Question: 'For "Talk to Her", he became the first man in over 30 years to win with a screenplay in a foreign language'

Answer: Pedro Almodovar


Question: 'He painted "Tahitian Women" shortly after arriving on that island in 1891'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question:
'Henson,
Morrison,
Lehrer'

Answer: Jim


Question: 'It's the state whose shape is seen here'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Sports Illustrated's 1997 Swimsuit Issue (the Tyra Banks cover) featured "Nothing but" these'

Answer: Bikinis


Question: 'Chris Cooper won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in this film seen here'

Answer: Adaptation


Question: 'On September 29, 1910, this painter known for his seascapes died in his studio in Prouts Neck, Maine'

Answer: Winslow Homer


Question:
'Hamilton,
Calder,
Haig'

Answer: Alexander


Question: 'This state's name includes the name of the country that was the top destination for U.S. tourists in 2001'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Fran Lebowitz called this type of pasta with clam sauce "mankind's crowning achievement"'

Answer: linguini


Question: 'On December 11, 1967 it was removed from the British registry & turned over to the city of Long Beach, California'

Answer: the Queen Mary


Question: 'Since 1947, the historic region of Punjab has been divided between these 2 countries'

Answer: India & Pakistan


Question: 'This character on "Seinfeld" thought of "a coffee table book about coffee tables" that turned into a coffee table'

Answer: Kramer


Question: 'Beef chili is also called "chili con" this, Spanish for "meat"'

Answer: carne


Question: 'You don't have to buy a vowel, but you do begin this word game by drawing a gallows'

Answer: hangman


Question: 'In the 1920s, Frank Whittle, who grew up making model airplanes, designed the first working engine of this type'

Answer: a jet engine


Question: 'Landing or Gaza'

Answer: a strip


Question: 'As part of his Easternmost conquests, this Greek's armies occupied the Punjab around 327 B.C.'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'On this show, "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" was novelized by Norman Mailer'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: '"Joy of Cooking" gives a recipe for this beef dish but cautions that eating raw meat can be hazardous to your health'

Answer: steak tartare


Question: 'In 2007 he became the first man since Bill Tilden to win the U.S. Open 4 years in a row'

Answer: (Roger) Federer


Question: 'Alexander Wood & Charles Pravaz are credited with developing this device in 1853 first used to inject morphine'

Answer: a (hypodermic) syringe


Question: 'Idle talk about the private affairs of others'

Answer: gossip


Question: 'In the 1840s this European power fought 2 costly wars over the Punjab before annexing the region outright'

Answer: the English (Great Britain)


Question: 'A man is searching for the novel "Knickerless Nickleby" in the bookstore skit on this British Show'

Answer: Monty Python(\'s Flying Circus)


Question: 'Corned beef is cured in brine; this other deli meat is seasoned brisket that's been cured, smoked & cooked'

Answer: pastrami


Question: 'The first important U.S. tournament in this board game took place in New York City in 1857'

Answer: chess


Question: 'After Carrier came up with this in 1902, my 20 babes waving palm fronds idea went out the window'

Answer: air conditioning


Question: 'A bon mot'

Answer: a quip


Question: 'In this Kipling work, the title orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab'

Answer: Kim


Question: 'This doctor from the original "Star Trek" series wrote "Comparative Alien Physiology"'

Answer: McCoy


Question: 'Part of the name of this expensive boneless cut means "dainty" in French'

Answer: filet mignon


Question: 'Jordan & Bird hit "nothing but net" playing this shot-for-shot basketball game in 1990s TV ads for McDonald's'

Answer: HORSE


Question: 'After steamboat success, he was urged to work on submarine-launched torpedoes by Pres. Jefferson'

Answer: Robert Fulton


Question: 'Mating rituals, perhaps for Miles Standish?'

Answer: courtship


Question: 'Predominant in the Punjab, this religion has origins in both Hinduism & Islam'

Answer: Sikhism


Question: 'Jose Chung speaks to FBI agents before writing "From Outer Space" about an alien abduction on this show'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'It's the French name for boeuf braised in red wine, usually garnished with mushrooms & white onions'

Answer: bœuf bourguignon


Question: 'From before 3000 B.C., the game Senet of these people used a board & pieces to depict an afterlife journey'

Answer: the Egyptians


Question: 'In 1868, 9 years after developing the railway sleeping car, he introduced the first railway car for dining'

Answer: Pullman


Question: 'Carrot relative seen here'

Answer: a parsnip


Question: 'Colons & commas & hyphens, oh my!'

Answer: punctuation


Question: 'Around 46 B.C, Julius Caesar offended his countrymen by dedicating a statue to her'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'We liked her, we really liked her when this actress won for "Places in the Heart" in 1985'

Answer: Sally Field


Question: 'Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them'

Answer: clowns


Question: '(A trainer and dog stop at a curb behind Cheryl of the Clue Crew at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.)  A dog is trained to stop at curbs for two reasons, safety & orientation, as people who are visually impaired determine location by counting these'

Answer: the blocks


Question: 'The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Furry Phil's Pennsylvania place for fanciful February forecasting'

Answer: Punxsutawney


Question: 'As an example to her Russian subjects, she & her son Paul had themselves inoculated against smallpox in 1768'

Answer: Catherine (the Great)


Question: 'In 1992, proving he could keep up with the younger crowd, he did one-armed pushups accepting his "City Slickers" Oscar'

Answer: Jack Palance


Question: 'A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew pets a German shepherd puppy at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.)  The Seeing Eye puppy-raising program aims to have dogs learn the ABCs: affection, this & courtesy'

Answer: behavior


Question: 'He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'Pugilistic pair pictured here'

Answer: Punch & Judy


Question: 'In 1616 she & her husband John Rolfe traveled to England to help raise funds for the Virginia colonists'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'He's the "SNL" guy (& you're not) who opened the 1988 show with, "Good evening Hollywood phonies"; he never hosted again'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: '19th c. painter Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. on this river, whose "School" he helped found'

Answer: the Hudson River


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew crosses the street with a trainer & her dog at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.)  A Seeing Eye dog owner listens to traffic to know when to say "forward"; the dog doesn't know when to go because dogs have this visual deficiency of their own'

Answer: colorblindness


Question: 'A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers'

Answer: cyberpunk


Question: 'In November 1988 she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Islamic nation'

Answer: (Benazir) Bhutto


Question: 'Disney sued the Academy for "unflattering" use of this character after a 1989 duet with her & Rob Lowe'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'A note formerly on the back of "Figure de fantasie" by this Rococo painter says it was done in one hour'

Answer: Fragonard


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew watches as a dog refuses to cross a street despite its trainer's urging.)  Thoreau talked of "civil" this, but dogs must learn "intelligent" this, like stopping instead of obeying an order to go forward'

Answer: disobedience


Question: 'There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko'

Answer: (Constantin) Stanislavski


Question: 'From the Latin for "mark for deletion", it's to erase something from official records'

Answer: expunge


Question: 'To further the ambitions of her brother, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her'

Answer: Lucrezia Borgia


Question: 'This "American Beauty" nominee nearly had a pregnant pause at the 2000 show; she was due with her 4th at any moment'

Answer: Annette Bening


Question: 'This Venetian, said his pupil Palma Giovane, "used his fingers more than his brush" to finish his lush works'

Answer: Titian


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew leads Jon on at The Seeing Eye in New Jersey.)  In the matching process for a dog, people with visual impairments are evaluated on pace & pull using this harness named for the Roman queen of heaven'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'If you get to put "RSC" on your resume, you were part of this British troupe'

Answer: the Royal Shakespeare Company


Question: 'When completed, it stretched for 73 1/2 miles from Bowness to Wallsend'

Answer: Hadrian\'s Wall


Question: 'In a common saying, it's what some people can't see for the trees'

Answer: the forest


Question: 'You can visit this sport's hall of fame on PGA Blvd. in Pinehurst, North Carolina'

Answer: golf


Question: 'In Cole Porter's song, these words follow "can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences"'

Answer: don\'t fence me in


Question: 'Device that's implanted to control irregular heart beats'

Answer: a pacemaker


Question: 'Ray Walston was the Martian while the "my" in "My Favorite Martian" referred to him'

Answer: Bill Bixby


Question: 'With a favorable wind, skunks can do this for up to about 23 feet'

Answer: spray


Question: 'A college team might have to do this for games played with ineligible team members'

Answer: forfeit


Question: 'Except when it's on tour, the most important King Tut collection is housed in this city'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Hey, good lookin

Answer: Hank Williams


Question: 'The term "strep", as in strep throat, is short for this type of bacteria'

Answer: Streptococcus


Question: 'Before playing the principal at "The Bronx Zoo", he played the city editor of the L.A. Tribune'

Answer: Ed Asner


Question: 'The skunk lends its name to this foul-smelling "vegetable" found in swamps'

Answer: skunk cabbage


Question: 'Jewelers as well as surgeons use this tool for grasping & holding'

Answer: forceps


Question: 'Type of place you'd be visiting if you were in Wind Cave, Lassen or Zion'

Answer: a national park


Question: 'In "Red River Valley", cowboys sing, "come and" do this "if you love me"'

Answer: sit by my side


Question: 'He was a world authority on the gall wasp in the '20s before turning to sex research'

Answer: Kinsey


Question: 'In 1977 her own show aired on CBS just before "Maude"; now she's a "Golden Girl" with Bea Arthur'

Answer: Betty White


Question: 'Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons'

Answer: Pepé Le Pew


Question: 'Usually it's the last thing you're served in a Chinese restaurant'

Answer: a fortune cookie


Question: '1 of 2 famous Danish breweries you can tour in Copenhagen'

Answer: Tuborg (or Carlsberg)


Question: 'For an upper GI you drink this; for a lower GI... well, we won't talk about that'

Answer: barium


Question: 'The pilot of this show, set in North Carolina, played as part of "The Danny Thomas Show" in 1960'

Answer: The Andy Griffith Show


Question:
'Condition of the skunk in the title of the following 1973 Top 20 hit:

"Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose! /
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose"'

Answer: dead and in the middle of the road


Question: 'This word on the label signifies that vitamins have been added to milk'

Answer: fortified


Question: 'You can spend the night in a Victorian style railroad car at the Choo Choo Hilton in this city'

Answer: Chattanooga


Question: 'To test for this, the eyeball is anesthetized & a pressure gauge is placed on the front of the eye'

Answer: glaucoma


Question: 'He was a regular on Danny Kaye's, Carol Burnett's & Tim Conway's variety shows'

Answer: Harvey Korman


Question: 'Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S.'

