Question: 'This Siberian's surname means "debauched one"; might have been a little warning for empress Alexandra'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York.) Looking closely at the hair follicle, a scope that magnifies 7,000 times is used to evaluate a product that claims to repair this, also called trichoptilosis'

Answer: split ends


Question: '"___ Weeks in a Balloon"'

Answer: Five


Question: 'This 6-letter Tony Stewart sport / Don't thrill me at all / July is too short / That's when Wimbledon calls'

Answer: NASCAR


Question: 'Building material for a column, or a term describing smooth skin'

Answer: alabaster


Question: 'This Roman emperor whose name means "little boot" may have had some family issues in making his sister a goddess'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'Marshall McLuhan summarized the influence of TV & computers with his aphorism "The medium is" this'

Answer: the message


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York.) Moisturizing products are evaluated by the corneometer, which tests hydration in the stratum corneum, the outer part of this outermost layer of skin'

Answer: the epidermis


Question: 'His first teaching job came  "relatively" early --in 1909, as an Assistant Prof. of Physics at the Univ. of Zurich'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'NHL winger Ovechkin & Yankee infielder Rodriguez'

Answer: Alex


Question: 'It's the event that traditionally puts an end to a woman's career as a geisha'

Answer: her marriage


Question: 'It means lost in thought, forgetful, like a certain movie professor'

Answer: absent-minded


Question: 'The brother of this artist is torn between art & business in the Robert Altman film "Vincent & Theo"'

Answer: Vincent van Gogh


Question: 'Paul Reiser could tell you that this 3-letter word doesn't mean "angry" when used for how I feel about you'

Answer: mad


Question: 'In the 1670s this British genius wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'Cowboy Romo & Padre Gwynn'

Answer: Tony


Question: 'Unlike most other alcoholic drinks, this Japanese one can be enjoyed when it's at 40 degrees & when it's at 122 degrees'

Answer: sake


Question: 'A New England pudding is made with this Post product that was once promoted as the "Back-to-Nature Cereal"'

Answer: Grape-Nuts


Question: 'Charles Laughton as this painter has to deal with men upset at being shown in shadow in the "Night Watch"'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'Meaning "conjugal faithfulness", this word also describes the quality of electronic sound reproduction'

Answer: fidelity


Question: 'Born in Germany in 1912, he co-developed the V-2 rocket against the allies but became a U.S. citizen in 1955'

Answer: Wernher von Braun


Question: 'Mr. Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants & Mr. Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs'

Answer: Tim


Question: 'In "Letters from Iwo Jima", you can hear Japanese soldiers let out this cry, literally "10,000 Years"'

Answer: Banzai


Question: 'As opposed to freestyle, in Europe the more popular form of wrestling is this'

Answer: Greco-Roman


Question: 'Real-lfe spouse Amy Madigan didn't play Ed Harris' wife Lee Krasner in this movie; she played Peggy Guggenheim'

Answer: Pollock


Question: 'Like Otis Redding, I like to  "Try a Little" of this, also a quality I like in my steaks'

Answer: tenderness


Question: 'Around 1800 this scientist from Como, Italy developed a forerunner of the electric battery'

Answer: Alessandro Volta


Question: 'Welterweight champ Mosley & Philadelphia Phillie Victorino'

Answer: Shane


Question: 'This island invaded by U.S. troops in April 1945 has a long martial arts tradition & may be the birthplace of nunchaku'

Answer: Okinawa


Question: 'This secretive political party lasted from about 1849 to 1860, but don't say you heard it here'

Answer: Know-Nothing party


Question: 'Scarlett Johansson flashes some jewelry in this film in which she plays muse to Vermeer'

Answer: Girl with a Pearl Earring


Question: 'This alliterative term for emotional susceptibility can also describe a baby's fontanels'

Answer: a soft spot


Question: 'This 17th C. British physician said the pulse comes from the heart pumping blood, not from the arteries contracting'

Answer: (William) Harvey


Question: 'Tennis star Nadal & Dodger Furcal'

Answer: Rafael


Question: 'In the 18th century the Daimyo were vassal lords who spent half their time attending the leader with this title'

Answer: Shogun


Question: 'This comet that boogied across our skies in 1997 won't be seen for another 2,300 years'

Answer: Hale-Bopp


Question: 'In a 1996 film Jeffrey Wright played this title graffiti artist who collaborated with Warhol'

Answer: Jean-Michel Basquiat


Question: 'From the old French for "love" comes the word meaning captivated or charmed'

Answer: enamored


Question: '2nd only to Walt Disney's 59, this composer's 45 nominations include the "The Towering Inferno" & "Saving Private Ryan"'

Answer: John Williams


Question: 'The worst nuclear accident in history happened at this Ukrainian site in 1986'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: 'The title of this 1964 film refers to a large gem, not Inspector Clouseau'

Answer: The Pink Panther


Question: 'Like many kids, Salvador Dali detested this green veggie; he said that the only good thing in it was the sand'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'The Russian blue's eyes, this color, may be the "envy" of other felines'

Answer: green


Question: 'In November 2002 NASA renewed contracts for this program for another decade or so'

Answer: the Space Shuttle


Question: 'Get your hands on one of these & you can make a living like Eric Clapton or Jose Feliciano'

Answer: a guitar


Question: 'After conquering the region, this empress introduced serfdom to Ukraine in 1795'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: '"Pink Elephants On Parade" was one of the songs in this film'

Answer: Dumbo


Question: 'Baby borscht, a fad in the fifties, was made from baby food--specifically, the strained type of these red veggies'

Answer: beets


Question: 'Kittens have 26 of these, adult cats 30'

Answer: teeth


Question: 'Since 1995 HBO has been telecasting "Confessions" from the people in the back of these'

Answer: taxis


Question: 'Upper-case letters'

Answer: capitals


Question: 'Ukraine's capital lends its name to this poultry dish in which breasts are rolled up with butter, breaded & fried'

Answer: Chicken Kiev


Question: 'In 1983 he was in the Top 10 with "Pink Houses"'

Answer: John Cougar Mellencamp


Question: 'In the VeggieTales version of David & Goliath, David is one of these spears & Goliath is a giant pickle'

Answer: asparagus


Question: 'Britain's first cat show, in 1871, included black, blue & white types of this cat with a Mideastern heritage'

Answer: Persians


Question: 'A government study on these in the 1950s explained 90% of the sightings; that still leaves 10%... hmmmmm...'

Answer: UFOs


Question: 'It often means hard & breakable like glass, or a peanutty confection'

Answer: brittle


Question: 'Ukrainians call this body of water "Chorne More"'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'This 1986 Molly Ringwald film got its name from a song by the Psychedelic Furs'

Answer: Pretty in Pink


Question: 'Emeril loves to use onions, bell peppers & this crunchy veggie together, so he calls them his "trinity"'

Answer: celery


Question: 'The Tonkinese breed developed in the U.S. around 1930 & is a cross between a Burmese & this breed'

Answer: Siamese


Question: 'Opened in 1825 to connect New York City & the Great Lakes, it's now used mainly for pleasure boating'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: 'When shopping, be wary of the old "bait &" this'

Answer: switch


Question: 'This strategic peninsula became part of Ukraine in 1954'

Answer: the Crimea


Question: 'In a 1985 hit, Aretha went riding on this title structure "in my pink Cadillac"'

Answer: the Freeway of Love


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the science lab.)  Surprisingly, the sweet potato belongs to this botanical family of flowers that open in the early part of the day'

Answer: morning glories


Question: 'In the 1960s officials of the Ankara, Turkey zoo saved this pure breed from extinction'

Answer: the Turkish Angora


Question: '(Sarah takes a carriage ride through New York City's Central Park with the rest of the clue Crew.) The type of carriage we're riding in is called this, from French for "face-to-face"'

Answer: vis-à-vis


Question: 'From the name of a hotel magnate, "put on" this & you're livin' in luxury'

Answer: the Ritz


Question: 'After World War II, this Welsh poet served as a commentator on poetry for the BBC'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'Captain Algren (Tom Cruise) opens a humble noodle shop in Kyoto but is forced to return to the way of war'

Answer: The Last Samurai (2)


Question: '...Alaska & Hawaii were admitted to the Union'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'From the Latin for "healthy", it's a resort where patients go to recuperate'

Answer: a sanitarium


Question: 'A common expression refers to "pulling out all" of these knobs, seen here'

Answer: the stops


Question: 'This snack food has been including toy surprises in its packages since 1912'

Answer: Cracker Jack


Question: 'In this 14th c. work, Harry Bailly, Tabard Inn host, agrees to give a free dinner to the pilgrim who tells the best story'

Answer: the Canterbury Tales


Question: 'The 1934 Ford actually held lookalikes of the 2 outlaw lovers, who settle down & raise a zany family'

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde


Question: '...Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female on the U.S. Supreme Court'

Answer: George Bush


Question: 'It's a buzzword for big-city men who groom carefully & go shopping with their girlfriends'

Answer: metrosexuals


Question: 'One common type of pipe produces sound with a thin, vibrating one of these, like a clarinet does'

Answer: a reed


Question: 'This wife of George Burns said that she was so surprised by her birth, she "couldn't talk for a year and a half"'

Answer: Gracie Allen


Question: 'His name is a religious post & in "Essay on Man" he seeks to "vindicate the ways of God to Man"'

Answer: (Alexander) Pope


Question: 'Ashton Kutcher, as a friend of the skipper played by George Clooney, sails off to bring in one more catch in his memory'

Answer: The Perfect Storm


Question: '...Alexander Hamilton died'

Answer: (Aaron) Burr


Question: 'To try too hard when making up for a defect'

Answer: overcompensate


Question: 'A pipe's pitch is related to its length; compared to an eight-footer, a four-footer sounds the same note at this interval'

Answer: an octave


Question: 'This writer's name became synonymous with surprise endings after works like "The Gift of the Magi"'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'He wrote the lines "The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn, God's in his heaven, all's right with the world"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'John Book (now an ex-cop) & Rachel (exiled from the Amish) meet again when he picks her up in a Las Vegas bar'

Answer: Witness 2


Question: '...Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals in Munich'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'Often used of women, it's a fancy word for beautiful'

Answer: pulchritudinous


Question: 'Organ music is often written on 3 of these sets of lines, the lowest one for the pedal part'

Answer: a staff


Question: 'This man led 16 B-25s in a surprise air raid on Japan on April 18, 1942'

Answer: (Jimmy) Doolittle


Question: 'This poet laureate's "In Memoriam" was an elegy to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam'

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Sal's Famous Pizzeria re-opens in L.A. as Sal's Health Food Store, only to be threatened by rioting once again'

Answer: Do the Right Thing


Question: '...John Glenn orbited the Earth for the first time'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Agatha Christie called a man in this job "the best husband... the older she gets, the more interested he is"'

