Question: 'Stan follows the unwritten contractor code: no matter the job, always say it'll take a fortnight, this long, to do'

Answer: two weeks (14 days)


Question: 'This Austrian learned to play harpsichord at age 4, was composing at 5 & played for his Empress at 6'

Answer: Mozart


Question: '"The San Francisco treat"'

Answer: Rice-A-Roni


Question: 'Oops!  Stan's assistant damaged the bathroom floor while installing this sharp type of tub seen here'

Answer: a clawfoot tub


Question: 'One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic"'

Answer: Plato


Question: 'On 29, 39 or 49, the age at which Malcolm X died, the same as Martin Luther King, Jr.'

Answer: 39


Question:
'Sirius,
Rigil Kent
or Antares'

Answer: stars


Question: 'In NASCAR, it's the number of the turn at the end of the front straightaway'

Answer: one


Question: 'Paul Scott's WWII service in this country inspired his "Raj Quartet"'

Answer: India


Question: 'A French resort city, or the daughter of a person's sister'

Answer: Nice/niece


Question: 'After serving time in prison for burglary, Malcolm X joined the "Nation of" this & also became a minister'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'This old monetary unit of Britain was 1/20 of a pound'

Answer: shilling


Question: 'On March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scored this unbelievable record point total in an NBA basketball game'

Answer: 100


Question: 'Edith Wharton's hero Ethan Frome is crippled by a suicidal run on this winter Olympic vehicle'

Answer: a bobsled


Question: 'Seen here is the laughing type of this "sea" bird--sorry, no audio for you'

Answer: seagull


Question: 'You have the right to do this regarding arms, but your arms will be this without sleeves'

Answer: bear/bare


Question: 'Though Malcolm X spent much of his life in New York City, he was born in this largest city in Nebraska'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'St. Louis' Gateway Arch is concrete covered in this alliterative metal with chromium for shine'

Answer: stainless steel


Question: 'In teaching this sport, Gary McCord says, "For a driver, place the ball opposite your left armpit"'

Answer: golf


Question: '"Ralph 124C 41+" is a novel by Hugo Gernsback, known as a "father of" this futuristic genre'

Answer: science fiction


Question: 'If you hurt this body part, put your feet up & it will do this, over time'

Answer: heel/heal


Question: 'He directed the 1992 film "Malcolm X" & also played Malcolm's pal Shorty'

Answer: Spike Lee


Question: 'This Egyptian-themed Las Vegas hotel says it's "crowned with the world's brighest beam of light"'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'If you serve in tennis & win the first point, you traditionally call out the score as 15- this'

Answer: love


Question: 'In this Jack London novel, a dog named Buck is stolen from the Miller family & reduced to mush dog in Alaska'

Answer: The Call of the Wild


Question: 'Shed this drop of saline, watery fluid if you don't know this term for layer or level'

Answer: tear/tier


Question: 'In 1964, Malcolm X journeyed to Mecca in this country as part of a religious pilgrimage'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'You get more than 200 colored pegs with this flat-screen Hasbro toy'

Answer: Lite-Brite


Question: 'For a team killing a penalty in this sport, icing isn't a violation'

Answer: hockey


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.)  This Milan Kundera novel says "the saints were shaking their fists and lifting their stone eyes to the clouds. Prague was the most beautiful city in the world"'

Answer: The Unbearable Lightness of Being


Question: 'One side in an athletic contest, or a word meaning to abound'

Answer: team/teem


Question: 'Her great-great-grandmother Louisa Lane Drew once appeared in a play with the father of John Wilkes Booth'

Answer: Drew Barrymore


Question: 'Located in Kentucky, it's the site of the U.S. Gold Bullion Depository'

Answer: Fort Knox


Question: 'He made his "big" screen debut in "He Knows You're Alone", which would probably scare Forrest Gump'

Answer: Tom Hanks


Question: 'His West Orange, New Jersey home was made a national historic site in 1955'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Her naked ride is probably legendary, but she did help found a monastery in Coventry'

Answer: Lady Godiva


Question: 'Word that ends Henny Youngman's line<br />"Take my wife...."'

Answer: Please


Question: 'Many students live in this type of residence hall whose name is from the Latin for "sleeping quarters"'

Answer: Dormitory


Question: 'The only house Abraham Lincoln ever owned was in this capital city'

Answer: Springfield, IL


Question: 'Born Alicia Foster, she made her movie debut as a child in the 1972 Disney film "Napoleon and Samantha"'

Answer: Jodie Foster


Question: 'In 1867 his perfected sewing machine won a gold medal at the Paris exhibition'

Answer: Elias Howe


Question: 'This author wrote a biography of actor-manager Gerald Du Maurier, her father'

Answer: Daphne Du Maurier


Question: 'This humorist said, "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with"'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'Instead of semesters, some colleges divide the academic year into 3 terms called these'

Answer: Trimesters


Question: 'In area, Los Alamos is this state's smallest county'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'The 1980 college comedy "Midnight Madness" marked the film debut of this "Back to the Future" star'

Answer: Michael J. Fox


Question: 'In December 1855 this inventor of vulcanized rubber was jailed in Paris for debt'

Answer: Charles Goodyear


Question: 'She & her husband Julius were convicted of espionage on the testimony of her brother David Greenglass'

Answer: Ethel Rosenberg


Question: 'She wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Don't you think I was made for you?"'

Answer: Zelda


Question: 'Prince Charles was the keynote speaker at this Virginia university's 300th anniv. celebration in 1993'

Answer: William & Mary


Question: 'While it's been called the "Clam State" & "Mosquito State", it's officially the "Garden State"'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'She won her first film role in 1970's "Joe", when she accompanied her then-husband Chris Sarandon to an audition'

Answer: Susan Sarandon


Question: 'This air brake inventor also developed a complete railroad signal system'

Answer: George Westinghouse


Question: 'On Dec. 2, 1994 this alleged "Hollywood Madam" was found guilty of pandering'

Answer: Heidi Fleiss


Question: 'Hemingway wrote, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called" this'

Answer: "Huckleberry Finn"


Question: 'This west coast school boasts a column fragment from the area of the ancient city of Troy'

Answer: USC (Southern California)


Question: 'In 1990 molten lava from this Hawaiian volcano was 50 feet deep in some places'

Answer: Kilauea


Question: 'She played a nurse in the 1976 film "A Matter of Time", which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman'

Answer: Isabella Rossellini


Question: 'This developer of a steel-making process was knighted in 1879'

Answer: Sir Henry Bessemer


Question: 'She married Adolf Hitler in a Berlin air raid shelter on April 29, 1945 & killed herself the next day'

Answer: Eva Braun


Question: 'This first lady wrote, "It's misery when you become addicted"'

Answer: Betty Ford


Question: 'It's a campus building used for social activities; its name sounds like a labor organization'

Answer: Student Union


Question: 'This structure erected for the Paris exposition of 1889 was the world's tallest for 40 years'

Answer: Eiffel Tower


Question: 'When this D.C. street was permanently closed between 15th & 17th on May 20, 1995 it made headlines'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'This former Dodger pitcher was nicknamed "El Toro"'

Answer: Fernando Valenzuela


Question: 'Only 2 species of this bird live in the Antarctic through the year: the adelie & the emperor'

Answer: Penguins


Question: 'A museum devoted to this "Ol' Man River" is located on Mud Island in Memphis'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: 'In 1995 this former British prime minister published her 2nd volume of memoirs, "The Path to Power"'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'He took his "Greatest Show on Earth" to London, where he himself was one of the greatest attractions'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'This star of the film "Zorba The Greek" was born in Chihuahua, Mexico'

Answer: Anthony Quinn


Question: 'At one time Australia offered a bounty for these large birds because they were destroying crops'

Answer: Emus


Question: 'In addition to Rembrandt's "The Night Watch", this museum houses the Museum of Asiatic Art'

Answer: Rijksmuseum


Question: 'In "Return to Earth", this 2nd man to walk on the moon told of the pressures he faced on & off the job'

Answer: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin


Question: 'The Dominion Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Canada's oldest, was founded in this capital'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'London street best known as the '60s home of the "mod" style'

Answer: Carnaby Street


Question: 'This "Evil Ways" rock group founder was born Autlan de Navarro in 1947'

Answer: Carlos Santana


Question: 'The solitaire, a more agile relative of this extinct bird of Mauritius, lasted another 100 years'

Answer: Dodo


Question: 'NYC's Cooper-Hewitt Museum has the world's largest collection of drawings by this Maine artist'

Answer: Winslow Homer


Question: 'In 1980 this former vice president published his autobiography, "Go Quietly....Or Else"'

Answer: Spiro Agnew


Question: 'In June 1889 he executed the "Starry Night" painting'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'In May 1995 San Francisco closed this crookedest street in the world to repair it'

Answer: Lombard Street


Question: 'This guerrilla leader of the agrarian movement helped Madero overthrow Diaz in 1911'

Answer: Emiliano Zapata


Question: 'Although this New Zealand bird stands only about 12 inches high, it lays eggs about 5 inches long'

Answer: Kiwi


Question: 'This Malibu, California museum is housed in a re-creation of the Villa Dei Papiri in Herculaneum'

Answer: The Getty Museum"


Question: 'Among this late entertainer's autobiographies are "The Man in the Straw Hat" & "I Remember It Well"'

Answer: Maurice Chevalier


Question: 'On November 14 this reporter set off on her 72-day trip around the world'

Answer: Nellie Bly


Question: 'Government ministry offices line this street that runs from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square'

Answer: Whitehall


Question: 'In January 1995 this president declared an "economic emergency" & enacted crisis measures'

Answer: Ernesto Zedillo


Question: 'In central Argentina, gauchos with bolas hunt this large bird for sport'

Answer: Rhea


Question: 'You'll find the International Museum of Photography in this New York city'

Answer: Rochester


Question: 'Famous for her work with polio patients, this Australian nurse called her autobiography "And They Shall Walk"'

Answer: Sister Elizabeth Kenney


Question: 'This company established its first village in 1950 in Alcudia on the island of Majorca'

Answer: Club Med


Question: 'Estado de Mato Grosso'

Answer: South America


Question: 'In 2009 this supporting actor Oscar winner's award was accepted by his mother, father & sister'

Answer: Heath Ledger


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.)  The reason why astronauts are taller in space is due to a lessening of this force; the vertebrae separate slightly, allowing for a height increase of 2 inches or more'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'X marks the spot, man, when this guy opens his peeper'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: 'The benefactor for whom this West Lafayette, Indiana university is named is buried on the campus'

Answer: Purdue


Question: 'For most people, it replaced the LP'

Answer: the CD


Question: 'The Filchner Ice Shelf'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'The title of this best screenplay winner refers to the pregnant lead character, not a mythic queen of the heavens'

Answer: Juno


Question: 'These cephalopods not only have 8 appendages, but 3 hearts'

Answer: octopi


Question: 'They're the crime-fighting duo seen here in a pair of pictures'

Answer: Batman & Robin


Question: 'In 2009 an anonymous alum gave $100 million to this Mass. college that runs the nearby Emily Dickinson museum'

Answer: Amherst


Question: 'Sunscreen protects you from these harmful rays'

Answer: UV


Question: 'Ayers Rock, or as the locals call it, Uluru'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'When Helen Mirren won in 2007 for playing "The Queen", he won best actor for "The Last King of Scotland"'

Answer: Forrest Whitaker


Question: 'The return stroke for this weather event takes about 100 microseconds & its temperature is around 50,000 degrees'

Answer: lightning


Question: 'Frodo wasn't the only one with a cool ring--this guy had one, too'

Answer: the Green Lantern


Question: 'This 1973 grad gave Harvard's 1989 commencement address shortly after beginning her first term as P.M. of Pakistan'

Answer: Benazir Bhutto


Question: 'In names of cities, this abbreviation precedes Paul & Louis'

Answer: St.


