Question: 'Novel-poem in which Sal & Dean hitchhike through a yellow wood where the path diverges, making all the difference'

Answer: On the Road Not Taken


Question: '1936:<br />Errol Flynn leads a cavalry unit into cannon, annihilation & everlasting glory'

Answer: Charge of the Light Brigade


Question: 'Twice in the 1990s, he came in third in U.S. presidential elections'

Answer: Ross Perot


Question: 'A causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland'

Answer: Bahrain


Question: 'A 1906 announcement: dad Socrates & mom Penelope celebrate the launch of this new little ship'

Answer: Aristotle Onassis


Question: 'Go where some men have gone before with this 4-letter term from the Afrikaans for "migrate"'

Answer: trek


Question: 'Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas that's the Swedish playwright of "The Dance of Death"'

Answer: The Light in August Strindberg


Question: '1951:<br />Erwin Rommel succeeds... for a while... in North Africa'

Answer: The Desert Fox


Question: 'A member of the British Commonwealth, this country is the third-largest island in the Caribbean'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'One of France's 26 regions, it doesn't count as an overseas one though it's 100 miles across the Mediterranean'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'James & Lady Blanche have a "declaration": the July 25, 1848 birth of this future foreign secretary & prime minister'

Answer: (Arthur James) Balfour


Question: 'The marimba was popularized in Central America, but the word is from this sub-Saharan group of about 500 langs.'

Answer: the Bantu languages


Question: 'In 2007 this 1962 American Nobel laureate became the first person to receive his own personal genome map'

Answer: James Watson


Question: 'There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs'

Answer: the Empire State Building


Question: 'Kevin Kline<br />in "De-Lovely"'

Answer: (Cole) Porter


Question: 'Often stuffed & baked, conchiglioni is jumbo pasta shaped like these'

Answer: shells


Question: '"Fish ladders" help salmon travel upstream over these man-made obstructions'

Answer: dams


Question: 'In a children's playground chant, they're the 2 things that will "break my bones, but names will never hurt me"'

Answer: sticks & stones


Question: 'Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet'

Answer: fever


Question: 'On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium'

Answer: the B train


Question: 'Cary Grant<br />in "Night and Day"'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: 'Something that's cordate is shaped like this, my love'

Answer: a heart


Question: 'World Book says this country leads the world in salmon fishing, with more than 450,000 tons caught each year'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'This musical instrument consists of a chanter, several drones & an air sack'

Answer: a bagpipe


Question: 'In a hit song by the Monkees, "Then I saw her face, now I'm" one of these'

Answer: a believer


Question: 'In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department'

Answer: volunteer


Question: 'James Cagney<br />in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'It's the more common 4-letter name for a regular hexahedron'

Answer: a cube


Question: 'The roe of the chum salmon is a popular source for the red variety of this'

Answer: caviar


Question: 'Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"'

Answer: the witches


Question: 'In 1905 this former U.S. president remarked, "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote"'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'One of NYC's most famous seafood joints is the bar for these bivalves in Grand Central'

Answer: oysters


Question: 'James Cagney<br />in "The Seven Little Foys"'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'Dendroid means shaped like a tree; dentiform means shaped like this'

Answer: a tooth


Question: 'Salmon are members of the same family as the speckled or brook variety of this fish'

Answer: trout


Question: 'The Kol Nidre prayer is chanted by the cantor on the eve of this Jewish day of atonement'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'A bracketed projecting beam supported on only one end, or a type of bridge'

Answer: a cantilever


Question: 'Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border'

Answer: SoHo (South of Houston)


Question: 'Toralv Maurstad<br />in "Song of Norway"'

Answer: Edvard Grieg


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a four-sided shape on the monitor.)  In geometry, I'm sure you've come across this shape: it's a plane figure with 2 parallel & 2 non-parallel sides'

Answer: a trapezoid


Question: 'Weighing up to 100 pounds, this large type of salmon shares its name with a warm, dry wind'

Answer: chinook


Question: 'Named for a 6th century pope, these a capella songs might have earned a Papal's Choice Award'

Answer: Gregorian chants


Question: 'It's the "A" in JA, the youth organization begun in 1919 to teach young people about American business'

Answer: Achievement


Question: 'In 312, emboldened by the sight of a cross in the sky, this man defeated the Emperor Maxentius & seized Rome'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'Well, goll-ly!  He left his job & home in Mayberry to join the Marine Corps'

Answer: Gomer Pyle


Question: 'The Mercalli scale measures the intensity of these from I to XII'

Answer: earthquakes


Question: 'Scout out the home Kit Carson shared with his lovely bride in Taos in this state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: '"The caged bird sings / With a fearful trill / Of things unknown / But longed for still"'

Answer: Maya Angelou


Question: 'A baby belch<br />(4)'

Answer: burp


Question: 'In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of this country that no longer exists'

Answer: South Vietnam


Question: 'On "The Addams Family", he was married to Morticia'

Answer: Gomez


Question: 'Geysers aren't common; major centers include Yellowstone, Iceland & this country's North Island'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Doris Duke never had to rough it at Rough Point, her 105-room estate in this ritzy Rhode Island town'

Answer: Newport


Question: '"Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie!"'

Answer: Rabbie Burns


Question: 'It precedes dance, laugh or flop<br />(5)'

Answer: belly


Question: 'This Apache tried to keep peace with the palefaces, but after his death, his son joined with the militant Geronimo'

Answer: Cochise


Question: '(Hi, I'm Martin Short, and) I first introduced this pointy-haired nerd on SCTV; he later had his own cartoon series, & Pat Sajak was his big hero--but don't tell Alex'

Answer: Ed Grimley


Question: 'This rock can be formed by the accumulation of shells or coral, but not from citrus fruit'

Answer: limestone


Question: 'People in this job never had an official home until "Number One Observatory Circle" was chosen in the '70s'

Answer: the vice president


Question: '"There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'"'

Answer: Edward Lear


Question: 'Bestselling book that has its own "belt"<br />(5)'

Answer: Bible


Question: 'Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this "Utopia" author, her father'

Answer: Saint Thomas More


Question: 'During a dream sequence, it was revealed that this Richard Dean Anderson character had the first name Angus'

Answer: MacGyver


Question: 'This 9-letter geologic science is the study of the movement & distribution of all the Earth's waters'

Answer: hydrology


Question: 'Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some "Mosses from" it'

Answer: the Old Manse


Question: '"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"'

Answer: Alexander Pope


Question: 'A throng, often "of beauties"<br />(4)'

Answer: bevy


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.)  Today, the Imperial Palace is home to Austria's head of state, the president; in Mozart's time, it was home to the head of state, this archduchess'

Answer: Maria Theresa


Question: 'Hardcore fans of "Gilligan's Island" known that this character's real name is Roy Hinkley'

Answer: the Professor


Question: 'A 6-mile-wide caldera, or volcanic crater, is a highlight of La Palma in this Spanish Island group off Africa'

Answer: the Canaries


Question: 'As a bachelor in the 1970s, Prince Charles romanced Camilla at Broadlands, the home of this lord, his great-uncle'

Answer: Mountbatten


Question: '"Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine"'

Answer: Ben Jonson


Question: 'Mr. Bumble's occupation in "Oliver Twist"<br />(6)'

Answer: beadle


Question: 'Since 1960, only Massachusetts & this state have produced more than one of the 10 Democratic presidential nominees'

Answer: Minnesota (Hubert Humphrey & Walter Mondale)


Question: 'In May 1981 would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot this man in St. Peter's Square'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'Kate Winslet wears a blue diamond necklace called the "Heart of the Ocean" in this 1997 film'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'The first seal designed for what is now this U.S. state depicted icebergs, igloos & the Northern Lights'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Since 1909 every government in Denmark's parliament has been this type that needs to strike deals'

Answer: minority government (a coalition accepted)


Question: 'Deadly lady seen here'

Answer: a black widow


Question: 'The "4 questions" asked on this occasion include wondering why we have to eat unleavened bread'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Reginald Fitzurse was among the Knights who took Henry II's remark literally to rid him of this archbishop'

Answer: Thomas à Becket


Question: 'Keanu Reeves is a supernatural detective in this 2005 flick based on the Hellblazer comic book'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'It's the calendar year depicted here in Roman numerals'

Answer: 2004


Question: 'In 1978 Ricardo Bordallo was Guam's head of government & this man was its head of state'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Numerical name for the unruly group seen here during their trial in 1970'

Answer: the Chicago Seven


Question: 'Malay or Sinai'

Answer: peninsula


Question: 'In 1994, 31 years after the crime, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering this Civil Rights leader'

Answer: Medgar Evers


Question: 'This singer starred in "Waiting to Exhale" & "The Bodyguard"'

Answer: Whitney Houston


Question: 'Sleepy Bear has been this motel chain's logo since 1954'

Answer: Travelodge


Question: 'This country's National People's Congress has had up to around 3,500 members'

Answer: China


Question: 'Try to photograph this swift critter, and you might only get its tail, seen here'

Answer: a cheetah


Question: 'Gunmen after this South American dictator in 1986 used rockets, bazookas, rifles & grenades--& missed!'

