Question: '"Bad Man From Bodie" was the British title of this "Ragtime" author's first novel "Welcome To Hard Times"'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: '90 years after "The Jungle" exposed this industry, Pres. Clinton said inspectors work the same old way'

Answer: meatpacking


Question: 'On October 12, 1915 this British nurse was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels'

Answer: Dame Edith Cavell


Question: 'This king pursued Britomartis, a Cretan goddess, for 9 months; she leaped into the sea to escape him'

Answer: King Minos of Crete


Question: 'Death plays a merry dance on the violin in this Frenchman's "Danse Macabre"'

Answer: Camille Saint-Saens


Question: 'Africa's Rusizi is one of the few rivers that drains into this, the world's longest freshwater lake'

Answer: Lake Tanganyika


Question: 'Tolstoy fought in the siege of Sevastopol during this war, which inspired his "Sevastopol Sketches"'

Answer: The Crimean War


Question: 'Kinshasa in this country was home to the 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble In The Jungle"'

Answer: Zaire


Question: 'Performed in England since the restoration of Charles II, shows featuring this pair often include a dog named Toby'

Answer: Punch & Judy


Question: 'It's home to the Krigsskolen, the Norwegian military academy'

Answer: Oslo


Question: 'A 1.2 -ounce bottle of its No.5 eau de parfum spray lists for $61.50'

Answer: Chanel


Question: 'A 1935 Fred Astaire film is named for this type of spiffy headwear'

Answer: Top Hat


Question: 'Fee fi fo fum, Jack ascends one in a fairy tale'

Answer: a beanstalk


Question: '2001: Ted Turner'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'This structure from Genesis "whose top may reach unto Heaven" didn't end up as planned'

Answer: the Tower of Babel


Question: 'This city is in the fertile northern foothills of the Alps on the Aare river'

Answer: Bern


Question: 'This toothpaste brand also has "3D white whitestrips teeth whitening systems" & is not averse to repetition'

Answer: Crest


Question: 'Orthodox Jewish males wear this skullcap in synagogue'

Answer: a yarmulke


Question: 'If you're pondering your pupik, you're staring at this body part, for which pupik is the Yiddish word'

Answer: bellybutton


Question: '2003:  Billy Bob Thornton (She managed to land on her feet, though)'

Answer: Angelina Jolie


Question: 'In the 1980s, $1 billion was spent developing Premier, a smokeless type of this that went down in flames'

Answer: cigarette


Question: 'When in this capital, you're between the Apennine Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'This company says it's "the best a man can get", though mileage may vary with its Mach3 Turbo razor'

Answer: Gilette


Question: 'The traditional academic costume worn at commencement ceremonies is a gown & one of these caps'

Answer: a mortarboard


Question: 'At age 162, Jered did it to Enoch in Genesis 5'

Answer: begat


Question: '1996:  Lisa Marie Presley (Nicholas Cage was in 2004)'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  In the 1930s, along its border with Germany, France built this defensive barrier, named for the French Minister of War; it failed because the Germans simply invaded through Belgium'

Answer: the Maginot Line


Question: 'It serves as the capital of a Baltic republic'

Answer: Riga


Question: 'Faith & begorrah! This bar soap comes in moistureblast & microclean varieties, Boy-o'

Answer: Irish Spring


Question: 'The official headgear of the Shriners is this Turkish hat in red with a black tassel'

Answer: a fez


Question: 'In regional use, it can mean a wallet as well as a spending plan'

Answer: a budget


Question: '1994:  Billy Joel (the second of her 4 divorces)'

Answer: Christie Brinkley


Question: 'In June 2010 this Asian country failed for the second time in 2 attempts to launch a satellite'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Callao is this South American capital's port'

Answer: Lima


Question: 'The dad of Matthew Perry of "Friends" was the sailor in the classic ads for this cologne; that whistling's in your head now, isn't it?'

Answer: Old Spice


Question: 'Canotier is another name for this flat-brimmed straw hat worn at regattas & political conventions'

Answer: a boater


Question: 'An earthen defensive fortification, or anything solid & reliable'

Answer: bulwark


Question:
'1961: Annette Kaye;
1963:  Alene Akins;
1966: Mickey Sutphin;
1971: Alene Akins;
1992: Julie Alexander...Hello!'

Answer: Larry King


Question: 'This antebellum act with 2 states in its name didn't do as intended but fanned the flames of national division on slavery'

Answer: the Kansas-Nebraska Act


Question: 'The sniffer dog here has alerted his squad members to one of these alongside a road in Afghanistan'

Answer: a mine (bomb accepted)


Question: 'A "theme" from 1971: "Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?" (him) "Can you dig it?"''

Answer: (John) Shaft


Question: 'It's the lonely name for a gem, often a diamond, set all by itself in a ring'

Answer: a solitaire


Question: 'Spinster heroine of "Murder at the Vicarage"'

Answer: Miss Marple


Question: 'Helen Gurley Brown became this magazine's editor in 1965'

Answer: Cosmopolitan


Question: 'A document allowing a young person to drive an automobile with supervision'

Answer: a learner permit


Question: 'The dog here is training with this branch of the military; in Florida, not Tripoli'

Answer: the Marines


Question: '1992: "And I..." (hold the "I" for roughly 5 minutes & like this song, you too could be No. 1 for 14 weeks)'

Answer: I Will Always Love You


Question: 'The Jonas Brothers wore these rings as symbols of their chastity'

Answer: purity rings


Question: 'In Narnia this "pale sorceress" makes it always winter but never Christmas'

Answer: the White Witch


Question: 'Soft rockers Seals & Crofts once were members of the band that performed this 1958 No. 1 hit heard here'

Answer: Tequila


Question: 'Type of run on a baseball diamond resulting from an error'

Answer: unearned


Question: 'This colorful World War I flying ace is seen here with his dog Moritz'

Answer: the Red Baron


Question: '1976: "You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free"'

Answer: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover


Question: 'A gem cut in the form of a narrow rectangle has this name, like a certain bread'

Answer: a baguette


Question: 'Grimm sister of Snow-White'

Answer: Rose-Red


Question: '60 guilders bought this island in 1626'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'A prolonged, unfulfilled desire'

Answer: a yearning


Question: 'For attacking a pillbox during the invasion of Sicily, Chips, seen here, got a Purple Heart and this precious medal for valor'

Answer: the Silver Star


Question: '1979: "At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side"'

Answer: I Will Survive


Question: 'Meaning "forever", it's used for a ring with diamonds surrounding the whole band'

Answer: an eternity ring


Question: 'Albeit short-lived, the apple of Scarlett & Rhett's eye'

Answer: Bonnie Blue Butler


Question: 'It was the sanguine moniker of the Virgin Queen's sister'

Answer: Bloody Mary


Question: 'It's paired with "Bear" in the name of an investment company bought by J.P. Morgan Chase in March 2008'

Answer: Stearns


Question: 'During World War I, Rags, a terrier, earned fame as an intrepid messenger dog for the AEF, this U.S. force'

Answer: the American Expeditionary Force


Question: '1982: "Oh-oh here she comes, watch out boy, she'll chew you up, oh-oh here she comes, she's a..."'

Answer: "a maneater"


Question: 'A short mixed drink, the party at which it is served, or the large ring a woman might wear to such an occasion'

Answer: a cocktail ring


Question: 'Title peak in a Thomas Mann work'

Answer: the Magic Mountain


Question: 'Any "colorful" 1920s anti-Bolshevik'

Answer: a White Russian


Question: 'This rich sauce is thickened with eggs & flavored with tarragon'

Answer: bearnaise


Question: 'Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860'

Answer: evolution


Question: 'Correlating this system of measuring time to ours, the Mayan one starts in 3114 B.C.'

Answer: Calendar


Question: 'Not far from the Arctic Circle, Kotzebue is the second-largest Eskimo village in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'On this sitcom Laurie Metcalf played Jackie, who left police work to become a trucker'

Answer: "Roseanne"


Question: 'The Mayans domesticated turkey, ducks, dogs & these insects'

Answer: Bees


Question: 'This Green Mountain State has half as many cows as people'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'In 1983 letters from viewers helped save this Sharon Gless-Tyne Daly series from cancellation'

Answer: "Cagney And Lacey"


Question: 'Type of work stoppage initiated by an employer closing its doors to workers'

Answer: Lockout


Question: 'It's the number of bishops on a chess board at the start of a game'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Peninsula that was home to such Mayan sites as Rio Bec, Becan & Uxmal'

Answer: Yucatan Peninsula


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Ironically, this animal found in a state nickname is no longer found there in the wild'

Answer: Wolverine ("The Wolverine State" - Michigan)


Question: 'This FOX series teamed a human cop with a newcomer from another planet'

Answer: "Alien Nation"


Question: 'To determine the position of a fetus before an amniocentesis, a doctor uses one of these picture scans'

Answer: Ultrasound/Sonogram


Question: 'This revolutionary union's status grew "shaky" after a failed 1913 silk workers' strike'

Answer: Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies")


Question: 'Total of the horsemen of the apocalypse & the traditional number of Magi in Matthew's gospel'

Answer: 7  (4 horsemen & 3 Magi)


Question: 'Mayan art is classified as pre-this'

Answer: Colombian


Question: 'The highest point in this Southeastern state is just 345 feet, in Walton County near the Alabama border'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'In 1998 Lauren Velez joined the cast of this hip big-city FOX police drama as detective Nina Morena'

Answer: "New York Undercover"


Question: 'Also called false labor, the Braxton Hicks type of these occur throughout pregnancy'

Answer: Contractions


Question: 'A series of 1995 raids in California found dozens of Thai immigrants working in these substandard garment factories'

Answer: Sweatshops


Question: 'The number of points on a compass, or the number of permanent teeth in the normal adult mouth'

Answer: 32


Question: 'The Mayans' principal unit of currency was this bean'

Answer: Cocoa bean


Question: 'The name of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on this Hawaiian island, means "house of the sun"'

Answer: Maui


Question: 'Andre Braugher plays detective & stroke survivor Frank Pembleton on this cop show'

Answer: "Homicide:  Life on the Street"


Question: 'After birth, the baby is scored twice on this scale that measures 5 vital signs'

Answer: Apgar Score


Question: 'This corporate practice of using external suppliers has become an issue in automotive labor disputes'

Answer: Outsourcing


Question: 'William Howard Taft was the 27th president & William Jefferson Clinton is this number'

Answer: 42nd


Question: 'In 1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield first sold his cream dentifrice in a collapsible one of these'

Answer: Tube


Question: 'In 1953 Ibn Saud organized this country's first cabinet to modernize the government'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'In this 1996 film Madonna sings the line "They need to adore me -- so Christian Dior me"'

Answer: "Evita"


Question: 'The American Numismatic Association is the world's largest group devoted to collecting these'

Answer: Coins


Question: 'In her 1996 book the "Murder" is not at the White House but a few blocks away "At The National Gallery"'

Answer: Margaret Truman


Question: 'Remington was a pioneering maker of these in the 1870s; Mark Twain bought one'

