Question: 'Dongfang, China, on Hainan Island, & northern Vietnam's Haiphong lie on this gulf'

Answer: Gulf of Tonkin


Question: 'This reddish spice can be sold in both ground & stick form'

Answer: Cinnamon


Question: 'While Rene Levesque was its PM, French was made its official language & English signs were restricted'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'In China these fiber-spinning caterpillars are sometimes stir-fried'

Answer: Silkworms


Question: 'Elizabeth Kenny was the first to treat this paralytic disease with moist heat & physical therapy'

Answer: Polio


Question: 'Earl Hindman plays Wilson, Tim Taylor's partially-seen neighbor, on this series'

Answer: "Home Improvement"


Question: 'Foveaux Strait separates Stewart Island from this country's South Island'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'In England the unit of volume roughly equivalent to a quart is spelled this way'

Answer: Litre


Question: 'He & co-author Richard Suskind served brief prison terms for their forged bio of Howard Hughes'

Answer: Clifford Irving


Question: 'The flying fox, a type of this mammal, is considered a taste treat in the Seychelles'

Answer: Bat


Question: 'In 1963 a vaccine was developed for this disease also called rubeola'

Answer: Measles


Question: 'Mendocino, California was used to represent Cabot Cove on this CBS series'

Answer: "Murder, She Wrote"


Question: 'The Russians call this sea between Asia & Europe Chernoye More'

Answer: Black Sea


Question: 'Legend says the Dannebrog, now this country's flag, dropped from heaven during a 1219 battle'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'On August 1, 1975 35 nations signed accords on human rights in this city'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'The young shoots of this marsh plant named for a feline appendage may be eaten in salads'

Answer: Cat Tails


Question: 'In 1923 this Topeka, Kansas clinic for mental patients was opened by a father & 2 sons'

Answer: The Menninger Clinic


Question: 'He starred in "Gabriel's Fire" & performs the opening voice-over of "3rd Rock From The Sun"'

Answer: James Earl Jones


Question: 'The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River"'

Answer: Indus


Question: '"It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power" is a feature in this monthly magazine'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: 'This bard's Sonnet 119 begins, "What potions have I drunk of siren tears..."'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'The Portuguese once used this name for a wild ass; now it applies to a striped equine'

Answer: Zebra


Question: 'With Christopher Jones as captain, this ship departed Plymouth, Mass. April 15, 1621 & returned to England'

Answer: Mayflower


Question: 'This ex-reporter for the Atlanta Journal took nearly 10 years to write "Gone With The Wind"'

Answer: Margaret Mitchell


Question: 'It has cricket bat & weeping varieties'

Answer: Willow


Question: 'Horse-drawn transportation for a bride & groom'

Answer: Marriage Carriage


Question: 'John Milton wrote a sonnet praising this lord protector whom he served as secretary for foreign languages'

Answer: Oliver Cromwell


Question: 'Natal, South Africa was named for the Portuguese word for this holiday'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'He & his loyal crew members charted part of the coast of Australia after being set adrift from the Bounty'

Answer: Captain Bligh


Question: 'When she joined CBS Sports in 1975, this 1971 Miss America became the first female network sportscaster'

Answer: Phyllis George


Question: 'The Virginia cedar is used to make these; the wood sharpens easily yet still supports the lead'

Answer: Pencils


Question: 'A stylish young woman of the 1920s'

Answer: Dapper Flapper


Question: '"Batter My Heart" is one of the best-known "Holy Sonnets" by this author of "Death, Be Not Proud"'

Answer: John Donne


Question: 'From the Portuguese for white, it describes a person who lacks normal pigmentation'

Answer: Albino


Question: 'This author drew on his experiences as captain of a west African river steamer for "Heart of Darkness"'

Answer: Joseph Conrad


Question: 'In 1967 she succeeded her husband as governor'

Answer: Lurleen B. Wallace


Question: 'The cola tree is from the same family as this tree from which we get the beans to make chocolate'

Answer: Cacao


Question: 'A canvas sports shoe that's trimmer than last year's model'

Answer: Sleeker Sneaker


Question: '"My love is like to ice, and I to fire" wrote this "Faerie Queene" poet in his sonnet sequence "Amoretti"'

Answer: Edmund Spenser


Question: 'Meaning "new trend", this Brazilian music style & dance of the 1960s combined samba & cool jazz'

Answer: Bossa Nova


Question: 'This Oscar winner from Georgia reprised her stage role in the 1989 film "Miss Firecracker"'

Answer: Holly Hunter


Question: 'Also called the western yellow pine, you'll find a "bonanza" of them in the U.S. under this other name'

Answer: Ponderosa Pine


Question: 'An ominous or evil clergyman'

Answer: Sinister Minister


Question: 'Irish poet & playwright who wrote the 1928 sonnet "Leda And The Swan"'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'From a word meaning "small vessel", it was a small sailing ship once used by the Portuguese & Spanish'

Answer: Caravel


Question: 'In a play by this man, Captain Shotover is the eccentric owner of Heartbreak House'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'This first lady born in Kentucky in 1818 could speak French fluently'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'After Chippendale used this dark, rich wood for dining tables, its name became synonymous with them'

Answer: Mahogany


Question: 'An archer for Caesar'

Answer: Roman Bowman


Question: 'Ike defined this as "All of the usable surface.  The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."'

Answer: Middle-of-the-road


Question: 'Horace Smith produced the first cartridge revolver pistol with this business partner'

Answer: Wesson


Question: 'Reportedly, the largest of these beaver constructions was over 2,000 feet long & 12 feet high'

Answer: a dam


Question: 'A beach of pool attendant trained in rescue techniques'

Answer: a lifeguard


Question: '"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"'

Answer: (Ebenezer) Scrooge


Question: 'In 1894 Nicholas II succeeded his father, Alexander III, as the ruler of this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In 1953 Edward R. Murrow gave a TV tour of this network's new West Coast facility, Television City'

Answer: CBS


Question: 'At noon on July 4, U.S. Army posts fire a salute of this many guns'

Answer: 50


Question: 'It should gnaw at you that beavers are members of this largest order of mammals'

Answer: rodents


Question: 'This TV cable network for women celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2004'

Answer: Lifetime


Question: '"I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road"'

Answer: Eliza Doolittle


Question: 'During this Jewish ceremony, a father thanks God for being freed of legal responsibility for his son's actions'

Answer: a bar mitzvah


Question: 'A building here at Sony Pictures Studios is named for this actor, Jim Anderson on "Father Knows Best"'

Answer: Robert Young


Question: 'The pistol used to kill this man is displayed by the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society'

Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'In April 1999 several beavers were captured after munching on this city's prized cherry trees'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'It's paid to your beneficiaries after your death'

Answer: life insurance


Question: '"Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself"'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'The Encarta Dictionary defines this as "one of the members of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution"'

Answer: a Founding Father


Question: 'During the 1955-56 season, its episodes included "Alice and the Blonde" & "Bensonhurst Bomber"'

Answer: The Honeymooners


Question: 'This U.S. state's official seal shows a man holding a gun & standing on a peninsula'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'This country put a beaver on its coat of arms & on its 5-cent piece'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'One-word term for your manner of living'

Answer: your lifestyle


Question: '"How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge!"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'The anthem of this country between France & Spain begins, "The great Charlemagne, my father"'

Answer: Andorra


Question: 'In 1950 this comedian brought his radio program to TV along with Rochester & announcer Don Wilson'

Answer: Jack Benny


Question: 'In 1974 this man told the U.N. General Assembly he bore "an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun"'

Answer: Yasser Arafat


Question: 'Like baby foxes, the offspring of beavers are known by this term'

Answer: kits


Question: 'A plaster cast made of a person's face'

Answer: a life mask


Question: '"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Soren Kierkegaard is considered "the father of" this philosophical movement'

Answer: existentialism


Question: 'A few years before playing John Robinson in "Lost in Space", Guy Williams played this swashbuckler'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'A well-equipped knight had several of these, including a palfrey for travel & a fast courser for battle'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'This singer of the No. 1 hit "Let's Get It On" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987'

Answer: Marvin Gaye


Question: 'It was the name of 13 popes & one antipope'

Answer: Innocent


Question: 'On April 25, 1898 the U.S. declared war on this country'

Answer: Spain


Question:
'West,
Smith,
Sandler'

Answer: Adam


Question: 'Samuel Johnson defined it as "the unctuous or oily part of milk"'

Answer: cream


Question: 'A No. 1 song says, "Did you ever know that you're my hero... I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are" this'

Answer: "The Wind Beneath My Wings"


Question: 'Popular "Peer Gynt" playwright'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'Formed by the Nan, Ping, Wang & Yom, the Chao Phraya is this country's main river'

Answer: Thailand


Question:
'Prudhomme,
Gauguin,
Klee'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'You give a "wide" one to something you're afraid of, or to a fat man in a sleeping car'

Answer: berth


Question: 'Soloists on this 1985 song include Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan & Cyndi Lauper'

Answer: "We Are The World"


Question: 'Born in Romania in 1912, this absurdist playwright died in 1994'

Answer: Ionesco


Question: 'This African nation is made up of one big island & several smaller ones including Sainte Marie'

Answer: Madagascar


Question:
'Stewart,
Graham,
Grimes'

Answer: Martha


Question: 'It means in a particular area; put a hyphen in the middle & it helps you lose weight'

Answer: local


Question: 'From the French col, meaning "neck", it was a tap on the shoulder during the knighthood ceremony'

Answer: an accolade


Question: 'In a No. 1 R&B hit this group wondered, "Say, do you remember... dancing in September"'

Answer: Earth, Wind & Fire


Question: 'His pen names included Launcelot Wagstaffe, Geoffrey Crayon & Diedrich Knickerbocker'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'When the War of the Pacific ended in 1884, this now landlocked country lost its only coastal territory to Chile'

Answer: Bolivia


Question:
'Baker,
LeBon,
Wiesenthal'

Answer: Simon


Question: 'Because a false one is used as a disguise, it came to mean someone who's a decoy to divert suspicion'

Answer: beard


Question: 'The last grand master of the Knights Templar, he was burned as a heretic by Philip IV in March 1314'

Answer: Jacques de Molay


Question: 'This Eagles song promises, "Somebody's gonna hurt someone before the night is through"'

Answer: "Heartache Tonight"


Question: 'In his teens this Neoclassical French artist joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David'

Answer: Ingres


Question: 'Less than 12,000 square miles, this country is completely surrounded by South Africa'

Answer: Lesotho


Question:
'Meeker,
Cornell,
Pound'

Answer: Ezra


Question: 'A hidden provision in a deal, or an attractive marital partner'

Answer: catch


Question: 'Souvenirs sold at this attraction include 1962 World's Fair glassware & mugs boasting "I made it to the top"'

Answer: the Space Needle


Question: '"Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus Always to Tyrants)"'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'We don't want to spoil it for you, but near the end of "Les Mis" Inspector Javert throws himself into this river'

Answer: the Seine


Question: 'As well as a group in the Old West aiding the sheriff, it can be your bunch of pals from the neighborhood'

Answer: posse


Question: 'The USA's Survivor space probes were sent to probe this object in advance of the manned landing there'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'Disney sells a cuckoo clock based on original drawings just like the one in this woodcarver's shop'

Answer: Geppetto


Question: 'Opened in 1934, world-famous Tavern on the Green is found in this green area of New York City'

Answer: Central Park


Question: '"Eureka! (I Have Found It!)"'

