Question: 'This 1957 novel opens with the query<br />"Who is John Galt?"'

Answer: Atlas Shrugged


Question: 'Hey, it's this game system that's recently gotten "fit"--can I come over?'

Answer: the Wii


Question: 'The 3 segments of the brainstem are the midbrain, pons & this, which regulates coughing & sneezing'

Answer: the medulla oblongata


Question:
'Chemically, it's
Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 & it looks like yellow quartz'

Answer: Topaz


Question: 'Armando Guebuza is the president of this African republic & former Portuguese colony'

Answer: Mozambique


Question:
'Parallel
____
Moresby'

Answer: port


Question: 'In 1821 he wrote mournfully,<br />"Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?"'

Answer: Shelley


Question: 'Nice one, eh? <br />It's a bottle of this Canadian beer founded in 1786, North America's oldest beer brand still being made'

Answer: Molson


Question: 'The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'The Palace of Nations, the League's headquarters, was built on land next to this Swiss lake'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'A computer nerd'

Answer: a geek


Question: 'In air at a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it travels 1,087 feet per second'

Answer: sound


Question: 'This musician & 3 other lads won an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song Score for 1970's "Let It Be"'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'She finished her first novel about a magical 11-year-old orphan while she was an unemployed teacher in Edinburgh'

Answer: (J.K.) Rowling


Question: 'I'm sure Mom won't mind; I had the last chicken & garlic box of this "San Francisco treat"'

Answer: Rice-A-Roni


Question: 'The League was dissolved in April of this year; the United Nations charter had been ratified the previous October'

Answer: 1946


Question: 'To run naked in a public place'

Answer: to streak


Question: 'When this man developed his temperature scale in 1742, he set it where water boils at 0 & freezes at 100 degrees'

Answer: Celsius


Question: 'Meet this TV guy... his boy Elroy... daughter Judy... Jane, his wife--he never could "stop this crazy thing!"'

Answer: George Jetson


Question: 'The website of the California DWC, the Division of Workers' this, has a link to "when I get hurt on the job"'

Answer: Compensation


Question: 'Uh, Dad? I kinda crashed your Land Cruiser SUV made by this car co.; the 2009 model starts at nearly $65,000; I'm a little short'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'When established, the League had only 2 nations from Africa: South Africa & this one founded in 1847'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'The most striking feature on a puffin is this colorful body part'

Answer: the beak


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a cork and a glass marble into two separate bowls of water.)  If an object floats, it displaces water equal to its mass; if it sinks, it displaces water equal to this'

Answer: its volume


Question: 'In 1919 this composer wrote his first successful popular song, "Swanee"'

Answer: George Gershwin


Question: 'The nation's unemployment rate was 25% when FDR took his first presidential oath of office in this year'

Answer: 1933


Question: 'Maaaaaa! We're out of this bathroom tissue Mr. Whipple always said to "Please don't squeeze"! Maaaaaa!'

Answer: the Charmin


Question: 'In March 1920 the U.S. Senate did not ratify this treaty that created the League of Nations'

Answer: the Treaty of Versailles


Question: 'Tall East Indian timber tree with durable, hard wood'

Answer: the teak


Question: 'Alliterative term for the state of a body in midair acted on by nothing but gravity'

Answer: free-falling


Question: 'His reported salary for co-writing, directing & starring in "Good Night, and Good Luck" was $1'

Answer: George Clooney


Question: '"On" this state, "On" this state that adopted the first unemployment insurance law in the U.S.! Fight on for her fame!'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In 1922 the League's World Court held its first session in this city'

Answer: The Hague


Question: 'Originally referring to smoke, it means to smell offensively bad'

Answer: to reek


Question: 'Named for the British physicist, Hawking radiation is a weak force emitted by these'

Answer: black holes


Question: 'This singer guested as himself in a 1986 episode of "The A-Team"; do you really want to hurt him & not know his name?'

Answer: Boy George


Question: 'In 2007 CBS Radio fired this broadcaster after his controversial comments about the women's hoops team at Rutgers'

Answer: (Don) Imus


Question: 'Article VI says no test of this can be required for any public office (the Brits had had trouble with test acts)'

Answer: religion


Question: 'In 2008 Cuba's bespectacled Dayron Robles leaped to glory with a world record in the 110-meter these'

Answer: the hurdles


Question: 'Fittingly, this juicy-sounding "Beach" is right next to the Florida border'

Answer: Orange Beach


Question: 'At the Smithsonian you can see this plane in which Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight across the Atlantic'

Answer: the Spirit of St. Louis


Question: '"Fleas":  "Adam had 'em"'

Answer: (Odgen) Nash


Question: 'A part of speech: prep.'

Answer: a preposition


Question: 'The 8th amendment told the courts they couldn't impose excessive fines nor require excessive amounts of this'

Answer: bail


Question: 'After wearing specs throughout an illustrious PGA career, Tom Kite had this surgery in 1998'

Answer: Lasik


Question: 'This city's name is the singular version of a mountain range in Arkansas'

Answer: Ozark


Question: 'The Ann Rutledge, a train that ran between Chicago & Kansas City, was named for an early love of this president'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: '"Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, no breath or motion; / As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean"'

Answer: Coleridge


Question: 'Another way to shorten: contr.'

Answer: a contraction


Question: 'Article III is specifically concerned with the establishment of this branch of government'

Answer: the judiciary


Question: 'He's the late, graceful American star athlete seen here'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'Population 100, it shares its name with a Tennessee city famous in atomic history'

Answer: Oak Ridge


Question: 'In 2008 Chevy offered a special 50th anniversary edition of this classic sedan'

Answer: the Impala


Question: '"I taste a liquor never brewed-- / From tankards scooped in Pearl-- / Not all the vats on the Rhine / Yield such an alcohol"'

Answer: (Emily) Dickinson


Question: 'Not a comment on originality, but for etymology: der.'

Answer: a derivative (derivation accepted)


Question: 'Article II section 2 allows the president to grant pardons except in cases of this, to which section 4 makes him liable'

Answer: impeachment


Question: 'In 1977 this Miami field general became the first NFL quarterback to wear glasses on the field'

Answer: Bob Griese


Question: 'In Alabama there's one just north of Tuscumbia; in California, it's a neighbor of San Francisco'

Answer: Oakland


Question: 'Amtrak's Downeaster runs between Boston & this city, the largest in its state'

Answer: Portland


Question: '"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die"'

Answer: John Donne


Question: 'A grammatical case: nom.'

Answer: the nominative


Question: 'The constitution's last & shortest article, it spells out the ratification process'

Answer: the seventh


Question: 'Population 500, it hunts in a large constellation'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'In 2001 NASA's solar-powered plane named for this Greek sun god reached a record altitude of 96,863 feet'

Answer: Helios


Question: '"Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time"'

Answer: (Sylvia) Plath


Question: 'The mood of a verb: subj.'

Answer: subjunctive


Question: 'You can reach this town's convention & visitors bureau by calling 1-TOMANDHUCK'

Answer: Hannibal, Missouri


Question: 'A former congressman'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'On June 3, 2001 "The Producers" won 12 of these awards, setting a new record'

Answer: a Tony


Question: 'The Venetian Causeway, consisting of 11 islands & 12 bridges, spans this bay in South Florida'

Answer: Biscayne Bay


Question: '...And away he went June 24, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida'

Answer: Jackie Gleason


Question: 'I'm fine without a spotter as I lie on this to do the "press" named for it--uh, help?'

Answer: a bench


Question: 'Son father like like'

Answer: Like father like son


Question: 'You could say this Egyptian leader was monumental'

Answer: Ramses II


Question: 'The Barrymore Awards are presented in this Pennsylvania city, birthplace of John, Ethel & Lionel Barrymore'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'The French call it Golfe de Gascogne; the Spanish, Golfo de Vizcaya'

Answer: the Bay of Biscay


Question: 'In February, a heart attack following gallbladder surgery claimed the life of this pop artist'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'In the Marines' men's fitness test, I can run & do crunches, but I wish they'd lower the bar for this exercise'

Answer: chin-ups (or pull-ups)


Question: 'Words louder than actions speak'

Answer: Actions speak louder than words


Question: 'From being in exile to world leader, all in 1979'

Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands behind a statuette, the inscription blurred, and in front of the presidential seal.)  This is the Emmy Award that this famous woman won in 1962 for giving a memorable tour of her home'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


Question: 'A monument on the south shore of this Australian bay marks the spot where Capt. James Cook first landed in 1770'

Answer: Botany Bay


Question: 'In September it was goodbye, we'll miss you & "All That Jazz" to this choreographer & film director'

Answer: (Bob) Fosse


Question: 'Some say these were named for their original resemblance to certain objects with clappers removed'

Answer: dumbbells


Question: 'In worth the bird hand in is a bush the two'

Answer: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush


Question: 'He has his own "ism" and died in London in 1883'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'His close pal (& "Reds" co-star) Jack Nicholson presented him with the Irving Thalberg Award in 2000'

Answer: (Warren) Beatty


Question: 'The U.S. Air Force's Thule Air Base in Greenland lies on the eastern shore of this bay'

Answer: Baffin Bay


Question: 'This 2-term governor of Kansas & 1936 Republican candidate for president passed away at age 100'

Answer: Alf Landon


Question: 'A collar called the Manta Ray makes this knee-bending weight exercise less of a pain in the neck'

Answer: squats


Question: 'Bright on the always side look'

Answer: Always look on the bright side


Question: 'A funny Irish dramatist seen here around 1923'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'This winner of the National Book Award became a film starring Glenn as Shepard, Shepard as Yeager & Harris as Glenn'

Answer: The Right Stuff


Question: 'The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are 2 major island groups in this large bay'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: 'Go tell it on the mountain that he passed away in St. Paul de Vence, France on December 1'

Answer: (James) Baldwin


Question: 'I joined a club of this company, stock symbol BFT, so I know I'll work out often so as not to waste my dues'

Answer: Bally (Total Fitness)


Question: 'Never better than late'

Answer: Better late than never


Question: 'On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first  European to reach South America'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'Machiavelli addressed "The Prince" to this man who he hoped would give him a position to support his family'

Answer: Lorenzo de Medici


Question: 'Last name of the "flaky" guy born on April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek'

Answer: Kellogg


Question: 'The large claws of a lobster or crab'

Answer: pincers


Question: 'During WWII this colonel amassed power in Argentina; in 1946 he was elected president'

Answer: Juan Peron


Question: 'In the 15th century Guillaume Dufay wrote many of these musical pieces, French for "songs"'

Answer: chansons


Question: 'He was born Feb. 4, 1902 in Detroit; 25 years later, he'd become a world-famous hero for 2 days of work'

Answer: Lindbergh


Question: 'Betty Grable was known as the "Queen of" these because WWII soldiers so prized her photograph'

Answer: Pinups


Question: 'In 1998 this commander-in-chief of Chile's army & former president was appointed to the Chilean senate'

Answer: Pinochet


Question: 'He was in the "Thick" of things as Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains"'