Answer: Pinochet


Question: 'Yigal Amir, a student at Bar-Ilan University, is serving a life sentence for assassinating this leader in 1995'

Answer: Rabin


Question: 'He played Mozart in the 1984 film "Amadeus"'

Answer: Tom Hulce


Question: 'The 3 Zodiac signs with horns'

Answer: Aries, Capricorn & Taurus


Question: 'Brazil has 2 federal legislative houses, the Chamber of Deputies & this'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'Viceroy of India was one of the titles of this military man'

Answer: Mountbatten


Question: 'World Heritage sites in this nation include the Nasca Lines'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Ramon Mercader, who killed this man in 1940, was later awarded the Order of Lenin'

Answer: Trotsky


Question: 'M. Night Shyamalan wrote & directed this creepy Bruce Willis-Haley Joel Osment film'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: 'The same 2 letters in the same order make up Arkansas' postal abbreviation & the symbol of this chemical element'

Answer: argon


Question: 'This country with "Republic" in its name was less republican after a 2003 coup by General Francois Bozize'

Answer: the Central African Republic


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a hefty-looking sewing kit.)  In "Moby Dick," Ahab asks Starbuck for one of these with a triangular point to pierce through materials'

Answer: a sailmaker\'s needle


Question: 'Named for an adviser to Catherine the Great, this type of "village" looks deceptively impressive'

Answer: a Potemkin village


Question: 'In 1917 the name of this castle that dates back to the 11th century was adopted by a royal house'

Answer: Windsor


Question: 'The 1924 musical revue "I'll Say She Is" made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars'

Answer: the Marx Brothers


Question: 'In Barry Unsworth's "The Songs of the Kings", the Greek fleet bound for here is trapped by unfavorable winds'

Answer: Troy


Question: '(I'm Dr. Thomas Starzl.)  In 1967, on a patient suffering from hepatoma, I performed the first successful human transplant of this organ'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'The controversial Ahmed Chalabi'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'A "bear"y nice Alaskan island<br />(6)'

Answer: Kodiak


Question: 'This country whose abbreviation is a conjunction joins Spain to France'

Answer: Andorra


Question: 'In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded "Bonnie" (it didn't precede "Birdie" until 1960)'

Answer: Bye Bye


Question: 'James Fenimore Cooper's "Mercedes of Castile" combines a love story with the voyages of this man'

Answer: (Christopher) Columbus


Question: 'This organ was first successfully transplanted in 1981, as a package deal with a heart'

Answer: a lung


Question: 'Mad magazine illustrator James Warhola'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Jean-Claude of the slopes<br />(5)'

Answer: Killy


Question: 'The person with this title gets to appoint people to Luxembourg's Council of State & they get to stay on for life'

Answer: the Grand Duke


Question: 'The big attraction of the 1923 hit "Poppy" was this future film comic as Eustace McGargle'

Answer: W.C. Fields


Question: 'The hero of Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" has to settle the calculus dispute between Leibniz & him'

Answer: Newton


Question: '(Dr. Thomas Starzl reads the clue.)  A pioneering kidney transplant of 1954 was from Ronald Herrick to Richard Herrick, this very specific type of relative'

Answer: an identical twin


Question: 'Frederick the Great & Mike Nichols'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'Shy-sounding swimmers<br />(3)'

Answer: koi


Question: 'France has about 100,000 of these Defense Ministry employees who perform police functions outside the main cities'

Answer: gendarmes


Question: 'The saucy 1928 musical "Paris" introduced this composer's immortal song "Let's Do It"'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: 'This antagonist of the Crusaders looks back on his life in a novel by Tariq Ali'

Answer: Saladin


Question: 'He's seen here in 1967, the year of his historic operation'

Answer: (Dr. Christiaan) Barnard


Question: 'Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was not born in France; his birthplace was this European city'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'Its alias is turnip cabbage<br />(8)'

Answer: kohlrabi


Question: 'Until recently, Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia & Slovenia was part of this'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'As a servant in the musical "Bombo", he sang "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!" & "California, Here I Come"'

Answer: Al Jolson


Question: 'It's the second name of Taras, a 16th century Cossack in a 19th century Gogol novel'

Answer: Bulba


Question: '(Dr. Thomas Starzl reads the clue.)  In 1992 my team transplanted a liver from one of these primates into a man'

Answer: a baboon


Question: 'Sidney Bechet'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Ceremonial chamber you'd "Hopi" into<br />(4)'

Answer: a kiva


Question: 'Sentinels at the tomb walk exactly this many steps at a time before they stop & turn'

Answer: 21


Question: 'Rivaner is a profitable type of this planted in Luxembourg's Moselle Valley'

Answer: grape


Question: '1999 film with the line "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to"'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Germany.)  Haben sie Bier vom Fass?--I just asked for this form of beer'

Answer: draft beer


Question: 'An astronomer may speak of a solar, lunar, equinoctial or sidereal one'

Answer: a year


Question: 'This palindromic word can mean to cut short, or a short, blunt cut, with or without bangs'

Answer: bob


Question: 'The Oahu tree one of these gastropods is quickly, not slowly, disappearing'

Answer: a snail


Question: 'Encyclopedia Britannica says this, not French, is the lingua franca of Luxembourg'

Answer: German


Question: 'The park bench Tom Hanks sat on in much of this 1994 film was in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia'

Answer: Forrest Gump


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Spain.)  Por favor, un plato de chorizo--a plate of this, please'

Answer: sausage


Question: 'A short war between Israel & Egypt & Syria in October 1973 was named for this high holiday'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'In 2004 this real estate tycoon told People magazine that his signature swept-forward style is his own handiwork'

Answer: Trump


Question: 'The Hine's emerald species of this insect has a wingspan that can reach about 3.5 inches'

Answer: a dragonfly


Question: 'During his years in exile, this "Les Miserables" author lived for a while in Vianden; his house there is now a museum'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'The popular soundtrack of this 2000 film includes "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" & "You Are My Sunshine"'

Answer: O Brother, Where Art Thou?


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Venice.)  Caffe con zucchero, per favore--I take my coffee with this'

Answer: sugar


Question: 'In October 2002 he made another supersonic flight, 55 years after his first'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'This rastafarian style is Whoopi Goldberg's trademark'

Answer: dreadlocks


Question: 'The endangerment of the New Mexico ridge-nosed species of this snake was caused in part by collectors'

Answer: a rattlesnake


Question: 'In the 1940s Luxembourg joined with these 2 countries to form a customs union'

Answer: Belgium & the Netherlands


Question: 'It was the mythological container sought by Lara Croft in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life"'

Answer: Pandora\'s box


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mexico.)  Voy a comer pollo con mole--I'm having this in a classic Mexican sauce'

Answer: chicken


Question: 'This Cole was a known associate of Jesse James'

Answer: Younger


Question: 'This 6-letter hairstyle is "business in front, party in the back"'

Answer: a mullet


Question: 'Picoides Borealis is the red-cockaded species of this bird, still on the endangered list in 2004'

Answer: the woodpecker


Question: 'The Congress of Vienna in 1815 made Luxembourg a state headed by this type of ruler'

Answer: a grand duke


Question: 'In this animated film, Henry J. Waternoose says, "Kids these days.  They just don't get scared like they used to"'

Answer: Monsters, Inc.


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bronx.)  Hey, Sal, I got some hungry people out here; give me a garbage pie--I just ordered up one of these'

Answer: a pizza with everything


Question: '"Savage Sam" is a sequel to the Fred Gipson book called "Old" this'

Answer: Yeller


Question: 'George Clooney popularized the close-cut style named this, like a certain leader'

Answer: a Caesar (cut)


Question: 'Among the colorful mammals on the endangered list are the gray & the red ones of these predators'

Answer: a wolf


Question: 'Borgen's Cafe, on Main St. in Westby, Wisconsin, feels a bit like Oslo, with menus & banter in this language'

Answer: Norwegian


Question: 'This rapper won a 2000 MTV award for Best Male Video for "The Real Slim Shady"'

Answer: Eminem


Question: 'A fabulist:<br />620-560 B.C.'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'The white petals of this flower are usually pulled to see if "she loves me" or "she loves me not"'

Answer: a daisy


Question: 'A perambulator or pram to the Brits, it was invented in 1733 by William Kent for the Duke of Devonshire's kids'

Answer: a baby carriage


Question: '1980 scarefest in which mom & daughter switch bodies one day & are stalked by Jason at Camp Crystal Lake'

Answer: Freaky Friday the 13th


Question: 'In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle'

Answer: Temple Square


Question: ''60s Dylan classic that begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine"'

Answer: "Like A Rolling Stone"


Question: 'A philosopher & student of Plato:<br />384-322 B.C.'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'This flower seen here is often spotted on a man's lapel'

Answer: a carnation


Question: 'In 1676 Robert Hooke came up with a universal one of these to manipulate the mirrors of his helioscope'

Answer: a universal joint


Question: 'Leif Ericson's dad who was a huge star with low surface temperature'

Answer: Erik the Red Giant


Question: 'There's a house dating from 1648 on Main St. in this "directional" resort village in New York's Hamptons'

Answer: Southampton


Question: 'In the summer of 2002 this country star hit the Hot 100 chart with "Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue"'

Answer: Toby Keith


Question: 'A comedic dramatist:<br />445-385 B.C.'

Answer: Aristophanes


Question: 'These flowers blooming in a Flanders cemetery during WWI inspired a famous poem by Major John McCrae'

Answer: poppies


Question: 'The name of this Scot who invented the steam hammer sounds just like the American who invented basketball'

Answer: (James) Nasmyth


Question: 'Fictional girl sleuth who's the granddaughter of "The Great Profile"'

Answer: Nancy Drew Barrymore


Question: 'Bob Seger was "down on Main Street" in this city, home to a university'

Answer: Ann Arbor


Question: 'Alicia Keys received 5 Grammys for 2001, including best new artist & song of the year for this hit'

Answer: "Fallin\'"


Question: 'A mathematician:<br />287-212 B.C.'

Answer: Archimedes


Question: 'Grown from bulbs, they're the cheerful spring flowers seen here'

Answer: daffodils


Question: 'For the military, zoologist John Kerr developed the "dazzle paint" type of this, something animals also use'

Answer: camouflage


Question: 'Projection at the southern tip of South America also called a cornucopia'

Answer: Cape Horn o\' Plenty


Question: 'Your feelings may run deep on historic Main Street in this city, home of Oklahoma State University'

Answer: Stillwater


Question: '"Come Back Home" is the first single from his 2003 album "Day I Forgot"'

Answer: Pete Yorn


Question: 'The "Oresteia" tragedian:<br />525-456 B.C.'

Answer: Aeschylus


Question: 'In song, Colorado is where these bluish & white state flowers grow'

Answer: the Rocky Mountain columbines


Question: 'The miner's safety lamp was also called by the name of this British chemist who invented it in 1815'

Answer: Sir Humphry Davy


Question: '"Lethal Weapon" director whose group was caught in a Sierra Nevada pass in the winter of 1846-47'

Answer: the Richard Donner Party


Question: '"I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this'

Answer: Song of Solomon


Question: '"The Surveyor President"'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'In 2004 he published "My Prison Without Bars"'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'It's the job of the lad seen here'

Answer: ringbearer


Question: '(1937)<br />"'It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!'"'

