Question: 'Traditionally, this person who's first in his or her class gives the farewell speech at graduation'

Answer: valedictorian


Question: 'This American classic has been around for over 100 years'

Answer: candy corn


Question: 'The tagline to this 2002 film is "Sometimes what you're looking for is right where you left it"'

Answer: Sweet Home Alabama


Question: 'The flag seen here waves over this island country of the north Atlantic'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'While at Crozier Theological Seminary in the 1950s, this black leader learned Gandhi's ideas of nonviolence'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'In 1846 Johann Galle discovered the planet Neptune while it was in this constellation, the "Horned Goat"'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'From the Greek for "time word", a list of events arranged in order from earliest to latest is arranged this way'

Answer: chronologically


Question: 'A jingle should say, "Gimme a Break, Break Me Off a Finger of" this candy bar (its segments are called fingers)'

Answer: Kit Kat


Question: 'In this 1998 film Reese helps bring color to the lives of characters in a 1950s B&W TV sitcom'

Answer: Pleasantville


Question: 'This second-largest South American country's flag is seen here'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Gandhi lived in this African country during the Boer War & served as a medical volunteer'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'On Feb. 12, 2001 the Near Shoemaker spacecraft landed on Eros, the first landing on one of these objects'

Answer: asteroid


Question: 'It can describe the crossing of Europe or Asia, or a railroad that first crossed America in 1869'

Answer: transcontinental


Question: 'For toffee lovers Hershey makes the Heath bar & this similar bar with a 4-letter name'

Answer: Skor


Question: 'Completes the title of Reese's feature film debut, 1991's "The Man in" this celestial object'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'More people live under this flag than that of any other Central American country'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'While still a teenager, Gandhi left India & traveled to this capital to get his law degree'

Answer: London


Question: 'Saturn's largest satellite, it's the only one in the solar system known to have clouds & a dense atmosphere'

Answer: Titan


Question: 'Motorola, NEC & Nokia are leading names in this field that's 18 letters long'

Answer: telecommunications


Question: 'A clucking bunny advertises this company's Creme Eggs, an Easter-time favorite'

Answer: Cadbury


Question: 'Reese had an Oscar Wilde time in this 2002 film set in the 1890s'

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest


Question: 'The propagation of oak trees depends on the lousy memories of these animals'

Answer: squirrels


Question: 'U.S. district judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath of office to him aboard Air Force One'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'Slang suffix used with shutter, jitter & litter'

Answer: bug


Question: 'Often served over asparagus, this creamy sauce was 1st made in France, not in the Netherlands'

Answer: Hollandaise sauce


Question: 'Under most No. 1 hits by a writer, Billboard lists this Beatle 1st with John Lennon 2nd'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'When making a movie, it's a sound idea to have one of these dangling from the end of your boom'

Answer: microphone


Question: 'If you have a sweet tooth, you'll probably know that this is Cuba's most important crop'

Answer: sugarcane


Question: '3 of his many nicknames were "Buffoon", "Tycoon" & "Illinois Baboon"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'This doesn't mean you've been kidnapping babies but dating someone much younger than yourself'

Answer: robbing the cradle


Question: 'Use these when an Italian recipe calls for "pomodori"'

Answer: tomatoes


Question: 'The only million-selling album by this Queen of Soul was 1985's "Who's Zoomin' Who"'

Answer: Aretha Franklin


Question: '1-word term for the presiding officer in Britain's House of Commons & our House of Representatives'

Answer: the speaker


Question: 'In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos'

Answer: Bay of Pigs


Question: 'Facts About the Presidents lists "corporate spokesman" as one of his former occupations'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Slang term for an outboard motor, probably derived from the sound it makes'

Answer: putt-putt


Question: 'Most botanists believe the Irish potato originally came from this continent'

Answer: South America


Question: 'He wrote the song that begins "Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let -- fifty cents"'

Answer: Roger Miller ("King of the Road")


Question: 'Funk & Wagnalls defines it as "to draw the eyelids of 1 eye together, as in conveying a hint"'

Answer: wink


Question: 'This Pulitzer & Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'The hinged section of an airplane wing or, in slang, a commotion'

Answer: a flap


Question: 'This deli item is corned beef that's been rubbed with pepper & spices, smoked & then steamed'

Answer: pastrami


Question:
'On June 27, 1989 at Radio City Music Hall, they were heard singing the following:

"Did you ever see the faces of..."'

Answer: The Who ("Christmas" from the rock opera Tommy)


Question: 'It's the broadcasting service of the U.S. International Communication Agency'

Answer: Voice of America


Question: 'The presidential palace last used by this dictator is now called  The Museum of the Revolution'

Answer: Fulgencio Batista


Question: 'This president appointed Warren Burger chief justice'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Slang term for the bar at a golf club, or the drink you'd have there after a round'

Answer: the 19th hole


Question: 'In the 1989 Farmer's Almanac, Edmund Muskie tells how to hypnotize one of these before cooking it'

Answer: a lobster


Question: 'She wrote the music & sang the themes for 2 of Mike Nichols' films, "Heartburn" & "Working Girl"'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'In the 17th century Aphra Behn wrote this "speaks sense in a language all nations understand"'

Answer: money


Question: 'William Penn authorized the founding of this city named for a British city known for its white cliffs'

Answer: Dover, Delaware


Question: 'Although these huge animals are generally docile, when the bulls go into musth they can turn violent'

Answer: elephants


Question: 'In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'If you can't get enough of these Nabisco sandwich cookies, you can play the cookie factory game they inspired'

Answer: Oreos


Question: 'Spontini's opera about this adventurer's conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809'

Answer: Hernando Cortez


Question: 'German chemist who had a gas burner named for him & co-founded the sci. of chemical spectroscopy'

Answer: Robert Bunsen


Question: 'This capital was named for Germany's "Iron Chancellor"'

Answer: Bismarck, North Dakota


Question: 'The largest member of the cat family'

Answer: tiger


Question: 'His poems include "Highland Mary", "The Banks O' Down", & "A Man's A Man For A' That"'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: 'To win Battleship, you have to be the 1st player to do this to all of your opponent's ships'

Answer: sink them


Question: 'Operas based on this Norwegian's plays include "The Feast at Solhaug" & "Peer Gynt"'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'This fr. undersea explorer has won Oscars for his films "The Silent World" & "World Without Sun"'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'It was previously the capital of a monarchy & a republic'

Answer: Honolulu, Hawaii


Question: 'Not everyone is excited when these birds come back to Capistrano: some residents think they're too messy'

Answer: swallows


Question: '"The Silmarillion", his prequel to "Lord of the Rings", was published after his death'

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien


Question: 'The "giant" version of this game contains 2 plastic bugs which double as banks'

Answer: Cootie


Question: 'This composer of "The Mikado" wrote only 1 grand opera, "Ivanhoe"'

Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan


Question: 'With his cousin, this Italian physicist formed the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Co., Ltd. in 1897'

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi


Question: 'This southern capital's seal contains a 6-pointed star & the words "Cradle Of The Confederacy"'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'The geographic ranges of most predators are shrinking, but the range of this, Canis latrans, has increased'

Answer: the coyote


Question: 'The color mentioned in the title of Zane Grey's most popular novel'

Answer: purple (Riders of the Purple Sage)


Question: 'Frankly, Miss Scarlet, these are 2 of the weapons in the original game of Clue'

Answer: (2 of) candlestick, knife, pipe, revolver, rope, & wrench


Question: 'In the 1860s this chemist saved France's wine industry by showing that microbes can be killed with heat'

Answer: Louis Pasteur


Question: 'It's the only state capital with an oil well on the statehouse grounds'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'These mammals are classed as Sirenia since they reminded sailors of mermaids -- sirens of the sea'

Answer: manatees


Question: 'Robert Browning wrote, do this "along with me!  The best is yet to be!"'

Answer: "Grow Old With Me"


Question: 'A chess piece, or the "ever popular bidding game" featuring a card with a black bird on it'

Answer: Rook


Question: 'For developing a process of converting pig iron to steel, this British inventor was knighted in 1879'

Answer: Sir Henry Bessemer


Question: 'Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate'

Answer: Pompey


Question: 'In dentistry charts, the letter "M" symbolizes this major tooth type'

Answer: molar


Question: 'Perhaps thinking it sounded a bit cheesy, John Cheese's dad changed 1 letter in his name, so John is this'

Answer: John Cleese


Question: 'This company's Swoosh trademark was created by a graphic design student in 1971'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'A boardinghouse for beagles or borzois (6)'

Answer: a kennel


Question: '6-letter word for the whistling sound produced by labored or asthmatic breathing'

Answer: wheeze


Question: 'In 1897 the illness of a relative with this last name led to Mark Twain's "The report of my death was an exaggeration"'

Answer: Clemens


Question: 'The 2 major American political parties are represented by these 2 beastly symbols'

Answer: the elephant and the donkey


Question: 'His name honors "Warren Kiefer", pseudonym of the man behind his dad Donald's 1st film, "Castle of the Living Dead"'

Answer: Kiefer Sutherland


Question: 'In 2006 this company's classic Weejun celebrated its 70th birthday'

Answer: Bass


Question: 'A "loopy" hobby that might needle you (8)'

Answer: knitting


Question: 'This animal's sound comes from the shaking of loosely connected, interlocking horny rings'

Answer: a rattlesnake


Question: 'Contrary to reports, this actor didn't die in Vietnam; the Beaver's still around'

Answer: Jerry Mathers


Question: 'Merriam-Webster's dictionary calls this symbol # an octothorp; we call it this'

Answer: the number sign


Question: '(Hi.  I'm Beau Bridges.) My real name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, but my parents called me Beau after Ashley Wilkes' son in this novel'

Answer: Gone with the Wind


Question: 'You're sure to keep your tootsies toasty with these Aussie sheepskin boots, like the ones seen here'

Answer: uggs


Question: 'A smack--the romantic kind (4)'

Answer: kiss


Question: 'James Moorer used 30 voices over 7 measures to create the "Rrrummm" for this cinema sound standard'

Answer: THX


Question: 'Oops! A baseball announcer mourned the death of this actor when James Earl Ray died in 1998'

Answer: James Earl Jones


Question: 'On a Monopoly board, the 3 squares called this each include a large question mark'

Answer: Chance


Question: 'The original name of this star of "The Birds" was Nathalie; her nickname is from "Tupsa", a Swedish endearment'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'A fan of these German sandals with contoured insoles, Heidi Klum has even designed her own line'

Answer: Birkenstocks


Question: 'It precedes rat or court (8)'

Answer: kangaroo


Question: 'Called a "pan" in Trinidad, where it was invented, this instrument comes from a barrel'

Answer: a steel drum


Question: 'In 1998 the death of this 95-year-old comedian was announced in Congress; he actually lived to be 100'

Answer: Bob Hope


Question: 'Ichthys, the Greek word for this symbol of Christ, is a Greek acronym for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior"'

