Question: 'In early 1880 Wabash in this state became the first city to illuminate its streets by electricity'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'As Chris, a middle-class kid, this actor saw war close up in the 1986 film "Platoon"'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'Gresham's Law, named for a 16th century financier, is usually stated as "Bad" this "drives out good"'

Answer: Money


Question: 'Beechwood & juniper branches are used to smoke Germany's Westphalian type of this meat'

Answer: Ham


Question: 'Edward Bellamy's 1888 book "Looking Backward" sends a man to this year & doesn't mention computer bugs'

Answer: 2000


Question: 'Nolte's films'

Answer: Nick\'s flicks


Question: 'During 1879 he perfected his photographic dry plate'

Answer: George Eastman


Question: 'An action star from the '30s to the '70s, this actor headlined "The Fighting Seabees" & "Flying Tigers"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'The Law of Independent Assortment is one of the laws of heredity named for this 19th C. Austrian monk'

Answer: Gregor Mendel


Question: 'The most effective way of treating pernicious anemia is through injections of this vitamin'

Answer: B12


Question: 'Ydgrun is a goddess worshipped by residents of this Samuel Butler country'

Answer: Erewhon


Question: 'Torn's witticisms'

Answer: Rip\'s quips


Question: '10 members of this secret society of Irish immigrant coal workers were hanged on June 21, 1877'

Answer: The Molly Maguires


Question: 'Stephen King not only wrote the script for this 1986 film about possessed machinery, he directed it'

Answer: Maximum Overdrive


Question: 'Objects with this property, meaning they can be deformed & regain their shapes, are covered by Hooke's Law'

Answer: Elasticity


Question: 'This fourth state of matter can be made by heating a gas or applying an electric field to it'

Answer: Plasma


Question: 'Oscar Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray" & he wrote "The Portrait of A Lady"'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'Calista's collection of photos of actress June'

Answer: Flockhart\'s Lockharts


Question: 'San Francisco, California is a sister city to this one in Italy'

Answer: Assisi (named after St. Francis of Assisi)


Question: 'In 1978 their duet "You're The One That I Want" replaced another duet by Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams at No. 1'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta


Question: 'A popular brand of orange juice'

Answer: Tropicana


Question: 'Abe gained the respect of local ruffians when he held his own against one of the Clary's Grove boys in this sport'

Answer: wrestling


Question: 'This warehouse club has over 43 million members, some of them Gold Star, lugging home the big jars of mayo'

Answer: Costco


Question: 'We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster'

Answer: the Great Depression


Question: 'Her "Control" album produced 5 Top 5 singles, each in a different spot; "When I Think Of You" hit No. 1'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: 'A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'This co. agreed in 1993 to lease the New Amsterdam Theatre, & the old Times Square of degradation & filth was history'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory'

Answer: bittersweet


Question: '"Refugees Row" this entire island "to Miami"'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'In 1977 this "sleepy" song became Fleetwood Mac's only No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Dreams"


Question: 'A weapon removed from a stone'

Answer: Excalibur


Question: 'On October 5, 1818 this mother of Lincoln & 2 of her relatives died of milk sickness'

Answer: Nancy Hanks


Question: 'This chain with a month as its name has acquired stores like Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh & Robinson's in L.A.'

Answer: May Company (May\'s Department Store accepted)


Question: 'Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops'

Answer: friendly fire


Question: 'Boston rejoices as this team "Lose(s) In 50th Straight Pennant Race; Fans Blame 'Curse of Jeter'"'

Answer: the Yankees


Question: 'Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'While serving in the Illinois legislature, Abe switched to this party of his political idol Henry Clay'

Answer: the Whigs


Question: 'Orange & Rockland Utilities is a subsidiary of this company named for an inventor'

Answer: Consolidated Edison (ConEd)


Question: '2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally'

Answer: an open secret


Question: 'This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'In 1991 this heartthrob took Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" back to the top spot'

Answer: Michael Bolton


Question: 'A market town of Upper Egypt built on the ruins of Thebes'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'During his 80 days of military service in 1832, Abe attempted without success to track down this Sauk & Fox Indian chief'

Answer: Black Hawk


Question: 'In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors'

Answer: Amway


Question: 'This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"'

Answer: BASIC


Question: 'Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller'

Answer: The Birds


Question: 'Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960'

Answer: France


Question: 'It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth'

Answer: singe


Question: 'This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'As its name suggests, the tipp toe approach procedure at SFO is meant to minimize this'

Answer: noise


Question: 'Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart'

Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks displayed on a monitor.)  Though its tail sometimes drags over its trail, this animal, Castor canadensis, can be identified by its webbed hind foot'

Answer: the beaver


Question: 'In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: '"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide'

Answer: a travel guide


Question: 'Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used'

Answer: 36


Question: 'Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper'

Answer: To Catch a Thief


Question: 'Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad'

Answer: the Sudan


Question: 'Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this'

Answer: Basin


Question: '"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale'

Answer: The Three Musketeers


Question: 'You land, not anchor, at this Phoenix airport, named by a board member from Scenic Airways'

Answer: Sky Harbor Airport


Question: 'Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic'

Answer: Notorious


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some animal tracks on a monitor.)  The overlapping track of this animal, also known as the bay lynx, is similar to that of the siamese but bigger & deeper'

Answer: a bobcat


Question: 'It's the country directly north of Chad'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'Of Welsh extraction, Frank Lloyd Wright named his homes & fellowship after this early Welsh poet'

Answer: Taliesin


Question: 'Rafreaky the baboon & a 30-year-old Annie have appeared in this NYC theater spoof that debuted in 1982'

Answer: Forbidden Broadway


Question: 'A beach on this half-Dutch island offers close-up views of planes landing at Princess Juliana Airport'

Answer: St. Maarten


Question: 'John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film'

Answer: Rope


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks on a monitor.)  Deer usually leave a simple, 2-toed track, but if they run in snow, you can see the imprint of these vestigial claws'

Answer: the dewclaws


Question: 'The capital & largest city'

Answer: N\'Djamena


Question: 'As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons'

Answer: (Giovanni) Cassini


Question: '"Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe'

Answer: the Trockadero de Monte Carlo


Question: 'The ILS, short for this, was first installed at Indianapolis in 1940'

Answer: the Instrument Landing System


Question: 'Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967'

Answer: Fahrenheit 451


Question: 'These lovers do "with their death bury their parents' strife"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'One of its 1st presidents, John Witherspoon, was the only clergyman to sign this document'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'This Johnny Hart strip features such characters as Thor, Peter, Wiley & Clumsy Carp'

Answer: B.C.


Question: 'Unlike sherbet, sorbet never contains this dairy product'

Answer: milk


Question: 'This Texas Democrat has represented his state in the U.S. Senate since 1971'

Answer: Lloyd Bentsen


Question: 'This bridge spanning NYC's East River was designated a national historic landmark in 1964'

Answer: Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'The play in which Emilia screams, "The moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! Murder!"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Princeton was given its name in 1896, the year this future Princeton student & Jazz Age author was born'

Answer: Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'In 1941 a daughter named Cookie was born to this comic strip couple'

Answer: Blondie and Dagwood


Question: 'Perfect for dipping in wine or coffee, biscotti are twice-baked cookies from this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'In 1980 this "Evita" composer won a Tony for Best Score & a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album'

Answer: (Andrew Lloyd) Webber


Question: 'This bridge in Venice connects the doge's palace with the old state prison'

Answer: Bridge of Sighs


Question: 'In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Of 1769, 1869 or 1969, the year Princeton began to admit women as undergraduates'

Answer: 1969


Question: '"The Flintsones" have a dinosaur named Dino; this strip has a dinosaur named Dinny'

Answer: Alley Oop


Question: 'This thick liquid is the traditional sweetening in Indian pudding'

Answer: molasses


Question: 'This British prime minister helped draft the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I'

Answer: Lloyd George


Question: 'The 1st Roman bridge of which there is any record is the Pons Sublicius, built in 621 B.C. over this river'

Answer: Tiber


Question: 'In "The Merchant of Venice" he tells his friend Tubal, "Meet me at our synagogue"'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'In 1783 Princeton's Nassau Hall doubled as this for the nation'

Answer: capital


Question: 'Jon is this cat's master; Odie is his dog friend'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'A rich custard topped with caramelized sugar, its name means "burnt cream" in French'

Answer: crème brûlée


Question: 'In 1832 this editor founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society'

Answer: William Lloyd Garrison


Question: 'The Francis Scott Key Bridge crosses the Patapsco River in this city'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'In "King Lear", she poisons her sister Regan, then stabs herself'

Answer: Goneril


Question: 'In 1974 this Princeton grad & PBS host wrote "How to Make Money in Wall Street"'

Answer: Louis Rukeyser


Question: 'His Stars and Stripes cartoons featured the battle-weary GIs Willie & Joe'

Answer: Bill Mauldin


Question: 'Chef Josef Dobos is famous for creating this type of cake named for him'

Answer: (Dobos) torte


Question: 'In 1953 he orginated the role of Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" on Broadway'

Answer: Lloyd Nolan


Question: 'This Colorado canyon has the world's highest suspension bridge – 1,053' above the Arkansas River'

Answer: Royal Gorge


Question: 'The carol notwithstanding, a king with this "good" name had St. John of Nepomuk killed in 1393'

Answer: Wenceslas


Question: 'This hefty ebullient tenor once taught elementary school in Modena, Italy, his birthplace'

Answer: Luciano Pavarotti


Question: 'Ellen Glasgow, a native of this Virginia capital, set several novels there but called it "Queenborough"'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'In 1967 Richard Hatcher became the 1st elected black mayor of this steel-producing Indiana city'

Answer: Gary


Question: 'This largest island in the world also contains the northernmost land in the world'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'Sublimation is the direct change from solid to gas without passing through this stage'

Answer: liquid


Question: 'Name given to the split in the Catholic church when rival popes were elected in 1378'

Answer: Great Schism


Question: 'This Spaniard starred in Franco Zeffirelli's film "La Traviata"'

Answer: (Placido) Domingo


Question: 'Title character who says, "Why did you paint it?  It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!"'

