Question: 'Disney chipmunks who hook up with the Queen of the West'

Answer: Chip & Dale Evans


Question: 'Ian Hamilton wrote a book on having his bio of this reclusive author blocked by the court'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'This daughter of a U.S. president appeared as a French newscaster in "Curse of the Pink Panther"'

Answer: Patti Davis


Question: 'Not all Mounties are as stiff as Benton Fraser on this '90s TV show set in Chicago'

Answer: Due South


Question: 'From the Greek for "soul", this social science has clinical, developmental & social branches'

Answer: Psychology


Question: 'On Nov. 8, 1970 this man helped the Saints beat the Lions by kicking a record-setting 63-yard field goal'

Answer: Tom Dempsey


Question: '"On the Good Ship Lollipop" singer who visits Indiana Jones in his second movie'

Answer: Shirley Temple of Doom


Question: 'Middle name of "Naked and the Dead" author Mailer or first name of "Lucky Jim" author Amis'

Answer: Kingsley


Question: 'Her steamy love scenes with Mel Gibson heated up the screen in "The Year of Living Dangerously"'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: 'This famous RCMP presentation dates back to 1887'

Answer: "The Mounties\' Musical Ride"


Question: 'In 1764 Cesare Beccaria argued for fair punishment in one of the first works devoted to this -ology'

Answer: Criminology


Question: 'In 1973, when O.J. set the rushing record with 2,003 yards, this Miami Dolphin was the AFC runner-up with 1,003'

Answer: Larry Csonka


Question: 'Contemporary virtuoso cellist whose "boys" robbed banks in the 1930s'

Answer: Yo-Yo Ma Barker


Question: 'She edited "The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald" in 1945, & her own "Portable" collection in 1944'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: 'After training at Regina, a recruit graduates as this, the term for one who hasn't yet graduated West Point'

Answer: Cadet


Question: 'The Development Studies Institute is part of the London School of this'

Answer: Economics


Question: 'On January 20, 1980 he started at quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams in their only Super Bowl appearance'

Answer: Vince Ferragamo


Question: 'Stage play that features Maggie, Big Daddy & Brick in Tibet'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof of the World


Question: 'John Paul II has eliminated this position whose duty was to present arguments against sainthood'

Answer: Devil\'s Advocate


Question: 'The only president who died in the eighteenth century'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'John Houseman said this title character was based partly on William Randolph Hearst and partly on Orson Welles'

Answer: "Citizen Kane"


Question: 'Of all U.S. states beginning with "new", this one is alphabetically first'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'This "feline" South Carolinian starred on Broadway in "Timbuktu", a black version of "Kismet"'

Answer: Eartha Kitt


Question: 'Lots of people throw it away, but if it's in mint condition it may double the value of your doll'

Answer: The (original) box it came in


Question: 'Living animal that has the largest ears'

Answer: (African) Elephant


Question: 'One of the two presidents' widows who remarried'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or Frances Folsom Cleveland Presto


Question: 'According to the title of an Errol Flynn film, "They" did this "with their boots on"'

Answer: "Died"


Question: 'A Canadian province, or New Jersey home of Rutgers University'

Answer: New Brunswick


Question: 'Nightmarish singer who recorded "Welcome to My Nightmare"'

Answer: Alice Cooper


Question: 'The 1976 "Baby Brother " Tender Love doll was controversial for this reason'

Answer: It Was Anatomically Correct


Question: 'Nickname of the V-shaped indoor TV antenna'

Answer: Rabbit Ears


Question: 'The first time this group played for an inauguration was at James Monroe's in 1821'

Answer: Marine Band


Question: 'Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, and Buster Keaton all played themselves in this Gloria Swanson classic'

Answer: "Sunset Boulevard"


Question: 'In 1977 voters elected Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first black mayor of this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Even though Meryl Streep rejected him in the movie "Plenty", he didn't call the police'

Answer: Sting


Question: 'In the mid-1800's china factories in this European country supplied nearly all dolls' heads and bodies worldwide'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Made up of fat, it's the loosely hanging lower part of the auricle'

Answer: Earlobe


Question: 'Acording to the Constitution, one of four things a king can't give a president without consent of Congress'

Answer: Present, Emolument, Office, or Title


Question: 'In "Gentleman's Agreement", he played a writer posing as a Jew to expose anti-semitism'

Answer: Gregory Peck


Question: 'This country, far from Holland, is named for a Dutch province'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Oscar winner who led the singing of "God Bless America" at the end of 1988's Republican Convention'

Answer: Shirley Jones


Question: 'These five Canadian sisters, born in 1934, inspired dolls that are now collectors' items'

Answer: Dionne Quintuplets


Question: 'Murine is the official brand of eardrops of this U.S. sports team'

Answer: Swim Team


Question: 'While we all remember Amy, this is the name of one of Jimmy Carter's other three kids'

Answer: Jack, Chip, or Jeff


Question: 'This duo co-starred in eight films, including "Blossoms in the Dust", "Mrs. Miniver", and "Madame Curie"'

Answer: Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon


Question: 'This French territory in the South Seas is named for Scotland'

Answer: New Caledonia


Question: 'Gilles Thibault wrote the original French lyrics to "My Way", and this man wrote the ones in English'

Answer: Paul Anka


Question: 'Barbie has had a friend named Francie, a boyfriend named Ken, and a sister with this nautical name'

Answer: Skipper


Question: 'Of the five standard U.S. coins, the one on which you can see the right ear of a president'

Answer: (Lincoln) Penny


Question: 'His play, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", was based on his own novel, "The Caine Mutiny"'

Answer: Herman Wouk


Question: 'Before taking power, he was editor of the socialist paper "Avanti"'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying"'

Answer: Buttress


Question: 'In his 80th year, the Paris street where he lived was renamed for this "Hunchback of Notre Dame" author'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'German physicist who first used mercury in thermometers and invented a temperature scale'

Answer: (Gabriel Daniel) Fahrenheit


Question: 'In mathematics they can be classified as real, irrational, or imaginary'

Answer: Numbers


Question: 'In 1978 Vincent Price starred in a one-man show as this "Earnest" playwright'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'Of about 200, 700, or 1,200 years, length of time Ireland was ruled by England'

Answer: About 700 years


Question: 'In architecture, it can be suspended over a statue; in furniture, it hangs above your bed'

Answer: Canopy


Question: 'English tale of Mrs. Wickett and her boarder, an old schoolmaster from Brookfield Boys School'

Answer: "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"


Question: 'Son of a baron, he led teams that developed the V-2 rocket and launched the first U.S. satellite'

Answer: Wernher Von Braun


Question: 'It's also been called scrivener's palsy'

Answer: Writers\' Cramp


Question: 'This play about Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury is subtitled "The Honor of God"'

Answer: "Becket"


Question: 'He issued the October Manifesto during the 1905 revolution, but its promises went unfulfilled'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'Found in classical architecture, a caryatid is a column shaped like this'

Answer: Woman


Question: 'Dickens' unfinished last novel, he carried its solution to his grave'

Answer: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"


Question: 'This Persian poet wrote an algebra book and reformed the Muslim calendar'

Answer: Omar Khayyam


Question: 'To celebrate its 60th anniversary, this newspaper for schoolkids put out a retrospective book'

Answer: "Weekly Reader"


Question: 'Susan Strasberg played the leading role in the original 1955 production of this play set in Amsterdam'

Answer: "The Diary of Anne Frank"


Question: 'When England's Queen Anne died, this German became king because he was a great grandson of James I'

Answer: George I


Question: 'Legend says the architect of this church on Red Square was blinded so he couldn't create another one'

Answer: St. Basil\'s


Question: 'The military and the clergy are represented by the two colors in the title of this book by Stendhal'

Answer: "The Red and the Black"


Question: 'The "clicking" device that detects energetic subatomic particles is named for him'

Answer: (Hans) Geiger


Question: 'Printing with this style of letters began in Venice about 1500'

Answer: Italic


Question: 'The title character of this "maternal" Bertolt Brecht drama has a son named Swiss Cheese'

Answer: "Mother Courage (and Her Children)"


Question: 'At the height of this war in 1870, some Frenchmen were so hungry they ate animals from the Paris zoo'

Answer: Franco-Prussian War


Question: 'The oldest of the Greek classical orders, it featured the simplest capitals on the columns'

Answer: Doric


Question: 'At the end of this Steinbeck novel, Danny's friends burn his house as a tribute to him'

Answer: "Tortilla Flat"


Question: 'This Englishman is considered the most original and influential thinker in the history of science'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'The subtitle of this 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch is "And What You Can Do About It"'

Answer: "Why Johnny Can\'t Read"


Question: 'This major North American city is built around the mountain for which it's named'

Answer: Montreal (Mont Royal)


Question: 'George Burns:<br />"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit" one of these "in another city"'

Answer: a family


Question: 'Classic bag shapes inspire the Connecticut-based brand of purses called Dooney & this'

Answer: Bourke


Question: 'Alan Shore & Denny Crane took bromance to a new level, tying the knot'

Answer: Boston Legal


Question: 'Rhett Butler'

Answer: Margaret Mitchell


Question: '...president & you'll get his foundation's website listing offices in NYC & Little Rock'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is being prepped to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Before giving blood a simple test will ensure that you don't have anemia, & that donating blood won't bring it on, as you'll be giving up about 250 milligrams of this element'

Answer: iron


Question: 'Fred Allen, 1950:<br />This "is a new medium.  It's called a medium because nothing is well done"'

Answer: television


Question: 'She was Kate Brosnahan when she designed her first utilitarian purses, sold now as this brand'

Answer: Kate Spade


Question: 'Miss Ellie turned Southfork Ranch over to Bobby'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'Severus Snape'

Answer: J.K. Rowling


Question: '...primate & you'll get the foundation that's the home to Koko, one famous for her sign language skills'

Answer: a gorilla


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is donating blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.)  Once your blood is collected it goes to a lab where it's separated into components, mainly red cells, platelets & this liquid part, which will be frozen until needed'

Answer: plasma


Question: 'Will Rogers:<br />This group, then with 96 members, "opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation"'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'He's made his "Marc" with his luxury purses, which often feature his signature "MJ" push lock detail'

Answer: Marc Jacobs


Question: 'Outgoing president Josiah Bartlet attended the inauguration of Matthew Santos'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: '...automaker & you'll find information on its models like the Touareg & the GTI'

Answer: VW (Volkswagen)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds bags of blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.)  Every unit of blood is screened & tested for many different viruses, including HIV, & infections, including this--both B & C'

Answer: hepatitis


Question: 'Oscar Levant:<br />Joe DiMaggio's divorce from her "proves that no man can be a success in 2 national pastimes"'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'The "LV" monogram canvas of this brand dates to 1896'

Answer: Louis Vuitton


Question: 'The 4 main characters were imprisoned for violating a Good Samaritan law'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'Simon Legree'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: '...sports league & you'll find information on its teams, like Real Salt Lake & D.C. United'

Answer: Major League Soccer


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew is donating blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) The Red Cross could really use your blood if this is your blood type. Shared by only 7% of the population, it's the universal donor'

