Question: 'Bruce Willis can toast her with a demitasse when they celebrate their tenth anniversary November 21, 1997'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'Maid of Orleans with a monument at the end of the Champs Elysees'

Answer: the Joan of Arc de Triomphe


Question: 'This man's Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH action network is a merger of 2 earlier political groups'

Answer: Jesse Jackson


Question: 'We're looking for an "I"; it's an animal without any backbone'

Answer: invertebrate


Question: 'Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once & finally to Columbus'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Much of "Fools Die", a novel by this "Godfather" author, centers on gambling & Las Vegas'

Answer: (Mario) Puzo


Question: 'Queen Victoria exulted over her honeymoon night with him, "I never, never spent such an evening!!!"'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'Jerry Garcia's ancient Biblical texts from Qumran'

Answer: the Grateful Dead Sea Scrolls


Question: 'On TV he played Steve McGarrett, head of Five-O, a special Hawaiian police unit'

Answer: Jack Lord


Question: 'This "O" is the medical branch that deals with the anatomy & treatment of the eye'

Answer: opthamology (optometry accepted)


Question: 'Only twice between 1949 & 1964 did this team fail to win the American League pennant'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: 'Arthur C. Clarke wrote this 1968 sci-fi novel in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'Her cousin Maria Shriver was her matron of honor when she married Edwin Schlossberg in 1986'

Answer: Caroline Kennedy


Question: 'He played for the Kansas City Monarchs before he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'It's what the Greeks call the letter "E"'

Answer: epsilon


Question: 'After a 3-year ride at the top in U.S. sales, this Honda model lost its No. 1 position to the Taurus in 1992'

Answer: the Honda Accord


Question: 'She dazzled readers with "Dazzle" & "I'll Take Manhattan"'

Answer: (Judith) Krantz


Question: 'Daniel Day-Lewis married this playwright's daughter Rebecca after starring in the film version of "The Crucible"'

Answer: (Arthur) Miller


Question: 'This actress who now plays Lisa Landry on "Sister, Sister" won an Emmy for "227"'

Answer: Jackee Harry


Question: '"U" may not be aware that this Florentine palace was originally built for Cosimo I de Medici'

Answer: the Uffizi Palace


Question: 'This orator was the Democrats' presidential nominee twice, lost a turn & was nominated again in 1908'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Navajo policeman Jim Chee return in this author's 1996 mystery "The Fallen Man"'

Answer: Tony Hillerman


Question: 'This "Fantasia" conductor was a vigorous 63 when he married 21-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1945'

Answer: (Leopold) Stokowski


Question: 'Formerly a special advisor to LBJ, he's presided over the MPAA since 1966'

Answer: Jack Valenti


Question: 'P.T. Barnum exhibited a monkey sewn to a fish as one of these female sea creatures from "Feejee"'

Answer: a mermaid


Question: 'On April 8, 1974 this Brave hit his 715th home run'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'Term for material, like dry wood or newspaper, used to start a fire'

Answer: kindling


Question: 'The humans in this play inspire Puck to say, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Alchemists once searched for the philosopher's stone, said to transmute base metals into this substance'

Answer: gold


Question: 'This happens "Where angels fear to tread" & "where wisemen never go"'

Answer: "Fools Rush In"


Question: 'A 1985 April Fools' issue of this magazine told of Sidd Finch, the pitcher with the 168 mph fastball'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'It was lullaby & goodnight for this composer who died in Vienna April 3, 1897'

Answer: Johannes Brahms


Question: 'A carboniferous solid fuel for blast furnaces, or a carbonated liquid fuel for people'

Answer: coke


Question: 'Though this historical play contains a clown, it's the heroine who makes an asp of herself'

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra


Question: 'Former astronaut James Irwin led 5 expeditions to this mount to recover Noah's Ark'

Answer: (Mt.) Ararat


Question: 'Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 had a hit with this Beatles tune from the "Magical Mystery Tour" album'

Answer: "The Fool On The Hill"


Question: 'in 1678 England panicked at false rumors of a takeover plot by this order founded by Loyola'

Answer: the Jesuits


Question: 'Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu & his forces killed this Portuguese explorer April 27, 1521'

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan


Question: 'This partly-decayed plant matter is a common fuel in areas without much coal'

Answer: peat


Question: 'Trinculo is a jester in this "stormy" drama'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Although Plato pointed toward Gibraltar, many modern scientists place this mythical island near Crete'

Answer: Atlantis


Question: 'This question precedes "Who never fell in love, it seems that I'm the only one that I have been thinking of"'

Answer: "What Kind Of Fool Am I?"


Question: 'David Hampton's exploits posing as this actor's son inspired the play & film "Six Degrees of Separation"'

Answer: Sidney Poitier


Question: 'This invasion occured from April 17-19, 1961'

Answer: the Bay of Pigs


Question: 'Also called lamp oil, this petroleum product was once the chief source of artificial lighting'

Answer: kerosene


Question: 'Dogberry & Verges are 2 foolish officers in this comedy whose title may mean "nada" to you'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'John Franklin was lost at sea searching for this American waterway'

Answer: the Northwest Passage


Question:
'In 1981 Diana Ross cracked the Top Ten with a remake of this 1956 Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers hit:

"Why do birds sing so gay /
And lovers await the break of the day..."'

Answer: "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"


Question: 'On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin blasted off in a capsule called this, Russian for "east"'

Answer: Vostok I


Question: 'Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine in this comedy set in Romeo's town'

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'Following Jacob Waltz' hints, treasure hunters have searched this SW state for the Lost Dutchman Mine'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Michael McDonald co-wrote this 1979 Doobie Brothers hit with Kenny Loggins'

Answer: "What A Fool Believes"


Question: 'This common aquarium fish was named for a Trinidadian clergyman'

Answer: Guppy


Question: 'Of 5, 10 or 20 miles an hour, riders gererally averaged this'

Answer: 10


Question: 'After this man's 81-point game, a writer: "The only bad news? The other four Lakers were arrested for loitering"'

Answer: Kobe Bryant


Question: 'Sorry, Charlie, maguro is this kind of fish'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'Its pride is the Prado'

Answer: Madrid


Question: '2-word name for a "crazy" character at a Lewis Carroll tea party'

Answer: the Mad Hatter


Question: 'Number of the last complete symphony by Beethoven'

Answer: 9


Question: 'This "wild" west hero was a Pony Express agent at Rock Creek Station near Fairbury, Nebraska'

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok


Question: 'Jerry West, on this Chicago Bull: "He was the only athlete I ever knew who could play volleyball all by himself"'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'I could go for some ebi, Japanese for this, but not popcorn or scampi style'

Answer: shrimp


Question: 'It's home to the Swiss Parliament'

Answer: Bern


Question: 'It's the type of singing arrangement heard here'

Answer: a madrigal


Question: 'The last of the old style of these "bugs" rolled off an assembly line in Puebla, Mexico in July 2003'

Answer: a VW Beetle


Question: 'Riders carried a mochila, a special one of these made by Israel Landis'

Answer: a bag (saddlebag, mailbag)


Question: 'A sports radio host, on this HBO drama sponsoring a NASCAR entry: "Here's hoping nobody opens the trunk"'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'It's the kajiki seen here, pre-meal'

Answer: a swordfish


Question: 'Its aquarium is named for Vasco da Gama'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'Hardy's title "crowd" that he wanted to get away from'

Answer: the madding crowd


Question: 'In 1988 newspapers headlined the closing of the last of these in the U.S., putting bunnies out of work'

Answer: Playboy clubs


Question: 'In "Roughing It", this American author described the thrill of seeing an Express rider'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'This N.Y. Yankee known as A-Rod said, "Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic"'

Answer: Alex Rodriguez


Question: 'Ah fugu, or this... you can be deadly but you're soooo delicious...still, Hootie & the Fugu doesn't work'

Answer: blowfish


Question: 'It's known for its nude statue of Paavo Nurmi'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'A fortified dessert wine from Portugal'

Answer: Madeira


Question: 'He was the last U.S. president not sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S.'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'End to end, the Pony Express ran from this state to California'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Jay Leno said, "On his way home from Torino, he didn't catch his plane. Apparently" this skier "missed the gate"'

Answer: Bode Miller


Question: 'Calling it ika is probably better than this English term, or worse, "10-armed cephalopod"'

Answer: squid


Question: 'King Christian VIII's birthplace'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'She was from Armentieres in a popular WWI song; Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo!'

Answer: Mademoiselle


Question: 'The last NASA astronaut to fly in space alone was Ronald Evans as a part of this 1972 Apollo mission'

Answer: Apollo 17


Question: 'It's the tide that flows away from the shore'

Answer: ebb


Question: '2001 & 2004: Renee Zellweger as this title character'

Answer: Bridget Jones


Question: '"iWOZ" tells how he went "from computer geek to cult icon" by inventing the personal computer'

Answer: Wozniak


Question: 'In the arts, it's the profession of Cunningham, Robbins & Tharp'

Answer: choreographer


Question: 'Like "Christ", the word "Messiah" means having undergone this ceremony often done with oil'

Answer: anointing


Question: 'She's the queen who captivates the operatic title character Giulio Cesare'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'These solar seasonal events occur in March & September'

Answer: equinox


Question: '1982: Julie Andrews with the title role(s) in this film'

Answer: Victor/Victoria


Question: '(Hi, I'm Scott Turow.)  My memoir "One L" tells "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at" this law school'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'If you weighed up to 126 pounds, you'd be as light as this class of boxer'

Answer: featherweight


Question: 'The Jewish Messiah will be in the line of this second king of Israel, who united his nation'

Answer: David


Question: 'It's the job of Acis, who woos Galatea in a Handel pastoral masque'

Answer: shepherd


Question: 'This condition exists when a chemical reaction & its reverse reaction proceed at the same rate'

Answer: equilibrium


Question: '1957: Joanne Woodward as this 3-faced woman'

Answer: Eve


Question: 'In "Dreams from My Father" this senator told "a story of race and inheritance"'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question: 'A rubber-treatment process, or turning into Mr. Spock's kin'

Answer: vulcanization


Question: 'Named for a messianic figure in Shiite Islam, Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army is based in this country'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'The opera/oratorio title character Semele has the hots for Jupiter, displeasing this wife of the god'

Answer: Juno


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  Being an acid, the juice from a lemon acts as this type of liquid, defined as one that conducts current'

Answer: electrolyte


Question: '1985: Madonna as her'

Answer: Susan


Question: '"Work hard, study and...keep out of politics!", advice from his grandpa, is the title of a memoir by this '80s-'90s Sec. of State'

Answer: James Baker


Question: 'En francais, s'il vous plait! This thick slice of tenderloin is broiled & served with potatoes & a bernaise sauce'

Answer: chateaubriand


Question: 'It's a future 1,000-year period of blessedness; some think it'll be after the Second Coming, some that it'll lead to it'

Answer: Millennium


Question: 'Handel set to music Dryden's "Alexander's Feast", with its line "none but" these people "deserves the fair"'

