Question: '"Funeral Blues" by this British poet begins, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"'

Answer: Auden


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a plant diagram on the monitor.)  Similar to a root, it's the botanical term for a thick, horizontal underground stem from which shoots develop into new plants'

Answer: a rhizome


Question: 'This 2-word phrase may be traced to a line in a Sherlock Holmes story, "The chaplain stood with a... pistol in his hand"'

Answer: smoking gun


Question: 'Topped with 1,360 lbs. of whipped cream & 3,995 lbs. of strawberries, the biggest of these cakes was over 3.5 tons'

Answer: strawberry shortcake


Question: 'These domesticated bees take their name from the sticky substance they hoard'

Answer: honeybees


Question: 'They're the 4 words that precede "All is calm, all is bright"'

Answer: "Silent Night, Holy Night"


Question: 'I'll make sure my cool new Aviator style of these offers protection from UV rays'

Answer: sunglasses


Question: '5 people take the court on each team in this sport played by the Lakers & the Bulls'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'Don't lose hope when you spell...'

Answer: D-I-S-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-D


Question: '95 films were based on this classic fairy tale, from 1898's "Fairy Godmother" to 1998's "Ever After"'

Answer: "Cinderella"


Question: 'A home for some bees, it can also mean any place swarming with activity'

Answer: hive


Question: '"The children say" this cold-hearted guy "could laugh and play just the same as you and me"'

Answer: Frosty the Snowman


Question: 'We'll build one of these with walls, turrets &, of course, a moat'

Answer: sandcastle


Question: 'Since 1935, every 5-Flavor roll of this candy has been made in Holland -- Holland, Michigan'

Answer: Life Savers


Question: 'Thanks for spelling...'

Answer: A-P-P-R-E-C-I-A-T-I-O-N


Question: 'Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, was struck by this a record 7 times & survived; his hair caught fire twice'

Answer: lightning


Question: 'Santa Claus is comin' to town & he's making a list, checking it twice & splitting kids into these 2 groups'

Answer: naughty and nice


Question: 'I'll try not to be one of the 12,000 swimmers rescued by these people in California alone every year'

Answer: lifeguards


Question: 'It's a 5-sided figure that contains members of the U.S. Armed Forces'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'You have the honor of spelling...'

Answer: P-R-I-V-I-L-E-G-E


Question: 'The longest pizza delivery route (9 hours) is from Christchurch, New Zealand to Scott Base on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'This bell time is "a swell time to go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh"'

Answer: "Jingle Bell Time"


Question: 'To hang out underwater I'm going to need the mask, the fins & this breathing tube seen here'

Answer: snorkel


Question: 'If Mom brings you home 3 new brothers & 2 new sisters at one time from the hospital, odds are she had these'

Answer: quintuplets


Question: 'Don't delay, spell...'

Answer: I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T


Question: 'The longest undersea tunnel is the Chunnel Tunnel, which runs between these 2 countries'

Answer: England & France


Question: 'This song has you sing, "Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum" over & over again'

Answer: "The Little Drummer Boy"


Question: 'We'll need to protect our feet against the edges of this, made of millions of tiny underwater creatures'

Answer: coral


Question: 'New gift for day 5 in "The 12 Days of Christmas"'

Answer: 5 golden rings


Question: 'Do me a favor & spell...'

Answer: A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E


Question: 'Pancho Villa became governor of this Mexican state in December 1913; & no, he didn't live in the doghouse'

Answer: Chihuahua


Question: 'Casa de Campo, a big park in this capital of Spain, boasts a zoo-aquarium complex with a dolphinarium'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'This South American river widens to about 150 miles at its mouth'

Answer: the Amazon


Question: 'Jiskha is an online resource to help you with this, so you won't have to say your dog ate it'

Answer: homework


Question: 'This shiny-nosed one of Santa's reindeer was made up by an adman in 1939.  That's right, you heard me.  Made up'

Answer: Rudolph


Question: 'The bald type of this all-American bird does have feathers on its head, but not on its feet'

Answer: eagle


Question: 'In December 1998 the citizens of this U.S. commonwealth voted again not to become a state'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Visitors once saw a mama hippo giving birth underwater in the Hippoquarium at the Toledo Zoo in this U.S. state'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'Mark McGwire's progress on the home run list is tracked on this team's official website'

Answer: St. Louis Cardinals


Question: 'You can sit on Santa's lap at this kind of store named for the way it's divided into different sections'

Answer: department store


Question: '[video clue]'

Answer: lobster


Question: 'Ratifying this on December 7, 1787 got Delaware on the first of the new quarters'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'In March 2000 twin golden lion tamarins became a big attraction at this city's zoo, nicknamed the OKC Zoo'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'This smallest of the Great Lakes shares its name with a Canadian province'

Answer: Lake Ontario


Question: 'At Ancestry.com you can build your own one of these & find out if you're on a main branch or just a twig'

Answer: family tree


Question: 'The name Santa Claus comes from the name of this saint who pays "a visit" in a famous poem'

Answer: Saint Nicholas


Question: 'A common type of this tool is named for the claw it uses to pull out nails'

Answer: hammer


Question: 'Too late to hold a Christmas show, this home to the Rockettes opened December 27, 1932'

Answer: Radio City Music Hall


Question: 'This country is known for yodeling, cheese & the Zoologischer Garten in Basel'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Once steamboats were launched on this river in 1819, traffic flourished from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Montana'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: '"Space & Beyond" is a section of the kids' website of this government agency'

Answer: NASA


Question: 'Christkindl, or "Christ Child", got changed to this other name that Santa has in some movies'

Answer: Kris Kringle


Question: 'The nasty claws seen here belong to this type of dinosaur unveiled at Chicago's Field Museum in 2000'

Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex


Question: 'In December in various years Mother Teresa, Jane Addams & Martin Luther King, Jr. each won this'

Answer: the Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'Famous for its koala encounters, the Taronga Zoo is on the harbor in this Australian city known for its opera house'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'Over the centuries, this "sea", the world's largest lake, has been getting smaller due to extensive damming'

Answer: the Caspian Sea


Question: 'The word list at Kidshealth.org runs alphabetically from allergist to these, used by the radiologist'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'In France Santa is Pere Noel; British people call him this, which means the same thing'

Answer: Father Christmas


Question: 'An animal that retracts its claws pulls them back into this, which also means the holder for a sword'

Answer: sheath


Question: 'A city with this name is the most populous city in both Maine & Oregon'

Answer: Portland


Question: '1 of 2 African capitals through which the Nile River flows'

Answer: Cairo or Khartoum


Question: 'Yeah, Baby!  Mike Myers' Austin Powers has another go-round with Mike Myers' Dr. Evil in this movie sequel'

Answer: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me


Question: 'According to the gospel of St. John, in the beginning was this & it was God'

Answer: The word


Question: 'Founded in 1907, it's the oldest university in the state of Hawaii'

Answer: University of Hawaii


Question: 'Reading room<br />(7)'

Answer: Library


Question: 'Because hippo teeth are made of this, they won't yellow & were once a popular source for false teeth'

Answer: Ivory


Question: 'This Kenyan capital's name is derived from a Masai word meaning "place of cool waters"'

Answer: Nairobi


Question: 'Hugh isn't taken for granted in this comedy by the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"'

Answer: Notting Hill


Question: 'This scientific theory suggests everything goes back to a single primeval event'

Answer: Big Bang Theory


Question: 'In 1917 Scottish immigrant Bertie Charles Forbes began publishing a journal & gave it this name'

Answer: Forbes magazine


Question: 'Camel cousin<br />(5)'

Answer: Llama


Question: 'From the Greek for "thick-skinned", it's a collective name for hippos, elephants & rhinos'

Answer: Pachyderms


Question: 'The main building on the campus of this city's university was once Haile Selassie's palace'

Answer: Addis Ababa


Question: 'Young filmmakers Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez created quite a frenzy with this film'

Answer: The Blair Witch Project


Question: 'In Eskimo lore, this black bird is a trickster-creator'

Answer: Raven


Question: 'Voltaire described this European political entity as not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire'

Answer: Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'Tepid<br />(8)'

Answer: Lukewarm


Question: 'This part of a hippo's body is the largest of any land animal's'

Answer: Mouth


Question: 'It's the only African capital named for an American president'

Answer: Monrovia (Liberia)


Question: 'The summer's most anticipated movie, it quickly became the third highest-grossing domestic film of all time'

Answer: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace


Question: 'The oldest Greek myths feature Gaia, as Mother this'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'Collective name given the Confederate raiders led by John Hunt Morgan against Union troops in 1862-63'

Answer: Morgan\'s Raiders


Question: 'The key man<br />(9)'

Answer: Locksmith


Question: 'The hippo has this many toes on each foot, making it an even-toed ungulate'

Answer: 4


Question: 'This Senegal capital is the westernmost city on the African mainland'

Answer: Dakar


Question: 'In this 1999 film Keanu Reeves finds himself in a computer-generated world'

Answer: The Matrix


Question: 'The creation myth of these people involves Tezcatlipoca & Quetzalcoatl tearing Coatlicue apart'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jason Williams of the New Jersey Nets)  In 1999 this flashy Sacramento Kings guard was second in voting for NBA Rookie of the Year'

Answer: Jason Williams


Question: '"Amazing" structure built by Daedalus<br />(9)'

Answer: Labyrinth


Question: 'The word hippopotamus comes from 2 Greek words meaning this'

Answer: River horse


Question: 'On his way back from failing to take Jerusalem in 1192, this king of England was captured & later ransomed'

Answer: Richard the Lionhearted


Question: 'This show's personnel included Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly & Hot Lips Houlihan'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'This star & those of the Big Dipper are featured on Alaska's state flag'

Answer: North Star (Polaris)


Question: '1843:<br />"... and the Pendulum"'

Answer: The Pit


Question: 'Collectible ones of these include the Waterman 52 & the Sheaffer White Dot'

Answer: Fountain pens


Question: 'This sharpshooter performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show & inspired a 1946 musical'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'The first city Peter the Hermit's army trashed was this one, now capital of Yugoslavia'

Answer: Belgrade


Question: 'This family series with Dick Van Patten was based on columnist Tom Braden's autobiography'

Answer: Eight is Enough


Question: 'The Italian flag is not red, white & blue, but red, white & this color'

Answer: Green


Question: '1929:<br />"... and the Fury"'

Answer: The Sound


Question: 'Decade in which the Philco Predicta, seen here, was made:'

Answer: 1950s


Question: 'In fairy tales, it's an evil people-eating monster'

Answer: Ogre


Question: 'This wife of Louis VII of France said if he went off to Jerusalem she'd get a divorce, so he dragged her along by force'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: 'Billy Crystal first won fame playing Jodie Dallas, a gay character on this offbeat sitcom'

Answer: Soap


Question: 'A red "C" surrounding a yellow ball (for gold) appears on this state's flag'

Answer: Colorado


Question: '1919:<br />"... and Sixpence"'

Answer: The Moon


Question: 'This industrialist's museum collection includes Thomas Edison's lab, electric light & gold teeth'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'This 660-square-mile swamp straddles the Florida-Georgia border'