Answer: a fish


Question: 'This late, great comedienne was named for a character Rita Hayworth played in 1946, the year she was born'

Answer: Gilda Radner


Question: 'A favorite in Tinseltown, this elegant & pricey line of women's shoes is named for a Malaysian designer'

Answer: Jimmy Choo


Question: 'Adjective inspired by novelist Franz (10)'

Answer: Kafkaesque


Question: 'It took Robert Fripp 18 months to make the opening sound for this Microsoft Windows product released in 2007'

Answer: Vista


Question: 'To a magazine that ran his obit, this "If" poet said, "Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers"'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'Proverbially speaking, "all roads lead to" this city'

Answer: Rome


Question:
'"Bewitched":
Elizabeth Montgomery,
Dick York,
Dick Sargent'

Answer: Elizabeth Montgomery


Question: 'The original report on this scientist's 1633 trial is among the Vatican archive's many documents'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Familiar Inca name for the cat some Americans call the Florida panther'

Answer: puma


Question: 'During strenuous activity, the glycogen in your muscles is converted into this "milky" acid, C3H6O3'

Answer: lactic acid


Question: 'Abraham's wife Sarah had one of these female servants, an Egyptian named Hagar'

Answer: a handmaiden


Question: 'Its name is Hebrew for "City of Peace"'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question:
'"Barney Miller":
Jack Soo,
Hal Linden,
Abe Vigoda'

Answer: Hal Linden


Question: 'With no regular schedule & one of the world's shortest routes, it runs for less than a mile in Vatican City'

Answer: the Vatican railroad


Question: 'This Lillian Hellman play gets its title from a Bible verse'

Answer: The Little Foxes


Question: 'It certainly makes sense that this muscle's name is from the Latin for "largest rump"'

Answer: gluteus maximus


Question: 'Legerdemain'

Answer: sleight of hand


Question: 'The first written mention of this capital's name was in a 1459 document of Vlad the Impaler'

Answer: Bucharest


Question:
'"Cheers":
Kelsey Grammer,
Woody Harrelson,
Kirstie Alley'

Answer: Kelsey Grammer


Question: 'John XXIII must have had lots of "spare" time, as he had one of these recreational areas installed in the Vatican'

Answer: a bowling alley


Question: 'This New England state was the first admitted to the Union after the original 13 colonies'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'In humans, muscles are defined as striated, cardiac or this type'

Answer: smooth muscles


Question: 'In a William Ross Wallace work, this phrase precedes "is the hand that rules the world"'

Answer: The hand that rocks the cradle


Question: 'A castle in this world capital was once the home of the kings of Bohemia'

Answer: Prague


Question:
'"Three's Company":
Don Knotts,
Joyce DeWitt,
Suzanne Somers'

Answer: Joyce DeWitt


Question: 'Until the 1960s, a pope's death was confirmed by tapping him with a hammer made of this'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Sites of prehistoric cave paintings include Altamira in Spain & this French cave famed for its Hall of Bulls'

Answer: Lascaux


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew muscles onto the scene.) From the Greek for "table", this pair of muscles extends and moves the head and shoulder blades'

Answer: the trapezius muscles


Question: 'This composer's 1941 autobiography was titled "Father of the Blues"'

Answer: W.C. Handy


Question: 'The name of this judicial capital of South Africa means "Fountain of Flowers"'

Answer: Bloemfontein


Question:
'"M*A*S*H":
Gary Burghoff,
Larry Linville,
Jamie Farr'

Answer: Jamie Farr


Question: 'Members of this august group are automatically citizens of Vatican City no matter where they live'

Answer: the College of Cardinals


Question: 'Terms used in this type of delicate needlework include "point de Venise" & "point d'Angleterre"'

Answer: lace


Question: 'A flexor directs an appendage forward; an exception is the gastrocnemius in this part of the leg'

Answer: the calf


Question: 'This necktie knot may be named for its resemblance to the knot used to tie the reins of a team of horses together'

Answer: four-in-hand


Question: 'Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work'

Answer: the Iliad


Question: 'When in Scotland, the queen often stays at the luxurious palace of Holyroodhouse in this city'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Good goblets, flutes & snifters are made out of this'

Answer: Glass/crystal


Question: '1852:<br />"'This is God's curse on slavery! -- a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!'"'

Answer: "Uncle Tom\'s Cabin"


Question: 'After Dennis Miller caught Adam's act at the Improv in L.A., he was invited to join this show in NYC'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: 'In Asia:<br />Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'An object that's genuine through & through is "dyed in" this'

Answer: The wool


Question: 'These 4 letters precede "Fiddich" & "Livet" in the names of top-selling Scottish malt whiskies'

Answer: Glen


Question: 'Bias, Pittacus & Solon were 3 of the 7 sages of this land'

Answer: Greece


Question: '1873:<br />"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens..."'

Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days


Question: 'In 1998 Adam Sandler was Bobby Boucher, this title "boy" at a Lousiana university'

Answer: The Waterboy


Question: 'President Vladimir Putin'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In Revelation 12, Satan is overcome by the blood of this'

Answer: The lamb


Question: 'While residing in Dumfries, he wrote "Auld Lang Syne"'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: 'Take one of these apart & you'll find cementum, dentin & a crown'

Answer: Tooth


Question: '1937:<br />"Lennie spoke craftily, 'Tell me -- like you done before...about the rabbits.'"'

Answer: "Of Mice and Men"


Question: 'Rob Schneider cavorted as a male gigolo in this 1999 release executive produced by Adam'

Answer: Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo


Question: 'In Africa:<br />President Hosni Mubarak'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This style of facial hair seen here is sadly, out of style'

Answer: Mutton Chops


Question: 'To Scots, a munro is a tall one of these; that makes Ben Nevis a munro'

Answer: Mountain


Question: 'Pointers & setters are sporting dogs & St. Bernards & Siberian huskies are classified as these'

Answer: Working dogs


Question: '1953:<br />"It was a pleasure to burn"'

Answer: "Fahrenheit 451"


Question: 'In a 1998 comedy, Adam finds love with Drew Barrymore as this title ceremonial crooner'

Answer: The Wedding Singer


Question: 'In Europe:<br />Prime Minister Bertie Ahern'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'This verb can mean to gather in a crowd, or to coat wallpaper'

Answer: Flocked


Question: 'A steamer named for this "Lady of the Lake" author plies its trade on Loch Katrine'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'Bobcats, Bears & Webelos are ranks of these'

Answer: Cub Scouts


Question: '1903:<br />"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing..."'

Answer: "Call of the Wild"


Question: 'Adam played Stick Pin Quinn & the Stud Boy on this hip, happening MTV game show'

Answer: Remote Control


Question: 'Southeast Asia's president Abdurrahman Wahid'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'To access the Internet, you need at least 16 megabytes of this acronym'

Answer: RAM (random access memory)


Question: 'It features Jefferson on the front & the signers of the Declaration on the back'

Answer: Two-dollar bill


Question: 'A score of 3 over par on a hole is called a triple one of these'

Answer: Bogey


Question: 'Relaxin is a female sex one of these produced to aid in childbirth'

Answer: Hormone


Question: 'Idaho, Burbank, Round White & New are varieties of this vegetable'

Answer: Potato


Question: 'She showed some "Basic Instinct" & became a mom in 2000'

Answer: Sharon Stone


Question: 'In Leonardo's "Last Supper", he's just sitting there quietly, holding a purse'

Answer: Judas


Question: 'A bicycle, as opposed to a unicycle'

Answer: Two-wheeler


Question: 'Begun in 1860, this major golf tournament is held annually in the U.K.'

Answer: British Open


Question: 'This surgery, cutting the vas deferens, makes a vast difference in male fertility'

Answer: Vasectomy


Question: 'To ripen & provide distinctive flavor, manufacturers of these dairy products sometimes add mold fungi'

Answer: Cheeses


Question: '"Perfect Storm" star Diane Lane's mother posed for the October 1957 issue of this magazine'

Answer: Playboy


Question: 'Jesus asked apostle Philip if he knew where they could buy enough of this to feed, say 5,000?'

Answer: Bread


Question: 'Birds of a feather, or a low-value poker hand'

Answer: Two of a kind


Question: 'His record 20 wins in the 6 major golf tournaments include 6 Masters titles'

Answer: Jack Nicklaus


Question: 'Change 1 letter in "mobile" to get this word used of sperm & spores'

Answer: Motile


Question: 'This fast food chain kept its name even after adding Brazier burgers to its menu of soft ice cream'

Answer: Dairy Queen


Question: 'As Hugh Grant's date, she made news at the "Four Weddings and a Funeral" premiere in a safety-pinned Versace'

Answer: Elizabeth Hurley


Question: 'His brother became a bishop of Rome & he became the patron saint of Scotland'

Answer: Andrew


Question: 'Thomas a Kempis said of these, "The lesser is always to be chosen"'

Answer: Of two evils


Question: 'A ladies' golf tourney named for this entertainer is played at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA.'

Answer: Dinah Shore


Question: 'It's any animal with both male & female sex organs, sometimes at different stages of life'

Answer: Hermaphrodite


Question: 'As a byproduct of WWII food rationing, this U.S. state consumes more Spam per capita than any other'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'This "X-Men" star previously charmed Warren Beatty in "Bulworth"'

Answer: Halle Berry


Question: 'He should have done a book signing tour; he's credited with his own gospel, 3 epistles & Revelation'

Answer: John


Question: 'Slow down & appreciate this animal's Latin name Choloepus didactylus'

Answer: Two-toed sloth


Question: 'In 1994 this Australian set a scoring record by averaging 68.81 per round for the year'

Answer: Greg Norman


Question: 'Breasts & beards are this type of sexual characteristic'

Answer: Secondary sexual characteristics


Question: 'This "hunter style" chicken is cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms & sometimes wine'

Answer: Chicken Cacciatore


Question: 'This teenage tennis goddess is often escorted by older Russian hockey players'

Answer: Anna Kournikova


Question: 'His name means "Son of Tholmai", & we don't know much about him'

Answer: Bartholomew


Question: 'This man in office since 1987 has a plaque in his office that reads, "The Buck Starts Here"'

Answer: Alan Greenspan


Question: 'Ptolemy XII, Egypt's king for nearly 30 years, used bribery to prevent this empire from annexing the country'

Answer: the Roman Empire


Question: '"I'm not a crook"'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'In Waukesha, Wisconsin you can actually live on this, a 2-word phrase for a life of comfort & security'

Answer: Easy Street


Question: 'The "Architect Earl" of Pembroke laid the first stone in the first Westminster Bridge over this river'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'Food used in many Thai dishes & also mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"'

Answer: peanuts


Question: 'Ara: one of these star groups between Triangulum Australe & Scorpius'

Answer: a constellation


Question: 'Her dad was Ptolemy XII; lucky no. XIII, 10 years old at the time, became her co-ruler & husband'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: '"Heeere's Johnny!"'

