Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to two diagrams of the Earth's tilt on the monitor.)  Because of the tilt of the Earth's axis both in summer & winter, solar panels in the United States facing this direction receive the most sun'

Answer: south


Question: 'In 1998 the Dave Matthews Band sank this movie's soundtrack from the No. 1 spot it had held for 16 weeks'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'The sultan of this island nation has about 30 billion of his country's dollars'

Answer: Brunei


Question: 'Helena sprang up after 1864, when this was found in Last Chance Gulch; the gulch is now the main street of Helena'

Answer: gold


Question: 'Shoemaker-Levy 9, one of these, hit Jupiter in 1994, giving us an idea of what might happen to Earth'

Answer: a comet


Question: 'This adjective was inspired by a mythological youth who constantly stared at his own reflection'

Answer: narcissistic


Question: 'This branch of study is for the birds... actually, it's of the birds'

Answer: ornithology


Question: 'This band's 1993 "In Utero" album vowed, "Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle"'

Answer: Nirvana


Question: 'Spend dollars there in Brisbane or Borroloola'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Helena is the seat of a county named for these 2 men who passed through the area in 1805'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: '"Testament" & "On the Beach" are films that deal with this type of apocalyptic scenario'

Answer: nuclear war (or nuclear holocaust)


Question: 'In 37 A.D. noted husband-poisoner Agrippina gave birth to this future Roman emperor'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'In 1633 the Church condemned him to house arrest for astronomical heresy'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'One track off their 1994 album "Monster" was "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'This Caribbean island nation's dollar has the currency code BBD'

Answer: Barbados


Question:
'Royal "city" nickname of
Helena... &
Buffalo... &
Seattle... &
Cincinnati...'

Answer: the Queen City


Question: 'Kalki, the 10th & last avatar of this Hindu god, is to ride a white horse, wield a blazing sword & wreak havoc'

Answer: Vishnu


Question: 'Campbell University & Appalachian State University are both found in this state'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reading points to a fly's eye on the monitor.)  An insect's compound eye can detect 300 flashes of light per second compared to a human's 50, using thousands of tiny lenses known as these, as in a diamond'

Answer: a facet


Question: 'With tracks like "Sabotage" & "B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak", a 1994 album by this rap group went to No. 1'

Answer: the Beastie Boys


Question: 'Bet you 10 of its dollars it used to be called South West Africa'

Answer: Namibia


Question: '10 miles west of Helena is this 2-word geographic feature, the crestline of the Rockies'

Answer: the Continental Divide


Question: 'In this Michael Crichton novel, a Scoop VII satellite returns to Earth with a deadly virus'

Answer: The Andromeda Strain


Question: '9-letter word for the newbie at the nunnery'

Answer: novitiate


Question: 'The last name of this 20th century Swiss artist is pronounced like a material for pottery'

Answer: (Paul) Klee


Question: '1962:<br />Atticus Finch'

Answer: Gregory Peck


Question: 'Anderson Cooper, a Mississippian's son, started writing "Dispatches from the Edge" while covering this 2005 disaster'

Answer: Hurricane Katrina


Question: 'This river carries about half of China's ocean trade; steamers can travel 680 miles inland to Wuhan'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: 'Some of the men in this novel assume the Alias "Jacques"; Monsieur DeFarge calls himself Jacques Four'

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Question: 'Our national symbol & a floppy-eared canine'

Answer: eagle & beagle


Question: 'This artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center has been called the greatest trumpeter of his generation'

Answer: Wynton Marsalis


Question: '1982:<br />Mahatma Gandhi'

Answer: (Ben) Kingsley


Question: '(I'm Harry Smith.)  Important news stories I've covered include the events & ceremonies of this president's funeral in 2004'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'From the Greek for "one tone", it's a synonym for "blandness"'

Answer: monotony


Question: 'Dances, & cake, & mince-pies, & plenty of beer--why, it's party time with the Fezziwigs in this short novel'

Answer: A Christmas Carol


Question: 'Swine & creatures that grow from tadpoles'

Answer: hogs & frogs


Question: 'Handel's "Messiah" is one of these compositions, with vocal soloists but no stage action'

Answer: an oratorio


Question: '1951:<br />Blanche DuBois'

Answer: Vivien Leigh


Question: 'Neil Davis was one of the few journalists to film & report directly on the Fall of Saigon in this year'

Answer: 1975


Question: 'From the Latin for "chessboard", this British office is charged with the receiving & disbursal of revenues'

Answer: the Exchequer


Question: 'This character in "Oliver Twist" is "as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six"'

Answer: the Artful Dodger


Question: 'A creature of the order cetacea & a small game bird'

Answer: whale & quail


Question: 'As heard here, this great Austrian song composer was one of several who tackled "Ave Maria"'

Answer: Franz Schubert


Question: '1948:<br />Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'

Answer: (Laurence) Olivier


Question: 'Later killed by Japanese gunfire, in 1943 he released "Here is Your War", a collection of his articles from the front lines'

Answer: Ernie Pyle


Question: 'Meaning "bordering on impropriety", this 6-letter French word ends with an accent aigu'

Answer: risqué


Question: '"Night is generally my time for walking", begins Dickens' novel about this title store'

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop


Question: 'Domesticated draft bovine & Francis Marion's "swamp" moniker'

Answer: ox & fox


Question: 'From 1664, "Woman Holding a Balance" typifies the cool serenity of this Dutch contemporary of Rembrandt'

Answer: Jan Vermeer


Question: '1956:<br />Paul Gauguin'

Answer: Anthony Quinn


Question: '(I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.)  One of my toughest assignments was reporting on the aftermath of the tsunami from Phuket, a resort island in this country'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'This colorful waterway flows east, forming the Texas-Oklahoma border before shooting south through Arkansas'

Answer: the Red River


Question: 'Chapter 1 of this novel is "The Dawn"; Dickens was writing Chapter 22, "The Dawn Again", on the day he died'

Answer: The Mystery of Edwin Drood


Question: 'An aquatic mammal & a bird whose name is also a shade of blue'

Answer: seal & teal


Question: 'Named for a Mediterranean country, this style of typography is based on a Renaissance script'

Answer: italics


Question: 'Tyra Banks must love pets--when she was a teen, her dream was to be this kind of doctor'

Answer: a veterinarian


Question: 'The current $2 bill features Thomas Jefferson on the front & the signing of this document on the back'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'In leap years, it's the last day in February'

Answer: the 29th


Question: 'Its state animal is the grizzly bear, & the state tree is a type of redwood'

Answer: California


Question: 'James Joyce set his 1914 collection of short stories in this capital of Ireland'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Queen Victoria married this man in an elaborate ceremony in 1840'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'Carmen Electra played Tiger Lily & Nick Lachey a lost boy in their school's production of this show'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'The 2004 silver dollar honoring Thomas Edison was inscribed on the reverse side, "125th anniversary of" this invention'

Answer: the light bulb


Question: 'This pro sport plays its all-star Pro Bowl in February'

Answer: football (the NFL accepted)


Question: 'Ironically, this symbol of America was cast in London in 1752'

Answer: the Liberty Bell


Question: 'The terrible title game of chance in this Shirley Jackson story takes place on June 27'

Answer: "The Lottery"


Question: 'The object of this dice game is to move all 15 stones from the triangles & take them off the board'

Answer: backgammon


Question: 'She was "All That" in getting her own self-titled sketch show on Nick in 1999'

Answer: Amanda Bynes


Question: 'The front of the $10 bill unveiled in 2005 features these 1st 3 words of the Preamble to the Constition'

Answer: "We the People"


Question: 'Held each February, this Florida contest is the premier race on the NASCAR circuit'

Answer: the Daytona 500


Question: '(Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns delivers the clue.)  My 1st documentary shown on PBS, and later nominated for an Oscar, was about this magnificent 19th century New York City structure'

Answer: the Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'This Poe story mentions "a low, dull, quick sound... as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton"'

Answer: "The Tell-Tale Heart"


Question: 'A mountain range in the Northwestern United States, or some big waterfalls'

Answer: the Cascades


Question: 'Angie Harmon was in history class when she found out that she'd won this teen magazine's cover model contest'

Answer: Seventeen


Question: 'Federal Reserve notes bear the statement "This note is legal tender for all" these, "public and private"'

Answer: debts


Question: 'It's the first day of Lent, when the residue of burnt palm fronds is applied to the forehead'

Answer: Ash Wednesday


Question: 'Virginia City, Nevada & this nearby state capital are known as "Sisters in History"'

Answer: Carson City


Question: 'O! the ironic twist that ends his 1906 story "The Gift of the Magi"'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this'

Answer: discontent


Question: 'At age 13, Christian Slater was on Broadway portraying a youthful version of this Arthurian wizard'

Answer: Merlin


Question: 'Bills printed in 2008 bear the signatures of Anna Cabral, U.S. Treasurer, & Henry Paulson, this official'

Answer: Secretary of the Treasury


Question: 'Each February, the Audubon Society sponsors the GBBC, the "Great Backyard" count of these animals'

Answer: birds


Question: 'If you want to go to the Texas State Fair, head for this "big" city, not the state capital'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this "Harlem" poet's short stories'

Answer: (Langston) Hughes


Question: 'A superficial appearance or the front of a building'

Answer: the facade


Question: 'Robert E. Lee's nephew Fitzhugh Lee was a major general during both the Civil War & this 1898 war'

Answer: the Spanish-American War


Question: 'Tracy Turnblad learns a new style of dancing when she's sent to detention in this 2007 movie musical'

Answer: Hairspray


Question: 'The name of this language, in the language itself, is "Igpay Atinlay"'

Answer: Pig Latin


Question: 'British Columbia's flag shows the sun setting over wavy stripes, which symbolize this ocean'

Answer: the Pacific


Question: 'It was believed gods lived in trees; to ward off bad luck, do this to wood'

Answer: knock on wood


Question: 'Impossible to read because of poor handwriting'

Answer: illegible


Question: '"Quaker guns" were really logs that the South painted to look like these big mounted weapons'

Answer: cannons


Question: 'As Gabriella, this gal sang "When There Was Me And You" in "High School Musical"'

Answer: (Vanessa) Hudgens


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.)  Some clay, a very sharp pencil & a horseshoe magnet will make a simple one of these devices--you don't even need a needle'

Answer: a compass


Question: 'Petrified wood is the official stone of this province whose capital is Edmonton'

Answer: Alberta


Question: 'It was believed that this animal's foot could keep away all forms of rheumatism'

Answer: a rabbit


Question: 'It's the instrument heard here'

Answer: an accordion


Question: 'He was clipping roses in his garden when he found out that he'd been elected President of the Confederacy'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'I'm "Hopelessly Devoted" to this 1978 musical that's set at Rydell High'

Answer: Grease


Question: 'Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of "National Geographic"'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'Its song is "The Island Hymn"'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: 'It was thought breaking this damages one's soul; since vampires have no soul, they can't be seen in one'

