Question: 'This "grouchy" librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific"'

Answer: Oscar (Hammerstein)


Question: '"Daniel" warbler whose "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" helped spur the Enlightenment'

Answer: Elton John Locke


Question: 'Ointment of zinc & ferric oxide used for inflammations of the skin'

Answer: calamine lotion


Question: 'You can buy artifacts from this Chinese dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 for a--well, itself'

Answer: Song


Question: 'Perhaps for wanting to be "In The Navy", this disco group was banned for being too violent'

Answer: The Village People


Question: 'Given government approval to cross-dress, Rosa Bonheur was the first woman given this French award'

Answer: the Legion of Honor


Question: 'The first player in the National League to be MVP 2 years in a row, he's known as "Mr. Cub"'

Answer: Ernie Banks


Question: 'Current African-American Supreme Court Justice who enlightened his fellow Brits with a "Leviathan" of a book in 1651'

Answer: Clarence Thomas Hobbes


Question: 'From the Latin for "destruction", it's a state of deep distress or misfortune'

Answer: a calamity


Question: 'Chinese company Lenovo now markets the Thinkpad, having bought this co.'s personal computing division'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'I wonder if banning this "dark" group for "religious obscurantism" made them "paranoid"'

Answer: Black Sabbath


Question: 'She learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle & served as art tutor at Versailles before moving to London'

Answer: Madame Tussaud


Question: '22nd & 24th POTUS'

Answer: (Grover) Cleveland


Question: 'Pirate flag that symbolizes a 13th c. English scholar who was jailed when his talk of science was deemed heretical'

Answer: the Jolly Roger Bacon


Question: 'Fabric named for a city in India'

Answer: calico


Question: 'In the 1920s, geologist A. William Grabau gave this name to a fossil found near Zhoukoudian, China'

Answer: Peking Man


Question: 'Songs like "Psycho Killer" might be what got this band axed for spreading myths about the Soviet military'

Answer: Talking Heads


Question: 'Paintings by Guillemine Benoist & other female artists were misidentified as by this French male neoclassicist'

Answer: (Jacques-Louis) David


Question: 'This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms'

Answer: St. Elmo


Question: 'Not a "Bewitched" daughter, the MTV news reporter who wowed 'em in Denmark with the existential "Fear and Trembling"'

Answer: Tabitha Soren Kierkegaard


Question: 'Ancient Roman name for the region of Scotland'

Answer: Caledonia


Question: 'Parts of this 1961 rock & roll movie were filmed on location in Oahu & Kauai'

Answer: Blue Hawaii


Question: 'This 5-letter adjective refers to 2 places on earth & is frequently used befgore "opposite"'

Answer: polar


Question: 'This McPoultry product from McDonald's went on sale nationwide in 1983'

Answer: McNuggets


Question: 'This scouring powder is named for a mythical warrior who fought in the Trojan War'

Answer: Ajax


Question: 'It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds'

Answer: Airplane


Question: 'In the 1880s explorer Sir Richard Burton prepared a 16-volume English translation of these tales'

Answer: the Arabian Nights


Question: 'It can describe the chilled morning air or a pooch prone to biting'

Answer: nippy


Question: 'Per the American Heritage Dictionary, one of the 2 chicken internal organs that represent cowardice'

Answer: the liver (or the heart)


Question: 'This company that's synonymous with bleach also makes the Green Works line of cleaning products'

Answer: Clorox


Question: 'Tom Hanks & several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film'

Answer: Castaway


Question: 'Searching for this character, Mr. Utterson says, "I shall be Mr. Seek" & one night does find him'

Answer: Edward Hyde


Question: 'Joy to the world!  A band took its name from this phrase describing how chilled Aboriginies slept with pets for heat'

Answer: Three Dog Night


Question: 'The moral of "The Milkmaid & Her Pail" is "don't" do this'

Answer: Don\'t count your chickens before they hatch


Question: 'Ben Hirsch invented this liquid auto polish; the brand now includes car wash & chrome polish'

Answer: Turtle Wax


Question: 'Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film'

Answer: Conair


Question: 'Blake wrote that this, "like a flower / in heaven's high bower / with silent delight / sits and smiles of the night"'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'The CSS Arkansas, one of these ships named for its armor, had a glorious 23-day career in the campaign'

Answer: ironclad


Question: 'When used before "pace", it means really slow; otherwise, it refers to masses of ice'

Answer: glacial


Question: 'A book of chicken recipes by Wade Boggs is titled these "Tips"'

Answer: Fowl


Question: 'This blue spray offers a "streak-free shine"'

Answer: Windex


Question: 'One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner'

Answer: Air Force One


Question: 'Works by this beloved children's author/illustrator include "In The Night Kitchen"'

Answer: (Maurice) Sendak


Question: 'This general found himself "in the enemy's country, with a vast river... between me and my base of supplies"; he won anyway'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'This word that R--Er, that sounds a lot like "dime" refers to frost formed in fog'

Answer: rime


Question: '"Hang on tight" to this term for a bunch of eggs from a brood of chickens'

Answer: a clutch


Question: '20 Mule Team this, a natural detergent booster, has been around since the 19th Century'

Answer: Borax


Question: 'Vera Farmiga & Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film'

Answer: Up In The Air


Question: '"December Night" is a faith-restoring episode in Willa Cather's "Death Comes For" this churchman'

Answer: the Archbishop


Question: '6 weeks before the actual surrender, the Confederates raised the white flag but only to ask for a truce to do this'

Answer: bury their dead


Question: 'Kids wear them on their arms to stay afloat'

Answer: water wings


Question: 'Though female, she claimed to have the heart and stomach of a king'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'Just one more thing, sir ... the first run of this Peter Falk detective show played on NBC from 1971 to 1977'

Answer: Columbo


Question: 'In winter, when it's cold enough, you can snowmobile across this Great Lake to get to Mackinac Island'

Answer: Huron


Question: 'This stuff, crucial to the "Star Trek"episode "The Alternative Factor", consists of antiparticles like antiprotons'

Answer: antimatter


Question: '11; turns out it's also the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: x-i


Question: 'These events terrorized black citizens in Springfield, Ill. in 1908 & Tulsa, Okla. in 1921'

Answer: race riots


Question: 'A former spy, she cooked up some excitement of her own as an author and TV host'

Answer: Julia Child


Question: 'This '70s show had 3 things going for it:  Wo Fat, a killer theme song & a snappy catch-phrase ("Book 'em, Danno")'

Answer: Hawaii Five-O


Question: 'The small European part of this country lies in Thrace; the rest is in Asia'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Add this word to "electro" to get the adjective for electrical phenomena produced by charges at rest'

Answer: electrostatic


Question: 'Now you're in a pickle with 501, 50 & 50'

Answer: d-i-l-l


Question: 'By request of director Roman Polanski, this function was disabled on the DVD of "Knife in the Water"'

Answer: fast forward


Question: 'She's seen here, perhaps contemplating a creative homicide'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'Sheena Easton played Caitlin, Don Johnson's girlfriend on this '80s cop show'

Answer: Miami Vice


Question: 'To visit the birthplace of Pancho Villa, drive your Dodge SUV to this Mexican state of the same name'

Answer: Durango


Question: 'This particle in an atom's nucleus was discovered free of charge in 1932'

Answer: a neutron


Question: '509; it's a fort in Jersey'

Answer: D-i-x


Question: 'A nation's fleet of commercial ships'

Answer: the merchant marine


Question: 'In 1992, this woman endeavoured to achieve an historic first, and she did'

Answer: Mae Jemison


Question: 'In 1989, the Union of this, it's official English name since 1885, was changed to the Union of Myanmar'

Answer: Burma


Question: 'Grouped in pairs, these fundamental particles of atomic nulcei come in 6 "flavors" or types'

Answer: quarks


Question: 'Be nice & string together the letters for 100, 4, 1, 50 to get this word'

Answer: c-i-v-i-l


Question: 'Seen here, it's used to signal a footnote when you've run out of other symbols'

Answer: a double dagger


Question: 'During her rule in antiquity, she was often depicted as a male with a beard'

Answer: Hatshepsut


Question: 'Ironically, Ben McKenzie moved north from "The O.C." to star as Officer Ben Sherman on this TNT drama'

Answer: Southland


Question: 'As indicated on the map, they are South America's two smallest independent countries in area'

Answer: Uruguay and Suriname


Question: 'The idea that in a closed system matter is neither created nor destroyed is referred to by this 3-word phrase'

Answer: conservation of matter


Question: 'The letters for 1,001 followed by 50 give you this word, a unit of length equal to .001 inches'

Answer: mil


Question: 'This title character of an 18th c. novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'The Library of the first President Bush, in Texas, has a film of his first steps, in this state where the family vacations'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Not the frost, but the blood was on the punkin in this 1978 Jamie Lee Curtis film'

Answer: Halloween


Question: '"The Chairman of the Board", "Ol' Blue Eyes"'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'In 1975, Lyn Weiner opened the Kennelworth, a hotel in New York City for these pets'

Answer: dogs


Question: 'When it's muggy, "it's not the heat, it's" this, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere'

Answer: humidity


Question: 'What's good for the goose is good for this, also meaning a glance'

Answer: the gander


Question: 'The war exhibit "Korea Plus 50: No Longer Forgotten" is a joint-access project between the libraries of these 2 presidents'

Answer: Truman and Eisenhower


Question: '(Hi.  I'm Bob Woodward.)  In "All the President's Men", Carl Bernstein was played by Dustin Hoffman & I was portrayed by this handsome star who bears no resemblence to me'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question: '"America's Sweetheart", "Little Sure Shot"'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'The Celtic Lodge and Kelly's Hotel are famous hotels in this world capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Each second about 100 of these natural electrical discharges occur somewhere on Earth'

Answer: lightning strikes


Question: 'That this bird leaves its eggs in other birds' nests, that's just "crazy", man'

Answer: the cuckoo


Question: 'The Ford Library is on the campus of this Ford alma mater'

Answer: the University of Michigan


Question: 'A canoe trip into the Georgia backwoods became a living nightmare for four friends in this 1972 film'

Answer: Deliverance


Question: '"Conqueror of the World", "Macedonia's Madman"'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel & tourist attraction'

Answer: Queen Mary


Question: 'A "little" one of these "ages" ran between the 14th and 19th Centuries'

Answer: ice age


Question: 'It's a glossy black bird, or to toot your own horn'

Answer: a crow


Question:
'The LBJ Library sells CDs of the President's phone calls, like the following one with her

LBJ: "...how we can carry on, if you give us a little strength."
Woman: "But you know what I wanted to say to you about that letter?  I know how rare a letter is in a president's handwriting."'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy


Question: 'For this '74 flick, Mel Brooks used some of the same lab equipment that was used in a 1931 film'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: '"The Father of the H-Bomb", "Dr. Strangelove"'

Answer: Edward Teller


Question: 'With canals, piazzas, and St. Mark's Square, this Vegas hotel sits on the old Sands Hotel site'

