Question: 'If you're not connected to the city sewer system, your home will need this type of tank'

Answer: septic


Question:
'Question
____
your calendar'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'The logo of this conservation group founded in 1961 was based on a real animal named Chi-Chi'

Answer: the WWF (the World Wildlife Fund)


Question: 'Kristen Bell played this teen sleuth'

Answer: Veronica Mars


Question: 'In plants, it's the initial development growth stage from a seed or spore'

Answer: germination


Question: 'It remained a separate colony for most of its 71 years until it was absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691'

Answer: the Plymouth Colony


Question: '1.6 is today's standard maximum gpf, gallons per this event'

Answer: a flush


Question:
'Hoppin'
____
Q. Public'

Answer: John


Question: 'Saint Blaise is the patron saint of those afflicted in this body part, as with tonsillitis'

Answer: the throat


Question: '2011's "Goodbye Lullaby" is the fourth album from this Canadian woman whose first name is a French month'

Answer: Avril Lavigne


Question: 'In 2011 this son of a president published the moving memoir "My Father at 100"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan Jr.


Question: 'A book from Princeton Univ. Press is titled his "Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics"'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'Grown on small-scale farms & large estates, this, mostly the arabica type, is one of Kenya's main exports'

Answer: coffee


Question: '10-letter synonym for "southpaw"'

Answer: left-handed


Question: 'Eligius is the patron saint of all those who work with these ball-peen tools'

Answer: a hammer


Question: 'Guns N' Roses informed us that "nothing lasts forever, even" this "rain"'

Answer: November rain


Question: 'In 2010 Jack Ryan Jr. & Sr. were back in this author's "Dead or Alive"'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question: '"The Valachi Papers" collects testimony by Joe Valachi of the Genovese family against this organization'

Answer: the mafia


Question: 'Algeria is a major exporter of this resource, the NG in LNG'

Answer: natural gas


Question: 'The Gospel of Matthew says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst" for this quality'

Answer: righteousness


Question: 'Cliff Clavin would likely bend a knee to St. Hubert, the patron saint who protects against the bite of these'

Answer: dogs


Question: 'In "American Pie" it "made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver"'

Answer: February


Question: 'After 18 years in captivity, starting at age 11, she justly called her 2011 memoir "A Stolen Life"'

Answer: Jaycee Dugard


Question: '77 of these essays defending the Constitution appeared in book form in 1788'

Answer: the Federalist Papers


Question: 'Brazil was once the top producer of this sweet stuff--before the witches'-broom fungus attacked the trees'

Answer: cocoa (or chocolate)


Question: 'Divided, like a chin'

Answer: cleft


Question: 'Born in 1225, this Italian is the patron saint of Catholic schools, universities & colleges'

Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas


Question:
'In early 2011 "Portlandia" debuted on TV & this Portland band went to No. 1

"Down by the water /
Down by the old main drag..."'

Answer: the Decemberists


Question: 'In the title of one of her bestsellers, Erma Bombeck asked, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing" here'

Answer: in the pits


Question: 'The full title of a Dickens novel is "The Posthumous Papers of" this club'

Answer: the Pickwick Club


Question: 'This country's exports to the Middle East were down 15% in 2006, backlash from caricatures of Muhammad'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Completes the Robert Browning line "God's in his heaven--all's..."'

Answer: right with the world


Question: 'If something is missing, you may want to try praying to this Paduan patron saint of lost things'

Answer: Saint Anthony


Question: 'U2's second album'

Answer: October


Question: 'A code secretly based on a Daphne du Maurier novel is at the heart of this Ken Follett bestseller'

Answer: The Key to Rebecca


Question: 'Microfilm called the Pumpkin Papers was evidence against this State Department official who was pursued by Richard Nixon'

Answer: Alger Hiss


Question: 'Chile is the largest exporter of this sushi ingredient, & virtually all of it is imported by Japan'

Answer: sea urchin


Question: 'A schooner builder'

Answer: a shipwright


Question: 'In the 1940s Franklin Roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the Axis powers'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'The Florida largemouth type of this is Florida's official freshwater fish'

Answer: Bass


Question: 'A metalworker, or a common surname'

Answer: Smith


Question: 'At the 1996 People's Choice Awards, this "Apollo 13" star received 2 awards for favorite actor'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'The silky & Yorkshire are toy breeds of this dog'

Answer: Terrier


Question: 'In the 1770s bergamot was used to brew this while the American colonies boycotted the British product'

Answer: Tea


Question: '"Shaq"'

Answer: Shaquille O\' Neal


Question: 'This inventor had the bright idea to plant hundreds of palms in Fort Myers, now known as "The City of Palms"'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'This term for a person who's authorized to act for another is short for procuracy'

Answer: Proxy


Question: 'In 1989 the N.A.B. established an award named for this wireless radio pioneer'

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi


Question: 'Perhaps referring to its erratic behavior, the gnu is also called this'

Answer: Wildebeest


Question: 'Its botanical name is zingiber officinale & it will put a snap or a zing in your cookies'

Answer: Ginger


Question: '"The Shoe"'

Answer: Willie Shoemaker


Question: 'The Spanish Beard Contest has been a hair-raising event at this oldest U.S. city's Days In Spain Festival'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'It's the hollow, stemlike shaft of a feather'

Answer: Quill


Question: 'Kurt Wait, the first man to win this contest, captured $1 million for his Macadamia Fudge Torte'

Answer: Pillsbury Bake-Off


Question: 'The 2 popular breeds of dairy cattle named for Britain's 2 largest Channel Islands'

Answer: Jersey & Guernsey


Question: 'In large quantities, this eggnog topper is poisonous'

Answer: Nutmeg


Question: 'Football's "Boomer"'

Answer: Boomer Esiason


Question: 'A revolving platform called Kodak's Island in the Sky provides panoramic views of these gardens near Winter Haven'

Answer: Cypress Gardens


Question: 'Type of puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words or phrases'

Answer: Rebus


Question: 'Rosa Parks was among those honored by the president in 1996 with this highest civilian award'

Answer: Presidential Medal of Freedom


Question: 'Up to 50 feet in length, the whale species of this fish is the largest in the sea'

Answer: Shark


Question: 'A mixture of this seed & salt is used in Bloody Marys & stuffings'

Answer: Celery


Question: 'Hockey's "The Great One"'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Open since 1913, Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant is a highlight of this trendy area of Miami Beach'

Answer: South Beach


Question: 'A short, pithy expression, or a dwarfish creature who guards a treasure'

Answer: Gnome


Question: 'Her "Heidi Chronicles" won the 1989 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play'

Answer: Wendy Wasserstein


Question: 'In summer, when its coat is brown, the ermine is referred to by this name'

Answer: Stoat/Weasel


Question: 'In old England this fruit was roasted & served with caraway; "Henry IV, Part 2" mentions it'

Answer: Apples


Question: '"The Brown Bomber"'

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: 'This creator of "The Thinker" studied sculpture with Antoine Louis Barye'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio'

Answer: H.G. Wells


Question: 'About 3% of this country's people live on collective settlements called kibbutzim'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'This Tennessee senator & father of the VP helped write the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act'

Answer: Albert Gore, Sr.


Question: 'The Bantu migration from modern Cameroon to the south of this continent began about 2,000 years ago'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'He was the guest saxophonist on the June 3, 1992 "Arsenio Hall Show"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Cyrus Edward Dallin's "Sir Isaac Newton" is in this Washington, D.C. library'

Answer: Library of Congress


Question: 'On his fifth voyage, he encounters the Old Man of the Sea'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: '2 miles from Innsbruck, you can see one of this country's best-preserved castles, Schloss Ambras'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'Jimmy Carter attended the 1996 funeral of this Maine senator, once his secretary of state'

Answer: Edmund Muskie


Question: 'In 337 Constantine The Great abolished this form of execution out of respect for Jesus'

Answer: Crucifixion


Question: 'Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 biopic about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker'

Answer: "Bird"


Question: 'This Michelangelo sculpture in Florence was carved from marble left by Agostino di Duccio'

Answer: "David"


Question: 'In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Myrtle Wilson is accidentally run over & killed by Daisy Buchanan'

Answer: "The Great Gatsby"


Question: 'When in Ecuador you might "experiment" with new foods like cuy, which is this lab rodent, baked'

Answer: Guinea Pig


Question: 'William Scranton was governor of this state from 1963 to 1967 & later served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'In the 200s Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of this within about 15% of accurate'

Answer: The Earth


Question:
'(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):
1984 film that featured the following:
"It's a free country, welcome to almost anyone, and I hope that someday you'll join me here; of course I'll continue to write to you every week.  Yes, in America anything is possible.  Good-bye for now, beloved family.  I love you.  Voya." (playing a saxophone in a city park)'

Answer: "Moscow On The Hudson" (with Robin Williams)


Question: 'This Rochester, Minn. medical clinic commissioned William Zorach's 1953 "Man And Work"'

Answer: The Mayo Clinic


Question: 'This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore'

Answer: "A Passage To India"


Question: 'The capital of Indonesia is on this island'

Answer: Java


Question: 'In 1974 this Arkansas Democrat lost his bid for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate'

Answer: William Fulbright


Question: 'Ephialtes, a Thessalian, betrayed the Greeks holding these "hot gates" against the Persian invasion'

Answer: Thermopylae


Question: 'Series on which sheriff Jimmy Brock, played by Tom Skerritt, tooted his sax'

Answer: "Picket Fences"


Question: 'Between 1919 & 1925, he made several versions of "Bird In Space", in marble & bronze'

Answer: Constantin Brancusi


Question: 'In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Each July this Swiss town plays host to a world-famous jazz festival'

Answer: Montreux


Question: 'This Illinois Republican served 8 terms in the House, & in 1959 became Senate Minority Leader'

Answer: Everett Dirksen


Question: 'Scipio Africanus the Elder was a hero of the second war against Carthage, known by this name'

Answer: Second Punic War


Question: 'This 1986 film earned a best actor nomination for tenor sax great Dexter Gordon'

Answer: "\'Round Midnight"


Question: '"America's Favorite Food", a book about this company, contains 12 pages of Andy Warhol's art'

Answer: Campbell Soup Company


Question: 'In South America:<br />Ant in gear'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Don't go out in winter with hair in this condition -- you won't actually catch cold, but Mom will worry'

Answer: wet hair


Question: 'He made his first appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1977 -- now he hosts it'

Answer: Jay Leno


Question: 'This state boasts one of the USA's oldest cathedrals, Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'A black & white is a chocolate soda with this flavor ice cream'

Answer: vanilla


Question: 'In '38 Joe Shuster & Jerry Siegel created this guy who could fly but was somehow unrecognizable wearing glasses'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'In Europe:<br />Old pan'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Be careful not to fry your hair with the newer models of these, which can range up to around 2,000 watts'