Answer: the brave


Question: 'The name of this flap of cartilage comes from words meaning "above the tongue"'

Answer: epiglottis


Question: '1958: Leslie Caron played this Parisian gal'

Answer: Gigi


Question: 'This British actress didn't have much nice to say about hubby Philip Roth in her memoir "Leaving a Doll's House"'

Answer: Claire Bloom


Question: 'From the Latin, it literally means "father of the household"'

Answer: paterfamilias


Question: 'This founder of a Persian religion fathered savior sons, to be born at 1,000-year intervals'

Answer: Zoroaster


Question: 'The melody heard here is from the opera about Serse, better known to us as this "X"-rated Persian king'

Answer: Xerxes


Question: 'In an 1859 novel, Charles Dickens called this object "the sharp female newly-born"'

Answer: the guillotine


Question: 'This czar gave Russia a "window to the west" when he built a new capital on land taken from Sweden'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'To start each round, 4 people from the audience each try to guess the correct cost of a featured prize'

Answer: The Price is Right


Question: 'We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm'

Answer: coins


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reporting from London)  Since 1066, every British monarch except 2 have come to Westminster Abbey for this ceremony'

Answer: coronation


Question: 'The DAR'

Answer: Daughters of the American Revolution


Question: 'If these are "burning", someone is talking about you'

Answer: ears


Question: 'In the 2000 presidential election he got 53% of the vote'

Answer: Vladimir Putin


Question: 'With the help of 3 lifelines, a contestant tries to answer 15 questions to win a cool 7 figures'

Answer: Who Wants to be a Millionaire


Question: 'They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet'

Answer: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon


Question: 'You should visit this astronomer royal's plot in the cloister more often than once every 76 years'

Answer: Edmond Halley


Question: 'The YWCA'

Answer: Young Women\'s Christian Association


Question: 'Something extremely obvious is "as plain as" this'

Answer: the nose on your face


Question: 'This 1904 Nobel winner was director of the physiology dept. at the Institute of Experimental Medicine'

Answer: Ivan Pavlov


Question: 'A member of the opposite sex asks questions of 3 hidden contestants & then picks 1 to go out with'

Answer: The Dating Game


Question: 'Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C.'

Answer: Colossus of Rhodes


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reporting from London)  Over 30 million of Britain's 58 million people watched this event from Westminster Abbey September 6, 1997'

Answer: Princess Diana\'s Funeral


Question: 'The LPGA'

Answer: Ladies Professional Golf Association


Question: 'If you have a desire to travel, these are "itchy"'

Answer: your feet


Question: 'Russian for "restructuring", it was part of Gorbachev's effort to fix the economy'

Answer: perestroika


Question: '2 contestants try to duplicate the answers given by 6 celebrities to funny fill-in-the-blank sentences'

Answer: The Match Game


Question: 'An earthquake in the 13th century signaled the loss of this -- signal'

Answer: Lighthouse at Alexandria


Question: 'In the fall of 1939 these talented boys had to be evacuated from the abbey to Sussex, but they were back in 1947'

Answer: the choirboys


Question: 'NOW'

Answer: National Organization for Women


Question: 'No one would understand if you literally "spoke wth" this -- it means what was said is meant to be humorous'

Answer: tongue-in-cheek


Question: 'This composer's "Peter and the Wolf" is for narrator & orchestra'

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev


Question: '3 people all claim to be the same specific person'

Answer: To Tell the Truth


Question: 'As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus'

Answer: Artemis/Diana


Question: 'His body came to Westminster Abbey from Africa, arriving after an 11-month journey in 1874'

Answer: Dr. David Livingstone


Question: 'They sponsor debates:<br />the LWV'

Answer: League of Women Voters


Question: 'An automatic or unthinking response, like when the doctor taps your patellar tendon'

Answer: knee-jerk reaction


Question: 'The state of Prussia was legally abolished in this decade of the 20th century'

Answer: 1940s (1947)


Question: 'Writer of 37 plays & 154 sonnets:<br />We all make his praise'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'The number of times the moon rotates on its axis during each trip around the Earth'

Answer: 1


Question: 'If you stay at Cradle Mountain Lodge in this country, your tykes may get to see some Tasmanian devils'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Liza's dad, he staged musical numbers for movies before he started directing them'

Answer: Vincente Minnelli


Question: 'These gold coins introduced in 1967 are minted in the South African city of Centurion'

Answer: Krugerrands


Question: 'Prussia got its start as the German district of this, found in the title of Bach concertos'

Answer: Brandenburg


Question: 'A scandalous Irishman, my parents were also writers:<br />I lace words'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'At 183 miles wide & 13,000 feet deep, Bailly is the largest distinct one of these'

Answer: crater


Question: 'Pinching pennies?  The Lincoln Park Zoo in this Midwest city has something rare: free admission'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This star of "Going My Way" left Gary & his other sons a trust fund they couldn't touch until age 65'

Answer: Bing Crosby


Question: 'In 1968 this American leader prophetically shared, "I've looked over and I've seen the promised land"'

Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'Wilhelm I's prime minister & imperial chancellor, he certainly ironed out Prussia's problems'

Answer: Otto von Bismarck


Question: 'This American adventurist armed his boat & hunted German subs in the Caribbean during WWII:<br />Weighty man, sneer'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'This rugged lunar mountain range that shares its name with an Italian range rises to over 15,000 feet'

Answer: Apennines


Question: 'Eek!  A frightening "Fearfall" at Universal Orlando is named for this "doctor", the Fantastic Four's foe'

Answer: Doctor Doom


Question: 'Considering her an exemplary figure, George Bernard Shaw said to her, "I wish all Americans were as blind as you"'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'In the Franco-Prussian War France lost this hyphenated territory that it & Germany still wrangle over'

Answer: Alsace-Lorraine


Question: 'He hated "busyness" & built the cabin he lived in:<br />A very hidden author'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'In the first words spoken from the moon's surface, these 4 words follow "Houston.  Tranquility Base here..."'

Answer: "The Eagle has Landed"


Question: 'Sand yachting across the dunes will thrill your kids at De Panne, 16 miles southwest of Ostend in this country'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'It stands in the center of Saudi Arabia's Grand Mosque'

Answer: the Kaaba


Question: 'A Prussian maritime provimce is thought to be the original name of this dog, seen here'

Answer: Pomeranian


Question: 'A poet who became a senator of the Irish Free State:<br />I'm a subtle wit, really'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'On Dec. 24, 1968 the crew from this U.S. lunar mission became the first men to look upon the moon's far side'

Answer: Apollo 8


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports)  From the Japanese for "pattern", it's the general name for a choreographed karate training sequence'

Answer: kata


Question: 'Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found'

Answer: Argentina & Venezuela


Question: 'He had the dynamite idea to launch a new television network known as TNT'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: 'The potato didn't originate in Ireland but in the valleys of this South American mountain chain'

Answer: Andes


Question: '41 years after "On The Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco"'

Answer: Marlon Brando


Question: 'This Haitian religion combines elements of Roman Catholicism & West African tribal religions'

Answer: Voodoo


Question: 'The American Weekly Mercury, founded in this Penn. city in 1719, was the first colonial paper outside Boston'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Z.Hr.; it's time to go'

Answer: Zero


Question: 'Journey Into Imagination was an original attraction at this Disney World theme park that opened in 1982'

Answer: Epcot


Question: 'The cochineal insect, the source of a red dye, feeds on the prickly pear type of this plant'

Answer: Cactus


Question: 'James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed "Algiers" in 1938'

Answer: "Babe"


Question: 'Haiti is part of Hispaniola, a corrupted form of Espanola, the name he gave to the island'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'The U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal was one of these Buckminster Fuller structures'

Answer: Geodesic Dome


Question: 'The Z in ZIP code is short for this'

Answer: Zone (Improvement Plan)


Question: 'At 65, Ashby Harper became the oldest to swim this body of water; Gertrude Ederle must have been impressed'

Answer: The English Channel


Question: 'The hard wood of this tree is used for knife handles & black piano keys'

Answer: Ebony


Question: 'Alan Rickman played sensible Col. Brandon in "Sense And Sensibility" & this "mad monk" in an HBO film'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: 'This South American liberator spent time as an exile in Haiti'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: 'Since 1907 about 3 million fossils have been extracted from this Los Angeles site'

Answer: La Brea Tar Pits


Question: 'Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.'

Answer: Zechariah


Question: 'More than 80 human skeletons were discovered in the ruins of this city near Pompeii'

Answer: Herculaneum


Question: 'The name of this yellow narcissus comes from the Latin juncus, meaning "rush"'

Answer: Jonquil


Question: 'A telekinetic teenager on the TV series "Misfits of Science", she now stars as Monica in "Friends"'

Answer: Courteney Cox


Question: 'This orator & abolitionist was U.S. minister to Haiti 1889-1891'

Answer: Frederick Douglass


Question: 'This Greek who supposedly sought an honest man was influenced by the less cynical Antisthenes'

Answer: Diogenes


Question: 'You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency'

Answer: Zloty


Question: 'On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city'

Answer: Knoxville, Tennessee


Question: 'Members of this "colorful" flower family include the Sweet William & the carnation'

Answer: Pinks


Question: 'Joan Allen earned an Oscar nomination for playing this famous woman in a 1995 film'

Answer: Pat Nixon


Question: 'Made governor-general for life in January 1804, he declared himself emperor in September'

Answer: Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I)


Question: 'The title of this opera by Pietro Mascagni means "rustic chivalry"'

Answer: Cavalleria rusticana


Question: 'The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z'

Answer: Zn & Zr (Zinc & Zirconium)


Question: 'This Titan who held up the heavens was the father of the Pleiades'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'The Museum of Westward Expansion is located under the Gateway Arch in this city'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'From 618 to 907 China was ruled by this dynasty whose name sounds like a breakfast drink'

Answer: Tang


Question: 'Tom Sawyer takes the blame when this girl, his sweetheart, tears the schoolmaster's book'

Answer: Becky Thatcher


Question: 'The sun completes one revolution around the center of this galaxy every 225 million years'

Answer: Milky Way


Question: 'In 1987 she visited China for the first time & interviewed several of her relatives for a special report'

Answer: Connie Chung


Question: 'As the god of this type of weather, Jupiter had the epithet Pluvius'

Answer: Rain


Question: 'The B&O Museum in this city has many examples of full-sized railroad equipment'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'In 813 he personally crowned his son Louis as Holy Roman Emperor'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'In "Wuthering Heights", Catherine Earnshaw spurns this man & marries Edgar Linton instead'

Answer: Heathcliff


Question: 'The photosphere, the sun's visible surface, measures about 5800 degrees on this "absolute" temperature scale'

Answer: Kelvin


Question: 'On Dec. 13, 1989 this newswoman gave birth to her first child, Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger'

Answer: Maria Shriver


Question: 'The winged horse Pegasus arose from the blood of this Gorgon when Perseus cut off her head'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'This Alaskan oil city's museum has a display of the effects of the big oil spill of March 1989'

Answer: Valdez


Question: 'In 995 Olaf Tryggvesson became the first Christian king of this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'This Melville title character's last words are "God Bless Captain Vere!"'