Answer: rabies


Question: 'The 2 states that border no other states'

Answer: Alaska & Hawaii


Question: 'In 1772 James Boswell told this author he intended to write his biography'

Answer: Doctor Samuel Johnson


Question: 'Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this'

Answer: the coffee maker (the coffee pot accepted)


Question: 'Carrie Leigh hopped out of this man's mansion & married an antique dealer, quick as a bunny'

Answer: Hugh Hefner


Question: 'Heavy casualties at Shiloh led to calls for his firing, but Lincoln said, "I can't spare this man; he fights"'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'Late designer whose perfumes are sold by the numbers: No. 5. No. 19 & No. 22'

Answer: (Coco) Chanel


Question: 'Of Colorado, New Mexico or Arizona, the state where the Rio Grande begins'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'The Baconian theory expounds this'

Answer: that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare\'s plays


Question: 'Eli Whitney's nephew invented a crusher used to grind up rock for surfacing these'

Answer: roads


Question: 'This "Bewitch"ing actress was the 3rd wife of Oscar winner Gig Young'

Answer: Elizabeth Montgomery


Question: 'This battle was Lee's last major offensive'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Mimosa, mayflower & musk mingle in this, Yves St. Laurent's "capital" perfume'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Besides X,Y & Z, 2 of the 3 consonants that don't begin a state's name'

Answer: J & Q (& B)


Question: 'Among his historical novels are "I, Claudius" & "Claudius the God"'

Answer: Robert Graves


Question: 'A fault in the rotation speed of this device produces a sound called a "wow"'

Answer: a turntable


Question: 'Drama coach Uta Hagen was his 1st wife & singer Rosemary Clooney his 3rd'

Answer: José Ferrer


Question: 'Northerners who sought advantage in the post-war South were said to tote their belongings in these'

Answer: carpetbags


Question: 'Though it has the same name, Benetton's perfume wasn't named for this controversial Sean Penn film'

Answer: Colors


Question: 'The last major land battle of the Revolutionary War took place in this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin'

Answer: (Oliver) Twist


Question: 'The "D" in radar stands for this'

Answer: detection


Question: 'Of the original stars of "Mission: Impossible", the 2 who were married to each other'

Answer: (Barbara) Bain & (Martin) Landau


Question: 'In Sherman's famous "march to the sea", this seaport city was his goal'

Answer: Savannah, Georgia


Question: 'The 2 perfumes mentioned in Matthew 2:11'

Answer: frankincense & myrrh


Question: 'This state got its nickname, "Badger State", from the 1820s miners who dug into its hillsides'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In an Oliver Goldsmith work, Dr. Primrose is the vicar of this parish'

Answer: Wakefield


Question: 'Name given to the simplest electron tubes, as they have just 2 main parts, a plate & an emitter'

Answer: a diode


Question: '1 of the 3 men whom Lincoln defeated in the 1860 presidential election'

Answer: Breckenridge (or Douglas or Bell)


Question: 'Bulgaria is the chief producer of this perfume oil obtained by passing steam thru rose petals'

Answer: attar (of roses)


Question: 'Sputnik was the Soviet's 1st satellite, while this was ours'

Answer: Explorer


Question: 'This term for a rural white southerner was originally applied to sunburned agricultural workers'

Answer: a redneck


Question: 'The fans of this radio personality call themselves dittoheads to signify that they agree with his opinion'

Answer: Rush Limbaugh


Question: 'Surprisingly, in the 1990s, this retailer moved its HQ from its tall tower in Chicago to a lowrise in the suburbs'

Answer: Sears Roebuck


Question: 'Bermuda's almost due east of this state's Cape Hatteras'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Metallic distinction of a CD that's sold 1 million copies'

Answer: platinum


Question: 'This type of "domain" could lose you your house if the government needs your land, yo'

Answer: eminent


Question: 'Robert & Helen Lynd based their "Middletown" studies on Muncie in this state'

Answer: Indiana


Question: '(Hi, I'm Christie Whitman.)  I don't believe in political quid pro quo, but after his endorsement, I named a rest stop toilet for this radio personality'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: 'Since 1988 J.C. Penney has been firmly planted in Plano in this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'The cahow, or Bermuda petrel, a type of this, breeds only in Bermuda'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'Of 2 million, 20 million or 200 million, the length in years of one trip around the galaxy's center by our sun'

Answer: 200 million


Question: '"It's" one of these "that blows nobody any good"'

Answer: an ill wind


Question: 'The sum of the customs & beliefs that distinguish one group from another; the hippies formed a "counter" one'

Answer: a culture


Question: 'She's from Brooklyn, has a Ph.D. in physiology & is Deryk's mom'

Answer: Dr. Laura


Question: 'First the "E"s were sold, then its Houston HQ building was auctioned off in December 2003 for $55.5 million'

Answer: Enron


Question: 'Bermuda uses this basic unit of currency'

Answer: the dollar


Question: 'Like Chico in "Animal Crackers", who got paid more for not performing, she got millions from Virgin not to sing'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'It's wack but ESPN dropped the downhill racing style of this type of bicycle from its X Games in 2004'

Answer: BMX


Question: '10,000 years ago all societies were these, named from the way they collected animals, fruit, etc. for food'

Answer: hunter-gatherers


Question: 'This "idol" worshipper replaced Casey Kasem as host of "American Top 40"'

Answer: Ryan Seacrest


Question: 'The Ford Motor Company has long been headquartered in this city that adjoins Detroit'

Answer: Dearborn


Question: 'The first settlement in 1609 resulted from this event, maybe the one depicted in the first scene of "The Tempest"'

Answer: a shipwreck


Question: 'It was the "grateful" title of philanthropist Percy Ross' syndicated radio show & newspaper column'

Answer: Thanks a Million


Question: 'Lack of movement in traffic--especially at an intersection or in politics'

Answer: gridlock


Question: 'Someone who hates humanity; Moliere's Alceste turned into a title one'

Answer: a misanthrope


Question: 'Tavis Smiley launched this network's first national show to originate from Los Angeles'

Answer: NPR


Question: 'Where on earth is Earthlink headquartered?  In this city, same as Coca-Cola'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'Alexander or Linda could help you with the name of this capital'

Answer: Hamilton


Question: '"What Are You Doing After the Orgy?" is a book by this man who played a millionaire on "Gilligan's Island"'

Answer: Jim Backus


Question: 'Completed in 1955, this bridge crosses the Hudson near Nyack'

Answer: the Tappan Zee


Question: 'In 1953 Eisenhower proposed to the U.N. a plan of "Atoms for" this'

Answer: Peace


Question: 'Snowboarding is often featured in ads for this Pepsico soda with a lofty name'

Answer: Mountain Dew


Question: 'It was Wolfe who first predicted that the 1970s "Will come to be known as" this "decade"'

Answer: the Me Decade


Question: '2 of the 3 illnesses for which a DPT vaccination provides immunity'

Answer: diphtheria and pertussis (also, tetanus)


Question: 'Benjamin Guggenheim made sure to dress in his evening clothes before going down with this ship in 1912'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'This South American country does not border Brazil'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'The group seen here is discussing the merits of this room they are looking at'

Answer: a kitchen


Question: 'An off-balance rider is said to be "rolling down" these, from the flailing motion of the arms'

Answer: windows


Question: 'In a piece of stock car racing, Wolfe introduced to written English this 3-word phrase for a solid Southern male'

Answer: a good old boy


Question: 'HRT is this kind of therapy; the use of it by menopausal women has recently been questioned'

Answer: hormone replacement therapy


Question: 'Patriarch Meyer moved from Switzerland to the U.S. in 1847 & set up shop in this Pennsylvania city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Before going bankrupt in 1989, this airline tried selling $12 plane tickets between Boston & New York'

Answer: Eastern (Airlines)


Question: 'A 1954 code trying to stop juvenile delinquency said "horror" or "terror" could not be used in titles of these'

Answer: comics


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew snowboards down Mammoth Mountain.)  If you're doing well by cutting up the slopes, you could be called one of these, not to be confused with an office machine'

Answer: a shredder


Question: '"The Right Stuff" tells of how this man broke the sound barrier with 2 broken ribs from a drunken horseback ride'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'CTS, carpal tunnel syndrome, can be an RSI, this kind of injury'

Answer: repetitive stress injury


Question: 'For Daniel, it was all mine, mine, mine; tin in Bolivia & this in Alaska'

Answer: gold


Question: 'Alexander Pope once cracked, "The vulgar boil, the learned roast" one of these, maybe for breakfast'

Answer: an egg


Question: 'In early 1951 TV viewers were riveted watching the Kefauver committee's look into this in America'

Answer: organized crime


Question: 'Like skateboarders, snowboarders perform in a U-shaped structure called this'

Answer: a half-pipe


Question: 'Wolfe coined the term "radical" this in a story on a party for the Black Panthers thrown by Leonard Bernstein'

Answer: chic


Question: 'I.D. stands for this specialty that focuses on illnesses like viral hepatitis'

Answer: infectious disease


Question: 'In the 2000 film "Pollock", Amy Madigan played this art patron'

Answer: Peggy Guggenheim


Question: 'In 1974 Spokane's Cannon Island was the site of this, which featured an environmental theme'

Answer: an expo


Question: 'The accuracy of the Quartz clock was surpassed in 1955 by one using this element, Cs'

Answer: Cesium


Question: 'Stances include regular, goofy foot & this one that angles the toes of both feet in opposite directions'

Answer: duck foot


Question: 'It's Wolfe's 1968 book about Ken Kesey & friends' cross-country journey'

Answer: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test


Question: 'A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging'

Answer: tomography


Question: 'The Guggenheim Foundation is the assignee of the patents of this rocket pioneer; it had financed him in the 1940s'

Answer: Robert Goddard


Question: 'Philosophy branch that studies the nature & foundations of knowledge'

Answer: epistemology


Question: 'The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: '"The Rome of the North" is how famed sculptor Rodin described this Czech capital'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'Some 1 million spectators surrounded this space center to watch the lift-off'

Answer: Cape Kennedy


Question: '"Call him" the narrator of "Moby Dick"'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'In 1962, "Mr. Hobbs Took" this'

Answer: A Vacation


Question: 'This cut is a pig's hind leg above the hock'

