Question: 'This golf feat is also called an ace'

Answer: hole-in-one


Question: 'In December 1989 U.S. troops launched Operation Just Cause to capture this Panamanian gen.'

Answer: Noriega


Question: 'An elated person is sometimes said to be "as happy as" this songbird'

Answer: lark


Question: 'Job tells us that the behemoth "eateth grass as an ox" & "moveth his tail like" one of these Lebanese trees'

Answer: cedar (of Lebanon)


Question: '[Audio] Lerner & Loewe musical that featured the following:'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'In 1972 he married this woman, in 1974, they set up a law practice together'

Answer: Marilyn Quayle


Question: 'A fairway laid out at an angle is given this "canine" name'

Answer: dogleg


Question: 'In November 1945 some 55 deputies unanimously declared him president of France'

Answer: de Gaulle


Question: 'This bird isn't biologically distinct from the pigeon, it's just smaller'

Answer: dove


Question: 'These 3 men were cast into a fiery furnace but "the fire had no power" over their bodies'

Answer: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego


Question: 'Completes the title of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint ___"'

Answer: The Smell of the Crowd


Question: '"Current Biography" claims Quayle's car once sported "AuH2O" plates, boosting this candidate'

Answer: Barry Goldwater


Question: 'This beheaded queen was the first woman golfer'

Answer: Mary Queen of Scots


Question: 'On July 27, 1953 the armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'The rook is the most common member of this bird family found in Europe'

Answer: crow


Question: 'Nebuchadnezzar offered the governorship of the province of Babylon to this prophet, but he refused it'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'He not only wrote & directed "Little Johnny Jones", he also played the title role'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'In 1986 Quayle voted to override Reagan's veto of sanctions against this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'The 3 most important types of these are baseball, interlocking & overlapping'

Answer: grips


Question: 'In 1945 he declared Indonesia's independence & became its first president'

Answer: Sukarno


Question: 'Ancient Egyptians believed this bird to be a representative of the god Thoth'

Answer: ibis


Question: 'The oldest son of King Saul, he is best known for his friendship with David'

Answer: Jonathan


Question: 'Hajj, Caliph of Baghdad & Omar are among the characters in this musical'

Answer: Kismet


Question: 'Through his father, Quayle is descended from this military leader of the Plymouth Colony'

Answer: Miles Standish


Question: 'Willie Park won the first of these annual competitions at Prestwick, Scotland in 1860'

Answer: British Open


Question: 'From 1931-33 excavations in this country uncovered the palaces of Kings Darius & Xerxes'

Answer: Iran (Persia)


Question: 'Species of this bird include the Caspian, South & Arctic'

Answer: tern


Question: 'No connection has been established between this 3rd-largest city & the 5-line poem of the same name'

Answer: Limerick


Question: 'He was inspired to invent the telegraph after a chance conversation on the steamship Sully in 1832'

Answer: Morse


Question: 'In the early 1800s Juan Manuel de Rosas went from gaucho to head honcho of this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'If digestive enzymes build up in this insulin-producing organ, it can digest itself'

Answer: pancreas


Question: 'This country's largest lake, Chapala, is located near the city of Guadalajara'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This earth-shaking Greek sea god delays Odysseus' return home'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'The Irish play Gaelic, soccer & rugby versions of this game'

Answer: football


Question: 'Until his death in 1867, this inventor got royalties on every sewing machine sold in the U.S.'

Answer: (Elias) Howe


Question: 'Volgograd used to be named after this dictator'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'It's the medical name for the knee cap'

Answer: patella


Question: 'Seneca is the largest of these lakes in west-central New York'

Answer: Finger Lakes


Question: 'While looking for his father, Telemachus visits Spartan King Menelaus & this woman, his queen'

Answer: Helen


Question: 'Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker & John Millington Synge attended the University of Dublin, which is also called this'

Answer: Trinity


Question: 'In 1893 this German engineer published "Theory and Design of a Rational Heat Engine"'

Answer: (Rudolf) Diesel


Question: 'Yuan Shih-K'ai was president of China from 1912-16, but really wanted to be this title'

Answer: emperor


Question: 'Blood enters the right atrium of the heart through these two veins, one superior, the other inferior'

Answer: vena cava


Question: 'This South American lake drains into the smaller Lake Poopo in Bolivia'

Answer: Lake Titicaca


Question: 'When Odysseus returns, she tests him on details of their bed to confirm his identity'

Answer: Penelope


Question: 'The distillery that makes this "Old" Irish whiskey was first licensed in 1608'

Answer: (Old) Bushmills


Question: 'Scottish-born veternarian who invented the pneumatic tire in 1887 for his son's tricycle'

Answer: (John) Dunlop


Question: 'As president of this S. American country 1908-35, Gen. Gomez granted oil concessions to foreign firms'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'The most common ulcers are those that affect the stomach, or this part of the small intestine'

Answer: duodenum


Question: 'It's been estimated that this lake in Siberia contains as much water as the Baltic Sea'

Answer: Baikal


Question: 'This Greek messenger of the gods gives Odysseus an herb that protects him from Circe's spell'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'This 8th century illuminated copy of the Gospels is named for a monastery in county Meath'

Answer: Book of Kells


Question: 'This 19th century inventor's father authored "Visible" to help teach the hearing-impaired to speak'

Answer: (Alexander Graham) Bell


Question: 'She had her son Charles IX kill thousands of Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day'

Answer: Catherine de Medici


Question: 'It's the longest bone in the arm'

Answer: humerus


Question: 'Milky-colored from glacial clay when entering Lake Geneva, this river is clear blue upon exiting'

Answer: Rhone


Question: 'After passing the Sirens, Odysseus loses 6 men sailing between these  2 monsters'

Answer: Scylla and Charybdis


Question: 'His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi's liberation of Sicily in 1860'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas


Question: 'In the 14th C. Laos was united into the kingdom Lan Xang, the "land of a million" of these large animals'

Answer: elephants


Question: '"Mmm...unprocessed fishsticks" & "Mmm...Soylent Green" are murmurs from this main character'

Answer: Homer Simpson


Question: 'Before the federal takeover, Argenbright was the USA's biggest provider of security at these places'

Answer: airports


Question: 'It's not me in the painting seen here, it's this complex island dweller with a taste for conquest'

Answer: Napoleon


Question:
'Olivet,
Albion,
Kalamazoo'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the first Wrestlemania, he had previously boxed Rocky'

Answer: Mr. T


Question: 'Much of Laotian social life centers on the festivals & holidays of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Troy McClure, voiced by this late "Newsradio" man, acted in such films as "Leper in the Backfield" & "P is for Psycho"'

Answer: Phil Hartman


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  I'm illustrating  both parts of this famous security-related advice from a U.S. president'

Answer: "Speak softly and carry a big stick"


Question: 'It's not me in the picture seen here, it's a self-portrait of this famous artist'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question:
'Skidmore,
Barnard,
Sarah Lawrence'

Answer: New York


Question: 'Piece of meat seen here'

Answer: T-bone steak


Question: 'This country made Laos a protectorate in the late 1800s & ruled it for over 50 years as part of Indochina'

Answer: France


Question: 'In the "Brother from Another Series" episode, David Hyde Pierce was Cecil, brother to Sideshow Bob, voiced by him'

Answer: Kelsey Grammer


Question: 'The United Kennel Club says this terrier known for aggression is too friendly to be the best guard dog choice'

Answer: pit bull


Question: 'It's not me in the photo seen here, it's this determined turn-of-the-century teetotaler'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question:
'Claremont,
Pomona,
Whittier'

Answer: California


Question: 'In July 2001 Liberty Media's John C. Malone resigned from this company's board of directors'

Answer: AT&T


Question: 'During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam used this famous trail through Laos to move supplies to the south'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh Trail


Question: 'This nuclear plant owner prefers to call a meltdown an "unrequested fission surplus"'

Answer: Mr. Burns


Question: 'The active ingredient of this "spray" is capsaicin & it makes attackers' eyes burn'

Answer: pepper spray


Question: 'No, it's not me in the picture seen here, it's this 16th century man with many mothers-in-law'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question:
'Emerson,
Holy Cross,
Amherst'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Your immune system sends these out to attack foreign substances; cyclosporine blocks them'

Answer: T-cells


Question: 'This river & its tributaries are the chief means of transportation in Laos'

Answer: Mekong


Question: '"Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?" & "Spay Anything" are "animated" shorts with this violent cat & mouse team'

Answer: Itchy & Scratchy


Question: 'Concrete barriers that restrict access are named for this state on whose highways they were first used'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'It's not me in the portrait seen here, it's this doomed 18th century queen'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question:
'Gutenberg,
Northwest Christian,
Lewis & Clark'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'When you go back to the drawing board you'll find this tool hanging down to help you draw straight lines'

Answer: T-square


Question: 'In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the gardens of this shrine; in 1400 he was buried in the shrine'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'Yul Brynner'

Answer: Oscar


Question: 'It comes in 2 forms, CN & CS, & doesn't much affect dogs & horses, so they can still help in riot control'

Answer: tear gas


Question: 'In September 1973 he became the first foreign-born citizen to serve as secretary of state'

Answer: Henry Kissinger


Question: 'Though built in the 1800s, Neuschwanstein Castle in this country looks like a medieval fairy tale castle'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'It's the 3-word command that follows the calling of your name to be a contestant on "The Price Is Right"'

Answer: "Come On Down"


Question: 'This Canterbury Tale teller "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy"'

Answer: the Knight


Question: 'Aerosmith'

Answer: Grammy


Question: 'Swamp gas, which is basically methane, is also called this "gas", a synonym for swamp'

Answer: marsh gas


Question: 'He was the first secretary of state to become president'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'A memorial dedicated in 1962 was built over this battleship sunk on December 7, 1941'

Answer: U S S Arizona


Question: 'This Beatles song was No. 1 on the charts in 1969'

Answer: "Come Together"


Question: 'Chaucer's poem about this man & woman, that old Trojan war horse of a story, was inspired by Boccaccio'

Answer: Troilus and Cressida


Question: 'Henry Mancini'

Answer: both


Question: 'In March 2001 President Bush decided not to begin regulating emissions of this from power plants'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'JFK's secretary of state, he continued under LBJ'

Answer: Dean Rusk


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports near San Francisco Bay)  In 1854 the first active one of these navigation-aiding structures on the West Coast was completed on Alcatraz Island'

Answer: lighthouse


Question: 'One of this Christmas carol's verses begins, "Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation..."'

