Question: 'This company claims its product is "not just whiskey. It's the world's finest Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey"'

Answer: Jim Beam


Question: 'Trix, these features are the last name of a rat you created; did you get the idea from your upper lip in the mirror?'

Answer: whiskers


Question: 'An expert in this medical field selects & administers the drug that puts a patient out during surgery'

Answer: anesthesiology


Question: '"Wurfing" is the act of cruising the Internet while here'

Answer: at work


Question: 'John Smeaton is known for the all-masonry one of these he built on Eddystone Reef near Plymouth, England'

Answer: a lighthouse


Question: 'Barbayanni & Aphrodite are varieties of this anise-flavored, colorless liqueur'

Answer: ouzo


Question: 'This -ology, part of sociology, uses the theory of differential association (i.e., hanging around with a bad crowd)'

Answer: criminology


Question: 'The "fumb" is this body part'

Answer: the big toe


Question: '"The Emerald Isle"'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'This movie with Julia Roberts as a Wellesley art history professor has a painting in its title'

Answer: Mona Lisa Smile


Question: 'Karachi is this country's chief port'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Flavor retired by Baskin-Robbins in 2010:<br />____ Vanilla'

Answer: French


Question: 'Some historians consider the 1857 decision in this slave v. Sanford to be the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'This light, portable canvas bed is usually on a folding wood frame'

Answer: a cot


Question: '"The Home of the Dragon Lizard"'

Answer: Komodo


Question: 'John Goodman played an angry Tulane professor on this HBO show set in post-Katrina New Orleans'

Answer: Treme


Question: 'Mazar-e Sharif, Ghazni & Kandahar are cities in this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'A type of cigar:<br />____ Masters'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'Taking his seat in 1986, he's the Associate Justice seen here'

Answer: (Antonin) Scalia


Question: 'Though this animal is now mostly found in Africa, its name comes from Hindi'

Answer: a cheetah


Question: '"The Island of Mutineers"'

Answer: Pitcairn


Question: 'This British sex symbol earned an Oscar nomination as a bereaved prof in "A Single Man"'

Answer: Colin Firth


Question: 'Aralsk, Shu & (Good Lord!) Almaty are cities in this country'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'The Beatles knew it was used to make cheap furniture:<br />____ wood'

Answer: Norwegian


Question: 'Appointed by Woodrow Wilson, he was the Supreme Court's first Jewish justice'

Answer: (Louis) Brandeis


Question: 'You wash your keratinous filaments with this'

Answer: shampoo


Question: '"The Garden Island" of Hawaii'

Answer: Kauai


Question: 'Arthur Hill won a Tony as this professor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway'

Answer: George


Question: 'If you don't count the 2 Ys, the A in this "stan" is the only vowel in its 10-letter name'

Answer: Kyrgyzstan


Question: 'Wine-producing region in Sonoma:<br />____ River Valley'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'Norma McCorvey was later identified as the plaintiff in this landmark 1973 Supreme Court case'

Answer: Roe v. Wade


Question: 'A small boat that's towed behind or carried on a large boat'

Answer: a dinghy


Question: 'He played the brilliant "Gilligan's Island" professor who couldn't figure out how to build a raft'

Answer: Russell Johnson


Question: 'You'll find Uchkuduck & the Ustyurt Plateau in this country'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question:
'Seen here, it's worn to protect you from the evil eye:
____ horn'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'This plaintiff sued to get defendant James Madison to deliver the commission that would make him a judge in D.C.'

Answer: (William) Marbury


Question: 'This is the Hindi word for a loin band; you'll see them if you go to a black-tie event'

Answer: cummerbund


Question: 'With special sound equipment needed in the auditorium, this 1940 film was initially released in only 14 theaters'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: 'This 8-armed sea creature doesn't always show its true colors; in fact, it changes colors when frightened'

Answer: Octopus


Question: 'The names of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th most populous cities in California begin with these 3 letters'

Answer: San (San Jose, San Diego & San Francisco)


Question: 'Michael Landon was the man of the Ingalls household on this family drama'

Answer: Little House on the Prairie


Question: 'Zeus'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Also called splashguards, they're the items on which you'll usually find the ladies seen here:'

Answer: Mud flaps


Question: 'It's a joke that doesn't get a laugh, or an explosive that fails to detonate'

Answer: Dud


Question: 'Whether they've been removed or haven't grown in, a person who's edentulous lacks these'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'The Walk-In-The-Water, the first steamship on the Great Lakes, ran between Buffalo & this motor city'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Fess Parker played the title pioneer & Ed Ames his friend Mingo on this '60s series set in Kentucky'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'Ares'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'The Pierce Initial Attack Pumper is a fast-response type of this truck'

Answer: Fire truck


Question: 'It's the breed of dog seen here:'

Answer: Dachshund


Question: 'This religious leader died in India around 483 B.C., possibly from eating contaminated pork'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'In 1799, if you wanted to go to the nation's capital, you went to this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This Dan Haggerty character's companions included a Native American, a bear & Denver Pyle'

Answer: Grizzly Adams


Question: 'Eros'

Answer: Cupid


Question: 'Instead of "truck", the British use this other 5-letter word'

Answer: Lorry


Question: 'A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronounciation & vocabulary; Cockney, for example'

Answer: Dialect


Question: 'This substance found in the cell walls of plants & trees is used to make paper & plastics'

Answer: Cellulose


Question: 'This Texas city's name refers to a pass or crossing of the Rio Grande'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'This city was the Rocky Mountain setting of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"'

Answer: Colorado Springs


Question: 'Dionysus'

Answer: Bacchus


Question: 'This company's F-Series pickup, the USA's bestselling car or truck since 1981, turned 50 in 1998'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Averaging just over 152 MPH, Fireball Roberts won this grueling Florida auto race in 1962'

Answer: Daytona 500


Question: 'The Jordan & the Valencia are popular Spanish varieties of this nut'

Answer: Almond


Question: 'Its Chamber of Commerce is located at 3720 Howard Hughes Parkway'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Ranching came second to ridding New Mexico of lawbreakers on this Chuck Connors series'

Answer: The Rifleman


Question: 'Hera'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'This maker of heavy duty trucks was founded by T.A. Peterman, who needed rigs to haul his lumber'

Answer: Peterbilt


Question: 'Madame Tussaud's could tell you it's a wax or plaster cast of a mold taken from a nonliving face'

Answer: Death mask


Question: 'This 4-star general was President Bush's top military adviser from 1989 to 1993'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'On the big screen, Clarice of the FBI knows he enjoyed chianti, fava beans &...other things'

Answer: Hannibal Lecter


Question: '"The Hound of the Baskervilles"'

Answer: Dr. Watson


Question: 'Actors who've played this role include Moore, Roger Moore & Dalton, Timothy Dalton'

Answer: James Bond


Question: 'Saying "Music, like peas, should not be canned", Sergiu Celibidache was famous for his refusal to make these'

Answer: Recordings


Question: 'Now shortened to 5 letters, this 11-letter word for a club where records play appeared around 1950 in English'

Answer: Discotheque


Question: 'This "Old Blood & Guts" general once served as military governor of Bavaria'

Answer: George Patton


Question: 'This novelist based the fictional town of St. Petersburg on Hannibal, where he grew up'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: '"Moby Dick"'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'Wendy Hiller played her in 1938's "Pygmalion"; Audrey Hepburn had the role in "My Fair Lady"'

Answer: Eliza Doolittle


Question: 'In 1955 Herbert von Karajan was named conductor for life of this German city's Philharmonic'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'The OED lists the first use of "robotic" in a 1941 tale by this author in Astounding Science Fiction'

Answer: Isaac Asimov


Question: 'He became General of the Army in 1944 & in 1947 became U.S. Secretary of State'

Answer: George C. Marshall


Question: 'In the 1980s George Peppard played Hannibal Smith, leader of this TV title team'

Answer: The A-Team


Question: '"To Kill a Mockingbird"'

Answer: Scout


Question: 'Laurence Olivier reigned as this warrior king in 1945; Kenneth Branagh took the throne in 1989'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'This Italian-born maestro of the NBC Symphony conducted from memory due to poor eyesight'

Answer: Arturo Toscanini


Question: 'This name of an airport runway surface comes from a substance in it & inventor McAdam'

Answer: Tarmac


Question: 'Before heading forces in Vietnam, he was superintendent of West Point'

Answer: William Westmoreland


Question: 'He was a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator & a governor of Maine before becoming veep'

Answer: Hannibal Hamlin


Question: '"Heart of Darkness"'

Answer: Marlow


Question: 'Role played by Clark Gable in 1935, Marlon Brando in '62 & Mel Gibson in '84'

Answer: Fletcher Christian (Mutiny on the Bounty)


Question: 'This longtime Philadelphia orchestra leader is perhaps best known for his appearance in "Fantasia"'

Answer: Leopold Stokowski


Question: 'In a 1991 article Al Gore used this 2-word phrase for a new "driving" force, high-speed fiber-optic networks'

Answer: "Information Superhighway"


Question: 'During WWII this American general nicknamed "Vinegar Joe" served as chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek'

Answer: Joseph Stillwell


Question: 'The inept bugler of "F Troop"'

Answer: Hannibal Dobbs


Question: '"A Clockwork Orange"'

Answer: Alex


Question: 'This Tom Clancy character has been played by Alec Baldwin & Harrison Ford'

Answer: Jack Ryan


Question: 'By Georg, in Chicago's Lincoln Park, you can see a bust of this late symphony conductor'

Answer: Sir Georg Solti


Question: 'This term for a "baby" like 1978's Louise Brown was born decades before her'

Answer: Test tube


Question: 'To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'His record in the Spanish-American War helped him get elected governor of New York in 1898'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'In 1954 Elijah Muhammad appointed him chief minister of Harlem's main temple'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'A hoisting machine, or a somewhat similar-looking wading bird'

Answer: a crane


Question: 'It's a myth that this group has 100s of words for snow; those they do have include pukak & qiqiqralijarnatuq'

Answer: Eskimo (or Inuit)


Question: 'Pinot blanc, for example'

Answer: white wine


Question: 'A print of an original John Tenniel illustration of this young literary lady is seen here'

Answer: Alice in Wonderland


Question: 'Bill Owens is the current governor of this Rocky Mountain State'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'This singer's Top 10 hits include "Gotham City" from "Batman & Robin" & "I Believe I Can Fly" from "Space Jam"'

Answer: R. Kelly


Question: 'It's the most popular type of Tonka truck'

Answer: a dump truck


Question: 'In newspaper weather maps, the abbreviation "SF" stands for this condition'

Answer: snow flurries


Question: 'This band, Jack & Meg, has been called "garage rock superstars"'

Answer: The White Stripes


Question: 'The poster seen here was printed in the United States during this war'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'Garrison Keillor took this governor to the satiric mat with "Me, By Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente"'

Answer: Jesse Ventura


Question: 'On the HBO show bearing this character's name, Sacha Baron Cohen also plays the roles of Borat & Bruno'

Answer: Ali G


Question: 'For smooth travel, ballast tampers & ballast regulators keep the gravel at the right level among these'