Answer: Kirk Cameron


Question: 'This Spanish painter's son appears in his 1586 masterpiece the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz"'

Answer: El Greco


Question: 'We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo'

Answer: Edna Ferber


Question: 'This term for a type of connector is the I in the abbreviation GUI'

Answer: interface


Question: 'These beans were dried & used as a kind of Old West energy bar'

Answer: pinto beans


Question: 'Just before this country gained its independence in 1975, thousands of its people emigrated to Holland'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'The liner notes for Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" were written by this film director'

Answer: (Cameron) Crowe


Question: 'One of the great works in the early career of this master of the High Renaissance is 1504's "Marriage of the Virgin"'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'Born in Grand Rapids in 1935, he perished with fellow astronauts Grissom & White in 1967'

Answer: (Roger) Chaffee


Question: 'UST stands for these, which mainly hold petroleum products; a LUST is a leaking one'

Answer: underground storage tank


Question: 'Lower global temperatures in the early '90s may be traced back to ash from this volcano'

Answer: Mt. Pinatubo


Question: 'In 1995 Javier Perez de Cuellar ran for president of Peru but was defeated by this man'

Answer: Alberto Fujimori


Question: 'In 1981 it was raining "Cats" (but not dogs) for Andrew Lloyd Webber & this British theatrical producer'

Answer: Cameron Mackintosh


Question: 'Acclaimed the 1st great architect of the Italian Renaissance, he is credited with designing the Pitti Palace'

Answer: Brunelleschi


Question: 'Before "Stella Got Her Groove Back", this Port Huron-born author overcame battles wtih drugs & alcohol'

Answer: Terry McMillan


Question: 'As well as The Learning Channel & tender loving care, TLC stands for this, the volume of gas a human can hold'

Answer: total lung capacity


Question: 'The chief lyric poet of Ancient Greece, he's famous for his triumphal odes'

Answer: Pindar


Question: 'Dating from the second half of the 15th century, the Tudor rose has petals of these 2 colors'

Answer: red & white


Question: 'This great Cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat"'

Answer: Picasso


Question:
'1984:
"Gremlins",
"The Karate Kid",
"Ghostbusters"'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'Having succeeded his brother Mustafa II, Ahmed III was this empire's sultan & would remain so until 1730'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Main product of both Papa Murphy's & Papa John's'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'An 1873 law states that this creature must appear on the reverse of all U.S. coins greater than 10 cents'

Answer: the bald eagle


Question: 'In summer, when this happens just after 8 p.m. in Los Angeles, it happens after 11:30 p.m. in Anchorage'

Answer: sunset


Question: '"Prince Rama and the Demons" was inspired by the "Ramayana", an epic poem composed in this ancient language'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question:
'2007:
"Spider-Man 3",
"Shrek the Third",
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"'

Answer: Spider-Man 3


Question: 'Famous for his determined policy of "Westernization", this "great" guy was czar of Russia in 1708'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Auntie Anne's Inc., a fast-growing franchise, sells the hand-rolled soft type of these treats'

Answer: pretzels


Question: 'In Montevideo you may go Uruguay & I'll go mine, but we'll both spend these'

Answer: pesos


Question: 'Species of this small monkey include the common, buffy tufted-ear & pygmy'

Answer: a marmoset


Question: 'In 1959 Galina Ulanova in "Romeo & Juliet" was a highlight of this ballet company's first U.S. tour'

Answer: the Bolshoi


Question:
'1942:
"Bambi",
"Mrs. Miniver",
"Casablanca"'

Answer: Bambi


Question: 'In 1708 Philip V & John V ruled these neighboring kingdoms on the same peninsula'

Answer: Spain & Portugal


Question: 'This chain serves Friday's Fajitas on Saturday, Sunday & Monday, too--<br />it's one of their trademarks'

Answer: T.G.I. Friday\'s


Question: 'To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this'

Answer: pound


Question: 'It can be a useful quality, or any item of value that is owned'

Answer: an asset


Question: 'Margot Fonteyn first danced onstage with him on Feb. 21, 1962 at Covent Garden in a performance of "Giselle"'

Answer: Nureyev


Question:
'1973:
"The Sting",
"The Exorcist",
"American Graffiti"'

Answer: The Exorcist


Question: 'Sacre bleu!!<br />By 1708 he'd been on the throne of France for an incredible 65 years'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'Founded in 1980 as an alternative to the post office, it's now this UPS company...etc.'

Answer: Mail Boxes Etc.


Question: 'With no birrs to spend, it'll be adios Ababa for you in this country'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Hebrew for "assembly", it's the parliament of Israel'

Answer: the Knesset


Question: 'In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in "Le Spectre de la Rose"'

Answer: Nijinski


Question:
'1954:
"The Caine Mutiny",
"White Christmas",
"Rear Window"'

Answer: White Christmas


Question: 'Also the king of Hungary & Bohemia, Joseph I held this other imperial crown in 1708'

Answer: the Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'Food that fills in the blank in "The Great Steak & _____ Company"'

Answer: Potato


Question: 'Befitting his importance, this 13th century conqueror appears on Mongolia's currency'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'An element that balances another, or a type of printing that takes ink from plate to blanket to paper'

Answer: offset


Question: 'After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes King of the Geats & rules for 50 years'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'It's held against the neck before it's put'

Answer: the shot


Question: 'Jordan's flag features a 7-pointed star; the points represent the first 7 verses of this book'

Answer: the Koran


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew raises a glass of Sake.) Sake is made by kneading, then heating & fermenting this'

Answer: rice


Question: 'It's been proposed that sulfate aerosols from these geological phenomena killed off the dinosaurs'

Answer: volcanoes


Question: 'Blood will flow if this predator gets among the cattle'

Answer: a wolf (flow)


Question: 'H.G. Wells subtitled this 1895 classic "An Invention"'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: 'In 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was named the Amateur Athlete of the Year; this sister-in-law won in 1988'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'In 1971 this federation of 6 states gained its independence; Ras al Khaymah made it 7 states in 1972'

Answer: the United Arab Emirates


Question: 'Cows for this type of beef drink beer to stimulate their appetite & are massaged to relieve sore muscles'

Answer: Kobe


Question: 'Measles, mumps & rabies are not transmitted by bacteria, but by these'

Answer: viruses


Question: 'This actor told Talk magazine he was living like a nomad'

Answer: Matt Damon (nomad)


Question: 'It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin'

Answer: Amis


Question: 'In this event, though athletes regularly clear nearly 20 feet, they mainly use their running momentum'

Answer: the pole vault


Question: 'He assumed the presidency of Syria upon the death of his father in June 2000'

Answer: Bashar Assad


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a Tokyo fish market.) Many of the shrimp sold here in the Tsukiji Market will end up as this deep-fried dish, which surprisingly was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese'

Answer: tempura


Question: 'Call a cop!<br />You're born with 300 of these, but by the time you grow up you only have 206'

Answer: bones


Question: 'Ellen liked to sleep on a pile of these from oranges & bananas'

Answer: peels (sleep)


Question: 'Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy'

Answer: A Room With A View


Question: 'Javier Sotomayor, the only man to clear 8 feet in this track & field event, retired in 2001'

Answer: the high jump


Question: 'This 1917 British declaration favored "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'

Answer: the Balfour Declaration


Question: 'Meaning "pull-noodle", this fast-cooking noodle dish in broth is hard to top for a quick meal'

Answer: ramen


Question: 'Night blindness may come from a deficiency of this vitamin also called retinol'

Answer: Vitamin A


Question: 'Male moviegoers admired this late character actor who played squinty-eyed villains'

Answer: Jack Elam (male)


Question: 'If you want to check out this man's "private life", see the 17 Gerald Road home he lived in from the '30s to the '50s'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question: 'His 1988 100-meter record of 9.79 seconds was revoked (steroids); 11 years later, Maurice Greene matched it'

Answer: Ben Johnson


Question: 'In 1944 Ibn Saud allowed several U.S. petroleum firms to unite forming Aramco, which stands for this co.'

Answer: the Arabian-American Company


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew sits alone in a sushi bar.) The most valuable part of the tuna is the fatty belly meat known by this Japanese name'

Answer: toro


Question: 'A fungus gets mighty cozy when it teams up with one of these organisms to live symbiotically as a lichen'

Answer: an algae


Question: 'Your old horse can't pull this heavy cart another yard'

Answer: dray (yard)


Question: 'For gossip columns, he wrote under the name Busy Body; to discuss marriage, he became Anthony Afterwit'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: '1 of the 3 Indian cities where the British founded universities in 1857'

Answer: (1 of 3) Bombay, Calcutta or Madras


Question: 'The advice DQYDJ means don't quit your this'

Answer: day job


Question: 'In 2001 she made history: her album "J. Lo" & her movie "The Wedding Planner" were both No. 1 in the same week'

Answer: Jennifer Lopez


Question: 'Its state dog is the Boston Terrier'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the tennis court)  Once meaning "to hinder", it's the call on a serve when the ball hits the net & drops over'

Answer: let


Question: 'Unit of sand, or of sense<br />(5)'

Answer: grain


Question: 'In the 200s B.C., after the bloody Kalinga campaign, King Ashoka embraced this religion & nonviolence'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'This animated TV mom is symbolized here:<br />@@@@ :-)'

Answer: Marge Simpson


Question: 'She got an Oscar nomination for her role as a gun moll in "Bullets over Broadway"'

Answer: Jennifer Tilly


Question: '2/3 of this state's population lives in New Castle, one of its 3 counties'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'In tennis it's an exchange of strokes; in auto racing it's a long-distance competition'

Answer: rally


Question: 'Relative with his own clock<br />(11)'

Answer: grandfather


Question: 'After a 1998 nuclear test, this country's prime minister said, "We have evened the score with India"'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Nixon could have used "IANAC" -- "I am not" this'

Answer: a crook


Question: 'This sitcom star was the voice of Hogarth's mom in "The Iron Giant"'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: 'This state's name comes from the Sioux for "sky-tinted waters", which probably refers to its 10,000 lakes'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: '2-word term for the infraction being committed here'

Answer: foot fault


Question: 'It precedes Dane & Depression<br />(5)'

Answer: Great


Question: 'The bodacious Tata family launched this industry in India in 1901, the year the "U.S." corporation was founded'

Answer: steel


Question: 'The abbreviation "BBFBBM" means "Body by Fisher, brains by" this toymaker'

Answer: Mattel


Question: 'Joe Cocker sang "Up Where We Belong", the love theme from "An Officer and a Gentleman", with this woman'

Answer: Jennifer Warnes


Question: 'Nestled between Ohio & Illinois, it's the smallest mainland state in area west of the Appalachians'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'This American phenom with a 140-MPH serve is known as the "A-Rod of Tennis"'

Answer: Andy Roddick


Question: '"Just a" male escort<br />(6)'

Answer: gigolo


Question: 'A 1967 law kept English as a national language of education until all states would accept this one'

Answer: Hindi


Question: 'Look sideways at the smiley seen here & you'll have sighted this king:<br />5:-)'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'She gave notice as Jeanie Bueller, Ferris' cranky sister in a 1986 film'

