Question: 'Bugs Bunny often said, "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at" this city'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'At a high school or college graduation, you might hear this popular Elgar composition'

Answer: "Pomp and Circumstance"


Question: 'This lead singer of Hole likes to turn her old T-shirts into sexy halter tops'

Answer: Courtney Love


Question: 'According to these historic prose epics by Icelanders, the Vikings established many settlements in North America'

Answer: Sagas


Question:
'Mammy Yokum,
Daisy Mae,
Sadie Hawkins'

Answer: Li\'l Abner


Question: 'The special interest of Nobel Prize laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood was how oxygen & hydrogen combine to form this'

Answer: Water


Question: 'A letter from Einstein to FDR is on display at the Bradbury Science Museum in this city, birthplace of the atomic bomb'

Answer: Los Alamos


Question: 'An 18th century marquise popularized this hairstyle'

Answer: Pompadour


Question: 'Once style editor for the New York Times Magazine, Carrie Donovan appeared in ads for this chain, spun off from The Gap'

Answer: Old Navy


Question: 'In 1867 this dual monarchy was created under the rule of Francis Joseph I; it lasted until the end of World War I'

Answer: Austria-Hungary


Question:
'Odie,
Pooky,
Jon'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Sir David Brewster invented the Dioptic system of illumination for these on the seaside'

Answer: Lighthouses


Question: 'This city hosts an annual UFO festival during the first week of July'

Answer: Roswell


Question: 'This ocean fish can also be known as a butterfish'

Answer: Pompano


Question: 'Lift a cup of "Coco" to this designer, whose little black dress of decades past is still fashion forward today'

Answer: Coco Chanel


Question: 'In 1806 Napoleon's brother Louis became king of this Low Country which had been known as the Batavian Republic'

Answer: The Netherlands/Holland


Question:
'Among others, Dolly,
Jeffy,
P.J., seen here'

Answer: The Family Circus


Question: 'In a fly-by-night operation in Africa, Sir David Bruce found that sleeping sickness was spread by this'

Answer: Tsetse fly


Question: 'Built in 1610, the Palace of the Governors in this city is the oldest public building in the U.S.'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: 'He was premier of France from 1962 to 1968'

Answer: Georges Pompidou


Question: 'At the Emmys in 2000, this "Ally McBeal" co-star bared almost all in a sexy Donatella Versace gown'

Answer: Lucy Liu


Question: 'A major goddess of this first great Cretan civilization was often depicted holding snakes'

Answer: Minoan


Question:
'The King,
Sir Rodney,
The Spirit'

Answer: The Wizard of Id


Question: 'Sir Godfrey Hounsfield helped develop this medical imaging technology introduced in the 1970s'

Answer: CAT Scan


Question: 'D.H. Lawrence lived in this artistic city from 1922 to 1925 & his ashes were returned there for burial'

Answer: Taos


Question: 'In 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain, Julius Caesar defeated this man's sons'

Answer: Pompey the Great


Question: 'Before spandex, many women wore full bloomers called rationals while riding these 2-wheelers in the 1890s'

Answer: Bicycles


Question: 'Woodrow Wilson,<br />1916'

Answer: Democrat


Question: 'The jungles of Vietnam in this 1979 Coppola film were actually in the Philippines'

Answer: Apocalypse Now


Question: 'In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", he was "The juvenile pariah of the village", the "son of the town drunkard"'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'In a nursery rhyme these numbers immediately precede "lay them straight"'

Answer: 7, 8


Question: 'In 1958 you could have celebrated New Year's "Yves" in one of the trapeze dresses he designed for Dior'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'In 1998 "The X-Files" relocated to California from this Canadian city'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: '"Do you believe in fairies?...if you believe", do this'

Answer: Clap your hands (from "Peter Pan")


Question: 'In 2000, they were the last 3 days of February'

Answer: 27, 28 & 29


Question: 'This jacket with a Spanish name was all the rage when the portrait seen here was painted in 1864'

Answer: Bolero


Question: 'John Adams,<br />1796'

Answer: Federalist


Question: 'Martin Scorsese used the well-preserved architecture of Troy, New York to film this Edith Wharton novel'

Answer: The Age of Innocence


Question: 'In this novel Charles Dickens wrote that Mr. Micawber was "a thoroughly good-natured man"'

Answer: "David Copperfield"


Question: 'This stammering Roman emperor launched an invasion against Celtic forces in Britain in 43 A.D.'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'The 2 home runs hit by Mark McGwire September 27, 1998 were these numbers for that season'

Answer: 69 & 70


Question: 'In the '60s it was really mod to paint lashes under your eyes in imitation of this superthin supermodel'

Answer: Twiggy


Question: 'Harry Browne,<br />2000'

Answer: Libertarian


Question: 'This Baja California "Beach" town got a 775-foot addition to its scenery when "Titanic" was shot nearby'

Answer: Rosarito Beach


Question: 'When these "last in the dooryard bloom'd", Walt Whitman "mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring"'

Answer: Lilacs


Question: 'In peacetime the Coast Guard is part of this cabinet department, not the Defense Department'

Answer: Transportation


Question: 'These 4 Hanoverian Georges ruled England from 1714 to 1830'

Answer: I, II, III & IV


Question: 'Fur wasn't considered a no-no when this artist painted his fashionably plump young wife, seen here, in the 1600s'

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: 'William Henry Harrison,<br />1840'

Answer: Whig


Question: 'Antebellum home Warwickton was the location for this Gere-Foster movie about a postbellum reunion'

Answer: Sommersby


Question: 'It ends, "Before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race..."'

Answer: "The Last of the Mohicans"


Question: 'Originally a hospital for injured soldiers, it's the Paris "Hotel" where you'll find Napoleon's bones'

Answer: Hotel des Invalides


Question: 'The atomic numbers of Einsteinium, Fermium & Mendelevium'

Answer: 99, 100 & 101


Question: 'An allusion to "Arabian Nights", the title of this show suggests a magic door to knowledge'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'In a New York magazine article, Tom Wolfe gave the '70s this egotistical name'

Answer: The "Me" Decade


Question: 'In the "Archie" comics, this is the nickname of Forsythe Pendleton Jones'

Answer: "Jughead"


Question: 'This Russian's one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 was his first & only venture into space'

Answer: Yuri Gagarin


Question: '"T-R-O-U-B-L-E" was a 1992 album by this country singer whose names also start with "TR"'

Answer: Travis Tritt


Question:
'Morgan,
Belgian,
Clydesdale'

Answer: Horses


Question: 'Lose out on an opportunity (& a ride) by getting to the dock too late'

Answer: Miss the boat


Question: 'This former New York governor was reportedly with a young woman when he died suddenly in 1979'

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller


Question: 'Betty's last name is Cooper; this character's is Lodge'

Answer: Veronica


Question: 'This first U.S. space station was launched on May 14, 1973 -- 2 years after the Soviet Union orbited its first'

Answer: Skylab


Question: 'On TV he plays the mayor of "Spin City"'

Answer: Barry Bostwick


Question:
'Sumatran short-eared,
lop,
cottontail'

Answer: Rabbits


Question: 'To propose marriage; it shouldn't "burst" your intended's hopes'

Answer: Pop the question


Question: '(Hi, I'm Danny Masterson of "That '70s Show")  This American with a swingin' mustache & haircut was a hero of the 1972 Olympics with 7 gold medals'

Answer: Mark Spitz


Question: 'Archie lives & attends high school in this town'

Answer: Riverdale


Question: 'The 1986 Giotto probe of this was named for the artist who may have painted its 1301 appearance'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'This former junk bond king now chairs a not-for-profit think tank named for him'

Answer: Michael Milken


Question:
'Schipperke,
borzoi,
bichon frise'

Answer: Dogs


Question: 'Expose wrongdoing, or what a ref does to start play in the game'

Answer: Blow the whistle


Question: 'This company that had been making rugged boots since 1863 had a new vogue in the '70s'

Answer: Frye


Question: 'Midge's boyfriend, he suffers from dyslexia'

Answer: Moose


Question: 'On April 14, 1981 this shuttle commanded by John Young was the first manned U.S. spacecraft to land on land'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'This urbane movie reviewer & author of "Do You Sleep in the Nude?" is a native Texan'

Answer: Rex Reed


Question:
'Abyssinian,
Burmese,
Manx'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'It's a good place to have an ace & a bad place to be financially'

Answer: In the hole


Question: 'A man who dashed naked through the Hawaii legislature proclaimed himself this "of the house"'

Answer: "Streaker of the House"


Question: 'Archie will turn 60 in this, the 1st year of the 21st century'

Answer: 2001


Question: 'This rocket, the most powerful launch vehicle built by the U.S., stood 363 feet high & weighed over 6 million lbs.'

Answer: Saturn 5


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kevin Garnett)  This 76er known as "Chocolate Thunder" was 1 of only 3 players before me to go from high school to the NBA'

Answer: Darryl Dawkins


Question:
'Thresher,
nurse,
whale'

Answer: Sharks


Question: 'Freed from blame, or a fish after being caught & released'

Answer: Off the hook


Question: 'Robert Southey's prose collection "The Doctor" featured this ursine nursery story'

Answer: "The Story of the Three Bears"


Question: '"The Trapp Family Singers"'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'In "Psycho" Anthony Perkins says, "A boy's best friend is" this person'

Answer: his mother


Question: 'The name of this Pacific island republic is 4 letters long & 3 of them are dotted'

Answer: Fiji


Question: 'The Beatles we are all familiar with were John, Paul, George & the man born with this name'

Answer: Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr)


Question: 'In 1993 Croatian forces destroyed a 400-year-old bridge in this country's city of Mostar'

Answer: Bosnia


Question: 'John Dryden also wrote plays; his "All for Love" was based on this Roman tale by Shakespeare'

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra


Question: '"Pygmalion"'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'In the King James Version of John 3:16, "God so loved the world, that he gave" this'

Answer: His only begotten son


Question: 'These 3 Baltic republics were admitted to the U.N. on the same day, September 17, 1991'

Answer: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania


Question: 'Elected to the House from Missouri's 3rd District, he represents his hometown of St. Louis'

Answer: Richard Gephardt


Question: 'Unlike many London sites, this bridge seen here is only about a century old:'

Answer: Tower Bridge


Question: 'He wrote that "Nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower"'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: '"The Once and Future King"'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'Robin Morgan made "Bartlett's" with her 1970 book title this "is Powerful"'

Answer: Sisterhood


Question: 'In 1997 Christmas was declared an official holiday in this Caribbean republic'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'During his fourth Antarctic expedition, 1946-47, he flew over the South Pole a second time'

Answer: Admiral Richard E. Byrd


Question: 'The Astoria Bridge in Washington & Oregon is one of this type that sounds like it suffers from a hernia'

Answer: truss


Question: '"Berlin Stories" & "I am a Camera"'

Answer: Cabaret


Question: 'In an old saying, this Roman person "must be above suspicion"'