Answer: hair dryers


Question: 'This co-star of the movie "Never Been Kissed" is Steven Spielberg's goddaughter'

Answer: Drew Barrymore


Question: 'In 2000 2 men were indicted for a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham in this state'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'It's been America's bestselling name brand vegetable juice for over 50 years'

Answer: V-8


Question: 'Though Grolier's Encyclopedia refers to him as "intellectually unimpressive", he ruled the USSR from 1929 to 1953'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'In Africa:<br />No gala'

Answer: Angola


Question: 'Rhyming term for the condition of your coiffure right after a night's sleep'

Answer: bed head


Question: 'She's the young country & pop diva heard here'

Answer: LeAnn Rimes


Question: 'City Methodist in this state's city of Gary, built for over $1 million in 1926, stands empty & needs restoration'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'This cola is named for an enzyme that aids in digestion'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'The middle name of this Hall of Fame Celtics player & ex-Pacers coach is not Joseph, just Joe'

Answer: Larry Bird


Question: 'In Asia:<br />Giant ash fan'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'An adjective for dry, untamable hair, it sounds just like a Lenny Kravitz song title'

Answer: fly away


Question: 'In 1995 he played the Riddler in "Batman Forever" & also starred in the second "Ace Ventura" movie'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'The Old North Church, a beacon to worshippers since 1723, is in this state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Roy Allen formed a partnership with Frank Wright & began using this name for root beer in 1922'

Answer: A&W


Question: 'A song asks, "Where have you gone," this N.Y. Yankee, "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo"'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'In Central America:<br />Agate maul'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'This actress' severe trim was blamed for "Felicity"'s declining ratings'

Answer: Keri Russell


Question: 'He said of his role in "Gladiator", "I've done some pretty physical stuff before, but this was unrelenting"'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'On the site of a church destroyed in the Pueblo Revolt, St. Francis Cathedral is in this state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'The girl seen here represented this juice brand'

Answer: Tropicana


Question: '"Closing Time" was his 1994 sequel to "Catch-22"'

Answer: Joseph Heller


Question: 'On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'We didn't download music, we listened to the radio to hear this "Mr. Tambourine Man", Jakob's father'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'It's believed he wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at a wedding'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'The vice president serves as the presiding officer, or president, of this U.S. government body'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'The orchestra's great conductor Leopold Stokowski discarded this to lead the music with his hands'

Answer: the baton


Question: 'Boy cow<br />(4)'

Answer: bull


Question: 'On January 20, 1997 he said, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..."'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Today you have your raps & your raves; in the '60s, this Asian country had a real cultural revolution'

Answer: China


Question: 'In the late 1920s he penned what many consider his greatest novel, "The Sound and the Fury"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Cardiological term often used for the distance the vice president is "away" from the most powerful office in the land'

Answer: heartbeat


Question: 'The orchestra toured so much that conductor Eugene Ormandy quipped this is a nice town & they should play there'

Answer: Philadelphia (their home base)


Question: 'One may be vacuum or inner<br />(4)'

Answer: tube


Question: '(Hi, I'm Christine King Farris)  In Oslo, Norway, in 1964, my brother became the youngest recipient of this'

Answer: Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'Not any artist could sell for millions like today; he had to be a master like this "Night Watch" Dutchman'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'In "Lord of the Flies" he explored the dark side of human nature'

Answer: William Golding


Question: 'He told Abigail that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office" contrived or conceived'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'The orchestra has 2 harpists, 4 bassoonists & 32 of these'

Answer: violinists


Question: 'Pro baseball bench site<br />(6)'

Answer: dugout


Question: 'On May 21, 1927 this American landed in Paris & was welcomed by a crowd of about 100,000'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic'

Answer: "Oliver Twist"


Question: '"Lyrical Ballads", a poetry collection by Coleridge & this man, includes his famous "Tintern Abbey"'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: 'The official music for the vice president, "Hail Columbia" is the veep's equivalent of this march'

Answer: "Hail to the Chief"


Question: 'The orchestra's first concert at the Academy of Music, its home 1900-2001, featured this man's 1805 Fifth Symphony'

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven


Question: 'Greek geometry genius<br />(6)'

Answer: Euclid


Question: 'On June 17, 1972 5 were arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ in this Washington, D.C. apartment complex'

Answer: the Watergate building


Question: 'We didn't have the Springer show, but we watched this leader seen here have a "kitchen debate" with Nixon'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'In his poem about a "tyger", he asked, "Did he who made the lamb make thee?"'

Answer: William Blake


Question: 'The vice president attends meetings of the president's cabinet & is a member of this, the NSC'

Answer: National Security Council


Question: 'The orchestra is heard in the 1937 movie "100 Men and a Girl" & this 1940 Disney film'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: 'New Year's Eve song<br />(4,4,4)'

Answer: "Auld Lang Syne"


Question: 'The German name for this animal is nilpferd, or "Nile horse"'

Answer: hippopotamus


Question: 'In 1937 he made his first movie'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'She had a 2-sided No. 1 hit with "It's Too Late" & "I Feel the Earth Move"'

Answer: Carole King


Question: 'A bracket on the chest positioned this 12-foot spear that could be driven through another knight's armor'

Answer: lance


Question:
'Cap-de-la-Madeleine,
Sept-Iles,
Trois-Rivieres'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'It's a serious crime (without the "Y", it's the person who commits it)'

Answer: felony


Question: 'In 1949 Harry Truman traveled to New York to help lay a cornerstone for this body'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'Unlike his Republican cousin, who was also president, he was a Democrat'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Shut your mouth!  Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for the theme from this 1971 flick'

Answer: Shaft


Question: 'These gloves were made in a fashionable hourglass shape, narrow at the wrist'

Answer: gauntlets


Question:
'Prince George,
Prince Rupert,
Victoria'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'From the name of an old Germanic tribe, it's the willful destruction of property'

Answer: vandalism


Question: 'Seats are reserved in the Indian parliament for this group that falls outside of the caste system'

Answer: the Untouchables


Question: 'He was the first president to live long enough to see his son elected president'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'When it charted in 1976, this song first called "Cotton's Dream" was subtitled "The Young and the Restless"'

Answer: Nadia\'s Theme


Question: 'Plate armor first covered, then replaced this protective wrap'

Answer: chain mail


Question:
'Sydney,
Dartmouth,
New Glasgow'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: 'Despite the name, in this form of bribery, a public official gets money, not skin'

Answer: graft


Question: 'Now a democratic republic of central Asia, in 1992 it ratified its first post-Soviet constitution'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'The last incumbent to be unseated; it was the 10th time it had happened'

Answer: George (Herbert Walker) Bush


Question: 'A 1973 song says, "Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock & roll and" do this'

Answer: drift away


Question: 'The nasal, a piece on this item, could get you in trouble when the other guy grabbed it'

Answer: the helmet


Question:
'Big Beaver House,
Sault St. Marie,
London'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'A failure to meet an obligation, it may be "of contract"'

Answer: breach


Question: 'Its atomic weight is 238'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'It was the last office to which Gerald Ford was elected'

Answer: the House of Representatives


Question: '"An Old Fashioned Love Song" & "Never Been to Spain" were '70s hits for this trio'

Answer: Three Dog Night


Question: 'The 16th century Maximilian style is named for a ruler of this empire who was called "The Last of the Knights"'

Answer: the Holy Roman Empire


Question:
'Vulcan,
Medicine Hat,
Red Deer'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'A step further than trespassing, it's sneaking onto the manor grounds to do some hunting or steal game'

Answer: poaching


Question: 'The language known as Hindi is very close to this official language of Pakistan'

Answer: Urdu


Question: 'Please excuse this tallest peak in the Cascades -- although it is dormant, it still exudes gassy fumes'

Answer: Mount Rainier


Question: 'In the '60s, young Martin Sheen starred on Broadway & on film in "The Subject Was" these'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'Earn 21 merit badges to qualify as one of these'

Answer: an Eagle Scout


Question: 'It's someone who helps carry the coffin at a funeral'

Answer: pallbearer


Question: 'In 1975 he was named the first black Anglican dean of Johannesburg'

Answer: Desmond Tutu


Question: 'In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this character says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"'

Answer: Puck


Question: 'The most violent volcanic eruptions are classified under the name of this "Elder" Roman naturalist'

Answer: Pliny


Question: 'John Osborne's 1961 play about this Protestant reformer became a 1974 film starring Stacy Keach'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'Eagle chicks are called these'

Answer: eaglets


Question: 'Jiminy Cricket acted as this for Pinocchio'

Answer: his conscience


Question: 'This Republican served in the Ohio house of representatives from 1921 to 1926 & the U.S. Senate from 1939 to 1953'

Answer: Robert Taft


Question: 'Joyce Kilmer wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make" this'

Answer: a tree


Question: 'The 1988 film version of this hit Neil Simon play is seen here'

Answer: Biloxi Blues


Question: 'Traditionally part-eagle, it's the heraldic emblem seen here'

Answer: the griffin


Question: 'Oh my darling, it's a variety of small, sweet tangerine'

Answer: clementine


Question: 'This French statesman served under 7 regimes, including during the French Revolution & under Napoleon'

Answer: Talleyrand


Question: 'This title character of Spanish literature is called "A muddled fool, full of lucid intervals"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: '"An Ideal Husband" was adapted from an 1895 comedy by this "Earnest" author, definitely not ideal husband material'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'When reused & expanded one of these eagle nests can grow to over 10 feet across'

Answer: an aerie


Question: 'Person who'd repair your Timex or Seiko'

Answer: watchmaker


Question: '"Germania" & "Historiae" are major works by this Roman orator & public official'

Answer: Tacitus


Question: 'This book of the Bible says, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit"'

Answer: Proverbs


Question: 'The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for fire'

Answer: Mount Fuji


Question: '1933's "Cavalcade", based on a drama -- not a comedy -- by this urbane British wit, won a Best Picture Oscar'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question: 'In 1978 the Double Eagle II took a 6-day journey to become the first one of these to cross the Atlantic'

Answer: a helium balloon


Question: 'Remember Chuck Mangione?  Remember this instrument that he plays?'

