Question: '2 of the 4 countries that have had prime ministers who were father & daughter'

Answer: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka


Question: 'At her death, aged 81, she was the oldest British monarch ever'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Shea Stadium'

Answer: the Mets


Question: '"FTASB" stands for this phrase that describes Superman'

Answer: faster than a speeding bullet


Question: 'He was on everybody's mind when he posthumously won a handful of Grammys for his "Genius Loves Company" album'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'British Admiral David Beatty was the first Earl of this, found between Britain & Norway'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'In titles of 2 Springsteen hits, it precedes "To Run" & "In The U.S.A."'

Answer: born


Question: 'It has been reported that he was once seen having a conversation with an oak tree'

Answer: George III


Question: 'Busch Stadium'

Answer: the Cardinals


Question: 'It's what the acronym "WYSIWYG" stands for'

Answer: what you see is what you get


Question: 'An instrumental, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow", & not a song about a surfer girl earned him his first Grammy ever'

Answer: Brian Wilson


Question: 'Its official motto is "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: 'Living high on the hog you can afford your own tub of this hog fat'

Answer: lard


Question: 'John Bradshaw presided over the high court that sentenced this British king to death in 1649'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'Coors Field'

Answer: the Rockies


Question: '"WAMBAM" means "Web application meets" these 2 building materials'

Answer: bricks and mortar


Question: 'Between the 2 of them, they picked up 7 Grammys, including one for their "My Boo" duet'

Answer: Usher & Alicia Keys


Question: 'Many explorers once sought this arctic sea route connecting 2 oceans'

Answer: the Northwest Passage


Question: 'James Beard described it as "our common ground, a universal experience"'

Answer: food


Question: 'In 1603 he became the first British monarch of the House of Stuart'

Answer: James I


Question: 'The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome'

Answer: the Twins


Question: 'In online lingo, "BEG" stands for "big, evil" this'

Answer: grin


Question: 'U2 was perhaps feeling dizzy after winning Grammys for this song'

Answer: "Vertigo"


Question: 'The flag of this country, once at war with the United States, is seen here'

Answer: North Vietnam


Question: 'Arial or Bauhaus, for example'

Answer: font


Question: 'All 3 of the kings with this name died violently'

Answer: Richard


Question: 'Tropicana Field'

Answer: the Tampa Bay Devil Rays


Question: 'If all else fails, do this, "RTM"'

Answer: read the manual


Question: '33 years after her last win, she hit the mother lode with awards for Country Album & Best Country Collaboration'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'It's seen on many flags, & on a Nobel Prize medal as a symbol of the Royal Swedish Academy'

Answer: the North Star


Question: 'It's another name for the killer whale'

Answer: an orca


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from ruins in Luxor, Egypt.) From the Greek for "pointed pillar", it's the term that describes this tribute to Queen Hatshepsut of the 1400s B.C.'

Answer: an obelisk


Question: 'Once married to producer Grant Tinker'

Answer: Mary Tyler Moore


Question: 'Balanchine was a friend of this composer whose fascinatin' rhythms inspired the ballet "Who Cares?"'

Answer: Gershwin


Question: 'It's what horses are "put out" to, or the kind of 5-card poker game where the first card is down & the rest are up'

Answer: stud


Question: 'A disease caused by a lack of vitamin C; without the "S", it could describe a road'

Answer: scurvy & curvy


Question: 'The Arctic variety of this gull relative is famous for migrating over 25,000 miles each year'

Answer: a tern


Question: '(Sarah of the clue crew reports by a pyramid in Giza, Egypt.)  To get the right slope, pyramid builders used the seget, the amount they build out, for each of these biblical units going up'

Answer: a cubit


Question: 'He was cheered & jeered at the 2003 Academy Awards'

Answer: Michael Moore


Question: 'Balanchine wrote that he played an elf in this Shakespeare play long before creating a 1962 ballet based on it'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'Benny Binion held the first "World Series of Poker" in 1970 at this Las Vegas casino'

Answer: the Horseshoe


Question: 'Remove an S & the partner of "live long" means suitable or fit'

Answer: prosper & proper


Question: 'It's sometimes referred to as the South American ostrich'

Answer: the rhea


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Athens, Greece, overlooking the Acropolis.) This great Athenian leader launched construction on the Acropolis, partly to boost employment'

Answer: Pericles


Question: 'He was the spy in "The Spy Who Loved Me"'

Answer: Roger Moore


Question: '"Concerto Barocco" is danced to this man's music, though Balanchine said the music "can stand alone"'

Answer: J.S. Bach


Question: 'Don't tell the others, but I've got this, the highest possible natural poker hand'

Answer: a royal flush


Question: '"Not deep" &, after the "S" departs, "to make holy"'

Answer: shallow & hallow


Question: 'DNA from the remains of this extinct bird at a British museum proved that it had been part of the pigeon family'

Answer: the dodo


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports alongside ruins on Naxos, Greece.)  On Naxos, archaelogists have restored the temple dedicated to this Greek goddess of agriculture'

Answer: Demeter


Question: 'Elected to the U.S. Senate 8 times, his middle name is Moore'

Answer: Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy


Question: 'When the ballet "Prodigal Son" was revived in 1950, this woman who was then Balanchine's wife played the siren'

Answer: Maria Tallchief


Question: 'Unrelated to chess, it's letting a bet pass to the next player'

Answer: check


Question: 'Make the choice to lose an "S" from one word to get this, to choose by vote'

Answer: select & elect


Question: 'Let's go fly the swallow-tail species seen here'

Answer: a kite


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Saqqara, Egypt with a step pyramid in the background.)  Egypt's step pyramid, the world's oldest at 4,500 years, was designed by this architect, physician & sage'

Answer: Imhotep


Question: '1952 Pulitzer-winning poetess'

Answer: Marianne Moore


Question: 'The 3 muses who appear in Balanchine's ballet "Apollo" are Polyhymnia, Calliope & this muse of the dance'

Answer: Terpsichore


Question: 'In this "reptilian" poker game, players pass 3, then 2, then 1 card to the player to the left'

Answer: anaconda


Question: 'To allay your thirst, drop an "S" & form a body of water'

Answer: slake & lake


Question: 'The most abundant crow in Europe, you might find one near a castle'

Answer: a rook


Question: 'It begins, "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'"'

Answer: The Satanic Verses (by Salmon Rushdie)


Question: 'In 1887 the Senate approved leasing this locale in the Hawaiian Islands as a base for U.S. Navy'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'Don't mess with LL Cool J:<br />"NCIS: ___ ___"'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: 'If you're in London & looking for a gilt effigy of King Edward III, try this building'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'Guards thwarting a man's 2006 try at parachuting off this NYC landmark caused "emotional distress" (& a $30 mil. lawsuit)'

Answer: the Empire State building


Question: 'A roulette wheel has this many slots with odd numbers'

Answer: 18


Question: 'To thrust someone aside with an arm'

Answer: elbow


Question: 'In 1883 Belle Starr was convicted of stealing these'

Answer: horses


Question: 'I knew him Horatio, a lieutenant of infinite jest:<br />"CSI ___"'

Answer: Miami


Question: 'The Museum of Khartoum loaned The Louvre a gilt archer-king for the 2010 show "Meroe, Empire on" this river'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'A man's lawsuit in Virginia against this sports org. said it "influenced him to speed", doing 135 mph and getting tickets"'

Answer: NASCAR


Question: 'In Europe & Australia this board game has "do" on the end: In Brazil it's called "detective"'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'Stretchable'

Answer: elastic


Question: '(Kelly of the clue crew gives the clue from New York) Though ridiculed at first The Salvation Army's work was finally recognized in 1886 when this president invited them to the White House and endorsed their work'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'Betty White was hot in 2010:<br />"Hot in ___"'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art is re-creating a lost 3,000-lb. gilt frame for this Emanuel Leutze river scene'

Answer: Washington Crossing the Delaware


Question: 'In 2008 a judge said there was no room for a lawsuit vs. NYU by a man who broke his hip wrestling in this dessert brand'

Answer: Jell-O


Question: 'In this card game, the object is to cross the finish line by scoring 121 points, moving pegs on a wooden board'

Answer: cribbage


Question: 'Group chosen for salvation: They shall be gathered to "the uttermost part of heaven"'

Answer: the elect


Question: 'In 1889 she set out from New York, making it around the world in less than 73 days'

Answer: Nellie Bly


Question: 'It premiered the day before "E.R.":<br />"___ Hope"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'A marble, bronze & gilt baldacchino was Bernini's first commission for this edifice'

Answer: Saint Peter\'s Basilica


Question: 'This "You can do it. We can help" chain got sued for $3 million; a man said he'd been stuck on a glue-coated toilet seat'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'On a fresh craps roll, pass bets lose on any of these 3 totals'

Answer: 2, 3 and 12


Question: 'To explain in detail, or to enlarge on a topic'

Answer: to elucidate


Question: 'This author of "America the Beautiful" introduced Mrs. Claus in an 1889 tale'

Answer: Katharine Lee Bates


Question: 'Jason Lee as an Elvis-impersonating cop:<br />"___ Beat"'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Gilbert Scott was knighted by Queen Victoria for designing the memorial seen here for this man'

Answer: Prince Albert


Question: 'In 2008 an inmate in Pueblo County in this state sued the prison, saying it didn't do enough to stop him from breaking out'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'In the original rules of this Gary Gygax game, your "saving throw" dice roll can save you from being paralyzed'

Answer: Dungeons and Dragons


Question: 'Adjective meaning big, clumsy & unwieldy'

Answer: elephantine


Question: 'In 1934 George Gershwin spent part of the "Summertime" in Charleston to prepare to write his score for this'

Answer: Porgy and Bess


Question: 'Richard Kimble, <br />Han Solo'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'This state capital lies on Mamala Bay'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'A potato crisp & race car legend Earnhardt'

Answer: chip and dale


Question: 'Jenny tragically dies in this Erich Segal weepie'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'NBC, in 1986'

Answer: General Electric


Question: 'He popularized the term "swing" by composing "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"'

Answer: Duke Ellington


Question: 'Ellen Ripley, <br />Dian Fossey'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: 'Ponce de Leon Bay in Southwestern Florida lies within this swampy national park'

Answer: Everglades


Question: 'Mr. Mulder of "The X-Files" & the terror of the Baskerville family'

Answer: fox and hound


Question: '"Of Time and the River" was Thomas Wolfe's sequel to this "heavenly" novel'

Answer: Look Homeward, Angel


Question: '20th Century Fox, in 1985'

Answer: News Corp.