Answer: Caesar\'s wife


Question: 'The heart of what was Phoenicia is in this republic between Israel & Syria'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'He's been dubbed "The King of Angst":'

Answer: Richard Lewis


Question: 'A rail bridge across this firth at Queensferry, Scotland has 2 1700-foot spans'

Answer: the Firth of Forth


Question: '"Green Grow the Lilacs"'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'An 18th century anti-slavery medal bore the legend "Am I not a man and" one of these'

Answer: a brother


Question: 'In 1970 this South American country freely elected a Marxist-Leninist leader, a first for a non-Communist country'

Answer: Chile (Salvador Allende)


Question: 'In one prison he wrote "To Lucasta, going to the wars"; in another prison he wrote "To Althea"'

Answer: Richard Lovelace


Question: 'The Confederation Bridge, opened in 1997, is the first highway link to this Canadian island province'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: '"You Can Leave Your Hat On" & "The Stripper" are on the soundtrack of this 1997 Oscar-nominated movie'

Answer: The Full Monty


Question: 'This man for whom a large city is named became governor of Tennessee in 1827 & governor of Texas in 1859'

Answer: Sam Houston


Question: 'Vitagraph's 1909 "Life of" this Biblical hero included a $10,000 scene of the parting of the Red Sea'

Answer: Moses


Question: '"Police Arrest" this egg boy "After Drunken 'Jackass' Copycat Falling-Off-Wall Stunt!"'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'It's the color some French undie sellers call "le shocking"'

Answer: pink


Question: 'In the 11th century, William the Conqueror ordered the construction of this fortress on the Thames'

Answer: the Tower of London


Question: 'The Dodge Caravan & the Plymouth Voyager, for example'

Answer: minivan


Question: 'After winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, he got his own piano competition'

Answer: Van Cliburn


Question: 'Before he was Patton, this man played Abraham in 1966's "The Bible"'

Answer: George C. Scott


Question: '"Arachnid Infestation Drives" this young miss "Away From Curds & Whey Eatery!"'

Answer: Miss Muffet


Question: 'Yeats wrote, "When you are old and" this color "and full of sleep and nodding by the fire..."'

Answer: gray


Question: 'Lausanne in this country is home to the International Olympic Committee & an Olympic museum'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Dr. Evil's clone'

Answer: Mini-Me


Question: 'In 1991 this archbishop of Los Angeles was elevated to cardinal'

Answer: Roger Mahony


Question: 'Set during Nero's reign, this film's title is a line uttered by Peter to Jesus & means "Where are you going?"'

Answer: Quo Vadis


Question: '"In New Reality Show", this fairy tale maiden "Chooses Among Seven Stumpy Suitors!"'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'The 2 opposing colors in the Wars of the Roses & in the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920'

Answer: red & white


Question: 'If people are parading through Copacabana playing their cuicas, it's this 4-day period'

Answer: Carnival


Question: 'It's also called putt-putt'

Answer: mini golf


Question: '"The World's Greatest Gospel Singer", she sang at President Kennedy's inauguration & Martin Luther King's funeral'

Answer: Mahalia Jackson


Question: 'In 1949 Victor Mature & Hedy Lamarr played this dysfunctional Biblical couple with a penchant for barber-ism'

Answer: Samson and Delilah


Question: 'This trio "Requires Dangerous Rescue After Risky Oceangoing Venture in Bathtub!"'

Answer: The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker


Question: '(Hi, I'm Charlie Garner of the NFL)  These are the Oakland Raiders' 2 team colors; they strike fear in opponents'

Answer: silver & black


Question: 'The history of St. Thomas in this island group is exhibited at Fort Christian, named for Denmark's King Christian V'

Answer: the Virgin Islands


Question: '"Roots" or "The Thorn Birds"'

Answer: a miniseries


Question: 'This author died in New Hampshire in 1864 during a visit with old school chum Franklin Pierce'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'Stewart Granger played Lot & Pier Angeli was his salty wife Ildith in the 1962 film about these 2 title cities'

Answer: Sodom and Gomorrah


Question: 'This abusive puppet "Arrested Again in Domestic Disturbance Case; Wife Judy Says, 'This Time It's Over!'"'

Answer: Punch


Question: 'Among natural dyes, you can get this color from fustic, weld or turmeric'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'The buildings in this Bermudan capital are commonly painted in pastels & the roofs are made of coral'

Answer: Hamilton


Question: 'Abstract American art movement of the 1960s'

Answer: Minimalist


Question: 'Washington Allston specialized in this type of painting; the work seen here is titled "Moonlit" one'

Answer: Landscape


Question: 'Despite its name this carnivorous plant also eats caterpillars, spiders & crickets'

Answer: Venus Flytrap


Question: 'Your real desktop may be covered with Post-It notes, while your computer desktop is covered with these images'

Answer: icons


Question: 'Egypt & Lebanon'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'Joan Crawford won an Oscar as this housewife-turned-waitress who went on to play James Bond'

Answer: Mildred Pierce Brosnan


Question: 'He parodied Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by singing "Smells Like Nirvana"'

Answer: "Weird Al" Yankovic


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Venice, Italy)  This poet talked about freedom at the Cafe Florian & later journeyed to help the Greeks fight for freedom'

Answer: (Lord) Byron


Question: 'Literally meaning "flower of the lily", it was long a symbol of French royalty'

Answer: Fleur-de-lis


Question: 'The name of this company can also mean information acquired by spies'

Answer: Intel


Question: 'Nepal & Mongolia'

Answer: China


Question: '"Ali" portrayer & handgun manufacturer who celebrated their 150th anniversary in 2002'

Answer: Will Smith and Wesson


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Louisville, Kentucky)  This mobster loved to play cards at the Seelbach Hilton & even sent a mirror here from Chicago so he could watch his back'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'This opera composer's art really took off with 1843's "The Flying Dutchman"'

Answer: Wagner


Question: '"Morbid" nickname for the Titan arum, the giant stinky flower seen here'

Answer: the Corpse Flower


Question: 'A 1994 article in Wired magazine said privacy was "Roadkill Along" this'

Answer: the Information Superhighway


Question: 'France & Slovenia'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Brutal Russian czar who's in the phase of toddlerhood marked by tantrums & contrary behavior'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible Twos


Question: 'His mesmerizing Broadway debut as a junkie in the 1969 play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" won him a Tony Award'

Answer: Al Pacino


Question: 'He's the British author-illustrator whose work is seen here'

Answer: William Blake


Question: 'Common in the Southwestern U.S., the Strawberry Hedgehog belongs to this family of plants'

Answer: Cactus


Question: 'The Epson Stylus C82 is this type of consumer product'

Answer: inkjet printer


Question: 'Venezuela & Argentina'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'A Russian goldsmith first made this prized enameled, jeweled McDonald's breakfast sandwich in 1973'

Answer: Faberge Egg McMuffin


Question: 'This trumpeter teamed up with Ann-Margret on the album "Beauty and the Beard"'

Answer: Al Hirt


Question: 'The film seen here is a romanticized biography of this Romantic man'

Answer: Frederic Chopin


Question: 'You don't have to go to New England to see this plant; lots of American homes have one'

Answer: Boston Fern


Question: 'Faster than a modem connection, it's a method of transmitting data digitally over phone lines'

Answer: ISDN


Question: 'Libya & Morocco'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'Andy Griffith gets his hair cut by this Mayberry character also known as Figaro in a Rossini opera'

Answer: Floyd the Barber of Seville


Question: 'This singer must have been over the moon when he made "Moonlighting" a hit in 1987'

Answer: Al Jarreau


Question: 'This term was first used in an ice cream trade journal in 1937; it began to appear in the nuclear power industry in the '60s'

Answer: meltdown


Question: 'The dinosaur Tenontosaurus kept its balance with this feature that made up roughly half its 24' length'

Answer: its tail


Question: 'In 1540 a party led by Coronado became the first Europeans to see this Arizona natural wonder'

Answer: the Grand Canyon


Question: '1971:<br />"...and the Chocolate Factory"'

Answer: Willy Wonka


Question: 'Character who finally discovered breaking & entering suspect Goldilocks'

Answer: Baby Bear


Question: 'It's the military instrument heard here'

Answer: a bugle


Question: 'Yum!  It's the grinding part of a turkey's digestive tract'

Answer: the gizzard


Question: 'Specially engraved milestones were brought from England to mark this line surveyed in the 1760s'

Answer: the Mason-Dixon Line


Question: 'When Captain Cook left England in July 1776, this future Bounty captain was master of his ship the Resolution'

Answer: Captain William Bligh


Question: '1994:<br />"...and Present Danger"'

Answer: Clear


Question: 'Family name of the 3 billy goats who turned the tables on a troll'

Answer: Gruff


Question: 'Classic versions of this timekeeper heard here come from southern Germany'

Answer: a cuckoo clock


Question: 'A promise of quality or of a particular outcome'

Answer: a guarantee


Question: 'Hugo Wieslander, runner-up in the 1912 Olympic decathlon, refused the gold medal this man had to return'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'In 1725 the Russian government employed Vitus Bering to discover whether these 2 continents were connected'

Answer: Asia & North America


Question: '1966:<br />"...and Mr. Chicken"'

Answer: The Ghost


Question: 'Louise Fitzhugh character who considers spying part of her young life'

Answer: Harriet the Spy


Question: 'Also known as a rail, this type of racing car heard here does its thing in under 5 seconds'

Answer: a drag racer


Question: 'In mythology, Jason sought it'

Answer: the Golden Fleece


Question: 'Selim III, who held this Ottoman title from 1789 to 1807, reportedly shot an arrow 972 yards'

Answer: sultan


Question: 'In 1517 Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba became the first Spaniard to reach Mexico when he landed at this peninsula'

Answer: the Yucatan Peninsula


Question: '1993:<br />"...and Confused"'

Answer: Dazed


Question: '18th century writer Madame Villeneuve is credited with writing this classic "tale as old as time"'

Answer: "Beauty and the Beast"


Question: 'Many military & commercial boats are now equipped with this device'

Answer: sonar


Question: 'Practicing typists know that "Now is the time for all" these "to come to the aid of the party"'

Answer: good men


Question: 'This "Dr. Faustus" playwright was a flamboyantly gay spy who was stabbed in the head in 1593'

Answer: Christopher Marlowe


Question: 'In 1500 Bartolomeu Dias died in a storm off this cape, which he called the Cape of Storms'

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope


Question: '1975:<br />"...and the Lion"'

Answer: The Wind


Question: 'The 1968 Newbery Medal went to "From the Mixed-Up" these "of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"'

Answer: Files


Question: 'It's the native wind instrument heard here, mate'

Answer: a didgeridoo


Question: 'Arthur's purest knight'

Answer: Sir Galahad


Question: 'Most of the river's 4,000-mile course is in this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'This song says, "Potato, poh-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to"'

Answer: "Let\'s Call The Whole Thing Off"