Answer: Jennifer Grey


Question: 'This state was home to the world's first drive-in movie theater & the first boardwalk'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'The shot being gracefully executed here is this one with an 8-letter name'

Answer: overhead


Question: 'Whippet relative<br />(9)'

Answer: greyhound


Question: 'After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes king of the Geats & rules for 50 years'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'It was Gabriel Fahrenheit who substituted this for alcohol in the thermometer'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'This prefix appears with thyroid, normal & legal'

Answer: para


Question: 'Director Roberto Rossellini'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Appointed by President Johnson, he was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'Slim Pickens was the B-52 captain who saddled up a hydrogen bomb in this 1964 Kubrick classic'

Answer: Dr. Strangelove


Question: 'The general prologue of this masterpiece is heard here'

Answer: The Canterbury Tales


Question: 'Oxygen discoverer Joseph Priestley dubbed the material he used as an eraser this'

Answer: rubber


Question: 'The schwa used in a dictionary's pronounciation key looks like this lower case letter turned upside down'

Answer: e


Question: 'Marcel Proust'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'At 34 years, he was the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court chief justice'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'We got a laugh when Slim appeared on this comedy variety show hosted from 1969 to 1992 by Roy Clark'

Answer: Hee Haw


Question: 'The titular hero of this allegory is a simple plowman'

Answer: Piers Plowman


Question: 'Frederick Russell is best known for his study on the life history of this whale food found on the ocean surface'

Answer: plankton


Question: 'A simple song, or the bag used by military personnel to carry small items'

Answer: ditty


Question: 'Ricardo Montalban'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'This '70s "Hollywood Squares" host was born Pierre LaCock'

Answer: Peter Marshall


Question: 'Slim made a statement in a bean-eating scene in this 1974 Mel Brooks western spoof'

Answer: Blazing Saddles


Question: 'This Arthurian hero stars in an alliterative Middle English poem in which he battles the Green Knight'

Answer: Sir Gawain


Question: 'To get a suitable celluloid film for his new inventions, Edison called on this man'

Answer: George Eastman


Question: 'It's the act of shaving one's head, or the part of a monk's head that has been shaved'

Answer: tonsure


Question: 'Melina Mercouri'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Seen here, he's given us plenty of "Happy Days"'

Answer: Garry Marshall


Question: 'Educating as well as entertaining, Slim appeared in the 1973 film "Pat Garrett &" this outlaw'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'This venerable monk quoted Caedmon's Hymn in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"'

Answer: Bede


Question: 'Like Mobius & his strip, this German mathematician is famous for a one-sided object -- a bottle'

Answer: Felix Christian Klein


Question: 'A synonym for delectable, it may be an alteration of sumptuous'

Answer: scrumptious


Question: 'Martina Navratilova'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'He was the man with a 1947 "Plan" that helped rebuild Europe'

Answer: George Marshall


Question: 'In 1979 Slim played Sgt. Wiley on this TV series with trucker Greg Evigan & a simian sidekick'

Answer: B.J. and the Bear


Question: 'Among the 854 people the Russian Orthodox Church canonized in 2000 was this czar who was buried in St. Petersburg in 1998'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'Harry Truman ended it in the Army in 1948; the Supreme Court ended it in public schools in 1954'

Answer: Segregation


Question: 'In 1995 he published a "Book Of Top Ten Lists And Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes"'

Answer: David Letterman


Question:
'"The Dead Zone",
"The Dark Half",
"It"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'Michael Richards won 3 Emmys for playing this "Seinfeld" character'

Answer: Cosmo Kramer


Question: 'Born to Jewish parents in Tarsus, Saint Paul is called "The Apostle To" these non-Jews'

Answer: Gentiles


Question: 'We shorten this to ad; the British shorten it to advert'

Answer: Advertisement


Question: 'The black population of these U.S. areas, the destination of "white flight", doubled in the '70s & '80s'

Answer: Suburbs


Question: 'In 1981 this duo topped the charts with "Kiss On My List"'

Answer: Hall And Oates


Question:
'"The Lady Of The Shroud",
"The Mystery Of The Sea",
"Dracula"'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'The producers found the name of this first mate of the S.S. Minnow in a telephone book'

Answer: Gilligan


Question: 'As Saul, Saint Paul heard the voice of Jesus while on the road to this city'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'A dustman doesn't put you to sleep, he collects this'

Answer: Garbage


Question: 'In 1829 journalist John Russwurm gave up on abolitionism & left the U.S. for this independent African nation'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'A line from this 1993 movie is "The list is life"'

Answer: Schindler\'s List


Question:
'"Memnoch The Devil",
"The Queen Of The Damned",
"Interview With The Vampire"'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'On an April 10, 1957 episode of his parents' sitcom, he sang "I'm Walkin' ", his first record'

Answer: Ricky Nelson


Question: 'From the Greek for "message", it's the name given Saint Paul's letters to Christian churches & groups'

Answer: Epistles


Question: 'By the British term, this would be Fun Fair Cruise Lines'

Answer: Carnival Cruise Lines


Question: 'This "conductor" usually carried a gun, not a whistle'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'NOs. 1,3 & 77 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th C. English-language novels are this Dubliner's works'

Answer: James Joyce


Question:
'"The Hellbound Heart",
"Rawhead Rex",
"The Books Of Blood"'

Answer: Clive Barker


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Regis Philbin)  On February 26, 1998, I was accused of killing Kathie Lee Gifford in an episode of this Dick Van Dyke series"'

Answer: Diagnosis Murder


Question: 'Following his conversion, Saint Paul spent a period of reflection on this peninsula'

Answer: Arabian Peninsula


Question: 'In the past in London, this device has been called an ether or wireless'

Answer: Radio


Question: 'An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931'

Answer: "The Scottsboro Boys"


Question: 'This 1941 film topped the AFI's much-debated 1998 list of the 100 greatest American films'

Answer: Citizen Kane


Question:
'"The Dunwich Horror",
"At The Mountain Of Madness",
"The Lurking Fear"'

Answer: HP Lovecraft


Question: 'In 1992 Paul Sorvino, who played detective Phil Cerreta, left this series to sing opera'

Answer: Law & Order


Question: 'Saint Paul was a supportive witness to the stoning of this first Christian martyr'

Answer: Saint Stephen


Question: 'A chucker-out isn't a polo player, it's this job in a bar'

Answer: Bouncer


Question: 'Around this organization's HQ on the East River from 42nd to 48th, watch out for double-parked diplomats'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'This type of ship can hold over 5,000 sailors'

Answer: Aircraft carrier


Question: 'This famous Moscow ballet company's roots go back to 1776'

Answer: Bolshoi


Question: 'He's 9-Lives' finicky spokescat'

Answer: Morris


Question: 'You'll pass Chelsea, London & Westminster Bridges as you travel down this river'

Answer: Thames


Question: 'She was the wife of our fourth chief of state'

Answer: Dolley Madison


Question: 'G.K. Chesterton said that this site ablaze with ads would be paradise if only one could not read'

Answer: Times Square


Question: 'It's the specific kind of cargo ship seen here'

Answer: Tanker


Question: 'Gathering at a Virginia tavern for conviviality, 5 young men formed this Greek letter fraternity, the USA's oldest'

Answer: Phi Beta Kappa


Question: 'This fun-loving feline of the funny pages shares his name with a "Wuthering Heights" character'

Answer: Heathcliff


Question: 'In one theory, the name of this Pennsylvania river comes from Suckahanee, "water"'

Answer: Susquehanna


Question: 'A lump or blob of a semiliquid substance -- ice cream for example'

Answer: Dollop


Question: 'Park Ave. & 42nd Street has a branch of this 75th Street art museum known for its biennial'

Answer: Whitney


Question: 'This type of boat earns its name from the specific aid it gives larger ships'

Answer: Tugboat


Question: 'This Scottish economist theorized that labor, not land, is the main source of wealth'

Answer: Adam Smith


Question: 'On 1960s TV, he was the "Wonderful, Wonderful" cat'

Answer: Felix the Cat


Question: 'As Germany has the Rhineland, you'd expect this country to have the "Po-Land"'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Cult leader Jim Jones died in this nation in 1978'

Answer: Guyana


Question: 'The sculpture seen here is from the 42nd Street facade of this building'

Answer: Grand Central Station


Question: 'The John A. Macdonald is this kind of ship that's useful in the most challenging climes'

Answer: Icebreaker


Question: 'The German title of this 1776 Von Klinger play lent its name to a literary movement headed by Goethe und Schiller'

Answer: Sturm und Drang


Question: 'This freewheeling hippie-cat of underground comics was created by R. Crumb'

Answer: Fritz the Cat


Question: 'A real Crimea river, the Chernaya, runs just east of this city that was besieged in 1854 & 1855'

Answer: Sevastopol


Question: 'It's the type of "natural" currency seen here'

Answer: Sand dollar


Question: 'Disney spent about $35 million refurbishing the New Amsterdam Theatre, once home to these "follies"'

Answer: Ziegfeld Follies


Question: 'The Princess Anne is one of these unusual water vehicles'

Answer: Hovercraft


Question: '"First In Freedom", this U.S. colony was first to authorize its delegates to vote for independence'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'archy's feline friend'

Answer: mehitabel


Question: 'The Yellow River winds across China; this one with a similar name forms most of the China-N. Korea border'

Answer: Yalu


Question: 'This holiday commemorates an unsuccessful attempt to blow up James I on November 5, 1605'

Answer: Guy Fawkes Day


Question: 'On Jan. 15, 1892 the first rules for this sport were published in the Triangle, the Springfield, Mass. YMCA newspaper'

Answer: Basketball


Question: 'In 1954 he became the first & only U.S. senator elected by a write-in vote; he's still there'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: 'This world record-holding sprinter is the star of the video "The Flo-Jo Workout"'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'This featuer will catch the error in the first line of our clue but not in the final lion'

Answer: Spell checker


Question: 'Marketed as the soap that floats, it was born in Cincinnati in 1879'

Answer: Ivory soap


Question: 'In this state you can Kissimmee once, twice & once again, as it's a river, lake & city'

Answer: Florida


Question:
'Beezer,
sneezer,
schnoz'

Answer: Nose


Question: 'In 1996 this Mississippian succeeded Bob Dole as Senate majority leader'

Answer: Trent Lott


Question: 'In May 1954 it took Roger Bannister 3 minutes 59.4 seconds to cover this distance'

Answer: Mile


Question: 'This 2-part process of moving text can be done with scisssors & glue or with commands'

Answer: Cut & paste


Question: 'The American version of rugby, it was first played at college level in 1869 when Rutgers beat Princeton'

Answer: Football


Question: 'At its north end, the Dead Sea receives this river'

Answer: Jordan


Question:
'Choppers,
grinders,
ivories'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'This California governor has defeated 2 Democratic women, Dianne Feinstein & Kathleen Brown'

Answer: Pete Wilson


Question: 'He won 5 Olympic golds in running events not to mention 4 consecutive long jump medals'