Answer: Typewriter


Question: 'During the Spanish Civil War, this Fascist Party founder sent troops to aid General Francisco Franco'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'In a 1992 film, Mike Myers & Dana Carvey played hosts of this public-access cable TV show'

Answer: "Wayne\'s World"


Question: 'This group was instrumental in the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918'

Answer: The Audubon Society


Question: 'It was no accident that her "Accidental Tourist" won a National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award'

Answer: Anne Tyler


Question: 'Nestle bought the recipe & rights to these treats from Ruth Wakefield, who made them at her inn'

Answer: Toll House Cookies


Question: 'In November 1980 Poland's Communist Party officially recognized this trade union'

Answer: Solidarity


Question: 'In "The First Wives Club", she, Diane Keaton & Goldie Hawn sing "You Don't Own Me"'

Answer: Bette Midler


Question: 'The Niagara River flows about 34 miles from Lake Erie north to this Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Ontario


Question: 'The American Thoracic Society is the medical section of this association that fights tuberculosis'

Answer: American Lung Association


Question: 'Her story "The Lottery" was first published in the New Yorker in 1948'

Answer: Shirley Jackson


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />These machines became popular after Sonja Henie ordered 2 of them to take on her tour:'

Answer: Zambonis


Question: 'Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896'

Answer: Cecil Rhodes


Question: 'Al Pacino received an Oscar nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in this 1990 film'

Answer: "Dick Tracy"


Question: 'The Song Hong, a river of Vietnam, is also known by this name, from the color of its silt'

Answer: Red River


Question: 'This society gives the Hubbard Medal, named for its first president , for exploration, discovery & research'

Answer: National Geographic Society


Question: 'She's kept us in suspense with over a dozen novels, including 1997's "Pretend You Don't See Her"'

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark


Question: 'This man's 1941 solid-body electric guitar plugged in generations of musicians'

Answer: Les Paul


Question: 'Aristotle called him the "Savior of his country and the ideal lawgiver"'

Answer: Solon


Question: 'In the 1966 film "Nevada Smith", this actor played the title role earlier played by Alan Ladd in "The Carpetbaggers"'

Answer: Steve McQueen


Question: 'The Moselle River forms part of the border between Germany & this grand duchy'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'The Order of the Eastern Star is a society of members of this fraternal organization'

Answer: The Masons


Question: 'In "Paula" this niece of a former Chilean president told of her life while attending her dying daughter'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'The Washington Post once described him as "The Mother of All Embarrassing Brothers"'

Answer: Billy Carter


Question: 'Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'In the 20th anniversary production of "Annie", John Schuck played this billionaire'

Answer: Daddy Warbucks


Question: 'On Oct. 26, 1825 the Seneca Chief left Buffalo on this waterway & became the first boat to travel its entire length'

Answer: Erie Canal


Question: 'This South American native has been domesticated for more than 4,000 years'

Answer: Llama


Question: '"Do not go gentle into" Vesuvio, a favorite watering hole of the Beat generation & of this Welsh poet'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: '"Scat"'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'The Pollitts celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday & fight over inheriting his plantation in this drama'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'Discovered in 1806, this Colorado peak was first climbed in July 1820 by 3 members of Major Long's expedition'

Answer: Pikes Peak


Question: 'This shaggy load-bearer is also an important milk & food source'

Answer: Yak


Question: 'Hey, birdbrain: John's Grill on Ellis Street is famous because Sam Spade dined there in this novel'

Answer: "The Maltese Falcon"


Question: '"Emma"'

Answer: Mame


Question: 'You'll find Reindeer Lake covering over 2,400 square miles in this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: '"Oh Daddy" is one of the songs on this band's "Rumours" album'

Answer: Fleetwood Mac


Question: 'On June 17, 1825 this Frenchman laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument'

Answer: Marquis de Lafayette


Question: 'The average day of this wild canine is spent hunting & scavenging'

Answer: Jackal


Question: 'When you visit the City Lights Bookstore, look for the nearby street named for this "On the Road" author'

Answer: Jack Kerouac


Question: '"Bare Act"'

Answer: Cabaret


Question: 'Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa'

Answer: Kalahari


Question: 'The name of this '50s TV show came from a phrase used in Danny Thomas' house when he returned from the road'

Answer: Make Room for Daddy


Question: 'On Aug. 10, 1821 it entered the Union as a slave state with Thomas Hart Benton representing it in the Senate'

Answer: Missouri


Question: '"Snow" creature seen here'

Answer: Leopard


Question: 'Oscar Wilde & this "Gunga Din" author both stayed in the Palace Hotel -- presumably not together'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: '"Boot Wash"'

Answer: Show Boat


Question: 'Ukraine, Germany & the Baltic Sea all border this country'

Answer: Poland


Question: '"Big Daddy from the Pedernales" is a biography of this Texan'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'In 1829, in his 1st annual message to Congress, he questioned the constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S.'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Forest dweller seen here in...no...hurry'

Answer: Sloth


Question: 'He detailed the high life in Haight-Ashbury in his '60s opus "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"'

Answer: Tom Wolfe


Question: '"Itchy Sweater"'

Answer: Sweet Charity


Question: 'This object in a spectrometer spreads a beam of light into separate colors'

Answer: Prism


Question: 'The basic pitch of this small flute is usually A-flat'

Answer: Fife


Question: 'In his first stories, he was able to "leap tall buildings at a single bound"; he didn't fly until later'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'The cancha or walled court of jai alai can have no more than this many walls'

Answer: 3


Question: 'The staple food in the north of Thailand is the sticky or glutinous type of this'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'She wept in 1998 when President Clinton agreed to settle her harassment lawsuit'

Answer: Paula Jones


Question: 'The part of a tree from which quinine & aspirin's salicyclic acid are extracted'

Answer: Bark


Question: 'This car company was established in Turin in 1899'

Answer: Fiat


Question: 'A flat one needs a tail to supply drag & to keep it pointed to the sky'

Answer: Kite


Question: 'A popular sport in Spain & the Philippines, jai alai first became popular in the U.S. in this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Tom Kha Kai is a chicken soup flavored with the "milk" of this'

Answer: Coconut


Question: 'Messner is now the last name of this televangelist known for putting on mascara & shedding tears'

Answer: Tammy Faye (Bakker)


Question: 'Crowbars, nutcrackers & ice tongs are different types of this simple machine'

Answer: Lever


Question: 'It's the last "Jeopardy!" in the game'

Answer: Final Jeopardy


Question: '"He flies through the air with the greatest of ease"'

Answer: "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"


Question: 'Jai alai players know it's called the pelota'

Answer: Ball


Question: 'In the names of noodle dishes this word precedes "Thai", "see ew" & "woon sen"'

Answer: Pad


Question: 'In 1961 Jimmy Stewart wept while accepting an Oscar for this terminally ill "High Noon" star'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids'

Answer: Primates


Question: 'This adjective denotes a certain known number of possibilities'

Answer: Finite


Question: 'In the 1954 World Series, this Giants center fielder made a memorable running catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball'

Answer: Willie Mays


Question: 'Surprisingly, some historians believe jai alai was invented by this founder of the Jesuit order'

Answer: Saint Ignatius Loyola


Question: 'You might wish this skewer of chicken or beef served with peanut sauce was "just a little bit longer"'

Answer: Satay


Question: 'His apparent tears during a New Hampshire campaign stop damaged his 1972 presidential bid'

Answer: Edmund Muskie


Question: 'In a chemical process, monomers, small molecules, link in chains to form these large molecules'

Answer: Polymers


Question: 'In computer security, this device blocks unauthorized access to a LAN, a local area network'

Answer: Firewall


Question: 'This "Arctic" bird, Sterna paradisaea, breeds on the coasts of North America but makes its winter home in the Antarctic'

Answer: Tern


Question: 'Jai alai means "merry festival" in the language of this ethnic group of Spain'

Answer: Basques


Question: 'Like Southern cooking, Thai-American cuisine features this be"whiskered" creature, deep-fried'

Answer: Catfish


Question: 'The anti-pollution commercial in which an Indian sheds one tear featured actor Oscar Cody, nicknamed this'

Answer: Iron Eyes Cody


Question: 'In 1913 prima ballerina Ellen Price inspired the look of this famous statue by Edvard Eriksen'

Answer: the Little Mermaid


Question: '2 angles are complementary if they add up to 90 degrees & are supplementary if they add up to this'

Answer: 180 Degrees


Question: 'An owl stood for the phonogram "M" in this ancient Egyptian writing system'

Answer: Hieroglyphics


Question: '"The Human Zero" is a collection of this author's sci-fi stories, as Della Street could tell you'

Answer: Erle Stanley Gardner


Question: 'The ANC suspended talks with this country's government after the 1992 Boiphatong Massacre'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Gordon Carruth reports that in 1811 a Mrs. Andrews in New York City gave instructions on painting on this plush fabric'

Answer: Velvet


Question: 'Ann Sheridan & Hedy Lamarr were considered for the role of Ilsa in this 1942 classic'

Answer: "Casablanca"


Question: 'Take any circle, divide the circumference by the diameter, and you'll get this'

Answer: Pi


Question: 'In 1973 this environmentalist got his own comic book'

Answer: Woodsy Owl


Question: 'Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer called their 1933 novel "When Worlds" do this'

Answer: Collide


Question: 'In the 1970s, as many as 18,000 troops from this Caribbean country fought in Angola's civil war'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'In a standard set of dominoes, the tiles range from double blank to this double number'

Answer: 6


Question: 'The ad line for this Greta Garbo & Robert Taylor film could have been "Garbo Coughs"'

Answer: "Camille"


Question: '10 to the zero power equals this'

Answer: 1


Question: 'In this TV town (population 51,201), the owls are not what they seem'

Answer: "Twin Peaks"


Question: 'Appropriately this sci-fi author called his 1984 collection of short stories "Pohlstars"'

Answer: Frederik Pohl


Question: 'The ruins of this city destroyed by Rome in 146 B.C. are a 20-minute drive from Tunis, Tunisia'

Answer: Carthage


Question: 'On his death in 1976 he left his museum $725 million dollars'

Answer: J. Paul Getty


Question: 'Billy Crystal said he stopped eating veal after performing with a calf in this film about a cattle drive'

Answer: "City Slickers"


Question: 'It's the lowest common denominator for the fractions 1/2, 1/3, & 1/4'

Answer: 12


Question: 'Venezuela's Caligo memnon species of this insect has owl-like eyes on its wings to scare enemies'

Answer: butterfly


Question: 'This priest wrote a sci-fi novel called "The God Game", but he's better known for his "Cardinal Sins"'

Answer: Andrew Greeley


Question: 'Sadiq Al-Mahdi, great-grandson of the Mahdi, led this largest African country from 1986-1989'

Answer: The Sudan


Question: 'Steve Brodie leaped onto the front pages when he leaped from this into the East River, July 23, 1886'

Answer: The Brooklyn Bridge


Question: 'Leonard Maltin called this Daryl Hannah film "the world's first feminist caveman movie"'

Answer: "Clan of the Cave Bear"


