Question: 'While the Huang He is called "China's Sorrow", this river is "China's Fortune"'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: 'AR'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Hardy novel in which the title heroine makes a series of unfortunate decisions...then she's hanged'

Answer: Tess of the d\'Urbervilles


Question: 'Also known as Cos lettuce, it's traditionally found in Caesar salad'

Answer: Romaine


Question: 'The North African area that was home to pirates was called this after the Berbers'

Answer: the Barbary Coast


Question: 'When her baby arrived early in June 2003, the father, also a sprinter, said, "I didn't expect him to be this fast"'

Answer: Marion Jones


Question: 'Russia claims & occupies all of the Kuril Islands, but this country lays claim to some of the southern islands'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'AL'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Hardy novel in which Clym returns to the heath where his mom dies from a snakebite...then his wife drowns'

Answer: Return of the Native


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Oklahoma City National Memorial)  A place for quiet thoughts, this kind of pool here in Oklahoma City shares its name with one near the Lincoln Memorial'

Answer: reflecting pool


Question: 'Some say the Berbers were the first to breed these from polecats they captured in Spain'

Answer: ferrets


Question: 'Tennessee basketball's "3 Meeks" were Tamika Catchings, Semeka Randall & her'

Answer: Chamique Holdsclaw


Question: 'The Al Bu Said family, based in Muscat, began ruling this country in the 1740s'

Answer: Oman


Question: 'Think outside the box:<br />PR'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Hardy novel in which the drunken Henchard sells his wife & baby, with truly ghastly results...then he wanders off, dies'

Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge


Question: 'This Icelandic city's marathon has had a good run; it had its 20th anniversary in 2003'

Answer: Reykjavik


Question: 'The mother of this "City of God" saint was a Berber'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'In 1998 this Korean golfer became the youngest winner of the LPGA's U.S. Women's Open'

Answer: Se Ri Pak


Question: 'Tibetans practice this form of Buddhism whose chief sect is the Yellow Hat'

Answer: Lamaism


Question: 'A U.S. territory:<br />AS'

Answer: American Samoa


Question: 'Finally, a Hardy book that (sorta) ends happily!  Bathsheba marries Gabriel!  (everyone else is dead or institutionalized)'

Answer: Far from the Madding Crowd


Question: 'From a Latin word for "reddish", it's another name for German measles'

Answer: rubella


Question: 'The name of this type of reference book comes from the Greek for "circle of instruction"'

Answer: encyclopedia


Question: 'This U.S. state produces more tobacco than any other'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'This olympian who died in 1998 was the sister-in-law of fellow track great Jackie Joyner-Kersee'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'In 1967 his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva made big news when she defected to the U.S.'

Answer: Joseph Stalin


Question: 'An amphibian, or being pulled by a boat'

Answer: toad / towed


Question: 'Legend says Austrian autocrat Gessler got the point from this Swiss archer around 1300'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'The atomic weight of hydrogen, or the number of times LBJ was elected President'

Answer: 1


Question: 'The exorticata species of fuscia native to this Southern Hemisphere island can reach up to 50 feet high'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'After divorcing British tennis pro John Lloyd in 1987, she married former olympic skier Andy Mill'

Answer: Chris Evert


Question: 'Isabel Allende, Gabriela Mistral & Pablo Neruda are among this country's most famous writers'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'A path of travel, or a subterranean plant part'

Answer: route / root


Question: 'The Virginia city settled in 1633 as Middle Plantation was renamed this in 1699'

Answer: Williamsburg


Question: 'At the Kentucky Derby, the horses' equipment & these can weigh no less than 126 lbs. combined'

Answer: the weight of the jockey


Question: 'In 1893 Cornelius Vanderbilt had the 70-room family "cottage" known as the Breakers built in this Rhode Island city'

Answer: Newport


Question: 'The book "It's Not About The Bike" is this athlete's own inspirational story'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'With Princess Marie Bonaparte's help, this psychoanalyst was able to free Austria & give the Nazis the slip'

Answer: Freud


Question: 'An adjective being permitted, or an adverb meaning communicated vocally'

Answer: allowed / aloud


Question: 'William Cohen held this post in Bill Clinton's cabinet'

Answer: Secretary of Defense


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue as he weighs some metal on a scale) A French city lends its name to this system of weight used with precious metals, in which 12 ounces equals a pound'

Answer: Troy weight


Question: 'King Gyanendra reigns in this country that borders China'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'This boxer won a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, leading an uncle to nickname him the "Golden Boy"'

Answer: Oscar De La Hoya


Question: 'Asked about his ALS, this physicist says, "I try to lead as normal a life as possible & not think about my condition"'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'A British lineup, or a stick for a game of snooker'

Answer: queue / cue


Question: '3-word location where the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million gallons of north slope crude in 1989'

Answer: Prince William Sound


Question: 'In Great Britain a "long" one of these is equal to 2,240 pounds'

Answer: a ton


Question: 'Tha name of this capital of China's Jiangtsu Province means "southern capital"'

Answer: Nanjing


Question: 'Born in Kinshasa, this NBA center speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese & 5 African dialects'

Answer: Dikembe Mutombo


Question: 'In 2006 he became the first Asian in more than 30 years to be elected Secretary General of the U.N.'

Answer: Ban Ki-moon


Question: 'Negating adverb, or a half-hitch'

Answer: not / knot


Question: 'Number of the William who was England's "Sailor King" from 1830 to 1837'

Answer: IV


Question: 'There are this many milligrams in a kilogram'

Answer: one million


Question: 'You may have seen one of these films but there is also a stage version of this 1959 novel, "The Manchurian" this'

Answer: Candidate


Question: 'This "Kill Bill" star played 11 seasons behind the plate for the Yankees'

Answer: Uma Thurman Munson


Question: 'Prime Minister Shinzo Abe'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'England & France fought the Battle of the Herrings in 1429, as this long, long conflict lurching was to a close'

Answer: The Hundred Years\' War


Question: '1981:<br />This company introduces its "Personal Computer" using the MS-DOS operating system'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'We're stunned that the Phaser is a series of printers from this document company'

Answer: Xerox


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order Criminal Intent.)  In 1990 I appeared on Broadway in a Tony-winning play based on this Pulitzer-prize winning novel by John Steinbeck'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'This "Fast & The Furious" star had no trouble stepping into Chuck Norris' old TV role'

Answer: Paul Walker Texas Ranger


Question: 'Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'This name was first used for a political party c. 1629 by those who wanted James, Duke of York to become king'

Answer: Tory


Question: '1988:<br />Crafted by Robert Morris, the first known one of these viruses wriggles into computers'

Answer: a worm


Question: 'In 1997 Gillian Anderson won an Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama for her work on this series'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'John Updike's novel "The Witches Of" this place has cast a spell as a musical'

Answer: Eastwick


Question: 'Bet ya didn't know Keanu's Matrix squeeze wrote "You Can Take It With You" with George Kaufman in the 30s'

Answer: Carrie-Anne Moss Hart


Question: 'Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malaki'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'In the late 400s 3 Germanic tribes invaded the Angles, Saxons, & this one for whom a Danish peninsula was named'

Answer: Jutes


Question: '1975:<br />Microsoft is founded by these 2 college dropouts'

Answer: Paul Allen & Bill Gates


Question: 'Chromosomal pairing in humans that traditionally leads to frogs & snails & puppy-dogs' tails'

Answer: X-Y


Question: '(Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I played the troubled piano player Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in this Broadway musical based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow'

Answer: Ragtime


Question: 'The BBC's Mr. Darcy is a body of water just north of Edinburgh & west of the North Sea'

Answer: Colin Firth of Fourth


Question: 'President Martin Torrijos Espino'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'The Roman portion of the island had this name, followed in names of provinces by "Inferior" and "Superior"'

Answer: Britannia


Question: '1997:<br />A computer with this colorful name defeats a world chess champion'

Answer: Deep Blue


Question: 'In his "Anabasis" this Greek historian & soldier recounted an attack on Persia in the 5th century B.C.'