Answer: Doran Gray


Question: 'At over 30 years, this West Virginian is currently the longest-serving Democrat in the U.S. Senate'

Answer: (Robert) Byrd


Question: 'Lewis with Harris is the most northerly of this "Outer" Scottish island group'

Answer: Outer Hebrides


Question: 'Plano-convex, biconvex & concavo-convex are 3 of the types of this optical component'

Answer: lens


Question: 'Claiming the French throne, England's Edward III invaded the continent in 1337, setting off this war'

Answer: 100 Years War


Question: 'This Neapolitan tenor made his last public appearance on Christmas Eve, 1920 in "La Juive"'

Answer: Caruso


Question: 'She wrote in "Emma", "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'During his record 11 years as FDR's Sec'y of State, this Tennessean conceived the idea of the United Nations'

Answer: (Cordell) Hull


Question: 'This Indonesian island became world famous after giant lizards were discovered there in 1912'

Answer: Komodo


Question: 'This field is the study of the properties & production of sound'

Answer: acoustics


Question: 'Chaucer wrote a treatise on how to build one of these & use it to compute the position of a star'

Answer: astrolabe


Question: 'In 1971 this part-Maori diva had her first Covent Garden triumph in "The Marriage of Figaro"'

Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa


Question: 'This "Madame Bovary" author visited Tunisia to research "Salammbo", his novel about Carthage'

Answer: Flaubert


Question: 'In December 1985 Cognress passed this bill in an effort to end the federal deficit'

Answer: Gramm-Rudman


Question: 'Singapore seceded from this country in 1965'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'The farad, the unit of capacitance, is named for this scientist'

Answer: Faraday


Question: 'In the 1350s this Moorish palace was completed in Granada, Spain'

Answer: Alhambra


Question: 'Late, great Russian who wrote the autobiographic books "Pages from My Life" & "Man and Mask"'

Answer: Chaliapin


Question: '"Eugenie Grandet" is considered one of the finest novels in his series "La Comedie Humaine"'

Answer: Balzac


Question: 'When he ran for president in 1884, the Democrats called him the "Continental Liar From the State of Maine"'

Answer: James G. Blaine


Question: 'The Court of Tynwald is the chief legislative body of this island in the Irish Sea'

Answer: Isle of Man


Question: 'Deuterium is a heavy isotope of this element'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'In 1978 she became the first black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'Pato, a combination of basketball & this game played on horseback, is quite popular in Argentina'

Answer: Polo


Question: 'The November 25, 1963 front page read, this man "Shot To Death In Jail Corridor By A Dallas Citizen"'

Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald


Question: 'Tajikistan has the highest one of these in the world; the U.S. doesn't even make the Top 10 with Hoover'

Answer: Dam


Question: 'Marion Morrison'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'In the 1996 book "The Presidents:  A Reference History"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'The French flag'

Answer: Tricolor


Question: 'From the old French for "ice", these cover about 1/8 of Iceland; some are 3/4 of a mile thick'

Answer: Glaciers


Question: 'The revelation of "Undreamed Of Splendors" was reported with the 1923 opening of his inner tomb'

Answer: King Tut


Question: 'The longest trip by rail you can take underwater is between these 2 countries'

Answer: England and France


Question: 'Raquel Tejada'

Answer: Raquel Welch


Question: 'In "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" is this "Cosmos" astronomer'

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: 'The ironman category for this sport includes a 2.4 mile swim, a 112-mile bike race & a marathon run'

Answer: Triathlon


Question: 'Jorge Icaza, who was born in Quito, was one of this country's most famous 20th century authors'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'On Sept. 9, 1974 news fit to print included the pardon of this man & "Knievel Safe As Rocket Falls"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Able to carry over 2 million barrels of crude a day, it runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez'

Answer: the Alaska Pipeline


Question: 'Archibald Leach'

Answer: Cary Grant


Question: 'In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World"'

Answer: Lionel Richie


Question: 'A court of justice'

Answer: Trribunal


Question: 'On Dutch maps, this country is called Oostenrijk'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'The 1945 headline "Bomber Hits" this skyscraper meant a plane, not a person'

Answer: Empire State Building


Question: 'Charles Buchinsky'

Answer: Charles Bronson


Question: 'In the "Book Of Sports Legends" is this man who threw the first pitch in a World Series game'

Answer: Cy Young


Question: 'Collective name of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great & Marcus Licinius Crassus'

Answer: Triumverate


Question: 'When shopping on Saba, an island in this sea, look for the beautiful, delicate Saba lace'

Answer: Caribbean Sea


Question: '"Berlin Reported Him Missing And Insane" when he "Flies To Scotland" in May 1941'

Answer: Rudolf Hess


Question: 'Margarita Cansino'

Answer: Rita Hayworth


Question: 'In "The Almanac of Famous People" is this "Father of Television"'

Answer: Vladimir Zworykin


Question: 'Bet in which the bettor must correctly choose the first 3 finishers in a horse race in exact order'

Answer: Trifecta


Question: 'Upon this man's assassination, Nehru said, "The light has gone out of our lives"'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: 'In a 1997 play Stacie Chaiken starred as Constance, wife of this "Earnest" author'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'In the late '70s, Phyllis Schlafly lobbied for the defeat of this proposed constitutional amendment'

Answer: the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)


Question: 'The largest cities in Canada's "Prairie Provinces" are Edmonton & Calgary in this one'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'Actor Leif Erickson was Frances' first of 3 of these'

Answer: husbands


Question: 'In a 1981 hit song, Rick Springfield wished that he had her'

Answer: "Jessie\'s Girl"


Question: 'When asked how he became a hero, this president replied, "It was involuntary.  They sank my boat"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: '"Dejavu" was "Angry Young Man" John Osborne's 1992 sequel to this famous play about looking back'

Answer: Look Back in Anger


Question: 'She gave up Gary Hart & "Monkey Business" & became a spokesperson for "Enough Is Enough"'

Answer: Donna Rice


Question: 'Seen here alone, this animal is often found in coteries & colonies'

Answer: a prairie dog


Question: 'She earned an Oscar nomination for playing Frances'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'Jason Robards played editor Ben Bradlee in this 1976 film'

Answer: All the President\'s Men


Question: 'In 1830 Daniel Webster told the Senate, "Liberty and" this, "now and forever, one and inseparable"'

Answer: Union


Question: 'Shakespeare's 2 greatest contemporaries: one was murdered in 1593 & one killed a man in 1598'

Answer: Christopher Marlowe & Ben Jonson


Question: 'After his forced resignation from the Senate in 1995, he took an interest in lumber & other natural resources'

Answer: Bob Packwood


Question: 'In "Badlands of Dakota" Frances was this Wild West lady to Richard Dix's Wild Bill'

Answer: Calamity Jane


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wallace Langham.)  I play Josh, the assistant to Ronnie Chase, this show's title character'

Answer: Veronica\'s Closet


Question: 'In 1862 Otto von Bismarck said that the questions of the day would be settled by this "and blood"'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Robert Bolt depicted Elizabeth I in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" & Henry VIII in this play'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'In 1997 Jack Williams of this company was indicted for lying about his dealings with Mike Espy'

Answer: Tyson Foods


Question: 'In college an essay Frances wrote for a radical newspaper won her a trip to this country'

Answer: the Soviet Union (USSR)


Question: 'The painting seen here called "The Orgy" is from this series of artworks by Hogarth'

Answer: The Rake\'s Progress


Question: 'In 1973 he warned Nixon, "We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing"'

Answer: John Dean


Question: '"Romanoff and Juliet" is one of many plays by this actor-writer of Russian descent'

Answer: Peter Ustinov


Question: 'Victor Crawford lobbied for, then against, this industry before his death from cancer'

Answer: the tobacco industry


Question: 'In 1958 this TV host said, "Frances Farmer, This Is Your Life!"'

Answer: Ralph Edwards


Question: 'In literature, gamekeeper Oliver Mellors'

Answer: Lady Chatterley\'s Lover


Question: 'Dozens of web sites are devoted to picking on this Sheryl Leach creation who only gives love'

Answer: Barney


Question: 'He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the NYC art deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge'

Answer: Walter Chrysler


Question: 'Committed to TV, Tom Selleck had to turn down this role in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (curse you, Hawaiian shirt!)'

Answer: Indiana Jones


Question: 'In 2008 the Phoenix Mars lander found ice on this region of the planet'

Answer: the poles


Question: 'Gee, Wally, this classic TV show premiered on October 4, 1957'

Answer: Leave It to Beaver


Question: '"The Nanny Diaries" &<br />"Q is for Quarry"'

Answer: the 2000s


Question: 'An old gold coin equal to 2 pistoles'

Answer: a doubloon


Question: 'This Frenchman was the designer for the company that bore his name, GM's largest division'

Answer: Chevrolet


Question: 'E.T. would have followed a trail of this candy, but the Mars company said no; not even the red ones'

Answer: M&Ms


Question: 'The New Horizons mission was launched to explore this planet before it was downgraded to a dwarf'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'One of the 2 U.S. states with the beaver as the state animal: one's on the west coast & one's on the east'

Answer: Oregon (or New York)


Question: '"The Godfather" &<br />"Airport"'

Answer: the \'60s


Question: '5-letter word for "remote in manner"'

Answer: aloof


Question: 'In 1932 this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a WWI flying ace: a prancing horse'

Answer: Ferrari


Question: 'Nicole Kidman dropped out of playing Brad Pitt's wife in this film; you may have heard Angelina Jolie got the part'

Answer: Mr. & Mrs. Smith


Question: 'The Hinode mission showed magnetic waves are critical in driving the flow of charged particles called this wind'

Answer: the solar wind


Question: 'Grey Beaver is the first master of this Jack London wolf-dog'

Answer: White Fang


Question: '"The Power of Positive Thinking"<br />& "Marjorie Morningstar"'

Answer: the 1950s


Question: 'A sailing vessel with a single mast'

Answer: a sloop


Question: 'The emblem seen here represents this line of cars, named for auto pioneer David'

Answer: Buick


Question: 'Will Smith turned down the lead in this futuristic 1999 flick, later saying of it, "Keanu was brilliant"'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: 'The Cassini project is exploring Titan & Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'As a boy Joe Namath had a dam good time growing up strong in this Pennsylvania city'

Answer: Beaver Falls


Question: '"The Yearling" &<br />"Of Mice and Men"'

Answer: the 1930s


Question: 'Unsecured pages of a book in removable form'

Answer: looseleaf


Question: 'James Sumner & Henry Spurrier founded the company that became "British" this, owner of Jaguar'

Answer: British Leyland


Question: 'Eddie Murphy got the role in this '84 police comedy after Sylvester Stallone dropped out'

Answer: Beverly Hills Cop


Question: 'The MESSENGER craft is the first mission to explore this planet since mariner 10 in the 1970s'

Answer: Mercury


Question: '"The Beaver's Lesson" is the title of part 5 of this author's "The Hunting of the Snark"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: '"The Mammoth Hunters" &<br />"The Queen of the Damned"'

Answer: the 1980s


Question: 'Chinese city opposite Hong Kong island'

Answer: Kowloon


Question: 'In 1566 this "Magnificent" sultan was succeeded by his not-so-magnificent son Selim II, "the Sot"'

Answer: Suleyman


Question: 'Prince:<br />"2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's ____"'

Answer: 1999


Question: 'Camus & Buber were big in this movement that said humans were fully responsible for making meaning of their own lives'

