Question: 'Penn Jillette hosts this NBC game show about first impressions'

Answer: Identity


Question: 'A counter-terrorism program is called "NYPD" this, another term for a police badge'

Answer: Shield


Question: 'Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamilton's "The Book of Ruth" & Toni Morrison's "Song of" him'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet'

Answer: Mark Cuban


Question: 'Back in the 19th century, ladies didn't faint but did this 5-letter synonym'

Answer: swoon


Question: 'In July 1893 this president underwent a secret operation to remove part of his jaw due to cancer'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'In its 1st episode, citizens of a Kansas town saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon & were cut off from the outside world'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'Not just a remark like "the soup's too salty", it's a formal charge a victim can swear out, leading to an arrest'

Answer: a complaint


Question: 'Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'Started in 2001, Verasun Energy has now become the second-leading producer of this alternative fuel'

Answer: ethanol


Question: 'This synonym for "to seclude" is also a word for part of a monastery or convent'

Answer: cloister


Question: 'The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca'

Answer: the giant panda


Question: 'When asked how he became a hero, this president remarked, "It was involuntary.  They sank my boat"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'This breakfast treat with deep pockets was introduced to Americans at the 1964 World's Fair'

Answer: Belgian waffles


Question: 'Observations by astronomer James Elliot in 1977 discovered 5 of these around Uranus'

Answer: rings


Question: 'One of the first printed books with illustrations was a collection of this ancient man's fables in 1476'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'In 1968 the MPAA rated a film adult by giving it this many Xs'

Answer: 1


Question: 'If you're on the road again in Texas, stop at Luck, this singer's world headquarters'

Answer: Willie Nelson


Question: 'At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam'

Answer: Amelia Earhart


Question: 'Thomas' is a brand of these, famed for their nooks & crannies'

Answer: English muffins


Question: 'Of 84, 184 or 284, the length in years of one orbit by Uranus around the sun'

Answer: 84


Question: 'In 1964 this first lady made the first call to inaugurate the new commercial picturephone service'

Answer: Lady Bird Johnson


Question: 'In a 2002 film, number of Xs on Vin Diesel's neck tattoo'

Answer: 3


Question: 'In June 2002 this "Men in Black" agent & Texas rancher was reported to be shopping for a horse farm'

Answer: Tommy Lee Jones


Question: 'In 1881 Louis Tiffany & others decorated the first floor of this author's mansion in Hartford, Conn.'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'This cured meat is in the classic McDonald's Egg McMuffin'

Answer: Canadian bacon


Question: 'Uranus' 2 largest moons share their names with characters created by this author'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'In 1907 the Wall Street Journal declared Percival Lowell's photo of its "canals" proof of intelligent life'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'Claudia Silva starred in an L.A.-area theater production of "Cuatro Equis", this many'

Answer: 4


Question: 'This world-famous cyclist named his home in Austin "Casa Linda" after his mother'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'In 1973 he resigned as governor of New York to found the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans'

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller


Question: 'Actually an American recipe, this condiment may have been given its name because caviar was once an ingredient'

Answer: Russian dressing


Question: 'In 1846 astronomers found this planet from the effects it had on Uranus' orbit'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Nose art, referring to pictures on the noses of these, really took off during WWII'

Answer: airplanes


Question: 'Without getting a tic-tac-toe on "Hollywood Squares" you could still win a game with this many Xs'

Answer: 5


Question: 'Man from Sugarland, Texas known as "The Hammer" in the U.S. House of Representatives'

Answer: Tom DeLay


Question: 'This attorney was the only representative of New York to sign the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'Its other names include Poor Knights of Windsor & Pain Perdu (lost bread)'

Answer: French toast


Question: 'He discovered Uranus as well as 2 of its moons'

Answer: William Herschel


Question: 'The rights to 5 of Tom Kelley's red velvet photos of this actress taken in 1949 were put on eBay in 2001, but weren't sold'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'Maximum number of Xs that can appear on one bowler's score sheet in one game'

Answer: 12


Question: 'This billionaire Texan was asked to testify on his Plano company's involvement in California's energy crisis'

Answer: H. Ross Perot


Question: 'Jean Duvet created a series of engravings depicting the hunting of this 1-horned mythical beast'

Answer: unicorn


Question: 'The Wright Bros.' experiments in this type of chamber in their bicycle shop led to designs of their flyer's wings'

Answer: wind tunnel


Question: 'His novels include "The Prairie", "The Pioneers", & "The Pathfinder"'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'Golden Cloud had great pull with Roy Rogers under this stage name'

Answer: Trigger


Question: 'In the year prior to his death, Nero participated in these games in Greece'

Answer: Olympic Games


Question: 'Soft woolen shoes for a baby'

Answer: booties


Question: 'Francois Lemoyne painted the Hercules ceiling at this French palace & voila! became premier peintre du roi'

Answer: Versailles


Question: 'Created in 1971 as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, it's better known by this name'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: 'She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'Buck, ridden by James Arness on "Gunsmoke", was later used by Lorne Greene on this series'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: 'Nero's indulgences included poetry, acting & racing these vehicles'

Answer: chariots


Question: 'An illegally made product, especially a musical recording'

Answer: bootleg


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew paddling a canoe)  Some of the earliest canoes were this type of boat, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk'

Answer: dugout canoe


Question: 'This "Ship of Fools" author won a Pulitzer & the National Book Award for her 1965 "Collected Stories"'

Answer: Katherine Anne Porter


Question: 'The Pie was little Liz Taylor's horse in this classic'

Answer: National Velvet


Question: 'Contrary to myth, no evidence exists that Nero played a fiddle, or anything else, while this happened'

Answer: while Rome burned


Question: 'A hidden explosive device, it sounds like a snare for a tropical seabird'

Answer: boobytrap


Question: 'In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush "Women of" this Algerian city "in Their Apartment"'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'Lighter than a Conestoga wagon, it was named for its white canvas covering which resembled the sails of ships'

Answer: prairie schooner


Question: 'The movie "Yentl" was based on a story by him'

Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer


Question: 'Guy Williams rode Tornado as this hero'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'At age 16, Nero was proclaimed emperor by this military unit & immediately confirmed by the Senate'

Answer: Praetorian Guard


Question: 'A government project of little value funded to gain political favor'

Answer: boondoggle


Question: 'Talent ran in the family: this first woman to join the Impressionists was a granddaughter of the Rococo painter Fragonard'

Answer: Berthe Morisot


Question: 'This Newfoundland capital is the easternmost terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway'

Answer: St. John\'s


Question: 'In 2001 this novelist & short story writer's "We Were the Mulvaneys" was chosen for Oprah's Book Club'

Answer: Joyce Carol Oates


Question: 'Shakespeare has this king saying, "Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'According to Lewis Carroll, the snark was one of these, you see'

Answer: boojum


Question: 'This 5-letter word can refer to one type of work by a composer, or to several works of different types'

Answer: opera


Question: 'Canada'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'The nickname of this woman from the Black Eyed Peas is just a shortening of her last name'

Answer: Fergie


Question: 'Knowing it's from the Greek for "serpent" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in "Hamlet"'

Answer: Ophelia


Question: 'Turbulent rapids'

Answer: whitewater


Question: 'Santa Rosa de Lima is honored with festivals each August 30 in this country where she's patron saint'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Ho Chi Minh is buried in this capital city'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'South Korea'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'The stage name of this R&B singer born Shaffer Smith is a play on the name of a character in "The Matrix"'

Answer: Ne-Yo


Question: 'Name a girl this after the "Merchant of Venice" heroine & she'll probably grow up to like fast sports cars'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'Milk with butter & flour added used as a base in cooking'

Answer: a white sauce


Question: 'The site of this city, now the seat of Saint Johns County, Florida, was visited by Ponce de Leon in 1513'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'Ho Chi Minh helped start Vietnam's Communist Party & in the 1920s helped start this Eur. country's Communist Party'

Answer: France


Question: 'Denmark'

Answer: Germany


Question: '"Ordinary People" singer John Stephens took on this last name, the stuff that myths are made of'

Answer: Legend


Question: 'If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from "Othello", you're just asking for trouble'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'Condition of heavy snow or fog during daylight in which visibility is lost'

Answer: a whiteout


Question: 'You're a Slav to the study of language if you know that this alphabet bears the name of a 9th c. saint'

Answer: Cyrillic


Question: 'The trail bearing Ho's name was a series of Viet Cong supply routes mostly through this neighboring nation'

Answer: Laos


Question: 'San Marino'

Answer: Italy


Question: '"Icky Thump" was a No. 1 modern rock hit for this duo'

Answer: the White Stripes


Question: 'I'd think twice about naming your daughter this; she might turn into a shrew like in the play'

Answer: Katherine


Question: 'A chess piece, or a company involved in a friendly takeover of another'

Answer: a white knight


Question: 'It's the secret identity of the British detective known as "The Saint"'

Answer: Simon Templar


Question: 'Ho Chi Minh was also known by the nickname Bac Ho, meaning this relative'

Answer: uncle


Question: 'Brunei'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'Brothers Chad & Mike Kroeger make up half of this rock band'

Answer: Nickelback


Question: 'For an eighth child, preferably a daughter, this name from "Antony and Cleopatra" would be fitting'

Answer: Octavia


Question: 'Down a shot & name this 1973 Burt Reynolds movie'

Answer: White Lightning


Question: 'This Afro-Cuban belief system uses Catholic saints as representations of the spirit world'

Answer: Santería


Question: 'Ho Chi Minh's real family name wasn't Ho, it was this, like many other Vietnamese'

Answer: Nguyen


Question: 'In Jerome Robbins' "Celebration", couples representing 5 countries dance this, "step for 2" in French'

Answer: pas de deux


Question: '1967:<br />"We rob banks"'

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde


Question: 'D'Artagnan'

Answer: Dumas


Question: 'Syria had to wait until 2006 for an American fast food franchise, this fowl-selling one'

Answer: KFC


Question: 'It decreases for the first 6 miles of the atmosphere, then goes way up, way down & finally up again around 55 miles high'

Answer: the temperature


Question: 'A recent, frightening addition to our world language:<br />WMD'

Answer: weapons of mass destruction


Question: '"Fete Noire" was first presented in 1971 by the fledgling dance theatre of this Manhattan area'

Answer: Harlem


Question: '1975:<br />"She turned me into a newt!"'