Answer: The Hobbit


Question: 'It's the breakfast cereal pitched by the animated elves Snap, Crackle & Pop'

Answer: Rice Krispies


Question: 'Wow!  In 2002 a "supercolony" of billions of these was discovered stretching across several countries in Europe'

Answer: ants


Question: '"The Illinois Baboon" &<br />"The Martyr President"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'With the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, his No. 4 was the first number retired in either league'

Answer: Lou Gehrig


Question: 'In 2002 a hot pink frock worn by Robin Durr won the DeKuyper Contest for the worst of these'

Answer: a bridesmaid\'s dress


Question: '(1719)<br />"I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'The 3 U.K. countries that make up the island of Great Britain'

Answer: England, Scotland & Wales


Question: 'Robert Frost wondered "How many" of these "fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!"'

Answer: apples


Question: '"Red Fox" &<br />"The Scribe of the Revolution"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Baseball's "Mr. October", he generated headlines for his cantankerous personality & his athletic prowess'

Answer: Reggie Jackson


Question: 'The traditional conclusion of the pre-vow line "If anyone can show just cause why they may not be joined together..."'

Answer: "let him speak now or forever hold his peace"


Question: '(1945)<br />"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat'

Answer: racing\'s Triple Crown


Question: 'In 2004 an Arctic Beauty wild hair contest became part of the famous Fur Rendezvous in this U.S. city'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands next to a bust of President Hoover at the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.)  Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam is named, was known as "The Great" this, his prepolitics profession'

Answer: Engineer


Question: 'Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all 19 World Series games with the Washington Senators'

Answer: "Goose"


Question: 'A Navy wedding features an arch of swords; an Army wedding, an arch of these heavy cavalry swords'

Answer: sabres


Question: '(1932)<br />"Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre"'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'Since the 1979 incident at this location, no new nuclear reactors have been ordered in the U.S.'

Answer: Three-Mile Island


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Cod, MA.) In 1986, this vessel, named either for a chipmunk or Woods Hole scientist Alan Vine, reached the Titanic'

Answer: the Alvin


Question: '"The Schoolmaster in Politics"'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Sadly, this lefty pitcher who coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe" died in 2004'

Answer: Tug McGraw


Question: 'It's the festive-sounding name for one who officiates at a wedding'

Answer: the celebrant


Question: '(1972)<br />"Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate"'

Answer: Watership Down


Question: 'Mythical monstrosity manifested here'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: 'The name Zog is not as much in vogue as it once was, when King Zog I ruled this European country'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'In newspapers, Jack Ruby was invariably described as an "operator" of these joints'

Answer: strip joints (or nightclubs)


Question: 'It's the only Irish city with a population above 500,000'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'An artist:<br />"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'Just off Australia, it's the largest chain of coral reefs in the world'

Answer: the Great Barrier Reef


Question: 'Dangerous American pit viper'

Answer: the diamondback


Question: 'The largest deposits of this fossil tree resin are found in the sands along the shores of the Baltic Sea'

Answer: amber


Question: 'On Feb. 29, 2004 she won an Oscar for playing a woman named Ruby'

Answer: Renée Zellweger


Question: 'It's the one-word term for the traditional 6 counties known as Northern Ireland'

Answer: Ulster


Question: 'A Founding Father:<br />"There never was a good war or a bad peace"'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the USA's first underwater park, is just off the coast of this Florida key'

Answer: Key Largo


Question: 'Honolulu high spot'

Answer: Diamond Head


Question: 'This December birthstone is the state gem of Arizona & New Mexico'

Answer: turquoise


Question: 'She was married to Al Jolson when she starred in those classic 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals'

Answer: Ruby Keeler


Question: 'This U.S. president visited his family's ancestral village of Ballyporeen in 1984'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'A 17th century writer:<br />"Angling can be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt"'

Answer: Izaak Walton


Question: 'A species of these well-armed creatures known as the crown-of-thorns feasts on coral reefs'

Answer: starfish


Question: 'Carol Channing's Broadway ballad from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"'

Answer: "Diamonds Are A Girl\'s Best Friend"


Question: 'Cornflower blue is the most prized color of this gem'

Answer: a sapphire


Question: 'Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar wrote this classic song about "eight little letters which simply mean I love you"'

Answer: "Three Little Words"


Question: 'This Irish port city on the River Suir is world famous for its crystal'

Answer: Waterford


Question: 'A playwright:<br />"We are all born mad.  Some remain so."'

Answer: Samuel Beckett


Question: 'This coral reef dweller seen here can be vicious & has been known to attack underwater divers'

Answer: a moray eel


Question: 'Arkansassy state park near Murfreesboro'

Answer: Crater of Diamonds State Park


Question: 'Mexico is known for its water & fire varieties of this gem'

Answer: opal


Question: 'In a 1999 TV movie, she played Bessie, of the centenarian Delany sisters'

Answer: Ruby Dee


Question: 'At about 230 miles, it's not only the longest river in Ireland, it's the longest in the British Isles'

Answer: the River Shannon


Question: 'A philosopher:<br />"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"'

Answer: George Santayana


Question: 'It's a ring-shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon, like Bikini or Eniwetok'

Answer: an atoll


Question: 'This lavish-living turn-of-the-century financier rose from a job as a bellhop'

Answer: Diamond Jim Brady


Question: 'In 1750 a Parisian jeweler found that heat turns this sherry-colored Brazilian gem pink'

Answer: topaz


Question: 'Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim'

Answer: Captain Cook


Question: 'During WWII this "Gone with the Wind" author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds'

Answer: (Margaret) Mitchell


Question: 'This British prime minister won a rare third term in June'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'I'll sip a Berries & Kreme Chiller with my hot Original Glazed doughnut from this chain'

Answer: Krispy Kreme


Question: 'It's the type of swan heard here'

Answer: a trumpeter swan


Question: 'This oil cartel controls 40% of world production'

Answer: OPEC


Question: 'Mrs. Reagan's whims'

Answer: Nancy\'s fancies


Question: 'In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'Pat Cash beat this Czech-born tennis great to win the Wimbledon singles title'

Answer: (Ivan) Lendl


Question: 'I've got a big appetite, so give me the Big Cup version of this Reese's treat'

Answer: a peanut butter cup


Question: 'Listen, you white-bellied bustard, I know where you live-- this continent's savanna'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'The USA's highest occupied office space is the 98th floor of this Chicago structure'

Answer: the Sears Tower


Question: 'Mrs. Nixon's floor pads for gymnastics'

Answer: Pat\'s mats


Question: 'He wrote his last short story, "The Betrothed", shortly before his play "The Cherry Orchard"'

Answer: Chekhov


Question: 'A judge said no custody of "Baby M" for this type of mother who'd agreed to bear her for $10,000'

Answer: a surrogate


Question: 'I'd love some Honey Apple Raisin Chocolate Cookie ice cream, but this duo purposely misplaced the recipe'

Answer: Ben & Jerry


Question: 'This bird shown in an illustration is distinguished from the heron by the bustle of feathers over its rump'

Answer: crane


Question: 'On April 9, 1963 this Brit was made the first honorary U.S. citizen'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'Mrs. Truman's frocks'

Answer: Bess\'s dresses


Question: 'After years of writing science fiction, he found his niche with historical novels such as "North and South"'

Answer: (John) Jakes


Question: '2 Russians made an impromptu spacewalk outside this space station & found a bag of trash that hindered docking'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'Wow! The Chocolate Delight snack bar named for this "Miami" diet has just 100 calories! I'll have 6 of them'

Answer: the South Beach diet


Question: 'Perhaps this "thrush", a type of babbler, hangs out at comedy clubs with the same-named hyena'

Answer: laughing thrush


Question: 'This French tennis star of the 1920s who went on to start a clothing line was known as "the Crocodile"'

Answer: (Rene) Lacoste


Question: 'Mrs. Ford's landing wharfs'

Answer: Betty\'s jetties


Question: 'She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'In October the Senate rejected this former Watergate figure's nomination to the Supreme Court'

Answer: Robert Bork


Question: 'I could eat a whole bag of this type of snack invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853'

Answer: potato chips


Question: 'The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers'

Answer: a stilt


Question: 'Using beeswax, olive oil, rose petals & water, Galen invented this skin cleanser with a "frigid" name c. 200 A.D.'

Answer: cold cream


Question: 'Mrs. Bush's luminous radiations'

Answer: Laura\'s auras


Question: 'In 1634 & 1635 an outbreak of this deadly contagion devastated Munich, killing more than one third of its residents'

Answer: bubonic plague


Question: 'China or other ceramic objects can also be called this, after the material they're made of'

Answer: porcelain


Question: 'Established by George Washington in 1782, it can also be given to P.O.W.s who've been mistreated'

Answer: Purple Heart


Question: 'A 1936 dissent by Justice Stone accused 6 other justices of a "tortured construction" of this document'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'When the earth is at perihelion, it is having its closest encounter with this'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'Spielberg directed segment 2 of this 1983 movie based on a creepy anthology series'

Answer: Twilight Zone


Question: 'Munich's motto used to be "die weltstadt mit herz", the world city with one of these'

Answer: heart


Question: 'This dictionary term meaning "old" is applied to words like "wast"'

Answer: archaic


Question: 'Day of the week in February 2006 when the top of the Empire State Building was lit purple, green & gold'

Answer: Tuesday


Question: 'In his first major case as Chief Justice, he found himself in the minority in 2006 as Oregon assisted suicide was okayed'

Answer: John Roberts


Question: 'In a Wilde tale, an American family in the mansion Canterville Chase encounters this trying to scare them'

Answer: a ghost


Question: 'This 1968 short film with a "strollin" title lent its name to Spielberg's production company'

Answer: Amblin


Question: 'The Summer Olympics in Munich in this year were sadly marred by terrorism & tragedy'

Answer: 1972


Question: 'This often blended rum & juice cocktail is named for a Cuban  town'

Answer: daiquiri


Question: 'Defensive tackle Alan Page was part of the "purple people eaters" of this NFL team'

Answer: the Minnesota Vikings


Question: 'Justice Brennan, dissenting in Paris Adult Theater v. Slaton, said this quality is too vaguely defined to regulate'

Answer: obscenity


Question: 'He's now a correspondant emeritus for "60 Minutes"; his memoir "Close Encounters" came out in 1984'

Answer: Mike Wallace


Question: 'Spielberg wasn't paid for directing this film; he said it would be "blood money"'

Answer: Schindler\'s List


Question: 'On Munich's coat of arms you'll find one of these religious figures who originally settled the city and gave it its name'

Answer: monk


Question: 'This 2-word term for a nanny is French for "equal"'

Answer: an au pair


Question: '2 centuries late, this unstable British king was diagnosed with an excess of purple pigments in the blood'

Answer: King George III


Question: 'Justice Holmes dissented when seditionist Jacob Abrams' conviction was upheld,  saying he didn't pose this type of "danger"'

Answer: clear and present


Question: 'On May 13, 1981 he had a close encounter with Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome; he would later visit Agca in prison'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: '13-year-old Christian Bale starred in this J.G. Ballard tale about a young prisoner in WWII China'

Answer: Empire of the Sun


Question: 'In the 16th century, Munich was a center of the German phase of this movement against Protestantism'

Answer: the Counter-Reformation


Question: 'Broad-snouted and smooth-fronted are 2 types of this South American reptile'

Answer: caiman


Question: 'This purple flower is the state flower of Colorado'

Answer: the columbine


Question: 'Justice Harlan was an honorable one-man minority in this 1896 decision that enshrined the "separate but equal" doctrine'

Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson


Question: 'In meteorology, when a cold one has a close encounter with a warm one & takes it over, it's called an occluded one'

Answer: a front


Question: 'Before "The Blues Brothers", Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi starred in this WWII farce'

Answer: 1941


Question: 'To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section'

Answer: Macduff


Question: 'Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera'

Answer: Carmen


Question: '"I lost the Number 1 draft pick the night before the draft!"'

