Question: 'The night of December 24 celebrated with the actress who played Jan Brady'

Answer: Christmas Eve Plumb


Question: 'Carmel, California<br />1986-1988'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'If you lived in Guam instead of Finland, would you have composed "Guamia" instead of "Finlandia"?'

Answer: Jean Sibelius


Question: '"Standard" term for a large, front-page headline extending the width of the page'

Answer: Banner headline


Question: 'He was Major Nelson's girl-crazy fellow astronaut'

Answer: Major Roger Healey


Question: 'The San Andreas Fault is on the boundary between the North American & Pacific ones'

Answer: Tectonic plates


Question: '"Tutti Frutti" singer who led the Third Crusade'

Answer: Little Richard the Lionhearted


Question: 'Los Angeles, California<br />1973-1993'

Answer: Tom Bradley


Question: 'I thought the U.S. remake of your 1932 film "Boudu Saved From Drowning" was faithful to your work'

Answer: Jean Renoir


Question: 'It's the "sloping" point of view taken in a news story or feature'

Answer: Slant


Question: 'It's the title TV high-tech vehicle seen here:<br />(helicopter)'

Answer: Airwolf


Question: 'The Taupo Fault Zone on this country's North Island has produced intensive volcanic activity'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Tragic Shakespearean play about a Montague & a '70s TV "Nanny"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet Mills


Question: 'West Berlin<br />1957-1966'

Answer: Willy Brandt


Question: 'Do you think your career went downhill after winning all the Alpine golds at the Grenoble Olympics?'

Answer: Jean-Claude Killy


Question: 'A publicist is also known as this kind of agent'

Answer: Publicity/press agent


Question: 'Steve Austin's "metallic" TV boss in the mid-'70s'

Answer: Oscar Goldman


Question: 'An elongated fault zone may be this type of "valley", like the "Great" one of Asia & Africa'

Answer: Rift


Question: 'Vice presidential spouse who penned "Myra Breckinridge"'

Answer: Tipper Gore Vidal


Question: 'Atlanta, Georgia<br />1982-1989'

Answer: Andrew Young


Question: 'After seeing this painting of yours, I thought "Hey, he's good":<br />("The Gleaners")'

Answer: Jean-Francois Millet


Question: 'This short 1- or 2-word label for a news story sounds like a mollusk without a shell'

Answer: Slug


Question: 'As truck driver Billie Joe McKay, this actor teamed on TV with a chimp named The Bear'

Answer: Greg Evigan


Question: 'This 10,000-mile-long sub-oceanic "ridge" has its faults -- there's one every 20 to 60 miles'

Answer: Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Question: 'In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes'

Answer: Soccer


Question:
'Rome,
Copenhagen,
Lisbon'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'A shady corner is the perfect spot for this type of plant that includes thousands of species'

Answer: fern


Question: 'This author of "The Red Badge of Courage" based his story "The Open Boat" on his own experience after a shipwreck'

Answer: Stephen Crane


Question: 'We told you this film was called "Hot Babes" in Taiwan; in France, it was "Charlie and the Funny Women"'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'Or would you rather be one of these? (a cross between a male donkey & a female horse)'

Answer: mule


Question: 'In our opinion, it's a newspaper article that represents the publisher's point of view'

Answer: editorial


Question:
'Panama City,
Guatemala City,
Mexico City'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'Stems & leaves used to propagate new plants, or a British term for newspaper clippings'

Answer: cuttings


Question: 'This "French Connection" actor co-authored the 1999 novel "Wake of the Perdido Star"'

Answer: Gene Hackman


Question: 'C'mon; 1993 Taiwanese title "Who Freed the Super Whale"...what more do you need?'

Answer: Free Willy


Question: 'A record one of these from an African elephant weighed 236 pounds & was over 11 feet long'

Answer: tusk


Question: 'At least the Antarctic range named for this Henry Ford descendant isn't considered a failure'

Answer: Edsel Ford


Question:
'Phnom Penh,
Beijing,
Hanoi'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Deal with certain plants before they spread; or in rhyme, "One year seeding means seven years" this'

Answer: weeding


Question: 'This story of a defecting Soviet sub captain was the first novel from both Tom Clancy & Naval Institute Press'

Answer: "The Hunt for Red October"


Question: 'In Japan this 2000 Cameron Crowe film was known as "Those Days with Penny Lane"'

Answer: Almost Famous


Question: 'This very small place in Ohio was named after P.T. Barnum's very big elephant'

Answer: Jumbo


Question: 'Hell-oooo, possums, "She's" the international star who took a "Royal Tour" in 2001'

Answer: Dame Edna Everage


Question:
'Pretoria,
Addis Ababa,
Tripoli'

Answer: Tripoli


Question: 'These roses are so named because their scent resembles a plant used to brew a hot beverage'

Answer: tea roses


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the beach)  The birds remind me of this 1970 book by former Air Force pilot Richard Bach'

Answer: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"


Question: 'In Taiwan this 1998 sequel to "The Fugitive" was known as "Execution with No Reasons"'

Answer: U.S. Marshals


Question: 'The tales of this elephant & his family were created by the Brunhoff family'

Answer: Babar


Question: 'This place, whose name means "place of pleasure", is often thought to have been in Mesopotamia'

Answer: Garden of Eden


Question:
'Jakarta,
Colombo,
New Delhi'

Answer: New Delhi


Question: 'From the Greek topos, which means "place", it's the type of plant cultivation seen here'

Answer: topiary


Question: 'In a 1976 Clive Cussler novel, Dirk Pitt wants to raise this ship to recover a store of byzanium, a rare element'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'In Taiwan "You're Still Next" was this horror film's sequel; Pop Rocks killing Life cereal's Mikey is an example of one'

Answer: Urban Legend


Question: 'Cartoonist who gave the Democrats the donkey & the Republicans the elephant'

Answer: Thomas Nast


Question: 'This city's name derives from the Celtic word meaning "Eiden's Fort"'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'He led Israel's army in the 1967 Six-Day War & was assassinated as prime minister in 1995'

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin


Question: 'Fishy name for light pink with a yellowish tinge'

Answer: salmon


Question: 'The pons, meaning "bridge", connects the medulla to higher parts of this organ'

Answer: brain


Question: 'In 2001 he revealed that after reaching the summit May 29, 1953 he left everything there & ran back down to camp'

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary


Question: '"Emma", "Sliding Doors" -- her English-accented films just keep on coming'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'After a formal dinner, place this loosely next to your plate, not on your chair'

Answer: napkin


Question: 'Seen here, he "hacked" plenty of on & off-screen adventure into his life; 1909 to 1959'

Answer: Errol Flynn


Question: 'In Esperanto this day of the week is Vendredo'

Answer: Friday


Question: 'The hormone Oxytocin stimulates the uterus &, soon after, these milk-producing glands'

Answer: mammary glands


Question: 'Reinhold Messner amazed people when he reached the summit without a bottle of this, a need for most'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'A BBC review said as Bert in "Mary Poppins" he "speaks a form of Cockney unknown within 5,000 miles of Bow Bells"'

Answer: Dick Van Dyke


Question: 'If a girl receives one of these small bouquets on prom night, she must wear it no matter how much it clashes'

Answer: corsage


Question: 'He bought out the McDonald burger-making brothers in 1961 for $2.7 million'

Answer: Ray Kroc


Question: 'It's discrimination against & stereotyping of older people'

Answer: ageism


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew) The ----- in your wrist when you extend your thumb is an anatomical this, a container for powdered tobacco'

Answer: snuffbox


Question: 'In 1996 Greg MacGillivray produced a film on the world's tallest mountain for this big-screen format'

Answer: IMAX


Question: 'When she played Anna in 1999 & met the king of Siam, she was sporting a British accent'

Answer: Jodie Foster


Question: 'At a weddng reception, he traditionally proposes the first toast'

Answer: the best man


Question: 'This clubfooted Nazi propagandist was born in Rheydt in 1897 & died in 1945'

Answer: Joseph Goebbels


Question: 'In slang, they're the 5-0 or the Po-Po's'

Answer: police


Question: 'When food enters the small intestine, it's joined there by this fluid stored in the gallbladder'

Answer: bile


Question: 'Yuichiro Miura, set to climb Everest after he turns 70 in 2003, has done this down each continent's highest peak'

Answer: skied


Question: 'This North Carolina-born "Hannibal" actress donned an English accent for "An Ideal Husband"'

Answer: Julianne Moore


Question: 'Eat this vegetable leaf by leaf with your fingers, but when you get to the heart, use a knife & fork'

Answer: artichoke


Question: 'Because she died at 39 in 1964, this Southerner only wrote "Wise Blood" & one other novel'

Answer: Flannery O\'Connor


Question: 'Used on citrus fruits, it's the item seen here'

Answer: zester


Question: 'It's the more spacey term for the eye socket'

Answer: orbit


Question: 'Ang Tsering Sherpa, who turned 98 in 2001, was on this man's 1924 expedition -- "Because it's there"'

Answer: George Mallory


Question: 'His Ned Alleyn in "Shakespeare in Love" was a far cry from his role in "Armageddon"'

Answer: Ben Affleck


Question: 'At a party, serve champagne in these tall, slender glasses; it'll stay bubbly longer'

Answer: flute glasses


Question: 'Invented by Dan Robbins, this product was first sold in the 1950s with the slogan "Every Man a Rembrandt"'

Answer: Paint by Numbers


Question: 'In 2003, the 50th anniversary of his climb, he said, "I'm not very happy about the future of Mount Everest"'

Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary


Question: '2005: <br />"Walk the Line"'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'On a 1990 cover Esquire went old school with this Windy City hoops star & asked, "Is he our new DiMaggio?"'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'He blinded the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'The break in your heart line shows you had one of these, the voiding of a marriage that was never valid'

Answer: an annulment


Question: 'This "Lumpy Gravy" musician howled on the Barking Pumping record label'

Answer: Frank Zappa


Question: 'Asked if he had anything to declare on his first visit to the U.S. in 1882, this wit said, "Nothing but my genius"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: '1988:<br />"Bird"'

Answer: Charlie Parker


Question: 'In Oct. 1994 this director's Esquire cover read "Look Who's Talking"; one of his talking points-- "Soon-Yi's charms"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'This resinous gemstone was said to be the solidified tears of Apollo's daughters'

Answer: amber


Question: 'Your line of fate is quite deep, indicating success investing with tech stocks, like Adobe & Oracle, on this exchange'

Answer: NASDAQ


Question: 'This career soldier who never voted served as president for fewer than 500 days'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'In "Notes on the State of Virginia", he wrote, "Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: '1994:<br />"Immortal Beloved"'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'For Esquire's 75th, the electronic cover was created; the hard part was finding a small enough one of these'

Answer: battery


Question: 'This guy had double the trouble battling the Hydra; every time he cut off a head, 2 grew in its place'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'Based on your life line, I wouldn't visit Tampico, located on this gulf, in hurricane season. I just wouldn't'

Answer: Gulf of Mexico


Question: 'After buying the Tribune Company, he promised to sell the Chicago Cubs'

