Question: 'These are poached in a sweetened syrup to make marrons glaces'

Answer: chestnuts


Question: 'The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name'

Answer: tungsten


Question: 'In a Grimm tale the Miller's daughter gave this little man a necklace & a ring for spinning straw into gold for her'

Answer: Rumpelstiltskin


Question: 'This type of low bed has casters so that it can be rolled under another bed for storage'

Answer: a trundle


Question: 'A brolly is one of these--don't leave home without it on a rainy day'

Answer: an umbrella


Question: 'Time to form this dancing line!  Put your hands on the shoulders of the person in front of you, & 1, 2, 3, kick!  1, 2, 3, kick!'

Answer: a conga line


Question: 'It's the only state that borders Maine'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Laverne & Shirley's neighbor'

Answer: Squiggy


Question: 'The name of this type of wee supernatural being is from the Latin for "spirit"'

Answer: a sprite


Question: 'This French-named style of furniture that was "new" around 1900 was characterized by the graceful whiplash curve'

Answer: (Art) Nouveau


Question: 'It's not just a special occasion like Easter or Boxing Day, it's also a vacation in general'

Answer: a holiday


Question: 'Seen here is the Kahurangi troupe performing the haka, a traditional dance of the Maori of this nation'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Delaware has only 3 of these: New Castle, Kent & Sussex'

Answer: counties


Question: 'A 1998 hit for Will Smith'

Answer: "Gettin\' Jiggy Wit It"


Question: 'Treasure seekers can sometimes track down one of these Irish fairies by the sound of his shoemaker's hammer'

Answer: a leprechaun


Question: 'Useful little end tables & coffee tables are also called these "tables", so they may talk like foreigners'

Answer: accent tables


Question: 'Elastoplast isn't a cartoon villain, it's one of these that sometimes stings when you yank it off'

Answer: a band-aid


Question: 'We'd love to show a clip of this "forbidden dance" from a 1990 film, but we want to keep our G rating'

Answer: the lambada


Question: 'The state ship of Connecticut is this early nuclear submarine'

Answer: the Nautilus


Question: 'She played first mate to Captain Link Hogthrob'

Answer: Miss Piggy


Question: 'The nixies of German mythology are said to live in this environment, like the naiads of Greek mythology'

Answer: water (a river accepted)


Question: 'Hey, Mr. Irving! A chair of the mid-19th c. with a concave seat & high back shares its name with this town'

Answer: Sleepy Hollow


Question: 'The ironmonger is the gent who runs this type of local store'

Answer: a hardware store


Question: '"The Lawrence Welk Show" wasn't afraid to roll out a wunnerful "beer barrel" version of this dance'

Answer: the polka


Question: 'Orson Welles' birthplace of Kenosha is in this state'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Swinging '60s London was the scene for this woman born Lesley Hornby'

Answer: Twiggy


Question: 'This ugly guy "with eyes as big as saucers" wanted to eat the 3 billy goats that crossed over his bridge'

Answer: the troll


Question: 'French for "shelf", it's an open-shelved piece of furniture for displaying knickknacks'

Answer: étagère


Question: 'A lido is a public one of these; on a cruise ship you'll find one on the lido deck'

Answer: a swimming pool


Question: 'This promenade dance, done by couples to win a certain baked item, is also something easy, as in "Winning that game was a..."'

Answer: a cakewalk


Question: 'It's named for an Indian people also known as the Kaw'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'In a David Bowie song, he played guitar with his band the spiders from Mars'

Answer: Ziggy Stardust


Question: '2011 New Student Orientation began at Providence College'

Answer: September


Question: 'Sure, Mr. Gore, Palm Beach, early 2000--guess you want to rework the ballot named for this insect'

Answer: a butterfly


Question: 'Corundum makes up much of this rock used to make an abrasive "board"'

Answer: emery


Question: 'Dave Wottle was known for his cap; after winning 1972's Olympic 800, he forgot to take it off during this & had to apologize'

Answer: the national anthem


Question: 'He didn't strike it rich in the 1897 Klondike gold rush, but he did use the experience in works like "Son of the Wolf"'

Answer: (Jack) London


Question: 'The Catholic observance of All Hallows'

Answer: November


Question: 'Dress like a swell for the 1934 opening of this songwriter's "Anything Goes", featuring "I Get a Kick Out Of You"'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: 'The sword of Damocles is a large one of these formations in Carlsbad Caverns'

Answer: a stalactite


Question: 'Mike Conley had a personal best of over 27' in the long jump & over 58' in this event'

Answer: the triple jump


Question: 'The son of a coal miner, this author touched on the mining life in his autobiographical 1913 novel "Sons and Lovers"'

Answer: (D.H.) Lawrence


Question: 'In the U.S. Army this commissioned officer wears 2 stars'

Answer: a major general


Question: 'Canada Day'

Answer: July


Question: 'Feel like doing some pillaging?  Turn the dial to 1240 & join this "colorful" Tatar group'

Answer: the Golden Horde


Question: 'Shatter cones, with radiating fracture lines, are only found at the sites of space object impacts & of these tests'

Answer: nuclear tests


Question:
'At Oregon, he won seven NCAA track titles and made the cover
of Sports Illustrated as a freshman, before his tragic death at 24'

Answer: (Steve) Prefontaine


Question: '"Marching Men" by Sherwood Anderson recounts the tribulations of coal miners in this eastern state'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'In the Bible it's the collective term for Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Daniel'

Answer: Major Prophets


Question: 'Mardi Gras 2022 (get your beads now)'

Answer: March


Question: 'Get ready to shout, "Mr. President, look out!" when the setting is for this city Sept. 6, 1901'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'This fancy French word refers to a deep fissure in a glacier'

Answer: a crevasse


Question: 'Al Oerter won this event in 4 straight Olympics but due to youth, then injury, then age, was an underdog every time'

Answer: discus throw


Question: 'This "colorful" Richard Llewellyn novel set in a Welsh mining community was made into a 1941 Oscar-winning film'

Answer: How Green Was My Valley


Question: 'It's the line that passes through the 2 foci of an ellipse'

Answer: a major axis


Question: 'Official birthday of Point Given & Mine That Bird'

Answer: January


Question: 'You'll learn from Corneille & La Rochefoucauld if you visit Madame de Rambouillet's 17th century one of these gatherings'

Answer: a salon


Question: 'A giant ocean called Panthalassa once surrounded this supercontinent, whose name means "all earth"'

Answer: Pangea


Question: 'She won the first Olympic women's marathon in 1984 & ran under 2:50 in the New York Marathon in 2009'

Answer: Joan Benoit


Question: '1917's "King Coal" by this author was to the mining industry what an earlier work had been to the meat-packing industry'

Answer: Upton Sinclair


Question: 'This George Bernard Shaw play tells the tale of a woman who joins the Salvation Army'

Answer: Major Barbara


Question: 'Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100'

Answer: \"Don\'t Worry, Be Happy\" (by Bobby McFerrin)


Question: 'Joyce Hall co-founded this greeting card company'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'Vince Guaraldi's LP from a 1965 TV special about this title animated boy featured "Christmas time is here"'

Answer: Charlie Brown


Question: 'It's the crime of undermining one's own government'

Answer: treason


Question: 'Aspiring rockers will love banging away on the sound percussion pro 5-piece set of these, cymbals included'

Answer: a drum set


Question: 'In 1982 Time magazine named this machine its "man of the year"'

Answer: the computer


Question: 'In The Bahamas not only is the fruitcake drenched in this potent potable, the ingredients are as well'

Answer: rum


Question: 'Familiar to TV viewers as a talk show guest, this psychologist received her Ph.D. from Columbia University'

Answer: Dr. Joyce Brothers


Question: 'This crooner's 1955 album "White Christmas" consisted of 10 songs recorded in 1945'

Answer: Bing Crosby


Question: 'It's where you'll find a baby in a bough-borne cradle in a popular lullaby'

Answer: the tree tops


Question: 'Fore! How about a Wham-O equipment set for playing "golf" with mini versions of this flying disc'

Answer: a frisbee


Question: 'In Los Angeles in 1966, this African-American holiday was celebrated for the first time'

Answer: Kwanzaa


Question: 'In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake"'

Answer: Dickens


Question: 'This "Trees" poet was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre'

Answer: (Joyce) Kilmer


Question: 'This saxophonist's "Miracles: The Holiday Album" is said to be the bestselling Christmas album of all time'

Answer: Kenny G


Question: 'Korean War General Oliver Smith said, "we are not" doing this, but "advancing in a different direction"'

Answer: retreating


Question: 'For folks living in inclement climes, Senz makes these built to withstand 70 mph winds without turning inside out'

Answer: umbrellas


Question: 'In 1944 this man's Third Army tanks broke through the German lines surrounding allied forces at Bastogne'

Answer: General Patton


Question: 'A spicy fruitcake from Italy, panforte means "strong" this'

Answer: bread


Question: 'His 1901 essay "The Day of the Rabblement" attacked the Irish Literary Theatre for catering to popular taste'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: '"All I want for Christmas is you" from her "Merry Christmas" CD was the first holiday song to sell 1 million downloads'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'You might "desire" this urban vehicle that runs on rails & is often powered by electricity'

Answer: a streetcar


Question: 'Maybe someone on your list would like a Bjursta dining table from this retailer (while you're there, pick up some meatballs)'

Answer: IKEA


Question: 'In 1792 this man's trial began in Paris'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'Gugelhupf, a German fruitcake also called turban cake, may date from the effort of these people to conquer the region'

Answer: the Ottomans (or the Turks)


Question: 'You heard it here: Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary wrote the comic novel "The Horse's" this'

Answer: Mouth


Question: 'This brother-sister duo's 1978 million-selling LP "Christmas Portrait" featured "Merry Christmas, darling"'

Answer: the Carpenters


Question: 'The metropolitan area of this Canadian city of 3.6 million spills off its main island'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'Fans of this comedienne's 1970s variety show might enjoy a copy of her best-selling memoir "This Time Together"'

Answer: (Carol) Burnett


Question: 'In 1776 George Washington & the continental army defeated the Hessians at the battle of this New Jersey city'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'In theirs, the ancient Romans used pine nuts, barley mash & seeds from this red fruit associated with Persephone'

Answer: the pomegranate


Question: 'This actress & reality TV star moved into "Uncharted Territori" with her 2010 memoir'

Answer: Tori Spelling


Question: 'In a poem by Edward Lear, the pussy-cat proposes to this bird'

Answer: the owl


Question:
'A battery,
a claim,
a checkers piece'

Answer: things you jump


Question: 'Being only 4'11'' tall didn't stop this artist from painting posters like 1895's "La Revue Blanche"'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'To go to a higher court to try & reverse a legal judgment'

Answer: to appeal


Question: 'Molecules of this substance, from the Latin for "wipe away", are part water-soluble & part water-insoluble'

Answer: a detergent


Question: 'In 2010 you could go-go to the bookstore to buy this lead singer's memoir "Lips Unsealed"'

Answer: Belinda Carlisle


Question: 'After being sold, this Eric Knight collie trekked 400 miles across Scotland to get back to her young master'

Answer: Lassie


Question:
'Spanish punctuation,
pineapple cake,
people owing $400,000 on a home now worth $300,000'

