Question: 'This first name, like that of the guy who married Medea, is from a Greek word for "healer"'

Answer: Jason


Question: 'In 1869 he resigned his Western Union operator's job to devote more time to his inventions'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'This company whose logo is seen here follows an "endorsed by no one" principle'

Answer: New Balance


Question: 'Alan Ball & Budd Schulberg came up with great ones'

Answer: screenplays


Question: 'The basin called Jornada del Muerto is often compared to a moonscape due to its barren flows of this'

Answer: lava


Question: 'Springsteen asked, "Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away on the streets of" this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This first name of Miss Marple's creator comes from a word that means "good"'

Answer: Agatha


Question: 'This Chief Justice resigned in 1986 to chair the commission on the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: Warren Burger


Question: 'Dan Empfield competed in this type of event in Kona back in 1981 & created the first wetsuit made for it'

Answer: triathlon


Question: '"Beastly" boisterous behavior'

Answer: horseplay


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the White Sands NASA Test Facility.) On the third space shuttle mission, NASA found that it does rain in Southern California, so the March 30, 1982 landing of this original orbiter was moved here to White Sands'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Arlo Guthrie: "I'm the train they call the city of" this; "I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'As a verb, this first name means to send mail free of charge'

Answer: Frank


Question: 'She left NASA in 1993 to go into the business of advanced technologies--and she may look familiar'

Answer: Mae Jemison


Question: 'It's a French term for a one-piece swimsuit, like, say, the one Carol Alt wore on page 187 of Sports Illustrated in 1989'

Answer: a maillot


Question: 'This publication has been "serving theatre since 1884", & its website enthralls theatre fans worldwide'

Answer: Playbill


Question: 'In 1979 these were discovered around Jupiter; Saturn has them too'

Answer: rings


Question: 'His characters include Jack Ryan (don't buzz in with Harrison Ford just yet) & Larry Gigli (see?)'

Answer: Ben Affleck


Question: '...of U.S. presidents, by last name'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: '"And there in the wood a piggy-wig stood with a ring at the end of his nose" in the poem about this bird-&-feline couple'

Answer: The Owl and the Pussycat


Question: 'The Gobelins factory of France was famous for these wall hangings & began manufacturing them around 1600'

Answer: tapestries


Question: 'Check it out! It's how I refer to my flashy diamonds & gold chains'

Answer: bling bling


Question: 'A list of this planet's moons, including Oberon & Titania, reads like a who's who of Shakespeare'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'It was her "Election" to play Tracy Flick & the "Legally Blonde" Elle Woods'

Answer: Reese Witherspoon


Question: '...of the original 13 colonies'

Answer: Virginia


Question: '"Truly that nose is the glorious cross he bears" is said of this romantic Rostand hero'

Answer: (Cyrano) de Bergerac


Question: 'Beginning around 1790 in NYC, Duncan Phyfe was a leader in the artful manufacturing of this'

Answer: furniture


Question: 'It's what the ladies are doing in the print seen here'

Answer: the can-can


Question: 'From the way the arms of the galaxy sweep around, the Milky way, seen here, is classified as this type of galaxy'

Answer: a spiral galaxy


Question: 'After playing a general named Maximus, this actor enlisted in the Navy as Captain of the HMS Surprise'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: '...of the first 5 players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame'

Answer: Honus Wagner


Question: '"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle", wrote this man in 1946 (not in "1984")'

Answer: (George) Orwell


Question: 'Shakespeare was part owner of Blackfriars Theatre in London & this other one where many of his plays premiered'

Answer: the Globe


Question: 'Numerically, it's normal vision'

Answer: 20/20


Question: 'These "quasi-stellar radio sources" are among the brightest & most distant objects in the universe'

Answer: quasars


Question: 'Yo, he played Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Ray Tango & 2 iconic roles of American cinema'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: '...of Canada's provinces'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: '"Lightly was her slender nose tip-tilted like the petal of a flower", he wrote in "Idylls of the King"'

Answer: Tennyson


Question: 'Gainsborough's portrait of Jonathan Buttall, known as this, was an homage to Anthony van Dyck'

Answer: The Blue Boy


Question: 'In a children's song, "dear little Nellie" is "way down yonder in" this fruit patch'

Answer: pawpaw


Question: 'In mid-November, you can have a "roaring" good time watching this meteor shower'

Answer: the Leonids


Question: 'It was no "accident" she played Muriel Pritchett, but she had a bad one as Thelma Dickinson'

Answer: Geena Davis


Question: '...of Dumas' Three Musketeers'

Answer: Porthos


Question: 'A Pascal pensee: If the nose of this queen "had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Beginning around 447 B.C., this sculptor supervised the making of the sculptures on the Parthenon'

Answer: Phidias


Question: 'In the 1950s this secret militant movement opposed British rule in Kenya'

Answer: the Mau Mau movement


Question: 'This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination"'

Answer: Google, Inc.


Question: 'This animated family lived at 201 Cobblestone Way in Bedrock'

Answer: the Flintstones


Question: 'Best Comedy Writing for the 1971-72 season went to "Edith's Problem", an episode of this sitcom'

Answer: All in the Family


Question: 'A large "X" separating 2 "R"s in a circular road sign indicates this'

Answer: a railroad crossing


Question: 'Made to hold linens, one can be called bridal, hope or sweetheart'

Answer: a chest


Question: 'Read his lips; he's the 41st president of the United States'

Answer: George Bush


Question: 'Profession of Bob Fitzsimmons who said, "The bigger they come, the harder they fall"'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'At night you'll have no trouble spotting this stadium at 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago--it's now lighted'

Answer: Wrigley Field


Question: 'This former producer of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" received the 1st of his 40+ Emmy nominations in 1966'

Answer: Roone Arledge


Question: 'From the Latin "dictus", meaning said, it's a pair of marks placed under words indicating repetition'

Answer: ditto marks


Question: 'It's a hassock or stool, as Miss Muffet could tell you'

Answer: a tuffet


Question:
'The following 1983 song was his last No. 1 hit:

"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues (Let's dance) /
To the song they're playing on the radio..."'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'Nelson said, "England expects that every man will do" this & died thanking God he did his'

Answer: his duty


Question: 'Whether travelling by land or sea, don't miss this attraction at 193 Salem St. in Boston'

Answer: the Old North Church


Question: 'On calculators, the key with this function is symbolized by a diagonal line between 2 small circles'

Answer: percentage


Question: 'Shojis are translucent screens which originated in this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: '1 of 2 Republican senators from Kansas, but Nancy Kassebaum doesn't fit the category'

Answer: Robert Dole


Question: 'Complete's John Acton's line "Power tends to..."'

Answer: corrupt


Question: 'President Hoover was among those dedicating this NYC building at 350 Fifth Ave. on May 1, 1931'

Answer: the Empire State Building


Question: '2 of 3 signs of the zodiac whose symbols have horns'

Answer: (2 of) Aries, Taurus, & Capricorn


Question: 'French for "chewed paper", this molded paper pulp was used to make Victorian furniture'

Answer: papier-mâché


Question: 'He plays John on "Dear John"'

Answer: Judd Hirsch


Question: 'Napoleon said it's one step away from the sublime'

Answer: the ridiculous


Question: 'In '48 the Trumans temporarily moved from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to this mansion at number 1651'

Answer: Blair House


Question: 'In sign language, 1 of the 2 letters made by a moving finger'

Answer: J (or Z)


Question: 'The style named for this 18th c. English queen featured shell carvings & cabriole legs'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: 'Great Caesar's ghost!  He was Clark Kent's boss'

Answer: Perry White


Question: 'Granddaughter of George III, she became queen after the death of her uncle William IV'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'In titles, this word precedes "Comes for the Archbishop", "in Venice" & "of a Salesman"'

Answer: Death


Question: 'A 1980 Charles Higham book claims that this swashbuckling actor was a spy for the Gestapo'

Answer: Errol Flynn


Question: 'Jimmy Cagney's sister Jeanne played George M. Cohan's sister Josie in this movie classic'

Answer: Yankee Doodle Dandy


Question: 'Subtract 1 letter from "insane" to get this word which means silly or empty'

Answer: inane


Question: 'Cyrus, who conquered the Medes, founded the Achaemenid Empire of this country'

Answer: Persia


Question: 'Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'According to the Book of Numbers, he sent 12 men to spy out the Land of Canaan'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'In the '30s Dwight Frye played Fritz the Dwarf in "Frankenstein" & Renfield in this horror classic'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'Wally & the Beaver, or the axlike knives they'd use to cut meat'

Answer: Cleavers


Question: 'The Viking Rurik, not Erik the Red, is considered founder of this country which his descendants ruled until 1598'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'The romantic Greek poem about Chloe & this boy was once considered obscene'

Answer: Daphnis


Question: 'This American spy was exchanged for Rudolf Abel on February 10, 1962'

Answer: (Francis Gary) Powers


Question: 'Choreographer Twyla Tharp collaborated with this ballet star on his dances for "White Nights"'

Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov


Question: 'This 1940 Disney film featured the music of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schubert & Mussorgsky'

Answer: Fantasia


Question: 'The 2 states whose names have 3 vowels & only 1 consonant'

Answer: Ohio & Iowa


Question: 'After divorcing her 1st husband, Livia Drusilla married this man, the 1st emperor of Rome'

Answer: Augustus Caesar


Question: 'We doubt if Moll Flanders would have relished reading his "Journal of the Plague Year"'

Answer: (Daniel) Defoe


Question: 'He wrote an autobiography explaining how he "Led 3 Lives"'

Answer: Herbert Philbrick


Question: 'His last film was "Nothing in Common"'

Answer: Jackie Gleason


Question: 'Body part that's alphabetically 1st in most dictionaries, though it's near your middle'

Answer: the abdomen


Question: 'In 1889 Pedro II called it quits & this S. American land moved toward becoming a republic'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'He never finished writing his novel "Netochka Nezvanova" because he was sent to Siberia'

Answer: (Fyodor) Dostoevsky


Question: 'In 1948 this editor of Time magazine identified himself & Alger Hiss as Soviet agents'

Answer: Whittaker Chambers


Question: 'Her niece Katharine Houghton played her daughter in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'A Dylan Thomas play, or where you might find "milkwort" in Webster's 3rd Int'l Dictionary'

Answer: Under Milkwood


Question: 'Linked by the world's 5th longest suspension bridge, it lies in both Europe & Asia'

Answer: Istanbul


Question: 'At Ford's Theatre, some claim to hear this assassin running up the back staircase'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'About the Pope atop a subway grate, this "Daily Show" guy: "Look at those gams!  No wonder they call him Legs Benedict!"'