Question: 'The Kamchatka Peninsula'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing this 4-time Oscar-winning actress in "The Aviator"'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'Known for its ability to float, pumice is a porous type of this'

Answer: a rock


Question: 'Now you see this fantastic person; now you don't'

Answer: the Invisible Woman


Question: 'Alum David Booth gave $300 million to this university's business school just off South Lake Shore Drive'

Answer: the University of Chicago


Question: 'If you have this blood type, you're lucky; it's the "universal recipient"'

Answer: AB


Question: 'The Limpopo River'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'He followed up his 2003 Oscar for "Mystic River" with a best actor win for 2008'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a simple science experiment.)  Oops--our salt and pepper got mixed together; if I take a plastic spoon & rub it on wool, it picks up electrons & gets this kind of electrostatic charge, attracting the lighter pepper flakes'

Answer: a negative charge


Question: 'We take you to science class for a representation of this DC Comics hero'

Answer: the Atom


Question: 'In 1999 Sloan school alum Kenan Sahin made a surprise 9-figure donation to this institute'

Answer: the Massachusetts Institue of Technology (M.I.T.)


Question: 'It spells the name of a classic form of Japanese drama'

Answer: No


Question: 'Dashaun Young is now playing this hero who's destined to be "The Lion King"'

Answer: Simba


Question: 'This Madden Brothers band isn't named for a North Carolina city but for a kids' book written by Carol Beach York'

Answer: Good Charlotte


Question: 'She followed up "sTori Telling " with "Mommywood"'

Answer: Tori Spelling


Question: 'On February 11 happy 163rd birthday to this great American inventor'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'In high school Barack was known as "O'bomber", due to his skills in this sport'

Answer: basketball


Question: '"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties", 'Off with his h--"''

Answer: head


Question: 'From the "Les Mis" team, 2007's "The Pirate Queen" was about a 16th C. Irishwoman & her rivalry with this real English queen'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'The soul of a deceased person, thankful to someone for arranging his burial'

Answer: the Grateful Dead


Question: '2009's "Last Lion" is subtitled "The Fall and Rise of" this political brother'

Answer: Ted Kennedy


Question: 'This French writer knew the future included turning 182 on February 8'

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: 'After winning this in 2009, he said, "This is not how I expected to wake up this morning"'

Answer: the Nobel Peace Prize


Question: '"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Ka--"'

Answer: Kansas any more


Question: 'The king in "The King and I" rules this 4-letter land'

Answer: Siam


Question: 'A Rolling Stone article titled "Kentucky's finest" said their name came from a coat that had "MMJ" on it'

Answer: My Morning Jacket


Question: 'This Rachel Carson book tells "the story of how the young planet Earth acquired an ocean"'

Answer: The Sea Around Us


Question: 'Send diamonds to this founder of a jewelry retailer--he'll be 198'

Answer: Charles Louis Tiffany


Question: 'Obamamania was said to have started after his 2004 keynote address at this'

Answer: the Democratic National Convention


Question: '"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do a--"'

Answer: and die


Question: 'David McCallum played Emperor Joseph II in the 1999 revival of this play about Mozart'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'This band's name refers to what bassist Mike Kroeger said when giving a coin in change at Starbucks'

Answer: Nickelback


Question: 'Christopher McDougall tells of training for a 50-mile race in this book that shares its title with a Springsteen song'

Answer: Born to Run


Question: 'Felix-itations to this composer, 201 on Feb. 3'

Answer: Mendelssohn


Question: 'For their first date, Barack took Michelle to see this director's film "Do the Right Thing"'

Answer: Spike Lee


Question: '"That's one small step for a man, one giant l--"'

Answer: leap for mankind


Question: 'We wonder if Kelsey Grammer called this "the Scottish play" when he played the title role in 2000'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'This group's name came from the younger sidekick of Radioactive Man on "The Simpsons"'

Answer: Fall Out Boy


Question: 'A 2009 biography of this builder of Grand Central Terminal calls him "the first tycoon"'

Answer: (Cornelius) Vanderbilt


Question: 'It mathers to us that this theologian is having his 347th'

Answer: Cotton Mather


Question: 'As a youth Obama lived in this country whose capital is Jakarta'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: '"Apres moi le de--"'

Answer: deluge


Question: 'He said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way"'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'Joyce Hall began this Kansas City company selling postcards'

Answer: Hallmark


Question: 'Dates & coconuts both grow on this type of tree'

Answer: Palm Tree


Question: 'A sincere cavalier, he fooled around with Guinevere'

Answer: Lancelot


Question: 'He's had the most Top 40 & Top 10 albums during the rock era -- not bad for a man who's been singing since 1933'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: 'In 1861 by imperial decree, Alexander II liberated 40 million serfs in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'A shackled group of prisoners, they were formerly used to build roads in the southern U.S.'

Answer: Chain Gang


Question: 'G.E. was instrumental in starting this communications giant which it bought in 1986'

Answer: RCA


Question: 'This relative of the onion is rarely grown from seed; it's grown from parts of its bulbs called cloves'

Answer: Garlic


Question: 'His 9th hurdle --  Hippolyta's girdle'

Answer: Hercules


Question: '"You Belong to the City" was part of this television show's No. 1 album'

Answer: "Miami Vice"


Question: 'This large Middle Eastern country did not abolish slavery until 1962'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Knights wore this flexible armor of interlinked metal rings'

Answer: Chain Mail


Question: 'This company's founder invented condensed milk'

Answer: Borden


Question: 'Also known as plant lice, these garden pests secrete a "honeydew" that ants eat'

Answer: Aphids


Question: 'Thru many a metaphysical joust he tried to win the soul of Faust'

Answer: Mephistopheles


Question: '"Blue Bayou" & "It's So Easy" are both on her "Simple Dreams" album'

Answer: Linda Ronstadt


Question: 'In 1865 this amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the U.S.'

Answer: 13th Amendment


Question: 'In the U.S. Army it would be a general to lt. general to major general to brigadier general'

Answer: chain of command


Question: 'Dole is the best-known brand name of this company founded by missionaries in Hawaii'

Answer: Castle & Cooke


Question: 'Azaleas are a member of this plant genus whose name means "rose tree"'

Answer: Rhododendron


Question: 'A disembodied head or pumpkin was thrown at this poor country bumpkin'

Answer: Ichabod Crane


Question: 'This group's name was also the name of its 1st No. 1 album; the 2nd was "Rumours"'

Answer: Fleetwood Mac


Question: 'The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C. & admitted this state as a free state'

Answer: California


Question: 'The constellation Andromeda is sometimes given this nickname'

Answer: "The Chained Lady"


Question: 'This company that sells Kleenex & Huggies was founded in Neenah, Wisc. in 1872 & is still there'

Answer: KImberly-Clark


Question: 'Prairie Sunset & Sable are 2 of the bearded varieties of this spring flower'

Answer: Iris


Question: 'While Ulysses was fighting the war she kept a lock on her bedroom door'

Answer: Penelope


Question: '"Heart of Glass" was cut for this group's album "Parallel Lines"'

Answer: Blondie


Question: '11-letter word meaning the formal emancipation of a slave by his owner'

Answer: Manumission


Question: 'Completes the line from "The Communist Manifesto"  "The proletarians...."'

Answer: "Have nothing to lose but their chains"


Question: 'The Anti-Masons were the 1st U.S. political party to hold one of these to choose its candidates'

Answer: Convention


Question: 'He collaborated with ex-wife Margaret Bourke White on documentaries but not on "God's Little Acre"'

Answer: Erskine Caldwell


Question: 'He was one of the finest American portrait artists, but he's best remembered for his "code"'

Answer: Samuel Morse


Question: 'These very fine blood vessels give oxygenated blood to the tissues & remove deoxygenated blood from them'

Answer: Capillaries


Question: 'Every month Reader's Digest reminds us it's "the best medicine"'

Answer: Laughter


Question: '"The Rock" has been called the grande dame of local hotels on this small peninsula'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'In 1874 cigar makers, not the ladies garment workers, became the 1st union to have this on their products'

Answer: Union Label


Question: 'His novels "Ragtime" & "World's Fair" were both set in NYC before WWII'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: 'Jan Vermeer lived his entire life in this city known for its pottery'

Answer: Delft


Question: 'Rejection of organ transplants is caused by the reaction of this defense system'

Answer: Immune System


Question: 'Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life"'

Answer: London


Question: 'The kind of currency you'd need to play the slot machines in the casino at Monte Carlo'

Answer: French Francs


Question: 'In 1793 the 1st U.S. ship canal was built near Springfield, in this state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'The title of this novel by Charles Jackson has become a catch phrase for a major drinking binge'

Answer: "The Lost Weekend"


Question: 'Sir Joshua Reynolds was knighted by this king in 1769'

Answer: George III


Question: '2 of the 3 bones that meet at the shoulder'

Answer: Clavicle, Humerus & Scapula


Question: 'Over 400 years B.C. Thucydides wrote history tends to do this'

Answer: "Repeat Itself"


Question: 'There are 137 of them in all & they lead up from Rome's Piazza Dispagna'

Answer: Steps


Question: 'A veteran of the last Mercury flight & Gemini 5, he was the 1st man to make 2 orbital flights'

Answer: Gordon Cooper


Question: 'Some of the stories & poems in "We Are Still Married" reflect on this author's life in Minnesota'

Answer: Garrison Keillor


Question: 'Norwegian whose painting "The Cry", or "The Scream", has been called "an icon of existential anguish"'

Answer: Edvard Munch


Question: 'Muscles used to move a limb away from the central line of the body'

Answer: Abductor Muscles


Question: 'Jesus taught, "Greater love hath no man than" this'

Answer: "That he would lay down his life for his brother/friends"


Question: 'African country in which you can visit Aberdare National Park & Mombasa Beach'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'The 1st woman to win a Pulitzer for fiction was this author of "The Age of Innocence" in 1921'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: 'We wonder what his grandfather, the adding machine inventor, would have thought of "Naked Lunch"'

