Question: '"Oh we're going to" join the villagers in this form of net-fishing where "all the ama-ama come a-swimming to me"'

Answer: Hukilau


Question: 'This character became the heroine of the dramatic ballet "The Moor's Pavane"'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'Holden Caulfield is the narrator of this novel'

Answer: "Catcher in the Rye"


Question:
'Shoelaces,
tongues,
scores'

Answer: Things that are tied


Question: 'Evidence from Israel shows c. 10,000 B.C. these were the first animals to be domesticated'

Answer: Dogs


Question: 'On the "Tonight Show", it was McMahon's standard introduction for Carson'

Answer: "Here\'s Johnny!"


Question: 'In 1969 Al-Fatah leader Yasir Arafat became chairman of this group'

Answer: PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)


Question: 'If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these'

Answer: Love letter


Question: 'He followed "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" with "The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents"'

Answer: Deepak Chopra


Question:
'Wine,
a ship,
Croce's time'

Answer: Things in bottles


Question: 'With wood scarce, early man in the Ukraine 15,000 years ago built huts out of this animal's giant bones & tusks'

Answer: Mammoth


Question: 'He was Joey Bishop's sidekick long before he teamed up with Kathie Lee'

Answer: Regis Philbin


Question: 'It was founded in 1888 "for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge"'

Answer: National Geographic Society


Question: 'C-H-O-W is food; pronounced the same but spelled this way, it's Italian for "goodbye"'

Answer: C-I-A-O


Question: '2 from this romance publisher are "The Amorous Heiress" & "The Madcap Heiress"'

Answer: Harlequin


Question:
'Snowballs,
suitcases,
mules'

Answer: Things that are packed


Question: '42,000 years ago ocher was mined to be ground into a powder for this'

Answer: Paint


Question: 'Once partnered with Tommy Chong, he now works with Don Johnson on "Nash Bridges"'

Answer: Cheech Marin


Question: 'Organization whose symbol is seen here:<br />(lighted candle wrapped in barbed wire)'

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: 'An off-the-cuff speech is made this way, from a 2-word Latin phrase that literally means "out of the time"'

Answer: Extemperaneously


Question: 'This character is the young man in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"'

Answer: Stephen Dedalus


Question:
'Gear,
chatter,
Pandora's'

Answer: Boxes


Question: 'This animal resembling today's Przewalski's was a source of meat in Europe 30,000 years ago'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'He got first billing even though he played second banana to wife Gracie Allen'

Answer: George Burns


Question: 'The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1912 at the suggestion of this president'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'It's the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew shalom'

Answer: Salaam


Question: 'Billie Letts' "Where the Heart Is" opens with Novalee Nation stranded in Oklahoma at this discount store'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question:
'Months,
eggs,
dirty title film commandos'

Answer: Things that come in a dozen


Question: 'Around 11,000 B.C. people in Greece sailed over 70 miles to Melos to get this volcanic glass for tools'

Answer: Obsidian


Question: 'Mel Brooks & this second banana won a Spoken Comedy Grammy in 1999 for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000"'

Answer: Carl Reiner


Question: 'Mae West & this co-star each wrote their own dialogue for "My Little Chickadee"'

Answer: W.C. Fields


Question: 'This cross-country skiing simulator wasn't invented in Scandinavia; it's from Minnesota'

Answer: NordicTrack


Question: 'You'll find the California cities of San Jose & Santa Clara in the valley nicknamed this'

Answer: Silicon Valley


Question: 'Kung fu uses colored sashes rather than belts to indicate this'

Answer: Level/rank


Question: '1880s moms dressed their sons in velvet suits & curls in imitation of this "Little Lord" of literature'

Answer: Fauntleroy


Question: 'Mae turned down the part of faded movie star Norma Desmond in this 1950 film'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'In 1986 DuPont introduced these that were certified Stainmaster'

Answer: Carpets


Question: 'Seti I's tomb was discovered in this valley in 1817'

Answer: Valley of the Kings


Question: 'A major style of kung fu is named for this contemplative insect'

Answer: Praying mantis


Question: 'The gold coin known as the florin was originally produced in this city in 1252'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'In the dictionary you'll find Mae West as a nickname for an inflatable one of these'

Answer: Lifejacket/lifevest


Question: 'This luggage-maker, now owned by Samsonite, was founded in the 1930s as American Luggage Works'

Answer: American Tourister


Question: 'The 18 survivors out of a party of 30 who made a trek through this valley in 1849 gave it its name'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'It's said Bodhidharma taught kung fu to these men at China's Shaolin Temple'

Answer: Buddhist monks/priests


Question: '(Hi, I'm Robert Smith, running back for the Minnesota Vikings)  In the 1997 season, I set a team record of 352 consecutive carries without one of these'

Answer: Fumble


Question: 'Tom Selleck was one of Mae's "studs" in this 1970 then X-rated film'

Answer: Myra Breckenridge


Question: 'Berkeley Plantation was the birthplace of this U.S. president whose grandson was president, too'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'Brother began by making sewing machines; it made its first portable one of these in 1961'

Answer: Typewriter


Question: 'The Trossachs, a wooded valley in Scotland, is featured in this author's "Rob Roy" & "Lady of the Lake"'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'It's the slow exercise form of kung fu described here:'

Answer: Tai chi


Question: 'Looking for linseed oil?  You'll find it in the seeds of this plant'

Answer: Flax


Question: '3-letter title of the 1926 Broadway play Mae wrote, produced, directed & served 10 days in jail for'

Answer: "Sex"


Question: 'This Virginia-born chief justice presided over the treason trial of Aaron Burr'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'In 1986 its Deskpro used the new 80386 Intel chip'

Answer: Compaq


Question: 'Only a few of the Fumaroles in this state's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes discovered in 1916 are still fuming'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'The philosophy of Shaolin kung fu combines Buddhism with this system taught by Lao-tzu'

Answer: Taoism


Question: 'This Socialist society was named for Roman general Fabius Cunctator, not for singer Forte'

Answer: Fabian Society


Question: '2 of the 4 20th century U.S. presidents after whom streets in Paris are named'

Answer: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt &/or Wilson


Question:
'"Three Musicians",
"Guitar, Sheet Music & Wine Glass",
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"'

Answer: (Pablo) Picasso


Question: 'This L.A. arena is home court for 3 basketball teams & home ice to the L.A. Kings'

Answer: the Staples Center


Question: 'This Jersey gal was acting on "All My Children" when she was chosen as Regis Philbin's co-host'

Answer: (Kelly) Ripa


Question: 'We got the word bock (as in beer) from this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'His first screen test brought the verdict "Can't act.  Slightly bald.  Can dance a little"'

Answer: Fred Astaire


Question: 'Tyco executives were eventually convicted after a judge declared the first trial this faulty type of "trial"'

Answer: a mistrial


Question:
'"Portrait of Pere Tanguy",
"Potato Eaters",
"Night Cafe"'

Answer: (Vincent) van Gogh


Question: 'The name of this city's Soldier Field, opened in 1924, is in memory of those who fought in WWI'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This illusionist really did take his name from a Dickens character'

Answer: (David) Copperfield


Question: 'Bandha, or "tie", is a yoga method to lock in one's breath & also gave us this word for an accessory we tie & wear'

Answer: a bandana


Question: 'In 1754 at Fort Necessity, his first major military command brought the one surrender of his career--& to the French!'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'A thorn in Pres. Mubarak's side, Saad Eddin Ibrahim was cleared of defaming this country on retrial in 2003'

Answer: Egypt


Question:
'"Danae",
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp",
"The Night Watch"'

Answer: Rembrandt (van Rijn)


Question: 'Check out El Birdos Cantina at this St. Louis ballpark'

Answer: Busch Stadium


Question: 'He was an expert on wasps before becoming an expert on sexual behavior & issuing his famous "Report"'

Answer: (Alfred) Kinsey


Question: 'The name of this plumlike tree fruit is related to the Cree word pasiminan, meaning "dried fruit"'

Answer: the persimmon


Question: 'He immortalized Donna Johnson, who refused to marry him, as the red-haired girl Charlie Brown adores'

Answer: Charles Schulz


Question: 'In 1895 an English jury reached no verdict on this playwright's morals; he was retried just 3 weeks later'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question:
'"Bicycle Wheel",
"Fountain",
"Nude Descending a Staircase"'

Answer: Marcel Duchamp


Question: 'It's home to the Minnesota Vikings & to the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers'

Answer: the Metrodome


Question: 'If you know that this '50s beat poet hailed from Jersey, just "Howl"'

Answer: (Allen) Ginsberg


Question: 'A Middle English word for a fishhook gives us this word for the peaceful practice of hook-&-line fishing'

Answer: angling


Question: 'In story, a beaten Robert the Bruce was inspired to keep fighting by seeing this creature weaving persistently'

Answer: a spider


Question: 'In 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment's ban on this practice is binding on states'

Answer: double jeopardy


Question:
'"Family of Charles IV",
"Saturn Devouring One of His Children",
"The Naked Maja"'

Answer: (Francisco) Goya


Question: 'The Super Bowl with the highest TV rating was No. XVI in 1982, held in this Michigan stadium'

Answer: the Silverdome


Question: 'The depression photographer born in N.J. as Dorothea Nutzhorn is better known as Dorothea this'

Answer: Lange


Question: 'This fabric is named for a Belgian town, & a bag (now usually canvas) is named for it'

Answer: duffel


Question: 'In 1962 his idea of putting big stores in small towns got zero response from the Ben Franklin retail chain'

Answer: Sam Walton


Question: 'In the 1930s, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of these "Boys", Alabama went ahead and retried them, one by one'

Answer: the Scottsboro Boys


Question: 'About 2/3 of the water in the Nile comes from this river, not the White Nile'

Answer: the Blue Nile


Question:
'1964:
"Supercalifragilis-
ticexpialidocious"'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: '"A Station in the Delta", "Gardens of Stone" & "In Country" tell tales of this war'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Sir Thomas Browne communed with this by calling it "the art of God"'

Answer: nature


Question: 'The Great Nebula in this constellation lies in the middle of a hunter's sword'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'Partly from a word for an endurance test, it's a broadcast that's an appeal for charitable donations'

Answer: a telethon


Question: 'At the 2 cities named Kansas City, this "stately" river meets the Kansas River'

Answer: Missouri


Question: '1968:<br />"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"'

Answer: 2001


Question: 'Jeff Shaara's "Gone for Soldiers" chronicles the 1846-48 U.S. war with this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Animator Chuck Jones quotes Mark Twain on this: "a long... sorry-looking skeleton with a gray wolf-skin"'

Answer: coyote


Question: 'In 1934 a star in the constellation named for this legendary strongman was seen going nova'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'This San Francisco hill is named for the semaphore installed at its crest in 1850'

Answer: Telegraph Hill


Question: 'The Atlantic Ocean began to form during this period of the Mesozoic Era when dinosaurs roamed'

Answer: the Jurassic Period (the Jurassic Era accepted)


Question: '1938 (full title!):<br />"Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!"'