Answer: "O Come All Ye Faithful"


Question: 'In 1389 Chaucer became clerk of the King's Works, the king being the doomed second one of this name'

Answer: Richard II


Question: 'Prince'

Answer: both


Question: 'This poisonous gas, element No. 9, is used in making freon & teflon'

Answer: fluorine


Question: 'Briefly secretary of state in the 1890s, he is best known for his antitrust act'

Answer: John Sherman


Question: 'Only Mexico has not used U.S. financial aid in building its part of this intercontinental highway'

Answer: Pan-American Highway


Question: 'Proverbially, "Curses, like chickens" do this'

Answer: they come home to roost


Question: 'Chaucer was influenced by & translated Boethius' work "The Consolation of" this'

Answer: Philosophy


Question: 'Steve Martin'

Answer: Grammy


Question: 'Edward Franklin's life work was a list of compounds in which this common gas replaces oxygen'

Answer: nitrogen


Question: 'This person was the second foreign-born citizen to serve as secretary of state'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'Built to honor firefighters in this California city, Coit Tower is shaped like a firefighting nozzle'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'It's the title of an Oscar-winning film for Shirley Booth'

Answer: Come Back, Little Sheba


Question: 'This Tony-winning actor with the real name Joseph took part of his stage name from a role in "Guys and Dolls"'

Answer: Nathan Lane


Question: 'It borders Switzerland & Hungary'

Answer: Austria


Question: '1994:<br />Sandra Bullock drives a bus really fast'

Answer: Speed


Question: 'Florida's state butterfly has black & yellow stripes & is named after this equine that has black & white stripes'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'He's the humorist & Wild West star seen here'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'Hot dog!  In the 1980s the mustard market splintered into 3 types: yellow, spicy brown & this one, like Grey Poupon'

Answer: Dijon


Question: 'This man's 11th century conquest of England gave him the nickname "The Conqueror"'

Answer: William


Question: 'Country where "Dracula II: Ascension" & "Cold Mountain" were mainly filmed'

Answer: Romania


Question: '2006:<br />Adam Sandler has a magic remote control'

Answer: Click


Question: 'Like Whitehorse & Orangeville, Yellowknife is a city in this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'He instituted the ultimate top ten list as a part of his job'

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover


Question: 'Beastly desert dweller seen here'

Answer: a dromedary


Question: 'Around 336 B.C. this conqueror's army attacked & destroyed the Greek city of Thebes'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: '1979:<br />Something not of the Earth bursts from John Hurt's chest (that'll leave a mark!)'

Answer: Alien


Question: 'White & yellow are the only 2 colors of balls that can be used in official pro tournaments in this sport'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'Evidently, paratroopers love this guy'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'In the book of Revelation, he rides the pale horse'

Answer: Death


Question: 'The son of Nun, he succeeded Moses & conquered Canaan'

Answer: Joshua


Question: 'Prince Philippe (not to be confused with that British guy) is heir apparent to this Low Country's throne'

Answer: Belgium


Question: '1996:<br />Helen Hunt chases tornadoes to research a warning system'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'A Confederate marching song, this colorful 1850s ditty was a hit for Mitch Miller in the 1950s'

Answer: "The Yellow Rose of Texas"


Question: 'This influential 19th-century abolitionist & author co-founded the newspaper The North Star'

Answer: (Frederick) Douglass


Question: 'In the 1300s the doge of Venice was also ruler of this "dogged" area that's now part of Croatia'

Answer: Dalmatia


Question: 'These people, a mix of Arabs & Berbers, conquered most of Spain in the 8th century'

Answer: the Moors


Question: 'Some people get testy if you put "the" before this country where the Dnieper reaches the sea'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: '1986:<br />Charlie Sheen is a soldier in Vietnam'

Answer: Platoon


Question: 'About half of full-term newborns are yellow because they're this (overpigmented, not world-weary)'

Answer: jaundiced


Question: 'He's the former congressman, ambassador & big-city mayor seen here'

Answer: (Andrew) Young


Question: 'This Scottish peak that Birnam Wood seems to visit in "Macbeth" is only 1,012 feet high'

Answer: Dunsinane


Question: 'Forces of this European nation conquered Algiers in 1830, ending its use as a stronghold by pirates'

Answer: France


Question: 'Combustion is an example of an exothermic reaction, one in which this is released'

Answer: heat


Question: 'Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods:<br />"____, Don't Be A Hero"'

Answer: Billy


Question: 'FDR's wheelchair was constructed from a kitchen chair & fitted with this device for one of his habits'

Answer: an ashtray


Question: 'The 17th-century work seen here shows a landscape in this country'

Answer: Holland


Question: 'Jane needs sheet music for this instrument that Edward once told her she plays "not well"'

Answer: the pianoforte


Question: 'This word for a conditional release from prison comes from the French for "promise"'

Answer: parole


Question: 'Most of the elements on the periodic table are these, including the 6 alkali ones'

Answer: metals


Question: 'Kim Carnes:<br />"____  ____ Eyes"'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'In 1933 FDR wrote on the flyleaf of the English translation of this book that it gave a false view of Hitler's ideas'

Answer: Mein Kampf


Question: 'This former ambulance driver was also once an amateur boxer'

Answer: (Ernest) Hemingway


Question: 'Jane could use some of this type of earrings to go with the necklace of the same type that Edward gave her'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'It can be an adjective meaning "slack" or a verb meaning "set free"'

Answer: loose


Question: 'A prism rearranges white light into the visible one of these'

Answer: spectrum


Question: 'Dexys Midnight Runners:<br />"Come On ____"'

Answer: Eileen


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the FDR Presidential Library.)  FDR collected these watercolors of the naval battles with this country in 1846-47'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'A representative work from this late 19th century American master is seen here'

Answer: (Winslow) Homer


Question: 'A handsome set of silver is embossed with this letter, for the happy couple's last name'

Answer: R


Question: 'Jo Freeman popularized the term "women's" this, as in her 1975 book, "The Politics of" it'

Answer: liberation


Question: 'A chemistry theory says reactions include this intermediate state, from the Latin for "going across"'

Answer: transition


Question: 'Bobbie Gentry:<br />"Ode to ____  ____"'

Answer: Billy Joe


Question: 'Roosevelt & Churchill wrote to each other about this device using the code name "tube alloys"'

Answer: the atomic bomb


Question: 'It's not Heck-etica, it's the typeface seen here'

Answer: Helvetica


Question: 'The list includes some games for Adele, who is introduced as this type of minor in Edward's care'

Answer: a ward


Question: 'This "point" is where the ball comes out of a pitcher's hand'

Answer: the release point


Question: 'Speed can be expressed with a number; this vector, combining speed & direction, often needs an arrow'

Answer: velocity


Question: 'The Who:<br />"Happy ____"'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'At his D.C. memorial, sitting on the ground next to FDR is a sculpture of this friend & companion'

Answer: Fala


Question: 'If you've surfaced too fast, you may have to spend some time in this chamber'

Answer: a hyperbaric chamber


Question: 'A set of stout canes would help Edward, who was blinded in the fire at this former home'

Answer: Thornfield


Question: 'This 2-word phrase for "freeing" someone of something is the title of Philip Roth's first full-length novel'

Answer: letting go


Question: 'The 1935 cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" was the first of many cartoons that paired him with a cat named Beans'

Answer: Porky Pig


Question: 'On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'A coif-de-mailles protected this part of the knight'

Answer: Head


Question: 'Don Shula & this Dallas Cowboys coach both coached a record 36 post-season games in the NFL'

Answer: Tom Landry


Question: 'A slow growth company that invests little in R&D & has a steady profit is a "cash" one of these animals'

Answer: Cow


Question:
'"The Naked and the Dead",
"Existential Errands",
"The Executioner's Song"'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: 'This little-known Roman was exactly half as wide as his Greek friend Diameter'

Answer: Radius


Question: 'On September 8, 1974, he was granted "A full, free and absolute pardon"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Agrappes were armor fasteners of the hook-&-this type'

Answer: Eye


Question: 'This 49er entered the 1999 season with a record 64 games of 100 yards receiving'

Answer: Jerry Rice


Question: 'This word for some doors also applies to credit that maintains a limit & requires periodic payments'

Answer: Revolving


Question:
'"The Great American Novel",
"Zuckerman Bound",
"Portnoy's Complaint"'

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: 'This ancient Roman had trouble understanding others because of the ringing in his ears'

Answer: Tinnitus


Question: 'FDR's statement "The United States of America was...deliberately attacked by...Japan" was made on this date'

Answer: December 8, 1941


Question: 'It's what's jammed into a jamb'

Answer: Leg


Question: 'Past home fields of this current team include L.A. Memorial Coliseum & Candlestick Park'

Answer: Oakland Raiders


Question: 'A trailer full of goods that goes from truck to plane goes "birdyback"; from trailer to train, this way'

Answer: Piggyback


Question:
'"Welcome to the Monkey House",
"Galapagos",
"Player Piano"'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'Everything this Roman did was counterfeit or fake'

Answer: Bogus


Question: 'In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'A verb meaning to remove rust from armor; today you "re"-do it to old furniture or homes'

Answer: Refurbish


Question: '(Hi, I'm Bob Costas)  Only 2 players have been named Super Bowl MVP 2 years in a row: Bart Starr & this Steelers QB in 1979 & 1980'

Answer: Terry Bradshaw


Question: 'During a compressed week an employee still works 40 hours, but usually does it in this many days'

Answer: 4


Question:
'"The 158-Pound Marriage",
"The Cider House Rules",
"A Son of the Circus"'

Answer: John Irving


Question: 'He was difficult to understand because his jaw muscles were always locking up'

Answer: Tetanus


Question: 'Hostilities in the Spanish-American War ended when Manila surrendered to General Merritt & this admiral'

Answer: George Dewey


Question: 'The rerebrace & vambrace protected the rear & fore part of this'

Answer: Arm


Question: 'In 1995 this expansion team played its first season's home games at Clemson'

Answer: Carolina Panthers


Question: 'Acronym that's the reverse of "FIFO"'

Answer: LIFO (Last in, first out)


Question:
'"No Name",
"The Woman in White",
"The Moonstone"'

Answer: Wilkie Collins


Question: 'This Roman was always interrupting his projects for an extended break, especially over the summer'

Answer: Hiatus


Question: 'Politically, it's divided into Spain, Portugal & Gibraltar'

Answer: Iberian Peninsula


Question: '"Lawrence of Arabia"<br />(1962)'

Answer: Peter O\'Toole


Question: 'If Ovid warned you that "Tempus fugit", this is what he meant'

Answer: Time flies


Question: 'Illustrator Sidney Paget, not his creator, gave this character his deerstalker cap'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Under the main heading of astrology, subheadings include these 2 "A" signs'

Answer: Aquarius & Aries


Question: 'The grandiflora varieties of this flower were developed from crossing hybrid teas with floribundas'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'The cities of Cancun, Mexico & Belmopan, Belize lie on this large peninsula'

Answer: Yucatan


Question: '"Edward Scissorhands"<br />(1990)'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: 'When this famous oft-quoted New York Yankee was asked "What time is it?" he answered, "You mean now?"'