Question:
'Earl Butz,
John Mitchell,
Henry Kissinger'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Supreme Court case in which Snoopy's owner sues to desegregate public schools in Kansas'

Answer: Charlie Brown v. Board of Education


Question:
'Abraham Ribicoff,
Dean Rusk,
Robert McNamara'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: '"Macho Man" group that takes the publisher of Hustler magazine to court in a 1996 film'

Answer: The Village People vs. Larry Flynt


Question: 'The name of the 15-foot, 500-pound pirarucu means "red" this, though it could mean "big" this'

Answer: fish


Question: 'This butterfly seen here is toxic to birds due to the milkweed plants eaten when it was a caterpillar:'

Answer: a Monarch butterfly


Question: 'The B-17 was the Flying this, the B-29 the Super this, & the B-52 the Strato this'

Answer: Fortress


Question:
'Salmon Chase,
Edwin Stanton,
William Seward'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Controversial reproductive rights case involving a superstitious former Red Sox third baseman'

Answer: Roe v. Wade Boggs


Question: '13-letter term for the clearing of the Amazon basin, a source of environmental concern'

Answer: deforestation


Question: 'Ira Gershwin was baffled by singers who clearly phrased "It's" in this song; the point was to omit "it" & slur the "s"'

Answer: "\'S Wonderful"


Question: 'These chemicals used to attract mates are released from special wing scales'

Answer: pheromones


Question: '(Former College Championship contestant Margaret Bickers delivers the clue.)  It's the 7-letter word for materials carried aboard a plane that generate revenue, like passengers & cargo'

Answer: payload


Question:
'Raymond Donovan,
James Watt,
Caspar Weinberger'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Film in which Seinfeld's wacky neighbor walks out on Dustin Hoffman & their son & later sues for custody'

Answer: Cosmo Kramer vs. Kramer


Question: 'Adjective for the bore, or flow of water, that creates 15-foot waves in the river'

Answer: tidal bore


Question: 'Title that precedes "And you can get it -- if you try"'

Answer: "Nice Work If You Can Get It"


Question: 'From the Greek for "gold", it's the sometimes gold-colored case or cocoon that encases the pupa'

Answer: chrysalis


Question: 'The name of this maker of the $40 million G-V corporate jet sounds more like it sells boats'

Answer: Gulfstream


Question:
'Joseph Califano Jr.,
Griffin Bell,
Cyrus Vance'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Landmark 1803 Supreme Court decision establishing a Manhattan venue for the Knicks'

Answer: Marbury v. Madison Square Garden


Question: 'On February 15, 1965 this country raised its new national flag for the first time on Parliament Hill'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'It was a Spanish possession until 1655'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'On this school's home football weekends, the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend stays open longer'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'Rhode Island's Matt "The Knife" escaped from a cop's pair of these in 5 seconds flat'

Answer: handcuffs


Question: 'Of the major U.S. political parties, this one that started around 1830 has been around the longest'

Answer: the Democratic Party


Question: 'It's simply Spanish for "sauce"'

Answer: salsa


Question: 'A jury is made up of a group of these of yours'

Answer: peers


Question: 'Officially, it's a kingdom'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'A museum & hall of fame for this sport in Huntington Beach, Calif. includes a shrine to Duke Kahanamoku'

Answer: surfing


Question: 'New York's Mike Cuzzacrea has run 26 marathons in just over 3 hours each--oh, while flipping one of these foods'

Answer: a pancake


Question: 'Margaret Thatcher & John Major were both members of this political party'

Answer: the Conservative Party


Question: 'A tradition at Vienna's Demel Coffeehouse, founded 1786, is a cup of this warm sweet beverage on New Year's Day'

Answer: hot chocolate


Question: 'The flippers keep the sphere in play in this type of arcade game'

Answer: pinball


Question: 'Its first contact with Europeans came around 1542'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The original of this trophy, a silver bowl, is on permanent display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto'

Answer: the Stanley Cup


Question: 'In 1999 Illinois' Scott Jeckel shot a marshmallow from his nose & Ray Perisin caught it--16 feet later--in... eww... this'

Answer: his mouth


Question: 'In 1926 Benito Mussolini abolished all political parties except this one'

Answer: the Fascist Party


Question: 'Valmeuse & St. Benoit are nice soft runny these'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'From the Greek for "chief father", he's the head of a family or clan'

Answer: patriarch


Question: 'It was once populated by a people known as the Nabataeans'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'The museum & hall of fame for this sport in St. Louis has a display of zany team shirts from the 1950s'

Answer: bowling


Question: 'In 1999 Florida's Gordon Cates kissed 11 of these deadly snakes in a row--& Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wasn't even there for backup'

Answer: a cobra


Question: 'In Benin this party is called "les Verts du Benin"; in Belgium it's called "Ecolo"'

Answer: the Green Party


Question: 'This item is popular in salads, but some object because harvesting it can destroy the tree'

Answer: heart of palm


Question: 'From Latin for "plunderer" & "spoils", they're the 2 food chain roles of a hawk & a mouse, for example'

Answer: predator & prey


Question: 'Its leading exports are bauxite & aluminum'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'Start your engines please & head to this Alabama city to visit the Motorsports Hall of Fame'

Answer: Talladega


Question: 'New Jersey's Dave Meenan covered more than 28 miles this way in 1997--beat that, Bojangles!'

Answer: tap dancing


Question: 'As president, Georges Pompidou was a member of the political party named for this man who served before him'

Answer: de Gaulle


Question: 'This old-timey soda fountain drink got its name from one ingredient--a little phosphoric acid'

Answer: a phosphate


Question: '7-letter adjective meaning multicolored, like some horses or birds'

Answer: piebald


Question: '(Adam Sandler, whose latest movie is the holiday release Bedtime Stories, reads the clue.)  In an 1887 version of the bedtime story about the 3 these, it's an old woman who eats their porridge, & after she leaves the house she's arrested as a vagrant'

Answer: bears


Question: 'In the 1980 film "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen memorably says, "I am serious... and don't call me" this'

Answer: Shirley


Question: 'At the end of its arm, a hydraulic shovel has one of these, bigger than one a kid would take to a beach'

Answer: a bucket


Question: 'Daedalus built the labyrinth in which this half-man, half-bull monster was kept'

Answer: the Minotaur


Question: 'We wonder how this witty playwright would have liked "Avenue Q", the first show at the theatre renamed for him'

Answer: Noel Coward


Question: 'Lithium,<br />argon'

Answer: liar


Question: '2 yellow creatures are yawning, just look at the cover of this children's author's "Sleep Book"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Gary Oldman leads the terrorists who hijack the President's plane in this 1997 action film'

Answer: Air Force One


Question: 'Used in this industry, an excavator made by Krupp is the largest land vehicle ever created'

Answer: (strip) mining


Question: 'These lascivious woodland deities, a goat-man hybrid, were followers of both Pan & Dionysus'

Answer: satyrs


Question: 'The efforts of American actor Sam Wannamaker built this theatre where you can watch Shakespeare today'

Answer: the Globe


Question: 'Beryllium,<br />gold'

Answer: beau


Question: '(Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.)  This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon"'

Answer: "Goodnight Moon"


Question: 'It's drama at Dulles International in this second John McClane adventure'

Answer: Die Hard 2


Question: 'A park in Morrowville, Kansas has a replica of the first of these pushy machines, patented in 1925'

Answer: a bulldozer


Question: 'This monster with a woman's body, like Medusa, has claws & serpents for hair, making a day at the salon a real trial'

Answer: a Gorgon


Question: 'The National Theatre, launched in 1963, was housed for its first 12 years at this "venerable" venue'

Answer: the Old Vic


Question: 'Sodium, sodium, sodiumsodium etc. (a child's taunt)'

Answer: na na nana nana


Question: 'A boy in bed enters a fantastic dream world in this author-illustrator's "In the Night Kitchen"'

Answer: Maurice Sendak


Question: 'Samuel L. Jackson has worse problems than airplane food in this 2006 thriller'

Answer: Snakes on a Plane


Question: 'It's a toothed implement for breaking up plowed soil; it's also a British boarding school'

Answer: a harrow


Question: 'These monsters with birds' bodies & women's faces got a nasty rep for snatching children & souls'

Answer: harpys


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.)  Getting its name from its position in relation to the older area called "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London'

Answer: the West End


Question: 'Bromine,<br />silver'

Answer: brag


Question: '(Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.)  To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives"'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'John Lithgow was the terrified passenger in the "Twilight Zone" movie's remake of this classic episode'

Answer: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"


Question: 'It's the type of place where you'd most likely put your feller buncher through its paces'

Answer: a forest (in logging)


Question: 'The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy'

Answer: the Chimera


Question: 'In 2007 these studious "Boys" were back in town in Alan Bennett's play at Wyndham's Theatre'

Answer: The History Boys


Question:
'Neon,
carbon,
potassium'

Answer: neck


Question: 'Numbering about 25 million, they're the largest ethnic group in the world with no home nation'

Answer: the Kurds


Question: 'In 1989 Boris Yeltsin said this system is "just an idea, just pie in the sky"'

Answer: communism


Question: 'Actor Jack Wyatt who takes on the role of Darrin for the remake of a TV show'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'If I hadn't fled, I'd have lost one of my beloved wisdom teeth, also called third these'

Answer: molars


Question: 'We had our Xmas tree seller take an inch off the base of the trunk; the fresh cut will aid in the absorption of this'

Answer: water


Question: 'Legoland is an amusement park: Legolas is the character he played in "The Lord of the Rings"'

Answer: Orlando Bloom


Question: 'Horoscope maker'

Answer: an astrologer


Question: 'On June 18, 1940 Churchill said, "The battle for France is over" & this "is about to begin"'

Answer: the Battle of Britain


Question: 'Buddy, who was raised at the North Pole'

Answer: Elf


Question: 'OK , I'll rinse. I'll even swish, but for a person of my dignity to do this third step? I just couldn't'

Answer: spit


Question: 'The lights hanging off the roof here are meant to resemble these things that can form in cold weather'

Answer: icicles


Question: 'We all know Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Deavere Smith was National Security Adviser Nancy McNally on this White House drama'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'Temperature scale'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: '3 words continuing Oliver hazard Perry's oft-parodied line of 1813, "We have met the enemy and..."'

Answer: "they are ours."