Answer: existentialism


Question: 'After review, the bierwurst, lop chong & kielbasa, types of these, were overcooked'

Answer: sausage


Question: 'Southwest of Louisville, it's where you'll find much of the U.S. government's gold reserve'

Answer: Fort Knox


Question: 'Put this 3-letter Latin word meaning "thus" or "so" right after the error in a quoted passage'

Answer: sic


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  The Ottoman Empire reached its greatest extent by 1683, with one of its last acquisitions being this island conquered in 1669 after a 21-year siege'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'ABBA:<br />"You are the dancing queen, young & sweet, only ____"'

Answer: 17


Question: 'The name of this study of moral principles is derived from a Greek word meaning "habit"'

Answer: ethics


Question: 'This notoriously smelly cheese whose last U.S. maker is in Monroe, Wisconsin was fumbled on aisle 3'

Answer: Limburger


Question: 'The only Benelux country that fits the bill'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'AskOxford.com says the most commonly cited collective term for these animals is a clowder'

Answer: cats


Question: 'The Ottoman empire ended in 1922 when this man led a movement that established the Republic of Turkey'

Answer: (Mustafa) Kemal (or Kemal Ataturk)


Question: 'Counting Crows:<br />"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in ____ he came home across the deep blue sea"'

Answer: 1493


Question: 'This philosophical movement holds that the truth value of a proposition lies in its practicality'

Answer: pragmatism


Question: 'This rich 5-letter cake with eggs, ground nuts & little to no flour, is down by contact with my stomach'

Answer: torte


Question: 'The harbor of this Nova Scotia capital is one of the largest in the world'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'Brits don't like this name for a phone keypad symbol--reminds them of a unit of currency that has another symbol'

Answer: pound


Question: 'In 1326 the Ottomans moved their capital to Bursa, which is in this Asian part of modern-day Turkey'

Answer: Anatolia


Question: 'Foreigner:<br />"Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, got a fever of ____"'

Answer: 103


Question: 'Founded by Zeno of Citium, this -ism is the belief that detachment & self-control enable one to argue in an unbiased fashion'

Answer: stoicism


Question: 'We rule this fish seen here to be a catch, not a roost for birds--& also delicious'

Answer: a perch


Question: 'This city on the Salt River sits on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'This 2-letter abbreviation means "which see" in Latin & directs readers to another part of the book for info'

Answer: q.v.


Question: 'Between 1656 & 1735 members of the Albanian Koprulu family served the sultan as this "grand" executive officer'

Answer: (grand) vizier


Question: 'Blink-182:<br />"That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're ___"'

Answer: 23


Question: '"Every virtue is laudable.  Kindness is a virtue.  Therefore, kindness is laudable" is a logical this'

Answer: syllogism


Question: 'Upon review, this "circular" cut of meat from below the rump was too gristly'

Answer: the round


Question: 'The first winter Olympics took place in this French mountain resort'

Answer: Chamonix


Question: 'AskOxford.com tells us that this word is the missing one in the sequence primary, secondary... quaternary'

Answer: tertiary


Question: 'In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint'

Answer: Father Damien


Question: 'Distinct alabaster fur; you'll know him by the big pocket watch he refers to; careful--he moves quickly'

Answer: the White Rabbit


Question: 'The hand gesture with 2 pairs of fingers bunched together was made by this Vulcan on the original "Star Trek"'

Answer: Mr. Spock


Question: '1968:<br />The Statue of Liberty sticks up out of the sand'

Answer: Planet of the Apes


Question: 'Argentina'

Answer: Spanish


Question: 'This semipublic corporation that operates intercity U.S. passenger trains was created by Congress in 1970'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: 'The website for this snack features the Double Stuf Racing League'

Answer: Oreo


Question: 'Don't let the smile fool you--this feline has razor-sharp claws & a cloaking device; terminate with extreme prejudice'

Answer: the Cheshire Cat


Question: 'U.S. code says that when this song plays, you put your hand over your heart'

Answer: the national anthem


Question: '1999:<br />The first rule of this film is Brad Pitt doesn't really exist'

Answer: Fight Club


Question: 'Austria'

Answer: German


Question: 'The Tokaido Shinkansen, known by this "weapon" name, can hit 185 mph'

Answer: the bullet train


Question: 'Herr Bismarck knows this given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich"'

Answer: Otto


Question: 'She tried to whack Alice with that "off with her head" line; wait 'til she gets a load of you'

Answer: the Queen of Hearts


Question: 'One of the two youth organizations that use the hand sign seen here'

Answer: the Boy Scouts of America (or the Girl Scouts)


Question: '1968:<br />The baby's father, could it be... Satan?'

Answer: Rosemary\'s Baby


Question: 'Canada<br />(both, please)'

Answer: French & English


Question: '13-letter word for the operations manager of a depot or terminal'

Answer: stationmaster


Question: 'It's another word for margarine'

Answer: oleo


Question: 'These 2 brothers may look like dimwits but they're vicious; beware the sword & umbrella, their weapons of choice'

Answer: Tweedledum & Tweedledee


Question: 'In Christian ritual it involves moving the hand from the forehead, to the chest & then to each shoulder in turn'

Answer: crossing oneself


Question: '1959:<br />Joe E. Brown discovers that "she" is really a guy'

Answer: Some Like It Hot


Question: 'Egypt'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'Organized in 1867, his firm built, staffed & operated sleeping cars on all major U.S. railroads'

Answer: (George) Pullman


Question: 'This term for an extended musical composition comes from the Italian for "small chapel"'

Answer: oratorio


Question: 'A suspected drug dealer who smokes from a hookah & peddles mushrooms--he's gotta go'

Answer: the Caterpillar


Question: 'The titles of a 1927 Al Jolson film & a 1979 Bob Fosse film gave us the term for these hands'

Answer: jazz hands


Question: '1932:<br />The unusual circus performers discover Olga's murderous plans & turn her into a "chicken woman"'

Answer: Freaks


Question: 'Brazil'

Answer: Portuguese


Question: 'On April 30, 1900 this engineer gave his life in a train crash to save his passengers; his name would live on in ballads'

Answer: Casey Jones


Question: 'L.A. restaurant Locanda Veneta serves this veal dish con risotto'

Answer: osso bucco


Question: 'Frank Rich wrote you could feel Broadway history being made in this musical about a black female singing group'

Answer: Dreamgirls


Question: '1990:<br />Madonna turns a magazine into a dance'

Answer: "Vogue"


Question: 'That hair! Those shorts! Both are still around for this exercise guy known for his "Sweatin' to the Oldies"'

Answer: Richard Simmons


Question: 'Denver dish:<br />TOT MELEE'

Answer: omelette


Question: 'He worked on his "An American in Paris" while staying with brother Ira at Paris' Hotel Majestic'

Answer: George Gershwin


Question: 'Feather pen<br />(5)'

Answer: quill


Question: 'Times multimedia features include snapshots taken at this exit, the proverbial spot to have a moment with a theater star'

Answer: the stage door


Question: '1975:<br />John Denver explains why he's grateful for the simple, rural life'

Answer: "Thank God I\'m A Country Boy"


Question: 'John Gray penned the book these 2 planets "Together Forever--Relationship Skills for Lasting Love"'

Answer: Mars & Venus (Venus & Mars accepted)


Question: 'A pancake-like offering in Rome:<br />FAT TRAIT'

Answer: frittata


Question: 'This statesman attended Masonic lodge meetings with the sculptor Houdon, who did the bust of him seen here'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'To drink heartily<br />(5)'

Answer: quaff


Question: 'The Times found audience participation having a heyday in shows like "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this'

Answer: Spelling Bee


Question: '1968:<br />Marvin Gaye gets the news through third parties that his girlfriend will be leaving him'

Answer: "Heard It Through the Grapevine"


Question: 'Rick Warren guided readers on a 40-day spiritual journey in the No. 1 bestseller "The" this "Driven Life"'

Answer: Purpose


Question: 'Shhh!  I'm making this egg dish for a dessert!:<br />OF FUELS'

Answer: soufflé


Question: 'In March 1971 this rocker closed the door on his band & moved to Paris to focus on his poetry'

Answer: Jim Morrison


Question: 'Jelly fruit<br />(6)'

Answer: quince


Question: 'As a critics' pick in 2008, this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical was called "a salsa-flavored soap opera"'

Answer: In the Heights


Question: 'Vanilla Ice, 1990:<br />The rapper is quite confident in both his MC abilities & his appeal to women'

Answer: "Ice Ice Baby"


Question: '"The Art of Happiness" was written by this Asian man who was picked out for his present job at the age of 2'

Answer: the Dalai Lama


Question: 'South of the border treat:<br />OH NERVOUS SEARCH'

Answer: huevos rancheros


Question: 'While minister to France, 1784-1789, this future president enjoyed Parisian culture, as well as the fine food & wine'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Petty critique<br />(7)'

Answer: quibble


Question: 'Ben Brantley says "injustice has been very good" to this musical writing duo; see "Chicago" & their new "The Scottsboro Boys"'

Answer: Kander & Ebb


Question: 'J. Geils, 1982:<br />Horrors!  The singer must deal with his "angel" being cute enough to be featured in a men's magazine'

Answer: "Centerfold"


Question: 'Last name of Dale, who wrote "How to Win Friends and Influence People"'

Answer: Carnegie


Question: 'It sounds like a dance:<br />EMU REIGN'

Answer: meringue


Question: 'Sherwood Anderson & Ernest Hemingway were among the expatriate writers who hung out at her Paris salon'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'A literary bell ringer<br />(9)'

Answer: Quasimodo


Question: 'A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?"'