Answer: the flugelhorn


Question: 'He was among the first students when the St. Petersburg Conservatory opened in 1862'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'This transcendental essayist wrote "The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool"'

Answer: Emerson


Question: 'It contains the line "There stood the Kaatskill Mountains...there was every hill and dale...as it had always been"'

Answer: Rip Van Winkle


Question: 'Lincoln's line "A house divided by itself cannot stand" is a paraphrase from this second gospel'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'The DGA, this guild, gives awards for achievement in commercials as well as feature films'

Answer: Directors Guild of America


Question: 'In 1970 these beds began to flood the market, sometimes literally'

Answer: Waterbeds


Question: 'NYC's White Horse Tavern is the spot where this Welsh poet imbibed his last before his untimely death in 1953'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: '"The Hurricane"<br />(1999)'

Answer: Denzel Washington


Question: 'A smaller residential community, like Scarsdale, New York or Greenwich, Connecticut'

Answer: Suburb


Question: 'It's what "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not" do'

Answer: Perish from the Earth


Question: 'Arturo Rodriguez heads the UFW, this union once led by Cesar Chavez'

Answer: United Farm Workers


Question: 'We've uncovered the fact that Burt Reynolds was a nude centerfold in this magazine'

Answer: Cosmopolitan


Question: 'Theatre fans know the home seen here is this playwright's birthplace:<br />(in Stratford-upon-Avon)'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: '"The Talented Mr. Ripley"<br />(1999)'

Answer: Matt Damon


Question: 'The one associated with "Oliver Twist" is "The Parish Boy's Progress"'

Answer: Subtitle


Question: '"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't" do this'

Answer: Fool all of the people all of the time


Question: 'The NALC, National Association of these, says its members each deliver 41.5 tons of mail a year'

Answer: Letter Carriers


Question: 'She trounced Bobby Riggs in a 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match'

Answer: Billie Jean King


Question: 'This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: '"Doctor Zhivago"<br />(1965)'

Answer: Omar Sharif


Question: 'The voices of John, Paul, George & Ringo were dubbed by actors for most of this film'

Answer: Yellow Submarine


Question: 'In an 1856 speech Lincoln told the crowd, this "is stronger than the bullet"'

Answer: The ballot


Question: '1.3 million strong, the AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County & these employees'

Answer: Municipal


Question: 'In 1978 this TV series based on a James Michener book ran for only 26 hours, not 100 years'

Answer: Centennial


Question: 'A statue of this writer who died in 1849 graces the capitol grounds in Richmond, VA. -- appropriately, near the bell tower'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: '"Emma"<br />(1996)'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'Examples of these are protons & neutrons'

Answer: Subatomic particles


Question: '"With malice toward none; with" this "for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in"'

Answer: Charity


Question: 'The ILA, the union of these "men", is headquartered near the Hudson on NYC's Battery Place'

Answer: Longshoremen


Question: 'This doctor's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask" was really talked about'

Answer: David Reuben


Question: 'A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses"'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: '"Anna and the King"<br />(1999)'

Answer: Jodie Foster & Chow Yun-fat


Question: 'Bob Dylan was no longer "underground" with this song, his first Top 40 hit'

Answer: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"


Question: 'In 1513 he took one of the first Florida cruises, starting near what's now St. Augustine'

Answer: Ponce de Leon


Question: 'Traditionally, this container that held all the world's evil was a jar or vase'

Answer: Pandora\'s Box


Question:
'Gooden,
Moody,
Eisenhower'

Answer: Dwight


Question: 'The Creature is a character in the 1974 Tim Kelly play based on this Mary Shelley tale'

Answer: "Frankenstein"


Question: 'Reggae-rap gained popularity with this Lauren Hill band's album "The Score"'

Answer: Fugees


Question: 'The USA's WWII-era Gato class could launch 24 of these; today's Seawolf class carries twice as many'

Answer: Torpedoes


Question: 'On a trip in this country in 1860 Henri Mouhot set angkor, finding Wat & Thom'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'This verb meaning to tease is from Tantalus, who was forced to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink'

Answer: Tantalize


Question:
'Bronte,
Dickinson,
Post'

Answer: Emily


Question: 'In a Neil Simon play, Paul was thought stuffy since he wouldn't go walking this title way when it was freezing'

Answer: "Barefoot in the Park"


Question: 'After being shot 4 times, this rapper tragically died in Las Vegas on September 13, 1996'

Answer: Tupac Shakur


Question: 'In the term U-boat, the U stands for a word meaning this -- logical enough for a submarine'

Answer: Undersea


Question: 'Not quite Robert Peary, Edward Parry did set a record for this in 1827, reaching over 82 degrees latitude'

Answer: Coming closest to the North Pole


Question: 'This Titan, whose name refers to a type of book, supported the sky on his shoulders, not the Earth'

Answer: Atlas


Question:
'Kun,
Fleck,
Lugosi'

Answer: Bela


Question: 'According to a 1957 William Inge title, it's where you'd find "the dark"'

Answer: At the top of the stairs


Question: 'In the title of Ice-T's album, it's what "O.G." stands for'

Answer: "Original Gangster"


Question: 'The Nazis solved the problem of surfacing for air with a tube called this, like one used by swimmers'

Answer: Snorkel


Question: 'Exploring from Mombasa, Ludwig Krapf sighted this mountain that shares its name with an African country'

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: 'Worshiped by farmers & the average Roman, this goddess of agriculture lent her name to the word cereal'

Answer: Ceres


Question:
'Dore,
Eiffel,
Flaubert'

Answer: Gustave


Question: 'In 1970 Louis Nye played this title character's aunt, who was from Brazil, where the nuts come from'

Answer: Charley


Question: 'This trio helped bring rap music to middle America when they teamed up with Aerosmith on a version of "Walk This Way"'

Answer: Run-D.M.C.


Question: 'Submarines dive by flooding these tanks'

Answer: Ballast tanks


Question: 'Diego de Ordaz was the first European to see this Aztec capital on the site of modern Mexico City'

Answer: Tenochtitlan


Question: 'Derived from the name of the god of wine, it's a drunken or riotous celebration'

Answer: Bacchanalia


Question:
'Evans,
Head,
Piaf'

Answer: Edith


Question: 'It was Stanley Webber's birthday party in this playwright's "The Birthday Party"'

Answer: Harold Pinter


Question: 'From Staten Island, this rap "clan" of 9 MCs is named after a mythical kung fu sword'

Answer: Wu-Tang Clan


Question: 'This tower seen here sounds like it's a place from which to conduct a swindle:'

Answer: Conning tower


Question: 'The 34 peaks of the roof of this city's airport represent mountains that are about 30 miles away'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'A nickname for New York is "the Big" this fruit'

Answer: an apple


Question: 'Mel Gibson was in a fowl mood when he voiced Rocky Rhodes, a "flying rooster" in this animated film'

Answer: Chicken Run


Question: 'This "King of Beers" was the official beer of the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'

Answer: Budweiser


Question: 'In 1960 it was him & Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'The Kyrgyz formerly had this way of life also called transhumant; the Soviets made them settle down'

Answer: nomadic


Question: 'In 1964 Jan & Dean sang about the "Little" this "From Pasadena"'

Answer: "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"


Question: 'George Bush Intercontinental Airport is in this city'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'Singer Roger Miller played Alan-a-Dale, rooster minstrel, in this Disney classic'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'This company's website says it has been "brewed for over 30 years (&) is the first lite beer"'

Answer: Miller


Question: 'William Miller shared his ticket in 1964'

Answer: Barry Goldwater


Question: 'Of Mishlek, Bishkek or Dishrek, the present name of the capital city (formerly Pishpek)'

Answer: Bishkek


Question: 'in the 1980s research scientists first detected a "hole" in this above Antarctica'

Answer: the ozone layer


Question: 'After getting lost crossing a California desert & suffering intensely, emigrants gave the area this name'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'The tagline to this 2005 animated feature was "This time the sky really is falling"'

Answer: Chicken Little


Question: 'This company's beer, introduced in 1874, "is brewed in the Rockies for a uniquely crisp, clean... Mile High taste"'

Answer: Coors


Question: 'Humphrey & Muskie were edged out in this year'

Answer: 1968


Question: 'The Kyrgyz Range in the north of K'stan extends into this other K'stan'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'The U.S. military decoration called this "cluster" denotes multiple bestowals of an award such as the Purple Heart'

Answer: oak leaf


Question: 'In 1958 Crayola changed the name of its Prussian blue crayon to this "timely" blue'

Answer: midnight blue


Question: 'Kate Hepburn teamed up with this title marshal to track down her father's killer in a 1975 Western'

Answer: Rooster Cogburn


Question: 'In 1897 Wilhelm Hasse of the Moctezuma Brewery created a beer named Siglo XX; today, it's known as this'

Answer: Dos Equis


Question: 'In 1976 Ford & this man were a pair of 4-letter words to voters'

Answer: (Bob) Dole


Question: 'Kyrgyzstan was the first former Soviet republic to join the WTO, short for this'

Answer: the World Trade Organization


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports next to a giant cetacean at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) Featuring the world's biggest blue whale model, one of New York's most iconic spaces is the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of this'

Answer: Ocean Life


Question: 'The Caldecott is for illustrators; authors get this medal for the most distinguished American children's book'

Answer: the Newbery


Question: 'In "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", this actor played a wannabe reporter who had to stay in a haunted house'

Answer: Don Knotts


Question: 'Two-row barley & German noble aroma hops help make this Founding Father's Boston Lager go down easy'

Answer: Samuel Adams


Question: 'Running mate Sparkman failed to spark this Democrat's 1952 campaign'

Answer: (Adlai) Stevenson


Question: 'Noted author Aytmatov captured Kyrgyz geography in "Tales of Mountains and" these semiarid plains'

Answer: steppes


Question: 'This type of work force  is also called trade unionism'

Answer: organized labor


Question: 'This exuberant Italian who died in 2007 sang for 500,000 opera lovers in Central Park June 26, 1993'

Answer: Pavarotti


Question:
'1981:
Dolly Parton,
"Neun Bis Funf"'

Answer: "9 To 5"


Question: 'Heirs of billionaire Troy Phelan battle over his estate in "The Testament" by this author/lawyer'

Answer: Grisham


Question: 'This Muslim temple typically has one or more towers called minarets'

Answer: a mosque


Question: 'In November 1717 he took a 26-gun French ship called the Concorde, added 14 guns, & renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: '19th century robber baron Jay Gould caused the Black Friday panic with his speculation on this commodity'

Answer: gold


Question: 'Booed at this Milan venue in 2006, Roberto Alagna walked off, & his jeans-clad understudy had to carry on'

Answer: La Scala


Question:
'1983:
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson,
"Sagen, Sagen, Sagen"'

Answer: "Say, Say, Say"


Question: '"Javert in Disarray" is a chapter in this 1862 tale'

Answer: Les Misérables


Question: 'Slang for a private eye like Sam Spade, it can also mean to move softly'

Answer: gumshoe


Question: 'Stede Bonnet has been described as the only pirate who actually made his victims do this, to their death'

Answer: walk the plank


Question: 'It's Proctor & Gamble's main toothbrush brand, & they must want you to squeeze some Crest onto it'

Answer: Oral-B


Question: 'Entertainment options in Palermo in May 1897 included him as Enzo Grimaldo in "La Gioconda"'

Answer: (Enrico) Caruso


Question:
'1986:
The Bangles,
"Gehen Sie Wie Ein Agypter"'

Answer: "Walk Like An Egyptian"


Question: 'This 1996 novel detailing a woman's Jamaican adventure spent 21 weeks on the N.Y. Times bestseller list'

Answer: How Stella Got Her Groove Back


Question: 'It's a passage in prose or a part of a play in which one character speaks alone'

Answer: a soliloquy (or monologue)


Question: 'Weapons used by pirates included pistols, daggers & this curved sword whose name is from the French for "knife"'

Answer: cutlass


Question: '"Computer, Communication, Compatibility" were combined to describe the business of this Silicon Valley co.'