Answer: Billy Budd


Question: 'More than 95% of the sun's mass consists of these 2 elements'

Answer: Hydrogen & Helium


Question: 'Steve Kmetko is letter perfect as the host of this show biz-oriented cable network's "News Daily"'

Answer: E!


Question: 'Athena promised him wisdom & victory in all battles if he judged her the fairest goddess'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'This 38th president's museum displays a selection of bicentennial items'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'In 1094 this Spanish warrior captured Valencia from the Moors'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'When Count Vronsky's love for her seems to fade, she throws herself under a train'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'This outermost layer of the sun produces the solar wind'

Answer: Corona


Question: 'Now the "Today" show's co-anchor, she once produced the CNN news & information show "Take Two"'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'Though her name was Greek for "strangler", this riddler usually ate her victims or threw them from her rock'

Answer: The Sphinx


Question: 'The Fogg, Busch-Reisinger & Arthur M. Sackler Art Museums belong to this New England university'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'These societies for craftsmen & merchants originated in western Europe in the 11th century'

Answer: Guilds


Question: 'Joan Durbeyfield is the mother of this Thomas Hardy title character'

Answer: Tess (of the d\'Urbervilles)


Question: 'After becoming a red giant, the sun will probably shrink to the size of the Earth as one of these'

Answer: White Dwarf


Question: 'He won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Vietnam War before he covered the Gulf War for CNN'

Answer: Peter Arnett


Question: 'This city was named for a Byzantine church'

Answer: Sofia, Bulgaria


Question: 'In 1836 he marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm, for whom it is thought he wrote "Annabel Lee"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'Rubbing my nose is the signal to add the cayenne type of this to the barbecue sauce'

Answer: pepper


Question: 'A maggot is a fly in this stage of metamorphosis'

Answer: larva


Question: 'The son of 2 vampires, Connor is (not surprisingly) a sullen teen on this drama'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'It's the tallest living creature with wings'

Answer: ostrich


Question: 'In kids' jokes, it precedes "Who's there?"'

Answer: Knock knock


Question: 'A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'Kicking at the dirt should tell you to use this 3-letter garden tool with a thin, flat blade to get rid of weeds'

Answer: hoe


Question: 'The eggs of the Anopheles genus of this insect can float on the surface of ponds'

Answer: mosquito


Question: 'Kristin Kreuk plays Lana Lang, the untouchable girl next door, on this WB series'

Answer: Smallville


Question: 'This river reaches its widest point, about 4 miles, near Clinton, Iowa'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: 'In the familiar nursery rhyme, this "pumpkin-eater had a wife and couldn't keep her"'

Answer: Peter Peter


Question: 'Enjoying some fishing near Havana, Cuba, he's the writer seen here'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'When I crook my finger, use the chaingun on the hellish hordes in this game introduced by ID Software in 1993'

Answer: Doom


Question: 'This pious carnivore's name is from the Greek for "prophet" or "seer"'

Answer: praying mantis


Question: 'Elisha Cuthbert plays the oft-kidnapped teenage daughter of Kiefer Sutherland on this TV thriller'

Answer: 24


Question: 'The widest possible split in bowling is between these 2 pins in the back row'

Answer: 7 & 10


Question: 'In a 2002 movie Sandra Bullock comes to know her mother a little better with help from this "sisterhood"'

Answer: Ya-Ya


Question: 'This "Tender is the Night" author was one of the many writers who had a crack at the script for "Gone with the Wind"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'When I blink 5 times, move this chess piece forward 5 spaces from its starting point in the corner'

Answer: rook


Question: 'The coat of this "hairy ursine" caterpillar of tiger moths is said to forecast the severity of the coming winter'

Answer: woolly bear


Question: 'Camille Winbush, seen here, is Vanessa, the teen who's always questioning her uncle's authority on this comedy'

Answer: The Bernie Mac Show


Question: 'One of the 3 states with 13 letters in their names'

Answer: (1 of 3)  Massachusetts, North Carolina or South Carolina


Question: 'In a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it precedes "everywhere, nor any drop to drink"'

Answer: Water water


Question: 'He knew firsthand about "Crime and Punishment"; he spent 4 years in a Siberian prison labor camp'

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Question: 'Appropriately, twisting my hair around around my finger would be the signal for this body-building exercise'

Answer: curling


Question: 'This citrus pest was discovered in Florida in 1929; in the 1980s it reappeared in both Florida & California'

Answer: Mediterranean fruit fly


Question: '15-year-old Meg yearns to be a dancer on "American Bandstand" on this '60s-set series'

Answer: American Dreams


Question: 'At about 25,000 feet down, the Cayman Trench is the deepest part of this sea'

Answer: Caribbean Sea


Question: 'Tourism is a major source of income on this French Polynesian island that's about 160 miles northwest of Tahiti'

Answer: Bora Bora


Question: 'The new Spanish viceroy of Rio de la Plata had its capital in this Argentine city'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: 'In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling'

Answer: exclamation mark


Question: 'This city's name means "The Meadows", though "The Slot Machines" is more descriptive'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: '2000:<br />"I must stop Christmas from coming...but how?"'

Answer: the Grinch


Question: '4-word adjectival phrase that's used as a synonym for "phosphorescent"'

Answer: glow-in-the-dark


Question: 'Can't make up your mind?  Then let's just leave it at a "definite" this'

Answer: maybe


Question: 'Completes the first sentence of Thomas Paine's first "Crisis" pamphlet, "These are the times that..."'

Answer: try men\'s souls


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a skating rink in New York City)  This famed NYC complex is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall &, of course, the skating rink'

Answer: Rockefeller Center


Question: 'It's nicknamed the "Alamo City"'

Answer: San Antonio


Question: '2001:<br />"Excuse me, sir, can you tell me where I might find platform 9 3/4?"'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'In 1862 Dungeness, on the Strait of Dover, became one of the first of these to use electric illumination'

Answer: lighthouse


Question: 'On late-night TV you can sometimes catch the zombie classic "Night of the" this'

Answer: Living Dead


Question: 'The Continental Army tried out a one-man, hand-cranked one of these crafts invented by David Bushnell'

Answer: submarine


Question: 'Perhaps Mel Gibson knows that cereology is the study of these, which seem to make the rounds overnight'

Answer: crop circles


Question: 'The name of this state is Spanish for "colored red"'

Answer: Colorado


Question: '2001:<br />"Go back, Sam.  I'm going to Mordor alone"'

Answer: Frodo


Question: 'The pinecone type of this creature has luminescent organs in its jaws'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Completes the Shakespeare line "Good Night, Good Night!  Parting is such..."'

Answer: sweet sorrow


Question: 'The Moscow ballet company now known as this gave its first performance in 1776'

Answer: Bolshoi


Question: 'Think about it -- Helianthus is the scientific name of this rather large flower'

Answer: sunflower


Question: 'California's Mount Whitmey, the highest peak in the lower 48, is located in this mountain range'

Answer: Sierra Nevadas


Question: '2002:<br />"With great power comes great responsibility.  This is my gift, my curse"'

Answer: Spider-Man


Question: 'Vivid fluorescent colors are also called by the name of this company, founded in 1946'

Answer: DayGlo


Question: 'One of the classic examples of an oxymoron is a "deafening" this'

Answer: silence


Question: 'During his mission-founding frenzy, he founded San Francisco in 1776'

Answer: Father Junipero Serra


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope in Colorado)  My snowshoes are keeping me from sinking by distributing this over a wide area'

Answer: weight


Question: 'These "Dry" islands off Florida were named for the many turtles found there'

Answer: Dry Tortugas


Question: '2001:<br />"Ogres are like onions"'

Answer: Shrek


Question: 'The FHWA, this part of the Department of Transportation, insists that some road signs be "retroreflective"'

Answer: Federal Highway Administration


Question: 'Not that we agree, but it was George Carlin who first popularized the phrase "military" this as an oxymoron'

Answer: intelligence


Question: 'In works written about 300 years apart, Nick Bottom & Pinocchio find themselves transformed into these'

Answer: donkeys


Question: 'A campaign slogan in 1964 said, "All the way with" these 3 letters'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'Holy 2nd bananas! Douglas Croft, Burt Ward & Chris O'Donnell have played this superhero, old chum'

Answer: Robin (Batman)


Question: 'L'chaim'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'Just like Mercury, Venus has this many moons'

Answer: zero


Question: 'Handed out by an academy, it's the showbiz award seen here'

Answer: an Emmy


Question: 'Shoeless'

Answer: barefoot


Question: '"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people", he said in accepting his 1932 nomination'

Answer: F(ranklin) D(elano) R(oosevelt)


Question: 'On "How I Met Your Mother", this pal played by Neil Patrick Harris wanted to "flight-suit up" & "penguin-suit up"'

Answer: Barney Stinson


Question: 'Na zdorovia'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'Venus' surface is hard to view from Earth because it's completely covered in these'

Answer: clouds


Question: 'The locks worn by the gentlemen in the photo seen here tells you this is their profession'

Answer: judge


Question: 'It's one over par on a hole of golf, sweetheart'

Answer: a bogey


Question: 'This 1976 presidential campaign button refers to these 2 men'

Answer: (Jimmy) Carter and (Walter) Mondale


Question: 'Dale Gribble, this Fox title guy's pal: "I'm your worst nightmare! I have a 3-line phone & nothing at all to do with my time!"'

Answer: Hank Hill (King of the Hill)


Question: 'Prosit'

Answer: German


Question: 'One of these on Venus lasts about 244 Earth ones'

Answer: a day


Question: 'This high-flying DC comic superhero might not mind being called a bird-brain'

Answer: Hawkman


Question: 'Able to speak both Spanish & English, for example'

Answer: bilingual


Question: 'This candidate played on his name with buttons that said Au H2O'

Answer: (Barry) Goldwater


Question: '"I've just been handed a bulletin. 'You have something on your front tooth'", read this buddy of Mary Richards'

Answer: Ted Baxter (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)


Question: 'Skal!'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'Galileo's finding that Venus goes through these, like the moon, was the 1st direct evidence for Copernican ideas'

Answer: phases


Question: 'The name of the charming Potsdam palace seen here is French for "carefree", Sans this'

Answer: souci


Question: 'It speaks to Moses in Exodus 3'

Answer: the burning bush


Question: 'The Whigs used this structure as a symbol in William Henry Harrison's 1840 campaign'

Answer: a log cabin


Question: 'From 1949 to 1957 Mohawk Jay Silverheels faithfully played this TV companion'

Answer: Tonto (The Lone Ranger)


Question: 'Kampai'

Answer: Japanese


Question: 'We're not sure if it was "ancient" or not, but the first U.S. flyby of Venus was by this space probe in 1962'

Answer: Mariner (2)


Question: 'Weasel family member seen here'

Answer: a ferret


Question: 'This type of drug used to treat asthma relaxes the smooth muscles in the airways, causing them to open, as its name indicates'

Answer: a bronchodilator


Question: 'In 1667 he penned, "Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe"; paradise found!'