Answer: an archaeologist


Question: 'It's the "hands-on" name for an organ keyboard; the instrument seen here has four, some have six'

Answer: the (organ) manual


Question:
'Seen here is
"Unpleasant Surprise" by this French primitive'

Answer: Rousseau


Question: 'It occupies the 78 acres of land where Met Stadium, former home of the Vikings & Twins, once stood'

Answer: the Mall of America


Question: 'We're not sure whether the Spanish ship on its city flag represents the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria'

Answer: Columbus (Ohio)


Question: 'This guy's theme song tells us "absorbent & yellow & porous is he"'

Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants


Question: 'Traditional number of attendees at the Last Supper'

Answer: 13


Question: 'He wondered if the force that pulled an apple to the ground could also pull the moon into the earth's orbit'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'Created by Gary Gygax in 1974, this granddaddy of RPGs uuses a 20-sided die & a monster manual'

Answer: Dungeons & Dragons


Question: 'An occupation: medico'

Answer: doctor


Question: 'This capital was created by the Missouri legislature & laid out by the son of Daniel Boone in the 1820s'

Answer: Jefferson City


Question: 'This great Dane was introduced in 1969, & you'd have gotten away with $400 if it weren't for those meddling kids'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Number of lines in a standard sonnet'

Answer: 14


Question: 'A law of falling bodies associated with this Italian says that they fall at the same speed regardless of their mass'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'A live event on an online RPG saw Morpheus, a character fromthis movie franchise, killed by an assassin'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: 'A family member: hermana'

Answer: sister


Question: 'Mount Rainier is visible to the east from its state capitol building'

Answer: Olympia (Washington)


Question: 'These 2 title kids get to torment the Grim Reaper after winning a limbo contest against him'

Answer: Billy & Mandy


Question: 'Andy Warhol said we'd all be famous in the future for this many minutes'

Answer: 15


Question: 'Around 1507 this Polish astronomer began trying to prove that the sun, not earth, was the center of the universe'

Answer: Copernicus


Question: 'It's Horde vs. Alliance in this Blizzard game that allows you to go head-to-head vs. others online in Azeroth'

Answer: World of Warcraft


Question: 'It can get you from here to there: avion'

Answer: a plane


Question: 'One of the major attractions in this state capital is the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Oak Ridge Cemetery'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'He leads Ed & Edd in trying to carry out various adolescent schemes'

Answer: Eddy


Question: 'The term "hexadecimal" refers to quantities of this number'

Answer: 16


Question: 'Born in 1686, he invented the first accurate thermometer & devised a temperature scale to go with it'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: 'Ruins of Kunarc, Scars of Velious & Prophecy of Ro are expansions to this original Sony online RPG'

Answer: Everquest


Question: 'A part of the body: corazon'

Answer: heart


Question: 'This capital began as a small Dutch outpost, Fort Nassau, built on Westerlo Island in the Hudson River'

Answer: Albany (New York)


Question: 'Looking like a refugee from "Pac Man", Booregard Q. Kazoo hangs out with his pal, Mac, on this show'

Answer: Foster\'s Home for Imaginary Friends


Question: 'This number amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote'

Answer: 19


Question: 'In 1856 this monk began his experiments that led to the discovery of the basic laws of heredity'

Answer: (Gregor) Mendel


Question: 'Arthur's death shatters peace in the 3 realms & a new struggle is on in the online RPG caled "Dark Age of" this'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'A wild animal: lobo'

Answer: wolf


Question: 'Around 1807, John Colter explored Yellowstone after he was released from this duo's expedition'

Answer: Lewis and Clark


Question: 'This first lady was on her high school's debating team--good practice for her Senate career'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'The boto, also known as the Amazon dolphin or porpoise, is native to this continent'

Answer: South America


Question: 'Tend to lose your slippers? Perhaps you should star in this ballet that also features a pumpkin coach'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'This is a declaration that something will be done; my daughter demands a pinky one'

Answer: promise


Question: 'This suit... well, it's formal & the cummerbund & bow tie that go with it do seem a bit much for 4th period math'

Answer: tuxedo


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reads next to a world map.)  Leaving Portugal in July 1497, going around Africa & with the help of a pilot from Malindi, this explorer made it to India in 1498'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'In his teens, Bono wanted to be an actor, so he started his own theatre company at his school in this Irish capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Guinness says this bear has the vastest home land range of any land mammal: about 11,500 miles a year'

Answer: polar bear


Question: 'In the classic ballet based on this fairy tale, Carabosse is the evil fairy who conjures up that spindle curse'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'It's an advancement in rank or position; you'll definitely want to get one at your job'

Answer: promotion


Question: 'A suit of this, huh? Well, chain mail may be hip now, young man, but we all know the Maximilian type is the way to go!'

Answer: armor


Question: 'In 1769 this Brit found Tahiti by sailing west until he ran into it'

Answer: James Cook


Question: 'Spider-Man wasn't there to protect her when she was menaced by giant spiders in "Jumanji"'

Answer: Kirsten Dunst


Question: 'The "mute" type of this graceful waterfowl isn't really silent: it hisses, grunts & even makes snoring sounds'

Answer: swan


Question: 'The temps de poisson, a jump with arched back & crossed feet, literally means "time of" this animal'

Answer: fish


Question: 'If we were in a play & you forgot what to say, this type of cue would be whispered to you quickly from offstage'

Answer: prompt


Question: 'For gosh sakes, you're not really going to wear these paired equine accessories seen here, are you?'

Answer: blinders or blinkers


Question:
'(Kelly reads next to a map.)
In 1845, Ludwig Leichhardt completed a 3,000-mile journey, finding a route to the North Coast and fertile pastures, exciting the people of this land'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'As a student at Eton, he did have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne'

Answer: Prince William


Question: 'Among amphibians, toads have 4 of these & caecilians, which look like earthworms, don't have any'

Answer: legs


Question: 'A flurry of ballerinas performs the "Waltz of the Snowflakes" in this beloved ballet'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: 'It's a march if you're doing a square dance, or an area for walking, like Santa Monica's Third Street one'

Answer: promenade


Question: 'Seriously? This type of plain-woven sack made of coarse jute or hemp fabric is your choice? Not today, Mr.!'

Answer: burlap


Question: 'He stumbled around the south in search of gold but did gain fame as the European discoverer of the Mississippi'

Answer: Hernando De Soto


Question: 'In the '70s she was a high school cheerleader in Virginia; "Today" she anchors the network news'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'This kind of camel can run up to 40 miles per hour, & its name is from the Greek for "running"'

Answer: dromedary


Question: 'Just like the opera, the 1949 ballet version of "Carmen" takes place in this country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This is a high point of land projecting beyond the line of the coast'

Answer: promontory


Question: 'Maybe no one told you this whale-bone-stiffened undergarment went out of style around 1907, to women's relief'

Answer: corset


Question: 'It was partly inspired by Owen Chase's narrative of the shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex'

Answer: Moby-Dick


Question: 'She was created from a single rib'

Answer: Eve


Question: 'Maraschino liqueur is flavored with the pits & pulp of the marasca kind of these'

Answer: Cherries


Question: '"You can lead" one of these "to water, but you can't make him drink"'

Answer: Horse


Question: 'The Adriatic & Ionian Seas are arms of this larger sea'

Answer: Mediterranean


Question: 'The 1956 Chrysler had an under-dash phonograph; a 1987 Lincoln offered the 1st factory-installed player of these'

Answer: Compact Discs


Question: 'The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia calls The Artist Formerly Known As this "Symbol Man" or just "Formerly"'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'This husband of Mary may have died while Jesus was still a child'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'The Yukon Gold variety of this vegetable has a moist texture & is good mashed'

Answer: Potato


Question: 'According to Edison, "There's no substitute for hard" this'

Answer: Work


Question: 'The Potomac & Patuxent Rivers flow into this bay'

Answer: Chesapeake Bay


Question: 'In 1908 the federal government taxed this for the 1st time'

Answer: Gasoline


Question: 'She's noted for dropping the last name Judd, but she also dropped her original name:  Christina Ciminella'

Answer: Wynonna Judd


Question: 'Romans & Thessalonians were among the people he addressed in his epistles'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'To make Poile Helene, place a poached one of these atop vanilla ice cream & top with chocolate sauce'

Answer: Pear


Question: '"There is a black" one of these animals "in every flock"'

Answer: Sheep


Question: 'During its 1980s war with Iraq, Iran threatened to block this strait to all traffic'

Answer: Strait of Hormuz


Question: 'In 1932 this motor city laid the 1st mile of concrete pavement; in 1914 it erected the 1st stop sign'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Andrew Clay was "game" to drop this middle name before starring on the sitcom "Bless This House"'

Answer: Dice


Question: 'After her husband died, Ruth moved to Bethlehem with this woman, her mother-in-law'

Answer: Naomi


Question: 'The most common mandarin orange in the United States, it was named for a city in Morocco'

Answer: Tangerine (for Tangier)


Question: '"A shut" one of these "catches no flies"'

Answer: Mouth


Question: 'Lake Neuchatel is the largest lake entirely within this European country's boundaries'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'These seats were first offered in 1953 on Corvettes'

Answer: Bucket seats


Question: 'This late Tejano singer was known by one name:  she dropped her family & married names, Quintanilla & Perez'

Answer: Selena


Question: 'Though advanced in years, she gave birth to John The Baptist'

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: 'Many consider the French fraise des bois the most flavorful type of this fruit'

Answer: Strawberry


Question: '"There's no" one of these "like an old" one'

Answer: Fool


Question: 'The longest river in Italy has this short name'

Answer: Po


Question: 'It sold its 1st car in the U.S. in 1957; in 1969 it became the 1st Japanese car maker to sell 100,000 here in a year'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Singing is the forte of this ex-teen idol who dropped the last name Forte in the 1950s'

Answer: Fabian


Question: 'Known as the Beer Capital of the U.S., this largest Wisconsin city is home to several major breweries'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Captain John Smith became president of this Virginia colony's council in September 1608'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'This aviator liked to be called A.E.'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: '2 nebulae lie within this constellation, the Hunter:  the Great Nebula & the Horsehead Nebula'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'He wrote the "1812 Overture" to commemorate Napoleon's retreat from Moscow'

Answer: Peter I. Tchaikovsky


Question:
'Rabbit,
Piglet,
Eeyore'

Answer: A.A. Milne


Question: 'This city has Wisconsin's only National Football League franchise'

Answer: Green Bay


Question: 'He served as the first chief justice of New York before he became first chief justice of the U.S.'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'In 1995 this Nobel peace laureate visited the U.S. & helped open an AIDS hospice for women & children'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'According to Boyle's Law, when a gas is compressed to half its size, this doubles'