Answer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail


Question: 'Harry Angstrom, aka "Rabbit"'

Answer: (John) Updike


Question: 'Mansaf is this favorite meat cooked in a yogurt sauce'

Answer: lamb


Question: 'Warm air flows deflected by the Earth's rotation create winds that were named this by business-minded mariners'

Answer: trade winds


Question: 'Since 1871, they've aimed to please:<br />NRA'

Answer: the National Rifle Association


Question: 'In "Harlequinade" the hero tries to rescue Columbine with the help of the magical "La Bonne Fee", this in English'

Answer: the good fairy


Question: '1999:<br />"Get in my belly!" (Second in a series)'

Answer: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me


Question: 'Esmeralda & Claude Frollo'

Answer: (Victor) Hugo


Question: 'Sultan Ibrahim is a Mideastern name for red mullet, a type of this creature'

Answer: fish


Question: 'At under 6,000 feet, this 7-letter layered type of cloud is one of the lowest'

Answer: stratus


Question: 'Printer particular:<br />DPI'

Answer: dots per inch


Question: 'The ballet "Bhakti" features 3 Hindu gods including this "destroyer", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him'

Answer: Shiva


Question: '1999:<br />"Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler"'

Answer: Office Space


Question: 'Catherine Earnshaw'

Answer: Emily Brontë


Question: 'The leaves of mulukhiya resemble those of this vegetable; we hope Syrian kids don't turn up their noses at mulukhiya'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms'

Answer: turbulence


Question: 'You can bank on it:<br />FDIC'

Answer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


Question: 'The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city'

Answer: Berkeley


Question: '1951:<br />"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above"'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'Paul Baumer, a young German soldier'

Answer: Erich Maria Remarque


Question: 'To make eish al-Saraya or "Syrian dessert" you need this preparation made by steeping petals in liquid'

Answer: rosewater


Question: 'From 30 to 50 miles up is this intermediate section of the atmosphere; it gets its name from the Greek for "middle"'

Answer: mesosphere


Question: 'Like NAFTA, but farther south:<br />CAFTA'

Answer: Central American Free Trade Agreement


Question: '64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'They're the first 5 words of the psalm'

Answer: The Lord is my shepherd


Question: 'J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball'

Answer: the PGA tour


Question: 'In a silent one of these, the bids are written--none of that "do I hear..." business'

Answer: an auction


Question: 'Sabin and Salk product'

Answer: vaccines


Question: 'William Safire won this prize in 1978 "For Commentary on the Bert Lance Affair" ("Affair" being Lance's banking practices)'

Answer: the Pulitzer


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  This actor who founded Make It Right not only pledged $5 million, but moved his large family to New Orleans & threw himself into sustainable rebuilding'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: '"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside" these'

Answer: still waters


Question: 'In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases'

Answer: softball


Question: 'The journal of this quiet type of institution gives an award for the one "of the Year"; in 2010 it was in Columbus'

Answer: a library


Question: 'A tramp or wanderer'

Answer: a vagabond


Question: 'Safire wrote, "A president's ability to deflect charges of sleaze...aimed at his administration" was a this-coated presidency'

Answer: teflon


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The "E" in insulated "Low-E windows" stands for this; the windows allow light through but prevent solar heat gain & block UV rays'

Answer: emission


Question: 'These 2 items, "they comfort me"'

Answer: rod & staff


Question: 'Mike Bossy & Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'The type used for a trumpet or sax is more familiar, but string instruments can be muffled with this device'

Answer: a mute


Question: 'A silk textile with a short, smooth surface, or the covering on deer's developing antlers'

Answer: velvet


Question: 'In 2006 George W. Bush awarded Safire this "presidential" item, the highest honor given to civilians'

Answer: the Medal of Freedom


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  A wood product called TimberSIL gives Make It Right homes durability; it endures, resists warping, & is a Class A fire retardant, due to being infused with this common transparent material'

Answer: glass


Question: '"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of" these'

Answer: mine enemies


Question: 'The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match'

Answer: Andy Roddick


Question: 'No cell phone use is permitted on "quiet cars", begun in 2000 on this service's Philly-Washington run'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: '9-letter word meaning to waver between courses of action'

Answer: vacillate


Question: 'Safire defined "the proof of guilt that precipitates resignations" as this 2-word term describing a discharged firearm'

Answer: a smoking gun


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  In a flood, a float house can rise on guideposts & is actually so light that it's weighted against winds; architect Thom Mayne compares it to this 4-letter beach structure, moving with the tide'

Answer: a pier


Question: '"Surely" these 2 quantities "shall follow me all the days of my life"'

Answer: goodness & mercy


Question: 'This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award'

Answer: Joe Dumars


Question: 'The name of this branch of monks known for keeping silent comes from a 17th century Cistercian Abbey'

Answer: the Trappists


Question: '2-word legal term for preliminary examination of jurors'

Answer: voir dire


Question: 'At the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, Safire corralled these 2 politicos into a mock kitchen & the 2 debated'

Answer: Nixon & Khrushchev


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  The architects who designed Make It Right homes all used the tradition of this type of home, suited to the narrow New Orleans lots with high ceilings to let heat rise'

Answer: a shotgun shack


Question: 'Elected in 2008, president Dimitris Christofias of this divided island nation is the EU's only communist head of state'

Answer: Cyprus


THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS

Question: 'An apple tree angrily slaps the hand of a Kansas girl trying to pick from it in this film'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'Numerical title of Jeffrey Toobin's look "Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court"'

Answer: The Nine


Question: 'There's American Express & this "of America"'

Answer: Bank


Question: 'In April 1875 the Library of Congress gained possession of his Civil War photographic plates for $25,000'

Answer: Mathew Brady


Question: 'Giving up your seat to the lady proves that this medieval system is not dead'

Answer: chivalry


Question: 'Lee Myung-Bak is its head of state; he makes the news a bit less often than his counterpart to the north'

Answer: South Korea


THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS

Question: 'In the third film of this title guy's animated series, Fiona's planned attack on 2 tree/ guards doesn't make them happy'

Answer: Shrek


Question: 'Don Piper describes his brush with death in "90 Minutes in" this place'

Answer: Heaven


Question: 'It has a Supercenter on South 9th St. in Salina, Kansas'

Answer: Walmart


Question: 'Black photographer James Van Der Zee chronicled life in this NYC section for more than a half century'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'Part of a house that has its own professional sweep'

Answer: a chimney


Question: 'Serzh Sargsian is its president, Tigran Sargsian is its prime minister'

Answer: Armenia


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Question: 'Treebeard rallies the Ents & goes after Saruman's forces in this second film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy'

Answer: The Two Towers


Question: 'A vampire series by Kerrelyn Sparks is punningly titled "Love at" this'

Answer: Stake


Question: 'Roy E., the son of its co-founder, died in December 2009'

Answer: Disney


Question: 'He once said that his life was "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture of the sierra"'

Answer: (Ansel) Adams


Question: 'In the Army today no one outranks General George W. Casey Jr., because he's this'

Answer: Chief of Staff


Question: 'Former Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov is now its prime minister'

Answer: Bulgaria


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Question: 'A tree snatches Robbie in this 1982 thriller known for the catchphrase "They're heee-reee!"'

Answer: Poltergeist


Question: 'Pfounded in 18P49'

Answer: Pfizer


Question: 'Her 1981 Rolling Stone cover shot of a nude John Lennon was taken hours before his murder'

Answer: Annie Leibovitz


Question: 'You can "pet" this Southwestern plant, Salvia Columbariae'

Answer: a chia


Question: 'It's prime minister Mr. Tuila'Epa, won a silver medal in archery at the 2007 South Pacific Games'

Answer: Samoa


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Question: 'In M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", the trees are mad at us, & Elliot Moore, played by him, must deal with it'

Answer: (Mark) Wahlberg


Question: 'Its original purpose was to insure people on journeys'

Answer: Travelers


Question: 'Mattias Klum's photo essays for this magazine include 2008's "Borneo's Moment of Truth"'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'Deception or trickery'

Answer: chicanery


Question: 'Meaning "rapidly", this term began in England, referring to the speed with which the mail was delivered'

Answer: post haste


Question: 'Also called Trinity College, the university of this capital was founded in 1592'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'While Secretary of State from 1811 to 1817, he might have been asked, "What's up, doctrine?"'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'On "Spin City" Michael J. Fox played Mike; this actor who replaced him plays Charlie'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'In 1995 these married physicists were laid to rest (again), this time at the Pantheon in Paris'

Answer: Pierre & Marie Curie


Question: 'Robert Delaunay is known for his colorful series of Cubist paintings of this French tower'

Answer: Eiffel Tower


Question: 'Aykroyd's blueprints'

Answer: Dan\'s plans


Question: 'Held each year in County Kildare, the Irish Derby is a famous event in this sport'

Answer: Horse racing


Question: 'While Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809, he was president from 1809 to 1817'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'In 2000 this Oscar nominee joined the cast of "Ally McBeal" as a lawyer'

Answer: Robert Downey, Jr.


Question: 'In 2000, 25 years after his death, this country's last emperor Haile Selassie was laid to rest in a crypt in Addis Ababa'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'Oh oh!  Chauncey B. Ives depicted this mythological woman seen here on the verge of opening a box'

Answer: Pandora


Question: 'Sajak's Stetsons & sombreros'

Answer: Pat\'s hats


Question: 'Reflecting its lush, beautiful countryside. it's Ireland's gem of a nickname'

Answer: "The Emerald Isle"


Question: 'Through skillful negotiation, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren got the U.S. this trade status with Turkey'

Answer: Most favored nation


Question: 'Aliens abducted Mulder on "The X-Files", so Scully got partnered with this "Terminator 2" actor'

Answer: Robert Patrick


Question: 'It was no laughing matter when this silent film legend's body was stolen from a Swiss cemetery in 1978'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'Marcel Duchamp coined this term to describe Alexander Calder's moving sculptures'

Answer: Mobiles


Question: 'The vistas seen from Ms. Barrymore's home'

Answer: Drew\'s views


Question: 'One of Ireland's most important exports, it's also Ireland's most popular brand of stout beer'

Answer: Guinness


Question: 'As Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams told this country to govern Florida better or cede it to the U.S.'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This tap dancer has a recurring role on "Will & Grace" as Eric McCormack's boss'

Answer: Gregory Hines


Question: 'Wayne Newton hopes to find the remains of this tribal ancestor in Britain & bring them home to her native Virginia'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'Conrad Witz depicted this wealthy queen with King Solomon in the 15th C. work seen here'

Answer: Queen of Sheba


Question: 'Harrelson's yummies'

Answer: Woody\'s goodies


Question: 'Ireland's national coat of arms features this traditional Irish musical instrument'

Answer: Harp


Question: 'He wasn't a Secretary of State, he was Andrew Johnson's Secretary of War in 1867 & 1868'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'In 2000 this rapper-turned-actor joined the cast of "Law & Order:  Special Victims Unit" as Richard Belzer's partner'

Answer: Ice-T


Question: 'Thomas Crawford's best-known work, "Armed Liberty", is the bronze atop the dome of this American landmark'

