in "The Music Man")


Question: '"Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light"'

Answer: Dylan Thomas ("Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night")


Question: 'In 1960 Princess Margaret married this photographer in Westminster Abbey; they were divorced in 1978'

Answer: Lord Snowden (Antony Armstrong-Jones)


Question: 'Sequoya's invention of one of these was completed by 1821'

Answer: Alphabet


Question: 'The name of this city, twice the capital of W. Va., may have come from an Indian word meaning "Place of the Head"'

Answer: Wheeling


Question: 'The all-kid gangster movie "Bugsy Malone" starred Scott Baio & this girl who later won 2 Oscars'

Answer: Jodie Foster


Question: 'This man's Virgin Group is Britain's second-largest private company'

Answer: Richard Branson


Question: '"Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set and blew.  'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.' "'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'The Jose Marti Monument is a 450-foot tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion in this capital'

Answer: Havana, Cuba


Question: 'In 1997 the world said "Hello Dolly" to one of these mammals, the first successfully cloned'

Answer: a sheep


Question: 'This airline calls itself "The Spirit of Australia"'

Answer: Qantas


Question: 'It precedes Hot Rodding, Photography & Mechanics in the names of magazines'

Answer: Popular


Question: 'It's the second-most populous city in England'

Answer: Birmingham


Question: 'One you have is "to remain silent"'

Answer: a right


Question: 'In 1984 Philip Michael Thomas began playing Ricardo Tubbs on this TV show'

Answer: Miami Vice


Question: 'The poorwill is one of the few species of birds that's known to do this in the winter'

Answer: hibernate


Question: 'Carrier serving the Eastern U.S. is the third to bear this name & the logo seen here'

Answer: Pan Am


Question: 'Appropriately, the name of this director is in the title of a mystery magazine founded in 1956'

Answer: Hitchcock


Question: 'Saudi Arabia is connected to this Persian Gulf island nation by the King Fahd Causeway'

Answer: Bahrain


Question: 'Bank on which you'd find the artistic section of Paris'

Answer: the Left Bank


Question: 'Now a coach, he was nicknamed "the Mop" for diving after loose balls during 13 seasons in the NBA'

Answer: Phil Jackson


Question: 'Codeine & morphine are both made from opium, which is obtained from a species of this flower'

Answer: the poppy


Question: 'This "colorful" low-fare airline began passenger service in 2000 with flights between JFK & Fort Lauderdale'

Answer: JetBlue


Question: 'Time, Inc. spun off this magazine from People magazine in June 1994'

Answer: InStyle


Question: 'It's one of the 3 U.S. state capitals found on the Missouri River'

Answer: Bismarck, North Dakota


Question: 'The Brits spell it differently'

Answer: center


Question: 'In the 1946 classic "The Big Sleep", he played Philip Marlowe'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'Lignite, a low-grade type of this rock, is only about 30 percent carbon'

Answer: coal


Question: 'Not surprisingly, in 1988 it was the official carrier of the Seoul Olympic games'

Answer: Korean Airlines


Question: 'Anna Wintour is the editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of this fashion magazine'

Answer: Vogue


Question: 'Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is president of this nation with a population near 175 million'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Don't keep it under your hat, it anagrams to a material used in hats'

Answer: left


Question: 'He won Emmys in 1977, '78, '79, '80, '82, '83, '85, '86 & '88'

Answer: Phil Donahue


Question: 'Sweeter than sucrose, this fruit sugar is found in fruits as well as in honey'

Answer: fructose


Question: 'Though now competing with newer companies, it remains Russia's largest air carrier'

Answer: Aeroflot


Question: 'In 2002, this magazine finally tracked down & ID'ed Sharbat Gula as the subject of its most famous cover from 1985'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'In the 17th c. Tibetan forces invaded this neighboring country whose name means "the edge of Tibet"'

Answer: Bhutan


Question: 'It's a whale'

Answer: right


Question: 'Philip Bailey was the mesmerizing lead falsetto singer of this 1970s funk supergroup abbreviated EWF'

Answer: Earth, Wind & Fire


Question: 'Her 11 1/2 years as prime minister was the longest consecutive term since the Earl of Liverpool in the early 19th century'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Richard Burton & Liz Taylor were nominated for playing husband & wife in this 1966 film based on an Edward Albee play'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'This cabinet department oversees the grain inspection, packers & stockyards administration'

Answer: the Department of Agriculture


Question: 'A little birdie told us this Richard Bach book was the top-selling fiction book of 1972 & 1973'

Answer: Jonathan Livingston Seagull


Question: 'A plumber uses one to clear out your pipes'

Answer: a snake


Question: 'David Hume was literally a "lover of knowledge" as one of these'

Answer: a philosopher


Question: 'This 1215 agreement placed the king under English law & limited his power'

Answer: the Magna Carta


Question: 'Katina Paxinou is the only Oscar-winning actress born in this country'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'This agency also regulates medical devices, cosmetics & animal feed'

Answer: the FDA (Food & Drug Administration)


Question: '"Tuesdays with Morrie" author Mitch Albom titled his 2003 bestseller "The Five People You Meet" here'

Answer: in Heaven


Question: 'It has adjustable jaws so it can grasp nuts of different sizes'

Answer: a monkey wrench


Question: 'Its currency is the peso & it comprises over 7,000 islands'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'The Ancient Romans built this across Britain from the mouth of the Tyne River to Solway Firth'