Question: 'In 1903 he formed his own ragtime opera company to perform his "A Guest of Honor"'

Answer: Scott Joplin


Question: 'Tony Manero, <br />Edna Turnblad'

Answer: John Travolta


Question: 'Point Loma peninsula forms part of the entrance to this Southern California bay'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'People loudly knocking on your door & a mixture for brewing whiskey'

Answer: bangers and mash


Question: 'This F. Scott Fitzgerald novel was reportedly based on the life of movie producer Irving Thalberg'

Answer: The Last Tycoon


Question: 'YouTube, in 2006'

Answer: Google


Question: 'He composed the classic "Ol' Man River", with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, for the musical "Show Boat"'

Answer: Jerome Kern


Question: 'Claus von Bulow, <br />Scar'

Answer: Jeremy Irons


Question: 'Alaska's Resurrection Bay was named by Alexander Baranof, who first sailed into it on this holiday'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'Philosopher Francis & jeweled Faberge creations'

Answer: bacon and eggs


Question: 'Tessie Hutchinson is the unfortunate "winner" in this 1948 short story about a deadly village ritual'

Answer: The Lottery


Question: 'Union Carbide, in 2001'

Answer: Dow


Question: 'A fall from a subway platform in 1943 left this "St. Louis Blues" composer completely blind'

Answer: (W.C.) Handy


Question: 'Tristan Ludlow, <br />Tyler Durden'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: 'This lake's Buffalo Bay is shared by the U.S. & Canada with the U.S. part lying in Minnesota's Northwest Angle'

Answer: Lake of the Woods


Question: 'Rabid rottweilers & male Londoners'

Answer: mad dogs and Englishmen


Question: 'No curtain call for playwright Eugene O'Neill when this domestic drama premiered in 1956; he was 3 years dead'

Answer: Long Day\'s Journey into Night


Question: 'Wachovia, in 2008'

Answer: Wells Fargo


Question: 'In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, "away flies the boy to the next ...post and then home with joy"'

Answer: baseball


Question: 'He co-wrote the songs "Copacabana" & "Could It Be Magic", but not "I Write the Songs"'

Answer: Barry Manilow


Question: 'He gave up a career as a military engineer to write novels like "The Brothers Karamazov"'

Answer: Dostoyevsky


Question: 'For 164 years, 1610 to 1774, France was ruled by just 3 kings, all of this name'

Answer: Louis


Question: 'An adjunct to a toothbrush, it can be nylon or silk thread, waxed or unwaxed'

Answer: floss


Question: 'In 2001 an aircraft carrier named for this former president was christened by his wife Nancy'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'Cobras can't hear the music from this person's flute; they "dance" following the movements'

Answer: the snake charmer


Question: 'We've got nothing but this for Otis Redding, who wrote the song, Aretha Franklin's first No. 1 hit'

Answer: Respect


Question: 'A fascination with brine led this man to found his own chemical company in the 1890s'

Answer: Dow


Question: 'Franz Joseph got plenty of new clothes when he ruled Austria for 68 years with this loftier title than king'

Answer: emperor


Question: 'It's the hard outer layer of a tooth'

Answer: enamel


Question: 'After its return to England, this Pilgrim ship may have been sold for salvage & used as a barn roof'

Answer: the Mayflower


Question: 'The Asian cobra lives on these rodents, which might make it a good plague controller'

Answer: rats


Question: 'Just 5'2", his stature is huge for writing "An Old Fashioned Love Song" & a theme for "The Love Boat"'

Answer: Paul Williams


Question: 'Bet you a decimal point that you'll know he founded the American Library Association'

Answer: (Melvil) Dewey


Question: 'Fath Ali Shah ruled this country from 1797 to 1834 & led it in disastrous wars against Russia'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Bacteria, saliva & food debris make up this rough, sticky coating on teeth which can harden into tartar'

Answer: plaque


Question: 'This naval hero named his ship the Bonhomme Richard in honor of Benjamin Franklin'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'The king cobra is the only known snake that builds these'

Answer: nests


Question: 'This singer-songwriter of "Doctor My Eyes" had a highly publicized breakup with Daryl Hannah in the early '90s'

Answer: Jackson Browne


Question: 'Yes, sir, in 1586 this British sea dog picked up some disgruntled settlers from the soon-to-be-"lost colony"'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'Averaging 23 years per reign, the last 5 Russian czars were named either Nicholas or this'

Answer: Alexander


Question: 'These teeth usually erupt between the ages of 17 & 25, hence their popular name'

Answer: wisdom teeth


Question: 'Nearly 1,200 people died after a torpedo sank this British liner in 1915'

Answer: the Lusitania


Question: 'This North African country's cobra was used by its rulers as a symbol of authority'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '2002 marks the centennial of this composer whose music is heard here'

Answer: Richard Rodgers


Question: 'As a runaway slave, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey changed his name to this to avoid capture'

Answer: Douglass


Question: 'Otto, who ruled Greece from 1832 to 1862, was the son of King Ludwig of this German state'

Answer: Bavaria


Question: 'This branch of dentistry treats the diseases that affect the structures that surround & support the teeth'

Answer: periodontics


Question: 'A book about this brig calls it "Survey Ship Extraordinary"; we're sure Charles Darwin would agree'

Answer: the Beagle


Question: 'When a cobra feels threatened, ribs spread to create this feature (also an area shared by neighbors)'

Answer: a hood


Question: 'Jo'burg is a nickname for this city founded in the 1880s'

Answer: Johannesburg


Question: 'In 1881 the owner of the Chicago White Stockings said these "must come down" to keep teams from bankruptcy'

Answer: players\' salaries


Question: 'She played Rose on "The Golden Girls" for 7 years'

Answer: Betty White


Question: 'In a Shakespeare play, this queen invites one of her eunuchs to play billiards with her at her palace in Alexandria'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'It's also called dusk & Rod Serling gave it a "zone"'

Answer: twilight


Question: 'It's the disk that goes into your PC'

Answer: floppy


Question: 'You'll find this Egyptian city at the southern entrance to the canal of the same name'

Answer: Suez


Question: '(Hi, I'm New York Yankees fan Rudy Giuliani.)  The 1920 purchase of this Boston ballplayer for about $125,000 forever changed the history of the New York Yankees'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'It was the colorful WWI nickname of Manfred von Richthofen'

Answer: the Red Baron


Question: 'Set in a church basement, a new musical about this game premiered in Hermosa Beach, California in 2001'

Answer: bingo


Question: 'In the 1970s the FCC limited TV stations' network programming during this rhyming period'

Answer: prime time


Question: 'In hockey, it restarts play by dropping the puck between 2 opposing players'

Answer: a face-off


Question: 'The capital of the Seychelles has this "queenly" name, like the capital of British Columbia'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'Agricultural term for the system, created by Branch Rickey, of minor league teams controlled by a big league team'

Answer: a farm system


Question: 'This country singer married Lisa Hartman in 1991'

Answer: Clint Black


Question: 'In this comedy, Oscar says, "let's just play cards, and please hold them up; I can't see where I marked them"'

Answer: The Odd Couple


Question: 'We use this word for a schedule of train arrivals & departures; in England it's also a schedule of classes'

Answer: a timetable


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew curls up in a comfy recliner.) This posture is often assumed by people during intense emotional trauma'

Answer: fetal


Question: 'As luck would have it, the 1942 film named for this city opened 3 weeks after the Allies landed there'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Lee Smith is the all-time leader in this pitching category with 478'

Answer: saves


Question: 'Cha-ching!  He's the young actor seen here'

Answer: Seth Green


Question: 'As a penalty in the game of forfeits, Mozart's wife shows her legs to some party guests in this famous play'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'In geologic time, eons are divided into these, which are in turn divided into periods'

Answer: eras


Question: 'A numerical set of Vivaldi concertos'

Answer: "The Four Seasons"


Question: 'Update your address book--Tanzania's capital is moving from this city to Dodoma'

Answer: Dar es Salaam


Question: 'In 1912 this team held a 1-day strike when teammate Ty Cobb was suspended; their replacements lost, 24-2'

Answer: the Detroit Tigers


Question: '"Sagwa", a PBS animated series about a Chinese Siamese cat, is based on one of her children's books'

Answer: Amy Tan


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a craps table.)  In this musical, Nathan Detroit runs the oldest-established permanent floating crap game in New York'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'The one developed by the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers shows hours, minutes, seconds & frames'

Answer: a video timecode


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram called "Life of a Jeopardy! Clue".)  It's the type of sequence diagram seen here'

Answer: a flowchart


Question: 'In a 2001 film Jon Voight played this man; in a 2002 TV movie, so did John Turturro'

Answer: Howard Cosell


Question: 'On July 4, 1961 this Colorado peak was designated a national historic landmark'

Answer: Pike\'s Peak


Question: 'On August 5, 1991 Sergei Bubka became the first to exceed 20 feet in this track & field event'

Answer: the pole vault


Question: 'You old school gamers, check out "The Gambit", a blog about this ancient game'

Answer: chess


Question: 'For a 3rd anniversary, it's a gift made of this, be it a jacket, gloves or a briefcase'

Answer: leather


Question: 'Oddly, his name means "dove" & not "he of the big fish"'

Answer: Jonah


Question: 'Mersey me!  World Book's article on this city on the Mersey makes no mention of the Fab Four'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'This Hawaiian peak is the world's largest in terms of volume, estimated to be more than 16,000 cubic miles'

Answer: Mauna Loa


Question: 'In a 2007 college football shocker, this team ended USC's 35-game home winning streak'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'A blog about baseball is named for these--pieces of equipment, not mammals'

Answer: bats


Question: 'Lucky her--this is the traditional gift for both the 60th & 75th anniversaries'

Answer: diamond


Question: 'Hebrew for "friend" or "companion", she was the companion & daughter-in-law of Naomi'

Answer: Ruth


Question: 'It's home to Gregor Erhart's statue of Mary Magdalene (I must remember to tell Dan Brown)'

Answer: the Louvre


Question: 'Early settlers in Oregon called the "3 Sisters" in this mountain range Faith, Hope & Charity'

Answer: the Cascades


Question: 'This Dallas Cowboys running back rushed for an NFL record 18,355 yards'

Answer: Emmitt Smith


Question: 'If you want to be in the front row of fashion, you'll walk (but not take off) "on" this Times blog'

Answer: The Runway


Question: 'For year 30, maybe an oyster dinner, cufflinks for him & a necklace for her made of these'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'Though his name is from Hebrew for "laughter", he probably didn't laugh much while he was on that altar'

Answer: Isaac


Question: 'It's a tasty slang term for a clarinet'

Answer: a licorice stick


Question: 'This state's tallest peak is 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald, not Stone Mountain'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'In a 2001 tournament, this Swedish golfer shot a 59, the lowest score ever achieved on the LPGA Tour'

Answer: Sorenstam


Question: '"Bits", a technology blog, discusses "blundits", a combination of "blogger" & this word'

Answer: pundits


Question: 'For a 55th anniversary, how about a trip to Ireland, a "Wizard of Oz" DVD, & this gift'

Answer: emeralds


Question: 'Various sources list her name as meaning "temptress" & "seductive"'

Answer: Delilah


Question: 'Legend says that gods dropped rocks from the sky & formed the Garden of the Gods on this Hawaiian isle'

Answer: Lanai


Question: 'This mountain near Los Angeles was named for Gen. George S. Patton's grandfather & is home to a famous observatory'

Answer: Mt. Wilson


Question: 'Home of the Travers Stakes, this N.Y. racetrack is North America's oldest continuously operating track'

Answer: Saratoga


Question: 'Like his book, rogue economist Steven Levitt explores the hidden side of everything in this blog'

Answer: Freakonomics


Question: 'For a 15th anniversary, you might give one of this Austrian company's crystal figurines, like the one seen here'

Answer: Swarovski


Question: '"Behold, a son", this firstborn son of Jacob'

Answer: Reuben


Question: 'From the Latin for "ghastly", this adjective describes those vivid, shocking details beloved by the tabloids'

Answer: lurid


Question: '(James Lipton reads.)  At 20, you went to St. Petersburg's Imperial School of Fine Arts, in 1907; what's your favorite Russian curse word?'