Question: 'A diagonal cuts a square into 2 congruent triangles of this type'

Answer: isosceles (or right triangle)


Question: 'The title of this 1973 novel by Margaret Craven concerns an Indian myth about death'

Answer: "I Heard the Owl Call My Name"


Question: '"The War With the Newts" is a satirical novel by this Czech dramatist who coined the word "robot"'

Answer: Karel Čapek


Question: 'In 1963 Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of this north African country'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'The 2 styles most commonly used by high-jumpers are the forward, or straddle, & the backward, called this'

Answer: The Fosbury Flop


Question: 'This comedy-western was Nat King Cole's last film; Jane Fonda, not Nat, played the title role'

Answer: "Cat Ballou"


Question: '"Equal Justice" is an aptly-titled biography of this first woman to sit on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Sandra Day O\' Connor


Question: 'His cousin's Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill, is said to have inspired his famous song'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'A tincture of this halogen is used as an antiseptic on cuts & scratches'

Answer: Iodine


Question: 'In 1989 Barbara Harris became the first woman in the history of the Episcopal Church to be made this'

Answer: bishop


Question: 'Brutus tells him, "You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise"'

Answer: Marc Antony


Question: 'Squash & these 2 succotash ingredients were the "Three Sisters" of Iroquois agriculture'

Answer: Corn & Lima Beans


Question: 'He's the subject of Edvard Radzinsky's best seller "The Last Czar"'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'The oldest brick house in the town of Amherst was built by this poet's grandfather in 1813'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'It's added to swimming pools & is a part of laundry bleaches'

Answer: Chlorine


Question: 'It's the name under which Judith Martin writes her famous etiquette column'

Answer: "Miss Manners"


Question: 'This "Merchant of Venice" heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony's nephew'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'An Iroquois woman could do this to her husband simply by putting his belongings outdoors'

Answer: divorce him


Question: '"Beauty and the Traitor" suggests that this general's wife ignited the spark of treason in him'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'This frontier hero's reconstructed log cabin now stands on the grounds of a Tennessee high school'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'Astatine is the only halogen whose isotopes are all this, which is why they have half-lives'

Answer: radioactive


Question: 'After she was beaten up by the woman owner of a Montana bar, this crusader never used her hatchet again'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question: 'In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, "Know that we have divided in three our kingdom"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Traditionally, the Iroquois League was founded by Dekanawidah & this chief whose name Longfellow borrowed'

Answer: Hiawatha


Question: 'Kenneth Silverman won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his "Life and Times of" this Puritan preacher'

Answer: Cotton Mather


Question: 'Her home in Rochester, New York is now a museum filled with memorabilia of the fight for equal rights'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'As its name suggests, a halogen reacts with metals to make these'

Answer: Halides/Salts


Question: 'When she became transportation secretary in 1983, she was only the seventh woman to head a cabinet department'

Answer: Elizabeth Dole


Question: 'At the end of "Hamlet", this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne'

Answer: Fortinbras


Question: 'The Tuscarora joined the Iroquois League in 1722, increasing the number of members to this'

Answer: 6


Question: '"Bitter Fame", a controversial 1989 biography, deals with this poet, her suffering & breakdown'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'Chesterwood, a Stockbridge, MA estate, includes the home & studio of this "Minuteman" sculptor'

Answer: Daniel Chester French


Question: 'It takes about 15,000 tons of seawater to get one ton of this reddish-brown liquid used in sedatives'

Answer: Bromine


Question: 'In 1973 this Impressionist painter was named to the National Women's Hall of Fame'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it'

Answer: Tyre


Question: 'The Iroquois' name for themselves, Haudenosaunee, refers to these, their famous dwellings'

Answer: The Long Houses


Question: 'He served as vice president for the shortest length of time: one month'

Answer: John Tyler


Question: 'A new "Revised Standard Version" of this book topped the nonfiction charts in 1954'

Answer: The Bible


Question: 'In 2002 & 2004, this patriots quarterback'

Answer: Tom Brady


Question: 'This country singer had to go "On the Road Again" after the IRS seized his ranch because he owed back taxes'

Answer: Willie Nelson


Question: 'Until 1937, Burma was a province of this big neighboring current country'

Answer: India


Question: 'BA isn't Bank of America but this plane-making company'

Answer: Boeing


Question: 'The fat layer between the skin & muscles of whales'

Answer: blubber


Question: 'The "Picture Cook Book" attributed to this fictional woman rules the list in 1950'

Answer: Betty Crocker


Question: 'In 2000, this St. Louis QB, who later showed off his moves in season 11 of "Dancing with the Stars"'

Answer: (Kurt) Warner


Question: 'Before his 1931 tax evasion conviction, he joked that Uncle Sam can't collect legal taxes on illegal money'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'Yangon & this are both names for Burma's longtime capital'

Answer: Rangoon


Question: 'This low-cost Airline spread its LUV from Texas'

Answer: South West


Question: 'Superstar of sports and "Jeopardy!" seen here'

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


Question: 'This Edna Ferber novel was a "huge" success when it was published in 1952'

Answer: Giant


Question: 'In 1999, this Denver quarterback'

Answer: Elway


Question: 'This first "Survivor" winner was voted off his home & into a jail for failing to pay taxes on his winnings'

Answer: Richard Hatch


Question: 'Nearly 90% of Burmese practice this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'This retailer, WAG, has good medicine'

Answer: Walgreens


Question: 'Messrs. Flay, Fischer & Orr'

Answer: Bobby


Question: 'The 1958 bestseller "Kids Say the Darndest Things!" by this man was based on a segment on his hit TV show'

Answer: Art Linkletter


Question: 'In 1992, this Cowboys quarterback'

Answer: (Troy) Aikman


Question: 'This "Queen of Mean" hotelier was jailed for tax evasion'

Answer: Leona Helmsley


Question: 'Burma has universal suffrage, but from 1990 until Nov. 7, 2010, its govt. did not bother having these'

Answer: elections


Question: 'A recent offering by KO, this company, was a zero-- that's the name of the product'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: '6-letter word meaning to talk in an incoherent fashion, on & on & on...'

Answer: babble


Question: 'This work by Norman Vincent Peale had us all feeling good in 1955'

Answer: The Power of Positive Thinking


Question: 'In 1976, this Pittsburgh Steelers non-quarterback who became an ABC sportscaster'

Answer: Lynn Swann


Question: 'Dennis Kozlowski was jailed for sales tax evasion & fraud while running this conglomerate (not the Mattel toy brand)'

Answer: Tyco


Question: 'Burma has about 1,200 miles of coastline on the Andaman Sea & this big bay'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: 'This company, DE, makes hay into stacks with tractors'

Answer: John Deere


Question: 'A person who hates or fears books'

Answer: a bibliophobe


Question: 'The first president of Congress, Peyton Randolph gaveled Congress to order on September 5, 1774 in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This "Tomb Raider" & humanitarian activist has a "Know Your Rights" shoulder tattoo'

Answer: Angelina Jolie


Question: '1966: <br />1 yuan depicting Chiang Kai-Shek'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'A small commemorative tablet, perhaps for that gunk on your teeth'

Answer: a plaque


Question: 'Respectively the 2 places named in satan's line "Better to reign in ___ than serve in ___"'

Answer: hell and heaven


Question: 'He commanded the U.S. First Army on D-Day'

Answer: Omar Bradley


Question: 'In the war, Thomas Mifflin was this man's aide-de-camp & later accepted the resignation of his commission'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'On one shoulder, this "Transformers" star has a paraphrase of a "King Lear" line about butterflies'

Answer: Megan Fox


Question: '1971:<br />25 new pence depicting a barbary ape'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'In 4 letters, a clever or sarcastic remark'

Answer: a quip


Question: '"Let not" this country "forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live"'

Answer: "England"


Question: 'It probably hurt for more than 60 minutes when he was wounded by shrapnel while reporting for CBS from Cambodia'

Answer: Ed Bradley


Question: 'This declaration signer from Massachusetts served the longest as President of Congress, 30 months'

Answer: John Hancock


Question: 'This "Mean Girls" girl has a forearm tattoo that reads, "Stars, all we ask for is our right to twinkle"'

Answer: Lindsay Lohan


Question: '2003:<br />1,000 tugrik depicting Chinggis Khan'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'A floor of short strips of patterned wood; Celtics star Bob Cousy was the "Prince" of it at Boston Garden'

Answer: parquet


Question: '"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born" in this 4-letter condition'

Answer: "free"


Question: 'During the 2000 Democratic Convention, he released his delegates & urged them to support Al Gore'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: 'Later a writer of the Federalist Papers & Chief Justice, he served as President of Congress in 1778 & 1779'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'This "Heroes" cheerleader has a torso tat that reads (in misspelled Italian), "Live without regrets"'

Answer: Hayden Panettiere


Question: '1964:<br />25 schilling depicting playwright Franz Grillparzer'

Answer: Austria


Question: 'The type of film "Hannibal Rising" was'

Answer: a prequel


Question: '"Come, and trip it, as you go, on the light ___ toe"'

Answer: "fantastic"


Question: 'In 1742, James Bradley, a pioneer in the study of light, succeeded this comet of a guy as Astronomer Royal'

Answer: (Edmond) Halley


Question: 'In November 1781 John Hanson became the first president of Congress elected under the terms of this document'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: 'Evan Rachel Wood has a quotation from this "Ulalume" luminary between her shoulder blades'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: '1982:<br />1 balboa depicting Omar Torrijos'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Tart tasting'

Answer: piquant


Question: '"They also serve who only ___ ___ ___"'

Answer: "stand and wait"


Question: 'Justice Joseph Bradley's vote made this man, not Samuel Tilden, president in the disputed election of 1876'

Answer: (Rutherford B.) Hayes


Question: 'Playing in theaters since 1975, this film has had the longest continuous theatrical run in movie history'

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show


Question: 'Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: 'This singer had 2 days of wedded bliss with a childhood friend before moving on to K-Fed'

Answer: Britney Spears


Question: 'pinkribbonshop.com promotes awareness of this disease, "one pink ribbon at a time"'

Answer: breast cancer


Question: 'Eggs over easy'

Answer: fried


Question: 'Hey little short person, you don't mind if I call you this, do you?--like the ones in the east of the Land of Oz'

Answer: munchkin


Question: 'The top & bottom hues here are the same; the brain tricks itself by using these areas of comparative darkness as cues'

Answer: shadows


Question: 'In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England'

Answer: Nottingham


Question: 'Rumors of Tony Parker's infidelity swirled when this Desperate Housewife filed for divorce in 2010'

Answer: Eva Longoria


Question:
'Juan & Eva Peron used to appear
on the balconies of the Casa Rosada or "pink house", seen here in this world capital'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: 'Snickerdoodles'

Answer: baked


Question: 'You spend too much time watching TV; you're a sofa spud, or, in other words, this more popular term'

Answer: a couch potato


Question: 'This 12-letter ability in which several jobs are managed at once is a misnomer; your brain can really only focus on one'

