Question: 'This clothes line introduced by Garan Inc. in 1972 had kids matching hippos & other creatures to make outfits'

Answer: Garanimals


Question: 'In 1975 & again in 1977 Judy Collins made the Top 40 with this song from "A Little Night Music"'

Answer: "Send in the Clowns"


Question: 'He created & produced "All in the Family", & then there was "Maude"'

Answer: Norman Lear


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew)  I'm in this state overlooking the Mississippi just upriver from where it joins the St. Croix'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'This Puerto Rican-born Pittsburgh Pirate was the first Hispanic elected to pro baseball's hall of fame'

Answer: Roberto Clemente


Question: 'Take a look at this selfless group, VISTA'

Answer: Volunteers in Service to America


Question: 'In 1989 this underwear maker put Michael Jordan under contract'

Answer: Hanes


Question: 'This 1971 hit from Bread would fit in a 2-letter words category'

Answer: "If"


Question: 'We're positive that he had a 1952 bestseller with "The Power of Positive Thinking"'

Answer: Norman Vincent Peale


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew)  I'm at this Southwestern city, home of the world's largest balloon fiesta'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'The Hudson River School of landscape painters loved the scenic beauty of these New York mountains'

Answer: Catskills


Question: 'Stone tools were first used during this period known as the "Old Stone Age"'

Answer: Paleolithic


Question: 'In September 2002, Jerry Lewis' telethon raised a record $58.3 million for this association'

Answer: Muscular Dystrophy Association


Question: 'For 1948's "Hamlet", he was nominated for both Best Director & Best Actor'

Answer: Sir Laurence Olivier


Question: 'On TV, Jack Klugman's Quincy was an M.E., standing for this'

Answer: medical examiner


Question: 'This condition, the failure of an arch to form, will only keep you out of the army if it's extreme or causes other symptoms'

Answer: flat feet


Question: 'In 1533, at age 3, he became grand prince of Moscow; 14 years later he was crowned Russia's first czar'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: 'In February 1995 Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar, was elected this organization's chairperson'

Answer: NAACP


Question: '"Last Flight", published by her husband George Putnam in 1937, was composed mainly of her diary entries'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'Starting with "The Deer Hunter", this actress received Oscar nominations in all but 4 years from 1979 through 1991'

Answer: Meryl Streep


Question: 'For the L.A. Times, it's Dean Baquet'

Answer: managing editor


Question: 'It comes before "knee" to indicate inward leg curvature such that the knees touch'

Answer: knock-knee


Question: 'In 1497 John Cabot visited the area of this Newfoundland capital & named it for a beheaded saint'

Answer: St. John\'s


Question: 'Its slogan is "When You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters"'

Answer: American Lung Association


Question: 'The diary this Englishman kept from 1660 to 1669 was deciphered & published in 1825'

Answer: Samuel Pepys


Question: 'Hal Wallis was nominated for producing an amazing 19 times, but won only once -- for this 1942 Bogart classic'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Otitis media is an inflammation of this'

Answer: middle ear


Question: 'Inflammation of this tendon that pulls up the heel is common; rupture is a lot more serious'

Answer: Achilles tendon


Question: 'In January 1793 France's national convention voted 387 to 334 to have him guillotined'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'Assassinated in 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane was the founder of this organization, also known as the JDL'

Answer: Jewish Defense League


Question: 'Erasures & alterations in his 1926 diary have thrown doubt on his claim to be first to fly over the North Pole'

Answer: Richard Byrd


Question: 'Prior to winning his Best Director Oscar for "Platoon", he won for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Midnight Express"'

Answer: Oliver Stone


Question: 'This field deals with the design & production of machinery'

Answer: mechanical engineering


Question: 'This term, also a riding accessory, refers to a bony growth often found on the heel'

Answer: spur


Question: 'On June 28, 1914 this 18-year-old Serb assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading to World War I'

Answer: Gavrilo Princip


Question: 'Its library & H.Q. in Plymouth, Massachusetts is on property once belonging to Pilgrim descendant Edward Winslow'

Answer: The Mayflower Society


Question: 'Her correspondence with Henry Miller sparked interest in her published 7-volume diary'

Answer: Anais Nin


Question: 'This actress was not an official nominee for 1934's "Of Human Bondage", but she finished third in a write-in campaign'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'This literary form combines a grand style with a trivial subject, as seen in Pope's "Rape of the Lock"'

Answer: mock epic


Question: 'It's the inner & larger of the 2 main bones between the knee & the ankle'

Answer: tibia


Question: 'A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'His wishes were granted by genies of the ring & of the lamp'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'Considered among the first animals used in husbandry, they're divided into types by wool texture'

Answer: sheep


Question: 'Ain't no mountain high enough in the U.S. to top this Alaskan peak'

Answer: Mt. McKinley


Question: 'It's the only bowl game whose attendance regularly exceeds 100,000'

Answer: Rose Bowl


Question: 'To make some great latkes, first you gotta grate these, the main ingredient'

Answer: potatoes


Question: 'According to the book, the number of days a year you should get unbirthday presents'

Answer: 364


Question: 'It's what you wish on when you say, "Wish I may, I wish I might get the wish I wish tonight"'

Answer: star


Question: 'This bearded barnyard animal is the joke of many butts'

Answer: goat


Question: '1 of 2 volcanoes in the Cascades to erupt in the 20th century'

Answer: Lassen Peak or Mt. St. Helens


Question: 'Through 1996 this Nebraska coach led all active coaches in winning percentage with .828'

Answer: Tom Osborne


Question: 'To make this German-named dish, pound your veal cutlet, salt & pepper it, dip it in egg & bread crumbs & fry'

Answer: Wienerschnitzel


Question: 'Mirror-image twins whose favorite expressions are "nohow" & "contrariwise"'

Answer: Tweedledee & Tweedledum


Question: 'In the past people have dropped pins down these as well as coins'

Answer: wishing wells


Question: 'Animal most associated with the man seen here: (Harlan Sanders)'

Answer: chicken


Question: 'Lava from Mauna Kea & this slightly lower volcano covers most of the island of Hawaii'

Answer: Mauna Loa


Question: 'Built in 1920, this school's Husky Stadium is the Pac 10's oldest football stadium'

Answer: University of Washington


Question: 'Meaning "new cooking", this French phrase is used in America for light & freshly prepared dishes'

Answer: Nouvelle Cuisine


Question: 'Name shared by a talking flower Alice meets & an Indian girl in "Peter Pan"'

Answer: Tiger Lily


Question: 'Appropriate brand of salad dressing to use during a Thanksgiving meal'

Answer: Wish-Bone


Question: 'The height of these barnyard animals is measured in hands'

Answer: horses


Question: 'The name of this range in northeastern New York comes from an Indian word for "bark eaters"'

Answer: Adirondacks


Question: 'Quarterbacks for this school in the 1980s included Jim McMahon, Ty Detmer & Steve Young'

Answer: Brigham Young University


Question: 'When rolling your dolmathes yalantzi, keep the shiny side of these on the outside'

Answer: grape leaves


Question: 'The full title is "Through the Looking Glass and" this'

Answer: What Alice Found There


Question: 'In a classic 1902 story by W.W. Jacobs, it's the sinister simian object that supposedly grants wishes'

Answer: The Monkey\'s Paw


Question: 'Around the world this animal sounds different:  "K' ok' iyo" in Korean & "Goh-geh-goh-goh" in Chinese'

Answer: rooster


Question: 'Mount Greylock in these "hills" is the highest peak in Massachusetts'

Answer: Berkshires


Question: 'Officer Joe Coffey on "Hill Street Blues", he holds the NCAA record for career yards per game with 174.6'

Answer: Ed Marinaro


Question: 'From Italian for "restaurateur", it's a small Italian restaurant you may find a treat'

Answer: trattoria


Question: 'At the start of the book we discover this pet cat of Alice's had kittens, perhaps in the kitchen'

Answer: Dinah


Question: 'Mary McCormack of TV's "Murder One" may know about his "Private Parts"; she played his wife in the film'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: 'Chrysanthemum maximum is the scientific name for the shasta variety of this'

Answer: Daisy


Question: 'A famous 1924 campaign slogan was "Keep Cool With" this man'

Answer: (Calvin) Coolidge


Question: 'In 1997 she introduced her Lizfit pants, which feature innovative side clips to adjust the waistline'

Answer: Liz Claiborne


Question:
'Some road signs for this product read:
Are your whiskers/
When you wake/
Tougher than/
A 2-bit steak?'

Answer: Burma Shave


Question: 'Big size for a shirt or intestine'

Answer: Large


Question: 'Clark Gable co-starred with her in "No Man Of Her Own" in 1932 & married her a few years later'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'A Rogers & Hammerstein song describes it as "Small and white, clean and bright"'

Answer: Edelweiss


Question: 'His middle name was Gamaliel'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'You could call this Algerian-born designer the "saint" of French fashion'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'In the '30s the Burma Road was built to move supplies from Burma into this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Word for a 90-pound schnauzer or a 220-pound panda'

Answer: Giant


Question: 'Sean Penn made his professional on-camera debut in a 1979 episode of this Buddy Ebsen detective series'

Answer: Barnaby Jones


Question: 'These tall flowers are grown for their polly seeds'

Answer: Sunflowers


Question: 'He was the 27th president & the 10th Supreme Court Chief Justice'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'One glance at this Gorgon could turn men into stone, but she's a favorite design motif of Versace'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'In the 1934 book "Burmese Days", this "Animal Farm" author told of his days in the Indian Imperial Police'

Answer: George Orwell (Eric Blair)


Question: 'Brand name of garbage bags now marketed by Tenneco'

Answer: Hefty


Question: 'This star of TV's "Prime Suspect" played a sexpot who agrees to pose for James Mason in 1969's "Age Of Consent"'

Answer: Helen Mirren


Question: 'One legend says this flower derives its name from a drowning knight's last words to his beloved'

Answer: Forget-me-not


Question: 'Since his father died before he was born, his uncle Sardis Birchard helped raise him'

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes


Question: 'Yes, sir, this Beatle's daughter Stella is the new chief designer for the house of Chloe'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'This advisor to Burma's first premier, U Nu, later became a U.N. Secretary-General'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'A recent study says 37.5% of New Orleans adults are 20% overweight, qualifying them as this'

Answer: Obese


Question: 'Before her "bewitch"ing role as Samantha'a mother Endora, she played Orson Welles' mother in "Citizen Kane"'

Answer: Agnes Moorehead


Question: 'Nicknamed the "Flower City", Rochester, N.Y. sponsors a May festival of these fragrant purple flowers'

Answer: Lilacs


Question: 'He was the last of 3 men to serve as president in 1881'

Answer: Chester A. Arthur


Question: 'Isaac Mizrahi appeared as himself on the May 6, 1997 3-D episode of this Michael J. Fox sitcom'

Answer: Spin City


Question: 'When Burma became Myanmar in 1989, this city became Yangon'

Answer: Rangoon


Question: 'Adjective derived from the name of a Rabelais title character'

Answer: Gargantuan


Question: 'Launched Sept. 27, 1941, the first of the Liberty Ships was named for this Revolutionary War figure'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'This type of soup is named for letter-shaped pasta'