Answer: Okefenokee Swamp


Question: 'Around 1171 Saladin became sultan of this state that was larger than Syria'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'It starred Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Pepper Anderson'

Answer: Police Woman


Question: 'Columbus' personal flag bore the initials F & Y, which stood for these 2'

Answer: Ferdinand & Isabella


Question: '1894:<br />"... and the Man"'

Answer: Arms


Question: 'An Oeslau, Germany company began making figurines based on this nun's drawings in the 1930s'

Answer: Berta Hummel


Question: 'The Romans called this wandering Ithacan Ulysses'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'This colorful-bearded Holy Roman Emperor drowned in 1190 on his way to retake Jerusalem'

Answer: Frederick Barbarossa


Question: 'John Houseman reprised his film role as law professor Kingsfield for this drama'

Answer: The Paper Chase


Question: 'A national flag's V-shaped design represents this partner of the Grenadines'

Answer: St. Vincent


Question: '1939:<br />"... and the Rock"'

Answer: The Web


Question: 'To be worth more, a walking Twiki robot from this TV series should be in its original box'

Answer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century


Question: 'This man's philosophic "razor" states that simple explanations are better than complicated ones'

Answer: Occam


Question: 'Looking at kids' art, he said at "Their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them"'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'Archaeologists are busy on Mount Lykaion & in a cave on Crete, 2 supposed birthplaces of this Greek ruler god'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'Board game in which you might land on Short Line or St. James Place'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'She followed up "Little Women" with "An Old-Fashioned Girl" & "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag"'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'To think seriously, or to bend back light from a surface such as a mirror'

Answer: reflect


Question: 'Laitue (this) goes into une salade'

Answer: lettuce


Question: 'AAII'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: '10,000-year-old seeds of this gourd have been found in Peru, where the veggie originated'

Answer: a pumpkin (or squash)


Question: 'Stack one piece on top of another to crown a king in this board game'

Answer: checkers


Question: 'Britannica says her 1852 novel helped "solidify both pro- and antislavery sentiment"'

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe


Question: 'To coat or cover with a thin layer of metal, or a dish on which food is served'

Answer: plate


Question: 'You can't have your gateau (this) & eat it too'

Answer: cake


Question: 'OUIIAA'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Archaeologists have found Vespasian's country house--or as he'd have called it in Latin, this 5-letter word'

Answer: a villa


Question: 'This 2-team rope competition was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920'

Answer: tug-of-war


Question: 'One of his most famous heroes was an Ojibwa Indian who married Minnehaha'

Answer: Longfellow


Question: 'To tease, or a young person'

Answer: kid


Question: 'Je suis le fromage, this'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'IIII'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'Thermo-luminescence is a technique used to establish this for items exposed to heat, like fireplace stones'

Answer: its date


Question: '"Colorful" schoolyard chain game in which one team might chant, "Send Alex right over"'

Answer: Red Rover


Question: 'This pal of Emerson was known for a little "Civil Disobedience"'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'A burial place, or fraught with danger or harm'

Answer: grave


Question: 'Those crazy French: raisin is this fruit (what we call a raisin is raisin sec to them)'

Answer: a grape


Question: 'AAAA'

Answer: Alabama


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.)  At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has his papyrus roll, but someone took his brush'

Answer: a scribe


Question: 'In this PopCap game, the object is to swap one gem for another in order to form a vertical or horizontal chain'

Answer: Bejeweled


Question: 'This Devonshire-born man rhymed about an "Ancient Mariner"'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Question: 'Saliva, or a slender, pointed rod on which meat is impaled for broiling'

Answer: a spit


Question: 'Riz (rice) is often paired with haricots (these)'

Answer: beans


Question: 'EEEE'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'I give you 63,360 inches, you take this many miles'

Answer: 1


Question: 'In a 2008 sequel this title action hero sought out "the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"'

Answer: Indiana Jones


Question: '(Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reads the clue.)  This great American who used his pen to help make us independent was also the first Secretary of State'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'This ceremony marks a Jewish boy's entry into manhood'

Answer: a bar mitzvah


Question: 'Job:<br />"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath..."'

Answer: taken away


Question: 'Imprison terror suspects in my state?  NIMBY, "Not in my" this'

Answer: backyard


Question: 'In the equation 6x + 100=220, x equals this'

Answer: 20


Question: '"Revenge of the Fallen" is the follow-up to this film about robots'

Answer: Transformers


Question: 'On Nov. 18, 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing this; she refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty"'

Answer: voting


Question: 'Sensory deprivation is practiced on pubescent boys by Australia's indigenous people, called these'

Answer: Aborigines


Question: 'Exodus:<br />"I have been a stranger in a..."'

Answer: strange land


Question: 'If you're ignorant of what IDK means, just say this'

Answer: I don\'t know


Question: 'Let's convert! (From Roman, that is) MMM + MDIII equals this 4-digit number'

Answer: 4,503


Question: 'This time it's about "Salvation" from the evil cyborgs in this 2009 film'

Answer: Terminator Salvation (Terminator accepted)


Question: '15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Happening in the east every day, it's the name of the ceremony of Apache womanhood'

Answer: the Sunrise


Question: 'Leviticus:<br />"Love thy neighbor as..."'

Answer: thyself


Question: 'Hearing about mom's dating life might make you say TMI, this'

Answer: too much information


Question: 'It's the square root of 100,000,000'

Answer: 10,000


Question: '"X-Men Origins" was the story of this title superhero's beginnings'

Answer: Wolverine


Question: 'The Mohawk Trail became less important after this waterway was completed in 1825'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: 'In Thailand Poy Sang Long temporarily makes boys into these religious men, including shaving their heads'

Answer: monks


Question: 'Genesis:<br />"Bone of my bones, and...."'

Answer: flesh of my flesh


Question: 'Can't run your new software?  Dude, RTM, "read" this'

Answer: the manual


Question: 'It's the number of degrees in the larger of the two angles seen here'

Answer: 270


Question: 'Based on a video game franchise, this 2009 action fest is subtitled "The Legend of Chun-Li"'

Answer: Street Fighter


Question: 'In 1857 the Supreme Court denied this slave his freedom, bringing the U.S. closer to Civil War'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'An essay by Walter Ong looks at the learning of this language as a puberty rite for well-off Renaissance boys'

Answer: Latin


Question: 'Psalms:<br />"Thy rod and thy staff they..."'

Answer: comfort me


Question: 'Precede a digression with AON, this "of nothing"'

Answer: apropos


Question: 'It's the densest of the planets in our solar system & the only one not named for a deity'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'Jumping Bull was the father of this more sedentary Native American chief'

Answer: Sitting Bull


Question: 'They had the best regular-season record, 103-59'

Answer: the New York Yankees


Question: 'While robbing a West Virginia home, a man logged into this social network site but did not log out'

Answer: Facebook


Question: 'For Civil War works, winners of an award from Gettysburg College receive $50,000 & a bust of him'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'The first cake mix from "her" brand was ginger cake'

Answer: Betty Crocker


Question: 'First name of P.I.-portraying actor Powell, or slang for a detective'

Answer: Dick


Question: 'Originally called Curly, this "mad" guy was the battlefield leader during the Sioux Wars of resistance in the 1870s'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'Shortly after coming back from a 50-game suspension, this Dodger hit a pinch-hit grand slam to beat the Reds'

Answer: Manny Ramirez


Question: 'An Indiana man made a 2009 run for the county border, leading a 90-mph chase only to stop at this fast food place for a burrito'

Answer: Taco Bell


Question: 'In 1901, French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first recipient of this'

Answer: the Nobel Prize for Literature


Question: 'The logo of this brand of baking soda was created (or should we say forged?) in 1867'

Answer: Arm & Hammer


Question: 'A detective looking back in regret on leads he should have followed up knows the cliche this "is 20/20"'

Answer: hindsight


Question: 'Florida's Big Cypress Indian reservation is home to this tribe'

Answer: the Seminoles


Question: 'This Angels skipper didn't have a so-so year; he led the team to the postseason & was Manager of the Year'

Answer: Mike Scioscia


Question: 'A Tennessee man saw his stolen furnace for sale on this .org; the criminal even helped the cops load it on a truck before getting busted'

Answer: Craigslist


Question: '"Home is calling" with this brand that has sponsored a bake-off contest for over 40 years'

Answer: Pillsbury


Question: 'You auto know this chief of the Ottawa who fought against the British settlements in the 1760s'

Answer: Pontiac


Question: 'On August 23, Philadelphia 2B Eric Bruntlett became the 15th major leaguer to pull off an unassisted one of these'

Answer: a triple play


Question: 'Criminals, don't call this "You can do it.  We can help" store & ask "How do you get a large quantity of blood out of a carpet?"'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'The Poetry Book Society of the U.K. & the Truman State University Press of Missouri both give an award named for him'

Answer: Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)


Question: 'Flour from Washburn Crosby Company won this in 1880 & was renamed for it, still the name of the brand'

Answer: Gold Medal


Question: 'That smooth-talking attorney practices this type of law regulating ordinary private matters, rather than criminal'

Answer: civil


Question: 'In the late 1800s the prophet Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, founded a religion based on this spectral "dance"'

Answer: a ghost dance


Question: 'This team came from 7 games behind to catch the Tigers & beat them in a one-game playoff for the AL Central title'

Answer: the Minnesota Twins


Question: 'A man in Gwinnett County in this Southern state hijacked a car to get to his court date on time; had a stolen gun, too'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Winners of this award include Scott O'Dell for "Island of the Blue Dolphins" & Lois Lowry for "Number the Stars"'

Answer: the Newbery


Question: 'This Nestle brand calls its story "semi-sweet"; its chocolate morsels were first sold in packages in 1939'

Answer: Toll House


Question: 'Shamus, I hear you're doing sidework for this security firm founded in 1859 that uses big armored cars'

Answer: Brink\'s


Question: 'According to Paul in the New Testament, this personage masquerades as an angel of light'

Answer: the devil (Satan)


Question: 'Kurosawa's "Ran", an adaptation of this play, is set in 16th c. Japan & deals with 2 treacherous sons & one good one'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Hurricanes are bad enough, but they also spin off these other hazards; Hurricane Beulah generated 141 when it hit Texas in 1967'

Answer: tornadoes


Question: 'New York & Washington both have papers called this, another name for the mail'

Answer: the Post


Question: 'At his baptism Charles was made the Duke of this, also the name of New York's capital city'

Answer: Albany


Question: 'Asian eating utilsils'

Answer: chopsticks


Question: 'By pretending to be ambassadors from a distant country, the Gibeonites fooled this successor to Moses'

Answer: Joshua


Question: 'Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books" is a take on this bard play'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'The most severe hurricanes, with winds exceeding 155 mph, are ranked in this category, the top number on the rating scale'

Answer: five


Question: 'One Boston newspaper is called this, meaning "to give news or tidings of"'

Answer: Herald


Question: 'During part of the English Civil War, Charles' main residence was Christ Church College at this university'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'In football, an illegal hit below the knees'

Answer: a chop-block


Question: 'Later to kill their champion, he pretends to be a madman in order to take refuge with the Philistines of Gath'