Answer: the Venetian


Question: 'In terms of rainfall, it's the driest continent after Antarctica'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Something done on a whim may be done on this songbird of the family alaudidae'

Answer: a lark


Question: 'Lyn Nofziger and Edwin Meese have their own sets of folders for perusal at his library'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Erich Segal actually wrote the screenplay for this 1970 movie first; then the novel'

Answer: Love Story


Question: '"The Poet of the Commonplace", "The Children's Poet"'

Answer: Longfellow


Question: 'This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony'

Answer: the Roosevelt


Question: 'When the folks at the National Weather Service are feeling a bit "DZ," "DZ" stands for this weather condition'

Answer: drizzle


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a pink disc.)  It's the general two-word term for a trap shooting target--live ones went out in the early 1900s'

Answer: a clay pigeon


Question: 'Per the U.S. Naval Observatory, the date of the first day of the current millennium'

Answer: January 1, 2001


Question: 'The Davis Cup'

Answer: tennis (golf accepted)


Question: 'Ususally an altarpiece, it's a painting consisting of 3 separate panels'

Answer: a triptych


Question: 'It's the military rank the Constitution gives the U.S. President'

Answer: Commander in Chief


Question: 'After the British took over this island in 1797, the anglicized Puerto de Espana to Port of Spain'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'Also known as a silvertip, it can weigh up to 900 pounds'

Answer: a grizzly bear


Question: 'He wasn't a scenery-chewing actor, he was the first "astrochimp" that the U.S. launched into space'

Answer: Ham


Question: 'The Stanley Cup'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'He advocated sfumato, a subtle blending of tones, saying light and shade should blend like smoke as seen here'

Answer: Da Vinci


Question: 'A Yokozuna is an athlete who has reaced the highest rank in this sport'

Answer: sumo wrestling


Question: 'In 1946 the name of Podgorica was changed to this for Yugoslavia's leader; it was changed back in 1992'

Answer: Titograd


Question: 'To overpower or dim the vision of by intense light'

Answer: dazzle


Question: 'In 1985 Andy Warhol did the first painting in what has become a big ad campaign for this vodka'

Answer: Absolut


Question: 'The Jules Rimet Trophy'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'Andre Breton hailed this man's art as "the most hallucinatory known until now"'

Answer: Dalí


Question: 'A lesser official in a royal household; some are "of the guard"'

Answer: yeoman


Question: 'This Spanish port was once Carthago Nova, or "New Carthage"'

Answer: Cartagena


Question: '"Swift" nickname of Supreme Court Justice Byron White'

Answer: Whizzer


Question: 'City Lights Books helped folks lacking space &/or money as the USA's first bookstore to sell only these'

Answer: paperbacks


Question: 'The Air Canada Silver Broom'

Answer: curling


Question: 'Aptly, Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman show was at this man's 291 Gallery'

Answer: Alfred Stieglitz


Question: 'It's the Russian term for the son & heir of a czar'

Answer: czarevich


Question: 'Madagascar retained the first 2 letters of this, its previous name'

Answer: The Malagasy Republic


Question: 'He's the conqueror of Jerusalem mentioned in II Kings 24'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: 'In March 1825 Joel R. Poinsett was confirmed as the first U.S. minister to this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'The Lonsdale Belt'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'Courbet was the leader of this movement; verism is an extreme form of it'

Answer: realism


Question: 'From a word meaning "to send", this 5-letter word designates an "extraordinary" diplomat'

Answer: envoy


Question: 'What's now Kaliningrade, Russia was the capital of East Prussia under this name meaning "King's Mountain"'

Answer: Königsberg


Question: 'This port city is the Republic of the Congo's capital'

Answer: Brazzaville


Question: 'This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them"'

Answer: Isaac Asimov


Question: 'In 1987 this Van Gogh work sold for $53.9 million, then a record price for a work of art'

Answer: Irises


Question: 'This tune hit the Top 40 again in 1974 thanks to its use as the theme to "Happy Days"'

Answer: "Rock Around The Clock"


Question: 'The Bureau's Hotshot Crews are part of its responsibility for these events on 388 million acres'

Answer: forest fires


Question: 'On trees these have stomata, or little pores, on the underside; on aquatic plants, their stomata are on the upper side'

Answer: leaves


Question: 'Proxima Centauri is about 4.3 light years from Earth; this is the only star that's closer'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'To catch a bass, you'll need some sort of bait on one of these dangling from the end of the line on your pole'

Answer: fishhook


Question: 'Painted around 1876, his "Au Moulin de la Galette" was purchased in 1990 for $78 million'

Answer: Renoir


Question: '"The Shareef don't like it", but The Clash's fans sure did in 1982'

Answer: "Rock The Casbah"


Question: 'In 2004 the BLM announced a fee increase to $30 to stake a new one of these'

Answer: mining claims


Question: 'A fish called the feather blenny lays its eggs in this mollusk's shells'

Answer: oysters


Question: 'In a standard pack of playing cards, it's the only king without a moustache'

Answer: the King of Hearts


Question: 'In "It Happened One Night", Clark Gable used his thumb to do this; Claudette Colbert bared her leg'

Answer: hitchhike


Question: 'Selling for $60 million in 1999, "Rideau, Crouchon, et Compotier" by this Post-Impressionist is seen here'

Answer: Paul Cezanne


Question: '"Here I am..."; The Scorpions blew into the Top 40 in 1984 with this tune'

Answer: "Rock You Like A Hurricane"


Question: 'There's no free land from the BLM; this practice enshrined in an 1862 law was abolished in 1976'

Answer: homesteading


Question: 'Giant tube ones of these 1,700 feet below the Gulf of Mexico live to be 250'

Answer: worms


Question: '"The Lady In My Life" & "Baby Be Mine" were the only 2 songs on this 1983 album not to be Top 10 hits'

Answer: Thriller


Question: 'To engage in rowdy behaviour, usually in fun'

Answer: roughhouse


Question: 'His "Garcon a la Pipe" seen here sold for a record $104 million in 2004'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'In 1972 Johnny Rivers came down with this, in addition to the "Boogie Woogie Flu"'

Answer: "The Rockin\' Pneumonia"


Question: 'Of the lower 48, this state has the most land under exclusive BLM jurisdiction, more than 75,000 square miles'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Antarctica's leopard type of this mammal has a big, toothy mouth and a spotted hide'

Answer: seal


Question: 'Javier Sotomayor, the only man to clear 8 feet in this track & field event, retired in 2001'

Answer: the high jump


Question: 'This tax is removed from the paychecks of salaried workers; how much depends on the number of W-4 exemptions'

Answer: withholding


Question: 'In 2004, an unidentified buyer purchased this artist's 1872 "Races at the Bois de Boulogne" for $26 million'

Answer: Manet


Question: 'This John Denver tune begins, "He was born in the summer of his 27th year"'

Answer: "Rocky Mountain High"


Question: 'The BLM administers Escalante National Monument, including "No Man's" this formation'

Answer: Mesa


Question: 'Though just one of these fish is seen here, its name sounds like it's part of a collective'

Answer: a grouper


Question: 'It's the only bone in the skull that articulates or moves'

Answer: the mandible


Question: 'This position on an enemy shoreline is captured by troops prior to landing an invading force'

Answer: beachhead


Question: 'An Act in the early 1900s unifed Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal & Orange River to establish this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: '"I play, Coach stays. He goes, I go", says Jimmy Chitwood in this 1986 Hackman pic'

Answer: Hoosiers


Question: 'Thomas Wolfe infuriated readers in his hometown who thought this 1929 novel of his was local gossip'

Answer: Look Homeward, Angel


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue in front of a tub of milk in Wisconsin.)  The first step in cheese making is this process named for a bacteriologist'

Answer: pasteurization


Question: 'This Virginian was appointed the first Secretary of State under the new Constitution in 1789'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'A beginner'

Answer: a novice


Question: 'Injera, a pancake-like Ethiopian type of this staple, is used as a scoop for dipping & as a plate'

Answer: bread


Question: 'Gene gives English Bob a rough Big Whiskey welcome in this 1992 film with a 1-word title'

Answer: Unforgiven


Question: '"At Home in Italy" is the subtitle of this Frances Mayes memoir of renovating a villa in the town of Cortona'

Answer: Under the Tuscan Sun


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue scoops milky white granules out of a trough in Wisconsin.)  In cheese making the magic of warming causes separation into whey and this semi-solid material'

Answer: curds


Question: 'In 1790 this Virginian & "Federalist" co-author began to worry about states losing their rights'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'One who knowingly helps another in the commision of a crime'

Answer: an accomplice


Question: '2 central African countries share this name; one is "The Republic of" it & the other "The Democratic Republic of" it'

Answer: Congo


Question: 'This 1971 flick had Gene inquiring about feet-picking in Poughkeepsie'

Answer: The French Connection


Question: 'This novel begins, "Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house..."'

Answer: The House of the Seven Gables


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a cylinder of cheese in Wisconsin.)  Cheese is formed, warmed, & then preserved in this salt water solution; the salt flavors the cheese & protects its surface'

Answer: brine


Question: 'The 9th & 10th presidents of the U.S., they were both born in Charles City County, Virginia'

Answer: William Henry Harrison & John Tyler


Question: 'Hey, pal, are you yellow?  Or do you just have this condition associated with liver damage?'

Answer: jaundice


Question: 'It extends into Namibia, but the majority of this desert is in Botswana'

Answer: the Kalahari


Question: 'Gene's been in 3 films adapted from this author's novels, including 2003's "Runaway Jury"'

Answer: (John) Grisham


Question: 'In a Dickens novel, Esther is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce & lives with him at this title residence'

Answer: Bleak House


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of metal shelves stocked with cheese in Wisconsin.)  This cheese making stage, also called ripening, can be as simple as keeping the cheese in a cooler until the flavors have matured'

Answer: aging


Question: 'The land the 6th Baron Fairfax built his home on in Virginia had been surveyed by this man'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'To be glad or to take delight'

Answer: rejoice


Question: 'Nouakchott is the capital city of this NW African country that lent its name to the 8th century invaders of Spain'

Answer: Mauritania


Question: 'Secretary of Defense Gene gets offensive & kills his girlfriend in this 1987 Kevin Costner thriller'

Answer: No Way Out


Question: 'Beautiful but penniless Lily Bart overdoses on chloral in this not-so-jolly book by Edith Wharton'

Answer: The House of Mirth


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew, in a cheese storage area in Wisconsin, gives the final clue of the category.)  The name of this final step that refines cheese is from the French for "refine"; it may include 30 washes by hand'

Answer: affinage


Question: 'In 1951, this gen. born in Fort Monroe replaced MacArthur as U.N. Forces Commander-in-Chief in Korea'

Answer: Matthew Ridgway


Question: 'It can be a mass of snow or a molding between the top of a wall & a ceiling'

Answer: a cornice


Question: 'She began her company in 1946 with a skin cream her chemist uncle developed & pioneered the concept of "gift with purchase"'