Answer: upside-down


Question: 'With works like the one heard here, this 5'1" Norwegian towered over his 19th c. contemporaries'

Answer: (Edvard) Grieg


Question: 'A student who habitually fails to attend class, or the captain of a naval vessel'

Answer: a skipper


Question: 'In 2008 scientists discovered an unusual molecule, with 2 hydrogen bonds, that may clean up this toxic precipitation'

Answer: acid rain


Question: 'This rocker hit readers with her best shot in 2010: a memoir called "Between a Heart and a Rock Place"'

Answer: Pat Benatar


Question: 'In "Macbeth", a witch is summoned by a familiar named not purplemalkin or greenmalkin but this'

Answer: greymalkin


Question:
'ICE,
DARPA,
NIST'

Answer: acronyms (of U.S. Government Agencies)


Question: 'Only 4'6'' he was the first full-blooded Native American President of Mexico'

Answer: Benito Juárez


Question: 'A quantity like extra vitamins, added to make up for a deficiency'

Answer: a supplement


Question: 'Molecular geneticists practice the "isolation" of this, extracting it from cells in pure form'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'Turning 70, this fabulous star of "One Million Years B.C." took readers "Beyond the Cleavage"'

Answer: Raquel Welch


Question: 'The "white shaggy dog" in "Oliver Twist" was as mean as his master, this brutal burglar who was brought up in Fagin's gang'

Answer: (Bill) Sikes


Question:
'The Beastie Boys,
a Chrysler model,
Pauline Kael's workplace'

Answer: New Yorkers


Question: 'Now a professor at Berkeley all 4'10'' of him served as Clinton's first Labor Secretary'

Answer: Robert Reich


Question: 'German word for a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its counterpart'

Answer: a doppelgänger


Question: 'A 1988 Nobel Prize was for unraveling a key molecule in this "most important chemical reaction in the biosphere"'

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: '"Growing Up Again", this TV star's memoir, is subtitled "Life, Loves, and oh yeah, Diabetes"'

Answer: Mary Tyler Moore


Question: 'One eye, a wolf, was the father of this Jack London canine; his mother was half-wolf, half,dog'

Answer: White Fang


Question:
'Pork bellies,
talented teenagers,
verb tenses'

Answer: (things with) futures


Question: 'This German epistemological philosopher who lived from 1724 to 1804 was categorically, exactly 5' tall'

Answer: (Immanuel) Kant


Question: 'Beastly title of a Hermann Hesse novel'

Answer: Steppenwolf


Question: 'The day affer the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions'

Answer: vote


Question: 'Egyptian priests noticed a link between the appearance of this "dog star" & the flooding of the Nile'

Answer: Sirius


Question:
'Lagos,
Labrador,
LaGuardia Airport'

Answer: Labrador


Question: 'To control high blood pressure, you should exercise, eat right & reduce this seasoning in your diet'

Answer: salt


Question: 'I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything'

Answer: mustard


Question:
'A clothing company:
Slim Straight 514 Cords,
501 Originals'

Answer: Levi\'s


Question: 'In a Top 10 hit by Barry Manilow, Lola was a showgirl at this title place, "the hottest spot north of Havana"'

Answer: the Copacabana


Question: 'Babylon was united in the 18th century B.C. under this Amorite king best known for his legal pronouncements'

Answer: Hammurabi


Question:
'The Caspian Sea,
Delaware,
Botswana'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'This chronic disease is the leading cause of blindness in people 20 to 74'

Answer: diabetes


Question: 'I want something rich: perhaps homard a la creme, this shellfish in a creamy sauce'

Answer: lobster


Question:
'A furniture store:
Ektorp,
Leksvik,
Aspelund--some assembly may be required'

Answer: IKEA


Question: 'In this No. 1 hit, Barry "never realized how happy you made me, oh" her'

Answer: "Mandy"


Question: 'In 509 B.C. the Romans drove out these darn invaders from the north & established the Roman Republic'

Answer: Etruscans


Question:
'Lake Okeechobee,
Monaco,
Rhode Island'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'A home remedy of vinegar & alcohol can help prevent otitis externa, the summertime woe commonly called this'

Answer: swimmer\'s ear


Question: 'Hmm... the name of these small cream puffs tells me that the restaurant makes quite a "profit" on them'

Answer: profiteroles


Question:
'A restaurant chain:
The Big Steak Omelette,
the Rooty Tooty Fresh 'n Fruity'

Answer: IHOP


Question: 'Barry had a Top 40 hit with this song from "Cats"'

Answer: "Memory"


Question: 'From 3000 to 1200 B.C., many cultures flourished in the Aegean, including this one, named for a king, on Crete'

Answer: the Minoan civilization


Question:
'Vatican City,
Disneyland Park,
Buckingham Palace'

Answer: Vatican City


Question: 'In this medical procedure, a balloon pushes plaque against the walls of arteries to help clear them'

Answer: an angioplasty


Question: 'Let's have oeufs a la Chartres, eggs flavored with this herb that the French call estragon'

Answer: tarragon


Question:
'A car:
The Phantom Drophead Coupe,
a 24-carat solid gold Spirit of Ecstasy (a heck of a hood ornament)'

Answer: Rolls-Royce


Question: 'Despite the title of this 1976 No. 1 hit of Barry's, the words & music are by Bruce Johnston'

Answer: "I Write The Songs"


Question: 'Shulgi, an important ruler of this place's 3rd Dynasty, was in & out of office way before Abraham lived & left there'

Answer: Ur


Question:
'Manhattan,
Everglades National Park,
the Pentagon'

Answer: the Everglades


Question: 'Seen in many forms, this condition literally means "out of one's mind" in Latin'

Answer: dementia


Question: 'Ah!  A luscious gateau Montmorency, a cake topped with this fruit'

Answer: cherries


Question:
'A cosmetics giant:
Age Defying makeup with Botafirm for dry skin,
Pinch Me sheer gel blush'

Answer: Revlon


Question: 'After beating out this fake pundit for a 2006 Emmy, Barry graciously appeared on his "Report"'

Answer: Steve Colbert


Question: 'Jim Gary created these prehistoric creatures from junkyard parts; he said Chryslers made the best ones'

Answer: dinosaurs


Question: 'In 2006, Forest Whitaker played this man who led a coup in Uganda in 1971'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: 'Interstellar types of these, from the Latin for "cloud", include spiral, emission, planetary & reflection'

Answer: nebulae


Question: 'Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes'

Answer: Apple


Question: 'It's the number of cells in your average dinoflagellate'

Answer: one


Question: 'Not given the sufficient food to maintain or promote health or normal growth'

Answer: undernourished


Question: 'Jean Arp went from flat reliefs to the freestanding pieces called scuplture "in" this, like a type of theater'

Answer: sculpture in the round


Question: 'Ingrid Bergman was nominated in 1949 for playing this "maid"; Milla Jovovich wasn't so lucky'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'In 2003 this probe named for an Italian ended its 14-year mission by crashing itself into Jupiter'

Answer: the Galileo probe


Question: '(Alex shills for Sony.) The 70-inch Sony Bravia HDTV has almost twice the current color range & a 1920 x 1080 resolution, for a total of over two million of these tiny units'

Answer: pixels


Question: 'If I mess up, it'll be fixed in this process that includes editing & sound mixing'

Answer: postproduction


Question: '16th c. German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider worked some in stone but mainly in this'

Answer: wood


Question: 'In "Time Bandits", Sean Connery plays this King of Mycenae who led the Greeks in the "Iliad"'

Answer: Agamemnon


Question: 'This Italian astronomer was the first to discover the "division" between Saturn's rings'

Answer: (Giovanni) Cassini


Question: 'Readyboost is a new feature that lets a flash drive become RAM for your computer on this Windows operating system'

Answer: Windows Vista


Question: '(Jeff Probst reports from China.) The Chinese province of Jiangxi has been famous for centuries for this ceramic, whose name is derived from the Latin for "pig"'

Answer: porcelain


Question: 'Mary E. Peters fights congestion, among other things, as the 15th secretary of this cabinet dept.'

Answer: the Department of Transportation


Question: 'Works like the Badminton Sarcophagus are now on view in this NYC museum's renovated Greek & Roman galleries'

Answer: the Met


Question: 'In this 1981 comedy "Part I", Mel Brooks plays Moses & Louis XVI'

Answer: History of the World


Question: 'Last names of the 2 men who in 1995 discovered a moving object near a globular cluster in Sagittarius'

Answer: Hale & Bopp


Question: '(Jimmy's turn to shill.) The Sony TP1 lets you watch TV, record, pause & rewind shows, just like a DVR, & connects to your speakers utilizing this rhyming technology whose name is a pun on an audio lover's term'

Answer: Wi-Fi


Question: 'On an alphabetical list of U.S. states, this 43rd state comes immediately after the 50th state'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'I'm thinking of an adverb that defines how I'm now communicating it between our minds this way...'

Answer: telepathically


Question: 'Some pretty talented guys had already sculpted David when this Vatican architect did his, seen here, in 1623'

Answer: Bernini


Question: 'George Arliss gained fame in 1930 after winning an Oscar for playing this British P.M.'

Answer: Disraeli


Question: 'In 1958 this scientist found donut-shaped zones of charged particles high in the Earth's magnetic field'

Answer: (James) Van Allen


Question: 'The energy source called this cell uses 2 chemicals & an electrolyte to get continuous power instead of storing a charge'

Answer: a (hydrogen) fuel cell


Question: 'Ponce de Leon's tomb is in this capital city'

Answer: San Juan


Question: 'Pertaining to a period of 500 years'

Answer: quincentennial


Question: 'In 1887 her assignment for the New York World was an expose of the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island'

Answer: Nellie Bly


Question: 'It can precede "anemone" or "cow"'

Answer: sea


Question: 'In 2002 Melissa Gilbert was reelected president of this guild formed by actors of the silver screen'

Answer: the Screen Actors Guild


Question: 'Just west of Davenport, the Iowa-80, one of these refuges for big rigs, features a dentist & barber shop'

Answer: a truck stop


Question: 'To convert pints into these metric units of liquid measure, multiply by .47'

Answer: a liter


Question: 'This light wood gets its name from the Spanish for "raft" because people in the tropics have used its logs for rafts'

Answer: balsa


Question: 'This Puerto Rican Hall of Fame outfielder won 12 consecutive Gold Gloves during his 18-year career'

Answer: (Roberto) Clemente


Question: 'This leopard lives at nearly 20,000 feet in Central Asia'

Answer: a snow leopard


Question: 'The flag of the Organization of American States has 35 different ones of these on it'

Answer: flags


Question: 'Going west from Fargo, it's a 193-mile straight shot (about as straight as it gets) on I-94 to this state capital'

Answer: Bismarck


Question: 'This unit of weight used for gemstones equals 200 milligrams'

Answer: carat


Question: 'The gigantic statue at Rhodes, one of the 7 ancient wonders, gave us this adjective meaning gigantic'

Answer: colossal


Question: 'A 10-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle, he wasn't so "Mean" when he tossed a kid his jersey in a Coke ad'

Answer: Joe Green


Question: 'Over 1,500 species of worm are named for this habitat'

