Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew wears a pink hat.) Of all the fashion trends set by first lady Jackie Kennedy, she may be remembered most for this style of hat'

Answer: pillbox


Question: 'The flow of prices that appear on the boards of brokerage firms can be the "ticker" or this, or both together'

Answer: tape


Question: 'Meatball & massage'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'One of the first British productions to play in the U.S. was a 1955 series about this 12th century outlaw'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'Because they have this quality, cats' claws don't get worn down from walking like dogs' do'

Answer: retractability


Question: 'Its logo shows the same tree as on the state flag'

Answer: the University of South Carolina


Question: 'During the '70s oil embargo, Serge Seguin launched a fad for these half bicycle-half motorcycle vehicles'

Answer: mopeds


Question: 'It's an option that lets you purchase a certain stock for a set price until a certain date'

Answer: a call


Question: 'Measles & shepherd'

Answer: German


Question: 'One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers'

Answer: Rich Man, Poor Man


Question: 'Of the 2 types of cells that change light into nerve impulses, cats are loaded with these, for better night vision'

Answer: rods


Question: 'It has an Eastern Shore campus in the town of Princess Anne'

Answer: University of Maryland


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew kicks around with Sofia.) Change the end of the word "football" to get this official name of the activity we're practicing'

Answer: footbag


Question: 'Being in this "position" indicates an expectation of rising share prices; it's also a hedge in futures'

Answer: long


Question: 'In September 1944 this country's forces entered Bulgaria, which promptly switched to the Allied side'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Ms. Carter of "Wonder Woman" &<br />Mr. McDermott of "The Practice"'

Answer: Lynda & Dylan


Question: 'This Sinclair Lewis character is a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry'

Answer: Elmer Gantry


Question: 'The roughly 140 living recipients of this medal bestow the Patriot Award on Americans who advance freedom'

Answer: the Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: 'This "Great" national park in Tennessee & North Carolina has more yearly visitors than any other'

Answer: the Great Smoky Mountains


Question: 'Among vegetable oils, this one is the lowest in saturated fat'

Answer: canola


Question: 'The famous April 1942 strike on this city also sent bombers to Nagoya, Osaka & Kobe'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'Detroit-born singer Ross &<br />Chicago-born actor Quinn'

Answer: Diana & Aidan


Question: 'Erich Maria Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he wrote this novel about WWI'

Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front


Question: 'For 2001 the Chevy Silverado was this "of the Year"'

Answer: Truck


Question: 'Located in North Dakota, the only U.S. national park named for a president is named for him'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'In a synagogue this person leads the congregation in singing & chanting prayers'

Answer: the cantor


Question: 'Haakon VII, king of this country, refused to abdicate under German pressure'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Winona & Fred'

Answer: Ryder & Dryer


Question: 'This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider"'

Answer: Zane Grey


Question: 'In 1974 Dick Clark created them for ABC when the Grammys moved to Nashville'

Answer: the American Music Awards


Question: '4 parks are outside the continental U.S.: 2 in Hawaii, 1 in American Samoa & 1 here featuring carib Indian relics'

Answer: the U.S. Virgin Islands


Question: 'It's a rummy-like card game played with 2 decks & 4 jokers'

Answer: canasta


Question: 'Penicillin came into wide use in World War II, replacing this group of drugs first synthesized in 1932'

Answer: sulfa (drugs)


Question: 'These 2 women both won Golden Globes for 1981, for "The French Lieutenant's Woman" & "Pennies from Heaven"'

Answer: (Meryl) Streep & (Bernadette) Peters


Question: 'This "huge" 1924 Edna Ferber novel is about a widowed truck farmer & her struggles'

Answer: So Big


Question: 'Jincy Willett cleverly titled a 2003 novel "Winner of" this "national" prize'

Answer: the National Book Award


Question: 'The Rio Grande flows south until it reaches this park, where it turns north before again flowing south'

Answer: Big Bend


Question: 'William Schuman won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his "Secular" one of these "No. 2"'

Answer: Cantata


Question: 'The Waffen or "armed" part of this elite Nazi group eventually numbered almost a million men'

Answer: the SS


Question: 'He wrote that she partly redeemed the movie "Hear No Evil"'

Answer: (Leonard) Maltin & (Marlee) Matlin


Question: 'This 1927 Thornton Wilder novel begins, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke"'

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey


Question: 'Rickenbacker & Sikorsky were 2 of the first group who were each named "Elder Statesman of" this field in 1955'

Answer: Aviation


Question: 'Arizona's Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park southeast to this much smaller national park'

Answer: Petrified Forest


Question: 'They're what a chandler makes & sells'

Answer: candles


Question: 'For his role in writing this 1861 document, Thomas Cobb of Georgia has been compared to James Madison'

Answer: the Confederate Constitution


Question: 'Mr. X was born Jul 14, 1923 in Knoxville in this state & attended Johnson Bible College there'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'Cooperstown, New York'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Orwell: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..."'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'The man behind Learjet was also the inventor of this early tape format that carried 4 pairs of stereo tracks'

Answer: 8-track


Question: 'Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'An ambitious person is often described as an "eager" one of these'

Answer: an eager beaver


Question: 'He was in this military service, first ashore in the recapture of Guam on July 21, 1944'

Answer: the Marines


Question: 'Springfield, Massachsetts'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind..."'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: 'This keyboard layout was developed to slow typing down, keeping the keys from jamming'

Answer: QWERTY


Question: 'Wells, Fargo & Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express & banking services'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'If you're a little eccentric, you likely have one of these in your "bonnet"'

Answer: a bee


Question: 'It's not great advertising, but his obit names a hospital--Northwestern Memorial in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Toronto, Ontario'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'"'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'At one of this man's auto plants, scrap wood was turned into charcoal & sold as briquettes'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: '"Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy; this "puncher" was a preacher'

Answer: a Bible puncher


Question: 'In the familiar proverb, it's when "the mice will play"'

Answer: when the cat\'s away


Question: 'Due to Mr. X's long battle with this, the obit suggests giving to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to continue the fight'

Answer: Parkinson\'s Disease


Question: 'Canton, Ohio'

Answer: football


Question: 'Golding: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down...and began to pick his way toward the lagoon"'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: '(Alex reports from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Surprisingly, the first Sony product wasn't anything hi-tech, & it wasn't a big success either; it was a kitchen item, a cooker for this kind of food'

Answer: rice


Question: 'Thomas Moran's artwork helped influence Congress to make this America's first national park'

Answer: Yellowstone


Question: 'When it comes to a crisis, you shouldn't do this "in midstream"'

Answer: change horses


Question: 'The late one spent many years with Ernst & Whinney, this type of firm, before its merger with Arthur Young'

Answer: an accounting firm


Question: 'St. Augustine, Florida'

Answer: professional golf


Question: 'Bronte: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"'

Answer: Jane Eyre


Question: 'The automatic one Josephine Cochran invented was too expensive for home use, but restaurants loved it'

Answer: dishwasher


Question: 'A cowboy who "cut a man down" shot him; if he "cut the dust", he did this'

Answer: taking a drink


Question: 'Don't be afraid to meet a problem head on; just do this, like a matador'

Answer: take the bull by the horns


Question: 'This film based on a "SNL" skit features a cameo by Steven Spielberg as a Cook County assesor clerk'

Answer: The Blues Brothers


Question: 'Sivapithecus, once thought to be our ancestor, turned out to be the ancestor of this Sumatran ape'

Answer: the orangutan


Question: 'Vessels pass under the Bridge of the Americas as they enter or leave this canal'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: 'Not a member of his country's Communist party, he forced the party & his 26th of July movement to merge in 1961'

Answer: Castro


Question: 'The two U.S. presidents who were fifth cousins'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt and FDR


Question: 'To pillage like a pirate (7)'

Answer: plunder


Question: 'This man whom Nixon called "the most dangerous man in America" had a cameo in Cheech & Chong's "Nice Dreams"'

Answer: Timothy Leary


Question: 'Vincent du Vigneaud synthesized 2 of these: vasopressin & oxytocin'

Answer: hormones


Question: 'In 1986 the canal named for this woman began providing irrigation to the Great Indian Desert'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'From the Russian for "majority", this Marxist group opposed WWI as an imperialist conflict'

Answer: the Bolsheviks


Question: 'Earth is the fifth-largest planet in size; this planet is fifth out from the sun'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Commonplace, or one who travels on foot (10)'

Answer: pedestrian


Question: 'In the film "Maverick", he has a cameo, almost recognizes Mel Gibson & says, "I'm gettin' too old for this..."'

Answer: Danny Glover


Question: 'In 1937 Carlo Perrier & Emilio Segre filled in no. 43 on this table, the first entry to be artificially produced'

Answer: the periodic table


Question: 'France's historic Canal du Midi & the Garonne River connect the Mediterranean with this bay on the Atlantic'

Answer: the Bay of Biscay


Question: 'Unhappy with the dictatorial Somozas, these Marxist revolutionaries overthrew them in 1979'

Answer: the Sandanistas


Question: 'It goes Lexington, Park, Madison, this'

Answer: Fifth Avenue


Question: 'Just fowl, collectively (7)'

Answer: poultry


Question: 'Ricky Gervais created this series concerning bit-part actors in England'

Answer: Extras


Question: 'John Northrop joined this generation when he found that this digestive enzyme is a protein'

Answer: the pepsin generation


Question: '1/3 of Scotland's Caledonian Canal is manmade; the rest consists of 3 connected lakes: Loch Lochy, Loch Oich & this one'

Answer: Loch Ness


Question: 'At a 1996 party in Lima honoring this Asian emperor, a Marxist group invaded & took hostages'

Answer: Akihito, emperor of Japan


Question: 'It's the southernmost Greek island, & the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'Tiny measure of dust (8)'

Answer: particle


Question: 'David Letterman tries to sell Chris Elliott a monkey before Chris' long ocean voyage in this 1994 yukfest'

Answer: Cabin Boy


Question: '(I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.)  We were just getting used to dark matter being 90% of the universe when in 1998 we were hit with this discovery, which is making the universe expand much faster than anyone had expected'

Answer: dark energy


Question: 'This European Capital's 4 main city center canals are Prinsengracht, Herengracht, Keizersgracht & Singel'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'The Fifth Amendment says that private property shall not "be taken for public use without" this'

Answer: just compensation


Question: 'Turkish title for officials (5)'

Answer: pasha


Question: 'This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle'

Answer: Reykjavík


Question: 'One of Louis Pasteur's pupils developed a fermenting agent for this famous beer'

Answer: Heineken


Question: 'These animals, the only mammals that can truly fly, are not rodents'

Answer: Bats


Question: 'This silversmith briefly served in the militia taking part in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'Kim Basinger hails from this Georgia city whose name may be Greek to you'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Brazil & Panama'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'It's what George Bush labeled Reagan's "economics" in 1980'

Answer: Voodoo


Question: 'A Dutch treat is kaasdoop, a fondue usually made with this type of Dutch cheese'

Answer: Gouda


Question: 'This vital organ is the largest gland in the human body'

Answer: Liver


Question: 'Pass the bottle!  This Sept. 11, 1777 battle near Philadelphia  was a British victory over Washington's troops'

Answer: Brandywine


Question: 'This star of "The Piano" learned how to play the piano while she was growing up in Conyers, Georgia'

Answer: Holly Hunter


Question: 'Tanzania & Ethiopia'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'Meaning "unencumbered", it goes with fancy-free'

Answer: Footloose


Question: 'Day or night you can buy (& eat) these fish, raw or pickled, served with gherkins & onions'

Answer: Herring


Question: 'These disease-causers have a nucleic acid in a protein shell, but not even a single cell'

Answer: Viruses


Question: 'The first Continental Congress met in 1774 to protest 4 British acts collectively called this'

Answer: Intolerable Acts


Question: 'If you know this man seen here was born in Atlanta in 1958, you might be a redneck!'