Answer: Ed McMahon


Question: 'Swing down to the intersection of Count & Basie in this capital of Virginia'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'In 1595 Hugh O'Neill, "the Great Earl" of Tyrone, led a revolt against British rule here'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Munich's traditional Weisswurst, a veal sausage, is naked without Senf, German for this'

Answer: mustard


Question: 'Gam or pod: a herd of these large mammals'

Answer: whales


Question: 'Fire was an important part of this structure, one of the 7 ancient wonders, finished during Ptolemy II's reign'

Answer: the Lighthouse at Alexandria


Question: '"You're fired"'

Answer: (Donald) Trump


Question: 'You can clean up on Dirty Ankle Road in Lawndale, located in this "Tar Heel State"'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'The Early of Carnarvon gave up race horses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this'

Answer: King Tutankhamen\'s tomb


Question: 'At his first news conference, George W. Bush compared Iraq sanctions to this dairy food'

Answer: Swiss cheese


Question: 'Ria: a narrow inlet of the sea formed by this type of valley that's been partly submerged'

Answer: a river valley


Question: 'Ptolemy's system of astronomy held up until 1543, when this Polish astronomer went heliocentric'

Answer: Copernicus


Question: '"Baby, you're the greatest"'

Answer: Jackie Gleason or Ralph Kramden


Question: 'Traverse to Traverse City, Mich. & go nuts a la Anthony Perkins, for you'll find this "Path" there'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'Earl "Citizen" Stanhope chaired a society to promote this the year before the French one'

Answer: a revolution


Question: 'The main ingredients of ratatouille are tomatoes, onions, peppers, zucchini & this veggie that's bigger than those'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'Eft: the land-dwelling form of this type of salamander'

Answer: a newt


Question: 'Ptolemy V's decree pardoning prisoners was inscribed on this block of basalt discovered in 1799'

Answer: the Rosetta Stone


Question: '"Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"'

Answer: Gary Coleman


Question: 'Fittingly, Bakersfield, Calif. has car dealers on this alley that's also the name of a comic strip'

Answer: Gasoline Alley


Question: 'In 1348 the Earl of Salisbury found his feminine side as one of the original Knights of this'

Answer: the Garter


Question: 'Meat on a stick sounds better if you use the French term, "en" this'

Answer: brochette


Question: 'Til: this type of plant; the seeds are used to make tahini'

Answer: sesame


Question: 'Relativity theory assumes that the effect of accelaration on an object equals the effect of this force'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Peter Billingsley watches Flick get triple-dog-dared into sticking his tongue to a flagpole in this film'

Answer: A Christmas Story


Question: 'Born in Ukraine in 1894, he became the undisputed leader of the USSR in 1958'

Answer: Khrushchev


Question: 'A shoulder-held weapon for firing armor-piercing rockets'

Answer: a bazooka


Question: 'In the "Republic", he criticized the job of painter as just a "creator of appearances...what he creates is untrue"'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'The unlawful killing of another, but without malice aforethought'

Answer: manslaughter


Question: 'This positively charged nuclear particle has almost 2,000 times the mass of the negatively charged electron'

Answer: a proton


Question: 'In the '70s, he was a hockey player in "Slap Shot" & faced a future ice age in "Quintet"'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'Called "Mother of Cities", this Ukrainian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960'

Answer: Kiev


Question: 'To walk with long steps (you may "hit" yours or "take things in" it)'

Answer: a stride


Question: 'This film critic became a leading director of the French New Wave with "The 400 Blows" & "Shoot the Piano Player"'

Answer: Francois Truffaut


Question: 'Marvelously meticulous medieval monks would methodically "illuminate" them'

Answer: a manuscript


Question: 'In wave motion, period, the time one complete cycle takes, is the reciprocal of this, the no. of cycles in a given time'

Answer: frequency


Question: 'This sequel starts on the icy planet of Hoth'

Answer: The Empire Strikes Back


Question: 'Ukraine prospered for several centuries in the Middle Ages until its 1240 conquest by these forces from the East'

Answer: the Mongols


Question: 'A special edition of a newspaper'

Answer: extra


Question: 'He wrote "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth, & his "Biographia Literaria" is the best of English Romantic criticism'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Question: 'The name of these handcuffs comes from the Latin for "little hand"'

Answer: manacles


Question: 'An object on a table & a compressed spring both have this type of energy; one gravitational, one elastic'

Answer: potential


Question: 'The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film'

Answer: Alive


Question: 'First name shared by both the current prime minister & current president of Ukraine'

Answer: Viktor


Question: 'The lunar kind means the light of the Moon is obscured because  the Earth is between the Moon & the sun'

Answer: an eclipse


Question: '"The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'Perhaps the world's first industrial city was this one, later home to the British band Oasis'

Answer: Manchester


Question: 'Term for the distance from the center of a lens to the pt. where parallel rays that pass through it converge'

Answer: focal length


Question: 'The end of this John Carpenter South Pole-set film finds Keith David & Kurt Russell shivering & paranoid'

Answer: The Thing


Question: 'Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine joined Russia & Belarus in forming this, the C.I.S.'

Answer: the Commonwealth of Independent States


Question: 'Without worry'

Answer: carefree


Question: 'Her 1991 book said "the undeclared war against American women" is the "backlash against the women's movement"'

Answer: Susan Faludi


Question: 'After they invaded China & captured Beijing in 1644, they established the Ching dynasty'

Answer: the Manchus


Question: 'In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Scientists worry about the fast melting of these Antarctic bodies, like the vast body called the Pine Island this'

Answer: the ice shelf


Question: 'An aviator with 5 air kills'

Answer: an ace


Question: 'A Geiger counter is used primarily to measure this'

Answer: radiation


Question: 'It's the last name of the designer whose website is usa.tommy.com'

Answer: Hilfiger


Question: 'British theater director Trevor, or ex-Georgia Senator Sam'

Answer: Nunn


Question: 'Marx & Engels gave us the line "A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of" this -ism'

Answer: communism


Question: 'Snowmelt plus ground still frozen from winter can equal this, the most common type of U.S. natural disaster'

Answer: flood


Question: 'A crack in the earth's crust'

Answer: a fault


Question: 'A capotasto or capo is attached to the fingerboard of a guitar to raise this for all the strings at once'

Answer: the pitch


Question: 'Hello, designers!  This ""Project Runway" man, AKA as the Silver Fox, is chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne'

Answer: (Tim) Gunn


Question: 'As a baby's chest cover for meals, it doesn't have enough letters; as a type of lettuce, it does'

Answer: Bibb


Question: 'His mom said, "If Karl, instead of writing a lot about" Das This, "made a lot of" this, "it would have been much better"'

Answer: Kapital


Question: 'Instructions for doing this:  remove food; insert pan of hot water; wipe out melt; return food'

Answer: defrosting your freezer


Question: 'The retinue of a reigning monarch'

Answer: the court


Question: 'This, named for a 10th C. Danish king, enables short-range wireless communication between electronic devices'

Answer: bluetooth


Question: 'He was hired at age 17 as Christian Dior's assistant; after Dior's death 4 years later, he was head of the House of Dior'

Answer: Yves St. Laurent


Question: 'A temporary calm or stillness'

Answer: lull


Question: 'Marx & Engels wrote "The proletarians have nothing to lose but" these'

Answer: their chains


Question: 'The melting of the snowpack in this mountain range supplies the water of over half of California's population'

Answer: the Sierra Nevadas


Question: 'An automobile race run over public roads'

Answer: a rally


Question: 'An epipen delivers a dose of epinephrine to treat this type of severe allergic reaction, partly from the Greek word for "watching"'

Answer: anaphylactic


Question: 'In 1967 he began marketing his unique line of ties under the name Polo'

Answer: Ralph Lauren


Question: 'Impudent or disrespectful back talk'

Answer: sass


Question: 'These people, like Kant and Spinoza, "have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"'

Answer: philosophers


Question:
'(Sara of the Clue Crew stands before a map of Europe)
Snowmelt from the Alps feeds major rivers, including the Rhine that flows to the North Sea, the Danube which heads to the Black Sea, and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea is this river'

Answer: the Rhone


Question: 'Ambrose Bierce described this as "a temporary insanity curable by marriage"'

Answer: love


Question: 'This seen here is used for fastening ropes in mountaineering'

Answer: a carabiner


Question: 'Originally know for his menswear, this Italian created the A/X line that features leisure & active sportswear'

Answer: (Giorgio) Armani


Question: 'Historian William, or Connecticut Senator Christopher'

Answer: Dodd


Question: 'Dublin, Stockholm, Paris'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'This Lord Chancellor of England was canonized in 1935, 400 years after his execution'

Answer: Thomas More


Question: 'The chicken prepared this way, French for "blue ribbon", was often hard to swallow--& such small portions!'

Answer: cordon bleu


Question: 'In a Hawthorne tale, old Mother Rigby animates Feathertop, one of these straw dummies used on farms'

Answer: a scarecrow


Question: 'Matt Lauer & Al Roker know that this title of their show could be an adverb meaning "at the present time"'

Answer: Today


Question: 'As Professor Wagstaff in "Horse Feathers", Groucho told his son, "I'd horsewhip you if I had" one of these'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'Buenos Aires, Bogota, Brasilia'

Answer: Bogota


Question: 'In art, Saint Agnes is often depicted as holding this young animal, a symbol of innocence & purity'

Answer: a lamb


Question: 'Diced chicken in a rich cream with mushrooms, pimientos, green peppers & sherry is chicken a la this'

Answer: King


Question: 'In Russia, Baba Yaga is one of these & she's got a hut that walks around on chicken legs'

Answer: a witch


Question: 'You can use this 5-letter adverb on "Jeopardy!" if your response is a country'

Answer: where


Question: 'Groucho to Chico: "I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at" this bird'

Answer: the stork


Question: 'Pyongyang, New Delhi, Islamabad'

Answer: Pyongyang


Question: 'An immigrant herself, this Italian-American mother is the patron saint of immigrants'

Answer: Mother Cabrini


Question: 'Da, when pierced, a boned chicken breast emits a jet of fragrant melted butter in chicken this 4-letter style'

Answer: chicken Kiev


Question: 'This character announces, "with my bow & my arrow, I killed Cock Robin"'

Answer: the Sparrow


Question: 'It can be a noun meaning a company, or an adverb for "without wavering", as in "stand" this'

Answer: firm


Question: 'Film in which Groucho asks, "Wouldn't it be simpler if you just put the stateroom in the trunk?"'

