Question: 'In 1710 Handel was appointed kapellmeister to the elector of Hanover, this future king of England'

Answer: George I


Question: 'Flip Wilson endowed a scholarship for African-American journalism majors at this New Jersey state university'

Answer: Rutgers


Question: 'In 1995 she began taking "Liberties" on the New York Times op-ed page'

Answer: Maureen Dowd


Question: 'Countable, with an end or limit'

Answer: finite


Question: 'He was the last of several U.S. presidents who graduated from a military academy'

Answer: Jimmy Carter (from the Naval Academy)


Question: 'In 1835 Britain's parliament banned this so-called amusement that set dogs on a large carnivore'

Answer: bear-baiting


Question: 'On July 17, 1717 this piece made its fitting debut on a barge on the river Thames'

Answer: Water Music


Question: 'St. Martin is one of these "Lesser" islands in the Caribbean Sea'

Answer: the Antilles


Question: 'Chita Rivera made a cameo appearance as a prison inmate in this 2002 film'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'It's the capital of Nova Scotia'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'It's the real last name of Nicolas Cage--& of his famous uncle'

Answer: Coppola


Question: 'Use your digital jukebox software to connect to this No. 1 online music store'

Answer: iTunes


Question: 'One in every 6 known bird species makes its home in this rainforest'

Answer: the Amazon


Question: 'In this style of pre-Revolutionary Americans, I like the Southern version with brick exterior & side chimneys'

Answer: Colonial


Question: 'You probably made your first entrance through this "canal"'

Answer: birth


Question: 'For over 75 years, a shrimp festival & blessing of the fleet have kicked off shrimping season in this Mississippi city'

Answer: Biloxi


Question: 'Destiny Hope Cyrus, Billy Ray's kid & star of TV's "Hannah Montana", now goes by this first name'

Answer: Miley


Question: 'Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish & "Strudel" in Hebrew'

Answer: the @ sign


Question: 'Sputniks 5, 6, 9 & 10 also carried these animals into space, & most were recovered alive'

Answer: dogs


Question: 'I'll entertain royally with a house in this style named for a 19th c. queen, with its welcoming front porch'

Answer: Victorian


Question: 'A command to your pooch to retrieve something'

Answer: fetch


Question: 'Famous for temple ruins, this city on the site of Thebes has been called "The World's Greatest Open-Air Museum"'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'Yes Sir, his real name is Reginald Dwight'

Answer: Elton John


Question: 'Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology'

Answer: DSL


Question: 'Got one of these odorous animals also known as a polecat as a pet?  Call your humane society to make sure it's legal'

Answer: a skunk


Question: 'This is it: the classic L shape & low-pitched gable roof of this house named for a Western dwelling'

Answer: a ranch house


Question: 'You have one of these, aka a heartbeat, I assume'

Answer: pulse


Question: 'Averages for this U.S. city are 7.66 inches of rain, a daily high temperature of 85, & 325 sunny days per year'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'The movies' original "Alfie", he was originally named Maurice Micklewhite'

Answer: Michael Caine


Question: 'This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard'

Answer: Wi-Fi


Question: 'Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative'

Answer: mastodon


Question: 'Why hold back--tower, stone, ornamentation, I want a home in the style of one of these French mansions'

Answer: a château


Question: 'To perform this kids' activity "inside the lines" is to conform; to do it "outside the lines" is to be a free spirit'

Answer: color


Question: 'Love to shop?  This largest South Dakota city has the largest shopping center between Denver & Minneapolis'

Answer: Sioux Falls


Question: 'When she's "got mail", we wonder if it's addressed to Margaret Hyra'

Answer: Meg Ryan


Question: 'Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva'

Answer: CERN


Question: '"Dachs", as in "Dachshund", is German for this burrowing animal'

Answer: the badger


Question: 'I'm going to use this smallish lot economically, putting up this kind of house with tiers only one half-story apart'

Answer: a split-level


Question: 'A form of matter--solid, liquid or gas'

Answer: state (phase accepted)


Question: '7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee & this card company'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'They play their major league home games at Rogers Centre'

Answer: the Blue Jays


Question: 'Pull out a sawbuck & you'll see his portrait'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'As a verb, it means to squeeze, like a baby's cheek; as a noun, a small quantity, like salt'

Answer: pinch


Question: 'Marcus Junius Brutus et al.<br />(44 B.C.)'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'The modern Hebrew & Arabic alphabets consist only of these types of letters'

Answer: consonants


Question: 'Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, & his own work is kind of in that style'

Answer: Impressionist


Question: 'In the movie version of "Devil in a Blue Dress", he played detective Easy Rawlins'

Answer: Denzel Washington


Question: 'Some of the moons of Uranus are named for characters created by this British poet & essayist'

Answer: (Alexander) Pope


Question: 'A bunch of honeybees on the move'

Answer: a swarm


Question: 'James Earl Ray<br />(1968)'

Answer: Martin Luther King Junior


Question: 'It's the South American national capital city that fits the category'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage & to this name'

Answer: the King\'s Men


Question: '"Beverly Hills Buntz" was a spin-off of this cop show'

Answer: Hill Street Blues


Question: 'In 1990 Russia restored citizenship to this Nobel Prize-winning author of "Cancer Ward"'

Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew begins a dare cocktail.)  Two of the smallest bartender measures are these 2 that rhyme--one for a pure flavoring like Tobasco & one for liquid like soda'

Answer: dash & splash


Question: 'Leon Czolgosz<br />(1901)'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'Cheese is this part of milk separated from the whey'

Answer: the curd


Question: 'Luciano of this colors-ful Italian clothing company is a noted arts patron through a center called Fabrica'

Answer: Benetton


Question: 'To join this troupe seen here, you have to have percussion & acting skills--& be able to let your ego go!'

Answer: the Blue Man Group


Question: 'He took a break in his military career to become Nixon's Chief of Staff'

Answer: (Alexander) Haig


Question: 'This synonym for "killed" also means a large quantity'

Answer: a slew


Question: 'Yigal Amir<br />(1995)'

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin


Question: 'We're climbing past 10,000 feet on our way to this, the flight level we'll maintain en route, 35,000 feet'

Answer: the cruising altitude


Question: 'As well as the Sistine Chapel, named for Sixtus, Pope Paul III got Michelangelo to fresco this chapel, named for himself'

Answer: the Pauline Chapel


Question: 'As temptress Lola Frohlich, she sang "Falling In Love Again" in the 1930 film "The Blue Angel"'

Answer: Marlene Dietrich


Question: 'Once an artist for the National Police Gazette, he really got moving with his "mobile" sculptures'

Answer: Calder


Question: 'This French word for a slight trace, as of a particular flavor, means "suspicion"'

Answer: soupçon


Question: 'Nathuram Godse<br />(1948)'

Answer: Mohandas Gandhi


Question: 'Found in South Africa in 1905, this 3,106-carat diamond went to Amsterdam for cutting'

Answer: the Cullinan


Question: 'In a poem about this battle, Robert Browning wrote, "To Akropolis!  Run, Pheidippides, one race more"'

Answer: the Battle of Marathon


Question: 'New York State's second-largest city, it's the seat of Erie County'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'The 2007 this of foosball was held in Lexington, Ky. in January; the NFL held its in Miami a few weeks later'

Answer: the Super Bowl


Question: 'Windows is one:<br />OS'

Answer: operating system


Question: 'Tony Sirico, who played Paulie Walnuts on this HBO show, unveiled his cologne, Paolo per Uomo, in 2008'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'I hate to call you a dumb this, like the extinct bird from Mauritius, but what were you thinking?'

Answer: a dodo


Question: 'This term for a holy war against nonbelievers comes from the Arabic word for "struggle"'

Answer: jihad


Question: 'Jestine's Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'In 1975 this leading U.S. sports magazine called foosball "a real first-class professional sport"'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'Hello:<br />IM'

Answer: instant message


Question: 'For its 50th anniversary, this sculptable hyphenated compound got its own fragrance'

Answer: Play-Doh


Question: 'Maybe it was all the brandy & brown sugar, but you're "nuttier than" this Christmas treat'

Answer: a fruitcake


Question: 'The Spanish word for "water" is found within this sleek feline's name'

Answer: the jaguar


Question: 'The roadside attraction called the Cadillac Ranch is in this Texas city whose name is Spanish for "yellow"'

Answer: Amarillo


Question: 'Like an NBA player who camps in the key, a foosballer who takes longer than this to get ready for a serve gets penalized'

Answer: 3 seconds


Question: 'It's the brains of the operation:<br />CPU'

Answer: central processing unit


Question: 'If you want to smell like a blue one of these, spritz on Eau de Stilton'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'You just don't get it, do you?  You're a big this; now go sit in the corner & put on the cap of the same name'

Answer: a dunce


Question: 'Pass the jelly to Boy Scouts around the world at one of these camping rallies'

Answer: a jamboree


Question: 'This city near San Francisco grew when it became the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad'

Answer: Oakland


Question: 'It's illegal to rotate the rods more than this many degrees, so forget about spinning off a "slap" shot'

Answer: 360


Question: 'It's a measure of speed:<br />BPS'

Answer: bytes per second


Question: 'A buccal swab is the first step to get "Your Fragrance in the Bottle", based on this'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'You keep dropping things!  Oy, you're such a this, Yiddish for "wooden block"'

Answer: a klutz


Question: 'He succeeded a daughter of Henry VIII in 1603'

Answer: James I


Question: 'It's the biggest city in eastern Washington'

Answer: Spokane


Question: 'Foosball's governing body is the ITSF, which stands for this (the "TS" is for foosball's more formal name)'

Answer: International Table Soccer Federation


Question: 'A regional computer linker:<br />LAN'

Answer: local area network


Question: 'This eatery has created "Flame", combining a "scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat"'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'Watch yourself you big this, (& did you know it comes from the word "elf"?)'

Answer: an oaf


Question: 'Carved from the living rock, the pink stone city of Petra is found in this Middle Eastern kingdom'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'A Remington painting shows the "Coming and Going of" this delivery service that came & went in less than 2 years' time'

Answer: the Pony Express


Question: 'This "Purple Rain" guy had a simple request: "Don't hate me because I'm fabulous"'

Answer: Prince


Question:
'In a Stevie Wonder song:
"Signed,
Sealed,
_____"'

Answer: Delivered


Question: 'In Dutch this holiday greeting is "Vrolijk Kerstfeest"'

Answer: Merry Christmas


Question: 'Willa Cather was born in this "Old Dominion" state, not in Nebraska'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'In the 1840s this religious sect left Nauvoo, Illinois & headed west'

Answer: the Mormons


Question: 'Paolo Uccello's "The Battle of San Romano" was commissioned by a member of this family in the 1450s'

Answer: the Medici


Question: '"I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK--the bat had to get" this singer "shots"'

Answer: Ozzy Osbourne


Question:
'In George Bush's "Axis Of Evil":
Iran,
Iraq,
_____'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'A clever saying or witticism, it literally means "good word" in French'

Answer: bon mot


Question: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Cather that the similarity of passages in this 1925 book & her "A Lost Lady" was just a coincidence'

Answer: The Great Gatsby


Question: '1849's "The Emigrants' Guide to California" says the biggest travel expense was 8 of these--yoke not included'

Answer: oxen


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out a famous painting on the monitor.)  In Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, the man holding the anachronistic flag is said to be this future fifth president'

Answer: Monroe


Question: 'This "Ziggy Stardust" singer:<br />"I think I was always a closet heterosexual"'

Answer: David Bowie


Question:
'3 main types of rocks:
igneous,
metamorphic,
_____'

Answer: sedimentary


Question: 'Italian for "the sweet life", it served as the title for a 1960 Federico Fellini film'

Answer: La Dolce Vita


Question: 'Cather took the title "O Pioneers!" from a poem by Walt Whitman that appeared in this collection'

Answer: Leaves of Grass


Question: 'In treeless areas, pioneers built houses of this 3-letter material, filling cracks with mud; hey, it was dirt cheap!'