Answer: Hadrian\'s Wall


Question: 'For 1991 3 of the 5 nominated songs, including "Belle", were from this one film'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'This bureau of the Justice Department has added Explosives to its name, though it's still abbreviated ATF'

Answer: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms


Question: '"People Like Us" & "An Inconvenient Woman" are 2 of the bestsellers by this Vanity Fair contributor'

Answer: Dominick Dunne


Question: 'It's the reptilian name of these fasteners'

Answer: alligator clips


Question: 'Any symphony orchestra'

Answer: philharmonic


Question: 'During the Civil War the Roundheads, members of this religious group, closed the theaters'

Answer: the Puritans


Question: '(Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.)  For "Sense and Sensibitity", she became the first actress to be nominated for both Best Actress & Best Screehplay'

Answer: Emma Thompson


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Ellis Island, NY.) Here in the Great Hall, the U.S. Public Health Service and the agency later known as this did the processing at Ellis Island'

Answer: Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)


Question: 'In titles of novels by John Sandford it follows "Rules of", "Silent" & "Naked"'

Answer: Prey


Question: 'It's a moveable trestle or frame that supports wood being cut'

Answer: a sawhorse


Question: 'It's defined as a man who has many casual romantic affairs with women'

Answer: a philanderer


Question: 'Usual adjective for the 1688 revolution that overthrew James II & placed William & Mary on the throne'

Answer: Glorious


Question: 'His 1925 silent "The Gold Rush" was reissued in 1942 with music & sound effects & nominated for Sound Recording'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is an agency of this department'

Answer: Health and Human Services


Question: 'His "Skipping Christmas" & "A Painted House" were among the Top 10 bestselling books of 2001'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'A wing nut is also called this; &, no, it didn't start out as a caterpillar nut'

Answer: a butterfly nut


Question: 'The desire to help humanity, especially through charitable activities'

Answer: philanthropy


Question: 'This Southern capital was named for an ancestor of a 20th century poet known for his clever rhymes'

Answer: Nashville, Tennessee


Question: 'Its territory extends 300 miles above the Arctic Circle'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'The 2 months that fit the category'

Answer: March & April


Question: 'This "feline" variety of willow tree belongs to the same family as aspens & cottonwoods'

Answer: the pussy willow


Question: 'In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood'

Answer: the llama


Question: 'Nestle began making this in 1904; they claim to make the very best of it'

Answer: chocolate


Question: '(Jimmy pitches one up from Williamsport, PA.) In the major leagues, this goes to about halfway up the torso; in Little League, it goes to the armpits'

Answer: the strike zone


Question: 'It stretches from the Gulf of Guinea in the southwest to Lake Chad in the northeast'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'A kind of cereal grain, triticale is produced by crossing rye & this'

Answer: wheat


Question: 'Psychologist Otto Rank ranked this trauma as the no. 1 cause of neurosis'

Answer: birth


Question: 'Go to Ellen in the name books & you'll find it's a form of this name from Greek myth'

Answer: Helen


Question: 'In 1939 Nestle introduced an instant form of this non-milk product'

Answer: coffee


Question: '(Jimmy lays another clue down from Williamsport, PA.) Unlike Major League Baseball, Little League batters may use non-wood bats; most are made of this metal that has a distinctive sound when it meets the ball'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'Its territory includes Great Barrier Island & the Antipodes Islands'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'As a noun, it's a steep-walled canyon; as a verb, it means to stuff yourself with food'

Answer: gorge


Question: '10-letter word describing a woman's dress without arm coverings'

Answer: sleeveless


Question: 'In Roman myth, this powerful tot killed 2 serpents in his cradle'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'This peanut butter cup is one of Hershey's bestselling products'

Answer: Reese\'s


Question: '(Jimmy reports from a distance from Williamsport, PA.) The distance between the bases in Little League is this many feet, two-thirds that of Major League Baseball'

Answer: 60 feet


Question: 'Swampy & indented, its Caribbean shore is aptly called the "Mosquito Coast"'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue'

Answer: niche


Question: 'Augusto Pinochet, who ousted Salvador Allende in 1973, led the junta in this country until 1990'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'According to Greek mythology, this horn of plenty is the horn of the goat Amalthea'

Answer: the cornucopia


Question: 'Now a Hershey's product, Mounds was introduced in 1920; this nutty counterpart didn't appear until 1946'

Answer: Almond Joy


Question: '(Jimmy gives us another clue from Williamsport, PA.) Little League games are shorter than big league ones, so as a dramatic moment, as Kyle comes to bat in the last regulation inning, the bottom of this'

Answer: the sixth inning


Question: 'In 1968 the U.N. called for South Africa's withdrawal from the territory that is today this country'

Answer: Namibia


Question: 'It can be an object from the past, or a personal item associated with a saint'

Answer: a relic


Question: 'In 1935 he invented a self-adhesive label, & even though he's gone, his name still sticks with us'

Answer: (R. Stanton) Avery


Question: 'Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'In 1938 Nestle introduced its Crunch bar & Hershey introduced this rival'

Answer: Krackel


Question: '(Jimmy preserves another one for us from Williamsport, PA.) I'm caught between the bases, and I've gotten myself into one of these; it's also called a pickle, because that's what I'm in'

Answer: a rundown


Question: 'Add 1 letter to "Titan" to get this Renaissance titan known for his nudes'