Answer: A Night at the Opera


Question: 'Luanda, Monrovia, Algiers'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'Legend has it that St. Sylvester healed this first Christian Roman emperor's leprosy in baptismal waters'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'Alton Brown recommends pinot noir for the wine in the French name of this dish'

Answer: coq au vin


Question: 'Gerda tries to rescue Kay from this Hans Christian Andersen title royal'

Answer: the Snow Queen


Question: 'Please resist the temptation to spell this adverb meaning "very nearly" with 2 L's'

Answer: almost


Question: 'Manila, Kathmandu, Jakarta'

Answer: Kathmandu


Question: 'This New Testament martyr is the patron saint of bricklayers'

Answer: Saint Stephen


Question: 'Cooked spaghetti & strips of chicken with a sherry-parmesan cheese cream sauce is chicken this Italian name'

Answer: chicken tetrazzini


Question: 'In a Robert Burns folksong, this character whose name once symbolized liquor endures torture & death'

Answer: John Barleycorn


Question: 'Meaning "frequently", this adverb is now 2 letters longer than it was some 400 years ago'

Answer: often


Question: 'Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: '"He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible"'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'The Mamas & the Papas: <br />"____ Dreamin"''

Answer: California


Question: 'It's the official language of Qatar'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'The Xiang River flows hundreds of miles through hunan province before joining this even mightier Chinese river'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: 'Vodka, orange juice & Galliano go into the cocktail called Harvey this'

Answer: wallbanger


Question: 'The Beatles often recorded at a studio on this street, immortalizing its crossing on an album cover'

Answer: Abbey Road


Question: '"'My goodness! My gracious!' they shouted.  'My word!  It's something brand new!  It's an elephant-bird'"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Billy Joel: <br />"____ State Of Mind"'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Romansch, a dialect of the Central Alps, is the fourth national language of this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'At around 20 miles long, the Onyx River is this continent's longest'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'The quokka is another name for the short-tailed scrub species of this marsupial'

Answer: a wallaby


Question: 'This street in New Orleans' French Quarter is named for a royal house, not for whiskey'

Answer: Bourbon Street


Question: '"It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'The Jackson 5: <br />The semi-autobiographical "Goin' Back To ____"'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'This dialect forms the basis of modern standard Chinese, usually called Putonghua, "common language"'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'Wear a jacket if you're going to the Kalix River in this country's Norrland region; it's even colder than Svealand'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'A type of sweet onion is named for this Washington city'

Answer: Walla Walla


Question: 'This avenue, the traditional route of the presidential inaugural parade, runs over the Anacostia River'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: '"On a glance it resembled most primitive carving; and then it didn't, for here was the spit-image of Holly Golightly"'

Answer: (Truman) Capote


Question: 'Alabama: <br />"If You're Gonna Play In ____ (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)"'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Tagalog is the basis for one of the official languages of this country'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'The Xucar originates north of Cuenca in this country before flowing into the Gulf of Valencia'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Don't be shy; name this plant seen here'

Answer: the wallflower


Question: 'This Memphis street, a birthplace of the blues, is home to a museum devoted to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues'

Answer: Beale Street


Question: '"Reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred"'

Answer: (Alfred Lord) Tennyson


Question: 'Faith Hill: <br />"____ Girl"'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'L.L. Zamenhof grew up in an area of Poland where 4 languages were spoken, leading to ethnic animosity, so he created this'

Answer: Esperanto


Question: 'Bring a rod!  There's great salmon fishing on the River Exe in this English county famous for its clotted cream'

Answer: Devon


Question: 'This type of game fish is named for an ocular feature'

Answer: the walleye


Question: 'Since 1975 the Tour de France has ended with an 8-lap circuit of this broad avenue'

Answer: the Champs-Elysées


Question: 'The sousaphone, developed from a suggestion by Sousa, is a 3-valved type of this brass instrument'

Answer: a tuba


Question: 'Rockatansky is the last name of the title character of this 1979 film set in a dystopian future Australia'

Answer: Mad Max


Question: 'Ay, this tiny dog is named for Mexico's largest state in area'

Answer: Chihuahua


Question: 'It was partly at the suggestion of fellow writer John Dos Passos that he moved to Key West, Florida in 1928'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'Encyclopedia Britannica has been U.S.-owned since 1901; in the '20s & '30s, this U.S. mail-order company owned it'

Answer: Sears


Question: 'This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene'

Answer: frostbite


Question: 'Sousa met his wife, Jane, during rehearsals for this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set on a ship off Portsmouth'

Answer: H.M.S. Pinafore


Question: 'Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia'

Answer: Babe


Question: 'With its stripes resembling another animal, the butterfly seen here is known as this type of longwing'

Answer: a zebra longwing


Question: 'With his brother Julio, he created one of the world's largest winemaking empires'

Answer: Ernest Gallo


Question: 'This now-standard back-of-the-book feature first appeared in the 7th edition of 1830-1842'

Answer: the (general) index


Question: 'You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing'

Answer: touché


Question: 'This 1893 march named for a national symbol served as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"'

Answer: "The Liberty Bell"


Question: '2 Australian sprinters are sent to fight in Turkey during WWI in this 1981 film'

Answer: Gallipoli


Question: 'Like a woman who assists in childbirth, a type of toad whose male carries the eggs on its hind legs is called this'

Answer: a midwife


Question: 'Ernest "Fritz" Hollings represented this Southern state in the Senate from 1966 to 2005'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'The 10th edition of 1902 was sponsored by this London newspaper; thanks to a lawsuit, it quit before the 11th'

Answer: The Times of London


Question: 'It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney'

Answer: "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral"


Question: 'In 1889 the owner of this newspaper asked Sousa to write a march for a ceremony for the winners of its essay contest'

Answer: The Washington Post


Question: 'In this movie that showed a new side of Aussie life, an old bus with a royal name takes 3 entertainers into the Outback'

Answer: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert


Question: 'This scarab relative, often seen at night, is named for the time of year when it's most prevalent'

Answer: a junebug


Question: 'In 1947 he headlined the first Grand Ole Opry concert at Carnegie Hall'

Answer: Ernest Tubb


Question: 'EB's thistle logo is a reminder that it was first published in this country, one of whose symbols is the thistle'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student'

Answer: frosh


Question: 'In 1896 Sousa wrote an operetta set in Peru during Spanish occupation that featured this title march'

Answer: "El Capitan"


Question: 'Toni Collette leaves Porpoise Spit for Sydney & lip-syncs to ABBA songs in this 1994 film'

Answer: Muriel\'s Wedding


Question: 'This South American monkey seen here is named for its soft, thick fur'

Answer: a wooly monkey


Question: 'After abandoning ship during a transantarctic expedition in 1915, he & his men spent months drifting on ice floes'

Answer: Sir Ernest Shackleton


Question: 'The 15th edition of 1974 was the first divided into a "Propaedia" outline of knowledge & these 2 "large" & "small" sections'

Answer: the Macropedia & the Micropedia


Question: 'Mais oui, it's French for "cheese"'

Answer: fromage


Question: 'From 1792 to 1886 this person, not the Speaker of the House, followed the vice president in the line of succession'

Answer: the President pro tem (of the Senate)


Question: 'On May 24, 1856 this abolitionist led a raid that killed 5 pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'In 1972 the band White Clover changed to this "state"ly name; its members went to Topeka West High School'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'When a Jewish groom does this, it's traditional for Uncle Mort to joke, "That's the last time he puts his foot down"'

Answer: break the wine glass


Question: 'The Romans had the gall to call this country Gaul'

Answer: France


Question: 'It does compute that the logo seen here comes from these two men's names'

Answer: Hewlett & Packard


Question: 'The height to which something is raised above a point of reference such as the ground'

Answer: elevation


Question: 'On June 26, 1864 near Atlanta, he said, "We have devoured the land and our animals eat up the wheat and corn fields"'

Answer: (William Tecumseh) Sherman


Question: 'In 1975, 13 years after hitting No. 1 with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", he charted again with a remake of the song'

Answer: Neil Sedaka


Question: 'In a big fat Ancient Greek wedding, the bride wore this item in red or yellow'

Answer: a veil


Question: 'Wilmington in this U.S. state was once the site of the Swedish settlement of Christinahamn'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'This product's logo seen here fosters a lot of "digital ambulation"'

Answer: the Yellow Pages


Question: 'The act of cutting the head off something, perhaps a member of French royalty in the 1790s'

Answer: decapitation


Question: 'At Bull Run, General Bee referred to Thomas Jackson by saying, "There stands Jackson like" one of these'

Answer: a stone wall


Question: 'In 1971 Janis Joplin told us in this song that "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"'

Answer: "Me And Bobby McGee"


Question: 'A German bride's right hand is not just for shaking hands in the receiving line but, unlike in the U.S., for receiving this'

Answer: the wedding ring


Question: 'The southern part of this Mekong River country was once called Cochin-China'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Never exit your domicile without one of this company's products'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'The formal remission of sin by a priest'

Answer: absolution


Question: 'Of the 11 Confederate states, this one was the farthest north'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'In 1976 radio listeners were humming the melody to this song'

Answer: "Baby, I Love Your Way"


Question: 'It's the 9-letter term for any member of the wedding party, such as a bridesmaid or best man'

Answer: an attendant


Question: 'Now divided into 2 opposing countries, together this peninsula was once known as Choson'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Stay in touch with this global communications giant'

Answer: Motorola


Question: 'Movement of the blood through the body as a result of the heart's pumping action'

Answer: circulation


Question: 'His "charge" was the Confederacy's last chance effort to win the Battle of Gettysburg--didn't work'

Answer: Pickett


Question: 'This 1977 Pink Floyd album was inspired by a George Orwell novel'

Answer: Animals


Question: 'Stephanotis isn't an old boyfriend you invited, it's something found in a formal one of these'

Answer: the bouquet


Question: 'A large part of what is now this country was once Tripolitania'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'Use your organ to name this leading organ & synthesizer firm'

Answer: Roland


Question: 'In psychology, a strong attachment to a person or thing that often persists throughout life'

Answer: a fixation


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew crouches in front of a flame-filled building at the FDNY's Randall's Island Academy.)  In the burn room used in training, recruits learn to keep calm and stay low, the best way to avoid this cause of up to three-quarters of U.S. fire-related deaths'

Answer: smoke inhalation


Question: 'In 1989 James Woods & James Garner starred in “My Name is Bill W.”, about the origins of this group'

Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous


Question: 'Robert James Waller:<br />“The Bridges of ______”'

Answer: Madison County


Question:
'Dorrit,
Engine that Could,
rock & roll’s Richard'

Answer: little


Question: 'A disastrous economic program called the “Great Leap Forward” was begun in this country in 1958'

Answer: China


Question: 'You’d better keep an eye on this type of large lizard of family Varanidae of which the komodo dragon is a type'

Answer: a monitor lizard


Question: 'The Jaws of Life rescue tool was originally developed in 1972 by the Hurst Company for use in this sport'

Answer: car racing


Question: 'In 2004 this funny lady played a developmentally challenged woman in “Riding the Bus with My Sister”'

