Question: 'President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'If lady outlaw Starr married jazz saxophonist Art, she'd have this spicy name'

Answer: Belle Pepper


Question: 'It's believed that a land mass called Pangaea later split into 2: Laurasia & this one'

Answer: Gondwanaland


Question: 'The name of this 2001 film about a weekend aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht is '20s slang for something great'

Answer: The Cat\'s Meow


Question: 'Spring for overnight delivery when sending tissue samples to this government agency based in Atlanta'

Answer: the Centers for Disease Control


Question: 'A unit of pressure & a computer programming language are named for this mathematician'

Answer: (Blaise) Pascal


Question: 'President Bashar Al-Assad'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'No joke, "Golden Girl" Arthur's marriage to Australian actor Yahoo would make her...'

Answer: Bea Serious


Question: 'The subject of this 1879 work may have been inspired by unauthorized productions of the creators' original works'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'Let's all flock to read Psalm 95, in which humans are compared to these animals'

Answer: sheep


Question: 'The rap on him is he's sometimes "Puffy"'

Answer: Sean Combs


Question: 'In the 1980s this city passed Chicago as the USA's second most populous'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: '"Ask any mermaid you happen to see, 'What's the best tuna?'", this brand'

Answer: Chicken of the Sea


Question: 'Many people have become familiar with "Shape", "Ski" & "Savoy", which are these, in doctors' waiting rooms'

Answer: magazines


Question: 'In 2003, Roy E. Disney left it after being on it since 1967'

Answer: the Disney Board of Directors


Question: 'Some say the screech owl in the King James Bible is Lilith, the name given his legendary first wife'

Answer: Adam


Question: 'Once married to Madonna'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'This London borough is the G in GMT, squire'

Answer: Greenwich


Question: 'A fast food chain: "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face"'

Answer: Carl\'s Jr.


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Briefing Room at the White House.)  The White House briefing room floor covers a swimming pool that was installed for this man in 1933'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'It's where Bart Simpson is often found in the opening of "The Simpsons"'

Answer: his skateboard (or the blackboard)


Question: 'Hagar, carrying this man's baby, fled into the desert after harsh treatment from his wife'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'He won an Oscar for "The Untouchables"'

Answer: Sean Connery


Question: 'Thomas Alsgaard won the 15-kilometer cross-country ski event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in this Japanese city'

Answer: Nagano


Question: '"Pardon me, but do you have any" of this fancy mustard?'

Answer: Grey Poupon


Question: 'The Titanic has 3 rooms for this--only men were allowed there, as women weren't supposed to do it in public'

Answer: smoking


Question: 'At this time we'd like to do this for our first-class passengers & those traveling with small children'

Answer: pre-board


Question: 'According to this Old Testament book, this "swords into plowshares" prophet walked naked for 3 years'

Answer: Isaiah


Question: 'Yoko's boy'

Answer: Sean Lennon


Question: 'The Dalai Lama's former residence, the Potala Palace, overlooks this city'

Answer: Lhasa


Question: '"Kiss a little longer" with this gum'

Answer: Big Red


Question: 'Officially released in 1975, much-bootlegged tapes of Dylan & The Band were named for this space'

Answer: the basement


Question: 'A structural material named for its small wood fragments pressed together & bonded'

Answer: particle board


Question: 'In Genesis, Joseph is imprisoned after accusations by the wife of this Egyptian'

Answer: Potiphar


Question: 'Android hottie in "Blade Runner"'

Answer: Sean Young


Question: 'Founded by Ram Das, this city in Punjab state is home to the Golden Temple, the center of the Sikh faith'

Answer: Amritsar


Question: 'The slogan of this Johnson & Johnson product was "Have you had your sprinkle today?"'

Answer: Shower to Shower


Question: 'Decorating experts, & the film "The Big Lebowski", advise that the right one of these really ties a room together'

Answer: a rug


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Cirque du Soleil.)  When used by acrobats, this structure isn't called a seesaw, but this'

Answer: a teeterboard


Question: 'Toledo military academy class of 1910 grad who went on to become a dictator'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'Nicole Kidman finds a photo book containing a postmortem image of her current housekeeper in this chiller'

Answer: The Others


Question: 'After turning the key, it's the final action with which you start a Yamaha YZ426F 4-stroke motorcycle'

Answer: kick


Question: 'The tapir'

Answer: mammal


Question: '"And how should I begin?" Hmmm, T.S., why not with the alphabetically first country, whose Internet code is .af'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'This U.S. state's name comes from an Aleut word meaning "Great Land"'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Mindon, as emperor of this country, set up a new capital in 1857 at Mandalay'

Answer: Burma


Question: 'This actor played a medium hired to investigate the Everest of Haunted Houses in "Legend of Hell House"'

Answer: Roddy McDowall


Question: 'The Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad opened in 1836 powered by this, but soon became Canada's first powered by steam'

Answer: horses


Question: 'The lamprey'

Answer: fish


Question: '"Do I dare disturb the universe?", maybe like this cosmic explosion theory first proposed in the 1920s'

Answer: the Big Bang


Question: '(Jeff Probst, host of Survivor, reads the clue.)  This river got its name after a Spanish explorer reported that he had been attacked by female warriors there'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'His 5 classics were canonized during the Han Dynasty'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'David's haunted by the decomposing corpse of his friend Jack after being attacked on the British Moors in this 1981 film'

Answer: An American Werewolf in London


Question: 'The vessel seen here, the type of missile it carries or a much more low-tech weapon'

Answer: Trident


Question: 'The coelacanth'

Answer: fish


Question: '"So how should I presume?" Not with this argumentative fallacy attacking the person & not the facts'

Answer: ad hominem


Question: 'This basic unit of measure of electric current is named for a French physicist who studied voltage'

Answer: the ampere


Question: 'Edmund "Crouchback" founded this branch of the Plantagenets that didn't get on well with the Yorks'

Answer: the Lancasters


Question: 'In "The Gift" this Aussie actress plays a psychic who gets some much needed help from her former client'

Answer: Cate Blanchett


Question: 'The U.S. company Trek makes Lance Armstrong's bikes from a composite of this often-compounded element'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'The ptarmigan'

Answer: bird


Question: '"In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo", but do they know this statue was the only 1 he signed?'

Answer: the Pieta


Question: 'To increase a jet plane's thrust, turn on these that feed fuel into the hot exhaust gases'

Answer: the afterburners


Question: 'In 1825, the Decembrists attempted a coup in this country--didn't work'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Rex Harrison is a curmudgeonly sea captain's ghost haunting Gene Tierney's cottage in this 1947 classic'

Answer: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir


Question: 'In 1980 you could haul brie in the Renault sold in the U.S. under this half-French name'

Answer: Le Car


Question: 'The colobus'

Answer: mammal


Question: '"Do I dare to eat a peach?", & if so, perhaps this kind that sounds like William Sydney Porter's alias'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'There's a cathedral of Notre Dame in this large Belgian port city that's also known for its diamonds'

Answer: Antwerp


Question: 'In 2002 the Library of Congress had William B. Jones, Jr. speak on this 1941-1971 comic book series in its collection'

Answer: Classic Comics (or Classics Illustrated)


Question: '(Richard Roth reads from the U.N.)  You'll fit right in here at the U.N. if you know either of these 2 languages, the predominant ones used for daily communication & signage'

Answer: English & French


Question: 'She beat out Justin Guarini to become the first "American Idol"'

Answer: Kelly Clarkson


Question: 'Prior to settling in America, the Pilgrims sought religious freedom in Leiden, in this country, in 1609'

Answer: Holland (or the Netherlands)


Question: '"B.N.W."<br />by Aldous Huxley'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'When referring to the shape of the nose, aquiline means hooked like this bird's beak'

Answer: an eagle


Question: 'It's someone held prisoner until certain demands are met'

Answer: a hostage


Question: '(Richard Roth reads from the U.N. floor.)  In February 2003 I reported on this Secretary of State's visit to the U.N. to present evidence of Iraq's failure to disarm'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'He was the me in 1942's "For Me and My Gal" with Judy Garland'

Answer: Gene Kelly


Question: 'This last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact died in 1687; wife Priscilla is believed to have preceded him'

Answer: John Alden


Question: '"T.W.A.T.G."<br />by John Irving'

Answer: The World According to Garp


Question: 'The popular gem shape seen here is named for this fruit'

Answer: a pear


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a brainy animation on the monitor.)  When cerebral arteries become dilated, it can often lead to this vascular pain also known as cephalalgia'

Answer: a headache


Question: '(Richard Roth reads from outside the U.N.)  A gift to the U.N. from the USSR, the "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares" statue gets its title from this prophet'

Answer: Isaiah


Question: 'Oscar winner for 1954's "The Country Girl"'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'This Pawtuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant crops is said to have lived in England from 1605 to 1614'

Answer: Squanto


Question: '"S.O.S."<br />by Toni Morrison'

Answer: Song of Solomon


Question: 'The appendix is often described by this adjective meaning "worm-shaped"'

Answer: vermiform


Question: 'Hopefully this cozy Kansas state song from around 1873 is about a dwelling on open land, not on a stove'

Answer: "Home On The Range"


Question: '(Richard Roth reads from outside the U.N.)  In 2008 one of the U.N.'s urgent concerns was getting relief supplies to the Irrawaddy Delta in this country'

Answer: Burma (or Myanmar)


Question: 'He was a losing Super Bowl quarterback 4 times'

Answer: Jim Kelly


Question: 'The Mayflower Compact referred to the Pilgrims as "loyal subjects of" this "dread sovereign"'

Answer: James I of England


Question: '"S.A.L."<br />by D.H. Lawrence'

Answer: Sons and Lovers


Question: 'This 9-letter word for "cross-shaped" comes from the Latin word for "cross"'

Answer: cruciform


Question: 'This old-fashioned word means "until the present time"'

Answer: hitherto (heretofore accepted)


Question: '(Richard Roth reads from the U.N. floor.)  Appointed by George W. Bush during a congressional recess, this U.S. ambassador to the U.N. stirred up for controversy when he served here in 2005 & 2006'

Answer: (John) Bolton


Question: '"Clown" is the 1954 autobiography of this creator of the mournful clown character Weary Willie'

Answer: Emmett Kelly


Question: 'A war with the Indians that broke out in 1675 was named for the Wampanoag leader called King this'

Answer: Philip


Question: '"W., O."<br />by Sherwood Anderson'

Answer: Winesburg, Ohio


Question: 'These smallest formed elements in the blood are named for their disklike shape'

Answer: platelets


Question: 'Yes, Mr. Sulu, it's the person who steers the ship'