Answer: David


Question: '"10 Things I Hate About You" based on this Shakespeare comedy, stars Julia Stiles as the misanthropic Kat'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'A hurricane's center typically has lower measurements of AP, short for this'

Answer: atmospheric pressure


Question: 'Cincinnati's daily paper has this name, like the national tabloid, but with much different content'

Answer: the Enquirer


Question: 'As a teen in 1616, Charles was invested with this princely title'

Answer: Prince of Wales


Question: 'Licensed endocrinologist seen here'

Answer: Deepak Chopra


Question: 'One of the two feature films written or co-written by Tom Stoppard that deal with Shakespeare works'

Answer: Shakespeare in Love (or Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a meterological animation on the monitor.) Rotating cloud bands in a hurricane's center make its path wobble, making it hard to predict the exact point where the storm's center crosses a coastline, the location called this'

Answer: the landfall


Question: 'Way back in 1880, Samuel Morss & William Rockhill Nelson founded this Kansas City newspaper'

Answer: the Star


Question: 'Charles offended his Protestant subjects in 1625 when he wed the very Catholic sister of the king of this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'Hiiiiiiiiii ya!  It's a slang term for martial arts movies'

Answer: chop-socky


Question: 'She fooled Jacob by posing as her sister Rachel on his wedding night'

Answer: Leah


Question: 'In an attempt to come to grips with Shakespeare's "Richard III", this actor directed "Looking for Richard"'

Answer: Al Pacino


Question: 'This inertial force causes the air at a hurricane's top to circulate in the opposite direction of its surface air'

Answer: the Coriolis force (or Coriolis effect)


Question: 'Columnist Scott Maxwell stands guard for this Orlando paper'

Answer: the Sentinel


Question: 'After numerous defeats in the civil war, Charles was beheaded in 1649 at the palace called this 'hall"'

Answer: Whitehall


Question: 'This "Philosopher of Pessimism" was born in Danzig in 1788'

Answer: Schopenhauer


Question: 'Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004'

Answer: the puffy shirt


Question: 'The earliest of these pictorial symbols used as writing by the Egyptians date back to around 3000 B.C.'

Answer: hieroglyphics


Question: 'Susan Sullivan & Mitchell Ryan once played doctors on "Julie Farr, M.D."; now they're Greg's parents on this sitcom'

Answer: Dharma & Greg


Question:
'Richard Armour wrote,
"Robbers seize it,
rich increase it,
gamblers lose it...
I could use it"'

Answer: money


Question: 'One may be Coral or Caspian'

Answer: sea


Question: 'In 1999 this singer who once tore up the Pope's picture was ordained the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church'

Answer: Sinead O\'Connor


Question: 'Dip your veggies in this buttermilk dressing, a Hidden Valley specialty'

Answer: ranch


Question: 'The Maccabees' greatest soldier, he was the man originally given the name "Maccabee"'

Answer: Judah


Question: 'Cordell is the first name of this crimefighter played by Chuck Norris'

Answer: Walker, Texas Ranger


Question: 'In "The Aeneid" Virgil wrote, "I fear the Greeks even when they come with" these'

Answer: gifts


Question: 'An actor's signal or Minnesota Fats' stick'

Answer: cue


Question: 'Emily Watson earned an Oscar nomination for playing cellist Jacqueline du Pre in this 1998 film'

Answer: Hilary & Jackie


Question: 'What's a fruit tray without wedges of cantaloupe & honeydew, varieties of this fruit'

Answer: melon


Question: 'In 68 A.D. Vindex' motives were transparent when he led a revolt in this Roman province that covers France'

Answer: Gaul


Question: 'Delta Burke played Dixie Carter's ex-mother-in-law on "Filthy Rich" before playing her sister on this sitcom'

Answer: Designing Women


Question: 'Nanki-Poo & Ko-Ko appear in this W.S. Gilbert libretto'

Answer: The Mikado


Question: 'It precedes "whiz" & "your hair smells terrific"'

Answer: gee


Question: 'She sang on Broadway in "Damn Yankees" & "Bells Are Ringing" before playing TV's screechy-voiced Edith Bunker'

Answer: Jean Stapleton


Question: 'A slice of provolone could be mistaken for this cheese that shares its name with a California bay'

Answer: Monterey Jack


Question: 'Pytheas of Marseille was famous as this, also the nickname of Prince Henry of Portugal'

Answer: a navigator


Question: 'John Ritter appeared as the minister who married Ted & Georgette on this classic sitcom'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: '"While man is still a child God keeps him innocent", he wrote in "Les Miserables"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'CBS symbol'

Answer: eye


Question: 'The violin virtuoso known by the single name Midori was born in this country in 1971'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Look for rye bread on the tray near this cured beef cold-cut with a name from the Yiddish'

Answer: pastrami


Question: 'This Greek biographer's own "life" included being granted a priesthood at Delphi for life'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kathy Kinney of The Drew Carey Show.)  I played the town librarian of Stratford, Vermont on this '80s sitcom set mainly at the Stratford Inn'

Answer: Newhart


Question: 'John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of one of these boys "with cheek of tan"'

Answer: "Barefoot Boy"


Question: 'Wok up & see the snow one'

Answer: pea


Question: 'Patti Page played Sister Rachel in this Burt Lancaster film based on a Sinclair Lewis novel'

Answer: Elmer Gantry


Question: 'TVA'

Answer: Tennessee Valley Authority


Question: 'Foreigners who give distinguished service to this country may receive the Order of the Aztec Eagle'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'In a 1968 film, he played Col. Michael Kirby, the leader of a group of Green Berets'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'Martha Washington rests in a tomb just south of this house'

Answer: Mount Vernon


Question: 'Meaning "false", it's found before science & intellectual'

Answer: pseudo


Question: 'FHA'

Answer: Federal Housing Authority (or Federal Housing Administration)


Question: 'This bookseller won in the Commerce section of the 1999 Webby Awards for websites'

Answer: Amazon.com


Question: 'Willie Nelson composes a patriotic anthem for the war that Dustin Hoffman fabricates in this 1997 satire'

Answer: Wag The Dog


Question: 'Hugh Hefner bought the crypt next to hers; she was on Playboy's first cover'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'It'll be a relief if you can name this 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: psi


Question: 'SEC'

Answer: Securities and Exchange Commission


Question: 'In 1998 honorary Cesar Awards, the French Oscars, went to director Jean-Luc Godard & this "Unforgiven" auteur'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'Popular title of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, which was strongly influenced by Native American & black music'

Answer: "New World Symphony"


Question: 'A Chinese girl joins the Imperial Army to fight the Huns in this 1998 Disney film'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'A red sandstone gate, a mosque & a vast garden surround this tomb in Agra, India'

Answer: the Taj Mahal


Question: 'Sierra Leone's government was changed by one of these in May 1997'

Answer: a coup


Question: 'NLRB'

Answer: National Labor Relations Board


Question: 'In 1999 the Associated Press won Pulitzer Prizes for both the Spot News & Feature types of this'

Answer: photography


Question: 'A stripper could tell you that Bach's "Air From Suite No. 3" is more popularly known as this'

Answer: "The Air on the G String"


Question: 'Harold Ramis co-wrote this 1981 service comedy in which he & Bill Murray join the army'

Answer: Stripes


Question: 'In the 1920s Amazing Stories magazine used a representation of his tomb in Amiens, France in its logo'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'Disease caused by the production of new skin cells 10 times faster than normal'

Answer: psoriasis


Question: 'CCC'

Answer: Civilian Conservation Corps


Question: 'The USA's outstanding college basketball player gets an award named for this UCLA coach'

Answer: John Wooden


Question: 'Mozart's Symphony No. 38 popularly bears the name of this central European capital'

Answer: Prague


Question: '(Hi, I'm Robin Roberts.)  My dad was one of these "Airmen", the first all-black squadron of fighter pilots in WWII & it was also the subject of an HBO movie'

Answer: the Tuskegee Airmen


Question: 'Goddess depicted here in the tomb of Amenhotep II'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'You know the drill: it's the type operated by air pressure'

Answer: a pneumatic drill


Question: 'This politician died on June 3, 1861, 39 days after giving a speech in Springfield, Illinois supporting the Union'

Answer: Stephen Douglas


Question: 'Neurospora crassa is this type of fungus; it grows on bread but in the wild is found on burned vegetation'

Answer: mold


Question: '"Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'"'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'In 1971 France completed its first of this type of submarine, Le Redoutable'

Answer: nuclear


Question: 'Hester looked at the frock / she looked in dismay / "Do you have it in something/ other than 'A'?"'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Jesus grew up in this town in the Southern part of Galilee'

Answer: Nazareth


Question: 'If you want to sail west, this part of your boat should be easternmost'

Answer: the stern


Question: 'Stomata, leaf pores that take in this gas, enlarge hen its level in the air drops below normal'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: '"Good Morning Baltimore"'

Answer: Hairspray


Question: 'In 2006 this country surpassed the U.S. to become no. 1 in motor vehicle production'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'George said, "No, Lennie, No! / I won't get you a guppy! / You think I've forgotten / what you did to that puppy?"'

Answer: Of Mice And Men


Question: 'In Luke, this angel told Zacharias that his wife Elisabeth would bear a son & "Thou shalt call him John"'

Answer: Gabriel


Question: 'That shocking news set off a firestorm of emotions; I need to lie down for this'

Answer: a rest


Question: 'About 25 species of this arachnid, most in the family buthidae, have venom that'll kill you; 1200 others sting like a bee'

Answer: scorpions


Question: '"Willkomen"'

Answer: Cabaret


Question: 'In 2005 this state had more than twice as many registered automobiles as any other state'

Answer: California


Question: 'I sat there with Winston / We sat there, we 2 / But when busted for thoughtcrime / I knew I was through'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'The book of John records him as saying, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails... I will not believe"'

Answer: Thomas


Question: 'It's time for an intradermal allergy test when this type of person who deals in furs or beads starts sneezing'

Answer: a trader


Question: 'Linus pauling found the structure of keratin, the main component of nails & this human body part'

Answer: hair


Question: '"Comedy Tonight"'

Answer: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum


Question: 'The pneumatic tire John Dunlop came up with was originally for this mode of transportation'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'No Brontes, just Dantes / Got sent off to D'if / But with Danglars, that Danglars! / He had a big beef'

Answer: The Count Of Monte Cristo


Question: 'Jesus was referring to this fisherman when he said, "Upon this rock I will build my church"'

Answer: (St.) Peter


Question: 'Whenever I do crosswords, I find the clue for this is "rapier"'

Answer: sword


Question: 'To help make sure your brain stays fueled, its cells need less of this hormone for glucose uptake'

Answer: insulin


Question: '"Move (You're Steppin' On My Heart)"'

Answer: Dreamgirls


Question: 'In 2006 this Alaskan city's airport was second in the U.S. to Memphis in tons of air cargo received'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: 'So on again, o again, from Laputa to Glubbdubdrib / I'm giving up, something something a Flubbdubgrib'

Answer: Gulliver\'s Travels


Question: 'On the road to Damascus, this future epistle writer was asked by Jesus, "Why persecutest thou me?"'

