Question: 'We're "positive" this popular author was pastor of NYC's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church for 52 years'

Answer: Norman Vincent Peale


Question: 'Habitat, built for this city's Expo 67, was a revolutionary prefabricated housing complex'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'Thimphu'

Answer: Bhutan


Question: 'In 1998 a drug scandal caused 93 of 189 riders to drop out of this European bike race'

Answer: Tour de France


Question: 'Marlowe probably had no peace when he wrote "Accursed be he that first invented" this'

Answer: War


Question: 'From the Old Slavic for slave, this word entered the language from Karel Capek's 1921 play "R.U.R."'

Answer: Robot


Question: 'This Canadian-born director's films include "In the Heat of the Night" & "Moonstruck"'

Answer: Norman Jewison


Question: 'This architecturally controversial Paris complex opened in 1977'

Answer: Pompidou Centre/Beaubourg


Question: 'Sana'

Answer: Yemen


Question: 'Kenyan men took first & second in this race April 20, 1998'

Answer: Boston Marathon


Question: 'The Hellespont is mentioned in line 7 of Marlowe's work on this famous mythological pair'

Answer: Hero and Leander


Question: 'This Scottish entree may derive its name from the Old French for "haguier", to chop or hash'

Answer: Haggis


Question: 'Its face was modeled after the features of Auguste-Charlotte Bartholdi'

Answer: Statue of Liberty


Question: '"Death in the Afternoon" is a treatise on this, which Hemingway considered a tragic spectacle, not a sport'

Answer: Bullfighting


Question: 'When Bruce Springsteen opened this L.A. arena, he said he thought he was playing an office supplies store'

Answer: Staples Center


Question: 'This federal police agency is abbreviated the DEA'

Answer: Drug Enforcement Administration


Question: 'Last name that goes with 1985's "Martina"'

Answer: Navratilova


Question: 'From here, it's a long way to this Irish town about 24 miles southeast of Limerick'

Answer: Tipperary


Question: '"She sells seashells by the seashore" is a classic one of these'

Answer: Tongue twister


Question: 'Hemingway served as an ambulance driver during WWI, like Frederic Henry, the hero of this novel'

Answer: "A Farewell to Arms"


Question: 'Saint-Saens & Faure were organists at Paris' La Madeleine, the church of this Biblical woman'

Answer: Mary Magdalene


Question: 'Encarta reports that with over 96,000 this state has more full-time law enforcement employees than any other'

Answer: California


Question: 'He relives his relief pitching in "The Goose is Loose"'

Answer: Rich "Goose" Gossage


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kym Hampton of the WNBA)  The jump ball at the beginning of a basketball game or period of play is known as this'

Answer: Tipoff


Question: 'When you remain silent, others might suggest this animal's "got your tongue"'

Answer: Cat


Question: 'The title of this Hemingway novel set during the Spanish Civil War comes from one of John Donne's "Devotions"'

Answer: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"


Question: 'Chicago's area for this genre moved from the south side to north side clubs like Kingston Mines'

Answer: Blues


Question: 'Robert Stack & Kevin Costner have both played this crusading T-Man'

Answer: Eliot Ness


Question: 'This coach's book is all "Tark"'

Answer: Jerry Tarkanian


Question: 'It's the first name of the woman who played the title kleptomaniac in "Marnie"'

Answer: Tippi (Hedren)


Question: 'This tallest land critter can have a tongue up to 18 inches long'

Answer: Giraffe


Question: '"In Our Time", a collection of short stories, features this character who is similar to Hemingway'

Answer: Nick Adams


Question: 'This crowd-pleasing group has performed on the Charles River Esplanade since July 4, 1929'

Answer: The Boston Pops


Question: 'This international group founded in 1923 helps police in one country communicate with those of another'

Answer: Interpol


Question: 'Seen here, he demanded, "Just Give Me the Damn Ball"'

Answer: Keyshawn Johnson


Question: 'Superstar Tiny Tim's only Top 40 song'

Answer: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"


Question: 'Vanna could tell you the tongue of a bell is also known as this'

Answer: Clapper


Question: 'This 1926 novel begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton"'

Answer: "The Sun Also Rises"


Question: 'In 1925 this famed piano company opened a concert hall on 57th Street in New York City'

Answer: Steinway


Question: 'Guidelines for sheriffs & village constables were established in this important document in 1215'

Answer: Magna Carta


Question: 'This Raider declared, "They Call Me Assassin"'

Answer: Jack Tatum


Question: 'Powerful former politician seen here<br />(once Speaker of the House)'

Answer: Tip O\'Neill


Question: 'Sweet, salty, bitter & sour are the 4 types of flavor sensed by these tongue receptors'

Answer: Taste buds


Question: 'This prince's efforts led to the development of the Caravel, a sailing ship'

Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator


Question: 'When this series debuted in 1978 drivers on it included John Burns, Bobby Wheeler & Alex Rieger'

Answer: Taxi


Question: 'Nebulae named for birds include this one in Ursa Major, sadly not found near the Pussycat Nebula'

Answer: Owl


Question: '1 of the 2 official languages of Greenland'

Answer: Danish or Greenlandic


Question: 'George Pataki'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Candy seen here<br />(a favorite in theatres)'

Answer: Jujubes


Question: 'In 1917 3 children tending sheep had a vision of the Virgin Mary in this town, now a place of pilgrimage'

Answer: Fatima


Question: 'Jose Feliciano sang the theme to this sitcom'

Answer: Chico and the Man


Question: 'It's one of the largest dark clouds in the Milky Way -- put that in yours & smoke it'

Answer: Pipe Nebula


Question: '2 of the 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th century named William'

Answer: McKinley, Taft &/or Clinton


Question: 'Christine Todd Whitman'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Her dad George works for Spacely Sprockets'

Answer: Judy Jetson


Question: 'This river flows into the ocean at Lisbon'

Answer: Tagus River


Question: 'This character's father, Frank DeFazio, owned the Pizza Bowl & Cowboy Bill's'

Answer: Laverne DeFazio


Question: 'You'll find the Sagittarian Nebula named for this Greek letter in the last place you look'

Answer: Omega


Question: 'This W.C. Handy blues began as a Tennessee campaign song titled "Mr. Crump"'

Answer: "Memphis Blues"


Question: 'Frank Keating'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Joel 3 says the valley of Jehoshaphat was a place of this'

Answer: Judgment


Question: 'In 1499 King Manuel gave him the title Admiral of the Indian Sea'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'He starred as ballplayer Jim Barton in "Ball Four", the short-lived 1976 sitcom he created'

Answer: Jim Bouton


Question: 'This supernova remnant bears the name of a crustacean'

Answer: Crab Nebula


Question: 'Of the numbers 0 through 9, the one that would be listed first alphabetically'

Answer: Eight


Question: 'Tommy Thompson'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In the '50s this Georgia-born artist was heavily into American flags & targets'

Answer: Jasper Johns


Question: 'Seen here, this dictator called his government the Estado Novo ("New State")'

Answer: Antonio Salazar


Question: 'First name shared by Raj & Rerun's buddy & Ann Romano's superintendent, Schneider'

Answer: Dwayne


Question: 'This nebula with a Wagnerian name is a planetary nebula, meaning it used to be a red giant star'

Answer: Ring Nebula


Question: 'After Paris, this capital city of the Congo has the most French speakers of any city in the world'

Answer: Kinshasa


Question: 'John Engler'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'The fact the Spanish cut off this British shipmaster's ear started a war in 1739'

Answer: Robert Jenkins


Question: 'After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'In the 1950s, Sgt. Friday's partners on this show included Sgt. Ben Romero, Sgt. Ed Jacobs & Officer Frank Smith'

Answer: Dragnet


Question: 'Croatia occupies the northwestern section of this peninsula'

Answer: the Balkans


Question: 'Use it to paddle your own canoe'

Answer: an oar


Question: 'Merton College was one of the first entities that become this famous British university'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'After the long flight to Tokyo, I better grab a cup of "kohhi", this, to stay awake for the kabuki show'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'It's the state song of the beautiful State of Ohio'

Answer: "Beautiful Ohio"


Question: 'The opening of his anthology series showed the silhouette of this director filling a line drawing of his profile'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'In contrast to their Orthodox cousins, the majority of Croatians are of this Christian denomination'

Answer: Catholic


Question: 'Cordage of braided strands of hemp'

Answer: rope


Question: 'This Jesuit Washington, D.C. university is home to the Woodstock Theological Center'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'We're not sure if yelling "kaji", this, in a Japanese movie theater is illegal, but I still wouldn't do it'

Answer: fire


Question: 'It's the state song of the beautiful state of Nebraska'

Answer: "Beautiful Nebraska"


Question: 'For the 1958-59 season, 7 of the top 10 series were Westerns, with this one set in Kansas ranked No. 1'

Answer: Gunsmoke


Question: 'Better-known name of the man born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, Croatia May 7, 1892'

Answer: Tito


Question: 'To poke or jab with something pointed; it's done to cattle, for example'

Answer: prod


Question: 'Seen here is the sports team logo of this university, whose stars have included Sidney Moncrief & Lance Alworth'

Answer: Arkansas (Razorbacks)


Question: '(I'm Harry Smith.)  In January 2005 I covered the aftermath of one of these disasters whose name is from the Japanese for "harbor wave"'

Answer: a tsunami


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Macy's Warehouse.)  In 2006, this cable channel's float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade depicted the history of New York'

Answer: The History Channel


Question: 'Shows named for & starring these 2 movie pooches debuted in the fall of 1954'

Answer: Lassie & Rin Tin Tin


Question: 'Stretching almost 800 miles, the Sava River forms much of the border between Croatia & this country to its south & east'

Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina


Question: 'To gather a harvest with a sickle or scythe'

Answer: reap


Question: 'John Wayne attended this L.A. university in the 1920s & also played on its football team'

Answer: USC


Question: 'Parting is such sweet sorrow, my butterfly, but it's time we say this word, Japanese for "good-bye"'

Answer: sayonara


Question: 'This capital city of Luxembourg lies on a plateau into which the Alzette & Petrusse rivers flow'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'In 1959 Barbara Hale won an Emmy for playing secretary Della Street on this long-running courtroom drama'

Answer: Perry Mason


Question: 'General term for any primate of the subfamily Hominoidea'

Answer: ape


Question: 'Glass artist Dale Chihuly is a graduate of this design college abbreviated RISD'

Answer: Rhode Island School of Design


Question: 'You might want to sip the sake when it's served "atsui", meaning this has been done'

Answer: heated


Question: 'This Stephen Sondheim musical that graced Broadway in 1994 was based on the Italian film "Passione d'amore"'

Answer: Passion


Question:
'In one episode, Henry VIII & this woman have a little dinner conversation

"You have not answered my nephew's letters."
"Just because your nephew's the king of Spain, does he think I have nothing better to do?"'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'In automaking:<br />Rolls & ____'

Answer: Royce


Question: 'The title hotel in Arthur Hailey's novel "Hotel" was inspired by the Fairmont in this Louisiana city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'With black roots, but pink & white flowers, Helleborus niger is the "rose" named for this holiday'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'Among those who called him beau: Dinah Shore, Sally Field, Loni Anderson...'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'This 2-word phrase refers to a morally upright person'

Answer: a straight arrow


Question:
'This daughter of Henry later married Spain's king; here she meets another royal

"Are you the Dauphin of France?"
"Oui."
"Then I want to kiss you."'

