Question: 'This isthmus was explored by Columbus in 1502 & crossed by Balboa in September 1513'

Answer: Isthmus of Panama


Question: 'Many icebergs are birthed in this sea between Victoria Land & Marie Byrd Land'

Answer: the Ross Sea


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds some lamps.)  On the night of April 18, 1775, in Boston's Old North Church, it's what Robert Newman signalled like this'

Answer: the British were coming


Question: 'From the Greek for "pleasure", this -ism puts pleasure at the top of the to-do list'

Answer: hedonism


Question: 'Behaviorist Burrhus Frederic...'

Answer: B.F. Skinner


Question: '"It'll be you at the tiller and me at the engine, just like it was from the start"'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'Africa & Asia are joined by this isthmus that separates the Red Sea & the Mediterranean Sea'

Answer: Suez


Question: 'Italian river that made Caesar cross'

Answer: the Rubicon


Question: 'James Armistead, a slave who served as a spy for this Frenchman, took his name after the war'

Answer: Lafayette


Question: 'Pythagoras taught that there's a dualism between the body & this'

Answer: the mind


Question: 'Humorist Sidney Joseph...'

Answer: S.J. Perelman


Question: '"I don't lose arguments aboard my ship"'

Answer: The Caine Mutiny


Question: 'At about 40 miles in width, the Isthmus of Kra in southwest Thailand lies on this peninsula's narrowest part'

Answer: the Malay Peninsula


Question: 'A large circular one made of stained glass sits above the west facade of Reims Cathedral'

Answer: a rose window


Question: 'Ebenezer Denny wrote a famous description of the British surrender in October 1781 at this battle site'

Answer: Yorktown


Question: 'Empiricism says you gain knowledge through this & creative idealism says there's nothing beyond one's own'

Answer: experience


Question: 'Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis...'

Answer: M.C. Escher


Question: '"One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for"'

Answer: Key Largo


Question: 'To travel from this country's mainland to Sevastapol in the Crimea, traverse the Isthmus of Perekop'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt"'

Answer: television


Question: 'Attention, Colonel Sanders: the ghost of one of these birds has been seen flapping around Highgate since the 1600s'

Answer: chicken


Question: '"Football Coach Homer Makes Bart His QB"'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: '$20 gold coins were a specialty of this mint whose mark is a "D"'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'Alice in Wonderland could tell you that a looking-glass is a synonym for one of these'

Answer: mirror


Question: 'In 1903 Mary Anderson invented this device that makes it easier to see when you're driving a car in the rain'

Answer: windshield wipers


Question: 'It's the hole & flap in your portal that allows your schnauzer to go in & out'

Answer: doggie door


Question: 'Dozens of drivers have reportedly seen a ghostly double-decker one of these careening around Kensington'

Answer: bus


Question: '"Rachel Teaches Joey the Fine Art of Losing After He's Nominated for an Acting Award"'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'In 1973 Congress thought about making pennies in this light metal, but the copper industry objected'

Answer: aluminum


Question: '2 of the 3 animals for which pachyderm is a synonym'

Answer: elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros


Question: 'Margaret Knight invented a machine to make the square-bottomed variety of these grocery store items in 1870'

Answer: paper bag


Question: 'It's a burger with cheese & grilled onions on rye bread and toasted in an iron skillet'

Answer: patty melt


Question: 'A ghost seen in a gutter at Whitechapel may be that of Polly Nicholls, this murderer's first victim'

Answer: Jack the Ripper


Question: '"Eddie Visits a Dog Psychiatrist"'

Answer: Frasier


Question: 'If you like to roll your own coins, you know there are this many pennies in a standard roll'

Answer: 50


Question: 'This synonym for the Netherlands technically refers to only part of the country'

Answer: Holland


Question: 'The holder of 28 patents, Helena Augusta Blanchard invented the first of these that could do a zigzag stitch'

Answer: sewing machine


Question: 'It's the abbreviation for a device that stores your data; a Palm Pilot, for example'

Answer: PDA


Question: 'The Drury Lane, a famous one of these in London, is haunted by a "man in grey" who sometimes shows up for matinees'

Answer: theater


Question: '"Grissom and Catherine Investigate the Murder of a Wealthy Couple..."'

Answer: CSI


Question: 'Just prior to all those individual state designs, the quarter had one of these birds on the back'

Answer: eagle


Question: 'As a verb, this Aboriginal weapon is a synonym for backfire'

Answer: boomerang


Question: 'A holder of 49 patents, Beulah Henry invented one of these to duplicate documents long before Xerox'

Answer: copy machine


Question: 'It's a soft pad used to apply makeup to the face, or an old derby for female pilots'

Answer: powder puff


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from London)  It's said the ghost of this nine-day queen appears on February 12, the anniversary of her execution on Tower Green'

Answer: Lady Jane Grey


Question: '"Amy Hears a High-Profile Paternity Case That Involves a Dead Billionaire with Big-Name Attorneys"'

Answer: Judging Amy


Question: 'A study done in 1978 found people hated this coin even before it was issued; it looked too much like a quarter'

Answer: the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin


Question: 'If someone asks you for another term for one of these books made famous by Roget, tell him, "synonym finder"'

Answer: thesaurus


Question: 'Lillian Moller Gilbreth invented the type of this household item with the step-on opener still used today'

Answer: garbage can


Question: 'International travelers like this airport shop that eliminates import & export fees'

Answer: duty-free shop


Question: 'In this story, a shattered pumpkin is found where the Headless Horseman threw his head at Ichabod Crane'

Answer: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"


Question: 'You can catch this "Men in Black" star in TV reruns of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"'

Answer: Will Smith


Question: 'Famous for its half dome & waterfalls, this California national park is a World Heritage Site'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Males of these animals abandon their mates, so the "Goldilocks" family isn't realistic'

Answer: bears


Question: 'The age of this this type of fighting man was ending; the Teutonic ones got whupped by King Casimir IV of Poland'

Answer: knights


Question: 'Jesus told him "Upon this rock I will build my church"'

Answer: Peter


Question: '"The Monster and Other Stories" by this "Red Badge of Courage" author appeared in 1899, 1 year before his untimely death'

Answer: Stephen Crane


Question: 'In 1994 this funny man could be seen in "The Mask", "Dumb and Dumber" & "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'There's a possible $53,000 fine if you remove coral from this World Heritage Site on Australia's northeast coast'

Answer: The Great Barrier Reef


Question: 'This rodent's quills are missing from the underside of the female's tail (fortunately for the male)'

Answer: porcupine


Question: 'A key part of the Italian Renaissance was the discovery of literature in these 2 languages'

Answer: Greek & Latin


Question: 'Type of person who sees a glass as half empty, rather than half full'

Answer: pessimist


Question: 'His famous stories "Franny" & "Zooey" were published originally in The New Yorker'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'You'll see a lot of stars in 2001's "Ocean's Eleven", including this actor as Danny Ocean'

Answer: George Clooney


Question: 'Christianity & Judaism recognize this city's Old City as this site of Abraham's aborted sacrifice of his son'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'Geese & these birds that include the trumpeter type mate for life; ducks are more promiscuous'

Answer: swans


Question: 'In 1453 this country's warriors won the Battle of Castillon & the Hundred Years' War was finally over'

Answer: France


Question: 'Aim high & maybe one day you'll wind up living in this top-floor luxury apartment'

Answer: penthouse


Question: 'Miss Marple & her friends meet once a week to solve mysteries in "The Tuesday Club Murders" by this author'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'Great Scot! In "Moulin Rouge", this lad from "Phantom Menace" shows off his singing talents'

Answer: Ewan McGregor


Question: 'The national park named for this mountain, Africa's largest point, was added to the list in 1987'

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro


Question: 'Bull elephants rarely fight, but the over 5,000-pound elephant type of these often battle it out'

Answer: seals


Question: 'Portuguese sailors crossed this line & found that the ocean didn't boil there, as was thought'

Answer: equator


Question: 'It's a list of ancestors, especially of a purebred dog'

Answer: pedigree


Question: 'Even Uncle Vanya might be bored by "A Boring Story", which this Russian playwright wrote in 1889'

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Question: 'This star of "O" & "10 Things I Hate About You" is often seen at Columbia Univ., where she's an English major'

Answer: Julia Stiles


Question: 'A major maritime power from the 10th century, this Italian city is "an extraordinary architectural masterpiece"'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'In the red uakari, a South American species of this, males want to be as red-faced as possible to attract females'

Answer: monkey


Question: 'This empire lost Ankara in 1402, but got it back the next year'

Answer: Ottoman Empire


Question: 'In mythology she's the faithful & patient wife of Odysseus'

Answer: Penelope


Question: 'Elizabeth Shoumatoff was sketching his portrait when he fell unconscious April 12, 1945; he died 2 hours later'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'The votes are in: Thomas Hardy created Michael Henchard, this officeholder "of Casterbridge"'

Answer: Mayor


Question: 'In "All the President's Men", Hal Holbrook played the secret informant dubbed this'

Answer: Deep Throat


Question: 'In 1887 this lawyer "Scoped" out a move to Chicago & later repped Pullman strike supporters'

Answer: Clarence Darrow


Question: 'Seth,<br />to Cain'

Answer: brother


Question: 'Go to www.foai.af.mil to file a Freedom of Information Act request with this organization'

Answer: the Air Force


Question: 'Turkey is the leading producer of this peachy fruit'

Answer: apricot


Question: 'Title Russian sawbones of 1957'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'In a 1996 movie it was "The People vs." this Hustler magazine publisher'

Answer: Larry Flynt


Question: 'He wrote that Chicago was proud to be a "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation"'

Answer: (Carl) Sandburg


Question: 'Isaac,<br />to Rebekah'

Answer: husband


Question: 'bullshido.net exposes frauds in these arts, such as ninjutsu & aikido'

Answer: martial arts


Question: 'Should'

Answer: ought


Question: 'It's the occupation mentioned in a 1916 James Joyce book title'

Answer: Artist


Question: 'This 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film told the story of Chinese ruler Pu Yi'

Answer: The Last Emperor


Question: 'Benny Goodman learned to play his clarinet at this alliterative Chicago landmark co-founded by Jane Addams'

Answer: Hull House


Question: 'Japheth,<br />to Noah'

Answer: son


Question: '"Where you book matters", according to this travel website'

Answer: Expedia.com


Question: 'The last arrow fired in an archery contest, today it means the final result'

Answer: upshot


Question: 'All paths lead to Dr. Chearles Primrose, this title Oliver Goldsmith reverend'

Answer: the Vicar of Wakefield


Question: 'In "Moneyball" Brad Pitt played this Oakland A's general manager'

Answer: Billy Beane


Question: 'This "Blue Demon" school in Chicago is the USA's largest Roman Catholic university'

Answer: DePaul


Question: 'Methuselah,<br />to Noah'

Answer: grandfather


Question: 'This professional site whose name implies that it connects you became the USA's No. 2 social network in 2011'

Answer: LinkedIn


Question: 'An overpowering destructive force, or an "X-Men" villain'

Answer: juggernaut


Question: 'Conjuring up images of 19th century Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote of this title guy "of Lublin"'

Answer: Magician


Question: 'Josephine Baker & Cole Porter are portrayed in this 2011 Woody Allen movie'

Answer: Midnight in Paris


Question: 'On Feb. 14, 1929 it was that's all folks for 7 members of this Chicago mobster's gang'

Answer: Bugs Moran


Question: 'Rachel,<br />to Leah'

Answer: sister


Question: 'These 2 letters follow "Web" in the name of the 2010 Webby Award winner in the health category'

Answer: MD


Question: 'The yellow-bellied type of this critter is sunbathing here'

Answer: a marmot


Question: 'Get out the blue ink for this sea immediately north of Poland'

Answer: the Baltic


Question: '1988:<br />"Need You Tonight/Meditate"'

Answer: INXS


Question: 'Maria Tallchief played the sugarplum fairy in a 1954 New York City ballet performance of this classic'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: '16 short tons minus 13 short tons leaves you this many pounds'

Answer: 6,000 (3 tons, 2,000 per)


Question: 'In 1949 Canada joined the United States & 10 other nations to form this military alliance'

Answer: NATO


Question: 'Proverbially, "he who" does this "is lost"'

Answer: hesitates


Question: 'However you draw the border between Nicaragua & this 2-named country, somebody gets mad, huh?'

