Question: 'The food item that some named for Vienna, others named for this city 400 miles away'

Answer: Frankfurt


Question: 'The Continental Congress approved this "game" to raise money for the army; it never hit $250 million (dollars)'

Answer: Lottery


Question: 'A mobile home used for camping is often called an RV, short for this'

Answer: Recreational vehicle


Question: 'He kills the character who says, "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum"'

Answer: Jack (in "Jack and the Beanstalk")


Question: 'It precedes "food cake" & "hair pasta"'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'He picked up his 3rd rock, er...statue for his acting on "3rd Rock"'

Answer: John Lithgow


Question: 'Lip-lock<br />(4)'

Answer: Kiss


Question: 'After 3 previous acquittals, this reputed crime family boss was finally convicted in New York City on April 2, 1992'

Answer: John Gotti


Question: '"Manufactured Housing Community" is preferred over this 2-word term with seedier connotations'

Answer: Trailer park


Question: 'One version has this creature turning back into a prince after sleeping with the girl for 3 nights (no smooching)'

Answer: "The Frog Prince"


Question: 'Many enjoy these "love apples" sun-dried'

Answer: Tomatoes


Question: 'The Best Variety, Music or Comedy Special Emmy went to this well "staged" awards show'

Answer: Tony Awards


Question: 'Bluesman B.B.<br />(4)'

Answer: King


Question: 'Due to expansive pork processing facilities, this city on the Ohio River was once known as "Porkopolis"'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'Headquartered in Forest City, Iowa, it's "The Most Recognized Name" among builders of mobile homes'

Answer: Winnebago


Question: '"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" was a 1972 sequel to this 1964 story'

Answer: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"


Question: 'This round cut of meat from the small end of the tenderloin is usually 1 to 2 inches thick'

Answer: Filet mignon


Question: 'This HBO series with 16 nominations only hit on 4'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'German ruler, or his bread roll<br />(6)'

Answer: Kaiser


Question: 'He shook up society in the 1960s & later published "Revolution for the Hell of It" & "Steal This Book"'

Answer: Abbie Hoffman


Question: 'HUD revised its wind standards for mobile homes after this disaster devastated Florida in 1992'

Answer: Hurricane Andrew


Question: 'As a lad, A.A. Milne wore his hair in the style of this Frances Hodgson Burnett character'

Answer: Little Lord Fauntleroy


Question: 'In 1965 Tyson Farms created a new game hen by crossing the white rock & this breed'

Answer: Cornish


Question: 'He made Emmy history as the first producer to win for both Best Comedy & Drama Series in the same year'

Answer: David E. Kelley


Question: '"Addams Family" adjective, in song<br />(5)'

Answer: Kooky


Question: 'This Spanish explorer, not Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida for Spain in June of 1539'

Answer: Hernando de Soto


Question: 'Distinctive brand of mobile home seen here:'

Answer: Airstream


Question: 'This J.K. Rowling hero has run up against "The Sorcerer's Stone" & "The Chamber of Secrets"'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'Only well-trained sushi chefs can clean & prepare this poisonous puffer fish'

Answer: Fugu


Question: 'A husband & wife Emmy-winning pair; he for guesting on "Mad About You" & she for the movie "Deep in My Heart"'

Answer: Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft


Question: 'Designing Donna<br />(5)'

Answer: Karan


Question: 'This close relative of the lynx lives in North America & is named for its stumpy tail'

Answer: Bobcat


Question: 'This French town of 17,000, the home of St. Bernadette, gets about 2 million visitors a year'

Answer: Lourdes


Question: 'Dancer Ahmed Best provided the voice & movements for this controversial "Phantom Menace" character'

Answer: Jar Jar Binks


Question: 'After Darius' men caught Daniel praying, they had him thrown into this place'

Answer: The lion\'s den


Question: 'After Dik Browne retired in 1988, his son Chris took over this Viking strip'

Answer: "Hagar the Horrible"


Question: 'A cowgirl in this condition was said to be wearing the bustle wrong'

Answer: Pregnant


Question: 'This wily "brush wolf", long a nuisance to ranchers, can be found in more populous areas like suburban L.A.'

Answer: Coyote


Question: 'In 1899 Eddy, New Mexico, located near vast caverns, was renamed this'

Answer: Carlsbad


Question: 'From 1991 to 1995 & again in 1999 she was responsible for the choreography on the Oscars'

Answer: Debbie Allen


Question: 'At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'This comic strip is named for the commandant of a desert post of the French Foreign Legion'

Answer: "Crock"


Question: 'Cowboys often intensified this Spanish word for "crazy" with "plumb"'

Answer: Loco


Question: 'A member of the squirrel family, this rodent gets its name from its bark-like warning call'

Answer: Prairie dog


Question: 'This lovely Vermont town of 12,000 was named for preacher, doctor & soldier William Brattle'

Answer: Brattleboro


Question: 'The co-founder of the White Oak Dance Project in 1990, he is the company's most famous dancer'

Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov


Question: 'This first Christian martyr's dying words were "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"'

Answer: St. Stephen


Question: 'It's where you find sports fans, or the title of Steve Moore's sports-related comic'

Answer: "In the Bleachers"


Question: 'A stagecoach guard with this double-barreled job title often sat up front with the driver'

Answer: Riding shotgun


Question: 'There's a "hairy" as well as a "spiny" type of this porcupine-like critter that rolls itself into a ball as a defense'

Answer: Hedgehog


Question: 'These "springs" with a female name, population about 25,000, are the center of Australia's vast "Red Centre"'

Answer: Alice Springs


Question: 'Agnes De Mille wrote the book on the "Life and Work of" this doyenne of modern dance'

Answer: Martha Graham


Question: 'At the opening of the first temple, he prayed to God "that thine eyes may be open toward this house"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Don't be misled by the cat; the pair seen here appear in this Patrick McDonnell strip:'

Answer: "Mutts"


Question: 'A shepherd's bible was one of these; probably not the one from L.L. Bean'

Answer: Catalog


Question: 'The long-tailed is the common U.S. species of this mammal that kills more chickens than it can eat immediately'

Answer: Weasel


Question: 'The town of Manhattan, home of this state university, has about 1/40 the population of Manhattan in NYC'

Answer: Kansas State


Question: 'Isaac entreated the Lord on behalf of his wife Rebekah & she became pregnant with these twins'

Answer: Jacob & Esau


Question: 'Urban kids Huey & Riley Freeman suffer in the suburbs in this Aaron McGruder strip'

Answer: "The Boondocks"


Question: 'Missing cowboys looking to start over were often described as "G.T.T.": Gone to this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'To remain "Free to blast and bollock Blairite Britain" Tony Harrison declined this post in 1999'

Answer: Poet Laureate of England


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew on the island of Oahu)  These are the two times it's most customary to place a lei around a mainlander's neck'

Answer: when they leave & when they arrive


Question: '"I Am Stuck On" this brand & it's "Stuck On Me"'

Answer: Band-Aid


Question: 'The Hampton Roads Conference was an unsuccessful attempt to end this in 1865'

Answer: Civil War


Question: 'In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun'

Answer: planet


Question: 'Lounge singer Whoopi Goldberg got a new habit in this feel-good comedy from 1992'

Answer: Sister Act


Question: 'A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work'

Answer: theme


Question: 'Hawaii got this official nickname with statehood in 1959'

Answer: "The Aloha State"


Question: '"Ladies, Please Don't Squeeze" this!'

Answer: the Charmin


Question: 'On Nov. 7, 1962 he famously declared, "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference"'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'In 1979 Voyager 1 discovered that this large body has rings, just like Saturn & Uranus'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Beings from up above helped Danny Glover's baseball team in this 1994 Disney comedy'

Answer: Angels in the Outfield


Question: 'A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words'

Answer: as or like


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in downtown Honolulu)  Appropriately, a statue of this great Hawaiian is located on King Street'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: '"You're In Good Hands With" them'

Answer: Allstate


Question: '(I'm NFL wide receiver Jimmy Smith)  I played for Jackson State University in this conference, abbreviated the SWAC'

Answer: Southwestern Athletic Conference


Question: 'Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'This 1978 Warren Beatty film was a remake of the comic fantasy "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"'

Answer: Heaven Can Wait


Question: 'Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry'

Answer: meter


Question: 'Hearing this original European name for the Hawaiian Islands might make you hungry'

Answer: Sandwich Islands


Question: 'It's "The Quicker Picker-Upper"'

Answer: Bounty


Question: 'In 1968 Ralph Abernathy succeeded Martin Luther King as leader of this conference, abbreviated SCLC'

Answer: Southern Christian Leadership Conference


Question: 'In 585 B.C. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted one of these astronomical events'

Answer: solar eclipse


Question: 'In this sequel, George Burns made a third trip to Earth, playing dual roles, good & bad'

Answer: Oh, God! You Devil


Question: 'This faulty type of sentence is classified as either a comma splice or a fused sentence'

Answer: run-on sentence


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew on the island of Kauai)  Hawaiian agriculture was transformed when this man took his 1899 Harvard degree & headed for the islands'

Answer: James Dole


Question: 'It's "The Helpful Hardware Place"'

Answer: Ace


Question: '1944's Bretton Woods Conference resulted in the creation of the World Bank & this fund'

Answer: IMF (International Monetary Fund)


Question: 'In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres'

Answer: asteroid


Question: 'Fleeing from the mob, Robbie Coltrane & Eric Idle went incognito in a convent in this 1990 farce'

Answer: Nuns on the Run


Question: '"Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later'

Answer: foreshadowing


Question: 'Population 7 million & lends its name to a type of bean'

Answer: Lima


Question: 'The name of this deli meat that's found in a Reuben doesn't refer to maize; it means cured in brine'

Answer: corned beef


Question: 'Mary Campbell is the only person to win this title twice, in 1922 & 1923 in Atlantic City'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'Microsoft & Starbucks are listed on this exchange that has more companies than the NYSE'

Answer: NASDAQ


Question: 'This "Hardest Working Man in Show Business" hit the Top 10 in 1965 with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Part 1"'

Answer: James Brown


Question: 'The ancient patriarch of both Islam & Judaism, this man is an ancestor of Muhammad through Ishmael'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'Population 17 million & built on the ruins of Montezuma's capital'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'For the soup course, you may try the kreplach or this beet soup'

Answer: borscht


Question: 'Who knew?  Ne Win deposed U Nu in a coup & did 2 stints as the leader of this Asian country'

Answer: Myanmar (Burma)


Question: 'On the Australian exchange, KLA symbolizes a hotel corporation named for this creature'

Answer: koala


Question: 'Aretha Franklin's "title", it's also the title of her 1992 anthology album'

Answer: "Queen of Soul"


Question: 'In the 1940s Selman Waksman coined this term to describe substances that kill harmful bacteria'

Answer: antibiotic


Question: 'Population 11 million & home to the "Gate of Heavenly Peace"'

Answer: Beijing (Peking)


Question: 'This fancy word for food cut into matchstick strips, like the cheeses & meats in a chef's salad, sounds like a woman's name'

