Question: 'He wrote books on fishing & hunting, & you might also enjoy his classic "A Farewell to Arms"'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'Selected some material from a larger work'

Answer: excerpted


Question: 'An 1870s novel about greed & corruption gave us the name of this Age, meaning "gold-covered"'

Answer: Gilded


Question: 'Try some of the chicken cooked in this charcoal-fired oven that's used throughout India'

Answer: a tandoor (oven)


Question: '"You gave an aging suburban dad the ego-boost of a lifetime", said this man, "Bourne" to be chosen in 2007'

Answer: Matt Damon


Question: 'Ironically, he lost the leading role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" because he didn't look presidential'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'The African species of this wading bird is scarlet, not pink; colonies may exceed 1 million pairs'

Answer: the flamingo


Question: 'Spinal Tap cut 35 songs from its act at a 1992 tribute to this Queen singer; he would've "wanted it this way"'

Answer: (Freddie) Mercury


Question:
'O'Neal,
Phillippe,
Seacrest'

Answer: Ryan


Question: 'In golf, it's the short-cropped area around the hole'

Answer: the putting green


Question: 'So enraptured was Israel's King David with this woman, he deliberately sent her husband into battle where he died'

Answer: Bathsheba


Question: 'To a batter, a curveball appears to do most of its curving in this ¼ of its trip to the plate'

Answer: its last quarter


Question: 'This quill-covered insectivore which resembles a porcupine rolls up into a ball when frightened'

Answer: a hedgehog


Question: 'In 1996 this band embarked on the "Joker's Choice" tour'

Answer: The Steve Miller Band


Question:
'Vaughan,
Polley,
Bernhardt'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'In 1775 the Continental Congress certified Ben Franklin as the first person in this job'

Answer: Postmaster General


Question: 'In Greek legend, Paris was so enamored with this married woman, he stole her away, thus causing a war'

Answer: Helen of Troy


Question: 'In grammar, they're a pair of curved lines used to indicate interjected explanatory material'

Answer: parentheses


Question: 'Tick birds accompany this largest horned mammal, feeding on parasites on the skin & warning of danger'

Answer: a rhinoceros


Question: 'Sally was the original name of the protagonist of her 1997 hit "Sunny Came Home"'

Answer: Shawn Colvin


Question:
'Ashbery,
Davidson,
Cheever'

Answer: John


Question: 'Among the countries that surround this body of water are Iran, Iraq, Qatar & Kuwait'

Answer: the Persian Gulf


Question: 'A legendary beautiful woman living on a rock in this river, Lorelei was said to lure sailors to their deaths'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'The 1978 move "Deadman's Curve" told the story of this musical duo, one of whom passed away in 2004'

Answer: Jan and Dean


Question: 'Although these tailless monkeys are famous for living on the Rock of Gibraltar, most in the wild live in North Africa'

Answer: the Barbary apes


Question: 'In 1996 Celine Dion recorded this 1976 Eric Carmen hit in both English & Spanish versions'

Answer: "All By Myself"


Question:
'Wyeth,
Young,
Carnegie'

Answer: Andrew


Question: 'An image of this Old West sheriff appears on the logo of the sheriff's dept. of Lincoln County, New Mexico'

Answer: Pat Garrett


Question: 'Ludwig I's infatuation with the dancer Lola Montez helped ensure his loss of this German kingdom'

Answer: Bavaria


Question: 'This Midwestern college town was named for its location on a curved part of the Saint Joseph River'

Answer: South Bend


Question: 'St. Croix Island off this country's Port Elizabeth has the largest colony of jackass penguins (they bray like donkeys)'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'It completes the title of Rod Stewart's 1993 "live" MTV album "Unplugged..."'

Answer: and Seated


Question:
'Brunell,
Messier,
Rothko'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'Sadly, a few years before he died in the Marquesas Islands, he attempted suicide by taking arsenic'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'Daughter of the man who became Pope Alexander VI, she became infamous for intrigues & poisonings'

Answer: Lucrezia Borgia


Question: 'These caused a blurring of the image, so Newton replaced one of them with a curved mirror'

Answer: a telescope lens


Question: 'This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels'

Answer: Louis L\'Amour


Question: '2003:<br />Actor Bob Harris, suffering from jet lag in Tokyo'

Answer: Bill Murray


Question: 'The controversial "Da Vinci Code" suggests that it isn't John seated beside Jesus in this painting but Mary Magdalene'

Answer: The Last Supper


Question: 'Haru-Urara, a racehorse from this country, is winning hearts & minds even though she's lost over 100 races'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Cancun is a popular spot for this "seasonal" trip, as in the 2003 film "The Real Cancun"'

Answer: spring break


Question: 'A precious grayish-white metallic element, or a term to describe Harlow's blonde hair'

Answer: platinum


Question: 'This "Age of Innocence" author made her debut in society in 1879'

Answer: (Edith) Wharton


Question: '2002:<br />Mary Jane Watson, the girl of Peter Parker's dreams'

Answer: Kirsten Dunst


Question: 'The Manet painting seen here shows this similarly named artist in his studio boat'

Answer: (Claude) Monet


Question: 'A British man recently sold all of his belongings, including the shirt off his back, for 1 shot at this casino game'

Answer: roulette


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew crosses a pedestrian bridge over a Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico resort spot.)  A touristy part of the Yucatan is known as this precolumbian people's Riviera'

Answer: the Maya


Question: 'A "medicine" prescribed simply for the mental relief of a patient'

Answer: a placebo


Question: '"Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung'

Answer: The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck)


Question: '2004:<br />Starsky & Hutch'

Answer: Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson


Question: 'Before his geometric designs like "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue", he was a landscape painter'

Answer: Mondrian


Question: 'This presidential hopeful's running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, reportedly quipped in '88, "The momentum is ours"'

Answer: Dukakis


Question: 'Tikal National Park is in this country that shares the peninsula with Mexico & Belize'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'A level of stability, or a relatively flat surface'

Answer: a plateau


Question: 'This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum'

Answer: Martin Arrowsmith


Question: '2003:<br />Racetrack radio reporter Tick-Tock McGlaughlin'

Answer: William H. Macy


Question: 'In Rembrandt's "The Abduction of" her, this mythological woman is carried off on a white bull'

Answer: Europa


Question: 'The miraculous 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team beat this country in its final game'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'Just off the peninsula, this 189-sq.-mi. island attracting divers & tourists is part of Quintana Roo state'

Answer: Cozumel


Question: 'An epidemic with a high rate of mortality, or a novel by Albert Camus'

Answer: a plague


Question: 'In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, "I am an invisible man"'

Answer: (Ralph) Ellison


Question: '2004:<br />Jesus Christ, during his last 12 hours'

Answer: Jim Caviezel


Question: 'An image in Dali's "Persistance of Memory" was apparently based on one in this man's "Garden of Earthly Delights"'

Answer: Hieronymus Bosch


Question: '"Project Longshot" is a proposed plan to send an unmanned probe to this star system closest to Earth'

Answer: Alpha Centauri


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from the center of a small town on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.)  Not the glitzy Yucatan, sleepy Puerto Morelos is so sleepy it is sometimes called this, rhyming with Puerto'

Answer: Muerto


Question: 'A commonplace or trite remark'

Answer: a platitude


Question: 'Before Victoria & Elizabeth II, this was the last British monarch to reign during 2 different centuries'

Answer: George III


Question: 'To promote this park in San Antonio, Southwest Airlines painted a plane to resemble Shamu'

Answer: Sea World


Question: 'No more "Happy Trails" for her horse Buttermilk:  he's stuffed in a museum'

Answer: Dale Evans


Question: 'Term for Spain's Islamic art, it comes from the Muslim group that conquered the country in the eighth century'

Answer: Moorish


Question: 'The name of this patron of wayfarers comes from Greek for "one who carries Christ"'

Answer: St. Christopher


Question: 'An Orwell novel returned to the best-seller list, voters returned Reagan and Bush, "Jeopardy!" returned to TV'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'One of the two metal alloys abbreviated br.'

Answer: Bronze/Brass


Question: 'Nabisco is hounding the bad doggie breath problem by adding this flavor to its Milk-Bones'

Answer: Mint


Question: 'It was Grace Kelly's first, last, and only Western movie'

Answer: "High Noon"


Question: 'The starting point and center of early Renaissance art was in this Italian city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Patron saint of children, his feast day is December 6, not December 25'

Answer: St. Nicholas


Question: 'Anwar Sadat was shot, Pope John Paul II was shot, President Reagan was shot'

Answer: 1981


Question: 'A CEO whose company offers an EEO might hire some DAVs, who are these'

Answer: Disabled American Veterans


Question: 'The "al" in Alcoa stands for this'

Answer: Aluminum


Question: 'In "The Searchers", John Wayne was searching for her'

Answer: Natalie Wood


Question: 'Many Rembrandt masterpieces hang in this "national museum" in Amsterdam'

Answer: Rijksmuseum


Question: 'Gospel writer who is the patron saint of Venice, his winged lion is the city's symbol'

Answer: St. Mark


Question: 'China invaded Vietnam, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Iranians invaded the U.S. Embassy'

Answer: 1979


Question:
'States whose abbreviations make up the telegram:
HI PA.
MA OK.
AL'

Answer: Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Alabama


Question: 'Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America"'

Answer: Chevrolet


Question: 'She played the mother of the little kid who yelled, "Come back!  Shane!"'

Answer: Jean Arthur


Question: 'John Constable is best known for painting these'

Answer: Landscapes


Question: 'The family of this patron of students once kept him in a castle to keep him from becoming a friar'

Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas


Question: 'The Bears won the Super Bowl, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize, Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate'

Answer: 1986


Question: 'You gesture a lot but don't need to speak a word in this language, ASL'

Answer: American Sign Language


Question: 'According to USA Today, 4 of the 5 biggest corporate takeovers in U.S. history were in this industry'

Answer: Oil


Question: 'She fended off attacking Indians in "River of No Return", with a little help from Robert Mitchum'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'With works titled "White LIne" and "Blue Segment", this Russian has been called the first abstract painter'

Answer: Wassily Kandinsky


Question: 'Called the apostle of organized charity, he's the patron of charitable societies'

Answer: St. Vincent de Paul


Question: 'Ford sent the Edsel to dealers, Ike sent troops to Little Rock, Russia sent Sputnik to space'

Answer: 1957


Question: '2 of 3 federal workers might know that the BLS is this'

Answer: Bureau of Labor Statistics


Question: 'American doughboys called him "Kaiser Bill"'

Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II


Question: 'When he saw water snakes in the moonlight and blessed them, the albatross fell from his neck'

Answer: The Ancient Mariner


Question: 'These body parts are sometimes called digits'

Answer: fingers/toes


Question: 'In this show, the hero sells his soul to the devil so the Washington Senators can win the Pennant'

Answer: Damn Yankees


Question: 'A library in this capital includes a near-complete collection of Kansas newspapers since 1875'

Answer: Topeka


Question: 'Robert Hughes hosted the first week of "20/20"; he took over on the second'

Answer: Hugh Downs


Question: 'In 1917 the U.S. entered the war and this large country stopped fighting'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'He wrote his 1948 novel "The Naked and the Dead" while he was enrolled at the Sorbonne'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: 'One of the two hormones that regulate blood sugar in the pancreas'

Answer: (1 of) glucagon & insulin


Question: '"1776" climaxes with this historical event'

Answer: the signing of the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'It's the only one-word capital that has the name of its state contained within it'

Answer: Indianapolis


Question: 'This man, whose middle name was Robard, was played by Jason Robards in a 1980 film'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: 'The Allied Gallipoli campaign was beaten back by this country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'She received the Pulitzer prize for her "Collected Stories", not for "Ship of Fools"'

Answer: Katherine Anne Porter


Question: 'Otitis media is a term for infection of the middle part of this'

Answer: the ear


Question:
'(AUDIO Daily Double)
Florenz Ziegfeld was the original producer of this 1927 musical, which featured the following:

"Fish gotta' swim, birds gotta' fly..."'

