Question: 'Cleveland'

Answer: NHL


Question: 'This adjective means "pertaining to the throat"; it can describe a type of cry'

Answer: guttural


Question: 'This breed loves to be pampered, perhaps because it was once an imperial Chinese pet'

Answer: a shih tzu


Question: 'This Middle Eastern dish served in a pita, made with fava beans instead of the usual chickpeas'

Answer: falafel


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to an Atlantic Ocean ridge on a giant globe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.)  Though basically a 10,000-mile mountain chain, what's called the Mid-Atlantic this is usually only visible when it peaks out at islands like the Azores'

Answer: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Question: 'Admiral Horatio Nelson ensured his heroic status by defeating Napoleon's navy in the 1798 Battle of this river'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'Tampa Bay'

Answer: NBA


Question: 'Profession of the title character of "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy"'

Answer: jockey


Question: 'She's the political wife profiled here'

Answer: Ethel Kennedy


Question: 'Ron Howard was a child when he sang about "The Wells Fargo Wagon" in this Robert Preston movie'

Answer: The Music Man


Question: '"It is easier for" this animal "to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"'

Answer: camel


Question: 'Hormel makes a microwavable version of this man's beef stew'

Answer: Dinty Moore


Question: 'The U.S. has 2 parks labeled "Grand", Wyoming's Grand Teton & this one in Arizona'

Answer: Grand Canyon


Question: 'A high, steep rock face'

Answer: cliff


Question: 'Born in 1958, she's the actress discussed in the following'

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


Question: 'She did her own singing in "Funny Face", but she was dubbed in "My Fair Lady"'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'This king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Company that uses the sketch seen here by Dorothy Hope Smith'

Answer: Gerber


Question: 'Saguaro, a park named for giant cacti, is in Arizona & this park named for giant trees is in central California'

Answer: Sequoia


Question: 'To take in an aroma'

Answer: sniff


Question: 'Man of God seen in the following'

Answer: Jimmy Swaggart


Question: 'This 1955 film about gamblers is tops on my list of Marlon Brando musicals'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'Jesus told the Pharisees to give to this emperor the things that were his, "and to God the things that are God's"'

Answer: Caesar


Question: 'In 1921 the Washburn Crosby Company created her to promote its flour & baking products'

Answer: Betty Crocker


Question: 'This state's Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument was upgraded to park in 1980 & is the USA's largest park system'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'An operation to resupply by plane when surface routes are blocked, like Berlin in the late '40s'

Answer: airlift


Question: 'He was profiled on Real Goodfellas Week'

Answer: Meyer Lansky


Question: 'Jerry Orbach originated the role of Billy Flynn in "Chicago" on Broadway, but this man got the part in the film'

Answer: Richard Gere


Question: 'Paul wrote to Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little" this "for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities"'

Answer: wine


Question: 'Evian water comes from a spring in this mountain range'

Answer: Alps


Question: 'Michigan's Isle Royale National Park is situated in this Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'Not anchored & flowing freely'

Answer: adrift


Question: 'The episode seen here covered this "Ernest" young man of Irish birth'

Answer: Ernest Shackleton


Question: 'Vincente Minnelli directed Judy Garland in this Missouri-set musical in 1944 & married her the following year'

Answer: Meet Me in St. Louis


Question: 'Genesis 37:31 says that siblings took his "coat and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood"'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'Profession of the inventors of Pepsi & Coke'

Answer: pharmacists


Question: 'Other parks are "green" with envy over this Colorado park's prehistoric cliff dwellings'

Answer: Mesa Verde


Question: 'From the Latin for "to open", it's an alcoholic drink taken before a meal'

Answer: aperitif


Question: 'It's the sum of the coefficients in 2x plus 3y equals 18'

Answer: 5 (2 + 3)


Question: 'In "Austin Powers in Goldmember", he was Number 3 & I seem to remember he sported a mole'

Answer: Fred Savage


Question: 'It's the one-word answer to the classic joke "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"'

Answer: practice


Question: 'He received 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus'

Answer: Judas


Question: 'From 1949 to his death in 1976, he was chairman of the Chinese Communist Party'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'As the first treasury secretary, he helped create the First Bank of the United States'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'Like 4, this number is also the square root of 16'

Answer: -4


Question: 'Before "Friends" he was seen on "The Wonder Years" as Karen's boyfriend, then husband, Michael'

Answer: David Schwimmer


Question: 'This 8-part marriage of music & animation was Walt Disney's second feature film with only a one-word title'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: 'After this mother of discoveries in Nevada, the U.S. became for a time the world's leading silver producer'

Answer: Comstock Lode


Question: 'On June 3 & 4, 1989 the People's Liberation Army killed hundreds at a democracy rally at this Beijing site'

Answer: Tiananmen Square


Question: 'Before succeeding Madison as president, he was Madison's secretary of state'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'It's the lowest denominator of a fraction expressing the probability of rolling a 2 with one die'

Answer: 6


Question: 'In the Harry Potter books, it's the one-word term for a human being without magical powers'

Answer: muggle


Question: 'From its Latin name, argentum, this is the chemical symbol for silver'

Answer: Ag


Question: 'A 1931 flood of this river in the north completely covered an area about the size of Indiana & left 80 million homeless'

Answer: Yellow River


Question: 'Robert Todd Lincoln held this post under presidents Garfield & Arthur, as Edwin Stanton had under his father'

Answer: Secretary of War


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  In set theory, it's the 5-letter word that this symbol stands for (U)'

Answer: union


Question: 'On Jan. 9, 1959 Eisenhower told Congress, "America is best described by one word", this "ring"ing one'

Answer: Freedom


Question: 'Between 1761 & 1797, he fashioned over 5,000 silver pieces, including the one seen here'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'Today, all schools teach this dialect which the Chinese call Putonghua, or "common language"'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'Charles Nagel was the last person to serve in the combined post of secretary of commerce & this'

Answer: Labor


Question: 'It's been thought but not proved that there's an infinite supply of twin these, parts of them that differ by 2'

Answer: prime numbers


Question: 'The daughter of Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo is this TV star of "The Wonder Years" & Disney's "Tarzan"'

Answer: Olivia d\'Abo


Question: 'This was the single word the Hairy Old Man used to say at or near the beginning of every "Monty Python" episode'

Answer: "It\'s"


Question: 'Popular with coin collectors is this silver dollar minted originally from 1878 to 1921 & named for its designer'

Answer: Morgan silver dollar


Question: 'In 1899 this secret society began a campaign of terror against Christian missionaries in the northeast'

Answer: Boxers


Question: 'President Reagan's education secretary, he went on to edit the bestselling "Book of Virtues"'

Answer: William Bennett


Question: 'Filling out her application to run in 1986, this widowed mother of 5 listed her occupation as housewife'

Answer: Corazon Aquino (of the Philippines)


Question: 'In a 480 B.C. invasion, the Persians demolished many buildings on the Acropolis in this city'

Answer: Athens


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddles a kayak.)  When a properly prepared scout gets out on the water, he doesn't leave shore without a PFD, short for this'

Answer: a personal flotation device


Question: 'This shepherdess "took her little crook" to find her flock'

Answer: Little Bo Peep


Question: 'You can save space if your dining room table has these, either drop or removable'

Answer: a leaf


Question: 'It seemed like Farrah was always drying off after a shower or stepping out of a pool in this 1970s TV series'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'An old world weasel'

Answer: an ermine


Question: 'Around 500 A.D. This Acropolis temple built to honor the wisdom goddess became a Christian church'

Answer: the Parthenon


Question: 'To qualify for a bugling merit badge, a scout must know 15 calls including this one sounded at the end of the day'

Answer: "Taps"


Question: 'Peter, Peter put his wife in one of these "and there he kept her very well"'

Answer: a pumpkin shell


Question: 'In name & function a chifforobe is a combination of a chiffonier, which is a bureau & this'

Answer: a wardrobe


Question: 'Jessica Rabbit made it OK to think an animated character was hot in this 1988 film'

Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Question: 'One of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse'

Answer: Famine


Question: 'The new Acropolis Museum features the marble relief seen here of  Apollo, Artemis and this sea god'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on a dock.)  When scouts swim safely, they use this system in which one scout looks out for the other & vice versa'

Answer: the buddy system


Question: 'She went to the baker to buy her dog some bread, "when she came back the dog was dead!"'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'It's a tossup whether this actress was at her loveliest in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" or "Tequila Sunrise"'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'To settle by conclusive decision'

Answer: to determine


Question: 'Tragedians like Sophocles often premiered plays on the Acropolis at the theater of this god of wine and drama'

Answer: Bacchus


Question: 'Patterns a scout can use to build a fire include cross-ditch, pyramid & this one named for a Native American structure'

Answer: teepee


Question: 'This married woman "could eat no lean"'

Answer: Mrs. Jack Sprat


Question: 'The 2002 Bond film "Die Another Day" has a memorable scene of this actress walking out of the ocean'

Answer: Halle Berry


Question: 'Overbearing'

Answer: domineering


Question: 'In 2010 protesters against these measures, from a Greek word for "severe" hung a banner from the Acropolis'

Answer: austerity measures


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew hangs onto a rope and jumps slowly down the side of a mountain.)  From the French for summoning, it's the practice of a scout safely lowering himself down a mountainside'

Answer: rappelling


Question: 'This little girl "sat among the cinders warming her ten little toes," but her mom came along & whipped her'

Answer: Polly Flinders


Question: 'Dorothy Draper wass known for her moldings in this surface material 2 of whose basic materials are lime and water'

Answer: plaster


Question: 'I didn't watch this show for its weird story line, but to see Jennifer Garner as a double agent'

Answer: Alias


Question: 'The production of illumination by living creatures'

Answer: bioluminescence


Question: 'First name of Arkansas U.S. Representative Berry; don't confuse him with a controversial 4-term D.C. mayor'

Answer: Marion


Question: '"P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face, (mum mum mum mah) p-p-p-poker face"'

Answer: Lady Gaga


Question: 'This color is featured prominently, even for the links, on treehugger.com'

Answer: green


Question: 'John McCain was shot down over this capital in 1967'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: '(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper.) This 21st century tragedy is one of the reasons I got back into news; its aftermath is powerfully dealt with in the novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"'

Answer: 9/11


Question: 'A brief 2-piece, poolside'

Answer: bikini


Question: 'Wilmington-born Mike Castle is this little state's only man in the House of Representatives'

Answer: Delaware


Question: '"Hi, my name is... What? My name is... Who? My name is... Slim Shady"'

Answer: Eminem


Question: 'Hear his thoughts on everyday life & link to his "Dilbert" strips at his blog'

Answer: (Scott) Adams


Question: 'Oh, just one more thing, this island nation's capital is Colombo'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: '(I'm Michael McKean.)  A favorite of mine is this author's "Cat's Cradle", a book named for a children's game but dealing with the end of life on Earth'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'A diamond salesman has this job'

Answer: a jeweler


Question: 'This "Jr." Illinois Rep was born in South Carolina 4 days after the Selma-Montgomery march'

Answer: Jesse Jackson Jr.