Answer: The Adventures of Robin Hood


Question: 'Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is an epic of the wars named for this man'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'As stated by Samuel Johnson & quoted by Bob Dylan, this is the last refuge of a scoundrel'

Answer: patriotism


Question: 'Doggone!  This star has a diameter 1.7 times that of the sun & gives off 23 times as much light'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'Things that are at a distance appear closer when you use this type of camera lens'

Answer: telephoto


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.)  The people who built these structures in Arizona are known to us as Salado, the Spanish word for this nearby river'

Answer: Salt


Question: '1956:<br />"They're here already!  You're next!  You're next!"'

Answer: Invasion of the Body Snatchers


Question: 'This Shelby Foote novel about a Tennessee battle could also have been called "Pittsburg Landing"'

Answer: Shiloh


Question: 'H.L. Mencken called this bay "an immense protein factory"'

Answer: Chesapeake Bay


Question: 'This zodiac constellation is dominated by 2 stars; however, one is actually a complex system of at least 6 stars'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'I have to work at a studio, so I can't be this type of worker linked electronically to his office from his home'

Answer: a telecommuter


Question: 'The Red Sea, you see, is considered an arm of this sea'

Answer: the Arabian Sea


Question: '1939:<br />"My friends just call me Ringo--nickname I had as a kid"'

Answer: Stagecoach


Question: 'Jack DuArte's "The Resistance" tells of French efforts to keep Louvre artwork from this No. 2 Nazi & Luftwaffe chief'

Answer: Göring


Question: 'Historian Daniel Boorstin defined this word as "a person who is well-known for his well-knownness"'

Answer: a celebrity


Question: 'Alpheratz, the brightest star in this constellation named for Perseus' wife, completes the Square of Pegasus'

Answer: Andromeda


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew draws on a weather map on a screen.)  One of the few Individual Engineering Emmy Awards went to Leonard Reiffel who invented this technology in the 1960s'

Answer: a telestrator


Question: 'Rhyming names of the 2 places where FDR & Winston Churchill met up in February 1945'

Answer: Malta & Yalta


Question: 'She's the only breeding female in the hive'

Answer: the queen bee


Question: '"Born to Run",<br />"Born in the U.S.A."'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'In 1995 Greg Kinnear became a movie star in "Sabrina" & left this E! series about chat shows'

Answer: Talk Soup


Question: 'It lies between the tee & the green'

Answer: the fairway


Question: 'In 1985 Richard Miller became the first FBI agent to go on trial for this'

Answer: espionage (or spying)


Question: 'In 1998 the Vatican banned this Hawaiian dance from church during mass, then re-allowed it'

Answer: hula


Question: '"Colorful" radio & TV hero whose theme was Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"'

Answer: The Green Hornet


Question: '"Honky Chateau",<br />"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"'

Answer: Elton John


Question:
'E!'s "Mysteries & Scandals" show about this martial arts star featured the intro seen here:

"Mystery... Rumors... You've come to the right place!  Stay tuned for the tale of 'The Little Dragon'..."'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'The one seen here holds water, but one may also hold information as well'

Answer: Font


Question: 'Janet Reno was made U.S. Attorney General during the 1993 FBI-Branch Davidian standoff near this city'

Answer: Waco


Question: 'Pop singer Hoku is the daughter of this man, Hawaii's best-known entertainer'

Answer: Don Ho


Question: 'In the digestive tract, some bees turn this flower product into honey'

Answer: nectar


Question: '"Rebel Yell",<br />"Whiplash Smile"'

Answer: Billy Idol


Question: 'E!'s show on "Celebrity Homes" has visited the Hollywood Hills nest of this actor who played Danny Partridge'

Answer: Danny Bonaduce


Question: 'It's the name of an ancient Roman safety pin, as well as a bone in your leg'

Answer: the fibula


Question: 'In the 1960s the FBI sent infiltrators into this militant black organization founded by Newton & Seale'

Answer: the Black Panthers


Question: 'A special type of this, made from tubular cigar flowers, is presented to bridegrooms'

Answer: a lei


Question: 'This tallow-like substance extruded by bees is collected & used to make candles'

Answer: beeswax


Question: '"Tea for the Tillerman",<br />"Teaser and the Firecat"'

Answer: Cat Stevens


Question: 'This former "Celebrity Jeopardy!" contestant, seen here, is a sidekick on a late night E! show'

Answer: Robin Quivers (sidekick of Howard Stern)


Question: 'Just change a vowel in his last name & this famous shrink becomes a charlatan'

Answer: Sigmund Freud (becomes fraud)


Question: 'The famous 1980 FBI sting dubbed this was just too sheikh for the room'

Answer: Abscam


Question: 'The name of this area seen here means "spouting water", not "place of pale people with cameras"'

Answer: Waikiki


Question: 'From the bee's point of view, it's the deadly true name of the creature seen here'

Answer: a bee eater


Question: '"American Fool",<br />"Scarecrow"'

Answer: John Cougar Mellencamp


Question: 'Part of E!'s "Wild On" series, "Wild on the Mayan Riviera" featured a bikini contest on this peninsula'

Answer: the Yucatan Peninsula


Question: 'One may be electric or alluvial; that's cool'

Answer: a fan


Question: 'Agents-to-be undergo 15 weeks of training at the FBI Academy in this Virginia city'

Answer: Quantico


Question: 'Before the pineapple industry, the need for workers of this crop made Hawaii a melting pot'

Answer: sugar cane


Question: 'In 1985 he & Frederick Loewe were honored at the Kennedy Center for their musicals'

Answer: Alan Jay Lerner


Question: 'The oldest continuously operating airline, KLM began service between this city & London May 17, 1920'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'On an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes", this first lady advised "Just say no!" if someone offers you drugs'

Answer: Nancy Reagan


Question: 'Peas were a favorite of this president who grew them at Monticello'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Bond's briefcase in "From Russia with Love" came with a knife, ammo & a canister of this'

Answer: tear gas


Question: 'A difficult task is described as "a long" one of these "to hoe"'

Answer: Row


Question: 'This 18th C. Chief Justice of New York & of the U.S. spent the last 28 years of his life in retirement'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'In 1934 KLM switched from Dutch Fokker planes to the DC-2 of this company that later teamed with McDonnell'

Answer: Douglas


Question: 'Above all else, do not ever wear white shoes after this holiday'

Answer: Labor Day


Question: '"The Princess and the Pea" is one of this 19th century Dane's famous tales'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'To go over it again, it's a formal military inspection'

Answer: Review


Question: 'His '80s novels include "Bright Lights, Big City" & "Ransom"'

Answer: Jay McInerney


Question: 'The right to the name "Royal Dutch Airlines" was granted in 1919 by this queen'

Answer: Wilhelmina


Question: 'It's what the initials DNR stand for on a medical chart'

Answer: Do Not Resuscitate


Question: 'He began monk-ing around with garden peas in 1856'

Answer: Gregor Mendel


Question: 'Eddie Murphy was this in the title of a 1987 film'

Answer: Raw


Question: '1869's "Black Friday" wasn't so black for James Fisk & this man as they cornered the gold market'

Answer: Jason "Jay" Gould


Question: 'In world business class, you'll receive the item seen here in this ceramic style, filled with gin'

Answer: Delft


Question: 'It was the number of the U.S. Constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol'

Answer: 18


Question: 'Mange-tout, the French name for these peas, means "eat it all", because the pods are eaten as well'

Answer: Snow peas


Question: 'In "Licence to Kill" Bond had a Polaroid that shot laser beams & took this kind of photos'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'Salmo gairdnerii is this type of trout'

Answer: Rainbow


Question: 'In books like "The Panda's Thumb", he developed the evolutionary theory of "punctuated equilibrium"'

Answer: Stephen Jay Gould


Question: 'KLM has a "One Ticket to the World" alliance with this airline that has hubs at Rome & Milan'

Answer: Alitalia


Question: 'Women must wear the head-to-toe burqa & are banned from work & education under this regime that rules Afghanistan'

Answer: Taliban


Question: '1 of the top 2 states in growing dry peas; they're cultivated in the Palouse Hills'

Answer: Idaho & Washington


Question: 'In "GoldenEye" Bond's belt shot out a rappeling cord; in "The World Is Not Enough", this accessory did it'

Answer: his watch


Question: 'This sprite is also known as Puck'

Answer: Robin Goodfellow


Question: 'As part of the U.S. Treaty Negotiation Team, this future VP under Madison knew where to "draw the lines"'

Answer: Elbridge Gerry


Question: 'In October 1723 Franklin arrived in this city that would be his home base for the rest of his life'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question:
'Frame,
pedals,
handlebars'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'Tucson, the second-largest city in this state, is about 100 miles south of its largest city, Phoenix'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'In this game, an entry sport to baseball, the batter hits the ball that rests atop a tube'

Answer: T-ball


Question: 'Have your mom cut your carrots into these for your lunchbox & you can play a "pick up" game with them'

Answer: sticks


Question: 'Father'

Answer: dad


Question: 'Ben Franklin, on top of things as always, suggested this seasonal clock change system back in 1784'

Answer: daylight savings time


Question:
'End zones,
50-yard line,
goalposts'

Answer: a football field


Question: 'The South Side of this city is where the White Sox call home'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew strolls down the lane at the Nat'l Bowling Stadium in Reno, NV--& screws up.) Oops--in bowling, it's the one place you don't wanna throw your ball'

Answer: the gutter


Question: 'A man named Mel Blanc crunched carrots while providing the voice of this carrot-loving rabbit'

Answer: Bugs Bunny


Question: 'A feat or exploit; usually a praiseworthy act'

Answer: a deed


Question: 'In 1744 Franklin was really cookin' when he invented a cast-iron one of these that you could install in your fireplace'

Answer: a stove


Question:
'Operating system,
central processing unit,
mouse'

Answer: a computer


Question: 'The region of Calabria occupies the "toe" of this nation; Apulia, the "heel" (& Tuscany, the thigh)'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'It's the sport played professionally by Andre Agassi'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'In February 1999 people in Bethel, Maine made one 113 feet tall with an 8-foot-long "carrot" nose'

Answer: a snowman


Question: 'This term refers to a bomb or explosive that fails to detonate'

Answer: dud


Question: 'Joseph Priestley was so "charged" after meeting Ben, he wrote "The History and Present State of" this phenomenon'

Answer: electricity


Question: 'Clothes basket, temperature selector, agitator'

Answer: the washing machine


Question: 'Wallabies & wombats abound in the state called "South" this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'What the Europeans call association football, we call this'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'This popular dessert is usually topped with a cream cheese frosting'

Answer: carrot cake


Question: '"Wiener Dogs on Parade", featuring this breed, is a part of Ashland, Oregon's annual 4th of July parade'

Answer: a dachshund


Question:
'Cylinders,
crankshaft,
pistons'

Answer: a car engine


Question: 'Oslo is in the south of this country whose north is above the Arctic circle'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'In golf it's the proper word to yell when your ball is headed toward another player'

Answer: fore


Question: 'Carrots go into one version of this side dish, shredded cabbage & a mayonnaise-based sauce'