Answer: (Jon) Stewart


Question: 'Hometown: Lamar, Missouri;<br />Religious Views: Baptist'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Oh I wish I were in mount Horeb, Wisc. for the national mustard day celebrations--this sponsor provides free hot dogs'

Answer: Oscar Mayer


Question: 'La cebra'

Answer: the zebra


Question: '(I'm Daymond John.)  You'll be just another fish in the sea if you don't understand the concept of this, also used by ranchers; like my company FUBU, it burns your identity into your customers' minds'

Answer: branding


Question: 'The 160-room San Jose "Mystery House" was built by the heiress to this rifle company'

Answer: Winchester


Question: 'Kim Cattrall, on this HBO show: "I think I have monogamy.  I must have caught it from you people"'

Answer: Sex and the City


Question: 'Education and Work: Secretary of State, Minister to U.K.;<br />Relationship Status: Single'

Answer: Buchanan


Question: 'Under French law, only brown or black seeds are used to make this type of mustard'

Answer: Dijon


Question: 'La vaca'

Answer: a cow


Question: '(I'm Barbara Corcoran.)  You must never stop moving to  succeed as one of these, from the French for "to undertake", as I did in parlaying a $1,000 loan into a $5 billion business'

Answer: entrepreneur


Question: 'Woodburn, the Dover home of this state's governor, is said to have several resident ghosts'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'This "D List" comic: "Her address is just Cher, California.  It's like writing a letter to Santa!"'

Answer: Kathy Griffin


Question:
'Religious Views: Quaker;
Groups: Navy Vets;
Favorite Music: No (expletive deleted) hippie stuff!'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'Emeril's recipe for Andouille corndogs calls for them to be served with this Louisiana style of mustard'

Answer: Creole mustard


Question: 'El puerco'

Answer: a pig


Question: '(I'm Robert Herjavec.)  As a shark pup, I arrived in Canada with my family; we had 20 dollars to our name, so I've lived this alliterative success story'

Answer: rags to riches


Question: 'Guards & visitors have reported hearing screams & cell doors clanging at this former prison aka "The Rock"'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'Debra Messing, on this show: "How could I not have known?  He was boy George for Halloween... & he's prettier than me"'

Answer: Will & Grace


Question:
'Birthday: February 9, 1773;
Political Views: Whig;
Activities: Kickin' butt at the Battle of Tippecanoe'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'This Roman writer the Elder supposedly said that eating mustard would turn a lazy woman into an ideal wife'

Answer: Pliny


Question: 'El escarabajo'

Answer: a scarab beetle


Question: '(I'm Kevin O'Leary.)  In this type of buyout, a shark swallows up a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral'

Answer: a leveraged buyout


Question: 'The spirit of Marie Laveu reportedly utters voodoo curses to trespassers at a cemetery in this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Michael, on this show: "This is... Pam.  If you think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago"'

Answer: The Office


Question:
'Hometown: Plymouth Notch, Vt.;
Interests: Quiet time;
Email: dont_email_
me_i_wont_reply@
whitehouse.gov'

Answer: Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge


Question: 'Prepared mustard gets its bright yellow color from this Asian spice that's also in curry powder'

Answer: turmeric


Question: 'El zorro'

Answer: fox


Question: '(I'm Kevin Harrington.)  Sharks do cooperate sometimes; I helped establish the Electronic Retailing Association to help promote this, the cultivation of a web of business relationships'

Answer: networking


Question: 'Glycine is the simplest one of these, the essential building blocks of all proteins'

Answer: amino acid


Question: 'In a 2009 comedy this Tyler Perry title character "Goes to Jail"'

Answer: Madea


Question: '1892-1973:<br />I journey to the uttermost west of "The Undying Lands" where elves, I hope, will welcome me'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'Also known as the Festival of Unleavened Bread, this observance begins on the 15th of Nisan'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Francis Bacon opined that "Hope is a good breakfast but a bad" one of these'

Answer: supper


Question: 'According to the Ancient Roman playwright Terence, "Charity begins" here'

Answer: at home


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.)  Charged particles from the Sun that become trapped in the Earth's magnetic field & interact with gases in the upper atmosphere cause this phenomenon'

Answer: aurora borealis


Question: 'Uh-huh, Jim Carrey is challenged to give an affirmative reply for a year in this release'

Answer: Yes Man


Question: '1874-1963:<br />I will always be "North of Boston" near a "Mending Wall"'

Answer: (Robert) Frost


Question: 'Seen here is a priest of this religion that dates back to 6th-century Japan'

Answer: Shintoism


Question: 'A song from "Carousel" says, "Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart and you'll never" do this'

Answer: walk alone


Question: 'Since 1947 this branch of the U.S. military has helped collect & distribute "Toys for Tots"'

Answer: the Marine Corps


Question: 'Metabolic imbalances can cause this, an electrical disturbance that alters the heartbeat'

Answer: arrhythmia


Question: 'She plays a romantically challenged TV producer in 2009's "The Ugly Truth"'

Answer: Katherine Heigl


Question: '1903-1950:<br />I bought the farm, animals not included'

Answer: (George) Orwell


Question: 'Nataraja is the lord of the dance in this religion'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Hope sometimes implies doubt, but not in the burial service that speaks of "sure and certain hope of" this event'

Answer: resurrection


Question: 'It was founded in 1887 to coordinate 22 Denver charities'

Answer: the United Way


Question: 'The production of antibodies is stimulated by the presence of these, like viruses, toxins & bacteria'

Answer: antigen


Question: 'Will Smith has weight as an IRS agent changing the lives of others in this film'

Answer: Seven Pounds


Question: '1902-1968:<br />The "Best Laid Plans" I ever made were for that trip with my poodle Charley'

Answer: Steinbeck


Question: 'The Punjabi city of Amritsar is home to the sacred religious center known as the Golden Temple of this religion'

Answer: Sikhism


Question: 'South Carolina's state motto is "Dum spiro spero" or "While I" do this, "I hope"'

Answer: breathe


Question: 'Don't mind the fezzes--millions of dollars are raised every year by this charitable auxiliary of the Freemasons'

Answer: the Shriners


Question: 'Sediments laid down by streams during flooding form this type of plain'

Answer: alluvial plain


Question: 'Jules Verne could not have imagined Brendan Fraser in 3-D in this action film'

Answer: Journey to the Center of the Earth


Question: 'From middle Persian for "basic text", the Avesta is the main scripture of this ancient religion'

Answer: Zoroastrianism


Question: 'Barack Obama's 2008 tax return shows he earned $1.5 million in royalties from this book'

Answer: The Audacity of Hope


Question: 'In 1971 this Beatle headlined the "Concert for Bangladesh", rock music's first major charity event'

Answer: Harrison


Question: '2 of the 4 Country Music Hall of Fame acts who are also in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as performers'

Answer: (2 of) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee & the Everly Brothers


Question: 'Bacteria in the mouth produce an acid that eats away at this outer part of the tooth & causes cavities'

Answer: enamel


Question: 'The creator of this game got the idea while noticing a pizza missing a slice looked like an open-mouthed head'

Answer: Pac-Man


Question: 'This company "Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns"'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: 'The Nautilus plumbs the depths in this 1870 Verne work'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Question: 'After prison, check forger Frank Abagnale worked for the government & was played on film by this actor'

Answer: (Leonardo) DiCaprio


Question: 'Sequential standing & sitting by sports spectators to give the impression of undulation'

Answer: the wave


Question: '"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" deals with this 365-body-point technique'

Answer: acupuncture


Question: 'Putting your initials next to your high score was an early innovation of this game'

Answer: Asteroids


Question: 'In a 2006 opinion article, this 19th century inventor asked, "Why Doesn't My Code Get Its Own Movie?"'

Answer: Morse


Question: 'The Rachel is the rescue ship at the end of this Melville epic'

Answer: Moby-Dick


Question: 'The IRS says victims can claim losses, & it stands to refund up to $17 billion because of his illegal activities'

Answer: Madoff


Question: 'The early evening when the sun is below the horizon'

Answer: twilight


Question: 'Conjunctivitis, an inflammation caused by bacteria or a virus, is also known by this colorful name'

Answer: pink eye


Question: 'The Bank of Japan ordered an emergency minting of coins as there was a run on them when this game debuted in 1978'

Answer: Space Invaders


Question: 'After a 2009 accident, this Tour de France champ: "Riding A Bike Isn't Something You Just Remember How To Do"'

Answer: Armstrong


Question: 'The Jolly Roger sails the seas in this J.M. Barrie romp'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Christopher Rocancourt swindled the rich by claiming he was a French member of this Standard Oil family'

Answer: Rockefeller


Question: 'Fortification with a parapet on top'

Answer: a rampart


Question: 'This type of dr. specializes in the kidneys, bladder & ureters, as well as the male reproductive organs'

Answer: a urologist


Question: 'The original name for the hero was Jumpman, & he was a carpenter, not a plumber, in this game'

Answer: Donkey Kong


Question: 'Prague's airport named for this author was dubbed the "World's Most Alienating Airport"'

Answer: (Franz) Kafka


Question: 'You're gonna need a bigger boat than the Orca in this Peter Benchley thriller'

Answer: Jaws


Question: 'Police had to remove buyers who were building toll barriers after George Parker sold this New York structure to them'

Answer: the Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'It describes sound or video played in real time over the Internet'

Answer: streaming


Question: 'Types of this surgical gripping device include gingival, hemostatic & Goldblatt'

Answer: clamps


Question: 'The name of this game, shown in the updated "zone" version, is a play on the Greek word for "four"'

Answer: Tetris


Question: 'Last name of John D. & Catherine T., whose "Foundation Goes On Wild Endowment Binge"'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'The Hispaniola is found in this Stevenson high seas quest'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'In 1911 Eduardo de Valfierno stole this Renaissance portrait in order to sell 6 forgeries of it'

Answer: the Mona Lisa


Question: 'Bravely, like a knight errant'

Answer: gallantly


Question: 'Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins represent this state that elected Margaret Chase Smith to both houses'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Steve's rockhound goes to save the world with Ben Affleck & Owen Wilson in this 1998 flick'

Answer: Armageddon


Question: 'Pigs do it in the mud; some people do it "in self-pity"'

Answer: wallow


Question: 'Many books, like a 1688 illustrated "Paradise Lost", were once sold by this method used by magazines that come in the mail'

Answer: subscription


Question: 'Oh, my!  A George Takei TV character shares his last name with this sea between the Philippine Islands & Borneo'

Answer: Sulu


Question: 'On July 18, 1792 this "Father of the American Navy" bought his "Stairway to Heaven"'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'In a brutal 2008 race, Kay Hagan beat this woman to take over as senator from North Carolina'

Answer: (Elizabeth) Dole


Question: 'It was goodbye, Mr. Chips when Peter Stormare disposed of Steve in grisly fashion in this 1996 film'

Answer: Fargo


Question: 'Paul wrote one "to the Romans"'

Answer: an epistle


Question: 'The Literary Guild is one of these (not the kind that meets at Mindy's house this Sunday)'

Answer: a book club


Question: 'Ports on this sea include Riga & Stockholm'

