Question: 'Titian staked out Paul III, who called the Counter-Reformation Council of this in 1545'

Answer: Trent


Question: 'It's the innovative 2-wheeled transporter "dedicated to moving you"'

Answer: a Segway


Question: 'Once paired with Don Simpson, he went on to produce "CSI" & "Pirates of the Caribbean"'

Answer: Jerry Bruckheimer


Question: 'Roman commoner<br />(8)'

Answer: plebeian


Question: 'On March 16 this territory, not a U.S. state until 1912'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Smile, Benedict XIV, a great pope to whom this French antireligious enlightenment writer even dedicated a play'

Answer: Voltaire


Question: 'This motorcycle co. whose factory 100 years ago was "The Wigwam" is once again in business after a bumpy history'

Answer: Indian


Question: 'This "Around the World in Eighty Days" producer was husband No. 3 for Joan Blondell & for Liz Taylor'

Answer: Mike Todd


Question: 'In a registered website domain name, it's the only mark allowed that isn't a letter, number or the dot'

Answer: a dash


Question: 'Yupik is a native language spoken by about 15,000 in Siberia & the western part of this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In 2004 she published "Confessions of an Heiress:  A Tongue-in Chic Peek behind the Pose"'

Answer: Paris Hilton


Question: 'According to the bell on this, we've reached your floor'

Answer: the elevator


Question: 'flu.gov says this is the best protection against contracting the flu -- not scared of needles are you?'

Answer: a vaccine


Question: 'In 2009 the price for a medallion on one of these driven in NYC was over $750,000'

Answer: a taxicab


Question: '...with a Z'

Answer: Arizona


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  Of France's many languages, Breton, introduced by the Celts, & Gallo, developed from Latin, serve this coastal region'

Answer: Brittany


Question: 'In a book for kids, he tells "How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals"'

Answer: Michael Phelps


Question: 'You better pay up after hearing the bell on this'

Answer: the cash register


Question: 'To reduce your chances of getting the flu, the CDC recommends doing this often, for 15 to 20 seconds at a time'

Answer: washing your hands


Question: 'In a Beach Boys song, a female driver will have "fun, fun, fun" until her daddy takes this away'

Answer: a T-Bird


Question: '...with the most Is'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'Paul's letters in the New Testament were written in a version of this language called Koine'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'He's the man behind the books "I'm Only One Man" & "Who Wants to Be Me?"; need a lifeline?'

Answer: Regis Philbin


Question: 'Originally it was a Chinese gong, but since 1903, business here has begun with a bell ring similar to this'

Answer: New York Stock Exchange


Question: 'This U.N. agency issues annual recommendations for the composition of new anti-flu drugs'

Answer: the World Health Organization


Question: 'If you drive the only Disneyland park attraction that can be boarded outside the park, you're driving this'

Answer: the Monorail


Question: '...with the most Es'

Answer: Tennesee


Question: 'In the 17th century Jesuit missionaries developed a written form of this Asian language known as Quoc Ngu'

Answer: Vietnamese


Question: 'In "My Word is My Bond", he talks about some of his memorable roles from The Saint to Beau Maverick to 007'

Answer: Roger Moore


Question: 'At certain times the bell heard here warns you to stay out of this area'

Answer: a railroad crossing


Question: 'The DHHS says to help protect yourself from the Flu, you should avoid touching these 3 parts of your face'

Answer: your mouth, nose & eyes


Question: 'It can mean a person who drives 2 or more draft animals, or a union truck driver'

Answer: a teamster


Question: '...with 2 Ks'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'The semitic language of Akkadian was spoken in this land whose name means "between rivers"'

Answer: Mesopotamia


Question: 'Lynette Scavo on "Desperate Housewives", she co-authored "A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend"'

Answer: Felicity Huffman


Question: 'Walking on a country road in a winter wonderland, keep your ears pealed for these -- are you <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-14_J_10.mp3">listening? </a>'

Answer: sleigh bells


Question: 'The CDC urges flu victims to play it "cool" & stay home at least 24 hours after this symptom is gone'

Answer: your fever


Question: 'A mahout is the traditional term for a driver of one of these'

Answer: an elephant


Question: '...with the most Os'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'This word precedes "puff" in a common alliterative beauty aid'

Answer: powder


Question: 'Jeremy Irons helps the title character connect with his dragon in this film whose title changes 1 letter in "Dragon"'

Answer: Eragon


Question: 'It's no wonder Lot's wife was changed into a pillar of salt; she & Lot lived by this "sea" that's really a lake'

Answer: the Dead Sea


Question: 'The subject of the bio "America's Queen", she was an editor at Doubleday until her 1994 death'

Answer: Jackie Onassis


Question: 'A process called candling involves removing excess wax from these organs'

Answer: the ears


Question: 'A fetlock is located on the back of the horse's leg & the forelock is located here'

Answer: the front of the head


Question: 'This synonym for "puff" can refer to a slight odor or a baseball strikeout'

Answer: a whiff


Question: 'In this 2010 animated film, Hiccup befriends & then teaches an injured dragon named Toothless'

Answer: How to Train Your Dragon


Question: 'The ancient poet Sappho hailed from an island in this sea'

Answer: the Aegean Sea


Question: 'Truman Capote said of this writer's frenzied creation of "On the Road", "that isn't writing; it's typing"'

Answer: Kerouac


Question: 'Kashmiri voting officers are sealing a voting machine for a 2004 vote in this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Cotton candy is also called spun this'

Answer: sugar


Question: 'In an eye exam a puff of air is used to measure intraocular pressure, a test for this condition'

Answer: glaucoma


Question: 'In this 1977 kids' movie, the title character is the only one who can see Elliott, a dragon'

Answer: Pete\'s Dragon


Question: 'If you make your home in the capital city of Hobart, you live by this sea'

Answer: Tasman Sea


Question: 'Her paperback novels like "Hollywood Wives" have been bestsellers'

Answer: Jackie Collins


Question: 'Originally called Plastone, this "reptilian" car polish seals your car from the elements'

Answer: Turtle Wax


Question: 'In 2010 this conservative leader descended from King William IV became Britain's prime minister'

Answer: (David) Cameron


Question: 'From the French for "flaky", feuillete is a term for a puff this'

Answer: pastry


Question: 'Christian Bale & Matthew McConaughey tag & bag flame-throwing dragons in this futuristic tale'

Answer: Reign of Fire


Question: 'The fur seals of the Pribilof Islands not only live by this sea, they also live in it'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: 'Pills are the dolls in the title of her trash classic "Valley of the Dolls"'

Answer: Jacqueline Susann


Question: 'These rings sound like young swans, but they're actual used to seal letters with wax'

Answer: signets


Question: 'This "sweet"' instrument may be hammered or Appalachian'

Answer: a dulcimer


Question: 'It's a metaphor for acting proud & making yourself look big; a grouse does it literally'

Answer: puffing up your chest


Question: 'Peter MacNicol eventually gets this title job in a 1981 movie'

Answer: Dragonslayer


Question: 'A good place to play Marco Polo is in this sea that surrounds Marco Polo's city of birth'

Answer: the Adriatic


Question: 'This former G.E. CEO has co-authored "Straight From The Gut" & "Winning"'

Answer: Jack Welch


Question: 'This valuable wax secreted by sperm whales is used as a fixative in perfumes'

Answer: ambergris


Question: 'Marilyn Monroe described this actor who died in 1966 as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am"'

Answer: Montgomery Clift


Question: 'In 1988 this country boycotted the Summer Olympics after its demand to co-host the games was refused'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'Skaldic, a bit different than Eddaic poetry, originated in Norway, but was developed mainly on this island'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'The city of Burlington lies on the shores of this, Vermont's largest lake'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question: 'Hope & ____'

Answer: (Bing) Crosby


Question: '(Alex: Let's join Sofia on Park Avenue.)  Oops!  I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment'

Answer: mustard


Question: 'Arsenic compounds are used as coloring agents in these sky displays'

Answer: fireworks


Question: 'Until 1973 it was known as British Honduras'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'The Greeks used encomia to praise people; today at a funeral you deliver one of these'

Answer: eulogy


Question: 'In 1974 he became Vermont's first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate; he's still there'

Answer: Patrick Leahy


Question: 'Martin & ____'

Answer: (Jerry) Lewis


Question: '(Sofia)  This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans'

Answer: falafel


Question: 'Caligula is said to have ordered his alchemists to turn the yellow orpiment, a sulfide of arsenic, into this'

Answer: gold


Question: 'It's a road around a town, or an operation to reroute blood'

Answer: bypass


Question: 'Tongdong, a Korean Pyolgok-form poem, is an ode on the 4 of these'

Answer: seasons


Question: 'At 4,393 feet, Mount Mansfield in this range is the state's highest point'

Answer: Green Mountains


Question: '____ & Ray'

Answer: Bob (Elliott)


Question: '(Sofia)  From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating'

Answer: knish


Question: 'Around 3500 B.C. people were mixing copper & arsenic to make this: they soon found copper & tin worked better'

Answer: bronze


Question: 'It's the historic linen seen here'

Answer: the Bayeux Tapestry


Question: 'The Cielito, "darling", is associated with this cowboy literature of Argentina & Uruguay'

Answer: gaucho


Question: 'This city's annual Battle Day Parade commemorates a Revolutionary War battle that took place on August 16, 1777'

Answer: Bennington


Question: 'Stiller & ____'

Answer: (Anne) Meara


Question: '(Alex: Sofie, what's next?)  You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island'

Answer: Sicilian


Question: 'Gallium arsenide is used in  the semiconductor type of this device found in CD players'

Answer: laser


Question: 'An athletic competition combining skiing & shooting'

Answer: biathlon


Question: 'Popular in the 14th century, the Englyn & the Cywydd were poetic forms in this language'

Answer: Welsh


Question: 'The town of Barre is a world center in the production of this stone used for monuments'

Answer: granite


Question: 'Nichols & ____'

Answer: (Elaine) May


Question: '(Sofia)  Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter & Gamble tummy-soothing liquid'

Answer: Pepto-Bismol


Question: '"Arsenic and Old Lace" recommends a teaspoon of arsenic per gallon of this wine'

Answer: elderberry


Question:
'A Renaissance artist, or the intellectual game Cheryl & Jimmy are playing
Cheryl: P.
Jimmy: Is it the founder of a colony?
Cheryl: No, it's not William Penn.'