Answer: Moby-Dick


Question: 'The baluchitherium, an extinct type of this pachyderm, had no horn, unlike modern species'

Answer: a rhinoceros


Question: 'Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori plays Donna Martin on this popular TV series'

Answer: Beverly Hills, 90210


Question: 'A box of 64 Crayola crayons has one of these devices "built-in"'

Answer: a sharpener


Question: 'In October 1971 Taiwan was expelled from this organization & Red China was admitted'

Answer: the UN


Question: 'After a family meal, you may fold this item & place it back inside its ring'

Answer: a napkin


Question: 'Something that turns out well "comes up smelling like" these flowers'

Answer: roses


Question: 'The dodo was found on the Islands of Reunion, Rodrigues & Mauritius in this ocean'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'When this singer starred in a revival of "Funny Girl", one critic said, "Pia doesn't fall on her fanny"'

Answer: Pia Zadora


Question: 'In 1835 C.S.A. Thilorier froze this gas to create the first "dry ice"'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'During Japanese control of Taiwan, this largest city was called Taihoku'

Answer: Taipei


Question: 'The most formal evening wear is this color "tie", but black tie is much more popular'

Answer: white tie


Question: 'Because artists tend to flatter their models, a fine-looking female is said to be "as pretty as" this'

Answer: a picture


Question: 'The last known representative of this type of pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914'

Answer: the passenger pigeon


Question: 'Patrick Stewart wrote & starred in a one-man show based on this Dickens Christmas classic'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'After hearing this invention of his work, Edison said, "I was never so taken aback in my life"'

Answer: the phonograph


Question: 'His birthday is observed as a holiday on October 31'

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek


Question: 'Some small wedding receptions eliminate this greeting line that was once de rigeueur'

Answer: the receiving line (the reception line accepted)


Question: 'A fine voice is "as clear as" one of these tintinnabulating objects'

Answer: a bell


Question: 'Steller's Sea Cow was a relative of this rare aquatic mammal found in Florida'

Answer: the manatee


Question: 'This British actress played Isadora Duncan on film in 1968 & onstage in 1991'

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave


Question: 'C. Vanderbilt thought George Westinghouse's idea of stopping a train by this means a fool notion'

Answer: the air brake


Question: 'It is prohibited to bring literature promoting this ideology into Taiwan'

Answer: Communism


Question: 'Black ribbon streamers on a family's front door were once a sign of this'

Answer: mourning


Question: 'A really fast person runs like this kind of "lightning"—as if regular lightning isn't fast enough'

Answer: greased lightning


Question: 'The name of this extinct elephant-like creature comes from Greek meaning "breast tooth"'

Answer: a mastodon


Question: 'Playwright who made his film debut in "Renaldo and Clara" in 1978 & won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in '79'

Answer: Sam Shepard


Question: 'First built in 1960, it's also been called an optical maser'

Answer: laser


Question: 'Mariners from this country named Taiwan Ilha Formosa, but didn't colonize it'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'In 1922 Emily Post wrote, "A gentleman takes off" this "when a lady enters the elevator"'

Answer: his hat


Question: 'A person who's out of his element is "like a fish" in this predicament'

Answer: out of water


Question: 'In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country's 12th dynasty'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '"Homage to the Queen", a tribute to her, premiered on her coronation day in 1953'

Answer: Elizabeth II


Question: 'Unlike most birds, ratites like the ostrich can't do this'

Answer: fly


Question: 'The summer varieties of this gourd-like vegetable are eaten green; the winter ones, ripe'

Answer: squash


Question: 'In 1777 Chief Joseph Brant led his fellow Mohawks in the Battle of Oriskany during this war'

Answer: the Revolutionary War


Question: 'This novelist's youthful voyages provided the basis for such works as "Lord Jim" & "Typhoon"'

Answer: Conrad


Question: 'Because his proposals for constitutional change were defeated, this French president resigned in 1969'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'This dancer choreographed a new version of "The Nutcracker" in 1976, a "Turning Point" in his career'

Answer: Baryshnikov


Question: 'Associated with this sense, the olfactory lobe is better developed in most vertebrates than in man'

Answer: smell


Question: 'This fruit with many seeds is grown on the Punica granatum tree'

Answer: a pomegranate


Question: 'A woman claiming to be this Lewis & Clark companion died in 1884; she would have been about 100'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: 'He dictated his last novel, "The Brothers Karamazov", to his wife who took it down in shorthand'

Answer: Dostoevsky


Question: 'In 1919 this national assembly met in this city & formed a new German republic'

Answer: Weimar


Question: 'The School of American Ballet is the official school of this major metropolitan ballet company'

Answer: New York (City Ballet)


Question: 'Renin, an enzyme that breaks down protein, is secreted by cells in this organ'

Answer: the kidney


Question: 'Poi, a luau treat, is made from these mashed roots'

Answer: taro


Question: 'Geronimo rode in this U.S. president's 1905 inaugural parade'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'This Scottish novelist is buried at the summit of Mt. Vaea on Upolu, an island of Western Samoa'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: 'The parents of this Peruvian president immigrated from Japan 4 years prior to his birth'

Answer: Fujimori


Question: 'This Spanish seducer is attacked by furies at the end of a 1936 ballet'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'Common "colorful" term for the eythrocytes, which transport oxygen around the body'

Answer: the red blood cells


Question: 'A greengage is a plum & a greening is this fruit'

Answer: an apple


Question: 'When this chief, Pocahontas' father, died in 1618, he was succeeded by his brother Opitchapam'

Answer: Powhatan


Question: 'This novelist's nonfiction book "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" was about the 1968 political conventions'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: 'About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks'

Answer: cuneiform


Question: 'First performed in 1905, this very short solo ballet depicts the last minutes in the life of a bird'

Answer: The Dying Swan


Question: 'This nucleic acid occurs in 3 forms: messenger, ribosomal & transfer'

Answer: RNA


Question: 'This somewhat coarse root vegetable is also called a swede or a Swedish turnip'

Answer: a rutabaga


Question: 'This chief once called "The Apache Napoleon" died in the Arizona territory in 1874'

Answer: Cochise


Question: 'He followed his first novel, "Appointment in Samarra", with "BUtterfield 8"'

Answer: John O\'Hara


Question: 'The name of this river, famous in song, may be a corruption of the Spanish for "little Saint John"'

Answer: the Swanee


Question: 'Safes, a type of these desert formations, are often many miles long & several hundred feet high'

Answer: sand dunes


Question: 'When Marie Osmond toured in this play in 1994, her eldest son, Steven, played Kurt Von Trapp'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'At the July 1988 Democratic National Convention this Massachusetts governor was nominated for president'

Answer: Michael Dukakis


Question: 'While these small bread cubes often top salads, larger versions can be used to catch drippings'

Answer: croutons


Question: 'These blood-sucking worms are used in medicine today to drain hematomas'

Answer: leeches


Question: 'Zealous, like a beaver<br />(5)'

Answer: eager


Question: 'Sausage trees, found in Africa, are pollinated by these flying mammals'

Answer: bats


Question:
'This 1946 musical that featured the following was Irving Berlin's biggest Broadway hit:

"I'm quick on the trigger /
With targets not much bigger /
Than a pinpoint, a number 1..."'

Answer: Annie Get Your Gun


Question: 'The Thatcher government imposed a broadcast ban on this political wing of the IRA'

Answer: Sinn Fein


Question: 'A raw egg yolk usually accompanies this raw meat dish'

Answer: Steak Tartare


Question: 'Light flashes in the field of vision may mean this optic tissue has become detatched'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'Mistaken<br />(9)'

Answer: erroneous


Question: 'This largest U.S. cactus can weigh as much as 10 tons'

Answer: saguaro


Question: 'Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in a 1983 musical about this sex symbol'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'After 32 years in power, Janos Kadar was ousted as first secretary of this country's Communist Party'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Butternut refers to both an actual nut & this type of gourd'

Answer: squash


Question: 'This artificial sweetner has been associated with bladder cancer in animal experiments'

Answer: saccharin


Question: 'On-screen, they're "special"<br />(7)'

Answer: effects


Question: 'Often found clinging to rocks, limpids are a type of this mollusk'

Answer: snails


Question: 'Elaine Stritch plays Capt. Andy's wife Parthy in the current revival of this Jerome Kern musical'

Answer: Show Boat


Question: 'A 1988 plebiscite said that this Chilean dictator had to be out of office by March of 1990'

Answer: Augusto Pinochet


Question: 'It's an Italian version of an omelet, served pancake-style'

Answer: a frittata


Question: 'Apnea is the temporary cessation of this'

Answer: breathing


Question: 'Count off one-by-one<br />(9)'

Answer: enumerate


Question: 'In the South, buildings have been engulfed & trees have been smothered by this Oriental vine gone wild'

Answer: kudzu


Question: '"Kismet"'s music is adapted from the works of this "Prince Igor" composer'

Answer: Alexander Borodin


Question: 'Along with the Marcoses, this Saudi arms merchant was indicted in October on charges of racketeering'

Answer: Adnan Khashoggi


Question: 'They're the two common vegetables in the English dish bubble & squeak'

Answer: potato & cabbage


Question: 'In vitiligo, a common disorder, patches of skin lose this'

Answer: pigment (or color)


Question: 'The "bigger picture"<br />(11)'

Answer: enlargement


Question: 'In 213 B.C., Ch'in Shih Huang-ti ordered all of these burned, except the ones in the imperial library'

Answer: books


Question: 'Antelope Island in this Utah lake is used as a refuge for bison'

Answer: the Great Salt Lake


Question: 'On the second Sunday in May, the French honor her with a holiday'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'When he left for his second voyage in September of 1493, he had a fleet of seventeen ships, fourteen more than his first trip'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'They can be crew, knee, or bobby'

Answer: socks


Question: 'In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character'

Answer: the Great Gatsby


Question: 'This pupil of Socrates went to Sicily to try to turn Dionysius into a philosopher king'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'Albuquerque, New Mexico lies on this 1885-mile long river'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'March 1st is the feast day of this patron saint of Wales'

Answer: St. David


Question: 'The Duque de Medina- Sidonia commanded this fleet in 1588'

Answer: the Spanish Armada


Question: 'This Channel Island has a close-fitting knitted shirt or sweater named for it, in addition to a cow'

Answer: Jersey


Question: 'Part I of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Wild Land"'

Answer: O Pioneers!


Question: 'Tikal became an important ceremonial center of this civilization, prior to 300 A.D.'