Answer: Estée Lauder


Question: 'In 1974 Tanzania decided Dodoma should be this, as it's in the middle of the country'

Answer: the capital


Question: 'Shortstop Derek Jeter<br />(American League, 1996)'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: 'The chi chi, made with vodka instead of rum, is a variation of this pineapple & coconut cocktail'

Answer: a piña colada


Question: 'Speedy horse gait'

Answer: a gallop


Question: 'Hanging out at one of these establishments'

Answer: a bowling alley


Question: 'Pinkie Cleugh on Sept. 10, 1547 was the last of the battles between the royal armies of England & this neighbor'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'A hat with a rounded crown shares its name with this city right in the middle of England'

Answer: Derby


Question: 'Pitcher Tom Seaver<br />(National League, 1967)'

Answer: the Mets


Question: 'Appropriately, a Bloody Maria is a Bloody Mary, but substitutes this booze for the vodka'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'Edible marine bivalve with a fluted shell'

Answer: a scallop


Question: 'Getting to the point by carrying out  this office task'

Answer: sharpening a pencil


Question: 'Women students were permitted at this university for the first time on April 29, 1884'

Answer: Oxford


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  It's about equally far from the eastern as the western border & from the northern border as the southern coast to this second-largest Burmese city'

Answer: Mandalay


Question: 'Second baseman Pete Rose<br />(National League, 1963)'

Answer: the Reds


Question: 'If you don't put the salt into a salty dog, you've got the cocktail with this other canine name'

Answer: a greyhound


Question: 'As it's composed of iron & carbon, steel is one of these'

Answer: an alloy


Question: 'Doing my taxes the old-fashioned way using one of these "dinosaurs"'

Answer: an adding machine


Question: 'On Nov. 5, 1956 British forces landed as Port Said during this crisis; in December they went home'

Answer: Suez Crisis


Question: 'Named for a cartographer, the Lambert Centre, 120 miles S. of Alice Springs, is the official centre of this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'First baseman Willie McCovey<br />(National League, 1959)'

Answer: San Francisco Giants


Question: 'A black one of these is vodka & coffee liqueur; add milk or cream to make a white one'

Answer: a Russian


Question: 'Gulp--this species with a distinctive tail is seen here'

Answer: swallow


Question: 'Playing this game with a friend'

Answer: ping pong


Question: 'First erected around 1097, these British buildings accidentally burned down on October 16, 1834'

Answer: the British Houses of Parliament


Question: 'Formerly known as Schrottersburg, Plock is smack in the middle of this country, Germany's eastern neighbor'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Catcher Carlton Fisk<br />(American League, 1972)'

Answer: the Boston Red Sox


Question: 'If you change the olive to a cocktail onion in the original martini, you've made this drink variation'

Answer: a Gibson


Question: 'They connect the ovaries to the uterus'

Answer: the Fallopian tubes


Question: 'I'm at a wedding about to do this'

Answer: make a toast


Question: 'On Feb. 10, 1763 France ceded this large territory to Britain'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'In 1891 he held an auction of his paintings to finance his move to Tahiti'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: '"Shout" if you know Otis Day & The Knights performed in this 1978 film'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'A Psalm for this wise son of David predicts that "his enemies shall lick the dust"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'When the Academy of Television first handed out these awards in 1949, there were only 6 categories'

Answer: the Emmys


Question: 'Aurum'

Answer: gold


Question: 'This second-person pronoun refers to the singular & the plural'

Answer: you


Question: 'Born in 1758, John Hoppner was rumored to be the illegitimate son of this soon-to-be British king'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Morris Day & The Time stole the show in this 1984 production'

Answer: Purple Rain


Question: 'The Moabites feared that "the children of" this will "lick up all... about us, as the ox licketh up grass"'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'The Great Egret Award is given to those who've made long-term contributions to this group or a local chapter'

Answer: the Audubon Society


Question: 'Ferrum'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Old-time song with the lyrics "Fly's in the buttermilk.  Shoo, fly, shoo"'

Answer: "Skip To My Lou"


Question: 'This Fauvist's wife Amelie, who posed for his "Woman with the Hat", ran a Paris hat shop to earn money for the family'

Answer: Henri Matisse


Question: 'Los Lobos had a No. 1 hit with this song, also the title of a 1987 movie biography'

Answer: La Bamba


Question: 'Micah says, "They shall lick the dust like a serpent" & "move out of their holes like" these annelids "of the earth"'

Answer: worms


Question: 'The Hugo Awards are presented annually by members of the WSFS, the World this Society'

Answer: Science Fiction


Question: 'Cuprum'

Answer: copper


Question: 'I'm going back someday to this still or slow-moving section of marshy water, especially the "Blue" one'

Answer: a bayou


Question: 'This Cretan's 1582 work "Martyrdom of St. Maurice" was his last commission from Spain's King Philip II'

Answer: El Greco


Question: 'In 1968 The Monkees could be found in this film, also a body part'

Answer: Head


Question: 'God tells this king through Elijah that dogs will "lick thy blood" & "eat Jezebel by the Wall of Jezreel"'

Answer: Ahab


Question: 'The Caldecott & Newbery Medals are administered by a division of the ALA, this organization'

Answer: the American Library Association


Question: 'Natrium'

Answer: sodium


Question: 'Seen in theater names of the '20s & '30s, this word refers to a jewel or exquisite trinket'

Answer: a bijou


Question: 'The cadaver in his "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" was that of Aris Kindt, an executed robber'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'Bauhaus appropriately sang "Bela Lugosi's Dead"  in this sanguine film starring Bowie & Deneuve'

Answer: The Hunger


Question: 'Dogs lick the sores of this beggar in Luke 16; he then dies, as did a man in John 11 with the same name'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'Since 1930 the AAU has presented this memorial award for outstanding amateur athlete of the year'

Answer: the Sullivan Award


Question: 'Hydrargyrum'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'This double-talk word refers to elaborate decoration or the rustling of a woman's silk dress'

Answer: froufrou


Question: 'This 3-word phrase originated with a signal sent by General Sherman; today it means to be in charge temporarily'

Answer: hold the fort


Question: 'The 13 people at his final dinner included James, Andrew, John & Judas'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'Over thousands of years, colonies of these marine polyps can become giant reefs'

Answer: Coral


Question: 'In a Jeannie C. Riley hit, "My mama socked it to" this junior high's P.T.A.'

Answer: Harper Valley


Question: 'The Kennedy who has served the longest in the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Edward (Ted) Kennedy


Question: '2 Dianas were in the news; one gave birth to Prince Harry & the other was one of these that hit the U.S.'

Answer: Hurricane


Question: 'A cutting criticism, or a violent closing of a door'

Answer: Slam


Question: 'The TV cops of New York's 13th precinct included this Greek-American title lieutenant'

Answer: Kojak


Question: 'A colony of these creatures in San Antonio's Bracken Cave contains 20 million individuals'

Answer: Bats


Question: 'This "Grease" song says, "No graduation day for you....missed your midterms & flunked shampoo"'

Answer: Beauty School Dropout


Question: 'By George!  He's the editor-in-chief of George'

Answer: John F. Kennedy, Jr.


Question: 'Effects like the following kept this June release in the Top 5 films all the way into September'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'Proverbially, to express contempt, you "thumb" this body part'

Answer: Nose


Question: 'It's the term for a spellbound assembly of 13 witches'

Answer: Coven


Question: 'Because of the mysterious disappearance of its residents, Roanoke Island became known as this "colony"'

Answer: The Lost Colony


Question: 'The theme to this 1967 Sidney Poitier film was a real "Lulu" of a hit'

Answer: To Sir, With Love


Question: 'She's Mrs. Edwin Arthur Schlossberg'

Answer: Caroline


Question: 'The Sierra Club threw its support behind this man, not Ronald "If you've seen one redwood..." Reagan'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question: 'As a verb, it's to disparage strongly; as a noun, it's rubbish or garbage'

Answer: Trash


Question: 'Prepared by Maimonides, the "13 Articles of Faith" is a summary of the basic tenets of this religion'

Answer: Judaism


Question: 'Actually more closely related to cockroaches, these colony residents are known as "white ants"'

Answer: Termites


Question: 'This Sam Cooke song says, "Don't know much about history, don't know much biology"'

Answer: Wonderful World


Question: 'Born in 1888, this patriarch was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940'

Answer: Joseph Kennedy


Question: 'He celebrated his 15th year in power in Libya September 1'

Answer: Muammar Qadhafi


Question: 'From the Latin for "to scatter", these calumnious expressions are "cast" on others'

Answer: Aspersions


Question: 'The unluckiness of Friday the 13th may date from the suppression of this order of knights on Fri., Oct. 13, 1307'

Answer: Knights Templar


Question: 'By 700 B.C. these people had established Mediterranean colonies at Utica & Carthage'

Answer: Phoenicians


Question: 'This 1963 Beach Boys hit featured cheerleading by the Honeys'

Answer: Be True To Your School


Question: 'Seen here, he's an environmental law professor at Pace University in New York & a lawyer with the conservation group Riverkeeper'

Answer: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.


Question: 'China took over this country's seat in Interpol'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'From old Norse for "grin scornfully", you may do it over your enemy's misfortunes'

Answer: Gloat


Question: 'Under the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch gave up New Netherland, which the British renamed this'

Answer: New York


Question: 'In 1994 he was named AP Male Athlete of the Year -- 20 years after losing his his heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'As a teen you may feel their "pressure"; as the accused, they will make up your jury'

Answer: Peers


Question: 'This "Thinker" sculptor was denied admission to the School of Fine Arts in Paris 3 times'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'Before munching on Philly cheese steaks, I lived most of the first 17 years of my life in this city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'The turned-down corner of a book page, or Fido's auditory organ'

Answer: Dog ear


Question: 'In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in this colony, capturing & burning Jamestown'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'This tennis star seen here was ranked in the WTA Top 10 for 20 straight years from 1975 to 1994'

Answer: Martina Navratilova


Question: 'One of these groups may be "pep" or "firing"'

Answer: Squad


Question: 'This Spaniard included Velazquez's "Las Meninas" in his "Family of Charles IV" seen here'

Answer: Francisco Goya


Question: 'On June 11, 1776 I was chosen to be a member of the committee that drafted this important document'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'If you divulge a secret, you're doing this'

Answer: Letting the cat out of the bag


Question: 'The last of the 13 colonies, it was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven for debtors'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'On Sept. 8, 1998 Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' home run record in Busch Stadium against this visiting team'

Answer: Chicago Cubs


Question: 'From middle English for a pack of animals, it's a disorganized mob that may have a "rouser"'

Answer: Rabble


Question: 'His 1911 oil painting "I And The Village" depicted scenes of life in his native Vitebsk, Russia'

Answer: Marc Chagall


Question: 'One of my last public acts was signing a 1790 petition to Congress urging the abolition of this'

Answer: Slavery


Question: 'Term for a drink of liquor used to relieve a hangover'

Answer: Hair of the dog


Question: 'This colony's western boundary with Maryland was surveyed by Mason & Dixon in 1764'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'Only Steve Largent & this 49ers receiver have caught 100 or more career touchdown passes'

Answer: Jerry Rice


Question: 'Question that completes the title of the 1897 Gauguin work, "Where Do We Come From?  What Are We?...."'

