Question: 'The absence of this centuries-old martial art from the Olympics has left medal hopefuls "empty-hand"ed'

Answer: karate


Question: 'Called "The Valley Isle", its best beaches include Kaanapali & Wailea'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'In a bad mood today?  I could tell by that "chip on your" this'

Answer: shoulder


Question: 'He was the first man to be a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame & the Broadcasters Hall of Fame'

Answer: Frank Gifford


Question: 'The name of this largest part of the brain is Latin for "brain"'

Answer: the cerebrum


Question: 'Artistic clues help reveal the secret location of the Holy Grail in this thriller by Dan Brown'

Answer: The Da Vinci Code


Question: 'The first associations for this non-Olympic sport were set up in Scotland in the mid-18th century'

Answer: golf


Question: 'A plethora of hiking & riding trails are in this Virginia valley whose name means "daughter of the stars"'

Answer: Shenandoah


Question: 'Give up during a fight & you may be forced to "say" or "cry" this relative'

Answer: uncle


Question: 'He was Philly's police commissioner before being elected mayor in 1971'

Answer: Frank Rizzo


Question: 'When your ears "pop", it's just air escaping from this tube that connects the middle ear & the throat'

Answer: the eustachian tube


Question: 'If this heroine had married Prince Yamadori, there might not be that nasty suicide in Act III'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'This London wax museum advertises itself as the place that "has come alive" with interactive exhibits'

Answer: Madame Tussauds


Question: 'Jimmy Carter'

Answer: E-A-R-L


Question: 'Frank Sinatra ad-libbed "Scooby Dooby Doo" in this 1966 No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Strangers in the Night"


Question: 'The Irian Jaya region has been the easternmost province of this nation since the 1960s'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'Where you keep your arrows'

Answer: quiver


Question: 'Some merry wives dress up like fairies in Verdi's 1893 opera named for this Shakespearean character'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'Of locations in the titles of the Hope-Crosby "Road" movies, this African one is last alphabetically'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'Lyndon Johnson'

Answer: B-A-I-N-E-S


Question: 'Shortly after they premiered "Love Child" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1968, the song shot to No. 1'

Answer: the Supremes


Question: 'With its tropical jungles, Irian Jaya is home to nearly 3,000 species of this plant'

Answer: orchids


Question: 'A trivial objection'

Answer: quibble


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Germany)  Paintings in the singers' hall at Neuschwanstein depict this knight who sought the Holy Grail & inspired an opera'

Answer: Parsifal


Question: 'This weekday was named to honor the chief god in Norse mythology'

Answer: Wednesday (for Woden)


Question: 'Franklin Roosevelt'

Answer: D-E-L-A-N-O


Question: 'This Broadway tune was Louis Armstrong's only Top 40 hit in the 1960s'

Answer: "Hello, Dolly!"


Question: 'The capital, Jayapura, surrendered to the military forces of this country in 1942'

Answer: Japan


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard)  Also the name of a device for measuring the angle of a star, it's the arc highlighted in blue'

Answer: quadrant


Question: 'The title characters of this opera are a poor boy, King Kaspar, King Melchior & King Balthazar'

Answer: Amahl and the Night Visitors


Question: 'Tegucigalpa is this Central American country's capital city'

Answer: Honduras


Question: 'Richard Nixon'

Answer: M-I-L-H-O-U-S


Question: 'This drummer-led British quintet starred in the movie "Having a Wild Weekend"'

Answer: the Dave Clark Five


Question: 'In 1828 this nation claimed Irian Jaya as part of its East Indies territories'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'A senior barrister in an English high court is one of these counsels'

Answer: Queen\'s counsel


Question: 'Marenka, whose parents betroth her to a man she has never met, is the title character of this Smetana opera'

Answer: The Bartered Bride


Question: 'Dentist Alfred Southwick developed this device used in 1890 on a convict named William Kemmler'

Answer: the electric chair


Question: 'Rutherford Hayes'

Answer: B-I-R-C-H-A-R-D


Question: 'As the 1960s began, Marty Robbins was riding the top of the pop & country charts with this hit'

Answer: "El Paso"


Question: 'Irian Jaya's Arfak Mountains Reserve is an important rainforest enclave for these large butterflies with an avian name'

Answer: the birdwing


Question: 'One of the 7 hills upon which ancient Rome was built'

Answer: Quirinal


Question: 'Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion"'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'A king described Nepal as "a yam between two boulders"; one is India, this is the other'

Answer: China


Question: 'Steve Miller had a No. 2 hit with this 1977 song'

Answer: "Fly Like An Eagle"


Question: 'In September 1984 Joe W. Kittinger became the first to solo across the Atlantic in one of these'

Answer: a hot air balloon


Question: 'At 3,031 miles in diameter, this planet is the second smallest in our solar system'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'If an area has a yearly average of less than 10 inches of precipitation, it's classified as this'

Answer: a desert


Question: 'What Monet used to hold up this work while he painted it'

Answer: an easel


Question: 'The golden age of Licchavi rule was followed by 300 years of these ages, also a term used of medieval Europe'

Answer: the Dark Ages


Question: 'This songs begins "He rocks in the tree tops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song"'

Answer: "Rockin\' Robin"


Question: 'In 1936 this company's DC-3 became the first successful commercial airliner; some are still in service'

Answer: Douglas


Question: 'In the time it takes this planet to orbit the sun once, you'd get over 90,000 deliveries of your daily paper'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'The stations on the route of this old west mail service were set up about 10 miles apart'

Answer: the Pony Express


Question: 'A military agreement to stop fighting for a limited time'

Answer: ceasefire


Question: 'Promulgated in 1990, the Nepali constitution is the only one in the world that makes this the state religion'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'This bird is mentioned in the lyrics of both "Over The Rainbow" & "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"'

Answer: bluebird


Question: 'Scows & lighters are types of these flat-bottomed boats used in harbors'

Answer: barges


Question: 'The name of Antares, a red giant star, means "the rival of" this planet'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'In 1978 the Wildcats & the Sun Devils from this state bumped the Pac-8 up to the Pac-10'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'The otter is an aquatic member of this animal family'

Answer: weasel


Question: 'Because this was Dipendra's title when he killed his father in 2001, he was briefly king before dying of his own wounds'

Answer: Crown Prince


Question: 'Anne Murray asked it to "Take me... to that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow"'

Answer: snowbird


Question: 'Old locomotives had this pointed grill in front of the engine to remove obstacles from the tracks'

Answer: cowcatchers


Question: 'The USA's Mariner 2 was sent to check out this nearby planet'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'The National Labor Relations Act says health care workers have to give 10 days' notice before they do this'

Answer: strike


Question: 'The political strategy of pacifying a hostile nation in the hope of avoiding war'

Answer: appeasement


Question: 'This name of the dynasty that has ruled Nepal since 1769 is also the Persian word for "King"'

Answer: Shah


Question: 'Like Shelley, Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael wrote an ode to this title bird'

Answer: skylark


Question: 'In 1775 Daniel Boone & 30 expert woodsmen marked this 200-mile trail from Virginia to Kentucky'

Answer: Wilderness Road


Question: 'Voyager II flew by this planet January 24, 1986, 205 years after its discovery'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'According to the title of an Alistair MacLean novel, it's where "Force 10" was "from"'

Answer: Navarone


Question: 'Waxy, colored makeup used by actors'

Answer: greasepaint


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Hermitage in Tennessee, a gold sword in his hands.)  Jackson received this sword in honor of this 1815 victory that made him a national hero'

Answer: The Battle of New Orleans


Question: '"Affair" is common to Sly Stone & Brian Keith'

Answer: Family Affair


Question: 'In Daniel Defoe's "General History of" these West Indies operators, Blackbeard carries 12 pistols & has 14 wives'

Answer: Pirates


Question: 'You can rent Lincolns & Volvos at Hertz; all 3 are owned by this automaker'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Ogden Nash wrote, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us" this'

Answer: why


Question: 'An old proverb tells us "there is truth in" this beverage'

Answer: wine


Question: 'The earliest known letter written by Jackson is, naturally, a challenge to this'

Answer: a duel


Question: 'England's one "of the Garter" is "most noble"'

Answer: Order


Question: 'In the 1790s France recaptured Guadeloupe & introduced this bloody device there'

Answer: guillotine


Question: 'This brewer tapped O'Doul's as a brand'

Answer: Anheuser-Busch


Question: 'Robert Burns wrote, "And we'll tak' a cup o'kindness yet for" this'

Answer: auld lang syne


Question: 'Jot this down--habeas corpus is an example of one of these court-issued orders'

Answer: writ


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Hermitage in Tennessee holding a pendant.)  Jackson was never without his miniature of this woman, who died just before he became President'

Answer: Rachel Robards


Question: 'Before "Dawson's Creek" Michelle Williams played the young part-alien, part-human Sil in this film'

Answer: Species


Question: 'In 1868 Carlos de Cespedes, heading a 147-man army, proclaimed this island free of Spain--didn't work'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'This Iowa company can send its repairmen to fix its Magic Chef & Admiral appliances & its Hoover vacuums'

Answer: Maytag


Question:
'3 words ending Dryden's
"Here lies my wife:
Here let her lie!
Now she's at rest and..."'

Answer: so am I


Question: 'In May 2004 an 18-year old German student confessed to creating the "Sasser" one'

Answer: worm


Question: 'In 1883 Harvard gave Jackson an honorary degree while this alumnus & presidential opponent fumed'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'This Queen Latifah-Catherine Zeta-Jones number was cut from "Chicago" but made it onto the soundtrack'

Answer: "Class"


Question: 'The wealth provided by this crop led Britain & France to 4 decades of war in the 18th century Caribbean'

Answer: sugar


Question: 'Wyeth, formerly American Home Products, owns this cough syrup recommended by "Dr. Mom"'

Answer: Robitussin


Question: 'Writing about this ancient author, Keats mused, "There is a triple sight in blindness keen"'

Answer: Homer


Question: 'Though later Republican, while governor of New York, William Seward belonged to this political party'

Answer: Whig


Question: 'The main issue of the 1832 campaign was Jackson's opposition to this type of institution'

Answer: the Bank of the United States


Question: 'In a 2000 TV miniseries Kimberly Williams found herself in "The 10th" this'

Answer: Kingdom


Question: 'Ashland has a very refined line, including this brand, whose logo is seen here'

Answer: Valvoline


Question: 'Goldsmith rhymed, "When lovely woman stoops to" this, "What charm can soothe her melancholy?"'