Answer: Show Boat


Question: 'The capitals of both North and South Dakota are on this river'

Answer: Missouri


Question: '1960 Spingarn Medal winner, among this poet's works on his life in Harlem was "The Weary Blues"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'The U.S. declared war on Germany April 6, 1917, and on this country the following December 7'

Answer: Austria-Hungary


Question: 'The young narrator of "Treasure Island"'

Answer: Jim Hawkins


Question: 'Proper name for your shoulder blade'

Answer: the scapula


Question: 'In April 1988, Phylicia Rashad took over Bernadette Peters' role as the witch in this Stephen Sondheim musical'

Answer: Into the Woods


Question: 'One of two Confederate state capitals that Union troops did not capture during the Civil War'

Answer: Tallahassee or Austin


Question: 'He attended Rugby from 1834-42 and later set "Tom Brown's School Days" there'

Answer: Thomas Hughes


Question: 'A secret message from this German foreign secretary advocating a German-Mexican alliance angered the U.S.'

Answer: Arthur (or Alfred) Zimmerman


Question: 'A well-known Ambrose Bierce short story is about an incident at this bridge in Northern Alabama'

Answer: Owl Creek Bridge


Question: 'The connective tissue sac enclosing the heart'

Answer: the pericardium


Question: 'Bonnie Franklin sang the title song in this 1970 musical starring Lauren Bacall'

Answer: Applause


Question: 'It replaced Guthrie on 1910, but it wasn't until 1923 that the post office officially recognized its name'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'He became king of France in 987, beginning a dynasty of 14 kings'

Answer: Hugh Capet


Question: '3 twentieth century presidents who were defeated when running to retain the office'

Answer: (3 of) Taft, Hoover, Carter, & Ford


Question: 'Religious police called mutawwa don't like women to wear any color but this'

Answer: black


Question: 'About her, Simon & Garfunkel said, "Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo, wo, wo"'

Answer: Mrs. Robinson


Question: 'Lenders often require hiring this person to determine whether the structure has serious flaws'

Answer: a home inspector


Question: 'Singer<br />Marie Warwick'

Answer: Dionne


Question: 'A type of this was named for Johannes Kepler'

Answer: a telescope


Question: 'When it comes to potatoes, crisps are chips & chips are these'

Answer: french fries


Question: 'Seen here at Ras Tanura is the world's largest of these facilities'

Answer: an oil refinery


Question: 'It begins, "When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom"'

Answer: "Let It Be"


Question: 'Like Lady Liberty, he holds a torch, but he uses it to melt 2 pieces of metal that fuse together'

Answer: a welder


Question: 'Jazz artist<br />Daniel Armstrong'

Answer: Louis


Question: 'The U.S. Navy uses the Type 18 one of these, named for its 18-times magnification'

Answer: a periscope


Question: 'It's the 4-letter term Londoners use for the subway'

Answer: the Tube


Question: 'In 1990, before Desert Storm, came this operation to protect Saudi Arabia from Iraqi invasion'

Answer: Desert Shield


Question: 'In this 1957 Elvis hit, "Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone" & "the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang"'

Answer: "Jailhouse Rock"


Question: 'There are occupational, physical & recreational types of these treatment professionals'

Answer: therapists


Question: 'Director<br />Ernst Bergman'

Answer: Ingmar


Question: 'Collectors prize these cylindrical toys made by the Steven Manufacturing Company'

Answer: a kaleidoscope


Question: 'It's the part of an automobile called the "boot"'

Answer: the trunk


Question: 'The eastern area called the Hasa borders the Persian Gulf; the Hejaz in the west is on this body of water'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'Danny and the Juniors told us, "You can rock it, you can roll it, you can stop and you can stroll it" here'

Answer: at the hop


Question: 'Trained in engineering, a ship designer is often called a naval one of these'

Answer: architect


Question: 'President<br />Maria Aquino'

Answer: Corazon


Question: '"Caprice", with Doris Day & Richard Harris, was one of the last films shot in this process'

Answer: CinemaScope


Question: 'Since the word means bathroom in Britain, the song "Skip To My" this takes on a whole new meaning'

Answer: loo


Question: 'This family's construction business boomed with contracts in Mecca; one son chose destruction instead'

Answer: the bin Ladens


Question: 'In 1966 The Cyrkle sang, "The worst is over now, the mornin' sun is shinin' like" this'

Answer: a red rubber ball


Question: 'I've been working on the railroad as this assistant to the conductor who signals the engineer'

Answer: a brakeman


Question: 'Novelist<br />Janet Caldwell'

Answer: Taylor


Question: 'A snooperscope lets you see in the dark; change a vowel sound to get this version of it that goes on a rifle'

Answer: a sniperscope


Question: 'In a department store, you wouldn't look for the elevator but for this'

Answer: the lift


Question: 'Franz Post, the first European to paint landscapes in the New World, did the view seen here of a mill for this crop in Brazil'

Answer: sugar


Question: 'Jock Ewing'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'A trip to AA might be in order for this gluttonous guy from the "Henry IV" plays & "The Merry Wives of Windsor"'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: '"Crimea" river over our Miss July seen here--good night, nurse'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'Most tanned leather is used to make these consumer products'

Answer: shoes


Question: 'In 2006 this comic strip cat turned 28'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'In the early 1400s Robert Campin & Jan Van Eyck helped start the "Northern" one of these movements'

Answer: Renaissance


Question: 'Ray Barone'

Answer: Everybody Loves Raymond


Question: '"Was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day?" is said in this island-set play (Mmm, sack!)'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Naturally this 19th century musician featured here is our Mr. March'

Answer: (John Philip) Sousa


Question: 'The skin of the angel species of this large carnivorous fish was used to cover the hilts of samurai swords'

Answer: shark


Question: 'In the Oscar-winning 1932 film "Grand Hotel", she delivers her famous line "I want to be alone"'

Answer: (Greta) Garbo


Question: 'Lee Krasner, whose work is seen here, married this man in 1945 & they influenced each other's art'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'Ben Cartwright'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: 'Christopher Sly is described as a "drunken man" in the induction of this play with Vincentio, Lucentio & Petruchio'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Talk about "Man & Superman", this super literary hunk strikes a pose here'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'This most highly polished leather is made by applying several coats of heavy oil varnish at the end of the finishing process'

Answer: patent leather


Question: 'Adjective for a satellite meaning staying in the same position above the Earth's equator at all times'

Answer: geosynchronous


Question: 'One of the 2 great British landscape masters born 14 months apart in 1775 & '76'

Answer: (1 of) Constable & Turner


Question: 'Dan Conner'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: '"To my niece: I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat & drink in Illyria", says Sir Toby in this play'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'Of course, this president posing here didn't say a word during the entire photo shoot'

Answer: (Calvin) Coolidge


Question: 'This type of leather originally made from goatskin was named for the Spanish city where it was first made'

Answer: Cordovan


Question: 'Coined in 1944 by politician Maury Maverick & derived from an animal noise, it means unintelligible nonsense'

Answer: gobbledygook


Question: 'Seen here is a late work by this artist who was pals with the Impressionists but didn't exhibit with them'

Answer: (Edouard) Manet


Question: 'Danny Tanner'

Answer: Full House


Question: 'What gives Cassio's imbibing away in this play?  Maybe him telling Montano, "I'll knock you o'er the Mazzard"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Don't let the masculine name fool you--this 19th century author shown here is all woman'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'For important manuscripts in the Middle Ages, this type of parchment made of calfskin was often dyed purple'

Answer: vellum


Question: 'Dubbed the "Gold Coast" by Europeans, in 1957 it became one of the first African colonies to gain independence'

Answer: Ghana


Question: 'Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains'

Answer: Hannibal Lecter


Question: 'Diamonds are so colorless, I prefer these gems for my rings'

Answer: Emeralds


Question: 'A traditional Jewish cake is made with this sweet treat, milk's partner in the Promised Land'

Answer: Honey


Question: 'In 1989 George Bush had the DEA buy drugs in a park across from this building to show on TV'

Answer: The White House


Question: 'In 1998 this city's NBA Nuggets didn't match its champion Broncos, finishing 11-71'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'These steady winds of the tropics are so named because they aid commerce'

Answer: Trade winds


Question: 'Not only does this Marx brother not speak in the film, he doesn't get to play his instrument'

Answer: Harpo


Question: 'Instead of mere cream puffs, give me these oblong pastries with icing & a French name'

Answer: Eclairs


Question: 'Daffodil cake is so named for its bursts of this color, from a mixture of egg yolks & orange rind'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'The Bridge of Perfect Wisdom is a landmark of Beihai Park in this world capital'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'In 1972 he vacillated over a running mate & lost to Nixon, 520 electoral votes to 17'

Answer: George McGovern


Question: 'From the Arabic for "50", the Khamsin can blow for 50 days across the north of this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'The film's director, Leo McCarey, was the genius who got Stan Laurel to team up with this man'

Answer: Oliver Hardy


Question: 'Viscounts & barons needn't bother inviting me over -- I only hobnob with at least this grade of nobleman'

Answer: Earl


Question: 'Appropriately, "Joy Of Cooking" has a recipe for making this sponge-like cake at high altitude'

Answer: Angel food cake


Question: 'This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV'

Answer: Regent\'s Park


Question: 'American might & valor prevailed in a 1983 invasion of this Caribbean island'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'Kona winds from the southwest can bring bad weather to this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'This actress is pelted with fruit in the film's finale'

Answer: Margaret Dumont


Question: 'I never travel without this group around me, including a bodyguard, publicist & manicurist'

Answer: Entourage


Question: 'Geographic name for the dessert seen here <br />(chocolate cake with cherries)'

Answer: Black Forest cake


Question: 'You can follow streets named for King George V & King David to Independence Park in this city'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'This hero of a Byron poem met Julia, who "whispering, 'I will ne'er consent' -- consented"'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'Also called the snow eater, this strong Rocky Mountain wind shares its name with a type of salmon'

Answer: Chinook


Question: 'It's less than an hour's drive from my Geneva apartment to this French spa known for its "water"'

Answer: Evian


Question: 'Italian for "recooked", it's the key ingredient in the creamiest cheesecake'

