Question: 'Unearthed in 1869, this 10-foot "giant" wasn't a prehistoric man but a hoax buried & "discovered" by George Hull'

Answer: the Cardiff Giant


Question: 'The place on deck where passengers enter the vessel, it's also a cry to "get out of my path!"'

Answer: gangway


Question: 'On May 5, 1961 he famously exclaimed, "What a beautiful view!"'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: 'This capital is Turkey's second-most populous city, with about 3.5 million people'

Answer: Ankara


Question: 'In 1956 Al Oerter tossed one of these 184' 11"'

Answer: a discus


Question: 'Laura Bush had good reason to root for this Arizonan in 2008; he's her sixth cousin'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'Some believe this epic poet was born in Ionia in the 9th century B.C.'

Answer: Homer


Question:
'Tiger,
mako,
thresher'

Answer: sharks


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew walks near a larger-than-life statue.) This statue brings to life one of the greatest athletes the world has known; he won gold in the 1912 Olympics & played football & baseball for New York Giants teams'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'The majority of the country belongs to this branch of Islam'

Answer: Sunni


Question: 'It means to declare ineligible or unfit'

Answer: disallow (or disqualify)


Question: 'Talk about powerful women; Hillary Clinton is a ninth cousin of this "Lara Croft" star'

Answer: Angelina Jolie


Question: 'Keats wrote this kind of serious poem "On Melancholy"'

Answer: an ode


Question:
'Tap,
square,
hustle'

Answer: dances


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a photo of a Dallas Cowboys player.) At the Pro Football Hall of Fame, you can try to catch 22, but this Cowboy was so explosive, he danced his way to the NFL's all-time rushing record'

Answer: Emmitt Smith


Question: 'Banned by Ataturk for political reasons, this hat with a 3-letter name was once the national hat of Turkish men'

Answer: a fez


Question: 'The "federal" one in Mexico contains the country's capital'

Answer: district


Question: 'George W. Bush is related to Marilyn Monroe, Princess Di & this senator, Bush's 2004 opponent'

Answer: (John) Kerry


Question: 'He wrote, "An echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!' --merely this and nothing more"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question:
'Dredd,
Judy,
Mike'

Answer: judges


Question: '(Jon holds a football while delivering the clue.) Standing in the end zone, his feet almost out of bounds, the Chargers' Antonio Cromartie returned this ball an NFL-record this many yards in 2007'

Answer: 109 yards


Question: 'Turkey's longest land border is with this Arab neighbor to its south'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'This adjective means "tactful"; spelled -ete instead of -eet, it means "separate"'

Answer: discreet or discrete


Question: 'Jesse Helms was Jimmy Carter's kin, as was this sixth cousin & icon; thank you, thank you very much'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'This Pulitzer Prize winner read poetry at JFK's presidential inauguration'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question:
'Vezina,
Outland,
Naismith'

Answer: trophies


Question: '(Jon sits in a section of red stadium seats.) These chairs are from this team's Ralph Wilson Stadium--you can almost see Jim Kelly throw & Thurman Thomas run'

Answer: the Buffalo Bills


Question: 'This Turkish peak is said to be where Noah's Ark came to rest'

Answer: Ararat


Question: 'It was the Roman name for the troublesome Greek goddess Eris, whose shenanigans led to the Trojan War'

Answer: Discord


Question: 'About being a distant cousin of this politician from Wyoming, Barack Obama said, "That's a heartbreak"'

Answer: Dick Cheney


Question: '4-word German first line of the August Heinrich Hoffmann verse that became Germany's national anthem'

Answer: "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles"


Question:
'The Seychelles,
a literary "Gulag",
the Aleutians'

Answer: archipelagoes


Question: '(Kelly stands in front of a bust.) The only player to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame here in Canton, Ohio & the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in Hamilton, Ontario is this man whose name sounds like a heavenly body'

Answer: Warren Moon


Question: 'Paul's Epistle to the Romans declares, "The just shall live by" this word for deep belief'

Answer: faith


Question: 'He escaped the 'N Sync-erator to earn Male Artist & Quadruple Threat of the Year at the 2007 MTV VMAs'

Answer: Justin Timberlake


Question: 'Cetus'

Answer: the whale


Question: 'The world's largest carry-out pizza chain, it was founded in 1959 in Garden City, Michigan'

Answer: Little Caesars


Question: 'He surrendered New Amsterdam to the British in 1664 without a fight'

Answer: Peter Stuyvesant


Question: 'A small hole made by a sharp object; perhaps in your bicycle tire'

Answer: a puncture


Question: 'It's a verb meaning "to choose for office" & a noun meaning those chosen to enter heaven'

Answer: elect


Question: 'The Saturn Awards honor Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror & in 2003 they recognized this hobbit portrayer'

Answer: Elijah Wood


Question: 'Aquila'

Answer: the eagle


Question: 'They recorded "Baby Don't Go" as Caesar & Cleo; it was reissued under their own names when "I Got You Babe" hit No. 1'

Answer: Sonny & Cher


Question: 'After suffering 150,000 casualties, German General Paulus surrendered in this city on the Volga in Jan. 1943'

Answer: Stalingrad


Question: 'Say this 9-letter adjective to mean "of or behaving like an uncle"'

Answer: avuncular


Question: '"Hasidic Derashot" is a course at JTS, this "theological seminary"'

Answer: Jewish Theological Seminary


Question: 'His TV wife Patricia Heaton had 2 Emmys for her role when he won his first in 2002'

Answer: Ray Romano


Question: 'Monoceros'

Answer: unicorn


Question: 'In the "Blondie" comic strip, Julius Caesar Dithers is the tyrannical boss of this man'

Answer: Dagwood


Question: 'Japan surrendered to the Allies on the deck of this battleship in September 1945'

Answer: "Missouri"


Question: 'Redness & itching are symptoms of this eye condition'

Answer: conjunctivitis


Question: '"Totus Ubique", or the whole of God everywhere, was a doctrine of this saint & "Confessions" author'

Answer: Saint Augustine


Question: 'Voters lent him their ears & he won Song of the Year at the first Latin Grammys in 2000'

Answer: Marc Anthony


Question: 'Corvus'

Answer: a crow (or a raven)


Question: 'Irving Caesar, who died in 1996 aged 101, wrote "Me For You And You For Me" & the rest of the lyrics to this 1924 song'

Answer: "Tea For Two"


Question: 'Napoleon III personally surrendered at Sedan in 1870 during this war'

Answer: Franco-Prussian War


Question: 'A legal order to specifically prohibit a certain activity'

Answer: an injunction


Question: 'This "theology" from Latin America that calls for social justice is the title of a book by Rosemary Ruether'

Answer: Liberation Theology


Question: 'Doing some bad things in "Michael Clayton" won her an Oscar'

Answer: Tilda Swinton


Question: 'Camelopardalis'

Answer: a giraffe


Question: 'A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he served as President of Delaware during the Revolution'

Answer: Caesar Rodney


Question: 'On July 4, 1754 George Washington surrendered to the French at this encampment'

Answer: Fort Necessity


Question: 'To make shorter by cutting a piece off'

Answer: truncate


Question: 'The only public state holiday in the U.S. honoring a monarch is one honoring this ruler'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'In biology it's a finger; in math, a figure like 1'

Answer: a digit


Question: 'Minnie Driver provided the voice of Jane in this 1999 Disney blockbuster'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'Joan Crawford died on May 10, the date of this holiday in many countries other than the U.S.'

Answer: Mother\'s Day


Question:
'An island named for the animal seen here belongs to this country
[kangaroo]'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Elizabeth II became Queen of England'

Answer: the 1950s


Question: 'It's the filmy covering soap may leave'

Answer: scum


Question: 'A free-falling body accelerates at a rate of about 1 g, g coming from this word'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'This Eddie Murphy remake of a Jerry Lewis film was the biggest-grossing comedy of the summer in 1996'

Answer: The Nutty Professor


Question: 'Islamic Republic Day in Iran is celebrated on this date, no foolin''

Answer: April 1


Question: 'This "Valley Island" is found between the islands of Molokai & Hawaii'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'The American Revolution began'

Answer: the 1770s


Question: 'On iron, it's mainly hydrated ferric oxide'

Answer: rust


Question: 'Pre-Y1K scientists figured this organ gave out light; they were, of course, wrong'

Answer: eye


Question: 'She co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Eraser" & sang its theme, "Where Do We Go From Here"'

Answer: Vanessa Williams


Question: 'It was first celebrated in the U.S. in February 1866 as a memorial service'

Answer: Lincoln\'s Birthday


Question: 'The healthful climate of this south Atlantic island didn't help Napoleon; he died there'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock'

Answer: the 1620s


Question: 'An adjective for a vile smell, or a noun that pairs with file'

Answer: rank


Question: 'These in the skies of Albuquerque on October 3, 1999 were a fine example of Charles' Law in action'

Answer: hot air balloons


Question: 'In this 1999 film, Clint Eastwood plays a reporter out to prove the guilt or innocence of a condemned murderer'

Answer: True Crime


Question: 'Discovery Day in the Bahamas is observed on this date'

Answer: October 12


Question: 'It's the largest island in the Malay Archipelago & the second largest in the world'

Answer: New Guinea


Question: 'Picasso painted "Guernica"'

Answer: the 1930s


Question: 'This term for a sticky, greasy substance came from the brand name of a cleaning solvent'

Answer: gunk


Question: 'The 5-kingdom system is made up of animals, bacteria, plants, protists & these'

Answer: fungi


Question: 'This dancer introduced "Something's Gotta Give" in his 1955 film "Daddy Long Legs"'

Answer: Fred Astaire


Question: 'On this British holiday, service people like postmen & trash collectors get gifts'

Answer: Boxing Day (December 26)


Question: 'Sounds hypothetical, but it's the real-life island prison in "The Count of Monte Cristo"'

Answer: Chateau d\'If


Question: 'Santa Anna led his assault on the Alamo'

Answer: the 1830s


Question: 'An anagram of whey's partner is this term for a crusty deposit'

Answer: crud


Question: 'The Barbary lion, now essentially extinct, is best known for eating early members of this group in the Coliseum'

Answer: Christians


Question: 'This 1858 invention was John Mason's contribution to the art of canning'

Answer: Mason jar


Question: 'After testing, this technology began to replace the rotary dial in November 1963'

Answer: touch-tone


Question: 'He comes upon some odd fellows playing ninepins, gets ripped on their liquor & falls asleep for 20 years'

Answer: Rip Van Winkle


Question: 'On Oct. 25 of this year, the New York Journal headlined, "Experts Predict Rising Market"--oops'

Answer: 1929


Question: 'You're in balance if you know it's the complement of "yang"'

Answer: yin


Question: 'As well as these on their paws, lions have a patch of rough skin on their tails called the same thing'

Answer: claw


Question: 'This comedian was born with the name Yacov Moshe Maza'