Answer: 3Com


Question: 'This last name of the great tenor Beniamino  was hijacked for the title of a poorly reviewed 2003 Ben Affleck film'

Answer: Gigli


Question:
'1992:
Right Said Fred,
"Ich Bin Zu Reizvoll"'

Answer: "I\'m Too Sexy"


Question: 'A marlin's skeletal remains play a pivotal role in this 1952 literary work'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: 'In this fast-moving game, players use a basket called a cesta to throw the ball'

Answer: jai alai


Question: 'In 1674, 4 years after ravaging Cuba, this English buccaneer was knighted & named Lt. Governor of Jamaica'

Answer: Sir Henry Morgan


Question: 'Even if you don't have the Donald's bank, you can still invest in properties with a REIT, this type of investment trust'

Answer: real estate


Question: 'Jean de Reszke made the ladies swoon when he premiered as this Wagnerian lover in 1895'

Answer: Tristan


Question:
'1984:
Wham!,
"Wecken Sie Mich Oben Auf Bevor Sie Gehen-Gehen"'

Answer: "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"


Question: '"...All perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes" ends this book'

Answer: Ulysses


Question: 'In mythology, she was the maiden carved in ivory by Pygmalion & brought to life by Aphrodite'

Answer: Galatea


Question: 'In 1529 this red-bearded corsair captured Algiers & made it a stronghold of piracy on the Mediterranean'

Answer: Barbarossa


Question: 'This company owns HarperCollins Publishers as well as 20th Century Fox'

Answer: News Corp(oration)


Question: 'In "Return of the Jedi", a planet shares its name with this home of a woman who summons a spirit for Saul'

Answer: Endor


Question: 'It's time for you to name this timepiece, squire'

Answer: Big Ben


Question: 'Ye, gods, it's this outer planet seen here'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'On New Zealand's Stewart Island you'll find tuis, pipits, kakas & shags, but it's "the home of" this national bird'

Answer: a kiwi


Question: 'In a numerical sense, naught, zip, nada'

Answer: zero


Question: 'He played Jesse James in 1943's "The Kansan" before donning the cape of Superman on TV in the 1950s'

Answer: George Reeves


Question: 'In 1942 Philip Murray became the first President of the U.S.A., this labor union'

Answer: United Steelworkers of America


Question: 'The life and music of this legend continue to shine'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'Something to reflect on--it runs on batteries, is about the size of a bus & circles the Earth every 97 minutes'

Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope


Question: 'For the blue-backed manakin, this ritual begins with a duet sung by 2 birds--a dominant male & his wingman'

Answer: a mating ritual


Question: '2-syllable social wasp of the family Vespidae'

Answer: hornet


Question:
'(Hi, I'm Michael McKean.)
My guest appearance as Perry White made this show successful; my wife, Annette O'Toole, may also have helped'

Answer: Smallville


Question: 'Harry Brearly developed this steel after noticing the anti-corrosion properties of high chromium steel'

Answer: stainless steel


Question: 'Middle name of the mug-shot man seen here'

Answer: Harvey


Question: 'In September 2006 it was reduced to a number--number 134340 in the catalog of minor planets'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'If you see the rock species of this urban bird on a ledge, don't try to talk it down; it may just be building a nest'

Answer: a pigeon


Question: 'Songs by this band include "Vertigo" & "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'In "Superman III" this comedian uses the "Salami Technique" to steal tiny sums of money from many bank accounts'

Answer: Richard Pryor


Question: 'Anarchist Alexander Berkman tried to kill this steel magnate for whom a NYC museum is now named'

Answer: Henry Clay Frick


Question: 'The legend seen here most famously played this sport'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'The 2 brightest stars in this constellation are Castor & Pollux'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'Like a type of shark, the bird seen here is named for its resemblance to this tool'

Answer: a hammer


Question: 'The French know that this optical phenomenon can be seen not only in the desert but also at sea'

Answer: a mirage


Question: 'Kate Bosworth was Lois Lane in this 2006 man of steel movie'

Answer: Superman Returns


Question: 'This Brit's steel-making "process" was a result of his interest in improving gun construction'

Answer: Bessemer


Question: 'The vast reaches of this country encompass desert lands as well as rain forests'

Answer: Sudan


Question: 'Usually reaching its peak on August 12, it's been called the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers'

Answer: a perseid


Question: 'The tawny species of this bird can see prey by the light of one candle 500 yards away'

Answer: the owl


Question: 'Not necessarily a "menace", it's a specter or ghost, or something illusory'

Answer: a phantom


Question: '1978's "Superman" was scripted by this New York author famous for mafia tomes'

Answer: Mario Puzo


Question: 'In 1901 this Chicago lawyer for whom a nearby Indiana city is named helped organize the U.S. Steel Corporation'

Answer: (Elbert) Gary


Question: 'Before writing his classic novel, he spent 2 years with a group of Oklahoma farmers journeying to California'

Answer: Steinbeck


Question: 'Mrs. Ashton Kutcher'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew clowns around.) Clowns are masters of this look of reaction for the benefit of the audience; especially a double one'

Answer: a double take


Question: 'President Ford named this former child star the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana in 1974'

Answer: (Shirley) Temple (Black)


Question: 'In 1804 this guy killed a political foe with one shot in New Jersey...You're the V.P., not Tony Soprano! Act like it!'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'At the turn of the 19th century, he penned the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"'

Answer: (William) Wordsworth


Question: 'This author's work as a private detective with Pinkerton lent authenticity to "The Maltese Falcon"'

Answer: (Dashiell) Hammett


Question: 'Mrs. Garth Brooks'

Answer: (Trisha) Yearwood


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew has stands next to a juggler) Because of the way the balls go up the middle and down the side, a common juggling pattern has this watery name that reminds us of a Northwest mountain range'

Answer: cascade


Question: 'This is Ghana's official language'

Answer: English


Question: 'As a 19th century "boss" he plundered NYC of sums estimated at between $30-200 million...what a dreadful performance'

Answer: (Boss) Tweed


Question: 'A concluding section or statement at the end of a book that's separate from the main text'

Answer: the afterword


Question: 'He wrote comic book stories for "Captain America" & "Captain Marvel" before hitting it big with "I, the Jury"'

Answer: Mickey Spillane


Question: 'Mrs. Antonio Banderas'

Answer: (Melanie) Griffith


Question: '(Jimmy watches the juggler play.) To us it's a structure at the end of an animal's limb; to a juggler it's a downward movement to catch an object'

Answer: a claw


Question: 'So far, he's the only U.N. Secretary-General from Ghana'

Answer: (Kofi) Annan


Question: 'That March 4, 1841 inaugural address in cold drizzle took about 2 hours; mark my words, it'll be the death of him'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'Hyphenated term for the process by which rumors & informal movie reviews are spread'

Answer: word-of-mouth


Question: 'Her major works, including "The Age of Innocence", were written while living in France, where she moved in 1907'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'Mrs. David Duchovny'

Answer: (Téa) Leoni


Question: '(Sarah watches people hanging around.) As the trapeze was invented in France, the catcher is sometimes called "porteur" and this person in a trick is called "voltigeur"'

Answer: the flyer


Question: 'One of the 3 African countries that Ghana borders'

Answer: (1 of) Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo


Question: 'I have the 1860 election results...this Ill. Democrat & orator who ran against Lincoln...you're going home tonight'

Answer: (Stephen) Douglas


Question: 'A word that leads you to useful results in an Internet search'

Answer: the keyword


Question: 'In the 1930s this author of "Marjorie Morningstar" was a writer for comedian Fred Allen'

Answer: (Herman) Wouk


Question: 'Mrs. Christopher Guest'

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


Question: '(Jimmy watches a balancing act.) Wire walking includes the highwire, the tightrope, and this one that many people think is most difficult, because any shaking is magnified'

Answer: slackrope walking


Question: 'Ghana is located in West Africa on this gulf that bears the name of another African country'

Answer: Gulf of Guinea


Question: 'The Whiskey Ring scandal & William Belknap, his Sec. of War, impeached? No wonder this Republican didn't get a third term!'

Answer: Ulysses Grant


Question: 'Psychological "test" of verbal stimuli given to induce revelatory verbal responses'

Answer: word association


Question: 'A traditional mnemonic device for remembering these begins, "Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three"'

Answer: English monarchs


Question: 'This "huge" Kentucky park is home to eyeless fish--don't need to see in the dark'

Answer: Mammoth Cave


Question: 'Dumbledore's Army is a small group of Hogwarts students who learn to defend against the Dark Arts in this film'

Answer: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


Question: 'Jersey-born singer Frank Garaventi'

Answer: Sinatra


Question: 'This electronically recorded graphic representation is unique to each individual speaker'

Answer: a voice print


Question: 'The 21st century has seen this communist island nation turn from sugar to tourism & biotechnology'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'A group of geese<br />(6)'

Answer: a gaggle


Question: 'One of the delicate features of this park is seen here'

Answer: Arches National Park


Question: 'In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid'

Answer: Scarlett Johansson


Question: '4-star general Colin McKoy'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'In 1912 he opened his eponymous clothing & shoe store in Freeport, Maine'

Answer: L. L. Bean


Question: 'This country is the largest producer of newsprint & is also big in wheat, but fur trapping has dropped off'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'One who looks after horses or brides<br />(5)'

Answer: a groom


Question: 'Other parks are "green" with envy that this one in Colorado has some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings'

Answer: Mesa Verde


Question: 'Some officials in New Hampshire were unhappy that the title of this action film was a play on the state motto'

Answer: Live Free or Die Hard


Question: 'Playwright William Arden'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: 'Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, was a native of this city'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'This country's GDP is growing about 10% a year & in 2004, says the World Bank, contributed 1/3 of world growth'

Answer: China


Question: 'Medusa's favorite blue cheese?<br />(10)'

Answer: gorgonzola


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Teton National Park, WY.)  Over 250 miles of trails exist in Grand Teton, many built by this New Deal agency, whose initials were CCC'

Answer: the Civilian Conservation Corps


Question: 'One of the taglines for this movie was "For years, lines have been drawn... and then colored in yellow"'

Answer: The Simpsons Movie


Question: 'Bestselling author Stephen Pillsbury'

Answer: King


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chess board.) Usually done early in the game, it's the chess move seen here & can't be done if you've previously moved your king'

Answer: castling


Question: 'Ravaged by war, in 2002 this country became the world's largest supplier of opium'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Playwright A.R., or a stretcher<br />(6)'

Answer: Gurney


Question: 'This national park on Maine's rugged coast was the first one east of the Mississippi'

Answer: Acadia National Park


Question: 'She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store'

Answer: Nikki Blonsky


Question: '19th century scientist Charles Wedgwood'

Answer: Darwin


Question: 'Usually sold without the bone, this beef cut is taken from the breast section under the first 5 ribs'

Answer: a brisket


Question: 'Due to the policies of Robert Mugabe, 4000% inflation has struck this African country'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'Fish that lays its eggs out of water<br />(7)'

Answer: a grunion


Question: 'SCIAM reported on the founder type of these genetic changes--they happen in 1 person & affect millions of descendants'

Answer: a mutation


Question: 'This trumpeter was born May 26, 1926; you could call it the "birth of the Cool"'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question: 'A shamal is a wind that whips up this blinding phenomenon'

Answer: a sandstorm


Question: 'Georges Pompidou took over as president of France upon this man's resignation'

Answer: de Gaulle


Question: 'The Villa Diana in his novel "Tender Is The Night" was based on the French Riviera home of his friend Gerald Murphy'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'Joan Rivers was among the guests at Charles & Camilla's wedding reception in this castle'

Answer: Windsor Castle


Question: 'A March 2002 story was on this bacterial toxin, months after the "first purposeful release" in the U.S.'