Answer: sod


Question: 'An 1830s painting by Karl Briullov depicts "The Last Day of" this city, before it was obliterated by a volcano'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'This "Maggie May" guy: "Instead of... (marrying) again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house"'

Answer: Rod Stewart


Question:
'Noah's sons:
Ham,
Shem,
_____'

Answer: Japheth


Question: '"Negus, from the Amharic for "king", was once used as a title for the emperors of this African nation'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Cather chose to put an accent over the first letter of this character's name so as to stress the first syllable'

Answer: Ántonia


Question: 'Families traveling west lived in these covered wagons, so-named because their white tops looked like ships' sails'

Answer: prairie schooners


Question: 'Seen here, the portrait of Napoleon in his study was done by this favorite painter of his in 1812'

Answer: Jacques-Louis David


Question: 'This Van Halen singer:<br />"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht... to pull up alongside it"'

Answer: David Lee Roth


Question:
'Rome's Second Triumvirate:
Octavian,
Lepidus,
_____'

Answer: Marc Antony


Question: '"Auto-da-fe" is associated with the Spanish Inquisition, but the phrase, which means this, is Portuguese'

Answer: act of faith


Question: 'This Nebraska town where Cather spent her youth was named for a "colorful" Sioux chief'

Answer: Red Cloud


Question: 'Textbooks used by pioneer children included Webster's spelling books & this man's "Eclectic Readers"'

Answer: (William) McGuffey


Question: 'Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature'

Answer: expansion


Question: 'The Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd. hosted the first of these ceremonies in 1929'

Answer: the Oscars


Question: 'Between August 5 & Sept. 6, 1953 Operation Big Switch was the final exchange of these'

Answer: prisoners (of war)


Question: 'He's a dino operator at a quarry in Bedrock'

Answer: Fred Flintstone


Question: 'It's the length in hours of a mean solar day'

Answer: 24


Question: '2 years after a riding accident left him paralyzed, he directed the HBO drama "In the Gloaming"'

Answer: Christopher Reeve


Question: 'It "makes oven cleaning easier"'

Answer: Easy-Off


Question: 'This series of plaques lets you walk through Hollywood stepping on stars'

Answer: the Hollywood Walk of Fame


Question: 'During the war the standard one of these for army use was the M-1'

Answer: rifles


Question: '"Bronco Buster" in 1895 was his first bronze'

Answer: Frederic Remington


Question: 'Follow this line & you'll travel almost exactly 24,900 miles to get back to your starting point'

Answer: the equator


Question: '"Star Trek"'s Mr. Spock, he showed his comedy side with his direction of "Three Men and a Baby"'

Answer: (Leonard) Nimoy


Question: 'Avenue of affluence'

Answer: Easy Street


Question: 'Musso & Frank's, Hollywood's oldest restaurant, is renowned for this "dry" vermouth cocktail'

Answer: a martini


Question: 'The 8225th was a real one of these units; the 4077th was a fictional one'

Answer: M*A*S*H units


Question: 'Craven graven image played by Robert Englund'

Answer: Freddy Krueger


Question: 'Filling this reservoir behind Hoover Dam caused earthquakes in the area until the land settled'

Answer: Lake Mead


Question: 'He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film'

Answer: Albert Brooks


Question: 'New Orleans'

Answer: "The Big Easy"


Question: 'The Alto Nido Apartments on Ivar were William Holden's home in this movie named for a nearby street'

Answer: Sunset Boulevard


Question: 'A monument called the Tower of Ten Human Bombs stands near this zone between North & South Korea'

Answer: the Demilitarized Zone


Question:
'Group that had the following hit:

"I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts /
I'm too sexy..."'

Answer: Right Said Fred


Question: 'The book "The Earth" calls this the most potent geomorphological agent there is, causing the most damage'

Answer: man


Question: 'In 1990 he directed himself in the title role of "Dick Tracy"'

Answer: Warren Beatty


Question: 'One of the 2 "Easy" hits by The Eagles that flew into the Top 40'

Answer: "Take It Easy" (or "Peaceful Easy Feeling")


Question: 'A street & a "Gulch" are named for this rancher who came to town in 1869'

Answer: John Gower


Question: 'On October 7, 1950 the U.N. approved the use of its troops north of this parallel'

Answer: the 38th parallel


Question: 'His Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Opus 53, is called "Heroic"'

Answer: Frederic Chopin


Question: 'Just above the troposphere is this ozone-containing layer of the atmosphere'

Answer: the stratosphere


Question: 'Forest Whitaker of "The Crying Game" made his directorial debut with this Whitney Houston film about 4 friends'

Answer: Waiting to Exhale


Question: 'In other words--"simple import, simple export"'

Answer: easy come, easy go


Question: 'William Blake tells of this animal "burning bright in the forests of the night"'

Answer: a tiger


Question: 'Of giant clam, giant crab or giant cockroach, it's the one with the largest shell'

Answer: a giant clam


Question: 'This pirate whose name means "red beard" paid the sultan of Tunisia 1/5 of his booty to use Tunis as his headquarters'

Answer: Barbarossa


Question: 'The RIAA certifies a record that has sold 500,000 or more copies as gold & 1,000,000 or more as this'

Answer: platinum


Question: 'Noah Webster's studies at Yale were interrupted by this war, but he did go back to graduate'

Answer: the Revolutionary War


Question: 'The title of this first Beatles film may have come from a line in John Lennon's book "In His Own Write"'

Answer: "A Hard Day\'s Night"


Question: 'Odd thing, but she "heard a fly buzz when" she "died" & "felt a funeral in" her "brain"'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'Of chestnuts, peanuts or walnuts, the one whose shell is actually a pod'

Answer: peanuts


Question: 'If you're going to plunder & pillage the Spanish Main, you'd better be in this sea'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: '1993's best alternative music album Grammy went to this group's "Zooropa"'

Answer: U2


Question: 'This Dallas running back went running back to Florida to get his degree in 1996'

Answer: Emmitt Smith


Question: 'Stubborn'

Answer: hard-headed


Question: 'His classic 1946 poem "Fern Hill" was inspired by a relative's farm in Wales'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'Of an oyster, a cockle or a snail, the one that sports a univalve shell'

Answer: a snail


Question: 'The name of this "merry" pirate flag may have come from the title "Ali Raja", "King of the Sea"'

Answer: the Jolly Roger


Question: 'Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 was this trio composed of Barry, Maurice & Robin'

Answer: The Bee Gees


Question: 'Expelled from Harvard in 1913, he went back only to be thrown out on his geodesic dome again in 1915'

Answer: R. Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'This biscuit made with just flour & water was once used aboard ships & for army rations'

Answer: hardtack


Question: 'Katherine Anne Porter could tell you the title of the 1494 German poem "Das Narrenschiff" means this'

Answer: "Ship of Fools"


Question: 'Of ladybugs, house flies or yellow jackets, they're the ones with a shell covering their wings'

Answer: Ladybugs


Question: 'His treasure on Gardiners Island was recovered & became part of the endowment of Greenwich Marine Hospital'

Answer: Captain Kidd


Question: 'September 4, 1996 was a "Tonight, Tonight" to remember for this group; it won MTV's Video of the Year Award'

Answer: Smashing Pumpkins


Question: 'After leaving school to foment unrest, Castro returned to get a degree in this'

Answer: law


Question: 'As he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson made this command to the flag captain'

Answer: "Kiss me, Hardy"


Question: 'Emma Lazarus is best known for this sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's base'

Answer: "The New Colossus"


Question: 'Of cetology, conchology or cacology, it's the study of shells'

Answer: conchology


Question: 'Jack Rackham, who sported this nickname due to the colorful clothes he wore, had 2 women among his crew'

Answer: "Calico Jack"


Question: 'Singer seen here, she was the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year in 1989 & 1990:'

Answer: Kathy Mattea


Question: 'He graduated from West Point in 1915 & returned to school in 1948 as president of Columbia University'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'This squire in "She Stoops to Conquer" likes "Old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine"'

Answer: Squire Hardcastle


Question: 'A 1997 episode of this series guest-starred Philip Michael Thomas & Tommy Chong'

Answer: Nash Bridges


Question: 'In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'The firefighting museum in Phoenix, Arizona isn't called the Hall of Fame, but the hall of this'

Answer: the Hall of Flame


Question: 'Sicilians call this active volcano Mongibello'

Answer: Etna


Question: 'TV, 1972-1979:<br />Walter "Radar" O'Reilly'

Answer: Gary Burghoff


Question: 'The sacrament of marriage, it's "holy"'

Answer: matrimony


Question: 'Ice can refer to diamonds; chill can mean to do this, maybe with a lawnmower (a machine gun)'

Answer: to kill


Question: 'In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted'

Answer: Mt. St. Helens


Question: 'In 24 B.C. this Caesar instituted the "Vigiles", a group of firefighting watchmen'

Answer: Augustus (Caesar)


Question: 'The ruins of Babylon lie on the banks of this river, the longest in southwest Asia'

Answer: the Euphrates


Question: 'TV, 1978-1986:<br />Arnold Jackson'

Answer: Gary Coleman


Question: '"Marry in" this color "and you will always be true", hence the requirement for "something" of it'

Answer: blue


Question: 'The 4 techniques a "blacksmith" uses to crack one of these are blow, burn, peel & punch'

Answer: a safe


Question: 'In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World'

Answer: (Peter) Stuyvesant


Question: 'This city was probably named for Edwin of Northumbria, who built a fort on the Firth of Forth in the 600s'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Film, 1942:<br />Lou Gehrig'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'Apparel usually tied to the back of the newly-married couple's carriage'

Answer: (baby) shoes


Question: 'To tap a till is to take money out of one of these'

Answer: a cash register


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Gettysburg Cemetery.) In 1863, Lincoln dedicated this cemetery by saying that "we cannot consecrate--we cannot" do this to "this ground"'

Answer: hallow


Question: 'It was the colorful nickname of oil field firefighter Paul Adair'