Answer: Milton


Question: 'In 1956 Roger Vadim directed his first film, "And God Created Woman", which starred this actress, his then-wife'

Answer: Brigitte Bardot


Question: 'A major port city, Baltimore lies on the Patapsco River, an arm of this bay'

Answer: the Chesapeake


Question: 'The ancient Greeks called this geographical feature Pontos Axeinos, Axeinos meaning "inhospitable"'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question:
'Garrison Keillor put his radio-honed voice to work on this American novel
But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable'

Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'To allow some passengers to get on the plane in advance'

Answer: preboard


Question:
'Jan. 29, 1820:
This king
doth find
life too taxing
in yonder
Windsor Castle...
Yoiks!'

Answer: George III


Question: '45 years before Disney, Jean Cocteau made a live-action version of this film with Josette Day as Belle'

Answer: Beauty and The Beast


Question: 'Outside the Federal Building is a statue of this native son, the first African American on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'The "Black Spot" is a dreaded summons handed out by pirates in this 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson tale'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'Jim Dale used the voice of a person he met in an elevator for Dobby the Elf, of this title character's books'

Answer: the Harry Potter books


Question: 'A linguistic element added to the beginning of a word to give it a new meaning'

Answer: a prefix


Question: 'Yea my Lord, in the 1770s he beganeth his naval career at age 12 as a midshipman 'board the Raisonnable'

Answer: Lord Nelson


Question: 'This 2001 title role was meant for Emily Watson, but she didn't speak French; Audrey Tautou got the part'

Answer: Amelie


Question: 'A great way to see Baltimore is from the top of its World Trade Center, designed by this Chinese-American architect'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'Seen here, it's considered one of the world's deadliest creatures'

Answer: the black mamba


Question:
'Here's Ian McKellen reading the opening of this epic work
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy'

Answer: The Odyssey


Question: 'A personal moral principle governing one's behavior'

Answer: precepts


Question: 'This director, son of a famous impressionist painter, is perhaps best known for his 1937 film 'Grand Illusion"'

Answer: Jean Renoir


Question: 'Baltimore's Central Library has a room dedicated to this Baltimore Sun journalist & wit'

Answer: H.L. Mencken


Question: 'The 1840 Penny Black was the first official one of these'

Answer: a postage stamp


Question: 'Johnny Cash is on CD reading this 27-book collection; he wore black for those who hadn't gotten the word'

Answer: the New Testament


Question: 'Often used to describe certain monkeys' tails, this adjective means "able to grasp"'

Answer: prehensile


Question: 'This star of "Chocolat" & "The English Patient" made her film debut in the 1982 French film "Liberty Belle"'

Answer: (Juliette) Binoche


Question: 'This B&O railroad director who died in 1873 left $7 million to found a Baltimore hospital & university'

Answer: (Johns) Hopkins


Question: 'Known as the "Black Prince", he died before he could become king himself, but he did father Richard II'

Answer: Edward


Question:
'This actor is heard reading "A Christmas Carol", which he's also performed as a one-man stage show
Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!'

Answer: Patrick Stewart


Question: 'Seen here is a representative selection by Rosetti of this creative British group's output'

Answer: the Pre-Raphaelites


Question: 'In 1993 this man said, "What Phil & Nike have done is turn me into a dream"'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'An important commercial route, this trail to New Mexico was started in 1821'

Answer: the Santa Fe Trail


Question: 'Featured some soccer moms: "____ it Like Beckham"'

Answer: bend


Question: 'I never wrote the biography "Mr. Playboy:" this man "and the American Dream"; the research would've killed me'

Answer: Hugh Hefner


Question: 'This part has 4 to 10 black rings; counting them won't tell you the raccoon's age'

Answer: the tail


Question: 'Feature shared by camels, Quasimodo & certain whales'

Answer: a hump


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a large tank at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.)  Malt & water are mixed in these big cooking pots known as mash tanks; this process turns the simple sugars inside into CO2 & alcohol'

Answer: fermentation


Question: 'Completed in 1937, this 2,000-mile hiking trail passes through 14 states'

Answer: the Appalachian Trail


Question: 'Kevin Costner on the range: "____ With Wolves"'

Answer: dances


Question: 'I never blasted off on Apollo this number on April 11, 1970; its Aquarius lunar module never touched down'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'The NYC health dept. suggests using the Cayenne type of this on raccoons-- to keep them out, not to season them'

Answer: pepper


Question: 'An ace in golf'

Answer: a hole in one


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew is in the brewery)  Always at the forefront of innovation, Anheuser-Busch was among the first to use artificial refrigeration and this heating process that kills pathogenic microorganisms'

Answer: pasteurization


Question: 'Starting in this state, the Chisholm Trail was the principal route to take Longhorn cattle to Kansas'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'A 1950s classic: "How to ____ a Millionaire"'

Answer: How to Marry a Millionaire


Question: 'I never dressed like this 7-letter type of unconventional 1920s lady (I think our graphics guy and I are gonna have a talk)'

Answer: a flapper


Question: 'In 1997 raccoons passed skunks as the most frequent vector of this disease'

Answer: rabies


Question: 'Break out the bagpipes; it's time for this lively Scottish folk dance'

Answer: the Highland Fling


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the reins to a Clydesdale horse)  A symbol for over 75 years, the Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced on April 7, 1933 to honor the end of this 13-year period in American history'

Answer: prohibition


Question: 'California's Highway 101 follows El Camino Real, which linked 4 presidios with 21 of these'

Answer: missions


Question: 'Bogart pulled no punches: "The Harder They ____"'

Answer: fall


Question: 'It may be the Univ. of Michigan's mascot, but I never had this animal as a pet; it attacks reindeer, caribou & almost anything'

Answer: the wolverine


Question: 'A small type of raccoon with a light coat is found only on Cozumel, an island off this peninsula'

Answer: the Yucatán peninsula


Question: 'This U.K. government "office" is responsible for domestic affairs'

Answer: the Home Office


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a brew kettle)  One of the most important additions to the brew kettles are these blossoms that release the oil and resins that give the beer its great flavor'

Answer: hops


Question: 'The Bozeman Trail was closed in 1868 by a treaty with this Indian nation'

Answer: the Sioux


Question: 'Warren Beatty as a Rams QB: "Heaven ____ ____"'

Answer: can wait


Question: 'Dennis Hastert, Champ Clark & Tip O'Neill all held this leadership post in congress but I never did...yet!'

Answer: Speaker of the House


Question: 'Raccoons' fur may be silver-tipped, like the fur that gives this North American animal its name'

Answer: the grizzly bear


Question: 'Namaste is a greeting in this official language of India'

Answer: Hindi


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds small pieces of wood)  To complete the maturation process of lagering, Anheuser-Busch uses wood chips from this timber tree to assure a mellow blend'

Answer: beech


Question: 'In the early 19th century, this Spaniard painted "The Clothed Maja"'

Answer: Goya


Question: 'Jeffrey Tambor was Mayor Augustus Maywho in this 2000 Dr. Seuss holiday tale'

Answer: How the Grinch Stole Christmas


Question: 'Got plenty of sugar & this other essential seasoning to make country-cured ham'

Answer: salt


Question: 'In a Christopher Moore tale, Christmas is thrown into chaos by Raziel, "the stupidest" of these winged beings'

Answer: angels


Question: 'Dr. Sun Yat-Sen'

Answer: China


Question: 'The main circuitry of a computer is found here'

Answer: the motherboard


Question: 'This female Impressionist helped Americans collect art, like the Havemeyers, whose collection went to the Met'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'James Woods received an Emmy nomination for portraying this mayor, his rise to power & his response to 9/11'

Answer: Giuliani


Question: '"Thank You for Smoking" & "No Way to Treat a First Lady" are books by this political satirist'

Answer: Christopher Buckley


Question: 'Ex-slave Pierre Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'Oyster shell lining prized in jewelry making'

Answer: mother-of-pearl


Question: 'This family of painters from Augsburg, Germany included Hans the Elder, Sigmund, Ambrosius & Hans the Younger'

Answer: Holbein


Question: 'David Margulies played mayor Lenny in this sci-fi comedy & its sequel--who ya gonna call?'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'You're lucky--this is my last tin of McCann's steel-cut Irish this food'

Answer: oatmeal


Question: 'Christopher Lasch critiqued our society of self-lovers in the 1979 bestseller "The Culture of" this -ism'

Answer: Narcissism


Question: 'Marshal Jozef Pilsudski'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'The Missionaries of Charity copyrighted her name in 2003 in order to protect it'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'A dynasty of Flemish artists with this last name included Pieter the Elder, Pieter the Younger & Jan (aka Velvet)'

Answer: Bruegel


Question: 'On the David Lynch TV series, Dwayne Milford, played by John Boylan, was mayor of this northwest town'

Answer: Twin Peaks


Question: 'I've got a sideline in bridles, saddles & other horse equipment, known by this 4-letter name'

Answer: tack


Question: 'The films "Zathura" & "Jumanji" are based on books by this Chris'

Answer: Chris Van Allsburg


Question: 'Prince William I of Orange'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'It's a larger vessel that guards & supplies smaller ones'

Answer: a mother ship


Question: 'The influence of Las Meninas is apparent in the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by this 3-named artist'

Answer: John Singer Sargent


Question: 'In "Milk", Victor Garber portrayed this slain San Francisco mayor'

Answer: George Moscone


Question: 'Totally morphine-free , it's Sutton's Ague Drops, one of these cures that sounds like it's government protected'

Answer: patent medicine


Question: 'The film "Chris & Don: A Love Story" is about painter Don Bachardy & this author of "Goodbye to Berlin"'

Answer: Christopher Isherwood


Question: 'Lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Mary Wollstonecraft was this to Percy Shelley'

Answer: mother-in-law


Question: 'This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it's done by Jesus in John 11'

Answer: raising the dead


Question: 'We don't know of any hanging chads when Katherine Harris, this state's ex-Secy. of State, lost her bid for the senate'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'In the sequel to this film, a sea monster known as a kraken is dispatched by Davy Jones'

Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean


Question: 'You're buying ankle bracelets in Ankara'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Logically enough, brands of this snack favorite include Jiffy Pop & Pop Secret'

Answer: popcorn


Question: 'Witchcraft trials held in this town in 1692 led to the hangings of 19 people'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'Cozy corner where you'd keep paperbacks & hardbacks'

Answer: book nook


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a map.)  You can see what's called "the two Virginias" here, and Rockingham County, which went 70% for Allen, and this more urban county, home to the Pentagon and a cemetery, which went 70% for Webb'

Answer: Arlington


Question: 'Due to concerns about obesity, a "Sesame Street" monster's song was changed to This "Is A Sometimes Food"'

Answer: Cookie


Question: 'You're cruising around Kiev'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'Get twisted with these ancient treats made from dough that's baked, salted & usually twisted into a loose knot'