Answer: U.S. Capitol Building


Question: 'In Salzburg you can visit the graves of his parents & his wife Constanze; his own location is uncertain'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'Hairdresser Vidal's woodwinds'

Answer: Sassoon\'s bassoons


Question: 'It's the body part you're said to have if you've a knack for growing plants easily'

Answer: a green thumb


Question: 'He said, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it"'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'Perhaps "imitating" Florida, in 1929 Arkansas chose this as its state bird'

Answer: mockingbird


Question: 'For an active woman, 20 to 25 percent of her total calorie intake should be from this; don't go all Jack Sprat'

Answer: fat


Question: '1996:<br />"Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"'

Answer: Evita


Question: 'The "double" version of this card game for one requires 2 players'

Answer: solitaire


Question: 'After protecting this territory during WWII, the U.S. offered to buy it, but Denmark refused'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years'

Answer: Merlin


Question: 'Bob Hope claimed his mother saw his nose & cried that the doctor took the baby & left this bird'

Answer: stork


Question: 'It's good to break a little this between friends--it supplies carbs & fiber'

Answer: bread


Question: '1995:<br />"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"'

Answer: Waiting to Exhale


Question: 'In November 1996 Roy Jones, Jr. knocked down Mike McCallum & won the WBC title in this division'

Answer: light-heavyweight


Question: 'A political party organized after the Civil War, or a piece of U.S. currency'

Answer: Greenback


Question: 'He tells his 10-year-old sister Phoebe that he wants to be a "catcher in the rye"'

Answer: Holden Caulfield


Question: 'Unit of Random House whose logo is seen here:'

Answer: Bantam Books


Question: 'People with hypertension should diet & limit their intake of alcohol & this chemical element'

Answer: sodium


Question: '1991:<br />"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"'

Answer: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves


Question: 'The American Academy of Pediatrics called smoking "The leading cause of" this oxymoron in the U.S.'

Answer: preventable death


Question: 'Oh yes, this North Carolina city was the birthplace of O. Henry'

Answer: Greensboro


Question: 'Emma is the first name of this title character of an 1857 Gustave Flaubert novel'

Answer: Madame Bovary


Question: 'The "sky" type of this songbird, of which Shelley wrote, may be gone from Britain by 2009'

Answer: skylark


Question: 'The flavonoids in this may help prevent heart disease, so a "kiss" a day may keep the cardiologist away'

Answer: chocolate


Question: '1969:<br />"Everybody's Talkin'"'

Answer: Midnight Cowboy


Question: 'Roberto Benigni's film "Life Is Beautiful" is a beautiful example of this oxymoronic genre'

Answer: tragic comedy


Question: 'A precocious redhaired little girl is the heroine of this 1908 children's book by Lucy Maud Montgomery'

Answer: Anne of Green Gables


Question: 'This Sinclair Lewis real estate broker is a member of the Zenith civic booster club'

Answer: George Babbitt


Question: 'An ounce of cheddar cheese has 200 milligrams of this, crucial to healthy bones'

Answer: calcium


Question: '1985:<br />"We Don't Need Another Hero"'

Answer: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome


Question: 'This racket sport takes its name from the country home of the 19th century Duke of Beaufort'

Answer: Badminton


Question: 'In the psychology of learning, it’s “the retention of association”; in “Cats”, it’s a showstopping song'

Answer: memory


Question: 'You’ll discover not gold, but a black mark, after rubbing this “gold” on porcelain'

Answer: fool’s gold


Question: 'It brings out the worst in werewolves'

Answer: a full moon


Question: 'The woman’s bicycle without the bar was created so women could ride while wearing these'

Answer: a skirt


Question: 'Goddess of wisdom for whom Athens was named'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'It was invented in 1911 by Hans Geiger'

Answer: the Geiger counter


Question: 'According to psychoanalytic theory, it’s part of the personality which balances the id & superego'

Answer: the ego


Question: 'A scratch test won’t reveal a mineral’s allergies, but this property'

Answer: hardness


Question: 'Michael Jackson and Neil Armstrong are both experts at this'

Answer: the moonwalk


Question: 'A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction'

Answer: the smallest


Question: 'The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'Number of different basic shapes in a box of Post Alpha-Bits'

Answer: 26


Question: 'Standard test of responding to a key word with the 1st words which come to your mind'

Answer: word association


Question: 'Every week Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC'

Answer: Moonlighting


Question: 'This French company is known for making fine bicycles as well as cars'

Answer: Peugeot


Question: 'The mainland of Greece forms the southern part of this peninsula'

Answer: the Balkan Peninsula


Question: 'In 1842, Richard Owen coined this word for “dinosaur”'

Answer: dinosaur


Question: 'Character from group therapy on old Bob Newhart show who checked into St. Elsewhere this season'

Answer: Mr. Carlin


Question: 'Title of the following, it can be performed by a big bandleader or a nighttime Romeo'

Answer: "Moonlight Serenade"


Question: 'In the 1984 Olympics, Alexi Grewal won a gold medal in cycling for this country'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'By tradition, the sons in a Greek family don’t marry until this happens first'

Answer: the daughters marry


Question: 'Whole number equidistant from 5 & 7'

Answer: 6


Question: 'Founder of “individual psychology”, he broke with Freud in 1911'

Answer: Alfred Adler


Question: '“Moon shots” referred to home runs hit by this Dodger over short left field screen in L.A. Coliseum'

Answer: Wally Moon


Question: '1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike”'

Answer: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure


Question: 'The prosperous 5th century B.C. in Greece is better known as this'

Answer: the Golden Age (or the Age of Pericles)


Question: 'While Bugs was “introduced” in “Porky’s Hare Hunt”, Daffy was introduced in this cartoon'

Answer: "Porky’s Duck Hunt"


Question: 'It’s what chewable “chocks” were'

Answer: vitamins


Question: 'Composers known as “the 3 B’s”'

Answer: Bach, Beethoven & Brahms


Question: 'Until 1896, majority in this branch of Congress were 1st termers, now less than 10% are'

Answer: the House of Representatives


Question: 'From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train'

Answer: the caboose


Question: 'Profession of Rex Morgan'

Answer: M.D.


Question: 'Vanishing in the ‘60s, it’s what YUkon, KLondike & VAlencia were examples of'

Answer: telephone prefixes


Question: 'In 1810, the same year as Schumann, this Polish pianist & composer was born'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'This council’s members are the president, vice president, sec’y of state & sec’y of defense'

Answer: the National Security Council


Question: 'Laboratory culture dish named for the German bacteriologist who invented it'

Answer: a Petri dish


Question: '“Marmaduke” is this breed of dog'

Answer: a Great Dane


Question: 'Turning down ABA offer of 3,500 head of cattle & 40,000 acre ranch in 1969, he signed with NBA Bucks'

Answer: Lew Alcindor (or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)


Question: 'Mendelssohn wrote a series of 49 piano pieces which were appropriately titled “Songs Without” these'

Answer: words


Question: 'He, not the Attorney General, represents the government in cases before the Supreme Court'

Answer: the Solicitor General of the U.S.


Question: 'Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII'

Answer: gung ho


Question: 'Migration of insects thru the air is classed as active or passive, depending on use of this'

Answer: wind


Question: 'Dolly, Jeffrey, Billy & P.J.'

Answer: the kids in the Family Circus


Question: 'The last #1 song of the ‘60s, it was Diana Ross’ last song with the Supremes'

Answer: "Someday We’ll Be Together"


Question: 'Vivaldi was known as “the red priest” due to his clerical rank & this'

Answer: the color of his hair


Question: 'FDR appointed Frances Perkins, 1st woman cabinet member, to head this department'

Answer: the Department of Labor


Question: 'Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace'

Answer: a stigma


Question: 'The title of this Jim Unger comic refers to everyone in it, not just a single character'

Answer: Herman


Question: 'In “Understanding Media”, he explained the Dodgers move to L.A. & fishnet stockings'

Answer: Marshall McLuhan


Question: 'There’s nothing fishy about his “Trout” quintet'

Answer: Schubert


Question: 'In 1966, Supreme Court ruled the 24th amendment outlawed this tax on both federal & state levels'

Answer: the poll tax


Question: 'Run-down part of town, from the rough forest paths along which newly-cut logs were dragged'

Answer: skid row


Question: 'Largest North American wasp, it hunts tarantulas like a bird of prey'

Answer: the tarantula hawk


Question: 'Creator of “Beetle Bailey”, whose name was defined in “B.C.” as “a dead nightcrawler”'

Answer: Mort Walker


Question: 'Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985'

Answer: blackjack


Question: 'As many as 5,000 pro-democracy demonstrators were killed in this city's Tiananmen Square'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 film'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'It's divided into 3 chambers: 2 auricles & 1 ventricle'

Answer: the frog\'s heart


Question: 'Adam & Eve sewed leaves of this tree "together, and made themselves aprons"'

Answer: the fig tree


Question: 'These cookies were introduced by Nabisco in 1902 in a small box imprinted to look like a circus cage'

Answer: Animal Crackers


Question: 'A public recreation area devoid of light'

Answer: a dark park


Question: 'Representative Jim Wright resigned this congressional office & his seat in the House'

Answer: Speaker of the House


Question: 'Pop star Tiffany provided the voice of Judy for this film about a space-age family'

Answer: The Jetsons


Question: 'It's attached at the front of the mouth so the frog can flick it out rapidly'

Answer: the frog\'s tongue


Question: 'God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'From 1910 to 1912 this popcorn confection came with prize coupons instead of the prizes themselves'

Answer: Cracker Jack


Question: 'A cloaklike garment for a gorilla'

Answer: an ape cape


Question: 'On Dec. 13, 1989 Pres. F.W. De Clerk met with this imprisoned African National Congress leader for the first time'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'One of the highlights of this film was Sebastian the Caribbean crab singing "Under The Sea"'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'The frog stores liquid waste in this organ & can reabsorb water from it in dry times'

Answer: the bladder


Question: 'John 1:29 calls Jesus this animal "of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"'

Answer: a lamb


Question: 'This snack cake, which turned 60 in 1990, was originally filled with banana creme, not vanilla'

Answer: Twinkies


Question: 'An inexpensive Army vehicle'

Answer: a cheap jeep


Question: 'Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed as dictator of this country & executed in 1989'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'Cruella de Vil was the villainess who kidnapped this title brood'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: 'The pancreas & this 3-lobed organ provide digestive enzymes'

Answer: a frog liver


Question: 'This wise successor of David is also called Jedidiah, meaning "Yahweh's beloved"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Nestle says over 125,000 tons of these chocolate chip cookies are baked in the home every year'