Answer: "Red"


Question: 'Large oceangoing vessels can travel from the North Sea inland as far as Hamburg on this river'

Answer: the Elbe


Question: 'Film, 1978:<br />Buddy Holly'

Answer: Gary Busey


Question: 'Once, a groom paid a sum to the bride's family & she came with a collection of money & property known as this'

Answer: a dowry


Question: 'Mr. Bates, the apple or the mark are terms for the victims in these "games"'

Answer: con games


Question: 'A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city'

Answer: El Paso


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a heavy piece of equipment.) Used by firemen following auto accidents, it's the 3-word term for this important hydraulic rescue tool'

Answer: the jaws of life


Question: 'In 1979 an airliner crashed on this Antarctic peak, killing all 257 aboard'

Answer: Erebus


Question: 'Film, 1994:<br />Ludwig van Beethoven'

Answer: Gary Oldman


Question: 'A married couple may start off as a DINK couple, an acronym for this'

Answer: double income, no kids


Question: 'A spinner in a car theft ring is the man who sets back these'

Answer: the odometer


Question: 'Bullwinkle's buddy is one'

Answer: a flying squirrel


Question: 'Chaucer's life & career took a complicating turn in 1386 when he was appointed to this house of Parliament'

Answer: the House of Commons


Question: 'The first intercollegiate athletic contest in the U.S. was a crew race between Harvard & this school in 1852'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'This element that makes you organic is part of your proteins as well as your fats'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'On an invitation, "black tie" & "white tie" each refer to this type of tie'

Answer: a bow tie


Question: 'One "Behind the Music" covered this year in which the U.S. re-elected Nixon & tried to deport John Lennon'

Answer: 1972


Question: 'The fins of the 50-ish true species of these are used like wings as they glide above water'

Answer: flying fish


Question: 'Harvard Law School was the setting for much of this 1973 film for which John Houseman won an Oscar'

Answer: The Paper Chase


Question: 'The eighth most abundant element in the earth's crust & the seventh most abundant in you is this special K'

Answer: potassium


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew purties up.)  Howdy, partner!  It's the 4-letter name for the Western favorite I'm wearing'

Answer: a bolo


Question: 'This '50s high school love story that's thrilled people since the '70s got its own episode'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'An illegal football move, or a police formation used to move into crowds effectively'

Answer: a flying wedge


Question: 'In Chaucer's masterpiece "The Canterbury Tales", this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth'

Answer: the Wife of Bath


Question: 'The term "campus" began at Princeton Univ. to distinguish its grounds from this pedestrian Harvard area'

Answer: Harvard Yard


Question: 'Iodine, used externally in antiseptics, is found internally in hormones in this gland'

Answer: the thyroid


Question: 'An ascot is often secured in place with one of these rather than a knot'

Answer: a tie tack (or tiepin)


Question: 'This show that empowered women in the summer of '97 always closed with Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"'

Answer: Lilith Fair


Question: 'An external wall support often used in Gothic cathedrals'

Answer: a flying buttress


Question: 'To get to Boston from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts you'll have to cross this riverer'

Answer: the Charles


Question: 'The spleen spends its time taking this element out of the hemoglobin in red blood cells'

Answer: iron


Question: 'This hyphenated term can mean a vehicle drawn by a quartet of horses as well as a long necktie in a slipknot'

Answer: a four-in-hand


Question: '"Behind the Music" noted the tragic irony when this activist "Cat's In The Cradle" singer died en route to a benefit concert'

Answer: Harry Chapin


Question: 'A phantom ship eternally cruising the Cape of Good Hope'

Answer: the Flying Dutchman


Question: 'This German-American who designed Harvard's Grad Center headed the Architecture Dept. from 1938 to 1952'

Answer: Walter Gropius


Question: 'Seen here in a mound, you've got less than a pound of it in your body'

Answer: sulfur


Question: 'This common tie pattern of wide diagonal stripes is named for a military unit'

Answer: a regimental tie


Question: 'One of the most poignant BTM episodes reunited this teen idol with his paralyzed friend Roland Winkler'

Answer: Leif Garrett


Question: 'This orchestral instrument is the first one heard in Stravinsky's "Orpheus" & the second heard in Liszt's "Orpheus"'

Answer: the harp


Question: 'One of the social events of 1999 was this Spice Girl's castle wedding to soccer star David Beckham'

Answer: Posh Spice


Question: 'Spots for this brisk tea starred claymation baseball heroes Reggie Jackson & Babe Ruth'

Answer: Lipton


Question: '"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me" these'

Answer: Your ears


Question: 'The first people to settle this country migrated there 40,000 years ago; Europeans settled Botany Bay in 1788'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'These “Hermits” got  their name because their lead singer resembled a character on TV's “Rocky & His Friends”'

Answer: Herman\'s Hermits


Question: 'Bogie starred in the 1951 film version of this soggy C.S. Forester novel'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'In the 20 years before “Paradise Lost”, he was more focused on pamphleteering than poetry'

Answer: Milton


Question: 'This rabbit was put to bed with camomile tea, but Flopsy, Mopsy & Cotton Tail had bread, milk & blackberries'

Answer: Peter (Rabbit)


Question: '"All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players"'

Answer: a stage


Question: 'The world's seventh-largest country in size, this Commonwealth country is second by population'

Answer: India


Question: 'Called the most successful female singer in British history she had her first U.S. No. 1 hit in 1964 with “Downtown”'

Answer: Petula Clark


Question: 'A poetic preface by Sir Walter Raleigh introduces this epic Spenser poem'

Answer: The Faerie Queene


Question: 'This “Arthur” co-star who died at 96 in 2000 acted onstage into his mid-80s'

Answer: Sir John Gielgud


Question: 'Tasseography is a fancy name for this divination practice'

Answer: reading tea leaves


Question: '"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of" this person'

Answer: the king


Question: 'This westrn hemisphere Commonwealth nation has more lakes & inland rivers than any other country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Born in Belfast, he sang lead for the group Them before scoring hits on his own like “Brown Eyed Girl”'

Answer: Van Morrison


Question: 'In some traditions, the Ark of the Covenant was taken to Ethiopia by Menelik, the son of Solomon & this woman'

Answer: the Queen of Sheba


Question: 'In the 1660s it took a “geneous” like him to show that white light is hetero-geneous'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'Earl Grey tea is flavored with oil of bergamott which is this fruit'

Answer: orange


Question: '"Once more unto" this, "dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!"'

Answer: the breach


Question: 'English is the official language of this oil-rich country that borders Chad, NIger & Cameroon'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'Featuring a frenzied solo, this British band's “You Really Got Me” soared to No. 1'

Answer: The Kinks


Question: 'Simple curves & cabriole legs characterize this popular 18th century furniture style'

Answer: Queen Anne


Question: 'In 1963 Lord Denning led the official inquiry into this British government sex scandal'

Answer: John Profumo Affair


Question: 'A word for “tea” in Asia, it's the name for a mix of black tea, milk & spices sometimes served as a latte'

Answer: chai


Question: 'These people "die many times before their deaths"'

Answer: cowards


Question: 'Constitutional changes in 2000 for this Asian country may help end its civil war between Tamils & Sinhalese'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'Hits like “Tuesday Afternoon” from “Days of Future Passed” hooked this band musically into the Summer of Love'

Answer: The Moody Blues


Question: 'You'll find its main campus in Flushing, New York'

Answer: Queen\'s College


Question: 'Like John Henry, Jael had this in her hand & used it to nail Sisera's head to the ground'

Answer: hammer


Question: 'Sally Field won a victory for the union & an Oscar for herself, in this 1979 film'

Answer: Norma Rae


Question: 'Maggie Walker was the USA's first woman president of one of these, St. Luke Penny Savings in Richmond'

Answer: bank


Question: 'Licensed taxis in New York City are this color'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'This structure is a traditional part of state capitols to represent the unity of government'

Answer: dome


Question: 'The purple Teletubby'

Answer: Tinky Winky


Question: 'Muscleman in the Ruben's work seen here:'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'Set during the Vietnam War, it captured 5 Oscars including one for director Michael Cimino'

Answer: The Deer Hunter


Question: 'Seen here she was president of her country from 1986 to 1992'

Answer: Corazon Aquino


Question: 'You can do it to Mary or Columbia as well as to a taxi'

Answer: hail


Question: 'Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned to collecting silver'

Answer: photography


Question: '“Colorful” 1986 No. 1 album by Madonna'

Answer: True Blue


Question: 'Moses couldn't enter the promised land after striking this to produce water instead of speaking to it'

Answer: rock


Question: 'Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid & Daniel Stern were cycling buddies in this coming-of-age drama'

Answer: Breaking Away


Question: 'She retired at age 80 as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'The sitcom “Taxi” used cabs from this famous company founded in 1922'

Answer: Checker


Question: 'This city's renaissance artists, like Titian & Giorgione, emphasized color more than the Florentines'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'It's Ben & Jerry's banana ice cream with walnuts & pieces of dark chocolate'

Answer: Chunky Monkey


Question: 'Job lived in Uz; Abraham lived in this city of the Chaldees'

Answer: Ur


Question: '[Hi, I'm Melody Scott Thomas from “The Young and the Restless.”  The answer is:]  In 1976 I appeared in John Wayne's final film, this western in which he played a dying gunslinger'

Answer: The Shootist


Question: 'In 1946 Sarah Blanding became the first woman president of this then 85-year-old New York women's college'

Answer: Vassar


Question: 'Contrary to its “roving” name, this type of cab isn't licensed to cruise the streets'

Answer: Gypsy cab


Question: 'The modern dance pioneer seen here:  She died in a bizarre shawl not scarf accident'

Answer: Isadora Duncan


Question: 'A synonym for potpourri or miscellany'

Answer: hodge podge


Question: 'In a showdown with the prophets of Baal, his prayer for fire was answered; theirs weren't'

Answer: Elijah


Question: 'In a 1972 comedy Alan Arkin fancied himself a casanova in “The Last of” these'

Answer: the red hot lovers


Question: 'In 1954 she performed in “The Firebird” & became president of the Royal Academy of Dancing'

Answer: (Dame) Margot Fonteyn


Question: 'This slang word for a taxi or its driver is shortened from the name of a horse-drawn carriage'

Answer: hack (from hackney)


Question: 'The name of this plaster used in the 18th C. to make faux marble refers to rough exterior coating'

Answer: stucco


Question: 'A weapon like a taser, that fires electric darts to temporarily incapacitate a person'

Answer: stun gun


Question: 'A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'In 1860, 4 years after leaving the Crimea, she wrote the book "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not"'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: '1980:<br />"You never got me down, Ray"'

Answer: Raging Bull


Question: 'In baseball it's how a pitcher-to-catcher-to-first double play is scored (this is an easy one)'

Answer: 1, 2, 3


Question: 'It's the only seal with tusks'

Answer: a walrus


Question: 'Ads for this iced tea brand encouraged people to take a backward "plunge" into a pool'

Answer: Nestea


Question: 'When I needed money, I did this--bought, then quickly resold'

Answer: flipped the house


Question: 'Convincing the gang to take the Bozeman Pass was just one of her contributions to Lewis & Clark's expedition'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: '1991:<br />"Counselor, come out, come out, wherever you are"'

Answer: Cape Fear


Question: 'In poker if you've got a jack high straight, these are your 3 lowest cards'

Answer: 7, 8, 9


Question: 'In parts of Asia, more than half the milk produced comes from the "water" type of this bovid'

Answer: buffalo


Question: 'In the 1870s a friend told Charles Hires that his root tea would sell better under this name'

Answer: root beer


Question: 'It's an arm of the Mediterranean'

Answer: the Aegean Sea


Question: 'After briefly attending Oxford University, she returned to India in 1941 & married a Parsi lawyer the following year'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: '(In Sicilian)<br />"To you she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife & son"'

Answer: The Godfather Part II


Question: 'If a Spanish child tells you to count to mil while he hides, you'll end with this trio of numbers'

Answer: 998, 999, 1000


Question: 'North America's 2 venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard & this scary denizen of the Southwest'

Answer: a Gila monster


Question: 'I get hot & thirsty reading clues all day; this is a job for this drink & its pitch-pitcher's cry of "Oh yeah!"'