Answer: William S. Burroughs


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />English illustrator whose work is seen here; he was a leader of the art noveau movement:'

Answer: Aubrey Beardsley


Question: 'A tricuspid insufficiency has nothing to do with the teeth, but refers to a valve failure here'

Answer: The Heart


Question: '"In the country of the blind," this "man is king"'

Answer: The Man With One Eye


Question: 'Brazilian airline whose name is an abbreviation of "Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense"'

Answer: Varig


Question: 'The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3'

Answer: Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma


Question: 'Charlton Heston felt "The Agony and the Ecstasy" as this ceiling painter'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'It's a 5-letter word for a book of maps'

Answer: an atlas


Question: '"A-Rod"'

Answer: Alex Rodriguez


Question: 'The organization that governs this board game is FIDE, the Federation Internationale des Echecs'

Answer: chess


Question: '8 bones form this portion of the skull, also called the braincase'

Answer: the cranium


Question: 'The men who died defending this locale in 1836 included William E. Summers & William DePriest Sutherland'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: 'Alfred Molina was this painter & husband of the title character in "Frida"'

Answer: Diego Rivera


Question: 'In 1855 John Bartlett first published a collection of these'

Answer: quotations


Question: '"The Lip"'

Answer: Leo Durocher


Question: 'This family game that ties you up in knots was originally called "Pretzel"'

Answer: Twister


Question: 'This, the tailbone, consists of 3-5 fused vertebrae'

Answer: the coccyx


Question: 'These primitive aquatic plants are similar to bryophytes in that they lack true stems, roots & leaves'

Answer: algae


Question: 'Both Donald & Kiefer Sutherland have portrayed this artist who journeyed to & from Tahiti'

Answer: (Paul) Gauguin


Question: 'Every year our writers get excited by new editions of these books that originally carried astronomical data'

Answer: almanacs


Question: '"Dr. K"'

Answer: Dwight Gooden


Question: 'In 1996 someone got 311 points for playing "craziest" in this board game'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the clue on the monitor and demonstrates.)  These fan-shaped muscles are used to lift the arms up as well as turn the arms inward'

Answer: the pectorals


Question: 'John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is a work in this genre'

Answer: allegory


Question: 'In a 1996 biopic Francoise Gilot manages to survive her affair with this great artist of the 20th century (Anthony Hopkins)'

Answer: (Pablo) Picasso


Question: 'This word for a geographic dictionary once meant someone who writes for a newspaper'

Answer: a gazetteer


Question: 'Hall of Famer "Eck"'

Answer: Dennis Eckersley


Question: 'In British Monopoly, this becomes Super Tax'

Answer: Luxury Tax


Question: 'This airway connects the pharynx with the bronchi'

Answer: the trachea


Question: 'Serving meals outdoors is called this, from the Italian for "in the open air"'

Answer: al fresco


Question: 'Colin Firth painted the title work as this artist in "Girl with a Pearl Earring"'

Answer: (Jan) Vermeer


Question: 'An Internet publisher of great works is named for this Melville scrivener & of course has his tale online'

Answer: Bartleby


Question: '"The Scooter" of the Bronx'

Answer: Phil Rizzuto


Question: 'This solitaire game goes back to a version Paul Alfille wrote in 1978 for the Plato computer system'

Answer: FreeCell


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.)  The thyroid gland has two lobes that are connected by a bridge of tissue called this, also a geographic term for a similar-looking narrow strip of land'

Answer: an isthmus


Question: 'In 1992 the winter Olympic games were held in this French city'

Answer: Albertville


Question: 'A line from this Orwell tale says, "As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly"'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'Dumb little Roman love god'

Answer: a stupid Cupid


Question: 'Born in Linlithgow in 1542, she married into French royalty & thus became the queen of 2 countries'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'The opening credits to this series showed Tony's commute home to the suburbs of Northern New Jersey'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'The name of this broad-brimmed hat derives from the Spanish for "shade"'

Answer: a sombrero


Question: 'This term for a type of fat, heavy pig developed in the late 19th c. is now applied to any pig of more than 120 pounds'

Answer: a hog


Question: 'His "And Now Good-bye" wasn't quite as popular as his "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"'

Answer: James Hilton


Question: 'Designs made by a god whose name is remembered in a weekend day'

Answer: Saturn\'s patterns


Question: 'In 1974 columnist Mary McGrory called this veep "a blind date who has been proposed to"'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'It's the nickname of "Jersey Shore" cast member Mike Sorrentino, who has it under control'

Answer: The Situation


Question: 'A mark of prestige in Muslim countries, the brimless taj gets its name from the Persian for this royal headgear'

Answer: a crown


Question: 'Don't be afraid to tell us the familiar name of this fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus'

Answer: chicken


Question: '"Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" & "Ironweed " are books in his Albany cycle'

Answer: (William) Kennedy


Question: 'Supreme Greek god's suspensions of hostilities'

Answer: Zeus\'s truces


Question: 'Check out the makeup on the woman here; born "Mary Kathlyn Wagner", she founded this cosmetics giant'

Answer: Mary Kay


Question: 'Caroline Manzo & Jacqueline Laurita are 2 of the title women of this TV show that's on Bravo'

Answer: The Real Housewives of New Jersey


Question: 'Called a derby in the U.S., this British hat is named for a manufacturer, not a kegler'

Answer: a bowler


Question: 'Species of this food & clothing provider include the Shropshire, karakul & merino'

Answer: sheep


Question: 'Chapters in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Carol Shields include "Birth, 1905", "Marriage, 1927" & "Sorrow, 1965"'

Answer: The Stone Diaries


Question: 'Egyptian god of death & resurrection's tiny infectious agents'

Answer: Osiris\'s viruses


Question: 'Religious martyr Mary Barrett Dyer was hanged in Boston in 1660 for her devotion to this group, the Society of Friends'

Answer: the Quakers


Question: 'Steve Buscemi plays Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City in this HBO drama'

Answer: Boardwalk Empire


Question: 'It's not kosher, but Buster Keaton, Popeye Doyle & Justin Timberlake have all sported these round, flat hats'

Answer: porkpies


Question: '"Lamoid" (with one "L") is the collective term for this South American herd animal & its relatives'

Answer: llamas


Question: 'A short story by Ernest Hemingway tells of "The Short Happy Life of" this American on safari in Africa'

Answer: Francis Macomber


Question: 'Hindu preserver god's bouillabaisses'

Answer: Vishnu\'s fish stews


Question: 'She co-wrote the popular 19th century work "Tales from Shakespear" with her brother Charles'

Answer: Mary Lamb


Question: 'This show on Oxygen follows the Scali family, who own & run an extravagant dress shop'

Answer: Jersey Couture


Question: 'A type of top hat popular in the 19th century was named for this "Iron Duke"'

Answer: (the Duke of) Wellington


Question: 'The muscovy type of this fowl was originally domesticated in South America, not Russia'

Answer: a duck


Question: 'Issued in 2011, a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of a major event in U.S. history depicts this stronghold'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over what's now Mexico'

Answer: Aztec Empire


Question: 'In 1999 17-month-old Jessy Kraus was rescued from one of these "watering holes" in his backyard'

Answer: Well


Question: 'By law, it's the fourth Thursday in November'

Answer: Thanksgiving


Question: 'You can hit the nail on this -- it's on the top of the shank'

Answer: Head


Question: 'By population, it's the largest city of the state seen here<br />(California)'

Answer: Los Angeles


Question: 'It's toymaker Bandai's "loveable egg", a virtual pet'

Answer: Tamagotchi


Question: 'No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'In 1998 10-year-old Hikaru Nakamura became the USA's youngest master in this game'

Answer: Chess


Question: 'The first Monday in September, it honors working people in the U.S. & Canada'

Answer: Labor Day


Question: 'The husk, silks, kernels & cob make up this'

Answer: Corn


Question: 'An abundance of flowers gave this state its name when the Spanish arrived in 1513'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Billy Blanks is the man behind this fitness system that includes elements of tae kwon do'

Answer: Tae Bo


Question: 'In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire'

Answer: Roman Empire


Question: 'Violinist Sarah Chang's audition for Zubin Mehta at age 8 got her a gig with this NYC orchestra'

Answer: NYC Philharmonic


Question: 'The luck of the Irish might tell you this is the date St. Patrick's Day is celebrated'

Answer: March 17


Question: 'Its parts include the lintel, sill, sash & panes'

Answer: Window


Question: 'He's the current governor of the state seen here<br />(Texas)'

Answer: George W. Bush


Question: 'Chip the Cat, born January 26, 1996, is one of these Ty stuffed animals'

Answer: Beanie Babies


Question: 'Queen Victoria's prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'At age 14, physics whiz Chris Hirata joined the rocket scientists when he enrolled at this Pasadena college'

Answer: Caltech


Question: 'Make a date with your sweetie for February 14, this loving day'

Answer: Valentine\'s Day


Question: 'They have a ring handle, bow handle, pivot & blades & you shouldn't run with them in your hand'

Answer: Scissors


Question: 'The name of this "Silver State" comes from the Spanish for "snow-covered"'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Who can resist watching this MTV show whose combatants have included The 3 Tenors vs. The 3 Stooges?'