Answer: Sam Zell


Question: 'When this Carthaginian left the foe recover, a friend said, "You know how to win a victory...but not how to use it"'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: '1956:<br />"Lust for Life"'

Answer: Vincent van Gogh


Question: 'Why is Tricky Dick laughing? Perhaps it's because he was part of the first of these awards begun by Esquire in 1962'

Answer: Dubious Achievement Awards


Question: 'It's the only day of the week named for a Roman god'

Answer: Saturday


Question: 'The creativity in your mount of Apollo means you should try out for this operetta, as Pooh-Bah'

Answer: The Mikado


Question: 'This Italian director is famous for his 1968 film of "Romeo and Juliet"'

Answer: Franco Zeffirelli


Question: 'In McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, this Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves to destroy"'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: '1962:<br />"The Birdman of Alcatraz"'

Answer: Robert Stroud


Question: 'Created by George Petty for Esquire in 1941, the beauty seen here was painted onto the fuselage of this famed World War II bomber'

Answer: Memphis Belle


Question: 'The Sphinx riddled & munched on travelers on the high road to this ancient city'

Answer: Thebes


Question: 'Your health line tells me that in 2 years you'll develop this, an inflammation of a fluid-filled sac, around the elbow'

Answer: bursitis


Question: 'He served as an adviser for Jimmy Carter & as director of the Trilateral Commission'

Answer: Zbigniew Brzezinski


Question: 'Australia's Jenolan Caves were first known as Binoomea, this type of "places", but in 1887 got electric lighting'

Answer: dark places


Question: 'In Christopher Ciccone's "Life With My Sister" her, it turns out she's a bit of a control freak'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'Great with chunky sauces, the pasta called ruote resemble these with spokes'

Answer: wheels


Question: 'In reptiles these choppers are conical & uniform; in mammals they have various shapes & sizes'

Answer: teeth


Question: 'Based on an ancient game of India, this board game is played on a cross-shaped board'

Answer: Parcheesi


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.) Carlsbad Caverns is rich in columns; a column forms when these two calcite structures grow together, one from the top & one from the bottom'

Answer: stalagmites and stalactites


Question: '"7" is a fictionalized memoir of this carousing Yankee center fielder'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'Nissin makes a product called "Top" this Japanese soup noodle'

Answer: Ramen


Question: '3 billion base pairs of DNA, incorporating the code to make a person, is called the human this'

Answer: genome


Question: 'He wrote the bestsellers "Slaughterhouse-Five" & "Breakfast of Champions"'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


Question: 'National critter seen here'

Answer: Old English sheepdog


Question: 'Nevada's formation-rich Lehman Caves are made of low-grade marble, better known as this'

Answer: limestone


Question: 'If you doubt you could be shocked by a tell-all book about this man, check out "Mr. Playboy"'

Answer: Hugh Hefner


Question: 'A noodle made from this grain is an ingredient in the traditional Thai dish mee krob'

Answer: rice


Question: 'Arginine, one of these acids, is made in the body but not enough for growth--so it's an "essential" one only in kids'

Answer: an amino acid


Question: 'This philanthropist donated the land on which the U.N. headquarters was built in New York City'

Answer: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


Question: '13-letter name for a type of classic steamboat on the Mississippi'

Answer: a paddlewheeler


Question: 'Near Chiscau, Romania there's a cave named for its many fossils of the extinct cave type of this carnivore'

Answer: a bear


Question: 'An unauthorized bio of her claims she'd prolong interviews to steal airtime from Matt Lauer'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'Short tubes of macaroni, ditali is Italian for this sewing accessory'

Answer: a thimble


Question: 'Not just something in a car, it's a type of neuron that sends signals to an effector, like a muscle'

Answer: a motor


Question: 'Edmund Jr. is the real name of this California pol known to some as "Governor Moonbeam"'

Answer: Jerry Brown


Question: 'A format that allows the user to lay out data in multiple fields on a computer screen'

Answer: a spreadsheet


Question: 'Africa's Sterkfontein Caves yielded Mrs. Plesianthropus of this extinct genus, whose name means "southern ape"'

Answer: Australopithecus


Question: 'This movie star's "The Million Dollar Mermaid" discusses Jeff Chandler's off-the-set fashion choices'

Answer: Esther Williams


Question: 'Made from mung beans, glass noodles are also called this, after another transparent product'

Answer: cellophane noodles


Question: 'Part of biology, this -ology studies hosted organisms like tapeworms'

Answer: parasitology


Question: 'In 1979 he resigned as ambassador to the U.N. because of an unauthorized meeting with a PLO representative'

Answer: Andrew Young, Jr.


Question: 'To coax someone with flattery or artful persuasion'

Answer: wheedle


Question: 'Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas'

Answer: Eva Peron


Question: 'El Espectador & El Tiempo, the 2 largest of Colombia's daily newspapers, are published in this city'

Answer: Bogotá


Question:
'"Some day we'll meeet again and
Away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know"'

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


Question: 'The FBI's HRT, a "Rescue Team" for these, can be anywhere in 4 hours'

Answer: hostages


Question: 'Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "M*A*S*H" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show'

Answer: Harry Morgan


Question: 'This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her'

Answer: Merlin


Question: 'For heartburn these are a must'

Answer: Tums (for must)


Question: 'The Putomayo, a branch of this river, forms much of Colombia's border with Peru'

Answer: the Amazon


Question: '"My reign will be a super-awesome thing<br />Oh, I just can't wait to be king"'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'On Feb. 6, 1938 the lifesavers of Bondi Beach in this country rescued 300 people from freak waves'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California'

Answer: the San Diego Chargers


Question: 'He disappeared after just 3 weeks at Fordham; years later, he'd make the Statue of Liberty follow suit'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'I'm sated after eating too many of these'

Answer: dates (for sated)


Question: 'Colombia's coat of arms was adopted in 1834 & features this vulture perched on top'

Answer: the Andean Condor


Question: '"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?"'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'When sent down, the rescue capsule for the Quecreek miners in this state carried water, Skoal & Hershey bars'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow'

Answer: Harry and the Hendersons


Question: 'This magician does the ultimate disappearing act & ends up on an enchanted island with Ariel & the brutish Caliban'

Answer: Prospero


Question: 'Please be quiet, everyone here is this'

Answer: asleep (for please)


Question: 'Colombia's second-largest city, it's known for its textiles & as a center for the illegal drug trade'

Answer: Medellín


Question:
'"Les poissons,
Les poissons
How I love
Les poissons
Love to chop and
To serve little fish"'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'If you're rescued from a deep-sea dive, you may go into this type of chamber, from the same root as "barometer"'

Answer: hyperbaric


Question: 'Here's a Harry & a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman'

Answer: Gary Sinise


Question: 'Don't feel ripped off if you pay to see these 2 magicians at the Rio in Vegas & only one of them ever speaks'

Answer: Penn & Teller


Question: 'It was the nationality of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, himself'

Answer: Flemish (for himself)


Question: 'In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature'

Answer: García Márquez


Question:
'"We are Siameeiz
If you pleeiz,
We are Siameeiz
If you don't please"'

Answer: Lady and the Tramp


Question: 'An old infantry weapon, or the type of "pole" used to tear down walls'

Answer: a pike


Question: 'Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'Martin Luther believed this German magician & astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers'

Answer: Faust


Question: '"Nowhere can I find this utopian novel by Samuel Butler"'

Answer: Erewhon (for nowhere)


Question: '(Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.)  When I was a congressman, I often strolled through this 96-foot-wide domed hall, the Capitol's hub'

Answer: the Rotunda


Question: 'Herman Mankiewicz shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Citizen Kane" with this man'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: 'The Lord told him to "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it"'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'An elastomer is defined as a synthetic polymer having the properties of this natural material'

Answer: rubber


Question: 'While out of office in the 1930s, he knocked out a million-word biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'Soccer at Wembley Stadium'

Answer: football


Question: 'The USA's only Leonard Da Vinci painting resides at this museum at 4th & Constitution'

Answer: the National Gallery of Art


Question: 'David S. Ward wrote "The Sting"; William Goldman penned this earlier Newman-Redford pairing'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'This New Testament beggar "died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom"'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'Ex-Boston Globe scribe Leigh Montville is the latest biographer of this baseball great'

Answer: Ted Williams


Question: 'Hemispherical hammer head'

Answer: a ball-peen


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ari Fliescher.)  In the White House large events like dances & weddings are held in this room, designed as a "public audience room"'

Answer: the East Room


Question: 'Christopher McQuarrie introduced us to the myterious Keyser Soze in this 1995 film'

Answer: The Usual Suspects


Question: 'This half brother of Isaac born of Abraham & Hagar was called "a wild man, his hand will be against every man"'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'Hautboy, an old word for oboe, comes from the French name Hautbois, which means "high" this'

Answer: wood


Question: 'A bio of him sums up, "It was by dying when he did", in 1863 that he achieved his military fame'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'Fancy fungus in fine form here'

Answer: a puffball


Question: 'A hotel near the White House is named for John Hay & this pal of his, a descendant of presidents'

Answer: Henry Adams


Question: 'A real "American Beauty", Alan Ball created this drop-dead gorgeous HBO series'

Answer: Six Feet Under


Question: 'Revelation says Satan will "deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the Earth, Gog and" this'

Answer: Magog


Question: '2-word term for an amorphous form of SiO2; as a drying agent, it comes in little packets that say "DO NOT EAT"'

Answer: silica gel


Question: '"Uncertainty: The Life and Science of" this man explores his work on Nazi weapons programs'

Answer: (Werner) Heisenberg


Question: 'David Letterman's alma mater'

Answer: Ball State


Question: '(Hi, I'm Christie Whitman.)  The EPA is based in this Ariel Rios Building, part of this "Triangle" bounded by 15th, Pennsylvania & Constitution'

Answer: Federal Triangle


Question: 'It takes a village to know he followed up "Chinatown" with "Shampoo" the next year'

Answer: Robert Towne


Question: 'These 4 words were the handwriting Belshazzar saw on the wall of his palace'

Answer: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin


Question: 'A biography of this wife of James Joyce is subtitled "The Real Life of Molly Bloom"'

Answer: Nora Joyce


Question: 'Ladies & gentlemen, it's a Spanish word for gentleman'

Answer: caballero


Question: 'It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder"'

Answer: Beethoven\'s 9th Symphony


Question: 'you're jogging in Johannesburg'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Ms. Dibbs knows a lot about Iran--I bet she works for this spy agency based in Langley, Virginia'

Answer: the CIA


Question: 'Dry a grape & it becomes this'

Answer: a raisin


Question: 'Name of the Mother Goose thief represented here--what a son of a piper'

Answer: Tom


Question: 'When we first meet this title character in a 2008 Pixar film, his only friend is his pet, cockroach, Hal'

Answer: WALL•E


Question: 'Once you turn 18 it's your "duty" as a U.S. citizen to serve on one of these groups in court when called'