Answer: Mary I


Question: 'In journalism:<br />____ & Bernstein'

Answer: Woodward


Question: 'The Cloud Hotel is pivotal to the plot of this man's first novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms"'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: 'A Texas field of these flowers is seen here'

Answer: (Texas) bluebonnets


Question: 'In 2006 she turned heads when she showed up at beau Justin Timberlake's CD release party as a brunette'

Answer: Cameron Diaz


Question: 'This home of the Kansas City Chiefs is considered the loudest outdoor arena in the NFL'

Answer: Arrowhead Stadium


Question: 'Henry's gift to the French king helped inspire this nursery rhyme whose first word is "Sing"'

Answer: "Sing a Song of Sixpence"


Question: 'In the world of fashion:<br />____ & Gabbana'

Answer: Dolce


Question: 'The Hotel du Cap on Cap d'Antibes was immortalized as the Hotel des Etrangers in his novel "Tender is the Night"'

Answer: (F. Scott) Fitzgerald


Question: 'Betty's blue & twickel purple are varieties of this flower, the name of which is also a bluish-purple color'

Answer: lavender


Question: 'In 2005, Oprah admitted that she & this beau had a daughter... a cocker spaniel named Sophie'

Answer: Stedman Graham


Question: 'The protagonist of this Sinclair Lewis novel goes to the island of St. Hubert to fight an epidemic'

Answer: Arrowsmith


Question:
'Here Henry VIII gets the pacifistic view from this author friend

"You didn't say much at council last night."
"About what?"
"Going to war with France."
"As a humanist, I have an abhorrence of war."'

Answer: (Thomas) More


Question: 'Tragic lovers during the Middle Ages:<br />____ & Heloise'

Answer: Abelard


Question: 'Chapter VI of this 1926 novel begins: "At five o'clock I was in the Hotel Crillon waiting for Brett"'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: 'Not to kiss & tell, but Shannon Tweed has been happily unmarried to this rocker for more than 20 years'

Answer: Gene Simmons


Question: 'This starchy tuber produces a fine powder used as a thickening agent for puddings & sauces'

Answer: arrowroot


Question:
'This smoothie, an advisor to the king, is seen here in typical mode

"What happened in Urbino--the butchering of our ambassador--was most unfortunate, especially for me.  Your Excellency is well aware of my sentiments towards your country."'

Answer: (Cardinal) Wolsey


Question: 'In biology:<br />____ & Crick'

Answer: Watson


Question: 'Maxim de Winter meets his future 2nd wife at the Hotel Cote d'Azur in Monte Carlo in this Daphne du Maurier novel'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'She once said of companion Maurice Tempelsman, "I truly hope my notoriety doesn't force him out of my life"'

Answer: Jackie Onassis


Question: 'This motor car company's prestige grew when, in 1909, President Taft ordered 2 models for the White House'

Answer: Pierce-Arrow


Question: 'Vipers & Whited Sepulchers were Jesus' terms for this group, whose name comes from a word for "separatist"'

Answer: Pharisees


Question: 'In March 1864 he was appointed General-in-Chief of the Union armies'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'One of the 3 current NFL teams that were once based in Los Angeles'

Answer: (any of) the (St. Louis) Rams, the Oakland Raiders, or the San Diego Chargers


Question: 'The Times told us the Stratford-on-Avon church where he was buried in 1616 needed $2 million in repairs'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Traditionally, biology has been divided into 2 fields: botany, the study of plants, & this, the study of animals'

Answer: zoology


Question: 'French kids get chocolate chickens on this spring holiday'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'Get comfy & "tuck" yourself into this state'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'For the first couple of years of the war, the Confederacy purchased most of its ships from this country'

Answer: the United Kingdom (England accepted)


Question: 'In 2007 this Colts leader became the first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl'

Answer: Tony Dungy


Question: 'Of a biopic on this author: "Once upon a time, Flopsy & Mopsy, there was a plucky proto-feminist..."'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'In 1705 this Brit became the first scientist to be knighted for his work; you could say he had some "pull"'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'The USA's Constitution Day is observed in this autumn month'

Answer: September


Question: '"Ow"! Don't hurt yourself inside this state'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'After many days of bombardment, it became the first Union fort surrendered to the Confederates'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'This Florida team is the only NFL franchise whose team name is that of a sea-dwelling creature'

Answer: the (Miami) Dolphins


Question: 'In 2006 Donald Hall, known for poems about his wife, Jane Kenyon, was lauded after his appointment as this'

Answer: (United States) Poet Laureate


Question: 'One of the 2 main types of chemical bonds'

Answer: (either of) ionic or covalent


Question: 'The half-mile route for this annual event begins at Santo Domingo Street in Pamplona'

Answer: the Running of the Bulls


Question: 'I'll never "sour" on this state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Shortly after the war's outbreak, this famous cartoonist became a staff artist for Harper's Weekly'

Answer: Thomas Nast


Question: 'This man trained as a lawyer was one of the 3 original hosts of "Monday Night Football"'

Answer: Howard Cosell


Question: 'The Times noted that "Office at Night", seen here, was one of many works by this artist on display at the Whitney'

Answer: (Edward) Hopper


Question: 'Death can result from a subdural this, a collection of blood in the tissue caused by blunt-force trauma'

Answer: hematoma


Question: 'In 2006 it was celebrated on October 9, 3 days before its traditional observance'

Answer: Columbus Day


Question: 'I must write an "ode" to this state'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This Confederate vice president was called "Little Ellick" because of his small stature; he weighed barely 100 pounds'

Answer: (Alexander) Stephens


Question: 'This legendary coach once said, "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is"'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'This one-time defector's Hell's Kitchen Dance company got rave reviews as it started a world tour'

Answer: (Mikhail) Baryshnikov


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) Give a length of paper a half-twist, join the ends, and you've created one of these one-sided strips named for a German topologist'

Answer: a Möbius strip


Question: 'The Oakdale (Minn.) Tree Board won the 2006 Lady Bird Johnson Award from this holiday's foundation'

Answer: Arbor Day


Question: '"Ask" me about these 2 states (I love them)'

Answer: Alaska and Nebraska


Question: 'To reduce water consumption, the project landscapes using plants like zoysha that are heat and this tolerant'

Answer: drought


Question: 'Burt Lancaster took the role in the 1957 film that could only be called "Gunfight At" this place'

Answer: the OK Corral


Question: 'Capt. Nemo said, "Tomorrow I will be dead, and I wish for no other tomb than" this vessel.  "It is my coffin!"'

Answer: the Nautilus


Question: 'Scrabble playing pieces are called "letter" ones'

Answer: tiles


Question: '81 members serve 6-year terms in this smaller of the 2 houses of the Czech Parliament'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'This fortress was the last address of Edmund Dudley, Sir Thomas More & the 11th Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser'

Answer: the Tower of London


Question: 'All the waste from the project is being recycled, rather than going into these, which still take 55% of the U.S.A's trash'

Answer: landfills


Question: 'After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset"'

Answer: James Garner


Question: 'Captain Peleg told Ishmael that he & Captain Bildad were part-owners of this whaler'

Answer: the Pequod


Question: 'It can be a drinking glass, an acrobat, or part of a lock'

Answer: a tumbler


Question: 'This party got the most votes in Czechoslovakia's May 26, 1946 general election'

Answer: the Communists


Question: 'His 99-year prison term for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. ended with his death in 1998'

Answer: James Earl Ray


Question: 'These items being applied here save energy, and their cost can be offset by rebates and tax credits'

Answer: solar panels


Question: 'In 1993's "Tombstone", he played Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday'

Answer: Kurt Russell


Question: 'In a 1984 Tom Clancy thriller, this Russian sub is equipped with an ultra-quiet propulsion system'

Answer: Red October


Question: 'This "land of the hummingbird" is 20 miles trom Trinidad'

Answer: Tobago


Question: 'Though this Czech was not known for humor, his 1927 comic novel was about a young European's life in "Amerika"'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'In 1993 Panamanian courts convicted this leader of involvement in the murder of one of his political foes'

Answer: Noriega


Question: 'A hologram contrasts the old heat-absorbing asphalt roof and the new reflective one of  galvanized this light metal'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday'

Answer: Kevin Costner


Question: 'Lieutenant Steve Maryk takes command of this destroyer-minesweeper from an unstable captain'

Answer: the Caine


Question: 'In names of cat breeds, this nationality precedes "Angora" & "Van"'

Answer: Turkish


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Czech Republic.) It's what we're experiencing outside the Czech capital, or the name given to Czechoslovakia's moment of reform in 1968'

Answer: the Prague Spring


Question: 'This Frenchman, often jailed for his cruel acts & sexual behavior, died in an asylum on Dec. 2, 1814'

Answer: the Marquis de Sade


Question: 'Popular among the green-minded because it's made from waste products, M.D.F. stands for medium-density this'

Answer: fiberboard


Question: 'Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he plyed Earp in "Winchester '73"'

Answer: Will Geer


Question: 'In this 1897 Kipling novel, the schooner "We're Here" rescues teenager Harvey Cheyne near the Grand Banks'

Answer: Captains Courageous


Question: 'This 5-letter tutu fabric may be made of rayon, nylon or silk'

Answer: tulle


Question: 'On July 6, 1415 this religious reformer with a 3-letter last name was burned at the stake at Constance'

Answer: Jan Hus


Question: 'Given a life sentence at Nuremberg, he was Spandau Prison's lone inmate after 1966'

Answer: Rudolf Hess


Question: 'Writing in the 1820s, Lafayette's secretary called it a "great channel of communication, executed in eight years"'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: 'At 2 P.M. on the big day, it was "gently tapped" in Philadelphia'

Answer: Liberty Bell


Question: 'In 1824 Charles Dickens' father went to jail for this, though he didn't have a credit card'

Answer: Debt


Question: 'Stephen King'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'The next one officially begins January 1, 2001'

Answer: Millennium


Question: 'In 1910 Alice Wells got special badge No. 1 as the first female one of these in Los Angeles'

Answer: Police officer


Question: 'In a 1965 epic this Omar Sharif character keeps getting separated from his beloved Lara'

Answer: Dr. Zhivago


Question: 'On July 9 this nice great-great-great-great grand-daughter of bad George III became an honorary citizen of NYC'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: 'The punishment at the end of the novel "Crime And Punishment" is servitude in this cold region'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'John Irving'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: '"Psychic" size between small & large'

Answer: Medium


Question: 'The term suffragette came from suffrage, the right to do this'

Answer: Vote


Question: 'In "Casablanca" this Bogart character reminds Ilsa as they part, "We'll always have Paris"'