Answer: a mirror


Question: 'Cattle, sheep & other useful animals raised on a farm'

Answer: livestock


Question: 'This city in Northern Virginia was the site of 2 battles known in the North as the Battles of Bull Run'

Answer: Manassas


Question: 'In "Raise Your Voice", this teen idol leaves her small town to go to a prestigious California music school'

Answer: Hilary Duff


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a phrase on the monitor.) In proofreading, a mark like the red one here indicates that the writer should do this with the words'

Answer: switch them (or transpose them)


Question: 'It's great, it's gray, it's nocturnal, it's the provincial bird of Manitoba'

Answer: an owl


Question: 'Using this object, symbolic of a solar wheel & originally a sun shade, when there was no sun was sacrilegious'

Answer: an umbrella


Question: 'A person in a savage, primitive state, like Conan (no, not O'Brien, the other one)'

Answer: a barbarian


Question: 'General Albert Sidney Johnston died while leading the attack against the Union at Shiloh in this state'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'This 1980 film was set at the N.Y. High School for Performing Arts; a TV show, reality show & musical followed'

Answer: Fame


Question: '14-letter word for cooperation between 2 partners, leading to smoother political sailing'

Answer: bipartisanship


Question: 'This province's motto is Je me souviens, "I remember"'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'As shown in "The Dresser", it's Shakespeare's not-to-be-quoted-from, bad luck play'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: '270 is the magic number for this "college" of U.S. politics'

Answer: the Electoral College


Question: 'C. familiaris, it has one of the largest size ranges, from a 2-pound Mexican variety to 200 pounders'

Answer: a dog


Question: 'This Boston landmark contains the first set of church bells in the American colonies'

Answer: the Old North Church


Question: 'The first 2-time MVP (for the first 2 Super Bowls) was this team's Bart Starr'

Answer: the Packers


Question: 'In 1946 Del Harder of this auto co. coined the term "automation" to describe the way its engines were assembled'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Fort Dix is in this state's 4th District, repped by Chris Smith, who was elected to Congress at age 27'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'There's good hiking at several stops on this country's mountainous Chihuahua al Pacifico train'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Examples include the scaphoid & the scapula'

Answer: bones


Question: 'The name of this Byzantine church in Istanbul is Greek for "holy wisdom"'

Answer: the Hagia Sophia


Question: 'In Super Bowl XXXIII this Bronco won his first MVP award in the last year of his 16-year career'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'In 1995 Wells Fargo became the first bank whose customers could securely view their accounts here'

Answer: online


Question: 'William French Smith, who held this post, 1981-1985, had a key role in putting the 1st woman on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Attorney General


Question: 'The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Charon's job on the River Styx'

Answer: boatman


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from beside a stained glass window.)  John Petts, who illustrated many Dylan Thomas poems, designed this gift to the 16th Street Baptist Church, from the people of this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'This Steelers wide receiver didn't need 57 reasons to be named Super Bowl XL's MVP in 2006'

Answer: Hines Ward


Question: 'A hydroelectric power plant at this U.S. landmark opened in 1881'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'In 1996 Gordon Smith lost to Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood as a Sen. from this state; now they serve together'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'In 1923 the first path designated part of this trail opened in New York's Bear Mountain State Park'

Answer: the Appalachian Trail


Question: 'Bo Derek knows it's a Spanish dance in triple time'

Answer: the bolero


Question: 'Her Angelus Temple, which was completed in L.A. in 1923, was said to look like a giant spaceship'

Answer: Aimee Semple McPherson


Question: 'In Super Bowl XXI this team's Phil Simms came up big by completing 88% of his passes'

Answer: the New York Giants


Question: 'Tom Scholz of the band Boston invented an amplifier that worked like a Walkman & called it this'

Answer: the Rockman


Question: 'Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist'

Answer: Adam Smith


Question: 'If this European country's mountains are forbidding, try hiking in its famed valley the Engadine'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The unit of currency of Venezuela'

Answer: a bolivar


Question: 'The National Cathedral in Washington is officially known as the cathedral church of these two saints'

Answer: Peter & Paul


Question: 'After a last-second Colts FG in Super Bowl V, this team's Chuck Howley became the first MVP from a losing team'

Answer: the Dallas Cowboys


Question: 'Put pulped cellulose fiber mixed with water & fillers into a Fourdrinier machine & it comes out as this'

Answer: paper


Question: 'Parts of Comal, Hays & Travis Counties make up the 21st District of this state's Rep. Lamar Smith'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Germany's 104-mile Rennsteig meanders through the Thuringer Wald, or Thuringian this'

Answer: Forest


Question: 'In Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 2" Mistress Quickly is the hostess of this tavern'

Answer: the Boar\'s-Head


Question: '"First Man" is a 2005 biography of this quiet Ohioan'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'This cord can be impregnated with inorganic salt solutions & dried prior to molding into candles'

Answer: the wick


Question:
'In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest":
Randle McMurphy,
Chief Bromden,
Billy Bibbit'

Answer: Chief Bromden


Question: 'The American crocodile is very rare & can only be found naturally in the southern part of this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Enchantress who made Odysseus' men pig-headed'

Answer: Circe


Question: 'The 1997 version of "Candle In The Wind" honored Princess Diana; the original version was about her'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'Apollo 8 astronauts Borman, Lovell & Anders were the first men to make this circuit & they made 10 of them'

Answer: a lunar orbit


Question: 'Candles can be made of animal fat or this nonglycerine substance used as early as 3000 B.C.'

Answer: beeswax


Question:
'In "The Iliad":
Hector,
Agamemnon,
Patroclus'

Answer: Agamemnon


Question: 'Crocodiles are unique among reptiles in that they have 4-chambered ones of these organs'

Answer: the heart


Question: 'Last name of the lyricist who worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'Elton's 1982 song "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" was a tribute to this slain man'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: '"I wouldn't touch" the space station's antenna "with" this, but in 1998 that's what Jerry Ross used to fix it'

Answer: a 10-foot pole


Question: 'Meaning "offered" or "dedicated", it's the type of candle seen here'

Answer: a votive


Question:
'In "Beowulf":
Grendel,
Beowulf,
Wiglaf'

Answer: Wiglaf


Question: 'Crikey!  This man's made quite a career as the unconventional "Crocodile Hunter"'

Answer: Steve Irwin


Question: 'Its name is from the Middle English for "an object of religious veneration"'

Answer: relic


Question: 'A 1982 Elton John song says "Baby's got" these, the song's title, "holding back the tears"'

Answer: "Blue Eyes"


Question: 'In 1980 Soyuz 38 carried the first Hispanic man in space, Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez of this country'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'From Latin for "barely connected", this solid white substance is water-insoluble & can precede "oil"'

Answer: paraffin


Question:
'In "Othello":
Iago,
Othello,
Desdemona'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'The god Sobek of this ancient culture was often depicted as a crocodile wearing a headdress'

Answer: Ancient Egypt


Question: 'To cause annoyance or ire'

Answer: rile


Question: 'This man "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" a harmonica solo for Elton's song "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues"'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question: 'In 2004 Binnie & Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on the 2 flights that captured this alphabetic $10 million prize'

Answer: the X Prize


Question: 'We'd know the type of candle seen here from this "to post"'

Answer: a pillar


Question:
'In "Les Miserables":
Fantine,
Cosette,
Jean Valjean'

Answer: Cosette


Question: 'This term for a freshwater crocodile of India sounds like a thief who robs someone in a public place'

Answer: a mugger


Question: 'In many fantasy role-playing games, it's a healing class'

Answer: cleric


Question: 'Completes the apt title of Elton's 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only..."'

Answer: "The Piano Player"


Question: 'These 2 nations fought a war on neither nation's soil; the decisive battle came at present-day Shen-Yang'

Answer: Russia & Japan


Question: 'Physical feature of Kentucky's northern bulge that gave the state its nickname'

Answer: Bluegrass


Question: 'Flagg, Farmer'

Answer: Fannie


Question: 'Lennart von Post first counted grains of this from plants to reconstruct past vegetation'

Answer: Pollen


Question:
'"Na na na
na-na-na-na,
na-na-na-na..."'

Answer: "Hey Jude"


Question: 'Brand some folks have used since they were just one in their father's eye'

Answer: Gleem


Question: 'It's where you've gotten if you've drawn a walk or kissed a girl'

Answer: First base


Question: 'Among his 4 Top 40 hits in 1967 was "Kentucky Woman"'

Answer: Neil Diamond


Question: 'Tillis, Torme'

Answer: Mel


Question: 'The Incan ice maiden seen here was preserved as one of these, more associated with Egypt'

Answer: Mummy


Question: '"All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"'

Answer: "Eleanor Rigby"


Question: 'We can guess what's the most popular toothpaste among students at this Hamilton, N.Y. university'

Answer: Colgate


Question: 'It's the beloved Christmas carol heard here:'

Answer: "The First Noel"


Question: 'This city named for a French king goes back to one founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778'

Answer: Louisville


Question: 'London, Learned'

Answer: Michael


Question: 'Meal sites of the Anasazi people have led to thr controversial theory that they engaged in this horrific practice'

Answer: Cannibalism


Question: '"Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book"'

Answer: "Paperback Writer"


Question: 'It's the toothpaste Norma Desmond is ready for'

Answer: Close-Up


Question: 'Enrollment in the National Archives & Records Administration's Modern Archives Institute is on this basis -- hurry!'