Answer: Celebrity Deathmatch


Question: 'Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'In 1991 12-year-old Fu Mingxia won the platform event at the world championships of this sport'

Answer: Diving


Question: 'On November 11, we honor these'

Answer: Veterans


Question: 'An aglet is found at the end of this item that holds your sneaker together'

Answer: Shoelace


Question: 'This state has 8 national parks totalling over 50 million acres'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Despite his brief screen time in "The Empire Strikes Back" & "Return of the Jedi", this bounty hunter has a cult following'

Answer: Boba Fett


Question: 'Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1957'

Answer: 48


Question: 'Although this 16th president rarely went to school, he learned reading, writing & some arithmetic'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'In 1999 Disney was in the swing of things with this tale of an orphan raised by apes'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'It's what a Robin Hood hat has in it, or what Yankee Doodle stuck in his cap'

Answer: Feather


Question: 'It's the product of the number of days in the week times itself'

Answer: 49 (7 X 7)


Question: 'This nut is the fruit of the oak tree'

Answer: Acorn


Question: 'It's the nation whose flag is seen here<br />(think maple leaf)'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'This author of "Little Women" received much of her education from her father, Bronson'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'This magical nanny liked to travel light, with only an umbrella & a carpetbag'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'This knightwear became impractically heavy when it had to be bulletproof'

Answer: Armor


Question: 'If 2x plus 4 equals 50, x equals this'

Answer: 23


Question: 'A book of maps, or an African mountain range you can find in it'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'Israel's flag proudly bears this symbol'

Answer: Star of David


Question: 'This "Scarlet Letter" author injured his foot at age 9 & missed about 2 years of school'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'See Spot, see lots of spots in this 1996 film with Glenn Close'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: 'The unhappy boy seen here is wearing the suit named for this profession'

Answer: Sailor\'s suit


Question: 'The perimeter in inches of a square with 11-inch sides'

Answer: 44


Question: 'It's a 9-letter term for your principal foe (we hope you don't have one)'

Answer: Adversary


Question: 'The flag seen here is used all over the world by this organization'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Known for his "Common Sense", this revolutionary left school at 13 after refusing to learn Latin'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'She's the Indian princess in Neverland who's rescued by Peter Pan'

Answer: Tiger Lily


Question: 'These skirts with a rounded, bell-like shape were popular in Civil War times'

Answer: Hoop skirts


Question: 'It's the square root of the square root of 16'

Answer: 2


Question: 'It's the job of designing buildings, from schools to stadiums'

Answer: Architecture


Question: 'He's the current emperor of the nation whose flag is seen here<br />(Japan)'

Answer: Akihito


Question: 'Freed from slavery at age 9, this future educator worked in a coal mine while attending school'

Answer: Booker T. Washington


Question: 'In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", this "G.I. Jane" actress provided the voice of the gypsy Esmeralda'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'Beatniks stereotypically wore these tight-collared sweaters, often in black'

Answer: Turtlenecks


Question: 'The number of years in a millennium divided by the number of years in a score'

Answer: 50 (1000/20)


Question: 'It's the official language of Qatar & Kuwait'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'In 1891 he created his first of more than 30 posters, "Moulin Rouge--La Goulue"'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'This TV co-hostess was recognized by "The Guiness Book of World Records" as television's most frequent clapper'

Answer: Vanna White


Question: 'This "king" of the dinosaurs had a muscular jaw that, it's thought, could rip off 500 pounds of meat at once'

Answer: the Tyrannosaurus rex


Question: 'Trouble in this former kingdom now part of China captured headlines in March'

Answer: Tibet


Question: 'The basset hound is second only to this dog breed in having the keenest sense of smell'

Answer: a bloodhound


Question:
'If
you
aspire
to the
spire of
a church,
it's one of these'

Answer: a steeple


Question: 'His 1892 work "Manao Tupapau" shows a superstitious Tahitian girl who is terrified of a dead spirit'

Answer: Gauguin


Question: 'In this 1961 No. 1 hit, "You saw me standing alone / Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own"'

Answer: "Blue Moon"


Question: 'This plant-eater is the largest, most common & best known of the horned dinosaurs'

Answer: the triceratops


Question: 'The Times reported this New Yorker was quitting the presidential race following his defeat in the Florida primary'

Answer: Rudy Giuliani


Question: 'Famed for its exceptional wool, the Merino sheep was originally developed in this country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Another name for a lottery; there was a famous "Irish" one until 1987'

Answer: sweepstakes


Question: 'In 1838 Eugene Delacroix painted separate portraits of Chopin & this woman, Chopin's lover'

Answer: George Sand


Question: 'For adults, the U.S. Judo Federation has this rank directly below a black belt'

Answer: brown


Question: 'This dinosaur was swift, but not as fast or as smart as in "Jurassic Park"; it did have that scary sickle-like claw, though'

Answer: the Velociraptor


Question: 'Upcoming trials for 9/11 suspects held at this facility were reported in 2008'

Answer: Guantanamo Bay


Question: 'Species of this creature include the chinstrap & the adelie'

Answer: penguins


Question: 'An item retained for its sentimental value'

Answer: a keepsake


Question: 'From 1948 to 1951, this Fauvist designed & decorated the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France'

Answer: Henri Matisse


Question: 'This feline has been strutting to a Henry Mancini soundtrack since the 1960s'

Answer: the Pink Panther


Question: 'The name of the Laplatasaurus honors a river on the border of Uruguay & this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'A tentative deal with producers reported on February 10 proved to be the end of this labor action'

Answer: the Writers Guild strike


Question: 'Also known as a cattalo, it's the hybrid bovine that results when you breed an American bison & a regular cow'

Answer: the beefalo


Question: 'Depressed arborial species seen here'

Answer: a weeping willow


Question: 'He was known for his readymades such as "L.H.O.O.Q.", a copy of the "Mona Lisa" with a penciled-in mustache & beard'

Answer: (Marcel) Duchamp


Question: 'He earned the nickname "Galloping Ghost" after scoring 5 touchdowns in a 1924 college football game'

Answer: Red Grange


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) The famous 50-foot in the American Museum of Natural History is a dinosaur whose name comes from the Greek for "weight", as in an atmospheric meter'

Answer: a Barosaurus


Question: 'In 2008 the Times covered clashes following this Serbian territory's declaration of independence'

Answer: Kosovo


Question: 'The criollo & the hackney are breeds of these'

Answer: horses


Question: 'The USS Prime is a prime example of these vessels that clear harbors of dangerous explosives'

Answer: a minesweeper


Question: 'His universal law of gravitation explained many things, including the action of tides & the motion of comets'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'In 1962 Oscar loved her in "West Side Story" (& isn't she the first one you think of for the category?)'

Answer: Rita Moreno


Question: 'This last Romanov to rule Russia became the last czar when he was dethroned in 1917'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'Politician & author of "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"'

Answer: Churchill


Question: '"A.Y.T.G.?  I.M., M."<br />by Judy Blume'

Answer: Are You There God? It\'s Me, Margaret


Question: 'High blood pressure & glaucoma can be treated with metoprolol, one of this "blocker" class of drugs'

Answer: beta blockers


Question: 'Robert Boyle invented a vacuum pump & discovered that this does not travel in a vacuum'

Answer: sound


Question: 'In 2002 she won an Emmy for a special about Hattie McDaniel, but it's her acting Oscar for "Ghost" you might remember'

Answer: Whoopi Goldberg


Question: 'In the 1780s, when the divine right of royalty was questioned, she said, "I am an aristocrat. It is my profession"'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'A lake on the New York-Vermont border is named for this explorer who visited the region in 1609'

Answer: Champlain


Question: '"J.A.T.G.P."<br />by Roald Dahl'

Answer: James and the Giant Peach


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew airmails us something from The Thunderbirds in Las Vegas, NV.)  Several times in each show, all 6 Thunderbirds, flying 18 inches apart, team up in this formation named for a Greek letter'

Answer: delta formation


Question: 'Lucasian Prof. of Mathematics at Cambridge, he was born on January 8, 1942, 300 years to the day after Galileo's death'

Answer: (Stephen) Hawking


Question: 'In 1982 this butler did it--& got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his trouble, for "Arthur"'

Answer: (John) Gielgud


Question: '3 Russian czars were named Fyodor, which corresponds to this name in English'

Answer: Theodore


Question: 'Diplomat & premier of China from 1949 to 1976 (one spelling)'

Answer: Chou En-Lai


Question: '"A.I.L.D." by<br />William Faulkner'

Answer: As I Lay Dying


Question: 'Charlton Heston played a survivor of an apocalyptic war in this 1971 thriller'

Answer: Omega Man


Question: 'In 1932 James Chadwick discovered this subatomic particle that appears in all atoms except hydrogen'

Answer: the neutron


Question: 'The 1961 Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to "An Evening with" him "and Elaine May"'

Answer: Mike Nichols


Question: 'At 43 years, the reign of this founder of the Russian navy was the longest of any czar'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Lucy Walter was this English king's mistress during his exile in the 1600s in Holland'

Answer: Charles II


Question: '"E."<br />by Jane Austen'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'This triple star system is the brightest celestial object in a certain horsey constellation'

Answer: Alpha Centauri


Question: 'Known for the second law of thermodynamics, this lord helped with the laying of the transatlantic cable'

Answer: Kelvin


Question: 'The 1958 Tony for Dramatic Actress was bestowed on this "First Lady of American Theatre" for her role in "Time Remembered"'

Answer: Helen Hayes


Question: 'The 1604 invasion against this czar by the False Dmitri & his Polish troops marked the start of the "Time of Troubles"'

Answer: Boris Godunov


Question: 'In 1948 he testified to congress that Alger Hiss had illegally passed him official documents'

Answer: Whittaker Chambers


Question: '"T.K.R."<br />by Khaled Hosseini'

Answer: The Kite Runner


Question: 'Found in blood serum, they contain the antibodies of the immune system'

Answer: gamma globulins


Question: 'Meaning "painful", it literally refers to the type of pain inflicted on Jesus & on the followers of Spartacus'

Answer: excruciating


Question: 'Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but this boss of Bob Cratchit most surely did not!'

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge


Question: 'Research has revised the old view that these sibling-less "children" are selfish & warped'

Answer: Only children


Question: 'Its "A" ring is a little over 9,000 miles wide'

Answer: Saturn


Question: '"Provocative" name for the 1960s practice of combing from ends to scalp to create a bouffant'

Answer: Teasing


Question: 'Peter Ustinov was originally to play Inspector Clouseau in this 1963 film, but he backed out'

Answer: The Pink Panther


Question: 'An Isuzu might call itself one tough one of these, a Spanish word for "man"'

Answer: Hombre


Question: 'This famous sleuth simply could not be beat, & to think that I saw him at 221B Baker Street!'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Term for kids' daily farm tasks like hog-slopping & daily home tasks like dishwashing'

Answer: Chores


Question: 'Its perigee, the closest it can come to Earth, is 221,456 miles'

Answer: The moon


Question: 'Helene Curtis Inc. was the first to market this aerosol product in the 1950s'

Answer: Hair spray


Question: 'It's popularly known as "MIB" for short'

Answer: Men In Black


Question: 'This Ford model may be tired of being a "lone" one'

Answer: Ranger


Question: 'This Cat in a Hat was a sorcerer at that, & taking things farther, he helped King Arthur'

Answer: Merlin


Question: 'A J.D., which stands for this type of youth, may come from a broken home -- or just be bored'

Answer: Juvenile Delinquent


Question: 'The lowest point on this heavenly body is the Diana Chasma, a rift valley'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'In the 20th C. cortisone joined coal tar & sulfur as a treatment for this flaking of skin from the scalp'

Answer: Dandruff


Question: 'Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey & Margaret Avery all won Oscar nominations for this 1985 film'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'This Dodge could point out that its "geographic" Indian name means "friend"'

Answer: Dakota


Question: 'Homer's roamer he was, for after a war, he tried to go home, for 9 years...no, more!'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'In this 1998 film Julia Roberts played the title character & young Jena Malone had to cope with her'

Answer: Stepmom


Question: 'The Chandra Orbiting Telescope takes this kind of photo; hey, maybe we can see Pluto in its underwear!'

