Question: 'These married sitcom actors were saddled with the title object in 1954's "The Long, Long Trailer"'

Answer: Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz


Question: 'One of Oprah's picks for 2000 was "Daughter of Fortune" by this Chilean author'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst)  Of Stacey, Sonja or Ramona, the very first person voted off the very first "Survivor"'

Answer: Sonja


Question: 'Chico asks Groucho not to wake Harpo because "he's got" this ailment -- "he's trying to sleep it off"'

Answer: insomnia


Question: 'Fictional detective:<br />6 Warshawski'

Answer: V.I.


Question: 'This first lady earned a bachelor's degree in education from Southern Methodist University'

Answer: Laura Bush


Question: 'Portrayed by Mel Gibson, he's Murtaugh's trailer-dwelling partner in "Lethal Weapon"'

Answer: Martin Riggs


Question: '"Icy Sparks" tells of a Kentucky girl whose croaks, tics & sudden outbursts are due to this disorder'

Answer: Tourette\'s syndrome


Question: '(Alex: Ah, here's Sofia at the United Nations)  In an historic address here in 1988, this man vowed to reduce Soviet military troops & to improve human rights in his country'

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev


Question: 'This eating disorder that leads to binging is sometimes seen in cases of anorexia'

Answer: bulimia


Question: 'Rapper:<br />1100 Hammer'

Answer: MC


Question: 'She was our fourth president's first lady'

Answer: Dolley Madison


Question: 'In this film Kevin Costner plays Roy McAvoy, a golf pro reduced to trailer life'

Answer: Tin Cup


Question: 'A bruised & battered wife escapes an abusive marriage in this "colorful" novel by Anna Quindlen'

Answer: "Black and Blue"


Question: 'Mike Jones, whose tackle saved the Super Bowl for this team in 2000, was released in 2001'

Answer: St. Louis Rams


Question: 'This impairment of mental function can be "senile" or can be a symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease'

Answer: dementia


Question: 'Publisher: <br />600 Comics'

Answer: DC


Question: 'The product sold here was in the nickname of this first lady'

Answer: "Lemonade Lucy" Hayes


Question: 'Jodie Foster won an Oscar for playing waitress & trailer resident Sarah Tobias in this film'

Answer: The Accused


Question: 'Natalie Portman starred in the film version of this book in which a pregnant girl takes up residence in a Wal-Mart'

Answer: Where the Heart is


Question: 'In 1996 Kansas lieutenant governor Sheila Frahm filled this man's Senate seat when he resigned'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'From the Greek for "speechless", it's the loss or ability to use or comprehend language'

Answer: aphasia


Question: 'Honda:<br />Accord 60'

Answer: LX


Question: 'This man born in 1783 is considered the national hero of 5 different countries'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: 'His family became Christian, but this Viking explorer nicknamed "the Red" remained a pagan'

Answer: Erik the Red


Question: 'Don't be alarmed if your lasagne verde is this color; it's supposed to be'

Answer: green


Question: 'In July 1992, Patty Sheehan beat Juli Inkster in an 18-hole playoff to win this sport's U.S. Women's Open'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Givenchy costumed this actress for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" & even created a perfume for her'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'Christian Slater played Billy Mowcher in the 1981 musical "Copperfield", based on this novel'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'This state produces over 30% of the nation's cheese'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'She sidestepped her other suitors & married her own choice, Ferdinand of Aragon, in 1469'

Answer: Queen Isabella


Question: 'Traditionally, prosciutto is served as a first course with figs or this fruit'

Answer: melon


Question: 'Perry Ellis began his career as a buyer for Miller & Rhoads department store in this Virginia capital'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'Mildred Dunnock was perhaps best known for creating the role of Linda Loman in this play'

Answer: Death of a Salesman


Question: 'Hawaii's state seal features a shield flanked by the goddess of liberty & this king'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'This small Iberian country became independent in 1143, so it's one of the oldest nations in Europe'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'The Italian word for spring, it describes pasta dishes made with fresh vegetables'

Answer: primavera


Question: 'Before he became a couturier, Mainbocher edited the Paris edition of this U.S. fashion magazine'

Answer: Vogue


Question: 'Carol Baker's daughter, Blanche Baker, played this Nabokov nymphet in a 1981 play by Edward Albee'

Answer: Lolita


Question: 'This "Cornhusker" State's name comes from an Indian word for "flat water", a reference to the Platte River'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'The name of this woman who was executed at Vincennes in 1917 became a synonym for a seductive spy'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'In Italy these shellfish found in pasta sauces are known as vongole'

Answer: clams


Question: 'She was 86 when the Broadway musical about her premiered in 1969'

Answer: Coco Chanel


Question: 'Bruce Dern & Rip Torn were in the original cast of this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth"'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'This "Down East" state is bordered by only 1 state & 2 provinces'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'This Scottish queen's second husband, Lord Darnley, was also her first cousin'

Answer: Mary (Queen of Scots)


Question: 'Popular in Northern Italy, it's usually a cornmeal mush, but some people make it with chestnut meal'

Answer: polenta


Question: 'Donna Karan was once an associate designer to this woman whose last name also began with the letter K'

Answer: Anne Klein


Question: 'Tyne Daly & Angela Lansbury won Tonys for playing Mama Rose in this musical, but Ethel Merman didn't'

Answer: Gypsy


Question: 'The pecan is the state nut not of Georgia, but of this neighbor to the west'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Andres Celsius & Gabriel Fahrenheit invented types of these that use different scales'

Answer: thermometers


Question: '"Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect and" do this, "so no one will suspect I'm afraid"'

Answer: "Whistle A Happy Tune"


Question: 'Carl Sagan & his "Cosmos" series were credited with creating a renewed interest in this hobby'

Answer: astronomy


Question: 'She was in her teens when she made her first film with Montgomery Clift, "A Place in the Sun"'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'Do this "and let me play among the stars; let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars"'

Answer: "Fly Me To The Moon"


Question: 'For hobbyists who explore these, the National Speleological Soc. recommends having a hard hat & lights'

Answer: caves


Question: 'Charley Grapewin who played Grandpa Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" played Uncle Henry in this 1939 classic'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: '"And its torment won't be through till you let me spend my life making love to you" then'

Answer: "Night And Day"


Question: 'Someone who dabbles in deltiology collects & studies these "greetings from" around the world'

Answer: postcards


Question: 'Appropriately, she sang "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" in the 1943 musical "The Gang's All Here"'

Answer: Carmen Miranda


Question: 'It's the question asked in "I Got Rhythm"'

Answer: Who could ask for anything more?


Question: 'In 1932 Cary Grant played Lt. Pinkerton in a non-musical film based on this Puccini opera'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: '"The night is young, the skies are clear, and if you want to go walking, dear, it's" this, "it's" this, "it's" this'

Answer: It\'s delightful, it\'s delicious, it\'s delovely


Question: 'The maxixe, a ballroom dance, evolved in this largest South American country in the 1870s'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'This term for a coin collector comes from a Greek word meaning "what is sanctioned by law"'

Answer: numismatist


Question: 'Laurence Olivier wanted Vivian Leigh to play his wife in "Rebecca", but this actress got the job'

Answer: Joan Fontaine


Question: 'For his licentious behavior, monk Grigori Yefimovich Novykh earned this nickname meaning "debauched one"'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: 'He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young"'

Answer: A.A. Milne


Question: 'One of the world's largest equine museums is the Kentucky Derby Museum in this city'

Answer: Louisville


Question: 'In Paris this American musical is known as "La Petite Boutique Des Horreurs"'

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors


Question: 'Edmund Randolph's Virginia Plan was used as the basis for this important American document of 1787'

Answer: The Constitution


Question: 'Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear'

Answer: Flippers/fins


Question: 'The largest of this university's 13 campuses are in Madison & Milwaukee'

Answer: University of Wisconsin


Question: 'He began his "Jabberwocky" poem, " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..."'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'This singing movie cowboy's Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles has memorabilia from his films'

Answer: Gene Autry


Question: 'Treat Williams, Gary Sandy & Jim Belushi have all played the pirate king in this operetta'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'Some of Wells Fargo's stagecoaches came from a factory in this New Hampshire capital'

Answer: Concord


Question: 'In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick'

Answer: Sidestroke


Question: 'Pistachio is a shade of this color'

Answer: Green


Question: 'Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'This city's art museum in Forest Park was the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1904 World's Fair'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'Football star Joe Namath played baseball star Joe Hardy in a 1981 production of this musical'

Answer: Damn Yankees


Question: 'After the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp lost his job as this city's marshall'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool'

Answer: Backstroke


Question: 'The gastrocnemius is the most prominent of the 7 muscles making up this back part of the lower leg'

Answer: Calf


Question: 'Richard Adams originally told this rabbit tale to amuse his young daughters'

Answer: Watership Down


Question: 'Displays at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Ala. chronicle such pilots as this "Red Baron"'

Answer: Manfred von Richthofen


Question: 'Jack Cassidy & Carol Lawrence appeared in "Shangri-La", a 1956 musical based on this famous novel'

Answer: Lost Horizon


Question: 'In 1900 the Taft Commission supervised the transfer of military to civil govt. in these Pacific islands'

Answer: Philippines


Question: 'Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'This creator of Ichabod Crane passed the bar exam in 1806 but never practiced much law'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996'

Answer: P.L. Travers


Question: 'The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has an exhibit on this city's 1955 bus boycott'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'This playwright adapted the 1993 musical "The Goodbye Girl" from his own screenplay of the 1977 film'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'The first major engagement for U.S. troops in this 20th century war was the Battle of Belleau Wood'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used'

Answer: Individual medley


Question: 'This city's Newberry Library, a top research library, is located at Dearborn & Oak'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This Reform Party candidate sued to join the presidential debates & lost'

Answer: H. Ross Perot


Question: 'Known for its stampede, this largest Alberta city is called Canada's oil & gas capital'

Answer: Calgary


Question: 'Jonathan Frid of TV's "Dark Shadows" starred in this "Platoon" director's first film, "Seizure", in 1974'

Answer: Oliver Stone


Question: 'While Stradivari was making violins, this author was fiddling with "Robinson Crusoe"'

Answer: Daniel Defoe


Question: 'Like Noah's family in the Bible, the Greeks Deucalion & his wife were the only ones to survive this'

Answer: Flood


Question: 'As a verb, the word skirl means to play this Highland instrument'

Answer: Bagpipes


Question: 'This cable network's '96 election coverage featured Tabitha Soren & the "Choose Or Lose" bus'

Answer: MTV


Question: 'General Motors Place is the home of this city's Canucks hockey team'

Answer: Vancouver


Question: 'As a child, this "Big" director performed with her mother's tap dance troupe on the "Original Amateur Hour"'

Answer: Penny Marshall


Question: 'In 1547 Hernan Cortes died & this Medici became queen of France'