Answer: julienne


Question: 'George & Jeb Bush were the first two brothers to become governors simultaneously since 2 with this last name in 1971'

Answer: Rockefeller


Question: 'It's AC on the TSE (Toronto Stock Exchange)'

Answer: Air Canada


Question: 'In 1972 this legendary soulman won an Oscar for his theme from the movie "Shaft"'

Answer: Isaac Hayes


Question: 'This term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction is also a pedal in a car'

Answer: accelerator


Question: 'Population 1.4 million & occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989'

Answer: Kabul


Question: 'Since 1869, this soda brand, with flavors including cream soda & Cel-Ray, is just what the doctor ordered'

Answer: Dr. Brown\'s


Question: 'The only U.S. president to marry the same woman twice, once in 1791 & once in 1794'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'The London Stock Exchange's FTSE 100 Index includes RR, this company'

Answer: Rolls-Royce


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Studio A of the Motown Museum in Detroit)  Motown's first million-seller was this group's song that says, "My mama told me you'd better shop around"'

Answer: The Miracles


Question: 'Pennyworth is the last name of this loyal servant of Batman'

Answer: Alfred


Question: 'Population 1.7 million & host of the world-famous Chopin piano competition'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'This deli name for cold-smoked salmon refers to a Canadian province'

Answer: nova (Nova Scotia)


Question: 'This founder of the Jesuits was imprisoned on 2 occasions during the Spanish Inquisition'

Answer: St. Ignatius Loyola


Question: 'This man seen here founded the financial company listed on the Big Board as SCH'

Answer: Charles Schwab


Question: 'It was all in the family when this soulful act took the song "Family Affair" to No. 1'

Answer: Sly and the Family Stone


Question: 'From the Greek for "air", this type of exercise, like jogging, makes the heart & lungs work to oxygenate muscles'

Answer: aerobic


Question: '"A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: 'It's the square where you'd find the monument seen here'

Answer: Trafalgar Square


Question: 'Steve Carell won an MTV Movie Award for playing Andy Stitzer, the title character of this 2005 film'

Answer: The 40-Year-Old Virgin


Question: 'This company has gone abbrev. happy with an HD XL DVR that records up to 150 hours of HDTV with THX'

Answer: TiVo


Question: 'Rhode Island has 13 of these on its state flag, Texas only one'

Answer: a star


Question: 'Fiddle me this:<br />This emperor born in 37 A.D. could really burn up the stage at Caesars Palace'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'She lost some sheep'

Answer: Bo Peep


Question: 'It's Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, seen here'

Answer: St. Paul\'s


Question: 'This Steve won a WGA award for his adapted screenplay "Roxanne"'

Answer: Steve Martin


Question: 'This search site's browser called Chrome has an incognito mode for anonymous surfing'

Answer: Google


Question: 'This bovine is found on the flags of both Kansas & Wyoming'

Answer: a buffalo


Question: 'Aargh!  He stuck long lit matches under his hat to frame his famous facial hair in fire; let's book him at Treasure Island'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'This government organization was founded in 1924 to prevent illegal immigration'

Answer: Border Patrol


Question: 'London's first new bridge in more than 100 years, it opened to foot traffic in the historic year of 2000'

Answer: the Millennium Bridge


Question: 'This Dodger first baseman won 4 straight gold gloves (1974-1977)'

Answer: Steve Garvey


Question: '(Alex, at Sony headquaters in Tokyo, Japan, takes a picture of you.)  Able to go from wide angle to telephoto without an equipment change, the Sony A100 is a classic DSLR, which stands for "digital" this'

Answer: single lens reflex


Question: 'A flaming one of these on Indiana's flag represents liberty & enlightenment'

Answer: a torch


Question: 'Showgirls in green sleeves--& little else--will accompany this king as he plays his legendary hit "Greensleeves"'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'An old-timey central European, or a modern artsy type'

Answer: a Bohemian


Question: 'This place has your ticket to concerts and sporting events'

Answer: Wembley Stadium


Question: 'His "Higher Love" won him the 1986 Record of the Year Grammy'

Answer: (Steve) Winwood


Question: 'DirectX software is perfect for gamers; these "controls" that end in "-ex" help applications share information'

Answer: ActiveX


Question: 'Ohio's is the only flag in this shape with swallowtails, coveted by baseball teams'

Answer: a pennant


Question: 'Britannica says this WWI spy was "willing to appear virtually nude in public"--can't wait to see her dance in Vegas'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'Weak acid used in roach powder & eyewash'

Answer: boric acid


Question: 'This venue, seen here, was dedicated to Queen Victoria's husband'

Answer: Royal Albert Hall


Question: '1985 brought a National Medal of Technology to these 2 Steves who co-founded a little company'

Answer: Wozniak & Jobs


Question: 'You can create your own species and universe with this game, whose name comes from the Greek for "seed"'

Answer: Spore


Question: 'Its flag uses the red & yellow colors of the Spanish flag & the sun symbol of the Zia Indians'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'It's Luxor or bust for this royal wife, known for her painted bust since the 18th dynasty'

Answer: Nefertiti


Question: '1932 "army" that marched on Washington'

Answer: the Bonus Army


Question: 'One of the 2 landlocked countries that border the Czech Republic'

Answer: (1 of) Austria (or Slovakia)


Question: 'Best Picture-nominated period piece with Anthony Hopkins & Emma Thompson as house servants'

Answer: The Remains of the Day


Question: 'Parties at her Atlanta home--now a museum--serve martinis in Mason jars, a favorite of hers'

Answer: (Margaret) Mitchell


Question: 'This company took a big step in computer animation by buying Pixar'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'To preserve the buffalo, the Oglala branch of these Indians tried to keep folks from using the Bozeman Trail'

Answer: the Sioux


Question: 'In 2002 this female rapper had her biggest hit, "Gangsta Lovin'" featuring Alicia Keys'

Answer: Eve


Question: 'A landlocked country the size of Arkansas, its ethnic groups include Newars & Sherpas'

Answer: Nepal


Question: '"In the Name of the Father", believe us that this guy got a lead actor nod for that film'

Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis


Question: 'This author of "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" looked a bit like Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle when she wore a frilled white cap'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: '"In Dreams" & "Dreamgirls" are 2 films from this studio founded by a trio'

Answer: DreamWorks


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, NM.)  Nightmares get caught in the webs of these Ojibwa craftworks, & the morning sun burns them away'

Answer: dreamcatchers


Question: 'Chopin composed a "Revolutionary" this piece'

Answer: Étude


Question: '5 miles from Rimini, Italy, this nation has a population of about 30,000'

Answer: San Marino


Question: '1998 contender featuring Clooney, Penn, Travolta, Nolte & Harrelson (war is hell on top billing)'

Answer: The Thin Red Line


Question: 'This author who set "The Return of the Native" in Wessex had a terrier named Wessex'

Answer: (Thomas) Hardy


Question: 'In 1923 siblings Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack established a studio under this name'

Answer: Warner Brothers


Question: 'The Penobscot are represented in the legislature of this state where you'll find Penobscot Bay'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa al Thani rules one, specifically Qatar'

Answer: an emirate


Question: 'Eritrea's independence made this neighbor landlocked'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Actor Massimo Troisi died shortly after delivering this occupational 1994 movie'

Answer: Il Postino


Question: 'Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend'

Answer: (Franklin) Pierce


Question: 'The Paramount holdings of this company include MTV & Comedy Central'

Answer: Viacom


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue after a Native American speaks in his native language, subtitled in English.)

"They made code to help the Allies"

The first tribe relocated to Oklahoma's Indian Territory was this southern one; speakers of its language helped in World War I, like Navajo code talkers in World War II'

Answer: the Choctaw


Question: 'It's a person with refined taste, especially in food & wine'

Answer: an epicure


Question: 'Si, it's the smallest landlocked country in the Americas'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'Forgot this nominee with Sissy Spacek & Tom Wilkinson?  Well, it is only a prepositional phrase'

Answer: In the Bedroom


Question: 'She co-authored a book about "The Decoration of Houses" before writing "The House of Mirth"'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'Started in 1890, this conglom shows off its products on the networks it owns, like Sci Fi, USA & Bravo'

Answer: GE


Question: 'The Klamath tribes run the Kla-Mo-Ya casino in this state'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'This decongestant is used by those suffering from hay fever, colds & allergies'

Answer: ephedrine (epinephrine accepted)


Question: 'This 1928 work repeats a theme, almost entirely in C major, in an unvarying rhythm & has a crescendo lasting 17 minutes'

Answer: Boléro (by Ravel)


Question: 'Tailed this title kid to a balcony, heard his chippie say, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name"'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'One of the first observations of this U.S. holiday was May 30, 1868 on the order of General John Logan'

Answer: Memorial Day


Question: 'Originally, this title woman was called Miss Daisy Hawkins, but that didn't sound lonely enough'

Answer: Eleanor Rigby


Question: 'Monterey Jack'

Answer: United States


Question: 'A close friend'

Answer: chum


Question: 'Like his contemporary Mr. Tweed, Alexander Shepherd, who helped pave Washington, D.C., had this nickname'

Answer: "Boss"


Question: 'This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'On Hogmanay, December 31, Scots in London gather at St. Paul's Cathedral to join hands & sing this song'

Answer: "Auld Lang Syne"


Question: 'For Paul McCartney, this Beatles song title will become true on June 18, 2006'

Answer: "When I\'m Sixty-Four"


Question: 'Cheddar'

Answer: England


Question: 'The sound-transmitting membrane in your hearing organ'

Answer: eardrum


Question: 'This D.C. structure seen here is in the style of Rome's Pantheon'

Answer: Jefferson Memorial


Question: 'Impressive trail of corpses in this title guy's wake: the Dukes of Clarence & York & the Prince of Wales'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'This holiday was first observed on May 10, 1908 in Philadelphia & Grafton, West Virginia'

Answer: Mother\'s Day


Question: '(Alex: Alright, let's go to Cheryl at the Santa Monica Pier for this)  Today, we're all living in a yellow submarine; the Beatles found this colorful body of water in the song'

Answer: Sea of Green


Question: 'Neufchatel'

Answer: France


Question: 'It was in L'Enfant's original plan to name the diagonal avenues for states with this avenue as the major one'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'Investigating a possible regicide by this fella; got his address, Dunsinane, but his wacked-out wife worries me'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'On June 11, with parades & luaus, Hawaiians honor this king who united the islands in 1810'

Answer: Kamehameha


Question: '"Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm" here, the title of a '68 song'

Answer: "Back in the U.S.S.R."