Answer: cole slaw


Question: 'This shepherd's name appears more than 1,000 times in the Old & New Testaments'

Answer: David


Question: 'He's "You-know-who", the evil wizard, "He-who-must-not-be-named" in the Harry Potter books'

Answer: Lord Voldemort


Question: 'It's the board game in which you could be ordered to "Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200"'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'Ratified in 1971, the 26th amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to this'

Answer: 18


Question: 'First off, maybe you & Mom should get a comfortable pair of sneakers from the "Kids" & "Lady" divisions of this store'

Answer: Foot Locker


Question: 'After moving to Spain in 1485 he used Colon, the Spanish version of his name'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'The word hankie is short for this; now wipe your nose'

Answer: handkerchief


Question: 'A favorite of early readers, he's the beloved oversized pet seen here'

Answer: Clifford (the Big Red Dog)


Question: 'It's the popular game invented in 1948, and what do you mean "Trebek" isn't allowed?'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'With 53 congressmen, this state has more representatives in the house than any other'

Answer: California


Question: 'For lunch, drop by the Rainforest Cafe or grab a Whopper from this fast food chain'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'In May 1953 Edmund Hillary was on top of the world, or at least on top of this highest mountain'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'Rearrange the letters in adobe to come up with this word for a home'

Answer: abode


Question: 'With a little imagination & his purple crayon, he can go anywhere: the circus, even outer space'

Answer: Harold


Question: 'In this "Checkers" game, the board is a 6-pointed star, & every player starts with 10 marbles'

Answer: Chinese checkers


Question: 'A plow is depicted on the seal of this cabinet department created in 1862'

Answer: the Department of Agriculture


Question: 'At Cereal Adventure, you'll go cuckoo for the Chocolate Canyon attraction named for this cereal'

Answer: Cocoa Puffs


Question: 'Falsely accused of treason, this discoverer of the Pacific Ocean was beheaded in 1519'

Answer: Balboa


Question: 'Pronounced one way, it's an injury; pronounced another, it can mean turned & tightened, like certain clocks'

Answer: wound


Question: 'A monkey named Mr. Nilsson often rides on the shoulder of this freckle-faced orphan with crazy red pigtails'

Answer: Pippi Longstocking


Question: 'The object of this game with a 4-letter name is to occupy every country & thus conquer the world'

Answer: Risk


Question: 'In 1917 the people of this U.S. commonwealth in the Caribbean became naturalized citizens'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'In 1514 this explorer received a royal commission to colonize Florida'

Answer: Ponce de León


Question: 'It can mean to scrape the surface of the skin, or to feed out in the pasture'

Answer: graze


Question: 'Felicity, a Colonial lass, & Addy, who escaped slavery, are 2 of the delightful females in this book series'

Answer: American Girl


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reads before she plays a fast game of chess with Jimmy.) We've only got 5 minutes each to make all our moves in this game with a two-word name'

Answer: speed chess


Question: 'The Supreme Court has a Chief Justice & this many associate justices'

Answer: 8


Question: 'Yes, Sir!  This Englishman seen here, who completed a round-the-world voyage, was knighted in 1581'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'Spelled differenty, it can be a daisy, or a baking ingredient'

Answer: flower


Question: 'A 35-foot-long muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'Germicidal lamps emit these rays'

Answer: ultraviolet


Question: 'Legend says Norma Talmadge began a tradition by accidentally stepping in this at Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1927'

Answer: cement


Question: 'Eastman Chemical Company was spun off from this photo giant in 1993'

Answer: Kodak


Question: 'A toast to this state calls it "where the corn is full of kernels and the colonels full of corn"'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'In 1944 Helen Keller campaigned for this president's fourth term'

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt


Question: 'This type of taffy was made famous in Atlantic City in the late 19th century'

Answer: saltwater


Question: 'A 1993 study suggests this type of screening may be unnecessary for low-risk pregnant women'

Answer: ultrasound


Question: 'Judy Bayly's dog Lyric saved her by doing this when her oxygen mask slipped off & an alarm sounded'

Answer: dial 911


Question: 'This fruit accounts for about 60% of Chiquita Brands International's income'

Answer: the banana


Question: 'His comments on politics included "All politics is apple sauce"'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'George Bush served as director of this spy organization in 1976 & 1977'

Answer: the CIA


Question: 'These baked puddings go back to Civil War days & "apple brown" is the most popular kind'

Answer: betty


Question: 'The Ultra High Frequency band on your TV starts at this channel'

Answer: 14


Question: 'After spending an estimated $30 million, he backed out of the presidential race in March 1996'

Answer: Steve Forbes


Question: 'This company has been the world's top commercial aircraft maker for more than 30 years'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'According to Joe Hill, 'Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get" this "in the sky when you die"'

Answer: pie


Question: 'The bodies of 8 presidents have lain in state in this room, the largest in the White House'

Answer: the East Room


Question: 'This fruit, whose name comes from Greek daktylos, "finger", may be 55% sugar before drying'

Answer: a date


Question: 'It's a one-person plane powered by a small engine'

Answer: an ultralight


Question: 'Her kids are Cody Newton & Cassidy Erin'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'This second-largest U.S. long distance company acquired Western Union International in 1982'

Answer: MCI


Question: 'In "O Pioneers!", she wrote, "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman"'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Thomas J. Pendergast, boss of Kansas City, launched the political career of this future president in 1922'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Attar of these flowers is the traditional flavoring of Turkish delight'

Answer: roses


Question: 'This blue pigment was once made from crushed lapis lazuli'

Answer: ultramarine


Question: 'On March 26, 1996 this Interior Secretary deliberately opened the flood gates of the Glen Canyon Dam'

Answer: (Bruce) Babbitt


Question: 'This chain holds 29% of the seafood restaurant market'

Answer: Red Lobster


Question: 'Elbert Hubbard defined this as "a monotonous interval between fights"'

Answer: peace


Question: 'This 30th U.S. president is buried in the family plot in Plymouth, Vermont'

Answer: Coolidge


Question: 'This gelatinlike substance is used to make jams, jellies & preserves jell'

Answer: pectin


Question: 'Belva Ann Lockwood, the 1st woman lawyer to practice before this court, had drafted the law to allow it'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'This "Jurassic Park" author once taught anthropology at Cambridge University'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'In 1996 Richard Chamberlain again played Ralph de Bricassart for this TV miniseries' "Missing Years"'

Answer: The Thorn Birds


Question: 'The League of Nations met for the first time Nov. 15, 1920 in its new headquarters in this Swiss city'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'On Feb. 14, 1962 the doors opened to this Memphis hospital founded by Danny Thomas'

Answer: St. Jude


Question: 'This "Carmen" composer wrote the symphonic suite "Roma" between 1866 & 1868'

Answer: Bizet


Question: 'Smiths in the Hall include Bessie, Margaret Chase & this 2nd first lady, whose maiden name was Smith'

Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'His 1986 story "You're Only Old Once!" is "A Book for Obsolete Children"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'This singer & drummer for Genesis recently announced his exodus from the group'

Answer: Phil Collins


Question: 'The results of his inkblot tests were published in "Psycho-diagnostics"'

Answer: Rorschach


Question: 'At first only a surgical clinic, this Rochester, Minn. facility became a full medical center around 1915'

Answer: the Mayo Clinic


Question: '"Uranus—The Magician" is the sixth part of this Gustav Holst suite'

Answer: The Planets


Question: 'Now president of the American Red Cross, the 1st woman Secretary of Transportation was inducted in 1995'

Answer: Elizabeth Dole


Question: 'A collection of his letters, "From Main Street to Stockholm", was published posthumously in 1952'

Answer: Sinclair Lewis


Question: 'Best known for her Oscar-winning role as "Mrs. Miniver", she passed away in 1996'

Answer: Greer Garson


Question: 'In November 1922 Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon made this famous discovery'

Answer: King Tut\'s tomb


Question: '"Liberian Suite" & "Far East Suite" are among this jazz giant's large-scale works'

Answer: Duke Ellington


Question: 'Membership tripled after Wilma Mankiller became the 1st woman chief of this Native American nation'

Answer: the Cherokee


Question: 'He modeled Sophie in "Sophie's Choice" on a woman he met while living in Brooklyn'

Answer: William Styron


Question: 'Released in 1995, "Made in Heaven" was Freddie Mercury's final album with this group'

Answer: Queen


Question: 'After serving as president for 3 years, Zog I was proclaimed king of this country'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'In 1967 the first human heart transplant was performed at Groote Schuur Hospital in this city'

Answer: Cape Town


Question: 'This Spaniard was noted for his interpretations of Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello'

Answer: Pablo Casals


Question: 'The 2 "mothers" in the hall are Mother Elizabeth Seton & Mary Harris, a labor leader known as this'

Answer: Mother Jones


Question: 'His last completed novel, "The Marble Faun", was published in 1860'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'This Italian directed a "Romeo and Juliet" film in the 1960s & the 1996 film version of "Jane Eyre"'

Answer: Franco Zeffirelli


Question: 'In 1923 this Belgian national airline began operations'

Answer: SABENA


Question: 'The Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. was named for this bacteriologist'

Answer: Walter Reed


Question: 'The flag & the coat of arms of this Canadian province feature a setting sun'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'Kansas & Utah'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'If you must move a victim with a broken bone, apply one of these to prevent the broken bone from moving'

Answer: splint


Question: 'Georgia produces about 40% of the USA's annual crop of this legume'

Answer: peanuts


Question: '3-word phrase that followed "Good Evening, I'm Chevy Chase..."'