Answer: ham


Question: 'Books about him were written by Plato & Xenophon, both students of his'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'Foreign embassies are located in Jiddah, some 500 miles from this country's capital, Riyadh'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: '"Peaceful" site on the moon where the lunar module touched down'

Answer: the Sea of Tranquility


Question: 'ABC radio commentator who tells "The Rest of the Story"'

Answer: Paul Harvey


Question: 'Though Diane Keaton never found the title character in this 1977 film, she found someone really nuts'

Answer: Looking for Mr. Goodbar


Question: 'A long-standing tradition in France, hippophagy is the consumption of this'

Answer: horse


Question: 'This Hebrew king taxed his people into rebellion, which may not have been too wise'

Answer: Solomon


Question: '"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" refers to the capitals of these two countries'

Answer: Mexico & Libya


Question: 'Astronomic name for the booster rocket used to power the launch'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Some sources say it was Carnegie Hall; others say it was the '67 Newport Festival where he first sang "Alice's Restaurant"'

Answer: Arlo Guthrie


Question: 'Of James Cagney, Henry Fonda or Jack Lemmon, the one who won an Oscar for "Mr. Roberts"'

Answer: Jack Lemmon


Question: 'These gastropods are sometimes fed aromatic herbs to give them a special savor'

Answer: snail


Question: 'The period during which he ruled is often referred to as "The Golden Age of Athens"'

Answer: Pericles


Question: 'Founded in 1496 by Columbus's brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world'

Answer: Santo Domingo


Question: 'The three crew members of Apollo 11'

Answer: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins


Question: 'In addition to her "Fairie Tale Theatre", she now has "Tall Tales and Legends" playing on cable'

Answer: Shelly Duvall


Question: 'Of this 1939 film, the "New York Times" said "More fun even than the Senate itself!"'

Answer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


Question: 'One of the largest edible fish, these huge flatfish can measure over 5 X 10 feet and can exceed 700 pounds'

Answer: halibut


Question: 'Uncle of Caligula and stepfather of Nero, this Roman emperor was poisoned by his wife, Nero's mother'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'Construction of this planned Asian capital began in 1912; the government was moved there in 1931'

Answer: New Delhi, India


Question: 'While the lunar lander was code-named "Eagle", the command module was code-named this'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'He wrote two collections of modern fables, several fairytales, and "My World and Welcome to It"'

Answer: James Thurber


Question: '"Mr. Pennypacker", "Mr. Scoutmaster", and "Mr. Belvedere" are some of his title characters'

Answer: Clifton Webb


Question: 'Used to cure many meats including bacon, its the creosote and formaldehyde in this that help preserve things'

Answer: smoke


Question: 'In the 6th century B.C., he conquered Babylon and made Persia the greatest empire in the world'

Answer: Cyrus the Great


Question: 'A shotgun's powerful recoil is an example of his third law of motion'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin'

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower


Question: 'The word "pram" is short for this'

Answer: parambulator


Question: 'The sonnet originated in this country with such poets as Guitoni D'Arretzo'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'It consists of two red triangles outlined in blue with white symbols of the sun and the moon'

Answer: the flag of Nepal


Question: 'In 1952, she sprang her "Mousetrap"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'The term horsepower came about when James Watt compared work done by a horse to work done by this'

Answer: steam engine


Question: 'All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office'

Answer: Whig


Question: 'Movie that featured the following music'

Answer: Picnic


Question: 'These funny five-line verses often end with the name of a place; or, a place in Ireland'

Answer: Limerick


Question: 'At Lumbini, you can visit the birthplace of this "Enlightened One"'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'She played "Hamlet" at the age of 73 and a Vulcan high priestess in "Star Trek III"'

Answer: Dame Judith Anderson


Question: 'If it were not for the retarding influence of this, raindrops would attain bullet-like speeds'

Answer: the atmosphere


Question: 'This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'This extinct early man is known from fossils found at Chukutien'

Answer: Peking Man


Question: 'A deliberate violation of the rules of rhyming or grammar, not a little piece of paper from the DMV'

Answer: poetic license


Question: 'This Sherpa who went to the top of the world with Edmund Hillary died in 1986 at the age of 72'

Answer: Tenzing Norgay


Question: 'She helped her husband survive an attempted assassination & was Nureyev's partner for over fifteen years'

Answer: Dame Margot Fonteyn


Question: 'Pulling the cloth off a table without disturbing the dishes is the principle of this'

Answer: inertia


Question: 'The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'As being of great price purchased with all she had, Hester Prynne named her child this'

Answer: Pearl


Question: '16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him'

Answer: Edmund Spenser


Question: '"Wooden temple", the meaning of this city's name, refers to the 400-year old one in its central square'

Answer: Katmandu


Question: 'She starred as Cleopatra and Olivier's Juliet, long before booking "A Passage to India"'

Answer: Dame Peggy Ashcroft


Question: 'Term for the speed of a body in a specified direction'

Answer: velocity


Question: 'The "54º40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: 'The small cogwheel that engages a larger cogwheel'

Answer: pinion


Question: 'It's an echoic term for words like hiss that imitate an actual sound'

Answer: onomatopeia


Question: 'Told to jump from 600 feet, these tough Nepalese soldiers, not knowing they'd get chutes, said 300 feet was easier'

Answer: Gurkhas


Question: 'This Maori diva from New Zealand sang with Nelson Riddle and at Prince Charles's wedding'

Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa


Question: 'The first verse of this book says, "There was a man in the land of Uz that feared God and eschewed evil"'

Answer: Job


Question: 'Telemachus was this long lost traveler's faithful son'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'Yo, this notorious rapper's second posthumous No. 1 hit single was 1997's "Mo Money Mo Problems"'

Answer: Notorious B.I.G.


Question:
'Stevie Winwood,
Stevie Nicks,
Stevie Wonder'

Answer: Stevie Nicks


Question: 'Newly born calves of this "colorful" mammal can measure 28 feet in length & weigh up to 3 tons'

Answer: the blue whale


Question: 'Romance is a perfume from this designer whom you might call a major "polo" player'

Answer: Ralph Lauren


Question: 'Before the grand jury, Bill Clinton said, "It depends on...your definition of" this word'

Answer: "is"


Question: 'Of a dryad, a naiad or an oread, she's the water nymph'

Answer: a naiad


Question: 'This huge hit by Jay-Z samples a song from the musical "Annie"'

Answer: "Hard Knock Life"


Question:
'Robin Leach,
Robin Givens,
Robin Cook'

Answer: Robin Givens


Question: 'No longer used in Thailand to haul teak from the jungle, these animals are being trained to paint'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'Wallace might know this term for a metal eyelet mainly used on belts but also seen on hems & cuffs'

Answer: a grommet


Question: '"Ut" used to be used for the first or key note of the musical scale; this has replaced it'

Answer: do


Question: 'Hard-partyin' half-man, half-goat creatures of Greek mythology'

Answer: a satyr


Question: 'This "King of Crunk" is not to be confused with Lil' Wayne'

Answer: Lil Jon


Question:
'Pat Leahy,
Pat Buchanan,
Pat Nixon'

Answer: Pat Nixon


Question: 'High in Omega-3 fatty acids, oils from these creatures have been shown to reduce high levels of triglycerides'

Answer: fish


Question: 'The length of these ladylike accessories is denoted by buttons; 16-button ones are formal length'

Answer: gloves


Question: 'An Italian river, or the red Teletubby'

Answer: Po


Question: 'The Myrmidons were this great hero's brutal cohorts in the Trojan War'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'A TV show on E! chronicles the "Father Hood" of this rap star'

Answer: Snoop Dogg


Question:
'Kim Campbell,
Kim Philby,
Kim Jong Il'

Answer: Kim Campbell


Question: 'Because hippo teeth are made of this, they won't yellow & were once a popular source for false teeth'

Answer: ivory


Question: 'Feline name for the full-body stocking made popular by Diana Rigg on "The Avengers"'

Answer: a catsuit


Question: 'Don't have a cow, man, it's just the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: mu


Question: 'This mythological sculptor tragically fell in love with a beautiful statue he had carved'

Answer: Pygmalion


Question: 'Group that includes members Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone & Wish Bone'

Answer: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony


Question:
'P.D. James,
G.K. Chesterton,
A.A. Milne'

Answer: P.D. James


Question: 'This clam named for a sharp instrument can burrow almost as fast as you can shovel'

Answer: a razor clam


Question: 'In the 1800s, it was fashionable to wear a cap named for this woman who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat'

Answer: Charlotte Corday


Question: 'In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye'

Answer: ta


Question: 'Like mom like son: sadly, her son Rajiv was also assassinated'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'This singer's films include the westerns "Flaming Star", "Charro!" & "Love Me Tender"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'It can mean any computer used by an individual, or an IBM-type machine as opposed to a Mac'

Answer: a P.C.


Question: 'In May 1988, after 8 years of fighting there, the Soviet army began withdrawing from this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Any dry red table wine may be called this even if it doesn't come from the French region of the same name'

Answer: Burgundy


Question: 'In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster'

Answer: Mao


Question: 'It's the type of transport in the title of John Wayne's 1939 breakout film'

Answer: a stagecoach


Question: 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti wanted to take art back to "pre-" this Renaissance master born in 1483'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'You can't have too much RAM, which stands for this'

Answer: random-access memory


Question: 'This island that gained independence from Denmark in 1944 is below the Arctic Circle'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'In 1403 Venice established the first maritime quarantine station to prevent this deadly disease'

Answer: the bubonic plague


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lima, Peru.)  From 1990 to 2000, the palace behind me, here in Lima, was the home of this man, the first of Japanese descent to head another country'

Answer: (Alberto) Fujimori


Question: 'He won his first Oscar for directing "Unforgiven"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'We're not joshing--in 1769 this portrait painter got knighted'

Answer: (Joshua) Reynolds


Question: 'This unit equals about 1,000 megabytes, or about half a million pages of text'

Answer: a gigabyte


Question: 'This African country may have been first settled by Phoenicians as early as the 12th century B.C.'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'Government ones of these include of Indian Affairs & of the Census'

Answer: Bureaus


Question: 'Wearing the hat of Chancellor for over 15 years, he was Germany's longest-serving leader since Bismarck'

Answer: Helmut Kohl


Question: 'This Dustin Hoffman title character was also known as Jack Crabb & the Soda Pop Kid'

Answer: Little Big Man


Question: 'Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the works of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin'

Answer: Postimpressionist


Question: 'In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system"'