Question: 'Champion ice skater Chazz Michael Michaels'

Answer: Blades of Glory


Question: 'I heard them whispering about this 3-session treatment for diseased pulp--no thank you'

Answer: a root canal


Question: 'I can always count on Aunt Nancy sending me cashmere, which comes from the hair of this animal'

Answer: a goat


Question: 'An infraction is a breach, as of rules: a myocardial this is a heart atfack'

Answer: an infarction


Question: 'Adjective for one who speaks English & 2 others'

Answer: trilingual


Question: 'Thomas More said if this body part of his could win Henry VIII a castle in France, "it should not fail to go"'

Answer: his head


Question: 'The man in the yellow hat (voice only)'

Answer: Curious George


Question: 'OK , I'll go back there--just don't send me to this specialist in gums & other supporting structures'

Answer: a periodontist


Question: 'Eggnog wouldn't be eggnog without this spice from the myristica fragrans tree'

Answer: nutmeg


Question: 'Coco Chanel was a fashion designer: Coco Channel is a strait off North Andaman Island in this S. Asian bay'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: 'Not above'

Answer: underneath


Question: 'In 1534 Jacques Cartier called part of what's now this country "the land God gave to Cain"'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Novel character come to life Harold Crick'

Answer: Stranger Than Fiction


Question: 'They said I had "dental" this Latin word: I bolted before I realized it just means tooth decay'

Answer: caries


Question: 'We always dim the lights & light these candles whose name means "symbolizing a vow or wish"'

Answer: votive


Question: 'Jell-O is a jiggly dessert: this priming material that has a glue base is used to prepare a canvas for paint'

Answer: gesso


Question: 'A figure with 6 plane faces'

Answer: a hexahedron


Question: 'He began a novel called "Les Miseres" as early as 1840; it was finished in 1861 with a different title'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'One cookbook inspired by this film series features recipes for Death Star popcorn balls & Wookiee cookies'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'wendys.com informed me that the "3/4 lb. triple with" this has 980 calories, but plenty of calcium'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'It's the North American name for a reindeer'

Answer: a caribou


Question: '"La Boheme"'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'Tomboyish Schulz creation who was kidnapped by the S.L.A. in 1974'

Answer: Peppermint Patty Hearst


Question: 'In Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", this captain is buried at sea in his submarine'

Answer: Captain Nemo


Question: 'This roller coaster has been thrilling folks at Disney World since 1975 & at Disneyland since 1977'

Answer: Space Mountain


Question: 'americanheart.org tells us that a "hands-only" version of this procedure is fine --no need for rescue breaths'

Answer: CPR


Question: 'Insects are their main diet, but larger types of this colorful Old World lizard also eat birds; rough "karma"'

Answer: a chameleon


Question: '"Florencia en el Amazonas"'

Answer: South America


Question: 'Peary's 1909 goal, the primo spot in a NASCAR race'

Answer: the North Pole Position


Question: 'Marcel Proust began writing this 7-part, 3,000-page novel in 1909 & continued working on it until his death in 1922'

Answer: Remberance of Things Past


Question: 'Strap yourself in for the shuttle launch experience, a thrilling new attraction at this Florida complex'

Answer: Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy)


Question: 'The "This Day in History" feature on history.com taught me Dec. 25 is the day in 1991 when he quit as Soviet leader'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a big, dead fish.)  Scripps Institution of Oceanography has one of the U.S.A.'s few specimens of this creature, once thought to be extinct for 60 million years'

Answer: a coelacanth


Question: '"The Girl of the Golden West"'

Answer: North America


Question: 'Total value of goods & services produced by a country over a period of time, then prominently displayed in a film'

Answer: Gross National Product placement


Question: 'This central character of "The Three Musketeers" was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs'

Answer: D\'Artagnan


Question: 'Captain Link Hogthrob was the captain of the Swinetrek on the "Muppet show" sketches called these "in Space"'

Answer: Pigs


Question: 'I postponed my visit to this country, aka Timor-Leste, after a perusal of travel.state.gov'

Answer: East Timor


Question: 'Because of its webbed feet, this largest rodent is a clumsy runner, but it can remain underwater for 5 minutes'

Answer: a capybara


Question: '"Aida "'

Answer: Africa


Question: '"Colorful" cheap entree special at a diner that's a geologic theory explaining the faults in earth's crust'

Answer: blue plate tectonics


Question: 'Except for a brief section, book V of his "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was most likely written by someone else'

Answer: Francois Rabelais


Question: 'Darn! I can't find my poster of Jane Fonda in this 1968 outer space flick--my wife must have tossed it out'

Answer: Barbarella


Question: 'I learned a lot about Paris Hilton at the website of this celebrity blogger, real name Mario Lavandeira'

Answer: Perez Hilton


Question: 'This large flightless bird has a blue head & long, daggerlike nails on its toes'

Answer: a cassowary


Question: '"Turandot"'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'Spoiled little Willy Wonka girl who relocates to Utah's capital'

Answer: Veruca Salt Lake City


Question: 'In 1959 the first Grammy for album of the year went to the soundtrack composed by Henry Mancini for this TV show'

Answer: Peter Gunn


Question: 'Sung T'ai Tsu founded this country's Sung dynasty in 960'

Answer: China


Question: 'More than 200 wax figures are on display in the Plaza Theatre of Wax, across from the Alamo in this city'

Answer: San Antonio


Question: 'Bush, busby & shako are different types of this part of the uniform'

Answer: the hat


Question: 'When referring to old movies, B&W indicates this'

Answer: black & white


Question: 'The smallest of these smallest birds is the bee type'

Answer: the hummingbird


Question: 'Sometimes her daughter Becky is played by Sarah Chalke, sometimes by Lecy Goranson'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: 'This island famous for its stone statues was annexed by Chile in 1888'

Answer: Easter Island


Question: 'Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Jug" is one of many treasures in this huge 5th Avenue museum'

Answer: the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Question: 'This student leader of the band marches with it'

Answer: a drum major


Question: 'If an S.A.S.E. is requested, be sure to send one of these'

Answer: a self-addressed stamped envelope


Question: 'Because its mouth is extremely wide, the swift can feed on insects while doing this'

Answer: flying


Question: 'With the demise of "Party Girl", Swoosie Kurtz moved on to play Brooke Shields' mom on this series'

Answer: Suddenly Susan


Question: 'In 1860 the Second Maori War broke out in this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Arizona State University in this city boasts a museum of geology & an art museum'

Answer: Tempe


Question: '1963 hit song heard here:'

Answer: "Louie Louie"


Question: 'Many newspaper items come from this group, the AP for short'

Answer: Associated Press


Question: 'The kiwi is the only bird with these organs located at the tip of its beak'

Answer: Nostrils


Question: 'Cheers to this actress who played Mollie, the mom in the "Look Who's Talking" films'

Answer: Kirstie Alley


Question: 'In 1989 this former Philippine leader died in exile in Hawaii'

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos


Question: 'There's a model railroad museum in the Casa de Balboa in this 2nd-largest city on the U.S. Pacific coast'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'Pitched below the trumpet, the mellophone replaces this brass horn in the marching band'

Answer: the French horn


Question: 'Formally dissolved in 1991, it's what the U.S.S.R. stood for'

Answer: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics


Question: 'Usually a bee has this many more wings than a bird'

Answer: 2


Question: 'As part of this film family, Anjelica Huston, as Morticia, gave birth to the mustachioed Pubert'

Answer: the Addams Family


Question: 'In 1521 Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet of this city to renounce his beliefs'

Answer: Worms


Question: 'You'll find this Alabama city's museum of art at the Von Braun Civic Center'

Answer: Huntsville


Question: 'A popular 1889 Sousa march was commissioned for an awards ceremony at this newspaper'

Answer: the Washington Post


Question: 'Biologically speaking, DNA is an abbreviation for this'

Answer: deoxyribonucleic acid


Question: 'Beehives are placed in some orchards specifically for this reason'

Answer: pollination


Question: 'She played Mrs. Gump, Forrest's momma'

Answer: Sally Field


Question: 'Reading the Iliad & Odyssey in their original language is this language to us'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'It's the nickname of Vice President Gore's wife, Mary Elizabeth'

Answer: "Tipper"


Question: 'More than 80% of Algeria is covered by this desert'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'At age 7 this "Wizard Of Menlo Park" attended public school for 3 months -- his only formal education'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Though Walter Cronkite retired at 65, this 65-year-old CBS anchorman, his successor, doesn't plan to'

Answer: Dan Rather


Question: 'He's currently the only black justice on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Clarence Thomas


Question: 'Pope John Paul II's poem "Easter Vigil 1966" was first published in this, his native language'

Answer: Polish


Question: 'As Elwood Blues, he hosts "The House of Blues Radio Hour"'

Answer: Dan Aykroyd


Question: 'Gwynedd & Clwyd are the northernmost counties in this country, part of the United Kingdom'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'In 1832 this telegraph inventor became professor of painting & sculpture at NYU'

Answer: Samuel Morse


Question: 'Because of the staged quality of these two 1996 events, TV may not cover them live in the year 2000'

Answer: the Democratic & Republican National Conventions


Question: 'As TLC & Boyz II Men could tell you, it's singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth Edmonds' nickname'

Answer: "Babyface"


Question: 'This author of "Crime and Punishment" wrote "The Idiot" while on the run from creditors'

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Question: 'This "If It Makes You Happy" singer once sang back-up for Michael Jackson'

Answer: Sheryl Crow


Question: 'Part of this South American country's city of La Paz lies in a canyon carved by the La Paz River'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'This sewing machine inventor's uncle Tyler invented the spring bed'

Answer: Elias Howe


Question: 'In 1996 Rupert Murdoch, owner of this network, launched an all-news channel'

Answer: Fox


Question: 'This botanist donated his life savings to a research foundation at Tuskegee bearing his name'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: 'His "Eventyr, fortalte for Born", or "Fairy Tales, Told for Children" was published in 1835'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'In a 1996 ad campaign Nike ran this Seattle Mariner for president'

Answer: Ken Griffey, Jr.


Question: 'This city became the capital of the Saud dynasty in the early 1800s'

Answer: Riyadh


Question: 'Eureka!  This man who discovered the law of hydrostatics invented the compound pulley & the catapult'

Answer: Archimedes


Question: 'George Clooney boycotted "Entertainment Tonight" to protest this TV newsmagazine videotaping him'

Answer: Hard Copy


Question: 'Arkansas' first woman director of the Department of Health, she became U.S. Surgeon General in 1993'

Answer: Jocelyn Elders


Question: 'In due process you can tell us his "Der Prozess" was metamorphosed into English as "The Trial"'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'Nick Park's "Wallace & Gromit" shorts have earned 3 Oscars using this film making process'

Answer: claymation


Question: 'Bordered by Syria & Israel, this small country is only 135 miles long & 35 miles wide'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'In 1929 this American launched the first instrument-carrying rocket'

Answer: Robert Goddard


Question: 'Pat Buchanan & Michael Kinsley are 2 of the pundits who've been "caught in" this CNN debate show'

Answer: Crossfire


Question: 'The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In 1969, National Geographic published a Moon map; here's this calm lunar feature'

Answer: the Sea of Tranquility


Question: '"Tabitha"'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'The magazine published by this organization for those 50 & over has the world's largest circulation'

Answer: the AARP


Question: '"I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president"'

Answer: L(yndon) B(aines) J(ohnson)


Question: 'With more than 70 million living with American households, this is the most common house pet in the U.S.'