Answer: anthrax


Question: 'I've got "a Love Supreme" for "the last Trane"; it's one of "My Favorite Things" by this saxophonist'

Answer: (John) Coltrane


Question: 'The number 3 is talaata, & this day of the week is El Talaat'

Answer: Tuesday


Question: 'From 1962 to 1968 Pompidou held this job, just under president; no 5th Republic-an has held the post longer since'

Answer: prime minister


Question: 'Satis House is the home of Miss Havisham in this classic'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'As you can see, Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the most beautiful in this mountain range'

Answer: the (Bavarian) Alps


Question: 'An IPY, an international this year, kicked off in 2007 to study ice shelfs & permafrost'

Answer: polar


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew sits at the kit.)  The use of the floor tom was popularized by this drummer, especially with Benny Goodman on "Sing, Sing, Sing"'

Answer: Gene Krupa


Question: 'The name of this headdress for men may be related to the word "coif"'

Answer: kaffiyeh


Question: 'During WWII, G.P. fought as a lt. & won this French military honor created in 1915 to reward bravery'

Answer: the Croix de Guerre


Question: 'Bly is the "big ugly antique" house that may be haunted in this Henry James novelette'

Answer: The Turn of the Screw


Question: 'King John's Castle rises majestically above the banks of this river in the city of Limerick'

Answer: the Shannon River


Question: 'Appropriately, he wrote the October 1994 story "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life"'

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: 'We pray to hear his hands on the piano keys "'Round Midnight" (which he wrote)'

Answer: Thelonious Monk


Question: 'Change 1 letter in "wade" to get this, a gully that's dry except during periods of rain'

Answer: a wadi


Question: 'In '61 Georges led secret talks with this country's Front de Liberation Nationale & got a cease-fire there'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Shellmound is the Fairchild Family plantation in this Mississippi woman's 1946 novel "Delta Wedding"'

Answer: Eudora Welty


Question: 'Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference'

Answer: Yalta


Question: 'Millions of spam messages are generated by "rogue... software programs" called these, a 4-letter word'

Answer: bots


Question: 'This gypsy guitarist lost the use of two fingers on his left hand, but still had some of the best jazz hands around'

Answer: Django Reinhardt


Question: 'In Arabic, follow a hope about the future, like the train arriving shortly, with this, meaning "Allah willing"'

Answer: inshallah


Question: 'This Pompidou protege & recent French pres. organized talks with trade unions after 1968's mass demonstrations'

Answer: Chirac


Question: 'Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers"'

Answer: (Anthony) Trollope


Question: 'In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: 'From the Latin for "fortified town", this term later referred to a person--the representative of a town or borough'

Answer: burgess


Question: 'Levothyroxine, sold under brand names like Unithroid & Synthroid, treats this gland when it's underactive'

Answer: the thyroid


Question: 'Title character cleans orphanage, escapes, meets a dog & a rich buy but no parents, Miss Hannigan goes to jail'

Answer: Annie


Question: 'Phil Jackson'

Answer: Buddhist


Question: 'In 1974 Charles Colson was indicted on conspiracy charges in connection with this scandal'

Answer: the Watergate Scandal


Question: 'In this card game, your deadwood can total up to 10 to knock legally'

Answer: gin


Question: 'It's from the Latin for "crossbred animal" but a prius is a modern form of it, too'

Answer: a hybrid


Question: 'The name of this opiate used as a pain reliever comes from the name of the Greek god of dreams'

Answer: morphine


Question: 'Singer Conrad, about to be inducted, will kiss a girl on "The Ed Sullivan Show" before he goes'

Answer: Bye Bye Birdie


Question: 'Benjamin Franklin'

Answer: a nudist


Question: 'Onetime L.A. D.A. Bugliosi said this man has "received more mail than any other inmate in the history of the...system"'

Answer: Charles Manson


Question: 'Nathan's Famous began as a nickel hot dog stand in 1916 in this Brooklyn amusement park'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'It's the ablative form of locus, "place", as when it precedes "parentis"'

Answer: loco


Question: 'L-DOPA treats the tremors, spasms & poor muscle control associated with this neurological disease'

Answer: Parkinson\'s Disease


Question: 'Spunky gal dreams of riches while stuck in Missouri, marries prospector, loses prospector, gets on Titanic'

Answer: The Unsinkable Molly Brown


Question: 'George Braque'

Answer: a Cubist


Question: 'After his Lincoln Savings & Loan failed, costing taxpayers $2.6 billion, this man was convicted in 1992'

Answer: Charles Keeting


Question: 'This word, before "Plaisance" in the name of the 1893 Chicago Expo site, came to refer to any carnival area'

Answer: midway


Question: 'Used in statistics, this word is from theLatin adverbial phrase for "by the hundred"'

Answer: percent


Question: 'Amoxicillin is used to treat infections caued by these'

Answer: bacteria


Question: 'Penniless English soprano in Paris turns to cross dressing, sorta, meets American gangster, confusion reigns'

Answer: Victor/Victoria


Question: 'Jack Kerouac'

Answer: a Buddhist


Question: 'After the Long Parliament was purged in 1648, the Rump Parliament brought charges against this king'

Answer: Charles I


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Circus Center in San Francisco, California) The first great wire walker was the Frenchman Blondin, who rose to great fame by walking over this landmark, once carrying a man on his back'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'Meaning "in or at another place", you better have a good one for the night of the 16th, ya mug'

Answer: an alibi


Question: 'Prozac is an SSRI; the second "S" stands for this chemical thought to be effective in treating depression'

Answer: seratonin


Question: '2 Americans are in a misty Scottish glen when they encounter a village that comes alive one day every century'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: 'Fernand Leger'

Answer: a Cubist


Question: 'Throughout his trial, this man insisted that President Garfield had died from mistreatment by his doctors'

Answer: (Charles) Guiteau


Question: 'This word for one who takes up an activity for amusement in a superficial way is from the Latin for "to delight"'

Answer: a dilettante


Question: 'This two-word phrase, Latin for "good faith", means "authentic" in English'

Answer: bona fide


Question: 'When asked how he became a war hero, this president said, "It was involuntary.  They sank my boat"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The numerical title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to musical compositions, not toast'

Answer: Five Easy Pieces


Question: 'Built for the 1958 World's Fair, the Atomium in this Belgian city is a model of a molecule enlarged 165 billion times'

Answer: Brussels


Question: '"All Along The Watchtower" was this guitar virtuoso's only Billboard Top 40 hit'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'This play that won the 1956 prize is set in the upper part of a building in Amsterdam'

Answer: The Diary Of Anne Frank


Question: 'A fiery fedora'

Answer: a hot hat


Question: 'This president criticized Ed Asner for opposing U.S. foreign policy by asking, "What does an actor know about politics?"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'In 1974 this man directed Jack in "Chinatown" & played the gangster who slit Jack's nostril'

Answer: Roman Polanski


Question: 'Frederiksborg Castle, famed for its gardens, has been called the Versailles of this Scandinavian country'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'This wall builder became the Ward of Trajan & followed him as Roman Emperor'

Answer: Hadrian


Question: '"We never had a losing season, boys; there's not many that can say that", says the coach in this Jason Miller play'

Answer: That Championship Season


Question: 'A lumpy bunk'

Answer: a bad bed


Question: 'He said, "I didn't fire" MacArthur because he was dumb, "although he was, but that's not against the law for generals"'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'About this "Shining" director, Jack said, "Just because you're a perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect"'

Answer: Stanley Kubrick


Question: 'When in this Scottish city, visit the Willow Tea Rooms designed by hometown hero Charles Rennie Mackintosh'

Answer: Glasgow


Question: 'This current U.S. Senator comes from Cumming, Iowa, population 150'

Answer: Tom Harkin


Question: 'In 2000 Donald Margulies won for serving us this meal "with friends"'

Answer: dinner


Question: 'A mallard's playing card set'

Answer: a duck deck


Question: 'Accused of being two-faced in a debate, this pres. said, "If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Appropriately, Jack played 'your average horny little devil" in this bewitching 1987 film'

Answer: The Witches Of Eastwick


Question: 'April 25 is the feast day of this Patron Saint of Venice, & Venetians celebrate it with a gondola race'

Answer: St. Mark


Question: 'This author of 1935's "Mulatto" was referred to as "the Poet Laureate of Harlem"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'This partner of Lynn Fontanne got to star in "Idiot's Delight" after suggesting the idea for it to Robert Sherwood'

Answer: Alfred Lunt


Question: 'A big spotted cat's ballet suit'

Answer: a leopard leotard


Question: 'This "hope"ful president said the job is like running a cemetery: a "lot of people under you, but nobody's listening"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Singing "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" to a dog helped Jack win an Oscar for this 1997 film'

Answer: As Good As It Gets


Question: 'Fans of "The Sound Of Music" visit this city to see such sites as Mirabell Gardens, where "Do-Re-Mi" was filmed'

Answer: Salsburg


Question: 'His 1944 novel "A Bell For Adano" is set in allied-occupied Sicily'

Answer: John Hersey


Question: '(Here's a friend of our show--Edward Albee)  In this play that won me my third Pulitzer Prize, all 3 of the title females are based on my adoptive mother'

Answer: Three Tall Women


Question: 'Military conflict over a bee product'

Answer: a wax war


Question: 'The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516'

Answer: Bavaria


Question: 'There's no catch--he dedicated "Catch-22" "To my mother and to my wife, Shirley, and my children, Erica and Ted"'

Answer: (Joseph) Heller


Question: 'Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" inspired the title of a 1981 album by this trio'

Answer: The Police


Question: 'On Feb. 17, 2009 this type of TV broadcast technology will end in the U.S.; we're going digital'