Answer: the earth


Question: 'The great-grandson of a slave, he was the first black mayor of Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Walter Washington


Question: 'In Santa Fe, visit the USA's only art museum of international stature devoted to a single woman: her'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'Ths unit for measuring type size was invented in 1737 by Pierre Simon Fournier'

Answer: point


Question: 'Originally used to designate an errand boy, it was introduced into Scotland by golfer Mary, Queen of Scots'

Answer: a caddy


Question: 'This "Miracle on Ice" coach was the Penguin's head man in 1999 & 2000'

Answer: (Herb) Brooks


Question: 'Grassy field that joins with "lark"'

Answer: meadow


Question: 'The very farthest west you can drive in the Florida Keys is to this island'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'There's a hang-gliding school named for this 2-word North Carolina town that became famous in 1903'

Answer: Kitty Hawk


Question: 'Both the ounce & this unit of measure get their names from the Latin uncia, "twelfth part"'

Answer: the inch


Question: 'The Greek word "iota" gave us this 3-letter word that means to write down hastily'

Answer: jot


Question: 'Thomas Henderson said this Steeler QB "couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the C & the A", but he still won 4 Super Bowls'

Answer: Terry Bradshaw


Question: 'This word refers to extreme opposites or a type of bear'

Answer: polar


Question: '(Cheryl and Sofia of the Clue Crew shoot some skeet.)  "Pull!"  You should know the name of the person who releases the target in trap shooting'

Answer: the puller


Question: 'You can camp at Mazam Village when visiting this Northwestern body of water seen here'

Answer: Crater Lake


Question: 'By pedaling with all your might for a few minutes you can generate 250 watts, or barely one-third of this unit'

Answer: horsepower


Question: 'They got their name from the wooden sandals worn by the French court to protect shoes on rainy days'

Answer: galoshes


Question: 'You might see why this coach, seen here, tends to lead with this chin'

Answer: Bill Cowher


Question: 'The poet & his buddy Virgil spend some time in Hell, a fate you avoided by buying our version of this classic'

Answer: The Divine Comedy


Question: 'When this singer rings, it means she needs a partner for her Kabbalah class'

Answer: Madonna


Question: '"Drool Brittania" might have been a better anthem for this English king who went insane & also lost the American colonies'

Answer: George III


Question: 'A Rhodes Scholar, Howard Florey, led a research team at Oxford that discovered a way to mass-produce this antibiotic'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'A "Steel-drivin' Man" who helped dig the Big Bend tunnel in the 1870s is said to be the basis of this folklore legend'

Answer: John Henry


Question: 'John Bunyan classic that we suspect has sold more "Cliffs Notes" copies than the real thing'

Answer: Pilgrim\'s Progress


Question: 'This French dictator's sister Pauline was so scandalous, you might say her specialty was "Foreign Affairs"'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'Robert Reich met this man on the voyage to Oxford, where both were Rhodes Scholars, & later served as his Secretary of Labor'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'In Britain, if you need these well-placed friends to land a job, they'd be spelled with an X instead of the CT'

Answer: connections


Question: 'In 1718 the British Navy took a little too much off the top of this pirate, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'Any 1 of the 3 Moliere plays which--admit it--you've only read in "Cliffs Notes"'

Answer: (1 of) The Misanthrope, Tartuffe or Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme


Question: 'It's "The Long Road" back to Canada when this band calls'

Answer: Nickelback


Question: 'Julia, the daughter of this first Roman emperor, was so outrageous he had her banished from Rome'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'This 2004 presidential hopeful graduated first in his class at West Point and was a Rhodes Scholar'

Answer: Gen. Clark


Question: 'Add an X to a word meaning "a system of laws" to get this term for an early type of book'

Answer: a codex


Question: 'Maxing out at about 4 feet tall, this largest type of penguin can weigh 100 pounds'

Answer: an emperor penguin


Question: 'Unlike Pangloss, this title character finally wises up, like you did when you got our version of this classic'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'Called "The Merry Monarch", this English king had 14 children by mistresses, but failed to sire a legal heir'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'This American astronomer for whom a telescope is named studied law as a Rhodes Scholar'

Answer: Hubble


Question: 'In Roman numerals, one-fifth of CL is this saucy-looking result'

Answer: XXX


Question: 'Set in a coastal town in Cornwall, this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta premiered in 1879'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'Joyce classic about the Earwicker family... uh, maybe... okay, we admit it; we haven't read it either'

Answer: Finnegan\'s Wake


Question: 'This Hungarian piano virtuoso was scandalously involved with the married princess Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'This International Exchange Scholarship is named for the U.S. Senator, a Rhodes Scholar, who sponsored it'

Answer: the Fulbright Scholarship


Question: 'In 1901, merging with this steeler, J.P. Morgan said, "I congratulate you on being the richest man in the world"'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'At the dedication of a fountain at Radcliffe College in 1960, she began her speech with the single word "Water"'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'La Nina is the name given to the weather pattern that produces many effects opposite to this one'

Answer: El Nino


Question: 'Leo Gerstenzang thought up this product when he saw his wife twirl cotton on a toothpick & use it as a swab'

Answer: Q-Tip


Question: 'Amid 1994 GOP gains, Democrat Zell Miller won his second goober-natorial election in this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'He plays Jack, who runs things at the Gate magazine, on "Suddenly Susan"'

Answer: Judd Nelson


Question: 'It's the one-word name for the exams you take at the end of school terms'

Answer: Finals


Question: 'Scholarly last name of "Waltons" actress Michael'

Answer: Learned


Question: 'On the average, the Earth is about 93 million miles or one astronomical unit away from this'

Answer: Sun


Question: 'One of its former slogans called it "The Candy Mint With The Hole"'

Answer: Life Savers


Question: 'Action by Nebraska gov. Charles Thone kept order when these "breezed" through Grand Island in June 1980'

Answer: Tornadoes


Question: 'He hung up his hockey skates to direct himself & his dad in "The War At Home"'

Answer: Emilio Estevez


Question: 'From the Latin for "larger", it's your academic specialty'

Answer: Major


Question: 'As CONTROL agent Maxwell could tell you, sharp blows do it'

Answer: Smart


Question: 'The high or spring tides on Earth occur during these 2 phases of the moon'

Answer: New & full


Question: 'In 1907 he developed his first corn pad, probably right after he developed his first corn'

Answer: Dr. William Scholl


Question: 'One of the youngest of the Brat Pack, he's formed a band called Hall of Mirrors'

Answer: Anthony Michael Hall


Question: 'You "pull" one of these by staying awake until dawn over a project or paper'

Answer: All-nighter


Question: 'This synonym for wise is often mixed with onion to make poultry stuffing'

Answer: Sage


Question: 'The Grand Erg Oriental, covering parts of north Africa, includes some of these that are 1,000 feet high'

Answer: Sand dunes


Question: 'This tissue-shrinking compound is said to be one of the top 5 items stolen from drugstores'

Answer: Preparation H


Question: 'He returned from a "Weekend At Bernie's" to star in the 1998 TV movie "A Father For Brittany"'

Answer: Andrew McCarthy


Question: 'Perhaps referring to the "fleecing" of your parents' bank account, it's the animal nickname for your diploma'

Answer: Sheepskin


Question: 'The last name of this former "Melrose Place" actor'

Answer: (Doug) Savant


Question: 'Vince Staten's book "Do Pharmacists Sell Farms?" calls this product "The WD-40 of the Drugstore"'

Answer: Vaseline Petroleum Jelly


Question: 'After TV's "Townies", she was in off-Broadway's "How I Learned To Drive" in 1998'

Answer: Molly Ringwald


Question: 'Of magna cum laude, summa cum laude, or cum laude, it's the one that's the highest honor'

Answer: Summa cum laude


Question: 'In 1998 this software chain closed its stores & went strictly online'

Answer: Egghead


Question: '14th century hero in the title of the following'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'TV's Hawkeye Pierce, this male feminist was a member of Men for ERA'

Answer: Alan Alda


Question: 'This nation was created in 1971 out of the former Pakistani province of East Pakistan'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'These Styron "confessions" take us into the mind of a black revolutionary'

Answer: The Confessions of Nat Turner


Question: '1967 James Bond film starring Sean Connery'

Answer: You Only Live Twice


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Rioting broke out when this Stravinsky work was first performed in Paris'

Answer: The Rite of Spring


Question: 'Perhaps inspired by Shirley Muldowney, in 1990 Saudi Arabian women protested their exclusion from this activity'

Answer: Driving


Question: 'This African nation is the largest island in the Indian Ocean'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This Russian count's "confession" of 1882 is among his most revealing works'

Answer: Leo Tolstoy


Question: 'It's the title reason the Beatles say "You know you should be glad"'

Answer: She Loves You


Question: 'It's the Roman god & planet that Gustav Holst featured here'

Answer: Mars (the bringer of war)


Question: 'This 2-word term popularized by Anita Hill's testimony may have originated in a 1975 gathering at Cornell'

Answer: Sexual harassment


Question: 'In April 1992 this reconfigured republic was declared by Serbia & Montenegro'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'The "confessions" of this deeply religious church father began the genre'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'It's the first line of the first verse in the song, "As Time Goes By", sweetheart'

Answer: You must remember this


Question: 'You'll journey to this "hall" in the Grieg work heard here'

Answer: The Hall of the Mountain King


Question: 'A widely read 1977 novel by Marilyn French wasn't called "The Ladies' Room" but this'

Answer: The Women\'s Room


Question: 'This grand duchy is actually smaller than the same-named Belgian province it borders'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'Thomas De Quincey's feverish "confessions" were about an "eater" of this'

Answer: Opium


Question: 'This Kaufman & Hart comedy portrays the antics of the wacky Sycamore family'

Answer: You Can\'t Take It With You


Question: 'This Handel work heard here was composed while he was living in London'

Answer: Water Music


Question: 'Title of the Judy Chicago art work seen here'

Answer: The Dinner Party


Question: 'From the early 1500s to 1975 this country on Africa's southeast coast was at least partly occupied by Portugal'

Answer: Mozambique


Question: 'Honest self-analysis distinguished the "confessions" of this Swiss-French author who died in 1778'

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Question: 'Published posthumously in 1940, this Thomas Wolfe novel is a sequel to "The Web and the Rock"'

Answer: You Can\'t Go Home Again


Question: 'This body meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, but only once every 4 years'

Answer: The Electoral College


Question: 'Julius von Sachs found that starch was a product of this process in green plants'

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: '(Hi, I'm Brian Mitchell)  A punt returner who waves his hand over his head isn't swatting for flies, he's signaling for this'

Answer: a fair catch


Question:
'Bremen,
Kiel,
Worms'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Genesis 6 says it was made out of gopher wood & was 300 cubits long'

Answer: the ark


Question: 'Next time you're in St. Charles, Ill. check out the hall of fame for packers of these products like gherkins & dills'

Answer: pickles


Question: 'The baby, or joey, of the red of grey type of this marsupial may spend up to 8 months in its mother's pouch'

Answer: kangaroo


Question: 'The name of this 1877 invention is from the Greek for "sound writing"'