Answer: Botticelli


Question: 'Hillel phrased this "precious" rule negatively, saying don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you'

Answer: the Golden Rule


Question: 'This beloved Broadway show was based on a comic strip by Harold Gray'

Answer: Annie


Question: 'In 1891 a Japanese inventor powered a model plane with one of these office supplies & it flew a reported 33 feet'

Answer: rubber band


Question: 'In 1894 George Kinney began his chain of stores selling these'

Answer: shoes


Question: 'Representative Thaddeus Stevens led the attempt to impeach this president'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'Fabulous fabulist<br />(5)'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'A Florida city is named for this medieval author of "The City of God"'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'Alberto Santos-Dumont's first flight of his No.1 airship in 1898 ended with it being caught in one of these'

Answer: tree


Question: 'By 1845, with John Young & J.L. Ellis, this NYC jeweler switched from selling paste jewels to real'

Answer: Charles Lewis Tiffany


Question: '"Big Red" could also have been the nickname of this "man of the people", seen here'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Paint propellant<br />(7)'

Answer: aerosol


Question: 'Parmenides, Mr. One Unchanging Reality, was a major thinker pre-this man born around 470 B.C.'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'In 1899 Wilbur Wright asked this museum complex for any info on flying; they sent him some pamphlets'

Answer: the Smithsonian


Question: 'Attention, shoppers -- Borders Books once belonged to this major discount retailer'

Answer: K-Mart


Question: 'This president seen here won the Nobel Peace Prize during his term'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'The first "A" in NASA<br />(11)'

Answer: Aeronautics


Question: 'Expelled from Germany in 1849, he lived his last 30 years in the British kapital'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'In 1897 3 Swedes (partly funded by Alfred Nobel) tried to reach this point on Earth by balloon -- they died'

Answer: the North Pole


Question: 'In 1893 George Brown & this man formed a partnership in Winston-Salem, North Carolina'

Answer: Robert Williamson


Question: 'This "cat", seen here, served as president for only 6 months'

Answer: James A. Garfield


Question: '"Cryin'" & "Crazy" rock group<br />(9)'

Answer: Aerosmith


Question: 'Jacques Lacan revised this philosopher's idea as "Where I think, 'I think, therefore I am

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'Ingmar Bergman's movie "Smiles of a Summer Night" inspired this Stephen Sondheim musical'

Answer: A Little Night Music


Question: 'This count was granted a patent in 1895 for his new method of rigid-airship construction'

Answer: Ferdinand von Zeppelin


Question: 'In 1959 a company in this state got the rights to L'Ecran Magique, the Magic Writer, & renamed it the Etch-A-Sketch'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'This president was described as a "non-entity with sidewhiskers" & "first in ability on the list of second-rate men"'

Answer: Chester A. Arthur


Question: 'MTV cartoon "____ Flux"<br />(4)'

Answer: Aeon


Question: 'One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie"'

Answer: Sidney Sheldon


Question: 'Like Pearl Harbor, Marine Corps Base Hawaii is on this island'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'In 2009 Nebraska's Huskers rolled, spared & struck their way to the NCAA women's title in this sport'

Answer: bowling


Question: 'Hope you catch up to the fact that a pomodoro is this fruit used in many pasta sauces in Italy'

Answer: tomato


Question: '"Billy Budd, Foretopman"'

Answer: Melville


Question: 'Muammar al-Qaddafi, from King Idris'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'A cleverly sharp head of a faculty'

Answer: keen dean


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Because synchronization with the propeller hadn't been developed yet, the gun was mounted above the propeller arc on the Caproni Ca.20, which the Museum of Flight considers the first of this basic type of military aircraft'

Answer: fighter plane


Question: 'Its Tar Heels won the 2009 NCAA basketball title'

Answer: UNC


Question: 'Don't cry -- it's only this vegetable known as a tamanegi in Japan'

Answer: onion


Question: '"To the Lighthouse"'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Nicolas Sarkozy, from Jacques Chirac'

Answer: France


Question: 'The smell of the document you receive upon graduating'

Answer: diploma aroma


Question: 'All 28 members of this international organization have sent troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan'

Answer: NATO


Question: 'In 2009, this school's Gators won their second BCS title in 3 years'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'In the Netherlands cut up a komkommer to add this gourd to your salad'

Answer: cucumber


Question: '"Absalom, Absalom!"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'Deng Xiaoping, from Hua Guofeng'

Answer: China


Question: 'A B.A. in hosting a TV show'

Answer: emcee degree


Question: 'In the U.S. Marines, if you're one rank below corporal, you're this type of corporal'

Answer: lance


Question: 'The Cardinal women outstroked their rivals from Cal to bring this school a 2009 NCAA rowing title'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'In Poland, pick up some kalafjor if you crave this broccoli relative'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: '"Songs of Experience"'

Answer: (William) Blake


Question: 'Asif Ali Zardari, from Pervez Musharraf'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'A bureau for the clothes of a teacher of college courses'

Answer: professor dresser


Question: 'The U.S. Army unit insignia with the 23rd Greek letter signifies these operations'

Answer: psychological


Question: 'This upstate N.Y. academy's team has won back-to-back National Collegeiate Boxing Association titles'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'Mamma mia! In Rome this vegetable is cavolo'

Answer: cabbage


Question: '"Their Eyes Were Watching God"'

Answer: Zora Neale Hurston


Question: 'Jose Zapatero, from Jose Maria Aznar'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'A short, quick motion of the head on the square open area on campus'

Answer: quad nod


Question: 'As well as a list in a book, this word also means something that points out; hence this finger'

Answer: index


Question: 'There have been more than 130 million views on YouTube for "The Evolution of" this, including the twist & the robot'

Answer: Dance


Question: '1934: "Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of" this classic'

Answer: Little Women


Question: 'Ptolemy I wrote to sovereigns & governors asking for works by all authors to build this library's circulation'

Answer: Library at Alexandria


Question: 'Study up for your GRE, short for this test; you're probably not hittin' grad school without it'

Answer: Graduate Record Exam


Question: 'Hippos & rhinos are also these, thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates'

Answer: pachyderms


Question: 'Extensor digiti minimi is the muscle that lets you straighten this when holding a teacup'

Answer: pinkie


Question: 'Thousands of prisoners in the Philippines re-enacted the moves of the video of this Michael Jackson hit'

Answer: "Thriller"


Question: '1986: Her, "Plain and Tall"'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'The Manuscripts & Archives Division of this library known for its marble lions has Washington's farewell address'

Answer: New York City Public Library


Question: 'Subjects in this grad field include food science & plant breeding; maybe you'll run the Cabinet dept. of it'

Answer: agriculture


Question: 'The state of being a mom or dad'

Answer: parenthood


Question: 'Olden tradition said the vena amoris, or vein of love, ran from this one of the 10 fingers'

Answer: ring


Question: 'Fatso from Spokane is the lovable "Keyboard" this animal'

Answer: cat


Question: '1972: "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of" this group'

Answer: NIMH


Question: 'This priceless word comes before "Library of Philadelphia" in the name of a system with over 6 million books'

Answer: free


Question: 'A 2006 study in N.J. found those going for this business degree are the most likely grad students to cheat'

Answer: M.B.A.


Question: 'This term for a solid figure having many faces comes from the Greek for "many faces"'

Answer: polyhedron


Question: 'In piano playing the fingers are numbered; a right-hand triad uses these 3 numbers'

Answer: 5, 3, 1


Question: '"I'm On a Boat" is one of many popular parody songs that started on this TV show & then went viral on the web'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: '1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies'

Answer: Moons


Question: 'Since 1537 it's been the legal depository for all books published in France--en francais, s'il vous plait!'

Answer: the National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale)


Question: 'His will provided $2 million to an Ivy League univ. to establish a graduate school of journalism; quite the prize'

Answer: (Joseph) Pulitzer


Question: 'The name of this plant is from the Greek for "fond of trees"'

Answer: philodendron


Question: 'All primates have 2 of these bones in each thumb & 3 in each other finger'

Answer: phalanges


Question: 'A popular animation about a unicorn with this name follows him to Candy Mountain, where he loses a kidney'

Answer: Charlie


Question: '1978: "Bridge to" this imaginary kingdom'

Answer: Terabithia


Question: 'Located on Capitol Hill, it publishes the journal Shakespeare Quarterly'

Answer: Folger


Question: '"Hold" this last name of the medical family who put on a clinic & established a graduate school of medicine in 1915'

Answer: Mayo


Question: 'The Curies discovered radium in 1898 while working with this ore of uranium'

Answer: pitchblende


Question: 'The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame"'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'In 1985 a British Antarctic science expedition first detected one of these that forms annually in the ozone layer'

Answer: a hole


Question: '___ & The E Street Band'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'The London structure where the little princes were kept in 1483 is called the "Bloody" this'

Answer: Tower


Question: 'Berlin's first Reichstag was a governmental body formed by princes & nobles of this medieval empire'

Answer: the Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'This magazine's "Marginal Thinking Department" features "drawn out dramas" by Sergio Aragones'

Answer: Mad magazine


Question: 'Drink up!  This nation leads the world in coffee growing'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'A fluorescent lamp contains argon & a small amount of this liquid metal's vapor'

Answer: mercury


Question: '___ & Dawn'

Answer: Tony Orlando


Question: 'Dictionaries define a cottage as a small house with just 1 of these'

Answer: a story


Question: 'Around 1268 Roger Bacon observed that these new optical devices could be used to improve eyesight'

Answer: lenses


Question: 'Guideposts magazine was founded in 1945 by this "positive" minister & his wife Ruth'

Answer: Norman Vincent Peale


Question: 'Sodium penthothal is in this class of drugs that have sedative & hypnotic properties'

Answer: barbiturates


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew juices a lemon in the chemistry lab.)  This acid--C6H8O7--is found in the juice I'm extracting'

Answer: citric acid


Question: '___ & The Heartbreakers'

Answer: Tom Petty


Question: 'A building dedicated to one country at a World's Fair, like the 1939 or 1967 one'

Answer: a pavilion


Question: 'A poet, mathematician & astronomer, he moved people with the quatrains in his 12th century "Rubaiyat"'

Answer: Omar Khayyam


Question: 'Adolph Ochs, who bought into the New York Times in 1896, "train"ed at this Tennessee city's Times'

Answer: Chattanooga


Question: '(Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer.) During the 2000 election I interviewed Bush, Gore, Nader & this Reform Party nominee'

Answer: Pat Buchanan


Question: 'In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip'

Answer: a microprocessor chip


Question: '___ & The Silver Bullet Band'

Answer: Bob Seger


Question: 'The structure seen here at Churchill Downs is known as this, like certain Buddhist edifices'

Answer: a pagoda


Question: 'Chinese explorer Cheng Ho died in Calicut, India some 65 years before this Portuguese man reached it in 1498'

Answer: Vasco da Gama


Question: 'In 1989 & 1999, it got the National Magazine Award's "Seal of Approval" for personal service'

Answer: Good Housekeeping


Question: 'In The Princeton Review's 2004 colleges survey, this university of 30,000 was ranked lowest in alcohol consumption'

Answer: Brigham Young University


Question: 'William Gilbert coined the word electricity, which comes from the Latin word for this fossil resin'

Answer: amber


Question: '___ & The Tijuana Brass'

Answer: Herb Alpert


Question: 'As well as the art of public speaking, this word can mean a place for prayer, like Montreal's St. Joseph's one'

Answer: an oratory


Question: 'Now called ergotism, this "fiery" medieval disease took its name from the order of monks who treated it'

Answer: St. Anthony\'s Fire


Question: 'In 1756, the New Hampshire Gazette, the state's first newspaper, began publishing in this "port" city'

Answer: Portsmouth


Question: 'This African country's capital is Gaborone'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'This 1949 novel features a society dominated by such slogans as "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"'

Answer: 1984


Question: '1995:<br />"Houston, we have a problem"'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'Serving under President Clinton, she was the first female press secretary'