Answer: Ricotta


Question: 'A giant ferris wheel graces this city's Prater, opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'In 1973 this horse crushed his rival, Sham, with a 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes'

Answer: Secretariat


Question: 'Dry & cold, the Mistral blows through this river valley in southern France'

Answer: Rhone


Question: 'This philosopher whose "Analects" shaped Chinese society died a few years before Socrates was born'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'Jo March'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women")


Question: 'Mrs. Voorhees killed camp counselors in this film; her son Jason didn't kill until the sequels'

Answer: "Friday The 13th"


Question: 'This British sport using a bat & a ball is popular in Jamaica, the Bahamas & Trinidad & Tobago'

Answer: Cricket


Question: 'Freudian term that referred originally to the id's sexual energy but later to all human drives'

Answer: Libido


Question: 'The life of this great Persian ruler is idealized in Xeniphon's "Cyropedia"'

Answer: Cyrus the Great


Question: 'Stephen Daedalus'

Answer: James Joyce ("A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man")


Question: 'In 1986 an unmanned robot named Jason Jr. explored the wreck of this White Star luxury liner'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'Olympic wrestling style in which the wrestlers are forbidden to use their legs'

Answer: Greco-Roman


Question: 'These 2 types of behavior, desiring pain & seeking to inflict it, are both named for novelists'

Answer: Sadomasochism or Sadism & Masochism


Question: 'Add 2 letters to a modern Mideast country to get this kingdom once ruled by Sennacherib'

Answer: Assyria


Question: 'Yuri Zhivago'

Answer: Boris Pasternak ("Doctor Zhivago")


Question: 'Jason Bateman played Bob Newhart's son & Judd Hirsch's son-in-law on this sitcom'

Answer: "George & Leo"


Question: 'The Washington Huskies won the 1997 title in this sport on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey'

Answer: Rowing


Question: 'An abnormal attachment or the process of becoming set in place'

Answer: Fixation


Question: 'As a verb, its antonym is fill; as an adjective, full'

Answer: Empty


Question: 'These people who settled India c. 1500 B.C. were taken for a superior race in Nazi pseudoscience'

Answer: Aryans


Question: 'Sal Paradise'

Answer: Jack Kerouac ("On The Road")


Question: 'Jason Bonham sat in on drums for his father when the surviving members of this band reunited in 1988'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: '(Hi, I'm Dot Richardson.) Fast-pitch softball is played with 9 players per team; slow-pitch teams have this many players'

Answer: 10


Question: '5-letter word that's similar to guilt, but results more from violating social expectation'

Answer: Shame


Question: 'Adjectives used to tell your ancient Pliny writers apart'

Answer: "Elder" & "Younger"


Question: 'Named for its shape by James Breasted, it's the area where civilization was born'

Answer: Fertile Crescent


Question: 'Esther Greenwood'

Answer: Sylvia Plath ("The Bell Jar")


Question: 'Jason Compson & his brothers Benjy & Quentin narrate 3 sections of this Faulkner novel'

Answer: "The Sound And The Fury"


Question: 'This sport's Tracy Caulkins won the Honda Broderick Cup twice for being the NCAA's top woman athlete'

Answer: Swimming


Question: 'The "excess" type of this is defined as things we can't see about ourselves that get in our way'

Answer: Baggage


Question: '"Off" & "On" remain antonyms even after this letter is put on the front of them'

Answer: D


Question: 'The Silver Seraph, the 9th new model in its 92-year history, is its first built on a moving assembly line'

Answer: Rolls-Royce


Question: 'In 2006 Coldwell Banker said the average home sale price in this town next to West Hollywood was $1.8 million'

Answer: Beverly Hills


Question: 'Bogie & Hepburn floated across the screen in this 1951 film that pleased audiences & critics, but not the Academy'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'The skate'

Answer: a fish


Question: 'In 1948 Irv Robbins & this brother-in-law began franchising their small chain of ice cream stores'

Answer: (Burt) Baskin


Question: 'This rap "clan" featuring Method Man & RZA took its name from a mythical martial arts sword'

Answer: The Wu-Tang Clan


Question: 'Helium,<br />aluminum'

Answer: heal (He-Al)


Question: 'On June 17, 1775, after Breed's Hill was fortified, reserve Patriot troops occupied this hill'

Answer: Bunker Hill


Question: 'You couldn't drag a Best Picture nomination out of the Academy for this 1959 Billy Wilder film; well, nobody's perfect'

Answer: Some Like It Hot


Question: 'The tarsier'

Answer: a mammal


Question: 'He began formulating his low-carb approach to dieting after reading an article in a 1963 issue of JAMA'

Answer: (Robert) Atkins


Question: 'Number of the latest U.S. Constitutional amendment to take effect'

Answer: 27


Question: 'Neon,<br />argon'

Answer: near (Ne-Ar)


Question: 'The Esquiline & the Viminal are 2 of the 7 hills on which this ancient city was built'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'The Academy must have been out to lunch not nominating this 1961 Audrey Hepburn film'

Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany\'s


Question: 'The honeycreeper'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'This "Eugene Onegin" author was charged with writing subversive poetry in 1820 & lost his job in St. Petersburg'

Answer: Pushkin


Question: '2-word name for the body of water these D.C. skaters are having fun on back in the day'

Answer: the Reflecting Pool


Question: 'Copper,<br />boron'

Answer: cub (Cu-B)


Question: 'High peaks in this range of low mountains in South Dakota & Wyoming include Parker Peak & Custer Peak'

Answer: the Black Hills


Question: 'In 1954 this Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly starrer from Alfred Hitchcock didn't get a second glance'

Answer: Rear Window


Question: 'The bongo'

Answer: a mammal


Question: 'In 1832 an English physician first described this disease of lymph tissue that now bears his name'

Answer: Hodgkin\'s (disease)


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew zaps some styrofoam peanuts with liquid from a test tube in the Jeopardy! science lab.) You might think styrofoam peanuts are hard to get rid of, but they can be dissolved using this solvent, the same one found in nail polish remover'

Answer: acetone


Question: 'Calcium,<br />iron'

Answer: cafe (Ca-Fe)


Question: 'At the foot of the Mendip Hills, you'll find this cheese-y 7-letter English town'

Answer: Cheddar


Question: '"Driving Miss Daisy" won for 1989, the year this Spike Lee film about urban racism was passed over'

Answer: Do the Right Thing


Question: 'The cichlid'

Answer: a fish


Question: 'In 1941 she was the only member of the House of Rep. to vote against the Declaration of War against Japan'

Answer: Jeannette Rankin


Question: 'Less secure than an heir apparent, one who's in line for a throne but could still be superseded is the "heir" this'

Answer: presumptive


Question: 'Hydrogen,<br />silver'

Answer: hag (H-Ag)


Question: 'W.H. Auden wrote of this civil war-torn country, "History to the defeated may say alas but cannot help nor pardon"'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Born William Claude Dukenfield, he's supposed to have said, "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad"'

Answer: W.C. Fields


Question: 'This writer, "GBS", died on Nov. 2, 1950'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'The Trustees of the College of California bought 160 acres of land north of Oakland & named the site this in 1866'

Answer: Berkeley


Question: '"Speed-the-Plow",<br />"Glengarry Glen Ross"'

Answer: David Mamet


Question: 'From an 1859 song, it's a nickname for the Old South'

Answer: "Dixie"


Question: 'As the depression hit Europe, this figure in Belgium went from 5.4% in 1930 to 23.5% in 1932'

Answer: unemployment


Question: 'Dance style of brothers & Kennedy Center honorees Fayard & Harold Nicholas'

Answer: tap


Question: 'This novelist, a pure "Natural", died in NYC on March 18, 1986'

Answer: Bernard Malamud


Question: 'This Tulsa college was founded by & named for an evangelist, now the school's chancellor'

Answer: Oral Roberts


Question: '"An American Daughter",<br />"The Heidi Chronicles"'

Answer: Wendy Wasserstein


Question: 'A cross with the figure of Jesus upon it'

Answer: a crucifix


Question: 'Melvin Purvis gained fame (more than Hoover liked) as head of the FBI's office in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'In Vaudeville, Jerry, Hele, Josephine & George M. were "The Four" these'

Answer: Cohans


Question: 'This WWII British commander who led the 21st Army Group at Normandy passed away on March 24, 1976'

Answer: Montgomery


Question: 'The logo of this one-time Methodist college is seen here'

Answer: Duke University


Question: '"Lettice and Lovage",<br />"Amadeus"'

Answer: Peter Shaffer


Question: 'An alchemical liquid "of life" believed to be capable of prolonging it'

Answer: an elixir


Question: 'The Baltic States' fate was decided by a secret protocol to the August 1939 non-aggression pact of these 2 nations'

Answer: Germany & the Soviet Union


Question: '(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.)  Rochester!  Did you know that in 1953 I played this comic as a boy on his self-titled TV "Program"?'

Answer: Jack Benny


Question: 'On Dec. 24, 1975 Bernard Herrmann died shortly after scoring this 1976 De Niro & Foster classic; it's dedicated to him'

Answer: Taxi Driver


Question: 'An anthem says, "With each pealing bell... hail, all hail" this New York university (it rhymes)'

Answer: Cornell


Question: '"A Moon for the Misbegotten",<br />"The Iceman Cometh"'

Answer: Eugene O\'Neill


Question: 'Adjective meaning extravagantly impractical, like something done by the Man of La Mancha'

Answer: quixotic


Question: '1 of the 2 men, a Southern pol & a soldier, whom FDR said were the 2 most dangerous in the country'

Answer: Huey Long (or Douglas MacArthur)


Question: 'Cathy Lewis was this title character paired with Fibber McGee on a '50s TV show based on a hit radio show'

Answer: Molly


Question: 'After he helped liberate Chile, he got liberated from life on Oct. 24, 1842'

Answer: Bernardo O\'Higgins


Question: 'Lord Jeffs is the nickname of the athletic teams of this Massachusetts college'

Answer: Amherst


Question: '"Curse of the Starving Class",<br />"True West"'

Answer: Sam Shepard


Question: 'An array of numbers or other mathematical functions multiplied according to certain rules'

Answer: a matrix


Question: 'In 2007 this 18th century professor & writer became the first Scotsman to appear on an English banknote'

Answer: Adam Smith


Question: 'You should have heard my "boo-yah!" in 2004 when Shaun Alexander scored his NFL-leading 20th of these'

Answer: a touchdown


Question: 'This campaigning term came from a tree part on which frontier speechmakers stood'

Answer: the stump


Question: 'Hungry in Terre Haute?  Stop at the Arches on U.S. Highway 41 for some Chicken Selects here'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'May 3, 1912:<br />The first victims of this disaster are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia'

Answer: the Titanic sinking


Question: 'In 1988 this popular minister tearfully admitted on his national TV show that he was guilty of an unspecified sin'

Answer: Jimmy Swaggart


Question: 'This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day'

Answer: something


Question: 'Straight-up swap at this position, Roethlisberger for Culpepper... what do you say?'