Answer: Chagall


Question: 'Meryl & Lily Tomlin played country duo Yolanda & Rhonda Johnson in this 2006 Robert Altman film'

Answer: A Prairie Home Companion


Question: 'Around 550 B.C.:<br />"The boy cried, 'Wolf! Wolf!' and the villagers came out to help him"'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'The family name was Attendolo until Muzio made it more "force"ful & set the dynasty up in this N. Italian city'

Answer: Milan


Question: 'Frankfurt 0615,<br />this city's Spandau Station 0940 (if the trains run on time)'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'From the Latin for "flowing" comes the name of these typefaces that resemble handwriting script'

Answer: cursive


Question: '(James Lipton reads.)  Deafened by illness in 1792, you would paint 2 masterpieces regarding May 1808;  Madrid trembled at your genius'

Answer: (Francisco) Goya


Question: 'In 2004 Meryl Streep got paranoid as Aunt Josephine, who helped kids steer clear of Count Olaf, played by him'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: '1588:<br />"I know I have the body of a weak & feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of a king!"'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'While working for Ludovico Sforza, he knocked out "The Last Supper" on the wall of a local church'

Answer: da Vinci


Question: 'This capital's Yaroslavski Station 2122,<br />Irkutsk 0233 (of day 5)'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Sans serif fonts are known as grotesque or this other spooky "architectural" name'

Answer: Gothic fonts


Question: '1947's "Watery Paths" was in your poured painting style; simply brilliant'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'Meryl voiced Aunt Esme on this Texas-based animated show in an episode titled "A Beer Can Named Desire"'

Answer: King of the Hill


Question: '400 B.C.:<br />"I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and my judgment"'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: 'Francisco assumed this title in 1450 when he married into the Visconti family'

Answer: Duke (of Milan)


Question: 'BOS (Boston) 0915,<br />NYP (this station) 1245'

Answer: Penn Station


Question: 'It's a Latin adjective meaning "Swiss"'

Answer: Helvetica


Question: '(James Lipton reads.)  And then, from 1508 to 1511, you created the fresco walls in the Stanza della Segnatura, including "Disputa"; remarkable'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'Shirley MacLaine welcomes Meryl to rehab in this comedy written by Carrie Fisher'

Answer: Postcards from the Edge


Question: '44 B.C.:<br />"All Gaul is divided into 3 parts"'

Answer: (Julius) Caesar


Question: 'Appointed Ambassador to France in 1922, Carlo Sforza resigned over this new Italian premier's policies'

Answer: Mussolini


Question: 'Edinburgh, Scotland 1505;<br />Swansea, this country 2331'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Lavish or exuberant parties, or this crazy font'

Answer: Wingdings


Question: '(James Lipton reads.)  Missouri-born, your 1931 mural "America Today" graced the New School for Social Research's walls for decades'

Answer: (Thomas Hart) Benton


Question: 'Shirley MacLaine welcomes Meryl & Albert Brooks to the Past Lives Pavillion in this comedy'

Answer: Defending Your Life


Question: '1875:<br />"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"'

Answer: (Karl) Marx


Question: 'In 1535 the Sforza ruling line ended & the area passed to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of this Austrian family'

Answer: the Hapsburgs


Question: 'In this country, the Chandigarh choo-choo gets into Panipat Junction at 0400'

Answer: India


Question: 'This font is named for an 18th century Italian typeface designer'

Answer: Bodoni


Question: 'This short story, written around 1820, contains the line "If I can but reach that bridge... I am safe"'

Answer: \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\"


Question: 'In a nod to the town's witchy past, the logo of Salem's police dept. depicts a witch riding one of these'

Answer: a broom(stick)


Question: '"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"'

Answer: John Denver


Question: 'One who grows medicinal plants or uses them to treat others'

Answer: an herbalist


Question: 'As well as "the Big Island", it's also known as "the Orchid Isle"'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Color of a college "Tide" & a comic book Avenger'

Answer: Crimson


Question: 'Snow White's roommate who fits the category'

Answer: Happy


Question: 'Some blame the start of the witch hysteria on tales told by Tituba, a slave who came from an island in this sea'

Answer: the Caribbean


Question: '"Take This Job And Shove It"'

Answer: Johnny Paycheck


Question: 'A capologist helps a pro sports team stay under this'

Answer: the salary cap


Question: 'The narrow Strait of Messina separates this large island from the "toe" of Italy'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'Ocean Spray now has a drink made from the white type of this bog fruit'

Answer: a cranberry


Question: '"Laugh-In" popularized the phrase "You bet your" this'

Answer: your bippy


Question: 'A newer theory lays partial blame on ergot, one of these organisms that grows on grain & causes hallucinations'

Answer: a fungus


Question: '"Big Bad John"'

Answer: Jimmy Dean


Question: 'Billy Sunday, seen here, was a baseball player, but gained even greater fame in this occupation'

Answer: an evangelist


Question: 'Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier, covers nearly 3,200 square miles of this island country'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'This shade comes equipped with hoses & ladders'

Answer: fire engine red


Question: 'The Star of India is this gem variety of corundum'

Answer: a sapphire


Question: 'Samuel Sewall was the only one of these officials who publicly admitted his guilt after the trials'

Answer: judge


Question: '"I Will Always Love You"'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'In medicine there are surgical & radiation types of this cancer specialist'

Answer: an oncologist


Question: 'It's the second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands: Majorca is first'

Answer: Minorca


Question: 'Shade for a Pimpernel or an O'Hara'

Answer: scarlet


Question: 'The Blue Ridge, Catskills & Cumberland Mountains are all part of this range'

Answer: the Appalachians


Question: 'This man who refused to stand trial was pressed to death 3 days before his wife Martha Corey was hanged'

Answer: Giles Corey


Question: '"Sixteen Tons"'

Answer: (Tennessee Ernie) Ford


Question: 'It may be a zoologist or a botanist; your child who collects specimens is a budding one'

Answer: naturalist


Question: 'This island to the east of Java is world famous for its dancing'

Answer: Bali


Question: 'Bugs Bunny's standard insult that fits the category'

Answer: (What a) maroon


Question: 'This word for a ghostly counterpart of a living person is from the German for "double walker"'

Answer: a doppleganger


Question: 'Henry Schoolcraft is mentioned in school books as the discoverer of the source of this long river'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'She played Laura Petrie in the '60s & Mary Richards in the '70s, both on CBS'

Answer: Mary Tyler Moore


Question: 'He wrote a story about a giant mole as well as one about a man changed into a giant insect'

Answer: Kafka


Question: 'The "Chicago style" of this is deep-dish'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'The subtitle of his landmark 1859 work is "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"'

Answer: Darwin


Question: 'Heart doc'

Answer: a cardiologist


Question: 'Pretty Boy Floyd became the new public enemy number one after this man was killed in Chicago in 1934'

Answer: John Dillinger


Question: 'The 36th season of this CBS news magazine included stories on Internet piracy, Equatorial Guinea & "Jeopardy!"'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'In "The Most Dangerous Game", it's the title prey General Zaroff loves to hunt'

Answer: man


Question: '"The stars at night are big and bright" here'

Answer: deep in the heart of Texas


Question: 'This physicist is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton'

Answer: (Stephen) Hawking


Question: 'During the '60s this swinging street in Soho was a center of fashion'

Answer: Carnaby


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew feeds a four-legged friend in Alaska.)  In June 1900, this man compared himself to the animal beside me'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: '"CSI: Miami" is set in Miami; the original "CSI" is set in this city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Completes the title of Joyce Carol Oates' disturbing story "Where Are You Going,..."'

Answer: "Where Have You Been"


Question: '"I'd rather be rich than stupid" is one of these musings by Jack Handey of "SNL"'

Answer: Deep Thoughts


Question: 'This X-ray discoverer conducted numerous other researches including on elasticity'

Answer: Roentgen


Question: '"Seize the day"'

Answer: Carpe diem


Question: 'Zebulon Pike was accused of having explored the West for this former VP who wanted to rule the area'

Answer: (Aaron) Burr


Question: 'He hosts the longest-running game show in television history'

Answer: Bob Barker


Question: 'In the title of a Hemingway classic, a late-night cafe is praised as being "A Clean" & this type of "Place"'

Answer: "Well-Lighted"


Question: 'When the Federation took over the Cardassians' Terok Nor, they renamed it this'

Answer: Deep Space 9


Question: 'In 1675 this Dutchman peered through his microscope & "discovered little creatures in rain"'

Answer: Leeuwenhoek


Question: 'Isotope used to date archaeological specimens'

Answer: carbon-14


Question: 'Toynbee hall in London was the model for Hull House, which she founded in 1889'

Answer: Jane Addams


Question: 'At 67 years on radio & TV, this daytime soap "shines" as TV's longest-running entertainment program'

Answer: Guiding Light


Question: 'J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" includes "A Perfect Day for" these swimmers'

Answer: bananafish


Question: 'In 1997 he went one-on-one with IBM's Deep Blue in a highly publicized match'

Answer: (Garry) Kasparov


Question: 'This Swedish botanist was the first to use the Mars & Venus symbols to represent male & female'

Answer: Linnaeus


Question: 'Tuscan town typified by its famous marble'

Answer: Carrara


Question: 'At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread'

Answer: Damocles


Question: 'Johnny Cash once recorded a live album at Folsom Prison, just east of this state capital'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'In 1961 Mickey Mantle & this teammate hit a total of 115 home runs--the most by 2 teammates in baseball history'

Answer: Roger Maris


Question: 'While fighting in Hungary & Transylvania, Smith was promoted to this rank'

Answer: Captain


Question:
'Fore shank,
short loin,
brisket'

Answer: cuts of beef


Question: 'The beads, body valve stem & tread are parts of a pneumatic one of these'

Answer: a tire


Question: 'Oscar's line:<br />"I'd be immensely grateful to you, Felix, if you didn't clean up just now"'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'On its north, this state borders Tennessee; on its east, the Atlantic Ocean'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'In 1987 this Broncos quarterback became the first quarterback to receive a pass in the Super Bowl'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'In 1608 Smith was elected president of this colony that earlier in the year wanted to hang him'

Answer: Jamestown


Question:
'Snow,
sugar snap,
chick'

Answer: peas


Question: 'A bean counter in ancient or modern China might use this beaded device for his calculations'

Answer: an abacus


Question: 'In a '70s song:<br />"...She kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be 50 ways to leave your lover"'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'With Hartford, this "New" city was joint capital of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875'

Answer: New Haven


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) 3 NBA players have officially blocked over 3,000 shots in their career: myself, Mark Eaton & this Houston Rockets star'

Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon


Question:
'Grinder,
hero,
submarine'

Answer: sandwiches


Question: 'In 1987 at Carbondale, Illinois:<br />"I seek the presidency with a firm sense of who I am"'

Answer: Senator Paul Simon


Question: 'In 1860 this small Atlantic coast state had the highest percentage of slaves in the U.S.'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'On July 25, 1999 Lance Armstrong became the first American since Greg LeMond to win this 2,300-mile race'

Answer: the Tour de France


Question:
'Cotto,
Genoa,
pepperoni'

Answer: salamis


Question: 'Venice, especially the island of Murano, is famous for its beads made out of this'

Answer: glass


Question: 'In an 1852 book:<br />"Didn't I pay twelve hundred dollars cash, for all there is inside yer old cussed black shell?"'

