Question: 'After Lake Superior, this African lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'RHYME TIME:<br />Roald Dahl candy man's toy trucks'

Answer: Wonka\'s Tonkas


Question: 'Columnist Anna Quindlen wrote "A Short Guide to" one of these'

Answer: a Happy Life


Question: 'English: a newspaper story you saved;<br />football: blocking below the waist from behind'

Answer: clipping


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew accesses a video of Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba diving on the Jeopardy! web site from her laptop.)  A synonym for "flowing", it's the type of video you can watch when you visit us at jeopardy.com'

Answer: streaming


Question: 'For collectors & investors, this country mints a maple leaf coin in gold & silver'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'BEFORE & AFTER:<br />Popular "holy" expression about work week's end joins Jason in a 1980 horror movie'

Answer: Thank God it\'s Friday the 13th


Question: 'Hunter S. Thompson found fear and loathing "in Las Vegas" & "on" this "Trail" in the title of a 1973 book'

Answer: the Campaign Trail


Question: 'English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son;<br />basketball: the opposite of zone'

Answer: man-to-man


Question: 'This popular Internet service provider began as QCS, Quantum Computer Services'

Answer: AOL (America Online)


Question: 'The Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery are the ships depicted on this state's quarter'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand'

Answer: the Tasman Sea


Question: '14-LETTER WORDS:<br />Secondary or incidental, it often precedes "evidence" in law'

Answer: circumstantial


Question: 'Grammar is hot!  This bestseller is Lynne Truss' "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"'

Answer: Eats, Shoots & Leaves


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the slopes of Park City, Utah while a snowboarder does a stunt.)
English: the sudden seizing of something as in the power type;
snowboarding: a move where you hold your board'

Answer: a grab


Question: 'From the Old English for "clasp" & "table", it's where anything you "cut" or "copy" is stored until you "paste"'

Answer: a clipboard


Question: 'When this king married in 1938, Egypt issued a 100-piastre gold coin to commemorate the event'

Answer: King Farouk


Question: 'This longest river in Ireland nearly divides the country in two'

Answer: the Shannon


Question:
'CROSSWORD CLUES "A":
Athos' ami
(6)'

Answer: Aramis


Question: 'Augusten Burroughs put the "fun" in dysfunctional with his memoir called "Running with" these'

Answer: Scissors


Question: 'English: a small piece of candy;<br />golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake'

Answer: a drop


Question: 'It can be a hiding place for food or treasure, or a place for memory on a computer's motherboard'

Answer: a cache


Question: 'Here are the 2 new coins minted by this country in 2004'

Answer: Iraq


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tervasaari.)  Tervasaari, just off Helsinki, sits in this arm of the Baltic Sea'

Answer: the Gulf of Finland


Question: '"TOM" TERRIFIC:<br />12-letter adjective that means showing no evidence of disease'

Answer: asymptomatic


Question: 'Steven Jay Gould said this animal's "thumb" is an enlarged wrist bone that lets it strip bamboo shoots'

Answer: a panda


Question: 'He got himself into "Lifeboat" as the before & after in newspaper ads for Reduco the Obesity Slayer'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'This Louis known as "the Well-Beloved" lived up to his name by romancing all 5 of the Nesle sisters'

Answer: Louis XV


Question:
'Heard here, he was the youngest of the 3 singers who perished in a February 1959 plane crash

"Para bailar la bamba /
Para bailar la bamba..."'

Answer: Ritchie Valens


Question: 'Either of the 2 composers who in 1897 based an opera on Henri Murger's novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"'

Answer: Puccini (or Leoncavallo)


Question: 'This story says "then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully"'

Answer: "The Ugly Duckling"


Question: 'This serpent devourer was introduced into Jamaica to kill rats--didn't work; the rats simply climbed into trees'

Answer: the mongoose


Question: 'In his last role filmed on U.S. soil, this man slit Jack Nicholson's nose in "Chinatown"'

Answer: Roman Polanski


Question: 'Johann Struensee, physician to this country's King Christian VII, was executed for romancing the queen'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Of this athlete, Pres. Clinton said, "We were dazzled by her speed, humbled by her talent & captivated by her style"'

Answer: Florence Griffith Joyner ("FloJo")


Question: 'With Brahms' help, this composer's "Moravian Duets"  & "Slavonic Dances" brought attention to Czech music'

Answer: Dvorák


Question: 'In 1933 FDR espoused this policy in which the U.S. "respects the rights of others"'

Answer: the Good Neighbor Policy


Question: 'This animal's 3-letter name is derived from an African word for "black", referring to the black wildebeest'

Answer: the gnu


Question: 'You'll find Jim Lovell as the captain of the Iwo Jima in this 1995 flick'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'He may have sired several of Lady Castlemaine's children; no wonder he was "The Merry Monarch"'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'In 1995, 33-year-old Alison Hargreaves conquered Mount Everest, only to perish months later on this 2nd-highest mountain'

Answer: K2


Question: 'Josef Suk arranged a meditation on an old carol about this Bohemian "King", the Czech patron saint'

Answer: Wenceslas ("Wen\'slas" accepted)


Question: 'This national park is about 30 miles north of Wounded Knee'

Answer: Badlands


Question: 'There are African, Japanese & fat species of this rodent that may hibernate half the year'

Answer: the dormouse


Question: 'Appropriately, she is the host at the past lives pavilion in Albert Brooks' 1991 film "Defending Your Life"'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: 'This Parisian actress born in 1844 counted Victor Hugo & the future Edward VII among her lovers'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'Michael Jackson's song "Gone Too Soon" was a tribute to this Indiana teen who died of AIDS in 1990'

Answer: Ryan White


Question: 'In this Smetana opera, Kecal the marriage broker tries to bribe Jenik to give up his true love'

Answer: The Bartered Bride


Question: 'A mischievous sprite in English folklore also called Puck'

Answer: Robin Goodfellow


Question: 'Canada has made this arctic bovine a protected species'

Answer: the musk ox


Question: 'This comic's cameo in 1985's "Spies Like Us" involved him playing golf in a tent & was his last movie role'

Answer: Bob Hope


Question: 'Robert Devereux, the Earl of this, succeeded his stepfather the Earl of Leicester as Elizabeth I's "favorite"'

Answer: Essex


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.)  The Oval Office was a place of sorrow when President Kennedy heard of the death of this Congolese leader in early 1961'

Answer: (Patrice) Lumumba


Question: 'Also a Yul Brynner film, this Janacek piece came from a Gogol tale of a Cossack who revolts against the Poles'

Answer: Taras Bulba


Question: 'This hyphenated Black Forest town has hot springs that the Romans built 2,000 years ago'

Answer: Baden-Baden


Question: 'The name of this monster is from the Greek for "she-goat"'

Answer: the Chimera


Question: 'This no-nonsense first lady admitted that her trademark pearls are fake'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'Numerical "Force" "from Navarone" that Harrison Ford was part of, or Bo Derek's No. in a 1979 film'

Answer: 10


Question: 'In 1990 Doug Drabek became the first Pittsburgh Pirate since Vern Law in 1960 to win this pitching award'

Answer: the Cy Young Award


Question: 'Term for a type of triangle with three equal sides'

Answer: equilateral


Question: 'You should whip this ingredient before you top your Chantilly potatoes with it'

Answer: cream


Question: 'Both NYC & Philadelphia claim the oldest of these in the U.S.'

Answer: zoo


Question: 'She had 4 sons but only the oldest, Robert, lived to adulthood'

Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'This Nicholson was a Joker'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'Cartoonist Bill Watterson won a Reuben Award for this comic strip about a boy & his tiger'

Answer: Calvin & Hobbes


Question: 'For this operation, most people use the borrow method'

Answer: subtraction


Question: 'A classic plum pudding contains this kind of fat'

Answer: suet


Question: 'In the old standard song, "The strings of my heart" went this way'

Answer: zing


Question: 'Zasu Pitts got this first lady her first professional role in a play'

Answer: Nancy Reagan


Question: 'If you want to see a butterfly that's prissy, check out this butterfly in "Gone with the Wind"'

Answer: Butterfly McQueen


Question: 'In 1975 Sen. Proxmire originated this award to publicize wasteful gov't spending'

Answer: the Golden Fleece Award


Question: 'After multiplying these you should reduce the product if possible'

Answer: fractions


Question: 'A type of shell that holds creamed meat dishes, or a nickname for Patricia'

Answer: patty


Question: 'Johnston McCulley's novel "The Curse of Capistrano" gave us this character a.k.a. Don Diego'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill'

Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'As Cody Allen on TV, this Perry lived on the boat "Riptide"'

Answer: Perry King


Question: 'Named for magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback, the Hugo Award honors this literary genre'

Answer: science fiction


Question: 'The name "geometry" comes from two Greek words meaning this'

Answer: Earth & measure


Question: 'If you want to be veddy British, sprinkle your fish & chips with the malt type of this'

Answer: vinegar


Question: 'The Tom Wilson comic character who has his own line of greeting cards'

Answer: Ziggy


Question: 'The only first lady whose given name was Claudia'

Answer: Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird Johnson)


Question: 'On the PBS anthology series "Mystery!", Sam Neill played Reilly, who was this "of Spies"'

Answer: Ace


Question: 'The Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater are sponsored by this weekly New York paper'

Answer: the Village Voice


Question: 'It's a quarter of a circle or one of four divisions of a plane'

Answer: a quadrant


Question: 'A genoise is a butter-rich one of these'

Answer: a sponge cake


Question: 'Ahura Mazda is not a model of car, but the 1 true god of this religion'

Answer: Zoroastrianism


Question: 'The games featuring these fighters began in the 3rd Cent. B.C. as part of funeral ceremonies'

Answer: the gladiators


Question: 'The short story writer Saki was killed in action in this war in 1916'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'The name for this sea comes from the Latin for "in the middle of land"'

Answer: Mediterranean


Question: 'This Russian word is from the Greek for "sailor of the universe"'

Answer: cosmonaut


Question: '"The Starry Night"'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river'

Answer: the Tiber


Question: 'Scotsman who published "The Betrothed" & "The Talisman" together as "Tales of the Crusaders"'

Answer: (Sir Walter) Scott


Question: 'A combine is a combination harvester & this machine that separates seed from straw'

Answer: thresher


Question: 'The Tasman sea separates Australia & this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'On March 23, 1965 Gus Grissom & John Young became the 1st pair to orbit in this new space project'

Answer: Gemini


Question: '"2 Tahitian Women"'

Answer: Gauguin


Question: 'He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'Wilkie Collins wrote a novel about a mysterious "Woman in" this color who lived in an asylum'

Answer: white


Question: 'The largest farms, some over 60,000 acres, are the state farms in this country'

Answer: the Soviet Union


Question: 'It's New Mexico's largest & longest river'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: 'While Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin explored the moon, he orbited about 70 miles above'

Answer: (Michael) Collins


Question: '"Luncheon on the Grass"'

Answer: Eduouard Manet


Question: 'The 2 men in this post were responsible for counting the Romans & controlling moral conduct'

Answer: the censors


Question: 'Ole E. Rolvaag wrote "Giants in the Earth" in this language; it was then translated into English'

Answer: Norwegian


Question: 'Of the top 3 grains grown in the world, the U.S. is first in the production of this one'

Answer: corn


Question: 'The name of this river which empties into the Bay of Bengal means "the son of Brahma"'

Answer: the Brahmaputra


Question: 'It's the only planet not yet encountered by a space probe'

Answer: Pluto


Question: '"View of Toledo"'

Answer: El Greco


Question: 'It's believed the Romans turned against the ruling Etruscans after Sextus Tarquinius raped her'

Answer: Lucretia


Question: 'Completes the title of Olive Ann Burns' novel "Cold Sassy..."'