Answer: analog


Question: 'They can be boiled, candied or pureed, but at Christmas time it's traditional to roast them "on an open fire"'

Answer: chestnuts


Question: 'Model Klum,<br />Madam Fleiss'

Answer: Heidi


Question: 'A multitude of people crowded together'

Answer: a throng


Question: 'His "The Faerie Queene" has a bunch of dedicatory sonnets, including one to Sir Walter Raleigh'

Answer: (Edmund) Spenser


Question: 'This group has scored 5 straight No. 1 albums, including 2003's "St. Anger" & 2008's "Death Magnetic"'

Answer: Metallica


Question: 'This photo co. created the EasyShare printer with prints that are less expensive & last 100 years'

Answer: Kodak


Question: 'The shells of these greenish nuts used to be dyed red; not so much anymore'

Answer: pistachioes


Question: 'Winemaker Gallo, writer Hemingway'

Answer: Ernest


Question: 'The Blue Line subway here can take you from Fortress Hill to Sai Wan Ho'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: '"Of Time and the River" is dedicated to Maxwell Perkins, who in this job shaped Thomas Wolfe's unwieldy novels'

Answer: editor


Question: 'This group was "Hangin' Tough" at No. 1 in 1988 & returned to "the block" (& the No. 2 spot) in 2008'

Answer: New Kids on the Block


Question: 'In 2008 lampposts in London were padded to prevent injuries due to this activity by pedestrians'

Answer: texting


Question: 'In a can of mixed nuts, these large nuts seen here are often the last to go'

Answer: Brazil nut


Question: 'Cardiac pioneer DeBakey,<br />Irish hero Collins'

Answer: Michael


Question: 'Dorothy Lamour popularized this wraparound dress'

Answer: a sarong


Question: 'He dedicated "Lord Jim" to Mr. & Mrs. G.F.W. Hope "with grateful affection"'

Answer: Joseph Conrad


Question: 'The soundtrack to this 1986 Molly Ringwald film includes OMD's "If You Leave" & the title track by the Psychedelic Furs'

Answer: Pretty in Pink


Question: 'To stop attackers from accessing your computer, in network settings, shut off the print sharing & this other "sharing"'

Answer: file sharing


Question: 'This nut of a hickory tree follows "butter" in the name of a classic ice cream flavor'

Answer: pecans


Question: 'Portraitist Stuart,<br />solo singer O'Sullivan'

Answer: Gilbert


Question: 'The national currency of Vietnam'

Answer: the dong


Question: 'Machiavelli wrote an entire dedicatory preface to "The Prince" to this "Magnificent" de Medici'

Answer: Lorenzo de Medici


Question: 'Robert Mapplethorpe shot the cover of "Horses", an album by this influential female rocker'

Answer: Patti Smith


Question: '(Agent Jenkins of the Geek Squad presents the clue.)  We can geek-up your computer by installing a printer, digital camera or any other external device, which is called this in computer speak, from the Greek for "to carry around"'

Answer: a peripheral


Question: 'Hazelnuts are also called these, after a saint'

Answer: filberts


Question: 'Frenchmen Clemenceau & Bizet'

Answer: Georges


Question: 'Shape of Poe's title box'

Answer: oblong


Question: 'Eyeball a Warhol or 2 at one of these run by Larry Gagosian, maybe on Madison Ave. or in Beverly Hills'

Answer: an art gallery


Question: 'The vertical bars called uprights are 18'6" apart in the pro & college versions of this sport'

Answer: football


Question: 'For the first time in 195 years, by the National Association of Letter Carriers in 1970'

Answer: the U.S. Postal Service


Question: 'Marked in red on the map are these geographic features; at any given time, about 20 of them are extremely active'

Answer: volcanoes


Question: 'Frog speech'

Answer: croak


Question: 'On raids, Ness' Untouchables welcomed members of this profession, even those from the Tribune'

Answer: the press (reporters accepted)


Question: 'This Madrid-born tenor has also run a couple of opera companies'

Answer: Placido Domingo


Question: 'The recommended height of the flagstick is 7 feet in this sport'

Answer: golf


Question: 'By the UAW in Flint, December 1936 to February 1937'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'World Book uses a 5-pointed star with a circle around it to denote a city with this distinction'

Answer: a capital city


Question: 'To drench'

Answer: to soak


Question: 'Wingate's Raiders played a key role in the recovery of Burma, helping prevent a Japanese invasion of India in this war'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'In 2008 Philippe de Montebello retired after 30 years directing this Fifth Ave. arts temple'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'Try the straddle cut on the bars that are 6'5" above the ground & at most 20.5" apart in this male gymnastics event'

Answer: the parallel bars


Question: 'In 1968, this city's Public Works Department by sanitation workers, bringing Dr. King to town'

Answer: Memphis


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a little lake in a little country on a map on the monitor.)  Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa at 509 feet below sea level, is in this country'

Answer: Djibouti


Question: 'A burnoose or a serape'

Answer: a cloak


Question: 'John J. Pershing's attempts to stop this Mexican raider included the U.S. cavalry's "last charge"'

Answer: Pancho Villa


Question: 'The name of this innovative theater & opera director is just 1 letter different from a late British comic actor'

Answer: Peter Sellars


Question: 'For men, the bar has a minimum length of 8 feet, 6.25 inches & weight of 1.75 pounds in this field event'

Answer: the javelin


Question: 'By Colombian banana plantation workers in 1928'

Answer: the United Fruit Company


Question: 'Hema Maps is based in this country, so they make an upside down world map showing their continent on top'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Samuel Woodworth wrote a beloved poem about "The Old" this object "which hung in the well"'

Answer: the oaken bucket


Question: 'Cecil Rhodes' attempted invasion known as the Jameson Raid set the stage for this war'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'His artworks command prices of $400,000, & he was Oscar-nominated for directing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"'

Answer: (Julian) Schnabel


Question: 'The bars are set 4-6 feet apart as well as 7'11" & 5'2" above the floor in this female gymnastics event'

Answer: the uneven bars


Question: 'By the Teamsters in August (at least not December) 1997'

Answer: UPS


Question: '(A red shape zooms out of the sea on the map on the monitor as Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Located in the Caribbean, this tiny island's shape inspired its unusual name, which is Latin for "eel"'

Answer: Anguilla


Question: 'Connecticut has this specific tree on its state quarter'

Answer: the Charter Oak


Question: 'In the early 1860s this band of Confederate guerillas raided Missouri & Kansas border towns loyal to the Union'

Answer: Quantrill\'s Raiders


Question: 'Its author called it "a Ghostly little book... which shall not put my readers out of humour... with the season"'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'In this game created in 1979, a roll of the die determines the color-coded category of the upcoming question'

Answer: Trivial Pursuit


Question:
'(This ad ran on Nickelodeon:)
An obese bird, a disheveled dumpster diver, a monster who thrives on trans-fat cookies. Is this really what you want your children to watch?'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'At 74 years of age, this 1930s & '40s movie companion of Tarzan is the world's oldest living chimp'

Answer: Cheetah


Question: 'He asked for 20,000 pounds to betray his command at West Point'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'To propose someone for election to an office'

Answer: nominate


Question: 'Around 1948 she moved into slums to help the poor; on Oct. 19, 2003 she was beatified'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew rolls a pair of dice.) Though it doesn't always seem that way, snake eyes only come up in 2.8% of dice rolls, as it is just one of this many possible rolls'

Answer: 36


Question:
'(Here's an ad from CBS:)
A late night "comic" claims he'll leave this show & retire in 2009. Can America afford to wait that long? (This message was approved by David Letterman)'

Answer: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno


Question: 'A song in this 1967 film begins, "If we could just talk to the animals, just imagine it, chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee"'

Answer: Dr. Dolittle


Question: 'Washington's 1776 crossing of the Delaware led to the occupation of this future state capital 4 days later'

Answer: Trenton


Question: '9-letter adjective pertaining to the night'

Answer: nocturnal


Question: 'On May 20, 2002 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill and this singer began a 10-day economic mission to Africa'

Answer: Bono


Question: 'In Monopoly, 3 of these in a row lands you in jail'

Answer: doubles


Question:
'(Here's one from ABC:)
Over 35 years with the same old talking heads. And does America really need any more advice from Andy Rooney? It's time for a change'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'In 1967 a chimp named Washoe became the first non-human to learn ASL, which stands for this'

Answer: American Sign Language


Question: 'In 1777, after defeat at Germantown, Washington led his troops to this winter camp; had a rough stay'

Answer: Valley Forge


Question: 'It's a wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life'

Answer: nostalgia


Question: 'A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to  fame'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'With a 6-5 opening roll in this game, make the move called "Lover's Leap", which gets one man halfway home'

Answer: backgammon


Question:
'(NBC ran this ad:)
Contestants sleep on the ground with bugs & snakes, while Jeff Probst reclines in his feather bed. Is this fair, America? You be the judge'

Answer: Survivor


Question: 'AKA the pygmy chimpanzee, the bonobo is found only in the rain forests along this 2nd-longest African river'

Answer: Congo


Question: 'Neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon & helium, collectively'

Answer: noble gases


Question: 'Richard Gere titled the Time 100 article on this longtime friend of his "He Belongs To The World"'

Answer: Dalai Lama


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew rolls a pair of dice.) My main point is a six. (rolls) Yes! I'm playing this very old game whose name may come from the Arabic word "zahr", meaning die, and now means a danger'

Answer: hazard


Question:
'(Well, CBS and ABC both showed this one:)
They dumped Clooney; they dumped Macy; they even dumped Anthony Edwards. Maybe it's time you dumped them'

Answer: ER


Question: 'In 1986 she presented the cumulative findings of her research in "The Chimpanzees of Gombe"'

Answer: Jane Goodall


Question: 'Warren Harding campaigned on the slogan "Return to" this'

Answer: normalcy


Question: 'In 1996 this president of South Africa oversaw the enactment of a new democratic constitution'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'This capital's oldest residential area, the Plaka, lies behind the Acropolis'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Linda Fiorentino became Agent L in this 1997 film'

Answer: Men in Black


Question: 'Ch. 1: This Russian title boy meets girl (Lara)'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'The solar system's 4 "giant planets"'

Answer: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, & Neptune


Question: 'King Carl XVI Gustaf'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Washington Irving said this type of dollar is "that great object of universal devotion throughout our land"'

Answer: the almighty


Question: 'Home to the Mauritshuis Royal Art Gallery, it began in the 1200s as a hunting lodge of the Count of Holland'

Answer: The Hague


Question: 'Wesley Snipes has this piece of sports wisdom for Woody Harrelson, the title of a 1992 film'

Answer: White Men Can\'t Jump


Question: 'Ch. 2: Rich boy (Oliver) falls for poor girl (Jenny) in this 1970 first novel'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'In card games, the 4 of this suit is called the devil's bedposts'

