Question: 'The hair on the mustachioed fellow of this team's logo is definitely blond'

Answer: the Vikings


Question: 'Um, awkward!  Jane Eyre's wedding is halted when an attorney insists that this groom is already married'

Answer: Rochester


Question:
'Barbie spends her days /
Writing 3-lined poetry /
She'll be published soon,
meet...'

Answer: Haiku Barbie


Question: 'A 1759 document records Arthur Guinness signing a 9,000-year lease on a brewery at St. James' Gate in this city'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Entrance hall<br />(5)'

Answer: foyer


Question: 'The site of the USA's worst accident at one of these facilities, Pennsylvania still has 5, including Peach Bottom'

Answer: a nuclear power plant


Question: 'Both of the teams in this state have stars in their logos'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'This daughter of Brabantio elopes before the start of a Shakespeare play; her hubby will be the death of her--in Act V'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'Barbie wrestles alligators in the slow-moving marshy waters of Louisiana; come what may, it's...'

Answer: (Blue) Bayou Barbie


Question: 'Records show this musical instrument made its first appearance on a Guinness label in 1862'

Answer: a harp


Question: 'Lead singer for a rock group<br />(8)'

Answer: frontman


Question: '60% of Pennsylvania is covered by this, which gives the state part of its name'

Answer: woods (or forests)


Question: '2 of the colors on this champion team's logo refer to coal & ore'

Answer: the Steelers


Question: 'An 1890 Ibsen play opens with this title character returning from her honeymoon, disappointed by her marriage'

Answer: Hedda Gabler


Question: 'Barbie's off to Paris to attend a famous culinary arts school, founded in 1895, the next top chef, it's...'

Answer: Cordon Bleu Barbie


Question: 'In this year of Paul Revere's ride, Arthur brandished a pickaxe at a sheriff who tried to cut off the brewery's water'

Answer: 1775


Question: 'A school bake sale, for example<br />(10)'

Answer: fundraiser


Question: 'This city in the western part of the state has a maritime museum'

Answer: Erie


Question: 'Flipping the item on this team's logo upside down should bring bad luck according to superstition'

Answer: the (Indianapolis) Colts


Question: 'Catherine has "no more business to marry Edgar Linton than... to be in heaven" but marries him anyway in this book'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'Barbie's gone puzzle crazy feverishly filling in boxes with the numbers 1 through 9, she's...'

Answer: Sudoku Barbie


Question: 'Records show that Guinness sent a bottle to every member of the British forces in this country for Christmas 1939'

Answer: France


Question: 'Roll a flag around a pole<br />(4)'

Answer: furl


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew pulls up on a Venetian blind.)  When I pull down on the cord, the blinds go up; at the top is a single fixed one of these simple machines, which reverses the direction of force'

Answer: a pulley


Question: 'In 2009 this country's president Lula da Silva offered to mediate in the icy U.S.-Venezuelan relationship'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'In Civil War times, the U.S. had to print 3-cent & 50-cent bills; these were being hoarded for their intrinsic value'

Answer: coins


Question: 'The fire-fiddling was one thing, but spending 2 billion sesterces on your court & gifts; emperor, you're nuts!'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'After playing a doctor on "M*A*S*H", he turned up as Dr. Gabriel Lawrence on "ER"'

Answer: Alan Alda


Question: 'These arthropods can have cylindrical bodies of more than 100 segments'

Answer: millipedes


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew rolls a bowling ball.)  The work required to lift a 16-pound bowling ball 12 inches is 16 foot-pounds; the force required is only 5.3 pounds using this simple machine to raise it to the same height'

Answer: a ramp (inclined plane)


Question: 'This country's CCTV censored Barack Obama's Inauguration Day speech upon mention of communism'

Answer: China


Question: 'In 2001 the NYSE went from trading stocks in 16ths to this, also known as the Arabic system'

Answer: decimal


Question: 'Giving Cortes all that gold in 1519 wasn't your best move, emperor, & thanks for that "revenge"!'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: 'His character taught Abigail Breslin that dance routine for the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant'

Answer: Alan Arkin


Question: 'This company can take you from breakfast to dinner with brands like Wheaties cereal & Jeno's pizza'

Answer: General Mills


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presses garlic.)  A garlic press consists of two second-class levers, in which the handles provide the effort, the garlic is the load & the pivot point serves as this'

Answer: a fulcrum


Question: 'On Jan, 20, 2009, after a payment dispute, Russia resumed sending natural gas to Europe through this country'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'You might take investing tips from this network's "On the Money" or "The Call"; Jon Stewart probably doesn't'

Answer: CNBC


Question: 'You had aces & 8's on Aug. 2, 1876 at the saloon! If you're gonna let yourself get shot, at least be holdin' garbage!'

Answer: "Wild Bill" Hickok


Question: 'This actor does bad good: Prof. Snape in the "Harry Potter" films & Hans Gruber in "Die Hard"'

Answer: Alan Rickman


Question: 'Yeehaw! She choreographed the ballet "Rodeo"'

Answer: Agnes de Mille


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew chops carrots.)  A knife, which is two sloping surfaces tapering to a point to split things open, is an example of this simple machine'

Answer: a wedge


Question: 'In 2007 this eastern African country abolished the death penalty for all crimes; yes, including genocide'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'Take money out of your paycheck before taxes to pay for health & dependent care with an FSA, a flexible this'

Answer: Spending Account


Question: 'You were a French spy in WWI Belgium, but didn't tell 'em you were working for Germany, too; lady, that'll get you snuffed'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'Ron Silver played him, Claus von Bulow's lawyer, in "Reversal of Fortune"'

Answer: Alan Dershowitz


Question: 'At sea level, atmospheric pressure is 1,013 of these units'

Answer: millibars


Question: 'In January 2009 the Sri Lankan army said 95% of the war with this local rebel group was over'

Answer: the Tamil Tigers


Question: 'To sell stock at the current price, investors use a market order; to specify a price, it's this type of order'

Answer: a limit (or stop-loss) order


Question: 'You angered the Scottish nobles, then Elizabeth I, until the end came in 1587--is it cruel to say you just lost your head?'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'This economist seen here was influenced by Ayn Rand'

Answer: (Alan) Greenspan


Question: 'A type of cereal & forage grass'

Answer: millet


Question: 'Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'On July 26, 1953 this future president & 150 followers attacked one of Cuba's major military bases'

Answer: Castro


Question: 'From 1965:<br />"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble"'

Answer: Michelle


Question: 'Sedimentology is a branch of this -ology'

Answer: geology


Question: 'He created the 1931 oil-on-canvas piece seen here'

Answer: (Salvador) Dalí


Question: 'The one-day "Teenagers in the Kitchen" course focuses on this food & the dough for it'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'A small snail-like mollusk that has no shell, or a metal disk often used illegally in vending machines'

Answer: a slug


Question: 'Cuba first came under Spanish control in this century'

Answer: the 16th century


Question: 'Neil Diamond:<br />"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you..."'

Answer: Sweet Caroline


Question: 'At Cornell, "Intuitive Judgment" & "Comparative Cognition" are courses in this department'

Answer: psychology


Question: 'Items recently uncovered at her home & museum include dresses from Oaxaca & earrings probably from Picasso'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'No soup for you at the CIA unless you learn how to make this, the liquid upon which soup is built'

Answer: broth


Question: 'The Gate of Heavenly Peace lies at the southern edge of this capital's Imperial City'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'The Cuban mission known as Lookout Farm, or Finca Vigia, was home to this author from 1939 to 1960'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'Barry Manilow:<br />"Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and I need you today, oh" her'

Answer: Mandy


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows off her handwriting at the blackboard.)  Tall letters, like the "L"s here, are a sign of pride according to this -ology, a term coined in 1875'

Answer: graphology


Question: 'He's the French artist whose work is seen here, if you get our Pointillism'

Answer: (Georges) Seurat


Question: 'CIA grads include Rocco DiSpirito, star of this NBC reality show'

Answer: The Restaurant


Question: 'An earthenware drink cup, or your face'

Answer: a mug


Question: 'In 1875 this Tammany Hall boss escaped from jail in New York City & fled to Cuba'

Answer: (Boss) Tweed


Question: 'Tom Jones:<br />"Why, why, why" her'

Answer: Delilah


Question: 'Amgen & Novozymes are usually called this type of company'

Answer: biotech(nology)


Question: 'His 1812 painting of a notable historical figure is seen here'

Answer: (Jacques-Louis) David


Question: 'The course called Cookies, these small pies & Mignardises sounds more fun than Algebra 101'

Answer: tarts


Question: 'From the Welsh for "rock", it's the broken projecting part of a rock'

Answer: a crag


Question: 'The unsuccessful attack on Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs invasion began on April 17th of this year'

Answer: 1961


Question: 'Elvis Costello:<br />"You can call me anything you like but my name is" this'

Answer: Veronica


Question: 'Thaumatology, the study of these events, might be part of deciding who gets canonized'

Answer: miracles


Question: 'This group of British painters exhibited anonymously, signing their paintings PRB'

Answer: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood


Question: 'In the library, even the mysteries are culinary, like one that's not called "The Main Course" but "The Main" this'

Answer: Corpse


Question: 'It's the abbreviated form of the Russian for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps"'

Answer: gulag


Question: 'From 1865 to 1870 this "flowery" city served as the capital of Italy'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'This FBI agent played by Gillian Anderson on "The X-Files" was named after a Dodgers announcer'

Answer: (Dana) Scully


Question: 'As a result of the 2000 Census, 4 states gained 2 House seats; New York & this "Keystone State" lost 2'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Haydn's "Hunt" (No. 73) is this type of orchestral piece'

Answer: a symphony


Question: 'We're bullish on Aldebaran, a .86 apparent magnitude star in this constellation'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'The archbishop of this district is the primate of all England'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'The best-known landmark in this German city known for its perfume is its cathedral with 2 towers rising over 500 feet'

Answer: Cologne


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Kennedy Space Center.) This TV astronaut worked at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and lived in Cocoa Beach, where he dreamed of Jeannie'

Answer: Captain Nelson


Question: 'Only James G. Blaine & this great N.H. orator served 2 non-consecutive terms as Sec'y of State'

Answer: (Daniel) Webster


Question: 'Mozart's "Hunt", heard here, is this type of chamber piece'

Answer: a (string) quartet


Question: 'Castor has an apparent magnitude of 1.6; this star, also in Gemini, is brighter at 1.2'

Answer: Pollux


Question: 'China has a "grand" one, & so does Venice'

Answer: a canal


Question: 'This capital's Tower of Belem was built in the early 1500s to honor explorer Vasco da Gama'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'On "Newhart", these 3 brothers owned the local cafe'

Answer: Larry, Darryl & Darryl


Question: 'In 1988 this Conn. attorney general upset incumbent Lowell Weicker for the U.S. Senate; he's been re-elected twice'

Answer: (Joe) Lieberman


Question: 'Beethoven's "Solemnis" is this type of religious work'

Answer: a mass


Question: 'John McEnroe might say, "You cannot be" this star in Canis Major with an apparent magnitude of -1.6'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'John Steinbeck described this district of Monterey as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise"'

Answer: Cannery Row


Question: '20 miles from the Italian border, this leading resort city on the French Riviera has a population of about 350,000'

Answer: Nice


Question: 'Calling Bernard Fox, who played this nurse-chasing warlock on "Bewitched"'

Answer: Dr. Bombay


Question: 'In 2005 this Floridian became the first Cuban-American U.S. senator'

Answer: Mel Martinez


Question: 'Charles Ives' "Concord" is this type of work for piano'

Answer: a sonata


Question: 'A spectral class G yellow star, it has an apparent magnitude of about -26'

Answer: the Sun


Question: 'Spanning 1,800 feet, the Quebec Bridge is the world's longest bridge of this type'

Answer: cantilever


Question: 'Known as the "Granite City", its name is Scots for "At the Mouth of the Dee", the river on which it lies'

Answer: Aberdeen


Question: 'This news director of radio station WKRP in Cincinnati won the Silver Sow Award for Agricultural Reportage'

Answer: Les Nessman


Question: 'Age 87 at his death in 1864, he was the oldest man ever to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S.'