Answer: railroad tracks


Question: 'In Sanskrit, this mountain range's name translates as "abode of snows"'

Answer: the Himalayas


Question: 'It flows into Khartoum'

Answer: the White Nile


Question: 'Entitled "Vampire", an eerie 1902 lithograph from this Norwegian is seen here'

Answer: (Edvard) Munch


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from atop the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL.)  When civil rights marchers faced off against the mounted police in 1965 here on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, this man was Alabama's governor'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'This author famous for his "Jeeves" novels also co-wrote the book for the musical "Anything Goes"'

Answer: P.G. Wodehouse


Question: 'To a farmer, it's a reaper that gathers crops; in forestry, it's a machine that turns a tree into a pile of logs'

Answer: a harvester


Question: 'The snow variety of this feisty critter is seen here'

Answer: a snow leopard


Question: 'It's illegally distilled whiskey, cousin'

Answer: white lightning


Question: 'One of this artist's many famous prints is seen here'

Answer: Warhol


Question: 'His headstone at Arlington mentions he had been governor of California & Chief Justice of the U.S.'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'It was the alphanumeric serial number for the Starship Enterprise that first appeared on TV in 1966'

Answer: NCC-1701


Question: 'A Middle English word for "pulley" gave us this term for a hoisting machine with a rope around a drum'

Answer: a winch


Question: 'Firn is the term for snow that has fallen on one of these large masses & has not yet turned to ice'

Answer: a glacier (an iceberg accepted)


Question: 'Calcium carbonate conglomeration in England's county Kent'

Answer: the White Cliffs of Dover


Question: 'Seen here is a stylized rendition of Isaac Newton by this original illustrator & visionary poet'

Answer: (William) Blake


Question: 'The geographic center of North America is in this state that borders Canada'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: 'Her debut album "On the 6" featured "No Me Ames", a duet in Spanish, with future husband Marc Anthony'

Answer: Jennifer Lopez


Question: 'Bob Dole loses the presidential election'

Answer: \'96


Question: 'In 1992 Vermont became the first state to ban smoking in these places; it's not even allowed out in "the yard"'

Answer: prisons


Question: 'The title of this novel that became an Oscar-winning film comes from the rhyme "One flew east, one flew west..."'

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest


Question: 'In hockey it's the term for 3 goals scored in a single game by the same player'

Answer: a hat trick


Question: 'Most of Africa's major rivers empty into the Atlantic, but the Zambezi empties into this ocean'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'Who could forget Bing Crosby & this rocker's rousing rendition of "Little Drummer Boy" on a 1977 TV special?'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'An earthquake levels buildings & overpasses in L.A. on January 17'

Answer: 1994


Question: 'Dietary laws against butter & lard led Jewish cooks to use chicken fat, known by this sentimental name'

Answer: schmaltz (or grivinis)


Question: 'The "best laid schemes" of Steinbeck borrowed a line by Robert Burns to title this short novel'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'A sleeper, a hammerlock or an ankle lock'

Answer: a (wrestling) hold


Question: 'South America's Andean coastal plain gets lots of rain in Colombia, less in Ecuador & very little in this next nation down'

Answer: Peru


Question: '1 of 2 Top 40 duets sung by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell with "Ain't" in the title'

Answer: "Ain\'t No Mountain High Enough" or "Ain\'t Nothing Like The Real Thing"


Question: 'Michael Jordan is named MVP of the NBA finals'

Answer: (Any 1 of) 1991, \'92, \'93, \'97, \'96, \'98


Question: 'Munich's brewers came up with something special for the royal wedding of Prince Ludwig in this month in 1810'

Answer: October


Question: 'This Fitzgerald novel takes its "nocturnal" title from the Keats poem "Ode to a Nightingale"'

Answer: Tender is the Night


Question: 'In video games & cartoons, Sonic is one of these critters'

Answer: a hedgehog


Question: 'The 2 main mountain ranges dividing Europe from Asia are the Caucasus & this one'

Answer: the Urals


Question: 'Sheryl Crow & this rap rocker found themselves on the country & pop charts with a duet called "Picture"'

Answer: Kid Rock


Question: 'Iraq invades Kuwait'

Answer: 1990


Question: 'A quarrel that began with the fencing judging at the 1924 Olympics was settled by an actual one of these'

Answer: a duel


Question: 'Maugham wanted his novel to be titled "Beauty and Ashes" but that was already used, so he chose this Spinoza phrase'

Answer: Of Human Bondage


Question: 'Odium'

Answer: hate


Question: 'Tanjung Piai, Asia's southernmost mainland point, is on this peninsula'

Answer: the Malay Peninsula


Question: 'In 1980 these 2 former members of the New Christy Minstrels teamed up for "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer"'

Answer: Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes


Question: 'The euro currency is officially introduced into financial markets'

Answer: \'99


Question: 'Before this Italian city's Palio, a race around the main square, it's lucky for a horse to leave droppings in church'

Answer: Siena


Question: 'Tom Wolfe got the title for this novel from Savonarola, who called on people to destroy their possessions'

Answer: The Bonfire of the Vanities (The Bonfire of Vanities accepted)


Question: 'This Tasmanian capital was once a major center for Antarctic whalers'

Answer: Hobart


Question: 'One Mongol tribe or army, it came to mean "a vast number" because the fierce Mongol warriors seemed so numerous'

Answer: a horde


Question: 'In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them'

Answer: Khrushchev


Question: '"Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) blows up a lot of stuff & kills 437 terrorists with his bare hands" on this show'

Answer: 24


Question: 'Humps on a bactrian'

Answer: two


Question: 'Legend has it Clare Boothe Luce said, "Age before beauty" to Parker, whose reply was "Pearls before" this'

Answer: swine


Question: 'People within the umbra, or region without sunlight due to the moon's shadow, experience this rare event'

Answer: a total solar eclipse


Question: 'The 2 participants in the memorable kiss in Mark 14:44'

Answer: Jesus & Judas


Question: 'Government House in Nassau has a statue of this man believed to have first made landfall in the Bahamas'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'Sweeps stunt! "George Clooney returns to bring Mark (Anthony Edwards) back from the dead" on this show'

Answer: ER


Question: 'Teaspoons in a tablespoon'

Answer: three


Question: 'An attributed Dorothy quote: "One more" this "and I'll be under the host"'

Answer: a drink


Question: 'Cinderella lost hers at the party'

Answer: a glass slipper


Question: 'Perrault's version of this fairy tale where a kiss plays an important role was titled "La belle au bois dormant"'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'In 1200 Africa's Shona people had a mighty city called "Great" this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesia's new name'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: '"Ty, Paul & the rest of the crew infuriate America by building a new home for Bill Gates & his family" on this show'

Answer: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition


Question: 'Faces on a cube'

Answer: six


Question: 'Informed that this taciturn president had died, Parker asked, "How can they tell?"'

Answer: (Calvin) Coolidge


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew speaks with Kelly's voice, then Kelly speaks with Jon's!) It's what Jon's doing to my words... & what I'm now doing to his'

Answer: lip-syncing


Question: 'In 1975, in an unprecedented act of humility, he kissed the feet of the envoy of the Orthodox Patriarch'

Answer: the Pope (Paul VI)


Question: 'More than a million died in this country's civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '"Kate & Hurley discover a hatch that connects the Island to downtown Tokyo" on this drama'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'The number of minutes in an IBF boxing round'

Answer: three


Question: '"The only ism Hollywood believes in is" this, just about the worst thing of which a writer can be accused'

Answer: plagiarism


Question: 'Composer Glass or<br />Detective Marlowe'

Answer: Philip


Question: 'The first kiss on film occurred in a short 1896 film by this American & was titled "May Irwin Kiss"'

Answer: (Thomas) Edison


Question: 'In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day'

Answer: the guillotine


Question: 'This title doc (Hugh Laurie) "tells off his staff, his patients & somehow even you at home for viewing his show"'

Answer: House(, M.D.)


Question: 'Pillars of Islam'

Answer: five


Question: 'Dorothy rhymed, "Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles, and" this'

Answer: doubt


Question: 'Cobbler's dream seen here'

Answer: a millipede


Question: 'Month and year of the historic kiss seen here'

Answer: August 1945


Question: 'No, Aretha Franklin is not the queen of this Asian city made a capital in 1394'

Answer: Seoul


Question:
'Sir Andrew Aguecheek,
Old Gobbo,
Puck'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: 'In the book of Joshua, this city is defeated when its walls fall down after trumpets are sounded'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'Almost unknown in the U.S. prior to WWII, this "pizza herb" began a boom with the new popularity of pizza'

Answer: oregano


Question: 'His failure to stop the murder of his Uncle Ben helped convince him to become a crime-fighting superhero'

Answer: Spider-Man


Question: 'A native of Cuba, Manuel A. Diaz handles the heat as the mayor of this U.S. city'

Answer: Miami


Question: 'Frankly, my dear, this Syrian capital is only about 50 miles from Beirut'

Answer: Damascus


Question:
'Smerdyakov,
Ivan Fyodorovitch,
Rodion Raskolnikov'

Answer: Dostoevsky


Question: 'Lamentations recounts that during a siege of Israel, many people resorted to this for food'

Answer: cannibalism


Question: 'The name of this "wise" herb is from the Latin salvus, meaning "safe", a reference to its supposed healing powers'

Answer: sage


Question: 'This group gained their superpowers after being exposed to cosmic radiation during a space flight'

Answer: The Fantastic Four


Question: 'One of Milwaukee's top universities is this one that bears the name of a French explorer who visited the region in 1673'

Answer: Marquette


Question: 'The name of this South American city translates to "fair winds"'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question:
'Robert Cohn,
Robert Jordan,
Catherine Barkley'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'At the end of Deuteronomy, the events of this man's death are recounted'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'The leaf of a young coriander plant, it's added to sour cream to make a topping for tacos'

Answer: cilantro


Question: 'The non-American superhero seen here is known as Captain this'

Answer: Captain Canada


Question: 'One of these structures in Casablanca bearing the name of King Hassan II can hold 25,000'

Answer: a mosque


Question: 'Let's talk turkey: since 1927, this city's province has grown from a pop. of about 400,000 to more than 4 mil.'