Answer: O negative


Question: 'Mitch Hedberg:<br />This device "can never break.  It can only become stairs"'

Answer: an escalator


Question: 'The Birkin bag, named for actress Jane Birkin, is a status symbol from this French company'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'Lois & Clark had a wedding; Clark finally got the Superman suit, which he donned to save Lois aboard Air Force One'

Answer: Smallville


Question: 'Hercule Poirot'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: '...religious denomination with more than 16 million members & you'll find its home page, www.sbc.net'

Answer: Southern Baptist (Convention)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew preps to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.)  Technically, the person who draws your blood is called this, from the Greek word for vein'

Answer: a phlebotomist


Question: 'At a 1935 college track meet, he broke 3 world records & tied a fourth; then it was on to the Berlin Olympics'

Answer: Jesse Owens


Question: 'As its name says, the SEC regulates these S's & wants investors to know that unlike bank deposits, they can lose value'

Answer: securities


Question: 'Mount Whitney in this Western range is the highest peak in the lower 48 states'

Answer: the Sierra Nevadas


Question: 'Commanding J.P. Morgan's converted yacht, Richard Wainwright was a hero of the Battle of Santiago in this 1898 war'

Answer: the Spanish-American War


Question: 'The sun is about 25,000 light years from the center of this galaxy, & one of hundreds of billions of stars within it'

Answer: the Milky Way


Question: 'It's a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, pardner'

Answer: a ten-gallon hat


Question: 'Hitting .361 as a sophomore got him a contract with the Yankees, but he'd win Super Bowls as a Bronco quarterback'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'Before Congress in 2009, investigator Harry Markopolos lambasted the SEC's (non-)oversight of this Ponzi schemer'

Answer: Bernie Madoff


Question: 'Shira is the westernmost of the 3 extinct volcanoes that make up this highest peak in Africa'

Answer: Kilimanjaro


Question: '1760s political activist James Otis is credited with the phrase "taxation without" this "is tyranny"'

Answer: representation


Question: 'The temperature of this area of the Sun, also a term for the central part of a fleshy fruit, is close to 27 million degrees'

Answer: the core


Question: 'This cut of meat terminates before the ribs'

Answer: tenderloin


Question: 'The model for this, originally called the Downtown Athletic Club trophy, was NYU football player Ed Smith'

Answer: the Heisman


Question: 'To help enforce the regs, all the commissioners have this type of graduate degree, including from Yale & Harvard'

Answer: a J.D. (a law degree)


Question: 'It's the highest peak in the Cascade range of the northwest'

Answer: Mount Rainier


Question: 'Isaac Hull captained this ship in 1812 as cannonballs from the frigate Guerriere bounced off it'

Answer: the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides")


Question: 'These dark areas appear so because they are 4,000 degrees cooler than the rest of the Sun's visible surface'

Answer: sunspots


Question: 'Ex-CIA head George, or a dogma held as true by members of a movement'

Answer: a tenet


Question: 'Last name of the twins seen here; they put their oars in the water for Oxford as well as Harvard'

Answer: Winklevoss


Question: 'The act that set up the SEC restricted buying stocks "on" this--no more than 45% of the market price could be borrowed credit'

Answer: margin


Question: 'These mountains west of the Hudson take their name from the Dutch for "Wildcat Creek"'

Answer: the Catskills


Question: 'Joshua Chamberlain held Little Round Top during this Civil War battle'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'In about 5 billion years, the Sun will expand & become a red this; outer layers may reach 2 or even (gulp!) 3 planets'

Answer: a giant


Question: 'An invertebrate's flexible appendage that serves as an organ of touch'

Answer: a tentacle


Question: 'In 1965 this African American with an alliterative name won the singles & doubles college tennis titles'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'The SEC ensures equal access to information by all investors, this 12-letter quality also found in windows'

Answer: transparency


Question: 'The highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, in the western part of the range, is Mount Toubkal in this monarchy'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'Vulpine nickname given to patriot Francis Marion by the Brits'

Answer: the Swamp Fox


Question: 'The Sun converts about 4,5 million tons of matter into energy every second by this type of nuclear reaction'

Answer: fusion


Question: '1-word term for the inflammation of the fibrous structure that joins muscle to bone'

Answer: tendonitis


Question: '"'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with"'

Answer: the Cheshire Cat


Question:
'The Netherlands,
Norway,
Nepal'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Purists screamed but many 9-to-5ers were pleased when Wrigley Field added these in 1988'

Answer: lights


Question: 'A 1998 32-cent stamp shows a woman as this type of performer in an "Attitude Derriere" pose'

Answer: ballet dancer


Question: 'The Judiciary Act of 1869 stabilized the size of the court at this number'

Answer: 9


Question: 'Some old badges have new names; this science is now "Rocks Rock"'

Answer: geology


Question: 'This slang word is a blend of fantastic & fabulous'

Answer: fantabulous


Question:
'Peru,
Poland,
Papua New Guinea'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'A flag bearing one of these 2 letters flies atop the scoreboard after every game'

Answer: W or L (win or loss)


Question: 'The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in her right hand & this in her left hand'

Answer: lawbook/tablet


Question: 'In 1985 the Supreme Court said the police can't use this "force" unless there's a threat of immediate harm'

Answer: deadly force


Question: 'It's where a Girl Scout has to "go" to earn her Cybergirlscout badge'

Answer: online


Question: 'One who studies & researches family histories & pedigrees'

Answer: genealogist


Question:
'Vatican City,
Vietnam,
Venezuela'

Answer: Vatican City


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Wrigley Field in Chicago)  I'm at Wrigley Field, or as sportscasters say, "The Friendly" these "of Wrigley Field"'

Answer: Confines


Question: 'The spells of the magician in this Johnny Hart comic strip usually backfire...if they work at all'

Answer: The Wizard of Id


Question: 'The Senate must have liked Felix Frankfurter; this type of vote was taken to confirm him'

Answer: voice vote


Question: 'The Signaller badge of 1920 required a girl to send messages in semaphore & this'

Answer: Morse code


Question: 'The largest ethnic group in this war-torn nation is the Pushtun, making up about 40% of the population'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question:
'Bolivia,
Botswana,
Bulgaria'

Answer: Bulgaria


Question: 'If you're quiet at Wrigley Field, you can almost hear this late broadcaster sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"'

Answer: Harry Caray


Question: 'If served this legal writ, you will be required to appear in court to give testimony'

Answer: subpoena


Question: 'This man whom James Madison tried to put on the court declined, then followed him into the White House'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'In 1926 a Girl Scout could earn a badge for this job, sung about on the 8th day of Christmas'

Answer: dairy maid ("eight maids-a-milking")


Question: 'In Britain, he's a dealer in small wares & notions; in the U.S., he sells men's hats, shirts & ties'

Answer: haberdasher


Question:
'Mali,
Mexico,
Macedonia'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Wrigley Field in Chicago)  It was a great day on May 12, 1970 when this Cub hit his 500th career home run at Wrigley Field'

Answer: Ernie Banks


Question: 'This state's lowest point, Big Stone Lake, lies about 100 miles east of Aberdeen on its border with Minnesota'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'Edward White was nominated as chief justice by this president who later replaced him on the court'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'A pyramid is an example of this type of solid in which all 4 sides are the same size'

Answer: tetrahedron


Question: 'Just the skin of this creature weighs 1 ton & has an area of about 350 square feet'

Answer: elephant


Question: 'Smaller species of these birds are commonly known as doves'

Answer: pigeons


Question: 'The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sang about the one "at Pooh Corner"; Aretha Franklin, about the one "That Jack Built"'

Answer: house


Question: 'He's now 20 years old & second in line'

Answer: Prince William


Question: '"Ride the High Country" with Joel McCrea & Randolph Scott is a classic in this film genre'

Answer: western


Question: 'It's added to your car's water to help keep your engine cool'

Answer: antifreeze


Question: 'It's the animal that's most closely related to humans'

Answer: chimpanzee


Question: 'Often dressed in green, these small & mischievous Irish elves are said to have magical powers'

Answer: leprechauns


Question: 'The Beatles & Jefferson Airplane delved into this "Alice" author for inspiration'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'In 1979 NYC's Sugarhill Gang gave us the first Billboard Hot 100 hit in this genre'

Answer: rap


Question: 'Quick!  Give me the name of a poison remedy from the Greek for "to give against"'

Answer: antidote


Question: 'All of the lionesses in this social grouping are related to each other & most spend their entire life in it'

Answer: pride


Question: 'Cheeseheads know that this state is home to the smallest city with an NFL football team'

Answer: Wisconsin (Green Bay)


Question: 'Eric Carmen's "Boats Against the Current" flowed from the last line of this F. Scott Fitzgerald book'

Answer: "The Great Gatsby"


Question: 'Cyril Tourneur liked this basic dramatic genre; "The Atheist's" one & "The Revenger's" one are attributed to him'

Answer: tragedy


Question: 'The Battle of Sharpsburg is what the South called the bloody Civil War battle of this creek'

Answer: Antietam


Question: 'This even-toed ungulate spends much of its day in the water & can remain submerged for up to 10 minutes'

Answer: hippopotamus


Question: 'Of the 3 main particles that make up an atom, this one is the smallest by mass'

Answer: electron


Question: 'Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is based on a speech in this book about the Joad family'

Answer: "The Grapes of Wrath"


Question: 'It's the Japanese term for animated films, many based on manga, or comic books'

Answer: anime


Question: 'Oedipus & Jocasta's doomed daughter'

Answer: Antigone


Question: '(Alex in Africa)  The name of the animal behind me (rhinoceros) comes from 2 Greek words which mean these 2 body parts'

Answer: nose & horn


Question: 'In "Sunset Boulevard" this character retorts, "I am big.  It's the pictures that got small"'

Answer: Norma Desmond


Question: 'This hit by the Motels checks out a play by Tennessee Williams'

Answer: "Suddenly Last Summer"


Question: 'Term for the type of painting seen here, it can also mean something designed to arouse discussion'

Answer: conversation piece


Question: 'This city in southern Turkey is now the capital of Hatay province'

Answer: Antioch


Question: 'On Sept. 8, 1565 the first Catholic parish in what is now the U.S. was founded at this settlement'

Answer: St. Augustine (in Florida)


Question: 'Steve Buscemi whoops it up during Prohibition in this 2010 drama'

Answer: Boardwalk Empire


Question: 'Napoleon III'

Answer: France


Question: 'Barack's Andean pack animals'

Answer: Obama\'s llamas


Question: 'When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away & couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c.'