Answer: Rick Blaine


Question: 'This Washington edifice that houses the Declaration of Independence stayed open for 76 straight hours'

Answer: National Archives


Question: 'When Ann Landers admits an error, she sentences herself to 40 lashes with one of these'

Answer: Wet noodle


Question: 'Larry McMurtry'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'According to the title of a 1953 film, it's what Ethel Merman wanted to be called'

Answer: Madam


Question: 'In her 1963 book she used the term "Feminine Mystique" to describe the image of women'

Answer: Betty Friedan


Question: 'This actor keeps parting & getting back together with Andie MacDowell in "Four Weddings And A Funeral"'

Answer: Hugh Grant


Question: 'The Smithsonian "launched" this museum that the founding fathers would have had trouble imagining'

Answer: Air And Space Museum


Question: 'In 1995 Alabama reinstituted these groups, from which Paul Muni played "a fugitive"'

Answer: Chain gangs


Question: 'Mario Puzo'

Answer: New York


Question: 'In a special promotion, Rite Aid pharmacies have tied this medical test to Mother's Day'

Answer: Mammogram


Question: 'Introduced in 1959, she got in trouble in 1992 for saying "Math class is tough"'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'In this film Monty Clift says goodbye to Donna Reed & returns to duty as Pearl Harbor is attacked'

Answer: "From Here To Eternity"


Question: 'President Ford made a national historical park of this area where the Continental army got a chilly reception'

Answer: Valley Forge


Question: 'The 2 adjectives found in the 8th Amendment for the kind of punishment that may not be inflicted'

Answer: Cruel & unusual


Question: 'Anne Rice'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'We're talking major whirlpool with this'

Answer: Maelstrom


Question: 'In 1972 this magazine appeared on American newsstands for the first time'

Answer: Ms.


Question: 'In "The Seven Year Itch", Tom Ewell says goodbye to his wife & starts flirting with this actress'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'French for "blow", a military one overthrew Greece's Constantine II in 1967 & set up a junta'

Answer: Coup


Question: '"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" is a line from this 1946 classic film'

Answer: "It\'s A Wonderful Life"


Question: 'Like painters, modern artists in this form turned to abstraction, as in David Smith's work in steel'

Answer: Sculpture


Question: 'Small town waitress Karen Black falls for Jack Nicholson in this 1970 classic'

Answer: "Five Easy Pieces"


Question: 'Before greeting cards, Hallmark's Joyce Hall made his mark selling these mail items with pictures on them'

Answer: Postcards


Question: 'From the Hebrew for "fit and proper", this word means in accordance with Jewish dietary laws'

Answer: Kosher


Question: 'Because Constantine had renounced the throne, this country got Nicholas I after Alexander I died'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In 1993 the original class from Bayside High in this series graduated & went on to California University'

Answer: "Saved By The Bell"


Question: 'The expressionist "CoBrA" group acronymed its name from Copenhagen, Brussels & this Dutch city'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'Tom Cruise mixed things up with waitress Elisabeth Shue in this 1988 film'

Answer: "Cocktail"


Question: 'This partner of Warner began marketing Listerine in St. Louis in 1884'

Answer: Jordan W. Lambert


Question: 'From the Japanese for "empty hand", this martial art uses no weapons'

Answer: Karate


Question: 'Constantine I tried to stop Greece from declaring war on this country led by his brother-in-law'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'On Oct. 14, 1947 he flew a Bell X-1 aircraft 662 miles per hour'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'Franz Kline's palette in the '50s was generally restricted to this, like TV at the time'

Answer: Black & white


Question: 'In 1988 Julia Roberts was slinging pizza in this Connecticut town'

Answer: Mystic


Question: 'In 1984 Standard Oil of California changed its name & its stripes to this'

Answer: Chevron


Question: 'The death of Constantine XI Palaeologus in a war with the Turks in 1453 brought this empire to an end'

Answer: Byzantine Empire


Question: 'In 1968 this singer & his group The Drells topped the pop & R&B charts with "Tighten Up"'

Answer: Archie Bell


Question: 'This controversial painter was a descendant of the 17th C. English essayist of the same name'

Answer: Francis Bacon


Question: 'She won an Oscar for her portrayal of waitress Alice Hyatt'

Answer: Ellyn Burstyn ("Alice Doesn\'t Live Here Anymore")


Question: 'Its May 1998 issue featured its new design:  a full cover photo & the table of contents moved inside'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: 'Former solar henothiest Constantine the Great converted to Christianity & his mother found this relic'

Answer: A piece of the True Cross


Question: 'This 1944 John Hersey novel set in a Sicilian town during World War II won a Pulitzer for fiction'

Answer: "A Bell For Adano"


Question: 'Austrian who painted the much-reproduced work seen here'

Answer: Gustav Klimt ("The Kiss")


Question: 'She was the cheerful waitress Elaine in 1993's "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway"'

Answer: Sandra Bullock


Question: 'This Chicago newspaper company made the decision to light Wrigley Field for night games'

Answer: The Tribune Company


Question: 'From an old Spanish word for "mixed", it's a person of European & Native American ancestry'

Answer: Mestizo


Question: 'In Solomon's reign, she filled the new post of "queen mother"'

Answer: Bathsheba (wife of David)


Question: '"Kidnapped" is the tale of young David Balfour & "His Journey in" this "Wild" part of Scotland'

Answer: the Highlands


Question: 'Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2001 was this "Tower of Strength"'

Answer: Rudolph Giuliani


Question: 'Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'Accounting for half of all U.S. exports in 1855, this crop was "King"'

Answer: cotton


Question: 'In 1941 the Pittsburgh Pirates changed their name to this'

Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers


Question: 'I feel stressed when I don't eat these meal-ending treats'

Answer: desserts/stressed


Question: 'This title character was an "M.D., D.C.L., LL.D...."'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll


Question: 'The editors of People Magazine found no one worthy of this title for 1994; Brad Pitt got it in 1995'

Answer: "People\'s Sexiest Man Alive"


Question: 'This state has 5 of the top 15 U.S. ports, including Plaquemines & Lake Charles'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'This 1850 story of Hester Prynne was a best-seller right from the start; it sold 4,000 copies in the first 10 days'

Answer: "The Scarlet Letter"


Question: 'In 1972 this NFL team moved its home games to Arrowhead Stadium, upping its seating capacity by over 30,000'

Answer: Kansas City Chiefs


Question: 'Dennis went to confession after he did this'

Answer: sinned/Dennis


Question: '(Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here)  As Captain Smollet, I followed the map to this Robert Louis Stevenson island'

Answer: "Treasure Island"


Question: 'The editors of the 2002 World Almanac chose this man as "The Most Obscure U.S. President"'

Answer: Millard Fillmore


Question: 'Until Haiti became independent, this "Port" served as the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1770 to 1804'

Answer: Port-au-Prince


Question: 'On Jan. 28, 1852 abolitionist Wendell Phillips uttered the words "Eternal vigilance is the price of" this'

Answer: liberty


Question: 'This Cleveland running back led the NFL in rushing 8 of the 9 years he was in the league, starting in 1957'

Answer: Jim Brown


Question: 'Your reward is in this bureau compartment'

Answer: drawer/reward


Question: '"The Silverado Squatters" was an 1883 tale about Stevenson's experiences in one of these camps in California'

Answer: mining camp


Question: 'Motor Trend's choice for 2002 Truck of the Year fell on this Chevy'

Answer: Avalanche


Question: 'It's the only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that is also a seaport'

Answer: Cape Town


Question: 'On August 16, 1858 the first cable message across the Atlantic was sent from Queen Victoria to this U.S. president'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'In January 2001 this team's middle linebacker Ray Lewis was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXV'

Answer: Baltimore Ravens


Question: 'A messenger is reviled when he fails to do this'

Answer: deliver/reviled


Question: 'It was to his nurse "Cummy" that Stevenson dedicated "A Child's Garden of" these'

Answer: Verses


Question: 'Former Miss USA & star of "Mulholland Dr." who is one of Esquire's "Women We Love"'

Answer: Laura Harring


Question: 'This Egyptian port on the Mediterranean was founded in 1859 when the building of the Suez Canal began'

Answer: Port Said


Question: 'In 1857 this infamous Supreme Court decision declared that African-Americans were not U.S. citizens'

Answer: Dred Scott Decision


Question: 'The last Heisman Trophy winner to be selected No. 1 in the NFL Draft was this Miami Hurricanes quarterback in 1987'

Answer: Vinny Testaverde


Question: 'I take spools of fishing line on these single-masted sailing ships'

Answer: sloops/spools


Question: 'The charter states the U.N. is determined "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of" this'

Answer: war


Question: '1993's "Dragon"'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'They're fingered to control the pitch of a trumpet'

Answer: valves


Question: 'Never grab your pet leopard gecko by this body part; it can come off when the gecko is stressed'

Answer: tail


Question: 'When El Greco was born on this isle in 1541, it was under Venetian rule, not Greek'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'An employee who runs errands; it's a Grandy job to have'

Answer: gopher


Question: 'Alphabetically first among the U.N.'s 6 official languages, it was a late addition to the list'

Answer: Arabic


Question: '"Man on the Moon"'

Answer: Andy Kaufman


Question: '(Alex: Let's find out from Sarah.)  Like the part of the nose it rests on, the connecting part of a pair of glasses is called this'

Answer: bridge


Question: 'As the gecko can climb almost any surface, make sure your terrarium has one of these to deter escapes'

Answer: lid


Question: 'Of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, or with a cross, it's how he signed his paintings'

Answer: Domenikos Theotokopoulos (in Greek)


Question: 'Belinda, Jane, Charlotte, Kathy & Gina'

Answer: the Go-Go\'s


Question: 'The first female U.S. ambassador to the U.N., she published the book "Political Woman" in 1974'

Answer: Jeane Kirkpatrick


Question: '"The Desert Fox"'

Answer: Erwin Rommel


Question: 'It's a knob on the top of a saddle, or an ornamental knob on the hilt of a sword'

Answer: pommel


Question: 'The Global Gecko Association is in this state whose postal abbreviation is backwards in the word gecko'

Answer: Oklahoma (OK)


Question: 'The 1982 El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery of Art was inspired by the spirit of these 2 sister cities'

Answer: Toledo, Spain & Toledo, Ohio


Question: 'Storm this desert & you're bound to find a Mongol or two'

Answer: Gobi


Question: 'Organizations that have this "status" include the OAU & the Holy See'

Answer: observer status


Question: '"Coal Miner's Daughter"'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'As a noun, it's a strip of material on a sail; as a verb, it means to secure an opening like a hatch'

Answer: batten


Question: 'In a Q & A with Reptile Magazine, this crocodile hunter said his favorite gecko is the rough knob-tailed'

Answer: Steve Irwin


Question: 'In 1963 he was El Greco on film & Audrey Hepburn's husband in real life'

Answer: Mel Ferrer


Question: 'In 1678 the Coventry Fair instituted a festival in this lady's honor'

Answer: Lady Godiva


Question: 'In 1999 UNTAET began helping this country, the ET in its name, achieve independence'