Question: '"I drink Brass Monkey and I rock well, I got a castle in Brooklyn that's where I dwell"'

Answer: The Beastie Boys


Question: 'In July 2010 a video posted on a blog forced Shirley Sherrod to quit this cabinet dept.-- then she got lots of apologies'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: 'You'll be the Sultan of "Jeopardy!" if you know Bandar Seri Begawan is its capital'

Answer: Brunei


Question: '(I'm Andy Richter.)  As a parent, I have to go with "I Am a Bunny", illustrated by this man who also gave us a "Great Big Schoolhouse"'

Answer: (Richard) Scarry


Question: 'This type of cloud forms in puffs, mounds or towers on a flat base'

Answer: cumulus


Question: 'Peter DeFazio, who gives his payraises to scholarship funds, reps ths state's 4th District, including Corvallis & Eugene'

Answer: Oregon


Question: '"They call me Dr. Love, I am your doctor of love, I've got the cure you're thinking of"  (Trust me I'm a doctor)'

Answer: KISS


Question: 'Nick Denton started this gossipy site with a name that also means "one who stares stupidly"'

Answer: Gawker


Question: 'Have a dilly of a time in Dili, the capital of this new nation'

Answer: East Timor


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jane Kaczmarek.)  This author's "Nine Stories" includes gems like "The Laughing Man" & "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- you should read them all'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'Also used as a royal epithet, it means calm or peaceful'

Answer: serene


Question: 'California's Xavier Becerra became the first Latino to serve on this committee that oversees Social Security'

Answer: Ways and Means


Question: '"Are you going to let it all hang out?  Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round"'

Answer: Queen


Question: '"The Sartorialist" spent 15 years in this industry before starting a popular blog on the subject'

Answer: fashion


Question: '(Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) Though its title is a reference to the Land of Nod, this Steinbeck classic, a favorite of mine, is set in California's Salinas Valley'

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'It's also known as the pygmy chimpanzee'

Answer: the bonobo


Question: 'It's the total number of legs on the 2 non-human animals whose words are quoted in the Old Testament'

Answer: 4


Question: 'This online community where you can find a sofa, apartment or companion is name for Mr. Newmark'

Answer: craigslist


Question: 'Smash Mouth covered "I'm A Believer" in this "ogrish" 2001 film'

Answer: Shrek


Question: 'Now "ear" this: Centeotl was the Aztec god of this grain'

Answer: corn


Question: 'This Latin American country is named for a man born in Genoa in 1451'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Sounds can cause discomfort above about 100 of these units'

Answer: decibels


Question: 'A finger joint'

Answer: a knuckle


Question: 'The creature seen here is a symbol of this employment website'

Answer: Monster.com


Question: 'Colorful name of Will Ferrell's anchorman who harmonizes to "Afternoon Delight"'

Answer: Ron Burgundy


Question: 'Tefnut, a goddess of this civilization, was called "the spitter"; she sent rain'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'It's named for the man who "liberated" it from Spain in 1824 & was its first president'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'The lingual papillae are the main locale for this sense'

Answer: taste


Question: 'To fold & stretch bread dough into a smooth, uniform mass'

Answer: knead


Question: 'Created in 2003, this site where 27 million people have home pages passed Google in hits in 2005'

Answer: MySpace


Question: 'The whole bus joins in to sing this Elton John song in "Almost Famous"'

Answer: "Tiny Dancer"


Question: 'Thor had a "flash"y home called Bilskirnir, a Norse word for this phenomenon'

Answer: lightning


Question: 'It takes its name from the mythological Kambu, from whom its kings claimed descent'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'In the brain, the smell of perfume goes to this "bulb"'

Answer: the olfactory bulb


Question: 'It's a British term for women's underwear'

Answer: knickers


Question: 'The Amazon.com family includes this source of information on over 150,000 films, founded by Col Needham'

Answer: IMDb.com


Question: 'In a "South Park" film song, this male figure skater "fought the evil robot king"'

Answer: Brian Boitano


Question: 'Trying to get to Hades? Try this, the river of hate'

Answer: the Styx


Question: 'The Tswana are its largest ethnic group, & the country is named after them'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'If yours is "absolute", you know your ABCs (& DEFGs) by ear'

Answer: pitch


Question: 'The sound of a bell rung ominously'

Answer: knell


Question: 'You can plan a trip using this site whose name combines words meaning "journey" & "speed"'

Answer: Travelocity


Question: '"Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies", croons Robert Shaw in this Spielberg splasher flick'

Answer: Jaws


Question: 'This fiery goddess makes her home in the firepit of Kilauea'

Answer: Pele


Question: 'The name of this Mideast country comes from the name of the royal family that rules it'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Planning prudently, or hyperopic'

Answer: farsighted


Question: 'A backpack for a hiker'

Answer: a knapsack


Question: 'This "American Idol" singer from Raleigh lost to Ruben in 2003'

Answer: Clay Aiken


Question: 'John Wooden coached this basketball team to 88 consecutive victories'

Answer: UCLA


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  A man who was blind for 50 years can now see images thanks to a device that supplants damaged photo receptors in this part of the eye'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'Oscar Wilde said, "If this is the way" this queen "treats her convicts she doesn't deserve to have any"'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Proverbially, if you "jump the gun", you "go off half-" this'

Answer: cocked


Question: 'A lycanthrope'

Answer: a werewolf


Question: 'This 2004 presidential hopeful got a degree from NC State & pushed papers at his own Raleigh law firm'

Answer: John Edwards


Question: 'In 1997 this Packers QB threw a then Super Bowl-record 81-yard touchdown pass'

Answer: Brett Favre


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  Exoskeleton garments with their own muscles are being developed to help victims of this injury caused by impaired brain blood supply'

Answer: a stroke


Question: 'As Wilde's only novel opens, this handsome title character is afraid Lady Agatha is mad at him'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'Of the 7 continents, it's the one divided halfway up by the equator'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'This is the most abundant order of mammals, including beavers & porcupines'

Answer: rodents


Question: 'This long-serving senator who switched parties in 1970 once worked as a Raleigh political reporter'

Answer: Jesse Helms


Question: 'This Georgian's major league career batting average was .367--or maybe .366, still pretty good'

Answer: Ty Cobb


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  A cat born with a birth defect, whose model is seen here, is being fitted with this experimental device, from the Greek for "addition"'

Answer: a prosthesis


Question: 'Reese Witherspoon wigs out over Rupert Everett & Colin Firth & their use of this fake first name in a 2002 Wilde flick'

Answer: Earnest


Question: 'A juryo is halfway to becoming a yokozuna in this sport'

Answer: sumo wrestling


Question: 'This root becomes a green paste that's a condiment for sashimi'

Answer: wasabi


Question: 'Thomas Dixon, a minister in Raleigh, penned "The Clansman"; this director filmed it as "The Birth of a Nation"'

Answer: D.W. Griffith


Question: 'Before retiring from the NFL in 2005, this man amassed 22,895 yards as a receiver'

Answer: Jerry Rice


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  Experiments are underway with North Carolina State University's rapid prototyper to create custom surgical bone plates using this strong metal, atomic number 22'

Answer: titanium


Question: 'This red-headed gal who had 2 Oscar nominations in 2003 spiced up Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" as Mrs. Chevely'

Answer: Julianne Moore


Question: 'Half of Sakhalin island, Russia's largest, once belonged to this other country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'In the classic "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", Blue is asked to play this trumpet-like Aussie instrument'

Answer: a didgeridoo


Question: 'She grew up in Raleigh & won a 1989 Pulitzer for penning "Breathing Lessons"'

Answer: Anne Tyler


Question: 'In this key job, preparing horses, Ben Jones brought a record 6 horses to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle'

Answer: trainer


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.)  This device spreads an opening for surgical access; North Carolina State University developed a force-controlled one to reduce post-op pain in heart patients'

Answer: a rib spreader


Question: 'The discovery of this title woman's fan in Lord Darlington's residence causes some craziness in a Wilde play'

Answer: Lady Windermere


Question: 'On a music score, a minim lasts half as long as one of these notes'

Answer: a whole note


Question: 'It's a building where metal or glass casting takes place'

Answer: a foundry


Question: 'His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law"'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Most of this nation is a mountainous plateau'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a dartboard.)  Because it forms a web, the metal that divides up the dartboard is called this, like a certain creature'

Answer: a spider


Question: 'From the Middle English for "quarrel", this word often follows "bench-clearing"'

Answer: a brawl


Question: 'A killer stalks a Michigan resort in the thriller "Dead of" this season'

Answer: winter


Question: 'Your only option may be to lie down if you have stasiphobia, a fear of standing, & thaasophobia, a fear of this'

Answer: sitting


Question: 'Ja, they know how to ski real good in this country, whose flag is seen here'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'These places most associated with darts include the Huntsman, where 13-time world champ Phil Taylor played in his 20s'

Answer: a pub


Question: 'From the Middle English for "unconditioned", it precedes "zero" at about -459 F.'

Answer: absolute


Question: '"The Pit and the Pendulum" helped secure his reputation as a master of lurid gothic suspense'

Answer: Poe


Question: 'Cryophobics won't add this to their glasses of whiskey'

Answer: ice


Question: 'It covers more than 3.7 million square miles'

Answer: China


Question: 'The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease-&-desist order'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew tosses a dart at the dartboard.)  I'm playing a standard game of 501; with a remaining score of 12 & 1 dart left, I have to hit double this number to win'

Answer: 6


Question: 'This word from the Middle English means "nothing" to me & is often found after "come to"'

Answer: naught


Question: '7-year-old Charlie McGee exhibits rather explosive psychic powers in this 1980 Stephen King book'

Answer: Firestarter


Question: 'Fearing this, a linonophobe could never work a yo-yo'

Answer: string


Question: 'Two continents are spanned by this nation'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'No way!  The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is'

Answer: Green Day


Question: 'The verb is how the score is kept in many darts games; it can come before "up", as in "___ it up to experience"'

Answer: chalk


Question: 'From Middle English for "to chop", it means to bargain over a price'

Answer: haggle


Question: 'In Dean Koontz books, this 240-year-old doctor is alive today & masquerading as biotech tycoon Victor Helios'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: 'Scared of these, a chromophobe probably liked NBC better before the peacock'

Answer: colors


Question: 'In 1903, this country, seen here, was moved from one continent to another'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones'

Answer: Altamont


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew makes a dart shot & gets it in a red space.)  Yes!  I get this many points for that one shot--take that, Jon!'

Answer: 60


Question: '"Is this a" word from Middle English "which I see before me"?'