Answer: quarterback


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a butterfly ballot in a voting booth at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.)  Florida voting machines introduced this 4-letter word to many people's vocabularies in 2000'

Answer: chad


Question: 'Lots of good eating on U.S. 41--there's a seafood restaurant in this "colorful" chain launched in Florida in 1968'

Answer: Red Lobster


Question: 'May 13, 1787:<br />11 ships leave England on a voyage that ends by establishing a penal colony here'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Lightning rod Scottish politician Jimmy Wray is a member of the British parliament for this political party'

Answer: Labour


Question: 'Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas'

Answer: methane


Question: 'I'm glad I traded for this flamboyant receiver who went from Frisco to Philly in 2004'

Answer: Terrell Owens


Question: 'Authority from the people to govern a certain way, or from the League of Nations to administer an area'

Answer: a mandate


Question: 'The culinary delights of U.S. 41 include this pizza chain founded by John Schnatter downstate in Jeffersonville, In.'

Answer: Papa John\'s


Question: 'May 31, 1913:<br />The 17th Amendment is ratified, authorizing the direct election of these'

Answer: senators


Question: 'With an average speed around 133 mph, Jimmy Bryan won this race in 1958'

Answer: the Indianapolis 500


Question: 'Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford'

Answer: the Methodists


Question: 'I'm expecting a few long ones from the well-named Ryan Longwell, a regular at this position'

Answer: kicker


Question: 'There are 2 "re" processes that changes the areas House seats represent: reapportionment & this'

Answer: redistricting


Question: 'Any day of the week, hit this chain on U.S. 41 for a Three-For-All wings, skins & mozzarella appetizer'

Answer: T.G.I. Friday\'s


Question: 'May 10, 1941:<br />He parachutes into Scotland with a "peace plan"'

Answer: (Rudolf) Hess


Question: 'He won a 1986 Pulitzer for his work as a columnist for the New York Daily News'

Answer: Jimmy Breslin


Question: 'His group won a Grammy in 1998 for "Imaginary Day"'

Answer: Pat Metheny


Question: 'Letting go of this Rams back with almost 12,000 career rushing yards could come back to haunt me'

Answer: Marshall Faulk


Question: 'The government system used by the U.S.; it divides power between the central & state governments'

Answer: federalism


Question: 'If this school's 11,200 students tire of chain food, they hit Poplar Street for steaks at Stables'

Answer: Indiana State University


Question: 'May 15, 1756:<br />This European war begins when England declares war on France'

Answer: The Seven Years\' War


Question: 'In 1922 he was the first pilot to cross the U.S. in under 24 hours'

Answer: Jimmy Doolittle


Question: 'In mythology, the husband of Pandora & brother of Prometheus; in astronomy, a moon of Saturn'

Answer: Epimetheus


Question: 'Paul Gallico owned 23 of these animals at a time & wrote a fantasy about a boy who's changed into a white one'

Answer: cats


Question: 'In an Oscar acceptance speech, he thanked Joey LaMotta, "even though he's suing us"'

Answer: Robert De Niro


Question: 'Cayman Brac'

Answer: Great Britain (or United Kingdom)


Question: 'When Steve Ballmer became CEO, this man's new role was "Chief Software Architect"'

Answer: Bill Gates


Question: 'Penillion, a traditional form of Welsh singing, is almost always accompanied by this musical instrument'

Answer: the harp


Question: 'In Gaelic, this body, set up in 1999 for the first time since 1707, is Pàrlamaid na h-Alba'

Answer: (Scottish) Parliament


Question: 'Mom threw out all my Pern--Anne McCaffrey's books about Pern, where people ride these mythical beasts'

Answer: dragons


Question: 'Hoo ah!  He turned down the role of Han Solo in "Star Wars"; maybe he should've turned down "Gigli", too'

Answer: (Al) Pacino


Question: 'Hopen, part of Svalbard'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'In 1995, this product "95" sold more than 1 million copies in 4 days'

Answer: Windows


Question: 'This notation used to indicate that the music should get softer is often abbreviated dim.'

Answer: diminuendo


Question: 'Nic, "daughter of", is the female equivalent of this 3-letter form seen in many surnames'

Answer: Mac


Question: 'Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of" here gives the women's view of the Arthurian legend'

Answer: Avalon


Question: 'He got an Oscar nomination for his role as Sal the pizza parlor owner in "Do the Right Thing"'

Answer: Danny Aiello


Question: 'Grand Canary Island'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'In March 2004 this body hit Microsoft with a 497 million-euro fine for its bus. practices (take it out of petty cash)'

Answer: the European Union


Question: 'One movement of this famous set of symphonic sketches is called "Jeux de vagues" ("The Play of the Waves")'

Answer: La Mer


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a blackboard.)  In Gaelic, "à" means this, as in "Tha mi à glaschu"; it can mean the exact opposite in French'

Answer: from


Question: 'Terry Pratchett created this round "world" that rests on elephants resting on a turtle'

Answer: Discworld


Question: 'Mira's dad, he played Henry Kissinger in 1995's "Nixon"'

Answer: Paul Sorvino


Question: 'New Caledonia'

Answer: France


Question: 'Now both an NFL & NBA team owner, he co-wrote a "BASIC" computer language for the Altair 8800 in 1975'

Answer: Paul Allen


Question: 'Tales of Tapio, a Finnish forest god, inspired "Tapiola", this composer's last major symphonic work'

Answer: Sibelius


Question: 'If you know cardhu ("black rock") & laphroaig ("beautiful hollow by the broad bay") you either love Gaelic or this'

Answer: scotches


Question: 'Xanth is a land created by this writer, & if you say his first & last name you'll hear "Xanth" in the middle'

Answer: Piers Anthony


Question: 'She went from playing doctor in "Medicine Man" to playing one again on "The Sopranos"'

Answer: (Lorraine) Bracco


Question: 'Bonaire'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'MS-DOS for short, this was introduced on IBM personal computers in 1981'

Answer: Microsoft Disk Operating System


Question: 'He wrote 4 "Mephisto Waltzes", but the last was unfinished when he died in 1886'

Answer: Liszt


Question: 'Linne Chluaidh is Gaelic for the body of water known by this distinctively Scots name'

Answer: Firth


Question: 'It refers to a mythical bird that calmed waves, or to past happy "days"; spelled differently, it's a sleeping pill'

Answer: halcyon


Question: 'The first time African Americans marched in the parade was at Lincoln's second inauguration, in this year'

Answer: 1865


Question: 'Herschel Walker (1982)'

Answer: University of Georgia


Question: 'Greece's 2-Euro coin shows Europa being abducted by this god in the guise of a bull'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'Buffett had the sense to buy $600 million worth of this company the year it introduced the Sensor razor; ka-ching!'

Answer: Gillette


Question: 'A fort in New Haven was named for this Connecticut patriot who was hanged as a spy in 1776'

Answer: Hale


Question: 'You do it to get admitted to Stanford'

Answer: apply


Question: 'This 18-time Grammy winner sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at Barack Obama's inauguration'

Answer: Franklin


Question: 'Troy Aikman (1988)'

Answer: UCLA


Question: 'Malta's 1- & 2-Euro coins depict an 8-pointed this, a symbol of Malta'

Answer: cross


Question: 'Buffett grabbed 5% of the stock in this company a few years before it introduced the gold card'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'This great Apache warrior died at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in 1910 & was buried there'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'A dishwasher or dryer'

Answer: appliance


Question: 'They're the two men seen here on their way to the presidential inauguration'

Answer: Hoover and FDR


Question: 'Steve Spurrier (1966)'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This composer appears on the reverse of Austria's 1-Euro coin'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'In 1972, the fudge loving Warren Buffett bought See's Candies for $25 million; it's yielded $1 billion in income and helps rocket the stock of this, Buffett's investment company'

Answer: Berkshire Hathaway


Question: 'Fittingly, this Maryland fort was built in a star shape'

Answer: Fort McHenry


Question: 'Approbation loudly expressed'

Answer: applause


Question: 'His inauguration was the first to be televised'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Joe Theismann (1970)'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'Italy's 2-Euro coin is artsy & classy, reproducing Raphael's portrait of this "divine" poet'

Answer: Dante


Question: 'Buffett calls the purchase of this insurance company one of his best investments; he first bought its stock in 1951'

Answer: GEICO


Question: 'Fort Monmouth in this state is the headquarters of the U.S. Army Telecommunications-Electronics Command'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'It's a strong 9-letter spirit or brandy made from apples'

Answer: applejack


Question: 'Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he's the only president to affirm, not swear to, the oath of office'

Answer: Pierce


Question: 'Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers (1972)'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Both Monaco's and Belgium's Euros feature royal personages with this name, one a king, one a prince'

Answer: Albert


Question: 'In the '70s Buffett got into news & now has 18% of this company based in our nation's capital'

Answer: Washington Post


Question: 'During the 1840s Fort Smith in Arkansas was under the command of this general and future President'

Answer: Taylor


Question: 'Small pieces of fabric stuck to a garment to form a pattern'

Answer: applique


Question: 'Lord of the Isles is one of the many titles of this heir apparent'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'Matt Damon finds out he's his family's only surviving brother in this war film'

Answer: Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'Phonetics and semantics are subfields of this discipline'

Answer: linguistics


Question: 'Growth rings are typically used when talking about these, like Sequoia sempervirens'

Answer: trees


Question: 'Musca domestica is the scientific name for this ever-present type of fly'

Answer: housefly


Question: 'The jarabe tapatio is another name for this Mexican dance; you can do it around a sombrero'

Answer: hat dance


Question: 'Celebrated on November 9, Lord Mayor's Day honors the mayor of this city'

Answer: London


Question: 'Familiar from Hartford Insurance ads, Lawrence the Elk also played a part in this 1978 movie'

Answer: The Deer Hunter


Question: 'Emile Durkheim was an important figure in this -ology closely related to cultural anthropology'

Answer: sociology


Question: 'To purify the ring used in this Japanese sport, 6 items are buried in the center, including a squid'

Answer: sumo wrestling


Question: 'The structure of these is the defining difference between true flies & other insects called flies'

Answer: wings


Question: 'Small wild canines are naturals at this American ballroom dance combining slow & fast steps'

Answer: fox trot


Question: 'Lord Dunmore's "War" in 1774 was an attack on Indians in what is now this "Mountain State"'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker have supporting roles in this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1986'

Answer: Platoon


Question: 'Making a plankton net & drawing a trench & seamount are 2 steps to your Boy Scout merit badge in this'

Answer: oceanography


Question: 'The failure of these alphabetic rings was blamed for the Challenger disaster'

Answer: O rings


Question: 'The fruit fly named for this body of water was thought to be eradicated in the U.S. in 1930; oops'

Answer: Mediterranean


Question: 'Perez Prado popularized this modified rumba form featured in "Dirty Dancing"'

Answer: mambo


Question: 'Joseph Conrad tried to cover "the whole sentiment of human existence" in the title character of this 1900 novel'

Answer: Lord Jim


Question: 'The protagonist of this movie announces himself as "commander of the Armies of the North, general of the Felix Legions"'