Answer: Catherine


Question: '5 rivers flow through Hades:  Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon & this one'

Answer: Styx


Question: 'From the Latin word for "four", it's a poem or stanza of 4 lines'

Answer: Quatrain


Question: 'At a Washington fundraiser, this Republican congressman sang his hit "The Beat Goes On"'

Answer: Sonny Bono


Question: 'In North America this city's stock exchange is second in size only to the New York Stock Exchange'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'He earned his first Oscar nomination for his first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"'

Answer: Mike Nichols


Question: 'While Charles Babbage was trying to build a computer in the 1820s, this Scot invented what would be a "Mac"'

Answer: Charles McIntosh


Question: 'After killing the giant Pallas, this goddess flayed him & used his skin as armor'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'This word can mean a drop downward, or one's lineage'

Answer: Descent


Question: 'High school teacher Victor Morales challenged this incumbent Texas senator'

Answer: Phil Gramm


Question: 'Sites of interest in this city include the Old Market Square & the Manitoba legislative building'

Answer: Winnipeg


Question: 'This playwright directed the 1990 film adaptation of his own play "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"'

Answer: Tom Stoppard


Question: 'While Abelard was wooing Heloise in Europe, this Rubaiyat author was writing in the Mideast'

Answer: Omar Khayyam


Question: 'This god of the west wind fathered 2 immortal horses:  Xanthus & Balius'

Answer: Zephyr


Question: 'This alternate name for a werewolf is from the Greek for "wolf man"'

Answer: Lycanthrope


Question: 'The Democratic Convention's keynote address was given by Evan Bayh, the governor of this state'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'Province House, Canada's oldest legislative building, was completed in 1818 in this Nova Scotia city'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'This Italian, father of actress Isabella, directed the acclaimed Neorealist film "Open City"'

Answer: Roberto Rossellini


Question: 'While Gutenberg was setting his type, a duke in this family was setting his sights on Milan'

Answer: Sforza


Question: 'Calliope, one of the Muses, was the mother of this masterful lyre player'

Answer: Orpheus


Question: 'This synonym for clumsy is from an old Norse word meaning "turned the wrong way"'

Answer: Awkward


Question: 'The first line of dialogue in this 1930 novel is spoken to secretary Effie Perine, "Yes, sweetheart?"'

Answer: The Maltese Falcon


Question: 'After spending 4 days at the Beijing Olympics, he said the "highlight was getting my picture taken with the teams"'

Answer: George W. Bush


Question: '"I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine... fish are friends, not food"'

Answer: Finding Nemo


Question: 'Floods ravaged the Midwest in 1993 as the confluence of the Missouri & this river moved 19 miles upstream'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'The Toyota Tundra is one of these vehicles with 2 main sections, a cab & a bed'

Answer: a pickup truck


Question: 'In "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, teenaged Isabella Swan falls for a romantic one of these blood-suckers'

Answer: a vampire


Question: 'Bob lacked the brushes to paint the door this color'

Answer: black (Bob lacked)


Question: 'On January 4, 2007, in the House of Reps., she said, "I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship"'

Answer: Nancy Pelosi


Question:
'"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a spider-pig does /
Can he swing /
From a web? /
No, he can't /
He's a pig"'

Answer: The Simpsons Movie


Question: 'Chechnya, a breakaway republic, was overrun by the army of this country in 1994'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'A type of this conveyance on runners bears the name of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen'

Answer: a sled


Question: '"The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Let's all agree no one will stop us from saving the Earth's environment'

Answer: green (agree no)


Question: 'In May 2008 this city's mayor Ray Nagin told the citizens, "We are reinventing ourselves in recovery"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: '"How ironic, Tony.  Trying to rid the world of weapons you gave it its best one ever... and now I'm gonna kill you with it"'

Answer: Iron Man


Question: 'In 1995 an ultranationalist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of this country'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'If a Dutch person says to use your fiets, he doesn't mean walk but ride this, as many in the Netherlands do'

Answer: your bicycle


Question: '"Forever in" this color is Ann Brashares' third sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"'

Answer: blue


Question: '4 decades before serving in the Capitol as Senate majority leader, he served on the U.S. Capitol police force'

Answer: Harry Reid


Question: '"Belief, Dr. Jones, is a gift you have yet to receive"'

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


Question: 'In 1996 British scientists successfully cloned this type of animal & named her Dolly'

Answer: a sheep


Question: 'Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'Bringing old heirlooms to the antique store could pay off for you'

Answer: gold (Bringing old)


Question: 'Republicans Pat Roberts & Sam Brownback have been senators from this Midwest state since the mid-1990s'

Answer: Kansas


Question: '"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by"'

Answer: Back to the Future


Question: 'In 2000 Clinton became the first sitting president to visit this country since Nixon visited the troops in 1969'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'L.A.'s Starline Tours can take you past Hollywood landmarks in this, another word for a streetcar'

Answer: a trolley


Question: 'Sebastian Faulks penned the new James Bond novel "Devil May Care" for the 100th anniv. of this author's birth'

Answer: Ian Fleming


Question: 'For angels to show up, just put out some candy'

Answer: orange (for angels)


Question: 'This Scottish city may have been named for Edwin of Northumbria, a 7th c. king who built a fort there'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'This "Harry Potter" star showed off his buff bod when he took to the stage in "Equus"'

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe


Question: 'In 1988 he could've said, "You're hired!" to work at NYC's Plaza Hotel, which he bought for $390 million'

Answer: Donald Trump


Question: 'This word for desirable places like the Garden of Eden is from the Persian for "walled around"'

Answer: paradise


Question: 'He had laboratories at Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'For centuries, this Austrian city, whose name means "castle of salt", was the center of Europe's salt trade'

Answer: Salzburg


Question: 'A long-running Off-Broadway hit revolves around an "Awesome '80s" one of these high school dances'

Answer: a prom


Question: 'On Jan. 2, 2007 school was in at this TV icon's $40 million leadership academy in South Africa'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'The name of this type of singing group that performs without instrumental accompaniment is from the Italian'

Answer: a cappella


Question: 'This British university's Experimental Physics Dept. is known as the Cavendish Laboratory'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'A majority of this Italian city's population has left the islands & now lives on the mainland in Mestre'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'It's the season that precedes "Awakening" in the title of a rockin' Broadway musical about teens'

Answer: Spring


Question: 'G'day!  In 2005 this News Corp. man jazzed up his MySpace account, buying the company for $580 million'

Answer: (Rupert) Murdoch


Question: 'This dangerous river reptile's name is from the Greek for "pebble" & "worm"'

Answer: crocodile


Question: 'In 1936, Frank Malina co-founded a Caltech rocket research project; it evolved into JPL, this laboratory'

Answer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory


Question: 'This capital's stadium was rebuilt of white marble for the Olympic Games of 1896'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Lin-Manuel Miranda was in college when he began writing "In the Heights", set in Wash. Hgts. in this NYC borough'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'On Nov. 26, 2007 the foundation of this couple gave $100 million to Rotary International to eradicate polio'

Answer: Bill & Melinda Gates


Question: 'This adjective that means "behaving disobediently or mischievously" comes from the Old English for "nothing"'

Answer: naughty


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shines a flashlight through a prism and the beam is redirected onto a different wall.) The prism refraction experiment that I'm reenacting was first conducted in a laboratory by this man in 1666'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'A lake called the Inner Alster lies in the center of this, Germany's chief port'

Answer: Hamburg


Question: 'An MTV reality series searched for a new star for this musical & found it in Bailey Hanks (no law degree required)'

Answer: Legally Blonde


Question: 'His net worth was said to be $2 bil., so the $280 mil. he paid for the Dallas Mavericks was chump change!'

Answer: Mark Cuban


Question: 'From the Latin, it once meant "one living on the opposite bank of a stream from another"; now it means "opponent"'

Answer: rival


Question: 'In his Nova Scotia lab, this man created a hydrofoil as well as his many acoustic devices'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: 'This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799'

Answer: the Rosetta Stone


Question: 'The logo of this NBA team has a rowel on it'

Answer: the San Antonio Spurs


Question: 'This first lady & her husband were distant cousins; her father was Teddy Roosevelt's younger brother'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'The name of these creatures means "Round-Eyed"; they each had only one round eye'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: 'Icicle Works formed in this city more than 20 years after the Beatles'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: '8,170 Americans who served in the Korean War are still listed as MIA, which stands for this'

Answer: Missing in Action


Question: 'We cannot tell a lie:  this president made the shortest inaugural speech, only 90 seconds'

Answer: George Washington


Question:
'Joy,
broom,
pogo'

Answer: sticks


Question: 'Ding Ling, who wrote about independent, brave women, was one of this country's most popular authors'

Answer: China


Question: 'In Slavic myth, Svarozic, the god of fire, is the brother of Dazhbog, god of this heavenly body'

Answer: sun


Question: 'This group got its name by combining the names of 2 bands:  Hollywood Rose & L.A. Guns'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: 'One of the war's innovations was the use of these aircraft for observation & for evacuation of the wounded'

Answer: helicopters


Question: 'Rosie the Ribiter, one of these amimals, leaped 21' 5 3/4" at the Calaveras County Jumping Jubilee in 1986'

Answer: frog


Question:
'Pink,
cow,
Freudian'

Answer: slips


Question: 'Eva Crane became interested in apiculture when she received a swarm of these as a wedding present'

Answer: bees


Question: 'During the twilight of the gods, Odin is destined to be eaten by Fenris, one of these lupine animals'

Answer: wolf


Question: 'This Wham! singer's original name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'These medical units located near the front lines were immortalized in a movie & a TV series'

Answer: M*A*S*H units


Question: 'Harry Drake can say, "I shot" one of these "Into the air; it fell to Earth 2,047 yards & 2 inches away"'

Answer: arrow


Question:
'Blossom,
Free State,
pekoe tea'

Answer: orange


Question: 'Grace Darling & her father, the keeper of one of these, saved 9 people from drowning in an 1838 shipwreck'

Answer: lighthouse


Question: 'A July 7 festival honoring this supreme Roman goddess featured a sham fight by maidservants'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'The Proclaimers hit the U.S. charts when "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was featured in this Johnny Depp film'

Answer: Benny and Joon


Question: '131 of these highest U.S. military awards for battlefield bravery were awarded in the Korean War'

Answer: Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: 'Barber Denny Rowe did this to 1,994 men in 60 minutes, drawing blood only 4 times'

Answer: shaved them


Question:
'Book,
inch,
glow'

Answer: worms


Question: 'It was the profession of Mrs. Siddons, the subject of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' finest portraits'

Answer: actress (Sarah Siddons)


Question: 'Fearing their vengeful wrath, the Greeks called them Eumenides, which means "The Kindly Ones"'

Answer: Furies


Question: 'Bobby Brown left this group in 1986 & was replaced by Johnny Gill'