Answer: Xenophon


Question: 'In 2007 a new play based on her 80-year-old novel "To the Lighthouse" lit up the stage at the Berkeley Rep'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'This recent King Kong actress was responsible for the civil unrest in South Central L.A. in 1965'

Answer: Naomi Watts Riots


Question: 'President Emile LaHoud'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'Clearly lacking direction, this Lord, P.M. from 1770 to 1782, was known as "The Minister Who Lost America"'

Answer: Lord North


Question: '1994:<br />Netscape releases this efficient Internet browser'

Answer: Navigator


Question: 'This woody central part of a tree trunk consists of sapwood & heartwood'

Answer: xylem


Question: 'On June 3, 2006 this nation of 600,000 proclaimed its independence, making it the world's newest country'

Answer: Montenegro


Question: 'Bacchus was the god of this liquid, so he often wore vine leaves & grapes on his head'

Answer: Wine


Question: 'The theme from this Whitney Houston film is subtitled "Shoop Shoop"'

Answer: Waiting to Exhale


Question: 'Mince cloves of this into butter to prepare a yummy bread found in Italian restaurants'

Answer: Garlic


Question: 'Lambeau Field is named for "Curly" Lambeau, the first coach of this Green Bay football team'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'For her 1996 film "Striptease" she was paid $12.5 million, making her the highest paid actress in film history'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'This letter was a symbol of perfection after Giotto drew a perfect freehand circle to impress the Pope'

Answer: O


Question: 'Mama Quilla, the moon goddess of these people, had a temple dedicated to her at Cuzco in Peru'

Answer: Incas


Question: 'Bette Midler's only No. 1 pop record, this song from "Beaches" is also known as "Hero"'

Answer: Wind Beneath My Wings


Question: 'Pone is Southern bread traditionally made from this type of meal'

Answer: Corn meal


Question: 'In this Canadian city's Olympic Stadium, pitchers are lanceurs & the shortstop is the arret-court'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'This star of "The American President" was an assistant director on his father's 1962 film "Lonely Are the Brave"'

Answer: Michael Douglas


Question: 'This supposedly sullen generation, born in 1961 & after, was named by novelist Douglas Coupland'

Answer: Generation X


Question: 'The daughters of Clymene & this god of the sun are known as the Heliades'

Answer: Apollo


Question: 'This 1993 hit by UB40 remained in the Top 40 for 23 weeks, almost twice as long as Elvis Presley's 1961 version'

Answer: Can\'t Help Falling in Love


Question: 'Innovative chef Nancy Silverton can bake not only a pie, but a bread using this small red fruit'

Answer: Cherry


Question: 'Jacobs Field is part of this Ohio city's Gateway Sports Complex'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'Danny DeVito & this woman, his wife, have appeared together in milk ads'

Answer: Rhea Perlman


Question: 'For 30 years Desmond Llewelyn, the actor seen here, has played this character:<br />[video clue]'

Answer: "Q" (from the "James Bond" movies)


Question: 'Ligeia, whose name means "shrill", was one of these sea seductresses who sang sweetly for sailors'

Answer: Sirens


Question: '"Good Morning, Starshine, the Earth says" this'

Answer: Hello


Question: 'Term for any substance that makes dough rise'

Answer: Leavening


Question: 'The infield of this White Sox home uses dirt from the previous stadium of the same name'

Answer: Comiskey Park


Question: 'In the 1981 TV movie "Elvis and the Beauty Queen", this "Miami Vice" star portrayed Elvis Presley'

Answer: Don Johnson


Question: 'This computer chip is named for the type of TV programming parents may want to block'

Answer: V-Chip


Question: 'These choosers of those to be slain are also called Odin's Maids'

Answer: Valkyries


Question: 'He's "badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog"'

Answer: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown


Question: 'Wheat flour is high in this sticky, elastic protein substance that gives texture to bread'

Answer: Gluten


Question: 'The Brendan Byrne Arena is named for a former governor of this state'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'Although 24, he played teenager Ferris Bueller in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"'

Answer: Matthew Broderick


Question: 'Antigens designated by these 2 letters determine blood types'

Answer: A & B


Question: 'While the Feds still consider these reptiles threatened, there are enough in Florida for an annual harvest'

Answer: Alligators


Question: 'On September 1, 1996 this former first daughter married Jim Wentzel at the Pond House near Plains'

Answer: Amy Carter


Question: 'This beloved folk artist painted "Look, It's A New Little Colt" in 1945, when she was in her '80s'

Answer: Grandma Moses


Question: 'In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'This Virginia site has replicas of the 3 ships that brought settlers there in 1607'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'A 1-horse carriage on springs, or a device that may spring a surprise on a mouse'

Answer: Trap


Question: 'When assassinated in 1988, Chico Mendes had devoted his life to protecting these places'

Answer: Rainforests


Question: 'After the 1992 election, he managed the Clinton transition team, then became Secretary of State Jan. 20, 1993'

Answer: Warren Christopher


Question: 'The title of Botticelli's famous painting "Primavera" means this season of the year'

Answer: Spring


Question: 'Tarzana, California is named for his most famous character'

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs


Question: 'This cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. was laid out on land once home to Robert E. Lee'

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery


Question: 'The gullet of a bird, something for a farmer to harvest, or a riding whip'

Answer: Crop


Question: 'This 1970 act set standards for major pollutants, including ozone & carbon monoxide'

Answer: Clean Air Act


Question: 'Billboard called this contemporary jazz saxophonist the top instrumentalist of the past decade in terms of sales'

Answer: Kenny G


Question: 'Peter Blume's 1930 painting "The Eternal City" depicts this fascist as a surreal green jack-in-the-box'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'A visitor center devoted to this judge in Langtry, Texas has his law book on display'

Answer: Roy Bean


Question: 'It can be your best buddy, or the chopped bait used to attract fish'

Answer: Chum


Question: 'As opposed to wind or solar energy, fossil fuels are these types of "resources"; they run out'

Answer: Non-renewable


Question: 'In 1995 this paleoanthropologist helped form Safina, a new political party, to rid Kenya of corruption'

Answer: Richard Leakey


Question: 'This Frenchman finished his paintings of "Poplars" before he began his "Water Lily" murals'

Answer: Claude Monet


Question: 'His 1996 book "Golf Dreams:  Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels'

Answer: John Updike


Question: 'This president's national historic site in West Branch, Iowa has a Quaker meetinghouse on the grounds'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'To soak in liquid, or marked by an extreme angle'

Answer: Steep


Question: 'A reporter is credited with creating this term for the wind-eroded area of the Great Plains in the 1930s'

Answer: Dust Bowl


Question: 'This prosecutor of Charles Manson gives his take on the O.J. Simpson trial in his bestseller "Outrage"'

Answer: Vincent Bugliosi


Question: 'From 1912 to 1933 this "Bird In Space" sculptor created a series of abstract busts of "Mademoiselle Pogany"'

Answer: Constantin Brancusi


Question: 'Evan Hunter writes his "87th Precinct" & "Matthew Hope" novels under this pseudonym'

Answer: Ed McBain


Question: 'This industrialist stocked the woodlands around his home, Fair Lane, with about 300 deer'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'It can be a short run, a punctuation mark indicating a break, or a part of a car'