Answer: jury


Question: 'you're lounging in Lima, the capital'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'You buy the P.E. teacher's soccer injury story?  He hurt his knee jumping police cars on a Harley-Davidson this, duh'

Answer: a motorcycle


Question: 'A prune is this fruit before it becomes shriveled'

Answer: a plum


Question: '"'I say!' murmured" this Seuss animal, "'I've never heard tell of a small speck of dust that is able to yell"''

Answer: Horton (the Elephant)


Question: 'Monsieur Le Pelt joins Cruella de Vil in the chase for 102 of these in a 2000 sequel'

Answer: Dalmatians


Question: 'When this cools quickly after an eruption, it can form a type of glass called obsidian'

Answer: lava


Question: 'you're modeling in Milan, population 1.3 million'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Everyone knows Mr. Lee made $100 million working for this Bill Gates co. & now teaches for $1 a year'

Answer: Microsoft


Question: 'A cucumber that's put in a solution called brine becomes this'

Answer: a pickle


Question: 'This E.B. White guy "is no ordinary mouse... he lives in New York City with his parents (&) his older brother George"'

Answer: Stuart Little


Question: 'Yes, that's Hayden Panettiere befriending one of these animals (who thinks he's a racehorse) in "Racing Stripes"'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'It's a song, frequently sung in church, in praise of God'

Answer: hymn


Question: 'you're hopping in Helsinki'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'Mr. Conklin was a captain when the U.S. Navy was attacked at this site in Hawaii in 1941--he's that old!'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'Warm some milk & add specialized bacteria, separate out the curd clumps, then shape & age the curd to make this'

Answer: cheese


Question: '"One False Note" & "The Maze of Bones" are part of a book series with this number of "Clues" in its title'

Answer: 39


Question: 'When Andi & Bruce need to find a place for their pup to live, they create this title lodging in a 2008 film'

Answer: a hotel for dogs


Question: 'The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it's also the lower front part of your leg'

Answer: shin


Question: 'you're resting in Riyadh'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Ms. Lenox' only friend is a vicious dog called a Doberman this, & the last kid who trick or treated her is still missing'

Answer: pinscher


Question: 'Take a legume whose pod develops underground, roast it, then grind it into a paste to make this'

Answer: peanut butter


Question: 'In 1990 she penned "Fudge-a-Mania"; are you there, contestants?  It's me, this children's book author'

Answer: Judy Blume


Question: 'In a 2007 film this mutt was able to leap tall buildings in a single bound after a mishap in the lab of Simon Barsinister'

Answer: Underdog


Question: 'This soft underlayer of feathers from a duck or goose is used to stuff pillows'

Answer: down


Question: 'In 1902 in Montana, paleontologist Barnum Brown unearthed the first specimen of this dinosaur "king"'

Answer: a T. rex


Question:
'Backstroke,
breaststroke,
butterfly'

Answer: swimming


Question: 'Let's "rush" over to Knott's Berry Farm & let an old prospector teach us how to pan for this'

Answer: gold


Question: 'Scholars have referred to the years 1585 to 1592 as "the Lost Years" of this English playwright'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew picks your brain.)  Hold a toothpick near your fingertips--it won't break no matter how hard you try; but move it above your knuckles, & it's easy thanks to this principle that increases mechanical advantage'

Answer: leverage


Question: 'It can follow shepherd's, cherry or mud'

Answer: pie


Question: 'Hadrosaurus & Corythosaurus are among dinosaurs that had ths type of bill, like a platypus'

Answer: a duckbill


Question:
'Camel,
double axel,
figure 8'

Answer: figure skating


Question: 'You can dine with Shamu at the watery parks named this'

Answer: SeaWorld


Question: 'In 1776 she took over the family upholstering business; she also made flags for the Navy of Pennsylvania'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'You can use a piece of string to pick up an ice cube if you first sprinkle the ice with this stuff, sodium chloride'

Answer: salt


Question: 'This word meaning "also" also sounds like a number'

Answer: too


Question: 'The oviraptor's name means that it stole these from other dinosaurs but new evidence sugests that it was misnamed'

Answer: eggs


Question:
'Advantage,
deuce,
love'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'The Ghost Train at N.C.'s Tweetsie Railroad starts choo-chooing in this scary month, but you can order tickets now'

Answer: October


Question: 'He got 34 patents for the telephone, but don't say Bell; he also got 389 for electric light & power'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew tugs a string in a cup.)  The paper cup seems to laugh because the wet string is transmitting vibrations that form these waves inside the cup'

Answer: sound waves


Question: 'Don't feed the creatures at a menagerie, a type of this'

Answer: zoo


Question: 'This 3-horned plant-eater's 10-foot-long head is said to be the largest ever possessed by a land animal'

Answer: a Triceratops


Question:
'Icing,
power play,
blue line'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'The rides at Elitch Gardens are a mile high, since the park's in this "Mile High City" in Colorado'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'This Confederate Gen. & Virginian opposed secession but "could take no part in an invasion of the Southern states"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Rub a comb on your arm & you can use it to make the water from a faucet bend toward it thanks to this electricity'

Answer: static electricity


Question: 'A charge for services'

Answer: fee


Question: 'This dinosaur known for the bony plates along its back had multiple spikes at the end of its tail for protection'

Answer: a Stegosaurus


Question:
'Gaylord,
pommel horse,
uneven bars'

Answer: gymnastics


Question: 'Whee!  Test Track, one of Disney World's fastest rides, is in this park with a 5-letter name'

Answer: Epcot


Question: 'In 2001 this woman known for aiding Lewis & Clark was made an honorary sergeant in the Regular Army'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew plays a different kind of checkers.)  I can knock the bottom checker out without knocking the stack over thanks to this property of matter that tends to keep things in place'

Answer: inertia


Question: 'This guy seen here is the second largest bird on the planet'

Answer: an emu


Question: 'He's the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question: 'Careful--don't get bit by this venomous guy of the American Southwest'

Answer: a Gila monster


Question: 'Diana Ross'

Answer: The Supremes


Question: 'First witch:<br />"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in ____?"'

Answer: rain


Question: 'Hey, half-pint, you're equal to this many quarts'

Answer: 1/4


Question: 'In "Christmas Vacation", Chevy Chase makes his kids put up thousands of these'

Answer: lights


Question: 'For a U.S. Navy captain in full dress in 1802, they were "yellow metal, with... anchor and the American Eagle"'

Answer: buttons


Question: 'This non-venomous constrictor is the longest snake in the Western Hemisphere'

Answer: an anaconda


Question: 'Tom Petty'

Answer: The Heartbreakers


Question: 'Hamlet: "Frailty, thy name is ____"'

Answer: woman


Question: 'I'll have the 64 oz. steak, please; what?  64 oz. is this many pounds?  Better make my soda a diet one'

Answer: 4 pounds


Question: 'In the carol "Deck The Halls", it's what we don'

Answer: our gay apparel


Question: 'Elizabeth Taylor starred in it'

Answer: BUtterfield 8


Question: 'These large lizards take their name from the Asian islands where they are found'

Answer: a Komodo dragon


Question: 'Huey Lewis'

Answer: The News


Question: 'Romeo:<br />"O! That I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that ____"'

Answer: cheek


Question: 'I fathom you can fathom that 50 fathoms is this many feet'

Answer: 300


Question: 'In the Christmas Truce of 1914, soldiers sang, exchanged smokes  played an impromptu game of this'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'Annual herb of the ranunculaceae family'

Answer: the buttercup


Question: 'Up to 8 feet long & 2,000 pounds, the leatherback is the largest species of this reptile'

Answer: a turtle


Question: 'Smokey Robinson'

Answer: The Miracles


Question: 'King Lear:<br />"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless ____"'

Answer: child


Question: 'Noah must have read the World Almanac to know that 21.8 inches equals one of this type of ancient measure'

Answer: a cubit


Question: 'As early as 1867 this NYC store with a red star symbol was open until midnight Christmas Eve'

Answer: Macy\'s


Question: 'A solid structure built against a wall to support it; some are "flying"'

Answer: buttresses


Question: 'Seen here, this alligator relative is found in Central and South America'

Answer: a caiman


Question: 'Marky Mark'

Answer: The Funky Bunch


Question: 'Petruchio:<br />"I come to wive it wealthily in ____"'

Answer: Padua


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a long photograph of a horse race.)  This horse racing term is actually an approximation of the measure of a horse from nose to tail, around 8 feet; in the photo from 1973's Belmont Stakes, you can see Secretariat won by 31 of them'

Answer: a length


Question: 'The Norse, who thought the sun was a ball of fire rolling around, started the tradition of this fireplace object'

Answer: a yule log


Question: 'Yeats' middle name'

Answer: Butler


Question: 'On June 26, 1948 the U.S. began flying tons of supplies into the western sector of this city in Operation Vittles'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'This "Sex and the City" star was replaced by teen singer Joss Stone in Gap ads, but she can do ads for us anytime'

Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker


Question: 'After WWII black American writers Richard Wright & Chester Himes moved to this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'The Lincoln Highway pioneered the bypass idea by looping around this Metropolis in the land of Lincoln'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'What, no Rogaine? Cleopatra made a concoction of honey, burnt mice & bear grease as a cure for this'

Answer: baldness


Question: 'It can precede break, maker & klatsch'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'The 1991 Persian Gulf War was known as Desert Storm; this was the code name of the buildup prior to the war'

Answer: Desert Shield


Question: 'We wonder if he still enjoys taking over for Pierce Brosnan after slicing off the tip of his finger playing Bond'

Answer: Daniel Craig


Question: 'Disillusioned with America, W.E.B. DuBois joined this party in 1961 & moved to Ghana'

Answer: the Communist Party


Question: 'The opening of a bypass in 1999 connected Pine Bluff in this state with the interstate system'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'At Shizuka NY Day Spa, nightingdale droppings go into a trendy facial named for these lovely Japanese entertainers'

Answer: geishas


Question: 'This bovine is also a verb that means to threaten, intimidate or bully'

Answer: a cow


Question: 'The 1973 Egyptian & Syrian surprise attack on Israel on this holiday was known as Operation Badr, or "Full Moon"'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'On this 2008 show Shenae Grimes & Tristan Wilds take over for Doherty & Priestley, & the title is just the zip code'

Answer: 90210


Question: 'Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, this violinist was awarded a Medal of Liberty by President Reagan'

Answer: Itzhak Perlman


Question: 'The extension of this city's U.S.-29 bypass will have a connector road to the University of Virginia'

Answer: Charlottesville


Question: 'We don't mean to be "arch", but Damone Roberts is the king of these facial features, which he's famous for shaping'

Answer: eyebrows


Question: 'A scientific device of these devices, like Casio's FX-300MS, is helpful with logarithms & trigonometry'

Answer: a calculator


Question: 'Operations Crossroads was the code name of 2 nuclear tests performed in July 1946 at this Pacific atoll'

Answer: Bikini


Question: 'In 1994 this NBC show took over the Thursdays at 10 slot from "L.A. Law"; as of 2008, it was still there'

Answer: E.R.