Answer: Yogi Berra


Question: '1960s works by this children's author include "Higglety Pigglety Pop!" & the "Nutshell Library"'

Answer: Maurice Sendak


Question: 'He was spared by a lion he had de-thorned'

Answer: Androcles


Question: 'The stems of this jungle palm tree, genus Calamus, are often used to make baskets & furniture'

Answer: Rattan


Question: 'This peninsula has long served as the land bridge between Egypt & Asia'

Answer: Sinai


Question: '"Hudson Hawk"<br />(1991)'

Answer: Bruce Willis


Question: 'Tennessee Williams wrote that "Time is the longest distance between 2 places" in this 1945 play'

Answer: "The Glass Menagerie"


Question: 'His work appeared in Playboy & Stars & Stripes before he gained fame with "The Giving Tree"'

Answer: Shel Silverstein


Question: 'Process for determining the amount & type of metals present in ores'

Answer: Assaying


Question: 'The Washington navel orange is also called the Bahia; it was imported from the state of Bahia in this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Arhus is the largest city on this peninsula which includes all of mainland Denmark'

Answer: Jutland


Question: '"My Man Godfrey"<br />(1936)'

Answer: William Powell


Question: 'In 1969 this politician predicted, "No woman in my time will be prime minister"; she was wrong'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Ralph Steadman did the suitably wild illustrations for this author's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"'

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson


Question: 'Abbreviated Sb, it may be what a divorced chemist has to pay to his ex-wife'

Answer: Antimony


Question: 'The Isthmus of Perekop connects it to the mainland of Ukraine'

Answer: Crimean Peninsula


Question: '"Alfie"<br />(1966)'

Answer: Michael Caine


Question: 'In "Blithe Spirit" he wrote "Time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked"'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question: 'This New Yorker genius illustrated some famous poems as seen here:'

Answer: James Thurber


Question: 'A popular WWI song told of a mademoiselle from this city, hinky dinky parlay voo'

Answer: Armentieres


Question: 'This city's flag shows 2 rivers joining behind a fleur-de-lis'

Answer: St. Louis (at the confluence of the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers)


Question: 'In 2002 she celebrated 50 years on the throne'

Answer: Elizabeth II


Question: 'She announced her breakup with Guy Ritchie saying they "can't bear to live with the pretence any longer"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'At 14,270 feet, Grays Peak is the highest point on the Continental Divide & one of this state's highest mountains'

Answer: Colorado


Question: '"Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring water"'

Answer: Coors


Question: 'After a quaff of a "drink me" vial, we're told this character "very seldom followed" her own good advice'

Answer: Alice (in Wonderland)


Question: 'Someone who "dampens" enthusiasm, or what Linus might use to extinguish a small fire'

Answer: a wet blanket


Question: 'Incapacitated by illness & madness, he spent the last 9 years of his reign in seclusion'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Never mind the Sex Pistols, this punk couple found life after death as a 1986 feature film'

Answer: Sid & Nancy Vicious


Question: 'In literature Basil Hallward is the artist who paints the picture of him'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: '"You never forget your first girl"'

Answer: St. Pauli Girl


Question: 'A proverb says that this "seldom knocks twice"'

Answer: opportunity


Question: '"Come to me" & tell me this state of gloominess comes from words meaning "black bile", baby'

Answer: melancholy


Question: 'A "merry monarch" indeed, he was thought to have at least 13 mistresses, including actress Nell Gwyn'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'While in rehab, she sang at the Grammys from London about not going to rehab'

Answer: Amy Winehouse


Question: 'The scientific name of this 2-word creature is Canis lupus'

Answer: the gray wolf


Question: '"The beer that made Milwaukee famous"'

Answer: Schlitz


Question: '"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" is a moral from this Greek B.C. guy'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'No, your toothpaste hasn't hit the ground, but this 11-letter word sure sounds like it'

Answer: crestfallen


Question: 'Pictured here, they ruled together on the throne for 5 years'

Answer: William & Mary


Question: 'It's hard "keeping up with" this family that includes spoiled, sometimes-clothed rich girl Kim & Mrs. Bruce Jenner'

Answer: the Kardashians


Question: 'Gray-haired & gray-bearded, he was the USA's "good gray poet"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: '"Tastes as great as its name"'

Answer: Milwaukee\'s Best


Question: 'Completes Dorothy Parker's verdict "Men seldom make passes at..."'

Answer: girls who wear glasses


Question: 'If you're an outcast, you may be in this discouraged state that can also refer to a glance at the ground'

Answer: downcast


Question: 'This son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was the first to call himself King of Great Britain'

Answer: James I


Question: 'This rapper's song "Kim" expresses non-amicable feelings toward his on-again, off-again wife'

Answer: Eminem


Question: 'He succeeded J. Edgar Hoover as head of the FBI'

Answer: L. Patrick Gray


Question: '"Head for the mountains"'

Answer: Busch


Question: 'James Madison said in these "papers" that "A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself"'

Answer: The Federalist Papers


Question: 'Built on the Latin for "peer", this word means to belittle or bring reproach upon'

Answer: disparage


Question: 'There's a University of Georgia campus in this city that shares its name with a European capital'

Answer: Athens


Question: '"Love And Marriage"'

Answer: Married... With Children


Question: 'Gaze high at California's 2 state trees: the giant sequoia & the coast this'

Answer: the redwood


Question: 'This early Ford car is considered the first successfully mass-produced on an assembly line'

Answer: the Model T


Question: 'It's the occupational title of the artwork seen here'

Answer: Railsplitter


Question: '"Doofus T. McGhee died on Friday at age 93 due to spontaneous combustion" is an example of one of these notices'

Answer: an obituary


Question: 'Flags honoring the nations who have hosted this surround the fountain in Atlanta's Centennial Park'

Answer: the Olympics


Question: 'From a Disney show:<br />"Best Of Both Worlds"'

Answer: Hannah Montana


Question: 'One tip at epa.gov says that leaving this at home twice a week can cut greenhouse gas emissions over 1,500 lbs. per year'

Answer: your car


Question: 'Now sold with a hybrid package, this Honda was introduced in 1973'

Answer: the Civic


Question: 'The 18th-century work seen here is partly titled these people "Hard at Work"'

Answer: blacksmiths


Question: 'The greater part or number; Jerry Falwell's was a "moral" one'

Answer: a majority


Question: 'Have a cookie in Savannah & visit the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, who founded this group in 1912'

Answer: the Girl Scouts


Question: '"Cleveland Rocks"'

Answer: The Drew Carey Show


Question: 'Asphyxia, or a temporary suspension of breathing that affects some adults during sleep'

Answer: sleep apnea


Question: 'On the 2008 "Knight Rider", the car was changed from a Pontiac to a Shelby Cobra model of this Ford'

Answer: a Mustang


Question: 'The workers depicted here by Eugene Gracé in 1887 are laying the foundations for this structure'

Answer: the Eiffel Tower


Question: 'It's Latin for "truth"; "in vino" this, for example'

Answer: veritas


Question: 'In Warwick, a festival honors this treat, Georgia's official prepared food'

Answer: (hominy) grits


Question: '"Come On, Get Happy"'

Answer: The Partridge Family


Question: 'It was clocked at more than 80,000 mph making an earthly pass at us in April 1986 (Sorry, but we're not that easy!)'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'Some models from this car manufacturer are Sky, Ion & Vue'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'The 17th century work "Village Lawyer", seen here, is by this Flemish painter, the Younger'

Answer: Pieter Bruegel


Question: 'TV term for the effect seen here'

Answer: split screen


Question: 'At this Georgia fort, an institute called WHINSEC is the successor to the controversial School of the Americas'

Answer: Fort Benning


Question: '"Without Us"'

Answer: Family Ties


Question: 'The Hawaiian species of this is also known as the nene'

Answer: a goose


Question: 'How very proper--the Vantage Roadster by this British company has an option to add an umbrella & holder'

Answer: Aston Martin


Question: 'For the song "Gretchen at" this device, Schubert wrote a piano part to imitate its whirring'

Answer: a spinning wheel


Question: 'Members of this 17th century religious movement were called Roundheads'

Answer: the Puritans


Question: 'Homecoming Scotland is a yearlong celebration fo this man's 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009'

Answer: Robbie Burns


Question: 'Hey, wait a Minuit!  This island was bought for only 60 guilders worth of goods in 1626'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'This kind of doll is also known as a wishnik & peewee/heewee'

Answer: Troll


Question: 'This "American Gothic" artist was an asst. professor of fine arts at the Univ. of Iowa in 1934'

Answer: Grant Wood


Question: 'Barry co-produced her Grammy-nominated album "The Divine Miss M"'

Answer: Bette Midler


Question: 'The 38th president of the U.S. said he was one of these, "not a Lincoln"'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Jagger's pranks'

Answer: Mick\'s tricks


Question: 'It was signed November 21, 1620 in Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts'

Answer: The Mayflower Compact


Question: 'Rodents, beware, when this game is played!'

Answer: "Mousetrap"


Question: 'Artist of the 1893 lithograph seen here'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'Johnson & Johnson is stuck on Barry for writing the jingle for this product'

Answer: Band-Aids


Question: 'It's Wayne & Garth's catchphrase in the presence of gods like Aerosmith'

Answer: "We\'re Not Worthy!"


Question: 'Maher's medications'

Answer: Bill\'s pills


Question: 'The first book printed in the colonies was Stephen Day's "Whole Book Of" these Biblical songs in 1640'

Answer: Psalms


Question: '"Piece" together your memory of this insect toy, seen here'

Answer: Cootie


Question: 'Known for such works as "Blam!", he drew maps for the U.S. Army in Europe during WWII'

Answer: Roy Lichtenstein


Question: 'Give "without taking" the name of this, Barry's first No. 1 hit single'

Answer: "Mandy"


Question: 'Juliana Hatfield sang, "I'm" this "with a capital U, and I don't need a mirror to see that it's true"'

Answer: Ugly


Question: 'Carney's roles'

Answer: Art\'s parts


Question: 'In March 1643 he left Rhode Island for England to get a formal charter for the colony'

Answer: Roger Williams


Question: 'You might go "ape" playing this classic game seen here'

Answer: Barrel of Monkeys


Question: 'This muralist's birthplace in Guanajuato, Mexico is now a museum devoted to him'

Answer: Diego Rivera


Question: '2 of the 3 characters named in Barry's tragic story song "Copacabana"'

Answer: Lola, Rico & Tony


Question: 'Dramatic character who despairs of winning Roxanne's love because of his enormous nose'

Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac


Question: 'Blythe's flags'

Answer: Danner\'s banners


Question: 'In the spring of 1699 this pirate visited Narrangansett & may have buried treasure there'

Answer: Captain Kidd


Question: 'Rhyming name of the "brilliant" toy seen here'

Answer: Lite-Brite


Question: 'The group led by Robert Henri & known as The Eight later became known as this "school"'

Answer: Ashcan School


Question: 'Geographic title of Barry's song that says, "When can I touch you....when will I hold you again"'

Answer: "Weekend In New England"


Question: 'This author of "The Metamorphosis" felt like "a miserable specimen" next to his powerful father'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'Kerri's embraces'

Answer: Strug\'s hugs


Question: 'A man can't remember if he murdered his wife or another girl in his "Tough Guys Don't Dance"'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: 'Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented it in 1869 to satisfy "imperial" desire for a butter substitute'

Answer: Margarine


Question: 'When Baylor University was first chartered in this state, the state was still a republic'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Recipes for shad, a type of this, include broiling, planking & stuffing with roe'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'He's been "Hard To Kill" & "Under Siege", but in his first film he was merely "Above The Law"'