Answer: Simon Legree (from Uncle Tom\'s Cabin)


Question: 'This "colorful" suburb of New York City on the Bronx River was settled by Puritans in 1683'

Answer: White Plains


Question: 'In 1999 this former Penguins star became the first retired player to own a major sports team he had played for'

Answer: Mario Lemieux


Question:
'Westphalian,
Bayonne,
prosciutto'

Answer: hams


Question: 'In Europe, around lunchtime August 11, 1999, Baily's Beads became visible around this'

Answer: the sun (during an eclipse)


Question: 'In an 1815 letter:<br />"The bonds that united us to Spain have been severed"'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: 'A 1974 referendum eliminated this post, giving the country a parliamentary government'

Answer: king (did away with the monarchy)


Question: 'The 1973 movie musical "Tom Sawyer" featured young Jodie Foster in this role'

Answer: Becky Thatcher


Question: 'The Dome is the yearbook of this university near South Bend, Indiana'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'In November 1959 he arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to begin 6 years of research for "In Cold Blood"'

Answer: Truman Capote


Question: '"Stumpies" are the tailed offspring of this tailless cat'

Answer: Manx


Question: 'It's that wacky Cameron Diaz comedy about the widow of our 16th president'

Answer: There\'s Something About Mary Todd Lincoln


Question: '(Hi, I'm Francesco Quinn of The Young And The Restless.)  I played Rhah the drug king in this Oliver Stone film that won the 1986 Best Picture Oscar'

Answer: Platoon


Question: 'This Poughkeepsie, New York school was the first of the Seven Sisters to be coeducational'

Answer: Vassar


Question: 'The 1676 revised edition of his "Compleat Angler" included a new section on trout fishing'

Answer: Izaak Walton


Question: 'They're what's "folded" in a Scottish fold'

Answer: ears


Question: 'Southern California beach town that once interned in the White House'

Answer: Santa Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'Swoosie Kurtz appeared as Uma Thurman's mother in this 1988 film about hazardous trysts'

Answer: Dangerous Liaisons


Question: 'Both Benjamin Harrison & his running mate Whitelaw Reid graduated from Miami of this Midwestern state'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'To research "Hotel", he spent 6 weeks as a paying guest in an old New Orleans hotel'

Answer: Arthur Hailey


Question: 'Notice the eyes on this most popular breed of cat seen here:'

Answer: Persian


Question: 'Beatles song about a "Talented Mr. Ripley" co-star'

Answer: "Hey Jude Law"


Question: 'Despite his role as tobacco co. whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in "The Insider", this actor still smokes'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: '"Windy" nickname of Iowa State's athletic teams'

Answer: Cyclones


Question: 'In 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted not for Sherlock Holmes but for defending British actions in this war'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'The blue-eyed Balinese was developed as a separate breed after it appeared as a mutation of this other breed'

Answer: Siamese


Question: 'Imperial New York state nickname for a time of declared crisis'

Answer: "The Empire State of Emergency"


Question: 'It was on this now Greek isle that the famous statue of Nike, now in the Louvre, was found in 1863'

Answer: Samothrace


Question: 'She played Moses' wife in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments" (& Herman Munster's wife on TV)'

Answer: Yvonne De Carlo


Question: 'Founded in 1842, Willamette University in this state capital is the oldest college on the West Coast'

Answer: Salem (Oregon)


Question: 'This "Doctor Zhivago" author's father, Leonid, was a painter & illustrator of Tolstoy's works'

Answer: Boris Pasternak


Question: 'Riddle me this:<br />Despite its name, you'd be hard pressed to find one of these "hairless" cats in Egypt'

Answer: Sphinx


Question: 'Turgenev family novel about the country music act that sang "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"'

Answer: Fathers and Sons of the Pioneers


Question: 'It's estimated that of 6,000 in the world today, half will vanish in the next 100 years, including Jingulu & Chamicuro'

Answer: Languages


Question:
'Canada,
New Zealand,
Australia'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Alan Shore (James Spader) lived the dream of every lawyer: arguing before the Supreme Court, on this show'

Answer: Boston Legal


Question: 'This rapper "weds in Atlanta.  Family of groom said to be furious.  He was only supposed to show people to their seats"'

Answer: Usher


Question:
'California man /
The Great Communicator /
Bonzo was his pal'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'It's the liquor in a casino cocktail, & often in a martini'

Answer: gin


Question: 'Cool it!  The German "eis" gives us this word'

Answer: ice


Question:
'Spain,
Ukraine,
Bahrain'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'Initially, Henry Fonda is the only juror who holds out against a guilty verdict in this 1957 film'

Answer: Twelve Angry Men


Question: 'He "denounces materialism from balcony of marble, gold-domed building... while wearing giant gold cross"'

Answer: the Pope (Benedict XVI)


Question:
'The country Whigged out /
Stormy inauguration /
He's dead in a month'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'Of Schumann, Chopin or Verdi, the luxury vodka brand'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'The Middle French "jaquet" provided this covering'

Answer: a jacket


Question:
'France,
Italy,
Germany'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Spencer Tracy played Judge Dan Haywood, sent to Germany, in this 1961 courtroom drama'

Answer: Judgment at Nuremberg


Question: 'Jessica's sis, she "collapses & is rushed to Tokyo hospital.  Concert goers stay & listen to the rest of the tape"'

Answer: Ashlee Simpson


Question:
'He preceded Abe /
The Union, not in great shape /
Marriage ain't for him'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'Southern sippers often make the alliterative request for this corn mash whiskey "and branch" (water)'

Answer: bourbon


Question: 'One story says this word of approval comes from the initials of Van Buren's nickname of "Old Kinderhook"'

Answer: OK


Question:
'Venezuela,
Uruguay,
Colombia'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Lawyer Matthew McConaughey defends Samuel Jackson in this film based on a John Grisham novel'

Answer: A Time to Kill


Question: '"Russia &" this country "on the brink of war.  This had better not interrupt the supply of peanuts & peaches"'

Answer: Georgia


Question:
'Sworn in by his dad /
Quiet outside hid deep pain /
Out before the crash'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'With brands like Old Overholt, whiskey made from this grain, not corn, was once a favorite of the American sot'

Answer: rye


Question: 'Feeling lucky?  This 5-letter word comes from the Old English "seofon"'

Answer: seven


Question:
'Turkey,
Iran,
Egypt'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'In "...And Justice for All", this star says, "You're out of order!  The whole trial is out of order!"'

Answer: Al Pacino


Question: 'This politico "may be a contestant on... 'Dancing with the Stars'.  He's... practicing the mashed potatoe"'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question:
'Shot within 4 months /
Soon, civil service reform /
Guiteau got his gun'

Answer: James Garfield


Question: 'In a SoCo & cola, SoCo is short for this'

Answer: Southern Comfort


Question: 'The white fruit of the plant Solanum melongema resembled an egg, & this name stuck for the purple fruit too'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'In 2001 it merged with Time Warner'

Answer: AOL


Question: 'Term for one of the halves into which the earth is divided'

Answer: a hemisphere


Question: 'This proverbially wealthy man of ancient times was the last king of Lydia'

Answer: Croesus


Question: 'These Old World finches of the genus Serinus were used in coal mines to detect deadly gas'

Answer: canaries


Question: 'I heard it through the grapevine that this singer had a hit with "Let's Get It On"'

Answer: Marvin Gaye


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viking Ship Museum In Roskilde, Denmark.) In vessels like these, Vikings may have sailed across the Atlantic to America where they ultimately settled in an area they called this'

Answer: Vinland


Question: 'Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004'

Answer: the PLO


Question: 'I'm standing under the viscum album, or this, so gimme a kiss!'

Answer: mistletoe


Question: 'In 1415 he won the Battle of Agincourt against overwhelming odds'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'Environmentalists are critical of this method of mining that only removes coal found near the surface'

Answer: strip mining


Question: 'Say it loud--this Sex Machine had "Soul Power" in 1971'

Answer: James Brown


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.) No Viking ship has yet been found with well-preserved sail & rigging; sails are recreated using wool or flax, & ropes are often made with the skin of this tusked mammal'

Answer: a walrus


Question: 'Russia's Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first type of this speedy jet'

Answer: an SST


Question: '8-letter term describing a man who married a second wife without divorcing the first'

Answer: a bigamist


Question: 'Born around 1274, this King of Scotland battled the English armies of Edward II'

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: 'To get a feel for the miner's life, you can visit the "Big Pit" Coal Mining Museum at Blaenavon in this U.K. country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'This band took its name from the 3 elements in founder Maurice White's astrological chart'

Answer: Earth, Wind & Fire


Question: 'A "side scan" type of this helps the museum locate old shipwrecks; sound waves are emitted & bounce back with results'

Answer: sonar


Question: 'Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program'

Answer: the CDC


Question: 'Allowable, as in evidence in court'

Answer: permissible (or admissible)


Question: 'Italy's King Humbert I is also known by this Italian name'

Answer: Umberto


Question: 'The most abundant & most widely used type of coal, it's also called "soft coal"'

Answer: bituminous


Question: 'Was it just my imagination that "Just My Imagination" was a No. 1 hit for this band?'

