Question: 'When his play "The Sea Gull" premiered in 1896, it was a complete failure, & he vowed never to write drama again'

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Question: 'This founder of the Socialist Party of America was imprisoned for organizing an 1894 strike against the Pullman Company'

Answer: Eugene V. Debs


Question: 'This American illustrator of "Treasure Island" trained daughter Henriette as well as son Andrew'

Answer: N.C. Wyeth


Question: 'Pleasing frozen H2O cost'

Answer: nice ice price


Question: 'Nickname of the area abandoned by the Okies & Arkies in the 1930s to go to California'

Answer: Dust Bowl


Question: 'This "Goodfella" sang "Yo Cousin Vinny" on his "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You" CD'

Answer: Joe Pesci


Question: 'He composed the familiar piece heard here<br />["Peter and the Wolf"]'

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev


Question: 'This union, the ILGWU, was a founder of the Liberal Party of New York state'

Answer: International Ladies\' Garment Workers Union


Question: 'This "Elder" of the art world was known for his silverpoint; his son was known for portraits of Henry VIII's wives'

Answer: Hans Holbein


Question: 'A Washington city graduation certificate's smell'

Answer: Tacoma diploma aroma


Question: 'An ad for this oceanliner May 1, 1915 warned passengers there was a state of war; the ship was sunk May 7'

Answer: Lusitania


Question: 'In 2001 this Oscar winner sang "Angelina", a romantic tribute to his fifth wife, on his album "Private Radio"'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton


Question: 'This choreographer who left Russia in 1924 married 4 of his ballerinas, including Maria Tallchief'

Answer: George Balanchine


Question: 'This leader of the United Mine Workers was known as the "Labor Baron"'

Answer: John L. Lewis


Question: 'Pieter Brueghel the Elder begot Pieter the Younger & this painter nicknamed "Velvet"'

Answer: Jan Brueghel


Question: 'To suffocate an additional male sibling'

Answer: smother another brother


Question: 'Popular name of the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944'

Answer: G.I. Bill of Rights


Question: 'Fans of her "Star Trek" role as Uhura go into orbit when they listen to her "Out of This World" CD'

Answer: Nichelle Nichols


Question: 'The first woman to fly in space, she later served in the Soviet parliament'

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova


Question: 'Among the purposes of this 1947 act was to prevent major strikes that would cause public emergencies'

Answer: Taft-Hartley Act


Question: '5 of this American artist's 17 children, including Raphaelle & Rembrandt, became artists'

Answer: Charles Willson Peale


Question: 'A bloody Loyalist tale'

Answer: gory Tory story


Question: 'After killing his wife's lover in Washington, D.C. in 1859, Rep. Daniel Sickles was the 1st to claim this, a 2-word term'

Answer: temporary insanity


Question: 'Mia's first of many films with this director was "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'Notable ones included McCullough's of Truman, Berg's of Lindbergh & Jack Miles' of God'

Answer: Autobiographies


Question: 'Wyoming's is the cottonwood'

Answer: State tree


Question: '"Super", when referring to a person who takes care of an apartment house, is short for this'

Answer: Superintendent


Question: 'This former Tennessee senator & current V.P. has been called "Prince Albert"'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'You know, last night I just sat & watched TV; I was like a lump on a bog'

Answer: Bump on a log


Question: 'In a 1976 TV special Mia played this role to Danny Kaye's Hook'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'This news personality's "America" told of his 12 favorite places found "On the Road"'

Answer: Charles Kuralt


Question: 'Minnesota's is the common loon'

Answer: State bird


Question: 'One of the jobs of a deshi in Japan is to wash the places on these athletes that they can't reach themselves'

Answer: Sumo wrestlers


Question: 'In 1998 John Conyers was reelected with 87% of the vote in this state's 14th congressional district'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'To raise money, the government may put a tin sax on tobacco'

Answer: Sin tax


Question: 'At the 1998 Kennedy Center Honors, Mia helped honor this conductor & ex-husband'

Answer: Andre Previn


Question: 'Seymour Hersh's 1997 JFK expose was titled "The Dark Side of" this'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'Delaware's is "Liberty and Independence"'

Answer: State motto


Question: '(Hi, I'm Billy Warlock of "General Hospital")  I started my career in Hollywood as a stunt double for Robin Williams on this TV series'

Answer: Mork and Mindy


Question: 'He didn't officially meet with his cabinet for the first 2 years of his term, preferring his "Kitchen Cabinet"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Dr. Spooner once talked of his queer old dean'

Answer: Dear old queen


Question: 'In 1978 Mia co-starred with Peter Ustinov, the first time he played this detective on film'

Answer: Hercule Poirot


Question: 'In Kathryn Harrison's memoir "The Kiss", it's her relationship to the man who gives her the kiss'

Answer: Daughter


Question: 'Missouri's is the hawthorn'

Answer: State flower


Question: 'Preceding "leader" it makes you head of a gang of thugs; before "master", head of a gang of circus acts'

Answer: Ring


Question: 'In 1998 Tom Harkin & this Tom, the Senate's Democratic leader, chaired a hearing on hog prices'

Answer: Tom Daschle


Question: 'It's the duff that streams are made of'

Answer: Stuff that dreams are made of


Question: 'In this 1974 film Mia played Daisy Buchanan'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'A Moscow mausoleum, or the title of David Remnick's book on "The Last Days of the Soviet Empire"'

Answer: "Lenin\'s Tomb"


Question: 'South Dakota's is the walleye'

Answer: State fish


Question: 'Elizabeth II doesn't do this herself; she has a hereditary grand almoner to do it for her'

Answer: Contribute to charities


Question: 'This Democrat's "Cross of Gold" speech supported the bimetallic theory'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: '"When the boys come home from France we'll have the hags flung out"'

Answer: Flags hung out


Question: 'Walking into this the first time, Lord Carnarvon reportedly called it "The greatest sight I have ever witnessed"'

Answer: King Tut\'s tomb


Question: 'This Gene Kelly musical takes place in a Hollywood making the adjustment to talkies'

Answer: Singin\' in the Rain


Question: 'The white types of these trees grow needles in bunches of 5; the yellow types, in bunches of 2 or 3'

Answer: Pine


Question: 'Laurence Harvey reigned in this regal role in the 1964 London production of "Camelot"'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'The civil code set up in France in 1804 is also known by this name'

Answer: Napoleonic Code


Question: 'Abel's assassin's aches'

Answer: Cain\'s pains


Question: 'While only a prince, Tuthmosis IV made a name for himself having this colossal statue restored'

Answer: the Sphinx


Question: 'He directed "8 1/2", a movie about a movie director'

Answer: Federico Fellini


Question: 'Many of the 2,000 species of this prickly plant burst open when more water is taken in than can be stored'

Answer: Cactus


Question: 'Noel Coward's 1947 drama "Peace in our Time" depicts life in England if this dictator had conquered it'

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: 'Earl Warren ruled on this man's case that a suspect must be warned prior to questioning that he can stay silent'

Answer: Ernesto Miranda


Question: 'An ark builder's feathered neck accessories'

Answer: Noah\'s boas


Question: 'This ancient capital grew up around Pepi I's pyramid, Men-nefer-mare'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'In this 1941 Preston Sturges film, a director sets out to research poverty with only a dime in his pocket'

Answer: Sullivan\'s Travels


Question: 'The cinchona tree, the source for this malaria drug, was once plentiful in South America; now it's grown mainly on Java'

Answer: Quinine


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ekaterina Gordeeva)  Chekhov's "Three Sisters" dream of going to this city -- my birthplace'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'In 1970 a woman used this pseudonym when she sued Texas D.A. Henry Wade to allow her an abortion'

Answer: Jane Roe


Question: 'The third gospel author's fists'

Answer: Luke\'s dukes


Question: '2-word name for the site south of Cairo where Ramses II built 2 sandstone temples'

Answer: Abu Simbel


Question: 'John Turturro played this title screenwriter in a 1991 Coen Brothers film'

Answer: Barton Fink


Question: 'This bog fruit, Vaccinium macrocarpon, was first cultivated in Massachusetts around 1820'

Answer: Cranberry


Question: 'Sewamono plays are domestic dramas about middle-class life in this form of Japanese drama'

Answer: Kabuki


Question: 'He took on Ferguson in 1896 after refusing to sit in the railroad car for blacks only'

Answer: Homer Plessy


Question: 'The first woman's botanical wardrobe'

Answer: Eve\'s leaves


Question: 'Name shared by the second king of the 19th Dynasty & The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence'

Answer: Seti


Question: 'The 1998 film "Gods and Monsters" presents the last days of this director of "Frankenstein"'

Answer: James Whale


Question: 'This reddish spice from the inner bark of a laurel tree forms concentric rolls called quills when dried'

Answer: Cinnamon


Question: 'She adapted her own novel "Rebecca" for the stage in the 1940s; Drew Barrymore's aunt Diana starred in it'

Answer: Daphne du Maurier


Question: 'The 1936 Robinson-Patman Act revived & revised this man's Anti-Trust Act of 1890'

Answer: John Sherman


Question: 'The apostle to the Gentiles' journeys on his hands & knees'

Answer: Paul\'s crawls


Question: 'She titled her Ph.D. thesis "An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia"'

Answer: Margaret Mead


Question: 'Managerial accounting is a core course at Penn's Wharton, the USA's first of these schools'

Answer: Business school


Question: 'You could say Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the world's most "alien"ated teen on this series'

Answer: 3rd Rock From The Sun


Question: 'The "lamento" type of this operatic solo is a feature of early Italian operas'

Answer: Aria


Question: 'In 1894 Boston boardinghouse proprietor Susan Stavers came up with this classic tapioca dessert'

Answer: Tapioca pudding


Question: 'Before it was an Allen Funt TV show, it meant an unposed style of photography'

Answer: Candid camera


Question: 'In 1997 these paper-grading grad students struck the UC system for bargaining rights'

Answer: Teaching assistants


Question: 'We watched him grow into a teen on "The Wonder Years" & he's still "Working" today'

Answer: Fred Savage


Question: 'This cellist is the son of a composer from Shanghai & a mezzo-soprano from Hong Kong'

Answer: Yo-Yo Ma


Question: 'Unprocessed tapioca is this type of substance, related to the type that stiffens shirts'

Answer: Starch


Question: 'A device for making baked treats in specific shapes, or anything formulaic & unoriginal'

Answer: Cookie cutter


Question: 'Appropriately, you take this form of spoken exam to complete the Mayo Clinic's orthodontics residency program'

Answer: Oral exam


Question: 'It's the name of the witch played by the young lady seen here'

Answer: Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart)


Question: 'An 1829 visit to Holyrood Palace in this city inspired Mendelssohn's "Scottish Symphony"'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'As a stabilizer, tapioca can prevent the dreaded fall of this French-named dessert'

Answer: Souffle


Question: 'Fictional character seen here illustrated by his creator'

Answer: Dr. Dolittle


Question: 'Given to the city in 1742, this famous landmark burned in 1761, was rebuilt in 1763 & was enlarged in 1805'

Answer: Faneuil Hall


Question: 'This term from Latin for "seed" refers to a small group of students discussing an often arcane topic'

Answer: Seminar


Question: 'Benjamin Salisbury, seen here, shines as Brighton Sheffield on this sitcom'

Answer: The Nanny


Question: 'This American pianist was in his 20s when he won the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 1958'

Answer: Van Cliburn


Question: 'Kraft's tapioca, as well as its rice, has this "timely" brand name'

Answer: Minute


Question: 'Gymnasts run & somersault on this 4-inch wide apparatus'

Answer: Balance beam


Question: 'At the end of The Freedom Trail a granite monument on Breed's Hill marks the site of this important battle'

Answer: Bunker Hill


Question: 'The condition called "ABD" stands for "All But" this imposing piece of work'

Answer: Dissertation


Question: 'Alicia Witt was a teen contestant on "Wheel Of Fortune" before she played Zoe on this sitcom'

Answer: Cybill


Question: 'Composer who wrote the famous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15, "The Rakoczy March", heard here'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'These tapioca-producing parts of the cassava plant can weigh over 20 pounds'

Answer: Roots


Question: 'This "bouncy" old expletive includes the name of a Biblical king of Judah'

Answer: Jumpin\' Jehosaphats!