Answer: Carl Lewis


Question: 'Mid-19th century Chinese cooks working on the western railroads devised this dish of odds & ends served over rice'

Answer: Chop suey


Question: 'The James, Potomac & Chester Rivers all flow into this bay'

Answer: Chesapeake Bay


Question: 'Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, he succeeded George Bush in Texas' 7th District'

Answer: Bill Archer


Question: 'Now an Anaheim Angel, this outfielder has led the American League in steals for 11 seasons'

Answer: Rickey Henderson


Question: 'From the company that made it famous, it's the nickname of the "sound" heard here<br />("Baby Love", for example)'

Answer: Motown


Question: 'It's stll working on deepening the Grand Canyon'

Answer: Colorado River


Question: 'In the 1993 film "Born Yesterday", this future U.S. senator played a U.S. senator'

Answer: Fred Thompson


Question: 'On Oct. 31, 1996 this race horse retired after "smoking" the tracks with 19 wins'

Answer: Cigar


Question: 'The river known as the "Great Man-Made River" in Libya reaches into this desert'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'South Carolina senator Ernest F. Hollings shares this nickname with fellow Democrat Walter Mondale'

Answer: "Fritz"


Question: 'In this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, an actress becomes the most powerful woman in Argentina'

Answer: Evita


Question: 'This Lumpy Brannum character was created as the "Mr. Outdoors" to the Captain's "Mr. Indoors"'

Answer: Mr. Green Jeans


Question: 'The shore of this island is indented by numerous bays including Donegal Bay & Belfast Lough'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'On Dec. 11, 1996 this country agreed to search its banks for the assets of Holocaust victims'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'This Ohioan is flying high as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'Sophocles wrote 2 plays about this title king who "wrecks" his life by marrying his mother'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'Over 700,000 square miles, or about 84%, of this island is covered by an icecap'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'A German court convicted her father of failing to pay taxes of $7.4 million on tennis earnings'

Answer: Steffi Graf


Question: 'This West Virginian has served in the U.S. Senate longer than any current Democrat -- 38 years'

Answer: Robert Byrd


Question: 'This classic musical about a 19th C. ruler returned to Broadway in 1996; it features the following:<br />("Shall We Dance")'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'The largest & most westernmost island in the West Indies, it's the world's largest sugar exporter'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Philippe Bourguignon left the chairmanship of Eurodisney to join this resort "club"'

Answer: Club Med


Question: 'This Nebraskan is vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence'

Answer: Bob Kerrey


Question: 'A famous D.C. address, it was the title of a 1976 musical; Lerner felt low when it flopped'

Answer: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'Terrytoons created this hero & Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog especially for the show'

Answer: Tom Terrific


Question: 'In 1891 the first fossils of Homo erectus were discovered on this Indonesian island'

Answer: Java


Question: 'In 1997 Tony Blair's new government gave this bank control of interest rates'

Answer: Central Bank of England


Question: 'Samuel Blanc founded this company during the Depression to make troubles go "Down the Drain"'

Answer: Roto Rooter


Question: 'In 1994 this incumbent Florida governor narrowly beat GOP challenger Jeb Bush'

Answer: Lawton Chiles


Question: 'As a character in "Annie", this president sings "A New Deal for Christmas" with Daddy Warbucks'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Bunny Rabbit liked to trick the Captain out of carrots; Mr. Moose liked to drop these on him'

Answer: Ping-pong balls


Question: 'L'Anse aux Meadows on this eastern Canadian island is the first authenticated Viking site in North America'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'In July 1996 a war crimes warrant was issued for this political leader of Bosnia's Serbs'

Answer: Radovan Karadzic


Question: 'It's a subtle way of promoting brands by having movie characters drive, wear or drink them'

Answer: Product placement


Question: 'This 19th century speech included the line "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."'

Answer: The Gettysburg Address


Question: 'He was in Shanghai in 1921 when he found out he had won a Nobel Prize for Physics'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'In 2009 this "Saturday Night Live" alum made his Broadway debut--not as moi, but as George W. Bush'

Answer: (Will) Ferrell


Question: 'In 1967 AT&T introduced this toll-free area code'

Answer: 1-800


Question: 'Reese's ___'

Answer: Pieces


Question: 'Alexander the Great was born in this mountainous kingdom of Northern Greece'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'P.T. Barnum used this 5-word phrase to describe his circus in 1872'

Answer: "The Greatest Show on Earth"


Question: 'Isaac Newton published his first mathematical formulation for this fundamental force in 1687'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Tamyra Gray, who placed 4th in the 1st season of this TV singing contest, later joined the cast of "Bombay Dreams"'

Answer: American Idol


Question: 'It's the number of items in a baker's dozen'

Answer: 13


Question: 'Nutter ___'

Answer: Butter


Question: 'Hearing that only the future ruler of Asia could untie this, Alexander the Great cut it with his sword instead'

Answer: the Gordian knot


Question: 'This hit song begins, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane"'

Answer: "Great Balls Of Fire"


Question: 'In 1996 (seems late) researchers announced a new one of these body parts, the spheno-mandibularis'

Answer: a muscle


Question: 'Before "Dancing with the Stars", he got "'N Sync" by playing TV dance-show host Corny Collins in "Hairspray"'

Answer: Lance Bass


Question: '19th c. gold seekers; or Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, et al.'

Answer: 49ers


Question: 'Rold ___'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'Alexander became king in 336 B.C. when this man, his father, was assassinated'

Answer: Philip


Question: 'You'll be a big dipper if you know Ursa Major means this'

Answer: Great Bear


Question: 'During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'He bowed on Broadway in 1944 in "Bobino", a musical fantasy for children: his ride on "A Streetcar" came later'

Answer: (Marlon) Brando


Question: 'In Spanish, cincuenta is this number'

Answer: 50


Question: 'Ritz ___<br />(smaller snacks)'

Answer: Bits


Question: 'In 333 B.C. Alexander defeated Darius III, the king of this empire'

Answer: Persia


Question: 'In the 1990s, though apartheid was ending, South Africa made this feared marine predator a protected species'

Answer: the great white shark


Question: 'When boiling water, energy absorbed that escapes as vapor is this type of heat, from Latin latere, "to hide"'

Answer: latent energy


Question: 'In 2008, at age 20, he had "The Sixth Sense" to make his Broadway debut in the revival of "America Buffalo"'

Answer: Haley Joel Osment


Question: 'This iconic car from Porsche first hit the open road in 1964'

Answer: the 911


Question: 'Hubba ___'

Answer: Bubba


Question: 'At age 32, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in this city'

Answer: Babylon


Question: 'It was James Herriot's bestseller about his year as a veterinarian'

Answer: All Creatures Great and Small


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Normandy American Cemetery in France.) At the Normandy American Cemetery, the engraving above the chapel door is a replica of this award for valor; three recipients are buried at the cemetery'

Answer: the Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: '"Is It Rolling Bob?" is a reggae tribute to this non-reggae singer'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'This river measures about 5 miles wide at its mouth on the North Sea'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'Salinger:<br />"Franny and _____"'

Answer: Zooey


Question: 'The name of this self-serve eating place for students suggests you can get a cup of joe there'

Answer: a cafeteria


Question: 'After the washing-up of a dinner party, you may need to know "L'acquiao e' otturato", "The sink is" this'

Answer: blocked (or plugged)


Question: 'In 1997 the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Jody Williams & the ICBL, the Intl. Campaign to Ban these'

Answer: Landmines


Question: 'Aerosmith covers "Love Me Two Times" on an album honoring this group's music'

Answer: the Doors


Question: 'On the River Trent, this industrial city existed by the 800s, with or without evil sheriffs'

Answer: Nottingham


Question: 'Pirsig:<br />"_____ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"'

Answer: Zen


Question: 'Canter's, a famous one of these restaurants, has been serving up chicken soup & knishes in the L.A. area since 1931'

Answer: a delicatessen


Question: '"Si, Signor Prazzi, fa molto caldo", informs Mr. Prazzi the weather is very this'

Answer: hot


Question: 'Illustrator David MacAulay won this medal for his kids' book "Black and White"'

Answer: the Caldecott Medal


Question: 'The cover of "Working Class Hero", a tribute to him, features a pair of granny sunglasses'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'Appropriately, the Royal Shakespeare Co. performs the man's plays in this town; Shottery is one mile west'

Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon


Question: 'Maugham:<br />"The Moon and _____"'

Answer: Sixpence


Question: 'This type of eatery specializing in Italian dishes is from the Italian for "restaurateur"'

Answer: a trattoria


Question: 'If you enjoy seeing Italian street life, tell the Maitre D

Answer: by the window


Question: 'Killed in a car accident in 2007, this journalist won a 1964 Pulitzer for his coverage of Vietnam'

Answer: (David) Halberstam


Question: '"Encomium", a tribute to these rockers, features Sheryl Crow doing "D'yer Mak'er"'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: 'The Turreted Castle at this city in southeast Britain has been called the "Key to England"'

Answer: Dover


Question: 'O'Casey:<br />"_____ and the Paycock"'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'This French word means a small, European-style restaurant, or a small nightclub similar to a cabaret'

Answer: a bistro


Question: 'When getting directions, "Segua questra strada per tre chilometri" tells you to follow the road this far'

Answer: three kilometers


Question: 'This American Glass House architect won the first Pritzker Prize in 1979'

Answer: Philip Johnson


Question: '"Lick It Up" is a millennium tribute to this hard-rockin' quartet'

Answer: Kiss


Question: 'The rain on Stonehenge stays mainly in this plain in Wiltshire; steak a claim!'