Answer: Kool-Aid


Question: 'Quickly, quickly, quickly--this way'

Answer: lickety split


Question: 'Some scholars believe that this wife of Akhenaton was not Egyptian but an Asian princess from Syria'

Answer: Nefertiti


Question: '1995:<br />"Meeting in the middle of a desert always made me nervous, it's a scary place"'

Answer: Casino


Question: 'If Joe Biden counts senators to see if he has a quorum, he can stop after these 3 numbers'

Answer: 49, 50, 51


Question: 'This agile monkey of the Americas dines on, among other things, the arachnid in its name'

Answer: a spider monkey


Question: 'In 1965 the Univ. of Florida football team began using this drink developed by school researchers'

Answer: Gatorade


Question: 'Condition of commotion & noisy confusion'

Answer: uproar


Question: 'For supporting a revolt against him, Henry II had this wife imprisoned from 1173 till his death in 1189'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: '1988:<br />"$100,000 & I'll have the Duke here for you by Friday night"'

Answer: Midnight Run


Question: 'If you're counting out pennies to buy a first class stamp, you'll end with these 3 numbers'

Answer: 42, 43, 44


Question: 'Around 9 pounds at birth, the pygmy species of this African mammal may eventually reach some 600 pounds'

Answer: a hippopotamus


Question: 'Vitamin-happy Glaceau also makes this "wise" drink with "purity you can taste, hydration you can feel"'

Answer: Smartwater


Question: 'Formidable feudal firearm'

Answer: crossbow


Question: 'Turquino Peak, Cuba's highest, is in the chain known as this "Maestra"; California has one "Nevada"'

Answer: Sierra


Question: '"Next year" finally came to this team's fans in 1955, when its "Bums" beat the Yanks in the Series for the first time in 6 tries'

Answer: the Brooklyn Dodgers


Question: 'This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'To hide by blocking, or to show by projecting'

Answer: screen


Question: 'The 2 most basic forms of skiing are Nordic & this downhill type named for a mountain range'

Answer: Alpine


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.)  A series of quick, jumping steps is called this, also the Italian term for the tempo at which the music is playing'

Answer: allegro


Question: 'Celebrated Jan. 1, Triumph of the Revolution, Cuba's national holiday, commemorates events of this 20th c. year'

Answer: 1959


Question: 'The Yankees lost game 7 of the 1926 World Series when this portly gent was thrown out trying to steal second base'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'He was born in "The Jungle" of Baltimore in 1878'

Answer: (Upton) Sinclair


Question: 'A solid fruit core, or a cavity in the ground'

Answer: a pit


Question: 'The 2 components of a complete sentence are a subject & this unit'

Answer: a verb


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.)  A fouetté is a pirouette that lets the dancer regain momentum after each spin; the Black Swan does 32 in a row in a ballet by this composer'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'Cuba is the largest island in this "directional" archipelago'

Answer: the West Indies


Question: 'A "Big Red Machine" from this city ran right over the Yankees in a 4-game sweep of the 1976 World Series'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work'

Answer: Steinbeck


Question: 'An advantage in golf or a disadvantage through lack'

Answer: a handicap


Question: 'The 2 main gods of Hinduism are Vishnu & him'

Answer: Shiva


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.)  Legend says the Royale was created in an attempt to do the harder entrechat quatre  by this 17th-century French king, under whom ballet became a strict art form'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'Reaching heights of 75 feet, Cuba's national tree is the royal this'

Answer: palm


Question: 'In 2004 this team came back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit & beat the Yanks for the A.L. pennant; revenge gets no sweeter'

Answer: the Boston Red Sox


Question: 'He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871'

Answer: Theodore Dreiser


Question: 'To remove excess fat, or to add Christmas ornaments'

Answer: trim


Question: 'The 2 main kinds of camels are the one-humped dromedary & this 2-humped Asian species'

Answer: Bactrian


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.)  The step battement tendu was highly valued by this legendary choreographer. He told his wife, Maria Tallchief, that if she'd do it properly she wouldn't have to learn anything else'

Answer: Balanchine


Question: 'Many Cuban practitioners of this "saintly" Afro-Caribbean religion speak Lucumi, a "secret" language'

Answer: Santería


Question: 'This ace L.A. lefty dominated the Yanks in the 1963 World Series, striking out 23 & beating them twice in a 4-game sweep'

Answer: Sandy Koufax


Question: 'This existentialist came into being (not nothingness) June 21, 1905 in Paris'

Answer: (Jean-Paul) Sartre


Question: 'To bless an action by decree, or to ban an action by decree'

Answer: sanction


Question: 'Named for their method of secretion, they're the 2 main types of glands in the body'

Answer: endocrine & exocrine


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.)  The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set'

Answer: The Nutcracker


Question: 'It was first transmitted by the USS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras on August 11, 1909'

Answer: SOS


Question: 'Christmas, Easter, or Bermuda, for example'

Answer: islands


Question: 'The 1st asked in this game is usually "Animal, vegetable or mineral?"'

Answer: Twenty Questions


Question: 'Number of pockets on a pool table'

Answer: 6


Question: 'It could be paddle wheel, cargo or tramp'

Answer: a steamer


Question: 'Its seed is used in baking, but 1 type produces opium'

Answer: the poppy


Question: 'In 1983 Americans used over 1¼ million gallons of this beach product'

Answer: suntan lotion


Question: 'Europe's only wild monkeys live on this "rock"'

Answer: (rock of) Gibraltar


Question: 'The two point values an ace can have in blackjack'

Answer: 1 and 11


Question: 'Color that always has opening move in chess'

Answer: white


Question: 'Charlton Heston was "on track" with it in "Ben Hur"'

Answer: a chariot


Question: 'Long associated with Lebanon, this tree is on its flag'

Answer: a cedar


Question: 'When it was rung for Chief Justice John Marshall's funeral, it cracked'

Answer: the Liberty Bell


Question: '1/3 the size of U.S., this royal kingdom has no rivers or lakes but lots of oil'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Police precinct Barney Miller "dozen" work at any more'

Answer: the 12th


Question: 'Versions of this board game take place in London, Madrid, & Atlantic City'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during this song:'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: '"Kingdom" that Khrushchev couldn't visit in 1959 U.S. trip'

Answer: the Magic Kingdom/Disneyland


Question: 'Largest country entirely in Europe'

Answer: France


Question: 'A race run by couples tied together at the ankle'

Answer: a 3-legged race


Question: 'Binney & Smith makes them in 64 colors'

Answer: (Crayola) crayons


Question: 'Dr. Seuss' egg-hatching elephant who was "faithful, 100%"'

Answer: Horton


Question: 'Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone'

Answer: Eastern


Question: 'Musical about Continental Congress, it included song "Sit Down, John"'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'She's been a teenage fashion model for over 25 years'

Answer: Barbie


Question: 'It spent the night in a discount-house parking lot before heading to L.A. Coliseum'

Answer: the Olympic torch


Question: 'Lincoln's four brothers-in-law all served in this army'

Answer: the Confederate army


Question: 'Mark Anthony borrowed them, then bent them'

Answer: ears


Question: 'To Dustin Hoffman this '82 film was a "drag"'

Answer: Tootsie


Question: 'It succeeded Fort Whipple, Prescott, & Tucson as capital'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'He's the heavyweight of the A-Team'

Answer: Mr. T


Question: '"Body-building" brand of bread from "the bakery people of IT&T"'

Answer: Wonder Bread


Question: 'Though shots fired at this garrison started the war, no casualties resulted'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'Over ½ of these are in your hands & feet'

Answer: your bones


Question: 'Film featuring March & Gaynor, Garland & Mason or Streisand & Kristofferson'

Answer: A Star Is Born


Question: 'Lincoln lived & practiced law here for 25 years before becoming president'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'Caveman comic strip created by Johnny Hart'

Answer: "B.C."


Question: 'In 1978, this German co. became first foreign automaker to make cars here'

Answer: Volkswagen


Question: 'He was Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union army'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Number of chambers in a judge's heart'

Answer: 4


Question: 'In '84 he's a destroyer, in '82 he was just a barbarian'

Answer: Conan


Question: '1 of 4 state capitals that end in word "City"'

Answer: (1 of) Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, Jefferson City, Carson City


Question: 'Letter shared by sensuous woman author & 76'ers Doctor'

Answer: J


Question: 'This company owns the world's tallest building'

Answer: Sears(-Roebuck)


Question: 'State that seceded from state that seceded'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'The body has over 60,000 miles of them'

Answer: blood vessels


Question: 'Walter Matthau & Tony Curtis both coached this kids' baseball team'

Answer: The Bad News Bears


Question: 'What Bo Derek would have been in ancient Rome'

Answer: X


Question: 'Piggly Wiggly stores were the first of these'

Answer: supermarkets


Question: 'General Nicknamed "Uncle Billy" who believed in total war'

Answer: (William Tecumseh) Sherman


Question: 'Prominent zygomatic bones, considered an attractive facial feature'

Answer: cheek bones


Question: 'Went from bit part in film "Little Shop of Horrors" to Oscars for Best Actor & Best Support'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'Binet & Simon's measure of mental age'

Answer: the IQ


Question: 'Since 1970, the only cabinet department not headed by a secretary'

Answer: the Attorney General\'s Department


Question: 'John Heywood's 16th century book of proverbs mentioned this price "for your thoughts" (What a cheapskate!)'