Answer: Paul (or Saul of Tarsus)


Question: 'Pass me the flathead screws; I need to tighten this metal-shaping device'

Answer: a lathe


Question: 'First aired on September 30, 1963, "Opie the Birdman" has become a classic episode of this sitcom'

Answer: The Andy Griffith Show


Question: '"Tick-licker" was Daniel Boone's nickname for this indispensable possession'

Answer: his rifle


Question: '(Kelly displays perilous instruments of destruction.)  In the West, the ninja combat weapon known as shuriken  are called throwing these'

Answer: stars


Question: 'These mountains' highlands, which cover much of Peru, have grassy valleys where llamas graze'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'C. Harold Smith & Edwin Binney began coloring the world with this brand in 1903'

Answer: Crayola


Question: 'To preside over a public meeting'

Answer: moderate


Question: 'The never-used lyrics of its theme song were written by Gene Roddenberry'

Answer: Star Trek


Question: 'In 1778 Daniel Boone was taken captive & "adopted" by Chief Blackfish of this Indian tribe aka the Shawano'

Answer: the Shawnee


Question: 'In karate, a hihi is a strike with this body part; nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know that I mean?'

Answer: an elbow


Question: 'The heart of Argentina's agricultural region is these grassy plains covering 300,000 square miles'

Answer: the pampas


Question: 'Elsie the Cow's husband, he's the "spokesbull" for a white glue originally from Borden'

Answer: Elmer


Question: 'From the Latin for "regulate", this 6-letter word means to alter or change'

Answer: modify


Question: 'On "The Addams Family", Ted Cassidy played not only Lurch but this disembodied hand as well'

Answer: Thing


Question: 'Cleared under Daniel Boone's direction in 1775, the wilderness road passed through this famous "gap"'

Answer: the Cumberland Gap


Question: '(Jimmy demonstrates a souvenir you can't take on the plane) The folding Filipino fighting knife, called a balisong is also known by this insect name'

Answer: a butterfly knife


Question: 'This river's wide delta south of Ho Chi Minh City is one of the world's greatest rice-producing regions'

Answer: the Mekong


Question: 'Last name of Roy, who developed a whirlpool bath that included his patented hydromassage system in 1968'

Answer: Jacuzzi


Question: 'D.H. Lawrence & Ezra Pound are associated with this literary movement'

Answer: modernism


Question: 'On August 29, 1967 he finally caught up with the one-armed man'

Answer: Richard Kimble (the "Fugitive")


Question: 'In his poem "Don Juan", this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'Krav Maga is the official self-defense system of this Mideast country's defense forces'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'James Breasted gave this"shapely" name to a luxuriant Middle Eastern region of antiquity'

Answer: the fertile crescent


Question: 'A contest gave this butter from the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association its name'

Answer: Land O\'Lakes


Question: 'From the Latin for "measure", it's a small amount of something'

Answer: modicum


Question: 'In 1964 Mary Tyler Moore won her first Emmy, as this New Rochelle housewife'

Answer: Laura Petrie (on the Dick Van Dyke Show)


Question: 'James Fenimore Cooper based this "Last of the Mohicans" character on Daniel Boone'

Answer: Hawkeye (or Natty Bumppo, or Pathfinder, or Deerslayer)


Question: '(Cheryl finishes off the wicket implements of destruction category)  A bokken and a shinai are two types of sword used in this Japanese martial art whose names means "way of the sword"'

Answer: kendo


Question: 'The Dnepr-Pripyat lowland in this former SSR was once forest & is now largely pasture'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'This company was established near Turin, Italy in 1908 to manufacture typewriters'

Answer: Olivetti


Question: 'Wine-producing city of the Northern San Joaquin Valley'

Answer: Modesto


Question: 'It's the only NBA team name that uses a state nickname in place of a city or state'

Answer: the Golden State Warriors


Question: 'Central Africa's short people'

Answer: the Pygmies


Question: 'When you step on these, they let out a little "wine"'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'Any remedy which counteracts a swallowed poison'

Answer: an antidote


Question: 'An unlucky Friday or a baker's dozen'

Answer: 13


Question: 'His spectacle invention that's a sight for sore eyes'

Answer: bifocals


Question: 'At last count there were only 70 of these head servants left in England'

Answer: butlers


Question: 'S. Africa's form of segregation'

Answer: apartheid


Question: 'Satanic term for food prepared with strong seasoning, as of eggs or ham'

Answer: devilled


Question: 'To prevent swelling & discoloring from a blow to the body, apply this kind of compress immediately'

Answer: a cold compress


Question: 'Number of stars on American flag raised at Iwo Jima'

Answer: 48


Question: '"Fish & guests stink in 3 days" are among this almanac's wise words'

Answer: Poor Richard(\'s Almanack)


Question: 'Nobody wants to hear all of this camp song about decreasing containers of brew'

Answer: "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall"


Question: 'Tanganyika & Zanzibar joined to form this country'

Answer: Tanzania


Question: 'French term for meat served in its own juice'

Answer: au jus


Question: 'Kind of shot given to prevent lockjaw after a puncture wound'

Answer: a tetanus shot


Question: 'Square inches in a square foot'

Answer: 144


Question: 'He was president of the 1st society to press for its abolition'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'A stew of various meats, a jar of mixed flower petals, or an old "Jeopardy" category'

Answer: potpourri


Question: 'Africa's largest fresh-water lake, it's main source of the Nile'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'Found in rye bread, these seeds are also flavoring of kummel liqueur'

Answer: caraway seeds


Question: 'This "hug" is recommended as effective method to remove object blocking windpipe'

Answer: the Heimlich maneuver


Question: 'Total of trombones & cornets in "The Music Man" tune'

Answer: 186


Question: 'The postal service actually showed a profit when he held this position'

Answer: Postmaster General


Question: 'This president is said to be related to John Kennedy, Princess Di & F. Mitterand'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Kenyatta was leader of this bloody movement to end British rule in Kenya'

Answer: the Mau Maus


Question: 'The thymus & pancreas of young calves are sources of this meat'

Answer: sweetbreads


Question: 'Full name for CPR'

Answer: cardiopulmonary rescuscitation


Question: 'Age range of an octogenarian'

Answer: the 80s (or 80-89)


Question: 'The place you most readily find "QWERTYUIOP"; you can spell it using only these letters'

Answer: a typewriter


Question: 'While either takes or, neither always takes this'

Answer: nor


Question: 'The hat in the Mexican hat dance'

Answer: a sombrero


Question: 'A painting of inanimate objects, not people'

Answer: a still life


Question: 'It's "where the wind comes sweeping down the plain"'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'He was Dectective Lieutenant Dan August before he was Sharky'

Answer: Burt Reynolds


Question: 'The interjection in "Whew! This is a tough answer"'

Answer: whew


Question: 'South Seas garb worn by Dorothy Lamour on "The Road"'

Answer: a sarong


Question: 'State whose counties include Crockett, Zapata & Pecos'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'He played father-in-law to Betty Jones & now is uncle to Matt Houston'

Answer: Buddy Ebsen


Question: 'Wurlitzer's pride, or what tissues grouped together form'

Answer: an organ


Question: 'Punctuation mark of the imperative mode'

Answer: an exclamation mark


Question: 'Where on his body an Arab would wear the traditional keffiyeh'

Answer: his head


Question: 'One of two states ending in "T"'

Answer: (1 of) Connecticut and Vermont


Question: 'Name of station police work out of in series with this theme'

Answer: (the) Hill Street (station)


Question: 'Serology is the study of this body fluid closely resembling sea water'

Answer: blood


Question: 'Historic pass at junction of TN., KY., & VA., associated with Daniel Boone'

Answer: the Cumberland Gap


Question: 'Ex-"radio receptionist" now" partner in crime" with Lynda Carter'

Answer: Loni Anderson


Question: 'In 1600's, amateur Dutch scientist van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria by using this'

Answer: a microscope


Question: 'The word, phrase or clause a pronoun must agree with'

Answer: the antecedent


Question: 'Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta'

Answer: the Blue Ridge Mountains


Question: 'Det. whose show was spun off from "Barney Miller", but thrown back due to small ratings'

Answer: Fish


Question: 'Exobiology is the study of living things here'

Answer: space


Question: 'Country that manufactures the most cars per year'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'St. Brigid founded the 1st convent in this country, at Kildare, & is one of its patron saints'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'In 1949, Barry Goldwater was elected to the city council of this Arizona city'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'Roots, grasses, berries, birds' eggs, & even small mammals'

Answer: eat


Question: 'The juice of this fruit makes up to ⅓ of a Valencia cocktail'

Answer: an orange


Question: 'A young seal'

Answer: a pup


Question: 'Mrs. Steve Lawrence'

Answer: Eydie Gormé


Question: 'St. Augustine of Canterbury was the first to hold this title, circa 601'

Answer: the Archbishop of Canterbury


Question: 'Later his 1st att'y general, Herbert Brownell Jr. urged him to select Nixon as a running mate'

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower


Question: 'Leopards, principally'

Answer: eats


Question: 'It's not "a long way to" this drink, if you've got Irish whiskey, chartreuse & vermouth'

Answer: Tipperary


Question: 'Type of rally given by cheerleaders or talk given by the coach'

Answer: pep


Question: 'Mrs. Steven Spielberg'

Answer: Amy Irving


Question: 'Though St. Mark probably wrote his book first, this saint gets first billing in the New Testament'

Answer: St. Matthew


Question: 'This Tennessean replaced Donald Regan as Reagan's Chief of Staff'

Answer: Howard Baker


Question: 'Warthogs stick this long, thin, tufted body part straight up in the air when they run'

Answer: their tails


Question: 'If you order this cold drink on "Long Island", you're apt to get 5 distilled spirits, not brewed leaves'

Answer: (a Long Island) iced tea


Question: 'It can precede chart, art, or "the question"'

Answer: pop


Question: 'Mrs. Mel Brooks'

Answer: Anne Bancroft


Question: 'He was a Republican when elected mayor of NYC in 1965 but became a Democrat in 1971'

Answer: (John) Lindsay


Question:
'Title of the following, it's also a cocktail made of Scotch whisky, sugar, & bitters:

"Well you take the high road, and I'll take the low road"
"But I'll be in be in Scotland before ya /
For me and my true love may never meet again..."'