Answer: and you\'re not


Question: 'In 1991 Louis Rich introduced a bacon made out of this meat'

Answer: turkey


Question: 'If you're hard at work, you're keeping this body part "to the grindstone"'

Answer: your nose


Question: 'Oklahoma & Arkansas'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'To control bleeding, apply direct pressure on the wound & on these, which supply blood to the affected area'

Answer: arteries


Question: 'This Australian gum tree produces a resin, Botany Bay kino, that protects wood against shipworms & other borers'

Answer: eucalyptus


Question: 'It was how everyone looked according to Fernando, the talk show host played by Billy Crystal'

Answer: mahvelous


Question: 'The original shredder was Henry Perky, who in 1892, "shredded" this for breakfast cereal'

Answer: wheat


Question: 'An empathetic person would give you this body part "to cry on"'

Answer: shoulder


Question: 'New York & Ohio'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports)  If you're suffering from this 16-letter word, do the following to alleviate it'

Answer: hyperventilating


Question: 'This tree, Acer saccharum, has the strongest & hardest wood of any maple'

Answer: sugar maple


Question: 'In a parody of the debates on "60 Minutes", he spoke the immortal line "Jane, you ignorant slut"'

Answer: Dan Aykroyd


Question: 'Its smiling-faced pitcher was trademarked back in the 1950s'

Answer: Kool-Aid


Question: 'It's what you're said to "hold" when you're keeping your big mouth shut'

Answer: your tongue


Question: 'Montana & Oregon'

Answer: Idaho


Question: '(Hi, I'm Elisabeth Filarski from <i>Survivor</i>.)  If the Heimlich Maneuver fails & a person can't breathe at all, create an airway with this surgical procedure'

Answer: a tracheotomy


Question: 'Modern versions of this flower, also called a clove pink, were developed in France around 1840'

Answer: carnation


Question: '(Hi, I'm Rob Schneider)  My "SNL" character Richard "The Richmeister" Laymer coined this 2-word catchphrase for Xeroxing'

Answer: "makin\' copies"


Question: 'In 1942 Gordon Harwell & Eric Huzenlaub "converted" this grain'

Answer: rice


Question: 'The kind of icy extremities an apprehensive bridegroom gets'

Answer: cold feet


Question: 'North Carolina & West Virginia'

Answer: Virginia


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the beach)  For professionals performing CPR, remember your ABCs: airway, breathing & this, which means checking for a pulse'

Answer: circulation


Question: 'This comic played pathological liar Tommy Flanagan, whose wife was "Morgan Fairchild, yeah, that's the ticket"'

Answer: Jon Lovitz


Question: 'Procter & Gamble has found that a form of this fat substitute it uses in Wow! chips can clean up toxic spills'

Answer: Olestra (Olean)


Question: 'Someone who covets something of great value often says, "I'd give" these canines" "for that"'

Answer: eye teeth


Question: 'He won a 1991 Pulitzer for his comedy "Lost in Yonkers"'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'Flower girl Eliza Doolittle'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'In a popular nursery rhyme neither of these 2 groups could put Humpty Dumpty back together again'

Answer: all the king\'s horses & all the king\'s men


Question: 'Present-day Armenia & what is now the eastern part of the nation make up historic Armenia'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Certs used this slogan in its first commercial some 40 years ago'

Answer: "Two, two, two mints in one"


Question: 'Horatio Kitchener was made an earl of this capital of Sudan'

Answer: Khartoum


Question: '"Our Teeth" & "Our Town" have been subjects for this Wisconsin-born playwright'

Answer: Thornton Wilder


Question: 'The "Maid" of Sherwood Forest'

Answer: Robin and Marian


Question: 'Famed British group whose work included "The Dead Parrot Sketch" & the "Lumberjack Song"'

Answer: Monty Python


Question: 'This Batman villain is former D.A. Harvey Dent'

Answer: Two-Face


Question: 'Ding-dong!  When Anthony Eden came "calling", people knew he was first earl of this'

Answer: Avon


Question: 'Ira Levin, author of the creepy "Rosemary's Baby", wrote the jocular play "No Time for" these'

Answer: Sergeants


Question: 'Sister Luke'

Answer: The Nun\'s Story


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sea World in San Diego)  It's a term for a stable group of killer whales, so you could say "as alike as two whales in" one of these'

Answer: a pod


Question: 'Proverbial phrase that describes what's required to dance to the following'

Answer: it takes two to tango


Question: 'As seventh earl of this, Thomas Bruce is immortalized in Greek marbles'

Answer: Elgin


Question: 'He wrote "To the Ladies" with Marc Connelly & "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with Moss Hart'

Answer: George S. Kaufman


Question: 'Susy Hendrix, a blind woman'

Answer: Wait Until Dark


Question: 'This "college" not only assists the pope, it elects a new one whenever the papacy is vacant'

Answer: College of Cardinals


Question: 'Armenia declared its independence from this collapsing entity Sept. 23, 1991'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'This nickname for a person too sweet & innocent to be true goes back to an 18th century children's story'

Answer: Goody two-shoes


Question: 'Elizabethans found Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of this, "A nature not to be ruled"'

Answer: Essex


Question: 'David Rabe's next play after his 1982 "Goose and Tomtom" was this 1984 chaotic concoction'

Answer: Hurlyburly


Question: 'Karen Wright, the co-headmistress at a girls' school'

Answer: The Children\'s Hour


Question: 'Capricorn, Taurus & Virgo make up this group of Zodiac signs'

Answer: Earth signs


Question: 'In recent years Armenia has fought this nation for control of Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: 'In this play Valentine doth say, "Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits"'

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'Good Lord!  Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones was made earl of this in 1961'

Answer: Snowden


Question: 'Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last renowned member of this operatic category of voice'

Answer: the Castrati


Question: '"Silent Partner", about Mabel Bell, this inventor's wife, reveals that she was one of his deaf students before they wed'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'April 5, 1994 in Seattle'

Answer: Kurt Cobain


Question: 'New York City has 3 Chinatowns: one in Brooklyn, one in Queens & one centered on Canal Street in this borough'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'Rick Dyer & Matt Whitton claimed to have killed one of these creatures & showed its body in a freezer'

Answer: Bigfoot


Question: 'This boy runs when angry Mom uses this full name & threatens, "Do you want me to get Cousin Teddy's big stick?"'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'According to an old saying , this beverage should be black as hell, strong as death & sweet as love'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'CNN called Gen. Tommy Franks a silent partner in Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. war mainly in this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'February 3, 1959, one of 3, in a cornfield in Iowa'

Answer: (Ritchie) Valens (or Buddy Holly or the Big Bopper)


Question: 'You can enter North America's oldest Chinatown at the Dragon Gate at Grant & Bush in this city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'After his wife left him, Ian Usher put his entire life up for sale on this website'

Answer: Ebay


Question: 'This future 1950s president is scared when Mom uses these three names, especially when followed by "Come here this instant"'

Answer: Dwight David Eisenhower


Question: 'Amazement is often said to make these "wide as saucers"'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'This late night talk show host has been a silent partner with Bobby Rahal on auto racing circuits'

Answer: David Letterman


Question: 'July 3, 1971 in a bathtub in Paris'

Answer: Jim Morrison


Question: 'This city's original Chinatown in the Limehouse District was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WWII; a new one sprang up in Soho'

Answer: London


Question: 'After giving birth to 8 babies in 2009, Nadya Suleman got this 7-letter nickname'

Answer: "Octomom"


Question: 'The southern lad seen here might not grin when Mom calls him this & says, "Get your hands off that horse"'

Answer: James Earl Carter


Question: 'This rhyming simile seems to have been a reference to movie star Errol'

Answer: in like Flynn


Question: 'In 1972 Leo Fender, known primarily for mak!ng these, became a silent partner in a company called Music Man'

Answer: guitars


Question: 'September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas after a shooting'

Answer: Tupac Shakur


Question: 'The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Garden is one of the highlights of this city's Chinatown, Canada's largest'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: '"America's Most Hated" is a rap song by this man, once the husband of Britney Spears'

Answer: Kevin Federline


Question: 'The 1960s president shudders when Mom uses this full name, followed by, "Turn that chair around right now"'

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson


Question: 'A speedy person may "run like" this; Patrick Swayze sang, "She's like" this'

Answer: the wind


Question: 'October 4, 1970 at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood'

Answer: Janis Joplin


Question: 'Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown requires business signs to include Chinese names; this chain's says "Owl Restaurant"'

Answer: Hooters


Question: 'Ashley Dupre briefly made headlines as the high-priced companion of this governor'

Answer: Spitzer


Question: 'Later caught with his hand figuratively in the cookie jar, he jumps when Mom says, "Get out of there"'

Answer: Richard Milhous Nixon


Question: 'In "South Pacific" Nellie, unashamed of her cliched feelings, sings, "I'm as" this "as Kansas in August"'

Answer: corny


Question: 'Illinois' governor put a moratorium on these in his state due to questions of justice'

Answer: the death penalty (executions)


Question: 'Seen here, a Brannock device measures you for these'

Answer: shoes


Question: 'In 2009 Stump the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel became the oldest winner of this Westminster Kennel Club top honor'

Answer: Best in Show


Question: 'The zorse, seen here, is the result of a hookup between a horse & one of these'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'Fittingly, seismologist Charles Richter spent almost all his working life in this state'

Answer: California


Question: 'In 1993 Conan began taping "Late Night" at this New York center popular at Christmas'

Answer: Rockefeller


Question: 'The Kuomintang lost the presidency of this country for the first time in 50 years'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'In making pencils the ferrule is the metal ring into which this is inserted'

Answer: the eraser


Question: 'In 1991 the Pulitzer Prize got "Lost in Yonkers" with this writer'

Answer: (Neil) Simon


Question: 'The geep, seen here, is a hybrid of these two species'

Answer: goat & sheep


Question: 'The Richter scale ranks quakes based on how much the ground shakes 60 miles from this'

Answer: the epicenter


Question: 'Conan becomes the fifth host of "The Tonight Show" after Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen & him'

Answer: (Jack) Paar


Question: 'Willie Fulgear was at the Shrine Auditorium on March 26 in recognition of his finding 52 of these in a dumpster'

Answer: Oscar statues


Question: 'These "tools" strike piano strings'

Answer: hammers


Question: 'Before hosting "Good Morning America", she triumphed as America's Junior Miss of '63'

Answer: Diane Sawyer


Question: 'Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, this cross between a male lion & a female tiger is the world's largest cat'

Answer: a liger


Question: 'For bigger quakes, the Richter scale has given way to the more accurate one alliteratively called "moment" this'

Answer: magnitude


Question: 'Seen here, he produced Conan's talk show after Conan wrote for him on "Saturday Night Live"'

Answer: Lorne Michaels


Question: 'In France a strike by drivers of these 2-word vehicles left many ATMs empty'

Answer: armored cars


Question: 'Bottoms up!  A muselet is the wire cage holding this in place'

Answer: the champagne cork


Question: 'The cama is a cross of these parent animals, done artificially--the size difference is a bit much for nature'

Answer: camel & llama


Question: 'earthquake.usgs.gov has a handy primer on the Richter scale: USGS is short for this'

Answer: United States Geological Survey


Question: 'Conan's bandleader, he's also the drummer for Bruuuuce'

Answer: Max Weinberg


Question: 'On September 6 the pope, like Father Merrin, performed this rite, on a 19-year-old girl'

Answer: an exorcism


Question: 'Impress friends in the rec room; this game's throwing line is called an oche'

Answer: darts


Question: 'Seen here is the first known wild example of a grolar bear, a cross of these species'

Answer: grizzlies & polar bears


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.)  In seismic data, the maximum displacement of a seismic wave during one oscillation--here, 23 millimeters--is referred to by this term'

Answer: amplitude


Question: 'On Conan's last "Late Night", this "Barney Miller" co-star was released into the wild to be with his own kind'

Answer: Abe Vigoda


Question: 'The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba"'

Answer: Islands in the Stream


Question: 'This liquid metal is used to make a red paint pigment called vermillion'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Mud Island, a Memphis tourist attraction, and its monorail are featured in this 1993 Tom Cruise film'

Answer: "The Firm"


Question: 'The "Old Tom" type of this liquor differs from the London dry type in that it is sweetened'

Answer: Gin


Question: 'This lawman's nickname, "Bat", was a shortening of his given name, Bartholemew'

Answer: Bat Masterson


Question: 'In 1979 this Arkansas attroney general became the youngest governor in the U.S.'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'It's Yellowstone National Park's most popular attraction'

Answer: Old Faithful


Question: 'The name of this metal comes from molebdos, the Greek word for lead'