Answer: a dagger


Question: 'Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of" this title place has unnerved readers since 1959'

Answer: Hill House


Question: 'A man suffering from gynophobia & gymnophobia would be doubly afraid of women who are this'

Answer: naked


Question: 'A court painter for the Duke of Milan, he was also said to have entertained the Duke by playing the lyre'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'Suicidal alcoholic Ben Sanderson'

Answer: Leaving Las Vegas


Question: 'British children first read about him in a book called "The Sheep-Pig"'

Answer: Babe


Question: 'Big names in this type of book in the '70s include Tarnower & Pritikin'

Answer: a diet book


Question: 'The name of this artificial sweetener discovered in 1879 comes from the Latin for "sugar"'

Answer: saccharine


Question: 'A 49 B.C. crossing of this river gave rise to a cliche'

Answer: the Rubicon


Question: 'Works by this Rennaissance master with an "angelic" name include the "Transfiguration"'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'Plane passenger & prison parolee Cameron Poe'

Answer: Con Air


Question: 'One of the favorite pets of this "doctor" was a baby pig named Gub-Gub'

Answer: Doctor Dolittle


Question: 'Jimmy Carter's Press Secretary, he was named for 2 fictional boys named Jody, in "The Yearling" & "The Red Pony"'

Answer: Jody Powell


Question: 'The basis of Boston cream pie is actually this type of light cake'

Answer: sponge cake


Question: 'A "Philadelphia" one is said to be an expert, as was Andrew Hamilton, who came to New York to help John Peter Zenger'

Answer: a lawyer


Question: 'Last name of Jan & Hubert, who appear to have collaborated on the "Ghent Altarpiece", a large 1432 painting'

Answer: Van Eyck


Question: 'Master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines'

Answer: Gone in 60 Seconds


Question: 'Introduced in 1937, she's Looney Tunes' longest-lived lady'

Answer: Petunia Pig


Question: 'Until 1975 Jonas Savimbi fought Portuguese rule of this country; then he fought the new independent govt.'

Answer: Angola


Question: 'Sorbet is the French word for this frozen, fruit-flavored mixture'

Answer: sherbet


Question: 'It's the cape referred to in the name of the Cape buffalo'

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope


Question: 'The elder of these German painters did mostly altarpieces; "the Younger" painted mostly portraits'

Answer: Hans Holbein


Question: 'Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic, assigned to a former first lady'

Answer: Guarding Tess


Question: 'In 2006 this energetic pig seen here got into the stamp act, along with other animals from children's lit'

Answer: Olivia


Question: 'She's the North American political wife seen here consorting with royalty'

Answer: Margaret Trudeau


Question: 'You can sprinkle this crumbly topping, from the German for "strew", on fruit pies'

Answer: Streusel


Question: 'Named for its "kick", this alliterative vodka cocktail was created by Smirnoff in the 1940s'

Answer: the Moscow mule


Question: 'This Florentine's name was derived from the nickname of his older brother, "the Little Barrel"'

Answer: Sandro Botticelli


Question: 'Decorated U.S. Marine Sergeant Joe Enders'

Answer: Windtalkers


Question: 'In "Animal Farm" this boar who symbolized Stalin eventually became dictator of all the animals'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'On Nov. 22, 1975 he stepped onto a balcony at the Royal Palace as a crowd roared, "Viva el rey!"'

Answer: Juan Carlos


Question: 'These sweet German breads full of fruit & nuts are traditional at Christmas'

Answer: Stollen


Question: 'Also an Audrey Hepburn movie title, it means a public spectacle that involves shame or physical harm'

Answer: a Roman holiday


Question: 'He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..."'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'Grown on less than 1% of the land of the Netherlands, it's their living symbol'

Answer: tulip


Question: 'Number of players in a string septet'

Answer: 7


Question: 'A more accurate translation of his name would be “wild” or “unbroken” horse'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: '“Aroma” was the word for spices in this ancient civilization'

Answer: Greek (Greece)


Question: 'Tatum O'Neal won an oscar for her film debut in this 1973 picture'

Answer: Paper Moon


Question: 'Ham, bologna, & pimiento loaf, for example'

Answer: cold cuts


Question: 'Mycophagists, including humans, are eaters of this kind of fungus'

Answer: mushrooms


Question: 'Ratio of quarter notes to a whole note'

Answer: one-fourth


Question: 'When Indians made peace, they symbolically buried this weapon'

Answer: hatchet


Question: 'In Italian, “finnochio”, it's a basic bottle in spice racks'

Answer: fennel


Question: 'Movie that spawned the phrase “I'm as mad as hell, & I'm not going to take it anymore”'

Answer: Network


Question: 'TV's Clinton Corners or Jimmy's Plains, Georgia'

Answer: Carter Country


Question: 'The viceroy mimics this poisonous “royal” butterfly's appearance to avoid predators'

Answer: monarch


Question: 'In song “my gal's” height that rhymes with her eyes of blue'

Answer: Five Foot Two


Question: 'Canadian Indians played 1st version of this sport with few rules & up to 1000 players in a game'

Answer: lacrosse


Question: 'From S. American work “kyinha”, this type of pepper makes your mouth hot & beans “chili”'

Answer: cayenne


Question: 'Movie that helped launch the careers of Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd, & Peter Bogdanovich'

Answer: The Last Picture Show


Question: 'When 1400 actresses show up to audition for 1 part'

Answer: Cattle Call


Question: 'The most common one found in the home is “mus musculus”, which may be where Walt got the initials'

Answer: mouse


Question: 'Number of movements in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Side the Iroquois supported in the French & Indian War'

Answer: British (English side)


Question: 'Romans believed a garland of this garnish worn on the head would prevent drunkenness'

Answer: parsley


Question: 'Top grossing film ever with budget under a mil., it gave George Lucas clout to make “Star Wars”'

Answer: American Graffiti


Question: 'In English this Texas city's name would be “The body of Christ”'

Answer: Corpus Christi


Question: 'From Arabic “mawsim”, meaning “season”, it's the wind which changes direction with the seasons'

Answer: monsoon


Question: 'Number of strings on  a standard mandolin'

Answer: 8


Question: 'Inter-tribal language of the North American Plains Indians'

Answer: sign language


Question: 'From the nightshade family, its fleshy forked root sometimes resembles the human form'

Answer: mandrake


Question: '3 of the 4 actors who sought “Deliverance” in that 1972 film'

Answer: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox & Ned Beatty


Question: 'Acute viral disease of upper respiratory tract, marked by a “ruddy dose”'

Answer: common cold


Question: 'Bacterium responsible for this outbreak was coined “Legionella Pneumophila”'

Answer: Legionnaires\' Disease


Question: 'It means comradeship, comrade'

Answer: camaraderie


Question: '“America's Dairyland”'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Both shutter speed & size of lens opening control amount of this let into a camera'

Answer: light


Question: 'In 1951 he told Congress, “I now close my military career & just fade away”'

Answer: General MacArthur


Question: 'What a thief called a “dip” dips into'

Answer: pocket


Question: 'George Washington is one of many whose death is attributed to “bleeding” by these'

Answer: leeches


Question: 'Cooked in a covering of bread crumbs or cheese or both'

Answer: au gratin


Question: 'While Rhode Island has 5 counties, Delaware has only this many'

Answer: 3


Question: 'It's usually plastic, covered with silver salts'

Answer: film


Question: '[Audio DD] General with whom this movie theme is associated:'

Answer: General Patton


Question: 'He played Alexander Mundy on TV's “It Takes a Thief”'

Answer: Robert Wagner


Question: 'This most popular U.S. aspirin was originally acquired from a German company as spoils of WWI'

Answer: Bayer


Question: 'A railroad or a gambling game you could be railroaded in'

Answer: chemin de fer


Question: 'Cape May, in this state, is as far south as Washington, D.C.'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Magazine that raised the photo essay to an art form, it debuted with a photo of a dam on its cover'

Answer: Life


Question: 'West Virginian who tried to avoid fighting on Sundays & became 2nd highest general of Confederacy'

Answer: General (Stonewall) Jackson


Question: 'O. Henry's life resembled that of this honest crook he created, perhaps on Feb. 14th'

Answer: Jimmy Valentine


Question: 'L-Dopa has provided relief for sufferers of this “shaking palsy”'

Answer: Parkinson\'s Disease


Question: 'It could be “The final blow“ in boxing or “The finishing stroke” in tennis'

Answer: coup de grace


Question: '“Brown vs. Board of Education” dealt with school segregation in this state's capital'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'Starting in the 1920's, Erich Salomon's spontaneous photographs inspired this term'

Answer: candid snapshots (camera)


Question: 'In 1968 he took over U. S. Vietnam command from General Westmoreland'

Answer: General Creighton Abrams


Question: 'English novelist Ernest Hornung created this “gentleman cracksman”'

Answer: Raffles


Question: 'Antiallergy drug 1st      found to help motion sickness when 1 patient took it before riding a streetcar'

Answer: dramamine


Question: 'Strictly required according to etiquette or usage, such as wearing a bow tie with your tux'

Answer: de rigueur


Question: 'Meredith Willson modeled his “River City” on his home town of Mason City in this state'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'French general & WWI Allied commander who predicted another war within 20 years'

Answer: Ferdinand Foch


Question: 'Created by Edward Hoch, professional thief Nick Velvet will only steal objects of this value'

Answer: valueless


Question: 'This color appears on more different national flags than any other'

Answer: red


Question: 'During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Experts say to drink 8 cups of this a day; that's about 5.3 cups of H & 2.7 cups of O'

Answer: Water


Question: 'Phi Delta Theta & Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000'

Answer: Fraternities


Question: 'His 1969 hit with the First Edition, "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", was written by Mel Tillis'

Answer: Kenny Rogers


Question: 'Rice whose length is over 4 times its width is typed with this 2-word name'

Answer: Long grain


Question: 'Desi's daughter'

Answer: Luci Arnaz


Question: 'In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'A 1997 recall ended the pairing of the diet drugs known by this homophonic name'

Answer: Phen-Fen


Question: 'Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000'

Answer: 1900


Question: 'Classic song heard here in a remake by Randy Travis:<br />("Trailers for sale or rent...")'