Answer: Salisbury


Question: 'Vonnegut:<br />"Welcome to the _____ House"'

Answer: Monkey


Question: 'In Germany it's a beer-hall & restaurant usually below street level'

Answer: a rathskeller


Question: 'Ask, "Dov'e il piu' vicino bancomat?" to find the nearest of these 3-letter machines'

Answer: an ATM


Question: 'Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations'

Answer: James Dean


Question: 'This race was held for the first time in May with Ray Harroun winning with an average speed of about 75 mph'

Answer: the Indianapolis 500


Question: 'In the trailer for this 1960 film Alfred Hitchcock says, "Here we have a quiet little motel tucked way off the main highway"'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'Totally sweet!  Tartarian & Bing are sweet types of this fruit'

Answer: cherries


Question: 'Your words of advice are as powerful as when this man of myth warned his boy Icarus about flying too near the sun'

Answer: Daedalus


Question: 'From Taegu, South Korea to Tokyo, Japan'

Answer: east


Question: 'This boxing stat; Sugar Ray Robinson had 109 during his career'

Answer: KOs (knockouts)


Question: 'In August Vincenzo Perugia stole this portrait in Paris, leading to the closing of France's borders'

Answer: the Mona Lisa


Question: 'The color of this sweet liquid is determined by the source of the nectar'

Answer: honey


Question: 'You will roll around in this 2-word item seen here; you will then invest heavily in calamine lotion'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: 'From Hamburg to Stuttgart in Germany'

Answer: south


Question: 'This archaic term for a male servant; in cards, a jack'

Answer: a knave


Question: 'Claiming 146 lives, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in this city led to worker safety reforms'

Answer: New York City


Question:
'We're heading for Arizona with this 1957 original

"Soon a man, scared but brave, would run an outlaw gauntlet to put a prisoner on the gallows-bound train"'

Answer: 3:10 to Yuma


Question: 'Just like Hurley on this ABC drama, your lucky numbers are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 & 42... but what kind of luck?'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'From Cairo to Ankara'

Answer: north


Question: 'This American political party prominent in the 1850s'

Answer: the Know-Nothing Party


Question: 'Forgotten for centuries, this royal retreat of Incan kings was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in July'

Answer: Machu Picchu


Question: '"Where were you in '62?" asked the trailer for this 1973 picture'

Answer: American Graffiti


Question: 'Plain, bitter or unsweetened this contains about 50% cocoa butter & if stored properly, will keep for years'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'You are always on our minds... says this agency in the Treasury Dept., established in 1862 to help pay Civil War costs'

Answer: the IRS


Question: 'From Galway to Cork in Ireland'

Answer: south


Question: 'This German word for a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage'

Answer: a knockwurst


Question: 'With works like the one seen here, this forward-looking art movement held its first exhibition in Milan in the spring'

Answer: Futurism


Question:
'The trailer for this 1950 film describes Judy Holliday's character as follows

"Blonde, beautiful, brazen, and oh, brother!"'

Answer: Born Yesterday


Question: 'Despite its name, "bitter" this doesn't taste like a casaba; it's a side dish in Asian cuisine'

Answer: melon


Question: 'A surprise awaits you ... especially if you have funds in this "sibling" investment house; it'll go bankrupt (Sept. '08 cookie)'

Answer: Lehman Brothers


Question: 'From Tegucigalpa to Guatemala City'

Answer: west


Question: 'This sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death'

Answer: a knell


Question: 'The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 B.C. opened the way for this conqueror to enter India'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'This onetime member of "The View" was once an assistant D.A. in Brooklyn'

Answer: Star Jones


Question: 'Roderigo & Iago enter at the start of this tragedy'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'It's "the game that ties you up in knots"'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'In 1968 Bayer introduced vitamins named for this fictional family'

Answer: the Flintstones


Question: 'The range of your investments, or a thin case to hold drawings'

Answer: a portfolio


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew explains an illustration on a monitor.) There's the Duke of Wellington's Line, and happily for Napoleon, here come Marshall Von Blucher's 61,000 troops to this 1815 battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'She played Alyson Hannigan's sister in "American Wedding" before becoming a '60s wife on TV'

Answer: January Jones


Question: 'The first direction in this play:<br />"Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Anthony Pratt, a solicitor's clerk, invented this classic whodunit board game'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'Linus Pauling's 1970 book was on "Vitamin C and" this ailment; by 1979 he'd moved up to "Cancer and Vitamin C"'

Answer: the common cold


Question: 'Lewis & Clark had to resort to this, carrying boats overland'

Answer: portage


Question: 'Crecy in 1346 is believed to be the first European battle where this substance was used; business was booming'

Answer: gunpowder


Question: 'Seen herehere, she's been part of the awkward humor of The Office and Parks & Recreation'

Answer: Rashida Jones


Question: 'To start this play, Theseus says, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace"'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'The name of this word search game with lettered cubes means "bewilder"'

Answer: Boggle


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on a monitor.) A severe vitamin D deficiency, especially in children, can cause this disease in which the bones soften and bend'

Answer: rickets


Question: '1921 saw the creation of this organization for which a Manhattan bus terminal is named'

Answer: the Port Authority


Question: 'U.S. success got the 1944 battle of this national-named sea the nickname "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot"'

Answer: the Philippine Sea


Question: 'Like Dylan Thomas, she is from Swansea & named her production company Milkwood after one of Thomas' plays'

Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones


Question: 'Philo's first speech in this play includes the line "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"'

Answer: Anthony & Cleopatra


Question: 'This game is sort of an upright version of Tic-Tac-Toe, using checkers dropped into a grid'

Answer: Connect Four


Question: 'This vitamin is commonly given to newborns to prevent bleeding problems'

Answer: vitamin K


Question: 'From the Latin for "gate", it's a columned entranceway'

Answer: a portico


Question: 'After the Battle of Fort Stevens, Jubal Early said, "We didn't take Washington, but we scared" this man "like hell"'

Answer: (Abe) Lincoln


Question: 'This Broadway actress seen here lent her acting chops to 24'

Answer: Cherry Jones


Question: 'Antonio, the title character of this play, gets its first line: <br />"In sooth I know not why I am so sad"'

Answer: The Merchant Of Venice


Question: 'The "popomatic" keeps you from having to find lost dice playing this Milton Bradley race & chase game'

Answer: Trouble


Question: 'Your liver converts beta-carotene into this vitamin'

Answer: vitamin A


Question: 'This large iron grating covered the entrance to many medieval castles'

Answer: the portcullis


Question: 'With a combined age of just 90 years, this president & vice president were the youngest team ever inaugurated'

Answer: Bill Clinton & Al Gore


Question: 'A mosquito's hum is actually the sound made by these'

Answer: its wings


Question: 'From Greek "kola", or glue, its a picture made by gluing various objects onto a surface'

Answer: a collage


Question: 'Over the years, this company has described its products as "Mm! Mm! Good!"'

Answer: Campbell\'s Soup


Question: 'While there are green mountains in Vermont, there are white mountains in this neighboring state'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'What the "U" in U-joint stands for'

Answer: universal


Question: 'A 1957 No. 1 song says, "It's for the very young"'

Answer: "April Love"


Question: 'Though its name means "Flemish cowherd", a bouvier des flandres is a breed of this'

Answer: dog


Question: 'To fire clay, you don't give it a pink slip, but put it in this'

Answer: kiln


Question: 'This Coca-Cola song promoting "The Real Thing", was turned into a Top 20 hit'

Answer: "I\'d Like To Teach The World To Sing"


Question: '1931 completion of the Bagnell Dam created a beautiful lake in these Missouri mountains'

Answer: the Ozarks


Question: 'Of very hot, very cold, or rainy, the weather condition in which vaporlock usually occurs'

Answer: very hot


Question: 'Bing Crosby said, "It is the song of the immortal Jolson"'

Answer: "April Showers"


Question: 'The only African bird of prey with terrestrial habits; it can't type or take dictation'

Answer: the secretary bird


Question: 'Process in which you bind a piece of clothing, so that only certain parts of the article absorb color'

Answer: tie-dye


Question: 'In his first commercials ever, George C. Scott became spokesman for this car'

Answer: Renault


Question: 'Until the Soviets completed a bigger one in 1974, the world's largest telescope was here'

Answer: Mt. Palomar


Question: 'Macpherson struts are not dance steps, but types of these'

Answer: shock absorbers


Question: 'The title of this song might describe a European spring vacation'

Answer: "April In Portugal"


Question: 'The number of toes on the foot of a hippopotamus; especially the ones in Disney's "Fantasia"'

Answer: four


Question: 'Twining, coiling, and weaving are the three basic methods of making these'

Answer: baskets


Question: 'On television, the Heinz entry always lost this contest'

Answer: the ketchup pouring contest


Question: 'The continuation of California's Sierra Nevada into Washington and Oregon is called this'

Answer: the Cascades


Question: 'Part that is capped after putting in points and a condenser'

Answer: the distributor


Question: 'Title song of the 1969 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Denueve'

Answer: "The April Fools"


Question: 'Types of this aquatic creature include chimney, sheep's wool, and common bath'

Answer: the sponge


Question: 'From Latin "to close", this process closes off colored enamels from each other with thin metal strips'

Answer: cloisonné


Question: 'Slogan created in 1921 when a pal of an R.J. Reynolds adman ran out of cigarettes on a golf course'

Answer: "I\'d walk a mile for a Camel"


Question: 'In the Washington Irving story, Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in these mountains'

Answer: the Catskills


Question: 'It changes exhaust hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and water'

Answer: a catalytic converter


Question: '1973 hit by Three Dog Night that could be the result of  blowing up the month'

Answer: "Pieces Of April"


Question: 'Visiting the New York transit exhibit in Brooklyn, you can pay the admission fee with one of these'

Answer: a subway token


Question: 'Twain said, "The art of frying" this fowl "cannot be learned north of the line of Mason and Dixon"'

Answer: chicken


Question: 'In "The Iliad", he's described as a huge, slow-witted warrior, not a foaming cleanser'

Answer: Ajax


Question: 'It was in 1943 that the Federal Government began having this done to workers' paychecks'

Answer: withholding


Question: 'When the United States became a nation in 1776, Texas was ruled by this country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Both Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom are located in counties with this name'

Answer: Orange County


Question: 'The Boston Tea Party ship and museum allows visitors to engage in this unique activity'

Answer: throwing tea overboard


Question: 'Character who refers to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in the first line of his book'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'Menolaus, husband of Helen, was king of this city, later the historic rival of Athens'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'The IRS estimates that for fiscal 1987, this will happen to one of every 68 tax returns'

Answer: auditing


Question: 'It's said the line between the East and the West lies between these two large neighboring cities'

Answer: Dallas and Fort Worth


Question: 'Technical reason the third Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Steamboat Willie", was released first on November 18, 1928'

Answer: because it had sound


Question: 'This city's World's Fair held in 1967 is perpetuated each summer under the title "Man and His World"'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'On their first date, Twain took his future wife to a reading given by this English author in 1867'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'Some say it was this wandering warrior from Ithaca who suggested the Trojan Horse'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'At 7 1/2%, Connecticut has the highest statewide tax of this kind'

Answer: sales tax


Question: 'The largest lake entirely in Texas is named for this long-time Speaker of the House'

Answer: Sam Rayburn


Question: 'For "Pinocchio", he was painted with 27 colors; for the "Mickey Mouse Club", they used only nine'

Answer: Jiminy Cricket


Question: 'Located three miles outside town, it's Hodgenville, Kentucky's most famous tourist attraction'

Answer: Lincoln\'s birthplace


Question: 'His actual middle name'

Answer: Langhorne


Question: 'He killed Hector, then Paris killed him'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'The Tax Foundation says that in 1930, it was February 13th , but in 1987, it was May 4th'

Answer: Tax Freedom Day


Question: 'Each year from 1932 to 1986, up to 100,000 attended this annual event sponsored by the Texas Department of Corrections'

Answer: Texas Prison Rodeo


Question: 'According to the 1953 cartoon, these four sounds are "where the music comes from"'

Answer: a toot, a whistle, a plunk, and a boom


Question: 'You can visit the infamous Andersonville Civil War prison, a national historic site, in this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'According to the title, it's what Twain was following in his last travel book'

Answer: the equator


Question: 'Virgil says this man escaped the fall of Troy along with a few followers and later founded Rome'

Answer: Aeneas


Question: 'Chief Justice John Marshall said "The power to tax involves the power to" do this'