Answer: Pressure


Question: 'In 1713 this oratorio composer wrote a "Birthday Ode for Queen Anne"'

Answer: George Frideric Handel


Question:
'Wah-Ta!-Wah,
Uncas,
Chingachgook'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'The name of this city, an early logging center, is French for "clear water"'

Answer: Eau Claire


Question: 'It was necessary for George Washington to surrender Fort Necessity July 3, 1754, during this war'

Answer: French & Indian War


Question: 'This beloved jazz singer, "The First Lady of Song", passed away in 1996'

Answer: Ella Fitzgerald


Question: 'All amino acids contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen & this element'

Answer: Nitrogen


Question: 'His symphony "From The New World" premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1893'

Answer: Antonin Dvorak


Question:
'Ward Stradlater,
Robert Ackley,
Holden Caulfield'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'In 1836 Judge James Doty persuaded the legislature to move the capital from Belmont to this city'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'This president's political enemies referred to him as the "Beast of Buffalo"'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'Many believe her 1985 murder was in retaliation for her trying to stop the poaching of gorillas in Africa'

Answer: Dian Fossey


Question: 'This instrument is used to check the density of liquids, such as the acid in a storage battery'

Answer: Hydrometer


Question: 'This Austrian's "Quintet In A Major" is better known as "Die Forelle" or "Trout Quintet"'

Answer: Franz Schubert


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

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: 'Industry in this seat of Winnebago County produces transportation equipment, corrugated boxes & overalls'

Answer: Oshkosh


Question: 'Aaron Burr & Molly Pitcher distinguished themselves at the June 28, 1778 battle of this'

Answer: Monmouth


Question: 'In 1904 this American impressionist painter was awarded the French Legion of Honor'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'In 1905 this physicist proposed that photons were the carriers of electromagnetic energy'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'Completed in the 1930s, this Hungarian's work "Mikrokosmos" consists of 153 piano pieces for children'

Answer: Bela Bartok


Question:
'Moses Elkanah Herzog,
Eugene Henderson,
Von Humboldt Fleisher'

Answer: Saul Bellow


Question: 'As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'In the N. American species of this mammal, there are hundreds of microscopic barbs at the end of each quill'

Answer: the porcupine


Question: 'Adam trained with ex-NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury to prepare for this 2005 comedy'

Answer: The Longest Yard


Question: '3 teens were on the Team USA that won gold in August 2005 at the 26th World Championships of Twirling these'

Answer: batons


Question: 'Small cities in this state include Kinbrae (pop. 21) & Boy River (pop. 38); Minneapolis is much bigger'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'Of Flash, Google or AltaVista, the one that's not a popular Internet search engine'

Answer: Flash


Question: 'It can be a blood vessel, or being excessively proud of oneself'

Answer: vein/vain


Question: 'Known as a whooper, it's the tallest North American bird, reaching a height of nearly 5 feet'

Answer: a whooping crane


Question: 'There must be 50 ways to name this 2004 comedy with Adam & Drew Barrymore, said to be "Memento-meets-Groundhog Day"'

Answer: 50 First Dates


Question: 'In New Hampshire (& many other states), you must be at least this age to marry without parental consent'

Answer: 18


Question: 'This Wyoming town, pop. 15, was named for a wish-making boy in "The Arabian Nights"'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'This 2-letter Windows computer operating system was introduced in October 2001'

Answer: XP


Question: 'An aroma, or transmitted'

Answer: scent/sent


Question: 'When rainbow species of this migrate to the sea, their color changes to silver; they're then called steelheads'

Answer: trout


Question: 'Adam crooned his way into Drew Barrymore's heart in this "matrimonial" 1998 film'

Answer: The Wedding Singer


Question: 'She turned 13 on Feb. 27, 1993--one month after her father became president'

Answer: Chelsea Clinton


Question: 'The name of this city in Texas (pop. 1631) is found in Texas' traditional nickname'

Answer: Lone Star


Question: 'Abbreviated BB, it's a popular data-transmission method capable of sending multiple channels at once'

Answer: broadband


Question: 'Select, or masticates'

Answer: choose/chews


Question: 'The golden species of this small rodent is often sold as a pet because it's clean & easy to care for'

Answer: a hamster


Question: 'The price was very, very wrong when Bob Barker pummeled Adam on a golf course in this 1996 film'

Answer: Happy Gilmore


Question: 'This national org. is now divided into 4 different age groups; Studio 2B is for females between 11 & 17'

Answer: the Girl Scouts


Question: 'A Tennessee town, pop. 85, or a British sport similar to soccer & football'

Answer: Rugby


Question: 'In computerese, it's what the P stands for in the abbreviation HTTP'

Answer: protocol


Question: 'Writing paper, or standing still'

Answer: stationery/stationary


Question: 'The Yapok, a species of this native to Central & South America, is the only marsupial adapted to living in water'

Answer: an opossum


Question: 'Adam was kickin' it old school--elementary school--as this 1995 title character'

Answer: Billy Madison


Question: 'This national literary magazine written for teens by teens has a writing fluid in its name'

Answer: Teen Ink


Question: 'Eden (pop. 1152) in this state was chartered to a group of Green Mountain Boys'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.'

Answer: Defense


Question: 'Part of a horse's harness, or pertaining to a woman on her wedding day'

Answer: bridle/bridal


Question: 'This author once wrote, "Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia... and then imagine what would happen"'

Answer: (C.S.) Lewis


Question:
'John Milton,
John Grisham,
John Steinbeck'

Answer: John Milton


Question: 'It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'Banquet and Swanson's Hungry-Man are varieties of these meals that today you can nuke as well as bake'

Answer: TV dinners


Question: 'This nebula named for a crustacean is the remnant of a supernova from the year 1054'

Answer: the Crab Nebula


Question: 'Math teacher Señor Nuñez taught us that una linea is made up of puntos, these'

Answer: points


Question: 'Chapter 8 of this popular L. Frank Baum work is entitled "The Deadly Poppy Field"'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question:
'Charles Darwin,
Galileo,
Max Planck'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos"'

Answer: Byron


Question: 'Nautical name for a sandwich made from a long roll cut horizontally'

Answer: submarine


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew draws a familiar constellation on a chalkboard.)  The constellation outlined here is known by this name in the U.S.'

Answer: the Little Dipper


Question: 'Chemistry teacher Señor Avalos taught us element names in Spanish: potasio, helio & this, for symbol Na'

Answer: sodio


Question: 'L. Sprague de Camp & Robert Howard are 2 men who've novelized this swordsman played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger'

Answer: Conan the Barbarian


Question:
'Percy Shelley,
Robert Frost,
Pablo Neruda'

Answer: Shelley


Question: 'Though this kind of soprano means "half-soprano", never tell one that she's only half as good as a coloratura'

Answer: a mezzo-soprano


Question: 'Celebrating 75 years in 2005, these treats from Hostess originally had a banana filling'

Answer: Twinkies


Question: 'Many stars in the Milky Way are these kind of paired stars, from the Latin for "two together"'

Answer: binary


Question: 'All semester, Señor Ortiz in phys ed had us playing baloncesto, this game'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'In 1984 Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman began this "serpentine" series featuring the magician Raistlin'

Answer: Dragonlance


Question:
'Igor Stravinsky,
Claude Debussy,
Wolfgang Mozart'

Answer: Wolfgang Mozart


Question: 'Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville's sailorboy'

Answer: Billy Budd


Question: '"Untidy" name for sandwiches made with ground beef cooked in tomato sauce & served on hamburger buns'

Answer: sloppy joes


Question: 'In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'Señor Garcia's geography test included Cabo de Buena Esperanza, which is on this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Roger Zelazny is known for the series of novels based on this land that shares its name with fossilized resin'

Answer: Amber


Question:
'English kings:
James I,
Alfred the Great,
George III'

Answer: Alfred the Great


Question: 'One of the most popular Christmas operas is Menotti's classic about this boy "and the Night Visitors"'

Answer: Amahl


Question: 'The popular snack known as "ants on a log" is made with raisins, peanut butter & this long green vegetable'

Answer: celery


Question: 'In 1838 Friedrich Bessel first measured a star's distance by using parallax--using observations this many months apart'

Answer: 6


Question: 'In U.S. government with Señor Molina, we learned that this person, el Portavoz, presides over La Camara de Representantes'

Answer: the Speaker of the House


Question: 'In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'Roland Petit danced with this city's Opera Ballet before he co-founded the Ballets des Champs-Elysees'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'At the 1992 Olympics, the U.S. Men's Basketball team was known by this rhyming name'

Answer: the Dream Team


Question: 'This Irish castle famous for its "stone" was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446'

Answer: the Blarney


Question: 'This duo won 1989's Best New Artist Grammy, but later it was rescinded'

Answer: Milli Vanilli


Question: 'In 1900 Kodak introduced this camera that sold for $1'

Answer: the Brownie


Question: 'This "pie" can now be topped with duck sausage & goat cheese rather than mozzarella & tomato'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'Coincidentally, Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fanfare" debuted on the day she was crowned in 1953'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'Since the 1950s players from this continent have been the dominant force in table tennis'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico'

Answer: Maximilian


Question: 'Dionne Warwick's "That's What Friends Are For" was knocked out of No. 1 by this first cousin's "How Will I Know?"'