Answer: Costa Rica


Question: '2009:<br />"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"'

Answer: Beyonce


Question: 'This wooden rail attached to the wall of a ballet studio is used by the dancers for support during exercises'

Answer: a barre


Question: 'Fahrenheit boiling point of water times Celsius freezing point of water'

Answer: 0


Question: 'Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes'

Answer: Erie & Ontario


Question: 'A house of shelter for pilgrims, or a homelike facility that provides care for the terminally ill'

Answer: a hospice


Question: 'A study says it's the most misspelled city in the U.S., but you got it right, with the final "H"'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: '1984:<br />"You Might Think"'

Answer: The Cars


Question: 'Born Margaret Hookham in England, she made her professional debut in 1934 at the age of 15'

Answer: Margot Fonteyn


Question: 'Number of quarts in 2 gallons divided by the number of pints in 2 quarts'

Answer: 2 (8 divided by 4)


Question: 'On July 3, 1608 this Frenchman landed at what would become the City of Quebec'

Answer: (Samuel de) Champlain


Question: 'From 1823 to 1838 it was one of the 5 countries that made up the United Provinces of Central America'

Answer: Honduras


Question: 'Mark all of these--really more than 1,500--including Wolfe on the Canadian side of the river & Wells on the U.S. side'

Answer: the Thousand Islands


Question: '2004:<br />"Hey Ya!"'

Answer: OutKast


Question: 'Onstage this late Soviet defector often partnered Maya Plisetskaya; offstage, Jacqueline Bisset'

Answer: Alexander Godunov


Question: 'Square inches in a square foot plus square feet in a square yard'

Answer: 153


Question: 'The 1947 discovery of oil in a field at Leduc in this prairie province launched a Canadian oil boom'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'In Egyptian myth this deity & son of Osiris is usually depicted as having the head of a falcon'

Answer: Horus


Question: 'Wite-out please!  Kinshasa hasn't been named this, after an abusive Belgian, since 1966'

Answer: Leopoldville


Question: '1993:<br />"Jeremy"'

Answer: Pearl Jam


Question: 'When "Le Pavillon d'Armide" premiered in 1907, Vaslav Nijinsky played the slave & she played Armide'

Answer: Anna Pavlova


Question: 'Feet in a fathom plus feet in a mile'

Answer: 5,286


Question: 'The Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867; this transplanted Scot became the country's first prime minister'

Answer: (John A.) MacDonald


Question: 'Anglers & crafters, not just surgeons, use this instrument, whose name means "blood stop"'

Answer: a hemostat


Question: 'Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say'

Answer: the Algonquin Round Table


Question: 'A town crier reads this document on the steps of the National Archives on the Fourth of July'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'In 321 Constantine the Great declared it a legal day of rest & worship'

Answer: Sunday


Question: 'His stores include "The Man Who Was" and "The Man Who Would Be King"'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: '70% of the world's known oil reserves is controlled by the 13 countries that make up this organization'

Answer: OPEC


Question: 'His "Blue Hawaii" LP remained No. 1 for 20 straight weeks, a record that stood for 15 years'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Prices that can't get any lower are said to have reached this'

Answer: rock-bottom


Question: 'The Old Ebbitt Grill, billed as "Washington's Oldest Saloon", is just 2 blocks from this famous residence'

Answer: the White House


Question: 'Under an 1845 act of Congress, presidential elections are held on this day of the week'

Answer: Tuesdays


Question: 'John Galsworthy's 1906 work "The Man of Property" was the first in this series of novels'

Answer: The Forsyte Saga


Question: '"Barrister" & "Business Lawyer" are publications of this legal organization'

Answer: American Bar Association (or ABA)


Question: 'The Byrds' first release, "Mr. Tambourine Man", was written by this folk artist'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Anything that is firmly fixed is said to be as solid as this famous rock'

Answer: the Rock of Gibraltar


Question: 'Stalactites have formed in the basement under this presidential memorial -- "honest"'

Answer: the Lincoln Memorial


Question: 'It was named for the Norse god of thunder'

Answer: Thursday


Question: 'This 1852 work was subtitled "Life Among the Lowly"'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'Each year in mid-November, this organization kicks off its Christmas Seal Campaign'

Answer: the American Lung Association


Question: 'The song in which "She's afraid to come out of the water, and the poor little girl's turning blue"'

Answer: "The Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"


Question: 'It's "the hand that rules the world"'

Answer: the hand that rocks the cradle


Question: 'Pierre L'Enfant's grand plan for Washington, D.C. was reminiscent of this capital city, his birthplace'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'It's the first name of Gomez & Morticia Addams' daughter'

Answer: Wednesday


Question: 'In this Ernest Hemingway story, an author awaits death while on an African safari'

Answer: The Snows of Kilomanjaro


Question: 'Nearly 115,000 single parents belong to this nonprofit organization abbreviated PWP'

Answer: Parents without Partners


Question: '"Do the Freddie" was created to promote the antics of this group's leader'

Answer: Freddie & the Dreamers


Question: 'In a hymn, it's the title line that precedes "Cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee"'

Answer: "Rock of Ages"


Question: 'The Freer Gallery boasts a major collection of this artist's works, tho his "mother" hangs in the Louvre'

Answer: Whistler


Question: 'In the familiar poem, this day's "child works hard for a living"'

Answer: Saturday


Question: 'This 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne collection contained 39 of his stories'

Answer: The Twice-Told Tales


Question: 'Key clubs in high schools & Circle K clubs in colleges are sponsored by this worldwide service organization'

Answer: Kiwanis


Question: 'Michael Nesmith wrote "Different Drum", which was a Top 20 hit for this Linda Ronstadt group'

Answer: the Stone Ponies


Question: 'In Illinois only Chicago has a larger population than this manufacturing city'

Answer: Rockford


Question: 'It's the name of a chemical substance made up of 2 or more elements'

Answer: a compound


Question: 'This word refers to anything that's handwritten, not just a celebrity's signature'

Answer: an autograph


Question: 'Vatican City lies on the west, or right, bank of this river'

Answer: the Tiber


Question: 'This tone poem by Richard Strauss was based on a book by Cervantes'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'This ship's historic Atlantic crossing took from September 16 to November 21, 1620'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'In 1985 Giacobini-Zinner became the first one of these to be intercepted by a spacecraft'

Answer: a comet


Question: 'This style of letters that slant to the right goes back to handwriting used in the Vatican chancery'

Answer: italics


Question: 'This "beautiful blue" river begins as 2 small springs, the Breg & Brigach, in the Black Forest'

Answer: the Danube


Question: 'In boogie-woogie piano music, the left had plays this many beats to the bar repeatedly'

Answer: eight


Question: 'The taking of England by William in 1066 is known as this "Conquest"'

Answer: the Norman


Question: 'These windstorms spiral clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere & counterclockwise in the Northern'

Answer: a cyclone


Question: 'This 10-letter word for the art of attractive writing has the name of a writing implement in it'

Answer: penmanship


Question: 'Including Lake Managua, the 2 largest lakes in Central America are found in this country'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'It's the instrument associated with Jean-Pierre Rampal'

Answer: the flute


Question: 'In June 1756 the Nawab of Bengal imprisoned a number of Europeans in a dungeon nicknamed this'

Answer: the Black Hole of Calcutta


Question: 'When boiled, this fibrous protein found in bones & connective tissue dissolves & forms gelatin'

Answer: collagen


Question: 'In this area of study, handwriting is analyzed to determine personality traits'

Answer: graphology


Question: 'Early explorers gave it a Spanish name meaning "large river"'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'Virtuoso keyboard piece whose name is Italian for "touched"; Bach paired several with fugues'

Answer: a toccato


Question: 'People born while this war continued include Chaucer, Leonardo da Vinci, and Joan of Arc'

Answer: The Hundred Years War


Question: 'A 1934 production of this play featured the young Orson Welles as Tybalt'

Answer: Romeo & Juliet


Question: 'It's the force that holds the molecules of a substance together'

Answer: cohesion


Question: 'It's a professional copyist, like Bartleby in the title of a Melville work'

Answer: the scrivener


Question: 'Major tributaries of this river include the Pelly, Porcupine & Klondike'

Answer: the Yukon


Question: 'Donizetti opera about Marie, who as a baby was found on a battlefield & raised by a group of soldiers'

Answer: "Daughter of the Regiment"


Question: 'He & his 1,000 "Red Shirts" took Sicily in 1860'

Answer: Garibaldi


Question: 'This English beauty known as the "Jersey Lilly" played a seductive Lady Macbeth in 1889'

Answer: Lillie Langtry


Question: 'In 54 A.D., as the result of his mother's scheming, he became the first teenage emperor of Rome at age 16'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'The Book of Revelation equates Christ with alpha & omega, the first and last letters of this alphabet'

Answer: the Greek alphabet


Question: 'On "Bonanza", it was the last name of Ben, Hoss, Little Joe & Adam'

Answer: Cartwright


Question: 'People are often willing to "give" these for something they greatly desire'

Answer: your eye teeth


Question: 'Its state poem is "A Nuevo Mexico"'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'This name can precede Reb, cake or -on-the-spot'

Answer: Johnny


Question: 'Sara Delano'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'In chapter 7 of Exodus, God turns the waters of the Nile into this'

Answer: blood


Question: 'Pokey the Horse was the constant companion of this flexible little fellow'

Answer: Gumby


Question: 'It's the 3-word term for fighting or going at something with great ferocity'

Answer: tooth-and-nail


Question: 'In 1972 this state declared dog mushing the state sport'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'A metallic sound made by a sleigh bell, or a catchy tune in a commercial'

Answer: a jingle


Question: 'Nancy Hanks'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: '13 of the New Testament's 27 books are attributed to him'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'C. Lindbergh's son Jon, an ex-Navy frogman, was an advisor for this 1950s Lloyd Bridges adventure series'

Answer: Sea Hunt


Question: 'From the Greek for "straight teeth" it's the dental specialty that makes them that way'

Answer: orthodontics


Question: 'This mammal appears on both the state seal & the state flag of California'

Answer: the bear


Question: 'This type of food is named for its lack of nutritional value; you don't have to eat it on a Chinese boat'

Answer: junk


Question: 'Abigail Smith'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'The name of this final book of the Pentateuch means "second law"'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'On the final telecast of "Howdy Doody", he broke his series-long silence to say, "Goodbye, kids"'

Answer: Clarabell


Question: 'These teeth have 3-5 cusps and 2 or 3 roots'

Answer: the molars


Question: 'In 1982, Colorado made this plated dinosaur its state fossil'

Answer: the Stegosaurus


Question: 'World Book says that licenses were issued to these professional fools in the 1600s -- no fooling'

Answer: a jester


Question: 'Dorothy Walker'

Answer: (George) Bush


Question: 'In Matthew the value of entering the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to this gem'

Answer: a pearl


Question: 'Before "The Munsters", Fred Gwynne & Al Lewis appeared together on this cop comedy'

Answer: Car 54, Where Are You?