Answer: Dee Dee Myers


Question: 'National Aviation Day is on the August 19 birthday of this pioneer who made the first powered flight in Dec. 1903'

Answer: Orville Wright


Question: 'A pair of cocky, cartoon magpies, one had a New York accent & one had a British accent'

Answer: Heckle & Jeckle


Question: 'Your Uncle Marty can't believe you bought that sweater this way when he owns 3 garment factories'

Answer: retail


Question: 'When this title slat bridge with vine handrails broke, 5 victims were hurled to their death'

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey


Question: '2003:<br />"The guy next door just became the man upstairs"'

Answer: Bruce Almighty


Question: 'England honors this bird, not the clock, in April; its arrival announces the return of spring'

Answer: a cuckoo


Question: 'About a century ago, London's South Kensington Museum got renamed for this pair'

Answer: Victoria & Albert


Question: 'The earlier-in-the-sentence counterpart of latter'

Answer: former


Question: 'While traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Depression, she says, "All we got is the family unbroke"'

Answer: Ma Joad


Question: '2001:<br />"Ten years ago he could get to you from behind the glass.  On Feb. 9th he's out"'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'Pierre Salinger became the interim California senator 4 years after being made press secretary by this president'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'Shavu'ot, or Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday celebrated 7 weeks after this festival'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Known for their 1972 match, these Russian & American chess players had a rematch 20 years later'

Answer: Fischer & Spassky


Question: '"Admire" has the same Latin root as this, a household item commonly used for admiration'

Answer: mirror


Question: 'This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee'

Answer: Zorba the Greek


Question: '2001:<br />"One ring to rule them all"'

Answer: The Fellowship of the Ring


Question: 'Marlin Fitzwater was first appointed by this president'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'On the first Monday in March, Illinois honors this Polish hero of the American Revolution'

Answer: Pulaski


Question: 'In a tragic Babylonian love story recounted by Ovid, Pyramus is paired with this fair maiden'

Answer: Thisbe


Question: 'It's an alternate name for a high school yearbook'

Answer: an annual


Question: 'This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress'

Answer: Riders of the Purple Sage


Question: 'A 2001 sequel:<br />"He will rise again"'

Answer: The Mummy Returns


Question: 'This president appointed Ronald Ziegler, who was just 29'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'The weather on July 15, this saint's day, is said to fortell the weather for the next 40 days'

Answer: St. Swithun


Question: '"Hurrah! Hurrah! For Cleve & Steve" was an 1890s song for this pair campaigning for prez & veep'

Answer: Grover Cleveland & (Adlai) Stevenson


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates the proper way to hang Old Glory.)  When hanging a flag in a window, this rectangular corner section should be to the left of the viewer'

Answer: the canton


Question: 'Home to the oldest cathedral & the oldest university in the Americas, this capital was founded in 1496'

Answer: Santo Domingo


Question: 'Best to avoid dark chocolate before bed; 2 oz. contain about as much of this stimulant as a cup of black tea'

Answer: caffeine


Question: 'One newspaper headline described the 1997 heavyweight fight between this duo as a Pay-Per-Chew event'

Answer: (Evander) Holyfield & (Mike) Tyson


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew uses a power tool.)  The belt drive used in many devices is basically two of these simple machines'

Answer: pulleys


Question: 'Tonight on "Fuzzy Math", he finds out the hard way that sometimes, 50,456,062 can be more than 50,996,582'

Answer: Al Gore


Question:
'Coddled,
deviled,
hard boiled'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Dennis mined for gold wearing this'

Answer: denim (mined)


Question: 'The postage stamp seen here raises awareness as well as money to help fight this'

Answer: breast cancer


Question: 'Their marriage helped bring about the English Reformation'

Answer: Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn


Question: 'In 1738 Lewis Paul patented a machine for this--processing fibers into yarn, not doing aerobics on a bike'

Answer: spinning


Question: 'After serving from 1857 to 1861, tonight he finally tells President Buchanan, "For the last time, my name's not Myra!"'

Answer: John Breckinridge


Question:
'George Lazenby,
David Niven,
Pierce Brosnan'

Answer: James Bonds


Question: 'The worship of the deity Zeus probably isn't popular in this seaport'

Answer: Suez (Zeus)


Question: 'Approximately 7 out of every 10 people over 75 are affected by these, a clouding of the eye lenses'

Answer: cataracts


Question: 'The Biblical message some might get from this couple is "Move forward and don't look back!"'

Answer: Lot & his wife


Question: 'A device in which one circuit controls another, Marconi won the race to design one, seen here, for the telegraph'

Answer: a relay


Question: 'In tonight's episode, "Take This Job & Shove It", he quits as a power line worker to attend the Univ. of Wyoming'

Answer: Cheney


Question:
'Golf,
Beetle,
Karmann Ghia'

Answer: Volkswagen models


Question: 'I'll swap you my Oreos if you'll keep these off them'

Answer: paws (swap)


Question: 'Pray for a good anaesthetic when having this procedure in which the nerve & pulp of a tooth are removed'

Answer: root canal


Question: 'This felonious couple met in 1930 & ended it in 1934'

Answer: Bonnie & Clyde


Question: 'In 1895 Dr. Shields invented one of these machines that simulated the action of a calf'

Answer: a milker


Question: 'On a very special episode, this Virginian's run as the first Whig VP comes to a stunning end'

Answer: (John) Tyler


Question:
'Innocent,
Formosus,
Celestine'

Answer: popes


Question: 'Eva liked to use this Latin salutation to hail a cab'

Answer: ave (Eva)


Question: 'Headache & nausea are symptoms of Chinese restaurant syndrome, a reaction to this flavor enhancer'

Answer: MSG


Question: 'Robert Louis Stevenson thought this duo made a "Strange Case"'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a ticking metronome.)  This mechanism that provides periodic energy to devices like a metronome gets its name from the wheel that is caught & then gets free'

Answer: an escapement


Question: 'When his boss tells him he won't be on the ticket again, this Northeastern man snaps, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Abe?"'

Answer: Hannibal Hamlin


Question:
'Sinhala,
Xhosa,
Novial'

Answer: languages


Question: 'The fires helped Gunnar read this fine line that finishes a letter stroke'

Answer: serif (fires)


Question: 'While recovering from back surgery, JFK penned this 1957 winner, the stories of 8 U.S. Senators'

Answer: Profiles in Courage


Question: 'This "Law & Order" star played the unsuspecting hubby of a serial killer in "Serial Mom"'

Answer: Sam Waterston


Question: '"Ha! Welch' ein Augenblick" is a famous example of the "vengeance" type of this operatic solo'

Answer: aria


Question: 'For zavtrak in this country, you might have tea, black bread & kasha in the city of Gorky'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'At university in the 1920s he met U Nu'

Answer: U Thant


Question: 'Borden spokesanimal on the front of a locomotive to clear a Salinger work lacking the first "the"'

Answer: Elsie the Cow Catcher in the Rye


Question: 'The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell'

Answer: (Samuel) Johnson


Question: 'This director of the "Spider-Man" movies has also acted in films like "The Hudsucker Proxy" & "The Flintstones"'

Answer: Sam Raimi


Question: 'Aptly, a female fox is the heroine of the 1924 opera "The Cunning Little" this'

Answer: Vixen


Question: 'In the Murcia region of this European country, desayuno might be chocolate con churros'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'He served in the German army, years not entirely clear'

Answer: Waldheim


Question: 'Circular spinning food tray on a table set for a suffragist pioneer & a "Clockwork Orange" scribe'

Answer: Lazy Susan B. Anthony Burgess


Question: 'Still on a high from a 1933 win for a bio of this 22nd & 24th Pres., Allan Nevins won again in 1937 with "Hamilton Fish"'

Answer: (Grover) Cleveland


Question: 'He fell for Jessica Lange when they co-starred in "Frances" in 1982'

Answer: Sam Shepard


Question: 'Act III of this Verdi opera unfolds near a temple of Isis'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'Arouchat boker in this country would include yogurt, herring, cucumber & fresh vegetables from the cooperative'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'He died tragically in Africa'

Answer: Dag Hammarskjold


Question: 'Hastert's job before joining the Dutch royal family & starting a Roman leader's fruit drink chain'

Answer: Speaker of the House of Orange Julius (Speaker of the House of Orange Julius Caesar accepted)


Question: 'Glory, Hallelujah!  She was the subject of the first Pulitzer Prize-winning biography in 1917'

Answer: Julia Ward Howe


Question: 'The last works he directed weren't Westerns but music videos starring Julian Lennon'

Answer: Sam Peckinpah


Question: 'Anthony Davis' opera "Tania" is a surreal depiction of the 1974 abduction of this young woman'

Answer: Patty Hearst


Question: 'Called Frustuck & petit-dejeuner in this country, breakfast might be rosti potatoes & the native muesli'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'He was the first Arab & first African in the job'

Answer: Boutros Boutros-Ghali


Question: 'Bellicose Elton John weekend tune regarding a Notre Dame team & a large red hunting dog'

Answer: "Saturday Night\'s Alright For Fighting Irish Setter"


Question: 'The 1946 winner, "Son of the Wilderness", detailed the life of this Sierra Club founder'

Answer: John Muir


Question: '"A Third Face" is the gutsy autobiography of this highly independent director of "The Big Red One"'

Answer: Sam Fuller


Question: 'You'll need a contralto or a mezzo to play Tituba in the 1961 opera based on this Arthur Miller play'

Answer: The Crucible


Question: 'Kavalti in this country includes tarhana wheat & yogurt soup, ekmek bread & kahve, their famous coffee'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'In 1946 he called the U.N. "A going organization"'

Answer: Trygve Lie


Question: 'Edith Piaf tune that's at home in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymous Bosch painting'

Answer: "La Vie En Rose Garden Of Earthly Delights"


Question: 'Congress has passed 2 laws named for this, defined as inciting rebellion: one in 1918 and one 120 years earlier'

Answer: sedition


Question: 'The promotion of Benjamin Lincoln & 4 others over him really irked this future traitor'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'In 1988 Italy's Alberto Tomba won both the slalom & giant slalom events in this winter Olympic sport'

Answer: Skiing


Question: 'Name of the product invented by a GE chemist that's packaged in the container seen here: (red plastic egg)'

Answer: Silly Putty


Question: 'A puffer is a fish & a puff adder is a poisonous type of this'

Answer: Snake


Question: 'Character who utters the classic punchline, "What you mean we, Kemo Sabe?"'

Answer: Tonto


Question: 'This sharp device associated with babies was used as personal decoration in the heyday of punk'

Answer: Safety pin


Question: 'George Taylor signed this August 2, 1776 after replacing a Pennsylvania delegate who refused'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'On Feb. 2, 1997 Jeremy Sonnenfeld rolled a perfect 900 series in this sport in Lincoln, Nebraska'

Answer: Bowling


Question: 'Lever Brothers rolled out this clear red gel toothpaste in the late 1960s'

Answer: Close-Up


Question: 'Very simply, it's any plant, such as crabgrass, that grows where it's not wanted'

Answer: Weed


Question: 'Word that inevitably follows Henny Youngman's quip, "Take my wife"'

Answer: Please


Question: 'The "Roman" type of this mollusk gem is a glass bead filled with wax'

Answer: Pearl


Question: 'In May 1778 British general James Grant tried to stop this Frenchman's troops at Barren Hill'

Answer: Marquis de Lafayette


Question: '"(Hi, I'm Al Michaels)  This center holds over 60 NHL records including career & single season marks for points, assists & goals"'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Sheet & towel maker whose name came from its owner, a Chicago department store mogul'

Answer: Fieldcrest


Question: 'The name of these brightly colored salamanders may remind you of a certain House speaker'

Answer: Newts


Question: 'Different punchlines to this question have been "A newspaper" & "A wounded nun"'

Answer: "What\'s black & white & {red/read} all over?"