Answer: the helmsman


Question: 'In the 1920s, her "poor girl" look of simple & comfortable clothes attracted wealthy women tired of corsets'

Answer: (Coco) Chanel


Question: 'Meryl Streep wonders, "Is there some reason my coffee isn't here?  Has she died or something?" in this workplace film'

Answer: The Devil Wears Prada


Question: 'Gori, occupied by Russian troops in 2008, was the birthplace of this Soviet dictator in 1879'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'This international organization concerned with helping victims of war was founded in Geneva in 1863'

Answer: the Red Cross


ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT"

Question: 'A boat made by hollowing out a log'

Answer: a dugout


Question: 'On Aug. 25, 1900 God could have said this philosopher "is dead"'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'This designer, hailed as the man who brought pants to women, died in 2008'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'Charlie Sheen hears "Greed... is good" in this film, which came out just after the 1987 stock market crash'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'Tblisi, the capital, was linked by rail to the Black Sea in 1872 & to this sea in 1883'

Answer: the Caspian


Question: 'This acronym of a humanitarian organization that fights poverty is a synonym for "concern"'

Answer: CARE


ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT"

Question: 'Sushi's on me; it's the colorful name of the food fish Thunnus albacares'

Answer: yellowfin


Question: 'This physicist's temperature read extremely cold on any scale on Sept. 16, 1736'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: 'This Italian duo, partners in life & business, use the initials D&G from their last names as the company logo'

Answer: Dolce & Gabbana


Question: 'Will Farrell tells San Diego to stay classy (among other things) working in this title job'

Answer: Anchorman


Question: 'In the summer of 2008, Georgia tried to discipline this breakaway region & Russia responded with great force'

Answer: South Ossetia


Question: '"Oxfam" is short for the Oxford Committee for this Relief'

Answer: Famine


ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT"

Question: 'This term for a circus or carnival worker is also the title of an Elvis Presley film'

Answer: roustabout


Question: 'This German novelist's death was not in Venice but in Switzerland on Aug. 12, 1955'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question: 'His first women's collection was launched at Bergdorf's before he was a judge on "Project Runway"'

Answer: Michael Kors


Question: 'Lily, Jane & Dolly think they've killed their boss at Consolidated Companies in this film'

Answer: 9 to 5


Question: 'Georgia's main mountain system is this one, where Europe & Asia converge'

Answer: the Caucasus


Question: 'This group, BBBS, concerns itself with helping children reach their potential by matching them with mentors'

Answer: Big Brothers Big Sisters (of America)


ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT"

Question: 'Recently legalized, this green aromatic liqueur can be around 70% alcohol'

Answer: absinthe


Question: 'The planets may have been in motion, but after Nov. 15, 1630, this German astronomer wasn't'

Answer: (Johannes) Kepler


Question: 'Her house model was Edie Sedgwick & she started her foray into retail with a store called Betsey Bunki Nini'

Answer: Betsey Johnson


Question: 'It seems the ratio of Stanley nickels to Schrute bucks is the same as unicorns to leprechauns on this sitcom'

Answer: The Office


Question: 'Only 40 during the 2008 crisis, this Georgian president worked for a NYC law firm in the '90s'

Answer: Saakashvili


Question: 'Founded in 1912, this group concerned with Jewish unity is the Women's Zionist Organization of America'

Answer: Hadassah


ONE DAY YOU'RE "IN", THE NEXT YOU'RE "OUT"

Question: 'A long home run, or pull with a politico'

Answer: clout


Question: 'After June 25, 1822 this writer had no more "Tales" to tell & no more E.T.A.s'

Answer: Hoffmann


Question: 'Though born 4,000 miles from Havana, he adorns the Cuban 3-peso note'

Answer: Che Guevara


Question: 'In 1982 the Jarvik-7, the first permanent one of these, was implanted in patient Barney Clark'

Answer: an artificial heart


Question: 'Detective novelist Tony Hillerman is this "Magnum, P.I." co-star's second cousin'

Answer: John Hillerman


Question: 'In art this "Enlightened One" is often depicted in the lotus position in deep meditation'

Answer: the Buddha


Question: '9 days after Garfield's inauguration, Alexander II of this country was assassinated'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'A style of pants with tight-fitting legs, or a type of high-crowned hat worn by Lincoln'

Answer: a stovepipe


Question: 'This country leads the world in the production of cultured pearls'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S'

Answer: Marconi


Question: 'This director was born to a mother named Italia & has a sister named Talia'

Answer: Francis Ford Coppola


Question: 'When this evangelist died in 1944, her son Rolf McPherson took over as head of her church'

Answer: Aimee Semple McPherson


Question: 'This institute in Alabama opened July 4, 1881 as a school to train black teachers'

Answer: Tuskegee Institute


Question: 'Wedgies should be worn only on these body parts'

Answer: feet


Question: 'Commissioned U.S. Army officers are sworn to support & defend this document against all enemies'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'In 1611 Johannes Kepler introduced a second convex lens, giving this instrument greater power'

Answer: a telescope


Question: 'Jason Patric is the grandson of this late TV star who was famous for playing a bus driver'

Answer: Jackie Gleason


Question: 'Most of what we know about this Chinese leader comes from a book called the "Analects"'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'Turkey ceded Thessaly to this country'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'The usual color of the 19th century women's blouses inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldi'

Answer: red


Question: 'The world's longest of these floating bridges spans 7,518' across Lake Washington'

Answer: a pontoon bridge


Question: 'Buckminster Fuller used "energetic synergetic geometry" to build these structures'

Answer: geodesic domes


Question: 'This actress' son Sean Astin found a caveman in his back yard in the 1992 film "Encino Man"'

Answer: Patty Duke Astin


Question: 'According to Franciscan tradition, he received marks of Christ's wounds on his body in 1224'

Answer: St. Francis of Assisi


Question: 'On April 5, 1881 the Treaty of Pretoria granted independence to this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'The duffel coat was named for a fabric made in the town of Duffel in this Low Country'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'Scientifically, this tall grass is called Saccharum officinarum'

Answer: sugarcane


Question: 'The 1st automated instrument to analyze this genetic material's structure was developed in the mid-1980s'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'She's Don Johnson's famous mother-in-law; a little "bird" told us'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'The full name of his church is the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity'

Answer: Sun Myung Moon


Question: 'This British bacteriologist born August 6, 1881 "molded" the lives of future generations'

Answer: (Sir Alexander) Fleming


Question: 'Some of these facial decorations worn in the 1600s & 1700s were star-shaped'

Answer: beauty marks


Question: 'In 1993 people sent letters with these stamps to fake addresses so they would be marked "return to sender"'

Answer: the Elvis stamps


Question: 'Lightning struck when this 18th century inventor met Deborah Read & their common law marriage lasted 44 years'

Answer: Ben Franklin


Question: 'In a list of dictionary abbreviations, this language is often listed as Lith.'

Answer: Lithuanian


Question: 'This palace's Hall of Mirrors was once flanked by the state apartments of the king & queen'

Answer: Versailles


Question: 'Usually eaten between 11 A.M. & 3 P.M., this meal is a combination of breakfast & lunch'

Answer: brunch


Question: 'The governor's mansion in this capital city was formerly the home of James G. Blaine'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'In the 6th century B.C., Greeks used his "Iliad" & "Odyssey" as textbooks'

Answer: Homer


Question: 'Ixtlilxochitl II, a chief of Texcoco in Mexico, became an ally of this Conquistador'

Answer: Cortés


Question: 'Of Balinese, Bengali or Bulgarian, the one that has the most speakers by far'

Answer: Bengali


Question: 'Consecrated in 1094, this basilica was named for the patron saint of Venice'

Answer: St. Mark\'s


Question: 'In the Orient this part of a shark is used to make an expensive & popular soup'

Answer: the fin


Question: 'Explorers who came in from the cold to summer in Maine include Robert Peary & this South Pole visitor'

Answer: (Richard) Byrd


Question: 'Bullfinch's "Mythology" includes "The Age of Fable", &, covering knights, "The Age of" this'

Answer: Chivalry


Question: 'In 1910 he & his sister Agnes co-founded the Girl Guides'

Answer: Lord Baden-Powell


Question: 'The famous operetta "The Gondoliers" was written in this language'

Answer: English


Question: 'The 70-story GE Building is the central structure in this NYC building complex'

Answer: Rockefeller Center


Question: 'This company markets Velveeta & Cracker Barrel cheeses'

Answer: Kraft


Question: 'This poet who wrote "I shot an arrow in the air..." was born in Portland'

Answer: Longfellow


Question: 'In an essay Albert Camus compared the human condition to the myth of this rock pusher'

Answer: Sisyphus


Question: 'The name of this Grand Inquisitor became synonymous with the horror of the Spanish Inquisition'

Answer: Torquemada


Question: 'Portuguese, Sardinian & Ladino belong to this group of Indo-European languages'

Answer: the Romance languages


Question: 'This 12th century temple built by King Suryavarman appears on the Cambodian flag'

Answer: Angkor Wat


Question: 'Named for a South American country, this 3-sided nut is the fruit of the bertholettia tree'

Answer: the Brazil nut


Question: 'In 1980 & 1981 this man from the State of Maine was U.S. Secretary of State'

Answer: Muskie


Question: 'Bill Moyers' conversations with him were published as "The Power of Myth"'

Answer: (Joseph) Campbell


Question: 'Encyclopedia Americana says this Medici bore King Henry IV "six children and much ill will"'

Answer: Marie de\' Medici


Question: 'Guarani is both a language & the basic unit of currency in this landlocked South American country'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'This 7th century Muslim building in Jerusalem is also known as the Mosque of Umar'

Answer: the Dome of the Rock


Question: 'This French term for a tiny pickle means "little horn"'

Answer: cornichon


Question: 'This woman born in Hampden helped open hospitals for the mentally ill in over 15 states'

Answer: Dorothea Dix


Question: 'This "I, Claudius" author later set his eye on "The Greek Myths" & "The Hebrew Myths"'

Answer: (Robert) Graves


Question: 'A 1920s French production of this musical about 19th c. entertainers was titled "Mississippi"'

Answer: Show Boat


Question: 'Barbie accounts for about 40% of this toymaker's revenue'

Answer: Mattel


Question: 'This "X-Files" star has expressed his admiration for the complex modern poetry of John Ashbery'

Answer: David Duchovny


Question: 'Othello calls her a "lewd minx"'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'In 1981 Juice Newton revived this 1968 song'

Answer: "Angel of the Morning"


Question: 'In October 1979 he became the first pope to visit a president at the White House'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'A person with 2 jobs is said to wear 2 of these, even if he has just one head'