Answer: folly


Question: 'A cactus one is seen here in the photo'

Answer: wren


Question: 'Of the USA's 10 most populous cities, 1 of the 2 that dropped in population from 1990 to 2000'

Answer: (1 of) Detroit or Philadelphia


Question:
'Paris,
Madrid,
Rome'

Answer: Paris


Question: '"Digital" slogan used by KFC'

Answer: "Finger-lickin\' good"


Question: 'This 1999 album contains "Livin' La Vida Loca" & "Shake Your Bon-Bon"'

Answer: "Ricky Martin"


Question: 'In 1917 an ammunition ship explosion in this Nova Scotia capital leveled 2 square miles & killed 1,600 people'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'These "elephantine" features on walruses can be up to 3 feet long & weigh 12 pounds'

Answer: Tusks


Question: 'Proverbially, what's good for it is also good for the gander'

Answer: The goose


Question:
'Beirut,
Ankara,
Tel Aviv'

Answer: Ankara


Question: 'The work seen here is located in this chapel, erected 1473-1481'

Answer: The Sistine Chapel


Question: 'No. 1 songs from this 1990 album included "Vision Of Love" & "Someday"'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'This Pennsylvania city had more than $200 million in damage when it was flooded yet again in 1977'

Answer: Johnstown


Question: 'The walrus is valued by Eskimos for this, a fat layer under the skin from which oil is made'

Answer: Blubber


Question: 'Disney character who hit the big time in 1932's "Mickey's Revue"'

Answer: Goofy


Question:
'Canberra,
Wellington,
Jakarta'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: 'Equal to about 9 inches, a span is measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of this'

Answer: Little finger (pinky)


Question: '"Sailing" sailed off this 1980 album'

Answer: "Christopher Cross"


Question: 'In 1992 "He" hit the Bahamas, Florida & Louisiana, causing about $22 billion in damage'

Answer: Hurricane Andrew


Question: 'Some walruses can live up to this many years, or 20 terms for a U.S. Congressman'

Answer: 40


Question: 'A "nutty" state nickname for Georgia'

Answer: "The Goober State"


Question:
'Brasilia,
Santiago,
Caracas'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'Dactyloscopy is the practice of using these as a means of identification'

Answer: Fingerprints


Question: '"That's The Way Love Goes" is on this album, period'

Answer: "Janet"


Question: 'Egyptair flight 990 went down in the waters of Nantucket not far from where this Italian liner sank in 1956'

Answer: Andrea Doria


Question: 'A walrus feeds on these mollusks, though we doubt they're served "casino"'

Answer: Clams


Question: 'Term for a black-footed albatross found on islands in the Pacific'

Answer: Goonie birds


Question:
'New Delhi,
Beijing,
Islamabad'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Keuka, Seneca & Cayuga, for example'

Answer: Finger Lakes


Question: '"Dimelo (I Need To Know)" the title of this album that includes that song'

Answer: "Marc Anthony"


Question: 'In the worst aviation disaster, nearly 600 people were killed when 2 jets collided on Tenerife in this island group'

Answer: Canary Islands


Question: 'Nicknamed "The Walrus", this golfer seen here won the 1982 Masters'

Answer: Craig Stadler


Question: 'She's the British chimp expert born April 3, 1934'

Answer: Jane Goodall


Question: 'Templar enlistment rose dramatically following writings by this medieval saint who shares his name with a dog breed'

Answer: Saint Bernard


Question: '1964:<br />"I sold flowers.  I didn't sell myself.  Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else"'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'What was once the town of Raritan is now named for this "inventive" New Jersey resident'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Adina de Zavala, who barricaded herself inside this San Antonio landmark to save it in 1908, inspired a 1999 novel'

Answer: The Alamo


Question: 'Section of the Los Angeles Times that covers money matters like the stock market & personal finance'

Answer: Business


Question: 'Less than a friend, one may be "passing"'

Answer: Acquaintance


Question: 'Burned at the stake in 1314, Jacques De Molay was the last Templar of this title, today used by chess players'

Answer: Grandmaster


Question: '1974:<br />"No, it's pronounced Eye-Gor"'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'Known as "Bull", this WWII admiral from Elizabeth said he didn't trust a man who doesn't drink or smoke'

Answer: William F. Halsey


Question: '"Henry St. John, Gentleman" is set in this Virginia valley at the onset of the American Revolution'

Answer: Shenandoah Valley


Question: 'The cabaletta is the last section of one of these songs in an opera'

Answer: Aria


Question: 'This term for what an adolescent grows into comes from the same Latin root'

Answer: Adult


Question: 'By arresting them all & seizing their property in 1307, this country's Philip IV began the suppression of the Templars'

Answer: France


Question: '1970:<br />"All you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich..."'

Answer: Five Easy Pieces


Question: 'New Jersey-born singer-actor seen here:'

Answer: Jon Bon Jovi


Question: 'The 3rd book in James Reasoner's Civil War saga is named for this Maryland battle the Rebels called Sharpsburg'

Answer: Antietam


Question: 'The ordinary conic sections are the hyperbola, the parabola, the ellipse & this'

Answer: Circle


Question: 'They're what the 2 "A"s in NASA stand for'

Answer: Aeronautics & Administration


Question: 'Only Templar knights wore the distinctive white surcoats emblazoned with this symbol'

Answer: Red cross


Question: '1992:<br />"You be sweet to your wife.  My husband wasn't sweet to me and look how I turned out"'

Answer: Thelma & Louise


Question: 'This director of "Lone Star", "Passion Fish" & "Return of the Secaucus Seven" has long been based in Hoboken'

Answer: John Sayles


Question: 'Jane Porter's 1810 novel "The Scottish Chiefs" tells the story of this man, the hero of "Braveheart"'

Answer: William Wallace


Question: 'The banana section rooted for its own celebrity couple on this Bert Convy show'

Answer: Tattletales


Question: 'Meaning "walking", it's how Shakespeare's Henry V & Sherlock Holmes described "the game"'

Answer: Afoot


Question: 'The last Templar headquarters & base for attacks on Palestine was this eastern Mediterranean island'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: '1988:<br />"I have a head for business and a bod for sin"'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'James Bayley, bishop of Newark, named this Jersey school after his aunt, the first U.S.-born saint'

Answer: Seton Hall (after Elizabeth Ann Seton)


Question: 'The first novel written by a Zulu in the Zulu language was John L. Dube's novel about this great Zulu chief'

Answer: Shaka


Question: 'Gandy dancer is a slang term for a gang laborer who maintains sections of this'

Answer: Railroad track


Question: 'Term for a person who studies or teaches the ABCs'

Answer: Abecedarian


Question: 'The first one, built in 1893, consisted of 2,200 tons of steel, rose 268 feet & had 36 cars each carrying 60 people'

Answer: Ferris Wheel


Question: 'Taking 3 years, Roald Amundsen became the first to travel through this long-sought passage'

Answer: Northwest Passage


Question: 'When he sprouted in Brussels, his name was Jean-Claude Van Varenberg'

Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme


Question: 'The capital building in this city contains several murals by Thomas Hart Benton'

Answer: Jefferson City


Question: 'The diameter of this part of the eye & its shrinkage in bright light are measured in millimeters'

Answer: Pupil


Question: 'This word shouted to call pigs may be an alteration of "sow"'

Answer: Sooey!


Question: 'A good month for fools<br />            (5)'

Answer: April


Question: 'In May 1910 Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal & the Orange Free State formed the union of this'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Gloria Fajardo was the maiden name of this Havana-born singer who fled to Miami as a toddler'

Answer: Gloria Estefan


Question: 'This state nickname is often attributed to congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver'

Answer: "The Show-Me State"


Question: 'Mature domestic pigs have 44 permanent ones of these, which replace 28 temporary ones'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'Solo, for Sills<br />           (4)'

Answer: Aria


Question: 'This car company was founded in Detroit August 22, 1902 & named after an 18th century French explorer'

Answer: Cadillac


Question: 'This action star famous for performing his own stunts was born Chan Kwong-Sang in Hong Kong'

Answer: Jackie Chan


Question: 'Missouri's largest body of water is a man-made lake named for this president'

Answer: Harry Truman (Harry Truman Resevoir)


Question: 'The standard index card sizes in America are 5" X 8", 4" X 6" & this'

Answer: 3" X 5"


Question: 'The Tamworth & Lacombe breeds of pig are raised primarily for this breakfast meat'

Answer: Bacon


Question: 'Galloping Gourmet garment<br />            (5)'

Answer: Apron


Question: 'This age of fashion was ushered into England January 22, 1901'

Answer: The Edwardian Age


Question: 'Mark Wahlberg made his mark as a rap singer & Calvin Klein underwear model under this name'

Answer: Marky Mark


Question: 'Near Mansfield you can visit the house where she wrote her "Little House" books'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'What the British call a billion, we call this'

Answer: Trillion


Question: 'This 4-letter word refers to a male pig, whether "wild" or not'

Answer: Boar


Question: 'Malaria mosquito<br />             (9)'

Answer: Anopheles


Question: 'On June 27, 1905 the crew of this Russian naval vessel mutinied in Odessa's harbor'

Answer: Potemkin


Question: 'This star of the film "Georgia" was born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; her father was "Combat" star Vic Morrow'

Answer: Jennifer Jason Leigh


Question: 'Like Kentucky's, the state seal of Missouri features this phrase implying a need for solidarity'

Answer: "United we stand, divided we fall"


Question: 'The longest months on the Jewish calendar have this many days'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Pigs are clean creatures; they only do this for protection from insects & to keep cool'

Answer: Play in the mud


Question: 'Type of tuna<br />            (3)'

Answer: Ahi


Question: 'From 1815 to 1821 the Farmhouse of Longwood on the island of St. Helena was this exile's home'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'The short-grain type of this contains higher levels of amylopectin, the starch that makes it sticky'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'Recent news of "The Inheritance", an unpublished novel by this "Little Women" author, had film studios buzzing'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'Only 12 episodes were made of this series starring John Cleese as a Torquay hotelier'

Answer: "Fawlty Towers"


Question: 'During World War II, this Polish capital was virtually destroyed'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'Often abbreviated cresc., it's the opposite of diminuendo'

Answer: Crescendo


Question: 'This famous printer was exiled from Mainz in 1462 during the sack of the city'

Answer: Johannes Gutenburg


Question: 'It's name comes from Dutch meaning "beech wheat" -- its fruits resemble beechnuts'

Answer: Buckwheat


Question: 'He wrote that in Oz he eliminated the stereotyped genie, dwarf & fairy of old-time tales'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: 'Comedy Central hit it big in 1994 with this British import starring Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley'

Answer: "Absolutely Fabulous"


Question: 'Scotland's largest city, it's home to the Scottish Opera & the Scottish Ballet'

Answer: Glasgow


Question: 'Mussorgsky & Glinka composed music for this dance that originated among the Mazurs of eastern Europe'

Answer: Mazurka


Question: 'This current world leader spent 1959-1963 in exile after trying to assassinate PM Abdul Karim Kassem'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'Quinoa, like other non-cereal grains, is rich in lysine, one of these protein components'

Answer: Amino Acids


Question: '"Hocus Pocus" was a 1990 book by this "Cat's Cradle" novelist'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'This computer-created Matt Frewer character had a British music video show before the U.S. drama'

Answer: Max Headroom


Question: 'This Norwegian city was the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics'

Answer: Lillehammer


Question: 'A naughty child's toys rebel against him in this "Bolero" composer's opera "L'Enfant et Les Sortileges"'

Answer: Maurice Ravel


Question: 'After being overthrown by Castro in 1959, he spent his last 14 years in exile'

Answer: Fulgencio Batista


Question: 'Much of this grain grown in the U.S. is malted for use in breakfast cereal or for alcoholic beverages'

Answer: Barley


Question: '"Deathtrap" playwright who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby" & "A Kiss Before Dying"'

Answer: Ira Levin


Question: 'In 1980 her "Walkies!" command made her a star on British TV'