Answer: A penny


Question: 'Beginning in Peru, the Amazon flows over 4,000 miles to this ocean'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'His "Rock & Roll Music" includes "Maybellene" & "Roll Over Beethoven"'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: 'One of the few victories the Romans ever won against this Carthaginian general was at Zuma in 202 B.C.'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'Sulfuric compounds in onions induce these in humans who are slicing them'

Answer: Tears


Question: 'An upright frame for displaying or supporting an artist's canvas'

Answer: Easel


Question: 'In the 1960s this famous structure really was "falling down", so Robert McCulloch paid $2,460,000 & moved it to Arizona'

Answer: London Bridge


Question: 'Abundant in the Amazon River, this feared fish is also known as a caribe'

Answer: Piranha


Question: '"People" & "Back To Broadway" are No. 1 albums by this woman'

Answer: Barbra Streisand


Question: 'As the Dixiecrat nominee, this South Carolina senator, then governor, won 39 electoral votes in 1948'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: 'These small onions often used in cream sauces bear the name of a gem'

Answer: Pearl onions


Question: 'A crude figure or dummy representing a disliked person'

Answer: Effigy


Question: 'These early movie theatres were so named because they charged only 5 cents admission'

Answer: Nickelodeons


Question: 'The upper Amazon is known as the Solimoes River until it reaches this nation's city of Manaus'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'Moby's version of "South Side" features Gwen Stefani, the lead singer of this group'

Answer: No Doubt


Question: 'The author of "A Beggar In Jerusalem", this concentration camp survivor won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986'

Answer: Elie Wiesel


Question: '"I will not move my army without onions!" once declared this 18th U.S. president'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: '1981 Wimbledon winner seen here:'

Answer: Chris Evert


Question: 'At a 1996 auction Jimmy Buffett paid $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of this president in a sailboat'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'A 1542 attack by female warriors against explorers from this country led to the Amazon receiving its name'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'It's the instrument in the title of the following:<br />[audio clue]'

Answer: Saxophone


Question: 'Pitted against Clarence Darrow, this man won his case on July 21, 1925 & then died 5 days later'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'This onion relative is a national emblem of Wales'

Answer: Leek


Question: 'From the Latin for "inlaid design", it's an object or representation that functions as a symbol'

Answer: Emblem


Question: 'Famous price of "Stella Delorme" & many other lurid novels by Ned Buntline'

Answer: A dime


Question: 'These water boas of the Amazon region can grow to over 200 pounds & over 20 feet'

Answer: Anacondas


Question: '"Summer Nights" helped this soundtrack dominate the No. 1 spot during the summer of 1978'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'This "hazardous" naval officer won the decisive 1813 Battle of Lake Erie over the British'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: 'Grown on the slopes of Haleakala, this Hawaiian island's onions are among the world's tastiest'

Answer: Maui onions


Question: 'This nation west of Russia borders the Baltic'

Answer: Estonia


Question: 'Graham Sutherland's 1949 portrait of this "Of Human Bondage" author is in the Tate Gallery'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'Cecil B. De Mille directed 2 versions of this Biblical epic, one in 1923 & one in 1956'

Answer: The Ten Commandments


Question: 'He was actress Drew's famous grandfather'

Answer: John Barrymore


Question: '"The Book of Daniel",<br />"Ragtime"'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: 'Whether Arabica or robusta, order a cup of this & you'll hear "Draw One!"'

Answer: Coffee


Question: '"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star", the big, bright one of this station'

Answer: Texaco


Question: 'The Uffizi is home to Nicolas Froment's triptych "The Raising of" this Biblical man'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'In 1963 Richard Burton played this Roman on the big screen'

Answer: Mark Antony


Question: 'Though gold was found at his mill in 1848, by 1852 he was bankrupt'

Answer: John Sutter


Question: '"Marjorie Morningstar",<br />"The Caine Mutiny"'

Answer: Herman Wouk


Question: 'Calling out "BLT, hold the mayo" gets you this kind of sandwich'

Answer: Bacon. Lettuce & Tomato (without the mayonnaise)


Question: 'Esso stood for S.O., which stood for this'

Answer: Standard Oil


Question: 'This artist famed for his mobiles created a miniature circus that's in the Whitney Museum of American Art'

Answer: Alexander Calder


Question: 'This 1955 James Dean classic was advertised with the tagline "Teenage Terror Torn from Today's Headlines"'

Answer: Rebel Without A Cause


Question: 'He & Priscilla Mullens were among the first Pilgrim couples to marry in America'

Answer: John Alden


Question: '"Amelie",<br />"Tom Jones"'

Answer: Henry Fielding


Question: 'Order "Adam & Eve on a Raft" & you'll get poached eggs on this'

Answer: Toast


Question: 'Gulf Oil goes back to the famous oil find at Spindletop in this state in 1901'

Answer: Texas


Question: '"The Disasters of War" is a grim series of etchings that this Spaniard began in 1810'

Answer: Francisco Goya


Question: 'This Swedish actress made her breakthrough film in 1936, then later came to the U.S. to star in a 1939 English remake'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'While in prison, this "Pilgrim's Progress" author supported his family by making shoelaces'

Answer: John Bunyan


Question: '"Of Love and Shadows",<br />"The House of the Spirits"'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'In a greasy spoon these paired seasonings are "Mike & Ike"'

Answer: Salt & pepper


Question: 'East coast brand whose logo is seen here:'

Answer: Sunoco


Question: '"The Laughing Cavalier", seen here, may be the most famous portrait by this Antwerp-born artist'

Answer: Frans Hals


Question: 'Frank Sinatra is "The Man" who fights to break his drug addiction in this screen version of an Algren novel'

Answer: The Man With the Golden Arm


Question: 'In 1821 the remains of this major, who conspired with Benedict Arnold, were moved to Westminster Abbey'

Answer: John Andre


Question: '"The House of Mirth",<br />"Ethan Frome"'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'A request for this style of cooked eggs makes the waitress yell out "Wreck 'em!"'

Answer: Scrambled eggs


Question: 'In the '40s this gas company used the slogan "Best in the long run"  (Get it? Long run)'

Answer: Marathon Oil


Question: 'Show inspired by an article saying about 30% of the people who married in 1965 had kids from a previous marriage'

Answer: The Brady Bunch


Question: 'In a departure from legal thrillers, he tackled football in "Playing for Pizza"'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'Double talk railroad term in the title of a 1941 hit song with Tex Beneke on vocals'

Answer: choo choo


Question: 'Sworn in on Air Force One'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'On "ER" it's not uncommon to hear this 5-letter word just before defibrillator paddles are discharged'

Answer: clear


Question: 'At about 17,000 mph, the world's fastest winged vehicle is this one when in orbit'

Answer: the Space Shuttle


Question: 'The classic bluegrass song "Dueling Banjos" is featured in this disturbing 1972 film'

Answer: Deliverance


Question: 'A newspaper article, "Pastor Tells Eerie Tale of 'Haunted' Boy", partly inspired this 1971 bestseller'

Answer: The Exorcist


Question: 'This yellow Pokemon character evolves into Raichu'

Answer: Pikachu


Question: 'Shot outside the Washington Hilton'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'Duke Kahanamoku was among those who pioneered the paddle type of this sport'

Answer: surfing


Question: 'Driving the Thrust SSC, Andy Green broke the land-speed record going 763 mph at Black Rock Desert in this state'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'In 2009 this comic actor released a banjo album--"Ramblin' Guy" isn't one of the tracks'

Answer: Steve Martin


Question: 'Ruth Prawer Jhabvala subtitled her "East into Upper East" "Plain Tales from New York and" this world capital'

Answer: New Delhi


Question: 'Barack Obama picked this Nobel Prize winner as his Energy Secretary'

Answer: (Steven) Chu


Question: 'Meets with Yitzhak Rabin & wife; meets with Anwar Sadat & wife'

Answer: (Jimmy) Carter


Question: 'In the 1800s Robert Fulton developed the first steamboat, propelled by one of these'

Answer: paddlewheel


Question: 'Clocked at 36 mph, one of the world's fastest insects is the Australian this seen here'

Answer: a dragonfly


Question: 'He penned the lyrics "I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee"'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'Evan Hunter wrote the popular 87th precinct novels under this pen name'

Answer: Ed McBain


Question: 'These people who established a dynastic reign over China in the 1600s were descended from the Tungu'

Answer: the Manchu


Question: 'Signs the Tennessee Valley Authority act into law'

Answer: FDR


Question: '2 main grips for the paddles in this sport are the pen hold & shake hands grips'

Answer: table tennis (ping-pong)


Question: 'Olympian John Howard set a 152.2 mph speed record on one of these in 1985--he started by being towed behind a car'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'This banjo-heavy minstrel show favorite became the South's unofficial anthem during the Civil War'

Answer: "Dixie"


Question: '"Brain", "Coma", and "Contagion" are among his medical thrillers'

Answer: Robin Cook


Question: 'To avoid or shun; a bumper sticker says to do it to "obfuscation"'

Answer: eschew


Question: 'Signs the U.N. charter in San Francisco'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'Go to the Met in NYC & you can see a ceremonial dance paddle called a "rapa" from Rapa Nui, aka this island'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'Flying a Westland Lynx turboshaft in 1986, Trevor Egginton set the record for one of these at 249 mph'

Answer: a helicopter


Question: 'Skilled banjo player Uncle Dave Macon was an early star on this popular radio show aka "The WSM Barn Dance"'

Answer: "The Grand Old Opry"


Question: 'The St. Bernard tunnel connects Switzerland southward down under the Alps to this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'No. 42:<br />"Plastics"'

Answer: The Graduate


Question:
'47 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(think again)'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In superstition, the unfortunate result of breaking a mirror'

Answer: seven years of bad luck


Question: 'The name of this arboreal rodent can also mean to hide something away, like money'

Answer: squirrel


Question:
'(Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue)
Baby mammoth did not eat much solid food until roughly a year old.  Lyuba's last meal was probably this, residue of which might actually be found in her intestines'

Answer: (mother\'s) milk


Question: 'The third-highest mountain in the world, Kanchenjunga, is shared by Nepal & this nation to its south'

Answer: India


Question: 'No. 94:<br />"I feel the need--the need for speed!"'

Answer: Top Gun


Question:
'40 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(don't think again)'

Answer: Mark Antony


Question: 'The scene where the subway blows Marilyn's skirt up is in this 1955 film'

Answer: The Seven Year Itch


Question: 'Relating to ships, as in a type of mile'

Answer: nautical


Question:
'(Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue)
Mammoths often had a hump on their shoulders, which consisted of this type of tissue, and served as a calorie reserve during harsh winters'

Answer: fat


Question: 'Head south on the causeway linking Malaysia to this island nation that was once a part of it'

Answer: Singapore


Question:
'No. 51:
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?'
Well, do ya, punk?"'