Answer: Whitney Houston


Question: 'Due to the nature of this singer's photo book "Sex", it is being sold mylar-wrapped'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'The Lorraine type of this custard cheese dish contains bacon'

Answer: quiche


Question: 'In the 1960s Maya Plisetskaya succeeded Galina Ulanova as prima ballerina of this company'

Answer: the Bolshoi


Question: 'This piece of fencing equipment is made of strong wire mesh & may be padded'

Answer: a mask


Question: 'In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war'

Answer: the Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'In 1982 he & Andrew Ridgely formed the successful duo Wham!'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio Two: The National Parks"'

Answer: Ansel Adams


Question: 'Hosomaki & Futomaki are types of this Japanese vinegared rice & raw fish dish'

Answer: sushi


Question: 'Part of John Cranko's ballet based on this Shakespeare play is set in Petruchio's home'

Answer: Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'In swimming the butterfly stroke originated as a modification of this similar stroke'

Answer: breaststroke


Question: 'In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict'

Answer: the Crimean War


Question: 'In 1978 John Travolta & this singer teamed for 2 Top 5 hits, "You're the One that I Want" & "Summer Nights"'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John


Question: 'In 1924 a miniature 35mm camera called the Leica was introduced in this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The name of the Mexican rolled tortilla dish comes from Spanish meaning "young donkey"'

Answer: burrito


Question: 'In Frederick Ashton's ballet, 4 fairies help this fairy tale heroine get dressed for the ball'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'The origins of tennis go back to jeu de paume, a game in which the ball was struck with this body part'

Answer: the palm of the hand


Question: 'Formerly of Cream, this legendary rock guitarist is nicknamed "Slowhand"'

Answer: Eric Clapton


Question: 'A mirror reflects the image onto a viewing screen in an SLR camera; SLR stands for this'

Answer: single-lens reflex


Question: 'Chef George Crum created this fried snack at a resort hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York'

Answer: potato chips


Question: 'His 1868 "German Requiem" shouldn't put you to sleep--it's not a lullaby'

Answer: Brahms


Question: 'Your deciduous ones usually appear at about 6 months, your permanent ones at about 6 years'

Answer: teeth


Question: 'Queen Liliuokalani died in this city in 1917, 42 years before it became a state capital'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'Goodness, gracious, Dennis Quaid portrayed rocker Jerry Lee Lewis in this film'

Answer: Great Balls of Fire


Question: 'The knight is the first character to tell his story in this Chaucer classic'

Answer: The Canterbury Tales


Question: 'Prokofiev turned this Tolstoy book into a very long 5-act opera'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'After light enters the eye, it focuses an image on this tissue which contains the rods & cones'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'Cable TV viewers know the first "N" in TNN stands for this state capital'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'The 1974 adaptation of this Fitzgerald novel featured Robert Redford in the title role'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'He promised that if Sancho Panza became his squire, he'd make him governor of an island'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'Ravel & Rimsky-Korsakov based works on this "Arabian Nights" storyteller'

Answer: Shahrazad


Question: 'It's the more common name for the tympanic membrane'

Answer: eardrum


Question: 'If you know that this state's capital is Jefferson City, "show me"'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Rohan, or Riddermark, is an important realm of Middle-Earth in books by this author'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'In 1759 this German organist & "Water Music" composer was buried in Westminster Abbey'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'Like the one in the nose, this wall that divides the heart lengthwise can deviate'

Answer: the septum


Question: 'This New Mexico capital was founded by Don Pedro de Peralta around 1610'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: 'His trip to the U.S. inspired the "American" string quartet as well as the "New World" symphony'

Answer: Dvorák


Question: 'Protected by the patella, it's the body's largest joint'

Answer: the knee


Question: 'Most of this South Carolina city was destroyed by fire in 1865; Sherman's troops claimed it was an "accident"'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'This phrase meaning the aristocracy is derived from the part of a loaf served to honored guests'

Answer: the upper crust


Question: 'This get-well card was sent by second graders to David Vetter, known as this boy kept in a plastic isolation unit'

Answer: The Boy in the Bubble


Question: 'This "colorful" 1967 Van Morrison song made the presidential cut'

Answer: "Brown Eyed Girl"


Question: 'This term can refer to an American born in the 1950s, a certain ex-NFL QB, or a male kangaroo'

Answer: boomer


Question: 'The top 22 of these fortune-telling cards are known as the major arcana'

Answer: tarot cards


Question: '20th century year in which America celebrated the tercentennial of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth'

Answer: 1920


Question: 'A stoutly made safe in which valuables are deposited'

Answer: a strongbox


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.)  Starting in 1960, people whose hearts beat too slowly could have a Medtronic one of these implanted; the Smithsonian has an early one'

Answer: a pacemaker


Question: 'Pres. Bush enjoys this John Fogerty song on his iPod that might remind him of his days as a baseball team owner'

Answer: "Centerfield"


Question: 'You can see why kangaroos are classified as macropodents, referring to the size of these'

Answer: their feet


Question: 'This alphabet is made up of 22 letters including Yud & Bet'

Answer: the Hebrew


Question: 'It's the year the small step seen here was taken'

Answer: 1969


Question: 'To use physical force or coercion against someone'

Answer: to strong-arm


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This inventor used a device that transmits a signal to a receiver  to look for the bullet in President Garfield's body'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: '"Danger Zone" by this singer might be more apt than his "Alive 'n' Kickin'" on Bush's iPod'

Answer: (Kenny) Loggins


Question: 'The marsupial represented by the most species is this New World beast, with the Virginia species the largest'

Answer: the opossum


Question: 'He was just 22 in 1962 when he won golf's U.S. Open'

Answer: (Jack) Nicklaus


Question: 'U.S. troops hit the beaches of Normandy in this year'

Answer: 1944


Question: 'A bridge-playing term, or a particular field in which someone has talent'

Answer: a strong suit


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This is part of the 1848 gold shipment shown to this president; he gave a report to Congress that kicked the Gold Rush into gear'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: '"The House Is Rockin'" by this Texas blues guitarist keeps the Prez rockin' through his jogging & biking'

Answer: Stevie Ray Vaughan


Question: 'Named partly for its temper, it's extinct on the Australian mainland but endures on an island'

Answer: the Tasmanian devil


Question: 'In 1975 Junko Tabei became the first woman to scale Everest, 22 years after this New Zealander did it'

Answer: Edmund Hillary


Question: 'Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia all fell to the Communists in this year'

Answer: 1975


Question: 'It can be a place of refuge or an area dominated by a group'

Answer: a stronghold


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.)  This bit of mold played its part in history when this London scientist  noticed it destroying a bacterial sample'

Answer: (Alexander) Fleming


Question: 'Several songs by this country music legend appear on the first iPod, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today"'

Answer: George Jones


Question: 'Common and hairy-nosed are types of this creature that looks like a Down Under woodchuck'

Answer: wombat


Question: 'Begun in 1887 to raise funds for 22 different agencies, the Charity Organization Society is known as this today'

Answer: the United Way


Question: 'In this year Senator Henry Clay pushed for a compromise in his last big speech before the Senate'

Answer: 1850


Question: 'One of the fundamental interactions between elementary particles binding them to a nucleus'

Answer: strong force (strong forces accepted)


Question: 'A 1972 earthquake destroyed most of the downtown area of this Nicaraguan capital'

Answer: Managua


Question: 'He's got drive & loves the green'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'I like it, Chuck; an orphan overcomes the odds, dig the "Bill & Nancy" angle... do it as a musical?  Are you nuts?!'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'A must-have for the preppy look: this short-sleeve collared shirt, particularly one of the brand of the same name'

Answer: polo


Question: 'The first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, he was also involved in an early political sex scandal'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'Superman's cub reporter pal admits to fathering Mary-Kate & Ashley & they become known as the...'

Answer: Jimmy Olsen twins


Question: 'This capital is surrounded by, but is not part of, the Flemish region of Brabant'

Answer: Brussels


Question: 'This athlete gets a kick out of Madrid'

Answer: (David) Beckham


Question: 'More orphans?! & this book's start, "My father's family name being Pirrip"... not exactly "Call me Ishmael", Chuck!'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'This sneaker brand was introduced by the U.S. Rubber Co. in 1916'

Answer: Keds


Question: 'In 1991 "The Star-Spangled Banner" entered the Billboard Top 40 for the first time, sung by her'

Answer: Whitney Houston


Question: 'A House majority leader goes ga-ga over Dylan's "big brass bed" occupant & earns the nickname...'

Answer: Tom DeLay Lady Lay


Question: 'Until 1924 this Mongolian capital was called Urga'

Answer: Ulan Bator


Question: 'This young gun drives the No. 8 car'

Answer: Dale Earnhardt, Jr.


Question: 'This Italian craftsman who died in 1960 titled his autobiography "Shoemaker of Dreams"'

Answer: Ferragamo


Question: 'He appointed former President William Howard Taft to the Supreme Court'

Answer: Harding


Question: 'Goldie Hawn title character is promoted to Prime Minster under Victoria & becomes...'

Answer: Private Benjamin Disraeli


Question: '(Christiane Amanpour of CNN delivers the clue.)  In 1992 I reported from the shores of this African capital when the U.S. military launched Operation: Restore Hope'

Answer: Mogadishu


Question: 'This rapper changed nicknames, but kept the same initials'

Answer: Puff Daddy


Question: 'Uncle Ralph's OK... nice alliterative title for this... but Wackford Squeers is now Ford Sears; we get 2 product placements for 1!'

Answer: Nicholas Nickleby


Question: 'The name of this garment is the French word for "breeches"'

Answer: culottes


Question: 'He's the troubled prodigy whose story is told in the 1996 film "Shine"'

Answer: (David) Helfgott


Question: 'Lady tennis legend is grouchy with the press & gets compared to an arthropod with delicious legs as...'

Answer: Billie Jean King Crab


Question: 'It's the home of Belarusian State University'

Answer: Minsk


Question: 'Before he joined the NBA in 2003, his mother took out a loan to buy him a Hummer'

Answer: LeBron James


Question: 'Last name of French design team Marithe & Francois, known for their streetwear'

Answer: Girbaud


Question: 'This Japanese-American professor of linguistics was a California senator from 1977 to 1983'

Answer: S.I. Hayakawa


Question: ''70s Jim Hutton TV detective goes on '50s Jack Bailey TV weeper & is mortified to be named...'

Answer: Ellery Queen for a Day


Question: 'This man who became a ruler in April 2005 is the great-nephew of the 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama'

Answer: Prince Albert II of Monaco


Question: 'Irving Berlin writes his first big hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band"'

Answer: 1911


Question: 'Melanie Griffith'

Answer: Antonio Banderas


Question: 'Union Oyster House--a Massachusetts city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Tools, machinery & other implements for home & work bought at the store of the same name'

Answer: hardware


Question: 'In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly over it alone & the first person of any sex to cross it by air twice'

Answer: the Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'Actor Dwayne Johnson has a half sleeve type of this; musician Travis Barker has 2 full ones'

Answer: tattoos


Question: 'General William Henry Harrison defeats the Shawnee Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe'

Answer: 1811


Question: 'Warren Beatty'

Answer: Annette Bening


Question: 'Dock's Oyster House--a New Jersey city'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'When Alcatraz was a prison, these items with a metallic name were counted by officers after each meal'

Answer: silverware


Question: 'An aviator contemporary of Amelia's was dubbed "Lucky" this; Amelia was "Lady" this'

Answer: Lindy


Question: 'Basketball sleeves contain this flexible segmented polyurethane fiber, an anagram of "expands"'

Answer: spandex


Question: 'Explorer Henry Hudson is set adrift in his namesake bay by a mutinous crew & never seen again'

Answer: 1611


Question: 'Calista Flockhart'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'Antoine's, 713 rue St. Louis'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Malicious computer programs that are secretly installed on a computer to steal the user's private information'

Answer: spyware


Question: 'Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison in this state; a bridge & an airport there are named for her'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'This ornamental shoulder piece has an apostle in its name'

Answer: epaulet


Question: 'Oueen Anne of England establishes the Ascot horse races'

Answer: 1711


Question: 'Trisha Yearwood'

Answer: Garth Brooks


Question: 'Yar, 32/2 Leningradsky Prospect'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Caveat Emptor is usually translated as this 4-word English phrase'