Answer: phonograph


Question: '(I'm Dan Fouts, Hall of Famer)  As it should be, there's an automatic 15-yard penalty for roughing the kicker or this person'

Answer: the quarterback


Question:
'Chandigarh,
Jaipur,
Amritsar'

Answer: India


Question: 'Bill Murray fights troublesome golf course gophers in this comedy classic'

Answer: Caddyshack


Question: 'Connoisseurs of immortality will want to visit the Southern Pines, N.C. hall of fame for this art of stuffing animals'

Answer: taxidermy


Question: 'If you live in L.A., you've most likely seen one of these wide-bodied military vehicles driven by the well-to-do'

Answer: Hummer


Question: 'Using a piece of Iceland spar, a French physicist polarized this in 1808'

Answer: light


Question: '(Hi, I'm Keyshawn Johnson)  This infraction includes but is not limited to hooking the receiver, grabbing my arm, etcetera'

Answer: pass interference


Question:
'Recife,
Sao Goncalo,
Itapipoca'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'It's where the small rodent known as a pocket gopher has its pockets'

Answer: its cheeks


Question: 'The first group of inductees into this sport's hall of fame included Georges Vezina'

Answer: ice hockey


Question: '3 years older than his brother Moses, he was Israel's first high priest'

Answer: Aaron


Question: 'In 1848 he set absolute zero at -273 degrees C.; it was found later that it is actually -273.16 degrees'

Answer: Lord Kelvin


Question: '(Hi, I'm Hall of Famer Dan Hampton)  Also a hockey penalty, it's called for using the hands illegally -- hey, it was the only way to stop me'

Answer: holding


Question:
'Toowoomba,
Wagga Wagga,
Adelaide'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Gopher is a document delivery system to retrieve information from this system that dates back to the 1960s'

Answer: the Internet


Question: 'Blaze a trail to the Hall of Great Westerners & you'll find this Oklahoma trader for whom a trail is named'

Answer: Chisholm


Question: 'It was the last name of the 3 billy goats who crossed over the "troll" bridge'

Answer: Gruff


Question: 'In 1815 William Prout hypothesized that this was the fundamental atom & all other atoms were made of it'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joey Galloway)  Only one player at a time may do this, run parallel to the line to confuse the defense'

Answer: go in motion


Question:
'Jagersfontein,
Krugersdorp,
Ladysmith'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" takes place in Gopher Prairie in this state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'The National Aviation Hall of Fame celebrated 100 years of flight & appropriately, is located in this Ohio city'

Answer: Dayton


Question: 'Latin phrase meaning sung without instrumental accompaniment'

Answer: a cappella


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew at Yale University)  Boy, the way he played when he led his band in concert from Woolsey Hall during the Second World War'

Answer: Glenn Miller


Question: 'You might take a taxi to watch the nightclub act of this star seen here'

Answer: Tony Danza


Question: 'Riffing on a Ashton Kutcher film, it's the title of a Michael Moore bestseller'

Answer: Dude, Where\'s My Country?


Question: 'A woman pilot'

Answer: aviatrix


Question: 'Henry VIII's longest-lasting marriage, over 20 years, was to this lady of Spain'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'In "Let It Snow", "The weather outside is" this'

Answer: frightful


Question: 'Many of the fossils at the Peabody Museum were found by O.C. Marsh, the USA's first professor of this'

Answer: paleontology


Question: 'This "Sex and the City" actress starred in a 1996 revival of the Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress"'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'A biography of the "Last Child of Camelot" is titled this, like a Neil Diamond song'

Answer: Sweet Caroline


Question: 'Bossy bondage babe'

Answer: dominatrix


Question: 'Henry VIII found Anne of this German place so unattractive that he obtained a divorce after only 6 months'

Answer: Cleves


Question: 'This on your shoulders wouldn't make you happy if you're heliophobic'

Answer: sunshine


Question: '(Jimmy)  Yale's oldest building, Connecticut Hall, was the dorm of this 1773 graduate, who had just 3 years to live'

Answer: Nathan Hale


Question: 'It's worth renting "Heartburn" just to hear this actor sing the "Soliloquy" from "Carousel"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'Oliver & Barbara Rose fight in the movie "War of the Roses"; Brian & Erica Tate battle in this novel'

Answer: The War Between the Tates


Question: 'Ms. Potter, the author'

Answer: Beatrix


Question: 'Sharing her name with an actress, this mother of Edward VI is buried with Henry in St. George's Chapel in Windsor'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'Someone could scare these out of a 1987 James Bond film'

Answer: The Living Daylights


Question: 'Yale tended the body by starting a med school in 1810, then turned to the soul by setting up this school in 1822'

Answer: school of divinity


Question: 'Joey Lawrence was on this hit sitcom in 1993 when he had a Top 20 hit with "Nothin' My Love Can't Fix"'

Answer: Blossom


Question: 'It's the appropriate 3-word title of a 1993 biography of Hunter S. Thompson'

Answer: Fear and Loathing


Question: 'A female lawmaker'

Answer: legislatrix


Question: 'Henry VIII had this next-to-last wife beheaded on Tower Green when he learned she'd been involved with several men'

Answer: Catherine Howard


Question: 'Afraid of the crossword clue "Wonka, Loman & Mays"?  Then you've got these'

Answer: the Willies


Question: '(Sofia)  Harvard was the opposition when this New Haven football facility opened November 21, 1914'

Answer: the Yale Bowl


Question: 'Nicole Kidman teamed up with British pop star Robbie Williams on a 2001 version of this Frank & Nancy Sinatra duet'

Answer: "Something Stupid"


Question: 'After circling the globe between June 23 & July 1, 1931, aviator Wiley Post published a book called this'

Answer: Around the World in Eight Days


Question: 'Morpheus knows it's an array of rows & columns'

Answer: matrix


Question: 'Knowing that this is Casper's ghost horse may cause you to lose some sleep'

Answer: Nightmare


Question: 'Mythological name sometimes given to Mount Acha & Gibraltar'

Answer: the Pillars of Hercules


Question: 'It's compressed to run a pneumatic device like a jackhammer'

Answer: air


Question: 'For her birthday, April 15, this columnist suggests that you write down your favorite "hints" & send them to her'

Answer: Heloise


Question: '1991:<br />Nirvana with this grunge anthem'

Answer: Smells Like Teen Spirit


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew has dibs on a drumstick.) We should all give thanks to this U.S. president who proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving in 1789'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'By 1881 his Menlo Park home had been set up with a complete electric lighting system'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'When your boss is yelling at you, you often look like "a deer in" these'

Answer: the headlights


Question: 'In the 1800s scientists proposed a luminiferous ether to explain how this can travel in waves'

Answer: light


Question: 'Michael Douglas never forgets the birthday of this woman, his wife; it's September 25, the same as his'

Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones


Question: '1966:<br />This Brooklynite with "Cherry, Cherry"'

Answer: Neil Diamond


Question:
'(Having been banished from the kitchen, Jimmy joins Alex at the TV.)
Jimmy: While dinner is being fixed, Alex and I are watching this NFL team, that played more turkey day games than any other.
Alex: They really miss Joe Schmidt & Alex Karras.'

Answer: Detroit Lions


Question: 'In 1814 Robert Fulton developed "Fulton the First", the first warship powered by this force'

Answer: steam


Question: 'Your boss loads you up with meaningless busywork, so you're doing this to "your wheels"'

Answer: spinning


Question: 'Parents, the answer to this perennial kids' question is "Due to Rayleigh scattering"'

Answer: "Why is the sky blue?"


Question: 'If you're invited to Vanna White's birthday party on Feb. 18, she might like one of these violet gems, her birthstone'

Answer: amethyst


Question: '1982:<br />Frank Zappa with this homage to southern California'

Answer: Valley Girl


Question: '(Sarah brings in table decorations.) I'm decorating with a cornucopia inspired by the magical horn of Amalthea, who nursed this Greek god when he was a baby'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'On Feb. 14, 1876 Elisha Gray attempted to file a patent for this invention; however, Bell beat him by hours'

Answer: the telephone


Question: 'When you're totally exhausted but your boss makes you keep working anyway, you're "running" this way'

Answer: on empty (or on fumes)


Question: 'The red shift of galaxies & the change in the pitch of a train whistle are examples of this man's effect'

Answer: the Doppler effect


Question: 'The Girl Scouts celebrate Founders Day on October 31 because it was this woman's birthday'

Answer: Juliette Lowe


Question: '1988:<br />This former cheerleader with "Straight Up"'

Answer: Paula Abdul


Question: '(Sofia has some medical advice.) If we eat enough of these cranberries we won't get scurvy because they're chock full of this vitamin'

Answer: C


Question: 'In 1868 Carlos Glidden & Partners patented this 1st machine that wrote faster than one could write by hand'

Answer: a typewriter


Question: 'When your boss nominates himself for Businessman of the Year, he's "tooting" this'

Answer: his horn


Question: 'Type of mechanics illustrated here'

Answer: fluid mechanics


Question: 'Charles Grodin shares his April 21 birthday with this woman who directed his film "The Heartbreak Kid"'

Answer: Elaine May


Question: '1985:<br />This synth-pop band with "People Are People"'

Answer: Depeche Mode


Question: '(Jimmy gives the last clue.) The sedative effects of turkey have been attributed to this amino acid, sold as a sleep aid until 1990'

Answer: tryptophan


Question: 'During WWII, this rocketry pioneer served as director of research for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics'

Answer: Goddard


Question: 'Despite your boss, you won't quit your job; you need the money to keep "living life in" this freeway area'

Answer: in the fast lane


Question: 'Following Oklahoma City, this city of about 400,000 is the second most populous in the state'

Answer: Tulsa


Question: 'The billion-dollar empire of animal feed titans the Liu brothers makes them one of this country's richest families'

Answer: China


Question: 'A toadstool is an inedible kind of this fungus'

Answer: a mushroom


Question: 'The mother of princesses Stephanie & Caroline'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'V.I. Warshawski, for example'

Answer: a private eye (private detective)


Question: 'Stephen Weber "wing"ed his way onto Broadway in 2002, replacing Matthew Broderick in this musical'

Answer: The Producers


Question: 'You can read many of this humorists writings as well as visit his grave at his memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: '(Hi. I'm Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.) In 1999 I set a record for the biggest online purchase -- a Gulfstream one of these'

Answer: an airplane


Question: 'Avoid this member of the cashew family by remembering the helpful rhyme "Leaves of three, let it be"'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: 'The mother of the gods Hoder & Balder'

Answer: Freya (or Frigg)


Question: 'A PFC in the Marine Corps'

Answer: a private first class


Question: 'Billy Crudup merited the role of John Merrick in the 2002 revival of this drama'

Answer: The Elephant Man


Question: 'The U.S. acquired the vast majority of Oklahoma's territory as part of this 1803 transaction'

Answer: the Louisiana Purchase


Question: 'This political patriarch's successful ventures included shipbuilding, RKO Pictures & Gloria Swanson'

Answer: Joe Kennedy


Question: 'The name of this delicate fern may remind you of a lovely young woman's locks'

Answer: maidenhair


Question: 'In Egyptian mythology, the mother of Horus'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'The business of a doctor run as an individual enterprise'