Answer: a cat


Question: 'Proverbially, sometimes you can't see it for the trees'

Answer: the forest


Question: 'A 1957 Europe map had an inset showing countries that were this and non-this'

Answer: Communist


Question: '"Rhoda"'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: 'From its founding in 1821 & up to 1942, the Saturday Evening Post was sold at this price'

Answer: five cents


Question: '"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base"'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'This type of parrot that bears the name of a South American river can get used to cooler temperatures'

Answer: an Amazon parrot


Question: 'Don't worry, these raised bars on the neck of a guitar are here to help make the sounds of different notes'

Answer: frets


Question: 'The 1922 Africa map differed from today's: notice French West Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and this Congo'

Answer: Belgian Congo


Question: '"Knots Landing"'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'The opening article in this magazine's first issue in 1922 was a condensed version of "How to Keep Young Mentally"'

Answer: Reader\'s Digest


Question: '"1976 will not be a year of politics as usual"'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'One of the oldest domesticated dog breeds is the Saluki, the royal dog of this ancient people'

Answer: the Egyptians


Question: 'Duende is the mysterious soul force at the heat of this Spanish dance form'

Answer: flamenco


Question: 'For the 200th anniversary of his birth, a 1932 issue had a map of his travels, including, of course, Virginia'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '"Flo"'

Answer: Alice


Question: 'It was primarily a fiction magazine until Helen Gurley Brown became editor in 1965'

Answer: Cosmopolitan


Question: '"What we need in the United States is not hatred, what we need in the United States is not violence..."'

Answer: RFK


Question: 'William Howard Taft was the last prez to have one of these grazing at the White House; her name was Pauline Wayne'

Answer: a cow


Question: 'One of the principal offensive players on a soccer or hockey team'

Answer: a forward


Question: 'A map of the Pacific Ocean goes from the Bering Sea down to this one off Australia'

Answer: the Tasman Sea


Question: '"Good Times"'

Answer: Maude


Question: 'In 1922 sportswriter Nat Fleischer founded this magazine that's still making the "rounds" today'

Answer: The Ring


Question: '"Traitors are not gentlemen, my good friends. They don't understand being treated like gentlemen"'

Answer: (Joseph) McCarthy


Question: 'Often advertised in comic books, "sea" these are actually brine shrimp in suspended animation'

Answer: sea monkeys


Question: 'To apply nitrogen to the soil to aid plant growth'

Answer: to fertilize


Question: 'For most of the 1700s, this city was the cultural center of Virginia as well as the political one'

Answer: Williamsburg


Question: 'Gene Hackman earned his first Oscar nomination for playing Buck Barrow in this 1967 film'

Answer: Bonnie & Clyde


Question: 'Libra was once described as "the claws", as it was said to represent the claws of this constellation'

Answer: Scorpio


Question: 'In 2004 he called his democratic legislators "girlie-men", an insult from the "Hans & Franz" "SNL" skit'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'Found at Rome's Palazzo Conservatori, these two Rome founders are seen here'

Answer: Romulus & Remus


Question: 'Born in 1752, she was trained as an upholsterer & could make & repair curtains, bedcovers, rugs & even umbrellas'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'Some in the Jane Austen Society complained that Hugh Grant was too good-looking to play Edward in this 1995 film'

Answer: Sense & Sensibility


Question: 'Ptolemy listed a constellation named for this, Jason's ship; it's been replaced by Carina, Puppis, Pyxis & Vela'

Answer: the Argo


Question: 'These 2 cousins both served as governor of New York & president of the U.S.'

Answer: Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt


Question: 'Carved in Rome, the "Pieta" is the only work signed by this sculptor'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'In April 1777 Congress made this pamphleteer Secretary to the Committee on Foreign Affairs'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'Leslie Howard was in his 40s & Norma Shearer in her 30s when they played this Shakespearean pair in 1936'

Answer: Romeo & Juliet


Question: 'The bright star Betelgeuse marks one of the "shoulders" of this constellation'

Answer: Orion


Question: 'A 4-time governor of Alabama first elected in 1962, he worked his way through law school by boxing professionally'

Answer: Gov. George Wallace


Question: 'In Rome's Cherasi Chapel is Caravaggio's conversion of a painting of this saint'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'Samuel Slater settled in R.I. & built America's first successful cotton-spinning machines driven by this power'

Answer: water power


Question: 'The czar-studded cast of this 1971 epic includes Tom Baker (of "Doctor Who" fame) as Rasputin'

Answer: Nicholas & Alexandra


Question: 'In the late 16th Century, this Flemish cartographer "projected" the constellations onto star globes'

Answer: Mercator


Question: 'As New Jersey governor, this woman seen here appointed the state's first African-American Supreme Court Justice'

Answer: Christie Todd Whitman


Question: 'A fresco by Raphael shows Pope Leo I pleading with this ruthless barbarian to spare Rome'

Answer: Attilla


Question: 'Drop a letter into "acid" & it becomes this, meaning bitterly pungent'

Answer: acrid


Question: 'From May to Mov. of 1763, Chief Pontiac tried to drive the British from this city, now the biggest in its state'

Answer: Detroit


Question: '(Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I was far from kittenish when I played the voice of Mr. Tinkles in this 2001 film that pitted felines against canines'

Answer: Cats & Dogs


Question: 'In the 1680s Johannes Hevelius added 7 new constellations, including Vulpecula, the "little" this'

Answer: fox


Question: 'In 1996 this state's governor Evan Bayh delivered the keynote address at the Democratic Convention'

Answer: Indianna


Question: 'Legend has it that Marc Antony's wife stabbed this orator's tongue after his death'

Answer: Cicero


Question: 'Addng a letter to "terrain" turns a tract of land into this turtle'

Answer: a terrapin


Question: 'One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you.  At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you"'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'In 1726 Jonathan Swift published this work as "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World"'

Answer: Gulliver\'s Travels


Question: 'In 1967 the Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl between Kansas City & this other Midwestern team'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'You can get your chi balanced by either of these 2 ancient Chinese methods whose name both begin "acu"'

Answer: acupuncture & acupressure


Question: 'Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'Its name says where it's at'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'It's gray or brown & 2-5 inches long not counting the tail'

Answer: fieldmouse


Question: 'It's Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"'

Answer: Through the Looking-Glass


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  A new stadium was being built so this baseball team played in the Coliseum from 1958 to 1961 after moving to L.A.'

Answer: Los Angeles Dodgers


Question: 'This "therapy" uses concentrated plant oils like rosemary or bergamot to relieve stress'

Answer: aroma therapy


Question: '$1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss'

Answer: C. Montgomery Burns


Question: '"Zone" in on this country important to world commerce'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Binoculars'

Answer: field glasses


Question: 'Elizabeth Bennet eventually falls in love with Mr. Darcy in this classic by Jane Austen'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'In October 1989 280,000 in 4 nights saw this band with an appetite for destruction open for the Rolling Stones'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: 'Meaning "the science of prolonging life", it's a dietary regime of whole grains, vegetables & beans'

Answer: macrobiotic


Question: 'This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl novel hoards a sweet $8 billion'

Answer: Willy Wonka


Question: 'A bit of serendipity will lead you to this country's name'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'Sport in which 2 teams use curved sticks to hit a ball into their opponents' goal'

Answer: field hockey


Question: 'Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this 1949 novel'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'The L.A. Coliseum serves as the home field for this university's football team & they first played there in 1923'

Answer: USC (Southern California)


Question: 'By this alternative medicine's methods a quartz-powered watch should aid in carpal-tunnel syndrome relief; well, maybe'

Answer: crystal healing


Question: 'This "Gilligan's Island" tycoon washes ashore with $8 billion'

Answer: Thurston Howell III


Question: 'Nation where Bolivar's buried'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'The highest rank in the British army'

Answer: field marshal


Question: 'Dickens novel that ends, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..."'

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Question: '(Jimmy)  The all-time L.A. Coliseum attendance record of 134,254 occurred in 1963 when this reverend held a crusade here'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'Autosuggestion ("I am great, great") is classified as a form of "self" this ("I am getting sleepy, sleepy")'

Answer: self-hypnosis


Question: 'A James Bond villain, he's worth an estimated $1.2 billion'

Answer: Auric Goldfinger


Question: 'Modern country that's Hannibal's historic home'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'England's Wars of the Roses ended there'

Answer: Bosworth Field


Question: 'Built by the Franciscans around 1718, it was captured by Mexicans in 1836'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: '2003's "Almas del Silencio" was the first new Spanish language album in 5 years from this "She Bangs" singer'

Answer: Ricky Martin


Question: 'Fairbury is the seat of this county named for the U.S. president known as the "Sage of Monticello"'

Answer: (Thomas) Jefferson


Question: '2 of the flavors in names of Diet Coke varieties in the U.S.'

Answer: (2 of 4) cherry, vanilla, lemon & lime


Question: 'Madonna could have gone to Madonna Univ. in Livonia but instead attended this bigger school in Ann Arbor'

Answer: University of Michigan


Question: 'Strip the "B" off a South American country & you're left with her, Ms. Newton-John'

Answer: Olivia (from Bolivia)


Question: 'You can tour this general's 1807 Virginia birthplace, Stratford Hall'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'A native of Cuba, he played Vincent Mancini in "The Godfather, Part III"'

Answer: Andy Garcia


Question: 'On April 4, 1860 Jack Keetley became the first to change mounts at Rock Creek Station in this new mail service'

Answer: the Pony Express


Question: 'The 2 basic numerical types of lowfat milk'

Answer: 1% & 2%


Question: 'This university's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is named in honor of Colonel Sanders & John Y. Brown Sr.'