Answer: multitasking


Question: '"Black Thursday" happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80%'

Answer: 1929


Question: 'This Bon Jovi guitarist said his divorce from Heather Locklear & his addiction made for "a gang tackle from hell"'

Answer: Richie Sambora


Question: 'This product says it's "the only leading medicine that relieves five stomach problems"'

Answer: Pepto-Bismol


Question: 'Yakotori'

Answer: grilled


Question: 'I could call you a dunce or I could call you this, the type of shark seen here'

Answer: a hammerhead


Question: 'Virtual reality & psychology are used to rewire the brain of war vet Jerry, who suffers from PTSD, short for this'

Answer: post-traumatic stress disorder


Question: 'Delegates from 34 countries attended this body's final session April 18, 1946'

Answer: the League of Nations


Question: 'This "House" and "Tron: Legacy" co-star didn't live happily ever after with her Italian prince, filing for divorce in 2011'

Answer: Olivia Wilde


Question: 'Rapper Cam'ron had a pink one of these alliterative super-SUVs, but sold it as it got too much attention'

Answer: Range Rover


Question: 'Peking duck'

Answer: roasted


Question: 'Not so computer savvy, are you?  You're just a this--like a non-sorcerer in Harry Potter'

Answer: a muggle


Question: 'Your brain runs on only about 12 of these power units, using shortcuts to focus on what counts'

Answer: watts


Question: 'In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year... coincidence?'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'Divorcing Reese Witherspoon put him in "the darkest, saddest place I had ever been"'

Answer: Ryan Phillippe


Question: 'Jack London wrote that one type of drinker "sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and" these creatures'

Answer: pink elephants


Question: 'Chicago hot dog, for purists'

Answer: steamed


Question: 'I can't tell if you're just a fool or drunk, but you're definitely this, also the name of the character seen here'

Answer: Jughead


Question: 'Recalling the exact details of a robbery uses this "equine" brain part that decides what short-term info to keep'

Answer: the hippocampus


Question: 'From Westminster Bridge, William mused, "Earth has not anything to show more fair" than this city'

Answer: London


Question: 'The poetic & artistic Rosettis were snapped by this Victorian children's author, also a serious photographer'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'It's the USA's largest volcanic island'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Crunches are a version of these'

Answer: sit-ups


Question: 'In 1922 DeWitt & Lila Wallace published the first issue of this magazine that condenses articles'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: 'Last name of Fernando, a star in Argentina before moving to the U.S.; his son Lorenzo & grandson A.J. act, too'

Answer: Lamas


Question: 'Wordsworth belonged to the school of poets named for this watery district of northern England'

Answer: Lake District (or Country)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a photograph on the monitor.) Long exposures made quickly-moving objects disappear; here, in 1838, a man standing still getting a shoe shine is the first known human to be photographed; he was in this capital where photography was largely invented'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Theodore Roosevelt Island, now a memorial, lies in this river & is accessible by footbridge from Virginia'

Answer: the Potomac


Question: 'The operation that took out Osama Bin Laden was monitored from this White House room'

Answer: the Situation Room


Question: 'Jann S. Wenner is the editor & publisher of this music magazine'

Answer: Rolling Stone


Question: 'Though the daughter of Hondurans, this "Ugly Betty" star voiced a Viking girl in "How To Train Your Dragon"'

Answer: America Ferrera


Question: 'W.W. lamented childlike wonder: "Nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in" this, "Of glory in the flower"'

Answer: the grass


Question: 'In the 1870s, Red Cloud & a delegation of his Oglala people of this tribe came to Washington'

Answer: the Sioux


Question: 'Treasure Island is a manmade island built in this bay for the 1939-1940 Golden Gate Exposition'

Answer: San Francisco Bay


Question: 'Anoushka Shankar played this instrument on her father's album "Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000"'

Answer: the sitar


Question: 'The second word in the French name of this cooking magazine has an accent mark over the "E"'

Answer: Bon Appetite


Question: 'She co-founded an organization called Voto Latino to get people to the polls, even in Sin City'

Answer: Rosario Dawson


Question: 'It sounds a little backwards, but "The child is father of" this'

Answer: the man


Question: 'That's not Napoleon--it's P.T. Barnum's attraction Charles Stratton, known by this name'

Answer: Tom Thumb


Question: 'Manisses, or "Island of Little God", was the Narragansett Indian name for this state's Block Island'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'It can refer to a flag or a popular old song'

Answer: a standard


Question: 'Rodale publishes this healthy living magazine whose 10-letter name implies it can forestall disease'

Answer: Prevention


Question: 'This director's first version of "El Mariachi" was shot for $7,000; the Holywood version cost slightly more'

Answer: (Robert) Rodriguez


Question: '"All at once I saw a crowd / A host, of golden" these flowers'

Answer: daffodils


Question: 'Britain's Roger Fenton is known as the first war photographer, capturing quiet moments in this 1850s conflict'

Answer: the Crimean War


Question: 'The University of Texas Medical Branch is on this island'

Answer: Galveston


Question: 'A truce or cessation of hostilities'

Answer: a stand-down


Question: 'The documentary "The September Issue" showed Anna Wintour prepping for this magazine's 2007 Fall Fashion issue'

Answer: Vogue


Question: 'Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, this bombshell was a trained dancer & sometimes partnered Fred Astaire'

Answer: Rita Hayworth


Question: 'The son of an Oscar winner, this prince is also a 5-time Olympian'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'Over 10 interstate & U.S. highways funnel into this Indiana capital; thus its nickname, the "Crossroads of America"'

Answer: Indianapolis


Question: 'This French-Canadian had only spoken English for about a year when she cut her 1990 English debut album "Unison"'

Answer: Celine Dion


Question: 'Escargots'

Answer: Snails


Question: 'Number of sides on a rhombus divided by the number of original TV Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Answer: 1 (4/4)


Question: 'A record from years ago that's still worth listening to is an oldie but this'

Answer: Goodie


Question: '(Hi, I'm Melissa Joan Hart)  The traditional number of witches in this group is 13; a leader & 12 followers'

Answer: Coven


Question: 'Although Delaware's capital since 1777, it wasn't incorporated as a city until 1929'

Answer: Dover


Question: 'Whitney Houston & this pop diva joined voices on "When You Believe", a duet from "The Prince of Egypt"'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'Eau minerale'

Answer: Mineral water


Question: 'The number of U.S. states times the number of U.S. senators'

Answer: 5,000 (50 X 100)


Question: 'A nervous laugh: 3 of its 6 letters are "G"s'

Answer: Giggle


Question: '(Hi, I'm Caroline Rhea)  Like many modern witches, the Spellmans use an upright vacuum cleaner to do this, as well as to clean (not that we ever clean!)'

Answer: Fly


Question: 'Now a museum, the old Governor's Mansion in this capital was constructed by Huey P. Long in 1930'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'In 1998 she showed her "Spirit" singing "My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours they are my own"'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'Bifteck'

Answer: Steak


Question: 'Number of playing cards in a standard deck without jokers divided by the number of suits'

Answer: 13 (52/4)


Question: 'Wooden box where a vampire "saws logs"'

Answer: Coffin


Question: '(Hi, I'm Nate Richert)  On Halloween these lighted objects are intended to frighten away evil spirits'

Answer: Jack-o\'-lanterns


Question: 'In the 1860s, it became the last of 4 capitals to be named for a U.S. president'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'Her hits include "Miss You Much", "Escapade" & "The Pleasure Principle"'

Answer: Janet Jackson


Question: 'Soupe de poisson'

Answer: Fish soup


Question: 'The sum of all the whole numbers from 1 through 5'

Answer: 15


Question: 'From the Latin for "lake", it's a shallow body of water near the sea; Brooke Shields lived by a blue one'

Answer: Lagoon


Question: '(Salem here!)  Well-known term for a low-ranking demon who aids a witch & assumes an original form, like a cat (Ohhh...I know this one!)'

Answer: Familiar


Question: 'Its newspapers include the Globe, the Herald & the Christian Science Monitor'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'She took the name of her band "Nine Stories" from a J.D. Salinger work'

Answer: Lisa Loeb


Question: 'Riz'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'In MLB, the number of bases (including home plate) times the number of innings in a standard game'

Answer: 36 (4 X 9)


Question: 'You'll find caramel & this sweet filling inside a Milky Way candy bar'

Answer: Nougat


Question: '(Hi, I'm Beth Broderick)  You leave your body as a spirit replica in this form of travel, and go anywhere'

Answer: Astroprojection


Question: 'The 1999 version of this encyclopedia on CD-ROM includes the San Diego Zoo's Cyber Safari'

Answer: World Book Encyclopedia


Question: 'It's still working at deepening the Grand Canyon'

Answer: Colorado River


Question: 'Ads for the 1998 remake of this 1960 film said, "Check in.  Relax.  Take a shower."'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'Bechti, a 1-year-old member of this ape species, poses here with her mommy'

Answer: Orangutan


Question: '"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'"'

Answer: "Huckleberry Finn"


Question: 'A French queen:<br />October 16, 1793'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Internet surfers know www stands for this'

Answer: World Wide Web


Question: 'This river featured on the state flag of Nebraska bears the name of another state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'One reviewer was "bored to death" by this 1998 Brad Pitt epic, a remake of 1934's "Death Takes a Holiday"'

Answer: Meet Joe Black


Question: 'Type of "derby" in progress here'

Answer: Demolition derby


Question: '"In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman"'

Answer: "Don Quixote"


Question: 'A U.S. president:<br />April 22, 1994'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'Based in Washington, it commonly makes $100 million loans, but won't give you a second mortgage'

Answer: World Bank


Question: 'Called the mother of Canada, it includes Lake St. Louis & Lac St.-Pierre'

Answer: St. Lawrence


Question: '1940's "The Shop Around the Corner" was the basis for this 1998 Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks romantic comedy'

Answer: You\'ve Got Mail


Question: 'It's the fish seen here in silhouette swimming with the humans'

Answer: Manta ray


Question: ''When Mrs...Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse"'

Answer: "Stuart Little"


Question: 'A peasant girl:<br />May 30, 1431'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Louis Armstrong sang, "I see trees of green, red roses too...and I think to myself" this'

Answer: "What a Wonderful World"


Question: 'It falls in altitude over 16,000 feet over its first 600 miles & only another 800 feet over the last 3,600 miles'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'Lindsay Lohan pulled double duty as twins in the 1998 remake of this 1961 Hayley Mills comedy'

Answer: The Parent Trap


Question: 'Take a close look, but don't let this insect "bite"'

Answer: Bedbug


Question: '"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed... into a gigantic insect"'

Answer: "Metamorphosis" (by Franz Kafka)


Question: 'A movie "rebel":<br />September 30, 1955'

Answer: James Dean


Question: 'The 2 current daytime TV network soaps that fit the category'

Answer: Another World & As the World Turns


Question: '2 of the 3 rivers that surround the island of Manhattan'

Answer: East, Harlem, Hudson


Question: 'Terry Moore, who starred in this 1949 gorilla film, has a cameo in the 1998 version'