Answer: Dash


Question: 'It's the only country whose name is the same as an American state's'

Answer: Georgia


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.) At the Nobel Prize banquet, these two people receive the guests of honor here in the Prince's Gallery'

Answer: the king & queen of Sweden


Question: 'Outfielder Rickey Henderson fell asleep with an ice pack on his ankle & ended up suffering from this (in August)'

Answer: frostbite


Question: 'Before the euro, you had to use drachmas to get ouzo in this country'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'Famous nickname of the squadron leader whose Fokker triplane was shot down on April 21, 1918'

Answer: the Red Baron


Question: '"O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk..."'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In radio terms, extending from 300 to 3000 MHz: This is UHF'

Answer: ultra high frequency


Question: 'In 1901 the first Nobel Prize banquet had male guests only; this woman became the first female guest in 1903'

Answer: Madame Curie


Question: 'Pitcher Dennis Martinez got hurt hefting a heavy one of these; a team rep quipped that he had Samsonitis'

Answer: a suitcase


Question: 'You'll wnna whip out your yuan when buying jade or other goods in this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'This student group formed to carry out Mao's Cultural Revolution was later suppressed by Mao'

Answer: the Red Guards


Question: '"The bell invites me. Hear me not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'Joe Paterno has over 330 coaching wins coaching here: This is PSU'

Answer: Penn State University


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.)  This hall, home to the Nobel Prize banquet, was supposed to be its namesake color, but the architect didn't want to cover the red brick'

Answer: the Blue Hall


Question: 'Steve Sparks let his fingers do the walkin' & his shoulder do the dislocatin' when he tried to rip this item in half'

Answer: a phone book


Question: 'A biblical unit of weight equal to about a half ounce developed into this Israeli unit of currency'

Answer: a shekel


Question: 'This character from "Through the Looking Glass" lends her name to a new theory of evolutionary biology'

Answer: the Red Queen


Question: '"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Open wide for a medical degree of some difficulty: This is DDS'

Answer: doctor of dental science (or doctor of dental surgery)


Question: 'In the years from 1913 to 1936, Nobel Prize banqueters often feasted on a soup named for this reptile'

Answer: a turtle (turtle soup accepted)


Question: 'A's pitcher Rich Harden strained his shoulder reaching for this vital alarm clock part'

Answer: the snooze button


Question: 'Shopkeepers in Smolensk expect to be paid in this national currency'

Answer: the ruble


Question: 'Weighing up to 200 pounds & standing up to 6 feet high, it's the world's biggest marsupial'

Answer: the red kangaroo


Question: '"The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Specifying the Internet address of files: This is URL'

Answer: universal resource locator (or uniform resource locator)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.)  At the 1976 Nobel banquet here in Stockholm, this novelist humbly said, "I loved books, and I wrote some"'

Answer: Saul Bellow


Question: 'Tony Gwynn of this team fractured his finger closing the door to his Porsche on the way to the bank'

Answer: the (San Diego) Padres


Question: 'Countries that use the rupee include India, Pakistan, Bhutan & this other Himalayan kingdom'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'Sherlock Holmes' adventures include one "of the Blue Carbuncle" & one about this "League"'

Answer: the Red-Headed League


Question: '"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"'

Answer: As You Like It


Question: 'Meaning "which was to be demonstrated": This is QED'

Answer: quod erat demonstrandum


Question: 'In 2004, to benefit the city's cultural life, e-Bay sponsored a charity auction called the "Great Chicago" this sale'

Answer: fire


Question: 'A one-time gag writer for Red Skelton, he was reportedly the highest-paid TV star at his peak in the 1980s'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'Buried at Arlington National Cemetery'

Answer: (John) Kennedy


Question: 'It was the legal name of the December 2000 Supreme Court case to decide who would become president'

Answer: Bush v. Gore


Question: 'With a wingspan of more than 5 feet & a pigeon-sized body, the flying fox is the largest of these mammals'

Answer: a bat


Question: 'Google, Looksmart & Ask Jeeves are search ones'

Answer: engines


Question: 'In 1890 this department store founder donated the land for the University of Chicago'

Answer: Marshall Field


Question: 'The 1936 film "Tarzan Escapes" was the third starring ths man in the title role'

Answer: Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'Has a state capital named for him'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'In legal citations like F. Cas. & F.R.D., the F. stands for this jurisdiction'

Answer: federal


Question: 'The short-tailed species of this smallest land mammal produces a poison to kill mice'

Answer: shrew


Question: 'It's a tortilla rolled & stuffed with meat or cheese & served with a sauce spiced with chili'

Answer: an enchilada


Question: 'Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas & you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop'

Answer: Daley Plaza


Question: 'This director's credits include "A Better Tomorrow", "Once a Thief" & "Windtalkers"'

Answer: John Woo


Question: 'Died in the first year of a century'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'To take goods, like a car, into the custody of the Court; it's also a type of account similar to escrow'

Answer: impound


Question: 'About 6 inches long & weighing less than half a pound, the pygmy marmoset is the smallest species of this primate'

Answer: monkey


Question: 'It can be a national flag displayed on a ship, or the rank of a sailor on that ship'

Answer: an ensign


Question: 'As of 2005, this movie house where John Dillinger saw his last flick was being converted to a live theater'

Answer: the Biograph Theater


Question: 'This actor played an impresario who turns Carole Lombard into a star in the 1934 film "Twentieth Century"'

Answer: John Barrymore


Question: 'Buried with wife Marion in Florence--oops, with wife Florence in Marion'

Answer: Harding


Question: 'A word meaning mournful has the same origin as this word for the person who initiates the lawsuit'

Answer: plaintiff


Question: 'It's a territory belonging to one country but lying within another, such as Spain's Ceuta & Melilla in Morocco'

Answer: an enclave


Question: '"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" includes a visit to this museum, with a peek at its famous Seurat'

Answer: The Art Institute of Chicago


Question: 'On "Star Trek: The Next Generation" this actor often tormented the Enterprise as the superior being "Q"'

Answer: John de Lancie


Question: 'The second big Whig to die in office'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Meaning created by legislative act, it's a type of criminal extortion as well as a type of rape'

Answer: statutory


Question: 'In Greek myth, Selene put this handsome youth to sleep forever because she couldn't bear to have him die'

Answer: Endymion


Question: 'After watching smoke emitted by WWI airplanes, Major J.C. Savage developed the technique for this'

Answer: skywriting


Question: 'By population it's the largest city in Canada'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'Mother "isn't quite herself today" in this 1960 horror classic'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'Often used with ctrl & alt, this computer key will remove the letter to the right of the cursor'

Answer: delete


Question: 'This story was banned in California because the heroine was bringing wine as well as food to her grandma'

Answer: "Little Red Riding Hood"


Question: 'If you add a scarf or a belt to an outfit, you're doing this, from the Latin for "to adapt"'

Answer: accessorize


Question: 'A flowing gown for a judge or for you after getting out of the bath'

Answer: a robe


Question: 'The 2 creatures that appear on Canada's 5-cent piece are Queen Elizabeth II & this rodent'

Answer: the beaver


Question: 'Though only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury played his mom in this 1962 political thriller'

Answer: The Manchurian Candidate


Question: 'In 2006 Apple started using this company's microprocessors in its Macintosh computers'

Answer: Intel


Question: 'Predictably, in 1967, "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes was banned in this country then controlled by a military junta'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'If you're circumscribing a triangle, you're doing this to it'

Answer: you\'re drawing a circle right around it


Question: 'A smoldering remnant in a dying fire'

Answer: an ember


Question: 'Yellowknife is the capital of this political division of Canada'