Answer: Hats


Question: 'It's said this soft drink's name is the most recognized commercial symbol in the world'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays'

Answer: Tony Randall


Question: 'He calls Claudius "Treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" -- but not to his face'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'In a J. Geils Band song, it's the reason "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold"'

Answer: "My Angel is a Centerfold"


Question: 'East & West Germany & the Bahamas were admitted to this international organization September 18, 1973'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Uncomfortable as it sounds, it's where a highly emotional person wears his heart'

Answer: On his sleeve


Question: 'In 1994 this retailer transferred its ownership in the world's then tallest building to a trust'

Answer: Sears


Question: 'Yo, Adrian!  This actor says that what "separates us from being totally bestial is...a sense of the aesthetic"'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'Called a wasp by her wooer she says, "If I be waspish, best beware my sting"'

Answer: Kate


Question: 'This FOX TV show band had a hit with "How Do You Talk to an Angel"'

Answer: The Heights


Question: 'Name given to the U.S.-USSR weapons negotiations; the first ended in 1972, the second in 1979'

Answer: SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)


Question: 'Here's a footnote: many cowboys were said to die this way, as in the title of an Errol Flynn film'

Answer: With their boots on


Question: 'This London news agency was founded in 1851 & named for a German baron'

Answer: Reuters


Question: 'This crooner whose career was renewed on MTV in the '90s is also a painter influenced by the Impressionists'

Answer: Tony Bennett


Question: 'The queen calls him "That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Singer heard here:<br />("You must be an angel...")'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In 1975 New Zealand's John Walker ran the mile in 3:49.4, beating this man's 1954 mark by 10 seconds'

Answer: Roger Bannister


Question: 'A pompous person is one of these, which sounds like it was made by a tailor moonlighting as a taxidermist'

Answer: Stuffed shirt


Question: 'The corporation whose logo is seen here was created in 1971:<br />(AKA the National Railroad Passenger Corporation)'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: 'This actress & sister of actress Jennifer made her debut as a novelist with 1994's "Singing Songs"'

Answer: Meg Tilly


Question: 'Beatrice calls him "A very dull fool", then agrees to marry him'

Answer: Benedick


Question: 'This group's "Angel of Harlem" is a tribute to Billie Holiday'

Answer: U2


Question: 'The first baby conceived outside a woman's body was born in this country'

Answer: England (Louise Brown)


Question: 'Someone with a single obsession "buzzing" in his head figuratively has this, an apiarist's nightmare'

Answer: Bee in his bonnet


Question: 'The book is also called this, from the Greek word for Revelation'

Answer: Apocalypse


Question: 'Some locusts make noise by rubbing their legs on these to vibrate them'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'At 14,433 feet, Mt. Elbert in this state is a real Rocky Mountain high; it's the highest peak in the range'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'Lucky Walter Matthau got to romance Sophia Loren in this 1995 sequel to "Grumpy Old Men"'

Answer: Grumpier Old Men


Question: 'When Perry holds forth, he is often accused of doing this, from Latin for "A high cleric"'

Answer: Pontificating


Question: 'Term for a word with a similiar meaning to another, Roget's lists "Roget's" for "thesaurus"'

Answer: Synonym


Question: 'This author of Revelation mentions his own name 4 times in the book'

Answer: John


Question: 'Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree'

Answer: Bark


Question: 'In 1937 the government set aside this Georgia swamp as a national wildlife refuge'

Answer: Okefenokee Swamp


Question: 'In titles of '90s films, this word precedes "As Sin", "As Charged" & "By Suspicion"'

Answer: Guilty


Question: 'Friends call Perry the "Cokie Monster" for his crush on this ABC & NPR journalist'

Answer: Cokie Roberts


Question: 'These terms are, you know, the 2 examples of embololalia in this clue that, like, stall for time'

Answer: You know & like


Question: 'It's Revelation's place in order of books in the New Testament'

Answer: Last


Question: 'The singer heard here, she was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee:'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'This large Connecticut city was named after a structure spanning the Pequonnock'

Answer: Bridgeport


Question: 'Dennis Quaid marries a 13-year-old in the movie bio named for this 1957 song'

Answer: Great Balls of Fire!


Question: 'Perry earned a Ph.D. in this "science", like Woodrow Wilson, who was the subject of Perry's thesis'

Answer: Political science


Question: 'A speaker's use & choice of words; with the suffix "ary", it's a list of all the words & their meanings'

Answer: Diction


Question: 'Satan is cast into a lake of these 2 things, & "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever"'

Answer: Fire & brimstone


Question: 'This Great Lake's deepest point, 1330 feet, lies about 50 miles north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: '"Hey There!"  It's the 1966 film that made Lynn Redgrave a star'

Answer: Georgy Girl


Question: 'Perry starts the day with decaf & David Broder's column in this "Capital" newspaper'

Answer: The Washington Post


Question: 'To tell the truth, mendaciloquence, is the art of doing this -- artfully'

Answer: Lying


Question: 'This Mesopotamian city is destroyed in Chapter 18'

Answer: Babylon


Question: 'This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River'

Answer: Mount Mitchell


Question: 'Angela Lansbury was in her teens when she made her film debut in this 1944 Charles Boyer-Ingrid Bergman classic'

Answer: Gaslight


Question: 'Perry opens many columns with a deep-sounding quote, like this poet's "April is the cruellest month"'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'From French for a stencil -- something used over again -- it's a too oft-repeated phrase'

Answer: Cliche


Question: '1913 poem that includes the line "A nest of robins in her hair"'

Answer: \"Trees\"  (by Joyce Kilmer)


Question: 'This current French president served as prime minister under both Giscard d'Estaing & Mitterrand'

Answer: Jacques Chirac


Question: 'Anticlea gave birth to this hero of "The Odyssey" near Mt. Neriton on the island of Ithaca'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'To Hindus, the Narmada River is 2nd in sacredness only to this one'

Answer: The Ganges


Question: 'She was Romeo's beloved'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'Pham Van Dong served as prime minister of this country from unification until 1986'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'This god of shepherds & flocks is depicted with a reed pipe'

Answer: Pan


Question: 'Sherry has been made in this country's province of Cadiz for centuries'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This largest African lake is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania & Kenya'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'It's a shade of green or a green gemstone that's often carved'

Answer: Jade


Question: 'Tunku Abdul Rahman was the 1st prime minister of the federation of Malaya & of this successor state'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'This French star of "And God Created Woman" retired from films to devote her life to animal welfare'

Answer: Brigitte Bardot


Question: 'Persephone, who reigned with him over the underworld, was his niece'

Answer: Hades


Question: 'The Napa Valley in this western U.S. state is famous for its wineries'

Answer: California


Question: 'The U.S.-Russian boundary passes through this strait'

Answer: Bering Strait


Question: 'Swing was the most popular style of this music in the 1930s'

Answer: Jazz


Question: 'This Israeli prime minister signed the first peace treaty between Israel & an Arab country'

Answer: Menachem Begin


Question: 'Among the Pedro Almodovar films she starred in are "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down", "High Heels"  & "Kika"'

Answer: Victoria Abril


Question: 'Tequila is named for a town near Guadalajara in this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Vatican City lies on the west bank of this river'

Answer: the Tiber


Question: 'Crete de la Neige is the highest peak of this mountain range between France & Switzerland'

Answer: Jura Mountains


Question: 'He took power in 1993 when his Liberals won 177 of the 295 seats in Canada's House of Commons'

Answer: Jean Chretien


Question: 'In films, she's led a double life, seen red & recently, love amour'

Answer: Irene Jacob


Question: 'It's traditional to float 2 or 3 of these beans on top of Sambuca liqueur'

Answer: coffee beans


Question: 'This bay that shares its name with the Philippine capital is nearly landlocked'

Answer: Manila Bay


Question: 'This saint who was burned at the stake is the patroness of France & of soldiers'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'In 1912 it was the largest & most luxurious ship ever built; it sank on its 1st voyage'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'The first four chapters of this Bram Stoker work are from Jonathan Harker's journal'

Answer: "Dracula"


Question: 'Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion'

Answer: Nucleus


Question: 'This Austrian composer's 1790 opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" is set in 18th c. Naples'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'In a leap year an extra day is added to this month'

Answer: February


Question: 'Sinterclaus, from which Santa Claus is derived, is the Dutch name for this patron of sailors & children'

Answer: St. Nicholas


Question: 'The Bayeux Tapestry is a graphic representation of this man's conquest of England'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'City that was the starting & ending point of Phileas Fogg's 80-day trip around the world'

Answer: London


Question: 'In 1914 she became head of the Paris Institute of Radium'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Donizetti's opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo'

Answer: Lucrezia Borgia


Question: 'This pair who collaborated on "The Communist Manifesto" met in Paris in 1844'

Answer: Marx & Engels


Question: 'His feast day is February 14th, but lovers can seek his help any time of year'

Answer: St. Valentine


Question: 'Ruling from 1792-1750 B.C., he had the laws of Babylon carved into an 8' high block of stone'

Answer: Hammurabi


Question: 'In 1726, he received 200 pounds for his tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the only time he was paid for his writing'

Answer: Jonathan Swift


Question: 'They're the tiny threadlike structures that carry the genes - you have 23 pairs'

Answer: Chromosomes


Question: 'The first scene of this composer's "Das Rheingold" takes place at the bottom of the Rhine'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'Rearrange the letters of rial & you'll have the name of this European currency'

Answer: Lira


Question: 'This patron of skiers is best remembered for the hospices he founded in the Alps'

Answer: St. Bernard


Question: 'In 404 B.C., this city surrendered, ending the 27-year-long Peloponnesian War'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Husband of poet Elizabeth, he wrote "O' to be in England, now that April's there"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'Organic chemistry specializes in compounds that contain this element'

Answer: Carbon


Question: 'Bellini's 1831 opera "Norma" had its world premiere at this Milan opera house'

Answer: La Scala


Question: 'It's the largest island in the Indian Ocean'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This beloved physician of the New Testament is the patron saint of painters'

Answer: St. Luke


Question: 'It's said the epitaph on Cyrus the Great's tomb called him the founder of this empire'

Answer: Persian Empire


Question: 'This German was in his 80's when he finished writing "Faust" a few months before his death in 1832'

Answer: Goethe


Question: 'His discovery of energy quanta earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics'

Answer: Max Planck


Question: 'Maria Callas was noted for her passionate performance in this composer's "Tosca"'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'Celebrated in a Byron poem, this Swiss fortress originally guarded the main road to Italy'