Question: 'Asiago'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'This pool gained fame in 1974 when stripper & congressional companion Fanne Foxe frolicked in it'

Answer: the Tidal Basin


Question: 'Something's rottin' in Denmark & it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2'

Answer: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern


Question: 'On Nov. 29 this state celebrates the birthday of its governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, the USA's first woman governor'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'He's "As blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see"'

Answer: "Nowhere Man"


Question: 'Gruyere'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'A silvery-white metallic element with the atomic number 13'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'The Smithsonian Institution building seen here is commonly known by this imposing name'

Answer: "The Castle"


Question: 'From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'It doesn't take a high I.Q. to figure out that .iq represents this nation'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'Rose'

Answer: Eros


Question: 'On Jan. 19, 1977 President Ford pardoned this woman who'd been convicted of treason in World War II'

Answer: Tokyo Rose


Question: 'Michael Steadman wouldn't have made it in "Logan's Run", where no one lives past this age'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Existing country codes range from .ac (Ascension Island) to .zw (this country)'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'Deter me'

Answer: Demeter


Question: 'In 1925 this sage covered the Scopes Trial for the Baltimore Sun'

Answer: H.L. Mencken


Question: 'Lanterns hung in this "Old" church warned patriots of an impending attack in April 1775'

Answer: the Old North Church


Question: 'In "Gattaca", it's odd that he plays a genetic failure but appropriate that he falls for Uma Thurman'

Answer: Ethan Hawke


Question: 'Keep quiet with .sh, the code for this south Atlantic island, a place of exile for Napoleon'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'Noise pod'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'His journals in 1960 on "The Making of the President" were turned into a book in 1961'

Answer: Theodore H. White


Question: 'In school this phrase ends English or says history is history'

Answer: class dismissed


Question: '(Alex: Here's Cheryl at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York)  On November 28, 1946 the Allied Council adjourned their peace talks here at the Waldorf for a dinner of this'

Answer: turkey for Thanksgiving


Question: 'The first sequel to "Planet of the Apes", it preceded "Escape from...", "Conquest of...", & "Battle for..."'

Answer: Beneath the Planet of the Apes


Question: 'It's no B.S. that these islands in the West Indies are coded .bs'

Answer: the Bahamas


Question: 'Run USA'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'A 1965 collection of his articles was titled "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"'

Answer: Tom Wolfe


Question: 'It expanded with the threat of nuclear war & is now under the Federal Emergency Management Agency'

Answer: Civil Defense


Question: 'This N.Y. woman's 1970 campaign slogan was "This woman's place is in the House -- the House of Representatives!"'

Answer: Bella Abzug


Question: 'This 1973 Woody Allen film shows us a future that knows the health benefits of steak & fudge'

Answer: Sleeper


Question: 'Tune in to .fm, the Federated States of this'

Answer: Micronesia


Question: 'Hair depot'

Answer: Aphrodite


Question: 'Not Goober's, not Gomer's, but this Pyle's reports from Europe & the Pacific during WWII are famous'

Answer: Ernie Pyle


Question: 'Butte, Montana lies on this rocky ridge that separates North America's east- & west-running rivers'

Answer: the Continental Divide


Question: 'The creator of this Minnesota town says its name is Ojibwa for "Place where we waited all day for you in the rain"'

Answer: Lake Wobegon


Question: 'A former Socialist, he formed the anti-Communist Fascist Party in 1919'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'This "frozen" fermented dairy product resembles soft-serve ice cream in texture'

Answer: Frozen yogurt


Question: 'The most popular toy of the '96 Christmas season was this Sesame Street doll'

Answer: Tickle Me Elmo


Question: 'Canadians observe it the second Monday in October; we celebrate it on a Thursday in November'

Answer: Thanksgiving


Question: 'In "In Retrospect" 1960s defense secretary Robert S. McNamara agonizes about this war'

Answer: Vietnam War


Question: 'An oak or elm at no cost'

Answer: Free tree


Question: 'On Aug. 27, 1789 this country's national assembly issued its declaration of the rights of man'

Answer: France


Question: 'This whipped egg white topping for lemon pies will "weep" or turn rubbery if you're not careful'

Answer: Meringue


Question: 'This designer's cK be is "The New Fragrance for People", male or female'

Answer: Calvin Klein


Question: 'Mardi Gras comes at the end of the carnival season & the beginning of this 40-day period'

Answer: Lent


Question: 'First published in 1988, this Thomas Harris book featuring Hannibal Lecter was a paperback bestseller in 1991'

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs


Question: 'A lunar eating utensil'

Answer: Moon spoon


Question: 'Initially Emmeline Pankhurst secured the right to vote in England only for these women'

Answer: Married women


Question: 'These 3 flavors usually make up Neapolitan ice cream'

Answer: chocolate, strawberry & vanilla


Question: 'This company created the Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system'

Answer: Nintendo


Question: 'It's the Jewish Day of Atonement'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'This late children's book author was back on the list in 1995 with "Daisy-Head Mayzie"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Amiable rodents'

Answer: Nice mice


Question: 'Prussia's King Wilhelm I assumed this title in 1871 when he was crowned emperor of Germany'

Answer: Kaiser


Question: 'These whole wheat crackers are often crushed to make a pie crust'

Answer: Graham crackers


Question: 'After The Sugarcubes dissolved in 1992, this Icelandic lead singer went solo'

Answer: Bjork


Question: 'This spring festival sounds like a ship's distress call'

Answer: May Day


Question: 'With his 10th anniversary book a bestseller, this comic strip's artist Bill Watterson quit the strip'

Answer: Calvin and Hobbes


Question: 'Amply heated housing for students'

Answer: Warm dorm


Question: 'The Dutch Cape Colony took its name from this cape'

Answer: Cape of Good Hope


Question: 'Fannie Farmer's recipe for old-fashioned gingersnaps calls for 1/2 cup of this liquid sweetener'

Answer: Molasses


Question: 'The introduction of Dolly the Sheep to the world kicked off a debate on the ethics of this in February 1997'

Answer: Cloning


Question: 'This holiday was first suggested by J. Sterling Morton, a future Secretary of Agriculture'

Answer: Arbor Day


Question: 'This retired general can give his "My American Journey" his own 4 stars'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'Any irritable New York baseball player'

Answer: Cranky Yankee


Question: 'King Midas almost died of hunger because everything he touched turned to this'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'The mysterious Bermuda Triangle region lies within this ocean'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'She delivers the line "Goodnight, goodnight!  Parting is such sweet sorrow"'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'In 1774 this Virginian wrote the pamphlet "A Summary View of the Rights of British America"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'This Pole wrote a polonaise in G minor in 1817 at the age of 7'

Answer: Frederic Chopin


Question: 'The World of Coca-Cola in this state capital has a 1930s vintage soda fountain'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'The Fates were the daughters of Themis & this supreme Greek god'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'Rome wasn't built in a day, but it was built on the banks of this river'

Answer: Tiber


Question: 'Fairies in this play include Cobweb, Peaseblossom & Mustardseed'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'In 1943 this PT-109 skipper helped save the lives of his crew & won a Purple Heart'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'He wrote "The Well-Tempered Clavier" to teach his family musicianship & keyboard technique'

Answer: J.S. Bach


Question: 'A Kenly, North Carolina museum is devoted to the history & economic impact of this crop'

Answer: Tobacco


Question: 'This narrow strait is so named because Phrixus' sister Helle drowned in it'

Answer: Hellespont


Question: 'The Aleutian Islands separate the Pacific Ocean from this sea'

Answer: Bering Sea


Question: 'In this play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern almost always appear together'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'This future president graduated from Abilene High School in 1909'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'From 1761 to 1802 this composer nicknamed "Papa" worked under the patronage of the Esterhazy princes'

Answer: Joseph Haydn


Question: 'This "Roots" author's childhood home in Henning, Tenn. has memorabilia relating to his work'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'The nymphs of Hermes taught Aristaeus to make this dairy product; perhaps it was feta'

Answer: Cheese


Question: 'Fed by the Jordan River, it's the saltiest body of water on Earth'

Answer: Dead Sea


Question: 'At Bosworth Field, he shouts, "A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'While at Princeton, he was a member of the American Whig Society debating club'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'After the failure of this man's "Tannhauser" in Paris, Gounod wrote, "God give me a failure like that"'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'A hall of fame devoted to this sport in Colorado Springs honors Brian Boitano, Katarina Witt & others'

Answer: Figure skating


Question: 'This Greek goddess of the hunt turned herself into a white doe to escape the Aloeids'

Answer: Artemis


Question: 'Belgium's seacoast, about 40 miles long, is on this sea'

Answer: North Sea


Question: 'They're the 3 daughters of King Lear'

Answer: Cordelia, Goneril & Regan


Question: 'In 1820 this president ran unopposed for reelection'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'He revised "Madama Butterfly" in the weeks following its less-than-successful La Scala premiere'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'This NYC museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was originally called The Museum of Non-Objective Painting'

Answer: Guggenheim


Question: 'A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War'

Answer: Henry Knox


Question: 'On Nov. 15, 1777 Congress adopted this constitution but it wasn't ratified by the states until March 1, 1781'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: 'Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor"'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'A team's most reliable relief pitcher is called this, as he slams the door on the opposition'

Answer: a closer


Question: 'It's the tallest of all land quadrupeds'

Answer: the giraffe


Question: 'A 1903 G.B. Shaw play is called "Man And" him'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'Enjoy the simple things, like a sunny day; in 1913 this "morbid" California region hit a balmy 134 degrees'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'I send you "H&K", these 2 proofs of my love'

Answer: hugs & kisses


Question: 'Mountain ranges in the U.S., Mexico & the Philippines all have this name meaning "mother mountain"'

Answer: Sierra Madre


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew holds a baseball with his fingernails.)  Here's the grip for this pitch, a Tim Wakefield specialty; his only goes about 65 miles per hour, but he's won more than 170 games'

Answer: a knuckleball


Question: 'This horned mammal is the largest odd-toed ungulate'

Answer: the rhino


Question: 'Some might say Polyphemus of this race was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: 'Folks come & go, but pals like this, who fill a man's face with birdshot on a quail hunt in Feb. 2006, you remember forever'

Answer: Dick Cheney


Question: '"CYT" means this, regarding the next time I'll grace you with my visage'

Answer: see you tomorrow


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a spot on the globe.)  Appropriately, Australia--located here near the bottom of the globe--gets its name from a Latin word meaning this'

Answer: south


Question: 'The ball got by the catcher & the runner's in from third--it was the hurler's fault & will be scored as this'

Answer: a wild pitch


Question: 'It's the largest living deer species in the world'

Answer: the elk (or moose)


Question: 'This black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field"'

Answer: "Iron Man"


Question: 'Life's wandering road may take you to this 555-foot-high obelisk at 15th & Constitution Avenue NW in D.C.'

Answer: the Washington Monument


Question: '"KIT" tells a pal to do this, though he may be far away'

Answer: keep in touch


Question: 'The name of this Indonesian island is believed to come from a word for barley, not coffee'

Answer: Java


Question: 'Add 1 letter to the illegal spitter to get this pitch that drops suddenly'

Answer: a splitter


Question: 'This scaly mammal of the order Edentata is related to the sloth & the anteater'

Answer: the armadillo


Question: 'If you're driving & one of these pointing to the right lights up, turn right!'