Answer: input & output


Question: 'Russia's longest border is not with China but with this "stan"'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'Established in 1881, The Wharton School at the U. of Pennsylvania was the world's first collegiate school of this'

Answer: business


Question: 'His original name was Tafari Makonnen, but he ruled his country under this name'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'Dag nabbit! He's the perennial sidekick who won 3 Oscars, including one for 1940's "The Westerner"'

Answer: Walter Brennan


Question: '"The Regatta at Argenteuil" shows this Frenchman's love of water subjects, like lilies'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'In 1980 Luis Garcia Meza took power in this landlocked S. Amer. country that's had more than 180 coups in its history'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'From the Greek for "herdsman", it means pastoral or idyllic'

Answer: bucolic


Question: 'A song by this artist hit No. 1 in 1999, making her at age 52 the oldest female to have a Billboard No. 1 single'

Answer: Cher


Question: 'The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine'

Answer: dandelions


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the drummer's throne.)  A common rock & roll pattern is this one which stresses the 2nd and 4th beat; it's also the title of a movie about the Beatles'

Answer: backbeat


Question: 'Iberia Airlines'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance'

Answer: Can-can


Question: 'At his death in 1971, there were more than 1,600 department stores bearing his name'

Answer: J.C. Penney


Question: 'An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee'

Answer: bigwig


Question: 'The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet'

Answer: sunflower


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew peers down between the cymbals.) Playing triplets--three strokes for every two notes--was a trademark of this late Led Zeppellin drummer'

Answer: John Bonham


Question: 'Aer Lingus'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things -- oops, I scratched his Mercedes'

Answer: guru


Question: 'About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety'

Answer: dates


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew sticks with his drums--& drums with his sticks.) Playing this gives me an explosive sound on the snare drum; to help out a comedian's lame joke combine it with a cymbal crash'

Answer: a rimshot


Question: 'Olympic Airlines'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc.'

Answer: NASCAR


Question: 'In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston'

Answer: D.W. Griffith


Question: 'Nicole Kidman is one; so was Lucille Ball & Vincent Van Gogh'

Answer: redhead


Question: 'Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this'

Answer: fern


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew subs on the drum set.)  After you get into a groove, now & again throw in this; as the name suggests its for when there's an empty space in the music'

Answer: a fill


Question: 'Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk)'

Answer: Belarus


Question: 'The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski'

Answer: "A Streetcar Named Desire"


Question: 'He designed the building for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'In Manhattan, going from Central Park to Chelsea is heading this way'

Answer: downtown


Question: 'Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut'

Answer: Jojoba


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the final clue of the category.)  It's the rhyming phrase for a steady rhythm that hits the bass drum on each quarter note'

Answer: four-on-the-floor


Question:
'Koninklijke
Luchtvaart
Maatshappij
(you might know it by its abbreviation)'

Answer: The Netherlands (KLM)


Question: 'Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him'

Answer: Charlie Parker


Question: 'A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India"'

Answer: E.M. Forster


Question: 'This term for empty words or nonsense was originally a trick to gain applause'

Answer: claptrap


Question: 'Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water'

Answer: the Dead Sea


Question: 'Liza Minnelli'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'You might see Bob Woodward during your walking tour of this publication's building on 15th Street N.W.'

Answer: the Washington Post


Question: '"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels"'

Answer: Milton


Question: 'Ths underwear maker's logo contains fig leaves, an apple & different types of grapes'

Answer: Fruit of the Loom


Question: 'It's an adjective meaning really, really angry'

Answer: wrathful


Question: 'This mount "as altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire"'

Answer: Sinai


Question: 'Kate Hudson'

Answer: Goldie Hawn


Question: 'The Peacock room at the Freer Gallery shows the fun-loving side of this artist known for that dour depiction of mama'

Answer: Whistler


Question: '"Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day"'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'A wine known as Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano'

Answer: Vesuvius


Question: 'On election night 2000, this newsman spouted lines like "Bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster"'

Answer: Dan Rather


Question: 'Lying at the foot of the mount of olives, this garden was the site where Jesus was betrayed & arrested'

Answer: Gethsemane


Question: 'Gwyneth Paltrow'

Answer: Blythe Danner


Question: 'The museum that's now the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Bldg. was the site of this man's 1881 inaugural ball'

Answer: Garfield


Question: '"I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour'

Answer: a fox


Question: 'For many, this Johannesburg-born actor will forever be the definitive Sherlock Holmes'

Answer: Basil Rathbone


Question: 'In Ezekiel this capital of Egypt is called Noph, & the Lord promises to "destroy the idols" there (he didn't mean Elvis)'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Melanie Griffith'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis"'

Answer: Lafayette Park


Question: '"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee"'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: 'In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers'

Answer: Cesar Chavez


Question: 'Persian religious leader AKA Zoroaster'

Answer: Zarathustra


Question: 'In the Song of Solomon, a bride refers to herself as "the rose of" this plain between Joppa & Mount Carmel'

Answer: Sharon


Question: 'Mariska Hargitay'

Answer: Jayne Mansfield


Question: 'This Frenchman who planned D.C. had such a "terrible" temperament that he was dismissed in 1792'

Answer: Pierre L\'Enfant


Question: '"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'A popular grape  used in making raisins is this variety that shares its name with the capital of Oman'

Answer: Muscat


Question: 'Basement beerhall in Bavaria'

Answer: rathskeller


Question: 'The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization'

Answer: the European Union


Question: 'Make a trek to Utrecht & you'll find yourself in this country'

Answer: Netherlands


Question: 'Widely hunted for their hides, the American, Cuban & Nile species of this reptile are now in danger'

Answer: Crocodile


Question: 'The Houses of Lancaster & York used different colored types of these flowers as their symbols'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'She debuted in a bit part as Woody Allen's date in "Annie Hall" 2 years before "Alien" made her a star'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: 'On "Saturday Night Live", William Shatner told attendees at this type of convention, "Get a life!"'

Answer: Star Trek


Question: 'It "makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"'

Answer: "Early to bed and early to rise"


Question: 'On the first Monday in June, this Kiwi country celebrates the Queen's birthday, the queen being Elizabeth'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Because it dips its food in water, it has the scientific name Lotor, which means "washer"'

Answer: Raccoon


Question: 'He was thick-skulled, heavy-browed, about 5 feet tall & lived in Germany about 80,000 years ago'

Answer: Neanderthal Man


Question: 'This half-sister of country singer Wynonna first hit the big screen in the 1992 comedy "Kuffs"'

Answer: Ashley Judd


Question: 'New England Federalists convened in Hartford in 1814 to denounce this war'

Answer: War of 1812


Question: 'In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy clicks her heels & repeats this before she's whisked back to Kansas'

Answer: "There\'s no place like home"


Question: 'There are thousands of temples & shrines in this country's Katmandu Valley'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'Males of this duck-billed mammal have poison spurs on each hind foot that can kill small animals'

Answer: Platypus


Question: 'The number of different hexagrams in the I Ching, or the number of squares on a checkerboard'

Answer: 64


Question: 'At 13 this actress with a weekday in her name starred in the 1956 classic "Rock, Rock, Rock!"'

Answer: Tuesday Weld


Question: 'In the film "Chasing Amy", boy meets girl at a convention for artists & fans of these'

Answer: Comic books


Question: 'It "seldom knocks twice", so make the most of it'

Answer: Opportunity


Question: 'Homeland of Edvards Munch & Grieg'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'The barn species of this bird is sometimes called monkey-faced due to its simian features'

Answer: Owl


Question: 'When his friend became Pope in 1623, he thought he'd be allowed to discuss his heliocentric theory'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'The Al Pacino legal drama "...And Justice for All" marked the screen debut of this actor, later TV's "Coach"'

Answer: Craig T. Nelson


Question: '(Hi, I'm Paula Poundstone)  I heard stories of Bob Dole in a towel at the 1996 Republican Convention in this California city'

Answer: San Diego


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

Answer: Tongue/lip


Question: 'It became fully independent of South Africa March 21, 1990'

Answer: Namibia


Question: 'The "great" species of this slender predatory fish seen here has been called the "Tiger of the Sea"'

Answer: Barracuda


Question: 'Native Americans grew these together with corn & at harvest time combined them into "M'sickquatash"'

Answer: Lima beans


Question: 'This son of Colleen Dewhurst & George C. Scott debuted in the 1988 film "Five Corners"'

Answer: Campbell Scott


Question: 'The Annapolis Convention of 1786 did nothing but suggest holding this convention in Philadelphia'

Answer: Constitutional Convention


Question: '"Manus manum lavat" is the Latin equivalent of this proverb'

Answer: "One hand washes the other"


Question: 'British commander Sir Edward Pakenham was killed in this battle fought 2 weeks after the War of 1812'

Answer: Battle of New Orleans


Question: 'Sheep Meadow & the Turtle Pond can be found in this 843-acre public playground'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'The ball used in this sport is about 11 inches long & about 7 inches wide at the center'

Answer: Football


Question: '"Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot..."'

Answer: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!


Question: 'It precedes label, suit & Jack'

Answer: Union


Question: 'It's also called Chester cheese, & some people think it's the cat's meow'

Answer: Cheshire cheese


Question: 'To reach eastern markets in the 1800s, Texas drovers brought their cattle to Kansas via this trail'

Answer: the Chisholm Trail


Question: 'One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the city; this is the second tallest'

Answer: Two World Trade Center


Question: 'On Sept. 23, 1926 this heavyweight boxing champ lost his title to Gene Tunney in a decision'

Answer: Jack Dempsey


Question: '"True!-Nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"'

Answer: "The Tell-Tale Heart"


Question: 'It may be a mischievous scamp, or a "sea" creature'

Answer: Urchin


Question: 'Parmesan is named for Parma, & this other grated cheese is named for Italy's capital'

Answer: Romano


Question: 'On November 14, 1889, the New York World called her trip, "The Longest Journey Known to Mankind"'

Answer: Nellie Bly


Question: 'A mast to moor dirigibles was added to this skyscraper, but only one ever moored successfully'

Answer: Empire State Building


Question: 'Named for a U.S. doubles champ, this cup is presented to the winner of a 16-team men's tennis tourney'

Answer: Davis Cup


Question: '"It was a pleasure to burn."'