Answer: First come, first serve


Question: 'Lexington is home to the International Museum of this animal'

Answer: Horse


Question: 'Patric, Priestley'

Answer: Jason


Question: 'In 1998 the world's oldest church was found in Jordan & the oldest of these, 300 years older, near Jericho'

Answer: Synagogue


Question: '"Children at your feet, wonder how you manage to make ends meet"'

Answer: "Lady Madonna"


Question: 'What you have to do to shoot that tube on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet'

Answer: Aim


Question: 'Stance seen here:<br />(in ballet)'

Answer: First position


Question: 'Over 350 miles of this national park's underground passages have been mapped'

Answer: Mammoth Cave


Question: 'James,<br />Springfield'

Answer: Rick


Question: 'In 1999 this university in Chapel Hill returned excavated human remains to the Cherokee nation'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: '"There beneath the blue suburban skies"'

Answer: "Penny Lane"


Question: 'Sounds like just the brand to use in a Los Angeles art museum named for the CEO of Occidental Petroleum'

Answer: Arm & Hammer (for Armand Hammer)


Question: 'The page seen here is from this 17th century publication:<br />(picture of William Shakespeare)'

Answer: "The First Folio"


Question: 'The 1875 novel "Honest John Vane" satirizes the administration of this general-turned-president'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'This tennis player published 1988's "A Hard Road to Glory", a 3-volume history of African-American athletes'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'The point around which a body's weight is evenly balanced is called its center of mass or of this'

Answer: Gravity


Question: 'In this film Marlon Brando tells Rod Steiger, "You don't understand.  I could've had class.  I could've been a contender"'

Answer: On the Waterfront


Question: 'A young reporter on the Tribune or the Sun-Times'

Answer: Chicago Cub


Question: 'This began in 18th C. Britain; the 19th C. U.S. manufacturing boom is sometimes called the second one'

Answer: Industrial Revolution


Question: '"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" was her second anti-slavery novel'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'He's the wonderful singer heard here:<br />("Wonderful")'

Answer: Adam Ant


Question: 'It's defined as a narrow beam of energy, or as a drop of golden sun'

Answer: Ray


Question: 'She made her English-speaking debut in "Intermezzo", a 1939 film she had made in Swedish 3 years earlier'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'Someone filling his suitcase to get out of Wisconsin'

Answer: Green Bay Packer


Question: 'Union general John Pope proved very fallible at the second battle of this in August 1862'

Answer: Bull Run/Manassas


Question: 'King Louis XI of France is a major character in this Scotsman's 1823 novel "Quentin Durward"'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'Fred's sister, she was his dancing partner before Ginger Rogers'

Answer: Adele Astaire


Question: 'Max Planck gave this name to the smallest amount of energy that can be emitted as electromagnetic radiation'

Answer: Quantum


Question: 'In "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle", he plays Fearless Leader, would-be conqueror of the world'

Answer: Robert De Niro


Question: 'One who goes wild with a credit card at California's Horton Plaza'

Answer: San Diego Charger


Question: 'Vaishali, India was the site of the Second Council of this faith, held after the founder's death'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'The hero of this "Vanity Fair" author's "History of Henry Esmond" fights in the War of the Spanish Succession'

Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray


Question: 'Remember this lady, seen here:<br />(the second "First" one)'

Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'Archimedes' Principle is part of hydrostatics, the study of this at rest'

Answer: Water/fluid


Question: '(Here comes film critic Roger Ebert)  "This film ennobles filmmaking" is what I wrote of this death row drama starring Susan Sarandon'

Answer: Dead Man Walking


Question: 'A Georgia native who wants war'

Answer: Atlanta Hawk


Question: 'In 1852 Napoleon III established France's second (& last) of these'

Answer: Empire


Question: 'He wrote "The Fair God", a novel about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, 7 years before "Ben-Hur"'

Answer: Lew Wallace


Question: 'He's the highest-ranking U.S. intelligence official ever arrested for spying'

Answer: Aldrich Ames


Question: 'Named for its inventor, this hair-raising generator seen here produces millions of volts'

Answer: Van de Graaff Generator


Question: 'Leonard Maltin calls this 1987 Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman farce the "'Heaven's Gate' of movie comedies"'

Answer: Ishtar


Question: 'A tandoori chef imported to the shores of Lake Erie'

Answer: Cleveland Indian


Question: 'The 1790s was the decade to rise & shine for the second of these "Great" religious revivals'

Answer: Great Awakening


Question: 'In 1928 this oilman served as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kansas'

Answer: Alf Landon


Question: 'In 2004 this Portuguese city is set to host the European football championship'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'These brothers who ran a famous circus bearing their name worked in it as jugglers & tightrope walkers'

Answer: Ringling Brothers


Question: 'Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'Nearly a quarter of all species of mammals are these flyers'

Answer: bats


Question: 'Enormous, like an extinct elephant<br />(7)'

Answer: mammoth


Question: 'In April 2001 she announced her engagement to her "Scooby Doo" co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr.'

Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar


Question: 'Now Jamaica's capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'Ah, Yes!  This comedic actor seen here starred in Vaudeville as an expert juggler'

Answer: W.C. Fields


Question: 'The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency'

Answer: CIA


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo)  The manatee can live in both of these types of environments, or in a mixture of them called brackish'

Answer: salt & freshwater


Question: '1,609 meters<br />(4)'

Answer: mile


Question: 'Born Sofia Scicolone, her A&E bio was subtitled "Actress Italian Style"'

Answer: Sophia Loren


Question: 'A landmark of this Uruguayan capital is The Cerro, or hill, for which it's named'

Answer: Montevideo


Question: 'Dating back to 2000 B.C., the earliest known depiction of juggling was found near this river'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807'

Answer: treason


Question: 'An African species of this reptile in the genus Dasypeltis feeds entirely on birds' eggs'

Answer: snake


Question: 'Proverbially slow syrup<br />(8)'

Answer: molasses


Question: 'In 1975 she became the first model to get a second Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover'

Answer: Cheryl Tiegs


Question: 'Commissioned by Malcolm III's wife, the Chapel of St. Margaret is the oldest surviving structure in this capital'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew)  Devilstick juggling probably originated in this Asian country, where it's called wakan'

Answer: China


Question: 'Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper'

Answer: libel


Question: 'The golden type of this, now a common pet, was thought to be extinct until around 1930'

Answer: hamster


Question: 'Plaster condiment<br />(7)'

Answer: mustard


Question: 'This sassy singer must have been jazzed when she won a Grammy for her album "Gershwin Live!"'

Answer: Sarah Vaughan


Question: 'It ranks as the second-largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca'

Answer: Rabat


Question: 'Margarita Ayala & her daughters are famous for juggling flaming torches while hanging by this'

Answer: their hair


Question: 'In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees'

Answer: lawyer/law


Question: 'Though it's not a feline, this creature sometimes has "cat" attached to its name'

Answer: civet (or civet cat)


Question: 'Tasty tidbit<br />(6)'

Answer: morsel


Question: 'This noted oddsmaker of the 1970s cashed in his chips in Vegas April 21, 1996'

Answer: Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder


Question: 'His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'Perhaps to keep Americans from thinking they'd missed parts 1&2, "The Madness of George III" was changed to this'

Answer: The Madness of King George


Question: 'Ares'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'This pioneering surgeon co-wrote "The Living Heart"'

Answer: Michael DeBakey


Question: 'In 1762 Leopold Mozart presented musical performances by his kids, 10-year-old Nannerl & this 6-year-old'

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus


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Question: 'Population 350,000, it's the largest city in Switzerland'

Answer: Zurich


Question: 'His play "Man and Superman" is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy"'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'One of the only 2 musicals to win 9 or more Oscars; one was in 1958 & one was in 1961'

Answer: Gigi or West Side Story


Question: 'Poseidon'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'In 1973 this Israeli defense minister married Rachel Korem'

Answer: Moshe Dayan


Question: 'He wrote the libretto to his own opera "Siegfried"'

Answer: Richard Wagner


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Question: 'Ethnic group primarily found in South Africa's Natal province'

Answer: Zulu


Question: 'Ezra Pound gave an enthusiastic review to "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by this Irish author'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'Young women with the last names Chandler, McNamara & Duke are known by this title name in a 1989 black comedy'

Answer: Heathers


Question: 'Hades'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'He wrote Elvis' hit "In the Ghetto" & co-wrote "A Little Less Conversation", a posthumous hit for the King'

Answer: Mac Davis


Question: 'The same not very skillful eye surgeon operated on Bach & on this man born in 1685, his greatest contemporary'

Answer: George Frideric Handel


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Question: 'Southern Louisiana musical style combining French, Caribbean & Blues elements'

Answer: Zydeco


Question: 'His poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" says, "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above"'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'At the 61st Academy Awards Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for this 1988 film'

Answer: The Accused


Question: 'Dionysus'

Answer: Bacchus


Question: 'One of this French artist's "Readymades" was a photo of the "Mona Lisa" with a moustache & goatee'

Answer: Marcel Duchamp


Question: 'City where the composer of the following lived; it's also in the name of the piece'

Answer: Vienna ("The Waltzes of Vienna")


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Question: 'A cell formed by the union of 2 gametes'

Answer: zygote


Question: 'His plays include "In the Shadow of the Glen", "Riders to the Sea" & "Playboy of the Western World", his masterpiece'

Answer: John Millington Synge


Question: 'This title star of 1922's "Oliver Twist" was the first child star to top a million dollars in film earnings'

Answer: Jackie Coogan


Question: 'Demeter'

Answer: Ceres


Question: 'A controversial piece of his consists of a pianist sitting without playing for 4 minutes 33 seconds'

Answer: John Cage


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Question: 'Hungarian-born American film producer who helped start Paramount Pictures'

Answer: Adolph Zukor


Question: 'As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second'

Answer: photon


Question: 'In 1989, at age 52, he became the youngest man ever to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'This Dilbert canine's "Top Secret Management Handbook" is a humorous guide for executives'

Answer: Dogbert


Question: 'Anguagelay okenspay isthay ayway'

Answer: Pig Latin


Question: 'With 16, this team has won more NBA titles than any other'

Answer: Boston Celtics


Question: 'English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'Seuss' Horton hears one of these'

Answer: A Who


Question: 'This Montgomery seamstress was thrown off a bus one other time before her famous Dec. 1, 1955 incident'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: '"A Simple Path" is a compilation of this Nobel Prize-winning nun's thoughts & experiences'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'In 1982 this Muppet was featured in her own "Great Lovers Of The Silver Screen" calendar'

Answer: Miss Piggy


Question: 'Brothers Phil & Tony Esposito were both named to the hall of fame for this sport'

Answer: Hockey


Question: 'The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half'

Answer: Edmonton


Question: 'It's the first word in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: When


Question: 'This author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1994'

Answer: Maya Angelou


Question: 'For the week of October 12, 1997, 3 of the top 4 New York Times paperback bestsellers were about her'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'This "Peanuts" character is usually illustrated enveloped in a cloud of dust'

Answer: Pigpen


Question: '"Angel From The Outfield" seen here: (a.k.a. "Mr. October")'

Answer: Reggie Jackson


Question: 'The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'In the Abbott & Costello baseball routine, he's on second base'

Answer: What


Question: 'This TV talk show host, seen here, once served as a Navy intelligence officer'

Answer: Montel Williams


Question: 'In "Into Thin Air" Jon Krakauer said climbing this mountain "was primarily about enduring pain"'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'This porcine "Green Acres" star was a real ham; he won 2 Patsy Awards as TV Animal Of The Year'

Answer: Arnold


Question: 'The Nabisco Dinah Shore is one of the 4 events making up the Grand Slam of this sport for women'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953'

Answer: Yukon Territory


Question: '"Ou", "Donde", or "Wo", but in English'

Answer: Where


Question: 'Once White House director of public liaison, she became the USA's first black Secretary of Labor in 1997'

Answer: Alexis Herman


Question: 'This slugger praises the "Oriole Way" of teaching baseball in "The Only Way I Know"'

Answer: Cal Ripken, Jr.