Answer: Jeff Foxworthy


Question: 'Norway & China'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In a nursery rhyme this barnyard cry precedes "My dame has lost her shoe"'

Answer: "Cock-a-doodle-doo"


Question: 'The Dutch are famous for genever, this type of liquor'

Answer: Gin


Question: 'Not Darwin, but Herbert Spencer coined this 4-word phrase that sums up natural selection'

Answer: "Survival of the Fittest"


Question: 'On December 31, 1775 American general Montgomery was killed in the assault on this Canadian city'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'This Georgia-born hunk delivered the performance of his career as a macho Georgian named Lewis in "Deliverance"'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'Switzerland & Poland'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'It's the transparent section above a car driver's head'

Answer: Moonroof


Question: 'The Rijsttafel ("Rice Table") is a feast that was imported from this former Dutch colony'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'The monera kingdom consists of bacteria & the blue-green species of this'

Answer: Algae


Question: 'As prime minister, this lord carried out King George's taxation policies although he felt the measures were unwise'

Answer: Lord North


Question: 'This actress from Thomasville won a Golden Globe for "Rachel, Rachel", the first film directed by Paul Newman'

Answer: Joanne Woodward


Question: 'Algeria & Libya'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'A Maine river, or an 1838-1839 war that set the Maine-New Brunswick border'

Answer: Aroostook


Question: 'In the 1674 Treaty of Westminster, the Dutch returned New York & this other "new" colony to the British'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'At 26 cycles a second felines do this about twice as fast as an idling diesel engine'

Answer: Purr


Question: 'Osric is a fatuous fop at the Danish court in this tragedy'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'In 1978 the first champion of this tournament in the Flushing Meadows era was crowned'

Answer: U.S. Open (tennis)


Question: 'This 1969 invention of Don Wetzel is associated with a P.I.N.'

Answer: ATM (Automated Teller Machine)


Question: 'On October 8, 1918 this U.S. Army corporal, later sergeant, killed over 20 Germans & captured 132 others'

Answer: Alvin York


Question: 'In the Treaty of The Hague, this country's Philip V ended his unequal war with the Quadruple Alliance'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Of 6 million, 60 million or 600 million, the number of pet cats in the USA'

Answer: 60 million


Question: 'Her nurse says of her, "Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen"'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'A grand champion of a tournament in this sport is called a yokozuna'

Answer: Sumo wrestling


Question: 'On Feb. 21, 1947 Edwin Land demonstrated one of these to the Optical Society of America'

Answer: Polaroid/instant camera


Question: 'This Japanese naval officer was given the title Admiral of the Fleet after he was killed in the Solomons in 1943'

Answer: Isoroku Yamamoto


Question: 'A 1948 Dutch truce with Indonesia was signed on a ship off this city, then called Batavia'

Answer: Jakarta


Question: 'The xuloitzcuintli, resembling the Chihuahua, is the national dog of this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'It's the play in which Hecate says, "And now about the caldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'This motorless vehicle tournament crowns its champion each year in Akron, Ohio'

Answer: Soap Box Derby


Question: 'In the 1960s this U.S. firm released the first word processor, an adaptation of its Selectric typewriter'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'In 1986 this former test pilot was named to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'In 1958 the Netherlands & 2 other Low Countries signed a treaty creating this economic union'

Answer: BENELUX (Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg)


Question: 'Garm, the hound of Hel in Norse mythology, is often compared to this canine of Greek mythology'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: 'In "The Tempest", this beastlike character is described as a "born devil" & "a monster"'

Answer: Caliban


Question: 'After being crowned a champ at the Golden Gloves tournament, this "Hit Man" turned pro in 1977'

Answer: Thomas Hearns


Question: 'Without this 1947 invention of Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain, we'd have 40-pound Walkmans'

Answer: Transistor


Question: 'In 1968 this future Detroit mayor became the first black member of the Democratic National Committee'

Answer: Coleman Young


Question: 'A famous 18th century peace was signed at this city once called Ultrajectum'

Answer: Utrecht


Question: 'The official dog of this nation's army, the briard was once rare because so many were lost in World War I'

Answer: France


Question: 'Marina is captured by pirates & sold to a brothel in the play named for this Prince of Tyre'

Answer: Pericles


Question: 'The 2 teams that always qualify for soccer's World Cup are the previous champs & this nation -- in 1994 it was the U.S.'

Answer: Host/home nation


Question: 'Almost 40 years after Otis invented the safety elevator, Jesse Reno developed this people mover'

Answer: Escalator


Question: 'During his 20-year career with the Brewers, he had 3,142 hits & a major league record 123 sacrifice flies'

Answer: Robin Yount


Question: 'Dee Dee Myers is a consultant to this drama series'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer"'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'After dabbing this behind your ears, put some on your light bulb to make your room smell nice'

Answer: Perfume


Question: 'This striped mammal can fire numerous jets of its foul-smelling liquid before it has to "reload"'

Answer: Skunk


Question: 'This comedian has daughter Melissa by her side when she critiques clothes at the Oscars'

Answer: Joan Rivers


Question: 'Singer heard here, who also starred in the film<br />("Viva Las Vegas")'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Raise a number to the third power, or a common form for ice & sugar'

Answer: Cube


Question: 'This author is famous for giving readers "Goosebumps" & leading them down "Fear Street"'

Answer: R.L. Stine


Question: 'It may make you look "Hefty", but Heloise says a plastic one of these is a great substitute for a raincoat'

Answer: Garbage/trash bag


Question: 'This type of rattlesnake seen here is named for the way it moves'

Answer: Sidewinder


Question: 'Hunter Tylo won $5 million after she was dropped from this drama while pregnant with daughter Izabella'

Answer: Melrose Place


Question: 'Once Miss America, she's gone from hosting "The Soul of VH1" to starring in "Soul Food"'

Answer: Vanessa Williams


Question: 'The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel'

Answer: Mean


Question: 'In this Stephen King novel, author Paul Sheldon is held hostage by his No. 1 fan'

Answer: "Misery"


Question: 'Many students make these out of concrete blocks & wood; to dress them up, cover the blocks with cloth'

Answer: Shelves


Question: 'Some smaller species of this largest marsupial live in the trees of New Guinea'

Answer: Kangaroo


Question: 'This TV personality rises early, even for a mother of 2'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'Dr. Frankenstein, played by this "Police" man, gave Jennifer Beals every breath she took as "The Bride"'

Answer: Sting


Question: 'The operation of combining numbers, or a wing appended to a building'

Answer: Addition


Question: 'Sinclair Lewis dedicated this book about a real estate broker to Edith Wharton'

Answer: "Babbitt"


Question: 'If the eraser on your pencil smudges, rub it a few times with this manicure utensil'

Answer: Nail file/emery board


Question: 'Creature seen here in one of its more familiar "colors"'

Answer: Chameleon


Question: 'Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers, named her son this, for an Inca chief'

Answer: Tupac


Question: 'The Lemonheads' Evan Dando & this former Blondie singer were in 1995's "Heavy"'

Answer: Debbie Harry


Question: 'An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, or lacking sharpness of intellect'

Answer: obtuse


Question: 'This author of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" is an ordained Unitarian minister'

Answer: Robert Fulghum


Question: 'Wrap some wide rubber bands around bottles of this & they won't slip out of your hands in the shower'

Answer: Shampoo


Question: 'Bred in captivity, dozens of these rare "masked" weasels were introduced into the Wyoming wilderness in 1991'

Answer: Ferrets


Question: 'On a plane showing "One Fine Day", this star wouldn't let her daughter see mommy kiss George Clooney'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'Gangsta rapper Ice Cube played Doughboy, an ex-con living in south central L.A., in this 1991 film'

Answer: Boyz n the Hood


Question: 'A trigonometric function that equals sine/cosine, or a conversational digression'

Answer: Tangent


Question: '2 years after exploring the Northwest with William Clark, he was named gov. of the Louisiana territory'

Answer: Meriwether Lewis


Question: 'This prophet's accomplishments include being "vomited out" of a great fish'

Answer: Jonah


Question: 'There may be a second & a second second one of these people, called "A.D."s, who keep things moving'

Answer: Assistant director


Question: 'This carbon compound found in auto exhaust can prevent body tissues from getting oxygen'

Answer: Carbon monoxide


Question: 'Ancient city seen here (the Colosseum is in the middle) in a National Geographic illustration'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'The big "wheel" of ride inventors<br />(6)'

Answer: Ferris


Question: 'This group of volunteers, created on Mar. 1, 1961, works to improve living conditions in other nations'

Answer: Peace Corps


Question: 'Reclusive Ezekiel trimmed this with a sword & wove the trimmings into his robe'

Answer: His hair


Question: 'Piece of machinery run by a genny operator'

Answer: Generator


Question: 'This mineral is the most stable form of carbon, though not when you sharpen your pencil too fine'

Answer: Graphite


Question: 'The Vogalonga, an annual regatta seen here, takes place in this city'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Jetsam's partner<br />(7)'

Answer: Flotsam


Question: 'On April 24, 1980 an attempt to rescue 53 hostages in this capital city was called off'

Answer: Tehran


Question: 'Nathan's grim story about a slaughtered lamb made this king feel bad for the death of Uriah'

Answer: David


Question: 'A "dresser" helps actors with costumes; this type of "dresser" gives the film its props'

Answer: Set dresser


Question: 'This isotope with a half-life of about 5,730 years is used to date organisms that didn't last quite so long'

Answer: Carbon 14


Question: 'Mayor Yuri Luzhkov led the recent effort to restore this city's cathedral, seen here'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Vulpine dance<br />(3,4)'

Answer: Fox trot


Question: ''Ullo, Gouverneur!  This signer of the Constitution gave the document its final wording'

Answer: Gouverneur Morris


Question: 'Elijah told Ahab that this wicked woman, Ahab's wife, would be eaten by dogs...& she was'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: 'The credits of "The Flintstones" report none of these "were harmed in the making of" the movie'