Answer: let the buyer beware


Question: 'Amelia once took this First Lady on a flight over Washington, D.C. while both were wearing evening gowns'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'The French call this geographical feature "la Manche", which means "The Sleeve"'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'In a warmup to his assault on Mexico, Cortes helps Velazquez conquer Cuba'

Answer: 1511


Question: 'Javier Bardem'

Answer: Penélope Cruz


Question: 'Casa Botin, located on Calle de los Cuchilleros (made famous in a Hemingway novel)'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Before it reaches Trenton, it skirts the Kittatinny Mountains & flows past Nockamixon Rocks'

Answer: the Delaware


Question: 'Amelia was the first woman to receive this award, the DFC'

Answer: the Distinguished Flying Cross


Question: 'You can use sleeves to protect these items used in both Magic: The Gathering & Pokemon'

Answer: cards


Question: 'Although he completed a few musical pieces afterward, "William Tell" was his 38th & final opera'

Answer: (Gioachino) Rossini


Question: 'He took a comedic turn in "The Other Guys" as Det. Terry Hoitz, who wants to "fly like a peacock"'

Answer: (Mark) Wahlberg


Question: '(Lindblad Expeditions naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from South Georgia.) Unlike the larger emperor, this second biggest species of penguin prefers the sub-Antarctic islands, like South Georgia, better than ice for forming its vast colonies'

Answer: king penguins


Question: 'UPS drivers'

Answer: the Teamsters


Question: 'His website says, "Dave lives in Miami... he has a son... and a daughter... neither of whom thinks he's funny"'

Answer: Dave Barry


Question: 'Ace or tourniquet'

Answer: a bandage


Question: 'His last work was "Parsifal", which premiered at Bayreuth in 1882'

Answer: (Richard) Wagner


Question: '"Don't Forget The Lyrics!" or this Sugar Ray frontman who started hosting that show in 2010'

Answer: (Mark) McGrath


Question: '(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen from this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'The men & women assembling Mustangs & Malibus'

Answer: the United Auto Workers


Question: 'Thomas B. Thorpe wrote these alliterative, exaggerated stories, like "The Big Bear of Arkansas"'

Answer: tall tales


Question: 'The carrying capacity of a large ship is measured in this 7-letter word'

Answer: tonnage


Question: 'In 1751 he composed his last all-new composition, the oratorio "Jephtha"'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'Mark Boal won 2 Oscars for this 2009 film about bomb defusers in Iraq'

Answer: The Hurt Locker


Question: '(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the breeding ground for close to half the world's population of the largest pinniped--the Southern type of this seal now protected from hunting'

Answer: elephant seals


Question: 'Approximately 2 million K-12 public school teachers in the U.S.'

Answer: the National Education Association (NEA)


Question: 'Former Harvard Lampoon staffer Doug Kenney was the first editor of this magazine'

Answer: National Lampoon


Question: 'A heavy bombardment of artillery'

Answer: a barrage


Question: 'This Hungarian was just measures away from finishing his "Piano Concerto No. 3" when he died in New York in 1945'

Answer: Béla Bartók


Question: 'Mark Mothersbaugh whipped it into shape as a member of this New Wave band'

Answer: Devo


Question: 'The area around the island has some commercial fishing for the Patagonian this, aka Chilean sea bass'

Answer: toothfish


Question: 'Dole berry pickers'

Answer: the United Farm Workers


Question: 'Marrying Laura West made funny man S.J. Perelman brother-in-law to this author of 2 of Amer. lit's most depressing novels'

Answer: Nathanael West


Question: 'From the French for "training", it's an equestrian event'

Answer: dressage


Question: 'Composed in 1795, his last symphony, No. 104 In D Major, is popularly known as "The London"'

Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn


Question: 'Seen here, this actor is known for his work in indie films'

Answer: (Mark) Ruffalo


Question: '(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.)  South Georgia is the burial site for this explorer who made a grueling journey across the island after his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in pack ice'

Answer: Sir Ernest Shackleton


Question: 'Peyton Manning'

Answer: the NFL Players Association


Question: 'Peace be with you!  2009 was the 150th birthday of this great Yiddish comic writer'

Answer: Sholom Aleichem


Question: 'Within a circuit, it's calculated by the amount of current flow of 1 coulomb per second past a given point'

Answer: the amperage


Question: 'In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'Rhyming name of the dim bedtime illuminant in your child's room, possibly to ward off monsters'

Answer: a night light


Question: 'She announced that 2003's "Blood Canticle" will be her final vampire novel'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'Many schools use this motto from Genesis 1:3, God's first spoken command'

Answer: "Let there be light"


Question: 'From an explorer, Mr. Vespucci'

Answer: America


Question: 'This word is paired with "lickety" to mean "quickly"'

Answer: split


Question: 'Jackie broke pro baseball's color barrier & joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in this decade'

Answer: the 1940s


Question: 'Unit of power equal to 1 ampere flowing across a 1-volt potential difference (big definition, little word)'

Answer: a watt


Question: 'Her 16th c. cottage in Shottery, England is kept as a memorial (she never danced at the Oscars with Hugh Jackman)'

Answer: Anne Hathaway


Question: 'Harvard University's motto is simply Veritas, meaning this'

Answer: truth


Question: 'After seeing stilt houses on Lake Maracaibo, explorers named this country after Venice'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'Speedy plural term for a quickly-moving section of a river'

Answer: rapids


Question: 'Jackie lettered in 4 sports at this Southern California university, the only athlete ever to do so'

Answer: UCLA


Question: 'It's the "E" in laser'

Answer: emission


Question: 'This advice columnist said "Truth is Stranger"; at least she did when she wrote that book in 1968'

Answer: Ann Landers


Question: 'Amor omnia vincit, or this "conquers all", is on the seal of William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri'

Answer: love


Question: 'This Central American country is named for "The Savior", Jesus Christ'

Answer: El Salvador


Question: 'In a TV cartoon Spritle & Chim Chim often stowed away in the trunk of this title thrill-seeker's car, the Mach 5'

Answer: Speed Racer


Question: 'Jackie won the major leagues' first of these awards for first-year players'

Answer: Rookie of the Year


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew manipulates a pro light fixture.) Used to manipulate light, the shutters on a stage lamp go by this farm name; don't let them hit you on the way out'

Answer: a barn door


Question: 'This college town is the seat of Michigan's Washtenaw County'

Answer: Ann Arbor


Question: 'Montclair State College in New Jersey uses the motto Carpe diem, which means this'

Answer: seize the day


Question: 'This African country is named from the Portuguese for "lion mountains"'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'From the Latin for "prompt", it's the Spanish word for "soon"'

Answer: pronto


Question: 'Jackie played first base his first season, but switched to this position for the next 5 years'

Answer: 2nd base


Question: '"Unlock" this 3-letter term for the principal light illuminating an actor's face'

Answer: key (light)


Question: 'She delivered a sparkling keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention'

Answer: Ann Richards


Question: 'The University of Guam shares this motto with the State of New York; it means "higher"'

Answer: Excelsior


Question: 'This new Balkan nation is named for the appearance of Mt. Lovcen or perhaps the dark forests around it'

Answer: Montenegro


Question: 'In Newton's equation F=ma, it's what "a" stands for'

Answer: acceleration


Question: 'In 1956 Jackie was traded to this team, but retired rather than play for his old NYC rival'

Answer: the Giants


Question: '"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room"'

Answer: A Room with a View


Question: 'If you're "Driving Miss" this, be sure to let her stick her head out the window'

Answer: Daisy


Question: 'Henry Laurens, the only American imprisoned in the Tower, was exchanged for this Yorktown loser in 1781'

Answer: Cornwallis


Question: 'It's the ultimate high spiked heel'

Answer: a stiletto


Question: 'This former Czech president's "Letters to Olga" is a volume of correspondence he wrote to his wife while in jail'

Answer: Vaclav Havel


Question: 'Teens are sometimes susceptible to this, a feeling of dread or anguish'

Answer: angst


Question: '"If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to"'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'Like a William Styron title character, a dog with this name may have to make a "Choice"'

Answer: Sophie


Question: 'At his July 6, 1535 beheading at the Tower, he said, "The King's good servant, but God's first"'

Answer: Thomas More


Question: 'A principal religion of Japan, it has no official sacred scriptures'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'This writer's dad, Hermann, married Julie Lowy in 1882 & named their son after the Austro-Hungarian emperor'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'From the German for "double walker" comes this term for a ghostly counterpart'

Answer: doppelganger


Question: '"They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes"'

Answer: Where the Wild Things Are


Question: 'When followed by "Rich", this moniker becomes a legendary drummer'

Answer: Buddy


Question: 'On Nov. 4, 1605 he was caught trying to blow up Parliament; 3 days later he signed a confession in the Tower'

Answer: Guy Fawkes


Question: 'This instrument of the lute family is popular in northern India'

Answer: the sitar


Question: 'This Czech director & wife Martina named their twin sons Andy & Jim for Andy Kaufman & Jim Carrey'

Answer: Milos Forman


Question: 'This 6-letter word refers to a replacement or substitute that is inferior'

Answer: ersatz


Question: '"I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the slough of despond"'

Answer: Pilgrim\'s Progress


Question: 'It's the last name of the character who said, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"'

Answer: Bailey


Question: 'In 1305 this Scottish patriot was captured & imprisoned in the Tower; he was savagely executed a few days later'

Answer: William Wallace


Question: 'A fungus & an alga in lichen is a classic example of this type of mutualism'

Answer: symbiosis


Question: 'This composer wrote "Cypress Trees" for Josefina Cermakova, yet later married her sister'

Answer: Dvorak


Question: 'Atomic number 27, this silvery metallic element is named for a cave-goblin'

Answer: cobalt


Question: '"I was in no position to criticize the Emperor Augustus, who was my maternal grand-uncle"'

Answer: I, Claudius


Question: 'Name of the canine character seen here'

Answer: Max


Question: 'These two cousins, both of whom married Henry VIII, were imprisoned & executed at the Tower of London'

Answer: Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard


Question: 'eBay owns this VoIP provider that's based in Luxembourg'

Answer: Skype


Question: 'In 1975 this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author & his wife Vera left oppression in Czechoslovakia'

Answer: Milan Kundera


Question: 'Wagner is often associated with this 9-letter type of dominant & recurring theme'

Answer: leitmotif


Question: 'Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'Yeats rhymed, "In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are" this'

Answer: earnéd


Question: '"Stairway To Heaven" explains what's up "if there's" this "in your hedgerow"'

Answer: a bustle


Question: 'It's the animal name for a high-heeled shoe or a slipper with no back'

Answer: a mule


Question: 'D-Day anniversary &<br />Magna Carta day'

Answer: June


Question: 'On December 21, 1970 this man, missing here, asked Nixon if he could become a federal drug agent'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Aeolian, like certain vibrations'

Answer: wind


Question: 'This Dublin theatre that opened in 1904 grew out of the Irish literary theatre, which Yeats co-founded'

Answer: the Abbey Theatre


Question: 'In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L. B."'