Answer: New Edition


Question: 'The amphibious invasion of this port was officially designated Operation Chromite'

Answer: Inchon


Question: 'Bill McDaniel accumulated 10,453 of these accessories; he probably got a lot of them on Father's Day'

Answer: ties


Question:
'Spoon,
dollar,
Buffalo'

Answer: bills


Question: 'James G. Birney's 1844 Liberty Party was against this practice'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'The 1991 Tony Award for best play went to Neil Simon's "Lost In" this city'

Answer: Yonkers


Question: 'This country forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Ecuador is the largest producer of this light wood whose name is Spanish for "raft"'

Answer: balsa


Question: 'This actor's brother-in-law Robert Shriver co-executive-produced his 1994 film "True Lies"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'It's the Hindu prince next up in rank from a rajah'

Answer: maharajah


Question: 'This anti-liquor party that goes back to 1869 ran Earl Dodge for president in 1992'

Answer: Prohibition Party


Question: 'It was Edward Albee's first full-length play, & his most famous'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'The Suez Canal divides the Asian & African portions of this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This wood used for baseball bats & umbrella handles shares its name with the residue left from burning it'

Answer: ash


Question: 'Elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, he was defeated for reelection but later won 4 consecutive terms'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Physical & mental exercise system promoted by Lilias Folan on PBS'

Answer: yoga


Question: 'He was the 1968 presidential candidate of the American Independent Party'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'In an absurdist play by Ionesco, the inhabitants of a small town are transformed into these animals'

Answer: rhinoceroses


Question: 'The name of this country means "Bengal Nation"'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Pulp made from the Sitka variety of this tree makes good newsprint because of its whiteness'

Answer: spruce


Question: 'He skated a victory lap at the '94 Olympics holding his baby daughter Jane, named for his late sister'

Answer: Dan Jansen


Question: 'This bluish-black bird with a yellow beak is known for its mimicry of human speech'

Answer: mynah bird


Question: 'The Progressive Party ran this former FDR vice president in 1948'

Answer: Henry Wallace


Question: 'His play "Bus Stop" was revived on Broadway in 1996'

Answer: William Inge


Question: 'In area & population, Bremen is this country's smallest state'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The bark of the paper species of this tree was once used for canoes; its wood is now used for toothpicks'

Answer: birch


Question: 'This novelist made a music video of his own song "The Madison County Waltz"; his wife played Francesca in it'

Answer: Robert James Waller


Question: 'It's a cylindrical clay oven used for baking bread & roasting meat'

Answer: tandoor


Question: 'While governor of South Carolina in 1948, he ran for president as a Dixiecrat'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: 'He described his "Miss Julie" as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature'

Answer: August Strindberg


Question: 'Skanderbeg Square in Tirane is named for this country's national hero'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'Brandy & sherry are traditionally stored in barrels made of this wood'

Answer: oak


Question: 'This little girl born March 23, 1990 is the younger sister of Princess Beatrice of York'

Answer: Eugenie


Question: 'It's clarified butter used in Indian cooking'

Answer: ghee


Question: 'In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'Hosting the Oscars, he was pursued by pilot David Letterman in an "English Patient" parody'

Answer: Billy Crystal


Question: 'People who eat this ursine mammal often marinate the meat for at least a day before cooking'

Answer: Bear


Question: 'In the 1920s Norway's parliament voted to change the name of Christiania back to this'

Answer: Oslo


Question: 'Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" continues the story of the astronaut in this singer's hit "Space Oddity"'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'The first stage of a multi-stage rocket, or an energetic supporter of a cause'

Answer: Booster


Question:
'HEAD
COLLISION
----------------------------------
It's what you want to avoid with a Mack truck'

Answer: Head-on collision


Question: 'The FDA approved a laser that could be used by dentists as long as the dentist & adult patient wear these'

Answer: Protective glasses


Question: 'This herb of the mint family may be used as a seasoning but watch out -- it'll drive your kitty wild'

Answer: Catnip


Question: 'Empress Taitu chose the name of this Ethiopian capital; it means "new flower"'

Answer: Addis Ababa


Question: 'This song covered by the Beatles says, "Deliver the letter, the sooner the better"'

Answer: "Please Mr. Postman"


Question: 'Rockets get their forward motion from this, the JP in Cal Tech's JPL'

Answer: Jet propulsion


Question:
'FRIEND JUST FRIEND
----------------------------------
It's where secrets should remain, Monica'

Answer: Just between friends


Question: 'When this Chinese leader died February 19, 1997 it was noted he hadn't been seen in public since early 1994'

Answer: Deng Hsiao-Ping


Question: 'Escoffier says these amphibians "Are not generally accepted as...first-class food by non-French people"'

Answer: Frogs


Question: 'Someone had the bright idea to name this city for a duke even before it became New Zealand's capital'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'This Van Halen tune says, "Think of all the education that I missed" & "My homework was never...like this"'

Answer: "Hot For Teacher"


Question: 'Rockets developed by William Congreve produced the "red glare" this man saw on Sept. 13-14, 1814'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question:
'WEAR
LONG
----------------------------------
You'll need a pair of these in Sudbury, Ontario in the winter'

Answer: Long underwear


Question: '39 members of this doomsday cult in California committed suicide in March'

Answer: Heaven\'s Gate


Question: 'Centuries ago this spiny mammal seen here was a popular entree'

Answer: Hedgehog


Question: 'Abuja, this country's first planned city, was built in the Chukuku Hills to replace Lagos as the capital'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'According to the lyrics, "I swear" it's the reason "I Shot The Sheriff"'

Answer: In self-defense


Question: 'NERVA was a U.S. project to develop a rocket propelled by this type of "n"ergy'

Answer: Nuclear energy


Question:
'KLAT
----------------------------------
Give me any of this, bad child, &  I'll ground you!'

Answer: Back talk


Question: 'Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972 to study this planet, was retired in 1997'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'The meat of this ruminant is called chevon; Jamaicans like to eat it curried'

Answer: Goat


Question: 'Rawalpindi was selected as this country's interim capital while Islamabad was under construction'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'In a 1983 song, this singer heard "The strangled cries of lawyers in love"'

Answer: Jackson Browne


Question: 'A rocket's thrust may be measured in units named for this man whose laws of motion explain rocketry'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question:
'SMOKE
G
----------------------------------
It's what happens to all my best ideas, and all my best cigars'

Answer: They go up in smoke


Question: 'He "Appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush"'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: 'In 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza claimed the site for this California city's Presidio'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'The "Man From Missouri"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'The Wicked Witch of the West dies when Dorothy does this to her'

Answer: Sprays her with water


Question: 'He wrote "Lonesome Traveler", "Big Sur", & "Mexico City Blues" in addition to "On The Road"'

Answer: Jack Kerouac


Question: 'Guinness reports that in one hour Al Gliniecki tied 833 cherry stems into knots with this part of his body'

Answer: Tongue


Question: 'In chapter 2 of "The Virginian", Owen Wister wrote, "When you call me that", do this'

Answer: Smile


Question: 'Dig deep & you'll find Joseph Holmes was the first director of the U.S. Bureau of these'

Answer: Mines


Question: 'The "Hero Of San Juan Hill"'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'The 3 kinds of animals fretted about in the forest, "Oh My!"'

Answer: Lions and tigers and bears


Question: 'The peninsula where the Israelites wandered for 40 years after fleeing Egypt'

Answer: Sinai


Question: 'It's a British term for molasses & a synonym for sickeningly sweet sentimentality'

Answer: Treacle


Question: 'This "Is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling"'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'He founded The Academy, one of Greece's first colleges that met regularly in a set place'

Answer: Plato


Question: '"Old Rough And Ready"'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'It's the part of the Tin Man's body that Dorothy oils first'

Answer: Mouth


Question: 'The better-known name of traveling planter John Chapman'

Answer: Johnny Appleseed


Question: 'Eartha Kitt sang in this language, in her "delight"ful 1953 pop hit "Uska Dara"'

Answer: Turkish


Question: 'In a 1971 Earth Day cartoon, this Walt Kelly character said, "We have met the enemy and he is us"'

Answer: Pogo


Question: 'She "fathered" the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart'

Answer: Mother Cabrini


Question: 'The "Hermit Author Of Palo Alto"'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'The warning on the Haunted Forest signpost says "I'd" do this "If I were you"'

Answer: Turn back


Question: 'The name for this type of heavenly body comes from the Greek for "wanderer"'

Answer: Planet


Question: 'The name of this type of freight vessel makes it sound like a hot boat for hobos'

Answer: Tramp steamer


Question: 'Hawthorne novel containing the line, "Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft"'

Answer: "The House Of The Seven Gables"


Question: 'Gertrude Robinson-Smith helped found the famous symphony festival held at this Berkshire estate'

Answer: Tanglewood


Question: '"James The Second"'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'This animal pulls the coach in the Emerald City'

Answer: Horse of a different color


Question: 'Marco Polo spent decades in Asia, but this city was his birthplace'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Tutus are often made from this fine net named for the French town that once manufactured it'

Answer: Tulle


Question: 'Cartoons from The New Yorker line the hallways of this hotel where Harold Ross conceived the magazine'

Answer: The Algonquin Hotel


Question: 'She was less than a week old when she became queen of Scotland in 1542'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary I)


Question: 'With over 2,300 stations, this format featuring artists like Alan Jackson is the USA's most popular'

Answer: Country & Western


Question: 'Defending this Texas site in 1836, Davy Crockett learned no further reinforcements  would be coming'

Answer: The Alamo


Question: 'In Biblical book titles in English, the only "song" is the "Song of" this wise king'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Preppie runs away from school; spends memorable weekend in New York; gets even more depressed'

Answer: "Catcher in the Rye"


Question: 'A person lacking coordination is this; in other words, butterfingered'

Answer: All thumbs


Question: 'Hearing bad news from the Boer War, she stated, "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat"'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'This romantic advice show hosted by Adam & Dr. Drew began on California's KROQ over 15 years ago'

Answer: Loveline


Question: 'Residents of Montserrat were ordered to evacuate in 1997 when one of these began heating up'

Answer: Volcano


Question: 'The word "bible" comes from the ancient Greek word for this'

Answer: Book


Question: 'Man loses leg; loses mind; loses battle with large cetacean'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'In this 1999 film, Billy Crystal treated Robert De Niro well'

Answer: Analyze This


Question: 'Lucius Apuleius called this Egyptian goddess the queen of heaven'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'This word dating back to the 1940s refers to a program aired at the same time on radio & TV'

Answer: Simulcast


Question: 'Philip II learned that his 1588 invasion of England had failed when only half of this fleet returned home'

Answer: Spanish Armada


Question: 'Though much of Leviticus is ritual, chapter 19 has the sweeping "Thou shalt love" this person "as thyself"'

Answer: Thy neighbor


Question: 'Achilles goes into a snit when the king steals his babe; he doesn't get over it for several hundred pages'

Answer: "The Iliad"


Question: 'Kenan & Kel got their start on this Nick show'

Answer: All That


Question: 'Boadicea led a 1st century revolt against these foreigners whose legions occupied Britain'

Answer: Romans


Question: 'Art Bell's show from Pahrump, Nevada often discusses these "objects", one of which Bell says he's seen'

Answer: UFOs


Question: 'On Sept. 1, 1939 citizens of this nation discovered their country had been invaded by the Nazis, beginning WWII'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'In the New Testament, Jesus recruited apostles on the shore of this "sea" on which he later walked'

Answer: Sea of Galilee


Question: 'Boy grows up in Dublin; argues a lot, has an epiphany; leaves'

Answer: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"


Question: 'Oh lord, he was made poet laureate of England in 1850'

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Peter III had been Russia's czar for about 6 months when this "Great" woman, his wife, grabbed the throne'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Bruce DuMont's national political talk show is called "Beyond" this Washington-area road'

Answer: The Beltway


Question: 'On January 19, 1793 this man learned the French Revolutionary Convention had voted for his execution'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'In the King James Version, it finishes the line "Blessed are the meek: for..."'