Answer: East Timor


Question: '"To Hell and Back"'

Answer: Audie Murphy


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Heritage Village in Cincinnati)  Like in colonial days, I'm making yarn using the drop type of this'

Answer: spindle


Question: 'This insurance company features a gecko in its ads'

Answer: GEICO


Question: 'During a private visit to Greece in 1999, this queen opened an El Greco exhibition in Athens'

Answer: Queen Sofia (of Spain)


Question: 'He gave us the classic tale of Cossack life "Taras Bulba"'

Answer: Nikolai Gogol


Question: 'Maiden name of author Edith Wharton, whose social-climbing family may have inspired a catchphrase'

Answer: Jones


Question: 'Benozzo Gozzoli made a unique landscape the backdrop for the biblical journey of this trio'

Answer: the three wise men (or the three magi)


Question: 'The Kinks in 1964; Van Halen in 1978'

Answer: "You Really Got Me"


Question: 'The price of a head of iceberg this was a buck-69 last time I shopped'

Answer: lettuce


Question: '"Soft you now, the fair Ophelia--nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'This crime of taking property with the intent to deprive the owner of it can be grand or petty'

Answer: larceny


Question: 'FIRED'

Answer: fried


Question: 'In the early 1800s, Richard Bonington's landscapes helped popularize this painting medium, shown here in French art'

Answer: watercolors


Question: 'Percy Sledge in 1966; Michael Bolton in 1991'

Answer: "When A Man Loves A Woman"


Question: 'In 2007 a skull of this carnivorous dinosaur went for $276,000'

Answer: T. rex


Question: '"O true apothecary!  Thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss I die"'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'These 2 4-letter words often precede "and testament" in the name of a legal document'

Answer: last will


Question: 'A ROSY EVE'

Answer: over easy


Question: 'Known for terrible scenes of May 1808, here he shows the happy May 15th fiesta of Madrid's patron saint'

Answer: Goya


Question: 'The Monkees in 1966; Smash Mouth in 2001'

Answer: "I\'m A Believer"


Question: '10 bucks should get you a replacement head for your Oral-B power this'

Answer: toothbrush


Question: '"Thou must be married to no man but me, for I am he am born to tame you, Kate"'

Answer: Petruchio


Question: 'Disguising illegal funds & making them usable again'

Answer: laundering


Question: 'I DELVED'

Answer: deviled


Question: 'Dutch artist Joseph Knip painted a landscape along this mighty river that last passes through the Netherlands'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'Joni Mitchell in 1970 & 1975; Counting Crows in 2003'

Answer: "Big Yellow Taxi"


Question: 'This toy "married couple" is available for $11.99 in a "Two Taters Together" value pack'

Answer: Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head


Question: '"Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my usances"'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'If you want to go to Harvard Law, better ace this 4-letter test used as a criterion for admission'

Answer: the LSAT


Question: 'I HELD BROAD'

Answer: hard-boiled


Question: 'Annibale Carracci has been called Europe's first landscapist in this type of art, valuing balance & clear form'

Answer: classical


Question: 'Bob Dylan in 1973; Guns N' Roses in 1991'

Answer: "Knockin\' On Heaven\'s Door"


Question: 'In 2009 one of these items prepared by the Jivaro Indians of South America was on eBay, starting bid $49.95'

Answer: a shrunken head


Question: '"Here's the smell, of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'A claim upon property to secure payment of a debt'

Answer: a lien


Question: 'UNUSED IN SPY'

Answer: sunny side up


Question: 'Charles I & Juan Carlos'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'She showed up to claim her acting Razzie for "All About Steve"; she also showed up to accept an Oscar a short time later'

Answer: (Sandra) Bullock


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson planned the curriculum & hired the first faculty for this university'

Answer: University of Virginia


Question: 'Meep!  Meep!  The greater this (Geococcyx californianus, not Mondo speedious) runs at 15 mph'

Answer: the roadrunner


Question: 'India's Tripura Plains border the greater Ganges-Brahmaputra lowlands in this neighboring country'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Rubeola is the medical name for this disease'

Answer: the measles


Question: 'Boleslaw I & Stanislaw II August Poniatowski'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'He took Supporting Actor for "riding his daughter's coat-tails and playing her dad in 'Hannah Montana: The Movie'"'

Answer: Billy Ray Cyrus


Question: 'Founded in 1789, this Washington, D.C. school was the USA's first Catholic college'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'This flightless forest dweller seen here went the way of itself around 1680'

Answer: the dodo


Question: 'Located in central Honshu, the Kanto Plain covers over 6,200 square miles & includes this world capital'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'Plural word used since before the TV age to mean all methods of mass communication'

Answer: media


Question: 'Otto of Bavaria & Constantine II'

Answer: Greece


Question: '"Winning" Worst Screenplay, Director & Picture was "Transformers: Revenge of" this'

Answer: the Fallen


Question: 'A white oak on the campus of this New Brunswick, New Jersey school inspired Joyce Kilmer to write "Trees"'

Answer: Rutgers


Question: 'Its egg is not only the largest bird's egg, but also the smallest in relation to the size of the bird'

Answer: the ostrich


Question: 'Stonehenge stands out on the landscape of this largely treeless 300-square-mile area'

Answer: Salisbury Plain


Question: 'Two-word term for the event seen here'

Answer: meteor shower


Question: 'Kenneth I & James VI<br />(as one country)'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Worst Actress of the Decade went to this "celebutant" for films including "House of Wax" & "The Hottie & the Nottie"'

Answer: Paris Hilton


Question: 'Both Bennett Cerf & Herman Wouk were student editors of Jester, a humor magazine of this New York City university'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Found in Kenya, Ruppell's griffons, these birds, can devour an antelope within 20 minutes'

Answer: vultures


Question: 'From the Latin for "no tree", the Nullarbor Plain extends to the Great Victoria Desert in this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: '6-letter adjective meaning lowly & sometimes degrading'

Answer: menial


Question: 'Alfonso Henriques & Manuel II'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'This "prehistoric" Will Ferrell film got 7 nominations but only took home "Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel"'

Answer: Land of the Lost


Question: 'Its nickname was a slave term for the most powerful woman on a plantation'

Answer: University of Mississippi


Question: 'Also known as mimic-thrushes, these birds are thought to be closely related to wrens (& thrushes, obviously)'

Answer: a mockingbird


Question: 'Drained principally by a tributary of the Mekong River, the Plain of Jars is found in this landlocked country'

Answer: Laos


Question: 'There's a facial feature in this hyphenated adjective for one who won't address an issue directly'

Answer: mealy-mouthed


Question: 'He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'Since the opening of Walt Disney World, this city has become a booming metropolis'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'In the 1957 group known as Tom & Jerry, Tom was Art Garfunkel & he was Jerry'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'A species of this 10-armed animal is the largest invertebrate, reaching a length of over 50 feet'

Answer: squid


Question: 'In 1954 Lesney Products issued its first 4 tiny die-cast cars in this line'

Answer: Matchbox


Question: 'The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789'

Answer: the Bastille


Question: 'Falsehood<br />(3)'

Answer: fib


Question: 'Council Bluffs, Iowa lies across the river from this Nebraska city & makes up part of its metropolitan area'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'Throw your panties at me if you know the name of this Welsh singer born Thomas Woodward'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'The name of these microscopic plants & animals that float near the ocean's surface is from the Greek for "wandering"'

Answer: plankton


Question: 'This classic toy company has "block"ed out a new area with its Mindstorms robotic kits'

Answer: Lego


Question: 'The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867'

Answer: Japan


Question: '"Amphibian" in your throat<br />(4)'

Answer: frog


Question: 'Natural wonders like Crater Lake have made this state the "Pacific Wonderland"'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'In 1993 he sang about "Mary Jane's Last Dance"'

Answer: Tom Petty


Question: 'This French explorer devised special underwater cameras to document his adventures'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'Introduced in 1916 on the heels of Erector sets & Tinkertoys, they were the "Wright" building material'

Answer: Lincoln Logs


Question: 'This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'Brice, or her backside<br />(5)'

Answer: Fanny


Question: 'Pray tell, it's the famous Boston landmark seen here'

Answer: the Old North Church


Question: '"I Love" this country star who had the hit "I Like Beer"; it fits him to a "T."'

Answer: Tom T. Hall


Question: 'You might be "As happy as" this mollusk that has a heart but no brain'

Answer: a clam


Question: 'Daisy's X2-31 Disintegrator gun of 1934 was for kids playing this 25th century hero'

Answer: Buck Rogers


Question: 'On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'It's shorn from sheep<br />(6)'

Answer: fleece


Question: 'Go way down upon the Suwannee River & you'll discover that it rises in this swamp'

Answer: Okefenokee Swamp


Question: 'This singer-actor had 2 songs on the "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack CD'

Answer: Tom Waits


Question: 'Around 1905 it was discovered that the American eel spawns in this "sea" in the north Atlantic'

Answer: the Sargasso Sea


Question: 'In the 1970s this device that uses light bulbs to cook was redesigned to look like a microwave'

Answer: Easy-Bake Oven


Question: '1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999'

Answer: (1 of 3) Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland


Question: 'Product "of the imagination"<br />(7)'

Answer: figment


Question: 'Known as the "Mighty Mo", this battleship was used to shell land-based targets in the Gulf War'

Answer: U S S Missouri


Question: 'Chihuahua cheese is a specialty of this country (don't worry -- it's made from cow's milk, not chihuahua's)'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Near the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy falls into a pen full of these animals'

Answer: pigs


Question: 'Jonathan Swift turned this Biblical "land" into a synonym for sleep'

Answer: Nod


Question: 'In 1999 a California man sparked protests by displaying Ho Chi Minh's picture & this country's flag'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'If there's a silver eagle on your uniform, you hold this rank'

Answer: colonel


Question: 'In 1982 an Argentine Exocet missile sank the British destroyer Sheffield in this war'

Answer: Falkland Islands War


Question: 'Some French menus feature cervelle, which "clever" folks know is this organ meat'

Answer: brains


Question: 'Lampwick, Figaro & Stromboli are all characters in this Disney film'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'In 1880 Roscoe Conkling declared President Grant would "hew to the line of right, let" these "fall where they may"'

Answer: the chips


Question: 'In February 1999 Aborigines smeared this country's flag with ashes in Canberra'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'A clergyman attached to a military unit, even without a bowler hat, mustache & cane'

Answer: chaplain


Question: 'The May 1942 battle of this sea off New Guinea was the first in which opposing warships remained out of sight'

Answer: the Coral Sea


Question: 'The Russian salad known as Salat Stalichnya contains meat, eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream & these tubers'

Answer: potatoes


Question: 'Some say Nancy Sinatra was romantically involved with this singer she co-starred with in "Speedway"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Of his 1998 Pulitzer Prize, poet Charles Wright mused, "It's better than a poke in the eye with" this'

Answer: a sharp stick


Question: 'In 1997 this organization resumed its stamp series depicting flags of new member countries'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Term for a military force that serves on horseback'