Answer: "Fahrenheit 451"


Question: 'In legend, this mythical beast could purify poisoned water with its single horn'

Answer: Unicorn


Question: 'The "baby" type of this Dutch cheese, that's similar to Edam, is usually encased in red wax'

Answer: Gouda


Question: 'On Mar. 27, 1964 this largest Alaska city was hit by an 8.4 earthquake'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: 'He was inaugurated for his second time as mayor of New York City January 1, 1998'

Answer: Rudolph Giuliani


Question: '(Hi, I'm Greg Gumbel)  During his 26-year career Sparky Anderson managed the Cincinnati Reds to 4 NL titles & this team to 1 AL championship'

Answer: Detroit Tigers


Question: '"All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion."'

Answer: "Anna Karenina"


Question: 'An entrepreneur who's launching a new enterprise, or a funeral director'

Answer: Undertaker


Question: 'This most famous Greek cheese is sometimes described as "pickled" because it's cured in brine'

Answer: Feta


Question: 'In 1787 Arthur St. Clair became the first governor of this vast territory north of the Ohio River'

Answer: Northwest Territory


Question: '"Give My Regards to" this Broadway legend whose statue in Times Square is seen here:'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'In 1973 Ron Turcotte rode this horse to the first Triple Crown victory in 25 years'

Answer: Secretariat


Question: '"My mother died.  Today, or maybe it was yesterday."'

Answer: "The Stranger"


Question: 'This citrus fruit from Jamaica is named for its lack of physical beauty'

Answer: Ugli fruit


Question: 'Samsoe is a Swiss-style cow's milk cheese named for an island in this Scandinavian country'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Macbeth says to this character, "Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold"'

Answer: Banquo\'s ghost


Question: 'On December 19 the people of this U.S. state celebrate Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's birthday'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'In 1967 this New York Jets quarterback became the first pro to pass for more than 4,000 yards in a season'

Answer: Joe Namath


Question: 'The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat"'

Answer: buckwheat


Question: 'On April 5, 1614, in Jamestown, she married John Rolfe'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'Since 1908 this group has distributed over 26 million Bibles to hotels & other institutions'

Answer: Gideon


Question: 'It's the 4-letter word that "makes the world go round"'

Answer: love


Question: 'In 1986 this New York capital celebrated the 300th anniversary of its charter as a city'

Answer: Albany


Question: 'Founded in 1897, it's the world's oldest annual marathon'

Answer: the Boston Marathon


Question: 'The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer'

Answer: oats


Question: 'Anna Ivanovna, empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, was the niece of this great ruler'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'It's what the R stands for in AARP'

Answer: retired


Question: 'There's "no time like" this'

Answer: the present


Question: 'This U.S. first lady once taught dance in Grand Rapids'

Answer: Betty Ford


Question: 'In 1991, after 12 seasons at the Salt Palace, this NBA team moved its home games to the Delta Center'

Answer: the Utah Jazz


Question: 'Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in India'

Answer: rice


Question: 'After 5 years in office, she resigned as Israeli prime minister in 1974'

Answer: Golda Meir


Question: 'Not surprisingly, this organization, founded in 1884, maintains one of the world's finest reference libraries on dogs'

Answer: the American Kennel Club


Question: 'It's the type of pot that "never boils"'

Answer: a watched pot


Question: 'Lancaster, which has the largest stockyards east of Chicago, was this state's capital from 1799 to 1812'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'In 1992 Viktor Petrenko won the world championship in this sport'

Answer: ice skating (men\'s figure skating)


Question: 'Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S.'

Answer: birds


Question: 'The proceeds from some of her souvenir hatchets helped fund a home for wives of alcoholics'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question: 'Members of this volunteer crime-fighting organization are famous for wearing red berets'

Answer: the Guardian Angels


Question: 'It "comes not alone" & "makes waste"'

Answer: haste


Question: 'This Connecticut city famous for its university is nicknamed "Elm City" because it once had many elm-lined streets'

Answer: New Haven


Question: 'During his 1955-1966 career, this Dodger pitcher averaged 9.28 strikeouts per 9 innings'

Answer: (Sandy) Koufax


Question: 'The pot type of this grain retains more of the bran than the pearl type'

Answer: barley


Question: 'In 1813 this mistress of the late Lord Nelson was imprisoned for debt'

Answer: Lady Hamilton


Question: 'During Egypt's suspension from this group, 1979-1989, its headquarters was located in Tunisia'

Answer: the Arab League


Question: '"Every" one of these "fits not every foot"'

Answer: a shoe


Question: 'A smaller canal connecting to this river brings fresh water to the Suez Canal'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'This author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"'

Answer: H.G. Wells


Question: 'On December 10 he announced he'd leave his Hyde Park estate & its papers & books to the U.S. government'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Barbra Streisand introduced the song "People" in this musical'

Answer: Funny Girl


Question: 'Many things in Hong Kong are named for this queen, including the mountain peak on Hong Kong island'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'This author gave us the line "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"'

Answer: (Mario) Puzo


Question: 'By accepting his membership dues, the League of Nations recognized him as emperor of Ethiopia'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'In 1994 Brooke Shields made her Broadway debut as Betty Rizzo in this musical'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The U.S. pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67 was covered by one of these'

Answer: a geodesic dome


Question: 'This "Return of the Native" author's first novel, "Desperate Remedies", was published in 1871'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: '17 acres surrounding her cottage were transferred to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust'

Answer: Anne Hathaway


Question: '1992's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" was inspired by the comic songs of this man'

Answer: Allan Sherman


Question: 'This father of Andrew Wyeth illustrated more than 20 juvenile classics, including "Treasure Island"'

Answer: N.C. Wyeth


Question: 'The western portion of the Baltic island of Usedom belongs to Germany; the eastern, to this country'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Lighter than steel, this metal is also associated with the modernist style of the '20s & '30s'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'This Dr. Dolittle creator studied civil engineering at M.I.T.'

Answer: Hugh Lofting


Question: 'Returning from Ireland to NYC in August, this aviator was given a parade down…er, up Broadway'

Answer: "Wrong Way" Corrigan


Question:
'1966 Jerry Herman musical that features the following:

"For we need a little Christmas /
Right this very minute /
Candles in the window /
Carols at the spinet /
Yes, we need a little Christmas /
Right this very minute /
It hasn't snowed a single flurry /
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry /
So climb down the chimney /
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen..."'

Answer: Mame


Question: 'Born in South Carolina in 1782, he was known as a "war hawk" because he supported the War of 1812'

Answer: John C. Calhoun


Question: 'Boothia Peninsula in this country is the former location of the north magnetic pole'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The firm of Piano & Rogers is famous for this high-tech Paris landmark built 1971-77'

Answer: the Pompidou Centre


Question: '1 of only 3 authors to win 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction'

Answer: (1 of) Faulkner, Tarkington & John Updike


Question: 'On April 27, 1938 Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary married King Zog of this country'

Answer: Albania


Question: '"Cabaret" was based partly on this 1951 play by John Van Druten'

Answer: I Am a Camera


Question: 'When the parents of this "pathfinder" ran off together, his mother was still legally married to another man'

Answer: John C. Fremont


Question: 'Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'In January 1970 Boeing introduced this first wide-bodied jumbo jet; it could seat up to 452 passengers'

Answer: 747


Question: 'Gregory Maguire's novel "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is a revision of this fairy tale'

Answer: "Cinderella"


Question: '1975:<br />"I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this"'

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest


Question: 'This city's Atomic Bomb Dome, a structure left unrebuilt after WWII, has become a symbol of the peace movement'

Answer: Hiroshima


Question: 'This pizza herb was virtually unknown to Americans until WWII soldiers came home & raved about it'

Answer: oregano


Question: 'A Baskin-Robbins program, or an expression meaning "popular for right now"'

Answer: flavor of the month


Question: 'BUD is the New York Stock Exchange symbol for this brewing company'

Answer: Anheuser-Busch


Question: 'He not only appeared on the cover of some 350 romance novels, he's written ones like "Rogue" & "Mysterious"'

Answer: Fabio


Question: '1980:<br />"He-e-e-e-re's Johnny!"'

Answer: The Shining


Question: 'The racing schooner Bluenose, depicted on Canada's 10-cent coin, has a replica in this Nova Scotian port'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'A popular soft drink "ale" is flavored with this spice whose name is from the Sanskrit for "horn root"'

Answer: ginger


Question: 'In response to this Irish greeting, you can say, "And the rest of the day to yourself"'

Answer: top of the morning


Question: 'This Dallas-based electronics firm started out as Geophysical Service, an oil exploration company'

Answer: Texas Instruments


Question: 'Agatha Christie mystery in which an heiress is murdered on an Egyptian cruise'

Answer: "Death on the Nile"


Question: '1992: <br />"You can't handle the truth!"'

Answer: A Few Good Men


Question: 'Crossed by numerous canals, it's said that this German port has more bridges than Amsterdam & Venice combined'

Answer: Hamburg


Question: 'The dried pods of a certain climbing orchid provide this flavoring'

Answer: vanilla


Question: 'Quoting "Titanic", in 1998 Oscar-winning James Cameron exulted, "I'm" this'

Answer: king of the world


Question: 'For over 75 years, Wrigley made only these 3 gums'

Answer: Spearmint, Doublemint & Juicy Fruit


Question: 'Title that completes the line "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin..."'

Answer: "To Kill A Mockingbird"


Question: '1974:<br />"What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?"'