Answer: California


Question: 'In 1997 Marie Osmond made her B'way debut as Anna in a revival of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'It's a nickname for baseball's Cleveland Indians'

Answer: the Tribe


Question: 'In December 1970 the space probe Venera 7 touched down on this planet'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'The water tower is one of this city's attractions found inside a musical snow globe that plays "My Kinda Town"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Taiwan honors this ancient philosopher every year on September 28'

Answer: Confucius


Question: '"Live Free or Die"'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Cassie is the talented terpsichorean who sings "The Music and the Mirror" in this popular musical'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'Murderous right-wing groups that roamed El Salvador in the 1980s were called "death" these'

Answer: squads


Question: 'In 1984 the Soviet Union launched the Vega I & Vega II probes to study this object seen here'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'For the sports fan, how about a replica of this famous venue seen here'

Answer: the Astrodome


Question: 'This Caribbean dance style shares its name with a nymph who kept Odysseus on her island for 7 years'

Answer: Calypso


Question: '"Excelsior" ("Ever Upward")'

Answer: New York


Question: 'New York said fangs, but no fangs to "Dance of the Vampires", even though it starred this famed ex-"Phantom"'

Answer: Michael Crawford


Question: 'A mother fowl's group of young, or what she does when she worries about them'

Answer: brood


Question: 'In 1996 a space probe named after this Italian astronomer gathered data from Jupiter's natural satellites'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'The gift shop at this memorial sells Black Hills gold jewelry as well as Beanie dolls of several presidents'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Berlin)  The Nazis blamed the 1933 Reichstag fire on this political group that may well have set it themselves'

Answer: the Communists


Question: '"Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers are Always Free)"'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City)  "Out Tonight" is performed here at the Nederlander Theatre in this Jonathan Larson musical'

Answer: Rent


Question: 'It can mean "one", or a group of soldiers, like the 326th Engineer Battalion'

Answer: unit


Question: 'This university's Jet Propulsion Laboratory controls many of the space probes launched by NASA'

Answer: Caltech


Question: 'From the National Atomic Museum you can get a real but non-working one of these radioactivity detectors'

Answer: Geiger counter


Question: 'Pollux could have fed some of this oil to his brother of the same name'

Answer: Castor oil


Question: 'This 1982 Stallone film introduced Rambo, a Vietnam vet & former Green Beret'

Answer: First Blood


Question: 'Until the 20th century, Great Britain led the world in the production of this fuel'

Answer: coal


Question: 'Proverbially, "Straighten up" & do this'

Answer: fly right


Question: 'In March 2003 his assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was denied parole for the 12th time'

Answer: Robert F. Kennedy


Question: 'On a clear day, you can see Calais, France from this chalky English landmark'

Answer: (the White Cliffs of) Dover


Question: 'Arthur Rimbaud was just 15 when his first poem appeared in a review published in this world capital'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'In "Rocky III" Sly regains "The Eye of the Tiger" training for a rematch with Clubber Lang, played by this man'

Answer: Mr. T


Question: 'If a sculptor has lost his marble, he's lost this one of the 3 main types of rock'

Answer: metamorphic


Question: 'A boxer up to 112 pounds'

Answer: flyweight


Question: 'Nathuram Godse's assassination of this man in 1948 set off riots in Bombay & other cities'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: 'A cave beneath a cliff in Cornwall, England is said to house the final resting place of this sorcerer'

Answer: Merlin the Magician


Question: 'Arthur wrote an anti-clerical, semi-pornographic poem about his sister's "First" one of these church ceremonies'

Answer: Communion


Question: 'Stallone was married to this Danish beauty when she starred in "Cobra" with him'

Answer: Brigitte Nielsen


Question: 'The greatest difference in hardness between 2 Mohs scale neighbors is between corundum (9) & this (10)'

Answer: diamond


Question: 'High-aiming standard heard here'

Answer: "Fly Me to the Moon"


Question: 'At a wedding in 336 B.C., a young nobleman named Pausanias killed this father of Alexander the Great'

Answer: Philip (II of Macedon)


Question: 'New Jersey's Palisades Park on this river features 500-foot cliffs that rise from the water's edge'

Answer: the Hudson River


Question: 'Rimbaud's sonnet to this alphabet quintet begins, "A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue"'

Answer: vowels


Question: 'Dolly Parton teaches cabbie Stallone to be a country singer in this "gem" from 1984'

Answer: Rhinestone


Question: 'Argentite, made up partly of this metal, is found in veins of it'

Answer: silver


Question: 'In this activity, the hooks can be decorated with feathers to make them look like insects'

Answer: fly fishing


Question: 'Hoping for new ties with Egypt, in 2003 Iran renamed a street that had honored Khaled Islambouli, this president's killer'

Answer: Anwar Sadat


Question: 'This Mexican resort city is noted for performers who dive from the Quebrada Cliffs'

Answer: Acapulco


Question: 'Done with poetry at age 20, Arthur moved to Africa & sold guns to Menelik, future emperor of this country'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'In a 1989 action comedy, Stallone was Tango & he was Cash'

Answer: Kurt Russell


Question: 'The Romans wove this mineral into cremation cloth; later it was used in brake linings'

Answer: asbestos


Question: 'The first page in a hardbound book'

Answer: flyleaf


Question: 'The one local doctor who might have saved this Kingfish's life was the man who supposedly shot him, Carl Weiss'

Answer: Huey Long


Question: 'There are 4 colossal statues of this "Great" pharaoh carved out of a sandstone cliff at Abu Simbel, Egypt'

Answer: Ramses II


Question: 'Paul Gauguin had a razor-wielding confrontation with Van Gogh; this poet named Paul shot Rimbaud in the arm'

Answer: Paul Verlaine


Question: 'His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'The 2 states that don't border any others'

Answer: Alaska and Hawaii


Question: 'Goodyear's gasbag'

Answer: the blimp


Question: 'The 2nd book of the Old Testament'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs & ping pong paddles out of this soft material'

Answer: Nerf (or foam rubber)


Question: 'Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow'

Answer: water skiing


Question: 'What "Satchmo" played'

Answer: the trumpet


Question: 'The Wolverine State, in 1847 became 1st to abolish capital punishment'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Nickname of Gil Gerard's futuristic Capt. William Rogers'

Answer: Buck


Question: 'Image of worship built of old jewelry while Moses was on the mountain'

Answer: the golden calf


Question: 'As scissors beats paper, so paper beats this'

Answer: rock (or a stone)


Question: 'Fishing from a moving boat'

Answer: trolling


Question: 'As Duke Ellington wrote, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got" this'

Answer: the swing


Question: 'Region originally called Indian Territory, it now has no Fed. reservations'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'To give by will'

Answer: bequeath


Question: 'Total number of dots on the highest standard domino'

Answer: 12


Question: 'What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song'

Answer: a wipeout


Question: 'Western neighbor of Tenn. & Miss.; it has only diamond field in N. America'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Quality of a Scot's brogue which makes the "R" r-r-r-oll'

Answer: a burr


Question: 'Thrown out by G.E. in 1949, this stretchy stuff became a national fad'

Answer: Silly Putty


Question: 'Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate'

Answer: water polo


Question: 'Midwest state whose native sons include Marlon Brando, Nick Nolte & Henry Fonda'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Australian bay named for the many plants growing on its shores'

Answer: Botany Bay


Question: 'Said to be a be a weapon in the Philippines, Duncan made them toys for the U.S.'

Answer: a yo-yo


Question: 'Name of yacht immortalized after winning the 100-Guinea Cup away from England in 1851'

Answer: the America


Question: 'Omar Khayyam's ancient Iran'

Answer: Persia


Question: 'According to Reader's Digest, it's the best medicine'

Answer: laughter


Question: 'Old-man, hedgehog & barrel'

Answer: kinds of cacti


Question: 'Lowest member of a movie crew whose job is to "go for" anything'

Answer: a gofer (or a runner or a production assistant)


Question: 'Oceangoing boats can travel 2300 miles up this river to Iquitos, Peru'

Answer: the Amazon


Question: 'People with this deficiency can't get mad and see red'

Answer: colorblindness


Question: 'Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers'

Answer: the Mayans


Question: 'Alexander Pope said "it springs eternal in the human breast"'

Answer: hope


Question: 'This "lowest point" figured in Ronald Reagan's career'

Answer: Death Valley


Question: 'For 10% of the bail, he'll spring you from jail'

Answer: a bail bondsman


Question: 'Crazed by presence of blood, these carnivorous fresh-water fish even eat each other'

Answer: piranha


Question: 'Snooty specs on a stick'

Answer: a lorgnette


Question: 'In '38, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to partition this country'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'Stuffy British monarch who said when she saw herself imitated, "We are not amused"'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Greek for "fertile land", buildings are built around but not on these watering spots'

Answer: oases


Question: 'He raises penmanship to a fine art'

Answer: a calligrapher


Question: 'Over 1/3 of its population lives in its capital, Montevideo'

Answer: Uruguay


Question: 'Called hyperopia, it's the opposite of myopia'

Answer: farsightedness


Question: 'With the Angles & Jutes, they conquered 5th century England'

Answer: the Saxons


Question: 'In "Trees", he claimed that "poems are made by fools like me"'

Answer: Joyce Kilmer


Question: 'Artist famous for her paintings of the deserts of the American southwest'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'Horse racing fixtures the British call "turf accountants"'

Answer: bookies


Question: 'These were first made in 1887 by German physiologist A.E. Fick'

Answer: contact lenses


Question: 'Many of them left France when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes'

Answer: the Huguenots


Question: 'Coldest, most northern desert in the world'

Answer: the Gobi


Question: 'What a fletcher makes'

Answer: arrows


Question: 'Famous William Hudson novel set in South American jungle'

Answer: Green Mansions


Question: 'You have to keep an eye on this M.D.'