Question: 'The Walrus said it was time "To talk of many things", about "why the sea is boiling hot and whether" this'

Answer: Pigs have wings


Question: 'This NFL quarterback is a great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young'

Answer: Steve Young


Question: 'This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'In a word, it was the last No. 1 hit for Frankie Avalon in 1959'

Answer: Why


Question: 'On July 24, 1858 he issued a formal challenge to debate U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Judge Ito, or a weapon'

Answer: Lance


Question: 'At London Bridge this river is about 800 feet wide; at its mouth more than 5 miles'

Answer: Thames


Question: 'You may call him Rocky or Rambo, but his friends call him Sly'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'This noble gas is ideal for balloons, as there is no fire risk'

Answer: Helium


Question: 'This type of word often ends with -ly, but not in phrases like "often ends"'

Answer: Adverb


Question: 'In 1849 stagecoach mail delivery service was introduced on this trail between Missouri & New Mexico'

Answer: Santa Fe Trail


Question: 'The "heavenly" Ms. Bassett'

Answer: Angela


Question: 'It's the only major African river emptying into the Mediterranean Sea'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'Elsa Lanchester played this title character, seen here, who had the worst bad hair day of all time'

Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein


Question: 'This element is always in a carbide'

Answer: Carbon


Question: 'The prohibition on splitting these may derive from the fact that in Latin they're one word'

Answer: Infinitives


Question: 'On Dec. 15, 1893 this Dvorak work, heard here, was performed for the first time by the N.Y. Philharmonic:'

Answer: New World Symphony


Question: 'December-born playwright Coward'

Answer: Noel


Question: 'This river is formed 15 miles SE of Cumberland, MD. by the confluence of the north & south branches'

Answer: Potomac


Question: 'This star of "The Age Of Innocence" is the goddaughter of '60s guru Dr. Timothy Leary'

Answer: Winona Ryder


Question: 'Brine is defined as water containing this in concentrated form'

Answer: Salt


Question: 'A clause that modifies a main clause, or term for a soldier of lower rank than another'

Answer: Subordinate


Question: 'On Mar. 29, 1882 this first fraternal society of Catholic men was founded in New Haven, Connecticut'

Answer: Knights of Columbus


Question: '"Flowery" novelist Murdoch'

Answer: Iris


Question: 'About 60% of this "mother" river of Russia's water flow is from snow; the rest is from groundwater & rain'

Answer: Volga


Question: 'Jamie Lee Curtis wasn't born yet when these actors, her parents, co-starred in "Houdini" in 1953'

Answer: Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh


Question: 'A black solid that gives off a purple vapor when heated, this element has an egotistic symbol'

Answer: Iodine


Question: 'Sometimes ignored in English, it's the mood of hypothetical statements, as in "If I were king"'

Answer: Subjunctive


Question: 'This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional'

Answer: Marbury v. Madison


Question: 'A mighty warrior, like football's Payton'

Answer: Walter


Question: 'Columbus first sighted this Venezuelan river in 1498, but it wasn't explored until 33 years later'

Answer: Orinoco


Question: 'Her fiery performance as Nick Nolte's daughter in "Cape Fear" earned her an Oscar nomination'

Answer: Juliette Lewis


Question: 'A symbol resembling an equal sign means a double one of these exists between atoms'

Answer: Double bond


Question: 'This word for sentences like "You've grown another foot" comes from Latin for "to go around"'

Answer: Ambiguous


Question: 'Besides Great Britain, the 2 European countries through which the Greenwich Meridian passes'

Answer: France & Spain


Question: 'This word came into vogue in 1979 after Michelle Triola sued Lee Marvin for it'

Answer: palimony


Question: 'A Vermont innkeeper in his last series, this veteran comedian now plays cartoonist Bob McKay'

Answer: Bob Newhart


Question: 'This magazine was introduced in 1885; its seal came later'

Answer: Good Housekeeping


Question: 'After "Achy Breaky Heart", his debut CD "Some Gave All" hit No.1 on the country & pop charts'

Answer: Billy Ray Cyrus


Question: 'In chronological order, this book of the Bible comes first'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'This rocky British crown colony is known as "Gib" for short'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'On August 1, 1971 George Harrison headlined a concert to raise money for refugees from this country'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Now in its 7th season, this sitcom about the Bundys is Fox's longest-running series'

Answer: Married... with Children


Question: 'Named for a nursery rhyme pair, it's one of the most popular magazines for kids'

Answer: Jack and Jill


Question: 'At the age of 13, this performer topped the country charts with "Delta Dawn"'

Answer: Tanya Tucker


Question: 'According to the Open Bible, this fee paid to Judas was worth over $3500'

Answer: 30 pieces of silver


Question: 'This Southern state's motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation"'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'On January 1, 1978 he was sworn in as the 105th mayor of New York City'

Answer: Ed Koch


Question: 'On "Love and War", Jay Thomas wants this former "L.A. Law" star to warm up his nights'

Answer: Susan Dey


Question: 'It's been referred to as the African-American version of Life magazine'

Answer: Ebony


Question: 'A year before he recorded "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", he played guitar on the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations"'

Answer: Glen Campbell


Question: 'Since he wasn't an eyewitness to the events, this doctor's gospel is all secondhand'

Answer: Luke


Question: 'You'll find the Kelvingrove Art Galleries & Museum in this Scottish city'

Answer: Glasgow


Question: 'The 2 reporters at the Washington Post who blew the whistle on Watergate'

Answer: Woodward & Bernstein


Question: 'She's back, she's blonde & she has designs on becoming a country star on her new sitcom'

Answer: Delta Burke


Question: 'In January 1992 this magazine for men celebrated 30 years of dubious achievements'

Answer: Esquire


Question: 'In October 1991 this singer quit "Killin' Time" long enough to marry Lisa Hartman'

Answer: Clint Black


Question: 'Syros, Skyros & Skiathos are just 3 of this Balkan country's many islands'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'She went to court in 1972 to get an injunction to keep photographer Ron Galella away from her'

Answer: Jackie Onassis


Question: 'It's the name of the newsmagazine show for which Murphy Brown works'

Answer: FYI


Question: 'Edited by Paige Rense, this interior design magazine is noted for showcasing celebrity homes'

Answer: Architectural Digest


Question: 'His 1991 music video "The Thunder Rolls" created controversy because of its violence'

Answer: Garth Brooks


Question: 'Most of the Indians in this Central American country speak one of the Maya languages'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'Gregory Hines tapped his way to a Tony when he played this title role in "Jelly's Last Jam"'

Answer: Jelly Roll Morton


Question: 'After taking up with John Lennon, she became known as "The Woman Who Broke Up the Beatles"'

Answer: Yoko Ono


Question: 'Until the 1880s, this animal was the principal source of food for the Plains Indians'

Answer: the buffalo


Question: 'The main purpose of a red blood cell is to carry this gas from your lungs to the rest of your body'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'In 1984 films, Robert Ginty was "The Exterminator" & he was "The Terminator"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'His "The Bonfire of the Vanities" was first published as a serial in Rolling Stone'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe


Question: 'This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical opens on a sailing vessel in the Gulf of Siam'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'With help from miracle worker Anne Sullivan, she graduated from Radcliffe with honors in 1904'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'In addition to cultivating Pocahontas, John Rolfe learned to cultivate this cash crop from the Indians'

Answer: tobacco


Question: 'The sun spends its days & nights converting this gas into helium'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'In "On Golden Pond" he played Norman Thayer'

Answer: Henry Fonda


Question: 'Type of music that's the title of Toni Morrison's 1992 novel set in 1926 Harlem'

Answer: Jazz


Question: 'This woman for whom the Tony Awards are named was a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim John Howland'

Answer: Antoinette Perry


Question: 'The Chippewa name for this bird is kookookoo-ooh'

Answer: the owl


Question: 'Baking powder produces this gas'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'David Lynch directed this 1980 tale about John Merrick'

Answer: The Elephant Man


Question: 'She created TV's "All My Children" while working as a writer for "The Guiding Light"'

Answer: Agnes Nixon


Question: 'Red Cloud & Crazy Horse were members of the Oglalla branch of this tribe'

Answer: the Sioux


Question: 'It's the common nickname of nitrous oxide'

Answer: laughing gas


Question: 'In this 1982 film Lou Gossett drills Richard Gere & Debra Winger thrills him'

Answer: An Officer and a Gentleman


Question: 'From 1973 to 1983 she was Rolling Stone magazine's chief photographer'

Answer: Annie Leibovitz


Question: 'In 1828 this tribe began publishing a weekly newspaper using their new alphabet'

Answer: the Cherokee


Question: 'Produced by the decay of plant & animal matter, this colorless & odorless gas, CH4, is flammable'

Answer: methane


Question: 'Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer & Cher were this title group'

Answer: The Witches of Eastwick


Question: 'The first two presidents not born in Virginia were born in what is now this state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'When placed on its back, the click family of this insect jumps into the air to right itself, making a click sound'

Answer: a beetle


Question: 'Sydney Schanberg's magazine article "The Death & Life of Dith Pran" lived on to become this film'

Answer: The Killing Fields


Question: 'Dendrochronologists study the climate of the past mainly by examining these in trees'

Answer: trunk rings


Question: 'Get hit in a "sensitive area", preferably by a toddler; send the tape to this Tom Bergeron show to win $100,000'

Answer: America\'s Funniest Home Videos


Question: 'A branch of the Sioux Indian tribe'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'To leave one's home & roots is to "pull up" these'

Answer: stakes (steaks)


Question: 'A familiar sight on summer evenings east of the Rockies is the Photinus pyralis, a species of this'

Answer: a firefly


Question: 'The Life article that became this film described the bisexual bank robber as having the "good looks of an Al Pacino"'

Answer: Dog Day Afternoon


Question: 'This symbol of Maine stands tall & green on the state's flag'

Answer: a pine tree


Question: 'Numismatics, man!  In 2005 one of these dating from 1792 sold for $437,000--that's 43.7 million times its face value'

Answer: a penny


Question: 'The Bear River runs through this state into a lake'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'I must have offended people to get this kind of reception when I arrived at the cookoff'

Answer: chilly (chili)


Question: 'Some species of thrips are the only known animals that can reproduce by both bearing live young & doing this'

Answer: laying eggs


Question: 'Annie Proulx said she was driving while she wrote most of the article that became this Wyoming-set film'

Answer: Brokeback Mountain


Question: 'Acer saccharum is the sugar type of this tree'

Answer: the maple


Question: 'Think hard & pick up this honor, worth 114,935 kronor in 1923 & 10 million in 2005'

Answer: the Nobel Prize


Question: 'Bug, Glove or Coast'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'Before the police could arrest him for his crimes with sheep, he "took it on" this'

Answer: the lam (lamb)


Question: 'Just like chickens, insects have this 4-letter pouch where food is stored & partially digested'

Answer: a crop


Question: 'This Cameron Crowe film was a fictionalized account of his adventures writing for Rolling Stone'

Answer: Almost Famous


Question: 'From his birthplace, Elvis may have known that Nyssa is the botanical name for this tree'