Answer: Roger Brooke Taney


Question: 'He composed the cantata heard here'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'This star of Orion is the 12th-brightest in the sky; do your best Geena Davis impression'

Answer: Betelgeuse


Question: '"Optimism" is the alternate title of this Voltaire work'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s'

Answer: television


Question: 'After a 15-year restoration, the ruins of Nero's Golden Palace, Domus Aurea, reopened in this city in 1999'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'This Michael Jackson album spent 37 weeks at No. 1'

Answer: Thriller


Question: 'In 1983 this California girl became the first American woman in space'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: 'A right-handed golfer's shot pulled so it curves to the left is said to be this'

Answer: a hook (or hooked)


Question: 'As of 2007, this company represented by the sound heard here had 20 consecutive years of profitability'

Answer: Intel


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) This person's inspiration for the eternal flame on John F. Kennedy's grave was the one on Paris's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy


Question: 'The Knopf guide to this country features sections on "Nomads' tents" and "Matisse in Tangier"'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'First Lady Nancy Reagan took her "Just say no" campaign to this Gary Coleman sitcom'

Answer: Diff\'rent Strokes


Question: 'In 2007 this Brit ranked as the second-richest woman in entertainment after Oprah'

Answer: JK Rowling


Question: 'Removal of some of one's money from a bank account'

Answer: a withdrawal


Question: 'This store promises to have your ink or toner cartridge with the slogan "That was easy"'

Answer: Staples


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) The Tomb of the Unknowns holds and honors unidentified soldiers from these three 20th-century conflicts'

Answer: World War I, World War II, and the Korean War


Question: 'With its quiet beauty of cliffs & coral, the peninsula of this sultanate is billed as the anti-Dubai'

Answer: Oman


Question: 'Its ensemble cast included Kevin Kline, Glenn Close & William Hurt'

Answer: The Big Chill


Question: 'In 2002 this former attorney general ran for governor of Florida'

Answer: Janet Reno


Question: 'To the taxman, your child is this type of deduction'

Answer: dependent


Question:
'Baby, you can drive this make of car

"Zoom-zoom"'

Answer: Mazda


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) This 5-sided granite marker here at Arlington honors victims from the 2001 attack on this nearby location'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'Instead of going the whole 6,000 miles on this line, you can change at Tarskaya to the Trans-Manchurian for Beijing'

Answer: the Trans-Siberian Railway


Question: 'Noel Coward's "Private Lives" was revived on Broadway with this divorced couple playing a divorced couple'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton


Question: 'Corrine is the given name of this ABC & NPR correspondent'

Answer: (Cokie) Roberts


Question: 'Mike, we think you have a problem, so we're having this, from the Latin for "come between"'

Answer: an intervention


Question: 'This 4-word question is Capital One's catchphrase'

Answer: "What\'s in your wallet?"


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) This memorial is dedicated to the crew of this craft, who, as Reagan said, "slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God"'

Answer: the Challenger


Question: 'Music lovers pay homage to this composer by visiting Ainola, his home near Helsinki'

Answer: Jean Sibelius


Question: 'Barbara Stanwyck won an Emmy for playing Meggie's manipulative & wealthy aunt in this TV miniseries'

Answer: The Thorn Birds


Question: 'This symbolic woman was on the cover of the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post'

Answer: Rosie the Riveter


Question: 'Mike, to get well you need to go somewhere for this, from the Latin for "restore"'

Answer: rehabilitation


Question:
'This auto insurer touts the simplicity of using its website

"It's so easy, a caveman could do it."'

Answer: GEICO


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) A Scottish cairn, or stone monument, marks the memorial to the 270 killed in the 1988 terrorist attack in the skies above this village'

Answer: Lockerbie


Question: 'Before breaking up in 1981, Steely Dan released an album named for this kind of South American cowboy'

Answer: a gaucho


Question: 'Sodom & Gomorrah are destroyed in Chapter 19 of this Biblical book'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'It's the year of the quote "Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins"'

Answer: 1969


Question: 'By definition, a "baldie" is a pretzel without this'

Answer: salt


Question: 'In 1987 in York, Deacon Sylvia Mutch was the 1st woman to conduct a marriage in the church of this country'

Answer: the Church of England


Question: 'It sends copies of printed material over phone lines'

Answer: a fax machine


Question: 'Steely Dan's highest-charting song told this title woman "Don't Lose That Number"'

Answer: Rikki


Question: '19 is the legal drinking age in 7 of the 10 Canadian provinces, including this most populous one'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'The battles of Saratoga & Bennington were in this year, not the title of a musical'

Answer: 1777


Question: 'Hold "fast"--pretzels have deep spiritual meaning in this 40-day Catholic season'

Answer: lent


Question: 'Subtract X [or 10] from his current holiness to get this Deacon & Pope who was strangled in 974'

Answer: Benedict VI


Question: 'If a football tackler grabs & twists this, the penalty is 15 yards'

Answer: a facemask


Question: 'This Dire Straits guitarist played a guitar solo on the Steely Dan hit "Time Out Of Mind"'

Answer: (Mark) Knopfler


Question: 'This Kellogg's cereal introduced in the 1960s combines toasted corn, oats, wheat & rice'

Answer: Product 19


Question: 'William McKinley & Queen Victoria died in this year'

Answer: 1901


Question: '"These pretzels are making me thirsty" was a line from a classic episode of this '90s sitcom'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'A Deacon named St. Romanos the Melodist got his nickname by writing 8,000 of these'

Answer: hymns (or psalms)


Question: 'One of the 2 leaders of the band who met at Bard College in New York'

Answer: (Donald) Fagen (or Walter Becker)


Question: 'She was Queen of France for 19 years, from 1774 to 1793'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'South Carolina seceded from the Union in this year'

Answer: 1860


Question: 'The Latin term for pretzels is brachiola or "little" these'

Answer: arms


Question: 'The oldest chronicle of this city was compiled by John the Deacon, Chaplain to the Doge'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'The name Steely Dan comes from this William S. Burroughs novel'

Answer: Naked Lunch


Question: 'At age 19 in 1892, this Russian pianist wrote his "Prelude in C-Sharp Minor", which helped launch his career'

Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff


Question: 'Year in whch Marcos fled the Philippines, Baby Doc Duvalier fled Haiti & hundreds of thousands fled Chernobyl'

Answer: 1986


Question: 'The pretzel type of this sweet treat holder is a Philadelphia tradition'

Answer: an ice cream cone


Question: 'John the Faster was a 6th C. Deacon at this Constantinople cathedral'

Answer: the Hagia Sophia


Question: 'Its title refers to an imaginary place where things like "honors, preferments... silver, gold, pearls" are sold'

Answer: Vanity Fair


Question: 'In his early teens, this "E.T." director won a contest with his short war movie "Escape to Nowhere"'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'It's no longer forbidden to visit the Forbidden City in this capital of China'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'This leader of the Heartbreakers backed Stevie Nicks on her 1981 solo album "Bella Donna"'

Answer: Tom Petty


Question: 'Sea creature that's the title character of an 1851 Herman Melville novel'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'Bears, badgers & this mammal have been known to predict the weather on Candlemas, February 2'

Answer: groundhog


Question: 'Barbie's beau<br />(3)'

Answer: Ken


Question: 'She may have honed her vampire-interviewing skills while working on her Texas high school paper'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'Selections from this Irish group's "Pop" CD were available on the internet prior to its March 1997 release'

Answer: U2


Question: 'Margaret Mitchell novel in which Sally Fontaine changes Paul Revere's cry to "The Yankees are coming!"'

Answer: "Gone with the Wind"


Question: 'Every December, Bostonians put on disguises & reenact this 1773 act of defiance'

Answer: Boston Tea Party


Question: 'Christmas Kriss<br />(7)'

Answer: Kringle


Question: 'This leading lady of "The Bridges of Madison County" was homecoming queen at her New Jersey high school'

Answer: Meryl Streep


Question: 'He won a 1996 Grammy for Best Male Rock Performance for "Where It's At" from his "Odelay" CD'

Answer: Beck


Question: 'Profession of the heroes of Steve Martini's "Prime Witness" & John Grisham's "The Firm"'

Answer: lawyers/attorneys


Question: 'Smooch synonym<br />(4)'

Answer: kiss


Question: 'This Microsoft mogul was just 17 when he became president of his first company, Traf-O-Data'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'This group won a 1996 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"'

Answer: the Smashing Pumpkins


Question: 'Holden Caulfield, the hero of this Salinger novel, hates movies, phonies & his classmate Ernest Morrow'

Answer: "Catcher in the Rye"


Question: 'This Jewish holiday that celebrates the new year occurs in the fall before Yom Kippur'

Answer: Rosh Hashanah


Question: 'A bride & groom tie it<br />(4)'

Answer: knot


Question: 'This magician was still in high school when he taught a magic course at NYU in 1972'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'Her self-titled debut album, which included the hit "Vision of Love", reached the top of the charts in 1990'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'In sequels to this novel, Lucy Maud Montgomery's first, Anne grows to be a woman & a mother'

Answer: "Anne of Green Gables"


Question: 'On March 26, this state honors Prince Jonah Kuhio, who became a delegate to Congress'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Geisha garment<br />(6)'

Answer: kimono


Question: 'This war that began in the 1950s was widely protested in the 1960s & 1970s'

Answer: the Vietnam War


Question: 'In a famous Gainsborough portrait, Jonathan Buttall wears this color associated with baby boys'