Answer: Jackie Mason


Question: 'On an airplane they're "fixed"; on a helicopter they're actually "rotary"'

Answer: wings


Question: 'Jed Shaner set a Guinness record in 1991 by covering himself with some 343,000 of these insects'

Answer: bees


Question: 'Optimistic 4-word phrase spoken by the title object seen here:'

Answer: "I think I can"


Question: 'This single-celled fungus can ferment sugars & carbohydrates'

Answer: yeast


Question: '(I'm Chris Claiborne of the Detroit Lions.)  In the wild, lions' favorite prey are antelopes & this member of the horse family'

Answer: zebra


Question: 'He led the cast of the 1959 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth", seen here:'

Answer: James Mason


Question: 'The rotary or rotator cuff is part of this joint'

Answer: shoulder


Question: 'This legendary lumberjack was so huge that when he was a baby it took 5 storks to deliver him'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'On May 25, 1961 JFK called for the U.S. to achieve this goal by decade's end'

Answer: to put a man on the Moon


Question: 'In 1485 the Tudor family of rulers replaced this Plantaganet house'

Answer: York


Question: 'The highly developed carnassial teeth shear these cords that connect muscle to bone'

Answer: Tendons


Question: 'This actress received 3 of her 4 Academy Award nominations for films written by Neil Simon'

Answer: Marsha Mason


Question: 'The Philadelphia Public Ledger in the 1840s was the first to use this invention by Richard Hoe'

Answer: a rotary press


Question: 'Commodus, emperor of this, enjoyed dressing up like Hercules (he thought he was Hercules reincarnated)'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Norman Vincent Peale's best-known work is "The Power of" this'

Answer: Positive Thinking


Question: 'Expanded from the tetragrammaton, it's a Hebrew name for God'

Answer: Yahweh


Question: 'The lion's genus & species is sometimes given by this 3-letter word repeated'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'In 1987 this guitarist recorded a new version of "Classical Gas" with Mannheim Steamroller'

Answer: Mason Williams


Question: 'This German made his name with his 1956 epitrochoidal or rotary engine'

Answer: Felix Wankel


Question: 'Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow in this novelist's Snopes Trilogy'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'In 1989 scientists raised energy hopes when they claimed this nuclear reaction at room temperature'

Answer: cold/nuclear fusion


Question: 'This bright-winged type of woodpecker is the state bird of Alabama'

Answer: the yellowhammer


Question: 'In a 1963 book this character found out his family motto in Latin would be "Orbis Non Sufficit"'

Answer: James Bond (\"The World Is Not Enough\")


Question: 'He's the only U.S. president in The Hall of Famous Missourians'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Founded by an auto parts maker, this city's Pistons were originally the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Kim Carnes sang about her eyes'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'Everyone hit the beach to enjoy this state's official sports: surfing & outrigger canoe paddling'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'This blue or bluish-green stone often seen in Southwestern jewelry is a birthstone for December'

Answer: Turquoise


Question: 'lower case initials at the foot of a business letter are those of this person'

Answer: secretary


Question: '"The Most Trusted Man in America", he made news again in 1999 when he was inducted into the Hall'

Answer: Walter Cronkite


Question: 'Cleveland's NFL team took this name from coach Paul, not running back Jim'

Answer: Browns


Question: 'In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'This state amphibian of Oklahoma gets a mention in the pop song "Joy to the World"'

Answer: Bullfrog


Question: 'Tony Bennett charted with this song in 1951, 12 years before Bobby Vinton did'

Answer: "Blue Velvet"


Question: 'it's the division of a shakespeare play usually indicated by a lower case roman numeral'

Answer: scene


Question: 'Born near Diamond Grove, Missouri, this scientist's induction in 1983 was no small peanuts'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: 'Pittsburgh's National League team is sometimes known as the Bucs, short for these'

Answer: Buccaneers


Question: 'He's moved his Raiders all over California'

Answer: Al Davis


Question: 'New Mexico's official state question, "Red or green?" refers to this state vegetable'

Answer: Peppers


Question: 'This elegant NYC jewelry store at 727 5th Avenue is known for its signature blue boxes'

Answer: Tiffany\'s


Question: 'it's the lower case letter in the standard abbreviation for "doctor of philosophy"'

Answer: h


Question: 'He's "The Man" all right!  In 2000, he became the first sports player inducted into the Hall'

Answer: Stan Musial


Question: 'Nickname of the Columbus Major League Soccer team -- we don't know how "motley" they are'

Answer: Crew


Question: 'In 1978 this cartoonist introduced his character Garfield to the world'

Answer: Jim Davis


Question: 'This feline with long, pointed canines is California's state fossil'

Answer: Saber tooth tiger


Question: 'Blue is the online magazine of this company known for its beautiful blue jasperware'

Answer: Wedgewood


Question: 'MUSICALLY, IT REFERS TO A SPECIFIC NOTE OR SCENE WHEN IT'S UPPER CASE & to playing loudly when it's lower case'

Answer: F/f


Question: 'But seriously, folks, this entertainer seen here was inducted posthumously in 1996'

Answer: Emmett Kelly


Question: 'The name of this NHL team whose logo is seen here is slang for "Canadians"'

Answer: Vancouver Canucks


Question: 'This black activist ran for vice president on the 1980 Communist Party ticket'

Answer: Angela Davis


Question: '"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" is this state's official folk song'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'A play in which Nicole Kidman appeared nude, or a section of the White House in which she probably didn't'

Answer: Blue Room


Question: 'in french these, including lundi & jeudi, are spelled all lower case'

Answer: days of the week


Question: 'Tanzania, Uganda & Kenya all border this large African lake'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'Mel Brooks' 1993 film "Robin Hood" had this subtitle'

Answer: "Men in Tights"


Question: 'The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. has been under the jurisdiction of this agency since 1958'

Answer: NASA


Question:
'1806-1861              UK

HOW DO I (heart)'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("How Do I Love Thee")


Question: 'Oui! Oui!  In 2000 this "French Chef" became the first U.S. chef to receive France's Legion of Honor'

Answer: Julia Child


Question: 'It's any native or resident of the Keystone State'

Answer: Pennsylvanian


Question: 'It's the prominent Tanzanian landmark seen here'

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro


Question: 'Gene Wilder tries to live down the family name & dismisses his granddad's work as "doo-doo" in this 1974 comedy'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'In 1990 Douglas Wilder became the USA's first elected black governor after winning election in this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question:
'1885-1972            USA

16 OZ'

Answer: Ezra Pound


Question: 'In 1999 these 2 former presidents each received the Presidential Medal of Freedom'

Answer: Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter


Question: 'It's the point in a baseball game when fans traditionally stand & sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"'

Answer: Seventh Inning Stretch


Question: 'Native to Tanzania, it's the African plant seen here'

Answer: African violet


Question: 'Zero Mostel has a hit with the play "Springtime For Hitler" in this 1968 classic'

Answer: The Producers


Question: 'This head of the Marine Corps, who has the rank of general, is appointed by the president for a 4-year term'

Answer: Commandant


Question:
'1265-1321                IT

HOT DAMN'

Answer: Dante


Question: 'The celebrities named Man & Woman of the Year by this club each receive a pudding pot'

Answer: Hasty Pudding Club


Question: 'Tolstoy was partly inspired to write this novel after a neighbor threw herself under a train'

Answer: "Anna Karenina"


Question: 'One of the last places in Africa where large animal migrations still take place, this national park was est. in 1941'

Answer: Serengeti


Question: 'Mel's wife, she co-starred with him in "Silent Movie" & "To Be Or Not To Be"'

Answer: Anne Bancroft


Question: 'Nicknamed "Fritz", this Democrat has represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since 1966'

Answer: Ernest Hollings


Question:
'1865-1939                IR

Y8S'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'The Blues Foundation of Memphis presents annual awards named for this "Father of the Blues"'

Answer: W.C. Handy


Question: 'For its work on behalf of prisoners of conscience, this organization won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: 'In April 1964 this mainland region combined with Zanzibar to form Tanzania'

Answer: Tanganyika


Question: 'At The Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, "Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup" in this parody of Hitchcock films'

Answer: High Anxiety


Question: 'In 1989 this Democrat from Washington State succeeded Jim Wright as Speaker of the House'

Answer: Thomas Foley


Question:
'1895-1985               UK

ROB TOMBS'

Answer: Robert Graves


Question: '"Jumanji" & "Where the Wild Things Are" are among the picture books to win this illustrious medal'

Answer: the Caldecott Medal


Question: 'Raymond Massey played the 16th president as a young man in this 1940 film'

Answer: Abe Lincoln in Illinois


Question: 'The special November 2000 TV Guide cover seen here was part of its tribute to this rock group'

Answer: The Beatles (tribute to their 1968 album, \"The White Album\")


Question: 'The Lord called Moses' people stiff-necked, meaning stubborn, for making this idol & worshiping it'

Answer: The Golden Calf


Question: 'In 1976, in her first ABC special, Barbara interviewed the Carters & this superstar Barbra'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'This Finnish capital is noted for its Russian restaurants, such as Alexander Nevski'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'Fractus, congestus & humilis are terms used to describe these aerial formations'

Answer: Clouds


Question: 'The name of this skirt isn't Scottish in origin; it may come from the Danish for "to tuck up"'

Answer: Kilt


Question: 'The title of this 1995 Bruce Willis film refers to a group that may have lauched a deadly plague'

Answer: "12 Monkeys"


Question: 'Jesus called it a den of thieves & ordered it cleansed, angering the priests'

Answer: The Temple


Question: 'During a visit to Fidel Castro, Barbara's crew became the 1st Americans to cross this bay since 1961'

Answer: Bay of Pigs


Question: 'It's said the Witchery by the Castle, on Castle Hill in this Scottish city, is haunted by several ghosts'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Projecting from the cecum, where the small & large intestines meet, is this non functional organ'

Answer: Appendix


Question: 'This term for a broad street is French, but it goes back to bolwerc, a Middle Dutch word for bulwark'

Answer: Boulevard


Question: 'A monkey god named Hanuman appears in the "Ramayana", an epic poem of this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Judge Shamgar slew 600 of these people with an ox goad; David slew just one with a sling & a stone'

Answer: Philistines


Question: 'In 1992 he made Barbara's fantasy come true by dancing the tango with her -- Hoo-aah!'