Answer: a Green Arrow


Question: 'Beauty's in the eye of the beholder; one may behold this Iowa man's 1931 painting "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"'

Answer: Grant Wood


Question: '"EM?", you really expect me to believe you don't know "EM?" stands for this?'

Answer: Excuse me!


Question: 'This 5,700-square-mile national park in Tanzania means "great open place"'

Answer: Serengeti


Question: 'Once the batter's seen the heat, time to fool him with this, named for the difference in the speed of the pitch'

Answer: a changeup


Question: 'This medium-sized, distinctly marked cat of Asia has the scientific name Neofelis nebulosa'

Answer: clouded leopard


Question: 'Nondescript name of the Volkswagen seen here'

Answer: the Thing


Question: 'To everything, there is a season: he was the first president who was limited to 2 full terms of office by the Constitution'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'Careful! "P911" is a text message alert about the looming presence of one of these'

Answer: a parent


Question: 'Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as President of the CSA early in this year'

Answer: 1861


Question: 'William Daniels was a snooty doc on "St. Elsewhere" & Anthony Daniels played this snooty character in "Star Wars"'

Answer: C-3PO


Question: 'Oncology'

Answer: cancer


Question: 'This breakfast fruit comes in 3 different flesh colors: red, pink & white (which is actually yellow)'

Answer: grapefruit


Question: '"Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony"'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'Don't go to a shopping mall if you've got this fear of public spaces'

Answer: agoraphobia


Question: 'Like Lincoln a few months later, Davis was born in a log cabin in this state'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'Bill Paxton was in "Titanic"; this other Bill played the president in "Independence Day"'

Answer: Pullman


Question: 'Petrology'

Answer: rock(s)


Question: 'This shortcake staple is rich in Vitamin C, with about 90 milligrams per serving'

Answer: strawberries


Question: '"Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house"'

Answer: Rosemary\'s Baby


Question: 'Watch out for these sudden movements of snow--a 250-mile-an-hour one happened in the U.S. in 1980'

Answer: an avalanche


Question: 'A West Point graduate, Davis fought for the U.S. in this 1840s conflict'

Answer: the Mexican War


Question: 'This star of "School of Rock" says he & Philip Seymour Hoffman once read for the same roles (Philip got the parts)'

Answer: (Jack) Black


Question: 'Viticulture or oenology'

Answer: vineyards, grape-growing


Question: 'Up to 88% of this green-skinned fruit's calories are fat'

Answer: the avocado


Question: '"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714 , the finest bridge in all Peru broke"'

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey


Question: 'From the Latin for "to set forth", it means fitting or at the right time'

Answer: apropos


Question: 'Davis' vice president was this former U.S. representative from Georgia'

Answer: Alexander Stephens


Question: 'Sam Neill was in 2 "Jurassic Park" films; lookalike Hugo Weaving was the menacing Agent Smith in this trilogy'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: 'Epistemology'

Answer: knowledge


Question: 'Dishes a la Florentine are traditionally presented on a bed of this vegetable'

Answer: spinach


Question: '"Except for the Marabar Caves ...the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary"'

Answer: A Passage to India


Question: 'In the Bible he had a whale of a time as the husband of Jezebel'

Answer: Ahab


Question: 'From 1853 to 1857 Davis served as this president's Secretary of War'

Answer: Pierce


Question: 'Erika Christensen was in "The Upside of Anger"; this lookalike was the "me" in "The Prince & Me"'

Answer: Julia Stiles


Question: 'Mycology'

Answer: fungus


Question: 'The Italian plum is one variety of this member of the nightshade family'

Answer: tomatoes


Question: '"A screaming comes across the sky"'

Answer: Gravity\'s Rainbow


Question: 'An historical duchy in Southwestern France between Bordeaux & the Pyrenees'

Answer: Aquitaine


Question: 'This wife of Henry VIII was the aunt of the powerful Holy Roman Emperor Charles V'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'Since 1937 this military post has been the site of the United States' gold bullion depository'

Answer: Fort Knox, Kentucky


Question: 'On September 27, 1998 Philip Ozersky caught a ball hit by this man & later sold it for $2.7 million'

Answer: Mark McGwire


Question: 'When Benny Goodman was doing his swinging, it was usually with this woodwind in his mouth'

Answer: Clarinet


Question: '"A Tale As Old As Time" is the subject of this musical'

Answer: "Beauty and the Beast"


Question: 'Americans eat about 11 billion slices of pizza a year, with this as the favorite topping'

Answer: Pepperoni


Question: 'Al's household jobs'

Answer: Gore\'s chores


Question: 'Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1777'

Answer: 13


Question: 'To play carom billiards you have to buy this many balls'

Answer: 3


Question: 'This bent steel rod struck by a small metal rod is used in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth'

Answer: Triangle


Question: 'This long-running musical won 8 Tony Awards in 1987'

Answer: "Les Miserables"


Question: 'It's the all-time top-grossing film'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'Dan's laments'

Answer: Quayle\'s wails


Question: 'He's the leader of the Union forces, seen here'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Halex' Elite 3-Star balls for this sport are made of the highest quality celluloid'

Answer: Ping-pong/table tennis


Question: 'The barrel in this air-powered instrument is rotated & can have several tunes in its repertory'

Answer: Organ


Question: 'Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the "haunting" music for this show'

Answer: "Phantom of the Opera"


Question: 'Undergrad tuition at this Cambridge "institute" is over $26,000; room, board & books add another $10,000'

Answer: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Question: 'George's posteriors'

Answer: Bush\'s tushes


Question: 'After a plea from his son, Abe Lincoln was the first to give a presidential pardon to one of these birds'

Answer: (Thanksgiving) Turkey


Question: 'A few of these balls smuggled aboard Apollo 14 were left on the moon, far away from the landing site'

Answer: Golf balls


Question: 'Total number of musicians you need to play all of "The Music Man"'s trombones & coronets in the big parade'

Answer: 186 (76 + 110)


Question: '"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" to name this musical'

Answer: "My Fair Lady"


Question: 'The 3 largest U.S. national parks, totaling about 20 million acres, are in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Aaron's insults'

Answer: Burr\'s slurs


Question: 'On July 22, 1987 this Soviet leader agreed to a U.S. proposal to ban medium- & short-range nuclear weapons'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'The man on the trophy first given by the Downtown Athletic Club in 1936 is holding one of these balls'

Answer: Football (Heisman Trophy)


Question: 'About 8 feet long if stretched out, this oboe family member can sound comedic or sad'

Answer: Bassoon


Question: 'This 2000 musical wasn't written in the stars, but by Linda Wolverton, Elton John & Tim Rice'

Answer: "Aida" (new version)


Question: 'The life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 years; this country between Spain & France is tops with over 83 years'

Answer: Andorra


Question: 'Gerald's leaping noblemen'

Answer: Ford\'s lords


Question: 'He's first in line to the British throne'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question:
'Warwick,
Cranston,
Pawtucket'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: '1997:<br />"Not since Albert Schweitzer has any one person had such an inspirational effect"'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'Steven Hill of "Law & Order" played the leader of the IMF on this classic series before Peter Graves'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: 'He took "Song Sung Blue" to No. 1 in 1972'

Answer: Neil Diamond


Question: 'The gorilla is the largest member of this mammalian order'

Answer: Primates


Question: 'She married hotel heir Nicky Hilton at age 18'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question:
'Rock Springs,
Casper,
Gillette'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: '1957:<br />This movie star was "The masculine counterpart of the girl of easy virtue who has a heart of gold"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'Michaela is the full first name of this title character made famous by Jane Seymour'

Answer: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman


Question: 'In this 1971 actioner Sean Connery returned as Agent 007'

Answer: Diamonds Are Forever


Question: 'This big screen bio recounted the trials & tribulations of gorilla advocate Dian Fossey'

Answer: Gorillas in the Mist


Question: 'The hemophiliac Alexis was this czar's only male heir'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question:
'Duncan,
Lawton,
Muskogee'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: '1939:<br />"He was a philosopher, using methods of science to achieve therapeutic ends"'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'In the original script for the pilot of this series, the leading male character was a bandleader named Larry Lopez'

Answer: I Love Lucy


Question: 'Stolen in 1792, this unlucky gem now in the Smithsonian was once a part of the French crown jewels'

Answer: Hope Diamond


Question: 'The name of this famous gorilla used in sign language studies sounds like a drink made with chocolate'

Answer: Koko


Question: 'This country reverts to French control if the Grimaldi family fails to produce a male heir'

Answer: Monaco


Question:
'Burlington,
St. Albans,
Rutland'

Answer: Vermont


Question: '1968:<br />"The first Soviet swallow in the cosmos"'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: 'Before "Stark Raving Mad", Tony Shalhoub played Antonio, a Nantucket cab driver, on this hit sitcom'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'He's played the King of Siam on Broadway & Ritchie Valens on the big screen'

Answer: Lou Diamond Phillips


Question: 'Discovered in 1966, Snowflake was the first known specimen of this type of gorilla'

Answer: White/albino gorilla


Question: 'Later an emperor himself, Octavian was adpoted by this leader as his heir'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question:
'Boulder City,
Winnemucca,
Henderson'

Answer: Nevada


Question: '1976:<br />"The pay phones he installed for guests at Sutton Place were legendary"'

Answer: Jean Paul Getty


Question: '[Hi, I'm Sharon Case]  The creators of this daytime soap, which I joined in 1994, first considered calling it "The Innocent Years"'

Answer: The Young and the Restless


Question: 'This Major League Baseball team plays its home games in Phoenix'

Answer: Arizona Diamondbacks


Question: 'Kigali is the capital city of this African country famous for its mountain gorillas'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'His 2 acting Oscars have been awarded for playing a tough cop in 1971 & a brutal sheriff in 1992'

Answer: Gene Hackman


Question: 'The oldest part of this Northern European capital lies on Stadsholmen, or "City Island"'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: '(July 23 - Aug. 22)<br />This fire sign is ready to roar!'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'It's the first U.S. federal holiday of the year that honors a person'

Answer: Martin Luther King Day


Question: 'Broccoflower is a cross between these 2 veggies'

Answer: broccoli & cauliflower


Question: 'A loupe & a ring sizer are standard tools for this occupation'

Answer: a jeweler


Question: 'Spotless or pristine'

Answer: clean


Question: 'This South American capital's full name means "Our Lady of the Assumption"'

Answer: Asunción


Question: '(April 20 - May 20)<br />Quick decisions are necessary.  Be bullish!'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'This jr. was out of this world on Feb. 20, 1962; up to 162 miles, to be more precise'

Answer: (John) Glenn (Jr.)


Question: 'The Concord type of this is used to make jam & juice'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'It can be a tool of a croquet player or a percussionist'

Answer: a mallet


Question: 'A division of a play, or the play's setting'

Answer: a scene


Question: 'Its Gaelic name, Baile Atha Cliath, means "town of the ford of the hurdles"'

Answer: Dublin


Question: '(Feb. 19 - March 20)<br />Something's fishy, & it's this mutable water sign'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'Freddie Prinze Jr. is seen here with this gal, his wife & sometime co-star'

Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar


Question: 'Casaba & cantaloupe are types of this fruit'

Answer: melon


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports in front of a U.S. Postal Service truck.)  One important tool of a letter carrier is a pepper-based spray intended for this purpose'

Answer: dog repellent (defense from dogs accepted)


Question: 'A hereditary unit'

Answer: a gene


Question: 'The name of this capital in the North Atlantic is Old Norse for "smokey bay"'

Answer: Reykjavik


Question: '(June 21 - July 22)<br />Why so crabby?'