Answer: Jerry Maguire


Question: 'In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these'

Answer: cowboy


Question: 'Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects'

Answer: ladybugs


Question: 'Ulysses' trousers'

Answer: Grant\'s pants


Question: 'Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic legends'

Answer: (Richard) Wagner


Question: '"What I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood"'

Answer: Interview with the Vampire


Question: 'The St. Mary's River connects Lake Superior to this second-largest Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Huron


Question: 'If this is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected'

Answer: proofreader


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in the laboratory)  Any glass or plastic container can be used to build one of these self-contained indoor gardens'

Answer: terrariums


Question: 'Arthur's school terms'

Answer: Chester\'s semesters


Question: 'Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet's wedding'

Answer: The Marriage of Figaro


Question: '"I am a Vietnam veteran!  I fought for my country!"'

Answer: Born on the Fourth of July


Question: '12,500' above sea level, this South American lake bordering Bolivia & Peru is the world's most navigable lake'

Answer: Lake Titicaca


Question: 'In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar'

Answer: dental hygienist


Question: 'Juniper & maple are good trees to use in this cultivating art whose name means "plant in a tray" in Japanese'

Answer: bonsai


Question: 'Zachary's wardens'

Answer: Taylor\'s jailers


Question: 'Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera'

Answer: La boheme


Question: '"I'm gonna let ya in on a little secret, Ray.  K-Mart sucks"'

Answer: Rain Man


Question: 'At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River'

Answer: the Blue Nile & the White Nile


Question: 'He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day & may get a paper cut from a transfer'

Answer: bus driver


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in the laboratory)  A must for any gardener, a soil testing kit is used to take a reading of this level, a measure of acidity'

Answer: pH level


Question: 'James' egg parts'

Answer: Polk\'s yolks


Question: 'At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced "Fidelio"'

Answer: (Ludwig van) Beethoven


Question: '"They're dead...my team is dead...they knew we were coming"'

Answer: Mission: Impossible


Question: 'After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea'

Answer: the Danube


Question: 'If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel'

Answer: pickler


Question: 'The 3 elements most commonly found in garden fertilizers are phosphorus, potassium & this element'

Answer: nitrogen


Question: 'Tyler's conducting sticks'

Answer: John\'s batons


Question: 'She was the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II'

Answer: the Flying Tigers


Question: '1 Samuel 17 informs us that the Philistine city of Gath was the home of this giant'

Answer: Goliath


Question: 'This man's most avid supporters during the Cultural Revolution were students mobilized as "Red Guards"'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'Winston Churchill said that this weapon "brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace"'

Answer: the atomic bomb


Question: 'In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person'

Answer: the umpire


Question: 'Louis VI of France was known as this; as a child he must have shopped in le husky department'

Answer: Louis the Fat


Question: 'Now endangered, this largest variety of tiger bears the name of a large Russian region'

Answer: the Siberian tiger


Question: 'In Lilliput he's a giant'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'In the Catholic Church, they wear red hats'

Answer: cardinals


Question: 'Some scientists believe the dinosaurs died out when one of these interstellar objects struck the Earth'

Answer: an asteroid


Question: 'To injure opposing players, Ty Cobb was said to sharpen these'

Answer: his spikes


Question: 'Russia's first ruler with this name was called Kalita, meaning "moneybags"; not so terrible'

Answer: Ivan


Question: 'Genus sphyraena, this long, thin predatory fish with protruding jaws & teeth is known as the "tiger of the sea"'

Answer: barracuda


Question: 'Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant"'

Answer: Edna Ferber


Question: 'It's the world-famous "colorful" area seen here in the 1950s'

Answer: Red Square


Question: 'Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman'

Answer: apprentice


Question: 'Topps' 1952 series No. 311 was this player's first card & is a holy grail among collectors'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'Charles Edward Stuart could have worn a T.Y.P. necklace for "The Young Pretender" or a B.P.C. one for this nickname'

Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie


Question: 'One of this man's most famous poems begins, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night"'

Answer: William Blake


Question: '"Giants in the Earth" is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'About 1,200 miles long, it has a maximum depth of almost 10,000 feet'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'This "Khan" is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims'

Answer: the Aga Khan


Question: '2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903'

Answer: (2 of 5) Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis


Question: 'This first king of Poland was alliteratively nicknamed "the Brave"'

Answer: Boleslaw


Question: 'The autobiography written by this famous Nepalese was titled "Tiger of the Snows"'

Answer: Tenzing Norgay


Question: 'Odysseus incurs the wrath of Poseidon by blinding this giant Cyclops'

Answer: Polyphemus


Question: 'The flag of this U.K. division features an impressive red dragon with a forked tongue & tail'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'In 1841 ex-president John Quincy Adams represented the mutineers of this ship before the Supreme Court'

Answer: the Amistad


Question: 'During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood"'

Answer: Mohandas Gandhi


Question: 'This co-author of "Manifest Der Kommunisttischen Partei" was born May 5, 1818'

Answer: (Karl) Marx


Question: 'You're nuts if you don't know this title of hits by Seal, Icehouse & Patsy Cline'

Answer: "Crazy"


Question: 'A tactical formation in the form of a V, or an "issue" dividing an otherwise unified group'

Answer: a wedge


Question: '"For" Michigan Republican congressman Hoekstra's "sake!"'

Answer: Pete\'s


Question: 'This state's largest county, San Bernardino, was divided in 1893 to form Riverside county'

Answer: California


Question: 'Their publications include "First Aid Fast" & a "Babysitter's Handbook"'

Answer: the American Red Cross


Question: 'Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was born May 5, 1813 in this capital'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'The Eagles in 1975 & The Emotions in 1977 both hit No. 1 singing about "The Best Of" this'

Answer: "My Love"


Question: 'Ticonderoga is no. 1 in making no. 2 these, introduced in 1913'

Answer: pencils


Question: '"For the love of" Wyoming senator Enzi!'

Answer: Mike


Question: 'Leadville in the Rockies in this state is the USA's highest incorporated city'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'A gorilla named Koko learned to communicate using gestures from this'

Answer: American Sign Language


Question: 'Born May 5, 1919, Giorgios Papadopoulos became dictator of this country in 1967'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Robbie Nevil & B*witched had tunes called this French phrase meaning "that's life"'

Answer: "C\'est La Vie"


Question: '16 tablespoons equals one of these'

Answer: a cup


Question: '"Heavens to" ex-New York lieutenant governor McCaughey!'

Answer: Betsy


Question: 'At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet'

Answer: the Salt Lake


Question: 'In 2009 this organization that maintains the largest registry for purebred dogs celebrated its 125th anniversary'

Answer: the American Kennel Club


Question: 'This May-5 born Monty Python member & BBC travel filmmaker is a commando of the Order of the British Empire'

Answer: (Michael) Palin


Question: 'Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972 & Christina Aguilera in 2007 sang about this sweet guy'

Answer: "Candyman"


Question: 'This brand says its "magic" tape is "the original matte-finish, invisible tape"'

Answer: Scotch


Question: '"Geez" House Rules Committee ranking Democrat Slaughter'

Answer: Louise


Question: 'Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State'

Answer: the Seward peninsula


Question: 'When Iowa farmers & their wives first saw this 1930 painting of a farm couple, many of them were downright angry'

Answer: American Gothic


Question: 'A culinary foundation is named for this dean of American cookery who was born in Portland May 5, 1903'

Answer: James Beard


Question: 'Sticky-sweet title of no. 1s for Bobby Goldsboro in 1968 & Mariah Carey in 1997'

Answer: "Honey"


Question: '11-letter word for embroidery on canvas, with uniform spacing of stitches in a pattern'

Answer: needlepoint


Question: 'South Carolina legislator John "O'Goshen!"'