Answer: Al Pacino


Question: 'La Tour D' Argent in this city's 5th arrandissement is world famous for its pressed duck'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'In 1862 Darwin published a book on how orchids are fertilized by these creatures'

Answer: Insects


Question: 'The adjective vespertilian means resembling this winged mammal, whose Latin name is vespertilio'

Answer: Bat


Question: 'These monkeys were important "factors" in the development of the Salk polio vaccine'

Answer: Rheseus Monkeys


Question: 'Famous quote from Jesus that precedes "But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God"'

Answer: "Man does not live by bread alone"


Question: 'She called her 1977 joint talk with these Egyptian & Israeli leaders the biggest break of her career'

Answer: Anwar Sadat & Menachem Begin


Question: 'There's a restaurant named for this seductive spy in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, her birthplace'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'It's the terrestrial planet farthest from the sun'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'This fruity condiment's name comes from the Hindi meaning "to be licked"'

Answer: Chutney


Question: 'The long, pendulous nose of the male gave this monkey its name'

Answer: Proboscis Monkey


Question: 'The first word in Romans 1:1 is his name'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'Most will never forget when Barbara asked this actress "What kind of a tree are you?"; she said "Oak"'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'Hemingway hung out at Harry's Bar, the birthplace of the Bellini cocktail, in this Italian city'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'The mammalian order edentata has 3 families:  anteaters, armadillos & these slow movers'

Answer: Sloths


Question: 'The name of this small magnifying glass used by jewelers comes from the French for an imperfect gem'

Answer: Loupe


Question: 'In 1996 this inquisitive monkey of children's lit turned 55'

Answer: Curious George


Question: 'Our fifth Secretary of State; his Secretary of State, James Madison, became president, too'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Rainfall on this island that's home to Haiti averages 55 inches per year'

Answer: Hispaniola


Question: 'This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Some say he got the nickname Woody by always bringing the stick for neighborhood stickball games'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'In October 1936 he was named "El Caudillo" of nationalist Spain'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'This, along with "Liberty and the pursuit of happiness", are our "unalienable rights"'

Answer: Life


Question: 'She held the post of Secretary of Transportation 1983-87'

Answer: Elizabeth Dole


Question: 'Nearly all the inhabitants of this island are descendants of Bounty mutineers'

Answer: Pitcairn Island


Question: '"A Tangled Skein" was this author's original title for "A Study in Scarlet"'

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle


Question: 'In 1993 he was given permission to build a replica of Auschwitz near the actual site & film there'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'The Domesday Book was compiled from a survey done in this year, 20 years after the Norman Conquest'

Answer: 1086


Question: '"What's in a name?  That which we call" one of these "by any other name would smell as sweet"'

Answer: Rose


Question: 'Financier Andrew Mellon served in this post under 3 presidents:  Harding, Coolidge & Hoover'

Answer: Secretary of the Treasury


Question: 'In 1978 islanders were removed from this Pacific atoll when their strontium-90 counts became dangerous'

Answer: Bikini


Question: 'Towrard the end of World War I, this Mississippi-born author joined the Royal Air Force in Canada'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Charlie Sheen starred in 2 of his most lauded films:  "Platoon" & "Wall Street"'

Answer: Oliver Stone


Question: 'In 1835 these Dutch farmers began their "Great Trek" from Cape Colony to South Africa's interior'

Answer: Boers


Question: '"A dying lady, lean and pale, who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil", Shelley wrote of "The Waning" this'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'The Bureau of Mines is part of this department'

Answer: Department of the Interior


Question: 'This Indian Ocean island, the world's fourth largest, is slightly smaller than Texas'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'She set "Death Comes For The Archbishop" in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'This director who died in 1987 choreographed 3 of the 5 features he directed'

Answer: Bob Fosse


Question: 'In 1991 the United Somali Congress overthrew the Siad Barre regime & took over this capital city'

Answer: Mogadishu


Question: 'Resigned to the fact she might be queen, Victoria said, "I will be" this'

Answer: Good


Question: 'This president's father, Alphonso, was Grant's attorney general'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Tourist sites on this island in the Bay of Naples include the ruins of the 12 villas built by emperor Tiberius'

Answer: Capri


Question: 'Although this "Of Human Bondage" author earned a medical degree, he never practiced medicine'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'This director of "Short Cuts" learned his trade making industrial films in Kansas City'

Answer: Robert Altman


Question: 'In 1885 this British governor-general was killed defending Khartoum from the Mahdi's forces'

Answer: Charles Gordon ("Gordon of Khartoum")


Question: 'In "Sea Fever" John Masefield wrote, "All I ask is a tall" one of these "and a star to steer her by"'

Answer: Ship


Question: 'His love of music led him to found a school of music at the University of Rochester, N.Y.'

Answer: George Eastman (The Eastman School of Music)


Question: 'An earthquake on April 18, 1906 in this city destroyed the Wells Fargo Bank, but the vaults remained intact'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: '"A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course", unless he is this famous equine'

Answer: Mister Ed


Question: 'If you're going to have an organic garden, start one of these "heaps" before you start the garden'

Answer: compost heap


Question: 'It's a swinging single guy's apartment'

Answer: bachelor pad


Question: 'Ronny & the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" & "blow it out"'

Answer: GTO


Question: 'Barnum & Bailey worked under a "big" one & we're not talkin' a spinning toy'

Answer: top


Question: 'The MGM Grand Hotel in this city claims to be the largest in the world with over 5,000 guest rooms'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'He was employed at Spacely Space Sprockets; we're not quite sure what he did'

Answer: George Jetson


Question: 'As they have chlorophyll, algae produce food using this process'

Answer: photosynthesis


Question: 'Some automakers recommend having these inspected every year'

Answer: brake pads


Question: 'This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite'

Answer: Barracuda


Question: 'The part of the tongue that holds the names you just can't think of at the moment'

Answer: tip


Question: 'The final draft of the U.S. Constitution was composed in this city in September 1787'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This sitcom title pair, then a yoga instructor & an assistant U.S. attorney, were married on their first date'

Answer: Dharma & Greg


Question: 'Counting on all of its toes, an ostrich can only count up to this'

Answer: 4


Question: 'You can look it up under frog'

Answer: lily pad


Question: 'This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model'

Answer: Camaro


Question: 'It's a division of a Cub Scout pack'

Answer: den


Question: 'The pirate Jean Lafitte was pardoned by President Madison for his help during the 1814 battle of this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'On this series, Jerry Van Dyke's character Luther Van Dam wrote a successful book titled "Just Short of the Goal"'

Answer: Coach


Question: 'The sea anemone's mouth is surrounded by these'

Answer: tentacles


Question: 'Usually smaller than a legal or steno one, you might have an "itch" to jot down notes on it'

Answer: scratch pad


Question: 'This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet'

Answer: Firebird


Question: 'To "spell" this synonym for jinx, you also use an "x" at the end'

Answer: hex


Question: 'Often placed in the bear family, the first giant panda in the U.S. was appropriately exhibited in this Midwest city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Writer Darin Morgan won a 1996 Emmy for his "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" episode of this Fox sci-fi drama'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'Each of these on the dragonfly is made up of 28,000 hexagonal-shaped ommatidia'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'Found on some laptops, it's an alternative to a mouse'

Answer: touchpad


Question: 'Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark'

Answer: American Motors (AMC)


Question: 'Hamlet spotting the Bengay at the drug store would exclaim, "Ay, there's" this'

Answer: the rub


Question: 'A 15th century revolt by the Duke of Orleans is known as "La Guerre Folle", or this type of "war"'

Answer: fool/mad/silly


Question: 'Built in 1876, Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Mass. is in this style of architecture named for a queen'

Answer: Victorian


Question: 'In Rossini's 1817 Cinderella opera "La Cenerentola", they were given names: Tisbe & Clorinda'

Answer: the evil stepsisters


Question: 'The familiar piece heard here is the "National Emblem" one of these'

Answer: march


Question: 'She began painting in 1938 at age 78; a year later her landscapes were exhibited at NYC's Museum of Modern Art'

Answer: Grandma Moses


Question: 'In the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", Bette Midler asks, "Did you ever know that you're my" this'

Answer: hero


Question: 'Reigning from 1715 to 1774, he was the successor & great-grandson of the "Sun King"'

Answer: Louis XV


Question: 'It comes before "house" in the name of a small building where meat is cured for your dining pleasure'

Answer: smoke


Question: 'The earliest known appearance of a Cinderella story was a 9th C. tale about a girl named Yeh-hsien in this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Heard here, it's often associated with protest'

Answer: "Kumbaya"


Question: 'The overweight Marie de Medici hired this artist to do a cycle of paintings on her'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: 'If you don't like licorice, you won't like this anise-flavored aperitif from Greece'

Answer: ouzo


Question: 'French marshal Bazaine was court-martialed for surrendering 140,000 men to this German nation in 1870'

Answer: Prussia


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  Siding in colonial homes was often this overlapping type, named for a sound'

Answer: clapboard


Question: 'With a wave of her wand, the fairy godmother transformed this into a solid gold coach'

Answer: pumpkin


Question: '(Hi, I'm Harry Connick, Jr.)  On my 1999 album "Come by Me", I play this beautiful Irish song that uses the melody from "Londonderry Air"'

Answer: "Danny Boy"


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam at Rembrandt's house) Under a lean-to in this courtyard, Rembrandt painted 1642's "Sortie of a Company of Captain Banning Cocq", also known as this'

Answer: "The Night Watch"


Question: 'Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum & Nanki-Poo are all characters in this operetta'

Answer: The Mikado


Question: 'In 1933 when Cie. Internationale de Navigation merged with Air Orient & others, it took this name'

Answer: Air France


Question: 'Gustave Eiffel of tower fame also designed a nice dome for this type of building used by astronomers'

Answer: observatory


Question: 'Lesley Collier played Cinderella in a 1981 TV ballet; this Lesley did it in a 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein CBS special'

Answer: Lesley Ann Warren


Question: 'Introduced at Madison in 1909, its second line is "Grand old badger state"'

Answer: "On, Wisconsin!"


Question: 'This Venetian put St. Peter, not Mary & Jesus, at the center of his "Madonna of the Pesaro Family"'

Answer: Titian


Question: 'It was the maiden name of Franklin Roosevelt's mother'

Answer: Delano


Question: 'In 2002 many were shocked when this leader of the National Front made the presidential runoff'

Answer: Jean-Marie Le Pen


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit)  The portable factory-assembled Dymaxion house was developed by this 20th century inventor'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'This French writer who wrote the tale from oral traditions was a member of the French Academy'

Answer: Charles Perrault


Question: 'In 2000 this country revived the melody of its old national anthem, heard here'

Answer: Russia


Question: '2 of this artist's most famous landscapes, "View of Delft" & "Street in Delft", are scenes from his hometown'

Answer: Jan Vermeer


Question: 'It's another name for the pygmy chimpanzee'

Answer: bonobo


Question: 'The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison"'

Answer: \"Catcher in the Rye\" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield)


Answer: Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: 'A CCR title:<br />"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day"'

Answer: "Proud Mary"


Question: 'These insects often cause more damage to homes per year than fires, tornadoes & earthquakes combined'

Answer: termites


Question: 'In the English rules for this sport, the rope must be 35 meters long & you can't start until the judge says "pull"'

Answer: tug-of-war


Question: 'Once a famous mining community, this Western Nevada town is now chiefly an attraction for tourists'

Answer: Virginia City


Question: 'A sudden burst of light; some can be "in the pan"'

Answer: a flash


Answer: Rosalynn Carter


Question: 'It earned ours:<br />"What you want, baby, I got it, what you need, do you know I got it?"'