Answer: Barbara Woodhouse


Question: 'Continental Europe's 1st cotton spinning mill was built in this city in 1800; in 1814 a famous treaty was signed there'

Answer: Ghent


Question: 'In 1892 this Finn married Aino Jarnefelt, sister of the Finnish-born composer Armas Jarnefelt'

Answer: Jean Sibelius


Question: 'This author went into exile after her uncle, president of Chile, died in a 1973 coup'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'The name of this grain comes from triticum & secale, the genus names of wheat & rye'

Answer: Triticale


Question: 'Woman who wrote "Tex", "Rumble Fish" & "Taming the Star Runner"'

Answer: S.E. Hinton


Question: 'This miniseries was based on Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet"'

Answer: "The Jewel In The Crown"


Question: 'The castle church to which Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses is a landmark of this German city'

Answer: Wittenburg


Question: 'Last name shared by Swedish composer Bo & Swedish sopranos Christine & Birgit'

Answer: Nilsson


Question: 'The knife he used to stab Major Henry Rathbone is in a Washington, D.C. museum'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West'

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok


Question: 'Before "Survivor", he traveled more than 300,000 miles as an "Access Hollywood" correspondent'

Answer: Jeff Probst


Question: 'CRANE BAR'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'It's a canine cure for a hangover'

Answer: hair of the dog that bit you


Question: 'This American organization undertook its first disaster relief in 1881, aiding victims of a forest fire'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'Decca Records rejected signing this band in 1962, saying, "we don't like their sound" & guitars are on the way out'

Answer: the Beatles


Question: 'This Mass. man is remembered for introducing a certain pear to the U.S. in the 1800s; he named it for himself'

Answer: (Enoch) Bartlett


Question: 'He put together a band that was initially called the New Yardbirds; the band later got a new name--Led Zeppelin'

Answer: Jimmy Page


Question: 'LUMBER ONE'

Answer: Melbourne


Question: 'We need to have an open & honest conversation so "let's talk" this bird'

Answer: turkey


Question: 'Bill Novelli is the CEO of this organization for those 50 & older'

Answer: AARP


Question: 'This prez' second inaugural address was the shortest in history, only about 30 seconds long, possibly due to bad teeth'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'When the Paris stock exchange crashed in 1883, Paul Gauguin lost this day job, which changed his life'

Answer: a stock broker


Question: 'He played Duke Washburn, Curly's twin brother, in "City Slickers II"'

Answer: Jack Palance


Question: 'EARN BIBS'

Answer: Brisbane


Question: 'Beastly "bounce" in stock prices that's a brief & insignificant recovery after a steep decline'

Answer: a dead cat bounce


Question: 'George H.W. Bush, a "big shot" in this organization, resigned from it in May 1995'

Answer: the NRA (National Rifle Association)


Question: '"Hemp for victory" was a U.S. government slogan to urge farmers to help win this war'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'Before he was king, William II of the Netherlands commanded the Dutch troops in this June 18, 1815 battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'In "Goodfellas", this actor memorably said, "I'm funny how... I'm funny like a clown, I amuse you?"'

Answer: Joe Pesci


Question: 'INWARD'

Answer: Darwin


Question: 'It's any crudely operated tribunal that makes a fair trial impossible'

Answer: a kangaroo court


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Abu Simbel in Egypt.) In the 1960s this U.N. organization raised the temples of Abu Simbel up out of the way of flooding caused when the Aswan High Dam was built'

Answer: UNESCO


Question: 'There are about 4,000 species of mammals, 8,700 species of birds & 1 million known species of these creatures'

Answer: insects


Question: 'In 1849 this "fishy" guy who would later be on the $10,000 bill was elected to the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Salmon P. Chase


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew doesn't fret at all.)  This man who revolutionized bass playing with the group Weather Report made his own fretless bass by pulling out the frets & filling in the grooves'

Answer: Jaco Pastorius


Question: 'A DEAD LIE'

Answer: Adelaide


Question: 'It's the type of fixture seen here'

Answer: a gooseneck lamp


Question: 'Founded in 1913, this organization fights the USA's second-leading cause of death'

Answer: the American Cancer Society


Question: 'In 2002 the Hormel corporation produced its 6 billionth can of this foodstuff'

Answer: Spam


Question: 'We think this "Nutcracker" composer took his time on his 2nd symphony, though it turned out a "Little Russian"'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'They're the 2 actors who won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone'

Answer: Marlon Brando & Robert DeNiro


Question: 'The Rathskeller at Ky.'s Seelbach Hilton boasts a tooled leather ceiling decorated with the 12 signs of this'

Answer: the zodiac


Question: 'Pocahontas State Park'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Britomart, the female knight of chastity, is one of the characters symbolizing this queen in "The Faerie Queene"'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'In the classic proverb, these "think alike"'

Answer: great minds


Question: 'You might call this great German composer "The Lord of the Ring (Cycle)"'

Answer: (Richard) Wagner


Question: 'She's had 5 Oscar-nominated roles: Gloria Wandrous, Martha, Susanna Drake, Maggie Pollitt & Catherine Holly'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'This big rodent represents industry & activity on Toronto's coat of arms'

Answer: the beaver


Question: 'Waimea Canyon State Park'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Isabelle in "This Side of Paradise" is one of several heroines inspired by his college girlfriend Ginevra King'

Answer: (F. Scott) Fitzgerald


Question: 'Stuart Gorrell wrote the lyrics & Hoagy Carmichael the music to this state song'

Answer: "Georgia On My Mind"


Question: 'His "Rigoletto" contains the aria "La Donna e Mobile"'

Answer: Verdi


Question: 'These brothers won Oscars for writing, directing & producing the "Best Picture" of 2007'

Answer: the Coen Brothers


Question: 'Symbols of the goddess Hecate, a star & one of these, were seen on Byzantine coins & later adopted by the Turks'

Answer: a crescent


Question: 'Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park'

Answer: California


Question: 'The curator of the Lahore museum in "Kim" is based on this author's father, who actually held that post'

Answer: (Rudyard) Kipling


Question: 'If you're legally non compos mentis, you're "not of" this'

Answer: sound mind


Question: 'His remains were sealed into a cliff projecting over a fjord near Troldhaugen, his home'

Answer: Edvard Grieg


Question: 'The 3 hour & 46 minute awards telecast in 1998 was 30 minutes longer than this, its Best Picture winner'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'In heraldry, a double quatrefoil, which has this many leaves, actually represents a ninth son'

Answer: 8


Question: 'Cherokee Landing State Park'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Carol Matthau (Walter's wife) claimed that she was the inspiration for this Truman Capote heroine'

Answer: Holly Golightly


Question: 'A criminal genius, or a popular British game show'

Answer: a mastermind


Question: 'This composer made his last appearance as a conductor in 1900, leading the Czech Philharmonic in Prague'

Answer: Dvořák


Question: 'In 1979 honorary Oscars went to Laurence Olivier & this creator of Woody Woodpecker'

Answer: Walter Lantz


Question: 'This fabled eagle hybrid became a symbol of Jesus' dual nature because of its mastery of earth & sky'

Answer: the griffin


Question: 'Fort Necessity State Park, now a part of the Fort Necessity National Battlefield'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Grace Brown, who was killed at Big Moose Lake, inspired Roberta Alden, who drowns in his "An American Tragedy"'

Answer: Theodore Dreiser


Question: 'In 1987 critic Allan Bloom wrote a bestseller about "The Closing of" this'

Answer: the American mind


Question: 'For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team'

Answer: the Chicago Cubs


Question: 'Your average housecat can extend & sheathe most of these at will'

Answer: claws


Question: '"Piano Man"'

Answer: Billy Joel


Question: 'The name of this sheer, fluffy silk is also used for a fluffy lemon pie'

Answer: chiffon


Question: 'He fathered the current Prince of Wales'

Answer: Prince Philip


Question: 'Useful in navigation because it's unaffected by magnetism, a gyrocompass points toward this location'

Answer: North Pole


Question: 'You sign them as soon as you buy them & sign them again when paying for merchandise abroad'

Answer: traveler\'s checks


Question: 'Nepetalactone is the main ingredient in this pleasure-inducing mint plant'

Answer: catnip


Question: '"The Cute Beatle"'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Chenille, French for "velvety cord", literally refers to this insect that may look like a velvety cord'

Answer: caterpillar


Question: 'He fathered 2 queens of England by 2 different women'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: '(Clue with the Clue Crew missing because of a tape problem)'


Question: 'They are painful contractions of hand muscles while utilizing your penmanship'

Answer: writer\'s cramp


Question: 'Special muscles control these, also known as vibrissae, to help kitty feel its way around in low light'

Answer: whiskers


Question: '"Pearl"'

Answer: Janis Joplin


Question: 'Sackcloth was originally made of this animal's hair; mohair still is'

Answer: goat


Question: 'He died from typhoid fever at age 42 in 1861, but not before he fathered King Edward VII'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'By percentage of overall landmass, this 109-acre country is one of the most urbanized nations in the world'

Answer: Vatican City


Question: 'You don't hear much about this 19th C. American civil engineer, husband of a famous portrait subject'

Answer: Whistler\'s father


Question: 'As this 2000 Ben Stiller movie showed, you can toilet train a cat'

Answer: Meet the Parents


Question: '"Slowhand"'

Answer: Eric Clapton


Question: 'Kersey is a coarse, woolen cloth; this, one letter away, is an elastic knit cotton'

Answer: jersey


Question: 'Born in what's now France, he fathered William Rufus & Henry I'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'These areas were given a 3-mile limit in 1789 because 3 miles was the maximum distance cannons could fire a shot'

Answer: shorelines


Question: 'U.S. real estate in 2000 was this, a situation of high prices & demand exceeding supply'

Answer: seller\'s market


Question: 'The mother of this breed is considered to be a cat named Wong Mau, imported to the U.S. from Rangoon'

Answer: Burmese


Question: '"The Motor City Madman"'

Answer: Ted Nugent


Question: 'The name of this smooth, closely woven cotton cloth used in bedsheets is from a Persian word'

Answer: percale


Question: 'He fathered the current monarch'

Answer: George VI


Question: 'To avoid storms, planes will often fly in this relatively peaceful atmosphere layer that's just below the mesosphere'

Answer: stratosphere


Question: 'Graham Parker sang, "I get left in the cold 'cause I will search the world for" this deceiving stuff'

Answer: fool\'s gold


Question: 'This tributary of the Mississippi is even longer than the Mississippi itself'

Answer: Missouri River


Question: 'The weapons in this board game are a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a candlestick & a revolver'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'In 1758 he resigned his commission in the Virginia militia; in 1759 he married Martha Custis'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '[video clue]'

Answer: the peace sign


Question: 'This character says, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" & "To thine own self be true"'

Answer: Polonius


Question: 'Although many believe Gibson was born in Australia, he was actually born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill in this state'

Answer: New York


Question: 'It's the longest river entirely within England'

Answer: Thames


Question: '(Clue with the Clue Crew missing because of a tape problem)'


Question: 'In 1766 this Philadelphian spoke out against the Stamp Act in England's House of Commons'

Answer: Ben Franklin


Question: 'It's the sign of the Zodiac that's represented by an archer'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'This girl gets mixed up with Hamlet & ends up drowned'

Answer: Ophelia


Question: 'An ABC telecast of this animated film had a scene in which Mel, as John Smith, & Judy Kuhn sang a duet'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'The source of this river that flows across Cambodia & Vietnam wasn't discovered until 1994; it's in Tibet'

Answer: Mekong


Question: 'First put into use by the Russians in 1949, this assault rifle was invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov'

Answer: AK-47


Question: 'In 1784 Congress chose him as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; 5 years later he became Chief Justice of the U.S.'