Question: 'Hundreds of islands make up about 20% of this European nation'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In this 1984 film classic, city boy Kevin Bacon moved to a small town that had outlawed dancing'

Answer: Footloose


Question: 'Henry Jolt'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'The neighbors of this country include Saudi Arabia & oh-oh, Iraq'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: 'This "Disco Queen" had us all dancing in the '70s with "I Love You", "I Feel Love" & "Love To Love You Baby"'

Answer: Donna Summer


Question: 'On Aug. 1, 1981 MTV aired its first video, this one by the Buggles'

Answer: Video Killed The Radio Star


Question: 'Almost 10% of the U.S. population in 1996 was foreign born, with the greatest number, 6.7 million, from this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'In 1934 & 1935 history's longest march covered 6,000 miles, 18 mountain ranges & 24 rivers, in this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Sir Lowdown Woo'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Carlos Roberto Flores is the current president of this Central American nation'

Answer: Honduras


Question: 'This West Point washout & author of "The Raven" was born in Boston in 1809'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'This singer was on his best behavior with the song heard here ("Goody Two Shoes")'

Answer: Adam Ant


Question: 'If the mass of Earth equals 1, this planet's mass is about .8, almost the same'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'After months of assault, the valiant fighters of this Russian city smashed the Nazi Sixth Army in 1943'

Answer: Stalingrad


Question: 'Acid Logic Novel'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'This country is named after a Genoese explorer'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Born in Boston in 1931, she was the first female to co-anchor a regular nightly network newscast'

Answer: Barbara Walters


Question: 'In a 1988 debate, he told Dan Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"'

Answer: Lloyd Bentsen


Question: 'The first one of these was in 1941:  it lasted 10 seconds & cost Bulova $9'

Answer: TV commercial


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm astronaut Wendy Lawrence aboard the space shuttle Discovery.  Many space shuttle missions have taken U.S. astronauts to the orbiting Russian space station Mir.)  This woman who spent six months on Mir in 1996 holds the U.S. astronaut record for consecutive days in space"'

Answer: Dr. Shannon Lucid


Question: 'A Carbon Hillman'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'This north African country has been part of the Ottoman & Carthaginian Empires'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'A onetime Unitarian pastor, he transcended with works like "Self-Reliance" & "The American Scholar"'

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Question: 'He's the artist who created the work seen here'

Answer: Patrick Nagel


Question: 'In 1997 the U.S. imported the greatest amount of oil from this country, the closest OPEC member to us'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'In 1926 she swam the English Channel in 14 1/2 hours, breaking the men's record by 2 hours'

Answer: Gertrude Ederle


Question: 'Swank Jean Cord'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'With the same initials as the author, Harry Haller is the loner protagonist of this 1927 German novel'

Answer: Steppenwolf (by Hermann Hesse)


Question: 'The taste buds that sense sweetness are on the tip of this organ'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Michael, Jackie, Marlon, Jermaine & Tito did their own voices on the '70s cartoon show about these brothers'

Answer: the Jacksons


Question: 'In 1972 the mayor of Burbank, Illinois limited trick or treating on this holiday'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'Los Angeles was hit by a major one January 17'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'Some archaic versions of this sewing device had hooks rather than eyes to hold the thread'

Answer: a needle


Question: 'When used to mean a road, pike is short for this'

Answer: turnpike


Question: 'Crowns put on front teeth are often made of porcelain; those put on back teeth, of this precious metal'

Answer: gold


Question: 'From 1952-54 "The Adventures of" this husband & wife played both on TV and radio'

Answer: Ozzie & Harriet


Question: 'The last Monday in March is Seward's Day in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'With one strike this sport was out of commission August 12, 1994'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Thread made of this fiber is often mercerized, giving it greater strength & affinity for dye'

Answer: cotton


Question: 'Members of this military group are called leathernecks'

Answer: Marines


Question: 'A week or two after the bite of an Anopheles mosquito, this disease's symptoms may appear'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'This John Ritter series that debuted in 1977 was based on the British TV series "Man About the House"'

Answer: Three\'s Company


Question: 'Maundy Thursday falls 3 days before this religious holiday'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'In December 1994 the Pacific island nation of Palau became its 185th member'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'This is sewing together 2 pieces of fabric with padding between, perhaps to make a bed cover'

Answer: quilting


Question: 'This word can mean a type of small deer or the eggs of a fish'

Answer: roe


Question: 'Chinese restaurant syndrome is a short-lived illness caused by eating this flavor enhancer'

Answer: MSG


Question: 'This actor refused his Oscar in 1971 but accepted an Emmy one month later for "The Price"'

Answer: George C. Scott


Question: 'Each May this small Arizona community celebrates Wyatt Earp Days'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'On July 17 Brazil became the first country to win this trophy a fourth time'

Answer: the World Cup


Question: 'Ebenezer Butterick is said to have invented the tissue paper type of this'

Answer: a pattern


Question: 'This 3-letter word can refer to smoked salmon or liquid oxygen'

Answer: lox


Question: 'About 1 in 400 African-Americans has this hereditary disease affecting the hemoglobin'

Answer: sickle-cell anemia


Question: 'At the end of each "Mork & Mindy" episode, Mork reported to this Orkan superior'

Answer: Orson


Question: 'This Christmas flower named for an American diplomat is honored on December 12'

Answer: Poinsettia


Question: '2 of the 3 people the U.S. sent to Haiti September 17, 1994 to negotiate a settlement'

Answer: (2 of) Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, & Senator Sam Nunn


Question: 'Term for a strip of fabric sewn with examples of different stitches, often in silk thread'

Answer: a sampler


Question: 'The name of this common device for regulating the flow of a liquid comes from Latin for "false"'

Answer: a faucet


Question: 'Throughout the '70s, this Arizona senator's son Barry Jr. was a U.S. representative from California'

Answer: (Barry) Goldwater


Question: 'Over protests from Vaclav Havel & others, this nation split into 2 states January 1, 1993'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'A 1981 version of this ballet featured Dame Margot Fonteyn as Lady Capulet'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'In Egyptian sculpture, a hieracosphinx has a hawk's head & this animal's body'

Answer: a lion


Question: 'In 220 this country's Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity'

Answer: China


Question: 'He dedicated "Moby Dick" to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'He was Speaker of the Mass. House of Rep. 1948-1952 & Speaker of the U.S. House 1977-1987'

Answer: Tip O\'Neill


Question: 'Charles Garnier, who designed the Paris Opera House, built the famous casino here in 1878'

Answer: Monte Carlo


Question: 'The name of the Israeli dance Mayim, Mayim means this liquid, this liquid'

Answer: water


Question: 'A museum in Ogdensburg, New York is devoted to this artist famous for his Wild West bronzes'

Answer: Remington


Question: 'In 1920 the League of Nations gave this neighboring country a mandate over the territory of Namibia'

Answer: South Africa


Question: '"The Remains of the Day" author Kazuo Ishiguro was a grouse beater for this grandmother of Prince Charles'

Answer: the Queen Mother


Question: 'Indicted on 17 felony counts, this longtime Illinois representative was defeated for reelection in 1994'

Answer: (Dan) Rostenkowski


Question: 'In 1973, after a 23-year reign, this country's King Gustav VI died at age 90'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'The name of the gavotte, a dance from this country, is from Provencal for "mountain dweller"'

Answer: France


Question: 'Luca Della Robbia specialized in sculpture made of this ceramic material whose name is Italian for "baked earth"'

Answer: terra cotta


Question: 'In 1025 Boleslaw I became this country's first king but died within the year'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'These brothers studied law at the University of Marburg before they started collecting folk tales'

Answer: the Brothers Grimm


Question: 'This senator who represented Maine from 1959 to 1980 was later a member of the Tower Commission'

Answer: Edmund Muskie


Question: 'It's the westernmost country of continental Europe'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Vernon & Irene Castle popularized the "hesitation" style of this ballroom dance'

Answer: the waltz


Question: 'Many of the figures Degas modeled in clay or this substance were cast in bronze after his death'

Answer: wax


Question: 'In July 1977 the military took over this nation & Gen. Zia ul-Haq became chief martial law administrator'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'This author of "Gorky Park" once wrote Western novels under the pseudonym Jake Logan'

Answer: Martin Cruz Smith


Question: 'The last political post William Jennings Bryan held was Secretary of State under this president'

Answer: (Woodrow) Wilson


Question: 'This large German city on the Elbe River was the birthplace of Felix Mendelssohn & Johannes Brahms'

Answer: Hamburg


Question: 'Some movements in the baile grande, a type of this Andalusian dance, resemble classical Hindu dance'

Answer: flamenco


Question: 'In the 1430s Donatello sculpted dancing cherubs for the Singing Gallery of the Duomo in this city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'In 1579 the Union of Utrecht was formed with this prince of Orange as its leader'

Answer: William of Orange


Question: 'He managed the publicity for such films as "Pinocchio" before he wrote "The Manchurian Candidate"'

Answer: (Richard) Condon


Question: 'Operas based on this author's works include "Il Talismano", "Il Templario" & "La Prigione d'Edimburgo"'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'This shipwrecked surgeon helps the Lilliputians defeat Blefescu, a neighboring empire'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers'

Answer: Alligators


Question: 'Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse'

Answer: Mario


Question: 'The Detroit, Huron & Grand Rivers flow into Lake Erie, & this river with a famous falls flows out of it'

Answer: Niagara


Question: 'It's said when this game was outlawed in the 1840s, some players added a tenth pin to get around the laws'

Answer: Ninepin


Question: 'Proverbially, it's what the mice do "when the cat's away"'

Answer: Play


Question: 'The first chapter of this novel is titled "The Old Sea-Dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'"'

Answer: "Treasure Island"


Question: 'Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Seen here, she's the star of one of the hottest video games ever'