Answer: an opthamologist


Question: 'Queen of France 1559-60; Catholic Europe considered her the rightful queen of England'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson's veep, he killed a famous man in a famous duel'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: '"It Takes A Village" (1996)'

Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton


Question: 'Donna Summer could be the "queen of" this Illinois farming community with a musical name'

Answer: Disco


Question: 'Gee, I could have had a Runner's Mark: Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon & 4 ounces of this alphanumeric juice'

Answer: V-8


Question: 'Bowie'

Answer: a knife


Question: 'Adjective meaning lacking clarity or distinctness'

Answer: vague


Question: 'He shot & killed Charles Dickinson in an 1806 duel'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: '"Gracie: A Love Story" (1990)'

Answer: George Burns


Question: 'Meaning 2-shelled, the name of this New Jersey town goes back to its oyster industry days'

Answer: Bivalve


Question: 'Without this traditional liquor, a Bloody Mary becomes a Virgin Mary'

Answer: vodka


Question: 'Thompson'

Answer: a machine gun


Question: 'A destructive elephant away from its normal range, or Sarah Palin in the title of her 2009 memoir'

Answer: rogue


Question: 'He personally killed a Spaniard at the Battle of San Juan Hill'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: '"It's Always Something" (1989)'

Answer: Gilda Radner


Question: 'The ghost town of Adaven is in this state; holding "Adaven" up to a mirror might help'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'An unfuzzy navel combines lemon juice, orange juice & this flavor fruit nectar'

Answer: peach


Question: 'Sidewinder (not the snake)'

Answer: missile


Question: 'A congressman refers to another, even if he thinks he's useless, as "my distinguished" this'

Answer: colleague


Question: 'In 1754 he ordered his Virginia militiamen to fire on a group of unsuspecting Frenchmen, killing 10'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '"The Civil War" (1991)'

Answer: Ken Burns


Question: 'You can cash in if you know there's a town in Texas with this name, the Spanish word for money'

Answer: Dinero


Question: 'For some real zing, try Zingerade, which combines lemonade with the Red Zinger type of this'

Answer: tea


Question: 'Walther PPK'

Answer: pistol


Question: 'The opposite of a preface'

Answer: an epilogue


Question: 'As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y., Grover Cleveland personally hanged 2 criminals, earning him the nickname "Hangman of" here'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: '"The Words Of Gandhi" (1984)'

Answer: Ben Kingsley


Question: 'Drop the "Old" from Zachary Taylor's nickname & you'll have the name of this town in Northern California'

Answer: Rough & Ready


Question: 'The fresh fruit mocktail called a Flossy Aussie contains both kumquats & this fruit'

Answer: kiwi


Question: 'The USS Harry S. Truman'

Answer: an aircraft carrier


Question: 'One foot is dragged on every step in this Caribbean dance favorite'

Answer: merengue


Question: 'One of the world's oldest mummies, the Detmold Child was mummified in this high S. Amer. country 3,000 years before Tut'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Magic Johnson, Jim Brown'

Answer: thirty-two


Question: 'Divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson coined this term for financial support after an unmarried couple splits up'

Answer: palimony


Question: 'A popular London scientist & medical man, by suicide (though police found another man's body in his place)'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll


Question: 'In film titles this synonym for fear is found before "of the Tongs", "of Tiny Town" & "on a Train"'

Answer: terror


Question: 'If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it'

Answer: your hard drive


Question: 'Veronica Orlovits is part of a group of mummies found in a forgotten church crypt in Pest county in this country'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Moses Malone, Derek Jeter'

Answer: two


Question: 'Flamboyant lawyer Melvin Belli was nicknamed "the king of" these civil wrongs'

Answer: torts


Question: 'Shakespearean royal, very briefly survived by her husband & son, by poisoning, in Denmark'

Answer: Queen Gertrude


Question: 'This synonym for "tumbled" is also a Shakespearean adjective meaning "cruel", as in a type of "swoop"'

Answer: fell


Question: 'Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Royal mummies like Nespaqashuti were placed inside these stone items, whose name is from the Greek for flesh-eating'

Answer: sarcophagi


Question: 'Jackie Robinson, Ronnie Lott'

Answer: forty-two


Question: 'John Adams was a defense attorney for patriots like John Hancock, & for British troops accused in this 1770 skirmish'

Answer: the Boston Massacre


Question: '19th c. pickpocket gang leader, described as "a receiver of stolen goods", by execution'

Answer: Fagin


Question: 'This word whose 2 syllables rhyme is a synonym for "to ambush"'

Answer: waylay


Question: 'Slowpoke Rodriguez, "the slowest mouse in all Mexico", was his cousin'

Answer: Speedy Gonzales


Question: 'Found in the family vault still wearing his boots, mummified German Baron von Holz died during this early 17th c. war'

Answer: the Thirty Years\' War


Question: 'Bobby Orr, Lou Gehrig'

Answer: four


Question: 'This prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial fell ill & died shortly after that trial ended'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'This synonym for "rich" consists of an adverb, a preposition & a verb'

Answer: well-to-do


Question: 'If you bet that the slowest fishes of all are these of genus Hippocampus--go to the winner's circle'

Answer: seahorses


Question: 'Preserved to accompany humans into the afterlife, cat mummies were popular in this Egyptian period named for a Greek'

Answer: the Ptolemaic Period


Question: 'Willie Mays, Jeff Gordon'

Answer: twenty-four


Question: 'This orator who argued McCulloch v. Maryland in the Supreme Court was one of the USA's most highly paid lawyers'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton'

Answer: Willie Stark


Question: 'A man's first name, or a word meaning "abrupt"'

Answer: Curt


Question: 'Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"'

Answer: Shelby Foote


Question: 'In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions'

Answer: (John Philip) Sousa


Question: 'Of the 3 main voice classifications for male singers, this one is the highest'

Answer: Tenor


Question: 'The main ingredient of this German food, a traditional hot dog topping, is cabbage'

Answer: Sauerkraut


Question: 'U.S. Military Academy,<br />1843'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Of north, east, west & south, the 2 in a famous Kipling "ballad"'

Answer: East & west


Question: 'In 1960 Jackie won this award named for Antoinette Perry for the musical comedy "Take Me Along"'

Answer: Tony Award


Question: 'Sound a dog makes, or the part of a tree that doesn't appreciate a dog's company'

Answer: Bark


Question: 'Dating from the 1800s, it's the simple piano piece heard here'

Answer: "Chopsticks"


Question:
'Whittier,
1934;
Duke Law School,
1937'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Of North Park, East Park, West Park or South Park, it's where Kenny is killed...& killed, & killed'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'Jackie Gleason was born Feb. 26, 1916 in this NYC borough that was also the setting for "The Honeymooners"'

Answer: Brooklyn


Question: 'People do this for marlin or for compliments, or for compliments on their marlin'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'French for "study", it's a musical piece intended to help students improve their technique'

Answer: Etude


Question: 'At Thanksgiving, many families enjoy a side dish of these veggies baked with marshmallows & brown sugar'

Answer: Sweet potatoes


Question:
'Georgetown,
1968;
Yale Law School,
1973'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Of north, east, west or south, the one that anagrams to a part of a rose'

Answer: North (thorn)


Question: 'Jackie learned his cues well & was Oscar-nominated for this 1961 pool-playing film'

Answer: The Hustler


Question: 'A type of vacation on a ship, or a type of missile'

Answer: Cruise


Question: 'Similar to Claude Monet & the art movement, Claude Debussy was a leader in this musical style'

Answer: Impressionism


Question: 'Relax, this body part is not an ingredient of the small sandwich named for it'

Answer: Finger sandwich


Question:
'MIchigan,
1935;
Yale Law School,
1941'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'Of Northon, Easton, Weston or Southon, the one that's the Pennsylvania hometown of Larry Holmes'

Answer: Easton


Question: 'In '62 Jackie played a sleazy manager in "Requiem For A Heavyweight", written by this "Twilight Zone" creator'

Answer: Rod Serling


Question: 'You can get admitted to it to practice law or non-sobriety'

Answer: Bar


Question: 'This "happy" 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar features a famous waltz of the same name'

Answer: "The Merry Widow"


Question: 'The greengage, a sweet green type of this fruit, was named for the British botanist who imported it from France'

Answer: Plum


Question: 'William and Mary,<br />1762'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Of Northanger, Easthanger, Westhanger or Southanger, an Austen abbey'

Answer: "Northanger Abbey"


Question: 'As Sheriff Buford T. Justice, Gleason chased (& chased & chased) Burt Reynolds in this '77 hit'

Answer: Smokey and the Bandit


Question: 'Term for not making it on time or for being recently deceased, which would be a good excuse'

Answer: Late


Question: 'In November 1934 Arthur Mitchell became the first black person elected to Congress from this party'

Answer: Democratic


Question: 'A band from Athens, Georgia, or the dream stage of sleep'

Answer: REM


Question: 'For shopping & entertainment, the Ginza district in this city is world-famous'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: '"The Prince of Tides"<br />(1991)'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'Of his works, Dickens called this largely autobiographical book his own "favourite child"'

Answer: "David Copperfield"


Question: 'Psalm 37 says "Mark the perfect man and behold" this one, the honest or just one, not the vertical piano'

Answer: Upright


Question: 'Before Rosa Parks there was Irene Morgan, who wouldn't move on an interstate one of these in July 1944'

Answer: Bus (Greyhound)


Question: 'He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'This desert in southern Africa has long been home to the San, or Bushmen'

Answer: Kalahari Desert


Question: '"Throw Momma From the Train"<br />(1987)'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'In April 1859 Dickens launched a new weekly with the 1st installation of this "tale" set in the French Revoution'

Answer: "A Tale of Two Cities"


Question: 'After Jesus went through the Transfiguration, his raiment, or synonym for this, was white as light'

Answer: Clothing


Question: 'Autherine Lucy, this Tuscaloosa school's first black student, was admitted & expelled in February 1956'

Answer: University of Alabama


Question: 'Raymond Chandler is credited with coining this term for death in the title of a 1939 novel'

Answer: "The Big Sleep"


Question: 'Every June Puerto Rico holds a music festival honoring this famed cellist'

Answer: Pablo Casals


Question: '"Mo' Better Blues"<br />(1990)'

Answer: Spike Lee


Question: '"The Haunted Man" was the last of 5 books Dickens wrote about this holiday'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'To produce a bunch of kids is to be this "and multiply and replenish the Earth"'

Answer: Fruitful


Question: 'The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865'

Answer: June (Juneteenth)


Question: 'Play that includes the following:<br />["Is sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub"]'

Answer: "Hamlet"


Question: 'It's the continent where you'll find Queen Maud Land & the Queen Maud Mountains'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: '"Easy Rider"<br />(1969)'

Answer: Dennis Hopper


Question: 'Editors suggested a club of hunters for a series, but Dickens changed the setting to this club of eccentrics'

Answer: Pickwick Club ("Pickwick Papers")


Question: 'When this 10-letter word for plague is used, it usually means bubonic'

Answer: Pestilence


Question: 'In January 1955 this great contralto integrated the Metropolitan Opera'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'If you are asleep, you are in the arms of this god'

Answer: Morpheus


Question: 'Agana  is the capital of this U.S. territory'

Answer: Guam


Question: '"Absolute Power"<br />(1997)'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'In 1833 Dickens began using this 3-letter pseudonym which had been used as a nickname for his youngest brother'

Answer: Boz


Question: 'Archaeologists have discovered a home entrance in ancient Pompeii with the words "cave canem", meaning this'

Answer: beware of dog


Question: 'Lavoisier was one of the men on the committee that came up with this measurement system in 1790s France'

Answer: metric system


Question: 'As of 2001 all new passenger cars must have a release latch here'

Answer: inside the trunk


Question: '"Quiet Man" Marion Michael Morrison'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'In a restaurant the fromager does for cheese what the sommelier does for this'

Answer: wine


Question: 'The priests blew their trumpets, Joshua's people shouted, & this city's "wall fell down flat"'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'This adjective describes the Six Million Dollar Man's legs & right arm'

Answer: bionic


Question: 'In 1891 Brucia, the 323rd asteroid discovered, was unique as it was the first one found by using these'

Answer: photographs


Question: 'Restlessness after a period of confinement is called this dwelling's "fever"'

Answer: cabin fever


Question: 'Dancer Frederick Austerlitz'

Answer: Fred Astaire


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Museum of Flight in Seattle)  Aboard a Boeing 80-A1, Iowan Ellen Church became the first of these workers in 1930'

Answer: stewardess/flight attendant


Question: 'Joseph & Mary traveled to this city of Joseph's ancestors "to be taxed"'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'A premolar, from the Latin for "2 points"'

Answer: bicuspid


Question: 'In the 1780s William Herschel determined its axial inclination & found it had ice caps'

Answer: Mars


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in a submarine)  A submariner's bed, also called this, is narrow, but comfier than the torture instrument of the same name'

Answer: rack


Question: 'A "Giant" hunk:<br />Roy Scherer, Jr.'