Answer: Chillon


Question: 'On March 10, 1996, this woman performed a song on the balcony of Buenos Aires' presidential palace'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'After hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, this city's Olympic Stadium became the home of the Expos'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'In 1978 B. Mandrell was "Sleeping single in" one of these, "thinking over things I wish I'd said"'

Answer: a double bed


Question: 'It's believed his association with the North Pole & reindeer came from Scandinavian legend'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'His Feb. 11, 1990 release from a South African jail after some 27 years made world headlines'

Answer: (Nelson) Mandela


Question: 'You say it to a sneezer to wish him or her "good health"'

Answer: gesundheit


Question: 'Buildings in this Italian city don't stand on solid ground, but use wooden posts driven into the mud'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'These 2 singers were the original co-hosts of TV's "Hee Haw"'

Answer: Roy Clark & Buck Owens


Question: 'It's the northernmost region of the Earth & the North Pole is in its center'

Answer: the Arctic


Question: 'The first major U.S. company to publish solely paperbacks, it's named for where their books could fit'

Answer: Pocket Books


Question: 'Congress established this National Park in Arizona February 26, 1919'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'As Wayne Newton could tell you, it means "thank you"'

Answer: danke schoen


Question: 'After London and Birmingham, this Scottish city is Great Britain's third largest'

Answer: Glasgow


Question: 'This singer's short story collection, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", was named for his 1979 hit song'

Answer: Charlie Daniels


Question: 'The Soviet North Pole station set up in 1937 drifted away & was rescued 9 months later off this island'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'They claim to run "the tightest ship in the shipping business"'

Answer: UPS


Question: 'It was founded in Feb. 1941 to serve the social, religious, educational & welfare needs of our servicemen'

Answer: the USO


Question: 'Brand of beer that means "lion's brew"'

Answer: Lowenbrau


Question: 'Once called Philadelphia, this capital of Jordan assumed its present name in the 7th century'

Answer: Amman


Question: 'Texas town that's the title of Waylon Jennings' 1977 hit subtitled "Back To The Basics Of Love"'

Answer: Luckenbach


Question: 'Regular job of the first surface ship to reach the North Pole'

Answer: icebreaker


Question: 'This company introduced the Band-Aid to America in 1920'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: 'On February 10, 1943 he started a 21-day fast'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'The name of this flower which grows in the Alps means "noble white"'

Answer: edelweiss


Question: 'When first founded, this capital of the Bahamas was known as Charles Towne'

Answer: Nassau


Question: 'Roy Acuff, the 1st living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, had a big hit with the following song:'

Answer: "Wabash Cannonball"


Question: 'In an 1818 novel he pursues his creation to the North Pole where they both die'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'This peanut-packed candy bar, the 1st successful one by Mars, is the current top seller'

Answer: Snickers


Question: 'On February 11, 1960 he walked off his late night television show while on the air'

Answer: (Jack) Paar


Question: 'In the name of a popular veal dish, Vienna style, it means "slice" or "shaving"'

Answer: schnitzel


Question: 'In 1877 Henry Flipper became the first black graduate of this military academy'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'In Sir Walter Scott's poem, it precedes "when first we practice to deceive"'

Answer: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"


Question: 'Its alpha & beta stars are called the pointers because they point to the North Star'

Answer: the Big Dipper (or Ursa Major)


Question: 'The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'If your frozen seafood dinner's from Mrs. Paul's, it's a product of this soup company'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'Though Ben didn't approve of parts of it, he urged the Convention to unanimously adopt it'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'Birdland, a jazz palace of the '50s, was named for this sax player who was nicknamed "Bird"'

Answer: Charlie Parker


Question: 'Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!  Long has it waved on high"'

Answer: "Old Ironsides"


Question: 'This constellation named for the son of Poseidon & Euryale is known as "The Hunter"'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'This British coastal town has a lot of sole named for it'

Answer: Dover


Question: 'In 1958 this contralto was an alternate U.S. delegate to the UN'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'The title of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was suggested by this author of "On the Road"'

Answer: (Jack) Kerouac


Question: 'Associated with the onset of spring, this constellation is first in the zodiac'

Answer: Aries


Question: 'This unit of currency was first worth 6 iron cooking spits'

Answer: the drachma


Question: 'In song, Sweet Molly Malone sold cockles & this shellfish "Alive, alive O!"'

Answer: mussels


Question: 'For supervising the Arab-Israeli armstice, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Ralph Bunche


Question: 'Poetess who wrote "I'm nobody!  Who are you?  Are you--nobody--too?"'

Answer: (Emily) Dickinson


Question: 'The constellation Corona Borealis is called this in English'

Answer: the Northern Crown


Question: 'Greek literature is said to have begun with this poet'

Answer: Homer


Question: '"Joy of Cooking" says, to have "a real nice" one, "dig a sand pit about 1 ft. deep & 3½ ft. across"'

Answer: a clam bake


Question: 'Edmund Waller wrote a poem "To Phyllis" & Ben Jonson wrote a "Song" to her'

Answer: Celia


Question: 'Other than the sun, the closest star to the Earth is located in this southern constellation'

Answer: Centaurus


Question: 'The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians'

Answer: Thermopylae


Question: '"Colorful" smoked fish, used to throw hounds off a fox's scent, that's become a figure of speech'

Answer: a red herring


Question: 'Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions'

Answer: Empress Josephine


Question: 'The original of this painting seen here hangs in Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Massachusetts'

Answer: "Spirit of 1776"


Question: 'She had her lover & future husband Percy edit her first novel, "Frankenstein"'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: 'She's Winona Horowitz'

Answer: Winona Ryder


Question: 'Wrinkles at the corner of the eye, perhaps caused by squinting while bird watching'

Answer: Crow\'s feet


Question: 'To make the popular Mexican dish frijoles negros, begin with these beans'

Answer: Black beans


Question: 'On TV, you can find "Caroline in" it'

Answer: City


Question: 'Thanks to Du Pont, this state's Wilmington is the "Chemical Capital of the World"'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'His own disastrous trip to the Congo in 1890 was the basis for his "Heart of Darkness"'

Answer: Joseph Conrad


Question: 'His birth name, Michael Douglas, was in use, so this Batman chose this stage name'

Answer: Michael Keaton


Question: 'Contact dermatitis can be the result of contact with this plant, Rhus radicans'

Answer: Poison Ivy


Question: 'It's the bean whose "milk" is used to make tofu'

Answer: Soybean


Question: 'A catcher's catcher'

Answer: Mitt


Question: 'This largest Maine city has been destroyed by the Abnaki Indians, the French, the British & by a fire'

Answer: Portland


Question: 'He wrote about Gunga Dass as well as Gunga Din'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'The Wizard could tell you she was Frances Gumm'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'The little sections of dead epidermis around your fingernails'

Answer: Cuticles


Question: 'When making a homemade pot of pork & beans, you'll be at sea without these beans'

Answer: Navy beans


Question: '"Quick" ones are fast with a joke; "half" ones don't get the joke'

Answer: Wits


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ian Ziering)  On TV I live in "Beverly Hills 90210", but I was born in West Orange 07052 in this state'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'In 1914's "The World Set Free", he wrote of a war in 1958 involving atomic bombs'

Answer: H.G. Wells


Question: 'Doris Day knows:<br />Roy Fitzgerald'

Answer: Rock Hudson


Question: 'This term for a balm for the skin or the conscience goes back to the Sanskrit sarpis, "melted butter"'

Answer: Salve


Question: 'Like contracts, runner beans should have none of these attached; remove them before cooking'

Answer: Strings


Question: 'You won't find "Caroline in" this medium-sized Italian tubular pasta'

Answer: Ziti


Question: 'This gin-making city on the east bank of the Hudson is named for Dutch trader Jan Peek'

Answer: Peekskill


Question: 'In 1816 she revised her "Northanger Abbey"; she originally planned to publish it in 1803'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'They were that funny comedy team of Crocetti & Levitch'

Answer: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis


Question: 'The skin's 2 exocrine types of glands are sweat & these, which produce oils'

Answer: Sebaceous glands


Question: 'Also known as a broad bean, it should be de-podded & skinned before cooking'

Answer: Fava bean


Question: 'Something moving in irregular bursts goes in these "and starts"'

Answer: Fits


Question: 'Louis XII became its king & was soon known as the "Father of His People" due to legal reforms'

Answer: France


Question: 'On this home appliance, magnets are used to keep the door shut & hold messages'

Answer: Refrigerator


Question: 'The uncut version of this Russian epic based on a Tolstoy novel is more than 8 hours long'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'The green field on the flag of Bangladesh represents this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'The "Pathetic" Symphony is by this Russian who also gave us the celebratory "1812 Overture"'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'It's the satirical way Tom said, "I like to press my own clothes"'

Answer: Ironically


Question: 'In 1498 Michelangelo began this statue of Mary holding the body of Christ; he finished it in 1500'

Answer: "Pieta"


Question: 'By the 12th century the Chinese made one of these using a magnetized needle'

Answer: Compass


Question: 'This film also known as "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" is the perfect rental for a rainy day'

Answer: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg


Question: 'Albania's flag features a double-headed one of these birds; Austria's has just one head'

Answer: Eagle


Question: 'Composer Carl Stalling used Grieg's "March of the Dwarfs" in the first of these Disney "Symphonies"'

Answer: Silly Symphonies


Question: 'It's the secret or enigmatic way Tom said, "Let's go look at those tombs"'

Answer: Cryptically


Question: 'On Columbus' third voyage, he made his first landing on this island that he named for the Holy Trinity'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'Better than a CAT scanner, this technique is used to see the brain'

Answer: MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)


Question: '(Hi, I'm Richard Simmons)  When I was living in Italy, I appeared in the food orgy scene of this director's film "Satyricon"'

Answer: Federico Fellini


Question: 'Constellation depicted with 5 stars on the flag of Western Samoa & 4 on the flag of New Zealand'

Answer: Southern Cross


Question: 'Mahler's massive 8th is the "Symphony of" this many musicians, equal to 250 quartets'

Answer: 1,000


Question: '"I sent a food package overseas" said Tom this way; it's also how porcupines make love'

Answer: Carefully


Question: 'On May 20, 1498 this Portuguese navigator reached Calicut on the Malibar coast of India'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'Used by some trains, "Maglev" is short for this'

Answer: Magnetic levitation


Question: 'Toshiro Mifune starred in this director's epic "Throne of Blood", sort of a samurai version of "Macbeth"'

Answer: Akira Kurosawa


Question: 'Want to know what's depicted on this country's flag?  Angkor Wat, that's wat!'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'The first thing you hear in Haydn's 103rd is this; it gives the symphony its nickname'

Answer: "Drum Roll Symphony"


Question: 'Tom talks about gloves intermittenly; the way he talks about magazines is this synonym'

Answer: Periodically


Question: 'On Sept. 16, 1498 this Grand Inquisitor of Spain, who burned about 2,000 at the stake, died at Castile'

Answer: Tomas de Torquemada


Question: 'Magnetic materials may be diamagnetic, paramagnetic or this, from the Latin for iron'

Answer: Ferromagnetic


Question: '"Soldier of Orange", a 1977 film from this country, made Rutger Hauer an international star'

Answer: the Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'Canadian province whose flag is seen here<br />(with four fleur-de-lis)'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'One of the movements of Holst's "The Planets", or the nickname of Mozart's Symphony No. 41'

Answer: "Jupiter"


Question: 'If you think doggedly about his hoarse voice, you'll know it's how Tom said "Mush!"'

