Question: 'Character who sings "Angry Inch "'

Answer: Hedwig


Question: 'Newspapers I own include the Daily Telegraph of Sydney & the Australian'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'This nerve involved in carpal tunnel syndrome shares its name with a math term for the middle number in a sequence'

Answer: the median


Question: 'This 19th c. orator went to Dartmouth & argued Dartmouth College v. Woodward before the Supreme Court'

Answer: (Daniel) Webster


Question: '12-letter word meaning pertaining to the eerie or occult'

Answer: supernatural


Question: 'The CBC set up a Brain Trust for this kind of "justice" to make sure toxic dumps aren't foisted on minority areas'

Answer: environmental justice


Question: '"Smokey Joe's Cafe" features "Hound Dog" & other songs written by Jerry Lieber & him'

Answer: Mike Stoller


Question: 'Affer Los Alamos, I was the director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1947 to 1966'

Answer: Oppenheimer


Question: 'A slipped disc can cause pain along this largest nerve that runs down the leg'

Answer: the sciatic nerve


Question: 'This former defense department employee gave the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times'

Answer: Daniel Ellsberg


Question: 'In grammar, it's the highest degree of comparison of adjectives & adverbs'

Answer: superlative


Question: 'In 2011 this Georgia congressman, who was beaten on a 1965 civil rights march, received the Medal of Freedom'

Answer: John Lewis


Question: 'In Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll", Syd Barrett is a character & the music of this band of his is heard'

Answer: Pink Floyd


Question: 'I may be a trickster god, but I actually helped Thor get his hammer back after Thrym the frost giant stole it'

Answer: Loki


Question: 'The radial nerve, which travels down the arm, controls movement of this large 3-headed muscle'

Answer: the tricep(s)


Question: 'American architect Daniel Burnham was the Director of Works at the 1893 World's Fair in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates the clue with a plastic bottle of water.) Pure water can remain liquid below the freezing point because there are no impurities to form ice crystals around, a phenomenon called this. Motion causes bubbles, allowing the water to crystallize.'

Answer: supercooling


Question: 'Genesis'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'Around 1250 this country's King Alfonso III reclaimed the Algarve from the Moors after 500 years of control'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Embarrassingly but aptly, this baby doctor's name was synonymous with womb'

Answer: Uterus


Question: 'In November 2008 she opened up Pixie Hollow, located at the edge of Tomorrowland'

Answer: Tinkerbell


Question: 'Chris Rock narrated this show, loosely based on his childhood'

Answer: Everybody Hates Chris


Question: 'The U.S. golf register says the chances of this have been estimated north of 1 in 20,000'

Answer: a hole-in-one


Question: 'Mark'

Answer: Luke


Question: 'A 1287 storm flooded the land separating the North Sea & the Zuiderzee, turning this village into a major port city'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'Unconquerable & undefeated, he led Rome to victory in the Rugby World Cup championship'

Answer: Invictus


Question: '"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is a novel by this Brit'

Answer: le Carré


Question: 'This 1965 movie begins with the birth of Jesus'

Answer: The Greatest Story Ever Told


Question: 'Theoretically, a U.S. casino's ability to make money on Roulette relies on the presence of these 2 green figures'

Answer: 0 and 00


Question: 'Numbers'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'This Yucatan city whose ruins are a UNESCO world heritage site gave way to Mayapan as a Mayan political center'

Answer: Chichen Itza


Question: 'A little known trilinguist, this island-dweller was fluent in Greek & Turkish as well as Latin'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'Grant Tinker was known as "the man who saved" this TV network'

Answer: NBC


Question: 'The answer to this title question of 1962: she cares for her crippled sister Blanche'

Answer: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?


Question: 'Psalms'

Answer: Proverbs


Question: 'Roger Bacon wrote coded instructions for making the explosive mix of saltpeter, sulfur & charcoal called black this'

Answer: powder


Question: 'Quiet, efficient & adept at getting around, this Roman Toyota hybrid made for a great spy'

Answer: Prius


Question: '2 of the "Rude Mechanicals" from this play are Tom Snout the Tinker & Nick Bottom the Weaver'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'In a WB TV series, Treat Williams followed his dead wife's wish & took the kids to this Colorado town'

Answer: Everwood


Question: 'His 1742 "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" was a prelude to writings on other games'

Answer: (Edmond) Hoyle


Question: 'Joshua'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'In 1215 a bloody incident on this city's Ponte Vecchio began a civil war between the Guelphs & Ghibellines'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'This 12-letter guy isn't remembered for much of anything other than getting under people's skin'

Answer: Subcutaneous


Question: 'Sometimes called "Irish Cobs" or "Gypsy Cobs", Irish Tinkers are a type of this animal'

Answer: horse


Question: 'Eddie Rabbitt sang the title song for this 1978 Clint Eastwood movie about a boxer & his simian sidekick'

Answer: Every Which Way but Loose


Question: 'To figure out the chance of a given roll with 2 dice, take the number of ways that total can come up & divide by this'

Answer: thirty-six


Question: '"The spirit who bideth by himself / in the land of mist and snow / he loved the bird that loved the man / who shot him with his bow"'

Answer: (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge


Question: 'This strongman was killed destroying a Philistine temple & was interred in his father's burying place'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'Members of the DAR are descended from men & women who participated in this event'

Answer: The Revolutionary War


Question: 'Glutamic acid from wheat is used to produce this flavor enhancer'

Answer: MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)


Question: 'The G in MGM, he was excluded from the 1924 deal forming that company'

Answer: Samuel Goldwyn


Question: 'There are fountains beyond the outfield at the stadium of this Kansas City baseball team'

Answer: Kansas City Royals


Question: 'To knock down General George S.'

Answer: Flatten Patton


Question: 'Zechariah, father of this forerunner of Christ, lost his voice for doubting God's word'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'This organization abbreviated OA is dedicated to helping those who constantly binge on food'

Answer: Overeaters Anonymous


Question: 'South America's main wheat-growing area is the Pampa in this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Tim Burton, director of the 1989 smash about this comic book hero, also co-produced the 1992 sequel'

Answer: Batman


Question: 'Ottorino Respighi wrote a symphonic poem about the "Fountains Of" this Italian capital'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'A really big southpaw'

Answer: Hefty lefty


Question: 'Abraham was 100 years old & Sarah was 90 when this child was born to them'

Answer: Isaac


Question: 'Act it out if you wish; it's the organization sung about in the following: [audio clue: "Young man, there's a place you can go, I say young man, when you're short on your dough..."]'

Answer: Y.M.C.A


Question: 'This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E'

Answer: Germ


Question: 'Albert R. Broccoli produced 17 James Bond films & this kids' movie also based on an Ian Fleming book'

Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang


Question: 'You'll find the Fountain of the Centaurs on the Missouri capital grounds in this city'

Answer: Jefferson City


Question: 'A humorous Scandinavian dwarf of folklore'

Answer: Droll troll


Question: 'His son Ham was the father of the Canaanites'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'You don't have to be a genius to know its name is Latin for "table", but you do have to be one to belong'

Answer: Mensa


Question: 'Types of wheat are grouped according to these 2 seasons'

Answer: Winter & spring


Question: 'He acted opposite Mary Pickford before starting the Keystone Company to produce comedies'

Answer: Mack Sennett


Question: 'Lorado Taft's Fountain of the Great Lakes is now at this city's Art Institute'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'A person who teaches you to imitate an owl'

Answer: Hooter tutor


Question: 'When informed that this king & his son Jonathan had been killed, David said, "How are the mighty fallen"'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'The Max Planck Society is one of this country's chief organizations for scientific research'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Pasta is made from this coarsely-ground grain of durum wheat'

Answer: Semolina


Question: 'Julia Phillips was the first woman producer to win a Best Picture Oscar, for this 1973 con game film'

Answer: The Sting


Question: 'Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa'

Answer: Dolphin


Question: 'A pumpkin suffering from ennui'

Answer: Bored gourd


Question: 'Linguists have debunked the common belief that Eskimos have dozens of words for this substance'

Answer: Snow


Question: 'This city's Independence Nat'l Historical Park has been called "The most historic square mile in America"'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This Arctic bear's feet are webbed & have hairy soles'

Answer: Polar bear


Question: 'This Alberta capital is called the Gateway to the North'

Answer: Edmonton


Question: '"A Tale of Two Cities" opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison'

Answer: The Bastille


Question: 'It's one's partner in crime'

Answer: Accomplice


Question: 'These systems of communication that use the hands can be as rich & complex as spoken tongues'

Answer: Sign language/signing


Question: 'Pompey's Pillar, a rock formation in Montana, was named by Capt. William Clark for the son of this Indian guide'

Answer: Sacajawea


Question: 'Large feral populations of the "mute" species of this long-necked bird inhabit the Mid-Atlantic coast'

Answer: Swans


Question: 'A ferry & 2 suspension bridges connect Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with this capital'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory'

Answer: Les Miserables


Question: 'It means to set free, as from slavery'

Answer: Emancipate


Question: 'Sentence diagrams called these may include lines called branches'

Answer: Trees


Question: 'Dating from the early 1700s, the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this city is the oldest house in Florida'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous'

Answer: Piranha


Question: 'Commercial cod fishing, long a mainstay of this Newfoundland capital, declined to almost nothing by 1990'

Answer: St. John\'s


Question: 'In "Through The Looking Glass", Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of this nonsense poem'

Answer: Jabberwocky


Question: 'Literally meaning "all powerful", it's often used to describe God'

Answer: Omnipotent


Question: 'Considered part of grammar, it's the study of the interrelation of words in a sentence'

Answer: Syntax


Question: 'Carmel Mission in Carmel, Calif. was the headquarters of this Franciscan priest until his death in 1784'

Answer: Fr. Junipero Serra


Question: 'A pocket gopher's pockets are fur-lined & located in these'

Answer: Cheeks


Question: 'This Manitoba capital annexed the adjacent community of Saint Boniface in 1972'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'In the final scene of "Rebecca", this stately mansion of Maxim De Winter burns'

Answer: Manderley


Question: 'Lionel Hampton's instrument'

Answer: Vibraphone


Question: 'This famed M.I.T. scholar has proposed that humans have the inborn ability to learn language'

Answer: Noam Chomsky


Question: 'Sunflower Landing near Clarksdale, Miss. is believed to be where he found the Mississippi River in 1541'

Answer: Hernando De Soto


Question: 'Scientists divide these toothless whales into 3 groups: right whales, gray whales & rorquals'

Answer: Baleen whales


Question: 'This British Columbia capital was the capital of the colony of Vancouver Island 1848-1866'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'The title of this 1965 Frank Herbert novel refers to the desert planet of Arrakis'

Answer: Dune


Question: 'From the Latin word for "tear", it describes someone mournful, who cries easily'

Answer: Lachrymose


Question: 'The 1996 Chemistry Prize went to the discoverers of a 60-carbon atom molecule called this'

Answer: Buckyball


Question: 'Contour flying is when a pilot flies low, following the Earth's contours, to avoid this'

Answer: Radar


Question: 'Slim & the others may feed this fund made up of a portion of each pot'

Answer: Kitty


Question: 'An exclamation point was warranted for the "End Of" This! in 1918'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'On their 1997 Popmart tour this Irish band covered the Monkees' "Daydream Believer"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'These insects "chirp" by rubbing their 2 front wings together'

Answer: Crickets


Question: 'This for life in the U.S. is currently about 76 years'

Answer: Life expectancy


Question: 'No armed forces are allowed in this area between North & South Korea'

Answer: Demilitarized zone


Question: 'According to Hoyle, before Slim deals, the player to his right has to do this with 5 to 47 cards'

Answer: Cut the deck


Question: '"Shot Dead By Federal Men In Front Of Movie Theatre" read his 1934 front-page obituary'

Answer: John Dillinger


Question: 'He's the singer heard here:  "In dreams, I walk...."'