Answer: Where Are We Going?


Question: 'At the age of 70 in 1776 I was one of 3 Congressional Commissioners to this nation'

Answer: France


Question: 'This 1974 hit song begins, "My child arrived just the other day, he came to the world in the usual way"'

Answer: Cats In The Cradle


Question: 'In 1634 William Blackstone, not Roger Williams, became the first Englishman to settle in this colony'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'In 1965 he was named Indy 500 Rookie of the Year; son Michael won the same award in 1984'

Answer: Mario Andretti


Question: 'The name of this art style is derived from a Paris shop opened in the 1890s by dealer Siegfried Bing'

Answer: Art Nouveau


Question: 'In my younger days I was a member of this fun-loving "club" of Sir Francis Dashwood's'

Answer: Hellfire Club


Question: 'This term refers to the hot, sultry period between July & September'

Answer: Dog Days of August


Question: 'In 1998 this 106-year-old company became the first in the U.S. to top $300 billion in market value'

Answer: General Electric


Question: 'This herring-like pizza fish is attracted by light, so it's fished at night'

Answer: anchovies


Question: 'Edward Ellington'

Answer: Duke


Question: 'The no. 1 cause of death in the U.S. isn't cancer, but this type of disease'

Answer: heart disease


Question: 'In 1979 & 1980 brothers Nelson Bunker & William Herbert Hunt conspired to corner the market in this metal'

Answer: silver


Question: 'With just mayo & pickle relish, you can make a simple version of this seafood accompaniment'

Answer: tartar sauce


Question: '"A loud sound expressing disapproval", from a NYC borough'

Answer: a Bronx cheer


Question: 'The Inuit use all parts of this pinniped; its large canine teeth are used to carve small decorative objects'

Answer: a walrus


Question: 'Charlie Parker'

Answer: Bird


Question: 'A cuneiform tablet dating to 2000 B.C. is the first known reference to this type of birth associated with a Roman leader'

Answer: a Caesarian section


Question: 'In the Bible, he saw Noah naked, & told his brothers Shem & Japheth--he knew something wasn't kosher'

Answer: Ham


Question: 'Sauce maltaise is a variation of hollandaise sauce flavored with this fruit, preferably the "blood" kind'

Answer: an orange


Question: '"A Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels", from the Arabic'

Answer: a jihad


Question: 'The skin of an octopus contains cells called chromatophores that allow it to do this when excited'

Answer: change color


Question: 'John Birks Gillespie'

Answer: Dizzy


Question: 'The death in "Death in Venice" is from this water-borne disease that has caused several pandemics'

Answer: cholera


Question: 'On radio's "Car Talk

Answer: the Tappet Brothers


Question: 'Italian for "in sailor's style", it's a popular sauce for pasta'

Answer: marinara


Question: '"Any U.S. state that tends to vote for candidates of the Democratic Party in a general election"'

Answer: a blue state


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USC Wrigley Institute.) This type of lobster thrives in Catalina's waters, even though it's missing its more popular cousin's claws'

Answer: a spiny lobster


Question: 'Thomas Wright Waller'

Answer: Fats


Question: '8 of the 10 lowest birthrates for countries are found on this continent'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'The older of these 2 brothers was born in Indiana in 1867; the younger in Dayton, Ohio, in 1871'

Answer: the Wright brothers


Question: 'Excellent on lobster, this rich cream sauce with sherry was originally named for a Delmonico's patron'

Answer: Newburg


Question: 'This tech acronym states that "the integrity of output is dependent on the integrity of input"'

Answer: GIGO


Question: 'This white whale related to the narwhal is the only whale that can bend its neck'

Answer: beluga whale


Question: 'Julian Adderley'

Answer: Cannonball


Question: 'Succeeding with the birth of Louise Brown, 2 British doctors developed this, IVF for short, in the 1970s'

Answer: in vitro fertilization


Question: 'If he had killed his brother first, we might have had the Reman Empire'

Answer: Remus


Question: 'Bordelaise sauce gets its name from this ingredient'

Answer: Bordeaux (wine)


Question: '"A hinged plastic case designed to hold a compact disk and usually a printed insert or liner"'

Answer: a jewel case


Question: 'With more than 10 million people, it's the largest city in South Korea'

Answer: Seoul


Question: 'Wagner:<br />"The Flying _______"'

Answer: Dutchman


Question: 'Keep at least one eye open for this enclosure for swine'

Answer: a sty


Question: '1971:<br />This complex opens near Orlando, Florida'

Answer: Disney World


Question: 'Songs like "As Time Goes By" were as much the stars of this 1942 classic as the lead actors'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'At almost 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in this state is the largest in the U.S.'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'The 12th century book "Samguk Sagi" recounts the time when this religion came to Korea from India'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Goldmark:<br />"The Cricket on the __________"'

Answer: hearth


Question: 'When you're in harmony with something you're "in" this (maybe "*N" this)'

Answer: sync


Question: '1800:<br />Spain cedes this large territory to France'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'In a 1961 war film, Gregory Peck & David Niven set out to destroy  "The Guns of" this location'

Answer: Navarone


Question: 'Originally set up to provide water & timber to the nation, the U.S. Forest Service is a branch of this cabinet dept.'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: 'In the center of the South Korean flag is this symbol of universal balance'

Answer: yin and yang


Question: 'Menotti:<br />"______ and the Night Visitors"'

Answer: Amahl


Question: 'The word for this type of tale comes from the Greek for "story"'

Answer: myth


Question: '1961:<br />This man hits his 61st homer of the season'

Answer: (Roger) Maris


Question: 'Willem Dafoe is seen here on the poster from this award-winning 1980's film'

Answer: Platoon


Question: 'This nation has planted billions of trees called the "green great wall" to fend off desertification'

Answer: China


Question: 'This medicinal herb of the genus Panax is native to Korea'

Answer: ginseng


Question: 'Donizetti:<br />"Lucia di ________"'

Answer: Lammermoor


Question: 'A beautiful young maiden'

Answer: a nymph


Question: '1880:<br />John Philip Sousa becomes leader of this military band'

Answer: The Marine Band


Question: 'Lee Marvin & Mark Hamill were part of a WWII squad in this "colorful" 1980 big screener'

Answer: The Big Red One


Question: 'Where the forest meets the grassland, as in Africa, not Georgia, you get an area called this'

Answer: savannah


Question: 'MacArthur thought the battle for this port would end the Korean war -- didn't work out that way'

Answer: Inchon


Question: 'Philip Glass:<br />"________ on the Beach"'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'Adjective describing an ironic grin'

Answer: wry


Question: '1970:<br />5 million people turn out in Cairo for his funeral'

Answer: Nasser


Question: 'A different band of brothers took to the air when Cuba Gooding Jr. & Laurence Fishburne starred in this TV movie'

Answer: Tuskegee Airmen


Question: 'Th deforestation of this island 2,200 miles west of Chile may have led to the collapse of its society c. 1500'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'The title setting of this novel includes figures in china, iron & ivory; suits of armor; old carvings & furniture'

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop


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

Answer: 1


Question: 'In 1963, the Four Seasons implored you to "Walk like" this, "my son"'

Answer: a man


Question: 'Illegal occupation referred to in the saying, "The best way to make money is to make money"'

Answer: counterfeiting


Question: 'In women, the hormone prolactin increases production of this'

Answer: mother\'s milk


Question: '[Clue missing from recording]'

Answer: [Clue missing from recording]


Question: 'Saying Australia was short of folk heroes, he created one, "Crocodile" Dundee'

Answer: Paul Hogan


Question: 'The tallest building in this state is the 110-story Sears Tower'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'It's easy to grasp the fact that this Beatles song was their 1st to go to #1 in the U.S.'

Answer: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"


Question: 'Henry Ford said, then later denied saying, "History is more or less" this'

Answer: bunk


Question: 'About 2' long at your birth, it ran from your mom's placenta to your navel'

Answer: the umbilical cord


Question: 'After the League of Nations dissolved in 1946, their Geneva headquarters went to this group'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'He played both the title hero & the title villain in "Oh, God!  You Devil"'

Answer: George Burns


Question: 'In the 1790 census, this state had the most people, a few of whom didn't go on to be president'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'S/Sgt. Barry Sadler's song not about the hats, but the men beneath them'

Answer: "The Ballad Of The Green Berets"


Question: 'Lewis Mumford said in 1961, "Our national flower is" this type of highway interchange'

Answer: the cloverleaf


Question: 'When fibrogen is converted to fibrin by thrombin, blood does this'

Answer: clot


Question: 'This group's headquarters is at 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, CT'

Answer: the Knights of Columbus


Question: 'Arr, you'll know 'im by 'is peg leg, 'is crutch, & the parrot on 'is shoulder'

Answer: Long John Silver


Question: 'Of N.Y., N.J., or N.M., the one, according to the World Almanac, with the most poultry'

Answer: New York


Question: 'This group that recorded "Tequila" was named after label owner Gene Autry's horse'

Answer: The Champs


Question: 'Sam Goldwyn said, "So many people showed up at Louis B. Mayer's funeral... to make sure" of this'

Answer: that he was dead


Question: 'Name of the flap which closes over the trachea when you swallow'

Answer: the epiglottis


Question: 'It's the Women's Zionist Organization of America'

Answer: Hadassah


Question: 'For his actions in war, Arnold von Winkleried is a hero in this usually neutral country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The World Book lists 5 state songs for it, including, "Rocky Top"'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'His last hit song was in 1970 with "Groovy Situation", but he's best known for 1962's "Duke of Earl"'

Answer: Gene Chandler


Question: '"Too many cooks spoil the brothel," said this most famous N.Y. madam of the '20s & '30s'

Answer: Polly Adler


Question: 'They are clenched when the temporalis muscles contract'

Answer: the jaws (or the teeth)


Question: 'The main office for the NAACP is in this New York City borough'

Answer: Brooklyn


Question: '2 of the 3 villains mentioned by name in the title of a James Bond film'

Answer: Goldfinger & Dr. No (& Octopussy)


Question: 'Monarch who ruled England for most of the 19th century'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Actor Ben Hayes had all the answers playing this oil company's "Answer Man"'

Answer: Shell


Question: 'At the turn of the century, railroads began to hire "bulls" to get rid of them'

Answer: hobos


Question: 'She advised Macbeth to "look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't"'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'An ocean wave's speed largely depends on the speed of this phenomenon in the air above'

Answer: the wind


Question: 'It's what the Statue of Liberty is holding in her right hand'

Answer: the torch


Question: 'By 1871, it was the largest kingdom in the German empire'

Answer: Prussia


Question: 'It's "That heavenly coffee"'

Answer: Chock full o\'Nuts


Question: 'NYC's Madison Square Garden is built over this train station'

Answer: Pennsylvania Station


Question: 'She said, "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch" no doubt "asp"irating the "pinch"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'The Mer de Glace is the 2nd longest of these in the Alps'

Answer: a glacier


Question: 'Enquiring minds know this is the color of the letters reading "National Enquirer" on the cover'

Answer: red


Question: 'Ency. Americana says it was the cause of a cotton crisis in France during the 1860s'

Answer: the United States Civil War


Question: 'Subtitle which appeared when the commerical spokesman said the Isuzu gets "94 mpg city, 112 highway!"'