Answer: (2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein


Question: 'Jackie Kennedy's iconic look included this classic round brimless hat'

Answer: pillbox


Question: 'National Philanthropy Day &<br />All Souls' Day'

Answer: November


Question: 'In 1943, Tehran was the stage for a photo of FDR, Churchill & this other leader'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'Anthropogenic, as in some environmental problems'

Answer: us (humans)


Question: 'Irishman Yeats wrote a poem entitled this holiday "1916"'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'They were the "3 men I admire most" in Don McLean's "American Pie"'

Answer: the Father, Son & the Holy Ghost


Question: 'The name of these riding breeches is derived from a city in India'

Answer: jodhpurs


Question: 'National Teacher Day &<br />Kentucky Derby Day'

Answer: May


Question: 'This woman missing here quietly gets from "a" to "B" after a Supreme Court ruling in 1956'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'Diluvial, like some debris'

Answer: flooding


Question: 'A Yeats poem ends, "By his command these words are cut: cast a cold eye on life, on death."  Then these 3 words'

Answer: "Horseman, pass by"


Question: 'Young Money (featuring Lloyd) just wants you to call him "Mr." this "I can make your bed rock"'

Answer: Flintstone


Question: 'Weskit is a synonym for this part of a 3-piece suit'

Answer: a vest


Question: 'Administrative Professionals Day<br />& National CPAs Goof-off Day'

Answer: April


Question: 'Known as a detective, this guy missing in the photo was a spy for Lincoln'

Answer: (Allan) Pinkerton


Question: 'Affective, in psychology'

Answer: emotions


Question: 'Yeats fell in love with this Irish beauty who later played the title role in his play "Cathleen Ni Houlihan"'

Answer: Maud Gonne


Question: 'This 1995 hit begins, "If God had a name what would it be?"'

Answer: "One Of Us"


Question: 'This skirt with a German name is still worn in the Austrian & Bavarian Alps'

Answer: a dirndl


Question: 'National Magic Day<br />& Nevada Admission Day'

Answer: October


Question: 'With a flick of the pen in 1961, this mystery man summoned Vatican II'

Answer: John XXIII


Question: 'Hypovolemic, a type of shock'

Answer: loss of blood


Question: 'This precious metal can be obtained from pure deposits & from ores such as argentite'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell & Ted Lange as your bartender'

Answer: The Love Boat


Question: 'The 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty allowed Israel access to this man-made waterway'

Answer: the Suez Canal


Question: 'Karl May has been called the German Louis L'Amour for works like "Old Surehand" in this genre'

Answer: Western


Question: 'To Frodo (& others), "LOTR" stands for this'

Answer: Lord of the Rings


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a cello at the Juilliard School in New York.)  Cello players at Juilliard have quite a legacy to live up to; alumni include this performer, who's even graced the "Jeopardy!" stage'

Answer: Yo-Yo Ma


Question: 'Cu2S is the chemical formula of chalcocite, mainly valued as an ore of this metal'

Answer: copper


Question: 'Lee Majors & 3 different guys as Dr. Rudy Wells; this show could both rebuild & recast'

Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man


Question: 'This U.S. president negotiated the <br />Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'His 1922 novella "Siddhartha" tells the story of an Indian boy on a spiritual journey during the time of Buddha'

Answer: (Hermann) Hesse


Question: 'In the computer world, NAVI is Norton this'

Answer: Antivirus


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a portrait at the Juilliard School in New York.)  One of the school's illustrious presidents was William Schuman, who established the Juilliard String Quartet; he composed a little, too, and in 1943, won the first music version of this prize'

Answer: the Pulitzer


Question: 'Goethite & magnetite are ores of this metal'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Robert Urich, Bart Braverman & Tony Curtis as Philip Roth (no, not the author)'

Answer: Vega$


Question: 'The Munich Agreement of 1938 was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & this British Prime Minister'

Answer: Neville Chamberlain


Question: 'This German-language writer's novels were all published after his 1924 death, including "The Trial"'

Answer: Kafka


Question: 'B.I.D. means you take an Rx this many times a day'

Answer: twice


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a violin at the Juilliard School in New York.)  Juilliard has priceless instruments like a Guarnerius, from this country that brought violin making to a peak in the 1600s'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Black jack & ruby jack are forms of the chief ore of this metal, symbol Zn'

Answer: zinc


Question: 'Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman & Ed Bernard; Pepper was salty!'

Answer: Police Woman


Question: 'This French king recognized William of Orange as William II, King of England, under the terms of 1697's Treaty of Ryswick'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'In "Heroes Like Us" the hero's father works for this East German secret police'

Answer: the Stasi


Question: 'This metric land measure is abbreviated ha'

Answer: a hectare


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew listens to a string quartet at the Juilliard School in New York.)  The students are playing his great fugue of the 1820s, which was so revolutionary, the publisher begged him to replace it; uncharacteristically, he agreed'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'This principal ore of aluminum is also used for oil filtration & the making of abrasives'

Answer: bauxite


Question: 'Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether & Mark Shera; a Quinn Martin production'

Answer: Barnaby Jones


Question: 'The Montreux Convention of 1936 returned control of these 2 straits to Turkey'

Answer: the Bosporus & the Dardanelles


Question: 'During World War I he fought on the Western Front & was wounded several times; he later wrote a 1929 novel about it'

Answer: Erich Maria Remarque


Question: 'SRB stands for this kind of booster'

Answer: a solid rocket booster


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew listens to a piano piece at the Juilliard School in New York.)  Admission to Juilliard goes beyond good SAT scores; one mandatory part of the piano audition is playing a prelude & fugue by this Baroque master'

Answer: J.S. (Johann Sebastian) Bach


Question: 'First published in 1880 & made into a film in 1907, 1925 & 1959, it was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope'

Answer: Ben-Hur


Question: 'When his earthly labors were over, his immortal part ascended to Mount Olympus & married Hebe'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'She played the wife who knew too much in the remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" --que sera, sera'

Answer: Doris Day


Question: '2-word "bread-spread" term for an impromptu performance by jazz musicians'

Answer: jam session


Question: 'Emily Post's "Etiquette" says you should try to put these tomatoes in your mouth, whole'

Answer: Cherry Tomatoes


Question: 'The 40-story TCBY Towers office building in this city is Arkansas' tallest building'

Answer: Little Rock


Question: 'The last seasoning to put on a dish'

Answer: Salt (Last)


Question: 'After slaying the minotaur, Theseus found his way out of this maze by following a thread'

Answer: the Labyrinth


Question: 'This "regal" blonde stabs Anthony Dawson to death with a pair of scissors in "Dial M For Murder"'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'One common type of this Russian lute usually has its three strings tuned to E, E & A above middle C'

Answer: Balalaika


Question: 'At a funeral, a honorary one of these is not expected to help carry the coffin'

Answer: Pallbearer


Question: 'It's the state capital in which Huey Long is buried'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'Cathy wants to sail on one'

Answer: Yacht (Cathy)


Question: 'While gathering flowers, Persephone was abducted by this underworld god & became his queen'

Answer: Hades


Question: 'She was Mrs. Clark Gable when she starred in Hitchcock's comedy "Mr. And Mrs. Smith"'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'Josef Lanner was one of the first composers to write music for this dance that evolved from the landler'

Answer: Waltz


Question: 'The custom of tapping a man on the shoulder when you want to dance with his partner is called this'

Answer: Cutting In


Question: 'Stapleton International Airport in this capital is one of the USA's busiest'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this'

Answer: siren (risen)


Question: 'Ironically, Jason was killed when a piece of this ship fell & struck him on the head'

Answer: Argo


Question: 'Glamour girl whose femme fatale role in "Vertigo" was no picnic'

Answer: Kim Novak


Question: 'This 9-letter word can refer to any singer in a church, but in England it often means a choirboy'

Answer: Chorister


Question: 'It's traditional to serve this expensive treat with toast, chopped hard-boiled egg & onion'

Answer: Caviar


Question: 'It's the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal'

Answer: Albany, New York


Question: 'Bob taught himself this low country language'

Answer: Flemish (himself)


Question: 'Adrastus was the only one of the seven against this city who survived the expedition'

Answer: Thebes


Question: 'She stole her way into Sean Connery's heart as the title kleptomaniac in "Marnie"'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'Italian for "going"; it's a musical direction to play in a moderate walking tempo'

Answer: Andante


Question: 'Serving champagne in a tall glass with this floral shape helps preserve its fizz'

Answer: Tulip


Question: 'The home of William Jennings Bryan is preserved in this state capital where he lived from 1887-1921'

Answer: Lincoln, Nebraska


Question: 'Bill bargained for a suit made of it'

Answer: Gabardine (Bargained)


Question: 'Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'The 1934 ballet "Balle aux Follies Bergere" is based on one of these by Manet, not on a story'

Answer: a painting


Question: 'Originally, ancient Egyptian wigs were this color, a nice contrast to all those white clothes'

Answer: black


Question: 'In 1988 after 8 seasons as the NHL's MVP, this center was traded by Edmonton to the L.A. Kings'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'In a 1908 book, Percival Lowell proposed that the markings on this planet were irrigation canals'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'There have been 7 Haakons, and all have been kings of this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Ivan tells his sibling Alyosha the legend of the grand inquisitor in this Dostoyevsky novel'

Answer: The Brothers Karamazov


Question: 'The Royal Danish Ballet was founded in 1748 as part of the royal theatre of this city'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'This medieval headdress that framed the face & covered the neck might still be worn by a nun'

Answer: a wimple


Question: 'In 1991 Digger Phelps retired as coach of this school's basketball team with 393 career victories'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'As they approach the sun, some of these develop tails as long as 100 million miles'

Answer: a comet


Question: 'In 10th century England, Haakon I was raised in this religion which he tried to impose on his country'

Answer: Christianity (Catholicism accepted)


Question: 'You'll find characters named Skimpole, Krook & Dedlock in this "dismal" Dickens novel'

Answer: Bleak House


Question: 'Stravinsky & this Russian-born American choreographer collaborated on several ballets including "Agon"'

Answer: Georges Balanchine


Question: 'Had she kept her maiden name, these full trousers would have been called Jenkses'

Answer: Bloomers


Question: 'In 1988 pro football's Cardinals moved from St. Louis to this city'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'The Crab Nebula was formed by one of these massive exploding stars in 1054'

Answer: a supernova


Question: 'Historians believe Haakon III, like the Roman Claudius, was murdered this way'