Answer: Lara Croft


Question: 'The Dee & Don Rivers are scenic features of Aberdeen, in this country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'This term for a between-meal snack comes from Yiddish'

Answer: Nosh


Question: 'In other words, "Similar to a flying mammal leaving Hades"'

Answer: Like a bat out of Hell


Question: 'She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept'

Answer: Kidney


Question: '"Toy Story" character who is now Burger King's spokespud'

Answer: Mr. Potato Head


Question: 'This river separates Cambridge from Boston'

Answer: Charles


Question: 'A province of ancient Egypt, or a city in modern Alaska'

Answer: Nome


Question: 'If these are "deserting the sinking ship", you might want to get off'

Answer: Rats


Question: 'This Kipling beggar boy becomes a chela, or disciple, of a Tibetan lama'

Answer: Kim


Question: 'Wow!  A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date'

Answer: Hook


Question: 'TV series set inside a computer that features the characters seen here'

Answer: ReBoot


Question: 'The Platte River joins it near Omaha; the Kansas River joins it at Kansas City'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Perhaps from a word for "lump", it's a small lump of gold, or of wisdom'

Answer: Nugget


Question: 'In other words, "As comfy as an insect in a carpet"'

Answer: As snug as a bug in a rug


Question: 'In this novel of the future, Mustapha Mond "had been the first to reveal the...dangers of family life"'

Answer: "Brave New World"


Question: 'Did you hear?  This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke'

Answer: Fred Grandy


Question: '1 of the 2 computer games that feature the clay man Klaymen seen here'

Answer: "The Neverhood" or "Skullmonkeys"


Question: 'In Arabic, it's Nahr Al-Urdunn'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'This shark may have earned its name because the male hangs on to the female's fin with his teeth'

Answer: Nurse shark


Question: 'If you feel young, you feel like this kind of non-winter barnyard fowl'

Answer: Spring chicken


Question: 'Points in the X & Y axes are called Cartesian coordinates in honor of this man'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'This Pennsylvania nuclear power plant's No. 2 reactor malfunctioned on March 28, 1979'

Answer: Three Mile Island


Question: 'Medieval Bic'

Answer: Quill


Question: 'Most of the time, this month is exactly 2 fortnights long'

Answer: February


Question: 'Most protozoans reproduce by this asexual method which President Clinton wants to ban for humans'

Answer: Cloning


Question: 'NBC will pay Warner a record $13 million an episode to keep this series on the network'

Answer: ER


Question: 'It's the century in which calculus was created'

Answer: 17th century


Question: 'One of 1982's bestsellers was this author's "2010: Odyssey Two"'

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke


Question: 'The sensitive area of flesh under your fingernails; you can be "cut to" it'

Answer: Quick


Question: 'This holiday always gives federal employees their first 3-day weekend of the year'

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr. Day


Question: 'Many think that a few hundred thousand years ago, Homo erectus evolved into this taxonomic group'

Answer: Homo sapiens


Question: 'In 1998 this comedienne took her talk show from New York to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California'

Answer: Rosie O\'Donnell


Question: 'Calculus is featured in this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, heard here'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'This song, heard here, was a No. 1 hit in 1979<br />(sung by the Knack)'

Answer: "My Sharona"


Question: 'In 1996 id Software developed this shoot-em-up top seller; in 1997, a sequel'

Answer: "Quake"


Question: 'It's the total number of seconds in a hour'

Answer: 3,600


Question: 'The process of pasteurization kills harmful types of these in milk'

Answer: Bacteria


Question: 'This Michael Crichton novel was shaped into a 1998 Warner Bros. film by Barry Levinson'

Answer: Sphere


Question: 'With Cambridge closed because of the plague, he developed calculus at his mother's farm in Woolsthorpe'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'In 1980 he was recognized as the leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity'

Answer: Lech Walesa


Question: 'Shapes seen here'

Answer: Quadrilaterals


Question: 'It's the warning given twice in every NFL game'

Answer: Two-minute warning


Question: 'Oswald Avery discovered it wasn't a protein but this acid that transfers genetic material'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'Warner Bros.' 1998 film "U.S. Marshals" is a follow-up to this 1993 hit'

Answer: The Fugitive


Question: 'Leibniz, an inventor of calculus, was an adviser to this "Great" Russian czar'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'In 1981 this cranky American defeated Bjorn Borg at the U.S. Open'

Answer: John McEnroe


Question: 'It's a synonym for idiosyncrasy'

Answer: Quirk


Question: 'Germany was first to adopt the system known as this; they did it in 1915 to conserve energy during the war'

Answer: Daylight saving time


Question: 'From the Latin for "frenzy", it's the regular period of ovulation in female mammals'

Answer: Estrous


Question: 'A Warner's album of his romantic best includes the following'

Answer: Rod Stewart


Question: '1 of 2 names shared by both a Major League Baseball team & an NFL team'

Answer: Cardinals (St. Louis [baseball] & Phoenix [football]) or Giants (San Francisco [baseball] & New York [football])


Question: 'An ad reading "Folk & Roll musicians singers for acting roles in new TV series" helped form this '60s band'

Answer: The Monkees


Question: 'Known as "the Father of Pennsylvania", he also fathered 8 children'

Answer: William Penn


Question: 'Kansas is the heartland--this point for the lower 48 states is even located near the town of Lebanon'

Answer: the geographic center


Question: 'Interest in diamonds in this color soared when Ben gave Jen a big one set in her engagement ring'

Answer: pink


Question: 'On Jan. 1, 2005, a 207-foot train spouting fireworks & a 50-foot robot were highlights of this event'

Answer: the Rose Parade


Question: 'It might dawn on you that it's the 11th sign of the zodiac'

Answer: Aquarius


Question: '"Are we not men?  We are" this New Wave group that gave us "Whip It"'

Answer: Devo


Question: 'In 1997, this nun wrote a Nashville coffee house to stop it from selling souvenirs of a cinnamon roll in her image'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'Cyrus Holliday helped found this city & became president of the railroad whose name included it'

Answer: Topeka


Question: 'Alaska's state gem (since 1968) or Mick Jagger's gem of a daughter (since 1971)'

Answer: Jade


Question: 'He was the first MLB player to have 200 hits in 10 different years'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question:
'Erving,
Rosenberg or
Nyerere'

Answer: Julius


Question: 'Bon Scott of this hard rock group was rejected by the Australian army as "socially maladjusted"'

Answer: AC/DC


Question: 'It's the last name of Moses, the father of Stephen, who settled 300 families in Texas in the 1820s'

Answer: Austin


Question: 'The skyscrapers of much of Kansas are silos & this type of structure seen here'

Answer: a grain elevator


Question: 'A stunning 330-carat star sapphire called the "Star of" this continent is on display at the Smithsonian'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'He invented an electrically controlled naval mine as well as the 6-shooter'

Answer: (Samuel) Colt


Question: '8-letter term that's almost impossible to believe; why, it's "absolutely"...'

Answer: fabulous


Question: 'In 1989, Rolling Stone named this "murmur"-ing quartet "America's hippest band"'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'Married to King Henry VIII, she was the mother of Edward VI'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'Located in the K.C. Metro Area, the city called this "Park" is now Kansas' largest after Wichita'

Answer: Overland Park


Question: 'Often worn in the Southwest, this "bluish" stone is said to protect riders from falling off their horses'

Answer: turquoise


Question: 'Though patented in 1862, this crank-operated machine gun didn't become official U.S. Army weaponry until 1866'

Answer: the Gatling Gun


Question: 'From the French for "to compose", its a wandering medieval singer'

Answer: a troubadour


Question: '"I want you to want" this Robin Zander band that went platinum "at Budokan"'

Answer: Cheap Trick


Question: 'St. Ambrose credits this mother of Constantine with finding the true cross of Jesus'

Answer: Helena


Question: 'A Coffeyville museum tells of the 1892 attempted bank robbery by this gang & how they got shot up by the citizenry'

Answer: the Dalton Boys


Question: 'The black type of this October birthstone is quite rare, & more valuable than the fire variety'

Answer: opal


Question: 'Her Oct. 7, 1914 wedding day would prove to be a focal point of American politics'

Answer: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


Question: 'From a word for a drinking vessel (which explains a lot), it's the meeting of party leaders to select candidates'

Answer: a caucus


Question:
'Dick Deadeye, a sailor;
Admiral Sir Joseph Porter;
Captain Corcoran'

Answer: H.M.S. Pinafore


Question: 'Gordon Jump played radio station manager Arthur Carlson on this sitcom'

Answer: WKRP in Cincinnati


Question: 'Encephalon is another name for this organ'

Answer: the brain


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.)  Possibly related to the word "flank", it's a rim or collar, like this one on a pipe'

Answer: a flange


Question: '...was in the ROTC at New York's City College'

Answer: (Colin) Powell


Question: 'If you own Wyoming, your land covers 62.7 million of these'

Answer: acres


Question:
'Narraboth,
Herodias,
John the Baptist'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'Starbuck was the ace pilot who helped fight off the evil Cylons on this '70s sci-fi show'

Answer: Battlestar Galactica


Question: 'The name of this snail-shell-shaped part of the inner ear is from the Latin for "snail shell"'

Answer: cochlea


Question: 'A person who talks a lot of hot air, or the air-filled chamber of a bagpipe'

Answer: a windbag


Question: '...refused an appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1798, but became its chief in 1801'

Answer: (John) Marshall


Question: 'This type of mythological creature is often shown drawing the chariot of Dionysus'

Answer: a centaur


Question:
'Klingsor, a sorcerer;
Amfortas, keeper of the grail;
Gurnemanz, a knight'

Answer: Parsifal


Question: 'John Astin was Lt. Cdr. Matthew Sherman on this '70s sub-set sitcom'

Answer: Operation Petticoat


Question: 'About 2/3 of the weight of bone tissue consists of the minerals phosphate, carbonate & this'

Answer: calcium


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.)  As opposed to a dimmer switch, a simple two-setting light switch has this 6-letter name'

Answer: toggle


Question: '...gave way to Edmund Randolph in 1794'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'To make into law'

Answer: enact


Question:
'Beppe,
Silvio,
Canio the head clown'

Answer: I Pagliacci


Question: 'This sitcom's theme song said, "I used to be sad, I used to be shy, funniest thing, the saddest part is I never knew why..."'