Answer: Roy Orbison


Question: 'This bloodsucking insect, cimex lectularius, is often found in mattresses; don't let 'em bite'

Answer: Bedbugs


Question: 'The three members of our staff, seen here, are all in this condition'

Answer: Pregnancy


Question: 'A period of guard duty; in the Navy one may be 4 or 8 hours long'

Answer: Watch


Question: 'When Slim gets this hand it reminds him of Bob Saget, Lori Loughlin, & the Olsen Twins'

Answer: Full house


Question: '"Thousands Trapped In The Subways; Looters And Vandals Hit" were banners when this hit NYC in July 1977'

Answer: Blackout


Question: 'It's the Aerosmith tune that encourages you to "Dream until your dream comes true"'

Answer: Dream On


Question: 'This large hairy spider is named for a wolf spider found near the Italian town of Taranto'

Answer: Tarantula


Question: 'Loitering in a town & not having any visible means of support, you may get picked up for it'

Answer: Vagrancy


Question: 'It's an order for aircraft to get off the ground ASAP or an egg order to the mess hall cook'

Answer: Scramble


Question: 'Slim's numerical term for a bluffer who doesn't have the fifth card to fill out a hand of all the same suit'

Answer: Four-flusher


Question: 'Oct. 2, 1962:  "3,000 Troops Put Down....Rioting And Seize 200 As Negro Attends" this school'

Answer: University of Mississippi


Question: '"The only trouble" with this Everly Brothers hit is "Gee whiz, I'm dreaming my life away"'

Answer: All I Have To Do Is Dream


Question: 'These small, stinging ants were introduced into the U.S. at Mobile, Alabama'

Answer: Fire ants


Question: 'Derringer or Butler'

Answer: Yancy


Question: 'Whether general or ready, they're the troops held close by'

Answer: Reserves


Question: 'To do this in stud poker, Slim turns all his cards face down'

Answer: Fold


Question: 'The Times made its own front page in 1971 when the Supreme Court upheld its publication of these documents'

Answer: The Pentagon Papers


Question: 'In 1975 this outlaw released "Dreaming My Dreams" & his wife Jessi Colter released "I'm Not Lisa"'

Answer: Waylon Jennings


Question: 'Also known as a devil's darning needle, it may have as many as 28,000 lenses in its compound eyes'

Answer: Dragonfly


Question: 'Janet Leigh was sorry she found one of these at the Bates Motel'

Answer: Vacancy


Question: 'In 1682 he founded the "City Of Brotherly Love"'

Answer: William Penn (Philadelphia)


Question:
'McDuffie,
Meriwether,
Macon'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'His wife Lauren Bacall was his leading lady in the 1946 film noir "The Big Sleep"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'Henry VIII imported an executioner from France just to behead this second wife on May 19, 1536'

Answer: Anne Boleyn


Question: 'Of this deaf composer she wrote, "Sweet sounds, oh beautiful music, do not cease!"'

Answer: L.V. Beethoven


Question: 'In the classic sitcom he's the patriarch of "The Addams Family"'

Answer: Gomez


Question: 'Nearly 13,000 homes & 100 churches were destroyed in this city's Great Fire of 1666'

Answer: London


Question:
'McClain,
McCurtain,
Muskogee'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: '7 years after "The Wizard Of Oz" Ray Bolger co-starred with her again, in "The Harvey Girls"'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'On May 15, 1996 he announced he would soon become "A private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man"'

Answer: Senator Bob Dole


Question: 'Later in life she wrote that, like the lonely tree, this season "sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more"'

Answer: Summer


Question: 'Port Said is this waterway's northern terminus'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'In his 1613 "Letters On Sunspots", he openly supported the Copernican theory'

Answer: Galileo


Question:
'Baca,
Bent,
Boulder'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'Meryl Streep & this actress were acclaimed for playing sisters in the 1996 film "Marvin's Room"'

Answer: Diane Keaton


Question: 'Oliver Lewis rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural running of this horse race on May 17, 1875'

Answer: Kentucky Derby


Question: 'Cynically she wrote that this "Is not all; it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain"'

Answer: Love


Question: 'One of the large, flat triangular muscles of the shoulder & upper back region'

Answer: Trapezius


Question: 'Cheers to this Benedictine monk who pioneered the making of champagne in 1698'

Answer: Dom Perignon


Question:
'Whitley,
Wayne,
Wabash'

Answer: Indiana


Question: '"Ransom" reunited her with her "Lethal Weapon 3" co-star Mel Gibson'

Answer: Rene Russo


Question: 'On May 10, 1941 this deputy to Hitler parachuted from a plane over Scotland with a "peace plan"'

Answer: Rudolf Hess


Question: 'Edna wrote that this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"'

Answer: My candle


Question: 'This Frenchman painted the self-portrait seen here:'

Answer: Paul Cezanne


Question: 'In 1673 this pair explored the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the Arkansas'

Answer: Marquette & Joliet


Question:
'Oswego,
Onondaga,
Oneida'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Montgomery Clift & Shelley Winters were nominated for Oscars for this 1951 film; Elizabeth Taylor was not'

Answer: A Place in the Sun


Question: 'On May 6, 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte won this country's presidential election with 54% of the vote'

Answer: El Salvador


Question: '"We were very tired, we were very merry -- we had gone back and forth all night in" this conveyance'

Answer: Ferry


Question: 'Columbus' first landing on the mainland of the Americas was on the coast of what is now this country'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'His wife Abigail wrote to him in a 1776 letter, "Remember the ladies... all men would be tyrants if they could"'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'In the 1990s Marv Levy led this team to 4 straight Super Bowl appearances'

Answer: the Buffalo Bills


Question: 'Legend says if you run unto the ghost of the pirate Blackbeard, he may be hard to recognize, as he's missing this'

Answer: his head


Question:
'Snow,
Mother
or
Canada'

Answer: a goose


Question: 'In 1932 one of these speed limit-less German expressways opened between Cologne & Bonn'

Answer: an Autobahn


Question: 'By its isolated nature, your last original thought might be considered one of these children without parents'

Answer: an orphan


Question: 'In 1792 Robert Thomas founded this almanac that contained useful weather info; the "Old" was added later'

Answer: The Farmers\' Almanac


Question: 'In 2004 LSU coach Nick Saban was tapped to be the new head coach for this team'

Answer: the Miami Dolphins


Question: 'A legendary sailor of the Incas shares his name with this raft on which Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Pacific'

Answer: the Kon-Tiki


Question:
'Rock Cornish game hen
or
Rhode Island Red'

Answer: a chicken


Question: 'Founded in Cologne, this German airline really took off in 1953'

Answer: Lufthansa


Question: 'Being around you has completely killed my sense of this, the tendency to expect the best of life'

Answer: optimism


Question: 'In 1796 he said that the U.S. should "steer clear of permanent alliances" in foreign policy'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Of current head coaches, this reigning Super Bowl champ has the longest consecutive tenure with 1 team'

Answer: Bill Cowher


Question: 'A legend about this "Irish" group is that they are the descendants of shipwrecked sailors of the Spanish Armada'

Answer: the Black Irish


Question:
'Golden
or
ring-necked'

Answer: a pheasant


Question: 'Taking nearly 600 years to complete, Cologne Cathedral is the largest in this style in Northern Europe'

Answer: Gothic


Question: 'At your place of work, it might behoove us to replace you with one of these Pongo pygmaeus apes of Borneo'

Answer: an orangutan


Question: 'On Dec. 26, 1776 Americans killed Col. Johann Rall & captured about 1,000 Hessian troops in this battle'

Answer: the Battle of Trenton


Question: 'The Raiders rehired this man in 2006, 17 years after making him the first black head coach in the modern NFL'

Answer: Art Shell


Question: 'Marshall Gold Discovery State Hist. Park is in this county that shares its name with a legendary city of gold'

Answer: El Dorado


Question:
'Red-shouldered
or
red-tailed'

Answer: a hawk


Question: 'The Zoo Bridge spans this river that runs through Cologne'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'When you try to make a point, you flail around like one of these mollusks with 8 limbs'

Answer: an octopus


Question: 'These 85 essays arguing for adoption of the Constitution appeared between October 27, 1787 & May 28, 1788'

Answer: the Federalist Papers


Question: 'He spent his entire 29-year NFL head coaching career with one team'

Answer: Tom Landry


Question: 'A modern urban legend says the USS Eldridge disappeared in this city's Navy yard in a 1943 "Experiment"'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question:
'The blackcock
or
the ruffed'

Answer: a grouse


Question: 'Born in Cologne in 1876, he was the first chancellor of West Germany following World War II'

Answer: Konrad Adenauer


Question: 'After a wrong response, we may need to use one of these cathode-ray "scopes" to check for brain activity'

Answer: an oscilloscope


Question: 'The Romanov dynasty was named in honor of Roman Yurievich, whose daughter married this "horrifying" czar'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: 'Cyril Ritchard hooked a 1955 Tony for playing Captain Hook in this musical'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'In this Tennessee Williams play, Tom Wingfield brings a gentleman caller home to meet his crippled sister Laura'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'We've got Bud & Amstel Light in bottles, or Sam Adams "on" this syncopated style'

Answer: tap


Question: 'Women have this piece of thyroid cartilage, too; it's just smaller than a man's & may be under more fat'

Answer: an Adam\'s apple


Question: '4-syllable synonym for "to count", from Latin for "to count"'

Answer: enumerate


Question: 'One bio of this "Great" czar says he carried dental instruments around with him because he loved to pull teeth'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Bloody Mary was the girl the Tonys loved in 1950, when Juanita Hall won for playing her in this musical'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'In "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett O'Hara marries Charles Hamilton & Ashley Wilkes marries her, Charles' sister'

Answer: Melanie


Question: 'If you wash your hair in the sink, you might have to deal with this heavy-shoed dance'

Answer: clog


Question: 'Estrogen & progesterone are hormones produced by these glands'

Answer: the ovaries


Question: 'This word for a type of running is from a word meaning "jump", & it's a talent that long jumpers need to get distance'

Answer: sprint


Question: 'At Oranienbaum, this ruler who certainly loved her thrills had a "sliding hill", an 18th c. version of a roller coaster'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Gertrude Lawrence won in 1952 for playing the title pronoun in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'Meg's the oldest of the sisters in this family; Amy, the youngest'

Answer: the Marches


Question: 'It was established as a cyclic form by Vienna's Josef Lanner; you think you can do this dance in here & order us around?'