Answer: He\'s Lying


Question: '1 of 2 films, made some 30 years apart by Buster Keaton & Walt Disney, about Civil War's Andrews Raid'

Answer: The General (or The Great Locomotive Chase)


Question: 'Comic character depicted here with Shakespeare in monument at Stratford-on-Avon:'

Answer: Sir John Falstaff


Question: 'The Greek & Latin words for this fuel were "anthrax" & "carbo"'

Answer: coal


Question: 'Number of bends in a standard paper clip'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Back in 1860, it was the "uniform" you had to wear to be on Garibaldi's team'

Answer: a red shirt


Question: 'And now a word from Ed & one of his friends about this, "The Tonight Show"s longest-running sponsor'

Answer: Alpo dog food


Question: 'What we call a passenger car, the British call this'

Answer: a carriage


Question: 'You find one of these at the point where an aquifer intersects the slope of a hillside'

Answer: a spring


Question: 'Last name of either of your opponents'

Answer: Lewin (or Childs)


Question: 'Even the papacy was represented at the 1814-15 congress in this city'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'Long before she "shot J.R.", Mary Crosby made her acting debut in an ad for this product'

Answer: Minute Maid orange juice


Question: '2% of the land in California is still owned by this railroad'

Answer: Southern Pacific


Question: 'Among things dropped in this Verdi opera are a hankie & the letter "H" from Shakespeare's title'

Answer: Otello


Question: 'Geologists named the material of the Earth's crust "sial'" because of these 2 main elements'

Answer: silicon & aluminum


Question: 'In the classic M-G-M logo, the frame around the lion is made of this'

Answer: golden film


Question: 'With a young one valued at $1.4 million, Guinness calls them the most costly zoo animals'

Answer: giant pandas


Question: 'February 7, 1986: ending a 28-year family dynasty, "president for life" Jean-Claude Duvalier flees this island nation'

Answer: Haiti


Question:
'Broncos:
51,475 yards
(1983-1998)'

Answer: (John) Elway


Question: 'This California city has the USA's oldest Columbus Day parade & an Italian Banquet at the Fairmont Hotel, too'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'This knight's forbidden love for the queen caused him to fail in his holy grail quest & busted up the round table'

Answer: Lancelot


Question: 'Bob Dylan wrote "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", but this "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" trio made it a top 10 hit'

Answer: Peter, Paul and Mary


Question: 'One of the USA's most honored TV journalists, he was at CBS for more than 50 years'

Answer: Walter Cronkite


Question: 'June 30, 2005: this late actor's annotated script of "The Godfather" sells at auction for a record $312,800'

Answer: (Marlon) Brando


Question:
'49ers:
35,124 yards
(1979-1992)'

Answer: (Joe) Montana


Question: 'Washington State has a yearly festival devoted to the Dungeness type of this'

Answer: crab


Question: 'By late 32 B.C., he had divorced his wife Octavia for an Egyptian lady; ex-brother-in-law Octavian declared war on him'

Answer: Mark Antony


Question: 'Proverbially, "once" this, "twice shy"'

Answer: bitten


Question: 'This verb means to provoke or to stir up: uh oh, riot!'

Answer: incite


Question: 'June 19, 1970: with the purchase of a Reno casino, this billionaire becomes the biggest gambling operator in Nevada'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question:
'Dolphins:
34.86 miles
(1983-1999)'

Answer: (Dan) Marino


Question: 'Wash down your empanadas with Merlot at this Disney World theme park's international food & wine festival'

Answer: Epcot Center


Question: 'This Hungarian & "Faust" composer was big with the ladies; Countess d'Agoult & George Sand were on his short this'

Answer: Liszt


Question: 'In the title of a noirish 1934 James M. Cain novel, this guy "Always Rings Twice"'

Answer: The Postman


Question: 'This pencil component is a form of soft carbon; you won't get lead poisoning from chewing on it'

Answer: graphite


Question: 'April 27, 2010: After 2 decades in U.S. prisons, this Central American ex-leader arrives in France to face charges'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question:
'Jets:
270.57 football fields
(1965-1976)'

Answer: (Joe) Namath


Question: 'The 41st annual Ohio Sauerkraut Festival offers 'kraut-flavored this semisoft treat (chocolate is more traditional)'

Answer: fudge


Question: 'In 1809 this Corsican divorced his 46-year-old wife; a few months later, he married a 19-yr.-old Austrian archduchess'

Answer: Napoléon


Question: 'Multiply pi times twice the radius of a circle to get this measure'

Answer: the circumference


Question: 'After a grappling arm in the shuttle cargo bay failed, Joseph Allen held one of these over his head for an entire orbit'

Answer: a satellite


Question: 'July 27, 1953: 3 years & 32 days of war between these 2 countries ends with the signing of an armistice'

Answer: North and South Korea


Question:
'Cowboys:
6.24 leagues
(1989-2000)'

Answer: (Troy) Aikman


Question: '"Taste of" this southern city is an annual event & also the name of a gift basket with rice & Benne Wafers'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'A battleship in history & cinema was named for this prince, lover of Catherine the Great'

Answer: Potemkin


Question: 'German term for sweet bread that's been "twice baked"'

Answer: zwieback


Question: 'From the Latin for "instruction", it's an adjective meaning "very knowledgeable"'

Answer: erudite


Question: 'The Deccan Odyssey is a luxury tour of Maharashtra state by this mode of transport'

Answer: a train


Question: '(Christopher Meloni gives the clue) You feel like you're in the ring with Jake LaMotta in this classic collaboration of Scorsese & De Niro'

Answer: Raging Bull


Question: 'A hemodialyzer is a medical device known as an artificial this organ'

Answer: a kidney


Question: 'A prize or memento, such as a cup or a plaque, received as a symbol of victory, often in sports'

Answer: a trophy


Question: 'The eastern states of Orissa & Andhra Pradesh are bounded by this body of water'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: '(Soledad O'Brien gives the clue.)  I never stop laughing at Spike Lee's concert film of Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley & Steve Harvey--"The Original" these'

Answer: Kings of Comedy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) An egg sinks in tap water, but in saltwater, the egg gains this, defined as the upward force of a liquid on an object less dense than itself'

Answer: buoyancy


Question: 'An arachnid'

Answer: Scorpio


Question: 'This term for an on-the-job trainee comes from the French for "to learn"'

Answer: an apprentice


Question: 'A group of vigilante women who beat up corrupt & abusive men calls itself the pink this garment gang'

Answer: sari


Question: '(Wolf Blitzer gives the clue) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" is some of the wisdom dispensed by the hooky player in this film'

Answer: Ferris Bueller\'s Day Off


Question: 'The second law of thermodynamics says that this will of its own accord only move to a colder object'

Answer: heat


Question: 'Either monozygotic or dizygotic'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'A tableland, it's from the French for "flat object"'

Answer: a plateau


Question: 'Known as "DU", it has about 200,000 students'

Answer: Delhi University


Question: '(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives the clue) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough private eye who sends his love Mary Astor up the river in this 1941 film'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.)  When you press the nozzle of an aerosol can, the contents are pushed out by pressurized gas; the gas is called one of these, a general term for chemicals that create thrust'

Answer: a propellant


Question: 'This Dickens novel starts with a boy visiting his parents' graves, where he's surprised by an escaped convict'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'Usually carrying a sheaf of wheat'

Answer: Virgo


Question: 'Eating pizza in the morning is etymologically justified: this meal is from the Old French for "morning meal"'

Answer: dinner


Question: 'Like in the book "Eat, Pray, Love", you may want to renew yourself spiritually at this type of Indian religious retreat'

Answer: an ashram


Question: '(Dana Delany gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film'

Answer: In a Lonely Place


Question: 'This division separates Saturn's rings & is named for the man who spotted them in 1675'

Answer: the Cassini division


Question: 'Ruth Cole is the title character of John Irving's "A Widow for" this long'

Answer: One Year


Question: 'The lucky possessor of 4 hooves & 2 arms'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'Spelled with an E after the L, it means "to complete"; with an I, "to praise"; both are from the French'

Answer: complement or compliment


Question: 'They are the 2 artists associated with the 1888 work seen here; one is the artist & the other is the subject'

Answer: Van Gogh and Gauguin


Question: '10,000 years of rollin' along are chronicled in Memphis' museum dedicated to this river'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: 'In this 1968 Beatles title tune, "Every one of us has all we need, sky of blue and sea of green"'

Answer: "Yellow Submarine"


Question: 'Oh no Lulu!'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'He's considered the mascot of Mad Magazine'

Answer: Alfred E. Neuman


Question: 'One may be wedding, prom or dressing'

Answer: Gown


Question: 'This person is your trouble and strife -- though it might not be wise to call her that'

Answer: Wife


Question: 'You can see old-time longboards at Huntington Beach, California's museum of this sport'

Answer: Surfing


Question: 'This 1967 film featured such songs as "The Vegetarian", "When I Look in Your Eyes" & "Talk to the Animals"'

Answer: Doctor Dolittle


Question: 'Sob not'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'He said, "You don't have to be drunk or intoxicated to be attracted to Carmen Electra.  She is a beautiful woman"'

Answer: Dennis Rodman


Question: 'Piece that turns a man's 2-piece suit into a 3-piece suit'

Answer: Vest


Question: 'Sausage and mash is this, & no one ever seems to have enough of it'

Answer: Money/cash


Question: 'Colorado Springs' American Cowboy Museum also has the hall of fame for this event'

Answer: Rodeo


Question: 'His last No. 1 solo hit, "Strangers in the Night", was adapted from the movie "A Man Could Get Killed"'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'Rent not'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'A lab in Berkeley recently tested this versatile product's ability to seal air ducts & it failed'

Answer: Duct tape


Question: 'Ballet wear, perhaps for Desmond'

Answer: Tutu


Question: 'A weasel and stoat is one of these, even if it isn't made from weasel or stoat'

Answer: Coat


Question: 'This Hollywood store that includes a lingerie museum was named for a man whose last name was Mellinger'

Answer: Frederick\'s of Hollywood


Question: 'Whitney Houston sang this 1974 Dolly Parton hit in "The Bodyguard"; it topped the charts for 14 weeks'

Answer: "I Will Always Love You"


Question: 'Roved'

Answer: Dover


Question: 'In December 1998 a Dutch court banned any publication questioning the veracity of this girl's diary'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: 'After it comes back pink from the wash, you might use something similar to fire your laundress'

Answer: Slip


Question: 'This liquor is a fine and dandy, & that's fine and dandy with me'