Answer: Gladiator


Question: 'Indiana University has the nation's first Ph.D. program in these studies that cover men's and women's roles'

Answer: gender studies


Question: 'A "fairy ring" on your lawn is composed of these'

Answer: mushrooms


Question: 'This African fly causes sleeping sickness in humans & a similar ailment called nagana in cattle'

Answer: tsetse fly


Question: 'In a "grand" one of these steps, the legs are 180 degrees apart, with a correspondingly high jump'

Answer: a grand jeté


Question: 'No one was laughing when American William Joyce broadcast Nazi propaganda under this pseudonym in WWII'

Answer: Lord Haw Haw


Question: 'On film there were "The Guns of" this place & "Force 10 from" it'

Answer: Navarone


Question: 'This type of yoga is Sanskrit for "discipline of force" & it's better than none'

Answer: hatha yoga


Question: '"Das Rheingold" is the first work in the opera series "The Ring of" these'

Answer: The Nibelungs


Question: 'The robber or assassin fly can be described as one of these, from the Latin for "Pillager"'

Answer: predator


Question: 'Named for an aviator, this popular "hop" of the '20s & '30s originated in Harlem'

Answer: the Lindy hop


Question: 'Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived.  I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians"'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'He originally intended his creation James Bond to be an "uninteresting man to whom things happened"'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: '10-4, good buddy, it's what the CB in CB radio stands for'

Answer: Citizens\' band radio


Question: 'This U.S. state has the longest common border with Mexico'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'His film "Life is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried"'

Answer: Roberto Benigni


Question: 'She's the tragic Egyptian ruler depicted here, appropriately with cobras:'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In Dumas, it follows the line "All for one"'

Answer: "And one for all"


Question: 'Like Dickens, this "Vanity Fair" contemporary left his last novel, "Denis Duval", unfinished'

Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray


Question: 'These groovy home furninshings, seen here, were invented in 1963 & are still popular today:'

Answer: Lava lamps


Question: 'You'll find the Mayan ruins of Tulum on this large peninsula'

Answer: Yucatan


Question: 'Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury"'

Answer: "The Canterbury Tales"


Question: 'Howard Carter could tell you it's the name for the style of script seen here, meaning "sacred inscriptions":'

Answer: Hieroglyphics


Question: 'Referring to its operative lever, it's a derogatory term for a Las Vegas slot machine'

Answer: "One-armed bandit"


Question: 'In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth'

Answer: Ring (but not the ring he gave her)


Question: 'California advertising man Gary Dahl created this popular geological "pet" in 1975'

Answer: Pet Rock


Question: 'This cape or "cabo" is at the southern tip of Baja California'

Answer: Cabo San Lucas


Question: '"Miss Italia" was an early film by this beauty known as "La Lollo"'

Answer: Gina Lollobrigida


Question: 'The well-known tomb of this man is seen here:'

Answer: Cheops (Khufu)


Question: 'Valerie Bertinelli spent 9 seasons playing Barbara Cooper on this sitcom'

Answer: One Day at a Time


Question: 'Isaac D'Israeli, a critic & friend of Lord Byron's, named his oldest son this'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'She's the actress who launched the popular hairstyle seen here:'

Answer: Farrah Fawcett


Question: 'Hopefully you'll "treasure" this extensive mountain range of western Mexico'

Answer: Sierra Madre


Question: 'In "La Dolce Vita", Walter Santesso played the photographer who gave his name to this profession'

Answer: Paparazzi (named for Paparazzo)


Question: 'With enormous depictions of himself like the one seen here, this pharaoh showed he was "second" to none:'

Answer: Ramses II


Question: 'Proverbially, it's "another man's poison"'

Answer: One man\'s meat


Question: 'Ask, don't tell the name of this 18th century author of "The Beggar's Opera"'

Answer: John Gay


Question: 'It seemed we were all trying to learn this "forbidden" South American dance in the early 1990s'

Answer: Lambada


Question: 'Bordering Guatemala, this troubled state is Mexico's southernmost'

Answer: Chiapas


Question: 'It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'The obelisk seen here is part of an elaborate temple complex that shares its name with this Las Vegas hotel:'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'In 1962 Ken Kesey published this nonconformist classic'

Answer: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest"


Question: 'In this speech on Jan. 24, 1995, President Clinton outlined his vision of a "new covenant"'

Answer: State of the Union address


Question: 'In 1999 she "Cruise"d onto Broadway without her husband (& briefly appeared nude) in "The Blue Room"'

Answer: Nicole Kidman


Question:
'Fred,
Gracie,
Woody'

Answer: Allen


Question: 'About half the amount of this gas in the sun's core has been fused into helium'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'Use of this mineral became common in watches around 1970, greatly increasing accuracy'

Answer: Quartz


Question: 'Profession of Edgar Bergen or Shari Lewis'

Answer: Ventriloquist


Question: 'This enigmatic actress, star of "Cat People" & "Tess", was born on Jan. 24 around 1960'

Answer: Nastassja Kinski


Question: '(Hi, I'm Andrea McArdle)  1977 was the year Broadway audiences first heard me sing "Tomorrow" in this musical'

Answer: "Annie"


Question:
'Michael,
William O.,
Buster'

Answer: Douglas


Question: 'The Romans called the sun sol & the Greeks called it this, which contains the letters S,O & L'

Answer: Helios


Question: 'This state's Middlesex County is its largest with a population of over 1.3 million'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'On Jan. 24, 1999 this committee recommended expulsion of 6 members for taking bribes from Salt Lakers'

Answer: International Olympic Committee


Question: 'A little bird told us Matthew Bourne won a 1999 Tony for choreographing this ballet'

Answer: "Swan Lake"


Question:
'John,
Emily,
Angie'

Answer: Dickinson


Question: 'These dark areas on the 6100-degree-Celsius photosphere have a temperature of about 4100 degrees'

Answer: Sunspots


Question: 'A vertical line, it's from the Latin for "to hang a plumb line"'

Answer: Perpendicular


Question: 'On Jan. 24, 1972 WWII soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungle of this island, a U.S. territory'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'While Liam Neeson was having a Wilde time playing Oscar Wilde, life was a "Cabaret" for this actress, his wife'

Answer: Natasha Richardson


Question:
'Steve,
Abigail,
Martin'

Answer: Van Buren


Question: 'It's the only planet whose orbit is tilted 17 degrees off the plane of the sun's equator'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'The key device in Bulova's original Accutron was one of these musical pitch finders'

Answer: Tuning fork


Question: 'This medical specialty encompasses the anatomy, function, pathology & treatment of the eye'

Answer: Ophthalmology


Question: 'Winston Churchill died Jan. 24, 1965, exactly 70 years after this man, his father'

Answer: Lord Randolph Churchill


Question: 'It was a red-letter day in 1997 when Douglas Sills debuted as the hero of this French Revolution musical'

Answer: "The Scarlet Pimpernel"


Question:
'Donald Ogden,
Jimmy,
Jon'

Answer: Stewart


Question: 'The Earth's magnetic field interacts with this flow of charged particles from the sun to produce the Aurora'

Answer: Solar wind


Question: 'Using an ammonia molecule, in 1949 the first atomic clock came from what was then called the U.S. Bureau of these'

Answer: Standards


Question: 'In professional boxing, it's the class between bantamweight & lightweight'

Answer: Featherweight


Question: 'Its name is from Gaelic for "water of life"'

Answer: Whiskey


Question: 'Courtney Love said of this singer, "Every decade has its star...but the '80s are over"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'This legendary outlaw is mentioned in the 1377 poem "Piers Plowman"'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'It starts with St. Bavo's Day & ends with Halloween'

Answer: October


Question: 'A whale of legendary size & ferocity, tormentor of Ahab'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'From their uniforms, British soldiers during the Revolutionary War were called these'

Answer: Redcoats


Question: 'When she turns 5 a filly becomes one of these'

Answer: Mare


Question: 'Debbie Harry says like many other adopted girls, she believed she was this actress' daughter'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'The area around the altar of a church; churches offered the "Right of" it to fugitives'

Answer: Sanctuary


Question: 'On its first day people crown a queen, dance around a pole & march to support workers'

Answer: May


Question: 'Devil-dealing doctor-turned-necromancer'

Answer: "Dr. Faustus"


Question: 'Forks, knives & spoons, collectively'

Answer: Silverware


Question: 'It's not a horse's female parent, it's a horse that runs well on soft, wet ground'

Answer: Mudder


Question: 'Seen here, she says of Hillary, "Everyone who fulfills the role will bring the essence of who they are"'

Answer: Tipper Gore


Question: 'The earliest ones of these, dating from around 1300, corrected presbyopia'

Answer: Eyeglasses


Question: 'Astrologically, the "age" of Aquarius begins in this month each year'

Answer: January


Question: '12-year-old nymphet Dolores Haze'

Answer: "Lolita"


Question: 'Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a common term for typewriter correction fluid'

Answer: White out


Question: 'I'll bet my money on a bobtail nag, somebody bet on this horse that's brown with a black mane & tail'

Answer: Bay


Question: 'In the '80s Joan Rivers summed up this "Moonlighting" star as "Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky"'

Answer: Cybill Shepherd


Question: 'People added an "A' to the end of this man's name to make a nickname for his son Vlad the Impaler'

Answer: Dracul


Question: 'In this month in 1777, Congress resolved that the flag "...be 13 stripes alternate red and white"'

Answer: June


Question: 'Poet & soldier who recites his "Nose Tirade" & composes a ballade whilst dueling'

Answer: "Cyrano de Bergerac"


Question: 'Dating from colonial times, they prohibit such activities as dancing or buying liquor on Sundays'

Answer: Blue laws


Question: 'Kentucky Derby winner Charismatic twice entered this type of "race" in which horses can be bought for a set price'

Answer: Claiming race


Question: 'This actress who's played Rollergirl & Felicity Shagwell on film cites Meryl Streep as an early influence'

Answer: Heather Graham


Question: 'Back in 1499 this country had a military force so powerful it forced Germany to sign the Treaty of Basel'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'An 1830 French revolution began in this month, perhaps bringing back fond memories'

Answer: July


Question: 'The ruddy gamekeeper of Sir Clifford's Wragby Estate'

Answer: "Lady Chatterley\'s Lover"


Question: 'It's the NFL team that plays its home games at Lambeau Field'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'A not very realistic Ceylon is the setting for Bizet's work about "fishers" for these gems'

Answer: Pearls


Question: 'Wake Island'

Answer: United States


Question: 'The trio known as this made 190 short films for Columbia; 77 of them were with Shemp'

Answer: The Three Stooges


Question: 'The only 2 presidents who shared both a first name & a last name'

Answer: John Adams & John Quincy Adams


Question: 'In 1994 Viacom acquired Paramount & this corporation where you may be asked, "Be Kind, Please Rewind"'

Answer: Blockbuster


Question: 'A person in his or her sixties'

Answer: Sexagenarian


Question: 'Verdi's "Un Giorno Di Regno", translated as "King For" this long, got only 1 performance'

Answer: A day


Question: 'Greenland'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Walter Williams made his first short with this character in 1975 for a cost of ("Ohh nooo!!!") about $20:'