Answer: "Respect"


Question: 'When disturbed, this appropriately named insect gives off a smelly odor'

Answer: a stinkbug


Question: 'The 4 basic skills needed for this team jump rope sport are entering, turning, jumping & exiting'

Answer: double-Dutch skipping


Question: 'Winning 1971's Virginia Slims Thunderbird Tennis tournament, she broke the $100,000 total for a year, a women's first'

Answer: Billie Jean King


Question: 'On "Sesame Street" he's tickled to have his own "World"'

Answer: Elmo


Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'A disco anthem:<br />"First I was afraid, I was petrified"'

Answer: "I Will Survive"


Question: 'Up to 2 inches long, the palmetto bug of Florida is one of these pests'

Answer: a cockroach


Question: 'The eyelet of a lariat, it has the same name as a Japanese automaker'

Answer: the honda


Question: 'Population 439,000, it's the V.B. in Va.'

Answer: Virginia Beach


Question: 'Dagger's partner in espionage'

Answer: cloak


Answer: Lucy Hayes


Question: '"Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens"'

Answer: "Johnny B. Goode"


Question: 'Often fatal, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by the dog type or Rocky Mountain wood type of this'

Answer: a tick


Question: 'In the 19th c. this plant first cultivated in China had become so widely used that its name came to mean "rope"'

Answer: hemp


Question: 'This author of "To the Lighthouse" became manic depressive after her mother's death in 1895'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Show us some backbone by giving us this synonym of the backbone'

Answer: spine


Answer: Ida McKinley


Question: 'Wayne & Garth rocked out to it:<br />"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy"'

Answer: "Bohemian Rhapsody"


Question: 'The potter or mason type of this is named for its pot-shaped mud nest'

Answer: a wasp


Question: 'The spinning circle of the lariat has this menacing name'

Answer: the noose


Question: 'The CSS Virginia was this former Union ship, salvaged & iron-plated'

Answer: the Merrimack


Question: 'You gotta hand it to a fortune teller who uses this art to read your hands'

Answer: palmistry


Question: 'Kandahar,<br />population 350,000'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'J. Pierpont Morgan's uncle James Pierpont wrote this song originally titled "The One Horse Open Sleigh"'

Answer: "Jingle Bells"


Question: 'In "Play It Again, Sam", movie critic Allan Felix gets relationship advice from this movie star'

Answer: (Humphrey) Bogart


Question: 'On TV, type of "Gourmet" Jeff Smith was<br />(6)'

Answer: Frugal


Question: '...that tricky formula for a cylinder's volume, pi times the radius squared times h, this'

Answer: height


Question: 'Completes Don Quixote's plaintive line "My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own..."'

Answer: name


Question: 'Porto,<br />263,000'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Original sled dogs include Siberian huskies & these Alaskan dogs named for an Inuit people'

Answer: a Malamute


Question: 'This popular play by A.R. Gurney traces Andrew & Melissa's lifelong correspondence'

Answer: Love Letters


Question: 'A school's teaching staff<br />(7)'

Answer: faculty


Question: '...my friend Birkir telling me that Iceland's No. 1 export is the frozen type of this fish'

Answer: cod


Question: 'On May 14, 2001 Lynn Harrell left his $4 million cello in one of these, but got it back thanks to Mohamed Ibrahim'

Answer: a taxicab


Question: 'Mosul,<br />1.8 million'

Answer: Iraq


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Park City, UT.)  This name of this sled-like contraption is the French word for "sled"'

Answer: luge


Question: 'The setting for this Agatha Christie play is Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm'

Answer: Mousetrap


Question: 'Cheesy dip from Switzerland<br />(6)'

Answer: fondue


Question: '...Diana Spencer married a Windsor prince, while fashion designer Diane Halfin married a prince of this family'

Answer: von Furstenberg


Question: 'In "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here", it's the "here"'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Durban,<br />2.4 million'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'These lithographers often depicted sleigh rides in the country, as in the print seen here'

Answer: Currier & Ives


Question: 'This 1954 Terence Rattigan drama consists of 2 one-act plays: "Table by the Window" & "Table Number Seven"'

Answer: Separate Tables


Question: 'Forks, knives & spoons<br />(8)'

Answer: flatware


Question: '...this second & more adorable Secretary of State in Clinton's cabinet'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'Testifying to Congress about this 1980s scandal, John Poindexter claimed 184 instances of memory loss'

Answer: the Iran-Contra scandal


Question: 'Surabaya,<br />3 million'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in a bobsled in Park City, UT.)  In some curves, bobsleds can reach speeds of 80-90 mph & 4 of these forces'

Answer: g-forces


Question: 'This 1935 Robert Sherwood play takes place at the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q & Gas Station in the Arizona desert'

Answer: The Petrified Forest


Question: 'Bliss, or Necessity<br />(4)'

Answer: Fort


Question: '...the book by this author that ends, "And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared"'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Mythical rivers of Hades include the Styx & this one from which the dead drank to forget their lives'

Answer: the Lethe


Question: 'The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city'

Answer: Omaha Beach


Question: 'At the 1912 Stockholm Games Gustav V told this U.S. athlete, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'This West Coast city's Market Street once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Parts of its cycle are full, new & quarter phases'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'In "Treasure Island", he's originally hired as a cook'

Answer: Long John Silver


Question: 'A 1951 survey of the U.S. Armed Forces found this milk & grain concoction their least favorite dessert'

Answer: rice pudding


Question: 'Jimmy Carter's day job from 1971 to 1975'

Answer: governor of Georgia


Question: 'Bjorn Daehlie of this country has won a record 12 Winter Olympic medals, all for cross-country skiing'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'In 1989 this country removed Imre Nagy's remains from a potter's field & reburied them with honors'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'It's the botanical term for a plant whose life cycle transpires within one year'

Answer: an annual


Question: 'The Great Gatsby lived there'

Answer: Long Island


Question: 'In a 1945 poll this advertising symbol ranked as the best-known woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt'

Answer: Betty Crocker


Question: 'From 1957 to 1971 Jimmy Hoffa was their president'

Answer: the Teamsters


Question: 'For men in the Olympics, this is 115 centimeters high & has a couple of handles on top'

Answer: the pommel horse


Question: 'The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs 800 miles from the oil fields near Prudhoe Bay to this now-famous port city'

Answer: Valdez


Question: 'Back in force since 2004, it has the longest developmental cycle of any insect, 17 years'

Answer: a cicada


Question: 'His namesake bridge spans the Mississippi in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana'

Answer: Huey Long


Question: 'Voted the ugliest Las Vegas building in one poll, this tower resembles a diamond in a really tall setting'

Answer: the Stratosphere


Question: 'He's the "nosy" entertainer seen here'

Answer: (Jimmy) Durante


Question: 'One difference between this hyphenated sport & freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall'

Answer: Greco-Roman wrestling


Question: 'When Yeager broke the sound barrier there, this California Air Force Base was known as Muroc Field'

Answer: Edwards


Question: 'Observed for centuries, they seem to have about an 11-year cycle & possess powerful solar magnetic fields'

Answer: sunspots


Question: 'Its greatest use as a military weapon was during the Hundred Years' War; just ask the French at Crecy'

Answer: the longbow


Question: 'A 2003 online poll by SmartTravel rated this Russian airline the world's worst'

Answer: Aeroflot


Question: 'Jim Morrison's reptilian nickname'

Answer: the Lizard King


Question: 'The youngest competitor at the 1992 Barcelona games was an 11-year-old who did this job in a shell'

Answer: coxswain


Question: 'Last name of brothers John & Henry, who leased out land to build the Kentucky Derby race track in the 1870s'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'Three key stages in this cycle are evaporation, precipitation & runoff'

Answer: the water cycle


Question: 'A sextant is used to determine yours'

Answer: longitude


Question: 'A U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation's best hospitals lists this Baltimore facility No. 1'

Answer: Johns Hopkins


Question: 'William Travis & this man were in command at the Alamo during the famous siege'

Answer: Jim Bowie


Question: 'A library stands on the old site of Stagg Field; aptly, as in 1939 the University dropped this sport to focus on academics'

Answer: football


Question: '1968:<br />7 people barricade themselves in a house & fight off flesheaters'

Answer: Night of the Living Dead


Question: 'Kochel No. 1 is the G major minuet & trio he composed when he was about 5'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'Mary wrote that if Congress gave women the right to do this, their behavior would make the process absurd'

Answer: vote


Question: 'Her lover called her "My Serpent of Old Nile"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: '43rd president of the U.S. who flies supplies to remote Alaskan villages every week'

Answer: George W. Bush pilot


Question: 'Writers & editors couldn't do without the University Press' "Chicago Manual of" this, now in its 15th edition'

Answer: Style


Question: '1982:<br />Steve Martin innovatively interacts with clips from classic film noir movies'

Answer: Dead Men Don\'t Wear Plaid


Question: 'The well-traveled Felix Mendelssohn wrote "Italian" & "Scottish" ones'

Answer: symphonies


Question: 'In 1882 Mary died in this Illinois city in which she & Abe had married'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'Goneril is the eldest of his 3 daughters'

Answer: Lear


Question: 'National Security Advisor who Snaps, Crackles & Pops'

Answer: Condi Rice Krispies


Question: 'What was once the Institute for Nuclear Studies is now named after this pile driver of a physicist'

Answer: (Enrico) Fermi


Question: '1988:<br />Dirty Harry investigates a mysterious series of celebrity deaths'

Answer: The Dead Pool


Question: 'Born near Prague in 1841, he composed the following in 1863'

Answer: Antonin Dvorák


Question: 'On the spelling of this, Abe said he reckoned that one "d" was good enough for God'

Answer: Tod


Question: 'The king of Scotland was Macbeth's cousin'

Answer: Duncan


Question: '"The Day of the Locust" author who works in the White House area for which a TV drama is named'

Answer: Nathanael West Wing


Question: 'University of Chicago's Adler & Hutchins used this 2-word phrase for a program of classic works on which to base a curriculum'

Answer: Great Books


Question: '1991:<br />Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson play reincarnated lovers in Los Angeles'

Answer: Dead Again


Question: 'Ironically, one of the last works Franz Schubert heard was this type of mass, by his brother Ferdinand'

Answer: a requiem


Question: 'During the Civil War, clotheshorse Mary ran up $27,000 in debts, while this was set at $25,000'

Answer: her husband\'s salary


Question: 'For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Nothing can succeed in this White House office where the president meets with his War Council'

Answer: no-win situation room


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in the nave of a chapel at the University of Chicago.)  This chapel here on campus is named for him, of whom students sang, "Wonderful man is he / Gives all his spare change to the U. of C."'