Answer: The Temptations


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.) It is thought the Vikings preserved the wood on ships, and made it watertight, by painting the wood with this product, procured from pine trees'

Answer: tar


Question: 'In the desert, you can get a real lift from the transport seen here'

Answer: an ATV


Question: 'Don't turn around, oh oh oh, der this head of a USSR government division's in town, oh oh oh'

Answer: a commissar


Question: 'The XII Swedish king of this name led & won many battles in the 18th century's "Great Northern War"'

Answer: Charles


Question: 'It sounds like an ancient Roman diviner, but miners use this tool to bore into a coal deposit'

Answer: an auger


Question: 'You'll be mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out by naming this "Brick House" band'

Answer: The Commodores


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.) The Sea Stallion is a reconstruction of a ship built of oak from near Glendalough on this island, which suffered its first recorded Viking raids in 795'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'In the phonetic alphabet used by the U.S. military, it's the only letter that has the same name as a warrior people'

Answer: Zulu


Question: 'This volunteer cavalry unit organized by Teddy Roosevelt included miners, cowboys & college athletes'

Answer: the Rough Riders


Question: 'This "Family Ties" star now has political ties as NYC's deputy mayor on "Spin City"'

Answer: Michael J. Fox


Question: 'For a while, everything he touched turned to gold, including his daughter'

Answer: Midas


Question: 'www.si.edu doesn't get you into Sports Illustrated, but into this D.C. institution'

Answer: the Smithsonian Institution


Question: 'It's part of a metropolitan area that includes Boulder'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'They're integral to New England & Manhattan-style chowder'

Answer: clams


Question: 'Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians'

Answer: Hadrian


Question: 'Showing his flair for both comedy & drama, he won Emmys for "All in the Family" & "In the Heat of the Night"'

Answer: Carroll O\'Connor


Question: 'Jason died in his old age when the prow of this ship fell on him'

Answer: the Argo


Question: 'Appropriately, web pages abound devoted to this female star of "The Net"'

Answer: Sandra Bullock


Question: 'On an isthmus between lakes Mendota & Monona, it's Wisconsin's 2nd largest city'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'Some 350 species of this creature form the Great Barrier Reef'

Answer: coral


Question: 'The Yi dynasty ruled this country from 1392 until its annexation by Japan in 1910'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Once a P.I., in 1996 he cozied up with Courteney Cox on "Friends"'

Answer: Tom Selleck


Question: 'These three goddesses who controlled human destiny were called "Moirae" in Greek & "Parcae" in Latin'

Answer: the Fates


Question: 'This entrepreneur's Taj Mahal & Castle have their own web pages'

Answer: Donald Trump


Question: 'If you drove to this state capital, you'd find it's an anagram of one of the words in this answer'

Answer: Dover (from DROVE)


Question: 'These tasty freshwater crustaceans resemble small lobsters'

Answer: crawfish (or crayfish)


Question: 'The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended this numerical war'

Answer: Thirty Years\' War


Question: 'Norman Buntz on "Hill Street Blues"; now he's Andy Sipowicz on "NYPD Blue"'

Answer: Dennis Franz


Question: 'These attendants of Dionysus, part man & part animal, were famous for chasing nymphs'

Answer: satyrs


Question: 'At the end of a domain name, .nl would mean this country'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'To see the grave of Daniel Boone, you have to blaze a trail to this capital'

Answer: Frankfort


Question: 'The eggs of this squid relative are stained dark brown by the female sepia'

Answer: the cuttlefish


Question: 'The Mau Mau Rebellion, which began in 1952, was an uprising against British rule in this African country'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'This actor, best known for playing Mr. Mooney on "The Lucy Show", passed away in 1995'

Answer: Gale Gordon


Question: 'For a fee of one obolus, he ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx into Hades'

Answer: Charon


Question: 'Broadway composer whose website name is "Really Useful"'

Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber


Question: 'There's an annual dogsled race in this capital of the 4th largest state in the U.S.'

Answer: Helena, Montana


Question: 'A collector's item, the spiny, often speckled shell of this mollusk was once used as money in Africa'

Answer: the cowrie


Question: 'An autopiste, or superhighway, connects this Venezuelan capital with the port of La Guaira'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'Her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour was chronicled in the documentary "Truth or Dare"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'From Port Said to Al-Qantara, this canal passes through Lake Manzala, a lagoon'

Answer: the Suez Canal


Question: 'The Havasupi Tourist Enterprise supplies guides & mules to tourists at this Arizona natural wonder'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: 'Meaning "step-for-two", it's a dance duet that includes an entre, an adagio, two solos & a coda'

Answer: a pas de deux


Question: 'Near the end of this novel Long John Silver steals some of the booty & is never heard from again'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'The Khitans, who founded the Liao dynasty in 907, called this capital city Nanking'

Answer: Peking (or Beijing)


Question: 'Survivors of loved ones with AIDS took part in the documentary "Common Threads--Stories From" this'

Answer: the Quilt


Question: 'Operating since 1901, this country's Schwebebahn is the oldest existing monorail'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The Sauk chief Keokuk is buried in the city of Keokuk in this state'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'Jerome Robbins' ballet "In The Night" is danced to several of this Polish-born composer's famous nocturnes'

Answer: Frederic Chopin


Question: 'The title of this Victor Hugo novel could be translated as "The Wretches"'

Answer: Les Miserables


Question: 'Norway's 2nd-largest city; it was once known as Bjorgvin, or "hill pasture"'

Answer: Bergen


Question: 'The first significant documentary was this 1922 classic about Eskimo life'

Answer: Nanook of the North


Question: 'During the Boer War, this Indian nationalist leader organized an ambulance corps for the British army'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: 'In 1959 at age 99, Jason Betzines wrote "I Fought with" this Chiricahua Apache, his cousin'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'Swedish dancer Elsa Marianne von Rosen created the title role in this ballet based on a Strindberg play'

Answer: Miss Julie


Question: 'Surely you know that "Shirley" was a later novel by this "Jane Eyre" author'

Answer: Charlotte Bronte


Question: 'It's the easternmost of Canada's three prairie provinces'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: 'This highly acclaimed 1994 film followed two inner-city youths who hoped one day to play in the NBA'

Answer: Hoop Dreams


Question: 'In the Olympics these vehicles race on oval tracks called velodromes'

Answer: bicycles


Question: 'The name Apache is a word for "enemy" among these Arizona pueblo dwellers'

Answer: Zunis


Question: 'He stunned Paris with his dazzling performance in the Ballet Russes "La Sylphide" in 1909'

Answer: Vaclav Nijinsky


Question: 'Isabel Archer is the heroine of this 1881 novel by Henry James'

Answer: The Portrait of a Lady


Question: 'In Ireland, Muckross Lake, Upper Lake & Lower Lake are collectively known as "The Lakes of" this'

Answer: Killarney


Question: 'This 1988 film that raised questions about the guilt of convicted killer Randall Adams led to his release'

Answer: The Thin Blue Line


Question: 'In 1956 this Finnish-American architect designed the Trans World Airlines terminal at JFK Airport'

Answer: Eero Saarinen


Question: 'These Mexican Gulf Coast Indians were famous for carving giant heads from basalt'

Answer: Olmecs


Question: 'This charismatic Tartar played Dr. Copelius in "Coppelia" in 1990, three years before his untimely death'

Answer: Rudolf Nureyev


Question: 'Dostoevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" & this Russian wrote "Fathers and Sons"'

Answer: Ivan Turgenev


Question: 'Dr. Henry Van Dyke Carter provided 363 drawings for this work first published in 1858'

Answer: Gray\'s Anatomy


Question: 'Barbados has a Trafalgar Square, too & its statue of this hero is older than the one in London'

Answer: Nelson


Question: 'On Sept. 10, 1955, John Wayne introduced the 1st episode of this western set in Dodge City, Kansas'

Answer: Gunsmoke


Question: 'By the mid-1950s this country had about 375 subs in various oceans & seas'

Answer: the Soviet Union


Question: 'Patricia Ann Reagan uses this name professionally'

Answer: Patty Davis


Question: 'Lengths of these include cap, short, three-quarter, seven-eighths & long'

Answer: sleeves


Question: 'Not surprisingly, the word koala comes from a native language of this continent'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Stuttgart in this country is so named because it used to be the site of a stud farm, or stuotgarten'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Its theme song began, "Rollin' rollin' rollin

Answer: Rawhide


Question: 'After WWI the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee developed this to detect subs'

Answer: sonar


Question: 'Princess Julia Cantacuzene, a granddaughter of this president & Civil War general died in 1975 at the age of 99'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'If the fabric has a nap, you should lay out the pieces of this in one direction & cut them out'

Answer: the pattern


Question: 'This word meaning something not fully understood is from the Greek musterion, "secret rite"'

Answer: mystery


Question: 'These 2 European countries whose names begin with "Sw" were both neutral during WWI & WWII'

Answer: Switzerland and Sweden


Question: 'This TV western was set on the Barkley Ranch in the 1870s'

Answer: The Big Valley


Question: 'Until this arrived in the 1950s, almost all subs used diesel-electric power'

Answer: nuclear power


Question: 'Writer Jessamyn West babysat this cousin from Calif. who grew up to become president in the 1960s'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'Types of these include running & back'

Answer: stitches


Question: 'The name of this 2- or 3-toed mammal comes from Middle English for "slow"'

Answer: a sloth


Question: 'The name of this South American city is Portuguese for "River of January"'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'This sidekick of the Cisco Kid was played by Leo Carrillo, who was in his 70s when he began the role'

Answer: Pancho


Question: 'Subs usually have 2 of these optical devices, 1 for general use, 1 for the attack'

Answer: periscopes


Question: 'It was the first name of William Henry Harrison's father & grandson'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'Numbers on spools of thread refer to this; to work on material like organdy or net, use no. 100'

Answer: thickness


Question: 'This title of prince Siddhartha comes from Sanskrit for "awakening"'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'Medieval poet Snorri Sturluson wroth the Prose Edda, one of this country's greatest literary works'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Roy Rogers rode Trigger, Dale Evans this horse'

Answer: Buttermilk


Question: 'Air trapped in these tanks makes a sub float'

Answer: ballast tanks


Question: 'Unopened six-packs of this beverage named for Jimmy Carter's brother are now a collector's item'

Answer: Billy Beer


Question: 'An early version of this notion was Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker"'

Answer: a zipper


Question: 'Lepos, meaning "scale", gave us this word for a pariah'

Answer: leper


Question: 'Schliemann felt this city's 2nd settlement was the one of Homer's epics; now it seems to be the 7th'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'In 1885 the Post Office began this service that sent mail more quickly for an extra fee'

Answer: special delivery


Question: 'Susan Strasberg tells about her friendship with this woman in her book "Marilyn and Me"'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'Dogpatch is almost hit by an atom bomb in this 1956 musical'

Answer: Li\'l Abner


Question: 'He's credited with establishing the world's largest fingerprint file'

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover


Question: 'Cire perdue or "lost wax", a process of casting figures, was developed during this age'

Answer: the Bronze Age


Question: 'In 1913 the 16th Amendment was ratified, authorizing a tax on this'

Answer: income


Question: 'After writing about "Hollywood Wives", she turned her eye on "Hollywood Husbands"'

Answer: Jackie Collins


Question: 'In 1952 Cloris Leachman briefly starred as Ensign Nellie Forbush in this musical'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'As in Hawaii, sugarcane & this tropical fruit are major exports'

Answer: pineapple


Question: 'For directing the Watergate burglary, he got a sentence of 2 1/2 to 8 years but served only 32 months'

Answer: E. Howard Hunt


Question: 'Common dating techniques are carbon-14, counting tree rings & analyzing grains of this'

Answer: pollen


Question: 'In 1790 Philadelphia replaced this city as the new capital of the U.S.'