Answer: Ankara


Question:
'Harold Ryan,
Dwayne Hoover,
Billy Pilgrim'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'David first sees this bathing beauty from the roof of the king's house'

Answer: Bathsheba


Question: 'Holland is a main producer of this seed, from the Papaver somniferum plant'

Answer: poppy seeds


Question: 'She's the daughter of Queen Hippolyte of Paradise Island'

Answer: Wonder Woman


Question: 'The 2-letter abbreviation for this U.S. state sounds like the name of one of the Three Stooges'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Check our Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft in this city'

Answer: Oslo


Question:
'Nathan Zuckerman,
Trick E. Dixon,
Alex Portnoy'

Answer: (Philip) Roth


Question: 'This similarly named man is there to witness Elijah being taken up into heaven'

Answer: Elisha


Question: 'The ancient Romans hung this licorice-flavored plant near their windows to prevent bad dreams'

Answer: anise


Question: 'This guy is Radd, Norrin Radd, former herald of world-devouring Galactus, & better known by this name'

Answer: The Silver Surfer


Question: 'This insect pest, Ceratitis capitata, threatened Florida & California fruit in the 1980s'

Answer: the medfly


Question: 'This state has the largest congressional district in area'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Nearly 25 percent of U.S. teens now own one of these phones, so there's no excuse for not calling home'

Answer: a cell phone


Question: 'Elton John won his first Grammy as a solo artist for this song from "The Lion King"'

Answer: "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"


Question: 'Lacking the sense of sight'

Answer: blind


Question: 'A margarita may be served with salt on the rim; a sidecar is served with this on the rim'

Answer: sugar


Question: 'Give it a month & the May beetle becomes known by this name'

Answer: a June bug


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.)  Your daughter who's exhibiting this type of kleptomania at Wal-Mart may be trying to get attention'

Answer: shoplifting


Question: 'Automaton is sometimes just a fancy name for one of these mechanical beings'

Answer: a robot


Question: '"And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime" is a line from this song by Band Aid'

Answer: "Do They Know It\'s Christmas?"


Question: 'Something used to help you recall an important fact or duty'

Answer: a reminder


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew pours a drink in the bar of New York's Plaza Hotel.)  It's the geographically appropriate name for the bourbon & vermouth cocktail I'm pouring here'

Answer: a Manhattan


Question: 'The aardwolf, seen here, isn't really a wolf, but is actually more closely related to this laugher'

Answer: a hyena


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.)  Many have overcome their fear of this; you can always start with the cliche, "unaccustomed as I am" to it'

Answer: speaking in public


Question: 'When a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates this thunderous noise'

Answer: a sonic boom


Question: 'This 1960 No. 1 song begins, "Tonight you're mine completely, you give your love so sweetly"'

Answer: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"


Question: 'Sir Francis Drake's "precious metal" flagship'

Answer: the Golden Hind


Question: 'The Sondheim song "The Ladies Who Lunch" rhymes "Another brilliant zinger" with "Another vodka" one of these'

Answer: a stinger


Question: 'Of the bluefin, the bigeye or the skipjack, the species of tuna that can grow to 1,800 pounds & 14 feet long'

Answer: the bluefin


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.)  Make sure your kids know that this euphoria-inducing drug, also called MDMA, can do serious damage'

Answer: ecstasy


Question: 'An empty Goodyear blimp weighs over 12,000 lbs.; when they fill it with this gas, it weighs only 100 to 200 pounds'

Answer: helium


Question: 'Joe Jackson sees "Jeanie with her new boyfriend" and voices this title complaint in the form of a question'

Answer: "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"


Question: 'One who discovers a new route, or the title of a James Fenimore Cooper novel'

Answer: the pathfinder


Question: 'This adjective follows "whiskey" in the name of a whiskey & lemon juice cocktail'

Answer: sour


Question: 'This species of bear is the best swimmer'

Answer: a polar bear


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.)  Don't fear non-traditional gender roles, like a man keeping house as in this Michael Keaton film'

Answer: Mr. Mom


Question: 'The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning "divided into one hundred parts"'

Answer: centigrade


Question: 'A highly intelligent person who plans & directs a criminal activity'

Answer: a mastermind


Question: 'This brand's bottle shows a lithograph, seen here, of a plantation down in Dixie'

Answer: Southern Comfort


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the zoo.)  These largest parrots are prized for their beautifully colored plumage'

Answer: a macaw


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.)  There's no need to be ashamed of this common mental illness, even if it's alternating with mania'

Answer: depression


Question: 'Don't be fooled--the Brussels suburb called this is miles north of the actual battlefield'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: '"Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'It's the standard number of holes in a complete round of tournament golf'

Answer: 18


Question: 'C. Auguste Dupin solved these crimes, the title of a Poe story'

Answer: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"


Question: 'In the classic Scandinavian folk tale, this title trio outwits a hungry troll'

Answer: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"


Question: 'About 56 years after she was born in Prague, Bill Clinton made her a member of his cabinet'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'The Palo Alto that's the site of a major 1846 battle isn't in California but in this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: '"A Bullet for Crockett"'

Answer: Miami Vice


Question: 'In 1989 Chris Gueffroy became the last person to die climbing this; he was trying to reach West Germany'

Answer: the Berlin Wall


Question: 'In titles of mysteries, Lawrence Treat & Sue Grafton made "H" stand for this'

Answer: Homicide


Question: 'In the '70s many quenched their thirst on a brand of brewski named for this presidential brother'

Answer: Billy Carter


Question: 'In 1994 this politician & playwright was awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal'

Answer: Vaclav Havel


Question: 'The Virginia battle also called Bull Run took place at what's now this National Battlefield Park'

Answer: Manassas


Question: '"Lifeguards Can't Jump"'

Answer: Baywatch


Question: 'Much of this store's revenue comes from its private-label brands: Craftsman tools & Kenmore appliances'

Answer: Sears


Question: 'Dickens offered to solve this "Mystery" for Queen Victoria before it was published, but she wasn't interested'

Answer: The Mystery of Edwin Drood


Question: 'Tom Laughlin kicked butt as this troublesome Indian hippie in 4 movies'

Answer: Billy Jack


Question: 'This Czech-born director named his twins born in 1998 after Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman'

Answer: Milos Forman


Question: 'Urban battle sites include the house defended for 58 days by Sergeant Pavlov in this WWII battle'

Answer: Stalingrad


Question: '"To Serve Man"'

Answer: The Twilight Zone


Question: 'In 2000 U.S. News & World Report named Creighton University in this state as the best Midwest university'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Chapter 4 of this novel is "The Black Bird"'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'It was Michael Jackson's first music video to play on MTV'

Answer: "Billie Jean"


Question: 'His works include the operas "Vanda", "The Jacobin", "Rusalka" & of course his symphony "From the New World"'

Answer: (Antonin) Dvorak


Question: 'Ulundi, South Africa is the site of the final battle of England's 1879 war with this people'

Answer: the Zulus


Question: '"How to Stay Alive in Vietnam"'

Answer: China Beach


Question: 'Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors, is also known by this name'

Answer: St. Elmo


Question: 'This Holmes case is so named for the "thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life"'

Answer: A Study in Scarlet


Question: 'In addition to the play "R.U.R.", he also wrote the novel "The War with the Newts"'

Answer: (Karel) Capek


Question: 'This director of an Oscar-winning film is fighting to preserve Angel Island, site of a former immigration station in S.F. Bay'

Answer: Ang Lee


Question: 'The first skyscraper in the U.S. was built in 1885 in this city, now home to the USA's tallest'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This "chest" holds the clothing & linens of a woman holding on to the chance she'll someday be married'

Answer: Hope chest


Question: '"Yabba Dabba Do!"'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: 'Novel in which you'd find the line "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Toon Lagoon at Universal Studios Florida boasts a white-knuckle raft ride named for Bluto & this sailor'

Answer: Popeye


Question: 'Someone considered very good-looking is said to be one of these "ships"'

Answer: Dreamboat


Question: 'The Portland Headlight Lighthouse is in this state, the first one to see the morning sun'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'The genie Aladdin found was in a lamp; the ones Sinbad & Tony Nelson found were in these'

Answer: Bottles


Question: '"Don't Have A Cow, Man!"'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'He "Appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush"'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: 'At Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park, watch out for the marsh-mugger type of this gator relative'

Answer: Crocodile


Question: 'Collective name for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad'

Answer: "The Dream Team"


Question: 'Minute Man National Historic Park is on Liberty Street in this city'

Answer: Concord, Massachusetts


Question: 'In the sky, hot-air balloon passengers ride in one; around the house, wastepaper goes in it'

Answer: Basket


Question: '"The Truth Is Out There"'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: '"Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma.  Now it means...you're scum" is a line from this novel'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'Kids love to klomp around in klompen, like the ones seen here at a market in this country'

Answer: Holland (The Netherlands)


Question: 'In 1983 Eurythmics hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts with this song'

Answer: "Sweet Dreams"


Question: 'Oregon is home to the 5,700-foot-deep Hells Canyon & this 1,922-foot-deep lake'

Answer: Crater Lake


Question: 'Container into which the White Rabbit & Mad Hatter try to stuff the Dormouse'

Answer: Teapot


Question: '"Sorry About That, Chief"'

Answer: Get Smart


Question: 'She "Stood on the scaffold of the pillory, an infant on her arm, and the letter A, in scarlet...upon her bosom"'

Answer: Hester Prynne


Question: 'The Polynesian Cultural Center on the north shore of this island is famous for canoe pageants & luaus'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'This popular musical was supposedly based in part on the lives & careers of the Supremes'

Answer: Dreamgirls


Question: 'State that's home to the most wild horses; it was also home to the Mustang Ranch'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'It was once the cask containing the drinking water on a ship; today it means gossip or rumors'

Answer: Scuttlebutt


Question: '"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"'

Answer: Diff\'rent Strokes


Question: 'For this 1938 story Hemingway wrote, "No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude"'

Answer: The Snows of Kilimanjaro


Question: 'Several times a day, a pirate ship battles a British frigate in front of this "novel" Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'Freud published this landmark study in 1899'

Answer: The Interpretation Of Dreams


Question: 'In 1497 John Cabot explored the coast of this continent, possibly including Cape Breton'

Answer: North America


Question: 'In early 2000 this legendary band released "Is Anybody Out There?  The Wall Live"'

Answer: Pink Floyd


Question: 'In 1998 Alec Baldwin & Angela Bassett co-starred on the New York stage as this pair of Scottish schemers'

Answer: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth


Question: 'A German tax collector developed this dog breed to have protection while on his rounds:'

Answer: Doberman pinscher


Question: 'An ancient Scandinavian name meaning "Kingdom of the Svears" may have given this country its name'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Nationality of author Hans Christian Andersen'

Answer: Danish


Question: 'The 1496 book "Treatyse Of Fysshynge With An Angle" describes these stiil-used artificial "insect" lures'

Answer: Flies


Question: 'This Beatle's rockin' new Capitol release is titled "Run Devil Run"'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Hal Holbrook portrayed this malevolent moneylender in a 1999 production of "The Merchant Of Venice"'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'Suitable for early-evening parties, it's the "beverage" dress seen here:'

Answer: Cocktail dress


Question: 'For the abundance of the metal found there, this South American country's name is from the Latin for "silver"'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Dr. Scholl has a "Cushlin Gel" pad to relieve you from the pain of one of these'

Answer: Corn


Question: 'In 1492 Spain took Grenada, the last kingdom of these people in Spain'

Answer: Moors


Question: '"Shake Your Rump" & "Fight For Your Right" are on "The Sounds Of Silence", a 1999 anthology by these "boys"'

Answer: Beastie Boys


Question: '1989 was a good year for this actor:  he starred in "Hamlet" onstage & "My Left Foot" on film'

Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis


Question: 'Classified by taste, one of the two main varieties of the nut seen here:'