Answer: private practice


Question: 'The 2002 revival of "Morning's at Seven" featured this versatile actor who played Jim on "Taxi"'

Answer: Christopher Lloyd


Question: 'Inside the National Cowboy & Western Museum in Oklahoma City you can find a hall of fame of this kind of contest'

Answer: rodeo


Question: 'Henry Clay Frick organized a coke company in 1871 & was part of this giant company's formation 30 years later'

Answer: U.S. Steel


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) From the Latin for "across" & "breathe" this evaporation from rain forest leaves helps to regulate rainfall'

Answer: transpiration


Question: 'The Italian mother of 3 French kings, Francis II, Charles IX & Henry III'

Answer: Catherine de\' Medici


Question: 'The non-government-controlled part of the national economy'

Answer: the private sector


Question: 'Simone, the daughter of singer Nina Simone, took over the title role in this Elton John & Tim Rice show in 2002'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'Over 1,000 miles long, this "colorful" river forms most of Oklahoma's southern boarder'

Answer: the Red River


Question: 'This Viacom CEO started in business with his family's chain of 12 drive-in theaters'

Answer: Sumner Redstone


Question: 'Woody plants like conifers that reproduce by means of exposed seeds are classified as these'

Answer: gymnosperms


Question: 'In the Bible, the mother of John the Baptist'

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: 'Not putting down at least 20% of a home's purchase price may force you to pay PMI, this'

Answer: private mortgage insurance


Question: 'I'll wear a bouffant 'do when I see the new musical based on this 1988 John Waters film, & I'm not teasing'

Answer: Hairspray


Question: '1 of the 3 U.S. Presidents to run on a third-party ticket after having already served as president'

Answer: (one of) Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren & Millard Fillmore


Question: 'In May of 2011, President Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero, days after announcing that this al-Qaeda leader was killed'

Answer: Osama bin Laden


Question: 'As commissioner of the NFL, I spent my summer dealing with a player lockout & negotiating a new contract'

Answer: (Roger) Goodell


Question: 'Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line"'

Answer: June Carter Cash


Question: 'DuPont says that dishwashers are safe for this nonstick coating applied to the cooking surface of some pans'

Answer: teflon


Question: 'Abbreviated version of the term for teaching youth with disabilities'

Answer: special ed.


Question: 'The Denmark Strait separates Iceland from this large island to its west'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'The tallest of the new buildings, first dubbed the Freedom Tower, will soar this many feet to signify a big year in American history'

Answer: 1,776


Question: 'I watched my father get pied as we both testified on phone hacking before Parliament'

Answer: James Murdoch


Question: 'Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker"'

Answer: Annie Sullivan


Question: 'Custards & other delicate items are cooked in one of these, basically a pair of stacked saucepans'

Answer: a double boiler


Question: 'Let's get one thing straight--with this item suspended here'

Answer: a plumb bob


Question: 'The French call this strait that separates England & France the Pas de Calais'

Answer: the Strait of Dover


Question: 'The design for the new Port Authority Transportation Hub was inspired by the gesture of a child releasing this bird into the air'

Answer: a dove


Question: 'We the people of this African nation spent the summer becoming the newest country in the world & joining the U.N.'

Answer: South Sudan


Question: 'Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest"'

Answer: Joan Crawford


Question: 'The book "Cooking A to Z" calls it "the most famous symbol of Chinese cooking"'

Answer: a wok


Question: 'In a Christmas song, this line about dressing up rhymes with "troll the ancient yuletide carol"'

Answer: "Don we now our gay apparel"


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.)  At its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Asia by less than 800 yards'

Answer: the Bosporus


Question: 'The new complex on the site will be six office towers, three of them designed by winners of this 32-year-old architecture prize'

Answer: the Pritzker Prize


Question: 'My Virginia constituents know that as House majority leader, I spent July hammering out a debt ceiling deal'

Answer: Eric Cantor


Question: 'Robin Wright in "The Conspirator"'

Answer: Mary Surratt


Question: 'Don't have the pot called this?  Get this collapsible device to do the same thing'

Answer: a steamer


Question: '3-word verb phrase meaning to marry or date someone much younger'

Answer: robbing the cradle


Question: 'The scene of a WWII battle, the 3/4-mile-wide Johor Strait separates this island city-state from Malaysia'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Memorial pools at Ground Zero not only commemorate those killed on 9/11, but also in the garage bombing in February of this year'

Answer: 1993


Question: 'My 16-year holiday was rudely interrupted in Santa Monica when my past as a Boston crime boss came to haunt me'

Answer: Whitey Bulger


Question: 'Sigourney Weaver in "1492: Conquest of Paradise"'

Answer: Queen Isabella


Question: 'The first 5 letters of this word for a frying pan are a synonym for "dexterity"'

Answer: a skillet


Question: 'A slangy term for a baseball doubleheader'

Answer: a twin bill


Question: 'Hydrologically, Lake Huron & Lake Michigan are one lake since they are connected by this strip of water'

Answer: the Strait of Mackinac


Question: '"Shades of Gray" &<br />"Cold Mountain"'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'In certain emergencies, we hope to see the sign that will guide you to one of these'

Answer: a hospital


Question: 'He improved a smokeless lab burner & in 1841 invented the carbon-zinc electric cell'

Answer: (Robert) Bunsen


Question: 'Sandra Booker, Nina Simone & Esperanza Spalding are all sultry chanteuses of this 4-letter musical genre'

Answer: jazz


Question: 'The failed liberal Decembrist revolution of 1825 got hundreds of its leaders banished to this vast region'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'Found in the Middle East, it's considered by some to be the world's oldest continuously inhabited city'

Answer: Damascus


Question: '"M*A*S*H" &<br />"The Bridges at Toko-Ri"'

Answer: the Korean War


Question: 'It's what the symbol seen here represents'

Answer: the Republican Party


Question: 'In 1935 Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, used in the treatment of this eye-pressure disease'

Answer: glaucoma


Question: 'In 2011 Ronnie Dunn's "Bleed Red" was in rotation on KXY, "Oklahoma's Classic" this'

Answer: Country


Question: 'In 1783, during her reign, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Turks'

Answer: Catherine (the Great)


Question: 'Thank you, thank you very much for this song, Wayne Newton's first Top 40 hit'

Answer: "Danke Schoen"


Question: '"All Quiet on the Western Front"'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'On sheet music this symbol that resembles a small "b" tells you that a note should be lowered by a half step'

Answer: a flat


Question: 'Ernst Chain found that this animal substance does its deadly work by destroying a respiratory coenzyme'

Answer: snake venom


Question: 'A 1979 song by the Sugarhill Gang called this performer's "Delight" launched a musical genre'

Answer: "Rapper\'s Delight"


Question: 'Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few'

Answer: oligarchs


Question: 'He developed a new silver-based process for photography in the 1830s'

Answer: (Louis) Daguerre


Question: '"Rags of Glory" &<br />"Kruger's Gold"'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'When the symbol seen here is found on a clothing label, it indicates this special instruction'

Answer: do not use bleach


Question: 'In 1958 this American chemist & vitamin C advocate published the book "No More War!"'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'Dub poetry, a political type of this Jamaican musical form, developed in music halls there in the 1970s'

Answer: reggae


Question: 'Founded by this "Great" guy, the Life Guards protected Russia's royalty through the end of the Romanovs'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Deliberately irrational art movement preceding Surrealism'

Answer: Dadaism


Question: '"For Whom the Bell Tolls"'

Answer: the Spanish Civil War


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a symbol on the monitor.)  Two intersecting triangles form a 6-pointed star called this, from the Greek for "6" & "letter"'

Answer: a hexagram


Question: 'In the 18th century Antoine Lavoisier gave this element its name, from the Greek for "acid forming"'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music'

Answer: house


Question: 'In May 1905 imperial Russia's naval swan song came when 2/3 of its fleet was destroyed by this nation'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Life hung by a thread for this guy of Greek literature who sat beneath a sword'

Answer: Damocles


Question: 'Nietzsche wrote, "Once you said 'God' when you gazed upon distant seas; but now I have taught you to say" this word'

Answer: superman


Question: 'A small elliptical one of these might contain a million stars; large spiral ones, hundreds of billions'

Answer: a galaxy


Question: 'An adult male deer, or a type of "party" before a wedding'

Answer: stag


Question:
'Clarence Darrow,
Tom Brady,
Gerald Ford'

Answer: the University of Michigan


Question: 'That's right!  We have an authentic fake reproduction of this 1776 document signed by John Penn & Josiah Bartlett!'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'The principal duty of the Queen's Piper is to play this instrument every weekday at 9 A.M. under the Queen's window'

Answer: the bagpipe


Question: 'This movie says a kiss between Buttercup & Westley is the most pure & passionate since the kiss was invented'

Answer: The Princess Bride


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical illustration on the monitor.)  A familiar sight in the winter sky, its brightest star Aldebaran is the eye, & here are the horns in this constellation'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'If you're plagued by one of these on your back, you've got problems, man, big problems'

Answer: a monkey


Question:
'Bob Kerrey,
Johnny Carson,
Warren Buffett'

Answer: the University of Nebraska


Question: 'In 1852 he was superintendent of West Point!  He led the Confederate Army!  Now you can buy this historic figure's figurine!'

Answer: (Robert E.) Lee


Question: 'In song, it's the title line that follows "Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us"'

Answer: God save the Queen


Question: 'Lindsay Lohan moves from the city to the suburbs in "Confessions of a Teenage" this'

Answer: Drama Queen


Question: 'The Crab Nebula is the remnant of one of these explosive events observed in 1054'

Answer: a supernova


Question: 'Stepping up to the plate?  Try one of these mammals of the order Chiroptera'

Answer: a bat


Question:
'Michael Jordan,
Andy Griffith,
John Edwards'

Answer: the University of North Carolina


Question: 'France had 25,000 casualties at this June 1815 battle--don't meet yours by not buying its commemorative coin!'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'Please note: "There is no guard mounting" (also known as this ceremony) "in very wet weather"'

Answer: Changing of the Guard


Question: 'Jeff Bridges & Robin Williams search for the Holy Grail in this 1991 film'

Answer: The Fisher King


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.)  During a total solar eclipse, when the moon completely obscures the sun, you have a rare opportunity to see this outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere'

Answer: the corona


Question: 'To complain peevishly, or a fish'

Answer: carp


Question:
'Hubert Humphrey,
Loni Anderson,
Walter Mondale'

Answer: the University of Minnesota


Question: 'This world leader may have said he wasn't divine on Jan. 1, 1946, but the prices of his commemorative plates sure are!'