Answer: University of Kentucky


Question: 'After losing a "B" the UCLA football team was in these'

Answer: ruins (from Bruins)


Question: 'California's first state prison, it was built with convict labor in 1852'

Answer: San Quentin


Question: 'The villain Khan on "Star Trek", he's now the grandfather of the Spy Kids'

Answer: Ricardo Montalban


Question: 'In 1861 this great-great-grandfather of astronaut Bruce McCandless was killed by this "Wild" gunslinger near Fairbury'

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok


Question: 'The 2 basic types of vermouth; one usually goes in a martini, the other in a Manhattan'

Answer: sweet & dry


Question: '62% of the undergrads at Charter Oak State College are from this state'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Groups of Native Americans have to drop a "B" in order to make these attempts'

Answer: tries (from tribes)


Question: 'Born in 1800, he believed God had chosen him to lead his fellow black slaves to freedom'

Answer: Nat Turner


Question: 'Passenger railways serving Fairbury through the years included the Union Pacific & this one mentioned in the song heard here'

Answer: the Rock Island Line


Question: 'Rhyming words for German dark beer & German white wine'

Answer: bock & Hach


Question: 'John Carroll, America's first Roman Catholic bishop, founded this Washington, D.C. university'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'Do a "B"-ectomy on an automated non-human auto plant worker & you get this potted plant part'

Answer: root (from robot)


Question: 'From 1831 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison published this crusading journal'

Answer: The Liberator


Question: 'In 1933 the First National Bank was robbed by a gang that included Alvin Karpis & 2 sons of this female gangster'

Answer: Ma Barker


Question: 'The 2 nationalities that precede "breakfast" in Peet's Favorites tea sampler'

Answer: English & Irish


Question: 'President Taft's daughter Helen was a longtime history professor & dean of this women's college in Pennsylvania'

Answer: Bryn Mawr


Question: 'After being called to dinner, what we were eating on lost a "B" & all I had left was this story to tell'

Answer: tale (from table)


Question: '2 names: A man journeying & his country of destination in both Genesis 39 & Matthew 2'

Answer: Joseph and Egypt


Question: 'In 1952, after being relieved of command in Korea, he said, "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"'

Answer: (Douglas) MacArthur


Question: '"When You Wish Upon A Star"'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Grades of this wine run from extra-brut to doux'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'In 2006 this country's President Ahmadinejad admitted it was enriching uranium'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'When this device is "on hook", the speech circuit is disabled & the ringing circuit is connected'

Answer: a phone


Question: 'This brand was introduced as Plastone, a premium car polish, in 1944'

Answer: Turtle Wax


Question: 'Winston Churchill said it's good for the uneducated "to read books of quotations." This one "is an admirable work"'

Answer: Bartlett\'s


Question: '"Take My Breath Away"'

Answer: Top Gun


Question: 'If selling wine, remember that every bottle must list the name, the producer & this content if it's over 14%'

Answer: the alcohol content


Question: 'In 1938 this prime minister returned to Britain from a meeting with Hitler saying, "I believe it is peace in our time"'

Answer: Chamberlain


Question: 'The name of this ancient device used for calculations is from the Latin for "counting board"'

Answer: an abacus


Question: 'The younger, often second, spouse of a rich middle-aged man'

Answer: a trophy wife


Question: 'After losing the heavyweight title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife, "Honey, I just forgot to duck"'

Answer: (Jack) Dempsey


Question: '"You Must Love Me"'

Answer: Evita


Question: 'After dinner, enjoy a nice port wine from this nation's Douro Valley where it originated'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Otmar Hasler is prime minister of this small Alpine nation between Switzerland & Austria'

Answer: Liechtenstein


Question: 'On a crash cart in a hospital, you'll find this device that shocks the heart'

Answer: a defibrillator


Question: 'You might have learned to ride your bike with the help of these attachments'

Answer: training wheels


Question: 'In April 1974 this kidnapped heiress announced, "This is Tania... I'm a soldier in the People's Army"'

Answer: Patricia Hearst


Question: '"I'm Easy"'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'A wine lover know"z" this Calif. grape that produces red & white has been traced back to Italy's Primitivo'

Answer: Zinfandel


Question: 'Hugo Chavez of this South American country is an admirer of Simon Bolivar'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'Elisha Otis' son Charles improved on the device that slowed a speeding this, whether or not the rope broke'

Answer: an elevator


Question: 'This Southerner wrote the 1959 classic "Sweet Bird of Youth"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'In 1975 she commented on a 1955 event by saying, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work"'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: '"Under the Sea"'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'You don't have to pull the feathers off this "chilly" pink sparkling wine originally from Germany'

Answer: Cold Duck


Question: 'Like his father whom he succeeded, Bashar al-Assad heads the Ba'ath Party in this Middle East country'

Answer: Syria


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a lab.)  Stretch a balloon over a glass, secure with rubber bands, then place a straw on top & you have a simple version of this device that measures air pressure'

Answer: a barometer


Question: 'Dominating the tropics, these blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere'

Answer: trade winds


Question: 'In the U.S., alligators & crocodiles co-exist only at the southern tip of this state'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Van Heflin, Gig Young & Robert Coote played Athos, Porthos & Aramis in this "novel" 1948 film'

Answer: The Three Musketeers


Question: 'Following college, Anderson Cooper studied Vietnamese at the University of this Asian capital city'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'Kentucky has only one national forest, & it's named for this trailblazer'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: '"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" was one of Douglas Adams' sequels to this novel'

Answer: The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy


Question: 'To know how many of you showed up for the 3-hour video of my trip to Manitoba, I'll take this "count"'

Answer: a head count


Question: 'In 1991 radar images hinted that there was ice at the north pole of this inner planet'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'At the end of 1949's "In the Good Old Summertime", Liza Minnelli made her screen debut as this woman's daughter'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'Despite war & a U.S. invasion in 2001, this nation has the highest birthrate in Asia, 46 births per 1,000 citizens'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'He's the subject of the biographies "Official and Confidential" & "The Man and the Secrets"'

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover


Question: 'In 1959 Grace Metalious returned to this town, hoping to cash in on the success of her earlier novel'

Answer: Peyton Place


Question: 'Hyphenated adjective meaning so appetizing you salivate'

Answer: mouth-watering


Question: '17th century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens developed the wave theory of this'

Answer: light


Question: '(Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) This 1941 detective drama, a Bogart classic, is in my top 5; after all these years, it's still a challenge to figure out'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'Growing only about 5-9 inches long, the amago salmon is native to the southern islands of this Asian nation'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'What he really said in 1925 was that "the chief business of the American people is business"'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: '"Of Time and the River" was his sequel to "Look Homeward, Angel"'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe


Question: 'A drink taken for ocular stimulation on waking up'

Answer: an eye-opener


Question: 'Dinosaurs died out in this geological era that means "middle life"'

Answer: the Mesozoic era


Question: 'He made a cameo appearance as a man carrying a violin in his own film "Spellbound"'

Answer: Hitchcock


Question: 'It's the Indian city that's the home to Eden Gardens, Asia's largest arena for cricket'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'For 5 months in 1863, he was commander of the Army of the Potomac'

Answer: Joe Hooker


Question: '"Myron" was Gore Vidal's sequel to this novel'

Answer: Myra Breckenridge


Question: 'Sir, to toy with a woman's affections makes you a cad, a bounder, this--technically a calcaneus'

Answer: a heel


Question: 'In 1766 this English chemist discovered the properties of hydrogen, which he called "inflammable air"'

Answer: Henry Cavendish


Question: 'The 1949 film about this big ape won a special effects Oscar (remember--we said 1949)'

Answer: Mighty Joe Young


Question: 'Because of its distinctive call, this central Asian bovine is known as the grunting ox'

Answer: a yak


Question: 'The woman seen here was one of many painted by this Dutch-born abstract expressionist'

Answer: (Willem) de Kooning


Question: '"My Career Goes Bung" was Aussie author Miles Franklin's sequel to this novel'

Answer: My Brilliant Career


Question: 'This type of pork-barrel spending refers to funds directed to a member of Congress' pet project'

Answer: an earmark


Question: 'Later translated into Russian by the author, it was dubbed both one of the best books of 1955 & one of the filthiest'

Answer: Lolita


Question: 'This structure, a symbol of the Bourbon monarchy, was stormed on July 14, 1789'

Answer: the Bastille


Question: 'The hungry South Carolina native seen here'

Answer: the Venus Flytrap


Question: 'You'll find San Jose, California about 90 miles southwest of this state capital'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'This personification of the United States wears a white top hat that has white stars on a blue band'

Answer: Uncle Sam


Question: 'A salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Nick Park created the animated characters Wallace & this loyal dog'

Answer: Gromit


Question: 'France was in dire straits financially due to its support of this other revolution'

Answer: the American Revolution


Question: 'You're all wet if you can't name this location'

Answer: the Victoria Falls


Question: 'San Jose in this country is on the main highway from Manila to Aparri'

Answer: The Philippines


Question: 'This "electric" character in "The Addams Family" could light up a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth'

Answer: Uncle Fester


Question: 'Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery, ships that brought settlers to Jamestown'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'He played Four Leaf Tayback in the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder"'

Answer: Nick Nolte


Question: 'Germinal, Fructidor & Thermidor could be found on the New French Republican this adopted in 1793'

Answer: calendar


Question: 'It's a point on a triangle indicated here'

Answer: a vertex


Question: 'San Jose Succotz in Belize is the starting point for Xunantunich, famous for its ruins of this people'

Answer: the Mayans


Question: 'Among the stories he narrates are "The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox" & "Why Mr. Possum has no hair on his tail"'

Answer: Uncle Remus


Question: 'A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws & the motto "The Great Land"'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Drumroll, please, for this star of "Drumline" who is the CEO of the Can I Ball record label'

Answer: Nick Cannon


Question: 'Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety controlled this period of revolution that saw 30,000 executions'

Answer: the Reign of Terror


Question: 'Early 20th century revolutionary seen here'

Answer: Pancho Villa


Question: 'If you're looking for the San Jose river, it's in this Canadian province on the Pacific'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'John Candy played this loud & crude slacker relative of Macaulay Culkin in a 1989 film'

Answer: Uncle Buck


Question: 'A racecar superimposed on an outline of the state & the motto "Crossroads of America"'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Nick Lowe wrote Elvis Costello's classic song "(What's so funny 'bout)" this trio'

Answer: "Peace, Love, And Understanding"


Question: 'A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'Structure seen here perfected by the Romans'

Answer: a viaduct


Question: 'San Jose island off Texas in the Gulf of Mexico is this type of narrow island parallel to the shore'

Answer: a barrier island


Question: 'This Chekhov hero's real name is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky'

Answer: Uncle Vanya


Question: 'A trumpet with musical notes & a pelican'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Nick Hornby novels made into films include "About a Boy" & this one in which John Cusack ran a record store'

Answer: High Fidelity


Question: 'In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether'

Answer: light


Question: 'This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun"'

Answer: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"


Question: 'Luca Della Robbia made decorative reliefs from this, baked clay, glazed in blue & white'

Answer: terracota


Question: 'Hallelujah, <br />sabbath'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'The narrator of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" has settled his brain "for a long" this season's "nap"'

Answer: winter


Question: 'On her death, Tony Blair said, "she was the 'People's Princess

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'The torr is equal to 1 mmHg, or the pressure exerted by 1 millimeter of this metal'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'In "the night the lights went out in" this state, an innocent man fires a shot to summon the law--big mistake'

Answer: "Georgia"


Question: 'Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of these multipaneled works'

Answer: a triptych


Question: 'Coach, <br />paprika'

Answer: Hungarian


Question: 'In 1864 at Spotsylvania, this Union General vowed "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer"'

Answer: Ulysses Grant


Question: 'Born in 1874, he was nicknamed "The Handcuff King" & "The King of Escapologists"'

Answer: Houdini


Question: 'Fluid dynamics can be divided into hydrodynamics, the study of fluids in motion, & this study of gases in motion'

Answer: aerodynamics


Question: '"Out of the doorway the bullets rip/ to the sound of the beat" in this Queen no. 1'

Answer: "Another One Bites The Dust"


Question: 'Salvador Dali is among those who've portrayed this "of St. Anthony"'

Answer: The Temptation


Question: 'Almanac, <br />hashish'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'This royal "made some tarts all on a summer's day"'