Answer: Alphabet soup


Question: 'This sport's French Open is played on courts made of clay'

Answer: Tennis


Question: 'The Wrigleys of chewing gum fame were stuck on this baseball team for over 60 years until selling it in 1981'

Answer: Chicago Cubs


Question: 'In 1996 the Magic had a Shaq attack when he signed a 7-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers'

Answer: Shaquille O\'Neal


Question: 'To hurry along a Frenchman, ask him to shake a jambe, this'

Answer: Leg


Question: 'Labionasal sounds are produced by these & the nose'

Answer: Lips


Question: 'A soup of the Southwest is highlighted by fried strips of this Mexican flat bread'

Answer: Tortillas


Question: 'The Beverly Hillbillies had a pond made of this substance that can be made with clay & limestone'

Answer: Cement


Question: 'In March 1976 a Bay Area jury convicted this kidnapped heiress of bank robbery'

Answer: Patricia Hearst


Question: 'The jersey seen here was worn during the 1961 season by this slugger who led the majors with 126 walks (New York Yankees, No. 7)'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'If a Hungarian's haj, this, is too hosszu, long, it may be time for a trim'

Answer: Hair


Question: 'When you speak with a burr you trill this letter'

Answer: R


Question: 'The Gruyere variety of this food graces the surface of French onion soup'

Answer: Cheese


Question: 'It's the avian name for the target used in skeet shooting'

Answer: Clay pigeon


Question: 'This president's memorial with a 19-foot bronze statue was dedicated in Washington in 1943'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Although then a K.C. Chiefs quarterback, he announced his retirement on April 18, 1995 in San Francisco'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'To work harder a German might apply some ellenbogen grease, this to us'

Answer: Elbow grease


Question: 'Your tongue touching your hard or soft one of these in your mouth produces different sounds'

Answer: Palate


Question: 'Daniel interpreted this king's dream about a disturbing idol with feet of clay'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: 'On March 8, 1996 this 93-year-old broke the record, becoming the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: '1 of 2 Canadians to have won the overall men's world figure skating title 2 or more times'

Answer: Kurt Browning or Elvis Stojko


Question: 'If a Russian has a pain in his zheludok, this, he may take some tzums'

Answer: Stomach


Question: 'Meaning "single pitch", it's a speaking voice that lacks inflection'

Answer: Monotone


Question: 'These man & dog stars of "The Wrong Trousers" are made with a mixture of plasticine, wax & clay'

Answer: Wallace & Gromit


Question: 'Though it never went into space, this first shuttle did make a short flight in 1977 co-piloted by Fred Haise, Jr.'

Answer: Enterprise


Question: 'In 1982 she was the top-ranked U.S. woman track star in all distances from 800 meters to 10,000 meters'

Answer: Mary Decker Slaney


Question: 'A Norwegian might dangle an oredobbe from her ore, this'

Answer: Ear


Question: 'From the Latin meaning "to hiss", it describes the "ss" sound In "fricassee"'

Answer: Sibilant


Question: 'The bear is the heraldic symbol of this Swiss capital whose name means "bear"'

Answer: Bern


Question: 'Antonio Banderas knows she played Miss Simi Valley in the 1975 beauty pageant spoof "Smile"'

Answer: Melanie Griffith


Question: 'Everything is often called the whole kit & this'

Answer: Kaboodle


Question: 'Ambroise Thomas' opera about this man differs from Shakespeare's play; in the opera, he becomes king of Denmark'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Danielle's dinners'

Answer: Steel\'s meals


Question: 'Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale life ended in this capital August 4, 1875'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Gwyneth Paltrow played the young Wendy in this 1991 film; too bad her plans with Peter didn't pan out'

Answer: Hook


Question: 'You don't have everything unless you include this household object'

Answer: Kitchen sink


Question: 'This composer's "Rigoletto" is based on Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'Amuse" ("The King Amuses Himself")'

Answer: Giuseppe Verdi


Question: 'Dominick's cinnamon rolls'

Answer: Dunne\'s buns


Question: 'Batu Cave in this Malaysian capital is noted for its Hindu temple'

Answer: Kuala Lumpur


Question: 'Laura San Giacomo of "Just Shoot Me" appeared as a hooker pal of Julia Roberts in this 1990 film'

Answer: Pretty Woman


Question: 'For weaponry, everything is lock, stock & barrel; for fishing, everything is this'

Answer: Hook, line & sinker


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />This 1865 opera named for 2 legendary lovers contains the passage heard here'

Answer: Tristan And Isolde


Question: 'London's bags'

Answer: Jack\'s sacks


Question: 'For the Phoenicians this began on the autumnal equinox; for us, it begins 3 months later'

Answer: The new year


Question: 'This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country's first president'

Answer: Sucre


Question: 'She can be seen briefly as a child in her mom Diane Ladd's film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"'

Answer: Laura Dern


Question: 'A complete dictionary, or the River Kwai after the explosion'

Answer: Unabridged


Question: 'Concepcion's lovers hide inside clocks in her husband's shop in "L'Heure Espagnole" by this "Bolero" composer'

Answer: Maurice Ravel


Question: 'Philip's lepidoptera'

Answer: Roth\'s moths


Question: 'It's situated on numerous islands including Helgeandsholmen, where the house of Parliament is located'

Answer: Stockholm, Sweden


Question: 'Joan Rivers took the plunge into dramatic acting in this 1968 Burt Lancaster film seen here'

Answer: The Swimmer


Question: 'The term "The whole" this isn't from football but perhaps from the amount of concrete that fills a truck'

Answer: Nine yards


Question: 'Puccini opera that features the prelude heard here'

Answer: Madama Butterfly


Question: 'O'Connor's sardine factories'

Answer: Flannery\'s canneries


Question: 'The "X-Files" episode entitled "Post-Modern Prometheus" was an update of this classic 1818 tale'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'The first major clash of the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run took place in July of this year'

Answer: 1861


Question: 'Glenn Ford played Ben Wade in this 1957 film; 50 years later Russell Crowe took the part'

Answer: 3:10 to Yuma


Question: 'Facial tissue brand'

Answer: Kleenex


Question: 'French traders & natives dubbed these large antlered animals "<i>orignal</i>", a name still used by French Canadians'

Answer: a moose


Question: 'Indiana: "Our Lady" (<i>en Francais</i>)'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'colloq. is short for this adjective meaning informal or conversational'

Answer: colloquial


Question: 'The Confederates didn't call it the Battle of Bull Run, but named it after this nearby city instead'

Answer: Manassas


Question: 'Jackie Chan plays Chon Wang, pronounced "John Wayne", in this film'

Answer: Shanghai Noon


Question: 'Brand of light beer--actually, all beer'

Answer: Bud Light


Question: 'The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur'

Answer: a mole


Question: 'Washington, D.C.: Politician Dean or Director Hawks'

Answer: Howard


Question: 'It would be a sin for you not to know that syn. indicates this'

Answer: synonym


Question: 'The battle took place in the northern part of this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Attila the Hun & Sacajawea are characters in this 2006 Ben Stiller comedy'

Answer: Night at the Museum


Question: 'Ketchup'

Answer: Heinz


Question: 'This amphibious rodent is named in part for the odor produced by its perineal glands'

Answer: a muskrat


Question: 'North Carolina: slang for a single fist'

Answer: Duke


Question: 'Ob. is Obadiah; obs. indicates this type of now-obscure word or definition'

Answer: obsolete


Question: 'At Bull Run Gen. Barnard Bee gave this Confederate general his famous nickname'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'In 1987 Casey Siemaszko had a date with a bully at this "high" title time'

Answer: Three O\'Clock High


Question: 'Cookie brand (thanks, Nabisco!)'

Answer: Oreo


Question: 'These crow relatives got their name from a girl's name, Margaret'

Answer: magpie


Question: 'South Carolina: a fortress in command of a city during siege'

Answer: (The) Citadel


Question: 'Grammatically speaking, n.pl. is this'

Answer: noun plural (or plural noun)


Question: 'This Confederate commander in charge of the rebel forces at the battle turned it into a "good looking" victory'

Answer: General Beauregard


Question: 'The mall seems a little deader than usual for Ving Rhames & others as they contest with zombies in this 2004 remake'

Answer: Dawn of the Dead


Question: 'Bottled juice maker (specializing in bog fruit)'

Answer: Ocean Spray


Question: 'This ferretlike carnivore that has a bird in its name subsists on snakes & rodents'

Answer: a mongoose


Question: 'Massachusetts: clusters of feathers or hairs'

Answer: Tufts


Question: 'LL is Late Latin; LME is this'

Answer: Late Middle English


Question: '"GAO" stands for "Government Accountability Office"; it used to stand for this'

Answer: General Accounting Office


Question: '"I Whistle A Happy Tune",<br />"Shall We Dance?"'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'One who vigorously defends a seemingly hopeless position, perhaps like Bruce Willis'

Answer: diehard


Question: 'His last play was 2004's "Finishing the Picture", a story of the making of "The Misfits"'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'Libya's history & economy were forever changed when this was found there in 1959'

Answer: oil


Question: 'To be brief, the logo of this clothing manufacturer is seen here'

Answer: Fruit of the Loom


Question: 'Adjective for all courts that review the decision of a trial court if requested by the losing party'

Answer: apellate


Question: '"Cell Block Tango",<br />"When You're Good To Mama"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Disagreement, or lack of harmony between persons or things'

Answer: discord


Question: 'He won a Hugo Award for a 1973 novel'

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke


Question: 'The WWII defense of Tobruk, Libya against this German general helped save the Middle East for the Allies'

Answer: (Erwin) Rommel


Question: 'Buy me some of this treat, & we'll pretend we're at a ball game'

Answer: Cracker Jack


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew describes some math with the aid of the monitor.)  When it comes to congress, if the U.S. population of 300 million were simply divided by 435, Nebraska, for example, would have 2.48 congressmen; so a complex formula covers this process of handing out seats'

Answer: apportionment


Question: '"Fugue for Tinhorns",<br />"The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'Having spots of a different shade, tone or color from the background, like a mare'

Answer: dappled


Question: 'In 1890 he gave up practicing medicine for full-time writing; in 1902, he was knighted'

Answer: (Arthur Conan) Doyle


Question: 'In 1980 this presidential brother registered as an agent of Libya's government'

Answer: Billy Carter


Question: 'This insurance company has been using a symbol like the one seen here since 1870'

Answer: Travelers


Question: 'In the U.S. Senate, this many votes are needed to end a filibuster'

Answer: 60


Question: '"Everything's Coming Up Roses",<br />"Rose's Turn"'

Answer: Gypsy


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

Answer: dogwood


Question: 'He won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days", his book on the JFK presidency'

Answer: Schlesinger


Question: '2 of the 6 countries that border Libya'

Answer: Algeria & Tunisia (Niger, Chad, Sudan & Egypt)


Question: 'Snack 'em if you got 'em. The label of this food company is seen here'

Answer: Little Debbie


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a money-printing press in Washington, D.C.)  There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the building I'm in, the D.C. facility of this bureau'