Answer: a fiddle


Question: 'Theodore Roosevelt did not use this personal pronoun once during his 1905 inaugural address'

Answer: I


Question: 'The Seattle Times won one in 2010 for its breaking news reporting'

Answer: a Pulitzer


Question: 'In 2010 this war-based miniseries produced by Spielberg & Hanks got 24 Emmy nominations'

Answer: The Pacific


Question: 'Puyi, aka Xuantong'

Answer: China


Question: 'George W.'s rumps'

Answer: Bush\'s tushes


Question: 'This "ground lion" reptile rarely changes its color for camouflage: it's usually signifying its emotional state'

Answer: chameleon


Question: 'This letter has been used as slang for a $10 bill'

Answer: an X


Question: 'Created in 1949, the peace prize bearing this man's name was renamed the Lenin Prize in 1956'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'This comedy website has come to HBO with Will Ferrell as an executive producer'

Answer: Funny or Die


Question: 'Maximilian'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Zachary's padded envelopes'

Answer: Taylor\'s mailers


Question: 'Bv some measures, the largest organism isn't a blue whale, but a 2,385-acre Oregon mushroom, the "humongous" this'

Answer: fungus


Question: 'This vowel appears most often in the 2-letter postal abbreviations of the 50 states'

Answer: A


Question: 'In 1971 Pope Paul VI created a peace prize named for his predecessor, John this number'

Answer: the XXIII


Question: 'In 2007 the Emmy for writing for a drama went to David Chase's "Made in America" episode of this show, & then...'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'Sultan Mehmed VI'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'Herbert's strategic military exercises'

Answer: Hoover\'s maneuvers


Question: 'Some argue there are 46 states, not 50, as Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania & Massachusetts are all these'

Answer: Commonwealths


Question: 'On a compass this letter is found at 270 degrees'

Answer: W


Question: 'The only Nobel Prize that has 2 names is this "or medicine"'

Answer: physiology


Question: 'Mary Lou got a new job in the 1998 finale of this Garry Shandling show--"Jeopardy!" contestant coordinator'

Answer: The Larry Sanders Show


Question: 'Constantine XI'

Answer: the Byzantine Empire


Question: 'James K.'s Ma & Pa'

Answer: Polk\'s folks


Question: 'Some think America was named for Richard Ameryk, one of Cabot's investors, not for this Italian who died in 1512'

Answer: Amerigo Vespucci


Question: 'An old book says it's pronounced "by closing the lips... and letting the voice issue by the nose"'

Answer: M


Question: 'The Medal of Honor named for this island was "designed to pay homage to the immigrant experience"'

Answer: Ellis Island


Question: 'Would you be mine, could you be mine, won't you be this term from the Old English for "near dweller"'

Answer: neighbor


Question: '"Mr. Saturday Night" in the movies, in 2004 he starred in a one-man show called "700 Sundays"'

Answer: Billy Crystal


Question: 'In 1900 Canada's Geraldine Moodie became the first female photographer working above this "circle"'

Answer: the Arctic Circle


Question: 'Surname of the actor who played Elmer Gantry on film'

Answer: Lancaster


Question: 'hogwarts_ headmaster@ harrypotter.edu'

Answer: Dumbledore


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a container of a viscous brown substance near large equipment inside the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.)  In the refining process, seven different boiling sessions will force 100 pounds of sugar to yield 1.5 pounds of this sticky substance'

Answer: molasses


Question: 'Jim Gallegos' collection of this toy car brand is estimated to be worth $2 million'

Answer: Matchboxes


Question: 'In 2003 Patrick Swayze did a 2-week stint as lawyer Billy Flynn in this musical'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '19th c. Congo traveler Mary Kingsley said this large ape is "the most horrible wild animal I have seen"'

Answer: a gorilla


Question: 'A type of wide, triangular necktie knot'

Answer: a Windsor


Question: 'aka-smeagol@my-precious.info'

Answer: Gollum


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands by sugar washing equipment at the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.)  An early process in refining is washing the syrupy mother liquor from the raw sugar in this type of rotating machine'

Answer: a centrifuge


Question: 'If your actions are open to public scrutiny, you're "living life in" one of these glass enclosures'

Answer: a fishbowl


Question: 'In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights)'

Answer: Billy Elliot


Question: 'In 1906 explorer Fanny B. Workman claimed to have climbed higher than 23,000 feet in these mountains'

Answer: the Himalayans


Question: 'In 1940 this company began making Peppermint Patties in Pennsylvania'

Answer: York


Question: 'ageless-wonder@wilde-pictures.com'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'In golden syrup, a byproduct of refining, some of the sucrose is broken down into these 2 sugars'

Answer: glucose & fructose


Question: 'Those darn Etruscans were said to use this chicken part to tell their fortune; wasn't so lucky for the chicken'

Answer: the wishbone


Question: '"Movin' Out", which moved into the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2002, was based on the songs of this pop star'

Answer: Billy Joel


Question: 'Around 1901 archaeologist Gertrude Bell excavated many of the ruins of Iraq & later began this city's Natl. Museum'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'Take a "G" away from what you have the next dav after too many Pimm's cups the night before to get this roval house'

Answer: Hanover


Question: 'naval-historian-action-guy@clancy.cia.gov'

Answer: Jack Ryan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew looks at large bins of raw sugar at the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.)  Sugar beets can be stored but this plant, grown in Florida & used by Domino Sugar, deteriorates so it has to be quickly turned into raw sugar, then refined'

Answer: sugar cane


Question: 'In the 1840s Ida Pfeiffer of Austria published an account of her trip along this long river to the Black Sea'

Answer: the Danube


Question: 'Confederate general Jeb lent this surname to light tanks known as the M2, M3 & M5'

Answer: Stuart


Answer: Winston Smith


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew carries a container in the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.)  In large factory vacuum pans, the sugar seed is mixed into the mother liquor to initiate the formation of these structures; the surface regularity reflects its internal atomic symmetry'

Answer: crystals


Question: 'By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river'

Answer: India


Question: 'It's the westernmost & northernmost of the Great Lakes'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'In 1998 Homer commandeered the stage during this Irish band's concert in Springfield'

Answer: U2


Question: 'Best-known for her books about China, she published her "American Triptych" as John Sedges'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'Scary, Sporty, Baby & Posh'

Answer: The Spice Girls


Question: 'Margrethe II studied archaeology at this British university before she became queen of Denmark'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'One of your choices when your sink has 2 knobs to turn on the water'

Answer: Cold


Question: 'This sea is divided into several basins, including Yucatan, Colombian, Venezuelan & Tobago'

Answer: Caribbean Sea


Question: 'This Springfield celebrity was disowned by his father for choosing to be a clown rather than a rabbi'

Answer: Krusty the Clown


Question: 'The century in which Boccaccio wroe the "Decameron", & all of his other works, too'

Answer: 14th century


Question: 'Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Po'

Answer: Teletubbies


Question: 'Anne-Sophie Mutter made her professional debut playing this stringed instrument in 1977, at age 13'

Answer: Violin


Question: 'It makes up half of the Morse Code letter "N"'

Answer: Dash


Question: 'The Ukranians call this sea Chorne More'

Answer: Black Sea


Question: 'Smithers loves 2 things: his collection of Malibu Stacy dolls & this man, owner of the Nuclear Power Plant'

Answer: Mr. Burns


Question: 'Old Jolyon Forsyte is a wealthy tea merchant in "The Man of Property", a novel by this author'

Answer: John Galsworthy


Question: 'Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright & David Gilmour'

Answer: Pink Floyd


Question: 'Lynne Thigpen won a Tony in 1997 for acting in "An American Daughter" by this author of "The Heidi Chronicles"'

Answer: Wendy Wasserstein


Question: 'It's one of the words that form the contraction "won't"'

Answer: Will


Question: 'The ferry from Villa San Giovanni in Calabria, Italy to Sicily crosses this strait'

Answer: Strait of Messina


Question: 'After drinking the Unprecedented All-Syrup Super-Squishee, Bart & this friend hit the town on a sugar high'

Answer: Milhouse


Question: '"The Cinnamon Peeler" is a book of poems by this Ceylon-born author of "The English Patient"'

Answer: Michael Ondaatje


Question: 'Mr. Fantastic, The Human Torch, The Invisible Woman & The Thing'

Answer: Fantastic Four


Question: 'She wrote the purr-fectly titled memoir "I'm Still Here:  Confessions Of A Sex Kitten"'

Answer: Eartha Kitt


Question: 'In "Camelot", he has a romance with Guenevere'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'Located in east-central Africa, at 420 miles it's the world's largest freshwater lake'

Answer: Lake Tanganyika


Question: '"Okely-dokely-do" & "Oh, indeedily doodily" are phrases often said by this Simpsons neighbor'

Answer: Ned Flanders


Question: 'Ernest Feydeau wrote the 1858 novel "Fanny", & this son of his wrote French farces such as "A Flea In Her Ear"'

Answer: Georges Feydeau


Question: 'Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, Don Miller & Harry Stuhldreher'

Answer: The "Four Horsemen" Of Notre Dame (football)


Question: 'This future U.S. first lady distributed food & helped tend the wounded during the Boxer Rebellion'

Answer: Lou Hoover


Question: 'In Genesis, he split with his kinsman because Canaan wasn't big enough for both of them'

Answer: Abram


Question: 'Literally meaning "a breathing through", it's the polite word for fluid produced to keep the body cool'

Answer: perspiration


Question: 'This American director of "10" remade Truffaut's "The Man Who Loved Women"'

Answer: Blake Edwards


Question: 'Her title is Baroness of Kesteven'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'In 1971 the Shah put up the Shahyad Towers in this city; the tower has been renamed'

Answer: Tehran


Question: 'President Hayes said in March 1880 that one of these across the Isthmus of Panama would be under U.S. control'

Answer: a canal


Question: 'If Churchill were making a Roman numeral, it would be this number'

Answer: 5 (V)


Question: 'The condition keratoconjuctivitis sicca is associated with reduction in the flow of these'

Answer: tears


Question: '1955 French thriller with Simone Signoret remade, but not retitled, with Sharon Stone in 1996'

Answer: Diabolique


Question: 'Horses owned by the Earl of Rosebery won this Epsom race 3 times, twice while he was prime minister'

Answer: the Epsom Darby


Question: 'They took L.A. tile setter Simon Rodia over 30 years to create'

Answer: Watts Towers


Question: 'This parent of the Bell System was incorporated in 1885'

Answer: AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph)


Question: 'The initials of the type of medical equipment being set up here gave us this number'

Answer: 4 (IV)


Question: 'The membranous labyrinth floats in fluid in the "inner" part of this organ'

Answer: the ear


Question: 'Pierre Richard starred in "Les fugitifs" & Martin Short cut up in this remake'

Answer: Three Fugitives


Question: 'Lloyd George's constituency was Caernarvonshire in this part of the United Kingdom'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'At 1,815 feet, it gives Toronto some of the clearest TV reception in North America'

Answer: the CN Tower


Question: 'In 1881 the Normal and Industrial Institute was founded in this Alabama city'

Answer: Tuskegee


Question: 'The abbreviation of the item seen here gives us the Roman numeral for this number'

Answer: 400 (CD)


Question: 'The pale liquid portion of your blood, it's about 90% water'

Answer: plasma


Question: 'In this "colorful" 1984 remake of "Pardon mon affaire", Gene has a wilder time than Jean Rochefort did'

Answer: The Woman in Red


Question: 'One of 11 children, this 26th prime minister could have formed a police force out of his family'

Answer: Robert Peel


Question: 'This Chicago media company's Gothic tower doesn't quite put the Sears Tower in the shade'

Answer: the Tribune Company


Question: 'Even after admitting he had sired an illegitimate child, he was still elected president in 1884'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question:
'If the letters seen here were upper case, they would add up to this amount

mm'