Answer: a pretzel


Question: 'Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname during the Battle of Manassas, also called the Battle of this creek'

Answer: Bull Run


Question: 'A Twix or Jolly Rancher after it's been dropped on the beach'

Answer: sandy candy


Question: 'Missourians narrowly voted to support medical research on these embryonic cells'

Answer: stem cells


Question: 'We're not exactly sure what the monster is on the island of this ABC drama, but Kate, Jack & Sawyer want to know'

Answer: Lost


Question: 'You're bicycling in Bucharest'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'It's Super Bowl time! Break out the chips & this yummy dip made from mashed avocados & cilantro'

Answer: guacamole


Question: 'These "Articles" served as the basis of our national government from 1781 to 1789'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: 'Place designed for a small spraying striped animal to sleep'

Answer: skunk bunk


Question: 'African-American Keith Ellison of Minnesota is the 1st congressman of this faith, to which he converted at 19'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Sunnydale was speechless when the guys seen here stole everyone's voices in an episode of this show'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'You're banging a drum in Bangalore'

Answer: India


Question: 'One of the two snacks mentioned in the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"'

Answer: peanuts or Cracker Jacks


Question: 'When the Mexican War began in 1846, the Army of the West used this trail to invade New Mexico'

Answer: the Santa Fe Trail


Question: 'A weak, not in the best of health gastropod of the common garden variety'

Answer: frail snail


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map.)  A democrat won with 60% of the vote in the rural 8th district of this state. The district went 60% for Bush in 2004'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Jack Black brings this monster back to 1933 New York City in a 2005 Peter Jackson film'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'You're undulating in Ulaanbaatar'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'Many different snacks from this brand are supposedly baked by elves in a hollow tree'

Answer: Keebler


Question: 'Cleanup of this Pennsylvania nuclear power plant following the 1979 meltdown didn't end until 1993'

Answer: Three Mile Island


Question: 'A sofa-bound grumbling, sulky person'

Answer: couch grouch


Question: 'Some of these smallest blood vessels are so tiny that only one blood cell can pass through at a time'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'This singer/actress was born in Houston in 1987; her sister Haylie, in 1985'

Answer: Hilary Duff


Question: 'First off, I need a pair of this brand's Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers'

Answer: Converse


Question: 'A baguette can be worn when it's a gemstone, or eaten when it's one of these'

Answer: loaf of bread


Question: 'This sport's games have no set time limit; the longest pro game was 8 hours, 25 minutes between Pawtucket & Rochester'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Gene carriers (11)'

Answer: chromosomes


Question: 'It's the rudimentary plant contained within a seed, or a developing human before it's a fetus'

Answer: embryo


Question: 'Save Hayden Panettiere, who plays an indestructible cheerleader on this NBC drama, save the world'

Answer: Heroes


Question: '"Get Your Fash On" with cargo pants, flip flops & more at this sister store of The Gap'

Answer: Old Navy


Question: 'If you're a real Franco Poodle Dandy, Franco Poodle do or die, you were born on the 14th of July, aka this day'

Answer: Bastille Day


Question: 'The theory of relativity says the existence of time depends on the presence of this, from the Latin for "room"'

Answer: space


Question: 'A man's home, proverbially (6)'

Answer: castle


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a chart of the human body.) Important to the human body is the excretory system, which allows the body to get rid of waste largely through this pair of organs'

Answer: kidneys


Question: 'She was "All That" on Nickelodeon but in 2006, "She's the Man" (as Viola Hastings)'

Answer: Amanda Bynes


Question: 'Seen here, this company's footwear will bring out the beast in me!  Now, if I could just decide on a color...'

Answer: Crocs


Question: 'Because the Seine flows northwest. then southwest, Parisians call the 2 sides this & this, not North & South'

Answer: Rive Gauche & Rive Droite


Question: 'The need for uniform railroad schedules prompted adoption of this national system'

Answer: time zones


Question: 'Basic understanding (13)'

Answer: comprehension


Question: 'To build tissue, the body needs 20 different ones of these "protein building blocks", both "essential" & "nonessential"'

Answer: amino acids


Question: 'Prior to their 18th birthdays, CNN reported that the wealth of these twins to be $150 million... each!'

Answer: The Olsen Twins


Question: 'I'm looking for DVDs of the early seasons of this Comedy Central show featuring Stan, Kyle, Cartman & Kenny'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'This national anthem suggests that the impure blood of invaders be used to water French fields'

Answer: La Marseillaise


Question: 'In geological time, the Archean, Proterzoic & Phanerozoic are 3 of these verrrry long periods'

Answer: eons


Question: 'To urge, perhaps to drink certain sodas (4)'

Answer: coax


Question: 'Diptera, the order of insects that includes flies & mosquitoes, literally means this'

Answer: two-winged


Question: 'We've got Scarlett fever over her, the voice of Mindy in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"'

Answer: Johansson


Question: '(Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.)  Look fabulous & live fabulous with my clothing & home collections for this retailer that hit the bull's-eye'

Answer: Target


Question: 'You friend André has an accent aigu in his name; your friend Irène has this accent'

Answer: grave


Question: 'A clock set in the year 2000 & losing 1 second a year would first be an hour off in this year'

Answer: 5600


Question: 'To inflect a verb (9)'

Answer: conjugate


Question: 'This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch'

Answer: Harper Lee


Question: 'Jerome David'

Answer: Salinger


Question: 'This composer of the Hallelulah Chorus also wrote the Hallelujah Concerto'

Answer: Handel


Question: 'Joe's Flag Day special is a brandy & port cocktail named for this seamstress'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Ponce de Leon should have tried a facelift, as he never found this liquid rejuvenizer'

Answer: the Fountain of Youth


Question: 'Kristen Johnston's Sally Solomon is an alien posing as a leggy woman on this hit sitcom'

Answer: 3rd Rock from the Sun


Question: 'According to lyricist Bob Merrill, "People who need people are" this'

Answer: the luckiest people in the world


Question: 'Edward Estlin'

Answer: Cummings


Question: '"Anatomical" term for the part of a string instrument where you'll find the fingerboard'

Answer: the neck


Question: 'Trader Vic himself taught Joe how to make a "Wahine" with the light Puerto Rican type of this liquor'

Answer: rum


Question: 'A lot of sleepless "knights" were spent questing for this chalice given to Joseph of Arimathea'

Answer: the Holy Grail


Question: 'Yvonne Zima is Anthony Edwards' daughter Rachel Greene on "ER"; this actress is Rachel Green on "Friends"'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: 'In 1997 Bill Cosby won Favorite Male in a New Series, his 15th of these awards'

Answer: the People\'s Choice Awards


Question: 'David Herbert'

Answer: Lawrence


Question: 'On sheet music, ff stands for this Italian word that means "very loud"'

Answer: fortissimo


Question: 'On June 7, Joe celebrates Liam Neeson's birthday with this cocktail made of sweet vermouth & scotch'

Answer: a Rob Roy


Question: 'Some think the Bimini Road is evidence of this Lost Continent'

Answer: Atlantis


Question: 'Caroline Rhea is this teenage witch's kooky Aunt Hilda'

Answer: Sabrina


Question: 'This phrase for the Jews refers to Exodus 19:6, "Ye shall be unto me... a holy nation"'

Answer: the Chosen People


Question: 'Wystan Hugh'

Answer: Auden


Question: 'This famous group, heard here, was founded 500 years ago, in 1498:'

Answer: the Vienna Boys\' Choir


Question: 'Joe's customer Tex orders a tequini straight up, made with dry vermouth, this liquor & a twist of lemon'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'Henry Hudson "passed" on while seeking this elusive route to Asia'

Answer: the Northwest Passage


Question: 'Before replacing Farrah Fawcett on "Charlie's Angels", this actress sang on "Josie and the Pussycats"'

Answer: Cheryl Ladd


Question:
'A song from this international program's festival is heard here:

"Everybody's everybody /
And nobody is the same, no, no no no..."'

Answer: Up with People


Question: 'John Ronald Reuel'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'Beethoven called it "Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia", but we know it by this "lunar" name'

Answer: the "Moonlight Sonata"


Question: 'Joe dreams of Vivien Leigh when he makes his Southern Comfort & cranberry juice cocktail'

Answer: a Scarlett O\'Hara


Question: 'He walked on the moon & walked up Ararat, searching in vain for Noah's Ark'

Answer: James Irwin


Question: 'The Borg Seven of Nine & Captain Kathryn Janeway are 2 of the women aboard this Federation starship'

Answer: Voyager


Question: 'You can tour scenic downtown Detroit or Miami on this type of mass transit system'

Answer: a people mover


Question: 'Found in Eastern Australia & Tasmania, this mammal's scientific name means "bird-snout"'

Answer: a platypus


Question: 'Nicolas Cage & John Cusack team up when inmates hijack a plane in this 1997 thriller'

Answer: Con Air


Question: 'This cardinal, "The Red Eminence", made his enemies see red, so he was banished in 1617'

Answer: Richelieu


Question: 'For the voice of Sneezy in this 1937 classic, Disney "achoo"sed Billy Gilbert'

Answer: Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)


Question: 'It's the largest city on the island of Honshu'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'One form of this pre-meal prayer begins, "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts"'

Answer: grace


Question: 'This metal used in storage batteries is refined mainly from a gray metallic ore called galena'

Answer: lead


Question: 'Cusack was the voice of Dimitri & Meg Ryan was this Russian princess in a 1997 animated film'

Answer: Anastasia


Question: 'In 1619 this math whiz could have said, "I think, therefore I am joining the duke of Bavaria's army"'

Answer: Descartes


Question: 'In 1997 the price of this spice went up to $2.70 a pound & that's something to sneeze at'

Answer: pepper


Question: 'A national park on Honshu boasts lakes, hot springs, beaches & this tallest Japanese mountain'

Answer: Fuji


Question: 'He wore his brother Esau's clothes to finagle his father Isaac's blessing'

Answer: Jacob


Question: 'The retina has about 75 to 150 million rods & only about 7 million of these receptor cells'

Answer: cones


Question: 'Cusack plays a journalist who's sent to Savannah, Georgia in this 1997 film based on a book of the same name'

Answer: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


Question: 'Jean-Baptiste Poquelin began using this 1-word stage name in the 1640s'

Answer: Molière


Question: 'A "photic" sneeze is caused by this'

Answer: sunlight (light accepted)


Question: 'Term for Jesus' 8 statements beginning with "Blessed are the poor in spirit..."'