Question: 'From the Latin for "to cut", it's a tooth adapted for cutting'

Answer: the incisor


Question: 'Say "amen"; it's the state insect of Connecticut'

Answer: the praying mantis


Question: 'The sea wasp variety of these is so venomous its sting can cause death within a few minutes'

Answer: a jellyfish


Question: 'Lillian Gordy'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'After her husband was killed in 1776, she added flag making to her upholstery business'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Kidnapped from a Detroit area restaurant in 1975, this teamster leader's disappearance is still a "riddle"'

Answer: Jimmy Hoffa


Question: 'The world's lowest measured mean temperature, -70°F., is at Plateau Station on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'At the beginning of this Nijinsky ballet, a faun is playing his flute'

Answer: Afternoon of a Faun


Question: 'She dedicated her song "Words Upon The Wind" to her mother, Princess Grace'

Answer: Princess Stephanie (of Monaco)


Question: 'At the end of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", this captain dies & his ship the Nautilus is sunk'

Answer: Nemo


Question: 'This 1st signer of the Declaration of Independence commanded the Masschusetts militia during the Revolution'

Answer: John Hancock


Question: 'He was chairman of Columbia Pictures & a VP of Coca-Cola before becoming baseball comm. in 1989'

Answer: Fay (Vincent)


Question: 'A basilica stands in this Portuguese village where the Virgin Mary purportedly appeared in 1917'

Answer: Fatima


Question: 'The chorus or ensemble of a ballet company is called this "de ballet"'

Answer: the corps de ballet


Question: 'This country's King Olaf V was born in England & was the grandson of King Edward VII'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'In Erle Stanley Gardner's "The Case of the Terrified Typist", this attorney lost the case'

Answer: Perry Mason


Question: 'In 1776 John Adams rebutted this pamphlet with his own "Thoughts on Government"'

Answer: Common Sense


Question: 'With Theodore Simon, this French psychologist developed a series of intelligence tests'

Answer: (Alfred) Binet


Question: 'San Cristobal is the capital of these islands, a province of Ecuador'

Answer: the Galápagos


Question: 'When this ballet premiered in 1890, Carlotta Brianza danced the role of Princess Aurora'

Answer: The Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'Between 1801 & 1917, all of Russia's czars were named Nicholas or this'

Answer: Alexander


Question: 'Longfellow took the name of this fictional Indian from a 15th century Iroquois chief'

Answer: Hiawatha


Question: 'This country's fleet blocked the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, allowing an American victory at Yorktown'

Answer: France


Question: 'Aristotle Onassis' middle name was that of this great Greek philosopher'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'Christmas is a national holiday of this Islamic country whose provisional capital is Abu Dhabi'

Answer: the United Arab Emirates


Question: 'He wrote the music for the Western-themed ballets "Billy the Kid" & "Rodeo"'

Answer: Aaron Copland


Question: 'Francis Stephen of Lorraine & this 18th c. Austrian empress founded the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine'

Answer: Maria Theresa


Question: 'Beaumarchais' third play about this barber was called "La Mere Coupable"'

Answer: Figaro


Question: 'In 1772 these "Committees" were formed so that Colonists would learn via letters what was happening'

Answer: the Committees of Correspondence


Question: 'This economist & author of "The Affluent Society" served as ambassador to India under JFK'

Answer: (John Kenneth) Galbraith


Question: 'Manuel Roxas, not Manuel Quezon, was the first president of this country after independence'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Giselle kills herself with one of these weapons which belongs to her noble lover, Albrecht'

Answer: a sword


Question: 'Marguerite of Navarre wrote the "Heptameron", a collection of stories similar to this Boccaccio work'

Answer: the Decameron


Question: 'Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the incarcerated king of Ruritania in this English romance by Anthony Hope'

Answer: The Prisoner of Zenda


Question: 'In 1969 the N.Y. Times retracted a 1920 editorial ridiculing his claim that rockets could fly to the Moon'

Answer: Robert Goddard


Question: 'This religion was created by a man who wrote Westerns, horror & science fiction stories'

Answer: Scientology


Question: '"Moonstruck"'

Answer: Cher


Question: 'How shocking!  A unit of electrical current is named for this Andre'

Answer: André Ampere


Question: 'Try to remember a day in September of this year'

Answer: 1964


Question: 'Developed to treat sunburn, this cream got its name after a customer said it knocks eczema out'

Answer: Noxema


Question: 'Before climactic'

Answer: anti-


Question: 'Druze, originally a sect of this branch of Islam, hide their beliefs by pretending to practice other religions'

Answer: Shia


Question: '"Klute"'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'The scientific unit of sound intensity named for this man has one less "L" than his surname'

Answer: (Alexander Graham) Bell


Question: 'It's the year of the futile effort headlined here'

Answer: 1938


Question: 'Style that got its name from 1925's Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs'

Answer: Art Deco


Question: 'Before sufferable'

Answer: in-


Question: 'Lamaism is another name for this religion in which the ruler chief monk is the Dalai Lama'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: '"Shakespeare in Love"'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'She may have said, "Why don't you come up and see my life jacket sometime?" when she wore the one named for her'

Answer: Mae West


Question: 'The high hopes of this year are indicated here'

Answer: 1919


Question: 'Philosopher Willard van Orman Quine said that this philosopher's "predicament is the human predicament"'

Answer: David Hume


Question: 'Before louse'

Answer: de-


Question: 'Organizations for this religion include the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel & the Covenant of the Goddess'

Answer: Wiccan


Question: '"Dead Man Walking"'

Answer: Susan Sarandon


Question: 'A shirtless male stripper in collar & cuffs would love these chairs named for an 18th C. cabinetmaker'

Answer: Chippendales


Question: 'This kind of material has superconductivity, which means it has no electrical resistance at very low temperatures'

Answer: a superconductor


Question: 'Before tonal'

Answer: a-


Question: 'This religion founded in 1863 in Iran teaches the worth of all religions & the equality of the sexes'

Answer: Baha\'i


Question: '"Walk the Line"'

Answer: (Reese) Witherspoon


Question: 'To prudishly edit vulgar bits out of a written work is called this, after a guy named Thomas who did it to Shakespeare'

Answer: bowdlerize


Question: 'This acronym refers to a family with a single income, 2 children & an oppressive mortgage'

Answer: SITCOM


Question: 'Before ready (Ethelred knew this one)'

Answer: un-


Question: 'The beloved "Pride and Prejudice"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question:
'Richie Aprile,
Junior,
Big Pussy'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'He doubled his salary & received tenure after giving the Doge of Venice a telescope for naval operations'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Cheerios &<br />Betty Crocker products'

Answer: General Mills


Question: 'They're decorative objects from the past like furniture, glass & ceramics that people collect'

Answer: antiques


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges.)  The sounds may give you a clue to this 1-word name of the central tower in Bruges' Market Square; it's 366 steps to the top, so I'll listen from down here'

Answer: the belfry


Question: 'The thriller "Patriot Games"'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question:
'Dr, Kerry Weaver,
Dr. Elizabeth Corday,
Dr. Abby Lockhart'

Answer: ER


Question: 'William Herschel used a Newtonian telescope to discover this planet & its moons Oberon & Titania'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'Velveeta'

Answer: Kraft


Question: 'It's a tightly wound bandage, used to stop severe bleeding'

Answer: a tourniquet


Question: 'Tradition says as punishment for killing a noble, Bruges must forever keep these long-necked birds in its canals'

Answer: swans


Question: 'As well as "The Road to Oz", "Queen Zixi of Ix"'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question:
'Horatio Caine,
Alexx Woods,
Frank Tripp'

Answer: CSI: Miami


Question: 'To minimize the effects of human light, Keck, the world's largest optical telescope, is located on this dormant volcano'

Answer: Mauna Kea


Question: 'Scotch tape'

Answer: 3M


Question: 'A special aura; Betty Friedan's was a "Feminine" one'

Answer: mystique


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges, Belgium.)  Come to Belgium for the work of the painters known as the Primitives of this culture & language; Van Eyck is among those represented in Bruges' museums'

Answer: Flemish


Question: 'The novel "The Prince of Tides" & the screenplay thereof'

Answer: Pat Conroy


Question:
'Jack Donaghy,
Kenneth the Page,
Tracy Jordan'

Answer: 30 Rock


Question: 'This Corning glass used for cooking was cast to make the 200-inch telescope lens for Mount Palomar'

Answer: Pyrex


Question: 'Dutch Boy paints'

Answer: Sherwin-Williams


Question: 'We assume you know it's French for a nickname or assumed name'

Answer: sobriquet


Question: 'Bruges is the starting point for one of Belgium's premier sporting events, a 164-mile race of these'

Answer: bicycles


Question: '"Ottsy i Deti", aka "Fathers and Sons"'

Answer: Ivan Turgenev


Question:
'Jonas Grumby,
Roy Hinkley,
Ginger Grant'

Answer: Gilligan\'s Island


Question: 'This type of telescope was developed when a Bell Labs engineer tried to find the source of short-wave interference'

Answer: a radiotelescope


Question: 'Hi-C &<br />Minute Maid juices'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'Maputo is the capital & largest city of this country'

Answer: Mozambique


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges.)  The heroes in this statue were a butcher & a weaver who led a struggle against the wealthy merchants who dominated these Medieval trade associations'

Answer: guilds


Question: 'Besides Carter, 1 of 2 20th century presidents to live at least 30 years past the day he entered office'

Answer: (1 of) Gerald Ford & Herbert Hoover


Question: 'This Nevada capital was founded by Abraham Curry, who named it for a famous frontier scout'

Answer: Carson City


Question: 'Lindsay Curtis & Jamie Lee Lohan--wait, switch those last names--starred in this 2003 remake'

Answer: Freaky Friday


Question: 'Some theaters offer the Bavarian Brothers brand of this soft snack that's "seriously twisted"'

Answer: a pretzel


Question: 'In "The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote", rabbit escapes to this heavenly body, which makes the coyote howl at it'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'Screamin & Caribbean are 2 of our favorite shades of this (okay, we like the Forest shade, too)'