Answer: 2000 (MM)


Question: 'The venom from a snakebite gets into the bloodstream via this fluid-carrying system'

Answer: the lymphatic system


Question: 'You can "blame" the plot of this 1984 Michael Caine film on 1977's "Un moment d'egarement"'

Answer: Blame it on Rio


Question: 'His famous "declaration" was issued in November 1917, years after he was prime minister'

Answer: Arthur Balfour


Question: 'The White Tower, a remnant of Ottoman rule, is a highlight of this second-largest Greek city'

Answer: Thessalonika


Question: 'This Russian composed the "Russian Easter Overture" & "Scheherazade" in 1888'

Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


Question: 'If a size abbreviation seen here were Roman numerals, it would represent this number'

Answer: 40 (XL)


Question: 'At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate'

Answer: Hannibal Hamlin


Question: 'September 15, 1950:<br />"U.N. Forces Land Behind Communists in" this peninsula, "Seize Inchon"'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Rosie O'Donnell made news in 2006 when she returned to TV as a co-host of this morning chatfest'

Answer: The View


Question: 'The lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were penned during this U.S. president's second term of office'

Answer: (James) Madison


Question: 'The name of this coffee drink comes from the Italian for "pressed"'

Answer: espresso


Question:
'Iran,
Iraq,
Israel'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'It's the weekend when the movie "Jaws" is set, which is why the mayor is so upset about scaring people away'

Answer: Fourth of July


Question: 'February 11, 1913:<br />"Scott Finds" this location, "Then Perishes"'

Answer: the South Pole


Question: '(Hi, I'm James Denton.)  In January of 2006 I was surrounded by lots of beautiful women when I hosted this pageant, held outside of Atlantic City for the first time'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'This "Olympia" painter did illustrations for a French translation of Poe's poetry'

Answer: Manet


Question: 'In 1892 Asa Candler remarketed a medicine as this soft drink, & the rest is history'

Answer: Coke (or Coca-Cola)


Question:
'Argentina,
Armenia,
Angola'

Answer: Armenia


Question: 'How could you desert me in my this--it was Wednesday, from 2:15 to 3:15 in the afternoon'

Answer: hour of need


Question: 'August 17, 1935:<br />"Will Rogers" & this aviator "Die in Airplane Crash in Alaska; Nation Shocked by Tragedy"'

Answer: (Wiley) Post


Question: 'In the 1950s "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by "The one, the only"--this funnyman'

Answer: Groucho Marx


Question: 'He studied law at the University of Belgrade & became his country's Communist Party head in 1987'

Answer: Milosevic


Question: 'You can make milk from this tofu ingredient'

Answer: soy


Question:
'Uganda,
United Arab Emirates,
United States of America'

Answer: United Arab Emirates


Question: 'The Hindu shuffle that will get you to unsuspectingly pick a certain card is part of this type of magic'

Answer: sleight of hand


Question: 'October 7, 1981:<br />This world leader "Assassinated at Army Parade as Men Amid Ranks Fire into Stands"'

Answer: Anwar Sadat


Question: 'A TV fixture for more than 20 years, this beloved talk show host seen here passed away in 2006'

Answer: Mike Douglas


Question: 'In 2006 a Salzburg Museum that bears the name of this composer marked the 250th anniversary of his birth'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'The Valencia type of this fruit is good for juice'

Answer: orange


Question:
'Sudan,
South Africa,
Senegal'

Answer: Senegal


Question: 'The vice presidential one says, "I will support & defend the Constitution... against all enemies"'

Answer: oath of office


Question: 'August 21, 1968:<br />This nation "Invaded by Russians and Four Other Warsaw Pact Forces"'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'As Academy president, this "Swashbuckler" was host & sole presenter at the first Academy Awards in 1929'

Answer: Douglas Fairbanks


Question: 'In 1965 this man began 2 decades as the head of state of the Philippines'

Answer: (Ferdinand) Marcos


Question: 'A Gershwin song says, "The way you wear your hat, the way you sip" this... "They can't take that away from me"'

Answer: tea


Question:
'Romania,
Rwanda,
Russia'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'A common but incorrect story traces this type of guideline to the permissible width of a wife-beating stick'

Answer: rule of thumb


Question: 'In a human being, each cell has about 25,000 of these basic units of heredity'

Answer: genes


Question: '"Monday Night Football" went to this network & on Oct. 23 broke the 13-year-old biggest cable audience record'

Answer: ESPN


Question: 'Holiday Red by Dior & Russian Red by M.A.C. are classic versions of this cosmetic'

Answer: lipstick


Question: 'This Ethiopian slave is in love with Radames, the Egyptian commander sent to wage war against her people'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'Fathered, biblically speaking'

Answer: begot


Question: 'The Beatitudes are found in this sermon by Jesus'

Answer: the Sermon on the Mount


Question: 'In 1897 physicist J.J. Thomson discovered the first subatomic particle, which was later called this'

Answer: an electron


Question: 'At the Winter Olympics, the Canadian women outscored their opposition 46-2 to win gold in this team sport'

Answer: hockey


Question: 'A "Project Runway" challenge was to design a cocktail dress using these 2 colors, maybe to go to a Truman Capote ball'

Answer: black & white


Question: 'This Puccini opera set in Paris was first produced on February 1, 1896 in Turin with Arturo Toscanini directing'

Answer: La boheme


Question: 'They're flies-to-be, you larva!'

Answer: maggot


Question: 'According to the Beatitudes, this group shall "inherit the Earth"'

Answer: the meek


Question: 'This rocky, outermost layer of the earth is only 5 miles thick under the oceans, 25 miles under the continents'

Answer: the crust


Question: 'Redheaded halfpipe hero Shaun White made the cover of Rolling Stone with the line "attack of the flying" this'

Answer: tomato


Question: 'Popular again in 2006 were these shoes, almost high enough to compete in the diving event of the same name'

Answer: platform


Question: 'This Valkyrie was Wotan's favorite daughter'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'Another word for a faucet'

Answer: a spigot


Question: 'The only place you'll find all the Beatitudes is in this man's Gospel'

Answer: Matthew


Question: 'The centaur/archer of this constellation is said to be Chiron'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'Guard Deanna Nolan was the finals MVP as the Detroit Shock won the title in this league's tenth season'

Answer: the WNBA


Question: 'The classic Ivy League suit has this slit only in the back; a more British style calls for side ones--a bit more comfy'

Answer: vents


Question: '(Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.)  Mack the Knife wore those fancy gloves when I designed the costumes for a Broadway revival of this Brecht play'

Answer: Threepenny Opera


Question: 'A conceited, boastful person'

Answer: an egotist


Question: 'According to the Beatitudes, "blessed are" these people, "for they shall be called the children of God"'

Answer: the peacemakers


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew experiments with water and a paper clip.)  Drop a paper clip into water, it sinks; drop it onto a paper towel, & because of the attraction of molecules of the same substance, called cohesion, this condition is created that seems to form a skin, allowing it to float'

Answer: surface tension


Question: 'The New York major league soccer team is now called these, after being bought by an energy drink'

Answer: the Red Bulls


Question: 'This "Couture" brand introduced its velour tracksuit, popular with the ladies, in 2001'

Answer: Juicy Couture


Question: 'At a costume party Eisenstein dresses up as a butterfly & his friend Dr. Falke goes as a bat in this operetta'

Answer: Die Fledermaus


Question: 'Don't duck the question: this comedian voices the AFLAC Duck'

Answer: Gilbert Gottfried


Question: 'This "God is dead" philosopher mocked the Beatitudes, citing them as proof of the hypocrisy of Christianity'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'It's where British Admiral Fraser, Canadian Army Col. Cosgrave & Japanese Gen. Umezu all stood on Sept. 2, 1945'

Answer: the USS battleship Missouri


Question: 'The name of this element begins with a synonym for "automobile"'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'Before Frasier got his own show, he was one of the patrons at the Boston bar on this show'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'Named for a Roman restaurateur, this simple dish is known for its sauce of butter, Parmesan & heavy cream'

Answer: (fettuccine) Alfredo


Question: 'This "Walden" prose master wrote less well-remembered poems like "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life"'

Answer: (Henry David) Thoreau


Question: 'A coal mine explosion in this state's town of Monongah claimed 362 lives in 1907'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'In 1789 George Washington said, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving" this'

Answer: peace


Question: 'This element, No. 16 on the periodic table, has a pelt at the end of its name'

Answer: sulfur


Question: 'Rue McClanahan played Aunt Fran & Vicki Lawrence was the title character on this '80s sitcom'

Answer: Mama\'s Family


Question: 'It's the protein in egg whites'

Answer: albumen


Question: 'Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this'

Answer: fire


Question: 'The last major eruption of Mount St. Helens was in this presidential election year'

Answer: 1980


Question: 'He remarked, "one word sums up... the responsibility of any vice president & that one word is 'to be prepared'"'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: 'You'll find a short term for a graduate of a particular college in this abundant metallic element'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'John Goodman played the husband of the title character on this sitcom that debuted in 1988'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: 'This Italian term is used to describe pasta that is not overdone'

Answer: al dente


Question: 'First name of the 16th & 17th century poet whose "Hymn to God the Father" uses the word "done" 7 times in 18 lines'

Answer: John


Question: 'Spectacular May 1937 newsreel footage showed this New Jersey air disaster'

Answer: (the crash of) the Hindenburg


Question: 'Semper paratus, meaning "always prepared", is the motto of this branch of the U.S. military'

Answer: the Coast Guard


Question: 'Atomic number 35, this element begins with the first name of Ichabod Crane's rival'

Answer: bromine


Question: 'Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd were an unlikely pair of detectives on this show'

Answer: Moonlighting


Question: 'Reptilian nickname for an avocado'

Answer: an alligator pear


Question: 'This Lake Poet married Mary Hutchinson, of whom he wrote, "She was a Phantom of delight"'

Answer: Wordsworth


Question: 'Among the deadliest of its kind on record, one of these named Mitch engulfed Central America in Oct. 1998'

Answer: a hurricane


Question: 'This youth organization, the FFA, prepares young people for careers in agriculture'

Answer: the Future Farmers of America


Question: 'This element that's "ph" balanced (it has 2 of them) ends with the name of an Egyptian falcon god'

Answer: phosphorous


Question: 'This '80s detective show used the same production facilities in Hawaii that were used for the old "Hawaii Five-O"'

Answer: Magnum, P.I.