Answer: land


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  The northwest angle belongs to the U.S., although it doesn't look that way; it's the only part of the lower 48 that extends miles north of this parallel of latitude'

Answer: the 49th parallel


Question: 'In 2009 the U.S. Mint issued a quarter for this territory featuring an ava bowl, a whisk & a coconut tree'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'This man's injected dead virus vaccine inspired Albert Sabin's live-virus oral vaccine for polio'

Answer: (Jonas) Salk


Question: 'This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Utah's state tree is the blue type of this evergreen'

Answer: the spruce


Question: 'A deadlocked jury is this 4-letter word'

Answer: hung


Question: 'The U.S. Fifth Army comes to town: June 4 of this year'

Answer: 1944


Question: 'This 2-word term for a skeptic refers to one of Jesus' apostles'

Answer: a doubting Thomas


Question: 'This naturalist wrote, "for my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey"'

Answer: (Charles) Darwin


Question: 'Variety called it "a horse picture" with "a new dramatic find-- moppet Elizabeth Taylor"'

Answer: National Velvet


Question: 'Seen here, a Navajo bracelet features this mineral'

Answer: turquoise


Question: 'This type of jury charged with deciding whether there's enough evidence to try a person may have up to 23 members'

Answer: a grand jury


Question: 'Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel: this century'

Answer: the 16th


Question: 'This big hair style is derived from the title of a mistress of Louis XV'

Answer: a madame pompadour


Question: 'Despite his advocacy of megadoses of vitamin c, he & his wife Ava got cancer'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash while Liz was making this film in which she played Maggie Pollitt'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'This jeweler's blue box is a registered trademark'

Answer: Tiffany


Question: 'The general type of this military tribunal must have at least 5 members & the defense attorney may be military or civilian'

Answer: court martial


Question: 'Mussolini becomes prime minister: this decade'

Answer: the 1920s


Question: 'To abstain from buying or doing trade with, in honor of an Irish landlord against whom such tactics were used'

Answer: to boycott


Question: 'This Russian's work on gastrointestinal secretions in animals earned him a Nobel prize'

Answer: Pavlov


Question: 'Liz won an Oscar for her role as a battlesome wife in this adaptation of an Albee play'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'The vase seen here is made from this semiprecious stone'

Answer: lapis lazuli


Question: 'In the Manson trial this isolation of a jury to protect it from outside influences lasted 8 1/2 months'

Answer: sequestering


Question: 'Rome burns while an emperor relaxes in his villa at Antium: this century'

Answer: 1st (A.D.)


Question: 'This ancient king of Lydia, thought the wealthiest man on earth, had the Midas touch, hence the phrase "as rich as" him'

Answer: Croesus


Question: 'He discovered that the observed frequency of light waves is affected by the relative motion of the source & detector'

Answer: Doppler


Question: 'James Dean, Rock Hudson & Liz formed a love triangle in this Texas-set film'

Answer: Giant


Question: 'The blue type of this game fish, M. Nigricans, has a long pointed bill'

Answer: a marlin


Question: 'In selecting jurors, an attorney may reject some for no stated reason-- this type of challenge'

Answer: a peremptory challenge


Question: 'Charlemagne is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III: this day, 800 A.D.'

Answer: Christmas


Question: 'This flower seen here is named for a German botanist'

Answer: a zinnia


Question: 'Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'This word meaning "for each" precedes annum or diem'

Answer: per


Question: 'In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" the name of the fictional drug ALZ112 indicates it's a possible treatment for this'

Answer: Alzheimer\'s


Question: 'This type of "piece" sounds like a smoking pipe, but it's an article written to flatter or glorify the subject'

Answer: a puff piece


Question: 'In this sporting quintet, the center is considered No. 5 when diagramming plays'

Answer: a basketball team


Question: 'The Siege of Yorktown'

Answer: the American Revolution


Question: 'In his acceptance speech, Pres. Obama quoted this 1964 American recipient saying, "violence never brings permanent peace"'

Answer: (Martin Luther) King (Jr.)


Question: '5-letter word meaning less by the subtraction of; don't overthink it'

Answer: minus


Question: 'Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel'

Answer: The Help


Question: 'Every Christmas, the Indiana post office in the town named for him postmarks a half a million pieces of mail'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'A foursome is required to play this game where you try to win the rubber'

Answer: bridge


Question: 'The Battle of New Orleans'

Answer: the War of 1812


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Nobel Peace Prize Center in Oslo, Norway.) Henry Dunant, who founded this international organization that works to relieve suffering, won a share of the first Peace Prize in 1901; since then, the organization itself has won an unprecedented three prizes'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'It's the "A" in the advocacy group known as MADD'

Answer: Against


Question: 'He was busy in 2011, with parts in "Paul", "Horrible Bosses" & "The Change-Up"'

Answer: (Jason) Bateman


Question: 'The U.S. hasn't minted these, between a penny & a nickel, since 1872'

Answer: a two-cent coin


Question: 'If Andy yearns for Brenda & Brenda cares about Charlene who pines for Andy, the 3 of them form one of these'

Answer: a love triangle


Question: 'The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne'

Answer: World War I


Question: '1997's prize went in part to an international group trying to clear these from the world'

Answer: land mines


Question: 'Neil Gaiman wrote, "Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, above, beneath, betwixt," this'

Answer: between


Question: 'Known for his work as a Shakespearean actor, he directed "Thor"'

Answer: (Kenneth) Branagh


Question: '5-letter archaeological term for a broken scrap of earthenware'

Answer: a shard


Question: 'In interrogation, one officer who acts threatening & another who comes on nicer to win the suspect's trust'

Answer: good cop, bad cop


Question: 'The Battle of Chapultepec'

Answer: the Mexican-American War


Question: 'This U.N. agency, created in 1946 to aid children in Europe, won the 1965 Peace Prize'

Answer: UNICEF


Question: 'It means against, & is also a prefix found before -diction'

Answer: contra


Question: 'Kate Bosworth & James Marsden star in the 2011 remake of this Sam Peckinpah film'

Answer: Straw Dogs


Question: 'From the Latin for "of the night", these pensive musical pieces were popularized by Chopin & Bartok'

Answer: nocturnes


Question: 'It can mean "one" or a military entity like the army's Third Armored Division'

Answer: unit


Question: 'The Battle of Bosworth'

Answer: the Wars of the Roses


Question: 'This 1990 winner said it was "a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking"'

Answer: Gorbachev


Question: 'In an essay Woolf wrote, "A woman must have money and a" this "of her own... to write fiction"'

Answer: a room of one\'s own


Question: 'This gas, CO, prevents hemoglobin from supplying oxygen to the body'

Answer: carbon monoxide


Question: '1964: <br />"Please Please Me"'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: 'James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives'

Answer: Speaker


Question: 'In 1604 King James I called this plant a "perpetual stinking torment" & "dangerous to the lungs"; he was right'

Answer: tobacco


Question: 'Yiddish to French:<br />The polite "a sheynem dank"'

Answer: merci beaucoup


Question: 'Virginia's father Sir Leslie Stephen was earlier married to a daughter of this "Vanity Fair" author'

Answer: Thackeray


Question: 'This 2-word study of living things is primarily devoted to carbon compounds'

Answer: organic chemistry


Question: '1965: <br />"My Girl"'

Answer: The Temptations


Question: 'This U.S. president was named for his great-grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: Benjamin Harrison


Question: 'Christopher Columbus sampled this grain in Cuba, declaring it "most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour"'

Answer: corn (or maize)


Question: 'Turkish to Spanish:<br />Relatively speaking, "anne" & "baba"'

Answer: madre y padre


Question: 'This 1928 title character begins as a man & ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida)'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'AKA black lead, this form of carbon has a greasy feel & is used in making lubricants'

Answer: graphite


Question: '1963: <br />"Walk Like A Man"'

Answer: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons


Question: 'The time of his administration was known as "the Era of Good Feelings"'

Answer: Monroe


Question: 'This fruit from the family Bromeliaceae is native to Brazil & Paraguay; it didn't reach Hawaii until the early 1500s'

Answer: the pineapple


Question: 'Portuguese to Russian:<br />The positive "sim"'

Answer: da


Question: 'In 1904 Virginia & her siblings moved to this London district, where they would host "group" gatherings'

Answer: Bloomsbury


Question: 'This carbon isotope, 2 down from radiocarbon, is the standard for the relative atomic mass of other elements'

Answer: C-12 (or carbon-12)


Question: '1967: <br />"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"'

Answer: Neil Diamond


Question: 'Pre-Civil War president considered by some to have been the handsomest'

Answer: (Franklin) Pierce


Question: 'When this member of the nightshade family reached Italy, it was known as pomi d'oro, or gold apple'

Answer: a tomato


Question: 'Polish to Latin:<br />"Bog", a divine word'

Answer: deus


Question: 'Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" was inspired by this novel that Woolf originally called "The Hours"'

Answer: Mrs. Dalloway


Question: 'The atoms in a diamond are arranged in this "4-faced" pyramid-shaped pattern, giving it a rigid structure'

Answer: tetrahedral


Question: '1963: <br />"You've Really Got A Hold On Me"'

Answer: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles


Question: 'On Nov. 2, 1880 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio, a senator-elect & president-elect'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca'

Answer: lima beans


Question: 'Swahili to German:<br />The magic word "tafadhali"'

Answer: bitte


Question: 'These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture'

Answer: Greece & Cyprus


Question: 'As he did in "Anchorman", Will Ferrell sports this facial feature in the "SNL" "Jeopardy!" skits'

Answer: a mustache


Question: 'The Franklin Pierce Law Center & Christa McAuliffe Planetarium can be found in this capital of New Hampshire'

Answer: Concord


Question: 'God did make these, & some of them are Granny Smiths'

Answer: (little green) apples


Question: 'Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'This sound made by lions can carry 5 miles'

Answer: a roar


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Question: 'Proverbial food storage container where your "hand is caught" when busted for taking a bribe'

Answer: the cookie jar


Question: 'Darrell Hammond played this Scottish actor who...  Nope, I can't say anything else; just name him'

Answer: Sean Connery


Question: 'New Hampshire is bounded to the north by this Canadian province, the country's largest in area'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'Lincoln Green is also called this green, where you might see it were it not for the trees'

Answer: a forest


Question: 'Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country abbreviated D.R.C.'