Answer: Steven Segal


Question: 'The 2-word phrase preceding "pound foolish"'

Answer: Penny wise


Question: 'In 1980 this author had his agent Smiley face his KGB nemesis, Karla'

Answer: John le Carre


Question: 'We don't know how Snow White's stepmother managed before Justus von Liebig began silvering these'

Answer: Mirrors


Question: 'During the Revolutionary War, Poughkeepsie was the temporary capital of this state'

Answer: New York


Question: '"Like a velvet cape wrapped around a simple dress", these French pancakes will dress up good leftovers'

Answer: Crepes


Question: 'He played a pimp in "Report To The Commissioner" before he became an "American Gigolo"'

Answer: Richard Gere


Question: 'City in Cornwall from which Gilbert & Sullivan's pirates hailed'

Answer: Penzance


Question: 'This John Updike novel of 1984 had women set for a spell in New England'

Answer: "The Witches Of Eastwick"


Question: 'First century alchemist Maria the Jewess invented this "double" apparatus used in cooking'

Answer: Double boiler


Question: 'The coyote is the official animal of this state & Black Hills gold is its official jewelry'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'A rule of thumb:  a pound of parsnips serves this many (if you have that many who like them)'

Answer: 4


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Eva Marie Saint made her screen debut in this classic film seen here:  "Tarrytown.  Where's that?  It's in the country.  I don't like the country...it makes me nervous"'

Answer: "On The Waterfront"


Question: 'This line of verse is composed of 5 metrical feet; iambic is one form'

Answer: Pentameter


Question: '18 years after her suicide, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her collected poems'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'He invented the standard drum brake & built France's largest automobile company'

Answer: Louis Renault


Question: 'This state saw the birth of America's first hospital & first circulating library'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'A true sponge cake doesn't use baking powder; it's leavened by the air in these'

Answer: Well-beaten eggs


Question: 'Danny Glover broke into film in this 1979 Clint Eastwood flick about a prison break-out'

Answer: "Escape From Alcatraz"


Question: 'Next to last'

Answer: Penultimate


Question: 'Controversial '88 book in which 2 Indian actors are transformed into archangel & devil after a plane bombing'

Answer: "The Satanic Verses"


Question: 'A laboratory at Livermore, California is named for this physicist who developed the cyclotron'

Answer: Ernest Lawrence


Question: 'We "hope" you know that the flag seen here belongs to this New England state'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'Fannie says price indicates the quality of this "virgin" oil that you don't refrigerate or store airtight'

Answer: Olive oil


Question: 'This blonde had a bit role in "The Petty Girl" in 1950; 13 years later she was attacked by "The Birds"'

Answer: Tippi Hedren


Question: 'It begins with the creation & ends with the death of Moses'

Answer: Pentateuch


Question: 'Once luring men to danger, now one warns of it'

Answer: a siren


Question: '"Howl", his first book of poetry, was published by City Lights, a bookstore owned by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti'

Answer: Allan Ginsberg


Question: 'This duo won a Rock Performance Grammy for its "Icky Thump"'

Answer: The White Stripes


Question: 'As part of its salute to this decade, the Post Office created a stamp with a MixMaster on it'

Answer: the 1930s


Question: 'He was Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower'

Answer: Nixon


Question: '9 out of every 10 tomatoes grown in the U.S. come from this state'

Answer: California


Question: '2-word term for the initial good fortune that might come to someone starting a new pursuit or hobby'

Answer: beginner\'s luck


Question: 'This poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty begins, "Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame"'

Answer: "The New Colossus"


Question: 'Before singing her hit "No One", she kicked off the telecast by duetting with Frank Sinatra'

Answer: Alicia Keys


Question: 'This engine innovation was introduced in 1940 by GM with the slogan "No gears to shift! No clutch to press!"'

Answer: automatic transmission


Question: 'Telemarketers must search this registry every 31 days & drop those who are on it'

Answer: a do-not-call list


Question: 'American perennial seen here'

Answer: a begonia


Question: '"One calm summer night", this title character "went home and put a bullet through his head'

Answer: Richard Cory


Question: 'Kodo-inspired drummers backed this country songstress on her Grammy-winning hit "Before He Cheats"'

Answer: Carrie Underwood


Question: 'On Feb. 29, 2008 Blu-Ray emerged as the new video disc choice as this Japanese co. abandoned its HD-DVD format'

Answer: Toshiba


Question: 'Once a pharmacist, he was serving in the U.S. Senate when elected Vice President in 1964'

Answer: Humphrey


Question: 'Thin must be in for this country with the highest life expectancy in South America, nearly 77 years'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'To mislead by trickery or flattery'

Answer: beguile


Question: 'A poem by Poe purports to be the confession of this lame Asiatic conqueror, also a Christopher Marlowe subject'

Answer: Tamburlaine or Tamerlane


Question: 'In a surprise, this jazz legend won Album of the Year for "River: The Joni Letters"'

Answer: Herbie Hancock


Question: 'Fingerprint ID devices are part of this security technology, from the Greek for "life" & "measure"'

Answer: biometric


Question: 'He was Vice President of the U.S. from 1921 to 1923 before succeeding to the presidency'

Answer: Coolidge


Question: 'In "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", this literary character is treated by Sigmund Freud for drug addiction'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'To envy or resent someone else's good fortune, like my friend Trudy winning that award instead of me'

Answer: begrudge


Question: '"For the Union Dead" is a 1964 book by this poet whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower'

Answer: Robert Lowell


Question: 'This country singer cracked, "I just got an award given to me by a Beatle. Have you had that happen yet, Kanye?"'

Answer: Vince Gill


Question: 'The engine control unit, a car's smartest computer, monitors systems like injection of this'

Answer: fuel


Question: 'He was the eighth U.S. Vice President & the eighth U.S. President'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'Originally from Asia, the "walking" variety of this fish was introduced into Florida in the 1960s'

Answer: the catfish


Question: 'This 1728 John Gay "opera" put satiric lyrics to the tunes of popular songs'

Answer: The Beggar\'s Opera


Question: 'Among his many sculptures are "The Cowboy" & "Coming Through the Rye"'

Answer: Remington


Question: 'He led the Bulls to 6 NBA championships in the '90s'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'Nearly all of this element in the body is found in the bones & teeth'

Answer: calcium


Question: 'This adjective follows "whiskey" in the name of a whiskey & lemon juice cocktail'

Answer: sour


Question: 'The Hohe Tauern National Park stretches across part of the Salzburg state of this nation'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'Sepia & mahogany are tones of this color'

Answer: brown


Question: 'Between 1971 & 1985 he depicted his neighbor Helga in over 240 of his works'

Answer: (Andrew) Wyeth


Question: 'She was the lead actress in "The Fifth Element" & "Resident Evil"'

Answer: Milla Jovovich


Question: 'Although it's a poisonous gas, this element is used to purify drinking water & swimming pools'

Answer: chlorine


Question: 'In 1830, rather than become a fourth-generation clergyman, Charles Tanqueray began making this'

Answer: gin


Question: 'You can visit the ruins of an ancient Mayan city at Tikal National Park in this Central American country'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return'

Answer: backwards


Question: 'The feminist artist Judy Cohen goes by this last name, the city of her birth'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'In the 2000 Olympics, this American repeated as 400-meter champ but didn't break his Olympic record set in 1996'

Answer: Michael Johnson


Question: 'This element, once widely used in plumbing is known in Latin as plumbum, hence its symbol Pb'

Answer: lead


Question: 'This song that was a No. 1 hit for The Champs in 1958 always makes me want a Margarita'

Answer: "Tequila"


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.)  This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History depicts Virunga National Park in this African Democratic Republic'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool'

Answer: a buffoon


Question: 'He modeled the male diners in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the female diner after his wife Jo'

Answer: (Edward) Hopper


Question: 'A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, she used the slogan "Join the union, boys"'

Answer: Mother Jones


Question: 'An 18-karat gold alloy consists of this percentage of gold'

Answer: 75


Question: 'The Sondheim song "Ladies Who Lunch" rhymes "another brilliant zinger" with "another vodka" one of these'

Answer: a Stinger


Question: 'Abruzzo National Park is in this mountain range that forms the backbone of peninsular Italy'

Answer: the Apennines


Question: 'The battle of Bunker Hill actually took place on this adjacent hill'

Answer: Breed\'s Hill


Question: 'This celebrated American photographer exhibited at the first Surrealist exhibition of 1925'

Answer: Man Ray


Question: 'He won Oscars for his scores for "Doctor Zhivago", "A Passage to India" & "Lawrence of Arabia"'

Answer: Maurice Jarre


Question: 'You're out of your element if you don't know that this element is also called wolfram'

Answer: tungsten


Question: 'Double-talk name for a Piña Colada made with vodka instead of rum'

Answer: Chi-Chi


Question: 'Fundy National Park is on the Bay of Fundy in this Canadian Province'

Answer: New Brunswick


Question: '"Diglot" is a synonym for this adjective that describes a certain ability'

Answer: bilingual


Question: 'A famous scene from this 1976 film was completely ad-libbed; the script simply read, "Travis looks in the mirror"'

Answer: Taxi Driver


Question: 'The British royal residence & castle known as Balmoral is found in this U.K. country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'This geographic extreme has no sunshine for 182 days a year'

Answer: the South Pole


Question: 'The fifth season of this show is finding itself: Jin isn't dead after all; like others he's sort of displaced in time'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'Though based in McLean, Virginia, this top-selling daily serves the entire nation'

Answer: USA Today


Question: 'I obeyed this item's "Squeeze... from the bottom & flatten as you go up" until I couldn't squeeze or flatten anymore'

Answer: toothpaste


Question: 'A quickly taken informal photo'

Answer: a snapshot


Question: 'Treat yourself like royalty by lounging at Iolani Palace, the old home of Hawaii's monarchs on this isle'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'The towering statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooks this South American metropolis'

Answer: Rio de Janiero


Question: 'Joshua Jackson plays the son of a mad scientist on this "X-Files"-esque Fox show'

Answer: Fringe


Question: 'In 1889 Dow Jones changed the name of its daily business newsletter to this'

Answer: The Wall Street Journal


Question: 'Time to recycle my latest 24 cans of this lemon-lime soft drink that sponsors the NBA Slam Dunk Contest'

Answer: Sprite


Question: 'You may not have ever seen it, but it's the back of your neck'

Answer: the nape


Question: 'Keep a low profile if you visit Hatchet Hall, home of this female anti-alcohol campaigner'

Answer: Carry Nation


Question: 'Ommmmmmm...<br />This Tibetan city is known as the "Forbidden City"'

Answer: Lhasa


Question: 'We were just getting into Michael Imperioli & Harvey Keitel on this "planetary" cop show, then it got canceled'

Answer: Life on Mars


Question: 'This Detroit paper has a 2-word name, a guarantee of the First Amendment'

Answer: the Free Press


Question: 'I've worn my INSPIR(RED) T-shirt from this company so many times, even Goodwill won't want it'

Answer: The Gap


Question: 'I love the smell of this incendiary jelly-like substance in the morning!'