Answer: waltz


Question: 'A fertilized egg travels to this female body part & implants itself there'

Answer: the uterus


Question: 'You can fluff pillows or do this, also meaning "chubby"'

Answer: plump


Question: 'All 3 of the Romanov czars named Alexander reigned during this century'

Answer: the 19th century


Question: 'In 1953 Thomas Mitchell won for the musical "Hazel Flagg" & this future TV "Hazel" won for "Time of the Cuckoo"'

Answer: Shirley Booth


Question: 'While in a cataleptic trance, Roderick's sister Madeline is buried alive in this Poe story'

Answer: "The Fall of the House of Usher"


Question: 'This centuries-old English dance "was up" for the bank robber when the cops arrived'

Answer: jig


Question: 'Location of the zygomatic bones; fashion models may have prominent ones'

Answer: cheekbones


Question: 'Appropriate last name of Captain William of 18th century Virginia, who promoted vigilante justice'

Answer: Lynch


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peterhof in St. Petersburg, Russia.)  On August 12, 1904, Russia rejoiced when Empress Alexandra gave birth to this child, her only son, here on the estate at Peterhof'

Answer: Alexis


Question: 'This redhead won 4 Tonys in the '50s, for "Can-Can", "Damn Yankees", "New Girl in Town" & "Redhead"'

Answer: Gwen Verdon


Question: 'Holden Caulfield tells this little sister that he wants to be a "catcher in the rye" to keep kids from falling'

Answer: Phoebe


Question: 'Our team won 55-0--you could call it this 19th century African-American dance'

Answer: a cakewalk


Question: 'When a woman's "water breaks" in labor, the "water" is this fluid'

Answer: amniotic fluid


Question: 'As a verb, this British nationality means to put an end to something abruptly'

Answer: Scotch


Question: 'He's the only person to direct his daughter & his father in Oscar-winning performances'

Answer: John Huston


Question: 'Like its lengthy river, this state's name is Algonquian for "great water"'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'In the "Sopranos" first season finale, Jimmy Altieri gets whacked for being one of these rodents'

Answer: a rat


Question: 'No. 7 in "Food Trends":<br />Meat from this animal (kid is the tenderest)'

Answer: goat


Question: 'Its eggs weigh around 3 pounds each:<br />RICH SOT'

Answer: ostrich


Question: 'Dare: Imitate Kikazaru, the monkey who illustrates this phrase that goes with "see no evil" & "speak no evil"'

Answer: "hear no evil"


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.)  It's part of a regulation match played to 21 or 15 points; it's also the word that comes between bump & spike'

Answer: set


Question: 'Laugh all you like but Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow was named for this Minnesota waterfall'

Answer: Minnehaha


Question: 'Comanche chief Parra-o-coom was described as "a great" this animal "of a man"; it's also what his name means'

Answer: bear


Question: 'No. 2 in "Jerry Stiller's Top 10 Words":<br />This before "gevalt!" (Bonus--No. 3 was "colonoscopy")'

Answer: Oy


Question: 'Mmm... caviar:<br />SO URGENT'

Answer: sturgeon


Question: 'Truth: This "Common Sense" pamphleteer later turned to inventing, trying to come up with a smokeless candle'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.)  It's the lethal term for an attack that results in an immediate point or side-out; it can be a gentle dink as well as a dramatic spike'

Answer: a kill


Question: 'Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region'

Answer: Mobile


Question: 'Slang for a woman on the prowl for younger men'

Answer: a cougar


Question: 'No. 7 in "Quotes":<br />This politician, when told that 2/3 of Americans did not support the Iraq War--"So?"'

Answer: Dick Cheney


Question: 'A type of this lays the smallest egg for an avian:<br />BRING HIM MUD'

Answer: hummingbird


Question: 'Dare: Respond with an imitation of this radio therapist whose "Sexually Speaking" program began in 1980'

Answer: Ruth Westheimer


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.)  If you make this type of spectacular save, it might get ranked high on the web site with the same-sounding name'

Answer: dig


Question: 'Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs'

Answer: Punxsutawney


Question: 'On behalf of Western intelligence, Col. Oleg Penkovsky was one of these inside the USSR'

Answer: a mole


Question: 'No. 1 in "Discoveries":<br />"Snow on" this'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'This bird's eggs are so pretty a color is named for them:<br />IN BRO'

Answer: robin


Question: 'Truth: This fight promoter said "There was a spontaneous combustion of love" at the Trump wedding'

Answer: Don King


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.)  A floater serve is hit with minimal spin so that it moves unpredictably on the same principle as this pitch in baseball'

Answer: a knuckleball


Question: 'An RV maker based in Iowa shares its name with this large Wisconsin lake'

Answer: Winnebago


Question: 'Denis Leary says of firefighters, "You have to be like" this sea creature.  "You have to keep moving forward"'

Answer: a shark


Question: 'No. 9 in "Green Stories":<br />"Northeastern utilities bid $38.5 million for the right to emit 12.5 tons of" this'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'Reptile born with an "egg tooth" so it can escape its shelled jail:<br />TAILOR GAL'

Answer: alligator


Question: 'Dare: She was born on Aug. 18, 1587, the first English child born in America'

Answer: Virginia Dare


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.)  A one-handed block is known by this word, after the way a movie king defended himself against airplanes'

Answer: a kong


Question: 'July 7, 2009:<br />If you're in Australia, the Americas or sailing the Pacific, look for an eclipse of this'

Answer: the Moon


Question: '1956:<br />The Red Sea is parted'

Answer: The Ten Commandments


Question: 'George: "It's very simple, Martha, this young man is working on a system whereby chromosomes can be altered"'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'This street, seen here, was crossed on a 1969 album cover'

Answer: Abbey Road


Question: 'On May 24, 1927 the Las Vegas Review headlined that this man "Spurns Offers.  Back to Air Mail, Says"'

Answer: (Charles) Lindbergh


Question: 'Pertaining to an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, all too common in the 14th century'

Answer: bubonic


Question: 'The schedule is TBD, but if you head way up north in March or Sept., you can probably catch this big light show'

Answer: Aurora borealis


Question:
'1968:
(Spoiler alert!)
Taylor discovers Lady Liberty poking up through the sand'

Answer: Planet of the Apes


Question: 'Algernon: "You look as if your name was Ernest.  You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life"'

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest


Question: 'This sign means there's a legal crossing for those going here'

Answer: school


Question: 'On May 3, 1973 the Chicago Tribune said this local landmark "Becomes the Tallest of the Tall"'

Answer: the Sears Tower


Question: 'A group of nations acting together, like the old Soviet one'

Answer: bloc


Question: 'January 3, 2010:<br />Look out!  The Quadrantids will be coming from Bootes!  Oh... relax, it's just a shower of these things'

Answer: meteors


Question: '1998:<br />Bullet trails in the water showcase the horror of the Normandy invasion'

Answer: Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'Nathan: "There is the highest player of them all... why do you think they call him Sky?  That's how high he bets"'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'You might see the sign here on your way to Samut Prakan in this country where elephants are a national symbol'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'A Sept. 13, 1901 Buffalo News headline read, he "Passed Away... from Effects of Cowardly Assassin's Bullet"'

Answer: President McKinley


Question: 'Pompous; overblown'

Answer: bombastic


Question: 'If you stay up really, really, late (like till 2061), you'll see this, named for the guy who identified it in 1705'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: '1968:<br />Dave enters the airlock without a space helmet'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'Orsino: "O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence"'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'Bogie and Bacall are moseying over to protest hearings by the House committee on these in 1947'

Answer: Un-American Activities


Question: 'From the July 22, 1925 Knoxville Journal:<br />This man "Declared Guilty"; "Bryan's Testimony Ordered Stricken"'

Answer: (John T.) Scopes


Question: '1829 novelist of "Les Chouans"'

Answer: Balzac


Question: 'June 6, 2012:<br />At sunset, watch this planet make a transit across the sun--only the 8th since the invention of the telescope'

Answer: Venus


Question: '1984:<br />Men ride giant worms & attack the forces of the Emperor'

Answer: Dune


Question: 'Inez: "I prefer to choose my hell; I prefer to look you in the eyes and fight it out face to face"'

Answer: No Exit


Question: 'The crossing sign here is for this South American bird, not the actress who played Carla on "Cheers"'

Answer: a rhea


Question: 'From the Sept. 16, 1961 N.Y. Times:<br />He "Dies in African Air Crash; Kennedy Going to U.N. in Succession Crisis"'

Answer: Dag Hammarskjold


Question: 'Branch of the Indo-European family of languages'

Answer: Baltic


Question: 'Once called radium F, this element was named for the homeland of one of its discoverers'

Answer: polonium


Question: 'Garry Wills used a lot more than 272 words writing "Lincoln at" this place, which won him a 1993 Pulitzer'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'A blue star with a white outline'

Answer: the Dallas Cowboys


Question: 'April 8, 1973:<br />A blue period for the art world with his demise'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Front-closing style of sweater favored by Mr. Rogers'

Answer: a cardigan


Question: 'In a Harry Potter novel, Sirius Black is a convicted murderer who escapes from this island prison in the North Sea'

Answer: Azkaban


Question: 'Havana's Real Fabrica de Tabacos Partagas has been turning these out since 1845'

Answer: cigars


Question: '2007's winner, "The Looming Tower" is subtitled this terrorist group "and the Road to 9/11"'

Answer: al-Qaeda


Question: 'A soldier with a blue 3-cornered hat & red streaks'

Answer: the New England Patriots


Question: 'May 13, 1884:<br />This inventor did not fear the (mechanical) reaper'

Answer: Cyrus McCormick


Question: 'Eddie Bauer & The Gap offer the flared-below-the-knee jeans called this "cut", from what they fit over'

Answer: boot-cut


Question: 'Meaning loathsome, it precedes snowman or, in a movie title, Dr. Phibes'

Answer: abominable


Question: 'Charlie Bucket might like to visit this type of factory that opened in 1884 in Voiron, France'

Answer: a chocolate factory


Question: 'Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" centers on John Paul Vann & America's involvement in this event'

Answer: the Vietnam War


Question: 'On a tattered red flag, a skull over crossed swords with a football in the middle'

Answer: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers


Question: 'December 7, 1975:<br />In "our town" of Hamden, Conn.'