Answer: the tupelo


Question: 'Go halfsies in the lottery with Donna Goeppert, from Bethlehem in this state; in 2005 she won $1 million 2 different times'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Hellenically, Hera'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'Produced by mating'

Answer: bred (bread)


Question: 'A long-horned grasshopper gets this name from the love call produced by rubbing its two front wings together'

Answer: the katydid


Question: 'A GQ article became this film where Piper Perabo learned that beautiful women plus booze equals money'

Answer: Coyote Ugly


Question: 'This Aussie song mentions "a jolly swagman" "under the shade of a coolibah tree"'

Answer: "Waltzing Matilda"


Question: 'If you see "Whitey" Bulger, ex-accomplice of "Rifleman" Flemmi, call this federal agency for a $1 million reward'

Answer: the FBI


Question: 'This weapon is aflame in Genesis 3:24'

Answer: Sword


Question: 'It's noted for its huge antlers'

Answer: moose (mousse)


Question: 'All moving particles have waves associated with them, as light waves are with these particles of light'

Answer: photons


Question: 'She deserves a little respect, picking up her 17th Grammy for her rendition of "A House Is Not A Home"'

Answer: Aretha Franklin


Question: 'Da da da dada something something "want mealier" / This tiny president was "The Sage of Montpelier"'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'He transformed his country into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'This playwright adapted several Chekhov stories for his play "The Good Doctor" (Hint: Marsha Mason was in it)'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: '"Skirl" is the shrill sound made by this musical instrument of the Highlands'

Answer: a bagpipe


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a series of sinusoids on the monitor.)  When a wave is canceled out by an equal & opposite wave, the result is "complete destructive" this, like what messes up radio transmissions'

Answer: interference


Question: 'Roses are red / Violets are blue / This "House of Mirth" author / Was born in 1862'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'In April 1969 he left the world stage & retired to his home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'In 1997 Amy Irving, Lili Taylor & Jeanne Tripplehorn were a triple threat in this play'

Answer: Three Sisters


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew speaks from a library.)  In "Robinson Crusoe" the name of this amphibian means "a loop to hold a sword"; today, it's the name of this type of fastener'

Answer: a frog


Question: 'This color precedes "body" in the name of an object that absorbs all radiant energy falling on it'

Answer: black


Question: 'In days of old, this knight was bold, in the 17th c. scene / On muddy ground, his cloak was found / Like his head in 1618'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'This Caribbean leader's famous nickname was appropriate--he graduated from medical school in 1934'

Answer: "Papa Doc" (Duvalier)


Question: 'In 1966 this ex-wife of Laurence Olivier appeared on Broadway for the last time, as John Gielgud's wife in "Ivanov"'

Answer: Vivien Leigh


Question: 'An ichnite or ichnolite is a fossilized one of these, perhaps from a sasquatch?'

Answer: a footprint


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a balance on a monitor.)  With the torque pushing the bar clockwise equal to the torque pushing it counterclockwise, the bar is in the rotational type of this'

Answer: equilibrium


Question: 'In 1492 / He sailed the ocean blue / He'd later lead the first fleet to reach India from Europe (Yep, that's bad poetry)'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'This future king of Sweden received bricks, a trowel & a real yoke with 2 pails for his 5th birthday in 1951'

Answer: King Carl Gustaf


Question: 'George C. Scott & Julie Christie shared the stage in this play in '73 with a very avuncular Nicol Williamson'

Answer: Uncle Vanya


Question: 'It's probably been a while since you've seen a typewriter; remember this 6-letter term for the roller?'

Answer: a platen


Question: 'A measure of energy that can't be converted into work, it's causing the universe to run down into bleak nothingness'

Answer: entropy


Question: 'With Nicole Kidman to cheer him on, he won for Male Country Vocal Performance, his first Grammy ever'

Answer: Keith Urban


Question: 'Half brother of Sir Austen / Took appeasement to the hilt / He was the sittin' / PM of Britain / & no, his name was not Wilt'

Answer: Neville Chamberlain


Question: '(Linda Park of Star Trek fame reads the clue.)  I was born in Korea in 1978, the year before this dictator (no relation) was removed from power'

Answer: Park Chung Hee


Question: 'A 2006 staging of this Chekhov classic was fruitful for leading lady Annette Bening'

Answer: The Cherry Orchard


Question: 'An explanatory comment, or in old manuscripts, a chapter heading or initial letter written in red'

Answer: a rubric


Question: 'To get the name of its country, add 2 letters to the end of this world capital city'

Answer: Tunis


Question: 'On March 1, 1692 Sarah Good didn't have a good day as she was interrogated as a possible witch in this town'

Answer: Salem (Mass.)


Question: '"I'll tell ya what I want, what I really, really want"--never to hear this group's 1996 song ever again!'

Answer: The Spice Girls


Question:
'Sardo,
Stilton,
Tilsit'

Answer: cheeses


Question: 'A stiff this, very serious--clearly meningitis.  Make that whiplash.  Cervical arthritis.  You slept wrong'

Answer: a stiff neck


Question: 'Providing most of government revenues, it's the tax on individual & business earnings'

Answer: the income tax


Question: 'You don't need to tickle the ivories on this device that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys'

Answer: a player piano


Question: 'On March 1, 2006 this online encyclopedia reached its 1 millionth user-submitted article'

Answer: Wikipedia


Question: 'Maybe it would have been better if this Oscar-winning song from a 1997 movie froze to death in the Atlantic as well'

Answer: "My Heart Will Go On"


Question:
'"The Searchers",
"The Shootist",
"The Quiet Man"'

Answer: John Wayne movies


Question: 'A rash?  It's hives.  Scratch that.  Allergic purpura.  No, hidradenitis suppurativa, inflammation of these glands'

Answer: sweat


Question: 'In 1978 California's Proposition 13 lowered the rates of this tax by 57%'

Answer: property


Question: 'This soft modeling clay for kids was introduced in 1955'

Answer: Play-Doh


Question: 'On March 1, 1781 Maryland ratified this document & the U.S. had its first stab at a Constitution'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: '"Come & find me, my name is" this, "always at the party con las chicas que son buena"'

Answer: "Macarena"


Question:
'Draco,
Lyra,
Mensa'

Answer: constellations


Question: 'Shortness of breath--must be a heart attack.  No, histoplasmosis.  Of course!--this red blood cell insufficiency'

Answer: anemia


Question: 'It's the tax on earnings from the disposition of securities & investment'

Answer: capital gains


Question: 'This 2-word TV innovation premiered in the 1963 Army-Navy game'

Answer: instant replay


Question: 'Injuring several representatives, nationalists from this U.S. territory opened fire on Congress on March 1, 1954'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: '"Life is brilliant" & sure, your "love is pure", but let's be blunt, James: this "pretty" song of yours is on the list'

Answer: "You\'re Beautiful"


Question:
'Egbert,
Canute,
Edward III'

Answer: Kings of England


Question: 'You have acoustic neuroma.  Actually, presbycusis.  No, ceruminosis, that's why this is reduced'

Answer: your hearing


Question: 'When this is levied on the purchase or consumption of a specific commodity, it's called an excise tax'

Answer: a sales tax


Question: 'How often a particular song is broadcast on the radio'

Answer: airplay


Question: 'The first contact of a manmade object with another planet came March 1, 1966, when a Soviet probe landed here'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'This Sisqo song about a piece of clothing mentioned another song on the list, "Livin' La Vida Loca"'

Answer: "Thong Song"


Question:
'Stede Bonnet,
"Calico" Jack Rackham,
Henry Morgan'

Answer: pirates


Question: 'The fever clearly indicates mono--oops, colitis.  No, TB.  Of course, this bacterial ailment aka septic sore throat'

Answer: strep throat


Question: 'Also called a capitation tax, it's an illegal tax levied for the right to vote'

Answer: a poll tax


Question: 'To pretend to be asleep or dead, like a New World marsupial'

Answer: play possum


Question: '10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days'

Answer: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid


Question: 'In 1961 Nikita Khrushchev changed its name to Volgograd; this name had lasted almost 40 years'

Answer: Stalingrad


Question: 'In 1874 Charles Hodge argued that the perfection of this human sense organ makes it obvious we were designed'

Answer: the eye


Question: 'If vou're in the entrance hall named for this emperor & need to see a man about a horse, relax--it has 2 loos'

Answer: Napoléon Bonaparte


Question: 'Gray:<br />"The curfew tolls the knell of parting" this'

Answer: day


Question: 'A 2-seated pleasure carriage, with or without "the fringe on top"'

Answer: a surrey


Question: 'In "History of the World, Part I" he plays a waiter at the Last Supper & asks if the diners want separate checks'

Answer: Mel Brooks


Question: 'This grassy plain covers Russia from its border with Ukraine east to the Altai Mountains in Siberia'

Answer: a steppe


Question: 'Hodge is a village in this state's Jackson Parish'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Masefield:<br />"All I ask is a tall ship / And" this "to steer her by"'

Answer: a star


Question: 'A rapid stream of water, or a violent downpour of rain'

Answer: a torrent


Question: 'The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this Baz Luhrmann epic'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest point at 18,510 feet, rises in this range along the border with Georgia'

Answer: the Caucasus


Question: 'Comic book supervillain Cameron Hodge is an arch-foe of this group of mutant superheroes'

Answer: the X-Men


Question: 'Blake:<br />"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the" these "of the night"'

Answer: forests (forest accepted)


Question: 'Short pistol named for gunsmith Henry'

Answer: a Derringer


Question: 'The bombing of Pearl Harbor is featured in this Richard Fleischer epic! epic! epic!'

Answer: Tora! Tora! Tora!


Question: 'The Lena River, one of Russia's longest, rises 10 miles from this deep Siberian lake & flows 2,734 miles to the Arctic Ocean'

Answer: Lake Baikal


Question: 'In 1994, Member of Parliament Margaret Hodge nominated this man as leader of Britain's Labour Party'

Answer: Tony Blair


Question: 'Pope:<br />"Hope springs eternal in" this; "Man never is, but always to be, blest"'

Answer: the human breast


Question: 'Containing iron'

Answer: ferrous


Question: 'In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse'

Answer: Viva Zapata!


Question: 'In 1949 the Ainu people were expelled from this largest Russian island & relocated to Hokkaido'

Answer: Sakhalin


Question: '"Drummer Hodge", a poem by this "Mayor of Casterbridge" author, recounts a young soldier's burial'

Answer: (Thomas) Hardy


Question: 'Service:<br />"...the queerest they ever did see / Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge / I cremated" him'

Answer: Sam McGee


Question: 'A small earthenware casserole dish, or the pate made in it'

Answer: terrine


Question: 'Often described as a redhead, this accused killer called her hair light brown on her 1890 passport application'

Answer: Lizzie Borden


Question: 'After a life-changing trip to Mecca in 1965, Malcolm X had a new slogan: these "or Bullets"'

Answer: Ballots


Question: 'These sour wild apples are usually less than 2 inches in diameter'

Answer: crabapples


Question: 'A straight line that touches the outside of a circle at only one point is called this'

Answer: tangent


Question:
'1964:
"Super-
califragilistic-
expialidocious"'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'It's the holiday you associate with the "Wearing of the Green"'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day


Question: 'A house with floors that differ by about half a story'

Answer: split-level


Question: 'For hippies, it was Manhattan's equivalent of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: 'Appropriately, the Empire apple was introduced in this U.S. state in 1966'

Answer: New York


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  With this blue line, I've done this to the angle'

Answer: bisect it


Question: '1980:<br />"Redrum!"'