Answer: Toll House Cookies


Question: 'A quick, casual kiss on the nape'

Answer: a neck peck


Question: 'Vaclav Havel went from political prisoner to president of this country in 1989'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'This 1988 film told of an orphaned baby brontosaurus named Littlefoot'

Answer: The Land Before Time


Question: 'The nictitating membrane is also called the third one of these'

Answer: the frog\'s eyelid


Question: 'God instructed Noah to use this kind of wood to build the ark'

Answer: gopher wood


Question: 'This almost cube-shaped candy was named for the developer's granddaughter, a "hefty" baby'

Answer: Chunky


Question: 'A silent mob scene'

Answer: a quiet riot


Question: 'Known as the "Father of Waters", this river drains an area of approx. 1,247,000 square miles'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'The constitution divides the government into three branches: Executive, Judicial & this'

Answer: Legislative


Question: 'For her, 1st came "All In The Family", then came "Maude", the came "The Golden Girls"'

Answer: Bea Arthur


Question: 'Some dancers get their kicks doing high kicks in this Radio City Music Hall chorus line'

Answer: the Rockettes


Question: 'It's the holiday on which the Tournament of Roses & Mummers parades usually take place'

Answer: New Year\'s Day


Question: 'In Act 1, Scene 1 of "Macbeth" this trio vanishes in "the fog and filthy air"'

Answer: the three witches


Question: 'The westernmost and northernmost points in the U.S. are both located in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'A measure defeated in 1990 would have allowed states to prosecute persons who desecrated this'

Answer: the American flag


Question: 'In 1934 he spent several months alone near the South Pole'

Answer: Admiral Byrd


Question: '19th c. women exposed their petticoats when they did this naughty French dance also known as <i>Le Chahut</i>'

Answer: the can-can


Question: 'Nation Fire Prevention Week always includes October 9, the anniversary of this city's 1871 fire'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Soon after Hamlet finishes his "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech he sees this woman's funeral procession'

Answer: Ophelia


Question: 'The Bluegrass region, an area of gently rolling pastures, covers the north central part of this state'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'Though given 10 years for ratification, this amendment failed by 3 states in 1982'

Answer: the Equal Rights Amendment


Question: 'The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has the original illustrations she did for her many kids' books'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'The 1786 Opera "Una Cosa Rara" featured one of the first of these Viennese dances'

Answer: a waltz


Question: 'This Jewish holiday is celebrated on the first day of the lunar month of Tishri'

Answer: Rosh Hashanah


Question: 'She says, "that death's unnatural that kills for loving" before Othello strangles her'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'Lake Pontchartrain & St. Bernard Parish form part of this city's northern & southern boundaries'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Because of its secretiveness, the American Party in the 1850s was also known by this name'

Answer: The Know-Nothings


Question: 'He was the Senate's Minority Leader from 1980-87, then moved up to Majority Leader'

Answer: Robert Byrd


Question: 'The basic floor pattern of this elegant 17th c. French court dance evolved to resemble the letter Z'

Answer: the minuet


Question: 'The night before the 3rd Monday in April, lanterns are hung in the steeple of this Boston church'

Answer: the Old North Church


Question: '"I am a very foolish fond old man", he tells his daughter Cordelia'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Important dams on this river include Rock Island, Rocky Reach & Grand Coulee'

Answer: the Columbia River


Question: 'In 1798 Congress passed these controversial laws dealing with foreigners & with inciting rebellion'

Answer: the Alien & Sedition Acts


Question: 'The only country in the world today with a reigning Queen Bea'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'Late black choreographer whose American Dance Theatre became multiracial in the 1960s'

Answer: Alvin Ailey


Question: 'Medieval Europeans believed that birds begin to mate on this day'

Answer: St. Valentine\'s Day


Question: 'Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy'

Answer: Merchant of Venice


Question: 'The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'There's an active volcano on Sicily, an island that's part of this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Ben Gould & Samantha Becker roam the halls of Bayside High as part of "The New Class" on this show'

Answer: Saved By the Bell


Question: 'In 2 classic survival stories, it's the last name of a Swiss family & the first name of Mr. Crusoe'

Answer: Robinson


Question: 'Rain heavily, or a tiny opening in the skin'

Answer: a pour/pore


Question: 'The number of items in a dozen times the number of months in a year'

Answer: 144 (12 x 12)


Question: 'The Time Almanac states "There is little reason to believe that the architects intended" this "to lean"'

Answer: the Leaning Tower of Pisa


Question: 'It's the largest city in Utah'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'The series finale of this Fox drama aired on May 17, 2000, 2 weeks after the last "Party of Five"'

Answer: Beverly Hills, 90210


Question: 'The photo seen here is on the cover of an award-winning "photobiography" of this man'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Masculine, or letters & packages'

Answer: male/mail


Question: 'The number of legs on a spider plus the number of legs on a fly'

Answer: 14 (8 + 6)


Question: 'This constellation is also called The Twins'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'This Scandinavian country has 2 forms of its official language -- Bokmal & Nynorsk'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'This wallaby's "Modern Life" takes place in O Town with his dog Spunky & his pal Heffer'

Answer: Rocko


Question: 'Last name of sisters Emily & Charlotte, a 1-2 punch with "Wuthering Heights" & "Jane Eyre"'

Answer: Bronte


Question: 'A walkway between sections of seats in a theater, or a small piece of land surrounded by water'

Answer: an aisle/isle


Question: 'The number of sides on an octagon minus the number of sides on a hexagon'

Answer: 2 (8 - 6)


Question: 'Room of the house in which you'd normally find a four-poster'

Answer: the bedroom


Question: 'While many countries in Europe have been splitting up, this one got back together in 1990'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Alice is the housekeeper on this classic sitcom; Sam the butcher is her boyfriend'

Answer: The Brady Bunch


Question: 'This 19th century American writer of scary stories also wrote the love poem "Annabel Lee"'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'A monetary gain, or one who foretells the future'

Answer: profit/prophet


Question: 'The number of days in a week times the number of ancient "wonders of the world"'

Answer: 49 (7 x 7)


Question: 'To make these on your own, cube day-old bread, fry in butter, oil & garlic, then bake'

Answer: croutons


Question: 'The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'On this NBC sci-fi drama, genius Jarod was played by Michael T. Weiss as a man & by Ryan Merriman as a boy'

Answer: The Pretender


Question: 'In works of mythology, Ajax was one of the heroes of this country in the Trojan War'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Deserve, or a large decorative vase'

Answer: earn/urn


Question: 'The number of events in a decathlon divided by the number of years in a decade'

Answer: 1 (10 / 10)


Question: 'Odds are 1 in 3 that the American spud you're eating was grown in this state'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'Neptune also has these features, including LeVerrier & Adams; only Saturn's can be seen through a small telescope'

Answer: rings


Question: '"The Quest for Camelot" featured Pierce Brosnan as the voice of this Valiant Ruler'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had it's U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Supposedly, President Harrison is heard in the attic & Jackson haunts the Rose Bedroom in this house'

Answer: the White House


Question: 'If you don't mind the cold, you can pan for this metal at Tankavaara in Finland'

Answer: gold


Question: 'In a 1961 speech he said, "...ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"'

Answer: JFK (John F. Kennedy)


Question: 'It's been estimated that this planet contains about 70% of all the material in the solar system, excluding the sun'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Kathy Bates played the real-life "Unsinkable" Molly Brown in this Leonardo DiCaprio adventure'

Answer: Titanic


Question: '"Scrooge" is a festive holiday ballet inspired by this beloved book'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'This "Triangle" near Florida has been the site of numerous maritime disasters'

Answer: the Bermuda Triangle


Question: 'While visiting the city of Agra in this country, don't miss the Agra Fort & the Taj Mahal'

Answer: India


Question: 'This "Huck Finn" author wrote "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example"'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Because of its similar size, this planet is known as Earth's "twin"'

Answer: Venus


Question: '"The Prince of Egypt" featured Ralph Fiennes as the voice of this stubborn ruler'

Answer: the Pharaoh


Question: 'In a Tchaikovsky ballet, this title character is awakened with a kiss'

Answer: Sleeping Beauty


Question: 'It's the mysterious prehistoric structure seen here'

Answer: a Stonehenge


Question: 'The International UFO Museum & Research Center is in this New Mexico city where some say UFOs have landed'

Answer: Roswell


Question: 'This talk show host said, "I admire, respect & adore authors" when she was honored for her book club'

Answer: Oprah


Question: 'This planet has more in common with Triton, Neptune's largest moon, than it does with any of the other planets'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'In "Sahara", set in this war, German soldiers attack Humphrey Bogart at a desert oasis'

Answer: World War II


Question: '"The Nutcracker" often features a pas de deux bythe prince and this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets'

Answer: the Sugarplum Fairy


Question: 'Thousands of years ago this legendary lost continent is believed by some to have vanished beneath the waves'

Answer: Atlantis


Question: 'To visit Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, you have to go to this U.S. state'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'In 1944 she wrote in her diary, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart"'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: '(All right players, take a look at the monitor, and here's Bill Nye, the Science Guy:)  The dividing line between the light and the dark side of the moon is called this [puts on shades, as lights go out] "I'll be back."'

Answer: the terminator


Question: 'In this famous film Scarlett O'Hara doesn't let the South losing the Civil War slow her down'

Answer: Gone With the Wind


Question: '"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is based on a fairy tale by this famous Dane'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'This large dinosaur-like creature possibly lives in a large Scottish lake near Inverness'

Answer: the Loch Ness Monster


Question: 'This British wax museum famed for its chamber of horrors now has a time-traveling ride in it, too'

Answer: Madame Tussauds


Question: 'The preamble to the U.S. Constitution begins with these 3 words'

Answer: "We the People"


Question: 'This young man who turned 18 on June 21, 2000 has a dog named Widgeon & a younger brother named Harry'

Answer: Prince William


Question: 'Head to Odense, Denmark to see his childhood home & sculptures inspired by his fairy tales'

Answer: (Hans Christian) Andersen


Question: 'They "Wish You Were Here":<br />____ Floyd'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'In 1879 this was discovered when a scientist's food was found to be sweet from the residue of a coal tar experiment'

Answer: saccharin


Question: 'The only country outside the British Isles where the Titanic ever anchored'

Answer: France


Question: 'Ports lying on the banks of this sound include Bremerton, Everett & Tacoma'

Answer: Puget Sound


Question: 'A non-rigid flexible dirigible'

Answer: blimp


Question: 'To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in "Twelfth Night", go to this museum named for a royal couple'

Answer: the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria & Albert accepted)


Question: 'They'd like you to "Shake Your Money Maker":<br />The ____ Crowes'

Answer: Black


Question: 'G.E. scientists looking for synthetic rubber during WWII discovered this toy that lifts images off a page'

Answer: Silly Putty


Question: '2 of these towered over the deck & were used as flagpoles & to string the wireless aerial'

Answer: masts


Question: 'Block Island Sound separates Block Island from this tiny state's mainland'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: '"I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean" is one of many lively songs in this Lerner & Loewe musical'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: 'Have a homey lunch at this author's Salinas, California birthplace; it's now a restaurant'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Leaders of a "Seven Nation Army":<br />The ____ Stripes'

Answer: White


Question: 'To spite a customer who complained the tubers were too thick, chef George Crum created what became this treat'

Answer: potato chips


Question: 'This happened between the third & fourth funnel, a fact no one knew until the Titanic was found in 1985'

Answer: it broke in half


Question: 'This state's outer banks create Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast of the United States'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'This period lasted from about 3500 to 1500 B.C.'