Answer: Mr. Bill


Question: 'In May 1846, 14 months after Polk took office, the U.S. declared war on this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'The title to this 1962 runaway bestseller by Helen Gurley Brown was suggested to her by her husband'

Answer: "Sex and the Single Girl"


Question: 'As Bugs Bunny fans will recall, it's the Rossini opera whose overture is heard here:'

Answer: "The Barber of Seville"


Question: 'Cayman Islands'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'This female star of "Hope Floats" wrote & directed the short "Making Sandwiches"'

Answer: Sandra Bullock


Question: 'The only man with "man" in his last name to be U.S. president'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'The first McDonald's was in California; the second, in this state, now home to the corporate headquarters'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Steven Soderbergh received an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, for this 1989 film'

Answer: Sex, Lies, and Videotape


Question: 'In 1999 Dawn Upshaw was Daisy Buchanan in John Harbison's operatic version of this novel'

Answer: "The Great Gatsby"


Question: 'Christmas Island'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'The first Oscar for a Short Subject (Comedy) went to "The Music Box" starring this pair'

Answer: Laurel & Hardy


Question: 'Nicknamed "Little Magician" for his behind-the-scenes maneuvers, he followed "Old Hickory" into office'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'The Canadian arm of this Pennsylvania corporation makes Eat-More Candy'

Answer: Hershey\'s


Question: 'This navigational instrument was invented around 1730 by John Hadley in Europe & Thomas Godfrey in America'

Answer: Sextant


Question: 'Igor Stravinsky's father, Fyodor, sang in the opera "Maid of Orleans" by this "Choleric" composer'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'Aruba'

Answer: The Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'In 1999 the Sundance Channel aired the short "Peel", the first film by this director of "The Piano"'

Answer: Jane Campion


Question: 'This Ohioan was the first sitting U.S. senator elected president'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'This Auburn Hills, Michigan-based company is the nation's third-largest auto maker'

Answer: Daimler Chrysler


Question: '3 of the 4 states whose names come from the first names of European kings'

Answer: Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina & South Carolina


Question: 'The Frisian Islands in this sea are divided among Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands'

Answer: North Sea


Question: 'Make this Creole dish with Spam & voila!  You've got Spambalaya!'

Answer: Jambalaya


Question: 'From 1974 to 1985, DiMaggio served as the spokesman for this line of automatic drip coffeemakers'

Answer: Mr. Coffee


Question: 'Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World'

Answer: 1490s


Question: 'Much of this Longfellow poem takes place "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water"'

Answer: "Hiawatha"


Question: 'Oh, shoot!  This is "as good as a mile"'

Answer: Miss


Question: 'This 270-mile mountain chain once forced Spain & France to trade by sea'

Answer: the Pyrenees


Question: 'I need lots of "elbow" room when I cook up a big pot of these elbow-shaped noodles "and cheese"'

Answer: Macaroni


Question: '"Joltin' Joe" was immortalized in this song that hit No. 1 in 1968'

Answer: "Mrs. Robinson"


Question: 'Paul Revere takes a midnight ride & warns that "The British are coming"'

Answer: 1770s


Question: 'In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: '"All good things must" do this'

Answer: Come to an end


Question: 'We assume there are plenty of females on this isle halfway between England & Ireland'

Answer: Isle of Man


Question: 'By gosh, this singer seen here is famous for her By Gosh beef stew'

Answer: Naomi Judd


Question: 'DiMaggio earned this nautical nickname with his graceful outfield play'

Answer: "The Yankee Clipper"


Question: 'The 19th Amendment is ratified; women can now vote!'

Answer: 1920s


Question: 'Voltaire's mock heroic "La Pucelle" features this medieval warrior maid'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Not blacktop or yellow brick, "the road to Hell is paved with" these'

Answer: Good intentions


Question: 'City southwest of Paris where you'll find the landmark shown here<br />(a palace)'

Answer: Versailles


Question: '"Orange" you a gorgeous tart?  I'm not being rude, that's a favorite treat of this celebrity seen here'

Answer: Richard Simmons


Question: 'DiMaggio's last hit, a double, came in his last at-bat in the 1951 World Series when the Yankees played this NYC team'

Answer: New York Giants


Question: 'Good heavens!  Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto'

Answer: 1930s


Question: 'Odysseus Elytis, a poet from this country, won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Boy Scouts should heed, "Big words seldom go with good" these'

Answer: Deeds


Question: 'The Celtic settlement Lausonium, on Lake Geneva, developed into this Swiss city'

Answer: Lausanne


Question: 'Appropriately, Chicken a la King is featured in "Are You Hungry Tonight?", a book of his favorite recipes'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: '1 of 2 DiMaggio brothers to play major league baseball at the same time as Joe'

Answer: Dom or Vince


Question: 'The Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor'

Answer: 1890s


Question: '"Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: '"A good start is half" this'

Answer: The race


Question: 'In a 1940 film Sabu was "The Thief of" this city'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'They are the 2 primary colors of paint that are mixed to produce green'

Answer: Yellow & blue


Question: '1994's<br />"Forrest Gump"'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'Swan Point Cemetery is home to Elisha Hunt Rhodes, whose diary Ken Burns used in a show on this subject'

Answer: Civil War


Question: 'Her parents asked Alexander Graham Bell about a teacher for their daughter; Anne Sullivan was soon hired'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'To grumble, perhaps about the ruffed bird of the same name'

Answer: Grouse


Question: 'You could call Benazir Bhutto, born in this country's largest city, the Karachi Kid'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'After "Louie, Louie", the Kingsmen's next biggest hit was about ho, ho, him'

Answer: "The Jolly Green Giant"


Question: '1970's<br />"Little Big Man"'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'Nicholas Colasanto, who was behind the bar as Coach on this sitcom, is in a Cranston, R.I. cemetery'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'He used some of his enormous wealth to build a New York City concert hall & over 2,500 public libraries'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'Things aren't always "peachy" in this former Soviet republic'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'It hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics & lends its name to one of Japan's oldest brands of beer'

Answer: Sapporo


Question: 'It's what's green in Vermont's nickname'

Answer: Green Mountains


Question: '1950's<br />"Sunset Boulevard"'

Answer: William Holden


Question: 'This founder of Rhode Island has his own memorial in Providence'

Answer: Roger Williams


Question: 'In 1931 this social reformer & Hull House founder was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Jane Addams


Question: 'This word can refer to any impregnable standard, not just the famous rock'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'In this city you can visit an uplifting museum of Khmer art, or Tuol Sleng, a museum of torture & murder'

Answer: Phnom Penh


Question: 'In 1983 it became the first country in Europe to have Green Party members in its national legislature'

Answer: West Germany


Question: '1987's<br />"Radio Days"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'Last name of the 2 brothers, both 19th century U.S. Naval officers, who lie in Island Cemetery'

Answer: Perry (Matthew & Oliver)


Question: 'Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has provided $100 million for an airlift to this country'

Answer: Armenia


Question: 'It's a terrestrial rodent such as a marmot or chipmunk -- not one who's been through a meat grinder'

Answer: Ground squirrel


Question: 'Uh, just one more thing...it's Sri Lanka's most important port'

Answer: Colombo


Question: 'Resembling "Home Improvement", this Canadian show set at the Possum Lodge can be seen on PBS'

Answer: The Red Green Show


Question: '1979's<br />"Apocalypse Now"'

Answer: Martin Sheen


Question: 'This Cthulhu creator was born, bred & buried in Rhode Island'

Answer: H.P. Lovecraft


Question: 'He began studying yellow fever in 1897, 3 years prior to being appointed to a commission to find its cause'

Answer: Walter Reed


Question: 'A needlefish, or a Scottish verb that means to force'

Answer: Gar


Question: 'This technique, from Latin for "to look through", began in Western painting in works like the one seen here'

Answer: Perspective


Question: 'The Kremlin Cup is this country's most important tennis event'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In 1935 this little girl starred in "Our Little Girl", "The Little Colonel" & "The Littlest Rebel"'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: 'As a child, she was abducted by Theseus & his friend; later she was carried off by Paris'

Answer: Helen of Troy


Question: 'Affirmed won the Triple Crown the same year this man became pope'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: 'Milhous'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'He was mayor of Moscow from 1985-1987; now he's president of his country'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'The 2 South American countries whose names end with the letters "guay"'

Answer: Paraguay & Uruguay


Question: 'The windbreaker & t-shirt look he popularized in "Rebel Without A Cause" is still fashionable 43 years later'

Answer: James Dean


Question: 'Good heavens!  This mighty hunter was slain by Artemis in a fit of jealousy'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'The occupation of Pope Pius X's father, or the last name of a 4-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey'

Answer: Shoemaker


Question: 'Howard'

Answer: William H. Taft


Question: 'Entertainer seen here in animated form on his Saturday morning kids' show'

Answer: "Weird Al" Yankovic


Question: 'The name of Java, an island in this country, is also spelled Djawa'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'He starred as Professor Boyd in "Bedtime for Bonzo" but didn't do the sequel, "Bonzo Goes to College"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'His uncle Pelias promised him the throne of Thessaly if he could retrieve the Golden Fleece'

Answer: Jason


Question: 'When the pope visited the U.S. in 1995, one of his first stops was this Queens, New York racetrack'

Answer: Aqueduct (to say mass)


Question: 'Alan'

Answer: Chester A. Arthur


Question: 'Famous for his one-liners like "Take my wife -- please", this beloved comic passed away in 1998 at 91'

Answer: Henny Youngman


Question: 'Huge Asian country whose national anthem is "Jana-Gana-Mana"'

Answer: India


Question: 'This actress seen here emerged as a comic star in 1934's "Twentieth Century"'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'Triton, a gigantic sea god, was the son of this supreme sea god of Greek myth'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'Not far from Hot Springs, Pope County in this state is home to several thoroughbred horse farms'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Clark'

Answer: Herbert C. Hoover


Question: 'Think fast -- in 1997 Edwards Air Force Base in California named a street in honor of this retired general'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'You'll find this African country's national museum in its capital, Kampala'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'This husband of Jessica Tandy made his screen debut in 1943 in Hitchcock's classic "Shadow Of A Doubt"'

Answer: Hume Cronyn


Question: 'After murdering his father Odysseus, Telegonus married this woman, his stepmother'

Answer: Penelope (wife of Odysseus)


Question: 'A horseracing "chase", or the highest part of a church where the pope might worship'

Answer: the steeple


Question: 'Rudolph'

Answer: Gerald R. Ford


Question: 'This poet & playwright served as a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'One of these astronomical events brought an end to King Alyattes' war with the Medes'

Answer: an eclipse


Question: 'In 1972, the same year her "Delta Dawn" charted, she had a cameo role in the film "Jeremiah Johnson"'

Answer: Tanya Tucker


Question: 'George Kelly's wife Kathryn bought him this weapon that became his nickname'

Answer: a machine gun


Question: 'The highest sand dunes in the world are in this, the world's largest desert'

Answer: the Sahara Desert


Question: 'When the captain calls for "all" these body parts "on deck", he means everybody up top'

