Question: 'Earlier in 1775 he rode to warn the patriots to move their military stores from Concord'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'In 1996 Lou Diamond Phillips filled Yul Brynner's royal shoes for a revival of this musical'

Answer: The King And I


Question: 'This tiny principality is bordered on 3 sides by the French department of Alpes-Maritmes'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal'

Answer: Moby Dick


Question: 'The artists who covered nudity painted by him in the Sistine Chapel were called "breeches makers"'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'At 24 miles, Loch Awe is the longest lake in this country of Great Britain'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'After his father failed several times, this man succeeded in developing the mechanical grain reaper'

Answer: Cyrus McCormick


Question: 'Patti LuPone, Glenn Close & Betty Buckley have all played Norma Desmond in this show'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'Both Spain's & California's highest mountain peaks are in a range called this'

Answer: Sierra Nevadas


Question: 'This 1950 Ray Bradbury book collected 26 stories about Earth's colonization of Mars'

Answer: The Martian Chronicles


Question: 'In 1792 Thomas Lawrence succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as principal painter to this king'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Guinness says the longest of these dance lines was formed by 119,986 people at a 1988 Miami festival'

Answer: Conga line


Question: '"It's Good To Be Alive" is the autobiography of this 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers catcher'

Answer: Roy Campanella


Question: 'Theatre troupe seen here, they've created quite a noise in the dance world:<br />[video clue]'

Answer: Stomp


Question: 'Balaklava lies on the tip of this peninsula, opposite Yalta'

Answer: Crimean Peninsula


Question: 'This 1854 Thoreau work is subtitled "Or Life in the Woods"'

Answer: Walden


Question: 'The Vermeer show at this Washington, D.C. gallery was shut down Dec. 16, 1995 by the budget impasse'

Answer: National Gallery of Art


Question: 'The longest match at this tournament lasted 112 games when Pancho Gonzalez beat Charles Pasarell'

Answer: Wimbledon


Question: 'This commander of the AEF in WWI taught military science at the University of Nebraska in the 1890s'

Answer: John "Black Jack" Pershing


Question: 'Try to remember this long-running musical that features the song "Try To Remember"'

Answer: The Fantasticks


Question: 'This Sudanese capital is located at the junction of the Blue & the White Nile'

Answer: Khartoum


Question: 'In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom'

Answer: Injun Joe


Question: 'Paal Enger, one of those who stole his "The Scream" in Oslo in 1994, was sentenced to prison in 1996'

Answer: Edvard Munch


Question: 'The longest inscription of these symbols is the more than 700 on the 9th century Rokstenen'

Answer: Runes


Question: 'This orator served as Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison & John Tyler'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'Bob Fosse made his choreographic debut with this musical about a threatened strike in a sleepwear factory'

Answer: The Pajama Game


Question: 'It's the landlocked African country formerly known as Bechuanaland'

Answer: Botswana


Question: '"Sons", the second novel in her "House of Earth" trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung's 3 sons'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'This pop artist of comics-inspired images was awarded the National Medal of Art in 1995'

Answer: Roy Lichtenstein


Question: 'Country with the longest national road; it runs 4,860 miles from a city with a woman's name to one with a man's'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Last awarded in 1970, the Jules Rimet Cup was replaced by this trophy in 1974'

Answer: The World Cup (of soccer)


Question: 'This British prime minister gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Mabel is Paul & Jamie Buchman's baby on this series'

Answer: Mad About You


Question: 'It flows from the Cotswold Hills to its mouth on the North Sea'

Answer: Thames River


Question: 'This bird-&-feline pair "sailed away, for a year and a day, to the land where the bong-tree grows"'

Answer: The Owl and the Pussycat


Question: 'This media mogul & owner of the Atlanta Braves is the USA's largest private bison rancher'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: '"Pore"'

Answer: Rope


Question: 'This site of the Great Mosque & the Kaaba was the capital of the kingdom of Hejaz'

Answer: Mecca


Question: 'Andy Dick plays bumbling reporter Matthew Brock on this sitcom set at New York's WNYX'

Answer: NewsRadio


Question: 'Over the years many got "the chop" at this historic London stronghold'

Answer: Tower of London


Question: '"The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land"'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'The youngest American billionaire ever at age 31, he now owns the Bettman Archive of photo images'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: '"To Zap"'

Answer: Topaz


Question: 'California city where Father Junipero Serra is buried & Clint Eastwood once served as mayor'

Answer: Carmel


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jane Leeves)  I played Marla, the virgin who stumbled onto a contest & ended up with JFK Jr. on an episode of this sitcom'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'This square is located at the north end of Whitehall, not on the southwest coast of Spain'

Answer: Trafalgar Square


Question: '"So was I once myself a swinger of birches; and so I dream of going back to be", wrote this New England poet'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'The female lead in "Basic Instinct", she's definitely not a dumb blonde; her IQ is said to be 154'

Answer: Sharon Stone


Question: '"Zen Fry"'

Answer: Frenzy


Question: 'When Marco Polo reached this city in 1275 it was called Cambaluc'

Answer: Peking/Beijing


Question: 'On this series, Mayim Bialik played a sassy teenager who lived with her 2 older brothers & her divorced dad'

Answer: Blossom


Question: 'She replaced James Callaghan May 4, 1979'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: '"Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead"'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'She wore bulky trench coats in episodes of "The X-Files" to hide her real-life pregnancy'

Answer: Gillian Anderson


Question: '"Pound Bells"'

Answer: Spellbound


Question: 'Edmund Halley had an observatory on this island 145 years before Napoleon was observed there'

Answer: Saint Helena


Question: 'This Marla Gibbs sitcom was named for the Washington, D.C. building its characters lived in'

Answer: 227


Question: 'In 1907 Great Britain, France & Russia completed this defensive "Entente"'

Answer: Triple Entente


Question: 'Ogden Nash spoofed this poet by writing, "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree"'

Answer: Joyce Kilmer (who wrote "Trees")


Question: 'In 1987 this director of "Taxi Driver" directed Michael Jackson's "Bad" video'

Answer: Martin Scorsese


Question: '"Boil Fate"'

Answer: Lifeboat


Question: 'Examples of this explosive phenomena on Mars include Ascraeus Mons & Pavonis Mons'

Answer: Volcanoes


Question: 'It's the largest peninsula jutting into the Black Sea'

Answer: Crimean Peninsula


Question: 'This "experienced" left-hander recorded haunting blues songs like "Red House" & "Voodoo Chile"'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'Bibb & butterhead are not an MTV cartoon duo, but varieties of this vegetable'

Answer: Lettuce


Question: 'It's the name of Charles Schulz' friend who inspired his classic comic strip everyman'

Answer: Charlie Brown


Question: 'Examples include leatherback, loggerhead & mutant ninja'

Answer: Turtle


Question: 'Once thought to be the work of an advanced civilization, these features are now known to be an optical illusion'

Answer: Canals


Question: 'The only nation on the Black Sea that shares its name with a U.S. state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: '"Royal" guitarist whose early recording "Three O' Clock Blues" was a hit in 1952'

Answer: B.B. King


Question: 'Small versions of this common garden vegetable used for pickling are often called gherkins'

Answer: Cucumbers


Question: 'This man's execution on December 2, 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'Jaleel White played this heroic nerd for 9 years on "Family Matters"'

Answer: Steve Urkel


Question: 'The 2 planets in our solar system that are smaller than Mars'

Answer: Mercury & Pluto


Question: 'Sailing south from the Black Sea via the Bosporus, you'll pass through this sea before reaching the Mediterranean'

Answer: Sea of Marmara


Question: 'With albums like "Texas Flood" & "Soul to Soul", this guitarist was the leading figure in the 1980s blues-rock revival'

Answer: Stevie Ray Vaughan


Question: 'These vegetables with a flavor like mild cabbage include the name of a city'

Answer: Brussels sprouts


Question: 'This best-selling author became a magazine editor in 1965'

Answer: Helen Gurley Brown


Question: 'To congeal, as milk does when it spoils'

Answer: Curdle


Question: 'Pathfinder & its rover Sojourner touched down on Mars on this date in 1997'

Answer: July 4th


Question: 'Any 2 of the 4 large rivers beginning with the letter D that drain into the Black Sea'

Answer: Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, Don


Question: 'It's the nickname of legendary Texas bluesman Sam Hopkins'

Answer: "Lightnin\'"


Question: 'The name of this herb that is used mainly as a decoration on meat dishes comes from the Greek for "rock celery"'

Answer: Parsley


Question: 'Now an Oakland Raiders All-Pro wide receiver, this man won the Heisman Trophy in 1987'

Answer: Tim Brown


Question: 'From the Old French for "excess", it's an amount or quantity beyond what is needed'

Answer: Surplus


Question: 'Named for the attendants of Ares, the Greek god of war, they are the 2 moons of Mars'

Answer: Phobos & Deimos


Question: 'This Ukranian Black Sea port was the site of a Russian naval victory in 1905'

Answer: Odessa


Question: 'The father of the British blues movement, he formed the Bluesbreakers in the early '60s'

Answer: John Mayall


Question: 'Also called roquette, this peppery salad green is very popular with Italian palates'

Answer: Arugula


Question: 'Born July 25, 1978, she was the world's first "Test Tube Baby"'

Answer: Louise Brown


Question: 'Not an army officer, but an individual grain of a cereal grass like corn'

Answer: Kernel


Question: '20th century president whose birthplace is depicted here'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'Of 40, 100 or 400, the one closest to the total years the Israelites were in captivity in Egypt'

Answer: 400


Question: 'These "make the man"'

Answer: Clothes


Question: '72-year-old Daisy Werthan gets a chauffeur after she wrecks her car in Act I of this play'

Answer: "Driving Miss Daisy"


Question: 'You'll find the deeds of Emperor Jimmu in the "Nihon Shoki", or "Chronicle of" this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Bo Derek's big screen breakthrough'

Answer: 10


Question: 'George & Herman were the real given names of this legendary slugger'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'At 969, he was the Bible's longest-lived man'

Answer: Methuselah


Question: 'This "makes the heart grow fonder"'

Answer: Absence


Question: 'Che Guevara mocks a funeral procession by singing "O What A Circus" in Act I of this musical'

Answer: "Evita"


Question: 'In the 5th Century Priscus visited the court of this thuggish Hun & lived to tell the tale'

Answer: Attila


Question: 'Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude"'

Answer: 100


Question: 'AKA "Grandma Freud", this New York therapist is said to dole out sexual advice like hot chicken soup'

Answer: Dr. Ruth Westheimer


Question: 'In the Old Testament, Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar & others collectively, but not Judy'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'Shakespeare said that "no legacy is so rich as" this; maybe that's why it's "the best policy"'

Answer: Honesty


Question: 'The vote is 12 not guilties at the end of Act III in this Reginald Rose work'

Answer: "12 Angry Men"


Question: 'Jean Froissart died in his 60s around 1400, so he only got to chronicle about half of this war'

Answer: Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'Number of Natalie Merchant's musical "Maniacs"'

Answer: 10,000


Question: 'She's the wacky star of "Chu Chu and the Philly Flash" seen here'

Answer: Ruth Buzzi


Question: 'At Passover, this thief was freed in place of Jesus'

Answer: Barabbas


Question: 'It "never boils"'

Answer: A watched pot


Question: 'Abigail & Betty hysterically name other villagers as witches at the end of Act I in this 1953 hit'

Answer: "The Crucible"


Question: 'Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita", or "History From the Founding of the City", is about this city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'If you paid the price in this candy bar's name, it would be the most expensive one'

Answer: $100,000 Bar (now the "100 Grand Bar")


Question: 'Once married to Garson Kanin, this actress played Maude in "Harold and Maude"'

Answer: Ruth Gordon


Question: 'Eve is the first woman mentioned in the Bible; this unnamed woman is second in Genesis 4:17'

Answer: Cain\'s wife


Question: 'A Turkish proverb describes a perfect serving of this as "Black as hell, strong as death & sweet as love"'

Answer: Coffee


Question: 'In Act I of this period piece, Salieri calls on the audience to be his confessors'

Answer: "Amadeus"


Question: 'The main source on 9th-12th Century England is this hyphenated "chronicle" named for 2 groups'

Answer: Anglo-Saxon


Question: 'Louis Farrakhan led this Washington "march" on October 16, 1995'

Answer: Million Man March


Question: 'This woman took her current high post in 1993'

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Question: 'Both the parents of this Serb dictator committed suicide'

Answer: Slobodan Milosevic


Question: 'He's a bestselling author as well as a familiar voice ["It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..."]'