Answer: The Shining


Question: 'Japan's Shichi-Go-San, or "7-5-3", celebrates 5-year-olds wearing trousers & 7-year-olds tying this with an obi'

Answer: kimono


Question: 'These singing & dancing animals hosted their own Saturday morning "Adventure Hour" from 1968 to 1970'

Answer: the Banana Splits


Question: 'Its first director was a sargent, Sargent Shriver'

Answer: Peace Corps


Question: 'The name of this world capital precedes "Beauty" in the name of an apple variety that's excellent for baking'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'The volume of one type of this solid is computed by determining the area of a circle & multiplying it by the height'

Answer: cylinder


Question: '1991: <br />"A census taker once tried to test me.  I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti"'

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs


Question: 'Susan B. Anthony Day is the day after this federal holiday'

Answer: Valentine\'s Day


Question: 'On May 25, 2000 Sony investors suddenly had twice as many shares thanks to one of these actions'

Answer: stock split


Question: 'A comedy troupe, or what critics found forming between what was reported & what was happening in Vietnam'

Answer: credibility gap


Question: 'The Jonagold is a hybrid of the Golden Delicious & this red apple variety'

Answer: Jonathan


Question: 'The foundations of analytic geometry were first laid out in this Frenchman's 1637 book "Geometrie"'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: '1999:<br />"I see dead people"'

Answer: The Sixth Sense


Question: 'In 1985 President Reagan signed Public Law 99-54 recognizing "Pause for the Pledge" as a part of this day's activities'

Answer: Flag Day


Question: 'It could be slang for a town where divorced people live'

Answer: splitsville


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston)  This capsule sent into space in 1965 weighs 8000 pounds, only about 2,500 more than a 1965 Lincoln Continental'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'This tart green apple was first cultivated by a certain Australian lady named Maria Ann'

Answer: Granny Smith


Question: 'On the road it's a type of "strip"; in a triangle it's a line extending from the midpoint of a side to the opposite angle'

Answer: median


Question: '1995:<br />"You think you can catch Keyser Soze?"'

Answer: The Usual Suspects


Question: 'The name of this Christian observance is from the Greek for "fiftieth day"'

Answer: Pentecost


Question: 'In football, you'll find them outside the offensive tackles or when the quarterback has a bad hair day'

Answer: split ends


Question:
'Warsaw,
Rome,
Madrid'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'This female trio has gone from singing on the streets of Dallas to the country & pop charts'

Answer: The Dixie Chicks


Question: 'The cartooning gods smiled on Dec. 8, 1894, which produced James Thurber & Elzie Segar, creator of this sailorman'

Answer: Popeye


Question: 'In the original tale, Elizabeth, the bride of this man, is strangled by the monster'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'The 7 points on the star of Jordan's flag are for the first 7 verses of this book'

Answer: the Koran


Question: 'To look through your attic for a particular item, maybe just before the sale of the same name'

Answer: rummage


Question:
'Pretoria,
Addis Ababa,
Algiers'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'Seen here, this late night TV "cat" is also a noted jazz guitarist'

Answer: Kevin Eubanks


Question: 'May 9, 1936 gave England Glenda Jackson & this actor whose film roles include Daddy Warbucks & Hercule Poirot'

Answer: Albert Finney


Question: 'S'posin a fella was to meet the lady that birthed Tom Joad; he could jus' call her this'

Answer: Ma


Question: 'Ordering parts for your Togo flag?  You'll need a star, a canton & 5 of these, to go'

Answer: stripes


Question: 'Effervescence, in liquid'

Answer: fizz


Question:
'Jakarta,
Manila,
Beijing'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'If you're humming a movie theme, chances are good it's by this "Jaws" & "Star Wars" composer'

Answer: John Williams


Question: 'Freud, who explored the mind, shared his May 6, 1856 birth date with this man who explored the Arctic'

Answer: Robert Peary


Question: 'Robert Jordan could sing, "I've just met a girl named Maria / she was brutalized by Fascists" in this Hemingway novel'

Answer: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"


Question: 'Narciso Lopez' La Estrella Solitaria, "The Lone Star" banner, is this island country's present flag'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Africa's closest point to the continent of Europe lies in this country 8 miles away'

Answer: Morocco


Question:
'Riyadh,
Baghdad,
Ankara'

Answer: Ankara


Question: 'Albums by this piano player born in New Orleans include the fittingly titled "Remedies"'

Answer: Dr. John


Question: 'Bishop James Pike & this man named James were both born Feb. 14, 1913 & both later disappeared'

Answer: James Hoffa


Question: 'Ladies, don't be like this Rostand heroine; make sure your suitor's great letters are really his own'

Answer: Roxanne


Question: 'Its flag, adopted in 1929, has a 3-tiered tiara & a set of keys on it'

Answer: Vatican City


Question: 'To benefit from another's popularity is to use this part of his clothing'

Answer: coattails


Question:
'Paris,
Berlin,
Brussels'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'Holy trivia!  He composed the theme heard here<br />[from the "Batman" TV series]'

Answer: Neal Hefti


Question: 'U.S. black leader Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, like this murdered first prime minister of the Congo'

Answer: Patrice Lumumba


Question: 'Albertine, created by a man named Marcel, dallies with a man named Marcel in this work'

Answer: "Remembrance of Things Past"


Question: 'This religious service for college graduates is usually held on the Sunday before commencement day'

Answer: Baccalaureate


Question: 'Founded in 1898 when several cracker companies merged, in 2000 it passed from one tobacco company to another'

Answer: Nabisco (it went from R.J. Reynolds to Philip Morris)


Question: 'He's buried in Westminster Abbey even though he's most famous for his "Canterbury Tales"'

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer


Question: 'Derived from a Portuguese guitar called a machete, it was introduced into Hawaii in the late 19th century'

Answer: Ukulele


Question: 'An ad line for this 1998 film read, "On June 19 Take Your Greatest Fear and Multiply it By X"'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'When this breaks, "The cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all"'

Answer: Bough


Question: 'A smelt'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games'

Answer: Arcade


Question: 'Caesar's lieutenant in Gaul, he was miffed that Caesar made Octavian his heir & not him'

Answer: Mark Antony


Question: 'The Highland version of this instrument has 2 tenor drones & a bass drone'

Answer: Bagpipes


Question: '[Hi, I'm Steve Harris of "The Practice"] I played detective Briggs in the 1999 movie revival of this television series featuring youthful undercover cops'

Answer: The Mod Squad


Question: 'Whinny'

Answer: Neigh


Question: 'Canvasback'

Answer: Duck


Question: 'They're non-retractable & well-developed in the grizzly & delicious with coffee for breakfast'

Answer: Bear claws


Question: 'He showed that by planting peanuts & soybeans you could restore the nitrogen in the soil that growing cotton took out'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: 'This piano ancestor is named for its similarity to another instrument whose strings are also plucked'

Answer: Harpsichord


Question: 'Mel, James & Jodie brought this little screen western to the big screen in 1994'

Answer: Maverick


Question: 'This bone is "connected to the hipbone"'

Answer: Thighbone


Question: 'Scarab'

Answer: Beetle


Question: 'Hungarian-born Andrew Grove rose "inside" this computer chip company & made it dominant today'

Answer: Intel


Question: 'After WWII Enrico Fermi moved back to this city to teach at its university'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'A type of flute with 6 finger holes, its main modern use is in drum corps & military bands'

Answer: Fife


Question: 'Kenny gets killed early on in the 1999 film based on this series'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'At 112 square miles, Queens is the largest of these administrative areas of New York City'

Answer: Boroughs


Question: 'Brown recluse'

Answer: Spider


Question: 'Daisy Ashford's novel "The Young Visiters", written when she was 9, had a preface by this "Peter Pan" author'

Answer: J.M. Barrie


Question: 'In 1848 he took 85 men, 2 cannons & 800 muskets from South America to Italy; how did he get through customs?'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'Toy instrument played by Paul McCartney on Ringo Starr's 1974 hit "You're Sixteen"'

Answer: Kazoo


Question: 'Cloris Leachman played Granny in the 1993 big screen version of this TV classic'

Answer: The Beverly Hillbillies


Question: 'An old prospector, or the type of bread he might eat'

Answer: Sourdough


Question: 'Coachwhip'

Answer: Snake


Question: 'Its symbol is Sn & it's used in plating cans & in toothpaste'

Answer: Tin


Question: 'Among the Greek city-states, it was the only one that had a standing army'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'These 2 men were the longtime pickin' & grinnin' hosts of the show'

Answer: Buck Owens & Roy Clark


Question: 'In a parable, this character aids a man wounded by thieves & pays for his recovery'

Answer: The Good Samaritan


Question: 'Honshu, this country's largest island, is home to about 80% of its population'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Found unsuitable for Mormon audiences, her smash hit "Physical" was banned for a time from Utah radio'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John


Question: 'Carter's body-shaking dances'

Answer: Jimmy\'s shimmies


Question: 'In 490 B.C. Pheidippides ran the 25 miles from this battle site to Athens with news of victory over the Persians'

Answer: Marathon


Question: 'This man elected U.S. president in 1988 once declared that "Hee Haw" was his favorite show'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'After Pharaoh put him in charge of Egypt, he gathered so much corn he lost track of how much he had'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'Iran's main crude oil terminal is on Kharg Island in this gulf'

Answer: Persian Gulf


Question: 'An edition of this children's story was banned in 1989 because it depicted a girl bringing alcohol to her granny'

Answer: Little Red Riding Hood


Question: 'Zachary's swabbies'

Answer: Taylor\'s sailors


Question: 'This seat of the most celebrated oracle of ancient Greece was considered the center of the universe'

Answer: Delphi


Question: 'On "Hee Haw", he was the man who was often asked, "What's for supper?"'