Answer: Rock Hudson


Question: 'Playwright Noel's ancestors presumably worked closely with these animals'

Answer: cows


Question: 'Lot's home was located in this wicked city'

Answer: Sodom


Question: 'Baking soda is also called sodium this'

Answer: bicarbonate


Question: 'The discovery of this element in 1669 has led to a lot of friction -- in matches'

Answer: phosphorus


Question: 'You stand a good chance of drowning if you worked in the Tanna, a Japanese one of these dug in the 1920s'

Answer: railroad tunnel (subject to flooding)


Question: 'Go "Out on a Limb":<br />Shirley Beaty'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: 'A perfusionist operates the medical machine named for these 2 organs'

Answer: heart & lungs


Question: 'Its name is derived from the fact that "The Lord did there confound the language of all the Earth"'

Answer: Babel


Question: 'In a classic late '40s Vittorio de Sica film, this is stolen from a man & he & his son begin a quest to get it back'

Answer: bicycle


Question: 'In 1879 after 1000s of failures Edison found a simple scorched cotton thread worked best as one of these'

Answer: lightbulb filament


Question: 'Per California's code, the number of people in these shall not exceed the rated load in pounds, divided by 150'

Answer: elevator


Question: 'Film legend Issur Danielovitch'

Answer: Kirk Douglas


Question: 'In July 2000, 69 chicken catchers became the first employees of this Maryland-based company to vote for a union'

Answer: Perdue


Question: 'The apostle Paul escaped his enemies in this Syrian city by being lowered over a wall in a basket'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'A 2000th anniversary'

Answer: bimillennium


Question: 'The reverse of the Australian one-dollar coin shows 5 of these animals'

Answer: kangaroos


Question: 'Fail a class<br />(5)'

Answer: flunk


Question: 'He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's 1956 Grand National Steeplechase when his horse gave out'

Answer: Dick Francis


Question: 'The March 2001 issue included these, a first in the magazine's history'

Answer: advertisements


Question: 'Pal was the first collie to play this dog on screen'

Answer: Lassie


Question: 'John Dunstable was a 15th century composer; John Constable was a 19th century one of these'

Answer: painter/artist


Question: 'In 1912 Aussie explorer Douglas Mawson led an expedition south to explore the east coast of this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Sudden snow gust<br />(6)'

Answer: flurry


Question: 'Her career took off after publishing "Fear of Flying" in 1973'

Answer: Erica Jong


Question: 'In April 2002 this network renewed its "Mad TV" for 2 more seasons'

Answer: Fox


Question: 'Bull's-Eye is the pet dog of Bill Sikes in this Dickens novel'

Answer: "Oliver Twist"


Question: 'In 1154 Nicholas Breakspear became the first & still the only Englishman to become this (he was Adrian IV)'

Answer: pope


Question: 'In 1954 John Landy became the 1st Australian & the 2nd person in the world to break this mark; Roger Bannister was 1st'

Answer: the four-minute mile


Question: 'Ian or Peggy<br />(7)'

Answer: Fleming


Question: 'Sinclair Lewis dedicated "Babbitt" to this author of "The Age of Innocence"'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'On each cover you'll find a little "ind" next to the "M" in Mad & this 5-letter word after the price'

Answer: cheap


Question: 'A small spaniel is named for this Asian region that first bred the Lhasa Apso'

Answer: Tibet


Question: 'As governor of New South Wales in 1806, he tried to suppress the "bountiful" rum trafficking'

Answer: Captain William Bligh


Question: 'All U.S. states are using the Australian type of this item, first used in an Aussie election in 1856'

Answer: ballot


Question: 'Baja beans<br />(8)'

Answer: frijoles


Question: 'This doctor has made the rounds with such medical thrillers as "Coma", "Shock" & "Toxin"'

Answer: Robin Cook


Question: 'A 1997 cover had Jerry Seinfeld saying this greeting to someone at his door'

Answer: "Hello, Neuman!"


Question: 'Caroline Kennedy's White House pet Pushinka was a gift from this Soviet leader'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'Last name of "Essays of Elia" author Charles who spent his life taking care of his sister Mary'

Answer: Lamb


Question: 'This capital of Queensland was home to the 1988 World's Fair'

Answer: Brisbane


Question: 'Matisse's movement<br />(7)'

Answer: Fauvism


Question: 'This author of the "Deadly Sin" novels also wrote several books featuring playboy sleuth Archy McNally'

Answer: Lawrence Sanders


Question: 'His name is on the masthead as "Founder"'

Answer: William M. Gaines


Question: 'Dave was one of Buck's sled-dog companions in this book'

Answer: "Call of the Wild"


Question: 'This last viceroy of India was assassinated in 1979'

Answer: Lord Louis Mountbatten


Question: 'Given its current name by John Wesley Powell, it was called Kaibab, or "mountain lying down" by the Paiutes'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: '"Rip-Rip" is a comic opera about this sleepy head who killed time in the Catskills'

Answer: Rip Van Winkle


Question: 'The product seen here began its zillion-dollar destiny when introduced by Wham-O in this decade (hula hoop)'

Answer: 1950s


Question: 'Even though it's the world's second longest river, it still has the world's largest drainage basin'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'The standard form of this language developed from that spoken in Amsterdam & nearby cities'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'In 1988 Michael Crawford picked up a Tony for playing the masked title role in this musical'

Answer: Phantom of the Opera


Question: 'Alicia Silverstone's 1995 breakthrough film'

Answer: "Clueless"


Question: 'This "Messiah" composer set Dryden's poem "Ode For St. Cecilia's Day" to music'

Answer: George F. Handel


Question: 'It's the wacky, but useful product, in use here ("applause" to turn on the lamp)'

Answer: The Clapper


Question: 'The Aare, originating in the Bern canton, is a major river of this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The Finnish national anthem, "Our Land", is "Maame" in Finnish & "Vart Land" in this other official language'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'The title of this category comes from an oft-said phrase on this classic radio & TV show'

Answer: The Lone Ranger


Question: '"To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket'

Answer: A blank


Question: 'Franz Liszt's symphony based on this work includes the movements "Inferno" & "Purgatorio"'

Answer: "The Divine Comedy"


Question: 'If you're lonely, this animal might be perfect for you (ceramic cat that grows hair)'

Answer: Chia Pet


Question: 'Rising in the Black Forest, it's the second longest river in Europe'

Answer: Danube


Question: 'Among the many dialects of this language are Maine, Gallo & Bourbonnais'

Answer: French


Question: 'In film he's donned the Riddler's mask & the title mask in "The Mask"'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'This phrase for a mind with no empirical knowledge is Latin for "scraped tablet"'

Answer: Tabula rasa


Question: 'Bernard Naylor adapted her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" for voice & string quartet'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'Banned from use in some parades, it's the alliterative name of the wacky product in use here (sprayed out of a can)'

Answer: Silly String


Question: 'You can take a high road or a low road to this, the largest lake in Scotland'

Answer: Loch Lomond


Question: 'This major language of the Canary Islands is spoken with what has been called a slight Andalusian accent'

Answer: Spanish


Question: 'The woman seen here fell for & dueled with this masked man in a 1998 film (Catherine Zeta-Jones)'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'Shakespeare wrote, "There is no darkness but" this; having it "of the law is no excuse"'

Answer: Ignorance


Question: 'This John Bunyan work inspired the one-act opera "The Shepherds Of The Delectable Mountains"'

Answer: "Pilgrim\'s Progress"


Question: 'Japanese term for the "egg" seen here'

Answer: Tamagotchi


Question: 'This lake in Manitoba, Ontario & Minnesota is a remnant of an extinct glacial lake'

Answer: Lake of the Woods


Question: 'Of Latvian, Lithuanian, or Estonian, the language not closely related to the other 2'

Answer: Estonian


Question: 'A newswire reported this singer, disguised as an Arab woman, shopping in a Munich toy store'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'In the Iran-Contra affair, George Bush was "out of" this, like a Chicago suburbanite'

Answer: The Loop


Question: 'Per Article II Luke Perry can become president in 2001, since he'll be this age'

Answer: 35


Question: 'The collaboration between this man & W.K.L. Dickson led to the production of the kinetoscope in 1894'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Elmo Lincoln was the 1st to play this film character as an adult; he was later played by Weissmuller'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'This Tibetan's resume includes:  1992 - Guest Editor, French Vogue; 1989 - Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Dalai Lama


Question: 'In the 1940s Bobby "Blue" Bland & B.B. King were in the Beale Streeters, a blues group in this city'

Answer: Memphis


Question: '"Touch"y golden guy<br />             (5)'

Answer: King Midas


Question: 'The president has the power to make these agreements, "provided two-thirds of the senators present concur"'

Answer: Treaties


Question: 'It was discovered that these, which share their name with insect parts, improved radio reception'

Answer: Antennas


Question: 'A host of "Break The Bank", he's best known as the former singing host of the Miss America pageant'

Answer: Bert Parks


Question: 'This blues empress' "Down Hearted Blues" sold 780,000 copies, restoring the ailing Columbia Records'

Answer: Bessie Smith


Question:
'Quicksilver
messenger
           (7)'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Article 3 may have soothed the Arnolds by saying this crime doesn't taint the offender's family'

Answer: Treason


Question: 'Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker" of 1893 was this fastener's forerunner'

Answer: Zipper


Question: 'In 1945's "The Story Of G.I. Joe", Burgess Meredith played this war correspondent'

Answer: Ernie Pyle


Question: 'Sonny Terry played this instrument, also called the blues harp, in a whooping style'

Answer: Harmonica


Question: 'Hair today, snakes tomorrow<br />            (6)'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'The name of this tax regulated by the 24th Amendment doesn't refer to voting; it's a synonym for head'

Answer: Poll tax


Question: 'By 1897 this German had perfected his alternative to the Otto gasoline engine'

Answer: Rudolf Diesel


Question: 'In 1998 Liam Neeson portrayed this Victorian author's downfall in Broadway's "The Judas Kiss"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'For its Christmas 1993 issue, French Vogue tapped this South African leader to guest edit'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'McKinley Morganfield played in a creek as a child & was given this nickname'

Answer: "Muddy Waters"


Question: 'Jason pulled the wool over her eyes<br />             (5)'

Answer: Medea


Question: 'The Constitution uses this 3-word Latin term for laws banning an action retroactively'

Answer: Ex post facto


Question: 'Edward Acheson failed when he tried to form these, but he did create carborundum'

Answer: Diamonds


Question: 'Singer Bill Withers & this saxophonist had a hit with 1981's "Just The Two Of Us"'

Answer: Grover Washington, Jr.