Answer: Alice


Question: 'This endocrine gland controls the rate at which cells burn food & produce energy'

Answer: the thyroid gland


Question: 'This term for a plug that closes off a test tube can also mean a baseball team's most reliable pitcher'

Answer: a stopper


Question: '...survived an assassination attempt on the night his boss was shot'

Answer: Seward


Question: 'Tennyson wrote of these, "idle" these, "from the depth of some divine despair"'

Answer: tears


Question:
'The Duke of Mantua,
Gilda,
Count Monterone'

Answer: Rigoletto


Question: 'Tom Bosley voiced Harry Boyle, the dad referred to in the title of this animated series'

Answer: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home


Question: 'If these air sacs were flattened out, the lungs would have a surface area of up to 1,000 square feet'

Answer: the alveoli


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.)  It's not "that little piece of film that sticks out so you can load the camera", it's really called this'

Answer: the (film) leader


Question: '...held the post until 1849 & was the last to eventually become president'

Answer: Buchanan


Question: 'Cicatrix is a synonym for this medical word'

Answer: a scar


Question: 'Kings Edward IV & Edward V, the future Henry VII & the corpse of Henry VI appear in the play named for him'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'This D.C. paper led all others in pursuing the story of the Watergate break-in'

Answer: The Washington Post


Question: 'The primate order is characterized by having these instead of claws'

Answer: fingernails


Question: 'It was named after a nickname of Detroit'

Answer: Motown


Question: 'This late artist was also a jewelry designer; you might expect his watches to be limp'

Answer: Salvador Dalí


Question: 'This word that follows golden, silver & gin in cocktail names refers to the addition of soda water'

Answer: fizz


Question: 'A bequest or gift, especially to a university'

Answer: an endowment


Question: 'In 1988 Rupert Murdoch sold this NYC tabloid to Peter Kalikow, who's now trying to keep it alive'

Answer: The New York Post


Question: 'To reach really high foliage the gerenuk, an antelope, does this'

Answer: stands on its hind legs


Question: 'You'll also find the name of this British label, begun by Richard Branson in 1973, on an airline'

Answer: Virgin


Question: 'The "Thinker" guards the entrance to the Philadelphia museum devoted to this sculptor'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'The flowers of this plant give beer its bitter taste'

Answer: hops


Question: 'This salad vegetable looks a lot like lettuce except its leaves are curlier'

Answer: endive


Question: 'Both the Cleveland Plain Dealer & this St. Louis paper are owned by the Newhouse family'

Answer: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch


Question: 'The horn of the rhino is made of these packed together'

Answer: hairs


Question: 'This ex-Beatle does his own releases on his own label--Dark Horse'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'An artist dedicated to reviving early Renaissance style & methods is described as "pre-" this'

Answer: Raphaelite


Question: 'This brandy made from hard cider was called Jersey lightning in Colonial times'

Answer: applejack


Question: 'It's the brand of dentistry that deals with the tooth pulp & tissues'

Answer: endodontics


Question: 'This paper is noted for its historic rivalry with the Rocky Mountain News'

Answer: The Denver Post


Question: 'Name given to both the smallest rabbit & the smallest shrew on the North American continent'

Answer: pygmy


Question: 'In 1948 this label introduced the first LP'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Egypt's temple of Abu Simbel features 4 figures of this pharaoh carved out of the rock'

Answer: Ramses II


Question: 'This juice makes a cape codder cocktail red'

Answer: cranberry juice


Question: 'Completes the title of the Walt Whitman poem "Out of the Cradle..."'

Answer: "Endlessly Rocking"


Question: 'Seattle's leading morning paper has this unusual name'

Answer: The Post-Intelligencer


Question: 'The largest & fastest members of the dolphin family, they're also known as orcas'

Answer: killer whales


Question: 'Folk label whose name means "forefront"; it had its 1st new release in 8 yrs. with "Different World" in 1990'

Answer: Vanguard


Question: 'His paintings of flags & targets at a one-man show in 1958 unleashed a storm of controversy'

Answer: Jasper Johns


Question: 'The name of this California co. means a wooden seat built into a wall near an open fireplace'

Answer: Inglenook


Question: 'In Greek myth, the moon goddess Selene was in love with this shepherd'

Answer: Endymion


Question: 'If run in reverse an electric motor becomes one of these devices that produces electric current'

Answer: a generator


Question: 'Johann was his actual first name; Wolfgang was 1 of his middle names'

Answer: (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus) Mozart


Question: 'In the first Punic War, the troops of his father, Hamilcar Barca, were defeated by the Romans in Sicily'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'In a song from "42nd Street" people "shuffled off to" this New York city'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'A British crew sailed a replica of this ship from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Mass. in 1957'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'He used incidents from his captivity as a pirates' slave for "Don Quixote"'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'It's the branch of biology dealing with heredity; everybody into the pool!'

Answer: genetics


Question: 'As a teenager, this Israeli violinist made his American debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958'

Answer: Itzhak Perlman


Question: 'Abdicating the imperial throne on August 6, 1806, Francis II was its last ruler'

Answer: the Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'You can visit Thomas Paine's home there, but not Rob Petrie's'

Answer: New Rochelle


Question: 'Because many rulers of these Nordic people were buried in their ships, some vessels have survived'

Answer: the Vikings


Question: 'This author describes "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" at a Stalinist labor camp'

Answer: Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'It's found in layered beds or as nodules in chalk; early man chipped it to form tools'

Answer: flint


Question: 'This Spanish cellist gave White House recitals for Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 & JFK in 1961'

Answer: Casals


Question: 'Union with this Baltic country in 1386 made Poland Europe's largest country'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'It's home to Kodak & Xerox'

Answer: Rochester


Question: 'Of the bow, the forecastle & the poop, the one situated at the stern of a ship'

Answer: the poop


Question: 'To escape debtor's prison, John Cleland wrote this bawdy book about "A Woman of Pleasure" in 1748'

Answer: Fanny Hill


Question: 'Tube that forms the basis of an oscilloscope'

Answer: a cathode ray tube


Question: 'He produced over 30 operas in London from "Rinaldo" in 1711 to "Deidamia" in 1741'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'In ancient Greece, Athens had its Delian League of city-states while Sparta had this league'

Answer: the Peloponnesian League


Question: 'Odysseus might call this city home as it shares its name with the island he was from'

Answer: Ithaca


Question: 'These sailing ships were the largest in the Spanish Armada'

Answer: galleons


Question: 'In "Midnight Express", Billy Hayes gave his account of time spent in prison in this country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'This propulsion proposed for interstellar trips uses a flow of electrons & has been tested in Earth orbit'

Answer: an ion drive


Question: 'After this Russian died, his "Prince Igor" opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov'

Answer: Aleksandr Borodin


Question: 'Called greatest Catholic missionary of modern times, he introduced Christianity into Japan in 1549'

Answer: Francis Xavier


Question: 'At a congress in this city in 1754 Ben Franklin put forth a plan for unity of the colonies'

Answer: Albany


Question: 'It has surpassed Liberia as the country with the most merchant ships under its flag'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Though his "Cell 2455, Death Row" became a best seller, it didn't save him from execution'

Answer: Caryl Chessman


Question: 'It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'This "at all costs," this "in spite of all terror," this "however long and hard the road may be" (V is for...)'

Answer: victory


Question: '"100 Doses" & "Bad Day To Be A Rhesus Monkey" were on the soundtrack to this 2011 medical thriller'

Answer: Contagion


Question: 'From the Gaelic, it's a poet, from Avon or not'

Answer: a bard


Question: 'At her wedding, Kate Middleton wore a diamond one of these, her something borrowed (from the Queen)'

Answer: a tiara


Question: 'This Central American country named for the Savior contains a central range of 20 volcanoes'

Answer: El Salvador


Question: 'Neverland'

Answer: (James) Barrie


Question: 'It's whom Churchill called "a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder"'

Answer: Hitler


Question: 'This invitation to insanity is the first song on the "Purple Rain" soundtrack'

Answer: "Let\'s Go Crazy"


Question: 'A large group of families that are related, it's from the Gaelic for "family"'

Answer: a clan


Question: 'You can wear an ascot to Ascot or this hat to the horse race of the same name at Epsom Downs'

Answer: derby


Question: 'The Chittagong Hills of this country lie along its borders with Burma & India'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Eastasia & Oceania'

Answer: (George) Orwell


Question: 'In a 1940 speech in the House of Commons, "Men will still say: 'This was their ____ hour'"'

Answer: finest


Question: 'This Jeff Bridges sequel featured tracks called "The Grid" & "The Son of Flynn"'

Answer: Tron: Legacy


Question: 'In Gaelic this historic catastrophe is known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger)'

Answer: the Irish Potato Famine


Question: 'A stovepipe hat is an elongated type of this hat'

Answer: a top hat


Question: 'The river sharing the name of this landlocked land in central South America forms a seasonal swamp, the Pantanal'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'Shangri-La'

Answer: James Hilton


Question: '"The maxim of the British people is" this "as usual"'

Answer: business


Question: 'This 1984 film included Salieri's 1788 "Axur, Re d'Ormus"'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'From the Gaelic for "war cry", it's a distinctive phrase or saying used to advertise a product'

Answer: a slogan


Question: 'The name of this headdress & the word "tulip" are derived from the same word'

Answer: turban


Question: 'A fluffy toy dog is named for this historical region along Poland's Baltic coast'

Answer: Pomerania


Question: 'San Lorenzo & Tralfamadore'

Answer: (Kurt) Vonnegut


Question: '"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by" these'

Answer: the facts


Question: 'Rick Garcia sang "Welcome Amigo" & Los Lobos the theme song for this 2011 animated film'

Answer: Rango


Question: 'It's a large 2-edged Scottish broadsword'

Answer: a claymore


Question: 'The name of this head scarf is the Russian word for "grandmother"'

Answer: babushka


Question: 'This country off Africa's coast is made up of the Barlavento island group & the Sotavento island group'

Answer: Cape Verde


Question: 'Pern'

Answer: (Anne) McCaffrey


Question: 'J.G. Fichte made ethics a matter of doing one's this around the same time Lord Nelson was expecting each man to "do his" this'

Answer: duty


Question: 'At 144 degrees ovotransferrin in these common food items denatures & they then begin to set'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'This golden-brown tint from a marine animal is applied to black & white images to give them an antique look'

Answer: sepia


Question: 'C:<br />The levator scapulae, for example; it helps raise the shoulder blade'

Answer: a muscle


Question: 'Around 1050 Yaroslav I issued the first Russian code of law, the Russkaya Pravda, or "Russian" this'

Answer: Truth


Question: 'Putting a letter before the first name of a "Grease" actress fills the seats in La Paz'

Answer: Bolivia Newton-John


Question: 'A book called "Ethical" this dietary practice covers Pythagoras, Shelley & Gandhi'

Answer: Vegetarianism


Question: 'This fruit-based carbohydrate is what gels jams & jellies'

Answer: pectin


Question: 'From Latin for "drawn away", it refers to art that doesn't represent recognizable physical forms'

Answer: abstract


Question: 'U:<br />This feeling of remorse that your grandmother may try to instill in you'

Answer: guilt


Question: 'On Sept. 1, 2004 terrorists from this breakaway republic took more than a thousand hostages at a school in Beslan'

Answer: Chechnya


Question: 'Adding a letter to a "There's Something About Mary" star's name makes her more bankable in Yaounde'

Answer: Cameroon Diaz


Question: 'Washington Hospital Center has a 35-member committee on this to help sort out painful decisions'

Answer: bioethics


Question: 'You can kill nasty things in wooden cutting boards with the acidity in the white type of this--Heinz wants you to know'

Answer: vinegar


Question: 'It's the "disappearing" 2-word term for the place in a painting where receding parallel lines seem to meet'

Answer: the vanishing point


Question: 'P:<br />This French word for a highly successful & unexpected act'

Answer: a coup


Question: 'In 1916 Prince Yusupov poisoned & shot this svengali before finally drowning him'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: 'A famed lyricist, not brother George, is the big draw in Tehran'

Answer: Iran Gershwin


Question: 'Monistic theories reduce the search for good to one thing, like pleasure in the case of this theory'

Answer: hedonism


Question: 'Careful when eating bagels with these seeds on them--you could test positive for heroin!'