Answer: napalm


Question: 'Chill out in this D.C. residence like Harry Truman did in the 1950s when the White House was being renovated'

Answer: Blair House


Question: 'Da, this mountain range separates Siberia from European Russia'

Answer: the Urals


Question: 'Hey, Simon Baker plays this title crime solver on CBS; sure, he was a fraud in the past, but he gets the job done'

Answer: The Mentalist


Question: 'A San Diego paper is the Union-this; Chicago has the (just) this'

Answer: the Tribune


Question: 'Wow, an old photo labeled "Grandma and Grandpa at" this Arizona natural wonder, "1947"--gee, too bad I don't know these people'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'Unsuitable'

Answer: inappropriate


Question: 'Get lost in the 250-room North Carolina mansion known as Biltmore that was once home to members of this family'

Answer: the Vanderbilts


Question: 'Tierra del Fuego lies just south of this blustery strait'

Answer: the Strait of Magellan


Question: 'They always call in science-loving biophysicist Jacob Hood at the last possible moment on this show'

Answer: Eleventh Hour


Question: 'In April 2009 this daily from the First Church of Christ, Scientist replaced its daily print edition with its website'

Answer: The Christian Science Monitor


Question: 'Last week's sandwich has to go; it's now ham, cheese & Rhizopus stolonifer, better known as this'

Answer: mold


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a micrographic animation on the monitor.)  In the nervous system, when an impulse gets to the end of a nerve, cell neurotransmitters shoot across one of these spaces'

Answer: a synapse


Question: 'The farad, a unit used to measure electrical capacitance, is named for this 19th century physicist'

Answer: (Michael) Faraday


Question: 'Her hit "...Baby One More Time" was also recorded by Fountains of Wayne & Bowling for Soup'

Answer: Britney Spears


Question: 'Leon is in western Spain, & its kings also ruled much of this country that wasn't independent until around 1140'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Toni Morrison's "Jazz" is set primarily in this Manhattan neighborhood in the 1920s'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'In February 2009 she traveled to Asia in her first trip abroad as Secretary of State'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'It's a beautiful day in this, a district or locality, often with reference to its inhabitants'

Answer: the neighborhood


Question: 'This great physicist is buried at Copenhagen's Assistens Kirkegaard'

Answer: (Niels) Bohr


Question: 'Formerly on "Kids Incorporated", this "Glamorous" woman can tell you that "Big Girls Don't Cry"'

Answer: Fergie


Question: 'Kings included Alfonso IX El Baboso, "The Drooler", & Alfonso VI El Bravo, meaning this'

Answer: "The Brave"


Question: '"To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in a small town in this southern state'

Answer: Alabama


Question: '1 of the 2 female senators from California'

Answer: Barbara Boxer (or Dianne Feinstein)


Question: 'An exclusive privilege to carry on a business, granted by a government; respond & collect $800'

Answer: a monopoly


Question: 'This Russian physiologist published his first book, "Work of the Digestive Glands", in 1897'

Answer: (Ivan) Pavlov


Question: 'Her single "So What" was on the Billboard charts even before the release of her 2008 album "Funhouse"'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'In 1081 Alfonso VI banished from Leon this most famous medieval Spanish warrior'

Answer: El Cid


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew walks a walled street of Pamplona, Spain.)  A passage reads, "Suddenly, a crowd came down the street.  They were all running, and then the bulls galloping, tossing their heads up and down..." vividly capturing Pamplona in this 1926 novel'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: 'At 42, she became Alaska's youngest governor; recently, at 44, she became a grandmother'

Answer: Sarah Palin


Question: 'I got one of these for ya, Mac; they're also on ballots for Californians to vote on'

Answer: propositions


Question: 'In 1885 he left Edison because he was refused a raise to $25 a week; 6 years later, he invented his coil'

Answer: Tesla


Question:
'Breaking with her Christian music roots, she created some controversy with the song heard here

"I kissed a girl and I liked it/
The taste of her cherry chapstick..."'

Answer: Katy Perry


Question: 'The kings of Leon (the dead Spaniards, not the band) lie in the city of Leon in this "all the gods" structure'

Answer: the Pantheon


Question: 'The "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series is set in this country that includes much of the Kalahari desert'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'In 1967 Ann Uccello was elected the first woman mayor of a capital city--this capital of Connecticut'

Answer: Hartford


Question: 'Check out the "bark" of this tree of the genus Cornus'

Answer: dogwood


Question: '2008 Nobelist Osamu Shimomura isolated a glowing green fluorescent protein in this aquatic creature'

Answer: a jellyfish


Question:
'She made a name for herself on the second stage at Lilith Fair in 1998

"These eyes never saw you leaving/
This heart..."'

Answer: India.Arie


Question: 'Like the daughter of a future Spanish king, the daughter of Leon's Ferdinand III was married to a king of this nation'

Answer: England


Question: 'Thomas Hardy set many of his novels in this fictional place also in the title of his first volume of verse'

Answer: Wessex


Question: 'After heading up 2 Cabinet departments, she represented North Carolina in the Senate from 2003 to 2009'

Answer: (Elizabeth) Dole


Question: 'This B.I.G. term means widely & unfavorably known'

Answer: notorious


Question: 'In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia'

Answer: John Adams & Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In "The Brass Bottle", Horace Ventimore buys an antique brass bottle that contains one of these beings'

Answer: a genie


Question: 'In 1978, this New Jersey city hit the jackpot with the opening of its first casino'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'The raw milk sold in health-food stores hasn't gone through this sterilization process'

Answer: pasteurization


Question: 'It's the dreaded IRS double-check of your return to ascertain its validity'

Answer: an audit


Question: 'In 1846, about 4,000 U.S. soldiers were posted on alert near this North American country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Marty Robbins wore it with "a pink carnation"'

Answer: a white sport coat


Question: 'Not only could this nursery rhyme character "eat no fat", he had a cat with only one hair'

Answer: Jack Sprat


Question: 'The Wadsworth Athenium, America's oldest public art museum, is located in this Conn. capital'

Answer: Hartford


Question: 'The cake called a baba is sometimes soaked in kirsch instead of this liquor'

Answer: rum


Question: 'In reference to taxes, IRA stands for one of these'

Answer: an individual retirement account


Question: 'In January 1840, Charles Wilkes first sighted this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'In a 1942 hit, this "has me in its spell"'

Answer: that old black magic


Question: 'Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew Cubbins finds that every time he removes one of these, another appears'

Answer: hats


Question: 'The visitor center at this fort offers a film of the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner"'

Answer: Fort McHenry


Question: 'A chimichanga is one of these Mexican food items that's been fried, filling & all'

Answer: a burrito


Question: 'Your TIN or taxpayer identification number is usually this 9-digit number'

Answer: your social security number


Question: 'n his 1849 essay on civil disobedience, he said citizens should protest unjust government needs'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'In 1965, pianist Horst Jankowski took a walk up the charts with "A Walk In" this German location'

Answer: the Black Forest


Question: 'A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'A formation known as Half Dome rises more than 4,700 feet in this California national park'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'In veal oscar the cutlets are traditionally topped with crayfish or this seafood'

Answer: crabmeat


Question: 'It's the form of your employer files at year's end showing your compensation & withheld taxes'

Answer: a W-2


Question: 'Established in 1849, as the state of Deseret, it's known as this state today'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'Completes "The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes, the night that you told me those..."'

Answer: little white lies


Question: 'She was an invalid during the years it took her to write "Black Beauty"'

Answer: Anna Sewell


Question: 'What's thought to be the oldest log cabin in the U.S. is located on Vermont's Grand Isle in this lake'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question: 'The bigarade is one of the oldest known varieties of this citrus fruit'

Answer: an orange


Question: 'Self-employed?  If so, you may have to file estimated tax forms this often'

Answer: quarterly


Question: 'Completed in 1849, the chain bridge over this river linked the cities of Buda and Pest'

Answer: Danube


Question: '1966 order from the Rolling Stones to an artist'

Answer: paint it black


Question: 'Henry captured Boulogne-sur-Mer in this country in 1534'

Answer: France


Question: 'Komodo dragons, which belong to the monitor family of these, have been known to kill human beings'

Answer: lizards


Question: 'In 1990, Germany replaced West Germany as a member of this defense alliance founded in 1949'

Answer: NATO


Question: 'In 1808, Antonio Canova sculpted this emperor’s sister as a seminude, reclining Venus'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'Callao, the port of Lima, handles about 3/4 of this country's imports'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Peter Boyle played the monster assembled by Gene Wilder in this Mel Brooks B&W classic'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'She married Henry in January 1533 and gave birth to Elizabeth in September'

Answer: Anne Boleyn


Question: 'The Indian is the largest Asian species of this "nose-horned" land mammal'

Answer: the rhino


Question: 'Ecuador joined this "well-oiled" group in 1973 but left in 1992'

Answer: OPEC


Question: 'n 1874, Manet painted this artist with a similar name "Working on His Boat in Argenteuil"'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Sea of Okhotsk from this sea named for a Dane'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: 'Premiere magazine called this 1994 B&W film "the story of a transvestite schlockmeister"'

Answer: Ed Wood


Question: 'Henry destroyed the Canterbury Cathedral Tomb of this saint & chancellor of Henry II'

Answer: Becket


Question: 'These tallest mammals can gallop at a speed of 30 miles per hour'

Answer: giraffe


Question: 'Created within the AFL in 1935, it later spilt from it then merged back'

Answer: the CIO


Question: 'He painted ladies of the evening "at the Salon of the Rue des Moulins" in 1894'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'The administrative capital of South Africa was the capital of the former province of Transvaal'

Answer: Pretoria


Question: 'This 1979 Woody Allen film featured Tisa Farrow, Mia's sister'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'After Henry's death, this woman, his sixth wife, married a baron'

Answer: Catherine Parr


Question: 'Both hairy-nosed species of this marsupial live on Australian grasslands'

Answer: wombats


Question: 'It was formed in 1964 by refugee groups & Fedayeen, or commando forces, in Jerusalem'

Answer: the PLO


Question: 'Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais painted this "Hamlet" heroine afloat in a pond'

Answer: Ophelia


Question: 'Much of this range that begins in the Arctic & divides Asia & Europe is less than 1,000 meters in height'

Answer: the Urals


Question: 'In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W'

Answer: angels


Question: 'This son of Henry VIII succeeded him in 1547'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: '2 of the 3 breeds of dogs called setters'

Answer: (2 of) Irish, English, & Gordon


Question: 'It was founded April 30, 1948 by 21 nations at a conference in Bogota, Colombia'

Answer: the Organization of American States


Question: 'Constantin Brancusi was noted for his stark sculptures of this kind of animal "in Space"'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'There’s a museum dedicated to this author of “The Red and the Black” in Grenoble, his birthplace'

Answer: Stendhal


Question: 'This 1980 film about Jake LaMotta should ring a bell with you'

Answer: Raging Bull


Question: 'In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor'

Answer: Sam Rayburn


Question: 'The eruption of this volcano in 79 A.D. caused an estimated 16,000 deaths'

Answer: Vesuvius


Question: '"S.O.S.",<br />"Year 3000"'

Answer: The Jonas Brothers


Question: 'Feather your nest earning the Girl Scout badge "All About" these creatures'

Answer: Birds


Question: 'Each of these organs contains about 1 million nephrons, which filter blood'

Answer: the kidneys


Question: 'Perhaps you'll write for your college paper, like this school's Daily Trojan'

Answer: USC (University of Southern California)


Question: 'Holiday for eating lotsa matzo<br />(8)'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Not surprisingly, by volumes held, it's the top library in the U.S.'