Answer: Northwest Territories


Question: 'Mel Gibson has a few Mommy issues with Glenn Close in this Shakespearean film'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Robert Metcalfe was inducted into the Inventors' Hall of Fame for this computer network that sounds like an anesthetic'

Answer: Ethernet


Question: 'England indicted this supporter of the Revolutionary war for his "Rights of Man" & his publisher was prosecuted'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'In this Olympic sport, skiers have to slow their heartbeats during the times they have to shoot'

Answer: biathlon


Question: 'An alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of certain grains'

Answer: beer


Question: 'It's name is the French form of the Algonquin word for "where the river narrows", a reference to the St. Lawrence'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'Robin Williams has a few Mommy issues with Glenn Close in this film based on a John Irving novel'

Answer: The World According to Garp


Question: 'To copy video from your camcorder to a computer, use this "blazing" fast connection some call i.Link'

Answer: FireWire


Question: 'In 1929 Italy banned his "Call of the Wild" & Yugoslavia banned all of his books as being too radical'

Answer: Jack London


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) I'm at Explorer's Hall at the Museum of the National Geographic Society with a rope and icepick used by James Whittaker, who was sponsored by National Geographic in 1963 when he became the first American to do this'

Answer: climb Mount Everest


Question: 'A part of speech'

Answer: a verb


Question: 'It's the "Keystone Province" because of its central location in the country'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: 'Johnny Depp's mom is a morbidly obese shut-in who hasn't left the house in 7 years in this 1993 film'

Answer: What\'s Eating Gilbert Grape


Question: 'It's what the "ML" stands for in HTML, used for creating Internet documents'

Answer: Markup Language


Question: 'Viola's crossdressing in this Shakespeare play ran afoul of a N.H. Prohibition of Alternative Lifestyle Act'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'If you're orating for hours in the Senate to prevent a vote, you're doing this'

Answer: filibustering


Question: '3-letter synonym for caviar'

Answer: roe


Question: 'Deion Sanders knows this term for the evening hours when the largest audience is available for TV'

Answer: prime time


Question: '2 cubed equals this'

Answer: 8


Question: '"Leafy" cliche meaning "to change one's bad habits"'

Answer: to turn over a new leaf


Question: 'Engineer Joseph Jaggers made a fortune in Monte Carlo after he found out this game had a faulty wheel'

Answer: roulette


Question: 'Kenny Rogers followed up his TV movie "The Gambler" with the TV movie this person "of the County"'

Answer: Coward


Question: '"Raja" comes from the same root word as this Latin word for "king"'

Answer: rex


Question: 'Estimated at around 30 years, it's accepted as the average period between birth of parents & their offspring'

Answer: a generation


Question: 'Stoplights are a problem if you've got protanopia, the inability to distinguish these 2 colors'

Answer: red and green


Question: 'Bags of this leafy vegetable from Natural Selection Foods were at the center of a September 2006 E. coli outbreak'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'If the wheel is loose on your computer's mouse, you may find it hard to do this up & down screen function'

Answer: scrolling


Question: 'At 3'8" tall, Kenny Baker was memorable as this alphanumeric character in 1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002 & 2005 films'

Answer: R2-D2


Question: 'Around 1000 A.D. Rajaraja I expanded his Chola Empire by invading this beautiful island off India'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'The time just before sunset or after sunrise on a movie set, or a former L.A. Laker's late-night talk show'

Answer: The Magic Hour


Question: 'The 2 books in the Old Testament with this man's name immediately precede the 2 books of Kings'

Answer: Samuel


Question: 'Some consider the Hannibal variety of these, made from 100% Havana seed leaf, the world's finest'

Answer: cigars


Question: 'Over-this leads to wear in the center of tires; under-this leads to wear on the edges'

Answer: air pressure (overinflation or underinflation)


Question: '"Jerry Maguire" inspired his song "You Had Me From Hello"; later he would marry the female lead'

Answer: Kenny Chesney


Question: 'Dating from around the 1st century B.C., this title of "Great King" ranks above your ordinary Raja'

Answer: Maharaja


Question: 'We had pleasant sensations learning about this era in U.S. history covering President Monroe's 2 terms'

Answer: "Era of Good Feelings"


Question: 'It's the only planet in the Solar System with exactly 2 moons'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'The Macrocystis genus of this seaweed can grow fronds up to 200 feet long'

Answer: kelp


Question: 'If the wheel is loose on your wheel-lock type of this, popular in the 1500s, you've got problems'

Answer: a rifle


Question: 'At 6'6" tall, Ken Howard was memorable as basketball Coach Reeves in this 1978-1981 TV show'

Answer: "The White Shadow"


Question: 'This state whose name begins with "Rajas" was the site of India's first nuclear test in 1974'

Answer: Rajasthan


Question: 'This longest division of geologic time doesn't have a fixed period; in astronomy, it's one billion years'

Answer: an eon


Question: 'Using 2 flags of 2 colors each, the U.S. Navy sends short-range messages by this system'

Answer: semaphore


Question: 'This fragrant leaf of the laurel tree is sold commercially as a seasoning'

Answer: a bay leaf


Question: 'A central cohesive element, or something inserted to keep a wheel from slipping off'

Answer: a linchpin


Question: 'This British director loves the classics; he's directed films about Liszt, Mahler & Tchaikovsky'

Answer: Ken Russell


Question: 'Meaning "queen", this 4-letter word is the female form of "Raja" & is mainly used for a Raja's wife'

Answer: Rani


Question: 'Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'All but one of the domesticated breeds of this animal are derived from the mallard'

Answer: Duck


Question: 'On March 7, 1979 Ray Charles appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to perform this song'

Answer: "Georgia On My Mind"


Question: 'To tie temporarily, like a horse to a post'

Answer: Hitch


Question: 'Neither player wins with this kind of "mate"'

Answer: Stalemate


Question: 'This champion boasted, "They all will fall in the round I call" & "It ain't braggin' if you can do it"'

Answer: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)


Question: 'Backyard BBQ season starts on the weekend of this holiday, the last Monday in May'

Answer: Memorial Day


Question: 'The screech type of this creature may make its nest in a Saguaro cactus'

Answer: Owl


Question: 'A few days before his death in 1967 he recorded the lines, "I left my home in Georgia headed for the 'Frisco bay"'

Answer: Otis Redding ("Sittin\' On The Dock Of The Bay")


Question: 'An opening in the deck of a ship for senator Orrin to pass through'

Answer: Hatch


Question: 'The only chess move in which a player may move 2 of his own pieces at the same time'

Answer: Castling


Question: 'In his 1964 State of the Union he said, responding to Khrushchev's boast, "We do not intend to be buried"'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'A survey by the Barbecue Industry Association showed most U.S. backyard grills use these 2 fuel types'

Answer: Coal & propane


Question: 'The Weddell species of this animal can stay underwater for over an hour'

Answer: Seal


Question: 'This No. 1 hit by Vicki Lawrence was written by her then-husband Bobby Russell'

Answer: "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia"


Question: 'Condiment seen here before being ground for use:'

Answer: Horseradish


Question: 'In chess notation, QR stands for this'

Answer: Queen side rook


Question: 'In 1990 he boasted that if attacked, he would turn the Saudi oil fields into "A sea of fire"'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'In 1620 perhaps the first good meal the Pilgrims had was a barbecued meleagris gallopovo, one of these birds'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'Similar to a wattle, it's the throat flap of Zebu cattle or the mole anole lizard'

Answer: Dewlap


Question: 'A boy named Johnny wins an important fiddlin' contest in this 1979 story song'

Answer: "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"


Question: 'The "H" of the 4-H Club that fits the category'

Answer: Health


Question: 'A special way a pawn may capture, it's French for "in passing"'