Answer: Titian


Question: 'In 1977 they were one of the biggest bands in the world & Steve Miller told us to fly like one of them'

Answer: The Eagles


Question: 'Give it a month & the may beetle becomes known by this 7-letter name'

Answer: a junebug


Question: 'Since its 1992 introduction, this cool brand of sneakers with big thick soles has been "drawing" business'

Answer: Skechers


Question: 'He completed a sci-fi trilogy in 1945, a few years before taking us to Narnia'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'This verb form is used for commands'

Answer: imperative


Question: 'This Leonardo fresco painted in a Milan convent dining hall began crumbling & fading during the artist's lifetime'

Answer: "The Last Supper"


Question: '"You Oughta Know" that "Hands Clean" was the first single from her 2002 CD "Under Rug Swept"'

Answer: Alanis Morissette


Question: 'Because of their long snouts, these cotton destroyers are sometimes called snout beetles'

Answer: boll weevils


Question: 'Also known as painter pants, these multi-pocketed pants are named for another profession'

Answer: carpenter pants


Question: '"The Romantic Comedians" begins an Ellen Glasgow trilogy that "carries us back to" this Southern state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Ron Kovic could have called his book "Born On" this--it's the same thing'

Answer: Independence Day


Question: 'The first stone for this Roman basilica was laid in 1506, following the plan of Italian architect Donato Bramante'

Answer: St. Peter\'s


Question: 'In 1973 Bette Midler revived this 32-year-old Andrews Sisters hit, reaching the top 10'

Answer: "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"


Question: 'A giant species of this "hundred-legged" insect grows to 12 inches in length & eats lizards'

Answer: a centipede


Question: 'The formless chemise dubbed this by Balenciaga & Givenchy was popular in 1957'

Answer: the sack dress


Question: 'This existentialist never finished the fourth volume of "Les Chemins de la Liberte", so it's a trilogy'

Answer: Sartre


Question: 'Alexander Woollcott said everything he likes to do is these 2 things, or fattening'

Answer: illegal or immoral


Question: 'Lorenzo Ghiberti is best known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'This single-named "Konvicted" singer moved to the U.S. from Senegal when he was 7'

Answer: Akon


Question: 'Although there are about 2,000 species of these "white ants", only 2 live in Europe'

Answer: termites


Question: 'In the late '60s, this long cover-up with a Turkish name became popular not only for women but for men too'

Answer: a caftan


Question: 'His trilogy that began with "The Hamlet" & ended with "The Mansion" was written over a 30-year period'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'From the Latin for "to nod", it's a verbal hint of something improper'

Answer: an innuendo


Question: 'Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco is better known by this name found in the title of Robert Browning's poem about him'

Answer: Andrea del Sarto


Question: '"Hey Ya!" by OutKast says to "Shake it like" one of these'

Answer: a Polaroid picture


Question: 'A gnat's compound eye has multiple lenses called these, like the surfaces of a cut gem'

Answer: facets


Question: 'These shoes that sometimes have a 3" cork sole sound like they were made to be worn waiting for a train'

Answer: platform shoes


Question: 'Robertson Davies called the third book in his Cornish Trilogy "The Lyre of" this mythological figure'

Answer: Orpheus


Question: 'Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Strange" one'

Answer: Interlude


Question: 'The Society for Human Resource Management says, of the 10 federal holidays, it's the least observed by the private sector'

Answer: Columbus Day


Question: 'The Tiger Swallowtail & Zebra Swallowtail are species of this insect'

Answer: Butterfly


Question: 'Hunter S. Thompson's first book was about this motorcycle gang'

Answer: Hell\'s Angels


Question: 'Introduced to Ireland in the 1600s, a 6-ounce one, without butter & sour cream, has about 130 calories'

Answer: Potato


Question: 'Some trace this American dance back to the musical theatre star Harry Fox'

Answer: Foxtrot


Question: 'Kids compete in the Little Britches Rodeo in High River, near this city known for its "stampede"'

Answer: Calgary


Question: 'The name of this, the world's largest desert, means "desert"'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'These medicinal worms were once used to treat headaches & mental illnesses'

Answer: Leeches


Question: 'In 1982 this magazine company condensed the Bible'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: 'Tokay or Emperor ones of these have about 40 calories; 10 Thompson seedless ones, about 35'

Answer: Grapes


Question: 'The czardas is the national dance of this country & Liszt used it as a basis for his rhapsodies'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'The Bat Cave in this capital of Ontario displays 3,000 life-like vinyl & wax bats in a walk-through tunnel'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'The phrase "ATM machine" is redundant because ATM stands for this'

Answer: Automated/Automatic Teller Machine


Question: 'This rodent in the genus Neotoma is named for its habit of hoarding small objects'

Answer: Pack rat


Question: 'D.J. Alan Freed received partial composer credit on this singer's "Maybellene"'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: 'Depending on the variety, you may find 8-24 rows of kernels on one of these'

Answer: Ear of corn


Question: '"Que Alegria Es Cosa Buena", this Los Del Rio dance hit has taken the world by storm'

Answer: Macarena


Question: 'Victoria, B.C. boasts a replica of the famous thatched cottage of this woman, Shakespeare's wife'

Answer: Anne Hathaway


Question: 'We admit there's some redundancy in the "Jeopardy!" category title "U.S." these'