Answer: John Jay


Question: '[video clue]'

Answer: paragraph symbol


Question: '"There are more things in Heaven and Earth", Hamlet tells him, "than are dreamt of in your philosophy"'

Answer: Horatio


Question: 'In this film Gibson played Lt. Col. Hal Moore, who led his men in the first major U.S. land battle of the Vietnam War'

Answer: We Were Soldiers


Question: 'The Paraguay River originates in the highlands of Mato Grosso in this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Used to entangle a cow's legs, gauchos make good use of this weapon of strong cords with weighted ends'

Answer: bola


Question: 'From 1756 to 1764 this former brewer served as tax collector of Boston'

Answer: Samuel Adams


Question: 'The Pennsylvania Dutch were famous for painting these signs on their barns, possibly to ward off evil'

Answer: hex signs


Question: 'Hamlet tells this queen of Denmark, "Would it were not so, you are my mother"'

Answer: Gertrude


Question: 'In this 2000 film Mel's character Nick says, "This is nice.  I don't understand why" they complain about waxing'

Answer: What Women Want


Question: 'It enters the Mediterranean Sea after separating into Rosetta & Damietta branches'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'In Washington, Ark. there's a replica of the smithy where these eponymous knives were first made in the 1830s'

Answer: Bowie knives


Question: 'Known as the "Financier of the American Revolution", he died penniless in 1806'

Answer: Robert Morris


Question: 'In math a plus or minus sign is also called this, like a certain person reached by phone'

Answer: operator


Question: 'The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Hamlet & accuses this man of murdering him'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'Mel made his directorial debut in this 1993 film in which he played a scarred teacher who mentors a 12-year-old boy'

Answer: The Man Without a Face


Question: 'The Norse were impressed by these in North America, but they weren't grown profitably in North America until around 1850'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'Although this mammal's neck may exceed 6 feet in length, it has only 7 bones--the same as humans'

Answer: a giraffe


Question: 'This capital of Cuba has a colonial museum & not surprisingly, a Museum of the Revolution'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'You might want to take this news sitting down: Radio Shack introduced the first laptop type of this in 1983'

Answer: a computer


Question: 'At a 1977 concert he stunned Dawn and the crowd by announcing his (short-lived) retirement:'

Answer: Tony Orlando


Question: 'In 1997 Jell-O celebrated this anniversary with a special edition white grape "Champagne of Jell-O" flavor'

Answer: 100th


Question: 'Snow pixie Jack, or TV host David<br />(5)'

Answer: Frost


Question: 'When the Spanish invaded the New World, they gave this mammal a name meaning "armored one"'

Answer: an armadillo


Question: 'In 1561 King Philip II chose this city as the capital of Spain, perhaps because he was born in the area'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'On March 16, 1984 this country signed its first peace treaty with a black-ruled nation, Mozambique'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'He's led the National League in batting 8 times, with averages like .394 in '94'

Answer: Tony Gwynn


Question: 'In 1974 he began his long stint as Jell-O Pudding's spokesman'

Answer: Bill Cosby


Question: 'Thrifty, like a certain "Gourmet"<br />(6)'

Answer: frugal


Question: 'The yapock, a species of this marsupial, has webbed hind feet for swimming'

Answer: a possum


Question: 'It "reigns" as Jamaica's chief port'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'Group heard here in a 1985 hit:'

Answer: Tears for Fears


Question: 'This founder of a chain has been giving diners a good ribbing since 1972'

Answer: Tony Roma


Question: 'Tiny tabby tormentor<br />(4)'

Answer: flea


Question: 'About 1/3" long, the dwarf species of this fish, with a name like a desert, is the smallest vertebrate'

Answer: the dwarf gobi


Question: 'The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is the largest temple in this capital of Thailand'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'Panamanians voted to oust him May 7, 1989, but he didn't pay any attention'

Answer: (General) Noriega


Question: 'Friends call Antonin Scalia Nino; this Supreme Court colleague appointed in 1988 is Tony'

Answer: (Anthony) Kennedy


Question: 'Captivating, or a doggie duty<br />(8)'

Answer: fetching


Question: 'Europe's only wild monkey, it's found on the Rock of Gibraltar & the southern tip of Spain'

Answer: the Barbary ape


Question: 'A revolving restaurant spins atop the hot water storage tanks on this northern capital's Oskjuhlid Hill'

Answer: Reykjavik


Question: 'We found out in 1980 that this Yippie leader had had plastic surgery & become Barry Freed'

Answer: Abbie Hoffman


Question: 'In 1997 National Security Advisor Tony Lake got spooked & withdrew his nomination to head this agency'

Answer: the CIA


Question: 'A hippie, or an orchid offspring<br />(6,5)'

Answer: flower child


Question: 'In 1995 People Magazine devoted an entire commemorative issue to this late Tejano singer'

Answer: Selena


Question: 'This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"'

Answer: The Red Badge of Courage


Question: 'It's the "Emerald Isle"'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'In 1996 Sgt. Heather Johnsen became the first woman to stand guard at this cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns'

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery


Question: 'In 1980, at age 19, he became the youngest player in NHL history named MVP'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life"'

Answer: London


Question: 'This beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman shared some of her thoughts in her 1997 memoir "Some of Me"'

Answer: Isabella Rossellini


Question: 'This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb'

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'The mysterious stone statues on this Chilean island vary in height from about 10 to 40 feet'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'In 1968 in Mexico City, Enriqueta Basilo carried a torch to light this fire'

Answer: the Olympic torch (or flame)


Question: 'In 1992 this NBA team chose LSU's Shaquille O'Neal as its first round draft pick'

Answer: the Orlando Magic


Question: 'To Pope Innocent II, it was "the capital of the world"; to us, it's a world capital'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'We assume Baryshnikov took his first graceful steps in this capital of Latvia, his birthplace'

Answer: Riga


Question: 'The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights'

Answer: The Natural


Question: 'Haiti occupies the western third of this island'

Answer: Hispaniola


Question: 'She was the first American woman to be pictured on a U.S. stamp & on U.S. paper currency:'

Answer: Martha Washington


Question: 'Receiver Max McGee of this Vince Lombardi-coached team scored the first Super Bowl touchdown'

Answer: the Packers


Question: 'Metternich said, "The emperor is everything," this city "is nothing"--nice waltzes, though'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'Jan Troell's 1971 film "The Emigrants" earned this Norwegian her first Oscar nomination'

Answer: Liv Ullmann


Question: 'In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s'

Answer: World\'s Fair


Question: 'This Greek island is perhaps best known as the birthplace of poet Sappho'

Answer: Lesbos


Question: 'This Kansan was the first woman elected to the Senate who didn't succeed her husband'

Answer: (Nancy) Kassebaum


Question: 'Joris K. Huysmans held a dark view of this "City of Light": he called it "a sinister Chicago"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Her film "Never on Sunday" was set in Piraeus & she later represented Piraeus in the Greek parliament'

Answer: Melina Mercouri


Question: 'After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq.'

Answer: Ragged Dick


Question: 'The most southerly of Japan's 4 main islands, it's where Nagasaki is located'

Answer: Kyushu


Question: 'Serving from 1992 to 1994, she made news as the White House's first female press secretary:'

Answer: Dee Dee Myers


Question: '"I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin", he wrote in "Dubliners"'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval"'

Answer: Rod Serling


Question: 'After his 1959 discharge, he moved to the Dallas area & got a fateful job at the Texas School Book Depository'

Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald


Question: 'At the time of his assassination on April 14, 1865, he had a Confederate $5 bill in his pocket among other items'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question:
'Mo Vaughn,
Greg Vaughn,
Mike Piazza'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Most people are born with 12 pairs of these; some have more & Adam wound up one short'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'Cancerians might feel like marching sideways because Cancer is the sign of this animal'

Answer: crab


Question: 'According to the riddle, when is one of these not one of these?  When it's ajar'

Answer: door


Question: 'In 1994 ex-Marine Charles Robb defeated this controversial ex-Marine in the Virginia senatorial race'

Answer: Oliver North


Question: 'From 1798 to 1804 this seventh president served as a judge on Tennessee's Superior Court'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question:
'Chris Sanders,
Barry Sanders,
Deion Sanders'

Answer: football


Question: 'Normally the cervical & lumbar sections of this curve forward & the thoracic section curves back'

Answer: spine


Question: 'General Patton had a "stinging" slap, so you can figure out that this was his sign'

Answer: Scorpio


Question: 'Send off a missile or an employee'

Answer: fire


Question: 'His dozens of country hits have included "He Stopped Loving Her Today" & "She Thinks I Still Care"'

Answer: George Jones


Question: 'From 1935 to 1937 he served as director of the National Youth Administration in Texas'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question:
'Luc Robitaille,
Eric Lindros,
Brett Hull'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'Nearly half your body weight comes from these, which include the omohyoid, the brachialis & the deltoid'

Answer: muscles


Question: 'Harsh criticism is characteristic of this "chaste" sign (Hmm...maybe your drill sergeant was born under it)'

Answer: Virgo


Question: 'As a verb, it's the past tense form of the title of a Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves film'

Answer: sped  (Speed)


Question: 'A veteran of 4 shuttle missions, Norman Thagard spent 115 days aboard this Russian space station in 1995'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'After attending the 1909 inauguration of his successor, he went on a year-long African safari'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question:
'Lindsey Davenport,
Jana Novotna,
Michael Chang'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'They're the microscopic blood vessels that connect arteries & veins'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'Admiral George Dewey was born under this sign, but we bet no one dared call him an "old goat"'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'A small, secluded valley that's home to a famous derry-o operator'

Answer: dell


Question: 'A WWII Marine, this director earned the nickname "Bloody Sam" with films like 1969's "The Wild Bunch"'

Answer: Sam Peckinpah


Question: 'The son of a president, he was the first of the few presidents who were bald'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question:
'Tom Lehman,
Tom Watson,
Tom Kite'

Answer: golf


Question: 'To cure a cataract, this part of the eye is replaced with an artificial one'

Answer: lens


Question: 'Purple is a harmonious color for this "centaur" sign, so a purple uniform would look great on you'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'It's not only the greatest Great Lake, it's also the largest body of fresh water in the world'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'TV's Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III'

Answer: Desi Arnaz


Question: 'Before his 1948 assassination, this father of modern India spoke of "The willing sacrifice of the innocent"'

Answer: Mohandas K. Gandhi


Question: 'In a 1964 Italian film, Clint Eastwood was after "A Fistful of" these'

Answer: Dollars


Question: 'The city was named for Francis Nash, a general in this 18th century war'

Answer: Revolutionary War


Question: 'It follows "I'm strong to the finich 'cause I eats me spinach..."'