Answer: "King of the Road"


Question: 'Gouda cheese is named for Gouda, a town in this country'

Answer: Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'Spanish for "The Poplars", the first hydrogen bomb was designed there'

Answer: Los Alamos


Question: 'In 1832 this president declared, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Your body can convert beta carotene into this vitamin found in liver & stored in your liver'

Answer: Vitamin A


Question: 'British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies'

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven


Question: 'In 1997 some of country music's biggest names celebrated this "Singing Cowboy's" 90th birthday'

Answer: Gene Autry


Question: 'Kimbunda speakers know nguba, from which we get goober, means this'

Answer: Peanut


Question: 'She sat behind the reception desk at "WKRP"'

Answer: Loni Anderson


Question: 'In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony's charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'From the Greek for air, this type of exercise, like race walking & swimming, helps your heart & lungs'

Answer: Aerobic


Question: 'Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: 'A flower arrangement at his 1998 funeral included a pair of blue suede shoes'

Answer: Carl Perkins


Question: 'An Englishman might "win one for" this flattened, cold-smoked herring'

Answer: Kipper


Question: 'Tibetan monks reputedly believed that their souls would enter the bodies of these watchdogs'

Answer: Lhasa Apsos


Question: 'He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'By definition, lactoovo-vegetarians eat these 2 types of foods along with the veggies'

Answer: Milk & eggs


Question: 'A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament'

Answer: Ferris wheel


Question: 'Sexy singing sensation heard here with a recent hit:'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'Obtained by hard milling durum wheat, this flour is used in cream of wheat cereal'

Answer: Semolina


Question: 'Citing personal reasons, he announced his resignation as Secretary of Defense in 1993'

Answer: Les Aspin


Question: 'Discounting China, it's the most populous country named for a person'

Answer: United States of America (Amerigo Vespucci)


Question: 'This kids' baseball team was so "bad" they had a different coach for each of 3 movies about them'

Answer: The Bad News Bears


Question: 'You could write a brief history of the times people have tackled this physicist's "A Brief History of Time"'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'Kay got to ride this animal when she visited Tibet'

Answer: Yak (Kay)


Question: 'The currency called wampum was originally strings of these made from shells'

Answer: Beads


Question: 'In 1983, the year he became a U.S. citizen, he flexed his acting muscles making "Conan the Destroyer"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'This South American country was named for "El Libertador"'

Answer: Bolivia (Simon Bolivar)


Question: 'It's the movie whose theme is heard here:<br />(composed by Ennio Morricone)'

Answer: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly


Question: 'Your grasp of this French existentialist's "Being and Nothingness" may be closer to nothingness'

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre


Question: 'A wee female sheep can grow up to be a great big one'

Answer: Ewe (wee)


Question: 'This tribe called themselves Hotcangara & moved around the Great Lakes in canoes, not motor homes'

Answer: Winnebago


Question: 'This Korean-born woman married Woody Allen in December 1997'

Answer: Soon-Yi Previn


Question: 'This Pacific island nation was named for the crown prince of Spain in 1542'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'Drew Barrymore was one of several pistol packin' prostitutes in this 1994 western'

Answer: Bad Girls


Question: 'After starting this last James Joyce novel, you may talkingbe pas Anglais thissaway'

Answer: "Finnegans Wake"


Question: 'Verna has a pet one perching just above her chamber door'

Answer: Raven (Verna)


Question: 'A wigwam is an Algonquin bent pole-&-bark dwelling; this Sioux word means a house of animal skins'

Answer: Tepee


Question: 'This Czech-born tennis star seen here won 3 straight U.S. Opens & is now a U.S. citizen'

Answer: Ivan Lendl


Question: 'Zambia & Zimbabwe were formed out of this country named for a British colonizer'

Answer: Rhodesia (Cecil Rhodes)


Question: 'Bad, Patty, bad!  Patty McCormack played the evil little girl in this 1956 classic based on an Anderson play'

Answer: The Bad Seed


Question: 'It's a lot easier to finish this author's "Death in Venice" than his "Dr. Faustus"'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question: 'An astronaut drinking Tang doesn't want to find this insect in it'

Answer: Gnat (Tang)


Question: 'This grouping including the Crow & Wichita is named for the area from the Rockies to the Mississippi'

Answer: Plains Indians


Question: 'The ABC News fifth column includes Peter Jennings from Canada & this British-born "Nightline" host'

Answer: Ted Koppel


Question: 'This Mideast country was named for a man named Abdul'

Answer: Saudi Arabia (Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud)


Question: 'Harvey Keitel protects & serves only himself as a corrupt cop in this Abel Ferrara drama'

Answer: Bad Lieutenant


Question: 'Few have finished both the Barsetshire & Palliser series by this "wanton" 19th century novelist'

Answer: Anthony Trollope


Question: 'Some folks love this ratlike rodent related to the lemming'

Answer: Vole (love)


Question: 'Colonists called it the elk, though the Shawnee had given it this perfectly good name'

Answer: Wapiti


Question: 'This Havana-born actor is not related to poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom he played in a 1997 film'

Answer: Andy Garcia


Question: 'A February 1998 study found the world's highest store rents, $580 per square foot, on this street'

Answer: Fifth Avenue (New York City)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a piece of computer hardware.)  For better gaming graphics, just add this component that takes binary data and converts it to a picture'

Answer: a graphics card


Question: 'Trixie Norton,<br />Alice Kramden'

Answer: The Honeymooners


Question: 'The idea of due process of law dates from this 1215 document'

Answer: the Magna Carta


Question: 'This brand of toy cars roared into the world in 1968'

Answer: Hot Wheels


Question: 'This Vermont capital's Winooski River offers excellent canoeing & fishing'

Answer: Montpelier


Question: 'Lovable "Larry the Lobster" is the official mascot of this seafood restaurant chain'

Answer: Red Lobster


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands next to an open computer case.)  If you hear a whir & a clunk & can't get into Windows, this part that stores information on magnetic platters has failed'

Answer: hard drive (or hard disk drive)


Question: 'Hop Sing,<br />Hoss'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: 'The 2000 Supreme Court decision in this case, him v. him, involved vote-counting guidelines & due process of law'

Answer: Bush v. Gore


Question: 'These very tight short shorts were popular in the early 1970s'

Answer: hot pants


Question: 'The grave of witchcraft trial Judge John Hathorne is in the Burying Point, this city's oldest cemetery'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'A variety lacking enlarged pincers, this 5-letter "prickly" type of lobster is also known as a sea crayfish'

Answer: a spiny lobster


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew holds up a smaller piece of computer hardware.)  One of the easiest ways to improve your computer's performance is to add more of this type of memory chip'

Answer: RAM (or Random Access Memory)


Question: 'Elly May,<br />Cousin Pearl'

Answer: The Beverly Hillbillies


Question: 'In 1970 the Supreme Court held for the first time that due process required proof of guilt "beyond" this'

Answer: reasonable doubt


Question: '"Liquid" expression meaning "to dampen the enthusiasm of"'

Answer: to throw cold water on


Question: 'This state is home to America's oldest standing synagogue, the Touro Synagogue in Newport'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'One of a lobstering crew is called this man, not because he's grim but for standing in the back of the boat'

Answer: a stern man


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to something in an open computer case.)  It might be cheaper to buy a new computer if this part is fried--it's the main circuit board of your computer'

Answer: the motherboard


Question: 'Cinnamon Carter,<br />Jim Phelps'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: '"Due Process of Law" appears first in this amendment; go ahead, "take" it, you won't get in trouble'

Answer: the Fifth Amendment


Question: 'Alec Leamas is the title character of this novel, John le Carre's first masterpiece'

Answer: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold


Question: 'Boston Harbor is the mouth of this river that flows through Cambridge, Massachusetts'

Answer: Charles River


Question: 'Water fleas, shrimp & lobsters are all members of this arthropod class'

Answer: crustaceans


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew inserts a cable into a port on the front of a computer case.)  To hook up a new digital camera, you'll want to use this 3-letter type of port'

Answer: USB


Question: 'Gloria Stivic,<br />Irene Lorenzo'

Answer: All in the Family


Question: 'This man vs. Arizona said confessions obtained without telling suspects of their right to counsel couldn't be used in court'

Answer: Miranda


Question: 'A nursery rhyme says, "If your daughters do not like" these, "give them to your sons"'

Answer: hot cross buns


Question: 'This highest peak in New Hampshire's presidential range occasionally can be seen from the Atlantic Ocean'

Answer: Mount Washington


Question: 'The outer supporting shell of a lobster is known as one of these protective coverings'

Answer: an exoskeleton


Question:
'June 17, 1972:
There's the throw... & James McCord, Jr. & 4 others are caught stealing at this complex'

Answer: Watergate


Question: 'Emilio Estevez'

Answer: Martin Sheen


Question: 'There's a hair-raising--oops!--hair-cutting scene in Saint-Saens' opera about Samson & her'

Answer: Delilah


Question: 'Small hand drum for a former Belgian colony of Africa'

Answer: Congo bongo (bongo Congo accepted)


Question: 'She was born in Plains, Georgia on August 18, 1927'

Answer: Rosalynn Carter


Question: 'Sadly, the "breakfast drink", Pepsi A.M, didn't last long, though it had 25% more of this than regular Pepsi'

Answer: caffeine


Question: 'It's July 3, 1863 & what a great day for a battle; Gen. Pickett's confident but this borough is a tough win on the road'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Oscar winner Anjelica'

Answer: John Huston


Question: 'In an 1893 opera, Peter is the father of these gingerbread-gorgers'

Answer: Hansel & Gretel


Question: 'A jitterbug for Paris or Marseille'

Answer: France dance


Question: 'He created the private detective Philip Marlowe'

Answer: Raymond Chandler


Question: 'The Coca-Cola family of brands includes this 5-letter drink that comes in pineapple, grape, strawberry & orange'

Answer: Fanta


Question: 'It's 1536 & this woman, not Dr. Quinn, is in Henry VIII's on-deck circle, following Anne Boleyn in the wedding order'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'Angelina Jolie'

Answer: Jon Voight


Question: 'Joe is a gambler in his early opera "Blue Monday"; Sportin' Life is a gambler in his later "Porgy and Bess"'

Answer: Gershwin


Question: 'Palm tree fruit for a Persian Gulf country'

Answer: Kuwait date (date Kuwait accepted)


Question: 'The sea around this author & naturalist was Sheepscot Bay, which her Maine summer home overlooked'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'This "natural" brand sells vanilla cola as well as smoothies, juices & E2O energy water'

Answer: Hansen\'s


Question: 'British fashion designer Stella'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Don Jose is a soldier in love with this Bizet bombshell'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'One single U.K winter glove'

Answer: Britain mitten


Question: 'This Texan was LBJ's Attorney General from 1967 to 1969'

Answer: Ramsey Clark


Question: 'Now dubbed "Pure Zero", this cola brand boasts "zero calories, zero carbs...& zero sodium"'

Answer: Diet Rite Cola


Question: 'Singer Norah Jones'

Answer: Ravi Shankar


Question: 'Busoni's opera about this cruel Chinese princess isn't nearly as famous as Puccini's'

Answer: Turandot


Question: 'Woolen shoulder wrap for a Himalayan kingdom'

Answer: Nepal shawl


Question: '"Coma" earned him his reputation as the master of the medical thriller'

Answer: Robin Cook


Question: 'This cola was introduced in 1963 & was named for the fact that drinkers wanted to keep "checks" on their weight'