Answer: The Queen of Hearts


Question: 'This writer was known affectionately as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist"'

Answer: Thoreau


Question: 'The term horsepower was first used by James Watt affer comparing the power of horses to the power of these'

Answer: steam engines


Question: '"The sound of the battle rang/ through the streets of the old east side" in "the night" this town "died"'

Answer: "Chicago"


Question: 'Still life painter William Harnett was a practitioner of this type of illusionism, French for "deceive the eye"'

Answer: trompe l\'oeil


Question: 'Kowtow,<br />catsup'

Answer: Chinese


Question: 'T.S. Eliot wrote that it was the "cruellest month...stirring dull roots with spring rain"'

Answer: April


Question: 'Though he didn't really blaze his own trails, this explorer & politician was nicknamed "The Pathfinder"'

Answer: John C. Fremont


Question: '(Sarah of the clue crew gives the clue) On the surface of a cylinder rising at a constant angle lies this three-dimensional curve whose name is from the Greek for "spiral"'

Answer: a helix


Question: 'In the 1965 no. I "Eve of" this, "the eastern world, it is explodin'/ violence flarin

Answer: "Destruction"


Question: 'John Constable deprecatingly called the work of this other Brit "airy visions, painted with tinted steam"'

Answer: Turner


Question: 'Jai alai'

Answer: Basque


Question: 'In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall"'

Answer: "The Autumn Leaves"


Question: 'Before he came to the U.S., this physicist's Italian students called him "The Pope"; they considered him infallible'

Answer: Enrico Fermi


Question: 'The name for this news agency means "peninsula", referring to the Arabian peninsula'

Answer: Al Jazeera


Question: 'All algae contain this green pigment that allows them to perform photosynthesis'

Answer: chlorophyll


Question: 'The tropical nut that's a source of the caffeine in soft drinks'

Answer: the kola nut


Question: 'If you want your MTV, you should know that MTV stands for this'

Answer: Music Television


Question: 'In 1691 England guaranteed this country's Catholics certain rights by the Treaty of Limerick'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'It's the traditional color of majorette boots'

Answer: white


Question: 'Prince Andrew's dukedom'

Answer: York


Question: 'It's a piece of metal put in an electrical circuit to melt if current flow is too high'

Answer: a fuse


Question: 'A member of the hickory family, this nut is popular in a Southern pie'

Answer: pecan


Question: 'All your relatives might enjoy this channel abbreviated FAM'

Answer: The Family Channel (The Family Network accepted)


Question: 'Declining to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, it signed a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'It would be appropriate to keep 19th century undergarments in a chest of these'

Answer: drawers


Question: 'The 2 countries that border Zambia & fit the category'

Answer: Zimbabwe & Zaire


Question: 'The fastest flying animal is the peregrine species of this bird of prey'

Answer: a falcon


Question: 'Pine nuts are found inside these & it's tough to get them out'

Answer: pinecones


Question: 'This acronym for American Christian Television System is a book of the Bible, too'

Answer: ACTS


Question: 'In 1815 this congress restored the Papal States to the pope'

Answer: the Congress of Vienna


Question: 'The most popular men's jacket named for a meal'

Answer: a dinner jacket


Question: 'In a famous poem, "It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!"'

Answer: Xanadu


Question: 'The Weddell species of this sea mammal can stay underwater for over 40 minutes'

Answer: a seal


Question: 'It was named after John MacAdam, who promoted its cultivation in Australia'

Answer: the macadamia


Question: 'In TV land, TNT doesn't stand for trinitrotoluene but for this'

Answer: Turner Network Television


Question: 'Int'l agreements adopted in 1864, 1906, 1929 & 1949 dealing with the humane treatment of P.O.W.s & wounded soldiers'

Answer: the Geneva Conventions


Question: 'The "jewel" style of this part of a garment is simple & rounded'

Answer: a neckline


Question: 'Seen on TV commercials, this musician known by one name is called "the master of the pan flute"'

Answer: Zamfir


Question: 'In the night sky, Jupiter is the third brightest of the stars & planets, after these two'

Answer: Mars & Venus


Question: 'There are 2 kinds of this nut, bitter & sweet, & 3 kinds of shells, hard, soft & paper'

Answer: an almond


Question: 'The Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network is known by this acronym'

Answer: C-SPAN


Question: 'The 1895 treaty of Shimonoseki between China & Japan gave independence to this peninsular country'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'A loose dress shape created by Yves Saint Laurent, or a suspended bar seen at the circus'

Answer: a trapeze


Question: 'Zoroaster was also known by this name, as Nietzsche could have told you'

Answer: Zarathustra


Question: 'The European recovery program following WWII was also called this, for its originator'

Answer: the Marshall Plan


Question: 'Guinness calls Gogol's play "The Inspector General" this country's greatest early comedy'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'These lithe desert horses are the oldest existing breed'

Answer: Arabians


Question: 'This British River rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucester'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'It's the first book of the New Testament & the first of the 4 Gospels'

Answer: Matthew


Question: 'Savings account deposits & withdrawals are recorded in this type of booklet'

Answer: a passbook


Question: 'The 1912 alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & Montenegro was known as this league'

Answer: the Balkan League


Question: 'Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein'

Answer: The Heidi Chronicles


Question: 'This thoroughbred who won 20 of his 21 races was nicknamed "Big Red"'

Answer: Man O\' War (Man of War accepted)


Question: 'In 1886 Congress "closed" this sea off Alaska due to indiscriminate fur-sealing practices of other nations'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: 'After his resurrection, Jesus said to her, "Woman, why weepest thou?  Whom seekest thou?"'

Answer: Mary Magdalene


Question: 'Budget deficits cause this, the money owed by the U.S. government, to rise'

Answer: the national debt


Question: 'The 3 major battles of this war were at Crecy, Poitiers & Agincourt'

Answer: the Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'Jean Kerr, who wrote the play "Mary, Mary", is the wife of this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic'

Answer: Walter Kerr


Question: 'These horses are trained primarily at the Spanish riding school in Vienna'

Answer: the Lipizzaners


Question: 'The tallest mountains in Egypt are located on this large peninsula'

Answer: the Sinai


Question: 'In Galatians he wrote, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ"'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'The International Bank for Reconstruction & Development is popularly called this'

Answer: the World Bank


Question: 'After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus'

Answer: the Mausoleum


Question: 'His first play, "Tamburlaine the Great", opened in 1587, just 6 years before he was killed'

Answer: (Christopher) Marlowe


Question: 'World Book says the shire breed developed after this Tudor king had all horses under 5' high destroyed'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'French cities on this bay or its inlets include Bordeaux, Nantes & Rochefort'

Answer: the Bay of Biscay


Question: 'This Roman emperor sent out a decree "that all the world should be taxed"'

Answer: Caesar (Augustus)


Question: 'The Chicago Board of Trade is an example of this type of market where raw materials are traded'

Answer: a commodity exchange


Question: 'After oil was found there in 1932, this island nation became the Persian Gulf's first oil-rich state'

Answer: Bahrain


Question: 'An actor as well as an author, he played the role of Orgon in his own "Tartuffe"'

Answer: Molière


Question: 'In Britain, horse racing's Triple Crown consists of the St. Leger Stakes, the Two Thousand Guineas & this derby'

Answer: Epsom


Question: 'Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe, is a peak of this mountain range'

Answer: the Caucasus


Question: 'Number of days from Christ's resurrection to his ascension'

Answer: 40


Question: 'The "zero-coupon" type of this financial instrument pays nothing until maturity'

Answer: a bond


Question: 'A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'It's the third-largest U.S. state in area'

Answer: California


Question: '"Hakuna Matata" was one of 3 tunes nominated for an Oscar from this Disney film'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'In Benin:<br />this'

Answer: French


Question: 'Yo, Shakespeare!<br />It's a 14-line poem'

Answer: a sonnet


Question: 'The Southland Corporation might say "Oh, thank heaven" for this chain of 30,000 convenience stores'

Answer: 7-11


Question: 'With their front teeth perfect for gnawing, rats are members of this mammalian order'

Answer: rodents


Question: 'Heard weekly since 1925, this state's "Grand Ole Opry" program is the longest-running live radio show in the U.S.'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: '"Let's Do" this "Again"--& again, as we watch "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" over & over'

Answer: the Time Warp


Question: 'In Gabon:<br />this'

Answer: French


Question: 'A movement upward, perhaps to climb a hill'

Answer: ascent


Question: 'In 1999 this shoe company named the largest building at its corporate headquarters after soccer great Mia Hamm'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'The Norway rat, the one typically used in lab experiments, is also known as this "colorful" rat'

Answer: a brown rat


Question: 'As of Jan. 1, 2008, this Pacific Northwest state had the highest statewide minimum wage, $8.07 an hour'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'He had a 1994 hit with "Streets of Philadelphia", from a Tom Hanks film'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'In Cameroon:<br />English & this'

Answer: French


Question: 'A usually dissenting subdivision of a religious group'

Answer: a sect


Question: 'This car-repair chain founded in 1956 shares its name with a king of ancient Phrygia'

Answer: Midas


Question: 'Like young canines, baby rats are known by this one-syllable term'

Answer: pups


Question: 'A river in this state is named for the Rappahannock tribe that John Smith met in 1607'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'This classic bluegrass song for banjo & guitar was featured in the film "Deliverance"'

Answer: "Dueling Banjoes"


Question: 'In Equatorial Guinea:<br />Spanish & this'

Answer: French


Question: 'Atomic number 10, this odorless gaseous element is obtained from fractional distillation of liquid air'

Answer: neon


Question: 'Henry Ford called minority stockholders in his corporation these, like the ones that cause dysentery & malaria'

Answer: parasites


Question: 'This nautical & rat metaphor refers to people abandoning a losing side'

Answer: rats fleeing a sinking ship


Question: 'Big Pocono State Park is found in this state'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'The Oscar for Best Song of 2007 went to a tune from this film about 2 Dublin musicians'

Answer: Once


Question: 'In Rwanda:<br />Kinyarwanda, French & this'

Answer: English


Question: 'A political subdivision of Switzerland'

Answer: a canton


Question: 'The discovery of oil in 1879 at Pico Canyon near Los Angeles was the start of what's now this petroleum corporation, stock symbol CVX'

Answer: Chevron


Question: 'Exposed underground variety of rat seen here'

Answer: a naked mole rat


Question: 'The hyoid bone supports this organ & provides attachment sites for muscles used in speaking & swallowing'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Christina Aguilera, to this "animal" of a golfer: "Sorry, I don't know much about you. I don't follow tennis"'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'The Hotel Sacher in Vienna was built on the site of the theater where his Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'According to Guinness, this present delivered in 1886 was the largest gift ever given'

Answer: the Statue of Liberty


Question: '"Maria Stuarda" by Donizetti (libretto by Bardari) is this type of work'

Answer: opera


Question: 'RQ'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'This bone is located on the thumb side of the forearm'