Answer: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing


Question: '"Big Spender",<br />"If My Friends Could See Me Now"'

Answer: Sweet Charity


Question: 'A mythological being who is partly divine & partly human'

Answer: a demigod


Question: 'The name of this French poet, a subject in Verlaine's "the damned poets", sounds like a Stallone role'

Answer: Arthur Rimbaud


Question: 'What's for supper? whatever it is, you'll pay with this Libyan currency'

Answer: a dinar


Question: 'Grin & bear it when you name this hotel chain'

Answer: Travelodge


Question: 'In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos'

Answer: Henry Hudson


Question: '"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that" he "opened the window of the ark which he had made"'

Answer: Noah


Question: '1972:<br />Brando prefers anonymity in "Last Tango in ___"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'was the youngest man to be elected president'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'An absence of leisure may leave you feeling like you live in the Artic'

Answer: Artic/Arctic


Question: 'Peanut butter plus bread plus bananas all grilled up is a feast fit for a king--this King who died in 1977'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'It's the U.S. federal holiday celebrated in September'

Answer: Labor Day


Question: 'Paul wrote to Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little" this "for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities"'

Answer: wine


Question: '2002:<br />Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones get away with murder in "___"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'celebrated his 80th birthday October 1, 2004'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Wearing weird jewelry is no gaurantee of ecstasy'

Answer: gaurantee/guarantee


Question: 'This crafty term can be a tiled decorative image or, as an adjective, describe a biblical lawgiver'

Answer: mosaic


Question: 'On Sept. 30, 1888 this madman claimed his third & fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride & Catherine Eddowes'

Answer: Jack the Ripper


Question: 'These 3 friends of Daniel were bound & "cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace"'

Answer: Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego


Question: '1984:<br />Check out Rob Lowe at "The Hotel ___ ___"'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'was the first Republican president'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'On occasion, it may be neccessary to be grateful'

Answer: neccessary/necessary


Question: 'Here's the capper--those who make hats get this name from a city in Italy'

Answer: milliner


Question: 'This future prez' plane was shot down near the Japanese-held island of Chichi Jima September 2, 1944'

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush


Question: 'As this first Christian martyr was being martyred, he prayed, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"'

Answer: (St.) Stephen


Question: '2004:<br />Don Cheadle managed "Hotel ___"'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'has a foreign capital named for him'

Answer: Monroe


Question: 'Quite frankly, his knowledge of the cemetary was mediocre'

Answer: cemetary/cemetery


Question: 'To make a diamond, apply a lot of pressure to this element--a lot of pressure!'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'After 72 years on the throne, he finally died on September 1, 1715 in Versailles, France'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'When the Virgin Mary arrived, John the Baptist "leaped in" this woman's "womb"'

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: '1985:<br />Jeff Daniels steps out of "The Purple Rose of ___"'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'as the sheriff of the Erie County Jail in Buffalo, sprang the trap to hang 2 criminals'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'The turn of the millenium was a humorous odyssey'

Answer: millenium/millennium


Question: 'You'll need a big square with 81 little squares to make this Japanese-named logic puzzle; next come the numbers'

Answer: Sudoku


Question: 'This British officer was captured in late September 1780 trying to return to New York City'

Answer: Major John André


Question:
'"Cardinal of the Kremlin",
"Without Remorse",
"Rainbow Six"'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question: 'This 1965 No. 1 hit by The Byrds is based on a Bible passage'

Answer: "Turn! Turn! Turn!"


Question: 'From the Greek for "ten words", it's another name for the 10 Commandments'

Answer: Decalogue


Question: 'The russet potato is also called this, after the state that leads production'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'The pomelo & the grapefruit'

Answer: Citrus


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in a dining car.)  I'm aboard the historic Orient Express; in 1883 its first trip from Paris to this Ottoman capital included a ferry ride'

Answer: Constantinople (or Istanbul)


Question:
'"The Matarese Countdown",
"The Osterman Weekend",
"The Icarus Agenda"'

Answer: Robert Ludlum


Question: 'Completes the title of Steam's hit song "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him..."'

Answer: "Goodbye"


Question: 'To keep a secret means holding this part of the body'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'This Italian word can refer to a veal escalope or a meat dish whose sauce includes lemon juice & parsley'

Answer: piccata


Question: 'Barbaro, Seattle Slew or the zebra'

Answer: Equus


Question: '(Jimmy stands at the bar, wearing a dapper tuxedo & drinking a martini.)  This movie finds James Bond, who has stolen a Soviet decoding device, returning West aboard the Orient Express with the lovely Tatiana'

Answer: From Russia with Love


Question:
'"The Cottage",
"The Kiss",
"The Promise"'

Answer: Danielle Steel


Question: '"Rock Me Gently" singer Andy Kim co-wrote this "sweet" No. 1 hit by The Archies'

Answer: "Sugar, Sugar"


Question: 'It's a smooth, uninterrupted transition from one thing to another; & speaking of transitions...'

Answer: a segue


Question: 'This dish is a filet of beef that's been covered with pate de foie gras or duxelles, wrapped in a pastry & baked'

Answer: Beef Wellington


Question: 'The coyote is in genus Canis; the ocelot is in this one'

Answer: Felis


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew relaxes in a dining car.)  To prepare for a visit from this last tsar, the French president had 7 new train cars created to show true French elegance'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question:
'"The Key to Rebecca",
"The Man from St. Petersburg",
"Lie Down with Lions"'

Answer: Ken Follett


Question: 'These mischievous guys had "Young" in their name on "Good Lovin'" but not on "People Got To Be Free"'

Answer: The Rascals


Question: 'It's the primate pictured here, & we're not monkeying around'

Answer: a macaque


Question: 'This type of country-cured ham is named for a town in Virginia'

Answer: Smithfield ham


Question: 'The snowshoe hare & the Jackrabbit; there was a movie "Night of the" it'

Answer: Lepus


Question: '(Jimmy walks down a hallway before disappearing into thin air.)  You wouldn't think someone could disappear on a train, but it happens in this 1938 film set aboard the Orient Express'

Answer: The Lady Vanishes


Question:
'"Daddy's Little Girl",
"Where Are the Children?",
"We'll Meet Again"'

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark


Question: 'At Christmas 1965 this group received a present--"Over And Over" became its first & only No. 1 U.S. hit'

Answer: The Dave Clark Five


Question: 'Originating in the Caribbean, it's a popular ballroom dance characterized by a limping step'

Answer: the merengue


Question: 'Appropriately, the thumb-size baby long white potato has this "digital" name'

Answer: a fingerling potato


Question: 'Greek god genus of the bonobo & the chimpanzee'

Answer: Pan


Question: '(Jimmy walks through yet another dining car.)  In 1918 an Orient Express dining car was used for the surrender of the Germans to the Allies; Hitler used the same exact car for the French surrender to the Germans in this year'

Answer: 1940


Question: 'Just prior to her death in 1536, she told Sir William Kingston, "I have a little neck"'

Answer: Anne Boleyn


Question: 'January 20, 1265:<br />This political body meets for the first time'

Answer: the Parliament


Question: 'Katrina Bowden as Cerie, Liz Lemon's assistant'

Answer: 30 Rock


Question: 'In 1993 the FCC required analog TVs sold in the U.S. to display this to help the deaf & the non-English speaking'

Answer: closed captions


Question: 'Old Rip Van Winkle is among the fine brands of this whiskey type made in Kentucky'

Answer: bourbon


Question: 'A large drinking vessel with a single handle & often a hinged cover'

Answer: a tankard


Question: 'Rhett Butler tells a weeping Scarlett, "Never in any crisis of your life have I known you to have" one of these handy'

Answer: a hankie (or handkerchief)


Question: 'October 4, 1535:<br />The first complete modern English version of this is published'

Answer: the Bible


Question: 'Michael Urie as Marc St. James, an assistant at Mode magazine'

Answer: Ugly Betty


Question: 'By definition, it's what you do at an ingress'

Answer: enter


Question: 'Opened in 1923, Yamazaki Distillery was this country's first'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Payment offered & made for the return of lost property'

Answer: a reward


Question: 'On honeymoon Rhett says, "Forget about Atlanta. I brought you to" this city "to have fun"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'September 2, 1666:<br />This deadly conflagration begins'

Answer: the Great Fire of London


Question: 'Kunal Nayyar as Caltech scientist Rajesh Koothrappali'

Answer: The Big Bang Theory


Question: 'Timbo the elephant lived at Shambala, the retreat of this former Hitchcock movie actress, & liked when she fed him Clorets'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'After moving across the Detroit River, this brand was forced by the U.S. to put its country of origin in its name'

Answer: Canadian Club


Question: '7-letter word for a grove of fruit or nut trees'

Answer: orchard


Question: 'Skeptical of the South's chances, Rhett notes that "There's not a cannon factory south of" this line'

Answer: the Mason-Dixon Line


Question: 'December 12, 1189:<br />This monarch leaves England for the Crusades'

Answer: Richard the Lionhearted


Question: 'Amanda Righetti as Grace Van Pelt, a rookie member of the California Bureau of Investigation'

Answer: The Mentalist


Question: 'If Simon LeBon had stomach acid going up his esophagus & causing heartburn, he'd be suffering this'

Answer: acid reflux


Question: 'Bushmill's & Tullamore Dew come from this island'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Clumsy, or hard to handle'

Answer: awkward


Question: 'The movie added this adverb to Rhett's famous final line'

Answer: frankly


Question: 'January 9, 1806:<br />The state funeral for this naval war hero is conducted'

Answer: Nelson


Question: 'T.J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an expert on insects, spores & minerals at the Jeffersonian Institute'

Answer: Bones


Question: '8-letter term for a jug of Pooh's favorite stuff, or for the wax structure that a queen bee builds to store her nectar'

Answer: honeypot


Question: 'The tiny town of Penderyn houses this U.K. nation's only whisky distillery'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'An explosive device used to break down a wall; you might be "hoisted with your own" if you're unlucky'

Answer: a petard


Question: 'Rhett: "You've turned me out while you chased" him, "while you dreamed of" him--not tonight'

Answer: Ashley Wilkes


Question: 'This city's Haight-Ashbury District emerged in the 1960s as a Mecca of the counterculture scene'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: '"Groovy Kind Of Love":<br />The Mindbenders in 1966, this man in 1988'

Answer: Phil Collins


Question: 'Fur is spoken in this troubled westernmost province of Sudan'

Answer: Darfur


Question: 'When a snake sticks out its tongue, it's not tasting but using this sense'

Answer: smell


Question: 'She's the subject of the world's first postage stamp, seen here & issued in 1840'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: '5-letter word for when the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning'

Answer: irony


Question: 'Yes, dear, this insurance center is the largest city in the Connecticut River Valley'

Answer: Hartford


Question: '"Barbara Ann":<br />The Regents in 1961, this group in 1966'

Answer: The Beach Boys


Question: 'The lead singer of the band Dengue Fever is from this country & often sings in Khmer'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Cats have tapetum lucidum membranes in this body part, so they have 2 chances to catch photons'