Question: 'Francis Mayes fell for this region of Italy & writes about her life there, as in "Bella" it'

Answer: Tuscany


Question: 'You'll be dropping your line into a lake earlier if you take the Brainerd Bypass in this state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'USA Today once dubbed it the "little neurotoxin that could"; if its name makes you frown, we bet you don't use it'

Answer: botox


Question: 'This viral inflammation of the larynx & trachea is common in kids, especially from 6 months to 3 years'

Answer: croup


Question: 'Operation Jennifer was the CIA's 1974 effort to recover a sunken Soviet sub using this billionaire's Glomar Explorer'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: '"Don't Stop Believin'"!  In 2007 this '80s band found its new singer in the Philippines, doing covers on YouTube'

Answer: Journey


Question: 'Born in England in 1937, this painter discovered sunny California in the 1960s & made it his home'

Answer: David Hockney


Question: 'Made up of I-495 & I-95, it was conceived as a bypass called the Washington Circumferential Highway'

Answer: the Beltway


Question: 'This euphemism for a lift inspired the name of a TV series on which plastic surgery fan Joan Rivers played herself'

Answer: Nip/Tuck


Question: 'This type of pony got its name from a Native American tribe of Oregon'

Answer: Cayuse


Question: 'This country's largest lake shares its name with the country; its second-largest lake has the same name as its capital'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'In early 2001 L.A. got 14" of rain; this city got 5" of rain & a 6.8 jolt that trapped people in its Space Needle'

Answer: Seattle


Question: 'Alyson Hannigan, seen here, is one of the stars of this "killer" show'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'Read N' Play Tommy Pickles is one of the toys based on this TV series'

Answer: Rugrats


Question: 'Ask a friend to set you up with one of his acquaintances for this kind of date; a seeing-eye dog is not required'

Answer: blind date


Question: 'In driver's training you learn this light means to slow down & be prepared to stop, not hurry up to beat the red'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'This character has dealt with a "Goblet of Fire", but let's see how he handles his film's producers'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'In December 2000 this country felt several small quakes around Popocatepetl'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Brooke & Sam are Kennedy High students who are trying to be this, the title of their show'

Answer: Popular


Question: 'A Hungarian inventor is famous for this puzzling cube'

Answer: Rubik\'s Cube


Question: 'datesafely.com recommends if you meet someone online, your first date should be this type -- with another couple'

Answer: double-date


Question: 'In some classes, time goes as slowly as this sweet liquid "in January"'

Answer: molasses


Question: 'This female WWF wrestler, the "9th Wonder of the World", was on the bestseller list with "If They Only Knew"'

Answer: Chyna


Question: 'The Jan. 26, 2001 quake centered in this country was felt in Bangladesh, 1,200 miles across the Bay of Bengal'

Answer: India


Question: 'Lauren Graham & Alexis Bledel are mom & daughter Lorelai & Rory, the title "Girls" on this drama'

Answer: Gilmore Girls


Question: 'Parker Bros. recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of this take-over-the-world board game'

Answer: Risk


Question: 'Emily Post recommends you ask for a date to this senior year dance at least a month in advance'

Answer: the prom


Question: 'Mimic this gastropod's "pace" when walking to school & you may get there by sixth period'

Answer: snail


Question: 'This author of legal thrillers returned to the real courtroom in '96 & won a career-best $683,500 verdict'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'A 1964 quake in this state caused tsunamis as far away as Siberia, & Hawaii & California'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Get over yourself & name this group formed on "Popstars"'

Answer: Eden\'s Crush


Question: 'This doll first came out way back in 1915; Andy soon followed'

Answer: Raggedy Ann


Question: '"The Girl Code" says the way your date treats this restaurant employee is how he'll treat you in 6 months'

Answer: waiter/waitress


Question: 'As a verb, the name of this golf club means "to occupy yourself in a leisurely way"'

Answer: putter


Question: 'He was a chicken farmer & an axle grease salesman before writing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: 'On Jan. 13, 2001 a 7.6 temblor rocked this tiny Central American nation; a 6.6 quake hit exactly one month later'

Answer: El Salvador


Question: 'Turns out that some of the teens in this title town are aliens'

Answer: Roswell


Question: 'Model maker that merged with Monogram; the company sells about 50% of all the kits sold in the U.S.'

Answer: Revell


Question: 'Title of an Ellen Fein-Sherrie Schneider book; No. 28 says not to act like a boy around a boy you like'

Answer: "The Rules"


Question: 'As a verb, it's followed by "away" to mean slowly waste your money; as a noun, it's a deep-fried battered cake'

Answer: fritter


Question: 'This oldest-ever heavyweight champ knocked out a "Knock-Out-the-Fat Barbeque and Grilling Cookbook"'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'This Quaker received a tract of land west of the Delaware River as repayment of a debt owed to his dad by Charles II'

Answer: William Penn


Question: '"The Perfect Nanny" & "Let's Go Fly a Kite"'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'The Sacramento River rises near Mount Shasta & empties into the Pacific at this colorful "Gate"'

Answer: Golden Gate


Question: 'Dad says you might get burned, so don't stand close to the rim of an active one of these geologic features'

Answer: volcano


Question: 'Involved in balance, the fluid-filled semicircular canals are located in this part of the body'

Answer: ears


Question: 'The place is the hometown of the Backstreet Boys; the person is the hero of "As You Like It"'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'Of Quaker descent, this revolutionary pamphleteer wrote an "Epistle to the Quakers" in 1776'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: '"Son of Man" & "You'll Be in My Heart"'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'This river forms the boundary between Arizona & California'

Answer: the Colorado River


Question: 'Special training & equipment are required when wrestling one of these large creatures'

Answer: alligator


Question: 'The term malocclusion refers to the improper meeting of these'

Answer: the teeth (they don\'t line up properly)


Question: 'The thing is what's cut from the object seen here; the person is the woman who sang "Foolish Games"'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'Roger Williams disagreed with Quaker teachings but was a friend to the Friends, providing refuge in this colony'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: '"I've Got No Strings" & "Little Woodenhead"'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Chief ports on this river include Sioux City, Omaha & Kansas City'

Answer: the Missouri River


Question: 'Mom might suggest hiring a Sherpa if you're planning a yak trek across this range between India & Nepal'

Answer: the Himalayas


Question: 'As a child you have 33 of these bones that make up the spine; later some fuse together'

Answer: vertebrae


Question: 'The place is another word for Australia's outback; the person is the most powerful man in the world'

Answer: Bush


Question: 'Quaker printer William Bradford was acquited in a colonial trial concerning what became this First Amendment right'

Answer: freedom of speech


Question: '"Go the Distance" & "Oh Mighty Zeus"'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'It flows from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, where it empties into the Mississippi River'

Answer: the Ohio River


Question: 'It might be a bit painful to self-apply one of these body designs whose name is from a Tahitian word'

Answer: tattoo


Question: 'The iris, or colored part of the eye, is covered by this transparent outer layer of tissue'

Answer: cornea


Question: 'The thing is what a lumberjack leaves behind; the place is where a politician speaks'

Answer: stump


Question: 'Francis, the father of this 37th U.S. president, became a Quaker after marrying Hannah Milhous'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: '"A Girl Worth Fighting For" & "True to Your Heart"'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'This chief tributary of the Columbia River is navigable inland to Lewiston, Idaho'

Answer: the Snake River


Question: 'Bring a coat if launching yourself in a probe towards this planet about 318 times the mass of Earth'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Helped by axons & dendrites, nerve cells called these conduct impulses around the body'

Answer: neurons


Question: 'The place is a partly enclosed body of water; the thing is a laurel tree'

Answer: bay


Question: 'In 1998 Andrew Thomas became the seventh & last American to live aboard this'

Answer: Space Station Mir


Question: 'This term for each of Lesotho's 10 divisions can also precede "attorney"'

Answer: a district


Question: 'In the 20th c., only Joe DiMaggio hit in more consecutive games than this Cincinnati Red who hit safely in 44 straight games'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'We all scream for it:<br />MICE CARE'

Answer: ice cream


Question: 'The USA's chief health educator is this "General"'

Answer: the Surgeon


Question: 'Traditionally, the nomadic Masai of Kenya live almost entirely on their herds of these'

Answer: cattle


Question: 'After trimming, these lumber units are sold at 1 5/8 inches by 3 5/8 inches'

Answer: two-by-fours


Question: 'They're the main divisions of Canada & of Finland (where they're called laanit)'

Answer: provinces


Question: '(Hi, I'm Curt Schilling.) On August 30, 2006, I got my 3,000th one of these, only the 14th pitcher in Major League history to reach that milestone'

Answer: a strikeout


Question: 'Bake it or boil it:<br />TOP OAT'

Answer: potato


Question: 'Every day, 650 tons of coal were shoveled into the Titanic's furnaces by the men with this job'

Answer: stokers


Question: 'At over 17,000 feet, Mount Kenya is eclipsed by only this other peak as the highest in Africa'

Answer: Kilimanjaro


Question: 'Paul Revere could tell you it's the phrase that followed "One, if by land" in a Revolutionary warning'

Answer: two, if by sea


Question: 'Like a diocese, the island of Jersey is divided into these'

Answer: parishes


Question: 'Alex Rodriguez has won 2 American League MVP Awards, with Texas in 2003 & this team in 2005'

Answer: the Yankees


Question: 'A bread-shaped ground beef entree:<br />TAME FOAL'

Answer: meatloaf


Question: 'Back in 1898 William Morris went into business as one of these'

Answer: a talent agent


Question: 'To the southwest, Kenya borders this 27,000-square-mile body of water'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'Proverbially, it's what you hope to do "with one stone"'

Answer: kill two birds


Question: 'Reasonably enough, there are 4 of these divisions of Monaco'

Answer: quarters (or quartiers)


Question: 'After 36 seasons in Montreal, the Expos moved to this city in 2005 & were renamed the Nationals'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'A martini ingredient:<br />HUT MOVER'

Answer: vermouth


Question: 'Generally, U.S. tenure-track jobs descend from Professor to Associate Prof to this kind of Professor'

Answer: Assistant Professor


Question: 'Kenya's official languages are English & this one, whose name means "people of the coast"'

Answer: Swahili


Question: 'Play stops on or about this official time-out near the end of each half in an NFL game'

Answer: the two-minute warning


Question: 'Bavaria & Brandenburg are 2 of Germany's 16 these'

Answer: states


Question: 'This Hall-of-Fame pitcher whose nickname is short for "Cyclone" has the all-time record for wins with 511'

Answer: Cy Young


Question: 'A classic under glass:<br />HATES PAN'

Answer: pheasant


Question: 'Mr. Kenge, from the legal morass of Dickens' "Bleak House", is this type of non-pleading lawyer'

Answer: a solicitor


Question: 'Now the chief port of Kenya, Mombasa was visited by this Portuguese explorer in 1498'

Answer: (Vasco) da Gama


Question: 'The title characters of this Shakespeare play go off to Mantua & Milan'

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona


Question: 'The Houyhnhnm are a race of sentient equines than appear in Part IV of this title man's "Travels"'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'As Shrek, this actor is told that his donkey talks, & says, "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick"'