Answer: the radius


Question: 'Bill Simmons' "Now I Can Die in Peace" chronicles this team's 2004 World Series win, its first since 1918'

Answer: the Red Sox


Question: 'Every 5 years, this capital city hosts a Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'Credited with saving the studio, this canine star was Warner Bros.' most successful star of the 1920s'

Answer: Rin Tin Tin


Question: 'If you get the "pointe", Darci Kistler found her fame as one of these performers'

Answer: a ballerina


Question: 'CB'

Answer: Cuba


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the visual.)  Red eye in photographs is the reflection of the flash off the blood vessels from this posterior part of the eye'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'This quarterback of broken leg fame: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein"'

Answer: (Joe) Theismann


Question: 'Hop aboard the train and you can get a close-up peek at this peak'

Answer: the Matterhorn


Question: 'Jim Springer & Jim Lewis, who led similar lives down to their wives' & dogs' names, turned out to be these'

Answer: identical twins


Question: '"Luncheon of the Boating Party" was an impressive 1881 work by this Impressionist'

Answer: Renoir


Question: 'LGR'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'A common injury to this joint is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament'

Answer: the knee


Question: 'In his HBO biopic, an "epiphanous experience of pure religiosity" during a 1971 Ali fight inspires him to be a promoter'

Answer: Don King


Question: 'Lisbon's monument to the discoveries was built in 1960 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of this prince's death'

Answer: Henry the Navigator


Question: 'Referring to these 2 Disneyland rides, one designer said, "I went from sweet little children to dirty old men"'

Answer: It\'s A Small World & Pirates of the Caribbean


Question: 'An architectural style is named for this French fine arts school that dropped architecture in 1968'

Answer: the École des Beaux Arts


Question: 'TNS'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives a physical demonstation.)  Muscles work in pairs, so you can strengthen one by increasing flexibilty in the other. The hamstring curl strengthens the hamstring and allows this muscle at the front of the thigh to elongate'

Answer: the quadriceps


Question: '(I'm USC athletic director Mike Garrett.)   In 1965 at USC I led the nation in rushing; the year before, this running back played by James Caan in a TV movie achieved the feat'

Answer: (Brian) Piccolo


Question: 'Amsterdam's name reflects the fact that the city grew up around a dam built on this river'

Answer: the Amstel River


Question: 'Involving a color & an animal, it's the second most common pub name found in the U.K. & is found on the U.K. coat of arms'

Answer: red lion


Question: 'A 1974 movie tells of Benji; a 12th century Japanese scroll illustrates this "tale" by Lady Murasaki'

Answer: (The Tale of) Genji


Question: 'RMN'

Answer: Romania


Question: '4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Appropriately, iceberg roses are this color'

Answer: white


Question: 'In 2007, while playing against the Cubs, he slammed his 600th home run'

Answer: Sammy Sosa


Question: 'We're attending the Strings in the Mountains chamber music festival in Steamboat Springs in this state'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'A parasite spread by this insect sickens 300 million people a year & kills almost 3 million'

Answer: the mosquito


Question: 'It's the trademark name for the brand of really bright colors that was created in 1946'

Answer: DayGlo


Question: 'This smallest New England state is known for a specialized shake called a coffee cabinet'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This type of rose smells like a certain brewed beverage, hence its name'

Answer: the tea rose


Question: 'This Emmy winner from "Law & Order" played the Oscar- nominated role of a reporter in "The Killing Fields"'

Answer: Sam Waterston


Question: 'We left Abilene & drove straight north on Highway 15 to Fairbury in this state'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Christmas will not be jolly if you happen to eat the red berries from this evergreen holiday bush'

Answer: holly


Question: 'In "My Darling Clementine", Victor Mature played this gunfighter ally of Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp'

Answer: Doc Holliday


Question: 'This soft-serve chain opened in 1940 & got the shakes 9 years later'

Answer: Dairy Queen


Question: 'Call Orville Redenbacher: there are roses called this & "gourmet" this'

Answer: popcorn


Question: 'One of the great stand-up comics of the 1980s, he was sadly killed in an auto accident in 1992'

Answer: Sam Kinison


Question: 'We're in the Ozarks seeing a show at Andy Williams' Moon River Theatre in this bordering state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'This is in the top 3 of the most dangerous professions in the U.S.; most of the fatalities are from drowning'

Answer: fishing


Question: 'Also a Beatles title, it's someone who goes on an excursion in the morning & returns before bedtime, yeah'

Answer: a daytripper


Question: 'It's much easier for me to drink your milkshake with the new type of this simple device patented in 1937'

Answer: a (flexible) straw


Question: 'The rose known as "Mme. Ferdinand Jamin" became more popular in the U.S. when it was renamed "American" this'

Answer: American Beauty


Question: 'With more than 80, this late golf great holds the record for the most PGA tour wins'

Answer: Sam Snead


Question: 'We're visiting the Will Rogers Memorial in this state where the humorist is buried'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Though the pygmy & river varieties look comical, Africans consider this 8,000-lb. mammal extremely dangerous'

Answer: the hippopotamus


Question: 'In 1913 a flood in this "Birthplace of Aviation" city caused about $100 mil. in damage, & that's $100 mil. in 1913 bucks'

Answer: Dayton, Ohio


Question: 'Walgreens invented this shake made with barley-infused milk; the double chocolate kind is popular'

Answer: a malted


Question: 'Fabric name for roses like the Celsiana, which has petals that look like crumpled silk'

Answer: a Damask rose


Question: 'In 2002 his rendition of "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame'

Answer: Sammy Davis Jr.


Question: 'We've left Lawrence, Kansas for Lawrence in this state, Leonard Bernstein's birthplace'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'This homophonic drug cocktail was a '90s weight-loss dream but was later discovered to be a health nightmare'

Answer: Fen-phen


Question: 'Early in his career, this English chemist and physicist was an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy'

Answer: Michael Faraday


Question: 'He sold milkshake machines to the McDonald Bros.' burger joint, got curious about their operation & soon made history'

Answer: (Ray) Kroc


Question: 'An elite cavalry formation made up of noblemen, the Companions were this Macedonian's shock force vs. the Persians'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'An undeliverable email may come back with the notation "mailer" this, a spirit of Greek myth'

Answer: daemon


Question: '...& I'll be walking for a while, as this structure is more than 3,700 miles long and ends in the Gobi Desert'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: 'Barbados, Belize & Brunei all use a currency called this'

Answer: the dollar


Question: 'An 11-year-old is the heroine of Judy Blume's "Are You There, God? It's Me," this girl'

Answer: Margaret


Question: 'This airline whose name is a Hawaiian term made its first flight on July 26, 1946'

Answer: Aloha


Question: 'Made up of Wisc. and Indiana men, the black felt-hatted Iron Brigade lost more than 50% of its men during this war'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an anatomical animation on the monitor.)  Making it hard to communicate, inflammation of the structure above the trachea is known as this'

Answer: laryngitis


Question: '...from the Arno up Via Roma to see the plumbline-challenged highlight of this city'

Answer: Pisa


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the money from Kyoto, Japan.)  The name of this Japanese currency means "round" because of the new round coins that replaced oval and other-shaped ones in the 1870s'

Answer: the yen


Question: 'This last name of Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz" books is appropriate, since it is a synonym of  "cyclone"'

Answer: Gale


Question: 'Random House gives its etymology as "Spanish: literally, to God"'

Answer: adios


Question: 'The Ironsides were an elite cavalry that fought for this non-royal at the Battle of Marston Moor'

Answer: (Oliver) Cromwell


Question: 'Stephen King would know this term for an area where cell phone reception drops out'

Answer: a dead zone


Question: '...& now I'm running as I'm in the Festival of San Fermin in this city, & a bull named El Terrible is right behind me'

Answer: Pamplona


Question: 'Turkey still uses a currency called this, though Italy no longer does'

Answer: the lira


Question: 'Asia, Australia and Europena are 3 of the children of "Mrs. Wiggs of" this title "Patch"'

Answer: Cabbage


Question: 'Heidi Klum's catchphrase on "Project Runway"'

Answer: auf Wiedersehen


Question: 'This "venerable" elite fighting force created in 1804 made Napoleon's last charge at Waterloo'

Answer: the Old Guard


Question: '"I telegraphed and phoned / I sent an airmail special too / Your answer was goodbye / There was even" this from the USPS'

Answer: postage due


Question: '...heeding the call of the deep, toward the Eastern Harbor in this main Egyptian seaport'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'Nepal, Bhutan, India & this island nation off India all use the rupee as their currency'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'In an 1881 novel, Fraulein Rottenmeier makes things rotten for this title girl'

Answer: Heidi


Question: 'There are 3 vowels in this 4-letter Italian word for "so long"'

Answer: ciao


Question: 'A group of 150 male-male pairs, the Sacred Band was an elite fighting unit of this city of Oedipus'

Answer: Thebes


Question: 'The Arabic word <i>girbal</i>, "sieve", gave us this word meaning to scramble a message so it's incomprehensible'

Answer: garble


Question: '...at the Rogundam, which is about 75 miles from Dushanbe, the capital of this former Soviet republic'

Answer: Tajikistan


Question: 'Guatemala's national currency is named after this colorful bird, seen here'

Answer: the quetzal


Question: '11 little girls all cried, "Boohoo! We want a Caldecott Medal, too!" when a book about her "Rescue" won a medal in 1954'

Answer: Madeline


Question: 'A 1954 James Michener book, or a 1957 film with Ricardo Montalban as Nakamura<br />(Nakamura?)'

Answer: Sayonara


Question: 'This quote, No. 31 on the list, comes 2 minutes after the No. 1 quote, & is the last line of its movie'

Answer: After all, tomorrow is another day!


Question: 'Both African & Indian species of this mammal undergo periods of odd behavior called musth'

Answer: Elephant


Question: 'On this sitcom Duff Beer is on tap at Moe's Tavern where the clientele is always "animated"'

Answer: "The Simpsons"


Question: 'In 1847 Louis Cartier founded an elegant jewelry firm in this capital city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'This Puerto Rican capital's harbor is guarded by Fort San Felipe Del Morro'

Answer: San Juan


Question: 'Laurens Hammond invented an electric type of this musical instrument'

Answer: Organ


Question: 'In heraldry a wyvern is one of these mythical beasts depicted with 2 legs, wings & a barbed tail'

Answer: Dragon


Question: 'Collisions with boats are the largest identifiable cause of death of these gentle Florida sea cows'

Answer: Manatees


Question: 'Head north, far north, to visit The Brick, this show's restaurant'

Answer: "Northern Exposure"


Question: 'One of the most important mines for these green gems is found at Muzo, Colombia'

Answer: Emeralds


Question: 'You can visit the Museum Carolino-Augusteum as well as Mozart's birthplace in this Austrian city'

Answer: Salzburg


Question: 'He invented a razor with disposable blades after experts at M.I.T. told him it was impossible'

Answer: King Gillette