Answer: Grandpa Jones


Question: 'He cast a "legion" of demons from a madman & put an end to his howling & raging'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'Let's calypso on down to this island's Icacos Point, the southernmost point in the West Indies'

Answer: Trinidad


Question: 'This Mark Twain work was fourth on the list of "The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s"'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'Truman's fencing moves'

Answer: Harry\'s parrys


Question: 'In 594 B.C. this Athenian statesman drew up a code of law'

Answer: Solon


Question: 'A regular on "Hee Haw", George Lindsey played this "nutty" character on "Mayberry, RFD"'

Answer: Goober


Question: 'Jonah was angry when this Assyrian city he prophesied against wasn't destroyed'

Answer: Nineveh


Question: 'The Pacific country called the Federated States of this includes many of the Caroline Islands'

Answer: Micronesia


Question: 'Because of its portrayal of the Jewish character Shylock, this play was banned in Michigan in 1980'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'Washington's metal workshops'

Answer: George\'s forges


Question: 'The name of this ancient mountain pass on Greece's east coast means "hot gates"'

Answer: Thermopylae


Question: 'Don Harron was awarded the Order of Canada for playing a reporter at this "Hee Haw" radio station'

Answer: KORN (Charlie Parkinson)


Question: 'After Adam & Eve were expelled from Eden, this type of angel, not seraphim, made sure they stayed out'

Answer: Cherubim


Question: 'The Cathedral of Notre Dame stands on this island in the middle of the Seine'

Answer: Ile de la Cite (Isle of the City)


Question: 'This Daniel Defoe work about a lusty 17th century wench has often been banned from U.S. mails'

Answer: Moll Flanders


Question: 'Ulysses' formicidae'

Answer: Grant\'s ants


Question: 'The title of this women's magazine that turned 60 in 1999 used to end with "Of Hollywood"'

Answer: Glamour


Question: 'Of the 63 members the league had over the years, this was the only one expelled, for attacking Finland'

Answer: Soviet Union/USSR/Russia


Question: 'This pale-color "chocolate" contains no chocolate liquor & therefore is not true chocolate'

Answer: White Chocolate


Question: 'Chemist Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran named gallium after the Latin word for this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'Her best-selling autobiography was titled "I, Tina:  My Life Story"'

Answer: Tina Turner


Question: 'Commander's Palace is an elegant restaurant in this Louisiana city's Garden District'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'In 1995 this secret agent played by Don Adams was promoted to chief of CONTROL'

Answer: Maxwell Smart/Agent 86


Question: 'After Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, this emperor made a vain plea for the league's help'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'Chocolate-covered boysenberry squares are a specialty of this theme park in Buena Park, CA'

Answer: Knott\'s Berry Farm


Question: 'In 1877 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered this planet's moons, Phobos & Deimos'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'B.B. King joined this band on "When Love Comes To Town" on their "Rattle And Hum" album'

Answer: U2


Question: 'Children can dress up in old clothes in The Dress Up Shop, part of this Mass. city's Children's Museum'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Looking for the Enterprise's chief Miles O'Brien?  He's been transferred to this Star Trek station'

Answer: Deep Space Nine


Question: 'The committee that drafted the league's covenant included this U.S. president'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Schnecken are spiral-shaped sweet rolls; their name is German for these gastropods'

Answer: Snails


Question: 'Astronomer Sosigenes advised this Roman on the development of the calendar named for him'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'This 1960s pop & country star opened a hotel in Nashville called King Of The Road'

Answer: Roger Miller


Question: 'See where Johnny Weissmuller swung as Tarzan on the Lost River Voyage at Silver Springs in this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'He starred as Chief Petty Officer Otto Sharkey'

Answer: Don Rickles


Question: 'Like the U.N., the league's administrative branch was headed by a person with this title'

Answer: Secretary-General


Question: 'This "trivial" English dessert is made with sponge cake, wine, jam & custard'

Answer: Trifle


Question: 'In 1661 Isaac Newton entered this university's Trinity College as a subsizar, a student with domestic duties'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'Elvis' one appearance on this WSM country music program, October 2, 1954, was considered lackluster'

Answer: Grand Ole Opry


Question: 'This Las Vegas hotel named for a Robert Louis Stevenson novel is home to Cirque Du Soleil's "Mystere" show'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />PBS children's game show that features the following chief: (picture of Lynne Thigpen)'

Answer: "Where In The World (or Time) is Carmen Sandiego?"


Question: 'On September 5, 1929 Aristide Briand presented a plan to create a "United States Of" this'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'Mascarpone, a rich type of this dairy product, is an ingredient in tiramisu'

Answer: Cheese


Question: 'In 1969 this lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders began pursuing a solo career'

Answer: Mark Lindsay


Question: 'Not far from Lahaina, Kaanapali Beach on this Hawaiian island is noted for its luxury resorts'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'This San Francisco chief of detectives was assisted by Ed Brown & Eve Whitfield'

Answer: Robert Ironside


Question: 'Martha Graham's "Night Journey" tells the tragic tale of Jocasta & this "complex" man, her mate'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'This Italian Adriatic seaport is situated on 118 islands formed by about 180 canals'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'In 1876 Elisha Gray tried to file for a telephone patent just hours after this inventor'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'Queen Anne's Lace is a wild variety of this orange vegetable, but its woody roots aren't good to eat'

Answer: Carrots


Question: 'Before joining the court Lewis F. Powell was president of this lawyers' group abbreviated ABA'

Answer: American Bar Association


Question: '"The Eagle Has Flown" was Jack Higgins' 1991 follow-up to this novel'

Answer: "The Eagle Has Landed"


Question: 'The ballet "Apollo" features Polyhymnia, Terpsichore & Calliope, 3 of these 9 sister-goddesses'

Answer: Muses


Question: 'In 1788 Agha Mohammad Khan made this city the capital of Persia; it's now the capital of Iran'

Answer: Teheran


Question: 'This "divine" actress of the French stage & screen was known to travel with & sleep in a coffin'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'Sugar & snap are edible podded varieties of this vegetable'

Answer: Peas


Question: 'In 1992 this "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" author published "Sailor's Song", his first novel in 28 years'

Answer: Ken Kesey


Question: 'In a Michel Fokine ballet, this heroine, Daphnis' beloved, is kidnapped by pirates'

Answer: Chloe


Question: 'In the 1960s Europoort, a large harbor area, was built in this Dutch city'

Answer: Rotterdam


Question: 'At his death in 1995, this polio vaccine developer was working on another vaccine to prevent full-blown AIDS'

Answer: Dr. Jonas Salk


Question: 'The deodar type of this tree is straight grained but the Lebanon is usually knotty'

Answer: Cedar


Question: 'In 1924 justice Owen J. Roberts first came to national attention as a prosecutor in this scandal'

Answer: Teapot Dome


Question: '"The Great Santini" was the first novel by this "Prince of Tides" author'

Answer: Pat Conroy


Question: 'A cigarette poster depicting this Egyptian goddess inspired Ruth St. Denis to specialize in Oriental dance'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'The tomb of Dom Pedro I stands on the grounds of Ipiranga Park in this largest Brazilian city'

Answer: Sao Paulo


Question: 'This carver of Mt. Rushmore also sculpted the apostles outside NYC's cathedral of St. John the Divine'

Answer: Gutzon Borglum


Question: 'The boojum tree was named for the mysterious monster in his poem "The Hunting of the Snark"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'This Vienna-born justice placed many of his former students, dubbed "Hot Dogs", in jobs in the New Deal'

Answer: Felix Frankfurter


Question: 'The movie "Get Shorty" was based on a 1990 book by this crime novelist'

Answer: Elmore Leonard


Question: 'Maria Tallchief played this mythological wife in her husband George Balanchine's ballet "Orpheus"'

Answer: Eurydice


Question: 'This capital of Hong Kong lies on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'As Chopin could tell you, it was the pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'Some of these bearded flowers bloom once in spring & again in late summer or fall'

Answer: Irises


Question: 'This future chief justice played a key role in securing the GOP nomination for Eisenhower'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'Published in 1996, "The Flaming Corsage" is the latest in his Albany cycle'

Answer: William Kennedy


Question: 'This word is from the Old English for "The farmer who lives near you"'

Answer: Neighbor


DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY?

Question: 'Beethoven's dramatic middle one'

Answer: the fifth


Question: 'Elliot Handler, the "el" in this toymaker, died at age 95 in 2011'

Answer: Mattel


Question: '"King Richard" of NASCAR fame who won a record 27 races in 1967'

Answer: (Richard) Petty


Question: 'In 1993 the New York Times company paid $1.1 billion to acquire the globe, a newspaper in this city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Work those harpooning arms, or "thus, I give up the spear" will be your last words! & work those calves ...ok, calf, anyway!'

Answer: Captain Ahab


Question: 'This adjective can describe a bachelor worthy of marriage or an NFL receiver who's allowed to catch a forward pass'

Answer: E-L-I-G-I-B-L-E


DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY?

Question: 'The Haydn one that matches the number of piano keys'

Answer: 88


Question: 'After nearly 100 years, this company cut its Oldsmobile brand from its line in 2004'

Answer: GM (General Motors)


Question: 'University of Alabama football coach from 1958 to 1982'

Answer: (Bear) Bryant


Question: 'As everyone belongs to everyone, mother & father are forbidden terms in this 1932 Aldous Huxley novel'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'Mr. Hugo created you; now you're mine! & when you turn yourself in for theft, then escape & run, the leg lifts'll pay off'

Answer: Jean Valjean


Question: 'From the Latin for "bend", it means capable of being bent repeatedly without damage'

Answer: P-L-I-A-B-L-E


DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY?

Question: 'Schumann's last; his first is called "Spring"'

Answer: the fourth


Question: 'In summer 2010 this insurance giant paid back nearly $4 billion of its bailout loan; only $97 billion to go!'

Answer: AIG


Question: 'Only African American to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'I'm enjoying the street view feature of this service introduced in 2005--hey, who parked in my driveway?'

Answer: Google Earth


Question: 'You're a religious symbology professor at Harvard?! Well, here's the Trebek code! 15 more 100-lb. bench presses!'

Answer: (Robert) Langdon


Question: 'Easily carried, such as a small TV or software that can run on multiple computers with the same operating system'

Answer: P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E


DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY?

Question: 'Mahler's last finished one; he thought this is as many as a composer gets, & he was right'

Answer: 9


Question: 'This company, a leading supplier of business information & services, is known as D&B for short'

Answer: Dun & Bradstreet


Question: 'Golfer who won the Masters in 1960, '62, & '64, & received the Medal of Freedom in 2004'

Answer: Arnold Palmer


Question: 'In 1999 50,000 people protested in Seattle against this international business group'

Answer: World Trade Organization (WTO)


Question: 'Ok, Mr. "Christmas Carol" ghost! Time to use that chain you "forged in life", "link by link" for resistance work!'