Answer: Thornton Wilder


Question: 'Christian Lacroix popularized the pouf type of this'

Answer: dress (or skirt)


Question: 'As a noun, it's a mop used to clean a ship's deck; as a verb, it's what you do with the mop'

Answer: swab


Question: 'In 2004 "Mustang Sally" played on the P.A. as an 86-year-old factory of this company ended production'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Herbert P. Bix won in 2001 with a book on this emperor "and the Making of Modern Japan"'

Answer: Hirohito


Question: 'A white arrowhead with a black outline; inside are 2 letters'

Answer: the Kansas City Chiefs


Question: 'January 14, 1984:<br />After passing through the golden arches'

Answer: Ray Kroc


Question: 'In 2002 John Gotti was buried in a pinstripe suit of this characteristic closing type'

Answer: double-breasted


Question: 'It's an outline of what material will be covered in a college course'

Answer: a syllabus


Question: 'The Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Penn. filled its first orders for this industrial material in 1875'

Answer: steel


Question: 'William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay'

Answer: the Chesapeake


Question: 'A fleur-de-lis'

Answer: the New Orleans Saints


Question: 'October 11, 1963:<br />The end of this chanteuse's "vie en rose"'

Answer: Édith Piaf


Question: 'You might see celebrities Don or Beth in this style of shirt seen here'

Answer: a Henley style


Question: 'These 1st & 2nd century B.C. Jewish patriots were active in liberating Judea from Syrian rule'

Answer: the Maccabees


Question: 'Company that ran the Hawk-Eye Works in Rochester, N.Y.'

Answer: (Eastman) Kodak


Question: 'With a flood control system, the Red River no longer flows into this river, just into the Atchafalaya'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'Sinatra as a swinger (What a stretch!):<br />"Come Blow Your _____"'

Answer: Horn


Question: 'This carnivorous marsupial serves as the symbol of the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service'

Answer: the Tasmanian devil


Question: 'The names of the 3 ships that left the Canary Islands on Sept. 6, 1492, heading west'

Answer: the Nina, the Pinta & the Santa Maria


Question: 'To a baseball pitcher:<br />ERA'

Answer: earned run average


Question: 'The perfume Quelques Fleurs, whose name means "some" these, supposedly has the fragrances of 313 of them'

Answer: flowers


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out an area on a map.)  It's North America's largest Pacific Coast island; the major city of the same name is not on it, but separated from it by straits'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'Holly Hunter played it:<br />"The _____"'

Answer: Piano


Question: 'Australia has the only all-black species of this bird, Cygnus atratus'

Answer: a swan


Question: 'On Sept. 13, 1953 Marilyn Monroe made her network TV debut on this stingy comedian's program'

Answer: Jack Benny


Question: 'On party invitations:<br />BYOB'

Answer: bring your own booze


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue from the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan.) At many Japanese temples like the very impressive Sensoji Temple, clouds of this, used for purification, fill the air'

Answer: incense


Question: 'Washington said a great city would stand where the Cuyahoga met Lake Erie; judge for yourself here'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'A baseball drama:<br />"Bang the _____ Slowly"'

Answer: Drum


Question: 'The quokka, a short-tailed species of this kangaroo relative, is found on Rottnest Island & in W. Australia'

Answer: a wallaby


Question: 'French troops under Napoleon entered this capital on September 14, 1812 & found it in flames'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'In a Webster's Dictionary entry:<br />imper.'

Answer: imperative


Question: 'You quickly get used to the eggy smell at the Colorado resort called "Hot" this type of "Springs"'

Answer: Sulfur


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.)  This region, whose name means it's at the foot of a mountain, is a plateau between the higher Appalachians and the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain'

Answer: Piedmont


Question: 'A Bergman or Branagh operatic opus:<br />"The Magic _____"'

Answer: Flute


Question: 'The shingleback skink, a type of this, has protruding scales that make it look like a pine cone'

Answer: a lizard


Question: 'September 2006 brought news of a "Unity Deal" between Hamas & this other 5-letter Palestinian group'

Answer: Fatah


Question: 'A type of camera:<br />TLR'

Answer: twin lens reflex


Question: 'Introduced in 1890, this product for little backsides advertises its "clean, classic scent"'

Answer: baby powder


Question: 'Long before it empties into the Bay of Fundy, the Saint John River divides Maine from this province'

Answer: New Brunswick


Question: 'A Capote tale set in the South:<br />"The Grass _____"'

Answer: Harp


Question: 'This manatee relative of the order Sirenia can be found in the coastal waters of North Australia'

Answer: a dugong


Question: 'Oxford University's fall term is named for this -mas, not Christmas; it's a saint's Sept. 29 feast day'

Answer: Michaelmas


Question: 'On a ship:<br />PFD'

Answer: personal flotation device


Question: 'The wood of the Eastern red this tree (actually a juniper) has a distinct aroma familiar from closets'

Answer: a cedar


Question: 'Since 1066, the only British monarch to have 3 children ascend to the British throne'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from JFK Airport in New York.)  As in "Maria Full of Grace", the drug smugglers known by this animal term often run into trouble at U.S. airports'

Answer: a mule


Question: '"In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you"'

Answer: "Mr. Tambourine Man"


Question:
'Rome,
Brussels,
Lisbon'

Answer: Brussels


Question: 'One might run in the Preakness'

Answer: a colt


Question: 'The distinctive shoebill is also known as the whale-headed one of these baby deliverers'

Answer: a stork


Question: 'A common adverb, it's also the acronym of a 500,000-member feminist group'

Answer: NOW


Question: 'In 1971 Congress told this agency to start protecting visiting heads of state'

Answer: the Secret Service


Question: '"Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand"'

Answer: "The Times They Are A-Changin\'"


Question:
'Khartoum,
Cairo,
Kinshasa'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'This 19th century American artist & sculptor was known as "The Rembrandt of the West"'

Answer: Remington


Question: 'The bulls of these African animals can weigh up to 6 tons'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'If sending a Valentine to your Guamaninan sweetie, you'll need to know that this is Guam's U.S. postal abbreviation'

Answer: GU


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from JFK Airport in New York.)  It's the "I" in ICE, the Homeland Security department that confiscated these drugs & money'

Answer: Immigration


Question: '"I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane.  It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor"'

Answer: "Maggie\'s Farm"


Question:
'Manila,
Jakarta,
Canberra'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'He's the guitarist who had a Top 40 hit with "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo"'

Answer: Rick Derringer


Question: 'A nide is a brood of these birds (perhaps the ring-necked ones)'

Answer: pheasants


Question: 'In May 1970 many of these buildings were torched on campuses, including Kent State's on May 2'

Answer: ROTC


Question: 'Before becoming Homeland Security chief, Michael Chertoff's last job in the Bush admin. was in this Cabinet department'

Answer: Justice


Question: '"God say, 'You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run'"'

Answer: "Highway 61 Revisited"


Question:
'Brasilia,
Buenos Aires,
Bogota,
Belmopan'

Answer: Belmopan


Question: 'Famous for its cathedral, this English city was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex'

Answer: Winchester


Question: 'The Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals'

Answer: rat & pig


Question: 'This agreement on world tariffs & trade was signed by 23 countries in Geneva in 1947'

Answer: GATT


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a metal detector at JFK Airport in New York.)  A metal detector creates this type of field--if a sort of echo of the field comes back, metal must be present'

Answer: a magnetic field


Question: '"May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung"'

Answer: "Forever Young"


Question:
'Hanoi,
Phnom Penh,
Rangoon,
Vientiane'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'Fredric March portrayed this poet in "The Barrets of Wimpole Street"'

Answer: (Robert) Browning


Question: 'Russian circuses often feature these animals, a national symobol, trained in the art of juggling with their feet!'

Answer: bears


Question: 'This British organization hands out its equivalent to the Oscars'

Answer: BAFTA


Question: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay began a sonnet "Thou art not lovelier than" this flower'

Answer: a lilac


Question: 'This Freehold-born rocker has had many "Glory Days"'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'On Aug. 5, 1994 he was named independent counsel in the Whitewater affair'

Answer: Kenneth Starr


Question: '"By the time" this work "is over, fate has been trampled underfoot by triumphant music"'

Answer: the Fifth Symphony


Question: 'Around 1908 tea merchant Thomas Sullivan hit upon this innovation that avoids the mess of straining leaves'

Answer: a teabag


Question: '2-word term for a pointless task performed for no good reason'

Answer: a fool\'s errand


Question: 'Around 1804, this poet wrote of being lonely until he saw a mess of flowers like those shown'

Answer: Wordsworth


Question: 'His July 20, 1973 death in Hong Kong at age 32 shocked the world'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'In March 1974, 7 ex-Nixon officials were arrested for conspiracy, including this former Chief of Staff'

Answer: Haldeman


Question: '"Betrayed in the hope of getting better", Beethoven was "forced to face the prospect of a permanent malady"--this'

Answer: deafness


Question: 'According to one legend, this spiritual leader born in 563 B.C. was the first to discover tea'

Answer: Buddha


Question: '9-letter word for something designed to be impervious to human incompetence'

Answer: foolproof


Question: 'One of Robinson Jeffers' most famous poems is about a hurt one of these birds'

Answer: a hawk


Question: 'Dustin Hoffman starred as this controversial entertainer in a 1974 biopic'

Answer: Lenny Bruce


Question: 'A N.Y. coroner's inquest came to a finding of murder by this man, Vice President of the United States'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'It's the popular name of the piece heard here'

Answer: "The Moonlight Sonata"


Question: 'One of the first U.S. millionaires, this patriarch of the Astor family traded furs for tea from China'

Answer: John Jacob (Astor)


Question: 'This novel begins in Veracruz when a group of travelers embarks on a trip to Europe'

Answer: Ship of Fools


Question: 'Keats called its song "thy plaintive anthem"'

Answer: a nightingale


Question: 'This actor lived up to the title of his TV show in 1987 when he hit the Top 40 chart with "Respect Yourself"'

Answer: Bruce Willis


Question: '"If anyone wants to (follow) me, go ahead.  They'd be very bored", this politician said in 1987; they did, & they weren't'

Answer: Gary Hart


Question: 'Beethoven's Bagatelle in A Minor for Piano was eventually titled "Fur" her'