Answer: En passant


Question: 'In a fairy tale, The Brave Little Tailor boasted he killed 7 with one blow!  The town thought he meant men; he meant these'

Answer: Flies


Question: 'No. 10 of his "Top Ten Signs You're At A Bad Barbecue" list is "Everything on the grill has a long thin tail"'

Answer: David Letterman


Question: 'Dingoes go after these burrowing marsupials that come in a common & a hairy-nosed type'

Answer: Wombats


Question: 'This Gladys Knight hit begins, "L.A. proved too much for the man, so he's leavin' the life he's come to know"'

Answer: "Midnight Train To Georgia"


Question: 'Buffy's TV town of Sunnydale sits atop it'

Answer: Hellmouth


Question: 'Bobby Fischer beat this man in Iceland in 1972 to take the world chess title'

Answer: Boris Spassky


Question: 'A turn of the century boast went "Nothing on Earth can hold" this performer "a prisoner"'

Answer: Harry Houdini


Question: 'A cheeseburger wouldn't be complete without the processed "American" chesse he introduced in 1915'

Answer: James Kraft


Question: 'This play's setting is "A two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields"'

Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire


Question: 'Liza's dad, he directed 1950's "Father Of The Bride"'

Answer: Vincente Minnelli


Question: 'My oh Maya!  It's the most populous country in Central America'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: 'You can "ride the movies" at this film company's Hollywood theme park'

Answer: Universal Studios


Question: 'He composed an "Irish Symphony" a few years before he teamed up with W.S. Gilbert'

Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan


Question: 'The second power of a number; or an old-fashioned, unhip person'

Answer: Square


Question: 'The title of this novel about Mississippi's Compson family comes from a line in Act V of "Macbeth"'

Answer: The Sound And The Fury


Question: 'In 1992 this diminutive funny man went behind the camera for the not-so-funny "Hoffa"'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'It was once known as Southern Rhodesia, then just as Rhodesia'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'You may see Shamu the killer whale at one of these parks in San Diego, Orlando, Cleveland or San Antonio'

Answer: Sea World


Question: 'This "Bolero" composer based his "Mother Goose" suite on fairy tales by Charles Perrault'

Answer: Maurice Ravel


Question: 'An angle that is less than a right angle; or sharp & severe'

Answer: Acute


Question: 'This novel begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"'

Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird


Question: 'His big screen version of "Annie" came more than 40 years after "The Maltese Falcon"'

Answer: John Huston


Question: 'It was formerly Northern Rhodesia'

Answer: Zambia


Question: 'At one of these restaurants, you can get a Die Hard Daiquiri, a Cliffhanger or a Mr. Freeze's Margarita'

Answer: Planet Hollywood


Question: 'In the late 1950s he became the first U.S.-born conductor to head the New York Philharmonic'

Answer: Leonard Bernstein


Question: 'The sum of x numbers divided by x; or typical, common or ordinary'

Answer: Average


Question: 'This author of "The Civil War:  A Narrative" appears in Ken Burns' TV documentary on the subject'

Answer: Shelby Foote


Question: 'He directed Goldie Hawn in "Swing Shift" before shifting to films like "The Silence Of The Lambs"'

Answer: Jonathan Demme


Question: 'The George Cross, awarded for bravery in World War II, appears on this island country's flag, seen here:'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta this chain of music clubs ran a temporary venue in a Baptist tabernacle'

Answer: House of Blues


Question: 'This German composed the "Sailors' Chorus" heard here:<br />[audio clue]'

Answer: Richard Wagner (from  The Flying Dutchman)


Question: 'Point (0,0) on a graph; or the beginning'

Answer: Origin


Question: 'She's written about the South in such books as "Delta Wedding" & "The Optimist's Daughter"'

Answer: Eudora Welty


Question: 'One of Francis Ford Coppola's early films was this musical about a leprechaun & a stolen pot of gold'

Answer: Finian\'s Rainbow


Question: 'You're on a roll if you know that Bialystock is one of this country's largest provinces'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Diana Ross & Boyz II Men are among the celebrity investors in this restaurant chain'

Answer: Motown Cafe


Question: 'This musical direction, Italian for "lively", is also the title of a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical'

Answer: Allegro


Question: 'The instantaneous rate of change of a function; or not original, adapted from others'

Answer: Derivative


Question: 'In Homer, Athena takes the form of this old friend of Odysseus to advise Odysseus' young son'

Answer: Mentor


Question: 'Before he was NYC mayor, he was the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the mafia in the "pizza connection" case'

Answer: Rudy Giuliani


Question: 'Ron Stoppable helps this title girl in her fight against villains like Frugal Lucre & Sr. Senior, Jr.'

Answer: Kim Possible


Question: 'For authentic Cajun & Creole dishes, head down south to this "Bayou State"'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'Harry is chosen for & competes in the Triwizard Tournament.  He fights Voldemort.  "Moody" tries to kill Harry'

Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


Question: 'On sheet music, this sign identifies the second line of the staff as the G above middle C'

Answer: a treble clef


Question: '5,760 grains in troy weight or 7,000 grains in avoirdupois weight'

Answer: a pound


Question: 'We hope Silvestre Reyes can keep secrets--he chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on this'

Answer: Intelligence


Question: 'A junior high hoops star starts turning into a leprechaun in the Disney Channel movie "The Luck of" them'

Answer: the Irish


Question: 'The 1862 Civil War battle of these 2 ironclads ended when one had to withdraw because of the tides'

Answer: the Monitor and the Merrimack


Question: 'Jess likes to run.  Jess & Leslie build a fantasyland filled with creatures.  Leslie drowns.  Jess crowns his sis'

Answer: Bridge to Terabithia


Question: 'The name of this section of an orchestra in which instruments are struck comes from the Latin for "a beating"'

Answer: percussion


Question: 'Where a baseball pitcher stands'

Answer: the mound


Question: 'This senator was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review'

Answer: Barack Obama


Question: 'The Diffy family from the year 2121 gets stuck in our century on this show'

Answer: Phil of the Future


Question: 'Opryland, once a popular theme park in this city, was demolished to make way for a shopping mall'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'Ponyboy vs. the Socs.  Johnny kills a Soc.  A church catches on fire, kids are saved.  Johnny dies, Dally is shot'

Answer: The Outsiders


Question: 'In 1890 this composer wrote a rousing number called "The High School Cadets", heard here'

Answer: (John Philip) Sousa


Question: '8-letter word meaning to encircle or enclose on all sides'

Answer: surround


Question: 'In 2004 this North Carolinian was almost the vice president-elect'

Answer: John Edwards


Question: 'This title kid is "in the (White) House" when his dad is made executive chef'

Answer: Cory (Baxter)


Question: 'In 2004 this hyphenated North Carolina city was named one of the most livable cities in America'

Answer: Winston-Salem


Question: 'Sherlock Holmes discovers a cane, then a family curse.  Howling is heard.  The culprit drowns on the moors'

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles


Question: 'Rachmaninoff wrote one "on a Theme of Paganini"; Gershwin wrote on "in Blue"'

Answer: a rhapsody


Question: 'Subterranean'

Answer: underground


Question: 'This former Massachusetts governor was CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City'

Answer: Mitt Romney


Question: 'Disney says this title guy "is your average 13-year-old kid, who just so happens to be a powerful and magical dragon!"'