Answer: X-ray


Question: 'Marcel Grateau, for whom marcelling is named, pioneered the use of this item seen here'

Answer: Curling iron


Question: 'Gerard Depardieu made his English-language debut in this 1990 film'

Answer: Green Card


Question: 'The Toyota named for this treeless Arctic region might want to warm you up in its long bed'

Answer: Tundra


Question: 'He would eat folks in the rain, this good doc is quite insane, he would eat them just for fun, his film went to No. 1'

Answer: Hannibal Lecter


Question: 'These 2 Latin words following "in" mean someone acting "in place of parents", not "crazy parents"'

Answer: In loco parentis


Question: 'In 1986 astronomers found a massive one of these at the center of the Milky Way galaxy'

Answer: Black hole


Question: 'In the 1800s so many men used macassar oil in their hair that sofa covers called these were developed'

Answer: Anti-macassars


Question: 'Malcolm McDowell played the classical music-loving violent punk Alex in this Stanley Kubrick film'

Answer: A Clockwork Orange


Question: 'This Chevy could promise all the excitement of the same-named Kevin Costner western'

Answer: Silverado


Question: 'James Buchanan was the president before him; Andrew Johnson, after him'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'To prove treacherous, to betray or swindle'

Answer: Double cross


Question: 'Comics make me unhappy (stop) split with Steve Martin (stop) then Ellen DeGeneres (stop)'

Answer: Anne Heche


Question: 'The Po River flows across Italy & empties into this arm of the Mediterranean near Porto Tolle'

Answer: Adriatic Sea


Question: 'The road paved with good intentions leads you to its gates'

Answer: Hell


Question: 'The VII was the first of this brand's handheld devices with built-in Internet connectivity'

Answer: Palm Pilot


Question: 'Before the 1941-42 battle of this capital, the Wehrmacht was advancing; after, retreating'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'It's the type of view of the brain, seen here'

Answer: Cross section


Question: 'Take my advice (stop) no one cares how you hang the toilet paper (stop) "Wake up and smell the coffee" (stop)'

Answer: Ann Landers


Question: 'U.S. prisoners facing execution are booked into the line of cells known by this 2-word phrase'

Answer: Death row


Question: 'Before the work of Johann Stamitz & others, this type of work usually had 3 movements; since then, 4'

Answer: Symphony


Question: 'Jane Russell pushed this Playtex bra in TV commercials'

Answer: Cross Your Heart


Question: 'Bush has a silver foot in his mouth (stop) same with W (stop) so how did he beat me as Texas governor (stop)'

Answer: Ann Richards


Question: 'The Po rises on Monte Viso in the Cottian range of these mountains'

Answer: Alps


Question: 'Decorative & functional items adorning one of these "chambers" include racks & iron maidens'

Answer: Torture chambers


Question: 'Nintendo's 1998 version of this toy can transform your black & white games to color'

Answer: Game Boy


Question: 'This 23,000 square mile area was in different hands before & after the event seen here: [Camp David Accords]'

Answer: Sinai Peninsula


Question: 'Type of location where Oedipus slew his dad, & where Robert Johnson may have gotten his blues skill'

Answer: Crossroads


Question: 'The New Yorker finally published my short story (stop) it's all "Falling In Place" (stop) "Love Always" (stop)'

Answer: Ann Beattie


Question: 'Named for a Germanic people, this populous region of northern Italy is drained by the Po's tributaries'

Answer: Lombardy


Question: 'The device seen here, it puts someone in a precarious position'

Answer: Dunking booth


Question: 'The Osborne, the first portable one of these, weighed 24 pounds but could fit under an airline seat'

Answer: Portable computer


Question: 'Before a 1992 discovery, we thought only the sun had these; now we know that PSR B1257 + 12 does too'

Answer: Planets


Question: 'Combatants on this TV show have included Pat Buchanan, Michael Kinsley & John Sununu'

Answer: Crossfire


Question: 'Love being a prima ballerina (stop) hate playing the dying swan (stop) it's 1925, I'll take the pension (stop)'

Answer: Anna Pavlova


Question: 'The Po Valley produces this wine whose commercials said that "on ice" it was "so nice"'

Answer: Riunite


Question: 'As an earthquake has an epicenter, a nuclear bomb detonation has this worst place to be'

Answer: ground zero


Question: 'The Bellboy, one of these introduced at the 1962 World's Fair, was the size of a brick & weighed almost as much'

Answer: Pager


Question: 'In 1982 a street outside Berlin's Olympic Stadium was renamed in his honor'

Answer: Jesse Owens


Question: 'It's only within the last 600,000 years that this range became the highest'

Answer: the Himalayas


Question: '2006:<br />"____ on a Plane"'

Answer: Snakes


Question: '"Jeopardy!" will reign forever! Or at least this long, 1,000 years'

Answer: millennium


Question: 'Headquartered in Atlanta, it flies under the symbol DAL'

Answer: Delta


Question: 'An apple & a crossbow play important roles in this 1804 Schiller tale'

Answer: William Tell


Question: '(Ken Burns reads the clue.)  Since Jim Creighton of the Brooklyn Niagaras tried an illegal rising fastball in 1859, players have looked for an edge, like the time Albert Belle got caught in 1994 using a bat that had been doctored this way'

Answer: it was corked


Question: 'The Brooks range in Alaska is sometimes included as part of this range'

Answer: the Rockies


Question: '1988:<br />"____ in the Mist"'

Answer: Gorillas


Question: 'Our stage isn't big enough for me! I need one of these large outdoor venues where sporting events are held'

Answer: stadium


Question: 'This consumer products giant rates a PG for its symbol'

Answer: Procter & Gamble


Question: 'This 2-word Vietnam War item consisted of 2 weedkillers--2,4-D & 2,4,5-T'

Answer: Agent Orange


Question: '(Ken Burns reads the clue.)  You can't talk about baseball without mentioning this small Caribbean nation that's given us players like Jose Reyes & Sammy Sosa'

Answer: the Dominican Republic


Question: 'This range was covered with glaciers that formed lakes, like Como and Constance'

Answer: the Alps


Question: '1959 & 2006:<br />"The Shaggy ____"'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'Up here I feel like my life is playing out in one of these public places where you might ooh & aah over a humphead wrasse'

Answer: an aquarium


Question: 'Take stock in this corporation, SCHW'

Answer: Schwab


Question: 'The European type of this holiday plant seen here grows most often on apple trees'

Answer: mistletoe


Question: '(Ken Burns reads.)  In 1995 she said the owners negotiated in bad faith, ended the strike & sent players back to work on their existing contract; 11 years later she would become a Supreme Court Justice'

Answer: Sotomayor


Question: 'Some of the highest mountains in this, the world's longest surface chain, are active volcanoes'

Answer: the Andes


Question: '2005: "March of the ____''

Answer: Penguins


Question: 'The pressure of constant adulation pains this part of my skull that encloses the brain'

Answer: the cranium


Question: 'This company that trades under AXP may give you a lot of credit'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'Have a devil of a time in this smallest state in Australia, often called the Apple Isle'

Answer: Tasmania


Question: '(Ken Burns reads the clue.)  He learned to hit lefty so he could be 2 steps closer to first base, & the Prime Minister of Japan once said he "makes me proud to be Japanese"'

Answer: Ichiro Suzuki


Question: 'This range includes the oldest mountains in North America'

Answer: the Appalachians


Question: '1987:<br />"The ____ of August"'

Answer: Whales


Question: 'I promise I'll stop pontificating if you promise to not take me back to one of these recuperative hospitals'

Answer: a sanitarium


Question: 'This company with the symbol LIZ has designs on you'

Answer: Liz Claiborne


Question: 'This Florida sports & concert venue was demolished in 2008'

Answer: the Orange Bowl Stadium


Question: 'Bud Selig, seen here, pulled double duty as Major League Baseball commissioner & owner of this team that shook up baseball when it switched leagues in 1997'

Answer: the Milwaukee Brewers


Question: 'Iolani Palace in Honolulu was seen as the headquarters for the state police unit on this '70s TV series'

Answer: Hawaii Five-O


Question: 'A hated person may be burned in this symbolic way, from the Latin for "likeness"'

Answer: effigy


Question: 'Carl Sandburg wrote 6 volumes on this president; the first 2 made up "The Prairie Years"'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'With 44 platforms, this NYC terminal is the world's largest railway terminal'

Answer: Grand Central Station


Question: 'The effort to save the golden monkey is this country's biggest species protection project since the panda'

Answer: China


Question: '1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one'

Answer: the Palm Pilot


Question: 'This small Scandinavian country's parliament meets at Christiansborg Palace, the fifth on the same site'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Some of my best friends are Samoans: I don't have this, from the Latin for "judging before"'

Answer: prejudice


Question: '"The River of Doubt" tells of this president's jungle adventure & trip up the Amazon after he left office'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'This U.S. city has been called "Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler"'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'The Muriqui prize, named for a South American monkey, is given for helping preserve this country's forest'

Answer: Brazil


Question: '1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor'

Answer: Intel


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Chilean presidential palace.) The presidential palace in Santiago, Chile looks a lot more peaceful than on September 11, 1973, when it was attacked & this man was violently thrown from power'

Answer: (Salvador) Allende


Question: 'Latin for "after" gave us this synonym for "keister"'

Answer: posterior


Question: 'He's the subject of 2003's "An Unfinished Life"'

Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Question: 'With a route over 5,700 miles, the world's longest railway line is this Russian one'

Answer: Trans-Siberian Railway


Question: 'This biggest type of New World monkey has a scream that can be heard even in tropical rainstorms'

Answer: a howler monkey


Question: '1982: this company's 64 computer is introduced, soon becoming the best-selling model of all time'

Answer: Commodore


Question: 'Japan's Imperial Palace is on the former site of this castle, also the old name for Tokyo'

Answer: Edo


Question: 'Reading a declassified document is hard when the text is full of these, from the Latin for "to drive back"'

Answer: redaction


Question: 'Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'At over 15,000 feet high, the highest railway station in South America is in Condor in this small country'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'Macaca mulatta is better known as this monkey that's helped in medical science, especially blood grouping'

Answer: Rhesus


Question: '1997: Altavista introduces this free online translator'

Answer: Babelfish


Question: 'This borough of greater London put a plaque on the "timely" site of the old palace where Elizabeth I was born'

Answer: Greenwich


Question: 'If you're thunderstruck you're this, from the Latin tonare, "thunder"'

Answer: astonished


Question: 'Jon Meacham's 2008 bestseller "American Lion" is a portrait of this president during his White House years'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'The highest speed recorded on a national rail system was the 357 mph by this country's TGV in 2007'

Answer: France


Question: 'The Chacma & Anubis are 2 of the 5 species of these large, ground-dwelling African monkeys'

Answer: baboons


Question: '1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600'

Answer: (Seymour) Cray


Question: 'Now in season 23, its producer says it's the only show with "no script, no actors, no host & no re-enactments"'

Answer: COPS


Question: 'An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations'

Answer: Ping-pong (table tennis)


Question: 'Graceful skating champ Michelle Kwan was born in & trains in this state known more for surf than ice'