Answer: New York City


Question: '"The Tale of the Body Thief" is this author's fourth & latest novel about the vampire Lestat'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'The musical revue "Five Guys Named" this was inspired by jazzman Louis Jordan, not by the 3 Stooges'

Answer: Moe


Question: 'At 6,704 square miles, Swaziland is slightly smaller than this "garden state"'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'In 1957 he was named Burma's permanent representative to the U.N.'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'This term covers anything made by man, from a needle to a pyramid'

Answer: artifact


Question: 'During an 1832 expedition, Lake Itasca was discovered to be the source of this river'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'From 1949-1956 this "Princess Daisy" author was a fashion editor for Good Housekeeping'

Answer: Judith Krantz


Question: '"Un Violon sur le Toit" was a French version of this Broadway smash'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question: 'As a result of this war, Swaziland was under British control from 1903-1968'

Answer: the Boer War


Question: 'His rescue of 2 EDS employees from a prison in Iran was the subject of Ken Follett's "On Wings of Eagles"'

Answer: H. Ross Perot


Question: 'Sir Leonard Woolley is known for his excavations of this Sumerian city with a very short name'

Answer: Ur


Question: '2 of the 4 men upon whom the new rank of 5-star general was conferred in 1944'

Answer: (2 of) MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall, Hap Arnold


Question: 'On a 1987 trip to China, this author of "The Joy Luck Club" met 2 of her half-sisters for the first time'

Answer: Amy Tan


Question: 'Michael J. Pollard played teenager Hugo Peabody in this musical about a rock star who gets drafted'

Answer: Bye Bye Birdie


Question: 'Landlocked, Swaziland is surrounded by Mozambique on 1 side & this country on the other 3'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'This lawyer once said, "criminal law has made me a rebel by profession"'

Answer: F. Lee Bailey


Question: 'In 1529 this Spaniard was made Marques del Valle de Oaxaca'

Answer: Hernán Cortés


Question: 'These volunteers were so named because they were ready to fight at 60 seconds' notice'

Answer: Minutemen


Question: 'The meat cooked in these pits is generally beef in Texas but pork in North Carolina'

Answer: barbeque


Question: 'Duane & Gregg, in the '60s they recorded as Hour Glass'

Answer: The Allman Brothers


Question: 'Supplementary statistics stuck onto the back of a book'

Answer: an appendix


Question: 'Shortly after arriving in France in 1924, he completed "The Great Gatsby"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'Mr. Bono's baby rabbits'

Answer: Sonny\'s bunnies


Question: 'Hanged as a spy on September 22, 1776, his body probably still lies somewhere in midtown Manhattan'

Answer: Nathan Hale


Question: 'One of Elvis Presley's favorite dishes was a sandwich filled with mashed bananas & this spread'

Answer: peanut butter


Question: 'Brothers Eddie & Alex, who formed the core of this band, were born in the Netherlands'

Answer: Van Halen


Question: 'The appendix is vermiform, meaning shaped like one of these'

Answer: a worm


Question: 'While serving as an ambulance driver, he was injured at Fossalta di Piave, Italy on July 8, 1918'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Drescher's devotees'

Answer: Fran\'s fans


Question: 'About 8,000 British prisoners were taken in this last major battle of the war'

Answer: Yorktown


Question: 'A slice of this bread that comes in a dotted bag can be wadded up smaller than a ping-pong ball & bounced'

Answer: Wonder Bread


Question: 'Jermaine to this category is this quintet with hits such as "I'll Be There" & "Dancing Machine"'

Answer: The Jackson 5


Question: 'Worms is home to what may be this country's oldest Jewish cemetery'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'He's written plays based on his works, including "Dandelion Wine" & "Fahrenheit 451"'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'Eastwood's candies'

Answer: Clint\'s mints


Question: 'This 1765 act of Parliament called for taxes on such items as dice & playing cards'

Answer: the Stamp Act


Question: 'A pioneering jazz composer shares his nickname with this rich dessert'

Answer: Jelly Roll (Morton)


Question: 'Group seen here; the oldest brother is 16:'

Answer: Hanson


Question: 'The Danube River rises in Germany's Schwarzwald & empties into this sea'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'This essayist wrote 3 children's stories, the last being "The Trumpet of the Swan" in 1970'

Answer: E.B. White


Question: 'Vanna's dancewear'

Answer: White\'s tights


Question: 'This British nobleman was King George III's chief minister throughout the American Revolution'

Answer: Lord North


Question: 'In Cincinnati the "Five-Way" type of this dish includes spaghetti, cheese, onions & beans'

Answer: chili


Question: 'Brothers Tim, Andrew & Jon Farriss form half of this "Need You Tonight" sextet'

Answer: INXS


Question: 'The Black Sea bass is a popular catch among fishermen off this Palmetto State'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'From 1903 to 1905, American author Winston Churchill served in the legislature of this "Granite State"'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'Mr. Crystal's female foals'

Answer: Billy\'s fillies


Question: 'Norbert Pearlroth met this man in 1923 & researched his "Believe It Or Not!" feature for 52 years'

Answer: Robert Ripley


Question: 'Nobel chemist Wilhelm Ostwald didn't believe in these, let alone their protons & electrons'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'Her erotic thriller filmography includes "Sliver", "The Specialist" & "Basic Instinct"'

Answer: Sharon Stone


Question: 'In 1962 he used his life savings to form the National Farm Workers Association in Delano, Calif.'

Answer: Cesar Chavez


Question: 'This lake nestled in the Adirondacks may take its name from its peaceful waters'

Answer: Lake Placid


Question: 'It can mean quick to learn, or be short for a rental residence'

Answer: apt (or apt. for "apartment")


Question: 'Search engines like Alta Vista help you explore the vast maze of this information system'

Answer: the Internet


Question: 'David Brewster established the law of polarization by reflection & invented this optical toy'

Answer: the kaleidoscope


Question: 'Kathleen Turner turns on William Hurt in this classic of the genre'

Answer: Body Heat


Question: 'This folk singer & activist visited North Vietnam in 1972 & Bosnia in 1993'

Answer: Joan Baez


Question: 'Shoshone Falls in Idaho lies on this winding river'

Answer: Snake River


Question: 'Mantra for a unit of electrical resistance'

Answer: ohm


Question: 'London's Public Record Office is the British equivalent of this repository on Washington's Constitution Ave.'

Answer: the National Archives


Question: 'Norman Borlaug is said to have saved more lives than anyone else, mainly by breeding this grain'

Answer: wheat


Question: 'Former "90210" troublemaker who put on the "Blindfold: Acts of Obsession"'

Answer: Shannen Doherty


Question: 'Mexican-American Bill Richardson replaced Madeleine Albright in this diplomatic post'

Answer: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.


Question: 'The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs from this bay to the city of Valdez'

Answer: Prudhoe Bay


Question: 'Being alliterative, Eve may eye this ostrich relative'

Answer: emu


Question: 'Namesake of a British rock band, he invented the seed drill to sow tidy rows'

Answer: Jethro Tull


Question: 'Linda Fiorentino lost out on an Oscar nomination for "The Last" this because it debuted on cable'

Answer: Seduction


Question: 'Seen here, this model "flowered" as a personality on MTV & MTV Latino:'

Answer: Daisy Fuentes


Question: 'It's where David Farragut damned the torpedos & sped ahead to win a victory in 1864'

Answer: Mobile Bay


Question: 'Feel sorry for a street in France'

Answer: rue


Question: 'A method of staining bacteria is named for him, but the metric unit of weight isn't'

Answer: Hans Christian Gram


Question: '"Picture" this 1981 film in which Bruce Dern is "drawn" to model Maud Adams'

Answer: Tattoo


Question: 'Once Lt. Castillo on "Miami Vice", in 1996 he won 2 Bravo Awards for positive portrayals of Latinos'

Answer: Edward James Olmos


Question: 'We hate to kiss & tell but the Kissimmee River flows through several lakes before emptying into this one'

Answer: Lake Okeechobee


Question: 'A sticky substance itself, doubled up they're amorous glancing eyes'

Answer: goo


Question: 'Richard Burbage & Sam Wanamaker, about 400 years apart, were responsible for its building & rebuilding'

Answer: The Globe Theatre


Question: 'The tongue of this mammal is about 2 feet long & flits rapidly in & out to lick up the tiny prey in its name'

Answer: an anteater


Question: 'Christina Aguilera sang "You are" this "no matter what they say, words can't bring you down"'

Answer: beautiful


Question: 'In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening'

Answer: a nightingale


Question: 'To maximize flavor impact, this type of plant, like basil & parsley, should be added at the end of cooking'

Answer: an herb


Question: 'We're not eating energy cubes, but more than 90% of U.S. homes do have this to cook frozen food in 1 minute'

Answer: a microwave


Question: 'An Eskimo canoe'

Answer: a kayak


Question: 'It's the giant beast seen here taking the bait; it can grow to about 60 feet & weigh more than 1,000 pounds'

Answer: squid


Question: 'This hit gives me a tingle that "starts in my toes & I crinkle my nose wherever it goes I always know"'

Answer: "Bubbly"


Question: 'You know this Lewis Carroll classic by a shortened name; its full title includes the word "Adventures"'

Answer: Alice in Wonderland


Question: 'A cup of this long or short grain, the primary food of half the world's pop., is cooked with 2 cups of water'

Answer: rice


Question: 'The only U.S. state that fits the category'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'Awwww!  This giant 2-colored 6-foot, 300-pound Asian mammal is so cute!'

Answer: a panda


Question: 'In a Linkin Park song, "I've become so" this "I can't feel you there"'

Answer: numb


Question: 'Part I of this 1995 Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is called "Munchkinlanders"'

Answer: Wicked


Question: 'You'll want to cook this on the day you buy it; the husks should be green & the silk golden'

Answer: corn


Question: 'Type of city we don't live in, or type of stadium replaced by retractable-roof ones in Houston & Indianapolis'

Answer: domed


Question: 'Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Friedman can help you with this adjective for tightly curled hair'

Answer: kinky


Question: '"S" is for this amphibian; most are only a few inches long, but giant Chinese ones can grown much larger'

Answer: salamander


Question: 'Soft Cell sang, "Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you" in an '80s song about this title kind of love'

Answer: Tainted


Question: '"A Separate Peace" tells of 2 preppies at the Devon School in this "Granite State"'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'This fruit, essential to make guacamole, is ripe when the top & bottom yield to pressure'

Answer: avocado


Question: 'This Russian composer's middle name was Ilyich'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'The curved horns of the water type of this animal may have a total length of 12 feet'

Answer: a buffalo


Question: '"Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in" in this Natasha Bedingfield song'

Answer: "Unwritten"


Question: '"The Amber Spyglass" is the third book in the trilogy called "His Dark" these'

Answer: Materials


Question: 'This tuber originally from the Peruvian Andes should be stored in a cool, dry place away from onions'

Answer: a potato


Question: 'We hoped by now all music would be on this spooky-sounding instrument'

Answer: a theremin


Question: 'One tap on a computer terminal gives us this compound word'

Answer: keystroke


Question: 'The first son of the first man'

Answer: Cain


Question: 'Due to a new rule this 2007 Amy Adams Disney film will be the last to have 3 songs nominated for the Best Song Oscar'

Answer: Enchanted


Question: 'In 2007, after years of 7 & 8% growth, India's GDP reached $1 trillion, or about 41 trillion of these Indian units'

Answer: rupees


Question: 'Manzanilla is a Spanish sherry; mantequilla is Spanish for this dairy product'