Answer: blue


Question: 'The teddy bear was named in his honor'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'Jonathan Taylor Thomas of "Home Improvement" supplied the voice of the young Simba in this film'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'This 3-letter substance that carries the genetic code directs the production of RNA'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'One of the first cable cars from 1873 sits on a pedestal in this California city's Cable Car Museum'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'In 1955 2 of the largest labor organizations in the U.S. merged, the AFL & this one'

Answer: CIO


Question: 'From the French for "brown", this term for a person with brown hair is almost always applied to women'

Answer: brunette


Question: 'As head of the Union Army, this future president accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Twins Tia & Tamera Mowry play this title pair, pair'

Answer: Sister, Sister


Question: 'This tiny center region of an atom consists of protons & neutrons'

Answer: nucleus


Question: 'The name of this certificate conferring a degree is from the Greek for "folded paper"'

Answer: diploma


Question: 'This made headlines when it crashed October 29, 1929; ask your broker, it's healthier now'

Answer: the Stock Market


Question: 'Orange, a secondary color, is a mixture of red & yellow, 2 colors classified as this type'

Answer: primary colors


Question: 'Living to the age of 90, this president was able to see his son become president as well'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'If you don't know Haley Joel Osment survived this sitcom's move from ABC to NBC, you might be a redneck'

Answer: The Jeff Foxworthy Show


Question: 'The science of acoustics studies how these waves are created, transmitted & received'

Answer: sound waves


Question: 'During a Q & A session on this cable network in 1994, Bill Clinton revealed that he usually wears briefs'

Answer: MTV


Question: 'In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first black American appointed to this legal body'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'The Latin word talpa, meaning "mole", gave us this word for a shade of brownish gray'

Answer: taupe


Question: 'He was president during WWI'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: '"All My Children" star Sarah Michelle Gellar has a stake in this title TV role based on a Kristy Swanson film'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'Of Venus, Mars or Saturn, the planet whose mean distance from the sun is 67,230,000 miles'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'The USA's largest independent maker of upholstered furniture, its name is synonymous with recliner'

Answer: La-Z-Boy


Question: 'In 1972 this scandal named for a Washington, D.C. hotel was in the news'

Answer: Watergate


Question: 'The color of someone with a deep tan is often compared to this metal alloy'

Answer: bronze


Question: 'His library in Independence, Missouri opened to the public in 1957'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Actress seen here in the close-ups only; she never left the ground during filming'

Answer: Anna Paquin


Question: 'In the chemical formula for propane, C3H8, the H stands for hydrogen & the C stands for this element'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'Nickname of the team that won the 1997 NCAA men's basketball title'

Answer: Wildcats


Question: 'The ancient Romans gave it its name, which means "hairy cat"'

Answer: caterpillar


Question: 'Ian Fleming based this character in part on Cary Grant, who later turned down the role'

Answer: James Bond


Question: 'In the 1770s she lived on Arch Street in Philly, where she & husband John ran an upholstery business'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Lewisite, an arsenic-containing blistering agent, was developed to be used in this conflict'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'Though lace can be made of many types of thread, this flaxen fiber is historically the source of the finest'

Answer: linen


Question: 'At many Japanese hotels, guests enjoy cha-no-yu, the ceremony celebrating this, perhaps in late afternoon'

Answer: tea


Question: 'This Christmas carol's 2nd line begins, "Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by"'

Answer: "O Little Town Of Bethlehem"


Question: 'In 1922 Grant worked as a stiltworker advertising Steeplechase Park at this Brooklyn attraction'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'On Market Street, between 5th & 6th, you can see this, which bears an inscription from Leviticus 25:10'

Answer: the Liberty Bell


Question: 'Millions in Asia are at risk from high arsenic levels in this: the EPA's new limit is 10 parts per billion'

Answer: water


Question: 'The 2 basic types of lace are bobbin & this one, also a type of embroidery'

Answer: needlepoint


Question: 'Before holidaying in potentially dangerous places, visit the U.S. government department's "Travel Warnings" website'

Answer: the State Department


Question: 'The building housing local administration offices that are also used for public meetings'

Answer: town halls


Question: 'Until he was dubbed Cary Grant by Paramount Studios, Cary was known by this name'

Answer: Archibald Leach


Question: 'In 1774 this assembly met for the first time in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia'

Answer: the First Continental Congress


Question: 'A case of arsenic poisoning is deftly solved in this author's 1932 story "The Tuesday Night Club"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'In Elizabethan times, lace was a popular material for this stiff, frilly collar'

Answer: a ruff


Question: 'On a visit to this country, check out the Suceava monasteries & also take in a Transylvanian village or two'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'This term for one who frequents fashionable spots was the title of Walter Winchell's column'

Answer: "Man About Town"


Question: 'Cary turned down roles opposite this leading lady in "Roman Holiday" & "Sabrina" but did act with her in "Charade"'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'The city's motto, "Philadelphia maneto", means "Let" this "continue"'

Answer: Brotherly love


Question: 'The mineral arsenopyrite, mainly arsenic, sulfur & this element, smells of garlic on being fractured'

Answer: iron


Question: 'This English monarch loved to wear lace, & an herb with tiny white flowers is called her "lace"'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: 'On a holiday to the east coast of this state, you can see the Pepsi 400 & the Saturn V'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Equal to 36 square miles, it's a subdivision of a county'

Answer: a township


Question: 'Cary's only child is Jennifer Grant, whose mother is this actress often seen courtside at L.A. Lakers games'

Answer: Dyan Cannon


Question: 'This institute established in 1824 is Philadelphia's Museum of Science & Technology'

Answer: the Franklin Institute


Question: 'In the 1890s mildew plus an arsenic compound called Paris green in this decorative material killed thousands'

Answer: wallpaper


Question: '"Gros point de" this city, Italy's greatest lace center, arose in the 1600s with elaborate scroll patterns'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'If you travel to Morocco, "come with me to" the Berber castles known as these'

Answer: the Kasbahs


Question: 'Named for the PM who sponsored them, these 1767 "Acts" levied unpopular taxes on the American colonies'

Answer: Townshend


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Star City, Russia.)  This Russian capsule can ferry up to three crew members to and from the International Space Station'

Answer: Soyuz


Question: 'From 1934 until 1939, it was known as the Augusta National Invitation Tournament'

Answer: the Masters


Question: 'Contrary to popular belief, this largest desert is only 30% sand; 70% is gravelly plains & rocky plateaus'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'It must have made this author miserable to know his "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was included'

Answer: Hugo


Question: 'Located in this city's Russian Hill section, Lombard Street has been called the world's crookedest street'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'A personal record of events in someone's life'

Answer: a diary


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Star City, Russia.)  Behind me is a simulator of this craft that was inhabited by 104 people during its 15 years in space'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'Held in Hawaii, it consists of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bike race & a 26.2-mile run'

Answer: the Ironman Triathlon


Question: 'The world's largest unbroken expanse of sand is the Rub Al-Khali, or "Empty Quarter", of this desert'

Answer: the Arabian desert


Question: 'There was no monkeying around when this man's "History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" made the list'

Answer: Edward Gibbon


Question: 'This east-west Interstate through Nebraska isn't really endless; it's exactly 455.32 miles'

Answer: I-80


Question: 'Late to school or work'

Answer: tardy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Star City, Russia.) One of the cosmonauts honored at Star City is this amateur parachutist, who in 1963 became the first woman in space'

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova


Question: 'Among those who took part in this event's 150th Jubilee in 2001 were Juan Carlos, Prince Philip & Dennis Conner'

Answer: the America\'s Cup


Question: 'Botswana's Okavango Swamp is a remnant of an inland sea that once covered this desert'

Answer: the Kalahari


Question: 'Somehow his "Critique of Pure Reason" made the list, but not his "Critique of Practical Reason"'

Answer: Immanuel Kant


Question: 'In Boston, Mass. Ave., Massachusetts Avenue, intersects Com. Ave., this street'

Answer: Commonwealth Avenue


Question: 'Container for milk'

Answer: a carton


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Star City, Russia.)  In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space & flew three times faster than anyone else had in a capsule called this, or East'

Answer: Vostok


Question: 'It's a long day's journey into night in this event held each June on the Circuit de la Sarthe in France'

Answer: (the 24-hour Grand Prix at) Le Mans


Question: 'This Middle Eastern desert's name is from the Hebrew for "to dry"'

Answer: the Negev


Question: 'We must confess, both this Frenchman's "Emile" & "The Social Contract" are listed'

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Question: 'L.A.'s Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Parkway runs in front of what was this hotel, home to the Cocoanut Grove'

Answer: the Ambassador Hotel


Question: 'French for lemon'

Answer: citron


Question: 'Seen here is Buran, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to this U.S. program that got off the ground in 1981'

Answer: the shuttle


Question: 'The "All Star Game of Thoroughbred Racing", & racing's richest event, it's held each fall at a different track'

Answer: the Breeder\'s Cup


Question: 'Subdivisions of this desert include the Ka-Shun, Dzungarian & Trans-Altai'

Answer: the Gobi Desert


Question: '"Madame Bovary" by Flaubert, we understand, but "Principles of Political Economy" by this 3-named Brit, we don't'

Answer: John Stuart Mill


Question: 'Named for a president, it was the USA's first transcontinental road for cars'

Answer: the Lincoln Highway


Question: 'A bond, an electrovalent bond'

Answer: ionic


Question: 'It's the only surname ever shared by a U.S. president & a British prime minister'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'In 1985 Ronald Reagan said that this nation "has conducted the greatest military buildup in the history of man"'

Answer: the Soviet Union


Question: 'In 1965 S.F. Giants pitcher Juan Marichal took a bat to the head of John Roseboro of this archrival team'

Answer: the Dodgers


Question: 'It takes on a whole new light when you think of it as the belt you wear with a tuxedo'

Answer: a cummerbund


Question: 'The only male to survive infancy'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: 'Adam & Eve's modest wardrobe of Genesis 3:7'

Answer: fig leaves


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a spinal column model at Sawbones.) The model of the spine can demonstrate to patients conditions like scoliosis & kyphosis, the forward curvature known to laymen as this'

Answer: hunchback


Question: 'In his second inaugural, Pres. McKinley crowed that in 1901, unlike 1897, the U.S. had a budgetary this'

Answer: a surplus


Question: 'In "Nice Guys Finish Last", he recounts how Babe Ruth once egged him into inciting a fight with Ty Cobb'

Answer: (Leo) Durocher


Question: 'Also called a double cuff, this "national" item is usually fastened with a cuff link'

Answer: a French cuff


Question: 'The one who lived the longest'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'Magic-making Mickey Mouse movie of 1940'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skeletal arm model at Sawbones.)  This model presents with a fracture of the radius bone in the forearm, which studies find is most common in this season, as people try to break their falls'