Answer: Mighty Joe Young


Question: 'The dry valleys offer some unusual views of this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: '"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith"'

Answer: "Stranger in a Strange Land" (by Robert Heinlein)


Question: 'A Russian royal family:<br />July 16, 1918'

Answer: the Romanovs


Question: 'This Vermont food company's 1995 CEO search was an essay contest with the topic "Yo!  I Want to be Your CEO"'

Answer: Ben & Jerry\'s


Question: 'Yes sir!  In 2003 he got some "Satisfaction": knighthood from Prince Charles'

Answer: Mick Jagger


Question: 'A Dutch word for a ship's galley became this last car of a train'

Answer: a caboose


Question: 'Eli Broad, whose foundation has given $75 million to fund research using these cells'

Answer: stem cells


Question: 'Mount Walsh in the Yukon is named for an officer in the North West Mounted Police, today known as this force'

Answer: the Mounties


Question: 'This vehicle on the streets of San Francisco doesn't have an engine on it, just brakes & a grip lever'

Answer: a cable car


Question: 'Before a brief marriage to Kid Rock, Pamela Anderson was married to this Motley Crue drummer'

Answer: Tommy Lee


Question: 'This Japanese word is the correct term for what's misleadingly called a tidal wave'

Answer: a tsunami


Question: 'This man, who is giving his Berkshire Hathaway fortune (that's $40 billion) to philanthropic causes'

Answer: (Warren) Buffett


Question: 'Mount Clarence King in this range is named for the man who discovered Mount Whitney'

Answer: the Sierra Nevadas


Question: 'This bus company carries nearly 25 million people a year & more than half of them have been to college'

Answer: Greyhound


Question: 'Close friend The Edge describes him as the "chairman & founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous"'

Answer: Bono


Question: 'In 1997 a $16.7 billion deal by Pacific Telesis & SBC was the first merger of these "infantile" companies'

Answer: the Baby Bells


Question: 'Cursing on TV would be called a gaffe or this French phrase meaning "false step"'

Answer: a faux pas


Question: 'George Clooney & Wyclef Jean, who organized a benefit for earthquake relief called "Hope for" this country "Now"'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'The USA's 14,264-foot Mount Evans was named for the second governor of this then-territory'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'To confirm the existence of cosmic rays, in 1912 Victor Hess went up 16,000 feet in one of these'

Answer: a balloon


Question: 'In a 2008 hit she sings, "So what, I'm still a rock star, I got my rock moves and I don't need you"'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'In 1987 UAL, Inc. sold off Westin, Hertz & Hilton to focus on this main subsidiary'

Answer: United Airlines


Question: 'A Spanish word for an Iberian wild ass became this word for a striped mammal'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'The Environmental Defense Fund, which began with an effort to save this class of creatures from DDT'

Answer: birds


Question: 'The Agassizhorn in the Bernese section of these mountains is named for a 19th century scientist'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'The large wedge-tail eagle is the emblem for the Indian Pacific Train that spans this continent'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'She sang back-up on Don Henley's "The End Of The Innocence" before her own hit "Come To My Window"'

Answer: Melissa Etheridge


Question: 'This word from the Hindi means a wilderness of dense overgrowth'

Answer: a jungle


Question: 'An advocacy group looking to eradicate poverty; it's called DATA, short for Debt, AIDS, Trade, this place'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Imeni Ismail Samani Peak, the highest in Tajikistan, used to be named after this man (like some other places)'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'B & H Airlines originates from this Balkan country'

Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina


Question: 'His "Melancholy Woman" & "Crouching Woman" were both painted during his Blue Period'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Among the 7 Ancient Wonders was this of Alexandria, which guided ships into the harbor'

Answer: the Lighthouse


Question: 'Worst Place to Catch "Our American Cousin":<br />This venue, for its April 14, 1865 performance'

Answer: Ford\'s Theatre


Question: 'Pleased or willing'

Answer: glad


Question: 'Of the American league, 1921, '22, '23, '26, '27, '28... oh, forget it... & 2009'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: 'It's the common name for squirrels of the subfamily Pteromyinae (hint: "ptero-" is Latin for "winged")'

Answer: flying squirrels


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.)  In the painting here, the Baroque artist Guercino depicted this woman shortly before her death; notice what's in her hand'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'A cross between tennis & ping-pong, this sport was named for a dog, not a gherkin'

Answer: pickle ball


Question: 'Best 1483 Ruthless Power Grab:<br />This man, for his coup d'etat vs. Edward V & his execution of Lord Hastings'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'This type of "blow" bounces off at an angle'

Answer: a glance


Question: 'Of the NFL, 1935, '52, '53, '57 (been a long drought in Motown)'

Answer: the Detroit Lions


Question: 'Sir John Lavery became the leading portrait painter of his time after he was commissioned to paint her portrait in 1888'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'According to superstition, if this body part burns, people are talking about you'

Answer: your ear


Question: 'The Not-So-Fast, My Friend Prize of 1948:<br />This man, who fell a surprising 2.2 million votes short to Harry Truman'

Answer: Dewey


Question: 'It means "sword lily"'

Answer: a gladiola


Question: 'Of women's Olympic ice hockey, 3 of the 4 times it's been played (not bad, eh?)'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The painting seen here depicts the wife of this Scottish folk hero in "The Conflict at the Pass of Loch Ard"'

Answer: Rob Roy


Question: 'At the end of a letter, P.S. stands for postscript; as an officer of the law, it stands for this'

Answer: a police sergeant


Question: 'The Can't Keep Him Down Award:<br />Him, for re-serving in France's army in WWI after his Dec. 1894 court-martial was cleared'

Answer: Dreyfus


Question: '5-letter word for an open space in a forest'

Answer: a glade


Question: 'Of the NBA, 2006 (the southernmost champs yet)'

Answer: the Miami Heat


Question: 'A rodent native to Indonesia is known as this starchy banana relative squirrel'

Answer: a plantain squirrel


Question: 'This painting by Andrew Wyeth depicts his neighbor crawling through the grass toward her farmhouse'

Answer: Christina\'s World


Question: 'This 2005 bestseller by Elizabeth Kostova concerns a couple of modern-day hunts for Dracula'

Answer: The Historian


Question: 'The Taking My Life in My Hands Award of 1543:<br />This woman, for marrying Henry VIII near the end of his rule, on July 12'

Answer: Catherine Parr


Question: 'Really slow, or really icy & big'

Answer: glacial


Question: 'Of the men's Chess Olympiad, 18 out of 20 times from 1952 to 1990--why did we break up a good thing?'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'Squirrels don't just eat nuts--the diet of some species includes lagomorphs, these animals'

Answer: rabbits


Question: 'One of the 2 plays whose plots are set in motion by shipwrecks, one off Illyria & one off an unnamed island'

Answer: (1 of) The Tempest & Twelfth Night


Question: 'From its Latin name, you should know that November was this number month in the old Roman calendar'

Answer: the ninth


Question: 'Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor'

Answer: Home Improvement


Question: 'There's a museum in Corbin, Kentucky dedicated to this man famous for his 11 herbs & spices'

Answer: Colonel Sanders


Question: 'An Australian territorial claim covers 42% of this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'In U.S. cities, 95% of this air pollutant comes from incomplete combustion in vehicles'

Answer: carbon monoxide


Question: 'Both Roy Orbison & Linda Ronstadt sang about a "blue" one'

Answer: a bayou


Question: 'November in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent  of this month in the S. Hemisphere'

Answer: May


Question: 'Reverend Eric Camden'

Answer: 7th Heaven


Question: 'A nice Peroni beer from this country will go perfectly with your pepperoni pizza'

Answer: Italy


Question: '95% of the population of the small enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory resides in this city'

Answer: Canberra


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.) In the egg-in-a-bottle experiment, the flame going out causes a vacuum effect, so the egg is sucked in by the differential in this between the inside & outside of the bottle'

Answer: air pressure


Question: 'A personal spiritual leader in Hinduism, or a recognized leader in a field'

Answer: a guru


Question: 'The Thanksgiving holiday takes place in the U.S. on this day in November'

Answer: the fourth Thursday


Question: 'Chiropractor Alan Harper'

Answer: Two and a Half Men


Question: 'In 1680 the French social critic Marquise de Sevigne made the first mention of adding this to tea'

Answer: milk


Question: 'Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is in this state with a 3-word name'

Answer: New South Wales


Question: 'A vaporizer puts out steam; this device has the same effect on the air by producing a cool mist'

Answer: a humidifier


Question: 'From the Old French for "bundle", it's the bundle of clothing & linens a bride collects for her marriage'

Answer: a trousseau


Question: 'November 21, the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, honors her arrival at this holy site'

Answer: the Temple in Jerusalem


Question: 'TV station manager Steven Keaton'

Answer: Family Ties


Question: 'Thursday's special at Hollywood's Musso & Frank is this classic made with poultry, gravy, vegetables & a crust'

Answer: chicken pot pie


Question: 'One of the 2 states named in honor of a woman'

Answer: Victoria (or Queensland)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew does her own experiment).  This type of air powers air guns and air brakes and gives an ordinary drinking straw incredible strength'

Answer: compressed air


Question: 'This world capital is located about 180 miles southeast of Miami'

Answer: Nassau


Question: 'Children's Day in India is celebrated on November 14, the birthdate of this first prime minister'

Answer: (Jawaharlal) Nehru


Question: 'Widower Steve Douglas'

Answer: My Three Sons


Question: 'Fruit juice, a croissant or pastry & coffee or tea is this type of "breakfast"'

Answer: continental


Question: 'The one state named for a man'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: 'The "air" or "wind" type of this slows down a parachute & heats up a meteoroid'

Answer: resistance


Question: 'These Bantu-speaking people make up the largest language group in the Republic of South Africa'

Answer: the Zulu


Question: 'To Northern observers, the most brilliant part of the Milky Way is found in "the Archer", this constellation'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'Ben Stiller tries desperately to win the love of Cameron Diaz, the British nanny of the Banks children'

Answer: There\'s Something About Mary Poppins


Question: 'Dan Quayle'

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush


Question: '33,000 foot pounds per minute'

Answer: (one) horsepower


Question: 'In Roman myth, Naenia, whose name means "dirge", presided over these ceremonies'

Answer: funerals


Question: 'The name of this type of poem is from the Japanese for "stanza"'

Answer: a haiku


Question: 'With the demotion of Pluto, it's now the smallest, least massive planet'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Dr. Frank N. Furter is dragged aboard a paddle steamer to sing "Ol' Man River" with Paul Robeson in this musical'

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Showboat


Question: 'Spiro Agnew'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Despite its name, this Marx Brothers movie is about college football'

Answer: Horse Feathers


Question: 'In a Botticelli painting, Zephyrus, the West Wind, is blowing this full-figured newborn to shore'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Undercover cop Arnold Schwarzenegger taught it in a 1990 film'

Answer: kindergarten


Question: 'This solid center of a comet is usually around 10 miles or less in diameter & consists of ice & dust particles'

Answer: the nucleus (or core)