Answer: molybdenum


Question: 'Sela Ward of "Sisters" plays Helen Kimble in this 1993 film'

Answer: "The Fugitive"


Question: 'This fortified wine from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, is always a blend'

Answer: Sherry


Question: 'Missouri governor Thomas Crittenden's career faded after he paid a huge reward for the killing of this gang leader'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'Now treasury secretary, he was a U.S. senator from Texas for 22 years'

Answer: Lloyd Bentsen


Question: 'A silly story or superstitious belief is popularly referred to as this type of tale'

Answer: Old Wives Tale


Question: 'There are 11 known isotopes of this reddish metal whose symbol is Cu; 9 are radioactive'

Answer: Copper


Question: '"I Have A Rendezvous with Death", one of JFK's favorite poems, is mentioned in this Clint Eastwood film'

Answer: "In the Line of Fire"


Question: 'In the 1740's the Royal Navy began issuing its seamen a daily ration of this spirit'

Answer: Rum


Question: 'This judge staged an illegal heavyweight championship fight on a sandbar in the Rio Grande'

Answer: Roy Bean


Question: 'Raymond J. Donovan served as this president's first Secretary of Labor'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'It's a nickname for the Mississippi'

Answer: "Old Man River"


Question: 'Symbolized K, this metal is so soft it can be cut with a knife'

Answer: Potassium


Question: 'This comedienne & "Celebrity Jeopardy!" alumna posed as Richard Dreyfuss' wife in "Another Stakeout"'

Answer: Rosie O\' Donnell


Question: 'Perzovhka is a variety of this spirit flavored with red & black peppers'

Answer: Vodka


Question: 'This woman who dressed like a man may have served as a scout for Custer'

Answer: Calamity Jane


Question: 'In 1992 this co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" took 37% of the vote in New Hampshire's GOP primary'

Answer: Pat Buchanan


Question: 'Published every year since 1792, it's the oldest surviving almanac in the U.S.'

Answer: "Old Farmer\'s Almanac"


Question: 'Some breeder reactors produce Neptunium, along with this radioactive metal whose atomic number is 94'

Answer: Plutonium


Question: 'Part of this unusual epic based on a Virginia Woolf novel was shot in Uzbekistan'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'In this U.S. state, Zinfandel is the red wine grape with the most producing acres'

Answer: California


Question: 'Edward Zane Carroll Judson was the real name of this man who immortalized the wild west in his dime novels'

Answer: Ned Buntline


Question: 'This son-in-law of LBJ was the governor of Virginia from 1982-1986'

Answer: Charles (Chuck) Robb


Question: '"The Eddas", two collections of Scandinavian mythology, were written in this language'

Answer: Old Norse


Question: 'This commonwealth's anthem is "La Borinquena"'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'In 1951, Roosevelt Field, from which he made his famous 1927 flight, closed after 40 years in use'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'Act I of this Tchaikovsky ballet is called "The Spell"'

Answer: "The Sleeping Beauty"


Question: 'St. Mary's Academy, a sister school to this South Bend, IN college, was founded in 1844'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'Theodore Kirkoff's lyric poems about this city made him "The Poet of the Golden Gate"'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'The playwright Aeschylus fought in this battle, about 25 miles from Athens'

Answer: Marathon


Question: 'This island chain's eastern section has been ours since 1900; the western part won independence from New Zealand'

Answer: Samoa


Question: 'In the 1950's this Akron-based company developed the Inflato plane, a rubber-coated inflatable airplane'

Answer: Goodyear


Question: '"Slaughter On" this avenue by Balanchine went from Broadway to the NYC Ballet repertory'

Answer: "10th Avenue"


Question: 'This university in Tempe has a center for meteorite studies'

Answer: Arizona State


Question: 'Becky Sharp's husband, Rodden Crawley, becomes the governor of Coventry Island in this Thackery novel'

Answer: "Vanity Fair"


Question: 'Carneides, a skeptic who said knowledge is impossible, was a head of this school founded by Plato'

Answer: The Academy


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

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


Question: 'By one account, it was Canadian captain A. Roy Brown who downed this German flying ace'

Answer: The Red Baron (Von Richthoffen)


Question: 'Jerome Robbins played Benvolio when Anthony Tudor's version of this Shakespearean love story premiered in 1943'

Answer: "Romeo & Juliet"


Question: 'During World War II, this Cambridge, MA school was the center of the USA's radar research'

Answer: MIT


Question: '"Reader's Encyclopedia" says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O' Pioneers"'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'In 431 B.C., Thuycidides began writing the history of this war while he was fighting in it'

Answer: The Peloponnesian War


Question: 'When Spain ceded this Pacific island to the U.S., it sold the other Marianas to Germany'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'In 1988, the Air Force unveiled this hi-tech bomber, described as a "flying wing"'

Answer: B-2


Question: 'In a recent work, one ballerina plays this Russian grand duchess & a woman who thinks she is the grand duchess'

Answer: "Anastasia"


Question: 'State university campuses in this state include Bemidji, Moorhead, and St. Cloud'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'He originally published his "Spoon River" poems under the pen name "Webster Ford"'

Answer: Edgar Lee Masters


Question: 'This man, whose law code replaced Draco's, was called one of "The Seven Wise Men of Greece"'

Answer: Solon


Question: 'Part of this U.S. area is located on the Anacostia River'

Answer: Washington, DC


Question: 'Named "the aviatrix of the decade" in 1950, in 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier'

Answer: Jacqueline Cochran


Question: 'In a famous Stravinsky ballet, this title character is in love with a ballerina puppet'

Answer: "Petruschka"


Question: 'In 1930, the William Jennings Bryan University opened in this Tennessee city'

Answer: Dayton


Question: 'This Betty Smith novel opens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the summer of 1912'

Answer: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"


Question: 'He said, "Bad men live to eat & drink whereas good men eat & drink in order to live"'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'The capital of Albania is named for this other world capital'

Answer: Teheran, Iran


Question: 'On August 1, 1946 this president signed the McMahon Act creating the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: '(Alex: Let's hear from Sarah on this one)  Last name of the engineer who built the first Ferris wheel'

Answer: (George) Ferris


Question: '"Double Your Pleasure!  Double Your Fun!" with this'

Answer: Doublemint gum


Question: 'The Leif Ericson proof had 2 versions: the U.S. dollar & this island country's kronur'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'This Chinese dictator was born December 26, 1893 in the city of Shaoshan'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'In Matthew 26 Jesus tells the disciples, "One of you shall" do this'

Answer: betray me


Question: 'On June 26, 1977 at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis he left the building after giving his last concert'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'It's the capital city of Panama'

Answer: Panama City


Question: 'It's "Strong Enough for a Man, but pH-Balanced for a Woman"'

Answer: Secret deodorant


Question: 'There were 4 heads & an eagle on the 1991 coin honoring this landmark'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'Recent bans in the U.S. involve this dried shark part some Chinese recipes call for in an expensive soup'

Answer: fin


Question: 'It can mean "to abduct", as in the case of the Sabine women, as well as to sexually assault'

Answer: rape


Question: 'After 8 years, this man's mummified corpse was removed from public display in Red Square Oct. 31, 1961'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'In 1936 Henry & Edsel Ford established this foundation'

Answer: the Ford Foundation


Question: 'This cereal is "A Honey of an O"'

Answer: Honey Nut Cheerios


Question: 'In 1997 this Brooklyn Dodger got a commemorative coin as quick as you could say his name'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'The name of this Chinese-American stew of meat & vegetables translates into English as "mixed bits"'

Answer: chop suey


Question: 'You can do it to property, to "the show" or to second base'

Answer: steal


Question: '3 years after being forced out by the Japanese, MacArthur returned to this capital city on Feb. 7, 1945'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'Completes the joke "He's so fat, when he sits around the house..."'

Answer: he sits around the house


Question: 'It "Rinses Cleaner than Soap"'

Answer: Zest


Question: 'Congress authorized coins to commemorate this event held in 1984, 1992 & 1996'

Answer: the Olympics


Question: 'With 900 million speakers, this dialect of Chinese is the world's most widely used'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'This verb meaning to go back on a promise comes from the same root as "renegade"'

Answer: renege


Question: 'Eric the Red would be pleased that this U.S. spacecraft landed on the Red Planet July 20, 1976'

Answer: Viking


Question: '(Alex: Let's hear from Sofia this time)  It's the name of the 1968 Neil Simon play that takes place in a suite here at the Plaza'

Answer: Plaza Suite


Question: '"Move over, Bacon" it's this'

Answer: Sizzlelean


Question: 'His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Examples of these regions in China include Fujian, Guangdong & Sichuan'

Answer: provinces


Question: 'To violate the sanctity of a place, or an adjective that's opposed to "sacred"'

Answer: profane


Question: '"Oklahoma!" had a surrey with a fringe on top; this Garden State's musical would feature a Zeppelin'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'During a baseball game, it's the off-field area where relief pitchers warm up'

Answer: bullpen


Question: 'Jackson was born March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw area of this state but N. Carolina also claimed him as a native'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'William Hodges' painting of the statues on this south Pacific island may be seen at England's Nat. Maritime Museum'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'To quote a nursery rhyme, the number of 'blackbirds baked in a pie"'

Answer: 4 & 20


Question: 'Feldspar'

Answer: mineral


Question: 'Santiago does the rumba with a giant marlin in the musical version of this Hemingway novella'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: '(Alex: For this clue, we'll hear from soccer star Brandi Chastain)  As in basketball, this is what a soccer player does with the ball to advance it by herself'

Answer: dribble


Question: 'In 1812, long before "South Park" "blamed" it, Jackson wanted 50,000 volunteers to invade this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Sebastiano probably painted the "Judgement of" this Biblical king that was once attributed to Giorgione'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'For this, the little woman expects china'

Answer: 20th wedding anniversary


Question: 'Springhaas'

Answer: animal


Question: '"The Waiting is the Hardest Part" is the title of the musical version of this Beckett tragicomedy'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'In figure skating a single one of these jumps named for Mr. Paulsen is 1 1/2 revolutions; a triple is 3 1/2'

Answer: axel


Question: 'In 1833 Jackson became the first president to travel using this mode of transport'

Answer: train


Question: 'This woman painted the charming little girl & dog seen here'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'It's the often facetious ability to determine the nature of an event after it has occurred'

Answer: 20/20 hindsight


Question: 'Haricot'

Answer: vegetable


Question: 'The harpooners Queequeg, Daggoo & Tashtego serve as a Greek chorus in the musical of this book'

Answer: Moby Dick


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew at a golf course)  In most iron shots, good or bad, a piece of turf called this gets dislodged'

Answer: divot


Question: 'In 1796 Jackson "volunteered" to become this state's first member of the U.S. House of Representatives'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'This American known for his mobiles also created a wire portrait of Josephine Baker'

Answer: Alexander Calder


Question: 'It's considered the most popular novel in Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages" series'

Answer: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"


Question: 'Tuco-tuco'

Answer: animal


Question: 'The toe-tapping numbers "Meat-Packing Boogie" & "Hot Dog Blues" are from this Upton Sinclair novel's musical'