Answer: poppy seeds


Question: 'Mind your this 16th c. Italian art movement that gave us long-necked Madonnas'

Answer: Mannerism


Question: 'M:<br />This memory-assisting type of phrase'

Answer: a mnemonic


Question: 'In August 2011 a retired cop was charged in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, of this profession'

Answer: journalism


Question: 'A boxer from Louisville has a big pay day in Bamako when you add a letter to his name'

Answer: Mohammed Mali


Question: 'The idea that the good can be objectively found is part of this -ism, also referring to obsessively high standards'

Answer: perfectionism


Question: 'Activia says its yogurt is creamy & full of this type of culture that boosts health'

Answer: probiotic


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a painting shown on a monitor.)  In art composition, to make the painting more interesting, divide it & put the focus along the lines to follow this fractional rule'

Answer: the rule of thirds


Question: 'S:<br />This 7-letter word that means "fitting" or "opportunely"'

Answer: apropos


Question: 'In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Bolsheviks & this group whose name means "minority"'

Answer: Mensheviks


Question: 'After inserting a letter into a late actress' name, "Hud" is sold out for weeks in Katmandu'

Answer: Patricia Nepal


Question: 'A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this'

Answer: pi


Question: 'In trucking a triple-sized one of these, pulled by a tractor, can be as long as a 10-story building'

Answer: trailer


Question: 'In 2002 Mr. Potato Head was the guest of honor at the annual Spud Day celebration in Shelley in this state'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'When Lake Bonneville evaporated thousands of years ago, it left tons of this on the flats'

Answer: salt


Question: 'On the back of the current U.S. bill fronted by this man, you can see a statue of him'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: '1973 brought the first Bond theme performed by a rock group: this title track heard here'

Answer: "Live and Let Die" (by Paul McCartney & Wings)


Question: 'A simpler way of saying "more lobster-colored"'

Answer: redder


Question: '(Sophia of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Goodyear blimp facility)  2 major types of airships are non-rigid, or blimps, & rigid, also called by this name of a German count'

Answer: Zeppelin


Question: 'In June at a Tuscumbia, Alabama festival honoring her, "The Miracle Worker" is performed at her birthplace'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'Lake Mead straddles the border between these 2 states'

Answer: Arizona & Nevada


Question: 'He's the only man on a current U.S. bill who petitioned for an officer's commission in the British military'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Nobody does it better than this woman who sang "Nobody Does It Better"'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'A car model from Honda'

Answer: Civic


Question: 'In the 1940s Robert Edison Fulton Jr. designed the Airphibian, a car that was also one of these'

Answer: plane


Question: 'The Jewish festival of Shavuot commemorates the revelation of the Torah at this site'

Answer: Mount Sinai


Question: 'The community college in Canandaigua, New York is named for this "handy" group of bodies of water'

Answer: Finger Lakes


Question: 'Inflation?  In 1907 he was on the 5-dollar bill; today he's worth 4 times that'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'This 1965 song heard here almost didn't get used in favor of one called "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"'

Answer: "Thunderball"


Question: 'A noise made by a chick, or to look quickly or secretly'

Answer: peep


Question: 'Offered since 1959, it gives you travel for a fixed time period on train systems in 17 European countries'

Answer: Eurailpass


Question: 'During WWI, WWII & the Energy Crisis of 1974-75, the U.S. adopted this for most of the year to economize on fuel'

Answer: Daylight Savings Time


Question: 'Fed by lakes Victoria & Edward, it's also known as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko'

Answer: Lake Albert


Question: 'It took 20 years & Duran Duran to take a Bond tune to No. 1 -- this 1985 hit'

Answer: "A View to a Kill"


Question: 'A "bubble-headed" carpenter's tool'

Answer: level


Question: 'Scheduled to set sail in 2004, its logo is seen here<br />(QM2)'

Answer: Queen Mary 2


Question: 'This N.M. national park has a Bat Flight Breakfast in August so that visitors can view bats returning to their caves'

Answer: Carlsbad Caverns


Question: 'The axolotl is a salamander found in Lake Xochimilco near this world capital'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'This singer heard here was the first to perform onscreen during a Bond title sequence'

Answer: Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only")


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks out from behind a helicopter)  It's the name for the hard-working part of a helicopter that provides upward lift & forward thrust'

Answer: rotor


Question: 'The son of a Protestant clergyman, Carl Jung was born in this mountainous country in 1875'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: '"And the angel of the Lord appeared unto" this man "in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush"'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'It's believed that sugar buildup in tree leaves forms anthocyanins, causing this to happen'

Answer: Change colors


Question: 'Judge Charles Older was a character in 1976's "Helter Skelter", but this Charles was a bigger role'

Answer: Charles Manson


Question: 'In ads it was "2 all-beef patties...lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" -- & that special sauce'

Answer: Big Mac


Question: 'In 1782 it became a national symbol'

Answer: bald eagle


Question: 'Jung called these "unidentified" things, first reported by pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947, "a modern myth"'

Answer: UFOs/flying saucers


Question: 'The damage caused by a fire in 976 to this famous Venice cathedral took about 100 years to restore'

Answer: St. Mark\'s


Question: '"Quiz Show" features Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren & this actor as his son Charles'

Answer: Ralph Fiennes


Question: 'Tomatoes, beets, celery, carrots, lettuce, parsley, watercress & spinach are the octet in this brand'

Answer: V8


Question: 'Nonsense!'

Answer: balderdash


Question: 'Seeing the view as too reductionist, Jung believed Sigmund Freud overemphasized the importance of this drive'

Answer: sex drive


Question: 'The party's definitely over when this legendary hall is destroyed by fire at the end of "Gotterdammerung"'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'In a Noel Coward play, Charles Condomine hosts a seance at his house & this title entity materializes'

Answer: Blithe Spirit


Question: 'It "smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink.  I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink"'

Answer: "Love Potion No. 9"


Question: 'An 1867 Mussorgsky symphonic composition is about a "Night on" this'

Answer: Bald Mountain


Question: 'Jung practiced this "free" technique for exploring the mind in which a patient responds to stimulus words'

Answer: free association


Question: 'Because it burns in air with a hot & brilliant flame, this gas, C2H2, is used for welding & cutting metal'

Answer: acetylene


Question: 'In the '80s, he played Charles Ryder, a central character in TV's "Brideshead Revisited"'

Answer: Jeremy Irons


Question: 'This soda, the oldest major soft drink brand in the U.S., contains a mixture of fruit juices (but prune isn't one of them)'

Answer: Dr. Pepper


Question: 'In French this Absurdist play from Eugene Ionesco is "La Cantatrice Chauve"'

Answer: The Bald Soprano


Question: 'According to Jung, the collective unconscious of man is made up of these primordial symbols'

Answer: archetypes


Question: 'In Dickens' "Great Expectations", this character dies when her faded wedding dress catches fire'

Answer: Miss Havisham


Question: '3-named actor who played 3-named TV surgeon Charles Emerson Winchester'

Answer: David Ogden Stiers


Question: 'This steak sauce was created for King George IV of England'

Answer: A1


Question: '"Saving Faith" & "Absolute Power" are among the bestselling novels by this author'

Answer: David Baldacci


Question: 'Her first name comes from an Italian musical term meaning to play "with sweetness"'

Answer: Condoleezza Rice


Question: 'As the Planters icon knows, everybody loves these; in 1996 Americans ate 2 billion pounds of them'

Answer: peanuts


Question: 'He hammered a career total of 755 major league home runs'

Answer: Henry "Hank" Aaron


Question: 'A "long" one is 2,240 pounds, a "short" one is 2,000'

Answer: ton


Question: 'With a funnel more than a mile wide, one of the largest of these occured March 18, 1925 & killed 695 people'

Answer: tornado


Question: 'Yogi Berra observed that in this sport, "You don't know nothing"'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Whether you like it hot or cold, borscht is a Russian soup made from these root vegetables'

Answer: beets


Question: 'This witty screenwriter penned "The Graduate" & "Protocol"'

Answer: Buck Henry


Question: 'Whether you hide your light under it or not, it's equal to 35.24 liters'

Answer: bushel


Question: 'It's a snowstorm with winds past 30 knots, below normal temperatures & visibility reduced to 1/8 of a mile'

Answer: blizzard


Question: 'Spanish for "nothing", it's found in the expression meaning "you're welcome"'

Answer: nada


Question: 'If you like it kosher, He'Brew is "The Chosen" type of this beverage & "Exile Never Tasted So Good"'

Answer: beer


Question: 'This scandalous author married June Mansfield on June 1, 1924'

Answer: Henry Miller


Question: 'This international standard is equal to approximately 3,281 feet'

Answer: kilometer


Question: 'Body part associated with the center of the image seen here (hurricane)'

Answer: eye


Question: 'In a 1975 musical, Diana sings "Nothing" at an audition for this title group'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'If you like it hot, use this brand of sauce made with red peppers, vinegar & salt mined on Avery Island'

Answer: Tabasco


Question: 'Ask Timon how this tomb in Athens differs from America's & he'll tell you the guards don't wear pants'

Answer: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier


Question: 'Give me this man who was governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 & again from 1784 to 1786'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'Hold your breath!  If you traveled 20,000 leagues under the sea, you'd go 60,000 of these'

Answer: miles


Question: 'Produced by thunderstorm clouds, these lumps of ice bigger than 5mm are classified as hydrometeors'

Answer: hailstones


Question: 'U.S. president whose middle initial "S" stood for nothing'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Our writers like this cereal grain whether it's in succotash or bourbon'

Answer: corn


Question: 'Timon avoids this ancient market because he's afraid of the crowds'

Answer: agora


Question: 'With works like "Elements", he flowered as the resident poet on "Laugh-In"'

Answer: Henry Gibson


Question: 'What we Yanks would call a trillion, the Brits would call this'

Answer: billion


Question: 'This "great" area on Jupiter is a violent storm first discovered in 1664'

Answer: the Great Red Spot


Question: '"Nothing" is the answer to "Does a dog have Buddha nature?", one of these paradoxes'

Answer: coan


Question: 'Revere dressed up as an Indian to take part in this event of December 16, 1773'

Answer: Boston Tea Party


Question: 'In 1994 this 1970s Jim Garner series was revived in a TV movie'

Answer: The Rockford Files


Question: 'Irving was visited in Spain by this young fan & future "Song of Hiawatha" poet'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Question: 'Bovine'

Answer: cow


Question: 'Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has an impressive collection of Revere's work in this metal'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Ludwig saw words not as labels but as these, like hammers or screwdrivers'