Answer: Jake Long


Question: 'Home to a famous naval hospital, this unincorporated Maryland city was named for a church'

Answer: Bethesda


Question: 'Trojans flee Troy.  Dido & Aeneas hook up.  He goes, she stabs herself.  The Trojans reach Italy.  Fighting ensues'

Answer: the Aeneid


Question: 'You may have studied these Chopin pieces whose name is French for "studies"'

Answer: études


Question: 'In chemistry, a substance consisting of 2 or more elements'

Answer: a compound


Question: 'The star on Nevada's flag is this metallic color because it represents Nevada's state mineral'

Answer: silver


Question: 'This entire Italian city, spread of 188 islands, is a World Heritage Site'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'In 1948 Micheline Ostermeyer won Olympic gold for throwing the discus & for putting this'

Answer: the shot


Question: 'From October 1804 to April 1805 this pair camped in N.D. with the Mandan Indians before heading west to Oregon'

Answer: Lewis and Clark


Question: 'It's a network of nerves, like the solar one'

Answer: plexus


Question: 'If someone uses the acronym "GAL", they don't think you're female, but rather that you should "get" this'

Answer: a life


Question: 'A sheaf of this grain symbolizes-- what else?-- agriculture on Ohio's state seal'

Answer: wheat


Question: 'The old cities of Bern in Switzerland & Damascus in this country made the list'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'The 1972 games at this German city were the scene of terrorism & tragedy'

Answer: Munich


Question: 'In 1775 this frontiersman led a group through the Cumberland Gap'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'Nephrology is a medical specialty concerned with these organs'

Answer: kidneys


Question: '"DQYDJ" has nothing to do with your turntable gig; in fact, it means "Don't quit" this'

Answer: your day job


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a shape on the monitor.)  The traditional symbol for this sign of the zodiac resembles a "mane"'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'This South American capital didn't exist 60 years ago'

Answer: Brasilia


Question: 'Different strokes: In 2004 Amanda Beard won Olympic gold in 200-meter breast, Natalie Coughlin in 100-meter this'

Answer: backstroke


Question: 'Bjarni Herjolfsson sold his ship to this man who used it to explore Vinland around 1000'

Answer: Leif Ericson


Question: 'The hip is this type of 3-word joint'

Answer: ball and socket


Question: 'Provoking people in an online forum could get you this moniker, like the nemesis of the Billy Goats Gruff'

Answer: troll


Question: 'Not the Easter but the Prairie type of this flower is the floral emblem of Saskatchewan'

Answer: lily


Question: 'You can visit this North America country's L'Anse Aux Meadows historic park even if you're not a Viking'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'A platypus was one of the mascots of the 2000 games held in this city'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'After his 5-year voyage, 1831-36, this naturalist never went abroad again; he had been seasick much of the time'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: 'These 5 bones make up the palm of the hand'

Answer: metacarpals


Question: 'If someone uses the term "PEBCAK", it's a dis meaning the "problem exists between" these 2 places'

Answer: chair and keyboard


Question: 'From the Latin for "triple leaf", it's the name of the official Girl Scout emblem depicted here'

Answer: trefoil


Question: 'A visit to this country's Komodo National Park shouldn't "drag on" all day'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'She won all-around gold for the U.S. in 2004; Maybe you can see her better now'

Answer: Carly Patterson


Question: 'In 1682 he claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France; 5 years later, his own men killed him in Texas'

Answer: LaSalle


Question: 'It's also called the auditory tube, & when it's blocked, an earache can result'

Answer: eustachian tube


Question: 'If you lack technology like Gameboys & iPods, you could be called "Urban" this, like a Mennonite sect'

Answer: Amish


Question: 'Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'This lady richly deserves her pedestal; the first ticker-tape parade was held for her 1886 dedication'

Answer: the Statue of Liberty


Question: 'Will you still need me when I'm this Roman numeral?<br />LXIV'

Answer: 64


Question: '"Shout! The Mod Musical" takes us through this decade with songs like "Downtown" & "Goldfinger"'

Answer: the \'60s


Question: 'During WWI, this president's wife used sheep to trim the White House lawn'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'This current SUV line began in 1935 as an 8-passenger, all-steel wagon built on a Chevy truck chassis'

Answer: the Chevy Suburban


Question: 'The Tam-o'-shanter & the Glengarry are popular men's hats from this U.K. country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: '2 NYC ticker-tape parades didn't gain the Shah popularity in this country where he was deposed in 1979'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Mentioned at Gettysburg:<br />LXXXVII'

Answer: 87


Question:
'(Before the clue is given, Toni Award-nominated actress Carolee Carmello from the Broadway play Mamma Mia! helps with the clue.)

"Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh  /
You can dance /
You can jive /
Having the time of your life /
Ooh-ooh-ooh, see that girl /
Watch that scene /
Dig in the dancing queen /"

"Dancing Queen" is one of many hit songs in "Mamma Mia!" that were originally made famous by this Swedish group'

Answer: ABBA


Question: 'Karl Dahlman built a rotary-blade one of these machines that ran like a hovercraft, on a cushion of air'

Answer: a lawn mower


Question: 'This former SUV model from Honda sounds like something you need when you travel abroad'

Answer: a Passport


Question: 'The name of this high-crowned, very wide-brimmed men's hat from Mexico comes from the Spanish word for "shade"'

Answer: a sombrero


Question: 'In 1927 he returned to a hero's welcome less than a month after leaving Long Island for Paris'

Answer: Lindbergh


Question: 'A positively revolutionary year:<br />MDCCLXXVI'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'Also known as finger grass, a creeping weed of the genus Digitaria is better known by this "grouchy" name'

Answer: crabgrass


Question: 'Subaru has a 7-passenger SUV named for this Manhattan neighborhood that's home to a film festival'

Answer: Tribeca


Question: '18th century frontiersman Daniel Boone is often depicted wearing one of these hats made from an animal'

Answer: a coonskin cap


Question: 'In 1951 it was the turn of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of this country'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'TV secret agent Maxwell Smart's beautiful agent wife:<br />XCIX'

Answer: 99


Question: 'Keeping your lawn healthy might require adding a fertilizer that includes this chemical element, symbol N'

Answer: nitrogen


Question: 'In the movies, this great fictional British detective often wore a hat called a deerstalker'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Unemployment started with a bang when this 5-star general got a parade after being fired by Truman in 1951'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'Religious TV club:<br />DCC'

Answer: 700


Question: 'Unlike a perennial, which will bloom year after year, this type of plant goes through its life cycle in one year'

Answer: an annual


Question: 'In the early 1900s, William Bragg used this type of ray to try to photograph the structure of molecules'

Answer: an X-ray


Question: 'Kramer, on this show:<br />"I'm taping Canadian Parliament, you know, on C-SPAN"'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'Brands of this condiment include Colman's, Gulden's & Plochman's'

Answer: mustard


Question: '"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin is about Lincoln's bringing political foes into this advisory body'

Answer: the Cabinet


Question: 'When the Mad Hatter says, "No room!", you retort, "There's plenty of room!" as you're playing this title girl'

Answer: Alice (in Wonderland)


Question: 'An electron type of this optical scientific instrument is used to magnify molecules for study'

Answer: a microscope


Question: 'Megan Mullally, as Karen on this show:<br />"You say potato, I say vodka"'

Answer: Will & Grace


Question: 'A Reuben sandwich is usually served with this fermented cabbage dish'

Answer: sauerkraut


Question: 'This controversial bestseller by Dan Brown begins with a murder in the Louvre'

Answer: The Da Vinci Code


Question: 'Try to look mysterious when you say, "I never drink... wine"--you're playing this spooky guy'

Answer: (Count) Dracula


Question: 'Gregor Mendel famously found a mathematical basis for inheritance by studying this legume, without the princess'

Answer: the pea


Question: 'David Hyde Pierce, on this NBC sitcom: "Her lips were saying 'No' but her eyes were saying 'Read my lips'"'