Answer: butter


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a line segment sweeping out a circle on the monitor.)  Euclid's third postulate tells us that from any line segment, a circle can be drawn with one endpoint as the center & the segment itself as this line'

Answer: radius


Question: 'The small depressions on a golf ball are called these; smile & show yours'

Answer: dimples


Question: 'Pharaoh's daughter finds him floating in a basket in the Nile & raises him as her own son'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Crispin Glover spouts actual Anglo-Saxon in this 2007 CGI monster movie based on an ancient epic'

Answer: Beowulf


Question: 'Jamie Lynn Spears is Britney's sis; Jamie-Lynn Sigler played Meadow, daughter of a crime boss, on this HBO series'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'You may consider all the angles but to measure them you'll need this semicircular instrument'

Answer: a protractor


Question: 'A polyglot, one who speaks many languages, can also be called multi-this, from the Latin for "tongue"'

Answer: lingual


Question: 'Goliath of Gath was the champion of these people'

Answer: the Philistines


Question: 'No horsing around, the tagline for this 2003 film was "A longshot becomes a legend"'

Answer: Seabiscuit


Question: 'India has more than 150 million of these shunned people, now officially called "Scheduled Castes"'

Answer: the Untouchables


Question: 'If you're really smart you won't confuse these 2 words, meaning a really smart guy & a classification above species'

Answer: genius & genus


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue shows a triangle with two angles labeled on the monitor.)  In this triangle, if angle A is 42 degrees and angle B is 60 degrees, then angle C has to equal this'

Answer: 78 degrees


Question: 'Lupine means "like a wolf"; porcine means like this animal'

Answer: a pig


Question: 'In I Samuel, David saved this king's life more than once'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'Timothy Olyphant of "Deadwood" went bald & dodged bullets while plying this title trade in a 2007 film'

Answer: Hitman


Question: 'India's states have their own official languages including Gujarati, Marathi & this language of the highlighted state'

Answer: Punjabi


Question: 'In Judaism, Kiddush is a blessing said over wine or bread, while this is a mourner's prayer'

Answer: Kaddish


Question: 'Someone who's described as patroclinous would most resemble this person'

Answer: your father


Question: 'This Biblical prophet of Pethor had a conversation with his beast of burden when it started to talk'

Answer: Balaam


Question: 'Scenes in this 1997 Jodie Foster film were filmed at the Very Large Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico'

Answer: Contact


Question: 'The Golden Shield, which restricts online viewing of controversial topics, is known as the "Great" this "of China"'

Answer: firewall


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew unfolds a paper snowflake cut-out.)  Origami is the art of paper folding; this is the Japanese art of paper folding & cutting to make designs like this'

Answer: kirigami


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a circle drawing itself around a regular pentagon on the monitor.) A circle is said to be this when it surrounds a polygon in such a way that each vertex touches the circle'

Answer: circumscribed


Question: 'Adjective meaning like the author of "The Prince", or like the cunning policies set forth in the book'

Answer: Machiavellian


Question: 'He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'Copper's conductivity & cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground'

Answer: lightning


Question:
'Free
_______
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'

Answer: Willy


Question: 'We wonder if the woman seen here is reacting to the Jan. 7 announcement of their breakup'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt


Question: 'Catherine de Medici was a lover of this food eaten by scraping the leaves with your teeth'

Answer: an artichoke


Question: 'As even old Aristotle once rhymed, "Well begun is half" this'

Answer: done


Question: 'Be prepared to break out the baby wipes if this innate mechanism in your wife's body is still "ticking"'

Answer: her biological clock


Question: 'Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines'

Answer: aluminum


Question:
'A Time to
_______
Bill'

Answer: Kill


Question: 'Israeli PM Sharon formed a new government to carry out his plan to dismantle all settlements in this area'

Answer: the Gaza Strip


Question: 'The cross called celtuce combines the taste thrill of these two vegetables'

Answer: celery & lettuce


Question: 'This type of "contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" is attributed to Sam Goldwyn'

Answer: a verbal contract (oral contract accepted)


Question: 'Stubble on a man's face in the late afternoon, if he shaved in the morning'

Answer: a five-o\'clock shadow


Question: 'This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals'

Answer: silver


Question:
'The Ugly
_______
Beauty'

Answer: American


Question: 'This ailing 80-year-old got a standing ovation for appearing at the inauguration'

Answer: Chief Justice Rehnquist


Question: 'They make up the genus Beta'

Answer: beets


Question: 'Will Rogers said, "We can't all be" these, "because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by"'

Answer: heroes


Question: 'A large pendulum clock having a long, upright case usually taller than 6 1/2 feet'

Answer: a grandfather clock


Question: 'This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines'

Answer: graphite


Question:
'Lost in
_______
Jam'

Answer: Space


Question: 'Bill Gates is giving $750 million to this type of health program, & Norway is giving $290 million'

Answer: immunization


Question: 'Each of the plants seen here yields dozens of these veggies'

Answer: Brussels sprouts


Question: 'In it's first installment, this successor column to Ann Landers said it's ok to charge your lazy son rent'

Answer: Ask Amy


Question: 'This 1962 novel was partly inspired by an assault on author Anthony Burgess' pregnant wife'

Answer: A Clockwork Orange


Question: 'Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones & negative chlorine ones'

Answer: ions


Question:
'The Morning
_______
Hours'

Answer: After


Question: 'This state's governor Gregoire was sworn in after a hand recount gave her a 129-vote edge'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Snow Crown, a popular variety of this veggie, has a pure white head'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: '"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" was this character's advice to his son'

Answer: Polonius


Question: 'The most recent of these devices can achieve accuracy to within about 1 second in every 3 million years'

Answer: an atomic clock


Question: 'This conductor "and the Pittsburgh (Symphony)" was a popular public TV series in the '70s'

Answer: André Previn


Question: 'Nursery rhyme monarch who was a merry old soul'

Answer: Old King Cole


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Truman's Presidential Library. )  I'm here in the actual office Harry Truman worked in from 1957-1966 at his presidential library in this city'

Answer: Independence


Question: 'L.A. trial judge Lance'

Answer: Ito


Question: '14-line poem that may be Petrarchan<br />(6)'

Answer: a sonnet


Question: 'Snap one lower extremity!'

Answer: Break a leg!


Question: 'He's seen here in a typically passionate moment'

Answer: Leonard Bernstein


Question: 'Her biggest hits include 1997's "I Don't Want To Wait"'

Answer: Paula Cole


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a national park.) I'm in America's first national park in this state that also had our first national monument & national forest'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'Later to win Olympic gold, she won her first World Figure Skating Championship in 1991'

Answer: Kristi Yamaguchi


Question: 'Erle Gardner's middle name<br />(7)'

Answer: Stanley


Question: 'Clothed for committing<br />homicide'

Answer: dressed to kill


Question: 'Conductor Georg Solti had a long tenure with the Chicago Symphony; George Szell, with this Great Lakes city's orchestra'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'On the small screen he starred in "Midnight Caller"; on the big screen he was Mike Brady'

Answer: Gary Cole


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a city square.) I'm in this city that was co-capital of the Colony & State of Connecticut 1701-1875'

Answer: New Haven


Question: 'Series regular who played a crewman on the original "Star Trek"'

Answer: George Takei


Question: 'What "Requiem for a Nun" is to "Sanctuary"<br />(6)'

Answer: a sequel


Question: 'Annoy a fellow the same height as thee'

Answer: pick on somebody your own size


Question: 'He studied medicine at St. Xavier's College in India before becoming a conductor'

Answer: Zubin Mehta


Question: '"Love For Sale" is one of the standards he wrote'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a field of a certain cereal crop.)  I'm the area known by this agricultural name, stretching from Nebraska to Ohio, & Minnesota to Missouri'

Answer: the Corn Belt


Question: 'U.S. Army Chief of Staff 1999-2003'

Answer: (General) Shinseki


Question: 'Title age for a Tarkington lad<br />(9)'

Answer: seventeen


Question: 'One single avian present equals multiples perching amongst foliage'

Answer: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush


Question: 'The first British music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, his last name is also a noise'

Answer: Simon Rattle


Question: 'A member of Jesse James' outlaw gang'

Answer: Cole Younger


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a Navy yard.)  I'm at the U.S. Navy's biggest West Coast base of operations, in this city'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'Shuttle astronaut onboard the "Challenger"'

Answer: Ellison Onizuka


Question: 'British biographer Lytton<br />(8)'

Answer: Strachey


Question: '"Carmen" remains unfinished up to the time a beefy broad belts out a ditty'

Answer: the opera ain\'t over \'til the fat lady sings


Question: 'With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'In 1484, Portugal rejected his "Enterprise of the Indies" plan, so he sought support in Spain'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question:
'Zachary Powers,
Khan,
Mr. Roarke'

Answer: Ricardo Montalban


Question: 'In 1993, on this day of the week, the Cowboys beat the Bills 52-17'

Answer: (Super Bowl) Sunday


Question: 'In "All The President's Men", Woodward & Bernstein relate how they investigated this scandal'

Answer: Watergate


Question: 'A Genovese is from Genoa, while a Genevese comes from this city'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'It precedes "Three, four, open the door"'

Answer: "One, two, buckle my shoe"


Question: 'Organized by King Henry VII in 1485, this unit of royal protectors now performs ceremonial duties'

Answer: Yeomen of the Guard


Question:
'Charlie Townsend,
Bentley Gregg,
Blake Carrington'

Answer: John Forsythe


Question: 'For Jews, the sabbath starts on the evening of this day'

Answer: Friday


Question: 'John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook the World" is an account of this country's 1917 revolution'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Tradition says these Polynesians, who now live in New Zealand, came from a land called<br />Hawaiki'

Answer: Maori


Question: 'This spacehero was created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the 1928 story "Armageddon 2419 A.D."'

Answer: Buck Rogers


Question: 'Published posthumously in 1485, this author's "Le Morte d' Arthur" was written mostly in prison'

Answer: Sir Thomas Malory


Question:
'Dr. Vincent Markham,
John Bracken,
Detective Frank Drebin'

Answer: Leslie Nielsen


Question: 'Its abbreviation is a synonym for marry'

Answer: Wednesday (Wed.)


Question: 'The American edition of her "Dog Training My Way" was published in 1972'

Answer: Barbara Woodhouse


Question: 'The people of this South American city are called Paulistas'

Answer: Sao Paulo


Question: 'Wild Bill Hickok's TV horse, or the large pellets contained in the shell of a 12 gauge gun'

Answer: Buckshot


Question: 'The death of Richard III in the 1485 battle of this field is said to have ended The Wars of the Roses'

Answer: Bosworth Field


Question:
'Toni "Feather" Danton,
April Dancer,
Jennifer Hart'

Answer: Stefanie Powers


Question: 'Day of the week in the title of the following:<br />[audio clue: "Something calls to me..."]'

Answer: Tuesday (Tuesday Afternoon)


Question: 'This tennis great who passed away in 1993 left behind the memoir "Days Of Grace"'

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: 'This ethnic group descended from Celts is predominant in southern Belgium'

Answer: Walloons


Question: 'While at Yale, this conservative writer taught Spanish & was chairman of the Yale Daily News'

Answer: William F. Buckley, Jr.