Answer: green


Question: 'It's Apple's killer music combination'

Answer: iPod and iTunes


Question: 'More than half of all U.S. coins are made at the mint in this "Mile High City"'

Answer: Denver


Question: '"Save the world.  Get the girl.  Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz pic'

Answer: Agent Cody Banks


Question: 'It's the rhyming name of the movie treats seen here'

Answer: Reese\'s Pieces


Question: '(LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow delivers the clue.)  In "The Bionic Bunny Show", the Bionic Bunny twitches his nose and wiggles these to summon his bionic strength'

Answer: his ears


Question: 'Some birdbrain at Crayola came up with a color called Pink this bird'

Answer: Flamingo


Question: 'For Brittany Snow they include liberty & equality'

Answer: American Dreams


Question: 'This state capital was founded by John Sutter, Jr. a year after gold was discovered on his father's sawmill'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'The 4 main food groups where Will Ferrell comes from in this film are candy, candy canes, candy corn & syrup'

Answer: Elf


Question: 'Made by the same company, these candies are just like Mike and Ike but they're cinnamon-flavored'

Answer: Hot Tamales


Question: 'What a "joy" when this nut debuted as a Crayola color in 1998'

Answer: Almond


Question: 'Tale about someone who rises from neglect to success'

Answer: a Cinderella story


Question: 'The 20-foot tall statue that stands in this capital's City Hall Plaza was a gift from the citizens of Genoa, Italy'

Answer: Columbus (Ohio)


Question: 'In 2002 Freddie Prinze Jr. went to the dogs in this film'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Too bad the theater's so dark; you can't see these "everlasting" Willie Wonka jawbreakers change color'

Answer: Gobstoppers


Question: 'In 2003 Crayola celebrated its 100th birthday by adding some new colors, including "Mango" this (hey, that rhymes)'

Answer: Tango


Question: 'Before dueling in this game, you must greet your opponent with a friendly handshake'

Answer: Yu-Gi-Oh


Question: 'Peter Stuyvesant gave it the name Beverwyck in 1652; 12 years later it was given its present name'

Answer: Albany (New York)


Question: 'Kingdom of Far Far Away…  Hello!  Larry King voices an ugly stepsister in this sequel'

Answer: Shrek 2


Question: 'Be sure to pick up a box of these, "the original malted milk balls"'

Answer: Whoppers


Question: 'It's when a group wants you to conform so you'll be accepted'

Answer: peer pressure


Question: '-40 is the only reading on these 2 temperature scales where the temperature is the same'

Answer: Celsius and Fahrenheit


Question: 'She called her first real pop-rock album "Metamorphosis" because "change is a very important and natural thing"'

Answer: Hilary Duff


Question: 'Put shirt on horizontal stick, stuff with straw; put pands on attached vertical piece, stuff; attach head'

Answer: make a scarecrow


Question: 'The birthday of this top Confederate general is celebrated as Confederate Heroes Day'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Since 1956, kids have played on the Disneyland island named for this kid created by Mark Twain'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: 'Myrige, an old English word for "pheasant", evolved into this adjective that precedes Christmas'

Answer: merry


Question: 'When hit by electrons, a phosphor gives off electromagnetic energy in this form'

Answer: light


Question: 'His solo hit "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)" was featured on the "Drumline" soundtrack'

Answer: JC Chasez


Question: 'Die, become covered with mud, wait thousands of years & petrify'

Answer: become a fossil


Question: 'This first lady saved one of the White House's paintings of George Washington during the War of 1812'

Answer: Dolley Madison


Question: 'This man, who co-hosted the grand opening of Disneyland, later became the President of the United States'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'This word for a nonrigid airship may be derived from the word "limp"'

Answer: blimp


Question: 'Dry ice is made by compressing and cooling this gas'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'This one-named singer had hits with "Foolish", "Always On Time" & "What's Luv?"'

Answer: Ashanti


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew snaps some rubber bands around a familiar piece of sports gear.)  Lather it with lanolin, put a ball in the pocket, and wrap it with rubber bands for 48 hours'

Answer: wear in (or break in) a (baseball) glove (or mitt)


Question: 'He's the famous German-American physicist who came up with the nuclear equation E = mc²'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'You'll feel "dopey" if you don't know that a musical about this heroine premiered at Disneyland in 2004'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'This "metallic" word precedes calf, gate, & retriever'

Answer: golden


Question: 'I know you can name this hip-hop hero who had the hit song "I can"'

Answer: Nas


Question: 'From bottom to top, then from bottom to top again, then into triangles starting at the end with the stripes'

Answer: fold an American flag


Question: 'Sign in please if you know this Massachusetts man was chosen President of the 2nd Continental Congress'

Answer: John Hancock


Question: 'Neuschwanstein Castle inspired the design of this heroine's castle in a 1959 film and at Disneyland'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'Shad Gregory Moss is the real name of this teen rapper who's been "Unleashed"'

Answer: Lil\' Bow Wow


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads and demonstrates on Jimmy.)  To perform this 2-word procedure to relieve choking, place your thumb on the person's upper abdomen and thrust inward'

Answer: the Heimlich maneuver


Question: 'In 1932 she took off in a plane from Newfoundland, Canada & landed about 15 hours later in Ireland'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'This sport that's also known as whiff-whaff & flim-flam has been an Olympic sport since 1988'

Answer: table tennis (or ping pong)


Question: 'This author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" also wrote librettos for operettas'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'The rainbow variety of this fish is part of the same genus as the Atlantic salmon'

Answer: Trout


Question: 'Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument is located south of Hardin in this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'On July 9, 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute'

Answer: Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'In May of 1873 the Post Office issued postcards with postage of this value'

Answer: One cent


Question: 'Synonym for antonym'

Answer: Opposite


Question: 'Nikos Kazantzakis continued the adventures of this Homeric hero in a 33,333-line sequel'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'These snakelike fish constitute the order Anguilliformes'

Answer: Eels


Question: 'The USA's largest national monument, this state's Misty Fjords, consists of glaciers & long, deep fjords'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Kim Zmeskal & Shannon Miller are the only U.S. women to win the all-around title at these world championships'

Answer: Gymnastics


Question: 'In February of 1895 the U.S. reserves of this were down to a dangerously low $41 million dollars'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'Dog school'

Answer: obedience


Question: 'After his return to Russia in 1994, this former dissident was given his own TV talk show'

Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'Farming of the channel species of this fish is a rapidly growing business in the southern U.S.'

Answer: Catfish


Question: 'In 1948 a replica of the log cabin in which this black educator was born was constructed at his memorial'

Answer: Booker T. Washington


Question: 'Of the four Grand Slam golf tournaments, it's the only one played outside the U.S.'

Answer: British Open


Question: 'In 1804, this vice president ran for governor of New York, and lost'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground'

Answer: Osiris


Question: 'Although he spent most of his life in Prague, Franz Kafka spoke & wrote in this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'These aggressive aquarium fish are native to Thailand's clear but weedy waters'

Answer: Fighting fish


Question: 'This Wyoming formation has a base diameter of about 1,000 feet & a summit diameter of about 275 feet'

Answer: Devils Tower


Question: 'With a capacity of 63,000, this San Francisco ballpark is the National League's largest'

Answer: Candlestick Park


Question: 'Davy Crockett was in this city March 6, 1836'

Answer: San Antonio (site of the Alamo)


Question: 'In 451 these Teutonic tribesmen joined with Attila in his expedition against Gaul'

Answer: Ostrogoths


Question: 'Most of Nadine Gordimer's novels including "July's People" are set in this country where she grew up'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'This fish is called a <br />muskie for short'

Answer: muskellunge


Question: 'Arizona's Canyon De Chelly National Monument lies within this Indian reservation'

Answer: Navajo


Question: 'The first to win this Patriots' Day event was John McDermott in 1897'

Answer: Boston Marathon


Question: 'During an 1840 speaking tour in England, he persuaded thousands to emigrate to Nauvoo, Illinois'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'The two Greek letters that fit this category'

Answer: Omega & Omicron


Question: 'This second wife of Ronald Reagan was born Anne Frances Robbins'

Answer: Nancy Davis Reagan


Question: 'The temperature & salinity of this smallest ocean vary as the ice cover freezes & melts'

Answer: Arctic Ocean


Question: 'A Catholic woman & a Protestant man fall in love in "Remembrance", set in this Northern Ireland capital'

Answer: Belfast


Question: 'Not surprisingly, there are more motor vehicles registered in this state than any other'

Answer: California


Question: 'Soon after his father's death in 1743, he went to live with half-brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'The CD in your CD player  doesn't contain this element, Cd, but the batteries running it might'

Answer: cadmium


Question: 'In the 1940s she invested part of her inheritance in radio station KTBC in Austin'

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson


Question: 'U.S. Naval personnel in Cuba call it "Gitmo" for short'

Answer: Guantanamo Bay


Question: 'This Norwegian wrote his 1866 play "Brand" in rhyming verse'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'The name of this form of transportation comes from a Latin word meaning "for all"'

Answer: Omnibus


Question: 'Michael Seeger, half-brother of this American folk singer, was a founder of the New Lost City Ramblers'

Answer: Pete Seeger


Question: 'Its atomic number is 28, but we think it would have made more sense if it was 5'

Answer: Nickel


Question: 'In 1890 at age 5, she met her future husband in an Independence, Missouri Sunday school class'

Answer: Bess Truman


Question: 'It separates Tierra del Fuego from the tip of the South American mainland'

Answer: Straits of Magellan


Question: 'This Greek-American diva is the leading character in Terrence McNally's play "Master Class"'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'In 1910, it became the first type of aircraft to offer commercial passenger service'

Answer: Dirigible


Question: 'Cato the Younger was half-brother of Servilia, mother of this chief assassin of Julius Caesar'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'Compounds featuring this element are used to treat the most common type of anemia'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'While first lady, she arranged the White House wedding of her stepdaughter Alice in 1906'

Answer: Edith Roosevelt


Question: 'Site of a massive oil spill in 1989, it was named for the third son of King George III'

Answer: Prince William Sound


Question: '"Edward II", his play about a murdered king, premiered around 1592; sadly, he was killed in 1593'

Answer: Christopher Marlowe


Question: 'Completed in 1916, this Russian railroad is the longest in the world'

Answer: Trans-Siberian Railroad


Question: 'She was involved in an amorous episode with Thomas Seymour during the reign of her half-brother Edward VI'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'Holmium was named by Per Teodor Cleve for this, his hometown'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'This first lady died in 1944 & was buried in West Branch, Iowa'

Answer: Lou Henry Hoover


Question: 'Ciudad Bolivar & Ciudad Guayana are the major cities on this river'

Answer: Orinoco


Question: 'A man named Berenger appears in several of his plays including "Rhinoceros" & "Exit the King"'

Answer: Eugène Ionesco


Question: 'In 1994 this ill-fated Italian cruise ship sank off the coast of Somalia'