Answer: Frasier


Question: '"Jewish Penicillin"'

Answer: chicken soup


Question: 'In the 1980s he was quite at home on the bestseller list with books like "Misery", "Cujo" & "Christine"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'You're playing this saint, so you say, "I hear voices telling me what to do"'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Chromosomes carry these basic unis of heredity, not discovered by Levi Strauss'

Answer: genes


Question: '"Women--can't live with 'em ...pass the beer nuts", said Norm on this show'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'It sounds like a "Taxi" character, but it's really a potato pancake'

Answer: a latke


Question: 'She wasn't portrayed as the dearest of moms in the 1978 memoir "Mommie Dearest"'

Answer: Joan Crawford


Question: 'An address label error led to a character on this show receiving a TV guide as "Ms. Chanandler Bong"'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'If you're having gravlax, the last 3 letters should tell you that you're eating this 6-letter fish'

Answer: salmon


Question: 'Robert Armin played the role of the fool in "As You Like It", in "Twelfth Night" & in this tragedy 1st published in 1608'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'This place is sometimes called 'Bam, 'Bama or 'Bammy'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'The leaves of a fern are commonly called this, from the Latin for "foliage"'

Answer: Fronds


Question: 'She guided fans through gracious living with etiquette books, columns & radio & TV shows'

Answer: Amy Vanderbilt


Question: 'Some feel deep-frying the legs of this amphibian in cornmeal overpowers their subtle flavor'

Answer: Frog legs


Question: 'Titleist makes these with a pink ribbon logo for breast cancer awareness'

Answer: Golf balls


Question: 'It's the part of a candle that you kindle'

Answer: Wick


Question: 'The book "Whistlin' Dixie" calls this plural of "you" "The ne plus ultra of Southern dialect"'

Answer: Ya\'ll


Question: 'The "fire" type of this insect builds large mounds that interfere with harvesting hay'

Answer: Fire ants


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst)  In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name'

Answer: March


Question: 'These desert reptiles are good for stew, but save the tip of the tail for a fun & handy noisemaker'

Answer: Rattlesnake


Question: '"The Yips" is a term for jitters that can destroy a stroke, especially this one on the green'

Answer: Putt


Question: 'Yodel, or sing melodiously like a bird'

Answer: Warble


Question: '19th century event referred to in the South as the "Unpleasantness"'

Answer: Civil War/War Between the States


Question: 'A perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body when it's closest to this'

Answer: Sun


Question: 'She married Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" & Steven Spielberg in real life'

Answer: Amy Irving


Question: 'At the big game, the tail of this Florida mascot has been seen on grills at the Georgia Bulldogs' tailgate parties'

Answer: Gator (alligators)


Question: 'A fade is a controlled type of this shot that flies to the right of a right-handed golfer'

Answer: Slice


Question: 'It can mean to exercise power, or to handle & use a weapon'

Answer: Wield


Question: 'A corruption of "ordinary", it means mean'

Answer: Ornery


Question: 'Mildews, smuts & morels belong to this group of organisms incapable of making their own food'

Answer: Fungi


Question: 'Her No. 1 hit "Baby Baby" was written for a real babe, her daughter Millie'

Answer: Amy Grant


Question: 'Their habit of playing dead makes them easy to catch, roast & serve with sweet 'taters'

Answer: Possums


Question: 'Australian-born "Shark" who won the 1986 British Open & narrowly lost the '86 & '96 Masters'

Answer: Greg Norman


Question: 'Doggone it, this type of stereo speaker is used for reproducing low frequency sounds'

Answer: Woofer


Question: 'Feeling fair to a little better is feeling "fair to" this'

Answer: Middlin\'


Question: 'This phylum of sea animals named for their spiny skin includes sea urchins & sea cucumbers'

Answer: Echinoderms


Question: 'Film director who captured teen America in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" & "Clueless"'

Answer: Amy Heckerling


Question: 'One main reason this North American bird was hunted to extinction by 1914 was that it was good eating'

Answer: Passenger pigeon


Question: 'A golfer's last name gave us this term for a free shot not counted against your score'

Answer: Mulligan


Question: 'Phascolomis ursinus, this burrowing marsupial of Australia, resembles a small bear'

Answer: Wombat


Question: 'This common name for the Society of Friends may come from the saying "Tremble at the word of the Lord"'

Answer: Quakers


Question: 'There are about 150 in a 12-ounce bottle, or 95 in the light type'

Answer: Calories


Question: 'Type of event celebrated by an "Epithalamion", like the one Spenser wrote about his own to Elizabeth Boyle'

Answer: Wedding


Question: 'Spike Lee chronicled the life of this black activist in a 1992 film'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'Comedian Denis Leary insists people would use these even if they were called "tumors"'

Answer: Cigarettes


Question: 'The July 1953 armistice ending this war has never led to a formal peace treaty'

Answer: Korean War


Question: 'Muslims in Uzbekistan are reclaiming these buildings that were put to secular use by the Soviets'

Answer: Mosques


Question: 'Slang term for beer overexposed to light & smelling like traces of a striped mammal'

Answer: Skunky


Question: 'Taslima Nasrin left Bangladesh after incurring a 1994 Islamic death sentence, like this British author'

Answer: Salman Rushdie


Question: 'Of the Underground Railroad, she said she never ran a train off the track & never lost a passenger'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'On 1995's Oscar telecast, David Letterman repeatedly introduced these 2 stars to each other'

Answer: Uma & Oprah


Question: 'In a fanciful James Thurber story, a hung-over General Grant surrenders to this man at Appomattox'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Mahayanists label other schools of this religion "Hinayana" or "lesser vehicle"'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'This Spanish word for beer is derived from Ceres, the goddess of agriculture'

Answer: Cerveza


Question: 'In 1811 this poet was expelled from Oxford for writing the pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism"'

Answer: Percy Shelley


Question: 'The late Ron Brown was the first black American to head this cabinet department'

Answer: Commerce


Question: 'Troubles on "Sanford and Son" made this comic clutch his heart & tell his dead wife, "I'm Coming!"'

Answer: Redd Foxx


Question: '53 years before the Trail of Tears, this tribe signed the Hopewell Treaty with the U.S.'

Answer: Cherokee


Question: 'Guadalupe, where Juan Diego twice saw the Virgin Mary in 1531, is now a part of this world capital'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'Slosberg is the last name of this creator of a craft-brewed "Wicked Ale"'

Answer: Pete (Pete\'s Wicked Ale)


Question: 'HE WROTE, "since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things"'

Answer: E.E. Cummings


Question: 'This actress featured in "Executive Decision" was formerly married to outfielder David Justice'

Answer: Halle Berry


Question: '(Hi, I'm Al Franken)  As this character, I insist that, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me"'

Answer: Stuart Smalley


Question: 'After arranging a truce with this republic, Aleksandr Lebed was fired by Boris Yeltsin as security chief'

Answer: Chechnya


Question: 'The Bhagavad-Gita records a dialogue between a warrior named Arjuna & this avatar of Vishnu'

Answer: Krishna


Question: 'This rich type of stout "carries" the name of the London market workers who guzzled it'

Answer: Porters


Question: 'He was actually in the slammer -- London's Gatehouse, to be precise -- when he wrote "To Althea From Prison'

Answer: Richard Lovelace


Question: 'Noted for his Gulf War coverage, he's the principal Washington anchor for CNN'

Answer: Bernard Shaw


Question: 'The Minister of Silly Walks was a memorable portrayal by this gangly member of the Monty Python troupe'

Answer: John Cleese


Question: 'By the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt, France gave Germany Alsace & part of this quiche-making province'