Answer: Baltic


Question: 'The grandfather & father of this P.O.W./politician are the USA's only father & son to each be a full admiral'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'Debbie Stabenow was named the "Great Lakes Legislator of the Year" for this state'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'As Donny, Steve didn't live to see the end of this 1998 Coen Brothers film ...but The Dude abides'

Answer: The Big Lebowski


Question: 'Be careful what you write about another person; if it's defamatory & untrue, it's this crime'

Answer: libel


Question: 'Xlibris is a P.O.D. service, P.O.D. standing for this do-it-yourself method'

Answer: print on demand


Question: 'This sea's widest north-south extent is between Libya & Croatia'

Answer: the Mediterranean


Question: 'Despite his Army-sounding 1st name, he was a Naval officer in WWII before leading the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1966'

Answer: Sargent Shriver


Question: 'Gov. Mel Carnahan died but was nevertheless elected senator, so his wife Jean filled the vacancy for this state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Steve took to the skies as Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene in this Nicolas Cage pic'

Answer: Con Air


Question: 'It's the part of a racetrack between the last turn & the finish line'

Answer: the homestretch


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some folded sheets of paper.)  In Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his plays were printed in quarto, folding a sheet twice to make four leaves; "Henry VI, Part 3" appeared in this format, folding three times to make eight leaves'

Answer: octavo


Question: 'It's the biblical sea depicted here'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'In the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, he ignored Admiral Parker's signal to disengage, putting a telescope to his blind eye'

Answer: Nelson


Question: 'The great-great-grandfather of this Republican senator from Texas signed the Texas Declaration of Independence'

Answer: Kay Bailey Hutchison


Question: 'Hi, I'm Steve, I'll dress like Buddy Holly & be John & Uma's waiter in this 1994 film'

Answer: Pulp Fiction


Question: 'A pain in the neck, or a twist in a rope or thread'

Answer: a kink


Question: 'A book may be released under one of these, also a mark made in something soft; Bantam Classics is one'

Answer: an imprint


Question: '"Abel"-bodied sailors navigate this Down Under sea that has a max depth of about 17,000 feet'

Answer: the Tasman Sea


Question: 'At the Battle of Mobile Bay, this Union Naval officer won fame by saying, "Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead!"'

Answer: (David) Farragut


Question: 'On Sept. 30, 2008 Daily Variety reprised this 5-word headline from Oct. 30, 1929'

Answer: Wall Street Lays An Egg


Question: 'The name of this 111-year-old association means it's for moms & dads & educators'

Answer: the PTA (Parent-Teacher\'s Association)


Question: '1989:<br />"The ___ Baker Boys"'

Answer: Fabulous


Question: 'Just one look at this island southeast of Sumatra makes me want a cup of coffee'

Answer: Java


Question: 'This line of auto body products includes 4 Minute Epoxy Steel & EZ Finish Bumper Repair Adhesive'

Answer: Bondo


Question: 'This purple Jurassic giant is a PBS headliner'

Answer: Barney


Question: 'After years of trial & error, Nobel invented this explosive in 1866, making him a very rich man'

Answer: dynamite


Question: 'The president of Gallaudet helped found the AAPD, American Association of People with these'

Answer: Disabilities


Question: '1960:<br />"The ___ Seven"'

Answer: Magnificent


Question: 'Say ahhhhhhhh! The Dalton Iceberg Tongue on this continent actually looks like a tongue'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Johnson & Johnson says it's a myth that uncovered wounds heal faster & advises using this adhesive brand'

Answer: Band-Aid


Question: 'These crustaceans adhere to ships' hulls'

Answer: barnacles


Question: 'Alfred Nobel was raised in this Russian city, then the capital, & also went to college there'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'As an old man in 1787, Ben Franklin took on the presidency of a "Society for Promoting the Abolition of" this'

Answer: Slavery


Question: '2000:<br />"The ___ Storm"'

Answer: Perfect


Question: 'This world capital has the same name as a character in "Romeo and Juliet"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Because it was waterproof, this popular sticky stuff may have originally been named for the bird'

Answer: duct tape


Question: 'Step right up! This impresario's ostentatious mansion was known as "Iranistan"'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'Nobel's will established his namesake prizes for chemistry, physics, medicine & physiology, literature & this'

Answer: peace


Question: 'The Society Islands in French Polynesia got their name from a visit by Captain Cook & this society'

Answer: the Royal Society of London


Question: '1969:<br />"The ___ Bunch"'

Answer: Wild


Question: 'The Greater Antilles are big islands, like Cuba; the smaller ones may get a complex with this "diminuitive" name'

Answer: the Lesser Antilles


Question: 'Use instant glue for glass & white glue with a clamp for wood, which has these, like skin, for glue to enter'

Answer: pores


Question: 'Aerial acrobatics popular in the Midwest after WWI'

Answer: barnstorming


Question: 'In 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded by academies & institutes of these 2 countries'

Answer: Norway & Sweden


Question: 'In 1957 Tom Hayden went off to college in Ann Arbor, where he would co-found this 1960s student organization'

Answer: Students for a Democratic Society


Question: '2005:<br />"The ___ Gardener"'

Answer: Constant


Question: 'A digitally enhanced map of these bodies of water in New York State shows you how they got this name'

Answer: the Finger Lakes


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew sticks some white stuff on the bottom of a vase.) A quick, adhering substance that holds valuables in place & won't harm wood shelves is sold as this type of putty, named for the type of institution that uses it'

Answer: museum putty


Question: 'Private 4-year women's college located at 3009 Broadway in Manhattan'

Answer: Barnard


Question: 'In the 1850s Nobel lived in the U.S. & studied under John Ericsson, the builder of this first Union ironclad warship'

Answer: the Monitor


Question: 'He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'It begins, "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"'

Answer: "The Sounds Of Silence"


Question: 'You'll get 3 As for effort for knowing the name of this mammal comes from Afrikaans for "earth pig"'

Answer: aardvark


Question: 'This Western-type tie made with a cord & a sliding clasp is also called a shoelace tie'

Answer: a bolo


Question: 'In the family plot at Monticello'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'It's the given name of NBA superstar "Magic" Johnson'

Answer: Earvin


Question: 'Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his'

Answer: Our Town


Question: 'In "Mrs. Robinson" Simon wrote, "A nation turns its lonely eyes to" this man'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'Its name comes from Greek words meaning "nose-horned"'

Answer: a rhinoceros


Question: 'In 1966 this Algerian-born designer opened a series of boutiques called Rive Gauche'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'At his national historic site in West Branch, Iowa'

Answer: Hoover


Question: 'This brand of natural spring water comes from the French Alps'

Answer: Evian


Question: 'His autobiographical play "Chapter Two" dealt with the death of his first wife, Joan'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: '"Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona, see you, me and" him "down by the school yard"'

Answer: Julio


Question: 'This large partly white sea bird derives its name in part from the Latin word for "white"'

Answer: the albatross


Question: 'These pants for women came down to just below the knee & were named for their common use in bicycling'

Answer: pedal-pushers


Question: 'At the Notch Cemetery in Plymouth, Vermont'

Answer: Coolidge


Question: 'Wapiti, also known in America as this, are actually one of the largest species of deer'

Answer: elk


Question: 'It's the Samuel Beckett play in which "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'Simon's 1973 song about this color transparency film said "Give us those nice bright colors"'

Answer: Kodachrome


Question: 'The name ofthis red-haired denizen of Borneo's rain forests is Malay for "forest man"'

Answer: orangutan


Question: 'Several years before his topless bathing suits were the rage in 1964, women were buying his tube dresses'

Answer: Rudi Gernreich


Question: 'At the Old North Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire'

Answer: (Franklin) Pierce


Question: '(Alex delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, posing for the camera with Kelly.) The Sony DSCT-100's face detection feature brings out expression by controlling focus, color, flash & this, the amount of light'

Answer: exposure


Question: 'In this Wendy Wasserstein play, 3 Jewish sisters from Brooklyn meet up in London to celebrate a birthday'

Answer: The Sisters Rosensweig


Question: 'In "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon told her to "Sail on... sail on by, your time has come to shine"'

Answer: Silvergirl


Question: 'This just in... noted for its strength, this breed of horse seen here was named for a schoolteacher'

Answer: Morgan


Question: 'This Spaniard opened his house in 1915 & counted the Duchess of Windsor & Princess Grace among his clients'

Answer: Cristobal Balenciaga


Question: 'On the Capitol grounds in Nashville'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: 'This type of school course is taken for fun, or just to expand your knowledge'

Answer: elective


Question: 'The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science"'

Answer: the Emmy Award


Question: 'The flag of this country also appears on the flags of Tuvalu, Fiji & Australia'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'She was Ophelia to Branagh's "Hamlet" in '96 but one year later, her career got a "Titanic" boost'

Answer: Kate Winslet


Question: 'Completes the clock-changing mnemonic "Spring forward..."'

Answer: fall back


Question: 'In 1979 Eisenhower was demoted off the dollar coin & replaced by this women's rights leader'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'By definition, vasodilator drugs are used to widen these'

Answer: blood vessels


Question: 'Susanna Dickinson & her child were among the few Texan survivors of the 1836 battle at this site in San Antonio'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: 'Oliver Hazard Perry's flag featured the words "Don't Give Up" this'

Answer: the Ship


Question: 'Her character Penny Lane was in our eyes & in our ears after she was nominated for an Oscar for "Almost Famous"'

Answer: Kate Hudson


Question: 'This line of a rhyme tells us what happened "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two"'

Answer: Columbus sailed the ocean blue


Question: 'A few rare 1965 quarters were still made of this metal; the Mint switched to a clad coin that year'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Abbreviated OTC, it describes a class of drugs deemed safe enough for self-medication'

Answer: over the counter


Question: 'On January 22, 1973 this politician suffered a fatal heart attack near Johnson City, a town founded by an ancestor'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'In its canton Greece's flag features a white one of these'

Answer: cross


Question: '"Today" she still works the A.M. shift, but in 2001 it was rumored she would become an afternoon host'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'Astronomically, remember "My very excellent memory just served up nine" these'

Answer: planets


Question: 'The 1909-S V.D.B. version of this coin is a grail to collectors; just watch out for counterfeits'

Answer: Lincoln head penny


Question: 'Cyclosporine is used to prevent this after an organ transplant (it won't help you when asking someone out)'

Answer: rejection


Question: 'His death on Nov. 22, 1963 after riding through Dallas' Dealey Plaza shocked the world'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'This black bird of the crow family was a symbol of good luck in battle on Viking flags'

Answer: raven


Question: 'Before becoming a "Voyager" captain, she played a love interest of Sam Malone's on "Cheers"'

Answer: Kate Mulgrew


Question: 'The spaces on the treble clef are a simple F-A-C-E; on this clef they're remembered with "All cows eat grass"'

Answer: bass clef


Question: 'Musical instrument pictured on the back of the U.S. Bicentennial quarter'