Answer: The Jungle


Question: 'Ja, this term means to ski straight down a slope at full speed'

Answer: shooshing


Question: 'Jackson was the first U.S. president not born in either of these 2 states'

Answer: Virginia & Massachusetts


Question: 'Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'The period known as "The Jazz Age" was also known by this "growling" nickname'

Answer: "The Roaring \'20s"


Question: 'Daikon'

Answer: vegetable


Question: 'One of 4 men nominated twice for playing the same character'

Answer: (1 of 4) Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino or Peter O\'Toole


Question: 'The Philistines took him "and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass"'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'I like to crank up the radio whenever I hear her sing "Sk8er Boi" or "Girlfriend"'

Answer: Avril Lavigne


Question: 'Buche de Noel, a cake decorated to resemble a Yule log, is a tradition for this holiday'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'Everglades National Park in this Southern state is the USA's largest subtropical wilderness'

Answer: Florida


Question:
'Zachary Taylor,
Woodrow Wilson,
Andrew Jackson'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'In a popular children's song, it's followed by "little star, how I wonder what you are"'

Answer: Twinkle, twinkle


Question: 'Ecclesiastes 11:1 says, "Cast" this "upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days"'

Answer: thy bread


Question: 'You can't "Get The Party Started" without this singer whose hair color sometimes matches her stage name'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'A well-known simile is "as American as mom &" this dessert'

Answer: apple pie


Question: 'National parks in the south of this state include Sitka and Glacier Bay'

Answer: Alaska


Question:
'Alexander Graham Bell,
George Washington Carver,
Guglielmo Marconi'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'Something that you are expressly told not to do'

Answer: a no-no


Question: 'Jesus called to this fisherman & his brother Andrew, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men"'

Answer: (Simon) Peter


Question: '"Gold Digger" was one of the big hits from his Grammy-winning album "Late Registration"'

Answer: Kanye West


Question: 'The Suzette type of these pancakes are so exquisitely thin, it's a shame to set them on fire for dessert'

Answer: crêpes


Question: 'S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park'

Answer: Yellowstone


Question:
'Harriet Beecher Stowe,
James Fenimore Cooper,
Ernest Hemingway'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'Oh, goody goody!  It's a French term for a chocolate candy with a nut center'

Answer: a bonbon


Question: 'The land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these 2 items mentioned some 20 times in the Bible'

Answer: milk & honey


Question: 'In 2007 Justin Timberlake hit the radio with this R&B diva in a remix of "Until The End Of Time"'

Answer: Beyoncé


Question: 'The name of this dessert is from the French for "to blow" or "to puff"; the hot air trapped inside is what makes it rise'

Answer: soufflé


Question: 'Southeast of Mt. Rushmore lies Badlands National Park in this state'

Answer: South Dakota


Question:
'Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Johannes Brahms'

Answer: Bach


Question: 'It's another name for miniature golf'

Answer: putt-putt


Question: 'God told Abraham that he would bless this wife "and she shall be a mother of nations"'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'Gwen Stefani & Eve cashed in on this hit that was adapted from a song in "Fiddler on the Roof"'

Answer: "Rich Girl"


Question: 'This type of light cake soaks up syrup, as its name says'

Answer: a sponge cake


Question: 'Eisenhower's home in southern Pennsylvania is next to this national military park, site of an 1863 battle'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question:
'Elizabeth I of England,
Louis XIV of France,
Nicholas II of Russia'

Answer: Elizabeth I of England


Question: 'Poet cummings'

Answer: e. e.


Question: 'This Nobel Prize winner & world leader was imprisoned from 1962 to 1990'

Answer: (Nelson) Mandela


Question: 'It's the length in minutes of a standard half of a Major League soccer game'

Answer: 45


Question: 'Mick Jagger was a finance student at the London School of Economics before cashing in with this band'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: '1831:<br />Cathedral bellringer falls for a Gypsy beauty'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: 'This radioactive metal is Niger's No. 1 export'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'Snoopy's breed'

Answer: a beagle


Question: 'On April 6th, 1909, this American Arctic explorer wrote in his diary, "The pole at last.  The prize of three centuries."'

Answer: Peary


Question: 'Maximum number of players on each team on the field at the start of a FIFA game'

Answer: 11


Question: 'In college, Larry Page, co-founder & co-pres. of this Internet search company, built an inkjet printer out of Legos'

Answer: Google


Question: '1851:<br />Whalers encounter a beastly bad time'

Answer: Moby-Dick


Question: 'The ore pyrargyrite is associated with veins of this precious metal, symbol Ag'

Answer: silver


Question: 'A type of unglazed china, or a thick cream soup often made with lobster'

Answer: bisque


Question: 'On September 21st, 1981 the U.S. Senate confirmed her as a Justice of the Supreme Court in a 99-0 vote'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor


Question: 'In 2010 this country is scheduled to host the World Cup, the first African country to do so'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'He tells his "Inconvenient Truth" via a slide show with bar graphs'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'c. 1300:<br />A poet tours Hell, Purgatory & Heaven'

Answer: The Divine Comedy


Question: 'This metal makes up 5% of the Earth's crust but only .004% of a person'

Answer: iron


Question: 'This hero rode Pegasus'

Answer: Bellerophon


Question: 'In August 1936 this Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst, N.J. & headed over to Frankfurt, Germany'

Answer: the Hindenburg


Question: 'Forward, midfielder, defender & this are the 4 basic positions in soccer'

Answer: goalkeeper


Question: 'Dave Arneson & Gary Gygax created geek heaven with this '70s fantasy tabletop role-playing game'

Answer: Dungeons & Dragons


Question: '1962:<br />A teen hoodlum named Alex narrates this futuristic tale by Anthony Burgess'

Answer: A Clockwork Orange


Question: 'Lady Liberty's skin is made of this'

Answer: copper


Question: 'This ethnic group lives in the Pyrenees & speaks Euskera'

Answer: the Basques


Question: 'In Dec. 1989 this playwright was elected president of Czechoslovakia, the 1st non-Communist since 1948'

Answer: Václav Havel


Question: 'This country has won soccer's World Cup more times than any other nation'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'This current British Prime Minister was the youngest person since WWII to go to the U. of Edinburgh'

Answer: (Gordon) Brown


Question: '1900:<br />A naval officer tries to live down the cowardly act of abandoning a ship he thought was sinking'

Answer: Lord Jim


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on a monitor.)  The elements in green on the periodic table are the metals; the ones grouped here in between, similar to other metals but not quite fitting in, are classified as these metals or elements'

Answer: transition(als)


Question: 'Gaborone is the capital of this southern African country'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'In a 1977 film, Diane Keaton was "Looking For" him'

Answer: Mr. Goodbar


Question: 'In 1973 this motorcycle manufacturer created a splash in the U.S. with the Civic car'

Answer: Honda


Question: 'Yes, it's really the middle name of his daughter Lynda'

Answer: Bird


Question: 'The great falls of the Missouri River are pictured on its flag -- we stress great falls'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'The leaders of these clubs for young females now wear uniforms designed by Bill Blass'

Answer: The Girl Scouts


Question: 'An M.B.A. is this degree'

Answer: Master Of/In Business Administration


Question: 'To sci-fi movie buffs, this 1977 Richard Dreyfuss flick is "CE3K"'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question: 'In ads, celebrities & their children promote the "New Generation" of this company's cars'

Answer: Oldsmobile


Question: 'When Lyndon took his oath of office in 1965, his wife had a firm grip on this book'

Answer: the (family) Bible


Question: 'The motto on its flag is "Battle Born", not "Wanna Bet?"'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Though its name is French, papier-mache was 1st used on this continent, not Europe'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'Name of the device into which the following is inserted: (Alex holding a disc with 12 "pictures" on it)'

Answer: View-Master


Question: 'Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" poked fun at the films of this director who made his last film in 1976'

Answer: Sir Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'The Ranger, Pacer, Corsair & Citation were the 4 models of this Ford failure'

Answer: Edsel


Question: 'After Johnson's death in 1973, the manned spacecraft center in this city was renamed for him'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'From left to right, this flag has a big "V", a big eagle & a big "I"'

Answer: U.S. Virgin Islands


Question: 'This 5th Ave. museum sells pins representing its unofficial mascot, William the Hippo'

Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'In 1971 this pair of researchers who wrote "Human Sexual Response" responded to each other by saying "I Do"'

Answer: Masters & Johnson


Question: 'Actor who starred in "Serpico", "Dog Day Afternoon" & the 2 "Godfather" films'

Answer: Al Pacino


Question: 'This French automaker, not Mercedes, is Europe's largest builder of diesel engines'

Answer: Peugeot


Question: 'To become vice-president in January 1961, Johnson resigned from this'

Answer: The Senate (Majority Leader)


Question: 'A palm tree divides the "U" & "A" on this territory's flag'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'It can be a colorful vegetable dish, an herb liqueur or a shade of yellowish-green'

Answer: chartruese


Question: 'It's what the dog in the RCA logo is listening to'

Answer: "His Master\'s Voice"


Question: 'Based on a novel by James Dickey, this film was shot on location at the Chattooga River in the Appalachians'

Answer: Deliverance


Question: 'Planning to market the Lexus, this Japanese company was taken to court by a co. using the name Lexis'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Phrase that came into vogue in 1965 referring to the chasm between LBJ & public trust'

Answer: the credibility gap


Question: 'Rhode Island's flag has 13 of these; Indiana's has 19; Missouri, 24'

Answer: stars


Question: 'Seen in religious art, a mandorla is an aureole of light shaped like this nut used in marzipan'

Answer: almond


Question: 'If this breaks, your brakes won't brake'

Answer: master cylinder


Question: 'When this Gypsy girl spurns Don Jose's affection, he kills her with a dagger'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'After years of war, Spain finally recognized this neighbor's independence in 1668'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Manet did illustrations for a French translation of this author's poem "The Raven"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'The capital of Ukraine, it's the 3rd largest city in the Soviet Union'

Answer: Kiev


Question: 'God's promise to Noah of no more floods was sealed by the appearance of this in the sky'

Answer: the rainbow


Question: 'Well, excuse me!<br />He was Navin Johnson in "The JerK

Answer: Steve Martin


Question: 'He was "The Barber of Seville" prior to becoming Count Almaviva's valet'

Answer: Figaro


Question: 'From Menes to the Ptolemys, this country had more kings than any other in ancient history'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '1 of the 2 novels by Thomas Wolfe with "Home" in their titles'

Answer: Look Homeward, Angel (or You Can\'t Go Home Again)


Question: 'After St. Petersburg but before Leningrad the city had this name'

Answer: Petrograd


Question: 'A believer in the pagan god Baal, her name has come to mean a wicked, shameless woman'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: 'James Lapine & this composer-lyricist shared a drama Pulitzer for "Sunday in the Park with George" in 1985'

Answer: Stephen Sondheim


Question: 'Cio-Cio-San, the geisha in love with Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton, is better known by this nickname'

Answer: "Madame Butterfly"


Question: 'The 1st recorded date in Greek history was equivalent to 776 B.C. when these began'