Answer: cavalry


Question: 'In autumn 1588 this "invincible" fleet of Philip II hobbled home, having lost 63 ships to battle & weather'

Answer: the Spanish Armada


Question: 'Known for its full body, Assam tea originated in this country's state of Assam'

Answer: India


Question: '"Adventure" was the first film this "Gone with the Wind" star made after his World War II combat service'

Answer: Clark Gable


Question: 'Originally a way to climb a ship's rigging, it's now commonly heard after "making money"'

Answer: hand over fist


Question: 'This provincial capital's 8-year ban on raising the Canadian flag over city hall ended in 1998'

Answer: Quebec City


Question: 'In 1841 Matthew Perry attained this rank, a flag officer just below rear admiral'

Answer: commodore


Question: 'This Oct. 21, 1805 battle resulted in a British victory but over 1,500 British casualties, including Lord Nelson'

Answer: Trafalgar


Question: 'Ninos Envueltos, or "wrapped children", are taste treats in this second-largest South American country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'This classic John Ford western features Cathy Downs as Clementine'

Answer: My Darling Clementine


Question: 'Headgear appears in this expression used of a pilot who shows off by flying low'

Answer: flat-hatting


Question: 'As a crown colony it flew the Union Jack; now it has a new flag with a white flower on a red field'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'In the Navy this "man" is an enlisted person trained in combat first aid'

Answer: corpsman


Question: 'The theme of Richard Nixon's second inaugural parade, he thought he'd be in office to celebrate it'

Answer: the Bicentennial


Question: 'At 28,374 feet, the Puerto Rico Trench is this ocean's deepest point'

Answer: the Atlantic


Question: 'Sharpay in "High School Musical", she voices Candace on "Phineas and Ferb"'

Answer: Ashley Tisdale


Question: 'On Feb. 1, 2009 an estimated 98.7 million Americans tuned in to watch this sports event'

Answer: the Super Bowl


Question: 'It's a grand term for a deep, steep valley similar to a gorge'

Answer: a canyon


Question: 'A beverage of more than 2 fruit juices, or Judy's puppet partner'

Answer: punch


Question: 'Unlucky number of diners at the Last Supper'

Answer: 13


Question: 'It covers 70 million square miles'

Answer: the Pacific


Question: 'Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, she did an album of Tom Waits covers'

Answer: Scarlett Johansson


Question: 'This state's Queen Lili'ukalani Outrigger Canoe Race covers 18 miles between Kailua & Honaunau'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Babu Chhiri, a sherpa famed for this skill, died in a crevasse in 2001'

Answer: mountain climbing


Question: 'Breathing is but a memory if you take this proverbial action toward "the bucket"'

Answer: kicking


Question: 'In a game of tennis, it's the first point scored'

Answer: 15


Question: 'This ocean bears the name of the subcontinent that juts into it'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'He played Cedric Diggory in the "Harry Potter" films'

Answer: Robert Pattinson


Question: 'Thomson, Georgia's festival celebrating this green gourd includes a seed-spitting contest'

Answer: watermelon


Question: 'Crater Lake in Oregon wasn't formed by a meteor strike but by one of these'

Answer: a volcano


Question: 'If you're out of trouble, you're "off" this piece of fishing equipment'

Answer: hook


Question: 'In California, it's the minimum age at which you can take a driver's road test'

Answer: 16


Question: 'This smallest ocean occupies the region around the North Pole'

Answer: the Arctic Ocean


Question: 'There's been a lot of gossip about this boy seen here'

Answer: Chace Crawford


Question: 'Though far from Jamaica, Humboldt County, California has a huge annual festival devoted to this musical genre'

Answer: reggae


Question: 'A passage sunk into the ground for mining'

Answer: a shaft


Question: 'To take apart a structure, or a concerted stopping of work by employees'

Answer: strike


Question: 'Number of nights in a fortnight'

Answer: 14


Question: 'It's the directional name given to the ocean that surrounds Antarctica'

Answer: the Southern Ocean


Question: 'Ashlee Simpson married this Fall Out Boy'

Answer: Pete Wentz


Question: 'The AFL-CIO chose this holiday in 2007 to launch a nationwide drive for health care reform'

Answer: Labor Day


Question: 'A hunted animal, or a pit that yields stone'

Answer: a quarry


Question: 'This 3-letter word means to poke abruptly, as with the point of a stick'

Answer: jab


Question: 'It's the largest prime number that fits the category'

Answer: 19


Question: 'His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel'

Answer: (Herman) Melville


Question: '"Boom Boom Pow"'

Answer: The Black Eyed Peas


Question: 'The name of this 2-wheeled device comes from the Japanese for "human-powered vehicle"'

Answer: rickshaw


Question: 'From the Bronx projects & Princeton, she joined the Supreme Court in 2009'

Answer: Sotomayor


Question: 'It's first on the diatonic scale'

Answer: Do


Question: 'World War I ended in November of this year'

Answer: 1918


Question: 'C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here'

Answer: in the Rue Morgue


Question: '"Disturbia"'

Answer: Rihanna


Question: 'Tesla & Lightning are companies that make cars powered by this'

Answer: electricity


Question: 'Artist Fernando Botero once attended a school for this bloody sport & his "Picador" shows a participant'

Answer: bullfighting


Question: 'Third person singular of "be"'

Answer: is


Question: 'In 1319 3-year-old Magnus Eriksson became king of both Sweden & this neighbor'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys"'

Answer: Hawthorne


Question: '"Poker Face"'

Answer: Lady Gaga


Question: 'The Tesoro Irondog Race in Alaska uses this type of vehicle'

Answer: a snowmobile


Question: 'The mayor of L.A. was born Antonio Villar, but lengthened his name when hs married a woman named this'

Answer: Raigosa


Question: 'Colloquially, a muscle in the torso'

Answer: ab


Question: 'The 1719 Battle of Glenshiel in this country was a defeat for the Jacobite Rebellion'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire'

Answer: Grover\'s Corners


Question: '"Bleeding Love"'

Answer: Leona Lewis


Question: 'Kitty Hawk is one of the classes of this large Navy ship'

Answer: (aircraft) carrier


Question: 'Univision host Raul De Molina, aka "El Gordo", meaning this, is the author of "La Dieta del Gordo"'

Answer: fat


Question: 'Za is a slang word for this treat'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'In 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in what's now this U.S. state & gave it its name'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: '"My Life Would Suck Without You"'

Answer: Kelly Clarkson


Question: 'A word for something with many parts, like a bill in Congress, can be shortened to this public transport'

Answer: bus


Question: 'Margarita Engle is the frirst Hispanic Newbery honoree, for a book on this island's fight for freedom from Spain'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'For men in France, it means "born with the name of"'

Answer: né


Question: 'Captain Thomas MacDonough's 1814 victory at this lake saved New York & Vermont from invasion'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question: 'It's the only 3-word state capital'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'On Oct. 30, 1954 the 24-second clock was first used in an NBA game when the Royals defeated this Boston team'

Answer: the Celtics


Question: 'This term for a crude or unfair tribunal was first recorded in mid-19th C. America, not in Australia'

Answer: kangaroo court


Question: 'When you're in this country, if you overeat in a Delhi deli, you may come down with "Delhi belly"'

Answer: India


Question: 'In 1997, this actor joined the board of the NRA and was elected vice president'

Answer: Charlton Heston


Question: 'If the target of this children's game were real, it might bray & kick when you stick it'

Answer: pin the tail on the donkey


Question: 'Most of these are in the troposphere & there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus'

Answer: clouds


Question: 'This action by 2 opposing players & a referee begins a basketball game'

Answer: tip-off (or jump ball)


Question: 'Many of these small-town magistrates have recently been abolished in favor of larger courts'

Answer: justices of the peace


Question: 'If you're a U.S. citizen, you'll need one of these to visit China & we don't mean the credit card'

Answer: a visa


Question: 'Roy E., son of one of this entertainment company's founders, is its vice chairman'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'It's a type of passkey that sounds like it might be made of bone'

Answer: a skeleton key


Question: 'Term for the moisture of the air, it's given in relative terms in forecasts'

Answer: humidity


Question: 'In 1979 the NBA adopted the 3-point shot used earlier by this competing league'

Answer: the ABA (American Basketball Association)


Question: 'In 1996-97 the Supreme Court reversed 28 of 29 rulings by the 9th Circuit, 1 of these 12 federal courts'

Answer: U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Question: 'Some travellers get a gamma shot as protection against the "A" type of this liver disease'

Answer: hepatitis


Question: 'The Chief Justice & Vice-President of the U.S. are "institutionalized" on its board of regents'

Answer: the Smithsonian


Question: 'It's the dance done to the music heard here:'

Answer: the hokey-pokey


Question: 'In the 1970s it was discovered that CFCs may be affecting this layer of atmosphere'

Answer: the ozone layer


Question: 'Type of infraction signaled by the official seen here:'

Answer: a technical foul


Question: 'In law school, it's convened for would-be lawyers to try imaginary cases'

Answer: moot court


Question: 'Families enjoy the Boudewijn Park & Dolphinarium in this European low country'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'In 1991, Ben Bradlee retired as the editor of this newspaper & joined its board of directors'

Answer: the Washington Post


Question: 'Evan Bayh & Susan Molinari gave speeches of this type at the 1996 political conventions'

Answer: a keynote


Question: 'It's about .03% of the air; you breathe a little in & a lot out'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'In the 1961-62 season, this Warrior had games of 100, 78 & 73 points'

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain


Question: 'London's historic central criminal court, it's on the site of notorious Newgate Prison'

Answer: the Old Bailey


Question: 'Remember, it's illegal to leave this African country with any of its schillings, abbreviated Ksh.'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'A city in Northern Indiana was named for this chairman of the board of U.S. Steel'

Answer: Gary (Elbert)


Question: 'Named for the studio that produced their films, it's the group seen here:'

Answer: the Keystone Kops


Question: 'About 80% of this gas in the air comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps, and animal intestines'

Answer: methane


Question: 'In 1977 David Frost interviewed this former president on television'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'It's from the Scottish for sweetheart, which makes the tune "Skip To My Sweetheart"'

Answer: Lou


Question: 'Peninsulas in this country include the Zamboanga & Bataan'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'In 1847 Anne Bronte's "Agnes Grey" & this Emily Bronte book were published at the same time'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'In the 19th C. play "Rip Van Winkle", actor Joseph Jefferson made this toast later associated with Mr. Spock'

Answer: live long and prosper


Question: 'In 1820 at age 85, he served as a delegate at Massachusetts' Constitutional Convention'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'Columbus' ship whose name is Spanish for "little girl"'

Answer: the Nina


Question: 'This river's name is Sanskrit for "Son of Brahma"'

Answer: the Brahmaputra


Question: 'Eudora Welty's first novel "Delta Wedding" takes place in the delta of this river'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'A Satchel Paige rule for staying young is "don't" do this; "something might be gaining on you"'

Answer: look back


Question: 'Congress helped this strapped ex-president by restoring his rank of general with full pay'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'The seat of ancient Irish kings, the O'Hara family plantation was named for it'

Answer: Tara


Question: 'In 1861 this island with its Port of Cagliari was "squeezed" into the Kingdom of Italy'

Answer: Sardinia


Question:
'The heroine of this musical tells of her life in the following:

"I was born in a ditch by a /
Mother who left me there /
Naked and cold and too hungry to cry..."'