Answer: States


Question: 'Also called a warrigal, this wild dog is one of the few nonmarsupial mammals of Australia'

Answer: Dingo


Question: 'Founded in 1934, this corporation provides recorded music to subscribers like restaurants & supermarkets'

Answer: Muzak


Question: 'Florence's Catherine de Medici supposedly liked this; that's why dishes with it are "A la Florentine"'

Answer: Spinach


Question: 'A fierce competition in this Mideast specialty might be called "navel warfare"'

Answer: Belly dancing


Question: 'The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in this Quebec city spawned its own museum of humor'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'The name of this site includes the Spanish word for tar, so L.A. tourists are visiting the the tar tar pits'

Answer: La Brea Tar Pits


Question: 'This catlike carnivore of Africa is valued for its musk'

Answer: Civet


Question: 'In 1996 she "Singled Out" guys & gals in an MTV game show'

Answer: Jenny McCarthy


Question: 'Ache is a wild variety of this vegetable that when eaten "raw, develops the jaw"'

Answer: Celery


Question: 'First popular in Paris music halls around 1840 & considered vulgar, its name is French for "gossip"'

Answer: Can-Can


Question: 'Tea leaves are read at the 1918 Chocolate Shop, the oldest restaurant in this Manitoba capital'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'It's an opinion reached by a group as a whole; adding the word "general" is superfluous'

Answer: Consensus


Question: 'The 1902 Spooner Act authorized the purchase of this "zone" from Colombia'

Answer: Panama Canal Zone


Question: 'Paranormal investigators Egon Spengler, Raymond Stantz & Peter Venkman were this title group'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'Founded in 1611, the University of Santo Tomas in Manila is this country's oldest'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'Displacement, denial & rationalization are examples of these mechanisms'

Answer: Defenses


Question: 'It's the slant or bias reporters give their stories'

Answer: Angle


Question: 'Under the 1783 Treaty of Paris, this river became the western boundary of the U.S.'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: 'This silent comic played the title role in "The Saphead" & "Sherlock Jr.", but not in "The General"'

Answer: Buster Keaton


Question: 'Before it received its present name, this "colorful" South African river was called the Groot'

Answer: Orange River


Question: 'Extroverts & introverts are opposing types in this Swiss psychiatrist's theory'

Answer: Carl Jung


Question: 'This procedure, an X-ray of blood vessels, can tell you if you have a blood clot or aneurysm'

Answer: Angiogram


Question: 'In 1972 he resigned as attorney general to head CREEP, the president's reelection committee'

Answer: John Mitchell


Question: 'In a 1996 release, they're the 2 lions Val Kilmer & Michael Douglas hunt down'

Answer: The Ghost and the Darkness


Question: 'Known for its lovely beaches, Peter Island lies near Tortola in this island group'

Answer: British Virgin Islands


Question: 'The trylon & perisphere are on the jacket of David Gelernter's book about this 1939 event'

Answer: World\'s Fair


Question: 'Early psychologists identified 4 basic skin sensations:  warmth, cold, pressure & this'

Answer: Pain


Question: 'It's one of the few types of cakes not loaded with fat'

Answer: Angel food


Question: 'His "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan" was published in 1856'

Answer: Commodore Matthew Perry


Question: 'In 1993 Wes Studi played this Apache, "An American Legend"'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'This European language is official in Togo, though Ewe, a Kwa language, is more commonly spoken'

Answer: French


Question: 'Jacob Bronowski punned on a Darwin title in this book & TV series about the history of science'

Answer: The Ascent Of Man


Question: 'Abrreviated PTSD, it can affect anyone who has survived any terrible ordeal'

Answer: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder


Question: 'Last name of the Updike character nicknamed "Rabbit"'

Answer: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom


Question: 'This Denison, Texas  native had never held elective office before he was U.S. president'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'In a 1941 classic he dictates:  "Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems.  I'll provide the war."'

Answer: Charles Foster Kane (in "Citizen Kane")


Question: 'Quetzaltenango is a major city in this Central American country whose national bird is the quetzal'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'Ritalin use for children has increased greatly for the treatment of this hyperactive disorder'

Answer: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)


Question: 'Jimmy Porter represents the English class system in this John Osborne play'

Answer: Look Back In Anger


Question: 'Bush poet A.B. Paterson, who died in 1941, wrote the words to this internationally famous song'

Answer: Waltzing Matilda


Question: 'Tom glides across the floor to "Old Time Rock & Roll" in an Oxford shirt & tightie-whities in a classic scene in this '83 flick'

Answer: Risky Business


Question: 'It's the transparent part of the eyeball contact lenses are designed to come into contact with'

Answer: Cornea


Question: 'You're dancing if you're cutting this item of decor'

Answer: Rug


Question: 'He's the singer heard here:<br />("I made it through the rain...")'