Answer: Tree


Question: 'Connecticut is bordered on the south by this arm of the Atlantic'

Answer: Long Island Sound


Question: 'The European Space Agency designed this 3-stage rocket to launch its payloads'

Answer: the Ariane


Question: '"The Dance Class"'

Answer: Degas


Question: 'This country's national anthem is "William of Nassau"'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'He judges Britain's "The X Factor" as well--& he's just as snippy'

Answer: Simon Cowell


Question: 'A tree tour at this university's Seattle campus honors the memory of tree-loving Professor C. Frank Brockman'

Answer: the University of Washington


Question: 'Day job of Michael Bloomberg & Antonio Villaraigosa'

Answer: a mayor


Question: 'This type of "mom" drives her kids around in an SUV to their sporting activities--one sport in particular'

Answer: a soccer mom


Question: 'These old soldiers don't just fade away--there's a U.S. House standing committee on their affairs'

Answer: veterans


Question: 'A pop song might say, "Hit Me Baby Encore Une Fois"--the last 3 words meaning this'

Answer: "One More Time"


Question: 'In 2007 she made her mark on the music charts with "Tattoo" from her debut album'

Answer: Jordin Sparks


Question: 'This U.S. university's Manoa campus is renowned for is Asian Theatre program'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'For a ballet or a Broadway show, this person creates & arranges the dances'

Answer: a choreographer


Question: 'Mom's traditional warning, about getting these if you swim right after eating, only applies to a big meal & long swim'

Answer: cramps


Question: 'This Cabinet department was created in 1977, 4 years after the Arab oil embargo'

Answer: Energy


Question: 'If you're having problems with a response, you could say "Je ne sais pas", which means this'

Answer: I don\'t know


Question: 'Celebrity mentors on the show have included Diana Ross & this new mom of twins who helped with a Latin theme night'

Answer: Jennifer Lopez ("J.Lo")


Question: 'What was once called the Univ. of the Orange Free State is now the University of the Free State in this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Lord, it's the occupation mentioned in the first line of the 23rd psalm'

Answer: shepherd


Question: 'Dictionaries don't have a word for the study of mothers, but mariology is the study of his mother'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'There's a person called the "Architect of" this structure; he also maintains the Library of Congress building'

Answer: the Capitol


Question: 'Il est le père de ma cousine'

Answer: my uncle (mon oncle)


Question: 'Gladys Knight nicknamed this Season 2 winner "The Velvet Teddy Bear" for his smooth crooning'

Answer: Ruben (Studdard)


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Sather Gate at the University of California-Berkeley.) The motto of UC Berkeley is "Fiat Lux", Latin for this command that's also found in Genesis'

Answer: "Let there be light"


Question: 'From the Greek for "to steer", it's a female employed in a home to teach children'

Answer: a governess


Question: 'A mom who pushes her child into the performing arts is called this type of mother, a synonym for "theater"'

Answer: a stage mother


Question: 'This program takes up more than half of the HHS budget--& the Baby Boomers aren't getting younger'

Answer: Medicare


Question: 'An English translation of "D'accord" could be these 2 letters'

Answer: OK


Question: 'On Season 6, his 15 minutes of fame included a host of hairdos, & he even inspired an "SNL" sketch'

Answer: Sanjaya


Question: 'The University of this island state boasts one of the southernmost college campuses in Australia'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: 'A chandler is someone who makes these illuminating items'

Answer: candles


Question: 'This 19th century woman was mom to Clara, William & Percy--&, metaphorically, to a monster'

Answer: Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley


Question: 'In 2008 this body jumped into the credit crisis with a $200 billion lending program for investment banks'

Answer: the Federal Reserve


Question: 'Someone who asks you "Parlez-vous Allemand?" wants to know if you speak this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'This one-time reception center for immigrants is less than 1/2 mile north of the Statue of Liberty'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.) When the glass is pushed into the water, molecules of this don't escape, but are pressed together and act as a shield between the water and the paper, keeping it dry'

Answer: air


Question: 'This school's Nittany Lions play home football games at Beaver Stadium'

Answer: Penn State


Question: 'In the poem about him, "Out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats..."'

Answer: the Pied Piper of Hamelin


Question: 'This author of the novel "No Country for Old Men" got some lovin' at the Oscars in 2008'

Answer: Cormac McCarthy


Question: 'The smallest member of a litter'

Answer: the runt


Question: 'This island whose name means "faraway land" is not too far, 30 miles, from Cape Cod'

Answer: Nantucket


Question: 'The 2nd law of this covers equal distribution of resources; thus cream in coffee blends evenly even when not stirred'

Answer: thermodynamics


Question: 'The largest football stadiums using turf are those of the Wolverines & Buckeyes from these 2 schools'

Answer: Michigan & Ohio State


Question: 'This epic poem by Virgil begins when a Trojan hero & his followers are shipwrecked near Carthage'

Answer: the Aeneid


Question: 'The gal seen here is sweet on this presidential candidate'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'Leather strips that help a rider control a horse'

Answer: reins


Question: 'The memorial seen here recalls the victims of the deadly hurricane that hit this Texas island in 1900'

Answer: Galveston Island


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.) The iron wire heats up as electricity flows through it; if you shorten the wire, it melts a result of this electrical condition, an excess flow of charge'

Answer: a short circuit


Question: 'In Feb. 2008 USC agreed to lease this stadium for its home football games for another 25 years'

Answer: the (Los Angeles Memorial) Coliseum


Question: 'His 1946 poem "Fern Hill" describes the joys of visiting a family farm in Wales as a child'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'The tagline for this Emma Thompson film is "You'll learn to love her. Warts and all"'

Answer: Nanny McPhee


Question: 'It can be a type of shark or a medical professional'

Answer: a nurse


Question: 'In 1915 this island off South Carolina was designated a Marine Corps recruit depot'

Answer: Parris Island


Question: 'Part of a corkscrew is this type of simple machine reworked into a spiral form'

Answer: an inclined plane (ramp later ruled acceptable)


Question: 'The UNC basketball center is named for this coach who had 879 wins'

Answer: Dean Smith


Question: '"The Holy Grail" & "Guinevere" are among the poems contained in this Tennyson work'

Answer: Idylls of the King


Question: 'After she died in 2003, Joan Kroc left $60 million to this charitable "house"'

Answer: the Ronald McDonald House


Question: 'These alphabetic characters are seen here'

Answer: runes


Question: 'The southernmost city in the continental United States is located here, on this coral island about 100 miles from the mainland'

Answer: Key West


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.) Using a centuries-old experiment, pour water into a cup, to specifically illustrate this Newtonian law'

Answer: Newton\'s 3rd Law of Motion


Question: 'In 2003 the floor of this UCLA basketball arena was named the Nell & John Wooden Court'

Answer: the Pauley Pavilion


Question: 'One of 2 brothers of novelist & poet Laura Benet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry'

Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet or William Rose Benet


Question: 'This military man married Mary Ellen Marcy, the daughter of his former commanding officer, in 1860'

Answer: (George) McClellan


Question: 'The room in a church where sacred vessels & vestments are kept'

Answer: the vestry


Question: 'Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'England's Bloody Mary<br />(1553-1558)'

Answer: Tudor


Question: 'NCAA basketball has its Final Four; this sport, its Frozen Four'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'Completes the proverb "People who live in glass houses shouldn't..."'

Answer: throw stones


Question: 'This European capital is home to Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'Johnson & Johnson has been "stuck on" this product for 85 years'

Answer: Band-Aids


Question: 'It follows a foul in soccer'

Answer: a free kick


Question: 'Mary, Queen of Scots<br />(1542-1567)'

Answer: Stuart


Question: 'In 2002 Southern Cal quarterback Carson Palmer won this trophy; Iowa quarterback Brad Banks was second'

Answer: the Heisman Trophy


Question: 'To issue a challenge is to "throw down" this, like a medieval knight'

Answer: the gauntlet


Question: 'Population 8 million, this capital & largest city in Africa was founded by the Fatimid Dynasty around 968 A.D.'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'In 1962 the Dayton Company hit the bull's-eye when it opened the first of these discount stores'

Answer: Target


Question: 'Unconfined poultry'

Answer: free range


Question: 'France's Louis XVI<br />(1774-1792)'

Answer: Bourbon


Question: 'In 1971 UCLA's Jimmy Connors won the NCAA tennis title; in 1978 John McEnroe won for this Pac-10 "Cardinal" school'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'Too bad when Hart Crane jumped ship his father couldn't throw him this, like the same-named candy he invented'

Answer: a lifesaver


Question: 'Settled around 1824, it replaced Melbourne as the capital in 1927'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'The first brand of frozen orange juice concentrate undoubtedly took more than 60 seconds to develop'

Answer: Minute Maid


Question: 'A professional sports athlete no longer under contract & who can thus sign with another team'

Answer: a free agent


Question: 'Spain's Philip II<br />(1556-1598)'

Answer: Hapsburg


Question: 'The athletic teams from Morehead State & Boston College share this nickname'

Answer: the Eagles


Question: 'From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice'

Answer: ventriloquism (to ventriloquize accepted)


Question: 'The Nobel Museum in this capital lets visitors "see the dynamite, the mold & the books that changed the world"'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'In 2006 Research In Motion settled its patent lawsuit with NTP over this portable wireless communications device'

Answer: a BlackBerry


Question: 'Robert Frost said, "I'd as soon write" this type of poetry "as play tennis with the net down"'

Answer: free verse


Question: 'China's Wanli<br />(1572-1620)'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'This volatile Indiana basketball coach was fired in September 2000; in 2001 he returned to coaching with Texas Tech'

Answer: Bobby Knight


Question: 'In 1915 he became the first president to attend the World Series & to throw out the first pitch during a Series game'

Answer: (Woodrow) Wilson


Question: 'In 1857 Queen Victoria chose it as a North American national capital'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'Once known for its bib overalls, this 2-word Wisconsin firm is now a leader in casual clothes for kids'

Answer: OshKosh B\'Gosh


Question: '"Zone" on a battlefield where troops may shoot without requesting permission from a higher command'

Answer: a free-fire zone


Question: 'In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this'

Answer: steam


Question: 'In '50s TV titles this word preceded "of Robin Hood", "of Sir Lancelot" & "of Superman"'

Answer: Adventures


Question:
'Benvolio,
Balthasar,
Mercutio'

Answer: Romeo & Juliet


Question: 'Marie Curie said, "The importance of" this element "from the viewpoint of general theories has been decisive"'

Answer: radium


Question: 'To remove poisonous substances, or to purge an addict's body of harmful substances'

Answer: detox (or detoxification)


Question: 'The pronoun that is formed by the last 3 letters of New York's capital'

Answer: any (from Albany)


Question: 'Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819'

Answer: Memphis


Question:
'1984 best new artist Grammy winner heard here

"I said money /
Money changes everything..."'