Answer: "I\'m Popeye the Sailorman"


Question: 'It's the "Gulf" in the Gulf War of 1991'

Answer: Persian Gulf


Question: 'Basketball's Lew Alcindor'

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


Question: 'So cruel & tyrannical was this country's Czar Paul I that his own son approved of his 1801 assassination'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Campfire beans help fuel the comedy of this Mel Brooks western'

Answer: Blazing Saddles


Question: 'Sony, MCA & Curb are 3 of the record companies on this famous street'

Answer: Music Square


Question: 'They were marching onward "As to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before"'

Answer: Christian soldiers


Question: 'According to the New Testament, it was the site of Jesus' baptism'

Answer: River Jordan


Question: 'The silver screen's Ruth Elizabeth Davis'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'A heavy oak table prevented this leader's assassination by a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944'

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: '"Rooster Cogburn" was a 1975 sequel to this 1969 John Wayne film'

Answer: True Grit


Question: 'Nashville's building a football stadium for this team, formerly the Oilers, to call home in 1999'

Answer: Tennessee Titans


Question: 'In 1962 the Shirelles remained at the top of the charts for 3 weeks with this hit'

Answer: "Soldier Boy"


Question: 'Phnom Penh in Cambodia & Vientiane in Laos are the largest urban centers along this river'

Answer: Mekong


Question: 'Actress-director Carole Penny Marscharelli'

Answer: Penny Marshall


Question: 'This president's September 6, 1901 assassination was inspired by the killing of Italy's King Umberto I the year before'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: '4 of the members of this title group, including James Coburn, die in the film's big gunfight'

Answer: The Magnificent Seven


Question: 'This commodore, not Lionel Richie, got a Nashville university named for him'

Answer: Cornelius Vanderbilt


Question: 'An old sea shanty asks, "What shall we do with" one of these "early in the morning"'

Answer: a drunken sailor


Question: 'This Swiss-French lake was formed by a natural damming of the Rhone River'

Answer: Lake Geneva


Question: 'Opera's Maria Kalogeropoulos'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'He's the French revolutionary assassination victim seen here, in a famous painting:'

Answer: Jean-Paul Marat (in a painting by Jacques-Louis David)


Question: 'Kevin Costner played this lawman in 1994, less than a year after Kurt Russell'

Answer: Wyatt Earp


Question: 'Built for the state's centennial expo in 1897, this replica of an Athenian temple turned 100 itself in 1997'

Answer: the Parthenon


Question: 'A wealth seeker, or a military adventurer for hire'

Answer: soldier of fortune


Question: 'This current U.S. TV show is shown in France as "Aux Frontieres du Reel" ("At the Borders of Reality")'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'This Philippine city was proclaimed a capital on June 24, 1571 & again on June 24, 1976'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'In December 2005 an estimated 13.5 million late-night viewers tuned in to see him welcome Oprah to his show'

Answer: David Letterman


Question: 'The peen is opposite the striking surface on this tool'

Answer: a hammer


Question: 'New to Museum Mile, the Neue Galerie features works from Austria & this country, home of Ernst Kirchner'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'This British sport features 2 teams of 11 members & 2 wickets placed 22 yards apart'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'Fishin' stick'

Answer: rod


Question: 'June is Dairy Month in this 30th state & celebrates its proud dairy heritage'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In 2004 this "X-Files" star disappeared behind the camera to direct his first movie, "The House of D"'

Answer: David Duchovny


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew inserts a Phillips-head screwdriver into a screw.)  With its quick alignment, the Phillips-head screw was designed to help in mass production; it first became standard in this industry'

Answer: the auto industry


Question: '5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'Battledore & shuttlecock was the forerunner of this racket game'

Answer: badminton


Question: 'Now it's a party!  Here's Joe with this "pony" cask of ale'

Answer: keg


Question: 'The National Foundation for this June holiday is based in Baltimore'

Answer: Flag Day


Question: 'In 1988 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his humorous newspaper columns'

Answer: Dave Barry


Question: 'Someone with an ulterior motive "has" this tool "to grind"'

Answer: an axe


Question: 'The exterior of this museum at 5th & 89th was designed to break the rectangular grid of Manhattan'

Answer: the Guggenheim


Question: 'It's the trademarked name for the game that uses a hollow white celluloid ball that's 40 mm in diameter'

Answer: Ping-Pong


Question: 'A rounded mass of chewing gum'

Answer: wad


Question: 'Famous date on which more than 5,000 ships carrying Allied troops crossed the English Channel'

Answer: June 6, 1944


Question: 'With 6 Major League teams including the Padres & Yankees, he hit 465 home runs & won 7 Gold Gloves'

Answer: Dave Winfield


Question: 'The saw, an ancient tool, was first patented in this shape by Samuel Miller in 1777'

Answer: a circle


Question: 'The Museum of the City of N.Y. has the derby of this governor, the first Catholic to be a major party pres. candidate'

Answer: Al Smith


Question: 'A fronton is the arena in which this sport is played'

Answer: jai alai


Question: 'Over there; often hitched with hither'

Answer: yon


Question: 'Declared a public enemy by the Senate, this Roman emperor committed suicide on June 9, 68 A.D.'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'Take five & name this leader of the jazz quartet heard here'

Answer: Dave Brubeck


Question: 'A sickle is a crescent-shaped blade on a short handle; this is a long, single-edged blade on a long, curved pole'

Answer: a scythe


Question: 'A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city'

Answer: Barrio


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew plays croquet.)  In U.S. croquet, a ball that goes through all the wickets has this travelling name, especially if it's the red one'

Answer: a rover


Question: 'When paired with vigor, it signifies exuberance'

Answer: vim


Question: 'Members of the American Indian movement seized this then-unoccupied island in 1969 & were forced off in 1971'

Answer: Alcatraz Island


Question: 'In a way, this show whose theme is heard here was 12,000 years in the making'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: '"King" of nonsense poets<br />(4)'

Answer: (Edward) Lear


Question: 'If someone wants you caught & is offering a reward, you have this "on your head"'

Answer: a price


Question: 'E.-C. Genet, an 18th c. French minister to the U.S., undermined the neutrality policy of his pres., who got him recalled'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'This antonym of "to mark" is a synonym of "efface" & rhymes with it'

Answer: erase


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Chinatown in San Francisco.)  The first of San Francisco's Chinese immigrants arrived on the ship Eagle in 1848, a week after this discovery that changed California'

Answer: gold


Question: '1971--those were the days for this show'

Answer: All in the Family


Question: '"Sheepish" essayist Charles<br />(4)'

Answer: Lamb


Question: 'Merv could tell you this monster who drew the chariot of the sun may come from Indo-Iranian mythology'

Answer: griffin


Question: 'Vijaya Pandit saw both sides of the Cold War as ambassador of this country to the U.S. & USSR in the 1940s'

Answer: India


Question: 'The traditional mark of someone who can't sign his name has this opposite in tic-tac-toe'

Answer: O


Question: 'This poet was the first black--& the first female--streetcar conductor in San Francisco'

Answer: Maya Angelou


Question: 'This sitcom's theme song is heard here'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'Natty Bumppo's accessory, or his nickname<br />(15)'

Answer: Leatherstocking


Question: 'Last name of the "kinky" author of "'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out" who ran for Texas governor in 2006'

Answer: Friedman


Question: 'In 1919 former British foreign minister Grey came over to try to nudge the U.S. into this world body--no dice'

Answer: the League of Nations


Question: 'It's at the opposite end of a race from your mark'

Answer: finish


Question: 'An elaborate 1915 San Francisco expo celebrated the completion of this, which made it much easier to sail to the city'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'I'm so glad you had the time to tell me this zany variety show whose theme is heard here'

Answer: The Carol Burnett Show


Question: 'Robin Hood's pseudonym in "Ivanhoe", or Tennyson's "Hall"<br />(8)'

Answer: Locksley


Question: '18th century English writer Samuel & a motel-chain founder both had this last name'

Answer: Johnson


Question: 'Carlos de Icaza, ambassador from this country, attended the 2005 inauguration of the new mayor of Los Angeles'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Mark as in "mark my words" means "pay attention"; this opposite word is from the Latin for "to not know"'

Answer: ignore


Question: 'It was once a military post under the flag of Spain; it's now part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area'

Answer: the Presidio


Question: 'Stand back!  It's the '70s action series whose theme is heard here'

Answer: S.W.A.T.


Question: 'James T. Farrell's Studs<br />(7)'

Answer: Lonigan


Question: 'It's the 820-mile-long river represented here'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'Vincent Massey was Canada's first minister to the U.S. & later the first non-Brit to hold this post'

Answer: governor-general


Question: 'As "mark" can mean "to make conspicuous", one antonym could be this synonym of "skin"'

Answer: hide


Question: 'It's the only state that doesn't have an undergraduate university or university system named just for the state itself'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Mary Magdalene wonders how she'll move this huge object from the door of Jesus' tomb, but things work out'

Answer: a stone


Question: 'Tom Welling plays this teen, a future mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet'

Answer: Clark Kent


Question: 'He was sworn into his new job in California on November 17, 2003'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'Every P.M., I think of how I could have stayed in Canada & had this top government job abbreviated P.M.'

Answer: prime minister


Question: 'This South Dakota national memorial is also known as "The Shrine of Democracy"'

Answer: Mt. Rushmore


Question: 'The earliest authentic copy of his "Star-Spangled Banner" sold at public auction in 1934'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question: 'Andrew tells Jesus that a boy has "five barley loaves, and two" of these but "what are they among so many?"'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Before attending Yale, Rory lived with her single mom & went to Chilton Prep on this show'

Answer: Gilmore Girls


Question: 'He beat his opponent by more than 540,000 votes, but lost the presidential election'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'Like to swim underwater?  You can train to be one of these lovelies at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida'

Answer: a mermaid


Question: 'He wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart" when he lived in Philadelphia & a brick house he rented there is an historic site'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'The part of a door you spy through, or the Eta Carinae nebula you might spy in the sky'

Answer: a keyhole


Question: 'For strength to "resist" this, try James 1:12, "Blessed is the man that endureth" it'

Answer: temptation


Question: 'God gets surprisingly interactive with the title teen daughter of a police detective on this drama'

Answer: Joan of Arcadia


Question: 'She served as a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'A Latin word for "beasts of burden" gave us the name of this medical specialty, a dream job for animal lovers'

Answer: veterinarian


Question: 'This company makes more than 80 million kiss-shaped products every day at its chocolate factories'

Answer: Hershey


Question: 'Qwerty is a standard format for one of these'

Answer: a keyboard


Question: 'This Old Testament king's name is the first one mentioned after Jesus' in the New Testament'

Answer: David


Question: 'Matt Camden was 16 & his sister Mary 14 when this WB show premiered in '96'

Answer: 7th Heaven


Question: 'He was a U.S. Attorney for Manhattan from 1983-1989'

Answer: Rudy Giuliani


Question: 'If you make candles, you can call yourself one of these (also a character on "Friends")'

Answer: a chandler


Question: 'On May 14, 1804 this duo's Corps of Discovery started up the Missouri on a fact-finding mission'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: 'Democrat Zell Miller of Georgia delivered this address at the 2004 Republican National Convention'

Answer: the keynote


Question: 'The fifth book of the Old Testament, its name comes from a word meaning "second"'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'Bell & Peck are the real last names, respectively, of the title guys from this Nickelodeon show'

Answer: Drake & Josh


Question: 'This governor probably had a bit more pull at the White House beginning in 2001'

Answer: Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida)


Question: 'You might really "dig" this job whose name is from the Greek for "the study of antiquities"'

Answer: an archaeologist


Question: 'A Chicago doctor who made orthopedic foot products gave his name to this brand of wooden-soled sandals'

Answer: Dr. Scholl


Question: 'In musical notation, it's the grouping of sharps & flats at the beginning of each staff'

Answer: the key signature


Question: 'If Marie Antoinette & her 15 siblings each want 2 pieces of cake, cut it into this many slices'

Answer: 32


Question: 'In 2004 this Sugar Ray frontman became the co-host of "Extra"'

Answer: Mark McGrath


Question: 'This thirst quencher now combines lemon lime with strawberry: "Is it in you?"'