Answer: Barry Manilow


Question: 'This knot that shares its name with an older relative is prone to slipping & is basically useless'

Answer: Granny knot


Question: 'The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem'

Answer: Grass


Question: 'Tom Cruise learns that he has an autistic older brother in this 1988 film'

Answer: Rain Man


Question: 'It's not the opposite of youropia, but of hyperopia'

Answer: Myopia


Question: '"Dancing on air" is an expressive phrase for this form of capital punishment'

Answer: Hanging


Question: 'He played Brad Majors in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"'

Answer: Barry Bostwick


Question: 'It's the geometric alternate name for a reef knot'

Answer: Square knot


Question: 'A lot fewer of this Kansas state animal "roam" the prairies today than in the 19th century'

Answer: Buffalo/bison


Question: 'Tom Cruise starred as professional spy Ethan Hunt in this 1996 film & its sequel'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: 'From the Greek for "gray", this condition may cause blindness by increasing pressure on the optic nerve'

Answer: Glaucoma


Question: 'If this lively dance "is up", it's all over'

Answer: Jig


Question: 'This Conservative was born in Phoenix in 1909'

Answer: Barry Goldwater


Question: 'Clove, rolling & half are types of these, used to tie a rope to a post or other object'

Answer: Hitches


Question: 'This city's nicknames include "City of the Lakes and Prairies" & "Hog Butcher for the World"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'In a 1992 film this actor told Tom, "You can't handle the truth!"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson (in A Few Good Men)


Question: 'Macular degeneration affects these parts that when detached may be reattached with a laser'

Answer: Retinas


Question: 'As a verb, it can mean to move like Gregory Hines, or to improvise to hide your ignorance'

Answer: Tap dance


Question: 'With Cynthia Weil, he's written songs like "Make Your Own Kind of Music" & "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"'

Answer: Barry Mann


Question: 'As 2 words, it's part of a ram's or ewe's leg; as 1 word, it's a knot for shortening rope'

Answer: Sheepshank


Question: 'They're the family who resided in TV's "Little House on the Prairie"'

Answer: Ingalls


Question: 'Leonard Maltin said the cliches in this 1990 action drama gave new meaning to the term "Formula One"'

Answer: Days of Thunder


Question: 'Toric contact lenses are designed to correct this condition when it's moderate'

Answer: Astigmatism


Question: 'This character from "Li'l Abner" gave her name to a dance where the girls invite the boys'

Answer: Sadie Hawkins


Question: '"Guilty" & "What Kind of Fool", his duets with Barbra Streisand, were Top 10 hits'

Answer: Barry Gibb


Question: 'The simple knot seen here; it's also a style of throwing a ball'

Answer: Overhand knot


Question: 'Legendary Pecos Bill was raised by one of these animals that's also known as a prairie wolf'

Answer: Coyote


Question: '"Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'This "Dead Cert" writer jockeyed to the forefront of the list, getting a CBE'

Answer: Dick Francis


Question: 'Of John, Paul, or George, Byron's given name'

Answer: George


Question: 'Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on this TV series, recorded a country music album in 1995'

Answer: The Brady Bunch


Question: 'Cork'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'He scribed "The Green Mile" & "Carrie", but not while aping around the Empire State Building with Fay Wray'

Answer: Stephen King Kong


Question: '"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..."'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'Sam Mendes was directed to pick up this CBE in June 2000, 3 months after winning an Oscar for directing this film'

Answer: American Beauty


Question: 'In 1816 Byron summered in Switzerland where he joned this poet & his wife Mary'

Answer: Percy Shelley


Question: 'When she played a stage mother in the TV movie "Model Behavior", her real-life son Cody appeared as her son'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'Goteburg'

Answer: Sweden


Question: '"Hit The Road, Jack" hitmaker who hit us in print with "Oliver Twist" & "David Copperfield"'

Answer: Ray Charles Dickens


Question: '"Eight years from now America will celebrate its two-hundredth anniversary as a nation"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Oh me oh my -- this Scottish singer's OBE was given "To" her "With Love" by the Queen'

Answer: Lulu


Question: 'While helping this country fight for its independence, Byron died at Missolonghi in 1824'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'An understudy in "Biloxi Blues", this "Cheers" co-star was back on Broadway in '99, starring in "The Rainmaker"'

Answer: Woody Harrelson


Question: 'Pusan'

Answer: South Korea


Question: '1988 Brat-Packer western starring the rock band that charted with "Welcome to the Jungle"'

Answer: Young Guns N\' Roses


Question: '"...Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...to do all which may achieve & cherish a just & lasting peace..."'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln (second inaugural)


Question: 'Hazel Ann Esson, the head housemaid at this Scottish castle, got a Royal Victorian Medal'

Answer: Balmoral Castle


Question: 'One of Byron's greatest poems was his unfinished epic about this villainous Spanish rake'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'Few believed this actor's weird journalistic discoveries as "The Night Stalker"'

Answer: Darren McGavin


Question: 'Maracaibo'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: '"Talented Mr. Ripley" actor whose colorful stories became "Guys and Dolls"'

Answer: Matt Damon Runyon


Question: '"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor"'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Byron first came to fame with a poem about this young noble's "Pilgrimage"'

Answer: Childe Harold


Question: 'John Lithgow appeared as a Broadway director in this autobiographical Bob Fosse film'

Answer: All That Jazz


Question: 'Brno'

Answer: Czech Republic


Question: 'He sang for Motley Crue but only after he'd teamed up with Crosby, Stills & Nash'

Answer: Vince Neil Young


Question: 'By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed'

Answer: The Scottsboro Boys


Question: 'Of Antony's suicide, she says, "So it should be that none but Antony should conquer Antony"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'The ruby & Webb are pink-pulped varieties of this breakfast food'

Answer: grapefruit


Question: 'He was preparing for the U.N. conference in San Francisco when he died in Warm Springs, Ga. on April 12'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: '[sports logo]'