Answer: winter


Question: 'He said, "I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless and sterile battalion of the ants"'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'In a 1973 playoff, this future hit king sparked a 10-minute brawl by leveling 160-lb. Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'This style of shoe seen here is named for the overlay perforations'

Answer: a wingtip


Question: 'Married Philip II of Spain'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'This adjective meaning "skilled in speaking a language" is also a calculus term used by Newton'

Answer: fluent


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a skeletal armbone model at Sawbones.)  For medical education, Sawbones makes bone models pre-fractured in common patterns; this fracture, where two cracks form a triangle, results from bending & is named for this insect'

Answer: butterfly


Question: 'This president told Americans, "Let us never negotiate out of fear.  But let us never fear to negotiate"'

Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Question: 'After losing his spot in the lineup in 1977, Rangers 2B Lenny Randle beat up 49-year-old Frank Lucchesi, his this'

Answer: manager


Question: 'A cutaway coat is also called this coat, for the time of day when it was worn'

Answer: a morning coat


Question: 'The one whose mother died from complications of childbirth'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: 'In the U.S. this holiday is celebrated the third Sunday in June'

Answer: Father\'s Day


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some models of the knee joint at Sawbones.)  The model of the knee is used for arthroscopic procedures, such as the common tearing of the cruciate these that can result from hyperextension'

Answer: ligaments


Question: 'In his first inaugural, he referred to Apollo 8 seeing "the world as God sees it"'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'In 1995 10 players were ejected for a brawl on "Strike Out Domestic Violence" night at this Durham, N.C. team's park'

Answer: the Durham Bulls


Question: 'Used as a synonym for "tie", it comes from a word for "neckcloth"'

Answer: a cravat


Question: 'The one who re-established Protestantism as official through the Acts of Supremacy & Uniformity'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'It's a slender strand or fiber of conductive material such as the tungsten one that glows in a light bulb'

Answer: a filament


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a skinned model of the head and neck at Sawbones.)  The head and neck model is used to train for procedures like this one, the opening of the windpipe that's sometimes done in emergency situations'

Answer: a tracheotomy


Question: 'This Rostand verse drama is named for a 17th c. nobleman known for his bold adventures & large nose'

Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac


Question: 'Oscar Brand won a Peabody Award for helping popularize this style of music played by The Weavers'

Answer: folk music


Question: 'Great painters?  Just tracers, per the book "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old" these'

Answer: Masters


Question: '"They brought" him, "and cast him into the den of lions"'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'This DC Comics superhero swims at high speeds & communicates telepathically with sea creatures'

Answer: Aquaman


Question: '3-word avian term for a futile quest'

Answer: a wild goose chase


Question: 'Check out this Marlowe work; with Lucifer, Mephistopheles & Beelzebub, it's one hell of a play'

Answer: Doctor Faustus


Question: 'On this show's opening voice-over, you might hear "He appeared at the home of his friend Oscar Madison"'

Answer: The Odd Couple


Question: 'Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'When this queen "heard of the fame of Solomon... she came to prove him with hard questions"'

Answer: the Queen of Sheba


Question: 'Faster than supersonic, this adjective denotes something traveling faster than 5 times the speed of sound'

Answer: hypersonic


Question: 'Unlike hurdles, the barriers in this track event don't move when you hit them'

Answer: the steeple chase


Question: 'In a William Inge play, people in a small Kansas town gather at a restaurant that's near this title place'

Answer: Bus Stop


Question: 'Diedrich Bader voiced Oscar, a saber-tooth in this 2002 animated film'

Answer: Ice Age


Question: 'The "Basic Genre" series includes "Landscape", "Self-Portraits" & this, with a cover showing fruit on a table'

Answer: Still Life


Question: 'Matthew & Luke both give us the line "Get thee behind me", thee being him'

Answer: Satan


Question: 'Because it's near Area 51, State Highway 375 in this state has an unofficial speed limit of Warp 7'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Vehicular term for a shifty, opportunistic lawyer'

Answer: an ambulance chaser


Question: 'British playwright Tom Taylor wrote this farce that played Ford's Theatre in April 1865'

Answer: Our American Cousin


Question: 'Oscar Martinez is a member of the "Finer Things Club" on this NBC sitcom'

Answer: The Office


Question: '"American Wilderness" is "The Story of" this 19th century school of painting'

Answer: the Hudson River School


Question: 'The first chapter of this man's book says, "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over... Jordan"'

Answer: Joshua


Question: 'The fastest game using a ball is this one played in frontons in which the ball can reach speeds near 200 mph'

Answer: jai-alai


Question: 'The Audubon Society maintains a wildlife sanctuary in this residential suburb of Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: 'Thomas Cromwell is one of the characters in this historical drama by Robert Bolt'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'For more than 100 episodes, Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman tried to get his money's worth out of this title guy'

Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man


Question: 'After 40 years in a drawer, this sports artist's sketchbook of 2 Muhammad Ali fights was published in 2004'

Answer: Leroy Neiman


Question: '"There appeared a chariot of fire" & he "went up by a whirlwind into heaven"'

Answer: Elijah


Question: 'Abbreviated P.A., it's a device used to speed up bits of atoms'

Answer: a particle accelerator


Question: 'The first Republican governor of Ohio, he later adorned U.S. currency'

Answer: Salmon P. Chase


Question: 'This Asian nation is the only nation with the same name as its capital & the island on which it's located'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Slang for a large amount, it's also the past tense of "slay"'

Answer: Slew


Question: 'This Scottish discoverer of the Victoria Falls was "found" by Henry Stanley in November 1871'

Answer: Dr. David Livingstone


Question: 'Superstition says that to ensure good luck a bride must wear these 4 items'

Answer: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"


Question: 'She's won 4 "Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy" Emmys as Carla on "Cheers"'

Answer: Rhea Perlman


Question: 'The first bobsled races were held in this mountainous country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'On Dec. 25, 1492, his ship the Santa Maria was wrecked off Hispaniola'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'It's a small harpsichord or piano, not a small spinning wheel'

Answer: Spinet


Question: 'In 1895 this British diamond king had a colony named for himself'

Answer: Sir Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia)


Question: 'A bride's principal attendant'

Answer: Maid/Matron of Honor


Question: 'For 25 years this director of the St. Louis Zoo hosted "Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"'

Answer: Marlon Perkins


Question: 'In 1910 the Intercollegiate Athletic Association changed its name to this'

Answer: NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)


Question: 'In 1950 Scottish nationalists stole the 336 lb. Stone of Scone from this British coronation site'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'It can be a merry adventure, a harmless prank or a bird'

Answer: Lark


Question: 'To protect against piracy in the 18th century, the U.S. made payoffs to this group of north African states'

Answer: Barbary States/Coast


Question: 'At Japanese weddings the bride & groom seal their union with sips of this alcoholic beverage'

Answer: Sake


Question: 'He was a panelist on "To Tell The Truth" for 9 years; now he's George Utley on "Newhart"'

Answer: Tom Poston


Question: 'A 5 iron is a mashie, a 9 iron is a niblick & this is a mashie niblick'

Answer: 7 Iron


Question: 'On Dec. 25, 1868 this president pardoned "All who....participated in the late rebellion"'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'This word for a form of Japanese dance-drama isn't negative, it means "talent"'

Answer: Noh


Question: 'In 1975 this country's colony of Angola became the last European colony to gain independence'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Child attendant who carries a pillow in the procession'

Answer: Ring Bearer


Question: 'She was "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E."'

Answer: Stefanie Powers


Question: 'Devised by Owen Patrick Smith, this sport was legalized in Florida in 1931'

Answer: Greyhound/dog racing


Question: 'He was crowned on December 25th in the year 800'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Type of bag carried by soldiers or sailors, or a simple song'

Answer: Ditty


Question: 'This dynasty ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. until the suicide death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C.'

Answer: Ptolemys


Question: 'These notices of intent to marry in the Catholic Church are published to make sure each party is free'

Answer: Banns


Question: 'This brother & sister played a brother & sister on "The Donna Reed Show"'

Answer: Paul & Patty Petersen


Question: 'Australian Rules, American & Association describe sports that are all named this'

Answer: Football


Question: 'In 1777 British explorer James Cook discovered this island'

Answer: Christmas Island


Question: 'Locusts are short-horned or short-antennaed varieties of these'

Answer: Grasshoppers


Question: 'Canada's Ontario province shares the Thousand Islands with this U.S. state'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Completes the John le Carre title "Tinker, Tailor,..."'

Answer: Soldier, Spy


Question: 'Noted with a dot on the score, it's the opposite of legato'

Answer: Staccato


Question: 'One proverb says, "6 hours" of this "for a man, 7 for a woman & 8 for a fool"'

Answer: Sleep


Question: 'In ancient China & in classical antiquity, this accessory was made of polished metal, not glass'

Answer: Mirror


Question: 'Developed by astronomer A.E. Douglass, dendrochronology determines age in this way'

Answer: Counting tree rings


Question: 'The 3 states represented in the name of the city of Texarkana'

Answer: Arkansas, Louisiana & Texas


Question: '"Marco Polo If You Can" is one of this "National Review" founder's forays into spy novels'

Answer: William F. Buckley


Question: 'English title of Paul Dukas' symphonic piece "L' Apprenti Sorcier"'

Answer: "The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice"


Question: 'William Congreve coined the oft-misquoted proverb, "Music has charms to soothe" a "savage" one'

Answer: Breast


Question: 'They were first called "Fashion Babies", but until the 19th C. many of them looked like adults'

Answer: Dolls


Question: 'Each December the Paul Bunyan Sled Dog Races are held in Bemidji in this northern state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'His most recent bestseller is "The Icarus Agenda", published in 1988'

Answer: Robert Ludlum


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Most people know its first 4 notes; these are its last notes:'

Answer: Beethoven\'s "Fifth Symphony"


Question: '"Blessed is he who expects" this, "for he shall never be disappointed"'

Answer: Nothing


Question: 'In medieval armor, the part of the body protected by the "Pauldron" or "Epauliere"'

Answer: Shoulder


Question: 'Einstein's famous equation states energy equals mass times this squared'

Answer: the speed of light


Question: 'The Amana Colonies in this state are known for the manufacturing of refrigerators & other appliances'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'He wrote "The Odessa File" & "The Fourth Protocol" as well as "The Day of the Jackal"'

Answer: Frederick Forsythe


Question: 'Stalin's death the next day pushed this "Peter & The Wolf" composer's obit off the front page'

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev


Question: '"The hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world"'

Answer: Rocks the Cradle


Question: 'One of the older types of cooking vessels, it figures importantly in Act IV of "Macbeth"'

Answer: Cauldron


Question: 'When swinging a rock on a string in a circle, this force pulls the rock inward'

Answer: Centrifugal


Question: 'Bordering on Kentucky, this easternmost of the 12 midwestern states also has a bluegrass region'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Singular pseudonym of Rodney Whitaker, who authored 2 "Sanction" books, "Loo" & "Eiger"'