Answer: drum


Question: 'Known by the brand name Rogaine, the drug minoxidil is used to treat this "losing" condition'

Answer: loss of hair


Question: 'Born in El Paso in 1921, this "Star Trek" creator crossed "the final frontier" in 1991'

Answer: Gene Roddenberry


Question: 'Adopted in 1965, Ontario's flag features 3 of these leaves'

Answer: maple leaves


Question: 'Celebrity birthdays for January 16 include Marilyn Horne, A.J. Foyt & this waif supermodel'

Answer: Kate Moss


Question: 'To remember these from largest in area to smallest, try "Sam's horse must eat oats"'

Answer: the Great Lakes


Question: 'Collectors don't use "tails" & "heads", they use the terms reverse & this'

Answer: obverse


Question: 'It's the medical abbrev. used to identify the drug azidothymidine, a drug used to combat the AIDS virus'

Answer: AZT


Question: 'J. Frank Dalton was buried in Granbury in 1951, after years of claiming to be this outlaw, who died in 1882'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'There are railroad shops in this city, also a railroad name on a Monopoly board'

Answer: Reading


Question: 'The senior prom queen has this color hair, like her punky granddaughter & Marge Simpson'

Answer: blue


Question: 'Calabrese salami is made from this meat; kosher salami wouldn't be'

Answer: pork


Question: 'On April 3, 1974, during an 18-hour period, 148 of these touched down, ravaging towns in the Midwest'

Answer: tornadoes


Question: 'This author's Spanish Civil War tale "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was grippingly filmed during WWII'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'A small cafeteria on a military base, or a water flask carried by a soldier on a hike'

Answer: canteen


Question: 'This suburb of Pittsburgh was named for industrialist Andrew'

Answer: Carnegie


Question: 'Grandpa wears this item seen here with his tux, as his wristwatch doesn't go with French cuffs'

Answer: pocket watch


Question: 'It's the popular & spicy pizza salami seen here'

Answer: pepperoni


Question: 'A few hours after the announcement that this country had been formed, it was attacked by Egypt & Lebanon on May 15, 1948'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'John Malkovich helps rescue Leonardo DiCaprio's Philippe, the title character of this 1998 film'

Answer: The Man in the Iron Mask


Question: 'From the Middle English for "beautiful", it's the last name of "presidential" actor Martin'

Answer: Sheen


Question: 'The origins of this city's name are fishy; it may be from the Latin altus for "high" or from a Native American word'

Answer: Altoona


Question: 'The seniors prom may feature jitterbug dancing, to this jazz style that became popular in the 1930s'

Answer: swing


Question: 'The word salami comes from the Latin word for this compound that's also known as sodium chloride'

Answer: salt


Question: 'King Charles II personally helped battle the fire that raged in this city in September 1666'

Answer: London


Question: 'Rumpelstiltskin is a character in the 1962 fantasy "The Wonderful World of" these German brothers'

Answer: the Grimm brothers


Question: 'This spongy organ filters foreign substances & damaged cells from the blood'

Answer: spleen


Question: 'Appropriately, this city is Pennsylvania's largest port on the Great Lakes'

Answer: Erie


Question: 'Seniors crowd the buffet table for the Matjes type of this pickled item seen here'

Answer: herring


Question: 'This culinary term for the way a salami is aged sounds like you're healing it'

Answer: curing


Question: 'In June 1783 Lakagigar began spewing lava on this north Atlantic island & didn't stop until February 1784'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Now president of the National Rifle Association, he was an evil cardinal in 1973's "The Three Musketeers"'

Answer: Charlton Heston


Question: 'Top selling Lifesavers rolls are Five Flavors, then this, then Pep-O-Mint & Butter Rum'

Answer: Wint-O-Green


Question: 'People have their "Phil" of this town each Groundhog Day'

Answer: Punxsutawney


Question: 'If the excitement makes Grandma ill, she may get coverage from this government program that turned 35 in 2000'

Answer: Medicare


Question: 'Cubed salami is often served as a part of this Italian dish whose name means "before the meal"'

Answer: antipasto


Question: 'A freak flood swept away a bridge, causing an Auckland-bound train to crash on Dec. 24, 1953 in this nation'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'A 1935 version of this Dostoyevsky classic is seen here'

Answer: Crime and Punishment


Question: 'Pop artist Andy Warhol created many of his pictures by using this stencil process'

Answer: silkscreen


Question: 'On July 13, 1859 he told Horace Greeley, "I have fifteen wives; I know no one who has more"'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'Since Vermont entered the Union as State number 14 in 1891, this many more have followed it'

Answer: 36


Question: 'This animated character may grasp advanced science, but he still needs to be in bed before 9'

Answer: Jimmy Neutron


Question: '5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer'

Answer: a virus


Question: 'Miki are Asian noodles made with this poultry product'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Dad Bill was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univ.; she earned a master's in international relations at Oxford in 2003'

Answer: Chelsea Clinton


Question: 'To cereal lovers, it's a friend of Crackle; it's also in the title of a kids' song about a weasel'

Answer: pop


Question: 'If Newton had 1 apple drop on his head on Monday, 3 on Tuesday & 5 on Wednesday, he averaged this number a day'

Answer: 3


Question: 'The half-boy, half-ghost seen here battles the paranormal at Casper High on this series'

Answer: Danny Phantom (Danny Fenton accepted)


Question: 'The many versions of Windows are the flagship products of this company'

Answer: Microsoft


Question: 'Toshikoshi soba, or "year-crossing noodles", are traditionally eaten on this night in Japan'

Answer: New Year\'s Eve


Question: 'They're the only 2 sons of U.S. presidents to be elected president'

Answer: George W. Bush and John Quincy Adams


Question: 'A dog named Rover might be black or brown, but this color "rover" is a popular kids' game'

Answer: Red Rover


Question: 'The Incan empire was split between 2 sons in 1525; if there had been 5 sons, each would have gotten this percent'

Answer: 20%


Question: 'Seen here are the hosts of this show, where U watch, U call, and U click'

Answer: U Pick Live


Question: 'It's the hardware item whose name comes from "modulator demodulator"'

Answer: modem


Question: 'You'll find dancing noodles on the website of Real Torino, which markets rigatoni, spaghetti & other types of this'

Answer: pasta


Question: 'He had no kids of his own, but he loved his stepdaughter Patsy Custis as if she were his own daughter'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'It's a hemispherical portion of ice cream that you dish out with a utensil of the same name'

Answer: scooper (or scoop)


Question: 'If Clyde the Chaldean turned out 3 cuneiform tablets an hour, & worked 8 hours a day for 5 days, he made this many'

Answer: 120


Question: 'This kid lives with his grandparents in a boarding house--where kids aren't allowed'

Answer: Arnold


Question: 'This letter of the alphabet represents 1,024 bytes'

Answer: K


Question: 'If your take-out place makes lousy mee krob, fly to Bangkok in this country to sample it from the source'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'They're also called milk teeth & you probably began to lose yours when you were about 6'

Answer: baby teeth


Question: 'If the 15th C. Wars of the Roses had been fought with real roses, & each side had 48 roses, it totaled this many dozen'

Answer: 8


Question: 'XJ-9, also known as Jenny, would rather hang with friends and read magazines than save the world in this animated series'

Answer: My Life as a Teenage Robot


Question: 'Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down'

Answer: local area network


Question: 'If you can't cook anything else, grab the cream of mushroom soup & learn to make the classic tuna noodle this'

Answer: casserole


Question: 'Poogles, Quiggles & Kougras are 3 types of these "pets" that have their own website'

Answer: Neopets


Question: 'In Europe, the beautiful blue Danube eventually empties into this sea of another color'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'Your body has about 650 of these including the biceps and hamstrings'

Answer: muscles


Question: 'Elizabeth Van Lew pretended to be mentally ill but she was really working as a Union spy in this capital of Virginia'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'Familiar tune that begins "It's a world of laughter, a world of tears"'

Answer: "It\'s A Small World"


Question: 'Some of these insects known for eating wood grow their own fungi for food in their mounds'

Answer: termites


Question: 'A crimson bunk'

Answer: a red bed


Question: 'O this little town in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley is known as the "Christmas City"'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Top Secret Jeopardy! Science Lab wearing his official Clue Crew lab coat.)  Both men and women have this cartilage in the throat that has a biblical name'

Answer: the Adam\'s apple


Question: 'This woman's work on the Underground Railroad later inspired an opera called "She Never Lost a Passenger"'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew does a thumb-to-forefinger upward crawl with her hands.)  It's the song moms sing that goes along with these hand movements'

Answer: "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"


Question: 'Word for the animal seen here, a National League ballplayer, or a young scout'

Answer: cub


Question: 'A cloudless sky-coloured sneaker'

Answer: a blue shoe


Question: 'This country that's named for a South American hero lies on Peru's eastern border'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'Containing 33 vertebrae, it's also known as the vertebral column'

Answer: the spine


Question: 'Confederate General Richard Taylor was the son of this U.S. President'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'The song "God Bless The U.S.A." says, "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm" this'

Answer: free


Question: 'Normally a dormouse spends the day doing this'

Answer: sleeping


Question: 'An earth-colored circus comic'

Answer: a brown clown


Question: 'It forms a republic with Herzegovina'

Answer: Bosnia


Question: 'The upper 7 pairs of these are attached to the breastbone; the others are considered "false" or "floating"'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'This famous nurse was nearly killed when a bullet ripped through her dress at the battle of Antietam'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'A familiar spiritual says "Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt land, tell Old Pharaoh" this'

Answer: to let my people go


Question: 'The spotted or laughing species of this lives in clans of up to 100 in the South Sahara'

Answer: hyena


Question: 'An emerald female monarch'

Answer: a green queen


Question: 'Until 1973 these islands off the southeast coast of Florida belonged to Great Britain'

Answer: the Bahamas


Question: 'The "X" and "Y" ones of these gene structures are inherited from your parents & determine if you're male or female'

Answer: chromosomes


Question: 'Born into slavery around 1818, this great orator helped recruit his fellow African-Americans for the Union army'

Answer: Frederick Douglass


Question: 'In this song "seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day"'

Answer: "Home On The Range"


Question: 'There are 3 classes of annelids: bristleworms, earthworms & these bloodsuckers'

Answer: leeches


Question: 'Blushing writing liquid'

Answer: pink ink


Question: 'As described in the Bible, the total volume of this was 450,000 cubic cubits'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: 'Around 965 B.C., cedar trees from Lebanon were used to build this city's temple to house the Ark of the Covenant'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'Each year millions of people participate in this indoor game using special shoes & Brunswick equipment'

Answer: bowling


Question: 'Sophocles:<br />"Octopus Wrecks"'

Answer: Oedipus Rex


Question: 'In 1966 Clark & Gollan performed experiments that led to artificial this, probably exciting news to artificial vampires'

Answer: artificial blood


Question: '"From Russia with Love" was the fifth novel to feature this hero'