Answer: They shall inherit the Earth


Question: 'Wang Lung & O-Lan suffer through 34 chapters of war, pestilence, famine, floods, drought, disease & even locust swarms'

Answer: "The Good Earth"


Question: 'In her novel "The Hundred Secret Senses", Kwan, a Chinese mystic, can talk with the dead'

Answer: Amy Tan


Question: 'About 180,000 black soldiers served in the Union army; 23 won this highest military award'

Answer: Congressional Medal of Honor


Question: 'You can take classes in Thai-style massage at the temple compound of Wat Po in this Thai city'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'The secret art of this man is seen here:<br />(illustration of "The Cat in the Hat")'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'It's an itemized list of a firm's goods that have not yet been sold'

Answer: Inventory


Question: 'Fitzgerald attended this New Jersey university but left for the Army in 1917 without a degree'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'It can be a fake doctor or a sound Daffy might make'

Answer: Quack


Question: 'Not one person was killed in the battle for this fort, the first battle of the Civil War'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'The Chateau Laurier, seen here, is an elegant hotel near the Parliament buildings in this Canadian city'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'Part of this artist's "Water Garden in Giverny" is seen here:'

Answer: Claude Monet


Question: 'Formerly called the Cost-of-Living Index, it's abbreviated C.P.I.'

Answer: Consumer Price Index


Question: 'Fitzgerald's wife; her view of their marriage inspired her 1932 novel "Save Me the Waltz"'

Answer: Zelda


Question: 'A small cucumber preserved in vinegar'

Answer: Pickle


Question: 'In addition to his march through Georgia, he also marched through the Carolinas in 1865'

Answer: William T. Sherman


Question: 'Visitors may feed giraffes at this Kenyan capital's Langata Giraffe Center'

Answer: Nairobi


Question: 'This surrealist was buried at the Theater-Museum in Figueres, Spain that contains most of his works'

Answer: Salvador Dali


Question: 'The right of a government to take private property for public use is called this "domain"'

Answer: Eminent domain


Question: 'In 1925 Fitzgerald first met Ernest Hemingway in a bar in this European city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'It's the auto that leads the competitors at the start but doesn't compete in the race'

Answer: Pace car


Question: 'On the first day of this battle, there was heavy fighting along Seminary Ridge'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Neigh!  The world-famous Spanish Riding School isn't in Madrid but in this other world capital'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'His work, seen here, was influenced by his Jewish upbringing in Russia:<br />("The Fiddler")'

Answer: Marc Chagall


Question: 'Done by an expert, it's a formal valuation of property, or estimate of its market value'

Answer: Appraisal


Question: 'As an uncredited screenwriter, Fitzgerald contributed to this 1939 Civil War epic'

Answer: Gone With The Wind


Question: 'In mathematics it's a second-degree polynomial equation where the highest power of the unknown variable is 2'

Answer: Quadratic equation


Question: 'In May 1861 the Confederacy moved its capital to this city 100 miles south of Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Richmond, Virginia


Question: 'Skirts called sulus make fine "Suva"nirs of Suva, the capital of this Pacific island country'

Answer: Fiji


Question: 'A typical work by this painter is seen here:'

Answer: Mark Rothko


Question: 'From Latin for "beside", they're the assets a borrower "puts up" to ensure repayment'

Answer: Collateral


Question: 'In the title of a story Fitzgerald wrote for The Saturday Evening Post, "Bernice Bobs" this'

Answer: Her hair


Question: 'Guatemala's national currency was named for this bird'

Answer: Quetzal


Question: 'Its final scene includes the line "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner"'

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs


Question: 'When Linda Evans decided to leave this series, her character Krystle Carrington slipped into a coma'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'He was a congressman from 1853 to 1855, then returned to NYC & organized his "ring"'

Answer: ("Boss") Tweed


Question: 'Minimum age to be eligible to be U.S. president'

Answer: 35


Question: 'More common in women than men, these swollen & twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg'

Answer: varicose veins (spider veins accepted)


Question: 'St. Cadoc founded the monastery of Llancarfan in this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Send a fax & tell me it's short for this word'

Answer: facsimile


Question: 'In 1982 Carol Kane won an Emmy for the "Simka Returns" episode of this sitcom'

Answer: Taxi


Question: 'In 1931 Salvatore Maranzano took this Mafia title, Capo di Tutti Capi in Italian; 4 months later, it was so long, Sal'

Answer: Boss of Bosses


Question: 'Number of permanent teeth in an adult human mouth'

Answer: 32


Question: 'More than 300,000 hip fractures annually can be attributed to this porous bone disease'

Answer: osteoporosis


Question: 'English-born St. Boniface became Bishop of Mainz & is known as the Apostle of this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'A mental ability, perhaps to help one join a university teaching staff'

Answer: a faculty


Question: 'We salute you if you know the Dukes of Hazzard raced about in a souped-up Dodge Charger called this'

Answer: the General Lee


Question: 'The Kansas City political machine of Boss Tom Pendergast launched the career of this future president'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'In 1899 Smith & Wesson introduced the Model 10 gun that fires this special caliber'

Answer: .38


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew types away.)  Using a keyboard like this one may reduce the risk of a painful condition, abbreviated CTS'

Answer: carpal tunnel syndrome


Question: 'The man born Theodore Kolyshov was later known as Philip of this capital'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'A dissenting minority within a larger group'

Answer: a faction


Question: 'We saw Murphy Brown go on the air in 1988 as the star reporter for this fictitious TV newsmagazine'

Answer: FYI


Question: 'James Curley inspired the novel "The Last Hurrah" as a political boss & mayor of this city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Number of "Steps" in a Hitchcock thriller from 1935'

Answer: 39


Question: 'Caused by deposits, it affects the large joint of the big toe but can also occur in the hands & wrists'

Answer: gout


Question: 'Born in Normandy, St. Jean de Brebeuf was martyred in 1649 as a missionary in what's now this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: '7-letter term for a small & often unimportant bit of information'

Answer: a factoid


Question: 'For much of the '80s, Julie Harris played Lilimae Clements, Valene's mom on this nighttime soap'

Answer: Knots Landing


Question: 'Named for founder Carlo, it's the crime family of which John Gotti was boss'

Answer: Gambino


Question: 'A standard piano has 52 white keys & this many black ones'

Answer: 36


Question: 'Bursitis of the shoulder is often treated with injections of this hormone, from the Latin for "bark"'

Answer: cortizone


Question: 'Augustine of Canterbury died around 605; William of this other archbishopric, 550 years later'

Answer: York


Question: 'From the Latin for "do everything", it's somebody employed to do a variety of jobs for someone else'

Answer: a factotum


Question: 'In 1919 the impish Marcel Duchamp repainted this Leonardo work & added a mustache & goatee'

Answer: the Mona Lisa


Question: 'It's the 1972 film with the timeless line "Leave the gun.  Take the cannoli"'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: 'The Nov. 1, 1984 obituary for this woman noted that she "presided over the world's most populous democracy"'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: '1901:<br />Baskerville Hall'

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle


Question: 'A female horse under the age of 4, or a lively lass'

Answer: a filly


Question: 'A specialist in the science of life; on "Seinfeld", George claimed to be a marine one'

Answer: biologist


Question: 'Yves Klein found this heavenly color a symbol of pure spirit & made works that were just a field of it'

Answer: blue


Question: 'This 1968 film informed us, "Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer"'

Answer: The Producers


Question: 'His 1870 obit noted his 1861 resignation from the army & that he "immediately betook himself to Richmond"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: '1937:<br />Middle-earth'

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien


Question: 'Nickname of Mr. Carmichael who wrote "Georgia On My Mind" & "Two Sleepy People"'

Answer: Hoagy


Question: 'Shining brightly, or having great intelligence'

Answer: brilliant


Question: 'The painting seen here from 1912 isn't by Picasso, so it must be by him'

Answer: Braque


Question: 'This 1980 pic:<br />"I did join the Army, but I joined a different army.  I joined the one with the condos & the private rooms"'

Answer: Private Benjamin


Question: 'Part of this Egyptian's 1981 obit included, "...he was willing to ignore past Arab-Israeli hatreds"'

Answer: Sadat


Question: '1949:<br />Oceania'

Answer: Orwell


Question: 'The tagline for this Brad Pitt movie based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel is "Mischief, mayhem, soap"'

Answer: Fight Club


Question: 'Lincoln famously compared these 2 items, saying one was "stronger than" the other'

Answer: ballot & bullet


Question: 'For works using 3-dimensional colored materials, Archipenko combined the name of this art form with painting'

Answer: sculpture


Question: '"I'll be taking these Huggies & whatever cash you got" is from this 1987 pic'

Answer: Raising Arizona


Question: 'In a 1936 obit, a pupil said of her, "I pray for strength to endure the silent dark until she smiles upon me again"'

Answer: Anne Sullivan


Question: '1925:<br />East Egg'

Answer: Fitzgerald


Question: 'Short term for a rotating device that keeps orientation regardless of the movement of its base'

Answer: a gyro


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off her skills as a movie producer.)  This film technique demonstrated here can be used to create a dramatic effect'

Answer: backlight (backlighting accepted)


Question: 'Long after his Fauvist days, he designed a chapel at Vence, from stained glass down to the vestments'

Answer: Matisse


Question: 'From 1978:<br />"...Nothing is over until we decide it is!  Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?...  No!"'