Question: 'In 1483, this Roman Catholic priest became Spain's first Grand Inquisitor'

Answer: Tomas de Torquemada


Question:
'Ruth Martin,
Beverly Ann Stickle,
Phyllis Lindstrom'

Answer: Cloris Leachman


Question: 'Black Thursday was the stock market crash on October 24, 1929; this was the one on October 19, 1987'

Answer: Black Monday


Question: '"Reversal Of Fortune", this attorney's book about the von Bulow case, was the basis for a 1990 film'

Answer: Alan Dershowitz


Question: 'The two main ethnic groups in this mountainous country on the Adriatic are the Ghegs & the Tosks'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'This American architect designed the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'He was first called "The Father of His Country" in a 1779 almanac published in Pennsylvania'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Among this chief god's names were Bileygr, meaning "shifty-eyed" & Alfador, or "all-father"'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'Folk, punk & hard are three types of this musical style'

Answer: Rock


Question: 'In the U.S. there are 350,000 known cases of this disease of the nervous system abbreviated MS'

Answer: Multiple Sclerosis


Question: '"Of Human Bondage" author who based his play "The Letter" on one of his own short stories'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'This large country could say to tiny Lesotho, "Don't move, we've got you surrounded"'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'In 1867 the first railroad to cross this state was completed from the Mississippi to Council Bluffs'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'The she-goat Heidrun produced a never-ending flow of this brew, a mixture of water & honey'

Answer: Mead


Question: 'In traditional solmization, do is the first note of the scale & this is the fourth note'

Answer: Fa


Question: 'Lumbago is a general term for achiness in this part of the body'

Answer: (Lower) back


Question: 'His first musical, "Little Me", premiered in 1962, the year after his first play, "Come Blow Your Horn"'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'Rwanda-Urundi split into Rwanda & this'

Answer: Burundi


Question: 'Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers'

Answer: Greenback Party


Question: 'In a rare act of kindness, this mischief maker helped Thor retrieve his stolen hammer'

Answer: Loki


Question: 'Italian for "obligatory", it refers to an instrumental part that should not be omitted'

Answer: Obligato


Question: 'A glucose tolerance test is commonly used to diagnose this insulin deficiency disorder'

Answer: Diabetes


Question: 'Appropriately, this 1935 T.S. Eliot play is often performed in churches'

Answer: Murder in the Cathedral


Question: 'Guinea is bordered by this country that also has Guinea in its name'

Answer: Guinea-Bissau


Question: 'In March 1814 this general defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Alabama'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'After choosing which warriors should die, these maidens would carry them to Valhalla on horseback'

Answer: Valkyries


Question: 'Fortissimo's antonym'

Answer: Pianissimo


Question: 'Developed before birth, a septal defect is a hole in this organ'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'His 1666 comedy, "Le Medecin malgre lui", is known in English as "The Doctor in Spite of Himself"'

Answer: Moliere


Question: 'Ouagadougou is the capital of this "faso"nating landlocked country'

Answer: Burkina Faso


Question: 'For leading a slave rebellion in August of 1831, he was tried, convicted & hanged that November'

Answer: Nat Turner


Question: 'A rainbow bridge called Bifrost linked Midgard, the Earth, with this home of the gods'

Answer: Asgard


Question: 'French for "fixed idea", it's a theme that reappears throughout a composition'

Answer: Idee fixe


Question: 'It's the removal of skin by sanding to remove tattoos or to improve skin scarred by acne'

Answer: Dermabrasion


Question: 'He proposed to Helen Hayes the night "The Front Page" opened in 1928'

Answer: Charles MacArthur


Question: 'As its name reflects, this capital of Sierra Leone was founded as a haven for freed slaves'

Answer: Freetown


Question: 'In 1704 he was commandant of Detroit; a few years later, he was made governor of Louisiana'

Answer: Antoine de Cadillac


Question: 'In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy's head'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'A blue horseshoe'

Answer: the (Indianapolis) Colts


Question: 'In 1892 Dimitri Ivanovski showed there were agents smaller than bacteria causing disease; we know them as these'

Answer: viruses


Question: 'The biggest attraction at the Ronald Reagan library & museum is this presidential plane that you can walk through'

Answer: Air Force One


Question: 'This island nation is close in size to Pennsylvania & close in proximity to Florida'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'A competitor, like the 2 other contestants'

Answer: opponent


Question: 'This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'An orange letter "B" with black stripes'

Answer: the Cincinnati Bengals


Question: 'The government's "Centers for" these 2 words "& Prevention" dates back to 1946'

Answer: Disease Control


Question: 'Exhibits at this museum in 2009 included "Woodstock: the 40th anniversary" & a Michael Jackson memorial wall'

Answer: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


Question: 'This little Central American country is about the size of Massachusetts, but Belmopan, not Boston, is its capital'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'It's the branch of medicine that deals with pregnancy & childbirth'

Answer: obstetrics


Question: 'Don Jose is bewitched by this title gypsy girl'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'A gold lightning bolt outlined in blue'

Answer: San Diego Chargers


Question: 'During WWII Ernst Chain & Howard Florey mass-produced this antibiotic only discovered a decade before'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'At the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in D.C. you can see the studio where John Walsh hosts this long-running show'

Answer: America\'s Most Wanted


Question: 'Bhet you can name this country nestled in the Himalayas between India & China; it's about half the size of Indiana'

Answer: Bhutan


Question: 'A building that houses a telescope'

Answer: observatory


Question: 'This title slave & Pharaoh's daughter Amneris are both in love with Radames'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'A horse's head with an orange mane'

Answer: Denver Broncos


Question: 'By 1980 a global vaccination effort led to the virtual eradication of this, the only time that's been done to a germ'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'At the Acropolis museum in Athens, you'll find a whole gallery devoted to this ancient temple of Athena'

Answer: the Parthenon


Question: 'This Mediterranean island split between Greek & Turkish areas is a little more than half the size of Hawaii'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'An 8-piece musical group'

Answer: octet


Question: 'Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this opera's title marriage'

Answer: The Marriage of Figaro


Question: 'A letter "C" in orange with white trim'

Answer: the Chicago Bears


Question: 'Grinding his own lenses, this 17th century Dutchman discovered bacteria with a home-made microscope'

Answer: (Antonie) Leeuwenhoek


Question: 'In China don't miss the Dingling Museum, which includes the tomb of the 13th emperor of this dynasty'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'It's about the size of Maine, & it's right across the river from Israel'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'Government by a wealthy elite'

Answer: oligarchy


Question: 'In 2008 a group known as MEND launched a war that cut Nigeria's exports of this by 40%'

Answer: oil


Question: 'Made for $15,000, this tale of a young couple at home was a surprise hit in 2009'

Answer: Paranormal Activity


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some candy at the See's Candy Factory.)  At the See's Factory, these types of candy are still hand-dipped; the candies are that good, as the name tells you twice'

Answer: bonbons


Question: 'As prophesied, this king of Thebes killed his father & married his own mother'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'Before her tragic death in 1997, she remarked that "Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be"'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'Check your RPMs on this panel beneath a car's windshield'

Answer: the dashboard


Question: '(I'm author and journalist Helene Cooper.) In 1847 a government based on that of the U.S. was established by free black men & former slaves in the West African nation they called this'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'A 7-film TCM block dedicated to "mad" these included "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll"'

Answer: mad scientists


Question: 'This flower gets its name from the way it closes at night and opens at dawn, like a human sense organ'

Answer: a daisy


Question: 'These twin sons of Mars founded the city of Rome'

Answer: Romulus & Remus


Question: 'This artist predicted, "In the future everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes"'

Answer: (Andy) Warhol


Question: '"Always" this woman who attends the female geting married'

Answer: the bridesmaid


Question: 'Work on a bridge over the Tsavo River was badly hampered in 1898 when 2 of these mammals ate 140 workers'

Answer: lions


Question: 'This tool & die franchise has released a movie in VI consecutive Octobers'

Answer: Saw


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some candy at the See's Candy Factory.)  A cookbook from the days of the Roman Empire has a recipe for "nucatum" which is the Latin root of this confection still popular today'

Answer: nougat


Question: 'After slaying this monster, Theseus traced his way out of the labyrinth by following a thread'

Answer: the Minotaur


Question: 'In a 1968 speech Eldridge Cleaver said, "You're either part of the solution or you're part of" this'

Answer: the problem


Question: 'It's the transmission capacity of an electronic communications device'

Answer: bandwidth


Question: 'Aksum, centered in Ethiopia, became a great trading empire around 100 A.D. by controlling this sea'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'Luke Wilson & Kate Beckinsale check into a motel AAA would not approve in this 2007 film'

Answer: Vacancy


Question: 'The gardenia is a symbol of someone who loves you, but doesn't say so, called this two-word phrase'

Answer: a secret admirer


Question: 'Despite his dad's warnings, he flew too close to the sun; the wax on his wings melted & he plunged into the sea'

Answer: Icarus


Question: 'Following a Harpers Ferry raid, he said, "I am content to die for God's eternal truth"'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'Prohibited; it precedes "City" in a walled section of Beijing'

Answer: forbidden


Question: 'A kingdom of West Central Africa founded around 1390 is called this, like 2 current countries, but spelled with a K'

Answer: Kongo


Question: 'This "Hostel" director also acts in Quentin Tarantino movies'

Answer: Eli Roth


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some candy at the See's Candy Factory.)  This candy, whipped egg whites, vanilla cream & English walnuts in milk chocolate is a little slice of heaven, & not just because of its name'

Answer: divinities


Question: 'Early on, this Queen of Carthage might have sung to Aeneas, "And I want to thank you, for giving me the best day of my life"'

Answer: Dido


Question: '"It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top", said this founder of Tuskegee'

Answer: (Booker T.) Washington


Question: '10-letter word meaning reliable or worthy of trust'

Answer: dependable


Question: 'These 2 men first meet in 1 Samuel 16 when one becomes aware of the musical talent of the other'

Answer: David & Saul


Question: 'This term for an elephant comes from the Greek for "thick-skinned"'

Answer: pachyderm


Question: 'This actor copped out in "The Streets of San Francisco"'

Answer: Michael Douglas


Question: 'Zero is the innocent young farmboy in this military-set comic strip'

Answer: Beetle Bailey


Question: 'At their Gettysburg home, Mamie Eisenhower's bathroom was pink & Ike's was this color (remember, he was a soldier)'

Answer: green


Question: 'It's the medical term for nearsightedness'

Answer: myopia


Question: 'This literary hero dedicates his deeds of valor to Aldonza, a peasant girl he calls Dulcinea'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'Panther is a term for a black one of these cats'

Answer: jaguar/leopard


Question: 'Nefarious CEOs hide under their desks when this "60 Minutes" anchor comes knocking on their doors'

Answer: Mike Wallace


Question: 'Ok, 0 K is absolute zero on this scale'

Answer: Kelvin


Question: 'Jean Harlow was famous for having this silvery shade of blonde hair'

Answer: platinum


Question: 'Gore Vidal's Ms. Breckinridge'

Answer: Myra