Answer: hands


Question: 'Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view'

Answer: pessimism


Question: 'This father of history reports that the ancient Etruscans were originally Lydians'

Answer: Herodotus


Question: 'Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was known as the mastermind of this fixed 1919 sporting event'

Answer: the World Series (the "Black Sox" scandal)


Question: 'Samaria isn't a gorge of the jungle, it's on this Greek isle that was home to the Minoans'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'It's not flotsam, admiral; it's goods deliberately thrown overboard to lighten the ship'

Answer: jetsam


Question: 'Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'This Lydian king was tortured in Hades with food & water kept out of his reach'

Answer: Tantalus


Question: 'Before she became a star, this daughter of Mel Tillis sang commercial jingles for Equal'

Answer: Pam Tillis


Question: 'Best-known nickname of accused Milwaukee murderer Lawrencia  Bembenek'

Answer: "Bambi"


Question: 'First measured in 1852 & called Peak XV, it's 1.65 miles taller than the tallest mountain in North America'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'Methinks it's a high sail on a ship, or a tall building on land'

Answer: a skyscraper


Question: 'This author of "Beyond Good  and Evil" is often wrongly represented as sympathetic to Nazi ideas'

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche


Question: 'This Lydian girl got into a web of trouble when she challenged Athena to a weaving contest'

Answer: Arachne


Question: '(Hey, everybody, I'm Naomi Judd.)  My 1993 autobiography was titled this, after a 1991 Judds Grammy Award-winning hit'

Answer: Love Can Build a Bridge


Question: 'Albert DeSalvo, known as this, died in a Walpole, Mass. state prison where he was ironically, making women's chokers'

Answer: "The Boston Strangler"


Question: 'The ancient fortress of Masada sits on a rock on the shore of this "lake"'

Answer: the Dead Sea


Question: 'The sun's over this, lads, which means it's time for a drink'

Answer: the yardarm


Question: 'This ancient Greek's "Metaphysics" begins, "All men by nature desire to know"'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'This last king of Lydia never had to sing "If I Were A Rich Man", 'cause boy was he ever'

Answer: Croesus


Question: 'Billboard Magazine's top female country artist of all time, she's had No. 1 hits in the '70s, '80s & '90s'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'This Chicago mobster linked to CIA plots against Castro was affectionately known as "Momo"'

Answer: Sam Giancana


Question: 'Hundreds of thousands of tourists boat up to the national monument seen here in this state'

Answer: Utah (the Rainbow Bridge)


Question: 'Mateys, if we sever our anchor line & leave quickly, we've done this'

Answer: cut & run


Question: 'Kant said the work of this 18th c. Scottish skeptic awoke him from his dogmatic slumbers'

Answer: David Hume


Question: 'In 1929 William Dreyer & Joseph Edy created this ice cream flavor, named in part to reflect the times ahead'

Answer: Rocky Road


Question: 'By age 23 she had written early versions of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice"'

Answer: (Jane) Austen


Question: 'This celebrity doll comes in a gift set with a microphone and a Barbie in bobby socks'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: '"Garabatos" in Spanish; Polly Wolly & a certain "Yankee" are dandy at these idle scribbles'

Answer: doodles


Question: 'Spend a night on Brasstown Bald Mountain & you're at the high point of this peachy state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'It's a waxed string used to clean between your teeth'

Answer: floss


Question: 'In baseball:<br />ERA'

Answer: Earn Run Average


Question: 'Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'One accessory sold for the Bratz dolls is a stretch one of these to take them to the prom in style'

Answer: a limousine


Question: 'A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "f"'

Answer: a draft


Question: 'The Boy Scouts of America headquarters is in this state where all of George Strait's ex's live'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'To tighten your pores, you may use one of these, from the Latin for "to draw together"'

Answer: astringent


Question: 'To feminists:<br />ERA'

Answer: Equal Rights Amendment


Question: 'This aging romantic lived to write an ode on the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: 'The fur really flew in this 1996 movie remake that inspired the doll seen here'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: 'From the Latin for "to write across", it's making a written copy of dictated material'

Answer: transcribe


Question: 'Watch out for train robbers at Tweetsie Railroad, a wild west theme park in this "Tar Heel State"'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'It's a foam that helps keep the hair in place, as well as a yummy dessert'

Answer: mousse


Question: 'A military decoration:<br />DSM'

Answer: Distinguished Service Medal


Question:
'He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the following passage

"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."'

Answer: Edward Gibbon


Question: 'Ironically, the Madame Alexander doll based on this Tolstoy heroine wore a dress with a long train'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'This type of will is written in your own hand; it sounds like it's in 3-D'

Answer: holographic


Question: 'Alaska's Katmai National Park contains the Valley of Ten Thousand these (cough cough)'

Answer: Smokes


Question: 'Applicator that lent its name to a derby for women pilots'

Answer: Powder Puff


Question: 'In fractions:<br />LCD'

Answer: least common denominator


Question: 'In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called "Why" this great anti-totalitarian writer "Matters"'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'In fall 2000 a glamorous Elizabeth Taylor doll could be purchased with this "gem" of a fragrance'

Answer: White Diamonds


Question: 'Pun alert! Oscar's illegibly written text of "Lady Windermere's Fan" would be this "of the Wilde"'

Answer: Scrawl


Question: 'The name of a Polynesian trickster god lives on in the name of this "Valley Island"'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'In 1911 Northam Warren founded this brand, which produced the first cuticle cream'

Answer: Cutex


Question: 'In genetics:<br />DNA'

Answer: deoxyribonucleic acid


Question: 'Of the 3 main states of matter, the one covered by Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure'

Answer: gas


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a surfboard on an artificial wave machine.)  Also a 1963 hit by The Surfaris, this is one surfing move I can easily do myself'

Answer: a wipeout


Question: 'Once it was a quiet place, but now the eye can hardly follow the dancing, shuffling & spiking the ball in...'

Answer: the end zone


Question: 'In the 1960s he formed the vocal trio The Wailers with Peter Tosh & Bunny Livingston'

Answer: Bob Marley


Question: 'A 1711 poem warned, "Fools rush in where angels" do this'

Answer: fear to tread


Question: 'In the same direction as the properly rotating hands of a timepiece'

Answer: clockwise


Question: 'This 4-letter word is the electrostatic attaction between atoms, James'

Answer: a bond


Question: 'Air Cav Lt. Col. Kilgore says that "Charlie don't surf" in this 1979 film'

Answer: Apocalypse Now


Question: 'Mr. Jones left Detroit at 9:00.  One hour later he landed in Chicago--where the clock still said 9:00.  He had entered...'

Answer: the Central time zone


Question: 'Edward Seaga, Michael Manley & P.J. Patterson have all held this highest Jamaican political post'

Answer: Prime Minister


Question: '"It is better to be feared than loved", opined this Italian political thinker in the 16th century'

Answer: Machiavelli


Question: 'The naval isolation of a port to prevent the exit & entrance of traffic'

Answer: a blockade


Question: 'The configuration of these in an atom is usually given for the ground state, not the excited state'

Answer: electrons


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a surfboard on an artificial wave machine.)  The name of this sport combines snowboarding with something you just learn to go with'

Answer: flowboarding


Question: 'Peace & harmony reign in a land without ICBMs; perhaps someday, like New Zealand & Berkeley, the world will be a...'

Answer: nuclear free zone


Question: 'In 1991 Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander helped her create "Unforgettable", a tribute to her father'

Answer: Natalie Cole


Question: 'Don't be afraid, it's only this, the larger of Mars' 2 moons'

Answer: Phobos


Question: 'The state of being married'

Answer: wedlock


Question: 'Iron, cobalt & this silver-white next metal up on the periodic table share similar chemical properties'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'Ol' Moondoggie knows this 5-letter term for the cord that attaches the board to a surfer via a Velcro strap'

Answer: a leash


Question: 'A ship adrift in a passage between the Caribbean & the Pacific, in an area abolished 25 years ago.  Where else but...'

Answer: the canal zone


Question: 'Alfred Valentine is a famous Jamaican bowler in this sport, taking over 100 wickets in 36 matches'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'According to Psalm 111, "The fear of " this "is the beginning of wisdom"'

Answer: the Lord (God accepted)


Question: 'Obsolete firearm type in which a piece of quartz ignites the gunpowder'

Answer: a flintlock


Question: 'Number of hydrogen atoms it takes to equal the weight of one carbon atom'

Answer: 12


Question: 'When you're inside a wave's hollow but still riding, you're said to be in this "colorful" waiting area'

Answer: the green room


Question: 'Neutral yet tense, heavily mined despite its name.  When you're in neither the north or south, brace yourself for...'

Answer: the demilitarized zone


Question: 'From a 300-year-old recipe Jamaican scientist Dr. Kenneth Evans helped bring this coffee liqueur to market'

Answer: Tia Maria


Question: 'A deep philosophical & existential dread, it's the German word for "fear"'

Answer: Angst


Question: 'Socrates' last beverage'

Answer: hemlock


Question: 'Its name is from the Greek for "to bind", which in turn may come from the Egyptian shesep-ankh, "living image"'

Answer: the sphinx


Question: 'Magnetism occurs most strongly in 3 elements: nickel, cobalt & this'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'The American branch of this group gives the Charles Drew Award for contribution to blood services'

Answer: American Red Cross


Question: 'The African rain forests are the natural habitat of these largest apes'

Answer: Gorillas


Question: 'David Marcus, son of this captain on the original "Star Trek", was killed on the Genesis planet'

Answer: James T. Kirk


Question: 'This Norse god had iron gloves, a belt of strength & a magic hammer'

Answer: Thor


Question: 'This sacred river flows through Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal'

Answer: Ganges


Question: 'In 1665 Robert Hooke described & named this structural unit; bacteria have only one'

Answer: Cell


Question: 'The year's best praise & worship album is recognized by the association for this type of vocal music'

Answer: Gospel


Question: 'The red kangaroo is among the largest of these pouched mammals'

Answer: Marsupials


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Creature seen here from the original series, it was brought back for a special "DS9" episode'

Answer: Tribble


Question: 'Wind instruments blown by the player are traditionally divided into woodwinds & these'

Answer: brass


Question: '2 rocks known as the Pillars of Hercules  flank the eastern end of this strait'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'In 1698 Thomas Savery designed the first practical engine to run on this power'

Answer: Steam


Question: 'This body's peacekeeping forces were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'One of these mammals that inhabits the East Indies has a wingspan of over 5 1/2 feet'

Answer: Bat


Question: 'Zefram Cochrane, who invented this type of drive in 2061, appeared in the 1996 film "First Contact"'

Answer: Warp drive


Question: 'In 1844 Charles Goodyear earned a patent to inhibit this material from melting & sticking'

Answer: Rubber


Question: 'Formerly occupied by Israel, this narrow piece of land reverted to Palestinian control in 1994'

Answer: Gaza Strip


Question: 'This blood protein now comes in alpha, beta & gamma types'

Answer: Globulins


Question: 'After spending 188 days in space, she became the first female winner of the Space Medal of Honor'

Answer: Shannon Lucid


Question: 'This spiny relative of the starfish is sometimes referred to as a sea hedgehog'