Question: 'The October 1996 issue of England's Prima was edited by this prime minister's wife, Cherie'

Answer: Tony Blair


Question: 'Said to have sold his soul to the Devil for his guitar skills, he recorded only 29 songs & died at age 27'

Answer: Robert Johnson


Question: 'Helen's hubby<br />            (8)'

Answer: Menelaus


Question: 'In 1999 these related events will occur on Tuesday, February 16 & Sunday, April 4'

Answer: Mardi Gras & Easter


Question: 'Prof. of math at Cambridge 1669-1701; for every A on his curve there was an equal & opposite F'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'Explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne named this Ala. city after the Maubila Indian tribe'

Answer: Mobile


Question: 'This rubber company spends over $7 million a year just to maintain & operate its blimps'

Answer: Goodyear


Question: 'This city was the first in the U.S. to have more than 1 TV station in operation'

Answer: New York


Question: 'The world's largest gold field, the Witwatersrand, is in this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Nostalgic name for the movies or the motion picture industry'

Answer: the silver screen


Question: 'Bertoldo di Giovanni studied under Donatello & taught this great Sistine artist'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'New Mexico city that got its name from the crosses on the graves of ambushed travelers'

Answer: Las Cruces


Question: 'After marrying its president, Joan Crawford became a spokesperson for this beverage co.'

Answer: Pepsi-Cola


Question: 'Gary David Goldberg & Alan Uger won 1987 Emmys for writing this series' "My Name Is Alex" episode'

Answer: Family Ties


Question: 'This form of gold, beaten thinner than paper, is used for gilding & lettering'

Answer: gold leaf


Question: 'When the going gets rough, remember that "Every cloud has" one of these'

Answer: a silver lining


Question: 'She married Harvard teacher John Macy on condition that Helen came first in their household'

Answer: Anne Sullivan


Question: 'Eisenhower was nominated for his second term as president in the Cow Palace in this city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'After 42 years, this French co. has ceased making its turtle-shaped car, the Deux Chevaux'

Answer: Citroen


Question: 'This skinflint comedian played Ralph & Alice Kramden's landlord on 1 episode of "The Honeymooners"'

Answer: Jack Benny


Question: 'Derived from the metal's Latin name, it's the chemical symbol for gold'

Answer: Au


Question: 'To produce rain, clouds are sometimes seeded with this chemical compound'

Answer: silver iodide


Question: 'Educational psychologist who developed a series of dictionaries with Clarence Barnhart'

Answer: (Edward) Thorndike


Question: 'This 2nd largest Oregon city is named for 1 of its settlers, a certain Mr. Skinner'

Answer: Eugene


Question: 'Whirlpool makes a line of products under this brand name for Sears, Roebuck'

Answer: Kenmore


Question: 'From 1947 to 1975, Lawrence Spivak was a panelist or moderator on this NBC public affairs program'

Answer: Meet the Press


Question: 'Pure gold is this many karats'

Answer: 24


Question: 'This band has backed up Bob Seger on hits like "Night Moves" & "Still The Same"'

Answer: The Silver Bullet Band


Question: 'East L.A. teacher famous for helping his kids pass the Advanced Placement calculus test'

Answer: (Jaime) Escalante


Question: 'The graves of O. Henry & Thomas Wolfe are in this N.C. city where Wolfe was born'

Answer: Asheville


Question: 'It was first incorporated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'The announcer called it "The crossword game you've played all your life, but never quite like this"'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'In the 1500s many Spanish explorers went to South America searching for this legendary gold kingdom'

Answer: El Dorado


Question: 'The U.S. government first issued this paper currency in 1878'

Answer: silver certificates


Question: 'Number of stars on the Texas state flag'

Answer: 1


Question: 'Society is divided between Eloi & Morlocks in this futuristic H.G. Wells work'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: 'The willow ptarmigan, which makes its home in Arctic areas, is this state's official bird'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'From 1881-86 he led the Chiricahua Apaches in the last major Indian stand'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'Empedocles said there are two basic emotions, these'

Answer: love & hate


Question: 'He attended the Allies' meetings at Tehran, Yalta & Potsdam as the Soviet Union's representative'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'This state's flag was designed by Miss Willie Hocker of the Pine Bluff chapter of the D.A.R.'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'The hero of this Old English poem dies killing a dragon that attacked his people, the Geats'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'Sapsuckers are the only members of this bird family to habitually injure trees'

Answer: woodpeckers


Question: 'Coinciding with the '84 Olympics in L.A. was a memorial powwow & games honoring this athlete'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'He developed his own method of inquiry, but as he didn't write it down we mostly know of it from Plato'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'We don't know what his 1st wife did, but his 2nd, Eva, was an actress, & his 3rd, Isabel, a dancer'

Answer: (Juan) Perón


Question: 'Kentucky's flag indicates it's one of these'

Answer: a commonwealth


Question: 'British philosopher & mathematician who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature'

Answer: Bertrand Russell


Question: 'This relative of the crow is prominent in folklore as a bad-luck sign or omen of death'

Answer: the raven


Question: 'This 6-nation group has not accepted U.S. citizenship & considers itself a separate nation'

Answer: the Iroquois


Question: 'Thomism, a doctrine of the Catholic Church, was based on the ideas of this man'

Answer: Aquinas


Question: 'After his reelection in 1961, this Haitian leader named himself president for life'

Answer: Duvalier


Question: 'The flag of this 13th state has 13 gold stars & the word "Hope"'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: '"Goodbye to All That" is the autobiography of this "I, Claudius" author'

Answer: (Robert) Graves


Question: 'These small English birds were first brought to the U.S. in 1850 to eliminate tree worms in Brooklyn'

Answer: sparrows


Question: 'They call themselves the Dine; since their language has no "V", they found this name unpronounceable'

Answer: the Navajo


Question: '17th c. French philosopher who wrote, "All the sciences are conjoined with one another and interdependent"'

Answer: (Rene) Descartes


Question: 'Nicknamed "The Incorruptible", he was arrested, tried & guillotined in July 1794'

Answer: Robespierre


Question: 'It's the only state whose flag features the British Union Jack'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'He became a Roman Catholic 14 years before publishing "The Power and the Glory"'

Answer: Graham Greene


Question: 'In 1848 this bird saved the crops of Utah by eating swarms of grasshoppers'

Answer: seagulls


Question: 'Among tribes this Spanish explorer met & alienated were the Cherokee, Creek & Choctaw'

Answer: de Sotò


Question: 'Opposing Hegel, this Danish philosopher said man does have free will'

Answer: Kierkegaard


Question: 'It took a revolution in 1911 to unseat this Mexican pres. who'd held power for more than 3 decades'

Answer: Porfirio Díaz


Question: 'The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947'

Answer: Pakistan & India


Question: 'A president:<br />"Remembering Jack"'

Answer: John Kennedy


Question: 'If you're using a leaf skimmer, you're probably keeping this clean'

Answer: your pool


Question: 'He was presidentially pardoned September 8, 1974'

Answer: Nixon


Question: '2002:<br />"Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband work in the family restaurant"'

Answer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding


Question: 'In pinochle, an A-K-Q-J-10 of trump is a royal sequence; in poker, it would be a royal this'

Answer: a royal flush


Question: 'A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease'

Answer: an epidemic


Question: 'A Frenchman:<br />"The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind"'

Answer: (Louis) Braille


Question: 'In Pittsburgh, "redd up" means tidy up & is usually applied to one of these, like a teenager's'

Answer: a bedroom


Question: 'Though Thomas Blood stole this object important to Charles II from the Tower of London, Charles pardoned him'

Answer: his crown


Question: '2003:<br />"I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass"'

Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean


Question: 'Chutes & Ladders began as a Hindu game of these & ladders'

Answer: snakes


Question: 'A short section at the end of a book'

Answer: an epilogue


Question: 'A Revolutionary War figure:<br />"Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy"'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'For some light cleaning, it's the 2-word name of the item seen here'

Answer: a feather duster


Question: 'In 1992 President Bush pardoned 6 Iran-Contra figures, saying this was their main motivation'

Answer: patriotism


Question: '2001:<br />"Keep an eye on the staircases.  They like to change"'

Answer: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\'s Stone


Question: 'One of the tiles in the first word put on a Scrabble board must cover the square with this symbol on it'

Answer: a star


Question: 'From the Greek for "seizure", it's a medical condition involving abnormal electrical brain activity'

Answer: epilepsy


Question: 'An entrepreneur:<br />"Bargain Billionaire"'

Answer: Sam Walton


Question: 'Men wielding these windshield-cleaning implements are a negative indicator of quality of life in NYC'

Answer: a squeegee


Question: 'This country singer who did time in San Quentin was pardoned by Governor Reagan in 1972'

Answer: Merle Haggard


Question: '2003:<br />"God doesn't take vacations... does He?... Do Ye?"'

Answer: Bruce Almighty


Question: 'A Parcheesi player begins with 4 pieces & can move a maximum of this many of them on one roll of the dice'

Answer: two


Question: 'A witty saying or expression'

Answer: an epigram


Question: 'A '60s civil rights leader:<br />"By Any Means Necessary"'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'It means "scrub vigorously" & 3M makes Scotch-Brite pads to do it'

Answer: to scour


Question: 'He fought against Julius Caesar, who pardoned him; a mistake, as he then conspired with Brutus in Caesar's murder'

Answer: Cassius


Question: '2002:<br />"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"'

Answer: Signs


Question: 'The French call this floor or table game jeu de puce, "the flea game", as the disks act like jumping fleas'

Answer: tiddlywinks


Question: 'The best example of something'

Answer: the epitome


Question: 'In 1919 this winner of the Iron Cross joined what would become the Nazi party'

Answer: Hitler


Question: 'He never forgave Mrs. Patrick Campbell for going off on her honeymoon while rehearsing his "Pygmalion"'

Answer: Shaw


Question: 'Bovine means resembling cattle; this word that's 1 letter shorter means resembling sheep'

Answer: ovine


Question: '2000:<br />Replaces New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'Nepal's western, eastern & southern boundaries are with this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Mash avocado, add onion, lemon juice & some tomato to get this chip dip'

Answer: guacamole


Question: 'This mythical hero stole Hippolyta's girdle as one of his labors'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'As a student at Brown University, this actress appeared in a play written by her father, Romulus Linney'

Answer: Laura Linney


Question: 'When in England, if asked to snog, be aware it means this'

Answer: to kiss


Question: '1988:<br />Succeeds Connecticut's Lowell Weicker'

Answer: (Joseph) Lieberman


Question: 'The U.S. ambassador to Samoa is stationed in Wellington in this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'In "Over The Rainbow", "troubles melt like" these, "away, above the chimney tops"'