Answer: the Kansas City Royals


Question: 'On average, the icy layer on top of this snow-covered continent is 7,000 feet thick'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Lift up, or tear down & demolish'

Answer: raise/raze


Question: 'If you're greatly pleased, you're said to be this'

Answer: tickled pink


Question: 'Since "It's the Real Thing", this 4-letter name was registered as a trademark in 1945'

Answer: Coke


Question: '[sports logo]'

Answer: the Cleveland Indians


Question: 'The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel"'

Answer: bananas


Question: 'Instructed, or tightly drawn'

Answer: taught/taut


Question: 'Baptista Minola is "An affable and courteous gentleman" but this woman, his elder daughter, is a shrew'

Answer: Katherine (Kate)


Question: 'The pink material used to build the state capitol in Austin, Texas has to be "taken for" this stone'

Answer: granite


Question:
'3-word phrase repeated in the title of this favorite holiday song from 1945:

[instrumental]'

Answer: "Let It Snow"


Question: '[sports logo]'

Answer: the Indianapolis Colts


Question: 'It's no sham: Aer Lingus is this country's national airline'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'A flash of light, or a knack for doing something'

Answer: flare/flair


Question: 'Of Shallow, Sniveling or Slimy, the one who's a country justice in "Henry IV, Part 2"'

Answer: Shallow


Question: 'It's the common name of conjunctivitis'

Answer: pink eye


Question: 'In May he announced that he wouldn't seek a fourth term as mayor of New York City'

Answer: Fiorello LaGuardia


Question: '[sports logo]'

Answer: the Detroit Red Wings


Question: 'This island known for giant statues is also called Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua, "The Navel of the World"'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'A sharp-bladed tool, or puts 2 + 2 together'

Answer: adz/adds


Question: 'John Waters is the director of "Pink Flamingos" & Roger Waters is the bassist of this rock group'

Answer: Pink Floyd


Question: 'In a surprise coup, he overthrew Argentina's new government & set up his own cabinet'

Answer: Juan Peron


Question: '[sports logo]'

Answer: the Phoenix Suns


Question: 'The Ivory Coast is next to this African country once known as the Gold Coast'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'Unfriendly & threatening, or a friendly shelter for traveling students & hikers'

Answer: hostile/hostel


Question: 'Marble Arch was once its entrance, but it was later moved'

Answer: Buckingham Palace


Question: 'Her son Ferdinand Jr. lost his 1995 bid for a seat in the Philippine senate'

Answer: Imelda Marcos


Question:
'Yul Brynner will be remembered for his role in this 1956 musical,
"Et cetera,
et cetera,
et cetera"'

Answer: The King And I


Question: 'In the '40s Harvard's Howard Aiken developed the Mark I computer with this company's help'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'Title of Newhart's third sitcom'

Answer: Bob


Question: 'This fortress was built by William the Conqueror; Henry VIII was the last king to use it as a chief residence'

Answer: Tower of London


Question: 'Zandonai's opera "Il Grillo del Focolare" is adapted from this author's "The Cricket on the Hearth"'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'French film star Simone Signoret married 2 men named Yves:  director Yves Allegret & this actor'

Answer: Yves Montand


Question: 'Yul played Solomon in "Solomon And Sheba" & Rameses in this Biblical epic'

Answer: The Ten Commandments


Question: 'Century in which most of David Hilbert's 23 unsolved problems were solved'

Answer: 20th century


Question: 'Tell all'

Answer: Blab


Question: 'The oldest royal residence still in use'

Answer: Windsor Castle


Question: 'Vassily disguises himself as a woman but is seen shaving in this "Firebird" composer's opera "Mavra"'

Answer: Igor Stravinsky


Question: 'Iceland's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, was born in this capital city in 1930'

Answer: Reykjavik


Question: 'Steve McQueen & Charles Bronson, among others, joined Yul in this 1960 western based on a Japanese film'

Answer: The Magnificent Seven


Question: 'This Persian poet's work on algebra included systematic solutions to cubic equations'

Answer: Omar Khayyam


Question: 'A tell-all book might have this kind of short publicity notice on its cover'

Answer: Blurb


Question: 'Foreign ambassadors are accredited to this palace's court'

Answer: St. James\' Palace


Question: 'This Hungarian composer wrote only one opera, the dramatic 1-act "Duke Bluebeard's Castle"'

Answer: Bela Bartok


Question: 'It was no Dutch treat when this Dutch-born dancer was shot by a firing squad in Vincennes in 1917'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'This author of "The Lost World" wrote & directed "Westworld", in which Yul played a gunslinging robot'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'Norbert Wiener wrote 1948's "Cybernetics" while teaching at this U.S. institute in Cambridge'

Answer: MIT


Question: 'A cutting remark, or a part of a feather'

Answer: Barb


Question: 'Elizabeth I could be "observed" spending much of her "time" at the palace in this South Bank borough'

Answer: Greenwich Palace


Question: '"Das Geheimnis des Entwendeten Briefes" is a German opera adapted from this Poe story about a stolen epistle'

Answer: The Purloined Letter


Question: 'This cosmonaut, the first woman to travel in space, was named a hero of the Soviet Union'

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova


Question: 'In "The Buccaneer", Yul portrayed this buccaneer during the Battle of New Orleans'

Answer: Jean Lafitte


Question: 'This Greek's "Elements" deal with the theories of earlier scholars like Eudoxus of Cnidus'

Answer: Euclid


Question: '"Overall", it's on top'

Answer: Bib


Question: 'Controversial even when serialized in the "National Era", it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'The group Families Against Mandatory Minimums opposes policies like California's this many strikes rule'

Answer: 3


Question: 'In 1948 the Allies began talks of a defense pact like NATO in response to the Soviet blockade of this city'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'This 1975 Al Pacino film was based in part on an actual bank robbery'

Answer: Dog Day Afternoon


Question: 'Studio that brought us "Casablanca" & Bugs Bunny'

Answer: Warner Bros.