Answer: Dinosaurs


Question: 'The structures of compounds like this one, C6H6, have a certain "ring" to them'

Answer: Benzene


Question: 'Caribbean island seen here (with a volcanic eruption) in a recent photo'

Answer: Montserrat


Question: 'Boston hall of fame<br />(7)'

Answer: Faneuil


Question: 'On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order'

Answer: Somalia


Question: 'Elisha cured a general of this skin disease, then gave it to a servant'

Answer: Leprosy


Question: '"The Naked Gun 2 1/2" credits a "loaded filmer" right after this person who works with the camera'

Answer: Film loader


Question: 'Plant products called alkaloids contain carbon & this element, the next one up on the periodic table'

Answer: Nitrogen


Question: 'This German university city is seen here behind the fossil named for it'

Answer: Heidelberg


Question: 'It's spoken in Hameenlinna & Hyvinkaa<br />(7)'

Answer: Finnish


Question: 'Under current succession laws, this former university head is the last woman in line for the U.S. presidency'

Answer: Donna Shalala (former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin)


Question: 'A game of hide & seek leads Peter, Susan, Edmund & Lucy into this land that's "always winter & never Christmas"'

Answer: Narnia


Question: 'Sabrina Bryan & Raven-Simone play singing friends who "show their spots" in Spain in the 2006 sequel to this TV movie'

Answer: The Cheetah Girls


Question: 'It precedes "Minutes" in the title of a popular Sunday night TV news program'

Answer: 60


Question: 'The "stack" type of this is narrow enough for you to wear several on one finger'

Answer: a ring


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.)  This familiar term for a group of bees refers specifically to the group that flies from the hive to form a new colony'

Answer: a swarm


Question: 'Classified advertising section of the phone book listing subscribers by type of business'

Answer: the yellow pages


Question: 'Leroy is the real first name of the boy detective with this bookish nickname'

Answer: Encyclopedia Brown


Question:
'The song heard here was on the soundtrack to this 2006 Disney Channel movie

"This could be the start of something new /
It feels so right..."'

Answer: High School Musical


Question: 'Highest number you can throw with just one standard die'

Answer: 6


Question: 'In the South, this piece of jewelry is sometimes called an earbob'

Answer: an earring


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a swarm of bees.)  Drones don't sting, & queens only sting other queens, so only worry about a sting from these bees, but they are about 95% of a hive's population'

Answer: worker bees


Question: 'A karate kid may aspire to this high rank, kuroi-obi in Japanese'

Answer: a black belt


Question: 'This Louise Fitzhugh lass spies on her classmates & writes about them in her secret notebook'

Answer: Harriet the Spy


Question: 'Twin brothers play twin brothers who live in Boston's Tipton Hotel in this series'

Answer: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody


Question: 'Of 80, 800 or 1800, the approximate length in miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline'

Answer: 800


Question: 'A simple strand of these mollusk gems has been a classic fashion accessory for hundreds of years'

Answer: pearls


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue with a tray of bees in front of her.)  Honey is produced by the evaporation of this liquid that bees collect from flowers & then regurgitate'

Answer: nectar


Question: 'Swift-of-foot critter seen here'

Answer: a greyhound


Question: 'In a Frances Hodgson Burnett tale, Mary Lennox tends to this title place & Colin grows stronger as it blooms'

Answer: the Secret Garden


Question: 'Miley Stewart, who moved to Malibu from Tennessee, leads a double life as this 14-year-old pop star'

Answer: Hannah Montana


Question: 'By a cumulative count, you get a total of 364 gifts in this song, including 42 swans'

Answer: "The 12 Days of Christmas"


Question: 'Many diamonds are cut in a shape named for this green gem'

Answer: an emerald


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reveals the clue holding a tray with bees on it.)  Glands on a bee's abdomen convert the sugar in honey to this building material'

Answer: beeswax


Question: 'A California national park is named for these tallest living trees'

Answer: redwood


Question: 'This 3-letter Kipling lad goes on a Himalayan journey with a Tibetan lama'

Answer: Kim


Question: 'In a 2006 Disney Channel movie, Brenda Song starred as this girl: "Homecoming Warrior"'

Answer: Wendy Wu


Question: 'Bill Clinton is officially listed as this number U.S. president'

Answer: 42


Question: 'This kind of pendant is a gold or silver case that opens to reveal a picture of a loved one'

Answer: a locket


Question: 'This colorful name for the U.S. Army's Special Forces comes from their unique hats'

Answer: Green Berets


Question: 'He began building Monticello in 1770 but it wasn't completed until after he left the presidency in 1809'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'RJ the raccoon & Verne the turtle are 2 of the forest critters who invade the suburbs for food in this 2006 film'

Answer: Over the Hedge


Question: 'This country is not too worried if it gets the boot'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Care to help me make sauerkraut?  I need 25 pounds of this vegetable shredded up ASAP'

Answer: cabbage


Question: 'A Fluffernutter is a sandwich of peanut butter & a creme named for this fluffy white pillowy confection'

Answer: marshmallow


Question: 'From the Latin for "daily journal", it's a private record of a writer's experiences'

Answer: a diary


Question: 'On April 24, 1778 this naval hero captured the Drake, the first British ship defeated in war by an American ship'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'The living, breathing, scary title creature of this 2006 movie is seen here'

Answer: Monster House


Question: 'Though a neighbor, this Caribbean nation has had a rocky history with the United States'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Blast off to Space Place & Starchild, 2 websites for kids sponsored by this government space agency'

Answer: NASA


Question: 'Yoplait makes this portable yogurt in a tube, a perfect snack when you're on the move'

Answer: Go-Gurt


Question: 'An elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building, or seats high in a theater'

Answer: a balcony


Question: 'He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the Colonies from 1753 to 1761'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'A 10-year old boy becomes the size of an insect & adventure follows in this 2006 film'

Answer: The Ant Bully


Question: 'It's big... and it's cold'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'How about memorizing all the capitals of South America, including Quito, the capital of this country'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'This brand of pudding & gelatin offers Smoothie Snacks & Pudding Bites'

Answer: Jell-O


Question: 'The Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost, as honored on the first Sunday after Pentecost'

Answer: the Trinity


Question: 'At age 15 he was a bellringer at the Old North Church; 25 years later he told the church sexton to light 2 lanterns'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'This 1988 film is seen thorugh the eyes of Littlefoot, a baby Brontosaurus'

Answer: The Land Before Time


Question: '44 million-strong African country seen here'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Maybe you can tesser & travel to new worlds like Meg, Calvin & Charles Wallace did in this 1962 L'Engle novel'

Answer: A Wrinkle in Time


Question: 'Nacho Cheese & Cool Ranch are 2 flavors of this Frito-Lay brand of tortilla chips'

Answer: Doritos


Question: 'This word is used in tennis & soccer for when you hit the ball before it bounces on the ground'

Answer: volley


Question: 'Before he was on the $10 bill, this first Treasury Secretary was one of the 39 signers of the Constitution'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'Paul Simon contributed the song "Father And Daughter" to the soundtrack of this "Wild" 2002 film'

Answer: The Wild Thornberrys


Question: 'This country takes its name from a term for a precious metal'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'How about taking up a new hobby like philately, which is the collecting of these'

Answer: stamps


Question: '"The Ultimate Crunch", this favorite in flavors like Chile Picante, Original & Ranch, is a no-no if you have braces'

Answer: Corn Nuts


Question: 'Important elements in music are melody & this pleasing combination of tones, from the Greek for "joint"'

Answer: harmony


Question: 'Discovered in 1930, in August 2006 it was officially downgraded to a "dwarf"'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'He was an artist & a canal engineer before building his first steamboat'

Answer: (Robert) Fulton


Question: 'Hello, it means hello or good day'

Answer: bonjour


Question: 'The credit line is a photographer's equivalent of this for reporters'

Answer: a byline


Question: 'Jack Torrance becomes the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in this book'

Answer: The Shining


Question: 'Scoring in golf is done by counting these units that could also be applied by a painter'

Answer: strokes


Question: 'In the English alphabet, it's the fourth consonant'

Answer: F


Question: 'A clerk in the U.S. patent office, this "angel" went on to become the superintendent of nurses of the Army of the James'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'Hope you're hungry for this 2-word term traditionally said at the start of a meal'

Answer: bon appetite


Question: 'One-syllable term for the continuation (please turn to C17) of a story from one page to another'

Answer: a jump


Question: '1974 tale subtitled "A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power"'

Answer: Carrie


Question: 'A hole-in-one in golf is also known by this 1-word term'

Answer: an ace


Question: 'In four-color process printing, the 4 colors used are cyan, magenta, yellow & this "basic" one'

Answer: black


Question: 'From 1829 to 1832 this transcendental essayist was a minister at the Second Church of Boston'

Answer: (Ralph Waldo) Emerson


Question: 'Literally, it means "good journey"'

Answer: bon voyage


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew opens a copy of The New York Times.)  I always find something I agree with & something that gets me mad on this page, named for its physical position in the newspaper'

Answer: the op-ed page


Question: 'Novel that says, "That's one hell of a big dog, son.  Are you sure he's safe?"'

Answer: Cujo


Question: 'Hootie Johnson chairs this "Master"ful golf club, still all-male as of 2005'

Answer: Augusta National


Question: 'The only athlete to win 4 straight Olympic gold medals in the long jump'

Answer: (Carl) Lewis


Question: 'During the War of 1812, Put-in-Bay was the scene of his victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: 'One who lives luxuriously & enjoys good food & drink'

Answer: a bon vivant


Question: 'This is reporting on sudden, unexpected events; there was a Pulitzer category for it in the '90s'

Answer: spot news reporting


Question: 'Chapter 1 of this novel says, "This here is the best car I ever owned"'

Answer: Christine


Question: 'Things Tiger Woods doesn't often miss are greens & this, the group of golfers who qualify for the next round'

Answer: the cut


Question: 'Isaiah said that the Lord shall gather the dispersed "from" these "of the Earth"'

Answer: the four corners


Question: 'In 1759 he served in the House of Burgesses; in 1776 he framed the Declaration of Rights of Virginia'

Answer: (George) Mason


Question: '8-letter synonym for frank & simple good-heartedness or geniality'

Answer: bonhomie


Question: 'A certain mineral, or the type size used for sports stats & stock tables'

Answer: agate


Question: 'A vampire takes over the title hamlet in this, King's second novel'

Answer: Salem\'s Lot


Question: 'At age 10 in 2000, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for a USGA amateur tournament'

Answer: (Michelle) Wie


Question: 'The 4 U.S. states that begin with the letter "A"'

Answer: Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, & Arkansas


Question: 'This title character says, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it"'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice'

Answer: Saffron


Question: 'When it's closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'He was the driving force in his country's reforms'