Question: 'From French for "diamond", this term for rhinestone-studded fabric is also a model of Mitsubishi'

Answer: Diamante


Question: 'It may have been James Clinton's brigade that received the surrendered British colors at this town'

Answer: Yorktown


Question: 'In 1969 this Jets QB "guaranteed" victory in the Super Bowl & delivered, beating the Colts, 16-7'

Answer: Joe Namath


Question: 'It advertises its product as "The Pfabulous Pfaucet with the Pfunny Name"'

Answer: Price Pfister


Question: 'Botanically, a peanut isn't a nut but one of these, like a soybean'

Answer: Legume


Question: '"I just flew in from the coast..."'

Answer: "And boy are my arms tired!"


Question: 'Kenneth Jay Lane gained fame for playful copies of classics by this French jewel & watch company founded in 1847'

Answer: Cartier


Question: 'Benjamin Harrison was a member of the first one of these bodies that met for the first time in 1774'

Answer: Continental Congress


Question: 'This Giants centerfielder hit more than 50 home runs in a season twice, in 1955 & 1965'

Answer: Willie Mays


Question: 'This powerboat company was founded by Christopher Columbus Smith'

Answer: Chris Craft


Question: 'These creatures, seen here, "never prosper", but they do run quickly'

Answer: Cheetahs


Question: 'When Rodney Dangerfield told his doctor he wanted a second opinion, the doc said this'

Answer: "You\'re ugly, too!"


Question: 'Named for its inventor, Pinchbeck is a zinc-copper alloy used on metal to imitate this'

Answer: Gold


Question: 'This Lebanese capital is connected by highway to Baghdad & Damascus'

Answer: Beirut


Question: 'She's Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead'

Answer: Blondie


Question: 'Before 1995 the last new color added to M&M's was this light brown in 1959'

Answer: Tan


Question:
'It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's Nietzsche's term for a person who has risen above his passions'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'In the Charlie Daniels song, the devil went down to this state for a fiddle contest'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Children chant that these 2 things "Will break my bones but names will never hurt me"'

Answer: Sticks and stones


Question: 'You can use your head to figure out that Dunnet Head is this U.K. country's northernmost mainland port'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'She had the ba-ba-ba-Beach Boys "Rockin' and A-Reelin' " in a 1966 hit'

Answer: Barbara Ann


Question: 'The "Ver" in Vermont comes from a French word for this color'

Answer: Green


Question: 'Nietzsche befriended but later broke with this anti-Semitic opera composer'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'Mr. Applegate agrees to an escape clause in a baseball player's contract in this Broadway musical'

Answer: Damn Yankees


Question: 'When a confrontation gets serious this "comes to shove"'

Answer: Push


Question: 'Magellan visited this archipelago in 1520 & gave it a Spanish name meaning "Land of Fire"'

Answer: Tierra del Fuego


Question: 'Created by Max Fleischer, she was forced to clean up her act by the Hays office censors in the mid-'30s'

Answer: Betty Boop


Question: 'Color in the title of the movie theme heard here:'

Answer: Pink (the theme from "The Pink Panther")


Question: 'This 3-word Nietzschean phrase implies that man must find his own purpose without religion'

Answer: "God is Dead"


Question: 'In a Stephen Vincent Benet story, Jabez Stone retains this lawyer to defend him from Mr. Scratch'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: '"Tiny Tubers" term for things that are terribly trivial'

Answer: Small potatoes


Question: 'A "great" pass & a "little" pass in the Alps are named for this saint'

Answer: St. Bernard (the patron saint of mountain climbing)


Question: 'Jane Fonda's weightless striptease in the opening credits ensured this film's cult status'

Answer: Barbarella


Question: 'It's the "I" in the mnemonic "ROY G. BIV"'

Answer: Indigo


Question: '"Thus spoke" this man, also called Zoroaster, the hero of one of Nietzsche's greatest books'

Answer: Zarathustra


Question: 'In an early version of his "Mysterious Stranger", a young Satan goes by the name Philip Traum'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'French for "fatal woman", it often refers to a sexy seductress in mystery novels'

Answer: Femme fatale


Question: 'This Croat capital was formerly Yugoslavia's second largest city'

Answer: Zagreb


Question: 'Scarlett O' Hara's daughter'

Answer: Bonnie Blue


Question: 'From Greek for "pale yellow", this earthy yellow is an iron oxide'

Answer: Ochre


Question: 'In "Twilight of the Idols" Nietzsche wrote, "What does not kill me" does this'

Answer: Makes me stronger


Question: 'Mephistopheles got this ambitious doctor to sign on the bottom line'

Answer: Dr. Faustus


Question: 'Some believe this exclamation of surprise or wonder originally referred to General Winfield'

Answer: "Great Scott!"


Question: 'These 2 words, for a political plan of attack & a drink used to celebrate a win, come from the same root'

Answer: Campaign & champagne


Question: 'Francois Pilatre de Rozier tried to cross the Channel in one of these in 1785, but was killed in the attempt'

Answer: a (hydrogen) balloon


Question: 'Frank Sinatra'

Answer: both


Question: 'The national assn. devoted to this board game has a website where you can learn the "Word of the Day"'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'Born in 1817, solo nature boy 1845-1847, became one with the earth in 1862'

Answer: Thoreau


Question: 'The atomic numbers of hydrogen, helium & lithium'

Answer: 1, 2, & 3


Question: 'German combo of "car" & "road"'

Answer: Autobahn


Question: 'The Channel meets the North Sea at this strait'

Answer: the Strait of Dover


Question: 'Mickey Rooney'

Answer: Oscar


Question: 'The Gov. Bradford Compact held its annual meeting in this Mass. town from 1946 to 2003; it now alternates with Kingston'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'Born in 1775, showed "Sensibility" in 1811, never married, died in 1817'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'Oklahoma, New Mexico & Arizona entered the Union as these states'

Answer: 46, 47, & 48


Question: 'French: black beast; English: nemesis'

Answer: a bête noir


Question: 'A song & a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 & passed away at age 98 in 2003'

Answer: Gertrude Ederle


Question: 'Bette Midler'

Answer: Grammy


Question: '"For God and Country" is the motto of this "World's Largest Veterans Organization"'

Answer: the American Legion


Question: 'Born in a hotel in 1888, took a "Long Day's Journney into Night" in a hotel in 1953'

Answer: Eugene O\'Neill


Question: 'According to the "World Almanac", they were the last 3 years of the 19th century'

Answer: 1898, 1899, & 1900


Question: 'It's Spanish for "hand to hand"'

Answer: mano a mano


Question: 'La Manche, the French name for the channel, means this part of a shirt'

Answer: the sleeve


Question: 'Julie Andrews'

Answer: both


Question: 'Founded in 1912, it's the Women's Zionist Organization of America'

Answer: Hadassah


Question: 'Born in Prague in 1883, worked in insurance until 1922, died in '24, yet went on "Trial" in '25'

Answer: (Franz) Kafka


Question: 'Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison & John Tyler were these number presidents'

Answer: 8, 9, & 10


Question: 'Evidently, it's Latin for "from the first face"'

Answer: prima facie


Question: 'The "Isle of" this has been inhabited since prehistoric times; it was once called Vectis'

Answer: Wight


Question: 'Stevie Wonder'

Answer: both


Question: 'In 1952, the lily became the official logo of this organization that helps people with special needs & disabilities'

Answer: Easter Seals


Question: 'Born in 1854, was well-read in Gaol for 2 years, Paris-ed away in 1900'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'The amendments against unreasonable searches, against self-incrimination & for a speedy trial'

Answer: 4, 5, & 6


Question: '"Inquistion" contestants know its Portugese for "act of the faith"'

Answer: auto-da-fé


Question: 'Tired of holding this, Coco Chanel attached a chain to it & made history'

Answer: a purse


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.)  The body part that regulates light entering the eye & the similar part in a camera gave this old-time effect its name'

Answer: the iris


Question: 'This royal thwarted a coup d'etat in 1981 & to us he'll always be King of Spain'

Answer: Juan Carlos


Question: 'Francis Coppola brought this author's most famous work to the big screen'

Answer: (Mario) Puzo


Question: '47 of the 48 constellations he listed in his "Almagest" around 150 B.C. are still recognized'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'Equal to 64 pints'

Answer: a bushel


Question: 'In 1926, Coco introduced this classic wardrobe piece that Vogue called "the new uniform of the modern woman"'

Answer: the little black dress


Question: 'Many auteurs started out on this cartridge-loading 8mm format that Kodak introduced in 1965'

Answer: Super-8


Question: '(Seinfeld's Jason Alexander gives the clue.)  Due to a "Trivial Pursuit" misprint, I insisted to the Bubble Boy Spain was once ruled by the Moops & not these people'

Answer: the Moors


Question: 'In 1969 he won his only Indy 500'

Answer: (Mario) Andretti


Question: 'This "hearty" American astronomer known for his observatories invented the spectrohelioscope'

Answer: Hale


Question: 'South African author Laurens Van Der Post called them the "first people of my native land"'

Answer: the Bushmen


Question: 'Chanel made this chic hotel on the Place Vendome her permanent home, & if you're well-heeled you can stay in her suite'

Answer: the Ritz (in Paris)


Question: 'The Internet Movie Database says a 6 1/2 minute one of actress Meena Kumari in "Daera" is the longest on film'

Answer: a close-up


Question: 'This Caudillo kept Spain neutral during WWII'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'George Pataki defeated him in 1994'

Answer: Mario Cuomo


Question: 'Traveling in Malawi, Africa on July 6, 1861, this Scottish explorer saw "a large comet in Ursa Major"'

Answer: David Livingston


Question: 'Growing up to 12 feet, it's a large venomous snake of Central America'

Answer: the bushmaster


Question: 'The J12, Chanel's first sport one of these, can be worn by men or women'

Answer: a watch


Question: 'If a camera captures sound too, it's this word, like Sony's Handycam'

Answer: a camcorder


Question: 'An 1872 Carlist revolt led to his abdication the following year; Falco might say, "Rock Me", this king!'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'In 1985, he won the NHL Calder Memorial Trophy as the Rookie of the Year'

Answer: Mario Lemieux


Question: 'This observer of the heavens was the son of the governor of Helsingborg Castle'

Answer: Tycho Brahe


Question: 'The chivalric code of the samurai'

Answer: bushido


Question: 'He moved from Germany to Paris at age 14 & entered the House of Chanel as artistic director in 1983'

Answer: Karl Lagerfeld


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.)  To be precise, a pan moves a camera horizontally, while this is four-letter word for a vertical move'