Answer: Huskily


Question: 'The 5 highest volcanoes on Earth are located in these mountains'

Answer: Andes


Question: 'On Dec. 23, 1777 there were "2,873 men in camp unfit for duty" here "because they are barefooted and otherwise naked"'

Answer: Valley Forge


Question: 'Johnny Logan:<br />"We're honoring one of the all-time greats in baseball, Stan" (The Man) him.  "He's immoral"'

Answer: Musial


Question: 'A really cool dwelling for an Eskimo:<br />GL'

Answer: an igloo


Question: 'Born October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, he died tragically December 8, 1980 in New York City'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'Henry V & Joan of Arc both fought in this war considered the longest in history'

Answer: the Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'The pieces of this classic board game include a shoe, a top hat & a battleship'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'In the Wonders of America stamp series, the "Hottest Spot",  this California site, has a picture that fits the name'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'This Hall of Fame 1970s Reds catcher "was thinking about making a comeback until I pulled a muscle vacuuming"'

Answer: Johnny Bench


Question: 'A birthstone:<br />PL'

Answer: opal


Question: 'He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta & died in Memphis April 4, 1968'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'Of the 1940s, '50s or '60s, the decade the first operational nuclear submarine was launched'

Answer: the \'50s


Question: 'You have to fill up the piece seen here to win this game invented in 1979'

Answer: Trivial Pursuit


Question: 'Virginia Shenandoah Valley is bounded on its east side by these mountains'

Answer: the Blue Ridge Mountains


Question: 'He made "Bartlett's" with "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them"'

Answer: Yogi Berra


Question: 'A woodwind instrument:<br />B'

Answer: an oboe


Question: 'A profile of this film director says he was born in Britain in 1899 & died in Los Angeles in 1980'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'In the biggest amphibious invasion in history, 350,000 troops invaded this historic region in 1944'

Answer: Normandy


Question: 'Professor Plum has his choice of 6 weapons in this board game'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'In 1933 FDR set up this agency to provide cheap power & flood control'

Answer: the Tennessee Valley Authority


Question: 'At a dinner, redskins RB John Riggins begged this Supreme Court justice, "Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up"'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor


Question: 'An African country:<br />GND'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'He was born on an Army post in Little Rock in 1880 & faded away at a D.C. hospital in 1964'

Answer: (Douglas) MacArthur


Question: 'Seen here, the Me 262 from this German manufacturer was the world's first operational fighter jet'

Answer: Messerschmitt


Question: 'Move your conquering army pieces into Siam or Yakutsk as part of your global strategy in this board game'

Answer: Risk


Question: 'Thutmose III was eternally maxin' & relaxin' in this narrow gorge used as a cemetery between 1550 & 1100 B.C.'

Answer: the Valley of the Kings


Question: 'This 1950s Yankee mgr. said of a pitcher, "He don't smoke, he don't drink, he don't chase women & he don't win"'

Answer: (Casey) Stengel


Question: 'A woolly mammal:<br />LPC'

Answer: an alpaca


Question: 'Born in Houston in 1905, he died en route from Acapulco to Houston in 1976; his money couldn't save him'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: 'The oldest army unit in the world is this one founded in 1506 that guards the pope'

Answer: the Swiss Guard


Question: 'It's the more correct name for the castle piece in a game of chess'

Answer: a rook


Question: 'This pigment in blood transports oxygen'

Answer: hemoglobin


Question: '1972:<br />Diana Ross in this biopic'

Answer: Lady Sings the Blues


Question: 'Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s'

Answer: London


Question: 'Legacy rings inspired by the Edwardian era are exclusive to this preeminent Fifth Avenue jeweler'

Answer: Tiffany


Question: 'This Nabokov nymphet first appears peering over dark glasses'

Answer: Lolita


Question: 'This condiment's name once meant the genuine article, so to cut it meant to be good enough'

Answer: the mustard


Question: 'Sometimes caused by tooth grinding, the disorder known by these 3 letters can lead to a clicking jaw'

Answer: TMJ


Question: '1980:<br />Dolly Parton in this workplace comedy'

Answer: Nine to Five


Question: 'Pietro da Cortona spent 1633 to 1639 painting a vast fresco on this part of the Great Hall of the Barberini Palace'

Answer: the ceiling


Question: 'Miss Tamblyn knows that lots of jewelry is made from this brownish-yellow fossil resin'

Answer: amber


Question: 'Isadora Wing is the lusty heroine of this 1973 Erica Jong bestseller'

Answer: Fear of Flying


Question: 'It's something added, originally spread on a bakery treat, to make a good thing even better'

Answer: frosting


Question: 'Microscopic shaggy hairs called villi line the walls of this digestive organ'

Answer: the small intestine


Question: '2001:<br />Mariah Carey in this shiny misfire'

Answer: Glitter


Question: 'Winning favor by glorifying this man in paintings, Charles Le Brun became the arbiter of French taste'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'In 1974 the newly discovered gem tsavorite got its name, derived from this continent's Tsavo National Park'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Becky Thatcher is in "Tom Sawyer"; this Becky is the heroine of "Vanity Fair"'

Answer: Becky Sharp


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew cups a baseball in the top end of his mitt.) When a baseball player barely makes a catch, the look of the ball & glove is known as this sweet treat'

Answer: an ice cream cone


Question: 'In the arm, the name of this muscle precedes brachii; in the leg, femoris'

Answer: the biceps


Question: '2002:<br />Britney Spears in this "road" movie'

Answer: Crossroads


Question: 'Claude Lorrain gave new status to this genre with works like "A Pastoral" one, now at Yale'

Answer: landscape


Question: 'Squash blossom necklaces made by the Zuni Indians often feature this bluish-green gem set in silver'

Answer: turquoise


Question: 'This title heroine tries to set up her friend Harriet with Mr. Elton & is dismayed when Elton proposes to her instead'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'Someone suddenly saying flattering things to you may just be doing this, like on toast'

Answer: buttering you up


Question: 'The human brain has billions of connections across these gaps between neurons'

Answer: synapses


Question: '1993:<br />Janet Jackson in this urban drama'

Answer: Poetic Justice


Question: 'This 17th-century Spaniard was a technical master even at the age of 20: just look at the light on the glass'

Answer: Diego Velázquez


Question: 'The name of this romantic ring seen here comes from an old Irish fishing village that's now part of Galway'

Answer: Claddagh


Question: 'This Sue Grafton detective was once part of the Santa Teresa Police Department'

Answer: Kinsey Millhone


Question: 'The lady seen here is wearing the fashionable style of sleeves called "leg-of-" this'

Answer: leg-of-mutton


Question: 'In 2006 his car was auctioned for charity, along with its personalized Nebraska plate reading "thrifty"'

Answer: Warren Buffett


Question: 'He was the commander of the British fleet that defeated Napoleon's navy in 1798's Battle of the Nile'

Answer: Nelson


Question: 'Barney Rubble'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: 'From the Persian, these garments are what you'll wear to bed'

Answer: pajamas


Question: 'Troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, she wrote what became an immediate bestseller'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'The "Twist"s & turns of this author's 1842 American tour led him to meet E.A. Poe in Philadelphia'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'The Captain Morgan brand of this potent potable can be served hot & buttered'

Answer: rum


Question: 'Assuring the dominance of western culture, his forces routed the Persians at Gaugamela in 331 B.C.'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'Ned Flanders'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'Our navy has fleet, rear and vice types of this rank, from an Arabic word for "commander"'

Answer: admiral


Question: 'This author created the Vampire Lestat, the "bad boy of the bloodsucking world"'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'Number 10 in line for the throne is Peter Phillips, Elizabeth II's first grandchild & the son of this princess'

Answer: Princess Anne


Question: 'The sanguine name of this cocktail is said to be an allusion to a 16th century queen of England'

Answer: a bloody mary


Question: 'William  Henry Harrison's biggest battlefield victory was over Native American forces at this Indiana river'

Answer: Tippecanoe


Question: 'Gladys Kravitz'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'This verb for an artistic process applying acid to metal comes from the Dutch, & many Dutch masters were good at it'

Answer: etching


Question: 'Recently published, "Suite Francaise" is by Irene Nemirovsky, who died in this concentration camp in 1942'

Answer: Auschwitz


Question: 'This urbane, witty playwright began as a child actor, making his professional debut in "The Goldfish" in 1911'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question: 'In TV ads, Bartles & Jaymes sold these "premium" alcoholic beverages'

Answer: wine coolers


Question: 'This Carthaginian's final significant battlefield defeat was against Scipio's forces in Zama in 202 B.C.'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'The Ropers'

Answer: Three\'s Company


Question: '"Summed up" in French, this list of my education & former employers will show why I'm qualified to host a TV show'

Answer: resume


Question: 'It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'This queen's father-in-law, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was also her uncle'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'This liquor that's made from agave has been called "tequila's poor cousin"'

Answer: mescal


Question: 'Using archery to decimate French mounted knights, English King Edward III won this 1346 battle in France'

Answer: The Battle of Crecy


Question: 'George Wilson'

Answer: Dennis the Menace


Question: 'Use your "head": this Japanese word for "group leader" was  also the name of a '70s Jeep pickup  truck'

Answer: honcho


Question: 'She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"'

Answer: Joan Didion


Question: 'This Virginia-born lady was 40 when she was elected to the British parliament in 1919'

Answer: Lady Astor


Question: 'Calvados is a brandy that's made from this fruit'

Answer: apples


Question: 'It's the more common name for solid CO2'

Answer: dry ice


Question: '"Help!<br />Somebody burp me before I blow up!"'