Answer: the Library of Congress


Question: '"Yellow" ,<br />"Speed of Sound"'

Answer: Coldplay


Question: 'If you are tailor-made for mending & using patterns, a "Glam" badge can be earned in this skill'

Answer: sewing


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew sucks on a straw in a sealed-up bottle that has a marshmallow inside.)  The marshmallow in the bottle will expand when I suck on the straw because this property inside the bottle will decrease'

Answer: (air) pressure


Question: 'You may earn a degree in liberal these; no, not politics, silly, but poli sci is often part of it'

Answer: arts


Question: 'To Xerox<br />(9)'

Answer: photocopy


Question: 'It's the only country listed that starts with a "Q"'

Answer: Qatar


Question: '"One Step Closer",<br />"Somewhere I Belong"'

Answer: Linkin Park


Question: 'Get spacy earning the Girl Scout badge the "Power" of these orbiters'

Answer: Planets


Question: 'These were first seen in human cells in 1882; the exact number, 46, was determined in 1956'

Answer: chromosomes


Question: 'Maybe you'll join this kind of impromptu comedy troupe, like Dead Serious at Wellesley'

Answer: improv


Question: 'Ordinary speech or writing<br />(5)'

Answer: prose


Question: '2 who have been appointed to this post are William Wordsworth & Ted Hughes'

Answer: Poet Laureate (of Great Britain)


Question: '"When I Come Around",<br />"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"'

Answer: Green Day


Question: 'Earning the "In the Pink" badge helps raise awareness of this disease in adult women'

Answer: breast cancer


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew pushes a straw into a cupcake, then extracts the result.)  Using a cupcake & straw, we're approximating 1 of these 2-word scientific readings used in undersea & underground prospecting'

Answer: core sampling


Question: 'Mayhap you'll join a secret society like Skull & Bones, which has its own "tomb" at this university in New Haven'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'In mythology, Thisbe's lover<br />(7)'

Answer: Pyramus


Question: 'The Chicago Spire, estimated to be completed in 2010, will replace this as the USA's tallest building'

Answer: the Sears Tower


Question: '"Drop It Like It's Hot",<br />"Woof!"'

Answer: Snoop Dogg


Question: 'Don't get tongue-tied when earning the badge "The Lure of" this, whether Estonian or Esperanto'

Answer: Language


Question: 'In 1758 this Swedish biologist introduced binomial nomenclature'

Answer: Linnaeus


Question: 'You might spend your junior year abroad in this city (& you'll learn to call it Munchen)'

Answer: Munich


Question: 'Georges Seurat's specialty<br /> (11)'

Answer: Pointillism


Question: 'It's the capital of Jordan'

Answer: Amman


Question: 'In 2008 this film beauty & hubby Cash Warren welcomed new daughter Honor Marie'

Answer: Jessica Alba


Question: 'This Virginian was the first Secretary of State & the second vice president'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In this language, Fra Diavolo means "brother devil"; you'll know why when you eat it'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'His "Travels" were interrupted when he was lashed down in Lilliput'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'Golfers long for a 300-yard one'

Answer: a drive


Question: 'It's home to Hampshire College & to a campus of the University of Massachusetts'

Answer: Amherst


Question: 'Maybe rumors of a split with beau Brian Austin Green helped this "Transformers" gal win an FHM poll in 2008'

Answer: Megan Fox


Question: 'The daughter of a Czech diplomat, she was born Marie Jana Korbelova'

Answer: (Madeleine) Albright


Question: 'There's a yearly festival for this piquant chicken dish in the western New York city that gave the dish its name'

Answer: Buffalo wings


Question: 'Flappers loved F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Flappers and Philosophers", published in this decade'

Answer: the \'20s


Question: 'A setback or piece of misfortune'

Answer: a reverse


Question: 'Argentina's lowest point is Valdes Peninsula; its highest is this mountain'

Answer: Aconcagua


Question: 'She returned for "Senior Year", reprising her role as Gabriella Montez in "High School Musical 3"'

Answer: Vanessa Hudgens


Question: 'Time to lay down the doctrine: he was Secretary of State from 1811 to 1817'

Answer: (James) Monroe


Question: 'This Chinese region has a spicy rep because of its use of the native fagara peppercorn'

Answer: Szechuan


Question: 'A wild mongoose who came into his office & sat on his shoulder inspired Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in "The Jungle Book"'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'In chemistry, neither acid nor alkaline'

Answer: neutral


Question: 'This country highlighted in red is bordered by Russia & Georgia to the north & Iran to the south'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: 'This daughter of a "Hulk"-ing wrestler entered the musical ring with her 2006 hit "About Us"'

Answer: Brooke Hogan


Question: 'In 1957 this German-born man wrote of "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy"'

Answer: Henry Kissinger


Question: 'Though it bears the name of a state in Mexico, this pepper sauce was invented in Louisiana'

Answer: Tabasco


Question: 'The 2008 novel "What Happened to Anna K." retells this Tolstoy tale in a modern setting'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'There's a 3,800-acre one in Austin, Texas named for Walter Long'

Answer: a park


Question: 'This Scottish seaport lies between the rivers Dee & Don'

Answer: Aberdeen


Question: 'This beauty kept tongues wagging after she married actor Ryan Reynolds in September 2008'

Answer: Scarlett Johansson


Question: 'Not knowing he was Lincoln's Secretary of State would be pure "folly"'

Answer: (William) Seward


Question: 'The name of this salsa means "beak of the rooster"'

Answer: pico de gallo


Question: '"Bless thy simplicity, Tess" is a line from this 1891 British novel'

Answer: Tess of the d\'Urbervilles


Question: 'To endorse a motion so that a vote can take place'

Answer: second


Question: 'The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic for "reuniting"'

Answer: algebra


Question: 'Heroes & villains abound! Colby, Coach & Rupert doth return to the fray but Boston Rob, the tribe hath spoken'

Answer: Survivor


Question: 'I'm off to London to see the spring 2011 collections shown as part of this "week"'

Answer: Fashion


Question: 'Exploding pancreas, chronic finger loss & dermatitis from contact with this climbing vine, rhus radicans'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: 'Among the crimes the ATF investigates be this one, from the Latin for "to burn"'

Answer: arson


Question: 'In truth, Rod Blagojevich, thou displeasest me mightily & thy hair scares even me... thou art fired!'

Answer: The Apprentice


Question: 'You can still get in on the celebrations of this anniversary of Mexico's independence'

Answer: 200th


Question: 'It be the title of the princes of the former ruling house of Austria, like Franz Ferdinand'

Answer: archduke


Question: 'John D. Rockefeller co-founded this company in Cleveland in 1870'

Answer: Standard Oil


Question: 'Rudy, though thou sheddeth 213 lbs. in our 8th season, I am sorry to inform thee, thou art not...'

Answer: The Biggest Loser


Question: 'You Marylanders who didn't vote in this on the 14th, don't complain about the bums who take office'

Answer: primary


Question: 'Spontaneous nose inversion, foot attack & this "fowl" 10-letter skin disease whose incubation period averages 2-3 weeks'

Answer: chicken pox


Question: 'Hey, ninjas: put your shurikens or throwing these into your checked bag'

Answer: throwing stars


Question: 'The Nebraska legislature be tree lovers & made this day, April 22, a legal holiday'

Answer: Arbor Day


Question: 'Born in nearby Orange, this 19th c. president & assassination victim is buried in Cleveland's Lake View cemetery'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'DJ Pauly D!  Arise from thy tanning bed!  Ronnie hath come to blows on the boardwalk!  Do not tarry!  "The Situation" is dire!'

Answer: Jersey Shore


Question: 'I'm 2 weeks late with my 73rd birthday gift for this L.A. Olympics organizer & ex-baseball commissioner'

Answer: Peter Ueberroth


Question: 'Kidney vertigo, eyebrow singe & this, a yellow discoloring of the skin caused by too much bilirubin in the blood'

Answer: jaundice


Question: 'Baseball bat? No. Bat for this, England's national summer sport? Also no'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'It be the horse noted for grace and intelligence, seen here'

Answer: Arabian


Question: 'Cleveland sits at the mouth of this river that caught fire in 1969; it's also the seat of the county of the same name'

Answer: Cuyahoga


Question: 'Rogues! Fugitives! Hear me! The Chapmans will track & capture thee from Hawaii to Colorado! This is our (A&E) quest!'

Answer: Dog the Bounty Hunter


Question: 'Remember the 25th is Mozambique's Armed Forces Day, commemorating the fight against this colonial power'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Hip implosion, spleen shivers & this "heliocentric" condition, aka heat hyperpyrexia, when body temp. hits 105 degrees'

Answer: sunstroke


Question: 'No Bruce Lee moves --this martial arts weapon, 2 sticks joined by a chain, can't go in your carry-on'

Answer: nunchucks


Question: 'The atomic weight of this element used to fill vacuum tubes be 39.948; remember the gist o' the category, ye scurvy scalawags!'