Answer: National Lampoon\'s Animal House


Question: 'A 1950 obit of this female poet said, "Greenwich Village & Vassar plus a gypsy childhood on the rocky coast of Maine"'

Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay


Question: '1920:<br />Gopher Prairie'

Answer: Sinclair Lewis


Question: 'One chapter of this Dumas book is entitled "The Secret Cave"; another is "The Pardon"'

Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo


Question: 'From the Latin for "waging war", it means aggressively hostile'

Answer: belligerent


Question: 'In November 2005 leaders of Spain & France joined in celebrating the 50th anniversary of this country's independence'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'The SO in SONAR stands for this word'

Answer: Sound


Question: 'Nelson A. Rockefeller'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'This revolutionary seen here had the last name Ulyanov at birth'

Answer: Vladimir Lenin


Question: 'Strawberries will keep you from being a scurvy dog; they're higher in this vitamin than oranges'

Answer: C


Question: 'Larry Harmon began playing this famous clown in the 1940s in public appearances for Capitol Records'

Answer: Bozo the Clown


Question: 'On TV Richard Dawson had a "Family" one'

Answer: Feud


Question: 'This space station turned 10 in February 1996'

Answer: Mir


Question: 'Hubert H. Humphrey'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Born in 1893, life was a "party" for this revolutionary seen here'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'This state leads the U.S. in strawberry production & holds an annual festival in Oxnard'

Answer: California


Question: 'In a classic "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode, this clown bites the dust when he's crushed by an elephant'

Answer: Chuckles


Question: 'An endorsement allowing entry into a country, or a card used to charge a bundle while you're there'

Answer: Visa


Question: 'In 1882 this inventor opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Hannibal Hamlin'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'This inspirational revolutionary-general was an uneducated Mexican peasant of Indian blood'

Answer: Emiliano Zapata


Question: 'Strawberries have their very own variety of this tiny pest also called a plant louse'

Answer: Aphid


Question: 'Tonio, a misshapen clown, delivers the prologue in this Leoncavallo opera'

Answer: "I Pagliacci"


Question: 'A summoning gesture, this 4-letter word precedes "and call"'

Answer: Beck


Question: 'In a car's steering system, it's the geared wheel that moves the rack'

Answer: Pinion


Question: 'Calvin Coolidge'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'This man seen here led a revolution in his country but lost the 1990 & 1996 presidential elections'

Answer: Daniel Ortega (of Nicaragua)


Question: 'A dessert of liqueur-soaked strawberries & whipped cream is named for this tsar-spangled family'

Answer: Romanovs


Question: 'Judy Collins hit the pop charts with this song in 1975 & again in 1977'

Answer: "Send In The Clowns"


Question: 'It can mean a streetcar or a cable car'

Answer: Tram


Question: 'To produce this metal using the Bayer Process, you begin with caustic soda & bauxite'

Answer: Aluminum


Question: 'Schuyler Colfax'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Known as "The Hero of Two Worlds", this revolutionary seen here led military campaigns in Brazil & Italy'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'They're fraises des bois to the french, smultron to Ingmar Bergman & a delicacy to all'

Answer: Wild strawberries


Question: 'This "Born Yesterday" star co-wrote the title tune for the 1965 film "A Thousand Clowns"'

Answer: Judy Holliday


Question: 'The 15th day of May, July or October, as well as March'

Answer: Ides


Question: 'Sailing through a strait off Australia in 1798, George Bass & Matthew Flinders proved this was an island'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: 'Michelle Pfeiffer played Stephanie Zinone, one of the Pink Ladies, in this 1982 sequel'

Answer: "Grease 2"


Question: 'It's the sacred church covered by the over-400-foot-high dome seen here'

Answer: St. Peter\'s Basilica


Question: 'A crow tells this "Wizard of Oz" character "Any crow of sense could see that you are only stuffed"'

Answer: The Scarecrow


Question: 'FDR could tell you phobophobia is fear of this itself'

Answer: Fear


Question: 'This English newspaper's Literary Supplement carried Virginia's reviews for over 30 years'

Answer: The London Times


Question: 'This poet joined forces with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish "Lyrical Ballads"'

Answer: William Wordsworth


Question: 'John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this 1983 movie starring Michael Keaton as a stay-at-home dad'

Answer: "Mr. Mom"


Question: 'Don't throw stones at this California cathedral seen here'

Answer: The Crystal Cathedral


Question: 'In "Descent of Man" he states "The nightingale and crow have vocal organs similarly constructed"'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: 'Keep these animals away from me, senor, because I suffer from gatophobia'

Answer: Cats


Question: 'Virginia was a pal of this U.S.-born poet & in 1923 her press published his "Waste Land"'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'He captured Alexandria in 1798 & held it until 1801'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'He's no one-trick pony:  he wrote the screenplay & score & starred in "One-Trick Pony"'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'You'll find gateways, like the one seen here, at sacred sites of this religion'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'Appropriate Aristophanes play in which Pithetaerus says "To think that I should trust to this crow!"'

Answer: "The Birds"


Question: 'I'd hate to have philophobia because it's fear of this'

Answer: Love


Question: 'This Redgrave sister who shares her name with Virginia's sister played Virginia's "Mrs. Dalloway" on film'

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave


Question: 'In Thomas Malthus' "Essay on the Principle of" this, he links it with food supply'

Answer: Population


Question: 'John Cusack was devoted to kickboxing & Ione Skye in this 1989 film'

Answer: "Say Anything"


Question: 'The Temple of Heaven, seen here, can be found in this city'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'In the book "New Hampshire" this poet wrote of a crow that "shook down on me the dust of snow"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Good thing grandma's driving because I have tachophobia, which is fear of this'

Answer: Speed


Question: 'Woolf's "Flush" is a whimsical memoir by this "Sonnets From The Portuguese" author's dog'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'In a 1798 tract on cowpox he introduced the term "vaccine"'

Answer: Edward Jenner


Question: 'Mariel Hemingway was a pentathlete who had a lesbian affair in this 1982 film'

Answer: "Personal Best"


Question: 'Seen here, this sacred site began as a Christian church in A.D. 537, was later a mosque & is now a museum'

Answer: Hagia Sophia


Question: 'His 14th C. poem "The Parliament of Fowls" includes "The raven wys, the crowe with vois of care"'

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer


Question: 'It's no small matter that I have megalophobia, fear of this'

Answer: Big/large things


Question: 'He/she is the sex-changing hero/heroine of a 1928 Woolf novel'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'In 1998 the govt. of Ontario was forced to pay them $2.8 million for exploiting them decades ago'

Answer: the Dionne Quintuplets


Question: 'Group name of the Vegas entertainers seen here doing their thing in the '60s'

Answer: the Rat Pack


Question: 'In the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon "Birdy and the Beast", it was the birdy'

Answer: Tweety


Question: 'On June 5, 1968 a disgruntled Palestinian immigrant shot him at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel'

Answer: Robert Kennedy


Question: 'A succulent can be any plant with fleshy, thick tissues adapted to store this'

Answer: water


Question: 'Chester Nimitz'

Answer: the Navy


Question: 'A surgeon might be tempted to remove this collection of supplementary material at the end of a book'

Answer: appendix


Question: 'The Las Vegas area was a frequent venue for these post-World War II events conducted by the U.S. government'

Answer: atomic bomb tests


Question: 'Zoinks!  This TV cartoon dog celebrated his 35th anniversary in 2004 (that's his 245th in dog years)'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Of his horse, this general lamented, "Traveller, my only companion, I may say my only pleasure"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'The aye-aye, a primate, was once classified in this order due to its sloping incisors & incessant gnawing'

Answer: a rodent


Question: 'World War I flying ace Frank Luke'

Answer: the Army


Question: 'Meaning artificial or fake, it can precede naif or pas'

Answer: faux


Question: 'Bugsy Siegel opened this pleasure palace seen here on the Strip in 1946, long before it became a Hilton'

Answer: the Flamingo


Question: 'Jean Vander Pyl was the voice of Rosie the Robot maid on this futuristic cartoon series'

Answer: The Jetsons


Question: 'In 1911 in recognition of his Arctic exploration, Congress made him a rear admiral'

Answer: Peary


Question: 'Ants belong to the insect order Hymenoptera, which means "membrane" this'

Answer: wings


Question: 'John Glenn'

Answer: the Marines


Question: 'It's the outer layer of the cerebrum largely responsible for higher nervous function'

Answer: the cortex


Question: 'Here's a 1950s shot of this downtown main drag named for an explorer who once visited the area'

Answer: Fremont Street


Question: 'Originally, Nickelodeon aired episodes of this Wallaby's "Modern Life"'

Answer: Rocko


Question: 'Brahms had some unfinished business with this composer's wife Clara; he was in love with her'

Answer: (Robert) Schumann


Question: 'Much of this cold, treeless plain in the Arctic is covered by a thick growth of lichens'

Answer: the Tundra


Question: 'Roger Staubach'

Answer: the Navy


Question: 'Province House in this provincial capital is Canada's oldest Parliament building'

Answer: Halifax, Nova Scotia


Question: 'Vegas began in 1905 when a railroad owned by this man, for whom Vegas' county is named, sold off land'

Answer: William Clark


Question: '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-04_J_17.mp3">Hey, mama!  This smooth-talkin

Answer: Johnny Bravo


Question: 'This author is most famous for creating Conan, the warrior barbarian from Cimmeria'

Answer: Robert Howard


Question: 'The yucca species of this insect lays its eggs in the seed-producing organs of the yucca plant'

Answer: moth


Question: 'Comedian Drew Carey'

Answer: the Marines


Question: 'John Updike used this word meaning "brought back" in the title of a 1971 novel'

Answer: redux


Question: 'This disease is the most common cause of dementia & severe memory loss in people over 65'

Answer: Alzheimer\'s


Question:
'"Backdraft",
"Ransom",
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"'

Answer: (Ron) Howard


Question: 'In Len Deighton's "SS-GB", the Nazis have occupied England & sent this leader before a firing squad'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'This Himalayan kingdom's Ngultrum currency features 2 dragons facing each other'

Answer: Bhutan


Question: 'On January 6, 2004 Apple announced that more than 2 million of these had been sold since their introduction'

Answer: iPod


Question: 'In the 1930s Allen True designed the one on Wyoming's license plates'

Answer: the bucking bronco


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a piece of gross anatomy in the Body Worlds exhibit at the California Science Center.)  The arteries sub-divide into a network of aterials in these organs that filter the waste from the blood'

Answer: kidneys


Question:
'"A League of Their Own",
"Renaissance Man",
"Riding in Cars with Boys"'

Answer: Penny Marshall


Question: 'This German field marshall turns the tide against the Allies in the novel "Fox on the Rhine"'

Answer: Rommel


Question: 'It's retained closer ties to Russia than any other former Soviet Republic'

Answer: Belarus


Question: 'Joseph Pulitzer game $2 million to this college in part to establish a school of journalism'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Downcast English schoolboys were once told to keep a stiff upper lip & jolly well do this, meaning be cheerful'