Answer: their eyes


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a stamp on the monitor.)  In the authentication process of certain stamps, detection fluid is applied to the back, revealing this type of transparent impression'

Answer: a watermark


Question: '"To be or not to be" is not a thesis but an example of this, also meaning "the opposite"'

Answer: antithesis


Question: 'The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace group, is headquartered in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: '"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me":<br />Elton John in 1974, this man & Elton in 1992'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'Tok Pisin, spoken on New Guinea, is this type of blended language & Tok Pisin literally means "talk" this'

Answer: pidgin


Question: 'Rats have poor vision but can enhance their perception by using these, also called vibrissae'

Answer: whiskers


Question: 'The U.S. stopped issuing this type of stamp in the 1970s, when most domestic mail was being sent that way anyway'

Answer: airmail


Question: 'As well as cell division, meiosis means this 14-letter term, like "LeBron James is a decent player"'

Answer: understatement


Question: '"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city'

Answer: Savannah


Question: '"This Old Heart Of Mine":<br />The Isley Brothers in 1966, this man in 1990'

Answer: Rod Stewart


Question: 'Formed in 1906, the party to represent speakers of this language in Finland is still going strong'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'Some moths are able to detect chemical love signals called these up to 7 miles away'

Answer: pheromones


Question: 'From the Latin for "remind", it's a stamp, like the civil rights one seen here, issued to honor a person, place or event'

Answer: a commemorative stamp


Question: 'Interrogatio is the classical name for this device that, unlike our clue, requires no response'

Answer: a rhetorical question


Question: 'Texas' "Sun City", it's a sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico'

Answer: El Paso, Texas


Question: '"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me":<br />This woman in 1966, Elvis in 1970'

Answer: Dusty Springfield


Question: 'In ancient times, the Phoenician language spread to this city, where it became known as Punic'

Answer: Carthage


Question: 'This fish seen here has a rod and bait on top of its head to lure and catch prey'

Answer: an anglerfish


Question: 'The postmark on the stamp & envelope indicates it's one of these collectibles mailed on the day it was originally issued'

Answer: a first day issue (a first day edition accepted)


Question: 'Excursus is another term for this drift into a tangential or unrelated topic, from the Latin for "to go aside"'

Answer: digression


Question: '"I had no idea of originating an American flapper... I simply took girls whom I knew very well" & "used them for my heroines"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'The city of Leipzig, now in this country, was the site of an 1813 battle called the greatest clash of arms before WWI'

Answer: Germany


Question: '"Surf's down", said Playbill when "Good Vibrations", a musical full of this group's songs, wiped out in 2005'

Answer: The Beach Boys


Question:
'The choo choo,
the chi chi,
the chow chow'

Answer: the chow chow


Question: 'The night-blooming cereus, which blooms for just one night a year, is a type of this succulent'

Answer: cactus


Question: 'Seeing the unexpectedly high price of a car can put you into the "sticker" type of this'

Answer: shock


Question: 'It's the one-word title of the state song of Alabama'

Answer: "Alabama"


Question: 'In the first major charity event of its kind, a concert was held Aug. 1, 1971 to raise money for this country'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'You may feel like getting married again after seeing this musical based on an Adam Sandler film about a vocalist'

Answer: The Wedding Singer


Question:
'The akoto,
the akita,
the akeenu'

Answer: the akita


Question: 'A supercolony of these insects, Formica yessensis, was found to have more than 1 million queens'

Answer: ants


Question: 'This word for "speechless" can precede -struck or -founded'

Answer: dumb


Question: 'The first line of this Ralph Ellison novel is "I am an invisible man"'

Answer: Invisible Man


Question: 'Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country'

Answer: Poland


Question: '"Ring of Fire" should ring a bell with you; it was a tribute to this man's music'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question:
'The bilchon fazu,
the bichon frise,
the bilshoi ballu'

Answer: the bichon frise


Question: 'The Indian type of this horned beast has rivet-like projections on its skin that make it look armored'

Answer: rhinoceros


Question: 'Remarkable news may throw you for one of these, also the name of an aeronautical maneuver'

Answer: loop


Question: 'The name of this brand is an amalgam of "dance" and "skin"'

Answer: Danskin


Question: 'In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Wonder if his future wife J-Lo saw him in Paul Simon's musical "The Capeman" in 1998'

Answer: Marc Anthony


Question:
'Swedish plains dog,
Portuguese water dog,
Chinese desert dog'

Answer: Portuguese water dog


Question: 'This tree has 2 groups: soft, which has needles in bundles of 5, & hard, which has needles in bundles of 2 or 3'

Answer: pine


Question: 'Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting'

Answer: stun


Question: 'This track from "Abbey Road" says "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"'

Answer: "The End"


Question: 'In the 1939-1940 "Winter War", the vast Soviet war machine was unleashed against this smaller country'

Answer: Finland


Question: '"You'll Be In My Heart" if you know that "Tarzan" swings with songs by this composer'

Answer: Phil Collins


Question:
'The schipperke,
the schippoutie,
the schipponski'

Answer: the schipperke


Question: 'This predatory canines native to Yellowstone were carefully reintroduced to the park in 1995'

Answer: (grey) wolves


Question: 'On hearing a surprising affront, you may be "taken" this 5-letter way'

Answer: aback


Question: 'Frank Lloyd Wright had 6 kids, including his eldest son, who practiced as an architect under this name'

Answer: Lloyd Wright


Question:
'(Sarah reports from the Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey)
A record level of fusion power was produced at the Plasma Physics Lab of this New Jersey Ivy League university'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'After being expelled, Bluto says "7 years of college down the drain" in "National Lampoon's..."'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'In this "Red Badge" author's "A History of Heroism", Collins risks his life for a bucket of water-- that gets spilled'

Answer: Stephen Crane


Question: 'Number of reeds used in the playing of a saxophone'

Answer: one


Question: '"Weekend" name for a small cheap handgun used in robberies & assaults'

Answer: Saturday night special


Question: 'Cowboy bed'

Answer: bunk


Question: 'The year the Empire State Building opened, this bridge opened to help you get to it from New Jersey'

Answer: George Washington Bridge


Question: 'Sure, in 1992 Francis Ford Coppola directed, but it was, in fact, "Bram Stoker's..."'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'In this character's "Secret Life", he's a naval commander & a brilliant surgeon, while buying overshoes in Waterbury'

Answer: Walter Mitty


Question: 'Of the 1740s, 1840s or 1940s, the decade in which Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone'

Answer: 1840s


Question: 'An order for 1,000 pistols from the U.S. government in 1847 helped re-establish this now legendary gun company'

Answer: Colt


Question: 'Terrestrial critter seen here'

Answer: chipmunk


Question:
'(John reports from Radio City Music Hall in New York)
The stock market crash ended this man's dream of putting an opera house here; he ended up building Radio City Music Hall on the land he controlled'

Answer: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


Question: 'In 2005, Heath Ledger was this great lover; back in 1976, Donald Sutherland was the man in "Fellini's..."'

Answer: Casanova


Question: 'In "In the Penal Colony" by this Czech master, a torture device is finally used on its operator'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'He's the Grammy-winning saxophone master seen here'

Answer: Kenny G


Question: 'Prominent pair who dueled with pistols on July 11, 1804'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr


Question: 'Quality of special soldiers honored & entombed at Arlington'

Answer: unknown


Question: 'The USA's last wooden whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan, is docked in the harbor of this Conn. seaport'

Answer: Mystic


Question: 'Ho ho no! Oogie Boogie holds Santa hostage in this 1993 film, "Tim Burton's..."'

Answer: The Nightmare Before Christmas


Question: 'In this author's "To Build a Fire", a man needs to, in extreme cold, but it goes out'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'Charlie Parker took the instrument to new heights playing this style of jazz he helped invent'

Answer: bebop


Question: 'Ford's Theatre has on display this type of .44 caliber pocket pistol infamously used by John Wilkes Booth'

Answer: derringer


Question: 'From the old High German for "uncombed", this adjective means disheveled or crude'

Answer: unkempt


Question: 'This submarine building Connecticut town was the site of a 1781 massacre of U.S. troops by the British; a memorial is shown'

Answer: Groton


Question: 'In 2002, Joaquin Phoenix was in "M. Night Shyamalan's Signs"; in 2004, he went to this title place, to "M. Night Shyamalan's..."'

Answer: The Village


Question: 'In a story by him, a woman is sure she'll die as soon as "The Last Leaf" falls, but-- well, just wait for the ending'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'Originally there were 14 types of saxophone; today the most widely used types are the tenor, alto & this one'

Answer: soprano


Question: 'This Olympic event was inspired by a soldier's ability to swim, run, ride a horse & fight with a sword & a pistol'

Answer: pentathlon


Question: 'Branch of the Sioux headed by Sitting Bull'

Answer: Hunkpapa


Question: 'The invention of what was termed "electro-photography" led to the 1948 trademarking of this word'

Answer: Xerox


Question: 'In the cathedral at Chartres, most of this translucent artwork from the 13th century is still in place'

Answer: stained glass


Question: 'She was born to her mommie dearest as Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1908'

Answer: Joan Crawford


Question: '"Draw one in the dark" & pour me one of these breakfast beverages'

Answer: black coffee


Question: 'Isostasy says rock formations that rise high, as the Tetons & others of these, must sink deeper into the Earth'

Answer: mountains


Question: 'In a 50 mph wind this part of the Statue of Liberty can sway 5 inches'

Answer: torch


Question: 'In the 1600s a group of monks in the Alps developed this dog breed'

Answer: Saint Bernard


Question: 'Joseph Stella is known for a series of paintings of this amusement park at the southern end of Long Island'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'This hot shot was born Carlos Estevez on Sept. 3, 1965'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'The family in the corner wants 5 servings of "nervous pudding", this dessert'

Answer: Jell-O


Question: 'The "inner" this, the very center of the planet, rotates slightly faster than the layers above it'

Answer: core


Question: 'Relay runners, drum majors & conductors hold various types of these'

Answer: batons


Question: 'It's said that a werewolf can be killed with one of these'

Answer: silver bullet


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Rembrandt's house in Amsterdam)  Rembrandt used metal plates & this oak press to make copies of this type of artwork'

Answer: etchings


Question: 'Elliott Goldstein, born Aug. 29, 1938, became this actor, Streisand's first hubby'

Answer: Elliott Gould


Question: 'Holy Cow, I'd like "a white cow": a vanilla one of these'

Answer: milkshake


Question: 'These waves, which may be "body" or "surface" waves, provide much of our evidence about the Earth's interior'

Answer: seismic waves


Question: 'A katana is a samurai's'

Answer: sword


Question: 'Montecito is a suburb of this city, called "The Queen of the California Missions"'

Answer: Santa Barbara


Question: '19th century sculptor William Rush is famous for this pair of figures he did for a theater in Philadelphia'

Answer: Comedy & Tragedy


Question: 'This star with a squeaky clean image was born Doris von Kappelhoff on April 3, 1924'

Answer: Doris Day


Question: 'Get me a "Noah's boy on bread", one of these lunch favorites'

Answer: ham sandwich


Question: 'As the name implies, this type of rock, like slate, has been transformed by heat & pressure deep in the Earth'

Answer: metamorphic


Question: 'The double-headed eagle on the emblem of the czars holds an orb & one of these'

Answer: scepter


Question: 'White wine produced from this grape is often said to have a grassy, herbaceous aroma & flavor'

Answer: sauvignon blanc


Question: 'Maurice Utrillo's White Period featured streets of this Paris area, also home to Amelie & Toulouse-Lautrec'

Answer: Montmartre


Question: 'AKA Laszlo Loewenstein, he was born on June 26, 1904 in Hungary, not in Casablanca'

Answer: Peter Lorre


Question: 'I need "a stack of Vermont", pronto: this breakfast favorite'

Answer: pancakes


Question: 'In 1952 Francis Birch showed that the center of the Earth is basically this metal in molten form'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Term for the member of a military unit who carries its flag or emblem'

Answer: standard bearer


Question: '(Hi, I'm Barbara Mandrell)  I had a reoccurring role as Alex Mitchum on this Aaron Spelling daytime drama'

Answer: Sunset Beach


Question: 'He said that bisexuality "immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'Sinead O'Connor, famed for her shaved head'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Fittingly, this country's lowest point is in Baja, or lower, California'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'It's the law: one of these for each person aboard'

Answer: life vest/preserver


Question: 'To look smug & self-satisfied is to "look like the cat that swallowed" this'

Answer: the canary


Question: 'Yeah, Hun, this king murdered his co-ruler (& brother) Bleda in 445 A.D.'