Answer: Mike Myers


Question: 'After much skirmishing with Saladin, this English king made a truce with him in 1192'

Answer: Richard I


Question: 'Its World Service was first heard in 1932 as the Empire Service'

Answer: the BBC


Question: 'Weigmann's "Der Klarinetten-Macher", about clarinet inventor Johann Denner, is one of these works'

Answer: an opera


Question: 'Yom Kippur is Hebrew for "Day of" this'

Answer: Atonement


Question: 'Barnum & Kip were a pair of horses in this author's "Little House" series'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'Going where no man had gone before, as Ozzie in "Over the Hedge": "Playing possum is what we do.  We die so...we live"'

Answer: William Shatner


Question: '(Alex refers to a monochrome depiction of a naval engagement.)  You may see a resemblance to little brother Matthew in this 1813 naval hero pictured here'

Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry


Question: '"Heart of Oak" is a traditional song of this fighting force, which would use over 2,000 oaks to build one warship'

Answer: the British Navy


Question: 'Pipe up if you know Bach wrote a "Little Book" of 45 Chorales for this instrument'

Answer: the organ


Question: 'This fine powder is used to give color to such products as inks & paints'

Answer: pigment


Question: 'Rosco, belonging to John Grady Cole, is one of "All the" these in a novel by Cormac McCarthy'

Answer: Pretty Horses


Question: 'He voiced Shaggy on the 1969-1972 TV series "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"'

Answer: Casey Kasem


Question: 'This military man elected president in 1840 wrote a "Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio"'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands before The Long Water in Hyde Park)  In 1663 this diarist wore of fashionable Hyde Park, "whither all the world is going"; two years later people were going there to escape the plague'

Answer: (Samuel) Pepys


Question: 'Nissel, Brainin, Schidlof & Lovett performed as the "Amadeus" this type of group'

Answer: quartet


Question: 'Mourn'

Answer: lament


Question: 'It has been surmised that this hard-working horse from "Animal Farm" got his name from a Chinese revolt'

Answer: Boxer


Question: 'Tara Strong has voiced Timmy Turner of "The Fairly Oddparents" & babies up as this Nick TV show's Dil Pickles'

Answer: The Rugrats


Question: 'Last name of Arthur, seen here, Spanish American War general and father of a general'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'A kitchen tool, or a policeman's nickname that, like "Bobby", came from the man who founded the London Police'

Answer: a peeler


Question: 'At 18, this composer studied with Friedrich Wieck & met Wieck's 9-year-old daughter Clara, his future wife'

Answer: Robert Schumann


Question: 'Poe wrote, "Hear the sledges with the bells--silver bells! What a world of" this "their melody foretells"'

Answer: merriment


Question: 'Vronsky sits incorrectly in Frou-Frou's saddle, causing the horse's death in this 1875 novel'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'Billy West voices (among others!) Prof. Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Zoidberg, Fry & Richard Nixon on this Fox TV Show'

Answer: Futurama


Question: 'A suite at Cairo's Mena House Hotel is named for this British general in WWII Africa'

Answer: Montgomery (of Alamein)


Question: 'Legend says King Lear's father noted this city's healing waters when leprous pigs were cured by wallowing there'

Answer: Bath


Question: 'The horn players took a break on Nov. 5, 1938 when the NBC Symphony premiered Barber's "Adagio for" these'

Answer: Strings


Question: 'The Bible says the angel at Jesus' tomb wore this, meaning garments, that was "white as snow"'

Answer: raiment


Question: 'This Protestant movement got its name from an early 20th century text that listed 5 basic elements'

Answer: Fundamentalism


Question: 'This totally darkened phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon is between the Sun & the Earth'

Answer: the New Moon


Question: 'Cindy Crawford,<br />Carey Lowell'

Answer: Richard Gere


Question: 'He presided over the Senate in the first Congress'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'In the 1970s the organization NOW made the passage of this its top priority'

Answer: the Equal Rights Amendment


Question:
'Some folks from Scotland are Highlanders, while some people from this
country are
Shanghailanders'

Answer: China


Question: 'Meaning to be prepared, it refers to having your canvasbacks strung'

Answer: get your ducks in a row


Question: 'In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Humphrey Bogart,<br />Jason Robards, Jr.'

Answer: Lauren Bacall


Question: 'The Liberty Bell weighs about a ton; this similarly named bell in Charlotte, N.C. weighs 7 tons'

Answer: the American Freedom Bell


Question: 'On Aug. 4, 1972 Arthur Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison for shooting this governor'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'The people of this British dependency are sometimes known as Onions for short--or is that for shorts?'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: 'To complain like a reddish-brown game bird with feathered feet & legs'

Answer: grouse


Question: 'When "shadow bands" are seen on Earth, it means this is about to happen up in the heavens'

Answer: an eclipse


Question: 'Gary Oldman,<br />Ethan Hawke'

Answer: Uma Thurman


Question: 'Nimitz' line "Uncommon valor was a common virtue" was about <br />the World War II battle for this island'

Answer: Iwo Jima


Question: 'In 1978 robbers stole $6 million in cash & jewelry from Lufthansa Airlines at this U.S. airport'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'A Manchegan is a "man of" this Spanish region'

Answer: La Mancha


Question: 'Hard, shrewd bargaining, like negotiating for an Appaloosa'

Answer: horse trading


Question: 'In ancient times, this star rose at dawn during the hottest time of summer, thus the "dog days of summer"'

Answer: Sirius (or Alpha Canis Majoris)


Question: 'Carrie Fisher,<br />Edie Brickell'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag'

Answer: 1959


Question: 'Officially, these '75 "Accords" were the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe'

Answer: the Helsinki Accords


Question: 'The people of this Aussie state have an ap"peel"ing nickname: Apple Islanders'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: 'To create different words, this prefix can go before berry, neck & flesh'

Answer: goose


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from beside a replica rover at the Adler Planeterium in Chicago, IL.)  This is a replica of both the Mars exploration rover Spirit and this companion, who came knocking in January 2004'

Answer: Opportunity


Question: 'Peter Allen,<br />Jack Haley, Jr.'

Answer: Liza Minnelli


Question: 'Robert Mills designed this structure that opened in 1888 & was built from 36,491 blocks'

Answer: the Washington Monument


Question: 'This Army doctor convicted of the 1970 murder of his wife & family insisted that drug-crazed hippies did it'

Answer: Jeffrey MacDonald


Question: 'This British city's Medieval Latin name was Cantabrigia, so its people are Cantabrigians'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'This verb means to hesitate in confusion like a bottom-feeding fish'

Answer: flounder


Question: 'Delaware's deed, given to William Penn in 1682, resides in the Hall of Records in this Capitol'

Answer: Dover


Question:
'1995:
"Uma,
Oprah.
Oprah,
Uma"'

Answer: David Letterman


Question: 'She got a B.A. from Cornell in 1960 & an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963'

Answer: Janet Reno


Question: 'Also known as the Sacco chair, it was designed by Zanotta of Milan & featured a bag filled with plastic beads'

Answer: a bean bag (chair)


Question: 'In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, "A sad tale's best for" this season'

Answer: winter


Question: '"Ugliness was the one reality", muses this Oscar Wilde title character'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'The name of this capital is another word for God's guidance'

Answer: Providence


Question: '1979:<br />"Welcome to 2 hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a 4-hour show"'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'This American journalist was embedded in<br />Petrograd in 1917 during the "10 Days that Shook the World"'

Answer: John Reed


Question: 'Empire, the first major style of the 1800s, originated in this country during its First Empire, 1804-1814'

Answer: France


Question: 'The existential statment "Hell is other people" comes from this play'

Answer: No Exit


Question: 'This 1858 work was a landmark in its use of medical illustrations of the human body'

Answer: Gray\'s Anatomy


Question: 'The homes of Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe can be found in this state capital'

Answer: Hartford


Question: '1968:<br />"Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover"'

Answer: Bob Hope


Question: 'He's seen here performing in one of his own works'

Answer: Jerome Robbins


Question: 'From a Latin word for "read", it's a slanted-top stand used to support a speaker's notes'

Answer: a lectern


Question: 'Besides "Cyrano de Bergerac", his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy "The Eaglet"'

Answer: Edmond Rostand


Question: 'On Oct. 7, 2003 Arnold terminated this man's stay in the governor's mansion'

Answer: Gray Davis


Question: 'The Old Barracks Museum in this capital was the location of a major turning point in the Revolutionary War'

Answer: Trenton


Question: '2003:<br />"It was so sweet backstage, you should see it.  The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo"'

Answer: Steve Martin


Question: 'This portraitist was born in Devon on July 16, 1723'

Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds


Question: 'From the French for "scaffold", it's a stand resembling a scaffold that has open shelves used for small curios'

Answer: an étagère


Question: '1949 play character who says, "Charley is... liked, but he's not--well liked"'

Answer: Willy Loman


Question: 'Sciurus carolinensis, it pretty much always feels like a nut'

Answer: a gray squirrel


Question: 'A planetarium in this capital bears the name of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion'

Answer: Concord


Question: '1974: "Just think, the only laugh that man will probably ever get is for stripping and showing off his shortcomings"'

Answer: David Niven


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a street in the Lower East Side, New York.)  This reformer & photographer described the conditions of the Lower East Side in 1890's "How the Other Half Lives"'

Answer: Jacob Riis


Question: 'This English furniture designer who followed Chippendale wrote his "Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide" in 1788'

Answer: Hepplewhite


Question: 'As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon'

Answer: The Iceman Cometh


Question: 'In the 1870s he invented elements of a telephone-like device'

Answer: Elisha Gray


Question: 'In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"'

Answer: Dante


Question: '"Hill Street Station" (Writing, 1981)'

Answer: Hill Street Blues


Question: 'A manual transmission requires the driver to use one of these alliterative items'

Answer: stick shift


Question: 'Drop to one knee --hold on. check for puddles, drop to one knee, take out the ring, ask'

Answer: propose marriage


Question: 'Its army has about 30,000 permanent troops, with about 11,000 stationed in Queensland'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Bleu des Causses is a cave-matured type of this'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'From Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan": "I can resist everything except" this'

Answer: temptation


Question: '"'A

Answer: Family Ties


Question: '"Charnel" work period between midnight & 8 A.M.'