Answer: Achille Lauro


Question: 'This third king of Israel succeeded to the throne after half-brother Adonijah tried to seize it'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Noble gas whose name is from the Greek word for "sun"'

Answer: Helium


Question: '2 of the 5 actors before Tom Hanks to win 2 Best Actor Oscars'

Answer: (2 of 5) Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March & Spencer Tracy


Question: 'This 19th century character was known for his pipe smoking, violin playing & even cocaine use'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'January 4 is the national day to toss this type of dense Christmas goodie made with dried raisins, nuts & other stuff'

Answer: fruitcake


Question: 'Hamid Karzai became the first elected president of this Central Asian country in 2004'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'The current $2 bill features him on the front'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'Bedford Falls is the setting of this classic 1946 Christmas film'

Answer: It\'s a Wonderful Life


Question: '6 points on the gridiron'

Answer: a touchdown


Question: 'You can find this Mickey Spillane tough guy in "The Big Kill" & "My Gun Is Quick"'

Answer: Mike Hammer


Question: 'Call your friends: January 20 is national awareness day for these Antarctic birds'

Answer: penguins


Question: 'After being jailed for 28 years, he was elected president of South Africa in 1994'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'This building had to appear on a note--it's on the back of the $10 bill'

Answer: the U.S. Treasury


Question: '2-word name of the imaginary hometown of radio host Garrison Keillor, who grew up in Anoka, Minnesota'

Answer: Lake Wobegon


Question: 'Street where you'll find Prime Minister Gordon Brown at home'

Answer: Downing


Question: '"G" is for this bestselling novelist who came on the (crime) scene in 1982 with a female detective'

Answer: Sue Grafton


Question: 'January 17 doesn't come soon enough, as it's the designated day to ditch these annual promises made 2 1/2 weeks before'

Answer: New Year\'s resolutions


Question: 'Morgan Tsvangirai is an opposition leader in this troubled African country'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'This man with a strong military background gazes out from the front of the $50 bill'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama & set this novel in the similar-but-made-up town of Maycomb'

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird


Question: 'To transfer a file or program from the Internet to your home computer'

Answer: download


Question: 'This elderly Englishwoman was in 1930's "The Murder at the Vicarage" & 1971's "Nemesis"'

Answer: Miss Marple


Question: 'Mmmmmmmmmm, January 23 is a chance to show off your baking skills as it's the day for this; shoofly, anyone?'

Answer: pie


Question: 'Raised in Mexico City, this New Mexico governor was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1999'

Answer: (Bill) Richardson


Question: 'This Pennsylvania building graces the reverse of the $100 bill'

Answer: Independence Hall


Question: 'Gopher Prairie is the imaginary setting of this Sinclair Lewis novel'

Answer: Main Street


Question: 'A hostile face-to-face confrontation, like a gunfight at high noon in the Old West'

Answer: a showdown


Question: 'Robert B. Parker introduced this one-named P.I. in 1974's "The Godwulf Manuscript"'

Answer: Spenser


Question: 'On January 28 all of us can celebrate the day for this humming noisemaker invented in the 1840s'

Answer: a kazoo


Question: 'Michelle Bachelet is the first female elected leader of this South American country'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The back of the $1 bill has the Latin phrases Annuit coeptis & Novus ordo seclorum, both from this Roman epic poet'

Answer: Virgil


Question: 'Bearing a close resemblance to William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon, it's Citizen Kane's mansion'

Answer: Xanadu


Question: 'Yeehaw!  It's a boisterous social gathering featuring square dancing'

Answer: a hoedown


Question: 'Samuel L. Jackson & Nicolas Cage team up in this 1993 comedy whose title plays off the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio series'

Answer: Amos & Andrew


Question: 'Use your common sense & name this patriot in a portrait owned by the National Gallery'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'In Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany:<br />The ____ Forest'

Answer: Black


Question: 'Mexican law says that this must be made with at least 51% blue agave'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'The American amphibious assault on Iwo Jima began on Feb. 19 of this year'

Answer: 1945


Question: 'Exhibition shooter Bob Munden calls himself this phrase "who ever lived" (not "in the West")'

Answer: the fastest gun


Question: 'This singer/songwriter's albums include "Under the Pink" & "Strange Little Girls"'

Answer: Tori Amos


Question: 'The National Gallery has a Rubens of this Old Testament prophet in the lions' den'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'In a Wyoming national park:<br />____stone Lake'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'It's the non-potent beverage in a Bloody Mary'

Answer: tomato juice


Question: 'The intense fighting at Iwo Jima involved the 4th & 5th divisions of this U.S. Armed Forces branch'

Answer: the Marines


Question: 'Someone slow-witted is said to be "not" this kitchen item "in the drawer"'

Answer: the sharpest knife


Question: 'On TV he played "Good Times" patriarch James Evans, killed off in an accident'

Answer: John Amos


Question: 'As seen here, the father of our country was painted by this father of American portraiture'

Answer: (Gilbert) Stuart


Question: 'In the Bay of Naples:<br />The ____ Grotto'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'It's carbonated water that contains quinine & is often flavored with fruit'

Answer: tonic water


Question: 'On Nov. 10, 1954 a bronze monument to the battle of Iwo Jima was dedicated at this location'

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew rubs her thumb and forefinger together.)  You want me to feel sorry for you?  Instead, I'm doing this'

Answer: playing the world\'s smallest violin


Question: 'Legendary & innovative football coach who lived to be 102'

Answer: Amos Alonzo Stagg


Question: 'The National Gallery has several works by this American, including his seascape "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)"'

Answer: (Winslow) Homer


Question: 'A suburb of D.C.:<br />____ Spring, Maryland'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'A guy with this last name began distilling London dry gin in 1830'

Answer: Tanqueray


Question: 'The iconic flag-raising photo was taken on this Iwo Jima mount'

Answer: Suribachi


Question: 'Something that panders to low, popular taste is said to appeal to this 3-word phrase used in adding fractions'

Answer: the lowest common denominator


Question: 'The original "Famous Amos", he was a talent agent at William Morris before launching his cookie empire'

Answer: Wally Amos


Question: 'This British landscape painter financed his wedding with the painting seen here--note all the clouds'

Answer: John Constable


Question: 'An inlet of Lake Superior:<br />____fish Bay'

Answer: White


Question: 'This rum-based Jamaican liqueur gets its flavor from Blue Mountain coffee'

Answer: Tia Maria


Question: 'Johnny Cash had a hit song about this Native American soldier who gained fame at Iwo Jima'

Answer: Ira Hayes


Question: 'The "Survival Handbook" for this "Scenario" includes what to do if your parachute doesn't open'

Answer: Worst-Case


Question: 'Halls of fame into which she's been inducted include the California, National Women's, National Aviation & U.S. Astronaut'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: '...was the first to be tried for treason'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: '"My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love"'

Answer: "America" ("My Country, \'Tis Of Thee" accepted)


Question: 'Sir Walter Raleigh obtained a charter from this British queen before sending out a colonizing party to Roanoke'

Answer: Elizabeth (I)


Question: 'This famous 18th century Kentucky frontiersman & hero is often depicted wearing a coonskin cap'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'Brands owned by this soup company include Prego sauces & V8 beverages'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'It followed "absolutely" & preceded "has to be there overnight" in a memorable FedEx ad'

Answer: positively


Question: '...received a law degree from Indiana University in 1974'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: '"O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife"'

Answer: "America The Beautiful"


Question: 'The ships making the first trip to Roanoke did so from this British port city, site of another famous departure'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'This man's photos of Abe Lincoln & the Civil War helped fix the popular image of the U.S. in the mid-19th century'

Answer: (Mathew) Brady


Question: 'This suntan cream's nat'l ads began in 1953 & featured a little girl & the slogan "Don't be a paleface"'

Answer: Coppertone


Question: 'Gently or mildly, it describes how he's "killing me" with his Top 40 song'

Answer: softly


Question: '...pleaded no contest to income tax evasion & wrote a novel, "The Canfield Decision"'

Answer: Agnew


Question: '"The old church bell will peal with joy, hurrah!  Hurrah!"'

Answer: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"


Question: 'The first expedition to Roanoke returned home to England with this leafy plant of the nightshade family'

Answer: tobacco


Question: 'This musician's works include the song "A Pirate Looks At 40" & the book "A Pirate Looks at 50"'

Answer: Jimmy Buffett


Question: 'Dean Witter & Sears introduced this credit card in 1986 & consumers have been "finding" things to charge ever since'

Answer: Discover


Question: 'It precedes "ineligible" to describe a college athlete who can't play because of lousy grades'

Answer: academically


Question: '...filled Hubert Humphrey's Senate seat in 1965'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question: '"There was Col. Washington upon a strapping stallion, a-giving orders to his men, I guess there was a million"'

Answer: "Yankee Doodle"


Question: 'The first child born of English parents in America, she was the granddaughter of the governor of Roanoke Colony'

Answer: Virginia Dare


Question: 'This German received the first patent for a gas-fueled car on January 29, 1886'

Answer: (Karl) Benz


Question: 'This stock exchange is known as "the Curb" because it once conducted business on the street'

Answer: the American Stock Exchange


Question: 'By definition, this adverb describes something that happens every 3 years'

Answer: triannually (or triennially)


Question: '...served from 1941 to 1945'

Answer: Henry Wallace


Question: '"Every heart beats true, under red, white and blue, where there's never a boast or a brag"'

Answer: "You\'re A Grand Old Flag"


Question: 'When John White returned to a deserted Roanoke in 1590, he found this famed 8-letter enigmatic word carved into a tree'

Answer: croatoan


Question: 'A Moscow cathedral is popularly named for this saint known as a "holy fool"'

Answer: St. Basil


Question: 'This insurance company used an umbrella in its ads as early as 1870 & for more than 125 years after'

Answer: Traveler\'s


Question: 'Actually, in the strict sense without inaccuacy or exaggeration, it's this 9-letter adverb'

Answer: literally


Question: 'As the supreme Turkmen leader, Saparmurat Niyazov holds this government position'

Answer: president


Question: 'In 2003 Kristin Chenoweth began noodling around as Ms. Noodle on this PBS show'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddles his raft down the Snake River in Wyoming.)  A Class 3 river like this part of the Snake is for intermediate rafters; the scale goes up to this number, but those I'll skip'

Answer: 6


Question: 'This Frederick Forsyth gun for hire is sent to kill Charles de Gaulle'

Answer: the Jackal


Question: 'A motion picture of these men has been produced but the shoeing scene may be too intense for youngsters'

Answer: blacksmiths


Question: 'Italy granted regional autonomy to this island in May 1946; the Lipari Islands are under its jurisdiction'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'Between 1865 & 1885 this empire took over Turkmenistan'

Answer: the Russian Empire


Question: 'Det. Mick Belker took a bite out of crime (& a few perps) on this '80s show'

Answer: Hill Street Blues


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew paddles a raft of her own.)  It's the simple 3-letter noun for a stretch of river that can be boated or a verb for trying it--here goes'

Answer: run


Question: 'Today this "Lord of the Flies" boy would be considered part of the childhood obesity problem'