Answer: Brandy


Question: 'A Manhattan cultural museum is named for these Latin-American areas of U.S. cities'

Answer: Barrios


Question: 'This No. 1 Bette Midler song from "Beaches" is also known as "Hero"'

Answer: "Wind Beneath My Wings"


Question: 'Is a nut'

Answer: Austin


Question: 'According to the U.N. World Food Map, this country's people have the most per person; hope it doesn't get rotten!'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Piece of clothing in the title of the first feature film in Cinemascope'

Answer: The Robe


Question: 'It's what your Lucy locket is -- Lucy lost hers, by the way'

Answer: Pocket


Question: 'Xiuhtecuhtli was the fire god of these people also called the Tenochca'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: 'Be cool, man!  He's the hip '60s comedian being searched here by a cop'

Answer: Lenny Bruce


Question: 'In World War II only Mexico & this largest Latin American country provided troops to the Allied cause'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'In the 1920s this princess' father, John, won 3 Olympic gold medals for the U.S. in rowing'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'The commission that investigated JFK's assassination was chaired by & named for this chief justice'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'A reduced price for goods'

Answer: Discount


Question: 'Some say she was detained by King Proteus & that the woman taken to Troy was a phantom made to look like her'

Answer: Helen


Question: 'Scantily clad dancers on this popular British TV comedian's show were called "Hill's Angels"'

Answer: Benny Hill


Question: 'In 1903 the U.S. signed a treaty with Cuba for the rights to establish a naval base at this site'

Answer: Guantanamo Bay


Question: 'They're the mama & the papa of singer-actress Chynna Phillips'

Answer: John & Michelle Phillips


Question: 'This man was chief justice in 1803 when the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Marbury v. Madison'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'Army discharge below one for bad conduct'

Answer: Dishonorable


Question: 'Nekhbet the vulture goddess protected the upper part of this country; Buto the cobra goddess got the lower'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'Today's secret word, it's the real first name of legendary comedian Groucho Marx'

Answer: Julius


Question: 'In 1869 Ebenezer Bassett, the USA's first black diplomat, became minister to this French-speaking nation'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'He directed his daughter Alison in the film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'Clarence Thomas replaced this Supreme Court justice who retired in 1991'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'According to Shakespeare, it's "the better part of valor"'

Answer: Discretion


Question: 'This king of Ithaca, Odysseus' father, has the same name as Ophelia's brother in "Hamlet"'

Answer: Laertes


Question: 'This onetime Vaudevillian & star of "Modern Times" was knighted in 1975'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'In 1862 Great Britain formally took control of this country, then called British Honduras'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'He appeared in the 1951 London stage production of "South Pacific", which starred his mom, Mary Martin'

Answer: Larry Hagman


Question: 'The first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was appointed by this president'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Infectious canine disease characterized by lethargy & fever'

Answer: Distemper


Question: 'This Norse trickster liked to turn himself into a salmon & frolic in Franang's Falls'

Answer: Loki


Question: 'Things went from riches to rags for this corpulent comic in the 1920s'

Answer: Fatty Arbuckle


Question: 'In November 1533 this Spanish conquistador triumphantly entered Cuzco'

Answer: Francisco Pizarro


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joshua Morrow)  My "Young & Restless" co-star, Jeanne Cooper, is the real life mom of this former "L.A. Law" star'

Answer: Corbin Bernsen


Question: 'The last Supreme Court justice to be named (by Clinton in '94), he's currently first alphabetically'

Answer: Stephen Breyer


Question: 'Abbreviated DSM, it's a military decoration for exceptional performance of duty'

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal


Question: 'The family Monodontidae is composed of 2 members: the beluga whale & this other marine mammal'

Answer: Narwhal


Question: 'In submarine slang, they're called "fish"'

Answer: torpedos


Question: 'Vintage 1842, the 1st of this bubbly wine produced in U.S. was made in Cincinnati'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Tchaikovsky ballet in which Prince Siegfried falls in love with a bird'

Answer: Swan Lake


Question: 'Paris is served by both Orly and an airport named for him'

Answer: Charles De Gaulle


Question: 'In 1915, the Religious Society of Friends tried to make this company change its name'

Answer: Quaker Oats


Question: 'Reddy, Keller, of Troy'

Answer: Helens


Question: '1 of 2 common weapons that are also common dives in competition'

Answer: a jackknife (or the pike)


Question: 'Containing a mixture of about 40 herbs, this aromatized wine is used in martinis'

Answer: vermouth


Question: 'In this film, lovers Rutger Hauer & Michelle Pfeiffer turn alternately into a wolf & a hawk'

Answer: Ladyhawke


Question: 'Southerners say no matter where you go after death, you'll go through this city's Hartsfield Airport'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'In Judaism, the Sabbath begins and ends with this astronomical event'

Answer: sunset


Question: 'U2, a-ha, WHAM!'

Answer: rock groups


Question: 'Shape of a ninja's shuriken, it's what "shuriken" means in Japanese'

Answer: star


Question: 'According to the wine institute, in 1984 this major power was world's 4th leading wine producer'

Answer: the U.S.S.R.


Question: 'Disguised as a bull, he dazzled Europa with his animal magnetism'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'If you leave Hong Kong's Kai Tak on a flight to Sea-Tac, you'll land in this U.S. state'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'A hit in 1953, this song of faith made No. 3 on the charts when Elvis released in in 1965'

Answer: Crying in the Chapel


Question: 'Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, DNA<small>GENTS</small>, the Fantastic Four'

Answer: comic book characters or groups


Question: 'To "speed up" the flying Dumbos at Disneyland, Timothy, the mouse on top of the ride, has 1 of these'

Answer: a whip


Question: 'If Edgar Allan Poe had tapped "The Cask of Amontillado", he'd have had this kind of wine'

Answer: sherry


Question: 'Fairy queen who made an ass of herself over Shakespeare's Bottom'

Answer: Titania


Question: 'In "Car 54, Where Are You?" theme, Khrushchev was due at NYC's JFK Airport, then known by this name'

Answer: Idlewild


Question: 'India's Taj Mahal is associated with this religion'

Answer: Muslim (Islam)


Question: 'Killing, Onion, W.C.'

Answer: Fields


Question: 'As part of plan to conquer the universe in a 1940 movie serial, he spread purple death dust over the earth'

Answer: Emperor Ming (the Merciless)


Question: 'Located in this region of France, the districts of Medoc, St. Emilion, & Pomerol make red wines exclusively'

Answer: Bordeaux


Question: 'A black poodle named Oliver slept with this blonde on her 1956 royal wedding night'

Answer: Princess Grace


Question: 'World's busiest airport not named for someone serves this city'

Answer: Los Angeles (LAX)


Question: 'Denomination founded by a group of Oxford University students led by John Wesley'

Answer: Methodism


Question: 'Rubens, Cadbury, & Mary'

Answer: names with Peter and Paul


Question: 'In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women this right'

Answer: the right to vote


Question: 'In 1931, Ferde Grofe was "suite" on this natural wonder'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'Of a musical instrument, horse-drawn vehicle, or type of wine, what a "Zinfandel" is'

Answer: type of wine (red wine)


Question: 'Unit of electrical energy equal to 1,000 watts of power consumed for 1 hour'

Answer: kilowatt hour


Question: 'Flag of this Asian nation, with symbol resembling the yin-yang, will fly at '88 Olympics there'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Playing Tom Hanks' brother, this big man made a big splash in "Splash"'

Answer: John Candy


Question: 'The 2 countries, which, in 1964, merged to form Tanzania'

Answer: Tanganyika & Zanzibar


Question: 'Though inspired by his stay in the U.S., this Dvorak symphony uses no American folk songs'

Answer: the New World Symphony


Question: 'Describing something as "piscine" means it resembles this'

Answer: a fish


Question: 'First unfurled after Hawaii's statehood, it's flown officially since 1960'

Answer: 50-star flag


Question: 'Nickname of Ferdinand Morton, who claimed to have invented jazz in 1902'

Answer: "Jelly Roll"


Question: 'During World War II, the United States ruled this island on behalf of Denmark'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'Respighi wrote symphonic poems about this city's pines & fountains'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'A nose that is "retrousse" is said to do this'

Answer: turns up


Question: 'A large collection of these triangular tapering flags is found at 161 St. in the Bronx, NYC'

Answer: pennants (at Yankee Stadium)


Question: 'In 1977, this corpulent crooner came onto the pop scene like a "bat out of hell"'

Answer: Meat Loaf


Question: 'In 1858, the British government took over control of India from this company'

Answer: The British East India Company


Question: 'This work by Sibelius aroused such patriotism that it was banned at times by ruling czarist regime'

Answer: Finlandia


Question: '"Defenestration" is the act of getting rid of an unwanted guest by doing this'

Answer: throwing him out the window


Question: 'These sub-atomic particles form the smallest units of electricity'

Answer: electrons


Question: 'Among international code flags, a yellow flag indicates this health warning'

Answer: quarantine


Question: 'In 1971, he was "chiefly" responsible for instituting busing to end school segregation'

Answer: Warren Burger


Question: 'America's "Open Door Policy" of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Resulting from a trip to Spain, this rhapsody brought wide recognition to Chabrier'

Answer: España Rhapsody


Question: '"Segniorage" is the profit a government makes by doing this'

Answer: making coins


Question: 'In honor of its inventor, a Galvanometer measures current in these units'

Answer: amperes


Question: '1 of 2 southern states on whose state flag the Confederate Battle flag can be seen'

Answer: (1 of) Georgia or Mississippi


Question: 'This actress shot her way into the heart of Robert Redford in "The Natural"'

Answer: Barbara Hershey


Question: 'In 1971, this agency left the Cabinet & became a non-profit corporation'

Answer: the U.S. Postal Service


Question: 'On August 28, 1990 he declared that Kuwait was now Iraq's 19th province'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'Lumberjacks might like Felton, California's picnic & music festival for players of this musical tool'

Answer: Saw


Question: 'The top show of 1976-77 was "Happy Days"; the following season it was this "Happy Days" spin-off'

Answer: Laverne & Shirley


Question: 'It's the third rock from the sun'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'These little fish, which the French call anchois, are often served atop toast as an appetizer'

Answer: Anchovies


Question: 'In titles of films, these 2 words precede "Madam", "Mister" & "Bwana"'

Answer: "Call Me"


Question: 'While visiting Ethiopia in 1995, this Egyptian president escaped an attempt on his life'

Answer: Hosni Mubarak


Question: 'In '95 the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in Florida had a group of snorkelers impersonating him:<br />[video clue]'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'In 1996 shows, Steve Harvey, Mitch Mullany & Tom Rhodes all starred as characters with this profession'

Answer: Teaching


Question: 'In August 1996 NASA announced life may have existed on this planet, based on evidence from a meteorite'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'Combine minced shallots with this bread spread to make beurre d'echalote'

Answer: Butter


Question: 'Rodney Dangerfield wreaked havoc at a country club in this 1980 Chevy Chase comedy'