Answer: the Mayans


Question: 'From its incorporation in 1813 until 1901, this New York village was known as Sing-Sing'

Answer: Ossining


Question: 'St. Raphael shares his feast day, September 29, with these two archangels'

Answer: Michael & Gabriel


Question: 'This company's fleet has included the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, & Queen Elizabeth II'

Answer: Cunard


Question: 'A plastron is the quilted pad worn by competitors in this sport to protect their torso & sides'

Answer: fencing


Question: 'His novel "Daisy Miller" opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'He was only 16 when he became Roman emperor upon the death of Claudius'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'South Carolina's highest point, Sassafras Mountain, rises 3,560 feet in this range of the Appalachians'

Answer: the Blue Ridge Mountains


Question: 'This man who added utopia to our vocabulary was made a saint in 1935'

Answer: St. Thomas More


Question: 'This empire's fleet was defeated in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'This apron for young girls has a ruffled bibbed top & a gathered skirt'

Answer: a pinafore


Question: 'He published his third novel, "A Cool Million", in 1934, one year after "Miss Lonelyhearts"'

Answer: Nathanael West


Question: 'This Old Kingdom capital of Egypt was originally named Hikouptah'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'This Lake Erie port in Northwest Ohio was once called "the Glass Capital of the World"'

Answer: Toledo


Question: 'This scholarly 13th century saint was often called "The Angelic Doctor"'

Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas


Question: 'The Black Sea fleet in dispute between Russia & Ukraine is based at this Crimean port'

Answer: Sevastopol


Question: 'It's the fur pouch that a Scotsman wears on the front of his kilt'

Answer: a sporon


Question: 'In English, Ivan Turgenev's novel "Ottsy i Deti" is known by this "familial" title"'

Answer: Fathers and Sons


Question: 'This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games'

Answer: Andrew Young


Question: 'It follows "Pitts-" in the U.S. & "Edin-" in Scotland; we'll accept either pronunciation'

Answer: burgh (or "borough")


Question: '"Immigrant goes to America, many hellos in America; nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America!"'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: 'In 1997 Wham-O introduced a Max Flight version of this 1950s sensation that flew farther & was easy to catch'

Answer: the Frisbee


Question: 'This Seuss character who lived in a cave "stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos"'

Answer: the Grinch


Question: 'Ohio:<br />This redbird'

Answer: a cardinal


Question: '"Thin" piece of disputed Israeli-Palestinian land involved in a clothes-shedding card game'

Answer: Gaza Strip Poker


Question: 'To pass for a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, don't pronounce this letter in the town's name'

Answer: the R (the "Ah")


Question: '"He had it comin

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Wham-O owners heard about Australian kids using a bamboo ring for exercise; it became this 1958 fad'

Answer: a Hula hoop


Question: 'This Harry Potter bad guy's name is French for "flight from death"'

Answer: Voldemort


Question: 'Virginia:<br />This bird, not Albert Pujols'

Answer: the cardinal


Question: 'Film legend who became an 1823 edict against European intervention in the Western Hemisphere'

Answer: the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine


Question: 'Pedernales is in the Dominican Republic; north of the border, the Pedernales River is in this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: '"I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then, I remember the time I knew that happiness was"'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'Wham-O received its name from this first product; when a projectile hit its target, it made a "Wham-O" sound'

Answer: a slingshot


Question: 'This villainess of "The Wizard of Oz" ruled over the Winkies'

Answer: the Wicked Witch of the West


Question: 'West Virginia:<br />This crested bird'

Answer: the cardinal


Question: '"Bouncy" 1965 Beatles album that took over for Don Cornelius as host of a dance show'

Answer: Rubber Soul Train


Question: '(Hi.  I'm Allan Houston of the New York Knicks.)  Don't say my name like this New York City street that's south of & parallel to Bleecker'

Answer: Houston Street


Question: '"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets, and little man, little Lola wants you"'

Answer: Damn Yankees


Question: 'This 1962 Wham-O game named for a dance craze came with a moveable cross bar & 2 support stands'

Answer: limbo


Question: 'Mrs. Augustine St. Clare sold Uncle Tom to this brutal, alcoholic plantation owner who later beat him to death'

Answer: Simon Legree


Question: 'Kentucky:<br />This colorful songbird'

Answer: a cardinal


Question: 'Robert E. Lee's "right arm" general who sang "ABC" with a singing group'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson 5


Question: 'This Ohio village, Thomas Edison's birthplace, is named for a North Italian city but rhymes with "stylin'"'

Answer: Milan


Question: '"All I need is one more try, gotta get that kite to fly"'

Answer: You\'re a Good Man, Charlie Brown


Question: 'Versions of this lawn toy to keep you cool in the summer include "Wave Rider" & "Bounce 'N Splash"'

Answer: a Slip \'N Slide


Question: 'This villainous aide in a Shakespeare play states flatly, "I hate the Moor"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'Missouri: <br />Not a redbird but this colorful creature'

Answer: a bluebird


Question: '1935 "lunar" Florida song that turned into an '80s Florida cop show'

Answer: "Moon Over Miami Vice"


Question: 'This creature is the main predator of wolverines; what else would be dumb enough to take one on?'

Answer: man


Question: 'This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front'

Answer: The Perfect Storm


Question: 'Logically enough, this planet has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in our solar system'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'The U.S. condemned this country's October 2006 nuclear test as a "provocative act"'

Answer: North Korea


Question: '2-syllable name for the long-ago elephant relative with 13-foot tusks that has become a synonym for "huge"'

Answer: a mammoth


Question: 'He was the de facto leader of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s'

Answer: Deng Xiaoping


Question: 'During the winter, wolverines hunt caribou & this animal of the genus Rangifer; Santa's gonna be mad'

Answer: reindeer


Question: 'Bogey & Bacall's final film together was this one that saw them waiting out a storm in Florida'

Answer: Key Largo


Question: 'Around 1904 this Norwegian explorer confirmed that the Earth's magnetic poles are not fixed'

Answer: Amundsen


Question: 'In 2000 Zalmay Khalizad, future U.S. envoy here, Talibandied its name about in "Consolidation of a Rogue State"'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'From this author we get the adjective "brobdingnagian", meaning "gigantic"'

Answer: (Jonathan) Swift


Question: 'Seen here, Nicholas Brendon played this character on TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'

Answer: Xander


Question: 'The website for this state's legislature says no bear "can match the vicious disposition... of the wolverine"'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner'

Answer: Forrest Gump


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a flask.) The shape of the actual magnetic field can be traced using small pieces of this metal'

Answer: iron


Question: 'This president's administration changed the term "rogue state" to "states of concern"'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Rabelaisian adjective meaning "enormous", like a task'

Answer: gargantuan


Question: 'His dad Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister & supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'An alnico magnet is an alloy having these 3 elements as its principal ingredients'

Answer: aluminum, nickel, cobalt


Question: 'In August of 2006, the man seen here said this country would not give up its homegrown nuclear technology'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'This adjective that means "amazingly large" or "causing amazement" is from the Latin for "to be stunned"'

Answer: stupendous


Question: 'This Persian son of Darius I burned Athens in 480 B.C.'

Answer: Xerxes


Question: 'Bears have cubs; wolverine newborns are known as these, like foxes & beavers'

Answer: kits


Question: 'In this cool 2004 film, climatologist Dennis Quaid is right & much of the U.S. evacuates to Mexico'

Answer: The Day After Tomorrow


Question: '(Jon shows images of early devices on the monitor.) Early electromagnets, like Joseph Henry's in 1831, were horseshoe-shaped to double the pulling power of this type of magnet'

Answer: a bar magnet


Question: 'This country's acceptance of responsibility for the Pan Am 103 bombing helped it lose its rogue status'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'Immeasurably great, like the "Jest" in a David Foster Wallace title'

Answer: infinite


Question: 'The "Apostle of the Indies", this missionary helped found the Jesuits & introduced Christianity to Japan'

Answer: Francis Xavier


Question: 'In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him'

Answer: (William) Baffin


Question: 'He was living in Tahiti when he painted "Poemes Barbares" in 1896'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'Rick Blaine'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'You shouldn't "cast" them "before swine", but you can give them for a 12th or 30th anniversary gift'

Answer: Pearls


Question: 'A bumpkin, perhaps a local one'

Answer: Yokel


Question: 'TV show whose theme says, "The Minnow will be lost"'

Answer: Gilligan\'s Island


Question: 'Agnes Baden-Powell helped found the Girl Guides soon after her brother Robert founded this movement'

Answer: Boy Scouts


Question: 'We know he painted the absinthe drinker seen here, though there's nary a tutu in sight:'

Answer: Edgar Degas


Question: 'Sam Spade'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'It's a nice gift for the 35th, but if you take it out of a U.S. reef you may be arrested'

Answer: Coral


Question: '"Meshugge" means crazy in this language of Europe's Ashkenazic Jews'

Answer: Yiddish


Question: 'Lost in the forest, this pair happens upon a house made of bread, cake & sugar'

Answer: Hansel & Gretel


Question: 'Ben Franklin helped found this Ivy League school that had the USA's first medical school'

Answer: University of Pennsylvania


Question: 'Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was noted for portraits of this queen, including the one with her children, seen here:'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Captain Queeg'

Answer: The Caine Mutiny


Question: 'In one form or another you can fork over this metal on the 5th or 25th anniversary'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'It can be a standard for comparison, or a measuring rod 3 feet in length'

Answer: Yardstick


Question: 'Presumably she was lost at sea after vanishing in the central Pacific in July 1937'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'In the early 1900s William Durant put together Buick, Oldsmobile & other companies to found this corporation'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'Andre Derain was a prominent painter in this style whose name is from the French for "wild beasts"'

Answer: Fauvism


Question: 'Fred C. Dobbs'

Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


Question: '19th century American "King of the South" that's a 2nd anniversary gift'

Answer: Cotton


Question: 'First name shared by monsieurs Saint Laurent & Montand'

Answer: Yves


Question: 'It's said that this gem was cut from a stone called the French Blue, which was lost after a crown jewel heist in 1792'

Answer: Hope Diamond


Question: 'Fritz & Laura Perls founded this school of psychotherapy, from German for "form"'

Answer: Gestalt


Question: 'This resident of Argenteuil painted "The Regatta at Argenteuil", seen here:'

Answer: Claude Monet


Question: 'Charlie Allnut'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'This 10th anniversary present is present in the name of a 20th anniversary gift -- platinum'

Answer: Tin


Question: 'Aden is the second-largest city in this Middle Eastern hot spot'

Answer: Yemen


Question: 'Performed annually in North Carolina, "The Lost Colony" is an outdoor drama about this lost colony'

Answer: Roanoke Island


Question: 'Cowboy nickname of William Donovan, founder of the OSS & of modern U.S. intelligence'

Answer: "Wild Bill"


Question: 'It's the only provincial capital with its own Major League Baseball team'

Answer: Toronto (Blue Jays)


Question: 'In 1990 she lost the race for California governor; in 1992 she won the race for California senator'

Answer: Dianne Feinstein


Question: 'His First Symphony debuted April 2 in Vienna; 8 to go...'

Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven


Question: 'In a 1979 hit by the Police she's told, "You don't have to sell your body to the night"'

Answer: "Roxanne"


Question:
'Wyndham,
C.S.,
Sinclair'

Answer: Lewis


Question: 'Rarebit, as in Welsh Rarebit, is an alteration of this word that's not an ingredient in Welsh Rarebit'

Answer: Rabbit


Question: 'This Manitoba capital's name is derived from 2 Cree Indian words meaning "murky water"'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'Politician seen here in 1962, the year he was first elected to the Senate:'

Answer: Edward (Ted) Kennedy


Question: 'This vulcanization inventor was born a bouncing baby boy in 1800'

Answer: Charles Goodyear


Question: 'You might think this Cars leader is married to supermodel Paulina Porizkova (& you'd be right)'

Answer: Ric Ocasek


Question:
'C.K.,
Emlyn,
Tennessee'

Answer: Williams


Question: 'From the Welsh for "dwarf dog", it's also a miniature toy car brand'

Answer: Corgi


Question: 'Vancouver isn't on Vancouver Island, but this capital is'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'When admiring the Stamford train station, thank this state's Christopher Dodd, who helped secure funding'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'William Herschel discovered these "rays" beyond the red end of the visible spectrum'

Answer: Infrared rays


Question: 'A drum machine christened "Echo" helped launch this hopping band to fame & fortune'

Answer: Echo & the Bunnymen


Question:
'John,
Taylor,
Erskine'

Answer: Caldwell


Question: '"Arthur-itative" sources say her name is Welsh for "white" or "fair"'

Answer: Guinevere


Question: 'Now a provincial capital, it was once the capital of New France'

Answer: Quebec City


Question: 'An IRA that allows tax-free withdrawals is named for this Delaware senator'

Answer: William Roth


Question: 'France got this territory back from Spain in 1800, saying it wouldn't transfer it again to anyone but Spain'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Last name of Gary, the former Tubeway Army leader who charted with New Wave hits like "Cars"'

Answer: Gary Numan


Question:
'Frank,
Hart,
Stephen'

Answer: Crane


Question: 'The name of this Olympic weapon may go back to the Welsh gaflach, "forked branch"'

Answer: Javelin


Question: 'In 1947 huge oil deposits were discovered in this city 175 miles north of Calgary; it's now Canada's oil capital'

Answer: Edmonton


Question: 'This man has 26 years of seniority on his fellow West Virginia senator Jay Rockefeller'

Answer: Robert Byrd


Question: 'His "The Wealth of Nations" was one of the first books bought to stock the new Library of Congress'

Answer: Adam Smith


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jane Wiedlin)  Among my credits is this song that starts, "Can you hear them?  Talkin' about us, telling lies..."'

Answer: "Our Lips are Sealed"


Question:
'Walter M.,
Arthur,
Henry'

Answer: Miller


Question: 'Perhaps from the Welsh for "goblin", Elwood P. Dowd's Harvey was a famous one'

Answer: Pooka


Question: 'In the late '60s this character was created to show children it's okay to be grumpy'

Answer: Oscar the Grouch (from \"Sesame Street\")


Question: 'Tonight, the wooden teeth--fact or fiction? Also, his 1754 Fort Necessity battle loss...Mt. Vernon, hello'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Do this if you love Jesus but don't do it just as the light turns green'

Answer: honk


Question: '1983:<br />"Speak, Speak, Speak"'

Answer: "Say Say Say"


Question: 'This great Spanish cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat"'

Answer: Picasso


Question: '90% of Qatar's income comes from the export of this product'

Answer: oil


Question: 'If you have other, more important things to do, you "have other' of these "to fry"'

Answer: fish


Question: 'I'm all shook up about my next guest & the caller is from his hometown...Tupelo, MS., hello?'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'The following sound indicates a vehicle in this gear'

Answer: reverse


Question: '1987:<br />"Naughty"'

Answer: "Bad"


Question: '"Prince Rama & the Demons" was inspired by the "Ramayana", one of the great epic poems of this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'The hills around San Jose are covered with trees growing this, Costa Rica's top export'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'Big throwing don'ts include "the baby out with the bathwater" & "caution to" this'

Answer: the wind


Question: 'At the bottom of the hour, bet you won't miss my chat with this all time "hit king" of baseball...Cincinnati, hello?'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'In September 2000, Congress held hearings on this company's product found on Fords'

Answer: Firestone


Question: '1983:<br />"Get Out Of Here!"'

Answer: "Beat It"


Question: '"Happiness is just a thing called Joe" goes one of the songs in the 1997 ballet about this late sex symbol'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'This crop is king in Mali; about 1/2 of its export income comes from it'

Answer: cotton


Question: 'In "A Psalm of Life, " Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"'

Answer: footprints


Question: 'A special Larry King tonight this "wubbulous" children's author & his thoughts on Rosie starring in his big Broadway show'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Experts disagree on whether 10 & 2 o'clock or 9 & 3 is better for this; no one thinks much of the old wrist drape'

Answer: steering wheel position


Question: '1984:<br />"Suspenseful Movie"'

Answer: "Thriller"


Question: 'Phillip Feeny's eerie music for the British ballet based on this spooky 19th C. novel is heard here'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'A big export for Tuvalu is copia, the dried meat of this'

Answer: coconut


Question: 'William Congreve expounded, "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor hell a fury like" this'

Answer: a woman scorned


Question: 'He was 77 when he returned to space in '98; he talks to us now via satellite from Ohio'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: '"Multitudinous" name for this part of the car that transmits gases from the cylinders to the exhaust pipe'

Answer: exhaust manifold


Question: '1982:<br />"Said Female Belongs To Me"'

Answer: "The Girl Is Mine"


Question: 'In ancient times, the most famous export of the Phoenician town of Byblos to Greece was this material'

Answer: papyrus


Question: 'This phrase meaning "to betray someone" came from slaves sent illegally via the Mississippi to New Orleans'

Answer: to sell them down the river


Question: 'Therefore it's this 17th century mathematician and philosopher--I think'

Answer: Descartes


Question: 'Humulin used by diabetics is short for "human" this'

Answer: insulin


Question: 'At nearly 11,000 feet this "active" spot is Sicily's highest point'

Answer: Mount Etna


Question: '"Ordinary People"<br />(1980)'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question: 'He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'The Reinheitsgebot is the law of 1516 governing the purity of this 4-letter drink'

Answer: beer


Question: 'Peachy thoughts from this uber philosopher include "God is Dead" & "Is Man only a blunder of God?"'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'Football coach & triple-bypass patient Dan Reeves advertises Zocar, which mainly aims to lower this'

Answer: cholesterol


Question: 'Sicily was ceded to the Romans in 241 B.C. after they won the first of these wars'

Answer: Punic


Question: '"Apollo 13"<br />(1995)'

Answer: Ron Howard


Question: 'His passing came in Buffalo, New York from gunshot wounds'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'Freude is this to which Beethoven composed an ode; Schadenfreude is this at someone else's misfortune'

Answer: joy


Question: 'The writings of this man seen here were truly Revolutionary'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'Adult migraine? Ease the throbbing with 200 milligrams of this'

Answer: ibuprofen


Question: 'The father of this US Supreme Court Justice was a romance language professor who had emigrated from Sicily'

Answer: Scalia


Question: '"Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil"<br />(1997)'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'He died in the White House, from pneumonia'

Answer: (William Henry) Harrison


Question: 'A bildungsroman is this type of work covering a young hero's development'

Answer: novel


Question: 'He coined the term "utopia" now meaning "an ideal place" & used it for the title of a 1516 satire'

Answer: Thomas More


Question: 'The arthritis medicine lodine is an NSAID, a non-steroidal anti-this drug'

Answer: inflammatory


Question: 'Heading west to Sicily from Calabria, Italy will take you "strait" to this port city of 263,000'

Answer: Messina


Question: '"Rachel, Rachel"<br />(1968)'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'The end finally came for this Pres. in Elberon, New Jersey from blood posioning after being shot'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Sauerbraten is literally "sour roast"; this is literally "roast sausage"'

Answer: Bratwurst


Question: 'By pure reason you should know he's the categorical German seen here'

Answer: Immanuel Kant


Question: 'Chlorpromazine, aka this, was approved by the FDA in 1954 & became the prototype antipsychotic'

Answer: thorazine


Question: '"Cradle Will Rock"<br />(1999)'

Answer: Tim Robbins


Question: 'The 2nd Prez to die in the White House, he was felled by acute indigestion (or was it poison?)'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Bismarck & Kissinger are among masters of this, politics based on pragmatic concerns'

Answer: Realpolitik


Question: 'In 2001, she produced & hosted the Travel Channel's "Secrets of San Simeon"'

Answer: Patty Hearst


Question: 'In February 1865, 2 months before surrendering, he became general in chief of all the Confederate armies'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'This soccer player whose real first name is Mariel is one of 4 women to have scored over 100 goals in international play'

Answer: Mia Hamm


Question: 'An official website for this state is www.state.nm.us'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Hey, "don't just sit there like a bump on" one of these'

Answer: a log


Question: 'The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden'

Answer: Eden


Question: 'Watch out for sewer rats inside the "Sewer Adventure" at the Aquaria Water Museum in this Swedish capital'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'It was the famous nickname of frontiersman & scout Christopher Carson'

Answer: Kit


Question: 'This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo"'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'Instead of .com, Amnesty International's website is www.amnesty. this'

Answer: .org


Question: '"Pea Soup" describes a dense one'

Answer: fog


Question: 'Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body'

Answer: sun


Question: 'Ride the Nutmobile thru macadamia orchards at the Big Pineapple, a top attraction in this "Down Under" country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Dismissed from West Point for "deficiency in chemistry", he went on to paint a famous portrait of his mother'

Answer: James Whistler


Question: 'A student at Great Neck North High School, she's the golden girl of the ice seen here'

Answer: Sarah Hughes


Question: 'At whitehouse.gov you can learn all about Air Force One as well as this Maryland presidential retreat'

Answer: Camp David


Question: 'One of the teeth in a gear'

Answer: cog


Question: 'The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers'

Answer: Tigris & Euphrates


Question: 'Wow!  You can see what you'd look like in one of Ms. Parton's wigs at this theme park named for her'

Answer: Dollywood


Question: 'Her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1981 to replace Potter Stewart was history-making'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor


Question: 'This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 & 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002'

Answer: Venus Williams


Question: 'Seen here, Arfie fetches results at this metasearch engine'

Answer: Dogpile


Question: 'Something can do this to your bad memory; it's also a wheel on a Sony Clie'

Answer: jog


Question: 'Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here'

Answer: cuneiform


Question: 'For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of the Monument a Colom, built to honor him'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'In one of its reading rooms, you can read up on Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this religion'

Answer: Christian Science


Question: 'This basketball star whose name rhymes with hoops named her son Jordan, after Michael Jordan'

Answer: Sheryl Swoopes


Question: '"Sari Says" is an advice column in the online version of this teen magazine'

Answer: Teen People


Question: 'A fad in the '90s was this game from Hawaii that used bottle stoppers'

Answer: pogs


Question: 'The Sumerian kingdom ended when this enemy king famous for his code conquered the city of Larsa'

Answer: Hammurabi


Question: 'Soar above the treetops on the Skyfari aerial tram at this West Coast's city's famous zoo'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'The ballet "Jeu de Cartes" features dancing playing cards, & this one is the "trickster" of the pack'

Answer: the joker


Question: 'Alvin, Simon & Theodore'

Answer: chipmunks


Question: '"Swing your partner" & "do-si-do"; it's the state dance of Oregon & Alabama'

Answer: square dance


Question: 'You can have a deja entendu, meaning "already heard" in addition to this, "already seen"'