Answer: argon


Question: 'Although its title is a holiday, this 1996 Will Smith film went into general release one day before that holiday'

Answer: Independence Day


Question: 'He once said, "I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light"'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'A 1983 article on this yankee-style soup says long ago it was made with salt pork, not clams'

Answer: chowder


Question: 'An overnight plane flight'

Answer: a red-eye


Question:
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment. )  When you hold ferrofluid over a magnet,
 it spikes and marks the lines of the magnetic field because ferrofluid contains nanoparticles of this metallic element,  symbol Fe'

Answer: iron


Question: '(Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) You may not recognize me out of character, but one of my greatest acting experiences was playing Neytiri's mother, Moat, in this blockbuster'

Answer: Avatar


Question: 'On Dec. 2, 1859 this abolitionist told his hangman, "I am ready at any time.  Do not keep me waiting"'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'An article called "A Tip Of The Hat To Danbury", in this state, tells how JFK helped kill an industry with his bareheaded ways'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'One of the 2 James Bond films that fit the category'

Answer: GoldenEye (or For Your Eyes Only)


Question: 'Logically, it was the radioactive transuranium metal discovered right after neptunium'

Answer: plutonium


Question: 'A 1965 student film evolved into his first feature film as a director, 1971's "THX-1138"'

Answer: (George) Lucas


Question: 'This 1848 Whig candidate: "I will not say I would serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me"'

Answer: (Zachary) Taylor


Question: 'Athletes who've been featured naturally include Bob Cousy, a star on this team from 1950 to 1963'

Answer: (Boston) Celtics


Question: 'A dilapidated old building'

Answer: an eyesore


Question: 'In 1906 G.E. produced its first light bulb using this metal as a filament; it's still used today'

Answer: tungsten


Question: 'Alan Young, who co-starred in the 1960 version of this film based on an H.G. Wells book, had a bit role in the 2002 remake'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: 'In this 1841 essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist"'

Answer: Self Reliance


Question: 'A travel article says Arlington, Vermont is like something he would have painted--which he did, & lived there, too'

Answer: Norman Rockwell


Question: 'In 1967 this colony voted to reject Spanish rule & to remain rock solid under British sovereignty'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'This facial wear made Israel's Moshe Dayan instantly recognizable worldwide'

Answer: an eye patch


Question: 'This plating metal is what makes stainless steel corrosion resistant & stainless'

Answer: chromium


Question: 'Lock Martin, a 7'7" doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast as the robot Gort in this 1951 sci-fi film'

Answer: The Day The Earth Stood Still


Question: '(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Jordan.) The color of the sandstone in this ancient city in Jordan explains why, in the 19th century, John William Burgon called it "a rose-red city half as old as time"'

Answer: Petra


Question: 'A 1965 article tells us "He sowed--others reaped" is the epitaph of Ephraim Bull, who first bred this New England grape'

Answer: the Concord grape


Question: 'In 1950 58% of this country voted in favor of the return from exile of King Leopold III'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'The last name of author Stephenie or the first name of gangster Lansky'

Answer: Meyer


Question: 'These 2 rivers, each more than 1,000 miles long, rise in the Armenian Plateau in Turkey'

Answer: the Tigris & the Euphrates


Question: 'Ford tries to clear his name while avoiding capture by Tommy Lee Jones in this film based on a TV series'

Answer: The Fugitive


Question: 'This port city on Lake Michigan was founded by U.S. Steel & can produce 7 million tons of steel a year'

Answer: Gary


Question: 'The "Father of the American Navy", he was once charged with murder after flogging a sailor to death'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: ''Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor that a certain piece of jewelry journeys in this author's trilogy'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'This Kraft drink is 5 calories per serving, sugar free & comes in flavors like White Grape & Raspberry Ice'

Answer: Crystal Light


Question: 'The skull seen here belongs to this creature, Ursus maritimus'

Answer: the polar bear


Question: 'As this character, Ford says, "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid"'

Answer: Han Solo


Question: 'This lasagna-loving cartoon character created by Jim Davis was "born" in Indiana in 1978'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'John was the real first name of this locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad & song'

Answer: Casey Jones


Question: 'Sir Thomas Malory placed this castle in Winchester, at least for one brief shining moment'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'A 1936 fire in this city destroyed the prefabricated Crystal Palace'

Answer: London


Question: 'The eye sockets on the top of this animal's skull are there so that its eyes will be above the water line when the body is afloat'

Answer: the hippopotamus


Question: 'L.A. cop Harrison Ford terminates replicants in this futuristic cyberpunk film'

Answer: Blade Runner


Question: 'Indiana's state motto is "The Crossroads of" this'

Answer: America


Question: 'He co-founded the Masters golf tournament'

Answer: Bobby Jones


Question: '"The Last Battle" is the 1956 finale to "The Chronicles of" this kingdom'

Answer: Narnia


Question: 'Time Warner Cable gives crystal apples as awards to those who excel in this profession'

Answer: teachers


Question: 'This dinosaur rotated the joint between its head & neck, then opened its jaw sideways to get to foliage'

Answer: a Triceratops


Question: 'Ford played Philly cop John Book, who goes into hiding with the Amish, in this 1985 film'

Answer: Witness


Question: 'U.S. Vice Presidents from Indiana include Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Marshall & this later 20th <br />century man'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: 'It's the social justice magazine named after a female labor leader of the 19th century'

Answer: Mother Jones


Question: '"The King and I" was derived from Margaret Landon's 1944 book her "and the King of Siam"'

Answer: Anna


Question: 'This magazine founded by Andy Warhol is dubbed the "Crystal Ball of Pop"'

Answer: Interview


Question: 'Seen here is the skull of the puff type of this venomous reptile'

Answer: an adder


Question: 'Harrison played this CIA analyst in "Clear and Present Danger" & "Patriot Games"'

Answer: Jack Ryan


Question: 'This Indiana city takes its name from a significant turn in the St. Joseph River'

Answer: South Bend


Question: 'One of England's first great architects, he designed Covent Garden in the 1630s'

Answer: Inigo Jones


Question: 'Rudolf Elphberg is about to be crowned king of Ruritania but instead becomes "The Prisoner of" this title place'

Answer: Zenda


Question: '"Doping" is manipulation of the crystals of these, a class of solids found in transistors'

Answer: semiconductors


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to an anatomical diagram on the monitor.)  Allowing molding of the head during birth, soft spots on a baby's skull, also known as these, are surrounded by bones that fuse & harden by 18 months'

Answer: fontanels


Question: 'Mary's little sister, she succeeded William on the British throne in 1702'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: 'Named for a director of athletics of the New York City Downtown Athletic Club, it was won for the first time by Jay Berwanger in 1935'

Answer: the Heisman Trophy


Question: 'Leyte Gulf,<br />Kursk'

Answer: World War II


Question: '(I'm Jon Hamm.) One of Don Draper's best pitches came when he said this company's slide projector is a time machine for our lives' sweet moments'

Answer: Kodak


Question: 'It's a nacreous concretion formed around a foreign body, like a grain of sand'

Answer: a pearl


Question: 'In the U.S. House of Representatives, these include Agriculture, Judiciary & Ways & Means'

Answer: committees


Question: 'He's the actor seen here who in 1975 put down his bowler and picked up a top hat and a knighthood'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'Pass the milk!  The guy seen here tops the 150-pound Borg-Warner Trophy given to the winner of this annual event'

Answer: the Indy 500


Question: 'Inchon,<br />Pusan'

Answer: the Korean War


Question: '(I'm Christina Hendricks.) On the Season 2 premiere, office manager Joan had a new boyfriend & the office had this new machine that revolutionized clerical work in the 1960s'

Answer: a Xerox machine


Question: 'The name of this gemstone comes from the Spanish pieda de ijada, "hip stone"; it was thought to cure kidney diseases'

Answer: jade


Question: 'This river receives the waters of more than 100 tributaries, including the Des Moines & Arkansas Rivers'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'He penned "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of British life'

Answer: W. Somerset Maugham


Question: 'Ahoy!  This coveted trophy seen here is the oldest active trophy in international sport'

Answer: the America\'s Cup


Question: 'Passchendaele,<br />Somme'

Answer: World War I


Question: '(I'm Vincent Kartheiser.) Pete Campbell beat out an "O Little Town of" this steel company idea with his own that called the company "The Backbone of America"'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'Chrome & iron are what give this, red corundum, its color'

Answer: the ruby


Question: 'This is the person who records the accounts & transactions of a business'

Answer: a bookkeeper


Question: 'One of the 2 prime ministers of Great Britain during World War I'

Answer: Lloyd George (or Asquith)


Question: 'Whoop-de-do!  The championship trophy seen here was named for this late NBA commissioner'

Answer: Larry O\'Brien


Question: 'Balaklava,<br />Inkerman'

Answer: the Crimean War


Question: '(I'm Elisabeth Moss.) In the Season 1 finale, Peggy Olson gave birth to a son & became a copywriter with this acne treatment as her first account'

Answer: Clearasil


Question: 'It's actually the hard, colorful calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps'

Answer: coral


Question: 'This adverb describes how an act that had a favorable outcome was performed'

Answer: successfully


Question: 'In the 17th century this British empirical philosopher opined, "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience"'

Answer: John Locke


Question: 'Seen here in 1950, it's the oldest pro-league trophy in North America & gets to be taken home by each member of the winning team'

Answer: the Stanley Cup


Question: 'Amphipolis,<br />Syracuse'

Answer: the Peloponnesian War


Question: '(Jon Hamm reads the last clue.) In the 1st episode of "Mad Men", Don Draper won over the clients with a campaign about the "toasted" goodness of this product'

Answer: (Lucky Strike) cigarettes


Question: 'For their resemblance to plant foliage, inclusions that cloud this green gem are called jardin'

Answer: emeralds


Question: 'The person to whom you are sending a letter'

Answer: the addressee


Question: 'The co-founder of this respected organization refused to appear on the cover of Time magazine, even with his back turned'

Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous


Question: 'This "Road Warrior" became a "Lethal Weapon" in 1987'

Answer: Mel Gibson


Question: 'One historian claimed this queen secretly married one of her servants after Albert died'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Term for a moving stairway, it was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Co.'

Answer: Escalator


Question: 'Nickname of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, who was born in Missouri, lived in Wyoming, and died in South Dakota'

Answer: "Calamity Jane"


Question: 'The keys at both ends of the standard piano keyboard are this color'

Answer: White/Ivory


Question: 'In "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", James Mason played this slightly screwy sub skipper'

Answer: Captain Nemo


Question: 'She wore a Norman Hartnell gown inspired by a Botticelli painting when she married a lieutenant in 1947'

Answer: Elizabeth II


Question: 'At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut'

Answer: Electric Starting Gate


Question: 'In 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to hold this office in the U.S.'

Answer: Governor


Question: 'Two different TV movies about this pianist and piano collector played on consecutive Sundays in October'

Answer: Liberace


Question: 'Entirely well attired without any destination'

Answer: "All dressed up and no place (nowhere) to go"


Question: 'Richard Burton had a devil of a time directing himself in the film version of this Marlowe tragedy'

Answer: "Dr. Faustus"


Question: 'The estate outside Paris where he lived with his duchess is now a private museum'

Answer: Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor


Question: 'A 1947 book trumpeted the fact that this new invention could be used to locate thunderstorms'

Answer: Radar


Question: 'He spent time in Wyoming, though his most famous novel is "The Virginian"'

Answer: Owen Wister


Question: 'This 135-year-old company keeps a constant bank of about 600 concert grands around the world'

Answer: Steinway & Sons


Question: 'Rein in one's palominos'

Answer: "Hold your horses"


Question: 'As TV reporter Kimberly Wells, she gave glowing reports in "The China Syndrome"'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'Argentinian polo player Hector Barrantes is her stepfather'

Answer: Sarah Ferguson/Duchess of York


Question: 'Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth'

Answer: Macintosh


Question: 'This Wyoming-born abstract expressionist painted with his canvas on the floor'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'The three main kinds of upright pianos are the studio, the console, and this'

Answer: Spinet


Question: 'Toss one's loaves onto aquatic environments'

Answer: "Cast your bread upon the waters"


Question: 'In "Father Goose" he played a beachcomber who secretly spotted enemy planes during WWII'

Answer: Cary Grant


Question: 'Henry VIII was her third husband, and she married again after he died'

Answer: Catherine Parr


Question: 'The reason the transistor was invented was to make this piece of equipment work better'

Answer: Telephone (switcher)