Answer: Piggy


Question: 'The nation listened as this man took on the topic of civil service reform in his second inaugural address'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'It's the name of the McLean, Virginia neighborhood where you'll find CIA Headquarters'

Answer: Langley


Question: 'The Karakum, one of these, covers about 90% of the country'

Answer: a desert


Question: 'Johnny Depp & Richard Grieco were armed & fabulous as cops on this Fox series'

Answer: 21 Jump Street


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew is in the raft this time.)  A river's flow is measured in CFS, short for this; on the Snake, dangerous high water begins around 30,000'

Answer: cubic feet per second


Question: '"The Monkey" is a model who cavorts with this mother-dominated Philip Roth title character'

Answer: Alexander Portnoy


Question: 'For those vacationing out West, the Great Northern Railway has reached the Pacific in this state'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'In 1864 he partnered with William Rand to print tickets for Chicago railroads'

Answer: (Andrew) McNally


Question: 'This economically important body of water forms Turkmenistan's western border'

Answer: the Caspian


Question: 'A working title for "Boston Legal" was this "Street", the center of London journalism'

Answer: Fleet Street


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks along the Snake River.)  Also found on a shoe, it's the V-shaped point of entry to the rapids where the fast current of the deep waters has cleared rocks away'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Rodent name of the lethal but loyal friend to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins'

Answer: Mouse


Question: 'The tragic death of Peter Tchaikovsky should remind us all to boil our water to avoid this disease'

Answer: cholera


Question: 'You've gone West, young man or woman, to say he founded the New York Tribune in 1841'

Answer: Horace Greeley


Question: 'Of the 4 countries Turkmenistan borders, the one that isn't a "stan"'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Let's get down to business & name this PBS series that Louis Rukeyser began hosting in 1970'

Answer: Wall Street Week


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by the Snake River.)  Just like it sounds, it can be a prison guard, or a meeting of currents that may trap your craft'

Answer: a keeper


Question: 'In the title of John Barth's 1966 novel, George Giles is not a sheep-boy, but this'

Answer: Goat-boy


Question: 'We can breathe easier now that Emma Goldman, an advocate of this system against all government, is behind bars'

Answer: anarchism


Question: '14 kilometers from Paris, this airport's 2 terminals are this-sud & this-ouest'

Answer: Orly


Question: 'The only time 3 African-American women were nominated for Oscars for work in the same movie was for this film'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'Puebla, Zacatecas & Jalisco'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'On a turtle, it's made up of a carapace & plastron'

Answer: Shell


Question: 'William Figueroa's moment came in 1992 when he spelled this word for Dan Quayle'

Answer: Potato


Question: 'This 1957 Kerouac novel begins in New York City & ends thousands of miles later south of the border'

Answer: On The Road


Question: 'This organization publishes a bimonthly magazine titled "American Birds"'

Answer: National Audubon Society


Question: 'The nip before you're tucked in'

Answer: Nightcap


Question: 'Queensland, Victoria & New South Wales'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Only gorillas & these other primates walk on their knuckles'

Answer: Chimpanzees


Question: 'In 1968 Valerie Solanas shot & wounded this man who said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'This "Howl" poet spent the last days before his death on April 5, 1997 writing poems'

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'A California board maintained by producers of these dried plums has "regular" meetings'

Answer: prunes


Question: 'A train may follow this when a woman makes tracks down the aisle'

Answer: Wedding gown


Question: 'Bahia, Parana & Sao Paulo'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Sapsuckers are a type of these birds that extract insects from trees by strokes of their bills'

Answer: Woodpeckers


Question: 'Hello, her name became a household name in early 1997:'

Answer: Dolly (the cloned sheep)


Question: 'Gregory Corso's poem "Bomb" was printed in the shape of this type of cloud'

Answer: Mushroom cloud


Question: 'This third U.S. president was the third president of the American Philosophical Society'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'A plum achievement or a plume achievement'

Answer: Feather in your cap


Question: 'Tripura, Sikkim & Punjab'

Answer: India


Question: 'Biologist Johannes Schmidt located the Sargasso Sea breeding area of this "elongated" freshwater fish'

Answer: Eel


Question: 'In the 1970s a purported will made by this man left millions to former gas station operator Melvin Dummar'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: 'His "Naked Lunch" provoked an obscenity trial in 1962'

Answer: William S. Burroughs


Question: 'The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society is a legal agency of this religious group'

Answer: Jehovah\'s Witnesses


Question: 'From the window of your beachfront home you may see one of these foam-topped waves'

Answer: Whitecap


Question: 'Kogi, Oyo & Lagos'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'These small, slender mammals often kept as pets were domesticated from the European polecat'

Answer: Ferrets


Question: 'Oliver Sipple gained fame in 1975 by grabbing Sara Jane Moore's arm as she tried to shoot this man'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'The poetry of Gary Snyder reflects the 10 years he spent in Japan studying this religion'

Answer: Zen Buddhism


Question: '"Blue Hawaiians" & the "Teddy Bear Patrol" are fan clubs of this rock star'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Nickname of Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Mrs. Longworth'

Answer: "Alice Bluegown"


Question: 'Its largest city is named for angels & was named for a mythical treasure-filled land'

Answer: California


Question: 'President Clinton's torn tendon in this joint represents a common sports injury of middle age'

Answer: knee


Question: 'Janis Joplin's nickname'

Answer: "Pearl"


Question: 'There was no ceremony for this; it was just formalized when a man & a woman formed a household'

Answer: marriage


Question: 'Ikra is the Russian name for this fishy delicacy, which Ivan serves with toast or blini'

Answer: caviar


Question: '2-preposition nickname for Australia'

Answer: "Down Under"


Question: 'In 1998 the Diamondbacks will begin to play Major League Baseball for this state'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'A drug modeled on snake venom may halve heart attacks among patients with this chest pain'

Answer: angina


Question: 'Name shared by Mick & Bianca Jagger's daughter, a David Caruso film & a green gemstone'

Answer: Jade


Question: 'In ancient times this river branched into 5 & maybe up to 16 routes into the Mediterranean; today it has 2'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'To make ahkroshkah soup, Ivan needs kvass, a beerlike beverage made from a dark rye type of this'

Answer: bread


Question: 'In the Drifters song, it's the place where out of the sun, we'll be having some fun'

Answer: Under The Boardwalk


Question: 'Located on the Continental Divide, Glacier National Park is in this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'Kwashiorkor, meaning "Deposed from the breast", is a deficiency disease treated with the dried type of this'

Answer: milk


Question: 'Her 1st play with Ossie Davis ran for only 9 performances, but their marriage has lasted for decades'

Answer: Ruby Dee


Question: 'A 3"-tall ivory figure found in Abydos is the only known image of this Great Pyramid king'

Answer: Cheops (Khufu)


Question: 'Harcho, a spicy soup from the Caucasus, is made from this meat that's older than lamb'

Answer: mutton


Question: 'Prepositional term for an 1861-65 war'

Answer: The War Between The States


Question: 'Geographic features of this state include the San Juan Islands & the Strait of Juan de Fuca'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'In Weber's Test of Hearing, one of these vibrating instruments is placed on the forehead'

Answer: tuning fork


Question: 'You don't have to be a "luna"tic to like this Wilkie Collins novel that was filmed in 1934'

Answer: The Moonstone


Question: 'The name of this land to the south of Ancient Egypt may be from the word nub, "gold", or nob, "slave"'

Answer: Nubia


Question: 'Ivan makes this chicken dish, named for Ukraine's capital, so the butter squirts out when you cut it'

Answer: Chicken Kiev


Question: 'Term for a double play started by the third baseman, or a voyage past the tip of South America'

Answer: around the horn


Question: 'It has only 9 places with 5,000 or more people, including Kenai, Ketchikan & Sitka'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'This inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain can be epidemic'

Answer: meningitis


Question: 'This screenwriter claimed that his initials, I.A.L., stood for Interscholastic Algebra League'

Answer: I.A.L. Diamond


Question: 'Ancient Egypt's capital for centuries, its ruins supplied the stones used to build Cairo'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Thin slices of tender beef go into this entree named for a count & served in a rich sour cream sauce'

Answer: Beef Stroganoff


Question: 'A state of high emotion, or Dolly's position in the photo seen here:'

Answer: beside yourself/one\'s self


Question: 'It was the first, first, first, first film to use Cinerama's single-projector system'

Answer: It\'s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World


Question: '2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional castaway he inspired'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird'

Answer: Television


Question: 'It's one layer of toilet paper or wood'

Answer: Ply


Question: 'James Whitcomb Riley wrote of the time when this "is on the punkin", & he didn't mean a fellow poet'

Answer: Frost


Question: 'Continent Columbus thought he was going to when he set sail in August 1492'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'Bull's-Eye was Bill Sikes' mean dog in this Dickens novel'

Answer: "Oliver Twist"


Question: 'This river in Washington & Oregon was explored by Robert Gray in a ship of the same name'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Hubert Booth, not Herbert Hoover, developed the first practical electric one of these in 1901'

Answer: Vacuum cleaner


Question: 'A young fish, a way to cook it, or a "small" (unimportant) person'

Answer: Fry


Question: 'It must be hard to sleep late in Kipling's "Mandalay", where "The dawn comes up like" this'

Answer: Thunder


Question: 'In 1932's legendary "Called Shot" his gesture indicated the ball would be going into the center field bleachers'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'Lobo sang about "Me and You and a Dog Named" this'

Answer: Boo


Question: 'In 1697 Jesuits founded Loreto, the 1st permanent European settlement on this "lower" peninsula'

Answer: Baja California


Question: 'In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time'

Answer: Space shuttle


Question: 'An eye irritation, or a pigpen'

Answer: Sty


Question: 'The Pacific Northwest is the setting for David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these'

Answer: Cedars


Question: 'Jesus went from Bethany to this city where he had his last meal'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'He's Augie Doggie's father'

Answer: Doggie Daddy


Question: 'The island of Mindanao is a Muslim center in this mainly Roman Catholic country'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'Until a 1967 table top model with a smaller electron tube was introduced, this kitchen device was big & pricey'

Answer: Microwave oven


Question: 'A large coffee container, or a large vase to stash one's ashes'

Answer: Urn


Question: '(Here's Al Roker with the clue)  This type of low-pressure area provides the title for chapter 1 of "The Wizard of Oz"'

Answer: Cyclone


Question: 'To try to prevent her son from going to this city to fight, Thetis disguised Achilles as a girl & sent him away'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'When an ancient Greek said, "Love me, love my dog", more often than not the dog was one of these'

Answer: Maltese


Question: 'To call the Rotorua Man, you'll have to ring up this antipodean island nation'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'On August 12, 1981 the world saw the first IBM personal computer using this Microsoft operating system'

Answer: MS-DOS


Question: 'It equals 1/1000th of an inch'

Answer: Mil


Question: 'Type of nightclub Mick Jagger was "going to" in a 1982 Rolling Stones song'

Answer: A Go Go


Question: 'This dog wants you to take a bite out of crime'

Answer: McGruff the Crime Dog


Question: 'Before this animal became common, Romans used the ferret for vermin control'

Answer: Cat


Question: 'This future president was working at his father's leather store when the Civil War started'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'The Addams got their Saturday morning start when they guest-starred on this sleuth pooch's show'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Ladies & Gents...in the 1970s Bernice Collins took center ring as this circus' first black female clown'

Answer: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus


Question: 'Nickname of the bridge Antonio Contino built around 1600; it connects the prison & the doge's palace'

Answer: Bridge of Sighs


Question: '"You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosalee but" she's "the only girl for me"'

Answer: "The Yellow Rose of Texas"


Question: 'Herodotus told the tale of Arion's rescue at sea by one of these mammals'

Answer: Dolphin


Question: 'In "She Done Him Wrong", Mae West propositioned this actor with "Why don't you come up sometime -- see me?"'