Answer: poisoning


Question: 'The narrator of his 1845 poem "My Last Duchess" is a Renaissance duke of Ferrara'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: '"Four Moons", an American Indian ballet, was created for the 60th anniversary of its statehood in 1967'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'The Louis heel is a medium-sized French heel and so was this mid-18th century king for whom it was probably named'

Answer: Louis XV


Question: 'This Japanese-American won her 1st world figure skating championship in 1991 at age 19'

Answer: Kristi Yamaguchi


Question: 'The Pup, the 1st white dwarf to be discovered, is the lesser component of this dog star'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'Prince Charles of Denmark became Haakon VII when he took the throne in this century'

Answer: the 20th Century


Question: 'His historical novels include "The Last of the Barons" & "The Last Days of Pompeii"'

Answer: Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Question: 'Frederick Ashton's ballet "The Lady of Shalott" is based on this man's poem of the same name'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Ancient Greek men wore the knee-length style of this basic tunic; women wore the full-length'

Answer: the chiton


Question: 'On August 31, 1992 this team surprised the baseball world by trading Jose Canseco to Texas'

Answer: Oakland Athletics


Question: 'A large amount of methane in this 7th planet's atmosphere causes it to appear bluish-green'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'Haakon IV is known for acquiring these two major islands in the North Atlantic'

Answer: Iceland & Greenland


Question: 'Henry Moore's sculpture, "Nuclear Energy", can be seen on the campus of this university'

Answer: the University of Chicago


Question: 'The Smithsonian has one of these (with 6 little bells) that John Hancock gave his baby son'

Answer: a rattle


Question: 'These 3 nephews of Donald Duck are the sons of his sister Dumbella'

Answer: Huey, Dewey & Louie


Question: 'The heaviest'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Joe's wife worries he'll fall out of this fodder storage area in the top of the barn'

Answer: the (hay) loft


Question: 'This animal is depicted on Great Britain's Victoria Cross'

Answer: the lion


Question: 'A masterful conductor is often called this, Italian for "master"'

Answer: maestro


Question: 'Winchester, one of these that belonged to Gen. Sheridan, is on display--all 16 hands of him'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'Donald's pet name for her was Toots'

Answer: Daisy


Question: 'The most distant one known to the ancients'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois'

Answer: John Deere


Question: 'The St. Helena Medal, for French soldiers & sailors who took part in the wars between 1792 & 1815, bears his likeness'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'The name of this bird is from the French version of Peter'

Answer: parrot


Question: 'In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used between 1804 & 1806'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: 'Donald's flute solo in "The Band Concert" enraged this co-star who was appearing in his first Technicolor toon'

Answer: Mickey


Question: 'The hottest, on average'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'After Joe's Uncle Lou went a bit loopy, Joe put him "out to" here, with the grazing sheep'

Answer: a pasture


Question: 'In 1977 this Yankee center fielder of the 1940s & early 1950s received the Presidential Medal of Freedom'

Answer: DiMaggio


Question: 'Make no bones about it, it's from a Greek expression for "dried-up body"'

Answer: skeleton


Question: 'The Pulsar was the first all-electronic one of these, & in 1972 it would have set you back $2,100'

Answer: a (wrist)watch


Question: 'On Sept. 24, 1961 this professor uncle of Donald was introduced on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"'

Answer: Ludwig Von Drake


Question: 'The one named by an 11-year-old'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'After Joe found Joe Jr. joyriding in the tractor, he locked him in this round tower that usually holds grain'

Answer: a silo


Question: 'Bolivia's highest award is the National Order of this vulture of the Andes'

Answer: a condor


Question: 'This Austrian physicist's name is now synonymous with a measurement of the speed of sound'

Answer: (Ernst) Mach


Question: 'From the late '60s there is a "blowout kit for the natural" from this hair care line by Johnson Products'

Answer: Afro Sheen


Question: 'It's Donald Duck's home town'

Answer: Duckburg


Question: 'The farthest from the sun from 1979 to 1999'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Joe likes to ask other farmers, "got" this cereal grain?  When they say yes, he says, "You better see a periodontist!"'

Answer: sorghum


Question: 'This country's National Order of the Cedar is awarded for exceptional service or acts of extreme courage'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'This 3-letter slang term for forbid or veto comes to us from the German for "nothing"'

Answer: nix


Question: 'He began his labor organizing career in a San Jose, Calif, barrio called Sal si Puedes, "get out if you can"'

Answer: Cesar Chavez


Question: 'At over 4 miles in length, a wall built in the 400s kept this capital safe for a thousand years'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: '"Times Square Angel" by Charles Busch spoofs "It's a Wonderful Life" & also this Dickens holiday classic'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'The name of this dynasty of 1368 to 1644 often comes between "priceless" & "vase"'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'His 12 nominations include Best Male Rock Vocal for "Young Turks", but Rod has never won one of these awards'

Answer: a Grammy


Question: 'This 6-letter term means designed for both men & women'

Answer: unisex


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks through a sparsely furnished bedroom in Mission San Diego de Alcala.)  A room at Mission San Diego de Alcala is named for this man, who founded the mission and was beatified in 1988'

Answer: Junipero Serra


Question: 'Byzantine jurists helped Emperor Justinian assemble what's known as the Justinian one of these'

Answer: a code


Question: 'This hard-boiled detective musical set in 1940s L.A. appeared several years before the unrelated Meg Ryan film'

Answer: City of Angels


Question: 'A samovar is a large urn traditionally used to make this'

Answer: tea


Question: 'In 1994 Rod took "All For Love" to No. 1 for 3 weeks with Bryan Adams & this Police-man'

Answer: Sting


Question: 'People magazine bestowed this honor on Nick Nolte in 1992; 2 years later, no one on the planet qualified'

Answer: Sexiest Man Alive


Question: 'Nuyorican is a literary style that began in the '60s, or the name of a nightspot in the old part of this Puerto Rican city'

Answer: San Juan


Question: 'In the 1370s these people got Gallipoli from the Byzantine Empire; later they got the whole Empire'

Answer: the Ottomans (or Ottoman Turks)


Question: 'The original Broadway cast of this play based on a Thomas Wolfe novel featured Tony Perkins as Eugene Gant'

Answer: Look Homeward, Angel


Question: 'The Grecian urn Keats admired displayed a youth about to do this to a maiden'

Answer: kiss her


Question: 'In 1972 Rod hit the Top 40 (No. 40, actually) with "Angel", written by this legend who played like his guitar was on fire'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'Term for reproduction, as budding or fission, not involving the union of gametes'

Answer: asexual


Question: 'In 1981 exiles from this nation founded the organization whose symbol is seen here'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'A Lombard invasion in the 500s ended Byzantine control in what's now this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The angel of the water statue in Central Park seen here is featured in this play that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize'

Answer: Angels in America


Question: 'This American designer developed the opulent Favrile glass for his Art Nouveau vases'

Answer: Tiffany


Question: '"I think I've got something to say to you" & it's that Rod hit No. 1 in 1971 with this tune'

Answer: "Maggie May"


Question: 'An official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice & its contents'

Answer: sexton


Question: 'In 1808 this formerly Spanish city had the USA's first newspaper in Spanish, fittingly titled El Misisipi'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'The inhabitants of the Empire didn't call themselves "Byzantines" but these imperial people'

Answer: Romans


Question: 'The medical fad of monkey glands inspired the 1919 show "Angel Face", with music by this "Babes in Toyland" composer'

Answer: Victor Herbert


Question: 'This vase in the British Museum was broken in 1845, repaired and then re-repaired in 1988'

Answer: the Portland Vase


Question: 'This New Zealand supermodel joined the rather lengthy list of blondes on Rod's dating resume & married him in 1990'

Answer: Rachel Hunter


Question: 'A borough in New Jersey, or a former English county now part of Greater London'

Answer: Middlesex


Question: 'This Monsanto product was developed as a covering to turn asphalt lots in urban areas into playgrounds'

Answer: AstroTurf


Question: '1980 film in which 2 shipwrecked kids grow up to be Brooke Shields & Christopher Atkins'

Answer: "The Blue Lagoon"


Question: 'This test for cervical cancer was devised by & named for Dr. George Papanicolaou'

Answer: Pap Smear


Question: 'According to one superstition, a gift of a purse or wallet should always contain some of this'

Answer: Money


Question: 'Completes the proverb "Living well is the best..."'

Answer: Revenge


Question: 'The front part of a hindquarter with the flank removed, it may be "tender"'

Answer: Loin


Question: 'In England french fries are called this'

Answer: Chips


Question: 'In this 1930 film Marlene Dietrich played Lola-Lola, a sultry cabaret singer'

Answer: "The Blue Angel"


Question: 'Queen Victoria passed this hereditary blood disease to many of her royal descendants'

Answer: Hemophilia


Question: 'Wedding custom that is supposed to ensure the marriage will produce many children'

Answer: throwing rice


Question: 'These "that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails."'

Answer: Bees


Question: 'It's the term for a young pig that's fattened for its meat'

Answer: Porker


Question: 'About 10 days before harvest farmers do this to the vines'

Answer: Cut them down


Question: 'George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film'

Answer: "Rhapsody In Blue"


Question: 'A disease that comes & goes quickly is "acute", while this describes a disease of long duration'

Answer: Chronic


Question: '4 is an unlucky number in this country because "shi", the word for 4, sounds like the word for death'

Answer: Japan


Question: '"Better the foot slip than" this'

Answer: Tongue


Question: 'This country is the world's largest exporter of mutton'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'To distinguish a potato from the unrelated sweet potato, it's usually called "Irish" or this color'

Answer: White


Question: '1 of the 2 Elvis Presley films that fit the category'

Answer: "Blue Hawaii" & "G.I. Blues"


Question: 'Rickets is caused by inadequate exposure to sunlight or a lack of this vitamin in the diet'

Answer: vitamin D


Question: 'Term for the symbols seen on barns in Pennsylvania Dutch country'

Answer: Hex signs


Question: '"The mouse that has but one" of these "is quickly taken."'

Answer: Hole


Question: 'This variety meat is the thymus gland, usually taken from a calf, but occasionally a lamb'

Answer: Sweetbreads


Question: 'This country leads the world in production of potatoes'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film'

Answer: "Blue Velvet"


Question: 'In the South it was thought a sin to do this, as in the title of a Harper Lee novel'

Answer: "To Kill A Mockingbird"


Question: 'Line that pairs with "See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die."'

Answer: "See a pin and pick it up, and all the day you shall have good luck."


Question: 'Spelling that completes the jingle "Oscar Mayer has a way with...."'

Answer: B-O-L-O-G-N-A


Question: 'It's the primary variety of potato grown in the U.S.'