Answer: a tilt


Question: 'In 1700 Philip V founded this dynasty in Spain; it was France's ruling dynasty from 1589 to 1792'

Answer: (the House of) Bourbon


Question: 'Called "The Voice of the Century", he played the title role in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso"'

Answer: Mario Lanza


Question: 'In 1836, he noticed that light beads form around the edge of the moon during a solar eclipse'

Answer: Bailey


Question: 'A cylindrical metal sleeve used to prevent abrasion'

Answer: a bushing


Question: 'With Napoleon III's support, a physiological chemistry lab was created for him at the Ecole Normale Superieure'

Answer: (Louis) Pasteur


Question: 'They advise "Be all you can be"'

Answer: the Army


Question: 'In October of 1986, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church denounced this'

Answer: apartheid


Question: 'On most general reference maps, blue indicates this'

Answer: water


Question: 'This calendar oddity will occur on a Monday in 1988'

Answer: February 29th (Leap Year Day)


Question: 'In September of 1986, the first of the three remaining reactors at this Soviet plant was restarted'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: 'They can be Tupperware, bachelor, or Republican'

Answer: parties


Question: 'The U.S. flag code says red, white, and blue bunting should always feature this color on top'

Answer: blue


Question: 'The president of this Arab country must be a Maronite Christian'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Distinction that makes a collection of maps an atlas'

Answer: they are bound


Question: 'Number of House seats up for election in 1988'

Answer: all of them (435)


Question: 'Nuclear energy is released when you split up nucleons in the nucleus: groups of protons, and these'

Answer: neutrons


Question: 'Geometrically patterned flooring'

Answer: parquet


Question: 'When Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor presides over the state senate, he sits in a chair made of wood of this tree'

Answer: Charter Oak


Question: 'English spellings of the names of all seven archangels of Judeo-Christian tradition end with these two letters'

Answer: E-L


Question: 'in 1884, astronomers and geographers set this line as the starting point for east-west measurements'

Answer: Prime Meridian (Greenwich)


Question: 'Number of Senate seats up for election in 1988'

Answer: 33


Question: 'A metal used in making control rods for nuclear reactors; its chemical symbol is Cd'

Answer: cadmium


Question: 'Despite the title of the following early hit, this artist is smart enough to be a star 20 years later: "Just because I'm blonde don't think I'm dumb because this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool!"'

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: 'Signs urging tourists to stay in North Dakota say "Custer was healthy" when he left there bound for this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'At first, Jim Bakker claimed that this Louisiana-based Pentecostal preacher wanted to take over the PTL'

Answer: Jimmy Swaggart


Question: 'Found on maps, it's technically called a representative fraction and more commonly this'

Answer: scale


Question: 'In mid-March, Midway Island will be midway along the path of one of these'

Answer: a solar eclipse


Question: 'This sub-atomic particle is the anti-particle of the electron'

Answer: the positron


Question: 'The name of this herb comes from the Greek for "rock celery"; petrocelinon'

Answer: parsley


Question: 'John Scott Harrison, an Indiana farmer, was the only man in U.S. history who was this'

Answer: a son and a father of a U.S. President


Question: 'On May 9, 1969, it was declared that 200 Catholic saints would lose these'

Answer: Feast Days


Question: 'On a topographic map, these lines indicate changes in elevation'

Answer: contour lines


Question: 'Both Sunday, January 31st and Tuesday, March 8th have been dubbed with this five-letter adjective'

Answer: super


Question: 'Among particles in this family are the up, down, strange, and charmed'

Answer: quarks


Question: 'Descended from Iranian exiles, these Zoroastrians now live in India'

Answer: Parsis


Question: 'The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman'

Answer: Cecil Rhodes


Question: '"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" is the first line of this Thomas Gray poem'

Answer: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"


Question: 'This team's first jerseys were provided by the Indian Packing Co.'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'In Wagner's "Gotterdammerung", she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried's funeral pyre'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'First labor union leader who went on to become U.S. president'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'J.C. Penney's middle name, or what you'd use to buy stuff in his store'

Answer: Cash


Question: 'Because of these law enforcement officers there, the Yukon gold rush was one of the most orderly in history'

Answer: Mounties


Question: '18th century playwright who penned the poem "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly"'

Answer: Oliver Goldsmith


Question: 'The highest scorers in pro football history all played this position'

Answer: kickers


Question: 'Naval rank of Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly"'

Answer: lieutenant


Question: '"Shaky" nickname of the Industrial Workers of the World'

Answer: Wobblies


Question: 'Remarkably, it's the name shared by Erich Remarque and Klaus Brandauer'

Answer: Maria


Question: 'Sir Thomas Raffles founded this city on its island of the same name'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Historically, and in Robert Browning's poem, it was the profession of Andrea Del Sarte'

Answer: painter


Question: 'This coach has led teams to the Super Bowl the most times, 7: the Colts twice and the Dolphins five times'

Answer: Don Shula


Question: 'Of "Benvenuto Cellini", "Boris Godunov", and "Eugene Onegin", the two who were historic figures'

Answer: Cellini and Godunov


Question: '"New York Magazine" says one of the few things that's still free is a ruler from this union's Union Label department'

Answer: International Ladies\' Garment Workers Union


Question: 'This educator's famous middle initial stood for Taliaferro'

Answer: Booker T. Washington


Question: 'In 1667, in exchange for New York, Britain gave this colony to the Dutch, which they kept until 1975'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'The poem in which Walt Whitman modestly mused, "I celebrate myself and sing myself"'

Answer: "Song of Myself"


Question: '73-0, the Redskins lost the most lopsided NFL championship game ever to this team'

Answer: Chicago Bears (1940)


Question: 'In Germany, this opera is sometimes called "Margarethe" to separate it from the Goethe drama'

Answer: Faust


Question: 'Aerospace workers are also members of this union headed by Owen Bieber'

Answer: United Auto Workers


Question: 'He was the first U.S. president to have a middle name'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes'

Answer: Talleyrand


Question: 'Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" was an answer to this Marlowe poem'

Answer: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"


Question: 'This great star of football's early era became the first commissioner of what was to become the NFL'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne "the king of all wines"'

Answer: Die Fleidermaus


Question: 'The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is usually called this, after the New York senator who authored it'

Answer: Robert Wagner


Question: 'The S. in Pearl S. Buck was for her maiden name; her middle name was this; the same as Louis Tiffany's'

Answer: Comfort


Question: 'He said, "I am the last president of the United States"'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'Ape found on Sumatra, Borneo, & in "Every Which Way But Loose"'

Answer: Orangutan


Question: 'Sponge cake baked in the form of a female digit'

Answer: lady fingers


Question: 'The 1st line of the chorus of the "Beer Barrel Polka"'

Answer: Roll out the barrel


Question: 'Artificial grass named for the site of its 1st installation'

Answer: AstroTurf


Question: 'Half a city, it's capital of East Germany'

Answer: East Berlin


Question: 'From Greek "krokos", meaning saffron which this flower produces'

Answer: crocus


Question: 'Old world monkeys are both arboreal & ground-dwelling, but all new world monkeys are this type'

Answer: arboreal


Question: 'Towering snack named for comic strip character whose nocturnal noshes cleaned out the fridge'

Answer: Dagwood sandwich


Question: 'How love was for Ashford & Simpson in 1985'

Answer: "Solid"


Question: 'N.Y. stadium that now seats 13000 fewer people than it did 15 years ago'

Answer: Yankee Stadium


Question: 'The only national capital to begin with a "Q" is this, Ecuador's'

Answer: Quito


Question: 'From Turkish for "turban", these flowers were 1st grown in Turkey, not Holland'

Answer: tulip


Question: 'Primate Desmond Morris called "the naked ape"'

Answer: man


Question: 'From German for "little cake", the Lorraine style includes cheese & bacon bits'

Answer: quiche


Question: 'Chuck Berry's way of saying "Step aside, Ludwig"'

Answer: "Roll Over Beethoven"


Question: 'Three Rivers Stadium is located where 3 rivers meet in this city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'While Paris is on the Seine, this Belgian capital is on the Senne'

Answer: Brussels


Question: 'From Latin "nasus tortium" meaning twisted nose, due to this plant's pungent qualities'

Answer: nasturtium


Question: 'At 3 times proportional size of any other primate the tarsier has a colossal pair of these'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'From French for "small pan" it's a traditional Spanish dish made of seafood & saffron flavored rice'

Answer: paella


Question: 'To do this in '55, you had to "put your glad rags on"'

Answer: "Rock Around The Clock"


Question: 'Sellouts have been the rule for years at this, the Washington Redskins' home stadium'

Answer: R.F.K. Stadium


Question: 'In 1979 Soviet troops began occupying this Afghan capital'

Answer: Kabul


Question:
'Primate "preacher" who marries the following:

"'Aba daba daba daba daba daba daba' said the monkey to the chimp."'

Answer: the big baboon


Question: 'The Indonesian smorgasbord, "Rijsttafel", means this'

Answer: rice table


Question: '1 of 2 Paul Simon hits that fit this category'

Answer: "I Am A Rock" (or "Loves Me Like A Rock")


Question: 'World's largest indoor stadium is the domed one in this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, was called this when the country was Rhodesia'

Answer: Salisbury


Question: 'Cheek color of Whittier's "Barefoot Boy"'

Answer: tan


Question: 'Bela Lugosi was reportedly buried in the cape he wore for this role'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'In 1806, brine well drillers in Virginia were mad when this came up with the salt water'

Answer: oil


Question: 'Block Bros. of Wheeling made "Mail Pouch" a popular brand of this'

Answer: chewing tobacco


Question: 'Actress whose exercise plan is called "The Body Principal"'

Answer: Victoria Principal


Question: 'The French call it "A.C.", the Italians "D.C.", a 12-hour NBC miniseries called it this'

Answer: A.D.


Question: '"The Crucible", his 1953 play about Salem witchcraft trials drew a parallel to McCarthyism'

Answer: (Arthur) Miller


Question: 'In it, Rick tells Ilsa, "I remember every detail; the Germans wore gray; you wore blue"'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'Produced from peat under pressure, Loretta Lynn's dad knows all about it'

Answer: coal


Question: 'Now a retired brig. gen., this West Virginian was 1st to fly faster than speed of sound'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: '"Yippie" leader who wrote a book called "Steal This Book"'

Answer: Abbie Hoffman


Question: 'Nero sent an expedition out about 60 A.D. to find the source of this great river'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'His lovesick narrator begins, "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins"'

Answer: Nabokov


Question: 'Maurice Chevalier's contract with Paramount would have been invalid if he'd lost this'

Answer: his French accent


Question: 'From 1965-80, Testor Corp. made over 2,435,000 gliders powered by this office supply'

Answer: a rubber band


Question: 'Not until 1939 did West Virginia pay off its 68-year-old financial debt to this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Now a real estate developer, this actor opened up territory as "Daniel Boone"'

Answer: Fess Parker


Question: 'Roman slave famous for broaching a "thorny" subject with a lion'

Answer: Androcles


Question: 'Though born in Manassa, Colorado, this fighter grew up in Logan, W.V.'