Answer: Garrison Keillor


Question:
'Boris Yeltsin,
Boris Becker,
Boris Karloff'

Answer: Boris Karloff


Question: 'Guinevere strangles herself with her own hair in the Chausson opera named for this king'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'The fiesta at the heart of Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" takes place in this bull-running city'

Answer: Pamplona


Question: 'When I take off all my clothes, I'm this, just like a salad without its vinaigrette'

Answer: Undressed


Question: 'Throughout 1998 Serb forces battled the KLA, an abbreviation for this'

Answer: Kosovo Liberation Army


Question: 'Tom & Ray, hosts of this auto show, delivered the 1999 commencement address at their alma mater, M.I.T.'

Answer: Car Talk


Question:
'Philip the Fair,
Alfred the Great,
Ivan the Terrible'

Answer: Alfred the Great


Question: 'In "Luisa Miller", Rodolfo kills himself & Luisa by this method -- he must have seen "Lucrezia Borgia"'

Answer: Poisoning


Question: 'In "Moby Dick", the Pequod sails from this "New" Massachusetts seaport'

Answer: New Bedford


Question: 'Gangster-land, or Hades' domain'

Answer: Underworld


Question: 'On March 31, 1999 3 U.S. soldiers were captured while patrolling near this country's border with Serbia'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'On Public Radio International, you can hear the refined tones of this "World Service"'

Answer: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)


Question:
'Marion Morrison,
Jim Morrison,
Toni Morrison'

Answer: Marion Morrison (better known as John Wayne)


Question: 'Of a lake, a moat or a sewer, it's where Iris drowns herself in Mascagni's opera "Iris"'

Answer: Sewer


Question: 'Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" plays out darkly in this California city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'It's the "U" in UFO'

Answer: Unidentified


Question: 'Serbs hold Kosovo dear because they lost a 1389 battle there to this empire'

Answer: Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Since 1979 Bob Edwards has hosted this NPR program that many wake up to'

Answer: Morning Edition


Question:
'Pope Paul VI,
Pope Pius XII,
Pope John XXIII'

Answer: Pope Pius XII


Question: 'In "The Stone Guest", this Spanish seducer mocks a statue, which retaliates by dragging him down to hell'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'It's the fictional county where 14 Faulkner novels are set'

Answer: Yoknapatawpha County


Question: 'Eve Harrington is probably the most famous one'

Answer: Understudy


Question: 'This capital of Kosovo that dates back to medieval times was devastated by air raids & "ethnic cleansing"'

Answer: Pristina


Question: 'Low-concept weekly program heard here ["I'm Ira Glass - each week, of course, on our program we choose a theme..."]'

Answer: This American Life


Question:
'Leonardo's "Mona Lisa",
"Last Supper",
"The Adoration of the Magi"'

Answer: "The Adoration of the Magi"


Question: 'Much of "Othello", including Desdemona's murder, takes place on this large island'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'King Ethelred's adjective'

Answer: "The Unready"


Question: 'Of the 7 men pictured on the front of currently printed U.S. currency, the 3 who never lived in the White House'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton & George Washington


Question: 'The first official list of military calls for this trumpet-like valveless instrument was issued in 1798'

Answer: the bugle


Question: '"Grazie" & "prego" translate to these 2 2-word companion phrases'

Answer: thank you & you\'re welcome


Question: 'Pearl Harbor is attacked'

Answer: the 1940s


Question: 'To slice a tomato, use a knife with this type of edge for a clean cut'

Answer: a serrated edge


Question: 'John T. Dorrance, a chemist who studied cooking in Paris, developed the first canned soups for this brand'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'Snarl along with "Big Cat Diary" & "Pit Bulls and Parolees"'

Answer: Animal Planet


Question: 'A violin body amplifies the sound escaping from the 2 holes usually called these, as they resemble an italicized letter'

Answer: the f-holes


Question: 'You oughta know "otto" is Italian for this number'

Answer: eight


Question: 'The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes'

Answer: the 1980s


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a payapa in a forest in Molokai, HI.)  An enzyme called papain in the leaves & green skin of raw papaya can be used as one of these food preparations as it breaks down the connective tissue of meats'

Answer: a tenderizer


Question: 'In the 1940s Stetson Kennedy infiltrated this group, whom he mocked as the "Dumb Klux"'

Answer: the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)


Question: 'At least grin at "Workaholics" & "Nick Swardson's Pretend Time"'

Answer: Comedy Central


Question: 'Fife & drum corps often use this higher-pitched woodwind whose name means "small"'

Answer: a piccolo


Question: 'A journalist would uncover that "chi" , "che", "quando", "dove" & "perché" translate to these 5 terms'

Answer: who, what, where, why & when


Question: 'The Titanic sinks'

Answer: the 1910s


Question: 'Colorful cooking methods include browning & this one associated with Cajun cooking'

Answer: blackening


Question: 'In 1827 Joseph Dixon founded a factory to make stove polish & these from graphite'

Answer: pencils


Question: 'Watch movies like "Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story" & "Sins of the Mother"'

Answer: Lifetime


Question: 'The theme song of "Futurama" features chimes, also known as tubular these'

Answer: bells


Question: 'I'm loony for "lunedì", this day of the week'

Answer: Monday


Question: 'Three Mile Island is the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history'

Answer: the 1970s


Question: 'Simmer short-grain rice seasoned with saffron in the broad, shallow pan that gives this Spanish dish its name'

Answer: paella


Question: 'In 2003 this state replaced its statue of George Washington Glick in Statuary Hall with one of Dwight Eisenhower'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'Enjoy some of "The Fairly Oddparents" & some "Bubble Guppies"'

Answer: Nickelodeon


Question: 'This steam-whistle organ was often used on 19th century Mississippi steamboats to announce their arrival at ports'

Answer: a calliope


Question: 'A certain piece of hardware is una vite, so this hand tool used with it is un cacciavite'

Answer: a screwdriver


Question: 'The USS Maine goes down, killing 260'

Answer: the 1890s


Question: 'The name of this technique indicates that meat is soaked in saltwater, though other liquids can be used instead'

Answer: brining


Question: 'Katharine Drexel is only the second person born in the U.S. to be recognized as one of these; Elizabeth Ann Seton was 1st'

Answer: saints


Question: 'Wonder if the "Hoarders" & "Monster In-Laws" are for real'

Answer: A&E


Question: 'This Spanish city on the Mediterranean was known in antiquity as Barcino'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'Marion Cotillard played Leonardo DiCaprio's dreamy wife Mal in this 2010 film'

Answer: Inception


Question: 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!  In the 1950s Howard Worden developed a classic fishing lure called this animal's tail'

Answer: a rooster (tail)


Question: 'It's a man who has lost his wife by death & has not remarried'

Answer: a widower


Question: 'The title of this Dr. Seuss work is illustrated on its cover'

Answer: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish


Question: 'I might ask for "just a" this, a simple shortening & tidying up around the edges'

Answer: trim


Question: 'Sudan University of Science & Technology, including the Institute of Laser, is in this capital'

Answer: Khartoum


Question: 'The Million-Dollar Lure is made of 3 pounds of gold & platinum & 100 carats of diamonds & these red gems'

Answer: rubies


Question: 'An exploratory gas or oil well, or a nickname for a student from the University of Arizona'

Answer: a wildcat


Question: 'In "The Veteran", a sequel to this 1895 novel, Henry Fleming tells us Chancellorsville was where he was wounded'

Answer: The Red Badge of Courage


Question: 'I'll get my hair straightened with the Brazilian this; it's also what happened to my favorite football team, 35-0'

Answer: a blowout


Question: 'India's financial capital, this West Coast city consists of several islands that have become one land mass via reclamation'

Answer: Mumbai


Question: 'Rapala lures are made to mimic wounded fish; in 2003 Phillipe Marn used one to land a record 385-lb. yellowfin this'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'In a Coors light ad, the guy with this "avian" nickname tries to help his amorous buddy "live the dream"'

Answer: a wingman


Question: 'This Stendhal novel title was inspired by the colors worn by the Catholic clergy & the French military'

Answer: The Red and the Black


Question: 'I hope things are okay here; I think I see this woman in the back filming for the Bravo show about her salon takeover'

Answer: Tabatha


Question: 'The Postal Museum in Vaduz, this principality's capital, is a must-visit for stamp collectors'

Answer: Liechtenstein


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew wraps a lure.) When you wrap a fish hook with feathers & thread, it's called tying one of these lightweight lures that mimic insects'

Answer: flies


Question: 'This 4-letter term for a ridge on the skin resulting from a blow also begins the name of a boxing weight division'

Answer: a welt


Question: 'This psychologist was unafreud to confront his own demons in "The Red Book", written between 1914 & 1930 & published in 2009'

Answer: (Carl) Jung


Question: 'This city in the Crimea is a health resort with many sanatoriums, including one suggested by Chekhov in 1899'

Answer: Yalta


Question: 'She starred with Ethan Hawke in "Before Sunrise"; she & Ethan Hawke not only starred in the sequel but also co-wrote it'

Answer: Julie Delpy


Question: 'Mepps makes its special "killer" lure to catch this large member of the pike family, not Hubert Humphrey's running mate'

Answer: a muskie


Question: 'High-quality wood is used in this type of paneling whose name is from the German for "wagon"'

Answer: wainscoting


Question: 'Made into a 1998 film, this James Jones novel fictionalizes the "narrow"ly won battle for Guadalcanal'