Answer: the graveyard shift


Question: 'Get out of the cold, put waxy white fingers in 104- to 107-degree water'

Answer: treat frostbite


Question: 'Its PLA has an active strength of about 1.25 million personnel'

Answer: China


Question: 'At Hardee's these sides are beer-battered'

Answer: onion rings


Question: 'Karl Marx: this "is the opium of the people"'

Answer: religion


Question: '"Slay Everyone, Trust No One" (Cinematography for Reality Programming, 2010)'

Answer: Survivor


Question: 'Nonfiction bestseller about the battle to succeed Johnny Carson'

Answer: The Late Shift


Question: 'Use the buttons & the strum bar, access star power by tilting the head, forget about how foolish you look'

Answer: play Guitar Hero


Question: 'In 2009 its armed forces had a reported strength of 134,886--beware their multi-purpose knives!'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'This Hawaiian word can refer to the bigeye or the yellowfin tuna; on menus it often follows "seared"'

Answer: ahi tuna


Question: 'From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this'

Answer: desperation


Question: '"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)" (Writing for a Drama Series, 2008)'

Answer: Mad Men


Question: 'On "True Blood" Sam is this hyphenated kind of creature, often becoming a dog'

Answer: shape-shifter


Question: 'Fill glass with ice, pour in pinot grigio, add club soda, garnish'

Answer: make a wine spritzer


Question: 'It has an active-duty military force of about 1.2 million; its neighbor to the south, about 680,000'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'Eggs a la Jockey Club are served with kidneys & garnished with mushrooms & these fungi (jockeys eat well)'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'John Adams at the Boston Massacre trials: these "are stubborn things"'

Answer: facts


Question: '"Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / The Chairman's Waltz" (Choreography, 2008)'

Answer: So You Think You Can Dance


Question: 'Jury-rigged'

Answer: makeshift


Question: 'Pick a lead underwriter, give the SEC a prospectus, give possible investors a red herring, run tombstone ads'

Answer: do an IPO


Question: 'In August 2010 General Zahir Azimi announced that its army had reached target strength of 134,000 2 months ahead of schedule'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Kasha is often made from the edible kernels of buckwheat, which are also called not oats but these'

Answer: groats


Question: 'For royal visits, a replica of this Michelangelo nudie at the Victoria & Albert Museum was formerly adorned with a fig leaf'

Answer: David


Question: 'The name of his pet charity made the dime an obvious choice in 1945 when a grieving nation said, "put him on a coin!"'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'On a tent, it's the equivalent of the door'

Answer: a flap


Question: 'Manuel Patarroyo developed SPf66, a purported vaccine against this tropical disease that still strikes tens of millions'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'In 2010 Robert Downey Jr. reprised his role as the heavy metal hero in this movie's sequel'

Answer: Iron Man


Question: 'King Robert II of this country was a good son to Hugh Capet, but his own sons turned against him'

Answer: France


Question: 'The first 2 paintings in Rembrandt's Passion Series are "The Raising of" & "The Descent from" this'

Answer: the Cross


Question: 'The Buffalo head nickel was also called this type; John Big Tree was a model for it'

Answer: an Indian nickel


Question: 'A tire that has lost its air'

Answer: a flat


Question: 'Pedro Paulet's Peruvian promoters claim he built a liquid-fueled one of these in 1895'

Answer: a rocket


Question: 'Peter O'Toole sang & tilted at windmills in the movie adaptation of this musical'

Answer: Man of La Mancha


Question: 'The book " Operation " these "Secrets" tells how Frank Calabrese Jr. informed on his mobster father'

Answer: Family


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.)  In this 17th-century painting, you see Sarah turn her back, as Hagar the handmaid & her son Ishmael are rejected & sent away by this patriarch'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'Before the 5-cent piece was nickel, it was silver & was, logically, called by this fractional name'

Answer: a half dime


Question: 'It can be a custardy tart or a creme caramel'

Answer: a flan


Question: 'M. Costa-Mattioli found a protein that controls memory formation, a possible help for this disease named for a German'

Answer: Alzheimer\'s


Question: 'Once upon a time Russell Crowe played boxer James Braddock in this critically acclaimed film'

Answer: Cinderella Man


Question: 'This skater had new troubles in 2010 when her brother assaulted their father'

Answer: (Nancy) Kerrigan


Question: 'A painting by Caravaggio shows this man's "conversion on the way to Damascus"'

Answer: Saul (or Saint Paul)


Question: 'On the 2006 nickel this building looks basically the same as it always did, though the dome is a little sharper'

Answer: Monticello


Question: 'Fatty flesh around people's tummies'

Answer: flab


Question: 'Sometimes credited with inventing the torpedo, Andre Reboucas helped torpedo this in Brazil; it was abolished in 1888'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'This 1980 movie told the true story of the deformed Mr. Merrick'

Answer: The Elephant Man


Question: 'This revolutionary patriot's son William stuck with the crown as Royal Governor of New Jersey'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Claude Lorrain painted a landscape with the marriage of Rebecca & him'

Answer: Isaac


Question: 'The winged liberty dime bore the bundle of sticks that gave its name to this liberty-hating political system'

Answer: fascism


Question: 'The unfortunate quality that brings ruin to the hero of a tragedy is called the tragic this'

Answer: flaw


Question: 'In the 1970s Jose Goldemberg showed that this clean fuel can be harvested from sugar cane'

Answer: ethanol


Question: 'It's Greek to me, but in 1971 Richard Matheson's story "I Am Legend" was filmed under this title'

Answer: The Omega Man


Question: 'This deranged emperor may even have killed his own father, as Joaquin Phoenix does playing him in "Gladiator"'

Answer: Commodus


Question: 'Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento river in 1848'

Answer: Sutter


Question: 'King Arthur received this sword from the Lady of the Lake; it was later returned to her by Sir Bedivere'

Answer: Excalibur


Question: '"Hypno-", as in hypnotism, is from the Greek for this'

Answer: sleep


Question: 'Olbermann & Berman are index entries in "Those Guys Have All the Fun", which details the history of this network'

Answer: ESPN


Question: 'Super Bowl VIII:<br />This team's Larry Csonka'

Answer: the (Miami) Dolphins


Question: 'Money matters at this investment service company that invites you to "Talk to Chuck"'

Answer: Charles Schwab


Question: 'Of the days of the week'

Answer: Wednesday


Question: 'In some writings, it was Perceval, not Galahad, who went on a quest for this vessel'

Answer: the Holy Grail


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from See's Candy Factory.)  The main feel-good ingredient of cocoa is a chemical called theobromine, in the same class as caffeine; the "theo-" prefix means it is the food of these beings'

Answer: the gods


Question: 'You can read "Life", the memoir of this Rolling Stone, or listen to Johnny Depp narrate the audio book'

Answer: Keith Richards


Question: 'Super Bowl XVIII:<br />Marcus Allen, with 191 yards for this L.A. team'

Answer: the Raiders


Question: 'This astronomer & science writer from Cornell helped select the Mars landing sites for the Viking probes'

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: 'Of Snow White's 7 dwarfs'

Answer: Sneezy


Question: 'This sorceress was introduced into Arthurian legend as Arthur's healer by Geoffrey of Monmouth around 1150'

Answer: Morgana le Fey (or Morgan le Fay) (Morgaine accepted)


Question: 'This prefix that means "first" or "primitive" is found before "plasm" & "zoa"'

Answer: proto-


Question: '"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" continues the story about a hacker from this country'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Super Bowl IX:<br />This immaculate Steeler'

Answer: Franco Harris


Question: 'Some say when it comes to his films "Heathers" & "Pump Up the Volume", it's better to shoot first, then ask this actor'

Answer: (Christian) Slater


Question: 'Of the events in a decathlon'

Answer: the shot put


Question: '"The Simple Joys of Maidenhood" is one of her songs in the version of the tale by Lerner of New York & Loewe of Berlin'

Answer: Guinevere


Question: '"Anti-" means "against; "ante-" means this'

Answer: before


Question: '"Here Comes Trouble", a look back by this pot-stirring documentarian, includes his boyhood in Flint'

Answer: Michael Moore


Question: 'Super Bowl XXV:<br />Thurman Thomas, in a losing cause for this team that lost 3 other Super Bowls'

Answer: the (Buffalo) Bills


Question: 'He became New York's senior senator when Daniel Patrick Moynihan retired in 2001'

Answer: (Charles) Schumer


Question: 'By surname of current Supreme Court justices'

Answer: (Clarence) Thomas


Question: 'The Somerset town of Glastonbury claims to be this fabled isle, the final resting place of King Arthur'

Answer: Avalon


Question: 'When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time'

Answer: retro-


Question: 'Book club alert--"Then Came You" is the latest novel by this author of "Good in Bed" & "In Her Shoes"'

Answer: Jennifer Weiner


Question: 'Super Bowl XXVIII:<br />This Cowboys Hall of Famer'

Answer: Emmitt Smith


Question: 'In 1914 a group of his "Chicago Poems" appeared in Poetry magazine'

Answer: Carl Sandburg


Question: 'Of the countries of the world'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'In March 1961 JFK issued an executive order creating this agency that sends volunteers to aid developing nations'

Answer: the Peace Corps


Question: 'Mousquetaires, formal ones of these for women, have lengthwise buttoned openings at the wrist'

Answer: (opera) gloves


Question: 'The late, great Queen vocalist Freddie ____'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Luca Della Robbia is said to be the first sculptor to apply glazes to this semi-fired ceramic clay with an Italian name'

Answer: terra cotta


Question: 'Jerimoth Hill in Providence County'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This type of card can be used to make an electronic withdrawal of funds on deposit in a bank'

Answer: debit


Question: 'As an intern Nora Ephron had one exchange with JFK, as he left for this Mass. "Port", but couldn't hear what he said'

Answer: Hyannis Port


Question: 'President Truman popularized this shirt with the name of a Hawaiian greeting when he was on the cover of Life in 1951'

Answer: an aloha


Question: 'A synth-snazzy song by Duran Duran:<br />"New ____ On Monday"'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'In 1482 he asked the Duke of Milan for a job, saying, "I can further execute sculpture in marble, bronze or clay"'

Answer: da Vinci


Question: 'Mount Arvon on the Upper Peninsula'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'A document or object shown in court & identified as evidence'

Answer: an exhibit


Question: 'Those looking for eerie assassination coincidences know that this woman was JFK's devoted secretary'

Answer: Evelyn Lincoln


Question: 'Named for an Italian resort isle, these tight 3/4-length pants have a short slit on the outside of each leg'

Answer: capris


Question: 'Part of the successful production team the Smeezingtons:<br />Bruno ____'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'He carved a bust of Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol rotunda; his much bigger one is in South Dakota'

Answer: (Gutzon) Borglum


Question: 'Mount Magazine, which has Ozark National Forest land on its slopes'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Psychological term meaning to consciously or unconsciously restrain an impulse'

Answer: inhibit


Question: 'JFK sent 3,000 troops to restore order after black student James Meredith attended this school in 1962'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'In the '80s big sweaters were popularly paired with these pants named for a strap at the bottom of each leg'

Answer: stirrup pants


Question: 'A No. 5 hit for Train:<br />"Drops Of ____"'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'A method of casting for bronze sculptures, cire-perdue means "lost" this in English'

Answer: wax


Question: 'Granite Peak in Custer National Forest'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'So you & Amy found a place together--mind if I ask, are you going to get married or just do this?'