Answer: clubs


Question: 'King Norodom Sihamoni'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'It's a symbolic narrative, like "Piers Plowman"'

Answer: an allegory


Question: 'This capital of the Isle of Man is located at the common mouth of the Dhoo & Glass rivers, hence its name'

Answer: the Douglass


Question: 'Jennifer Jason Leigh was the roommate from hell in this 1992 flick'

Answer: Single White Female


Question: 'Ch. 3: Boy & girl have a family (well, an imaginary one, at least) & entertain Nick & Honey in this 1962 play'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'The "four Cs" of diamonds are carat, clarity, color & this, such as oval or marquise'

Answer: cut


Question: 'King Abdullah (2 different guys), these 2 countries'

Answer: Saudi Arabia & Jordan


Question: 'When this word precedes "canal", it refers to the gastrointestinal tract'

Answer: alimentary


Question: 'This classic 1954 horror film about a humanoid amphibian monster practically saved Universal from bankruptcy'

Answer: Creature from the Black Lagoon


Question: 'Ch. 4: Boy poet loses this title girl when kinsmen "shut her up in a sepulchre / In this kingdom by the sea"'

Answer: Annabel Lee


Question: '3 of the 4 people to have assassinated a U.S. president'

Answer: (3 of) Guiteau, Booth, Oswald, & Leon Czolgosz


Question: 'Grand Duke Henri'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'It's a comparison of 2 unlike things to illustrate a point'

Answer: an analogy


Question: 'Ch. 5: This 1819 title boy gets girl (Rowena) & their pals leave England for Iberia'

Answer: Ivanhoe


Question: 'About 25 people were arrested under this group of 4 "acts" passed in 1798; all were repealed or expired by 1802'

Answer: the Alien and Sedition Acts


Question: 'King Bhumibol Adulyadej'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'The placing of prepositional phrases, as in "I saw the boy with a telescope", can cause this, from Latin for "around"'

Answer: ambiguity


Question: 'This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'Before changing its name in 1966, this Jerry Garcia-led group was known as The Warlocks'

Answer: Grateful Dead


Question: 'Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness'

Answer: "The Windy City"


Question: 'In 1994 select customers will be able to test GM's new Impact, a car powered by this'

Answer: Electricity


Question: 'In Chapter 19, these two cities are destroyed by fire & brimstone'

Answer: Sodom & Gomorrah


Question: 'The mama bear didn't appear in the original version of this story; neither did Goldilocks'

Answer: "The Three Bears"


Question: 'It's what you roll out for important guests'

Answer: Red Carpet


Question: 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood was named for this crooner'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'This landmark is 1,454' tall'

Answer: Sears Tower


Question: 'Judging by its name, this line of luxury cars from Nissan could go on forever'

Answer: Infiniti


Question: 'In Genesis 9:1, God told him & his sons to " Be fruitful & multiply and replenish the earth"'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'Mama Leone's, on 44th St. in New York City, is a famous one of these establishments'

Answer: (Italian) Restaurant


Question: 'British soldiers were called this, even before the American Revolution'

Answer: Redcoats


Question: 'In 1971 this group's "Riders On the Storm" was its last top-20 hit'

Answer: The Doors


Question: 'Greater Chicago includes Lake & Porter Counties in Indiana & Kenosha County in this state'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In 1949 this company produced its one millionth car, a Coupe DeVille'

Answer: Cadillac


Question: 'His brothers said, "Come now therefore & let us slay him and cast him into some pit"'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'She played the cantankerous Mama on "Mama's Family", a spin-off of "The Carol Burnett Show"'

Answer: Vicki Lawrence


Question: 'It can describe a small cinnamon-flavored candy or Durkee's cayenne pepper sauce'

Answer: Red Hot


Question: 'Denny Lane, Denny Sewell, & Linda McCartney were original members of this group'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'This "Little Giant" is buried at the base of a 96' tall monument on E. 35th St.'

Answer: Stephen Douglas


Question: 'This company has "excelled" in automaking ever since it produced Korea's first car, the Pony'

Answer: Hyundai


Question: 'She conceived and bore Abraham a son, Isaac, in his old age'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'It was Francois Duvalier's famous nickname'

Answer: "Papa Doc"


Question: 'Familiar expression for something that draws attention away from the main issue'

Answer: Red Herring


Question: 'This group, formed by John Lennon, was introduced in 1969 on his "Give Peace A Chance" single'

Answer: The Plastic Ono Band


Question: 'This natural history museum has more than 10 acres of exhibits'

Answer: Field Museum


Question: 'In 1987 this Italian company's Quntas sold for about $125,000'

Answer: Lamborghini


Question: 'Jacob built a pillar upon this woman's grave near Bethlehem'

Answer: Rachel


Question: 'Her husband George was never part of her outlaw gang, but her four sons were'

Answer: Ma Barker


Question: 'In 1978 he & Mel Allen became the first broadcasters to be honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame'

Answer: Red Barber


Question: 'In 1958, Basel became the first city in this country to approve women voting in local elections'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Multiply 3,465 by this number to square it'

Answer: 3,465


Question: 'His "Last Supper" in Milan was already a wreck by the end of his lifetime'

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci


Question: 'This province's postal abbreviation is QC'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'This king's corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of "Henry VI, Part I"'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'In Esperanto, this form of address is frauleino'

Answer: Miss


Question: 'The Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1861 recognized the sovereignty of this country'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'It's adjusting a number to simplify computations, like making 2.3 out of 2.294'

Answer: Round/Rounding Off


Question: 'In the 1930's this Spaniard was expelled from the Surrealist movement'

Answer: Salvador Dali


Question: 'With about 10 million people, it has Canada's largest population'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who's a simple constable in "Measure For Measure"'

Answer: Elbow


Question: 'Arbo is tree & this tree material is ligno'

Answer: Wood


Question: 'In 1991 Slovenia declared its independence from this country'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'A triangle with 3 equal sides is equilateral; 2 equal sides, isosceles; no two equal sides, this'

Answer: scalene


Question: 'Van Dyck's influence on this artist is apparent in works such as "The Blue Boy"'

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough


Question: 'This island province has three counties:  King's, Queen's, and Prince'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'In a famous speech, this woman describes mercy as "An attribute to God himself"'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'Pluvemantello is this item of foul-weather apparel'

Answer: Raincoat


Question: 'In 1882, Italy joined the Triple Alliance with Germany and this dual monarchy'

Answer: Austria-Hungary


Question: 'This process is verified by adding the subtrahend to the difference'

Answer: Subtraction


Question: 'He said, "One night I dreamt I painted a large American flag"'

Answer: Jasper Johns


Question: 'Cape Breton Island forms the northeastern tip of this Atlantic province'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: 'Title character who says, "When I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute"'

Answer: Pericles


Question: 'This sport is aquaskiado'

Answer: Water Skiing


Question: 'Once the Turks took Eracleon in 1669 after a 20-year siege, this Greek island soon fell'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'He never revealed the proof of his last theorem, but only hinted at it in a margin note'

Answer: Pierre de Fermat


Question: 'The youngest of the three great creators of the High Renaissance, he was the son of Giovanni Santi'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'This province bordering Maine is 90% forest'

Answer: New Brunswick


Question: 'Cassandra, a prophetess whose father is the king of Troy, is a character in this play'

Answer: "Troilus and Cressida"


Question: 'Formico is this small insect'

Answer: Ant


Question: 'In area, it's now the largest country whose boundaries are wholly within Europe'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'This prime minister was assassinated by one of her own security guards October 31, 1984'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'When this doctor's monster first appeared on screen in 1931, some moviegoers ran screaming from the theater'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: 'Also called an ace, it's what every golfer dreams of getting'

Answer: Hole-in-one


Question: 'A U.S. court ruled in August 1998 that sampling would not be allowed during the one of these conducted in 2000'

Answer: Census


Question: 'This ex-partner appears in chains to warn Scrooge to shape up'

Answer: Jacob Marley


Question: 'In a december 1997 speech in Miami, President Clinton quoted this Chicken Little line'

Answer: "The sky is falling!"


Question: 'On October 31, 1938 he expressed "deep regret" for shocking the nation with his radio broadcast the night before'

Answer: Orson Welles ("War of the Worlds")


Question: 'On June 17, 1998 at 5:00 A.M. it was sighted by 4 men in Scotland who reported a "large object with long tail"'

Answer: Loch Ness Monster


Question: 'George Washington's Mount Vernon home lies on the banks of this river'

Answer: Potomac


Question: 'The "list" of this director's awards includes Germany's National Medal of Merit given in 1998'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'Halloween brings tourists to the possibly haunted Baltimore house of this macabre writer'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'It's the moral of the fable about the maid & the milk pail'

Answer: Don\'t count your chickens before they hatch


Question: 'George Dufek became the first American to land here on October 31, 1956'

Answer: South Pole


Question: 'Name shared by a green-skinned Marvel Comics monster & a wrestler also nicknamed "Hollywood"'

Answer: Hulk


Question: 'The title of their 1983 "Synchronicity" album was inspired by the theories of Carl Jung'

Answer: The Police


Question: 'In 1998 this Mideast group got its status at the U.N. upgraded'

Answer: PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)


Question: 'A ghost appeared to Brutus before the Battle of Philippi; according to Shakespeare, it was this man's'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In a 1928 campaign slogan prosperity was defined as having a chicken here'

Answer: In every pot


Question: 'After what he did October 31, 1517 the Wittenberg Palace Church may have had to put up a "Post No Theses" sign'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst, host of "Rock & Roll Jeopardy!")  He had a howling good time as the announcer on the late-night rock music show "The Midnight Special"'

Answer: Wolfman Jack


Question: 'It's the proper term for a foot doctor'

Answer: Podiatrist


Question: 'Ralph Lauren donated $13 million to the Smithsonian, with most of it going to restore this piece of cloth'

Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner


Question: 'Meryl Streep & Winona Ryder appeared in the movie version of this ghostly Isabel Allende novel'

Answer: "The House of the Spirits"


Question: 'John Wayne played him twice, in 1969 & 1975'

Answer: Rooster Cogburn


Question: 'Poet born October 31, 1795; his parents may have found him "a joy forever"'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'This creature that terrorized Tokyo began life as a giant caterpillar'

Answer: Mothra


Question: 'He helped found the French Communist Party, as well as the Vietnamese one'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'In 1998 this country not only hosted the World Cup of men's soccer, it won it'

Answer: France


Question: 'This Methodist leader, a believer in the Holy Spirit, had a spirit in his home, Epworth Rectory'

Answer: John Wesley


Question: '4-word phrase for an overbearing & strutting man'

Answer: Cock of the walk


Question: 'The first word of the first book of the King James Version of the Bible'

Answer: In (the beginning)


Question: 'Head of the former head of the country, seen here:<br />(U.S. president, '81-'89)'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Henry Pu-Yi'

Answer: Peking


Question: 'This "Star Wars" actor's also been a futuristic bounty hunter in "Slipstream" & a fighting machine in "The Guyver"'

Answer: Mark Hamill


Question: 'Classic 3-word palindrome that could have been the world's first introduction'

Answer: "Madam, I\'m Adam"


Question: 'This unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald work about an exec was an indictment of Hollywood's film industry'

Answer: "The Last Tycoon"


Question: 'The first man to run 1.609 kilometers in under 4 minutes'

Answer: Roger Bannister


Question: 'He's the first-born of a "2nd":<br />(Queen Elizabeth's oldest)'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'As the evil Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon", this actor mirrored the dark side of Charlie Sheen's soul'

Answer: Tom Berenger


Question: 'Completes a palindrome appropriate for Napoleon: "Able was I..."'