Answer: Gatorade


Question: 'Double talk slang slang for food food'

Answer: chow chow


Question: 'Yang Kaihui, the first wife of this leader of China, was executed by Chinese Nationalists in 1930'

Answer: Mao


Question: 'It can mean even all over, or an outfit worn by all the students at a school'

Answer: uniform


Question: 'If Queen Beatrix had a potter who could make 3 vases a day, it would take him this long to make a gross'

Answer: 48


Question: 'Jude Law plays the ace aviator mentioned in the title of this 2004 sci-fi film that's set in Gotham City'

Answer: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow


Question: 'This brand known for its natural grapefruit soda leaped on the energy bandwagon with Energade'

Answer: Hansen\'s


Question: 'This bus company serves more than 2,200 destinations & has 16,000 daily departures across the country'

Answer: Greyhound


Question: 'Don't cry for her; in 1951, she was nominated for vice president of Argentina'

Answer: Evita (Peron)


Question: 'Differing by a letter, the 2 words meaning an electrically charged atom & a very long time'

Answer: eon & ion


Question: 'If Henry IV & Henry VIII travelled 4/8 of a mile from London to Windsor, their coach has gone this many feet'

Answer: 2,640


Question: 'She stole a recorder when she was 5 & could play it, the piano & violin by the time she was 10'

Answer: Dido


Question: 'Glaceau has made drinking this even more healthy by adding vitamins'

Answer: water


Question: 'This Canadian peninsula is shared by Newfoundland & Quebec'

Answer: Labrador


Question: 'On April 27, 1945 Italians captured this fascist leader trying to escape to Switzerland'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'Derived from the Greek word for "space", it means total confusion or disorder'

Answer: chaos


Question: 'If Haakon V had 1/4 of the herrings of Olav IV who had twice as many as Harold VI who had 600, he'd have this many'

Answer: 300


Question: 'Baseball Hall-of-Famer Candy Cummings is often credited with inventing this pitch in the late 1800s'

Answer: a curveball


Question: 'Consumers named this citrus drink "Code Red" because its cherry rush captured it spirit'

Answer: Mountain Dew


Question: 'If Gerhard Schroder guarded a flock of animals of the family bovidae, he could be considered this'

Answer: a German shepherd


Question: 'The last leader of the USSR, he resigned his post on Dec. 25, 1991'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'Term for one of the two times each year when day & night are of equal length'

Answer: equinox


Question: 'Otto I's ottoman is 10"x14" & his heels take up 8 square inches, so he'd have this many sq. in. of free area'

Answer: 132


Question: 'New Jersey cartoonist Otto Messmer created this character, seen here'

Answer: Felix the Cat


Question: 'Team Lizard rides hard for this brand's Tsunami, Lava, & Lightning'

Answer: SoBe


Question: 'Gosh, that Hamlet guy by Shakespeare is just super, he's such a...'

Answer: Great Dane


Question: 'In 1982 this "Iron Lady" prime minister ordered an attack to stop Argentina from claiming the Falkland Islands'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Meaning inversely related, in math it describes what 2/3 is to 3/2'

Answer: reciprocal


Question: 'Launched in 2004, a spacecraft named MESSENGER is on a mission to study this planet'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'He composed the music for the ballet "Ghost Town" 4 years before he teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein'

Answer: (Richard) Rodgers


Question: 'It seems like I've seen this Bill Murray-Andie MacDowell film about a zillion times'

Answer: Groundhog Day


Question: 'Heloise hints that this cosmetic tool won't get gunky if you use it on lashes before applying mascara, not after'

Answer: an eyelash curler


Question: 'His widow Martha once gave the O.K. for him to be re-entombed in the U.S. Capitol; a nephew later nixed the idea'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'This alliterative cut of beef comes from the hindquarters'

Answer: rump roast


Question: 'Proverbially, this "is the soul of wit"'

Answer: brevity


Question: '"Flotezart" is the fanciful title of a ballet danced to his flute music'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'Michael Myers kills his sister on the title occasion of this 1978 horror film'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'These sewing shears weren't named for a color but for a verb meaning to finish edges with a zigzag pattern'

Answer: pinking


Question: 'He met with Leonid Brezhnev on the first ever presidential visit to Moscow'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'In Britain, toad-in-the-hole is this meat item baked in a coating of batter'

Answer: a sausage


Question: 'A native or naturalized member of a state or nation'

Answer: a citizen


Question: 'The ballet called "Viva" this composer features variations on "La Traviata"'

Answer: Verdi


Question: 'Will Smith & Jeff Goldblum save the world from an alien invasion in this 1996 thriller'

Answer: Independence Day


Question: 'Football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had the right "stuff" to invent one of these for tackling practice'

Answer: a dummy


Question: 'By 1905 football had gotten so violent that this U.S. president urged rule changes'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: '"Sufferin"' through this lima bean & corn mixture can be quite an endeavor'

Answer: succotash


Question: 'A marauding linebacker, or CNN's Wolf'

Answer: a blitzer


Question: 'A Twyla Tharp ballet is danced to his Symphony No. 7 in A Major, known as his "Dance Symphony"'

Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven


Question: 'Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, delivers toys to kids in this Tim Burton film'

Answer: The Nightmare Before Christmas


Question: 'Musicians use this thingamajig, also known as a pick, to pluck the strings of a lute or a guitar'

Answer: a plectrum


Question: 'This "Big Bill" married the daughter of a former law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'In "Shiskabugs" Bugs Bunny is almost turned into this German rabbit stew'

Answer: hasenpfeffer


Question: 'A notable one of these read, "Here lies Ann Mann, who lived an old maid but died an old Mann"'

Answer: an epitaph


Question: 'Originally titled "Le Palais de Cristal", "Symphony in C" is danced to music by this "Carmen" composer'

Answer: Bizet


Question: 'Unlucky things happen at Camp Crystal Lake in this 1980 scarefest'

Answer: Friday the 13th


Question: 'Some kids call this huge machine a Roley , because that's the name of the one on "Bob The Builder"'

Answer: a steamroller


Question: 'I might worry about hanging around with him--he was nicknamed the "Hangman of Buffalo"'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'From Yiddish for "stuffed", this dish is small pieces of whitefish, carp or pike mixed with seasonings'

Answer: gefilte fish


Question: 'Nickname of Andrew Jackson's informal "cabinet", which included Martin Van Buren'

Answer: the Kitchen Cabinet


Question: 'This slave escapes with her son Harry across the ice floes of a river to reach the Ohio shore safely'

Answer: Eliza


Question: 'An Eagles song begins, "It's another" this mixed drink "starin' slowly 'cross the sky"'

Answer: "Tequila Sunrise"


Question: 'Singer Natalie & Wisconsin senator Herb'

Answer: Cole or Kohl


Question: 'Balanced Rock is a sandstone mass in the Garden of the Gods in this Western state'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'In geometry, a plane curve'

Answer: a parabola


Question: 'When visiting the capital, Ajaccio, be sure to see the birthplace of this emperor who was known as "The Corsican"'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'A miser becomes rich in the Washington Irving story titled him "and Tom Walker"'

Answer: the Devil


Question: 'In "American Pie", "good old boys were drinking" these 2 things'

Answer: whiskey & rye


Question: 'Musician John & world leader Vladimir'

Answer: Lennon or Lenin


Question: 'Much of the stone of Yellowstone is tuff, formed from the ash or dust of these events'

Answer: volcanic eruptions


Question: 'Some species of this birdlike fish secrete a mucus sac around their bodies at night for shelter'

Answer: a parrotfish


Question: 'With a weak justice system, Corsica became known for this vengeful type of feud with an Italian name'

Answer: a vendetta


Question: 'Arrius is told that this Jewish slave aboard the Roman ship Astroea is "our best rower"'

Answer: (Judah) Ben-Hur


Question: 'A Busta Rhymes song title is "Pass" this French cognac'

Answer: Courvoisier


Question: 'Sandra of teenage movies & Chuck of political rap'

Answer: Dee or D


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a carved artwork in Peru.)  Hand-carved sculptures of this stone, a translucent variety of gypsum, are a mainstay of Peruvian handicrafts'

Answer: alabaster


Question: 'Similar grammatical form when dealing with several ideas is called this type of construction'

Answer: parallel


Question: 'In 1958 Corsica was occupied by those supporting the insurrection of colonists in this North African country'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Jane Austen's sketch "Elinor and Marianne" developed into this 1811 novel'

Answer: Sense and Sensibility


Question: 'Where's the Tabasco? In 1974 Willie Nelson was having this type of "morning"'

Answer: a "Bloody Mary Morning"


Question: 'Beautiful movie stars Janet & Gong'

Answer: Leigh or Li


Question: 'Knapping, chipping rock to shape tools, is usually done to this hard type of quartz'

Answer: flint


Question: 'Excessively frugal or stingy'

Answer: parsimonious


Question: 'The Strait of Bonifacio separates Corsica from this island to the south'

Answer: Sardinia


Question: 'This amateur detective solves the mystery of "The Purloined Letter"'

Answer: C. Auguste Dupin


Question: 'The Kinks met Lola "in a club where you drink" this & "it tastes just like cherry cola"'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Philosopher George (though not the California city named for him) & Vice President Alben'

Answer: Berkeley or Barkley


Question: 'Also beginning with C-A, it's the one-word name for the form of calcium carbonate seen here as Iceland's spar'

Answer: calcite


Question: 'To measure how far away a star is using this, take 2 measurements, 6 months apart'

Answer: parallax


Question: 'In 259 B.C. Corsica was conquered by Rome in the first of these wars against Carthage'

Answer: the Punic Wars


Question: 'This advertising icon who debuted in the 1950s is known as Pron-Tito in Spanish-speaking countries'

Answer: Speedy Alka-Seltzer


Question: 'This work published in 1611 had a dedication "to the most high & mighty prince James by the grace of God"'

Answer: the King James Bible


Question: 'A 20-10 win in 2001 went in Nebraska's column in its bitter rivalry with this school's Sooners'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'The Roomba is on the hunt for this 2-word "animal", a loose, tangled ball of hair or debris found under the couch'

Answer: a dust bunny


Question: 'Rick Santelli's 2009 rant on this business network inspired the Tea Party movement'

Answer: CNBC


Question: 'In 2008 & 2009 foundations of this Arkansas family's company claimed it gave $423 million in cash & in-kind gifts'

Answer: the Waltons


Question: 'Coroner's work spot'

Answer: a morgue


Question: 'In 1949 this man held a SRO 8-week crusade in a giant tent in Los Angeles that vaulted him to national fame'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'One highlight at this now-departed N.J. venue was Ron Dixon's kickoff return in 2001 to start a 20-10 playoff victory'

Answer: The Meadowlands (Giants Stadium)


Question: 'Roomba ate some Bible pages...fill in a quote for me? "And" he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years"'

Answer: Noah


Question: '"Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and their Assault on America" is one of this blonde pundit's bestsellers'

Answer: Ann Coulter


Question: 'By 1890 the 2nd John Jacob of this family had increased the family fortune to more than $75 million'

Answer: the Astors


Question: 'Tiny tidbit of food'

Answer: a morsel


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue)

The familiar Latin cross has been a Christian symbol for centuries.  The Calvary cross commonly seen on graves is a Latin cross mounted on three steps representing these three graces.'