Answer: Chinatown


Question: 'This capital was founded by Sweden's King Gustav I Vasa in 1550'

Answer: Helsinki, Finland


Question: 'In medieval Europe this poultry stuffing herb of the genus Salvia was thought to stimulate the mind'

Answer: sage


Question: 'To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this'

Answer: benefit of the doubt


Question: 'In 1973 this then Memphis-based hotel chain opened its own university in Mississippi to train personnel'

Answer: Holiday Inn


Question: 'This Ayn Rand novel tells the story of architect Howard Roark & Dominique Francon, the woman he loves'

Answer: "The Fountainhead"


Question: '1994:<br />"Just marking my territory"'

Answer: Wolf


Question: 'It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945'

Answer: Hue


Question: 'This spice that is sold in 2 varieties, Ceylon & Cassia, was once used in love potions'

Answer: cinnamon


Question: 'In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett & Ionesco'

Answer: theatre of the absurd


Question: 'The Einheriar were the dead warriors the Valkyries picked up & brought back to this hall where they were revived'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'In 1981 the U.S. government, with 560 million lbs. of this dairy food in storage, released 30 million lbs. to the needy'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'In 1775 he & a group of axmen cleared & marked the Wilderness Road for the Transylvania Company'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: '5th, 50th & 500th are this type of number, as opposed to cardinal'

Answer: ordinal


Question: 'In New Orleans a hero sandwich is called this'

Answer: po boy


Question: 'He drafted the constitution of New York state & was appointed chief justice of the state in 1777'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'Roskva, the farmer's daughter, was always under the hammer as a personal assistant to this god'

Answer: Thor


Question: 'Generally, a steer is a castrated bull used for food; this shorter word refers to one used as a draft animal'

Answer: ox


Question: 'In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'A theorem includes this series of steps, starting with a given & ending with a justified conclusion'

Answer: proof


Question: 'It's the state flower of Delaware (not Georgia)'

Answer: peach blossom


Question: 'He's the "Picture Perfect" actor seen here'

Answer: Jay Mohr


Question: 'A never-ending supply of this better-than-beer drink was made by Heidrum, oddly a goat, not a bee'

Answer: mead


Question: 'Spain, Italy & Greece are the leading producers of this liquid from the fruit of Olea europaea'

Answer: olive oil


Question: 'In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers'

Answer: James Madison


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard)  From the Latin for "to turn upside down", the function g is described as this of the function f'

Answer: inverse


Question: 'You can use this utensil to apply a glaze to breads & sweets before or after baking'

Answer: pastry brush


Question: 'It's the magical group heard here<br />["This Magic Moment"]'

Answer: Jay and the Americans


Question: 'Odin learned the secrets of these alphabetic symbols while hanging for 9 days on Yggdrasil, the world tree'

Answer: runes


Question: 'The type of irrigation seen here, it was used in Israel to make the desert bloom'

Answer: drip irrigation


Question: 'This Pennsylvanian's son William served as royal governor of New Jersey & remained loyal to the crown'

Answer: Ben Franklin


Question: 'The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508...'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Anna Pavlova or Dame Margot Fonteyn, for example'

Answer: prima ballerina


Question: 'This child actor played Dennis the Menace on TV in the early '60s'

Answer: Jay North


Question: 'Norse myth is big on trees; the first man & woman -- Ask & Embla -- were created out of these 2 species'

Answer: ash & elm


Question: 'What do you do to wheat to get flour?  The answer is the name of this grain'

Answer: millet


Question: 'Mary Hays received this pseudonym for aiding her husband & other soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth'

Answer: Molly Pitcher


Question: 'A function's domain is the set of possible values of x; this is the set of possible values of y'

Answer: range


Question: 'This Latin term used for some legal services means "for the good"'

Answer: pro bono


Question: 'Born on the Six Nations Indian Reservation in Ontario, he played Tonto to Clayton Moore's Lone Ranger'

Answer: Jay Silverheels


Question: 'In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"'

Answer: Margaret Mitchell


Question: 'Dating back at least 100 years, "drowning the shamrock", or going drinking, is a tradition on this holiday'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day


Question: 'In 1998 the magazine told of efforts to liquify this "cleanest of fossil fuels" for use in cars'

Answer: natural gas


Question: 'This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland'

Answer: Dumbo


Question: '"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his story about one of these title units in which he served in Vietnam'

Answer: a platoon


Question: 'It's the casino game in which you'd hear someone say "Hit me"'

Answer: blackjack


Question: 'Secretary of State William H. Seward is honored on the last Monday in March in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'SA's website's "Ask the Experts" column answers key questions like "Why does bruised fruit turn" this color'

Answer: brown


Question: 'Chim-Chim Cheree!  This film featuring chimney sweeps swept up 13 Oscar nominations'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: '"Good-night, good-night!  Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'From the medieval Latin for "army", it's a large fleet like the one Admiral Howard faced in 1588'

Answer: an armada


Question: 'It's the creature seen here who's particularly hard on her mate'

Answer: a black widow spider


Question: 'Called the greatest 2 minutes in sports, it takes place on the first Saturday in May'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'Magazine contributor Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing atoms with these light beams'

Answer: lasers


Question: 'This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber'

Answer: The Absent-Minded Professor


Question: '"Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: '3 brigades under 1 headquarters, or a math function'

Answer: a division


Question: 'The Green Hornet's car, or Anna Sewell's horse'

Answer: Black Beauty


Question: 'An ancient symbol of abundance, the cornucopia is often attached to this American holiday'

Answer: Thanksgiving


Question: 'A steamy 1998 issue reports on sexual attraction in the orange sulphur species of this colorful insect'

Answer: butterflies


Question: 'Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: '"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"'

Answer: Hamlet (Polonius)


Question: 'A group of cavalry, whether A, B, or "F"'

Answer: a troop


Question: 'Early in his career, Burt Reynolds played Quint Asper, one of these on "Gunsmoke"'

Answer: Blacksmith


Question: 'This city's Mississippi River Art Fair is held in the Mark Twain Historic District'

Answer: Hannibal, Missouri


Question: 'To physicists, SOHO isn't a neighborhood but an observatory orbiting this body'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'Among the babes in "Babes in Toyland" are Ann Jillian as Bo Peep & this Mouseketeer as Mary Contrary'

Answer: Annette Funicello


Question: '"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath"'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'Mod or not, it's usually 10 infantrymen headed by a staff sergeant'

Answer: a squad


Question: 'Yo-ho, yo-ho!  His real name was believed to be Edward Teach'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'Preferring to go where the rain turns to snow, he wintered in Schruns while writing "The Sun Also Rises"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Scholars link Egyptian creation myths to the sun apparently fertilizing this river's slime'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'This pitcher's "Orel" history continued in '98 with a new team, the Giants'

Answer: Orel Hershiser


Question: 'Though derived from the same plant as opium, these seeds are non-narcotic'

Answer: poppyseeds


Question: 'It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key'

Answer: A


Question: 'This spy came a long way from her origins as the daughter of a Dutch hatter'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'Capital of Tyrol, it has hosted 2 Winter Olympics'

Answer: Innsbruck


Question: 'According to the King James Version, God's first words quoted in the book of Genesis'

Answer: "Let there be light"


Question: 'In 1998 she turned 40 & played a 40-year-old in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"'

Answer: Angela Bassett


Question: 'The scientific name of this herb is Mentha piperita'

Answer: peppermint


Question: 'Of the 2 types of piano keys in a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit, it's what G-flat is'

Answer: ebony


Question: 'Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, CIA man Kermit, kept the Shah of this country on his throne in 1953'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'This English king was held prisoner in 1193 in a castle above Durnstein, Austria'

Answer: Richard the Lionhearted (on his way back from one of the Crusades)


Question: 'In some Native American myths, this animal helps a deity create the world, with no help from the Acme Co.'

Answer: a coyote


Question: '(Hi, I'm Franklin Diaz-Chang, an astronaut on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.)  Oct. 1, 1998 is the 40th birthday of this government agency'

Answer: NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)


Question: 'This aromatic leaf, used to flavor meat, soups & stews, comes from a laurel tree'

Answer: a bay leaf


Question: 'A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key'

Answer: E


Question: 'Cuban refugee Antonio Prohias drew this MAD Magazine comic strip for 29 years'

Answer: Spy vs. Spy


Question: 'Africa's Fulani people, who are cattle herders, say everything came from a drop of this'

Answer: milk


Question: 'A short called "Frankenweenie" helped launch the career of this "Edward Scissorhands" director'

Answer: Tim Burton


Question: 'During the Middle Ages, merchants who adulterated this expensive yellow spice were burnt at the stake'

Answer: saffron


Question: 'They're adjacent on the keyboard as well as in an abbreviation for a popular format of recorded music'

Answer: C & D


Question: 'Spy Richard Sorge warned this Russian leader of Germany's WWII invasion but was ignored'

Answer: Josef Stalin


Question: 'To the ancient Greeks, it was a void from which Nyx & Erebus emerged; in English it's a disordered mess'

Answer: chaos


Question: 'Damon, Marlon & Kim's big brother, he turned 40 on June 8'

Answer: Keenan Ivory Wayans


Question: 'Referring to their shape, these fragrant buds take their name from the Latin word for "nail"'

Answer: cloves


Question: 'It's the key the French call "Le do du milieu du piano"'

Answer: middle C


Question: 'In the early '70s East German spy Gunter Guillaume infiltrated the office of this West German chancellor'

Answer: Willy Brandt


Question: '(Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.)  In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess'

Answer: Harry Houdini


Question: 'Her daughter Julie says this future first lady was offered a movie contract in the 1930s when she was a USC student'

Answer: Mrs. Nixon


Question: '1983:<br />"Still the Beaver"'

Answer: Leave it to Beaver


Question: 'He became a licensed pilot on his 16th birthday long before his one small step on the Sea on Tranquility'

Answer: (Neil) Armstrong


Question:
'Japanese style /
Always syllable counting /
This type of poem'

Answer: haiku


Question: 'A sink, or the area drained by a single river system'

Answer: a basin


Question: 'This synonym for "drugstore" comes from the Greek for "druggist's work"'

Answer: pharmacy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads.)  This woman used this camera back when she was an aspiring photographer for a Washington D.C. newspaper'

Answer: Jackie Kennedy


Question: '2000:<br />"Mary and Rhoda"'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: 'He elected to join the Mercury program in 1959; 15 years later, he'd be elected to join the Senate'

Answer: (John) Glenn


Question: 'Port wines are separated into 2 types based on these 2 possible places where they do most of their aging'

Answer: barrels & bottles


Question: 'The name of this solid figure used to disperse light into a spectrum is from the Greek for "something sawed"'

Answer: a prism


Question: 'As a young wife in the 1950s, she managed the accounts for the family agricultural business'

Answer: Mrs. Carter


Question: '2004:<br />"Return to Southfork"'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'On April 12, 1961, he took his 5 1/4-ton Vostok 1 for a spin at 9:07 A.M. Moscow time; he had it back by 10:55'

Answer: (Yuri) Gagarin


Question: 'This basic metrical unit of poetry sounds like a body part'

Answer: a foot


Question: '"Amorous" name of a 2-handled wine vessel or sporting trophy'

Answer: loving cup


Question: 'When food is swallowed, it goes down this tube, the Greek word for "gullet"'

Answer: the esophagus


Question: 'Bloomer was the maiden name of this first lady who blossomed as a fashion model in pre-WWII NYC'

Answer: Betty Ford


Question: '1987:<br />"Return to Dodge"'

Answer: Gunsmoke


Question: 'With the return of Apollo 13, this commander had completed over 715 hours of space travel'

Answer: (James) Lovell


Question: 'The "heroic" variety of this pair of rhyming lines is written in iambic pentameter'