Answer: Cancer


Question: 'In 1940 FDR made Benjamin Davis Sr. the first black one of these in the Army'

Answer: a general


Question: 'This unloved cabbage family member is named for the capital of Belgium'

Answer: Brussels sprouts


Question: 'People who take pictures of your insides wear dosimeters, which measure exposure to this'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'A spongy organ near your stomach'

Answer: a spleen


Question: 'The name of this Middle Eastern capital is Persian for "warm place"'

Answer: Tehran


Question: '(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)<br />It's the age of this air sign. You may be a water bearer but you lift people's spirits, too'

Answer: Aquarius


Question: 'Seen here are the jr. & sr. versions of this legendary NASCAR family'

Answer: Earnhardt


Question: 'In Latin a pirum is one of these fruits, not two'

Answer: a pear


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Star City in Russia.)  Here at Russia's Star City, this type of apparatus used to separate liquids has been used to train cosmonauts'

Answer: a centrifuge


Question: 'To gather grain or knowledge'

Answer: glean


Question: 'The central nervous system of the body consists of the spinal cord & this organ'

Answer: the brain


Question: 'This No Doubt singer went solo as a "Hollaback Girl"'

Answer: Gwen Stefani


Question: 'The air flowing through a 767's engine on takeoff could inflate this Ohio-based dirigible in less than 10 seconds'

Answer: the Goodyear Blimp


Question: 'The athletic achievements of this American may never be topped'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: '"Ahab's harpoon throwing started it, & I don't even like leg; I'm more of a breast mammal myself"'

Answer: Moby-Dick


Question: 'A member of Houston's newest NFL team'

Answer: a Texan


Question: 'These teeth are named for their resemblance to a dog's sharp teeth'

Answer: the canines


Question: '"Free Yourself" & know that "Life is not a Fairy Tale" for this third "American Idol" winner'

Answer: Fantasia Barrino


Question: 'The Lockheed C-130 is known by this name of a mythic hero who slew the Hydra'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'His stature in the early history of the United States was electrifying'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: '"Even though it's a theme park, I'm a method dino. To be convincing, I need to kill like I'm from the late Cretaceous"'

Answer: Jurassic Park


Question: 'Past tense word often found before "out", as in "Those $400 shoes ____ out Dad's credit card"'

Answer: maxed


Question: 'Eating quickly can cause these diaphragm spasms--Boo!'

Answer: hiccups


Question: 'She knows "We Belong Together" so "Don't Forget About Us"'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'The first women to fly in a plane in the U.S., Mrs. Ralph van Deman, had a man with this last name as a pilot'

Answer: Wright


Question: 'This senator was a groundbreaker in 2000'

Answer: (Joseph) Lieberman


Question: '"I'm a snake with traditional values. It's unnatural for a boy to live with wolves & lead the monkey-people"'

Answer: The Jungle Book


Question: 'From the Latin for "poison", it refers to a harmful substance'

Answer: a toxin


Question: 'The choroid, or middle coat of the eyeball, is the part from which this sometimes detaches'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'This first lady of Crunk & B has the "Goodies"'

Answer: Ciara


Question: 'The press insisted on calling the H-4 the "Spruce Goose", something that this billionaire builder hated'

Answer: Hughes


Question: 'He died in London in 1547 but not before starting his own church'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: '"I initiated a hostile takeover because Snowball had no business sense & would have bankrupted the Homestead"'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'It's a party to get to know people, or a guy who adjusts sound components'

Answer: a mixer


Question: 'Some 2 million nephrons in this pair of organs filter about 180 liters of blood each day'

Answer: kidneys


Question: 'She is "Unbreakable" now that she "Unplugged" her piano'

Answer: (Alicia) Keys


Question: 'In 1958 this Australian airline began offering around-the-world service'

Answer: Qantas


Question: 'One of the longest serving prime ministers of his country is this man seen here'

Answer: Tony Blair


Question: '"I'm doing my job guarding treasure when this king & Wiglaf protect a thief & come after me!  It burns me up!"'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'Disney & this animation studio brought us "Finding Nemo"'

Answer: Pixar


Question: 'The word for this job comes from a fox-hunting term for someone who keeps the hunting dogs from straying'

Answer: the whip


Question: 'On April 24, 1970 this country launched its first satellite, Mao 1'

Answer: China


Question: 'Condenser, crisper, butter compartment'

Answer: a refrigerator


Question: 'On the flag of this largest island, white represents the ice that covers about 80% of it'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'Puppy appendage<br />(4)'

Answer: a tail


Question: 'In 2007 this team beat Ohio State 84-75 to repeat as NCAA basketball champs'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Napoleon abdicated for the second time 4 days after this battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'In 2011 MESSENGER is scheduled to orbit this planet named for a messenger god'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Push-button, cartridge, spring, ballbearing tip'

Answer: a pen


Question: 'Her personal flag consists of a wreath of golden roses & a crown atop the letter "E", all on a blue field'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'Hatchets & hacksaws<br />(5)'

Answer: tools


Question: 'He won golf's Vardon Trophy, for the lowest adjusted scoring average, from 1999 to 2003 & again in 2005'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'This country's soldiers are seen here rehearsing for May 7, 2004, the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'This spacecraft whose name is from Greek for "origin" collected solar wind particles & then returned to Earth'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'Transept, nave, aisle, chancel'

Answer: a church


Question: 'This Australian state's flag features a red lion, just like the coat of arms of its capital, Hobart'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: 'Vampire vicinity<br />(12)'

Answer: Transylvania


Question: '(I'm Pete Carroll, head football coach at USC.) Our 2 national titles at USC are still 4 short of this "animal" of an Alabama head coach, but we're working on that'

Answer: Bear Bryant


Question: 'The Treaty of Ghent had already been signed when Andrew Jackson decisively won this Jan. 1815 battle'

Answer: the Battle of New Orleans


Question: 'In 1998 a craft named for him photographed volcanic plumes on Io, a Jovian moon he discovered in 1610'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Title, key or legend, compass rose'

Answer: a map


Question: 'The flag of the United Nations shows the world from the perspective of this spot'

Answer: the North Pole


Question: 'Light you "carry" for an old flame<br />(5)'

Answer: a torch


Question: 'This team won the World Series every year from 1949 to 1953'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: '300 Spartans led by Leonidas held off Persian troops for 3 days, until a traitor betrayed them, in this 480 B.C. battle'

Answer: Thermopylae


Question: 'Launched in 1977, this spacecraft is the most distant manmade object at more than 9.5 billion miles from Earth'

Answer: Voyager


Question: 'Safety pin, pressurized canister, hose, foam'

Answer: a fire extinguisher


Question: 'The flag of this nation seen here has flown since 1882; the flag of its neighbor to the north, since 1948'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Writer Rabindranath<br />(6)'

Answer: Tagore


Question: '(I'm USC athletic director Mike Garrett.) I won the 1965 Heisman as a USC RB; I'll let you off easy & have you name just one of 3 USC players who won it in the 21st century'

Answer: (one of) Reggie Bush, Carson Palmer or Matt Leinart


Question: 'Norman cavalry are preparing to attack for a reenactment of this battle that took place in 1066'

Answer: Hastings


Question: 'A traditional Ugandan cloth is made from this part of the mutuba tree, softened by pounding'

Answer: the bark


Question: 'The walls of Avila, with 88 towers, were built in the 11th C. by Christians fighting these people'

Answer: the Muslims (or Moors)


Question: 'Armenia is the hub for speakers of Armenian; this country has the most speakers of Rundi'

Answer: Burundi


Question: 'Though Greek by ethnicity, the 2nd century physician was born in Anatolia in what's today this country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Former Guns N' Roses members Duff, Slash & Matt Sorum reunited to form this pistol of a band'

Answer: Velvet Revolver


Question: 'This word, Hawaiian for "quick", is technology that allows for open access to add & change a page'

Answer: wiki


Question: 'All Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are trained to instruct locals on stopping this retroviral epidemic'

Answer: AIDS


Question: 'Arundel Castle has been the seat of these noblemen of Norfolk for hundreds of years; the 18th one lives there now'

Answer: the Dukes


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor.) Kufic, named for the city of Kufa and often used for religious texts, is an ancient style of writing this most widely spoken Semitic language'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'Galen studied medicine at Pergamum, Smyrna & this Egyptian city famous for a library & a lighthouse'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'This New Mexico indie band named for leg parts is all the rage, & their "New Slang" was a hit in "Garden State"'

Answer: the Shins


Question: 'An O.S. can be an operating system as well as this type of software like Firefox, GIMP & Thunderbird'

Answer: open source


Question: 'When friends in Gabon meet, they give each other a series of 4 of these'

Answer: kisses


Question: 'The numerically designed Castel del Monte in Italy has 8 towers around a courtyard of this shape'

Answer: an octagon


Question: 'Vi vill ha en smorgas och jordnotter--sorry, slipped into this language for a second'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'One of Galen's medical breakthroughs was proving arteries carried blood & not this, as was believed'

Answer: air


Question: 'This Brit's first name is a flower; her MySpace page and her "Smile" helped to launch her fame'

Answer: Lily Allen


Question: 'This phrase was used of an appliance that connected to an electrical outlet; now it's an add-on for a browser'

Answer: a plug-in


Question: 'In 1990 Namibia became independent from this country that had controlled it for 75 years'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'A castle was built at Vallandraut, France for the man who in 1309 moved this office to France for an extended stay'

Answer: the papacy


Question: 'It's the term used for Dutch as spoken in Belgium; in it, Antwerp is Antwerpen'

Answer: Flemish


Question: 'Galen might have sworn an oath to this 5th century B.C. Greek man he considered the beginning of all medical learning'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: 'Chris Daughtry turned down the offer to sing for this band even after he covered their song "Hemorrhage"'

Answer: Fuel


Question: 'If you want to build a new you, create a toned, buff one of these online facsimiles in "Virtual Hills"'

Answer: an avatar


Question: 'A Senegalese cape shares the name of these islands that form an independent country to the west'

Answer: Cape Verde


Question: 'Even the peaceful Swiss needed their castles, like Chillon on this lake seen here'

Answer: Lake Geneva


Question: '"Battle" was "gefeoht" in this, the language spoken in London until about 1100'

Answer: Old English


Question: 'Galen believed that blood was produced in this largest internal organ & that it ebbed & flowed like the tide'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'YouTube helped this Arizona band's cover of OutKast's "Hey Ya!" surge in popularity'

Answer: Obadiah Parker


Question: 'You can get the New York Times or blogs in this type of XML format that's known as "really simple"'