Answer: the Bronze Age


Question: 'Chat about Lady Chatterley at this author's birthplace museum in Nottinghamshire'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'They're "Under The Bridge":<br />____ ____ Chili Peppers'

Answer: Red Hot


Question: 'This product was born when a new 3M jet-fuel hose material spilled on shoes & made them waterproof & stain-resistant'

Answer: Scotchgard


Question: 'The first warning of the iceberg came at 11:40 P.M. from Fred Fleet, the lookout in this platform high above the deck'

Answer: the crow\'s nest


Question: 'The islands in Australia's Yampi Sound are rich in hematite, an ore of this metal'

Answer: iron


Question: 'This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A.'

Answer: the Bureau of Indian Affairs


Question: 'Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'Hard rockers "Burnin' For You":<br />____ ____ Cult'

Answer: Blue Öyster


Question: 'The idea for this device occurred when a magnetron melted a candy bar in Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer's pocket'

Answer: the microwave


Question: 'Gates prevented 700 of these passengers from getting up to the main deck, though they didn't stop Leo in the movie'

Answer: third class


Question: 'Antarctica's McMurdo Sound was discovered in 1841 by this Brit who has a nearby sea & ice shelf named for him'

Answer: (Sir James Clark) Ross


Question: 'Meaning a noisy commotion, it may derive from "baruch habba", a loud traditional greeting at a synagogue'

Answer: brouhaha


Question: 'The Arch of the Emperor Titus in Rome heralds his conquest of this city in 70 A.D., ending the Jewish revolt'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: '1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals"'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from near a fountain on Catalina Island, CA.)  In 1919 this chewing gum magnate bought Catalina & built it into a world-class resort'

Answer: (William) Wrigley


Question: 'Saddler's pliers were created for gripping this material'

Answer: leather


Question: '"Parla come mangi", literally "speak the way you" do this, means to speak simply & clearly'

Answer: eat


Question: 'Traditional Highland dress includes a wide belt, presumably holding up this'

Answer: a kilt


Question: 'He was caesar & emperor when Jesus was born'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'Newman played Brick opposite Liz Taylor's Maggie in this film adaptation of a play'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'Movies shot on Catalina include this 1935 Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Charles Laughton'

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty


Question: 'This word for a step in sewing a garment is also found paired with "hawing"'

Answer: hemming


Question: 'Literally "good day", it's the basic Italian hello'

Answer: buon giorno


Question: 'The hour for mixed drinks, or the type of short evening dress appropriate then'

Answer: cocktail


Question: 'AKA the Flavian Amphitheatre, this ancient structure was begun by the Roman emperor Vespasian around 72 A.D.'

Answer: the Colosseum


Question: 'Paul Newman played "Fast" Eddie Felson in these 2 movies'

Answer: The Hustler & The Color of Money


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a hillside on Catalina Island, CA.)  One of Catalina's most famous residents was this author of "Riders of the Purple Sage", who built a home here in 1926'

Answer: (Zane) Grey


Question: 'If you apply pieces of one material to another, you're practicing this craft, from the French for "apply"'

Answer: appliqué


Question: 'The divine "Don Giovanni" duet "La ci darem la mano" means "There, you'll give me" this'

Answer: your hand


Question: 'In 1953 the Witty Brothers promoted the first suit made of this by having a model wear it for 67 straight days'

Answer: polyester


Question: 'According to legend, this unhinged Roman emperor made his horse a priest & a consul'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'Film in which washed-up lawyer Newman redeems himself by taking a medical malpractice case to trial'

Answer: The Verdict


Question: 'Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great'

Answer: Bobby Jones


Question: 'With drying, drilling & maybe decorating, a gourd can be made into one of these, perhaps for a purple martin'

Answer: a birdhouse


Question: 'From an Italian word for "grape stalk", it's brandy distilled from the remains of grapes after pressing'

Answer: grappa


Question: '2-word, somewhat contradictory-sounding term for the NBA's player dress code that allows dress slacks or khakis'

Answer: business casual


Question: 'The chief figure in 2 books by Robert Graves, this emperor may have been poisoned by his fourth wife'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'Newman played Irish mob boss John Rooney in Depression-era Chicago in this 2002 film'

Answer: Road to Perdition


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from on high on Catalina Island, CA.)  Catalina's only city shares its name with this island of the King Arthur legends'

Answer: Avalon


Question: 'The tole type of this decorative activity was originally done on tin utensils but now uses lots of surfaces'

Answer: painting


Question: 'If you're not going sinistra or destra, you're going sempre diritto, meaning this'

Answer: always straight


Question: 'Scarlett O'Hara is introduced wearing a "tightly fitting basque", this upper part of a dress'

Answer: the bodice


Question: 'Started in 1988 for this city's 75th anniversary, a Springtime Flower Festival in September shows off its Commonwealth Park'

Answer: Canberra, Australia


Question: 'If you're getting engaged, consider a visit to Netanya, a world center for cutting & polishing these'

Answer: diamonds


Question: 'A holiday standard:<br />key rut'

Answer: turkey


Question: 'Washingtonians refer to the Francis Scott Key Bridge over this river as "The Car-Strangled Spanner"'

Answer: the Potomac


Question: 'In astrological notation, this sign is represented by 2 fish'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'In 1979 this chain introduced its Happy Meal'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: '"Snakes.  Why'd it have to be snakes?"'

Answer: Raiders of the Lost Ark


Question: 'Sde Boker, one of these cooperative communities, was the retirement home of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion'

Answer: kibbutz


Question: 'A big African:<br />to Chris'

Answer: ostrich


Question: 'Part of Key's solution to this problem was helping found the American Colonization Society'

Answer: slavery


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard)  It's the classic game being represented here'

Answer: chess


Question: 'P.F. Chang's is an upscale bistro specializing in the cuisine of this country'

Answer: China


Question: '"Get off my plane!"'

Answer: Air Force One


Question: 'This port city on & around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city'

Answer: Haifa


Question: 'A head-banger:<br />cowpoke red'

Answer: woodpecker


Question: 'Sent to this city in September 1814 to secure a prisoner exchange, Key got stuck near there during an attack'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'In the 1800s this Frenchman also developed a musical notation system for blind musicians'

Answer: Louis Braille


Question: 'Offering "Home Style Meals" & a line of frozen entrees, this chain is headquartered in Colorado, not Massachusetts'

Answer: Boston Market


Question: '"I didn't kill my wife!"'

Answer: The Fugitive


Question: 'In 1961 this Israeli airline set a record for the longest nonstop commercial flight, New York to Tel Aviv'

Answer: El Al


Question: 'A city dweller:<br />ego nip'

Answer: pigeon


Question: 'James Lick of observatory fame was responsible for the Key Memorial in this San Francisco park'

Answer: Golden Gate Park


Question: 'In physics notation the speed of light is symbolized by this letter in lower case'

Answer: c


Question: '"Dip Into Something Different" at the Melting Pot, found across the nation, & specializing in this Swiss dish'

Answer: fondue


Question: '"Replicants are like any other machine -- they're either a benefit or a hazard"'

Answer: Blade Runner


Question: 'Home to spectacular ruins, Caesarea was founded around 20 B.C. & named for this Caesar'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'A front yard favorite:<br />I'm no flag'

Answer: flamingo


Question: 'Key's brother-in-law & law partner Roger B. Taney served as this from 1836 to 1864'

Answer: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court


Question: 'Named for its inventor, Labanotation is a notation system for this so you know when to do a fouette'

Answer: dance


Question: 'Featuring the Famous Bloomin' Onion, this restaurant also offers a Joey Menu for kids'

Answer: Outback


Question: '"Something wrong with buttons?...got anything against zippers?"'

Answer: Witness


Question: 'This central state produces more cheese than any other'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'This term for a knight's apprentice is also the name of a bobbed, usually jaw-length hairstyle'

Answer: page boy


Question: 'She's played Phoebe Buffay on one primetime series & Phoebe's twin sister Ursula on another'

Answer: Lisa Kudrow


Question: 'An area in Central Park dedicated to the memory of John Lennon is named for this Beatles song'

Answer: "Strawberry Fields Forever"


Question: 'Though he's lived for many years in the U.S., architect Frank Gehry was born in this Ontario city of 4.5 million'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'It's a shorter way of saying Los Angeles International Airport'

Answer: LAX


Question: 'This state produces more lobsters than any other'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'This female ice skater lent her name to a wedge haircut she made popular during the 1976 Winter Olympics'

Answer: Dorothy Hamill


Question: 'In 1983 Apple introduced the Lisa personal computer, the first PC with one of these controls'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'Michael Stipe formed this "Man on the Moon" band in Athens, Georgia'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'Frank Gehry's "Easy Edges" line built furniture out of this stuff in which your furniture usually arrives'

Answer: cardboard


Question: 'From Middle High German, this Yiddish word means "salmon"'

Answer: lox


Question: 'Orange you glad to know that this state leads the U.S. in citrus production'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Dudes, it's the "fishy" hairstyle worn by David Spade in "Joe Dirt"'

Answer: the mullet


Question: 'Lisa Guerrero is the sideline reporter for this popular weekly sports event'

Answer: Monday Night Football


Question: '1984's "Jump" was the first No. 1 hit for this group that features brothers Alex & Eddie'

Answer: Van Halen


Question: 'The Gehry-designed Nationale Nederlanden Building is informally known as this film dancing pair'

Answer: Fred & Ginger


Question: 'This "Tax" is found on a Monopoly board'

Answer: Luxury Tax


Question: 'It leads the states in apple production'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'The short hairstyles worn by the men who fought the Cavaliers in 17th C. England earned them this name'

Answer: the Roundheads


Question: 'She's the popular sports celebrity seen here'

Answer: Lisa Leslie


Question: 'The title of Falco's biggest hit mentions this fellow Austrian musician'

Answer: Mozart ("Rock Me Amadeus")