Question: 'The expression "If" these "could kill" applies literally to a mythical serpent called the cockatrice'

Answer: looks


Question: '"One man's meat is another man's..."'

Answer: poison


Question: 'For his system of identifying criminals by body measurements, Bertillon started photographing them these 2 ways'

Answer: front & profile


Question: 'Before he was president of the United States, he was supreme allied commander of NATO forces'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'This 2000 film with Eugene Levy & Christopher Guest spoofed the stupid human tricks at a major dog show'

Answer: Best in Show


Question: 'Ahem, we'd tell you they were William & Andrew, not Trade & Mark, but that would be name cough dropping'

Answer: Smith Brothers


Question: 'Vishnu, part of this religion's pantheon, rides on the back of the half-man, half-vulture Garuda'

Answer: Hindu


Question: '"To err is human, to forgive..."'

Answer: divine


Question: 'A common trio in explaining crimes consists of means, opportunity & this'

Answer: motive


Question: 'In 1949 the NATO Treaty was signed by the U.S. & 11 other countries, including this volcanic island nation'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'A cocker spaniel & a mutt are the title characters of this 1955 animated classic'

Answer: Lady and the Tramp


Question: 'Last name of little ole winemakers Ernest & Julio'

Answer: Gallo


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio)  Manatees, which are classified as sirenian, may be the origin of these legendary beauties, also called sirens'

Answer: mermaids


Question: '"Better to die with honor than to live with..."'

Answer: shame


Question: 'From the Latin for "to frighten", it's one of the major purposes of capital punishment'

Answer: deterrence


Question: 'In 1999 Lord Robertson followed Javier Solana into this job at NATO'

Answer: Secretary-General


Question: 'Steve Buscemi complains that he doesn't want to be called Mr. Pink in this 1992 Tarantino flick'

Answer: Reservoir Dogs


Question: 'Last name of Walter & Arthur, who partnered up with William Harley in 1903'

Answer: Davidson


Question: 'Psyche got past this dog of Hades by pacifying him with honey cake'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: '"Dead men tell..."'

Answer: no tales


Question: 'The 1982 article "Broken" these says that leaving minor damage unrepaired leads to more destruction'

Answer: Windows


Question: 'At the 2002 NATO Conference in Prague, 7 nations were invited to join NATO, including these 3 Baltic ones'

Answer: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania


Question: 'Lasse Hallstrom received an Oscar nomination for directing this 1985 film about a Swedish boy in the 1950s'

Answer: My Life as a Dog


Question: 'Under this name the Hassenfeld brothers branched out into the toy business in the 1940s'

Answer: Hasbro


Question: 'Creation stories of the Onondaga & other Indian tribes put the world on the back of this animal'

Answer: turtle


Question: '"Cold hands..."'

Answer: warm heart


Question: 'Having played a boy in "Peter Pan", she played a tomboy in "Annie Get Your Gun" in 1957'

Answer: Mary Martin


Question: 'Among Pennsylvania state pens, this is "medium" at Rockview but "maximum" at Frackville'

Answer: security


Question: 'The Byrds:<br />("To Everything There is a Season")'

Answer: "Turn! Turn! Turn!"


Question: 'This Wyoming city of 50,000 was named not for a friendly ghost, but for a soldier who died from fighting Indians'

Answer: Casper


Question: 'George Bernard Shaw was born in this city in 1856, just 2 years after Oscar Wilde'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'MLS, which includes the Colorado Rapids & San Jose Earthquakes, stands for this'

Answer: Major League Soccer


Question: 'Mary Gage was Miss USA for a day; it came out the day after she won that she was this'

Answer: married


Question: 'Before he went to Alcatraz in 1934, this Chicago mobster did time in Philadelphia's Eastern State Pen'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'Phil Collins:<br />("Take a Look at Me Now")'

Answer: "Against All Odds"


Question: 'A daytime talk show host, he was named after the Catholic high school his father attended'

Answer: Regis Philbin


Question: 'In 1882 Shaw became a Socialist; the year before, he changed his eating habits, becoming one of these'

Answer: vegetarian


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  Hydrants are classified according to their output in GPM, which stands for this'

Answer: gallons per minute


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Little Rock, Arkansas)  In 1957, federal troops had to escort the first black students to this Little Rock high school'

Answer: Central High School


Question: 'In "Mrs. Soffel" warden's wife Diane Keaton helps Mel Gibson escape this city's Allegheny County Prison'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Sheena Easton:<br />("Nine to Five")'

Answer: "Morning Train"


Question: 'These monkeys take their name from an order of Italian monks, not from a coffee drink'

Answer: capuchins


Question: 'Shaw said he took the prize money from this award in 1925 to translate Swedish plays into English'

Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature


Question: 'At about age 15 a kid may graduate from summer camper to CIT, short for this'