Answer: tools


Question: 'NBC's top show of the 1982-83 season, it suited Mr. & Mrs. America to a "T"'

Answer: The A-Team


Question: 'In 1956 this versatile actor starred in "Davy Crockett And The River Pirates"'

Answer: Fess Parker


Question: 'In a slump, Irving went to Scotland where this novelist encouraged him to keep writing'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'Ursine'

Answer: bear


Question: 'For a time, Revere practiced this trade, making devices "Of real use in speaking & eating"'

Answer: dentistry


Question: 'Ludwig believed logical propositions function as these, so they're worth 1,000 words'

Answer: pictures


Question: 'Cannell's title pairs include "Hardcastle And McCormick" & "Tenspeed And" him'

Answer: Brownshoe


Question: 'She was the "other woman" in Prince Charles & Princess Diana's divorce'

Answer: Camilla Parker Bowles


Question: 'In 1811, as a lobbyist in Washington, Irving became a favorite of this first lady'

Answer: Dolley Madison


Question: 'Leonine'

Answer: lion


Question: 'On his famous ride, Revere & this man met up with Samuel Prescott before attempting to reach Concord'

Answer: William Dawes


Question: '(Hi, I'm Mitzi Kapture)  For 5 years I played Lt. Rita Lee Lance on this Cannell series on USA Network'

Answer: Silk Stalkings


Question: 'On FOX TV from '90 - '93, this title character couldn't "lose"'

Answer: Parker Lewis


Question: 'During this duelist's 1807 trial for treason, Irving struck up a friendship with his daughter, Theodosia'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'Lupine'

Answer: wolf


Question: 'Massacre victim seen here in an engraving by Paul Revere'

Answer: Crispus Attucks


Question: 'Richard Grieco graduated from this Cannell series to his own Cannell series -- "Booker"'

Answer: 21 Jump Street


Question: 'He directed vibrant films like "Midnight Express", "Pink Floyd -- The Wall" & "Evita"'

Answer: Alan Parker


Question: 'This self-made millionaire fur trader asked Irving to write a book based on his exploits'

Answer: John Jacob Astor


Question: 'Asinine'

Answer: donkey/ass


Question: 'Written in 1953 & set in the late 17th C., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now'

Answer: The Crucible (by Arthur Miller)


Question: 'Like Davy, son John Wesley Crockett served as a congressman from this state'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'Pinto, Otter & D-Day are nicknames of students in this 1978 classic comedy'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'Attica! & Southport Correctional Facility!'

Answer: New York


Question: 'MCT is short for "minimum" this "time" & it's supposed to be long enough to get to a distant gate'

Answer: connection time


Question: 'In area, it's the largest country in the world that has a red, white & blue flag'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Celebration of the Resurrection'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'With a .40-caliber flintlock nicknamed "Old" her, Crockett is said to have killed 125 bears between 1825 & 1834'

Answer: Betsy


Question: 'Sylvester Stallone has this 2-word equine nickname, just like one of his characters'

Answer: The Italian Stallion


Question: 'You're off to the land of Lincoln Correctional Center & also Dixon (but no Mason)'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'As a noun, it's a fan of a Jerry Garcia band; as a pilot's verb, it's to fly as a passenger while you're on duty'

Answer: a Deadhead


Question: 'Hippo, in the north of this continent, was the diocesan seat of St. Augustine'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'A professor or principal'

Answer: an educator


Question: 'After losing his final election, Crockett said, "You may all go to hell and I will go" here'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Steve Buscemi's character in "Reservoir Dogs" chafed after receiving this nickname'

Answer: Mr. Pink


Question: 'Hey! You! Get off of my correctional facility at St. Cloud! Rush City, too, for that matter!'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'The TSA's advanced imaging technology is also called FBS, short for this (passengers may have other terms)'

Answer: a full body scan


Question: 'If you live on the equator, you'll note you usually have this many hours of daylight a day'

Answer: 12 hours


Question: 'The worker's boss'

Answer: the employer


Question: 'The diary of a Mexican officer who was at the Alamo claims Davy was executed after the battle on this general's orders'

Answer: Santa Anna


Question: 'A character nicknamed Nicely Nicely sings "Sit down you're rocking the boat" in this 1955 movie'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'Cedar Junction & Framingham are wicked excellent prisons for the wicked'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Technically, this is what it's called when you spend the night between flights'

Answer: a layover


Question: 'Frisia is a European region bordering this sea'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'One of 538 who choose a president'

Answer: an elector


Question: 'In 1832 Crockett & his fellow Whigs opposed this president's position against the Bank of the United States'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'R. Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket" calls Vincent D'Onofrio's character this, after a fictional TV marine'

Answer: Gomer Pyle


Question: 'It's another Pleasant Valley State Prison Sunday, no one's flying out of Pelican Bay, either'

Answer: California


Question: 'A plane turned away from landing at an airport & circling to await instructions is said to be in one of these patterns'

Answer: a holding pattern


Question: 'In 1972 the Tamil Tigers, a liberation group, not a baseball team, was founded in this country'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'Nickname for Colonel Colt's deadly invention'

Answer: equaliser


Question: 'This blossom seen here is found throughout the southern states & lends its name to the nickname to one of them'

Answer: the magnolia


Question: 'The Green Monster'

Answer: Fenway


Question: 'Necker Island, which the Bransons rent out at $30,000 a night, is in the British part of this Caribbean chain'

Answer: the British Virgin Islands


Question: 'John Irving: "Le Monde Selon Garp"'

Answer: The World According to Garp


Question: 'Adolf Hitler (1945)'

Answer: Eva Braun


Question: 'Movie that told the tale of irreverent military DJ Adrian Cronauer'

Answer: Good Morning, Vietnam


Question: 'A distinct subspecies, key deer only reach about 2 feet tall & are only found on islands off this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Centre Court, with a snippet of Kipling's "If" above the players' entrance'

Answer: Wimbledon


Question: 'Type of establishment between "chumash" & "resort" in the name of a California destination'

Answer: casino


Question: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "L'amour Aux Temps Du Cholera"'

Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera


Question: 'Edwin Schlossberg (1986)'

Answer: Caroline Kennedy


Question: 'The initial odds posted for horse races at the beginning of the day'

Answer: the morning line


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Louisiana.)  The bald cypress, Louisiana's state tree, is known for pneumatophores that jut up, better known by this anatomical name; their purpose isn't understood but may be for stability'

Answer: knees


Question: 'Gasoline Alley'

Answer: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway


Question: 'Unable to appeal to younger guests, Grossinger's in these New York mountains closed in 1986'

Answer: the Catskills


Question: 'Norman Mailer: "Les Nus Et Les Morts"'

Answer: The Naked and the Dead


Question: 'Clark Gable (1939)'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'This CNN show starts at 6 A.M.'

Answer: American Morning


Question: 'Introduced into the U.S. by fur ranchers, this rodent has become such an invasive threat, it has a bounty on it'

Answer: a nutria


Question: 'Amen Corner'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'For one of these 13 romantic resorts, bring the footwear they're named for but leave the kids at home'

Answer: Sandals


Question: 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: "La Maison Aux Sept Pignons"'

Answer: The House of the Seven Gables


Question: 'Xanthippe (c. 450 B.C.)'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'Herman Wouk's Marjorie'

Answer: Marjorie Morningstar


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Louisiana.) Typical of southern Louisiana, Spanish moss has no roots of its own & takes nutrients directly from the air, making it this type of plant, also called an aerophyte'

Answer: epiphyte


Question: 'The Ring of Honor, in Arlington'

Answer: Cowboys Stadium


Question: 'The Villa Sawah & the Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay are resort hotels on this Indonesian island'

Answer: Bali


Question: 'John Grisham: "Le Couloir De La Mort"'

Answer: The Chamber


Question: 'Alexandra Wentworth (2001)'

Answer: George Stephanopoulos


Question: 'Abbreviated SMH, this Australian newspaper was first issued in 1831'

Answer: the Sydney Morning Herald


Question: 'At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, his widow said, "that was his dream, sending a rocket to the moon"'

Answer: Robert Goddard


Question: 'He also wrote a poem about "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade"'

Answer: Tennyson


Question: 'Asked if he used a wood to smash a motorist's windshield in 1994, this acting icon said, "No, a 5-iron, you think I'm crazy?"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'In 1966 this former president was the very first recipient of a Medicare card'

Answer: Truman


Question:
'New Jersey,
New Hampshire,
New York'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Lips are darker than the surrounding skin because of thousands of these tiny blood vessels'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent 1945 to 1953 in one of these places for a letter critical of Stalin'

Answer: a gulag


Question: 'He finished writing "Evangeline" on his 40th birthday'

Answer: Longfellow


Question: 'It's been said that this 1950s & '60s Colts QB had "a haircut you could set your watch to"'

Answer: Johnny Unitas


Question: 'After leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964, he formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question:
'Virginia,
West Virginia,
Kentucky'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Before putting on lipstick, gals sometimes use a pencil to apply this product to define & shape their lips'

Answer: lip liner


Question: 'In 2003 Funny Cide became the first one of these altered horses in 74 years to win the Kentucky Derby'

Answer: a gelding


Question: '"Seldom does a first book contain so few unsuccessful things", said Amy Lowell of his "Chicago Poems"'

Answer: Sandburg


Question: 'That's the ballgame for this city's Synergy Field, formerly Riverfront Stadium, in December of 2002'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'From 1967 to 1971 he wasn't missing; he was serving time in prison for jury tampering'

Answer: Jimmy Hoffa


Question:
'Delaware,
Hawaii,
Rhode Island'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Chapstick is a lip type of this, a product of the biblical Gilead'

Answer: a balm


Question: 'The untuned type of this percussion instrument has no fixed pitch'

Answer: a gong


Question: 'He wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" to amuse a sick child'

Answer: Browning


Question: 'From 1920 to 1932 this country's Paavo Nurmi set more than 20 world records in distances from 1,500 to 20,000 M'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'He first became head of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1969'

Answer: Yasser Arafat


Question:
'Washington,
Oregon,
Idaho'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'These painful, small ulcers that can be on the lip were so named because they were thought to be cancerous'

Answer: canker sores


Question: 'The New Book of Knowledge says that it's the most familiar marmot in eastern North America'

Answer: a groundhog


Question: '"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," wrote T.S. Eliot in "The Love Song of" this man'

Answer: J. Alfred Prufrock


Question: 'A 2005 rain delay at the Nissan Open had this golfer known as "Long John" saying, "My marriages don't last this long"'

Answer: "Long John" Daly


Question: 'In 1968 this noted pediatirican was convicted of conspiring to aid, counsel & abet resistance to the draft'

Answer: Dr. Spock


Question:
'Iowa,
Indiana,
Illinois'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Zyderm & Zyplast are types of these injections that you can get in your lips to feel more "Hollywood"'

Answer: collagen injections


Question: 'Last name of the Supreme Court justice who resigned in 1965 to become U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.'