Answer: The Thin Red Line


Question: 'His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'These birds, which usually feed while hovering, flap their wings at a rate of 60-75 times a second'

Answer: hummingbirds


Question: 'After coming out & getting the party started, she won for Favorite Song & Favorite Female Singer'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'In 2001 the president invited kids to the White House to play this game, hitting a ball off a stand'

Answer: T-Ball


Question: 'If you can barely speak, you're said to have one of these amphibians "in your throat"'

Answer: a frog


Question: 'Chapter 1 of this book is called "Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe"'

Answer: "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe"


Question: 'It's 1/4 of 100'

Answer: 25


Question: 'When frightened or excited, this largest African mammal may make a loud, shrill sound called trumpeting'

Answer: elephant


Question: 'This California basketball team took front & center court as the Favorite Sports Team'

Answer: Los Angeles Lakers


Question: 'Online games you can play include Quake & this ancient battle to capture the opponent's king'

Answer: chess


Question: 'An easy target is a "sitting" one of these animals'

Answer: duck


Question: 'This potions professor doesn't dislike Harry Potter -- he hates him'

Answer: Professor Snape


Question: 'It's 2128 divided by 7'

Answer: 304


Question: 'The Mormon cricket is a long-horned type of this jumper'

Answer: grasshopper


Question: 'Cowabunga, dude!  It won the award for Favorite Cartoon Series'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'In cooking class, you'll learn that an English muffin & tomato sauce are the starting points of a miniature this'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'The one thing that brings everything tumbling down is "the straw that" did this'

Answer: broke the camel\'s back


Question: 'These "Tales" by Judy Blume are narrated by 9-year-old Peter Warren Hatcher'

Answer: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"


Question: 'It's the square root of 196'

Answer: 14


Question: 'The Organ Pipe species of this desert plant is named for the long stems which resemble the pipes of an organ'

Answer: cactus


Question: 'Singer Michael's sister, she won the Wannabe Award for being the celebrity role model kids most "want to be" like'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: 'There are classes just for boys in this activity that begins with warmup at the barre'

Answer: ballet


Question: 'Someone who looks impressive or powerful but is in fact neither is said to be a "paper" one of these animals'

Answer: tiger


Question: '"The Beginning" was the title of the 54th & final book in this sci-fi series by Katherine A. Applegate'

Answer: "Animorphs"


Question: 'Number of inches in 3 yards'

Answer: 108


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Belize)  Popularly called a bill bird, this is the national bird of Belize'

Answer: toucan


Question: 'Kids can be the ambassador from Kenya or Bulgaria in the "model" version of this organization founded in 1945'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'An artist's last great work is often described as this bird's "song"'

Answer: swan


Question: 'Completes the title of Mildred D. Taylor's book "Roll of Thunder..."'

Answer: Hear My Cry


Question: '.5 X .15'

Answer: .075


Question: 'Act IV of the opera "Moses in Egypt" features the miraculous parting of this sea'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'He admitted that he didn't read all of "The Lord of the Rings" before agreeing to play Frodo'

Answer: Elijah Wood


Question: 'This Roman god shares his name with the smallest planet in our solar system'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'White, shell, yolk'

Answer: parts of an egg


Question: 'Contrary to myth, Washington didn't throw one of these across the Potomac; there weren't any when he was young'

Answer: silver dollar


Question: 'Have belief in your power to spell...'

Answer: C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E


Question: 'In the 1983 opera named for him, this saint of Assisi preaches a sermon to the birds'

Answer: St. Francis of Assisi


Question: 'Believing in his "Will" power, he said, "If I set my mind to it, within...15 years, I would be the president"'

Answer: Will Smith


Question: 'Of a dragon, a horse or a lion, the type of animal that the winged mythical creature Pegasus was'

Answer: horse


Question:
'Baby grand,
professional grand,
concert grand'

Answer: types of pianos


Question: 'In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar "Party" occurred earlier in Boston'

Answer: tea


Question: 'Inquisitive minds will know how to spell...'

Answer: C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-Y


Question: '"Ib and Little Christina" & "The Emperor's New Clothes" are operas based on his fairy tales'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'When his kids ask him to talk like his "Shrek" donkey character, "it depends on what mood" they catch him in'

Answer: Eddie Murphy


Question: 'Also the name of a city in Arizona, this mythical bird dies in a fire & is reborn from the ashes'

Answer: the Phoenix


Question:
'Frosted Flakes,
Expectations,
Australia's Barrier Reef'

Answer: things that are Great


Question: 'In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'One of your skills is spelling...'

Answer: A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T


Question: 'A story by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Philip Glass' opera "The Fall of the House of" this'

Answer: Usher


Question: 'This Roman messenger god is also the name of a liquid metal'

Answer: Mercury


Question:
'Decks of cards,
baseball parks,
engagement rings'

Answer: things with diamonds


Question: 'On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay'

Answer: Manila Bay


Question: 'The first woman in Greek mythology, she opens a box & lets out all the world's evils'

Answer: Pandora


Question:
'Stanley,
Dixie,
suction'

Answer: cups


Question: 'On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'In August 1959 a coin toss helped Hiram L. Fong become this state's senior senator'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Born in Corfu in 1921, he's a great grandson of the Danish king Christian IX'

Answer: Prince Philip


Question: 'He played wise wizard Gandalf in 2001's "Lord of the Rings"'

Answer: Ian McKellen


Question: 'Wow!  This man bought Manhattan with trinkets worth about 60 guilders, usually quoted as $24'

Answer: (Peter) Minuit


Question: '"The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro'

Answer: Japan


Question: '2-word French term for a competitive international road race'

Answer: grand prix


Question: 'On January 1, 1892 this receiving station for immigrants in Upper N.Y. Bay opened its doors for the first time'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: 'Some thought this Tudor would marry Lord Dudley when his wife was found dead after a suspicious accident in 1560'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'He played wise wizard Dumbledore in 2001's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"'

Answer: Richard Harris


Question: 'The jird is a common (& rather cute) type of this hamster relative'

Answer: a gerbil


Question: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicler of a death foretold'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'This midwestern city of 190,000 was built on the site of an Ottawa Indian village'

Answer: Grand Rapids


Question: 'He took a failing UHF station in the 1970s & turned it into a "Superstation"'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: 'On Oct. 31, 1955 Princess Margaret announced that she was not going to marry the man she loved, this man'

Answer: (Peter) Townsend


Question: '"Leave no man behind" was the tagline of this 2001 film that co-starred Josh Hartnett'

Answer: Black Hawk Down


Question: 'This bejeweled N.Y. financier was so famous for overeating that one restaurateur called him "my 25 best customers"'

Answer: "Diamond" Jim Brady


Question: 'Celebrator of imperialism Rudyard Kipling'

Answer: India


Question: 'Traditional term for a comprehensive survey of the continent for a young upper-class Englishman'

Answer: the grand tour


Question: 'In Catholic churches, there are 14 of these depicting the Passion of Christ'

Answer: the stations of the cross


Question: 'This son of the Black Prince became king in 1377 & got his own Shakespeare play somewhat later'

Answer: Richard II


Question: 'Meg Ryan & Hugh Jackman found love across time in this romance'

Answer: Kate & Leopold


Question: 'If you've read "The Flame Trees of Thika" (or if you saw the miniseries) you know that Thika is in this country'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'Godot waiter Samuel Beckett'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Found off Newfoundland, it's a major source of food fish'

Answer: the Grand Banks


Question: 'This present-day San Francisco "Hill" was named for the semaphore station established there in the 1800s'

Answer: Telegraph Hill


Question: 'England's beloved Queen Mother grew up in this castle that's featured in "Macbeth"'

Answer: Glamis


Question: 'Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for playing the wife of this man'

Answer: (John) Nash


Question: 'She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry'

Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks


Question: 'Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Named for a Paris theater, it's drama that emphasizes the horrific or macabre'

Answer: Grand Guignol


Question: 'It's the Greek letter designation for the International Space Station'

Answer: Alpha


Question: 'In 1931 2 Americans modified the Mercalli scale to measure the intensity of these in California'

Answer: earthquakes


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix.)  In 2001 the Diamondbacks were going for their first world championship; this team was going for its 27th'

Answer: the Yankees


Question: 'A sexually confused stable boy is the focus of this ballet based on Peter Shaffer's play of the same name'

Answer: Equus


Question: 'This Asian-born architect designed Boston's John Hancock Tower'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'To be or knot to be, it was the capital of Phrygia'

Answer: Gordion (or Gordium)


Question: 'Strunk & White's 5th rule of usage says, do not join independent clauses with this; use a semicolon, as we just did'

Answer: a comma


Question: 'There were only 63 known elements when this Russian devised the periodic table'

Answer: Mendeleev


Question: 'At Wimbledon 1969, aged 41, this Mexican-American saved 7 match points to beat Charlie Pasarell'

Answer: Pancho Gonzales


Question: 'The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'From his mother's surname, the "Glass Skyscraper" architect added van der Rohe to this name'

Answer: Mies


Question: 'With the kingdom split, in 920 B.C. you had Rehoboam ruling Judah & Jeroboam ruling this'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'This 5-letter word means break down a sentence into subject, object & predicate, or describe a word's grammatical role'

Answer: parse


Question: 'The Earth's crust consists of about 46% oxygen; this element is second most abundant at about 28%'

Answer: silicon


Question: 'His last-minute field goal won Super Bowl XXXVI for the Patriots'

Answer: Adam Vinatieri


Question: 'Von Rotbart is the evil, bird-like sorcerer in this classic 1877 ballet'

Answer: Swan Lake


Question: 'Frank Lloyd Wright was a pupil of this noted Chicago architect, whom Wright called his "Lieber Meister"'

Answer: (Louis) Sullivan


Question: 'Dagon was the top god of these people, whose name has come to mean "uncouth" & "unsophisticated"'

Answer: the Philistines


Question: 'Besides fancy-sounding, "in lieu of salary" is this type of grammatical phrase'

Answer: a prepositional phrase


Question: 'Mayonnaise is an example of this colloidal dispersion of liquid particles in another liquid'

Answer: an emulsion


Question: 'In 1986, with the Springfield Fame, she became the first woman to play in a men's pro basketball league'

Answer: Nancy Lieberman


Question: 'In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in "Le spectre de la rose"'

Answer: Nijinsky


Question: 'This American architect who turned 95 in 2001 is known for his "Glass House" of 1949'

Answer: Philip Johnson


Question: 'Scholars label Old Persian royal inscriptions X for Xerxes, C for Cyrus & D for him'

Answer: Darius


Question: 'A helping group, like the ladies' one of the VFW, or a helping verb like will or may'

Answer: an auxiliary


Question: 'In 1896 this French scientist accidentally discovered radioactivity while researching fluorescence'

Answer: Antoine Becquerel


Question: 'NHL goalie nicknames include Nikolai Khabibulin's "Bulin Wall" & this Maple Leaf player's "Cujo"'

Answer: Curtis Joseph


Question: 'This choreographer played one of the sailors when his ballet "Fancy Free" premiered in 1944'