Answer: James Bond


Question: '2-word term for the illegal use of someone's personal information to obtain money or credit'

Answer: identity theft


Question: 'Lysander tried & failed to make this militaristic ancient Greek city-state an elective monarchy'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'The Cup of the Americas is up for grabs in matches between the U.S. & Argentina in this mounted game'

Answer: polo


Question: 'Oliver Goldsmith:<br />"She Stops to Conquer"'

Answer: She Stoops to Conquer


Question: 'On April 8, 1966 the L.A. Dodgers played on this surface for the first time (it was during an away game)'

Answer: astroturf


Question: 'His Fifth Symphony was the first major symphonic work to use the trombone'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'An MTV series bears the name of this newly listed definition for a musical instrument not amplified'

Answer: Unplugged


Question: 'In this Yucatan culture, caves were the portal between our world & Xibalba, the world of the gods'

Answer: the Mayan


Question: '5,6 jackstraws, no, 5,6 spillikins, no, 5,6 this; yeah, that's it, same game'

Answer: pick up sticks


Question: 'Sam Shepard:<br />"Tool for Glove"'

Answer: Fool for Love


Question: 'Lee makes them in active length in such colors as Joyful & Fascinating'

Answer: artificial nails


Question: 'On his fifth voyage, his ship is destroyed by giant angry mythical birds called rocs'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: '"Monstrous" name for genetically engineered vittles'

Answer: "Frankenfood"


Question: 'In 621 B.C. this Greek lawmaker introduced a code of law so harsh it was said to be written in blood'

Answer: Draco


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Bronx, New York)  A broomstick & a Spaldeen were all you needed for this street game; Willie Mays was famous for joining in'

Answer: stickball


Question: 'Harold Pinter:<br />"The Birthday Pastry"'

Answer: The Birthday Party


Question: 'Pam Anderson is a supporter of pleather, which is short for this'

Answer: plastic leather


Question: 'It's the fifth book of the Bible's New Testament'

Answer: the Acts of the Apostles


Question: 'An arrangement of hair on a bald man in which hair from the side is used to cover the bald spot'

Answer: comb over


Question: 'Alexander the Great routed this Persian king at the Battle of Issus & captured his wife, mother & daughters'

Answer: Darius (the III)


Question: 'Around Japan you'll find parlors filled with these games that are a cross between pinball & slot machines'

Answer: pachinko


Question: 'Aeschylus:<br />"Steven Again Thebes"'

Answer: Seven Against Thebes


Question: 'This company is putting the kibosh on sellers of those Jelly Kelly knock-offs of its Kelly bags'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'This African-American was elected to his fifth term as Los Angeles mayor in 1989'

Answer: Tom Bradley


Question: 'A restaurant or bar decorated in a simulated Polynesian theme'

Answer: tiki bar


Question: 'Born June 23, 1894 were Edward VIII, who gave up a throne for love, & this biologist who gave his career to sex'

Answer: Alfred Kinsey


Question: 'With Mel Gibson as Scottish hero William Wallace'

Answer: Braveheart


Question: 'Hungry?  Grab this candy bar that's "Packed with Peanuts"'

Answer: Snickers


Question: 'Abbreviated Est., this former Soviet republic was est. (established) as an independent country in 1991'

Answer: Estonia


Question: 'This tax shelter for later in your life was created in 1974 to assist those without company pension plans'

Answer: IRA


Question: 'Unpacked 1913 in NYC, led the Packers to 5 championships, packed it in, 1970'

Answer: Vince Lombardi


Question: 'Richard Schultes, the father of ethnobotany, studied & sampled this cactus sacred to some Native Americans'

Answer: peyote


Question: 'With Salma Hayek as the artist-wife of Diego Rivera'

Answer: Frida


Question: 'A classic model from this company is seen here'

Answer: Fender


Question: 'Universities founded in the 12th & 19th centuries are in cities named this in England & Mississippi'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Name of Admiral Richard Byrd's pet fox terrier or the Arctic house he could keep him in'

Answer: Igloo


Question: 'Born 1485 in Spain, thought a god in Mexico, died in Spain in 1547'

Answer: Cortes


Question: 'Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity & was the first to liquefy this light gas, in 1908'

Answer: helium


Question: 'With Ray Liotta as mobster turned FBI informant Henry Hill'

Answer: Goodfellas


Question: 'In TV ads in the '60s, Josephine the Plumber used this "out of this world" cleanser'

Answer: Comet


Question: 'If you want to be a lady tonight in Lucknow, head to this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'This metal that's cast & wrought is even found in the sun'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Born in Connecticut in 1800, helped capture an arsenal in 1859, died a martyr that same year'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'Before marrying Marie, Pierre Curie made discoveries in crystallography with this frere of his'

Answer: Jacques Curie


Question: 'With Leonardo DiCaprio as con man Frank Abagnale, Jr.'

Answer: Catch Me If You Can


Question: 'John Lloyd Wright, Frank's son, invented this classic toy, notched lengths of wood'

Answer: Lincoln Logs


Question: 'A Montagnais is a Native American in Quebec; a Monegasque is a resident of this country'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'Io, a priestess at Argos in Greek myth, is identified with this Egyptian goddess'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'Born 1925 in Chicago, made 'em laugh, talked to a mule, shuffled off in 2003'

Answer: Donald O\'Connor


Question: 'This electricity investigator is a hero in the Balkans & a museum in Belgrade was named for him'

Answer: Tesla


Question: 'With Greg Kinnear as actor Bob Crane'

Answer: Auto Focus


Question: 'The name of this brand comes from the Greek for "all" & the Latin for "sound"'

Answer: Panasonic


Question: 'These 2 countries have coasts on the Gulf of Bothnia'

Answer: Sweden & Finland


Question: 'In 1541 he was elected general of the Jesuits, a new order he had founded'

Answer: Ignatius of Loyola


Question: 'Born in 1820, found the manifesto of his dreams in 1848, put up das kapital for a Marx work, died 1895'

Answer: Engels


Question: 'In 1924 he succeeded William J. Burns who had resigned; he remained in his position for the next 48 years'

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover


Question: 'When Apollo 11 reached the moon, Lawrence Knutson was the voice of Mission Control in this city'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'This band's 2001 CD "Weathered" spent 8 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard album chart'

Answer: Creed


Question: 'Chicago & Waukegan are Illinois' busiest ports on this lake'

Answer: Lake Michigan


Question: 'The Dionnes, born in 1934, were famous ones'

Answer: quintuplets


Question: 'Along with St. Andrew's & St. Patrick's, his cross appears on Britain's Union Jack'

Answer: St. George


Question: 'Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang'

Answer: St. Valentine\'s Day


Question: '23-year-old Donald Turnupseed was the other driver in this 24-year-old actor's fatal crash'

Answer: James Dean


Question:
''70s classic heard here

"Plucked her eyebrows on the way /
Shaved her legs and then he was a she /
She says, 'Hey babe'"'

Answer: "Walk On The Wild Side"


Question:
'It's referred to in the song heard here

"Old man river /
He just keeps rolling /
Along"'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'It's the ship in Melville's famous whale tale'

Answer: the Pequod


Question: 'T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" deals with the murder of this saint'

Answer: Thomas à Becket


Question: 'Born in Brooklyn in 1899, this gangster got his nickname from a knife cut to his cheeck'

Answer: Al Capone ("Scarface")


Question: 'James Blake was driving the bus in this city on the night when Rosa Parks wouldn't stand up'

Answer: Montgomery (Alabama)


Question: 'Aaron Lewis is the lead singer of this "It's Been Awhile" alterna-band'

Answer: Staind


Question: 'This state is home to Penobscot Bay, Penobscot Lake & Penobscot River'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Like "Tommy", this '70s rock opera by The Who was also made into a movie'

Answer: Quadrophenia


Question: 'St. Paul shares his June 29 feast day with this man whom he rebukes in Galatians'

Answer: St. Peter


Question: 'It was long thought that this gangster, seen here, got his nickname from his careful grooming habits'

Answer: "Pretty Boy" Floyd


Question: 'Clint Hartung & Whitey Lockman were on base when this N.Y. Giant won the 1951 pennant with a home run'

Answer: Bobby Thomson


Question:
'This group heard here gets its name from a hockey penalty

"I'm more than a bird /
I'm more than a plane /
I'm more than some pretty face /
Beside a train"'

Answer: Five for Fighting


Question: 'New Jersey's western boundary is formed by this river'

Answer: the Delaware


Question: 'It's Latin for any 4-footed animal'

Answer: quadruped


Question: 'He's the "beloved physician" of Colossians'

Answer: Luke


Question: 'Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime'

Answer: "Machine Gun" Kelly


Question: 'Albert Smith, mayor of this suburb, helped stop American Nazis from marching there in the late 1970s'

Answer: Skokie (Illinois)


Question: 'Footage from a concert at the Fillmore is included in his video for "Babylon"'

Answer: David Gray


Question: 'This river that flows out of Lake Tahoe is named for an Indian guide, not a big rig'

Answer: the Truckee


Question: 'In Mexico the juice of certain agaves is used to make this milky fermented drink'

Answer: pulque


Question: 'A follower of St. Francis, this "poor" saint is the patroness of television'

Answer: Claire


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from a building on an infamous island.)  This "Birdman of Alcatraz" raised canaries at Leavenworth, but wasn't permitted birds here in his cell at Alcatraz'

Answer: (Robert) Stroud


Question: 'As you'd expect, radon gas is collected out of the radioactive decay of this element, symbol Ra'

Answer: radium


Question: 'Funicello & Fabray'

Answer: Annette & Nanette


Question: 'If you're in top physical condition, you can climb this 14,691-foot peak also known as Monte Cervino'

Answer: the Matterhorn


Question: 'This physician born in 1903 has been called "The man who reared 50 million kids"'

Answer: (Dr.) Spock


Question: 'He died in 1969 but popped up on a U.S. dollar coin 2 years later'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'His portrait subjects include Ginevra de' Benci & Lisa del Giocondo'

Answer: Da Vinci


Question: 'In an exception to the norm, Co, cobalt, atomic number 27, is heavier than this element, Ni, atomic number 28'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'Lincoln & Arthur'

Answer: Abe & Bea


Question: 'Swiss banks store heaps of gold in vaults below the Bahnhofstrasse, an elegant street in this city'

Answer: Zurich


Question: 'Thomas Wolfe described this island as a "million-footed, tower-masted, and sky-soaring citadel"'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'The word thaler, which became dollar, is from Joachimsthal, site of a mine for this metal'

Answer: silver


Question: 'When he was born on Crete around 1540, Crete belonged to Venice, so he could have been El Veneto'

Answer: El Greco


Question: 'It's the valence number of the oxygen atom in a molecule of water'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Banks & Dunne'

Answer: Irene & Ernie


Question: 'Schwyz, one of the 23 states called these that make up Switzerland today, was one of the original 3'