Answer: Loch Lomond


Question: 'Soft or semi-liquid foods, as for infants'

Answer: pap


Question: 'Mrs. Bruce Oppenheim'

Answer: Cybill Shepherd


Question: 'President of Bell & Howell at 29, he went on to become an Illinois senator'

Answer: (Charles) Percy


Question: 'You're off to the races in Upstate N.Y. with this drink of ginger ale, sugar, bitters & lemon juice'

Answer: a Saratoga


Question: 'A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes'

Answer: a pip


Question: 'Mrs. Roger Smith'

Answer: Ann-Margret


Question: 'In 1691, Plymouth Colony became part of this colony'

Answer: the Massachusetts Bay Colony


Question: 'Of "Sir", "Reverend", or "Dr.", title Charles Lutwidge Dodgson could properly use'

Answer: Reverend


Question: 'In August 1987, 3859 people did this together in Macy's annual "Tap-O-Mania"'

Answer: tap dance (in unison)


Question: 'Leslie Howard's contract salary for this film was more than twice Vivien Leigh's'

Answer: Gone with the Wind


Question: 'Born in the Danish West Indies, Camille Pissarro ran away to this Venezuelan capital to paint'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'Alice Mitchell is this famous kid's mom'

Answer: Dennis the Menace


Question: 'The 1765 Quartering Act required Colonial cities to provide this'

Answer: lodging for British soldiers


Question: 'Mythical land mentioned by Samuel Johnson in his "Debates" & Jonathan Swift in his "Travels"'

Answer: Lilliput


Question: 'If you spent more than $60,000 in 1987 at this Texas-based department store, you got a Super Bowl trip'

Answer: Neiman-Marcus


Question: 'In the 1948 film, Leonide Massine makes this title footwear for Moira Shearer'

Answer: red shoes


Question: 'Fragonard & Watteau have been called 2 of the great poetic painters of this century'

Answer: the 18th


Question: 'The Flying Dr. Service & School of the Air are based in this isolated central Australian town'

Answer: Alice Springs


Question: 'King Wiliam's Queen Anne's & King George's were wars Colonists fought in against this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'The P.M.'s office offers a name to the sovereign, who then appoints the writer to this post'

Answer: Poet Laureate


Question: 'In "Vertigo", Kim Novak throws herself into the bay beside this famed bridge'

Answer: the Golden Gate Bridge


Question: 'His sculptures of famous writers included Shaw, Balzac & 2 nudes of Victor Hugo'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'Just 10 years after its incorporation, this city had more people than 80-year-old NYC'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Most famous work of Edward Gibbon, who became Commissioner of Trade & Plantations'

Answer: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


Question: '#2 chain in sales, they've hired style expert Martha Stewart to spruce up their image'

Answer: Kmart


Question: 'In this 1932 Oscar-winner, there was room in the inn for a Beery & 2 Barrymores'

Answer: Grand Hotel


Question: 'Partial blindness compelled him to stop painting ballerinas circa 1898'

Answer: Degas


Question: 'Her "Autobiography", published in 1933, was actually written by a close friend'

Answer: Alice B. Toklas


Question: 'Among this 19th-century writer's poems are "Pippa Passes" & "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"'

Answer: (Robert) Browning


Question: 'In mid-1987, this store started a ₤200 million restoration of its Knightsbridge facility'

Answer: Harrods


Question: 'Tho this man wrote the novel, R. Chandler & B. Wilder wrote the screenplay for "Double Indemnity"'

Answer: James Cain


Question: 'South American sculptress who topped her big boxlike figures with her own face'

Answer: Marisol


Question: 'The fictional Alice Rutherford married John Clayton & bore this child'

Answer: Lord Greystoke (Tarzan)


Question: 'The 2 longest rivers found in Idaho, both named for animals which begin with "S"'

Answer: the Snake River & the Salmon River


Question: 'This coastal strip that has French & Italian sides is also known as the Cote D'Azur or Azure Coast'

Answer: the Riviera


Question: 'A retailer:<br />JCP'

Answer: J.C. Penney


Question: 'Angelina Jolie rocked as this sexy tomb raider in "The Cradle of Life"'

Answer: Lara Croft


Question:
'A legendary character
---------------------------------
HOrobOD'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'The main part of this state is its 8 main islands'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball"'

Answer: (Ian) Fleming


Question: 'Until 1992 Bosnia & Herzegovina were part of this country'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'Purveyor of beautiful baubles:<br />TIF'

Answer: Tiffany


Question: 'This prequel to a Farrelly Brothers movie was subtitled "When Harry Met Lloyd"'

Answer: Dumb and Dumberer


Question:
'Usually how I find Johnny Gilbert on paydays
---------------------------------
E                    E
A  GRINNING  A
R                    R'

Answer: grinning from ear to ear


Question: 'Ranging in size from 2 inches in the Atlantic to 30 feet in the Pacific, they have 8 muscular tentacles'

Answer: octopus


Question: 'We know he revisited his "Brave New World" in 1958, but we don't know if he attended any Eton reunions'

Answer: (Aldous) Huxley


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew)  Madrid, one of Europe's highest capital cities, is located in the very center of this peninsula'

Answer: the Iberian Peninsula


Question: 'Where the food really stacks up:<br />IHP'

Answer: International House of Pancakes


Question: 'In 2002 Anthony Hopkins starred in this "colorful" prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"'

Answer: Red Dragon


Question:
'A gangster's possible final footwear
---------------------------------
CEMENT
SHOES'

Answer: cement overshoes


Question: 'At the start of a chess match, you have 8 of these pieces'

Answer: pawns


Question: 'Marshall Field III, who had fun times at Eton, merged his Sun & Times papers in this city in 1948'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Corsica & this Italian island are packed so close together they're only about 7 miles apart'

Answer: Sardinia


Question: 'A drug store:<br />WAG'

Answer: Walgreens


Question: 'Also known as episodes I & II, 1 of 2 "Star Wars" prequels to be released'

Answer: The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones


Question:
'You'll need to do this contractually
---------------------------------
SIGN
............'

Answer: sign on the dotted line


Question: 'It's a common knot or an old compulsory move for skaters'

Answer: figure 8


Question: 'James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Almost 70% of Denmark's land is on this peninsula; islands account for the rest'

Answer: Jutland


Question: 'A provider of energy services:<br />HAL'

Answer: Haliburton


Question: 'In "Rocky II" Rocky becomes the world heavyweight champ after a rematch with this opponent'

Answer: Apollo Creed


Question:
'Repeatedly or continuosly
----------------------------------
YEAR [boxed]    YEAR'

Answer: year in year out


Question: 'When filled, the L-shell around a nucleus will have 8 of these in it'

Answer: electrons


Question: 'In power in the 1720s & 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister'

Answer: Robert Walpole


Question: 'The city of Tuscaloosa in this state is named for a Choctaw leader who fought Hernando de Soto in 1540'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'In 1958 Chuck Berry sang, "All over St. Louis, way down in New Orleans, all the cats wanna dance with" her'

Answer: Sweet Little Sixteen


Question: 'An antiwar novel:<br />"Im Westen nichts Neues"'

Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front


Question: 'He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 & died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'A food stand by London's Petticoat Lane is called, & serves, "Jellied" this elongated fish'

Answer: eel


Question: 'A dangerously large ingestion of a drug leading to hospitilization or death'

Answer: overdose


Question: 'Drake's Bay in what's now this West Coast state is believed to be the inlet that Sir Francis Drake sailed into in 1579'

Answer: California


Question: 'Both Bobby Goldsboro & Mariah Carey had No. 1 hits with songs using this sweet title'

Answer: Honey


Question: 'A suspense title:<br />"Il pendolo di Foucault"'

Answer: Foucault\'s Pendulum


Question: 'Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899; closed the book on himself in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961'

Answer: (Ernest) Hemingway


Question: 'In Berlin it's popular to dust your sausage with this powder popular in Asia'

Answer: curry powder


Question: 'They're now the Tennessee Titans'

Answer: the Houston Oilers


Question: 'Stories spread by Cabeza de Vaca inspired Coronado to search for the Seven Golden Cities of this'

Answer: Cibola


Question: 'Brenda Lee sang, "My baby whispers in my ear, ummm" these, "he knows the things I like to hear"'

Answer: sweet nothings


Question: 'Aristophanes' ribbit-tickler:<br />"Batrachoi"'

Answer: The Frogs


Question: 'Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955'

Answer: (Albert) Einstein


Question: 'Swifts may provide the raw material for this Asian soup'

Answer: bird\'s nest soup


Question: 'From the Greek for "correct teeth", it's the dental specialty that's used to give you them'

Answer: orthodontics


Question: 'The French established a settlement on this South Carolina island in 1562--tell it to the Marines!'

Answer: Parris Island


Question: 'In this song the Chiffons asked, "Why do I love him like I do?"'

Answer: Sweet Talkin\' Guy


Question: 'A really "deep" book:<br />"Vingt mille lieues sous les mers"'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Question: 'Born in Paris in 1840, he got the final brush off at Giverny in 1926'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'Callos, this stomach lining, is considered a delicacy in Madrid'

Answer: tripe


Question: 'One of the earliest, this Mesoamerican people's civilization flourished around 1200 B.C.'

Answer: the Olmecs


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  This Italian explorer sailed past Martha's Vineyard in 1524 & gave it the name Louisa, but it didn't catch on'

Answer: Verrazano


Question: 'Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs had a hit with "Sugar Shack" & Nancy Sinatra with this sweet place'

Answer: Sugar Town


Question: 'The romantic "De Amor y de Sombra"'

Answer: Of Love and Shadows


Question: 'He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1741 & died in London in 1801'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'This spread that's from the Land Down Under & in the song "Down Under" is definitely an acquired taste'

Answer: vegemite


Question: '3-word title of the play Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was shot'

Answer: Our American Cousin


Question: 'The current medals for the Summer Olympics feature this goddess on them'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'The Ajaccio, Corsica home in which this French emperor was born is now a museum'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'On May 26 the USA's first legal casino outside Nevada was opened in this city, by Resorts International'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'This corporal in the 4077th M*A*S*H dressed in drag -- using some of his uncle's hand-me-downs'

Answer: Max Klinger


Question: 'Kids make these from 1 sheet of typing paper; they use a lot less fuel than a Cessna'

Answer: Paper airplane


Question: 'This command tells your dog it's confined to hindquarters'

Answer: Sit


Question: 'Ground water rises under internal pressure in the Artesian type of this'

Answer: Well


Question: 'The story of world currency is told via exhibits at the Currency Museum in this Canadian capital'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'Once used as a toxic waste dump, this area of Niagara Falls, N.Y. was declared a disaster area by Pres. Carter'

Answer: Love Canal


Question: 'Golly!  He worked at Wally's Service Station in Mayberry before enlisting in the Marines'

Answer: Gomer Pyle


Question: 'The word origami means "paper folding" in this language'

Answer: Japanese


Question: 'A homer, a murder or a visit to a World Wide Web site'

Answer: Hit


Question: 'Bite into our planet & you'll find a molten outer one wrapped around a hard, central inner one'

Answer: Core


Question: 'A museum in this southernmost city in the continental U.S. displays Florida's lighthouse history'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'Group heard here when Lionel Richie was still a member: ("You're once, twice, three times a lady...")'