Answer: the Beatitudes


Question: 'This inert gas symbolized Ar is used to fill light bulbs to prevent the tungsten filament from evaporating'

Answer: argon


Question: 'Cusack was third baseman Buck Weaver in this 1988 film about the Black Sox'

Answer: Eight Men Out


Question: 'This Frenchman is most famous for inventing the device named for him, seen here:'

Answer: Foucault


Question: 'This woman, seen here, says a doctor had to teach her how to sneeze--& laugh--properly'

Answer: Celine Dion


Question: '"May His great name be blessed to all eternity" is the nucleus of this Jewish mourner's prayer'

Answer: Kaddish


Question: 'In digital watches, LCD stands for liquid crystal display; LED stands for this'

Answer: light-emitting diode


Question: 'Cusack starred with Minnie Driver in this 1997 movie about a Michigan high school reunion'

Answer: Grosse Pointe Blank


Question: 'This director of the "New Wave" film "Breathless" once wrote under the pseudonym Hans Lucas'

Answer: Jean-Luc Godard


Question: 'If you're "up to" this, you know it used to be kept in a "sneeze-box"'

Answer: snuff


Question: 'The U.S. Constitution was established to "secure the blessings of" this'

Answer: liberty


Question: 'The offices of N.M. Rothschild in London fix this twice every weekday, at 10:30 A.M. & 3 P.M.'

Answer: the price of gold


Question: 'About one-millionth as bright as our sun, these small red stars are also known as flare stars'

Answer: dwarfs


Question: 'These rockers conquered the world with albums like "High Voltage", "Highway to Hell" & "Back in Black"'

Answer: AC/DC


Question: 'Elias Canetti's "Die Blendung" has been published in English under the Biblical title "The Tower of" this'

Answer: Babel


Question: 'Based on a comic book & a campy '60s TV show, this movie was an immense hit in 1989'

Answer: Batman


Question: 'Unlawful activity'

Answer: crime


Question: 'One story credits 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal with the invention of this ball-&-wheel game'

Answer: roulette


Question: 'The mud eel is not really an eel, but a species of this tailed amphibian'

Answer: a salamander


Question: 'At No. 4, this Robert Plant band's highest-charting U.S. hit was 1969's "Whole Lotta Love"'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: 'This "Don Quixote" author wrote his first novel, "La Galatea", in 1585'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'Attracting widespread media coverage, this star of "The Queen of Outer Space" slapped a cop'

Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor


Question: 'Sound of a bell'

Answer: chime


Question: 'Hazard is a centuries-old game using these, which Einstein thought God doesn't play with'

Answer: dice


Question: 'Of the 6 simple machines in physics, this one uses a spiral inclined plane'

Answer: a screw


Question: 'On the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It" this virtuoso lead guitarist played a solo'

Answer: Eddie Van Halen


Question: '"The Plum in the Golden Vase", a novel known for its eroticism, was written at the time of this Chinese dynasty'

Answer: the Ming Dynasty


Question: 'Playing for the Texas Rangers, this man became the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters'

Answer: Nolan Ryan


Question: 'Slug & snail residue'

Answer: slime


Question: 'Wild Fruit Bars & Jackpot Party are popular types of these machines'

Answer: slot machines


Question: 'The name of this Alpine flower is German for "noble white"'

Answer: Edelweiss


Question: 'In the 1970s the man seen here fronted this "colorful" rock band:<br />[Ozzy Osbourne]'

Answer: Black Sabbath


Question: 'The 1803 book "Thaddeus of" this Polish city is called one of the first historical novels'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'Echoing sports cars of the past, Mazda introduced this 2-seat roadster'

Answer: Miata


Question: 'A Canadian coin'

Answer: dime


Question: 'Aussie mogul Kerry Packer reportedly lost $15 million in a weekend at this game that involves a banker'

Answer: baccarat


Question: 'All 6 noble gases were discovered on Earth between 1894 & 1900; this one, symbol Rn, was the last'

Answer: radon


Question: 'Known best for "Rock You Like A Hurricane", this metal band cut an album in 2000 with the Berlin Philharmonic'

Answer: The Scorpions


Question: 'A relative of Chilean president Salvador Allende, she wrote the luminous novel "Eva Luna"'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'In 1989 this Japanese corporation bought Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion'

Answer: Sony


Question: 'First in degree or rank'

Answer: prime


Question: 'Caesars Palace historians tell us this game with numbers marked on a ticket helped fund the Great Wall of China'

Answer: keno


Question: 'As a music critic, this playwright signed his essays first as "Corno di Bassetto", then as "G.B.S."'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'Monrovia'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'This leader in power from 1917 to 1924 founded Russia's Communist Party & the Soviet state'

Answer: V.I. Lenin


Question: 'Nestle's began making this in 1904; they claim to make the very best of it'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'The originator of the Bakersfield sound, he once referred to himself in song as "Ol' Buck"'

Answer: Buck Owens


Question: '"Great wind", a tropical cyclone'

Answer: typhoon


Question: 'In 1622 this French comedic playwright was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in Paris'

Answer: Molière


Question: 'Kinshasa'

Answer: Congo (formerly Zaire)


Question: 'Seen here, she's made a name for herself on & off the tennis courts'

Answer: Anna Kournikova


Question: 'On Nestle's brand list, 1 of the 2 mineral waters filed under "P"'

Answer: Perrier (or Poland Spring)


Question: 'Country music fans often tune into TNN, which now stands for "The National Network", but used to stand for this'

Answer: The Nashville Network


Question: 'The name of this game played with 144 tiles comes from a Chinese word meaning "sparrows"'

Answer: Mah jongg


Question: 'This 1961 Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde, a small Mexican hotel on a jungle-covered hilltop'

Answer: Night of the Iguana


Question: 'Muscat'

Answer: Oman


Question: 'Court jeweler to Alexander III & Nicholas II, he was famous for his beautifully crafted eggs'

Answer: Carl Faberge


Question: 'Nestle's first non-milk product was an instant form of this in 1938'

Answer: coffee (Nescafé)


Question: 'In the 1970s this singer from Butcher Holler teamed with Conway Twitty for 5 No. 1 hits'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'It's the sand-fur dog variety seen here'

Answer: a Shar Pei


Question: 'From 1851 to 1857 he served as writer-manager of the Norwegian Theatre in Bergen'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'Dakar'

Answer: Senegal


Question:
'A ballet by this composer features the piece heard here:

["The Russian Dance"]'

Answer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky


Question: 'In 1985 Nestle's bloomed when it acquired this American maker of evaporated milk from contented cows'

Answer: Carnation


Question: 'November 28, 1925 marked the debut of this station's "Barn Dance", which later became the "Grand Ole Opry"'

Answer: WSM ("World\'s Sweetest Music")


Question: '"Man herb", an aromatic root used medicinally'

Answer: ginseng


Question: 'In this Chekhov play, a merchant buys Madame Ranevsky's estate & plans to cut down its trees'

Answer: The Cherry Orchard


Question: 'Central America's Belmopan'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'This Russian poet & author of the drama "Boris Godunov" died from wounds suffered in a duel in 1837'

Answer: Alexander Pushkin


Question: 'Henri Nestle began his company in this country in the 1860s selling a cow's-milk food for babies'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Gold-orange fruit seen here'

Answer: a kumquat


Question: 'Since 1978 the city of Paris has funded his Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris'

Answer: Marcel Marceau


Question: 'His story "William Wilson" mentions some ushers--but they're not the ones whose house is falling in another story'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'In 2005 this creator of "Jeopardy!" was given a lifetime achievement award at the Daytime Emmys'

Answer: Merv Griffin


Question: 'In the journalism term "nut graf", "graf" is a shortened form of this'

Answer: paragraph


Question: 'Marlin Firearms of North Haven, Connecticut manufactures these in 12 & 20 gauge varieties'

Answer: shotguns


Question: 'You can read "Story O's" about this cookie on its website'

Answer: Oreos


Question: 'In 1987 reports of plagiarism in his speeches ended this Delaware senator's run for the Democratic presidential nom.'

Answer: Joe Biden


Question: 'Her 1869 novel "Oldtown Folks" features runaway children instead of runaway slaves'

Answer: (Harriet Beecher) Stowe


Question: 'In 2005 the 2nd film about this lovable animated ogre was named Best Comedy Film by the People's Choice Awards'

Answer: Shrek


Question: 'It's what the "Rep" is short for in the theater world's Seattle Rep'

Answer: repertory


Question: 'The 4 main types of marlin are the white, the striped, the black & this colorful variety that can grow to 1,000 pounds!'

Answer: the blue marlin


Question: 'A line of beauty products once was called "Oil of" this; now it's just this'

Answer: Olay


Question: 'His 1972 presidential bid was gaining momentum when he was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'In this novel, Count Vronsky is "passionately fond of horses"--& of a married woman who's the title character'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'This late R&B artist's duet with Norah Jones, "Here We Go Again", was named record of the year for 2004'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'They're the "apps" in "drinks & apps"'

Answer: appetizers


Question: 'Marlin Fitzwater was first appointed White House Press Secretary by this president'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'The dad of TV's Matthew Perry was the sailor in commercials for this men's scent'

Answer: Old Spice


Question: 'This former senator & NBA star lost the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination to Al Gore'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: '"You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room", says Mr. Darcy to his friend in this novel'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'One of 2 films for which Steven Spielberg won a Best Director Oscar, both in the 1990s'

Answer: Schindler\'s List or Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'At prep school, along with Latin & lacrosse, I learned that "prep" is short for this'

Answer: preparatory


Question: 'In 2006 Sterling Marlin, a veteran racer on this circuit, got a new ride, the no. 14 Chevrolet'

Answer: NASCAR


Question: 'Boston lawyer Marcus Urann marketed cranberry sauce under this brand name way back in 1912'

Answer: Ocean Spray


Question: 'Later veep, this N.Y. governor challenged Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968'

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller


Question: 'In a poem, he penned, "In Reading Gaol by Reading Town there is a pit of shame..."'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'She won a Golden Globe award for her performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys"'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'Sometimes the regs (these) are so complex, you can't help running afoul of them'

Answer: the regulations


Question: 'From 1963 to 1985 he was the host of the TV show "Wild Kingdom"'

Answer: Marlin Perkins


Question: 'This brand's catchy "Wiener Jingle", still used today, was written in 1963'

Answer: Oscar Mayer


Question: 'Seen here, this radio talk show host ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000'

Answer: Alan Keyes


Question: 'On May 29, 1453 this Byzantine capital was captured by the Turks'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'Chrissie Hynde'

Answer: The Pretenders


Question: 'During the May 4th movement, Mao criticized the traditional teachings of this man who was born in the 500s B.C.'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'On Nov. 5, 1950 this evangelist began his radio program "The Hour of Decision"; it's still on the air'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'The "Green Mountain" State absorbs its own capital & renames itself...'

Answer: Vermontpelier


Question: 'It's a graduate or former student of a school'

Answer: alumnus


Question: 'In 1139 the Church declared this bow a "murderous art" & tried to ban its use against Christians'

Answer: the crossbow


Question: 'Natalie Maines'

Answer: The Dixie Chicks


Question: 'After defeating the Kuomintang in 1949, Mao founded the People's Republic of China at this square'

Answer: Tiananmen Square


Question: 'This term for a socially inept techie geek first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran The Zoo"'

Answer: a nerd


Question: 'Maryland's largest city unites with "The Beaver State" & goes coast to coast to form...'