Answer: Arthur Goldberg


Question: '(Kelly stands in front of several vases) Hoover began collecting these vases when he lived in this country, and was trapped there during the Boxer Rebellion'

Answer: China


Question: 'This 1973 Pink Floyd album includes "Time" & "Money"'

Answer: Dark Side of the Moon


Question: 'Benedict XV becomes Pope; Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; Ralph Ellison becomes visible man'

Answer: 1914


Question: 'Grace Kelly's prince of a hubby'

Answer: Rainier


Question: 'On April 22, 1878 U.S. First Lady Lucy Hayes instituted this annual event on the White House lawn'

Answer: Easter Egg Roll


Question: 'When you're born, your spleen stops producing these blood cells, but keeps filtering out used ones'

Answer: red blood cells


Question: '(Jimmy stands behind sacks of food) During World War I, Hoover provided sacks of food via the Commission for Relief of this country caught between German bayonets and a British blockade'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'In 1994 these rappers had "Ill Communication", a No. 1 album'

Answer: Beastie Boys


Question: 'British government makes Pitt stop; castrato Caffarelli's life ends on high note; Revol. War ends'

Answer: 1783


Question: 'First biblical mate plus what the sleepy need'

Answer: Everest


Question: 'December 13 is the feast day of Saint Lucy, a 4th century Christian martyr from this Italian island'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'An enlarged spleen is a symptom of this infectious disease, often called simply "mono"'

Answer: mononucleosis


Question: '(Kelly stands in front of a map and diorama) As Secretary of Commerce, Hoover won praise by helping the victims of the horrific flooding of this river in 1927'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: '"Thank You" to this one-named London singer who released her album "Life For Rent" in 2003'

Answer: Dido


Question: 'Teddy Roosevelt hits San Juan Hill; Otto von Bismarck sinks; Sir George Frampton comes alive sculpting Keats'

Answer: 1898


Question: 'He was president on Dec. 31, 1899'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'Lucy Craft Laney founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta in this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'The spleen is a repository of these little guys produced by B cells to defend against infection'

Answer: antibodies


Question: '(Kelly stands on the grounds of the Hoover Presidential Library) On the grounds of the Hoover Presidential Library stands the meeting house that he and his wife, Lou, used as members of this religious group'

Answer: Quakers


Question: 'Dialogue in the movie "The Producers" inspired the title of this 1991 U2 album'

Answer: Achtung Baby


Question: 'The Great Fire of London isn't so great; Queen Anne of Austria makes a royal exit; Moliere pens "The Misanthrope"'

Answer: 1666


Question: 'This crossbreed of Red Delicious & Ralls Janet apples was bred at a Japanese research station'

Answer: Fuji


Question: 'Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote "Rilla of Ingleside" & "Rainbow Valley" as well as tales of this Anne'

Answer: Anne of Green Gables


Question: 'In olden medicine & psychology, the spleen was said to produce the melancholy humor, a fluid of this color'

Answer: black


Question: '(Jimmy stands in front of a seated statue of Herbert Hoover) As a young geologist in the 1890's Hoover found a gold mine near Coolgardie in this country.  He called it a land of red dust, black flies & white heat'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Tim McGraw won a Grammy for the touching title track of the 2004 album "Live Like You Were" this'

Answer: Dying


Question: 'Montreal holds an expo; we excuse Dorothy Parker's dust; Louis Armstrong hits with "What A Wonderful World"'

Answer: 1967


Question: 'This maker of Stylus cameras started out 87 years ago as a microscope manufacturer'

Answer: Olympus


Question: 'The hominid fossil remains known as Lucy were dug up in Hadar in this East African country in 1974'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'The spleen is the biggest structure in this fluid-carrying system that also has many nodes'

Answer: lymphatic


Question: 'In 1709 an Italian settled at this German city & made a new product using oil of bergamot'

Answer: Cologne


Question: 'In a 1939 film, Spencer Tracy played Stanley & Cedric Hardwicke enacted this role, I presume'

Answer: Dr. Livingstone


Question: 'Varieties of this fruit, suitable for home orchards, include Red Rome, Jonathan & Stark Jumbo'

Answer: Apples


Question: 'An achievement is signified by a feather in this'

Answer: Cap


Question: 'Fittingly, this country was the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'This eastern U.S. gambling resort lies on Absecon Island'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'Felicity & Felicia are feminine forms of this masculine name'

Answer: Felix


Question: 'When Norma Shearer played this queen, John Barrymore played her father-in-law, Louis XV'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Russian thistle breaks from its base & goes drifting along with the wind -- so it's called this'

Answer: Tumbleweed


Question: 'When you get mad you might "flip your lid" or "blow" this'

Answer: Top


Question: 'In 1932, when women could enter only 3 events, this American woman won 3 medals'

Answer: Babe Didrikson Zaharias


Question: 'The Wright brothers' first flight took place near this village on N. Carolina's Bodie Island'

Answer: Kitty Hawk


Question: 'The daughter of Ptolemy XII, her name means "Father's Glory"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Paul Muni won an Oscar for his performance in this role, which he "milked" for all it was worth'

Answer: Louis Pasteur


Question: 'Medium in which an Egyptian or lotus plant grows'

Answer: Water


Question: 'Henry Fielding wrote, "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of" this beverage'

Answer: Tea


Question: 'In 1912 this Native American won the decathlon & pentathlon'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'This island, known for its huge bears, was the site of Alaska's first school in 1784'

Answer: Kodiak


Question: 'Made famous by a Johanna Spyri novel, it was originally a nickname for "Adelaide"'

Answer: Heidi


Question: 'Gregory Peck played the title role in this 1977 film bio about a U.S. general'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'Economically it's the most important bean in the world'

Answer: Soybean


Question: 'Nautically speaking, if you don't like the look of someone, you don't like "the cut of his" one of these'

Answer: Jib


Question: 'In 1948 Gretchen Fraser became the first American to win a gold medal in this winter sport'

Answer: Skiing


Question: 'Carib Indian relics can be found in a national park in this island group'

Answer: U.S. Virgin Islands


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Name in the title of the following 1956 hit:'

Answer: "Long Tall Sally" (by Little Richard)


Question: 'A 1946 Rosalind Russell film dramatized the life of this nurse famed for her work with polio patients'

Answer: Sister Elizabeth Kenney


Question: 'Jacarandas are tropical trees with flowers of this color'

Answer: Bluish Purple


Question: 'The 2 horses bet on in "Camptown Races"'

Answer: The nag & the bay


Question: 'In 1972 Vassili Alexeyev, known as the "Russian Bear", won his 1st Olympic gold medal in this sport'

Answer: Weightlifting


Question: 'This state's Mount Desert Island is the site of the Bar Harbor Resort'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Woman's name that's Old German for "armored warrior maiden"'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'Milton's "Paradise Lost" is based on this book of the Bible'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'To perform Prokofiev's "Romeo & Juliet" an orchestra needs a pair of these gourd rattles'

Answer: Maracas


Question: 'Of 20 years, 30 years or 40 years, the length of time the Wars of the Roses lasted'

Answer: 30 years


Question: 'This piece of jewelry has been worn around the thigh or the ankle, but most people prefer the wrist'

Answer: Bracelet


Question: 'The Koran quotes Allah as saying he gave Moses the law, Jesus the Gospels & this man the Koran'

Answer: Mohammed


Question: 'She said she enjoys using Franklin Pierce's china in the White House because he's a distant relative'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'The 1st major work of English literature, this poem about a brave hero is by author or authors unknown'

Answer: "Beowulf"


Question: 'Mozart dedicated 6 string quartets to this Austrian composer of "The Creation"'

Answer: Franz Josef Haydn


Question: 'This N. American conflict which began in 1754 led to the outbreak of the 7 Years War in Europe in 1756'

Answer: French And Indian War


Question: 'Many of these gems, one of June's birthstones, come from Sri Lanka, not the lunar surface'

Answer: moonstones


Question: 'Catholic tradition holds that Jesus gave him the keys to heaven'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'This president had the interior gutted & completely restored, & added a balcony'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'Called John Dryden's best comedy, his play about intrigue & adultery is titled "Marriage A La" this'

Answer: A La Mode


Question: 'He composed ragtime music in addition to the ballets "The Firebird" & "Petrushka"'

Answer: Igor Stravinsky


Question: 'Baklava is a pastry, but Balaklava was the site of a major battle of this war in 1854'

Answer: The Crimean War


Question: 'Nanak, who lived c. 1500, was the first guru of this religion which sought to unite Islam & Hinduism'

Answer: Sikhism


Question: 'It has been a tradition since 1902 to adorn the ground floor corridor with their portraits'

Answer: First Ladies


Question: 'It wasn't until 1825 that his diary of the 1660s, written in shorthand, was deciphered'

Answer: Samuel Pepys


Question: 'Soprano born in Stockholm October 6, 1820; her last public performance was in 1883'

Answer: Jenny Lind


Question: 'The Indian "king" for whom this war was named was tracked down & killed in 1676'

Answer: King Philip


Question: 'American evangelist Dwight, who founded a church & a bible institute now named after him'

Answer: Dwight Moody


Question: 'Large press conferences are usually held in this room, the largest in the White House'

Answer: The East Room


Question: '"The Fifth Child" is a recent work by this English author of "The Golden Notebook"'

Answer: Doris Lessing


Question: 'In 1989 this Scottish military pipe, drum & dance corps celebrated its 250th anniversary'

Answer: The Black Watch


Question: 'The War of the Austrian Succession erupted when she became archduchess of Austria in 1740'

Answer: Maria Theresa


Question: 'Last name of the French jeweler Rene, who was famous for his art nouveau designs & his crystal'

Answer: Lalique


Question: 'Minister who founded the Martyr's Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in Belfast in 1969'

Answer: Rev. Ian Paisley


Question: 'He was the first president to live in the White House after it was burned down & rebuilt'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'This city was named for a first century Roman citizen & missionary'

Answer: St. Paul, Minnesota


Question: 'Scientists map human genome; Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba'

Answer: 2000


Question: 'Now a star of gritty big-screen blockbusters, he tendered bar on "Cheers" for 8 years as a naive Indiana farmboy'

Answer: Woody Harrelson


Question: 'The first U.S. consumer product manufactured & sold in the Soviet Union was this soft drink, not Coke'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'At one point in this classic novel, Tom cries out, "Injun Joe's in the cave!"'

Answer: "Tom Sawyer"


Question: 'Player & upright are 2 common types of this instrument'

Answer: Piano


Question: 'Perform this bicycling stunt by keeping your front tire off the ground as you roll along on the back line'

Answer: Wheelie


Question: 'Grace Kelly marries a prince; Eisenhower reelected'

Answer: 1956


Question: 'Homer Simpson is often flummoxed by the behavior of this dweeby next-door neighbor'

Answer: Ned Flanders


Question: 'These cakes from Hostess were originally sold as "Little Shortcake Fingers"'

Answer: Twinkies


Question: 'In an 1851 classic this man cries, "Towards thee I row, thou all destroying but unconquering whale!"'