Question: 'Jimmy Stewart Christmas perennial about a reluctant Monty Python messiah'

Answer: It\'s a Wonderful Life of Brian


Question: 'John Nance Garner'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Per the bard, at Bosworth Field this man bellowed "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'This god of earthquakes called Rhea "mom" & spent a lot of time in the water'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'A medical aphorism, "primum non nocere" is translated as "first of all, do no" this'

Answer: harm


Question: 'This "Critique of Pure Reason" author called some fuzzy objects "island universes" in 1775; he was right'

Answer: Immanuel Kant


Question: 'Police detective Callahan enrolls at Hogwarts in search of a magical rock'

Answer: Dirty Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\'s Stone


Question: 'Elbridge Gerry'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'Sometimes referred to as a living fossil, this so-called crab has been around for about 500 million years'

Answer: the horseshoe crab


Question: 'In Wagner's Ring Cycle, this Norse god is known as Donner'

Answer: Thor


Question: 'This Arabic salutation, often followed by "aleikum", means "peace"'

Answer: salaam


Question: 'The constellation Coma Berenices, or "Berenice's Hair", was given its exact form by this Dane in the 1500s'

Answer: (Tycho) Brahe


Question: 'A chummy animated phantom teams up with Nicolas Cage's demonic motorcyclist in this action fest'

Answer: Casper the Friendly Ghost Rider


Question: 'John C. Calhoun (1 of the 2)'

Answer: Andrew Jackson (or John Quincy Adams)


Question: 'This capital of Canada's Yukon Territory was once home to the world's largest Tungsten reserve'

Answer: Whitehorse


Question: 'He fell off Pegasus to his death'

Answer: Bellerophon


Question: 'Literally "blow of mercy", this French phrase is used for any decisive stroke'

Answer: coup de grace


Question: 'In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'In the early 1920s she scandalized Atlanta society by doing a provocative dance at a debutante ball'

Answer: Margaret Mitchell


Question: 'VI: Roger Staubach'

Answer: the Dallas Cowboys


Question: 'The oldest operating V.A. hospital opened in this first post-Civil War year in Maine'

Answer: 1866


Question: 'To avoid war in this country in 2002, its VP Taha Ramadan offered instead to duel Dick Cheney'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'In 1661 Britain's Henry Bishop introduced this, showing only day & month, to monitor lazy letter carriers'

Answer: a postmark


Question: 'Rearrange the letters in "skate" to come up with this surname of a Romantic poet'

Answer: Keats


Question: '(Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'IX: Franco Harris'

Answer: the Pittsburgh Steelers


Question: 'One mission of Paralyzed Veterans of America is research on SCI, short for this "injury"'

Answer: spinal cord


Question: 'In 1792's "Petticoat Duel", 2 British society ladies fought a duel when one questioned the other about this'

Answer: her age


Question: 'Canadian postal codes use the format letter-number-letter number-letter-number; his is H0H 0H0'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'Rearrange the letters in "listen" to get this not-so-audible word'

Answer: silent


Question: 'This seafaring author had a lot to "wail" about: his somber 1852 novel "Pierre" is semi-autobiographical'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'XXXV: Ray Lewis'

Answer: the Baltimore Ravens


Question: 'Civil War field medicine created many veterans addicted to this class of drug that includes morphine'

Answer: opiates


Question: 'In the 4th novel about this young man, he sees his dead mother & father come out of his dueling opponent's wand'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'In the '90s the Postal Service launched a program aptly named do this to breast cancer'

Answer: stamp out


Question: 'An earthquake on "Crete" might find its buildings no longer this'

Answer: erect


Question: 'This novelist who wrote about gorillas in "Congo" is on the board of the Gorilla Foundation'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'XI: Fred Biletnikoff'

Answer: the Raiders


Question: 'Reliving trauma, avoiding reminders of it & general irritability are the 3 main symptoms of PTSD, short for this'

Answer: post traumatic stress disorder


Question: 'Though he supposedly fought 103 duels before becoming president, he killed a man in only one of them'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Deltiologists specialize in this collectible & may "wish you were here" at their meetings'

Answer: postcards


Question: 'Rearrange the letters in "late" to get this color'

Answer: teal


Question: 'His father disapproved of his poetry writing, so Chile's Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto adopted this pen name'

Answer: Pablo Neruda


Question: 'XXII: Doug Williams'

Answer: the Washington Redskins


Question: 'Among diseases associated with exposure to Vietnam-era Agent Orange is this lymph disease named for a Dr.'

Answer: Hodgkin\'s disease


Question: 'He might have been cute as a "button", but shortly after he signed the Dec. of Ind., he died from dueling wounds'

Answer: Button Gwinnett


Question: 'It's what you send to Grandma in Guatemala with the USPS' Dinero Seguro system'

Answer: a money order


Question: 'Rearrange the letters in "supersonic" to get this orchestra section'

Answer: percussion


Question: 'Like the British city of the same name, this Ontario city lies on the Thames River'

Answer: London


Question: 'Boxing came to network TV in 1944 with "Cavalcade of Sports" sponsored by this razor company'

Answer: Gillette


Question: '1955 to 1961: This Texan later to be president'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'It was the royal family name of Henry VIII'

Answer: Tudor


Question: 'It's your second-largest internal organ by weight; think about it'

Answer: your brain


Question: 'It comes out of your car's tailpipe'

Answer: exhaust


Question: 'This capital's airport is variously called Taoyuan, Zhongzheng & Chiang Kai-Shek International'

Answer: Taipei


Question: 'When this series debuted in 1948, it used its radio title "Candid Microphone"; the title was changed 9 months later'

Answer: Candid Camera


Question: '2003 to 2007: a surgeon'

Answer: Bill Frist


Question: 'When crowned British king in 1714, he spoke no English & had to have the ceremony described to him in Latin'

Answer: George I


Question: '"Frail" can mean 75 pounds of this dried fruit; Calif. produces 10.5 million frails of this Thompson kind a year'

Answer: raisins


Question: 'A physical piece of evidence, such as a murder weapon, presented to a trial court'

Answer: exhibit


Question: 'Nigeria's chief port, it sprawls over 4 main islands connected by bridges'

Answer: Lagos


Question: 'This "Howdy Doody" host had a variety show during the 1948-49 season called "the Gulf Road Show"'

Answer: "Buffalo Bob" Smith


Question: '1985 to 1987 & 1995 to 1996: a war hero'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'A vault at St. George's chapel, Windsor contains the remains of this king buried in 2 pieces'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'Now extinct, the elephant bird of this largest African island could reach 10 feet high & weigh 1,000 lbs.'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This word for an unfairly high price comes from the Latin for "to deviate from the path"'

Answer: exorbitant


Question: 'The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around  600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City"'

Answer: Naples


Question: 'First seen on experimental  TV in 1939, Burr Tillstrom's series about this trio began airing on NBC in 1948'

Answer: Kukla, Fran, & Ollie


Question: '2001 to 2003: a democrat from the Dakotas'

Answer: Tom Daschle


Question: 'He was the last emperor of India'

Answer: George VI


Question: 'In the Navy, "XO" is short for this person'

Answer: the Executive Officer


Question: 'Founded as a penal colony in 1824, this capital of Queensland was the site of the World's Fair Expo '88'

Answer: Brisbane


Question: 'Beginning in 1948, this long-time Miss America host had 2 game shows on the air: "Stop the Music" & "Break the Bank"'

Answer: Bert Parks


Question: '1989 to 1995: from southern Maine, he went on to negotiate a landmark peace treaty for Northern Ireland'

Answer: George Mitchell


Question: 'Reportedly, this king was beaten with candles as a boy, leaving him "unready" to even look at them as an adult'

Answer: Ethelred


Question: 'Just over 1% of your body weight is P--this element'

Answer: phosphorus


Question: 'This word meaning "gruesome" was inspired by the deaths of the leaders of a Jewish revolt in the 100s B.C.'

Answer: macabre


Question: 'Mrs. Marie Louise Shew inspired this poet to write about the bells that annoyed him'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'Kansas Lieutenant Governor Sheila Frahm was named to take his seat in the Senate until November's election'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'This country sold what's known as Seward's Folly'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'This state's motto is "Agriculture And Commerce", but it could be "The Home Of Country Music"'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'In hockey this player can't go to the bench to replace a broken stick until a stop in play'

Answer: Goaltender


Question:
'Casaba,
Cantaloupe,
Honeydew'

Answer: Melons


Question: 'In 1876 we saw "The Adventures Of" this character; in 1894 he went "Abroad" & in 1896 became a "Detective"'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: 'It wasn't nose to the grindstone, but Grindstone by a nose in this race May 4, 1996'

Answer: Kentucky Derby


Question: 'A gowk is a person who is tricked on the Scottish equivalent of this U.S. observance'

Answer: April Fool\'s Day


Question: 'The Jackson Zoo Blues is an annual music festival at the zoo in this state's capital city'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'If a "lost ball" is called in this British favorite, 6 runs minimum are scored'

Answer: Cricket


Question:
'Gala,
Gravenstein,
Rome Beauty'

Answer: Apples


Question: 'Like Jann Wenner, O.Henry ran a magazine called this'

Answer: Rolling Stone


Question: 'The Keck II telescope sitting on an inactive volcano in this state was dedicated in May'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Iron pyrite'

Answer: Fool\'s gold


Question: 'Appropriately, this Pine Tree State has a pine tree on its state flag'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'On an American football team, the only person not required to wear these is the kicker'

Answer: Shoes


Question:
'Bosc,
Comice,
Asian'

Answer: Pears


Question: 'In his 1823 book "The Pioneers", Judge Temple was based on his father William'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'Evidence from an old diary seems to invalidate his claim of being first to fly over the North Pole'

Answer: Richard Byrd


Question: 'Proper name of what's been called Fulton's Folly'

Answer: The Clermont


Question: 'Built in 1876, the Flying Horses Carousel on this Massachusetts island is a national historic landmark'

Answer: Martha\'s Vineyard


Question: 'In this sport, if a fault is committed by the serving team, a side-out is called'

Answer: Volleyball


Question:
'Lambert,
Amarelle,
Duke'

Answer: Cherries


Question: 'This tough Irish-American lead character of 3 James T. Farrell novels of the '30s dies in the third one at 29'

Answer: Studs Lonigan


Question: 'The Sears Tower was bested in May 1996; the tallest building in the world is now in this Malaysian capital'

Answer: Kuala Lumpur


Question: 'He wrote the songs for the 1971 musical "Follies"'

Answer: Steven Sondheim


Question: 'Exeter, capital of this state during the Revolutionary War, has an American independence museum'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Dives that begin in this acrobatic way are allowed only in platform events, not off boards'

Answer: Handstand


Question:
'Brown Turkey,
Kadota,
Mission'

Answer: Figs


Question: 'Cheops' father, Snefru, had the first true one of these structures built at Dahshur'

Answer: Pyramids


Question: 'This organization named for an ornithologist maintains more than 80 wildlife sanctuaries'

Answer: The Audubon Society


Question: 'Japan's imperial capital for over 1,000 years, its name is an anagram of Tokyo'