Answer: Bitter or sweet almond


Question: 'Citizens of this mountainous nation of the Balkans refer to it as Shqiperia or "Land of the Eagles"'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'Actor most associated with the 6 Degrees of Separation game'

Answer: Kevin Bacon


Question: 'His fleet left Lisbon in 1497 & sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India in under a year'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'This singer's album "The Ego Has Landed" is conquering the U.K. & USA with hits like "Angels" & "Millennium"'

Answer: Robbie Williams


Question: 'In 1966 Jon Voight was onstage in San Diego playing this airy sprite in "The Tempest"'

Answer: Ariel


Question: 'A great view of Earth is achieved during this activity seen here:'

Answer: Spacewalk/Extra-Vehicular Activity


Question: 'Never wider than 200 miles, this long South American nation's name may come from an indigenous word meaning "snow"'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Dolores O' Riordan became the lead singer of this band via a referral from the old lead singer'

Answer: Cranberries


Question: 'This "Magnificent" tyrant of Florence & patron of the arts died in April 1492'

Answer: Lorenzo de Medici


Question: 'This singer's 1999 album "Deconstruction" follows her 1997 smash "Blurring The Edges"'

Answer: Meredith Brooks


Question: 'Katharine Hepburn played Beatrice to Alfred Drake's Benedick in a 1957 staging of this "ado"rable comedy'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'This English-speaking country whose flag is seen here south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea:'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'The name of this country of the West Indies means "bearded"'

Answer: Barbados


Question: 'Among politicians, it means to speak or write equivocally on an important issue'

Answer: Waffle


Question: 'Famous profession of the woman who wrote the 1999 inspirational book "The Long Program"'

Answer: Ice/Figure Skater (book written by Peggy Fleming)


Question: 'Bob Dylan often plays one of these, also called a mouth organ'

Answer: harmonica


Question: 'One of Wilson's Beach Boys classics asks this girl to "help, help me" to get another girl "out of my heart"'

Answer: Rhonda


Question: 'The first version of this story had no "mad tea party" or "pig and pepper" chapters; later ones did'

Answer: Alice in Wonderland


Question: 'By going from gym to gym, he learned to box erratically'

Answer: boxer (in box erratically)


Question: 'Don't mess around in Saudi Arabia; this isn't just on the flag but is also used to implement capital punishment'

Answer: sword


Question: 'Redball seedless & sugar baby are types of this fruit'

Answer: watermelon


Question: 'Originally plucked, then later bowed, the crwth was a lyre originating in this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: '"I'm picking up" these, "she's giving me excitations"'

Answer: "Good Vibrations"


Question: 'In Britain this simian created by H.A. Rey is called Zozo'

Answer: Curious George


Question: 'Suitable encyclopedias include Britannica, Collier's & World Book'

Answer: collie (in Collier\'s)


Question: 'The majority of Saudis belong to the Wahhabi sect of this branch of Islam'

Answer: Sunni


Question: 'In a song Jimi Hendrix was "all along" this structure'

Answer: watchtower


Question: 'Its 6 strings are traditionally tuned to E-A-D-G-B-E'

Answer: guitar


Question: 'Title that precedes "If we were older, then we wouldn't have to wait so long"'

Answer: "Wouldn\'t It Be Nice"


Question: 'This 9-year-old redhead is an orphan who lives in Villekulla Cottage "at the end of a little Swedish town"'

Answer: Pippi Longstocking


Question: '"It's a strange world" -- thus Kyle MacLachlan spoke in "Blue Velvet"'

Answer: husky (in thus Kyle)


Question: 'This TV show was banned in Saudi Arabia in 1979 because the presence of Miss Piggy violated religious laws'

Answer: The Muppet Show


Question: 'A shy person at a dance or party'

Answer: wallflower


Question: 'Fashioned from empty oil containers during WWII, it's Trinidad & Tobago's national instrument'

Answer: steel drum


Question: 'Wilson wrote, "I have watched you on the shore, standing by the ocean's roar, do you love me, do you" this lass'

Answer: "Surfer Girl"


Question: 'Katherine Paterson's book about rivalrous twins, like a certain pair in Genesis, is called him "Have I Loved"'

Answer: Jacob


Question: 'Christmas tiffs are the worst, but there's always time to make up before New Year's'

Answer: mastiff (in Christmas tiffs)


Question: 'This British explorer made a secret trip to Mecca in 1853 & also "acted" as translator of the "Arabian Nights"'

Answer: (Richard Francis) Burton


Question: 'Rembrandt & Winslow Homer were both known for this type of painting involving dissolved pigments'

Answer: watercolor


Question: 'Pablo Casals said that this instrument "is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time"'

Answer: cello


Question: '"There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to", it's here'

Answer: "In My Room"


Question: '"Thunderhead" was a sequel to this 1941 Mary O'Hara novel about Ken McLaughlin and his colt'

Answer: My Friend Flicka


Question: 'Little Johnny was in a very elite club Eagle Scouts longed to join'

Answer: beagle (in club Eagle)


Question: 'You can treat this man like royalty in Saudi Arabia; he's the current king'

Answer: Abdullah


Question: 'From the German, it's a strong desire to travel'

Answer: wanderlust


Question: 'Mercury and aneroid are the 2 main types of this instrument that's used to measure atmospheric pressure'

Answer: barometer


Question: 'This 2009 film was based on a book subtitled "America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34"'

Answer: Public Enemies


Question: 'Interior Secretary Albert Fall took a fall in this 1920s scandal'

Answer: Teapot Dome


Question: 'In 1859 she wrote the short book "Notes on Nursing", instructing housewives in nursing care'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'On a standard e-mail, a JPEG or PDF file is likely carried as one of these'

Answer: attachment


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.)  The line that connects the two vertical lines in an "H" is called one of these, just like the beam a football crosses over for a field goal'

Answer: crossbar


Question: 'It's the optical instrument you'd look through to see the type of image seen here'

Answer: kaleidoscope


Question: 'His novel "Angels & Demons" was fodder for the big screen in 2009'

Answer: Dan Brown


Question: 'Virginia lawyer Edmund Randolph was the first in this Cabinet post'

Answer: Attorney General


Question: 'This inventor of antiseptic surgery helped found the British Institute of Preventive Medicine'

Answer: (Joseph) Lister


Question: 'To reveal someone else's misdeed'

Answer: tattletale


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.)  A nonstructural embellishment at the end of a calligraphic letter is called one of these, from the Latin for "flower"'

Answer: flourish


Question: 'The sand in this simple device runs from the top bulb to the bottom in 60 minutes' time'

Answer: hourglass


Question: 'This 2009 film is based in part on the memoir "My Life in France", in which the author masters the art of French cooking'

Answer: Julie and Julia


Question: 'Woodrow Wilson put William B. Wilson to work as the Secretary of this'

Answer: Labor


Question: 'In 1849 this Scottish explorer crossed the Kalahari Desert & became the first European to see Lake Ngami'

Answer: Livingstone


Question: 'If you're going "full" this, you're moving at top speed'

Answer: throttle


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.)  A thin, fine stroke is called one of these; you don't have to worry about it receding'

Answer: hairline


Question: 'You really hope this instrument doesn't get ticked off'

Answer: Geiger counter


Question: 'A Jodi Picoult novel was the basis for this 2009 weepie in which Abigail Breslin has a sibling dying from cancer'

Answer: My Sister\'s Keeper


Question: 'In the '90s Federico Pena served as Secy. of Transportation & then Secy. of this (which he must have lots of)'

Answer: Energy


Question: 'Some have said that this Victorian poet's career may be divided into 2 parts: before & after "In Memoriam"'

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Descriptive word for a flag or dress, torn & hanging'

Answer: tatters


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.)  When graphing a word in calligraphy, the bottom line is called one of these, like something Jose Reyes might run down'

Answer: baseline


Question: 'You get an "A" if you know that pilots use this basic cockpit instrument to measure their elevation'

Answer: altimeter


Question: 'Rachel McAdams is the titular spouse in the 2009 film based on this novel by Audrey Niffenegger'

Answer: The Time Traveler\'s Wife


Question: 'Clinton's Interior Secretary was this alliteratively-named man from Arizona'

Answer: Bruce Babbitt


Question: 'After founding the London Police Force in 1829, he served as British prime minister on 2 separate occasions'

Answer: Robert Peel


Question: 'Tennessee Williams' was "Rose"'

Answer: Tattoo


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.)  A small stroke that begins or ends a letter is called one of these; you may have seen them on your computer's font list'

Answer: serif


Question: 'This Frenchman once said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple"--here are a few of them'

Answer: Paul Cézanne


Question: 'She introduced Hercule Poirot in her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'This jazz-rock group gave us the songs "25 or 6 to 4" & "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'A 1932 federal kidnapping law bears the name of this man whose child was kidnapped in 1932'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'Also called an articulation, it's the place where 2 or more bones meet'

Answer: joint


Question: 'The apathetic "DKDC" means "don't know, don't" this'

Answer: care


Question: 'This 9-letter word for a small piece of paper used for cleansing often follows "moist"'

Answer: towelette


Question: 'Ungrateful daughters are featured in an 1870 Turgenev story inspired by & named for this Shakespeare play'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'That's Mick Jagger singing backup on her hit "You're So Vain"'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'Last name of the Brit whose gift to the U.S. helped create the world's largest museum complex'

Answer: (James) Smithson


Question: 'Of its 22 bones, 8 form the cranium'

Answer: skull


Question: '"SITCOM" indicates "single income, two children, oppressive" one of these payments'

Answer: mortgage


Question: 'In chapter I of Dickens' "Bleak House" this is "everywhere...up the river...down the river...in the eyes & throats..."'