Answer: Russet/Burbank


Question: 'The 2 Olympics are distinguished by these seasonal names'

Answer: Summer & Winter


Question: 'Mt. Waialeale, the wettest spot in the world, is located in this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'She says to Juliet, "O Romeo, Romeo!  Who ever would have thought it?  Romeo!"'

Answer: Juliet\'s Nurse


Question: 'King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'During WWI the British called them "limps", the most common being the "B" type'

Answer: Blimps


Question: '"Come on and hear, come on and hear", this song, Berlin's first big hit, which he wrote in 1911'

Answer: "Alexander\'s Ragtime Band"


Question: 'If you're old you're not this type of chicken'

Answer: Spring Chicken


Question: 'The capital of this state was named for Pierre Chouteau, a French fur trader'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'She was nanny to little Londoners Jane & Michael Banks'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253'

Answer: The Sorbonne


Question: 'It's said these are "manned" in an emergency, but they're usually womened & childrened first'

Answer: Lifeboats


Question: 'This Irving Berlin song has been called "The Nation's Unofficial Second National Anthem"'

Answer: "God Bless America"


Question: 'The 2 seasons that begin on an equinox'

Answer: Spring & Fall


Question: 'The Hawkeyes of this "Hawkeye State" must read a lot -- they have the highest literacy rate in the U.S.'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'What Mrs. Bridges did "downstairs" for the Bellamy famliy, who lived "upstairs"'

Answer: Cook


Question: 'This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'A San Franciscan can tell you BART stands for this'

Answer: Bay Area Rapid Transit


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />In 1927 A. Jolson sang this Berlin tune in "The Jazz Singer"; Willie Nelson had a hit with it 50 years later:'

Answer: "Blue Skies"


Question: 'In a sonnet Shakespeare asked, "Shall I compare thee" to a "day" in this season'

Answer: Summer


Question: 'Canyonlands National Park & Arches National Park are tourist attractions in this state'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'P.G. Wodehouse first introduced this gentleman's gentleman in "Extricating Young Gussie"'

Answer: Jeeves


Question: 'A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it'

Answer: Gulf of Tonkin


Question: 'It's what "powered" the first B&O passenger train back in 1830'

Answer: Horses


Question: 'Berlin's 1946 Broadway hit, it featured the songs "The Girl That I Marry" & "I'm An Indian Too!"'

Answer: "Annie Get Your Gun"


Question: 'The 2 seasons used to distinguish types of wheat'

Answer: Winter & Spring


Question: 'This state ceded Tennessee to the U.S. in 1784, then reclaimed it & ceded it again in 1789'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Jean Genet play in which 2 sisters attempt to poison their mistress'

Answer: "The Maids"


Question: 'A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'The Goodspeed, Sarah Constant & Discovery brought the first people to this settlement'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'Complete's Jerome Kern's quote "Irving Berlin has no place in American music..."'

Answer: "Irving Berlin Is American Music"


Question: 'The 2 major literary monthlies founded in the 1850s that survive today'

Answer: The Atlantic Monthly & Harpers


Question: 'Carpacchio, an Italian dish of raw shavings of this meat, is often served with capers'

Answer: beef


Question: 'When he won for directing the Scottish epic "Braveheart", he joked "What I really want to do is act"'

Answer: Mel Gibson


Question: 'This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company'

Answer: a penguin


Question: 'The international airport that serves Venice is named for this explorer famous for his Asian travels'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'This drummer joined the Beatles in 1962, replacing Pete Best'

Answer: Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)


Question: 'Naan, an east Indian form of this, is usually baked in a tandoor'

Answer: bread


Question: 'She had the "Sense and Sensibility" to win an Oscar for her screenplay adapted from Jane Austen's novel'

Answer: Emma Thompson


Question: 'McDonald's are "golden"'

Answer: the Arches


Question: 'This spiritual & political leader of India ended his last fast just days before he was slain in 1948'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: '"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah", this song was the Beatles' 2nd No. 1 hit in the U.S. after "I Want to Hold Your Hand"'

Answer: "She Loves You"


Question: 'His performance as a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas" won him the Best Actor Oscar'

Answer: Nicolas Cage


Question: 'The button fasteners on these jeans include the company name & S.F. Cal.'

Answer: Levi\'s


Question: 'In 1817 the remains of Peter Abelard & this woman were entombed together in a Paris cemetery'

Answer: Heloise


Question: 'This 1964 hit begins "Well she was just seventeen - you know what I mean?"'

Answer: "I Just Saw Her Standing There"


Question: 'A "champion" among actors; this star of "Spartacus" earned a honorary Oscar & a  standing ovation'

Answer: Kirk Douglas


Question: 'Audi's symbol is these, one fewer than the Olympics uses'

Answer: 4 (interlocking) rings


Question: 'England's King Henry VIII had 3 wives named Catherine:  Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon & this one'

Answer: Catherine Parr


Question: 'This 1964 film, the Beatles' first, received an Oscar nomination for its musical score'

Answer: A Hard Day\'s Night


Question: 'Winning for "Dead Man Walking", she told Tim Robbins, "This is yours as much as mine.  Thank God we live together!"'

Answer: Susan Sarandon


Question: 'This Swiss wristwatch company uses a white cross on a red square as its symbol'

Answer: Swatch


Question: 'In 1487 Pope Innocent VIII appointed him grand inquisitor for all of Spain'

Answer: Tomas de Torquemada


Question: 'Songs on this 1967 hit album include "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" & "With A Little Help From My Friends"'

Answer: Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band


Question: 'China vetoed this Austrian's bid for an unprecedented third term as secretary-general'

Answer: Kurt Waldheim


Question: 'At Antwerp in 1920, the Olympic flag debuted & these birds were first released as symbols of peace'

Answer: Doves


Question: 'He was in his 20's when he sculpted the "Pieta", now in St. Peter's Basilica'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'In January of 1377, Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy back to this city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Sancho Panza calls him "The Knight of the Sad Countenance"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'South America's Apurimac & Marinon Rivers rise in the permanent snows & glaciers of this range'

Answer: The Andes


Question: 'This current secretary-general accompanied Anwar Sadat on his historic 1977 trip to Israel'

Answer: Boutros Boutros-Ghali


Question: 'With 8,611 points, Robert Zmelik of Czechoslovakia won this multi-sport event in 1992'

Answer: Decathlon


Question: 'He painted tropical landscapes on Martinique before he moved to Tahiti'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'In 1642 this spiritual leader became the ruler of Tibet'

Answer: Dalai Lama


Question: 'This classic story collection includes "The Tales of Sinbad", "Aladdin" & "Ali Baba"'

Answer: "Arabian Nights"


Question: 'The southern slopes of this highest Japanese mountain extend to the shore of Suruga Bay'

Answer: Mt. Fuji


Question: 'This Peruvian diplomat served with the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cyprus from 1975-1977'

Answer: Javier Perez de Cuellar


Question: 'The Olympic motto, "Citius Altius Fortius",translates to "Swifter, Higher" & this'

Answer: Stronger


Question: 'This Frenchman painted many portraits of ballet dancers including "Dancer With a Fan" in 1879'

Answer: Edgar Degas


Question: 'His name is a contraction of Arabic for "The God"; The Koran says he is eternal & omnipotent'

Answer: Allah


Question: 'In this 1862 novel, ex-convict Jean Valjean steals the Bishop of Digne's silverware'

Answer: Les Misérables


Question: 'Coffee & bananas are grown on the lower slopes of this mountain, the highest in Africa'

Answer: Mt. Kilimanjaro


Question: 'He was press director for Burma's interim government following its vote for independence'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'The 1968 summer games in this capital city were the first telecast in color'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'This Spanish court artist's 1620s painting "Los Borachos" or "The Drinkers" is in the Prado'

Answer: Diego Velasquez


Question: 'Bodhisattvas are personifications of the virtues of this founder of a religion'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'His "The Brothers Karamazov" was translated into English in 1912, 32 years after it was 1st published'

Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky


Question: 'The world's 2nd-tallest mountain; it's also known as Kechu'

Answer: K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen)


Question: 'After he left office in 1953, he returned to Norway & later served in the cabinet'

Answer: Trygve Lie


Question: 'The first torch relay was run in 1936, taking the flame from Olympia, Greece to this city'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'This Dutchman's brother Adrian may have been the model for his "The Man With the Golden Helmet"'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'The horseradish on the plate for this Jewish holiday symbolizes the bitterness of slavery in Egypt'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Shakespeare's "Cymbelline" is based in part on a story from this 14th c. work by Bocaccio'

Answer: "The Decameron"


Question: 'Both ends of this mountain chain between Romania & Slovakia lie on the Danube River'

Answer: Carpathian Mountains


Question: 'Last name of the last man to sit in power on the Peacock Throne'

Answer: (Shah Reza) Pahlevi (of Iran)


Question: 'Turns out Barbie, age 52, likes younger guys: this plastic man turned 50 on March 11'

Answer: Ken


Question: 'He won an Emmy playing Thomas Magnum'

Answer: Selleck


Question: 'A single unit of hereditary information'

Answer: gene


Question: 'In 1761 George Washington inherited this home from the widow of his brother Lawrence'

Answer: Mount Vernon


Question: 'If the plumber says this is rusted, it's not his arm joint, it's a fitting to make an L-shaped pipe'

Answer: an elbow


Question:
'Flap
____
rabbit'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'Born in Honolulu August 4, 1961, he was given the same Swahili name as his father; it means "blessed by God"'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question: 'James Garner played this guy who lived in a Malibu trailer'

Answer: Jim Rockford


Question: 'Organs found behind the head in certain aquatic animals & specialized for oxygen exchange'

Answer: gills


Question: 'In the 1540s Coronado & his men were amazed at the great number of this native fowl with "great hanging chins"'

Answer: the turkey


Question: 'Mueller Streamline is a brand of pipe made from this durable metal that many prefer to iron & steel'

Answer: copper


Question:
'Sting
____
of hope'

Answer: Ray


Question: 'As it turns 50, this timeless movie is now available on Blu-ray'

Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany\'s


Question: 'She portrayed ex-model Maddie Hayes'

Answer: Cybill Shepherd


Question: 'Positive geotropism is the effect of this force on plants causing their roots to grow downward'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'In August 1664 this governor was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British'

Answer: (Peter) Stuyvesant


Question: 'Drains need air to maintain flow, so they're connected to these outlets on the roof'

Answer: vents


Question:
'Rocka
____
goat'

Answer: Billy


Question: 'A 2011 stamp celebrates the 50th anniversary of his historic flight aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: 'This late actor drove a T-Bird as Dan Tanna'

Answer: Robert Urich


Question: 'From the Greek for "stomach", this 7-letter adjective means pertaining to an organism's stomach'

Answer: gastric


Question: 'This Virginia college was founded in 1693 to educate the youth in piety, "good letters and manners"'

Answer: (College of) William & Mary