Answer: destroy


Question: 'A national seashore covers much of this 100-mile long island named for Father Nicholas Valle, a Spanish priest'

Answer: Padre Island


Question: 'The title character of this 1961 live-action hit was named Ned Brainard'

Answer: The Absent-Minded Professor


Question: 'One of two Cabinet department heads who have held their position for the entire Reagan administration thus far'

Answer: (one of) Caspar Weinberger or Samuel Pierce of HUD


Question: 'In 1949 he presented his "Fair Deal" as part of his State of the Union address'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Whopper Jr.'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'Sadly, Army nurse Clara Maass died in 1901 after she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying this'

Answer: yellow fever


Question: 'It's said that you can lead this animal to water, but you cannot make it drink'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'Leo is a sign for leaders, like this actor, director & Sundance Institute founder born Aug. 18'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question: 'Think your vote doesn't count?  An 1882 congressional race was won 10,505 votes to this'

Answer: 10,504


Question: 'The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Sourdough Jack'

Answer: Jack in the Box


Question: 'It was the profession of Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, teacher & father-in-law of Jan Steen'

Answer: artist (or painter)


Question: 'If you're doing very well, you're living high off this creature'

Answer: the hog


Question: 'The day he was born, Feb. 18, 1964, his mom could have watched the "Gunsmoke" marshal of the same name on TV'

Answer: Matt Dillon


Question: 'A 1965 act says, "No voting qualification... shall be imposed" so as to deny anyone a vote based on this'

Answer: race


Question: 'When these people struck in Boston, Coolidge said, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone"'

Answer: the police


Question: 'Classic Triple with Cheese'

Answer: Wendy\'s


Question: 'In 1930 former Standard Oil president Henry Folger founded one of these in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: a library


Question: 'Simian container that's a standard for hilarity'

Answer: a barrel of monkeys


Question: 'March 18 babies include Grover Cleveland & Rudolf Diesel, who rose to this, & Irene Cara, who sang about it'

Answer: fame


Question: 'North Dakota is the only state that doesn't require voters to do this; rural folks know who's qualified'

Answer: register


Question: 'In 1851 students at VMI couldn't stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy'

Answer: (Stonewall) Jackson


Question: 'Ultimate Deep Dish Pizza & Cinna Stix'

Answer: Domino\'s


Question: 'Only one British prime minister, Spencer Perceval in 1812, left office due to this; 4 U.S. presidents did'

Answer: assassination


Question: 'Something very, very rare is "as scarce as" these chicken parts'

Answer: hen\'s teeth


Question: 'This Chicago Bears tight end & coaching legend may want to up his dose of Levitra every Oct. 18 birthday'

Answer: Mike Ditka


Question: 'The 19th century ballot pre-printed by political parties was called this, as in "voting the straight" one'

Answer: the ticket


Question: 'Marcus Garvey, born on this island nation in 1887, was deported back there by the U.S. in 1927'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'The Big N' Tasty'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'In 1969 university professors Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize for this'

Answer: Economics


Question: 'Release a Russian blue or reveal a secret'

Answer: letting the cat out of the bag


Question: 'This female Motown vocalist was born in Alabama one July 18, maybe during a "heat wave"'

Answer: Martha Reeves


Question: 'The machine seen here from this arboreal-named Florida County was part of the election mess of 2000'

Answer: Palm Beach County


Question: 'Egypt's most populous city, it lies near the head of the Nile delta'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Arrowhead Pond'

Answer: the Mighty Ducks


Question: 'Have a shave & a haircut before seeing this Rossini opera that debuted in 1816'

Answer: The Barber of Seville


Question: 'A short haircut for women, or what you do "for apples" on Halloween'

Answer: bob


Question: 'In song these "go together like a horse and carriage"'

Answer: love & marriage


Question: 'Ante means before, as in ante partum, the period before childbirth; this word means after'

Answer: post


Question: 'Venezuela's second-largest city, it lies on the shore of a lake with which it shares its name'

Answer: Maracaibo


Question: 'Madison Square Garden'

Answer: the New York Rangers


Question: 'If you moon over Monteverdi & swoon over Scarlatti, we assume that you "go for" this musical style'

Answer: baroque


Question: 'If you need to change a tire, you'd better have one of these in your trunk'

Answer: a jack


Question: 'In 1971 the New York Times quoted this future Secretary of State as saying, "Power is the great aphrodisiac"'

Answer: Henry Kissinger


Question: 'Exempli gratia, abbreviated e.g. in English, means this'

Answer: for example


Question: 'Now home to over a million, Munich or Munchen began as a settlement of these people, hence the city's name'

Answer: monks


Question: 'Mellon Arena'

Answer: the Pittsburgh Penguins


Question: 'Hey, suckers, Marianne Tatum played Jenny Lind in this Tony-winning musical'

Answer: Barnum


Question: 'This cooking spray first made its way into kitchens over 45 years ago'

Answer: PAM


Question: 'It completes Henry Lee's eulogy to Washington, "To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and..."'

Answer: "...first in the hearts of his countrymen"


Question: 'The verb "to be" has est as third person singular & this as first person singular'

Answer: sum


Question: 'Mount Wellington is not in New Zealand but lies just miles west of this Tasmanian port'

Answer: Hobart


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in a gondola in Venice, Italy.)  Venetian gondoliers are famous for singing this kind of boat song'

Answer: barcarolle


Question: 'A female donkey, or an early spinning machine'

Answer: a jenny


Question: '"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done" is from this Shakespeare play'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Accusative (for direct objects of verbs) & dative (for indirect) are 2 of Latin's several of these'

Answer: cases


Question: 'A castle keep in this French city is known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc'

Answer: Rouen


Question: 'This great 20th century Hungarian composer wrote the music for the ballet "The Wooden Prince"'

Answer: (Béla) Bartók


Question: 'Here's the drill, or should I say, here's <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-05-27_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">this'

Answer: a derrick


Question: 'In this ode Keats commands, "Away!  Away!  For I will fly to thee"'

Answer: "Ode to a Nightingale"


Question: 'Latin for "mountain", it follows Olympus & Pavonis in the names of Martian volcanoes'

Answer: Mons


Question: 'In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen"'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'Towers built in & along the walls of this fortress include Beklemishev, Peter & Tsar'

Answer: the Kremlin


Question: '2005 was the 20th birthday of this restaurant's Blizzard, a soft-serve treat'

Answer: Dairy Queen


Question: '"Mr. S: My Life with" this Rat Packer is George Jacobs' look at his 15 years as the singer's valet'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'To study intensely at the last minute for a test'

Answer: cram


Question: 'On April 15, 1912 more than 1,500 perished in this maritime disaster'

Answer: the sinking of the Titanic


Question: 'It's the 15 bucks or so an insured patient has to fork over for a visit to a doctor's office'

Answer: a copay


Question: 'Erected in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, its power plant can supply 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year'

Answer: Hoover Dam


Question: 'We're grateful that this fruity ice cream is Ben & Jerry's most popular flavor'

Answer: Cherry Garcia


Question: '"It's Not About the Bike" tells the story of his athletic career & his struggle with cancer'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'Edible paddy product'

Answer: rice


Question: 'On April 15, 1943 an Allied bomber attack missed its intended target in this occupied Low Country, killing 936 civilians'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'For working more than a 40-hour week, employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act must get this much overtime pay'

Answer: time-and-a-half


Question: 'Penny coins are added or taken away from this London landmark's pendulum to fine-tune its accuracy'

Answer: Big Ben


Question: 'Reuben Mattus created this ice cream brand, whose name was meant to invoke an Old World aura'

Answer: Häagen-Dazs


Question: 'Rheta Grimsley Johnson titled a 1989 biography "Good Grief: The Story of" this cartoonist'

Answer: Charles Schulz


Question: 'One of these can be pinhole or single-lens reflex'

Answer: camera


Question: 'April 15, 1450 was a taxing day for the English army defeated at Formigny near the end of this long war'

Answer: the Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'In 1987 Marcelle Hall returned a Stradivarius her husband had stolen in 1936 & got this type of fee, $263,000'

Answer: a finder\'s fee


Question: 'This city's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built in the 4th c. by the Emperor Constantine'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'This Italian word for rich ice cream comes from the Italian for "to freeze"'

Answer: gelato


Question: 'His work "Into the Wild" became a 2007 hit film directed by Sean Penn'

Answer: John Krakauer


Question: 'One 500-sheet pack of paper for a copy machine or a printer'

Answer: a ream


Question: 'Hundreds perished April 15, 1997 in a fire during this religious pilgrimage to Mecca'

Answer: the hajj


Question: '9-letter term for freelance labor that's compensated per unit turned out'

Answer: piecework


Question: 'Danish architect Jorn Utzon won a 1950s competition sponsored by the New South Wales government for the design of this'

Answer: the Sydney Opera Theater


Question: 'This meringue-covered dish is put in the oven briefly to brown the meringue'

Answer: Baked Alaska


Question: 'This minister's "The Purpose-Driven Life" was the top nonfiction bestseller of both 2003 & 2004'

Answer: Rick Warren


Question: 'For a rectangle, it's width multiplied by length'

Answer: area


Question: 'An alleged double murder during an alleged robbery was allegedly done by these 2 Italian Americans April 15, 1920'

Answer: Sacco & Vanzetti


Question: 'Slang for high interest on a loan, it's sometimes shortened to "vig"'

Answer: vigorish


Question: 'Collective name for the 12 constellations that form the backdrop to the sun's apparent path'

Answer: zodiac


Question: 'This film festival's award for best movie is called the Palme d'Or'

Answer: Cannes


Question: 'Switzerland'

Answer: red & white


Question: 'Founded in 1829, this Philadelphia newspaper is known as "The Inky"'

Answer: The Inquirer


Question: 'Based on this survey of people who've just voted, we're calling the election without waiting for the count'

Answer: an exit poll


Question: 'Antoine-Joseph Sax patented his famous reed instrument in this French city'

Answer: Paris


Question: '(I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.) Some with billions, others with trilions of stars, these are the fundamental building blocks of visble matter in the universe; they come in many varieties including spiral, irregular & elliptical'

Answer: galaxies


Question: 'This animated film with Tow Mater & Doc Hudson won the 2007 People's Choice Award for favorite family movie'

Answer: Cars


Question: 'Israel'

Answer: blue & white


Question: 'In the 1870s this D.C. paper was a Democratic mouthpiece; in the 1920s it stood with Republican president Harding'

Answer: The Washington Post


Question: 'The Stirling engine is this type, the opposite of what's found in your car'

Answer: an external combustion engine


Question: 'Using a double reed, it's the main bass instrument of the orchestra's woodwinds'

Answer: the bassoon


Question: 'Visible with binoculars (but less so in the planet's summer), they're the easiest Martian surface features to see'

Answer: the polar ice caps


Question: 'In 2000 this guitarist set a record for most Grammys for one album with 8 for his blockbuster "Supernatural"'

Answer: Carlos Santana


Question: 'This 3-named "Weekly" tabloid that brought bat boy to the checkout line went under in 2007'

Answer: the Weekly World News


Question: 'This 3-word Latin phrase means "after the fact"'

Answer: ex post facto


Question: 'Dexter Gordon was a great tenor saxophonist; Art Pepper specialized in this sax'

Answer: the alto sax


Question: 'Fewer people on Earth get to see it than the aurora borealis, but it looks pretty cool from space'

Answer: aurora australis (the southern lights)


Question: 'In 1998 Garry Shandling & Peter Tolan won Emmys for best writing for this HBO comedy series'

Answer: The Larry Sanders Show


Question: 'Many afternoon papers have died out, including this Texas city's in 1991, leaving the field to the "Morning News"'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'It can mean "utmost", "farthest" & also "last", as when it precedes "unction" in the Catholic sacraments'

Answer: extreme


Question: 'In the 17th c. the shawm, heard here, developed into this double reed instrument'

Answer: the oboe


Question: 'This moon that orbits Uranus in 18 hrs. was named for a Shakespeare character who can circle the Earth in 40 min.'