Answer: fog


Question: 'Try to un"earth" a copy of "Imperial Woman", this American woman's 1956 novel about the last empress of China'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'It's the potent potable in the title of the story song, heard here, that topped the charts in 1979'

Answer: pina colada


Question: 'In 1853 this man founded a piano business in NYC with his "Sons" that stayed family owned until 1972'

Answer: Henry E. Steinway


Question: 'Of 13, 14 or 15, the total number of phalanges, or toe bones, in each human foot'

Answer: 14


Question: 'This "Star Wars" catchphrase is signified by "MTFBWY"'

Answer: "May the force be with you"


Question: 'This Iberian plant seen here hanging from a tree needs to be in a moist habitat'

Answer: Spanish moss


Question: 'Tom Clancy continued the adventures of Jack Ryan in the 2000 thriller entitled "The Bear and" this'

Answer: the Dragon


Question: 'Eddie Money asked, "Won't you pack your bags, we'll leave tonight" in this 1978 song'

Answer: "Two Tickets to Paradise"


Question: 'A DeLand, Florida college got this present name after a large donation from a famed hatmaker'

Answer: Stetson


Question: 'A "blind spot" is created at the point where this nerve enters the eye'

Answer: optic nerve


Question: '"OOTB" means you should think this way'

Answer: outside the box


Question: 'This moist cake with cream cheese icing is probably the most popular cake named for a garden root veggie'

Answer: carrot cake


Question: 'The heroine of her 1923 novel "A Lost Lady" is based on Mrs. Silas Garber, wife of a governor of Nebraska'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'His No. 1 hit "I Wish" says, "Sneaking out the back door to hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine"'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  The series I've begun writing [1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21] is named for this Italian'

Answer: Leonardo Fibonacci (the "Fibonacci Sequence")


Question: 'Each day the liver produces about 2 pints of bile, which is then stored here'

Answer: gall bladder


Question: 'To indicate a joke, use "HHOK", "ha ha" this'

Answer: only kidding


Question: 'Introduced in 1886, the diamond setting named for this New York City jewelry store has become a standard for solitaires'

Answer: Tiffany\'s


Question: 'The U.S. has leased this important naval base on the island of Cuba since 1903'

Answer: Guantanamo Bay


Question: 'These floor coverings can be Berber or pile'

Answer: carpets


Question: 'Now living in the U.S., Reza Pahlavi II is the heir to this country's "Peacock Throne"'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'As a youngster, Britney Spears appeared on this Ed McMahon-hosted TV show'

Answer: Star Search


Question: 'Since Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, only this Reds player has exceeded 40 straight games'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'This seaport & second-largest Belgian city is a world leader in diamond-cutting & industrial diamonds'

Answer: Antwerp


Question: 'During WWII the Declaration of Independence was moved to this Kentucky military base for safety'

Answer: Fort Knox


Question: 'There are solid & cored varieties of these fired clay materials you'll need to wall in you backyard'

Answer: bricks


Question: 'King David II of this country, who spent decades in exile & in prison, was Robert the Bruce's eldest son'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Last name of Bowie persona Ziggy'

Answer: Stardust


Question: 'Alphabetically, he's the first player listed in baseball's hall of fame'

Answer: Henry (Hank) Aaron


Question: 'When it was stolen in 1792, the Hope Diamond was part of this country's crown jewels'

Answer: France


Question: 'This island at the southern tip of South Carolina is a major Marine Corps training base'

Answer: Parris Island


Question: 'Bobvila.com says that for a 19th century look, you can add these decorative wood strips to the bottom of a wall'

Answer: moldings


Question: 'He returned to the throne in Ethiopia in 1941 after 5 years in exile'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'It begins many track & field events'

Answer: starter\'s pistol


Question: 'In 1982 he set a modern record by stealing 130 bases; Hugh Nicol has the all-time record with 138 set in 1887'

Answer: Rickey Henderson


Question: 'The 727-carat Presidente Vargas Diamond bears the name of the head of state of this nation where it was found'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'If the space shuttle can't land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it can land at this Calif. air force base'

Answer: Edwards Air Force Base


Question: 'HQ'd in Scarborough, Ontario, this 'bare" furniture chain sells semifinished wood home furnishings'

Answer: Naked Furniture


Question: 'Noisy European creature heard here'

Answer: starling


Question: 'This pitcher has won 6 Cy Young Awards: 1 with New York, 2 with Toronto & 3 with Boston'

Answer: Roger Clemens


Question: 'In 1776 the Spanish founded this military base that overlooks the entrance to San Francisco Bay'

Answer: the Presidio


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  These interlocking woodworking joints often used to make drawers are known by this "avian" name'

Answer: dovetail joints


Question: '1960 Hugo Award winner for Robert Heinlein'

Answer: "Starship Troopers"


Question: 'He said, "Nice guys finish last", & proved it; he took over the Cubs in 1966 & managed them to last place in the NL'

Answer: Leo Durocher


Question: 'He's the last person to win the Best Director Oscar for a film in which he also starred'

Answer: Mel Gibson (for Braveheart)


Question: 'This one of the simple machines can be made by using a wheel & a rope'

Answer: pulley


Question: 'He played fictional hero Perry Mason off & on from 1957 until his death in 1993'

Answer: Raymond Burr


Question: 'He lost the presidency by a 71-68 electoral vote count, so he settled for the VP slot in 1796'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In hunting, dogs might chase their quarry up a tree, sometimes the dogs didn't choose the right tree'

Answer: barking up the wrong tree


Question: 'It's the term for a type of French bread baked into a long, cylindrical loaf with a crisp crust & a chewy inside'

Answer: baguette


Question: 'The tattered, unshaven hobo type of this performer caught on in American circuses'

Answer: clown


Question: 'Manufacturers of fireworks use barium to give off a green color & sodium to produce this color'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'Christopher Plummer narrated a 1993 Family Channel series about this Paris schoolgirl'

Answer: Madeline


Question: 'Speaking at Columbia Law School's 2000 commencement, he joked that he invented Lexis-Nexis'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'Sometimes a flintlock musket's fuse, called a pan, would flare up without firing the gun'

Answer: a flash in the pan


Question: 'Sourdough bread uses a special yeast one of these as the leavener'

Answer: starter


Question: 'In the 1880s, circus owner Adam Forepaugh tried to compete with P.T. Barnum, who had this elephant as an attraction'

Answer: Jumbo


Question: 'Inhaling & exhaling result from the contraction of this muscle at the floor of the chest cavity'

Answer: diaphragm


Question: 'Pamela Sue Martin, who played this sleuth, left her show when it was merged with the Hardy Boys''

Answer: Nancy Drew


Question: 'He found the press quite taxing, calling them "Nattering nabobs of negativism"'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'On early warships, sailors & their wives slept between the cannons; the wives gave birth there as well'

Answer: son of a gun


Question: 'Pumpernickel often gets its flavor from this brownish-black liquid made when sugar is refined'

Answer: molasses


Question: 'The Cristiani Brothers Circus specialized in this equestrian style that didn't saddle them with extra props'

Answer: bareback


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Sea World in San Diego)  In the wild, the polar bear feeds mainly on these, especially the ringed species'

Answer: seals


Question: 'In 1979 this James Jones novel was a miniseries with Steve Railsback in Montgomery Clift's movie role'

Answer: From Here to Eternity


Question: 'He only served 6 months as VP before he took the presidential oath of office in Buffalo'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'Deciphering hidden writing within a paragraph that couldn't be seen unless the paper was treated'

Answer: to read between the lines


Question: 'It's the German word for rusk, bread that is baked twice to make it crisp'

Answer: zwieback


Question: 'Franco Knie, manager & elephant trainer of Circus Knie, has been romancing this Monaco princess'

Answer: Princess Stephanie


Question: 'The elements erbium, terbium, ytterbium & yttrium are named for the town of Ytterby in this country'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'This 1994 miniseries based on a Stephen King book depicts the aftermath of a devastating plague'

Answer: The Stand


Question: 'This ex-VP took the presidential oath of office from Judge Sarah Hughes, the first woman to administer it'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'A boxing technique where you move away so you won't feel the full force when a punch lands'

Answer: rolling with the punches


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  I'm braiding this bread that's bleseed & served at certain Friday night dinners'

Answer: challah


Question: 'A circus formed in the 1930s combined the names of the Cole Brothers & this famous circus figure seen here'

Answer: Clyde Beatty


Question: 'Jesus said to him, "Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?"'

Answer: Judas Iscariot


Question: '1 magnum of champagne equals this many standard bottles'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Madonna's "greedy" nickname, or her 1985 hit'

Answer: "Material Girl"


Question: 'This wonderful, wonderful city is home to the world-famous Tivoli Gardens'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Because Bernardo Strozzi had been a Capuchin friar, he was nicknamed this, which sounds like an Italian coffee drink'

Answer: Cappuccino


Question: ''40s bandleader playing "In the Mood" who drinks a less filling beer before charging "In the valley of death"'

Answer: Glenn Miller Light Brigade


Question: 'This angel announced the coming births of both Jesus & John the Baptist'

Answer: Gabriel


Question: 'At the Olympics, a 437.6 yard run equals this many meters'

Answer: 400


Question: 'She's the glamorous lead singer seen here'

Answer: Debbie Harry


Question: 'It lies at the mouth of the River Liffey'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Luca Giordano was nicknamed "Luca Fa Presto" because he worked this way'

Answer: fast


Question: 'A black female 1920s entertainer living near Sherlock Holmes would have this type of urban shrewdness'

Answer: Josephine Baker Street smarts


Question: 'In Mark 4:39 Jesus calmed this body of water by saying, "Peace. Be still"'

Answer: Sea of Galilee


Question: 'Traveling approximately 1,500 miles per hour equals Mach this'

Answer: 2


Question:
'They're the mama & daughter heard here
Well it's girls' night out...'

Answer: The Judds


Question: 'This Dutch seat of government doubles as the capital of South Holland province'

Answer: The Hague


Question: 'Donato di Niccolo found fame as a Renaissance sculptor using this name (later taken by a Ninja Turtle)'

Answer: Donatello


Question: 'The "holy" first pope is in this '60s folk trio also including this actress who was "America's Sweetheart"'

Answer: Pope Peter Paul and Mary Pickford


Question: '"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" them'

Answer: his friends


Question: '1 square furlong equals this many acres'

Answer: 10


Question: 'Her first two (less famous) husbands were musician Toshi Ichiyanagi & filmmaker Tony Cox'

Answer: Yoko Ono


Question: 'It lies on the Danube River, about 135 miles southeast of Vienna'

Answer: Budapest


Question: 'First & last name of the "Garden of Earthly Delights" painter; he took the name from the town of 'S Hertogenbosch'

Answer: Hieronymus Bosch


Question: 'A child's tiny green plastic military figure who fights for money inside a Chinese dessert item'

Answer: toy soldier of fortune cookie


Question: 'In the book of Revelation it is written, "Behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was" this'

Answer: Death


Question: 'In weight, 1 British stone equals this many pounds'

Answer: 14


Question: 'In 2001 Time magazine named this Olympia, Washington female trio America's best rock band'

Answer: Sleater-Kinney


Question: 'It's alphabetically last among Europe's capital cities'

Answer: Zagreb, Croatia


Question: 'The surname of this "Primavera" painter came from his brother's nickname, which meant "little barrel"'

Answer: Sandro Botticelli


Question: 'If a marriage held at the point of a firearm advertised added electronic frills, they'd be these'

Answer: shotgun wedding bells & whistles


Question: 'When he moved into the White House, George W. Bush brought some of his over 150 autographed ones of these'

Answer: baseballs


Question: 'June 11, 2004:<br />His funeral is held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'Sylvester Stallone played this troubled ex-commando loner in 3 hit films'

Answer: Rambo


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew speaks on a living room stage setting.)  By speaking to farther and farther points, I learn to do this with my voice, also something done at the back of a movie theater'

Answer: project


Question: 'So natural... so real... this salty, watery fluid secreted by sweat glands is finally here'

Answer: Perspiration


Question: 'To make a speech or to give birth'

Answer: deliver


Question: 'Jesus' last quoted words, known as the "Great Commission", are in the book called these "of the Apostles"'

Answer: the Acts


Question: 'June 5, 1851:<br />Later a novel, this serial begins a 10-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'In this epic Russell Crowe played the victorious Roman general Maximum Decimus Meridius'

Answer: Gladiator


Question: '(Cheryl walks around the living room set.)  Actors need to remember more than just lines; also this, their assigned movement around the stage'

Answer: blocking


Question: 'A hit in Amsterdam, it's the tribute perfume to Union general Joseph, English clergyman Richard & TV's T.J.'