Answer: The Man of La Mancha


Question: 'Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant adopted this pseudonym for her 1832 novel "Indiana"'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'It concludes the Sophie Tucker quote that begins, "I've been rich and I've been poor"'

Answer: but believe me, rich is better


Question: 'Taft reconciled with this man, his predecessor, after a chance meeting in a Chicago restaurant'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'This candy bar wasn't named for a ballplayer, but for Cleveland's daughter or the maker's granddaughter'

Answer: Baby Ruth


Question: 'The "amiable" former name of the Tongan archipelago'

Answer: the Friendly Islands


Question:
'Cunegonde,
Dr. Pangloss,
Voltaire'

Answer: Candide


Question: '"Alias Grace" is the latest bestseller from this Canadian author of the "Handmaid's Tale"'

Answer: Margaret Atwood


Question: 'The one written by George Eastman in 1932 said, "My work is done.  Why wait?"'

Answer: a suicide note


Question: 'He wrote a defense of his "Administration on the Eve of Rebellion", published in 1866'

Answer: Buchanan


Question: 'Award named for the image orthicon tube'

Answer: an Emmy


Question: 'Bigfoot walks the Pacific Northwest; this area, whose name means big foot, is in Argentina'

Answer: Patagonia


Question: 'Richard Henry Lee, Martha Jefferson, John Hancock'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'Her novel "The Book of Ruth" won the 1989 Hemingway Foundation Pen Award for best first fiction'

Answer: Jane Hamilton


Question: 'The last words of this 1922 novel are Molly's "Yes I said yes I will yes"'

Answer: Ulysses


Question: 'Founded in the early '50s, in 1995 it moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague'

Answer: Radio Free Europe


Question: 'World champ Garry Kasparov lost a 1997 match to a computer program from this company'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'In 2009 this actor spent a second "Night at the Museum" as Larry Daley'

Answer: Ben Stiller


Question: 'No castle is complete without this deep trench that prevents access from the surrounding land'

Answer: a moat


Question:
'Valladolid,
Spain,
October 1469'

Answer: Ferdinand & Isabella


Question: 'The Americanized slogan "Throw another" one of these "on the barbie" irritated Aussies, who call these prawns'

Answer: shrimp


Question: 'The deadline by which a hotel room must be vacated'

Answer: checkout


Question: 'Like the knight, this chess piece is worth about 3 pawns'

Answer: a bishop


Question: 'He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for "Saturday Night Fever"'

Answer: John Travolta


Question: 'Naturally, the name of this type of small tower comes from a word for "tower"'

Answer: a turret


Question:
'London,
England,
January 25, 1533'

Answer: Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn


Question: 'Prawns a la Monza is a specialty of Tadich Grill, an institution in this California city since 1849'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'It's given by a store as a price guarantee when it runs out of a sale item'

Answer: a rain check


Question: 'This late champ patented a now-standard chess clock that gives a player added time after each move'

Answer: Bobby Fischer


Question: 'M. Night Shyamalan had a cameo as Dr. Hill in this 1999 film where a young boy chatted up dead folks'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: 'Horace Walpole's 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto" is regarded as the first in this spooky genre'

Answer: Gothic


Question:
'St. Petersburg,
Russia,
November 26, 1894'

Answer: Nicholas II & Alexandra


Question: 'Vietnamese prawn crackers are purchased flat; you take them home & cook them this way to make them puff up'

Answer: deep fry


Question: 'A banner waved at the finish line of a car race'

Answer: a checkered flag


Question: 'Viswanathan Anand won a 2007 supertournament, making him the first world champ from this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'This 1964 Beatles film was made for $500,000 & shot in a little over 6 weeks (they were working like dogs!)'

Answer: A Hard Day\'s Night


Question: 'Vaduz Castle overlooks the town of Vaduz in this principality'

Answer: Liechtenstein


Question:
'Paris,
France,
May 16, 1770'

Answer: Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette


Question: '"Iron Chef" Chen Kenichi of prawns in chili sauce fame is the son of the man who brought this spicy Chinese style to Japan'

Answer: Szechuan


Question: 'Game using a 6-pointed star board, marbles & holes'

Answer: Chinese checkers


Question: 'You can always learn a few moves in this square's park at 5th Ave. & 4th St. in Greenwich Village'

Answer: Washington Square Park


Question: 'David Strathairn, as him: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.  Good night, and good luck"'

Answer: (Edward R.) Murrow


Question: 'It's the 10-letter word for the grille seen here'

Answer: portcullis


Question:
'A Dutchman & an Englishwoman,
London,
England,
November 4, 1677'

Answer: William & Mary


Question: 'If you're enjoying king prawns puri in Dhaka, they probably came from this large bay'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: '2-word term for what the winner of "Survivor" gets, or a reminder of the way things actually are'

Answer: a reality check


Question: '"The Waste Land" gives us the line this "is the cruellest month"'

Answer: April


Question: 'Confidentiality between these 2 goes back to Hippocrates'

Answer: doctor & patient


Question: '"I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand"'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'Baghdad is on the Tigris; Fallujah is on this'

Answer: the Euphrates


Question: 'In his biggest hit, Tiny Tim wanted you to "Tip-Toe Thru"' these'

Answer: tulips


Question: '(Paul Nicklen presents the clue.)  Walruses use ice as a safe place to rest & save energy; mom puts her pup on her back to protect against this species, Ursus maritimus, a major predator'

Answer: a polar bear


Question: 'A book of verse for children, "Old Possum's Book of Practical" these found new life when adapted for Broadway'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'Take this pair of male relatives, add 2 "like"s & you've got a proverb'

Answer: father & son


Question: '"When caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried"'

Answer: Mae West


Question: 'Bismarck, North Dakota is on this river'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: 'On U.S. aircraft carriers, power comes from nuclear reactors & these steam-powered rotary engines'

Answer: turbines


Question: '(Paul Nicklen presents the clue.)  Called oakum boys because their brown down looks like the frayed rope fiber used to caulk ships, king penguin chicks undergo this shedding process that gives them their waterproof feathers'

Answer: molting


Question: 'Appropriately, this verse drama was first produced at the 1935 Canterbury Festival'

Answer: Murder in the Cathedral


Question: 'Psalm 23 compares the divine-human relationship to this one'

Answer: shepherd & his flock


Question: '"I'll paint (the flower) big and they'll be surprised into taking time to look at it"'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'Fargo, North Dakota is on this river that rose to over 20 feet above flood level in 2009'

Answer: the Red River


Question: 'Catching these is the main economic activity of Clipperton Island, a French Pacific atoll'

Answer: tuna


Question: '(Paul Nicklen presents the clue.)  Known for its ferocity, the seal named for this big cat shows vast intelligence & is the only seal known to eat other species of seals'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'This "Love" poem by T.S. Eliot says, "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky"'

Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock


Question: 'Relationship of aphids & plants (the aphids get the better of it)'

Answer: parasite & host


Question: '"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions"'

Answer: (Coco) Chanel


Question: 'The city of Kazan is on this river where it joins the Kazanka'

Answer: the Volga


Question: 'Mentioned over & over in a popular Christmas song, these animals take their name from their call, not from a reptile'

Answer: turtledoves


Question: '(Paul Nicklen presents the clue.)  It's easy to see why these mammals are called unicorns of the sea; that's not a horn, though--it's actually a grooved tooth'

Answer: a narwhal


Question: 'In "Treasure Island", it's the relationship of the seafaring Smollett & Arrow'

Answer: captain & first mate


Question: '"Children need not be born into the world unless they are wanted and have a place provided for them"'

Answer: (Margaret) Sanger


Question: 'Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay is on this rio'

Answer: (Rio) de la Plata


Question: 'Ashgabat is the capital city of this central Asian nation'

Answer: Turkmenistan


Question: '(Paul Nicklen presents the clue.)  Cliff-nesting birds, like the thousands seen here, play an important part in Arctic ecology; their guano falls before the icy water's surface to provide nutrients to these flowery invertebrates'

Answer: sea anemones


Question: 'The subtitle of this influential 1762 treatise is "Principes du droit politique" ("Principles of Political Right")'

Answer: The Social Contract (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)


Question: 'In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts"'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop & country versions of the same 19 songs'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge is often voted No. 1 for this; try a slice!'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'Bay Staters'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'The New England Primer used in colonial America included this, which begins, "Our Father, which art in heaven"'

Answer: "The Lord\'s Prayer"


Question: 'At 8'2", he's over a foot taller than his best friend Snuffleupagus'

Answer: Big Bird


Question: 'His 1994 novel "White Shark" didn't have quite the same bite as his "Jaws"'

Answer: Peter Benchley


Question: 'We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta'

Answer: k.d. lang


Question: 'At any of the Marie Callender's, top off your meal with this type of dessert; it's what they're famous for'

Answer: pie


Question: 'Jayhawkers'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'At the urging of this president, the Department of Education became a cabinet department in 1979'

Answer: (Jimmy) Carter


Question: '"I think I can --  I think I can -- I think I can" name this classic children's tale by Watty Piper'

Answer: The Little Engine That Could


Question: 'In the U.S. Ian Fleming took a gamble & published this first novel of his under the title "You Asked For It"'

Answer: Casino Royale


Question: 'As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television"'

Answer: Alanis Morissette


Question: 'This fast food chicken chain offers red beans & rice & mashed potatoes & cajun gravy, but no spinach'

Answer: Popeye\'s


Question: 'Gophers'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'The NRTA, formerly the National Retired Teachers Association, is one of this huge organization's divisions'

Answer: AARP


Question: 'Your kids might enjoy a visit to S. Williamsport, PA. where there's a museum devoted to this sports program'

Answer: Little League


Question: 'An actress is recruited to infiltrate a terrorist group in this John le Carre bestseller -- pa rum pum pum pum'

Answer: The Little Drummer Girl


Question: 'This jazz vocalist from British Columbia lists Carmen McRae & Nat King Cole as her biggest influences'

Answer: Diana Krall


Question: 'This chain famous for its "Girls" & chicken wings calls itself "Delightfully Tacky Yet Unrefined"'

Answer: Hooters


Question: 'Granite Boys'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Vanderbilt in this state capital was chartered as Central University in 1872; the name was changed the next year'

Answer: Nashville, Tennessee


Question: 'British lawyer & horologist Edmund Beckett had a hand in designing this famous attraction'

Answer: Big Ben


Question: 'In the beginning was this Barbara Kingsolver saga of a Southern missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo'

Answer: The Poisonwood Bible


Question: 'This teen from Ontario sang about a "Sk8er Boi"'

Answer: Avril Lavigne


Question: 'At State & Rush Streets, you can dine at the original one of these steakhouses "of Chicago"'