Answer: Look Who\'s Talking


Question: 'To tip your coonskin cap at Daniel Boone's grave, you'll have to travel to a cemetery in this state'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'On Louis Braille's birthday, this search engine used a braille-patterned logo'

Answer: Google


Question: 'Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man & his brother Aaron'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Your closest relatives are you "next of" this'

Answer: kin


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew mimics the monitor. This particular exercise strengthens & tones this large muscle that covers the shoulder'

Answer: the deltoid


Question: '"Once upon a time there was this person named Malcolm. He worked with children"'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: '2 of the 4 states whose borders meet up at the "Four Corners" monument'

Answer: (2 of) Colorado & New Mexico (or  Arizona & Utah)


Question: 'Since 1997, GoDaddy.com has been registering this type of name, the fundamental part of a web address'

Answer: a domain


Question: 'Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'The name of this primate also means to mimic'

Answer: ape


Question: 'Ah, well, it's the area of light winds & calms in equatorial regions--how depressing'

Answer: doldrums


Question: '"The army is a broadsword, not a scalpel. Trust me, Senator--you do not want the army in an American city"'

Answer: The Siege


Question: 'In 1972 Barbara Jordan was elected to Congress from this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'This social network similar to MySpace started in a Harvard dorm & originally only allowed students'

Answer: Facebook


Question: 'This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata'

Answer: Edvard Grieg


Question: 'Ruminate on this--it's what a cow chews the second time around'

Answer: cud


Question: 'With a diameter averaging about 7 miles, it's the smaller of Mars' 2 moons'

Answer: Deimos


Question: 'About saving the world, Bruce says, "Yeah, one more thing, uh, none of them wanna pay taxes again...ever"'

Answer: Armageddon


Question: 'On May 17, 2004 this eastern state became the first to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Use the "organizr" to help make your personal images public at this photo site that's now owned by Yahoo!'

Answer: Flickr


Question: 'Let's wax philosophical & wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis & her'

Answer: Chloe


Question: 'A male given name, it's also the Latin word for "king"'

Answer: Rex


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew adds drops to a beaker.) When you add food coloring to water, the motions of the dye's molecules causes it to disperse, eventually filling the glass evenly through a process called this'

Answer: diffusion (dilution accepted)


Question: '"Five billion people died in 1996 & 1997. Almost the entire population of the world. Only about 1% of us survived"'

Answer: Twelve Monkeys


Question: 'Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, represented this state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Authorized by the Dept. of Commerce, all web addresses from eligible schools use (.) this'

Answer: dot edu


Question: 'Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'The insightful E.B. White said, "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before" one of these'

Answer: a war


Question: 'A recent re-issue of this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel includes an introduction by Michael Crichton'

Answer: The Lost World


Question: 'The 27th of these begins, "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?"'

Answer: Psalms


Question:
'Submarine,
steal,
knuckleball'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'This term for the assistant to the majority or minority leader in the House will get you cracking'

Answer: whip


Question: 'Lose consciousness or turn out all the lights as an air raid precaution'

Answer: blackout


Question: 'The Huang He or Yellow River is called "China's Sorrow" because of its habit of doing this'

Answer: flooding


Question: 'In 1999 this "treat" sponsored the annual San Francisco cable car bell-ringing contest'

Answer: Rice-A-Roni


Question: 'Jacob wrestled this new name out of an angel'

Answer: Israel


Question:
'Between the pipes,
icing,
bodycheck'

Answer: ice hockey


Question: 'After spending about $76 million this publisher canceled himself out of the 2000 presidential race'

Answer: Steve Forbes


Question: 'The American Cancer Society organized the first "Great American" one of these in 1977'

Answer: Smokeout


Question: 'In the 16th century Chinese play "Journey to the West", the hero seeks scriptures of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Low walls of earth called bunds enclose the water-covered rice fields known as these'

Answer: paddies


Question: 'In the King James Version, these large black birds fed Elijah in hiding by the brook Cherith'

Answer: ravens


Question:
'Flip-flop,
flea-flicker,
flying wedge'

Answer: football


Question: 'The site for the White House was chosen by James Hoban, Charles L' Enfant & this man'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'One of these occurs when prisoners illegally leave the prison or when some people eat strawberries'

Answer: a breakout


Question: 'His second name is Zedong in the Pinyin Romanization System, Tse-tung according to the older Wade-Giles'

Answer: Mao


Question: 'Eating unpolished rice may help prevent this disease disease caused by the lack of thiamine'

Answer: beri-beri


Question: 'This first Christian martyr saw "the heavens opened" right before he was stoned to death'

Answer: Stephen


Question:
'Creeper,
nose hit,
open frame'

Answer: bowling


Question: '(Jimmy Carter reads the clue.) In 1999 the Carter Center monitored this process in the Cherokee nations, Nigeria, East Timor & some Chinese villages'

Answer: elections


Question: 'It may be emotional consequences or radioactive ash'

Answer: fallout


Question: 'Chengdu is the capital city of this province famous for its pig bristle production & spicy food'

Answer: Szechuan


Question: 'Long grain rice is rich in amylose, a component of this carbohydrate, making it dry & fluffy when cooked'

Answer: Starch


Question: 'Both the gospel of Luke & this book are addressed to someone named Theophilus'

Answer: Acts of the Apostles


Question:
'Corner,
header,
bicycle'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'The next amendment to be tacked on to the Constitution will sport this number'

Answer: the 28th Amendment


Question: 'It carries the rainwater from the gutter on the roof to the ground'

Answer: a downspout


Question: 'Like Vietnam's Haiphong, China's city of Beihai is a major port receiving shipping on this gulf'

Answer: the Gulf of Tonkin


Question: 'As with wheat, a process known as this is done after harvesting to separate the grains from the plants'

Answer: threshing (or winnowing)


Question: '"Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'In 1976 this former president was disbarred in New York State'

Answer: Richard Nixon


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

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In 1858 John Hanning Speke discovered the largest lake on this continent'

Answer: Africa (Lake Victoria)


Question: 'Pull up to le garage & you'll get your essence, "gas", in these units'

Answer: litres


Question: 'On April 12, 1998 Mark O' Meara sank a 20-foot one & won the Masters golf tournament by 1 stroke'

Answer: a putt


Question: 'The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'In 1987 he claimed God would take him if he didn't raise $8 million'

Answer: Oral Roberts


Question: '"Erin Brockovich"<br />(2000)'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'In Bennington, Vermont you can visit the site of the Catamount Tavern where this Ethan Allen gang met'

Answer: the Green Mountain Boys


Question: 'It's trois heures moins le quart, this time, & there's no one in the place except you & me'

Answer: quarter to three (2:45)


Question: 'This unit of electrical power is abbreviated kW'

Answer: kilowatt


Question: 'The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her late sister Emily'

Answer: Charlotte Bronte


Question: 'In 1901 after 2 years in the pen, William Sydney Porter continued to write under this pen name'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: '"Selena"<br />(1997)'

Answer: Jennifer Lopez


Question: 'Around 1271 the city of Herat, Afghanistan was visited by this famous Venetian'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'The becquerel is a unit of radiation that has replaced this, the name of Henri Becquerel's co-Nobel Prize winners'

Answer: the curie


Question: 'Last name shared by the current Secretary of the Interior & a Sinclair Lewis title character'

Answer: Babbitt


Question: 'The title of this poet-playwright's 1893 book "The Celtic Twilight" became a synonym for the Irish literary revival'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'In 1917 tons of fruit pits, especially peach pits, were collected to make filters for these'

Answer: gas masks


Question: '"Shaft"<br />(1971)'

Answer: Richard Roundtree


Question: 'In 1958 this nuclear-powered craft passed near Point Barrow on its way into the Arctic basin'

Answer: Nautilus


Question: 'Heavier than a foil, but lighter than a sabre, this fencing weapon weighs 770 grams'

Answer: an epée


Question: 'Synonym for a Latvian'

Answer: a Lett


Question: 'This South African called her 1965 story collection "Not For Publication"'

Answer: Nadine Gordimer


Question: 'In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin, a drug classified under this term he coined in 1941'

Answer: antibiotics


Question: '"Pat and Mike"<br />(1952)'

Answer: Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'Current foreign capital in which the Gadsden Purchase was negotiated'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'An "effect" of water spiraling down a drain & a force acting on projectiles are named for this Frenchman'

Answer: Gaspard Coriolis


Question: 'Arms of this Rhode Island bay include Greenwich Bay, Mount Hope Bay & the Providence River'

Answer: Narragansett Bay


Question: 'The delivery system for Ban deodorant, introduced in 1955, was based on this invention, patented in 1938'

Answer: Ball Point Pen


Question: 'It touches four of the Great Lakes'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'This author's 7 "Chronicles of Narnia" novels came out between 1950 & 1956'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: '"C is for Cooking: Recipes from the Street" is a book of recipes from this TV street'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'This desert in North Africa is the largest in the world'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'The type of sore named for this piece of equipment could appear on the horse's back or the cowboy's bottom'

Answer: the saddle


Question: '"Lad" is a young man; this word that starts with "la" is a young girl'

Answer: lass


Question: 'Its shape reminds me of one of those big foam fingers at sporting events'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'The only character who appears in every Narnia story, his name is Turkish for "lion"'

Answer: Aslan


Question: '"Cooking Rocks!" is her book of "30-minute Meals for Kids"'

Answer: Rachael Ray


Question: 'Part of the Chihuahuan Desert lies in Chihuahua, one of this country's most prosperous states'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'More than 80% of India's population practices this religion'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Bairn is a word from this northernmost U.K. country, as in "Och, the wee bairn dinna eat his chicken tenders"'

Answer: Scotland


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Northeast on the monitor.)  The combined area of all the other New England states would fit inside this largest New England state'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'In the second tale in the Narnia series, the Pevensie kids fight to restore this title prince to his rightful place'

Answer: Prince Caspian


Question: 'The "Mom and Me Cookbook" tells how to put faces on these with typical toppings (olive noses! tomato eyes!)'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'This California desert valley was named by gold seekers, many of whom didn't survive the crossing of it'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'This leader of India's independence movement was known as "the Great Soul"'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'A cute kid is often called this, like the plump little angel seen here'

Answer: a cherub


Question: 'It's the smallest state in the Deep South'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'Reepicheep, a talking, sword-wielding one of these little animals, appears in 3 Narnia tales'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'Linus knows that the "Lunchtime Cookbook" named for this comic strip includes Charles Schulz' Overnight Salad'

Answer: Peanuts


Question: 'The Patagonian Desert lies west of Buenos Aires in this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Bailey & Stetson are popular makers of this essential piece of a cowboy's outfit'

Answer: hats


Question: 'A child with precocious talents may be called a Wunderkind, a word from this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'Eight other states were formed all or in part from territory this state once claimed'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'The youngest of the Pevensie children, she's the first to pass through the wardrobe into Narnia'

Answer: Lucy


Question: 'This author's "Revolting Recipes" include Scrambled Dregs & Willy Wonka's Nutty Crunch Surprise'

Answer: Roald Dahl


Question: 'The Gobi, the largest desert in Asia, is in southern Mongolia & the northern part of this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Cowboys collect roaming cattle for sorting & branding at these "circular" events'

Answer: a roundup


Question: 'A mischievous youngster; with "sea" in front of it, it's a spiny sea creature'

Answer: urchin


Question: 'A kid called L'Aiglon got the title "King of Rome" when he was born because his dad was this Bonaparte'

Answer: Napoléon


Question: 'Eje is this imaginary line about which the Earth rotates'

Answer: the axis


Question: 'On the website for this comics brand, you can watch the Fantastic Four or play Iron Man Armory Assault'

Answer: Marvel


Question: 'I'm hiding in the crowd at Mardi Gras, so seek me in this Louisiana "Crescent City"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'On April 2, 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the building of the U.S. mint in this Penn. city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Litter, refuse or trash; what a bunch of...'