Answer: Jack Dempsey


Question: 'Along with Argos & Thebes, they made up the 4 earliest city-states of ancient Greece'

Answer: Athens and Sparta


Question: 'Melville title sailor who personifies innocence'

Answer: Billy Budd


Question: 'Since his 1st lead in 1930s "The Big Trail", he starred in more films than any other actor'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'Mirrors & photovoltaic cells are among the devices used to collect this'

Answer: solar energy


Question: 'In March, 1985, Michael Lewis, intending to fly to Oakland, Cal. inadvertently ended up in this city'

Answer: Auckland


Question: 'Mussolini's party name came from this bundle of rods bound to an ax, a symbol of ancient Rome'

Answer: fasces


Question: 'President under whom the U.S. gave full recognition to Communist China'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Alex Haley's first major work was "The Autobiography Of" this black militant leader'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'In 1991 an updated version of his "Give Peace A Chance" was released with new lyrics by his son Sean'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'It's what a turophile is; if you are one, you're in the right category'

Answer: Cheese lover


Question: 'By the 6th century this group had joined with the Angles to found kingdoms in Britain'

Answer: Saxons


Question: 'The feeding tray alone won't hold your baby safely in one of these; strap it in!'

Answer: High chair


Question: '"Charlie Hustle"'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: 'Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses"'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'At her death in 1995, her song "Fotos Y Recuerdos" was No. 4 on Billboard's Latin chart'

Answer: Selena


Question: 'Quark is a soft, unripened cheese that may be substituted for this baked potato topping which it resembles'

Answer: Sour cream


Question: 'Ponce de Leon's 1513 quest was to find this legendary spring; they didn't have facelifts back then'

Answer: Fountain of Youth


Question: 'It may be fitted with an explosive charge to blow the occupant well clear of the plane'

Answer: Ejection seat


Question: '"Leo the Lip"'

Answer: Leo Durocher


Question: 'In its original language, this Jules Verne novel is known as "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers"'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea


Question: 'Julia Roberts' ex, in 1996 he released his sixth album, "The Road to Ensenada"'

Answer: Lyle Lovett


Question: 'Gruyere is named for a district in this country's Fribourg Canton, where it was first produced'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'This daughter of Chief Powhatan became a Christian & married an Englishman in 1614'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'A folding armchair with a canvas seat & back is named for this movie personage'

Answer: Director\'s chair


Question: '"Tom Terrific"'

Answer: Tom Seaver


Question: '"Buffalo Girls" & "The Evening Star" are among this "Lonesome Dove" author's recent novels'

Answer: Larry McMurtry


Question: 'Her 1993 album "Friends Can Be Lovers" features a duet with cousin Whitney Houston'

Answer: Dionne Warwick


Question: 'This "Agricultural Worker" cheese is a variety of cottage cheese that's pressed into a loaf'

Answer: Farmer cheese


Question: 'In 1519 he sailed from Cuba to conquer the Aztec empire'

Answer: Hernando Cortez


Question: 'Backsaver makes this type of chair that tilts until your feet are above your head, promoting circulation'

Answer: Recliner


Question: '"Joltin' Joe"'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound"'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'In Tim McGraw's country hit, it's the line that follows "I like it, I love it"'

Answer: "I want some more of it"


Question: 'Hopfenkase, which is flavored with hops, comes from the Westphalia region of this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Some call this son of Pepin & king of the Franks the Father of Europe'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Sculptor Daniel Chester French sat this 19-foot marble man in a curule chair'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: '"Mr. Cub"'

Answer: Ernie Banks


Question: 'Every accused citizen is guaranteed the right to a "speedy and public" one of these'

Answer: Trial


Question: 'In the 1800s decorative trays were often made from this molded, pulped paper substance'

Answer: Papier-mache


Question: 'Representing a crab, it's the faintest of all the Zodiac's constellations'

Answer: Cancer


Question: 'Dearborn, Mich. was named for Gen. Henry Dearborn & this Maine capital was probably named for his daughter'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel collaborated on this director's "Night Shift", "Splash" & "Parenthood"'

Answer: Ron Howard


Question: 'Truman Capote based "In Cold Blood" on real events & called it this kind of novel'

Answer: Nonfiction


Question: 'The principal author of The Bill of Rights, he proposed many of the 10 amendments'

Answer: James Madison


Question: 'This opaque white glass is named for its resemblance to a certain dairy product'

Answer: Milk glass


Question: 'Hubble studies indicate that these star systems, like the Milky Way, may total 50 billion'

Answer: Galaxies


Question: 'This Washington peak was named for a British minister to Spain, not for a saint'

Answer: Mount Saint Helens


Question: 'Melissa Mathison, who wrote this 1982 Steven Spielberg fantasy classic, is married to Harrison Ford'

Answer: E.T.


Question: 'Term for dog breeds, like the poodle, once used for hunting but now bred for other purposes'

Answer: Non-sporting


Question: 'On September 25, 1789 the first Congress, meeting in this city, submitted The Bill of Rights to the states'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'Nymph motifs & whiplash curves are characteristic of this "new art" style popular around 1900'

Answer: Art Nouveau


Question: 'Tycho, one of these on the moon, can be seen without a telescope'

Answer: Crater


Question: 'It's the only state capital named for a German chancellor'

Answer: Bismarck, North Dakota


Question: 'William Faulkner was one of the adapters who struggled with the plot of this novelist's "The Big Sleep"'

Answer: Raymond Chandler


Question: 'Type of pact signed by Germany & the USSR 9 days before the start of WWII'

Answer: Non-aggression


Question: 'The Bill of Rights is based mainly on this state's declaration of rights, written by George Mason'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'Punto alla rosa, or rose point, is a flowery type of this delicate openwork fabric'

Answer: Lace


Question: 'One of these discovered by Giovanni Donati in 1858 has a tail about 45 million miles long'

Answer: Comet


Question: 'The name of this Maryland suburb is Hebrew for "house of mercy"'

Answer: Bethesda


Question: 'Paul Schrader said he was lonely when he wrote this movie starring Robert De Niro as loner Travis Bickle'

Answer: Taxi Driver


Question: 'A rebel, specifically an English Protestant who doesn't follow the Anglican church'

Answer: Non-conformist


Question: 'The 2nd Amendment says a "well-regulated" one of these is "necessary to the security of a free state"'

Answer: Militia


Question: 'Gustav Stickley was known for designing mission style furniture, which was usually made of this hardwood'

Answer: Oak


Question: 'Deneb, a star of the first magnitude, marks the tail of the swan in this constellation'

Answer: Cygnus


Question: 'Named for an iron foundry, it's the home of Dollywood'

Answer: Pigeon Forge


Question: 'This controversial writer of "Showgirls" & "Basic Instinct" was formerly a journalist'

Answer: Joe Eszterhas


Question: 'Term for systems of geometry that deny certain postulates of the "father of geometry"'

Answer: Non-Euclidean


Question: 'The ancient city of Byzantium occupied the site of what is now this city'

Answer: Istanbul, Turkey


Question: 'The 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games were held in this capital of Idaho'

Answer: Boise


Question: 'This cereal with a spokesvampire provides 25% of your recommended daily riboflavin intake'

Answer: Count Chocula


Question: 'In Iceland:<br />This'

Answer: Icelandic


Question: '"A.M. Chicago" was renamed after her in 1985, a year before the show became syndicated across the country'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'Leaving a Palm Beach County jail in this state, a man attempted a carjacking but got foiled by a gun-totin' chaplain'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This bird-brain starred in such cartoons as "Zipping Along", "The Wild Chase", &, of course, "Beep Beep"'

Answer: the Road Runner


Question: 'Events for athletes confined to these include a shot put & 100-, 200- & 400-meter races'

Answer: a wheelchair


Question: 'Before getting his own show, Angel was a vampire cursed with having a soul on this TV series'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'In Bulgaria:<br />This'

Answer: Bulgarian


Question: 'This man's 1997 trial in Denver had a closed-circuit TV feed back to Oklahoma City'

Answer: Timothy McVeigh


Question: 'A 2008 U.K. thief who fell asleep in a child's bed with all his stolen goods was dubbed this fairy tale girl "Burglar"'

Answer: Goldilocks


Question: 'You're driving in 2 lanes!  That makes you one of these highway swine'

Answer: a road hog


Question: 'The volunteer board of directors includes Scott Hamilton & this perfect 10 Romanian gymnast'

Answer: Nadia Comaneci


Question: 'Count von Count on this TV show suffers from arithmomania'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'In Latvia:<br />This'

Answer: Latvian


Question: 'In 1989 Chris Gueffroy became the last person to be shot & killed while trying to cross this structure'

Answer: the Berlin Wall


Question: 'In 1999 a bank employee asked a would-be robber for this 2-letter document, which he left at the scene'

Answer: ID


Question: 'June 2 is the national day for this ice cream flavor'

Answer: Rocky Road


Question: 'The Special Olympics oath is "Let me" do this "but if I cannot" do this, "let me be brave in the attempt"'

Answer: win


Question: 'Vampires in her book series originate from an Egyptian queen cursed with a bloodthirsty spirit'

Answer: Anne Rice


Question: 'In Macedonia:<br />Albanian & this'

Answer: Macedonian


Question: 'In 1989 Craig Thomas took over for Dick Cheney as a representative from this state'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'An angry Tokyo man asked 2 folks what they were staring at, then robbed 'em; OK, he was dressed like this Milne bear'

Answer: Winnie the Pooh


Question: 'When a Broadway show is touring, it's said to be this 3-word phrase, also a 1957 novel'

Answer: on the road


Question: 'The idea for the Special Olympics grew out of a summer camp for the disabled started by this Kennedy sister'

Answer: (Eunice) Shriver


Question: 'This film character is African vampire Prince Mamuwalde; "His bite was outta sight"'

Answer: Blacula


Question: 'In Liechtenstein:<br />This'

Answer: German


Question: 'On Nov. 2, 1983 the U.S. declared that hostilities on this invaded island had ended'

Answer: Grenada


Question: 'In 2008 a man stole a Z3 from this car company, haltingly drove it 2 blocks & fled; he couldn't drive stick'

Answer: BMW


Question: '"Mad Max" fans know this trendy term for a person who makes frequent business trips'

Answer: a road warrior


Question: 'Richard Rogers has gained notice with designs for these facilities, like the new area terminal at Madrid's Barajas'

Answer: airports


Question: '(Frank Rich delivers the clue.)  In 1982 I said this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is "likely to lurk around Broadway for a long time" & it did, closing 18 years later'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'Fruit-juice beverage & Ms. Davis of "The Starter Wife"'

Answer: punch & Judy


Question: '"Billions and Billions" is a collection of writings by this noted astronomer'

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: 'A tree branch, or a solar flare seen at the edge of the sun'

Answer: a limb


Question: 'Traverse the Seward Highway in this state & you'll find some of the best fishing in America'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In 1970 Paolo Soleri began building Arcosanti, an experimental town near Prescott in this state'

Answer: Arizona


Question: '(Frank Rich delivers the clue.)  In this 1980s play, playwright Tony Kushner sent a spindly gay character deep into the audience's heart to ask who we are'

Answer: Angels in America


Question: 'Quaker colony founder William & a bank employee'

Answer: Penn & teller


Question: 'This author's book "Daisy-Head Mayzie" was tied in with an animated TV special'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Any of a hydrophobic group of organic compounds, including fats & oils'