Answer: California


Question: 'The paperbacks in this writer's "Goosebumps" series have numbers as well as titles'

Answer: R.L. Stine


Question: 'First used in the U.S. in 1968, it's the 3-digit number to dial when you need help in an emergency'

Answer: 911


Question: 'It's the "groovy" image seen here'

Answer: Peace symbol


Question: 'These beneficial beetles are also known as ladybirds'

Answer: Ladybugs


Question: 'In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" & sailed off to stop WWI'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'Get "Up Close And Personal" with this "Catwoman" who was Miss Orange County in 1978'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'This writer's "Foundation" was published in a one-volume paperback with a novel by Poul Anderson'

Answer: Isaac Asimov


Question: 'A plunger is also known as this workman's helper'

Answer: Plumber


Question: 'Daylight saving time on the west coast changes to this "time" on the last Sunday in October'

Answer: Pacific standard time


Question: 'A smart glowworm grows up to be one of these "flies"'

Answer: Firefly


Question: 'This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794'

Answer: Lord Nelson


Question: 'This actress whose middle name is Michelle slays me as TV's vampish Buffy'

Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar


Question: 'This "Daddy" & "Zoya" writer's first 6 romance novels were originally published in paperback'

Answer: Danielle Steel


Question: 'These "notes" used as helpful guides to famous books are "Your Key to the Classics"'

Answer: Cliff\'s Notes


Question: 'This California desert city was originally known as "Agua Caliente" (Hot Water)'

Answer: Palm Springs


Question: 'A slang term for food, it's also the larva of a beetle'

Answer: Grub


Question: 'Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing'

Answer: Spear


Question: 'Wins at the Sara Lee Classic & the Oldsmobile Classic make Michelle McGann a seasoned pro in this sport'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'Stephen King started this 1996 paperback serial with Volume 1:  "The Two Dead Girls"'

Answer: The Green Mile


Question: 'In large quantities it's an explosive; in pill form it helps heart patients'

Answer: Nitroglycerin


Question: 'This much-sought hermetic artifact could allegedly improve your health & turn metals into gold'

Answer: Philosopher\'s stone


Question: 'VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE:<br />Because of its unusual body, the beetle seen here shares part of its name with this mammal'

Answer: Giraffe Beetle


Question: 'He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'The lovely & talented Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro on this "Trek" incarnation'

Answer: Star Trek:  The Next Generation


Question: 'This thriller writer was set when she earned $1 million for the paperback rights to "A Stranger Is Watching"'

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark


Question: 'From the Greek for "of the soul", one of these practitioners claims to help you forecast the future'

Answer: Psychic


Question: 'Holy geography!  These territories were ruled by the Popes from 756 to 1870'

Answer: Papal States


Question: 'This colorful beetle family was held sacred by the ancient Egyptians'

Answer: Scarab


Question: 'Lutzelburg is an old name for the capital of this grand duchy'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'The 2 major varieties of this sour fruit are Eureka & Lisbon'

Answer: Lemon


Question: 'A French doctor pioneered & gave his name to this childbirth method that emphasizes breathing techniques'

Answer: Lamaze


Question: 'On March 31, 1968, he announced on national TV that he would not seek re-election'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Nearly all of WJM's six o' clock news staff was fired (but not Ted Baxter) on this sitcom's final episode'

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Question: 'A semester-long class on equines'

Answer: Horse course


Question: 'After entering Holland, this river divides into 3 branches: the Waal, the Lek & the Ijssel'

Answer: Rhine


Question: 'This Chinese celebration, which begins in late January or early February, ends with the Lantern Festival'

Answer: Chinese New Year


Question: 'Steven Wright jokes that because he was born this way he leaves a house through the window'

Answer: Caesarean section


Question: 'He coached Miami to an NCAA national title & the Cowboys to 2 Super Bowl titles'

Answer: Jimmy Johnson


Question: 'On this series' last show, Felix moved out to remarry Gloria'

Answer: The Odd Couple


Question: 'Total cost for a taxi ride'

Answer: Cab tab


Question: 'Although British Columbia is Canada's only province on the Pacific, this territory is farther west'

Answer: Yukon


Question: 'From the French for "set of four", it's a set of bells hung in a tower'

Answer: Carilon


Question: 'If a baby's feet or buttocks present first & its head last, it is in this type of abnormal presentation'

Answer: Breech birth


Question: 'The first black heavyweight boxing champ, this Texan reigned from 1908 to 1915'

Answer: Jack Johnson


Question: 'Her sitcom ended in 1998 with a mockumentary celebrating her long career since Vaudeville'

Answer: Ellen DeGeneres


Question: 'A place to store sodium chloride'

Answer: Salt vault


Question: 'This French island in the Mediterranean was once ruled by the Bank of San Giorgio in Genoa'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'This historic Austrian currency is abbreviated as "Sch", "AS" or simply "S"'

Answer: Schilling


Question: 'The sac that contains this fluid has ruptured when a woman's "water breaks"'

Answer: Amniotic fluid


Question: 'At one time, Tippi Hedren was his mother-in-law'

Answer: Don Johnson


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Julie Pinson)  This long-running soap ended in 1989 with Helen Gallagher leading the cast in singing "Danny Boy" "'

Answer: Ryan\'s Hope


Question: 'A serious play about one of the 3 Hindu gods'

Answer: Brahma drama


Question: 'Finland's northernmost point lies at its border with this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'A fine soft goatskin leather tanned with sumac, or the country for which it's named'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'It's the surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the perineum to enlarge the birth opening'

Answer: Episiotomy


Question: 'In his first novel in 1893, Stephen Crane tells the tale of this "Girl of the Streets"'

Answer: Maggie Johnson


Question: 'This series ended its run in 1991 with a reunion & visit to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: China Beach


Question: 'A weak & pale trumpeter bird'

Answer: Wan swan


Question: 'One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones"'

Answer: William Shakespeare (he\'s buried at Stratford)


Question: 'In the New Testament, Zacchaeus climbs a tree to get a better view of this man'

Answer: Jesus


Question: 'Wilfrid Brambell played Paul McCartney's granddad, "a clean old man", in this 1964 film'

Answer: A Hard Day\'s Night


Question: 'What the British call an estate car, we call this type of "wagon"'

Answer: a station wagon


Question: 'This Egyptian queen didn't make an asp of herself, but she did use an asp snake to kill herself in 30 B.C.'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'The knife made to section this citrus fruit has a double-serrated edge with a gentle curve the last couple inches'

Answer: a grapefruit


Question: 'A Utah senator or boat's passageway'

Answer: Hatch


Question: 'According to 1 Kings, after her death, Queen  Jezebel's body would be eaten in the street by these animals'

Answer: dogs


Question: 'David Strathairn played Edward R. Murrow in this 2005 film'

Answer: Good Night, and Good Luck


Question: 'It's a windscreen to the limeys, but it's one of these to us Yanks'

Answer: a windshield


Question: 'The timber species of these American pit vipers are found in 27 states'

Answer: a rattlesnake


Question: 'It was used by the farmer's wife to cut off the tails of the 3 blind mice'

Answer: a carving knive


Question: 'A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook'

Answer: a barb


Question: 'Luke 22:3 says that Satan entered into this apostle'

Answer: Judas


Question: '1967 drama in which they called Rod Steiger Sheriff Gillespie & Sidney Poitier Mr. Tibbs'

Answer: In the Heat of the Night


Question: 'What we call gasoline, the Brits call this'

Answer: petrol


Question: 'The Eastern species of this is encircled with broad red and black bands, separated by narrow yellow ones'

Answer: a coral snake


Question: 'The name of this large kitchen knife resembling a hatchet is from a word meaning "to split"'

Answer: a cleaver


Question: 'A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane'

Answer: a polyp


Question: 'It's the color of manna, as described in Exodus'

Answer: white


Question: 'Vampires appear when the sun sets for a month in Alaska in this 2007 film based on a graphic novel'

Answer: 30 Days of Night


Question: 'This car part is the bonnet to the Brits, but to us it's one of these'

Answer: the hood


Question: 'Ophiophagus hannah, the scientific name of this "royal" venomous snake, means that it eats other snakes'

Answer: a king cobra


Question: 'This wedding knife comes in a server set & is often engraved with the names of the bride & groom'

Answer: a cake knife


Question: 'It's the noble gas on the periodic table that fits the category'

Answer: neon


Question: 'Found in some Bibles but not in others, this collection of writings is from the Greek for "hidden things"'

Answer: the Apocrypha


Question: 'Joaquin Phoenix hides that he's from a family full of cops, including brother Mark Wahlberg in this 2007 drama'

Answer: We Own the Night


Question: 'It's a transmission in America & one of these "box"es across the Atlantic'

Answer: a gearbox


Question: 'With a top speed of about 12 mph, this deadly African snake is said to be the world's fastest serpent'

Answer: the black mamba


Question: 'A specialty knife designed to slice this deli item has holes so that the slices will not stick to the blade'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'An estate given by a lord to a vassal in return for service'

Answer: a fief


Question: 'Disclosing tablets stain this sticky whitish film on teeth, showing what you missed when you brushed & flossed'

Answer: plaque


Question: 'In 1961 this Western expanded to an hour; half-hour reruns began airing under the title "Marshal Dillon"'

Answer: Gunsmoke


Question: 'Napoleon would feel defeated there:<br />WOO LATER'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'In 1689 William III & this queen ascended the British throne & accepted Parliament's Bill of Rights'

Answer: Mary


Question: '"A boat of dirty and disreputable appearance" is floating on this river at the beginning of "Our Mutual Friend"'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'Diva fashionista Wilhelmina Slater is the nemesis of this ABC title character'

Answer: Ugly Betty


Question: 'Avascular necrosis of the femoral head may lead to surgery to replace this joint'

Answer: the hip joint


Question: 'Before starring as Detective Frank Cannon in the '70s, he narrated "The Fugitive" & "Rocky and His Friends" in the '60s'

Answer: William Conrad


Question: 'An "equine" town in the Yukon:<br />HE HOTWIRES'

Answer: Whitehorse


Question: 'In 1415 Czech religious reformer John Hus was condemned & burned at the stake for this crime'

Answer: heresy


Question: '"The Old Curiosity Shop" mentions this "corner" in "that dreary pile" Westminster Abbey; Dickens ended up there'

Answer: the Poet\'s Corner


Question: 'In the 5th inning of a 1920 World Series game, Bill Wambsganss pulled off this kind of triple play'

Answer: an unassisted triple play


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) For a six-foot man who weighs 170 pounds, divide weight in pounds by height in inches square, then multiply by 703 to calculate this number for an adult; normal range is 18.5 to 24.9'

Answer: BMI (body mass index)


Question: 'In 1965 Pernell Roberts left this series & his part as eldest son Adam, saying he'd grown tired of the role'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: 'Capital of a prairie province:<br />MOON DENT'

Answer: Edmonton


Question: 'In 1862 this Prussian said that "The great questions of the day" would be decided "by iron and blood"'

Answer: Bismarck


Question: 'In an 1845 tale, Mrs. Peerybingle says, "To have" one of these "on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!"'