Answer: lemon drops


Question: 'Born in Dublin, Texas in 1912, this 4-time U.S. Open winner had his own line of golf equipment'

Answer: Ben Hogan


Question: 'Chapter one of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play "The Good Doctor"'

Answer: Marsha Mason


Question: 'This word for circumstances that lessen a punishment comes from the Latin for "soft"'

Answer: mitigating


Question: '1986:<br />Replaces Arizona's Barry Goldwater'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'In April 1939 this country absorbed Albania'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'This girl sold lemonade to reporters during her father's 1976 presidential campaign'

Answer: Amy Carter


Question: 'This man took office as the 19th president of the U.S. in 1877'

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes


Question: 'Appropriately, his wife Armande Bejart made her stage debut in his 1662 play "The School for Wives"'

Answer: Molière


Question: 'Prefab metal sheets used to print newspapers gave us this term for standard wording, as in contracts'

Answer: boilerplate


Question: '2002:<br />Follows North Carolina's Jesse Helms'

Answer: Elizabeth Dole


Question: 'A child prodigy, violinist Yehudi Menuhin was born in this country'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'He's the only Lemon in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame'

Answer: Bob Lemon


Question: 'In Genesis 16 this handmaid of Sarah flees the household'

Answer: Hagar


Question: 'This author of the play "Purlie Victorious" co-starred in it on Broadway with his wife, Ruby Dee'

Answer: Ossie Davis


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew holds up a fencing sword.)  The weak part of the blade is the foible; the strong part has this "F" name that can also mean what you're best at'

Answer: a forte


Question: '1998:<br />Replaces New York's Alphonse D'Amato'

Answer: Chuck Schumer


Question: 'What was long ago called Cush, part of Nubia, is considered to be this African country today'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'According to a children's rhyme, "Oranges and lemons say the bells of" this church'

Answer: St. Clemens


Question: 'She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics'

Answer: Marion Jones


Question: 'For the first 9 to 10 days of its life, a bobcat suffers from this ocular disability'

Answer: blindness


Question: 'Stranded FedEx employee Chuck Noland'

Answer: Cast Away


Question: 'This Texas port is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S.'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'Rav is Hebrew for "teacher" or "master"; an "I" sound to mean "my" was added to create this word we use in English'

Answer: rabbi


Question: 'These spinning neutron stars were named for the bursts, or "pulses", of radio waves they emit'

Answer: pulsars


Question: 'A SURE TRY'

Answer: Treasury


Question: 'Taxonomists group cats into ones that roar & ones, including bobcats, that do this instead'

Answer: purr


Question: 'Airport resident Viktor Navorski'

Answer: The Terminal


Question: 'Its capitol building stands 5,280 feet above sea level'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'The word leech comes from an Old English word for this modern occupation'

Answer: doctor


Question: 'The name of Rigel is from the Arabic for "foot"; it's the foot of this mighty hunter'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'IRON RITE'

Answer: Interior


Question: 'When it's black instead of spotted, this cat is often called a panther; there are albino ones, too'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'Death row prison guard Paul Edgecomb'

Answer: The Green Mile


Question: 'Believe it or not, Jerry Springer was once the mayor of this large Ohio city'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows some Greek on the monitor.)  The name of this typographical mark  comes from the Greek words para, meaning "beside", and tithenai, "to put"'

Answer: parentheses


Question: 'This measure of star brightness is symbolized with a small m if it's apparent, a big M if it's absolute'

Answer: magnitude


Question: 'NO PARTISAN TROT'

Answer: Transportation


Question: 'Y acts as the only vowel in the name of this wildcat, a bobcat relative'

Answer: lynx


Question: 'Dying lawyer Andrew Beckett'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Founded in 1769, this city near the Mexican border is often called "The Birthplace of California"'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'English words drawn from the Algonquian language include moose, terrapin & this other word for groundhog'

Answer: woodchuck


Question: 'In about 22,000 years, Thuban in the constellation Draco will hold this distinction now held by Polaris'

Answer: The North Star


Question: 'AUDIT ONCE'

Answer: Education


Question: 'E.T. Seton referred to the "lithe & splended beasthood" of the New World panther with this 2-word name'

Answer: a mountain lion


Question: 'Mob enforcer & loving father Michael Sullivan'

Answer: Road to Perdition


Question: 'A campus for the University of Alabama is here, nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A."'

Answer: Huntsville


Question: 'The Latin mulsus, meaning "sweet", gave us the name of this chocolate dessert'

Answer: mousse


Question: 'The 3 stars of the Alpha Centauri system are Alpha, Beta & this, whose name means "the nearest"'

Answer: Proxima


Question: 'CURTAIL URGE'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: 'Willy: "I'm tired."<br />Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired"'

Answer: Death of a Salesman


Question: 'Kenneth Branagh & Anthony Hopkins once trod the boards at this city's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art'

Answer: London


Question: 'After Mississippi seceded, he resigned from the U.S. senate and soon led the Confederacy'

Answer: (Jefferson) Davis


Question: 'Her name comes from the Greek for "gift"; Zeus gift-boxed her for the human race as punishment'

Answer: Pandora


Question: 'Schizo-,<br />as in an atom or a banana dessert'

Answer: split


Question: 'The College Board advises bringing 2 of the No. 2 types of these to the SAT'

Answer: pencils


Question:
'Martha: "I'm drunk."
Nick: "I'm confused."
Honey: "I'm mousy."
George: "I'm going to bed"'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'This co-star of the film "Charlie's Angels" studied Asian languages & culture at the Univeristy of Michigan'

Answer: Lucy Liu


Question: '"Pickett's Charge" up Cemetery Ridge was the Rebels' last chance in this battle'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Cheating Zeus hung his jealous wife Hera by her wrists on this mountain'

Answer: Mount Olympus


Question: 'Glott- or lingua-;<br />there's a mother one'

Answer: tongue


Question: 'Tell great-grandpa to teach you the Lindy hop, one of these'

Answer: a dance


Question: 'Laura: "You broke my unicorn!"<br />Gentleman caller: "whoops"'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'Regis Philbin knows that this co-host of his is a proud alumna of Camden County College'

Answer: Kelly Ripa


Question: 'In 1863 at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee famously sent this steadfast general to attack the Union flank'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'Plato said this Greek love goddess was actually 2 individuals: Urania & Pandemos'

Answer: Aphrodite


Question: '-sclerosis,<br />as in "of an artery"'

Answer: hardening


Question: 'High school math may include these, a term first used by Descartes in 1637 & involving variables'

Answer: functions


Question: 'Act One, "Daily Life":<br />Stage manager: "My God, is this place boring"'

Answer: Our Town


Question: 'This actress who played Amidala studied psychology at Harvard'

Answer: Natalie Portman


Question: 'His Raiders burned most of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863'

Answer: William Quantrill


Question: '"Mourning becomes" this nymph who became one of the Pleiades'

Answer: Elektra


Question: 'Tachy-,<br />as in tachycardia'

Answer: fast


Question: 'In the movie "Orange County", Lily Tomlin has this 2-word job & messes up Colin Hanks' transcripts'

Answer: a guidance counselor


Question:
'Estragon: "Is he here yet?"
Vladimir: "Nope"
(curtain)'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'This mystery novelist could tell us "E is for English"; that was her major at the University of Louisville'

Answer: Sue Grafton


Question: 'Nicknamed "Old Jube", he brought his forces within sight of Washington, D.C. in 1864'

Answer: Jubal Early


Question: 'Zeus allowed this underworld goddess to spend part of her time in the world above'

Answer: Persephone


Question: 'Leuko-,<br />as in a hue'

Answer: white


Question: 'Before you turned 18, you were this, meaning you couldn't vote'

Answer: disenfranchised


Question: 'This continent has the lowest high point & the highest low point, less than a 7,500' difference'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Among these natural features in Bolivia, Poopo lies southeast of Titicaca'

Answer: Lakes


Question: 'In 1960 Ray Charles had this "on his mind"'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Reuters' Moscow correspondent in the '30s; British Navy intelligence 1939-45; his word was his Bond'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: 'He's made his name as an auto racer, salad dressing entrepreneur & actor'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'For protection, these athletes tape both hands under their 6- to 12-ounce gloves'

Answer: Boxers


Question: 'It "is the best policy", but as Pappy added, "It may not pay the largest dividends"'

Answer: Honesty


Question: 'The name Pichilemu, a Pacific beach resort, contains the name of this country that it's in'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The first British female to top the U.S. charts in the rock era, she did it with the song heard here:<br />["Downtown"]'

Answer: Petula Clark


Question: 'His 5 years with the British foreign service certainly put a Smiley on his face'

Answer: John le Carre


Question: 'This Yankee owner's first sports venture was the Cleveland Pipers semipro basketball team'

Answer: George Steinbrenner


Question: 'This type of tape is applied to bicycles & to children's clothing as a safety device'

Answer: Reflective tape


Question: 'According to Pappy, "Old habits die" this way'

Answer: Hard


Question: 'The area between the Uruguay & Parana Rivers, or the ancient region between the Tigris & Euphrates'

Answer: Mesopotamia


Question: 'Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich, who wrote "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", also co-wrote this 1963 Crystals Top 5 song'

Answer: "Da Doo Ron Ron"


Question: 'In 1974 this "Odessa File" author let loose "The Dogs of War"'

Answer: Frederick Forsyth


Question: 'He came to L.A. to perform comedy & was soon "Coming to America" with pal Eddie Murphy'

Answer: Arsenio Hall


Question: 'A popular calendar is titled "365 Days of" this often gray cloth tape'

Answer: Duct tape


Question: 'Wherever he was he'd say, "Don't waste time complaining about" this, "It will soon change"'

Answer: the Weather


Question: 'Parinas Point on Peru's Pacific coast is this geographic extreme of South America'

Answer: Westernmost point


Question: ''60s songs turned into films include "Harper Valley P.T.A." & this 1967 Bobbie Gentry hit'

Answer: "Ode to Billie Joe"


Question: 'He wrote "Spy Story", "Spy Hook", "Spy Line", "Spy Sinker", "Yesterday's Spy" & "Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy"'

Answer: Len Deighton


Question: 'Once an assistant secretary of HUD, she's currently the secretary of HHS'

Answer: Donna Shalala


Question: 'As its name indicates, it's used especially to cover surfaces during painting'

Answer: Masking tape


Question: 'A great reader, Pappy said, "This" is "the only place where success comes before work"'

Answer: In the dictionary


Question: 'Venezuela has the world's 2 tallest waterfalls, Cuquenan & this one'

Answer: Angel Falls


Question: 'Like Picasso, this "Polish Prince" went through a blue period, with hits like "Blue on Blue" & "Blue Velvet"'

Answer: Bobby Vinton


Question: 'You can name this author in 3 words..."The Icarus Agenda", "The Osterman Weekend", "The Matarese Circle"'

Answer: Robert Ludlum


Question: 'This former big wheel of the Cars recently produced Weezer's debut album'

Answer: Ric Ocasek


Question: 'Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects'

Answer: Friction tape


Question: 'Completes Pappy's couplet, "Love many, trust few, but always paddle..."'