Answer: Captain Ahab


Question: 'Mario Cuomo & Thomas Dewey were both governors of this state'

Answer: New York


Question: 'This toy line helps Mattel claim it makes more cars each year than the big 3 automakers combined'

Answer: Hot Wheels


Question: 'U.S. runners give black power salute at Olympics; Kubrick's "2001" released'

Answer: 1968


Question: 'In "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" this man played a nebbish-turned-fish who befuddled the Nazis'

Answer: Don Knotts


Question: '(Take a look at the monitor, players):<br />It's the popular brand of snack food that lends its name to the cereal seen here:'

Answer: Oreos (for Oreo O\'s)


Question: 'In an 1830s work, this boy begs, "Please, sir, I want some more."'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'Fog & flugel are 2 very different types of these'

Answer: Horns


Question: 'Grab your partner's ankles to run in this backyard contest'

Answer: Wheelbarrow Race


Question: 'Federal building bombed in Oklahoma City; Kobe, Japan struck by 7.2 earthquake'

Answer: 1995


Question: 'Her performances as the nerdy Lisa Loopner on "Saturday Night Live" were "so funny I forgot to laugh"'

Answer: Gilda Radner


Question: 'The first ready-mix pancake flour sold commercially in the U.S. was named for this fictional woman'

Answer: Aunt Jemima


Question: 'A doomed boy in this 1954 novel declares, "I got the conch, you let me speak"'

Answer: "Lord of the Flies"


Question: 'This prestigious international prize was won by Willy Brandt in 1971 & Desmond Tutu in 1984'

Answer: Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'This state fair ride favorite premiered at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893'

Answer: Ferris Wheel


Question: 'John Paul II shot; Iran releases U.S. embassy hostages'

Answer: 1981


Question: 'During its first season, Jaleel White joined this show as the ultra-nerdy Steve Urkel'

Answer: "Family Matters"


Question: 'The name of this popular brand of chewing gum comes from the Latin for "three teeth"'

Answer: Trident


Question: 'In this Russian classic the main character is told, "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet."'

Answer: "Crime And Punishment"


Question: 'Olympia & whitstable are 2 varieties of this edible shellfish'

Answer: Oysters


Question: 'Rhyming term for a skilled but possibly dishonest operator'

Answer: Wheeler-Dealer


Question: 'Each year about 1 million Hindu pilgrims journey to Varanasi, India to wash away their sins in this holy river'

Answer: the Ganges


Question: 'Hobbes, a tiger'

Answer: Calvin


Question: 'The 1999 TV movie "Blue Valley Songbird" starred this buxom blonde songbird of country music'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'To see what's up at Churchill Downs, head to this city'

Answer: Louisville


Question: 'This mollusk captures its prey with its 8 arms, bites it with its beak & injects poison from its salivary glands'

Answer: the octopus


Question: 'It's after "after" in products like Old Spice, Brut & Jovan'

Answer: shave


Question: 'The Biblical book bearing her name begins by saying it took place "in the days when the judges ruled"'

Answer: Ruth


Question: 'Rocky, a flying squirrel'

Answer: Bullwinkle


Question: 'She got to act with Meryl Streep when she played Isabel Vasquez in "Music of the Heart"'

Answer: Gloria Estefan


Question: 'John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty in this Ohio city'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'This bee of the subfamily Bombidae does not build hives'

Answer: the bumblebee


Question: 'The club that you stagger out of at sunrise is probably an "after" this type'

Answer: after hours


Question: 'This holy book whose name means "recitation" is divided into 114 chapters called suras'

Answer: The Koran


Question: 'Sancho Panza, a rustic squire'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'As a child, this "Fame" singer was in the Broadway musical "Maggie Flynn" with Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy'

Answer: Irene Cara


Question: 'Lancaster, Pennsylvania is on this river, which shares its name with a type of wagon'

Answer: Conestoga


Question: 'The toxin secreted by this jellyfish-like creature is about 75% as powerful as cobra venom'

Answer: the Portuguese man-of-war


Question: 'It's after "after" in the 3.2 earthquake that hit Encino, California on August 20, 1997'

Answer: shock


Question: 'In 1549 this Spanish priest established Christianity in Japan'

Answer: St. Francis Xavier


Question: 'Ariel, a sprite'

Answer: Prospero (from The Tempest)


Question: 'This singer seen here gave a fine performance as Delroy Lindo's troubled daughter in "The Cider House Rules"'

Answer: Erykah Badu


Question: 'Arlington is located between these third & sixth most populous cities in Texas'

Answer: Dallas & Fort Worth


Question: 'This "black" African snake's venom is so deadly that death is almost 100% certain without antivenin'

Answer: the black mamba


Question: 'After "after" it's a pleasurable feeling of success'

Answer: afterglow


Question: 'From the Latin for "soul", it's the belief that natural objects like trees have souls too'

Answer: animism


Question: 'Beatrice, a "heavenly" tour guide'

Answer: Dante Aligheri (The Divine Comedy)


Question: 'This TV Catwoman's purr-fect performance in Broadway's "The Wild Party" earned her a Tony nomination in 2000'

Answer: Eartha Kitt


Question: 'This state's Medford in the Rogue River valley was named for Medford, Massachusetts'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'AKA the violin spider, this poisonous variety differs from other spiders in that it has 6 eyes rather than 8'

Answer: the brown recluse spider


Question: 'It's after "after" in the part producing the streak seen here:'

Answer: afterburner


Question: 'In 1908 Hermann Ebbinghaus said this field "has a long past, but only a short history"'

Answer: Psychology


Question: '"With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal"'

Answer: "Frosty The Snowman"


Question: 'Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms'

Answer: six


Question: 'This major mountain range of the United States also runs through Canada between Montana & Alaska'

Answer: the Rockies


Question: 'The Robot Hall of Fame honored this "Star Wars" character for his endearing "human foibles"'

Answer: C-3PO


Question: 'Lumbini, Nepal is a pilgrimage site as the birthplace of this man about 2,500 years ago'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'It happens on or about December 21'

Answer: the winter solstice


Question: '"Come, they told me, pa rum pa pum pum; a newborn king to see, pa rum pum pum pum"'

Answer: "The Little Drummer Boy"


Question: 'The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours'

Answer: a blizzard


Question: 'Africa's highest mountain, it's primarily made up of 3 extinct volcanoes'

Answer: Kilimanjaro


Question: 'The Ecology Hall of Fame cites him as "the first American president to take seriously the...protection of nature"'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'The Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England is so named because penants walked the last mile this way'

Answer: barefoot


Question: 'Varieties of this cereal crop include Kawvale & Blackhull'

Answer: winter wheat


Question: '"Where the treetops glisten and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow"'

Answer: "White Christmas"


Question: 'Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water'

Answer: a lake effect


Question: 'This 14,110-foot Colorado mountain peak discovered in 1806 inspired the song "America The Beautiful"'

Answer: Pikes Peak


Question: 'This founder of the city of Quebec is in an Explorers' Hall of Fame online'

Answer: Champlain


Question: '"Labbayka Allahumma Labbayk" is recited during this religion's pilgrimage'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917'

Answer: the Winter Palace


Question: '"And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven and nature sing"'

Answer: "Joy To The World"


Question: 'When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% & snow can form'

Answer: supersaturated


Question: 'You don't need no stinkin' badges to treasure this main mountain system of Mexico'

Answer: the Sierra Madre


Question: 'Now home to the National Women's Hall of Fame, this N.Y. city was the site of the USA's first Women's Rights Convention'

Answer: Seneca Falls


Question: 'Devout members of this faith hope to walk Panchakosi Road at Varanasi &, if possible, to die there'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'This 1935 Maxwell Anderson play was based in part on the Sacco & Vanzetti trial'

Answer: Winterset


Question: '"No crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head"'

Answer: "Away In A Manger"


Question: 'Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain'

Answer: Mauna Kea


Question: 'The 20,320-foot mountain then known as Densmore's Mt. was renamed for this presidential candidate in 1896'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his process of condensing milk'

Answer: (Gail) Borden


Question: 'Bahá'i pilgrims go to the Shrine of the Báb on this Israeli mount for which a Catholic order is named'

Answer: Mount Carmel


Question: 'This plant, Gaultheria procumbens, produces an oil used in medicine & as a flavoring'

Answer: wintergreen


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Sherlock Holmes Museum.) I'm standing in front of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a Victorian lodging house built in 1815, on this famous London street'

Answer: Baker Street


Question: 'In basketball, FT'

Answer: free throw


Question: 'He's not just Prince of Wales but also Lord of the Isles & a liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company'

Answer: (Prince) Charles


Question: 'The heroines of this 1860s novel were based on the author & her sisterns Anna, Elizabeth & May'

Answer: Little Women


Question: 'Farouk, Latifah & Sprat'

Answer: king, queen & jack


Question: 'Line 12 of this Brit's Sonnet 142 reads, "Thy pity may deserve to pitied be"'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a London square.) I'm in this London square associated with Virginia Woolf, who was at the center of a group that made this area famous'

Answer: Bloomsbury


Question: 'We'll give you a break & just ask for the second "F": FIFA'

Answer: football


Question: 'This "Supreme Temporal and Religious Head of Tibet" has a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy'

Answer: Dalai Lama


Question: 'Take his book "Dharma Bums" on the road & you'll notice that he based the narrator on himself'

Answer: (Jack) Kerouac


Question: 'Grief for death, Herman's Hermits warbler Peter & Gawain or Bedivere'

Answer: mourning, Noone & knight


Question: 'Condemning split infinitives is based on a false analogy with this language in which infinitives are a single word'

Answer: Latin


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a London street.) Read all about it!  Behind me is this London street that has become synonymous with British journalism'

Answer: Fleet Street


Question: 'An umbrella organization: IOC'

Answer: International Olympic Committee


Question: 'His entry features his books "Odin Den' Ivana Denisovicha" & "Arkhipelag Gulag"'

Answer: Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Pilot" boasts a mysterious title character modeled on this naval hero'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'To experiment with, activist Medgar & Peter Sellers' "Being There" role'

Answer: tinker, Evers & Chance


Question: 'This split from the last line of the "Star Trek" TV series opening denotes how the crew jaunts into the unknown'

Answer: to boldly go


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hyde Park.) Winston Churchill & George Bernard Shaw are among those who've come to say their peace at this spot in Hyde Park'

Answer: Speaker\'s Corner


Question: 'A cable channel: ESPN'

Answer: Entertainment & Sports Programming Network


Question: 'Michael Nobel is a philanthropist born in this capital city in 1940'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'Duessa, who's executed in Book V on "The Faerie Queene", was inspired by this Scotswoman'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'Planet between Venus and Mars, thing measured by Beaufort & brilliant gem property'

Answer: Earth, wind & fire


Question: 'The compact version of this book, aka the OED, says that split infinitive use is normal & useful'

Answer: Oxford English Dictionary


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a London park.) This famous London park is named for the title of the future George IV and was designed by his friend John Nash'

Answer: Regent\'s Park


Question: 'In cycling, it's one rider against the clock: ITT'

Answer: individual time trial


Question: 'Lotte in his novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" was based on a woman he loved who married a friend of his'

Answer: Goethe


Question: 'When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar'

Answer: Adrien Brody