Answer: faith, hope, and charity


Question: '20-10 was the score when this school's Hawkeyes beat Wisconsin in 2009 for their 11th straight win'

Answer: University of Iowa


Question: 'The Roomba took the tail off my rumpy-riser this cat type! ... My bad, it didn't have much of one to start'

Answer: a Manx


Question: 'Thomas Friedman has won 3 Pulitzers as foreign affairs commentator for this newspaper'

Answer: The New York Times


Question: 'No average Joe, this Mass. man had enough capital by 1929 to fund million-dollar trusts for each of his kids'

Answer: (Joe) Kennedy


Question: '15th century type of "play" in which good & evil are in conflict'

Answer: a morality play


Question: 'In 1540 Pope Paul III approved this religious order begun by Ignatius Loyola'

Answer: the Jesuits


Question: 'This team with Matt Hasselbeck at QB won a 2006 playoff game 20-10 en route to its first Super Bowl appearance'

Answer: Seattle Seahawks


Question: 'Roomba sucked up this rival vacuum cleaner that uses cyclone technology, named for Brit designer James'

Answer: a Dyson


Question: 'The title of TV's "Morning" this doesn't refer to coffee but to ex-congressman Scarborough'

Answer: Joe


Question: 'After setting the standard in oil, the head of this family gave $80 million to the Univ. of Chicago by the time of his death'

Answer: (John D.) Rockefeller


Question: 'Group spirit of well being (& if it doesn't improve around here we're gonna start the beatings again)'

Answer: morale


Question: 'Born the son of slaves in 1760, Richard Allen became the first bishop & leader of this church, the AME, in 1816'

Answer: African Methodist Episcopal church


Question: 'Owner Arthur Blank said, "It feels great" as a Jan. 2010 win put this team over .500 for 2 straight years, a first'

Answer: Atlanta Falcons


Question: 'My Roomba can clean an entire country! Well, maybe just this one, independent since 1929--it's only 109 acres'

Answer: the Vatican


Question: '"Swift Justice with" this CNN legal analyst premiered in September 2010'

Answer: Nancy Grace


Question: 'This "commodore" left less than 5% of his $100 mil. to his second wife & 8 daughters--the rest went mainly to his son'

Answer: (Cornelius) Vanderbilt


Question: 'A legal postponement of an ongoing activity'

Answer: a moratorium


Question: 'Around 50 A.D. the Aqua Claudia brought this to Rome after a journey of 46 miles'

Answer: water


Question: 'In "The Godfather", Virgil Sollozzo & Captain McCluskey'

Answer: Al Paccino


Question: 'President Bronislaw Komorowski; that should be all you need'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Helen's beau & Priam's son'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Nathaniel is best known for this 1850 novel, a scandalous tale of adultery & repentance'

Answer: A Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Gerbils are members of this animal order with impressive incisors'

Answer: rodents


Question: 'You probably don't have to consult an Oracle to know that the Pythian Games were held every 4 years in this city'

Answer: Delphi


Question: 'In "Casablanca", 2 German couriers with letters of transit'

Answer: Peter Lorre


Question: 'Don't cry for me, President Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'They sang the love song "Take My Breath Away" for "Top Gun"'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'Nathaniel added this letter to his last name when he went pro as a writer'

Answer: W


Question: 'If a pair of pet gerbils are from the same family, they'll be familiar with this, rodents' main means of recognition'

Answer: odor


Question: 'Cypselus of Corinth was this, a Greek term for one who takes power by force & rules oppressively'

Answer: a tyrant


Question: 'Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn'

Answer: Josh Brolin


Question: 'Get up, stand up, Governor General Patrick Linton Allen; they say he's a good mon for the job'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'The act of St. Nick slowly driving his car down Hollywood Blvd. on a Saturday night?'

Answer: Santa Cruz


Question: 'When his friend Franklin Pierce became president, Hawthorne was made a diplomat to this "fab" British city'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'Gerbillos pyramidom is a species whose common name includes the name of this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'When the Roman Redpublic was founded, it was headed by 2 elected officials with this "diplomatic" title'

Answer: Consoul


Question: 'In "Platoon", Sergeant Barnes, played by Tom Berenger'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'Hey, Governor Sir Richard Gozney!  Nice shorts!'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: 'An oak for your gathering of witches?'

Answer: Coventry


Question: 'Pallbearers at Nathaniel's funeral in 1864 included Oliver Wendell Holmes & this 3-named "Nature" author'

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Question: 'The most popular pet gerbil is a species originally from this landlocked country bordering China & Russia'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'The city-states of Sidon & Tyre were olocated in this Mediterranean region now occupied mostly by Lebanon'

Answer: Phoenicia


Question: 'Woody Harrelson's character in "No Country For Old Men"'

Answer: Javier Bardem


Question: 'President Idriss Deby, don't leave me hangin' in this 4-letter landlocked African country'

Answer: Chad


Question: 'An ant that disrupts Siddhartha's picnic?'

Answer: Budapest


Question: 'The short story "The Marble" this takes place in Italy with 3 American students involved in a grisly murder'

Answer: Fawn


Question: 'The term "gerbil" is a corruption of the name of this similar but unrelated hopping animal of the desert'

Answer: the jerboa


Question: 'Finding the spot for this memorial caused its creator to say, "America will march along that skyline"'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'It's a trademarked chemical tear gas, or a heavy club with a spiked metal knob'

Answer: Mace


Question: 'To avoid joining the victims of this hockey-masked killer, stay away from Camp Crystal Lake'

Answer: Jason


Question: 'Unless we receive other instructions, we'll tell you the Literary Guild was among the first of these'

Answer: Book clubs


Question: 'A person suffering from dysphagia has trouble doing this....gulp!'

Answer: Swallowing


Question: 'An exotic dancer & WWI secret agent, her name is a synonym for a seductive female spy'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: '(dialogue from a Three Stooges movie):<br />"I've come to help you.  We'll, it's about time somebody did!  The Witch Doctor is a bad man.  You can say that again!"'

Answer: "The Witch Doctor is a bad man."


Question: 'It's a nuclear power's capability of a preemptive attack, or one-third of an out in baseball'

Answer: First strike


Question: 'Neve Campbell is threatened by a killer a year after her mother's murder in this 1996 film'

Answer: Scream


Question: 'This trade magazine has been listing the nation's bestselling books since 1912'

Answer: Publisher\'s Weekly


Question: 'Dedentition is just the loss of these; an odontectomy removes them'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'Demi Moore bares more than her soul in this 1996 film about a woman short on funds & clothes'

Answer: Striptease


Question: '"Like sands through the hourglass, so are..."'

Answer: "The days of our lives"


Question: 'The B-29s that dropped atomic bombs on Japan were made by this Seattle-based company'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'In 1996 he co-starred as the customer victimized by "Cable Guy" Jim Carrey'

Answer: Matthew Broderick


Question: 'Last name of Richard, who co-founded a publishing house in 1924 & fathered a singer named Carly in 1945'

Answer: Simon


Question: 'Several disorders that affect this organ are grouped under the term strabismus'

Answer: Eye


Question: 'She was Playmate Of The Year before becoming playmate of the last years of oil tycoon Howard J. Marshall'

Answer: Anna Nicole Smith


Question: '"With a name like Smucker's..."'

Answer: "It has to be good"


Question: 'In the 1930s, France built this elaborate barrier as a permanent defense against German attack'

Answer: Maginot Line


Question: 'In "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", Dreyfus plots revenge against this inspector, his tormentor'

Answer: Inspector Clouseau


Question: 'In 1997 Harper Collins canceled 100 new titles but let the authors keep these up-front payments'

Answer: Advances


Question: 'The stapedius in the middle ear is one of these that moves the stapes'

Answer: Muscle


Question: 'Otto Preminger only admitted after her death that he'd had a child with this burlesque queen'

Answer: Gypsy Rose Lee


Question: 'From chapter 10 of "Animal Farm" comes "All animals are equal, but some animals..."'

Answer: "Are more equal than others"


Question: 'Made by Raytheon, these antimissile missiles intercepted scuds in the Gulf War'

Answer: Patriot missiles


Question: 'In "Fatal Attraction", one of these small creatures succumbs to the culinary skills of Glenn Close'

Answer: Rabbit


Question: 'An unsold book left in the publisher's inventory, or a number left over in division'

Answer: Remainder


Question: 'Tom Brokaw's broca's area is in this organ; so is yours'

Answer: Brain (helps covering speech)


Question: 'A rocky relationship with exotic dancer Fanne Foxe ended this powerful congressman's career in 1974'

Answer: Wilbur Mills


Question: '"We gotta get out while we're young 'cause tramps like us, baby...."'

Answer: "We were born to run"


Question: 'Goya protested this emperor's invasion of Spain with "Third of May, 1808"'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'The name of this vast region of northern Russia means "sleeping land"'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'Beth finds it apt that this taxing process' name comes from Latin for "to hear" -- she's heard some whoppers'

Answer: Audit


Question: 'This word derived from "nose" means the projecting spout of a hose'

Answer: Nozzle


Question: 'This actor wore tights on the big screen in 1991 as the "Prince Of Thieves"'

Answer: Kevin Costner


Question: 'Fannie Farmer recommends spicing this traditional Thanksgiving jelly with cinnamon, cloves & allspice'

Answer: Cranberry jelly


Question: 'In September 1981, 44 years after it was painted, this anti-war mural was returned to Spain'

Answer: Guernica


Question: 'The location of this moving point en"compass"es an area around latitude 76 deg, N., longitude 101 deg. W.'