Answer: Trevanian


Question: 'Friml gave us the "Donkey Serenade", but he gave us the whole "Carnival Of Animals"'

Answer: Camille Saint-Saens


Question: '"They that sow the wind shall reap" this'

Answer: The whirlwind


Question: 'The name of this chair is said to have come about when George III ordered some made for his castle'

Answer: Windsor Chair


Question: 'This president was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'This opera company's home was originally on Broadway at 39th Street; it moved to Lincoln Center in 1966'

Answer: the Metropolitan Opera


Question: '"I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss", says this classic song'

Answer: "Born To Run"


Question: 'In 2002 a woman lost part of an ear to this marsupial, apparently off its eucalyptus diet; not so cute'

Answer: a koala


Question: 'In West Virginia civil trials, there are 6 of them'

Answer: jurors


Question: 'It's the powerful democracy of more than 1,000 islands seen here'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'It's the Roman numeral for 50'

Answer: L


Question: 'This Milan opera house was built by Maria Theresa of Austria to replace the Royal Ducal Theatre'

Answer: La Scala


Question: 'It's "Greetings From" this New Jersey "Park" in the title of Bruce's first album'

Answer: Asbury


Question: 'In 2004 a 5-year-old Aussie girl saved her sister from an attack by this wild animal famous for a similar 1980 event'

Answer: a dingo


Question: 'Type of witness who attests to reputation, not to the facts'

Answer: a character witness


Question: 'The Spanish vanquished a native empire in this country in 1532'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'People with this most common blood type were once considered universal donors'

Answer: O


Question: 'Bennelong Point, the site of this opera house, was home to several Aboriginal clans when Europeans arrived'

Answer: the Sydney Opera House


Question: 'This hit off "Born in the U.S.A." begins, "I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school"'

Answer: "Glory Days"


Question: 'This aquatic animal's bill senses electrical fields; a 1980s test found it attacked a 1.5 V battery 88 out of 88 times'

Answer: a platypus


Question: 'Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's current title is this type of "counsel"'

Answer: Special Counsel


Question: 'In thousands of years of history, this island seen here has been conquered & ruled by numerous empires & kings'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'It's the class of vitamins that includes thiamine & riboflavin'

Answer: B


Question: 'The Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany was built as a place for this composer to stage his operas'

Answer: Wagner


Question: 'The title track on this Springsteen album named for a state tells of a mass-murder spree by Charlie Starkweather'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'A golfer won a negligence lawsuit after a 5-foot, red one of these attacked him on a New South Wales course'

Answer: a kangaroo


Question: 'This person "of the court" is charged with preserving trial records'

Answer: a clerk


Question: '"Y" not give us the name of this republic?'

Answer: Yemen


Question: 'In standard tuning, the top & bottom strings of a 6-string guitar are tuned to this note'

Answer: E


Question: 'London's Royal Opera House traces its history back to a 1728 performance of this John Gay "Opera"'

Answer: The Beggar\'s Opera


Question: 'The 2006 album "We Shall Overcome" is a tribute to this Weavers co-founder & folk legend'

Answer: Pete Seeger


Question: 'In 2001 this large bird was seen running down Mississippi 51, then went after an animal control officer'

Answer: an emu


Question: 'A "U.S." one is a judicial officer appointed by district court judges'

Answer: a magistrate


Question: 'Twenty-million-strong border country of South Africa seen here'

Answer: Mozambique


Question: 'In physics, it's the symbol for Planck's constant'

Answer: h


Question: 'Computer analysis of newly found paintings said the drip patterns weren't consistent with this artist's previous works'

Answer: Pollock


Question: 'This show finished in Nielsen's top 10 programs a record 23 consecutive seasons'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'Photovoltaic (or "P.V.") cells, which can power homes, are more commonly called these'

Answer: solar (cells)


Question: 'In 1983 Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of this Midwest city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'His story "The Undefeated" tells of Manuel Garcia, a bullfighter just released from the hospital who refuses to retire'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'My kids made an oddly lifelike bust of me using this substance, "chewed paper"'

Answer: papier-mâché


Question: 'The Times called this Fox sitcom, a critical darling, "an alliance between 'The Royal Tenenbaums' & 'The Simpsons'"'

Answer: Arrested Development


Question: '714 was the number on the badge seen at the beginning & end of this show that debuted in 1951'

Answer: Dragnet


Question: 'Partly from the Greek for "heat", it's the type of energy produced by Iceland's Krafla Plant'

Answer: geothermal


Question: 'In 2001 this Mississippi senator alternated between being majority leader & minority leader'

Answer: Trent Lott


Question: 'Fitzgerald's "Tales of" this alludes to the 1920s, but most of the stories were written before 1920'

Answer: the Jazz Age


Question: 'If you don't like traffic, live on this kind of street, the "bottom of the sack"'

Answer: a cul-de-sac


Question: 'The Times said a 2005 production of this Shaw play about a career woman was "intriguingly nuanced drama"'

Answer: Mrs. Warren\'s Profession


Question: 'Time stopped when Elisha Cuthbert was bitten by a mountain lion during the filming of this Fox show'

Answer: 24


Question: 'Pumped-storage is one type of plant for this, the nation's largest renewable electricity source'

Answer: hydroelectric


Question: 'Nelson Aldrich, a senator from 1881 to 1911, was the grandfather of this vice president named for him'

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller


Question: 'Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" lives in this village, where he attends a witches' sabbath'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'I'm never sure if I want to order my food prix fixe or this way, "according to the menu"'

Answer: à la carte


Question: 'In 2006 Angela Gheorghiu had a "supercharged star turn" as Violetta in this Verdi opera'

Answer: La Traviata


Question: '4 8 15 16 23 & 42 are numbers inexplicably tied to characters on this show'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'By 2003, there were 65 facilities for this type of power in the U.S., generating about 20% of our energy'

Answer: nuclear power


Question: 'In 1832 this South Carolina statesman resigned as vice president & became a senator'

Answer: John C. Calhoun


Question: 'This Mississippian's 1941 story "The Worn Path" won her an O. Henry Memorial Contest Award, the first of several'

Answer: Eudora Welty


Question: '"Present yourself" at the designated place & time for this type of meeting'

Answer: a rendezvous


Question: '"The Seven", a hip-hop reworking of his "Seven Against Thebes", is a "risky adventure in aesthetic cross-pollination"'

Answer: Aeschylus


Question: 'The name in this series' title referred to Malloy & Reed's patrol car; the number referred to their beat'

Answer: Adam-12


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew opens a vat in from Napa Valley, CA.)  This alcohol produced by grape fermentation is also used to make solvents & gasoline'

Answer: ethanol


Question: 'This Republican "from the State of Maine" served as Secretary of State under Garfield, Arthur & Benjamin Harrison'

Answer: James G. Blaine


Question: 'His short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" was adapted into the 1990 film "Total Recall"'

Answer: Philip Dick


Question: 'Richard Branson & Michael Dell are 2 famous examples of this type of businessman: "one who undertakes"'

Answer: an entrepreneur


Question: 'Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'As one of these in ancient Egypt, Peseshet was maybe the world's first woman to say, "Turn your head & Khufu"'

Answer: physician (or doctor)


Question: 'Before teaming with Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon appeared in this 1960 John Wayne western (not as Davy)'

Answer: The Alamo


Question: 'If you give a tithe to your church, you are giving this fraction of your income'

Answer: one tenth


Question: 'L'eggs debuted as a brand of panythose & Homestyle Eggos as a brand of these'

Answer: waffles


Question: 'Cayo Coco, a resort island off the northern coast of Cuba, is known for its flocks of these pink birds'

Answer: flamingos


Question: 'Cold nation: RSS'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Agrippina & Nero were among those who hired Locusta, a lady professional assassain who used this method'

Answer: poison


Question: 'With no help from Annette, Frankie Avalon was born in this year in which Germany invaded Poland'

Answer: 1939


Question: 'According to the Constitution, all U.S. treaties must be approved by this fraction of U.S. senators voting'

Answer: two-thirds


Question: 'On August 18, 1977, this sad event took place in the living room at Graceland'

Answer: Elvis Presley\'s funeral service


Question: 'Reasearchers have found brown thrashers may know 2,000 different ones of these, & marsh wrens, 200'

Answer: songs (calls accepted)


Question: 'Arm bone: LN'

Answer: ulna


Question: 'Frormer nun Catherine von Bora bore him 6 kids; at least he didn't demand 95'

Answer: (Martin) Luther


Question: 'With Annette nowhere in sight, Frankie Avalon played a 39-year-old teen angel in this 1978 musical film'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'It's the smallest fractional increment for men's hat sizes'

Answer: one-eighth


Question: 'His brief 34-day reign as pope in 1978 was a week longer than a predecessor's in 1605'

Answer: John Paul I


Question: 'These creatures are broadly divided into Saurischia, "lizard hips", & Ornithischia, "bird hips"'

Answer: dinosaurs


Question: 'Bookmarked website: MZN'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'Mary McElroy, this widower's sister, acted as official White House hostess; he didn't keep Mrs. Garfield on'

Answer: Chester Arthur


Question: 'Annette Funicello did not do backing vocals on this 1959 Frankie Avalon hit song about a Roman goddess'

Answer: "Venus"


Question: 'A navigator's sextant takes its name from the fact that it measures this fraction of a circle'

Answer: one-sixth


Question: 'When the fast food "meal" now called this debuted nationally in '79, it came in a circus wagon box'

Answer: a Happy Meal


Question: 'Kittiwakes are a species of birds of the family Laridae that nest on the ledges of beachside cliffs'

Answer: seagulls


Question: 'U. S. island territory: MRCN SM'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar for playing this mom of Richard the Lion-Hearted'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: 'Annette Funicello was not on board when Frankie starred in this 1961 sci-fi "voyage" directed by Irwin Allen'

Answer: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea


Question: '(Hi.  I'm LeVar Burton.)  I starred in this 1977 landmark miniseries that inspired millions of people to research their own family trees'

Answer: Roots


Question: 'The last of these "great" birds was killed in 1844 on an island off Iceland'

Answer: a great auk


Question: 'Old Testament book: MS'

Answer: Amos


Question: 'Reasonably enough, the bulgur type of this is popular in Bulgaria's Eastern-influenced cuisine'

Answer: wheat


Question: 'Howard Duff became a star in "The Adventures of" this Dashiell Hammett "Detective"'

Answer: Sam Spade


Question: 'Nightgown-clad nursery rhyme runner'

Answer: Wee Willie Winkie


Question: '"Hither & thither" are equivalent to this pair of antonyms that are only a "T" different'

Answer: here & there


Question: 'Charles Dickens was laid to rest in a private ceremony on June 14, 1870 in the Poet's Corner of this church'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'City that's home to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & the Bulgarian State Conservatory'