Answer: cantons


Question: 'The "3 Million Bill" passed by Congress in 1847 appropriated $3 million for the purchase of land from this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '2-word term for a golf score of 3 under par on a hole, or the old $20 coin it might have won you'

Answer: double eagle


Question: 'In 1883 Claude Monet settled in this hamlet 50 miles from Paris, often seen in his later works'

Answer: Giverny


Question: '4-letter word for the intrinsic angular momentum of an elementary particle'

Answer: spin


Question: 'Campion & Chretien'

Answer: Jane & Jean


Question: 'This 16th century Dutch scholar is buried in Basel'

Answer: Erasmus


Question: 'Of the 10 million slaves sent to the Americas over 3 1/2 centuries, almost 40 percent went to this Latin American country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'A "Benjamin" from it would have meant a $2 note, which showed its Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin'

Answer: the Confederacy


Question: 'Van Gogh & Kandinsky were in this modern art "show" named for the NYC military building where it was held in 1913'

Answer: the Armory Show


Question: 'This "point" doesn't mean someone's being judgmental--it's where liquid & gaseous phases become identical'

Answer: the critical point


Question: 'Baxter & Buffett'

Answer: Warner & Warren


Question: 'A period of the Mesozoic era was named for this mountain range that straddles the Swiss-French border'

Answer: the Jura


Question: 'Led by a man from Popowo, in 1981 it had 10 million members'

Answer: Solidarity


Question: 'This revolutionary year (not the one you might think) appears on the front of all U.S. dollar bills'

Answer: 1789


Question: 'Ms. Gentileschi, the painter, rape victim, & movie subject whose work is seen here, had this first name'

Answer: Artemisia


Question: 'One of its title studies is Sen. Edmund Ross' 1868 vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson'

Answer: Profiles in Courage


Question: 'Signing him out of high school, you might say the Yankees grabbed him right in "The Mick" of time'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis From Overseas" because he was raised in England'

Answer: France


Question: 'This country leads the world in the number of divorces & the number of psychiatrists'

Answer: U.S.A.


Question: 'A Dover, Delaware museum depicts the history of this early phonograph'

Answer: Victrola


Question: 'Julius Caesar used them to carry the news of his victory in Gaul back to Rome'

Answer: Carrier Pigeons


Question: 'Paul's group before Wings'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: 'This male heartthrob who first gained notice in "Thelma & Louise" was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: 'William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'The most valuable painting is this 30.5" by 20.9" da Vinci masterpiece'

Answer: Mona Lisa


Question: 'One of the largest natural history museums in the world, this NYC facility has over 40 exhibition halls'

Answer: American Museum of Natural History


Question: 'Other woodpeckers will take advantage of the drink holes drilled by these yellow-bellied birds'

Answer: Sapsuckers


Question: 'A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft'

Answer: Beacon


Question:
'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
Country star heard here in a song played simultaneously across the nation April 19, 1996:
"I've been sayin' you'll never change things, & no matter what you do it's still the same thing..."'

Answer: Garth Brooks (played on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing)


Question: 'The first of this Mongol conqueror's many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'With 7 movies in the all-time Top 10, he's the world's most successful director'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'The National Atomic Museum is located at Kirtland Air Force Base near this largest New Mexico city'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'This ruby-throated bird has one of the highest metabolisms of warm-blooded vertebrates'

Answer: Hummingbird


Question: 'Interesting things are often found off this "path"'

Answer: The Beaten Path


Question: 'This senior senator from New York spent the first 6 months of his life in Oklahoma'

Answer: Daniel Patrick Moynihan


Question: 'Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'The fastest dancer in this style is Solero De Jerez, who attained 16 heel taps per second in 1967'

Answer: Flamenco


Question: 'City where you'd find the Stedelijk & Van Gogh Museums'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'There are Nashville & Tennessee species of this bird whose name is a synonym for singer'

Answer: Warbler


Question: 'This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before'

Answer: Beagle


Question: 'The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650'

Answer: Oman


Question: 'This Microsoft co-founder became the youngest U.S. billionaire at age 31'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'This eastern Minnesota city is home to the Lake Superior Museum of Transportation'

Answer: Duluth


Question: 'This tallest of North American wading birds has a 5-foot-long windpipe that produces quite a sound'

Answer: Whooping Crane


Question: 'Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant'

Answer: Beaker


Question: 'An amoeba is made up entirely of this jelly that makes up all living things'

Answer: Protoplasm


Question: 'Much of this Georgia capital is in Fulton County, but part of it lies in DeKalb County'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'In 1924, 2 years before his death, he published "A Magician Among the Spirits"'

Answer: Harry Houdini


Question: 'In "The Main Event", she inherits a boxer played by her "What's Up Doc?" co-star Ryan O' Neal'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'This dairy product is sweetened & mixed with wine or cider to make the old English drink Syllabub'

Answer: Milk


Question: 'His first novel, "The Snake's Pass", was published in 1890, 7 years before "Dracula"'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'Every second, stem cells in this body tissue divide to replace 2 million red & white blood cells'

Answer: Bone Marrow


Question: 'Ponce De Leon was governor of Puerto Rico & Hernando De Soto was governor of this largest Caribbean island'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Tony Lo Bianco played this famous Rocky, not Rocky Balboa, in a 1979 TV movie'

Answer: Rocky Marciano


Question: 'The Canadian type of this distilled liquor is always blended'

Answer: Whiskey


Question: 'His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories'

Answer: Honore De Balzac


Question: 'Scientists date these last Asian homo erectus specimens at 300,000 - 500,000 years old'

Answer: Peking Man


Question: 'For most of the 1960s, this man was U.S. Secretary of State'

Answer: Dean Rusk


Question: 'Yo!  She played Adrian in all 5 "Rocky" movies'

Answer: Talia Shire


Question: 'This dark green vegetable is the main ingredient in spanakopitta, a Greek pie'

Answer: Spinach


Question: 'This novelist's mother, Francis Trollope, wrote a derogatory book about American manners in 1832'

Answer: Anthony Trollope


Question: 'Beatrix Potter was among the first to see that these organisms were a symbiosis between fungi & algae'

Answer: Lichens


Question: 'The highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains, there's no place like dome'

Answer: Clingman\'s Dome


Question: 'During the 1782-1810 Hawaiian Wars, he became king of all the Hawaiian Islands'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'Cathy Moriarty earned an Oscar nomination for her screen debut as Vickie LaMotta in this film'

Answer: "Raging Bull"


Question: 'The Turkish dish Imam Bayildi, whose name means "The imam fainted", is made with this heavy purple vegetable'

Answer: Eggplant


Question: '"Little Mr. Thimblefinger And His Queer Country" is a children's book by this creator of Uncle Remus'

Answer: Joel Chandler Harris


Question: 'Meaning "diminution", this cell division process cuts the number of chromosomes in half'

Answer: Meiosis


Question: 'Mount Hood, a volcanic peak, rises 11,239 feet in this mountain range'

Answer: The Cascades


Question: 'General U Ne Win became ruler of this country twice, each time deposing U Nu in a coup'

Answer: Burma/Myanmar


Question: 'In "The Kid From Brooklyn", this "White Christmas" co-star played a meek milkman who accidentally becomes a champ'

Answer: Danny Kaye


Question: 'This tripe soup, a favorite in Mexico, is often served with lime wedges, chopped chiles & onion'

Answer: Menudo


Question: 'This author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" served as U.S. consul in Glasgow 1880-85'

Answer: Bret Harte


Question: 'It's the largest landlocked country in the world'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'Michelangelo made "David", seen here, from this rock'

Answer: Marble


Question: 'This Jello pudding pitchman said the darnedest things to kids at Xavier University's commencement'

Answer: Bill Cosby


Question: 'His hunting rifle accessory made him "Telescope Teddy"'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'Most of this "Color Purple" author's first volume of poetry, "Once", was written in one week in 1964'

Answer: Alice Walker


Question: 'Term for a player who isn't recruited, but just "ambles" onto the field to try out'

Answer: Walk-on


Question: 'One "saved is" one "earned"'

Answer: A penny


Question: 'It's molten rock below ground'

Answer: Magma


Question: 'Graduates of Middlebury College in Vermont listened to this former president -- of Poland'

Answer: Lech Walesa


Question: 'He was "Haberdasher Harry"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


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

Answer: Allen Ginsberg


Question: 'Mississippi State is represented by this persistent creature seen here'

Answer: Bulldog


Question: 'It's an old warning said on parting about not accepting false five-cent pieces'

Answer: "Don\'t take any wooden nickels"


Question: 'A basic copper aluminum phosphate, it's the type of stone used here in an ancient Aztec ornament'

Answer: Turquoise


Question: 'This author took "The Firm" stance of telling Arkansas State grads to "leave the country"'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'The "Father of the Declaration of Independence"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In "Endymion" he wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'The university of this state was the fitting 1999-2000 champion of the Big Sky Conference'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'Term for the money used to "germinate" a new business, like maybe a flower shop'

Answer: Seed money


Question: 'Stalactites & stalagmites are formed primarily in caves of this "stone"'

Answer: Limestone


Question: 'Take a memo:<br />Stanford got a secretary to speak -- this Secretary-General'

Answer: Kofi Annan


Question: '"The Hero of Fort Donelson" as well as "The Hero of Appomattox"'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'This school's 1999 win over its archrival was overshadowed by the fatal collapse of a bonfire tower'

Answer: Texas A&M


Question: 'It was an old translation of the Bible that turned "money obtained dishonestly" into "filthy" this'

Answer: Lucre


Question: 'It's the earthy term for crystal lime nodules like the one seen here'

Answer: Geode


Question: 'In May 2000 Princeton got a queen, this Mideastern one, who's a Princeton alumna'

Answer: Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Halaby)


Question: 'The "Land Hero of 1812"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


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

Answer: Tamerlane


Question: 'The Outland Trophy goes to the nation's outstanding interior one of these -- no, not decorator'

Answer: Lineman


Question: 'To destroy someone's financial condition little by little is to do this to them "to death"'

Answer: Nickel & dime them


Question: 'In 1999 he hit the road with his E Street Band in their first major tour in over a decade'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'Both Continental Congresses met in this city; the first convened on September 5, 1774, the second on May 10, 1775'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This comedian & sitcom star has written about "Couplehood"'

Answer: Paul Reiser


Question: 'This U.S. university performs its Hasty Pudding theatricals in Bermuda during "College Weeks" in March & April'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'Every 12 years, followers of Jainism travel to Mysore in this country to bathe a statue of Gomateshwara'

Answer: India


Question: 'A travel document for identification'

Answer: Passport


Question: 'She's the distinctive-voiced singer whose recent hits include "I Try" & "Do Something"'

Answer: Macy Gray


Question: 'More than 1000 British soldiers were killed or wounded in this June 17, 1775 battle in Massachusetts'