Answer: the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Question: 'This sound of aggression from a domestic cat is also produced by vipers'

Answer: a hiss


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Question: 'A 1-pound tin of premium sevruga this can go for more than $2,000'

Answer: caviar


Question: 'Norm MacDonald played this "Smokey and the Bandit" star who had a slight problem IDing Pat Morita's ancestry'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'This old song says, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously"'

Answer: "Greensleeves"


Question: 'Troubles with neighboring Somalia & Eritrea surely occupy President Girma Woldegiorgis of this country'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'In "The Maltese Falcon", Dashiell Hammett wrote, "'That will be excellent,' Gutman" did this'

Answer: purred


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Question: 'Django Reinhardt was a master of this instrument'

Answer: the guitar


Question: 'Ben Stiller played this star of "The Firm" on a show where one category was "FOODS THAT END IN 'AMBURGER'"'

Answer: Tom Cruise


Question: 'New Hampshire's Squam Lakes provided the title location for this 1981 Fonda & Hepburn film'

Answer: On Golden Pond


Question: 'This American political party that formed in 1874 favored an increase in paper currency'

Answer: the Greenback Party


Question: 'President Laurent Gbagbo heads this country that goes by its French name most of the time'

Answer: Côte d\'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)


Question: 'This threatening sound can also mean "to become tangled"'

Answer: snarled


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Question: 'The incarnation of a god in Hindu myth, or an Internet graphical image representing a person'

Answer: an avatar


Question: 'Kristen Wiig played this "Today" co-host, who, like so many of our players, brought Chardonnay on stage'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'Also the name of a "United" city in England, this city lies along the banks of the Merrimack River'

Answer: Manchester


Question: 'This play says, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'President Amadou Toure has led this Saharan nation with a 4-letter name since 2002'

Answer: Mali


Question: 'Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable'

Answer: the cat\'s meow


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Question: 'This animal's scientific name is Panthera onca'

Answer: jaguar


Question: 'He concludes "The Divine Comedy" with "The love that moves the sun and the other stars"'

Answer: Dante


Question: '1964:<br />"I Want To Hold Your Hand"'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: 'The name of this fruit, genus Prunus, can precede picker, pie & Coke'

Answer: cherry


Question: 'Hawaiian feast'

Answer: a luau


Question: 'This drug marketed as Advil & Nuprin reduces pain by inhibiting chemicals that cause inflammation'

Answer: ibuprofen


Question: '(Alex reports from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.)  In Jewish circles, the Wailing Wall became known as the Western Wall after this 1967 war & the reunification of Jerusalem'

Answer: the Six-Day War


Question: 'Marlowe rhymed, "Where both deliberate, the love is slight; who ever loved, that loved not at" this?'

Answer: first sight


Question: '1987:<br />"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"'

Answer: (Whitney) Houston


Question: 'More than 50 medications are affected by the juice of this citrus fruit; its enzymes break down the meds'

Answer: grapefruit


Question: 'Pierre's "farewell"'

Answer: adieu


Question: 'To control pain, some patients try this technique in which they monitor their body functions & try to alter them'

Answer: biofeedback


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in a boat.)  You can ride in a boat reminiscent of Jesus' time on this sea, beside which he preached and performed miracles like the one of the loaves & fishes'

Answer: the Sea of Galilee


Question: 'In "Prometheus Unbound", he wrote, "All love is sweet, given or returned.  Common as light is love"'

Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Question: '1956:<br />"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"'

Answer: Elvis


Question: 'This fuzzy fruit is also a slang term meaning inform against or betray'

Answer: peach


Question: 'Dresser'

Answer: a bureau


Question: 'Trigger point injections are used to treat this muscle contraction, from the Latin for "convulsion"'

Answer: a spasm


Question: '(Alex places a stone on a grave at Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.)  Here in the Mount Zion Cemetery, one of the prominent graves is that of this man, a Krakow factory owner, who, in World War II, saved the lives of over 1,000 Jews'

Answer: (Oskar) Schindler


Question: 'Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is translated as this'

Answer: love conquers all


Question: '1984:<br />"I Want To Know What Love Is"'

Answer: Foreigner


Question: 'The liqueur creme de cassis is made with the black type of this fruit'

Answer: currant


Question: 'Emmy-winning actor Bridges'

Answer: Beau


Question: 'Pain registers in one area of the outer portion of the cerebrum called the cerebral this'

Answer: cortex


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Isreal.)  This ruined fortress atop a mesa is where thousands of Israeli soldiers have taken an oath swearing that it shall not fall again'

Answer: Masada


Question: '"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"'

Answer: Byron


Question: '1970:<br />"I Want You Back"'

Answer: The Jackson 5


Question: 'Fraise is French for this fruit'

Answer: strawberry


Question: 'Environment or setting'

Answer: milieu


Question: 'There are several types of these nerve cells: some respond to temperature, some to pressure & some to pain'

Answer: sensory receptors


Question: '(Alex floats in the Dead Sea.)  Floating in the Dead Sea is easy; now what keeps me buoyant?  The water is nine times saltier than seawater, & it has a very high this, which is mass per unit of volume'

Answer: density


Question: 'Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado", not Milne, gave us this hyphenated title for a pompous functionary'

Answer: grand poo-bah


Question: 'New Haven'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'He won an NBA title ring in 1973 as a reserve forward with the Knicks & coached the Bulls to 6 titles in the '90s'

Answer: Phil Jackson


Question: 'A move to healthy eating got the Pizza Sub nixed from this chain, but we hear if you ask nicely some stores will make it'

Answer: Subway


Question: 'C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley's deaths on Nov. 22, 1963 were overshadowed by this man's death in Dallas'

Answer: John Kennedy


Question: 'From the Italian for "bad air", this disease kills more than one million people each year'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'String puppets are often called these, affer a certain virgin'

Answer: marionettes


Question: 'Knoxville'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'In 2000 this former Celtics player coached the Indiana Pacers to the NBA finals'

Answer: Larry Bird


Question: 'Wendy's will make you a grand slam burger with this many patties, but don't tell everyone'

Answer: four


Question: 'Just hours before Michael Jackson's death, Hollywood lost this TV "Angel"'

Answer: Farrah Fawcett


Question: 'In 1775 this island in San Francisco Bay was called "Island of the Pelicans"'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'If you're emotionally dependent on mom, you're "tied to" these "strings"'

Answer: apron strings


Question: 'Wheeling'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'Abe Saperstein is in the Hall of Fame, as is this team he promoted & coached for decades'

Answer: The Harlem Globetrotters


Question: 'Have it your way at this chain & order a Mustard Whopper, which substitutes the yellow stuff for mayo'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'On April 25,1995 first "Jeopardy!" host Art Fleming passed away & the dance was over for this partner of Fred'

Answer: Ginger Rogers


Question: 'God requires adult Muslims to fast during this month so they may cultivate piety'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'A 1942 big band hit was entitled "String Of" these'

Answer: "String Of Pearls"


Question: 'Huntsville'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'As a rookie in the 1980 NBA finals, this Michigan State alum played all 5 positions & scored 42 points in the final game'

Answer: Magic Johnson


Question: 'Fatburger offers a "Hypocrite Burger" featuring this type of patty with slabs of bacon'

Answer: veggie patty


Question: 'This famed aviator outlived his brother by 35 years, passing away in 1948 on the same day Gandhi was assassinated'

Answer: Orville Wright


Question: 'The university environment'

Answer: academia


Question: 'In the U.S. string cheese is usually a type of this cheese'

Answer: mozzarella


Question: 'Guthrie'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'This Nigeria-born Rockets player holds the NBA record for career blocked shots with 3,830'

Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon


Question: 'Ask this chain that's inspired by a fictional pirate for a "side of crumbs", & you'll get some fried batter bits'

Answer: Long John Silver\'s


Question: 'Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni died in 2007 at age 94 on the same day as this 89-year-old Swedish director'

Answer: Ingmar Bergman


Question: 'San Diego County is estimated to have a million acres of this Spanish-named dense shrub growth'

Answer: chaparral


Question: 'Aglets are found on the ends of these strings'

Answer: shoelaces


Question: 'In 1889 this philanthropist funded his first U.S. library in Braddock, Penn., home to one of his steel mills'

Answer: Carnegie


Question: 'Songwriter Scott English started an urban myth when he jokingly said this 1975 Barry Manilow No. 1 hit was about a dog'

Answer: "Mandy"


Question: 'David Yazbek & Jeffrey Lane's musical "____ ____ Scoundrels"'

Answer: Dirty Rotten


Question: 'Doing laundry in the sink, this "Jersey Shore" girl aka Nicole Polizzi said, "I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s"'

Answer: Snooki


Question: 'A shapka is this: mikhavaya shapka is a fur one, to keep your ears warm'

Answer: a hat


Question: 'String theory attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of this'

Answer: relativity


Question: 'Raffaele Farina, known as Bibliothecarius XLVI, is its head librarian'

Answer: the Vatican


Question: 'It's the breed of long-eared hound dog a tuxedo-clad Elvis is serenading here'

Answer: Bassett


Question: 'Tennessee Williams' "____ Bird of Youth"'

Answer: Sweet Bird of Youth


Question: 'This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: '"Idyot snyek" means this is happening, a common weather condition in January'

Answer: snowing


Question: 'In certain string theories, you can get up to 26 of these; we're used to dealing with 4 of them, of which length is one'

Answer: dimensions


Question: 'This Ivy League school's Nassau Hall once served as its library; today, books are housed in the Firestone library'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'Paul Anka & Donny Osmond both had hits with this tune that sounds like it's about a young dog's affection'

Answer: "Puppy Love"


Question: 'Mark Medoff's "Children of a ____ God"'

Answer: Lesser


Question: 'Jersey City-born, this "Living Omnimedia" lifestyle maven was raised in Nutley, & that's a good thing'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: 'Blinaya means this, the "hop" in IHOP'

Answer: house of pancakes


Question: 'A successful string theory would describe nature's 4 forces: weak, strong, electromagnetism & this one'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'This Maryland community is home to the National Library of Medicine & the National Naval Medical Center'

Answer: Bethesda


Question: 'Title question posed by Patti Page in a 1953 smash'

Answer: "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?"