Answer: The Commodores


Question: 'This "Cheers" mailman gleaned all the trivia he knows from his mother Esther'

Answer: Cliff Clavin


Question: 'It's black & white & read all over; it's also the perfect size to make a hat'

Answer: Newspaper


Question: 'Look a gift horse in the mouth & you'll see this part of its bridle'

Answer: Bit


Question: 'A type of shelter built in the '50s, or what your hair might have done if you didn't have one'

Answer: Fallout


Question: 'The Hertzberg Circus Collection in San Antonio includes memorabilia of this 19th C. little "general"'

Answer: Tom Thumb


Question: 'On September 15 he regained the heavyweight boxing crown for a record third time, by beating Leon Spinks'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'Sitcom character played since 1990 by the man seen here: (Jason Alexander)'

Answer: George Costanza (on "Seinfeld")


Question: 'Complex snout folds are needed to make this animal, whose next Chinese year is 2007'

Answer: Pig/boar


Question: 'To move swiftly, like a butterfly, or a brand of insecticide'

Answer: Flit


Question: 'Blind fish of the genus amblyopsis are also called this, for the dark formations where they live'

Answer: Cavefish


Question: 'Named for Bill Monroe, a hall of fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana is devoted to this form of country music'

Answer: Bluegrass


Question: 'Italian Red Brigade terrorists kidnapped & killed this former premier'

Answer: Aldo Moro


Question: 'Unable to attend his sixth grade graduation, this "Beverly Hillbillies" oaf had a chimp take his place'

Answer: Jethro Bodine


Question: 'A square sheet of paper can become a star to put on a Christmas tree, a triangle becomes this Jewish star'

Answer: Star of David


Question: 'A Monty Python sketch honored the "Upper-Class" one "Of The Year"'

Answer: Twit


Question: 'This synonym for a vein of coal in a mine is also a word used in sewing'

Answer: Seam


Question: 'Its index finger is 8 feet long; its tablet over 23 feet'

Answer: Statue of Liberty


Question: 'A 1981 Steve Martin movie took its name from this 1936 song'

Answer: Pennies From Heaven


Question: 'Named for a Soviet minister, the Finns fixed these "cocktails" for the invading Russians in 1940'

Answer: Molotov cocktails


Question: 'About 6 million tourists a year visit this city's Franklin Mills outlet; only 1.5 million visit the Liberty Bell'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'As America sobbed, Oliver & Jenny sorted out their lives in this Erich Segal bestseller'

Answer: Love Story


Question: 'White Mountain has been making freezers to produce this treat since 1853'

Answer: Ice Cream


Question: 'In 1997 this performer, seen here, sang "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" before Pope John Paul II'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Not one to let sleeping cars lie, he invented the railroad car named for him'

Answer: George Pullman


Question: 'At Minnesota's Mall of America, take a break from shopping & ride the log chute named for this lumberjack'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'The tears flow as Aurora comes to "terms" with the terminal illness of her daughter Emma in this 1975 novel'

Answer: Terms Of Endearment


Question: 'One may run for eons'

Answer: Nose (eons)


Question: 'L.L. Knickerbocker makes a version of these dolls, which have been around since 1915:'

Answer: Raggedy Ann & Andy


Question: '"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying" this'

Answer: A stairway to heaven


Question: 'We're not sure if he was one, but John Duns Scotus' name gave us this word, meaning an ignorant person'

Answer: Dunce


Question: 'Bourbon French Parfums in this Louisiana city has sold custom-blended fragrances for over 150 years'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'This Shaw play burns with the tragic details of the life & death of the maid of Orleans'

Answer: St. Joan


Question: 'It's where you hear "You are here"'

Answer: Ear (are)


Question: 'Now part of the Camberley Hotel Company, this New York hotel was home to the famous Round Table'

Answer: The Algonquin


Question: '"Dangerous Minds"?  No, it's the title of the song heard here:'

Answer: Gangsta\'s Paradise (by Coolio)


Question: 'By leaving his cows unbranded, a Texas cattle rancher gave us this term for an independent loner'

Answer: Maverick


Question: 'Ghirardelli Square in this city was built on the grounds of a 19th century chocolate factory'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel about an incapacitated soldier is titled this man "Got His Gun"'

Answer: Johnny


Question: 'The lion never had a lot of this; he was cowardly'

Answer: Nerve (never)


Question: 'This Great Lake was known to the native Americans as Gitchee Gumee'

Answer: Lake Superior


Question: 'According to a Meat Loaf song, "Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see" this'

Answer: Paradise by the dashboard light


Question: 'A swift fellow, this Austrian's name means the speed of an object as a multiple of the speed of sound'

Answer: Ernst Mach


Question: 'Get off the Metro in Union Station on Mass. Ave. in this capital & you'll be surrounded by chic shops'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'This playwright chronicled the troubled Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey Into Night"'

Answer: Eugene O\' Neill


Question: 'It may retain an image'

Answer: Retina (retain)


Question: 'Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Archaeologists in Peru are digging out Cerro Victoria, which may have been the last refuge of these people'

Answer: Incas


Question: 'A narrow alley between walls & houses, or what you roll your ball down at a bowling alley'

Answer: lane


Question: 'These girls' "Wannabe" says, "Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady"'

Answer: Spice Girls


Question: 'In 1912 Robert Falcon Scott's group was second to this location, & sadly perished on the return journey'

Answer: South Pole


Question: 'Clinton's aspirins'

Answer: Bill\'s pills


Question: 'In the 1860s Guiseppe Fiorelli made human body casts from the cavities the dead left in the ash in this city'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'The familiar 6-tone sequence of honks & sirens in these was created by Viper, a brand owned by Directed Electronics, Inc.'

Answer: car alarms


Question: 'We're positive it's the current band heard here'

Answer: No Doubt


Question: 'From the Italian for "to make evident", there was a famous Communist one'

Answer: manifesto


Question: 'If you're heading from Clemson University to Myrtle Beach for spring break, you never have to leave this state'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'Nixon's baby poultry'

Answer: Dick\'s chicks


Question: 'The Stone of Destiny sits on the Hill of Tara in County Meath in this country'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Cities can be cooled by using light-colored concrete in place of blacktop, which is usually this material'

Answer: asphalt


Question: 'Ray & Dave Davies' boyhood in the Muswell Hill area led to this band's album "Muswell Hillbillies"'

Answer: the Kinks


Question: 'Signatures are put on these during drives to get a measure on a ballot'

Answer: petition


Question: 'In June 1998 forces of this nation seized a spy submarine that had strayed into its waters'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Gerald's surfing equipment'

Answer: Ford\'s boards


Question: 'The major evidence that these people visited North America has been found at L'Anse aux Meadows'

Answer: Vikings


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing on the ladder of a fire truck)  In the 1800s, as buildings got taller, firemen needed this type of ladder on their trucks'

Answer: extension ladder


Question: 'The name of this group heard here was partly a tribute to Della Reese'

Answer: Martha and the Vandellas


Question: 'Also called an armistice, it's the 5-letter term for a suspension of hostilities agreed to by both sides'

Answer: truce


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew drawing on a chalkboard)  Seen down under, it's made up of four bright stars, & it's the smallest of the 88 constellations'

Answer: Southern Cross


Question: 'Zachary's hay bundlers'

Answer: Taylor\'s balers


Question: 'The bricks used around 2000 B.C. in Mohenjo-Daro, in Pakistan, were the standard size used all over this valley'

Answer: Indus Valley


Question: 'Abbreviated EZ, they were pushed by Jack Kemp as a way to revive urban areas'

Answer: enterprise zones


Question: 'Dee Dee published "Lobotomy: Surviving" this band'

Answer: the Ramones


Question: 'As an agreement between 2 parties it's pronounced one way; the accent changes when it means "to draw together"'

Answer: contract


Question: 'Home to 43 million people, it borders Mozambique & Botswana'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Carter's short golf putts'

Answer: Jimmy\'s gimmes


Question: 'He spent much of his money supporting several mistresses & maintaining his estate, Monte-Cristo'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas


Question: 'Bogie & Hepburn's title 1951 cinematic transport'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'FCC'

Answer: Federal Communications Commission


Question: 'This cowboy neckerchief could be used as a mask if one were criminally inclined'

Answer: bandana


Question: 'John Opie, the "Cornish Wonder", was tutored but hyped as an unschooled genius in this capital in 1781'

Answer: London


Question: 'A popular screenwriting program, it's also the name for the last version of a script'

Answer: final draft


Question: 'In 1887 this science fiction author wrote a novel about the U.S. Civil War, "North Against South"'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'In 1956 she starred in "High Society" & also appeared on a postage stamp'

Answer: Grace Kelly (Princess Grace)


Question: 'TVA'

Answer: Tennessee Valley Authority


Question: 'In the 1970s Ted Giannoulas began playing this mascot at Padres games'

Answer: San Diego Chicken


Question: 'Thomas Sully left England for America as a child but returned in the 1830s to paint this queen'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'The tournament deciding the national college basketball champ culminates in this alliterative group'

Answer: Final Four


Question: 'In 1856 he & his 2 editors were brought to trial for publishing a morally offensive book, "Madame Bovary"'

Answer: Gustave Flaubert


Question: '1954 Best Picture Oscar winner set in part on the docks of New York'

Answer: On the Waterfront


Question: 'WPA'

Answer: Works Progress Administration


Question: 'Term for the compartment where a movie camera stores film & a ship stores gunpowder'

Answer: magazine


Question: 'George Romney painted the lovely Lady Hamilton as this sorceress who turned men into swine'

Answer: Circe


Question: 'Airplanes are "on" this just before they land'

Answer: final approach


Question: 'He spent almost 20 years writing the novels & stories that have since become known as "The Human Comedy"'

Answer: Honore de Balzac


Question: 'In this classic 1955 film, James Dean gets in a fight at the Griffith Observatory'

Answer: Rebel Without a Cause


Question: 'PWA'

Answer: Public Works Administration


Question: 'It's the name for the dot over a lower case "I", or the last name of Hall of Fame quarterback Y.A.'

Answer: Tittle


Question: 'Seen here, "The Age of Innocence" is one of many charming paintings by this great 18th century portrait artist'

Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds


Question: 'Kim Basinger & Richard Gere starred in this 1992 thriller about a psychiatrist & a troubled client'

Answer: Final Analysis


Question: 'Francois Marie Arouet wrote under this pen name'

Answer: Voltaire


Question: 'In 1951 this actor, later a TV marshal, played the creature known as "The Thing"'

Answer: James Arness


Question: 'Something that has the potential for widespread violence, or a container in which you'd find flint & steel'

Answer: tinderbox


Question: 'Here's the "Hole" truth: a retrospective of his sculpture at MoMA in 1946 firmly established his reputation'

Answer: Henry Moore


Question: '2 books that Woodward & Bernstein wrote on the Watergate scandal were "All the President's Men" & this one'

Answer: "Final Days"


Question: 'Robert Chesebrough named this brand for the German word for water & the Greek word for olive oil'

Answer: Vaseline


Question: 'Fewer babies were crying after 1849, when Walter Hunt invented this pin for diapers'

Answer: a safety pin


Question: 'When he died in 1937 at the age of 97, this oil man had given away more than $500 million; he still left his kids a few bucks'

Answer: (John D.) Rockefeller


Question: 'I had this many wives -- big deal, Liz Taylor's had more husbands'

Answer: 6


Question: 'In the comics he was obsessed with the little red-haired girl'

Answer: Charlie Brown


Question: 'In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster'

Answer: Alice


Question: 'You fill one out to start the process of getting a job'

Answer: an application


Question: 'Joseph Niepce  created the first permanent one of these images in 1826'

Answer: a photograph


Question: 'This hotel founder lived to the age of 91; he made quite a pile, but he never saw Paris...or Nicky'

Answer: Conrad Hilton


Question: 'You might think I was an ally of this reformer, but in fact I was named "Defender of the Faith" for writing a 1521 attack on him'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: 'High-energy play on the diamond earned Pete Rose this enthusiastic moniker'

Answer: Charlie Hustle


Question: 'This Japanese beer brand uses a unicorn for its logo & that's what its name means'

Answer: Kirin


Question: 'A tensing of a mother's muscles during birth; push!'