Answer: Dirty Harry


Question: '1904:<br />Alexandra Feodorovna, a royal'

Answer: Czar Nicholas II


Question: '7 is the international dialing code for Kazakhstan & this big neighbor'

Answer: Russia


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the USS John C. Stennis)
Carrier pilots like to have this to get airborne, by increasing lift if it's 10% of takeoff air speed, it reduces takeoff distance by about 20%'

Answer: a headwind


Question:
'(Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue)
It's fortunate that Lyuba's body retained at least some of her hair; recent research shows that woolly mammoth's wool can be a better source than bones for sequencing this'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'Botswana shares the Kalahari desert with this country directly to its south'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'No. 39:<br />"If you build it, he will come"'

Answer: Field of Dreams


Question: '1849:<br />The former Elizabeth Barrett'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'Stephen Covey's "The Seven Habits of" these "People" has sold more than 15 million copies since 1989'

Answer: highly effective


Question: 'A French term for the skipping of a stone on water gave us this word meaning "Rebound", often used of bullets'

Answer: ricochet


Question:
'(Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue)
Lyuba's well preserved body was revealed when this permanently frozen subsoll melted, exposing her small form near the Yuribey River'

Answer: permafrost


Question: 'Mexico's southern border is with these two nations'

Answer: Belize & Guatemala


Question: 'No. 98:<br />"Nobody puts Baby in a corner"'

Answer: Dirty Dancing


Question:
'1615:
Pocahontas
(& don't say John Smith, you'll be sad if you do)'

Answer: (John) Rolfe


Question: 'The 7 lucky gods of this country's folklore include Ebisu, god of fisherman, & Hotei, god of happiness'

Answer: Japan


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  Mica minerals are known for their excellence in this property; see how this one breaks cleanly along planes'

Answer: cleavage


Question: '(Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue)<br />When Lyuba was transported for testing, researchers were required to wear haz-mat suits as protection from viruses or pathogens from this geologic epoch, marked by a succession of ice ages'

Answer: the pleistocene epoch


Question: 'Though he reigned for only 2 years, this king has the second-longest role in a single Shakespeare play, speaking 1,164 lines'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'In 2006 he was back with the hit "SexyBack"'

Answer: Justin Timberlake


Question: 'A "giant flour tortilla" wrapped around meat, beans & cheese, it's a mainstay of the Chipotle chain'

Answer: a burrito


Question: 'If you've got a week to spare, you can see much of this 6.6 million sq. mi. country via the Trans-Siberian Railway'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Sadly, her fairy tale ended in worldwide grief in 1997'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'It's the "HD" in HDTV (in which I look fabulous)'

Answer: high definition


Question: 'As "1984" ends, Winston has been taught to love him'

Answer: Big Brother


Question: 'In 2006 this singer from The Black Eyed Peas released this solo album "The Dutchess"'

Answer: Fergie


Question: 'An alcohol called glycerol gives this part of a cake its smooth texture'

Answer: icing (or frosting)


Question: 'The famous landmark seen here is in this city'

Answer: Pisa


Question: 'Sit by the fireside and name this popular president'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'Common 2-word term also known as "haute couture"'

Answer: high fashion


Question: 'It's a dog's life for Buck in the Klondike in this author's "The Call of the Wild"'

Answer: (Jack) London


Question: 'Her video for "Hung Up", from her album "Confessions on a Dance Floor", features krumping'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'The topping here is this delicacy, that can come from several different creatures'

Answer: caviar


Question: 'This second-largest city of Egypt is named for the "great" king who founded it; you can look it up in the library'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'This saintly Nobel prize winner has rightfully inspired tremendous devotion'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'Got a haughty attitude?  I'd advise you to get off this 2-word metaphorical beast'

Answer: high horse


Question: 'At first, Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth doesn't like this man's attitude, but in the end they're united'

Answer: Darcy


Question: 'This group's over-the-top video for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" won Video of the Year at the 2006 MTV VMAs'

Answer: Panic! at the Disco


Question: 'Rotelle, conchiglie & farfalle are shapes of this'

Answer: noodles (or pasta)


Question: 'On newer maps of India, Calcutta is now Kolkata & this largest city is Mumbai'

Answer: Bombay


Question: 'They're the innovative high-flying Ohioans seen here'

Answer: Orville & Wilbur Wright


Question: 'Also known as hypertension, this condidtion affects far more African Americans on average than white Americans'

Answer: high blood pressure


Question: 'The title character of this Voltaire work discovers gardening will make him happy'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'Welcome MCR, this alt-rock group, to "The Black Parade", its 2006 concept album'

Answer: My Chemical Romance


Question: 'The name of this type of beef, seen here, means it's been preserved by salting'

Answer: corned beef (or pickled beef)


Question: 'A famous banking street in London & a crooked street in San Francisco share this name'

Answer: Lombard Street


Question: 'Revolutionary world leader and party animal seen here'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'Cymbal-ically, it's the drum kit piece that fits the category'

Answer: high hat


Question: 'Charles Evans Hughes is the only man confirmed to serve 2 non-consecutive terms on this judicial body'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'It's not easy for this "Beauty and the Beast" heroine to trip the light fantastic: her ball gown weighs more than 40 lbs.'

Answer: Belle


Question: 'Check out the LBJ Library and the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at this state university and hook 'em, Horns!'

Answer: University of Texas


Question: 'Some (maybe the birds themselves) say the African gray type is the most accomplished talker among these birds'

Answer: parrots


Question:
'Tarantella,
flamenco,
break'

Answer: dances


Question: 'You may note America is, according to Rev. Samuel Smith, the "land where my fathers" did this'

Answer: died


Question: 'In 1974, this state's George Ariyoshi was elected the first U.S. governor of Japanese ancestry'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'In 2005 Denzel Washington took a stab at this role in "Julius Caesar"'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'This Ivy Leaguer seems nice... near the Charles River & Fenway... tuition $30,275? We'll have no cah to pahk in the yahd!'

Answer: Harvard University


Question: 'Bees help create new species when they move this powder from one type of plant to another'

Answer: pollen


Question:
'Shintoism,
Zoroastrianism,
Jainism'

Answer: religions


Question: 'This first verse says to let this synonym for liberty ring!'

Answer: freedom


Question: 'This Presidential retreat is perched on the highest point of Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park'

Answer: Camp David


Question: 'Just like the film, "Hairspray" is set in this Md. city that John Waters called "the hairdo capital of the world"'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'This Ivy Leaguer seems nice... New Haven in the fall, fine drama school (Jodie Foster! Streep!) Tuition $33,030? Holy Eli!'

Answer: Yale University


Question: 'The white type of this forage plant is a prime source of the nectar that bees use to make honey'

Answer: clover


Question:
'Hammurabi,
Morse,
Napoleonic'

Answer: codes


Question: 'The song mentions their pride'

Answer: Pilgrims


Question: 'This senior senator from Arizona serves on the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'A 2007 TV reality show lets viewers pick the new Sandy & Danny for the revival of this musical'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'Founded by French missionaries in 1842, this Indiana univ. first admitted women in 1972, so you can now go, girl!'

Answer: University of Notre Dame


Question: 'A nuthatch isn't an asylum, it's a bird that loves these nuts also called filberts'

Answer: hazelnuts


Question:
'Sand dab,
orange roughy,
mullet'

Answer: fish


Question: 'This objective case of "thou" turns up a lot'

Answer: thee


Question: 'The Office of English Language Acquisition belongs to this cabinet department'

Answer: Department of Education


Question: 'It's the most bewitching musical on Broadway, and its Playbill cover is seen here'

Answer: Wicked


Question: 'Your mom's been "badger"-ing me to take you to Madison, the oldest branch of this state university'

Answer: University of Wisconsin


Question: 'It's a small, chunky brown bird with a short bill & a silent initial W'

Answer: wren


Question:
'Thresher,
Le Surcouf,
Nautilus'

Answer: submarines


Question: '"I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed" these'

Answer: hills


Question: 'In 1813 La. Gov. William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head'

Answer: Jean Lafitte


Question: '[video clue - audio portion also missing]'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day & Christmas Day


Question: 'This Sesame Street resident laughed all the way to the bank as one of the hottest holiday items of 1996'

Answer: ("Tickle Me") Elmo


Question: 'The Golden Gate Bridge is found in this state'

Answer: California


Question: 'On July 20, 1969 at 10:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, he became the first man to set foot on the moon'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'Princess Leia's gown & other cool stuff from this film series are at Chicago's Field Museum till January 7, 2001'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this'

Answer: representation


Question: 'A device like this keeps guided missiles on course'

Answer: gyroscope


Question: '(Hi, I'm Julie Pinson from "Port Charles")  When I'm not acting, I collect these dolls introduced by Mattel in 1959'

Answer: Barbie dolls


Question: 'You'll find this "Great" 1,700-square-mile body of water in northwest Utah'

Answer: the Great Salt Lake


Question: 'You're on the money if you know she's the Native American guide depicted on the new gold-colored dollar coin'

Answer: Sacajawea


Question: 'The Viking Ship Museum is one of the top attractions in Oslo, the capital of this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'It's how the letters in the sequence "E,F,G,H,I,J" are arranged'

Answer: alphabetically


Question: 'Eternal question posed by this cartoon'

Answer: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?


Question: 'The Warner Bros. edition of Trivial Pursuit features special tokens, including one of this yellow bird'

Answer: Tweety


Question: 'Of the 4 presidents pictured here [rest of clue unavailable]'


Question: 'This Frenchman gave his name to the raised dot printing & writing system used by the blind'

Answer: Louis Braille


Question: 'It's "Gouda" to know there's a museum featuring types of this dairy product in Alkmaar, Holland'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'Math process symbolized by an "x"'

Answer: multiplication


Question: 'The 2 names this creature goes by for sports fans in Detroit & Cincinnati'

Answer: Tigers & Bengals


Question: 'In March 1999 the makers of this board gane introduced a new player token, a sack of money'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'Of Pittsburgh, Cleveland & Detroit, the city that's farthest east'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'The real "Mr. Peanut", this scientist made more than 300 products from peanuts including soap & ink'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: 'There's a New England pirate museum in this Massachusetts city, as well as a witch museum'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'Passports & drivers' licenses are forms of this'

Answer: identification


Question: 'This Milton Bradley board game is a quick-draw version of charades'

Answer: Pictionary


Question: 'This U.S. island of the north Pacific with a 4-letter name is only about 30 miles long & 8 miles wide'

Answer: Guam


Question: 'In 1912 she founded the very first troop of Girl Scouts, then called Girl Guides, in Savannah, Georgia'

Answer: Juliette Gordon Low


Question: 'When visiting Yokohama, "worm" your way over to the museum devoted to this fine fabric'

Answer: silk


Question: 'It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, & before all the Confederate states were readmitted'

Answer: Reconstruction


Question: 'Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, "Four score and seven years ago..."'