Answer: Sofia


Question: 'In the 1930s this city had the USA's first official radio broadcast orchestra, heard on the Ford Symphony Hour'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'This Aussie directed "Witness" & "Master and Commander"'

Answer: (Peter) Weir


Question: 'This opposite of "defy" has fallen out of favor in many marriage vows'

Answer: obey


Question: 'This "Oz" author was urged to write his stories by his mother-in-law, noted suffragette Matilda Gage'

Answer: (L. Frank) Baum


Question: 'A party representing this political view won historic free elections in 1990; guess the people weren't tired of it'

Answer: communism


Question: 'Sgt. Preston worked for the Northwest Mounted Police; Inspector Renfrew worked for this later version'

Answer: Royal Canadian Mounted Police


Question: 'Brecht collaborator who composed "The Threepenny Opera"'

Answer: (Kurt) Weill


Question: 'Hairdressing process that's an antonym of ephemeral'

Answer: permanent


Question: 'The Yiddish greeting for "peace be with you" gave Solomon Rabinowitz this pen name'

Answer: Sholom Aleichem


Question: 'Tourists flock to this sea that, unfortunately, also has a lot of pollution from industry'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: '"As a bullet seeks its target, shining rails in every part of our great nation are aimed at..." this landmark'

Answer: Grand Central Station


Question: 'Clergyman biographer of our first president'

Answer: Parson Weems


Question: 'This hearty opposite of "frail" also rhymes with it'

Answer: hale


Question: 'His story "I Sing the Body Electric!" was adapted as an episode of "The Twilight Zone"'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'Bury yourself (& an ancient Egyptian) in this 1981 winner from the greek for "flesh-eating"'

Answer: S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S


Question: 'The first important Bulgarian novel was Ivan Vazov's "Under the Yoke"--this empire's yoke'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Familial name for the 3 witches in "Macbeth"'

Answer: the Weird Sisters


Question: 'It's found in a list of antonyms of "beneficial", & in medical texts before "anemia"'

Answer: pernicious


Question: 'In 2004 the wreck of this author's plane was located off Marseille, near where his "Saint-Ex" bracelet had been found'

Answer: (Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry


Question: 'This Athenian school founded by Aristotle in 335 B.C. was the last word of the 1992 competition'

Answer: L-Y-C-E-U-M


Question: 'On the throne since 1946, the king of this Asian country is the world's longest-serving living monarch'

Answer: Thailand (Rama IX or King Bhumbibol Adulyadej)


Question: 'The gospel according to Mark doesn't mention this husband of Mary by name'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'This hotel's pink & white big top is home to acrobats, daredevils & trapeze artists'

Answer: Circus Circus


Question: 'In 1997 she became the 1st first lady to win a Grammy, for "It Takes A Village"'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'Celebrated May 1, Lei Day is a statewide holiday in this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Foot warmer'

Answer: sock


Question: 'The book of Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to this wise king'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'You enter this hotel's castle via the drawbridge over its moat'

Answer: Excalibur


Question: 'This British rocker proved himself a "Phenomenon", winning 2 Grammys for "Change The World"'

Answer: Eric Clapton


Question: 'Pella, Iowa celebrates its heritage from this country during its Tulip Time Festival in May'

Answer: Holland (the Netherlands)


Question: 'Members of a church, or a group of birds'

Answer: flock


Question: 'David was instantly taken with this woman after he saw her bathing'

Answer: Bathsheba


Question: 'Its 10 "Fantasy Suites" feature Roman, Egyptian or Pompeian decors'

Answer: Caesars Palace


Question: 'Singer seen here, she won 2 Grammys, including Best New Artist:'

Answer: LeAnn Rimes


Question: 'Lent begins on this day of the week'

Answer: Ash Wednesday


Question: 'A tress of hair'

Answer: lock


Question: 'He was the Bible's first murder victim'

Answer: Abel


Question: 'In 1996 this hotel shut down its King Tut's Tomb to move it, so you'll have to wait to see your mummy'

Answer: the Luxor


Question: 'With good reason, her "Give Me One Reason" won the award for Best Rock Song'

Answer: Tracy Chapman


Question: 'A type of coat, or another word for a smock'

Answer: frock


Question: 'In Acts 15:14 this apostle is referred to as Simeon'

Answer: Simon (Peter)


Question: 'This new hotel's Coney Island Pavillion is home to a Nathan's Hot Dogs; mmmmmmmmmmm'

Answer: New York-New York


Question: 'Nominated for 12 Grammys, he picked up 3 for Producer of the Year, Record of the Yeat & Best R&B Song'

Answer: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds


Question: 'This strong, sweet German beer can be light or dark'

Answer: bock


Question: 'This western state sent its first refrigerated trainload of oranges back east February 14, 1886'

Answer: California


Question: '"Oh! What a lovely war" marked the film debut of this lovely actress, now TV's "Dr. Quinn"'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'Steffi Graf posed in a bikini for this magazine's 1997 swimsuit issue'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'Venezia is the Italian name for this city'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'This nutritious outer layer of kernels of grain is lost in refining but is found in raisin cereals'

Answer: bran


Question: '"I'm Only One Man!", as co-host Kathie Lee Gifford can attest, & he tells all about it in his autobiography'

Answer: Regis Philbin


Question: 'On December 6, 1847 this future president took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'This "Dirty Dancing" star did some dirty skating in his first film, "Skatetown, U.S.A."'

Answer: Patrick Swayze


Question: 'With scented ads for 4 of these, the February 1997 Elle could have been called Smelle'

Answer: perfumes


Question: 'Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Helping the body use protein, the B6 type of this is as least half as important as B12'

Answer: vitamin


Question: 'You can read all about the way it was with this former CBS anchor in his recent book "A Reporter's Life"'

Answer: Walter Cronkite


Question: 'In 1956 Jonas Salk & Leonard Scheele said Salk's vaccine should eliminate this disease within 3 years'

Answer: polio


Question: 'He had hair in his 1st movie, "Port of New York", but not in his 2nd released film, "The King and I"'

Answer: Yul Brynner


Question: 'A story on lower death rates from heart disease brightened a recent issue of the journal of this, the AMA'

Answer: American Medical Association


Question: 'You'll find this highest mountain in the world about 100 miles northeast of Katmandu'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'Starches like potatoes are the "complex" type of these compounds'

Answer: carbohydrates


Question: 'In 1996 this former Lakers center shared his love of history in "Black Profiles in Courage"'

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


Question: 'This president commuted Patty Hearst's jail sentence & was instrumental in a Mideast peace treaty'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'The cover of its 1995 Hollywood issue showed actresses in their underwear; for 1997's, they wore gowns'

Answer: Vanity Fair


Question: 'This country borders every other country in South America except Ecuador & Chile'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Reputed to be aphrodisiacs, these shellfish are rich in zinc, which is crucial to testosterone production'

Answer: oysters


Question: 'You'll find the largest aquarium & the tallest woman in this book that's celebrating its 40th anniversary'

Answer: The Guinness Book of World Records


Question: 'Name given to the module that landed the first men on the moon July 20, 1969'

Answer: the Eagle


Question: 'Publications named for people include Forbes, Harper's & this woman's magazine founded by a man named James'

Answer: McCall\'s


Question: 'Montego Bay has been called the resort capital of this Caribbean island'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'Antioxidants like beta carotene prevent cell damage by these products of oxygen breakdown'

Answer: free radicals


Question: 'Between his novels "Congo" & "Sphere", he published "Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers"'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'Announced by Ole Romer in 1676, the first measurement of this was 140,000 miles per second'

Answer: the speed of light


Question: 'In 1967, 1st woman to run this Mass. distance event had to sneak her way in'

Answer: Boston Marathon


Question: 'After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: '1st produced in 1928, manufacturers blew their wad making it'

Answer: bubble gum


Question: '3 miles, or the one for women voters'

Answer: league


Question: '“Season”ed disco queen born Ladonna Gaines'

Answer: Donna Summer


Question: 'Farms & ranches cover 90% of this border state's land'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: 'Altho’ founded in 1883, it wasn't until 1976 that Sarah Caldwell became 1st woman to conduct this opera company'

Answer: New York Metropolitan


Question: 'Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a general in this North American war, tried to unite Poland in 1794, but failed'

Answer: Revolutionary War


Question: 'Once kicked out of school, this “chewing gum king” eventually captured 70% of gum market'

Answer: Wrigley


Question: 'Celtic for “from the red marsh”, it was glamorous Marilyn's surname'

Answer: Monroe


Question: 'Ernest Evans’ “twist”ed name'

Answer: Chubby Checker


Question: 'Tho’ Catholicism is this English province's largest single denomination, it's a “persecuted minority”'

Answer: Northern Ireland


Question: 'In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the 1st person to do this at Niagara Falls'

Answer: go over Niagara Falls in a barrel


Question: 'Of 1 out of 5, 1 out of 15, or 1 out of 50, approximate ratio of Polish families who own cars'

Answer: 1 out of 50


Question: '[Audio] Title question asked in this Lonnie Donegan song:'

Answer: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?


Question: 'If you don't believe she was born Shirley Beaty, ask her little brother Warren'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: '1st to sail it, Roald Amundsen found this “shortcut” a difficult 3-year trip'

Answer: Northwest Passage


Question: 'For service as a medical officer in 1865 Mary Walker became only woman to win this'

Answer: the Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: 'Poland is among the world's largest producer of this fuel'

Answer: coal


Question: 'A WWII morale booster for Filipinos was gum printed with this famous promise'

Answer: I shall return


Question: 'Honest, Wyatt, his name was originally Hugh Krampe'

Answer: Hugh O\'Brian


Question: 'Begun in 1948, this university's African studies program was 1st of its kind in U.S.'

Answer: Northwestern


Question: 'After 1572, the Poles used this method to select a king'

Answer: election


Question: 'A primary part of gum base, it's the natural gum of the Sapodilla tree'

Answer: chicle


Question: 'Actor David Meyer changed his name to this before he started playing “Richard Diamond, Priv. Det.”'