Answer: Rosie O’Donnell


Question: 'Pierre Boulle:<br />“The Bridge over the _________”'

Answer: River Kwai


Question: 'Hey baby, there ain’t no easy way out; this word can precede bourgeois, larceny & cash'

Answer: petty


Question: 'Completes the famous 1969 lunar-based quote “One small step for a man…”'

Answer: “one giant leap for mankind”


Question: 'Lizards that have a brille, a transparent scale covering the eye, keep it clean by doing this to it'

Answer: licking it


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near an open flame & an infrared camera at the FDNY's Randall's Island Academy.)  Reading infrared hot spots can differentiate heat sources to find hidden hot spots among smoke; the technology is called this type of imaging'

Answer: thermal


Question: '“Winter’s End” with Glenn Close & Christopher Walken wrapped up the trilogy that began with this film'

Answer: Sarah, Plain and Tall


Question: 'Cornelius Ryan:<br />“A Bridge Too ___”'

Answer: Far


Question: 'Hold me closer (this word from Middle English meaning “very small”) dancer'

Answer: tiny


Question: 'This flexible device helps gymnasts increase the height of their leaps'

Answer: a springboard


Question: 'The dragon seen here gets this hairy name from its ability to flare out its throat when threatened'

Answer: the bearded lizard


Question: 'Take the “U” out of scuba to get this full name of firefighting gear used to go where oxygen is scarce'

Answer: a self-contained breathing apparatus


Question: 'He’s the knighted Oscar-winner behind all the makeup in the 1982 presentation seen here'

Answer: Anthony Hopkins


Question: 'Thornton Wilder:<br />“The Bridge of _______”'

Answer: San Luis Rey


Question: 'Slang for your psychiatrist, or a bad thing that can happen to your pants in the wash'

Answer: a shrink


Question: 'In ballet, one of these, from the French for “throw”, can be a “grand” or “petit” leap from one foot to the other'

Answer: jeté


Question: 'This creature is one of the 2 poisonous lizards in the world & the largest lizard in the U.S.'

Answer: the Gila monster


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew kneels next to a subway car and an air pump.)  Thousands of pounds, like this New York City subway car, can be moved in a rescue situation using lift bags, described with this adjective from the Greek for “wind”'

Answer: pneumatic


Question: 'For his role in 1971’s “The Price”, he won (& accepted!) an Emmy'

Answer: George C. Scott


Question: 'James Michener:<br />“The Bridges at ___”'

Answer: Toko Ri


Question: 'An adjective for a very slim body, or a verb meaning to snub'

Answer: slight


Question: 'When an atom undergoes a quantum leap, one of these light particles is emitted or absorbed'

Answer: a photon


Question: 'Similar to a wattle, this protrusion seen here on the Anole lizard can be used for courtship or intimidation'

Answer: dewlap


Question: 'He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine'

Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir


Question: 'A bronze statue known as "The Independent Man" tops the Rhode Island state house in this city'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'This U.S. state "Here I come, right back where I started from"'

Answer: California


Question: 'Dottle is the plug of ash you knock out of this'

Answer: pipe


Question: 'Alphabetically by first name, he's listed last'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'It's the name of this experienced, yet still "Green" politician'

Answer: Ralph Nader


Question: 'If you've wrecked someone's careful planning, you've done this to the applecart'

Answer: upset


Question: 'Opened in 1917, the Museum of Fine Arts in this city was built in the Pueblo Revival style'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: '"Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this'

Answer: fun


Question: 'As its name indicates, this device divides a cable signal before it enters your TV set'

Answer: splitter


Question: 'Alphabetically by last name, he's listed last'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Seen here is the cover illustration from this classic children's book'

Answer: Green Eggs and Ham


Question: 'The condition of an apple pie fresh out of the oven, it's also how I like my movies'

Answer: uncut


Question: 'Hollywood Cemetery in this city is the final resting place of James Monroe, John Tyler & Jefferson Davis'

Answer: Richmond


Question: '"When" this man "comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah"'

Answer: Johnny


Question: 'Sir, you verily have offended me & if you'll not step aside I'll knock that cockade off this & into yon gutter'

Answer: your head/your hat


Question: 'He's the only president whose wife did not change her last name after he married her'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Happy hero of Green Bay, seen here'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'Apple pie is often rich, so it makes sense that this part of the pie is a synonym for "rich"'

Answer: the upper crust


Question: 'This city dropped the word "Great" from its name in 1868, while it was still a territorial capital'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'This title completes the line "Now I ask you very confidentially..."'

Answer: "Ain\'t She Sweet"


Question: 'The 4 sections attached to these to help them go straight in barrooms are called flights'

Answer: darts


Question: 'He's the only president with a 2-word last name'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'A cross-section of this green treat is seen here'

Answer: kiwi


Question: 'Saying that Dutch apple pie is just good is one of these, because it's the best dessert on Earth'

Answer: an understatement


Question: 'The exterior of the gov.'s mansion in Tallahassee was inspired by the Hermitage in this other state capital'

Answer: Nashville


Question: '"I'm looking over" one of these "that I overlooked before"'

Answer: a four-leaf clover


Question: 'Seen here is an instance of this type of sign'

Answer: fingerpost sign


Question: 'At 10 letters, he has the longest single middle name'

Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Question: 'Comic book evildoer seen here'

Answer: the Green Goblin


Question: 'If a bakery spends $12 producing 6 apple tarts, this cost is $2'

Answer: a unit


Question: 'A small campanile, hopefully batless'

Answer: belfry


Question:
'"Two Men and a Wardrobe",
"Death and the Maiden",
"The Pianist"'

Answer: Roman Polanski


Question: 'With his "Company" & "Follies", he can stand side-by-side with the best of Broadway's composers'

Answer: Stephen Sondheim


Question: 'Used to express a ratio, it's from the Latin for "by the hundred"'

Answer: percent


Question: 'Reports say the first observance of this October 31st holiday held'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'It's put out by the Washington Post Company's magazine publishing division'

Answer: Newsweek


Question: 'This 12th century style was revived in Europe in the 19th century & used for churches into the 20th century'

Answer: Gothic


Question:
'"Amarcord",
"La Strada",
"La Dolce Vita"'

Answer: Federico Fellini


Question: 'With Steven Jobs he created a new Apple for your teacher'

Answer: Steve Wozniak


Question: 'Now a final resting place for great people, it was originally a great banquet hall for Norse gods'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'Rhodes invaded by the Arabs; this ancient wonder's remains sold off'

Answer: the Colossus of Rhodes


Question: '"Space Aliens Are Here for our Toothpaste!" is a typical headline of this American media publication'

Answer: the Weekly World News


Question: 'Wallace K. Harrison met with success designing this theater for Lincoln Center'

Answer: the Metropolitan Opera House


Question:
'"Fahrenheit 451",
"Jules and Jim",
"The 400 Blows"'

Answer: Francois Truffaut


Question: 'The state university in Nacogdoches, Texas is named for him'

Answer: Stephen (F.) Austin


Question: 'Latin for "cross", it's the critical point or feature of an argument'

Answer: crux


Question: 'Vitalian elected to this religious post; serves for 15 years'

Answer: pope


Question: 'Jay McInerney worked as a fact-checker at this magazine & portrayed it in "Bright Lights, Big City"'

Answer: The New Yorker


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  This railing system often seen on balconies includes a top rail, balusters, and sometimes a bottom rail'

Answer: balustrade


Question:
'"Tie Me Up!  Tie Me Down!",
"High Heels",
"Talk to Her"'

Answer: Pedro Almodovar


Question: 'One of the commodores seen here'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'From the Hungarian for "shepherd", it came to mean shepherds' food, a stew of meat & vegetables'

Answer: goulash


Question: 'The Avars attack the Byzantine capital city called this'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'Journalist/novelist Pete Hamill has been editor-in-chief of the New York Post & this paper'

Answer: the (New York) Daily News


Question: 'This early 20th century school designed with horizontal lines like the flatness of the land in the Midwest'

Answer: the Prairie School


Question:
'"Mona Lisa",
"The Crying Game",
"Interview with the Vampire"'

Answer: Neil Jordan


Question: 'He was such a great poet that his unfinished "Western Star" won him a Pulitzer (his second) in 1944'

Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet


Question: 'Some say "Great Scott!" began as a tribute to the exploits of this Mexican War hero'

Answer: Winfield Scott


Question: 'Saint David, patron saint of this U.K. country, passes on to his heavenly reward'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'The 2003 movie "Shattered Glass" is set at this political magazine'

Answer: The New Republic


Question: 'The name of Mintaka, a star in this constellation, is from the Arabic for 'belt"'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'Located 12 miles north of Mexico, this California city was a whaling port in the mid-1800s'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'As many hoped, on the final episode of "Friends", these 2 characters finally got back together'

Answer: Ross & Rachel


Question: 'One of these thrill rides careens around the New York-New York hotel in Vegas, & even goes upside-down'

Answer: roller coaster


Question: 'In 1962 he graduated from a military academy in Peru'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'This corn whiskey was named for a county in Kentucky'

Answer: bourbon


Question: 'International laws regarding prisoners of war were established by conventions held in this city in 1929 & 1949'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'W.C. Handy wrote some of his blues on Beale Street in this city'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Thanks to caller ID, we learned that Mr. Big's real name was John in the last moments of this HBO series'

Answer: Sex and the City


Question: 'You'll have fun getting to your room this way at Jules' Undersea Lodge in Fla.--Yep, the hotel really is underwater'

Answer: by scuba diving to it


Question: 'In the 1930s the FBI was gunning for this bank robber--and they got him in Chicago'

Answer: (John) Dillinger


Question: 'Gin & grenadine are the main ingredients in this color lady; the same color squirrel is a different mix'

Answer: a pink lady


Question: 'The mess is the area on a ship where the crew eats; this is the term for the kitchen where the cooking is done'

Answer: the galley


Question: 'It's the southernmost state capital'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'David Janssen came face to face with the one-armed man in the thrilling finale to this '60s series'

Answer: The Fugitive


Question: 'Pop over to the national balloon museum, made to look like 2 inverted balloons, in Indianola in this "Hawkeye State"'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'In 1977 the president pardoned this World War II propagandist'

Answer: Tokyo Rose


Question: 'When called this, quinine water pairs up with gin in a famous drink'

Answer: tonic


Question: 'Beginning in her teens, a maiko is an apprentice to one of these professional Japanese women'

Answer: a geisha


Question: 'Daniel Boone lived for a while in this West Virginia capital'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'Was it all a dream? On the last episode of "Newhart", Bob awoke with this former TV wife, not Mary Frann'

Answer: Suzanne Pleshette


Question: 'Try to break the record for eating these hot peppers at the annual Laredo, Texas festival named for them'

Answer: jalapenos


Question: 'In 1947 this gangster lost his life in Beverly Hills'

Answer: (Bugsy) Siegel


Question: 'This top brandy from the Charente region of France is a blend that's distilled twice'

Answer: cognac


Question: 'Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost land in the world, is the northernmost tip of this island'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'John Adams said "the child of Independence" was born in "the old Council Chamber" of this city's Old State House'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'In 1983 viewers said "goodbye, farewell and amen" to this series; the war was over'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'Have a candlelit breakfast in your room at Governor's Trace Bed & Breakfast in this colonial capital of Va.'