Answer: buck up


Question: 'Snoring can be a sign of this disorder in which there's a temporary stopping of breathing'

Answer: sleep apnea


Question:
'"You've Got Mail",
"Michael",
"Sleepless in Seattle"'

Answer: Nora Ephron


Question: 'In his 2004 novel "The Plot Against America", Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh beats FDR in 1940'

Answer: (Philip) Roth


Question: 'It's surrounded on 3 sides by Malaysia'

Answer: Brunei


Question: 'The name of this North African capital city of 2 million comes from the Arabic "al-jaza'ir" or "the island"'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'Daffy Duck's "Duck Dodgers" character is a parody of him'

Answer: Buck Rogers


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew wanders about in a medical lab at the University of Pittsburgh.)  I'm at the University of Pittsburgh where Jonas Salk developed his polio vaccine using the controversial de-activated virus method usually called this'

Answer: the killed-virus method


Question:
'"The Untouchables",
"Body Double",
"The Bonfire of the Vanities"'

Answer: Brian De Palma


Question: 'The Nazis & Japanese occupy 1962 America in Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in " this place'

Answer: the High Castle


Question: 'It takes its name from a people of ancient Gaul & is officially a constitutional kngdom'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'In 1948 more than 2 million tons of food, fuel & other supplies were airlifted into this city'

Answer: West Berlin


Question: 'Phrase meaning to go against the established order, or a Quizno's dollar-off promotion'

Answer: buck the system


Question: 'Greek for "speechlessness", & often caused by a stroke, it's the loss of the ability to speak & understand words'

Answer: aphasia


Question: '"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas",<br />"Twelve Monkeys"'

Answer: Terry Gilliam


Question: 'In this Robert Harris book, the Nazis won WWII & JFK's dad, Joseph, is U.S. President'

Answer: Fatherland


Question: 'Its Altiplano region was home to the great Tihuanaco empire'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'From the Greek for "most recent", this epoch began about 2 million years ago & saw the 1st appearance of humans'

Answer: the Pleistocene


Question: 'Containing Doylestown & Quakertown, it's home to 600,000 Pennsylvanians'

Answer: Bucks County


Question: 'This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'This NYC landmark that opened May 1, 1931, in the depths of the Depression, cost a reported $41,000,000'

Answer: Empire State Building


Question: 'By definition, this type of "cook" specializes in food that has to be prepared quickly'

Answer: Short order cook


Question: 'The driving force in a free market is supply & this'

Answer: Demand


Question: 'Steve Young'

Answer: San Francisco 49ers


Question: 'Genesis 4:2 says he "was a keeper of sheep"'

Answer: Abel


Question: 'World Book recommends that when you open with "Dear Sir", you close this way, whether you mean it or not'

Answer: Sincerely


Question: 'Last name of the "Ma" killed in a gun battle with the police & FBI January 16, 1935'

Answer: Ma Barker


Question: 'Usual term for the pianist at a solo vocal recital'

Answer: Accompanist


Question: 'Turn-of-the-century businessmen like Vanderbilt & Rockefeller were known as "robber" these'

Answer: Barons


Question: 'Brett Favre'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'The name of this first great patriarch of Israel means "father of a multitude"'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'In a business lettet, this punctuation mark often replaces a comma after the salutation'

Answer: Colon


Question: 'It's the "U" in HUAC, a committee formed in 1938'

Answer: Unamerican


Question: 'The April week & day honoring these workers were first sponsored by Dictaphone'

Answer: Secretaries


Question: 'In this system, goods are traded for other goods; money isn't involved'

Answer: Barter


Question: 'Dan Marino'

Answer: Miami Dolphins


Question: '"The Lord answered" this persecuted man from Uz "out of the whirlwind"'

Answer: Job


Question: '4-letter term for the part of a letter highlighted here:<br />(in the middle)'

Answer: Body


Question: 'He said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington, but I'm a kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana"'

Answer: Huey Long


Question: 'Term for one who agrees to perform a task; a "general" one puts up buildings'

Answer: Contractor


Question: 'An exploratory oil well, or a strike called in violation of a contract'

Answer: Wildcat


Question: 'Doug Flutie'

Answer: Buffalo Bills


Question: 'This young lyre player became King Saul's armor-bearer'

Answer: David


Question: 'A "letter to" this person, like Ben Bradlee, should rattle on about the world going to hell because of ignorant kids'

Answer: The editor


Question: 'On September 18, 1934 the Soviet Union joined this international organization'

Answer: League of Nations


Question: 'This worker always takes panes, & spends his days fitting them into windows'

Answer: Window glazier


Question: 'The USA's second-largest floor-based stock exchange, it joined forces with NASDAQ in 1998'

Answer: American Stock Exchange


Question: 'Drew Bledsoe'

Answer: New England Patriots


Question: 'Daniel told this king, "They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field"'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: 'Letters of recommendation get you into college; ones from ex-employers are often called "letters of" this'

Answer: Reference


Question: 'In Slovakia the White Carpathians aren't an ethnic group but this, which covers much of the country'

Answer: Mountain range


Question: 'After winning the 1980 Best Actor Oscar, he probably felt punch-drunk'

Answer: Robert De Niro


Question: 'Midwestern farmboy & Vietnam draftee Claude is befriended by hippies in this musical'

Answer: Hair


Question: 'Mrs. John C. Breckinridge (like Mrs. Lincoln)'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'Women with flowing tresses repeat them 100 times a day; the impressionists made them visible to the viewer'

Answer: Brush strokes


Question: 'It's the first word of "America the Beautiful"'

Answer: O


Question: 'The Greek island of Samos in the Aegean is 100 miles from Greece's mainland but less than 5 miles from this country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'He wrote the classic "The Old Regime and the Revolution" as well as "Democracy in America"'

Answer: Alexis de Tocqueville


Question: '"I'll Make a Man Out of You" & "The Huns Attack" are from this 1998 Disney musical'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'Richard M. Johnson (trick question)'

Answer: There was no Mrs. - he was never married


Question: 'These two-part altar pieces, like the ones seen here, were common in medieval art:'

Answer: Diptych


Question: 'In NASA launch countdowns, it precedes "Minus seven, minus six"...'

Answer: T


Question: 'A vast central plateau called the Meseta is the largest region of this country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Her 1952 autobiography was "Dance to the Piper"'

Answer: Agnes DeMille


Question: 'This animated 1999 musical was subtitled "Bigger, Longer and Uncut"'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'Mrs. Dan Quayle'

Answer: Marilyn


Question: 'Critic Clement Greenberg popularized this "abstract" art movement, especially Jackson Pollock's work'

Answer: Abstract expressionism


Question: 'It indicates power of maginification in telescopes & binoculars'

Answer: X


Question: 'English county where you'd find the city of Portsmouth'

Answer: Hampshire


Question: 'Born in the Netherlands in 1904, this American painter was known for his huge canvases'

Answer: Willem de Kooning


Question: '(Hey, how's it going?  I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray)  In the video for "Fly", I dance on the ceiling, a la Fred Astaire in this 1951 musical'

Answer: Royal Wedding


Question: 'Merry Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller (the second one)'

Answer: Happy


Question: 'Classicism was obviously a major influence on this style led by Jacques-Louis David'

Answer: Neoclassicism


Question: 'The top row of letters on a standard keyboard runs from Q to this'

Answer: P


Question: 'The name of this Swiss city perched at 5,300 feet comes partly from matte, "meadow"'

Answer: Zermatt


Question: 'An Easter Rebellion participant in 1916, he was president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973'

Answer: Eamon de Valera


Question: 'As Esther Hoffman, Barbra Streisand sang "Evergreen" in this film'

Answer: A Star is Born


Question: 'Mrs. Hubert Humphrey'

Answer: Muriel


Question: 'Happy farmers were seen in the USSR's official art, the "Socialist" type of this'

Answer: Realism


Question: 'This British abbreviation for pence came from a Latin word for a coin'

Answer: D (the Latin coin was the denarius)


Question: 'An August 6, 1945 Associated Press story described this as a "Japanese army base"'

Answer: Hiroshima (story about the dropping of the first atomic bomb)


Question: '"Big Love" meets "The West Wing"?  Pres. Jacob Zuma, who presides over this country from Pretoria, has 3 wives'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'In examining her Top 40 hits, who better to "Dress You Up" than a "Material Girl"?'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'Lloyd's; they're big in insurance, over on Lime St.'

Answer: England


Question: 'Shakespeare's birthplace is alluded to in this nickname of his'

Answer: the "Bard of Avon"


Question: 'Born in 1925, this woman had a First Daughter of the U.S. as well as 2 First Granddaughters'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'This "eager" animal's 20 teeth, include 4 strong, curved front ones that never wear out, as they grow through its life'

Answer: a beaver


Question: 'Not many world leaders could say, "My wife once dated Mick Jagger & Eric Clapton"; this French president can'

Answer: Sarkozy


Question: 'This John Fogerty group gave us direction with "Down On The Corner" & "Up Around The Bend"'

Answer: Creedence Clearwater Revival


Question: 'Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.'

Answer: Japan


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  About 5 million years ago, the rise of this strip of land restricted the flow of water between the Atlantic & the Pacific, greatly intensifying the gulf stream'

Answer: the Isthmus of Panama


Question: 'An Ore. grandma clocked at 103 mph in '09 said she was teaching her 10-year-old grandson the dangers of this'

Answer: speeding


Question: '"I am" this animal that uses its 39" tusks both to defend itself against polar bears & as hooks to climb on ice'

Answer: the walrus


Question: 'Nursultan Nazarbayev tries for make benefit glorious nation of this West-Central Asian one as its president'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'He sang lead on "Three Times A Lady" & "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"; heck, he even wrote "Lady" for Kenny Rogers'

Answer: Lionel Richie


Question: 'Royal Crown Cola International'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was called Todesengel, which means this in English'

Answer: the Angel of Death


Question: 'In October 1940 this 80-year-old had a one-woman show of 35 paintings at Galerie St. Etienne in New York'

Answer: Grandma Moses


Question: 'This long, pointy type of tooth comes before "tooth" in the name of a fish living at depths down to 16,000 feet'

Answer: a fang


Question: 'In 2009 this Italian P.M. demanded an apology from his wife for publicly saying she wanted a divorce; good luck with that, sir'

Answer: Berlusconi


Question: 'Her songs: "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"... "Just Like Jesse James"!'