Answer: Puck


Question: 'This 2003 musical won 8 Tonys, including best actor for Harvey Fierstein & best director for Jack O'Brien'

Answer: Hairspray


Question: 'The staff of this paper won a 1999 Pulitzer for coverage of Russia's financial crisis'

Answer: The Wall Street Journal


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew makes a chemical volcano.)  Mixing hydrogen peroxide & yeast creates foam, steam & notably causes heat to be given off in this type of 10-letter chemical reaction'

Answer: an exothermic reaction


Question: 'Black clarinetist Don Byron specializes in this Jewish dance music from Eastern Europe'

Answer: klezmer


Question: 'Unable to say this future leader's tribal name, a teacher gave him a new name, perhaps after a British naval hero'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'Sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that the "Great Scorer" marks "Not that you won or lost" but this'

Answer: How you played the game


Question: 'Operation Lifesaver encourages drivers to "Look, Listen...and Live!" when crossing these'

Answer: Railroad/train tracks


Question: 'In a poem by Ann & Jane Taylor, it's "Like a diamond in the sky"'

Answer: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"


Question: 'Charlie "Bird" Parker was self-taught on this musical instrument he got from his mother at age 11'

Answer: Saxophone


Question: 'When Lindbergh took this plane on a test flight, he set a California-to-New York speed record'

Answer: Spirit of St. Louis


Question: 'This cub reporter was created for the radio series & later added to the comic book'

Answer: Jimmy Olsen


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer)  From 1990 to 1992 my beat for CNN was this building where I had to see all sides of an issue, not just 5'

Answer: Pentagon


Question: 'If you hear this shout on a golf course, look up for incoming golf balls'

Answer: "Fore!"


Question: 'Over 90 nations have agreed to a total ban on CFCs by the year 2000 to protect this atmospheric layer'

Answer: Ozone layer


Question: 'This director's 1988 film, "Bird", won an Oscar for Sound Recording'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'He flew his famous guests to San Simeon in the Vultee V1-A seen here:<br />("Lady Peace II")'

Answer: William Randolph Hearst


Question: 'In 1997 it was announced this "Con Air" star would don tights for Tim Burton's Superman film'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'His book "Another City, Not My Own" is based on his time covering the Simpson trial for Vanity Fair'

Answer: Dominick Dunne


Question: 'This 1989 film seen here inspired 2 sequels:<br />(co-starring Kirstie Alley)'

Answer: Look Who\'s Talking


Question: 'Soaring object in the title of the following:<br />(sometimes you're told to "Go fly" one)'

Answer: Kite


Question: 'Dizzy Gillespie, Parker & others developed this new style of jazz at Minton's Playhouse, a NYC nightclub'

Answer: Bebop


Question: 'The Gossamer Albatross was the first plane powered by one of these to cross the English Channel'

Answer: Person


Question: 'Rumor says he was set to do another season of "Superman" when he was shot June 16, 1959'

Answer: George Reeves


Question: 'Roscoe was the middle name of this man known for his calm radio reportage during WWII'

Answer: Edward R. Murrow


Question: 'The card seen here is used to test for the red-green variety of this condition:'

Answer: Colorblindness


Question: 'The name of these electric lines doesn't mean they're tight, but have great voltage'

Answer: High-tension lines


Question: 'This musical bird "study" by Parker was based on the chord progressions of "How High the Moon"'

Answer: "Ornithology"


Question: 'In 1954 the Convair XFY-1 became the first plane to make a VTOL -- this kind of take-off & landing'

Answer: Vertical


Question: 'The famous cover of Action Comics No. 1 shows Superman lifting one of these'

Answer: Car


Question: 'This king of gonzo journalism wrote of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" & in the 1972 campaign'

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson


Question: 'Lookout Mountain just south of this southern Tennessee city offers tourists a view of 7 states'

Answer: Chattanooga


Question: 'This troubled space station, built 12 years ago, was only supposed to be in use for 5 years'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'Due to Parker's prominence, this leading New York City jazz club was named for him'

Answer: Birdland


Question: 'Introduced in 1944, this company's ME262 was the first jet combat plane'

Answer: Messerschmitt


Question: 'Superman has 2 sets of parents: Jonathan & Martha in Kansas, & Lara & this father on Krypton'

Answer: Jor-El


Question: 'It's synonymous with the stock market'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'The lineup 1980-1997: guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, drummer Bill Berry & this singer'

Answer: Michael Stipe


Question: 'This author who delighted generations with "Peter Pan" was short, shy & lonely'

Answer: James M. Barrie


Question: 'Bernard Kroger founded a chain of grocery stores & Charles Walgreen founded a chain of these'

Answer: Drug stores


Question: 'The Mevlevi, or "whirling", order of these Sufi ascetics was founded about 1273 by poet Jalel Al-Din Al-Rumi'

Answer: Dervishes


Question: 'If you never say dye, say this, a light dye for the hair'

Answer: Tint


Question: 'While British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher had gates put up on the Whitehall end of this street'

Answer: Downing Street


Question: 'The video for "Losing My Religion" was banned in Ireland but given 6 awards by this network'

Answer: MTV


Question: 'With "Waverley" & "Ivanhoe", Sir Walter Scott established this genre of fiction set in the past'

Answer: Historical fiction


Question: 'In 1958 former high school principal Dr. Ethel Andrus founded this group, the AARP'

Answer: American Association of Retired Persons


Question: 'Because oak was sacred in this ancient Celtic religion, rituals were usually held in forests'

Answer: Druidism


Question: 'Kitchen or table accessory seen here:'

Answer: Trivet


Question: 'We wonder if General Grant was singing the blues when he set up headquarters on this Memphis street'

Answer: Beale Street


Question: 'The song "Man on the Moon" is a tribute to this late comedian, TV's Latka Gravas'

Answer: Andy Kaufman


Question: 'The characters in Gordon Legge's fiction are devoted to soccer, which Scots call this'

Answer: Football


Question: 'This Mass.-born businessman founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901'

Answer: James Dole


Question: 'Members of this Jamaican religious movement believe that Ethiopia is heaven'

Answer: Rastafarianism


Question: 'One to see the movie "Speed" is good; one for speeding is bad'

Answer: Ticket


Question: 'Streets in this city include Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard & Coca Cola Place'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'One-word title of the song heard here:<br />("The feet are going to be on the ground...")'

Answer: Stand


Question: 'Robert Louis Stevenson based this novel about David Balfour on an actual Scottish crime'

Answer: "Kidnapped"


Question: 'Ernest K. Coulter, not George Orwell, helped start this organization that helps kids'

Answer: Big Brothers


Question: 'From the Greek for "not knowing", this term is said to have been first used by Thomas Huxley in 1869'

Answer: Agnosticism


Question: 'This professional will stuff your turkey...or your moose, or your marlin'

Answer: Taxidermist


Question: 'Famous street seen here in a work by California artist Gus Bayz:<br />(AKA "The Crookedest Street in the World")'

Answer: Lombard Street (in San Francisco)


Question: 'In 1988 R.E.M. said "That's all folks!" to I.R.S. Records & signed with this label for big bucks'

Answer: Warner Brothers


Question: 'One of the first major Scottish poems was John Barbour's 1376 chronicle of this king'

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: 'Born in Aspen, Harold Ross didn't found Aspener magazine, he went east & founded this one'

Answer: The New Yorker


Question: 'The Black Stone is referred to as the cornerstone of this central shrine of Islam'

Answer: Kaaba


Question: 'Country singer heard here:'

Answer: Travis Tritt


Question: 'The 2 Civil War generals on the winning Republican presidential ticket of 1880'

Answer: James Garfield & Chester A. Arthur


Question: '"Let the Sunshine In" on your original Broadway cast album of "Hair": this "Annie Hall" star sings on it'

Answer: Diane Keaton


Question: 'After leaving hubby Dennis Quaid, she split from hunky Russell Crowe'

Answer: Meg Ryan


Question: 'In checkers this piece can move forwards & backwards'

Answer: king


Question: 'In China, it's second in population to Shanghai'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Basil & pine nuts go into this classic sauce from Genoa'

Answer: pesto sauce


Question: 'A hanging bed made of canvas or netting'

Answer: hammock


Question: '(Hi, I'm Paula Cale of Providence.)  I starred on the New York stage in the play "Bunny Bunny" as this late, great "Saturday Night Live" actress'

Answer: Gilda Radner


Question: 'After splitting with Ted Turner she's said she's finished with men, has quit making movies & never exercises'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'Bet "impair" on a French roulette table & you're betting the number will be this; it pays even money if you win'

Answer: odd


Question: 'In Vietnam, it's second to Ho Chi Minh City'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'Restaurateur Signore di Lello is credited with creating this sauce named for him & served over fettucine'

Answer: Alfredo


Question: 'The distinctive features of this critter seen here have allowed it to make sharper turns than others of its kind'

Answer: hammerhead shark


Question: 'It's the high school attended by Danny & Sandy in "Grease"'

Answer: Rydell High


Question: 'This country superstar & wife Sandy called it quits in 2000 after nearly 14 years of marriage'

Answer: Garth Brooks


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Porter Valley Country Club.)  A game score in tennis, or the court I'm in to receive serve'

Answer: deuce


Question: 'This seaport is the second most populous city in France'

Answer: Marseilles


Question: 'This chicken topper whose name is from the Aztec for "chili sauce" has a bit of chocolate in it'

Answer: mole


Question: 'Now consigned to history, it's the symbol seen here'

Answer: hammer & sickle


Question: 'James Gandolfini played the Rod Steiger role when this Marlon Brando film was adapted as a play in 1995'

Answer: On the Waterfront


Question: 'When he & Patricia Arquette split up, he was "Gone in 60 Seconds"'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'Join in & tell us that this is the lowest-rated suit in contract bridge'

Answer: clubs


Question: 'In Spain, it's second to Madrid'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'This hot creamy sauce made with tarragon & vinegar is traditionally served with chateaubriand'