Answer: Jerome Robbins


Question: 'Surveyor General of royal buildings, he designed & constructed London's Covent Garden in the early 1630s'

Answer: Inigo Jones


Question: 'We know Carians were in Egypt from graffiti they carved into a big Ramses statue at this temple site'

Answer: Abu Simbel


Question: 'The Spanish levantarse, "to get up", is this type of verb whose subject & object are identical'

Answer: reflexive


Question: 'In old philosophy this 12-letter word referred to a fifth substance, superior to earth, air, fire or water'

Answer: quintessence


Question: 'The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation'

Answer: China


Question: '1940:<br />"...We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds..."'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Tecate'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'The dark side of sunny suburbia comes to the surface for Kyle MacLachlan in this kinky 1986 film'

Answer: Blue Velvet


Question: 'Hurd & Houghton became Houghton, Osgood & finally Houghton him'

Answer: Mifflin


Question: 'The name of this, Louisiana's most populous parish, is just 1 word -- no "New"'

Answer: Orleans


Question: 'In the 1880s the Mahdi led a revolution in the Sudan to restore the prominence of this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wayne Brady of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?")  This comedian reportedly uttered the now classic line, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad"'

Answer: W.C. Fields


Question: 'Guinness'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Hugh Grant learns to say "Fuggedaboudit" in this 1999 mob comedy'

Answer: Mickey Blue Eyes


Question: 'These "books" named for 2 magazines include "Chickamauga" & "Chicken Breasts" as well as the Fix It Yourself series'

Answer: Time-Life Books


Question: 'In parish names this word precedes John the Baptist & Martin'

Answer: Saint


Question: 'As Secretary of War from 1904 to 1908, William Howard Taft oversaw construction of this waterway'

Answer: Panama Canal


Question: '1998:<br />"If I ever want to have an affair with a married man again, especially if he's president, please shoot me"'

Answer: Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'Carlsberg'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'A researcher fiddles with sharks' brains to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease in this watery 1999 thriller'

Answer: Deep Blue Sea


Question: 'Charles Little's publishing partner, he's not the same man who sang "Licking Stick" & "Soul Power"'

Answer: James Brown


Question: 'Sensibly, Lincoln is a northern Louisiana parish & the parish named for this opposing president is in the south'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'In 1987 he declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Grolsch'

Answer: Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'Milla Jovovich starred in the 1991 sequel to this 1980 film, called "The Definite Brooke Shields Vehicle"'

Answer: The Blue Lagoon


Question: 'In 1953 Henri Filipacchi launched the paperback series "Livre de Poche", literally this type of "book"'

Answer: Pocket book


Question: 'A parish is named for this "colorful" river passing through Louisiana en route to the Mississippi'

Answer: Red River


Question: 'Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia, & maybe a falconer too'

Answer: Peregrine White


Question: '1969:<br />We're going to "Beat the Colts" on Sunday, "I guarantee it"'

Answer: Joe Namath (and they did in Super Bowl III)


Question: 'Peroni'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Songs in this movie include "Aloha Oe", "Rock-A-Hula Baby" & "Can't Help Falling in Love"'

Answer: Blue Hawaii (starring Elvis)


Question: 'Name shared by the publisher of the Harry Potter books & a type of medieval philosopher'

Answer: Scholastic


Question: 'These 2 adjacent parishes are named for the rising of Jesus & of Mary into heaven'

Answer: Ascension & Assumption


Question: 'Controversy erupted when this woman, now queen, wed a German who was once a member of the Hitler Youth'

Answer: Queen Beatrix


Question: '2 of the 3 Bs of classical music'

Answer: Bach, Beethoven &/or Brahms


Question: 'Bird associated with Aeneas Williams & Mark McGwire'

Answer: Cardinal


Question: 'If you loved "Joanie Loves Chachi" (& who didn't?) you may have heard his 1983 album "The Boys Are Out Tonight"'

Answer: Scott Baio


Question: 'Perhaps you should neuter your dog before he reads this classic in which Pongo fathers 15 pups'

Answer: "101 Dalmatians"


Question: 'He coined the phrase "The Greatest Show on Earth" to promote his show in 1872'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'Before he was king, William II served in the Peninsular War as aide-de-camp to this British duke'

Answer: Duke of Wellington


Question: '2 of the big 3 automakers'

Answer: Chrysler, Ford &/or General Motors


Question: 'Encarta says its "two-note call has been invoked in many musical compositions as well as in...clocks"'

Answer: Cuckoo


Question: 'He hit the pop charts with his own version of "Love Me Tender" in 1962, 21 years before "The Thorn Birds"'

Answer: Richard Chamberlain


Question: 'Your dog notes the Wizard gave the Scarecrow a brain & the Lion courage, but this little dog didn't even get a bone'

Answer: Toto


Question: 'This expression of "relative" simian astonishment dates back to the 1920s'

Answer: Well I\'ll be a monkey\'s uncle!


Question: 'As queen of the Netherlands during WWII, she symbolized Dutch resistance'

Answer: Queen Wilhelmina


Question: '2 of the 3 feature films in which James Dean had starring roles'

Answer: East of Eden, Giant, &/or Rebel Without A Cause


Question: 'The Whooping species of this is on the endangered list'

Answer: Crane


Question: 'Philip Michael Thomas was the co-star of this cop series when he released his album "Somebody" in 1988'

Answer: Miami Vice


Question: 'Watch your dog perk up his ears when this Homeric hero returns to Ithaca & his dog Argus'

Answer: Ulysses


Question: 'This phrase for a sycophant comes from the tradition of a student giving shiny fruit to the teacher'

Answer: Apple polisher


Question: '2 of America's 3 manned space projects designed to eventually put a man on the moon'

Answer: Apollo, Gemini &/or Mercury


Question: 'Some of these flightless birds found in the forests of Australia have wattles like turkeys'

Answer: Cassowary


Question: 'This actress who played Buddy on "Family" once recorded a rock album with her little brother Jimmy'

Answer: Kristy McNichol


Question: 'Your dog will admire White Fang, a wolf-dog who bravely saves his master's family in a story by this author'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'David Letterman said the president loves to hear this 6-word McDonald's mantra'

Answer: Do you want/would you like fries with that?


Question: '2 of the 3 main islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands'

Answer: St. Croix, St. John &/or St. Thomas


Question: 'From Old French for "raven of the sea", these greedy, web-footed birds have a distensible neck pouch'

Answer: Cormorants


Question: 'Jason Alexander sang the song heard here in the 1995 TV remake of this musical about a rock star:<br />("Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face...")'

Answer: Bye Bye Birdie


Question: 'If your dog is howling sadly, he may just have read this kids' book about a hunting dog with a mighty voice'

Answer: "Sounder"


Question: 'It's the name of Poison's second album, or a 5-word phrase used by a doctor about to look at your tonsils'

Answer: Open up and say "Ahh!"


Question: 'Made available for download in July 2000 by UCSC, the 739MB file of this "Project" consists of As, Ts, Gs & Cs'

Answer: The Human Genome Project


Question: 'The Devil's Triangle is also known as this more famous triangle'

Answer: the Bermuda Triangle


Question: 'In 1977 this "Happy Days" star directed his first feature, "Grand Theft Auto"'

Answer: Ron Howard


Question: 'The Empire apple was developed in this state from the Delicious & McIntosh'

Answer: New York


Question: 'The bill of sale for this was dated April 30, 1803'

Answer: the Louisiana Purchase


Question: 'An international award for authors & illustrators of children's books is name for this Danish author'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'A frank discussion between 2 people'

Answer: a heart-to-heart talk


Question: 'Known in the Middle Ages as the Gateway to China, Lanzhou was an important stop on this trade route'

Answer: the Silk Route


Question: 'At age 26 this actress known as "America's Sweetheart" played a girl of 12 in "Pollyana"'

Answer: Mary Pickford


Question: 'Petit pois are small, tender ones of these'

Answer: peas


Question: 'Total number of theses nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany October 31, 1517'

Answer: 95


Question: 'In 1994 Mary Anne Tyndall of Whiteville, N.C. won this contest's grand prize with fudgie bonbons'

Answer: the Pillsbury Bake-Off


Question: 'The central issue; the core'

Answer: the heart of the matter


Question: 'Honduras borders these 2 large bodies of water'

Answer: the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean


Question: 'This first sequel to "Frankenstein" was released in 1935; both films were directed by James Whale'

Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein


Question: 'Blumenkohl is the German name for this vegetable'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: 'The last line of this 1848 tract has been translated as "Workers of the world, unite!"'

Answer: The Communist Manifesto


Question: 'This composer won a 1961 Grammy for his soundtrack album from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"'

Answer: Henry Mancini


Question: 'Meaning "be merciful", it's used in response to a harsh demand'

Answer: have a heart


Question: 'World capital in which Jose Napoleon Duarte was born'

Answer: San Salvador


Question: 'The 1947 "Best Song" Oscar went to "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from this Disney Film'

Answer: Song of the South


Question: 'Baba ghanoush is a Middle Eastern spread made with this purple-skinned vegetable'

Answer: the eggplant


Question: 'Adopted in March 1861, it was modeled on the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: the Constitution of the Confederacy


Question: 'In 1972 this chairman of McDonald's received the Horatio Alger Award'

Answer: Ray Kroc


Question: 'In the 1938 movie musical "Listen, Darling", Judy Garland sang, "Zing! Went" these'

Answer: "The Strings Of My Heart"


Question: 'In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this'

Answer: Denali National Park


Question: 'In "Rebecca" this actress' first line is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley Again"'

Answer: Joan Fontaine


Question: 'In the U.S. Golden raisins are usually made from this variety of grape'

Answer: the Thompson Seedless


Question: 'Japan signed its surrender for WWII aboard this ship'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: 'Winners of this atomic energy award have included Edward Teller & Glenn T. Seaborg'

Answer: the Enrico Fermi Award


Question: 'Characters in this Carson McCullers novel include Biff Brannon, Mick Kelly & Dr. Copeland'

Answer: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter


Question: 'This ex-pres.'s account of his African hunting trip appeared in Scribner's Magazine, netting him $50,000'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'In June 1969 this California governor gave the eulogy at the funeral of actor Robert Taylor'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Achilles died after one of these weapons wounded him in the heel'

Answer: an arrow


Question: '2 tiny bones in the ear, the malleus & incus, are better known as the hammer & this'

Answer: the anvil


Question: 'Many of the letters in this epistolary Alice Walker novel are written by Celie to God'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'Concepcion's lovers hid inside clocks in this "Bolero" composer's opera "L'heure espangnole"'

Answer: Ravel


Question: 'In November this site was chosen as the USA's principal naval base in the Pacific'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'In the 1950s this current Massachusetts senator was an end on the Harvard football team'

Answer: (Ted) Kennedy


Question: 'Demeter sometimes rides around in one of these vehicles pulled by dragons'

Answer: a chariot


Question: 'It's the familiar name for your third & smallest molars'