Answer: garbage


Question: 'This N.Y. Island, a reception center for immigrants from 1892 to 1954, is named for a man who once owned it'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: 'This "colorful" atmospheric heating phenomenon is efecto invernadero'

Answer: the greenhouse effect


Question: 'At the website for the CDC, the Centers for this, kids can learn about diabetes & toxic chemicals'

Answer: Disease Control


Question: 'I'm hiding in the crowd around my star on the Walk of Fame, so seek me on this L.A. street'

Answer: Hollywood Boulevard


Question: 'In 2006 his image on the nickel was changed to one based on an 1800 portrait when he was vice president'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Describes a book bound by a flexible cover'

Answer: paperback


Question: 'Founded in 1702, Mobile in this state became the "City of Six Flags" (but it doesn't have a Six Flags theme park)'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'In space not even light can escape one of these, agujero negro'

Answer: black holes


Question: 'At this magazine's website you can take a "Geobee" or play Iggy Games with Iggy Arbuckle'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'I'm hiding on top of the world's tallest mountain, so seek me in this mountain range (& hurry up, I'm freezing!)'

Answer: the Himalayas (or the Himalayan)


Question: 'This state's quarter features a cactus, with the Grand Canyon in the background'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'The stock of words used by a particular people; let's see how extensive yours is'

Answer: vocabulary


Question: 'In 1644 the Ch'ing dynasty destroyed this Chinese dynasty whose name rhymes with Ch'ing'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'One of these small earthquakes that follows a larger one is un replica'

Answer: an aftershock


Question: 'At the site for this government department, you can "Design Your Own Bill" & send it to others--but don't spend it'

Answer: the Treasury


Question: 'I'm hiding in the jungle near Manaus, so seek me in this biggest country in South America'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'A 2009 silver dollar honoring this Frenchman has the letters "BRL" in raised dots so it can be read by the blind'

Answer: Louis Braille


Question: 'You can count on this device, which often uses beads to make things add up'

Answer: abacus


Question: 'She organized a troop of Girl Guides in Scotland before she founded the Girl Scouts of America'

Answer: Juliette Gordon Low


Question: 'Compuesto is one of these substances that's composed of 2 or more chemical elements'

Answer: a compound


Question: 'On Yahoo! Kids, you can ask this knowledgable guy all kinds of questions, like "What do Canadians eat?"'

Answer: Earl


Question: 'I'm hiding in Ivan the Great's bell tower, so seek me in this historic Moscow fortress'

Answer: the Kremlin


Question: 'When this motto first began appearing on gold & silver coins, it was left off the dime, which was too small'

Answer: "In God We Trust"


Question: 'The natural environment of an organism, perhaps "for Humanity"'

Answer: habitat


Question: 'Other than Antarctica, the 2 continents without a landlocked country'

Answer: Australia & North America


Question: 'Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'This PBS children's program has been sponsored by letters of the alphabet since 1969'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'Solid water is ice; solid carbon dioxide has this 2-word name'

Answer: dry ice


Question: 'The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles'

Answer: the Queen of Sheba


Question: 'At his home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna you can see where the ancestor of all psychiatrists' couches stood'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'It's where Tiger can keep his irons & drivers & tees, oh my!'

Answer: a golf bag


Question: 'This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812'

Answer: "Uncle Sam"


Question: 'Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season'

Answer: Law & Order


Question: 'Also called zymosis, this action involving enzymes produces beer & cheese'

Answer: fermentation


Question: 'Of the 6 British kings who bore this name, the first 4 were of the German house of Hanover'

Answer: George


Question: 'Saponification is the making of this, an anagram of "sapo"'

Answer: soap


Question: 'Bellowing Highland instrument'

Answer: a bagpipe


Question: 'When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered'

Answer: the telegraph


Question: '(Backstage at the Emmys: Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:)  My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962'

Answer: Jack Paar


Question: 'A phonon is a tiny packet of sound; change 1 letter to get this unit of electromagnetic energy'

Answer: a photon


Question: 'In 1953 he officially succeeded his father Talal as king of Jordan'

Answer: Hussein (I)


Question: 'This Asian nation whose name ends in "rain" only gets 3 inches of rain a year'

Answer: Bahrain


Question: 'It's a Middle East capital'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school'

Answer: Virginia Military Institute


Question: 'By the time this sitcom ended, Fred MacMurray's character had become a grandfather to triplet boys'

Answer: My Three Sons


Question: 'This synonym for "burning" is the name of a "chamber" where rockets burn fuel'

Answer: combustion


Question: 'This Hawaiian king whose name means "the very lonely one" conquered Maui in 1790'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'An 1854 outbreak of cholera in London ended after Dr. John Snow had a handle on one of these removed'

Answer: a water pump


Question: 'Derived from the Italian for "little stick", it's a long, narrow loaf of French bread'

Answer: a baguette


Question: 'This Secretary of State retired in 1869, 2 years after his "folly"'

Answer: William Seward


Question: 'As a boy, this current host of "Meet the Press" watched the show with his father'

Answer: Tim Russert


Question: 'A millimeter of this element is a common unit for measuring pressure, including blood pressure'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'This king of Castile & Aragon was known as "The Catholic"'

Answer: Ferdinand


Question: 'In December, 1981 he was elected to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General'

Answer: Javier Perez de Cuellar


Question: 'A trifle, or a short piece of music'

Answer: a bagatelle


Question: 'Martinique'

Answer: France


Question: 'He used his middle name Ulysses as a first name; a mistake at West Point gave him the middle name Simpson'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Like another famous painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows her nude on a shell for her "birth"'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Golden ice cream topping that's sticky on one side'

Answer: Butterscotch Tape


Question: 'Greenland'

Answer: Denmark


Question: '"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", this poet wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'It's "That Toddlin' Town"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'The seated nude in his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" shows the beginnings of his Cubism'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'Disney movie about a troublesome feline rock-throwing device'

Answer: That Darn Catapult


Question: 'Wake Island'

Answer: United States


Question: 'His writings include the Narnia books & "The Screwtape Letters"'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'Of Red, Green, or Puce, the one who's a servant to Shakespeare's King Richard II'

Answer: Green


Question: '"They've got some crazy little women" here, & "I'm gonna' get me one"'

Answer: Kansas City


Question: 'When Durer painted this pair in 1507, he had them hold tree branches whose leaves blocked out certain parts'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: 'Product that will come back in its next life as a can of evaporated moo juice'

Answer: reincarnation milk


Question: 'Cayman Islands'

Answer: United Kingdom


Question: 'Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Toro starred in the movie adaptation of his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"'

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson


Question: '"Fate", the title of a song in this classic musical, is also a synonym for the musical's title'

Answer: "Kismet"


Question: 'Bob Dylan sang "Stuck inside of" this Alabama city "with the Memphis blues again"'

Answer: Mobile


Question: '(VIDEO Daily Double) - Shortly after his "Luncheon", this impressionist exhibited the nude seen here:'

Answer: Edouard Manet


Question: 'Solzhenitsyn novel about a '60s disco entertainer in a cage'

Answer: Gulag Archipelago-Go


Question: 'Svalbard'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'He originally published his 1953 book "Junkie" under the pen name William Lee'

Answer: William S. Burroughs


Question: 'The 1-woman show, "Orgasmo Advito Escapes from the Zoo" starred this "Bonnie And Clyde" co-star, Roseanne's TV mom'

Answer: Estelle Parsons


Question: 'On the album "Court and Spark", Joni Mitchell lamented that she once felt better as "A free man" in this city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'People said his male nude "The Age of Bronze" was so lifelike, he must have made casts from live models'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'Young Citizen Kane loved sliding down hills in the snow with this Costello partner'

Answer: Rosebud Abbott


Question: 'People Magazine's 1989 & 1998 Sexiest Men Alive, they played father & son in a blockbuster 1989 film'

Answer: Sean Connery & Harrison Ford


Question: 'Australia is home to the Torres Strait islanders & to the larger indigenous group usually called this'

Answer: Aborigines


Question: 'As act one of this musical draws to a close, the lookout says, "Dear mother of God -- iceberg right ahead!"'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'It's a payment on an insurance policy or a ranking, especially for a brand of saltine'

Answer: Premium


Question: 'It's the Japanese art of tree dwarfing'

Answer: bonsai


Question: '"Fowl" term for an abrupt withdrawal from the use of an addictive substance'

Answer: cold turkey


Question: 'It's the "Centennial State"'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'The Aleuts are the closest relatives of these people'

Answer: Eskimos/Inuits


Question: '"The Capeman", this songwriter's musical about a killer, opened to protests, not to "Sounds of Silence"'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'Insurers deal with this, the probability of loss; it's also the name of a Parker Brothers game'

Answer: Risk


Question: 'The steenbok of Africa is a dwarf variety of this animal'

Answer: antelope


Question: 'In 1947 Herbert Swope coined this 2-word phrase describing the political struggle between the U.S. & USSR'

Answer: "Cold War"


Question: 'It's the crisp, edible root of the plant Raphanus sativus, of the mustard family'

Answer: radish


Question: 'In 2001 Borneo's Dayaks were still engaged in this practice -- the bloody, not the corporate kind'

Answer: headhunting


Question: 'The Richard Rodgers musical "Rex" starred Nicol Williamson as this king who made some women lose their heads'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'You're showing it if you're old enough to know it's the date a policy becomes payable'

Answer: maturity


Question: 'Variations of these long-eared critters include the 28-pound Flemish giant & the 2-pound Netherland dwarf'

Answer: rabbits


Question: 'Cartoons featuring this mute penguin included "Snow Place Like Home" & "Polar Fright"'