Answer: a cricket


Question: 'Rare except in "Jeopardy!" clues & nature films, this adjective means relating to or typical of bears'

Answer: ursine


Question: 'Chronic bronchitis & emphysema are causes of COPD, chronic obstructive this disease'

Answer: pulmonary


Question: 'Martial arts star Bruce Lee played Kato, sidekick to this masked crimefighter, in an ABC series'

Answer: the Green Hornet


Question: 'A "feminine" city on Prince Edward Island:<br />NEWT LOOT CHART'

Answer: Charlottetown


Question: 'In 1946 Vojvodina & this province were made autonomous within Serbia in Yugoslavia'

Answer: Kosovo


Question: 'This ghost wears a long chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel"'

Answer: Jacob Marley


Question: 'As Schliemann is to Troy, Woolley is to this city'

Answer: Ur


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in front of a large monitor.)  Within moments of a fracture, the bone begins to knit by creating a callus, which is a tough meshwork of this protein found in skin and bones; eventually the callus is replaced by bone'

Answer: collagen


Question: 'On July 10, 1962, this  satellite relayed the first live TV images across the Atlantic from the United States to France'

Answer: Telstar


Question: 'A provincial capital (long may it rule):<br />GAINER'

Answer: Regina


Question: 'In 338 B.C. this Macedonian king ended Greece's independence with victory in the battle of Chaeronea'

Answer: Philip


Question: 'Dickens thought of calling this mystery "Dead? Or Alive?", leading some to think the title hero didn't really die'

Answer: The Mystery of Edwin Drood


Question: 'These mystical scriptures of Hinduism date from about 900 B.C.'

Answer: the Upanishads


Question: 'In the 50 states, the highlighted area seen here is by far the most important for producing this'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'When Nick Nolte won for this film, he thanked his director, Barbra Streisand -- what a "prince"'

Answer: The Prince of Tides


Question: 'Some 19th century papier mache furniture was painted & then inlaid with mother-of-this'

Answer: pearl


Question: 'The Skye breed of this dog is known for its alertness'

Answer: a Terrier


Question: 'Gustav Mahler was treated for severe mental stress by this noted Austrian psychoanalyst'

Answer: Freud


Question: 'It's often found in front of "marine sandwich"'

Answer: sub-


Question: 'Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Northern & Southern this'

Answer: Rhodesia


Question: 'Jodie Foster was far from "silent" when she won for this film: she said, "I can't stop laughing"'

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs


Question: 'A torchiere is a standing one of these that often has an inverted bowl shade'

Answer: a lamp


Question: 'The Afghan hunts by this sense, not by smell'

Answer: sight


Question: 'Franz Werfel's most famous novel is "The Song of" this young girl of Lourdes'

Answer: Bernadette


Question: 'Helico- refers to a spiral & helio-to this'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'Ponce is the chief Caribbean port of this island once ruled by Ponce de Leon'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'When he won for directing "Bugsy", he thanked Annette Bening, the mother of his new baby'

Answer: Warren Beatty


Question: 'It isn't "hard" to come up with this other name for a grandfather chair'

Answer: an easy chair


Question: 'Of the Brussels Dragon, the Brussels Unicorn or the Brussels Griffon, the one that's a dog'

Answer: a Brussels Griffon


Question: 'At the 1992 Olympics, sisters Doris & Angelika Neuner took the gold & silver in this sport lying down'

Answer: luge


Question: 'Tetra-, as seen in the words tetrapod & tetralogy, refers to this number'

Answer: four


Question: 'This Canadian Maritime province was named after the native land of England's James I'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: 'Directing winner Oliver Stone said he hopes this film prompts the FBI to open its secret files'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'The gateleg style of this piece of furniture is a variation of the drop-leaf one'

Answer: a table


Question: 'One of these dogs rescued 40 people lost in the snow in Switzerland around 1800'

Answer: a St. Bernard


Question: 'Between 1856 &1863 this monk tested at least 5,000 pea plants'

Answer: Gregor Mendel


Question: 'The prefixes hem-, haem-, haemo- & hemo- all refer to this'

Answer: blood


Question: '1 of the 4 countries on the continent of Africa whose name starts with "B"'

Answer: Botswana


Question: 'Beau Bridges made a pitch for gun control when he won for his TV role as this Reagan press spokesman'

Answer: (James) Brady


Question: 'Born circa 1718, this English cabinetmaker was a "chip" off the old block: his father made furniture, too'

Answer: (Thomas) Chippendale


Question: 'Several breeds were crossed to develop the giant schnauzer, including this "great" dog'

Answer: a Great Dane


Question: 'This emperor's brother was killed in Mexico in 1867 & his wife was assassinated in 1898'

Answer: Franz Joseph


Question: 'It comes before "light", "sound" & "violet"'

Answer: ultra-


Question: 'by definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'This singer cut his "Black Or White" video after complaints it was lewd & too violent'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'This musical direction is sometimes abbreviated stacc.'

Answer: staccato


Question: 'This Pennsylvania capital was previously called Louisbourg, after Louis XVI'

Answer: Harrisburg


Question: '"Martin" was one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems"'

Answer: Joyce Kilmer


Question: 'In 1989 accidents on this exercise apparatus "bounced" nearly 16,000 people to the hospital'

Answer: a trampoline


Question: 'The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth'

Answer: the mantle


Question: 'In January 1992 this former first lady announced her candidacy for president of the Philippines'

Answer: Imelda Marcos


Question: 'Solmization is the system of representing these by syllables instead of letters'

Answer: notes


Question: 'It was chosen as a state capital in 1837, the same year Lincoln moved there'

Answer: Springfield, Illinois


Question: 'Rupert Brooke wrote, "There some corner of a foreign field that is for ever" this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'Until 1967 it was illegal to teach this theory in Tennessee public schools'

Answer: the theory of evolution


Question: 'From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element'

Answer: silver


Question: 'This author of the smash bestseller "Roots" died in 1992 at age 70'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'Italian for "in chapel style", it has come to mean singing without instrumental accompaniment'

Answer: a capella


Question: 'Named for a city in France, it's located in the Green Mountains on the upper Winooski River'

Answer: Montpelier (Vermont)


Question: 'Longfellow wrote, "There was a little girl who had" one of these "right in the middle of her forehead"'

Answer: a curl


Question: 'You'll often find Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of this magazine'

Answer: Mad magazine


Question: 'It's the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere'

Answer: the lithosphere


Question: 'Croatia & Slovenia, former parts of this country, were recognized by the Euro. Community as ind. states'

Answer: Yugoslavia


Question: 'A musical composition that accompanies a procession; funeral ones are played in slow tempo'

Answer: a march


Question: 'This city, not Richmond, is where you can find the first White House of the Confederacy'

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama


Question: 'In this poem, T.S. Eliot wrote, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws"'

Answer: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"


Question: 'In 1779 this Virginia college became the 1st in the U.S. to offer professional training in law'

Answer: The College of William and Mary


Question: 'In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'In 1991 reformer Ron Carey became the first directly elected president of this transportation union'

Answer: The Teamsters


Question: 'This French term that means "improvised" often refers to a piano piece that sounds improvised'

Answer: impromptu


Question: 'Centennial Park in this southern capital contains a full-scale replica of the Parthenon'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'In "Harlem" he asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'In 1977 John Neumann, a bishop of Philadelphia, became the first American male to be made this'

Answer: saint


Question: 'John Alden was the last surviving signer of this'

Answer: the Mayflower Compact


Question: 'After taking over the government of Iraq in 1968, he made himself a general, though he'd never been in the army'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: '"Wally's Girl Trouble"'

Answer: Leave it to Beaver


Question: 'Her daughter Irene also received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Born in 1912, the man nicknamed "Slammin' Sam" played this sport'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'While flying near Douaumont during this war, Victor Chapman became the first U.S. aviator ever to be shot down'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'An assumed identity, or the type of letter that accompanies a resume'

Answer: Cover letter


Question: 'This American businessman known as the "Pickle King" could have had 56 other varieties instead of nicknames'

Answer: H.J. Heinz


Question: '"Kitty Karry-All is Missing"'

Answer: The Brady Bunch


Question: 'In 1705 he published "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets"'

Answer: Edmond Halley


Question: 'On the large beads on these you say the Lord's Prayer; on the smaller beads, the Hail Mary'

Answer: Rosary


Question: 'The first U.S. automobile accident fatality, Henry Bliss was run over in 1899 on 74th Street in this city'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'Emily Post says in this kind of letter, don't call death "a blessing in disguise"'

Answer: Condolence letter


Question: 'A 1937 riding accident left this "Anything Goes" composer permanently disabled'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: '"Never Trust a Naked Martian"'

Answer: My Favorite Martian


Question: 'This Nobel Prize-winning physicist received his doctorate from the University of Pisa in 1922'

Answer: Enrico Fermi


Question: 'Of 3, 30, or 300, number of days Jonah spent inside a "great fish"'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Pilgrim John Billington was the 1st man executed in America when he was hanged for murder in this city Sept. 30, 1630'

Answer: Plymouth, Massachusetts


Question: 'Also a fruit, it should always be found in the heading of a letter'

Answer: Date


Question: 'From 1902 to 1912, this washing machine magnate served as an Iowa state senator'

Answer: F.L. Maytag


Question: '"Lebeau and the Little Old Lady"'

Answer: Hogan\'s Heroes


Question: 'His official website includes a link to the Motor Neurone Disease Association'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'The 2 continents separated by the Dardanelles'

Answer: Asia & Europe


Question: 'The first serious epidemic of this "diminutive" disease in New England began in 1616 & was very hard on Native Americans'

Answer: Smallpox


Question: '"Very truly yours" is a "complimentary" this, also something done to a door'

Answer: Closing


Question: 'This comedian ran for president on the Straight Talking American Government, or STAG, party ticket'

Answer: Pat Paulsen


Question: '"Danny and the Mob"'

Answer: The Partridge Family


Question: 'Giuseppe Piazzi named the large asteroid he discovered this, after the Roman goddess of grain'

Answer: Ceres


Question: 'In May 1787 this convention convened in Independence Hall'

Answer: Constitutional Convention


Question: 'The first legal proceedings for war crimes in the U.S. occurred in 1865 against the commandant of this prison'

Answer: Andersonville


Question: 'The garment worn here, it follows "zip" in something the Postal Service wants you to use'

Answer: Plus fours


Question: 'Most of the book of Ruth is set in this town, the place Micah said the messiah would come from'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'George Washington was chancellor of this college from 1788 until his death'