Answer: deja vu


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Colorado)  As snowflakes are frozen water vapor, they're made up of these 2 chemical elements'

Answer: hydrogen & oxygen


Question: 'This car name may come from an abbreviation of "general purpose vehicle"'

Answer: jeep


Question: 'The longer "romantic" version of this ballet garment was inspired by the one Taglioni wore in the 1830s'

Answer: tutu


Question: 'Heathcliff'

Answer: cat


Question: 'Its state song is "The Old North State"'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Some people won't give blood due to belonephobia, fear of these'

Answer: needles


Question: 'The forked type of this runs unobstructed between the clouds & the ground'

Answer: lightning


Question: 'The name of this social insect comes from the Latin word vespa'

Answer: wasp


Question: 'A ballet blanc, such as "La Sylphide", traditionally features costumes of this color'

Answer: white


Question: 'Pumbaa'

Answer: warthog


Question: 'If you "Show Me" some mozarkite, I'll tell you that it's this state's state rock'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'This measurement was originally measured by dividing mental age by calendar age'

Answer: IQ (intelligence quotient)


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park)  Autumn leaves turn golden red as shorter days & cooler nights cause the breakdown of this green pigment'

Answer: chlorophyll


Question: 'This adjective can mean extremely ornate or refer to the music from 1600 to 1750, including that of Vivaldi & Handel'

Answer: Baroque


Question: 'From the French meaning "to bend", this basic bending movement prepares a dancer to spring high into the air'

Answer: plie


Question: 'Babar'

Answer: elephant


Question: 'This "sweet" state tree of Vermont is an important source of syrup'

Answer: sugar maple


Question: 'By definition, a hypnagogic hallucination occurs while you're about to do this'

Answer: fall asleep


Question: 'The frequency of a note is measured in this, abbreviated Hz'

Answer: hertz


Question: 'This process is the diffusion of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane; some students seem to learn by it'

Answer: osmosis


Question: 'French sculptor whose art inspired "The Eternal Idol" (hmmm...that's a "Thinker")'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'Franklin on Nickelodeon'

Answer: turtle


Question: 'The juice of this bog fruit is Massachusetts' state beverage'

Answer: cranberry


Question: 'Erik Erikson's concept of this type of "crisis", in which you're not sure who you are, is associated with adolescence'

Answer: identity crisis


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports)  Botanists divide a flower into four main parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these'

Answer: pistils


Question: 'This word used to describe a type of school also means "narrow in outlook"'

Answer: parochial


Question: 'Once considered too sacred to use, it was later the top girl's name from 1880 to the 1940s'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'To oversimplify, it's a really big hole in the ground in Arizona--1 mile deep & 277 river miles long'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'This Oscar winner for "The Piano" plays a feisty Oklahoma City police detective on TNT's "Saving Grace"'

Answer: Holly Hunter


Question: 'Someone compared to this Aesop kid has lied so many times no one believes him even when he's telling the truth'

Answer: the boy who cried wolf


Question: 'The gangs were all here in this play'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: 'The heavenly strains of the concert grand pedal type of this instrument come from its 47 strings'

Answer: a harp


Question: 'Neckwear for eating lobster'

Answer: bib


Question: 'Half Dome, one of the impressive features of this national park, is seen here'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Although he lost the supporting actor Oscar for "Cinderella Man", he won the Emmy vote for "John Adams"'

Answer: Paul Giamatti


Question: 'If you're slow but steady & you still beat a sprinter, you might be compared to this creature of fable'

Answer: a turtle


Question: 'Eugene O'Neill asked that this piece not be produced until after his death'

Answer: Long Day\'s Journey into Night


Question: 'This unit of measure is equal to .47 liters; drink up!'

Answer: a pint


Question: 'It can be a small facility for outpatient care, or a whole medical establishment run by specialists'

Answer: a clinic


Question: 'Check out the glistening dunes at White Sands National Monument in this state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield"'

Answer: Glenn Close


Question: 'A small person who goes up against a bigger opponent & wins evokes the story of these 2 Valley of Elah foes'

Answer: David & Goliath


Question: 'This John Guare play is not about Kevin Bacon'

Answer: Six Degrees of Separation


Question: 'These 2 tropic lines, north & south of the equator, are 47 degrees apart'

Answer: Cancer & Capricorn


Question: 'Celebrating "a century of sanctuary" in 2009, it's Utah's first national park, though it's last alphabetically'

Answer: Zion


Question: 'Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes'

Answer: Salma Hayek


Question: 'The allusion "ships that pass in the night" is from this American poet's "Tales of a Wayside Inn"'

Answer: Longfellow


Question: 'This Pinter play has nothing to do with a football tradition'

Answer: The Homecoming


Question: 'You deserve a medal if you know that this element, symbol Ag, is No. 47 on the periodic table'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Seen here, it's known to some Native Americans as Bears Lodge'

Answer: Devils Tower


Question: '"An Unmarried Woman" in the movies, she played Donald Sutherland's wife Letitia on "Dirty Sexy Money"'

Answer: Jill Clayburgh


Question: 'Your vulnerability might be compared to this body part of an ancient Greek hero who killed Hector'

Answer: an Achilles\' heel


Question: 'This Neil Simon play also made it to the big screen'

Answer: I Ought to Be in Pictures


Question: 'The Pythagorean theorem is the 47th proposition in the first book of his "Elements"'

Answer: Euclid


Question: 'The first 5 digits in these represent the manufacturer; 16000 means General Mills'

Answer: a bar code


Question: 'There are 88 of these, which run alphabetically from Andromeda to Vulpecula'

Answer: constellations


Question: 'In April 1930 the first 3 mysteries involving her were published & became an instant success'

Answer: Nancy Drew


Question: 'Noted for their "feathery" legs, these Scottish draft horses were taken to North America in 1842, Bud'

Answer: Clydesdales


Question: 'Barry Gibb was born in 1946; these 2 fraternal twins were born in 1949'

Answer: Robin & Maurice


Question: 'A Jewish house of worship'

Answer: a synagogue


Question: 'In "A Christmas Story", the message Ralphie uncovers using his decoder says "Be sure to drink your" this'

Answer: Ovaltine


Question: 'Since 1970 the number of U.S. men aged 25-34 still living here has increased from 10% to 15%'

Answer: at home


Question: 'In 1938 DuPont made toothbrushes, not stockings, its first product with this material'

Answer: nylon


Question: 'Ex-welterweight champ Carlos, or a golden-coated, silver-maned horse'

Answer: a palomino


Question: 'Though never a Bee Gee, this other brother had 3 No. 1 singles & hosted "Solid Gold"'

Answer: Andy Gibb


Question: 'A bird of the family Sturnidae, capable of mimicking human speech'

Answer: a mynah


Question: 'On Jan. 20, 2009 a military officer carrying these codes came to the inauguration with Bush & left with Obama'

Answer: the codes to release nuclear warheads


Question: 'Researchers have found more than 40,000 of the dust type of these microscopic bugs in 1 ounce of mattress dust'

Answer: mites


Question: 'In 1936 Los Angeles started receiving its electricity from generators at this facility'

Answer: Hoover Dam


Question: 'In the 17th century this type of wild horse numbered between 2 & 4 mil.; today, only about 20,000 remain, mostly in the West'

Answer: mustangs


Question: 'A skeptic, or one of a Greek sect who espoused that virtue is the only good'

Answer: a cynic


Question: '1968's Nobel Prize in Medicine was for "interpretation of" this "code and its function in protein synthesis"'

Answer: the genetic code


Question: 'Got this river?  It flows more than 600 miles through Alberta & Montana before entering the Missouri'

Answer: the Milk


Question: 'In 1932 this country finished reclaiming thousands of agricultural acres from the Zuiderzee'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: '1 tale says this breed descends from Muhammad's horses that refused water to answer a battle call'

Answer: Arabians


Question: 'The bobcat is also known as the bay this animal'

Answer: a lynx


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some characters on the monitor.)  In international Morse code, developed because of the limitations of American Morse code, the "U" is dot dot dash, and a "U" with one of these marks is dot dot dash dash'

Answer: an umlaut


Question: 'A pen with 1,400 diamonds depicting a mountain range was created in 2006 to celebrate this company's 100th anniversary'

Answer: Montblanc


Question: 'In 1939 Edwin Armstrong built the first full-scale station for this type of commercially used radio transmission'

Answer: FM


Question: 'This "stately" horse has 3 gaits; the flat-foot walk, the running walk & the canter'

Answer: the Tennessee walking horse


Question: 'In a Bee Gees hit, this title sort of communication means "you're telling me lies"'

Answer: jive talkin\'


Question: 'In music, to place accents on beats that are normally unaccented'

Answer: syncopated


Question: 'Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech'

Answer: adjective


Question: 'Suisse is the French name for this mountainous country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Silver'

Answer: The Lone Ranger


Question: 'The first episode in the story told by this popular film series is subtitled "The Phantom Menace"'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'When going out, take this card because "It's Everywhere You Want to Be"'

Answer: Visa


Question: 'She married husband Ronnie in 1952 when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild'

Answer: Nancy (Davis) Reagan


Question: 'Dial this 3-digit prime number in L.A. only for emergencies'

Answer: 911


Question: 'Washington Irving gave New York City this nickname in 1807'

Answer: Gotham


Question: 'Rocinante'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Twin Dragons"'

Answer: Jackie Chan


Question: 'If you need a hammer, this is "The Place With the Helpful Hardware Folks"'

Answer: Ace Hardware


Question: 'She served as a regent of the University of Texas & as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board'

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson


Question: 'In the rhyme, it's the number of whacks Lizzie Borden gave her father'

Answer: 41


Question: 'There are only 31 states & 1 federal district in this North American country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Trigger's friend Buttermilk'

Answer: Dale Evans


Question: 'It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Double Impact"'

Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme


Question: '"The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection" is the goal of this automaker'

Answer: Lexus


Question: 'In January 1991 this first lady broke her left leg while sledding at Camp David'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'Columbus' first voyage to the new world ended in this year'

Answer: 1493


Question: 'The Tasman Sea separates Australia & this nation'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Traveller'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Known for comedies like "Mr. Mom", he donned the cape & cowl of Batman in 1989'

Answer: Michael Keaton


Question: 'This large company provides "Solutions For A Small Planet"'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'Her stepfather was Hugh Auchincloss'

Answer: Jackie Kennedy


Question: 'Fear of this prime number is called triskaidekaphobia'

Answer: 13


Question: 'Robin Hood's nemesis was the sheriff of this district'

Answer: Nottingham


Question: 'Bucephalus'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'She turned pirate in "Cutthroat Island" & action star in "The Long Kiss Goodnight"'

Answer: Geena Davis


Question: 'Relax, this brand of medicine is "Recommended by Dr. Mom"'

Answer: Robitussin


Question: 'The only first lady whose married name was the same as her maiden name'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'Boeing's answer in the early 1960s to the Douglas DC-9; it's good for medium hauls'

Answer: 727


Question: '1992:<br />New Jersey senator'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: 'In 1999 Lulu, a plucky potbellied one of these, earned an ASPCA Trooper Award for saving her owner's life'

Answer: Pig


Question: 'He starred on Broadway as Elwood P. Dowd in a revival of "Harvey"; who else could?'