Answer: your wisdom teeth


Question: 'He wrote a play called "Clevinger's Trial", based on Chapter 8 of his novel "Catch-22"'

Answer: (Joseph) Heller


Question: '"The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore" is a satirical opera by this man who created Amahl'

Answer: (Gian Carlo) Menotti


Question: 'On December 26, 1909 this sculptor of "The Bronco Buster" died at age 48'

Answer: Frederic Remington


Question: 'This sponsor of the Erie Canal served as NYC mayor prior to becoming governor of N.Y. in 1817'

Answer: DeWitt Clinton


Question: 'These 3 goddesses who control human destinies are also called the Moirai'

Answer: the Fates


Question: 'Compton's Encycl. describes this largest internal organ as "a uniform blob of reddish-brown tissue"'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'The hero of this Morris L. West novel is a Ukrainian who becomes pope'

Answer: The Shoes of the Fisherman


Question: 'He wrote the music for "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"; Brecht wrote the libretto'

Answer: Kurt Weill


Question: 'During the year this Austrian psychiatrist gave a series of lectures at Clark University in Massachusetts'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: '1 of the 2 Ohio governors elected president of the U.S. in the late 19th century'

Answer: William McKinley (or Rutherford B. Hayes)


Question: 'Urania is usually described as the muse of this science'

Answer: astronomy


Question: 'Originating in the spinal cord & running down the back of the thigh, it's the largest nerve in the body'

Answer: the sciatic nerve


Question: '"Bodily Harm" & "The Handmaid's Tale" are 2 of this Canadian's feminist novels'

Answer: Margaret Atwood


Question: 'This Swede's 1907 play "The Ghost Sonata" inspired a 1984 chamber opera by Aribert Reimann'

Answer: Strindberg


Question: 'This French premier stepped down after a furious July 20 debate in the Chamber of Deputies'

Answer: Georges Clemenceau


Question: 'Although he won the popular & electoral votes in 1824, the House chose John Quincy Adams as president'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Some say this underworld canine has serpents entwined around his multiple necks'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: 'During adolescence, acne is caused by an overabundance of oil produced by these glands'

Answer: the sebaceous glands


Question: 'Savonarola & Machiavelli are characters in George Eliot's "Romola", set in the 1490s in this city'

Answer: Florence


Question: '"The Burning Fiery Furnace" is a Biblical opera by this composer of "Billy Budd"'

Answer: Benjamin Britten


Question: '1 of the top 10 companies that operated food services in 1964, in 1994 its lunch counters ranked No. 264'

Answer: Woolworth\'s


Question: 'An airport in Orange County, California is named for this movie "Duke"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'In 1804 Napoleon's brother Jerome & his Baltimore-bred bride honeymooned at this upstate New York site'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'This metal's "Age" began around 1200 B.C. & no, it didn't follow the Wash & Dry Age'

Answer: the Iron Age


Question: 'Playwright Jean Anouilh had a lot at "stake" with "L'Alouette", his play about this female saint'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Jet-lagged or just hung-over?  Let's wake up your face with Wu Morning!, a mask from this Asian country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Flutter, like eyelashes'

Answer: bat


Question: 'In 1998 he was picked as the top player of all time by The Hockey News'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: '2 of the traditional "Big 5" animals you'd hope to see on a safari honeymoon'

Answer: (2 of 5) lion, elephant, leopard, rhinoceros, cape buffalo


Question: 'Centrum multivitamins say they're "Complete from A to" this element'

Answer: zinc


Question: 'This director of the film "Moulin Rouge!" brought his hit production of "La boheme" to Broadway in 2002'

Answer: Baz Luhrmann


Question: 'Let's dramatize your look with some Hard Candy mascara in pickle, a shade of this color'

Answer: green


Question: 'To decide irrevocably, like someone's fate'

Answer: seal


Question: 'Wayne Rogers left this show after a contract dispute; his character Trapper John got discharged & went home'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'In Venice, this professional needs a license to operate his boat, but not to sing to newlyweds'

Answer: gondolier


Question: 'Wondering what to do with your cadmium?  Combine it with nickel to make the popular NiCad types of these'

Answer: batteries


Question: 'Now ear this: "Vincent in Brixton" is a play about this artist'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'Bad Girl & Lush aren't what your agent calls you; they're pencils from Benefit made to line eyes & these'

Answer: lips


Question: 'In cooking, to cut open & spread flat, as with shrimp or steak'

Answer: butterfly


Question: 'He headlines at the Stardust in Las Vegas 40 weeks a year'

Answer: Wayne Newton


Question: 'Martin Klaproth named this radioactive element that he discovered in 1789 for a planet discovered in 1781'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'Your face may get a lift from this music-&-airline mogul's Virgin Cosmetics'

Answer: Richard Branson


Question: 'At -37.93 degrees Fahrenheit, this metal becomes a solid'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'I think I'll adorn myself with Tova Borgnine's All Over crayons (wonder if she uses them on this guy, her husband)'

Answer: Ernest Borgnine


Question: 'This country celebrates Cinco de Mayo on May 5 & its independence on September 16'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Beg all you want, you can't do this with Siegel & Shim's "Dictionary of Accounting Terms" -- it's a reference book'

Answer: check it out


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Graceland in Memphis)  This person who released their first album in 2003 often napped in the Monkey Chair at Graceland's Jungle Room'

Answer: Lisa Marie Presley


Question: 'Once the highest-paid musician, he dazzled us with costumes & candelabra, as well as his piano playing'

Answer: Liberace


Question: 'The family bible records his first 2 names as David Dwight, not Dwight David'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'Rhytiphobia is the fear of getting these -- botox, anyone?'

Answer: wrinkles


Question: 'On September 7 you can party on down to Rio & celebrate this South American country's independence'

Answer: Brazil


Question: '"Before Taliban" & "Behind the Burqa" are books about this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Elvis' pets at Graceland included these birds of the pheasant family, with spreading tail feathers'

Answer: peacocks


Question: 'He's the pianist who's tickling the ivories in the photo seen here'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'Stephen T. Logan, & later William H. Herndon, were his law partners in Springfield, Illinois'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Melissophobia isn't the fear of Joan Rivers' daughter but the fear of these insects, honey'

Answer: bees


Question: 'This "is the word"; "It's got groove, it's got meaning" & it's got its independence day on March 25'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Shelved not far from his novel "A Farewell to Arms" is a bio of him subtitled "A Life Without Consequences"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Graceland in Memphis)  The initials "TCB" painted here on the tail of Elvis Presley's airplane stand for this'

Answer: "Taking Care of Business"


Question: 'His first proclamation as president was to declare a national day of mourning for John F. Kennedy'

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson


Question: 'You may want to avoid Jay Leno if you have geniophobia, the fear of this body part'

Answer: the chin


Question: 'After the czar was overthrown in 1917, Finland declared its independence from this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In the 1960s Elvis began a tradition of lining his driveway with lights of this color found in an Elvis XMAS song'

Answer: blue


Question: 'As part of his "New Deal", he took American currency off the gold standard in 1933'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Gallophobes fear anything related to this country -- better cancel that film with Gerard Depardieu'

Answer: France


Question: 'The language books are in the 400s in this numerical system used by the library'

Answer: Dewey Decimal System


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  This TV-radio console was a gift to Elvis from this company for the sale of more than 50 million albums'

Answer: RCA


Question: 'Tippi Hedren doesn't suffer from ornithophobia, the fear of these creatures'

Answer: birds


Question: 'In the top films of 2 consecutive years in the 1960s, she played a nanny & a governess'

Answer: Julie Andrews


Question: 'Between 1840 & 1902 all British postage stamps had a picture of her'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'This 9-letter word for a procession of cars is often used to refer to that of the U.S. president'

Answer: a motorcade


Question: '"Enormous Anticipations"'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'Vodka, triple sec & lime juice go into this drink named for a suicide pilot'

Answer: a kamikaze


Question: 'With LeBron in 2009-2010, this team went 61-21; without LBJ the following season, 19-63'

Answer: the Cleveland Cavaliers


Question: 'This Indian wrote, "I have nothing new to teach the world; truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills"'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'In 1847 Ben Franklin was on the front of one of the first U.S. stamps to have this on the back'

Answer: adhesive


Question: 'It's the trademark name for the device used by police to measure a driver's alcohol intake'

Answer: a Breathalyzer


Question: '"Some Story Regarding Multiple Metropolises"'

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Question: 'In a play on a book title, it's the liquor that precedes mockingbird in the name of a cocktail'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'For signing Gail Goodrich, the Jazz ended up conveying the very first pick of the 1979 draft to this team, who got Magic Johnson'

Answer: the Los Angeles Lakers


Question: 'This British scientist born in 1642 said he was only a boy finding pretty shells beside "the great ocean of truth"'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'A 2002 stamp of this this early 20th century performer featured chains that could only be seen with a special lens'

Answer: (Harry) Houdini


Question: 'It's the code of online social behavior'

Answer: netiquette


Question: '"Holiday Song"'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'To make a brantini, stir together brandy, gin & a dash of the dry type of this'

Answer: vermouth


Question: 'In every year but 1 between 1959 & '69, the rest of the NBA was green with envy because this was your NBA championship team'

Answer: the Boston Celtics


Question: 'Salvatore Giunta, the first living recipient of this medal for actions in Afghanistan, calls himself a mediocre soldier'

Answer: the Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: 'In 2007 Portugal issued a stamp made of this stopper material, 1/100 of an inch thick'

Answer: cork


Question: 'It's the smallest element of an image on a computer monitor'

Answer: a pixel


Question: '"An Ancient Odds & Ends Boutique"'

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop


Question: 'For a greyhound, combine 1 1/2 ounces of gin with 5 ounces of this'

Answer: grapefruit juice


Question: 'The website of this team that joined the NBA in 1966 has a section titled "the team that Mike built"'

Answer: the Chicago Bulls


Question: 'The 21st century English version of mass includes "Lord, I am not" this "that you should enter under my roof"'

Answer: worthy


Question: 'Whoops!  The 2010 Forever stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty is actually from a photo of the replica in this city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'This word refers to the visible path in the wake of an aircraft'

Answer: a contrail


Question: '"Tough Days"'

Answer: Hard Times


Question: 'A 7 & 7 cocktail gets its name from these 2 ingredients'

Answer: Seagram\'s 7 & 7 Up


Question: 'Named when "Jurassic Park" was big, it's the only NBA team not based in the United States'

Answer: the Toronto Raptors


Question: 'In 2011 this politician said he didn't deserve the honor of having the Wilmington, Del. train station named after him'

Answer: Joe Biden


Question: 'This island--some 1,200 miles from the west coast of Africa--was used for Napoleon's final exile because of its remoteness'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'The Band:<br />"The Night They Drove ____ ____ Down"'

Answer: Old Dixie


Question: 'Halogen elements produce these compounds, like the "table" kind'

Answer: salts


Question: 'Unsightly mark on internet "Report"er Matt'