Answer: Cyndi Lauper


Question:
'Hecate,
Caithness,
Donalbain'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'In 1957 she said "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us"'

Answer: Golda Meir


Question: 'A direct current generator, or a person with lots of energy'

Answer: a dynamo


Question: 'The pronoun that is formed by the first 3 letters of the island where you'll find Haiti'

Answer: his (from Hispaniola)


Question: 'Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state's volunteers in the War of 1812'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'The first time blimp shots were part of a televised sporting event was in 1960 at this Miami venue'

Answer: the Orange Bowl


Question:
'Valtemand,
Osric,
Horatio'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'In 1940 the future Queen Mother said she was almost glad this building was bombed; "I can look the East End in the face"'

Answer: Buckingham Palace


Question: 'The mountain ash & honey locust trees share this quality, as becomes evident in autumn'

Answer: deciduous


Question: 'The pronoun that is formed by the first 3 letters of the current monetary unit of Israel'

Answer: she (from Shekel)


Question: 'When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend'

Answer: the Constitutional Convention


Question: 'For 13 years Mike Douglas' national talk show came from this city; guests took 2-hour limo rides from NYC'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question:
'Olivia,
Viola,
Sir Toby Belch'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'Explaining Christian Science, she wrote, "Disease is an experience of... mind.  It is fear made manifest"'

Answer: Mary Baker Eddy


Question: 'Coulomb's law says the force between 2 charges is inversely proportional to the square of this'

Answer: the distance between them


Question: 'Take 2 letters off Pyramus' lover & give this demonstrative pronoun found in many "Jeopardy!" clues'

Answer: this (from Thisbe)


Question: 'Americans began to oocupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it'

Answer: Alaska


Question:
'Don Pedro,
Don John,
Dogberry'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'This anti-ERA crusader said, "The claim that American women are downtrodden... is the fraud of the century"'

Answer: Phyllis Schlafly


Question: 'About 1 hydrogen atom in 6,500 is this isotope'

Answer: deuterium


Question: 'Take 2 letters off a marshy outlet of a Louisiana lake to get this personal pronoun'

Answer: you (from Bayou)


Question: 'One of the 2 Best Picture nominees in which CBS newsman & "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt is a character'

Answer: (1 of) The Insider & Good Night and Good Luck


Question: 'Mobutu got the boot, & so did the name Zaire; the country's now called The Democratic Republic Of this'

Answer: Congo


Question: 'Calling itself "The Nation's Newspaper", this publication claims to be "First In Daily Readers"'

Answer: USA Today


Question: 'The upper chamber of the British parliament'

Answer: House of Lords


Question: 'Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'In this song, David Bowie instructs, "Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"'

Answer: "Let\'s Dance"


Question: '"Two" of these "don't make a right"'

Answer: Wrongs


Question: 'This country took its half of the name & went home to Bratislava, becoming a separate nation in 1993'

Answer: Slovakia


Question: 'A former foreign editor of Time magazine founded this rival of Time in 1933'

Answer: Newsweek


Question: 'Hardly idle, this poet wrote over 10,000 lines of "Idylls Of The King"'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'This number is missing from the code's 282 rules; Babylonians thought it was evil & unlucky'

Answer: 13


Question: 'ABBA sang of this girl, "Young and sweet, only seventeen"'

Answer: "Dancing Queen"


Question: '"That's the way the cookie" does this'

Answer: Crumbles


Question: 'Once part of Poland & Russia, this nation with Vilnius as its capital won independence in 1991'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'Julia Roberts posed as Susan B. Anthony for a 1997 issue of this JFK Jr. magazine'

Answer: George


Question: 'It's also called the Pater Noster'

Answer: The Lord\'s Prayer


Question: 'Rules 104-106 warn you to be sure to get one of these when dealing with a merchant'

Answer: Receipt


Question: 'It's the Drifters' 1960 title request'

Answer: "Save The Last Dance For Me"


Question: '"There's safety in" these'

Answer: Numbers


Question: '2 countries joined together in 1990 to form this neighbor of Oman'

Answer: Yemen (North & South)


Question: 'Tina brown was editor-in-chief of this magazine from 1984 to 1992'

Answer: Vanity Fair


Question: 'As Steve McGarrett, he often finished off wrongdoers with the words "Book 'Em, Dano"'

Answer: Jack Lord


Question: 'If a man hires a substitute to serve for him as one of these & doesn't pay, he's killed & the sub gets his house'

Answer: Soldier


Question: 'Title that completes the Irving Berlin lyric heard here:  "Oh, I love to go out fishing, in a river or a creek, but I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing...."'

Answer: "Cheek To Cheek"


Question: '"Everything comes to those who" do this'

Answer: Wait


Question: 'You go Slav no more when you go to this northernmost former Yugoslav republic between Croatia & Italy'

Answer: Slovenia


Question: 'In 1996 investors celebrated the 75th anniversary of this "National Business & Financial Weekly" from Dow Jones'

Answer: Barron\'s


Question: 'Clive Barker's cinematic thriller about the evil resurrected magician Nix'

Answer: Lord Of Illusions


Question: 'If you hired one of these & broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money'

Answer: Cow, bull, ox....


Question: 'In "A Chorus Line" it's Val's song about how her skills & her features are rated'

Answer: "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three"


Question: 'This "Only counts in horseshoes"'

Answer: Close


Question: 'Reggie Mantle & this teenager vie for Veronica Lodge's attention'

Answer: Archie Andrews


Question: 'With more than $25 million in earnings, he's tennis' all-time leading money winner'

Answer: Pete Sampras


Question: 'This amusement area is Corky's turf; his dad fought in the 1942 naval battle of the same name'

Answer: Midway


Question: 'This Milan opera house has a secondary theater for chamber music'

Answer: La Scala


Question: 'Basketball has the pick-&-this; curling has the wick-&-this, in which one stone knocks another aside'

Answer: Roll


Question: 'The account of Jesus turning water into wine appears only in this fourth gospel'

Answer: John


Question: 'To perform a veronica in this sport requires you to have a cape to wave'

Answer: Bullfighting


Question: 'He recently collaborated on his first musical, "The Capeman"; maybe there's a part for Art'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'At Corky's carnival, this attraction uses the "human", not the "dog" type of its tiny performers'

Answer: Flea Circus


Question: 'The text of this 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera was written by his sister, Adelheid Wette'

Answer: Hansel And Gretel


Question: 'A curling team, or the iced area on which they perform'

Answer: Rink


Question: 'The 10 Commandments are listed in Exodus & again in this book whose name is Greek for "second law"'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'Sister of "Lost In Space"'s Angela, she went into space herself in 1979's "Alien"'

Answer: Veronica Cartwright


Question: 'Now retired, this Colorado congresswoman served in the House longer than any other woman'

Answer: Patricia Schroeder


Question: 'As a veteran carny, Corky shortens this word for a free show outside an attraction to "Bally"'

Answer: Ballyhoo


Question: 'This Mozart opera is set in part in the temple of Isis in Egypt'

Answer: The Magic Flute


Question: 'The captain of a curling team, or what you'd find hard to do across water with 40-lb. curling stones'

Answer: Skip


Question: 'In the last chapter of the book named for this widow, she's remarried to a man named Boaz'

Answer: Ruth


Question: '"Veronica wipes the face of Jesus" is one of the 14 stops in this devotion'

Answer: Stations Of The Cross


Question: 'Comic seen here in a 1995 film: "You guys - we're talking about a human day's life here!  Hello?  Heads, shoulders, knees & toes, knees & toes - the whole thing!"'

Answer: Pauly Shore


Question: 'Corky loves the special turtle version of this ride seen here:'

Answer: Tilt-A-Whirl


Question: 'This Offenbach grand opera which premiered after his death in 1881 contains the popular "Barcarolle"'

Answer: The Tales Of Hoffmann


Question: 'In a "sweeping" 1968 change, the Scotch Cup gave way to the Silver this as the world championship trophy'

Answer: Broom


Question: 'This Old Testament book details the careers of Othniel, Gideon & Samson'

Answer: Judges


Question: 'She played the TV public defender who liked to hang around Hill Street Station'

Answer: Veronica Hamel


Question: 'JFK's press secretary, he made news in 1997 when he claimed to have information regarding TWA 800'

Answer: Pierre Salinger


Question: '"Hey" this! is Corky's traditional cry for help when he's in trouble with the locals'

Answer: Rube


Question: 'In 1956 this black contralto published her autobiography, "My Lord, What A Morning"'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'A player called the lead does this, implying that he's without sin'

Answer: Casts/delivers the first stone


Question: 'It begins "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus"'

Answer: Ephesians


Question: '1 of the 2 Best Picture winners in the 1990s with one-word titles'

Answer: Braveheart or Unforgiven


Question: 'The 20,000 strong United Daughters of the Confederacy is headquartered in this state capital'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'A 1910 newspaper story is the first known written reference to this legendary lumberman'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'A popular slogan on this protective garment is "Kiss the cook"'

Answer: an apron


Question: 'The separation of the membrane from the choroids at the back of the eye is known as a detached one of these'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'The great college coach Amos Stagg is credited with inventing this, also known as a backward pass'

Answer: a lateral


Question: 'When a beer drinker raises his glass, it's often this type of mug'

Answer: a stein


Question: 'The National Speleological Society has dug itself into this aptly-named Huntsville avenue'

Answer: Cave Avenue


Question: 'This New Jersey-born singer-songwriter has had 13 solo Top 40 hits'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'Your 2 basic styles for sweaters are pullover & this style with buttons'

Answer: a cardigan


Question: 'A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children'

Answer: rickets


Question: 'In the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, this team defeated Miami in double overtime, 31-24, to win the college championship'

Answer: Ohio State University


Question: 'After a redefinition of terms in 1998, the Surgeon General now reports that about 60% of all Americans are this'