Answer: Attila


Question: 'Thoreau's "Pond in Winter" reminds us that this "is under our feet as well as over our heads"'

Answer: heaven


Question: 'Edith Piaf, the Little Sparrow'

Answer: France


Question: 'It's the only one of the Low Countries that actually dips below sea level'

Answer: The Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'When returning to harbor from open water, keep red ones on the right & green ones on the left'

Answer: buoys


Question: 'To "make" this for an object means to move in a straight path like an Apis mellifera'

Answer: beeline


Question: 'This Shakespearean king was murdered by a son of Duncan I, a king he himself had murdered'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'In a 1968 speech this Black Panther said, "You're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem"'

Answer: Eldridge Cleaver


Question: 'INXS' Michael Hutchence'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'The smallest Scandinavian country, it's also the only one that dips below sea level at Lammefjord'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Evinrude, which invented this type of motor seen here, was once a brand of the Marine Corporation of the same name'

Answer: outboard


Question: 'Someone acting overly concerned is "as fussy as" one of these "with one chick"'

Answer: hen


Question: 'After 3 of his sons were slain in battle on Mount Gilboa, this first king of Israel killed himself'

Answer: Saul


Question: '"The Earth's about 5 million years old, at least.  Who can afford to live in the past?" he wrote in the play "The Homecoming"'

Answer: Harold Pinter


Question: 'Sex symbol Tom Jones'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'The Dead Sea is the lowest point of these 2 countries'

Answer: Israel & Jordan


Question: 'Capri & Riviera were 1950s Chris-Craft models of this type of small pleasure motorboat'

Answer: runabouts


Question: 'After this canine expression, George Borrow wrote, "And mine has been a fine one"'

Answer: every dog has his day


Question: 'He's the king who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066'

Answer: Harold II


Question: 'Her poem "Lady Lazarus" says, "Dying is an art, like everything else.  I do it exceptionally well"'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'Sade, who's a "Smooth Operator"'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'Neusiedler Lake, this country's lowest point, has no natural outlet but is linked to a Danube tributary'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'This waterway that allows boats to avoid the open sea stretches from Boston to Brownsville, Texas'

Answer: Intracoastal Waterway


Question: 'Phrase meaning sneaky or clever; it was the title of a Jack Warden TV show'

Answer: Crazy Like A Fox


Question: 'A Persian king of this name was killed by one of his own men after fleeing from Alexander the Great'

Answer: Darius


Question: 'For its 1st swimsuit edition in 2003, it covered 100 years of the swimsuit & included a 1917 photo of topless island women'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'In 1857 a 7-2 ruling said this man couldn't bring a suit in the federal court, as blacks were not U.S. citizens'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'Mae Questel, seen here, was the voice of both Olive Oyl & this pretty cartoon Betty'

Answer: (Betty) Boop


Question: 'Stop, thief!  Specifically, it's the act of stealing a woman's handbag from her arm'

Answer: purse snatching


Question: 'The southernmost country in North (including Central) America'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Dumb guys cherish this microwave button; they no longer have their ear to the door waiting for the kernels to quiet'

Answer: the popcorn button


Question: 'Sole impression left by the unshod'

Answer: a footprint


Question: 'Some said the school integration ruling in 2007's Parents Involved v. Seattle undermined this 1954 case'

Answer: Brown vs. the Board of Education


Question: 'Before she was snarky Sue Ann and ditzy Rose, she was Vicki Angel on the '50s sitcom "Date With The Angels"'

Answer: Betty White


Question: 'It's the manufacture of fake money to be passed off as real'

Answer: counterfeiting


Question: 'The easternmost country in South America'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Dumb guys now have a place to put their 32-oz. drinks; not only do these come in cars but they're on movie seats!'

Answer: cupholders


Question: 'It's the German equivalent of the English word "miss"'

Answer: fraulein


Question: 'In 1911 the court ruled this co. "of New Jersey" had to be dissolved for its unreasonable restraint of trade'

Answer: Standard Oil


Question: 'She didn't go by Betty much, but anyway, she'll always be Samantha to us'

Answer: Elizabeth Montgomery


Question: 'According to the Constitution, it's levying war against the U.S. or aiding & comforting the enemy'

Answer: treason


Question: 'The westernmost country in North America'

Answer: United States


Question: 'Dumb guys no longer rip lettuce apart to make it; Fresh Express has it in a bag! (Dumb guys still let it rot in the fridge)'

Answer: salad


Question: 'An agricultural plant-growth aid, often including nitrates'

Answer: fertilizer


Question: '1966's this man v. Arizona was based in part on the 6th Amendment, which guarantees a defendant's right to a lawyer'

Answer: Miranda


Question: 'The Betty seen here turns heads in this town'

Answer: Riverdale


Question: 'It's the fraudulent appropriation of money that's been entrusted to one's care'

Answer: embezzlement


Question: 'The westernmost country in continental Europe'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Dumb guys think it's cool they get to slide their own credit card at the store; even cooler? This word for "slide"'

Answer: swipe


Question: 'It can be a parasitic flatworm or a lucky, chance occurrence'

Answer: a fluke


Question: 'Judicial review, the court's authority to declare laws unconstitutional, was established in him v. Madison'

Answer: Marbury


Question: 'Born Elizabeth Bloomer in 1918, she danced for Martha Graham & modeled for John Robert Powers before meeting Jerry'

Answer: Betty Ford


Question: 'This is the act of killing one's own brother'

Answer: fratricide


Question: 'The southernmost country in South America'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Dumb guys at desks feel smart clicking this & pushing the lead back in, especially considering its complicated name'

Answer: a mechanical pencil


Question: 'This compound word is a forward artillery position set up to support advancing infantry'

Answer: a firebase


Question: 'This book by Arthur Golden says, "I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha"'

Answer: Memoirs of a Geisha


Question: '"Happy Gilmore"'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'In 2006 this "Sage of Omaha" donated $31 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation'

Answer: (Warren) Buffett


Question: 'Beatrice, a Florentine girl who died in 1290 to this poet's anguish'

Answer: Dante Alighieri


Question: 'A job, especially for a musician'

Answer: a gig


Question: 'Alexander McCall Smith has written a series of books about the "No. 1 Ladies"' this'

Answer: Detective Agency


Question: '"The Sandlot"'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king'

Answer: Richard the Lionhearted


Question: 'This future politician, "The Younger", entered Cambridge at the young age of 14 & graduated at 17 in 1776'

Answer: (William) Pitt


Question: 'Ballerinas Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil LeClercq, Suzanne Farrell...'

Answer: George Balanchine


Question: 'A tiny child, or a small amount of liquor for a Brit'

Answer: a tot


Question: '"In Exile from the Land of Snows" is "The Definitive Account of" him & "Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest"'

Answer: the Dalai Lama


Question: '"We Are Marshall"'

Answer: football


Question: 'Rossini's opera about this tragic character is subtitled "Il Moro Di Venezia'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Ol' King George must've loved this general's 1781 win at Guilford Courthouse but his 1781 Yorktown loss...not so much'

Answer: Cornwallis


Question: 'Marie-Therese Walter, in the 1930s also his model & lover'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Palindromic breads include India's naan & one spelling of this Jewish Sabbath item'

Answer: hallah


Question: 'This Norman Mailer work is the true story of murderer Gary Gilmore, who chose a firing squad when given the death penalty'

Answer: The Executioner\'s Song


Question: '"Mystery, Alaska"'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'Composer Douglas Moore took flight with "The Wings of the Dove", based on a 1902 novel by this author'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'After WWII he held Yugoslavia together for 35 years as premier & president: it didn't last without him'

Answer: Tito


Question: 'Singer Lotte Lenya, whom he married in 1926 & in 1937'

Answer: Kurt Weill


Question: 'Paired with flutter, it's a slow wavering of pitch due to uneven playback speed'

Answer: wow


Question: 'This book by Vincent Bugliosi tells "The True Story of the Manson Murders"'

Answer: Helter Skelter


Question: '"Balls of Fury"'

Answer: Ping-Pong


Question: 'The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "And the Singing Contest of the Wartburg"'

Answer: Tannhauser


Question: 'This German scientist whose name is a unit of frequency was the first to send & receive radio waves'

Answer: Heinrich Hertz


Question: 'Alma Schindler, wife & muse of this composer (before she married architect Walter Gropius)'

Answer: Gustav Mahler


Question: 'More incarnadine'

Answer: redder


Question: 'On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899'

Answer: Alfred Dreyfus


Question: 'Trendy cafes called manga kissas are places teens can go to meet & read comic books in this nation'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This man is Number 1 with $53 billion; just turn on any computer if you need a clue'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'The kangaroo rat'

Answer: rodent


Question: 'It's the 2-word phrase symbolized here'

Answer: Handicapped access


Question: 'Paul Newman's character kicks western outlaw Harvey Logan where it really hurts in this 1969 classic'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'Skydome is home to this Major League Baseball team'

Answer: Toronto Blue Jays


Question: 'Home to the Golden Temple & the center of the Sikh religion, the city of Amritsar is found in this nation'

Answer: India


Question: 'Son Robson inherited the bulk of his $20 billion from his dad Sam, who started this retail chain'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'The rat kangaroo'

Answer: marsupial


Question: 'In 1932 actress Peg Entwistle jumped to her death from the "H" in this sign'

Answer: the "Hollywood" Sign


Question: 'Told he was sexier than this "Top Gun" star, Newman quipped, "I'm lucky to have a pulse"'

Answer: Tom Cruise


Question: 'What a restaurant popularly calls its featured meal of the day'

Answer: blue plate special


Question: '(Alex on location)  I'm at Namdaemun, a gate that is national treasure No. 1 of this country that was host of the 1988 Summer Olympics'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Silvio Berlusconi not only has $7.2 billion, he was elected prime minister of this country in 2001'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The bandicoot'