Answer: Bunker Hill


Question: 'As this geeky bow-tie-clad character, Paul Reubens played a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall'

Answer: Pee-wee Herman


Question: 'The resort of Puerto Vallarta in this country lies on Banderas Bay, presumably not named for Antonio'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This Jewish holy day follows Rosh Hashanah by 10 days'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'Perhaps a much-sought northwest one, it's a corridor or pathway enclosed on both sides'

Answer: Passage


Question: 'The secret's out -- this Rob Thomas group grew out of another band called Tabitha's Secret'

Answer: Matchbox 20


Question: 'To aid them in the war, the British hired about 30,000 of these German soldiers, so named for their home principality'

Answer: Hessians


Question: 'After leaving "SNL", he joined the original cast of "Just Shoot Me"'

Answer: David Spade


Question: 'A museum in Tahiti is devoted to this French artist's works & his life in Polynesia'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'The basis of this religion's caste system can be found in the Manu Smriti, or Code of Manu'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'It means "unresisting", but it often precedes "resistance"'

Answer: Passive


Question: '(Hi, I'm Nile Rodgers)  2 of the hit albums I produced during the '80s were "Like A Virgin" by Madonna & "Let's Dance" by this singer'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes'

Answer: "The Swamp Fox"


Question: 'I don't want to get off on a rant, but this comic was great when he started on "MNF" in July 2000'

Answer: Dennis Miller


Question: 'A haunted castle full of mummies is a new attraction at the West Edmonton Mall in this Canadian province'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'Followers of this Japanese religion believe that the sun goddess was the ancestor of the Imperial Family'

Answer: Shintoism


Question: 'This word borrowed from French means "outmoded"'

Answer: Passe


Question: 'They're the rockers in the song heard here<br />("Can you take me higher...")'

Answer: Creed


Question: 'The first of these 85 essays urging ratification of the Constitution appeared on October 27, 1787 in a NYC newspaper'

Answer: The Federalist Papers


Question: 'His 1997 comedy special was called "Bring The Pain!"'

Answer: Chris Rock


Question: 'The open-air Makola Market is a popular place to shop in Accra, the capital of this African country'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'This religious leader was born around 563 B.C. in what is now Nepal'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'A bunch, often "of brats"'

Answer: Passel


Question: 'In April 2000 the portrait of this living woman was moved from the Contemporary section to History'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'The body of a comet is called this, just like the center of an atom'

Answer: a nucleus


Question: 'The Alabama High School Athletic Association says the most important health safeguard during workouts is plenty of this'

Answer: water


Question: 'The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is part of this museum complex'

Answer: the Smithsonian


Question: 'With businesses hurting, not as many people bought office supplies from this company, stock symbol SPLS'

Answer: Staples


Question: 'The Chinese discovered that this practice using needles could work as an anesthetic'

Answer: acupuncture


Question: 'If a woodchuck could chuck wood (it could happen!), it'd still also be known as this, even on February 2'

Answer: a groundhog


Question: 'After the Sun & Moon, this planet, aka the "Morning Star" & "Evening Star", is the brightest object in the sky'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'In 1985 Dirk Borgognone of Reno High set a record that still stands with a 68-yard one of these'

Answer: a field goal


Question: 'In April 2009 the glass pyramid at this Paris museum celebrated its 20th anniversary'

Answer: the Louvre


Question: 'This Pittsburgh ketchup maker saw lower sales because of less demand in foreign markets'

Answer: Heinz


Question: 'The traditional Snellen chart used to measure this contains only the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T & Z'

Answer: eyesight


Question: 'This word from the French means "again", so get back onstage, Bono!'

Answer: encore


Question: 'Copernicus' belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun is known as a this-centric view of the cosmos'

Answer: heliocentric


Question: 'In this state, high school football is a big deal & Longview vs, Marshall is one of the great rivalries'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'The Temple of Dendur is in the Sackler Wing of this ginormous NYC museum'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'Geoffrey the Giraffe from this company went toy shopping & bought struggling FAO Schwarz'

Answer: Toys "R" Us


Question: 'Today these bloodsucking creatures are sometimes used by physicians to treat hematomas'

Answer: leeches


Question: 'To concoct a scheme, or bring forth young from an egg'

Answer: hatch


Question: 'In 1801 Ceres became the first of these to be discovered'

Answer: asteroids


Question: 'Total number of regulation minutes in most high school football games'

Answer: 48


Question: 'In Denver, you can visit the home of Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of this in 1912'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'This American car company declared bankruptcy & was rescued by Fiat'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'In the 1870s germs of this disease of cattle became the first microorganism identified as a cause of illness'

Answer: anthrax


Question: 'Informal word meaning "OK"; a pirate's was "Jolly"'

Answer: roger


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)  Abbreviated A.U. & about 93 million miles in length, it's the average distance between the Earth & the Sun'

Answer: the astronomical unit


Question: 'In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled high school coaches can be kept from contacting 8th graders for this purpose'

Answer: recruitment


Question: 'Sue, the largest, most complete & best preserved T. rex, makes her home at the Field Museum in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Following a stress test, this large U.S. bank was told by regulators that it needed to raise $34 billion'

Answer: Bank of America


Question: 'In 2003 scientists announced the completion of this program that sequenced human DNA'

Answer: the Human Genome Project


Question: 'Not flammable'

Answer: fireproof


Question: 'This Iranian capital lies at the foot of the Elburz mountains'

Answer: Tehran


Question: 'In the original TV series, he played Captain Kirk'

Answer: William Shatner


Question: 'It shouldn't surprise you that nasology is the study of this body part'

Answer: the nose


Question: 'You stopped for some alpaca chunky, grandma's favorite type of this wool knitting essential'

Answer: yarn


Question: 'Captain Nemo takes Pierre Aronnax on a yearlong submarine voyage in this Verne novel'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Question: 'In the U.S. we have astronauts: in Russia they're called this'

Answer: cosmonauts


Question: 'This North American city is home to the Rogers Centre & the CN Tower'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'In the 2009 movie, he played Captain Kirk'

Answer: Chris Pine


Question: 'Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals'

Answer: zoology


Question: 'Grandma slipped you a $10 bill, the redesigned one with this new fire-bearing symbol of freedom on it'

Answer: the torch of the Statue of Liberty


Question: 'The Morlocks are an evil race in this H.G. Wells story'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: 'If you're using a balalaika, you're trying to make beautiful this'

Answer: music


Question: 'The Turkish city of Batman is near where this river enters Iraq'

Answer: the Tigris


Question: 'This actor is the only member of the original cast who appeared in the 2009 film, where he encounters his younger self'

Answer: Leonard Nimoy


Question: 'It's the science dealing with the relationship between organisms & their environment'

Answer: ecology


Question: 'It was awkward when Grammy asked about your sister's this--you thought she meant archery, but she meant a boyfriend'

Answer: a beau


Question: 'In this novel, Toad claimed that Toad Hall was the "finest house on the whole river"'

Answer: The Wind in the Willows


Question: 'This 3-letter word means "peace" or "village" in Russian; the space station named for it fell to Earth in 2001'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'This Indian name for Mount Rainier is also the name of a major city nearby'

Answer: Tacoma


Question: 'In the 2009 film, Karl Urban took over for DeForest Kelley & darnit, Jim, played this doctor, not a bricklayer!'

Answer: Dr. McCoy


Question: 'Margaret Mead, who studied how culture affects human behavior, had a Ph.D. in this, from Columbia University'

Answer: anthropology


Question: 'Had to hit the drugstore for grandma's pills for this rash disease common in the elderly, aka herpes zoster'

Answer: shingles


Question: 'Edmund Dantes is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon & imprisoned for life in this novel'

Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo


Question: 'If I consider you a tovarich, I think of you as one of these, so come closer'

Answer: a friend


Question: 'This small West African country is wedged between Ghana & Benin'

Answer: Togo


Question: 'In the original series, Mr. Spock suggests this race, the bad guys in the 2009 movie, is an offshoot of his Vulcan race'

Answer: the Romulans


Question: 'From the Greek for "growing in", it studies the development of organisms in their earliest stages before birth'

Answer: embryology


Question: 'Back to the drugstore--grandma forgot her vacation photos from Pike County in these NE Pennsylvania mts.'

Answer: the Poconos


Question: 'Way before "Lost", this William Golding novel told of plane crash survivors on a deserted island'

Answer: The Lord of the Flies


Question: 'It's the Soviet-era system of forced labor camps'

Answer: gulags


Question: 'This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it'

Answer: the Korean Peninsula


Question: 'LATE BAR'

Answer: Alberta


Question: '"Apollo 13",<br />"Splash"'

Answer: Ron Howard


Question: 'The buffet boasts this ham, the true prosciutto, from an Italian province that's also famous for a certain cheese'

Answer: Parma


Question: 'An astronomical viewing facility, or Henry Fountain's column in Tuesday's Science Times'

Answer: Observatory


Question: 'Bach was preoccupied with these instruments; the one at Weimar Court Chapel was remodeled per his instructions'

Answer: an organ


Question: 'This Creole dish is made of rice cooked with ham, sausage, chicken or shellfish'

Answer: jambalaya


Question: 'NO RATIO'

Answer: Ontario


Question: '"Piranha II: The Spawning",<br />"The Terminator"'

Answer: James Cameron


Question: 'For dessert: this rich custard topped with caramelized sugar that's so brittle you can shatter it with a spoon'

Answer: creme brulée


Question: 'After the death of Red Smith, George Vecsey became a columnist on this subject'

Answer: sports


Question: 'While in Weimar, Bach composed 30 of these choral compositions that take their name from the Italian for "sing"'

Answer: cantatas


Question: 'I like to move it, move it... France held this Indian Ocean island nation as a colony until 1960'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'SO VACATION'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: '"Eraserhead",<br />"Blue Velvet"'

Answer: David Lynch


Question: 'Soup selections include mulligatawny & this hearty Mexican one made with both tripe & calf's feet'

Answer: menudo


Question: 'CCNY grad Clyde Haberman writes the NYC column for this section that doesn't have "-politan" after it'

Answer: Metro


Question: 'Pablo Casals started his day by playing one of Bach's suites for this unaccompanied instrument'

Answer: the cello


Question: 'It's also known as a Queensland nut'

Answer: a macadamia


Question: 'I'M A BATON'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: '"The Stranger",<br />"The Magnificent Ambertsons"'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: 'How about some fruit salad featuring this apple variety whose name means "a festive celebration"'

Answer: gala


Question: '"Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome has come far since his career began at this state's Ypsilanti Press'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Bach grew up in Eisenach, the city where this reformer translated the New Testament at Wartburg Castle'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'It's the instrument heard here'

Answer: a balalaika


Question: 'A HACKSAW NEST'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: '"The Pianist",<br />"Frantic"'

Answer: Roman Polanski


Question: 'Traditionally, eggs Florentine is poached eggs on a bed of spinach topped with this sauce, a variation on bechamel'