Answer: Morton\'s


Question: 'Terrapins'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'The Model Secondary School for the Deaf is a part of this Washington, D.C. college'

Answer: Gallaudet


Question: '(Hi, I'm Brenda Lee)  The title of one of my first records gave me this "explosive" nickname'

Answer: "Little Miss Dynamite"


Question: 'Simferopol, on the Salgir River, is one of Crimea's top producers of this ancient fermented beverage'

Answer: wine


Question: 'England won in 1966 when the final game went into this, but not as far as penalty kicks'

Answer: a shootout


Question: 'Amphibians & fish are described as being poikilothermic, more popularly called this'

Answer: cold-blooded


Question: 'Swinging '60s attire included "huggers" of this body part'

Answer: hips


Question: 'He composed "The Well-Tempered Clavier" while employed as a conductor at the court of Anhalt-Cothen'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'Hitch a ride, or an opposable digit'

Answer: thumb


Question: 'The Chernaya River Valley was the "Valley of Death" for "The Six Hundred" of this valiant title group'

Answer: the Light Brigade


Question: '2 of its last 3 World Cup wins were over Italy in the finals'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the Earth's mantle from this part'

Answer: the core


Question: 'Joan Didion described Jim Morrison as "A 24-year-old...who wore" this color "vinyl pants and no underwear"'

Answer: black


Question: 'Many think that Josephine von Brunswick was the recipient of his "Immortal Beloved" letter'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'A large wing or tail feather, or one of the spines of a porcupine'

Answer: quill


Question: 'In the 1991 coup, this Soviet pres. was held under house arrest in Foros, not far from the Uchan-Su waterfall'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'In 1994, the year this country hosted, 147 nations participated'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'The one named for Max Planck is 6.6260755 X 10 (to the negative 34) joule-second, symbolized simply h'

Answer: constant


Question: 'The name of Jack Tar trousers, popular in the 19th century, is a term for someone in this profession'

Answer: sailor


Question: 'Part of this composer's "Requiem" is heard here'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'From the Latin word for "time", it's the speed at which a musical piece is played'

Answer: tempo


Question: 'This resort straddling the Bystra River was the site of a historic meeting of the Big 3 in February 1945'

Answer: Yalta


Question: 'In 1938 it became the first host country not to make it to the finals; it didn't make that mistake in 1998 (it won!)'

Answer: France


Question: 'Simple ones are classified as monosaccharides'

Answer: carbohydrates


Question: 'One of Lee Jeans' brand names is Lee these, meaning sturdy denim trousers'

Answer: dungarees


Question: '"From the New World" was his 9th symphony, but it's also known as his 5th since they were renumbered later'

Answer: Dvorak


Question: 'It's a length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight'

Answer: skein


Question: 'This country that no longer exists made it to the finals 6 times, winning in 1954, 1974 & 1990'

Answer: West Germany


Question: 'In order to duplicate itself in cell division, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids'

Answer: chromosomes


Question: 'In the '50s you could wear these pants to go with & rhyme with your white bucks'

Answer: white ducks


Question: 'A 1901 piano concerto by this Russian-born composer & virtuoso is heard here'

Answer: Rachmaninoff


Question: 'Your eyelashes, or tiny hairlike structures that help certain protozoans move about'

Answer: cilia


Question: 'After landing in Paris in 1927 Lindbergh filed an exclusive report to newspapers in 2 cities, New York & this'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'Bismarck is the second-largest city in this state'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: '2008:<br />Poor Mumbai teen wins big on a game show, is accused of cheating'

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire


Question: 'Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault'

Answer: Mother Goose


Question: 'It's popularly referred to as "Jewish penicillin"'

Answer: chicken soup


Question: 'The youngest member of the Court & the most powerful'

Answer: (John) Roberts


Question: '"To play" this marsupial means to feign death or ignorance'

Answer: possum


Question: 'Its dairy industry is the largest in New England'

Answer: Vermont


Question: '1960:<br />Norman Bates runs a sweet little motel'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'As a horse grows older, the outward slope of these increases, so it's a reliable way to gauge age'

Answer: their teeth


Question: 'One of Elvis' favorite snacks was a sandwich of peanut butter & this fruit "mashed and mixed"'

Answer: bananas


Question: 'In 2007 this justice, then outnumbered 8-1, described "my position on the bench" as "lonely"'

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Question: 'To have this insect's waist means to have a slender waistline'

Answer: wasp


Question: 'Its state vegetables are the chile & frijoles'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: '1997:<br />Kate & Leo (Rose & Jack) have a shipboard romance'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'The section of Highway 9 that runs the length of Manhattan north to south'

Answer: Broadway


Question: 'The kalamata type of these usually come packed in oil or vinegar'

Answer: olives


Question: 'The oldest & longest-serving member, he joined the court in 1975'

Answer: John Paul Stevens


Question: '"Two shakes of" this means to move remarkably fast'

Answer: a lamb\'s tail


Question: 'During the War of 1812 thousands in this state volunteered to enlist, hence its "Volunteer State" nickname'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: '1999:<br />Haley Joel Osment sees dead people'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: 'From 1954 to 1962 this "it" girl of the '20s was the second lady of Nevada as the wife of the lieutenant governor'

Answer: Clara Bow


Question: 'You can call them by this fancy French name but they're still snails'

Answer: escargot


Question: 'Confirmed in 2006, he was the last justice selected by George W. Bush'

Answer: Alito


Question: 'This exclamation that means "nonsense" is a 1932 Marx Brothers title'

Answer: horse feathers


Question: 'Appalled by the conditions of debtors in prison in England, James Oglethorpe started this as a debtor's colony'

Answer: Georgia


Question: '2003:<br />Buffalo, New York TV reporter Jim Carrey plays God'

Answer: Bruce Almighty


Question: 'You'll get a "Cross of Gold" if you can tell us the name of this "Boy Orator of the Platte"'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'The sweet variety of this nut is popular as a snack; the bitter type is inedible but yields a flavoring extract'

Answer: almonds


Question: 'In 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked 7-7 on his nomination, but sent it to the full Senate'

Answer: Clarence Thomas


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the deck of the USS John C. Stennis.)  An observation area for the flight deck is grimly called this bird's row; crashes are less common now than when it got the name'

Answer: a vulture


Question: 'Ralph Ellison was the first African American to win the fiction award; "Purple" prose made this woman the second'

Answer: Alice Walker


Question: 'Joplin was a master of this musical style that emerged from saloons in the late 19th century'

Answer: ragtime


Question: 'In 2002 this singer & other activists founded DATA, which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa'

Answer: Bono


Question: 'The Yeti in the Himalayas is the counterpart of this large, hairy humanlike creature in the Pacific Northwest'

Answer: Sasquatch


Question: 'abanet.org is home to this, the world's largest voluntary professional organization'

Answer: the American Bar Association


Question: 'This type of velvet is processed to have an uneven, slightly wrinkled surface'

Answer: crushed


Question: 'The winning scribe is announced at a fancy do on this New York City street more associated with finance than art'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'Interest in Joplin's music was revived by this 1973 film that featured many of his songs & starred Newman & Redford'

Answer: The Sting


Question: 'In the 1990s he won Grammys for best alternative performance for back-to-back albums, "Odelay" & "Mutations"'

Answer: Beck


Question: 'Manatees, which suckle their young like humans, may underlie the legends of these creatures; Daryl Hannah played one'

Answer: a mermaid


Question: 'retailmenot.com helps you save money with these, which once had to be clipped from the newspaper'

Answer: coupons


Question: 'The Klondike one lasted for 3 short but enriching years'

Answer: a Gold Rush


Question: 'Animal-titled winners include "Dog Soldiers" & this equine Cormac McCarthy novel'

Answer: All the Pretty Horses


Question: 'Canadians might know the name for this Scott Joplin composition heard here'

Answer: the "Maple Leaf Rag"


Question: 'This comic who starred in "Jingle All the Way" was never a sailor but he did serve in the Air Force'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: 'The last major attempt to find this monster was in 1987 when 20 cruisers swept the water with sonar'

Answer: Nessie (or the Loch Ness Monster)


Question: 'You can watch video on cell phones, on TV or over the Internet with this player'

Answer: QuickTime


Question: 'It's a fastball thrown high & inside to force the batter away from the plate'

Answer: a brush-back pitch


Question: 'This southerner won 2 of the first 6 awards, for "Collected Stories" & "A Fable"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'This novelist chose a quote from Scott Joplin to use as the opening for a 1975 bestseller'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: 'Known as "The Face of '66", this British supermodel has her own clothing line'

Answer: Twiggy


Question: 'This creature is the offspring of the wife of Minos & a snow-white bull'

Answer: the Minotaur


Question: 'Many have found old pals from homeroom at this .com launched in 1995'

Answer: Classmates.com


Question: 'This bird is known for its singing'

Answer: a thrush


Question: 'Not "The Man with the Golden Gun" but this Nelson Algren novel got the first fiction award'

Answer: The Man with the Golden Arm


Question: 'Perhaps referring to himself, it's the title of the popular Scott Joplin work heard here'

Answer: "The Entertainer"


Question: 'In 2006 this "amazing" mentalist published the book "Mental Power is Real"'

Answer: Kreskin


Question: 'It's a multiheaded sea serpent in Psalms & the title of a masterwork of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes'

Answer: Leviathan


Question: 'You'll find the Shockwave Player & PDF Reader "housed" at this parent company's site'

Answer: Adobe


Question: 'This plant is the source for Egyptian papyrus'

Answer: the bullrush


Question: 'Once a type of Roman arena, in the 18th century this 6-letter word gained its current meaning as a type of entertainment'

Answer: circus


Question: 'On June 14, 1998 this NBA superstar made his last professional shot'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'With the blades removed, the ride-on type of these may hit over 50 MPH in racing competition'

Answer: Lawn mower


Question: 'Termites are found in every state except this one'

Answer: Alaska


Question: '"The Everglades State"'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This No. 2 song begins, "I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow, I never meant 2 cause u any pain"'

Answer: "Purple Rain"


Question: 'Ad lib & you speak "off" this part of your shirt'

Answer: Cuff


Question: 'This senator announced he was running for the presidency January 2, 1960'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The British often shorten "perambulator", a baby carriage, to this'

Answer: Pram


Question: 'The closest relative to the termite is this household pest'

Answer: Cockroach


Question: '"The Constitution State"'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: '"Purple Haze", his first song on the U.S. charts, peaked at No. 65'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'On the Beaufort scale, this comes 11 numbers before the storm'

Answer: Calm


Question: 'On October 4, 1957 Sputnik was launched & this Jerry Mathers TV show premiered'

Answer: Leave It to Beaver


Question: 'In WWII this Piper aircraft was used to "bear" pilots aloft for reconnaissance'

Answer: Piper Cub


Question: 'Of 15 days, 15 months or 15 years, it's the approximate lifespan of a termite queen'

Answer: 15 years


Question: '"The Land of the Saints"'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'The 1994 album "Purple" by this band includes "Vasoline" & "Interstate Love Song"'