Answer: Tab


Question: 'Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together"'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'When it became independent in 1829, it was half its current size, but added Thessaly in 1881, Epirus in 1913...'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Marilyn Monroe made her major TV debut in 1953 on this "stingy" comedian's TV show'

Answer: Jack Benny


Question: 'An Alpine village is on the label of this hot cocoa mix'

Answer: Swiss Miss


Question: 'These smallest birds have very small legs & small feet; they perch but don't walk or climb'

Answer: hummingbirds


Question: '"Salary" comes from the Latin for "of" this seasoning'

Answer: salt


Question: 'A book titled this many "Keys" is about "The Making of a Steinway Piano"'

Answer: 88


Question: 'A protest at a church in Timisoara began the rebellion that ended Ceausescu's rule in this country'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'He played Curly in "City Slickers" & Curly's twin brother in "City Slickers II"'

Answer: Jack Palance


Question: 'One slogan said, "Me-Hee for" this chocolate drink'

Answer: Yoo-Hoo


Question: 'While smaller types of this bird settle for beetles & snails, the Great Horned type goes after other owls & rabbits'

Answer: the owl


Question: 'The song "Mellow Yellow" begins, "I'm just mad about" this'

Answer: saffron


Question: 'You shouldn't have to count to know it's the number of stars on the flag seen here'

Answer: 48


Question: 'The demise of this monarch is depicted here'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'Hugh Downs was this man's sidekick when he hosted "The Tonight Show"'

Answer: Jack Paar


Question: 'This line of healthier frozen entrees was introduced in 1981'

Answer: Lean Cuisine


Question: 'True lovebirds are found on the African mainland & this largest African island'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This seasoning is a traditional symbol of remembrance'

Answer: rosemary


Question: 'It precedes "Days" in the title of a Sandra Bullock movie & "Days Later" in the title of a killer virus zombie movie'

Answer: 28


Question: 'Britons of the year 1000 called Vikings by this national name, & levied a "geld" to buy them off'

Answer: Danes


Question: 'Steve McGarrett's hair & clothing were always perfect when this man played him on '70s TV'

Answer: Jack Lord


Question: 'This "gourmet" candy brand has flavors like buttered popcorn & has only 4 calories per bean'

Answer: Jelly Belly


Question: 'Teddy Roosevelt established a refuge in Florida to protect the nesting sites of the brown species of this water bird'

Answer: pelican


Question: 'The name of this herb can be followed by "brush" or "green"'

Answer: sage


Question: 'In Enrico Caruso's 1904 contract with Victor, he demanded 50 cents for every aria recorded on these'

Answer: 78s


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Toledo, Spain)  Cristo de la Luz is a church today because in 1085 this hero helped King Alfonso retake Toledo for Christendom'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'He played union leader Jimmy Hoffa in a 1992 biopic'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'Walter Deimer invented this pink chewing gum in 1928'

Answer: Dubble Bubble


Question: 'The nene, an endangered Hawaiian species of this fowl, has grown from 30 birds in 1952 to over 800 today'

Answer: goose


Question: 'This member of the parsley family has a distinctive licorice flavor & is an ingredient in ouzo'

Answer: anise


Question: '(Hello, my name is James Thrash)  NFL wide receivers like me usually wear numbers that begin with this'

Answer: 8


Question: 'After his wife became a pillar of salt, his daughters seduced him to preserve his seed'

Answer: Lot


Question: '"Hey, look me over, lend me" one of these, "Fresh out of clover, mortgaged up to here"'

Answer: an ear


Question: '(Michael Buffer)  Chief god of Valhalla, also known as Lord of Men & God of Battles'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'Pull out some pesos to buy some rum, Coke & lime to "Libre" yourself in this country the drink is named for'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'A very small sum of money'

Answer: pittance


Question: 'Expressed as a 1 or a 0, it's the smallest unit of information storable on a computer'

Answer: bit


Question: 'Recipient of God's bad news "Thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither"'

Answer: Moses


Question: '(Michael)  In the winged helmets, totaling over 1,000 pounds, 9 sisters ready to ride as...'

Answer: the Valkyries


Question: 'Use pesos to pay for the CD of "Evita" in La Plata in this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'A paved area outside a house'

Answer: patio


Question: 'It's the smallest of the U.S. states that were not part of the original 13 colonies'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'The Bible-stashing Gideons took their name from the leader of a small but devout band of men in this book'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'It follows "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone, a..."'

Answer: "Comedy Tonight"


Question: '(Michael)  In this corner, recently winner by knockout over the dragon Fafnir, the title character of his own opera...'

Answer: Siegfried


Question: 'The peso is the cash for coffee & cotton in Cali in this country'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'A disguised hole acting as a trap, or any potential disaster'

Answer: pitfall


Question: 'Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' concerto for this smallest member of the flute family lasts only 15 minutes'

Answer: piccolo


Question: 'Habakkuk doesn't call himself plain old Habakkuk but "Habakkuk the" this'

Answer: Prophet


Question: '"While tearing off a game of golf, I may make a play for the caddy, but when I do, I don't follow through 'cause" of this'

Answer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"


Question: '(Michael)  Asleep on the rocks, surrounded by flames, waiting to be rescued by her lover...'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'An antique vase bought in Valparaiso in this South American country will set you back a few pesos'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Now a governor, he was once the mayor of Peekskill'

Answer: (George) Pataki


Question: 'Minted from 1793 to 1857, it was the smallest denomination of U.S. coin ever issued'

Answer: half-cent


Question: 'In "South Pacific", it "may call you any night, any day.  In your heart you'll hear it call you, 'Come away, come away'"'

Answer: Bali Ha\'i


Question: '(Michael)  From one of Germany's major rivers, the 3 female guardians of the gold'

Answer: the Rhine maidens


Question: 'You may have to change your gourdes into pesos after you cross the border from Haiti into this country'

Answer: the Dominican Republic


Question: 'From Latin, this important bone's name means "small shallow dish"'

Answer: patella


Question: 'In area, this grand duchy is the smallest member of NATO'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'A wise Haida Indian saying tells us, "We do not inherit this land from our ancestors, we borrow it from" these'

Answer: our children


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew toasts from behind a spread of meats at a dinner table in Gdansk, Poland.)  In Polish vocabulary, you may not know "piwo", beer, but you probably know the word the word for this type of sausage'

Answer: kielbasa


Question: 'Cater-corner became kitty-corner after people stopped using "cater" to mean this number'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Shakespeare:<br />An Egyptian & a Roman fall in love'

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra


Question: 'This energetic forerunner of funk had "a brand new bag" in 1965'

Answer: James Brown


Question: 'He appointed Earl Warren Chief Justice of the Supreme Court'

Answer: (Dwight) Eisenhower


Question: 'Native American tribes that call this state home include the Penobscot & the Passamaquoddy'

Answer: Maine


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew helps herself to an all-you-can-eat in Stockholm, Sweden.)  This classic Swedish spread wouldn't be complete without plates of sill, herring that is often pickled'

Answer: a smorgasbord


Question: 'Formed by folk etymology from an Old French word, it's not a basement but a small holder for salt'

Answer: a cellar


Question: 'Shaw:<br />A professor turns a guttersnipe into a cultured pearl'

Answer: Pygmalion


Question: '"Average" British band that crossed the Atlantic & the color line with funk hits like "Pick Up The Pieces"'

Answer: Average White Band


Question: 'Joe Montana's unbelievable 1982 playoff touchdown pass to this receiver is known simply as "The Catch"'

Answer: Dwight Clark


Question: 'Around 900 A.D. the Toltec Indians set up an empire centered in Tula, just north of this current world capital'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew enjoys a stew-like dish in Moscow, Russia.)  Poet Yevtushenko said he worked on the principle of this dish: throw beets, carrots, cabbage in--what's important is the taste'

Answer: borscht


Question: 'This 10-letter word we use for someone ending his bachelorhood is partly from an alteration of guma, "man"'

Answer: bridegroom


Question: 'Williams:<br />A shy girl collects crystal'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'The man who replaced Aaron Burr as vice president shares his name with this funkmeister'

Answer: George Clinton


Question: 'During the 19th c., Yale prof. William Dwight Whitney was one of the foremost experts on this ancient language of India'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'With close to 650,000, this state leads the U.S. in number of Native Americans, followed by Okla. & Arizona'

Answer: California


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points out some finned edibles in Tallinn, Estonia.)  This small fish with the name of a nursery rhyme character is big in Estonia, especially smoked'

Answer: sprat


Question: 'Our word "cutlet" for a thin slice evolved from the French cotelette, a little one of these body parts'

Answer: rib


Question: 'Bolt:<br />A man of principle defies a king'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'In 1976 this fruitful band hit No. 1 with "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)"'

Answer: Wild Cherry


Question: 'Early 20th century banker & politician Dwight Whitney Morrow was the father-in-law of this American hero'

Answer: Lindbergh


Question: 'John Smith's use of threats & force to get corn for the Jamestown Colony irked this Native American chief'

Answer: Powhatan


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew chows down in Gdansk, Poland.)  They're a sort of Polish ravioli, & here in Gdansk, they taste just like Matka used to make'

Answer: pierogi


Question: 'To get this word for a smelly varmint, we anglicized the French for "feline that eats poultry"'

Answer: polecat


Question: 'Eliot:<br />Becket buys the farm'

Answer: Murder in the Cathedral


Question: 'The opening of this "Kool" funk classic about an L.A. district is heard here'

Answer: "Hollywood Swinging"


Question: 'In 1889 this U.S. evangelist founded the Chicago Bible Institute that today bears his name'

Answer: (Dwight) Moody


Question: 'Einstein's groundbreaking papers appeared in the German journal Annals of this science founded in 1790'

Answer: Physics


Question: '1942:<br />"Pride of the Yankees"'

Answer: Lou Gehrig


Question: 'This important 1925 event in Tennesee focused attention on the teaching of evolution'

Answer: the Scopes Monkey Trial


Question: 'Act I of this "airborne" Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart'

Answer: The Flying Dutchman


Question: 'Richard Kovacevich will need many stagecoaches for the $53.1 million he withdrew from this bank'

Answer: Wells Fargo


Question: 'Taking its name from a Portuguese word for "simpleton", this critter famously went extinct way back in 1681'

Answer: dodo


Question: 'You can go to this nearest star system & come back younger than your twin'

Answer: Alpha Centauri


Question: '1974:<br />"Lenny"'

Answer: Lenny Bruce


Question: 'Its location on the historic Chickasaw Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River has made it the "Bluff City"'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'In 1782 Mozart married Constanze & made Constanze the harem-bound heroine of "The Abduction from" here'

Answer: the Seraglio


Question: 'This former head of Paramount can spend a lot at Ticketmaster & his Home Shopping Network with his $156 mil. from IAC'

Answer: Barry Diller


Question: 'Given in Iowa in Jan. 2004, this politician's most memorable quote may have been "Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!"'