Answer: Gorbachev


Question: 'In 1909 Elwood Baker invented this game as a variation on what was often called "rum"'

Answer: gin


Question: 'Between 1867 & 1871 about 1 1/2 million of these cattle made a one-way trip up the Chisholm Trail'

Answer: longhorns


Question: 'This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills"'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'It was a "snap" for this "Swing Time" star to earn a 1992 Kennedy Center honor'

Answer: Ginger Rogers


Question: 'Eratosthenes calculated this c. 230 B.C. using the difference between the sun's angles at 2 places during June'

Answer: the Earth\'s circumference


Question: 'He drove out the Colonialists'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'In draw poker, it's the hand whose value is between a nonstraight flush & 4 of a kind'

Answer: a full house


Question: 'Marine rank just above private first class'

Answer: lance corporal


Question: 'In this Hemingway story, Santiago promises to show a marlin "what a man can do and what a man endures"'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: 'The "Today" Show got a little spicier when she became its news anchor in 1997'

Answer: Ann Curry


Question: 'The Lambert one of these formations in the Antarctic is over 250 miles long'

Answer: a glacier


Question: 'He had plenty of drive to get ahead in the army'

Answer: Franco


Question: 'Transporting name of the world's bestselling playing card brand for over a century'

Answer: Bicycle


Question: 'This actress flowered on the 19th century stage & as the mistress of King Edward VII'

Answer: Lillie Langtry


Question: 'In Dickens, these famous words precede "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"'

Answer: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"


Question: 'Barbara Bain's "bark" may have been worse than her bite as this spicy character on "Mission: Impossible"'

Answer: Cinnamon (Carter)


Question: '"Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26'

Answer: iron


Question: 'He drove his people to distraction'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew tips her hand.)  The two tens of clubs in my hand doesn't mean I'm cheating, but playing this trick-taking game that uses a special deck'

Answer: pinochle


Question: 'Walt Whitman's famous elegy talks about these that "in the dooryard bloom'd"'

Answer: lilacs


Question: 'This Poe plague "had long devastated the country.  No pestilence had ever been so fatal"'

Answer: the Red Death


Question: 'Movie producer Neufeld, or a spice with a weapon name'

Answer: Mace


Question: 'A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere'

Answer: methane


Question: 'He drove his party off a cliff in 1997'

Answer: (John) Major


Question: 'The name of this card may have evolved from a variant version of the card game name euchre'

Answer: a joker


Question: 'A 1905 earthquake in this Punjab capital killed more than 10,000'

Answer: Lahore


Question: 'This company's namesake founder, the son of German immigrants, sold pickles to Pittsburgh grocers'

Answer: Heinz


Question: 'In India, flowers & wreaths are brought to the shrine of this spiritual leader on his birthday, October 2'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: 'Vivian Vance,<br />William Frawley'

Answer: I Love Lucy


Question: 'If you want to go jibbing, you don't need a sailboat but an armada twin-tip pair of these snow devices'

Answer: skis


Question: 'The ship seen here is moving through this artificial waterway completed in 1869'

Answer: the Suez Canal


Question: 'To an ophthalmologist, the Latin abbreviation O.D., for oculus dexter, can refer to this body part'

Answer: the right eye


Question: 'It's the 1-word name of the Ben & Jerry's flavor described as "vanilla ice cream with vanilla bean specks"'

Answer: Vanilla


Question: 'This holiday began in 1868 when a general designated a day to adorn the graves of the Civil War dead'

Answer: Memorial Day


Question:
'George Wendt,
Woody Harrelson,
Rhea Perlman'

Answer: Cheers


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue while on a bodyboard.)  This brand of bodyboard sounds like you can get some disco-type moves going on it'

Answer: a Boogie Board


Question: 'From the Latin for "to hold in front", it's the period epitomized here'

Answer: Prohibition


Question: 'There's a film society & a chamber music society of this on the Upper West Side between 62nd & 65th'

Answer: Lincoln Center


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Duke University Primate Center.)  Technicians of the Duke University Primate Center say the animals go bananas over grapes & this fruit of the genus Musa'

Answer: bananas


Question: 'The Punxsutawney Spirit was the first newspaper to print news about the observance of this holiday in 1886'

Answer: Groundhog Day


Question:
'Brad Garrett,
Doris Roberts,
Peter Boyle'

Answer: Everybody Loves Raymond


Question: 'In 1980 2 Minnesota brothers formed a company to make these as an off-season hockey training device'

Answer: Rollerblades


Question: 'The Times photo of this man dates from sometime around 1870; he was dead by 1876'

Answer: Custer


Question: 'You're "out in" this sports area when you hold an extreme or unconventional point of view'

Answer: left field


Question: 'After Dec. 11, 2005 this show was movin' out of Broadway's Richard Rogers Theatre'

Answer: Movin\' Out


Question: 'This Jewish observance marks the end of 10 days of penitence'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question:
'David Ogden Stiers,
Loretta Swit,
Harry Morgan'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'The pocket bike seen here looks like a shrunken version of this Wisconsin-based motorcycle brand'

Answer: Harley-Davidson


Question: 'A famous trio is seen here at this Ukranian resort city in 1945'

Answer: Yalta


Question: 'It has 3 sides & contains a 90-degree angle'

Answer: right triangle


Question: 'Henry Adams won a Pulitzer for "The Education of Henry Adams"; this man won for "The Americanization of Edward Bok"'

Answer: Edward Bok


Question: 'In 1223 St. Francis of Assisi famously celebrated Christmas by setting up one of these displays in Greccio, Italy'

Answer: a crèche (or a nativity scene)


Question:
'Denzel Washington,
David Morse,
Howie Mandel'

Answer: St. Elsewhere


Question: 'In 2008 this sport, run on a bumpy dirt track, will be added to the Summer Olympics to help attract younger viewers'

Answer: BMX


Question: 'Seen here are these two artists who were married in 1929 in Coyocan'

Answer: Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo


Question: 'Ironically, the publisher of this Christian sci-fi book series sponsored a NASCAR racing team in 2002'

Answer: Left Behind


Question: 'The American poet Hilda Doolittle used this 2-letter pen name'

Answer: H.D.


Question: 'In the words of Edgar A. Guest, "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it" this'

Answer: a home


Question: 'This actress played Jessica Fletcher, a writer in Cabot Cove, Maine who wrote & solved mysteries'

Answer: Angela Lansbury


Question: 'In 1850 Wagner published an attack on the influence of this ethnic group in music'

Answer: the Jews


Question: 'Speeding off the shelves is "The Fast Lane", the NHRA's official 50th anniversary book on this type of racing'

Answer: drag racing


Question: 'Arhus, Denmark's second-largest city, lies on this peninsula'

Answer: Jutland


Question: 'Not popular with criminals:<br />DEA'

Answer: the Drug Enforcement Administration


Question: '2 of his less famous lines are "A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray"'

Answer: Joyce Kilmer


Question: 'It's the 2-word name for the van driven around by the kids on "Scooby Doo"'

Answer: the Mystery Machine


Question: 'The Libestod, or "Love-Death", is from this opera named for doomed lovers'

Answer: Tristan and Isolde


Question: '"Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year" is devoted to photographs of this singer in 1964'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'This city was once known as El Paso del Norte but was renamed for a Mexican president'

Answer: Juarez


Question: 'A big part of the paper chase:<br />GPO'

Answer: the Government Printing Office


Question: 'When this schooner wrecked, cruel rocks "gored her side like the horns of an angry bull"'

Answer: the Hesperus


Question: 'One of the 3 people who have hosted the PBS series "Mystery!"'

Answer: (1 of) Vincent Price, Gene Shalit, or Diana Rigg


Question: 'Wagner had to flee Munich after raiding this German state's treasury to maintain his lifestyle'

Answer: Bavaria


Question: 'Disney's first "animated screenplay" is this film's art book, which includes a foreword by James Earl Jones'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'During the Civil War, General Sherman reduced this state capital to ashes, causing it to be called "Chimneyville"'

Answer: Jackson


Question: 'A source of future pilots:<br />AFROTC'

Answer: the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps


Question: 'This "small" title character of a Eugene Field poem told his toy dog & soldier, "and don't you make any noise"'

Answer: Little Boy Blue


Question: 'In a 1990s novel, Stephanie Barron had the sense & sensibility to turn this author into a sleuth'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'Operas named for Grail Knights include "Parsifal" & this one whose famed prelude is heard here'

Answer: Lohengrin


Question: 'One book covers the "Bohemia" of this Long Island beach area that attracted F. Scott Fitzgerald & Winslow Homer'

Answer: the Hamptons


Question: 'Until the '60s, French was the official language of this British island in the English Channel'

Answer: Jersey


Question: 'They build bridges to the future:<br />ACE'

Answer: the Army Corps of Engineers


Question: 'In "Harlem", he penned, "What happens to a dream deferred?  Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'Agatha Christie was staying in Aswan when she wrote this 1937 mystery about a young woman's murder'

Answer: Death on the Nile


Question: 'This future Mrs. Wagner was still married to Hans von Bulow when she gave birth to Wagner's daughter'

Answer: Cosima (Liszt)


Question: '"The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis" highlights the houses in this California city 114 miles from L.A.'

Answer: Palm Springs


Question: 'The names of a period of the Mesozoic Era & a Spielberg thriller both come from this 4-letter Alpine range'

Answer: (the) Jura (Mountains)


Question: 'Sort of like the Peace Corps, only local:<br />VISTA'

Answer: Volunteers in Service to America


Question: '1 of 2 actors who have earned acting Academy Award nominations in the last 5 consecutive decades'

Answer: (1 of) Jack Nicholson or Michael Caine


Question: 'In Roman mythology Luna was a goddess of this heavenly body'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'Alfred Hitchcock wanted her to make a comeback in "Marnie" but the people of Monaco disapproved'

Answer: (Princess) Grace Kelly


Question: 'The Metro Red Line, which began service in L.A. in 1993, is this form of transportation'

Answer: Subway


Question: '"Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are" this is attributed to Sir James Dewar'

Answer: Open


Question: 'Supermodel & L'Oreal spokeswoman Hunter Reno is this attorney general's niece'

Answer: Janet Reno


Question: 'This felonious stealing can be "by trick" or "grand"'

Answer: Larceny


Question: 'They were the twin founders of Rome'

Answer: Romulus & Remus


Question: 'Cary Grant refused to play Henry Higgins in this film, saying he wouldn't even see it unless Rex Harrison starred'

Answer: "My Fair Lady"


Question: 'It's the auto company that makes the Maxima & the Altima'

Answer: Nissan


Question: 'Scottish-born steel magnate who wrote, "Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends"'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'This founder of a Washington, D.C. institution was descended from King Henry VII'

Answer: James Smithson


Question: 'Generally, the results of one of these tests, aka polygraphs, are not admissible evidence'

Answer: Lie Detector


Question: 'In Norse myth a she-goat called Heidrun provides mead for the slain heroes of this hall'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'MGM wanted this dimpled darling to play Dorothy in "The Wizard Of Oz" but Fox wouldn't loan her out'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: 'France's high-speed trains are known by this 3-letter abbreviation'

Answer: TGV (Trains Grande Vitesse)


Question: 'Beatrix Potter wrote, "Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were...." these'

Answer: Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail & Peter


Question: 'Dennis Hopper's daughter Marin is the fashion director of this magazine whose name is a French pronoun'

Answer: Elle


Question: 'It's the type of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures or signs'

Answer: Libel


Question: 'The name of this "complex" king is Greek for "swollen foot"'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'Robert Evans planned to star this actress, then his wife, in "The Great Gatsby", but she left him for Steve McQueen'

Answer: Ali MacGraw


Question: 'It was the nickname of the Curtiss JN4, once used to carry air mail'

Answer: "Jenny"


Question: 'He told the manager of his Chicago department store, "Give the lady what she wants!"'