Answer: Emperor Hirohito


Question: 'If you speak Welsh & want to read about this person, go to the Cymrag section & click on "Tywysog Cymru"'

Answer: the Prince of Wales


Question: 'James McAvoy played a doctor in 1970s Uganda in this fact-based drama'

Answer: The Last King of Scotland


Question: 'Among the named craters of the Moon are Kepler, Copernicus & this, after the great Dane Brahe'

Answer: Tycho


Question: 'A quarrelsome woman; one might even say she's vulpine'

Answer: a vixen


Question:
'William Inge,
Wilt Chamberlain,
Bob Dole'

Answer: the University of Kansas


Question: 'Now up, a 4-ton bluestone dating from 2100 B.C. from this English structure!  FYI, you pay your own shipping!'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: 'On presentation to the Queen, address her formally as "Your Majesty" & subsequently by this polite contraction'

Answer: Ma\'am


Question: '1991's "Robin Hood", starring Kevin Costner, had this subtitle'

Answer: Prince of Thieves


Question: 'If you're in Bologna buying bologna, you're using this local currency'

Answer: the euro


Question: 'Despite being the longest-running "Jeopardy!" champ of all time, he lost to Brad Rutter in the Ultimate ToC'

Answer: Ken Jennings


Question: 'In the U.K, a male surgeon is called "Mr.", not "Dr.", a holdover from times when these unschooled guys did most surgery'

Answer: barbers


Question: 'Alliterative sheath used to guard the breast of my shirt against ink from my pen & its 7 backups'

Answer: a pocket protector


Question: 'Not made by Jell-O, spotted dick is a British type of this made with suet & raisins'

Answer: a pudding


Question: 'If pollen makes you sneeze, you might have one of these hypersensitivities'

Answer: an allergy


Question: 'The coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at Bologna in 1530 was the last Imperial crowning by one of these'

Answer: a pope


Question: 'This NBA legend lost to Martha Stewart after she answered a question about Michael Jordan & he didn't'

Answer: Charles Barkley


Question: 'C. Walton Lillehei is known as "the father of" this type of surgery (the open kind, to be surgically precise)'

Answer: heart surgery


Question: 'I spend hours each day at this website where Weird Al's music video for "White & Nerdy" had over 40 million hits'

Answer: YouTube


Question: 'Naturally, Whole <br />Foods' 365 Organic line includes this type of oat, fruit & nut cold cereal'

Answer: granola


Question: 'In 2003 Antoine Yates was arrested for keeping a tiger & one of these big reptiles in his Harlem apartment'

Answer: an alligator


Question: 'The city of Bologna is located in northern Italy at the foot of this mountain chain'

Answer: the Apennines


Question: 'David Javerbaum lost on the Teen Reunion, but he's won 9 Emmys for his work on this Jon Stewart TV show'

Answer: The Daily Show


Question: 'Sushruta pioneered this reconstructive process around 600 B.C.; he'd make more money in 90210 today'

Answer: plastic surgery


Question: 'I'm in love with my nifty i2 model of this transport, but I don't mind letting people have rides'

Answer: a Segway


Question: 'Popular in Cajun cooking, tasso is usually a spiced type of this meat'

Answer: ham


Question: 'The quest of these magicians was to find a philosopher's stone'

Answer: an alchemist


Question: 'The airport in Bologna bears the name of this electrical engineer & inventor born near the city'

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi


Question: 'Jodie Foster won big over Nathan Lane & Harry Connick Jr. when she named this 1620 ship & they couldn't'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'William Halsted developed a cocaine addiction while researching new methods of this for the O.R.'

Answer: anesthesia


Question: 'I play this lowest-pitched brass instrument & I've gotten really good at dodging stuff people try to throw in it'

Answer: the tuba


Question: 'This restaurant isn't named for roast beef but rather for the Raffel Brothers'

Answer: Arby\'s


Question: 'The Incas domesticated it & used its wool long before the Spanish conquest'

Answer: the alpaca


Question: 'Bologna was originally called Felsina by this group who predated the Romans'

Answer: the Etruscans


Question: 'Bob Harris penned a book about his "Jeopardy!" wins & losses called "Prisoner of" this place'

Answer: Trebekistan


Question: 'Slava Fyodorov developed radial this after taking glass out of a patient's eye & finding the vision improved'

Answer: keratotomy


Question: 'Seen here, this type of keyboard puts less stress on my frail wrists, which I hurt jousting at the Renaissance Fair'

Answer: ergonomic


Question: 'Frequently used in soups, this tiny 4-letter pasta means "barley" in Italian'

Answer: orzo


Question: 'Legally, it's an assertion that you are prepared to prove'

Answer: an allegation


Question: 'At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness"'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'In the 6th century B.C. Sariputra was an early pupil of this Indian religion founder'

Answer: Buddha


Question:
'She's the flamboyant performer heard here

"Born this way, oh there ain't no other way /
Baby I was born this way /
Baby I was born..."'

Answer: Lady Gaga


Question:
'Surgical,
boxing,
fingerless'

Answer: gloves


Question: 'It's 3/4 of the number of weeks in a year, & a common number of weeks for a pregnancy to last'

Answer: 39


Question: 'One of its ad campaigns called it "The uncola.  The un and only."'

Answer: 7up


Question: 'A mat attached to a frame used as a springboard; sorry, gotta bounce!'

Answer: a trampoline


Question: 'Around 387 B.C. this student of Socrates founded the Athens school known as the Academy'

Answer: Plato


Question:
'This British band heard here is spreading inspiration the world over

"They will not force us..."'

Answer: Muse


Question:
'A glance,
second base,
Manet's "Chez Tortoni" in 1990'

Answer: things that are stolen


Question: 'Standard RPM speed of your old long-playing record albums'

Answer: 33 1/3


Question: 'In the 1890s pharmacist Caleb Bradham invented this cola drink, known then as "Brad's Drink"'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'I'm going to use my power of this to tell you it's from the Latin for "supplying a hint"'

Answer: suggestion


Question: 'This high school teacher was involved in a little trial in Dayton, Tennessee in July 1925'

Answer: (John T.) Scopes


Question:
'This Taio Cruz hit sounds like something that shouldn't be brought to school

"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes /
Sayin' ay-oh /
Gotta let go /
I wanna celebrate..."'

Answer: "Dynamite"


Question:
'Illicit assets,
popsicles,
botoxed faces'

Answer: frozen things


Question: '"Miracle" street in a 1947 holiday classic'

Answer: 34th Street


Question: 'Roy Allen opened root beer stands in 1922 & introduced this brand name for his product'

Answer: A&W


Question: 'Isn't there a song about this variety of tangerine?'

Answer: a clementine


Question: 'This sci fi author of "I, Robot" taught biochemistry at Boston University'

Answer: (Isaac) Asimov


Question:
'Strop,
whetstone,
emery wheel'

Answer: things that sharpen


Question: 'Youngest age at which you can be sworn in for the U.S. Senate'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Verrerie du Languedoc is one of the manufacturers of the green bottles for this brand of sparkling water'

Answer: Perrier


Question: 'A rotation, as on an axis, or a violent replacement of an established government'

Answer: a revolution


Question: 'She was a little-known University of Oklahoma law professor until the Clarence Thomas hearings'

Answer: Anita Hill


Question:
'A subpoena,
a tennis ball,
dinner'

Answer: things that are served


Question: 'Total number of pieces including pawns at the start of a chess game'

Answer: 32


Question: 'This current soda brand is named for a peak in the Cascades'

Answer: Shasta


Question: 'It's the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the aged'

Answer: geriatrics


Question: 'On Nov. 13, 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things'

Answer: death & taxes


Question: 'A neo-realistic classic:<br />"Lardi di Biciclette"'

Answer: The Bicycle Thief


Question: 'The period known as Detente deals primarily with a 2-decade long era between the U.S. & this country'

Answer: the USSR (Soviet Union)


Question: 'In 1960 it got up to 129 at curiously named Greenland Ranch in this grim California valley'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'Last name of David, the screenwriter who wrote "Speed-the-Plow", a play about greedy producers'

Answer: Mamet


Question: 'The Moon is one'

Answer: a satellite


Question: 'On Oct. 13, 1989, termed the Friday the 13th mini-crash, this average slipped 190.58 points'

Answer: the Dow Jones


Question: 'Featuring a number of warriors:<br />"Shichinin No Samuari"'

Answer: The Seven Samurai


Question: 'This Detente treaty that aimed to curb nukes sounds like something you could add to your popcorn'

Answer: the SALT Treaty


Question: 'This second planet's surface temperature is a toasty 860 degrees Fahrenheit'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Sure & 'tis the name of playwright John Casey, after he changed it to its Irish form'

Answer: Sean O\'Casey


Question: 'This word meaning "adequate" contains a manufacturing facility'

Answer: satisfactory


Question: 'During Hitler's blitz of London, this residence was hit by bombs on Sept. 13, 1940, destroying the chapel'

Answer: Buckingham Palace


Question: 'An 8-hour epic:<br />"Voyna i mir"'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'Detente tensions flared when this country was invaded in 1979; you'd think that would never happen again'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew measures the temperature of an iron.)  You can use a non-contact thermometer to gauge the temperature of something that's too hot to touch; it works by measuring the amount of this colorful thermal radiation emitted by a heat source'

Answer: infrared


Question: 'Last name of playwriting twins Anthony & Peter, who gave us "Sleuth" & "Amadeus"'

Answer: Schaffer


Question: 'Wetted thoroughly, from the Latin for "full"'

Answer: saturated


Question: 'This league, the ABA, played its first game on October 13, 1967; the Oakland Oaks beat the Anaheim Amigos'

Answer: the American Basketball Association


Question: 'From Ingmar Bergman:<br />"Det sjunde inseglet"'

Answer: The Seventh Seal


Question: 'In 1968 this mutual defense pact named for a European capital was invoked as troops rolled into Czechoslovakia'

Answer: the Warsaw Pact


Question: 'Europe's highest recorded temperature was 122 in 1881 in this Spanish city; it cooled down in time for Expo 1992'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'It's the last name of German dramatist Bertolt, who lived in the U.S. from 1941 to 1947'

Answer: Brecht


Question: 'Yes, Mr. Paige, it's a small bag'

Answer: a satchell


Question: 'On July 13, 1906 the French army reinstated this falsely convicted Jewish officer'

Answer: Dreyfus


Question: 'From Pedro Almodovar:<br />"Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios"'

Answer: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown


Question: 'World leaders came to this city in 1975 to sign accords that people hoped would ease East-West tensions'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 1.8 & add 32; if it's 50 Celsius, it's this Fahrenheit'

Answer: 122


Question: 'Last name of Daphne, who is addition to novels wrote plays like "September Tide"'

Answer: du Maurier


Question: 'Zen Buddhist state of enlightenment'

Answer: satori


Question: 'In March 2011 he gave his first televised speech in 22 years on the throne, saying he hoped things would get better'

Answer: Emperor Akihito of Japan


Question: 'The name of these South American mountains may be derived from anti, a Quechuan word for "east"'

Answer: Andes


Question: 'On the November 16, 1968 episode of "Get Smart", Maxwell Smart married her'

Answer: Agent 99


Question: 'This kind of bar may have iceberg or romaine, cold veggies & dressings on it'

Answer: a salad bar


Question: 'Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea'

Answer: caffeine


Question: 'One of this country's shekels can be broken down into 100 agorot'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Women of India often drape the end of this wrapped garment over their heads'

Answer: sari


Question: 'In 1990 Jimmy Smits won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his work on this NBC drama'

Answer: L.A. Law


Question: 'At this type of restaurant you really dine out -- out in your automobile where you are served'

Answer: drive-in


Question: 'You may not need a high IQ to know IQ stands for this'

Answer: intelligence quotient


Question: 'In the basic form of this game, each player gets a card with 5 horizontal rows of numbers from 1 to 75'

Answer: bingo


Question: 'From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'Almost all Bedouins in the Middle East speak this language'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'This series' Flub-A-Dub had the head of a duck & the body of a dachshund'

Answer: Howdy Doody


Question: 'You may be shown a tray for this course whose name is from the old French for "to clear the table"'

Answer: dessert


Question: 'Name for the process a caterpillar goes through to become a moth'

Answer: metamorphosis


Question: 'Peau de soie, a textile with good drapability & body, is woven from this fiber'

Answer: silk


Question: 'The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859'

Answer: Harper\'s Ferry


Question: 'This grain is Laos' chief agricultural product'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'This Jane Wyman series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley in California'

Answer: Falcon Crest


Question: 'A trattoria usually specializes in this country's cuisine'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'When cocci live in pairs, they're called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this'

Answer: streptococci


Question: 'Lydia & Xenia are women's names derived from this language'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain'

Answer: Hadrian


Question: 'Queen's University, 1 of the 2 universities in Northern Ireland, is in this capital city'

Answer: Belfast


Question: 'In 1966 Alice Pearce won a posthumous Emmy for her role as neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this ABC sitcom'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'Rhyming name given to a lobster & steak combo'

Answer: surf and turf


Question: 'Next in length on the scale of geological time: age, epoch, period, era...'