Answer: Caddyshack


Question: 'The world's largest money-wiring service, it was sold in September 1994 for $1.15 billion'

Answer: Western Union


Question: 'This state has a Banjo-rama in Davison & a fiddlers jamboree in Grand Rapids'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'She plays Dr. Michaela Quinn'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'In 1980 Voyager 1 revealed that 2 of this planet's rings are braided'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Though French chefs most often make soup from this reptile, its flippers may be braised & served in sauce'

Answer: Turtle


Question: 'Michael Crichton directed & wrote the screenplay for this medical thriller based on a Robin Cook novel'

Answer: Coma


Question: 'In 1996 MOMA in New York added a 1963 XK-E model of this sports car to its collection'

Answer: Jaguar


Question: 'In July this largest New Mexico city hosts a 3-day mariachi spectacular'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'In a classic episode of this show, Chuckles the Clown, dressed as a peanut, is killed by an elephant'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: 'It's named for a mythical sea god'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Cerises a l'allemande are these fruits preserved in vinegar & sugar for at least 2 weeks'

Answer: Cherries


Question: 'Cary Grant was "game" to co-star with Audrey Hepburn in this romantic 1963 thriller'

Answer: Charade


Question: 'In 1996 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of this country celebrated his 50th year on the throne'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'This Rhode Island city known for its jazz festivals also has festivals for folk music & rhythm & blues'

Answer: Newport


Question: 'Frances Lear, considered the inspiration for this TV title character, passed away in 1996'

Answer: Maude


Question: 'Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered this tiny planet in 1930'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'Canard sauvage, the "wild" type of this bird, may be covered with sauce chambertin'

Answer: Duck


Question: 'One of Garbo's last lines in this film is "I always look well when I'm near death"'

Answer: Camille


Question: 'Birnbaum's says there are over 10,000 of these in Ireland & 2,000 more in the north, a lot to "crawl" through'

Answer: Pubs


Question: 'This one-time black Muslim leader was assassinated February 21, 1965 in New York City'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'This redheaded Aussie wife of Tom Cruise was actually born in Hawaii'

Answer: Nicole Kidman


Question: 'James Hoban, the original architect, supervised the rebuilding of the White House after this war'

Answer: War of 1812


Question: 'This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Neurons & glia are the brain's 2 main types of these basic biological units'

Answer: Cells


Question: 'Handel's "Messiah" had its premiere in this city that held its millennium celebration in 1988'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'This orator was born in 1817 in Tuckahoe, Maryland, the son of slave Harriet Bailey'

Answer: Frederick Douglass


Question: 'At a 1971 benefit show, she was honored as the "Comedienne of the Century"'

Answer: Lucille Ball


Question: 'The South Lawn once contained a tree house where she played while her father was president 1977-1981'

Answer: Amy Carter


Question: '"Any Woman's Blues" was a 1990 novel by this "Fear Of Flying" author'

Answer: Erica Jong


Question: 'Boron neutron capture therapy is an experimental treatment for these growths in the brain'

Answer: Tumors


Question: '3rd-largest city in Eire/Of its sites we never tire/Just walk around/& you'll be bound/To see it in its entire'

Answer: Limerick


Question: 'This former surgeon general interned at the University of Minnesota Hospital'

Answer: Jocelyn Elders


Question: 'This "Four Seasons" composer & ordained minister was nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso", the Red Priest'

Answer: Antonio Vivaldi


Question: 'The Treaty Room, which Andrew Johnson used as his cabinet room, is next to this famous bedroom'

Answer: Lincoln Bedroom


Question: '1873's "A Pair Of Blue Eyes" was the first novel he put his name on; "Far From The Madding Crowd" was second'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'This hemisphere of the brain generally governs musical & artistic creativity'

Answer: Right


Question: 'Most tourists come to this city to tour its glassworks; the original factory was founded in 1783'

Answer: Waterford


Question: 'In 1988 this novelist won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Beloved"'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'She had her say in a 1922 book, "Women, Morality And Birth Control"'

Answer: Margaret Sanger


Question: 'A sofa once owned by this Massachusetts orator is in the Green Room; speak of the devil....'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: '"To The Far Blue Mountains" was one of this western author's Sackett sagas'

Answer: Louis L\'Amour


Question: 'This "cerebral" layer has sensory, motor & associative areas, the latter helping you play "Jeopardy!"'

Answer: Cortex


Question: 'There's a cycle of stories from this ancient province that includes tales of heroes like Cu Chulainn'

Answer: Ulster


Question: 'This winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was a star on UCLA's basketball team in the 1920s'

Answer: Ralph Bunche


Question: 'He completed his last play, "Buoyant Billions", when he was 92'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'This president lived in Blair House for 4 years while the White House  underwent a $5.8 million renovation'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: '"The Weary Blues" is a collection of verse by this Harlem Renaissance poet'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'To move messages around the brain, chemicals called neurotransmitters jump these 1/10,000,000-inch gaps'

Answer: Synapses


Question: 'In a difficult situation George Dewey would ask himself, what would this man, his former commander, do?'

Answer: Admiral David Farragut


Question: 'Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in this comedy'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'He was elected as a Missouri senator in 1934; 10 years later, he got a promotion'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'To be so angry that your chromatic vision is affected'

Answer: to be seeing red


Question: 'Following China's defeat in an 1895 war, Taiwan was ceded to this nation that redesigned Taipei as a modern city'

Answer: Japan


Question: '1968:<br />Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster'

Answer: Bullitt


Question: 'His Revolutionary War military career included service in the American & British armies, in that order'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'Some friend--he's the last to stab Julius Caesar & it's his idea that the conspirators wash their hands in Caesar's blood'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'He's seen here with his dad, the admiral, after returning from his Vietnam ordeal'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'Semper fi--it's the common term for the uniform worn here'

Answer: dress blues


Question: 'Before directing hits like "Brokeback Mountain", he studied theater at Taipei's Academy of Arts'

Answer: Ang Lee


Question: '1991:<br />Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto'

Answer: Boyz n the Hood


Question: 'Oh, the horror of this 1966 Lisbon Falls, Maine high school graduate seen here'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'This title guy: "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'He served almost 48 years in the Senate before dying in 2003'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: 'It's a wooden tool for manicurists'

Answer: an orangewood stick


Question: 'Fans in Taiwan know that the Brother Elephants & the Macoto Cobras are both Taipei-based teams in this sport'

Answer: baseball


Question: '1986:<br />Creepy thriller in which Dennis Hopper swears by "Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!"'

Answer: Blue Velvet


Question: 'This West Coast university that was founded in 1880 uses the logo seen here'

Answer: the University of Southern California


Question: 'Comedy in which Benedick says Beatrice exceeds Hero "in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December"'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'The last words of this 19th c. Massachusetts senator & noted orator were "I still live"'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'Hercule Poirot doesn't muck around after footprints & such; he solves crimes with these little cranial items'

Answer: the little gray cells


Question: 'A large, popular temple in Taipei is dedicated to this Chinese philosopher of the 5th century B.C.'

Answer: Confucius


Question: '1972:<br />Bitten by a vampire centuries before, a bloodthirsty African prince feeds on a modern city'

Answer: Blacula


Question: 'Seen here is part of the world-famous landmark sculpted by this man'

Answer: Bartholdi


Question: 'Quite an eyeful, he's the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'This Gouverneur was a N.Y. senator from 1800 to 1803'

Answer: Gouverneur Morris


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from St. Petersburg, Russia.)  We're in St. Petersburg, Russia in June--the time when a lack of total darkness gives evenings this name'

Answer: white nights


Question: 'He was driven into exile in Taiwan in 1949; today his name is on the international airport in Taipei'

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek


Question: '1948:<br />In a classic of Italian Neorealism, a father & son search for a stolen vehicle'

Answer: The Bicycle Thief


Question: 'One of the two coins mentioned in the name of the object seen here'

Answer: a penny (or a farthing)


Question: 'The hospital at the University of Alabama at Brimingham is a leading center for these renal transplants'

Answer: kidneys


Question: 'The 510th Evac Hospital in Vietnam was the setting for this medical drama'

Answer: China Beach


Question: 'At the time of his murder in April 1882, he was living in St. Joseph, Missouri, using the name Thomas Howard'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'In the comics:<br />Hi & ___'

Answer: Lois


Question: 'Pelean, Hawaiian, Strombolian & Plinian are different types of this event'

Answer: eruptions


Question: 'The name of this dairy food also means "thing" in Urdu, giving us phrases like "the big" one, meaning the boss'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'In its Oct. 2001 issue, this mag ranked B'ham's Highlands Bar & Grill among the top 5 restaurants in the U.S.'

Answer: Gourmet


Question: 'Gain some knowledge with "Untold Stories of the ER" on this sister channel of Discovery'

Answer: TLC (The Learning Channel)


Question: 'When he arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1877, he told the townspeople his name was William H. Bonney'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'NBC News colleagues:<br />___ & Brinkley'

Answer: Huntley


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows some horsts on the monitor.)  The geological feature called a horst is bounded by these, which Californians know all about'

Answer: faults


Question: 'Jazzmen used this slang word in the '40s; Tommy Dorsey insisted it had nothing to do with lines on a record's surface'

Answer: groovy


Question: 'Michael Jordan could tell you this name for Birmingham's current minor league baseball team'

Answer: the Barons


Question: 'The surgeon seen here is as primitive as can be on this ABC show'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'On Oct. 5, 1892 5 members of this gang entered Coffeyville, Kansas to rob 2 banks; only Emmett survived'

Answer: the Dalton Gang


Question: 'Partners in crime:<br />___ & Loeb'

Answer: Leopold


Question: 'This "table" is the saturated area of bedrock; it tends to follow the contours of the land'

Answer: the water table


Question: 'One of the very few English words with 6 consonants in a row, it's a cord that lets you open a door from outside'

Answer: a latchstring


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.)  A bomb that claimed 4 young lives stopped time at a Birmingham Church at 10:22 on Sept. 15 of this year, just weeks after the March on Washington'

Answer: 1963


Question: 'A court ruled that this series with "M.D." in the title wasn't a spinoff from a TV show but rather from a 1970 movie'

Answer: Trapper John, M.D.