Answer: RSS


Question: 'In an Ibsen play, Nora tells her husband that she's been like one of these to him, just as she was to her father'

Answer: a doll


Question: 'European workers average 6 weeks of this a year, 3 times what many Americans get -- maybe you don't find that so funny'

Answer: vacation


Question: 'Let's see if all their ads have worked; company whose logo is seen here'

Answer: Cingular


Question: 'He teamed with Cheech on numerous comedy albums'

Answer: Tommy Chong


Question: '100 degrees on June 27, 1915 in Fort Yukon'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In the book he was discovered behind a screen that Toto knocked over; in the film, behind a curtain'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'Another term for upper case characters such as the ones that start a sentence'

Answer: capital letters


Question: 'Germans like to watch 2 guys ride these around & around a track for 6 days'

Answer: bicycles


Question: 'For your information, Mary J. Blige has asked in song "What's" this'

Answer: the 411


Question: 'Some of his "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" are now said on TV, especially cable'

Answer: George Carlin


Question: '125 degrees on July 29, 1994 in Laughlin'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'The extravagances of Dennis Kozlowski, disgraced head of Tyco Intl., included a $6,000 one of these'

Answer: shower curtain


Question: 'The organization of events or storylines in a tale, as in Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift"'

Answer: plot


Question: 'After the Finns let in some steam in these baths, they enjoy a roll in the snow'

Answer: saunas


Question: 'This Internet service provider can be on your cell phone with its "Anywhere" program'

Answer: AOL


Question: '"The Best Second Banana in the Business", he gained undying fame as sewer worker Ed Norton'

Answer: Art Carney


Question: '118 degrees on June 20, 1934 in Keokuk'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'Similar to the Iron Curtain, it was the ideological barrier between Communist China & other countries'

Answer: Bamboo Curtain


Question: 'Latin for "thus", it would precede (& possibly follow) the paleontologist's motto "Semper Tyrannosaurus"'

Answer: sic


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Rome)  Romans used to flood the Piazza Navona mainly to stage mock versions of these'

Answer: naval battles


Question: 'Launched July 10, 1962, the first satellite in this series could handle up to 600 phone calls or 1 TV signal at once!'

Answer: Telstar


Question: 'She was the first original member of "Saturday Night Live" to score a success with a second TV series'

Answer: Jane Curtin


Question: '109 degrees on July 10, 1936 in Cumberland & Frederick'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Meter for blank verse & 5 disposable pens'

Answer: iambic pentameter


Question: 'Europe still has kings -- this one came to the Spanish throne in 1975'

Answer: Juan Carlos


Question: 'Its country code is 84; its city codes include 1 -- Colombo & 8 -- Kandy'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'This understated comedian played Mr. Peepers & was the voice of Underdog'

Answer: Wally Cox


Question: '119 degrees on July 10, 1898 in Pendleton'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'There are 2 of these phrases in the sentence "Santa enjoys dining out but the lady of the house likes to eat in"'

Answer: independent clauses


Question: 'A 1983 novel by Christa Wolf focuses on Cassandra, the disbelieved prophetess of this ancient city'

Answer: Troy


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh)  With its ability to enter tight spaces, like collapsed buildings, the snake robot is used in US&R, or Urban this'

Answer: search-and-rescue


Question: 'If you're on the road to Morocco, take along some Bob Hopes & these, Bob's partner'

Answer: Bing Crosbys


Question: 'John Tyler was born in this state in 1790 (don't say naked) & he died in it in 1862 (don't say naked)'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Me Alex; you one who know this man create Tarzan'

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs


Question: 'In this Anne Tyler novel, a glum travel writer is revived by free-spirited dog trainer Muriel Pritchett'

Answer: "The Accidental Tourist"


Question: 'In 1939 tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded his now-classic version of this song heard here'

Answer: "Body And Soul"


Question: 'It's estimated that in the 1990s about 700,000 robots were in use, over 400,000 of them in this Asian country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The name on this hybrid tea rose is also on a great pair of records -- "9 to 5" & "Two Doors Down"'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'First Lady Julia Tyler asked the Marine Band to announce the arrival of her husband with this tune'

Answer: "Hail to the Chief"


Question: 'This actor's films include "Lethal Weapon", "Predator II", & "The Buddy Holly Story"'

Answer: Gary Busey


Question: 'The name of this "Twelfth Night" heroine is pronounced with a long "I", unlike the musical instrument'

Answer: Viola


Question: 'Duke Ellington co-wrote "In A Sentimental Mood" & this "mood"y 1931 standard'

Answer: "Mood Indigo"


Question: 'The Harprier & Harunique roses are also known by these Mesopotamian river names'

Answer: Tigris & Euphrates


Question: 'Tyler figured with not much to do as vice president, he could stay at home with his sick wife; then this president died...'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'Hirsute Civil War general seen here'

Answer: Ambrose Burnside


Question: 'This Theodore Dreiser heroine becomes a star of the stage, but happiness eludes her'

Answer: Sister Carrie


Question: 'John Coltrane's version of this song from "The Sound of Music" became a sort of theme song for him'

Answer: "My Favorite Things"


Question: 'This title character of "The Western World" knows this other name of the Cheerio rose'

Answer: Playboy rose


Question: 'As "His Accidency" had 15 of these from 1815 to 1860, we figure some weren't accidents'

Answer: children (by 2 wives)


Question: 'In the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", she played Anne Boleyn'

Answer: Genevieve Bujold


Question: 'This Ibsen heroine leaves the "Doll's House" in which her husband keeps her'

Answer: Nora


Question: 'A swinging jazz tune is called "Stompin' at" this place, also the name of a swanky London hotel'

Answer: the Savoy


Question: 'The Schneewittchen rose, also called this, would have been a hit in Titanic staterooms'

Answer: Iceberg rose


Question: 'In his "American Notes", this British author relates meeting the "Unaffected, gentlemanly, & agreeable" Tyler'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'Michelangelo's surname'

Answer: Buonarroti


Question: 'The only time the host country failed to win a gold medal was at the Olympics held in this Western Hemisphere city'

Answer: Montreal (1976)


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew has a new review from the zoo--the London Zoo in Regent's Park, London.)  At the zoo in Regent's Park this character first discovers his unusual powers when he talks to the snakes'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'Waldo was the nephew of this nearsighted cartoon character & helped keep him out of trouble'

Answer: Mr. Magoo


Question:
'This man doesn't strike me as a guy whose life is fun-filled /
Especially since he lost his job; farewell to Mr....'

Answer: Rumsfeld


Question: 'With 22 enemy planes shot down, Eddie Rickenbacker was the USA's No.1 flying ace during this war'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'It seems your doctor has prescribed Lunesta; you must have trouble doing this'

Answer: sleeping


Question:
'Moraine,
ordain,
champain'

Answer: champagne


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Temple Church in London.)  In this novel, Langdon's first London stop in his search for the holy grail is here at Temple Church'

Answer: The Da Vinci Code


Question: 'Named after the screenwriter of "Midnight Cowboy", the Waldo Salt award is given by this Park City, Utah film fest'

Answer: Sundance


Question:
'He spent 5 months in Vietnam /
Writing about the war /
Made the leap, he was the veep /
We know him as...'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: '"Troilus and Cressida" & "The Iliad" recount the events of this ancient conflict'

Answer: the Trojan War


Question: 'There's good news from Gillette on aisle 3; there's also Daisy & CustomPlus, all disposable ones of these'

Answer: razors


Question:
'Merthful,
pitiful,
deceitful'

Answer: mirthful


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the canal in Regent's Park, London.)  In this pioneering science fiction novel about an attack on London the protagonist finds Regent's Canal a spongy mass of dark red vegetation'

Answer: War of the Worlds


Question: 'On the quirky TV series "Twin Peaks", a pet bird named Waldo of this talkative species ends up mysteriously dead'

Answer: a myna bird


Question:
'Seen here is this lady, not Tom or Dick Smothers /
She's been on our show; it's...'

Answer: Joyce Brothers


Question: 'The French Revolution inspired a similar one in this Caribbean country in 1791'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'When it comes to cotton swabs, it's the No. 1 brand; there are even antibacterial ones'

Answer: Q-tips


Question:
'Obstreperous,
outragious,
obnoxious'

Answer: outrageous


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew seeks a clue in Hyde Park, London.)  This poet's first wife, Harriet, drowned herself in the Serpentine Lake in early December 1816; by New Years he'd married Mary'

Answer: Percy Shelley


Question: 'In a 1975 film this actor was just great as "The Great Waldo Pepper"'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question:
'Hey, Machu Picchu /
Incas lived in this country /
Wait, that was haiku'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'It's the war that took place on the Iberian Peninsula from 1936 to 1939'

Answer: the Spanish Civil War


Question: 'Named for the "father of antiseptic surgery", it was once available only to doctors & dentists'

Answer: Listerine


Question:
'Abismal,
bisque,
plebiscite'

Answer: abysmal


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew is with some blooms in Bloomsbury, London.)  In Defoe's tale about this plucky title lass, she visits her secret lover's Bloomsbury home after learning of his illness'

Answer: Moll Flanders


Question: 'This tough-guy actor's last film role was as Police Commissioner Waldo in 1981's "Ragtime"'

Answer: (James) Cagney


Question:
'This critter seen here isn't poisonous, heck no! /
Look & you'll see, as plain as can be, your garden variety...'

Answer: gecko


Question: 'Frederick the Great's invasion of Silesia in 1740 launched the war of this country's succession'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'Prilosec & Prevacid are 2 of the medications available for treating GERD, or gastroesophageal this disease'

Answer: reflux


Question:
'Fought,
overrought,
besought'

Answer: overwrought


Question: 'The title libertine of this 1787 Mozart opera seduces women in 17th century Seville'

Answer: Don Giovanni


Question: '1997:<br />"Colossal"'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'In 1814 & 1815 this island 6 miles off Tuscany was a sovereign state ruled by Napoleon'

Answer: Elba


Question: 'In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that schools could desegregate by doing this to transport kids to other districts'

Answer: bussing


Question: 'In 1917 the U.S. ponied up 25 million bucks for these Caribbean islands & bought them from Denmark'

Answer: the Virgin Islands


Question: '4-word term for Gen. McClellan's Union forces that guarded D.C. against invasion across a certain river'

Answer: Army of the Potomac


Question: 'The title of this Puccini opera deals with a painter (Marcello), a poet (Rodolfo) & a philosopher (Colline)'

Answer: La bohème


Question: '1963:<br />"'It's Not Unusual' Singer"'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'Mementos of the life & work of Nikos Kazantzakis can be found at the Museum in Iraklion on this largest Greek Island'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'On June 1, 1987 Father Theodore Hesburgh stepped down as president of this university after 35 years in that capacity'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'Between 1853 & 1856, commissioners purchased the NYC site for what became this 843-acre location'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'Assembled in the 1580s, it was commanded by Medina Sidonia'

Answer: the Spanish Armada


Question: 'The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera's premiere: scenery couldn't leave besieged Paris for Cairo'

Answer: Aida


Question: '1950:<br />"Everything Concerning Adam's Wife"'

Answer: All About Eve


Question: 'Chopin wrote some of his finest mazurkas at Valldemosa Monastery on this largest of Spain's Balearic Islands'

Answer: Majorca


Question: '(I'm U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.)  Before becoming its own cabinet department, Education was part of this 3-pronged department'

Answer: Health, Education & Welfare


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

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'He's known for one-man shows like "Mambo Mouth" & for film roles like Chi Chi in "To Wong Foo..."'