Question: 'Made from pimiento berry, it's so-named because it tastes like nutmeg, cinnamon & cloves'

Answer: allspice


Question: 'Editor Harriet Monroe said this man "has an eccentric system of typography which... intrudes itself irritatingly"'

Answer: E. E. Cummings


Question: 'Called the worst industrial accident in history, a poisonous gas leak in this Indian city in December 1984 killed thousands'

Answer: Bhopal


Question: 'There was a method to his 1936 book "An Actor Prepares"'

Answer: (Constantin) Stanislavsky


Question: 'Cairo'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'In a 2011 film Leighton Meester does more to annoy Minka Kelly than borrow her sweaters as this title character'

Answer: The Roommate


Question: 'The autumn of 1989 felt a symbolic one of these in Berlin & a literal one in California on Oct. 17'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'Gaylord Nelson, the father of Earth Day, also helped get through this 1973 act keeping critters from going extinct'

Answer: the Endangered Species Act


Question: 'Cerulean, a shade of this color, is derived from a Latin word meaning "sky" or "heavens"'

Answer: blue


Question: 'When this bird comes back to Capistrano, you'll see that it's a cliff one'

Answer: a swallow


Question: 'Belgrade'

Answer: the Danube


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.)  It's easy to see why Stage 15 here at Sony Studios, the largest soundstage in the Western hemisphere, was used to film hits like "Men in Black" I & II, the "Spider Man" films, & this 1939 magical classic MGM musical'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'In the U.S., 1812 means war; in this country it means the Constitution that established its parliament, the Cortes'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Galusha Grow was the father of this 1862 law giving Western land to anyone who'd settle & improve it'

Answer: the Homestead Act


Question: 'After a little trouble staying on the ballot, he was easily elected mayor of Chicago in 2011'

Answer: (Rahm) Emanuel


Question: 'When you're alone & life is making you lonely, you can always go to this main business section of a city'

Answer: downtown


Question: 'Phnom Penh'

Answer: the Mekong


Question: '"It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk"--time for this Lady Antebellum hit, a big winner at the Grammys in 2011'

Answer: "Need You Now"


Question: 'In 1776 Timur Shah moved his capital from Kandahar to this present-day world capital'

Answer: Kabul


Question: '(Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)  One of my proudest achievements as a senator was when this fellow New York senator & I secured $20 billion for New York's recovery after 9/11'

Answer: Charles ("Chuck") Schumer


Question: 'This type of glass decoration is made by wrapping a paper pattern around the glass & dipping it in acid'

Answer: etch


Question: 'TV's Carol Brady was one before she wed Mike'

Answer: a widow


Question: 'Warsaw'

Answer: the Vistula


Question: 'This comic strip was the last one approved by William Randolph Hearst; he's been marching along since 1950'

Answer: Beetle Bailey


Question: '1066 brought the royal wedding of German king Henry IV & this daughter of the Count of Savoy; no word on how "big" she was'

Answer: Bertha


Question: 'This Minnesotan put his name on the act that provided for enforcing Prohibition'

Answer: (Andrew) Volstead


Question: 'Roskilde Cathedral has been the burial place for this nation's monarchs since the 16th century'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'There are about 300 species of this tree that usually grows near water'

Answer: the willow


Question: 'Bamako, Mali'

Answer: the Niger


Question: 'This "Queen of Mean" is a regular on Comedy Central's roasts'

Answer: Lisa Lampanelli


Question: 'In 1914 James Joyce finally found a publisher for this collection of stories about the people of his native city'

Answer: Dubliners


Question: 'In 1947 this senator & Rep. Hartley teamed up to regulate labor union activities'

Answer: Taft


Question: 'The name of this scientific order to which caimans belong is from the Greek for "pebble of worms"'

Answer: Crocodilians


Question: 'This word means "lacking dexterity" & can also describe a difficult social situation'

Answer: awkward


Question: 'Penned by a British author, it became a No. 1 bestseller in the U.S. in 1959, 31 years after it was initially banned'

Answer: Lady Chatterley\'s Lover


Question: 'Florida,<br />2000'

Answer: George W. Bush


Question:
'1987:
"She's Like The Wind"
by Patrick Swayze'

Answer: Dirty Dancing


Question: 'On Dec. 23, 2009 The Pour, a blog about wine on nytimes.com, focused on this bubbly beverage'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Of the 4 "Little Women" characters Jo, Beth, Laurie & Amy, the one not a sister of the others'

Answer: Laurie


Question: 'It's the type of keyboard named for the succession of 6 letters found near the upper-left corner'

Answer: QWERTY


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  I'm at the New Orleans chapter of this organization, whose shelters across Louisiana provided refuge, food & water for over 146,000 people in the wake of Katrina'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'Illinois,<br />1960'

Answer: JFK (John Kennedy)


Question:
'1985:
"Don't You (Forget About Me)"
by Simple Minds'

Answer: The Breakfast Club


Question: 'The Bitten blog discussed how these salty little fish "turn up on traditional & not-so-traditional English menus"'

Answer: anchovies


Question: 'Of the 4 suits in tarot cards, the one that's designed to hold liquids'

Answer: cups


Question: '"Magic" & "Have You Never Been Mellow" are songs from this roller-skating musical that hit Broadway in 2007'

Answer: Xanadu


Question: 'The scene of celebrations before & since, it housed thousands in Katrina's aftermath'

Answer: the Superdome


Question: 'North Carolina,<br />2008'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question:
'1986:
"Danger Zone"
by Kenny Loggins'

Answer: Top Gun


Question: 'A 2010 article reported on the hard times that have fallen on wineries in this California valley'

Answer: Napa Valley


Question: 'Of the 4 traditional symphonic movements, the one whose name is Italian for "joke"'

Answer: scherzo


Question: 'The name of this case used to carry your arrows might make you tremble'

Answer: a quiver


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  The group Make It Right is helping rebuild homes in that area, called the Lower this, flooded in 2005 by overflow from the canal that divided it from the Upper'

Answer: the Ninth Ward


Question: 'New York,<br />1948'

Answer: Dewey


Question:
'1984:
"Axel F."
by Harold Faltermeyer'

Answer: Beverly Hills Cop


Question: 'A tasty but tongue-twisting recipe from Mark Bittman paired the bay type of this bivalve mollusk with scallions'

Answer: a scallop


Question: 'Of the 4 principal directions on a sailing ship, the one that's also a potent potable'

Answer: port


Question: 'He succeeded his dad, Darius I, as king of Persia'

Answer: Xerxes


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  The largest design build civil works project in the history of the army corps of engineers, a giant flood wall is technically called this type of barrier, as it protects against hurricane-driven water levels'

Answer: a surge barrier (a storm surge barrier accepted)


Question: 'Massachusetts,<br />1972'

Answer: George McGovern


Question:
'1980:
"Call Me"
by Blondie'

Answer: American Gigolo


Question: 'A recipe for Mediterranean citrus chicken skewers had this Mid-Eastern sauce made of ground sesame seeds'

Answer: tahini


Question: 'Of the 4 Marx Brothers in "Horse Feathers", the one with the same name as a California city'

Answer: Chico


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's last of the noble gases'

Answer: xenon


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.)  The Domino Sugar refinery built a 200-unit trailer park here on-site to house its employees when this "saintly" parish was hit hard by flooding'

Answer: St. Bernard


Question: 'Rivers that flow into this inlet in Washington state include the Puyallup & Skagit'

Answer: Puget Sound


Question: 'Abigail Breslin made her Broadway debut in this drama in which she stars as Helen Keller'

Answer: The Miracle Worker


Question: 'At the 2010 Olympics, this Pittsburgh Penguin & Nova Scotia native scored the gold medal-winning goal for Canada'

Answer: (Sidney) Crosby


Question: 'As war minister & prime minister of Japan, he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor'

Answer: (Hideki) Tojo


Question: 'He wrote the acclaimed "Roots", a 7-generation family chronicle'

Answer: (Alex) Haley


Question: 'Florida NBA team that's central to a lofty Thomas Mann work about a soft drink'

Answer: Orlando Magic Mountain Dew


Question: 'One of Hawaii's longest rivers, the Kaukonahua flows into the Pacific near Waialua on this island'

Answer: Oahu


Question: '"Rock Of Ages", set in the '80s is where big this meets big dreams'

Answer: hair


Question: 'As of 2010 he was Canada's prime minister; he's our next-door neighbor, you should know him'

Answer: (Stephen) Harper


Question: 'Forced into exile by an Italian invasion in 1936, this emperor returned to his homeland in January 1941'

Answer: Haile Selassie


Question: 'He created the reluctant private eye Ezekiel Rawlins, nicknamed "Easy"'

Answer: Walter Mosley


Question: 'John Milton epic about Gertrude Stein's Parisian expatriate Yanks who were born starting in 1965'

Answer: Paradise Lost Generation X


Question: 'Buffalo Bill Reservoir near Cody in this state was formed by the damming of the Shoshone River'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'Working-class characters seek redemption in this rock opera based on a Green Day album'

Answer: American Idiot


Question: 'Not a cartoonist, he lost the P.M. job on May 22, 1979 but had it back by March 3, 1980'

Answer: (Pierre) Trudeau


Question: 'Affer Germany invaded the Netherlands, this queen, her family & cabinet fled to London'

Answer: Wilhelmina


Question: 'His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club'

Answer: (Richard) Wright


Question: 'Poker hand of 3 aces & 2 kings with a British royal family name adopted in 1917 that's a great way to tie a tie'

Answer: a full house of Windsor knot


Question: 'At 618 feet, Seneca Lake is the deepest of this group of long & narrow lakes in Western New York'

Answer: the Finger Lakes


Question: 'She was cast as Morticia for the 2010 Broadway musical of "The Addams Family"'

Answer: (Bebe) Neuwirth


Question: 'In 1985 Margaret Atwood published this "Tale" of women stripped of all rights in a post-U.S. country'

Answer: The Handmaid\'s Tale


Question: 'Though he kept this country neutral, Antonio Salazar did allow the Allies to establish bases in the Azores'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'This 1953 novel by James Baldwin is based on his own experiences as a teenaged preacher'

Answer: Go Tell It on the Mountain


Question: 'Possible 51st state that's part of a set of anti-crime laws & a penitential Catholic prayer'

Answer: Puerto Rico Act of contrition


Question: 'Running from New Mexico's northern border to its southern border, this river splits the state in 2'

Answer: the Rio Grande


Question: '"Red" stars Alfred Molina as this abstract expressionist who painted rectangles of color, a suicide in 1970'

Answer: (Mark) Rothko


Question: 'We don't have "Thirty Two Short Films About" this Canadian pianist who learned to play at age 3, just 1 short clue'

Answer: Glenn Gould


Question: 'In 1940, at age 84, he became premier of France; after the war he was tried for treason & sent to prison for life'

Answer: (Maréchal) Pétain


Question: 'His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time'

Answer: (W.E.B.) Du Bois


Question: '"Don't Cry Out Loud" singer & Beckham's 1992-2003 team remind us that "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"'

Answer: Melissa Manchester United Negro College Fund


Question: 'This West Central African capital grew out of a settlement that France established for freed slaves in 1849'

Answer: Libreville


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crue reports from the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.)  I'm in the library study where FDR made some of these famous radio addresses'

Answer: the "Fireside Chats"


Question:
'Lucy Ewing,
Ellie Ewing,
Pam Ewing'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'It can refer to activism for better products, or to a passion for purchasing'

Answer: consumerism


Question: '"This will be pure H-E double L for me, oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E", sang this woman'

Answer: Tammy Wynette


Question: 'It served as the gateway to the 1849 California Gold Rush'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'As an adjective, this 5-letter word can mean "exorbitant"; as a verb, "to soak in water", like tea'