Answer: (Howard) Dean


Question: 'This property, the middle letter in the familiar version of Einstein's famous equation, grows with velocity'

Answer: mass


Question: '1999:<br />"The Hurricane"'

Answer: Ruben "Hurricane" Carter


Question: 'In a bluegrass standard this "Good Ol'" Tennessee place is "home sweet home to me"'

Answer: Rocky Top


Question: 'In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier--hence the title'

Answer: a rose


Question: 'Lew Frankfort totes a big handbag for the $86.5 million he earned from this leather accessory co.'

Answer: Coach


Question: 'The Innocence Project works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted using this 3-letter type of evidence'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'Section I.1 of the June 1905 relativity paper defines the use of these everyday devices within stationary systems'

Answer: clocks


Question: '2005:<br />"Cinderella Man"'

Answer: Jim Braddock


Question: 'Following his 1992 death, this author was returned to his roots at his boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'Ray Irani pumped $64.1 million out of this oil company that Armand Hammer turned into a gusher'

Answer: Occidental


Question: 'Tamerlane had 100,000 people killed & then razed this old city in India in 1398'

Answer: Delhi


Question: 'The 1905 theory is commonly called this version because it refers only to uniform motion with constant velocity'

Answer: special relativity


Question: '1973:<br />"Papillon"'

Answer: Henri Charriere


Question: 'In 1991 this former Tennessee governor became President Bush's Secretary of Education'

Answer: Lamar Alexander


Question: 'Larry Ellison needs a database to keep track of the $45.8 mil. he inputted from this company that now owns Peoplesoft'

Answer: Oracle


Question: 'This lord known for a relationship with Oscar Wilde declared, "I am the love that dare not speak its name"'

Answer: Lord Alfred Douglas


Question: 'In 2005, the 700th anniversary of his execution, his 5-foot sword was displayed in N.Y. as part of a Tartan Day celebration'

Answer: William Wallace


Question: 'Jean Duvet was "the master of" this one-horned creature because of his series of engravings featuring it'

Answer: the unicorn


Question: 'Break out the hat & the whip--Harrison Ford has played this character in 4 movies'

Answer: Indiana Jones


Question: 'It was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'It orbits the sun at an average distance of .3871 astronomical units, the lowest average of all the planets'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'One of the 2 entries for this TV show is "Me want cookie!"'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'This magazine's Institute & Seal of Approval date back to 1909'

Answer: Good Houskeeping


Question: 'Models for this painter & lithographer included dancer La Goulue & singer Aristide Bruant'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'Yippie ki yay!  Bruce Willis has played John McClane 4 times in this series'

Answer: Die Hard


Question: 'Its official street address is 2960 Broadway'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Though bright in the night sky, it has a clouded surface, so the image here was made of a mosaic of radar images'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'On this date Rudy Giuliani said, "Show your confidence.  Show you're not afraid.  Go to restaurants.  Go shopping"'

Answer: September 12th


Question: 'The discovery of this promontory was taken as a positive sign that India could be reached by sea from Europe'

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope


Question: 'In 1874 art critic Louis Leroy coined this term for the movement that included Monet & Pissarro'

Answer: impressionism


Question: 'He's been a Nutty Professor twice, a Donkey 4 times, Dr. Dolittle twice & Axel Foley 3 times'

Answer: Eddie Murphy


Question: 'The school now known as this was located in Elizabeth for 1 year & Newark for 9'

Answer: Princeton


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical photograph on the monitor.)  Voyager II captured a photo of the storm called the Great Dark Spot on this ice giant; the clouds are believed to be condensed methane particles'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'In 1995 she said, "I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts... someone's got to go out there & love people & show it"'

Answer: Princess Di


Question: 'Be charitable & name this organization whose logo is seen here'

Answer: Goodwill


Question: 'Known for his Tahitian paintings, he served as a laborer in Panama in 1887 while France attempted to build a canal'

Answer: Gauguin


Question: 'Yo, these are Sly Stallone's 2 franchises; he's made 6 of one & 4 of the other'

Answer: Rambo & Rocky


Question: 'Its school color is crimson, & that's the veritas'

Answer: Harvard


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical photograph on the monitor.)  In an infrared picture, Jupiter's bright spot is the moon Io; the smaller dots show impacts from when this comet broke up & hit the planet in 1994'

Answer: Shoemaker-Levy


Question: 'Alphabetically, this French novelist is the last man quoted in "Bartlett's"'

Answer: (Émile) Zola


Question: 'This type of law exempts from legal liability those who give reasonable aid to strangers in grave physical distress'

Answer: good Samaritan law


Question: 'Jacques-Louis David's 1787 painting "The Death of" this Athenian shows him being offered a cup of hemlock'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'Tom Cruise's third outing as Ethan Hunt in this series came in 2006'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: 'This "Big Red" school was partly endowed by the Morrill Act of 1862'

Answer: Cornell


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical diagram on the monitor.)  Created by millions of years of eruptions, this now-extinct Martian shield volcano is the tallest mountain in our solar system'

Answer: Olympus Mons


Question: 'Cartoonist R. Crumb gets the credit for this 3-word slogan'

Answer: "Keep on truckin\'"


Question: 'FDR's First Inaugural gave this nickname to his policy towards Latin America'

Answer: good neighbor


Question: '1900:<br />British troops invade Orange Free State during this conflict'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'Launched in 1924 & still around today, Bit-o-this features a bee on the wrapper'

Answer: Honey


Question: 'These 4 words that complete the saying "home is..." are the title of a Billie Letts novel'

Answer: where the heart is


Question: 'In recent ads Kiss used their song "Calling Dr. love" to promote this soft drink'

Answer: Dr Pepper


Question: 'Woof!  Missouri's tree is the flowering this'

Answer: dogwood


Question: 'Te amo'

Answer: Spanish


Question: '1803:<br />This Chief Justice declares any act of congress that goes against the Constitution is illegal & void'

Answer: Marshall


Question: 'Chewy fruit-flavored candies are rhymingly called Mike & him'

Answer: Ike


Question: '"The brown current ran swiftly out of" this title place, wrote Joseph Conrad'

Answer: the heart of darkness


Question: 'In 1980 "Kiss Unmasked" was released, but it wasn't until 1983 that the band appeared this way on an album cover'

Answer: without their makeup


Question: 'The Wicked Witch of the West might say the Golden State's California this will put you to sleep... but it won't'

Answer: poppy


Question: 'Aishiteru'

Answer: Japanese


Question: '1949:<br />The Israeli parliament, called this, meets for the first time'

Answer: the Knesset


Question: 'These after-dinner mints come individually wrapped in foil that depicts a mountain range'

Answer: Andes


Question: 'Her latest book is titled "America by Heart: Reflections on Faith, Family & Flag"'

Answer: Sarah Palin


Question: 'In 1973 Kiss was signed to this fledgling record label that shares its name with a 1940s best picture Oscar winner'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'I'm having a hard time remembering this state flower of Alaska seen here--are you?'

Answer: a forget-me-not


Question: 'S' agapo'

Answer: Greek


Question: '1989:<br />This religious leader issues a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, encouraging Muslims to kill him'

Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini


Question: 'Dots are fruit-flavored gumdrops; this is the avian name for licorice-flavored dots'

Answer: Crows


Question: 'The heart of gold was the starship in this 1979 Douglas Adams book'

Answer: The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy


Question: 'Kiss' first Top 10 single was a power ballad named for this 4-letter girl'

Answer: Beth


Question: 'This is both the state tree & flower of Mississippi'

Answer: the magnolia


Question: 'Ani ohev otach'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: '1912:<br />This state is admitted to the union as our 48th'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'In the name of candies with sayings on them, this 12-letter word comes between "Sweethearts" & "Hearts"'

Answer: Conversation


Question: 'Carson McCullers noted that "The Heart is" one of these, a 1940 book title'

Answer: a Lonely Hunter


Question: 'Kiss nabbed this guitarist with a playing card in his name via a Village Voice advertisement'

Answer: Ace Frehley


Question: 'Illinois' flower is the purple this, which is practically saying the same thing twice'

Answer: violet


Question: 'Szeretlek'

Answer: Hungarian


Question: '3 of the 6 countries that have hosted both the summer & winter Olympics'

Answer: (3 of) United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy & Japan


Question: 'Served hot or cold, this "European" style of potato salad is made with vinegar & bacon'

Answer: German


Question: 'A regular rocket scientist, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of this "Garden State" was a nuclear physicist'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'This Braves slugger hit 375 of his 755 career home runs in the 1960s'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'The Sanskrit juel, "to shine", was transmuted into this 4-letter element by Anglo-Saxons'

Answer: gold


Question: 'This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'To the Germans & Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat'

Answer: a dog


Question: 'Spaghetti a la this has a sauce made with eggs, cream, Parmesan cheese & Italian bacon'

Answer: carbonara


Question: 'Congressman Tom Osborne used to coach a little football at this Big 12 school, going 255-49-3'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'On May 8, 1968 this "fishy" Oakland A's pitcher threw the only A.L. perfect game of the 1960s'

Answer: Catfish Hunter


Question: 'With 1 as its atomic number, this gas heads up the periodic table'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'Surely you know this was the first name of author Evelyn Waugh's first wife'

Answer: Evelyn


Question: 'It will wake you up with kokekokko in Japan  & kykeliky in Norway'

Answer: a rooster


Question: 'Oui!  This thick, round cut of lean beef tenderloin is popularly served with a bacon strip wrap around it'

Answer: filet mignon


Question: 'Don't "procrastinate"; tell us the name of this house majority leader & ex-exterminator from Houston'

Answer: Tom DeLay


Question: 'In 1968 this Cincinnati Reds player became the first catcher ever named Rookie of the Year'

Answer: Johnny Bench


Question: 'In the electronics industry, this element symbolized Si, is made into N- & P-types of semiconductors'

Answer: silicon


Question: 'In 2004 publisher David Carey announced that more Californians than New Yorkers subscribed to this magazine'

Answer: The New Yorker


Question: 'Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones say groin groin while truffle hunting'

Answer: pigs


Question: 'Named for a French region, it's a brunch dish of eggs, crumbled bacon & often Swiss cheese in a pastry shell'

Answer: Quiche Lorraine


Question: 'Congressman Don Young of this state can list "Fort Yukon Riverboat Captain" on his resume'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'This St. Louis Cardinals pitcher was named MVP of the 1964 & 1967 World Series'

Answer: (Bob) Gibson


Question: 'Its symbol Hg comes from the Latin hydrargyrum, "watery silver"'

Answer: mercury


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ari Fleischer.)  Now named for James Brady, this room in the White House is where the briefing of the press takes place'