Answer: Jimmy Stewart


Question: 'To the horror of homeowners, this lawn weed, taraxacum officinale, can grow 1 1/2' high'

Answer: Dandelion


Question: 'This tragedy has got to be set in a small village, hence the title'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Derived from the Greek for "ice", it's a glass of fine quality that resembles ice'

Answer: Crystal


Question: '1984:<br />New York governor'

Answer: Mario Cuomo


Question: 'An ASPCA program begun in 1992 promotes the adoption of these dogs when they retire from racing'

Answer: Greyhounds


Question: 'Based on "All About Eve", it featured Lauren Bacall as Margo Channing'

Answer: Applause


Question: 'This "kissing" shrub, the state flower of Oklahoma, sometimes kills the tree that serves as its host'

Answer: Mistletoe


Question: 'Obviously, it's a funny play about bad baseball players'

Answer: The Comedy of Errors


Question: 'Many scholars believe that the Celts called it "The Wild Place"; now this wild place is a city of over 7 million'

Answer: London


Question: '1976:<br />Ohio senator'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'The ASPCA reminds you that you can lengthen a cat's life by neutering a male or doing this equivalent to a female'

Answer: Spaying


Question: 'Though he never won an Emmy as Barney Miller, he did win a Tony for his role in "The Rothschilds"'

Answer: Hal Linden


Question: 'The Jaffa variety of orange originated in this country'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'It sounds to me like it's about the leader of lascivious oglers'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'A Middle Eastern chieftain, this 4-letter term is from the Arabic for "commander"'

Answer: Emir


Question: '1968:<br />Hawaiian senator'

Answer: Daniel Inouye


Question: 'In 1867 the ASPCA began operating the world's first of these vehicles to carry horses, probably without a siren'

Answer: Ambulance


Question: 'Anthony Quayle & Keith Baxter starred in this Anthony Shaffer mystery; the rest of the cast is another mystery'

Answer: Sleuth


Question: 'The jonquil is a short-trumpet narcissus; this yellow flower is a long-trumpet species'

Answer: Daffodil


Question: 'It's about this guy who hires non-permanent secretarial help for his office'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'This wooden club is named for the town in county Wicklow where it originated'

Answer: Shillelagh


Question: '1988:<br />Texas state treasurer'

Answer: Ann Richards


Question: 'The ASPCA helped stop Iowa legislators from legalizing hunting of the mourning type of this'

Answer: Dove


Question: 'After 2,844 performances, Broadway said, "So long, dearie" to this musical December 27, 1970'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'The finest dried form of this root spice used in pumpkin pie is produced in Jamaica'

Answer: Ginger


Question: 'Toyotas!  Yeah, that's it; it's about Toyotas'

Answer: Troilus & Cressida


Question: 'A Greek word for cowherd has given us this term for "pastoral" or "rustic"'

Answer: bucolic


Question: 'Debuting November 18, 1985, the caption in its first box was "So long, Pop!  I'm off to check my tiger trap!"'

Answer: Calvin and Hobbes


Question: 'Its nicknames include "The Athens of America" & "The Cradle of Liberty"'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Who was No. 50?  This Who guitarist, that's who'

Answer: Pete Townshend


Question: 'Lenin got a degree in this in 1891, then went on to court a lot of trouble'

Answer: law


Question: 'In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award's 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps'

Answer: the Nobel Prize


Question: 'As the old saying goes, "An ounce of" this magazine "is worth a pound of cure"'

Answer: Prevention


Question: 'A "green" government group:<br />EPA'

Answer: Environmental Protection Agency


Question: 'When Oregon became a state in 1859, this city on the Willamette River was already the capital'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'Not surprisingly this legendary guitarist who colored the '60s with songs like "Purple Haze" came in at No. 1'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'Lenin met his wife Nadezhda while exiled here'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness'

Answer: mattresses


Question: 'In Nov. 2003 Judge Ira Gammerman said neither side would get damages from the demise of this celeb's magazine'

Answer: Rosie O\'Donnell


Question: 'High-ranking business operative:<br />CFO'

Answer: chief financial officer


Question: 'Benjamin Franklin Parkway & The Franklin Institute Science Museum are in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'It's said of No. 3, "His string-bending & vibrato made his famous guitar, Lucille, weep like a real-life woman"'

Answer: B.B. King


Question: 'When Russian Marxism split into 2 factions, Lenin led this "majority" group'

Answer: the Bolsheviks


Question: 'On an NHL rink, it's the color of the center line'

Answer: red


Question: 'For its Dec. 2003 issue, the U.S. Marie Claire put its first man on its cover, this star of "The Last Samurai"'

Answer: Tom Cruise


Question: 'An international alliance:<br />EU'

Answer: the European Union


Question: 'According to a song by Ian Hunter, it "Rocks" (must be why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is there)'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'His "Smooth" guitar strains earned him a place at No. 15'

Answer: Carlos Santana


Question: 'Lenin spent WWI in this country, but he was far from neutral on the subject'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'In 2003 a nationwide Free Slurpee Day was on this date'

Answer: July 11


Question: 'In titles, this word follows Southern, Country & Martha Stewart'

Answer: Living


Question: 'On an accountant's calendar:<br />FY'

Answer: fiscal year


Question: 'Located in this city's Garden District, Commander's Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Surprisingly, only 2 women made the list: Joni Mitchell & this leader of the Blackhearts'

Answer: Joan Jett


Question: 'When Lenin returned to Russia in 1917, he did it in a "sealed" one of these'

Answer: railway car


Question: 'This flower got its name from the belief that bees got a sweet substance out of it'

Answer: honeysuckle


Question: 'Marilyn Vos Savant's column appears in this magazine that comes with Sunday newspapers'

Answer: Parade Magazine


Question: 'Sometimes you get extras with one of these:<br />DVD'

Answer: digital video disc


Question: 'This "Howl" poet's father was also a poet & the 2 would perform public readings together'

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'Bruce Jenner & Ray Leonard were American Olympic champs in this red, white & blue year'

Answer: 1976


Question: 'His 1959 film "The Golden Fish" won him an Oscar'

Answer: (Jacques) Cousteau


Question: 'Its 1-shekel coin features a flower taken from a Judean coin during the Persian period'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'A Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an "ingrown" one of these'

Answer: a hair


Question: 'Manner assumed by good doctors'

Answer: bedside manner


Question: 'In 1953 his Norton Lectures at Harvard were published as "i: six nonlectures"'

Answer: (E.E.) Cummings


Question: 'It was the year of Babe Ruth's career high in home runs'

Answer: 1927


Question: 'In 1995 he succeeded Francois Mitterand'

Answer: Jacques Chirac


Question: 'In 1999 the Cook Islands issued a half dollar coin featuring this Jim Davis comic strip title character'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Adding these charged particles to the air is supposed to reduce blood pressure & relieve headaches'

Answer: negative ions


Question: 'You can get an 18-pound collection of every one of these Gary Larson cartoons'

Answer: "The Far Side"


Question: 'She considered publishing "Sonnets from the Portuguese" as "Sonnets Translated from the Bosnian"'

Answer: Elizabeth (Barrett) Browning


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Indianapolis Speedway)  The Noc-Out Hose Clamp Special was the winning car at Indianapolis in this year; the race was cancelled the next 4 years'

Answer: 1941


Question: 'Much of France's 16th century Canadian claim was based on his explorations'

Answer: (Jacques) Cartier


Question: 'In 1999 it issued its 1-oz. silver kookaburra coin with honor marks reproducing several U.S. state quarters'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Symbolized Ba, this element is put in your body, one way or another, to be seen on X-rays'

Answer: barium


Question: 'A trial judge may call this conference with the attorneys, out of the jury's hearing'

Answer: sidebar


Question: 'After his death in 1821, a fellow poet wrote that he was fragile & was "killed off by one critique"'

Answer: (John) Keats


Question: 'In this, his final year, Ted Williams became one of the few major leaguers to play in 4 decades'

Answer: 1960


Question: 'He painted the death of Marat & he himself died in exile in Brussels'

Answer: Jacques-Louis David


Question: 'All of Ireland's coins feature this musical instrument on one side'

Answer: the harp


Question: 'Yes, she developed a scoring system in 1952 to aid in determining a newborn's health'

Answer: Virginia Apgar


Question: 'Economists also know it as Reaganomics'

Answer: supply-side economics


Question: 'In 1857 this "Old Ironsides" poet & others founded the Atlantic Monthly'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Question: 'Super Bowl XXXVIII was in 2004; this was the year of Super Bowl I'

Answer: 1967


Question: 'He composed both "The Tales of Hoffmann" & that scandalous "Cancan" music'

Answer: (Jacques) Offenbach


Question: 'In 2001 Russia issued a coin with his portrait to commemorate the 40th anniversary of manned space flight'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: 'Nitroglycerin is an example of this type of drug that widens blood vessels'

Answer: vasodilator


Question: 'Show that includes "Comedy Tonight", "Company" & "Send in the Clowns"'

Answer: Side by Side


Question: 'He made his debut in the 1945 short film "Life with Feathers"'

Answer: Sylvester


Question: 'Because of the way it was formed, Louisiana is sometimes called "The Child of" this river'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'He played Tony Starr in "Copacabana", which was based on his own hit record'

Answer: Barry Manilow


Question: 'Many churches have a cruciform plan, which means they're shaped like one of these'

Answer: Cross


Question: '"Two Little Confederates" is the story of two children who live on a plantation during this war'

Answer: Civil War


Question: 'It's a slang term for a psychiatrist, even if he's not getting smaller'

Answer: Shrink


Question: 'Charles Schulz said Snoopy didn't become a lead character until he began walking this way'

Answer: on two feet


Question: 'It's "The Land of the Saints", the Latter-Day Saints'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'This series grew out of 1971's "The Homecoming:  A Christmas Story"'

Answer: The Waltons


Question: 'A flight is a series of these unbroken by a landing'

Answer: stairs


Question: 'Chapter 4 of this 1908 classic is called "Morning at Green Gables"'

Answer: Anne of Green Gables


Question: 'If you lack good fortune, you're out of this'

Answer: Luck


Question: 'It's a synonym for a lie as well as the type of tale told by Aesop'

Answer: Fable


Question: 'It's "The Mother of States" as well as "The Mother of Presidents"'

Answer: Virginia