Answer: Stone Temple Pilots


Question: 'By its name, it's what your title has to be to have a job in this "House":'

Answer: Lord


Question: 'On May 26, 1978 the first legal casino in the continental U.S. outside of Nevada opened in this state'

Answer: New Jersey (Atlantic City)


Question: 'In the title of John Constable's painting "The Hay Wain", "wain" is a word for this'

Answer: Wagon


Question: 'The primary food of termites is this carbohydrate found in plants'

Answer: Cellulose


Question: '"The Old Man of the Mountain State"'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Born in Chicago in 1933, he received an Oscar nomination for his original score for "The Color Purple"'

Answer: Quincy Jones


Question: 'The Anti-Grigori Efimovich Society believes in this type of Earth'

Answer: Flat


Question: 'This "Father of the Atomic Bomb" was suspended by the AEC as a possible security risk April 12, 1954'

Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer


Question: 'Name of the conveyance seen here:'

Answer: Handcar


Question: 'One form of termite communication is the production of trails of these chemicals'

Answer: Pheromones


Question: '"The Mud-Cat State"'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'He reached the top of the pop charts only once with "The Purple People Eater"'

Answer: Sheb Wooley


Question: 'An ancient Egyptian woman's eye makeup'

Answer: Kohl


Question: 'On Feb. 26, 1979 this leader made a triumphant return to Iran'

Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini


Question: 'Ben Affleck & Matt Damon<br />(1997)'

Answer: Good Will Hunting


Question: 'Virgil's "Aeneid" begins after Aeneas & his family escape this war-torn city'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'Louis Pasteur's state funeral was held in this Paris cathedral'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'To change a fraction to this, you can divide the numerator by the denominator'

Answer: decimal


Question: 'According to the old saying, these people "never prosper"'

Answer: cheaters


Question: 'On April 17, 1989 massive pro-democracy marches began in this capital city'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino<br />(1994)'

Answer: Pulp Fiction


Question: 'Any one of the Brothers Karamazov (hint: one isn't so "terrible")'

Answer: Alexei (or Dmitri or Ivan)


Question: 'They say no man is an island, but this president is one in the Potomac'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt Island


Question: 'It's the sum of the lengths of all sides of a geometric figure'

Answer: the perimeter


Question: 'Famous ones were concluded at Utrecht, Ghent & Versailles'

Answer: treaties


Question: 'On Aug. 14, 1969 additional British troops arrived in this U.K. province, beginning a 30-year effort to quell sectarian conflict'

Answer: Northern Ireland


Question: 'Ethan Coen & Joel Coen<br />(1996)'

Answer: Fargo


Question: 'In "Oliver Twist", Bill Sikes is an accomplice of this gang leader'

Answer: Fagin


Question: 'Traquair, the oldest inhabited castle in this U.K. country, is home to the Maxwell Stuart family'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'In statistics, if the "standard" one of these is small, observations are clustered around the mean'

Answer: deviation


Question: 'It can mean to fall back, or a safe, secluded place'

Answer: retreat


Question: 'On July 27, 1954 Great Britain & Egypt agreed on terms ending the 72-year British occupation of this zone'

Answer: the Suez Canal Zone


Question: 'Paddy Chayefsky<br />(1976)'

Answer: Network


Question: 'This 1816 Jane Austen title character is "of no feeble character"'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'Toronto's CN Tower was built by this railway (hence the CN)'

Answer: Canadian National


Question:
'The type of statement seen here, or the relationship between rich & poor:

x3 - 23 < 91'

Answer: an inequality


Question: 'In 1819 he wrote an ode "To Autumn"'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'On Sept. 11, 1973 the elected Marxist government of this South American country was overthrown'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Robert Towne<br />(1974)'

Answer: Chinatown


Question: 'He's the title husband of Mrs. Persis Lapham'

Answer: Silas Lapham


Question: 'The Met Life Building in New York City used to have this much "plane"r name'

Answer: Pan Am Building


Question: '2 angles that add up to 180 degrees are supplementary; 2 that add up to 90 degrees are this'

Answer: complementary angles


Question: 'This woman who made death masks of guillotine victims took the Bastille gate key after the 1789 storming'

Answer: Marie Tussaud


Question: 'This dictator's rumored romp with Pompey's wife was even riskier than his fling with Cleopatra'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'One of Oz' little folks'

Answer: Munchkins


Question: 'Roofed cars on a freight train, or a roll of 12 in a dice game'

Answer: boxcars


Question: 'In 1986 local farmers in this country protested the plan to take their land for Europe's first Disneyland'

Answer: France


Question: 'This Robert Ludlum character returned to the list in 2007 with a "Betrayal"'

Answer: Jason Bourne


Question: '& away they go... This horse who was 1st on TV in 1949 leads early... Its masked jockey seems to be saying "Hi yo" something'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'When this "great" guy became King of Judea, he banished his first wife, Doris, & married a princess named Mariamne'

Answer: Herod the Great


Question: 'A Boy Scout wears the ones he's earned on a sash'

Answer: merit badges


Question: 'The name of this vehicle used on grave occasions comes from the Old French for "long rake"'

Answer: a hearse


Question: 'Copernicus was a a crack student at Jagiellonian University in this city in Poland'

Answer: Cracow


Question: 'This Tibetan, a noted big hitter, hit the list with "The Universe In A Single Atom"'

Answer: the Dalai Lama


Question: 'At the turn, it's this title horse, of course, of course; his show ran from 1961-66... & he's doing his own trash talking!'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'For 13 years, Madame de Montespan was the sunshine of this Sun King's life'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'Prepare meat for grilling using rubs, brines or perhaps a red chile-citrus one of these'

Answer: a marinade


Question: 'During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles'

Answer: hot air balloons


Question: 'European city seen here in 1968'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'Walter Isaacson's biography of this scientist was based on the subject's personal letters'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'Created by Anna Sewell in 1877, this literary horse shows a full recovery from a broken leg & now leads!'

Answer: Black Beauty


Question: 'The Earl of Bothwell led the plot to murder this queen's 2nd husband 3 months before becoming hubby number 3'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'The type of gown named for this creature of legend often has a fishtail skirt or train'

Answer: mermaid


Question: 'From 1985 to 2003, Milwaukee hosted a parade featuring dozens of these wagons from Baraboo'

Answer: circus wagons


Question: 'From the name of the peninsula on which they lie, Greece & Albania are considered 2 of these "states"'

Answer: Balkan states


Question: 'She is the subject of Carl Bernstein's "A Woman In Charge"'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'The Duchess of Portsmouth was the least popular mistress of this "Merry Monarch" (& that was quite a contest)'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'In 2003 Mahathir bin Mohamad resigned as PM of this Asian country after 22 years in power'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'If you're walking your baby back home in London, it won't be in a stroller but in this 4-letter synonym'

Answer: a pram


Question: '"The Lost Files Of" this Carolyn Keene sleuth provide an interactive guide to her cases'

Answer: Nancy Drew


Question: 'The title figure of this Puccini opera is Cio-Cio San'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'Ray guns & speed bikes are no match for the Ewoks' sticks & stones in this film'

Answer: Return of the Jedi


Question: 'A very handsome young man i sometimes called this, after the handsome youth loved by Aphrodite'

Answer: Adonis


Question: 'Stormy name for the type of antique lamp seen here'

Answer: a hurricane lamp


Question: 'Balinese villagers bury their dead temporarily until they can have a big one of these ceremonies with a pyre'

Answer: cremation


Question: 'This waterway, roughly 2 miles long, is the main artery that cuts the city in half'

Answer: the Grand Canal


Question: 'This title temptress of an 1875 opera works in a cigarette factory'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'Lord Dark Helmet is dispatched to steal Planet Druidia's air in this Mel Brooks film'

Answer: Spaceballs


Question: 'You may have this small but crucial weakness even if you weren't dipped in the River Styx by your mother'

Answer: an Achilles\' heel


Question: 'Dr. Clanny's lamp of 1813 was designed so these workers wouldn't ignite gases & blow themselves up'

Answer: miners


Question: 'In this funeral style named for a type of music, the music is slow on the way to the cemetery, rousing on the way home'

Answer: a jazz funeral


Question: 'Amneris, Daughter of Pharaoh, has an Ethiopian slave girl-- her'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'Fighting breaks out over a spice that's protected by giant worms on the planet Arrakis in this film'

Answer: Dune


Question: 'A shrewish woman, or a predatory mythological creature who is part woman, part bird'

Answer: a harpy


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a lava lamp.) Lava lamps are possible because the liquids have different specific gravities & are immiscible, which means this'

Answer: they don\'t mix


Question: 'In this religion, martyrs are buried in the clothes they died in; others are shrouded in a white kafan'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Gilda, the daughter of this hunchback, falls in love with the licentious Duke of Mantua, with dire consequences'

Answer: Rigoletto


Question: 'In this film, Tom Skerritt & John Hurt are among those killed by the creature in Quadrant QBR 157, 052'

Answer: Alien


Question: 'This adjective meaning volatile or quick-witted comes from the name of a swift messenger god'

Answer: mercurial


Question: 'Nils Gustaf Dalen won a Nobel Prize for a lamp that goes on by itself at dusk, 1st used at the Furuholmen one of these'

Answer: a lighthouse


Question: 'According to the Antyesti rites of this religion, water & milk are set out, & the bones may be immersed in a river'

Answer: the Hindu religion


Question: 'Tannheuser & Lohengrin are knights; this title character of another Wagner opera is a "pure fool"'

Answer: Parsifal


Question: 'Roughnecks are going to make the bugs from Klendathu pay after they've destroyed Buenos Aires in film'

Answer: Starship Troopers


Question: 'The delightful Champs-Elysee in Paris is named for this delightful resting place of the dead in Greek mythology'

Answer: the Elysian Fields


Question: 'French term for the upward-illuminating lamp seen here'

Answer: torchiere


Question: 'According to this religion's canon law, "apostates, heretics & schismatics" must be denied a religious funeral'

Answer: Catholicism


Question: 'This land, named for an Italian, is mentioned just once in a Shakespeare play-- in "The Comedy of Errors"'

Answer: America


Question: '"In Erin's cause, come woe or weal, 'mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, we'll chant a soldier's song"'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'The "ball" that starts a basketball game'

Answer: jump


Question: 'At 8 letters, it's the longest word (hint: it's Latin)'

Answer: pluribus


Question: 'This president's daughter Tricia was married in the White House Rose Garden'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Toddlers are big users of this 2-letter word; parents should save it for when Cindy reaches for the stove'

Answer: NO!


Question: 'The pitcher looks in for this, he doesn't like what he sees... he's shaking it off...'

Answer: the sign


Question: '"When the Alps glow bright with splendour, pray to God, to him surrender"'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'To not attend an event on purpose'

Answer: skip


Question: 'The direction in which the figures are facing'

Answer: left


Question: 'If the prospective "pardonee" one of these can't fulfill his duties at an annual Rose Garden event, an alternate is ready'

Answer: a turkey


Question: '2 is a common age to begin this process, though your child & the diaper companies may want you to wait'

Answer: toilet training