Answer: overweight


Question: 'www.pbk.org is the web address of this collegiate group founded in 1776'

Answer: Phi Beta Kappa


Question: 'John Paul I succeeded him in 1978'

Answer: Pope Paul VI


Question: 'Getting knighted, Sean Connery wore his dress one of these, so kneeling may have been rough on the knee'

Answer: a kilt


Question: 'It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for'

Answer: rubella


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the UPMC Sports Performance Complex in Pittsburgh, PA.)  Barring a penalty, in college football, kickoffs are made from the 35-yard line; in the pros, from this yard line'

Answer: the 30-yard line


Question: 'It's the cloth or covering a woman "takes" when she becomes a nun'

Answer: a veil


Question: 'The burglary of this organization's office June 17, 1972 made headlines'

Answer: the Democratic National Committee


Question: 'This noted artist left Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands in 1901'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'TV once had a special "room" for this 1-piece child's outfit with short, loose trousers gathered at the knees'

Answer: a romper


Question: 'Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome'

Answer: Reye\'s syndrome


Question: 'M.M. Roberts Stadium at Southern this State used to be Faulkner Field'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'One of the most memorable songs from "The Sound of Music" is this ode to a flower'

Answer: "Edelweiss"


Question: 'These Protestants of 16th century France are still around & may belong to a Bloomington, Minn. society for them'

Answer: the Huguenots


Question: 'This German bacteriologist developed a "magic bullet" called Salvarsan as a treatment for syphilis'

Answer: Paul Erlick


Question: 'These 2 wrap-around garments of India & Oceana both begin with "sar"'

Answer: a sari & sarong


Question: 'These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm'

Answer: a rhinovirus


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jason Sehorn of the New York Giants.)  I played for this West Coast school under head coaches Larry Smith & John Robinson'

Answer: the University of Southern California


Question: 'It takes about 3 years for the male of this duck to attain its full "down coat"'

Answer: an eider


Question: 'After taking the Presidential oath in 1901 he shuffled out of Buffalo'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'In this 1994 film things got pretty hairy for Jack Nicholson, especially around the full moon'

Answer: Wolf


Question: 'He had never held elected public office before he became the current governor'

Answer: Jeb Bush


Question: 'A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'Joel Harris' middle name, it's the last name of detective writer Raymond'

Answer: Chandler


Question: 'You'll find it's fine & not dandy when your library book is this'

Answer: overdue


Question: 'In a 1901 book this French sci-fi author exposed the slaughter of elephants for their ivory'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'Lesley Ann Warren played Miss Scarlet & Christopher Lloyd was Prof. Plum in this 1985 spoof'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'This classic TV sitcom took place in part at a Florida NASA installation'

Answer: I Dream of Jeannie


Question: 'Ernest E. Just won in 1915 for his work, including how these smallest units of life function in eggs'

Answer: cells


Question: 'Western novelist Francis Harte's middle name'

Answer: Bret


Question: 'To make these, put the filling in the dough, fold over, seal the edges & bake until golden brown'

Answer: a turnover


Question: 'Robert Scott set off to explore this continent, where he named a peninsula for King Edward VII'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Gwyneth Paltrow played the title matchmaker in this movie based on a Jane Austen novel'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'It's the interstate highway that runs from Maine to Florida'

Answer: I-95


Question: 'At its charter conference in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was a consultant for interracial affairs'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'Mark Twain's real middle name'

Answer: Langhorne


Question: 'The following is a famous example of one'

Answer: an overture


Question: 'Andrew Carnegie & this man merged their companies in 1901 to form U.S. Steel'

Answer: J.P. Morgan


Question: 'Be afraid.  Be very, very afraid of Mark Wahlberg as Reese Witherspoon's boyfriend from hell in this film'

Answer: Fear


Question: 'It's Florida's largest lake'

Answer: Lake Okeechobee


Question: '1976's award went to dancer Ailey; 1977's went to this rhyming author'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'Edgar Masters' middle name'

Answer: Lee


Question: 'The simplest knot, it's just a loop through which the rope end has been passed'

Answer: an overhand knot


Question: 'In 1901, the year before his death, this author revisited "Erewhon"'

Answer: Samuel Butler


Question: 'Robin Cook cooked up the story for this '78 thriller; Michael Crichton directed it'

Answer: Coma


Question: 'Harry Truman chose this Florida island locale for his "Little White House" in 1946'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'This 1939 winner's debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'O. Henry's real middle name'

Answer: Sidney


Question: 'In 1857 John Butterfield helped found this mail company'

Answer: the Overland Express


Question: 'From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year'

Answer: the date


Question: 'Published posthumously, "Sleeping Murder" was her last novel to feature miss Jane Marple'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'The 4 Seasons, or Fergie: "B.G.D.C."'

Answer: "Big Girls Don\'t Cry"


Question: 'The citation & Corsair were models of this ford failure of the 1950s'

Answer: the Edsel


Question: 'Born: Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: Aug. 25, 2009, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts'

Answer: Ted Kennedy


Question: 'Gingerbread playing tokens pass through the peppermint forest in this game for preschoolers'

Answer: Candy Land


Question: 'They're the first 5 words of the little ditty that ends, "life is but a dream"'

Answer: Row, row, row your boat


Question: 'Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" was originally published in this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'Seal: "K.F.A.R."'

Answer: "Kiss From A Rose"


Question: 'Time said this 1980s Slavic import "had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint"'

Answer: the Yugo


Question: 'Born: 570, Mecca. Died: June 8, 632, Medina'

Answer: Muhammad


Question: 'Shown here is the creation of the powerful piece called this'

Answer: the king


Question: 'It's the groove made in the ground by a plow'

Answer: a furrow


Question: 'This weepy 1970 bestseller begins with the line "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'Cheap Trick: " I.W.Y.T.W.M."'

Answer: "I Want You To Want Me"


Question: 'The Sierra Club derisively dubbed this gargantuan SUV "the Ford Valdez"'

Answer: the Excursion


Question: 'Born: Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar, India. Died: Jan. 30, 1948, New Delhi, India'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'The "hock" is the last card drawn in this once-popular game, a homophone of an ancient ruler'

Answer: faro


Question: 'As it allows you to take books on loan, a library card is also known as this type of card'

Answer: a borrowing card


Question: 'Oddly, Eric van Lustbader has written more of the Jason Bourne novels than this original author did'

Answer: Robert Ludlum


Question: 'Carrie Underwood & her Louisville Slugger: "B.H.C."'

Answer: "Before He Cheats"


Question: 'Powered(?) by a 90-hp engine, the 1982 model of this iconic Chevy sports car took 20 seconds to go from zero to 60'

Answer: the Camaro


Question: 'Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Shogi is a Japanese variant of this board game but captured pieces can be used by the opponent'

Answer: chess


Question: 'When you're wrong & you admit it, you "eat" this bird; now wipe your mouth!'

Answer: crow


Question: '"The Ghost Writer" & "Exit Ghost" are 2 of the novels featuring this author's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman'

Answer: Phillip Roth


Question: 'The Fray: "H.T.S.A.L."'

Answer: "How To Save A Life"


Question: 'This model was the infamous focus of Ralph Nader's 1965 expose "Unsafe At Any Speed"'

Answer: the Corvair


Question: 'Born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina. Died: Oct. 9, 1967, Bolivia'

Answer: Che Guevara


Question: 'This Mattel game has 2 decks of cards for "things" & "descriptions" & your "thing" must try to match the "description"'

Answer: Apples to Apples


Question: 'TV's Baretta may have had a pet cockatoo, but his theme song was "Keep Your Eye On" this'

Answer: "The Sparrow"


Question: 'In European languages, this, such as masculine or feminine, is often unpredictable'

Answer: the gender


Question: 'She had us at "Cold Mountain"'

Answer: Renée Zellweger


Question: 'This favorite of Popeye makes an excellent "wilted" side dish'

Answer: spinach


Question: '6-letter word: go to the left, now right, back left, then right again'

Answer: zigzag


Question: 'The Pennsylvania state Capitol dome rises 272 feet above this city'

Answer: Harrisburg


Question: 'On Jan. 15, 1827 a man exited an oven (holding an overdone steak!) in a suit of this in a test of its heat resistance'

Answer: asbestos


Question: 'It's not just a Louisiana French dialect, but any language that evolves from pidgin speech'

Answer: Creole


Question: 'No driving over a cliff for her in "The Accidental Tourist"'

Answer: Geena Davis


Question: 'Please pass the small, round pearl type of these around; the cream sauce is delicious!'

Answer: onions


Question: 'This rock musician brought his wild, macabre style to his first feature directorial effort, "House of 1000 Corpses"'

Answer: Rob Zombie


Question: 'The western tip of this city's Golden Triangle--where the Ohio River begins--is called the point'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'On Dec. 27, 1900 she staged her 1st big "raid" when she marched on a Wichita saloon & smashed all liquor bottles in reach'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a linguistic diagram on the monitor.)  In English, standard word order is SVO, short for this; in Japanese, it's SOV'

Answer: subject, verb, object


Question: 'She won for "My Cousin Vinny" & has been nominated 2 other times, as well'

Answer: Marisa Tomei


Question: 'For carb cutters, "Joy of Cooking" has a recipe for this vegetable, mashed as a substitute for potatoes'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: 'Atomic number 30, it's often used in sunscreen'

Answer: zinc


Question: 'Well, we're living here in this "town" that lies on the Lehigh River across from Bethlehem'

Answer: Allentown


Question: 'He & Alfred Vail demonstrated their telegraph publicly for the first time on Jan. 6, 1838 in Morristown'

Answer: (Samuel) Morse


Question: 'Study of the Indo-European family began in 1786 with a scholar noting this ancient tongue's affinity with Greek & Latin'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'She won for "Tootsie" , a few years after not even being nominated for "King Kong"'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'Argenteuil, France is famous for its white type of this, which is grown underground'

Answer: asparagus


Question: 'This term meaning "just don't" is applied to policies like those in California schools for students carrying guns'

Answer: zero-tolerance


Question: 'In 1850 this city that loves Feb. 2 became a borough; in 1850 this city that loves Feb. 2 became a borough; in 1850...'

Answer: Punxsutawney


Question: 'On Jan. 14, 2011 President Ben Ali fled this African country as his people protested his 23-year rule'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'Forming statements not about here & now is called this, like the amount of water moved by a floating body'

Answer: displacement


Question: 'She took home an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & later starred in one of TV's most wholesome sitcoms'

Answer: Donna Reed


Question: 'Pablo Neruda said this thistlelike plant had a "tender heart" & a "small helmet under its scales"'

Answer: an artichoke


Question: 'The matura diamond is a colorless variety of this 6-letter mineral'

Answer: zircon


Question: 'This city with a hyphenated name was named for 2 British politicians who defended the American colonies in parliament'

Answer: Wilkes-Barre


Question: 'In his Feb. 18, 1861 inaugural address, he spoke of "the absence of wrong on our part"'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'This term for the lowest level of the ocean that the sun's rays can reach shares its name with a classic 1960s TV show'

Answer: the twilight zone


Question: '"The most trusted man in America", he signed off at 92; and that's the way it is...'