Answer: Chilly Willy


Question: 'I predict you'll know the name of this French astrologer who lived from 1503 to 1566'

Answer: Nostradamus


Question: 'The Havasupai were & are mainly based in what's now this U.S. state'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'In a 1966 musical, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, husband of this title "Auntie", falls off an Alp'

Answer: Auntie Mame


Question: 'Constitutions have amendments, wills have codicils, policies have these (like horses)'

Answer: riders


Question: 'A companion to the Dog Star Sirius, the Pup was the first star identified as one of these colorful objects'

Answer: white dwarf


Question: 'The Weathermaker of 1928 was an air conditioner from this company adapted for home use'

Answer: Carrier


Question: 'It's the straight line extending from the center of a circle to the circumference'

Answer: radius


Question: 'Indigenous Hawaiians use this 5-letter word for non-indigenous Hawaiians'

Answer: haole


Question: 'The murder mystery musical "Something's Afoot" parodies the plot of this author's "Ten Little Indians"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'It's discrimination in issuing property insurance based on the property's location'

Answer: redlining


Question: 'In Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop", Quilp the dwarf has his evil eye on this "Little" character'

Answer: Little Nell


Question: 'In Arctic or subarctic tundra, it's perennially frozen subsoil, also called pergelisol'

Answer: permafrost


Question: 'This electronics chain first opened in 1921 on Brattle Street, near the site of the Boston Massacre'

Answer: RadioShack


Question: 'In 1804, 3 years after his son had been killed in a duel, this man was fatally shot on the same spot by Aaron Burr'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway)  To keep the rubber on the road, racecar tires adapt an early U.S. slogan & say "Don't Put" this "on Me"'

Answer: tread


Question: 'The U.S. state known as the "Land of Shining Mountains" borders this country'

Answer: Canada (the state is Montana)


Question: 'In the '70s governors of this state included Dale Bumpers & a future president'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Rats cut through an Inquisition prisoner's ropes, allowing him to escape this Poe title torture'

Answer: "The Pit and the Pendulum"


Question: 'Certain Americans of British ancestry:<br />WASP'

Answer: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant


Question: 'Button Gwinnett was killed in a duel over command of GA.'s military in May 1777, 10 months after signing this'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'The day A.J. Foyt became the first 4-time winner of this race, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to drive in it'

Answer: Indianapolis 500


Question: 'This European grand duchy was founded in 963 when Count Siegfried acquired land in the area'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'Dalia Messick became Dale to make it in the male-dominated comics world & created this female reporter'

Answer: Brenda Starr


Question: '(Hi-Ho, Kermit the Frog here)  Published in 1865, this "Celebrated" story catapulted Mark Twain to fame'

Answer: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"


Question: 'A senior citizen's group:<br />AARP'

Answer: American Association of Retired Persons


Question: 'In 1806 this future president killed Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson denounced him in the press'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway)  Winston Cup stock car racing is named for a brand of this product, which I won't use when filling up'

Answer: cigarettes


Question: 'The Czech Republic is bordered on the north by Poland, on the east by Slovakia & on the west by this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Dale Gardner made his first space flight on this shuttle in 1983; he quit the program after it exploded in 1986'

Answer: Challenger


Question: 'This James Thurber character envisions himself as the world's greatest pistol shot, among other things'

Answer: Walter Mitty


Question: 'A government organization:<br />OSHA'

Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Administration


Question: 'In 1598 this playwright & "To Celia" poet narrowly escaped the gallows for killing an actor in a duel'

Answer: Ben Jonson


Question: 'Seating over 140,000, this state's Talladega Superspeedway claims the title of biggest motor sports facility'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'The name of this most populous country in Africa contains the name of one of the countries it borders'

Answer: Nigeria (for Niger)


Question: 'After you've won friends & influenced people next follow his advice on how to stop worrying & start living'

Answer: Dale Carnegie


Question: 'While in prison for embezzlement, he published his 1st short story, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking"'

Answer: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)


Question: 'For Internet geeks:<br />WYSIWYG'

Answer: What You See Is What You Get


Question: 'In 1829 Arthur Wellesley, who sported this title, challenged Lord Winchelsea to a duel; both missed their targets'

Answer: Duke of Wellington


Question: 'This other name for Grand Prix racing refers to the specifications of the Federation Internationale de L'Automobile'

Answer: Formula 1


Question: 'With over 20 million, this country had more casualties during World War II than any other'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'This minstrel tunes up in the tales of Robin Hood'

Answer: Allan-a-Dale


Question: 'His 1921 collection "The Trembling of a Leaf" contained "Miss Thompson", which was later dramatized as "Rain"'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'To a nuclear physicist:<br />GUT'

Answer: Grand Unified Theory


Question: 'The 1979 sequel to this miniseries is set in Henning, Tennessee, beginning in 1882'

Answer: Roots


Question: 'On July 9, 1776 this state's legislature met in White Plains & ratified the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Led by Lew Alcindor, Power Memorial in NYC won 71 straight games in this sport 1962-65'

Answer: Basketball


Question: 'In 1965 he called the Chevrolet Corvair "Unsafe at any speed"'

Answer: Ralph Nader


Question: 'You can take a 45-minute cruise on the paddle-wheeler Pride of the Susquehanna in this capital city'

Answer: Harrisburg


Question: 'At a health club, this person will rub you the right way'

Answer: Masseuse


Question: 'Some credit college coach Red Sanders with saying this "Isn't everything, it's the only thing"'

Answer: Winning


Question: 'On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact'

Answer: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)


Question: 'This L.A. high school attended by Lana Turner & other stars stands on famous Sunset Boulevard'

Answer: Hollywood High


Question: 'In September 1967 Mattel introduced a doll of this famous model whose friends called her "Sticks" as a kid'

Answer: Twiggy


Question: 'Its old city hall housed the U.S. Supreme Court from 1791 to 1800'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'From the Greek for "adorned", it's a professional applier of blush & other makeup'

Answer: Cosmetologist


Question: 'William Cowper wrote this is "The very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor"'

Answer: Variety


Question: '8 Americans were killed April 24, 1980 in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages held in this city'

Answer: Tehran


Question: 'Sidwell Friends School, attended by Chelsea Clinton, was founded by members of this religious group'

Answer: Quakers (Society of Friends)


Question: 'Daughter of the president-elect & grandson of a former president who wed December 22, 1968'

Answer: Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower


Question: 'Scranton's iron industry used nearby deposits of this hard coal to fuel its blast furnaces'

Answer: Anthracite


Question: 'Like a pharmacist, this person who dispenses eyeglasses can't write prescriptions'

Answer: Optician


Question: 'First name of the girl who asked the Sun newspaper in 1897, "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?"'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'After answering a NASA newspaper notice in the '70s, she became America's first woman in space'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: 'A baseball bat was one of Joe Clark's unusual tools in this post at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey'

Answer: Principal


Question: 'A 1966 book was entitled this person "Teaches Chess"'

Answer: Bobby Fischer


Question: 'Zion's Church in Allentown houses a replica of this patriotic item temporarily hidden there in 1777'

Answer: Liberty Bell


Question: 'A glazier doesn't work on donuts, but installs these'

Answer: Windows


Question: 'On July 21, 1969 newspapers quoted his "The Eagle Has Landed"'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'In 1919 this future pres. mobilized the Mass. Militia to restore order in the Boston police strike'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'New England's Deerfield Academy, Phillips Academy & Groton are noted schools of this type'

Answer: Preparatory schools


Question: 'He donated his 1964 Nobel Prize money, over $54,000, to the civil rights movement'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'You can get a panoramic view of this city's Golden Triangle from the top of Mount Washington'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'A chandler may wax philosophic about making these items'

Answer: Candles


Question: 'She's usually credited with the 18th century quote, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"'

Answer: Marie Antoinette ("Let them eat cake")


Question: 'King Edgar was famous for giving King Murcertach of Ireland a gift of one of these ships of the desert'

Answer: Camel


Question: 'You may remember there are 3 melting watches in his "The Persistence of Memory"'

Answer: Salvador Dali


Question: 'S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. is also known as this, for its popular floor-care products'

Answer: Johnson Wax


Question: 'This head Heartbreaker provided the songs & score for the 1996 movie "She's The One"'

Answer: Tom Petty


Question: 'His 1904 horror novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars" is much less famous than his "Dracula"'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'Kings Peak is this state's highest point, Beaverdam Creek its lowest'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'Malcolm III, also called Canmore, or Big Head, promised loyalty to this conqueror in 1072'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'On October 4, 1669 he died in poverty in Amsterdam'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'The Brown Shoe Company debuted this comic strip spokesman in 1904'

Answer: Buster Brown


Question: 'Max Steiner wrote the score for this 1942 film, but it was Herman Hupfeld who gave us "As Time Goes By"'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: '"Invitation to a Beheading" is an anti-utopian novel by this author of "Lolita"'

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov


Question: 'A crested crane is the national bird of this country whose capital is Kampala'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'James VI granted the charter for this city's university in 1582'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Famous for his mobiles, he painted a DC-8 in 1973 & a 727 in 1975'

Answer: Alexander Calder


Question: 'This company's washers and dryers come with an ol' lonely warranty'

Answer: Maytag


Question: 'Love themes from "St. Elmo's Fire", "A Star Is Born" & this 1972 Coppola classic have been Top 40 hits'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: 'This author of "My Antonia" set her last novel, "Sapphira And The Slave Girl", in Virginia, her home state'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Thermometer scale inventor Anders Celsius was a professor of astronomy at this Swedish city's university'

Answer: Uppsala


Question: 'Believed to be Jacob's Pillow, the "Lia Fail" is called the Stone of this; Kenneth I took it to that village'

Answer: Stone of Scone


Question: 'Berenice Abbott made her name in this field; she began as Man Ray's assistant'

Answer: Photography


Question: 'In August 1996 this chain, the world's largest retailer, opened its first outlets in China'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'Director John Carpenter wrote music for this Jamie Lee Curtis horror film & its 4 sequels'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'Sinclair Lewis could have called this 1925 novel "Martin": that's the title physician's first name'

Answer: Arrowsmith


Question: 'It has 7 states, including 'Ajman & Abu Dhabi, & you have to hum its anthem -- it has no words'

Answer: United Arab Emirates


Question: 'In 1306 this house had its first of only 2 kings, Robert I'

Answer: Bruce


Question: 'For the White House, Jackie Kennedy chose "Houses of Squam Light" by this "Nighthawks" artist'

Answer: Edward Hopper


Question: 'Brothers Tom & David Gardner started this America Online investment guide in 1994'

Answer: The Motley Fool