Question: 'After robbing stagecoaches, this "dark", dapper outlaw left poems he'd written signed "The PO8"'

Answer: Black Bart


Question: 'On stage:<br />___ & Fontanne'

Answer: Lunt


Question: 'If your burn a diamond in the presence of oxygen, it will form this gas'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'Mencken coined "ecdysiast" for a striptease artist; "ecdysis", from the same root, is this periodic process in snakes'

Answer: shedding of the skin (or molting)


Question: 'Found in Birmingham, the world's largest cast-iron statue is a figure of this Roman god of metalworking'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'It was Rob Petrie & Chachi as crime-solving sawbones on this long-running CBS hit'

Answer: Diagnosis Murder


Question: 'The only criminal conviction of this "Bandit Queen" was for horse theft--she spent 9 months in prison'

Answer: Belle Starr


Question: 'Restaurateurs:<br />___ & Schmick'

Answer: McCormick


Question: 'The name of the mineral with formula Fe3O4 should tell you that it acts as a natural one of these'

Answer: a magnet


Question: 'A good film needs a sequel, & the word "sequel" has the same root as this 5-letter word for the transition I just made'

Answer: a segue


Question: '"I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway)


Question: 'A 20-count book of 32c stamps costs this much'

Answer: $6.40


Question: 'Michigan's Isle Royale is the largest island surrounded by this largest Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'These VIPs like small ponds'

Answer: Big fish


Question: 'A person moving quickly is going by leaps & these'

Answer: Bounds


Question: 'All sharks have at least one dorsal fin & one caudal fin, better known as this'

Answer: Tail


Question: 'This president was nicknamed the "Sage Of The Hermitage"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'If Cowboy Bob has 3,200 "feet" of cattle in his herd, he has this many head'

Answer: 800


Question: 'When this canal opened in 1869, suddenly Africa was completely surrounded by water'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'Someone removed from his usual environment, who may lung to return there'

Answer: A fish out of water


Question: 'Floor it, or "put the pedal to" this'

Answer: The metal


Question: 'The smallest of the 9 species of this shark actually looks more like a shovel up front'

Answer: Hammerhead


Question: 'The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded this famous fleet that the English defeated in 1588'

Answer: Spanish Armada


Question: 'It's the number of degrees the minute hand moves when going from 12 to 3'

Answer: 90


Question: 'It's the ocean that surrounds Mauritius'

Answer: Indian Ocean


Question: 'It's a place without privacy'

Answer: Fish bowl


Question: 'People go like a blue one of these, or like one of lightning'

Answer: Streak


Question: 'A new battery-powered device for divers repels sharks using this type of field'

Answer: Electro-magnetic/electric


Question: 'Born in 1519, this Medici queen of France was the great-niece of Pope Leo X'

Answer: Catherine de\' Medici


Question: 'If Tom's picket fence used 3"-wide pickets, he'd need this many edge to edge to cover a 12' length'

Answer: 48


Question: 'New Zealand is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east & this sea to the west'

Answer: Tasman Sea


Question: 'It's the process of reeling in praise for yourself'

Answer: Fishing for compliments


Question: 'A dictionary defines it as "The instant's duration of a wink"; little stars & eyes do it'

Answer: Twinkle


Question: 'This term for a mass descent of sharks on prey is also applied to massive media interest'

Answer: Feeding frenzy


Question: 'Enrico Dandalo was in his 80s when he was elected Doge of this city in 1192'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'If a dieting 2-ton elephant lost 10 pounds a week for a year he'd weigh this much'

Answer: 3,480 pounds


Question: 'The Gulf of Batabano separates the Isle of Pines from the rest of this island country'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'It means to do one thing or another, but stop stalling'

Answer: Fish or cut bait


Question: 'The material that people are "hellbent for" when moving quickly'

Answer: Leather


Question: 'It's said that black wetsuits attract great white sharks because swimmers resemble these animals'

Answer: Seals


Question: 'He was the first Scandinavian to serve as Secretary-General of the U.N.'

Answer: Trygve Lie  (Norway)


Question: 'Mickey Spillane's 1996 novel "Black Alley" is the first to feature this detective in 7 years'

Answer: Mike Hammer


Question: 'Bowyers make bows & coopers make these'

Answer: Barrels


Question: 'Mom role shared by Barbara Billingsley & Janine Turner'

Answer: June Cleaver


Question: '"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up" this man'

Answer: Jonah


Question: 'Sadly, most of this "Carmen" composer's opera "Clarissa Harlowe" is lost'

Answer: Georges Bizet


Question: 'It's any of the first known inhabitants of a region, especially one from Australia'

Answer: Aborigine


Question: 'Della & Jim Young are the impoverished couple of his 1906 short story "The Gift Of The Magi"'

Answer: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)


Question: 'Loriners make hardware for this genteel sport a little "bit" at a time'

Answer: Polo (or anything to do with horses)


Question: 'Fess Parker & John Wayne have both played this king of the wild frontier'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: '6 days before Passover Jesus had a supper with this man whom he had raised from the dead'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'The title clowns of this Leoncavallo work arrive in a parade led by a donkey, not in a tiny car'

Answer: Pagliacci


Question: 'A collection of stories, or a collection of Beatles songs'

Answer: Anthology


Question: 'Jake Barnes & Robert Cohn vie for the affection of Lady Brett Ashley in this Hemingway novel'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: '"If I were" one of these "And you were a lady", I'd report to their hall at 1 Throgmorton Avenue'

Answer: Carpenters


Question: 'Anne Parillaud role that led to the other 2 seen here:'

Answer: La Femme Nikita


Question: 'In the book of Luke, this angel announces the births of both John the Baptist & Jesus Christ'

Answer: Gabriel


Question: 'This composer's adopted niece, Johanna, created the role of Elisabeth in his opera "Tannhauser"'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'It's another name for the femur'

Answer: Thighbone


Question: 'This shy officer in "Catch-22" was "promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor"'

Answer: Major Major


Question: 'One of the oldest guilds is the group of seafood sellers known as this'

Answer: Fishmongers


Question: 'In 1994 Rosie O' Donnell was cast in this role in the stage version of "Grease"; in 1997 Lucy Lawless was'

Answer: Rizzo


Question: 'This future king of Israel was summoned to soothe King Saul with his harp playing'

Answer: David


Question: 'The ghost of Nino is a bass role in "Semiramide" by this compser of "William Tell"'

Answer: Gioacchino Rossini


Question: 'This brilliant shade of red derives its name from a Latin word for "little worm"'

Answer: Vermilion


Question: 'This protagonist of a Virginia Woolf novel changes from man to woman through 4 centuries'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'If Melville's Bartleby moved from New York to London, he'd join the company of these'

Answer: Scriveners


Question: 'In a 1996 FOX TV movie based on a British series, the 2 actors seen here both played this time lord:'

Answer: Doctor Who


Question: 'This king cast Shedrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: '"Un Ballo En Maschera" dramatizes the assassination of this country's King Gustavus III at a masked ball'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'It describes a 2-House legislature'

Answer: Bicameral


Question: 'Created in 1912, they were originally marketed with the slogan "For That Stormy Breath"'

Answer: Life Savers


Question: 'Featuring games like Super Mario Bros., this video game system marks 25 years in 2008'

Answer: Nintendo


Question: 'Sierra Boggess played Christine in "Phantom" in Vegas before she swam onto B'way as this fish-tailed Disney heroine'

Answer: the Little Mermaid (Ariel)


Question: 'It's the Northern Hemisphere's seasonal equivalent to the Southern Hemisphere's June'

Answer: December


Question: 'Dr. Gregg tries to kiss his anesthetist in "Gallantry", an opera inspired by this kind of daytime drama'

Answer: a soap opera


Question: 'Geraldine Brooks' book about an illuminated Jewish volume is called "People of the" this'

Answer: Book


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a pair of wall hangings at Mount Vernon, VA.) As a symbol of liberty, Washington displayed the key to this political prison, a gift from Lafayette, who had ordered its demolition'

Answer: the Bastille


Question: 'This foreign capital's Disneyland turns 25 in 2008'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'A theatre employee knows that this 1-named singer made his B'way debut in "Chicago" in 2006'

Answer: Usher


Question: 'The 2 that have just 30 days'

Answer: September & November


Question: 'To play Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess", study the performance of this Rat Packer who played him in the 1959 film'

Answer: Sammy Davis, Jr.


Question: 'This magazine has been a popular source of science & technology news since its inception in 1872'

Answer: Popular Science


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the dining room, Mount Vernon, VA.) It was here in the dining room that Charles Thomson, secretary of the Congress, told Washington he had been unanimously elected president in this year'

Answer: 1789


Question: 'Call the tabloids!  This sister of Paris Hilton celebrates her 25th birthday in 2008'

Answer: Nicky Hilton


Question: 'Life is far from crummy for Max Crumm, who won the role of Danny Zuko in the revival on a reality TV show'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'Boston & Pittsburgh played the first-ever World Series game on the 1st of this, 1903'

Answer: October


Question: 'Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco went "Wilde" & turned this Oscar Wilde play into a 1962 opera'

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest


Question: 'The government admin. was created in 1971 to ensure occupational health & safety standards'

Answer: OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a door frame at Mount Vernon, VA.)  The detail-oriented Washington even chose Mount Vernon's moldings, which depicted tools to symbolize farming & this type of leaf for national strength'

Answer: an oak leaf


Question:
'Dance: Ten;
Looks: Ten--
Mario Lopez kicked up his heels in this hit revival in 2008'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'The Dutch celebrate the Feast of Sinterklaas on the 6th of this'

Answer: December


Question: '"Merry Wives" make mischief in the Verdi opera named for this fat Shakespearean funster'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'The title of the national anthem of Laos, "Pheng Xat Lao", means this in English'

Answer: "National Anthem of Laos"


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew sits atop a horse cart.) Mount Vernon is named for a naval officer under whom George Washington's half-brother served; it was originally called Little Hunting Creek this, a type of farming estate'

Answer: Plantation


Question: 'Time flies: in 2007 this "Leave It To Beaver" star turned 59 & played Wilbur Turnblad in "Hairspray"'

Answer: Jerry Mathers


Question: 'Black Thursday, 1929 was the 24th day of this'

Answer: October


Question: 'Fun abounds as a valet prepares for his own wedding in this 1786 Mozart opera'

Answer: The Marriage of Figaro


Question: 'Masi Oka plays a character with this first name on the TV show "Heroes"'

Answer: Hiro


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside a circular barn at Mount Vernon, VA.) Washington designed a barn in which horses ran in a circle to stamp on wheat as part of this process'

Answer: threshing


Question: 'In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that history does this... does this'

Answer: repeats itself


Question: 'This nickname for one of the main venues evokes a Chinese soup'

Answer: the Bird\'s Nest


Question: 'American types of this cheese include Vermont & Texas Longhorn'

Answer: cheddar


Question: 'A variety of this plague carrier is seen here'

Answer: a flea


Question: 'Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough"'

Answer: the wise


Question: 'Paris'

Answer: the Seine


Question: '"Poetics" by this founder of the Lyceum has been called the single most influential work in all of literary criticism'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Well-known on multiple continents, he was the flag-bearer of the host country'

Answer: Yao Ming


Question: 'Edam is made in a ball; this other Dutch cheese is made in wheels with a waxed red or yellow rind'

Answer: Gouda


Question: 'Half of the original you seen here'

Answer: a sperm


Question: 'It's what the "I" stands for in the CIA (the one headed by General Michael V. Hayden)'

Answer: Intelligence


Question: 'Baghdad'

Answer: the Tigris


Question: 'The playwright Menander wrote, "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is... a necessary" this'

Answer: evil


Question: 'A popular side trip was to the Beijing Zoo to see these animals, Ailuropoda melanoleuca'

Answer: pandas