Answer: a contraction


Question: 'Thimonnier, like Singer, built a type of this machine, but his was destroyed by rioting tailors'

Answer: a sewing machine


Question: 'This San Francisco Examiner man lived to be 88; his last word probably wasn't "Rosebud", though'

Answer: (William Randolph) Hearst


Question: 'I always wanted a male heir, but little Ed didn't last long; this "bloody" daughter of mine succeeded him'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'PBS talk show host Charlie Rose won an Emmy in 1987 for an interview he conducted in prison with this other Charlie'

Answer: Charles Manson


Question: 'The endangered Indian species of this large ungulate has the scientific name R. unicornis'

Answer: rhinoceros


Question: 'A sudden violent discharge from Vesuvius'

Answer: an eruption


Question: 'Elevators date back to Roman times; in 1853 he showed off his safety device so passengers could ride on them'

Answer: Otis


Question: 'Daniel Ludwig, who lived to be 95, pioneered this 11-letter type of ship of over 100,000 tons of displacement'

Answer: super tankers


Question: 'I enjoyed all kinds of sports & in 1520 had a spirited wrestling match with the king of this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'Warner Oland and Sydney Toland (2 non-Chinese) played this Chinese detective on film'

Answer: Charlie Chan


Question: 'The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'A series of engraved letters on stone, from the Latin for "to write"'

Answer: an inscription


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew pushes an enclosed plunger.)  Pushing a plunger compresses the air inside the cylinder, creating enough heat to ignite a piece of paper; the same principle is used in a type of engine invented by this man'

Answer: (Rudolf) Diesel


Question: 'This publisher whose name is on communications schools at Penn & USC died in 2002 aged 94'

Answer: (Walter) Annenberg


Question: 'This humanist was my Chancellor from 1529 to 1532; I had him arrested for treason & dropped the axe on him'

Answer: Thomas More


Question: 'One of his last film roles was as the swindling wife murderer in 1947's "Monsieur Verdoux"'

Answer: Chaplin


Question: 'This unicorn-like whale's "horn" is really a long tusk'

Answer: narwhal


Question: 'A living manifestation of a god'

Answer: an incarnation


Question: 'Miss March, March Fong Eu was California's first woman in this post; Condoleezza Rice was one for the U.S.'

Answer: Secretary of State


Question: 'This Coleridge "rime" says, "a sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn"'

Answer: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"


Question: 'You can get tickets at the multiplex at moviefone.com or from the same service by dialing 777-this'

Answer: FILM


Question: 'Parasitic protozoa called plasmodia cause this disease; female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite to humans'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'Full, cited authority might be this "and verse"'

Answer: chapter


Question: 'The capital of this country is on the Vilnia River'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'Miss January Jones, seen here, plays Betty on this AMC advertising show'

Answer: Mad Men


Question: 'Shakespeare wrote, "a sad tale's best for" this season'

Answer: winter


Question: 'Willis Carrier tested this in the Rivoli in 1925 & soon movie houses were installing & advertising it'

Answer: air conditioning


Question: 'Addison's disease is a metabolic dysfunction of these glands useful in an emergency'

Answer: the adrenal glands


Question: 'In 1997 Ferrari bought this other fast car maker founded in Bologna in 1914'

Answer: Maserati


Question: 'Miss June Allyson played the wife of this bandleader in his movie story, opposite Jimmy Stewart'

Answer: Glenn Miller


Question: 'His "Ode to a Nightingale" says, "where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, where youth grows pale"'

Answer: Keats


Question: 'If you're seeing a picture tonight, good chance it's on one of this "kingly" company's 6,761 U.S. screens'

Answer: Regal


Question: '(I'm Katie Couric.)  To raise awareness of a specific type of cancer, I had an on-camera one of these procedures, aired in March of 2000'

Answer: a colonoscopy


Question: 'Miss June Havoc inspired the character of Baby June in this musical, back on Broadway in 2008'

Answer: Gypsy


Question: 'Whittier rhymed, "of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4'

Answer: "it might have been"


Question: '1998's "The Last Broadcast" was the 1st film shown theatrically using this type of distribution & projection'

Answer: digital


Question: 'In 2010 Bret Michaels suffered from hyponatremia, low levels of this element in the blood'

Answer: sodium


Question: 'The person with this job adjusts body structures, like the spinal column'

Answer: a chiropractor


Question: 'Miss May Swenson was an American poet who also translated poetry from this language, her first as a child'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'One of his lines from "Tintern Abbey" mentions "hearing offentimes the still, sad music of humanity"'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: 'Heard here, the pipe organ called "The Mighty" this brand was long popular in movie theaters'

Answer: Wurlitzer


Question: 'This structure near the center of the base of the brain directs the hormonal activities of the pituitary gland'

Answer: the hypothalamus


Question: 'He's the attendant at a casino who rakes in the chips & money'

Answer: croupier


Question: 'In 2000 the Centre Court Arena in Melbourne, Australia was renamed for him'

Answer: Rod Laver


Question: 'These body parts are sensitive enough to feel points 1/10 of an inch apart, so reading Braille is a snap'

Answer: fingertips


Question: 'The Rolling Stones:<br />"You Can't Always Get a Chihuahua"'

Answer: "You Can\'t Always Get What You Want"


Question: 'From the Latin for "stalk", it's a short beard growth sometimes left by a razor'

Answer: stubble


Question: 'In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land'

Answer: the Constitution


Question: 'You've "hit" this when you win a large cash prize or achieve a significant success'

Answer: the jackpot


Question: 'In one theory, camphoraceous, ethereal & putrid are 3 of the 7 primary ones of these'

Answer: smells/odors


Question: 'Glen Campbell:<br />"Limestone Cowboy"'

Answer: "Rhinestone Cowboy"


Question: 'A Sally Hansen product uses this hot substance to remove unwanted hair'

Answer: wax


Question: 'Amplified rock music & a very close thunderclap hit 120 on this noise scale'

Answer: decibel scale


Question: 'He's the rather animated guy seen here, Mama'

Answer: Johnny Bravo


Question: 'Joint at which the humerus, radius & ulna meet'

Answer: elbow


Question: 'The Beach Boys:<br />"She's My Little Blue Scoop"'

Answer: "She\'s My Little Deuce Coupe"


Question: 'Yaanah in Hebrew, this big bird that lays a big egg pops up in Lamentations & Job'

Answer: ostrich


Question: 'Tams are crocheted hats good for containing this Rasta hairstyle'

Answer: dreadlocks


Question: 'A low grade of copier paper, it's also the weight for a standard bowling ball'

Answer: 16 pounds


Question: 'In 1999 a Martian lander was lost because Lockheed used English units & this Calif. lab used metric units in calculations'

Answer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)


Question: 'The part of your brain that controls balance & coordination; by age 2 it's almost fully grown'

Answer: cerebellum


Question: 'Van Halen:<br />"Padded Bra"'

Answer: "Panama"


Question: 'The curtains of the Tabernacle were made of the hair of this animal that Jesus separated from the sheep'

Answer: goats


Question: 'If Robert Frost was sharpening his razor outside in December, he might be doing this "by Woods on a Snowy Evening"'

Answer: stropping


Question: 'What the British call a billion, a 1 followed by 12 zeros, we call this'

Answer: trillion


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  Popular in the 16th & 17th centuries, it's the variety of sleeveless tunic I'm wearing'

Answer: jerkin


Question: '1 of the 3 types of muscle, it has a built-in contraction rate of 60-70 times a minute'

Answer: cardiac muscle


Question: 'From a 1964 Elvis movie:<br />"People Love Bagels"'

Answer: Viva Las Vegas


Question: 'A major threat to the clothing of the time, even Jesus talked of its threat to man's savings for the future'

Answer: moths


Question: 'The brand name is Rogaine; the generic name is this'

Answer: minoxidil


Question: 'In the old Hindu caste system the twice-born castes were the Vaisyas, the Kshatriyas & this, which included priests'

Answer: Brahmins


Question: 'King Abdullah II reigns in this country'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'His first decision as the first Chief Justice was probably which chair was his'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'When she played this title role, Claudette Colbert barged in on Mark Antony & let Caesar seize her'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Cap Gris-Nez, which extends into this strait, is France's closest point to Great Britain'

Answer: Strait of Dover


Question: 'These are carried on ocean liners to carry groups of survivors'

Answer: lifeboats


Question: 'He's known for his Martian & Pellucidar tales as well as the ones about that ape man'

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs


Question: 'Bury me not on the lone prairie without this red birthstone for July'

Answer: ruby (bury)


Question: 'Famed justice seen here; no relation to Thurgood'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'Warren Beatty sports an Italian accent as a gigolo romancing this "GWTW" star in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"'

Answer: Vivien Leigh


Question: 'The channel which separates the U.S. & British Virgin Islands is named for this Engllish circumnavigator'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'The Society of Arts & Sciences named its short story award after this "Gift of the Magi" author'

Answer: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)


Question: 'For thy medieval board game thy stone of choice was this purple one for February'

Answer: amethyst (g(ame thy st)one)


Question: 'He swore in more men as president than anyone else -- 7, from Van Buren to Lincoln'

Answer: Roger Taney


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome)  The Spanish Steps never looked more romantic than when Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck visited them in this 1953 film'

Answer: Roman Holiday


Question: 'An inlet of the South China Sea, it was formerly known as the Gulf of Siam'

Answer: Gulf of Thailand


Question: '"Nobody Knows My Name" (hopefully you do!) is a later work by this "Go Tell It on the Mountain" man'

Answer: James Baldwin


Question: 'John Singer Sargent didn't find those red stones for January strange'

Answer: garnets (strange)


Question: 'Somehow, this justice seen here doesn't look like a junior'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Question: 'Rent the 1933 comedy "Roman Scandals" to see this beauty play a captive princess decades before "Titanic"'

Answer: Gloria Stuart


Question: 'At 4,710 feet deep, this African lake is the world's second-deepest lake, trailing only Lake Baikal'

Answer: Lake Tanganyika


Question: 'Last name of brothers Stephen & William, who won Pulitzers for their poetry: one in 1929 & 1944, the other in 1942'

Answer: Benet


Question: 'This former vice-mayor of Cincinnati said of obscenity, "I know it when I see it"'

Answer: Potter Stewart


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Rome)  Swedish actress Anita Ekberg made quite a splash here in the Trevi Fountain in this classic Fellini film'

Answer: La Dolce Vita


Question: 'The 25th of April Bridge, one of the world's longest suspension bridges, spans this river in Lisbon'

Answer: Tagus


Question: 'Mercury's counterpart, this Greek messenger of the gods carries a caduceus'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'Vermont, which didn't approve a lottery until 1976, was where she wrote "The Lottery" in 1949'

Answer: Shirley Jackson


Question: 'He's the Frenchman seen here in a detail from a portrait by Jacques-Louis David'

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier


Question: 'Alfred Johnson sailed alone in his aptly named dory "Centennial" from Massachusetts to Britain in this year'