Answer: bernaise


Question: 'Almost 2 million people live in this major seaport of northern Germany'

Answer: Hamburg


Question: '"A Grand Night for Singing" featured the songs of this duo, including "Some Enchanted Evening"'

Answer: Rodgers & Hammerstein


Question: 'This star of the 2001 sitcom "My Wife & Kids" split from his real wife in 2000'

Answer: Damon Wayans


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Porter Valley Country Club.)  In 1990 coach Carole Kleinfelder led Harvard to the NCAA title in this sport'

Answer: lacrosse


Question: 'In Mexico, it's second to Mexico City'

Answer: Guadalajara


Question: 'The name of this seasoned tomato sauce comes from the Italian word for "seafaring"'

Answer: marinara


Question: 'Seen here, he died tragically on July 12, 1804'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'Professor Bhaer, introduced in this 1860s novel, may have been based on William Rimmer, a teacher Louisa May Alcott knew'

Answer: Little Women


Question: 'In 1946 Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak became the first president of this organization's General Assembly'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: '"Yeh, yeh, yeh" it followed "I Want To Hold Your Hand" into the top position in March 1964'

Answer: "She Loves You"


Question: 'Hopefully you won't hit this tree while skiing in the Colorado town named for it'

Answer: Aspen


Question: 'This point is the dot (comma in Europe) in numbers like 23.91'

Answer: a decimal point


Question: 'In 1912, in the aftermath of the "scramble for" this continent, Britain & France controlled most of it'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'In his novel "The Possessed", Karamazinov is a satirical depiction of his rival Ivan Turgenev'

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Question: 'Eddy Merckx won this noted bike race 5 times, the first in 1969 when he was 24'

Answer: the Tour de France


Question: 'It begins, "In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed the sea"'

Answer: "Yellow Submarine"


Question:
'C9H8O4:
Take 2 & call me in the morning'

Answer: an aspirin


Question: 'Common 2-word phrase for the operation of figuring out how many times 73 goes into 2,701'

Answer: long division


Question: 'Trummerfrauen or "rubble women" worked in this bombed capital in the aftermath of World War II'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'This Victorian P.M.'s scandalous affair with Lady Henrietta Sykes inspired his 1877 novel "Henrietta Temple"'

Answer: Benjamin Disraeli


Question: 'This Belgian missionary is noted for his work with the lepers of Molokai'

Answer: Father Damien


Question: 'This hit is written in the form of a letter to a publisher'

Answer: "Paperback Writer"


Question: 'It's a plant of the lily family whose shoots can be eaten as a vegetable'

Answer: asparagus


Question: 'Solve equations with this type of multiplication, one fraction's numerator times another's denominator'

Answer: cross multiplication


Question: 'The Massachusetts General Court eventually annulled the convictions in this 1692 event'

Answer: the Salem Witch Trials


Question: 'David Bowie & Frank Sinatra have recorded songs by this prolific Belgian who is eternally "Alive... in Paris"'

Answer: Jacques Brel


Question: 'This 1966 hit was inspired by Paul trying to smooth things over with girlfriend Jane Asher'

Answer: "We Can Work It Out"


Question: 'I'll choke you until you do this if you don't come up with the right word'

Answer: asphyxiate


Question: '5-letter name for the type of section shown here'

Answer: conic section


Question: 'This Belgian guitarist was a member of the Quintette du Hot Club de France'

Answer: Django Reinhardt


Question: 'This song from "Let It Be" was the Beatles' 20th & final No. 1 single in the U.S.'

Answer: "The Long And Winding Road"


Question: 'This ratio on a TV screen is 4 to 3, unless you're rich enough to own an HDTV'

Answer: an aspect ratio


Question: 'Named for logician John, it's the diagram seen here that shows relations between sets'

Answer: a Venn diagram


Question: 'The 3 bases for these in the U.S. are at Pompano Beach, Fla., Carson, Calif. & Suffield, Oh., just east of Akron'

Answer: the Goodyear Blimps


Question: 'Heraclitus believed that this, not earth, air, or water, was the primordial source of matter'

Answer: Fire


Question: 'For minor league teams, it's the usual mode of transportation on road trips'

Answer: Bus


Question: 'The Jailer's Inn in Bardstown in this Bluegrass State was really a jail in the 1800s; hope they let you out'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: '"Poems By 2 Brothers" features poems by 3 Tennyson brothers:  Charles, Frederick & him'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'They hold up hosiery & may be part of a belt'

Answer: Garter


Question: 'Camelot king<br />            (6)'

Answer: Arthur


Question: 'In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury of 500 men on a vote of 280 to 220'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'In 1954 Joe Bauman outdid Babe Ruth with 72 of these in the Longhorn League; he never reached the majors'

Answer: Home runs


Question: 'In this city you'll find the Cocoa Motel on Cocoa Ave. & the Chocolatetown Motel on Chocolate Ave.'

Answer: Hershey, Pennsylvania


Question: 'In Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle", the turtle is this kind of bird, not a reptile'

Answer: Turtledove


Question: 'Brand that has a "Her Way" label'

Answer: Hanes


Question: 'Not a pro<br />           (7)'

Answer: Amateur


Question: 'At about 1,000 square miles, twice as big as L.A., it was the largest city-state of ancient Greece'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Famed member of the 1994 Birmingham Barons seen here:<br />[video clue]'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'Built in 1901 as the Moana Hotel, the Sheraton Moana Surfrider is the "First Lady of" this Honolulu beach'

Answer: Waikiki


Question: 'Dorothy Parker called her 1931 book of verse "Death And" these, 2 things Ben Franklin said were certainties'

Answer: Death and taxes


Question: 'Dress-length undergarment with shoulder straps for Anna, not Sigmund'

Answer: Freudian slip


Question: 'Craftsy's partner<br />          (5)'

Answer: Artsy


Question: 'The stadium for the Pythian Games was located on Mt. Parnassus, near this oracle site'

Answer: Delphi


Question: 'It's the highest minor league classification, as well as the abbreviation for an auto organization'

Answer: AAA


Question: 'This future president & his beautiful wife spent part of their 1953 honeymoon at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The 1816 sonnet "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" was the first mature poem by this ode poet'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'It's a tight constrainer for hernia sufferers'

Answer: Truss


Question: 'Penny place<br />          (6)'

Answer: Arcade


Question: 'Aritstophanes' first 10 plays were produced during this war'

Answer: Peloponnesian War


Question: 'Nickname of the Durham, North Carolina minor league team in a 1988 movie & in real life'

Answer: Bulls


Question: 'The Hotel Captain Cook covers a city block in this Alaskan city on Cook Inlet'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: 'This lake poet wasn't widely appreciated by critics until he published "The River Duddon" in 1820'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: 'For 19th century women it was the wool-stuffed pad that added a lump to the rump'

Answer: Bustle


Question: 'So be it<br />           (4)'

Answer: Amen


Question: 'Yasuko Namba, one of Japan's leading women mountain climbers, died in a blizzard on this Nepalese peak in 1996'

Answer: Mt. Everest


Question: 'It's a term for a young tree, from the word for a tree's circulating fluid'

Answer: Sapling


Question: 'When Winona Ryder bowed out of "The Godfather, Part III" his daughter Sofia replaced her'

Answer: Francis Ford Coppola


Question: 'The Rue de Rivoli is in Paris & the Gardens of Tivoli are in this Danish capital'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'His father was vice kappellmeister to the court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'Miles drew criticism after the Civil War for imprisoning this former Confederate president in leg irons'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'In her 1950s autobiography "This Life I've Led", she wrote, "My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived."'

Answer: Babe Didrikson Zaharias


Question: 'The large bulbs of this willow expose their silky "fur" early in the year'

Answer: Pussywillow


Question: 'After Mia Farrow & Woody Allen broke up, this "Manhattan" star replaced Mia in "Manhattan Murder Mystery"'

Answer: Diane Keaton


Question: 'Like the city of Bern, the Bernese Alps are in this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Although he was known as "The Waltz King", his father also composed waltzes -- 152 of them'

Answer: Johann Strauss


Question: 'In 1897 Miles represented the U.S. at the diamond jubilee celebration of this English queen'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: '1996 marked the 100th anniversary of her "Boston Cooking-School Cookbook", now published under her own name'

Answer: Fannie Farmer


Question: 'It's a general term for any evergreen oak'

Answer: Live oak


Question: 'Debra Winger could have stalked Michael Douglas in this film, but it was a close call -- a Glenn Close call'

Answer: Fatal Attraction


Question: 'The famous spa town of Baden-Baden lies in this "dark" wooded region of Germany'

Answer: Black Forest


Question: 'Before becoming director of the N.Y. Philharmonic in 1958, he was music director of the NYC Center Orchestra'

Answer: Leonard Bernstein


Question: 'In 1894 Miles went to Chicago to stop the riots caused by this railroad workers strike'

Answer: Pullman strike


Question: 'This Nicaraguan president studied for 4 years at a Roman Catholic high school for girls in San Antonio, Texas'

Answer: Violetta Chamorro


Question: 'The colorful "blue" species of this member of the pine family is a Christmas favorite'

Answer: Spruce


Question: 'James Mason won the role of Norman Maine in this Judy Garland film after Cary Grant turned it down'

Answer: A Star Is Born


Question: 'South America's Cape Horn was named for the city of Hoorn in this country'

Answer: Holland/The Netherlands


Question: 'A street in Budapest is named for this Hungarian composer who moved to the U.S. in 1940'

Answer: Bela Bartok


Question: 'Miles' suppression of the Ghost Dance Movement led to this South Dakota massacre'

Answer: Wounded Knee


Question: 'Sartre & this philosopher began their lifelong friendship while students at the Sorbonne'

Answer: Simone de Beauvoir


Question: 'Forests of this tree supported by stiltlike, above-ground roots grow in Florida's coastal areas'

Answer: Mangrove


Question: 'Jack Nicholson turned down this Steven Spielberg film, saying the special effects were the real star'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question: 'Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is located on this island'

Answer: St. Thomas


Question: 'In 1945 Heitor Villa-Lobos founded this South American country's academy of music'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'After his 1877 surrender to Miles, he said, "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever"'

Answer: Chief Joseph (of the Nez Perce)


Question: 'This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked"'

Answer: Dean Rusk


Question: 'Peter Goldmark rocked his way in for his invention of this type of record album, "LP" for short'

Answer: long play


Question: 'I'll take the Loop & go to the Field Museum if it's not too windy in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Seen here is a marriage contract written in this language, the same one in which Jesus preached'

Answer: Aramaic


Question: 'Get out your binoculars: 121 species of these have been spotted on the campus of Bennington'

Answer: birds


Question: '"Grindhouse" is a double feature written by Robert Rodriguez & this director of "Pulp Fiction"'

Answer: Quentin Tarantino


Question: 'With an initial W, it's done to necks & wet rags; without one, it's done to bells'

Answer: wring or ring


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor.) Biotech pioneer Leroy Hood mapped his place in the Hall with an automated technique for sequencing fragments of this molecule'

Answer: DNA