Answer: a Drudge smudge


Question: 'The founder of this religion is said to have set forth its doctrine of the "Four Noble Truths"'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue sitting alongside some railroad tracks.)  It can be narrow or standard, but in railroading, this term always refers to the distance between the rails of the track; standard is 56-1/2 inches'

Answer: gauge


Question: 'A language that's a mix of Tahitian & 18th century English is official on this remote island, home to the Bounty mutineers'

Answer: Pitcairn Island


Question: 'James Taylor:<br />"____ In My Mind"'

Answer: Carolina


Question: 'As this halogen, atomic number 17, kills bacteria, it's used to purify drinking & pool water'

Answer: chlorine


Question: 'Wet ground for Wynonna or Ashley'

Answer: Judd mud


Question: 'This "meaty" 17th c. English thinker's "Essays, Civil and Moral" begins with his essay "Of Truth"'

Answer: Francis Bacon


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue from atop a water tank.) Because water is crucial to a steam locomotive, the train would have to stop about every 100 miles or so to take on water from a tank through this device, which has the same name as a bird'

Answer: a crane


Question: 'The name given to these islands when they were annexed by the U.S. in 1867 reflected their position between America & Asia'

Answer: the Midway Islands


Question: 'Johnny Horton:<br />"Battle Of ____ ____"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'It combines with other elements more readily than any other element & reduces tooth decay'

Answer: fluorine


Question: 'Goop on a mallard'

Answer: duck muck


Question: 'In his "Genealogy of Morals", this 19th c. German philosopher wrote that "The will to truth requires a critique"'

Answer: (Friedrich) Nietzsche


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue in front of a train engine.) If you don't have a rail loop line, the best way to get the engine to reverse direction is on one of these; fortunately, Frostburg has one'

Answer: a turntable


Question: 'Though it's over 5,000 miles away, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is officially a department of this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'Patti Page:<br />"____ Waltz"'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'All isotopes of astatine, the heaviest halogen, are this, which is why they have half-lives'

Answer: radioactive


Question: 'The principal splotch that fell on your pristine pants'

Answer: the main stain


Question: 'In "Summa Theologica", he defined truth as "the conformity of the intellect and thing"'

Answer: Thomas Aquinas


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue riding a train on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Around 1900, locomotives got so big, no fireman could keep up with this job, so a mechanical feeder was used, but I prefer to do it the old-fashioned way'

Answer: stoking


Question: 'Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas was the setting for the fourth season of "Survivor" & for this author's "Typee"'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'Stevie Ray Vaughan:<br />"____ Flood"'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'A reddish liquid, this halogen is often used to make sedatives & was once used to make EDB, an additive in lead gasoline'

Answer: bromine


Question: 'The rich clay-laden earth from the "eternal city"'

Answer: Rome loam


Question: 'In "Philosophical Fragments", this 19th c. Great Dane discussed the difference between objective & subjective truth'

Answer: Kierkegaard


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue from aboard a train on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) The engine is working a little harder now because we're going up a 2.8% one of these; you call it a slope or an incline; railroaders call it this'

Answer: a grade


Question: 'The title of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner comes from a Jonathan Swift line about how lesser minds unite to oppose genius'

Answer: A Confederacy of Dunces (by John Kennedy Toole)


Question: 'The Potomac River feeds into this large bay'

Answer: the Chesapeake


Question: 'B.o.B. & Hayley Williams recorded a duet about these "in the night sky like shooting stars"'

Answer: airplanes


Question: 'Steak au poivre is steak that's been covered with coarsely ground this (poivre in French) before cooking'

Answer: pepper


Question: 'The first Monday in September:<br />____ Day'

Answer: Labor


Question: 'The Scottish national war memorial is found in the castle bearing the name of this capital city'

Answer: Edinburgh Castle


Question: 'A recreation area containing seesaws & swings'

Answer: a playground


Question: 'On Aug. 12, 1901 the first auto reached the summit of this "peak" near Colorado Springs, Colorado'

Answer: Pikes Peak


Question: '"Brand New Eyes" is from this band in the "Misery Business"'

Answer: Paramore


Question: 'Meaning "stuffed", it follows "chiles" in the name of a Mexican dish'

Answer: rellenos


Question: 'Bastille Day:<br />____ 14'

Answer: July


Question: 'Neuschwanstein Castle, often described as a magical setting, is found in this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'A game or series of games to decide a championship'

Answer: a playoff


Question: 'This river's delta covers 13,000 square miles, about 1/4 of Louisiana's area'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'This celebrity kid wasn't weeping when she hit the charts with "Whip My Hair"'

Answer: Willow Smith


Question: 'Traditionally, the Greek favorite dolmathes yalantzi are stuffed these leaves'

Answer: grape


Question: 'December 26 to January 1, since 1966:<br />____'

Answer: Kwanzaa


Question: 'Once home to the Knights of the Sword, Riga Castle is today the official residence of the president of this Baltic country'

Answer: Latvia


Question: 'A radio station's music catalog'

Answer: the playlist


Question: 'In 1847 the Michigan legislature chose this city to succeed Detroit as state capital'

Answer: Lansing


Question: 'You may well be cooler than this "Cooler Than Me" hitmaker; he graduated from Duke with a GPA of 3.6'

Answer: Mike Posner


Question: 'Tahini, the "butter of the Middle East", is a paste made from these seeds, an excellent source of iron & calcium'

Answer: sesame seeds


Question: 'November 30, in Scotland:<br />St. ____'s Day'

Answer: Andrew


Question: 'Now a national monument, the Alhambra in this European country was begun by Moorish rulers around 1238'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'No plan--we're just doing this, a phrase that originated with musicians who don't use sheet music'

Answer: play it by ear


Question: 'Vineyard Sound separates Martha's Vineyard from the southernmost part of this cape'

Answer: Cape Cod


Question: 'This Killers frontman slew fans all by himself with his 2010 solo album "Flamingo"'

Answer: (Brandon) Flowers


Question: 'Apple is probably the most famous type of this pastry, whose name is German for "whirlpool"'

Answer: strudel


Question: 'A few days before Easter:<br />Maundy ____'

Answer: Thursday


Question: 'Balmoral Castle is this present monarch's summer home'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II (of Great Britain)


Question: 'The reproduction of a sound after it's been recorded'

Answer: playback


Question: 'The African & Sumatran species of rhino have 2 of these on their heads; the Indian & Javan species have only one'

Answer: horns


Question: 'Not a big stretch--he plays Charlie on "Two and a Half Men"'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'Many Democratic chairmen of these, like Ike Skelton of Armed Services, lost not only their chairs but their seats'

Answer: committees


Question: 'This type of being precedes "Godmother" as well as "Tale"'

Answer: fairy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.)  As the two angles here form a right angle, they're said to be complementary; since one angle measures 58 degrees, you know that the other angle equals this'

Answer: 32 degrees


Question: 'She's first mentioned by name in Genesis 3:20'

Answer: Eve


Question: 'Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, rhinos are the second-largest land animals, second only to these'

Answer: elephants


Question: 'Kaley Cuoco plays Sheldon & Leonard's cute neighbor Penny on this sitcom'

Answer: The Big Bang Theory


Question: 'Last name of newly elected Kentucky Senator Rand; he'll join his dad, Texas Congressman Ron, in Washington'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'You probably have some Y.A. fiction on your bookshelf, Y.A. standing for this'

Answer: young adult


Question: 'A pentadecagon is a polygon with this many sides'

Answer: 15


Question: 'You probably know "Madam, I'm Adam"; what about "Sir, I'm" her?'

Answer: Iris


Question: 'They're the 2 opposite colors used to name the 2 species of African rhinoceros'

Answer: black & white


Question: 'This actor plays Dan Humphrey, one of the not-so-privileged teenagers on "Gossip Girl"'

Answer: Penn Badgley


Question: '83% in Arkansas voted to make the right to do this part of the state Constitution--ducks & elk didn't have a vote'

Answer: hunt


Question: 'Mark Twain said this book of his couldn't be published until 100 years after his death; in 2010 it was a bestseller'

Answer: an autobiography


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.)  In a circle, the diameter is here, the radius here; a straight line joining two points on the circumference is this musical term'

Answer: a chord


Question: 'Completes the palindrome "Lonely" this pain reliever'

Answer: Tylenol


Question: 'With their numbers dropping sharply in recent years, the rhino is on this "list" that tracks animals near extinction'

Answer: the Endangered Species List


Question: 'We learned of the ritual "GTL" (gym, tan, laundry) from this MTV series'

Answer: Jersey Shore


Question: 'This former Hewlett-Packard CEO challenged Barbara Boxer for a California Senate seat--byeCarly'

Answer: Fiorina


Question: 'A short novel; it's Italian for a story or message'

Answer: a novella


Question: 'This figure, a quadrilateral with just 1 pair of parallel sides, shares its name with a wrist bone'

Answer: a trapezoid


Question: '"Did Hannah see" these stinging insects?  "Hannah did"'

Answer: bees


Question: 'A sanctuary for Asian rhinos, the Royal Chitwan National Park is found in this small Himalayan nation'

Answer: Nepal


Question: '"Web Redemptions" are a feature of this Internet-based Comedy Central show hosted by comedian Daniel'

Answer: Tosh.0


Question: 'Elected senator from Florida, this son of Cuban exiles has been called a rising conservative political star'

Answer: (Marco) Rubio


Question: 'This word can mean a short prose narrative as well as a preliminary drawing'

Answer: a sketch


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.)  On the cube here, these two lines aren't parallel, & they don't intersect, so they're said to be this type of line'

Answer: skew


Question: '"Do" these "see God?"'