Answer: Cher


Question: 'Grupo Modelo'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'In Cuba it's called Bahia de Cochinos'

Answer: the Bay of Pigs


Question: 'Thanks, Grandma!  This British lady gave her 9-year-old grandson the rights to her play "The Mousetrap"'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'This pit viper seen here injects venom through two long, hollow teeth in its upper jaw'

Answer: a rattlesnake


Question: 'Despite rumors to the contrary, this Libyan leader never trained at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst'

Answer: (Mu\'ammar) Gadhafi


Question: 'I'm not going to repeat myself; their greatest hits include "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" & "Money, Money, Money"'

Answer: ABBA


Question: 'Mahindra Satyam Computer Services'

Answer: India


Question: 'The name of this 1781-89 document continues, "and perpetual union between the states"'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: 'Lucy Maud Montgomery based this "colorful" novel on living in Canada with her grandma at Cavendish'

Answer: Anne of Green Gables


Question: 'The mouth of this African ungulate can open 150 degrees to show its teeth; its lower canines may be more than 12" long'

Answer: a hippopotamus


Question: 'The Viet Cong spar with the U.S. & South Vietnam on Jan. 30, 1968, the first day of the lunar new year'

Answer: Tet


Question: 'Oldest Supporting Actress winner:<br />Peggy Ashcroft for this film based on an E.M. Forster work'

Answer: A Passage to India


Question: 'One of his most famous paintings shows 11 magnified stars & an orange crescent moon in whorls of blue sky'

Answer: van Gogh


Question: 'Now you can make full meals with this toy that's been helping kids make cakes since 1963'

Answer: an Easy-Bake Oven


Question: 'When this director's "The Birth of a Nation" was released in 1915, tickets were an unheard of $2'

Answer: D.W. Griffith


Question: 'In 882 A.D. it was Marinus I'

Answer: Pope


Question: 'This 1890 massacre in South Dakota ends armed conflict between the Sioux & the Army'

Answer: Wounded Knee


Question: 'Youngest Supporting Actor winner:<br />Him for "Ordinary People"'

Answer: Timothy Hutton


Question: 'Faces are garishly lit by gas lamp in "At the Moulin Rouge", one of his many depictions of Parisian night life'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'Secret Strike, part of this Hasbro line, comes with a blaster gun & 2 foam darts'

Answer: Nerf


Question: 'One of the founders of the NAACP was this sociologist & writer of "The Souls of Black Folk"'

Answer: W.E.B. DuBois


Question: 'The impala is one of these long-legged ruminants'

Answer: an antelope


Question: 'On Oct. 21, 1805 off the coast of Spain, Nelson fights French & Spanish fleets'

Answer: the Battle of Trafalgar


Question: 'Oldest Supporting Actor nominee:<br />This alliteratively named actor for the 2007 movie "Into the Wild"'

Answer: Hal Holbrook


Question: 'He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes", seen here, just before the outbreak of World War II'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'The Ripstick is a hot toy from this company whose name is synonymous with kick scooters'

Answer: Razor


Question: 'During WWI, this author of "The Screwtape Letters" fought in France with the Somerset Light Infantry'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'An astrological forecast'

Answer: a horoscope


Question: 'The Kikuyu revolt in 1952 Kenya against white settlers in these uprisings'

Answer: the Mau Mau Uprisings


Question: 'Youngest Best Actor winner:<br />This 29-year-old in 2003 for a WWII-set film'

Answer: Adrien Brody


Question: 'In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure'

Answer: a lion


Question: 'You can get Troy & Gabriella dolls dressed for the prom from this TV/film series'

Answer: High School Musical


Question: 'Around 1800 this English romantic landscape painter took a studio at 64 Harley Street in London'

Answer: J.M.W. Turner


Question: 'In 31 B.C. Octavian & Agrippa best Cleo & Antony on the open water'

Answer: the Battle of Actium


Question: 'Youngest Supporting Actor nominee:<br />Justin Henry for this 1979 tale of a custody battle'

Answer: Kramer vs. Kramer


Question: 'Born into a poor Jewish family, this Russian-French artist painted the dreamy "Lovers in the Moonlight"'

Answer: Marc Chagall


Question: 'The Fly, the first pentop computer, is made by this company that "jumped" on the educational toys market'

Answer: Leapfrog


Question: 'This poet didn't like big letters, but his first book was called "The Enormous Room"'

Answer: E.E. Cummings


Question: 'He told George Washington he hoped "the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish"'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these'

Answer: Boomerangs


Question: 'In February 1995 he reunited with his E Street Band to perform for a "Murder Incorporated" video shoot'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'In October 1965 Oakland police turned back over 10,000 marchers protesting this war'

Answer: Vietnam War


Question: 'Napoleon invades Russia; causes problems for Natasha; leaves'

Answer: "War and Peace"


Question: 'One of two "Friends" actors who fit the category'

Answer: Matt LeBlanc or Matthew Perry


Question: 'A spinning toy, or the location of this clue in the category'

Answer: Top


Question: 'It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur & a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle'

Answer: Platypus


Question: 'Feedback was first used in pop music in this Beatles song heard here:'

Answer: "I Feel Fine"


Question: 'This actor won the California governorship in 1966 using the unrest at Berkeley as a campaign issue'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Poet goes to hell; then purgatory (where he meets an old flame); then heaven!'

Answer: "The Divine Comedy"


Question: 'This Texan was "Dazed and Confused" before starring in "Contact" & "Amistad"'

Answer: Matthew McConaughey


Question: 'Magically conceal a card in your hand, or a tall tropical tree'

Answer: Palm


Question: 'Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'This group's "Night Fever" stayed at No. 1 longer than any other single of 1978 -- 8 weeks'

Answer: Bee Gees


Question: 'Mario Savio was an informal leader of the FSM, a group named for this constitutional right'

Answer: Free Speech Movement


Question: 'George & Martha throw an after-party for Nick & Honey; play games; start for bed at dawn'

Answer: "Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"


Question: 'His character on "Party of Five" battled cancer'

Answer: Matthew Fox


Question: 'To trample underfoot, a closed court sport or a vegetable'

Answer: Squash


Question: 'This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship'

Answer: Great Barrier Reef


Question: 'This Tony Orlando & Dawn hit became a theme of hope during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979 to 1981'

Answer: "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree"


Question: 'It completes the protest slogan "I am a UC student: do not fold, bend or" this'

Answer: Mutilate


Question: 'Bored French housewife commits adultery; commits herself to huge debt; commits suicide'

Answer: "Madame Bovary"


Question: 'This Matthew has been in the movies "Married to the Mob" & "Short Cuts"'

Answer: Matthew Modine


Question: 'Vulgar, or a dozen dozen'

Answer: Gross


Question: 'Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa'

Answer: Wineries


Question: 'After disbanding in 1968 these "brothers" reunited in 1974 & had a No. 3 hit with "Rock and Roll Heaven"'

Answer: the Righteous Brothers


Question: 'In May 1960, the San Francisco meeting of this House committee was disrupted by protesters from Berkeley'

Answer: the House Un-American Activities Committee


Question: 'Mysterious rich guy throws lavish parties to impress old flame; gets shot; dies'

Answer: "The Great Gatsby"


Question: 'Somber, serious matter, or where a body's buried'

Answer: Grave


Question: 'The Organization of African Unity was founded in 1963 at a conference in this Ethiopian capital'

Answer: Addis Ababa


Question: 'Event seen here:<br />(moon blocking sun)'

Answer: Solar eclipse


Question: 'He was in "Sabrina", "Witness" & "Frantic"'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'This actress is buried in Monaco at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, where she was married in 1956'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'This Asian language uses over 40,000 ideographic characters & is spoken by over 600 million people'

Answer: Chinese


Question: '"Frankly, my dear..."'

Answer: "I don\'t give a damn"


Question: 'This trade in Africans was long practiced by Arabs but increased with the New World's plantations'

Answer: Slavery


Question: 'The acronym SETI stands for the Search for this'

Answer: Extraterrestrial Intelligence


Question: 'The character seen here is based on a role created by this actor in 1932:<br />(The Mummy)'

Answer: Boris Karloff


Question: 'This editor is buried near her first husband & her former brother-in-law at Arlington National Cemetery'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


Question: 'Extinct British Celtic vernacular, or some game hens'

Answer: Cornish


Question: '"One flew east, one flew west..."'

Answer: "One flew over the cuckoo\'s nest"


Question: 'Black "homelands" called Bantustans were part of this South African system of segregation'

Answer: Apartheid


Question: 'It was the first planet discovered with a telescope'

Answer: Uranus


Question: '1967 animated feature that included the line "Old Baloo's gonna learn you to fight like a bear"'

Answer: The Jungle Book


Question: 'Chopin is at Paris' Pere Lachaise, but the kids flock to the grave of this American singer who died in 1971'

Answer: Jim Morrison


Question: '"Old" Scandinavian language from which Icelandic, Faroese & Swedish developed'

Answer: Old Norse


Question: '"Float like a butterfly..."'

Answer: "Sting like a bee"


Question: 'In 1873 the heart of this doctor & missionary was buried under a tree in Africa'

Answer: David Livingstone


Question: 'This closest galaxy to our own is named for an Ethiopian princess in Greek myth'

Answer: Andromeda


Question: 'Eddie Murphy played "The Nutty Professor" in 1996, 33 years after this man did'

Answer: Jerry Lewis


Question: 'Residents of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond resident'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'To sing this country's national anthem, a resident of Tirane would sing it in this official language'

Answer: Albanian


Question: '"I'll get you my pretty..."'

Answer: "And your little dog too!"


Question: 'The medieval Ouagadougou Empire was built on the upper reaches of this river'

Answer: Volta


Question: 'After Earth, it's the planet whose day is closest to 24 hours long'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'This 1962 Cinerama epic had segments directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway & John Ford'

Answer: How the West Was Won


Question: 'Buried in Rome, this poet wrote as his own epitaph, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"'

Answer: John Keats


Question: 'A Khoikhoi would pronounce "Jeopardy!" with one of these at the end, as their language requires'

Answer: Click (for the exclamation mark)


Question: '"As Maine goes..."'

Answer: "So goes the nation"


Question: 'This memoir, winner of a 1997 Pulitzer Prize, has made Limerick a hot tourist destination'

Answer: \"Angela\'s Ashes\"


Question: 'According to DOE figures, it was 25 cents in 1919, & in 1980 broke through the dollar-a-gallon barrier nationally'

Answer: the cost of a gallon of gas


Question:
'The song heard here  was written in the '70s for a movie about this boxer

"Because the greatest love of all..."'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'In 434 this group led by Attila doubled the tribute they demanded from Roman Emperor Theodosius II'

Answer: the Huns


Question: 'It's your relationship to your mother's uncle's daughter's son'

Answer: second cousin


Question: 'Jesus said in John 6:55, "For my flesh is meat indeed, and" this "is drink indeed"'

Answer: blood


Question: 'It's just 1 letter shorter than rotund'

Answer: round


Question: 'If something's irrelevant, you might ask what it has to do with the price of these ($5,000 from a fertile donor)'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Though first written about Marilyn Monroe, this Elton John song was changed to honor Princess Di'

Answer: "Candle in the Wind"


Question: 'In 1004 the Chinese Song emperor pledged to pay the Khitan people 100,000 yearly oz. of silver & 200,000 bolts of this'

Answer: silk


Question: 'An army officer of the lowest commissioned rank'

Answer: second lieutenant


Question: 'This man said "I have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost"'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this'

Answer: rain


Question: 'In 1931 New York was crowded with men selling these fruits for a nickel; today they're about 10 times that'

Answer: apples


Question: 'This male rapper's song "I'll Be Missing You" was a tribute to the Notorious B.I.G.'