Answer: cohabit


Question: 'In October 1962 this U.N. ambassador said he'd wait "until hell freezes over" for a Soviet reply to photos taken over Cuba'

Answer: Adlai Stevenson


Question: 'It's the amphibian name for the ornamental fastener seen here'

Answer: a frog


Question: 'A jazz musician whose costumes combined Ancient Egypt & science fiction:<br />____ Ra'

Answer: Sun


Question: 'When he won the commission for "The Burghers of Calais", he promised to deliver "six sculptures for the price of one"'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'Sassafras Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of Greenville'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'An eye socket'

Answer: an orbit


Question: 'This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning Best Picture'

Answer: Cabaret


DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW

Question:
'Muscles inflamed?
Joints in pain?
Dr. Alex' Youth Elixir clears away the ol' rheumatiz, or osteo- this (& it ain't "porosis"!)'

Answer: arthritis


Question: '1971:<br />Male swimmer'

Answer: (Mark) Spitz


Question: 'You're so sagacious that every phrase you utter is one of these proverbial gems "of wisdom"'

Answer: a pearl


Question: 'In 1915 Huey Long passed the bar after studying law at this private university in New Orleans'

Answer: Tulane


Question: 'In 2008, this ex-refugee, now 14, got a few more seconds of fame when he joined Cuba's Young Communist Union'

Answer: Elián González


Question: 'A single show of a TV drama'

Answer: an episode


DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW

Question: 'Make your mucous membranes merry & mirthful!  Enjoy Dr. Alex' Cure-All to fight these, be they duodenal or gastric'

Answer: ulcers


Question:
'2003:
Male swimmer
(Greater days lay ahead)'

Answer: Michael Phelps


Question: 'Ah, my pet, our love will last so long that in 75 years we'll be celebrating this "jubilee"<br />(I'll be 143)'

Answer: a diamond jubilee


Question: 'Long's vitriolic 1920s attacks on this oil co. started by John D. Rockefeller won him widespread popularity'

Answer: Standard Oil


Question: 'This, Andrew Meyer's 3-word plea to security at a 2007 speech, was followed by "bro!"'

Answer: "Don\'t tase me"


Question: 'Its construction began in 1817 near Rome, New York'

Answer: the Erie Canal


DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW

Question: 'Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on?  Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker!  Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream!'

Answer: migraine


Question:
'2001:
Chinese-American
figure skater'

Answer: Michelle Kwan


Question: 'Your luscious red lips remind me of this gem, Pamela Anderson's birthstone'

Answer: a ruby


Question: 'In the Depression-era Senate, Huey favored a share-the-wealth program & the slogan "Every Man a" this'

Answer: king


Question: 'On July 14, 2003 her name appeared in a column by Robert Nowak; the fame she gained was very bad in her line of work'

Answer: Valerie Plame


Question: 'An explosive emission of magma'

Answer: an eruption


DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW

Question: 'For this inherited trait in men, sure, you can use Propecia--or my amazing new "Trebektophan"'

Answer: baldness


Question: '1930:<br />Golfing Grand Slam winner'

Answer: Bobby Jones


Question: 'You appear bored & blase--perhaps this adjective that sounds like it comes from a green gem <br />(it really doesn't)'

Answer: jaded


Question: 'In 1935 Huey was assassinated in this city's 34-story art deco building, then the South's tallest'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'In 2005 Jennifer Wilbanks became known as this, also a Julia Roberts film title (it's not the Wild-Eyed Wanderer)'

Answer: Runaway Bride


Question: 'The original Borden dairy cow mascot with this name was killed in a truck accident in 1941'

Answer: Elsie


DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW

Question: 'Step right up!<br />I got me an "L" of an ointment for the chronic lower back pain known as this 7-letter malady'

Answer: lumbago


Question:
'2004:
Gymnast
(but not twin brother Morgan)'

Answer: Paul Hamm


Question: 'Your hair is as black as this compact form of coal, popular for jewelry in Victorian times'

Answer: jet


Question: 'This brother of Huey's was governor of Louisiana from 1939 to 1940, '48-'52 & '56-'60'

Answer: Earl Long


Question: 'On "SNL" John Goodman played this audiotaping Clinton-era woman; in 2008 she was selling Xmas ornaments'

Answer: Linda Tripp


Question: 'Elgar's Opus 36 variations are also known by this "mysterious" name'

Answer: the Enigma Variations


Question: 'Hugh MacLennan's "'Two Solitudes" is set in this province, site of linguistic & cultural conflict'

Answer: Quebec


Question: '1956:<br />Yul Brynner as this Asian'

Answer: the King of Siam


Question: 'A bowl of Kellogg's All-Bran is loaded with the soluble type of this, from plantain husks'

Answer: fiber


Question: 'Oh my heavens!  In 1706 Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer published a new catalog listing these'

Answer: stars


Question: 'The natural color, texture & appearance of the skin, especially the face'

Answer: complexion


Question: 'In 1999 George & Laura Bush bought the 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel ranch in this town'

Answer: Crawford


Question: '"Not Wanted on the Voyage" rewrites the story of this biblical vessel'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: '1989: <br />Kenneth Branagh'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'Expanding water vapor makes grains balloon, creating this type of cereal, like a cocoa favorite'

Answer: a puff


Question: 'This Pole's "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" was published with a disclaimer to avoid charges of heresy'

Answer: (Nicolaus) Copernicus


Question: 'To astronaut,it's the EV in EVA'

Answer: extravehicular


Question: 'This newscaster, "the most trusted man in America", went to Houston's San Jacinto High & the University of Texas'

Answer: Walter Cronkite


Question: 'This 1992 Michael Ondaatje novel became a Ralph Fiennes movie that won the Best Picture Oscar'

Answer: The English Patient


Question: '2008:<br />Eric Bana'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'The "grape" in Grape-Nuts comes from having contained maltose, the "grape" type of this'

Answer: sugar


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew points to an astronomical diagram on the monitor.)  In the 200s B.C. Eratosthenes calculated Earth's girth using the difference in the angle of the Sun's rays between Aswan & this Egyptian city'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'Brand name for a transparent thermoplastic polymer of methyl methacrylate'

Answer: Plexiglas


Question: 'Ms. Parker was born in Rowena; this partner in crime was born on March 24, 1909 in Telico'

Answer: Clyde (Barrow)


Question: '"Life Before Man" is by this Torontonian feminist'

Answer: Margaret Atwood


Question: '1994: <br />Nigel Hawthorne'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Wheat has been cracked, flaked, & thanks to Henry Perky in the 1890s, this'

Answer: shredded


Question: 'Giordano Bruno suffered this punishment in 1600 for declaring the Sun the center of the Solar System'

Answer: he was burned at the stake


Question: 'An official of the church charged with taking care of the ediface; does that ring a bell?'

Answer: a sexton


Question: 'A Houston native, he owned RKO Pictures, TWA & a serious amount of eccentricity'

Answer: (Howard) Hughes


Question: 'Carol Shields of Illinois & Manitoba won the Pulitzer & the Governor General's Award for these "diaries"'

Answer: The Stone Diaries


Question: '1985:<br />Richard Gere'

Answer: King David


Question: 'Oats that have been hulled, steamed & roasted en route to the table are called these, rhyming with "oats"'

Answer: groats


Question: 'This 2nd century astronomer's theories were the standard for 1,400 years'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'Bust out your Latin for this, anv artificial device that resolves the difficulties of a plot'

Answer: deus ex machina


Question: 'James Stockdale was this Texan's running mate in the 1992 presidental election'

Answer: (Ross) Perot


Question: 'The last words spoken by this character are "What's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed"'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'The movie "Kramer vs. Kramer" was pulled from the cover by the taking of U.S. hostages in this country in 1979'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam filled in for Jim Morrison when this group performed at its 1993 induction'

Answer: The Doors


Question: 'Avalon & Corolla'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Traditionally, a married woman lights 2 candles for the sabbath just before this event on Friday'

Answer: sundown (or sunset)


Question: 'Members on the extreme periphery of a political or social group are part of this "fringe"'

Answer: the lunatic fringe


Question: 'Built for Spanish trade with Asia, this Mexican city is now famous for the cliff divers of La Quebrada'

Answer: Acapulco


Question: 'A cover titled "Declining American Birthrate" was canceled in 1974 when this man was pardoned'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: '"What a Wonderful World" when this jazz trumpeter was inducted for his influence on rock'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: 'Grand Am & Grand Prix'

Answer: Pontiac


Question: 'Observance of the sabbath appears on this do's-&-dont's list in Exodus 20'

Answer: the Ten Commandments


Question: 'It's the raising of a body into the air by supernatural means'

Answer: levitation


Question: 'La Libertad is a port supplying this alliterative capital of El Salvador'

Answer: San Salvador


Question: 'Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald made her exit from the cover when this began in 1939'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'This producer famous for his "Wall of Sound" was inducted in 1989'

Answer: Phil Spector


Question: 'Sable & Villager'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'A portion of this scroll, whose name means "law", is read during the Saturday service'

Answer: Torah


Question: 'Fishy slang term for a person who lends money at excessively high interest rates'

Answer: loan shark


Question: 'This Australian city was given its name by a former HMS Beagle sailor'

Answer: Darwin


Question: 'A Time cover called "Wonders of the Cosmos" was bumped after the assassination of this prime minister in 1995'

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin


Question: '(Hi everybody, I'm Graham Nash.)  He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as a group member & then in 1999 as a solo performer'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Neon & Stratus'

Answer: Dodge


Question: '2 loaves are blessed; the 2nd one represents the extra portion of this God gave out on Fridays in the desert'

Answer: manna


Question: 'Types of these include ovate, obovate & oblong'

Answer: leaves


Question: 'If you take the last train to this Tennessee port, you'll be at the junction of the Red & Cumberland Rivers'

Answer: Clarksville


Question: 'In 1978 a cover on black holes was sucked into oblivion with the selection of this pope, the second of 3 that year'

Answer: Pope John Paul I


Question: 'In 1986 the first group of inductees included Elvis Presley & this founder of Sun Records'

Answer: Sam Phillips


Question: 'Sebring & Town & Country'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'Title of a Shabbat hymn, or pen name of the creator of Tevye the dairyman'

Answer: Sholom Aleichem


Question: 'This word refers to the track of one's descent from an ancestor'

Answer: lineage


Question: '5 years as an unsold slave in this north African capital inspired Cervantes' play "El Trato de Angel"'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'A controversy over interracial dating provoked an anti-one of these dances for Randolph County, Alabama students'

Answer: Prom


Question: 'Lindsay Davenport said, "It really felt awesome" to win a 1996 Olympic gold medal in this sport'

Answer: Tennis


Question: 'In 1998 Eric Stoltz joined the cast of this medical drama as a surgeon with a background in Eastern medicine'

Answer: Chicago Hope


Question: 'The annual Classic Yacht Regatta highlights a visit to this "City by the Sea"'

Answer: Newport


Question: 'It can mean "large" like an oak, or precede Joe Young'

Answer: Mighty


Question: 'Fine port that can be drunk at once may be marked L.B.V., "Late Bottled" this'

Answer: Vintage


Question: 'Sergei Krikalev "found" himself the first Russian to fly on a U.S. spacecraft, this space shuttle'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'Sadly, this studio fired Judy Garland after "Summer Stock" in 1950, & she never made another film there'