Answer: a couplet


Question: 'The American Heritage Dict.'s 1st pronunciation for this word rhymes it with "lace"; another with, with "bras"'

Answer: vase


Question: 'From the Greek for "primary", these are made of amino acids'

Answer: proteins


Question: 'She was president (Natl. Pres. of the Girl Scouts, that is) in the 1920s while her husband was merely Secy. of Commerce'

Answer: (Lou) Hoover


Question: '1997:<br />"Back to the Cul-de-sac"'

Answer: Knots Landing


Question: 'Freedom 7's pilot in 1961, he also commanded Apollo 14, the 1st mission to land on the Moon & not on the lunar seas'

Answer: (Alan) Shepard


Question: 'From the Latin for "stopping place", it's 2 or more lines of poetry that form a division within a poem'

Answer: a stanza


Question: 'It's what's normally carried in a metal pail called a scuttle'

Answer: coal


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew at the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.)  At Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind, kids gain self-esteem & confidence with this type of therapy, from the Greek for "horse"'

Answer: hippotherapy


Question: 'Poe knows this swinging lever regulates the speed of a clock mechanism'

Answer: pendulum


Question: 'This musical dreamed "The Impossible Dream", playing 2,328 performances before closing in 1971'

Answer: Man of La Mancha


Question: 'Richard Lefevre could eat only 1 1/2 gallons of this "bowl of red" Stagg product in 10 minutes'

Answer: chili


Question: 'This highway that Bob Dylan "Revisited" begins in Thunder Bay, Ontario'

Answer: Highway 61


Question: 'Before becoming a world leader, this Frenchman was wounded 3 times in WWI & was captured at Verdun in 1916'

Answer: de Gaulle


Question: 'On the scenic Lofoten Islands, you can stay in Rorbuer, cottages traditionally used by those in this profession'

Answer: fishing


Question: 'The opposite of diminuendo is this music term, a gradual increase in loudness'

Answer: crescendo


Question: 'This musical about 18 dancers trying out for 8 spots in a Broadway show ended its original 15-year Broadway run in April 1990'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'Oleg Zhornitskiy turned this sandwich spread into a meal by gulping down 4 32-ounce bowls in 8 minutes'

Answer: mayonnaise


Question: 'Seen here is FDR Drive, which heads into the lower part of this borough'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'This ex-NATO commander & presidential candidate was wounded in Vietnam'

Answer: (Gen. Wesley) Clark


Question: 'The city of Alta, well above the Arctic Circle, has renamed itself the Nordlysbyen Alta, after this display'

Answer: the northern lights


Question: 'This type of gland secretes substances directly into the bloodstream'

Answer: endocrine


Question: 'This Lerner & Loewe musical had its "loverly" farewell in 1962, after 2,717 shows'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'Cookie Jarvis gave 10 minutes of lip service to 6 2/3 pounds of this pasta, from the Italian for "tongue"'

Answer: linguini


Question: 'Part of U.S. 40 follows the route of this early 19th century road that began in Maryland'

Answer: the Cumberland Road (or National Road)


Question: 'In 1775 his leg was severely wounded in an assault on Quebec & he was promoted to brig. gen.; 5 years later, he'd be in disgrace'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'Winter sports lovers benefit from the 2-billion-kroner upgrade of this 1994 Olympic city'

Answer: Lillehammer


Question: 'If I said a clue about a stripper had really nice pair of facts, it'd be an example of this 2-word French term'

Answer: a double entendre


Question: 'With more than 7,400 performances, this musical became a "Memory" after its Sept. 10, 2000 finale'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'In 9 minutes, Sonya Thomas dined on 11 pounds of this cheesy dessert from a Brooklyn restaurant'

Answer: cheesecake


Question: 'The 42 bridges of the Overseas Highway link many of this state's islands to the mainland'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Norwegian poet Arne Garborg pushed for a literary language based on this "old" one of sagas & eddas'

Answer: Old Norse


Question: 'Shakespeare's Puck: If we have" done this, "think but this, and all is mended"'

Answer: offended


Question: 'It was nice to see this musical "Looking Swell" & "Still Goin' Strong", but after 2,844 shows, it bowed out in 1970'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'Jim Reeves was top-"seeded" after he chomped 13 pounds of this gourd in 15 minutes'

Answer: watermelon


Question: 'Domine Quo Vadis Church stands on this road, where tradition says Peter asked Jesus, "Lord, where are you going?"'

Answer: the Appian Way


Question: 'A summer festival at Vinstra honors this Ibsen & Grieg character based on folklore'

Answer: Peer Gynt


Question: 'He first appeared in Kipling's 1892 story "In the Rukh" as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood'

Answer: Mowgli


Question: 'Ottawa, Canada is famous for these flowers seen here'

Answer: tulips


Question: 'Chile uses this basic unit of currency'

Answer: a peso


Question: 'Christopher Lee, later of "Lord of the Rings", sucked blood in 1968's he "Has Risen from the Grave"'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003'

Answer: Onassis


Question: 'You can cook the Thanksgiving turkey this way so the outside is crispy & the inside juicy (just beware of splattered oil)'

Answer: deep fry


Question: 'The Italian city of Pisa is located at the mouth of the Arno River, where it flows into this body of water'

Answer: the Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'Seeing the English Gardens at Mottisfont Abbey made Martha Stewart laugh at her own efforts to grow these'

Answer: roses


Question: 'No peeking! This building is portrayed on the back of the $20 bill'

Answer: the White House


Question: 'Sonny Chiba, star of such memorable films as "The Bushido Blade", appeared in "Volume One" of this Tarantino epic'

Answer: Kill Bill


Question: 'This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University'

Answer: Prince William


Question: 'This region of the U.S. includes Mississippi & Alabama'

Answer: the Deep South


Question: 'In Italian it's known as "La Torre Pendente"'

Answer: the Leaning Tower


Question: 'Being shaped like this gives the flower seen here its name and also its genus name, campanula'

Answer: bell


Question: 'Italy has issued Euro coins with part of this painter's "Birth of Venus" on the reverse'

Answer: Botticelli


Question: '"To Kiss in Shadows" & "Stealing Heaven" won 2003 Rita Awards for this type of novel'

Answer: romance


Question: 'Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country & had to flee its revolution in 1917'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Seen here, he was an endocrinologist before promoting Ayur Veda, an ancient form of holistic medicine'

Answer: Deepak Chopra


Question: 'At the head of his own militia, this medieval author of "The Prince" helped conquer Pisa for Florence in 1509'

Answer: Machiavelli


Question: 'Bergamot is also called the "balm" of these creatures to which it's highly attractive'

Answer: bees


Question: 'Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these'

Answer: Yen


Question: 'This 2004 Fox show featured the line "I'm going to Waikiki to get a bikini wax... want to meet me after your shift's over?"'

Answer: North Shore


Question: 'Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it)'

Answer: a sandwich


Question: 'Oprah's first selection for her book club, in 1996, was this book by Jacquelyn Mitchard about a kidnapping'

Answer: The Deep End of the Ocean


Question: 'Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies & the motions of projectiles'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'A 1971 New Jersey law made the common meadow type of this, not the African type, the state flower'

Answer: a violet


Question: 'The name of this unit of currency used in Libya is from the Latin for "ten"'

Answer: Dinar


Question: 'A song from "Dirty Dancing" says, "Now I've had" this; "Yes, I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you"'

Answer: "The Time Of My Life"


Question: '(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.)  My great-great-great grandfather was this shipping & railroad magnate known as "The Commodore"'

Answer: Cornelius Vanderbilt


Question: 'People on bed rest are at risk for a serious blood clot in the legs known as DVT, short for this'

Answer: deep vein thrombosis


Question: 'This island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled was controlled for many years by Pisa'

Answer: Elba


Question: 'On Feb. 11, 1993 this Florida prosecutor was nominated Attorney General of the U.S.'

Answer: Janet Reno


Question: 'In 1997 Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" appeared on her album "Let's Talk About Love" & on this soundtrack'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'In estimating the time to recover from this, figure one day for every hour of the time change'

Answer: jet lag


Question: 'Sir Isaac Newton'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'The last British sovereign buried at this church was George II in 1760; since then, they've been buried at Windsor'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'P2P means this type of file sharing, like Kazaa or Limewire'

Answer: peer-to-peer (person-to-person accepted)


Question: 'In 1940, at age 5, Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th one of these spiritual leaders'

Answer: Dalai Lama


Question: ''N Sync's "No Strings Attached" was the No. 1 album of 2000; this Santana album was No. 2'

Answer: Supernatural


Question: 'Though its slangy name suggests it goes behind, wear this in front to guard your valuables against theft'

Answer: a fanny pack


Question: 'JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'The world's largest mosque is Shah Faisal Mosque near this Pakistani capital; it can hold 100,000 worshippers'

Answer: Islamabad


Question: '"Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs'

Answer: an instruction manual


Question: 'This term, German for "lightning war," was used to describe the rapid capture of Poland by Germany in 1939'

Answer: blitzkrieg


Question: '"The Diary of" this songstress included "Diary", a haunting duet with Tony!  Toni!  Tone!'

Answer: Alicia Keys


Question: 'Jamaica's Rock House Hotel advertises four-poster beds with this protective material over them'

Answer: a mosquito net


Question: 'JFK (John Forbes Kerry)'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'The Episcopal Church at 193 Salem Street in Boston has been holding services continually since December 29, 1723'

Answer: The Old North Church


Question: 'Common fiery name for a nasty or insulting email or newsgroup message'

Answer: a flame


Question: 'On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'Their 1999 CD "Californication" reunited guitarist John Frusciante with the group'

Answer: The Red Hot Chili Peppers


Question: 'In part to prevent child abductions, the State Dept. now requires that minors appear in person to get this'

Answer: a passport


Question: 'Radio's Garrison Keillor'

Answer: The University of Minnesota


Question: 'The seat of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, it's a great example of Gothic Revival architecture'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Cathedral


Question: '"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this'

Answer: your own name


Question: 'In 1974 the military overthrew this African leader who claimed to be descended from Solomon & the Queen of Sheba'

Answer: Haile Selassie (of Ethiopia)


Question: '"All I Have" with LL Cool J was a last-minute addition to this Jennifer Lopez CD'

Answer: This Is Me... Then


Question: 'On entering the U.K., if you have anything to declare (besides "They talk funny here"), see one of these officers'

Answer: customs


Question: 'Author Ralph Ellison'

Answer: Tuskegee


Question: 'The Church of this in Jerusalem is said to be built over the site where Jesus was entombed after his crucifixion'

Answer: Holy Sepulchre


Question: '"VoIP" means this type of "Internet protocol" to make phone calls over the web'

Answer: voice


Question: 'W.E. Henley, the amputee who wrote the brave poem "Invictus", inspired this character in an 1883 book'

Answer: Long John Silver


Question: '100,000 people of this city turned out for the 1849 funeral of beloved bandleader Johann Strauss Sr.'