Answer: Marshall Field


Question: 'This lyricist's father owned a chain of dress shops; there might be one "On The Street Where You Live"'

Answer: Alan J. Lerner


Question: 'In court this type of question suggests to a witness what answer is desired'

Answer: Leading


Question: 'This Olympian taught Greek mortals how to cultivate grapevines & make wine'

Answer: Bacchus/Dionysius


Question: 'Mitzi Gaynor, not Marilyn Monroe, was Billy Wilder's 1st choice for the role of Sugar Kane in this comedy'

Answer: "Some Like It Hot"


Question: 'They were the 2 largest passenger ships afloat when they were retired in 1967 & 1968'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary


Question: 'In "Ben Hur" he wrote, "A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune"'

Answer: Lew Wallace


Question: 'Former first lady Barbara Bush is a great-great-great-niece of this president from New Hampshire'

Answer: Franklin Pierce


Question: 'These people procure the passage or defeat of pending bills from legislators'

Answer: Lobbyists


Question: '"Within A Budding Grove", the 2nd part of his "Remembrance of Things Past", won the Goncourt Literary Prize'

Answer: Marcel Proust


Question: 'On July 1, 1971 the 182-year-old Post Office Department was reorganized into this corporation'

Answer: USPS (United States Postal Service)


Question: 'This "Puff The Magic Dragon" trio split up in 1970 & re-formed in 1978'

Answer: Peter, Paul & Mary


Question: 'All distances in Spain are measured from kilometer 0 on the Puerta Del Sol in this capital city'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'With hind legs reaching up to 10 inches, it's the largest frog in the U.S.'

Answer: Bullfrog


Question: 'This story of a courtesan who sacrifices her happiness for a lover's good was Dumas Fils' first novel'

Answer: "Camille"


Question: 'On Christmas Day 1974, a cyclone damaged 90% of the buildings in this country's city of Darwin'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'In 1893 Francisco Fanciulli succeeded this man as leader of the U.S. Marine Band'

Answer: John Philip Sousa


Question: 'Cuernavaca is the capital of this North American country's state of Morelos'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This cobra killer was introduced into the Western Hemisphere to kill rats but has done more harm to birds'

Answer: Mongoose


Question: 'She collaborated on 4 novels with husband Henri Gauthier-Villars before writing "Gigi"'

Answer: Collette


Question: 'To avoid default, the House of Representatives reset this to a temporary $830 billion on April 2, 1979'

Answer: The Ceiling on the National Debt


Question: 'This song associated with Yale was popularized by Yale alumnus Rudy Vallee'

Answer: "The Whiffenpoof Song"


Question: 'A large statue of Christ The Redeemer looks down on this city on Guanabara Bay'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'Species of this mammal living in South America include 6-banded, 3-banded & giant'

Answer: Armadillo


Question: 'This Algerian-born novelist's "The Stranger" is based on his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus"'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: 'The trustees of this union's $1.4-billion pension fund resigned in 1977 under charges of mismanagement'

Answer: Teamsters


Question: 'Popular operettas he wrote in the 1920s include "The Desert Song" & "The Student Prince"'

Answer: Sigmund Romberg


Question: 'This country is home to the University of Bergen & the University of Trondheim'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'The name of this primate confined to Madagascar & the Comoros is from the Latin for "nocturnal spirits"'

Answer: Lemur


Question: 'Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook co-founded the Dance Theatre of this place'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'This master of short stories like "Ball Of Fat" also wrote 6 novels'

Answer: Guy de Maupassant


Question: 'In 1978 these 2 South American countries almost went to war over 3 islands in the Beagle Channel'

Answer: Argentina & Chile


Question: 'Tenor sax man Tex Beneke sang on this orchestra leader's hit "Chattanooga Choo Choo"'

Answer: Glenn Miller


Question: 'Curacao lies in the southern Caribbean, about 40 miles north of this South American country'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'The macabou type of this bird may have a wingspan greater than 9 feet'

Answer: Stork


Question: 'He was 4 1/2 years old when he became Sweden's crown prince in 1950; now he's king of Sweden'

Answer: Carl Gustav XVI


Question: 'The Micmac Indians called it Abegweit, which means "cradled on the waves"'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'James Hilton novel in which Mr. Ralston suggests that Mr. Chipping resign'

Answer: Goodbye Mr. Chips


Question: 'Christmas song or what Buddy Rich might have been called as a child'

Answer: Little Drummer Boy


Question: 'In L.A. 60% of 911 calls to the CHP are now coming from people with these in their cars'

Answer: cellular telephones


Question: 'Frankie Valli's group took this name from a N.J. bowling alley where they played briefly in the lounge'

Answer: The Four Seasons


Question: 'On Saturday, May 2, 1970, Diane Crump became the 1st woman to ride in this race'

Answer: Kentucky Derby


Question: 'In ancient Egypt, this was the punishment for one who stole, or killed, even by accident, a cat'

Answer: death


Question: 'Illustrator of Flowers & Fungi, she also wrote children's tales like "Peter Rabbit"'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie'

Answer: Little Jack Horner


Question: 'Famous route decertified as U.S. highway in 1985; guess you can no longer "get your kicks" there'

Answer: Route 66


Question: 'Formerly backed by the Blue Belles, she now uses her last name for the entire group'

Answer: Patti LaBelle


Question: '"Dangerous When Wet", she was elected to Int'l Swimming Hall of Fame in 1966'

Answer: Esther Williams


Question: 'Koko the "talking" gorilla named her pet kitten "All Ball", probably because it lacked this feature'

Answer: tail


Question: 'H. Rider Haggard used this 3rd person singular pronoun as a title of 1887 novel'

Answer: She


Question: 'Girls are 1st interviewed & then favorites are "kidnapped" to serve as these "Sweethearts of Sigma Chi"'

Answer: little sisters


Question: 'Blue reflectors on city streets indicate 1 of these located nearby'

Answer: fire hydrant


Question: 'Veronica Bennett, who became Ronnie Spector, was lead singer for this group'

Answer: The Ronettes


Question: 'Last name of Soviet sisters Irina & Tamara who set 26 world records in field events in the '60s'

Answer: Press


Question: 'The Pekingese, Chihuahua, & Tonka's "Pound Puppies" fall under this classification of dogs'

Answer: toys


Question: 'What you'll be if you accomplish all the ifs in Rudyard Kipling's "If", my son'

Answer: a man


Question: 'The Ft. McHenry Tunnel under this city's harbor was 1 of the most expensive sections of highway ever built'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: '[Audio] Called "Buffoons of '60s British Rock Invasion", they were led by an ex-milkman named Garrity:'

Answer: Freddie And The Dreamers


Question: '18-year-old Helen W. Moody won a Gold Medal in this in 1924, the last time it was an official Olympic sport'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'Name of this class of dogs comes from the Latin for "earth"'

Answer: terrier


Question: 'Dickens novel in which Miss Havisham left everything in her house as it was the day she was jilted'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'Number shared by Pacific Coast Highway & Boston Post Road'

Answer: Highway 1


Question: 'Though a star in many sports, Babe Didrikson made most of her money in this one'

Answer: golf


Question: 'The Akita, "natural dog" of this country, is said to have been brought to U.S. by Helen Keller'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Current title of newspaper feature begun by Robert Leroy Ripley'

Answer: Ripley\'s Believe It Or Not


Question: 'Though not related, both South Africa's president & foreign minister have this last name'

Answer: Botha


Question: 'Of $1 million or a date with Joan Collins, choice R.F. Priller made in Canada Dry contest'

Answer: million dollars


Question: 'Little Toot was this type of boat'

Answer: tugboat


Question: 'Not one or the other'

Answer: neither


Question: 'Founder of the 12th dynasty, Amenemhet I, was busy reorganizing this country & moving the capital'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'Front page of the London Times was filled with these for the last time on May 2, 1966'

Answer: classified ads


Question: 'Most predominant in north Africa, it's the largest single religion on the entire continent'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Of bacon, bosom, or babushka, word censored from an ad by N.Y. paper The Jewish Week'

Answer: bacon


Question: 'It contained evil tempers, many cares & more than 150 sorrows'

Answer: Pandora\'s Box


Question: 'The measure of someting from side to side, as opposed to length'

Answer: breadth


Question: 'This metal's "age" was all the rage in northern Europe'

Answer: bronze


Question: 'L.A.'s Times Mirror Co. owns this Long Island daily with largest evening circulation in America'

Answer: Newsday


Question: 'In the late '60s, Biafra tried unsuccessfully to secede from this country'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'Of the 12, sign of the Zodiac which is usually pictured carrying a weapon'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'Story from which come the replies: "Not I," said the duck; "Not I," said the cat; "Not I," said the dog'

Answer: The Little Red Hen


Question: 'For a Catholic after confession, it may consist of 3 Hail Marys & 4 Our Fathers'

Answer: penance


Question: 'Some archeologists figure this Biblical "father" was living at the time in Ur'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'Purchased by Pope Leo XIII in 1890, in the 1930s it was the only Italian paper free of fascist control'

Answer: L\'Osservatore Romano


Question: 'The meaning of this country's name is "lion mountains"'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'Of the 27 current network sitcoms, the 2 whose titles end with question marks'

Answer: Who\'s The Boss? and You Again?


Question: 'By always replying this when asked to work, that's "how the camel got its hump"'

Answer: humph


Question: 'A school's teachers or an inherent power or ability'

Answer: faculty


Question: 'Historian Wm. Langer says the Sumerians were in a period of this, like Italy in 15th cent. A.D.'