Question: 'The Guggenheim Museum in this city of Spain's Basque region is one of the best-known structures designed by Gehry'

Answer: Bilbao


Question: 'This city of east central Egypt is the southern half of the site of ancient Thebes'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'This West Coast state procuces the most wind-generated energy'

Answer: California


Question: 'From the Latin for "to clip", it's the shaved patch on the crowns of the heads of some monks'

Answer: tonsure


Question: 'In 1997 Lisa Pollak won a Pulitzer Prize reporting for this Baltimore newspaper where H.L. Mencken once worked'

Answer: the Baltimore Sun


Question: 'His innovations include multitrack recording, overdubbing & the solid-body electric guitar'

Answer: Les Paul


Question: 'In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as "The Nobel of Architecture"'

Answer: The Pritzker Prize


Question: 'From the Greek for "of words", it's all the words belonging to a particular branch of knowledge'

Answer: lexicon


Question: 'A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938'

Answer: Seabiscuit


Question: 'This transparent membrane in the eye covers the iris & has no blood vessels'

Answer: the cornea


Question: '"...don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better"'

Answer: Jude


Question: 'There's an old expression that says these "never prosper"; remember that'

Answer: cheaters


Question: 'It's a long rope with a loop on one end, used to rope cattle'

Answer: a lasso


Question: 'He followed Garfield as president'

Answer: Chester Arthur


Question: 'The mauve flowers of the Paulownia tree adorn the highest grade of the Order of the Rising Sun award of this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This vein's name comes from the Latin for "collarbone"'

Answer: the jugular


Question: '"...and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more"'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'Line that precedes "they simply fade away" in a British army song'

Answer: Old soldiers never die


Question: 'This term for the sex drive comes from the Latin for "lust"'

Answer: libido


Question: 'Go to Flushing Meadows & see the 22,547-capacity stadium named for this man'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'First obtained from aniline, the color mauve was the first commercially successful synthetic this'

Answer: a dye


Question: 'The head of the femur fits into the acetabulum, a socket in this pelvic bone'

Answer: the hip bone


Question: '"There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood, where lived a country boy named..."'

Answer: Johnny B. Goode


Question: '"He that fights and runs away may" these 5 words "but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again"'

Answer: live to fight another day


Question: 'How low can you go?  Perhaps to this place on the border of heaven or hell'

Answer: limbo


Question: 'His father was Uther Pendragon'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'Not much mauve but lots of gray in the paintings of Anton Mauve, a member of The Hague school in this country'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'The base of the fibula forms the outer projection of this joint'

Answer: the ankle


Question: '"Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind" (Now we see who's the Deadhead)'

Answer: Casey Jones


Question: 'In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet"'

Answer: (Rudyard) Kipling


Question: 'The opposite of staccato, it's a direction to play music smoothly'

Answer: legato


Question: 'Author of "3001: The Final Odyssey"'

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke


Question: 'Bella Donna Mauve is in the Color Riche line of these made by L'Oreal'

Answer: lipsticks


Question: 'A ringlike muscle called the pyloric sphincter lies at the end of this, leading into the duodenum'

Answer: the stomach


Question: 'In a Pearl Jam tune this boy "spoke in class today"'

Answer: Jeremy


Question: 'Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!  Bird thou never wert!"; Wordsworth said they "soar but never roam"'

Answer: a skylark


Question: 'This term for any man who seduces & deceives women comes from a character in the 18th century play "The Fair Penitent"'

Answer: lothario


Question: 'For 50 seasons this Boston-born man was director of the Boston Pops'

Answer: Arthur Fiedler


Question: '"Madame de Mauves" was an 1874 novel by this expatriate American'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'These islands famous for their ponies form the northernmost part of Scotland'

Answer: the Shetlands


Question: 'Donna Douglas played this "Beverly Hillbillies" gal on TV & Erika Eleniak played her in the 1993 movie'

Answer: Elly May


Question: 'This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876'

Answer: the Washington Monument


Question: 'Lincoln once said not to "swap" these "while crossing a stream"'

Answer: horses


Question: 'After the Battle of Waterloo, he said, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won"'

Answer: Wellington


Question: '3 housing units all under one roof'

Answer: a triplex


Question: 'Portuguese sailors originally named this island in the South China Sea Ilha Formosa, "beautiful island"'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'In 1963 she co-wrote "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore'

Answer: (June) Carter (Cash)


Question: 'Successful "Little" author seen here'

Answer: (Louisa May) Alcott


Question: 'This type of "son" holds a state's convention votes together but is not a serious candidate for presidency'

Answer: a favorite son


Question: 'John Millington Synge wasn't born on Dublin's Synge St.; this other 3-named playwright was'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'Adjective meaning able to bend & snap back readily without breaking'

Answer: flexible


Question: 'The Leeward Islands are among the "Lesser" of these islands; Cuba & Jamaica are among the "Greater"'

Answer: the Antilles


Question: 'Patricia Clarkson was nominated for an Oscar for "Pieces of" this title gal played by Katie Holmes'

Answer: April (Burns)


Question: 'Future leader of the UK seen here on the right in the 1880s'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'A "strict" one of these 15-letter words tends to interpret the Constitution literally'

Answer: a constructionist


Question: 'This red-haired beauty born in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh played Natalie Wood's mother in "Miracle on 34th Street"'

Answer: Maureen O\'Hara


Question: 'By profession, Noah Webster was one of these'

Answer: a lexicographer


Question: 'In the Caribbean this island is partnered with Nevis'

Answer: St. Kitts


Question: 'This MGM star and wife of Dick Powell is seen here'

Answer: June Allyson


Question: 'This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists'

Answer: Mendeleyev


Question: 'According to the League of Women Voters, an "empty chair" one of these should be canceled'

Answer: debates


Question: 'His first major satire, "A Tale of a Tub", was published in 1704'

Answer: Swift


Question: 'Elaborate in structure or by nature'

Answer: complex


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  Because they surround Delos, the sacred birthplace of Apollo & Artemis, this island group derives its name from the Greek word for "circle"'

Answer: the Cyclades


Question: 'Pernilla August once worked with Ingmar Bergman, but we know her best for playing Shmi in the fourth film in this series'

Answer: the Star Wars series


Question: 'Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "iron" man'

Answer: (Otto von) Bismarck


Question: 'Saddle up & give us this 5-letter term for an added provision that may not be germane to the purpose of a bill'

Answer: a rider


Question: 'This "Babes in Toyland" composer helped found the organization ASCAP in 1914'

Answer: Victor Herbert


Question: 'A light transparent weather-resistant man-made thermoplastic'

Answer: Plexiglas


Question: 'This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future.  The spirits of all three shall strive within me"'

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge


Question: 'The layers of the skin are the epi-this, the this & the hypo-this'

Answer: the dermis


Question: 'This Giants outfielder is the only player in history to receive the MVP award 4 consecutive years, 2001 to 2004'

Answer: (Barry) Bonds


Question: 'Barry Manilow wrote the jingle that had us "stuck on" this brand'

Answer: Band-Aid


Question: 'It's decorated in December:<br />SEARCH, SET, TRIM'

Answer: Christmas tree


Question: 'He obtained 1,093 patents, the most the U.S. Patent Office has ever issued to one person'

Answer: (Thomas) Edison


Question: 'Wanna live in this city, 90210? in July 2008 the median home price there was $2.3 million'

Answer: Beverly Hills


Question: 'The uvea, the eye's middle layer, includes this contractile diaphragm, the colored part of the eye'

Answer: the iris


Question: 'In 1980 this boxer came out of retirement to fight Larry Holmes & then Trevor Berbick; he lost both bouts'

Answer: (Muhammad) Ali


Question: 'In 1932 George Blaisdell developed this cigarette lighter in Bradford, Pennsylvania'

Answer: Zippo


Question: 'A "high" time in art:<br />SIENNA ACRES'

Answer: Renaissance


Question: 'In 1989 George H.W. Bush appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia'

Answer: Clarence Thomas


Question: 'Originally the letters in this landmark were 30 feet wide & 50 feet tall, & had 4,000 20-watt light bulbs'

Answer: the Hollywood sign


Question: 'Each wrist has 8 of these bones, also the name of a tunnel in the wrist'

Answer: the carpals


Question: 'In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Dr. Joseph Lawrence & Jordan Lambert invented this bad-breath-busting product in 1879'

Answer: Listerine


Question: 'A Texan battle cry:<br />A MEMORABLE TERM, EH?'

Answer: Remember the Alamo


Question: 'In 1952 this poet told us to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'Good times are Bruin in this district, home to UCLA, where John Wooden was a "wizard"'

Answer: Westwood


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor, then puts her heel down.)  The soleus and gastrocnemius, two major muscles of the calf, act like a lever system with this largest tendon to lift or lower the heel'

Answer: the Achilles tendon


Question: 'In the 1960s he won 7 major tournaments, more than any other golfer'

Answer: (Jack) Nicklaus


Question: 'This yogurt brand is named for founder Isaac Carasso's son Daniel'

Answer: Dannon


Question: 'He co-wrote "South Pacific":<br />MASS ROMANTIC HERE'

Answer: Oscar Hammerstein


Question: 'His 1947 novel "Doctor Faustus" symbolically paralleled the rise of Nazism'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question: 'You can hit the Comedy Store, House of Blues, Whisky A Go Go & the Viper Room on this "strip" of L.A.'