Answer: (Walter) Cronkite


Question: 'Completes the complaint that might take you to a podiatrist, the agony of...'

Answer: the feet


Question: 'Constantinople officially became this city in 1930'

Answer: Istanbul


Question: 'IKEA's Fira is a mini-chest of drawers intended for these entertainment items in their jewel cases'

Answer: CDs (& DVDs)


Question: 'There was good kinging in the 800s--Leo the Wise ruled the Byzantine Empire while England had Alfred the this'

Answer: the Great


Question: 'He does the "Cinderella story.  Outta nowhere" bit in the classic golf movie "Caddyshack"'

Answer: Bill Murray


Question: 'This founder of the Special Olympics & member of a political dynasty passed away in Hyannis at 88'

Answer: Eunice Kennedy Shriver


Question: 'A shotgun wedding has been punningly defined as a case of this "or death"'

Answer: wife


Question: 'Constantinople gained strategic importance due to being situated between the Black Sea & this larger sea'

Answer: the Mediterranean


Question: '1969 talks on this war were delayed ten weeks over--would the table be a rectangle, implying two sides, or round, implying four equal partners?'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Madame Tussaud immortalized people in wax while this man created immortal images of the "Birds of America"'

Answer: Audubon


Question: 'Adam Sandler faces off on the links against Shooter McGavin & Bob Barker in this golf comedy'

Answer: Happy Gilmore


Question: 'May saw the deaths of 2 famous Doms--ballplayer Dom DiMaggio & this funnyman'

Answer: DeLuise


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Birch Aquarium at Scripps in La Jolla, CA.)  When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's this creature, found here at Birch Aquarium at Scripps'

Answer: a moray


Question: 'Constantinople was the meeting point in 1097 when 4 European armies launched the first of these'

Answer: the Crusades


Question: 'Term for a modular sofa whose segments are often placed at right angles'

Answer: a sectional


Question: 'As Rousseau was explaining that society corrupts natural morality, this man put food between slices of bread'

Answer: (the Earl of) Sandwich


Question: 'He played washed-up golf pro Roy McAvoy in "Tin Cup"'

Answer: Costner


Question: 'This "Father of the Electric Guitar" & one-time husband of Mary Ford stopped strumming at 94'

Answer: Les Paul


Question: 'Murphy's law is "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is a dish of thinly sliced cabbage'

Answer: coleslaw


Question: 'The heart of old Constantinople, this immense cathedral's name is from the Greek for "holy wisdom"'

Answer: Hagia Sophia


Question: 'While the prophet Zechariah taught the right way to live, this Greek was teaching about right triangles'

Answer: Pythagoras


Question: 'Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) recaptures his swing with the help of a caddy in "The Legend of" him (Will Smith)'

Answer: Bagger Vance


Question: 'In January this "Helga" painter laid down his pencils & brushes at 91'

Answer: Andrew Wyeth


Question: 'Seeing several men impersonate Nixon's Secy. of State made me echo an old song & say, "I wonder who's" doing this'

Answer: Kissinger now


Question: 'Home to chariot racing, this "horse track" in Constantinople was also used for public rallies'

Answer: the Hippodrome


Question: 'While Nostradamus was contemplating man's future, this anatomist was figuring out women's reproductive tubes'

Answer: Gabriello Fallopio


Question: 'In a 2004 film subtitled "Stroke of Genius", Jim Caviezel played this golf legend who retired from competition at 28'

Answer: Bobby Jones


Question: 'Even while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he still signed his letters "Sculptor in Rome"'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: '"It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside"'

Answer: "Your Song"


Question: 'In 1964 Harry Kemelman began a mystery series with "Friday" this clergyman "Slept Late"'

Answer: the Rabbi


Question: 'It's not a gal's intent on match.com; this 9-letter word refers to the science of raising animals'

Answer: husbandry


Question: 'Someone whose good qualities seem to be hidden is called one of these "in the rough"'

Answer: a diamond


Question: 'Tampa Bay is an arm of this, the world's largest gulf'

Answer: the Gulf of Mexico


Question: 'While living in Milan, he created a forced-air central heating system for a castle'

Answer: da Vinci


Question: '"Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band"'

Answer: "Tiny Dancer"


Question: 'O. Henry's first book was called these "and Kings", a reference to a Lewis Carroll poem'

Answer: Cabbages


Question: 'A capon is a neutered male one of these'

Answer: a rooster (or chicken)


Question: 'Executives leaving a company sometimes get this lucrative type of "handshake" or "parachute"'

Answer: golden


Question: 'It was formerly called the Gulf of Siam'

Answer: the Gulf of Thailand


Question: 'This "Younger" German artist's "Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer" featured the Mayor of Basel & his family'

Answer: Hans Holbein


Question: '"She packed my bags last night, pre-flight"'

Answer: "Rocket Man"


Question: 'The title of this Jane Austen novel refers to the Tilneys' country home'

Answer: Northanger Abbey


Question: 'From the Old English for "food" comes this word pertaining to livestock feed or expendable soldiers'

Answer: fodder


Question: 'Proverbs 31:10 tells us that a "virtuous woman" has a price "far above" these'

Answer: rubies


Question: 'The Gulf of Paria lies between Venezuela's northeast coast & this companion island of Tobago'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'This Flemish artist's brother Hubert may have contributed to the 12 panels of the "Ghent Altarpiece"'

Answer: Jan Van Eyck


Question: '"When are you gonna come down?  When are you going to land?"'

Answer: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"


Question: 'Titles by Philip Roth include "Portnoy's Complaint" & his "Theater"'

Answer: Sabbath\'s


Question: 'Tomatoes sometimes come in this "old" variety, meaning they're open-pollinated & not grown widely'

Answer: heirloom


Question: 'Kris Kristofferson once sang of this type of "devil", also used to describe an eloquent orator'

Answer: silver-tongued


Question: 'Vietnam's Red River flows into this gulf'

Answer: (the Gulf of) Tonkin


Question: 'At age 10 artist Paolo Uccello assisted this sculptor on his bronze doors of the Florentine Baptistry'

Answer: Lorenzo Ghiberti


Question: '"When I look back, boy I must have been green"'

Answer: "Honky Cat"


Question: 'John Updike was in the money with this 1981 novel, the third in a series, winning a Pulitzer for it'

Answer: Rabbit is Rich


Question: 'Also found on a racetrack, this enclosure is a place to exercise animals'

Answer: a paddock


Question: 'Israel's shoreline on this gulf is very short, from the city of Eilat to its border with Egypt at Taba'

Answer: the Gulf of Aqaba


Question: 'Her 1956 wedding attracted more than 1,500 news reporters to a country with just 20,000 citizens at the time'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'It can follow temperate, torrid, time or twilight'

Answer: zone


Question: '"The Bronx Bombers"'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: 'When Prince Charles becomes ruler of Great Britain, this will be the title of the national anthem'

Answer: "God Save The King"


Question: 'Of blood, sweat or tears, the one that's not a product of an exocrine gland'

Answer: blood


Question: 'On menus, the word that usually follows "clams on the half..."'

Answer: shell


Question: '"In Salem, Mass. Samantha tries to help a warlock who's been turned into a bed warmer"'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'Title character of a Woody Allen film who becomes famous as the "Human Chameleon"'

Answer: Zelig


Question: 'Former Los Angeles Rams end David Jones had this "religious" nickname'

Answer: "Deacon"


Question: '"Yes, we love this land", sing the fjord dwellers of this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Your spinal cord is shielded by the spinal column & your brain is shielded by this'

Answer: the skull


Question: '"Potage" is a fancy name for this type of dish, especially a thick one'

Answer: soup


Question: '"Another shot glass is fired in the continuing 'Bar War' with Gary's Old Towne Tavern"'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'In sailing, when you're tacking, your boat is on this kind of course'

Answer: zig-zag


Question: 'Heavyweight boxer Luis Firpo was called the "Wild Bull of" this Argentine region'

Answer: the Pampas


Question: 'This large Asian country's "Jana-Gana-Mana" means "Thou art the ruler of the minds of all the people"'

Answer: India


Question: 'About 40% of your body weight consists of 100s of these contracting tissues'

Answer: muscles


Question: 'Despite its name, this sauce served with plum pudding isn't "difficult" to make'

Answer: hard sauce


Question: '"Charles leaves the farm for the city to pursue a career as a cabinetmaker"'

Answer: Little House on the Prairie


Question: 'Collective name of Frank Beard & the 2 guys with beards seen here:'

Answer: ZZ Top


Question: 'This outfielder, disgraced in the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, was nicknamed "Shoeless"'

Answer: Joe Jackson


Question: 'Smetana's "The Moldau" resembles the music of "Hatikva", this country's anthem'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'It's the widest part of the alimentary canal'

Answer: the stomach


Question: 'Introduced in 1930, it was "America's 1st Biscuit Mix", but now it's used for all kinds of baking'

Answer: Bisquick


Question: '"Guess who's not invited to the inaugural ball & can't find anyone to take her"'

Answer: Murphy Brown


Question: 'Spanish explorers called the villages of these Pueblo Indians "The 7 Cities of Cibola"'

Answer: the Zuni


Question: 'Drag racer Don Garlits sports this nickname'

Answer: "Big Daddy"


Question: 'This country's "Ymnos Pros Tin Elephterian" is a hymn to liberty, not tin elephants or even grape leaves'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In 1984, 12-day-old Baby Fae received the heart of one of these animals'

Answer: a baboon


Question: 'The oil of these spice buds stuck in hams is a source of artificial vanilla flavoring'

Answer: cloves


Question: '"Puppets portray Yasir Arafat & Joan Rivers on a date"'

Answer: D.C. Follies


Question: '1 of 2 numbers that are naturals in craps'

Answer: (1 of) 7 or 11


Question: 'The Hellenistic Age began with the death of this Macedonian conqueror'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'On Oct. 24, 1901 Annie Taylor became the 1st person to go over these falls in a barrel--& survive'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'Wait until the hostess has opened hers before unfolding yours, & don't tuck it under your chin'

Answer: your napkin


Question: 'One year after "Life with Father", Clarence Day published "Life with" her'

Answer: Mother


Question: 'This Steve McQueen film was about a San Francisco detective, not Roy Rogers' dog'

Answer: Bullitt


Question: 'Paul Simon had his only No. 1 hit in 1976 with a song about this many "Ways To Leave Your Lover"'

Answer: 50


Question: 'Ancient fort that was the site of the last stand of the Jewish zealots against Rome in 73 A.D.'