Answer: David Janssen


Question: 'The founder of this aircraft company also helped form its competitor Lockheed'

Answer: Northrop


Question: 'Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist'

Answer: Pavlov


Question: 'Of all his books, he said “David Copperfield” was his “favourite child”'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'In golf, this bird in the hand is worth 2 under par'

Answer: eagle


Question: 'Knob you adjust if your picture rolls'

Answer: vertical


Question: 'The most delicate of these is made of only 150-200 sable hairs, weighing .000529 oz. altogether'

Answer: paintbrush


Question: 'State where gold was found in 1874 when Custer led expedition to explore it'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'Though pleasant to kiss under, this plant is poisonous to eat'

Answer: mistletoe


Question: 'The “official” title of “Alice In Wonderland”'

Answer: Alice\'s Adventures In Wonderland


Question: 'Since Pittsburgh's baseball team is the Pirates, their mascot dresses up as this'

Answer: parrot


Question: 'Regis Philbin was his Ed McMahon'

Answer: Joey Bishop


Question: 'The Mogul school introduced western perspective, not a Hollywood one, to art of this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Until 1963, Studebakers were made in this Indiana city'

Answer: South Bend


Question: 'Cryobiologists are interested in doing this to living matter to preserve it for future use'

Answer: freezing


Question: 'Henry James novel whose New York setting is its title'

Answer: Washington Square


Question: 'Every Fall, these “predators” take wing in the AFC West'

Answer: Seahawks


Question: 'Role Hans Conreid played “relatively” well on “Make Room For Daddy”'

Answer: Uncle Tonoose


Question: '“From today painting is dead”, said a French artist upon seeing this type of picture in 1839'

Answer: Daguerreotype, photograph


Question: 'Except for Thailand, all independent states in this area have won their freedom since 1945'

Answer: Southeast Asia


Question: 'For over 50 years, one of these was “The Man Without A Country's” home'

Answer: ship


Question: 'Appropriately, these birds play in the National Hockey League'

Answer: Pittsburgh Penguins


Question: 'Of a Sunbeam, Triumph, or Austin-Healey, Maxwell Smart's car'

Answer: Sunbeam


Question: 'Highest price for painting by a female was $1.1 mil. for “Reading Le Figaro” by this U.S. artist'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'As the Big Dipper points to the North Star, this major constellation points to the sky's South Pole'

Answer: Southern Cross


Question: 'Captain Nemo “dies” in both these Jules Verne novels'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island


Question: 'Only NBA team that qualifies for this category'

Answer: Hawks


Question: 'Miss Landers taught this title character his ABCs'

Answer: Beaver Cleaver


Question: 'In 1517, this French king & patron of Da Vinci orig. bought the “Mona Lisa” to hang in his bathroom'

Answer: Francois I


Question: 'Helping to found it in 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. headed this civil rights group until his death'

Answer: Southern Christian Leadership Conference


Question: 'Since it was established in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to these 2 U.S. Presidents'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'In May 1692 this village's jails were filled with witchcraft suspects, eventually totaling 150'

Answer: Salem, Massachusetts


Question: '1968:<br />"War and Peace"'

Answer: Soviet Union/Russia


Question: 'Plush accommodations in this city include the King David Hotel near the Tower of David Museum'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'In a jealous rage, a soldier murders the gypsy with whom he's had a passionate affair in this Bizet opera'

Answer: "Carmen"


Question: 'On November 7, 1951 he married Ava Gardner'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'For water, it's 212 degrees Fahrenheit'

Answer: Boiling point


Question: 'In 1900 Sanford B. Dole became the first governor of this U.S. territory'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: '1983:<br />"Fanny and Alexander"'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'This capital's O'Connell Street, one of Europe's widest, was previously called Sackville Street'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Some dance to remember; she dances for the head of John the Baptist after he resists her advances'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'In 1971 he joined the "Monday Night Football" announcing team'

Answer: Frank Gifford


Question: 'North American hard worker seen here:'

Answer: Beaver


Question: 'During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, "Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead!"'

Answer: Mobile Bay


Question: '1989:<br />"Cinema Paradiso"'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Chinese New Year is greeted with dancing dragon parades & firecrackers in this largest B.C. city'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'In this composer's "Don Giovanni", the title character seduces women, kills a man & is dragged down to Hell'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'His directing credits include "Lost Horizon", "Arsenic and Old Lace" & "It Happened One Night"'

Answer: Frank Capra


Question: 'The Osmond Family Theater & the Mel Tillis Theater are found in this Missouri city'

Answer: Branson


Question: 'In 1888 he won the presidency using the campaign song "Grandfather's Hat Fits Ben"'

Answer: Benjamin Harrison


Question: '1992:<br />"Indochine"'

Answer: France


Question: 'Launched in 1967, it's the only luxury liner now making regular transatlantic crossings'

Answer: QE2


Question: 'Canio isn't clowning around when he stabs his wife & her lover to death in this Leoncavallo opera'

Answer: "Pagliacci"


Question: 'This founder of Barking Pumpkin Records was the leader of the Mothers of Invention'

Answer: Frank Zappa


Question: 'From the Old English for "signal", it's a flashing light to guide or warn ships'

Answer: Beacon


Question: 'During the War of 1812, he had command of 3 brigs, 5 schooners & a sloop on Lake Erie'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: '1967:<br />"Closely Watched Trains"'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'This Salt Lake City home of Brigham Young is named for the item placed atop the cupola on its roof'

Answer: Beehive House


Question: 'The discovery of Tristan's affair with this woman, his uncle's wife, leads to the lovers' deaths'

Answer: Isolde


Question: 'This 1956 Rookie of the Year was the first black manager in Major League Baseball'

Answer: Frank Robinson


Question: 'In 1985 Neil Simon won a Tony for this "colorful" play about Army life'

Answer: "Biloxi Blues"


Question: 'Logically enough, a white dwarf becomes this type of star when it no longer emits any  light'

Answer: Black dwarf


Question: 'This '90s fitness craze is a combination of stationary biking & aerobics'

Answer: Spinning


Question: 'Michigan's Isle Royale in this Great Lake has over 30 lakes of its own'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'Beatrix Potter also wrote about Benjamin Bunny, a cousin of this naughty title rabbit'

Answer: Peter Rabbit


Question: 'Frequently late, this sex symbol quipped in 1962, "I've been on a calendar, but never on time"'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'On the 1999 duet "Be Careful (Cuidado con Mi Corazon)" Madonna sings in Spanish & he sings in English'

Answer: Ricky Martin


Question: 'This Greek letter often denotes the brightest star in a constellation; Centaurus' is the closest to us'

Answer: Alpha


Question: 'Quogue, Wainscott & Water Mill are communities in this fashionable Long Island resort area'

Answer: The Hamptons


Question: '600 miles offshore, these Ecuadoran islands are known as "The Enchanted Islands"'

Answer: Galapagos Islands


Question: 'In "The House at Pooh Corner", Rabbit tried to unbounce this character by losing him in the forest'

Answer: Tigger


Question: 'Of her role in the Clarence Thomas hearings, she said, "I had to tell the truth"'

Answer: Anita Hill


Question: 'Madonna's first Top 40 hit in the U.S., it says, "We're gonna have a celebration"'

Answer: "Holiday"


Question: 'The red giant Aldebaran is the "bull's eye" of this constellation'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'In 1999 this store whose symbol is seen here promoted a French pronounciation of its name:<br />(Bullseye)'

Answer: Target


Question: 'If you can't tell that it's the island seen here, adjust the colors on your monitor:<br />("The Emerald Isle")'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'This Seuss work says, "You do not like them.  So you say.  Try them!  Try them!  And you may."'

Answer: "Green Eggs and Ham"


Question: 'Of the first manned space flight, this cosmonaut said, "I could have gone on flying...forever"'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: 'He's the father of Madonna's daughter Lourdes'

Answer: Carlos Leon


Question: 'Similar to cargo pants, these multi-pocketed pants named for a profession are popular with kids'

Answer: Carpenter pants


Question: 'Madagascar's colorful features include half the world's types of this lizard'

Answer: Chameleon


Question: 'Astrid Lindgren created this girl, a redheaded Swedish orphan with an odd fashion sense'

Answer: Pippi Longstocking


Question: 'On giving up her Miss America title in 1984, she said, "The past just came up and kicked me"'

Answer: Vanessa Williams


Question: 'The song heard here was featured in this 1985 film in which Madonna played the title character:<br />("Get Into the Groove")'

Answer: Desperately Seeking Susan


Question: 'This trendy retailer is known for his clever ads like "Have a Heart.  Give a Sole."'

Answer: Kenneth Cole


Question: 'This Canadian city's largest park occupies 4 islands in Lake Ontario'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'It was the first book published in C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia"'

Answer: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"


Question: 'Margaret Truman once said of her dad, "He loved politicians -- even" these people'

Answer: Republicans


Question: 'One of the 2 middle names that Madonna uses; one of them is her confirmation name'

Answer: Louise or Veronica


Question: 'This American sport traces its roots back to the '30s & Southern bootleggers who outran the law'

Answer: Stock car racing


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in flowing water in Israel.)  The book of Mark recounts how believers, including Jesus, were baptized in the Jordan River by this man'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'Katy Perry:<br />"Waking Up In ____"'

Answer: Vegas


Question: 'This second-most populous country celebrates Buddha Purnima & Diwali, a festival of light'

Answer: India


Question: 'In jolly old England:<br />BARDIC GEM'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'Seeking an elixir for immortality, the 9th c. Chinese accidentally invented this using saltpeter, sulfur & charcoal'

Answer: gunpowder


Question: 'Iapetus orbits it'

Answer: Saturn


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.)  This boat from the early Christian era is the type that Peter & Andrew may have been in when Jesus said, "Follow me and I will make you" these'

Answer: fishers of men


Question: 'Green Day:<br />"____ Guns"'

Answer: 21


Question: 'This country officially closes public schools on both St. Patrick's Day & St. Stephen's Day'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'A Latter-Day institution:<br />BRAINY HOG MUG'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'The Vikings developed written law & this type of trial that's specified in the 7th Amendment'

Answer: trial by jury


Question: 'Launched in 1962, Telstar was the first commercial one of these'

Answer: satellite


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.)  The Church of the Beatitudes is on the hilltop long considered the site where Jesus delivered this, which contained the Beatitudes'

Answer: the Sermon on the Mount


Question: 'Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: <br />"Good Girls ____ ____"'

Answer: Go Bad


Question: 'This country has Bataan Day & People Power Day, commemorating the 1986 revolt'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: '60% Texan enrollment:<br />ERIC'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'Around 1000 A.D. the caliphate of Cordoba controlled much of this European peninsula'

Answer: the Iberian Peninsula


Question: 'Starting with Gaius Lucilius, it's considered the only literary form the Romans invented'

Answer: satire


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.)  Here in the garden of Gethsemane, this disciple, accompanied by a group of armed men, approached Jesus and said, "Hail, master", then kissed him'

Answer: Judas


Question: 'Tim McGraw:<br />"It's A Business Doing ____ ____ ____"'

Answer: Pleasure With You


Question: 'This country has a Coptic Christmas, an Islamic new year & a Sinai Liberation Day'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'I'll be D.C.'in ya!:<br />EGG ON TOWER'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'Around 800 this Holy Roman Emperor established a school at his palace at Aachen'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Served with peanut sauce, it's Asian barbecue served on skewers'

Answer: satay


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.)  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is believed to be built over this hill, site of the crucifixion'

Answer: Golgotha


Question: 'Whitney Houston:<br />"____ Dollar Bill"'