Answer: eon


Question: 'The fad involving this type of radio followed the oil embargo of 1973-74'

Answer: CB (citizens\' band) radio


Question: 'Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst & Mohandas Gandhi while in jail'

Answer: hunger strike


Question: 'In April 1964, Ford introduced this new sporty car with a $2,368 sticker price'

Answer: Mustang


Question: 'Hybrid perpetuals like the American Beauty were the main type of these in American gardens 1840-1880'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'During the Russo-Japanese War, this "Call of the Wild" author served as a reporter for Hearst'

Answer: Jack London


Question: 'In July 1995 Ohio raised these; a passenger car traversing the state now pays $5.40, up from $4.80'

Answer: Turnpike Tolls


Question: '2 island nations lie within this sea:  Cyprus & Malta'

Answer: Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'He played Jimmy Shine on Broadway in 1968, the year after he played "The Graduate" on film'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'On July 5, 1975 this Hawaiian volcano erupted for the first time in over 26 years'

Answer: Mauna Loa


Question: 'This type of moss is most useful for growing acid-loving plants'

Answer: Peat Moss


Question: 'As a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'In March 1995 she was removed from her South African cabinet post by her estranged husband'

Answer: Winnie Mandela


Question: 'This sea was named for a warlike tribe of Indians that inhabited the Lesser Antilles'

Answer: Caribbean Sea


Question: 'Herschel Bernardi played this title Greek in a musical based on a Nikos Kazantzakis book'

Answer: Zorba The Greek


Question: 'On April 6, 1917 America entered World War I & this composer wrote "Over There"'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'The oscillating type of this irrigation device sprays back & forth in a rectangular pattern'

Answer: Sprinkler


Question: 'In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'In January 1995 this country's government knocked 4 zeroes off its zloty'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'The Scheldt River flows through Antwerp before emptying into this sea'

Answer: North Sea


Question: 'On Broadway since 1964, this musical starred Pearl Bailey in the title role in 1968'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'In March 1925 this state passed a law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'Scarification is a technique where hard-shelled ones of these are scratched to help them sprout'

Answer: Seeds


Question: 'From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Heard here, it's the anthem of the European Union:'

Answer: "Ode To Joy"


Question: 'Vladivostok is the most important port on this north Pacific sea'

Answer: Sea of Japan


Question: 'James Earl Jones starred on the Great White Way in this drama set in the world of boxing'

Answer: The Great White Hope


Question: 'He served in the House for 30 years before becoming FDR's first vice president in 1933'

Answer: John Nance Garner


Question: 'Compared to a tree, this type of plant produces its branches near, at or below the soil surface'

Answer: Shrub


Question: 'Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Ex-Soviet republic ruled by Saparmurad Niyazov, who calls himself "Chief of the Turkmen"'

Answer: Turkmenistan


Question: 'The world's largest inland body of water, its surface lies about 90 feet below sea level'

Answer: Caspian Sea


Question: 'Based on the film "The Apartment", this Burt Bacharach-Hal David musical opened in December'

Answer: Promises, Promises


Question: 'The death of Denise Darvall in a traffic accident permitted this historic December 3, 1967 event'

Answer: First Heart Transplant


Question: 'Linked by bridges, this Hungarian capital was once 3 distinct & separate cities'

Answer: Budapest


Question: 'She stunned Broadway by turning down her 1996 Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical'

Answer: Julie Andrews (for Victor/Victoria)


Question: 'Genetically, it's the most dominant coat color, so it's what the old mare had the best chance to be'

Answer: Gray


Question: '1,000 Chinese protested the privileges of high officials in this square, more famous 10 years later'

Answer: Tiananmen Square


Question: 'In 1989, his first year as Dallas' QB, the team went 1-15; they later improved'

Answer: Troy Aikman


Question: 'To enter a pool of water....tummy first'

Answer: Bellyflop


Question: 'This Egyptian port city is named for the Macedonian king who founded it in 332 B.C.'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'Of "Shogun", "King Rat" or "Tai-Pan", the James Clavell novel that became a musical in 1990'

Answer: Shogun


Question: 'The smallest British breed, this pony evolved on an island off the north coast of Scotland'

Answer: Shetland pony


Question: 'Herman Tarnower & Nathan Pritikin rode the bestseller lists with books on doing this'

Answer: Dieting


Question: 'At age 11 in 1972, he scored 378 goals for the Brantford (Ontario) Nadrofsky Steelers'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Sailors wore these pants long before they became fashionable in the 1960s'

Answer: Bell-bottoms


Question: 'This second-holiest city of Islam houses the tomb of Muhammad'

Answer: Medina


Question: 'In 1996 this star of "La Bamba" & "Young Guns" began reigning on Broadway in "The King And I"'

Answer: Lou Diamond Phillips


Question: 'This British department store's green delivery van is drawn by a team of Friesians'

Answer: Harrods


Question: 'Noted falls in 1979 included the Shah of Iran's after 37 years & this space station's after 34,980 orbits'

Answer: Skylab


Question: 'The last Major League Baseball player to hit .400 in a season, he was John Glenn's wingman in the Korean War'

Answer: Ted Williams


Question: 'They supply the weight in Olympic weightlifting'

Answer: Barbells


Question: 'Known as Panormus in ancient times, it's the largest city of Sicily'

Answer: Palermo


Question: 'Much of this musical about a man-eating plant is set at Mr. Mushnik's flower shop'

Answer: Little Shop Of Horrors


Question: 'In 5000 B.C., before the horse was domesticated, northern Europeans used these to pull sleds'

Answer: Reindeer


Question: 'In February Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to this country was killed, in December, the Soviets invaded'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'World champion runner Hassiba Boulmerka of this north African country has been denounced for showing her legs'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'They're employees who go public with stories of their employers' wrongdoing'

Answer: Whistleblowers


Question: 'An old tobacco factory made famous by "Carmen" now houses part of the university of this Spanish city'

Answer: Sevilla


Question: '(Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence.)  Before appearing on TV I appeared on Broadway in several musical revivals including this one set in Anatevka'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question: 'No longer a Sex Pistol, he was facing murder charges when he died in February'

Answer: Sid Vicious


Question: 'The 2 Olympic swimming champions who played Tarzan on film in the 1930s'

Answer: Buster Crabbe & Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'Common name for deadly nighshade, a plant that's poisonous in all its parts'

Answer: Belladonna


Question: 'She said WWI Belgian refugees influenced her characterization of Hercule Poirot'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'It's the most popular flavor of Brown Betty; a serving a day might keep the doctor away'

Answer: Apple


Question: 'In legend Will Scarlet lived in Sherwood Forest as one of this outlaw's followers'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'Fishing & swimming are permitted at Tom Sawyer Lake near this author's Missouri birthplace'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'As indicated by its chemical name, the 2 main elements in table salt are chlorine & this'

Answer: Sodium


Question: 'In 1971 Tom Watson graduated Stanford with a psych degree & began playing this sport professionally'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Detective Porfiry drives Raskolnikov to confess in this novel'

Answer: Crime And Punishment


Question: 'Unlike other kinds of this deep-fried treat, the "jelly" type usually doesn't have a hole in the middle'

Answer: Doughnut


Question: 'Strep throat bacteria passed from child to child can cause this disease, also called scarlatina'

Answer: Scarlet fever


Question: 'Washington wrote, "No estate in united America is more pleasantly situated than this" home'

Answer: Mount Vernon


Question: 'You're in good company if you know that Co is the symbol for this metal used in making alloys'

Answer: Cobalt


Question: 'Before Nick & Nora Charles, he created the nameless Continental Op'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'These pastry rectangles filled with cream or custard are perfect for wishing Bonaparte "Bon Appetit"'

Answer: Napoleons


Question: 'A scarlet woman in "Shanghai Express", she was Catherine the Great in "The Scarlet Empress"'

Answer: Marlene Dietrich


Question: 'This inventor's Fort Myers, Florida home features handmade light bulbs from 1925'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Element No. 99 on the Periodic Table was named for Einstein & No. 100 was named for this physicist'

Answer: Enrico Fermi (Fermium)


Question: 'Under Thomas John Watson, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was renamed this in 1924'

Answer: IBM (International Business Machines)


Question: 'In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face"'

Answer: P.D. James


Question: 'Pineapple rings are the classic topping for this cake baked with the fruit on the bottom & served with it on top'

Answer: Pineapple upside-down cake


Question: 'The biretta worn by these Catholic dignitaries is not a gun but a scarlet cap'

Answer: Cardinals


Question: 'The Wren's Nest, this Uncle Remus author's home, was named for a wren found nesting in his mailbox'

Answer: Joel Chandler Harris


Question: 'You win the "prize" if you know that scientists in Sweden claimed to create this element first'

Answer: Nobelium


Question: 'Psychological "ism" associated with John B. Watson'

Answer: Behaviorism


Question: '"A Little Yellow Dog" is a recent novel featuring his reluctant detective Easy Rawlins'

Answer: Walter Mosley


Question: 'As an epitaph, poet Hilaire Belloc wrote, "His sins were scarlet, but his books were" this'

Answer: Red


Question: 'Sculptor in whose home you'd find the model seen here: [Lincoln Memorial]'

Answer: Daniel Chester French


Question: 'Named for Marie Curie's native country, it was the 1st element discovered by means of its radioactivity'

Answer: Polonium


Question: 'The Maggie Awards given by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America are named for her'

Answer: Margaret Sanger


Question: 'In 2005 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once this country's richest man, got 9 years in jail for fraud & tax evasion'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Though not native born, this composer became part of the British Invasion'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'Beavers have been known to build these homes as large as 12 feet high & 20 feet in diameter'

Answer: lodges


Question: 'A narrow peninsula called the Palisados protects this Jamaican port from the Caribbean Sea'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'Take your gooseberry jam to the Iowa State Fair & win this top prize, like Dawn Shaw did in 2005'

Answer: blue ribbon


Question: 'Hard to believe! Mrs. Ashley Wilkes' seriously unlawful activities'

Answer: Melanie\'s felonies


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Cheyenne Mountain.) Since the end of the Cold War, the only emergency closing of these 25-ton blast doors at NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain complex was on this 21st-century date'

Answer: September 11, 2001


Question: 'The fat lady sang for this man's rockin' operas after the tune heard here'

Answer: Rossini


Question: 'Though it's the apex of a branch of the U.S. govt., it didn't get a building of its own until 1935.'