Answer: Sunset Strip


Question: 'Familiar to pitchers, the group of muscles called this includes the subscapularis muscle'

Answer: the rotator cuff


Question: 'Iowa state's Dan Gable won 2 NCAA titles in this sport & then coached Iowa to 15 team titles from1978 to 1997'

Answer: wrestling


Question: 'The logo of this outdoor brand is seen here'

Answer: Coleman


Question: 'This Internet service was big in the '90s:<br />I ONCE RAN EMAIL'

Answer: America Online


Question: 'This late medieval Christian spiritual writer is the probable author of "Imitation of Christ"'

Answer: Thomas à Kempis


Question: 'Originally called "Nuestro Pueblo" by the artist, it's the L.A. landmark seen here'

Answer: the Watts Towers


Question: 'In many cities "Jeopardy!" leads into this sister show'

Answer: Wheel of Fortune


Question: 'The Norns are counterparts of the Fates: Urd represents the past; Verdandi & Skuld, these 2 things'

Answer: the present & the future


Question: 'Times change: in 1990 a statue of this Russian was removed from a Bucharest square after 3 decades there'

Answer: Lenin


Question: 'Excessive self-contemplation is called this anatomical gazing'

Answer: navel


Question: 'Mark Antony called him "the noblest Roman of them all"'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'A stuffed pasta pocket<br />(7)'

Answer: a ravioli


Question: 'I pity the fool who doesn't know that this show led into "Remington Steele" on NBC's 1983-84 schedule'

Answer: The A-Team


Question: 'Hymir was really hammered by the hammer of this god'

Answer: Thor


Question: '1913's treaty of Bucharest ended the second of these peninsular wars'

Answer: the Balkan Wars


Question: 'Self, launched in 1979, is one of these'

Answer: a (women\'s) magazine


Question: 'In the first line of "Twelfth Night", this is described as the "food of love"'

Answer: music


Question: 'Beam, beacon & frequency preceder<br />(5)'

Answer: radar (or radio)


Question: 'Sundays from 1984 to 1995, "60 Minutes" led into this CBS crime drama--guess Jessica finally got tired of writing'

Answer: Murder, She Wrote


Question: 'The name Midgard, the world of humans, can be translated as this, a place familiar to Tolkien'

Answer: Middle Earth


Question: 'In 1977 one of these phenomena devastated Bucharest, killing about 1,500 people'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'Albrecht Durer's first known drawing, done at the age of 13, was one of these artistic efforts'

Answer: a self-portrait


Question: 'In "Henry VIII" this cardinal bids "a long farewell to all my greatness"'

Answer: Cardinal Wolsey


Question: 'Room or building in the round<br />(7)'

Answer: rotunda


Question: 'On Mondays in 1970, something called "The Silent Force" led into this longer-running ABC program'

Answer: Monday Night Football


Question: 'Laerad is the great tree around which this hall of the slain was built'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'This star of 1937's "The Last Gangster" was born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania'

Answer: Edward G. Robinson


Question: 'Self-referential prefix before -didact, -suggestion & -biography'

Answer: auto


Question: 'Much of the action takes place in the court of the Duke of Milan in this play with another Italian locale in its title'

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'Boat race, Italian style<br />(7)'

Answer: regatta


Question: 'For the 2000-2001 season, "The Simpsons" led into this show that led into "The X-Files"--you might say it was...'

Answer: Malcolm In The Middle


Question: 'This mischief-maker was up to his old tricks when he stole Freya's necklace'

Answer: Loki


Question: 'In 1659 Bucharest became the capital of this principality'

Answer: Wallachia


Question: 'Per the "American Psychiatric Glossary", this mania is "pathological preoccupation with self"'

Answer: egomania


Question: 'Comparing "thee to a summer's day" in sonnet 18, the bard realizes that "Thou art more lovely and more" this'

Answer: temperate


Question: 'South American ostrich cousin<br />(4)'

Answer: a rhea


Question: 'He was the only person who died during the Civil War to be featured on Confederate currency'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'In 1863, this man from Wuppertal started a dye company that evolved into an aspirin-making giant'

Answer: (Friedrich) Bayer


Question: '1980:<br />Jake LaMotta battles his way to the middleweight title'

Answer: Raging Bull


Question:
'Hell,
heaven
or limbo'

Answer: heaven


Question: 'All the letters in this state's name are found in the name of its Uintah County'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'In 1916, he sold his first of more than 300 Saturday Evening Post covers'

Answer: (Norman) Rockwell


Question: 'A bedtime nip of alcohol, or the second game of a doubleheader'

Answer: a nightcap


Question: 'On the 50th anniv. of Bunker Hill, this European was back on our shores to lay the monument's cornerstone'

Answer: Lafayette


Question:
'1967:
That's the sound of Newman working on the chain gang'

Answer: Cool Hand Luke


Question:
'Vow,
knight
or grail'

Answer: knight


Question: 'Ogemaw, Saginaw & Washtenaw are all counties in this state'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'In a classic "SNL" skit, Laraine Newman found this NYC landmark less than packed when covering the Jewish New Year'

Answer: Times Square


Question: 'Thrush to judgment and name this type of bird seen here'

Answer: a nightingale


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gdansk, Poland.) Few noticed him start in 1967 as a Gdansk shipyard electrician, but many noticed him in 1980 when he became the leader of Solidarity'

Answer: Lech Wałęsa


Question: '2002:<br />A young Maori girl defies tradition & mounts a cetacean'

Answer: Whale Rider


Question:
'Happy,
snappy
or pappy'

Answer: happy


Question: 'Name shared by the counties in which you'll find Disneyland & Disney World'

Answer: Orange (County)


Question: 'Established in 1875, this Louisville event is run annually on the first Saturday in May'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'Any of the various plants of the family Solanaceae; some may be "deadly"'

Answer: nightshades


Question: 'Giuseppina Strepponi, a prima donna in "Nabucco", married this famous Giuseppe in 1859'

Answer: Verdi


Question: '1977:<br />After an experience with a UFO, an electric-line worker is drawn to a remote mountain'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question:
'Cozy,
wax
or quilt'

Answer: cozy


Question: 'This state's Norfolk County disappeared in 1963 when it became part of the city of Chesapeake'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Founded in 1932 as The Palestine Post, this morning paper appears daily, except for Saturday'

Answer: The Jerusalem Post


Question: 'Get to the Bottom of this Shakespeare play, published in 1600'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Although this king had already reigned for fifty-eight years, he's seen here in his coronation robes to add majesty.'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: '2005:<br />A group of teenage chicks share some trousers'

Answer: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants


Question:
'Fad,
dad
or glad'

Answer: fad


Question: 'While many states have counties named Lincoln, this is the only state that has one named Snohomish'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'At age 3, as Bubbles Silverman, this opera star sang on a Sat. morning radio show, "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"'

Answer: Beverly Sills


Question: '"Timely" 5-word nickname that describes Scandinavia north of the Arctic Circle'

Answer: "Land of the Midnight Sun"


Question: 'On May 7, 1915 German submarine commander Walter Schweiger gave the command to torpedo this British liner'

Answer: the Lusitania


Question: 'This rapper & producer co-founded N.W.A. & is the stepbrother of Warren G'

Answer: Dr. Dre


Question: 'Delicious "Doone" damsel<br />(5)'

Answer: Lorna


Question: 'This government employee was in the spotlight in the late 1990s for her conduct as a girlfriend of Monica Lewinsky'

Answer: Linda Tripp


Question: 'The Talmud says "when" this "goes in, secrets are revealed" & on the Sabbath, Kiddush is said over a cup of it'

Answer: wine


Question: 'This type of needlework gets its name from the French for "hook"'

Answer: crochet


Question: 'In 1717 this pirate captured La Concorde & renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge; a year later it ran aground off N.C.'

Answer: Edward Teach (Blackbeard)


Question: '"Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got" this Robert Palmer title affliction'

Answer: "Bad Case Of Loving You"


Question: 'Jack's "capital" surname<br />(6)'

Answer: London


Question: 'Before her 15 minutes expired, this gal who got mixed up with televangelist Jim Bakker got onto Playboy's cover'

Answer: Jessica Hahn


Question: 'In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'This word for any style of cooking is from the French for "kitchen"'

Answer: cuisine


Question: 'The 1st ship built in the colonies by English settlers was built in 1607 on the Kennebec River in what is now this state'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'He dealt with ophthalmological issues in the 1972 hit "Doctor My Eyes"'

Answer: Jackson Browne


Question: 'A singable poem, perhaps "of the Last Minstrel"<br />(3)'

Answer: lay


Question: '"The joke's over", said Simon Cowell about this "American Idol" singer with a unique rendition of "She Bangs"'

Answer: William Hung


Question: 'The Southern Convention of this denomination split from the Yankees in 1845'

Answer: the Baptists


Question: 'A term for a keepsake or memento, it comes from the French for "to remember"'

Answer: souvenir


Question: 'The flagship of Oliver Hazard Perry was named for this captain who said, "Don't give up the ship"'

Answer: James Lawrence


Question: 'The "Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits" describes this "Right Place Wrong Time" man as a "swamp-rock singer/pianist"'

Answer: Dr. John


Question: 'Imagist Amy<br />(6)'

Answer: Lowell


Question: 'Perhaps knowing her time was nigh, she asked President Bush to be removed as a Supreme Court nominee'

Answer: Harriet Miers


Question: 'This 13th century Italian theologian was born in Roccasecca near the town of Aquino'

Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas


Question: 'This light tannish color gets its name from the French for "raw", as in raw vegetables'

Answer: ecru


Question: 'In 1994, 9 years after it was hijacked by PLF members, this Italian cruise ship burned & sank in the Indian Ocean'

Answer: Achille Lauro


Question: 'Despite its name, this synth-pop English band who gave us 1984's "Doctor! Doctor!" was a trio'

Answer: The Thompson Twins


Question: 'Writer Wyndham<br />(5)'

Answer: Lewis


Question: 'A free week at a hotel chain would be apropos for knowing the name of this "Joe Millionaire" reality star'

Answer: (Evan) Marriott


Question: 'Jainism, with 4 1/2 million adherents, was founded in this country by Mahavira, "the Great Hero"'

Answer: India


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.)  This verb for one set of gears meshing with another set comes from the Old French for "pledge"'

Answer: engage


Question: 'Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West'

Answer: Allan Pinkerton


Question: 'Going from rags to riches is what sociologists call "social" this, specifically the "upward" type'

Answer: mobility


Question: 'In 1977 Chambliss, Randolph, Dent & Nettles took the field for this team'

Answer: the Yankees


Question: 'On Sept. 9, 1948 the DPRK, aka North Korea, was established with this man as its supreme leader'

Answer: Kim Il-sung


Question: 'Nov. 15, 2001:<br />This pasta treat "discontinued as Franco-American relations break down"'

Answer: SpaghettiOs


Question: 'This Brit coined "doublethink" & "Big Brother is watching you"'

Answer: (George) Orwell


Question: 'Carroll's slithy nonsense poem<br />(11)'

Answer: "Jabberwocky"


Question: 'Expecting my son to be a cop & my daughter to be a nurse is assigning these sex-based roles'

Answer: gender roles


Question: 'From 1974 through 1981 the Dodgers fielded Garvey, Lopes, Russell & this third baseman, "The Penguin"'

Answer: Ron Cey


Question: 'As the dictator of this city-state, Francesco Foscari ruined its army & economy by endlessly fighting Milan'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Feb. 20, 2006:<br />This late "Feminine Mystique"  writer "honored with second-class postage stamp"'

Answer: (Betty) Friedan


Question: 'In a 1605 prologue, this Spaniard tells the reader that he has written an "invective against books of chivalry"'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'Jettisoned goods<br />(6)'

Answer: jetsam


Question: 'William H. White put this word before "think" to mean conformity to consensus'

Answer: group


Question: 'The 1908 Chicago Cubs featured Harry Steinfeldt & these 3 guys of yore'