Answer: Hooker


Question: 'To shake from cold, or to shatter something, like "me timbers"'

Answer: shiver


Question: 'This 120-year-old man reported, "The Lord hath said unto me, thou shalt not go over" the Jordan'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'June 1, 1533:<br />This woman, Henry VIII's new wife, is crowned queen'

Answer: Anne Boleyn


Question: 'In 1942 George Baker created this "morose" comic-strip soldier for Yank magazine'

Answer: Sad Sack


Question: '"Directional" term for pages from a script, given to auditioning actors'

Answer: sides


Question: '4 Horsemen Ltd. gave you War, Famine & Death... now, complete the line with this, a deadly epidemic disease'

Answer: Pestilence


Question: 'Body detox center'

Answer: liver


Question: 'Back in the Old Testament, Isaiah said, "Behold", one of these "shall conceive, and bear a son"'

Answer: a virgin


Question: 'June 17, 1579:<br />This captain claims "Nova Albion" (possibly modern-day California) for England'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'In this epic tale of men & war, Martin Sheen played Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier sent on a assassination'

Answer: Apocalypse Now


Question: '(Cheryl walks in front of the sofa chair on set.)  Some people can't keep this straight; it's the two-word term for the direction I'm going because it's from the point of view of the actor facing the audience'

Answer: stage right


Question: 'From Latin for "seasickness", whether it's extreme disgust, or loathing, you'll always remember this as...'

Answer: Nausea


Question: 'China's Hongshui or India's Tapi'

Answer: river


Question: 'Several proverbs mock the slothful man who won't leave his house for fear of being eaten by this animal'

Answer: the lion


Question: 'June 28, 1969:<br />Riots at this Greenwich Village bar mark the beginning of the gay rights movement'

Answer: the Stonewall Inn


Question: 'On "M*A*S*H" this fictional military doctor's nickname was "Ferret Face"'

Answer: Frank Burns


Question: '(Cheryl sits in the sofa chair on set.)  To express grief in this scene, I'm going to remember when my favorite dog died; that's the emotion memory in this Russian teacher's method'

Answer: Stanislavski


Question: 'A ratio for success--the geek get chic with "Pi", taken to 4 decimal places; it's Chanel number...'

Answer: 3.1416


Question: 'The goddess Diana is often depicted holding this container'

Answer: quiver


Question: 'This king's kids had sibling issues--Amnon attacked sister Tamar & was ordered killed by brother Absalom'

Answer: David


Question: 'The name of this creepy style of novel originally referred to the books' Medieval settings'

Answer: Gothic


Question: '"The One with the Fake Monica"'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'Tritanopia is the medical term for this when it affects the ability to discern blue'

Answer: colorblindness


Question: 'Terpsichore, the muse of dance, is usually depicted holding this stringed instrument'

Answer: a lyre


Question: 'This nation has the longest coastline on the Adriatic Sea'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'These objects that fall from the heavens to smite the Earth are often fragments of asteroids'

Answer: meteorites


Question: 'You can't have Sturm without this in an 18th c. German style celebrating individual feeling'

Answer: Drang


Question: '"The Last Time I Saw Maris"'

Answer: Frasier


Question: '"Fundamental" 4-letter term for a substance that reacts with acids to form salts & can turn litmus paper blue'

Answer: base


Question: 'The bellows of this instrument, as a substitute for lung power, was developed in 17th century France & Ireland'

Answer: the bagpipes


Question: 'Known as "The Bride of the Sea", this city's canals are fed by the waters of the Adriatic'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'A 1980s law sayeth, verily, wines containing these shall be so labeled'

Answer: sulfites


Question: 'The Parnassians of 19th c. France used strict technique & advocated this, later used as a motto by MGM'

Answer: ars gratia artis (art for art\'s sake)


Question: '"Barbarino in Love"'

Answer: Welcome Back, Kotter


Question: 'See a lot of hot young stars--not at the Oscars but in the blue type of one of these, seen by the Hubble telescope'

Answer: a blue galaxy


Question: 'Perfected by Johann Denner, this woodwind now comes in many pitches, including the B-flat soprano'

Answer: the clarinet


Question: 'Varieties of this popular Mediterranean fruit include the Smyrna & the Adriatic'

Answer: figs


Question: 'Not by miracles doth an eraser work, but by friction that removes this from paper'

Answer: graphite


Question: 'Russians like Andrey Bely advanced this -ism whose name suggests the use of objects to convey meanings'

Answer: symbolism


Question: '"Sexual Perversity in Cleveland"'

Answer: The Drew Carey Show


Question: 'The blue stain on the streptococci seen here tells you they're this-positive'

Answer: gram-positive


Question: 'Often played with drums, it's held horizontally, has 6 finger holes & was developed in Switzerland'

Answer: the fife


Question: 'Important port cities on the Adriatic in this country include Dubrovnik & Split'

Answer: Croatia


Question: 'Gnashing of teeth is more difficult when you have this, which may result from retrognathism'

Answer: an overbite


Question: 'Samuel Johnson applied this philosophical adjective to 17th c. poets who used elaborate metaphors'

Answer: metaphysical


Question: '"The Smelly Car"'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'A mysterious material with the formula Mo5O14, made of oxygen & this metal, gives solutions a blue tint'

Answer: molybdenum


Question: 'It resembles a large cornet but is actually a bugle; Chuck Mangione featured it on his 1978 hit "Feels So Good"'

Answer: the flugelhorn


Question: 'This river flows more than 400 miles frrom the Alps to its delta on the Adriatic'

Answer: the Po


Question: 'A mighty hero could lift this company's Hardside Jumbo Suiter as if it were a toy'

Answer: Samsonite


Question: 'The main green of this university includes statues of Ira Allen, its founder, & Lafayette, who visited in 1825'

Answer: the University of Vermont


Question: 'Hunting & forest clearing (not a luxury automaker) have endangered this largest wild cat of the Americas'

Answer: the jaguar


Question: 'A stadium with the world’s largest roof was built in 1972 for the Olympic games in this city'

Answer: Munich


Question: 'There's plenty of room here for your groceries'

Answer: a pantry


Question: '"CAD" stands for these 3 computer keys (often used together)'

Answer: Ctrl+Alt+Delete


Question: 'The man he tied with 73 electoral votes in 1800'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'AKA "America’s Dairyland", it’s one of the leading U.S. states in milk production'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Like an escargot, the abalone is an edible one of these gastropods'

Answer: a snail


Question: 'On March 14, 1997 Scott Hamilton became the first figure skater inducted into this NYC sports arena’s Walk of Fame'

Answer: Madison Square Garden


Question: 'This is your John Hancock'

Answer: your autograph


Question: 'Don’t wait around if you read "DHYB"; it means “don’t hold” this'

Answer: your breath


Question: 'The New Jersey college he graduated from at age 16'

Answer: Princeton


Question: '1 of this unit of milk weighs about 8 pounds'

Answer: a gallon


Question: 'It's the branch of physics that deals with the nature & properties of light'

Answer: optics


Question: 'Built in 1912, this American League park is Major League Baseball's oldest & smallest in capacity'

Answer: Fenway


Question: 'This is right'

Answer: starboard


Question: '"ESO" is the insulting "equipment smarter than" this person'

Answer: the operator


Question: 'The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804'

Answer: Hamilton


Question: 'A Frenchman created this process that kills microorganisms in milk by heating it'

Answer: pasteurization


Question: 'Hermann Muller won a 1946 Nobel Prize for proving that the use of these can cause mutations'

Answer: X rays


Question: 'This Big 12 school plays its home basketball games at the Bob Devaney Sports Center'

Answer: the University of Nebraska


Question: 'This is your history'

Answer: your background


Question: '"CD-ROM" also stands for "consumer device rendered" this "in months"'

Answer: obsolete


Question: 'The man he introduced the widow Dolley Todd to in 1794'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'This type of sugar that's less sweet than sucrose is found only in milk'

Answer: lactose


Question: 'The flowers on this type of myrtle tree resemble the crinkly paper of the same name'

Answer: crepe


Question: '(I'm Moe Williams from the NFL.)  The Minnesota Vikings play their home games in a domed stadium named for this former U.S. vice president'

Answer: Humphrey


Question: 'Someone who's very middle-of-the-road'

Answer: centrist


Question: '"AIAMU" means "and I'm a" this, expressing astonishment'

Answer: monkey\'s uncle


Question: 'The Chief Justice who presided over his treason trial'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'In 1856 Gail Borden received a patent for his process to do this to milk'

Answer: condense it


Question: 'Bush-Cheney called Edwards Kerry's second choice, meaning this Republican was his first'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'In the 19th century a new breed of terrier was named for this clergyman'

Answer: Jack Russell


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls through an unfinished airplane cabin at the Boeing Everett Factory in Seattle, WA.)  I'm walking through this main body of the airplane, which gets its name from the Old French for "spindle"'

Answer: the fuselage


Question: 'One of the principal exports of Seychelles is copra, the dried white flesh of this fruit'

Answer: coconut


Question: 'A tree that's a national symbol of Slovenia, or a Texan U.S. president's first name'

Answer: linden (or Lyndon)


Question: 'On October 26, 1881 this took place at Tombstone's OK Corral'

Answer: gunfight


Question: 'George W. Bush won 91% of the vote in Massachusetts (unfortunately for him it was in this contest)'

Answer: the Republican primary


Question: 'In "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" this author wrote, "I believe there is an unseen world all around us"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'In chemistry, it maintains a mixture resistant to change; when flying it controls the pitch of an aircraft'

Answer: the stabilizer


Question: 'From about 1500 to 1750 the Seychelles served mainly as a hiding place for these people'

Answer: pirates


Question: 'Loudly, raucously sound out George Orwell's original last name'

Answer: blare (or Blair)


Question: 'William Congreve wrote, "Women are like tricks by" this "of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand"'

Answer: sleight


Question: 'Most of the over 50,000 signatures he submitted to try to get on the Michigan ballot were collected by the GOP'

Answer: (Ralph) Nader


Question: 'In 1999 this rapper-turned-actress turned talk show host'

Answer: Queen Latifah


Question: 'This 3-digit number, popular in Vegas slot machines, is Boeing's & the world's largest family of twinjet'

Answer: 777


Question: 'The Seychelles uses this unit of currency, which is also used in Pakistan, Nepal & Sri Lanka'

Answer: the rupee


Question: 'A critiquer of pure reason who died in 1804, or a response indicating you're unable to grasp his philosophy'

Answer: Kant (or can\'t)


Question: 'As a noun, it's a zero; as a pronoun, it's nothing'

Answer: naught


Question: 'In a July 23 speech to this league, the President asked if the Democrats take black voters for granted'

Answer: the National Urban League


Question: 'Columbia chief Harry Cohn advised this actor to change his last name to avoid negative review puns'