Answer: the Gettysburg Address


Question: 'It's the 6-letter word for a nonmagical human'

Answer: Muggle


Question: 'You can see this Biblical couple in Masaccio's "The Expulsion from Paradise"'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: 'The 2 U.S. states with north in their names'

Answer: North Carolina & North Dakota


Question: 'Number of nickels in $1 plus the number of dimes in $1 plus the number of quarters in $1'

Answer: 34 (20 + 10 + 4)


Question: 'This name is popular in England because it was the name of England's queen for most of the 1800s'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'It's the year America celebrated its bicentennial'

Answer: 1976


Question: 'When Harry was a baby, this evil wizard killed his parents & left him with a lightning bolt-shaped scar'

Answer: Lord Voldemort


Question: 'As its name indicates, the "Ghent Altarpiece" was painted for the inside of one of these buildings'

Answer: church


Question: 'This heavenly body is also known as Polaris'

Answer: the North Star


Question: 'If candy bars are 40 cents each & you have $3.00, this is the maximum number you could buy'

Answer: 7 (.40 X 7 = $2.80)


Question: 'It's how Jesus is pronounced as a first name in Spanish-speaking countries'

Answer: "hey-sus"


Question: 'Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: 'Harry's godfather Sirius Black was "The Prisoner of" this title place'

Answer: Azkaban


Question: 'Turner's "The Shipwreck" is a seascape; Ruisdael's "Wheatfields" is this earthy equivalent'

Answer: landscape


Question: 'Pyongyang is the capital city of this Asian country'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'If gas is $1.40 a gallon & your dad's tank holds 11 gallons, it costs this much to fill 'er up'

Answer: $15.40


Question: 'This French form of the name Peter is also the French word for "stone"'

Answer: Pierre


Question: 'After journeying 4,000 miles, this pair's expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: 'At age 11 Harry Potter began attending this boarding school of witchcraft & wizardry'

Answer: Hogwarts


Question: 'This "Territory" of nearly 300,000 square miles was ceded by Great Britain to the U.S. in 1783'

Answer: the Northwest Territory


Question: 'This first name in the news in 2000 is a combination of the names of parents Elizabet & Juan'

Answer: Elian (Gonzalez)


Question: 'During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 this 1st permanent English settlement in America was burned to the ground'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'Harry Potter spends summers at 4 Privet Drive with this family'

Answer: the Dursleys


Question: 'The Elbe, the Thames & the Rhine Rivers all flow into this body of water'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'First name shared by Russian president Putin & Dominican outfielder Guerrero'

Answer: Vladimir


Question: 'Hero whose son is seen here on a Swiss postage stamp'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'Southwest Texas State<br />(class of 1930)'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question:
'"Almost heaven,
West Virginia,
Blue Ridge Mountains,
Shenandoah River"'

Answer: "Take Me Home, Country Roads"


Question: 'Ford's Crown Victoria accounts for over 3/4 of these purchased, many painted black & white'

Answer: police cars


Question: 'This village was an appropriate name for Apollo 14's command module'

Answer: Kitty Hawk


Question: 'In 1932 she became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'Shapely slang term for a wastebasket'

Answer: a circular file


Question: 'U.S. Military Academy<br />(class of 1843)'

Answer: U.S. Grant


Question: '"Well, I got me a fine wife,<br />I got me old fiddle"'

Answer: "Thank God I\'m A Country Boy"


Question: 'An octet of these gives the VW Passat W8 its name'

Answer: cylinders


Question: 'She would've been First Lady if her husband had won 158 more electoral votes in 1988'

Answer: Kitty Dukakis


Question: 'Daisy Gordon, the niece of Juliette Gordon Low, became the first member of this organization when she joined in 1912'

Answer: the Girl Scouts


Question: 'To make foul, dirty or unclean'

Answer: to defile


Question: 'Harvard<br />(class of 1940)'

Answer: John Kennedy


Question: '"If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just like today"'

Answer: "Sunshine On My Shoulders"


Question: 'Subaru's Outback was one of the first vehicles to combine an SUV & this traditional favorite of suburbanites'

Answer: a station wagon


Question: 'This frontiersman served as an Indian agent from 1853 to 1861 in Taos, New Mexico'

Answer: Kit Carson


Question: 'This gymnast, a 1984 Olympic gold medal winner, was the first female to appear on the front of the Wheaties box'

Answer: Mary Lou Retton


Question: '3-word term for the members of a group apart from its leaders or officers'

Answer: rank and file


Question: 'Harvard<br />(class of 1755)'

Answer: John Adams


Question: '"To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm"'

Answer: "Calypso"


Question: 'Showing its "age", this 106-year-old GM line of cars sent its last one off the assembly line in 2004'

Answer: Oldsmobile


Question: 'AKA Vulpes velox, this small gray animal is valuable for its fur'

Answer: a kit fox


Question: 'This UPI correspondent was the first woman to head the White House bureau of a major news service'

Answer: Helen Thomas


Question: 'When exhibiting a deliberately inconspicuous or anonymous manner, you're "keeping" this'

Answer: a low profile


Question: 'Princeton<br />(class of 1879)'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: '"You fill up my senses like a night in a forest..."'

Answer: "Annie\'s Song"


Question: 'At the 1953 Paris motor show, along came this famed Porsche model'

Answer: the Spyder


Question: 'In 2004 she wrote the controversial "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty"'

Answer: Kitty Kelley


Question: 'In 1976 she became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera when she took the baton for "La Traviata"'

Answer: Sarah Caldwell


Question: 'A device for holding bills & memos having a projecting metal spike on which to stick papers'

Answer: a spindle file


Question: 'This South American city is the world's most populous capital south of the equator'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: 'This scientific work is subtitled "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"'

Answer: Origin of Species


Question: 'Something gone for good is said to be "dead as" this form of entertainment that played the Palace Theatre'

Answer: Vaudeville


Question: 'The fiercest of the Knights of the Round Table, he had an affair with Queen Guinevere'

Answer: Lancelot


Question: '"They had more than love--they had fun" was the tagline for the 1976 biopic about Gable's romance with her'

Answer: Carole Lombard


Question: 'One side of a sloop'

Answer: starboard


Question: 'One of the world's largest diamond mines is located in Orapa, Botswana, in the northeastern part of this desert'

Answer: the Kalahari


Question: 'This Steinbeck masterpiece tells the story of the Trasks & the Hamiltons'

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'In 1968, this sewing machine company's New York City tower--once the world's tallest building--became the tallest ever demolished'

Answer: Singer


Question: 'Born in 742, this King of the Franks led a 30-year conquest of Europe "by the sword & the cross"'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'After she was a wow singing to Gable at his 36th birthday party, she got to sing to his photo on film'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'This academy trains future Jim Kirks of the galaxy on "Star Trek"'

Answer: Starfleet Academy


Question: 'The Australian capital territory, which includes Canberra, was carved out of this most populous state'

Answer: New South Wales


Question: 'This Toni Morrison novel ends, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it"'

Answer: Song of Solomon


Question: 'A legendary city, or a legendary Cadillac model that was discontinued in 2002'

Answer: El Dorado


Question: 'One of the premier leaders of this enterprise, Duke Godfrey of Bouillon led the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099'

Answer: the Crusades


Question: 'In this rebellious 1935 release, Gable romances island girl Mamo Clark'

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty


Question: 'Rhyming nickname for the first official Confederate flag'

Answer: "Stars and Bars"


Question: '(Jeff Probst reads the clue.)  In 1774, Captain James Cook charted the islands that now compose Vanuatu & named them this for an island group off Scotland'

Answer: the New Hebrides


Question: 'Venitidius is a false friend of the title guy of this Shakespeare play'

Answer: Timon of Athens


Question: 'William Lear of jet fame developed this numerical music-playing format that went in an endless loop'

Answer: 8-track


Question: 'Among the better-known adventures of Sir Gawain are his exploits against this "colorful" character'

Answer: the Green Knight


Question: 'Gable's last line on film, "Just head for that big star straight on... it'll take us right home", is in this movie'

Answer: The Misfits


Question: 'The 563-carat sapphire known as this was actually found in Sri Lanka'

Answer: the Star of India


Question: 'Longwood Golf Course on this South Atlantic British dependency is probably the world's remotest 18-hole course'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'This classic says "Kurtz--that means short in German--don't it?"'

Answer: Heart of Darkness


Question: 'After a name change to the House Internal Security Committee, it was abolished in 1975'

Answer: the House Un-American Activities Committee


Question: 'Portrayed in verse as the perfect knight, he led the "Reconquista" against the Moors until his death in 1099'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'The title of this movie with Gable as an adman is a term for flashy, aggressive salesmen'

Answer: The Hucksters


Question: 'Henry VII's secret court to try cases involving state security'

Answer: the Star Chamber


Question: 'Someone chatting about preserving natural resources is these 2 similar words, anagrams of each other'

Answer: conversationist & conservationist


Question: 'In 1940 Sudbury became the first Canadian city to install these meters, eh'

Answer: Parking meters


Question: 'When talking playing cards, diamonds are this color'

Answer: Red


Question: '1936:<br />"Scarlett O' Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..."'

Answer: "Gone With The Wind"


Question:
'Seat,
chain,
front & rear derailleurs'

Answer: Bicycle


Question: 'Woody was born in Okemah in this state, "Way down yonder in the Indian nation"'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Finlandia Hall in this capital city is built in the shape of a piano'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'A team called the Sudbury Wolves plays in the regional league of this sport'

Answer: Ice hockey


Question: 'Even in 1638 John Wilkins thought it was an absurdity that the moon was made out of this color cheese'

Answer: Green


Question: '1978:<br />"Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested...for wounding a man in a movie theater"'

Answer: "The World According To Garp"


Question:
'Chocks,
carabiners,
rope'

Answer: Mountain climbing


Question: 'Woody inscribed "This machine kills Fascists" on this instrument'

Answer: His guitar


Question: 'Writings on a wall'

Answer: Graffiti


Question: 'Science North, a science center in Sudbury, is one of the biggest tourist attractions in this province'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'Describing people, this color is a synonym for a verb meaning "to age"'

Answer: Gray


Question: '1970:<br />"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"'

Answer: "Love Story"


Question:
'A canopy,
risers,
ripcord pins'

Answer: Skydiving


Question: 'A devoted fan, this rock star described himself in the early '60s as a "Woody Guthrie jukebox"'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'It's the type of strolling band seen here:'

Answer: Mariachi


Question: 'Sudbury's Festival Boreal in July celebrates this natural phenomenon'

Answer: Northern Lights


Question: 'In Chekhov's "The Seagull", it's the color Masha always wears'

Answer: Black


Question: '1876:<br />"Tom!"'

Answer: "The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer"


Question:
'A leash,
a wetsuit,
wax'

Answer: Surfing


Question: 'He's Woody's folk singer son, known for "Alice's Restaurant"'

Answer: Arlo Guthrie


Question: 'A veranda or roofed patio, perhaps found on the Hawaiian island of the same name'

Answer: Lanai


Question: 'I'll bet 5 cents you can name this metal, the mining of which once dominated Sudbury's economy'

Answer: Nickel


Question: 'An exception to the "I before E" rule is this color, a light yellowish brown'

Answer: Beige


Question: '1939:<br />"To the red country & part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently..."'