Answer: John D. Rockefeller (Rockefeller Chapel accepted)


Question: '1989:<br />A married couple is terrorized on the high seas after picking up a stranger'

Answer: Dead Calm


Question: 'This Strauss waltz heard here commemorated a meeting between Franz Joseph I & Wilhelm II'

Answer: "The Emperor Waltz" ("The Emperors Waltz" accepted)


Question: 'Fortunately this actress still had 2 good legs when she saved Mary from falling down stairs on a ship from France'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'About this queen, Hamlet says, "Frailty, thy name is woman"'

Answer: (Queen) Gertrude


Question: 'Traditional Southern "jumping" dish of black-eyed peas that became Attorney General of the U.S. in 2001'

Answer: Hoppin\' John Ashcroft


Question: 'The last thing visitors see in the exhibit area of the Salem Witch Museum is a huge photo of this politician'

Answer: (\"Tailgunner Joe\" Senator Joseph) McCarthy


Question: 'Besides North America, it's the only continent completely north of the equator'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'In August of 1987, Joan Kroc, widow of the founder of this company, donated a million dollars to the Democratic Party'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'Under the 1879-80 rules, it took nine balls for this to happen'

Answer: a base on balls


Question: 'It used to mean sweetheart, but now refers to that big fifth grader who picked on you'

Answer: bully


Question: 'Famed Texas cattle breed that was brought over by the Spanish explorers'

Answer: Longhorn


Question: 'This Neapolitan made his Metropolitan Opera debut on November 23, 1903 in "Rigoletto"'

Answer: Enrico Caruso


Question: 'North Yemen and South Yemen are both found on this Mideast peninsula'

Answer: the Arabian Peninsula


Question: 'To compete with electronic watches, SMH created this inexpensive Swiss watch'

Answer: Swatch


Question: 'Last name of two brothers who earned all four St. Louis Cardinals wins in the 1934 World Series'

Answer: (Dizzy & Paul) Dean


Question: 'The word manage goes back to the Latin "manus", the word for this part of the body'

Answer: hand


Question: 'Because Sam Maverick didn't do this to his cattle, he lost them to rustlers'

Answer: branding


Question: 'Though born in Canada,  Bob Nolan co-founded this quintessentially American western group in the 1930s'

Answer: Sons of the Pioneers


Question: 'In the mid 1960s, France began building a space center near Kouru in this, its South American territory'

Answer: French Guiana


Question: 'Texas-raised Angora goats provide almost 95% of the US production of this Angora fiber'

Answer: mohair


Question: 'Minnie Minoso, the major leaguer who played in the most different decades, played in this many'

Answer: 5


Question: 'This word for pal is said to be Oxford University slang for chamberfellow; a roommate'

Answer: chum


Question: 'Cattleman's term for gathering the herd'

Answer: round-up


Question: 'Edward Albee wrote a tragic play about this "Empress of the Blues"'

Answer: Bessie Smith


Question: 'This Yugoslavian republic covers part of and shares its name with Alexander the Great's ancient home'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'In April 1987, Avia was bought by this major competitor'

Answer: Reebok


Question: 'His batting average was .320 or higher for 23 major league seasons in a row'

Answer: Ty Cobb


Question: 'This word for boss or head is from a Japanese word meaning squad leader'

Answer: honcho


Question: 'Called 2nd-in-command to the trail boss, he'd take his wagon ahead to be ready when the hands arrived'

Answer: the cook


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE) -  Her affair with a world middleweight boxing champion reportedly led her to write the following: (operatic clip)'

Answer: Edith Piaf


Question: 'Most of the 60 to 70 people who live on this South Pacific island are descendants of the mutineers'

Answer: Pitcairn Island


Question: 'The Chicago Board of Trade is the world's largest of these'

Answer: futures (or commodities) exchange


Question: 'All baseballs used in the major leagues have the name of this foreign country printed on them'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'From Old English "nay", no, and "whit", thing, this word means zero'

Answer: naught


Question: 'Texas trail named in honor of a Scottish Cherokee trader whose tracks were followed'

Answer: the Chisholm Trail


Question: 'This Swedish phenomenon married her accompianist, Otto Goldschmidt, in 1852'

Answer: Jenny Lind


Question: 'Only 6% of the Soviet people are members of this party; the rest try to have a good time anyway'

Answer: Communist Party


Question: 'During a revolt, the Dutch opened these, allowing their navy to rescue a city besieged by Spain'

Answer: Dikes


Question: 'If your body temperature is 98.6 degrees, this letter had better be following it'

Answer: F  (Fahrenheit)


Question: 'Suffering from a little overexposure, Vanessa Williams resigned as this in July, 1984'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610'

Answer: Galileo


Question: '"Tis' a wonder, by your leave she will be tamed so"'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Earliest date in the year on which a US Presidential election can fall'

Answer: November 2


Question: 'Foreign war in which the First United States Volunteer Cavalry gained its fame'

Answer: Spanish-American War


Question: 'Abbreviation for the standard metric unit closest to a quart'

Answer: L   (Liter)


Question: 'July, 1986 "USA Today" headline, "Sea Creatures Ate Staircase" referred to this'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'It's thought Egyptians used this Big Dipper constellation to set compass bearings of the pyramids'

Answer: Ursa Major


Question: '"Give me your hands if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends"'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Founded in London in 1883, Britain's Fabian Society seeks to promote this, not rock-and-roll'

Answer: Socialism


Question: 'Famed for the Charge of the Light Brigade, it was one of the first wars to be reported widely by the press'

Answer: Crimean War


Question: 'In chess notation, this single letter stands for the knight'

Answer: N


Question: 'In October of 1985, this Italian cruise ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists'

Answer: Achille Lauro


Question: 'This giant moon of Saturn is larger than the planet Mercury'

Answer: Titan


Question: '"Sir John, to Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, for he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford"'

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor


Question: 'Ernest Gruening and Wayne Morris lost re-election after being the only senators to vote against this 1964 resolution'

Answer: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution


Question: 'The German bulge, in WW2's battle of the same name, was in this forest'

Answer: Ardenne


Question: 'Fashion newspaper whose readers' median income is the highest in the US at $111,000'

Answer: W (formerly Women\'s Wear Daily)


Question: '"I am a nervous wreck", said this ousted leader on route from an Alps resort to the Riviera'

Answer: Jean-Claude Duvalier


Question: 'The name of this star in Orion is from the Arabic for "the giant's armpit"'

Answer: Betelgeuse


Question: '"And then to Rome--Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity"'

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra


Question: 'In 1986, Salvador Laurel, already vice-president, was also appointed foreign minister & prime minister of this country'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'This country's 1745 Jacobite rebellion was led by Charles Edward, the "Young Pretender"'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Renamed twice since 1966, it was the original MPAA movie rating between G and R'

Answer: M


Question: 'US journalist arrested in Moscow shortly after the FBI's 1986 arrest of Soviet physicist Zakharov'

Answer: Nicholas Daniloff


Question: '18th century Frenchman whose catalogue of fuzzy objects given M-numbers is still used today'

Answer: Charles Messier


Question: '"We came into the world like brother and brother, and now let's go hand-in-hand, not one before another"'

Answer: A Comedy of Errors


Question: 'Of the 4 U.S. state capitals named after presidents, this is farthest north and east'

Answer: Madison, Wisconsin


Question: 'On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Padraic Pearse & his men seized this city's general post office'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"'

Answer: Who can turn the world on with her smile?


Question: 'Tunisia's official language is Arabic, with this European tongue used widely as a second national language'

Answer: French


Question:
'The margay,
the mastiff,
the moa'

Answer: mastiff


Question: 'Most Americans get most of their cheese from these, makers of which bought $2.5 billion of cheese in 2002'

Answer: pizzas


Question: 'An instructional book is "Juggling for the Complete" one of these, a word from Yiddish meaning "clumsy person"'

Answer: Klutz


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Munich, Germany)  His first speech to a mass meeting was in a 1919 German Workers Party rally at the Hofbrauhaus'

Answer: Hitler


Question: 'After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?"'

Answer: The Lone Ranger


Question: 'Also found on the flags of Pakistan & Turkey, they're the 2 symbols found on the Tunisian flag'

Answer: the crescent & the star


Question:
'The Savannah,
the serval,
the shar-pei'

Answer: the shar-pei


Question: 'The Marine Corps emblem is an American eagle, a globe & one of these marine items'

Answer: an anchor


Question: 'This online travel service can ticket you on 455 airlines & put you in 500,000 lodging properties'

Answer: Orbitz


Question: 'This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes"'

Answer: What ya talkin about Willis?


Question: 'Tunisia's Cape Bon is only about 90 miles from the southwest coast of this Italian island'

Answer: Sicily


Question:
'The burmilla,
the balbinus,
the bichon frise'

Answer: the bichon frise


Question: 'In an almost 5-hour flight in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth a total of this many times'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Artificial or synthetic'

Answer: ersatz


Question: 'Born in 1895, this movie choreographer would drill through floors to film his arrays of girls'

Answer: Busby Berkeley


Question: 'Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager'

Answer: Laura Palmer


Question: 'The ancient ruins of this city destroyed in 146 B.C. are just outside the capital city of Tunis'

Answer: Carthage


Question:
'The cymric,
the cockapoo,
the caballado'

Answer: the cockapoo


Question: 'Prior to Sacagawea, she was the last woman on the $1 coin in general circulation'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'The characters from this comic strip, seen here, are often found at Bryson Elementary'

Answer: Frazz


Question: 'This Frenchman turned down the Nobel Literature Prize in 1964 because it might compromise his freedom'

Answer: (Jean-Paul) Sartre


Question: 'This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?"'

Answer: What\'s My Line?