Answer: mornay


Question: 'For those who blend materialism & counterculture, David Brooks coined "BoBo"-- bourgeois these'

Answer: Bohemians


Question: 'First performed in Leipzig in 1729, one of Bach's most sacred works is this evangelist's "Passion"'

Answer: St. Matthew


Question: 'The Binghi is a central ritual in this religion founded in the late 1920s in Jamaica'

Answer: Rastafarianism


Question: '(Alex reports from Machu Picchu.) The Temple of the Sun just below us was used for calendar purposes; that large ledge in the middle of the room aligns directly with sunlight at sunrise on June 21, the winter one of these in Peru'

Answer: the solstice


Question: 'Of Reba McEntire's performance in this show, Ben Brantley said she didn't "need a gun to bring" NYC "to its knees"'

Answer: Annie, Get Your Gun


Question: 'Within an 18-month period, 1665 to 1667, he made discoveries about light, color & gravitation'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'If you can find Hull's Little Red Riding Hood one of these, you'd best keep your hands & Oreos out of it'

Answer: a cookie jar


Question: 'In "The Janeites", a story by Rudyard Kipling, a group of soldiers have a deep admiration for this author'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'The choice to take a small boat or else just walk across a shallow stream'

Answer: row v. wade


Question: '(Alex reports.) Hiram Bingham came upon the ruins of Machu Picchu and then wrote about the marvels he had seen in the April 1913 edition of this magazine'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'One performer in "The Lion King" affectionately called her cheetah puppet this, in honor of a "Chicago" star'

Answer: Cheetah Rivera


Question: 'In 1869 this Russian chemist predicted the properties of 3 undiscovered elements based on his periodic law'

Answer: (Dmitri) Mendeleev


Question: 'When you care enough to collect the very best, you might consider this co.'s annual keepsake ornaments'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'There was a lot of buzz over Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel, "The Secret Life of" these'

Answer: Bees


Question: 'Moses' talking shrub rails against the results of bloody conflict'

Answer: bush v. gore


Question: '(Alex reports.) Here at the main temple, Inca masons, who were terrific craftsmen, were able to fit together with precision different sizes of this quarried stone without using any mortar'

Answer: white granite


Question: 'In the 2005 revival of this musical, Patti Lupone not only played Mrs. Lovett, she also played the tuba'

Answer: Sweeney Todd


Question: 'Einstein unsuccessfully attempted to refute this man's uncertainty principle'

Answer: Heisenberg


Question: 'In 1907, the Fenton Art Glass Company introduced this type of glass, named for a fair where pieces were given as prizes'

Answer: carnival glass


Question: 'More than 20 of her novels, including "Zoya" & "Jewels", have been adapted for TV or film'

Answer: Danielle Steel


Question: 'Colorful recluse spider is found to cure lack of interest in the formal learning process'

Answer: brown v. bored of education


Question: '(Alex reports.) Some people believe that lines of energy around the globe come together at special spiritual points called these, like in Sedona, Arizona & here at Machu Picchu'

Answer: vortices (or vortexes)


Question: 'Donna McKechnie kicked up her heels as Cassie in this show in 1975; Charlotte d'Amboise recently played the part'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'In 1628 this Brit published his study "On the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"'

Answer: Harvey


Question: 'If you can find one out there, Peanut the Elephant, one of these little guys, still sells for more than $1,000'

Answer: a Beanie Baby


Question: 'This author who battled Alzheimer's in her final years was the subject of the movie "Iris"'

Answer: Iris Murdoch


Question: 'Hotel Bible disapprovingly tells the story of a nasty wagonmaker'

Answer: Gideon v. wainwright


Question: '(Alex reports.) The words "Up here men's feet found rest at night near eagles' talons" are from the poem "The Heights of Machu Picchu" by this great Chilean poet'

Answer: (Pablo) Neruda


Question: 'A character known as "Man in Chair" plays the LP of a 1928 musical & voila! it comes to life in this "sleepy" hit'

Answer: The Drowsy Chaperone


Question: 'This man who figured out the movement of particles in a liquid gave the cell nucleus its name'

Answer: (Robert) Brown


Question: 'Soft colors & a high-gloss finish make the porcelain pieces from this Spanish company appealing to collectors'

Answer: Lladro


Question: 'She won a Pulitzer for "The Shipping News" & also wrote the short story "Brokeback Mountain"'

Answer: Annie Proulx


Question: 'A "fearsome" kilt wearer dukes it out with a '70s sitcom junk dealer'

Answer: dread Scot v. Sanford


Question: 'He is quoted as saying, "Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone"'

Answer: Pyrrhus


Question: 'No longer Confederate raiders, he & his brother Frank began robbing banks out west'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'Lea Salonga, Broadway's "Miss Saigon", provided the singing voice of Jasmine for this 1992 film'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'On a ship to Italy, Paul found himself in deep water, about 20 of these units still in use today'

Answer: fathoms


Question: 'Never wear a white dress to a wedding; you'll look like you're competing with this person'

Answer: the bride


Question: 'Total number of strings found in the instruments of a string quartet--2 violins, viola, cello'

Answer: 16


Question: 'An important high school exam:<br />SAT'

Answer: Scholastic Aptitude Test


Question: 'In 1877 this former President retired to an estate near Biloxi to write "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government"'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'Jerry Orbach looked very animated when he sang "Be Our Guest" in this 1991 film'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'Noah measured the ark in cubits of about 20 inches, or the distance from your middle finger to this joint'

Answer: the elbow


Question: 'At the prom, a gentleman "cuts in" by tapping a young lady's partner on this body part, not on the nose'

Answer: the shoulder


Question: 'l.h. written on a score suggests the player use this'

Answer: the left hand


Question: 'On television:<br />CNN'

Answer: the Cable News Network


Question: 'Late in life this "Uncle Tom's Cabin" writer invested in Florida real estate'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: '2 years before "The Birds", Rod Taylor went to the dogs as the voice of Pongo in this classic'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: 'In the book named for her, she gleans about an ephah, or 2/3 of a bushel of barley from Boaz' field'

Answer: Ruth


Question: 'To get guests to do this, rise, shake their hands & say, "You were so very, very kind to have visited me"'

Answer: leave


Question: 'It's probably Homer Simpson's favorite note on the tonic sol-fa scale'

Answer: do


Question: 'A college:<br />UNLV'

Answer: University of Nevada-Las Vegas


Question: 'Nicknamed "Yellow Hair", he was court-martialed for going AWOL in 1867 but rejoined the 7th Cavalry in 1868'

Answer: George Armstrong Custer


Question: 'He was the voice of John Smith in "Pocahontas" but his brother Donal got the role in the direct-to-video sequel'

Answer: Mel Gibson


Question: 'God told the Israelites to gather about an omer per person of this food He provided in the desert'

Answer: manna


Question: 'No formal dinner should be without these on the table that tell you where you're sitting'

Answer: a placecard


Question: 'The term for a counterpoint composition like the one by Bach heard here'

Answer: a fugue


Question: 'In Canada, eh:<br />the RCMP'

Answer: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police


Question: 'In 1865 this general accepted the presidency of Washington College in Virginia'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Kevin Kline was far from feeble as the voice of Phoebus in this 1996 version of a classic novel'

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: 'After Solomon was born, this king captured the crown of Rabbah, which weighed about a talent, or 90 lbs.'

Answer: King David


Question: 'Miss Manners says these leaves are "claustrophobic" & hate "being stuffed into little bags", so serve the "loose" type'

Answer: tea (leaves)


Question: 'By Italian terms, a cantata is a piece to be sung as contrasted to this, a sounded piece'

Answer: a sonata


Question: 'A former European nation:<br />GDR'

Answer: the German Democratic Republic


Question: 'It's ruled by the Pope'

Answer: the Vatican City State


Question: 'Number one in June was "The Boy Is Mine", a duet by these single-named singers'

Answer: Brandy and Monica


Question:
'Oscar Winners "The English Patient",
"Unforgiven",
"Braveheart"'

Answer: Unforgiven, Braveheart, The English Patient


Question: 'Stevenson wrote "The Strange Case of" this pair as a shilling shocker'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


Question: 'This African animal's tongue traps termites'

Answer: the aardvark


Question: 'It's the brand of Eveready battery that keeps the little pink bunny going & going & going...'

Answer: Energizer


Question: 'This long, narrow country stretches from Peru to the southern tip of South America'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The album "In My Life" has famous people like Jim Carrey & Sean Connery covering this band's songs'

Answer: The Beatles


Question:
'Hydrogen bomb,
atom bomb,
Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba"'

Answer: atom bomb, hydrogen bomb, Ritchie Valens\' "La Bamba"


Question: 'Stevenson got his first travel experience with his father, who built these beacons'

Answer: lighthouses


Question: 'He had 2,297 Major League RBIs'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'NiCad batteries are so named because their electrodes are made using these 2 elements'

Answer: nickel & cadmium


Question: 'This country that was once called Persia still has Persian as its official language'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Nick, Brian, Kevin, A. J. & Howie D. "hit the road" as this group'

Answer: The Backstreet Boys


Question:
'Ulysses S. Grant,
William Howard Taft,
James A. Garfield'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant,James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft


Question: 'Alison Conningham, his nurse as a boy, ws the "Cummy" to whom he dedicated "A Child's Garden of" these'

Answer: Verses


Question: 'The Biblical name for the area of Palestine'

Answer: Canaan


Question: 'Whether it's "C", "D" or "AA", an alkaline battery supplies this many volts'

Answer: 1.5


Question: 'This country is home to many volcanoes including the explosive Krakatoa'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'New in the racks was a CD by Tatyana Ali, who played Ashley on this sitcom'

Answer: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air


Question:
'Gemini Project,
Apollo Project,
Mercury Project'

Answer: Mercury Project, Gemini Project, Apollo Project


Question: 'Written in a matter of weeks in 1881, this pirate tale changed the face of children's literature'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'Tanzania's capital is Dar es this'

Answer: Salaam


Question: 'If a light bulb shines after you wire it to a switch & battery, you've made a closed one of these'

Answer: circuit


Question: 'This small duchy is completely surrounded by Germany, Belgium & France'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'Les Claypool "nose" that "Rhinoplasty" was a 1998 release from this group (He's its lead singer)'

Answer: Primus


Question:
'League of Nations,
Hanseatic League,
Iroquois League'

Answer: Hanseatic League, Iroquois League, League of Nations


Question: 'Good & evil brothers are the leads in "The Master of" this'

Answer: Ballantrae


Question: '"Godfather" actor James & his son Scott'

Answer: James Caan


Question: 'In a battery, an oxidation reaction occurs at the anode, & this type of reaction occurs at the cathode'

Answer: a reduction reaction


Question: 'This man whose invention was used to call for help held a ticket for the voyage but changed his plans'

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi


Question: 'The British took New Netherland & New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 & renamed them both this'

Answer: New York