Answer: "The Grapes Of Wrath"


Question:
'A triangular sail,
an aluminum frame,
harness'

Answer: Hang gliding


Question: 'The title of this 1943 Woody autobiography is lifted from a song about a train'

Answer: "Bound For Glory"


Question: 'It remains the most popular of the classical forms of Japanese theater'

Answer: Kabuki


Question: 'It's the only known planet in our solar system JPL spacecraft haven't visited -- & they're looking into it'

Answer: Pluto


Question: '30 years before "Blair Witch", this Hopper-Fonda biker film was the little movie that shook up Hollywood'

Answer: Easy Rider


Question: 'Among these animals that have made ritualistic yearly appearances are Pothole Pete, Chipper & Punxsutawney Phil'

Answer: Groundhogs


Question: 'Legend says one of Haydn's symphonies is nicknamed "The Queen" because this queen of France liked it'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question:
'James Whitcomb Riley,
Michael Jackson,
Jim Davis'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Lawrence & Lee play about the trial over man evolving from Mr. Toad of Toad Hall'

Answer: Inherit the Wind in the Willows


Question: 'Designed by JPL, the USA's first of these is at the nose of the rocket in the 1958 photo seen here'

Answer: Satellite


Question: 'In the judgment of the academy, Maximilian Schell was 1961's Best Actor for this film'

Answer: Judgment At Nuremburg


Question: 'Every Labor Day weekend people gather in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, build a giant one of these & burn it'

Answer: Man


Question: 'The name of this set of 12 Schumann piano pieces is French for butterflies'

Answer: "Papillon"


Question:
'Francis Scott Key,
Dashiell Hammett,
Cal Ripken, Jr.'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Richard Llewellyn could gag me with a spoon with this mining tale, fer sure'

Answer: How Green Was My Valley Girl


Question: 'The JPL mission to bring back pieces of a comet, or the title of the tune heard here:'

Answer: Stardust


Question: 'Katharine Hepburn appeared in this 1937 theatrical drama & in a later film that added "Canteen" to the title'

Answer: Stage Door


Question: 'In celebration of Chanukah, candles are lit for this many nights'

Answer: 8


Question: 'It's the ever-popular opera that features the song heard here:'

Answer: Porgy And Bess ("I Got Plenty of Nothing")


Question:
'Howard Hughes,
Buddy Holly,
Lee Trevino'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'A JPL engineer designed this Larami Ltd. product that puts water pistols to shame'

Answer: Super Soaker


Question: 'This steamy Gregory Peck-Jennifer Jones film was nicknamed "Lust in the Dust"'

Answer: Duel in the Sun


Question: 'Robes of this "spicy" orange-yellow color let you know a boy is a Buddhist disciple'

Answer: Saffron


Question: 'This waltz composer's "Blue Danube Waltz" is featured in the ballet "Le Beau Danube"'

Answer: Johann Strauss


Question:
'Montgomery Clift,
Marlon Brando,
Henry Fonda'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'This appropriately named JPL probe was launched Sept. 5, 1977 & has covered over 5 billion miles'

Answer: Voyager


Question: 'This Fritz Lang film portrayed a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress & human despair'

Answer: Metropolis


Question: 'Greek corpses were buried with a coin to pay this mythical ferryman'

Answer: Charon


Question: 'His "Kinderlieder" (children's songs) are far less famous than his opera about 2 kids in the woods'

Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck


Question:
'Louis Armstrong,
Truman Capote,
Bryant Gumbel'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'A large bay bearing its name borders this capital settled by the Spaniards in 1571'

Answer: Manila, Philippines (Manila Bay)


Question: 'Nickname shared by baseball great Jay Dean & jazz great John Gillespie'

Answer: Dizzy


Question: '2 weeks after a symbolic union in Bora Bora, this "Shrek" jackass called it quits before having the legal ceremony'

Answer: Eddie Murphy


Question: 'Open mesh fabric style used in stockings & on trawlers'

Answer: fishnet


Question: 'A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in Chapter VI of this novel'

Answer: Gone With the Wind


Question: 'States in present-day New England'

Answer: 6


Question: 'It's said that this implement "is mightier than the sword"'

Answer: the pen


Question: 'In 1967, this Cuban revolutionary leader was captured in Bolivia and executed'

Answer: "Che" Guevara


Question: 'Secretly married in 2007, the wife of this "Diff'rent Strokes" star now handles his memorabilia sales on eBay'

Answer: Gary Coleman


Question: 'It's a fluffy type of pie, or a sheer, fluffy silk fabric for blouses'

Answer: chiffon


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.)  This J.D. Salinger hero reminisces about seeing the Haida canoe on childhood field trips to the American Museum of Natural History'

Answer: Holden Caulfield


Question: 'Total number of royal flushes that can be dealt out of one deck of 52 cards'

Answer: 4


Question: 'It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement"'

Answer: looking for work


Question: 'This name given to the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 reflects 2 others before it'

Answer: the Third Reich


Question: 'After marrying musician Josh Kelley, she went from wedding dress in 2007 to "27 Dresses" in 2008'

Answer: (Katherine) Heigl


Question: 'Gregory Peck's title gray suit was made of this'

Answer: flannel


Question: 'In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "the army report confined itself to a single sentence" --this, the book's title'

Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front


Question: 'In the U.S., the difference between a million & a billion is this many zeros'

Answer: 3


Question: 'In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"'

Answer: footprints


Question: 'Ngo Dinh Diem's P.R. people coined this term for the band of guerillas that fought South Vietnam'

Answer: the Viet Cong


Question: 'After releasing her self-titled debut album, this idol wed her producer Nick Cokas in February 2008'

Answer: Katharine McPhee


Question: 'Panne, cut & crushed are types of this thick pile fabric'

Answer: velvet


Question: 'African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'JFK was this number in presidential sequence, also the minimum age to become president'

Answer: 35


Question: 'Meaning "in trouble", the expression "in" this presumably refers to the briny liquid it's made in'

Answer: a pickle


Question: 'Charter 77 was smuggled out of this country in 1977 & published in Western newspapers'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'Third time's a charm for this French president who recently married supermodel Carla Bruni'

Answer: (Nicolas) Sarkozy


Question: 'Pashmina is a fashionable type of this luxurious fabric made from the hair of a wild goat native to India & Tibet'

Answer: cashmere


Question: 'John Steinbeck describes this title fish-processing area in Monterey, Ca. as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise"'

Answer: Cannery Row


Question: 'Syllables in a line of standard iambic pentameter'

Answer: 10


Question: 'Meaning "a greater return for your investment", it reportedly came from military expenditures in the 1950s'

Answer: more bang for your buck


Question: 'It's nearly 4 times the size of Texas, & 85% of it is made up of the Sahara Desert'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Anna goes to the royal palace in Bangkok & helps a Chinese-American architect build the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'

Answer: The King and I.M. Pei


Question: 'To us it's the space at the top of a house; in Ancient Greece it was an architectural order named for Athens' region'

Answer: an attic


Question: 'In 2008 Bank of America announced plans to buy this, the nation's largest mortgage lender'

Answer: Countrywide


Question: 'Made of keratin, it's the equine equivalent of a claw'

Answer: a hoof


Question: 'This Egyptian goddess learned the secret name of Ra & thus acquired his power'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'Barbuda's buddy'

Answer: Antigua


Question: 'Eliza Doolittle adds a saucy new tune to her repertoire: "Gitchie, gitchie ya ya, da da"'

Answer: My Fair Lady Marmalade


Question: 'The simple 18th century British style named for this queen features red brick, not her lace'

Answer: Anne


Question: 'Not far apart on the Fortune 500 are these 2 cos., one in Internet services & one in food; the names are homophones'

Answer: Cisco & Sysco


Question: 'On the housefly, these are composed of up to 4,000 individual lenses'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'This heroine of a Keats poem is a maiden of Florence, not a lady of Spain'

Answer: Isabella


Question: 'It's located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea at the southeast extremity of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: '17 dancers are cut down to 8, then form this to divide offense from defense on the gridiron'

Answer: A Chorus Line of scrimmage


Question: 'The "glass skyscraper" architect Ludwig Mies added this, his mother's surname, to his own'

Answer: van der Rohe


Question: 'One in 9 Americans has this type of insurance through WellPoint'

Answer: health insurance


Question: 'The cells bees make for workers, males & queens are different in size, but all are this shape'

Answer: hexagon


Question: 'In the "Epic of Gilgamesh", this goddess was spurned (like the Warren Beatty movie that flopped)'

Answer: Ishtar


Question: 'It has an Atlantic coastline of about 1,000 miles, & Bantu is its largest language group'

Answer: Angola


Question: '"How are things in Glocca Morra?"<br />Well, Og the leprechaun wants his gold & some "multi-colored" fish for a start'

Answer: Finian\'s Rainbow trout


Question: 'What was once the Anglo-Persian & Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. later took this name, still reflecting its English roots'

Answer: BP or British Petroleum


Question: 'A bean with mottled markings shares it's name with this equine'

Answer: a pinto


Question: 'The Beykoz Woods on the Asian side of this city are famous for their tea gardens'

Answer: Istanbul


Question: 'This mountainous Balkan country tops out at 9,000-foot Mount Korab'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'Pointillist Seurat sings, dances & writes "Animal Farm"'

Answer: Sunday in the Park with George Orwell


Question: 'Here's some energy info: this company serves almost 9 million residents of NYC & Westchester County'

Answer: Con Ed


Question: '"Health, history, horses" is the motto of this city in upstate New York'

Answer: Saratoga Springs


Question: 'Sophocles didn't name a play for her, so she's less famous than her sister Antigone'

Answer: Ismene


Question: 'With an estimated sellout crowd of 267,925 people, it claims to be the best-attended single-day sporting event in the U.S.'

Answer: the Indy 500


Question: 'The Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & this one whose name implies greatness'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'Of tardy, very happy, or full of hot air, what the word elated means'

Answer: very happy


Question: 'He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 & was mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002'

Answer: Rudy Giuliani


Question: 'The ballet "Les patineurs" focuses on this athletic pastime, with the dancers gliding by in wintry setting'

Answer: ice skating


Question: 'If a grown-up tries to serve you the oxtail type of this, say, "No thanks. I'll have the chicken noodle"'

Answer: soup


Question: 'The votes are in: winners on this show have included Ruben Studdard & Carrie Underwood'

Answer: American Idol


Question: 'This largest city in New Mexico has 2 Qs & 3 Us in its name'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'While this word can mean a series of arches, you probably know it better as a place to play pinball & video games'

Answer: an arcade


Question: 'This 19th century New Yorker wrote of one guy who slept for 20 years & another who went around headless'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'In part two of the ballet "Jewels", the dancers dress like these red gems'

Answer: rubies


Question: 'Don't be fooled: calamari is just a fancy name for this sea creature that has suction cups on some of its squiggly arms'

Answer: squid


Question: 'Melissa Joan Hart starred as this extraordinary teenage witch with ordinary teenage problems'

Answer: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch


Question: 'Hartford is the capital of this New England state'

Answer: Connecticut