Answer: Cary Grant


Question: 'He was Uncle Fester on the '60s TV series'

Answer: Jackie Coogan


Question: 'This "Beloved" author was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'Doge Enrico Dandolo issued these called grossos, with his picture on therm'

Answer: Coins/currency


Question: 'Its headquarters are located in Mammoth Hot Springs'

Answer: Yellowstone National Park


Question: 'A Japanese folktale tells of Urashima Taro who saves one of these sea reptiles that turns into a young woman'

Answer: Turtle


Question: 'This singer published a book of her own "Heart-to-Heart Bible Stories" for children'

Answer: Amy Grant


Question: 'Carel Struycken, who was the giant on "Twin Peaks", took on this role in the 1991 film'

Answer: Lurch


Question: '14th century doge Marino Faliero was the subject of a tragedy by this "Don Juan" poet'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'This North American woodpecker lives on the east coast but flies to Central America for the winter'

Answer: Yellow-bellied sapsucker


Question: 'These animals were involved in the premiere event in the funeral games for Patroclus'

Answer: Horses


Question: 'This TV producer was married to Mary Tyler Moore until 1981'

Answer: Grant Tinker


Question: 'This character was the obvious choice for a series of commercials for the Yellow Pages'

Answer: Thing


Question: 'Simone Boccanegra was the first doge of this city, home to Columbus'

Answer: Genoa


Question: 'In 1970 it became the first & only incorporated city in Canada's Northwest Territories'

Answer: Yelllowknife


Question: 'The "Lucanian Cows" Pyrrhus used in his invasion of Italy were these, from Asia'

Answer: Elephants


Question: 'This 6' 8" basketball forward is the son of a former Dallas Cowboys running back'

Answer: Grant Hill


Question: 'This cathedral in Venice was originally a private chapel of the doges'

Answer: Saint Mark\'s Cathedral


Question: 'Drawn by R.F. Outcault, this hero of the first true newspaper comic strip debuted on May 5, 1895'

Answer: The Yellow Kid


Question: 'In a 1998 interview, she said, "I see it as my apostolic duty to talk about art"'

Answer: Sister Wendy


Question: '1983: starring Al Pacino as a drug-crazed & murderous Miami kingpin'

Answer: Scarface


Question: '"Sidney Sheldon's Windmills of the Gods" was a 1988 TV movie based on his book'

Answer: Sidney Sheldon


Question: 'Due to growing responsibilities of the Attorney General, Congress established this Cabinet dept. on June 22, 1870'

Answer: Justice


Question: 'The Acme Thunderer is one of these used by many sports referees'

Answer: a whistle


Question: 'Mother Teresa knew that this was the answer to the math problem of what 2 minus 2 equals'

Answer: none (nun)


Question: 'Thanks to the way sedimentary rocks form, we have the science of stratigraphy, the study of strata, which are these'

Answer: layers of rock


Question: '1978: Cheech & Chong in their first silly big screen comedy'

Answer: Up In Smoke


Question: 'Traditionally, use 2 oz. gin, 5 oz. tonic water & 1 lime wedge to make this drink'

Answer: a gin and tonic


Question: 'It's the T in the WCTU, founded in Cleveland in 1874 with Annie Wittenmyer as its first president'

Answer: temperance


Question: 'The potage this Biblical character sold his birthright for was made from lentils'

Answer: Esau


Question: 'The bottom part of your foot, or a flatfish which may or may not go to heaven'

Answer: sole (soul)


Question: 'Single-family homes in Manhattan were built with & named for this local sedimentary stone'

Answer: brownstone


Question: '1955: Frank Sinatra as dope addict Frankie Machine'

Answer: The Man With The Golden Arm


Question: 'Ozzy Osbourne was a no-show at this festival's Auburn, Washington stop July 12, 2003'

Answer: Ozzfest


Question: 'On October 5, 1877 this Nez Perce chief surrendered to general Nelson Miles about 30 miles from the Canadian border'

Answer: Chief Joseph


Question: 'North Dakota's state song is "North Dakota Hymn"; this state uses "The Old North State"'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Minuteman & peacekeeper are versions of these, with or without hymns scrawled on them'

Answer: missile (missal)


Question: 'Alabaster is a variety of this rock (that would make a good law partner for Cheatum)'

Answer: Gypsum


Question: '1989: Matt Dillon as a junkie who with his crew robs pharmacies to support their habits'

Answer: Drugstore Cowboy


Question: 'It seems like all things under the sun are considered on this radio program with Robert Siegel'

Answer: All Things Considered


Question: 'This state's 2nd black U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce was the first black senator to serve a full term, 1875-1881'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes'

Answer: Dionysus


Question: 'The type of "ego" Bruce Wayne is, you know, the guy who always sacrifices'

Answer: alter (altar)


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew dissolves a piece of rock in a chemistry experiment.)  With diluted hydrochloric acid, you can test for this rock; the acid reacts with the calcite to form CO2'

Answer: limestone


Question: '1991: Jason Patric & Jennifer Jason Leigh as undercover narcs who get hooked on drugs'

Answer: Rush


Question: 'Beer lovers rejoiced when he invented Pasteurization in 1864'

Answer: Louis Pasteur


Question: 'He purchased the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 in 1878 & soon merged it with the St. Louis Post'

Answer: Joseph Pulitzer


Question: 'Located about 8,500 feet up in the Andes is this judicial capital of Bolivia'

Answer: Sucre


Question: 'Try not to talk about this vessel in which incense is burned during holy ceremonies'

Answer: censer (censor)


Question: 'Bad English sang "When I See You Smile"; it was this group that had the hit "Feel Like Makin' Love"'

Answer: Bad Company


Question: 'In a 24-book work Homer chronicled his journey home'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'He was responsible for photographing every pres. from J.Q. Adams to McKinley, except W.H. Harrison'

Answer: Mathew Brady


Question: 'This state didn't keepsie Poughkeepsie as its capital for very long'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Bertha von Suttner, the 2nd woman to win one of these, was the 1st woman to win in the Peace category'

Answer: a Nobel Prize


Question: 'It's the first right of the Miranda warning given to arrestees'

Answer: "you have the right to remain silent"


Question:
'It's the group heard here with a sentimental '80s hit

"I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life..."'

Answer: Foreigner


Question: 'A plot twist in an Oscar Wilde play hinges on her fan'

Answer: Lady Windermere


Question: 'This mechanical device behind the lens opens & closes to let in light'

Answer: the shutter


Question: 'Opelousas, Donaldsonville & Shreveport are among the places that have been its capital'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Clara Schumann taught this musical instrument at Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatory'

Answer: a piano


Question: 'In other words "regarding one ancient canine; no modern skill training potential"'

Answer: "you can\'t teach an old dog new tricks"


Question: '1 of the 2 No. 1 hits REO Speedwagon had in the '80s'

Answer: "Keep On Loving You" or "Can\'t Fight This Feeling"


Question: 'Relationship of J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey'

Answer: siblings


Question: 'In the 1830s this Frenchman began producing photographs by exposing silver-coated copper plates'

Answer: Louis Daguerre


Question: 'Figuring out the name of this capital of Alabama from 1826 to 1846 is like pulling teeth'

Answer: Tuscaloosa


Question: 'Born in Sebring, Ohio, she was the loyal secretary to Richard Nixon'

Answer: Rosemary Woods


Question: '3-word title of the 1950s TV show hosted by Walter Cronkite that recreated history as news events'

Answer: You Are There


Question: 'Fronting this group, David Coverdale wondered, "Is This Love"'

Answer: Whitesnake


Question: 'Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she's a Tolstoy title lady'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'Digital photographs are made up of millions of these tiny squares'

Answer: pixels


Question: 'Before Dover took over you had to carry your coals to this capital of Delaware'

Answer: Newcastle


Question: 'On May 3, 1933 this first woman governor of Wyoming became the first woman director of the U.S. Mint'

Answer: Nellie Tayloe Ross


Question: 'Thomas Wolfe's sequel to "The Web And The Rock"'

Answer: You Can\'t Go Home Again


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew manipulates some ball bearings in the palm of one hand.)  He's the 1951 novel character whose constant habit I'm imitating'

Answer: Captain Queeg


Question: 'In 1936 she became a staff photographer at Life magazine & later produced photo essays of WWII'

Answer: Margaret Bourke-White


Question: 'Portland used to be a capital of Maine & Augusta used to be a capital of this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'The last Englishwoman to win Wimbledon's women's singles, she won in 1977'

Answer: Virginia Wade


Question: 'This play won Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman a Pulitzer Prize in 1937'

Answer: You Can\'t Take It With You


Question: 'The 2 U.S. presidents whose middle names are also the last names of 2 other presidents'

Answer: Ronald Wilson Reagan & William Jefferson Clinton


Question: 'While grading school papers, he came up with the line "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"'

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien


Question: 'Because his view of Venus is obstructed, this Martian is going to blow up the Earth'

Answer: Marvin the Martian


Question: 'Oceanographer James Snodgrass invented a gnathodynamometer to measure the force of this creature's bite'

Answer: Great white shark


Question:
'Bonnie,
Sir John,
Aretha'

Answer: Franklin


Question: 'Found in northwest Rome, it's Europe's largest Christian church'

Answer: St. Peter\'s Basilica


Question: 'A district of L.A., it's considered the movie capital of the world'

Answer: Hollywood


Question: 'Big Brother could tell you his real name was Eric Arthur Blair'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'These 2 Disney chipmunks make life difficult for Donald Duck'

Answer: Chip & Dale


Question: 'The fin type, the second-largest species of this, can be 80 feet long & travel at ocean liner speed'

Answer: Whale


Question:
'Irene,
Meg,
Nolan'

Answer: Ryan


Question: 'Examples of these in Rome include Il Messaggero, Il Tempo & La Repubblica'

Answer: Newspapers


Question: 'Charles was the real first name of this Texan who died in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa'

Answer: Buddy Holly


Question: 'Princess Di's step-grandmother, this "Queen of Romance" passed away in 2000 at the age of 98'

Answer: Barbara Cartland


Question: 'In 1958 these 3 chipmunks had a No. 1 hit with "The Chipmunk Song"'

Answer: Alvin, Simon & Theodore


Question: 'Free-floating algae that form a foul film are called the pond type of this'

Answer: Scum


Question:
'Janet,
Vivien,
Jennifer Jason'

Answer: Leigh


Question: 'It's the river that flows through the city'