Answer: Baltimoregon


Question: 'Don't ask me what the lyrics mean to this classic kids' song; I don't know what they mean, either'

Answer: "Alouette"


Question: 'In 762 Al-Mansur established this city on the Tigris River as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'Janis Joplin'

Answer: Big Brother and the Holding Company


Question: 'Shortly after Mao's death in 1976, the National Party Congress declared this "Revolution" had ended'

Answer: the Cultural Revolution


Question: 'A second is defined as the period of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of this element, symbl Cs'

Answer: cesium


Question: 'The "Land Of Enchantment" state hooks up with South Carolina's capital; enjoy...'

Answer: New Mexicolumbia


Question: 'A Vegas casino bears the name of this character from the Tales of Scheherazade'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'After the Moors were defeated at Tolosa in 1212, their rule was restricted to this small kingdom in southern Spain'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'Susanna Hoffs'

Answer: The Bangles


Question: 'In 1927 Mao battled this leader of the Kuomintang who followed Sun Yat-sen'

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek


Question: 'Latin for "handy man", it's the oldest type of human being, according to many anthropologists'

Answer: Homo habilis


Question: 'Warren Buffett's hometown imports this state's traditional dish of poi, blending to become...'

Answer: Omahawaii


Question: 'In 1998 the Pres. of the Czech Republic remarked that he wanted this U.S. Cabinet member to replace him'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'Wyclef Jean was a musician from the Fugees; this theologian inspired a 1382 English Bible translation'

Answer: John Wycliffe


Question: 'Alison Moyet'

Answer: Yaz


Question: 'A 2005 biography says Mao was actually carried for much of this epic trek that began in 1934'

Answer: The Long March


Question: 'The Star of Africa is one of 9 large stones & almost 100 smaller ones cut from this diamond found in 1905'

Answer: the Cullinan Diamond


Question: '"The Wolverine State" combines with its college town known for its Wolverines & forms the mighty...'

Answer: Michigann Arbor


Question: 'A white robe worn by a priest at mass'

Answer: an alb


Question: 'In 2006 this show based on a 1911 work became the longest-running show in Broadway history'

Answer: Phantom Of The Opera


Question: 'Julius Caesar's love for this queen of Egypt really "needled" the Roman people'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Al Hirschfeld depicted this director with one of the stars of his 1963 film'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'The cover for their 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" was designed by Andy Warhol'

Answer: the Rolling Stones


Question: 'Of the Peking, Cantonese or Szechuan cooking styles, the one known for hot, spicy dishes'

Answer: Szechuan


Question: 'Thomas Seymour, brother of this queen, was beheaded for scheming to marry the young Elizabeth I'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'I "love" the drawing of this comedienne'

Answer: Lucille Ball


Question: 'Led by Paul McCartney, this group took flight on hits like "My Love" & "Silly Love Songs"'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'Predigested seaweed formed into these avian homes is a treasured Chinese soup ingredient'

Answer: bird nests


Question: 'Some say this queen of France lost her head over a handsome Swede before she really lost her head in 1793'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: '"Blue Angel" launched this actress to international stardom'

Answer: Marlene Dietrich


Question: 'This rock legend recently duetted with LeAnn Rimes on "Written in the Stars", from his musical "Aida"'

Answer: Elton John


Question: 'His memoir "Gracie: A Love Story" made the bestseller list in 1988'

Answer: George Burns


Question: 'A musician who misplaces his printed music must "play by" this body part'

Answer: ear


Question: 'This "Great" Russian czar sent his wife Eudoxia off to a convent (he preferred his German mistress, Anna Mons)'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'This "Great One" coined a few famous phrases'

Answer: Jackie Gleason


Question: 'In 1999 this late great "Wishin' and Hopin'" singer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'

Answer: Dusty Springfield


Question: 'The part of his pants that a pilot flies by when his instruments go on the blink'

Answer: seat


Question: 'Gruoch was the real name of this Scottish "Lady" who, according to Shakespeare, made her husband commit murder'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'Hirschfeld showed this silent movie comedian in his most famous moment'

Answer: Harold Lloyd


Question: 'Their first Top 40 hit was "Go Now!" in 1965; their last was "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" in 1988'

Answer: the Moody Blues


Question: 'Completes the title of the Robert Fulghum bestseller "All I Really Need to Know I Learned..." here'

Answer: in Kindergarten


Question: 'Of the sales rep, accountant or Sammy Sosa, the one on the company softball team who's a ringer'

Answer: Sammy Sosa


Question: 'One of the musical stars on the Walk of Fame is this trumpeter who appeared in "Hello, Dolly!"'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: 'U.S. president:<br />1961-1963'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers & Alan Alda played surgeons on this show'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'After a violent episode 2 years before his death, this Dutchman committed himself to an asylum but continued to paint'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'Aruba in a Tuba is made to give you one of these, so you won't need that sunlamp to look like George Hamilton'

Answer: suntan


Question: 'In the 1934 film "Bright Eyes" she belted out "On the Good Ship Lollipop"'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: '"Death Valley Days" announcer George Hicks is among those whose star has a microphone for this medium'

Answer: radio


Question: '"Iron" British prime minister:<br />1979-1990'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'The overworked physicians on this show include Noah Wyle's Dr. John Carter & Laura Innes' Dr. Kerry Weaver'

Answer: ER


Question: 'In his final years, he worked on pietas that are less famous than the one he created for the Vatican'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'Club Monaco could be called "Club Monica" since she wore its makeup for her Barbara Walters interview'

Answer: Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'Last name of siblings Laverne, Maxine & Patti, who sang "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" in 1937'

Answer: the Andrews Sisters


Question: 'In 1960, after her Oscar for "The Three Faces of Eve", she got the first star on the walk'

Answer: Joanne Woodward


Question: 'Premier of the Soviet Union:<br />1941-1953'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'Melina Kanakaredes is a plastic surgeon who moves home with veterinarian dad Mike Farrell on this drama'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'This great 20th century Spanish artist painted "The Blue Room" during his Blue Period'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'The newest way to make these look longer is with a heated, battery-operated curler (mascara helps, too)'

Answer: eyelashes


Question: 'Her movie musicals include "Can-Can" & "Sweet Charity"'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: 'Last name of father & son producers Richard & Darryl, separated by several blocks on Hollywood Blvd.'

Answer: Zanuck


Question: 'U.S. vice president:<br />1989-1993'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: 'Leslie Charleson & Stuart Damon play doctors Monica & Alan Quartermaine on this soap opera'

Answer: General Hospital


Question: 'In short -- very short -- he not only painted "At the Moulin Rouge", he hung out there'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'When she wears a low-cut dress, soap opera star Jackie Zeman puts this cheek cosmetic on her cleavage'

Answer: blush/rouge


Question: 'This "Mayor of Hollywood" is cock of the Walk of Fame as chairman of the selection committee'

Answer: Johnny Grant


Question: 'Apostle & first pope:<br />around 64 A.D.'

Answer: St. Peter


Question: 'James Brolin was Dr. Steven Kiley, Robert Young's young assistant on this show'

Answer: Marcus Welby, M.D.


Question: '(Alex: Welcome to an outdoor museum of sculptures by Swedish artist Carl Milles)  Carl Milles' early work was influenced by this French sculptor of "The Kiss"'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'Brooke Shields says you can wipe your face with slices of this cylindrical green salad vegetable instead of toner'

Answer: cucumber


Question: 'Rand Brooks, Carroll Nye & Clark Gable played this character's 3 husbands'

Answer: Scarlett O\'Hara


Question: 'In "Swanson On Swanson", Gloria claimed she had a love affair with this father of a president'

Answer: Joseph Kennedy


Question: '"One More Try" was this singer's third No. 1 hit from his "Faith" album'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'This word can stand alone or follow gun; either way, it's a gangster's girlfriend'

Answer: Moll


Question: 'The water in this large Utah lake is saltier than ocean water'

Answer: The Great Salt Lake


Question: '4 pearl grains equal 1 of these units also used for diamonds'

Answer: Carats


Question: 'The month in which the USSR celebrates the anniversary of the October Revolution'

Answer: November


Question: 'Pres. Carter signed a bill granting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to this company'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'In Sept. 1989 this English rock group introduced its own line of clothes'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'To descend to the bottom of anything, even a lavatory'

Answer: Sink


Question: 'Winter ocean air west of Norway is over 40 degrees warmer than average for that latitude because of this current'

Answer: The Gulf Stream


Question: 'Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" takes place during this season'

Answer: Spring


Question: 'United Artists withdrew this Michael Cimino film from theaters for re-editing'

Answer: "Heaven\'s Gate"


Question: '24 years after "I Want To Hold Your Hand", this ex-Beatle had a No. 1 hit with "Got My Mind Set On You"'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'A roll of cloth, or a flash of lightning'

Answer: Bolt


Question: 'This ocean has the greatest length of coastline because of its irregular shape'

Answer: Atlantic


Question: 'Catgut comes from these animals'

Answer: Sheep


Question: 'FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen'

Answer: ABSCAM


Question: '"Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" was this singer's third No. 1 single with 8 words in the title'

Answer: Billy Ocean


Question: 'To flow forth suddenly & violently, or to make an excessive display of sentiment'

Answer: Gush


Question: 'Changing monsoon winds cause seasonal reverses of surface water movement in this Indian Ocean bay'

Answer: Bay of Bengal


Question: 'You're not wet behind the ears if you know this international unit equals 6,076.11549 feet'

Answer: Nautical Mile


Question: 'The Canary Islands were named after these animals'

Answer: Dogs


Question: 'In January its price reached an all-time high of $50.35 per ounce'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'Carrying on the reggae tradition of his father, this singer has released 5 albums'

Answer: Ziggy Marley


Question: 'Ironically, it can mean to dance with light, quick steps or to stumble like a clumsy ox'

Answer: Trip


Question: 'Once part of the Gulf of California, it's now the largest natural lake entirely within the state'

Answer: Salton Sea


Question: 'If you're a half pint, you're equal to this many cups'

Answer: 1


Question: 'Most Chinese gooseberries are grown in this country'

Answer: New Zealand (AKA the Kiwi Fruit)


Question: 'The home Lassie went back to in the 1940 novel "Lassie Come Home" was in this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'Accoridng to Forbes Magazine, Steven Spielberg made $70 million or so on this one videotape'

Answer: "E.T."