Answer: John Leguizamo


Question: '1945:<br />"Saturday & Sunday Gone Astray"'

Answer: Lost Weekend


Question: 'This northernmost African nation's Djerba Island was the filming site for Mos Eisley Spaceport in "Star Wars"'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'This union founded in 1916 also includes school custodians as well as the people in its name'

Answer: American Federation of Teachers (AFT)


Question: 'This man purchased the site of Providence, Rhode Island from the Narragansett Indians'

Answer: (Roger) Williams


Question: 'In 1913 a major exhibit of modern art was held at NYC's 69th Regiment one of these'

Answer: an armory


Question: '1937:<br />"A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender"'

Answer: The Life of Emile Zola


Question: 'Although French is the official language of this large island, the native tongue of the residents is a dialect of Italian'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'In the early 20th c. these traveling groups named for a N.Y. lake went from town to town giving lectures in tents'

Answer: Chautauqua


Question: 'The U.S. paid $10 million for the territory south of the Gila River in this 1854 purchase'

Answer: the Gadsden


Question: 'Chaps are a type of these protective outer garments'

Answer: leggings


Question: 'In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock'

Answer: a silver dollar


Question: 'Capital punishment was widely used under Mosaic Law of this ancient people'

Answer: the Jews


Question: 'The "crabby" sign of the zodiac'

Answer: Cancer


Question: 'Various sources say it's named for one of Popeye's pals, or for initials of "general purpose", G.P.'

Answer: a jeep


Question: 'This company is #1 in bus transportation & bus manufacturing'

Answer: Greyhound


Question: 'Oddity shared by the ostrich, kiwi, & penguin'

Answer: they can\'t fly


Question: 'To brush melted mutter on the Thanksgiving turkey at regular intervals'

Answer: baste


Question: 'In the U.S., the crime said to have the highest conviction rate is murder of these'

Answer: police


Question: 'The symbol for this sign aptly resembles the Roman numeral two'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'In 1975, it was the Bee Gees' way of talkin''

Answer: Jive


Question: 'W. & O. Wright felt passengers wouldn't mind flying in this position they 1st flew in themselves'

Answer: on their stomachs


Question: 'He shares his name & color with an ecclesiastic'

Answer: a cardinal


Question: 'From French "to make white", it's to boil food for a short time'

Answer: blanch


Question: 'J. Edgar Hoover kept this "Public Enemy's" death mask in his own office'

Answer: Dillinger


Question: 'Libra ladies are traditionally lovely because Librans are ruled by this planet'

Answer: Venus


Question: '"If you shut up your mug, I'll fill up" this with "good ol' mountain dew"'

Answer: your jug


Question: 'This form of transport still carries the most freight in the U.S.'

Answer: a railroad


Question: 'A baby goose'

Answer: a gosling


Question: 'Adding hot or tangy seasonings to food, it's Satan's favorite method of cooking ham or eggs'

Answer: deviled


Question: 'By age 33, John MacLean, this type of thief, had stolen $150 mil. worth of goods by himself'

Answer: a burglar


Question: 'When casting a horoscope, astrologer's place this, not the sun, at the center of the solar system'

Answer: the Earth


Question: 'Flotsam's "friend"'

Answer: jetsam


Question: 'The Terrytoons' Heckle & Jeckle are this type of chattering bird'

Answer: magpies


Question: 'To cook food in liquid just below the boiling point, it's a way to pamper you eggs'

Answer: coddling


Question: 'Freed at 46 after suffering 11 years false imprisonment on Devil's Island, this Frenchman lived to 75'

Answer: Dreyfus


Question: '2 of the 3 most important positions in any natal chart'

Answer: the sun, the moon, & your rising sign


Question: 'To place side by side, as in an unexpected combination of colors or ideas'

Answer: juxtaposition


Question: 'In the following, Al Jolson stops to tell you to look & listen for this bird:'

Answer: the bluebird


Question: 'To brown a piece of meat & then simmer it in small amount of liquid in covered pan'

Answer: braising


Question: 'The oldest city in France & still its chief seaport'

Answer: Marseilles


Question: 'Only team that can score points in volleyball'

Answer: serving team


Question: 'While Prime Minister, Winston Churchill belonged to this political party'

Answer: Conservatives


Question: 'Charles Hamilton list this French martyr's autograph as most valuable by a woman'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'This company's tours became so successful in 1973 it built a simulated chocolate factory'

Answer: Hershey


Question: 'Fall 1962 was a #1 season for the Four Seasons with "Sherry" & this song'

Answer: "Big Girls Don\'t Cry"


Question: 'Not the duke, duchess, or castle, but Canada's southernmost city'

Answer: Windsor


Question: 'Inventor of the boxing glove, English boxer Jack Broughton is commemorated in this regal resting palace'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'In 1209 the Pope punished King John by doing this to him'

Answer: excommunication


Question: 'Her 1918 lunch with Robert Benchley at an Algonquin Hotel round table started a famous literary circle'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: 'Every year, this company delivers more than a billion packages, more than the Post Office'

Answer: UPS (United Parcel Service)


Question: 'This Gerry & the Pacemakers 1964 hit suggests you should do you weeping at night'

Answer: "Don\'t Let The Sun Catch You Crying"


Question: 'In 1602, the hdqtrs. for the Dutch East India Co. was Batavia, now called this, Indonesia's capital'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: 'Finishing the Channel swim in 1926, Gertrude Ederle was met on beach by immigration officer demanding this'

Answer: a passport


Question: 'In 1915, the British created this mobile weapon that could cross trenches'

Answer: the tank


Question: 'Author Susan Brownmiller said when Hugh Hefner wears this on "his rear end, then we'll have equality"'

Answer: a bunny tail


Question: '1980 failure of "Heaven's Gate" led Transamerica to sell this movie company to MGM'

Answer: United Artists


Question: 'You'd better stop sobbing when Melissa Manchester sings this, her 1979 hit'

Answer: "Don\'t Cry Out Loud"


Question: '3 major cities of this S. American country are Concepcion, Encarnacion, & Asuncion, the capital'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'Year of 1st World Series telecast, which featured the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson, Rookie of the Year'

Answer: 1947


Question: 'In the 16th  C., this great Tudor king abolished the privilege of clergy issuing coins'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'Polish musician Wanda Landowska was credited with modern revival of this instrument'

Answer: the harpsichord


Question: 'Company that is Delaware's largest single employer'

Answer: DuPont


Question: 'A Top 10 hit in 1955 for Julie London, it's no about the Thames'

Answer: "Cry Me A River"


Question: 'Tanzania's largest city & functioning capital, its name means "haven of peace"'

Answer: Dar es Salaam


Question: 'Of all his achievements, this pediatrician is most proud of his 1924 Olympic gold medal for rowing'

Answer: Benjamin Spock


Question: '1st Englishman to sail around the world'

Answer: (Sir) Francis Drake


Question: 'This black activist was 1 of only 6 women ever to make the FBI's "Most Wanted" list'

Answer: Angela Davis


Question: 'In 1982, this huge city became #1 beer-producing area in U.S.'

Answer: L.A.


Question: '2 Elvis Presley Top 10 hits that fit this category'

Answer: "Crying In The Chapel" & "Don\'t Cry Daddy"


Question: '1 of 3 actors who won Best Actor Oscar for playing an actor'

Answer: Jimmy Cagney (for George M. Cohan), Ronald Colman, or Richard Dreyfuss


Question: 'In 1969 Michael & his brothers released their debut album: this Motown diva "Presents the Jackson 5"'

Answer: Diana Ross


Question: 'This river flows through the District of Columbia'

Answer: the Potomac


Question: 'Neil Simon's "____ in Yonkers"'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'Accutane'

Answer: acne


Question: 'This Asian country's economy grew to be the third-largest in the world in 2007, behind only the U.S. & Japan'

Answer: China


Question: 'Proverbially, absence makes the heart do this'

Answer: grow fonder


Question: 'Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, it's still the bestselling album of all time'

Answer: Thriller


Question: 'Egypt's Qattara depression is the lowest point in this largest desert'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'Noel Coward's "____ Lives"'

Answer: Private


Question: 'Ritalin'

Answer: ADD


Question: 'The parade's on, but it was announced 11 of these department stores will close, from Indianapolis to Palm Beach'

Answer: Macy\'s


Question: 'In 1588 Elizabeth I remarked, "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of" this'

Answer: a king


Question: 'In 1988 Jackson landed at the top of the book charts with this autobiography named for his famous dance'

Answer: Moonwalk


Question: 'The Swedish island Gotland lies in this sea'

Answer: the Baltic Sea


Question: 'Eugene O'Neill's "The ____ Ape"'

Answer: Hairy


Question: 'Crestor &<br />Lipitor'

Answer: cholesterol


Question: 'A British row over expenses snagged MP Hogg, who got this cleaned out at his estate; no drawbridge repair?'