Answer: the Olympics


Question: 'She was a poet before turning to fiction with "Fear of Flying"'

Answer: Erica Jong


Question: 'The tomb of this lame Mongol emperor is a major landmark in Samarkand'

Answer: Tamerlane


Question: 'Isaiah 40:15 says, "Behold, the nations are as" one of these "of a bucket"'

Answer: a drop


Question: 'In 1981 this lead singer of Fleetwood Mac teamed up with Don Henley for some "Leather & Lace"'

Answer: Stevie Nicks


Question: 'He's the hunchback jester to the Duke of Mantua in a Verdi opera'

Answer: Rigoletto


Question: 'This mistress of Louis XV reportedly had the most costly porcelain chocolate service ever made'

Answer: Madame Pompadour


Question: 'His titles include "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" & "The Pump House Gang"'

Answer: Tom Wolfe


Question: 'During the 1905 revolution, the crew of the ship Potemkin mutinied in this Black Sea port city'

Answer: Odessa


Question: 'This apostle inherited Roman citizenship from his father & was trained as a rabbi by Gamaliel'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'This Naval commodore is famous for his toast "Our Country, Right or Wrong"'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'Satan, using this name, appears to Faust & agrees to give him youth in return for his soul'

Answer: Mephistopheles


Question: 'In 1086 William the Conqueror had a survey of England taken which was recorded in this book'

Answer: The Domesday Book


Question: 'In 1965 Lillian Hellman re-issued 5 of his detective novels'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'In 1932 the city of Nizhny Novgorod was renamed this after a famous writer'

Answer: Gorky


Question: 'It brought the Philistines such bad luck that they returned it to the Israelites after 7 months'

Answer: the Ark of the Covenant


Question: 'He's known for his poetry & short stories, including "The Devil & Daniel Webster"'

Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet


Question: 'This famous man was the grandfather of the current prime minister of India'

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru


Question: 'The Rockettes get a kick out of the Art Deco lobby in this New York theater, their home'

Answer: Radio City Music Hall


Question: 'This team's logo is on champagne bottles commemorating the opening of Jack Kent Cooke Stadium'

Answer: Washington Redskins


Question: 'In 1883 he opened his Wild West Show in Omaha, Nebraska'

Answer: Buffalo Bill Cody


Question: 'Henry Perky turned out his first batch of this cereal in 1892; in 1928 Nabisco bought his company'

Answer: Shredded wheat


Question: 'The Celibate Rifles chose their name as a counterpart to this British punk band's'

Answer: Sex Pistols


Question: 'If it fits, "wear it", but hope it's not "on the other foot"'

Answer: Shoe


Question: 'Live alligators were once featured in the lobby of the Jefferson Hotel in this Virginia capital'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'On May 15, 1997 the NBA's Washington Bullets took this name'

Answer: Washington Wizards


Question: 'In 1997 he broke Jack Nicklaus' 32-year-old Masters record of 17 under par'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'As a whole, its head can be stuffed; shredded, it can be a slaw'

Answer: Cabbage


Question: 'The name of this Florida band combines a blonde actress & the head of a "murderous" family'

Answer: Marilyn Manson


Question: 'Completes "What you don't know can't..."'

Answer: Hurt you


Question: 'You may see sharks swimming in the lobby aquarium in this Las Vegas hotel named for a desert illusion'

Answer: Mirage


Question: 'Ron Wilson, the former head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, now coaches this team'

Answer: Washington Capitals


Question: 'In the victory column, this Alabamian has 4 more than Pop Warner'

Answer: Bear Bryant


Question: 'This shredded substance puts the queso in a quesadilla'

Answer: Cheese


Question: 'The song heard here was a 1989 Top 10 single for this group:'

Answer: Aerosmith


Question: 'Twice a day, these web-footed birds march through the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis'

Answer: Ducks


Question: 'The D.C. United plays this sport outside while the Warthogs play it indoors'

Answer: Soccer


Question: 'On "Another Saturday Night" you'll find him "Sitting" on a "Peace Train" until "Morning Has Broken"'

Answer: Cat Stevens


Question: 'Before moving, this baseball team was called, "First in War, First in Peace & Last in the American League"'

Answer: Washington Senators


Question: 'This "Good Morning, Vietnam" star once studied drama with John Houseman'

Answer: Robin Williams


Question: 'Former senators Alan Simpson & this man co-chair Project Independence to reform campaign finances'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: 'When Lex gets hungry & bored, he toasts marshmallows over this gas device named for a German chemist'

Answer: Bunsen burner


Question: 'In 1993 he was "In the Line of Fire" as Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'An easy one of our English rhymes: Henry VIII wed this many times'

Answer: 6


Question: 'He was nicknamed "Red" as a child, but you know him better as "Silent Cal"'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'Once meaning "lacking religious beliefs", it now means cheating on your spouse'

Answer: Unfaithful


Question: 'Bob Chase, the president of this teachers' union, has a regular column in the Washington Post'

Answer: NEA (National Education Association)


Question: 'This star of "Grumpy Old Men" played a grumpy Supreme Court justice in "First Monday in October"'

Answer: Walter Matthau


Question: 'A "Major" change was the designation, so Britain accepted her '90 resignation'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'As a youth, this Georgian was nicknamed "Hot", short for "Hot Shot"'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'It once meant "an insult", so you'd be adding insult to...insult'

Answer: Injury


Question: 'Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra starred in this 1962 political thriller based on a novel by Richard Condon'

Answer: The Manchurian Candidate


Question: 'In 1788 convicts were bound for this big land that Cook had found'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'William McKinley was known as the "Idol of" this Buckeye state, his birthplace'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Now it's a den in which you'd find an animal lion around; a long time ago, it was "a coach"'

Answer: Lair


Question: 'In "All the President's Men", Hal Holbrook played this informer whose true identity is still a mystery'

Answer: "Deep Throat"


Question: 'In '43 this prime minister man was one of the Big 3 who met in Teheran'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Men who slandered his wife Rachel found out quickly why he was called the "Duel Fighter"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'It was a tavern, or a clump of ivy hung on a pub; today it's a small shrub, or an ex-president'

Answer: Bush


Question: 'This British actor, JFK's brother-in-law, played a U.S. senator in "Advise and Consent"'

Answer: Peter Lawford


Question: 'This "Bachelor President" was affectionately nicknamed "Old Buck"'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'Henry, Jane, Peter or Bridget might tell you that this 4-letter word once meant "foolish"'

Answer: Fond


Question: 'The Italian name of this 15th century masterpiece is "L'Ultima Cena"'

Answer: \"The Last Supper\"


Question: 'In "Oliver Twist" Jack Dawkins is better known by this "skillful" name'

Answer: the Artful Dodger


Question: 'Since this was the color of Elizabeth's gown, guests were asked not to wear it'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'The parrot's anatomical feature described as zygodactyl: part faces forward, part back'

Answer: the feet (or the claws)


Question: '"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'Because they often prodded cattle with sticks, cowboys were also known by this term'

Answer: cowpokes


Question: 'India leads all countries in the production of tea, pepper & this legume often eaten by elephants'

Answer: peanuts


Question: 'Don Quixote promises him governorship of an island to become his squire'

Answer: Sancho Panza


Question: 'Rumors said that Bubbles, one of these animals, would carry the rings, but it wasn't true'

Answer: a chimpanzee


Question: 'Experts say seeds from this Kansas state flower should make up no more than 60% of a parrot's diet'

Answer: sunflowers


Question: '"Talk To The Animals"'

Answer: Dr. Dolittle


Question: 'This synonym for a cowboy's lasso is from the Spanish word "reata", meaning rope'

Answer: lariat


Question: 'Most Indian women wear this garment, a straight piece of cloth draped around the body as a long dress'

Answer: a sari


Question: 'In "The Thousand and One Nights" she is the new bride of Shahriar'

Answer: Scheherazade


Question: 'Wedding guest Roddy McDowall also attended Elizabeth's 1st wedding, when she married this hotel heir'

Answer: (Nicky) Hilton


Question: 'Known for its mimicry, one of the most popular parrots is the gray from this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: '"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life"'

Answer: Dirty Dancing


Question: 'By 1870 this hatmaker was the leading producer of cowboy hats'

Answer: Stetson


Question: 'India's first prime minister, he served in that post from 1947 until his death in 1964'

Answer: (Jawaharlal) Nehru


Question: 'He himself is a major character in his epic poem "The Divine Comedy"'

Answer: Dante


Question: 'Elizabeth's son Michael, whose father was this late British actor, helped escort her down the aisle'

Answer: (Michael) Wilding


Question: 'The rare Kakapo parrot of New Zealand is distinct in being unable to do this'

Answer: fly


Question: '"Let The River Run"'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'In 1871 cowboys drove a record number of cattle, 600,000, from Texas to Kansas along this trail'

Answer: the Chisholm Trail


Question: 'India & this country have been disputing ownership of Kashmir since 1947'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'The unattractive & self-seeking Mildred Rogers enslaves Philip Carey in this Somerset Maugham book'

Answer: Of Human Bondage


Question: 'Elizabeth & her new husband spent part of their honeymoon promoting this new perfume'

Answer: White Diamonds


Question: 'This parrot's name might be from "macauba", a tree whose fruit it eats'

Answer: the macaw


Question: '"White Christmas"'

Answer: Holiday Inn


Question: 'In the days of Wyatt Earp & Bat Masterson, this Kansas town was the "Cowboy Capital of the World"'

Answer: Dodge City


Question: 'This capital of the state of West Bengal is India's largest city'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'St. Paul's, the oldest church in Manhattan, is where this pres. attended services after his 1789 inauguration'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Thales in the 6th c. BC said everything came from water; Empedocles later added air & these 2 things'

Answer: fire & earth


Question: 'His 1950 film "Rashomon" made him the 1st Japanese filmmaker to have an impact in Europe & the U.S.'

Answer: Kurosawa


Question: 'This Athenian hill was the site of the Erechteum, a shrine to a legendary king of the city'

Answer: the Acropolis


Question: 'Chiang Ch'ing, this leader's wife, staged the Chinese ballet "The Red Detachment of Women"'

Answer: Mao Zedong


Question: 'In June he announced he would not seek a second term as president of Austria'

Answer: (Kurt) Waldheim


Question: 'A shrine in Allentown, Penn. is built above the spot where this patriotic symbol was hidden in 1777'

Answer: the Liberty Bell


Question: 'This 19th century Danish philosopher was known to his followers as "S.K."'