Answer: the briefing room


Question: 'In Argentina they berp; Swedish ones kvack while hopping'

Answer: frogs


Question: 'Wrap bacon around a water chestnut & a piece of chicken liver  & you've got this Asian-style appetizer'

Answer: rumaki


Question: 'Senator Lincoln Chafee of this New England state spent 7 years as a blacksmith at racetracks in the U.S. & Canada'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'In 1967 this Red Sox outfielder became the last Major Leaguer to win hitting's Triple Crown'

Answer: Yastrzemski


Question: 'Oxides of this silver-white metallic element are used in pigments to give some ceramics a vivid blue color'

Answer: cobalt


Question: 'In 2004 Whistling Straits in Wisconsin hosted this PGA championship'

Answer: the PGA Championship


Question: 'They say piv while stealing havarti & squitt squitt if they get into the provolone'

Answer: mice


Question: 'Bring home this 1984 movie & you'll see Kevin kick off his Sunday shoes & dance up a storm'

Answer: Footloose


Question: 'Most of these in the Northern Hemisphere have broken off from Greenland'

Answer: icebergs


Question: '"The Count of Monte Cristo" & "The Black Tulip" are a pere of his historical romances'

Answer: Dumas (pere)


Question: 'From the Greek for "to see", it's a wide & unobstructed biew of an extensive area in all directions'

Answer: panorama


Question: 'Recent film in which Kevin played a detective & childhood pal of grieving father Sean Penn'

Answer: Mystic River


Question: '1978's SEASAT, a companion to LANDSAT, was the first one of these dedicated to oceanography'

Answer: a satellite


Question: 'He's the author of 1987's "The Art of the Deal"'

Answer: (Donald) Trump


Question: 'A plaque honoring the men who died building Hoover Dam reads, "They died to make" this type of area "bloom"'

Answer: the desert


Question: 'In 1973 the KGB confiscated a manuscript of this massive work & Solzhenitsyn soon published it in France'

Answer: The Gulag Archipelago


Question: 'A flag, a pedestal or a song often used in repertories'

Answer: standard


Question: 'See Kevin in his film debut as a pledge for the rival Omega House in this comedy classic'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'Sea otters & garibaldies are inhabitants of these "forests"'

Answer: kelp


Question: 'His 1940 "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" is semi-autobiographical'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'A plaque at the Annapolis Docks honoring the arrival of this "Roots" slave was stolen within days of its dedication'

Answer: Kunta Kinte


Question: 'Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"'

Answer: (P.D.) James


Question: 'The scientific name of this whale is Megaptera novaeangliae, or "Big-winged New Englander"'

Answer: the humpback


Question: 'Kevin's role in this movie seen here may have left him feeling a bit empty'

Answer: Hollow Man


Question: 'This word means a school of fish or a shallow spot in the sea'

Answer: a shoal


Question: 'He lost to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote'

Answer: Samuel J. Tilden


Question: 'A plaque in the Louisiana state capitol marks the site of this violent event of Sept. 8, 1935'

Answer: the assassination of Huey Long


Question: 'If you can't come up with this Japanese title of Tayama Katai's novel translated as "The Quilt", sleep on it'

Answer: Futon


Question: 'It's the death or decay of body tissue due to injury or failure of the blood supply'

Answer: gangrene


Question: 'Kevin & Elizabeth Perkins share a little romance as well as opposing viewpoints in this 1991 film'

Answer: He Said, She Said


Question: 'The ocean crust sits or floats on the Earth's mantle & is composed mainly of this igneous rock'

Answer: basalt


Question: 'Nat Turner led a slave revolt in the U.S. in 1831; he led a peasant revolt in England in 1381'

Answer: Wat Tyler


Question: 'This American Nobel Laureate is seen here with a plaque at the site of his discovery of plutonium'

Answer: Glenn Seaborg


Question: 'You can go back to medieval Norway by reading Sigrid Undset's novel about this woman & her father Lavrans'

Answer: Kristin Lavransdatter


Question: 'The military term for weapons & ammunition, it can also describe the tools used to make them'

Answer: ordnance


Question: 'This king was the great-grandfather of France's King Louis XV'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'In 324 B.C. he was king of Persia & leader of Greece, as well as king of Macedonia'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'The Davey O'Brien Award goes to the top player at this position; Peyton Manning & Eric Crouch are recent winners'

Answer: quarterback


Question: 'At Madison's request, Congress declared war on the U.K. on June 18 of this year'

Answer: 1812


Question: 'Eaten for breakfast or as a side dish, hominy grits are made from this'

Answer: corn


Question: 'A newborn gnu is called one of these, like an elephant or a whale'

Answer: a calf


Question: 'Any pigment on the wall so faded you can barely see it'

Answer: faint paint


Question: 'Personal difficulties led him to resign as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'In January 2005 this Heisman-winning Trojan announced he'd return for a final year'

Answer: Matt Leinart


Question: 'Completed in 1825, this New York waterway cost more than $7 million to build'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: 'Developed in Louisiana, praline is a sweet traditionally made with brown sugar & these nuts'

Answer: pecans


Question: 'Term for a newborn cheetah, fox or panda'

Answer: a cub


Question: 'A manly tortilla chip smothered with melted cheese'

Answer: a macho nacho


Question: 'Helen Keller's parents chose Anne Sullivan as her teacher on the advice of this inventor'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'This Provo, Utah school won 10 straight WAC football titles from 1976 to 1985'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'Denmark Vesey, brought to Charleston in 1783, planned one of the USA's first of these types of revolt in 1822'

Answer: a slave revolt


Question: 'It's said that yapping dogs were fed these fried dumplings to keep quiet, hence their name'

Answer: hush puppies


Question: 'Young people should know this 3-letter name for a young ruminant'

Answer: a kid


Question: 'The way to the tub'

Answer: the bath path


Question: 'His "Gulag Archipelago" led to his arrest & forced deportation'

Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'This Florida State coach entered 2005 with 351 victories, more than any other Division 1-A coach'

Answer: Bobby Bowden


Question: 'In the Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts gave up its northern territory to form this state'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'This green pod, often a gumbo ingredient, is also called gumbo'

Answer: okra


Question: 'It can mean a young equine, or be a verb meaning to give birth to one'

Answer: foal


Question: 'Accept the loan of someone else's pain & sadness'

Answer: borrow sorrow


Question: 'Georgia is represented in Washington D.C.'s Statuary Hall by this Confederate vice president'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton Stephens


Question: 'Orlando Pace is the only 2-time winner of the Best Lineman award named for this legendary Packers coach'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'Controversial "bank" led by Nicholas Biddle from 1823 to 1836'

Answer: the Bank of the United States


Question: 'This "colorful" Southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee & water'

Answer: redeye gravy


Question: 'In "Songs of Innocence", William Blake asked it, "Who made thee?"'

Answer: the lamb


Question: 'Mitral valve or ventricle'

Answer: a heart part


Question: 'Robert Ballard discovered a new class of life forms on the sea floor & saw this "unsinkable" ship, too'

Answer: the Titanic


Question:
'This group uses "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" & cowbell when "Breaking The Girl"

"Twisting and turning you're feeling the burning you're breaking the girl..."'

Answer: the Red Hot Chili Peppers


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some expressions on a monitor.)  In a complex number of the form shown here, "i" is short for this type of unreal number, like the square root of negative one'

Answer: imaginary


Question: 'It was followed by the Iron Age'

Answer: the Bronze (Age)


Question: 'We meet her tantalizing the Tarleton Twins at Tara'

Answer: Scarlett O\'Hara


Question: 'Numerically, it's the next word in the sequence ein, zwei...'

Answer: drei


Question: 'After the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, Columbus joined Pinzon on this ship; Pinzon later explored Brazil'

Answer: the Nina


Question: '"That Don't Impress Me Much" that this country diva uses cowbell'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'The sum of a number & its additive inverse equals this'

Answer: zero


Question: 'Thin-sheeted gilded lettering'

Answer: gold leaf (or gold foil)


Question: 'Minnie Mouse is Mickey's girl & this is Hiawatha's'

Answer: Minnehaha


Question: 'In Maori 101, you might learn this word for the type of carved images seen here'

Answer: tikis


Question: 'Jean Nicolet expected to see Asians & wore Chinese robes after crossing this lake into Wisconsin'

Answer: Lake Michigan


Question:
'I say a little less conversation, a little more cowbell by this remixed singer

"A little less conversation, a little more action, please..."'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle on a monitor.)  With respect to angle ABC, the sides of the right triangle are commonly called hypotenuse, opposite & this'

Answer: adjacent


Question: 'The two biggest crowds at this Detroit-area stadium were for the Pope & Wrestlemania III'

Answer: the Silverdome


Question: 'He thought his 1838 tale of Ligeia, a dead beauty who haunts her husband, was his best story'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'Japanese for "teacher" or "master", this one will teach you karate, not social studies'

Answer: sensei


Question: 'Hernando de Alarcon sailed up this river a few months before Cardenas made his "Grand" discovery'

Answer: the Colorado River


Question: 'The cowbell on "Little Sister" is one of the "Lullabies to Paralyze" by this paleolithic group'

Answer: Queens of the Stone Age


Question: 'The per in miles per hour signifies this math process'

Answer: division


Question: 'Your 25th annual remembrance of your wedding'

Answer: the silver anniversary


Question: 'This author created Gilberte Swann, who entrances the young Marcel'

Answer: Marcel Proust


Question: 'French for "little vine", it's a short literary sketch or a short scene'

Answer: a vignette


Question: 'Philip Amadas & Arthur Barlowe explored this island off North Carolina before its colony got lost'

Answer: Roanoke


Question:
'Don't fear this band who turned cowbell from a cult into a religion

"Seasons don't fear the reaper /
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain /
(We can be like they are)..."'