Answer: Elise


Question: 'The last Dutch governor of New Netherland, he introduced tea to America around 1647'

Answer: Peter Stuyvesant


Question: 'Found at fool.com, it's the Gardner brothers' online investment guide'

Answer: The Motley Fool


Question: 'A.E. Housman, "loveliest of trees," this now "is hung with bloom along the bow"'

Answer: a cherry tree


Question: 'He directed Jessica Tandy's Oscar-winning performance in "Driving Miss Daisy"'

Answer: Bruce Beresford


Question: 'In October 1974 ths Arkansas congressman's career got kicked in the Fanne (Fox)'

Answer: Wilbur Mills


Question: 'Symphony Beethoven "composed to celebrate the memory of a great man"'

Answer: Eroica


Question: 'Dating from 1662, the English use of tea is attributed to Catherine of Braganza, wife of this "Restored" king'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'Senior citizens might object to this proverb popularized by John Lyly in the play "Mother Bombie"'

Answer: There\'s no fool like an old fool


Question: 'The team names of these 2 expansion clubs start with the same 3 letters; one might catch the other'

Answer: the Seattle Mariners & the Florida Marlins


Question: 'Each year the EU selects capitals of culture; one of the 2010 cities was this Turkish "meeting place of cultures"'

Answer: Istanbul


Question: '"Rocky II", "III" & "IV"'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'Sprechen Sie Plattdeutsch? If you do, you speak the Low variety of this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'Before this hotel mogul's elbow broke through it, a Picasso he owned was worth $139 million; after, $85 million'

Answer: Steve Wynn


Question: 'On December 8, 2008 this national newspaper raised its newsstand price by 25 cents to $1'

Answer: USA Today


Question: 'Proverbially, it's "where the heart is"'

Answer: home


Question: 'The Schengen Agreement removes any controls at these between most EU neighbors'

Answer: national borders


Question: '"Million Dollar Baby" &<br />"Unforgiven"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'Dialects of this language include Wu, Yue & Hakka'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'It was 103 degrees in July 2010 & Con Ed's command center in this N.Y. borough showed 12,963 megawatts consumed at 1 time'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'The USPS cost for mailing this, a minimum of 3 1/2 x 5 inches, is 28 cents; wish you were here!'

Answer: a postcard


Question: 'A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders to below the waist'

Answer: a shift


Question: 'A controversial EU subsidy program is called CAP, short for "common" this "policy"'

Answer: agricultural


Question: '"The Pledge" &<br />"Into the Wild"'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'Vedic, dating back at least 4,000 years, is the earliest dialect of this classical language of India'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'Senator Obama attended the 2006 groundbreaking for this man's memorial, 1/2 mile from Lincoln's'

Answer: Martin Luther King


Question: 'In 2002 Eminem signed this rapper to a 7-figure deal, obviously worth a lot more than his name implies'

Answer: 50 Cent


Question: 'Football position that can be split or tight'

Answer: End


Question: 'Elected every 5 years, it has 736 members from 7 parties'

Answer: Parliament


Question: '"The Great Debaters"'

Answer: Denzel Washington


Question: 'While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed from a dialect of this Semitic language'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'Gambler Charles Wells is believed to have inspired the song "The Man Who" did this "At Monte Carlo"'

Answer: "Broke The Bank"


Question: '99 cents got me a 4-pack of Ytterlig coasters from this Swedish chain'

Answer: IKEA


Question: 'It's an abbreviation for Grand Prix auto racing'

Answer: F1


Question: 'As of 2010, Croatia & Macedonia are candidates but this is the only former Yugoslav republic in the EU'

Answer: Slovenia


Question: '"A Bronx Tale"'

Answer: Robert De Niro


Question: 'Aeolic, spoken in ancient times, was a dialect of this'

Answer: Ancient Greek


Question: 'Nearly 10 million YouTubers saw Dave Carroll's clip called this "friendly skies" airline "Breaks Guitars"'

Answer: United Airlines


Question: 'A 15-ounce V05 Moisture Milks conditioner from this manufacturer averages a buck online'

Answer: Alberto


Question: 'An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper'

Answer: an insert


Question: 'In 2010 this former First Lady published the memoir "Spoken from the Heart"'

Answer: Laura Bush


Question: 'In English law, it's a title above a gentleman & below a knight; in the U.S., it's usually added to the name of an attorney'

Answer: esquire


Question: 'This plain-weave, sheer fabric made with tightly twisted yarn is also used to describe a pie or cake'

Answer: chiffon


Question: 'Cape Hatteras is known as this cemetery synonym "of the Atlantic"'

Answer: a graveyard


Question: 'Itchy (the mouse) & Scratchy (the cat) starred in "Skinless in Seattle" on a show within this Fox show'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'Familiarity is said to breed this, from the Latin for "despise"'

Answer: contempt


Question: 'This book by Michael Lewis subtitled "Evolution of a Game" focused on left tackle prodigy Michael Oher'

Answer: The Blind Side


Question: 'One definition of this is entering a private place with the intent of listening secretly to private conversations'

Answer: eavesdropping


Question: 'A bit longer than a cocktail dress, one hemmed to end at the shins is this beverage "length"'

Answer: tea


Question: 'Appropriately enough, this New York metropolis is "Bison City"'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'In 1939's cartoon "The Pointer", this guy got a new, more pear-shaped body & pupils were added to his eyes'

Answer: Mickey (Mouse)


Question: 'Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day'

Answer: clock


Question: 'The New Yorker's 1959 review of this said in its brevity & clarity it is "unlike most such manuals, a book as well as a tool"'

Answer: The Elements of Style


Question: 'This person is appointed by a testator to carry out the directions & requests in his will'

Answer: executor


Question: 'Also the name of a rope for leading cattle, this women's backless top has a strap that loops around the neck'

Answer: halter


Question: 'This town is known as "Sin City" & its downtown is "Glitter Gulch"'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'This 1959 Daniel Keyes novella about Charlie Gordon & a smarter-than-average lab mouse won a Hugo award'

Answer: Flowers for Algernon


Question: 'If you're one of these capable fellows, you're unfortunately "master of none"'

Answer: a jack of all trades


Question: 'Dave Eggers not-so-modestly titled his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of" this'

Answer: Staggering Genius


Question: 'This 2-word phrase means the power to take private property for public use; it's ok, as long as there is just compensation'

Answer: eminent domain


Question: 'If you're wearing Wellingtons at Wimbledon, you're wearing these'

Answer: rainboots (or galoshes)


Question: 'It's known as both "The Steel City" & "The Iron City"'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'The samplefest "The Grey Album" & the band Gnarls Barkley are 2 projects of Brian Burton, aka this'

Answer: Danger Mouse


Question: 'A camel is a horse designed by this'

Answer: a committee


Question: 'HBO's miniseries "John Adams" was based on this author's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography'

Answer: David McCullough


Question: 'This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living'

Answer: escalator


Question: 'Throw on an outfit from the "Marc by" this designer line'

Answer: Marc Jacobs


Question: '"The Coyote State" is an unofficial nickname of this 75,885-square-mile state'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'Maurice LaMarche found his inner Orson Welles to voice this rodent whose simple goal was to take over the world'

Answer: the Brain


Question: 'It's a poor workman who blames these'

Answer: tools


Question: 'William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'During the Civil War, this river was called the "Backbone of the Confederacy"; it was guarded by several forts'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'The Who performed this work at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center in 1970'

Answer: Tommy


Question: 'Bow wow & Coney Island both refer to this food'

Answer: a hot dog


Question: 'This man's been on the job 30 years'

Answer: William Rehnquist


Question: 'Selling more than 25 million copies, this WWII diary of a young girl is the bestselling diary in history'

Answer: The Diary of Anne Frank


Question: 'This small racing sled has the distinction of being the National Spelling Bee's shortest winning word'

Answer: L-U-G-E


Question: 'This "calm" lake village in New York State is often called "America's Switzerland"'

Answer: Lake Placid


Question: 'Dvorak's "New World Symphony" debuted in this venue in 1893: the Beatles played there in 1964'

Answer: Carnegie Hall


Question: 'The name of this state is slang for maple syrup'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'He doffed his military togs for his political aspirations'

Answer: (General) Wesley Clark


Question: 'Working with more than 4.5 million donors, this American org. is the world's largest blood provider'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'Now that you've got the hang of it, 1932's word was this, like the group that sang "My Sharona"'

Answer: K-N-A-C-K


Question: 'Maryland is "the Old Line State"; this is "the Old Dominion"'

Answer: Virginia


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a street corner in the Bronx, New York.)  The Belmonts, named for the Belmont area of the Bronx, sang in this style, the street version of a cappella'

Answer: doo wop


Question: 'This beverage is Adam's ale'

Answer: water


Question: 'The 2003 war in Iraq strained relations between this man's government and the United States'

Answer: Jacques Chirac


Question: 'With 2,685, Bralanda, Sweden was the site of the largest gathering of these holiday personalities'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'Put the bite on this word from 1975, any one of the front cutting teeth'

Answer: I-N-C-I-S-O-R


Question: 'Rapid City's nickname, "Gateway City to the Hills", refers specifically to these hills'

Answer: the Black Hills


Question: 'She co-wrote "The Loco-Motion" in the Brill Building on Broadway'

Answer: Carole King


Question: 'A houseboat is this ice cream & fruit dessert'

Answer: a banana split


Question: 'This man was elected to his important post in 1997'

Answer: Kofi Annan


Question: 'With an average of 80.5 years, this Asian country leads the world in life expectancy'

Answer: Japan


Question: '1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll'

Answer: C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T


Question: 'The "Niagara of the South", this waterfall near Corbin, Kentucky shares its name with a famous "gap"'

Answer: Cumberland (Falls)


Question: 'This East Village venue was run by Bill Graham for only 3 years, from 1968 to 1971'

Answer: the Fillmore East


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joe Theismann.)  My column for espn.com is called this, slang for a serving of coffee'

Answer: Cup O\' Joe


Question: 'This political pundit & independent candidate for California governor is seen here'

Answer: Arianna Huffington


Question: 'With a 212-foot wingspan, this jet from Boeing is the world's largest passenger aircraft in service'

Answer: the 747


Question: 'A suicide pilot during WWII, it was 1993's winning word'

Answer: K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E


Question: 'Macduff tells us, "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top" this man'

Answer: the Macbeth


Question: '1952:<br />Marshal Will Kane'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'In August 1934 this president was made an honorary member of the Blackfoot tribe & given the name "Lone Chief"'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Basketball superstar Magic Johnson played his college ball at this university in East Lansing'

Answer: Michigan State


Question: 'His "Potato Eaters" was inspired by the time he spent as a missionary in the coal-mining region of Belgium in his mid-20s'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'It's the part of the military that traditionally fights on foot'