Answer: (Soren) Kierkegaard


Question: 'This company's co-founder Akio Morita was once in an American Express "Do you know me?" ad'

Answer: Sony


Question: 'Jesus Christ was crucified on this skull-shaped hill outside Jerusalem'

Answer: Golgotha


Question: 'In 1968 the Bolshoi premiered its ballet about this Roman slave revolt leader'

Answer: Spartacus


Question: 'Germany's upper house, the Bundesrat, voted to remain in this city & not to move to Berlin'

Answer: Bonn


Question: 'Cabrillo Nat'l Monument, on the coast of this California city, marks the site where Cabrillo landed in 1542'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'Alfred North Whitehead said European philosophy is "a series of footnotes to" this Greek'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'In 1968 Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese author to win this'

Answer: the Nobel Prize for Literature


Question: 'The Homestake mine, the largest gold mine in the U.S., is in these South Dakota hills'

Answer: the Black Hills


Question: 'Mia Slavenska danced the role of Blanche DuBois at the premiere of this ballet in 1952'

Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire


Question: 'In October President Bush named William Barr to replace Dick Thornburgh in this job'

Answer: Attorney General


Question: 'This national battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md. commemorates the bloodiest single day of the Civil War'

Answer: Antietam


Question: 'John Locke believed no one is born with innate ideas, that at birth the mind is one of these'

Answer: a clean slate (or tabula rasa)


Question: 'Kintaro Hattori may not ring a bell, but the name of this watch co. he founded should'

Answer: Seiko


Question: 'This San Francisco area may take its name from "Nabob", a Hindi word meaning "a rich man"'

Answer: Nob Hill


Question: 'Martha Graham danced the lead in the first U.S. production of "The Rite of Spring" by this composer'

Answer: Stravinsky


Question: 'This sport's WLAF crowned its first champions, the London Monarchs'

Answer: (American) football


Question: 'Built in 1791, Portland Head Light in Maine was one of the first of these authorized by the U.S.'

Answer: a lighthouse


Question: 'St. Anselm is famous for his proof of this'

Answer: the existence of God


Question: 'He's the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra'

Answer: Seiji Ozawa


Question: 'Ancient Rome's streets extended from this hill; today, it's the site of a complex of art galleries'

Answer: the Capitoline


Question: 'Sir Frederick Ashton was principal choreographer of this British company 1935-70'

Answer: the Royal Ballet


Question: 'The Navy apologized for blaming this battleship's gun turret explosion on one of its victims'

Answer: the Iowa


Question: 'This sparsely populated state has the highest percentage of its workforce in tourism, about a third'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'This expensive treat may be the eggs of the north Atlantic lumpfish; read the label!'

Answer: Caviar


Question: 'Little Richard & Rich Little were both born under this sign of the archer'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'The design of the Franklin half dollar includes a deliberate crack in this object'

Answer: The Liberty Bell


Question: 'In October Waynesville, Ohio hosts a 2-day festival devoted to this fermented cabbage dish'

Answer: Sauerkraut


Question: 'Of the males of the 3, the one that can weigh the most'

Answer: Bear


Question: 'Math sign that looks like a hyphen'

Answer: Minus sign


Question: 'Of the Earth's oceans, the Atlantic ranks here in size'

Answer: Second


Question: 'People born under this fishy sign, like Tommy Tune, are often slim & make excellent dancers'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'The face value of the 1-ounce gold American Eagle is $50; this is the face value of the 1/10-ounce'

Answer: $5


Question: 'In mid-July this Maine capital celebrates its Franco-American heritage with Le Festival de la Bastille'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'The 2 you'd find naturally in Siberia'

Answer: Bears & tigers


Question: '2 Samuel 1:25 proclaims "How" have they "fallen in the midst of the battle!"'

Answer: The mighty


Question: 'In 1932 she crossed the Atlantic alone in 13 hours, 30 minutes'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'David Copperfield & Claudia Schiffer must have a lot in common; they share this "maidenly" sign'

Answer: Virgo


Question: 'The figure on a Mercury dime is actually Liberty wearing these on her head, like Mercury'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'Each summer Bridgeport, Connecticut holds a festival honoring this circus showman'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'The 2 that are digitigrade toe-walkers, as opposed to plantigrade, like humans'

Answer: Lions & tigers


Question: 'The process of a cell with 46 chromosomes spilitting into 2 cells, each also with 46 chromosomes'

Answer: Mitosis


Question: 'In July 1866 one of these was laid across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern Steamer'

Answer: Cable


Question: 'Roger Ebert is a Gemini & this partner is an Aquarius; hmmm, their signs are supposed to be compatible'

Answer: Gene Siskel


Question: 'On the back of some of the Denver Mint's 1937 nickels, this animal is missing a leg'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'Many Mexican-Americans celebrate this day on when Mexico defeated France at the Battle of Puebla'

Answer: Cinco de Mayo


Question: 'This city's Herald was founded in 1910'

Answer: Miami


Question: 'This "sea" that lies between the Azores & the West Indies is named for the brown gulfweed floating in it'

Answer: Sargasso Sea


Question: 'Sissy Spacek was born on Christmas Day, so this is her sign'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'Next U.S. one-dollar coin in order:  Morgan, Peace, Eisenhower....'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'The colors green for hope & red for struggle are prominently displayed during this African-American festival'

Answer: Kwanzaa


Question: 'Muscovite is a white type of this rock that splits into thin leaves'

Answer: mica


Question: 'Some still believe a stone found in Kensington, Minn. proves these seafarers once visited there'

Answer: Vikings


Question: 'Ogden Nash rhymed, "I'm fond of women, also wine, but not the song of" this Toklas pal'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'The Great Karroo & the Little Karroo are dry tablelands in this African country's Cape Mountains region'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Brown's Pennsylvania home was a "station" on this'

Answer: The Underground Railroad


Question: 'In 1979 this TV sitcom got a new setting & a new title, "Archie Bunker's Place"'

Answer: "All In The Family"


Question: 'In 1996 Franck Goddio found the ruins of this queen's palace in the port of Alexandria'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In 1922 this novelist said of Ezra Pound, "He's teaching me to write, and I'm teaching him to box"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'The island of Anglesey, which the Welsh call Ynys Mon, lies off the northwest coast of Wales in this sea'

Answer: Irish Sea


Question: '2 of Brown's sons were killed during the attack on the federal arsenal at this site October 16, 1859'

Answer: Harper\'s Ferry


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />TV series that features the star seen here: (Lea Thompson)'

Answer: "Caroline In The City"


Question: 'In 1881 Claudius Rich surveyed this ancient city, including Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace'

Answer: Babylon


Question: 'Longfellow said this "Pride And Prejudice" author's writings "Are a capital picture of real life"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'The fleshy orange coat around the seed of this spice is peeled off & dried to form mace'

Answer: Nutmeg


Question: 'This Baltic country's major cities include Kaunas, Klaipeda & Vilnius'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'This 1862 song shared the melody from the chorus of "John Brown's Body"'

Answer: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"


Question: 'Harry Chapin's only No. 1 song; country singer Ricky Skaggs also had a hit with it, in 1996'

Answer: "Cat\'s In The Cradle"


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />The piece seen here found in Samothrace in 1950, is part of this ancient statue'

Answer: Winged Victory of Samothrace


Question: 'To Robert Greene, Shakespeare was "An upstart" one of these black birds, "beautified with our feathers"'

Answer: Crow


Question: 'Also called Chinese parsley, it's a welcome addition to rice or salsa when chopped'

Answer: Cilantro


Question: 'The only river in this Chilean desert to reach the sea is the Loa'

Answer: Atacama


Question: 'In 1855 Brown & 5 of his sons went to this territory to help the antislavery battle & while there get some land'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'V.C. Andrews' career as an author took off with this 1979 novel'

Answer: "Flowers In The Attic"


Question: 'In November 1996 remains believed to be this pirate's ship were found off North Carolina'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'Yeats described this "Arms And The Man" playwright as "An athiest who trembles in the haunted corridor"'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'The name of this herb essential to French cooking is derived from the Greek for "dragon"'

Answer: Tarragon


Question: 'The westernmost of Canada's prairie provinces, it's bordered on the west by British Columbia'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'In 1858 this president of the U.S. with the same initials offered a reward for Brown's capture'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'In this 1995 film Christian Slater defends Alcatraz inmate Kevin Bacon after he kills another prisoner'

Answer: "Murder In The First"


Question: 'Composer whose works inspired stage hits by David Henry Hwang & Jonathan Larson'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'Playwright George Aiken dramatized this Stowe book & first performed it at Troy, New York, on Sept. 27, 1852'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'In 1996 this Stanford golfer won the NCAA title; the following year, he won the Masters'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'Pepsi Cola is a beverage; Pensacola is a seaport in this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Colby cheese was first made there & is named for a town there'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'The first Asian-American U.S. senator was Hiram Fong, who began representing this state in 1959'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Ich liebe dich'

Answer: German


Question: 'In 1857 this husband of Queen Victoria was given the title Prince Consort'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'The 2005 championship in this sport was held in Stowe, Vt.; the 2006 event, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado'

Answer: skiing


Question: 'Before entering a chateau, you might remove your chapeau, which is one of these'

Answer: a hat


Question: '"Balmer" is the local pronunciation of the largest city in this state'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'In 1993 this person became the first Asian American to anchor a major network TV newscast'

Answer: Connie Chung


Question: 'Ya vas lyublyu'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'Carolers at Christmastime 1855 first sang this song whose title precedes "Glory to the newborn King"'

Answer: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"


Question: 'Since 1966 this Big 10 football coach has won a record 21 Bowl games, including the 2006 Orange Bowl against Fla. State'

Answer: Joe Paterno


Question: 'Anesthesia is something you get before surgery; Anastasia was the youngest daughter of this Russian empress'

Answer: Alexandra


Question: 'Shots like the one seen here show you why it's the Evergreen State'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'The first Asian American to command a U.S. combat battalion was Young Oak Kim during this war'

Answer: WW II


Question: 'Jag alskar dig'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'In 1852 Schleswig was made a part of this Scandinavian nation; in 1864 it was lost to Prussia & Austria'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Chad Fox is one of only 2 men to win any NCAA gymnastics event 4 straight years; his specialty was this "leaping" one'

Answer: the vault


Question: 'A Kugel is a crusty baked pudding; kegling is another name for this game'

Answer: bowling


Question: 'Republicans Sam Brownback & Pat Roberts are its senate delegation'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'The first Asian to win an acting Oscar was Haing Ngor, Best Supporting Actor for this 1984 film'

Answer: The Killing Fields


Question: 'Wo ie ni'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'In 1852 this singer married her accompanist Otto Goldschmidt in Boston while touring America'

Answer: Jenny Lind


Question: '2 college players have rushed for more than 2,300 yards in a season: Barry Sanders & this USC back, later a Raider'

Answer: Marcus Allen


Question: 'Alimony is what you pay to an ex; this is a brittle silvery-white metallic element, atomic no. 51'

Answer: antimony


Question: 'Aside from 3 West Coast states, it was the westernmost state of the lower 48 won by Kerry in 2004'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'Sadly Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American in space, was on this 1986 shuttle flight'

Answer: Challenger


Question: 'Yr wyf i'n dy garu di'

Answer: Welsh


Question: 'The opposite of antibiotic, it's a term for healthful bacteria in yogurt'

Answer: probiotic


Question: 'An aggressive "60 Minutes" interviewer, back in the 1950s he hosted "Guess Again" & "The Big Surprise"'

Answer: Mike Wallace


Question: 'The most-visited Catholic shrine in the Americas is Mexico's Basilica of Our Lady of this'

Answer: Guadalupe