Answer: Jack Lemmon


Question: 'Greater than supersonic, it's the term for a speed 5 times faster than the speed of sound'

Answer: hypersonic (Mach 5 accepted)


Question: 'Seychelles is an example of this grouping of a large number of islands on a vast sheet of sea'

Answer: an archipelago


Question: 'In "A hymn to God the Father", this metaphysical poet makes punning use of this synonym for "finished"'

Answer: Donne (or done)


Question: 'Samuel F.B. Morse could have told you that it's a past tense & a past participle of work'

Answer: wrought


Question: 'This Florida senator was the first Democratic candidate to drop out of the race'

Answer: (Bob) Graham


Question: 'An ad in a 1973 paper brought this lead guitarist together with Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley & Peter Criss'

Answer: Ace Frehley


Question: '"Air"y name of the curved top & flat bottom shape that airplane (& bird) wings have to give them lift'

Answer: an airfoil


Question: 'This Portuguese navigator, the first European to reach India by sea, discovered the Seychelles in 1502'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'Sadly for him, the 17th century gunpowder plotter wasn't quite as sly as the animal'

Answer: Fawkes (or fox)


Question: 'Abbreviated dwt., it's equal to 24 grains, or 1/20 of a troy ounce'

Answer: a pennyweight


Question: 'Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful"'

Answer: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman


Question: 'The National Baseball Hall of Fame was founded there in 1939'

Answer: Cooperstown, New York


Question: 'Don won 5 Emmys in the '60s for playing this jittery comic sidekick'

Answer: Barney Fife


Question: 'Used to wrap pieces of sushi, this substance is called nori'

Answer: Seaweed


Question: '"Monday, Monday"'

Answer: The Mamas & The Papas


Question: 'Students put together this, also called an annual, with photos of class members & school activities'

Answer: Yearbook


Question: 'Be careful who you talk to in these online "rooms" -- people may not be who they say they are'

Answer: Chat rooms


Question: 'Founded in 1652, it's South Africa's oldest city established by Europeans'

Answer: Cape Town


Question: 'Jack & Chrissy could tell you Don slayed 'em as new landlord Ralph Furley on this sitcom'

Answer: Three\'s Company


Question: 'Named for a U.S. state, this item is also popular in Japan'

Answer: California roll


Question: '"Another Brick In The Wall"'

Answer: Pink Floyd


Question: 'Psi Chi is an honor society in psychology; Chi Psi is one of these Greek letter societies'

Answer: Fraternity


Question: 'Like a doomed plane, it describes system failure due to software or hardware malfunction'

Answer: Crash


Question: 'Guyana's capital, or a historic section of our own capital'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'Don played a magical TV repairman in this 1998 fantasy in black & white -- & color'

Answer: Pleasantville


Question: 'Sushi connoisseur Shigo Ito refreshes her palate with pickled strips of this root'

Answer: Ginger


Question: '"Walk Like An Egyptian"'

Answer: The Bangles


Question: 'Teams engage in the Lincoln-Douglas & Parliamentary types of these'

Answer: Debates


Question: 'It doesn't mean "to continue with wood", it means to type in your I.D. & password in order to get started'

Answer: Log on


Question: 'A theatrical group from this Mass. seaport community helped launch the career of Eugene O' Neill'

Answer: Provincetown


Question: 'In the classic "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken", Don sought a news scoop by spending the night in one of these'

Answer: Haunted house


Question: 'The topping seen here is ikura, made of these from a salmon'

Answer: Roe


Question: '"U Can't Touch This"'

Answer: MC Hammer


Question: 'Free room & board are perks of being a dorm's R.A., which stands for this'

Answer: Resident assistant/advisor


Question: 'When you find those wacky 1970s photos of me online, it's time to do this, meaning transfer them to your computer'

Answer: Download


Question: 'This industrial city & surrounding area in eastern Pennsylvania provided the title of a 1982 Billy Joel hit'

Answer: Allentown


Question: 'Don remarked "I am cursed with an abnormal sexual magnetism" as bird watcher Abner Peacock in this epic'

Answer: The Love God


Question: 'As an appetizer, you may serve this fish dish that's been called "sushi without the rice"'

Answer: Sashimi


Question: '"Kashmir"'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: 'Write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience when you join a chapter of AI, this organization'

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: 'Inputting cyberheads take note:  G.I.G.O. stands for this'

Answer: "Garbage in, garbage out"


Question: 'This hard-sided U.S. frigate destroyed the Java off South America on December 29, 1812'

Answer: U.S.S. Constitution


Question: 'The 1st phonograph, a hand-cranked model, was devised by the Wizard in 1877 at this lab site'

Answer: Menlo Park


Question: 'He crowded onto the stage with his 11 brothers for the "Dad Likes You Best" show'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'Nickname of the female fashion designer born in France's Loire Valley region in 1883'

Answer: Coco (Chanel)


Question: 'During this fall celebration in Germany, drinkers consume some 10 million pints of beer!'

Answer: Oktoberfest


Question: 'In 73 B.C., Spartacus & other gladiators escaped training school & fled to this volcano near Pompeii'

Answer: Mount Vesuvius


Question: 'This engagement of January 8, 1815 has been called "the needless battle"'

Answer: Battle of New Orleans


Question: 'Edison marvelled at the machine's ability to do this, perhaps making him the first to hear "Paul Is Dead"'

Answer: Play backwards


Question: 'These 2 were rather circumspect when Seth's letter got them on "Fig Leaf Makeovers"'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: '"La boheme", "Rent" & "The Drew Carey Show" all have a character with this name'

Answer: Mimi


Question: 'By an act of Congress, it falls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November'

Answer: Election Day


Question: 'For walls & vaults, the Romans invented a superior type of this material made of cement, water & gravel'

Answer: Concrete


Question: 'On June 1, 1812 he asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain; Congress did so on June 18'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'In 1878 Edison gave up working on his "favorite invention" to develop a practical one of these'

Answer: Light bulb


Question: 'Samson brought the house down when she tricked him into appearing on the "No More Secrets!" show'

Answer: Delilah


Question: '1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was a No. 1 duet by Elton John & this woman'

Answer: Kiki Dee


Question: 'Can't wait for Christmas?  In Europe, this saint "visits" on Dec. 6, his feast day, with gifts in hand'

Answer: Saint Nicholas


Question: 'Nearing death, he asked that his "Aeneid" be burned, but Augustus refused to have it destroyed'

Answer: Virgil


Question: 'On the night of Sept. 13-14, 1814, this Washington attorney was detained aboard a British ship'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question: 'Edison thought the phonograph should be used for this in an office, not for music & entertainment'

Answer: Dictation


Question: 'Miriam & Aaron answered this man's questions on the "Who's My Real Mother?" episode'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'A nickname for Josephine, this name is stereotypically used for French poodles'

Answer: Fifi


Question: 'Every fall this Arizona town raises hell with Helldorado Days, an Old West gunslinging celebration'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'Latin name for the period of stability & peace that began in 27 B.C. & lasted about 2 centuries'

Answer: Pax Romana


Question: 'After his flagship the Lawrence was disabled in Lake Erie, he transferred via small boat to the Niagara'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: 'On December 7, 1877 Edison demonstrated the phonograph to the editors of this journal'

Answer: Scientific American


Question: 'David was hidden offstage when Jonathan told this man "Dad, Leave My Friends Alone!"'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'Richard Pryor played this title character in a 1986 film; his life was calling'

Answer: Jo Jo Dancer


Question: 'During this Jewish harvest festival, many families take meals in homemade huts'

Answer: Sukkot


Question: 'After Caligula's assassination, this stammerer was found hiding behind a curtain & made emperor'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'In 1998 America's second-largest federal building was named in his honor'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Excavations of this ancient city began in 1748; it was buried under 20 feet of volcanic debris'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'The University of Massachusetts Minutemen'

Answer: the Minutewomen


Question: 'In 1915 Jacinto Benavente wrote a play called "The Smile Of" her, originally a Renaissance art masterpiece'

Answer: Mona Lisa


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Taylor Grocery here in Mississippi fries catfish in oil made from this legume, widely grown in the South; it can be heated to high temperatures without smoking'

Answer: peanut


Question: 'When completed in 1965, the 648-foot Daley Center was this city's tallest building; more than 20 are now higher'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This disease was once known as consumption'

Answer: tuberculosis


Question: 'Districts in this country include Braga, Viana do Castelo & Lisboa'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'The Oklahoma State University Cowboys'

Answer: the Cowgirls


Question: 'Simonetta Vespucci, the model for his "Birth of Venus", is a character in "Michelangelo's Models"'

Answer: Botticelli


Question: 'Ryan Newman won a NASCAR catfish cookoff with a recipe named for this alcoholic batter'

Answer: beer (batter)


Question: 'The world's tallest skyscraper (not tower) is this country's Taipei 101, which stands 1,670 feet high'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'Canneries of this are the largest private-sector employers in American Samoa'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'It's bounded by Bolivia, Brazil & Argentina'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'The St. Peter's College Peacocks'

Answer: the Peahens


Question: 'Images of this artist's work appear in the play written by & starring Leonard Nimoy as Theo'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue as she makes catfish at the Taylor Grocery in Mississippi.) One key ingredient in a good catfish fry coating is this sauce, developed in India but named for the English city where it was first bottled'

Answer: Worcesterchire


Question: '2 of the 10 tallest buildings in New York City are named for this real estate tycoon'

Answer: (Donald) Trump


Question: 'Leviticus 5:7 suggests these as an offering; they also make a good second-day-of-Chrismas gift'

Answer: turtle doves


Question: 'We are marching to the former capital of Transvaal, this city north of Johannesburg'

Answer: Pretoria


Question: 'The Northland College LumberJacks'

Answer: the LumberJills


Question: '"Belle Epoque" features this artist painting Parisian nightlife, can-cans & women drunk on absinthe'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'Farm-raised catfish get fed at the surface, so they aren't these, also a term for human scavengers or opportunists'

Answer: bottom feeders


Question: 'This San Francisco building's largest floor is the fifth, at 21,025 square feet; its smallest is the 48th, at 2,025 sq. feet'

Answer: The Transamerica building


Question: 'The word "tulip" goes back to a word for this headwear seen on Muslims'

Answer: a turban


Question: 'In 1975 Murdoch University opened in this state capital of Western Australia'

Answer: Perth


Question: 'The Central Missouri State Mules'

Answer: the Jennies


Question: 'The play "Sunday in the Park with George" sprang from this Frenchman's masterpiece'

Answer: (Georges) Seurat


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Taylor Grocery in Mississippi.)  Get your catfish fried, or try this other method that cooks the fish on a skillet & was popularized by Paul Prudhomme'

Answer: blackened


Question: 'The service elevators in this St. Louis edifice rise at an angle of 78 degrees'

Answer: the Gateway Arch


Question: '(Mark Hamill reads the clue.) The scenes filmed on Luke's home planet, Tatooine, were actually filmed in this African "T" country'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'In a 1978 attack on the new Narita Airport serving this capital, protesters broke into & trashed its control tower'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'A college in Cambridge, Mass. was named for this man after he left it half his fortune & a 400-book library'