Answer: Magnetic North Pole


Question: 'Beth opposed this publisher & GOP candidate's flat tax as bad policy, not because it would hurt CPAs'

Answer: Steve Forbes


Question: 'Ground dry dog food, or what you do to prepare it'

Answer: Kibble


Question: 'Nicknamed Misha, he defected to the West in 1974 while on tour in Canada'

Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov


Question: 'Ancient Romans prized the shaggy mane, an ink cap type of this fungus'

Answer: Mushroom


Question: 'He took the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day'

Answer: Alfred Eisenstaedt


Question: 'A line called the 50 deg. summer isotherm  closely follows this northern limit of forest growth'

Answer: Treeline


Question: 'When Beth sees pluses & minuses, she calls them these, the 2 columns of a double-entry ledger'

Answer: Debits & credits


Question: 'FM radio broadcasts at 88 to 108 of these units, each one equal to 1 million cycles per second'

Answer: Megahertz


Question: 'In a TV ad, Joe Namath wore this brand of pantyhose to show they'd even improve his legs'

Answer: Hanes


Question: 'This pliable mixture of almond paste, sugar & egg whites is often molded into fanciful shapes'

Answer: Marzipan


Question: 'Marcel Duchamp's painting, seen here, was part of this movement, a reaction against WWI: ("Mona Lisa with a mustache")'

Answer: Dadaism


Question: 'In this country 200,000 people live in Bergen & fewer than 5,000 live way up north on the island of Spitsbergen'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'A rise in an asset's value, or what Beth feels she doesn't get for staying late calculating it'

Answer: Appreciation


Question: '2-word term for a woven container capable of holding a 4-peck measure'

Answer: Bushel basket


Question: 'His autobiography is appropriately titled "Boy Wonder:  My Life In Tights"'

Answer: Burt Ward


Question: 'Black pepper & cinnamon flavor these spicy cookies whose name is German for "peppernuts"'

Answer: Pfefferneuse


Question: 'His 1896 illustrations of Aristophanes' anti-war classic "Lysistrata" were considered licentious'

Answer: Aubrey Beardsley


Question: 'This explorer gave his name to a bay & an island south of Greenland, but died in the Persian Gulf'

Answer: William Baffin


Question: 'In 1989 Beth kept her name after marriage, while this firm where she worked joined its name to Ernst's'

Answer: Young


Question: 'It means improbable, remotely linked or perhaps brought from a great distance by Rover'

Answer: Farfetched


Question: 'A leading actor of Shakespeare's time, he probably wore tights as the very first Hamlet'

Answer: Richard Burbage


Question: 'Oysters Bienville is named for the founder of this Louisiana city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'A capital in the West Indies is named for this family name of William of Orange, King of England'

Answer: Nassau


Question: 'The first telephone of this type was installed in a bank in Hartford, Conn. in 1889'

Answer: a pay phone (or public telephone)


Question: 'He played with a Dixieland band  & a jazz band before he joined The Police'

Answer: Sting (Gordon Sumner)


Question: 'In 1803 John Dalton wrote all elements are composed of small particles he called these'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'In the 1st episode of this series, Cliff gave Theo an economics lesson with Monopoly money'

Answer: The Cosby Show


Question: 'To avoid the sun's glare at the beach, wear these tinted accessories'

Answer: sunglasses


Question: 'Even if it isn't cold & hard, you'll probably spend it anyway'

Answer: cash


Question: 'In 1959 this Swedish firm became the first to equip its cars with safety belts'

Answer: Volvo


Question: 'Tai Babilonia was only 9 when she began skating with this partner, who was 11'

Answer: Randy Gardner


Question: 'The "wet" type is used for cars, the "dry" type for flashlights'

Answer: a battery


Question: 'This sport was Tony Micelli's bread & butter prior to becoming a housekeeper on "Who's The Boss?"'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Protective device the French call un parapluie & the British call a brolly'

Answer: an umbrella


Question: 'The kind of hasty decision you might make when you have the measles'

Answer: rash


Question: 'The 1st mouthwash, it was named for the British doctor who developed antiseptic surgery procedures'

Answer: Listerine


Question: 'Her maiden name was Marilyn Tucker, & she met her husband at Indiana University law school'

Answer: Marilyn Quayle


Question: 'Perfectly dry iron doesn't do this because galvanic action won't take place without water being present'

Answer: rust


Question: 'Christopher Hewett now plays this character first played in 3 movies by Clifton Webb'

Answer: Mr. Belvedere


Question: 'A small cylinder of fur or cloth into which the hands are inserted for warmth'

Answer: Muff


Question: 'Sometimes it's a little longer than a hyphen; other times it's 100 yards long'

Answer: dash


Question: 'The first teddy bears were marketed at about the same time by Ideal Toy Corp. & this German firm'

Answer: Stieff


Question:
'Performer heard here talking about his craft; you may never have heard him before:

"If I want to mime a flower, I take the shape of the flower..."'

Answer: Marcel Marceau


Question: 'Liquid oxygen normally does this at -183 centigrade'

Answer: evaporate (or boil)


Question: 'This 16-year-old Princeton grad is a resident at Eastman Medical Center'

Answer: Doogie Howser, M.D.


Question: 'A raincoat, often yellow, named for its glossy appearance'

Answer: a slicker


Question: 'To display suddenly & briefly; a detective might do it with his badge'

Answer: flash


Question: 'This game came out in 1948 after being developed from a spelling game called "Criss Cross"'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'Olympic stars Florence Griffith Joyner & Jackie Joyner-Kersee are related this way'

Answer: sisters-in-law


Question: 'Allotrope of carbon that's used as a solid lubricant'

Answer: graphite


Question: 'Jon Cryer plays an agent who moved up from mailroom clerk at the Unlimited Talent Agency in this CBS sitcom'

Answer: The Famous Teddy Z


Question: 'A soft Eskimo boot made of reindeer or seal skin'

Answer: a mukluk


Question: 'This 4-letter word can precede mark or browns'

Answer: hash


Question: 'To keep Charleston, S.C. clean, these animals who pull the carriage tours wear diapers'

Answer: Horses


Question: '"I was chokin' mad w/thirst, an' the man that spied me 1st was our good old grinnin' gruntin' Gunga Din." he wrote'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'In 1963, 8 years after he resigned as British p.m., he was made an honorary U.S. citizen'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'In this fairy tale ballet, the heroine loses one of her slippers'

Answer: "Cinderella"


Question: 'This soft drink co. introduced its new formula drink & then brought back the classic version'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'Your old school, literally "Fostering Mother"'

Answer: Alma Mater


Question: 'The official emblem of this city's police department is a witch on a broomstick'

Answer: Salem, Massachusetts


Question: 'This author of "Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard" refused an offer to be poet laureate'

Answer: Thomas Gray


Question: 'Anwar Sadat was assassinated in this city'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'This ballet includes a ball at the house of the Capulets'

Answer: "Romeo And Juliet"


Question: 'He became engaged to Madonna in June & married her in August'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'The abbreviation R.I.P., Requiescat In Pace, is translated as this'

Answer: Rest in Peace


Question: 'Enterprise, Ala. boasts a statue of this pest, which inspired it to plant peanuts instead of cotton'

Answer: Boll Weevil


Question: 'The last line of her poem "The New Colossus" is "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"'

Answer: Emma Lazarus


Question: 'This Austrian president is of Czech descent & his family name was originally Waclawik'

Answer: Kurt Waldheim


Question: 'In a Tchaikovsky ballet, Prince Siegfried goes hunting for these animals & falls in love with 1 of them'

Answer: Swan


Question: 'At age 17 he became the youngest man to win at Wimbledon'

Answer: Boris Becker


Question: 'Used for dates in the last 1,990 years, the abbreviation A.D. is short for this Latin expression'

Answer: Anno Domini


Question: 'Pennsylvania has more of these picturesque bridges than any other state'

Answer: Covered Bridges


Question: 'He called "The Chambered Nautilus" "The Ship of Pearl"'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Question: 'In 1921 he became the first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad'

Answer: Hirohito


Question: '1 of the 2 leading ballet companies in the Soviet Union'

Answer: Bolshoi & Kirov


Question: 'The entire 1985 World Series was played in this Midwestern state'

Answer: Missouri (St. Louis vs. Kansas City)


Question: 'Id Est, often abbreviated i.e. in papers, translates to this in English'

Answer: That Is


Question: 'The only university in this state is in Laramie'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: '"Queen Mab", "Ozymandias" & "To A Skylark" are 3 of the poems written by this Englishman'

Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Question: 'Mehmed VI, the last sultan of this empire, was forced to abdicate in 1922'

Answer: Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Nijinsky's ballet "The Afternoon Of" one of these animals premiered in 1912'

Answer: A Faun


Question: 'This famous volcano on Sicily exploded on Christmas & set off several earthquakes'

Answer: Mount Etna


Question: 'When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he quoted the proverb "Iacta Alea Est" which means this'

Answer: "The Die is Cast"


Question: 'Chapter 15 of this 1881 novel is entitled "Tom as King"'

Answer: The Prince and the Pauper


Question: 'Was Pope Catholic?  No, he led a 1690 revolt against colonizers from this European country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'It's the largest denomination of paper currency currently issued in the U.S.'

Answer: $100 bill


Question: 'This bovine that's mentioned could star in "Farmer in the Dell: The Moovie"'

Answer: Cow


Question: 'To legally buy alcohol across the U.S.'

Answer: 21


Question: 'The sacred Hindu city of Benares is located on the left bank of this river'

Answer: Ganges


Question: 'Ship seen here, it was launched in 1967, the successor to one launched in 1938'

Answer: QE2


Question: 'Once defined as most of the U.S. west of the Mississippi, it shrank to most of present-day Oklahoma'

Answer: Indian Territory


Question: 'In the King James Version of the New Testament, it's the last word'

Answer: Amen


Question: 'At the end of the song, it "stands alone"'

Answer: The cheese


Question: 'To see an R-rated movie unaccompanied by an adult'

Answer: 17


Question: 'This large & commercially important U.S. river begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Homophone illustrated here:<br />(former vice president & game bird)'

Answer: Quayle/quail


Question: 'In 1791 Little Turtle won a great victory over white forces on the banks of this Indiana river'

Answer: Wabash


Question: 'Eva's sister, she won the 1936 Miss Hungary contest as a teenager'

Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor


Question: 'The smallest creature in the rhyme; I'm beginning to smell one...'

Answer: Rat


Question: 'To vote in Canadian national elections'

Answer: 18


Question: 'This international river flows past Alamosa, Colorado & Brownsville, Texas on its way to the Gulf of Mexico'

Answer: Rio Grande


Question: 'The Society of Friends tried to stop a breakfast food firm from using this name as a trademark'

Answer: Quaker Oats


Question: 'What may be the USA's oldest continuously inhabited town, Old Oraibi, was settled c. 1150 by these Arizona Indians'

Answer: Hopi


Question: 'After throwing a gutterball on your first throw, the number of pins in the back row in tenpin bowling'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Hi-ho the derry-o, it takes the cat'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'To play on the Senior PGA Tour'

Answer: 50


Question: 'Baghdad, Iraq lies on this Fertile Crescent river'

Answer: Tigris


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ilia Kulik)  In 1998 I became the first man to win the skating gold at the Olympics with one of these in my routine'

Answer: Quadruple jump


Question: 'In 1649 the Iroquois, armed with Dutch guns, decimated this tribe that shares its name with a Great Lake'

Answer: Huron


Question: 'In Roman numerals, it's an M with a bar over it'

Answer: One million


Question: 'Of a flat plain, a small valley or the morning, what "the dell" is'

Answer: A small valley


Question: 'To serve as a Congressman'

Answer: 25


Question: '1 of the 2 rivers at whose confluence the city of Montreal lies'

Answer: Ottawa or St. Lawrence