Answer: Vienna


Question: '1970<br />George C. Scott as this general'

Answer: Patton


Question: 'We give thanks that toms, the males of these birds, can reach 70 lbs.'

Answer: turkeys


Question: 'Define-A-Lash from Maybelline is a line of this'

Answer: mascara


Question: 'Of all the USA's wars, this one claimed the most American lives'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'An explorer lends his name to this call & response swimming pool game'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: '"King of the Waltz" Johann Strauss Jr. wrote in other dance forms too, like the "Tritsch-Tratsch" this'

Answer: the polka


Question: '1983:<br />Meryl Streep as this nuclear power technician'

Answer: Silkwood


Question: 'This meat comes before "fried steak" in a dish popular in the South'

Answer: chicken


Question: 'Traditionally at graduation, this student with the highest grades makes a speech'

Answer: valedictorian


Question: 'It was known as "the war to end all wars"'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'In other words, this summer camp game could be called "Seize Your Enemy's Banner"'

Answer: Capture the Flag


Question: 'In 1908 Oscar Strauss turned this playwright's "Arms and the Man" into the operetta "The Chocolate Soldier"'

Answer: (George Bernard) Shaw


Question: '1992:<br />Jack Nicholson as this labor leader'

Answer: Jimmy Hoffa


Question: 'USDA grades of this "other white meat" are 1, 2, 3, 4 & utility; mmm... utility this'

Answer: pork


Question: 'In 1923, John Deere launched it's Model D, the first of these to bear the Deere name'

Answer: a tractor


Question: 'During this 1967 war, Israeli troops under Moshe Dayan came within a stone's throw of Damascus, Syria'

Answer: the Six-Days War


Question: 'They'll treat you like a "king" in Petal, Mississippi, home to the International Hall of Fame for this board game'

Answer: checkers


Question: 'Richard Strauss used double basses for Jokanaan's beheading in the opera about this princess'

Answer: Salomé


Question: '2001:<br />Will Smith as this poet/pugilist'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'Be vewy quiet; the most common small game animal is this, which is mostly white meat & can be grilled, fried or roasted'

Answer: rabbit


Question: 'It means of or pertaining to the sense of smell'

Answer: olfactory


Question: '"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men & supplies coming south on this road'

Answer: the Ho Chi Minh Trail


Question: 'This lawn game was once called Pall Mall, from Italian words meaning "ball" & "mallet"'

Answer: croquet


Question: 'Horn virtuoso Franz Strauss was consulted by Wagner in devising this hero's horn call'

Answer: Siegfried


Question: '2004:<br />Liam Neeson as this behavioral researcher'

Answer: Kinsey


Question: 'A western N.Y. city knows cuts of this humped cattle family member are lower in fat & cholesterol than most cuts of beef'

Answer: buffalo


Question: 'For a nice chianti, visit this wine-making region of Italy that's famous for it'

Answer: Tuscany


Question: 'During this war, Major George Armistead wanted "a flag so large the British will have no difficulty seeing it"'

Answer: the War of 1812


Question: 'In terms of the use of fingers, it's the game in which 0 beats 2, 2 beats 5 & 5 beats 0'

Answer: Rock, Paper, Scissors


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a wriggling echidna at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.)  Naturally, Sydney's Taronga Zoo has a distinctly Australian echidna; an echidna named Millie, short for "millennium", was a mascot in the summer Olympic games in this year'

Answer: 2000


Question: '"It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights"'

Answer: The Muppet Show


Question: 'Hanging, December 30, 2006 in Baghdad'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question:
'Thermostat control,
egg tray,
crisper'

Answer: refrigerator


Question: 'Jon Krakauer:<br />"Into ____ Air"'

Answer: Thin


Question: 'This expression meaning to crease a page in a book for later reference dates back to 1659'

Answer: dog-ear


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew enjoys the surf at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.)  It's easy to see why local tradition says that "bondi" once meant "water breaking over rocks" in the language of these people'

Answer: the Aborigines


Question: '"It's like you're always stuck in second gear, well it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year"'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'Air crash of his MiG fighter plane while on a training mission near Moscow, March 27, 1968'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question:
'Grip,
shaft,
a head made of stainless steel, titanium, carbon graphite...'

Answer: golf club


Question: 'Malcolm Gladwell:<br />"The ____ Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference"'

Answer: Tipping


Question: 'If you've been beaten 72-0 in football, you've gotten this, from the name of a smelly critter, Mephitis mephitis'

Answer: skunked


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.)  One of the world's most accurate maritime reproductions is the Australian-built replica of this James Cook ship that shares a name with a Space Shuttle'

Answer: Endeavour


Question: '"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, never thought I could feel so free"'

Answer: Greatest American Hero


Question: 'An overdose of barbiturates, August 5, 1962, at her L.A. home'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question:
'Reservoir,
filter basket,
carafe'

Answer: a coffee maker


Question: 'Kate Jacobs:<br />"The ____ Night Knitting Club"'

Answer: Friday


Question: 'To "go whole" this animal means to indulge completely'

Answer: hog


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sydney, Australia.)  At 3/4 of a mile, the Harbour Bridge is so long that it requires a permanent continuous painting crew; this man, who played Crocodile Dundee, was once a part of that crew'

Answer: (Paul) Hogan


Question: '"I don't know who you think you are but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you"'

Answer: True Blood


Question: 'Firing squad, at the Utah State Prison, January 17, 1977'

Answer: Gary Gilmore


Question:
'Eyepiece,
declination setting scale,
azimuth fine adjustment'

Answer: a telescope


Question: 'Jane Austen & Ben Winters:<br />"Sense and Sensibility and ____ ____"'

Answer: Sea Monsters


Question: 'This "scaly" alliterative term originally referred to men who flirted in tea rooms'

Answer: lounge lizards


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.)  As the Opera House is located on the Harbour, it's fitting that the roof is made up of these sections, named for what they're designed to evoke'

Answer: sails


Question: '"Movin' movin' movin

Answer: Rawhide


Question: 'Possible dropping of a tortoise on his head by an eagle, in 456 B.C.'

Answer: Aeschylus


Question:
'Mars light,
tower ladder,
water pressure gauge,
hydrant intake'

Answer: a fire truck


Question: 'Sara Gruen:<br />"Water for ____"'

Answer: Elephants


Question: 'Teens who frequent shopping centers are called these, the title of a Kevin Smith film'

Answer: mall rats


Question: 'In the Book of Job, this name means "accuser", & that was his role in God's court'

Answer: Satan


Question: 'This peanut guy devised some 118 byproducts for the sweet potato'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question:
'She was one of the last stars in the studio system

"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system."'

Answer: Ava Gardner


Question: 'It's borders are the Atlantic Ocean to the south & west & Spain to the north & east'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'This international sports competition's motto is "Faster, higher, stronger"'

Answer: the Olympics


Question:
'Urban VII,
Julius II,
Irving III'

Answer: Irving III


Question: 'The laying on of hands is a key part of the practice of "faith" this'

Answer: healing


Question: 'Around 1930 William Lear invented one of these for the car, marketed under tha name Motorola'

Answer: a radio


Question:
'She's made countless moviegoers exclaim, "Che bella"

"With 36 films to her credit, the 21-year-old actress soon overtook Gina Lollobrigida as Italy's reigning box office princess."'

Answer: Sophia Loren


Question: 'India to the north, east & west & Burma to the southeast'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'You've got security with "My word is my bond", the motto of this London financial institution'

Answer: the London Stock Exchange


Question: 'In this job, at a wedding, you'll be called upon to ask, "Friend of the bride or groom?"'

Answer: usher


Question: 'He's on the 4th floor in the Inventors Hall of Fame for his "improvement in hoisting apparatus"'

Answer: (Elisha) Otis


Question:
'For the exact years of the Reagan administration, the woman seen  here starred on this show

"When I came to Hollywood and they gave me the glamor treatment, I learned how to do it quite well."'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'Colombia to the north, Peru to the west, Paraguay to the south & the Atlantic Ocean to the east'

Answer: Brazil


Question: '"All power to the people" was the motto of this African-American political organization of the 1960s'

Answer: the Black Panthers


Question:
'Romanus I,
Julius I,
Caesar III'

Answer: Caesar III


Question: 'One who interlaces cloth, or an African bird that interlaces grass to make its elaborate nest'

Answer: a weaver


Question: 'In 1948, Rene Bussoz sold the USA's first Aqua Lung, invented by this Frenchman'

Answer: Cousteau


Question:
'She's the enduring actress seen here

"The 30-year-old had gone from a sheltered life with her family straight into a marriage and a fast-paced career."'

Answer: Susan Sarandon


Question: 'Syria to the north & east, Israel to the south & the Mediterranean Sea to the west'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: '"Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil to him who evil thinks) is the motto of this British Chivalric order'

Answer: Order of the Garter (or Knights of the Garter)


Question:
'Stephen IX,
John XXIV,
Clement VIII'

Answer: John XXIV


Question: 'It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff'

Answer: sheer


Question: '30 years after inventing an instant camera, he invented Polavision, instant movies'

Answer: Edwin Land


Question:
'Director seen  here discussing his movie "10"

"The most I liked about it was that everybody predicted it would be a major flop."'

Answer: Blake Edwards


Question: 'Thailand to the west, Laos to the north & Vietnam to the east'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Strangely, "Blood & fire" is the motto of this Christian charitable organization'

Answer: the Salvation Army


Question:
'Dominicus I,
Honorius I,
Innocent I'

Answer: Dominicus I


Question: 'It's a printed-out schedule or outline of one's travel plans'

Answer: an itinerary


Question: '"Tai-Pan" was a "Novel of Hong Kong" by James Clavell, & this was his 1975 "Novel of Japan"'

Answer: Shogun


Question: '2003 & 2004:<br />The bride who's trying to kill Bill'

Answer: Uma Thurman


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Ironically, this organ was considered of minor importance, crudely removed through the nose & often not preserved'

Answer: the brain