Answer: Supreme Court


Question: 'From 1936 to 1961 this capital was called Ciudad Trujillo after dictator Rafael Trujillo'

Answer: Santo Domingo


Question: 'Make a 100'-long papier-mache model of this largest cetacean'

Answer: blue whale


Question: 'A nimble robbery'

Answer: deft theft


Question: 'In 2005 there were fireworks on the 4th of July -- 83 million miles away, as the Deep Impact probe hit one of these'

Answer: comet


Question: 'It's no bull-- it's the Bizet work adapted here'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'In 1932 Churchill said, "That's the highest I've ever been up" when he viewed NYC from the top of this building'

Answer: Empire State Building


Question: 'This Bahamian capital took its name from the family name of King William III of England'

Answer: Nassau


Question: 'Perk yourself up by walking across the mile-high swinging bridge on Grandfather Mountain in this range'

Answer: Blue Ridge


Question: 'Anglican cleric's incendiary crimes'

Answer: Parson\'s arsons


Question: 'This currency introduced Jan. 1, 2002 promptly jumped 1.5% against the dollar & 2% against the pound'

Answer: euro


Question: 'This Russian composer gave his fans the bird with the music heard here'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'This important part of a building can be gambrel or mansard'

Answer: roof


Question: 'A 1634 Spanish decree declared it the "key to the New World and the bulwark of the West Indies"'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'Go wild & gorge on these "wild" items at their annual festival in Machias, Maine'

Answer: blueberries


Question: 'Weak, fragile payment insuring that a released defendant will return to court'

Answer: frail bail


Question: 'A 2003 judgment said keeping 2 women from marrying each other violated this state's constitution'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'His concerts became year-long events'

Answer: Antonio Vivaldi


Question: 'While in Oranjestad, capital of this Dutch island, you can book a tour aboard the Atlantis submarine'

Answer: Aruba


Question: 'Ride a rowboat into this "Capri"cious cavern, once feared to be full of witches & monsters'

Answer: Blue Grotto


Question: 'A hip young delinquent'

Answer: groovy juvie


Question: 'The portrait seen in detail here  in ink and gold on paper is of Shah Jahan, emperor of this country'

Answer: India


Question: '"The Drew Carey Show"'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'He published "Hawaii" the same year Hawaii became a state'

Answer: James Michener


Question: 'Jill of "Crossing Jordan" knows this Cognac brand has a paradis extra variety in addition to V.S.O.P. & X.O.'

Answer: Hennessey


Question: 'In 1993, Kathryn Thornton went into space to help repair the flawed "vision" of this, which had mirror problems'

Answer: Hubble Telescope


Question: 'This New Mexico community was named for a railroad paymaster, not a pollster'

Answer: Gallup


Question: 'The art of ancient Korean kingdom is known for the "Paekche smile" seen on this man'

Answer: Buddha


Question: '"Good Times"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This author who was captured by the Japanese during WWII later wrote about feudal Japan in "Shogun"'

Answer: James Clavell


Question: 'Many Greek dishes get their familiar flavor from this herb whose name is from the Greek for "joy of the mountain"'

Answer: oregano


Question: 'In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman astronaut, on this shuttle whose name means "to try"'

Answer: Endeavour


Question: 'Meaning "thrifty", it describes gourmet TV chef Jeff Smith'

Answer: frugal


Question: 'No matter what is depicted, putting a red seal as the finishing touch on a black and white painting is called adding an eye to this mythic beast'

Answer: dragon


Question: '"Green Acres"'

Answer: Hooterville


Question: '"Cross", a 2006 bestseller, is his 12th thriller featuring Alex Cross'

Answer: James Patterson


Question: 'As well as the plants of a land region, it can mean the bacteria of a body region'

Answer: flora


Question: 'In 1984 Kathryn Sullivan became the 1st U.S. woman to walk in space as this woman made her second shuttle trip'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: 'This country's capital, Dakar, was once the capital of French West Africa'

Answer: Senegal


Question: '"Full House" & "Phyllis"'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'In a childhood archery mishap, this Walter Mitty creator lost an eye'

Answer: James Thurber


Question: 'Shown here in a 1915 photo, this Cunard ship went down six days later off the coast of Ireland'

Answer: Lusitania


Question: 'This first woman in space was named a hero of the Soviet Union & awarded the Order of Lenin'

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova


Question: '2-word term for a funny treatment of a situation that's actually very grave'

Answer: gallow\'s humor


Question: 'This fruit whose blossoms are seen here is one of the four gentlemen of Chinese art'

Answer: plum


Question: '"The Office"'

Answer: Scranton


Question: 'He adapted his novel "Deliverance" for the big screen & played a sheriff in the 1972 movie'

Answer: James Dickey


Question: 'Any Providence flower salesman could tell you this flower seen here is a member of the Heath family'

Answer: Rhododendron


Question: 'Clear & transparent last name of astronaut Shannon, an STS-58 member'

Answer: Lucid


Question: 'This American educator's sons Thomas & Edward also helped teach the deaf'

Answer: (Thomas) Gallaudet


Question: 'His writings include "The Naval War of 1812" & as co-writer, "The Deer Family"'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'Disillusioned by the Spanish Civil War, this British author wrote against totalitarianism in "Animal Farm"'

Answer: (George) Orwell


Question: 'If you have a bouncy ride, you might need to replace this 2-word suspension part created in the early 1900s'

Answer: a shock absorber


Question: 'It ain't no walk in the park; in 2004, England's Dept. of Health said 1,839 people--78% of them kids--fell out of these'

Answer: trees


Question: 'Elvis Costello was born in this world capital on Aug. 25, 1954'

Answer: London


Question: 'Let's take a poll--this specific poll, actually; it's been around since 1935'

Answer: Gallup


Question: '(Alex reports from Niagara Falls.)  In 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Taylor became the first person to go over the falls in one of these; she made it, but I'm gonna pass'

Answer: a barrel


Question: 'She dedicated both "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" to Frank O'Connor'

Answer: Ayn Rand


Question: 'Make sure your tires are properly inflated & do this repair so they're at the proper angle, which reduces drag'

Answer: alignment


Question: 'On April 26, 1986 an accident at this facility 80 miles north of Kiev made worldwide headlines'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: 'Burt Bacharach & Elvis played street musicians (with a grand piano) in this title guy's "The Spy Who Shagged Me"'

Answer: Austin Powers


Question: 'The closing of the epiglottis over the vocal cords produces the sound of this'

Answer: a hiccup


Question: '(Alex reports from Niagara Falls.)  There's plenty of water going over the falls right now, but would you believe that in March 1848 for about 30 hours the Falls actually stopped flowing due to a massive upstream accumulation of this stuff'

Answer: ice


Question: 'This Edith Frome New York City penned "Ethan Frome" in 1911'

Answer: (Edith) Wharton


Question: 'Dust & metal shavings can damage the engine that's why you need to regularly replace this cleaning device'

Answer: oil filter


Question: 'In 1970 Massachusetts became the first state to adopt this type of auto insurance'

Answer: no-fault


Question: 'Elvis began playing "Less Than Zero" on this show in '77, then stopped & did "Radio Radio' instead; he wasn't on again until '89'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: 'Pants with a loop at the end of each leg, or a loop on a saddle to rest your foot'

Answer: stirrups


Question: '(Alex reports from Niagara Falls.)  The tradition of honeymooning here at the falls began way back in 1801, when the daughter of this then-U.S. vice president came here with her new husband; three years later, dad fought a famous duel'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'The first line of his 1951 novel mentions a "lousy childhood ... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'For your safety, check this regularly; one of the first ones on the market was called the Sireno'

Answer: a car horn


Question: 'Shamu on you! a dead man was found on the back of one of these after he tried to take a '99 Seaworld swim'

Answer: a killer whale


Question: 'Elvis was nominated for an Oscar & a Grammy for "The Scarlet Tide", a song from this 2003 Jude Law Civil War film'

Answer: Cold Mountain


Question: 'A group or series of 8 related items'

Answer: octuple


Question: '(Alex reports from Niagara Falls.)  Ferries with this dewy feminine name have been plying the waters below the falls since 1846; some of the most famous guests: Edward VIII, Teddy Roosevelt & Marilyn Monroe'

Answer: the Maids of the Mist


Question: 'She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss"'

Answer: (George) Eliot


Question: 'Inspect the master cylinder, part of the hydraulics sending fluid through the lines for this drum or disc system'

Answer: the brakes


Question: 'Phineas Gage was working on this in 1848 when he survived a 3-foot rod going through his brain, seen here'

Answer: a railroad


Question: 'Shocking! Ricky Bobby sees Elvis & Mos Def at a rival racer's house in this film'

Answer: Talledega Nights


Question: 'Lord Acton: "absolute power" does this "absolutely"'

Answer: corrupts


Question: '(Alex reports from Niagara Falls.)  The falls are divided into two sections--the straight-line American falls over here, & over here on the Canadian side, this cataract, named for its distinctive shape'

Answer: the  Horseshoe Falls


Question: 'The first major medieval philosopher was this Bishop of Hippo who fused Plato with Christian thought'

Answer: Augustine


Question: 'Hefty "Sopranos" star Vincent Pastore quit this show in rehearsal, saying it was too physically demanding'

Answer: Dancing With The Stars


Question: 'Henry Wallace<br />(& others)'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'This sign ruled by Mars is a homophone for the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Mars'

Answer: Aries


Question:
'Ferrocene:
(C5H5)2____'

Answer: iron


Question: 'A hockey game begins with one of these'

Answer: a face-off


Question: 'Boethius helped move things along by translating Greek philosophy into this language'

Answer: Latin


Question: 'Paint-store clerk/ disco king Tony Manero was no Einstein in this '77 movie, but the chicks dug him'

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Question: 'Nelson Rockefeller, who had a "Happy" wife'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'Sagittarians dream of emulating Zhang Juan Juan, who won Olympic gold in this sport in 2008'

Answer: archery


Question:
'Baking soda:
____HCO3'

Answer: sodium


Question: 'A salmon part, or to skid from side to side in a car'

Answer: fishtail


Question: 'In the 13th century he penned the influential "Summa Theologica"'

Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas


Question: 'This '80s dance popular in end-zone celebrations got its name from a song, not from the "kids"'

Answer: the Cabbage Patch


Question: 'Millard Fillmore (not the duck of comics fame)'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Oh, yes! They're the 3 signs of the zodiac that end with the letter "O"'

Answer: Scorpio, Virgo and Leo


Question:
'Ammonia:
____H3'

Answer: nitrogen


Question: 'This type of cable contains threads of glass that transmit signals in the form of pulses of light'

Answer: fiber optic