Answer: marsupial


Question: 'Waldi, the symbol of the 1972 summer games in Munich, was a stylized one of these "wiener" dogs'

Answer: dachshund


Question: 'Newman's movie debut, "The Silver" this, also features Lorne Greene as St. Peter'

Answer: The Silver Chalice


Question: 'It's where Fats Domino found his thrill in a 1956 hit'

Answer: "Blueberry Hill"


Question: 'In the 16th century Portuguese sailors named this island "Ilha Formosa" or "beautiful island"'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'This Berkshire Hathaway exec. is in the Top 5 with $35 billion'

Answer: Warren Buffett


Question: 'The woodchuck'

Answer: rodent


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reporting from the Atlanta Zoo)  A traditional symbol of peace, the giant panda is also the symbol of this nature organization'

Answer: WWF (World Wildlife Fund)


Question: 'Paul won an Oscar for this 1986 film in which he reprised his role of Fast Eddie Felsen'

Answer: The Color of Money


Question: 'It's the state flower of Texas, but keep it under your hat'

Answer: bluebonnet


Question: 'The statue seen here (The Golden Buddha) is found in this southeast Asian kingdom bordered by Laos & Burma'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'Smart as a fox, this Australian-born mogul now has $5.7 billion'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'The aye-aye'

Answer: primate


Question: 'One of the 2 signs of the Zodiac for July'

Answer: Cancer the crab or Leo the lion


Question: 'Try to spot Bruce Willis as a courtroom extra in this 1982 Newman film about an alcoholic lawyer'

Answer: The Verdict


Question: 'This Disney series features a whole new cast of Muppets including Ojo, Treelo & Tutter the mouse'

Answer: Bear in the Big Blue House


Question: 'Speaking to WWI troops in 1919, this man became the first U.S. president to make a radio broadcast'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'The epic "Voyna i mir"'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'The surname Price isn't related to cost; it's from this Celtic language's "Ap Rhys", or "Son of Rhys"'

Answer: Welsh


Question: 'One estimate says there are about 326 million cubic miles of this compound in, on & above the Earth'

Answer: water


Question: 'A short moment of time to make popcorn "pop" or to get a "lube" job'

Answer: jiffy


Question: 'Sonny Boy Williamson was killed at 34.  He played this "mouth organ" like nobody did before'

Answer: harmonica


Question: 'After being bitten by a dog in 1885, Joseph Meister became the first person inoculated against this'

Answer: rabies


Question: 'Thomas Mann's thrill ride... er... read: "Der Zauberberg"'

Answer: The Magic Mountain


Question: 'Jenkins originally meant this, the name of a pal of Robin Hood's'

Answer: Little John


Question: 'It runs from the Gulf of California to the Gorda Ridge off Oregon between the North American & Pacific plates'

Answer: San Andreas Fault


Question: 'With a population of 735,000, it's the most populous city in Florida'

Answer: Jacksonville


Question: 'Last name of blues guitarists B.B. & Freddie.  When the Lord decides to call you, you'd better be ready'

Answer: King


Question: 'Some consider German king Otto the Great, crowned in 962, the first of these central European "emperors"'

Answer: Holy Roman Emperor


Question: 'A memoir:<br />"Den Afrikanske Farm"'

Answer: Out of Africa


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst)  My last name translates to this, used in English to mean an administrator at a college'

Answer: provost


Question: 'BMW engineers are working out the kinks to use this most abundant element in the universe as an auto fuel'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'After Solomon's death in 922 B.C., the Hebrews divided into 2 kingdoms: Israel & this one'

Answer: Judah


Question: 'Handicap of Lemon Jefferson & also Willie McTell.  They both needed a good woman to catch them if they fell'

Answer: blindness


Question: 'Ernest Poole became the first novelist to win this prize on June 3, 1918'

Answer: Pulitzer Prize


Question: 'The magical "El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera"'

Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera


Question: 'An ancestor of songwriter Johnny must have been one of these, a dry-goods merchant'

Answer: mercer


Question: 'Calcium bicarbonate from this, the most abundant soluble rock, is used by sea creatures in forming shells'

Answer: limestone


Question: 'It's the "gem" of a unit equal to the work done when a current of 1 ampere passes through 1 ohm for 1 second'

Answer: joule


Question: 'The Handy Awards Festival is up & down this Memphis street.  When the blues fills the air, it sounds mighty sweet'

Answer: Beale Street


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco)  The Garden Court was the site of the official 1945 banquet honoring the opening session of this organization'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'The weighty "Nesnesitelna Lekhost Oyti" (in Czech) or "L'Insoutenable Legerte de l'Etre" (in French)'

Answer: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"


Question: 'Common occupational surname shown here<br />(making those barrels)'

Answer: cooper


Question: 'Deposits inside these are called speleothems & include stalactites & stalagmites'

Answer: caves


Question: 'Christian monk & translator Eusebius Hieronymus is better known as this saint'

Answer: Saint Jerome


Question: 'This man & Sonny Terry played together 30 years.  If you don't like their music, you need to check your ears'

Answer: Brownie McGhee


Question: 'The first winning presidential ticket of 2 sitting U.S. senators was the ticket of these 2 men'

Answer: John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'An unflattering version of ex-girlfriend Maria Beadnell appeared in his "Little Dorrit"'

Answer: (Charles) Dickens


Question: 'Picked West Point as the site for the U.S. Military Academy'

Answer: Washington


Question: '"They sewed ____ ____ together, and made themselves aprons"'

Answer: fig leaves


Question: 'Don't own no pickup truck / They make me go fetal / Just like to scoot around / In this company's Beetle'

Answer: Volkswagen


Question: 'He's worth every penny as Alfred Pennyworth in "The Dark Knight"'

Answer: Michael Caine


Question: 'It can mean undistinguished or one walking as opposed to driving'

Answer: pedestrian


Question: 'Her relationship with writer Vita Sackville-West would inspire the play "Vita and Virginia"'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Sent Lewis & Clark off to see the country'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: '"And the lord set a mark upon ____, lest any finding him should kill him"'

Answer: Cain


Question: '& I'm proud to be / From this country / Where at least I know I'm free / From Halifax to Kamloops / It's the place for you & me!'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The parents of this 52nd governor of New York immigrated to the U.S. from Salerno, Italy'

Answer: Mario Cuomo


Question: 'Bridgeport is the largest city in this northeastern state'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'James Hilton's father, a school headmaster, was an inspiration for the title character in "Goodbye, Mr." him'

Answer: Chips


Question: 'Was married twice'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: '"And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have ____ over the fish of the sea"'

Answer: dominion


Question: 'Workin' on Wall Street / Sure takes its toll / But a ski trip to this country's Davos or Gstaad / Is good for the soul'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'This child star got his first on-screen kiss in "My Girl"'

Answer: Macaulay Culkin


Question: 'Verb meaning to introduce a disease-producing agent for the purpose of creating resistance'

Answer: innoculate


Question: 'Her only published work under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, was a translation of "Essence of Christianity"'

Answer: (George) Eliot


Question: 'Eliminated the tax on whiskey & sent a naval expedition against the Barbary pirates'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: '"There were ____ in the earth in those days"'

Answer: giants


Question: 'I don't like beer / I like my drinks pretty / Like this vodka, cointreau, cranberry juice & lime juice one / On "Sex & the City"'

Answer: a cosmopolitan


Question: 'Edgar Degas' style influenced that of this female American Impressionist'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: '9-letter adjective literally applying to one in the womb; it's used of a project just getting started'

Answer: embryonic


Question: 'Appointed Oliver Ellsworth Chief Justice'

Answer: Washington


Question: '"And God set them in the ____ of the heaven to give light upon the earth"'

Answer: firmament


Question: 'You won't find me at the barbecue / 'Cause I don't eat no legs / I'm on this 5-letter diet / Not even dairy & eggs'

Answer: vegan


Question: 'The film "Gigi" gave him his signature song "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"'

Answer: Maurice Chevalier


Question: 'This small fault or offense is from both Spanish & Italian for "sin"'

Answer: peccadillo


Question: 'The City of Worms, where Martin Luther refused to recant in 1521, is a port on this German river'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'She & hubby Will Arnett played a sister-&-brother ice skating team in "Blades of Glory"'

Answer: Amy Poehler


Question: 'Kathleen Kenyon's excavation of this city mentioned in Joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'A tiny terrier: <br />RISKY HERO'

Answer: Yorkshire


Question: 'A deep ravine that's often dry in the summer, it shares its name with a "grand" dam in Washington state'

Answer: a coulee


Question: 'Established as part of the New Deal, it's the TVA for short'

Answer: the Tennessee Valley Authority


Question: 'This ocean's deepest point, more than 23,000 feet, is in the Java Trench'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'Anna Torv & Mark Valley played lovers on this eerie Fox show & married in real life in 2008'

Answer: Fringe


Question: 'This mystery author & her archaeologist hubby dug in hopes of finding the lost Syrian city of Urkesh'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'An ape: <br />MICE ZAP HEN'

Answer: chimpanzee


Question: 'This layer of rock between the Earth's core & crust makes up about 85 percent of the planet's mass'

Answer: the mantle


Question: 'In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, "Yea, though I walk through" this, "I will fear no evil"'

Answer: the valley of the shadow of death


Question: 'This large Central American lake that shares its name with a country has some of the world's few freshwater sharks'

Answer: Lake Nicaragua


Question: 'After 7 months of marriage, Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" & Fred Armisen of this late night staple separated'

Answer: SNL (Saturday Night Live)


Question: 'At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull'

Answer: Mary Leakey


Question: 'A fish-catching bird: <br />MORTAR CON'

Answer: cormorant


Question: 'From the Greek for "without shape", this term refers to rocks & minerals that have no crystalline structure'

Answer: amorphous (amorphic accepted)


Question: 'Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922'

Answer: the Valley of the Kings (the Valley of Kings accepted)


Question: 'The only major river that flows both north & south across the equator is this second-longest river in Africa'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'His wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on "Dexter"'

Answer: Michael C. Hall


Question: 'Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first woman to discover & excavate a Minoan settlement on this island'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'A member of the weasel family: <br />GARBED'

Answer: badger


Question: 'Lamina is a layer in this type of rock that is less than 1 cm. in thickness & is visually separable from other layers'

Answer: sedimentary


Question: 'Fragrant perennial with a 4-word name seen here'

Answer: lily of the valley


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) Exactly two-thirds of the way south from the equator, you can circumnavigate the world without ever crossing land at this latitude'

Answer: 60 degrees south


Question: 'This "All My Children" star had all his children--Michael, Lola & Joaquin--with wife Kelly Ripa'

Answer: (Mark) Consuelos


Question: 'At Mt. Carmel in Israel, Dorothy Garrod was the first to find this prehistoric human skeleton outside of Europe'

Answer: Neanderthal


Question: 'A crocodilian: <br />MANIAC'

Answer: caiman


Question: '"Bovine" term for a crescent-shaped lake formed in an abandoned river bend'

Answer: an ox-bow


Question: 'Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame wrote a book about life's ups & downs titled these opposites'

Answer: Peaks and Valleys


Question: 'Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities'

Answer: literati


Question: 'The right conduct includes abstaining from killing, stealing & this, so get ready for teetotalism'

Answer: drinking (or drunkenness)


Question:
'Thurman Munson,
Roger Bresnahan,
Johnny Bench'

Answer: catchers


Question: 'Yes, this American Motors car shares its name with a WWII engine trouble-causing imp... what, no sale?'