Answer: infantry


Question: 'Richard III says, "How sweet a thing it is to wear" one & Henry IV says, "Uneasy lies the head that wears" one'

Answer: a crown


Question: '1951:<br />Boat captain Charlie Allnut'

Answer: Bogart


Question: 'He had 2 adopted sons, One Bull & White Bull'

Answer: Sitting Bull


Question: 'Once known as the Antelopes & the Bugeaters, this university's sports teams are now known as the Cornhuskers'

Answer: the University of Nebraska


Question: 'Dr. Tulp was so pleased with this artist's painting of his "Anatomy Lesson" that it hung in his school of surgery'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'B or D, as opposed to A or O'

Answer: a consonant


Question: 'Laertes' first line in this play is "Dread my lord, your leave and favour to return to France"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: '1945:<br />Mildred Pierce'

Answer: Joan Crawford


Question: 'Major subgroups of this tribe of the American Southwest include Kiowa, Chiricahua & Mescalero'

Answer: the Apache


Question: 'Rhode Island's only Ivy League school is this institution'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'She called her New Mexico home, where she spent the last half century of her life, Ghost Ranch'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'Unyielding in your opinion that the singer of "Goody Two Shoes" is the greatest singer ever'

Answer: adamant


Question: 'In different plays, it's the name shared by men linked with Helen of Troy & with Juliet'

Answer: Paris


Question: '1933:<br />Henry VIII'

Answer: Charles Laughton


Question: 'This Florida tribe lived in dwellings called chickees that had raised floors & open sides allowing the air to circulate'

Answer: the Seminoles


Question: 'College Station is the home of this oldest public university in Texas'

Answer: Texas A&M


Question: 'His first major mural was painted at the Univ. of Mexico's Nat'l Preparatory School in the 1920s'

Answer: (Diego) Rivera


Question: 'From the Latin for "delight", this is someone who takes delight in dabbling in the arts'

Answer: dilettante


Question: 'It's the play in which Thaliard says, "So, this is Tyre, and this the court"'

Answer: Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Question: '1942:<br />Kay Miniver'

Answer: Greer Garson


Question: 'Gov. Bradford said that this Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn was an "instrument sent of God"'

Answer: Squanto


Question: 'New Haven has Albertus Magnus; Grand Rapids, Michigan has a school named for this other 13th c. theologian'

Answer: St. Thomas Acquinas


Question: 'Last name of Flemish brothers Jan & Hubert, who both are credited with painting portions of the "Ghent Altarpiece"'

Answer: Van Eyck


Question: 'The Huguenots received religious freedom from the 1598 edict of this city'

Answer: Nantes


Question: 'He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended"'

Answer: Robert Falcon Scott


Question: 'Space Mountain & Star Tours are among its attractions'

Answer: (Disneyland\'s) Tomorrowland


Question: 'This title dog's real first name is Scoobert'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'George Lucas is planning a 3-part prequel to this 1977 film'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'Pre-"Peanuts", he sold some of his cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post'

Answer: Charles Schulz


Question: 'Members observe Saturday Sabbath because of Genesis 2:3, which says God did this on the seventh day'

Answer: He rested


Question: 'In 1960 the Shirelles asked this musical question'

Answer: Will you still love me tomorrow?


Question: 'Mush Mouth & Dumb Donald were some of the Cosby kids on the show whose title featured this one'

Answer: Fat Albert


Question: 'He played Cameron Poe, an almost-paroled convict thwarting an escape attempt in "Con Air"'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'In the March 17, 1956 issue, Gary Cooper said, "In Westerns you were permitted to kiss" this "but never your girl"'

Answer: your horse


Question: 'Like Jews, many Adventists follow Leviticus 11:7 in abstaining from this meat'

Answer: pork


Question: 'In the novel "Gone with the Wind", it follows "I'll think of some way to get him back"'

Answer: Tomorrow is another day


Question: '"The Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs" on "Tiny Toons" were a parody of this cartoon group'

Answer: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


Question: 'In the same film, Mike Myers played Dr. Evil & this international man of mystery, baby'

Answer: Austin Powers


Question: 'Born in NYC in 1894, he painted 317 covers for the Post over 47 years'

Answer: Norman Rockwell


Question: 'The church funds worldwide good works by this contribution of 10% of members' incomes'

Answer: a tithe


Question: 'Annie told us you could "bet your bottom dollar that" this would happen'

Answer: the sun will come out tomorrow


Question: 'In 1985 an animated version of this Soleil Moon Frye sitcom character made the scene'

Answer: Punky Brewster


Question:
'In serials from the '30s & '40s, Charles Middleton played this evil emperor seen here:

"The expedition must be destroyed, with two exceptions: Zarkov and Flash Gordon.  As a prisoner, Zarkov will be of great use to me in my conquest of the universe."'

Answer: Ming the Merciless


Question: 'The Post's history goes back to The Pennsylvania Gazette founded by this man'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Beer lovers head for the beer halls of this Bavarian city, the birthplace of Oktoberfest'

Answer: Munich


Question:
'Heard here, he left rock 'n' roll in 1957 to be ordained a Seventh-Day Adventist minister:

"Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bomp-bomp!  Tutti frutti, all rooty!  Tutti frutti, all rooty!"'

Answer: Little Richard


Question: 'This advice on procrastination is credited to a 1749 letter written by Lord Chesterfield to his son'

Answer: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today


Question: 'This ape was the white elephant that pet store owner Mr. Peebles couldn't get rid of'

Answer: Magilla Gorilla


Question: 'This sailor hero's adventures include "The Golden Voyage" & "The Eye of the Tiger"'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: 'The 6 Earl Derr Biggers novels about this Chinese-American detective were first serialized in the Post'

Answer: Charlie Chan


Question: 'Guacara Taina in this capital of the Dominican Republic may be the world's only disco-in-a-cave'

Answer: Santo Domingo


Question: 'This group named for a king of Israel split from the church in 1934, a "branch" of it became notorious in 1993'

Answer: the Davidians


Question: 'The area of physics divided into statics & dynamics or the guys replacing your head gasket'

Answer: mechanics


Question: 'Opened in 1869, part of it follows the route of a canal dug 12 centuries earlier'

Answer: the Suez Canal


Question: 'Hamburgers'

Answer: residents of Hamburg


Question: 'This Kansan made her last known take-off from New Guinea; if you find out where she is, let us know'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'This name for a railroad terminal at Park & 42nd is a synonym for frenzied activity'

Answer: Grand Central Station


Question: 'Term for one end of a bar magnet, or for one of the discoverers of radium'

Answer: a pole


Question: 'One of the 3 large empires of 19th century Eastern Europe was this "Sick Man"'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'In this 1981 Burt Reynolds film, the first race car to reach California won'

Answer: The Cannonball Run


Question: 'Palermitans'

Answer: Palermo residents


Question: 'The Republicans had been around less than 30 years when they were dubbed this'

Answer: the Grand Old Party


Question: 'By definition, liquids & gases do this under stress, solids don't'

Answer: they flow


Question: 'In 1880 this Lincoln county sheriff captured Billy the Kid'

Answer: Pat Garrett


Question:
'Family that's California bound in the clip seen here:

"Think it'll hold?"'

Answer: the Joad Family


Question: 'Madrilenos'

Answer: residents of Madrid


Question: 'He's the most famous man we know from Russell, Kansas'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'Term for an extended visit to Europe, once an essential part of a British gent's upbringing'

Answer: the Grand Tour


Question: 'In the 19th C. Rudolf Clausius coined this word for measuring increasing disorder in a system'

Answer: entropy


Question: 'On sale May 1, 1840, the first postage stamp with adhesive on the back had this person on the front'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'In this 1995 film, Whoopi, Mary-Louise & Drew head to San Diego'

Answer: Boys on the Side


Question: 'Damascenes'

Answer: Damascus residents


Question: 'This Wild West town might still be wild if native son Dennis Hopper still lived there'

Answer: Dodge City


Question: 'A 1085-mile waterway in China & a 2.5 mile waterway in Venice are both called this'

Answer: the Grand Canal


Question: 'Silicon is a semiconducting material; this is the term for nonconductors like plastics'

Answer: an insulator


Question: '1853 purchase that brought the contiguous U.S. about up to its present area'

Answer: the Gadsden Purchase


Question: 'In "Calendar Girl" Jason Priestley heads to L.A. to meet this movie star'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'Varsovians'

Answer: residents of Warsaw


Question: 'This author of the "Guys & Dolls" stories really was from Manhattan--Manhattan, Kansas, that is'

Answer: Damon Runyon


Question: 'At 15 in 1991, Judit Polgar became the youngest person & one of the few women to attain this rank'

Answer: a grandmaster (in chess)


Question: 'In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin'

Answer: a bear


Question: 'As a youth, this "Iceman Cometh" dramatist prospected for gold in Honduras'

Answer: Eugene O\'Neill


Question: 'In 1986 this company introduced its Dockers line of men's casual wear'

Answer: Levi\'s


Question: 'Mary Bono won election to Congress over Ralph Waite, John-Boy's dad on this show'

Answer: The Waltons


Question: 'Add 2 letters to Niger to get the name of this country just south of it'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'He appeared fleet-ingly in "Sailor Beware" with Martin & Lewis before "East of Eden" made him a star'

Answer: James Dean


Question: 'Taste'

Answer: State


Question: 'In a Chekhov play, Mme. Ranevsky is the owner of this title area of land'

Answer: "The Cherry Orchard"


Question: 'It's "The Quicker Picker Upper"'

Answer: Bounty


Question: 'Film mogul Jack Warner supposedly said, "No.  Jimmy Stewart for president." this man "for best friend"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'In a song title, this country whose capital is Nairobi might come before "Feel the Love Tonight"'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'Before playing Cliff on "Cheers", John Ratzenberger appeared as Major Derlin in this second "Star Wars" film'

Answer: The Empire Strikes Back


Question: 'Send fee'

Answer: Defense


Question: 'In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle'

Answer: Lillian Hellman


Question: 'Elsie the Cow's "husband", his face is plastered on glue bottles'

Answer: Elmer


Question: 'She's played Queen Elizabeth I, but decided to join the House of Commons:'

Answer: Glenda Jackson


Question: 'In a song title, this country whose capital is Accra might come before "Fly Now"'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'Kevin Spacey played a sleazy businessman in this Melanie Griffith film about an ambitious secretary'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'Tire iron'

Answer: Interior


Question: 'In 1991 Nigel Hawthorne won a Tony for his role as this author in William Nicholson's play "Shadowlands"'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'Its "Extra Dry" was the first aerosol antiperspirant in the U.S.'