Answer: steep


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the collection room of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.)  The 1939 letter this scientist sent to FDR explains the big bang that uranium will have as an energy source'

Answer: (Albert) Einstein


Question:
'Valene Ewing,
Gary Ewing,
Abby Cunningham Ewing Sumner'

Answer: Knots Landing


Question: 'An Italian law banning this political -ism is named for 1950s Premier Mario Scelba'

Answer: Fascism


Question: 'This classic 1843 story character was the child of a clerk'

Answer: Tiny Tim


Question: 'It shares its name with a Massachusetts city famous for trials'

Answer: Salem (Oregon)


Question: 'This term for a high-spirited horse comes from an Old English word that means "stallion"'

Answer: steed


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.)  FDR used this cane given to him by this organization; the handle has a slot to collect coins for the Infant Paralysis Fund'

Answer: the March of Dimes


Question:
'Krystle Carrington,
Alexis Carrington Colby,
Amanda Carrington'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'Said to Fan Chi around 500 B.C., "Love men" is a basic tenet of this philosophy'

Answer: Confucianism


Question: 'It's a perennial grass of the family Poaceae, widely cultivated as a hay grass'

Answer: timothy


Question: 'Washington famously crossed the Delaware River just north of it'

Answer: Trenton (New Jersey)


Question: 'This metallic word can precede "blue", "drum" or "-faced"'

Answer: steel


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from inside the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.)
It was the occasion of FDR's "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" speech'

Answer: his First Inaugural


Question:
'Dr. Michael Mancini,
Jane Mancini,
Jennifer Mancini'

Answer: Melrose Place


Question: 'Saint-Simon was a founder of the "Christian" type of this, also a movement to redistribute property'

Answer: Socialism


Question: 'This native of Blowing Rock, N.C. penned "Still Life with Woodpecker"'

Answer: Tom Robbins


Question: 'Originally Le Fleur's Bluff, it was renamed for a war hero who would become president'

Answer: Jackson (Mississippi)


Question: '5-letter body part that's a synonym for hitchhike'

Answer: thumb


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to the original document in the collection room of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.)  On his December 8, 1941 speech, FDR crossed out the words "world history" and used this one word for evil repute'

Answer: infamy


Question: 'Jessica, Chester & Billy Tate'

Answer: Soap


Question: 'Mascagni's operas use the technique of "Verismo", which in English is this -ism'

Answer: Realism


Question: 'The first collection of this author's short stories was 1898's "Der Kleine Herr Friedemann"'

Answer: Thomas Mann


Question: 'The first Christmas mass celebrated in the U.S. took place in this capital in 1539 during De Soto's explorations'

Answer: Tallahassee (Florida)


Question: 'To steal game or cook eggs'

Answer: poach


Question: 'George & his simple-minded friend Lennie are this book's main characters'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'This band scored the No. 2 riff with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"'

Answer: Nirvana


Question: 'Sir Edward Mutesa, King of Buganda, was sworn in as this country's first president October 9, 1963'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'The Jet Age Building seen here is the hub for this transportation complex'

Answer: LAX


Question: 'After President Nixon resigned in 1974, this daughter of his reacted with the line "Now I can wear hot pants"'

Answer: Julie Nixon


Question: 'A rundown, low-rent, urban apartment building'

Answer: a tenement


Question: 'Mark Twain wrote "There are 19 rules governing literary art... some say 22.  In 'Deerslayer'" he "violated 18"'

Answer: (James Fenimore) Cooper


Question: 'Axl had the vocals, but Slash wailed the riff on this "sugary" Guns N' Roses hit that came in No. 1'

Answer: "Sweet Child O\' Mine"


Question: 'In a joint letter to the U.N. in January 1963, these 2 countries declared the Cuban crisis (mainly) closed'

Answer: the U.S. & the U.S.S.R.


Question: 'This architect's Ennis-Brown House, seen here, was inspired by Mayan art, but has his signature art-glass windows'

Answer: (Frank Lloyd) Wright


Question: 'This alcoholic beverage that'll warm you up was also the nickname of 1930s actress Thelma Todd'

Answer: Hot Toddy


Question: 'You could call this European the world's first typographer'

Answer: Gutenberg


Question: '"'Dead,' was all he answered" is the last line of this Robert Frost poem'

Answer: "The Death of the Hired Man"


Question: 'This group put 2 in the top 20 with "Black Dog" & "Whole Lotta Love"'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: 'Declared a security risk back in 1954, this physicist won the Atomic Energy Commission's Fermi Award in 1963'

Answer: Oppenheimer


Question: 'Yes, L.A. has a downtown, & it has the tallest building west of the Mississippi designed by this Asian-American'

Answer: I.M. Pei


Question: 'A woman who studies Pelee & Pinatubo would have this specific occupation'

Answer: a volcanologist


Question: 'Post-preschool level'

Answer: kindergarten


Question: 'He wrote an introduction called "How 'Bigger' was Born" for his novel "Native Son"'

Answer: Richard Wright


Question: 'A dispute with Napster didn't stop them from putting "Master of Puppets" & "Enter Sandman" in the top 10'

Answer: Metallica


Question: 'E. William Henry succeeded Newton N. Minow as chairman of this'

Answer: the FCC


Question: 'Philip Johnson designed this church, home to televangelist Robert Schuller'

Answer: the Crystal Cathedral


Question: 'This club founded for girls in 1910 first admitted boys in 1975'

Answer: the Camp Fire Girls


Question: '.exe & .doc are 2 of them'

Answer: file extensions


Question: 'A Hemingway story is called "The Short Happy Life of" him'

Answer: Francis Macomber


Question: 'Once named by Guinness as the world's loudest rock band, they scored with "Smoke on the Water" at No. 4'

Answer: Deep Purple


Question: 'In June he admitted he'd lied to the House of Commons about improprieties with Christine Keeler'

Answer: (John) Profumo


Question: 'The Aerospace Museum seen here was designed by this most famous L.A. architect'

Answer: Frank Gehry


Question: 'In an 1876 work her death by fire is soon followed by the burning of Valhalla'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'Political partner of Serbia'

Answer: Montenegro


Question: 'In 1959 the ad firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach began using the slogan "Ugly is only skin-deep" for this import model'

Answer: Volkswagen Beetle


Question: 'Chapter 6 of this New Testament book describes 4 horses as being white. red, black & pale'

Answer: Revelation


Question: 'The Huxtables'

Answer: The Cosby Show


Question: 'An African proverb says, "it takes" one of these "to raise a child"'

Answer: a village


Question: 'Buying these green nuts in the shell? Look for partly open shells: closed shells mean the nutmeat is immature'

Answer: pistachios


Question: 'A standard round of PGA golf is this many holes'

Answer: 18


Question: 'Kobe, Kyoto & this city are the centers of the Keihanshin industrial zone'

Answer: Osaka


Question: 'At the Sea of Galilee, Jesus told Andrew & this brother to follow him & "I will make you to become fishers of men"'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'The Keatons (including Mallory & Alex P.)'

Answer: Family Ties


Question: 'Monopoly has cards called this "chest"'

Answer: community


Question: 'Spanakopita, a savory Greek pie, is made with this green vegetable, spanaki in Greek'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'The holes in this Reuben sandwich ingredient are technically called "eyes"'

Answer: Swiss cheese


Question: 'The seat of Weber county, this city is east of the Great Salt Lake'

Answer: Ogden


Question: 'He asked the chief priests, "what will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?"'

Answer: Judas


Question: 'The Tanners (including Danny, D.J. & Michelle)'

Answer: Full House


Question: 'It's a city in Ohio or any of the states of the Swiss confederation'

Answer: Canton (or canton)


Question: 'Pascal is the familiar pale green variety of this stalked veggie'

Answer: celery


Question: 'Seen in use here, it's opened at the surface to inhale and exhale'

Answer: a blowhole


Question: 'The statue of Joan of Arc seen here is in this French city'

Answer: Orleans


Question: 'The name of this garden is Hebrew for "oil press"; in ancient times it was the place where olives were pressed into oil'

Answer: Gethsemane


Question: 'The Heffernans (of New York)'

Answer: King of Queens


Question: 'There's a Lake one in Cumbria, England: the federal one in Mexico is the seat of the national government'

Answer: district


Question: 'Niagara, Italia Muscat & Perlette seedless are green types of this fruit'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'Dating from 3000 B.C., the Aubrey holes are a series of burial pits found near this English megalithic site'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: 'Known in 1846 as Smithfield, Washington, it was renamed in 1850 for some nearby mountains'

Answer: Olympia


Question: 'As he was being stoned, he prayed with his dying breath, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"'

Answer: Stephen


Question: 'The Scanlon kids (Lennox & Ryder, whose aunt hired a "manny")'

Answer: Melissa & Joey


Question: 'It can be a division of a hospital or a town; it's also a political subdivision of a parish in Louisiana'

Answer: a ward


Question: 'A sauce called tzatziki is made with yogurt & this cool, crisp veggie'

Answer: cucumber


Question: 'Now a major ski resort, this Wyoming valley was named for a beaver trapper'

Answer: Jackson Hole


Question: 'This group of islands is just 6-8 miles north of the mainland of Scotland'

Answer: Orkneys


Question: 'Unusual among snakes, the poisonous king type of this builds nests & protects its "princes" until they hatch'

Answer: the cobra


Question: 'This first commercial jumbo jet began service in 1970 & could carry more than 400 passengers'

Answer: the 747


Question: '1814:<br />Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Chippewa'

Answer: the War of 1812


Question: 'Ball point & Sharps are 2 major categories of these used in sewing machines'

Answer: needles


Question: '"How do I love thee?<br />Let me (blank) the ways"'

Answer: count


Question: 'She lent star power to a revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From The Bridge"'

Answer: Scarlett Johanssen


Question: 'The tentacles of this 9-letter invertebrate have stinging cells that explode when touched, driving poison into its prey'

Answer: the jellyfish


Question: 'Built in 59 days & officially known as the Ryan NYP, it made its first flight on April 28, 1927'

Answer: the Spirit of St. Louis


Question: '1847:<br />Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco'

Answer: the Mexican-American War


Question: 'The patch type of this is relatively easy to sew; the welt type is slightly harder to make'

Answer: pockets


Question: '"Give me your tired, your poor, your (blank) masses yearning to breathe free"'

Answer: huddled


Question: 'Playing Desiree in "A Little Night Music" was the Broadway debut of this Welsh-born movie star, & won her a Tony'

Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones


Question: 'This arachnid's sting is a curved organ at its tail's end; 2 glands at the base give out a poison'

Answer: a scorpion


Question: 'The experimental Convair XFY-1 was nicknamed for this toy "stick" because it could take off & land vertically'

Answer: a pogo stick


Question: '1937:<br />German planes bomb Almeria'

Answer: the Spanish Civil War


Question: 'This fold in a skirt is usually sewn only on the top edge & gives the skirt decorative or functional fullness'

Answer: a pleat


Question: '"All in the valley of (blank) rode the six hundred"'

Answer: death


Question: '(Hi, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) In 2004 I played Lee Harvey Oswald, one of the characters in this Stephen Sondheim musical'