Question: 'After James I granted Derry, Ireland to the citizens of London, it became known as this'

Answer: Londonderry


Question: 'Olympic ice skater Carol Heiss played Snow White in a 1961 film starring this wacky trio'

Answer: The Three Stooges


Question: 'This country's name is from the Turkish word "on-ogur", signifying 10 tribes'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Newton used one of these to spread out white light into a colored band'

Answer: Prism


Question: 'He wrote his "Georgics" in praise of the agricultural life before he wrote a Roman epic'

Answer: Virgil


Question: 'Marino Faliero, who was the doge of this, led a plot to kill the nobles & was executed in 1355'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Amy Irving's mom, Priscilla Pointer, played Pam's mom on this prime time TV soap'

Answer: "Dallas"


Question: 'In 1989 this country's leader, Egon Krenz, opened its borders to halt population loss'

Answer: East Germany


Question: 'A body at rest stays at rest, F=ma & reaction is always equal & opposite in action'

Answer: Newton\'s 3 Laws of Motion


Question: 'The Indian sage Vatsyayana wrote this erotic how-to manual whose name is Sanskrit for "Love Science"'

Answer: Kama Sutra


Question: 'The 8 richest people in Delaware all belong to this family'

Answer: DuPont


Question: 'This czar established a parliament called the Duma'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'He played a crime king in his last film, 1964's "The Killers"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'This capital's name 1st appeared in a document of Vlad the Impaler, the prototype of Dracula'

Answer: Bucharest (Romania)


Question: 'This noted astronomer paid to have Newton's "Principia" published'

Answer: Sir Edmond Halley


Question: 'This Greek historian's "Parallel Lives" analyzes the character of well-known Greeks & Romans'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'In 1887 this man replaced Levi Abt as a partner with Max & Harry Hart & Marcus Marx'

Answer: Joseph Schaffner


Question: 'The outbreak of this war in 431 B.C. put an end to Athens' Golden Age of Pericles'

Answer: The Peloponnesian War


Question: 'He spent some "Happy Days" playing Fiorello LaGuardia, & won a Tony too'

Answer: Tom Bosley


Question: 'The Jadranska Magistrala, or Adriatic Highway, runs along this country's coast'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'Newton said, "If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood on" these'

Answer: The Shoulders of Giants


Question: 'Britannica calls this John McCrae poem the only important Canadian verse related to WWI'

Answer: "In Flanders Fields"


Question: 'In 1963 this Texas hobby store chain owner bought the Boston-based Radio Shack chain'

Answer: Charles Tandy


Question: 'Atahualpa was the unlucky 13th emperor of these people'

Answer: Incas


Question: 'In 1989 this Oscar winner starred in HBO's "Murderers Among Us:  The Simon Wiesenthal Story"'

Answer: Ben Kingsley (won Oscar for "Gandhi" in 1982)


Question: 'In November 1989 hard liner Todor Zhivkov resigned after leading this country for 35 years'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: 'The only U.S. state that borders 4 Great Lakes'

Answer: Michigan  (borders Huron, Michigan, Erie & Superior)


Question: 'In March 1836 he was named commander of the Texas army; by October he was president of the republic'

Answer: Sam Houston


Question:
'This company serving about 30 million customers features the following in its ads
[(actor walking across the Jeopardy! stage)  Can you hear me now?  Good!  Can you hear me now?  Good!]'

Answer: Verizon Wireless


Question: 'These 2 small, often high-pitched drums are often played while held between the player's knees'

Answer: bongos


Question: 'In this sport it's a common courtesy to replace the divots you create'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Providence College & Roger Williams University'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'Often of spiral shape, it's a "stick" used to mix drinks'

Answer: swizzle stick


Question: 'In May 1968 the Post Office celebrated the 50th anniversary of this kind of service'

Answer: air mail


Question: 'It was once described as 2 "beautifully embossed, choc. flavored wafers with a rich cream filling"'

Answer: Oreo cookies


Question: 'The 6-stringed Spanish version of this instrument has its strings tuned to E below the bass staff, A, D, G, B & E'

Answer: guitar


Question: 'While these body parts should be "off the table" when eating, it's okay when leaning over to talk to someone'

Answer: elbows


Question: 'Harvey Mudd College & Golden Gate University'

Answer: California


Question: 'When these birds are circling, the situation is not good'

Answer: buzzards


Question: 'The base camp Richard Byrd dubbed Little America in 1929 is on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'This Australian-born moguls's first U.S. newspaper acquisition was the San Antonio Express & News'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'The valve version of this instrument, used by some jazz musicians, has an immovable slide'

Answer: trombone


Question: 'If a birthday child acknowledges the giver of a gift at the time he opens it, there's no need to send this'

Answer: thank you note


Question: 'Sweet Briar College & Washington and Lee University'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'This restaurant chain began as a steak house right here in Culver City in 1958'

Answer: Sizzler


Question: 'The Job Corps came out of Lyndon Johnson's "War on" this'

Answer: Poverty


Question: 'The "K" in K-Mart's name stands for this founder'

Answer: S.S. Kresge


Question: 'This smaller type of transverse flute is pitched one octave higher than a regular concert flute'

Answer: piccolo


Question: 'In the receiving line at a wedding reception this person is traditionally first'

Answer: the bride\'s mother


Question: 'Dana College & Platte Valley Bible College'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Joseph Mollicone, Jr., formerly of Heritage Loan & Investment, committed this crime to the tune of over $10 million'

Answer: embezzlement


Question: 'On July 8, 1853 Matthew Perry presented a letter from President Fillmore to the emperor of this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The lion on this French auto company's logo was adopted from Belfort, the city where an early model was made'

Answer: Peugeot


Question: 'The timbrel mentioned in the Bible, it consists of a parchment stretched over a wooden hoop with metal jingles'

Answer: tambourine


Question: 'Acceptable "finger foods" include bacon, but only if it's crisp, & spears of this vegetable'

Answer: asparagus


Question: 'Madonna University & Wayne State University'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Chicken or turkey may be prepared in this style, with pasta & cream sauce'

Answer: tetrazzini


Question: 'Joy in children he does cause; he's the British Santa Claus'

Answer: Saint Nicholas/Father Christmas


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the American Airlines Center in Dallas)  It's the name for the game-starting activity seen here'

Answer: jump ball


Question: 'She's a real Bohemian when she wears this 5 inches above the knee'

Answer: hem (Bo(hem)ian)


Question: 'The name of this kind of prenatal party sounds like a downpour of little infants'

Answer: baby shower


Question: 'Edward Albee said he got the title of this play about the dysfunctional George & Martha from a line of graffiti'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'A monkey's uncle might be confused in England where this "curious" fictional fellow is known as Zozo'

Answer: Curious George


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in London)  A hill & fortress, we explain, also share this bridge's name'

Answer: Tower Bridge


Question: 'In 1999 he was named the catcher on baseball's All-Century Team'

Answer: Johnny Bench


Question: 'While walking through Scarborough, we rested under the shade of this green place'

Answer: arbor (Sc(arbor)ough)


Question: 'Invited to a party for this wedding anniversary?  Take some of the "bad luck" off it by giving lace, the traditional gift'

Answer: 13th anniversary


Question: 'Miss Alice is the richest woman in the world in this Albee play'

Answer: Tiny Alice


Question: 'A monkey's uncle would have to travel to this large island off Africa if he wanted to visit his lemur relatives'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'Of Great Britain's 4 areas, it is the newest, & its seats in the House number the fewest'

Answer: Northern Ireland


Question: 'In boxing, this division with a type of fowl in its name goes up to 115 pounds'

Answer: junior bantamweight


Question: 'His intelligence is limited -- in fact it's equal to that of this arachnid'

Answer: mite (li(mite)d)


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand])  I'm glad I wasn't in this party that reached the Sierras in 1846; people didn't just get voted off, they got eaten'

Answer: the Donner Party


Question: 'In 2002 this Edward Albee drama that's subtitled "Who is Sylvia?" won the Tony for Best Play'

Answer: The Goat


Question: 'A monkey's uncle could tell you that blood's Rh factor is named for these research monkeys'

Answer: rhesus monkeys


Question: 'The football club many think is best, it features the cannon, seen here, in its crest'

Answer: Arsenal


Question: 'A month after winning the 1984 Olympic marathon, she got married & added Samuelson to her name'

Answer: Joan Benoit


Question: 'You may have to do this to a computer disk to enable it to store information'

Answer: format (in(format)ion)


Question: 'Harold Pinter wrote a 1958 play named for this kind of "party"'

Answer: The Birthday Party


Question: 'Albee's play "The Death of" this singer, the "Empress of the Blues", examines race relations'

Answer: Bessie Smith


Question: 'An uncle of this loud monkey species heard here might tell him to "Keep it down!"'

Answer: howler monkey


Question: 'Not Mike or Micky but he takes the podium, & accepts an award for the discovery of sodium'

Answer: Sir Humphry Davy


Question: '2 things they love in Europe are the flugelhorn & this winter sport'

Answer: luge (f(luge)lhorn)


Question: 'This famous Edgar Allan Poe story concerns "A gay and magnificent revel" that turns horribly deadly'

Answer: The Masque of the Red Death


Question: 'Jerry tricks Peter into killing him in this one-act play set in New York's Central Park'

Answer: The Zoo Story


Question: 'A monkey's uncle would go to Borneo to find this "nosy" monkey species'

Answer: proboscis monkey


Question: 'She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30'

Answer: Luise Rainer


Question: 'Code-named "Operation Valkyrie", the "July Plot" of 1944 was an attempt to kill this leader'

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: 'Corona'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'At 37 million, this magazine that falls out of your Sunday paper has the USA's largest circulation'

Answer: Parade


Question: 'Don't mess with this "Vampire Slayer" -- she has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do'

Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar


Question: 'Between Alaska & Russia'

Answer: Bering Strait


Question: 'A respectful form of address for a Supreme Court justice'

Answer: Your Honor


Question: 'This event on October 8-9, 1871 forced thousands of Illinois residents to flee their homes'

Answer: Chicago Fire


Question: 'Tsingtao'

Answer: China


Question: 'This museum, part of the Smithsonian, conveys "The Adventure of Flight" in its own magazine'

Answer: Air & Space Museum


Question: 'He came up with his "Sling Blade" character Karl Childers while working on a 1987 TV movie'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton


Question: 'Between Europe & Morocco'

Answer: Strait of Gibraltar


Question: 'In song Hank Williams reminded us that this unfaithful organ "will tell on you"'

Answer: "Your Cheatin\' Heart"


Question: 'In 325 A.D. this "Great" leader presided over the Religious Council of Nicaea'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'Amstel Light'

Answer: Holland/Netherlands


Question: 'In 1999 this "Weekly" from Time Inc. ranked "The 100 Greatest Moments in Rock"'

Answer: Entertainment Weekly


Question: 'In 1997 she married her "How to Succeed in Business..." co-star Matthew Broderick'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'Between the English Channel & the North Sea'

Answer: Strait of Dover


Question: '2-word letter-closing synonym for me, myself or I'

Answer: Yours truly


Question: 'The public farewell seen here took place in this year:<br />(Nixon leaving Washington)'

Answer: 1974


Question: 'Kirin'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The 2 top-selling U.S. magazines with a specific sport in their names are about this sport'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'In 1994 alone he starred in "Cobb", "Blue Sky", "Blown Away", "The Client" & "Natural Born Killers"'

Answer: Tommy Lee Jones


Question: 'Between New Zealand's North Island & South Island'

Answer: Cook Strait


Question: 'In Genesis 3 a little serpent told us these "shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"'

Answer: Your eyes


Question: 'In his last battle, this man defeated Pompey's sons & supporters in 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain'

Answer: Julius Caesar