Answer: Arrid


Question: 'Artists like Gladys Knight have recorded the songs of this senior senator from Utah'

Answer: Orrin Hatch


Question: '(Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo)  One of the many languages I speak is this official one of my birthplace, Congo'

Answer: French


Question: 'Mr. C on "Happy Days", he played the man Natalie Wood's parents want her to marry in "Love with the Proper Stranger"'

Answer: Tom Bosley


Question: 'Idea count'

Answer: Education


Question: 'The search for the philosopher's stone is the subject of Ben Jonson's play about this title profession'

Answer: "The Alchemist"


Question: 'This sleek swimsuit brand got its start in Australia in 1928'

Answer: Speedo


Question: 'Actress & Congresswoman Helen Gahagan took this last name when she wed Oscar-winning actor Melvyn'

Answer: Douglas


Question: 'Milton Obote, no bargain either, ran this country before & after Idi Amin'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'Mike Farrell of "Providence" can be seen in the hotel in this 1967 Dustin Hoffman classic'

Answer: The Graduate


Question: 'To trap on trains'

Answer: Transportation


Question: 'His "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" featured the doctor, his colleagues & a cadaver'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'This nickname of the World War II U.S. Air Force fighter numbered the P-51 comes from the Spanish for "stray animal"'

Answer: Mustang


Question: 'A bright, tasty, yellow variety of apple; it's as yummy as it sounds'

Answer: Golden delicious


Question: 'In new houses, when all your lights go out, you flip the circuit breaker back; in old houses, you change these'

Answer: Fuses


Question: 'Every piece Chopin composed was for or included this instrument'

Answer: Piano


Question:
'"The Puzzle Place",
"This Old House",
"Frontline"'

Answer: PBS


Question: 'Artist whose masterpiece is seen here:<br />("Night Cafe")'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'One-third of the Americans who made up the Abraham Lincoln Battalion were killed during this country's civil war'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'It's the popular breed seen here:<br />(dog)'

Answer: Golden retriever


Question: 'On Oct. 19, 1999 this home & life improvement guru made a bundle after her IPO hit Wall Street'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: 'After some miserable months in Vienna, Chopin arrived in this city, another musical mecca, in September 1831'

Answer: Paris


Question:
'"Real World",
"House of Style",
"FANatic"'

Answer: MTV


Question: 'Because of his style of painting females, this master's name gave us an adjective for plump women'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens (rubenesque)


Question: 'There are Chinese & Russian versions of this rifle that's also known as Kalashnikov Model 1947'

Answer: AK-47


Question: 'While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Israelites worshipped this'

Answer: Golden Calf


Question: 'It's what andirons are built to hold'

Answer: Logs/wood in your fireplace


Question: 'After meeting this author, Chopin wondered, "Is she really a woman?"'

Answer: George Sand


Question:
'"7 Days",
"WWF Smackdown",
"Moesha"'

Answer: UPN


Question: 'In 1632 this court painter to England's Charles I & Queen Henrietta Maria was knighted'

Answer: Anthony van Dyck


Question: 'This kind of "force" is a temporary grouping of units to carry out a specific mission'

Answer: Task force


Question: 'This Mongol army overran Eastern Europe in the 13th century'

Answer: The Golden Horde


Question: 'There are 2 types of these safety devices, photoelectric & ionization'

Answer: Smoke detectors


Question: 'Chopin was born in Poland, & his first printed work at age 7 was one of these appropriately named pieces'

Answer: Polonaise


Question:
'"Emergency Vets",
"Wild Rescues",
"Breed All About It"'

Answer: Animal Planet


Question: 'This 20th century painter known for his neoplastic style helped establish a magazine called "De Stijl"'

Answer: Piet Mondrian


Question: 'This German "operation" to invade the Soviet Union took its name from a crusading Holy Roman Emperor'

Answer: Operation Barbarossa


Question: 'Lucius Apuleius wrote it'

Answer: "The Golden Ass"


Question: 'A heriz is a Persian one'

Answer: Carpet


Question: 'Chopin disliked the insincerity of this Hungarian pianist-composer 1 year his junior'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question:
'"Pros & Cons",
"Crime Stories",
"DC Insider"'

Answer: Court TV


Question: 'According to USA Today, they're the 2 nonconsecutive months that see the highest cookbook sales'

Answer: May & December


Question: 'Resembling a small lobster, it's Louisiana's state crustacean'

Answer: crawfish/crayfish


Question: 'Before penning "Beast" & "The Deep", he was a speechwriter for LBJ'

Answer: Peter Benchley


Question: 'I can't get none, but with this song the Rolling Stones had their first U.S. No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Satisfaction"


Question: 'On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms'

Answer: hurricanes


Question: 'The first American naval victory in the Revolution came under Commodore Esek Hopkins in these islands off Fla.'

Answer: Bahamas


Question: 'A small piano about 5 feet long'

Answer: baby grand


Question: 'Thought to resemble lions associated with Buddha, this Chinese dog breed was protected by royal decree'

Answer: Pekingese


Question: 'The author of a "monstrous" 1818 classic, she later wrote the autobiographical "Lodore" in 1835'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: 'The Stones played a cleaned-up version of "Let's Spend The Night Together" on this U.S. TV variety show in 1967'

Answer: The Ed Sullivan Show


Question: 'In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom'

Answer: candles


Question: '"The Commodore" is one of the tales of this C.S. Forester hero'

Answer: Horatio Hornblower


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard)  It's a visual method for comparing numbers'

Answer: bar graph


Question: 'Tuna are members of Scombridae, known commonly as this "holy" family of fishes'

Answer: mackerels


Question: 'Bestsellers from this master of horror include "Koko" & "Ghost Story"'

Answer: Peter Straub


Question: 'It was the number of the Rolling Stones' 1966 "Nervous Breakdown"'

Answer: 19th


Question: 'A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Commodore Isaac Hull commanded this ship to victory over Britain's Guerriere in the War of 1812'

Answer: U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides")


Question: '2-word term for large animals hunted for sport'

Answer: big game


Question: 'Extinct before the dinosaurs ever walked, trilobites are key signature creatures of this "old animal" era'

Answer: Paleozoic


Question: 'This American silversmith & patriot was noted for his courier service'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'Footage from a deadly 1969 Stones concert at this speedway was released in 1970 as the documentary "Gimme Shelter"'

Answer: Altamont


Question: 'Oh, "Boy"!  This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years'

Answer: El Nino


Question: 'Negotiated by Matthew Perry, 1854's Treaty of Kanagawa opened up this country to commercial trade with the U.S.'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Swingin' virtuoso heard here'

Answer: Benny Goodman


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Zoo Atlanta)  There are 3 types of gorilla: mountain & the eastern & western type of these lesser-altitude gorillas'

Answer: lowland gorillas


Question: 'His world travels helped him write "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Mosquito Coast" & "Riding the Iron Rooster"'

Answer: Paul Theroux


Question: 'The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by this legendary blues musician'

Answer: Muddy Waters


Question: 'Scientists believe the continents were once part of a single land mass called this, from the Greek for "all earth"'

Answer: Pangaea


Question: 'He's the naval hero & commodore famous for his declaration "Our country, right or wrong!"'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels'

Answer: battle group


Question: 'This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: '65 out of 100 students did the same as or worse than you if your grade is in the 65th of these'

Answer: percentile


Question: 'Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him'

Answer: governor


Question: 'Before playing Xena, she co-hosted the travel show "Air New Zealand Holiday"'

Answer: Lucy Lawless


Question: 'Site of a 1977 6.5 earthquake:<br />Bucharest'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'Carolyn Keene's fictional teenage detective who stars in a sitcom set in Cleveland'

Answer: Nancy Drew Carey


Question: 'In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley'

Answer: "A Farewell to Arms"


Question: 'IDEA is the Individuals with these Education Act, formerly the Education For All Handicapped Children Act'

Answer: Disabilities


Question: 'In the Mississippi House of Representatives, this official calls members to order & signs acts'

Answer: speaker of the house


Question: 'In 2000 she became the first Asian-American woman to host "Saturday Night Live"'

Answer: Lucy Liu


Question: 'Co-capitals:<br />La Paz & Sucre'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night'

Answer: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers


Question: 'In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey'

Answer: "Cannery Row"


Question: 'It's the rhyming term for the technique of teaching with only a blackboard to help you'

Answer: chalk talk/chalk and talk


Question: 'In this post, Jim Ryan is Illinois' chief law enforcement & consumer protection official'

Answer: attorney general


Question: 'Lucy Hobbs Taylor must have aced her orals because in 1866 she became the first woman to receive a degree in this'

Answer: dentistry


Question: 'In southern Asia:<br />Dhaka'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Novel in which Rhett Butler tells Toad, Rat & Mole, "My dear, I don't give a damn"'

Answer: Gone With the Wind in the Willows


Question: 'It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell'

Answer: "Studs"


Question: 'From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels'

Answer: remedial


Question: 'The counties of Iowa & Arizona are headed by boards of these'

Answer: supervisors


Question: 'Lucy Simon, the sister of this pop singer, wrote the music for Broadway's "The Secret Garden"'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'How peachy:<br />Tbilisi'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'The Beatles' 1967 album that was a 2001 WWII miniseries on HBO'

Answer: Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band of Brothers


Question: 'This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck'

Answer: Wolf Larsen


Question: 'These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title'

Answer: At Risk


Question: 'Many states have these for state lawmakers, but in 1995 the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional for Congress'

Answer: term limits


Question: 'She was the first wife of a president to be called first lady on a regular basis'

Answer: "Lemonade Lucy" Hayes


Question: 'In west Africa:<br />Luanda'

Answer: Angola


Question: 'Van Gogh's 1889 painting of director George Romero's 1968 zombie film classic'

Answer: Starry Night of the Living Dead


Question: 'His last direct descendant was a granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, born to John & Susanna Hall in 1608'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'Fantine & her daughter Cosette'

Answer: Les Misérables


Question: 'This type of felt hat that Dick Tracy wore is named for a play by Sardou'

Answer: a fedora


Question: 'December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of this, which didn't disappear in 1865'

Answer: Slavery


Question: 'Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun'

Answer: the Yucatan


Question: 'To point your mauser'

Answer: aim


Question: 'Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894'

Answer: tuberculosis


Question: 'Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza'

Answer: The Man of La Mancha


Question: '1950s fashion favored this canine skirt'

Answer: a poodle skirt


Question: 'March 22 is World this Resource Day; the theme for 1999 was "Everyone Lives Downstream"'

Answer: Water


Question: 'This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International'

Answer: Tobago


Question: 'What a film reel is stored in; hence something finished is "in" it'

Answer: the can


Question: 'Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917'

Answer: Converse


Question: 'September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer'

Answer: the Ozone Layer


Question: 'A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'Saturated'

Answer: wet


Question: 'About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary"'