Answer: William and Mary


Question: 'In Adolphe Menjou's last film, he got cheered up by Hayley Mills as this optimistic little girl'

Answer: Pollyanna


Question: 'Rossiyskaya Federatsiya'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Known as a humorist, this 16th president was also known for his bouts of depression'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'In the thesaurus, this one of the traditional 5 senses is found with "tangency" & "palpation"'

Answer: Touch


Question: 'Also called Horeb, experts aren't sure which mount it actually is: Serbal & Jebel Musa are guesses'

Answer: Mount Sinai


Question: 'The campus for this university's law center is located at the foot of Capitol Hill'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'He's the film & TV favorite seen here<br />["Family Affair"]'

Answer: Brian Keith


Question: 'Ceska Republika'

Answer: Czech Republic


Question: 'His demotion from the admiralty to a minor cabinet post in 1915 caused what he called "the black dog" of depression'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'This part of the face can mean "impudence" or "sass"'

Answer: Cheek


Question: 'Before "sightseeing" in this city, Samson was stripped of his sight'

Answer: Gaza


Question: 'Endowed by Joseph Pulitzer, its journalism school opened in 1912'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars as Father Fitzgibbon in this film'

Answer: Going My Way


Question: 'Kampuchea'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'The same night he cut off his ear he had threatened Gauguin with a razor'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'Jazz piano great Erroll Garner is heard here playing this tune he composed'

Answer: "Misty" ("Play Misty for Me")


Question: 'If he had lived there back in 1000 B.C., Robin Hood might have been "Prince of" this chief city of upper Egypt'

Answer: Thebes


Question: 'You'll find the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Museum at this university in Baltimore'

Answer: Johns Hopkins


Question: 'Seen here, this woman from an acting family livened up many '90s movies<br />[John's sister]'

Answer: Joan Cusack


Question: 'Magyar Koztarsasag'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Politically correct ventriloquists prefer "figure" to this better-known word'

Answer: Dummy


Question: 'This town is home to the Joseph who gave his tomb for Jesus' burial'

Answer: Arimathea


Question: 'Longfellow read his poem "Morituri Salutamus" at the 50th reunion of this Maine school's Class of 1825'

Answer: Bowdoin College


Question: 'In 1972 this bug-eyed Brit seen in "Young Frankenstein" had his own TV "Comedy Machine"'

Answer: Marty Feldman


Question: 'Sverige'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'If you're 38 years old, you're said to be on this "side" of 40'

Answer: Sunny


Question: 'A 1965 novel by this author introduced his alter ego, sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


Question: 'Josephine Richardson built a better one of these & got patent No. 4,829,704 beating a path to her door'

Answer: a mousetrap


Question: 'She unknowingly takes a bite out of a poisoned apple'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'Regina is the capital of this Canadian province'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: 'In January, Camilla Parker Bowles announced that she was getting a divorce, & this prince claimed that he wasn't'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'In the 1890s men wore this in the cuff of the sleeve; today it goes in a jacket pocket'

Answer: a handkerchief


Question: 'A room for making radio or TV productions'

Answer: a studio


Question: 'Hinda Miller & Lisa Lindahl sewed 2 athletic supporters together to make the first "sports" one of these'

Answer: a bra


Question: 'In a 1940 film he wants more than anything else to be a real boy'

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: 'Regina is home to a training center & museum for this group, the RCMP'

Answer: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police


Question: 'Imelda Marcos' son "Bong Bong" lost his bid for a seat in this country's senate--& was convicted of tax evasion'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'A set of these men's dress shirt fasteners is seen here'

Answer: studs


Question: 'From the Latin for "to be astonished", it means impressively great'

Answer: stupendous


Question: 'Margaret Knight invented the flat-bottom bag maker; Lydia Deubener added these to the bags'

Answer: handles


Question: 'She wants to walk on the beach, not swim in the sea'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'In 1882 the city then known as "Pile O' Bones" was renamed Regina in this person's honor'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'A postage stamp featuring this blonde premiered on June 1, which would have been her 69th birthday'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'For men, a cravat is a wide necktie; this is a scarf, lapped over & worn loosely around the neck'

Answer: an ascot


Question: 'The front grille of a car from this classic automaker is seen here'

Answer: a Studebaker


Question: 'Mary Anderson invented this device after seeing a streetcar driver keep brushing snow off his front window'

Answer: windshield wipers


Question: 'A fierce pirate, he's afraid of crocodiles for a good reason'

Answer: Captain Hook


Question: 'Until 1905 Regina was the capital of these "Territories"'

Answer: the Northwest Territories


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls the grounds.) Now known as the Survivor Tree, this American elm survived the April 19th tragedy in this state capital'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: '(I'm Jeff Probst in Panama.)  One style of this accessory is called the pintado'

Answer: the Panama hat


Question: 'Noun meaning a dazed state of near unconsciousness'

Answer: stupor


Question: 'In the 1950s Olivia Poole came up with this device to keep babies hoppin'-happy'

Answer: a Jolly Jumper


Question: 'She joins the Chinese army to protect her father & ends up a hero'

Answer: Mulan


Question: 'Regina is home to one of the world's largest rinks for this sport of sliding stones on ice'

Answer: curling


Question: 'John Filo finally met Mary Ann Vecchio Gillum, 25 years after taking a famous photo of her at this university'

Answer: Kent State


Question: 'Sally Rand's first ones were made of ostrich feathers'

Answer: fans


Question: 'The capital city of Germany's Baden-Wurttemberg state'

Answer: Stuttgart


Question: 'Frankly, my dear, Victorians were shocked when the captain in "H.M.S. Pinafore" said this swear word'

Answer: damn


Question: 'The Los Angeles Kings retired his No. 99 jersey'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi is a prince of this principality'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'You'll find the Bank of New York Company, Inc. at 1 this street'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'It's the sum total of the degrees in the angles of a quadrilateral'

Answer: 360


Question: 'An upside-down smile<br />(5)'

Answer: frown


Question: 'Director Peter Sellars' 1983 production of this operetta turned Nanki-Poo into a rock star on a motorbike'

Answer: The Mikado


Question: 'This Tour de France champ is strong enough to be Sheryl Crow's man'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'In 2000 Peter Russell wrote the first new bio in over a century of this prince known as "the Navigator"'

Answer: Henry


Question: 'World capital where you'd find the head office of the airline JAL'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'These 2 coordinates are used to locate a point in a 2 dimensional Cartesian, or coordinate, system'

Answer: x & y


Question: '3/4 or 2/5<br />(8)'

Answer: fraction


Question: 'In the operetta "Thespis", a troupe of actors takes over the duties on this mountain so the gods can go on vacation'

Answer: Olympus


Question: '(Hi, I'm James Worthy.)  This Hall of Fame Lakers announcer gave me my nickname "Big Game James"'

Answer: Chick Hearn


Question: 'In the 1240s David ap Llywelyn was the first to declare himself prince of this'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'It's the geographic "P" in the name of San Francisco-based power company PG&E'

Answer: Pacific


Question: 'His theorem says the sum of the squares of the 2 shorter sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse'

Answer: Pythagoras


Question: 'Easily set on fire<br />(9)'

Answer: flammable


Question: 'In Act I of this operetta, we find out that Frederic was supposed to be apprenticed to a "pilot", but his nurse misheard'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'How sweet--he was the world welterweight champ from 1946 to 1951'

Answer: "Sugar Ray" Robinson


Question: 'William the Silent, who led the land, not the "navel", battle for the Netherlands' freedom, was prince of this'

Answer: Orange


Question: 'The USX Tower rises 841 feet in this city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'The surface of the mirror in a reflecting telescope has this type of geometric curve'

Answer: a parabola


Question: 'Spanish baked custard<br />(4)'

Answer: flan


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Piazzetta in Venice, Italy.)  Act I of this famous operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan is set right here on the Piazzetta in Venice'

Answer: The Gondoliers


Question: 'This 14-year-old girl missed the cut by one shot at the 2004 Sony Open'

Answer: (Michelle) Wie


Question: 'This 19th century Prussian-German prince said Germany's problems would be settled by "blood and iron"'

Answer: Bismarck


Question: 'Tyson Foods, Inc. is headquartered in Springdale in this state'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'To get this quadrilateral's area, add the 2 parallel sides, divide by 2 & multiply by the height'

Answer: a trapezoid


Question: 'Pocket or chain for a watch<br />(3)'

Answer: fob


Question: 'The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom"'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Water is fluoridated to help prevent these body parts from decaying'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'Diamonds & Emeralds is a gem of a fragrance from this beauty known for her "Passion"'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'In one episode of the original "Jetsons", a millionaire tried to take him away'

Answer: Astro (aka "Tralfaz")


Question: 'This Swedish capital has hotels named for Lord Nelson & his mistress, Lady Hamilton'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb'

Answer: Boston Massacre


Question: 'In Chinese dualistic philosophy, Yin is the female cosmic principle; this is the male'

Answer: Yang


Question: 'Myocarditis is the inflammation of this muscle'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'Brooke Shields suggests using a cream type of this cheek cosmetic if your skin is extremely dry'

Answer: Blush/Blusher


Question: 'In 1969 he began traveling around in The Mystery Machine with Freddy, Daphne, Velma & Shaggy'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'Among the hotels with casinos in this city are Shepheard's, the Ramses Hilton & the Nile Hilton'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922'

Answer: Lincoln Memorial


Question: 'This Canadian territory's coat-of-arms features a husky dog at its top'

Answer: Yukon


Question: 'A dilute solution of this acid forms the electrolyte in a lead-acid car battery'

Answer: Sulfuric Acid


Question: 'A skin care product by La Prairie is named for & made to resemble this fish roe delicacy'

Answer: Caviar


Question: 'This hound was the star of the first animated cartoon to win an Emmy'

Answer: Huckleberry Hound


Question: 'A magnificent collection of gold & jewels is displayed in the Gold room in this St. Petersburg museum'

Answer: Hermitage


Question: 'The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'Some say this term for New Englanders originated from a Scottish word for "clever"'

Answer: Yankees


Question: 'Its symbol K comes from kalium, a Latinized version of the Arabic word for alkali'

Answer: Potassium


Question: 'Many women find "Rapture" in these lingerie boutiques; it's one of their signature fragrances'

Answer: Victoria\'s Secret


Question: 'This fearless bulldog helps Jonny Quest & Hadji foil crime'

Answer: Bandit


Question: 'Horseshoe Bay may be the most popular beach in this British colony in the Atlantic'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: 'Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932'

Answer: Huey Long


Question: 'This popular Crimean health resort was an ancient Greek colony'

Answer: Yalta


Question: 'It's the type of energy a body possesses by virtue of its movement'

Answer: Kinetic


Question: 'Guerlain perfume named for the "Garden of Love" built by a Mogul emperor'

Answer: Shalimar


Question: 'Doggie Daddy's son'

Answer: Augie Doggie