Answer: Kyoto


Question: 'Known as "Lady Day", she began her recording career with Benny Goodman in November 1933'

Answer: Billie Holiday


Question: 'This slow-moving South American mammal eats, sleeps, mates & gives birth while hanging upside down in a tree'

Answer: Sloth


Question: 'He probably studied the classics, but Ben Jonson implied he had "small Latin and less" this language'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'The body of this wife of Akhenaten has never been found, but her bust is in Berlin'

Answer: Nefertiti


Question: 'It's what NATO stands for'

Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization


Question: 'The Nobel Foundation, which oversees the awarding of the Nobel Prizes, is located in this capital'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'In 1938 she had her first smash hit with Chick Webb's band, "A-Tisket A-Tasket"'

Answer: Ella Fitzgerald


Question: 'A zedonk is the hybrid of these 2 animals'

Answer: Zebra & Donkey


Question: 'Peter Brook's unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes'

Answer: "A Midsummer Night\'s Dream"


Question: 'Imported from Punt, this sacred incense carried by the Magi was used for embalming'

Answer: Myrrh


Question: 'Until 1950 this philanthropic org. founded by father & son automakers benefited mainly Michigan-based groups'

Answer: The Ford Foundation


Question: 'Canada's main naval base on the eastern seaboard is in this Nova Scotia capital'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'The father of this "Don't Worry, Be Happy" singer provided Sidney Poitier's singing voice in "Porgy And Bess"'

Answer: Bobby McFerrin


Question: 'Having tiny eyes & poor vision, these small, flightless New Zealand birds hunt by scent'

Answer: Kiwi


Question: 'In "The Merchant of Venice", his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio's friend Lorenzo'

Answer: Shylock


Question: 'Women used galena & later kohl as this part of their makeup kit'

Answer: Eye Makeup (eyeliner, mascara)


Question: 'Al-Anon was co-founded in the 1950s by the wife of one of the founders of this group'

Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous


Question: 'This Ugandan capital was once the headquarters of the British East Africa Company'

Answer: Kampala


Question: 'In 1970 Janis Joplin helped pay for a gravestone for this "World's Greatest Blues Singer"'

Answer: Bessie Smith


Question: 'When this fish first leaves fresh water for the sea, it's called a smolt'

Answer: Salmon


Question: 'Laertes' last line in this play is "Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!"'

Answer: "Hamlet"


Question: 'This flower was the symbol of rebirth & of the god Re'

Answer: Lotus


Question: 'The United Daughters of the Confederacy is headquartered in this state capital'

Answer: Richmond, Virginia


Question: 'Johann Sebastian Bach is buried in a church in this German city whose name is Slavonic for "lime tree"'

Answer: Leipzig


Question: 'This jazz guitarist has had several pop vocal hits including "This Masquerade" & "Give Me The Night"'

Answer: George Benson


Question: 'Named for a people of Siberia, this pet pooch has been called "the white dog with the smiling face"'

Answer: Samoyed


Question: '"Umabatha", a Zulu production of this "bewitching" tragedy, appeared in London in 1972'

Answer: "Macbeth"


Question: 'This country won independence from Spain in 1821 & from France in 1867'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'This university's 2 campuses in Chicago & Evanston, Illinois both front on Lake Michigan'

Answer: Northwestern


Question: 'In 1838 Congress granted mail carrier status to this new form of transportation'

Answer: Railroads


Question: 'Marigold petals are sometimes added to chicken feed to insure that these will be bright yellow'

Answer: Egg Yolks


Question: 'Switzerland's largest city in population, it's alphabetically last except for Zurzach & Zweisimmen'

Answer: Zurich


Question: 'Called the "King of the Terriers", its original home was the valley of the river Aire'

Answer: Airedale


Question: 'Slang for a left-handed baseball pitcher'

Answer: Southpaw


Question: '(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />This 1960 hit song served as the title tune to a 20th Century Fox film:'

Answer: "North To Alaska" (by Johnny Horton)


Question: 'America's first successful world exposition was held in 1876 in this Pennsylvania city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'In the early 1900s this fast food was sometimes called "Coney Island Chicken"'

Answer: Hot Dog


Question: 'It's the only country that borders both the Baltic & Black Seas'

Answer: Soviet Union/Russia


Question: 'Like a lot of birds, the monarch butterfly does this in the winter'

Answer: Migrate


Question: 'Notre Dame University is located near this Indiana city first called Big St. Joseph'

Answer: South Bend


Question: 'The founder of Lockheed later founded this competing aircraft company named for himself'

Answer: Northrup


Question: 'The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states'

Answer: Arizona & New Mexico


Question: 'Native to Mexico, this pear-shaped green fruit is a hardy member of the laurel family'

Answer: the avocado


Question: 'In Germany the autobahn is the freeway & the U-bahn, one of these'

Answer: Subway/underground


Question: 'A camel's hump doesn't contain water, as once was thought, but this, for energy when food is scarce'

Answer: Fat


Question: 'In a hit song by the Orlons, it's the answer to the question, "Where do all the hippies meet?"'

Answer: "South Street"


Question: 'Shakespeare's Julius Caesar said, "If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am as constant as" this'

Answer: The North Star


Question: 'The Marquis De Lafayette served in the American Revolution, the Lafayette Escadrille in this war'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'It's recommended you try the Sachertorte while at the Hotel Sacher in this capital city'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food'

Answer: Reindeer


Question: 'SEATO, a defensive alliance formed in 1954 & dissolved in 1977, was an acronym for this'

Answer: SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization


Question: 'Robert Duvall portrayed Jesse James in this 1972 film about an 1876 bank robbery'

Answer: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid


Question: 'This last president from the Whig party rode Lincoln's funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo'

Answer: Millard Fillmore


Question: 'Tradition says throwing coins into this will insure your return to Rome'

Answer: Trevi Fountain


Question: 'Marine creature whose zoological name is Hippocampus'

Answer: Seahorse


Question: 'This successful, no-frills airline is headquartered at Love Field in Dallas'

Answer: Southwest Airlines


Question: 'This church faced periodic persecution for 300 years, until Constantine's conversion'

Answer: Christian Church


Question: 'Prince Chulalongkorn becomes king at the end of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical'

Answer: The King and I


Question: 'Estavayer-Le-Vac, Switzerland boasts a museum full of these dead amphibians arranged in human poses'

Answer: Frogs


Question: 'Several weeks before July 4, 1776 New Hampshire issued its own one of these'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'Director of the CIA during the Iran-Contra scandal, he died before he could testify at the hearings'

Answer: William Casey


Question: 'In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels'

Answer: Spartacus


Question: '"Cold-blooded" author who set his musical "House of Flowers" in a bordello in the West Indies'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: 'In English, Brazil's Museu Do Ouro & Colombia's Museo Del Oro are both known as this'

Answer: Museum of Gold


Question: 'New Hampshire quarries provided this type of stone for building the Library of Congress'

Answer: Granite


Question: '"Madame Sarah" is Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography of this woman'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'In 1975 the Rockefeller Commission concluded the CIA was spying illegally in this country'

Answer: U.S.A.


Question: 'Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder'

Answer: Augustus Romulus


Question: 'This island, famous for its coffee beans, is the home of the Royal Kona Coffee Mill & Museum'

Answer: Big Island of Hawaii


Question: 'A key element in local gov't is this type of meeting held annually on the first Tuesday in March'

Answer: Town Meeting


Question: 'He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography'

Answer: Samuel Johnson


Question: 'He directed the CIA in the 1950s while his brother was Secretary of State'

Answer: Allen Dulles (his brother was John Foster Dulles)


Question: 'Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum'

Answer: Circus Maximus


Question: 'The Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville in this state is famous for its collection of Indian blankets'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Though it's New Hampshire's largest port city, the naval shipyard of the same name is in Maine'

Answer: Portsmouth


Question: 'Maude Howe Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a book about this poet, her mother'

Answer: Julia Ward Howe


Question: 'The CIA & this watchdog "council" were established by the same act of Congress in 1947'

Answer: National Security Council


Question: 'Emperor Julian, who sought to restore paganism in place of Christianity, was nicknamed this'

Answer: Julian the Apostate


Question: 'The buildings that house the Science Museum of VA. & Paris' Musee D' Orsay were once this type of station'

Answer: Train Station


Question: 'In New Hampshire, these geographic features are called notches'

Answer: Mountain Passes


Question: 'This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'One of the CIA's early major operations was to help restore this Mideastern potentate to his throne in 1953'

Answer: Shah of Iran


Question: 'Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years'

Answer: A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur\'s Court)


Question: 'In 1 Samuel 17 he defeats Goliath'

Answer: David


Question: '"Scream Creek" parodies slasher films & teen TV shows, like this one nicknamed "The Creek"'

Answer: Dawson\'s Creek


Question: 'Mt. McKinley'

Answer: North America


Question: 'The "stack" types of these are designed so that you can wear 2 or more on the same finger'

Answer: rings


Question: '3 main types of these star systems are irregular, spiral & elliptical'

Answer: galaxies


Question: 'To vanish from sight, or what 100 dollars will do from your score if you answer incorrectly'

Answer: disappear


Question: 'Luke 4:23 tells a person in this profession: "Heal thyself"'

Answer: physician


Question: 'This 13-year-old brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter appeared in "Seussical the Musical" in 2001'

Answer: Aaron Carter


Question: 'Mt. Everest'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'In the early 1900s Kokichi Mikimoto developed the process of producing these "cultured" gems'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'In 1066, 1758 & 1985 this celestial traveler appeared in our skies'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'It's a desire for food or drink; Guns N' Roses had one "for Destruction"'

Answer: an appetite


Question: 'Numbers chapter 6 gives rules for the Nazarites, like Samson, including not cutting this'

Answer: hair


Question: '"Inappropriate" is a hit teen musical created at the DeSisto School in Stockbridge in this New England state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Mt. Kilimanjaro'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'The Regent, a famous one of these gems, was once known as the Pitt (in honor of Sir Thomas, not Brad)'

Answer: diamond


Question: 'This 16th century Polish church administrator seen here had a fundamental impact on astronomy'

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus


Question: 'This bottled beverage's flavors include "Power Berry Smoothie" & "Orange Tropic"'

Answer: Snapple


Question: 'The 10 Plagues, including locusts, appear in chapters 7 to 11 of this book of the Bible'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'A play about "D'Artagnan and" this Dumas trio became a big hit with teens in Rio'

Answer: The Three Musketeers


Question: 'Mt. Aconcagua'

Answer: South America


Question: 'You can gaze at the French crown jewels in the Galerie d'Apollon of this French museum'

Answer: the Louvre


Question: 'They're the only 2 planets in our solar system whose orbits cross'

Answer: Neptune & Pluto


Question: 'If you "upset" one of these, you've ruined someone' plans (or his fruit)'

Answer: the applecart


Question: 'Problem for which couples Hannah & Elkanah and Abraham & Sarah would likely have sought medical help'

Answer: infertility


Question: 'James Barbour plays Mr. Rochester in the new musical based on this Bronte novel'