Answer: lipids


Question: 'John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed miles & miles of beautiful carriage roads in this state's Acadia National Park'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'In 1932 this engineer & dome designer founded the Dymaxion corporation'

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: '(Frank Rich delivers the clue.)  Though its heroine is a "cockeyed optimist", the 2008 revival of this WWII-set Rodgers & Hammerstein show makes you think about the costs of war'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'Agricultural buildings for housing livestock, partnered with an aristocrat'

Answer: barns & noble


Question: '"The Salmon of Doubt" is a comic journey through the galaxy of this Dirk Gently creator'

Answer: Douglas Adams


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew activates a light stick.)  When you activate a light stick, the chemicals will then react to produce this type of cold light'

Answer: luminescence


Question: 'The Trail of the Mountain Spirits scenic byway winds past Wild Horse Mesa & Gila Hot Springs in this state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'In 1791 Washington commissioned him to design the District of Columbia, but fired him a year later'

Answer: (Pierre) L\'Enfant


Question: '(Frank Rich delivers the clue.)  I wrote that Tommy Tune never met a costume he didn't like when he directed the theatrical follies named for this humorist'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'Conductor Stokowski & the lower part of the ear'

Answer: Leopold & lobe


Question: 'Found at the car wreck that killed him, this writer's "The First Man" provides a glimpse of his childhood in Algeria'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: 'Less-invasive surgeries use endoscopes, arthroscopes or these other fiber-optic scopes'

Answer: laparoscopes


Question: 'Kipling wrote, "on the road to" this place, "where the flyin' fishes play"'

Answer: Mandalay


Question: 'In 1881 this skyscraper pioneer formed a partnership with Dankmar Adler in Chicago'

Answer: (Louis) Sullivan


Question: '(Frank Rich delivers the clue.)  In the 1990 production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Kathleen Turner was radiant but the most memorable performance was by Charles Durning as this dying volcano of a patriarch'

Answer: Big Daddy


Question: 'Small natural streams & a brownish-gray color'

Answer: brooks & dun


Question: 'Max Brod didn't listen to this writer who asked him to destroy "Amerika" & his other stories after his death'

Answer: Kafka


Question: '5-letter term for a center of activity, or the position of a gene on a chromosome'

Answer: locus


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Asia on the monitor.)  Much more than fabric traveled on this caravan route that started in Chang'an, China, & ended in modern-day Lebanon'

Answer: The Silk Road


Question: 'It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered"'

Answer: the Spanish Armada


Question: 'Yell it out--the one word name of this brand of stain remover from S.C. Johnson'

Answer: Shout


Question: 'After this rocker did 2 Fidelity Investments adverts in 2005, one headline read "I am the adman, goo goo g'joob"'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'The worship of Thoth, god of wisdom of this people, dates back as early as 3000 B.C.'

Answer: the Egyptians


Question: 'Edward Fairfax Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall'

Answer: Charlotte Bronte


Question: 'Any way you say it, it's hot roasted meat served in a pita, topped with onions, tomatoes & a cucumber-yogurt sauce'

Answer: a gyro


Question: '7-letter word meaning extinct or no longer in use'

Answer: defunct


Question: '"For better relief, advance to" this brand of ibuprofen'

Answer: Advil


Question: '"Judas!" was the cry after this legend shed his acoustic guitar for an electric one in a 1966 concert'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'This Norse god of thunder really liked to put the hammer down'

Answer: Thor


Question: 'The beautiful Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway's cousin'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'One of Greece's national aperitifs is this sweet anise-flavored liqueur, but drink it slowly'

Answer: ouzo


Question: 'Ow, we need this word / Give up this word that can mean "stench" / Ow, we need this word / We gotta have that word'

Answer: funk


Question: 'The name of this Procter & Gamble soap brand can also mean a thin slice of lemon peel'

Answer: Zest


Question: 'In ads for the "Break Through" campaign, Cadillac used "Rock And Roll" by this seminal British band'

Answer: Led Zeppelin


Question: 'Helios was the Greek god of this heavenly body'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'Phillip Pirrip, of whom much is expected'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'Like the Swedish, the Greeks have their own version of these beefy bite-size appetizers, keftedakia'

Answer: meatballs


Question: 'A type of cake, or a cone-shaped utensil'

Answer: funnel


Question: 'Carl Sontheimer combined his electronics expertise with his love of cooking to create this food processor'

Answer: the Cuisinart


Question: 'Van Halen's "Right Now" spearheaded the campaign for this "crystal" drink in the 1990s'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'Eostre, a Saxon goddess, turned a bird into one of these; it could still lay eggs'

Answer: a hare (or rabbit)


Question: 'Genius architect Howard Roark'

Answer: Ayn Rand


Question: 'White or rose, this classic wine treated with pine tree resin tastes somewhat like turpentine'

Answer: retsina


Question: 'It means serving as a foundation or basis; reading is said to be this, too'

Answer: fundamental


Question: 'Clean up with this brand's SweeperVac & WetJet'

Answer: Swiffer


Question: 'This group's "Blister In The Sun" can be heard in Wendy's ads'

Answer: The Violent Femmes


Question: 'A grassy area opposite the Eiffel Tower is known as "Le Champ de" this Roman god of war'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'Lady Brett Ashley'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Traditionally, moussaka is made with slices of this vegetable & ground lamb or beef, layered & baked'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range is a basso this'

Answer: profundo


Question: 'These 2 actors won Oscars for writing "Good Will Hunting"'

Answer: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon


Question: 'Mount Kosciusko in New South Wales'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Hold your lumber with this clamping bench that Black & Decker calls "an extra pair of hands"'

Answer: Workmate


Question: 'For the duration of WWII, he was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific'

Answer: Douglas MacArthur


Question: 'On Dec. 7, 1842 the first 4 notes ever played by the N.Y. Philharmonic were the opening of this Opus 67 of Beethoven'

Answer: Fifth Symphony


Question: 'It can be a boat, an airship, a vein or a bowl'

Answer: vessel


Question: 'She was Fred Astaire's love interest in the movie musicals "Swing Time" & "Shall We Dance"'

Answer: Ginger Rogers


Question: 'Pico de Teide in the Canary Islands'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Plywood has an odd no. of layers so that this is at right angles for strength inside but runs the same way outside'

Answer: grain


Question: 'Lord Gort saved 200,000 British troops with his May 1940 decision to evacuate this port'

Answer: Dunkirk


Question: 'This geographic term applied to Dvorak's Opus 95 is also where it premiered -- in New York City, Dec. 15, 1893'

Answer: Symphony from the New World


Question: 'This can refer to an asexual reproductive process or the splitting of an atomic nucleus'

Answer: fission


Question: 'They were the romantic leads in "Joe Versus the Volcano", "Sleepless in Seattle" & "You've Got Mail"'

Answer: Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks


Question: 'Mount Kilimanjaro'

Answer: Tanzania


Question: 'Using a special box, this saw with a religious name is ideal for making precise 90-degree cuts'

Answer: miter saw


Question: 'He was German propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945'

Answer: Joseph Goebbels


Question: 'At his last Paris concert, Feb. 16, 1848, he bravely tinkled out his Opus 65'

Answer: Frederic Chopin


Question: 'A file of papers giving detailed information on a person'

Answer: dossier


Question: 'Alphabetically, baseball Hall of Famers run from him to Robin Yount'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'Phnom Aural'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Rafter, framing & T-bevel are useful types of this "geometric" tool'

Answer: square


Question: 'Karl Doenitz, who took over as leader of Germany after Hitler's suicide, was a high officer in this military branch'

Answer: Navy


Question: 'Brahms' Opus 55, first played April 7, 1871, was a "Triumphlied" of victory in this war'

Answer: Franco-Prussian War


Question: 'This Israeli intelligence service was established in 1951'

Answer: Mossad


Question: 'This country couple won a 2005 Grammy for "Like We Never Loved At All"'

Answer: Faith Hill & Tim McGraw


Question: 'In Central America, Doyle's Delight (not Victoria Peak, as was thought)'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'If the joint called mortis and this is too deep, you get movement; too short, there's not enough gluing surface'

Answer: tenon


Question: 'Sharing a cocktail with this Soviet foreign minister could have been very dangerous during WWII'

Answer: Vyacheslav Molotov


Question: 'To premiere his Opus 30 concerto Nov. 28, 1909, this Russian had to show future pianists how to do it'

Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff


Question: 'This term for a type of killer comes from the belief that consumption of hashish occurred in their ranks'

Answer: assassin


Question: 'At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million'

Answer: John Rockefeller


Question: 'This pack animal's name comes from the Latin for "small horse"--can you dig it?'

Answer: a burro


Question: 'It's the lucrative product referred to by the slang term "black gold"'

Answer: oil


Question: 'The longest reigning monarch in history may be this country's Neferkare, said to have ruled for over 90 years'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '"There is a rose in East Harlem"--nah.  "There is a rose in" this other name for this area'

Answer: Spanish Harlem


Question: 'You've really put your foot in it if you're mounting your horse'

Answer: a stirrup


Question: 'On Feb. 5, 2006 the Stones performed during the Super Bowl XL halftime show in this city'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Seen here is a group of these animals cavorting in Finnmark, Norway'

Answer: reindeer


Question: 'American feathery friend of the Icteridae family, such as the red-winged type'

Answer: a blackbird


Question: 'Sometime during his remarkable 72-year reign, he supposedly said, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state"'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'Maintaining the Dutch theme, one of Harlem's major newspapers is the "News" bearing the name of this city'

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: 'From the Latin for "to break", it's political dishonesty for personal gain'

Answer: corruption


Question: '"The Glimmer Twins" are these 2 sexagenarians'

Answer: Keith Richards & Mick Jagger


Question: 'On Grand Teton's trails, horses get right of way versus these S. Amer. pack animals of the family Camelidae'

Answer: llamas


Question: 'The Black Hills are an isolated, eroded mountain region in the western part of this state'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'The reign of 5 rulers of Monaco exceeded 50 years; 3 were named Honore & 2 were named this'

Answer: Rainier


Question: 'In 1954 he took over as minister of the Nation of Islam's Temple Number 7 in Harlem'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: '2 lines of rhyming verse at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet'

Answer: a couplet


Question: 'The oldest of the original Stones still with the group, this drummer was born June 2, 1941'

Answer: Charlie Watts


Question: 'As opposed to the dromedary, this type of camel named for an ancient Asian region has 2 humps'

Answer: Bactrian


Question: 'Edward, the son of Edward III of England, was known by this dark sobriquet'

Answer: the Black Prince


Question: 'In 1840 this king, the third in the dynasty, had enough time in his 29-year reign to give Hawaii its first constitution'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'Duke Ellington could have told you that this MTA transport passes through Harlem before terminating at 207th St.'