Answer: a Gremlin


Question: 'A favorite of the Rough Riders was "There'll Be" this "In The Old Town Tonight"'

Answer: "A Hot Time"


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an example of long division on a monitor.)  It's the quantity I've got left over'

Answer: the remainder


Question: 'You're not ordering a prison weapon; it's this front leg of beef that requires braising'

Answer: a shank


Question: 'The right livelihood doesn't include this "-ology" of reading the stars practiced by William Lilly'

Answer: astrology


Question:
'Magic Johnson,
Steve Nash,
Jason Kidd'

Answer: point guards


Question: 'Sure, in the '70s this car's gas tank exploded a bit when rear-ended but I prefer to think of the same-named bean'

Answer: the Pinto


Question: 'This title aerialist of a song that dates back to the 1860s has stolen the singer's girl away'

Answer: "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze"


Question: '9-letter word for a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users'

Answer: the mainframe


Question: '2-word rhyming name for the finely chopped section of the hind leg of beef extending from rump to ankle'

Answer: ground round


Question: 'The right views aren't the ones out your window; they concern the 4 Noble Truths & this, Sanskrit for "action" or "fate"'

Answer: karma


Question:
'Adam Vinatieri,
Morten Andersen,
Jan Stenerud'

Answer: kickers


Question: 'Never mind this carmaker's Jetta--I see you top down, stone cold chillin' in its model called the Thing'

Answer: Volkswagen


Question: 'For a flat fee of $100, Stephen Foster sold this song adopted by the "Forty-Niners"'

Answer: "Oh! Susanna"


Question: 'As a noun, it means a river having tributaries; as an adjective, it's belonging to a widely accepted group'

Answer: a mainstream


Question: 'The boneless top loin muscle is called Kansas City steak or by this name of the state'

Answer: New York


Question: 'The First Amendment gives you the right to "freedom of" this; Buddhists just want it right'

Answer: speech


Question:
'Nelson "Old Poison" Stewart,
Stan Mikita,
Wayne Gretzky'

Answer: centermen


Question: 'This import had its U.S. debut in 1985 at $3,990, but its home country got split up later, so I'll let it go for a cool grand'

Answer: Yugo


Question: 'In a 1910 song it was down by this "where I first met you"'

Answer: "The Old Mill Stream"


Question: 'From the Greek for "corpse", this substance once thought to be toxic could be in a "SILENT P" category'

Answer: ptomaine


Question: 'You don't expect me to swallow this beef stomach lining that comes in honeycomb, pocket & smooth varieties, do you?'

Answer: tripe


Question: 'In a 1999 film they were "Cruel"; for Buddhists they should be right'

Answer: intentions


Question:
'Phil Rizzuto,
Fred "Chicken" Stanley,
Derek Jeter'

Answer: shortstops


Question: 'You'll feel like Montezuma in his chariot--I've got a whole lot of these Pontiac "sport recreation vehicles"'

Answer: the Aztek


Question: 'He wrote one of his favorite melodies, "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody", for a Ziegfeld Follies show'

Answer: Irving Berlin


Question: 'The Supreme Court ruled controversially regarding this 2-word land use term in Kelo v. New London'

Answer: eminent domain


Question: 'It's a cross between the American bison & cattle, the beef strain being dominant'

Answer: a beefalo


Question: 'Called Michinomiya as a child, he became Japanese emperor on Christmas Day, 1926'

Answer: Hirohito


Question: 'You have selected Atlanta's Grand Theater for Friday, Dec. 15, 1939. The star-studded premiere of this film is sold out'

Answer: Gone with the Wind


Question: 'Before the "Today" Show & "Dateline", she was a cub reporter for Indianapolis' CBS affiliate'

Answer: Jane Pauley


Question: 'This state capital is located at the head of navigation on the east bank of the Delaware River'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'Hypertension'

Answer: high blood pressure


Question: 'In 1925 the world's first one of these opened in San Luis Obispo, welcoming lodgers as well as their cars'

Answer: motel (from motor hotel)


Question: 'In 1281 a storm the Japanese called Kamikaze, or "Divine Wind", thwarted an amphibious attack by this Mongol'

Answer: Kublai Khan


Question: 'You have selected this film in which Tony Manero is a regular at the 2001 Odyssey Disco'

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Question: 'In 1999 this "Breakfast of Champions" author was honored as an Indiana living legend'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'Founded in 1670 at Albemarle Point, this South Carolina city was moved to its present location in 1680'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'Rubella'

Answer: German measles


Question: 'Blending 2 languages, it was also the title of a 2004 Adam Sandler flick'

Answer: Spanglish (from Spanish & English)


Question: 'In 794 Emperor Kammu established the Japanese capital in this city that was then called Heian-Kyo'

Answer: Kyoto


Question: 'Press 2 now if you want to hear Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson in this 1957 war drama'

Answer: Bridge on the River Kwai


Question: 'In 1876 this chemist & colonel founded his famous drug co. that today markets Cialis, Prozac & others'

Answer: Eli Lilly


Question: 'Home to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, remember this Texas city!'

Answer: San Antonio


Question: 'Pollinosis'

Answer: hay fever


Question: 'In 1960 Manfred Clynes combined these 2 words to create cyborg'

Answer: cybernetic & organism


Question: 'Until 1993 the Liberal Democratic Party had controlled this legislative assembly for 38 straight years'

Answer: the Diet


Question: 'You've selected upcoming releases for June 1947. Press 1 for this film with Maureen O'Hara, sure to become a classic'

Answer: Miracle on 34th Street


Question: 'After moving to Indianapolis in 1854 this future pres. became a deacon & elder at the First Presbyterian Church'

Answer: Benjamin Harrison


Question: 'This seat of Pennsylvania's Lackawanna County was known as "The Anthracite Capital of the World"'

Answer: Scranton


Question: 'Varicella'

Answer: chicken pox


Question: 'Can't decide which utensil to use?  Use one of these'

Answer: spork (from spoon & fork)


Question: 'In 1192 Yoritomo, the leader of the Minamoto Clan controlling Japan, was given this title that means "great general"'

Answer: shogun


Question: 'Press 3 for this Spike Lee film that takes place on a sweltering summer day, aptly opening in June 1989'

Answer: Do the Right Thing


Question: 'A real high point of Indianapolis is this Hoosier poet's grave & monument, atop the city's highest point'

Answer: James Whitcomb Riley


Question: 'This state capital was governed at times by Britain, France, Spain, the Republic of West Florida, the CSA & the U.S.'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'Pertussis'

Answer: whooping cough


Question: 'Lewis Carroll coined chortle from these two words'

Answer: chuckle & snort


Question: 'Far from the mainland, Hawaii is poor in native mammals: it has 2, a type of seal & a type of this, order Chiroptera'

Answer: a bat


Question: 'The first act to appear on "Soul Train" was this woman & her Pips'

Answer: Gladys Knight


Question: 'In a 1908 book Percival Lowell proposed that its surface markings were irrigation canals'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'In a 1995 post-apocalyptic film, Sylvester Stallone played this judge who served as jury and executioner'

Answer: Judge Dredd


Question: 'Gauze is named for this Palestinian city where it's thought to have originated'

Answer: Gaza


Question: 'This "Wizard of Menlo Park" said, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill"'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'Introduced during the Revolution, this execution device was last used in France in 1977'

Answer: the guillotine


Question: 'The U.S., the top maker of french fries, sends 48.5% of exports to this country; you want fries with that sushi?'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'In 1975 the Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 provided the first photo from its surface'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Variety said audiences would "be taken for a thrilling ride in the wild blue yonder" by this Tom Cruise film'

Answer: Top Gun


Question: 'The name of this fabric with metallic threads comes from lamina, Latin for "thin piece of metal"'

Answer: lamé


Question: 'In 1970 he declared it time for the great silent majority of Americans to stand up and be counted"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Their last joint operetta, "The Grand Duke", premiered in 1896'

Answer: Gilbert & Sullivan


Question: 'Nicaragua was the first country to ratify this charter in 1945; the U.S. took another 3 weeks'

Answer: U.N. Charter


Question: 'On December 7, 1995, a probe from the Galileo spacecraft plunged into this planet's atmosphere'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Clint Eastwood received his first Oscar for directing this 1992 western'

Answer: Unforgiven


Question: 'In 1968 this mayor said, "The policeman isn't there to create disorder, (he) is there to preserve disorder"'

Answer: (Mayor) Daley (of Chicago)


Question: 'In September 1957 this baseball team played its last game at Ebbets Field, beating the Pirates 2-0'

Answer: the Brooklyn Dodgers


Question: 'This U.S. state is no. 1 in the number of marriages and Girl Scouts'

Answer: California


Question: 'Its moon Triton has a thin nitrogen atmosphere'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Recent film that featured the following scene of destruction:'

Answer: Jumanji


Question: 'In 1774 this orator told the first Continental Congress, "I am not a Virginian but an American"'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'At his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Maryland was the last surviving signer of this document'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'Donovan Bailey is considered the fastest man on Earth for running this distance in 9.84 seconds'

Answer: the 100 meters


Question: 'It's the only planet in our solar system discovered by an American, Clyde Tombaugh'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'In "My Darling Clementine" he played Wyatt Earp & Victore Mature played Doc Holliday'

Answer: Henry Fonda


Question: 'This Oliver Hazard Perry line precedes "Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop"'

Answer: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours."