Question: 'This "Red-Bearded" pirate used Tunisia as a base when fighting off 16th C. Christian attempts to control the area'

Answer: Barbarossa


Question:
'The kelpie,
the krait,
the kabaddi'

Answer: the kelpie


Question: 'It's a printed cotton fabric, often used for drapes'

Answer: chintz


Question: 'Henry Bacon designed this Washington, D.C. landmark: a white marble Doric temple above a pool'

Answer: the Lincoln Memorial


Question: 'Start spreadin' the news -- Liza Minnelli introduced this title track, the theme to a 1977 film'

Answer: New York, New York


Question: 'In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wrote, "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow.  Been trout fishing"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Its jingle says, "Thank Goodness for" this chef'

Answer: Chef Boyardee


Question: 'The canvasback, a large variety of this bird, is named for the male's grayish-white back & sides'

Answer: duck


Question: 'A resident of Naples'

Answer: Neapolitan


Question: 'Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of these & left it a city of marble'

Answer: bricks


Question: '"Evergreen" is the love theme from this 1976 movie'

Answer: A Star Is Born


Question: 'This author of "Les Miserables" wrote to his future wife that "It seems to me that what I feel is not of Earth"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'This hot state inspired the name of John Ferolito & Don Vultaggio's beverage company that's known for its iced tea'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'The devilfish, seen here, is also known by this 2-word non-devilish name'

Answer: manta ray


Question: 'A small measurement of liquid, or a slang term for your head'

Answer: noggin


Question: 'Tudor, ogee & horseshoe are different types of these; a state with many of them would be a keystone state'

Answer: arches


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports)  This song, "Rocky"'s theme, was playing as Rocky ran up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art'

Answer: Gonna Fly Now


Question: 'His 1879 letter to a confused reader explains, "Old Man Karamazov was killed by the servant Smerdyakov"'

Answer: Dostoevsky


Question: 'This brand, made from 100% Colombian coffee, bills itself as "The Essence of Coffee"'

Answer: Yuban


Question: 'Aku is another name for this fast-moving tuna which seems to "skip" over the water'

Answer: skipjack


Question: 'Nicotinic acid'

Answer: niacin


Question: 'Andy Williams had a 1972 hit with "Speak Softly Love", the theme from this epic film'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: '4 years before writing "Little Dorrit", he wrote his wife that their daughter "Little Dora...is suddenly stricken ill"'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'It's said that Leonardo da Vinci visited this Italian mineral water's spring to treat his ailments'

Answer: San Pellegrino


Question: 'It's said the Mormons named this desert plant, seen here, for its resemblance to a Biblical prophet with arms lifted'

Answer: the Joshua Tree


Question: 'A wrestling hold applied to the head, neck & one or both arms'

Answer: a nelson


Question: 'The instrumental "Tubular Bells" was the theme to this 1973 scarefest'

Answer: The Exorcist


Question: 'He responded to an admirer that "Nothing was omitted in 'Marie Roget' but what I omitted myself"'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'The name of this brand of hard candies was meant to suggest a friendly Western company'

Answer: Jolly Rancher


Question: 'This common greenhouse pest is named for the white, flourlike substance that covers its body'

Answer: mealybug


Question: 'From the Greek for "kidney", it's 1 of many filtering units in the kidney that remove waste matter from the blood'

Answer: nephron


Question: 'A circumorbital hematoma is more commonly known as this'

Answer: a black eye


Question: 'In August this country was divided in two at the 38th parallel'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Wow, mon, you must have been jammin' at this man's concert to walk away with a T-shirt like that'

Answer: Bob Marley


Question: 'As Charles Lindbergh rode down Broadway June 13, 1927'

Answer: ticker tape (confetti accepted)


Question: 'You'll find Sacramento River swimming & great mountain views in this state's Castle Crags Park'

Answer: California


Question: 'He wrote, "I do not believe that anyone else has enjoyed the White House as much as I have"'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'In the U.S. this street sign is in the form of an equilateral triangle'

Answer: yield


Question: 'Tragically 14 people were killed when a B-25 crashed into this building, between the 78th & 79th floors'

Answer: the Empire State Building


Question: 'No way, dude, you saw this genius in concert & bought a shirt?  I remember when he gigged with Beefheart'

Answer: Frank Zappa


Question: 'As the Seventh Plague of Egypt'

Answer: hail


Question: 'Mount Snowdon, the highest point in this UK country, has several peaks connected by ridges'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Raul's big brother'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: '4-letter name of the subcompact automobile produced by Serbian manufacturer Zastava'

Answer: Yugo


Question: 'He married a young actress named Eva Duarte'

Answer: Juan Perón


Question: 'I can't believe it's been 12 years since we last saw this guy live in concert'

Answer: Kurt Cobain


Question: 'In the form of dust or sand after a volcanic eruption'

Answer: ash


Question: 'The Faraglioni are towering rock formations off this much-visited Bay of Naples island'

Answer: Capri


Question: 'He's the athlete-turned-governor caricatured here'

Answer: Jesse Ventura


Question: 'This American university celebrated its tercentennial in 2001'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'Still on NBC-TV today, it began as a radio show hosted by Lawrence Spivak in 1945'

Answer: Meet the Press


Question: 'Excuse me while I kiss this guy we saw at Woodstock'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'By design, from a Tupolev Tu-26 "Backfire" or Petlyakov PE-2'

Answer: a bomb


Question: 'La Cruz del this bird is a high point in Colca Canyon in the Peruvian Andes'

Answer: the condor


Question: 'Her July 1, 2005 career decision sent shock waves across the country'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor


Question: 'In 1986 Sarah Ferguson became the Duchess of it'

Answer: York


Question: 'Sir Alexander Fleming was one of 3 men awarded the Nobel Prize for their work with this substance'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'It was like watching royalty perform whenever we saw this lead singer performing with his band'

Answer: Freddie Mercury


Question: 'Beneath a Frank Lloyd Wright house built for a Pittsburgh family'

Answer: water (a waterfall accepted)


Question: 'Osama bin Laden took refuge in this rugged, rhyming mountain region on the Afghan-Pakistani border'

Answer: Tora Bora


Question: 'We raise a toast to this guy who in 1993 dissolved his country's parliament'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years'

Answer: Yahoo!


Question: 'He died at 35 in 1791 & was buried in a multiple grave--standard at the time in Vienna for a person of his standing'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth won Olympic gold by throwing this over 300 feet, a feat not equaled in the games since'

Answer: the javelin


Question: 'In a 6-foot-tall person, this bone, the body's longest, is about 20 inches'

Answer: the femur


Question: 'George Bernard's cutting tools'

Answer: Shaw\'s saws


Question: 'This first U.S. civilian airport designed specifically for commercial jets opened in Virginia in 1962'

Answer: Dulles


Question: 'The timber & the tundra are 2 main types of this "colorful" wolf'

Answer: the gray wolf


Question: 'A novel by Prosper Merimee inspired his 1875 opera "Carmen"'

Answer: Bizet


Question: 'Indiana State's career scoring leader, he was the 1997-98 NBA Coach of the Year while with the Pacers'

Answer: Larry Bird


Question: 'It's the longer of the 2 bones of the forearm'

Answer: the ulna


Question: 'Rice's skillets'

Answer: Anne\'s pans


Question: 'In 1826 James Madison succeeded this other former U.S. president as rector of the University of Virginia'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'The dominant male & female wolves in a pack are designated with this Greek letter'

Answer: alpha


Question: 'Though called "Papa", he had no children with his wife, who used his sheet music for pastry pan linings'

Answer: Joseph Haydn


Question: 'On July 21, 2006 this Yankee became the youngest player to reach 450 career home runs'

Answer: (Alex) Rodriguez


Question: 'If I had a malleus, & I do, in my middle ear, I'd call it this, because of its shape'

Answer: the hammer


Question: '"Third Man" Graham's Levis'

Answer: Greene\'s jeans


Question: 'It's the Virginia landmark being guarded here'

Answer: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier


Question: 'Wolf, bear & webelos are rank of this'

Answer: Cub Scout


Question: 'He composed his "Well-tempered Clavier" while working for Prince Leopold of Anhald-Kothen'

Answer: Bach


Question: 'This American won at least one Women's Grand Slam tennis title a record 13 straight years, 1974-1986'

Answer: Chris Evert-Lloyd


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a skeleton & reads the clue.)  The heart & lungs are protected by the thoracic cage, which is made up of 12 vertabrae in the back, the ribs & this breastbone'

Answer: the sternum


Question: '"Da Vinci" Dan's circus comics'

Answer: Brown\'s clowns


Question: 'This coastal city on the Atlantic Ocean near the border with North Carolina is the state's most populous'

Answer: Virginia Beach


Question: 'At the end of time in Norse mythology, a giant wolf named Fenris will square off against this top god & eat him'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'This German Romantic composer dedicated his "Scottish Symphony" to Queen Victoria'

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn


Question: 'In 1979 Kurt Thomas became the first gymnast to win this trophy as the USA's best amateur athlete'

Answer: the Sullivan Award


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew educates us, standing next to the skeleton this time.)  Collectively, the bones in your digits, in both your fingers & your toes, are called these'

Answer: phalanges


Question: 'Raymond's agents & publicists'

Answer: Chandler\'s handlers


Question: 'The Keydets are the sports teams that play for this school that first admitted women in 1997'

Answer: V.M.I. (the Virginia Military Institute)


Question: 'In this 1904 Jack London tale, Wolf Larsen captains a ship called the Ghost'

Answer: The Sea Wolf


Question: 'The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward"'

Answer: El Al


Question: 'Greenland is considered a part of it'

Answer: North America


Question: 'This 49ers legend had a record 17 seasons with 50 or more receptions'

Answer: Jerry Rice


Question: 'White wine can come from a white grape or from a darker grape with this removed'

Answer: its skin


Question: 'This 18th century American was the "father of the mail order catalog" & the "father of the stove"'

Answer: Franklin


Question: 'The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos"'

Answer: camel


Question: '11-letter word meaning without a beard or mustache'

Answer: clean-shaven


Question: 'The continental one off Newfoundland extends about 200 miles; the one off California, only 2 or 3 miles'

Answer: shelf


Question: 'Appropriately, it's the record number of safeties by a player in one game; L.A.'s Fred Dryer ate up Green Bay on Oct. 21, 1973'

Answer: 2


Question: '"Sec" on a wine bottle means that what you're about to consume is this other 3-letter word'

Answer: dry


Question: 'This French novelist who predicted space travel in his stories has been called the "father of science fiction"'

Answer: (Jules) Verne


Question: 'The Ben-Gals are the cheerleaders for this NFL team'

Answer: the Bengals


Question: 'Samples of this type of image that can spruce up a report or document are seen here'

Answer: clip art


Question: 'It's the continent with the second-largest population'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Tom Dempsey, in 1970, & Jason Elam, in 1998, share the distance record for one of these at 63 yards'

Answer: a field goal


Question: 'Originally referring to yeast, this sedimentary word can mean the least valuable part of anything'

Answer: dregs


Question: 'Let's tip one in honor of this brewer, the "father of the American Revolution"'

Answer: Sam Adams


Question: 'Waswahili are people who speak this language as their sole mother tongue'

Answer: Swahili


Question: 'A brood of chickens, or a strapless purse that a woman might keep a good grip on'

Answer: a clutch


Question: '(Sarah stands in front of a map) To display the globe without distorting the shapes and  sizes of the continents, the Dymaxion map was created by this mathematician and geodesic dome designer.'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'In 1998 this Colts QB set a record for most passes completed by a rookie in a season with 326'

Answer: Peyton Manning


Question: 'As the name implies, chambre refers to wines served this way'

Answer: room temperature


Question: 'This "father of the cylinder lock" located his company in Stamford, Connecticut, not New Haven'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo'

Answer: Quaker Oats


Question: 'Scones are traditionally served with this thick cream, a specialty of Devonshire, England'

Answer: clotted cream


Question: 'With its multiple peninsulas & islands, it has the highest ratio of coastline to total area'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'This Cowboy has the most career rushing attempts with 4,409; he's not a bad dancer, either'

Answer: Emmitt Smith


Question: 'Also found in tea, this astringent should mellow as red wine matures'

Answer: tannin


Question: 'A Harvard prof, this brother of novelist Henry is known as the "father of American psychology"'