Answer: (John) Harvard


Question: 'Castle Rock in this novel is the fort where Jack bases his tribe; the conch is later shattered there'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: 'Thermos bottles use this for insulation between their inner & outer walls'

Answer: a vacuum


Question: 'Also called the second cranial nerves, you need them to read this clue'

Answer: the optic nerves


Question: 'The acoustic album called "MTV" this "in New York" earned a Grammy for Nirvana'

Answer: Unplugged


Question: 'Attacks in 2003 claimed by the Earth Liberation Front on L.A. area auto dealers destroyed 20 of these vehicles'

Answer: Hummers


Question: 'He developed the first successful steel plow, & his company found tractors to be a fertile market'

Answer: John Deere


Question: 'At the end of a 1719 novel, this title character sells his Brazilian plantation, marries & visits his old island'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'A synonym for "homicidal"'

Answer: murderous


Question: 'The tingling sensation that arises when the ulnar nerve is struck gives a point on the arm this name'

Answer: the funny bone


Question: 'Best New Artist winners include John Legend, Maroon 5 & this jazzy singer of "Don't Know Why"'

Answer: Norah Jones


Question: '18 years of deadly rage & action towards universities & airlines earned Ted Kaczynski this moniker'

Answer: the Unabomber


Question: 'As the U.S. Constitution was vague, this V.P. decided to name himself President instead of calling for an election'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'The Duke of Milan is marooned in this play that was inspired by the 1609 wreck of an English ship off Bermuda'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'It's the practice of lending money at a high interest rate'

Answer: usury


Question: 'This basic unit of life is often tiny, but the nerve type in a giraffe can be 9 feet long'

Answer: cell


Question: 'In 2006 U2 won Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle" one of these'

Answer: an Atomic Bomb


Question: 'In a 1980 antiwar protest, these priest brothers, Daniel & Philip, attacked missile warheads at a G.E. plant'

Answer: Berrigan


Question: 'The American Library Association awards a medal named for this children's book publisher'

Answer: (John) Newbery


Question: 'This title inhabitant of Asteroid B-612 happens upon a pilot stranded in the desert'

Answer: The Little Prince


Question: 'Type of structure named for a 353 B.C. monument built by Queen Artemisia to honor her dead husband'

Answer: a mausoleum


Question: 'The first cranial nerve, also called this sensory nerve, ends in the nasal cavity'

Answer: the olfactory nerve


Question: 'Grammy voters were fixated with this one-named Colombian hottie who won for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1"'

Answer: Shakira


Question: 'The name of these English 19th century destroyers of textile equipment can now mean any anti-technologists'

Answer: Luddites


Question: 'This 3-named American artist was known for portraits of socially prominent people, like the women seen here'

Answer: John Singer Sargent


Question: 'Karana survives an earthquake, a tidal wave & 18 years alone on an island in this children's story'

Answer: Island of the Blue Dolphins


Question: 'A small, cone-shaped structure at the back of the soft palate'

Answer: a uvula


Question: 'Sometimes confused with rheumatism, this pain is named for the longest nerve in the body'

Answer: sciatica


Question: 'Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal)'

Answer: Guerrilla


Question: 'Columbus sighted this volcanic island in 1493 & gave it a name meaning "saw-toothed mountain"'

Answer: Montserrat


Question: 'In 1960 Richard Daley's political machine gave JFK a narrow, disputed win in this state'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'It's the Flintstones' home town'

Answer: Bedrock


Question: 'Magellan data indicate the Cleopatra crater on this inner planet is of impact, not volcanic, origin'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'The porcupine'

Answer: Rodent


Question: 'In 1993 Polish-born general John Shalikashvili became chairman of this group'

Answer: Joint Chiefs of Staff


Question: 'If a Canadian says to you, "Hey, hoser, uncork me a Molson, eh", he wants you to do this'

Answer: Open a beer for him


Question: 'His 1956 victory was the first time in over a century that the party of the presidential winner didn't control Congress'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'In a current show residents of this New England city include Dr. Sydney Hansen & her father Jim, a veterinarian'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'Tamara Dobson played this secret agent in 2 1970s films'

Answer: Cleopatra Jones


Question: 'The Tasmanian Devil'

Answer: Marsupial


Question: 'We forget this impassioned man, then remember him again every election year'

Answer: Alan Keyes


Question: 'In Hebrew it can mean hello. goodbye or well-being'

Answer: Shalom


Question: 'In 1980 Carter gave this "speech" at 9:50 P.M., the earliest since Alton B. Parker in 1904'

Answer: Concession speech


Question: 'This favorite of the '60s was set at Coral Key Park in Florida'

Answer: Flipper


Question: 'In the '60s this man & woman made their first record as Caesar & Cleo'

Answer: Sonny & Cher


Question: 'The chinchilla'

Answer: Rodent


Question: 'At sporting events "Rainbow Man" Stewart often promoted this chapter & verse of the gospel of John'

Answer: 3:16


Question: 'From the Latin for "to lick", it's a ridiculing satire & a Harvard magazine'

Answer: Lampoon


Question: 'In 1944 this victorious running mate sent FDR a telegram reading, "Isolationism is dead"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'In the '60s this town full of secrets was home to the Harringtons & the Mackenzies'

Answer: Peyton Place


Question: 'A 1989 biography dubbed this singer-dancer "Jazz Cleopatra"'

Answer: Josephine Baker


Question: 'The macaque'

Answer: Primate


Question: 'At age 70, this former action star won the 1998 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Affliction"'

Answer: James Coburn


Question: 'Based on its etymology, it's the period in a human's life when you'd expect him or her to be speechless'

Answer: Infancy/infant


Question: 'In 1988 Bush beat Dukakis on this, the latest possible election day'

Answer: November 8


Question: 'Burt Reynolds' character Wood Newton was a football coach in this title town'

Answer: Evening Shade


Question: 'Designed around 1500 B.C., it was set up on the Thames embankment in the 1870s'

Answer: Cleopatra\'s Needle


Question: 'The wombat'

Answer: Marsupial


Question: '"Colorful" name of the IBM computer that lost to Garry Kasparov in 1996 & beat him in '97'

Answer: Deep Blue


Question: 'The spirit or outlook of a period or generation, it's German for "time spirit"'

Answer: Zeitgeist


Question: 'State where you'll find the homes of Harry Truman & Jesse James'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Former newspaper illustrator Chester Gould created this comic strip about a police detective'

Answer: Dick Tracy


Question: 'French for "sherbet", it's often served as a palate refresher between courses'

Answer: Sorbet


Question: 'First published in 1937, it was revised in 1951 to bring it into line with "The Lord of the Rings"'

Answer: "The Hobbit"


Question: 'In 1990 MTV banned her steamy video for "Justify My Love"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'Proverbially, it "gets the worm"'

Answer: The early bird


Question: 'A house in this state's city of Hackensack was given to Baron von Steuben for service to the U.S.; he sold it'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Joe Shuster, who co-created this comic book hero in 1934, was destitute by the '70s'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'For your dining pleasure, we'll be serving this meat tonight with a Marsala sauce, or in osso buco'

Answer: Veal


Question: 'Chapters in the autobiography of this man include "Harlemite", "Hustler" & "Black Muslims"'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'She founded the Church of Christ Scientist, which relies on spiritual healing'

Answer: Mary Baker Eddy


Question: 'Far-flung Philly fans are fanatical for this football franchise, the pro champs in '48 & '49'

Answer: Philadelphia Eagles


Question: 'The L.L. Nunn House is an architectural highlight of Telluride in this state'

Answer: Colorado


Question: '10-time Hugo Award winner Kelly Freas is famous for illustrating the magazine called "Astounding" this genre'

Answer: Science fiction


Question: 'It's a spicy soup made with tripe & calves' feet, or the name of Ricky Martin's old group'

Answer: Menudo


Question: 'These are usually written in prose, but Pope's "On Man" & "On Criticism" are poems'

Answer: Essays


Question: 'A bestselling book by this woman seen here grew out of her commencement speech at Holy Cross'

Answer: Maria Shriver


Question: 'Title held in different countries at different times by Balbinus, Bao Dai & Bidatsu'

Answer: Emperor


Question: 'You can visit the mansion of shipping magnate Jeremiah Lee in Marblehead in this state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Daumier pioneered this type of exaggerated cartoon by showing King Louis Philippe as a giant pear'

Answer: Caricature


Question: 'Often stuffed with meat & cheese, this ring-shaped pasta is a specialty of Bologna, Italy'

Answer: Tortellini


Question: 'This satirist's 1734 "Lettres Anglaises" extols England & by implication criticizes France'

Answer: Voltaire


Question: 'Al Gore's mom, Pauline, was the only woman in this Nashville university's law school Class of 1936'

Answer: Vanderbilt


Question: 'With an extensile glutinous tongue, this spiny Australian monotreme mercilessly slurps up its insect prey'

Answer: Echidna


Question: 'The home of Jonathan Hager stands in the "town" named for him in this state'

Answer: Hagerstown, Maryland


Question: 'He drew the New Yorker cover "View of the World from Ninth Avenue", much copied as a poster'

Answer: Saul Steinberg


Question: 'Impress your guests by serving this dish, also called Bei Jing Kao Ya'

Answer: Peking Duck


Question: '"Blue at the Mizzen" is the 20th of his books detailing the naval career of Jack Aubrey'

Answer: Patrick O\'Brian


Question: 'The title of this columnist's 1992 book asserted that she "Can't Say That, Can She?"'

Answer: Molly Ivins


Question: 'The turning point in the war in north Africa, this October 1942 battle saw the Brits kick serious Nazi butt'

Answer: El Alamein


Question: 'The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'What we call this doughy breakfast roll, sometimes lathered with gravy, refers to a cookie in the U.K.'

Answer: biscuit


Question: '"Just do it"'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'Stan put this 4-letter castle-surrounding trench at his British client's home'

Answer: a moat


Question: 'In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention'

Answer: the Wright Brothers


Question: 'This 1941 Orson Welles film has set a standard by which all other films made since are judged'

Answer: Citizen Kane


Question: 'Pillsbury is famous for these lunar-named rolls that you bake yourself'

Answer: crescent rolls


Question: '"The best part of wakin' up"'

Answer: Folgers


Question: 'For the living room, instead of track or recessed types of these, Stan went for flood'

Answer: lighting


Question: '"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind & won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M.'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'This 1949 classic featured Orson Welles as the mysterious Harry Lime'

Answer: The Third Man


Question: 'You can prepare mini-pizzas on this product made famous by Samuel B. Thomas'

Answer: English muffins


Question: '"Just for the taste of it"'

Answer: Diet Coke


Question: 'Stan can give you the mansard, gable & flat types of this for the house'

Answer: roofs


Question: '"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail"'

Answer: Martin Luther King (Jr.)


Question: 'In 1952 Orson took on the Shakespearean film role of this Moor of Venice'

Answer: Othello


Question: '"Sorry, Charlie"'

Answer: StarKist Tuna