Answer: geese


Question: 'This area that includes several countries got its name because the colonizers spoke Spanish, French & Portuguese'

Answer: Latin America


Question: 'The international airport in New Delhi bears her name'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'On one of his "Travels", this literary character meets rats the size of lions & wasps as big as birds'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'Catamaran is a term for a boat having twin these'

Answer: hulls


Question: 'One of the most famous festivals in Bangladesh is Id al-Fitr, which comes at the end of this holy month'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'A liquid under pressure released through a nozzle as a spray or foam'

Answer: an aerosol


Question: '(Hi, I'm Curt Schilling.) Randy Johnson & I were co-MVPs of the 2001 World Series, receiving this award named for a great Yankee slugger'

Answer: the Babe Ruth Award


Question: 'Jamsetji Nata, an important businessman of this movie capital, used his wealth to enrich it'

Answer: Bombay


Question: 'Champion of Gath in the First Book of Samuel'

Answer: Goliath


Question: 'The constellation we know as this was known in Southern Asia as Aswins, the twin horse riders of the dawn'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'Mount Jacques-Cartier is a fixture on the Gaspe Peninsula in this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'A recess or nook for something like a bookcase'

Answer: an alcove


Question: 'In 2005 the Angels changed their full name to the Los Angeles Angels of this city'

Answer: Anaheim


Question: 'As the new leader of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri led it into a war with this neighbor in 1965'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Ymir was the first giant & the father of a race of giants in this ancient people's mythology'

Answer: the Norse


Question: 'These twin internal organs are composed of closely packed uriniferous tubules'

Answer: the kidneys


Question: 'The Ubangi River forms part of the northern boundary of this African country that's sometimes shortened to DRC'

Answer: Democratic Republic of Congo


Question: 'To suspend a legal proceeding'

Answer: to adjourn


Question: 'Inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in July 2007, he won 8 N.L. batting titles during his 20-year career as a Padre'

Answer: Tony Gwynn


Question: 'The winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore was born in this former capital in 1861'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'Civil War military leader who lent his name to the world's largest tree by volume, a towering Giant Sequoia'

Answer: (General) Sherman


Question: 'The tallest twin towers in the world, the Petronas Towers are located in this capital of Malaysia'

Answer: Kuala Lumpur


Question: 'A 1958 uprising in Algeria threatened this European nation with civil war'

Answer: France


Question: 'It's the mollusk whose shell is a source of mother-of-pearl'

Answer: abalone


Question: 'In 1962 this Dodger shortstop stole 104 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's 47-year-old record'

Answer: Maury Wills


Question: '"The Father of Modern India", Raja Ram Mohan Roy helped spread democratic ideas & was a member of this highest caste'

Answer: Brahmin


Question: 'A depiction of the giant god Atlas holding up the world appeared on the front of his 16th century book of maps'

Answer: Mercator


Question: 'After the twins are born in this Steinbeck novel, Cathy Trask deserts everyone & returns to life as a prostitute'

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'Fittingly the shape of this kingdom is often compared to an elephant's head; the "trunk" extends into the Malay Peninsula'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'From the Greek for "slope", it's to adjust to a new set of conditions, not just to the weather'

Answer: to acclimate


Question: 'Over the past 75 years, only one pitcher has won more than 30 games in a season--this Tiger in 1968'

Answer: Denny McLain


Question: 'All 5 elements of the salt-producing halogen group end in these 3 letters (one element purifies drinking water)'

Answer: -I-N-E


Question: 'The Righteous Bros.:<br />"Ohhhh, my love, my darling, I've hungered for your ___"'

Answer: touch


Question: 'This country's National Library, the Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, was financed by a tax on sugar'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'The 1924 Pulitzer Prize went to a play with the oxymoronic title "Hell-bent Fer" this place'

Answer: Heaven


Question: 'Oddly, a traditional Christmas pudding contains currants & raisins but not this fruit in its name'

Answer: plum


Question: 'It "seldom knocks twice"'

Answer: opportunity


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew explains her science experiment.)  Chemical reactions of the paper clip's iron & the copper wire in the acid of the lemon juice draw these elementary particles from one wire to the other'

Answer: electrons


Question: 'Tennessee Ernie Ford:<br />"You load ___ ___, what do you get?  Another day older & deeper in debt"'

Answer: 16 tons


Question: 'When it was dedicated in 1991, President George H.W. Bush & 4 former presidents were in attendance'

Answer: the Reagan Library


Question: 'Pulcinella, a Commedia dell'arte character, evolved into his pugilistic puppet of 17th century England'

Answer: Punch


Question: 'The Columbia Encyclopedia calls it "the best known Chinese fruit" (or is it a nut?)'

Answer: litchi


Question: '"There is honor even among" these'

Answer: thieves


Question: 'Hydroscopic substances have a tendency to absorb this from the atmosphere'

Answer: water (or moisture)


Question: 'The Chordettes:<br />"___ ___ bring me a dream, make him the cutest that I've ever seen"'

Answer: Mr. Sandman


Question: 'The Hector Hodler Library in Rotterdam, which is devoted to this artificial language, has over 15,000 books'

Answer: Esperanto


Question: 'The first winners of these didn't get the award we know today: just a scroll & a compact (or a cigarette lighter)'

Answer: the Tony Awards


Question: 'Named for a city in Morocco, it's the most common type of Mandarin orange in the U.S.'

Answer: the tangerine


Question: '"Close only counts in" this backyard game'

Answer: horseshoes


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew spins an egg on a platter.)  Stop an egg while it's spinning, & it will start again, because the liquid inside is still moving, exhibiting this property, a resistance to change in motion'

Answer: inertia


Question: 'The Cascades:<br />"Listen to the rhythm of the ___ ___ telling me just what a fool I've been"'

Answer: falling rain


Question: 'This Shakespeare library is administered by a board of directors under the auspices of Amherst College'

Answer: the Folger Library


Question: 'In 1882 his play "Ghosts" had its world premiere in Chicago, not in Oslo, but it was presented in Norwegian'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'The name of this peach relative comes from the Latin for "early ripe"'

Answer: apricot


Question: '"Marry in haste and" do this "at leisure"'

Answer: repent


Question: 'When the Earth's magnetosphere interacts with this flow of charged particles from the sun, auroras are produced'

Answer: the solar wind


Question: 'Perry Como:<br />"Catch a ___ ___ & put it in your pocket, never let it fade away"'

Answer: falling star


Question: 'The Radcliffe Camera, Britain's first round library, is the main reading room of this bigger library at Oxford'

Answer: the Bodleian Library


Question: '"Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience'

Answer: August Wilson


Question: 'Types of this fruit include comice & seckel'

Answer: pears


Question: 'Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal" in here'

Answer: the human breast


Question: 'This hero is the son of Ecgtheow & the grandson of Hrethel'

Answer: Beowulf


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

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'He's written a slew of "redneck" books, including "You Might Be A Redneck If This is the Biggest Book You've Ever Read"'

Answer: Jeff Foxworthy


Question: 'Holy mackerel! The northern bluefin, the largest species of this fish, may reach a length of 14 feet'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'Proverbially, one of these "a day" keeps the M.D. from your presence'

Answer: an apple


Question: 'Mariacka Street in Gdansk is famous for jewelry from this resinous material'

Answer: amber


Question: 'Slang term for an American infantryman of WWI'

Answer: doughboy


Question: 'Both Continental Congresses met in this city; the first convened on September 5, 1774'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This diet spokesperson tells all in her new book "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time"'

Answer: Valerie Bertinelli


Question: 'Varieties of this ornamental carp include lionhead & comet'

Answer: goldfish


Question: 'This female warrior of myth mainly dealt with men for 1 reason--procreation; use the singular, please'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'You can buy a glass with a coonskin cap logo at the winery of this actor who wore a coonskin cap on TV'

Answer: Fess Parker


Question: 'This blackberry-like fruit is named for the botanist who bred it'

Answer: boysenberry


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

Answer: blood


Question: 'She chronicled her journey through postpartum depression in 2005's "Down Came the Rain"'

Answer: Brooke Shields


Question: 'It's the double talk name for the tropical food fish also known as the dolphinfish'

Answer: mahimahi


Question: 'An ancient Greek wanting to know Zeus' will might consult this in a grove of oak trees in Dodona'

Answer: oracle


Question: 'I know it's really expensive, but I want to try the fender Stevie Ray Vaughan stratocaster one of these'

Answer: electric guitar


Question: 'This word meaning conspicuously dashing & showy comes from the French for "flame"'

Answer: flamboyant


Question: 'After his defeat at Yorktown, this British commander refused to surrender his sword, feigning illness'

Answer: Cornwallis


Question: 'This Oscar winner mader her writing debut with a book for children called "Deaf Child Crossing"'

Answer: Marlee Matlin


Question: 'The most common species of this commercial fish is red; it doesn't turn orange until it's out of the water'

Answer: roughy


Question: 'It precedes arch in St. Louis'

Answer: gateway


Question: 'To buy a piece of the Joan River Classics Collection, tune into this cable network & pick up the phone'

Answer: QVC


Question: 'On a film set, this title is for the first assistant to the head electrician'

Answer: a best boy


Question: 'The first of these 85 essays urging ratification of the Constitution appeared on October 27, 1787 in a NYC newspaper'

Answer: The Federalist Papers


Question: 'This novella by Steve Martin was turned into a 2005 film starring Martin & Claire Danes'

Answer: Shopgirl


Question: 'In England the dogfish species of this sea creature is often used in preparing fish & chips'

Answer: the shark


Question: 'In 2007 President Bush said he'd do this "to the finish...that's one way to ensure that I am relevant"'

Answer: sprint


Question: 'Takashimaya on 5th Avenue is a branch of one of this country's largest department stores'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The audience booed & threw potatoes at the stage when this Synge play was performed in NYC in 1911'

Answer: The Playboy of the Western World


Question: '"Come on, and kiss me, Kate" is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Tim Gunn implores designers to "make it work" on this fashionable show'

Answer: Project Runway


Question: 'The architect of Rome's new auditorium used lots of wood: "Wood is music itself...remember" this violin maker'

Answer: Stradivarius


Question: 'This Poughkeepsie school was the first of the seven sisters to be coeducational'

Answer: Vassar


Question: 'Situated at the far south of the Balkan peninsula, its territory includes more than 1,400 islands'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'War-starting Greek beauty's cantaloupes'

Answer: Helen\'s melons


Question: 'This play's line "murder most foul" has been used as the title of mystery & crime books'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'He & Laila Ali host "American Gladiators"'

Answer: Hulk Hogan


Question: 'In 2008 the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra put on "Tosca" in this hall named for a royal'

Answer: the Royal Albert Hall


Question: 'Senator Paul Wellstone once taught at Carleton College in Northfield in this state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'European country now united under the flag seen here'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Jupiter's aromatic spices'

Answer: Jove\'s cloves


Question: 'He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law's coffin, but she marries him anyway'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Jo Frost is a modern-day Mary Poppins on this ABC show'

Answer: Supernanny


Question: 'The Helsinki Philharmonic's hall shares its name with this Sibelius tone poem'

Answer: Finlandia


Question: 'Despite its name, it's located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts & it's actually a university'

Answer: Boston College


Question: 'It gained its independence in 1966 & today has a long-running territorial dispute with its neighbor Suriname'

Answer: Guyana


Question: 'Falcon-headed Egyptian God's repeated song refrains'

Answer: Horus\' choruses


Question: 'In "King John", King John's first words to her are "Silence, good mother; hear the embassy"'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: 'Contestants are hooked up to a polygraph & asked increasingly personal questions on this Fox show'

Answer: The Moment of Truth


Question: 'It's not just sports teams: the famed orchestra of Stokowski & Ormandy now plays in this city's Verizon Hall'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: '"The Dome" is the yearbook of this university near South Bend, Indiana'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'Located at the crossroads of Europe & Asia, Tbilisi is its capital'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Rainbow goddess' disease-spreading particles'

Answer: Iris\' viruses


Question: 'In "Macbeth", these 3 words immediately precede the line "and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"'

Answer: "Lay on, Macduff"


Question: '(Hey, I'm Mark McGrath.)  In 2007 I hosted the CW reality show that was searching for a new member for this all-girl pop group'

Answer: the Pussycat Dolls


Question: 'On CD you can go back to Carnegie Hall April 4, 1954 for this Italian maestro's last concert'

Answer: (Arturo) Toscanini


Question: 'You'll find the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Museum at this university in Baltimore'