Answer: MGM


Question: 'In 1998 Ted Danson debuted as a cranky doctor practicing in the Bronx on this show'

Answer: Becker


Question: 'This chicken, the state bird, had its beginnings on a farm in Little Compton in the 1850s'

Answer: Rhode Island Red


Question: 'In 1961 Newton Minow described television as this type of "wasteland"'

Answer: Vast


Question: 'Port got a boost from the 1703 Methuen Treaty, which gave Portuguese goods low tariffs in this country'

Answer: Great Britain/England


Question: 'The U.S. got help in beating this country in World Cup soccer when Andres Escobar scored into his own net'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'When some folks ask "How's Trix?", they mean this current Dutch queen (her nickname is Trix)'

Answer: Beatrix


Question: 'In the early '80s this "Jessie's Girl" singer played Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital"'

Answer: Rick Springfield


Question: 'University Hall at this school served as barracks for troops during the Revolutionary War'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'The name of this giant Biblical animal is from Hebrew for "beasts"'

Answer: Behemoth


Question: 'The drier white port is served as this, a French term for a drink to stimulate appetite'

Answer: Aperitif


Question: 'With a December release, this actress seen here caught the public eye:'

Answer: Julia Ormond ("Legends of the Fall")


Question: 'In 1988 she was an indomitable 82 when she choreographed the ballet "The Informer" from her wheelchair'

Answer: Agnes de Mille


Question: 'What a stretch -- husband & wife William Daniels & Bonnie Bartlett played Dr. & Mrs. Mark Craig on this '80s medical drama'

Answer: St. Elsewhere


Question: 'In book titles it precedes e.e. cummings' "Room" & Grace Paley's "Changes at the Last Minute"'

Answer: Enormous


Question: 'Because of the deposit it leaves in the bottle, one must do this to crusted port before serving'

Answer: Decant/strain it


Question: 'This ex-CIA official who sold agents' identities to the Russians received a life sentence'

Answer: Aldrich Ames


Question: 'In 1974 this publisher of the Washington Post became the 1st woman elected to the board of the Associated Press'

Answer: Katharine Graham


Question: 'Michael Steadman on the show "thirtysomething", he became an "L.A. Doctor" on TV in 1998'

Answer: Ken Olin


Question: 'From the same Latin root as "immeasurable", it's a 2-syllable equivalent'

Answer: Immense


Question: 'Port gets its name from this second-largest Portuguese city that's 2 letters longer'

Answer: Oporto


Question: 'In his 1984 novel "Neuromancer", William Gibson coined this 10-letter term for a virtual reality computer network'

Answer: Cyberspace


Question: 'This planet's sidereal day lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes, & 4.09 seconds'

Answer: earth


Question: 'Imitation diamonds, they were originally gems obtained from a certain German river'

Answer: rhinestones


Question: 'The most famous M.D. in Puddleby-on-Marsh, though he should have been a D.V.M.'

Answer: Dr. Dolittle


Question: 'In October 1986, she had 3 different fitness tapes on the top ten videocassette sales list'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'In "I've Been Working On The Railroad", "someone's in the kitchen with" her'

Answer: Dinah


Question: 'Etruscans did this by gazing into sheep entrails, not crystal balls'

Answer: divine the future


Question: 'The symbol for this planet is, appropriately, a trident'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'It's the pace at which Pilgrims rode to Canterbury'

Answer: canter


Question: 'In this Happy Hobo Land, there are birds & bees & cigarette trees'

Answer: Big Rock Candy Mountain


Question: 'Am. Heart Assn. says those doing this have 2-4 times the risk of sudden cardiac death as those who don't'

Answer: smoke


Question: 'Both Tanya Tucker & Helen Reddy asked her, "What's that flower you've got on?"'

Answer: Delta Dawn


Question: 'Since Romans called them "Tusci", the part of Italy where Etruscans lived now has this name'

Answer: Tuscany


Question: 'The perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet when it comes closest to this'

Answer: sun


Question: 'The name of this game is Chinese for "house sparrow" a picture on one of the tiles'

Answer: mah-jong


Question: '"A turn to the right, a little white light will lead you" here'

Answer: My Blue Heaven


Question: 'The "New Parent Fitness Plan" tells new mothers to work out using these as barbells'

Answer: their babies


Question: 'According to the Edison Lighthouse, "love grows where" this girl "goes & nobody knows like me"'

Answer: Rosemary


Question: 'One of the few existing Etruscan manuscripts was found on the linen strips wrapped around 1 of these'

Answer: mummy


Question: 'Its largest moon, Ganymede, can be seen from earth through binoculars'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'An Irishman with this accent might be putting his foot in his mouth, because this word means "shoe"'

Answer: brogue


Question: 'Whether you like it or not, this forest is the main setting of "As You Like It"'

Answer: Forest of Arden


Question: '1 of the 2 songs which topped the charts during Sept. 1962, both girls' names starting with "S"'

Answer: "Sherry" (or "Sheila")


Question: ''60s TV series which once used the expression, "Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods!!"'

Answer: Batman


Question: 'In August 1986, a 24-year-old Cal Tech student discovered one of these, so it was named for her'

Answer: comet


Question: 'The name of this part of a camera was derived from its resemblance to a lentil seed'

Answer: lens


Question: 'Though ancient Greeks thought it gloomy, this underworld wasn't for punishment like Dante's hell'

Answer: hades


Question: 'Having finished with Maybellene, Carol & beautiful Delilah, girl who C. Berry is after next here:'

Answer: Nadine


Question: 'Fufluns was the Etruscan counterpart of this Greco-Roman god of grape guzzling'

Answer: Dionysus


Question: 'Famous slave who sued for his freedom in 1857'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'G. Santayana, said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to" do this'

Answer: to repeat it


Question: 'John Beresford was a billionaire who made someone this each week'

Answer: millionaire


Question: 'Empress of India who reportedly lamented, "We are rather short for a queen"'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'Name of this state capital comes from the French for its many trees, "les bois"'

Answer: Boise


Question: 'The only quote in Bartlett's attributed to him is "and that's the way it is"'

Answer: Walter Cronkite


Question: 'Meeting her Lincoln said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war!"'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'Often called the father of modern philosophy, his philosophy was often called "Cartesianism"'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'This alternative title of "The Gale Storm Show" was also a Stephen Foster song'

Answer: Oh Susanna


Question: 'Shy princess whose great-grandmother divorced Baron Fermoy for a real groom - a horse trainer'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'When a city was named for him in 1858, this territorial governor must have felt a mile high'

Answer: (James W.) Denver


Question: 'To the Chicago Bears, he's "Sweetness"'

Answer: Walter Payton


Question: 'This U.S. senator from Mississippi opposed secession but left the senate when his state seceded'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'The word philosophy comes from 2 Greek words "philo" & "sophia" meaning "love of" this'

Answer: knowledge (or wisdom)


Question: 'When ill or on vacation, this man was replaced by "Bison Bill"'

Answer: Buffalo Bob


Question: 'Legend says the Stuart kings descended from Fleance, son of this "Macbeth" victim'

Answer: Banquo


Question: 'Capital named for explorer who was a prisoner in the Tower of London for 13 years'

Answer: Raleigh


Question: 'From 1954-1976, these 2 Walters concurrently owned & managed the Dodgers'

Answer: Walter Alston and Walter O\'Malley


Question: 'In 1865, he published the last issue of "The Liberator"'

Answer: (William Lloyd) Garrison


Question: 'It's the study of the principles of reasoning'

Answer: logic


Question: 'Besides hosting daytime's "The Price Is Right", Bill Cullen was a regular on this nighttime game show'

Answer: I\'ve Got A Secret


Question: 'Before Prince Andrew, this man was the last Duke of York'

Answer: King George VI


Question: 'It can be found on an arm of Puget Sound'

Answer: Olympia


Question: 'Said to favor quiet diplomacy, this current U.S. ambassador to the U.N. titled his memoirs "Silent Missions"'

Answer: Vernon Walters


Question: 'In 1856, on the Senate floor, Rep. Preston Brooks of S.C. beat this Mass. senator unconscious'

Answer: (Charles) Sumner


Question: 'He was the only Garry Moore Show regular, besides Garry, to appear on the show for its entire fun'

Answer: Durward Kirby


Question: 'In the 12th C. Matilda, mother of this 1st Plantagenet king, tried to plant herself on the throne'

Answer: Henry II


Question: 'In 1754, a colonial congress meeting in this state capital adopted Ben Franklin's plan of union'

Answer: Albany, New York


Question: 'In 1961 he ordered the building of the Berlin Wall'

Answer: Walter Ulbricht


Question: 'Last year in which we went an entire calendar year without a vice president in office'

Answer: 1964


Question: 'If you're in the Rocky Mountains taking a peek at Pikes Peak you're in this state'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'The method of telling a diamondback snake's age by counting segments of this is not always reliable'

Answer: rattles


Question: 'Knowledge of this colonizer of Greenland comes from 2 accounts: "Eric's Saga" & "The Greenlanders' Saga"'

Answer: Eric the Red


Question: 'Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie & Father de Bricassart'

Answer: The Thorn Birds


Question: 'Introduced in 1986, this Miller brand is something of a misnomer, since it comes in bottles & cans'

Answer: Miller Genuine Draft


Question: 'All passengers on U.S. airline flights are required to pass through one of these machines'

Answer: metal detector


Question: 'The Rockies' northernmost point is in Alaska; their southernmost point, in this state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Of 8, 16 or 28, the length in feet of the longest diamondback ever recorded (not counting Randy Johnson)'

Answer: 8 feet


Question: 'William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition'

Answer: Captain James Cook


Question: 'He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 & 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley'

Answer: Bing Crosby


Question: 'The Spoetzl brewery uses krausening, a secondary version of this sugar-converting process'

Answer: fermentation


Question: 'One of the 3 main types of rock'

Answer: metamorphic


Question: 'You give me fever & if it's Rocky Mountain spotted fever, you're one of these critters'

Answer: tick


Question: 'Slither on over to Sweetwater in this large state for its annual roundup of diamondbacks'

Answer: Texas


Question: '8 years after his circumnavigation of the globe, 1577 to 1580, he helped England defeat the Spanish Armada'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries"'

Answer: Tom Bosley


Question: 'Naval name of the San Francisco brand that's the USA's best-known steam beer'

Answer: Anchor Steam


Question: 'The life-sustaining chemical activity in living organisms'

Answer: metabolism


Question: 'One of these large Rocky Mountain residents is seen here'

Answer: bighorn sheep


Question: 'Like most boas, diamondback snakes are viviparous, which means this'

Answer: they give birth to live young


Question: 'The largest island on North America's Pacific coast was named for this British naval officer'

Answer: George Vancouver (Vancouver Island)


Question: 'On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him'

Answer: Thomas Becket


Question: 'Although most of the ingredients come from old England, Tremont Ale is brewed in this New England city'

Answer: Boston


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew using a globe)  This system is based on the idea that there are 10 million of its most basic units from here to here'

Answer: metric system