Answer: William James


Question: 'The name of this fruit comes from its clusters' resemblance to a bunch of grapes'

Answer: grapefruit


Question: 'He became emperor of Rome after Caligula was murdered'

Answer: Claudius


Question: '1836's "O.T.: a Danish Romance" is a grownup novel by this man who'd soon turn his hand to fairy tales'

Answer: (Hans Christian) Andersen


Question: '(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) I was the voice of Mona, long-lost mother of this character; seems that back in the '60s, I sabotaged Mr. Burns' germ warfare lab'

Answer: Homer Simpson


Question: 'The years 1490-1520 saw the "High" this period in Rome, Florence & Venice'

Answer: Renaissance


Question: 'This "planetary" GM offshoot said that 2010 would be its last orbit'

Answer: the Saturn


Question: 'The steam engine is the classic example of this type of engine'

Answer: heat


Question: 'A fracture, or a pause in your work'

Answer: a break


Question: '"Monsieur LeCoq", about a Paris cop solving a mystery, is one of the earliest of this type of novel, also LeCoq's job'

Answer: detective


Question: '(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) In 1996, I made what I thought was a simple request--"Catch those puppies!"--playing this Disney character'

Answer: Cruella de Vil


Question: 'Warhol & Lichtenstein were figures in this 2-word style that's one letter off from a Kellogg's treat'

Answer: pop art


Question: 'This type of engine has two power sources'

Answer: hybrid


Question: 'The actors in a play'

Answer: cast


Question: 'Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: '(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) Michelle Pfeiffer & I tangled in this 1988 film whose tagline was "Lust, seduction, revenge, the game as you've never seen it played before"'

Answer: Dangerous Liaisons


Question: 'This double talk art style arose in part from the despair following WWI'

Answer: Dada


Question: 'Tied up, or leap'

Answer: bound


Question: 'This author created the noble Indian Uncas & the slimy Indian Magua'

Answer: (James Fenimore) Cooper


Question: '(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) I was ready for my close-up after I won a 1996 Tony for playing Norma Desmond in this musical'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'This art style that includes an artist's name was a "Brotherhood" in mid-19th century London'

Answer: Pre-Raphaelites


Question: 'Bristol-Meyers Squibb discontinued its Nuprin brand of this'

Answer: pain reliever


Question: 'The dorsal area, mate'

Answer: back


Question: 'This "Old Ironsides" poet was also a doctor.  You might recall that his son became a lawyer'

Answer: (Oliver Wendell) Holmes


Question: '(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) Kevin Kline played my husband Harold in this film about some University of Michigan alums, & Mary Kay Place...I think you owe me one'

Answer: The Big Chill


Question: 'Many works commissioned by Louis XIV for Versailles are typical of this "imperfect pearl" style'

Answer: baroque


Question: 'This retailer has pulled the plug on its upscale EXPO Design Centers'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'The German Messerschmidt ME110 used this engine configuration'

Answer: twin


Question: 'Canon & criminal are types of this'

Answer: law


Question: 'Like the name of a minor Roman god, this word for a caretaker comes from the Latin for "door"'

Answer: janitor


Question: 'After the American Revolution, Tom Paine and Lafayette both took part in this revolution'

Answer: the French Revolution


Question: 'To frighten predators, the owl butterfly has large spots on its wings that resemble these'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'This film could have been called "Little Lady Fauntleroy" since it starred her, "America's sweetheart"'

Answer: Mary Pickford


Question: 'Related to the banana, it's the spice featured in Vernor's soda'

Answer: ginger


Question: '"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was one of the "Nine Stories" he published after "Catcher in the Rye"'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'Phil Spector overdubbed this last number-one Beatles hit; John and Paul's original version is not for sale'

Answer: "The Long And Winding Road"


Question: 'It changed the Western world from a basically rural society to a primarily urban one'

Answer: the Industrial Revolution


Question: 'When filled with these, the queen termite can be over four inches long'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'This cowboy star's middle initial stood for Surrey'

Answer: William S. Hart


Question: 'One type of dish in which fenugreek seed is used is this relish from India'

Answer: chutney


Question: 'Hemingway story in which an African mountain comes to represent purity and escape'

Answer: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"


Question:
'In 1974 Neil Diamond scored a # 5 hit with the following:

"Ride, c'mon baby ride..."'

Answer: "Longfellow\'s Serenade"


Question: 'This country's revolution had two parts, the February revolution and the October revolution'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'The plasmodia aren't space invaders but parasites that mosquitos pass to man causing this disease'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'This 1903 Edwin S. Porter classic wasn't filmed in the Wild West but in the wilds of New Jersey'

Answer: The Great Train Robbery


Question: 'Kummel is one of these flavored with caraway seeds'

Answer: liqueur


Question: 'Faulkner wrote short and long versions of this story about hunting an enormous animal called "Old Ben"'

Answer: "The Bear"


Question: 'Title line that follows "Just kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again"'

Answer: "It\'s Been A Long, Long Time"


Question: 'Using new strains of corn, rice, and wheat, it's the effort to increase food production in the Third World'

Answer: the Green Revolution


Question: 'For sundews and pitcher plants, insects serve this purpose'

Answer: a source of food


Question: 'He was White Arm Joe in "The Birth of a Nation", but is better known as the screen's first "Tarzan"'

Answer: Elmo Lincoln


Question: 'You can call it laurel leaf or you can call it this, same thing'

Answer: bay leaf


Question: 'In this O. Henry story, the kidnappers pay the father $250 to take the kid back'

Answer: "The Ransom of Red Chief"


Question: 'In "Oliver!", Nancy, who's in love with Bill Sykes, sings this song of devotion'

Answer: "As Long As He Needs Me"


Question: 'One-word adjective most commonly used to describe England's bloodless revolution of 1688'

Answer: Glorious


Question: 'This type of wasp gets its name from the abnormal protruding plant growths it causes'

Answer: the gall wasp


Question: 'In 1914 this actress silently suffered "The Perils of Pauline"'

Answer: Pearl White


Question: 'This herb comes in summer and winter varieties, and its name also means appetizing'

Answer: savory


Question: 'Twain wrote of a stranger who brought a mysterious sack to this town in order to corrupt it--and succeeded'

Answer: Hadleyburg


Question: 'A 1979 hit by Supertramp gave you these directions for finding your way to your abode'

Answer: "Take The Long Way Home"


Question: 'Born in Russian Poland in 1886, he became the first prime minister of Israel'

Answer: David Ben-Gurion


Question: 'Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the "Maddencruiser," complete with bed and shower'

Answer: Bus


Question: 'She joined the Ballets Russes at 14 and was still a teenager when she married her ballet teacher, Nico Charisse'

Answer: Cyd Charisse


Question: 'Canada's best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare'

Answer: Stratford, Ontario


Question: 'Some call it the island continent'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'The name of this lakeside Swiss city is believed to be from the Celtic word for "water"'

Answer: Zurich


Question: 'Use of the term "psyche" for the whole personality was begun by this great Swiss psychiatrist'

Answer: Carl Jung


Question: 'Doing this comes from the Roman custom of offering a drink to the gods when launching a ship'

Answer: Breaking Champagne on the Prow


Question: 'This tiny star of "Good News" learned to dance by watching a Fred Astaire movie 17 times'

Answer: June Allyson


Question: 'The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'A roofed Hawaiian porch, or the Hawaiian island called "The Pineapple Island"'

Answer: Lanai


Question: 'Sergeant Preston's beat'

Answer: The Yukon


Question: 'Jackie Kennedy authorized him to write "The Death of a President", but later sued to stop publication'

Answer: William Manchester


Question: 'In addition to a rudder and oars, most keelboats were equipped with these to aid travel'

Answer: Sails


Question: 'This ballerina was born on an Indian reservation in Fairfax, Oklahoma, in 1925'

Answer: Maria Tallchief


Question: 'Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other'

Answer: Duncan


Question: 'This island, called "The Rock," had the first lighthouse on the West Coast'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'Though Dobie Gillis didn't particularly care for it, she kept calling him "Poopsie"'

Answer: Zelda Gilroy


Question: 'Sun Yat-sen was trained as and practiced this profession before entering politics'

Answer: Physician/Doctor


Question: 'Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft'

Answer: Dirigibles


Question: 'She was a modern dancer in New York long before playing Cinnamon on "Mission: Impossible"'

Answer: Barbara Bain


Question: 'Rejected lover whose last words are "If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'There are islands with this name in Massachusetts, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Maine, but the biggest is in New York'

Answer: Long Island


Question: 'This Michigan city was settled in 1825 and named for a nineteenth-century Greek patriot'

Answer: Ypsilanti


Question: 'Like Churchill, this British prime minister, chosen in 1957, had an American mother'

Answer: Harold Macmillan


Question: 'Bells were rung across the U.S. as telegraphers relayed news of this event on May 10, 1869'

Answer: Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad


Question: 'This ballerina wrote a biography of George Balanchine after taking off her "red shoes"'

Answer: Moira Shearer


Question: 'The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set'

Answer: "Othello"


Question: 'Island group owned partly by Britain and partly by the U.S.'

Answer: Virgin Islands


Question: 'After his forces were defeated by the Greeks, this Persian king was murdered by his own nobles'

Answer: Xerxes


Question: 'This country's authors have won more Nobel literature prizes than any other, including the U.S.'

Answer: France


Question: 'The Curies discovered polonium & this radioactive element in pitchblende'

Answer: Radium


Question: 'Amy Van Dyken holds the U.S. record in the 50-meter freestyle event in this sport at 24.87 seconds'

Answer: Swimming


Question: 'The Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, is in this city'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'In a 1964 play the Marquis de Sade and other madmen re-enact the 1793 bathtub murder of this Frenchman'

Answer: Marat


Question: 'Two of these fuzzy-skinned fruits from New Zealand contain more potassium than a banana'

Answer: Kiwi


Question: 'Columbus discovered the New World during this month'

Answer: October


Question: 'Something plumose contains feathers; something plumbic contains this element'

Answer: Lead


Question: 'In 1988 this heptathlete became the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the long jump'

Answer: Jackie Joyner-Kersee


Question: 'The man with this title is the immediate spiritual father to a Benedictine monastery'

Answer: Abbot


Question: '"Teahouse" is a 1957 Chinese play, and this is the longer title of a 1953 work set in Japan'

Answer: "Teahouse of the August Moon"


Question: 'This creamy yellow squash is served much like the pasta it's named for'

Answer: Spaghetti Squash


Question: 'In 1996, Flag Day & Fathers' Day fell two days apart in this month'

Answer: June


Question: 'When excited in a discharge tube, Argon glows blue and this noble gas glows orange'

Answer: Neon


Question: 'Centers on the 1996 Olympic "Dream Team" included Shaquille O' Neal & this Houston player'

Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon


Question: 'It's the number of books in the Torah'

Answer: 5


Question: 'This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb'

Answer: "Our Town"


Question: 'The reddish stalks of this vegetable are often added to strawberry pie'

Answer: Rhubarb


Question: 'The 20th Amendment moved Congress' opening from the first Monday in December to the third day of this'

Answer: January


Question: 'Duralumin is an alloy of aluminum, copper, & these two similar-sounding elements, Mn & Mg'

Answer: Manganese & Magnesium


Question: 'This Dallas Cowboys quarterback was the NFL's No. 1 draft pick in 1989'

Answer: Troy Aikman


Question: 'The Mandir Mahotsav, which opened in England in August of 1995, is this religion's largest temple outside India'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce'

Answer: "The Front Page"


Question: 'In the South, this vegetable that thickens gumbo is also eaten fried'

Answer: Okra


Question: 'The next year this month will have five Sundays is 2004'

Answer: February


Question: 'This second-most abundant element in the earth's crust wasn't discovered until 1824'

Answer: Silicon


Question: 'In August of 1995 she became the youngest national all-around gymnastics champ in U.S. history at age 13'

Answer: Dominique Moceanu


Question: 'The Bodhi tree, a type of Indian fig tree, is sacred to followers of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'In Irish writer Hugh Leonard's 1973 play, the hero refers to his father by this two-letter title'

Answer: "Da!"