Answer: Sea Urchin


Question: 'The Grand Nagus is the master of commerce in this race that has 285 "Rules of Acquisition"'

Answer: Ferengi


Question: 'Carnivorous name for the warders of the Tower of London'

Answer: Beefeaters


Question: 'The name of this Asian desert is Mongolian for "place without water"'

Answer: Gobi


Question: 'Simple machine Archimedes would use to "move the Earth" if you gave him a firm spot on which to stand'

Answer: Lever


Question: 'The American Library Association presents an award named for this "Little House on the Prairie" author'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'This largest wild cat of the Americas looks similar to a leopard'

Answer: Jaguar


Question: '"Benson" alumni aliens are Ethan Phillips, Neelix on "Voyager", & Rene Auberjonois, who plays this role on "DS9"'

Answer: Odo


Question: 'Though blind & deaf since age 19 months, she graduated with honors from Radcliffe in 1904'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'Once known as the Enchanted Isles, they lie about 600 miles west of Ecuador'

Answer: Galapagos Islands


Question: 'This Scotswoman was just 16 when she became queen of France in 1559'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'Muslims worship the same god as Jews & Christians but usually call him by this name'

Answer: Allah


Question: 'This barbeled "feline" fish is often pan-fried & served with lemon wedges'

Answer: Catfish


Question: 'In "Arsenic And Old Lace", the nephew who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt digs this "canal" in the basement'

Answer: The Panama Canal


Question: 'President Grant signed the legislation making this the first national park in 1872'

Answer: Yellowstone National Park


Question: '"Pop", as in "Pop Art", is a shortened form of this word'

Answer: Popular


Question: 'In 1888 at age 19, this future spiritual leader of India arrived in England to study law'

Answer: Mohandas Gandhi


Question: 'This synagogue ceremony marking manhood dates to the Middle Ages'

Answer: Bar Mitzvah


Question: 'Ingredients of this french fry condiment include tomatoes, cinnamon sticks, cider vinegar & garlic'

Answer: Ketchup


Question: 'In this play by Neil Simon, Felix moves in with Oscar after his wife leaves him'

Answer: "The Odd Couple"


Question: 'Utah's Arches National Park, which borders a deep gorge of this river, has at least 950 natural arches'

Answer: Colorado River


Question: '"Blackboard" & "loudspeaker" are examples of this type of word formed by combining 2 words'

Answer: Compound word


Question: 'This lord was a teenager when his first volume of poetry, "Fugitive Pieces", appeared in 1806'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'In Catholicism it's the place of purification for the dead who still bear some trace of sin'

Answer: Purgatory


Question: 'If you fold in beaten egg whites, these breakfast treats made in a special iron will be extra light'

Answer: Waffles


Question: 'This humorist wrote a "Carnival" of sketches based on his stories like "The Night The Bed Fell"'

Answer: James Thurber


Question: 'Denali, also known as this, is the highest peak in Alaska's Denali National Park'

Answer: Mount McKinley


Question: 'This suffix meaning "the study of" has become a synonym for any science'

Answer: -ology


Question: 'In his teens this Elizabethan courtier from Devon fought on the Huguenot side in France's wars of religion'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'Meaning "act", it's the term in Hinduism for acts done in one life that have repercussions in the next'

Answer: Karma


Question: 'These rolls whose name is French for "crescent" may be brushed with beaten egg yolk before baking'

Answer: Croissant


Question: 'His "Ah, Wilderness!" takes place in Connecticut July 4 & 5, 1906'

Answer: Eugene O\' Neill


Question: 'Fort Jefferson in this state's Dry Tortugas National Park was a federal prison in the Civil War'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Taken together, suffixes & these are known as affixes'

Answer: Prefixes


Question: 'Niccolo Paganini was only 13 when he began composing pieces for this instrument'

Answer: Violin


Question: 'The Lun Yu or "Analects" is the most reliable source on the life & teachings of this Chinese sage'

Answer: Confucius


Question: 'Allergic to chocolate?  Use this health food store item, also known as locust bean, to flavor fudge'

Answer: Carob


Question: 'This title heroine of a Sophocles play insists on burying her brother Polyneices'

Answer: Antigone


Question: 'This California park, the site of El Capitan, was administered by the U.S. Army from 1890 to 1914'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Term for words taken directly from another language; for example, "Influenza" is from Italian'

Answer: Borrowed/loaned word


Question: 'The last names of 8 different presidents end with this 3-letter combination'

Answer: Son (Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, A. Johnson, B. Harrison, Wilson & L. Johnson)


Question: 'Peter the Hermit, like Sancho Panza, rode  one of these animals through France rousing the peasants'

Answer: Donkey


Question: 'You may write "No Gifts, Please" on invitations to this event at which you receive your diploma'

Answer: Graduation/Commencement


Question: 'Mattel Media has created a program that lets the user design fashions for this doll'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'In 1996 this funny man played "The Cable Guy"'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'To rafters, rapids are known by this 2-word term'

Answer: White water


Question:
'Tartar,
Tabasco,
Worcestershire'

Answer: Sauces


Question: 'Some orders of these were Teutonic, Templar & of St. John'

Answer: Knights


Question: 'If a prom date gives you one of these floral accessories, you must wear it or at least pin it to your purse'

Answer: Corsage


Question: 'Hewlett-Packard, Epson & Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals'

Answer: Printers


Question: 'In the movie "I.Q." Walter Matthau portrayed this famous scientist'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'The rills, streams & brooks that feed a river are called these'

Answer: Tributaries


Question:
'Folders,
Income Tax
Returns,
Your Nails'

Answer: Things you file


Question: 'Kings Baldwin I & II were Christian rulers of this holy Mideastern city'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'Of powdering your nose, applying lipstick, or combing your hair, the one you shouldn't do at a restaurant table'

Answer: Combing your hair


Question: 'This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside"'

Answer: Intel


Question: 'Bewitching title role currently played on prime time by the actress seen here:<br />(Melissa Joan Hart)'

Answer: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch


Question: 'On an average day the Mississippi dumps over 1 million metric tons of this into the Gulf of Mexico'

Answer: Silt/Sediment


Question:
'Babbo Natale,
Le Pere Noel,
Kriss Kringle'

Answer: Different names for Santa Claus


Question: 'Leading the third Crusade, this English king captured Cyprus'

Answer: Richard the Lionhearted


Question: 'If an elevator is crowded, a gentleman needn't remove this when a lady enters'

Answer: His hat


Question: 'The "app" in "killer app" stands for this'

Answer: Application


Question: 'He played the Joker in 1989's "Batman" & in 1994 turned into a "Wolf"'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'You may be waiting for the Robert E. Lee on a natural one of these raised river banks created by flood waters'

Answer: Levee


Question:
'Walking,
Bicycle,
Bermuda'

Answer: Shorts


Question: 'During the third Crusade, Saladin, sultan of Egypt & Syria, made this Syrian city his headquarters'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'In weddings, small boys may serve as train bearers, or as this more common type of "bearer"'

Answer: Ring Bearer


Question: 'This North Sioux City, S.D. mail order computer maker issues a MasterCard with a cowhide print on it'

Answer: Gateway 2000


Question: 'Kimberly Williams, from the "Father of the Bride" movies plays Isabel on this Saturday night TV drama'

Answer: "Relativity"


Question: 'Unlike a delta, it's a deep, broad mouth of a river; the Amazon's stretches several hundred miles upstream'

Answer: Estuary


Question:
'Bubbles,
A Whistle,
A test you
didn't study for'

Answer: Things you blow


Question: 'From Earth, this planet's 100,000 or so ringlets appear as just 3 broad rings'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Convallarin, a heart stimulant, is obtained from this flower "of the valley"'

Answer: Lily


Question: 'The strait at South America's southern tip is named for this explorer who discovered it'

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan


Question: 'The U.S. added the Badlands of South Dakota through this acquisition of land'

Answer: The Louisiana Purchase


Question: 'She published a romantic novel called "Valperga" in 1823, 5 years after giving birth to "Frankenstein"'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: '"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes" is good advice from this "dear" columnist'

Answer: "Dear Abby"


Question: 'British scientists announced that they had found organic material in a second meteorite from this planet'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'The berrylike fruit, or hip, of this thorny bush is an important source of vitamin C'

Answer: Rose


Question: 'Residents of this Italain city refer to it as Firenze'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Passed in 1913, the 17th Amendment allows for the direct election of these members of Congress'

Answer: Senators


Question: 'His novel "Nicholas Nickleby" was first published in serial form in "Bentley's Miscellany"'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'This Calcutta nun said, "There is a net of love by which you can catch souls"'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'In 1996 the sun went an exceptional 36 days without a visible one of these dark patches'

Answer: Sunspots


Question: 'As its name suggests, the flowers of this climbing plant open in the A.M. & often close by afternoon'

Answer: Morning Glory


Question: 'In 1822 Dom Pedro declared Brazil's independence from this country'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Following his "Gospel of Wealth", this steel magnate gave away over $350 million'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'Alfred de Vigny's historical novel "Cinq-Mars" concerns a 17th century plot against this French cardinal'

Answer: Cardinal Richelieu


Question: 'The caution "Don't Trust Anybody Over" this age came out of Berkeley in the 1960s'

Answer: 30


Question: 'Scientists conjecture that this gas giant's moon Europa may sustain an icy ocean'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'This state flower of Kansas is thought to have originated in South America'

Answer: Sunflower


Question: 'The national name of this country is Magyar Koztarsasag'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'When the market for this crop bottomed out in the 1870s, central Floridian farmers began growing oranges'

Answer: Cotton


Question: 'An immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus is the leading character in his "meaty" novel "The Jungle"'

Answer: Upton Sinclair


Question: 'This Tennessee frontiersman's motto was "Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead"'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'In April 1997 one of these named Hale-Bopp will be among the brightest objects in the night sky'

Answer: Comet


Question: 'Spider, irregular incurve & pompon are types of this symbol of Japan'

Answer: Chrysanthemum


Question: 'The Solidarity monument in this Polish port city honors workers killed during the 1970 shipyard strikes'

Answer: Gdansk


Question: 'Named for 3 cities, this railway connected Kansas to California'

Answer: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe


Question: 'A Cavalier falls in love with a Roundhead's daughter in "Peveril of the Peak" by this "Ivanhoe" author'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: '"Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody" is one of his lessons taken from kindergarten'

Answer: Robert Fulghum


Question: 'The former kingdom of Saxony is now located in this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Someone saying "God bless" after you do this is said to keep your soul from wandering'

Answer: sneezing


Question: 'The basilic, cephalic, & jugular are types of these'

Answer: veins


Question: 'According to the nursery rhyme, he was born on a Monday & buried on Sunday'

Answer: Solomon Grundy


Question: 'Most authorities say a chord has at least this many notes'

Answer: three


Question: 'Flavor shared by tia maria & gallweys'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'This Arlington, Va. office building covers over twice the area as the Great Pyramid of Cheops'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'The Duchess of Bedford brought this afternoon custom to England about 1840'

Answer: tea