Answer: Assassins


Question: 'A delicacy in Japan, just one of this fish that can greatly expand its stomach rapidly has enough poison to kill 30 adults'

Answer: a pufferfish


Question: 'This long-range bomber that first flew in 1954 also saw action in Iraq in the 21st Century'

Answer: the B-52


Question: '1904-1905:<br />The seige of Port Arthur'

Answer: the Russo-Japanese War


Question: 'These shears have V-shapes along the cutting edge so that cut fabric will remain ravel-free'

Answer: pinking shears


Question: '"(blank) to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine"'

Answer: drink


Question: 'In 2009 the entire cast of "A Steady Rain" was Daniel Craig & this Australian as Chicago cops'

Answer: Hugh Jackman


Question: 'Swimming Down Under, you don't need 8 reasons to stay away from the blue-ringed this, just 1--its bite can paralyze & kill you'

Answer: the octopus


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a plane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.) Each side was painted differently to look like a different aircraft when this plane was used in a film about this B-17 named for a Tennessee girl'

Answer: the Memphis Belle


Question: '1899:<br />The Battle of Magersfontein'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'In 1863 Ebenezer Butterick created multiple sizes of these using tissue paper'

Answer: patterns


Question: '"What evil looks had I from old and young instead of the cross the (blank) about my neck was hung"'

Answer: the albatross


Question: 'In 2010, Kelsey Grammer appeared as George in a revival of this beloved 80s musical'

Answer: La Cage Aux Folles


Question: 'These 2 Cabinet departments both depict 19th century plows on their official seals'

Answer: Agriculture & Labor


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) The origin of this name for Duke University's sports teams is traced back to the nickname of a brave French fighting force of World War I'

Answer: the Blue Devils


Question: '1964:<br />Race car driver Lucky Jackson, who gets a job as a waiter in a casino'

Answer: Viva Las Vegas


Question: 'This woman slipped a .38 revolver to Clyde Barrow in his prison cell in 1930, leading to his escape'

Answer: Bonnie Parker


Question: '"Legend of Zorro" star Banderas'

Answer: Antonio


Question: 'If you're in Rabat, you must be in the capital city of this country'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'After trying out 3 different types, this fairy tale girl eventually fell asleep in the baby bear's bed'

Answer: Goldilocks


Question: 'The tower of the Duke Chapel was inspired by the Bell Harry Tower of this English cathedral'

Answer: Canterbury Cathedral


Question: '1957:<br />Vince Everett, who serves time for manslaughter'

Answer: Jailhouse Rock


Question: 'Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'Current heartthrob actor Bloom'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'Of the Seychelles, the Maldives or the Grenadines, the island group closest to India'

Answer: the Maldives


Question: 'Beastly highest awarded handed out at the Berlin Film Festival, not the Berlin Golf Tournament'

Answer: the Golden Bear


Question: 'Got ESP?  Then you know in the '20s J.B. Rhine began his famous studies at Duke in this science that researches ESP'

Answer: parapsychology (paranormal psychology accepted)


Question: '1961:<br />Chad Gates, son of a pineapple mogul'

Answer: Blue Hawaii


Question: 'In 1804 fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau made her his wife'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: 'Late "Can-Can" dancer Prowse'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'Yo, it's the sea you'll have to cross to cruise from Bari, Italy to Durres, Albania'

Answer: the Adriatic


Question: 'Magical clay figure of Jewish legend brought to life by incantations'

Answer: a golem


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Entranced by Duke University during a 1937 visit, this author of "Brave New World" called it "a whole city of grey stone"'

Answer: (Aldous) Huxley


Question: '1960:<br />Army specialist Tulsa McLean, who's been stationed in West Germany'

Answer: G.I. Blues


Question: 'Yoko Ono attended this Bronxville, N.Y. private women's college with a female name'

Answer: Sarah Lawrence


Question: 'Mahogany master Phyfe'

Answer: Duncan


Question: 'You can head south on Varig Airlines, the national airline of this South American country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'A type of tortoise that's an accomplished excavator is named for this mammal'

Answer: a gopher


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Later one of the most glamorous heiresses of her day, this member of the Duke family laid the cornerstone for Duke University in 1928'

Answer: Doris Duke


Question: '1969:<br />Dr. John Carpenter, who works with Sister Michelle (Mary Tyler Moore)'

Answer: Change of Habit


Question: 'In "The Female Eunuch", this Aussie feminist declared, "Women have very little idea of how much men hate them"'

Answer: Germaine Greer


Question: 'Beauty queen Madame Rubinstein seen here'

Answer: Helena


Question: 'Travelin' in Asia, you'll need to know that the baht is the basic unit of currency of this kingdom'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'Founded by Spanish immigrants in 1936, the nation's largest Hispanic food company has this artistic name'

Answer: Goya


Question: 'It's the largest state that has counties, & its Brewster County is bigger than 3 other states'

Answer: Texas


Question:
'Pub Galvin,
Pee Wee Reese,
Enos Slaughter'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'Launched in 2005, the national tour of this "novel" musical features Maureen McGovern as Marmee'

Answer: Little Women


Question: 'He stunned the Nazis by winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics'

Answer: Jesse Owens


Question: 'Developed by a pair of Caltech scientists, it assigns a number to quantify the size of an earthquake'

Answer: the Richter scale


Question: 'Now also meaning backward & unenlightened, technically it refers to Europe between the 5th & 15th centuries'

Answer: medieval


Question: 'Mays Landing, N.J. & South Bend, Wash. are the seats of counties named for these 2 distant bodies of water'

Answer: the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans


Question:
'Babe Zaharias,
Bing Crosby,
Bob Hope'

Answer: golf


Question: 'The 1971 musical "Ari" wasn't based on Onassis but on this Leon Uris novel, & Uris himself wrote the lyrics'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'He composed heavenly works like "Orpheus in the Underworld"'

Answer: Offenbach


Question: 'In 1954, Boston Garden bought one of the 10 machines this "ice man" built that year'

Answer: Zamboni


Question: 'This adjective that means "free from living bacteria" can describe a person unable to reproduce'

Answer: sterile


Question: 'You'll find Cheboygan County east of Wisconsin in this neighboring state'

Answer: Michigan


Question:
'Nate "Tiny" Archibald,
Elvin Hayes,
Meadowlark Lemon'

Answer: basketball


Question: '"J'accuse" this Frenchman of writing the novel "Therese Raquin", which inspired the musical "Thou Shalt Not"'

Answer: Émile Zola


Question: 'Telma Hopkins & Joyce Vincent shone as his backup singers'

Answer: Tony Orlando


Question: 'Used in many products, it's a teflonized textile material through which perspiration can pass but liquid water can't'

Answer: Gore-Tex


Question: 'This title adjective describes the character Marietta in a Victor Herbert operetta'

Answer: naughty


Question: 'Aptly, celebrity chef Charlie Trotter made his name & first put it on a restaurant in this Midwestern county'

Answer: Cook County


Question:
'Curly Lambeau,
Greasy Neale,
Crazylegs Hirsch'

Answer: football


Question: '(Edward Albee delivers the clue.)  I dedicated my stage adaptation of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" to this author, "with great love"'

Answer: Carson McCullers


Question: 'In 1904, this "Mobile" man left the company he founded to set up the R.E.O. Motor Car Company'

Answer: (Ransom Eli) Olds


Question: 'Heard here, it was one of he earliest fully electronic musical intruments & was created c. 1920 by a Russian inventor'

Answer: the theremin


Question: 'It means dramatic, like a famous Greek choral poet & actor of the 6th century B.C.'

Answer: thespian


Question: 'South Salem, Larchmont & Rye are in this county outside New York City'

Answer: Westchester


Question:
'Dodo Cheney,
Lottie Dod,
Jana Novotna'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'In 2005, in London, Val Kilmer had the "mail" lead in a play based on this James M. Cain novel'

Answer: The Postman Always Rings Twice


Question: 'Born in 43 B.C., this Roman poet wrote a book about love & a book to help people get over being rejected'

Answer: Ovid


Question: 'In 1917 John Browning designed the "BAR", which stood for this'

Answer: Browning Automatic Rifle


Question: 'This adjective derives from the name of the author of "Martin Chuzzlewit"'

Answer: Dickensian


Question: 'First name & number shared by 2 current European monarchs'

Answer: Albert II


Question: 'In the Pledge of Allegiance, it's the 4-word phrase that precedes "Indivisible"'

Answer: "One Nation Under God"


Question: 'Born in Lille, he's the famous general & statesman seen here'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'This great dramatist's works include "Tamburlaine the Great" & "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus"'

Answer: Christopher Marlowe


Question: 'Dazzling works by Bernardo Strozzi of Genoa include one of this woman's "Annunciation"'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'Born September 18, 1905, this glamorous Swede's real last name was Gustafsson'

Answer: Greta Garbo


Question: 'TV ads for this beer feature a lizard trying to help frogs "croak"'

Answer: Budweiser


Question: 'This fiery temperance activist believed her name had been divinely preordained'

Answer: Carry Nation


Question: 'When English king Edward III claimed the French throne in 1337, this war began; it lasted until 1453!'

Answer: Hundred Years\' War


Question: '"The Fellowship of the Ring" is volume 1 of this Tolkien trilogy'

Answer: The Lord of the Rings


Question: 'Sculpted by Michelangelo around 1515, he's the Hebrew leader seen here'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'She's the only Swedish actress to win 3 Oscars'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'Headquartered in Golden, Colorado, this brewing company was begun by a young Prussian immigrant in 1873'

Answer: Coors


Question: 'Senator Joseph McCarthy was the first guest on this CBS show when it premiered November 7, 1954'

Answer: Face The Nation


Question: 'It was the Roman designation for the region virtually identical with modern France'

Answer: Gaul


Question: 'This author of "The Man With Two Left Feet" & "My Man Jeeves" was a prisoner of the Germans during WWII'

Answer: P.G. Wodehouse


Question: 'One of the greatest painters of the Venetian school, this 16th century artist was born Tiziano Vecellio'

Answer: Titian


Question: 'This multi-talented lovely from Valsjobyn received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Tommy"'

Answer: Ann-Margret


Question: 'Country singer Johnny Russell pined for his "Rednecks, white socks and" this beer from Pabst'

Answer: Pabst Blue Ribbon


Question: 'This state of feeling estranged from one's world sounds like a FOX TV drama about refugees from another galaxy'

Answer: Alien Nation


Question: 'The first French ruler with this name was Charlemagne's successor & was crowned in 813'

Answer: Louis I


Question: 'A character in "The Rivals", this woman utters hilarities like "He is the very pineapple of politeness"'

Answer: Mrs. Malaprop


Question: 'Lesser known works by this Italian master include "The Virgin Of The Rocks" & "The Adoration Of The Magi"'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'Birgitta Andersson used this first name when acting in classics like "Wild Strawberries"'

Answer: Bibi


Question: 'You'll find the world's largest brewing company in this Missouri city'

Answer: St. Louis (Anheuser-Busch)


Question: 'Status seekers know it's what MFN stands for in world trade'

Answer: Most Favored Nation


Question: 'Armand du Plessis, chosen to be first minister of France in 1624, is better known as this'