Answer: 1876


Question: 'This aviator first flew into the world near Millville on April 16, 1867; Orville landed in Ohio in 1871'

Answer: Wilbur Wright


Question: 'There should be a law regulating the use of this pointy tool'

Answer: awl (from law)


Question: 'Joe Biden'

Answer: Dick Cheney


Question: 'You... me... Carnival in this city!  We party with its nearly 11 million Cariocas & of course I'll wear my Speedo'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: '(Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.)  This tennis champ is facing her 2010 breast cancer diagnosis with the same spirit that won her 18 Grand Slam singles titles & the U.S. Open mixed doubles at the age of 49'

Answer: Navratilova


Question: 'From this Hoosier's "Top Ten New Words of 2010": Lohab & baconfetti'

Answer: (David) Letterman


Question: 'The way she rambles on nonsensically, she's truly lost these'

Answer: marbles (for rambles)


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'Oui baby, let's hit this landmark that opened on March 31, 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution'

Answer: the Eiffel Tower


Question: '(Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.)  She won 2 golds at the 1932 Olympics, took 10 major golf championships & to top it off helped form the LPGA in 1949'

Answer: Babe Didrikson


Question: 'This 1960s Teamsters president was born on Valentine's Day 1913 in Brazil, Indiana'

Answer: Jimmy Hoffa


Question: 'Take your coats--it's chilly along here'

Answer: the coast (for coats)


Question: 'Gerald Ford'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'The Prado in this city may have 30 El Grecos & 100 Goyas, but it'll never house more beauty than when you step inside'

Answer: Madrid


Question: '(Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.)  In 2010 she was ranked No. 1 in downhill, super-G, super combined & overall World Cup skiing; she also won Olympic gold'

Answer: (Lindsey) Vonn


Question: 'His website says he "dedicated his life to perfecting a lighter, fluffier popcorn", a life that began in Brazil, Ind. in 1907'

Answer: Redenbacher


Question: 'We rested up after a hot day in this environment'

Answer: the desert (for rested)


Question: 'George H.W. Bush'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question: 'This Italian city that lies on about 118 islands was once "the queen of the Adriatic" but you... you're the queen of my heart'

Answer: Venice


Question: '(Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.)  This speed skater won the Olympic 500 & 1,000m in both the 1992 & 1994 games & then retired on her 31st birthday as the reigning world sprint champ'

Answer: Bonnie Blair


Question: 'In 1965 this Indianapolis-born novelist published "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"'

Answer: Vonnegut


Question: 'This character in mythology amused me more than she scared me'

Answer: Medusa (for amused)


Question: 'Hubert Humphrey'

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson


Question: 'What has 4 thumbs & is going to this rhyming region of China with nearly 16,000 people per square mile?  Us!'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: '(Hannah Storm reads the clue from the set of SportsCenter.)  In 1977 this ex-aerospace engineer became the first woman to earn starting spots in both the Indy 500 & the Daytona 500'

Answer: (Janet) Guthrie


Question: 'Banned from publication in the United States until 1944:<br />"____ ____'s Lover"'

Answer: Lady Chatterly


Question: 'As Ricky Bobby:<br />"Well, let me just quote the late great Col. Sanders who said, 'I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"''

Answer: Will Ferrell


Question: 'After the letter loss, Tony the Tiger is pushing phony art masterpieces to the unsuspecting'

Answer: Frosted Fakes


Question: 'No doubt the biggest draw in Metropolis, Illinois is the 15-foot bronze statue of this hero'

Answer: Superman


Question: '1930s gangster George Kelly'

Answer: Machine Gun Kelly


Question: 'An excess of revenues over expenses'

Answer: profit


Question: 'The Pulitzer Prize-winning "____'s Ashes"'

Answer: Angela


Question: 'In 2006:<br />"Enough is enough!  I have had it with these... snakes on this... plane!"'

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson


Question: 'Global cooling gets the best of Snap, Crackle & Pop as they're pitching this revised brand'

Answer: Ice Krispies


Question: 'In Alliance, Nebraska, 38 cars are arranged in a circle to replicate this prehistoric monument in England'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: 'Actress Susan Weld'

Answer: Tuesday Weld


Question: 'Add syrup & whipped cream to layers of fruit & ice cream & you've got one of these yummy desserts'

Answer: parfait


Question: 'A Helen Fielding bestseller:<br />"____ ____'s Diary"'

Answer: Bridget Jones


Question: 'As Dr. Evil:<br />"I have one simple request.  And that is to have sharks with... laser beams attached to their heads!"'

Answer: Mike Myers


Question: 'There's only one thing Toucan Sam can say after his brand loses a letter by mistake'

Answer: Froot Oops


Question: 'In Turner County it's hard to miss this state's official peanut monument--it's about 20 feet tall'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Author Thomas Lanier Williams'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'It's vulgar or irreverent speech, gosh darn it!'

Answer: profanity


Question: 'A Peter Hoeg bestseller, "____'s Sense of Snow"'

Answer: Smilla


Question: 'To Marty Feldman:<br />"It's prounced Fronkonsteen"'

Answer: Gene Wilder


Question: 'That crazy leprechaun can't help you now; we've axed him & a letter, then we added steel to the marshmallow bits'

Answer: Lucky Harms


Question: 'Wind through Darwin, Minnesota or Cawker City, Kansas; they both claim the world's largest ball of this'

Answer: twine


Question: '19th century actress Emilie Langtry'

Answer: Lillie Langtry


Question: 'A past tense in grammar, it also means "without blemish"'

Answer: perfect


Question: 'Dava Sobel's "Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love", "____'s Daughter"'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'The dude playing Kirk Lazarus:<br />"I know who I am!  I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!"'

Answer: Robert Downey Jr.


Question: 'A Kellogg's brand not only lost a letter, it lost all its dried grapes after they were prohibited'

Answer: Raisin Ban


Question: 'Take a gamble & visit Lucy the Elephant, seen here, a seaside attraction in this state for over 100 years'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Petroleum disaster expert Paul Adair'

Answer: Red Adair


Question: 'The chief administrative official of a department of France'

Answer: prefect


Question: 'His first name means "happy", but 3 of his 5 symphonies are in gloomy minor keys'

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn


Question: 'In this country, beware of food dishes with prik in their names -- they contain chile peppers'

Answer: Thailand


Question: '"Charlie Hustle"'

Answer: Pete Rose


Question: '"Khaki" comes from the Hindi for the color of this; it's also what the "bunnies" under the bed are made of'

Answer: dust


Question: 'It's not good when you "let the cat out of the bag" when you were expecting a "pig in" this'

Answer: a poke


Question: 'Like your typical Plains Indians, the Sioux in the Tetons lived in these'

Answer: tepees


Question: 'A superfluous person is a "fifth" one'

Answer: wheel


Question: 'Take a look, it's the city where the woman seen here did the work that made her famous'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: '"Big Mac"'

Answer: Mark McGwire


Question: 'In a poem, the color of the boat in which the owl & the pussycat went to sea'

Answer: pea green


Question: 'In April 1961 a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles landed here in Cuba'

Answer: the Bay of Pigs


Question: 'It was the Sioux writer Vine Deloria, Jr. who wrote this man "died for your sins"'

Answer: Custer


Question: 'During this growth process a baby may be given a wet washcloth to gnaw on'

Answer: teething


Question: 'Japan's westernmost main island, it's second to Honshu in population'

Answer: Kyushu


Question: '"Catfish"'

Answer: Jim Hunter


Question: 'Some tubers in the Andes have meat this color that's also featured on a heart-shaped U.S. medal'

Answer: purple


Question: 'As these smell like male pigs, sows are used in the forests of France to root them out'

Answer: truffles


Question: 'This Oglala Sioux chief is the subject of what will be when it's done, the world's largest sculpture'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'As opposed to the woofer, this speaker reproduces the high-pitch sounds'

Answer: tweeter


Question: 'Somewhat appropriately, this country has the largest Persian Gulf coastline'

Answer: Iran


Question: '"Doctor K"'

Answer: Dwight Gooden


Question: 'This reddish-brown color shares its name with a region in southeast France known for red wines'

Answer: Burgundy


Question: 'In the 2nd century Galen used pigs to show veins carried blood, not this as many believed'

Answer: air


Question: 'Tetons call themselves Lakota; Yankton & Yanktonai use Nakota; & the Santee use this name'

Answer: Dakota


Question: 'A civil one might design dams'

Answer: engineer


Question: 'Peking means "northern capital" & this Yangtze River city's name means "southern capital"'

Answer: Nanking


Question: '"The Rocket"'

Answer: Roger Clemens


Question: 'This 1 of the 8 colors in original Crayola boxes is also the color of the rainbow with the shortest wavelength'

Answer: violet


Question: 'In 1916 Clarence Saunders founded this grocery chain in Memphis'

Answer: Piggly Wiggly


Question: 'The last armed conflict of the Sioux Wars was at this creek in 1890'

Answer: Wounded Knee


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California)  The shape of the Oval Office may go back to this type of 18th century formal reception, where guests formed a circle'

Answer: levee


Question: 'This molten volcanic rock was given its name by those who lived around Mount Vesuvius'

Answer: lava


Question: 'Kevin Costner played Civil War vet Lt. John Dunbar in this film'

Answer: Dances with Wolves


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee)  In this month in 1986, FedEx first handled over one million packages in a single night'

Answer: December


Question: 'One of Louis Malle's first jobs in filmmaking was an assistant to this marine explorer'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'If Oscar- & Tony-winning actress Ruehl married "XXX" star Vin, she'd have this souped-up name'

Answer: Mercedes Diesel


Question: 'The oxbow type of this is formed when a meander or stream is cut off from the principal channel'

Answer: lake


Question: 'Forest Whitaker played bop legend Charlie Parker in this 1988 biopic'

Answer: Bird


Question: '2-word name for solid carbon dioxide, useful for shipping perishables like fish'

Answer: dry ice


Question: 'Colette once wrote a libretto for this "Bolero" composer'

Answer: (Maurice) Ravel


Question: 'President Tran Duc Luong'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Actress Driver opens up her "Circle of Friends" to include "Adaptation" actor Chris to drive away as...'

Answer: Minnie Cooper


Question: 'A sonar transducer is used by hydrographers to obtain knowledge about earthquake activity here'

Answer: under the ocean


Question: 'Tatum O'Neal is a girl pitching ace on a boys' Little League team in this 1976 comedy'

Answer: The Bad News Bears


Question: '(Sarah)  Every FedEx package is looked over by at least 12 of these'

Answer: (laser) scanners


Question: 'This explorer established the trading post that became the city of Quebec'

Answer: Samuel de Champlain


Question: 'President Pervez Musharraf'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'If actress Givens wed Confederate general John, she'd make out like a bandit with this name'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'This "old" scientist's 37-volume "Historia Naturalis" covered all Roman knowledge of rocks & minerals'

Answer: Pliny the Elder


Question: 'War is fabricated to cover up a presidential sex scandal in this 1997 film starring Dustin Hoffman & Robert De Niro'

Answer: Wag the Dog


Question: 'Also done by hunters, it's what you do to follow the progress of a package you sent'

Answer: tracking


Question: 'Not fisherman, but this was the trade of Nicolas Poussin'

Answer: artist