Answer: Honoré de Balzac


Question: 'Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'This French-named garment looks like a skirt but is actually pants'

Answer: culottes


Question: 'Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data'

Answer: statistics


Question: 'This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935'

Answer: Angel Falls


Question: 'To impose a levy'

Answer: to tax


Question: 'His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement'

Answer: Ernest J. Gaines


Question: 'Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope'

Answer: espadrilles


Question: 'International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated'

Answer: Holocaust


Question: 'This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda lake'

Answer: Mojave


Question: 'It's the plant seen here; Don Draper favors one of its products'

Answer: rye


Question: 'Inserting a section of one plant into another so that they grow as one plant'

Answer: to graft


Question: 'In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing'

Answer: Billy Elliot


Question: 'Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question: 'Philippe of this family is Chief Ocean Correspondent for Animal Planet'

Answer: Cousteau


Question:
'Hey
___
Law'

Answer: Jude


Question: 'Precedes "-bits" in the name of a sweet Post cereal'

Answer: alpha


Question: 'Rich in nutrients, this bat or bird dropping is good for your garden'

Answer: guano


Question: 'Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations'

Answer: Sleepy Hollow


Question: 'Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois worked into her 90s on her biomorphic creations in this art form'

Answer: sculpture


Question:
'Maker's
___
Sanchez'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter'

Answer: pi


Question: 'Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells'

Answer: a gene bank


Question: 'A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles'

Answer: Training Day


Question: 'Secretary of State Cyrus Vance'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Michelin 3-star chef Joel Robuchon opened his first U.S. restaurant in this city, not New York'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question:
'Prime
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Racket'

Answer: Numbers


Question: 'A little bit, a really little bit'

Answer: iota


Question: 'This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind'

Answer: the germ


Question: 'A research chemist appears on a "60 Minutes" expose of the tobacco industry'

Answer: The Insider


Question: 'Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'He was Jacques Chirac's predecessor as president'

Answer: François Mitterand


Question:
'Losing
___
Washington'

Answer: Isiah


Question: 'A homophone of a verb meaning "to paddle"'

Answer: rho


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some plants on the monitor.)  Most plant shoots have a tendency to grow towards the sun, which is called phototropism; if roots grew that way, they'd shrivel up & die, so they grow into the earth, displaying this other -ism'

Answer: geotropism


Question: '2 warriors seek the Green Destiny, a stolen ancient sword'

Answer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


Question: 'Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'Luc Montagnier identified the AIDS virus while working at the institute named for this 19th c. Frenchman'

Answer: (Louis) Pasteur


Question:
'The Heidi
___
of Riddick'

Answer: Chronicles


Question: 'Ancient Romans would've read this one as 11'

Answer: xi


Question: 'Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht"'

Answer: Johannes Brahms


Question: 'On Pentecost the Apostles amazed people when they "began to speak with other" these'

Answer: tongues


Question: '1939:<br />"I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"'

Answer: The Wizard Of Oz


Question: 'Originally worn by highlanders in various tartans, these are also worn by women as skirts'

Answer: kilts


Question: 'We're mostly 4,000 feet above sea level & Idi Amin doesn't run us anymore.  Isn't that enough?'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'They're the 2 things Little Miss Muffet was consuming while sitting on her tuffet'

Answer: curds & whey


Question: 'To practice trickery or fraud in game play'

Answer: cheat


Question: 'Always mentioned last in the list of Jesus' 12 Disciples, he was the treasurer of the group'

Answer: Judas Iscariot


Question: '1972:<br />"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: 'The silhouette of a slightly flared skirt looks like a certain letter, giving it this name'

Answer: an A-line


Question: 'Keflavik & Grindavik call to you, & we'll throw in a 50/50 shot at seeing Bjork somewhere'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'When used to describe meat, "marbling" means streaks of this'

Answer: fat


Question: 'A spike on the bottom of an athletic shoe'

Answer: a cleat


Question: 'This mother of John The Baptist was well into old age when John was born'

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: '1976:<br />"You talking to me?"'

Answer: Taxi Driver


Question: 'This loose-fitting garment often worn as a beach coverup was copied from Indonesian native dress'

Answer: a sarong


Question: 'Our Andes are dandy!  Only Brazil has more people in South America, but they don't have our coffee.  Hail...'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'In 2006 the Chicago City Council banned restaurants in the city from selling this goose liver dish'

Answer: foie gras


Question: 'Bartender's adjective for a cocktail served without water'

Answer: neat


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  On his fourth and final missionary journey, Saint Paul sailed from Caesarea to Crete & was then shipwrecked on this island the Bible calls Melita'

Answer: Malta


Question: '1995:<br />"To infinity, and beyond!"'

Answer: Toy Story


Question: 'On the original "90210":, Donna wore this type of skirt to the prom; she couldn't sit down all night'

Answer: a hoop skirt


Question: 'From Koluszki to Kolno, & Wozniki to Strzelce, visit us, but just know we've heard all the jokes already'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Thailand's best-known dish, it's stir-fried noodles, egg, bean sprouts, peanuts & seasonings'

Answer: pad thai


Question: 'Moss type used as fuel'

Answer: peat


Question: 'In Luke he is quoted as saying, "I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man"'

Answer: (Pontius) Pilate


Question: '2007:<br />"I... drink... your... milkshake!  I drink it up!"'

Answer: There Will Be Blood


Question: 'The sunburst-pleated skirt is also called this for the pleats' resemblance to the bellows of a musical instrument'

Answer: an accordion skirt


Question: 'We're one big island! (& several small ones); Lemur entertain you!  (Disclaimer: Lemurs will not, repeat not, speak to you)'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This rum drink hailing from New Orleans' French Quarter has its own glass of the same name'

Answer: the Hurricane


Question: 'The administrative metropolis in a U.S. county'

Answer: the seat


Question: 'In 1936 he showed up for a Surrealist exhibition dressed in a diving suit'

Answer: (Salvador) Dali


Question: 'On April 20, 1912 the first game at this new venue went 11 innings & ended with a Red Sox win'

Answer: Fenway Park


Question: 'It indicates a website about employment, not about a founder of Apple'

Answer: .jobs


Question: 'Its "day" is 24 hours & 39 minutes'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'One of the other 3 people in the presidential box with Lincoln & Booth at the time of the attack'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'Son of Philip II of Macedonia who became the world's largest coral system'

Answer: Alexander the Great Barrier Reef


Question: 'In 2006 "Roots", a 1943 painting by her, sold for $5.6 million, then the record for a Latin American work'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'With 44 homers, 121 RBIs & a .326 average, Carl Yastrzemski is the last baseball player to win this'

Answer: the Triple Crown


Question: 'It's the perfect 2 letters for video-heavy sites such as Geekbrief'

Answer: TV


Question: 'It's the third largest in our solar system'

Answer: Neptune (Uranus also accepted)


Question: 'In the aftermath this owner of the theater/crime scene was thrown in jail as a possible conspirator'

Answer: (John T.) Ford


Question: 'Period of time named for an alloy of copper & tin & the new water-bearing Zodiacal era'

Answer: the Bronze Age of Aquarius


Question: 'This Belgian's "Mysteries Of The Horizon" shows 3 men in bowler hats; a sliver of moon hangs above each of them'

Answer: Magritte


Question: 'Tim Wakefield has more starts than any pitcher in Red Sox history, mostly due to his success with this low-velocity pitch'

Answer: the knuckleball


Question: 'If disseminating facts, knowledge, the 411, try this 4-letter domain, used by New York State's MTA'

Answer: info


Question: 'It's never observable when the sky is fully dark'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Dirty Harry could tell you it's also the caliber of the Derringer used by John Wilkes Booth to shoot Lincoln'

Answer: .44


Question: '"Wonder"-ful giant statue of Helios that brings financial aid to study at Oxford'

Answer: The Colossus of Rhodes Scholarship


Question: 'In 1958 he tripled up on his patriotic painting of "Three Flags"'

Answer: (Jasper) Johns


Question: 'In 1918 he extended his streak of scoreless World Series innings pitched to 29.2 & tied for the most HRs in the league'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'It follows dot in a domain for companies & "That's show" in a familiar phrase'

Answer: .biz


Question: 'It was the first to be discovered with the aid of the telescope'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'The 3-word Latin phrase yelled out by John Wilkes Booth while making his escape'

Answer: sic semper tyrannis


Question: 'Sophoclean tragedy about the killing of a father & his friend, the actor who portrayed Henry Higgins on film'

Answer: Oedipus Rex Harrison


Question: '"Sky Blue", "Blue Mountain" & "The Blue Rider" are all paintings by this Russian abstract artist'

Answer: Kandinsky


Question: 'In 2001 this Osaka-born pitcher tossed Boston's first no-hitter since 1965'

Answer: (Hideo) Nomo


Question: 'As of 2010, you can invent your own domain, according to the folks who regulate the Net; they're at www.icann.this'

Answer: .org (.net accepted)


Question: 'Leda is its 13th moon'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Attempts on the lives of VP Andrew Johnson & this Secretary of State were also part of the plot'

Answer: Seward


Question: 'Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer'

Answer: Java Man Ray


Question: 'The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'I've said it before: "Family. Religion. Friendship. These are 3 demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in" this'

Answer: business


Question: 'Pontiff's cleansing agents'

Answer: the Pope\'s soaps


Question: 'The leaf design on Godiva's Autant chocolates is a stylized version of a feather on this "Gone With the Wind" heroine's hat'

Answer: Scarlett O\'Hara


Question: 'This dark horse shares stables with Merrylegs & Ginger'

Answer: Black Beauty


Question: 'Of all the varieties of cats big & small, the cheetah is the only one that can't fully retract these'

Answer: the claws


Question: 'The Canary Islands' highest point, 12,000-foot Pico de Teide, is the peak of a dormant one of these'

Answer: a volcano


Question: '...A 2-seat escape pod at the nuclear plant; this man believes it's for him,...he's wrong; I just like to put my feet up'

Answer: Smithers


Question: 'A Latter-Day jury spokesperson'

Answer: a Mormon foreman


Question: 'Candymakers know that the fat obtained from cocoa beans isn't called cocoa margarine but this'

Answer: cocoa butter


Question: 'In this poem, the hero is instructed to shun the frumious Bandersnatch'

Answer: Jabberwocky


Question: 'It's the full name for the domesticated kitty called a tortie'

Answer: a tortoiseshell


Question: 'On his 3 15th century voyages to the New World, his ships stopped off at the Canary Islands for supplies'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'For me, this number is naught naught naught, naught naught, naught naught naught 2; curse you, Roosevelt!'

Answer: social security number


Question: 'Society of Friends' parcels of land'

Answer: Quakers\' acres


Question: 'A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic'

Answer: blood pressure