Answer: renaissance


Question: 'The former Joseph D. Mobutu, now Mobutu Sese Seko, is president of this large country'

Answer: Zaire


Question: 'Of the over 120 characters John Wayne has played, the only one that we know was Mongolian'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'This vegetable was so big, it took an old man & woman, a little girl, cat, dog & mouse to pull it up'

Answer: turnip


Question: 'In 1971 song title rank of the man Paul McCartney paired with "Uncle Albert"'

Answer: admiral


Question: 'Ency. Americana says that topless dresses were the fashion of the day for women on this Minoan isle'

Answer: Crete


Question: '2 of 3 performers to win three or more Academy Awards for acting'

Answer: (2 of) Katharine Hepburn, Walter Brennan or Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'The Rio's Masquerade Village has 3 sections: Rio, Venice & this Mardi Gras city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'In "Apollo 13" he played astronaut Jim Lovell, who was much smarter than Forrest Gump'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'Spot has never managed to lie on top of his doghouse like this Peanuts character'

Answer: Snoopy


Question: 'The number of players required for solitaire cribbage'

Answer: 1


Question: 'In 1787 Lt. William Bligh was given command of this 215-ton ship'

Answer: H.M.S. Bounty


Question: 'Buzz in when you know this one -- in ancient times, this sweet, sticky liquid was used to treat wounds'

Answer: Honey


Question: 'Some new slots in town are based on this, our sister game show; you may want to give them a "sp_n"'

Answer: Wheel Of Fortune


Question: 'Teri Garr played Dustin Hoffman's neglected girlfriend in this 1982 comedy; what a "drag"!'

Answer: Tootsie


Question: 'Spot's owner puts a special collar on Spot to keep these insects from jumping onto him'

Answer: Fleas


Question: 'She played a lovely model named Zsa Zsa in the movie musical "Lovely to Look At"'

Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor


Question: 'The March 9, 1862 battle of these 2 ships was the 1st conflict between ironclads'

Answer: Monitor & Merrimac


Question: 'At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer'

Answer: Hacker


Question: 'This pair's Secret Garden at the Mirage is a haven for endangered animals'

Answer: Siegfried & Roy


Question: 'In 1997 he was named best actor at Cannes for "She's So Lovely", which co-starred his lovely wife Robin Wright'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'Always the picky eater, Spot will only eat this brand's "Dog Chow" & an occasional bird'

Answer: Purina


Question: 'He was the first U.S. president who was not a college graduate'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'In the summer of 1870, this steamboat named for a Southern hero defeated the Natchez in a match race'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Half the Earth, or half the cerebrum or cerebellum'

Answer: Hemisphere


Question: 'This hotel boasts an over 50' lion advertised as the largest bronze sculpture in the U.S.'

Answer: MGM Grand


Question: 'Actor seen here acting really dumb in "Dumb And Dumber":'

Answer: Jeff Daniels


Question: 'Spot's owner made up the word "Schnottish" for Spot, a mix of schnauzer & this type of terrier'

Answer: Scottish


Question: 'Guinness says Mike Racz did this to 100 oysters in a record 2 minutes, 20.07 seconds'

Answer: Shucking


Question: 'The British sent over 60 vessels against this German battleship before it sank on May 27, 1941'

Answer: Bismarck


Question: 'It's the term for an animal that feeds mainly on grass & other plants'

Answer: Herbivore


Question: 'This hotel recently doubled the size of its Forum shopping area'

Answer: Caesars Palace


Question: 'In a 1997 film she found "That Old Feeling" with Dennis Farina'

Answer: Bette Midler


Question: 'The Post-Dispatch can be found in Spot's doghouse because he lives in this Midwestern city'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'It's the official language of San Marino & of the country that surrounds San Marino'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'Ship whose memorial is seen here: (in Pearl Harbor)'

Answer: U.S.S. Arizona


Question: 'This Japanese ritual is also known as seppuku'

Answer: Hari-kari


Question: 'This Barry Manilow hit is subtitled "At The Copa"'

Answer: Copacabana


Question: 'This English "conqueror" was crowned in London on Christmas Day, 1066'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'The sound of a horse's hoof hitting the pavement, it usually follows clip'

Answer: Clop


Question: 'Dan'l Webster was the name of the title amphibian in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of" this "County"'

Answer: Calaveras County


Question: 'Ellery Queen & now Mary Higgins Clark have their name on this type of magazine'

Answer: Mystery


Question: 'Meg Ryan was in "I.Q." with Walter Matthau, who was in this Oliver Stone initial film with Kevin'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'Invented in recent years, boobams are percussion instruments often made from this woody grass'

Answer: Bamboo


Question: 'Although we do know he crossed the Alps with about 40 elephants, we don't know what route he took'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'Ms. Fromme could tell you it's this wheel that gets the most grease'

Answer: Squeaky wheel


Question: 'Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: '"We drink, we smoke, we gamble" is the motto of Milton, a magazine named for him'

Answer: Milton Berle


Question: 'F. Murray Abraham was in "Amadeus" with Tom Hulce, who did this National Lampoon movie with Kevin'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'Ska & rock steady were predecessors of this style that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s'

Answer: Reggae


Question: 'Prior to his 1793 execution, this French king yelled, "I am innocent of all charges brought against me"'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'For the hip-hop duo Tag Team, it preceded "There It Is"'

Answer: "Whoomp!"


Question: 'The final chapter of "The Scarlet Letter" says that her tombstone bore the letter "A"'

Answer: Hester Prynne


Question: 'Woman seen here; she has a magazine named for her: ("It's a good thing")'

Answer: Martha Stewart


Question: 'Boris Karloff did "The Raven" with Jack Nicholson, who was in this Navy courtroom drama with Kevin'

Answer: A Few Good Men


Question: 'From a Spanish word meaning "Of Malaga", it's a Spanish folk tune native to Malaga'

Answer: Malaguena


Question: 'On July 26, 1956 he announced that the Suez Canal "Will be run by Egyptians"'

Answer: Gamal A. Nasser


Question: 'This onomatopoetic word precedes art, fly & gun'

Answer: Pop


Question: 'Archdeacon Claude Frollo was this hunchback's master'

Answer: Quasimodo


Question: 'In 1947 this family's magazine was "The Changing Times", now it's "Personal Finance"'

Answer: Kiplinger


Question: 'Cindy Crawford was in "Fair Game" with William Baldwin, who did this medical school thriller with Kevin'

Answer: Flatliners


Question: 'Despite its name, this British band heard here was a trio: "Hold me now..."'

Answer: The Thompson Twins


Question: 'Begun on Jan. 1, 1660, his "Diary" held thrilling accounts of the Plague & the Great Fire of London'

Answer: Samuel Pepys


Question: 'Stripes & plaids worn together, cymballically speaking'

Answer: Clash


Question: 'This Poe tale contains the line, "The French army had entered Toledo"'

Answer: The Pit & The Pendulum


Question: 'He's built up his body & his name, which is found over "Muscle And Fitness" & "Shape"'

Answer: Joe Weider


Question: 'Alex Trebek was in "Short Cuts" with Fred Ward, who acted in this underground peril film with Kevin'

Answer: Tremors


Question: 'They got their name because the man who discovered them in 1895 had no idea what they were'

Answer: X-Rays (discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen)


Question: 'It's the more common name for sodium chloride'

Answer: Salt


Question: 'Michael Corleone of "The Godfather" also appears in this author's novel "The Sicilian"'

Answer: Mario Puzo


Question: 'Registry number NCC-1701, this ship was launched in 2245'

Answer: Enterprise


Question: 'Roger Sperry's studies of how this organ's halves split up processes won him a 1981 Nobel Prize'

Answer: Brain


Question: 'Cheer "for Hollywood"'

Answer: Hooray


Question: 'On Dec. 8, 1992 a U.S. federal judge in Miami ruled this Panamanian a prisoner of war'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'Foxglove is an example of this type of plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years'

Answer: Biennial


Question: 'Norman Mailer's novel "Ancient Evenings" is set in this ancient country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'He's appeared on 5 of TV Guide's 14 Star Trek covers'

Answer: William Shatner


Question: 'In 1858 he published the first edition of his "Anatomy" book; it's still a medical standard'

Answer: Gray


Question: 'Any Indianan'

Answer: Hoosier


Question: 'His father, John, like his creation Mr. Pickwick, served time in debtor's prison'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'After the sun & moon, this planet is the brightest object in the sky'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'A diamond hunt turns deadly when the expedition meets killer gorillas in this Michael Crichton novel'

Answer: "Congo"


Question: 'Tim Russ' character of Tuvok on "Voyager" is a full-blooded one of these pointy-eared aliens'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'We wonder if Polish physician Ludwik Zamenhof wrote prescriptions in this language he invented in 1887'

Answer: Esperanto


Question: 'They're found below the fetlocks'

Answer: Hooves


Question: 'In 1519 this leader of the Aztecs was taken prisoner without resistance'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: 'The pH in pH scale stands for the "potential of " this element'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'In an 1891 novel Basil Hallward is the painter of this man's mysterious portrait'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'Star Fleet is the exploratory branch of this organization of planets'

Answer: The Federation


Question: 'The University of Minnesota's graduate school of medicine is named for this family'

Answer: Mayo


Question: 'Popular in the 1860s, crinolines were a type of this womens' fashion'

Answer: Hoop Skirts


Question: 'Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of this country, was imprisoned in France from 1956-1962'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'In geometry it's a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, it's the smallest wrist bone'

Answer: Trapezoid


Question: 'In 1995 this author of "The Prince of Tides" published the bestseller "Beach Music"'

Answer: Pat Conroy


Question: 'This "Next Generation" Klingon joined the "Deep Space Nine" crew in 1995'

Answer: Lt. Worf


Question: 'In 1943 Dr. Willem Kolff was the first to use an artificial one of these organs on humans'

Answer: Kidneys


Question: 'Southern U.S. magic'

Answer: Hoodoo


Question: 'He wrote what would become "Soul on Ice" while incarcerated in Folsom Prison'

Answer: Eldridge Cleaver


Question: 'This Civil War general admired for his side-whiskers served as governor of Rhode Island from 1866-69'

Answer: Ambrose Burnside


Question: 'The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau'

Answer: Figaro


Question: 'This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley & is bordered by mountains & the Sonoran desert'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'An estimated record crowd of 800,000 attended a 1986 classical music concert in this NYC park'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas'

Answer: Attila


Question: 'Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city'

Answer: London


Question: 'Robert Gray discovered this river that forms much of the border between Washington & Oregon'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo"'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'This state's largest desert basins are Jornada del Muerto & Tularosa, where White Sands is'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'The lowest settlement in the world is Israel's Ein Bokek on the shore of this sea'

Answer: Dead Sea


Question: 'In 1971 this country's constitution set up 3 cultural regions:  Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'He painted the first 5 men to succeed Washington as president but is more famous for his 3 of George'

Answer: Gilbert Stuart


Question: 'Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory'

Answer: "Carmen"


Question: 'Chappaquiddick Island & this larger island are separated by Katama Bay'

Answer: Martha\'s Vineyard


Question: 'This French leader was the target of a record 31 unsuccessful assassination plots'

Answer: Charles De Gaulle


Question: 'In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot'

Answer: Lawrence


Question: '"Diana", a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo'