Answer: the A Train


Question: 'Garden favorite seen here'

Answer: a buttercup


Question: 'The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" featured a working zipper on its cover designed by this artist'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'Seen here, zebus are often referred to as this type of cattle that sounds like an Indian caste'

Answer: brahmans


Question: 'This river forms the southern & western borders of Germany's Black Forest region'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'This country's King Rama IX, who belongs to the Chakri Dynasty that includes King Mongkut, has reigned 59 years'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'The regalia of this great dancer known as "Bojangles" includes a badge as honorary Mayor of Harlem'

Answer: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson


Question: 'Plural word that's a synonym for a wedding ceremony'

Answer: nuptials


Question: '"Please allow me to introduce myself" is the opening line of this Stones song'

Answer: "Sympathy For The Devil"


Question: 'About this book, Robert Louis Stevenson said, "If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day"'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'Steven Spielberg named the mechanical shark in this 1975 classic "Bruce" after his lawyer'

Answer: Jaws


Question: 'In this country, to get from Harlingen to Oost Vlieland, you've to cross the Waddenzee'

Answer: Holland (or the Netherlands)


Question: 'The Army's largest health-care facility is the D.C. medical center named for this man'

Answer: Walter Reed


Question: 'NSA, the USA's largest intelligence agency, stands for this, though some say it's for "No Such Agency"'

Answer: the National Security Agency


Question: 'Peter Pan lost his, but Wendy sewed it back on'

Answer: his shadow


Question: 'In this 1987 Tom Wolfe novel, investment banker Sherman McCoy is almost fed to the wolves of the South Bronx'

Answer: The Bonfire of the Vanities


Question: 'Commercial fisherman George Clooney faces disaster in the North Atlantic in this fact-based 2000 film'

Answer: The Perfect Storm


Question: 'This strait off Sicily links the Tyrrhenian & Ionian Seas'

Answer: the Strait of Messina


Question: 'In 1616 he was released from the Tower of London to lead a new expedition in search of gold'

Answer: Walter Raleigh


Question: 'The ill-fated "New" version of this brand replaced the secret formula 7X with 7X-100'

Answer: Coke


Question: 'Mole relative that might need taming'

Answer: a shrew


Question: 'This Leon Uris novel shares its name with a biblical book'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'The overinflated budget of this moist 1995 film earned it the nickname "Kevin's Gate"'

Answer: Waterworld


Question: 'The Gironde, an estuary formed by a river confluence near Bordeaux, extends to this bay'

Answer: the Bay of Biscay


Question: 'He's the only one of the original 7 astronauts to fly in the Mercury, Gemini & Apollo space programs'

Answer: Wally Schirra


Question: 'To keep secret this conqueror's 1227 burial site, funeral attendees were killed by soldiers who were then killed'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'James Hilton's high mountain valley'

Answer: Shangri-La


Question: 'This title foundling's foster father, Squire Allworthy, is later revealed to be his uncle'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'Jon Voight & Burt Reynolds head to Appalachia for a canoe trip that goes horribly wrong in this 1972 flick'

Answer: Deliverance


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the water's edge in a city in Latvia.)  A Baltic cruise takes you into this gulf to visit the largest & most cosmopolitan city in the 3 Baltic states'

Answer: the Gulf of Riga


Question: 'He was an Angel, Royal, Padre, Brave & Angel again before he called it quits in 2001'

Answer: Wally Joyner


Question: 'Khrushchev's 1956 speech condemning this leader wasn't published in full in the USSR until 1989'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'This religion's name translates as "the way of divine power"'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'This novel is narrated by one-time journalist Jack Burden, who becomes an aide to politician Willie Stark'

Answer: All the King\'s Men


Question: 'Meryl Streep & her son go not so gently down the stream in this 1994 rafting suspense movie'

Answer: The River Wild


Question: 'The major cities on this 1,200-mile-long Russian river are Voronezh & Rostov-on-it'

Answer: the Don


Question: 'In 1997 his debut novel "She's Come Undone" became a No. 1 bestseller'

Answer: Wally Lamb


Question: 'Members of this "troweling" society swear to keep its secrets--or so we think, as the oath is secret'

Answer: the Masons


Question: 'Versatile versemonger depicted here'

Answer: Shelley


Question: 'From the name of a committee created by Gregory XV to spread the faith, it means info used to spread a belief'

Answer: propaganda


Question: 'In 1886 Pershing graduated 30th out of 77 from this school'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'May 10, 1945: Divorce wife No. 3.<br />May 21, 1945: Marry wife No. 4, Lauren Bacall, & call more people "sweetheart"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: '1,728 cubic inches equals this many cubic feet'

Answer: 1


Question: 'Fred Haise was one of the fortunate 3 astronauts to make it home from this April 1970 mission'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'This spice precedes "ale" in the name of a beverage & "snap" in the name of a cookie'

Answer: ginger


Question: 'The proxime accessit isn't an accomplice, he's just the guy who finished in this place, like McCain in 2008'

Answer: second


Question: 'On April 14, 1918 Pershing became the first American general to make use of these in combat'

Answer: airplanes


Question:
'1941: make final film, "Two-Faced Woman".
Feb. 9, 1951: Become U.S. citizen.
After that: Prefer alone time'

Answer: (Greta) Garbo


Question: '4 pecks equals 1 of these'

Answer: a bushel


Question: 'In 1921 a team including Frederick Banting discovered this hormone produced by the pancreas'

Answer: insulin


Question: 'The name of this spice used in Indian cooking comes from the Tamil for "sauce"'

Answer: curry


Question: 'If your friend tells you he's a paleophile, don't worry; he's just into stuff that's really this, like dinosaurs'

Answer: old


Question: 'Pershing gained this rhyming nickname for commanding a unit of African-American soldiers'

Answer: Black Jack


Question: 'Dec. 21, 1937: daughter Jane is born. Feb. 23, 1940: Son Peter is born.<br />Jan. 27, 1964: Granddaughter Bridget is born'

Answer: Henry Fonda


Question: '32 degrees Fahrenheit equals this many degrees Celsius'

Answer: 0


Question: 'The middle name of this public television legend was McFeely'

Answer: Mister Rogers


Question: 'Allium sativum, its pungent odor was said to give strength; Egyptians fed it to the slaves who built the pyramids'

Answer: garlic


Question: 'If you've committed saponification, you haven't been bad; you've made this stuff, like Ivory (& gotten off clean)'

Answer: soap


Question: 'When Pershing arrived in France during WWI, he laid a wreath at the grave of this Frenchman'

Answer: Lafayette


Question: 'March 29, 1939: Marry Carole Lombard. On set: Remind self not to give damn'

Answer: Clark Gable


Question: 'One eighth of a circle equals this many degrees'

Answer: 45


Question: 'In 1942 this composer met Alan Lerner; the next year, the 2 opened their first Broadway show'

Answer: (Frederick) Loewe


Question: 'In Italy the stalk of the Neapolitan type of this garnishing herb is eaten like celery'

Answer: parsley


Question: 'If you've got oenomania, you're not a crook; you're just crazy for this, like muscat or syrah'

Answer: wine


Question: 'During World War I, Pershing led this U.S. command, the AEF'

Answer: the American Expeditionary Forces


Question: 'March 7, 1946: Win best actress for "Mildred Pierce".<br />March 8: Rethink position on wire hangers'

Answer: (Joan) Crawford


Question: '18 square feet equals this many square yards'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Frederick Weyerhaeuser founded a company that now has 21 million acres of land harvested for this'

Answer: timber


Question: 'There are summer & winter varieties of this herb whose name means "piquant" or "aromatic"'

Answer: savory


Question: 'If your neighbor's a lapicide, he's not a killer; he's just a guy who cuts this stuff for a living, maybe from a quarry'

Answer: stones


Question: 'A 1968 drought was so bad that this geographic feature advanced 60 miles into the semiarid area called the Sahel'

Answer: the Sahara Desert


Question:
'A Room With
__ ___
To A Kill'

Answer: A View


Question: 'Nevada named its capital for this frontiersman who, at 16, ran away with traders who were bound for Santa Fe'

Answer: Kit Carson


Question: '2-word term for the demographic surge in the U.S. from 1946 to 1964'

Answer: baby boom


Question: 'Early settlers of this northeast state capital lived in Charlestown before moving to the Shawmut Peninsula'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act was passed after the Blackfoot sent a letter about injustices to this president'

Answer: FDR


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers a clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.)  The Newseum in Washington has a ballot box from this country's first free election in 1994; the ANC triumphed over the National Party'

Answer: South Africa


Question:
'American
________
In The Grass'

Answer: Splendor


Question: 'He ran away to England to do more printing before going back to Philadelphia to start his own business in 1726'

Answer: (Ben) Franklin


Question: 'Systematic stress technique used on American prisoners during the Korean War'

Answer: brainwashing


Question: 'Rama I built Wat Phra Keo, the first temple in this capital, in 1785'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: '21 Bible books are this type of letter intended for many people'

Answer: epistles


Question: 'In 1884 14 nations (none of them African) met in Berlin to decide the status of this second-longest African river'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'Who'll Stop The<br />____ Man'

Answer: Rain


Question: 'This No. 1 airport car rental brand is named for a man who ran away & started the Yellow Cab company'

Answer: Hertz


Question: 'Used as fodder, mangold is a type of this purplish root vegetable'

Answer: beets


Question: 'In 2003, the 2 men seen here vied to wield power from this state capital'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'He was upset to get a letter from Alfred Wallace about evolution theory, as he'd neglected to publish his own'

Answer: Darwin


Question: 'Musa, emperor of Mali in the 14th c., made a magnificent pilgrimage to Mecca & built the Great this at Timbuktu'

Answer: a mosque


Question:
'The Breakfast
____
Dread'

Answer: Club


Question: 'This runaway was coached by Pop Warner & excelled in baseball & football as well as the decathlon'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'Drugs called these blockers diminish reaction to adrenaline, keeping things mellow & reducing cardiac problems'

Answer: beta blockers


Question: 'At the 50th anniv. of the Baltic Pact, 1 million people formed a human chain from Tallinn to this Lithuanian capital'

Answer: Vilnius


Question: 'Letters of marque give private citizens the right to be corsairs, seizing the merchant these of another nation'

Answer: ships


Question: 'A major East Coast civilization from the eighth or ninth century used these shells, seen here, as currency'

Answer: cowrie shells


Question:
'First Monday In
________
Sky'

Answer: October


Question: 'It was more romance than horror when, in 1814, she ran away with a married poet & became a novelist'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: 'Field where Richard III fell'

Answer: Bosworth


Question: 'Don't mess with Liberty, which you'll find in this state capital'

Answer: Austin


Question: 'Anne Bancroft has a letter-writing friendship with London bookstore employee Anthony Hopkins in this book-turned-film'

Answer: 84 Charing Cross Road


Question: 'In 1610 Galileo called the moons of this planet the "Medician stars", for the Medici brothers'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Completed circa 143, the Romans' Antonine Wall ran from the Firth of Forth to the Clyde in this country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'A game tied at 40-40 is called this'

Answer: Deuce


Question: 'Records on the breeding of over 21 million dogs are kept by this U.S. organization'

Answer: American Kennel Club


Question: 'In July 1991 IBM & this rival announced a technology alliance'

Answer: Apple


Question: 'In this 1972 film, Loren played the role of Dulcinea'

Answer: Man of La Mancha


Question: 'The Nepalese call it Sagarmatha'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'The remains of this city's walls Kathleen Kenyon found in the 1950s weren't the ones that fell before Joshua'

Answer: Jericho