Answer: Masada


Question: 'Plunging 212 feet, Shoshone Falls on this river is Idaho's highest waterfall'

Answer: Snake River


Question: 'According to Amy Vanderbilt, it's who should get into a rowboat first'

Answer: the person doing the rowing


Question: 'The 2-letter title of Richard Nixon's 1978 memoirs'

Answer: R.N.


Question: 'Burt Lancaster played a famous ornithologist cooped up on a San Francisco island in this acclaimed film'

Answer: The Birdman of Alcatraz


Question: 'After this many days of captivity, Iran released the 52 American hostages on January 20, 1981'

Answer: 444


Question: 'After winning the 1st Punic War, Rome made this island its 1st province'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'This waterfall on Africa's Zambezi River was named for an English queen'

Answer: Victoria Falls


Question: 'Traditionally, if Bob dances with Sue & Jim cuts in, it's when Bob can dance with Sue again'

Answer: after the dance is over (or when she gets a new partner)


Question: 'Freud 1st wrote of the Oedipus Complex in this landmark book published in 1899'

Answer: The Interpretation of Dreams


Question: 'The "shattering" climax of Orson Welles' "The Lady from Shanghai" takes place in S.F. in a maze of these'

Answer: mirrors


Question: 'Originally there were this many Marx Brothers'

Answer: 5


Question: 'Starting around 550 B.C. this empire conquered the Medes, the Lydians, the Chaldeans & Egypt'

Answer: the Persians


Question: 'Located in north central Texas, not Kansas, it's the largest U.S. city named for a waterfall'

Answer: Wichita Falls


Question: 'His experiences as an enlisted man shaped his 1951 novel "From Here to Eternity"'

Answer: James Jones


Question: 'In "Klondike Annie", this sex symbol fled her sordid life in S.F. & became an evangelist in the Yukon'

Answer: Mae West


Question: 'If we were to end this category the way a reporter finishes an article, we'd put this number on it here'

Answer: 30


Question: 'HIstoric nickname for the curved region between the Mediterranean & Mesopotamia'

Answer: the Fertile Crescent


Question: 'Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha" made this waterfall in Minneapolis famous'

Answer: Minehaha Falls


Question: 'He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published'

Answer: Marcel Proust


Question: 'She brought down the house singing "San Francisco" in the 1936 film of the same name'

Answer: Jeanette MacDonald


Question: 'To have taken the 1st modern IQ test in 1905 you had to understand this language'

Answer: French (the Binet-Simon test)


Question: 'Stop the presses!  In 1982 it became America's first national, general interest newspaper'

Answer: USA Today


Question: 'Yankee manager Billy Martin nearly came to blows in the dugout with this "Mr. October" slugger in 1977'

Answer: Reggie Jackson


Question: '"American Soldier" is a memoir by this general who led American & Coalition forces in Iraq'

Answer: Tommy Franks


Question: 'For Japanese New Year, feast on mochi, pounded cakes made from this grain'

Answer: rice


Question: '330 B.C.:<br />At 26, I've conquered Persia... Can you conquer my heart?'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: '1986 disaster city in Ukraine<br />(9)'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: 'When it hit the streets in 1831, Michigan Intelligencer was part of its name'

Answer: The Detroit Free Press


Question: 'This Packer QB's first NFL completion was to himself, a deflected pass for -7 yards on Sept. 13, 1992'

Answer: Brett Favre


Question: 'This comedian is pictured on the cover of "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction"'

Answer: Jon Stewart


Question: 'No Passover would be complete without plates of this appetizer, ground fish with egg & matzo meal'

Answer: gefilte fish


Question: 'Dec. 14, 1809:<br />Divorced today!  Ex-empress, 46, Malmaison-bound, desires tall man for a change'

Answer: Josephine


Question: 'Premium California red winegrape<br />(8)'

Answer: cabernet


Question: 'This city's Observer serves 40 counties in North & South Carolina'

Answer: Charlotte


Question: '"All of my books are thought-provoking", said this NBA analyst seen here'

Answer: Charles Barkley


Question: 'A book about this ever-popular sweet substance is subtitled "The Nature of Indulgence"'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'The Russian paskha sweet cheese mold for this holiday has the initials XB on it, meaning "Christ is risen"'

Answer: Easter


Question: '450 A.D.:<br />"Scourge of God" demands sister of emperor of West Roman Empire as bride--now!'

Answer: Attila the Hun


Question: 'Michigan city, or DeVille maker<br />(8)'

Answer: Cadillac


Question: 'This paper rises each morning from its headquarters at Calvert & Centre Streets'

Answer: The Baltimore Sun


Question: 'At the 2000 Las Vegas invitational, Jerry Kelly happily tied a PGA record with 8 of these in a row'

Answer: birdies


Question: 'The 6-word title of this bestselling dating guide offers "The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys"'

Answer: He\'s Just Not That Into You


Question: 'Pan de muerto, an egg-rich bread, is a favorite in Mexico on this aptly named 4-word holiday'

Answer: Day of the Dead


Question: '1944:<br />Radio actress, mid-20s, desires Argentinean VP for relationship'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'A yellowish green, or a liqueur<br />(10)'

Answer: chartreuse


Question: 'At the request of its founder, this Boston paper runs 1 religious article each day in its home forum section'

Answer: The Christian Science Monitor


Question: 'One of this league's biggest newsmakers in 2004-'05 was Commissioner Gary Bettman'

Answer: the National Hockey League


Question: '"How to Talk to a Liberal (if You Must)" is subtitled "The World According to" her'

Answer: Anne Coulter


Question: 'A sweet called shira is made with this spice from the seed seen here'

Answer: cardamom


Question: '37 A.D.:<br />Let's have Italian!  "Little Boot" emperor seeks hot companion shoe for stylish fit'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'Used in atomic clocks, it melts at 83.3 degrees F.<br />(6)'

Answer: cesium


Question: 'Pernambuco or brazilwood is frequently used to make this accessory for string players'

Answer: bows


Question: 'Perhaps inspired by his zodiac symbol, he wrote "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Charlie Chaplin said that in creating his Tramp character he added this to make him look older'

Answer: a mustache


Question: 'The IDF, this country's defense force, based at Keflavik, is manned by Americans'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'The University of Puget Sound,<br />Gonzaga University'

Answer: Washington State


Question: 'Film industry position of the person who oversees the camerawork & the lighting'

Answer: cinematographer


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a chalkboard.)  In the treble clef, the lines of the staff are E-G-B-D-F, so the spaces are known by this anatomical acronym'

Answer: FACE


Question: 'He's the Pisces born March 6, 1475 who said, "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free"'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'In "Benny & Joon" this actor performed Chaplin's dancing roll scene from "The Gold Rush"'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: 'The center of power of an empire until 1918, this country is a bit smaller than Maine'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'Stillman College,<br />Auburn University'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'It's the illegal conduct being identified here'

Answer: unsportsmanlike conduct


Question: 'The keynote of a major or minor scale also has this drinkable name'

Answer: tonic


Question: '"When we met first and loved..." begins one of the famous sonnets by this "Portuguese" Pisces'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'Chaplin was born April 16, 1889 in England & died Christmas day in 1977 in this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Nepal's regime is threatened by this type of movement, named for a Chinese leader'

Answer: Maoists


Question: 'Tougaloo College,<br />Jackson State University'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'It's a refusal to obey orders or submit to authority in the military'

Answer: insubordination


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew blows into a saxophone.)  From the French for "mouth", it's the way you form your lips & teeth around a horn's mouthpiece'

Answer: the embouchure


Question: 'Elizabeth Taylor is a Pisces & so was this man--the explorer, not her husband of the same name'

Answer: Richard Burton


Question: 'In 1914, this Keystone Studios head was the last person other than Chaplin to direct him in a film'

Answer: (Mack) Sennett


Question: 'Frequent recent invasions haven't hurt this Asian country's opium crop, the world's largest'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Bowling Green State University,<br />Case Western Reserve University'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Specifically, the person in an organization who enforces Robert's Rules of Order'

Answer: the parliamentarian


Question: 'From the Italian for "big", it's a concerto for an orchestra & a group of instrumental soloists'

Answer: (concerto) grosso


Question: 'Since Pisces is a water sign, it's not surprising that he composed "Water Music" in 1717'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'In "Limelight" Chaplin cast as his partner this other great comic of the silent screen'

Answer: Buster Keaton


Question: 'Though illegal, the Muslim Brotherhood is the main opposition to this African in power since 1981'

Answer: Hosni Mubarak


Question: 'Suffolk University,<br />Brandeis University'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'In the armed forces, it's what the NC stands for in NCO'

Answer: noncommissioned


Question: '"Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" the artist wrote of this work'

Answer: The Starry Night (by Vincent Van Gogh)


Question: 'In February 1972 a Soviet spacecraft soft-landed here & then returned rock samples to the Earth'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'A snowglobe inspired by this film features the Darling children tied to the mast near a hungry crocodile'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: '"Baghdad by the Bay",<br />"Golden Gate City"'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'From 1996 through 1999, he averaged 61.25 home runs per season'

Answer: Mark McGwire


Question: 'Milk's content of this may be 2%, 1% or as close to "Non" as they can get it'

Answer: Fat


Question: '"It is easier for a camel to go" through this "than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"'

Answer: The eye of a needle


Question: 'In March 1986 5 spacecraft made fly-bys of this comet'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: '(Hi, I'm Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City)  In 1997 Mattel celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dior's "New Look" with a "New Look" version of this doll'

Answer: Barbie


Question: '"The Disney City",<br />"The Very Heart of Florida"'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'Only Babe Ruth & this former Braves outfielder finished their careers with over 2,000 RBIs'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'Milk flash-heated to at least 161 degrees for 15 seconds is labeled this'

Answer: Pasteurized


Question: 'A shocking revelation, or that mug of coffee when you first wake up'

Answer: Eye opener


Question: 'On February 14, 1990, it took its final photo from 3.7 billion miles: of the sun & 6 planets, including the Earth'

Answer: Voyager


Question: '"The Man in Black" collector plate from the Franklin Mint was the first musical plate authorized by this country icon'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: '"The Witch City",<br />"The Witchcraft City"'

Answer: Salem, Massachusetts


Question: 'In 1998 this Cub was named the National League's MVP with a .308 average & 66 home runs'

Answer: Sammy Sosa


Question: '3-letter term for a type of milk often banned'

Answer: Raw milk


Question: 'This confidential expression is the title of a James Bond flick'

Answer: For Your Eyes Only


Question: 'This country's Nozomi, or "Hope", spacecraft is due to go into orbit around Mars in December 2003'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'To be authentic, a figurine such as the one seen here must bear the signature of this nun on whose art it was based'

Answer: Hummel


Question: '"The Gateway of the South",<br />"The Big Peach"'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'In 1997 this Boston shortstop led the American League on hits with 209 & was named its Rookie of the Year'