Answer: his moat


Question: 'In this biblical book, God says, "I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs"'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'Say the name of this legend with whom Jackson recorded the No. 1 hit "Say Say Say"'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Called Sagarmatha in Nepali, it's this peak to us'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies are ____"'

Answer: Free


Question: 'Zoloft &<br />Wellbutrin'

Answer: depression


Question: 'Memos on interrogation practices released in 2009 came from the Justice Department's OLC, short for this'

Answer: Office of Legal Counsel


Question: 'Around 375 B.C. in "The Republic", he opined that "astronomy compels the soul to look upwards"'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'Give a yell if you know that this duet with sister Janet was the first single off "HIStory: Past, Present & Future"'

Answer: "Scream"


Question: 'Regina is in this one of Canada's prairie provinces'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: 'Edward Albee's "A ____ Balance"'

Answer: Delicate


Question: 'Propecia'

Answer: hair loss


Question: 'This man's second-place finish in 2009's election sent Iranians into the streets'

Answer: Mousavi


Question: 'In a Marlowe work, Dr. Faustus remarks about this legendary woman that "her lips suck forth my soul"'

Answer: Helen of Troy


Question: 'The title character of this ballet leads toy soldiers in a fight against the mouse king & his army'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: 'In 2008's "Twilight" she had a cameo as a woman at a diner who orders a vegetarian plate'

Answer: Stephenie Meyer


Question: 'The Rodrigues night type of this bird was extinct by 1761; the great blue one still lives'

Answer: the heron


Question: 'German composer & pianist Hans von Bulow studied piano with this Hungarian composer'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'In Italian, these spaghetti toppers are known as polpette'

Answer: meatballs


Question: 'Today a financial services leader, in 1851 it began as the New York & Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company'

Answer: Western Union


Question: 'A review of this 1910 ballet said ornithologists should take note of Tamara Karsavina dancing the title role'

Answer: Firebird


Question: 'When Rodney Dangerfield needs help on a paper about Vonnegut in this 1986 movie, he hires Vonnegut himself'

Answer: Back to School


Question: 'After the early 1900s, the laughing this laughed last, as nesting on the ground was a bad idea; who? who? the laughing this'

Answer: the owl


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the Crayola factory in Pennsylvania.)  In 1990, Emerson Mosier, the most senior Crayola maker, retired after molding a record 1.4 billion crayons; he then revealed that he had this deficiency, quite ironically'

Answer: he was colorblind


Question: 'Like your spaghetti firm?  Order it "al" this Italian word'

Answer: dente


Question: 'What some say "High Noon" is, or the company that runs Las Vegas' Parkview Inn'

Answer: Best Western


Question: 'Balanchine's first original full-length ballet was an adaptation of this "dreamy" Shakespeare play'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Gore Vidal plays incumbent senator Brickley Paste, who's running against this title Tim Robbins guy'

Answer: Bob Roberts


Question: 'In 1690 British navigator John Strong named the channel between 2 South American islands for Viscount this'

Answer: Falkland


Question: 'A popular way to serve spaghetti is with a meat & tomato sauce, called this style after a northern Italian region'

Answer: Bolognese


Question: 'Things were not "All Quiet" here when Gen. Ludendorff attacked near Saint-Quentin, France in Aug. 1914'

Answer: the Western Front


Question: 'Scene One of this American ballet is set at the corral of Burnt Ranch'

Answer: Rodeo


Question: 'In "Annie Hall" Woody has this "medium is the message" writer rebuke a pontificating media professor'

Answer: (Marshall) McLuhan


Question: 'After 1875 the Labrador type of this bird was no longer feeling so daffy'

Answer: the duck


Question: 'The first secretary of this Cabinet department created in 1965: Robert C. Weaver'

Answer: HUD (Housing and Urban Development)


Question: 'Cream, eggs, Parmesan cheese & bits of bacon all go into this type of spaghetti sauce'

Answer: Carbonara


Question: 'Apia is the capital of the South Pacific island monarchy formerly called this'

Answer: Western Samoa


Question: 'She's the Queen of the Swans in "Swan Lake"'

Answer: Odette


Question: 'A frequent talk show guest, this alliterative film critic acted in "Superman" & "Myra Breckinridge"'

Answer: Rex Reed


Question: 'Sorry, Clarice, I won't be serving any Norfolk Island this bird, as it went extinct in 1923; care for some liver?'

Answer: a starling


Question: 'Andrew Hamilton, representing this publisher at his 1735 libel trial, got him acquitted'

Answer: John Peter Zenger


Question: 'Getting a taste for it while in France, this pres. is credited with bringing spaghetti to America'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'At the end of a play by John Millington Synge, the barmaid Pegeen laments, "I've lost the only playboy of" this'

Answer: the Western World


Question: 'The lantern with which he planned to initiate his most famous act is in the possession of England's Ashmolean Museum'

Answer: Guy Fawkes


Question: 'The tropic of cancer lies 23 degrees 27 minutes north of this line'

Answer: the equator


Question: 'The Sweathogs attended James Buchanan High in Brooklyn on this '70s show'

Answer: Welcome Back, Kotter


Question: 'Golden Key is this type of "society" as in the bumper stickers that say "my child is" this type of "student"'

Answer: an honor society


Question: 'Some 40 million Americans suffer from these that may be triggered by shellfish or pollen'

Answer: allergies


Question: 'Before it went Christian, the Cathedral of Cordoba was the third-largest of these Islamic structures'

Answer: mosques


Question: 'The type of light associated with Vegas, its atomic number is 10'

Answer: neon


Question: 'The start of this season in the N. hemisphere is when the sun shines straight down on the tropic at noon'

Answer: summer


Question: 'This show focused on the escapades of Zack, Screech & their friends at Bayside High School'

Answer: Saved by the Bell


Question: 'The Norwalk, Ohio one represents 360 business; the U.S. one represents 3 million'

Answer: the Chamber of Commerce


Question: 'If you have amnesia, you may forget that you have this blood disorder that's a lack of hemoglobin'

Answer: anemia


Question: 'His third law of motion is the law of action & reaction'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'In astronomy, one billion years'

Answer: eon


Question: 'Where the tropic crosses Africa, it's mainly this desert'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'The overachieving students on this show learned life lessons from substitute teacher Howard Hesseman'

Answer: Head of the Class


Question: 'It was founded in 1924 by 6 cardiologists fighting what one called "almost unbelievable ignorance"'

Answer: the American Heart Association


Question: 'From the Latin for "to beat", it's a 9-letter medical synonym for a bruise'

Answer: contusion


Question: 'The Red Cross once considered the non-religious red diamond as a third symbol to join the red cross & this'

Answer: the red crescent


Question: 'A person of low social status, or a day laborer'

Answer: peon


Question: 'As the Tropic passes through the Straits of Florida, it passes most closely to this world capital'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'This drama featuring Lloyd Haynes as a concerned teacher was set at Walt Whitman High'

Answer: Room 222


Question: 'The National Association of Water Companies is on this Washington, D.C. street associated with lobbyists'

Answer: K Street


Question: 'With flu-like symptoms that sometimes last for months, CFS is this "syndrome"'

Answer: chronic-fatigue syndrome


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Berlin, Germany.)  After East Berlin began to be walled off in 1961, this was the first entry checkpoint to be opened after Alpha and Bravo'

Answer: Checkpoint Charlie


Question: 'Brand name for the chemical chiefly used as a refrigerant'

Answer: Freon


Question: 'Drive from Chittagong to Dhaka in this country & you're really crossing the line'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Sarah Jessica Parker was a nerdy teen hoping to be part of the "in" crowd at Weemawee High on this '80s sitcom'

Answer: Square Pegs


Question: 'Like the U.N., this law-enforcement group with 181 member nations has a general assembly & a secretary general'

Answer: Interpol


Question: 'It's the inflammation of a fluid-filled sac that cushions the bones & tendons in a joint'

Answer: bursitis


Question: 'Olivia Yee Bishop is the protagonist of her third novel "The Hundred Secret Senses"'

Answer: (Amy) Tan


Question: 'Feisty former White House Chief of Staff Panetta'

Answer: Leon


Question: 'Leo Szilard's term for the fission process where 1 neutron breaks an atom in 2, which splits more atoms...'

Answer: a chain reaction


Question: '1969: "Kid, there's something I ought to tell you.  I never shot anybody before"'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'Of 10, 15 or 20, Lady Jane Grey's age when she became Queen of England'

Answer: 15


Question: 'The 6th floor of this landmark opened in 1932 is designated "Rockette Operations"'

Answer: Radio City Music Hall


Question: 'Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon"'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'Humans have 23 pairs of these threadlike structures'

Answer: chromosomes


Question: 'A wheel's resistance to stopping its turning motion is called "rotational" this'

Answer: inertia


Question: '1991: "Hi, Curly.  Killed anyone today?"'

Answer: City Slickers


Question: 'Lady Jane and her husband Lord Dudley were beheaded for treason at this complex on February 12, 1554'

Answer: the Tower of London


Question: 'Primarily designed by Edmund Wooley & Andrew Hamilton, it has also been called the State House of Pennsylvania'

Answer: Independence Hall


Question: 'In 2004 Oprah picked this author's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for her book club'

Answer: Carson McCullers


Question: 'In 2001 Sharon Stone's husband suffered a crushed toe when attacked by this huge lizard at a zoo'

Answer: a komodo dragon


Question: 'If you whip up a fresh batch of thorium-232 today, in 14 billion years this portion of its atoms will have decayed'

Answer: half


Question: '1952: "The public doesn't give a damn about integrity.  A town that won't defend itself deserves no help"'

Answer: High Noon


Question: 'After Lady Jane's short reign, this Tudor queen, her cousin, took power & had her arrested'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'In the early 1870s, "Honest" Jack Kelly became the new "Boss" of this organization'

Answer: Tammany Hall


Question: 'Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'Tedium, or wearisome lack of variety'

Answer: monotony


Question: 'This effect, the emission of electrons from a heated metal in a vacuum, is named for an American inventor'

Answer: the Edison effect


Question: '1992: "I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned"'

Answer: Unforgiven


Question: 'Leading to her historic nickname, it was the length in days of Lady Jane's reign'

Answer: 9


Question: 'In 1742 a local merchant gave this "Cradle of Liberty" to the City of Boston'

Answer: Faneuil Hall


Question: '"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a 1968 collection of essays by her'

Answer: Joan Didion


Question: 'He wrote "World's Fair" & "Billy Bathgate"'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: 'He figured out moving bodies on or above the Earth tend to drift sideways, so the "effect" bears his name'

Answer: (Gaspard-Gustave de) Coriolis


Question: 'James Roosevelt Bayley, a Roman Catholic bishop, founded this private New Jersey university in 1856'

Answer: Seton Hall


Question: 'Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she wrote "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley"'

Answer: Patricia Highsmith


Question: 'To ascribe human form or attributes to an animal or an inanimate object'

Answer: anthropomorphism


Question: 'According to the CIA, this foreign country has the highest military expenditures per capita'

Answer: Israel


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from West Point, NY.)  The name West Point comes from the Academy's location on the west bank of this river about 50 miles north of New York City'

Answer: the Hudson River


Question:
'One of Ricky's first hits was this song heard here that was also a hit for Fats Domino

"I'm lonely as I can be/
And I've waited for your company..."'

Answer: "I\'m Walkin\'"


Question: 'We envy the Egyptian mau cat, whose eyes are the gooseberry shade of this color'

Answer: green


Question: 'It's been known to shed a little light:<br />A/C OR NO'

Answer: Corona


Question: 'In 1889 this island joined up with Tobago as a single colony'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'Dismissive insectoid name for an American ethnic group of British non-Catholic ancestry'

Answer: WASPs


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a field at West Point, NY.)  This West Point grad went on to become a four-star general, & once declared, "It is as natural for me to be a soldier as it is to breathe"'

Answer: Patton


Question: 'It's the immensely popular TV show on which Ricky appeared from 1952 to 1966'

Answer: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet


Question: 'The first Cornish Rex cat was the offspring of a tortie & a white barn cat in this part of SW England'

Answer: Cornwall


Question: 'A prize winner:<br />BABBLE BIN STUPOR'

Answer: Pabst Blue Ribbon


Question: 'This "wild" guy was hired as the marshal of Abilene in 1871'

Answer: Bill Hickok


Question: 'If you're "on" this, you're angry & in the mood for confrontation'

Answer: the warpath


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is flanked by two students at West Point, NY.)  Freshmen at West Point are shown their place by being known as these, from a Roman term for ordinary, uneducated citizens'

Answer: plebes