Question: 'A Wyoming national forest is named for this mountain man who helped map the Oregon Trail'

Answer: Jim Bridger


Question: 'The Oscar-winning short "The Music Box" featured this pair moving a piano up a steep hill'

Answer: Laurel and Hardy


Question: 'Buffoon's Utopia'

Answer: "A Fool\'s Paradise"


Question: 'Catherine Booth designed the bonnet worn by women in this semi-military group founded by her husband'

Answer: the Salvation Army


Question: 'If a recipe calls for blanching tomatoes, it's so that you can remove this more easily'

Answer: skin


Question: 'If you receive a Rhodes scholarship, you'll have to hit the road to this city'

Answer: Oxford, England


Question: 'He's a weak-willed king in the Old Testament or a whaler captain in "Moby Dick"'

Answer: Ahab


Question: 'The two pieces of silverware on the traditional sign for a restaurant'

Answer: fork & knife


Question: 'British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War called her the "Lady with the Lamp"'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'Be alert when you heat oil for frying, because once it reaches the point when it does this, it decomposes'

Answer: smokes


Question: 'The World Wildlife Fund is working with the Chinese on a detailed survey of pandas & this, their only food'

Answer: bamboo


Question: 'It's the most famous industry of the Netherlands town of Edam'

Answer: cheesemaking


Question: 'Poe poem about a maiden who "lived with no other thought than to love and to be loved by me"'

Answer: "Annabel Lee"


Question: 'A road sign showing the back of a car with two wavy lines trailing from it stands for this'

Answer: slippery when wet


Question: 'This famous nineteenth-century beauty had four husbands including a bigamist, but she never married Jim Brady'

Answer: Lillian Russell


Question: 'To make pumpernickel, use the dark flour of this grain'

Answer: rye


Question: 'Some of these birds have bald heads and necks, which prevents feather damage when eating from carcasses'

Answer: vultures


Question: 'Though Amman used to be named this, it wasn't home to a "Jordanian Bandstand" TV show'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Set in the forest of Arden, this comedy has more songs than any other Shakespeare play'

Answer: As You Like It


Question: 'In "The Talk Book", Dr. Gerald Goodman figures 25% of all we say is followed by this punctuation mark'

Answer: a question mark


Question: 'In 1893 this Sunday school teacher was the most notorious woman in Fall River, Massachusetts'

Answer: Lizzie Borden


Question: 'It's the difference between a boiled potato and a parboiled one'

Answer: the parboiled one is not fully cooked


Question: 'In Canada, the population of these tufted-eared wildcats depends on the population of snowshoe rabbits'

Answer: lynxes


Question: 'Considered the home of Japanese drama, especially puppet theater, it's Japan's third largest city'

Answer: Osaka


Question: 'Robin Hood's hyphenated henchman'

Answer: Allan-a-Dale


Question: 'The symbol for this appeared twice on May, 1988 sky charts, and that won't happen again in one month until 1990'

Answer: a full moon


Question: 'This abolitionist was born into slavery in New York, and the first language she spoke was Dutch'

Answer: Sojourner Truth


Question: 'An Italian dish of veal shanks cooked with white wine, olive oil, spices, tomatoes & a few anchovies'

Answer: osso buco


Question: 'Caimans are most closely related to these animals'

Answer: alligators


Question: 'If you take a case to the Swiss supreme court, you have to go to this French-speaking city near Geneva'

Answer: Lausanne


Question: 'Booth Tarkington book that ends as the title character enters the stairway to Frincke's business college'

Answer: Alice Adams


Question: 'In a chemical equation this symbol denotes a substance has escaped as a gas'

Answer: an arrow pointing up


Question: 'The bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War took place in this state'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'In August 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be sent here by Russia'

Answer: Space


Question: 'Her relative Sydney Kidman was a cattle baron who owned huge swaths of outback'

Answer: Nicole Kidman


Question: 'This world-famous blue gem is named for one of its former owners, Henry Philip Hope'

Answer: Hope Diamond


Question: 'In 2000 marathon winner Naoko Takahashi became the first woman from this country to win a gold in track & field'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Found in warm & temperate zones, there are about 30 distinct species of this critter seen here'

Answer: Starfish


Question: 'It was once believed that the rising of this river was caused by the tears of the goddess Isis'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'He took his ship, the Calypso, up the Amazon on a research expedition'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'Toshiro Mifune & this director with whom he made 16 films died less than a year apart'

Answer: Akira Kurosawa


Question: 'Bracelets worn around these joints are in style again, perhaps because they show off shapely legs'

Answer: Ankles


Question: 'The platform in this event is 10 meters or 33 feet above the water'

Answer: Diving


Question: 'This large pack animal of South America was domesticated from the guanaco'

Answer: Llama


Question: 'The Indus starts in these mountains'

Answer: Himalayas


Question: 'This national American newspaper made its debut September 15, 1982'

Answer: USA Today


Question: 'This British veteran's films include "Tom Jones", "Under the Volcano" & "Erin Brockovich"'

Answer: Albert Finney


Question: 'Tiffany sells a collection of jewelry made to look like this woody grass consumed by pandas'

Answer: Bamboo


Question: 'The first female figure skater since Sonja Henie to repeat as Olympic champion was this German in 1988'

Answer: Katarina Witt


Question: 'The "giant" variety of this animal can have a hundred teeth, more than most mammals'

Answer: Armadillo


Question: 'The Morava in Moravia empties into this river, one of Europe's chief waterways'

Answer: Danube


Question: 'This English king's flagship, the Mary Rose, was raised after spending almost 450 years on the ocean floor'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'This blonde beauty from South Africa gained notice when she grappled with Teri Hatcher in "2 Days in the Valley"'

Answer: Charlize Theron


Question: 'Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I show that she wore necklaces of these mollusk gems'

Answer: Pearls


Question: 'The opening ceremony for the 1994 Winter Olympics in this city was conducted by King Harald V'

Answer: Lillehammer, Norway


Question: 'This troop member seen here is one of the most colorful of primates'

Answer: Mandrill


Question: 'The papal palace in Avignon overlooks this river'

Answer: Rhone


Question: 'Freddie was unready: this transatlantic low-cost airline he created in 1977 folded its wings in 1982'

Answer: Laker Airways


Question: 'Seen here, she was born in Paris & starred in "An American Werewolf in Paris"'

Answer: Julie Delpy


Question: 'This October birthstone often has a white background but displays a rainbow of colors in bright light'

Answer: Opal


Question: 'At the opening of the 1952 Helsinki games, this winner of 9 gold medals carried the torch into the main stadium'

Answer: Paavo Nurmi


Question: 'Due to a decrease in prairie dog populations, the black-footed variety of this swift weasel is now endangered'

Answer: Ferret


Question: 'In 1966 this river caused major damage when it flooded Florence'

Answer: Arno


Question: 'It's the only element that weighs less than helium'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'During WWII the VOA was in the Office of War Information; after the war it became part of this cabinet dept.'

Answer: State Department


Question: 'In the 1930s the Brownshirts were Nazi thugs; Mussolini's Fascist goons were called this'

Answer: Blackshirts


Question: 'Zorba creator Nikos Kazantzakis'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'This musical instrument was derived from the lute in the early 18th century'

Answer: Mandolin


Question: 'A ride through the history of this type of liquor is a fun-filled attraction near Edinburgh Castle'

Answer: Scotch


Question: 'This element was named for Marie & Pierre'

Answer: Curium


Question: 'I love the online VOA pronounciation guide when we mention this country's new president Vojislav Kostunica'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'In 338 B.C., under this king, Macedonia defeated the Greeks in the Battle of Chaeronea'

Answer: Philip of Macedon


Question: 'Artist portraitist James Joyce'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'The trees that produce this tropical edible seen here can grow over 50 feet high'

Answer: Mango


Question: 'In 2000 a new Chinese-themed area, with terra-cotta warriors, opened in this Copenhagen amusement park'

Answer: Tivoli Gardens


Question: 'Symbolized Ar, this noble gas is used to fill most household light bulbs'

Answer: Argon


Question: 'In early 2000, just before elections, this country's government began jamming VOA Farsi broadcasts'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'In 1990 he won a runoff election against Stanislaw Tyminski to win the presidency of Poland'

Answer: Lech Walesa


Question: '"Schindler's List" maker Thomas Keneally'

Answer: Australia


Question: '1 of the 2 Asian capital cities whose names start with "man"'

Answer: Manama (Bahrain) or Manila (Philippines)


Question: 'If you want to walk across the Bridge Over the River Kwai, head for Kanchanaburi in this country'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'To make element 104, scientists in Berkeley bombarded this home state element, No. 98, with carbon, No. 6'

Answer: Californium


Question: 'The first VOA broadcast, on February 24, 1942, was in this European language'

Answer: German


Question: 'With few interrruptions, this family ruled the Holy Roman Empire for almost 400 years, from 1438-1806'

Answer: Hapsburgs


Question: '"The Prophet" Kahlil Gibran'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'A relative of the dugong, it's also known as a sea cow'

Answer: Manatee


Question: 'The country known as this island "& Tobago" claims that its Carnaval is "The Greatest Show on Earth"'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'It was used as a cleanser, bleach & medicine before it was used in gunpowder'

Answer: Sulphur


Question: 'Come, Mr. Taliban, listen to the following Pashto broadcast aimed at this country'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'In the 1090s this Croat capital became the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric'

Answer: Zagreb


Question: 'Writer of "Ficciones" Jorge Luis Borges'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'It's the easternmost of Canada's 3 Prairie Provinces'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: 'Visit this Catalonian city to see the magnificent Guell Palace designed by Antonio Gaudi'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'It's the point in the center of the circle in the U.N. emblem'

Answer: North Pole


Question: 'Sally chose to attend this state's camp over Alabama or California  to be near Kennedy Space Center'

Answer: Florida


Question: '"Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe"'

Answer: Men in Black


Question: 'The Slidewinder is a free-flow flume ride down a mountainside at her theme park, Dollywood'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'This star of "The Nanny" was once first runner-up in the Miss New York Teenager pageant'

Answer: Fran Drescher


Question: 'Restaurant counter pick-me-up to dig that piece of broccoli out from between your incisors'

Answer: a toothpick


Question: 'The card you don't want to pick in this children's game is the odd queen'

Answer: Old Maid


Question: 'Looking to the future, Sally found out what it might be like to travel to this neighbor planet, like Sojourner'

Answer: Mars


Question: '"Protecting the jungle from the scum of the Earth"'

Answer: George of the Jungle


Question: 'You'll get wet when you ride the Grand Canyon Rapids at MGM Grand Adventures in this Nevada city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'In 1973, at age 15, she made her Broadway debut in "Irene", which starred her mom, Debbie Reynolds'

Answer: Carrie Fisher


Question: 'A person who separates a man from his wallet'

Answer: a pickpocket


Question: 'A sign on the road to Carlsbad Caverns  reads, "Do not pick up" these; "prison facilities in this area"'

Answer: hitchhikers


Question: 'Sally's interest was sparked by the 1986 film "Space Camp" with this "Caroline in the City" star'

Answer: Lea Thompson