Answer: Williamsburg


Question: 'In 1931 a gang war ended when this fortunate guy had the leaders of both sides whacked'

Answer: "Lucky" Luciano


Question: 'Sercial is a madeira used as an aperitif & bual is one used as this type'

Answer: digestif (after-dinner accepted)


Question: 'A small Basque village immortalized in art in 1937'

Answer: Guernica


Question: 'David Farragut sailed into the Mississippi River in April 1862 & captured Natchez, Baton Rouge & this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'The brothers who produced the game Monopoly'

Answer: Parker


Question: 'In Euripides' home Protagoras read a controversial treatise saying these might not exist'

Answer: gods


Question: 'Of the family Trochilidae, they're the smallest variety of birds'

Answer: a hummingbird


Question: 'After seeing Verdi's "Aida" he decided opera was to be his forte & came up with "La boheme" & "Tosca" among others'

Answer: (Giacomo) Puccini


Question: 'Young lovers know it's from a middle English word for "run away"'

Answer: elope


Question: 'This 1,600-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War's eastern & western theaters'

Answer: the Appalachians


Question: 'A nation's flag'

Answer: Banner


Question: 'Of the sheep, the pig or the bactrian camel, the first to be domesticated'

Answer: the sheep


Question: 'The smell given to natural gas is similar to rotting meat, so linemen look for these circling as a sign of gas line leaks'

Answer: vultures


Question: 'Arthur Sullivan in 1856 was the first person to receive the scholarship named for this "Bridal March" composer'

Answer: (Felix) Mendelssohn


Question: 'Named for the pioneer who settled the area in 1846, this city is home to the University of Oregon'

Answer: Eugene


Question: 'Widely used by both sides, this rifle shares its name with the Massachusetts city where it was made'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'A state university in Detroit, Michigan'

Answer: Wayne


Question: 'This early ancestor of European man was named for the French cave site where the bones were first found'

Answer: Cro-Magnon man


Question: 'This flightless bird's name may be from the Welsh for "white head"'

Answer: penguin


Question: 'For the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Delibes used "The Sandman", one of the "Tales of" this author'

Answer: E.T.A. Hoffman


Question: 'To free from bondage, as the 13th amendment did for slaves'

Answer: emancipate


Question: 'On February 3, 1865 Lincoln met with Confederate leaders at a conference named for this Virginia site'

Answer: Hampton Roads


Question: 'An English county of 2,300 square miles'

Answer: Kent


Question: 'Now in white & black species, this animal had a woolly version during the last Ice Age'

Answer: rhinoceros


Question: 'There doesn't seem to be a patron saint of hawks, but David of Wales is the patron of these birds'

Answer: doves


Question: 'In 1874 Ibsen asked Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for this play'

Answer: Peer Gynt


Question: 'This fencing sword has a bell-shaped guard & a triangular blade 35 inches long'

Answer: an épée


Question: 'This Confederate vice president referred to Jefferson Davis as "weak and vacillating"'

Answer: Alexander Stephens


Question: 'A suburb of Providence, Rhode Island'

Answer: Cranston


Question: 'Ur was a part of this ancient civilization in Mesopotamia that was the first to develop a system of writing'

Answer: Sumeria


Question: 'Bird brains know the fossils of this early bird were first found in Solnhofen, Bavaria in the 1860s'

Answer: Archaeopteryx


Question: 'Italian for "a whim", Strauss used it as an opera title, Paganini for a violin study'

Answer: a capriccio


Question: 'Abu Dhabi is one; Dubai is another'

Answer: an emirate


Question: 'At the center of Hell, Satan is devouring Brutus, Cassius & this biblical figure'

Answer: Judas


Question: 'In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" & "The Greatest Love of All"'

Answer: Whitney Houston


Question: 'After the invasion of Poland, Great Britain & this nation declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939'

Answer: France


Question: 'The boys first teamed up in 1990 for a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in this city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Chamonix, France was the site of the first of these Olympics in 1924'

Answer: Winter Olympics


Question: 'After losing his coat of many colors to his brothers, he lost another garment to Potiphar's eager wife'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'In the old saw, it precedes "Half a dozen of the other"'

Answer: 6 of 1


Question: '1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3'

Answer: Duran Duran


Question: 'Led by Anilewicz, the valiant fighters of this Polish city area held off Nazi attacks in 1943'

Answer: The Warsaw Ghetto


Question: 'The 3 Tenors inspired Kathleen Cassello, Kallen Esperian & Cynthia Lawrence to tour as this group'

Answer: The 3 Sopranos


Question: 'The first day of summer in Bolivia is in this month'

Answer: December


Question: 'Tod Stiles & Buzz Murdock cruised America in a 1960 Corvette in this TV series'

Answer: Route 66


Question: 'This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love"'

Answer: Robert Palmer


Question: 'Gen. McAuliffe's famous one-word reply to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge'

Answer: "Nuts!"


Question: 'Among the classic songs interpreted by Pavarotti is this one also called "Nel Blu, Dipinto Di Blu"'

Answer: Volare


Question: 'In Italy, spring is known as this; pass the pasta!'

Answer: Primavera


Question: 'Name of the book whose second verse begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation"'

Answer: Numbers


Question: 'Ah, yes, I remember it well, this year of the original "Woodstock Music & Art Fair"'

Answer: 1969


Question: 'The movie "Buster" starred this singer & drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme'

Answer: Phil Collins


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Seen here, he commanded the British 8th Army from 1942 to 1944'

Answer: Gen. Bernard Montgomery (of El-Alamein)


Question: 'On their 1994 & 1998 albums, Luciano performs "Nessun Dorma" from this composer's "Turandot"'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'Thomas Paine scorned this seasonal warrior & the "Sunshine Patriot" in a 1776 pamphlet'

Answer: Summer soldier


Question: 'This fifth book of the Pentateuch consists mostly of Moses laying down the law'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'According to Tennyson, the number of men in the Light Brigade during its fateful charge'

Answer: The 600


Question: 'No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track & "Cold Hearted"'

Answer: Paula Abdul


Question: 'This admiral directed Japan's naval operations in the year following Pearl Harbor'

Answer: Isoroku Yamamoto


Question: 'From Greek for a certain musical instrument, it's the type of tenor Placido Domingo is'

Answer: Lyric


Question: 'In the first line of "Richard III", this is "Made glorious summer by this sun of York"'

Answer: "The winter of our discontent"


Question: 'Sarah's handmaid bore Abraham this son & was told, "His hand will be against every man"'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'In both an Iron Maiden hit song & the apocalypse of St. John, it's the number of the beast'

Answer: 666


Question: 'Warm, inviting Miami lies just 2 degrees north of this tropic line'

Answer: Tropic of Cancer


Question: 'Stuck in the wilderness in "The Gold Rush", he boils his boot for dinner'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'A sexy 60-year-old would know how to spell...'

Answer: S-E-X-A-G-E-N-A-R-I-A-N


Question: 'In 1979 Saatchi & Saatchi, Britain's largest of these agencies, helped bring Margaret Thatcher to power'

Answer: Advertising


Question: 'The villainous broadcast tycoon in "Tomorrow Never Dies" reminded some of this Australian-born mogul'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'With his first Maigret novel in 1931, he's considered one of the inventors of the police procedural'

Answer: Georges Simenon


Question: 'You may have to claw your way into Joe's popular spot for the "stone" type of these crustaceans'

Answer: Crabs


Question: 'In a 1944 classic, it's the title type of insurance Barbara Stanwyck takes out on her husband'

Answer: Double Indemnity


Question: 'One channel of communication, perhaps with the dead; its plural form means all press & broadcasters'

Answer: Medium


Question: 'The 2 millionaires Jacqueline Bouvier married'

Answer: John F. Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis


Question: 'Store det. Wolf J. Flywheel in the film "The Big Store", Ron Goulart made him a master detective in a 1998 book'

Answer: Groucho Marx


Question: 'The University of Miami football team shares its name with these dreaded local events'

Answer: hurricanes


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Janet Leigh)  In "Psycho", it's the name of the establishment where I met my end"'

Answer: The Bates Motel


Question: 'Phone home & then spell....'

Answer: E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-I-A-L


Question: 'Violin strings do it to produce sound; a pager does it to signal you silently'

Answer: Vibrate


Question: 'Pulitzer winner James Merrill could focus on poetry -- his dad founded a brokerage house with this man'

Answer: Edmund Lynch


Question: 'His crime novel "Rum Punch" was filmed by Quentin Tarantino as "Jackie Brown"'

Answer: Elmore Leonard


Question: 'It's one of Miami Beach's best-known hotels & perhaps the one with the most elegant name'

Answer: The Fontainebleau


Question: 'In 1953 Audrey Hepburn won hearts as the runaway princess in this film'

Answer: Roman Holiday


Question: 'A classic model of communication refers to the person at the end stage as this, like part of a phone'

Answer: Receiver


Question: 'This fast food co.'s stock took a quarter pounding when it didn't make the list of Warren Buffett's major holdings'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'Mr. Contreras lives downstairs from this Paretsky P.I.'

Answer: VI Warshawski


Question: 'Directional name for the area that's the home of Miami's Art Deco district'

Answer: South Beach


Question: 'This 1939 film includes the line "What do they know of heaven and hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life?"'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'Add 3 letters to "oration" to get this word for the conclusion of a speech'

Answer: Per (Peroration)


Question: 'Once chairman of the Chase Manahattan Bank, he's a founding board member of the Trilateral Commission'

Answer: David Rockefeller


Question: 'This "L.A. Confidential" author's "My Dark Places" looks into the real investigation of his mom's murder'

Answer: James Ellroy


Question: 'In its history this government body has had a total of 108 members, 106 of them men'

Answer: The Supreme Court


Question: 'Motown records got its name by shortening this 2-word term for Detroit'

Answer: "Motor Town"


Question: 'Ouch! I'd better scrape the thorns off the nopal type of this desert plant before I cook it'

Answer: a cactus


Question: 'Inuit boat of sealskin'

Answer: K-A-Y-A-K


Question: 'In 1959 this Cuban led the overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: '... Bismarck, this state's capital. That's it, nothing else, I just want to go there'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: 'In 2010 the stadium for this university's Wolverines will hold more than 108,000; Go Blue!'