Answer: Nomar Garciaparra


Question: 'This term on milk labels often means it's enriched with vitamins A & D & protein-rich solids'

Answer: Fortified


Question: 'It's the title of the song heard here:<br />(hit for Survivor)'

Answer: "Eye of the Tiger"


Question: 'In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth'

Answer: Van Allen Belts


Question: 'This crystal company's literary collection includes an Oscar Wilde bowl & a James Joyce vase'

Answer: Waterford


Question: '"The Crescent City",<br />"The Paris of America"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Over the past 50 years only Tony Gwynn & this K.C. Royals player had a .390 or better batting average for a season'

Answer: George Brett


Question: 'Bovine somatotropin is one of these given to cows to increase their milk output'

Answer: Hormone


Question: 'It's a Western name for what Hindus call the ajna-chakra, located between the eyebrows'

Answer: Third eye


Question: 'While living in exile on the island of Guernsey, he published "Les Miserables"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'He starred on MTM shows as Dick Loudon & Bob Hartley'

Answer: Bob Newhart


Question: 'In 1896 Woodrow Wilson published a book on this man who was president in 1796'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'The spider crab'

Answer: Crustacean


Question: 'On most menus you'll find rosti, a hash-brown potato dish, & this, melted cheese & wine for dipping'

Answer: Fondue


Question: 'Edmund Spenser wrote, these are "Red and violets blue, and all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew"'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'In 1957 he became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'He bonded with viewers as Remington Steele'

Answer: Pierce Brosnan


Question: 'In a book by Nixon, the Alger Hiss case & Ike's heart attack were 2 of the "Six" these'

Answer: Crises


Question: 'The brown recluse'

Answer: Arachnid


Question: 'In 1993 & 1999, like clockwork, NASA sent Swiss Claude Nicollier on missions to repair this, launched in 1990'

Answer: Hubble Space Telescope


Question: 'British poet Philip Larkin once said, "Deprivation is for me what" these flowers "were for Wordsworth"'

Answer: Daffodils


Question: 'This "La Mer" composer once planned an opera based on "The Fall of the House of Usher"'

Answer: Claude Debussy


Question: 'The stories in this series may all have been figments of the imagination of Donald Westphall's son, Tommy'

Answer: St. Elsewhere


Question: 'He wrote "A World Transformed" with his national security advisor Brent Scowcroft'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'The katydid'

Answer: Insect


Question: 'The Kapellbrucke, the symbol of Lucerne, is wooden covered one of these'

Answer: Bridge


Question: '"In the beauty of" these "Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me"'

Answer: The lilies


Question: 'Here's an IQ test: He was responsible for the first French psychology journal'

Answer: Alfred Binet


Question: 'Episodes of this show ended with the cat in the MTM logo dribbling a basketball'

Answer: The White Shadow


Question: 'He got "Doctrinaire" in "View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States"'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'The earwig'

Answer: Insect


Question: 'The Swiss Embassy's website history of this food product begins in 1528 with Hernando Cortez'

Answer: Chocolate


Question: '"In Flanders Fields" they "blow between the crosses, row on row"'

Answer: Poppies


Question: 'In 1950 he adapted his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" for the screen'

Answer: Jean Cocteau


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of "General Hospital")  In 1984 as D.L. Brock he married Bobbie on "G.H.", in 1974 as Joe Gerard he married Rhoda on "Rhoda"'

Answer: David Groh


Question: 'This future president must have made Dad proud with 1804's "Letters on Silesia"'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'Krill'

Answer: Crustacean


Question: 'Graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who won the first Nobel Physics Prize'

Answer: Wilhelm Roentgen


Question: 'Used in the '40s for a sudden loss of power in a jet engine, Herbert Freudenberger applied it in 1974 to spent people'

Answer: Burnout


Question: 'August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'This duo dreamed up by John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd began as a pre-show warmup act for "SNL"'

Answer: The Blues Brothers


Question: 'He made the dean's list at Queens College -- what would his TV neighbor Kramer think of that?'

Answer: Jerry Seinfeld


Question: 'The carotene in carrots supplies you with this vitamin'

Answer: A


Question: 'Scrape together 100 sen & you can trade them in for one of these in Japan'

Answer: Yen


Question: 'When talking about Sylvester, this character calls him a "Puddy Tat"'

Answer: Tweety Bird


Question: 'January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'In 1992 Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett jazzed things up with the opening of this music club'

Answer: House of Blues


Question: 'The first time he saw his partner Elaine May, he was in a college play & she was glaring at him'

Answer: Mike Nichols


Question: 'In some parts of the world, carrots are roasted, ground & used as a substitute for this, like chicory'

Answer: Coffee


Question: 'The United Kingdom's pound sterling breaks down into 100 of these'

Answer: Pence


Question: 'In the 1970 hit comedy "The Owl and the Pussycat", she was the title feline to George Segal's owl'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'This 1983 Elton John hit featured Stevie Wonder on harmonica'

Answer: I Guess That\'s Why They Call it the Blues


Question: 'This astronaut dropped out of Swarthmore to pursue a tennis career but later earned her Ph.D. at Stanford'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: 'Carrots are one of the octet of vegetables in this Campbell's drink introduced nationwide in 1948'

Answer: V8


Question: '100 paisas make up one of these in India'

Answer: Rupee


Question: 'Tom Jones' 1965 hit single "What's New Pussycat" was written by Hal David & this partner'

Answer: Burt Bacharach


Question: 'August 27, 1908 near Stonewall, Texas'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Group heard here in a hit from the '80s: [audio clue]'

Answer: The Moody Blues (Gemini Dreams)


Question: 'Martin Scorsese earned a B.S. & an M.A. from this Manhattan university's film school, & also taught there'

Answer: NYU (New York University)


Question: 'It's the top carrot-producing state'

Answer: California


Question: '100 of these make up a French franc'

Answer: Centimes


Question: 'Some Mother Goose scholars believe that this was the real queen visited by "Pussycat, Pussycat"'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'October 27, 1858 in New York City'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'The soundtrack to this Spike Lee film includes the selections "Say Hey" & "Knocked Out the Box"'

Answer: Mo\' Better Blues


Question: 'She was elected Duke's student body president years before her husband lost the '96 presidential election'

Answer: Elizabeth Dole


Question: 'Among veggies, lettuce is a salad crop; broccoli is a cole crop & carrots, this'

Answer: Root crop


Question: '100 of these make a mark in Germany'

Answer: Pfennigs


Question: '3 years after playing "A Kitten With A Whip", she grew up as the title kitty in "The Tiger and the Pussycat"'

Answer: Ann-Margret


Question: 'It's been said that in 1776 she put 5-pointed stars on the U.S. flag because they were easier to cut'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'The Palme D'Or, awarded by this French city's film festival, comes from the city's coat of arms'

Answer: Cannes


Question: 'Phrase that begins the rhyme "...Smell our feet, we want something good to eat"'

Answer: Trick or Treat


Question: 'The first film Huston directed was this classic 1941 Sam Spade story'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'This promontory on a barrier island is the site of the John F. Kennedy Space Center'

Answer: Cape Canaveral


Question: 'The cheer that Leo uses at the bullfight in Spain'

Answer: Ole! (Leo)


Question: 'She wrote, "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the ... cool something that was flowing over my hand"'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'A British order of knighthood is named for this process of washing the body'

Answer: The Order of the Bath


Question: 'On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi people bring these to priests to have them blessed'

Answer: Animals


Question: 'Writing this screenplay for Huston inspired Ray Bradbury to write the novel "Green Shadows, White Whale"'

Answer: Moby Dick


Question: 'In 1620 the Pilgrims dropped anchor in Provincetown Harbor on this cape'

Answer: Cape Cod


Question: 'A Dutch person may show you this picture of his foot'

Answer: Foto (foot)


Question: 'The founder of Hull House, her bust is in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans'

Answer: Jane Addams


Question: 'The Playboy Foundation gives awards named for this free-speech amendment to the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: 1st Amendment


Question: 'This, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is sort of the Muslim equivalent of Lent'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'Huston briefly appears in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" as a man who gives this star 4 pesos'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: 'No point on any continent is closer to Antarctica than this Chilean cape'

Answer: Cape Horn


Question: 'From 1975 to 1979 she was a Superior Court judge in Maricopa County, Arizona'

Answer: Sandra Day O\' Connor


Question: 'This Swede who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews was made an honorary U.S. citizen in 1981'

Answer: Raoul Wallenberg


Question: 'This holiday's name came from "shriving", purifying yourself by confessing your sins'

Answer: Shrove Tuesday


Question: 'Huston was one of 5 directors of this 1967 spoof & appeared in the following scene: [video clue]'

Answer: Casino Royale


Question: 'Cape Morris Jesup on this Danish island was named for a pres. of the American Museum of Natural History'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'In 1941 she cast the sole vote in the House against entering WWII'

Answer: Jeannette Rankin


Question: 'This British-Iranian woman won the George Polk Award for her CNN reportage from Bosnia'

Answer: Christiane Amanpour


Question: 'A Philadelphia museum traces the history of this group famous for its New Year's Day parades'

Answer: Mummers


Question: 'Huston directed this 1961 cowboy film that Arthur Miller wrote for Marilyn Monroe'

Answer: The Misfits


Question: 'Cape Campbell & Cape Palliser are on opposite sides of the Cook Strait in this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'After success writing in English, he & his son Dmitri translated some of his earlier Russian novels'

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov


Question: 'Its status as a major port led to its English meaning, "to kidnap sailors"'

Answer: Shanghai


Question: 'It's the bar "Where everybody knows your name"'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'Names of these lunar plains include Imbrium, Crisium & Tranquillitatis'

Answer: Seas


Question: 'A 381-day-long bus boycott began in this city December 1, 1955'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'A popular dessert, it's a frozen mixture of milk products with at least 10% milk fat'

Answer: Ice cream


Question: 'Put this letter on "ice" & you get what Mickey & Minnie are'

Answer: M (mice)


Question: 'The city of Dali is famous not for surrealist art, but for these Buddhist temple structures'

Answer: Pagodas


Question: 'Edith & Archie "could use a man like" this president "again"'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt were the last to set foot on the moon, on this mission'

Answer: Apollo 17


Question: 'He expressed his doctrine December 2, 1823; the rest is history'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'Water freezes into ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit & this many degrees Celsius'

Answer: 0


Question: 'Put this letter on "ice" & you get gaming material that may be loaded'

Answer: D (dice)


Question: 'Kunming, the terminus of this WWII road, is still serviced by it'

Answer: Burma Road


Question: 'For the Professor, Mary Ann & the rest, the "tour" was only supposed to be this long'

Answer: 3 hours


Question: 'The moon speed record, 11.2 MPH, was achieved by this vehicle during the Apollo 16 mission'