Question: 'In 1947 Kenneth C. Royall became the last holder of this cabinet post once held by Edwin Stanton'

Answer: Secretary of War


Question: 'This term refers to a society ruled by women or to a family with a mother at the head'

Answer: a matriarchy


Question: 'This singer once known as "No Show Jones" tells all in his 1996 memoir "I Lived To Tell It All"'

Answer: George Jones


Question: 'Bays in this state include Hingham, Dorchester & Quincy'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'In 34 B.C. she and her son Caesarion were declared joint rulers of Cyprus, Libya, Coelesyria & Egypt'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'On August 8, 1588, the English defeated this fleet of Philip II at the Battle of Gravelines'

Answer: the Armada


Question: 'In this Poe tale Captain Kidd's treasure is found with the aid of a secret code & a scarab beetle'

Answer: The Gold Bug


Question: 'Decade in which the student counterculture movement popularized the "Do your own thing" way of life'

Answer: the 60s


Question: 'This star whose new album is "Fresh Horses" signed autographs for 23 straight hours at 1996's Fan Fair'

Answer: Garth Brooks


Question: 'This tiny state's southernmost point lies on Block Island in the Atlantic, about 10 miles from the mainland'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'In 1854 she left England to work in the military hospital at Scutari, Turkey'

Answer: (Florence) Nightingale


Question: 'This "Great" Russian czar's 43-year reign, 1682-1725, was the longest in the Romanov line'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Published in 1961, "The Winter of" this was John Steinbeck's last novel'

Answer: The Winter of Our Discontent


Question: 'Late 19th C. invention that caused unemployment for blacksmiths & wagon & buggy whip producers'

Answer: the automobile


Question: '"Starting Over Again" is a hit single from this radiant redhead who once rode in the rodeo'

Answer: Reba McEntire


Question: 'Emmons & Nisqually are 2 of about 25 glaciers on this Washington state peak'

Answer: Mt. Rainier


Question: 'This wife of Rutherford B. Hayes was the first First Lady to graduate from college'

Answer: Lucy Hayes


Question: 'In 1292 this family of Venetian explorers escorted a Mongol princess to Persia'

Answer: the Polos


Question: 'Carolyn Meeber is the title character of this Theodore Dreiser novel'

Answer: Sister Carrie


Question: 'A system of laws; Napoleon, Justinian & Hammurabi were known for theirs'

Answer: a code


Question: 'Don't break his heart, his achy breaky heart: buy his new album "Trail of Tears"'

Answer: Billy Ray Cyrus


Question: 'The site of a leper colony, this Hawaiian island is nicknamed the "Friendly Island"'

Answer: Molokai


Question: 'In 1984 this U.S. gymnast was named the Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year'

Answer: Mary Lou Retton


Question: 'In the mid-1500s Akbar the Great, son of Humayun, ruler of Delhi, reigned over this empire in India'

Answer: the Mogul Empire


Question: 'In this Truman Capote novella, the story of Holly Golightly is narrated by Fred, a struggling writer'

Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany\'s


Question: 'This word for a government's administration system has come to suggest inefficiency, waste & red tape'

Answer: bureaucracy


Question: 'This city is Pennsylvania's only port on the Great Lakes'

Answer: Erie


Question: 'Half of the Secretaries of Health & Human Services have been women, including this Clinton appointee'

Answer: Donna Shalala


Question: 'In October 1942 General Bernard Montgomery defeated the Germans at this Egyptian city'

Answer: El Alamein


Question: 'This Kipling orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab'

Answer: Kim


Question: 'The only 2 consecutive U.S. presidents with the same first name'

Answer: James Madison & James Monroe


Question: 'One of the only 2 African countries that were independent at the start of World War I'

Answer: Ethiopia (or Liberia)


Question: 'Quidditch & Wizard Chess are 2 games from this book series'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'French for "soup of the day"'

Answer: soup du jour


Question: 'Ahupua'a O Kahana State Park'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'A reservoir called the Queen's Basin once graced this simple green park, formerly Upper St. James's Park'

Answer: Green Park


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA.)  Immortalized in a photo, here is the actual flag raised on this island on February 23, 1945'

Answer: Iwo Jima


Question: 'His 1860s expedition to locate the source of the Nile lost touch with the outside world for 6 years'

Answer: Dr. Livingstone


Question: 'On this show Chandler invents the card game cups so he can give money to Joey without Joey losing his pride'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'This French word that means a main course on American menus can refer to an appetizer in France'

Answer: entrée


Question: 'Stone Mountain State Park'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'The Garden Tower at the Tower of London was the scene of some bloody goings-on, so now it's known as this'

Answer: the Bloody Tower


Question: 'The "hot" landing zone at Hill 881 South near Khe Sanh is depicted in the Gallery of this war'

Answer: the Vietnam War


Question: 'France tenaciously tried to hold onto this African possession despite a bloody war that ended in 1962'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Hawkeye plays double cranko, which involves poker & chess, on this TV show'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'You can order items this way, "by the menu", the opposite of a combo meal'

Answer: à la carte


Question: 'Lake Havasu State Park'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Battle Abbey, built on the spot where King Harold died in the Battle of Hastings, isn't in Hastings but in this town'

Answer: Battle


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA.)  The HRS-1, named for this Russian, was used in the first helicopter insertion of combat troops on September 20, 1951'

Answer: (Igor) Sikorsky


Question: 'Millions died from exploitation & overwork in this large Belgian colony'

Answer: The Congo


Question: 'On this show Lisa claims the game Scrabbleship, a mix of Scrabble & Battleship, makes no sense'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'An appetizer, literally "apart from the main"'

Answer: hors d\'œuvre


Question: 'Fall River Heritage State Park'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Originally built in 1156 & rebuilt in 1420, this inn on Mermaid Street in Rye is one of the oldest & loveliest in England'

Answer: the Mermaid Inn


Question: 'The heart of the museum is this gallery, slang for a marine from a collar that was once part of the uniform'

Answer: the Leatherneck Gallery


Question: 'In this 1902 novel Joseph Conrad exposed many of the horrors of colonialism in Africa'

Answer: Heart of Darkness


Question: 'This novel by Chris Van Allsburg about a board game was made into a Robin Williams film'

Answer: Jumanji


Question: 'This term for a headwaiter means "master of" (short for its full name meaning "master of the house")'

Answer: maître d\'


Question: 'Fort Frederick State Park'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'In 1987 Her Royal Highness Princess Anne was given a new title: the Princess this'

Answer: Princess Royal


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA.)  An aircraft key to Marine history is the AV-8B jump jet, known by this 7-letter name; it can carry Sidewinders & laser-guided bombs'

Answer: the Harrier


Question: 'Wealthy Portia, her gentlewoman, Nerissa & religiously conflicted Jessica'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'Larry Bird,<br />1979-92'

Answer: the (Boston) Celtics


Question: '(I'm Roger Cohen.)  In November 2008 I urged the new president-elect to close this place where to date out of 770 detained, only 23 have been charged'

Answer: Guantanamo


Question: 'Witnesses to the 1431 death of this "Maid of Orleans" feared they had witnessed the martyrdom of a saint'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: '4 observatories spanning 4 continents have joined forces to create a radio one of these to look into space'

Answer: a telescope


Question: 'The word "tuba" comes from the Latin for this other brass wind instrument'

Answer: trumpet


Question: 'Queen of the Amazons Hippolyta & Queen of the Fairies Titania'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question:
'Babe Ruth,
1914-19;
that's pre-Yankees, guys'

Answer: the (Boston) Red Sox


Question: '(I'm Frank Rich.)  I transitioned from theater critic to critic of the Bush Admin., as in my book subtitled "The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to" this 2005 natural disaster'

Answer: Hurricane Katrina


Question: 'Name associated with a priest martyred on Feb. 14 around 269 A.D.'

Answer: Valentine


Question: 'In 2008 this country reached the Moon with its Chandrayaan-1 impact probe'

Answer: India


Question: 'Those joyful schemers mistress Alice Ford & mistress Margaret Page'

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor


Question: 'Meadowlark Lemon,<br />1954-78'

Answer: the Globetrotters


Question: '(I'm Gail Collins.)  In 2008 I wrote that Dean Barkley did well in this state's Senate race with a basic platform of "1) Not crazy 2) Not Norm Coleman and 3) Not Al Franken"'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'In 1170 king Henry II asked to be rid of this "meddlesome priest"; 4 knights obliged'

Answer: Thomas à Becket


Question: 'This country used its NIGCOMSAT-1 to help provide Internet access to its rural areas'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'This composer had 2 tubas designed to his specification for use in the "Ring" cycle'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'Beatrice, Hero & her gentlewomen Margaret & Ursula'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'Earl Campbell,<br />1978-84'

Answer: the Houston Oilers


Question: '(I'm Charles Blow.)  As the Time's visual op-ed columnist I used a U.S. oil production graph showing that McCain's plan to do this, baby, this wouldn't help us much'

Answer: drill


Question: 'When the French Revolution began in 1789, he painted its leaders & martyrs; "The Death of Marat" is an example'

Answer: (Jacques-Louis) David


Question: 'Of the 2 of these, NASA said Opportunity was "looking great", but Spirit had "dirty solar panels"'

Answer: the Mars rovers


Question: 'The 2 beloveds Julia & Silvia'

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'Maurice "The Rocket" Richard,<br />1942-60'

Answer: the Montreal Canadiens


Question: '(I'm Nicholas Kristof.)  In 2008 I wrote that Obama's most difficult international test could be this Asian "country with 170 million people and up to 60 nuclear weapons (which) may be collapsing"'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'This man whose feast day is Dec. 26 was the 1st Christian martyr; his story is told in the Acts of the Apostles'

Answer: Saint Stephen


Question: 'NASA was agog at images of this planet's unique auroral features sent by Cassini in 2008'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'In 2008 doctors said that, aptly, this Bee Gees song provides an ideal beat to follow'

Answer: \"Stayin\' Alive\"


Question: 'Directional name of the seat of Palm Beach County, Florida'

Answer: West Palm Beach


Question:
'Jarlsberg,
cottage,
Edam'

Answer: Cheeses


Question: 'This seasonal classic heard here always rings my chimes:'

Answer: "Jingle Bells"


Question: 'A terror from the sport of Sampras'

Answer: Tennis menace


Question: 'For a time King lived in Colorado, where he wrote this novel set at a creepy Colorado hotel'

Answer: "The Shining"


Question: 'The first entry in her diary was dated June 14, 1942, the last, August 1, 1944'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: 'Third boxcar, midnight train, destination this seat of Penobscot County'

Answer: Bangor, Maine


Question:
'Green,
fava,
lima'

Answer: Beans


Question: 'It's the song about a devoted pet heard here:'

Answer: "Mary Had a Little Lamb"


Question: 'A noise from the pitcher's hill'

Answer: Mound sound


Question: 'Hell hath no fury like this title character, a 1958 Plymouth Fury'

Answer: "Christine"


Question: 'Though totally deaf, in 1824 he insisted on conducting the premiere of his "Ninth Symphony"'

Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven


Question: 'This seat of Chaves County, New Mexico is known for the 1947 crash of a weather balloon -- or something'

Answer: Roswell


Question:
'Flat,
unleavened,
black'

Answer: Breads


Question: 'It's the French title of the children's round heard here:'

Answer: "Frère Jacques"


Question: 'A damp webbed ping pong table divider'

Answer: Wet net


Question: 'The tagline for this movie read: "Paul Sheldon used to write for a living.  Now he's writing to stay alive"'

Answer: "Misery"


Question: 'While a teen in Paris, he devised his raised dot reading system for the blind'

Answer: Louis Braille


Question: 'How do you pronounce the seat of Franklin County, Kentucky?  Not "Lewisville" or "Louieville", but this'

Answer: Frankfort


Question:
'Hake,
pollack,
shad'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'This song has lyrics by Robert Burns:'

Answer: "Auld Lang Syne"


Question: 'An instruction period on how to throw a football'

Answer: Pass class


Question: 'King's story "The Body" was the basis for this 1986 film'

Answer: Stand By Me


Question: 'It might ring a bell that this Russian came up with the concept of the conditioned reflex'

Answer: Ivan Pavlov


Question: 'Winterset, also the title of a 1936 movie, is the seat of this Iowa county featured in a 1995 movie'

Answer: Madison County


Question:
'Arborio,
medium-grain,
brown'

Answer: Rice