Answer: the University of Michigan


Question: 'Convenience store chain named for its hours of operation in 1946; today you can get a Double Gulp there 24-7'

Answer: 7-Eleven


Question: 'I'll wash my snack down with one of the Jones Soda Co.'s fun flavors, like Fufu Berry or this color Bubble Gum (as I'm a boy)'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'A firecracker that fails to fire'

Answer: D-U-D


Question: 'Grolier says this man "contributed directly to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty shortly after his own death"'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: '...this city on the French Riviera; I'll hit its casinos & its Promenade de la Croisette, then maybe catch a film or 6'

Answer: Cannes


Question: 'Sammy Sosa hit his 60th homers of 1998, 1999 & 2001 in this Chicago venue'

Answer: Wrigley Field


Question: 'Brand whose name is a shortened form of National Biscuit Company'

Answer: Nabisco


Question: 'I melt at the sight of this soft French cheese, be it de meaux or de melun'

Answer: brie


Question: 'A highway patrolman's "gun" or a Golden Earring "Love" song'

Answer: R-A-D-A-R


Question: 'Under this nickname, W. Mark Felt leaked info to Woodward & Bernstein that toppled a president'

Answer: "Deep Throat"


Question: '...this Thai city, where the royal family lives in the Chitlada Palace'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'This NFL squad plays its home games at Invesco Field at Mile High'

Answer: the Denver Broncos


Question: 'The big K in the name of this retail chain is in honor of founder Sebastian S. Kresge'

Answer: Kmart


Question: 'Instead of wrapping sushi in nori, which is dried this, I'll eat the nori as a snack'

Answer: seaweed


Question: 'From the Latin for "wheel", it's the part of a helicopter that provides upward lift'

Answer: R-O-T-O-R


Question: 'In 1996 this Russian chess champ bested an IBM computer in a 6-game tourney; in '97, Deep Blue returned the favor'

Answer: Kasparov


Question: '...this 86,000-square mile region disputed by India & Pakistan that also extends into China'

Answer: Kashmir


Question: 'In 2009 this baseball stadium's ghosts had to move across 161st Street to its new address'

Answer: Yankee Stadium (the New York Yankees accepted)


Question: 'Al Copeland named this fast food franchise after a character in "The French Connection", not a cartoon'

Answer: Popeyes


Question: 'I'll keep my yap shut or I won't get any of these "canine" cakes of deep-fried cornmeal'

Answer: hush puppies


Question: 'Asian new year celebration'

Answer: T-E-T


Question: 'On June 20, 1947 this gangster found out exactly how displeased Meyer Lansky was about the cost of the Flamingo Hotel'

Answer: Bugsy Siegel


Question: '...Jidda, on the Red Sea & home to nearly 3 million in this country'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'The Minnesota Twins have won 2 World Series championships at this enclosed home stadium'

Answer: the (Hubert Humphrey) Metrodome


Question: 'T.S. Eliot's poem title this "land" comes from Jessie L. Weston's "From Ritual to Romance"'

Answer: The Waste Land


Question: 'Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman starred in this epic about the land Down Under'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'In 1871 British Columbia joined Canada on the condition it be linked to the eastern provinces by this'

Answer: railroad


Question: 'Czech, please: the Mozart symphony named for this capital underscores a 1990 ballet'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'It's a wind of at least 4 mph'

Answer: a breeze


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew wears a hat and holds a small spinning propeller at the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.)  Using polymers, RISO created an electricity-generating hat powered by this type of readily available energy'

Answer: solar


Question: 'A Lillian Hellman title refers to the Song of Solomon line about how they "spoil the vine"'

Answer: the little foxes


Question: 'Robert Pattinson played dreamy vampire Edward Cullen in this 2008 blockbuster'

Answer: Twilight


Question: 'Oddly, this province is 1/2 hour ahead of Atlantic Standard Time'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: '"Duo Concertant" is performed to a Stravinsky piece composed for piano & this stringed instrument'

Answer: violin


Question: 'You'll ask for this if you want a Budweiser in Barcelona'

Answer: a cerveza


Question: 'To boost fuel cell technology, RISO is working to safely produce & store this, atomic No. 1'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'This title of Maya Angelou's autobiography comes from the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar'

Answer: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Question: 'John Travolta voiced the title canine in this 2008 family film'

Answer: Bolt


Question: 'In 2006 Stephen Harper led this political party to power'

Answer: the Conservative Party


Question: 'This Khachaturian "Dance" with a weapon in its name enlivens the wedding scene in the ballet "Gayane"'

Answer: "The Sabre Dance"


Question: 'He was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1964 & from 1977 to 1982'

Answer: Brezhnev


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.)  Here straw is being converted into this type of fuel, whose name indicates it comes from living matter'

Answer: biofuel


Question: 'The Hugo-winning Kate Wilhelm novel "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" gets its title from this man's Sonnet No. 73'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'As Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in this fact-based drama'

Answer: Valkyrie


Question: '(Alex reports from the CBC in Canada.)  The CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" has aired since October 11, 1952, when the Red Wings lost to the Canadiens in a game played at this Montreal sports temple'

Answer: the Montreal Forum


Question: 'No nuts to crack, but "Andantino" has music by this composer'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'In 1877 the U.S. fought a war with this Indian tribe'

Answer: the Nez Percé


Question: 'This Toyota hybrid model introduced in 1997 was already green, but the Danes made one that runs on wind power'

Answer: the Prius


Question: 'This Cormac McCarthy title comes from a Yeats poem about a senior citizen's hope to transmute himself into art'

Answer: No Country for Old Men


Question: 'Jewish brothers Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber & Jamie Bell survive in the forest in this WWII-set drama'

Answer: Defiance


Question: 'We old Canadians sometimes slip up & refer to Canada Day, July 1, by this former name'

Answer: Dominion Day


Question: '"Thou Swell", a ballet tribute to this Broadway composer, is danced to songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart'

Answer: (Richard) Rodgers


Question: 'It's the type of Jewish folk music heard here'

Answer: klezmer


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.)  Danes produce 40% of the world's wind turbines & are making them more efficient as part of an energy-independence policy, spurred by this 1973 event'

Answer: the Arab Oil Embargo


Question: 'A 2007 book about these 2 men is subtitled "Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian"'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee


Question: 'If you don't make your car payments, watch out for this type of man played on film by Emilio Estevez'

Answer: a repo man


Question: 'Jack Kent Cooke once owned the L.A. Lakers & this pro football team based in our nation's capital'

Answer: the Washington Redskins


Question: 'Cat & cheese county bordering Wales'

Answer: Cheshire


Question: 'It took Pizarro about 4 years to find this empire before he could conquer it'

Answer: the Inca


Question: 'John Tyson started taking these from Arkansas north for better prices & the rest is agribusiness'

Answer: chickens


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the firing range at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.) Each year, Marines must score 250 out of 350 on a point scale to qualify as this type of "man"'

Answer: a marksman


Question: 'The tunneling of this rodent ruins many a garden--it especially likes root crops'

Answer: the gopher


Question: 'In the NFL a touchdown is 6 points, a field goal is 3 & this defensive play scores 2'

Answer: a safety


Question: 'Pudding & terrier namesake place'

Answer: Yorkshire


Question: 'In 1933 aviator Wiley Post became the first person to do this twice'

Answer: fly around the world


Question: 'In 1966 Robert Mondavi started the first major winery in this valley since Prohibition'

Answer: the Napa Valley


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a streetlike training area at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.)  As the world's shores become more populated, the Marines must be expert at operating in this type of area, the U in MOUT training'

Answer: urban


Question: 'This word can precede "timer" or "nog"'

Answer: egg


Question: 'The highest-rated Super Bowl, with a 49.1 rating, aired on Jan. 24, 1982, when he QB'd the 49ers over the Bengals'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'Things get "saucy" in Malvern & Bromsgrove in this county'

Answer: Worcestershire


Question: 'Domenico Fontana was an engineer who helped carry out this 16th c. artist's plans for the dome of St. Peter's'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'The AngusPride brand of this is one of the products from the 158,000 employees of Cargill'

Answer: beef


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a forested training area at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.) Every Marine officer completes six months training at Quantico to qualify to lead this unit, usually made up of three squads'

Answer: a platoon


Question: 'To remove the skin of an apple'

Answer: pare


Question: 'Led by this quarterback, the Pittsburgh Steelers won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1975 & '76'

Answer: Terry Bradshaw


Question: 'Robin Hood did his robbin' in this neighborhood'

Answer: Nottinghamshire


Question: 'Grace Murray Hopper is credited with applying this 3-letter term to a mysterious computer problem'

Answer: a bug


Question: 'If you're a slick, pressed-overalls Manhattan M.A.B., you have a Master of Agribusiness degree from here, K-State for short'

Answer: Kansas State


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a huge land vehicle at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.)  To protect Marines from insurgent IEDs, the MRAP vehicle has a V-shaped this, a term more associated with ships, to disperse blast force'

Answer: a hull


Question: 'Anticipating a joyous event, you might be this "with excitement"'

Answer: agog


Question: 'In 1986 Richard Dent was Super Bowl MVP as part of this team's dominating defense'

Answer: the Chicago Bears


Question: 'In an A.E. Housman book of poetry, a title lad was from this place'

Answer: Shropshire


Question: 'A memo Sherron Watkins sent to her boss at this energy co. became a "smoking gun" in the investigation into its troubles'

Answer: Enron


Question: 'Ocean Spray & Land O'Lakes are this type of business where groups of producers work together'

Answer: a cooperative


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew holds a firearm at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, VA.)  Marines here at Quantico train with this standard Marine sidearm, whose name goes back to a 16th-century Venetian gun barrel maker'

Answer: a Beretta


Question: 'It's the geographic Germanic alternate name for a hot dog'

Answer: a frankfurter


Question: 'Will Smith's dog Sam is bitten by infected dogs in this 2007 blockbuster'

Answer: I Am Legend


Question: 'The influence on a body causing it to accelarate'

Answer: force


Question: 'The Retail Tobacco Dealers of America changed its name to incorporate these 2 types of fancy smokes'

Answer: cigars & pipes


Question: 'These mountains on India's northern border have a name from the Sanskrit for "snow abode"'

Answer: the Himalayas


Question: 'Surus was said to be the bravest of the war elephants that crossed the Alps with this Carthaginian'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'This word for a love affair comes from the name of the "eternal city"'

Answer: romance


Question: 'The rage virus makes it across the English Channel at the end of this 2007 sequel'

Answer: 28 Weeks Later


Question: 'The study of waves & of flow phenomena are part of this type of dynamics'

Answer: fluid


Question: 'What began as the American Birth Control League, we now know as this'

Answer: Planned Parenthood


Question: 'Check out this mausoleum complex in Agra, one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture'

Answer: the Taj Mahal


Question: 'Ashes of this elephant, P.T. Barnum's most famous, are kept in a Peter Pan peanut butter jar at Tufts Univ.'