Answer: Your own canoe


Question: 'The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made the Rio Grande the border between Mexico & this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Before marrying Bruce Willis, she was engaged to Emilio Estevez'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'It's the waterway into the City by the Bay'

Answer: Golden Gate Strait


Question: 'During a period of hyperinflation in 1944, Greece issued this currency in a denomination of 2,000,000,000'

Answer: Drachma


Question: 'In a corporate failure, holders of the preferred type of this get paid before holders of the common type'

Answer: Stock


Question: 'A lumberjack can show you how to birl, to stand on & rotate one of these in the water'

Answer: Log


Question: 'This Tammany Hall "Boss" died in NYC's Ludlow Street Jail April 12, 1878'

Answer: Boss Tweed


Question: 'Wynonna's younger sister, she's appeared in such films as "Ruby in Paradise", "A Time to Kill" & "Kiss the Girls"'

Answer: Ashley Judd


Question: 'In January 1996 "Party of Five" picked up one of these awards for Best Drama Series'

Answer: Golden Globe


Question: 'Appropriately, the monetary unit of this west African country is the Leone'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'Alimony & this payment for offspring are among debts not discharged by personal bankruptcy'

Answer: Child support


Question: '"Stygian" describes something gloomy in general or, more specifically, this mythical river'

Answer: River Styx


Question: 'The Treaty of Ghent, which ended this war, stopped the fighting but no territory changed hands'

Answer: War of 1812


Question: 'Current biography says her "Film career began & nearly ended, with the 1976 remake of 'King Kong'"'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'It's a big payment made to a prematurely terminated executive'

Answer: Golden parachute


Question: 'The Federated States of Micronesia & Palau use this country's currency as their monetary unit'

Answer: U.S.A. (Dollar)


Question: 'Filing for bankruptcy will stop this agency's collections, but it can still audit you'

Answer: IRS (Internal Revenue Service)


Question: '"Neologism" itself is not a neologism, meaning one of these; it first appeared in print in 1800'

Answer: New word


Question: 'On Dec. 28, 1835 President Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney to succeed this chief justice'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'This "Green Card" star's Southern accent was so strong in "Greystoke" that Glenn Close had to dub her voice'

Answer: Andie MacDowell


Question: 'Ernest Thompson won a Golden Oscar for this film from his play about the Thayers'

Answer: On Golden Pond


Question: 'The French Franc bears this 3-word revolutionary motto'

Answer: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite"


Question: 'Term for a section of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; No. 11 deals with business reorganization'

Answer: Chapter


Question: '"Onymous" is the obvious opposite of this word, used to describe some artists & writers'

Answer: Anonymous


Question: 'In 1892 farm leaders from this new political party nominated James B. Weaver for the presidency'

Answer: Populist Party


Question: 'She's the daughter of a Buddhism professor & a Swiss-born psychotherapist:'

Answer: Uma Thurman


Question: 'Istanbul sits on this inlet'

Answer: Golden Horn


Question: 'The islands of Bonaire & Saba in the Netherlands Antilles use this unit of currency'

Answer: Guilder


Question: 'This "wet" term means selling off a bankrupt person's assets to pay creditors'

Answer: Liquidation


Question: 'This machine for hoisting & moving heavy objects was named for an early 17th century English hangman'

Answer: Derrick


Question: 'It can attain a speed of about 40 mph, but has only 2 toes on each of its 2 feet'

Answer: Ostrich


Question: '"War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength", wrote this Brit in a 1949 novel'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'On August 16 this "Material Girl" became a real middle-aged girl, reaching the half-century mark'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'The Bombardier 415 is used in the initial attack on these alliterative menaces, dropping a mix of water & foam'

Answer: a forest fire


Question:
'Montague mayhem /
More than 2 Verona guys /
"Wherefore art thou" thee?'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'You're likely to hear "You are getting very sleepy" from someone practicing this'

Answer: hypnotism


Question: 'A way to cook eggs, or to take game or fish illegally'

Answer: poach


Question: 'In Act 1 of "The Beggar's Opera" you'll hear, "If with me you'd fondly stray, over" these "and far away"'

Answer: the hills


Question: 'He celebrated his 30th In style with a birthday bash in NYC with wife Demi & a bunch of their friends'

Answer: Ashton Kutcher


Question: 'NYC bucket brigades were retired with the use of watertight hoses & of these; the 1st was in 1817 on Frankfort St.'

Answer: a fire hydrant


Question:
'Talk to
yourself much? /
I, Claudius,
killed your dad /
You're not mad,
are you?'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s & '70s movement'

Answer: feminism


Question: 'This percussion instrument is also a verb that means to teach by repetition'

Answer: drum


Question: '"There's only one rule... you've got to be kind" is from the works of this sometimes misanthropic author seen here'

Answer: (Kurt) Vonnegut (Jr.)


Question: 'On January 24 this celebrated U.S. gymnast went from a perfect 10 to the big 4-0'

Answer: Mary Lou Retton


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a firefighting map diagram on the monitor.)  Firefighters make a perimeter around a wildfire--much of it by digging; when you hear a fire is 80% this, it doesn't mean it's 80% put out, but 80% of the perimeter is in place'

Answer: contained


Question:
'Whisper in my ear /
Betrayed me with Cassio?! /
Oomf!  Oomf!  Oomf! Oomf!  Dead'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Anthropophagy, another term for this practice, can really leave your bad taste in my mouth'

Answer: cannibalism


Question: 'To sit on eggs, or to worry'

Answer: brood


Question: 'In an 18th c. quip, "When a man... is to be hanged in a fortnight, it" does this to "his mind wonderfully"'

Answer: concentrates


Question: 'This ballet star & Carrie's love interest on "Sex and the City" turned 60 in February'

Answer: Baryshnikov


Question: 'What's now just a truck, or ladder truck, was once called this, incorporating an old way to pull down buildings'

Answer: a hook & ladder


Question:
'Gloucester: Ow, my eyes! /
Love you more than she does, Dad! /
A high body count'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Sometime in the 6th century B.C., Lao Tzu found "the Way" & founded this religion'

Answer: Taoism


Question: 'The last name of golfer Rocco, it means to help settle a dispute'

Answer: Mediate


Question: 'This teacher wrote that "the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth"'

Answer: Joseph Campbell


Question: 'We wonder if he sang "Through the Years" when he celebrated his 70th birthday in August'

Answer: Kenny Rogers


Question: 'Smashing windows is technically called "tactical" this, from the Latin for "wind"'

Answer: ventilation


Question:
'You control weather /
Are you some kind
of X-Man?! /
Read Miranda rights'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Donald Judd & Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s'

Answer: Minimalism


Question: 'This verb means to use another's work without permission or to attack a ship at sea'

Answer: to pirate


Question: 'In September 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa "discovered" this, though the locals had noticed it before'

Answer: the Pacific Ocean


Question: '1970:<br />"Love means never having to say you're sorry"'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'Moral hazard is the idea that if you have this, whether the auto or health kind, you'll be less careful'

Answer: insurance


Question: '11-year-old Frank Epperson first got the idea for this treat after leaving his fruit-flavored soda outside overnight'

Answer: a popsicle


Question: 'Prime Minister Gordon Brown'

Answer: the United Kingdom


Question: 'In vitamins, this "-1" is thiamine'

Answer: B


Question: 'In Coloma, California, the statue of James Marshall is pointing to the spot where he discovered this'

Answer: gold


Question: '1978:<br />"It was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost!"'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'Theodore Levitt coined this term for the integration of markets around the world'

Answer: globalization


Question: 'Rumors that these snacks were named for a physicist are untrue; they're named for a town in Massachusetts'

Answer: Fig Newtons


Question: 'Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'It precedes "Pioneers!" in a literary work & "Henry" in the name of a literary man'

Answer: O


Question: 'In 1986 an ancient boat was found on the shore of this Israeli "sea"; it could be the type Jesus & his disciples took'

Answer: (the Sea of) Galilee


Question: '1998:<br />"Earth.  It was fun while it lasted"'

Answer: Armageddon


Question: 'The core rate of inflation excludes 2 volatile items that were extra volatile in 2008; energy is one, this is the other'

Answer: food


Question: 'This cake with coconut in its frosting isn't named for a country, but rather a chocolatier'

Answer: German chocolate cake


Question: 'President Hamid Karzai'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'It's the first person nominative singular pronoun'

Answer: I


Question: 'Tycho Brahe shook up Europe with his 1573 work "De Nova Stella", about finding a new one of these'

Answer: a new star


Question: '1976:<br />"His whole life was a million-to-one shot"'

Answer: Rocky


Question: 'For July 2008 this figure was 3.0 for South Dakota but 8.5 for Michigan'

Answer: unemployment rate


Question: 'This type of mozzarella is named for Asian animals brought to Europe by the Goths'

Answer: buffalo


Question: 'President Nicolas Sarkozy'

Answer: France


Question: 'The 19th letter of the alphabet, or a double curve in a road'

Answer: S


Question: 'On Feb. 28, 1953 this English scientist walked into Cambridge's Eagle Pub & said "We've found the secret of life"'

Answer: (Francis) Crick


Question: '1995:<br />"Five criminals.  One line up.  No coincidence"'

Answer: The Usual Suspects


Question: 'Joseph Schumpeter said this system is maintained by the "creative destruction" of innovators & entrepreneurs'

Answer: capitalism


Question: 'Actually from the French, the name of this beef cut was noted by Samuel Johnson to have been "knighted"'

Answer: sirloin


Question: 'President Viktor Yushchenko'

Answer: the Ukraine


Question: 'It precedes "Bay" on the Internet & also name the state capital spelled out by all 5 responses'

Answer: E & Boise


Question: 'This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as "eye of pine"'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Dear Uncertain:<br />Christ didn't break the laws against working on this day; they apply to human, not divine work'

Answer: the sabbath


Question: 'In 2001 fans around the world mourned the death of this "Quiet Beatle"'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'It claims to build strong kids, strong families & strong communities worldwide'

Answer: YMCA


Question: 'At Obrycki's in Baltimore you can feast on this in a savory soup, "cocktail" or "cakes"'

Answer: crab


Question: 'Nerve cells in its neck can be over 9 feet long'

Answer: giraffe


Question: '"Easy" dessert<br />(3)'

Answer: pie


Question: 'Dear Worried:<br />It's a slippery slope -- a venial one of these disposes you to a mortal one'

Answer: sin


Question: 'Last name of brothers Carl & Dennis who still give off "Good Vibrations" with the music they left behind'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'Early members of this organization were encouraged to wear a uniform, or at least the shield'

Answer: The Salvation Army


Question: 'Our head writer says the world's best pizza is from La Casa Pizzaria on Leavenworth St. in this largest Nebraska city'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'Also called the hunting leopard, it can go 0 to 60 in seconds & it kills with a bite to the neck'

Answer: cheetah


Question: 'British baby carriage<br />(4)'

Answer: pram


Question: 'Dear Struggling:<br />Sorry, but the poor must pay these, whether the traditional tenth of income or more'

Answer: tithes


Question: 'Dweezil & Moon Unit's dad, he "left for his final tour" December 4, 1993'

Answer: Frank Zappa


Question: '"Love Leads the Way" is a TV movie about Morris Frank, the first to receive one of this group's dogs'

Answer: Seeing Eye Dogs


Question: 'At St. Louis' Crown Candy Kitchen, drink 5 of these (milkshakes, not beer) in 1/2 hour & they're free!'