Answer: Moon rover


Question: 'A DAR chapter in Massachusetts has one of the chests from this December 16, 1773 event'

Answer: Boston Tea Party


Question: 'Though made from snow, these traditional Eskimo shelters are kept warm with heaters'

Answer: Igloos


Question: 'Put this letter on "ice" & you get the kind of "guys" who "finish last"'

Answer: N (nice)


Question: 'Anshan, sort of the Chinese Pittsburgh, is best known for its production of this'

Answer: Steel


Question: 'He "Always wanted to have a neighbor just like you"'

Answer: Mister Rogers


Question: 'Of 30, 60 or 90 pounds, it's the lunar weight of an astronaut who weighs 180 pounds on Earth'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Point on the Earth reached for the first time by man December 14, 1911'

Answer: South Pole


Question: 'Temperatures can reach minus 90 degrees in this large eastern area of Russia that makes up 75% of the country'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'Put this letter on "ice" & you get the type of crime Crockett & Tubbs fought'

Answer: V (vice)


Question: 'The city of Tsingtao is best known for this product it bottles & exports'

Answer: Beer


Question: '"When it looks like you will take a lickin'....just callllll for" him'

Answer: Super Chicken


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Janet Kavandi, on the space shuttle Discovery)  Of the 7 original Mercury astronauts, he's the only one to walk on the moon"'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: 'This "Vyrozumeni" playwright was elected interim president of his country in December 1989'

Answer: Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia)


Question: 'Because of the cold, not much grows above this arbored "line" near the tops of mountains'

Answer: Tree/timber line


Question: 'Put this letter on "ice" & you get a grain grown in paddies'

Answer: R (rice)


Question: 'Agatha Christie's mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings'

Answer: Hercule Poirot


Question: 'This ubiquitous liquor often accompanies Russian meals; the limmonaya type is lemon-flavored'

Answer: Vodka


Question: 'This future president was the first U.S. ambassador to England in 1785'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'He's the first man since Walter Brennan to win 3 acting Oscars; yep, that's "As Good As It Gets"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'In the summer of 1883 Chester vacationed out west, visiting this first national park, established in 1872'

Answer: Yellowstone


Question: 'Don't lie!  This "will out"'

Answer: Truth


Question: 'At the end of "Crime And Punishment", he is serving an 8-year term for murdering an old woman'

Answer: Raskalnikov


Question: 'On Christmas Eve, some Italian families enjoy capitone, a dish of these snakelike fish, fried'

Answer: Eels


Question: 'Once ambassador to India, he's now a U.S. Senator from New York'

Answer: Daniel Patrick Moynihan


Question: 'Ben Affleck said winning was "Really, really scary" when he & Matt Damon won for writing this film'

Answer: Good Will Hunting


Question: 'Old Chet got quite a lift after he had the first one of these installed in the White House'

Answer: Elevator


Question: 'If it looks out of place it "sticks out like a sore" one of these'

Answer: Thumb


Question: 'Producer Irving Thalberg was the model for Monroe Stahr, the title character of this Fitzgerald novel'

Answer: The Last Tycoon


Question: 'Soup-time is the time for pho, practically the national dish of this southeast Asian country'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'To a group of Western ambassadors in 1956, he said "History is on our side; we will bury you"'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'He won back-to-back Oscars as Best Actor of 1993 & 1994'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'As a lawyer, Chester got better treatment for blacks in this city's streetcar system'

Answer: New York City


Question: '"A bad" one of these "always turns up", probably to be saved, or earned'

Answer: Penny


Question: 'This title character is missing in the unintentionally last chapter of a Dickens mystery'

Answer: Edwin Drood


Question: 'Blimey!  It's the fruit seen here'

Answer: Breadfruit


Question: 'Eisenhower appointed this editor to Italy as the first female ambassador to a major country'

Answer: Clare Boothe Luce


Question: 'This 1969 film was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture'

Answer: Midnight Cowboy


Question: 'Some claimed Chester was born here, & therefore ineligible to be president'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'You might be just "banging your head against the wall" when you "flog a dead" one of these'

Answer: Horse


Question: 'Tom & Maggie Tulliver's epitaph, "In their death they were not divided", ends this George Eliot book'

Answer: The Mill On The Floss


Question: 'This 3-letter aperitif made of white wine & creme de cassis is named for a mayor of Dijon'

Answer: (Felix) Kir


Question: 'In 1997 Philip Lader replaced Admiral William Crowe as U.S. ambassador to this European country'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: '1935 cinematography winner Hal Mohr is still the only person to win by votes of this type'

Answer: Write-in votes


Question: 'He was nicknamed "The Gentleman" this'

Answer: Boss


Question: 'It's an old sailor's adage on taking whatever refuge you can find'

Answer: "Any port in a storm"


Question: 'This author was a contributing editor of Asia magazine from 1941 to 1946'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'An earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude on this scale releases about 32 times as much energy as a 6.0'

Answer: the Richter scale


Question: 'This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc)'

Answer: Matthew Perry


Question: 'A type of bank account, or the accumulated simoleons you've put aside'

Answer: a savings


Question: 'Puzzle & checkers'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'This watercraft is usually made of aluminum or fiberglass; you don't see many dug-out logs these days'

Answer: a canoe


Question: 'Moses knowses the summer water surface temperature of this 175,000-sq. mile sea averages about 85 degrees'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'Generations of tourists have uplift & erosion on this "stately" plateau to thank for the Grand Canyon'

Answer: the Colorado Plateau


Question: 'On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Matt interviewed Tom Cruise on NBC'

Answer: Matt Lauer


Question: 'With a 529 plan, you can give up to $270,000 to a beneficiary for this purpose'

Answer: a college education


Question: 'Roulette & wolfhound'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'Pucker up; it's the holiday item seen here'

Answer: mistletoe


Question: 'This sea named for an explorer is the northern part of the Pacific between Siberia & Alaska'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gazes at Sugarloaf in Brazil.)  Sugarloaf is one huge slab of rock rising 1300 ft. above its base; geologically, it's a granite one of these, from the Greek for "one stone"'

Answer: a monolith


Question: '12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla"'

Answer: Matthew Broderick


Question: 'These U.S. Government securities whose term is 30 years are risk free, but they also pay the least interest'

Answer: treasury bonds (savings bonds accepted)


Question: 'Rhapsodies & goulash'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'In this game you hurl metal objects at a spike 30 to 40 feet away & hopefully never yell "fore!"'

Answer: horseshoes


Question: 'This sea has Georgia on its mind (well, its eastern side, anyway) & Bulgaria on its west'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'This radioactive isotope is used to date rocks from 100 to 50,000 years old'

Answer: carbon-14


Question: 'He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash"'

Answer: Matt Dillon


Question: 'Sounds like an auto mishap, but it's a type of IRA whose funds come from another retirement plan'

Answer: rollover


Question: 'Linen & Republican Army'

Answer: Irish


Question: 'Double the reed, double the fun; it's the instrument seen here'

Answer: an oboe


Question: 'Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece'

Answer: the Aegean Sea


Question: 'The explosion of a volcanic cone followed by the cone's collapse creates this bowl-shaped crater'

Answer: a caldera


Question: 'He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save'

Answer: Matt Damon


Question: 'Also called a unit trust, it's an entity that invests the money of a pool of people in various securities'

Answer: a mutual fund


Question: 'Towel & taffy'

Answer: Turkish


Question: 'Leaves of this 2-word species yield a juice used in skin lotions'

Answer: Aloe vera (aloe accepted)


Question: 'Seen here is this sea here.  See?'

Answer: the Baltic Sea


Question: 'His presidential library's website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'If the arms are en couronne, they're held in a curve here'

Answer: above the head


Question: 'The demolition of Finbar's Hotel in this capital inspired 7 Irish authors to write a book of tales set in it'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'The Frick Collection boasts a firedog topped with a sculpture of this greatest Roman god in all his glory'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'U.S. Constitutional preface<br />(8)'

Answer: preamble


Question: 'This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: '"Alexander" features Christopher Plummer as Aristotle & this actor in the title role'

Answer: Colin Farrell


Question: 'This ordinal ballet position traditionally has both arms extended outward'

Answer: 2nd position


Question: 'She often stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, & it's said that it inspired her mystery novel "At Bertram's Hotel"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'Gustave Moreau's vaguely erotic painting of Oedipus and this creature poses a riddle of its own'

Answer: the Sphinx


Question: 'One-ounce liquor glass<br />(4)'

Answer: pony


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.)  One of Ford's biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship Mayaguez by this Asian country in 1975'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Marion Cotillard transformed herself into this chanteuse in "La Vie en Rose"'

Answer: Edith Piaf


Question: 'The name of this classic ballet pose is derived from the name of a peninsula'

Answer: arabesque


Question: 'Tragedy strikes a high school student staying at the Waldorf in this Nebraska woman's 1905 story "Paul's Case"'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Giorgione never finished his painting of this Roman love goddess sleeping, so Titian did it for him'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Arctic bird aka the sea parrot<br />(6)'

Answer: puffin


Question: 'JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family's home in this Florida town'

Answer: Palm Beach


Question: '2007's "Control" is the story of Ian Curtis, the troubled singer of this U.K. rock band'

Answer: Joy Division


Question: 'The name of this ballet move is from the Old French for "spinning top"'

Answer: pirouette


Question: 'Hemingway wrote "Across the River and into the Trees" while living in this city's Gritti Palace, & part of the book is set there'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Near nudity, not high heels & swimsuits, is on display in Cranach the Elder's painting of this beauty contest'

Answer: The Judgment of Paris


Question: 'Cricket field's central part<br />(5)'

Answer: pitch


Question: 'Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce'

Answer: Hoover


Question: 'In a 1970 film, Mick Jagger played this Robin Hood-like Australian outlaw on the big screen'

Answer: Ned Kelly


Question: 'This ballet move with a 4-letter name is a jump forward, backward or to the side'

Answer: jeté


Question: 'Daphne du Maurier fans love to stay at this Cornwall "Inn" with a Caribbean name; it inspired one of her novels'

Answer: Jamaica Inn


Question: 'A marble statue of Dirce being tied to a wild one of these once stood in the Farnese Palace'

Answer: a bull


Question: 'Plants' food-conducting tissue<br />(6)'

Answer: phloem


Question: 'Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'The names of 2 types of lava flow, pahoehoe & aa, come from this language'

Answer: Hawaiian


Question: 'It's used to express dismay or pain, especially in Yiddish'

Answer: oy


Question: 'In 1929 Eliot Ness took charge of a team that was created to bring down this mobster'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'It's a "Nighttime, Sniffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Aching, Stuffy Head" medicine'

Answer: NyQuil


Question: 'With the E Street Band, he had a 1986 hit covering the song "War"'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'Anne Hathaway<br />(1582-1616)'

Answer: William Shakespeare