Answer: Counselor in Training


Question: 'Oil man named the richest man in the U.S.; he said, "If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars"'

Answer: Jean Paul Getty


Question: 'Known as "The Actor" & "The Babe Ruth of Bank Robbers", he once escaped from Holmesburg Prison'

Answer: Willie Sutton


Question: 'Fleetwood Mac:<br />("Will You Ever Win")'

Answer: "Rhiannon"


Question: '50 years after this Shawnee helped the British subdue Michigan, a man partly named for him helped subdue Georgia'

Answer: Tecumseh


Question: '1 of his 3 plays Shaw grouped as "unpleasant" was this tale of a director of a chain of brothels'

Answer: Mrs. Warren\'s Profession


Question: '(Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus)  You might have seen some of my videos on CMT; CMT stands for this'

Answer: Country Music Television


Question: 'In 1957 he partnered with Donald Kaufman to build low-priced homes for first-time buyers'

Answer: Eli Broad


Question: 'Quehanna is the state's first of these motivational institutions that share their name with a part of military training'

Answer: boot camp


Question: 'The Four Tops:<br />("Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch")'

Answer: "I Can\'t Help Myself"


Question: 'Completed during his reign, the Sistine Chapel was named after the fourth pope of this name'

Answer: Sixtus


Question: 'The Temple of Ra & the Palace of Alexandria are settings in this one of Shaw's "Plays for Puritans"'

Answer: Caesar and Cleopatra


Question: 'BGH, which stands for this, is injected into cows to increase milk production'

Answer: Bovine Growth Hormone


Question: 'In 2002 this novel by C.Y. Lee, first published in 1957, was re-released with a new introduction by David Henry Hwang'

Answer: Flower Drum Song


Question: 'This future first lady joined her husband at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78 & tended the wounded'

Answer: Martha Washington


Question: 'This 1996 dance hit was actually an English remix by the Bayside Boys using the Spanish chorus by Los Del Rio'

Answer: "The Macarena"


Question: 'The tiny independent nation of Vatican City is completely surrounded by this city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'To see if sororities are evil, Jane sent a reporter through this process of auditioning for several of them'

Answer: Rushing


Question: 'On Dec. 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human transplantation of this organ'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'Being as blind as this animal isn't so bad; it isn't really blind'

Answer: Bat


Question: 'She published "The Red Cross in Peace and War" in 1899'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'TLC "don't want no" these; one of these "is a guy that can't get no love from me"'

Answer: "Scrubs"


Question: 'Not counting Antarctica, it's the continent that reaches the farthest south'

Answer: South America


Question: 'Each month Jane sends 2 strangers on one of these'

Answer: Blind date


Question: 'In 1961 U.S. physicians began using his oral polio vaccine'

Answer: Dr. Albert Sabin


Question: 'With exercise, you can become as fit as this musical instrument'

Answer: Fiddle


Question: 'Queen Marguerite of Navarre wrote the "Heptameron", a collection of tales widely compared to this Boccaccio work'

Answer: "The Decameron"


Question: 'In Spetember 1995 this artist's "You Are Not Alone" became the first single in history to enter the Hot 100 chart at No. 1'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: '1 of the 5 largest countries in the world is highlighted here:<br />("north of the border")'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'In May 1999 top new colors for these included Naive Rose & Iridescent Lilac -- no blacks or greens'

Answer: Nail polish


Question: 'In 1940 Landsteiner, Levine & Weiner discovered this blood factor in rhesus monkeys'

Answer: Rh factor


Question: 'You could wind up in this condition, the same as a dodo or a doornail'

Answer: Dead


Question: 'The Girl Scouts established a world friendship fund in memory of this Girl Scouts founder'

Answer: Juliette Gordon Low


Question: 'Toni Braxton asked her lover to do this to "my heart, say you'll love me again"'

Answer: un-break


Question: 'The only country that borders the Dominican Republic'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'In the first issue, this "Gods and Monsters" & "Encino Man" actor was "Our Token Sex Symbol"'

Answer: Brendan Fraser


Question: 'In 1966 Chinese scientists synthesized this hormone normally made in the islets of Langerhans'

Answer: Insulin


Question: 'You might be busy as a bee, a beaver or a one-armed one of these'

Answer: Paper hanger


Question: 'A visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in England, inspired Jane Addams to found this "house"'

Answer: Hull House


Question: 'The refrain of his hit "Lullaby" is "Everything's gonna be all right, rock-a-bye..."'

Answer: Shawn Mullins


Question: 'One of the 2 countries sandwiched between Thailand & Vietnam'

Answer: Cambodia &/or Laos


Question: 'A dress made of Good & Plenty wrappers was one of the D.I.Y. fashion tips, D.I.Y. standing for this'

Answer: Do It Yourself


Question: '"Eight Weeks to Optimum Health" is a bestseller by this alternative medicine man seen here:'

Answer: Dr. Andrew Weil


Question: 'Rich Mullins sings that faith without works is as useless as one of these on a submarine'

Answer: Screen door


Question: 'He established his electric light company in 1878, a year before he perfected his bulb'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'In this James Dean film, Buzz dies when his leather jacket catches on his car door handle'

Answer: Rebel Without a Cause


Question: 'Defined by their orderly structure, these, like the one seen here, are reputed to hold special powers:'

Answer: Crystals