Answer: Johns Hopkins


Question: 'Sighted by Columbus in 1498, this island is the world's second-largest producer of nutmeg'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'Norse underworld goddess' hollow metal ringers'

Answer: Hel\'s bells


Question: 'In 1958 he wrote, "Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires was the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost"'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: 'He created Mike Hammer & played the part in the 1963 film "The Girl Hunters"'

Answer: Mickey Spillane


Question: 'You can breathe easy, your right one of these has 3 lobes, the left, 2'

Answer: Lungs


Question: 'When driving through South Bend in this state, you can visit the Studebaker National Museum'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Punjabi basmati is a white, long-grained type of this'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'This ABBA title teen can "feel the beat from the tambourine"'

Answer: "Dancing Queen"


Question: '"Precipitation Guy"'

Answer: Rain Man


Question: 'In this Wilkie Collins novel, Sergeant Cuff searches for the missing title diamond'

Answer: "The Moonstone"


Question: 'It's the hinge-like joint that allows the foot to move up & down'

Answer: Ankle


Question: 'When you care enough to visit the very best, stop by this company's visitors center & museum in Kansas City'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'It's the Neapolitan pasta that Jefferson "elbowed" onto the White House dinner table'

Answer: Macaroni


Question: '"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line, honey I'm still free..." do this'

Answer: "Take a Chance on Me"


Question: '"Currency Vocalizes"'

Answer: Money Talks


Question: 'Title occupation of Caleb Carr's Dr. Laszlo Kreizler'

Answer: "The Alienist"


Question: 'You have 8 of these teeth, some of which may be buck'

Answer: Incisors


Question: 'This Confederate train stolen during the Civil War is housed at Georgia's Big Shanty Museum'

Answer: The General


Question: 'Types of these in Switzerland include Sbrinz, Tilsit & Appenzeller'

Answer: Cheese


Question: 'This 1994 film about 2 drag queens & a transsexual featured the music of ABBA'

Answer: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert


Question: '"Sans Shut Eye While Inhabiting a City on Puget Sound"'

Answer: Sleepless in Seattle


Question: 'Her 1996 novel "The Keys to the Street" centers on young Mary Jago, not chief inspector Wexford'

Answer: Ruth Rendell


Question: 'This pair of tissue masses that can cause snoring lies above the tonsils in the nasal passage'

Answer: Adenoids


Question: 'The Buffalo Bill Museum in this small Wyoming city also displays some of Annie Oakley's possessions'

Answer: Cody


Question: 'To make daal, a split pea curry of India, you can use 1/4 cup oil or this Indian clarified butter'

Answer: Ghee


Question: 'Agnetha & Anni-Frid are the A's, & they are the B's in the group's name'

Answer: Benny & Bjorn


Question: '"Azure Aloha State"'

Answer: Blue Hawaii


Question: 'Michael Harrison wrote stories featuring this sleuth created by Edgar Allan Poe'

Answer: C. Auguste Dupin


Question: 'The elastic type of this connective tissue is found in the outer part of your ear'

Answer: Cartilage


Question: 'Elie Wiesel helped light an eternal flame at the 1993 dedication of this Washington, D.C. museum'

Answer: The Holocaust Museum


Question: 'It's the part of the female cod that's smoked & made into the Greek paste taramasalata'

Answer: Roe


Question: 'Title of the ABBA hit heard here, it was one of their last:'

Answer: "The Winner Takes It All"


Question: '"Conflagration in a Descending Direction Underneath"'

Answer: Fire Down Below


Question: 'This city's Peace Tower houses a memorial chamber commemorating Canada's war dead'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'If we don't watch our "L", a warning for this might be slapped on our show'

Answer: Language


Question: 'From Latin for "put an end to", it's the term for reformers like Wm. L. Garrison who wanted to end slavery'

Answer: Abolitionists


Question: 'When this PBS science series debuted on March 3, 1974 it was new; 24 years later, it's still "new"'

Answer: Nova


Question: 'Short masculine nickname that's also a woman's short hair style'

Answer: Bob


Question: 'She won the silver medal in ladies' figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics'

Answer: Michelle Kwan


Question: 'The bear is the heraldic symbol of this Swiss capital'

Answer: Bern


Question: '"Jeopardy!" proudly sports this rating'

Answer: TVG


Question: 'Thoroughly restored for its 100th birthday in 1986, on July 3 that year, its torch was relit'

Answer: Statue of Liberty


Question: 'A compact laptop computer'

Answer: Notebook


Question: 'Cosmetic overapplied in the photo seen here:'

Answer: Blue eye shadow


Question: 'Michelle Kline got a kidney transplant from her brother 19 months before competing in this pageant'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'The name of this Belarusian capital comes from the Russian for "exchange"'

Answer: Minsk


Question: 'The most restrictive of the ratings, it's not just for mothers'

Answer: TVMA (Mature Audiences only)


Question: 'In March 1974 it was announced that the wreck of this Union ironclad had been found off Cape Hatteras, N.C.'

Answer: Monitor


Question: 'Cases of pellagra began declining in the 1940s when breads & cereals began to be fortified with this vitamin'

Answer: Niacin


Question: '"Because I'm Worth It" is a slogan of this line of cosmetics from Paris'

Answer: L\'Oreal


Question: 'Michelle Forbes played chief medical examiner Julianna Cox on this NBC cop show set in Baltimore'

Answer: Homicide: Life on the Street


Question: 'St. Stephen lent a hand, his mummified right hand, to St. Stephen's Basilica in this capital'

Answer: Budapest


Question: '"Red Shoe Diaries" usually contains these situations, as indicated by the S'

Answer: Sexual situations


Question: 'In 10 minutes, this May 31, 1889 disaster destroyed a town & killed over 2,200 people'

Answer: The Johnstown Flood


Question: 'The name of this Arctic tusked whale may be Norwegian for "whale corpse", due to its whitish color'

Answer: Narwhal


Question: 'A cosmetic used as a base for makeup; perhaps the Ford Modeling Agency has its own brand'

Answer: Foundation


Question: 'In addition to singing, she co-wrote some of the songs for The Mamas & The Papas'

Answer: Michelle Phillips


Question: 'The Greeks call this capital Levkosia; the Turks call it Lefkosa; we call it this'

Answer: Nicosia


Question: 'V is for violence; FV stands for this'

Answer: Fantasy Violence


Question: 'In September 1847 this general led the American troops that captured Mexico City'

Answer: Winfield Scott


Question: 'This RCA trademark dog, seen here, was originally the symbol of the Gramophone Company:'

Answer: Nipper


Question: 'From Latin for "to soften", this word is found in many skin care product ads'

Answer: Emollient


Question: 'Michelle Trachtenberg plays the title snoop in this 1996 film based on Louise Fitzhugh's book'

Answer: Harriet the Spy


Question: '28 years apart, they are the year the Berlin Wall was created & the year it was torn down'

Answer: 1961 & 1989


Question: 'A familiar line from Matthew says, "What... God hath joined together, let not man" do this'

Answer: put asunder


Question: 'Co-captains of the 1992 Olympic basketball "Dream Team" were Magic Johnson & this Celtics star'

Answer: Larry Bird


Question: 'Like Monterey Jack, Sonoma Jack cheese originated in this U.S. state'

Answer: California


Question: 'During his 1st term, Cleveland used this power over 400 times, more than all his predecessors combined'

Answer: the veto


Question: 'The French equivalent of mr., it's abbreviated just m.'

Answer: monsieur


Question: 'One who attends a queen or a princess'

Answer: a lady-in-waiting


Question: 'In 1 Kings 3:12 God said to him, "I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'This NFL team's logo features a pirate with a dagger in his mouth'

Answer: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers


Question: 'New Englanders know that these vegetables put the red in red flannel hash'

Answer: beets


Question: 'On Oct. 28, 1886 Cleveland presided over its dedication in New York Harbor'

Answer: the Statue of Liberty


Question: 'Title shared by a large moth or the largest penguin'

Answer: emperor


Question: 'The earliest account of her ride through Coventry comes from Roger of Wendover in the 13th c.'

Answer: Lady Godiva


Question: 'He admitted in Luke 23:14 that "I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man..."'

Answer: (Pontius) Pilate


Question: 'With a capacity of just 38,756, this Chicago Cubs stadium is the smallest in the National League'

Answer: Wrigley Field


Question: 'A favorite in the South, ambrosia is a dessert made with sliced oranges & this shredded tropical fruit'

Answer: coconut


Question: 'During this war, Cleveland avoided service by hiring a substitute'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'After taking Venice, Napoleon abolished this title of the ruler of the city'

Answer: the doge


Question: 'These beetles feed chiefly on aphids & other small insects'

Answer: ladybugs


Question: 'Apostle who in 1 Timothy wrote, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief"'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'From 1927 to 1945, this World War I flying ace owned the Indianapolis Speedway'

Answer: Rickenbacker


Question: 'Rhyming name of the cuisine that combines the flavors of our 28th state & its neighbor to the south'

Answer: Tex-Mex


Question: 'It was Cleveland's first name; Grover was his middle name'

Answer: Stephen


Question: 'Arabic's amir-al-bahr, or commander of the sea, became this English title'

Answer: admiral


Question: 'This cocktail made with gin, grenadine & egg whites is shaken & strained before serving'

Answer: a pink lady


Question: 'In his sorrow this Old Testament figure said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away"'

Answer: Job


Question: 'On July 4, 1919 this boxer from Manassa, Colo. defeated Jess Willard to win the world heavyweight title'

Answer: (Jack) Dempsey (the "Manassa Mauler")


Question: 'Craig Claiborne's recipe for Kentucky Burgoo calls for the 100-proof type of this liquor'

Answer: bourbon


Question: 'From an Indian term, Republicans who abandoned their party in 1884 to vote for Cleveland were called this'

Answer: Mugwumps


Question: 'A member of a state university board, or a person who substitutes for a king'

Answer: a regent


Question: 'The title character of this 1964 Jan & Dean hit was "the terror of Colorado Boulevard"'

Answer: the Little Old Lady from Pasadena


Question: 'Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of this country twice, in 1925 & 1932'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The gravity type of this structure, like the Grand Coulee, uses its own weight to withstand the water pressure'

Answer: a dam


Question: 'c. 1490 he found that the span of a man's arms equals his height & drew a picture showing it'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'Cape May, at the end of the Garden State Parkway in this state, is the USA's oldest seashore resort'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Notified of this rival's death in March 1993, Dr. Jonas Salk called it "a great loss"'

Answer: Sabin


Question: 'Sheila Burnford wrote about 2 dogs & one of these animals on an "Incredible Journey"'

Answer: a cat


Question: 'Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, "England expects that every man will do his duty"'

Answer: Nelson


Question: 'This military corps' projects have included the St. Lawrence Seaway & the Manhattan Project'

Answer: the Army Corps of Engineers


Question: 'Term for the decoration of Medieval manuscripts with fancy initials, patterns & borders'

Answer: illumination