Answer: Million


Question: 'October 3 is a day of unity celebration in this reunified European country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Founded in 1769:<br />MOD ART HUT'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'In 1167 northern Italian cities formed the Lombard League as protection against this red-bearded invader'

Answer: Barbarossa (Frederick I)


Question: 'Adjective for any liquid that has all the solute it can handle'

Answer: saturated


Question: 'Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city'

Answer: Montgomery


Question: 'Born in Vancouver, he's brought his curly hair & rubber face to "Funny People" as well as to "Superbad"'

Answer: Seth Rogen


Question: 'Texas declares its independence as a republic'

Answer: the 19th Century


Question: 'In 1944 the world's first plutonium production reactor went online at Hanford in this Northwest state'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'In 2009 Jon Stewart nicknamed this man, now an inmate, "Arthur Ponzarelli"'

Answer: Bernie Madoff


Question: 'Slang for soda or Dad'

Answer: pop


Question: 'In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime'

Answer: Woolworth\'s


Question: 'She won a 2009 Emmy for her impression of a certain Vice Presidential candidate'

Answer: Tina Fey


Question: 'The Normans conquer England'

Answer: the 11th Century


Question: 'Metal control rods prevent chain reactions by absorbing neutrons & are often made of this, symbol Cd'

Answer: cadmium


Question: 'Andrew Fastow, who cooked the books for this Houston-based power company, got 6 years'

Answer: ENRON


Question: 'Short for a certain sibling'

Answer: sis


Question: 'Martin Luther King's purpose in traveling to this city in March 1968 was to support striking sanitation workers'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'In 2002 she was friends with "The Hot Chick"; in 2008 she was "The House Bunny"'

Answer: (Anna) Faris


Question: 'Marie Antoinette lives & dies'

Answer: the 18th Century


Question: '2-word term for the amount of fuel required to maintain a chain reaction; it varies according to the reactor'

Answer: critical mass


Question: 'After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he was sent to prison for taking a Gentile into temple precincts'

Answer: (St.) Paul


Question: 'This term for midday comes from the Latin for "ninth hour"'

Answer: noon


Question: 'James Meredith, the first black student at the University of this state, was shot & wounded there in June 1966'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'This "Report"er tried without success to get on the ballot for South Carolina's 2008 Presidential Primary'

Answer: Stephen Colbert


Question: 'Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America'

Answer: the 16th Century


Question: 'Of the world's countries, this one in Europe gets the highest percentage of its power from nuclear energy'

Answer: France


Question: 'After Sam Waksal, CEO of Imclone, got busted in 2002, this celeb gal pal of his also went to the big house'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: 'Proverbially, water seeks its own'

Answer: level


Question: 'He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'Jimmy Kimmel's real-life on & off girlfriend, she played a grumpy girlfriend in "School Of Rock"'

Answer: Sarah Silverman


Question: 'The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China'

Answer: the 20th century


Question: 'This rare isotope of hydrogen is sometimes called H-3'

Answer: tritium


Question: 'This Dublin-born man was released from prison bankrupt in 1897; "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" was released in 1898'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'Multiple epics of Iceland'

Answer: sagas


Question: 'In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian Cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel'

Answer: The Da Vinci Code


Question: 'Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he "lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years"'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'In Old English law, it was the money paid for the pardoning of an offense; today, it's paid to kidnappers'

Answer: Ransom


Question: 'At age 8 this young "How Do I Live" superstar was a 2-week champ on TV's "Star Search"'

Answer: LeAnn Rimes


Question:
'Stooges:
Moe,
_____,
Curly'

Answer: Larry


Question: 'He's still president'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'A keyboard, CD-ROM drive & modem'

Answer: Hardware


Question: 'His 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" has been published in England as "Fiesta"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'The Supreme Court has ruled that "Search and" this of property is unreasonable if done without a warrant'

Answer: Seizure


Question: 'This trio of divas seen here has come to rule the roost:'

Answer: The Dixie Chicks


Question:
'Presidents:
Richard Nixon,
_____,
Jimmy Carter'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'From 1980 to 1988 Iraq fought an inconclusive war with this nation in which over a million soldiers perished'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Actor Bruce Willis has played maverick cop John McClane 3 times in this movie series'

Answer: Die Hard


Question: '"The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies" was a follow-up to her stories of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: '(Hi, I'm Steve Harris of "The Practice")  If the supply of these has been exhausted, a talesman, a bystander in the court, may be picked to be one'

Answer: Juror


Question: 'She ran the beauty parlor & gossip center in the 1989 film "Steel Magnolias"'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question:
'Novels:
"Little Women",
_____,
"Jo's Boys"'

Answer: "Little Men"


Question: 'Roughly 75 percent of Iraq's people are Arabs & 20 percent are of this ethnic group'

Answer: Kurds


Question: 'Song that tells us, "When I get home to you, I find the things that you do will make me feel alright"'

Answer: "A Hard Day\'s Night"


Question: 'She made Tom Sawyer whitewash her fence'

Answer: Aunt Polly


Question: 'Meaning "after death", it's the Latin phrase for the examination to determine the cause of death'

Answer: Post mortem


Question: 'This redhead does some down-home storytelling in her 1999 book "Comfort From A Country Quilt"'

Answer: Reba McEntire


Question:
'"Star Wars" films:
"A New Hope",
_____,
"Return of the Jedi"'

Answer: The Empire Strikes Back


Question: 'It's the country Iraqi nationalists call Iraq's 19th province'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: '3-word term that means inflexible or strongly binding, such as rules'

Answer: Hard and fast


Question: 'This title home of a Hawthorne tale has "an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door"'

Answer: "The House of the Seven Gables"


Question: 'This word also found in the First Amendment means a formal written request to the court for judicial action'

Answer: Petition


Question: 'I trust you'll know in 1996 she married her touring partner Tim McGraw'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question:
'Gifts:
"Four calling birds",
_____,
"Two turtle doves"'

Answer: "Three French hens"


Question: 'It's the only one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World once found in Iraq'

Answer: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon


Question: 'Cable talk show hosted by Chris Matthews'

Answer: Hardball


Question: '8 days after his March 4, 1933 inauguration, he gave his first Fireside Chat'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'This cathedral is the administrative center of the Anglican Church'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'There's no de"Nile": Masse, Massenet & Mattheson all wrote operas about her'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Wilbur was the only human this horse would talk to in person'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'It's a space for whales to breathe through, either in their heads or in ice above them'

Answer: Blowhole


Question: 'In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use'

Answer: Televisions


Question: 'A Tchaikovsky opera about a card-playing countess, or the item seen here:'

Answer: "Queen of Spades"


Question: 'President of Egypt 1956-1970'

Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser


Question: 'Perhaps the world's only spokesfish, he swims in Starkist ads'

Answer: Charlie the Tuna


Question: 'In a term for a genial, sociable person, it follows "Hail Fellow"'

Answer: "Well Met"


Question: 'W.E. B. Du Bois & others founded this organization on Lincoln's 100th birthday in 1909'

Answer: NAACP


Question: 'This city's Church of the Holy Sepulchre is said to be on the site where Jesus was entombed'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'In a Goldmark opera, King Solomon's favorite courtier falls for this Biblical queen'

Answer: Queen of Sheba


Question: 'Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890'

Answer: Otto von Bismarck


Question: 'Clint Eastwood appeared in the sixth film about this big screen equine in 1955'

Answer: Francis the Talking Mule


Question: 'Spacy song heard here:'

Answer: "Blue Moon"


Question: 'His 1830 "Liberty and Union" speech to the Senate was spread over 2 days'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'It was erected by Giovanni Dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it was named'

Answer: The Sistine Chapel


Question: '"The Queen of Cornwall" is based on a play by this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'President of Cuba 1952-1959'

Answer: Fulgencio Batista


Question: 'A cockatoo named Fred was this TV cop's companion'

Answer: Baretta


Question: 'A decisive victory or change, perhaps made with a "new broom"'

Answer: Clean sweep


Question: '50 years after buying Alaska from Russia, the U.S. bought the Virgin Islands from this country'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Located in Red Square, it was begun in the 1550s to commemorate the military conquests of Ivan the Terrible'

Answer: St. Basil\'s


Question: 'Mozart's sister-in-law was the first to play the Queen of the Night in this "instrumental" opera'

Answer: "The Magic Flute"


Question: 'Chief of Staff of Vichy France 1940-1944'

Answer: Henri Marshal Petain


Question: 'He was the Little Rascals' dog'

Answer: Pete the Pup


Question: 'Situation seen here: if it's black's move, it results in a draw'

Answer: Stalemate


Question: 'Utah changed one letter in "Greatest Show on Earth" to produce this phrase on its license plates'

Answer: \"Greatest Snow on Earth\" (skiing)


Question: 'It's a silly, out-dated affectation to crook this when picking up a teacup'

Answer: Pinky finger


Question: 'Do this at Blarney Castle & you'll receive a lovely parting gift -- the gift of gab'

Answer: Kiss the Blarney stone


Question: 'Once a part of Massachusetts, it became the 23rd state in 1820 with Portland as its capital'

Answer: Maine


Question: '1985:<br />"You've got a real attitude problem, McFly, you're a slacker"'

Answer: Back To The Future


Question: 'In Roman myth, it was the symbol of the goddess Fortuna, not of Vanna'

Answer: Wheel of fortune


Question: 'Scotsman's skirt<br />              (4)'

Answer: Kilt


Question: 'It's a "comfy" term for a teapot cover'

Answer: Cozy


Question: 'The "castle" built by this publisher sits on La Cuesta Encantada, "The Enchanted Hill"'

Answer: William Randolph Hearst


Question: 'On July 4, 1826 this former president died at age 83 after asking, "Is it the fourth?"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: '1977:<br />"The force is strong with this one"'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'Go around this bush & notice its purple fruit:  it got that color from the blood of Pyramus'

Answer: Mulberry


Question: 'Klumsy klod<br />             (5)'

Answer: Klutz


Question: 'From middle English for "curled-up" cake, it's a tea bread that resembles an English muffin'

Answer: Crumpet


Question: 'This English castle, badly damaged by fire in November 1992, reopened to the public in December 1997'

Answer: Windsor Castle


Question: 'In December 1821 he established the first American settlement in Texas'

Answer: Stephen F. Austin


Question: 'Hera punished this gossipy handmaiden by taking away her power to originate speech'

Answer: Echo


Question: 'Accolades, perhaps for judo<br />             (5)'

Answer: Kudos


Question: 'N.Y. merchant Thomas Sullivan gets the credit for originating these in 1904; his were made of silk'

Answer: Tea bags


Question: 'You can see the royal crown of Scotland in a castle in this Scottish city, but you can't try it on'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'On April 8, 1826 this "Great Compromiser" duelled John Randolph; neither man was injured'

Answer: Henry Clay


Question: '1996:<br />"Welcome to Earth!"'

Answer: Independence Day