Answer: Tiber


Question: 'This Oscar winner's credits include "Miss Firecracker" & "Broadcast News"'

Answer: Holly Hunter


Question: '"The Little Drummer Girl" was his first novel to feature a female protagonist'

Answer: John le Carre


Question: 'This show that debuted in 1993 featured siblings Dot, Yakko & Wakko (who sounds like Ringo Starr)'

Answer: Animaniacs


Question: 'These organisms cemented to ships & rocks are also called cirripedes, for their food-gathering cirri'

Answer: Barnacles


Question:
'James,
Jackie,
Marsha'

Answer: Mason


Question: 'Built in celebration of military victories, it's the emperor's arch seen here'

Answer: Arch of Constantine


Question: 'It's the colorful backyard favorite seen here'

Answer: Hollyhock


Question: 'He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From the Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'This soulful singer is the voice of Chef on "South Park"'

Answer: Isaac Hayes


Question: 'A creature that expels water through a siphon is called a "sea" one of these, like a pipsqueak kid'

Answer: Squirt


Question:
'Penelope Ann,
Glenn,
Arthur'

Answer: Miller


Question: 'The seat of the Italian senate since 1871, Rome's Madama Palace was once owned by this powerful family'

Answer: Medici


Question: 'After jumping from "21 Jump Street", she jumped into the arms of a pro football quarterback'

Answer: Holly Robinson-Peete


Question: 'In 1870 visitors to this city had fun strolling the first boardwalk in the U.S.'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'The New York Giants' Monte Irvin said that this trailblazer "opened the door of baseball to all men"'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'The question "Am I my brother's keeper?" is posed in this book of the Bible'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'In 1973 he married Ali MacGraw, his co-star from "The Getaway"'

Answer: Steve McQueen


Question: 'Skyworld, a restaurant on Tortola, is famed for this citrus pie that's also a favorite in Florida'

Answer: Key lime pie


Question: 'To make amends for a sin'

Answer: Atone


Question: 'Launched in 1807, Robert Fulton's North River steam boat was better known by this name'

Answer: Clermont


Question: 'This Green Bay Packer vied for Cameron Diaz' affection in the movie "There's Something About Mary"'

Answer: Brett Favre


Question: 'By tradition, at least 70 psalms are attributed to this Biblical king'

Answer: David


Question: 'Lee Majors played this colonel, the Six Million Dollar Man'

Answer: Steve Austin


Question: 'In Aruba, you'll have fun eating funchi, a side dish made from this kind of meal'

Answer: Corn meal


Question: 'It's what Gilbert O'Sullivan was "Again (naturally)"'

Answer: Alone


Question: 'This college was created in 1879 to provide instruction for women by the Harvard faculty'

Answer: Radcliffe


Question: 'On March 29, 2000 the Cubs faced the Mets in this city's dome, the first MLB game played outside North America'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'Noah's Ark was made of gopher wood & measured 300 of these units in length'

Answer: Cubits


Question: '(I'm NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens)  In 1999 I caught the game-winning pass from this lefty quarterback as the 49ers beat the Packers in the playoffs'

Answer: Steve Young


Question: 'La Habichuela in Cancun features cocobichuela: lobster & shrimp served in one of these shells'

Answer: Coconut shell


Question: 'A Francophone speaks French; this is a person who speaks English'

Answer: Anglophone


Question: 'During George Clinton's last term as New York governor, this nephew became mayor of New York City'

Answer: DeWitt Clinton


Question: 'In 1973 he came out of retirement to play for the WHA's Houston Aeros, with his sons as teammates'

Answer: Gordie Howe


Question: 'Jack Lord played this detective who headed up Five-O'

Answer: Steve McGarrett


Question: 'Iguana is a taste treat on this island that the U.S. invaded in 1983'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'The shell of this large marine gastropod is used for ornaments'

Answer: Abalone


Question: 'Despite the 1837 capture of Osceola, the 2nd war named for this Indian tribe lasted nearly 6 more years'

Answer: Seminole


Question: 'This legendary Dallas Cowboys running back is the father of NBA star Grant'

Answer: Calvin Hill


Question: 'The New York Post said this actor seen here "resembles a strange mix of Don Knotts, Peter Lorre & David Carradine"'

Answer: Steve Buscemi


Question: 'Goat stew is savored on this "C" of the ABC Islands, which lent its name to an orange-peel liqueur'

Answer: Curacao


Question: 'Tell us, it's the talus'

Answer: Anklebone


Question: 'Because of their dog-like behavior, the name of this sneering sect comes from the Greek for "dog-like"'

Answer: Cynics


Question: 'After the war, Confederate general Nathan Forrest served as the first head of this supremacist group'

Answer: Ku Klux Klan


Question: 'The word salad comes from Latin for this, because most Romans dressed their salads with little else'

Answer: Salt


Question: 'A person who uses offensive epithets against a political opponent is said to be doing this with mud'

Answer: slinging


Question: 'This Harrison Ford movie was the 1st collaboration by George Lucas & Steven Spielberg'

Answer: "Raiders of the Lost Ark"


Question: 'E.T. Holmes made the first one of these in 1877 to serve 6 telephone subscribers in Boston'

Answer: Telephone Switchboard (even though there were only 6 subscribers)


Question: '1 of the 3 heavyweight boxing champs to fit this category'

Answer: Joe Frazier, Joe Louis & "Jersey Joe" Walcott


Question: 'Lincoln was asked to make a "few appropriate remarks" here November 19, 1863'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Toss together some lettuce, olives, cucumbers & feta cheese & you've got this ethnic salad'

Answer: Greek Salad


Question: 'Meaning savage & cruel, it comes from the Latin "trux", which means fierce'

Answer: Truculent


Question: 'Miles O'Keeffe played this title role in a film produced by Bo Derek & directed by husband John'

Answer: Tarzan the Ape Man


Question: 'You could have gotten stuck on this company's first stick-on Band-Aids in 1921'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: 'This Delaware senator chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee'

Answer: Joseph Biden


Question: 'The Confederates held this fort from April 1861 to February 1865'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'This 3-letter prefix that precedes "goblin" can also mean goblin when it stands alone'

Answer: Hob


Question: 'This film starring Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur was produced by the Unification Church'

Answer: Inchon


Question: 'In 11th century China, Pi Sheng made this out of clay; about 1445 Gutenberg used metal'

Answer: Movable Type


Question: 'This world leader's real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'He earned his nickname at First Bull Run & led 25,000 Confederates at its sequel, Second Bull Run'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'It can be a spokesman, part of your phone or a protective rubber device worn by a boxer'

Answer: Mouthpiece


Question: 'This actor had his last theatrical film role as police commissioner Waldo in "Ragtime"'

Answer: James Cagney


Question: 'In 1982 this British singer paired with Jennifer Warnes in the No. 1 hit "Up Where We Belong"'

Answer: Joe Cocker


Question: 'Due to rumors of his Southern sympathies, the U.S. Gov't didn't buy his new machine gun during the war'

Answer: Gatling


Question: 'In Europe salad may follow the main course because vinegar dressings can conflict with the taste of this'

Answer: wine


Question: 'This adjective meaning "of the earliest ages" appears in the first line of Longfellow's "Evangeline"'

Answer: Primeval ("This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines & the hemlocks")


Question: 'In "First Monday in October", this actress played Ruth Loomis, 1st woman on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Jill Clayburgh


Question: 'The U.S. developed the NTSC system of this; France, SECAM & Germany, PAL'

Answer: Different systems of broadcasting color television


Question: 'Late charismatic scholar seen on a PBS series in 1988 conversing with Bill Moyers on "The Power Of Myth"'

Answer: Joseph Campbell


Question: 'At the end of their story, one returns to his estate, one marries a rich widow & one becomes a monk'

Answer: "The Three Musketeers"


Question: 'Berlioz neglected his medical studies in this capital, preferring to spend his nights at the opera'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'In the closing arguments in a federal criminal case, this side goes first & gets to do a rebuttal'

Answer: Prosecution


Question: 'After divorcing Daniel Patterson, she married her third husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy'

Answer: Mary Baker Eddy


Question: 'Many consider a genius to be someone who scores 140 or better on a standard one of these'

Answer: IQ Test


Question: 'Though Abidjan has the main gov't buildings, Yamoussoukro is this country's official capital, tusk, tusk'

Answer: Ivory Coast


Question: 'Type of lit. that was the specialty of Francois Villon, Marie De France & Charles Baudelaire'

Answer: Poetry


Question: 'A master composer of ballets, he was the leading Russian composer of the late 19th century'

Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


Question: 'You can perform Shakespeare's plays without paying royalties since copyright law defines them as this'

Answer: Public Domain


Question: 'In the 1600s the Baptists began baptizing by this method'

Answer: Immersion


Question: 'Term for a physical illness caused or worsened by psychological factors'

Answer: Psychosomatic


Question: 'To Tibetans it's "Chomolungma", the goddess mother'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'The son of Grandgousier & Gargamelle, he was a medieval folk hero before Rabelais wrote about him'

Answer: Gargantua


Question: 'Friedrich Nietzsche was a close friend of this "Lohengrin" composer but later turned against him'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'In Latin legal lingo it means "by the fact itself"'

Answer: Ipso Facto


Question: 'In 1790 the first emancipation petition was submitted to Congress by this religious group'

Answer: Quakers


Question: 'Field of psychology that centers on the study of work & work environments'

Answer: Industrial Psychology


Question: 'There's a canyon full of odd rocks named for pioneer Ebenezer Bryce in this state'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'A teacher of philosophy until her first novel was published, her best-known work is "The Second Sex"'

Answer: Simone De Beauvoir


Question: 'First name shared by Vivaldi & Salieri'

Answer: Antonio


Question: 'He was the last president to be one of the litigants in a case before the Supreme Court'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'The Catholic mission at San Juan Capistrano was founded in the 18th century by this Franciscan'

Answer: Juniperro Serra


Question: 'An adult who returrns to a childhood level of behavior is exhibiting this defense mechanism'

Answer: Regression


Question: 'It's the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi'

Answer: Ohio River


Question: 'Denis Diderot is best known as editor of one of these reference works, the first modern one in any language'

Answer: Encyclopedia


Question: 'Despite his protests, Claude Debussy's distinctive style was labeled this'

Answer: Impressionistic


Question: '1849 work in which Thoreau asked, "Unjust laws exist:  shall we be content to obey them...?"'

Answer: "Civil Disobedience"


Question: 'Circuit riding preachers of pioneer days were most associated with this Protestant denomination'

Answer: Methodists


Question: 'Oliver Sacks wrote a book about one of his patients called "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For" this'

Answer: For a Hat


Question: 'In 1884 it lost its Atacama province to Chile & became a landlocked country'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s'

Answer: Gen. Francisco Franco


Question: '"It was a little Cocker Spaniel dog...and our little girl, Tricia, the 6-year-old, named it Checkers"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'It's the role Danny Bonaduce played on "The Partridge Family"'

Answer: Danny


Question: 'The lightest wood used commercially, it's used to build model airplanes & some kinds of buoys'

Answer: balsa