Answer: Cardinal Richelieu


Question: 'This pre-Raphaelite poet & painter dug up some of his poems years after their burial with his wife'

Answer: Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />This painter & sculptor who painted the little girl seen here was influenced by Cubism & African sculpture'

Answer: Amedeo Modigliani


Question: 'This daughter of Swedish actor Stig Olin starred in "Havana" & "Enemies, A Love Story"'

Answer: Lena Olin


Question: 'This brand is "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous"'

Answer: Schlitz


Question: '"So Boaz took" this woman "and she was his wife"; she was also the great-grandmother of David'

Answer: Ruth


Question: 'This arrow-shooting constellation is a centaur of attention in the night sky'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: 'Yogi Berra'

Answer: New York Yankees


Question: 'A.A. Fair is a fairly well-known pen name of this Perry Mason author'

Answer: Erle Stanley Gardner


Question: 'Cotton is an important crop along the Nile River Valley in Sudan & this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'Pertaining to a sailor, or to his belly button'

Answer: Naval/navel


Question: 'In chapter 2 of the book named for her, she became queen of Persia'

Answer: Esther


Question: 'From 1976 to 1979, this automaker launched "Arrows"'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'Johnny Bench'

Answer: Cincinnati Reds


Question: 'Hunting for this Oz creator's "Boy Fortune Hunters" books?  Look for the pen name Floyd Akers'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: 'This country was named for the Camaroes, or shrimp, the Portuguese found in the Wouri River'

Answer: Cameroon


Question: 'Take note, it can mean to jot down, or a religious ceremony'

Answer: Write/rite


Question: 'The name of this wicked idol worshipper  is often applied to a shameful seductress'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: 'Shakespearean character who speaks about "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Roy Campanella'

Answer: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers


Question: 'Comic strip creator whose original name was Alfred Gerald Caplin'

Answer: Al Capp


Question: 'Toukbal is the highest point in this range, the traditional territory of the Berbers'

Answer: Atlas Mountains


Question: 'To survey opinions, or what an artist paints on'

Answer: Canvass/canvas


Question: 'Not to belabor the fact, but this wife of Jacob died after giving birth to Benjamin'

Answer: Rachel


Question: 'To help stop his company's Arrow shirts from shrinking, Sanford Cluett invented this process'

Answer: Sanforizing (pre-shrinking them)


Question: 'Mike Schmidt'

Answer: Philadelphia Phillies


Question: 'This "Vanity Fair" author liked to assume the name George Savage Fitz-Boodle, listing him as the editor of "Barry Lyndon"'

Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray


Question: 'Much of the southern African country of Botswana is covered by this desert'

Answer: Kalahari


Question: 'Sacred & hallowed, or totally & completely'

Answer: Holy/wholly


Question: 'Her story is told twice in Judges, in prose & in song'

Answer: Deborah


Question: 'He wrote "I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to Earth, I knew not where"'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Question: 'Brooks Robinson'

Answer: Baltimore Orioles


Question: 'Since he remembered things past, Echo was an apropos nom de plume for this Frenchman'

Answer: Marcel Proust


Question: 'Lake Edward in the Congo & Uganda was discovered by this Anglo-American journalist & explorer'

Answer: Henry Stanley


Question: 'It can mean to have a strong offensive smell, or to cause something, like havoc'

Answer: Reek/wreak


Question: 'He made 2 Gemini flights, 2 Apollo flights & 2 shuttle flights, including the first in 1981'

Answer: John Young


Question: 'Many women were smitten with him when he played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law"'

Answer: Jimmy Smits


Question: 'Galveston, Texas & Sarasota, Florida lie on this famous gulf'

Answer: Gulf of Mexico


Question: 'Symbolically, a person who starts out poor & becomes wealthy goes "from" these "to riches"'

Answer: rags


Question: 'She's the sovereign of Bermuda, Belize & Canada'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: 'It's the 7-letter term for any decision reached by a jury'

Answer: verdict


Question: 'He's first in order of succession to the British throne'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'Not all TV lawyers do nude scenes, but this Hemingway did on the "Grin and Bare It" episode of "Civil Wars"'

Answer: Mariel Hemingway


Question: 'NYC's Brooklyn Bridge spans the East River between Brooklyn & this island borough'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'When someone starts to get riled, he's told to "keep" this garment "on"'

Answer: shirt


Question: 'In December 1996 Kofi Annan of Ghana was elected secretary-general of this organization'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Number of the Constitutional amendment that states you can't be forced to be a witness against yourself'

Answer: 5th


Question: 'In batting order, this number is the "cleanup" position'

Answer: 4th


Question: 'He played sleazy lawyer Marty Lang on the 1985 sitcom "Sara", & he's still "Politically Incorrect"'

Answer: Bill Maher


Question: 'Name shared by Chicago's Great Lake & one of Chicago's major avenues'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'When you avoid a topic by going around the edge of it, you do this to "the issue"'

Answer: skirt


Question: 'Now serving as president, this world leader spent 27 years in South African jails'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'This legal term for murder may be "justifiable" or "excusable" when in self defense'

Answer: homicide


Question: 'It's the third in order of the "Star Wars" movies'

Answer: Return of the Jedi


Question: 'He played E.G. Marshall's lawyer son on "The Defenders" before he played dad to "The Brady Bunch"'

Answer: Robert Reed


Question: 'In area, this New England state roughly equals Vermont, N.H., Connecticut & Massachusetts combined'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Murderous phrase for someone who's all dolled up'

Answer: dressed to kill


Question: 'This "Paramount Leader" of China died February 19, 1997 at age 92'

Answer: Deng Xiaoping


Question: 'It's the document that goes through probate'

Answer: a will


Question: 'In order of admission to the union, this state is last'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'This fictional lawyer, whose theme is heard here, won his first case on TV Sept. 21, 1957:'

Answer: Perry Mason


Question: 'Jefferson City is Missouri's capital & this "City" where the Royals play is Missouri's largest'

Answer: Kansas City


Question: 'People who are closely associated for nefarious reasons are said to be "hand in" this'

Answer: glove


Question: 'This German chancellor led West Germany before unification in 1990'

Answer: Helmut Kohl


Question: 'It's the fee clients pay in advance to an attorney to act on their behalf'

Answer: retainer


Question: 'A USDA inspector uses this grading level for meat between select & prime'

Answer: choice


Question: 'Cathedral in the title of Victor Hugo's novel about Quasimodo'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'In May 1486, he was received by Queen Isabella, to whom he explained his plan to sail west to Asia'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Varieties of this citrus fruit include the blood, Jaffa & Valencia'

Answer: orange


Question: '12 years after "Diamonds are Forever", he was back as Bond in 1983's "Never Say Never Again"'

Answer: Sean Connery


Question: 'America's first of these opened in 1652 to make coins for the Massachusetts Bay colony'

Answer: mint


Question: 'Tosca leaps to her death from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo in this Italian capital'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'A house in the title of an 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured 7 of these structures'

Answer: gables


Question: 'In 1830 this country declared itself independent from the Netherlands with Brussels as its capital'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'The Jose Cuervo brand of this liquor dates back to 1758'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'This author used some of his plots for a proposed late '50s Bond TV series in his book "For Your Eyes Only"'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: 'A fin is slang for this bill'

Answer: $5


Question: 'The hero of "Fra Gherardo" is charged with heresy & executed this way, like Joan of Arc'

Answer: burned at the stake


Question: 'In an H.G. Wells novel, a man uses this title object to spend 8 days in the future'

Answer: "The Time Machine"


Question: 'Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" is a defense of this European country's 1789 revolution'

Answer: France


Question: 'This rather large steak contains both the T-bone & part of the tenderloin'

Answer: Porterhouse


Question: '1 of the 2 women in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" who were also TV "Avenger"s'

Answer: (1 of 2) Diana Rigg or Joanna Lumley


Question: 'In 1971 President Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. currency into this metal'

Answer: gold


Question: 'In a Bizet opera, this fickle femme fatale is stabbed outside a bull ring, & that's no bull'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'Whitney Otto's "How to Make an American" one of these includes sewing tips'

Answer: Quilt


Question: 'In order to kill this "Mad Monk", Russian conservatives had to poison, shoot & drown him'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: 'In 1992 Coors introduced zomething new & different, this clear malt beverage'

Answer: Zima


Question: '1 of the 3 villains to have their name in a film title'

Answer: (1 of 3) Dr. No, Goldfinger or Octopussy


Question: 'Some banks now have ALMs to let you get one of these for a car 24 hours a day'

Answer: loan


Question: 'Distraught that Lt. Pinkerton abandoned her, this Puccini heroine commits hara-kiri'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'According to the title of an E.M. Forster novel. Lucy Honeychurch wants this from a hotel in Italy'

Answer: "A Room with a View"


Question: 'In 1939 Poland was divided almost equally between Germany & this country'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'Indonesia is famous for this variety of coffee that's often blended with mocha'

Answer: Java


Question: 'In his first appearance as Bond in "Live And Let Die", he took on Mr. Big'

Answer: Roger Moore


Question: 'When he left Disney after just over a year as president, his severance was reportedly over $50 million'

Answer: Michael Ovitz


Question: 'In a Donizetti opera, this vengeful female Borgia treats a roomful of dinner guests to poisoned wine'

Answer: Lucrezia Borgia


Question: 'Playwright who penned the famous line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Tune in to this, the VOA'

Answer: Voice of America


Question: 'This company introduced its baby powder in 1893, its baby oil in 1935 & its baby shampoo in 1954'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: 'This Carpenters classic begins, "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near"'

Answer: "Close to You"


Question: 'According to this homicidal film character, "A boy's best friend is his mother"'

Answer: Norman Bates


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  I'm in this city, at the very first of thousands of Starbucks stores'

Answer: Seattle


Question: 'A staff or support used by the physically injured when walking'

Answer: crutch


Question: 'The DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) is a member of this group, the NSC'

Answer: National Security Council


Question: 'Though its logo originally said "Since 1850", this brand of casual wear was introduced by Levi's in 1986'

Answer: Dockers


Question: 'This 1972 song heard here became an anthem for many'

Answer: "I Am Woman" (by Helen Reddy)


Question: 'He won his second Pulitzer Prize for "The Executioner's Song"'

Answer: Norman Mailer


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  I'm at the historic Chinatown gate, which only dates from 1970, at the corner of Grant & Bush in this city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'A trial by military personnel'

Answer: court-martial


Question: 'It's the "beastly" government entity known as the FWS'

Answer: Fish and Wildlife Service


Question: 'The Ace bandage got its name in a contest: the winning entry used it as an acronym for "All Cotton" this'

Answer: Elastic


Question: 'Beelzebub, Bismillah & Scaramouch are all mentioned in the lyrics to this nearly 6-minute-long song'

Answer: "Bohemian Rhapsody"


Question: 'In 1977 this illustrator received the Presidential Medal of Freedom'

Answer: Norman Rockwell


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  I'm at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in this city'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'The History Channel calls this job America's one original contribution to mythology'

Answer: cowboy


Question: 'Map out your response about this government unit, the USGS'

Answer: United States Geological Survey