Answer: Jumbo


Question: 'The course of a river in present-day Turkey gave us this word meaning to wander in an aimless, circuitous way'

Answer: to meander


Question: 'Milla Jovovich was in 3 movies based on this 2-word Capcom game that involves fighting zombies & devil dogs'

Answer: Resident Evil


Question: 'The effect name for this 19th century British physicist is sometimes called magnetic rotation'

Answer: Faraday


Question: 'Formed by these workers, the Service Employees International Union used to have "Building" before its name'

Answer: the janitors


Question: 'Mother Teresa tended to the sick & dying in the slums of this city for about 50 years, dying there herself in 1997'

Answer: Calcutta (or Kolkata)


Question: 'On Jan. 4, 1903 this inventor executed an elephant named Topsy to prove the "dangers" of alternating current'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'To accuse someone of being dopey, crude or just unevolved, you can call him this, from a valley near Dusseldorf'

Answer: a Neanderthal


Question: 'Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, this 1985 cult film finds Dr. Herbert West getting ahead by bringing things to life'

Answer: Re-Animator


Question: 'These light-emitting types of dyes like rhodamine & aniline blue are used to label proteins'

Answer: fluorescent


Question: 'The American Assoc. on Mental Retardation became AAIDD, IDD for intellectual & developmental these'

Answer: disabilities


Question: 'In 1984 thousands were killed by a gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in this city'

Answer: Bhopal


Question: 'In 798 a rare white Asian elephant named Abul-Abbas was presented to this Holy Roman Emperor by the Caliph of Baghdad'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Soloi, a Greek colony whose residents didn't talk good, gave us this word for an improper statement'

Answer: a solecism


Question: 'This New Zealand movie about flesh-eating ruminants shares a title with a Chris Farley/David Spade flick'

Answer: Black Sheep


Question: 'Quarks are divided into 6 different types called these; chocolate & strawberry are not options, however'

Answer: flavors


Question: 'In 2000 the Leukemia Society of America added this other "L" ailment to its name'

Answer: lymphoma


Question: 'In the summer, Srinagar is the administrative capital of the Indian state called Jammu & this'

Answer: Kashmir


Question: 'Elephants hate climbing hills, but the remains of "Icy Mike" were found at 14,000' on this, Africa's 2nd-highest peak'

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: 'In "Henry VI, Part I" this woman is described as "a holy prophetess new risen up"'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Big events in 1835:  Mr. & Mrs. Clemens had a bouncing baby boy, Samuel, & this comet circled by'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'Both the male & female tsetse fly drink this; only the female mosquito & horsefly do'

Answer: Blood


Question: 'In 1977 the group led by Randy Owen named itself after this, their home state'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Dear diary, if you've got to work for your father-in-law, I guess tending these animals isn't so bad'

Answer: Sheep


Question: 'Some folks make wine from this familiar weed, while others cook its leaves like spinach'

Answer: Dandelion


Question: 'Noah's boat, if he painted it black'

Answer: Dark ark


Question: 'In 1915 he called San Francisco from New York City & spoke with Dr. Thomas A. Watson'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'A water snail has these at the base of its tentacles; a land snail has them at the top'

Answer: Eyes


Question: '"(Hi, I'm Trisha Yearwood)  I once opened concerts for this superstar whose 1990 CD "No Fences" is the biggest-selling country album of all time"'

Answer: Garth Brooks


Question: 'After all I've done for my people, now they want to stone me & go back to this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'They're the melted fat & juices left over after bacon is fried'

Answer: Drippings


Question: 'A thief who steals tomes from the library'

Answer: Book crook


Question: 'In 1807 this former VP was tried & acquitted on a charge of treason'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'The sea urchin's mouth has 5 teeth it uses to munch on this sushi wrapper'

Answer: Seaweed


Question: 'On Dec. 12, 1996 he received his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame with wife Lisa Hartman by his side'

Answer: Clint Black


Question: 'My stomach & my people were both grumbling before the Lord sent us this bread'

Answer: Manna


Question: 'Many cooks chop these palm fruits & add them to nut bread'

Answer: Dates


Question: 'A fruity bread spread that really reeks'

Answer: Smelly jelly


Question: 'On May 30, 1911, with a time of 6:42:08, Ray Harroun won the first running of this'

Answer: Indianapolis 500


Question: 'Of a whatdah, whydah, or whodah, the one that's an African bird'

Answer: Whydah


Question: 'By George!  He performed his own stunts & roping in the 1992 film "Pure Country"'

Answer: George Strait


Question: 'So I struck this instead of asking it for water; that shouldn't keep me out of the promised land'

Answer: Rock/stone


Question: 'In America, add some hot sauce to Angels on Horseback & Voila!  You've got this "diabolical" treat'

Answer: Devils on Horseback


Question: 'Mr. Doody, when he looks frumpy'

Answer: Dowdy Howdy


Question: 'This general addressed a joint session of Congress April 19, 1951'

Answer: Douglas MacArthur


Question: 'This large carnivore's only enemies are humans & adult walruses'

Answer: Polar bear


Question: 'Her tell-all autobiography was not titled "Delta Dawn", but "Nickel Dreams", after a song by Mac McAnally'

Answer: Tanya Tucker


Question: 'When I asked God his name, he said, "I Am" this; a little repetitive, but I get it'

Answer: "Who Am" or "I am that I am..."


Question: 'Popular in Japan, this large white Asian radish may be pickled or served in salads'

Answer: Daikon


Question: 'Faux gateau'

Answer: Fake cake


Question: 'With the success of this book about Chili Palmer & the John Travolta film, Elmore's thinking sequel'

Answer: Get Shorty


Question: 'When dining in Chile you may try pastel de choclo, a meat pie topped with mush made from this meal'

Answer: Corn meal


Question: 'This bald detective was known for his lollipops & the line "Who loves ya, baby?"'

Answer: Kojak


Question: 'In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Abigail Williams accuses Elizabeth Proctor of this crime'

Answer: Witchcraft


Question: 'We wonder where the time wendt for George Wendt, who played this barfly on "Cheers"'

Answer: Norm Peterson


Question: 'From 1948 to 1963 Benjamin Franklin was depicted on its obverse, the Liberty Bell on its reverse'

Answer: Half dollar


Question: 'Elmore sets many of his stories in Miami or this Michigan metropolis, his home'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'You can visit this author's home at No. 6 Place des Vosges, not too far from Notre Dame'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'The 1970s saw "Police Story", "Police Surgeon" & this woman as "Police Woman"'

Answer: Angie Dickinson


Question: 'Tom Wingfield, the narrator of this man's "The Glass Menagerie", calls it a "memory play"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'Turning 50 on March 31, he's a year younger than his predecessor, Dan Quayle'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'In October 1973 this Cher hit replaced Grand Funk's "We're An American Band" at No. 1'

Answer: Half Breed


Question: 'One of the top Western novels of all time, Paul Newman starred in the 1967 film version'

Answer: Hombre


Question: 'After touring the Old Castle in Gruyeres in this country, you may visit the dairy that makes Gruyere cheese'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'William Conrad as Cannon guested on this Buddy Ebsen series'

Answer: Barnaby Jones


Question: 'This playwright achieved international fame with his 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac"'

Answer: Edmond Rostand


Question: 'This man from Pin Point, Georgia joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991'

Answer: Clarence Thomas


Question: '(Wrestling) Hold illustrated here:'

Answer: Half-Nelson


Question: 'From a novelette in Dime Western Magazine, the "3:10 To" this place was a train'

Answer: Yuma


Question: 'If you're on a shopping spree in this city on the Spree, head for the Kurfurstendamm'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'One of the many insurance investigators was this Polish-American played by George Peppard'

Answer: Banacek


Question: 'In this David Mamet play, Don Dubrow plans to steal a rare & valuable nickel'

Answer: American Buffalo


Question: 'He was 9 when he began playing The Beaver; he turns 50 on June 2'

Answer: Jerry Mathers


Question: 'For the radioactive element Thorium, it's about 14 billion years'

Answer: Half-life


Question: 'Tiger Balm Gardens in this "Lion City" of Asia is a theme park that celebrates Chinese folklore'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'CBS reran this 1970-71 series in 1973 & 1975 after its star Burt Reynolds made it big in the movies'

Answer: Dan August


Question: 'In this author's "Fences" Troy Maxson complains that black men don't get to drive garbage trucks'

Answer: August Wilson


Question: 'As her surname indicates, this soprano has had her share of wars with opera companies & other singers'

Answer: Kathleen Battle


Question: 'In publishing, this type of photograph consists of a pattern of dots varying in size to simulate grays'

Answer: Halftone


Question: 'Artist who said, "On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting"'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'To see the Monteleone chariot made by those darn Etruscans, head for this 5th Avenue museum'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum


Question: 'This school's Buckeyes made the 2007 & 2008 national champ. games--Good--but lost by a combined 79-38--Bad'

Answer: Ohio State


Question: 'It's "a contest to see which candidate can answer the fewest questions"'

Answer: a debate


Question: 'Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'This Poe poem has a scholar seeking solace in ancient, esoteric writings, but he's disturbed by a "rapping at my chamber door"'

Answer: "The Raven"


Question: 'Of concern to typists:<br />WPM'

Answer: words per minute


Question: 'Let's "sea"--Nethuns was the Etruscan equivalent of this Roman god'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Letter formations include the "T" & this one with the running backs in a line behind the quarterback'

Answer: I


Question: 'This type of ballot doesn't "involve... having to get up off the couch & walk to a high school gymnasium"'

Answer: an absentee ballot


Question: 'Many say that Tu Fu was this country's greatest poet'

Answer: China


Question: 'Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, brought esoteric Shingon Buddhism to this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'A unit of energy:<br />kWh'

Answer: kilowatt-hours


Question: 'Maecenas, a leading adviser to this first Roman emperor, was descended from Etruscan rulers'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'Coaches go gray from these plays that the players "hear" at the line of scrimmage rather than in the huddle'

Answer: audibles


Question: 'This "-ist" is defined as "a better-paid legislator"'

Answer: a lobbyist


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns & this great novelist & countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'This "Old" publication bases its weather forecasts on esoteric interpretations of natural phenomena'

Answer: the Old Farmer\'s Almanac


Question: 'A bus or van, for example:<br />HOV'

Answer: high-occupancy vehicle


Question: 'Artsy Etruscans enjoyed working with this type of clay whose name is Italian for "baked earth"'

Answer: terra cotta


Question: 'The BCS, created to pit the top teams in the nation against each other, stands for this'

Answer: Bowl Championship Series


Question: 'This is referred to as a "process by which Americans are quadrennially reminded of Iowa's existence"'

Answer: the Iowa caucuses


Question: 'In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth'

Answer: the Wife of Bath


Question: 'This art of transmuting metals broke up into branches; the esoterics drew away from lab practices'

Answer: alchemy


Question: 'In the military:<br />NCO'

Answer: non-commissioned officer


Question: 'The Etruscans mined iron on this island centuries before Napoleon was exiled there'

Answer: Elba