Answer: Jane Eyre


Question: 'Mt. Elbrus'

Answer: Europe (in Russia)


Question: 'Following the example of her comedienne mom, this TV personality seen here has her own line of jewelry on QVC'

Answer: Melissa Rivers


Question: 'It's the "super" celestial event glimpsed here by the Hubble Telescope'

Answer: supernova


Question: 'Drink up this "app", a hot espresso coffee topped with steamed & foamed milk'

Answer: cappuccino


Question: 'In 1524 peasants, influenced by the teachings of this German religious leader, started an uprising'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'In the playground riddle it's what's big & red & eats rocks'

Answer: a big red rock eater


Question: 'It's a performer who's good at keeping several items airborne by tossing, catching & retossing them'

Answer: juggler


Question: 'The kids she adopted can spend hours watching her in videos of "The Flintstones" & "Harriet the Spy"'

Answer: Rosie O\'Donnell


Question: 'Ailuromaniacs really love these animals, like Felix or Garfield'

Answer: cats


Question: 'It's the more grounded name of the creature seen here, also called a nightcrawler'

Answer: earthworm


Question: 'In July 1588 this "invincible" Spanish fleet of ships approached England ready for battle'

Answer: the Spanish Armada


Question: 'Trouble ensued when Jill & Jack went on a nursery rhyme mission to fetch one of these'

Answer: a pail of water


Question: '"Positional" type of comedy being performed here'

Answer: stand-up


Question: 'Haunted by an animated dancing baby on "Ally McBeal", this actress now has a real child'

Answer: Calista Flockhart


Question: 'If you're thinking about setting the stage on fire right now, you have this "mania" (& please don't)'

Answer: pyromania


Question: 'A lofty social class is called the "upper" this, also a geological word for the Earth's outermost part'

Answer: crust


Question: 'Under the 1929 Lateran Treaty Roman Catholicism became Italy's official religion, & this became an independent state'

Answer: the Vatican/Vatican City


Question:
'Word puzzle seen here, it's a movie song, or a good way to catch pneumonia:
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raSINGINGin'

Answer: "Singing in the Rain"


Question: 'It's the process of replacing a foreign language dialogue track with one in English'

Answer: dubbing


Question: 'This actress' kids can watch Grandma in "Psycho" or Mom in the "Halloween" films; hmm, maybe they shouldn't'

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


Question: 'You have a really high opinion of yourself if you've got theomania, the belief that you are this'

Answer: God


Question: 'Seen here, Marmota monax is better known as a woodchuck, or as this'

Answer: groundhog


Question: 'Thousands, including Pliny the Elder, perished after this volcano blew its top in 79 A.D.'

Answer: Mount Vesuvius


Question: 'It's the total number of years in 1,001 centuries'

Answer: 100,100 years


Question: 'If you tend to get all bent out of shape like these Cirque du Soleil girls seen here, this job is for you'

Answer: contortionist


Question: 'Now for some good news: this anchorwoman & Maury Povich adopted a beautiful boy'

Answer: Connie Chung


Question: 'Don't "flounder"; tell us about ichthyomania, a fascination with these'

Answer: fish


Question: 'As a noun, it's the top layer of the Earth's surface; as a verb, it means to make something dirty'

Answer: soil


Question: 'Politics aside, in 1980 strikes in Gdansk & other Polish cities led to the formation of this labor union'

Answer: Solidarity


Question: 'It's the only state in the United States whose name ends in a "K"'

Answer: New York


Question: 'A small film role: an unknown has a "bit part", but a famous person makes this guest appearance'

Answer: cameo


Question: 'She adopted a baby before marrying TV writer-producer David E. Kelley'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'Sure, I was an astronaut...okay, I just exhibited signs of mythomania, or the impulse to do this'

Answer: lie


Question: 'Also meaning innovative, it's the type of ceremony seen here'

Answer: groundbreaking


Question: 'This agency's website for kids includes the games "Break the Code", "Try a Disguise" & a geography quiz'

Answer: the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)


Question: 'The most common Christmas tree in the U.S. is the Scotch species of this conifer'

Answer: a pine


Question: 'This title doc is a lifesaver, but Drs. Lawrence Kutner & Amber Volakis both died after working for him'

Answer: House


Question: 'Vermicelli is from the Latin for "little' these--eww!'

Answer: worms


Question: 'Once Lusitania, this country's modern name comes from the Roman name Portus Cale'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Technically, an M16 isn't really a machine gun, but an automatic one of these'

Answer: a rifle


Question: 'If you're not moving too well, you've "got a hitch in" this'

Answer: your get-along


Question: 'A gift from the Japanese, Prunus serrulata is one of the chief species of this tree planted at the Jefferson Memorial in 1912'

Answer: a cherry tree


Question: 'Gil Grissom & Raymond Langston both went after the bad guys (with science!) on this show'

Answer: CSI


Question: 'Fettuccine means this; get it right & we'll award you a "blue" one'

Answer: a ribbon


Question: '"Helvetia" is still inscribed on this mountainous country's currency & stamps'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'The primary manufacturer of the M16 is this American company also famous for its revolvers'

Answer: Colt


Question: 'A sneaker, or slang term for a private investigator'

Answer: a gumshoe


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a botanical photo on the monitor.)  Broad rings on a tree indicate years of sunshine & rain; narrow rings indicate cold or this weather condition, from the Middle English for "dryness"'

Answer: drought


Question: 'Jamie-Lynn Sigler (played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler) & Mrs. Ari were characters on this HBO show'

Answer: Entourage


Question: 'Stelline are literally "little" these heavenly bodies'

Answer: stars


Question: 'Greeks & Romans wrote about this island, Hibernia, though they never settled on it'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Varieties of these for the M16 include rubber, tracer & armor-piercing'

Answer: ammunition (or bullets)


Question: 'In English grammar, it's the "ing" form of a verb functioning as a noun'

Answer: a gerund


Question: 'The "biloba" in its scientific name means "2-lobed", referring to its 2-lobed leaves'

Answer: a Ginko


Question: 'Supporting roles on this show include Glenn Quagmire & Death, the latter voiced by Adam Carolla'

Answer: Family Guy


Question: 'Little round tortellini get their name from tortello, an Italian word for this food'

Answer: cake


Question: 'The ancient name for this modern country's capital is Berytus'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'A standard attachment to the underside of the M16 is the M203, one of these "launchers"'

Answer: a grenade launcher


Question: 'The esophagus'

Answer: the gullet


Question: 'From a Dutch word for "kitten", it's a drooping cluster of flowers found in willow, birch & oak trees'

Answer: a catkin


Question: 'Lutz, Frank & Toofer help make a variety show on this TV show'

Answer: 30 Rock


Question: 'Orecchiette means "little" these body parts'

Answer: ears


Question: 'Tripolitania is now the northwestern part of this country'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'If you could keep it supplied, an M16 is capable of 950 rpm, which stands for this'

Answer: rounds per minute


Question: 'This multi-decked Spanish warship had 3 masts & a square rig'

Answer: a galleon


Question: 'Seriously, Doc, I have episcleritis?  An inflammation of one of the layers of this sensory organ?'

Answer: the eye


Question: 'Don't leave your beads behind if you attend a party along the parade route for this pre-Lenten New Orleans festival'

Answer: Mardi Gras


Question: 'Reasons for his grumpiness include that his heart "was 2 sizes too small"'

Answer: the Grinch


Question: 'In 2010 the sleepy Hudson River town of Rhinebeck, N.Y. hosted the nuptials of this first kid'

Answer: Chelsea Clinton


Question: 'First name of Mr. Philbin's wife'

Answer: Joy


Question: 'Kenyan actor Deep Roy played all of these helpers in Tim Burton's "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"'

Answer: the Ooompa Loompas


Question: 'I shouldn't have petted that deer, because now I'm afraid I have this disease caused by a deer tick & named for a city'

Answer: Lyme disease


Question: 'Jason Wu designed Michelle Obama's one-shouldered silk chiffon gown for these events on the night of Jan. 20, 2009'

Answer: the inaugural balls


Question: 'This Dickens character introduced in 1843 is now generic for a grumpy miser'

Answer: Scrooge


Question: 'Big Arm, Bigfork, & Big Sky are all little towns in this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'Adjective describing Ken Kesey's pranksters'

Answer: merry


Question: 'Dwarves join Donkey to dance & sing "I'm A Believer" in this 2001 animated film'

Answer: Shrek


Question: 'What do you mean my shingles is like a second coming of this childhood disease?  Wasn't once enough?'

Answer: chicken pox


Question: 'Emily Post says you can give one of these parties for a single mom-to-be as well as for parents about to adopt'

Answer: a baby shower


Question: 'Disgusted, he calls Claudius' court "an unweeded garden that grows to seed"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'This sleepy Pennsylvania town is often called "The Most Famous Small Town in America"'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'It can follow "wood" or "golf", or precede MLB's Jones'

Answer: Chipper


Question: 'In this 1981 Terry Gilliam film, the title little guys have stolen a temporal-travel map from the Supreme Being'

Answer: Time Bandits


Question: 'Doc, my nearsightedness is really bad & I don't want to try LASIK; what about RK, short for this?'

Answer: radial keratotomy


Question: '1,300 invited guests attend the banquet held in Stockholm's Blue Hall following the awarding of these'

Answer: the Nobel Awards (the Nobel Prizes)


Question: 'Who would hold it against this poor fisherman for being grumpy after sharks ate his prized marlin catch?'

Answer: Santiago


Question: 'A 1920s query asked, "Will it play in" this Illinois town that experts considered a bellwether?'

Answer: Peoria


Question: 'This Greek word for extreme happiness was once used by doctors for a patient who felt great even though ill'

Answer: euphoria


Question: 'Trumpkin, played by Peter Dinklage, is a dwarf loyal to Caspian in this film series'

Answer: (The Chronicles of) Narnia


Question: 'Doc, you call them renal calculi, I call them by this more common name, but how long before they pass?'

Answer: a kidney stone


Question: 'The invitation to a masked ball that Truman Capote threw in 1966 told women to wear a gown of either of these two colors'

Answer: black or white


Question: 'In this novel Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing at age 3, makes noise with his favorite instrument & destroys things'

Answer: The Tin Drum


Question: 'Tim McGraw called this Colorado ski resort city southwest of Aspen & Vail a "sleepy little town"'

Answer: Telluride


Question: 'If you're this type of "spirit", etymologically akin to "bliss", it can also mean you lack concern'

Answer: blithe


Question: 'Frank, played by Peter Dinklage, has unwelcome news about the deceased in this 2010 comedy'

Answer: Death at a Funeral


Question: 'With 301 miles, it has the most coastline of current states that were part of the 13 original colonies'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: '"The Father of Relativity"'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'The 3 normal states of matter are solid, gas & this'

Answer: Liquid


Question: 'He's the senior White House correspondent seen here'

Answer: Wolf Blitzer


Question:
'"Always",
"E.T.",
"Jurassic Park"'

Answer: Steven Spielberg