Answer: malts


Question: 'You know the drill -- it's a species of this, as is the mandrill'

Answer: baboon


Question: 'Place for legal drug dealing<br />(8)'

Answer: pharmacy


Question: 'Dear Confused:<br />Baptism is the sacrament of faith; the sacrament of charity is this, the Lord's supper'

Answer: the eucharist


Question: 'There was a "Kind of Hush All Over the World" after she died of heart failure in 1983 at the age of 32'

Answer: Karen Carpenter


Question: 'If you can, donate the name of this organization that uses the face seen here'

Answer: Goodwill


Question: 'Quaker Steak & Lubes in PA. & OH. offer 15 kinds of these in a bucket; the atomic ones come with a release form!'

Answer: chicken wings


Question: 'New evidence says the whale may be related to this African mammal, also a heavyweight'

Answer: hippopotamus


Question: 'A boat's bow<br />(4)'

Answer: prow


Question: 'Dear Baffled:<br />As St. Augustine says, the image of this in man is in the 3 parts mind, knowledge & love'

Answer: the trinity


Question: '"Freddie's Dead" & sadly, so is this R&B singer & producer who made the song a hit in 1972'

Answer: Curtis Mayfield


Question: 'By George, it was founded in 1990 & works through volunteer centers throughout the U.S.'

Answer: Points of Light Foundation


Question: 'Veal meatloaf & peach bread pudding are specialties of Buckhead Diner, in this city's upscale Buckhead district'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'The horns of the male of the Grant's species of this curve forward, then back, & are up to 31 inches in length'

Answer: gazelle


Question: 'A 2-woman man<br />(10)'

Answer: polygamist


Question: 'The "Rough Wooing" involved Henry VIII's plan to have his kid Edward marry this Scottish infant, later a queen'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'One of the last biplanes used by a commercial airliner, the HP42, bore the name of this Carthaginian general'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'In despair over murdering his father & marrying his mother, he blinds himself & goes into exile'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'She's Liza with a Z's sister'

Answer: Lorna Luft


Question: 'The point where a river splits into 2, or a part of a table setting'

Answer: fork


Question: 'A classic musical taught "How to" do this "in Business Without Really Trying"'

Answer: Succeed


Question: 'The Proscription Act of the 1740s banned the kilt & this musical instrument'

Answer: bagpipes


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Museum of Flight in Seattle)  In 1979, the original Gossamer Albatross became the first manpowered plane to cross this body of water'

Answer: English Channel


Question: 'In Norse myth, he's the one-eyed god of wisdom & war'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'She was the first woman to have a country album certified gold'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'It's a fertile area of the desert, or a "Supersonic" rock group'

Answer: Oasis


Question: 'You "jump rope", but you do this to "frog"'

Answer: leap


Question: 'Pavement inventor John McAdam was nicknamed the "Colossus of" these (& spell it so we know what you mean)'

Answer: R-O-A-D-S


Question: 'The C in the Air Force designation C-130 indicates it's this kind of jet'

Answer: cargo jet


Question: 'This Egyptian god was the brother & husband of Isis'

Answer: Osiris


Question: 'This "Ally McBeal" co-star was previously seen on "Beverly Hills 90210"'

Answer: Lucy Liu


Question: 'It's the source of a stream as well as an Ayn Rand title'

Answer: fountainhead


Question: 'Rotate a movie camera or give a bad review to the finished film'

Answer: pan


Question: 'In 1803 the Earl of Selkirk established a colony of highlanders in what's now this country'

Answer: Canada (Prince Edward Island)


Question: 'In 1989 the U.S. controversially agreed to help this Asian ally build its FSX jet fighter'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'One legend says that Eos, goddess of the dawn, fell in love with this hunter & carried him away'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'In a 1986 "Circus of the Stars" this "Falcon Crest" hunk tamed some tigers, not South American camel relatives'

Answer: Lorenzo Lamas


Question: 'It's an open space in the forest, or an air freshener from Drackett'

Answer: Glade


Question: 'Crooks do it to the joint they intend to rob; beermakers do it to their bottles'

Answer: case


Question: 'This enlightened Scot's "A Treatise of Human Nature" was a flop at first, or as he put it, "Dead-born from the press"'

Answer: David Hume


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in an airplane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle)  It's the alphanumeric designation of this type of plane, which made history on August 6, 1945'

Answer: B-29 (the one that carried the atomic bomb)


Question: 'Aeschylus wrote a trilogy dealing with the myth of this brother of Iphigenia'

Answer: Orestes


Question: 'One of the Tales from the City we heard is that she was Oscar-nominated for "You Can Count on Me"'

Answer: Laura Linney


Question: 'It's a small rounded hill, or the sounding of a death bell'

Answer: knoll


Question: '"Think" to a Southerner; it also means to estimate or count'

Answer: reckon


Question: 'This peak is featured in the 1959 Disney film "Third Man on the Mountain", where it's called "The Citadel"'

Answer: the Matterhorn


Question: 'More than 75% of Singaporeans are of this ethnicity'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'Disguised as a man, Mollie Bean fought with the 47th North Carolina infantry during this war'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'The Great Hall in Russia's Catherine Palace is adorned with a painting called "The Allegory of" this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'On Aug. 16, 1812 British general Sir Isaac Brock captured this Michigan city'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'As a noun, it's a reader used by students for a class; an adjective, it can mean typical or classic'

Answer: textbook


Question: 'Not Crosby or Nash but this supergroup member was born in Dallas Jan. 3, 1945'

Answer: (Stephen) Stills


Question: 'Singapore's national flower is the Vanda Miss Joaquim, a purple species of this exotic corsage flower'

Answer: an orchid


Question: 'This retailer who lived till age 94 attributed his long life & good health to the time he spent outdoors'

Answer: L.L. Bean


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Iowa State Fair.)  Will Rogers, Gene Crane & Pat Boone starred in different versions of this film about a family's adventures at the Iowa State Fair'

Answer: State Fair


Question: 'There's a sucker born every minute, & this showman known for saying it was born on July 5, 1810'

Answer: (P.T.) Barnum


Question: 'The quality of a surface perceptible to the touch'

Answer: the texture


Question: 'Born Patsy Anne McClenny, she's the Dallas-born beauty seen here--yeah, that's the ticket'

Answer: Morgan Fairchild


Question: 'With 4.4 million people in 267 square miles, Singapore is second only to Monaco in this population figure'

Answer: density


Question: 'He liked to boast that he was the only "law west of the Pecos"'

Answer: Judge (Roy) Bean


Question: 'Actor Byron Barr changed his name to this after playing a man named Gig Young in the 1942 film "The Gay Sisters"'

Answer: Gig Young


Question: 'In 1894 this man "Familiar" with "Quotations" compiled a "Complete Concordance to" Shakespeare'

Answer: (John) Bartlett


Question: 'An emulsion of synthetic rubber or plastic'

Answer: latex


Question: 'This Dallas-born pro golfer titled his 1982 autobiography "They Call Me Super Mex"'

Answer: Lee Trevino


Question: '"Lions", actually tigers, once lived on the island, whose name means "lion city" in this ancient language of India'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'Tarleton Bean, the first curator of fishes at the Smithsonian, was a noted one of these "fish"y scientists'

Answer: an ichthyologists


Question: 'Every Friday, the Carillon in Duke University's chapel rings out the song "Dear Old" this'

Answer: Duke


Question: 'New Year's Eve 1876: actress Georgiana Drew marries into this famous acting family'

Answer: the Barrymores


Question: 'As a noun, it's a false reason; as a verb, it's to fake an identity to get someone's phone records'

Answer: pretext


Question: 'It was a "family affair" whenever this Dallas-born soul man got the crowd to "Dance To The Music"'

Answer: Sly Stone


Question: 'Singapore gained its independence in 1965 from this nation to which it's connected by a causeway'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'In 1981, this astronaut gave up his day job and became a painter of pictures like the one seen here'

Answer: Alan Bean


Question: 'The number of legs on one of the monopods in the "Narnia" books'

Answer: 1


Question: 'This Frenchman sculpted more than one statue for the NYC area: his statue of Lafayette is in Union Square'

Answer: (Frédéric) Bartholdi


Question: 'The words preceding or following a particular word that help explain its full meaning'

Answer: the context


Question: 'Born in Dallas in 1947, he hit the pop music charts with & like a "Bat Out Of Hell"'

Answer: Meat Loaf


Question: '"The Mission Song" is the 20th novel by this author of spy thrillers like "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"'

Answer: (John) le Carré


Question: 'It's a close shave for Ice Cube when he sells this title place of business in a 2002 film'

Answer: Barbershop


Question: 'He painted "Starry Night" in 1889 while checked into an asylum in Saint Remy'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes'

Answer: the Nobel Prize


Question: 'President Isabel Peron'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Friedrich Froebe coined this German word for pre-elementary school education (it's the same in English)'

Answer: kindergarten


Question: 'In this Hemingway novel, wounded WWI soldier Frederic really presses the call button of Nurse Catherine'

Answer: A Farewell to Arms


Question: 'Viggo Mortensen gave up his sword & tresses to play a small town diner operator with a dark past in this 2005 film'

Answer: A History of Violence


Question: 'Theodore Blake Bergman's painting seen here shows Queen Victoria with this Prime Minister'

Answer: Disraeli


Question: 'These 2 words preceded "England Inne" in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont'

Answer: Ye Olde


Question: 'Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Ads for Sam Adams have mentioned the Reinheitsgebot, the German purity law for this'

Answer: beer


Question: 'Nathanael West wrote forgettable films like "Let's Make Music" & this 1939 book called the greatest of Hollywood novels'

Answer: The Day of the Locust


Question: 'Actually Count Laszlo de Almasy, Ralph Fiennes' character gets this title moniker in a 1996 film due to his amnesia'

Answer: The English Patient


Question: 'Like David, Edvard Munch did a painting called "The Death" of this man, but he placed him on a bed, not in a bath'

Answer: Marat


Question: 'First 2 words of Variety's headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding "Hick Pix"'

Answer: Sticks Nix


Question: 'Prime Minister Edith Cresson'

Answer: France


Question:
'Take ein Pastille
(a lozenge)
if you have
ein Halsschmerzen
(this ailment)'

Answer: a sore throat


Question: 'In the Literary Arts stamp series, the vessel behind this writer recalls her famous novel "Ship of Fools"'

Answer: (Katherine Anne) Porter


Question: 'Harold Pinter wrote this movie in which Meryl Streep is both a 19th c. woman & the actress who plays her'

Answer: The French Lieutenant\'s Woman


Question: 'In the late 1800s this Frenchman painted a feast of still lifes: "With Plate of Cherries", "With Apples" & "With Onions"'

Answer: Cézanne