Answer: "Ere I saw Elba"


Question: 'Henry VIII's first wife'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'She's got "A lot of living to do":'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: '1927's "Putting Pants on Philip" was a silent success for this first great comedy team of talking films'

Answer: Laurel & Hardy


Question: 'An engineering feat in Central America inspired "A man, a plan," these 3 words'

Answer: "A canal, Panama"


Question: 'Larry McMurtry introduced characters in this work who turn up again in "Duane's Depressed" & "Texasville"'

Answer: "The Last Picture Show"


Question: 'It's the first country in the world alphabetically'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'If you want to "Bob" for pumpkins, use his:<br />(original last name's Zimmerman)'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Mary Tyler Moore & Donald Sutherland were mom & dad in this 1980 drama about a troubled suburban family'

Answer: Ordinary People


Question: 'We have no idea what it means, but "Tarzan raised" this entertainer's "rat"'

Answer: Desi Arnaz\' rat


Question: 'Martin Scorsese brought this controversial Kazantzakis work to the big screen in 1988'

Answer: "The Last Temptation of Christ"


Question: 'They're the "Starr" witnesses seen here:'

Answer: Linda Tripp & Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'As The Denver Kid in a 1978 western spoof, Don Knotts was armed with "Hot Lead" & these title appendages'

Answer: Cold Feet


Question: 'The whimsical coinage "aibohphobia" means this'

Answer: Fear of palindromes


Question: 'This title horror character was created by its author at 6 Royal Crescent in the resort of Whitby in Yorkshire'

Answer: Dracula (created by Bram Stoker)


Question: 'In his debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln called it “A moral, social, and political evil”'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'He won his first Oscar for directing “Unforgiven”'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'It “comes in like a lion & goes out like a lamb”'

Answer: March


Question: 'The H.M.S. Titanic'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'This legendary railroad worker boasted “gonna die with the hammer in my hand”'

Answer: John Henry


Question: 'This parrot is known for its long, erectile crest'

Answer: a cockatoo


Question: 'He was at the 1901 Minnesota state fair when he said, “There is a homely adage which runs, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick’”'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'She won for not saying much as Ada McGrath in “The Piano”'

Answer: Holly Hunter


Question: 'As relected by its name, it was the seventh month in the Roman calendar'

Answer: September


Question: 'The U.S.S. Arizona'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'In 1986 Yuriy Syedikh set the world record in this track & field event at 284 feet 7 inches'

Answer: hammer throw


Question: 'For most of his life, Larry Fine had a job as one of these'

Answer: Stooge


Question: 'Before the Battle of Long Island, he told the Continental Army, “We have...to resolve to conquer or die”'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Susan Sarandon won for “Dead Man Walking” & he won for “Leaving Las Vegas”, which could have had the same title'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'This month was likely named for a Roman goddess of spring & growth'

Answer: May


Question: 'The U.S.S. Maine'

Answer: Havana Harbor


Question: 'Leprechauns can be located by the sound of their little hammers as they make these items of apparel'

Answer: shoes


Question: 'Lookin' like a beaver'

Answer: buck-toothed


Question: 'In his 1964 State of the Union Address, LBJ declared an “unconditional war against” this'

Answer: poverty


Question: 'Some didn't applaud the honorary Oscar to this “Streetcar” director & HUAC witness'

Answer: (Elia) Kazan


Question: 'The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 occurred during this month'

Answer: October


Question: 'The Russian submarine Kursk'

Answer: Barents (or Arctic Ocean)


Question: 'This Norse god has a hammer named Mjollnir'

Answer: Thor


Question: 'It's usually 2 or more sections of a company of troops & is headed by a lieutenant'

Answer: platoon


Question: 'About him Truman said, “The general doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday”'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'His 12 nominations for movies of the decade produced 1 win, Best Original Score for “Schindler's List”'

Answer: John Williams


Question: 'By presidential proclamation, this is American heart month'

Answer: Februrary


Question: 'The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'William Wallace's nemesis, Edward I of England, was called the hammer of these people'

Answer: Scots


Question: 'It's the word missing from the Oliver Sacks title “The Man Who ___ His Wife For A Hat”'

Answer: Mistook


Question: 'North Korea came into political being following the division of the Korean peninsula at the end of this war'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'Robin Hood's maid<br />(6)'

Answer: Marian


Question: 'She's the courageous woman seen here'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'In 1989 she released “Express Yourself” & got divorced from Sean Penn'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In 1932 he founded the Taliesin Fellowship in which students paid to live & work with him'

Answer: (Frank Lloyd) Wright


Question: 'It's the first palindrome name mentioned in the Bible'

Answer: Eve


Question: 'The highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit, she made an historic journey to North Korea in October 2000'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: '“Prince”ly Florentine author<br />(11)'

Answer: Machiavelli


Question: 'If you think dope is for kicks, you're out of your mind, once remarked this singer'

Answer: Billie Holiday


Question:
'This singer heard here was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1959:

"When it get too much /
I need to feel your touch /
I'm gonna run to you..."'

Answer: Bryan Adams


Question: 'He designed the geodesic dome for the United States Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'In 1962 Urundi became independent & changed its name by adding this letter'

Answer: B (for Burndi)


Question: 'North Korea's official name in English is this, abbreviated DPRK'

Answer: Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea


Question: 'Playwright Christopher, or detective Philip<br />(7)'

Answer: Marlowe


Question: 'Depicted here is this legendary saint holding her famous Biblical fabric'

Answer: Saint Veronica


Question: 'Surprise! They're the Euro trio who recorded “Take On Me”'

Answer: A-Ha


Question: 'Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'This color precedes berry, walnut & sheep'

Answer: black


Question: 'In 1994 the U.S. agreed to help North Korea build the less threatening light-water type of these'

Answer: nuclear reactors


Question: 'Guerre, or Chuzzlewit<br />(6)'

Answer: Martin


Question: 'Seen here: She was the victim of one of the most controversial royal break-ups ever in 1533'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'These 3 words, 2 English & 1 Russian, were the theme of an anti-drug concert in Moscow'

Answer: Just Say Nyet


Question: 'This Finn won 2nd prize in the Chicago Tribune building contest in 1922 & moved to the U.S. the following year'

Answer: Saarinen


Question: 'Insert a consonant in “round” & you get this word that also means round'

Answer: rotund


Question: 'This man assumed his father's leadership of North Korea in 1994'

Answer: Kim Jong Il


Question: 'Irish-born Iris<br />(7)'

Answer: Murdoch


Question: 'Spreading her winged arms, the Egyptian goddess seen here is guarding the tomb of Seti I'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'The first album by this band, including “Blister In The Sun”, went platinum without making the top 40'

Answer: Violent Femmes


Question: 'From 1920 to 1925 he & French painter Amedee Ozenfant edited L'Esprit Nouveau, an avant-garde magazine'

Answer: Le Corbusier


Question: 'Alphabetically, the aardvark is the first animal listed in the American Heritage Dictionary; this mammal is second'

Answer: aardwolf


Question: 'Founded as Pacific Aero Products in 1916, today this company is America's largest exporter, in total revenue'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'These 2 authors were both in their 20s when they wrote the pamphlet'

Answer: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels


Question: 'In the movie "M*A*S*H", Robert Duvall played this priggish doctor; on TV it was Larry Linville'

Answer: Major Frank Burns


Question: 'There may be thousands of ommatidia, light-sensitive units, in an insect's compound one of these'

Answer: Eyes


Question: 'A day room is a recreational area in these quarters for soldiers'

Answer: Barracks


Question: 'In 1767 his wife gave birth to a future U.S. president'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'Term for a 3D image you might see on your credit card'

Answer: Hologram


Question: 'The proletarians "have nothing to lose but" these'

Answer: Their chains


Question: '[Hi, I'm Earl Brown]  Because we look so much alike, I was cast as Warren, this actress' brother in "There's Something About Mary"'

Answer: Cameron Diaz


Question: 'It's said that in Asia, people learned how to make this by watching wasps'

Answer: Paper


Question: 'The name of this residence for ranch hands indicates its beds are stacked atop each other'

Answer: Bunkhouse


Question: 'You'll have missed it by that much if you don't know this man played inept TV secret agent Maxwell Smart'

Answer: Don Adams


Question: 'A trademarked delivery of sweets & a message'

Answer: Candygram


Question: 'The pamphlet was first printed in this city in 1848 in German, not English'

Answer: London


Question: 'In 1996 she got to play Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo'

Answer: Claire Danes


Question: 'Scientists take an EAG, an electroantennogram, to measure how a moth's antennae nerves pick up these sex odors'

Answer: Pheromones


Question: 'It's the French word for the type of Loire Valley home seen here; the region is famous for them'

Answer: Chateau


Question: 'This European politician seen here is often embroiled in controversy'

Answer: Gerry Adams (of Sinn Fein)


Question: 'A short, witty saying'

Answer: Epigram


Question: 'One of the authors figured they'd do for history what this man did for biology'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: 'This actress spent "Six Days, Seven Nights" on an island with Harrison Ford'

Answer: Anne Heche


Question: 'As most insects don't need to transport oxygen in their blood, they lack this protein that makes blood red'

Answer: Hemoglobin


Question: '2 residences with a common wall are called "semi" this'

Answer: Detached


Question: 'A large bear named Ben was the best friend of this Dan Haggerty TV character'

Answer: Grizzly Adams


Question: '35.28 ounces'

Answer: Kilogram


Question: 'The manifesto applies this term, originally meaning "the inhabitants of cities", to the middle class'

Answer: bourgeoisie


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tisha Campbell-Martin.) I was Sidney in 3 installments of this series featuring Kid N' Play'

Answer: House Party


Question: 'The whirligig beetle is one of the fastest insects at this activity; it can go 40 inches per second'

Answer: Swimming


Question: 'Common term for a low-income development, like Detroit's Brewster one where the Supremes grew up'

Answer: Project


Question: 'Beginning in the mid-1930s, this wilderness photographer served as a director of the Sierra Club'

Answer: Ansel Adams


Question: 'An X-ray of blood vessels'

Answer: Angiogram