Answer: Jacob Marley


Question: 'Old Navy uses this adjective for solid-color shorts that are patterned when inside-out'

Answer: R-E-V-E-R-S-I-B-L-E


Question: 'This maker of Huggies & Kleenex started out in 1872 to manufacture newsprint from rags'

Answer: Kimberly-Clark


Question: 'Jackie Robinson (posthumously) & this other trailblazing Robinson of baseball'

Answer: Frank Robinson


Question: 'Dr. Bob Pierce started this organization to help kids orphaned in the Korean War; today it helps kids all over the globe'

Answer: World Vision


Question: 'You're a big pig! (a Berkshire boar) & you may be pres. of the republic of animal farm, but it's time to work, pork chop!'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'Unbearable, such as the "acts" passed by the British parliament in 1774'

Answer: I-N-T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E


Question: 'Playboy playmate Crystal Harris called off her June 2011 nuptials to this 85-year-old just days before the wedding'

Answer: Hugh Hefner


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'The axolotl is a salamander from this country south of the border'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'With 627 turbines, the world's largest onshore wind farm is north of San Angelo in the wide-open west of this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'We'll gamble you know this N.J. city boasts a 4.5-mile-long boardwalk that continues on into Ventnor city'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'This 17th century translation has become a standard for bibles'

Answer: the King James version


Question: 'After 11 years of marriage, she & David Arquette announced a trial separation in 2010'

Answer: Courtney Cox


Question: 'Then known as Upper Peru, this country gained independence in 1825; General Sucre soon became president'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'Sweater the details & name this type of rabbit'

Answer: the Angora


Question: 'Windmills to pump this from the ground made it possible to settle large parts of the United States'

Answer: water


Question: 'This Michigan city is the former HQ of the Seventh-Day Adventist church & is home to some famous cereals'

Answer: Battle Creek


Question: 'Though Elizabeth was on the throne, Kingsley Amis titled his guide to correct usage this'

Answer: the Kings English


Question: 'In 2011 this "Dancing with the Stars" alum & second man on the moon filed for divorce from his third wife'

Answer: Buzz Aldrin


Question: 'In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol's invasion force of 150,000 men'

Answer: Kublai Khan


Question: 'Ferdinand Marcos would have known the animal seen here is known as this country's tarsier; here's looking at you'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'There's no place like this Alaskan city, pop, 3,500, which faces Norton Sound of the Bering Sea'

Answer: Nome


Question: 'It means any large sum of money, such as the 150,000 marks paid to bring Richard I back to England in the 1190s'

Answer: a king\'s ransom


Question: 'This singer-songwriter said his tweeting too much was an issue in his breakup with Jennifer Aniston'

Answer: John Mayer


Question: 'In June 38 A.D. this third Roman emperor had his dead sister Drusilla deified, the first Roman woman so honored'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'This French cabaret is named for a red windmill, & has one on its roof'

Answer: the Moulin Rouge


Question: 'Though home to the Jack Daniel's distillery, this Tennessee town is in a county that's been dry since prohibition'

Answer: Lynchburg


Question: 'In this 1996 film comedy, Woody Harrelson takes an Amish bowling prodigy under his wing'

Answer: Kingpin


Question: 'She found new love with Frederic Thiebaud, the man whose wife supposedly broke up her marriage to Mutt Lange'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'In 1720 Victor Amadeus II of Savoy gave Sicily to Austria in exchange for this other large island'

Answer: Sardinia


Question: 'Yes, yes!  It's the rodent-like lemur seen here'

Answer: the aye-aye


Question: 'In 1886, before focusing on water lilies, he painted "A Field of Tulips in Holland" featuring a windmill'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'From 1863 to 1865 this Northern Louisiana city served as the Confederate state capital'

Answer: Shreveport


Question: 'This tragic title character laments, "I am a man more sinned against than sinning"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: '1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck (or) Margaret Mitchell


Question: 'Chapter 20 of a biography of this Connecticut-born woman is entitled "Antislavery Activist: 1853-1854"'

Answer: (Harriet Beecher) Stowe


Question: 'In a 2006 Country Weekly poll, she was named "Country's Most Beautiful" woman; I'm sure hubby Tim agrees'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of the monitor.) Buy your roses when they're closed or in this stage & you'll have much more time to enjoy them'

Answer: bud


Question: 'William the Conqueror is crowned in Westminster Abbey'

Answer: the 1060s


Question: '...this member of the Beatles died in a car accident & was replaced with a double named William Campbell'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'More common "literary" term for telepathy & clairvoyance'

Answer: mind reading


Question: '"Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z"'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Her hit song "I'm A Survivor" was also the theme to her TV sitcom'

Answer: Reba McEntire


Question: 'Rose varieties with 30 to 40 of these should be cut & used when 1 or 2 of them have come loose'

Answer: petals


Question: 'Legionnaire's disease is identified & named'

Answer: the 1970s


Question: '...as an infant, Humphrey Bogart was the model for the trademark baby for this company's line of baby foods'

Answer: Gerber


Question: 'According to Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of" these'

Answer: little minds


Question: 'Sebastian de Grazia's Pulitzer-winning bio of this Italian "In Hell" mentions "The Prince" in 2 chapter titles'

Answer: Machiavelli


Question: 'She wrote "I Will Always Love You" as a tribute & thank you to her former singing partner Porter Wagoner'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a flower diagram on the monitor.) Putting the stems in warm water first opens these tiny water-carrying tubes and hydrates the flower'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'China goes Communist'

Answer: the 1940s


Question: '...not only was this man's body frozen after his death, but it's stored under the Pirates of the Caribbean ride'

Answer: Walt Disney


Question: 'Sylvia Nasar's biography of mathematical genius & Nobel laureate John Nash'

Answer: A Beautiful Mind


Question: 'In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'With hits like "Jesus, Take The Wheel" & "Some Hearts", this country cutie has hardly been sitting "idol"'

Answer: (Carrie) Underwood


Question: 'Chrysanthemums represented waterfalls in the 15' arrangements of Rikka, a type of this Japanese art form'

Answer: Ikebana


Question: 'America first hears "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "The Varsity Drag"'

Answer: the 1920s


Question: '...this former lead singer of Black Sabbath throws puppies into his concert audiences & won't play until they're all dead'

Answer: Ozzy Osbourne


Question: '3-word history-based Emmy Award-winning PBS TV show written & introduced by Steve Allen'

Answer: Meeting Of Minds


Question: 'This "Compleat Angler" author wrote a seminal biography of John Donne in 1640'

Answer: (Izaak) Walton


Question: 'In 1973, 10 years after her death, she became the first female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame'

Answer: Patsy Cline


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates the use of a foam used in arrangements.) Desert travelers appreciate the name of this foam that, when dipped in water, anchors a bouquet and keeps it hydrated'

Answer: oasis foam


Question: 'Oscar Wilde is sent to gaol'

Answer: the 1890s


Question: '...this "neighborly" PBS host was a marine sniper with 150 kills & wore long sleeves on TV to cover up his many tattoos'

Answer: Mister Rogers


Question: 'More than 36,000 square miles in area, it's the second-largest Philippine island'

Answer: Mindanao


Question: 'In December 1944 George Marshall got the rank of General of the Army with this many stars'

Answer: 5


Question: '1963: As a P.O.W. in a German camp, Steve is part of a mass breakout'

Answer: The Great Escape


Question: 'Cranky TV pundit Andy & actor Mickey'

Answer: Rooney


Question: 'A throat culture shows if you have this kind of sore "throat", an infection caused by certain bacteria'

Answer: strep


Question: 'Canada's Mackenzie River flows into this ocean'

Answer: the Arctic


Question: 'If you get fired, you may be able to file for this'

Answer: unemployment


Question: 'Presley O'Bannon's Marine detachment raised the American flag on the "shores" of this North African state in 1805'

Answer: Tripoli


Question: '1958: Steve fights off an alien lifeform that consumes everything in its path'

Answer: The Blob


Question: 'Singer Michael & U.N. Ambassador John'

Answer: Bolton


Question: 'A DEXA scan measures bone density to screen for this disorder in which bones become porous & brittle'

Answer: osteoporosis


Question: 'This 1,800-square-mile Canadian lake sits entirely within a prairie province of the same name'

Answer: Lake Manitoba


Question: 'Artful skill exemplified here'

Answer: glassblowing


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Pentagon pool.) A gym and pool were built at the Pentagon after World War II, at the suggestion of this man, then Army Chief of Staff'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: '1973: Unjustly sentenced to Devil's Island, Steve plots his way to freedom'

Answer: Papillon


Question: 'Lady Jane & writer Zane'

Answer: Grey


Question: 'Doppler ultrasound of these large arteries in the neck can be used to evaluate the risk of a stroke'

Answer: the carotids


Question: 'The large region known as the Laurentian Plateau is also known as the Canadian this'

Answer: the Canadian Shield


Question: 'Put out a proclamation! It's the act of setting people free'

Answer: emancipation


Question: 'The construction battalions organized by Ben Moreell in WWII were known as these'

Answer: the Seabees


Question: '1968: Millionaire bank robber Steve pulls off the perfect crime...almost!'

Answer: The Thomas Crown Affair


Question: 'Senator Stephen A. & Supreme Court Justice William O.'

Answer: Douglas


Question: 'It's the "P" in PFT, a function test that measures air capacity, among other things'

Answer: pulmonary


Question: 'The Vikings visited L'Anse aux Meadows in this province'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the USA's Megan Quann swam the 100m in this event in 1:07.05 to win gold'

Answer: the breaststroke


Question: 'He was in command of George Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, when it sailed into Manila Bay in 1898, & fired when ready'

Answer: Charles Gridley


Question: '1966: Cynical sailor Steve patrols the Yangtze River during the Chinese Revolution of 1926'

Answer: The Sand Pebbles


Question: 'Samuel & Salmon P., both of the Supreme Court'

Answer: Chase


Question: 'This imaging procedure doesn't use radiation; it uses radio waves, a large magnet & a computer to generate images'

Answer: an MRI


Question: 'In 1999 this territory split from the Northwest Territories'

Answer: Nunavut


Question: 'Job of the man who oversees the movement of vessels in a port'

Answer: the harbormaster


Question: 'In 1905 he said, "It is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money... for the good of my fellow man"'

Answer: John D. Rockefeller


Question: 'You'll find Greece's Parliament building on Syntagma Square in this capital'

Answer: Athens


Question: '3-letter word that ends Ernest Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat"'

Answer: Out


Question: 'According to Clement C. Moore, "The beard on his chin was as white as the snow"'

Answer: Saint Nicholas


Question: 'This FOX drama follows the plight of the Salinger children, who were orphaned by a car wreck'

Answer: Party of Five


Question: 'It's the neat & tidy term for a hospital attendant'

Answer: Orderly


Question: 'According to Webster's, it's "A statement of what a thing is"'

Answer: Definition


Question: 'The name of this South African province means "across the Vaal" -- the Vaal River, that is'

Answer: Transvaal


Question: 'In "Everything in its Place", Arthur Guiterman wrote, "The birds are in the bushes and" this "is at the door"'

Answer: The wolf


Question: 'In the 1850s he exhibited Madame Josephine Fortune Clofullia as the "Bearded Lady From Switzerland"'

Answer: P.T. Barnum