Question: 'Noel Coward 's "____ Spirit"'

Answer: Blithe Spirit


Question: 'This "Fudge"-tastic children's author was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey'

Answer: Judy Blume


Question: 'To get around underground, the letter seen here stands for this word'

Answer: metro


Question: 'String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items'

Answer: particle


Question: 'Among this San Marino, California library's exhibits are a 15th century manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" & a Gutenberg Bible'

Answer: the Huntington Library


Question: 'Three word slogan that accompanied the RCA Victor advertisement seen here'

Answer: His Master\'s Voice


Question: 'Howard Sackler's "The  ____ ____ Hope"'

Answer: The Great White Hope


Question: 'Governor of New Jersey form 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state's first female Attorney General'

Answer: Christine Whitman


Question: 'Russian word for a home like Novo-Ogarevo, Vladimir Putin's forest retreat near Moscow'

Answer: a dacha


Question: 'Bosonic string theory has only bosons & none of these particles named for physicist Enrico'

Answer: fermions


Question: 'Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here'

Answer: the Tower of London


Question: 'In the July 3, 1996 runoff, he defeated Gennadi Zyuganov'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'This "Alien" actress starred in her long-time pal Christopher Durang's 1996 play "Sex and Longing"'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: '"Rare Air" is a photo biography of this basketball star'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'The tires on Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" were made by this former competitor of Goodyear'

Answer: B.F. Goodrich


Question: 'This "Messiah" composer's first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17'

Answer: Georg Handel


Question: '"You can't make a silk purse" out of this'

Answer: a sow\'s ear


Question: 'In 1996 this Russian newspaper stopped publishing after 84 years'

Answer: Pravda


Question: 'Don't blink--or you'll miss Richard Dreyfuss in this 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel'

Answer: Valley of the Dolls


Question: 'This actor-director is the subject of David Thomson's biography "Rosebud"'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: 'In 1866, William A. Breyer started the company that's now the oldest national producer of this'

Answer: ice cream


Question: '"Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was this "lullaby" composer's first major work for full orchestra'

Answer: Johannes Brahms


Question: '"Imitation is the sincerest form of" it, but beware, it "corrupts both the receiver and the giver"'

Answer: flattery


Question: 'In April of 1996, Russian rockets killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, this breakaway republic's leader'

Answer: Chechnya


Question: 'This "Seinfeld" co-star became a Broadway star at age 23 in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Merrily we Roll Along"'

Answer: Jason Alexander


Question: '"Shalom, Friend" tells of "The Life and Legacy" of this slain Israeli leader'

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin


Question: 'This San Francisco-based clothing company's full name includes "De Corps"'

Answer: Esprit


Question: 'In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'It's where you should "never tell tales"'

Answer: out of school


Question: 'Abbreviated CIS, it replaced the USSR'

Answer: Commonwealth of Independent States


Question: 'John Mahoney, who plays Martin Crane on this sitcom, was born in England; he moved to the U.S. when he was 19'

Answer: Frasier


Question: '"The Education of a Woman" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun tells of this feminist and famous Ms'

Answer: Gloria Steinem


Question: 'From 1875 to 1989, this New York company's name included "Glassworks"'

Answer: Corning


Question: 'This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'The saying "Strike while the iron is hot" originally alluded to this profession'

Answer: blacksmith


Question: 'They're the colors of the three stripes on the Russian flag'

Answer: red, white, and blue


Question: 'Professional name used by the actress seen here during her film career; it's different from her married name (clip from "Hellcats of the Navy")'

Answer: Nancy Davis


Question: 'Known for his "Compleat Angler", he also wrote a biography of his friend, writer John Donne'

Answer: Izaak Walton


Question: 'This Warner-Lambert product contains retsyn, a finely homogenized vegetable oil'

Answer: Certs


Question: 'He composed his "Leningrad Symphony" during the World War II siege of Leningrad'

Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich


Question: 'These two things "wait for no man"'

Answer: time and tide


Question: 'Justices Butler, Van DeVanter, Sutherland, and McReynolds opposed this president's "New Deal"'

Answer: F.D. Roosevelt


Question: 'This Scandinavian language changed "aa" to a circle-topped "a", making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian'

Answer: Danish


Question: 'In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy"'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Union pay department officers wore the M1840, one of these weapons that featured a straight 31" all-gilt blade'

Answer: Sword


Question: 'In stanza three of "The Star Spangled Banner", he mocks "The hireling and slave" who doubt America's victory'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question: 'This city's Hartsfield International overtook O'Hare as the world's busiest airport even before the Summer Olympics'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'This president called his 1953 appointment of Earl Warren "the biggest damn' fool mistake I ever made"'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'All of the Romance languages have their roots in this language'

Answer: Latin


Question: 'This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: 'On May 29, 1865, he issued a general amnesty for most rebels; the rich and those with high ranks weren't included'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'Poe said this maiden "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"'

Answer: Annabel Lee


Question: 'For about $200 a whack, you can spend the night at the Fall River MA home of this alleged murderess'

Answer: Lizzie Borden


Question: 'In 1995 two justices rejected The Citadel's appeal of an order to admit her'

Answer: Shannon Faulkner


Question: 'Balinese is spoken on several islands of this country'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'The symbol "J" as a unit of energy honors this physicist'

Answer: Joule


Question: 'In June of 1861, Dorothea Dix was appointed to supervise the female ones of these'

Answer: nurses


Question: 'Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published'

Answer: Gray


Question: 'They're the two main ingredients in a Cape Codder cocktail'

Answer: cranberry juice and vodka


Question: 'He served as Chief Justice the longest; 34 years from 1801-1835'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'Hungarians call their official language this'

Answer: Magyar


Question: 'In 1791 this Italian published the results of his experiments in "animal electricity"'

Answer: Luigi Galvani


Question: 'In the Gettysburg campaign, Lee's forces were along Seminary Ridge and the federal forces along this ridge'

Answer: Cemetery Ridge


Question: 'His series "Bells and Pomegranates" included "Pippa Passes" and "My Last Duchess"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'Muhammad received the first of the Koran's revelations during this holy month'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'After the 1987 rejection of this man's nomination to the court, Anthony Kennedy filled Powell's seat'

Answer: Robert Bork


Question: 'Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'His 1637 "Discours de la methode" prefaced a series of essays on optics, meteorology, and geometry'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'Hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, he resigned November 1, 1861, as head of the Union army'

Answer: Winfield Scott


Question: 'This poet to whom T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Wasteland" ended up in a mental institution'

Answer: Ezra Pound


Question: 'It's the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg'

Answer: the fibula


Question: 'It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon"'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'In June 1991 weightlessness experiments were conducted on about 2,500 jellyfish aboard this'

Answer: the Space Shuttle


Question: 'If you want to hit this type of "contained" home run, you probably will need to run really fast'

Answer: an inside-the-park home run


Question: 'This 2-word term, also a movie title, is slang for Navy Fighter Weapons School'

Answer: Top Gun


Question: 'In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic'

Answer: the Mayo Clinic


Question: 'S. Duncan Black & this partner filed a patent for a drill in 1914'

Answer: Decker


Question: 'If you're scared, you might be "shaking like" this botanical item'

Answer: a leaf


Question: 'The ARS, an agency of this U.S. government department, is looking to develop better bio-insecticides'

Answer: the Department of Agriculture


Question: 'In 1925 N.Y. Journal-American writer Bill Corum first called the Kentucky Derby the "run for" these'

Answer: the roses


Question: '"Angels" is slang for this measurement of height, in thousands of feet'

Answer: altitude


Question: 'This country's 12th century sculptor Unkei is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This maker of optical products borrowed money from his good friend Henry Lomb, but it turned out okay'

Answer: Bausch


Question: 'Adjective found before "as leather" & "as nails"'

Answer: tough


Question: 'Despite the fierce appearance of this plated beast, scientists believe it to have been an herbivore'

Answer: a Stegosaurus


Question: 'Due to an increase of endorphins in the brain, it's a state of euphoria experienced by exercisers'

Answer: runner\'s high


Question: '"SAR" stands for this, the effort to extract a downed aircrew in a combat zone'

Answer: search and rescue


Question: 'Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Book publisher Henry Houghton made this guy his partner'

Answer: (George) Mifflin


Question: 'This ichthyological simile might apply to someone spending too much time at the bar'

Answer: drinking like a fish


Question: 'Platinum, atomic number 78, is worth more than this other metal, atomic number 79'

Answer: gold


Question: 'This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop'

Answer: a fast break


Question: 'A "polliwog" has never crossed this geographic line while aboard ship'

Answer: the equator


Question: 'An art museum on Madison Avenue is named for this sculptress who created the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney


Question: 'Postage meter inventor Arthur Pitney merged his company with that of this entrepreneur'

Answer: (Walter) Bowes


Question: 'Ironically, something incomprehensible is said to be "as clear as" this 3-letter word'

Answer: mud


Question: 'In 2009 a new hominid skeleton dubbed Ardi was aged at 4.4 million years, predating this other "girly" find by 1 mil. years'

Answer: Lucy


Question: 'In the modern pentathlon, athletes go 3,000 meters in this hyphenated type of running'

Answer: cross-country


Question: 'A "ROAD" scholar is "retired on" this (coasting until actual retirement)'

Answer: active duty


Question: 'This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain'

Answer: Henry Moore


Question: 'A crossword puzzle book started it all for Richard L. Simon & this publishing partner'

Answer: Schuster


Question: '(Here's Jimmy.)  He is depicting this common simile about a criminal who's been at it a long time & isn't good at not getting caught'

Answer: a rap sheet as long as your arm


Question: 'It's located about 30 miles south of the DMZ'

Answer: Seoul


Question: '"Beauty school dropout, no graduation day for you"'

Answer: Grease


THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

Question: 'Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy in Kathy Reichs' "206" these body parts'

Answer: Bones


Question: '(Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  This is the microphone used for World War II English-language broadcasts by this woman, broadcasts that earned her a treason conviction; many years later, President Ford pardoned her'

Answer: Tokyo Rose


Question: 'The constellation between Cancer & Virgo'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'From the Greek for "shape", it means to transform an image into something else by computer'

Answer: morph


Question: 'Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs'

Answer: Vienna


Question: '"A boy like that who'd kill your brother, forget that boy & find another, one of your own kind"'

Answer: West Side Story


THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

Question: 'Hey, y'all, this CNN legal analyst made the list with her novel "The Eleventh Victim"'

Answer: Nancy Grace


Question: '(Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  In a sensational 1930s trial, the New York Journal paid for Bruno Hauptmann's defense in exchange for his wife's story; Hauptmann was later executed in this electric chair for the murder of this child'

Answer: the Lindbergh baby


Question: 'Not guilty'

Answer: Innocent


Question: 'In the scientific classification of animals, it's Chordata for a domesticated dog'

Answer: phylum


Question: 'It's the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon'

Answer: Kingston (Jamaica)


Question: '"Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.  Lucky are we to be having him"'

Answer: Damn Yankees


THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

Question: 'In "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris, this "True Blood" waitress searches for the killer of a werepanther'

Answer: Sookie Stackhouse


Question: '(Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  The Newseum is also home to the studio from which ABC's "This Week" is broadcast, hosted by this former Clinton administration advisor; I'm in his seat'

Answer: (George) Stephanopoulos


Question: 'From the Latin for "blessed"'

Answer: Benedict


Question: 'The bar type is one common form of this chart'

Answer: graph


Question: 'This South American capital's original longer name translated to "Saint Mary of the Fair Winds"'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: '"Once I'm with the Wizard my whole life will change, 'cuz once you're with the Wizard no one thinks you're strange"'