Answer: Blue Öyster Cult


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows you that all your base belong to him on the monitor.)  3 squared equals 9, so we pull the old switcheroo, & this of 9 to base 3 equals 2'

Answer: a logarithm


Question: 'A lazy loafer, or someone who makes bullion'

Answer: a gold bricker


Question: 'Winston Smith has a doomed romance with this young woman in "1984"'

Answer: Julia


Question: 'In music this Italian term tells you to pluck the strings instead of bowing'

Answer: pizzicato


Question: 'Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker"'

Answer: Lima, Peru


Question: 'After losing her own baby, Kala the ape adopted & raised this human infant'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'Song in which a gal does in a man who "done her wrong"'

Answer: "Frankie & Johnny"


Question: 'This gemlike carving material was obtained from walruses as well as elephants'

Answer: ivory


Question: 'It's hollow, has a mouthpiece, shoots poison darts & can be 25 feet in length'

Answer: a blowgun


Question: 'The head varieties of this vegetable are divided into butterhead & crisphead'

Answer: lettuce


Question: 'The lowest part of a column or the lowest singing voice in a vocal composition'

Answer: base/bass


Question: 'This first sister of Peter Rabbit married Benjamin Bunny'

Answer: Flopsy


Question: 'The Dust Bowl balladeer who wailed, "You won't find it so hot, if you ain't got the do re mi"'

Answer: Woody Guthrie


Question: 'This diminutive poster artist broke his legs in childhood falls, inhibiting their growth'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'From the Latin for "fly", this shoulder gun let fly with ammo throughout the 17th & 18th centuries'

Answer: musket


Question: 'Santa Claus, casaba & Crenshaw are types of this fruit'

Answer: melon


Question: 'A segment of a curve or a chest for 10 Commandments'

Answer: arc/ark


Question: 'Reynard, the hero of a popular Medieval epic, was this type of animal'

Answer: a fox


Question: '"Whenever we go out, the people always shout" this long name'

Answer: John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt


Question: 'The animal featured both in Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" & "The Dream"'

Answer: a lion


Question: 'Built in the 16th century, the Czar Puchka is the world's largest one of these & is now in the Kremlin'

Answer: a cannon


Question: 'This root vegetable looks like, sounds like & is related to parsley'

Answer: parsnip


Question: 'Peel the skin of 2 identical pieces of fruit'

Answer: pare/pair/pear


Question: 'In Goethe's version of the story, this character first appears to Faust as a dog'

Answer: the Devil (Mephistopheles)


Question: 'In 1990 this "Queen of Protest Pop" came to a "Crossroads" with her 2nd album of inner city angst'

Answer: Tracy Chapman


Question: 'New & unknown in Paris, at 22 he painted "The Old Guitarist" in shades of blue that reflected his mood'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Guy Fawkes was part of the conspiracy known as this'

Answer: the Gunpowder Plot


Question: 'It's both a type of gourd & a small immature cucumber'

Answer: a gherkin


Question: 'To fly high above the clouds or something painful to the touch'

Answer: soar/sore


Question: 'In "Out of Africa", she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu'

Answer: Isak Dinesen


Question: 'Legend says this song's about a train whose light shining on a prisoner's cell could set him free'

Answer: "The Midnight Special"


Question: 'The most famous "Sunday Afternoon" this pointillist painted was on the "Grand Jatte"'

Answer: (Georges) Seurat


Question: 'Also called onagers, the largest one could throw a missile weighing 60 lbs. a distance of 500 yards'

Answer: a catapult


Question: 'Ponderosa, Big Boy hybrid & Sunray are popular varieties of this'

Answer: tomato


Question: 'The vertical part of a doorframe or the current fashion'

Answer: stile/style


Question: 'An authority on card & board games, his last name completes the expression, "According to..."'

Answer: Hoyle


Question: 'This Colorado resort city was named for a type of poplar tree growing in the area'

Answer: Aspen


Question: 'This granddaughter of George III became queen of England in 1837'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'As can be seen thru a telescope, the sizes of this red planet's polar ice caps change with the seasons'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'This sensuous Hawaiian dance evolved from a religious form to a hip story-telling device'

Answer: the hula


Question: 'The Phoenician city of Berytus is known known by this name'

Answer: Beirut


Question: 'In 1850 he left the Chicago police force, having started his own national detective agency'

Answer: Pinkerton


Question: 'This South Dakota capital was named for a French fur trader'

Answer: Pierre


Question: 'Hefty king whose sister Mary was the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: '17 days after this planet was discovered in 1846, William Lassell found one of its satellites, Triton'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Formerly called Ballet Society, it changed its name in 1948 when it gave its 1st performance at City Center'

Answer: the New York City Ballet


Question: 'The ancient city of Byblos was known for its production of this material, hence bible, meaning book'

Answer: papyrus


Question: 'After setting up shop in Hollywood, he developed the first make-up for films'

Answer: Max Factor


Question: 'In population it's the second-largest city on the Pacific Coast'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'This castle, where the Royal family goes for Grouse shooting, was built in the Scottish Baronial style'

Answer: Balmoral


Question: 'Streaming out of coronal holes, it causes comet tails to point away from the sun'

Answer: solar wind


Question: 'Irene & Vernon "strolled" their way to fame with this dance'

Answer: the Castle Walk


Question: 'Seaport city known for its very expensive purple dye'

Answer: Tyre


Question: 'In 1817 he founded America's first free school for the deaf in Hartford, Conn.'

Answer: Thomas Gallaudet


Question: 'Oliver H. Perry's flagship, the Niagara, can be seen on the lakefront of this Pennsylvania city'

Answer: Erie


Question: 'After she was born in March 1990 a hotline was set up offering the Palace's pronunciation of her name'

Answer: Princess Eugenie


Question: 'Its twisting back & forth as it orbits Jupiter generates heat & drives its volcanoes'

Answer: Io


Question: 'This dance associated with sailors was named for the instrument accompanying it'

Answer: the hornpipe


Question: 'The Phoenicians were known for this skill; even the Greeks called the North Star the Phoenician Star'

Answer: navigation


Question: 'She served as president of the Girl Scouts until 1920, when she was given the title of founder'

Answer: (Juliette) Low


Question: 'Michigan City is not in Michigan but in this state to the south'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'He had at least 13 illegitimate children--a "Merry Monarch" indeed'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'When he found Venus had phases like the moon, he cautiously announced it in the form of an anagram'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'This founder of an American ballet troupe was born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan'

Answer: Robert Joffrey


Question: 'Zeno, a Phoenician, founded this "Greek" school of philosophy'

Answer: Stoicism


Question: 'The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word'

Answer: Measure for Measure


Question: 'A 1990 Commons debate on closer ties with Europe brought on her famous shout of "No!  No!  No!"'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Velma, Shaggy &...'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Knowing that this is Alaska's state mineral gives me a rush'

Answer: gold


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.) For plants which may go into space, the Life Sciences Lab studies the effect of light, temperature & this gas formed in respiration'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'In 1930 Bernhard Schmidt invented the first catadioptric telescope that combined lenses & these'

Answer: mirrors


Question: 'Africa's second-longest river, it's sometimes referred to as the Zaire'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'In 1987 this anchor walked off, leaving CBS black for 6 minutes, because a tennis match cut into the news'

Answer: Dan Rather


Question: 'Charlie, Sally &...'

Answer: Snoopy


Question: 'Alaska's state land mammal is this antlered critter that can reach 7 feet tall & 2,000 pounds'

Answer: the moose


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.) This type of rocket was used for the first Apollo flight to the Moon & propelling Skylab into space'

Answer: a Saturn V


Question: 'This San Francisco Giants pitcher has been called the most feared starter in the National League'

Answer: Jason Schmidt


Question: 'Since 1987 this island partner of Trinidad has had full internal self-government'

Answer: Tobago


Question: 'Anita Hill's accusations led Clarence Thomas to call his confirmation process "a high-tech" this'

Answer: a lynching


Question: 'Bart, Lisa &...'

Answer: Santa\'s Little Helper


Question: 'It was a "crowning" achievement in 1963 when this was named Alaska's state fish'

Answer: the king salmon


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.) Astronauts use lots of moist wipes, so plants to be used for long missions are studied to see how they react to this compound'

Answer: alcohol


Question: 'Crane, Poole & Schmidt is the law firm on this TV show'

Answer: Boston Legal


Question: 'This word refers not only to a big group of islands but also to the broad expanse of water that contains them'

Answer: an archipelago


Question: 'Khrushchev's U.N. shoe-banging outburst came as Lorenzo Sumulong of this Asian country attacked Soviet policy'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Martin, Frasier &...'

Answer: Eddie


Question: 'This ancient tusked beast is the state fossil'

Answer: the mammoth


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.)  When loaded, the heaviest part of the space shuttle is the fuel tank that contains these two liquefied gases'

Answer: hyrdrogen & oxygen


Question: 'Das Bundeskanzler der 1970s'

Answer: Helmut Schmidt


Question: 'This lively dance in triple time is usually performed by a couple with castanets, & accompanied by guitar'

Answer: the fandango


Question: 'The claim "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" was in response to an election loss to this man'

Answer: (Pat) Brown


Question: 'Spanky, Alfalfa &...'

Answer: Petey


Question: 'Alaska's state bird is the willow variety of this grouse relative'

Answer: the ptarmigan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.)  A 1990 mission of the space shuttle with this appropriate name deployed the Hubble Space Telescope'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'Ex-Yale president Benno Schmidt chairs this inventive company that manages & improves schools'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'In the Book of Daniel, he survives being put into a furnace'

Answer: Abednego


Question: 'At the mouth of the Mississippi River, this major class of rock is said to be more than 40,000 feet thick'

Answer: sedimentary


Question: '1981:<br />The "Tattoo You" tour'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'He wrote the somewhat autobiographical 1858 play "Le fils naturel", or "The Natural Son"'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas (the son)


Question: 'This eminent lady was born in 1819'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'This U.S. circus is so prominent that circus folks call it "Big Bertha"'

Answer: Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey


Question: 'Guinness says three people took a 1994 roundtrip ride in one of these from London to Cape Town; the fare: 40,210 pounds'

Answer: a taxi


Question: 'Intense glaciation has formed these long, steep-sided coastal inlets; the ones in Norway & Chile are especially deep'

Answer: fjords


Question: '1993:<br />"Zooropa"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'Scottie, daughter of this author, grew up to be a journalist & Washington socialite'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'Trekkies might know the first long-distance traveler to bear this name, seen here'

Answer: Voyager


Question: 'The rubberman is the person who sells these souvenirs'

Answer: balloons


Question: 'This airship, named for the Ohio city of its construction, sailed overhead during FDR's 1933 inauguration'

Answer: the Akron


Question: 'This landmark in Rio's Guanabara Bay is an axample of an inselberg, or "island mountain"'

Answer: Sugar Loaf Mountain


Question: '1974:<br />"Diamond Dogs"'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'Jack, son of this author, took his fly rod on a parachute jump into WWII occupied France, claiming it was an antenna'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'Five-letter name for the item shown in use here'

Answer: a viola


Question: 'It's the "bovine" term for a circus elephant, whether it's male or female'

Answer: a bull


Question: 'John Ericsson, who built a steam locomotive in England in 1829, built this famous Civil War steam-powered ship'

Answer: the Monitor


Question: 'This crater is formed when a volcano explodes & the cone collapses; Oregon's Crater Lake is an example'

Answer: the caldera


Question: '1997:<br />"The Dance" reunion tour'

Answer: Fleetwood Mac


Question: 'As an assistant to this author, Samuel Beckett had to fight off the advances of his daughter Lucia'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'In 2000 he coached the Rams to the Super Bowl title & then quit'

Answer: Dick Vermeil


Question: 'Candy vendors are known as these, allegedly because a notable early one was a meat carver, too'

Answer: a butcher