Answer: "Two Gentlemen of Verona"


Question: 'The play "LIttle Johnny Jones" introduced his "Give My Regards to Broadway"'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester'

Answer: "Rigoletto"


Question: 'The easternmost point of this state's Outer Banks is on Cape Hatteras National Seashore'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'The world's largest known invertebrate is the giant species of this cephalopod'

Answer: Giant Squid


Question: 'From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia'

Answer: Victor Emmanuel


Question: 'It's believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this "Utopia" author'

Answer: St. Thomas More


Question: 'Leonard Woodcock, who succeeded Walter Reuther as head of this union, was born in Providence'

Answer: United Auto Workers


Question: 'Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera'

Answer: "Fidelio"


Question: 'Rising 33,480 feet from its underwater base makes this Hawaiian volcano the world's tallest peak'

Answer: Mauna Kea


Question: 'The shortest-reigning king was Dom Luis III, king of this country for about 20 minutes in 1908'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river'

Answer: Niger


Question: 'Shakespeare's theatrical company became known as The King's Men in honor of this king's patronage'

Answer: James I


Question: 'He wrote, "Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures, above all brother sun"'

Answer: St. Francis of Assisi


Question: 'In the 19th century French choreographer Charles Didelot headed this Russian city's ballet company'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'One partner may have "fear of" this type of closeness, from Latin for "a close friend"'

Answer: Intimacy


Question: 'This travel organization rates lodgings from 1 diamond (modest) to 5 diamonds (world class)'

Answer: AAA


Question: 'Joan of Arc,<br />1431'

Answer: Burning at the stake


Question: 'Her final answer?: On Feb. 29, 2000 she announced she's leaving Regis & her TV show to spread her "creative wings"'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'A native New Englander, a Union soldier or Derek Jeter'

Answer: Yankee


Question: 'Eero Saarinen designed its famous arch'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'Couples shouldn't play this, the rhyming name of an MTV show about "When Love Goes Wrong"'

Answer: The Blame Game


Question: 'Their heat is rated in Scoville units, with the jalapeno at about 10,000 & the habanero at about 300,000'

Answer: Chili peppers


Question: 'Julius & Ethel Rosenberg,<br />1953'

Answer: Electric chair


Question: 'For the November 1999 opening of his Notting Hill bookstore, owner Robie Uniacke had this actor friend clerk for a day'

Answer: Hugh Grant


Question: 'Wham-O makes one of these for dogs with a softer plastic that's easy to bite into'

Answer: Frisbee


Question: 'This island is called St. Kitts for short'

Answer: St. Christopher


Question: '(Dr. Joyce Brothers speaking)  This is what you're really fighting about -- it's "the root of" most quarrels throughout marriage'

Answer: Money


Question: 'The Entertainment Software Rating Board's categories include T for Teen, M for Mature & AO for this'

Answer: Adults Only


Question: 'Charlotte Corday,<br />1793'

Answer: Guillotine


Question: 'Using a pack mule, David Jones delivers mail to Supai Village at the bottom of this landmark'

Answer: Grand Canyon


Question: 'Traditionally, at a theatre, it's where you see the stars' names up in lights'

Answer: Marquee


Question: 'Careful, this dragon-slaying capital of Grenada is a possessive'

Answer: St. George\'s


Question: 'Gordon Clanton calls it a reaction to a perceived threat to a relationship; it's also a green-eyed monster'

Answer: Jealousy


Question: 'In 1968 this man "& Associates" started a company to rate car owner satisfaction'

Answer: J.D. Power


Question: 'British officer John Andre,<br />1780'

Answer: Hanging


Question: '(Hi, I'm Patrika Darbo of "Days of our Lives")  In a 1994 TV movie I played this domestic goddess comedienne turned sitcom star'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: 'One may be steering, standing or just plain special'

Answer: Committee


Question: 'In 1754 the Royal and Ancient Golf Club was founded in this burgh'

Answer: St. Andrews


Question: 'You may test the marital waters as what the Census Bureau calls POSSLQ, persons of the opposite sex sharing these'

Answer: Living quarters


Question: 'Since 1991 the Billboard charts have used this computerized system to track sales'

Answer: SoundScan


Question: 'Emperor Maximilian,<br />1867'

Answer: Firing squad


Question: 'This '70s diet doc returned to the weight-loss forefront with his 1999 "New Diet Revolution"'

Answer: Robert Atkins


Question: 'It's the basic monetary unit needed to dine in a Delhi-catessen'

Answer: Rupee


Question: 'This "Bloody" 16th C. English queen made a disastrous marriage to future armada sender Philip II'

Answer: Mary I ("Bloody Mary")


Question: 'The first 4 Super Bowls matched up the champions of these 2 leagues'

Answer: AFL & NFL


Question: 'When "Gone With the Wind" begins, Gerald O'Hara is the master of this plantation'

Answer: Tara


Question:
'Tiger swallowtail,
Queen Alexandra's birdwing,
great purple hairstreak'

Answer: Butterflies


Question: 'This company invites passengers to "Leave the Driving to Us"'

Answer: Greyhound


Question: 'Dancing in Havana, Lou Bega may try mambo numero cinco, this number'

Answer: 5


Question: 'The movement to reform Communist Czechoslovakia in early 1968 was known as this city's "spring"'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'Founded in 1876, it's baseball's "Senior Circuit"'

Answer: National League


Question: 'In a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, the old Pyncheon-House is otherwise known by this title name'

Answer: "The House of the Seven Gables"


Question:
'Green tree,
leopard,
bull'

Answer: Frogs


Question: '(Hi, I'm Vanna White; I'm here at Bill Blass in New York City)  Bill Blass has designed everything from clothes & linens to Continentals for this automaker'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'Number of hills a Roman has covered if he's roamed over sette'

Answer: 7


Question: 'Enosis isn't a disease, but the historic desire of people on this 3500-square-mile island for union with Greece'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'The Detroit Loves sound like a Motown soul group, but in the '70s they were part of World Team this'

Answer: Tennis


Question: 'A.A. Milne's theatrical adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" is called "Toad of" this residence'

Answer: Toad Hall


Question:
'Jersey,
red poll,
brahma'

Answer: Cattle/bulls


Question: 'A tandem can be a carriage, or one of these upon whose seat you'd look sweet'

Answer: Bicycle built for two


Question: 'Split a check in the Czech Republic between dva people & each pays this percent'

Answer: 50% (2 people)


Question: '9th century Breton hero Nomenoe rebelled against this dynasty named for Charlemagne'

Answer: Carolingian


Question: 'In this sport's major league, the Dallas Burn & Chicago Fire vie for the Alan I. Rothenberg Trophy'

Answer: Soccer


Question: 'Gothic novel fan Catherine Morland imagines fearful mysteries at Northanger Abbey in a novel by this author'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question:
'Dog,
gold,
lung'

Answer: Fish


Question: '1 of 2 airlines that offer service on the Concorde'

Answer: Air France or British Airways


Question: 'In Copenhagen, it's how many Danish pastries you have left from a dozen if you ate otte'

Answer: 4 (you ate eight)


Question: 'The troops of Catholic king James II were defeated at this July 11, 1690 battle in Ireland'

Answer: Battle of the Boyne


Question: 'Before the NBA discovered Mario Elie, he spent 2 seasons with the Albany Patroons of this association'

Answer: CBA (Continental Basketball Association)


Question: 'The menacing Mrs. Danvers strives to keep the memory of Rebecca alive in this mansion'

Answer: Manderley


Question:
'Hampshire,
Poland China,
spotted'

Answer: Pigs/hogs


Question: 'The Conestoga wagon originated in this colony during the early 1700s'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Ja, it's the German for the square root of neun'

Answer: Drei


Question: 'At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'This independent agency of the U.S. government is concerned with providing clean drinking water to all Americans'

Answer: the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)


Question: 'This Ohio team won its last World Series to date; perhaps it's the curse of Babe Klieman, whom they traded away'

Answer: the Indians


Question: 'In 1959 this company made the first automatic, plain-paper copier:<br />"X" is for...'

Answer: Xerox


Question: 'In April 2008 he became only the second pope to visit the White House'

Answer: Benedict (XVI)


Question: 'Anejo enchilado'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'A ghost sighted at a Malaysian high school in 2002 had this odd distinction, like a Washington Irving horseman'

Answer: headless


Question: 'This element provides about 89% of the weight of a water molecule'

Answer: oxygen


Question:
'(I'm Olympic champion
Misty May-Treanor.)  In 1948 this sport held its first tournament with a prize--it was a case of Pepsi, & I'm glad we do a bit better than that today'

Answer: beach volleyball


Question:
'Truthful or creditable--
it also describes our beloved Abe:
"H" is for...'

Answer: honest


Question: 'This pope was born in Wadowice'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: 'Monte Veronese'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The ghost of a woman in a hat seen at Ky.'s Seelbach Hilton 'til these objects she was reflected in were removed'

Answer: a mirror


Question: 'This company's bottled water comes from a spring in the Gard district in Vergeze, France'

Answer: Perrier


Question: 'Kentucky's "Fabulous Five" captured the NCAA title in this sport'

Answer: college basketball


Question: 'To work dough into a uniform mixture by pressing:<br />"K" is for...'

Answer: knead


Question: 'There's no guilt in knowing the XIII & last pope with this name reigned from 1721 to 1724'

Answer: Innocent


Question: 'Leerdammer'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'Dame Margaret Rutherford saw the ghost of theatre manager John Buckstone in this city's Haymarket Theatre'

Answer: London


Question: 'The American Dental Association is all for this process, practiced by cities since 1945'

Answer: fluoridation


Question: 'With fans eager to watch Doak Walker play, SMU moved its home games to this venue, "The House That Doak Built"'

Answer: the Cotton Bowl


Question: 'A written prose speech in honor of a deceased person:<br />"E" is for...'

Answer: eulogy


Question: 'On Christmas 800 the III pope of this name "lionized" Charlemagne by crowning him emperor of the Romans'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'Lubelski'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'This title character of a musical sometimes signs notes with the initials O.G., for "Opera Ghost"'

Answer: the Phantom of the Opera


Question: 'An underground layer of rock or soil that holds groundwater; the Ogallala one lies under almost all of Nebraska'

Answer: an aquifer


Question: 'In 1948 this unheralded Mexican American won the U.S. men's singles tennis title at Forest Hills'

Answer: Pancho Gonzales


Question:
'Pleasant-sounding type of rock
seen here:
"G" is for...'