Question: 'In Europe, it's known as an aubergine'

Answer: Eggplant


Question: 'On the Gregorian calendar, it's the ninth month'

Answer: September


Question: 'As prime minister of this country, Manuel Azana restricted the power of the church & gave Catalonia autonomy'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Boston's Emerson College has satellite campuses in Kasteel Well, Holland,  and in this Belgian capital'

Answer: Brussels


Question: 'He played Danny DeVito's twin brother in "Twins", even though Danny isn't Austrian'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'Delos, the smallest of this country's Cyclades Islands, was a shrine to Apollo in ancient times'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'O yes, the title of this 1913 Willa Cather novel is taken from a poem by Walt Whitman'

Answer: "O Pioneers"


Question: 'Tailgate was a style of playing this instrument: musicians stood on tailgates to have room for their slides'

Answer: Trombone


Question: 'Jean Chretien, prime minister of this country, scuffled with a protester at a Flag Day celebration in February of 1996'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'University of Aberdeen in this country was the first in Great Britain to train students in medicine'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'This Belfast-born actor was just 28 when he directed & starred in the 1989 film "Henry V"'

Answer: Kenneth Branagh


Question: '2 major airports, JFK & LaGuardia, lie on this island'

Answer: Long Island


Question: 'She published her last novel, "Atlas Shrugged" in 1957, when she was 52'

Answer: Ayn Rand


Question: 'This trumpeter, who died in 1971, is regarded as the most influential jazz musician of all time'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: 'She & her mother assumed leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, following her father's 1979 execution'

Answer: Benazir Bhutto


Question: 'Established c. 1765, this N.J. school's Whig-Cliosophic Society is the oldest U.S. college debating club'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'This Swede has quite a range:  he played Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" & Satan in "Needful Things"'

Answer: Max von Sydow


Question: 'Wisconsin's Apostle Islands lie in this Great Lake'

Answer: Superior


Question: '"The Pygmies" & "The Pomegranate Seeds" are 2 of his "Tanglewood Tales"'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'Ella Fitzgerald & Al Jarreau are famed for this technique of singing made-up syllables'

Answer: "Scat" Singing


Question: 'Solomon Bandaranaike switched this country's official language from English to Sinhalese'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'This Durham, N.C. school maintains a primate center which houses endangered species of prosimians'

Answer: Duke University


Question: 'This British actor who played Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With The Wind" was the son of Hungarian immigrants'

Answer: Leslie Howard


Question: 'Antigua, Redonda, & this island form an independent state in the Caribbean'

Answer: Barbuda


Question: 'He said his 1994 novel "A Son of the Circus" "Isn't about India.  I don't know India.  I was there only once"'

Answer: John Irving


Question: 'In 1958 Warren Covington took over the big band formerly led by these two brothers'

Answer: The Dorseys


Question: 'He was prime minister of Syria before winning its presidency in 1971'

Answer: Hafez al-Assad


Question: 'The university of this U.S. territory is the home of the Micronesian Area Research Center'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'Michael Shalhoub was the original name of this actor from Alexandria'

Answer: Omar Sharif


Question: 'More than half of this nation's population lives on New Providence Island'

Answer: Bahamas


Question: 'She says her Gothic-style novels, like "Bellefleur", are "not exactly parodies" but "parodistic"'

Answer: Joyce Carol Oates


Question: '"Birth of the Cool" & "Kind of Blue" are albums from this late trumpeter's pre-fusion period'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question: 'Designed locally & cast in Japan,  a peace & friendship bell was dedicated in this Tennessee city in 1996'

Answer: Oak Ridge


Question: '"I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be!"'

Answer: Green Eggs and Ham


Question: '"Lions for lambs", <br />"The Horse Whisperer"'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question: '"No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen, for there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the" this'

Answer: green


Question: 'Your neighbors saw more of you than they wanted to; I'm afraid you'll be found guilty of indecent this'

Answer: exposure


Question: 'Dopey & Sneezy'

Answer: the Seven Dwarves


Question: 'The Hindenburg was one of these rigid airships'

Answer: a dirigible


Question: 'Through the high jungle tree tops, the news quickly spread: "He talks to a dust speck! He's out of his head!"'

Answer: Horton Hears a Who


Question: '"Frost/Nixon", <br />"Parenthood"'

Answer: Ron Howard


Question: 'Hamlet replies to Ophelia, "so long? Nay then let the devil wear" this color, "for I'll have a suit of sables"'

Answer: black


Question: 'You used a deadly & dangerous weapon in the crime! That's aggravated this! Now I'm aggravated & have to convict you!'

Answer: assault


Question: 'The Temple of Artemis & the Statue of Zeus'

Answer: the Ancient Wonders of the World


Question: 'It's the word for a young woman officially entering society'

Answer: a debutante


Question: '"No! Not in the house!" said the fish in the pot, "They should not fly kites in a house! They should not"'

Answer: The Cat in the Hat


Question: '"Open Range", <br />"The Postman" (he's uncredited for "Waterworld")'

Answer: Kevin Costner


Question: 'Isaiah 1.18: "Though your sins be as" this shade of red, "they shall be as white as snow"'

Answer: scarlet


Question: 'You created a canvas & tried to pass it off as the work of Arshile Gorky: that's this crime'

Answer: forgery


Question: 'Sloth & wrath'

Answer: the seven deadly sins


Question: 'Its name is German for "badger dog"'

Answer: a dachshund


Question: '"Silence!" the king of the turtles barked back. "I'm king, and you're only a turtle named Mack"'

Answer: Yertle the Turtle


Question: '"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind",<br />"Good Night, and Good Luck."'

Answer: George Clooney


Question: 'Stephen Foster dreamed of her, "floating like a vapor on the soft summer air"'

Answer: Jeannie with the light brown hair


Question: 'I can't acquit you because you were doing this on that street corner, lingering or standing around too long'

Answer: loitering


Question: 'The schoolboy & the soldier, according to Shakespeare'

Answer: the seven ages of man


Question: '(Sarah reports from the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.)  Taking advantage of the car in front of you by splitting the air at 220 miles per hour and leaving you little resistance, is called this technique; on the 405, we call it tailgating'

Answer: drafting


Question: '"Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks"'

Answer: Fox in Socks


Question: '"Dead Man Walking",<br />"Bob Roberts"'

Answer: Tim Robbins


Question: 'The musical "Sally" urged us to "always look for" this "and try to find the sunny side of life"'

Answer: a silver lining


Question: 'The Quirinal & the Aventine'

Answer: the seven hills of Rome


Question: 'AKA the Ten Commandments'

Answer: the Decalogue


Question: '1895:<br />George Selden receives the first U.S. patent for one of these conveyances'

Answer: a car


Question: 'Frankie Muniz thought his $250,000 car was stolen as Ashton Kutcher's very first victim on this show'

Answer: Punk\'d


Question: 'A sluggish economy could use this; so could a weak battery, using some booster cables'

Answer: a jump start


Question: 'The New Jersey Governor's Mansion, Drumthwacket, is in this university city, not in Trenton'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'Hake & shad are on the National Resources Defense Council list of fish low in this element (that's what you want)'

Answer: mercury


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Question: 'Red crabs need moisture to breed, so they await this season of heavy rains to troop to the ocean to breed'

Answer: the monsoon season


Question: '1872:<br />In defiance of an existing law, this suffragette tries to vote in the U.S. Presidential Election'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: '"Shaaaron!" was the only word we really understood from the patriarch of this rockin' reality family'

Answer: the Osbournes


Question: 'This children's foundation has been improving the quality of life for sick kids for more than 25 years'

Answer: the Children\'s Starlight Foundation


Question: 'New Jersey's highest point, High Point, lies in the Kittatinny Mountains, a part of this larger chain'

Answer: the Appalachians


Question: 'The betacyanin that makes these veggies red may also help fight cancer'

Answer: beets


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Question: 'One million of these African creatures make a yearly 300-mile loop that includes a scary Mara River crossing'

Answer: wildebeests


Question: '1757:<br />This "Great" Prussian leader decisively defeats a combined Austrian & French army at Rossbach'

Answer: Frederick the Great


Question: 'Ah, the days of grand debate between these 2 "newlyweds", like whether "chicken of the sea" was actually tuna'

Answer: Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey


Question: 'Harsh or desolate, or the last name of Iron Man'

Answer: Stark


Question: 'New Jersey was named for an isle in this British island group'

Answer: the Channel Islands


Question: 'In 2004, 2 West Virginia men traded gunfire over how to cook a nice healthy skinless this'

Answer: chicken


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Question: 'It will take 5 months and 3 generations of butterflies to reach Canada--a journey they're starting in this warmer country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '1862:<br />Lincoln orders this man out as commander of the army of the Potomac'

Answer: McClellan


Question: 'After seeing a tour of Ice-T's home on this show, I thought about putting in a 1,000-gal. shark tank of my own'

Answer: Cribs


Question: 'On July 10, 1962 this low-orbit communications satellite was launched'

Answer: Telstar


Question: 'New Jersey's smallest county in area & most densely populated, it was named for an explorer & the river it borders'

Answer: Hudson County


Question: 'This Amazonian palm fruit that looks like a purple berry packs an antioxidant wallop'

Answer: the acai fruit


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Question: 'After soaring for 7 months and tens of thousands of miles, the black-browed species of this bird is joyously reunited with his mate'

Answer: the albatross


Question: '1688:<br />The "glorious revolution" begins as this Dutchman arrives at Brixham to claim the British crown'

Answer: William of Orange


Question: 'Adam Sandler & Denis Leary were in the cast of this '80s game show set in host Ken Ober's basement'

Answer: Remote Control


Question: 'Speak very clearly if you call someone this game bird, otis tarda'

Answer: bustard