Answer: Wicked


THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

Question: '"Homer & Langley" by this author of "Ragtime" details the lives of the reclusive Collyer Brothers'

Answer: (E.L.) Doctorow


Question: '(Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  After a great deal of debate, newspapers published this man's angry manifesto; it led to his being tracked to Montana & captured in this very cabin'

Answer: (Ted) Kaczynski (the Unabomber)


Question: 'The winner of a contest'

Answer: Victor


Question: 'Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David'

Answer: a Philistine


Question: 'On a plane trip to this capital, you'd likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: '"Suddenly Seymour is standing beside me, he don't give me orders, he don't condescend"'

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors


THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

Question: 'Richard DiLallo & this author teamed to write "Alex Cross's 'Trial"

Answer: (James) Patterson


Question: '(Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  A key moment in the Civil Rights era was a sit-in protest after four black students were refused service at an all-white F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in this North Carolina city'

Answer: Greensboro, North Carolina


Question: 'From a Latin word for "doer of good"'

Answer: Boniface


Question: 'Because the Greek goddess Artemis was associated with the Moon, she was also called this, which means "light one"'

Answer: Phoebe


Question: 'In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony'

Answer: (Franz) Schubert


Question: 'It's paired with liberty in the Pledge of Allegiance'

Answer: justice


Question: 'Even before Thomas Edison, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was aglow with his invention of this'

Answer: light bulb


Question: 'The NFL's<br />Saints'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Confederate general Jubal Early idolized this general, who called him "My Bad Old Man"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'The akepa & akiapola'au are found in forest areas, only in this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'This mythological bird was reborn from a worm which emerged from its funeral ashes'

Answer: phoenix


Question: 'We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it'

Answer: Hope


Question: 'And now the weather forecast: tonight expect these gentle winds of 4 to 7 miles per hour'

Answer: light breezes


Question: 'MLB's<br />Royals'

Answer: Kansas City


Question: 'After moving back to the U.S. from Canada in 1869, Early, rebel that he was, wore only this color'

Answer: gray


Question: 'The only birds in the family Trochilidae are these "hovercrafts"'

Answer: hummingbirds


Question: 'He told the Diet of Worms, "I do not accept the authority of popes and councils"'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'You "Gotta Have" this virtue; at least according to George Michael'

Answer: Faith


Question: 'Herbie, the endearing Volkswagen in a classic Disney film'

Answer: The Love Bug


Question: 'The NBA's<br />Cavaliers'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'In July 1864, Early & his troops threatened this city & were later criticized for not taking it'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'During mating season the male ruff develops a large frill of feathers around this body part'

Answer: neck


Question: 'In "Henry VI, Part 3", Clifford tells the king that "The smallest worm will" do this "being trodden on"'

Answer: turn


Question: 'It was the "T" in the 19th century's WCTU'

Answer: Temperance


Question: 'Oscar-nominated for her role in "Goodfellas", she went on to play Dr. Jennifer Melfi on "The Sopranos"'

Answer: Lorraine Bracco


Question: 'The NHL's <br />Senators'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'Before the Civil War, Early had garrison duty in the Mexican War under this man, "Old Rough and Ready"'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'This falcon's name is from the Latin for "foreign" or "a foreigner"'

Answer: peregrine


Question: 'The name of this red shade is from the Latin for "worm"; the dye was first made from cochineal insects'

Answer: vermillion


Question: 'This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island & of prim, cautious women'

Answer: Prudence


Question: 'In 1893 this horticulturist published his first nursery catalog offering his "New Creations in Fruits and Flowers"'

Answer: Luther Burbank


Question: 'MLS'<br />Burn'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'Early, a man known for his patriarchal beard, was active in this party in Virginia in the 1840s'

Answer: Whig


Question: 'The scientific name of this big bird is Diomedea exulans, as in "exile"'

Answer: albatross


Question: 'In this 1965 sci-fi novel, giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis create a much-desired spice called melange'

Answer: "Dune"


Question: 'Its near islands are farthest from its mainland; Kodiak is closer'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Of an artist, a fish, or a wasp, it's what a mud dauber is'

Answer: wasp


Question: 'In book titles, this adjective precedes Gertrude Stein's "Buttons" & Fitzgerald's "is the Night"'

Answer: Tender


Question: 'It was viva Las Vegas for Julia, who played the Angie Dickinson role in the remake of this film'

Answer: Ocean\'s Eleven


Question: 'It's the trimester of pregnancy in which women gain the least weight'

Answer: first


Question: 'It's the one of the 4 gospels in the New Testament that fits the category'

Answer: Matthew


Question: 'Cimarron & Beaver are counties in its Panhandle'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'In 1943 McKinley Morganfield, under this name, settled in Chicago & continued singing the blues'

Answer: Muddy Waters


Question: 'Check out this famous British woman's 2002 book "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World"'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: '(Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin)  I like to think of this 2000 Julia Roberts movie as an "Energetic, engaging David vs. Goliath story"'

Answer: Erin Brockovich


Question: 'Set down that plastic bottle -- CNN reports that you don't really need this mythical number of glasses of water a day'

Answer: 8


Question: 'It can precede "sickness" or "beauty" as well as "porch"'

Answer: sleeping


Question: 'To go from Norwalk to Norwich in this state, head east on I-95 to I-395 north'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'The phrase "His name is mud" predates Dr. Mudd's setting this assassin's leg, so it doesn't mean the doctor'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'Watch out for "personal injuries" if you lift all his legal thrillers, including "Personal Injuries", at once'

Answer: Scott Turow


Question: 'The 2 movies in which Julia starred opposite Richard Gere'

Answer: Pretty Woman & Runaway Bride


Question: 'Often given with progesterone, it's the main hormone in hormone replacement therapy'

Answer: estrogen


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew having a pass thrown to him by Charlie Batch of the Pittsburgh Steelers)  The name of this pass pattern is also a type of fastener'

Answer: buttonhook


Question: 'Commonwealth whose state seal ["United We Stand, Divided We Fall"] is seen here'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'This poem set in Mudville was first published in the San Francisco Examiner, in 1888'

Answer: "Casey at the Bat"


Question: 'It's the third book of the autobiographical trilogy that began with "Tropic of Cancer"'

Answer: "Triopic of Capricorn" (by Henry Miller)


Question: 'In her first major role, Julia served up Italian food New England style in this movie'

Answer: Mystic Pizza


Question: 'In a "Got Milk" ad, Jennifer Love Hewitt says she hates this bone condition, so she has fat free milk with every meal'

Answer: osteoporosis


Question: 'The petals of a flower considered as a group, or a model of Toyota'

Answer: Corolla


Question: 'The 4 large stars on the flag of Arkansas represent the U.S., France, Spain & this'

Answer: the Confederacy


Question: 'In 1999 scientists found the remains of one of these giant creatures embedded in the frozen mud in Siberia'

Answer: mammoth


Question: 'Hawthorne's college classmate Horatio Bridge paid for the publication of this collection of "Tales"'

Answer: "Twice-Told Tales"


Question: 'Justine Bateman, not Julia, got top billing in this 1988 film about teenage girls who form a band'

Answer: Satisfaction


Question: 'Joint pain is one symptom of SLE, a common disorder in women that's also called by this 5-letter name'

Answer: lupus


Question: 'This Anglo-Saxon kingdom east of Cornwall was probably founded in the 6th century by Prince Cerdic & his son Cynric'

Answer: Wessex


Question: 'This president shares his middle name with the name of a 1st C. Jewish theologian mentioned in the New Testament'

Answer: Warren Gamaliel Harding


Question: 'Scholars agree that the oldest form of this language can be found in the song of Deborah in Judges'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'TV host seen here on the cover of Mad Magazine'

Answer: Jeff Probst


Question: 'Ben Crenshaw & Phil Mickelson are the only 3-time winners of this college sport's championship tournament'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Like Ptolemy, about whom he wrote, Theon placed this body in the center of the cosmos'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'Type of whisper in the title of a Wham! hit'

Answer: Careless


Question: 'An illusion, a fantasy, a pipe dream, or a Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: Mirage


Question: 'This language is known by its speakers as Nederlands'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'What made this Mel Gibson character mad was outlaw bikers killing his wife & kid'

Answer: Max


Question: '(I'm Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett)  This man was my coach for my first 11 seasons in the NFL'

Answer: Tom Landry


Question: 'Theon's home of Smyrna is now called Izmir & is one of the chief seaports of this country of Asia Minor'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'It's Southwest Airlines' name for the paper-free type of travel it introduced on all routes in January 1995'

Answer: Ticketless


Question: 'A legendary weapon that emerged from a lake, or a Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: Excalibur


Question: 'Of Inka, Dinka or Doo, an actual language spoken in southern Sudan'

Answer: Dinka


Question: 'Back in the '60s Sue Kaufman wrote the "Diary of a Mad" this'

Answer: Housewife


Question: 'In 1994, at age 45, he became heavyweight boxing champ again & was the AP's Male Athlete of the Year'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'Theon's greatest work, available on Amazon.com, has mathematics useful for understanding this "Republic" author'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'Putting it before "Communism", Harry Truman popularized the use of this word meaning "atheistic"'

Answer: godless


Question: 'The European playground seen here, or a Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: Monte Carlo


Question: 'More than 375 languages & dialects are spoken in this country's Madhya Pradesh state'

Answer: India


Question: 'Clicking on the Encarta index entry of Mad Anthony will take you to this man'

Answer: Anthony Wayne


Question: 'He was director of athletics at NYC's Downtown Athletic Club from 1928 to 1936'

Answer: John Heisman


Question: 'Writing on these, Theon covers, among others, the circular, oblong, prime & even ones'

Answer: numbers


Question: '(Video clue of a pair of glasses; text unavailable due to sound problems)'

Answer: rimless


Question: 'The bird Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, or a Las Vegas hotel'

Answer: Flamingo


Question: 'Gaspar Karolyi's translation of the Bible in 1590 was influential in the development of this as a national language'

Answer: Hungarian


Question: 'The Cold War nuclear balance was known as "MAD", mutually assured this'

Answer: destruction


Question: 'In the 1992-93 season this Pittsburgh Penguin missed 24 games but still won the NHL scoring title'

Answer: Mario Lemieux