Answer: gneiss


Question: 'One of the 2 popes who reigned during the 1960s'

Answer: Paul VI (or John XXIII)


Question: 'Kasseri'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'A "Gray Lady" who can be heard walking through rooms haunts Sherwood Forest, the Va. home of this 10th president'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'This collection had a follow-up, "The New Spoon River"'

Answer: Spoon River Anthology


Question: 'Angels talking about George Bailey / I can't stand to watch that Mr. Potter / An angel gets his wings'

Answer: It\'s a Wonderful Life


Question: '(I'm CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien.)  Barack Obama can claim favorite son status all over the country; born in Hawaii, he went to college in New York & then moved to this state as a community organizer'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Located on a tributary of the Yarlung Zango River, this city is at an altitude of almost 12,000 feet'

Answer: Lhasa


Question: 'He died in 1965'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'Carl Sagan pioneered & promoted SETI, the search for this kind of intelligence'

Answer: extraterrestrial


Question: 'In Arabic "rubai'i" refers to a type of 4-line verse, & this is a book of them, like Omar Khayyam's'

Answer: a rubaiyat


Question: 'Josh Brolin took the money / Wait, this is the end? Where'd Josh Brolin go?'

Answer: No Country for Old Men


Question: 'In music, it's the lowest tone of a scale; in politics it's a rousing convention speech'

Answer: a keynote


Question: 'In the 8th c. the scholar & mystic Padmasambhava fashioned the Tibetan variety of this faith'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'He became a lawyer in London in 1891'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'One who implements a will'

Answer: an executor


Question: 'In 1923 he published the collection "New Hampshire"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Just wanted to see Jack Lemmon strain spaghetti through his tennis racket /'

Answer: The Apartment


Question: '(I'm Campbell Brown, CNN.)  One of John McCain's weapons in appealing to a younger demographic is this type of Internet diary kept by his daughter Meghan'

Answer: a blog


Question: 'Asia's mightiest rivers begin in Tibet, including the Yangtze & this river that flows through Vietnam'

Answer: the Mekong


Question: 'He won a Nobel Prize'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'Trekkies might know that F-14A Tomcats were first assigned to this aircraft carrier in 1974'

Answer: the Enterprise


Question: '"The Lamb" & "The Shepherd" are found in these William Blake "songs" from 1789'

Answer: Songs of Innocence


Question: 'Robert Walker can't be serious about the plan he's proposing to Farley Granger, can he / Well, I guess he was'

Answer: Strangers on a Train


Question: 'Type of benefit, like Social Security, to which you have an automatic right if you meet certain criteria'

Answer: an entitlement


Question: 'Tibet borders Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, India & also this region disputed between India & Pakistan'

Answer: Kashmir


Question: 'He never was the political head of his home country'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'Born in Norway, he patented the first practical outboard motor for boats'

Answer: (Ole) Evinrude


Question: 'Critic Hippolyte Babou suggested the title of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal", which translates as this'

Answer: The Flowers of Evil


Question: 'Nick Nolte / Sunken treasure, bla bla / Aha, there's Jacqueline Bisset underwater'

Answer: The Deep


Question: '(I'm Candy Crowley, senior political correspondent.)  A political cartoon depicting redistricting in Massachusetts gave us this term for a practice that's still around today'

Answer: gerrymandering


Question: 'After the Dalai Lama fled in 1959, this lama became titular spiritual leader of Tibet'

Answer: the Panchen Lama


Question: 'He married his distant cousin'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'The mouthpiece of a wind instrument'

Answer: embouchure


Question: 'It's the largest nation in area where all cars legally drive on the left'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'It's an important first step in a craniotomy, even if the patient doesn't want the Vin Diesel look'

Answer: shaving the head


Question: 'Alan Eagleson was Bobby Orr's agent before founding this league's player's association'

Answer: National Hockey League


Question: 'His famous "I Have a Dream" speech ends, "Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"'

Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'Leonardo DiCaprio will sketch you in the nude to emulate this 1997 film'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'This Asian carnivore is the largest member of the cat family & the only big cat with striped fur'

Answer: tiger


Question: 'Tree surgeons use the chain type of this; brain surgeons use the gigli type'

Answer: saw


Question: 'Miller Huggins, "The Mighty Mite", managed this 1920s baseball team called "Murderers' Row"'

Answer: New York Yankees


Question: 'Patrick Henry said, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me" this "or give me death!"'

Answer: liberty


Question: 'This sparkling French mineral water that comes in a green bottle is named for a doctor from Nimes'

Answer: Perrier


Question: 'Uh-oh!  You might want to go on this diet program promoted by Fergie'

Answer: Weight Watchers


Question: 'Proverbially, this type of inquisitiveness is what "killed the cat"'

Answer: curiosity


Question: 'Agent Leigh Steinberg wrote "Winning with Integrity" & was a model for this Tom Cruise character'

Answer: Jerry Maguire


Question: 'The Declaration of Independence says one of our rights is the "pursuit of" this'

Answer: happiness


Question: 'Called a "fitness water" because vitamins are added to it, Propel is from the makers of this sports drink'

Answer: Gatorade


Question: 'We'll film your scene on this kind of "set" that has a minimal crew -- no gawkers allowed'

Answer: closed set


Question: 'He's the long-time MGM superstar seen here'

Answer: Tom


Question: 'Pituitary surgery may be done by going in through this, the same way patients may have to pay the surgeon'

Answer: through the nose


Question: 'In May 1961 he vowed to land a man on the moon & return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'The natural rock formation in the California mountains seen here gave this water brand its name & "points" to its stream'

Answer: Arrowhead


Question: 'The camera won't reveal too much when you play this Egyptian queen: you'll be up to your "asp" in a milk bath'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Except for the cheetah, all cats can retract these'

Answer: claws


Question: 'The first of FDR's "Four Freedoms" was freedom of this "and expression"'

Answer: speech


Question: 'Some fans may watch your nude scene with their "Eyes" this (as in the title of a Stanley Kubrick film)'

Answer: Eyes Wide Shut


Question: 'One of the very few curly-haired varieties of cat, the Cornish Rex was developed in this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'This car company once used characters from the comic strip Peanuts in commercials for its Falcon'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'In 1975 the fall of Saigon ended the war in this country'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: '"Memento" & "Irreversible" share this unusual storytelling technique'

Answer: reverse/backwards


Question: 'In this play Emilia tells Iago & Desdemona, "The moor's abused by some most villainous knave"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'This star of "Sex and the City" is Mrs. Matthew Broderick'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'He's hanging out in the woods with a bunch of guys in tights; says they're his "Merry Men" -- He thinks he's...'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'In June of 1752, this man famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm as part of an electricity experiment'

Answer: Ben Franklin


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Kauai, Hawaii)  Hawaiian jungles stood in for African jungles when this 2003 Bruce Willis movie was filmed'

Answer: Tears of the Sun


Question: 'Later a title character, this cruel king made his 1st appearance in a Shakespeare play in "Henry VI, Part 2"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Country of birth of the famed beauty seen here'

Answer: Sweden (Ingrid Bergman)


Question: 'He never goes anywhere without a mask & cape (Hey!  Stop cutting "Z"s into my sofa!) He thinks he's...'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'First name of the famous nursing pioneer known as "The Lady with the Lamp"'

Answer: Florence (Nightingale)


Question: 'It's the largest country in the Caribbean & it's only about 90 miles south of Florida'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'As a Manhattan mom named Meg, this actress gets a bit panicky in "Panic Room"'

Answer: Jodie Foster


Question: 'Alas, this deceased court jester in "Hamlet" was "A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"'

Answer: Yorick


Question: 'Michael Mann, the director of "The Insider", called this actor "A young Marlon Brando"'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'If he shoots an apple off my head, I'll tell him he doesn't have the legs for lederhosen!  He thinks he's...'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'Don't slip as you name this Austrian doctor who founded the therapeutic method of psychoanalysis'

Answer: (Sigmund) Freud


Question: 'This Robert Altman film set in a manor was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar'

Answer: Gosford Park


Question: 'Disguised as a lawyer, she saves Antonio from the revenge of Shylock'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'Paulette Goddard nearly got this coveted 1939 role & was even given Southern accent lessons'

Answer: Scarlett O\'Hara


Question: 'He's flouncing around in a 3'-high wig, screaming "Let them eat cake!"  (He's really lost his head!) He thinks he's...'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'This Spanish king married Queen Isabella in 1469 & sent Columbus off to America in 1492'

Answer: Ferdinand


Question: 'It stars Robin Williams as a psychotic nebbish obsessed with a suburban family'

Answer: One Hour Photo


Question: 'He was the fairy king; Titania was his queen'

Answer: Oberon


Question: 'In the 1930s several stars had this last name: Dick sang, Eleanor danced & William detected'

Answer: Powell


Question: 'He keeps writing gloomy poetry & muttering about some girl named Annabel Lee; yep, he's really "Raven" -- He thinks he's...'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'This phrase meaning "discuss the most important matter" dates back to 1920s movie editing'

Answer: cut to the chase


Question: 'They're the 4 words following Neil Armstrong's historic "Houston, Tranquility Base here..."'

Answer: the Eagle has landed


Question: '3M:<br />We'll only need one M, though'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'G'

Answer: gamma


Question: '2-word term for an oil well that doesn't yield any oil'

Answer: a dry hole


Question: 'To prevent the bovine inflammation known as mastitis, practice good hygiene when doing this to your cows'

Answer: milking


Question: 'It's Batman's secret lair beneath Wayne Manor'

Answer: the Batcave


Question: 'In 1966 he angered a lot of people when he said, "We're more popular than Jesus now"'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'Ben & Jerry's:<br />May I suggest the flavor "Jeopar-Delight!"?'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'K'

Answer: kappa


Question: 'To change its pitch, there is a series of these on any woodwind instrument'

Answer: finger holes


Question: 'The 600-pound cow made by Sarah Pratt each year for the Iowa state fair is made from this dairy product'

Answer: butter


Question: 'His butler & confidante'

Answer: Alfred


Question: 'Referring to these riots in 1965, governor Pat Brown said, "Why, this is the worst disaster since my election"'

Answer: the Watts Riots


Question: 'Kellogg's:<br />You read the side of the box a million times, now it pays off'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'M'

Answer: mu


Question: 'A collapsed cavity in the ground caused by water erosion'

Answer: a sinkhole


Question: 'This sign of the zodiac is represented by a bovine'

Answer: Taurus


Question: 'This actor was the Batman in "The Dark Knight"'

Answer: Christian Bale


Question: 'In 1967 he told his daughter, "Your daddy may go down in history as having started World War III"'

Answer: (Lyndon) Johnson


Question: 'Microsoft:<br />They don't own the state... yet'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'R'

Answer: rho


Question: 'This nearly inaccessible canyon in Wyoming was one of Butch Cassidy & his gang's main hideouts'

Answer: the Hole in the Wall


Question: 'A young & calfless cow is known as one of these'

Answer: a heifer


Question: 'On the TV series, the line that ended each episode was "Tune in tomorrow, same bat time, same" this'

Answer: bat channel


Question: '"Viva la huelga" (long live the strike) was the slogan of his United Farm Workers'

Answer: César Chávez


Question: 'DuPont:<br />I just wanna say one word to you--plastics'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'F'

Answer: phi