Answer: Puff Daddy


Question: 'Before repelling these invaders in 896, Alfred the Great of England tried to buy them off'

Answer: the Vikings (or the Danes)


Question: 'In a classic Abbott & Costello routine, it's who's on second base... wait a minute'

Answer: What


Question: 'The 4 words that follow "When ye pray, say, 'Our Father which art in heaven'"'

Answer: hallowed be thy name


Question: 'Within instructor you'll find this private instructor'

Answer: tutor


Question: 'This NYC water transport cost 5 cents in 1900, 50 cents in 1990 but (happy ending) now it's free'

Answer: the Staten Island Ferry


Question: 'This 1968 Beatles chart topper was inspired by John's son Julian'

Answer: "Hey Jude"


Question: 'In the 790s this Frankish king forced the Slavs & Avars to pay him tribute'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Alliterative 2-word term for clairvoyance'

Answer: second sight


Question: 'Jesus told Thomas, "I am the way, the truth, and" this; "No man cometh unto the father, but by me"'

Answer: the life


Question: 'Cut Brobdingnagian down to size with this little 3-letter synonym'

Answer: big


Question: 'This company's first Superman comic book cost 10 cents; in 2004 its "Superman/Batman" No. 14 was $2.95'

Answer: DC Comics


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside a restaurant in New York.)  This mobster who was slain in Umberto's Clam House is the subject of Bob Dylan's song "Joey"'

Answer: Joey Gallo


Question: 'War ensued when in 1801 this Barbary state, now part of Libya, tried to jack up the tribute the U.S. was paying'

Answer: Tripoli


Question: 'He was the runner-up in the 1996 presidential election'

Answer: Bob Dole


Question: 'His book begins, "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham"'

Answer: Saint Matthew


Question: 'If you salvage something, you also do this'

Answer: save


Question: 'This monarch's death in 1980 solidified the control of the Ayatollah Khomeini'

Answer: the Shah of Iran


Question: 'Ironically, a horse named Comanche was one of the few survivors of the 7th Cavalry in this 1876 battle'

Answer: the Little Big Horn


Question: 'Shiplap is an overlapping type of this, boards covering the outside walls'

Answer: siding


Question: 'In the 1960s both an inaugural edition & a memorial edition of this book by JFK were bestsellers'

Answer: Profiles in Courage


Question: 'These destructive ants found in the tropics often bivouac on logs; columns can travel up to 65 feet per hour'

Answer: army ants


Question: 'Drop & give me 20 of these exercises'

Answer: push-ups


Question: 'The murder by Indians of Thorvald, this Viking's brother, effectively ended their exploration of America'

Answer: Leif Erickson


Question: 'A star of silent movies & his own TV show, this dog has his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1623 Vine Street'

Answer: Rin Tin Tin


Question: 'In roofing this word doesn't mean trembling but rough shingles, often of cedar'

Answer: shake


Question: 'This Arkansas-based businessman subtitled his 1992 autobiography "Made in America"'

Answer: Sam Walton


Question: 'Of the 3 classes of ants in a colony, this one lives the longest, up to 20 years'

Answer: the queen


Question: 'It's what Brits call thumbtacks'

Answer: pushpins


Question: 'At the height of Greek military power, death felled him in 323 B.C. as he planned the conquest of Arabia'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'Petey was the beloved pitbull pet on this series of short comedy films'

Answer: The Little Rascals


Question: 'This multi-story open space in a building's center must be at least 20' wide to reduce danger from fire'

Answer: an atrium


Question: 'Bestsellers from Scott Adams have included "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Book" & this "Principle"'

Answer: The Dilbert Principle


Question: 'These insects also known as plant lice are captured & "milked" by many ants for the honeydew liquid they produce'

Answer: aphids


Question: 'Weird animal in the "Dr. Dolittle" books'

Answer: a pushmi-pullyu


Question: 'Called the ablest of Lee's generals, his death by friendly fire in 1863 severely damaged the South's chances'

Answer: Stonewall Jackson


Question: 'Silver was the Lone Ranger's horse & this was the name of Tonto's horse'

Answer: Scout


Question: 'The Bible says that the stone the builders rejected has become this, found at intersecting walls'

Answer: the cornerstone


Question: 'In 1999 Peter Jennings had "The Century" on the bestseller lists; Tom Brokaw had this one'

Answer: The Greatest Generation


Question: 'Ants do not have lungs; instead, they breathe via these small holes located in the abdomen & thorax'

Answer: spiracles


Question: 'Jesse Jackson founded this organization in 1971'

Answer: Operation Push


Question: 'The last Spanish member of this royal family, Charles II's death led to a disastrous war of succession'

Answer: the Hapsburgs


Question: 'Ruth was the faithful mule owned by the fiesty Festus on this TV western'

Answer: Gunsmoke


Question: 'It's the term for lumber treated with a preservative, from the way the preservative is applied'

Answer: pressure-treated


Question: '"Born Free" & "Living Free" were part of her 1966 collection of "The Story Of Elsa"'

Answer: Joy Adamson


Question: 'Some ants, as a defensive mechansim, spray vapors of this caustic liquid, HCOOH'

Answer: formic acid


Question: 'A major literary award is named for this man who died in 1837'

Answer: (Aleksandr) Pushkin


Question: 'Now in his job over 17 years, he's the longest-serving pres. appointee other than Supreme Court members'

Answer: Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)


Question: 'In 1792 its king was overthrown & it became a republic'

Answer: France


Question: 'This "Star Wars" movie, "Episode III", leads up to where the original movie began'

Answer: Revenge of the Sith


Question: '1897:<br />"There are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they exist"'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'This bank's symbol is WFC & I hear its wagon is a-comin' down the street'

Answer: Wells Fargo


Question: 'Fredric J. Baur designed the tube-shaped container for these potato chips & in 2008 his ashes were buried in one'

Answer: Pringles


Question: 'In 1985, at age 22, Garry Kasparov became the youngest world champion of this'

Answer: chess


Question: 'Hit the water at this country's Lesser Slave Lake, Williston Lake or Wollaston Lake'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Callie Khouri won an Oscar for her screenplay of this 1991 film with Geena & Susan on the lam'

Answer: Thelma & Louise


Question: '1968:<br />"'Hello, Dave' said HAL... 'Have you found the trouble?'"'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without M, for this'

Answer: Macy\'s


Question: 'Frank Galluccio slashed this notorious man on the cheek in a brawl, hence the nickname "Scarface"'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'After boarding school, Jane Eyre takes on this title at Thornfield Hall'

Answer: governess


Question: 'Its 4 major islands form a curve that extends for about 1,500 miles'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Richard Dreyfuss & Ron Howard are 1962 high school grads cruising around town in this 1973 film'

Answer: American Graffiti


Question: '1961:<br />"Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office"'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'This cereal company, K? It's grrreat!'

Answer: Kellogg\'s


Question: 'Sisters Patty Smith Hill & Mildred J. Hill co-wrote "Good Morning To You", which became the melody for this song'

Answer: "Happy Birthday To You"


Question: 'Superstitious sailors have long believed that killing this large seabird brings bad luck'

Answer: an albatross


Question: 'In 1990 this country named a new capital city'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The "Legend of the Deep" in this 2007 film is a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish myth'

Answer: The Water Horse


Question: '1982:<br />"Then I hear my name.  Shug saying Celie.  Miss Celie"'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'ETH is this furniture company that shockingly moved from Vermont to Connecticut in 1973'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'Astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the name of this theory, though he meant it derisively'

Answer: the Big Bang


Question: 'Bahia & fescue are types of this'

Answer: grass


Question: 'It was the last country to officially join the G-8, doing so in 1997'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'This actor played movie character Tom Baxter, who steps out of the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo"'

Answer: Jeff Daniels


Question: '1902:<br />"He said he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and cleared out of the country"'

Answer: Heart of Darkness


Question: 'With the symbol HAL, it constructs oil wells, among other things...'

Answer: Halliburton


Question: 'British lexicographer James Murray was the first editor of this reference work'

Answer: the Oxford English Dictionary


Question: 'One of these painful tooth infections definitely does not make the heart grow fonder'

Answer: an abscess


Question: 'It's a list of defined terms in a special subject at the end of a book'

Answer: glossary


Question: 'Named for a place in County Wicklow, the Glen of Imaal terrier is one of the most lovable breeds from this country'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'A bagel with "schmear"--this dairy product developed in 1872'

Answer: cream cheese


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a space rock sitting next to a picture of a city-sized crater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.)  The first crater on Earth identified as being made by this was made by a 60,000-ton one; here's a 300-pound chip of it'

Answer: a meteor


Question: 'Marcus Agrippa's triremes proved too much for this couple's naval forces at Actium in 31 B.C.'

Answer: Antony & Cleopatra


Question: 'Los Angeles'

Answer: NFL


Question: '2008 job title for Ted Strickland, Tim Pawlenty & Bill Richardson'

Answer: governor


Question: 'I'll drink to this terrier that has a vodka & Kahlua cocktail in its name'

Answer: Black Russian


Question: 'This dish, steak dipped in batter before cooking; it doesn't contain the poultry that's in its name'

Answer: chicken-fried steak


Question: 'This continent has turned almost 360 degrees over the past 200 million years & in 50 mil. years more will hit Asia'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Houston'

Answer: NHL


Question: 'A rooster of a fighting breed, like the University of South Carolina's mascot'

Answer: a gamecock


Question: 'A Lilac Point Burmese has lilac markings, while the Siamese, called this point, is named for a tasty shade of brown'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'A handful of Lamberts, a heart-shaped red variety of this pitted fruit'

Answer: cherries


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a sample at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) Like the stuff that makes the Statue of Liberty green, the mineral malachite is a carbonate of this metal'

Answer: copper


Question: 'At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, a European alliance crushed this empire's navy under Ali Pasha'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'St. Louis'

Answer: the NBA


Question: 'This is necrosis of soft tissue caused by obstructed circulation'

Answer: gangrene


Question: 'A blue-black-tongued dog, or the food it eats'

Answer: a chow


Question: 'Crottin de Chavignol, one of these French-named cheeses made with goat's milk'

Answer: chèvre


Question: 'Rocks exposed to the atmosphere go through this process, something you might do to "the storm"'

Answer: weathering


Question: 'In the Battle of Lissa in 1866, it was the Austrians vs. the Italians in the largest ever battle of these metallic rammers'

Answer: ironclads