Answer: Tinker, Evers & Chance


Question: 'By murdering all his brothers around 1413, Mehmed I took power as the fifth ruler of this empire'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Aug. 9, 2000:<br />Popular names for these include Shopwood, Storemont & Indianburialgroundbrook'

Answer: shopping malls


Question: 'While at University College, Dublin, he wrote the essay "The Day of the Rabblement", attacking the Irish Literary Theatre'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'Riding breeches<br />(8)'

Answer: jodhpurs


Question: 'A joint author on a paper, or someone who assists the power occupying his country'

Answer: a collaborator


Question: 'The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers sent out Hodges, Gilliam, Reese & this groundbreaking infielder'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'The pro-Soviet dictator Babrak Karmal came to power in this country after a 1979 invasion'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'From an issue in 2056: This island & commonwealth ceded to the U.S. in 1898... "Should it become our 63rd state?"'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'This literary whiz' name is sometimes transliterated from Bengali as Ravindranatha Thakura'

Answer: (Rabindranath) Tagore


Question: 'A joyful celebration<br />(10)'

Answer: jubilation


Question: 'A plant, animal or object that's the symbol of a clan; it's often taboo & was paired with "Taboo" in a Freud title'

Answer: totem


Question: 'The 1975 Reds fielded Rose, Concepcion, Perez & this Hall of Fame second sacker, now a broadcaster'

Answer: Joe Morgan


Question: 'A humble lawyer from Arras, in 1793 he became Head of the Committee of Public Safety & launched a bloodbath'

Answer: Robespierre


Question: 'Sept. 12, 1928: This "It Girl" "to appear sleeveless in Oct. Collier's; 'Besleeve yourself, strumpet!' clergy urge"'

Answer: (Clara) Bow


Question: 'This French writer "steaked" a claim as "The Father of Romanticism" by writing such works as "Atala"'

Answer: (René de) Chateaubriand


Question: 'Belligerent nationalist<br />(5)'

Answer: jingo


Question: 'His business card bore the Golden Arches & the titles "Founder" & "Senior Chairman of the Board"'

Answer: (Ray) Kroc


Question: 'Instrument struck when a contestant failed on the "Original Amateur Hour"'

Answer: a gong


Question: 'It's the Italian name for the country's biggest island'

Answer: Sicilia


Question:
'Name this tragedy:
"Love you."
"Love you."
"Speak.  ...Nothing will come of nothing!"
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
"Huh?  I should go mad!  Blbl-blbl-blbl-blbl-bl!  Oh, no life!  Oh!"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'The USA's "E-Bomb" will disable grids & computers and reheat the enemies' lasagna by sending out these waves'

Answer: microwaves


Question: 'One who steals by stealth: Thessalonians speaks of one "in the night"'

Answer: a thief


Question: 'In 1886 he started his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Co.; the chocolate came later'

Answer: Hershey


Question: 'This word ends the title of a 1941 Bill of Rights tribute program heard by 60 million, "We hold these..."'

Answer: Truths


Question: 'Roman soldiers passed the time playing this game, the Italian version of lawn bowling'

Answer: bocce


Question:
'This time, a comedy:
"Beware my sting!"
"She will be my chattel.  Ha ha ha!"
"I'm starved!"
[Snores]
"Giddy from lack of sleep.  What is thy will, sir?"
"Mm-wah!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Ah!"
"Ah!"'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'The "Storm Shadow" is a new British version of this type of low-altitude, radar-evading missile'

Answer: a cruise missile


Question: 'A big fishing net, maybe in the river of the same name'

Answer: a seine


Question: 'In the 1880s he built a town in Illinois to house employees of his sleeping car company'

Answer: (George) Pullman


Question: 'Can't forget the sponsor--Jack Benny's opening line wasn't "Hello again" but this dessert "again"'

Answer: Jell-O


Question: 'These thin tubes of pasta, Italian for "bridegrooms", are often baked'

Answer: ziti


Question:
'Tragedy:
"Victorious!"
"Rue the tears I shed!"
"Banishment!"
"Son!"
"Ah!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Mad?  Not!"
"Ugh!"
"Ugh!"
"Uh-huh!  Emperor!"'

Answer: Titus Andronicus


Question: 'It's the Indian tribe in the name of the USA's AH-64D Longbow, the most advanced combat helicopter in the world'

Answer: Apache


Question: 'It can mean "brief & forceful" or "resembling the inner core of a stem"'

Answer: pithy


Question: 'Before founding his own corp., John K. Northrop was chief engineer for this company & designed its Vega airplane'

Answer: Lockheed


Question: 'In 2005 NPR revived this 1950s program in which people state their credos'

Answer: This I Believe


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a sign linguistic demonstration.)  An 1832 book on the gestures of this southern city includes "Mm-wah, perfecto!"--& many others we can't show you'

Answer: Naples


Question:
'Here's the title king of this play:
"Plots have I laid.  Wear this ring!"
"Oh, pretty!"
"King!  Good-night."
"Ow!"
"Marriage.  Ah!"
"Thank you."'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'The FA-18E/F is the "Super" version of this high-tech U.S. Navy fighter jet with a wasplike name'

Answer: a Hornet


Question: 'Teddy Roosevelt said "The credit belongs to the man" in this, "whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood"'

Answer: the arena


Question: 'Since founding Amazon.com in 1994, he's tried to make it "The Earth's most customer-centric company"'

Answer: Jeff Bezos


Question: 'On April 3, 1936 a nation listened as Gabriel Heatter covered this man's execution'

Answer: Bruno Hauptmann


Question: 'This 15th century movement may have first been named in a 1550 book, using the Italian word rinascita'

Answer: the Renaissance


Question:
'Name this comedy:
"Your oaths."
"Not to see ladies."
[All] "Hup!"
[Gasps]
[All] "Love."
"We'll mark no words that wooers say for 12 months in the day."
[All] "Hmm!"
[All] "Oh!"
"That's too long for a play."'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'With advanced capabilities, this unmanned air vehicle seen here takes its name from the Latin for "to plunder"'

Answer: the Predator


Question: 'Greek for "word", it can mean the word of God'

Answer: logos


Question: '"American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967'

Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer


Question: 'The New York City ballet's first visit to this city's famous festival inspired the ballet "Scotch Symphony"'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'He perked up his career by letting Starbucks release his album "Memory Almost Full"'

Answer: McCartney


Question: 'This drink consists of 2 ounces of vodka & 5 ounces of orange juice'

Answer: a screwdriver


Question: 'In part due to fears of body snatching, his body was moved 17 times around his Springfield, Ill. national monument'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'Hey, you saps who think pneumonia killed President Harrison--I've got this kind of theory involving a group plan'

Answer: a conspiracy theory


Question: 'The 1972 ballet "Printemps" premiered in the winter, but its name is French for this season'

Answer: spring


Question: 'This '80s trio were "Spirits in the Material World" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion'

Answer: The Police


Question: 'We recommend giving someone this figuratively if you must fire him; later he might have one to grind'

Answer: the axe


Question: '4 places claimed to be the burial site of this explorer, including crypts in Seville & Santo Domingo'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'The lady was quite overcome by this moisture exuded by the muscular estate gardener'

Answer: perspiration


Question: 'Balanchine choreographed the leading role in "Allegro Brillante" for this part-Osage Indian ex-wife'

Answer: Maria Tallchief


Question: '"Who Knew" this colorful singer could be so "M!ssundaztood"'

Answer: Pink


Question: '"U Can't Touch This" bone, aka the malleus, just behind the eardrum'

Answer: the hammer


Question: 'Kept for years in her husband's dining room, her embalmed body was buried in Buenos Aires in '74'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'Not a fraud scheme, the risk type of this puts more of your assets into the low-risk than the high-risk area'

Answer: a pyramid


Question: 'The Motion Picture Association of America says this cost producers, theater owners, etc. $18.2 billion in 2005'

Answer: piracy


Question: 'Alexandre Dumas fils' tale about "The Lady of" these flowers bloomed as the ballet "Marguerite and Armand"'

Answer: the Camellias


Question: 'This band is now part of the "Zeitgeist" after suffering "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"'

Answer: Smashing Pumpkins


Question: 'A light, stroking touch, or a dense growth of bushes'

Answer: a brush


Question: 'Executed in 1915, this radical labor activist was cremated & his ashes mailed to labor unions all over the world'

Answer: Joe Hill


Question: 'It's often set up by the wealthy for their kids, but California has a state children's one for poor folks'

Answer: a trust fund


Question: 'Australia's Yellow Tail winery sells this on its own as well as in a cabernet blend'

Answer: shiraz


Question: 'As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes'

Answer: Diaghilev


Question: '"Hybrid Theory", the title of this rock-rap band's first hit album, was one of the band's former names'

Answer: Linkin Park


Question: 'Hit the backyard with this old term for a libertine'

Answer: a rake


Question: 'This 19th century philosopher's body has been very utilitarian; it's on display at a university in London'

Answer: Jeremy Bentham


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an upward-tending graph with a deviant dip between March and May on the monitor.)  Named for the implication that it brought some rationality to an exuberant market, it's a downward move by generally rising prices'

Answer: a correction


Question: 'This type of medieval play often shows the Virgin Mary coming to the rescue'

Answer: a miracle play


Question: '2004:<br />Angry Greeks attack a fortified city-state'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'This "colossal" island is the largest in Greece's Dodecanese archipelago'

Answer: Rhodes


Question: 'Older brother Frank is thrilled to welcome this Sept. 5, 1847 baby; 10 days old & making guns with his tiny fingers'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: '1978:<br />The wife of a soldier fighting in Vietnam works at a VA hospital & has an affair with a wounded vet'

Answer: Coming Home


Question: 'On Jan. 19, 1966 this woman was elected the third prime minister of her country'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'This group of islands off the northern coast of France was the only British soil occupied by the Germans in WWII'

Answer: the Channel Islands


Question: 'This king is thrilled by the birth of Mary, Feb. 18, 1516; there's still plenty of time to have a son--right?'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'Whether a surfin' one or a Pontiac, this term comes from the Swahili meaning "journey"'

Answer: safari


Question: 'Jules Verne-Wilkie Collins sci-fi/detective novel about Civil War vets who want to shoot a cannon into a gem'

Answer: From the Earth to the Moonstone


Question: '1970:<br />An historically correct re-creation of Pearl Harbor'

Answer: Tora! Tora! Tora!


Question: 'You have to go through this ceremony in order to become a Freemason'

Answer: the Third Degree


Question: 'This island nation's highest peak, Yu Shan, in the Chungyang range, is also called Mount Morrison'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'Henry & Clara Ford are proud to announce the rollout of this model Nov. 6, 1893'

Answer: the Edsel


Question: 'The word "okra" is West African; in the language of Angola, okra was called this, which to us is a soup or stew'

Answer: gumbo