Answer: Lorraine


Question: 'Site of a famous leader's exile, it was named for the mother of Constantine the Great'

Answer: Saint Helena (where Napoleon was exiled in 1815)


Question: 'Luci Nugent was only 19 when she gave birth to this president's 1st grandchild'

Answer: LBJ


Question: 'At Christmas shopping, bags of this "5th Avenue" store feature a December calendar'

Answer: Saks 5th Avenue


Question: 'As you might expect, it's the sweetener in a bee's knees cocktail'

Answer: honey


Question: 'Dramatic 16th C. style named for the Portuguese "Barroco", meaning an irregular-shaped pearl'

Answer: Baroque


Question: 'Since she had a bare cupboard, hers certainly wasn't a lucky dog, lucky dog'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'In Tunisia this hand sign means "I'll get you", in Japan "money" & in the U.S. "okay"'

Answer: [the "O" sign]


Question: 'He was known as "Big Bill"'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Used to make martinis, it's an aperitif wine flavored with herbs'

Answer: vermouth


Question: 'The Swedes who settled in Delaware in 1638 were the 1st in America to build cabins made of these'

Answer: logs


Question: 'Precarious position of the bough-borne cradle'

Answer: up in the treetop


Question: 'In the sobriety test, you shut your eyes, put your arms out to your sides & touch this'

Answer: [your nose]


Question: 'In 1970 George Bush ran against Lloyd Bentsen Jr. for this position'

Answer: U.S. Senator from Texas


Question: 'A gin cocktail is named for this man, John Tunney's father'

Answer: Gene Tunney


Question: 'Ancient British monument that's an example of post-and-lintel construction later used by the Greeks'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: '"See-saw, Margery Daw," he "shall have a new master"'

Answer: Jackie


Question: 'Besides his heart, this was the other part of E.T. that glowed'

Answer: [index finger]


Question: 'This wartime president had previously served in the Black Hawk War but saw no fighting'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Profession in which one might wear a cassock, alb, chasuble & maniple'

Answer: priest


Question: 'All you need to make this simple cocktail is gin & sweetened lime juice'

Answer: a gimlet


Question: 'Associated with geodesic domes, he once proposed saving energy by covering midtown Manhattan with a dome'

Answer: R. Buckminster Fuller


Question: 'A 2nd verse to this rhyme begins "Every fiddler he had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he"'

Answer: "Old King Cole"


Question: 'Paper covers stone, but stone breaks these'

Answer: ["scissors"]


Question: 'You can visit his home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, Long Island'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'At Blomingdale's, the DKNY shop features ready-to-wear clothes by this N.Y. designer'

Answer: Donna Karan


Question: 'Bartenders know this juice puts the scarlet in a Scarlett O' Hara'

Answer: cranberry juice


Question: 'The Romans built their houses around this open-air central room'

Answer: Atrium


Question: 'In this rhyme, a parent bemoans the fact her child has gone to bed with stockings & 1 shoe on'

Answer: "Diddle Diddle Dumpling"


Question: 'Jim Lange would invite the couples on "The Dating Game" to do this with him at the end of the show'

Answer: [throw a kiss]


Question: 'It can be a group riding exhibition performed to music or a merry-go-round'

Answer: carousel


Question: 'By the end of this J.M. Barrie play, Wendy flies so badly she has to use a broomstick'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'The sextant is so named because its shape is this fraction of a full circle'

Answer: 1/6


Question:
'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
He won a 1962 Grammy for the following:

"I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind..."'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'He loved Polyxena but demanded that she be slain at his tomb--what a "heel"!'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'Now over 60% of U.S. homes can save our show forever using one of these electronic devices'

Answer: VCR (video cassette recorder)


Question: 'Pronounced one way, it means to comfort; pronounced another way, it's a cabinet for your stereo'

Answer: console


Question: 'This Norwegian author's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", includes a major self-analysis'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'Navstar, one of these, allows aircraft & ships to determine their position anywhere on Earth'

Answer: a satellite


Question: 'He once said that he "cried like a baby" while writing about Kunta Kinte'

Answer: Alex Haley


Question: 'After she rendezvoused with Poseidon in Athena's temple, Athena changed her hair into serpents'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'The focus of many living rooms, in Latin "focus" means this, abbreviated "fplc" in real estate ads'

Answer: fireplace


Question: 'A fancy roast of lamb, veal, or pork; you might wear your tiara while eating it'

Answer: crown roast


Question: 'For centuries, navigators have used 2 stars in Ursa Major to point the way to this star'

Answer: Polaris (or the North Star)


Question: 'A dancer in "The Wiz" & an understudy in "Dreamgirls", she's sung & danced on "The Cosby Show"'

Answer: Phylicia Rashad


Question: 'He deserted his beloved water nymph, Oenone, to run off with Helen of Troy'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'A man's personal servant, or a stand that holds his jacket'

Answer: a valet


Question: 'A 10-letter word for a crotchety old miser, not a crotchety old dog'

Answer: curmudgeon


Question: 'Invented in 1735, this clock, whose name means "time measurer", is used in sea navigation'

Answer: chronometer


Question: 'He's famous for having gone on long fasts during the Vietnam War & the 1980 Iran hostage crisis'

Answer: Dick Gregory


Question: 'Zeus carried Europa all the way to Crete when he was disguised as one of these'

Answer: a bull


Question: 'In old manor houses, it's the room off the kitchen where the dishwashing was done'

Answer: the scullery


Question: 'If you were a mummy, some of your internal organs would be in these jars'

Answer: canopie jars


Question: 'Paul Scofield starred in the original production of this play & won an Oscar for the film version'

Answer: A Man for All Seasons


Question: 'In 1977 PBS's "Black Journal" was renamed for him, its executive producer & host'

Answer: Tony Brown


Question: 'After Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy, she spurned him'

Answer: Cassandra


Question: 'This company is the largest single maker of finished Venetian blinds in the U.S.'

Answer: Levelor


Question: 'A juvenile edition of this 1961 best seller was called "The Great Adventure of Michelangelo"'

Answer: The Agony & The Ecstasy


Question: 'This archangel was the messenger between God & Muhammad'

Answer: Gabriel


Question:
'Graham,
Joel,
Wilder'

Answer: Billy


Question: 'The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations with this Caribbean country'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Like major league sports premiums, Gorton's in 2002 offered its fisherman mascot as one of this type of doll'

Answer: bobblehead doll


Question: 'A "pure" hit:<br />"Touched for the very first time"'

Answer: Like A Virgin


Question: 'An old term meaning to smear with blood, now it usually means to coat with gold'

Answer: gild


Question: 'The Unification Church was founded in this country in 1954'

Answer: (South) Korea


Question:
'Stafford,
Kwan,
Pfeiffer'

Answer: Michelle


Question: 'She releases the hit songs "Crazy" & "I Fall to Pieces"'

Answer: Patsy Cline


Question: 'In October 2003 pop superstar Jessica Simpson was invited to a staff meeting of this food giant in San Diego'

Answer: Chicken of the Sea


Question: 'A "commercial" hit:<br />"Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right"'

Answer: Material Girl


Question: 'Hoodwink once meant to do this to a person, like before he or she played pin the tail on the donkey'

Answer: blindfold


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the front of the Temple de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain)  The facade named this, the word for Jesus' suffering & death, has sober design elements like columns that look like bones'

Answer: the Passion Facade


Question:
'King,
Breyer,
Hawking'

Answer: Stephen


Question: 'In early 1961 the number of U.S. military advisors in this Asian country reaches around 2,000'

Answer: (South) Vietnam


Question: 'Charlie says that its "Flavor Fish Pouch" will keep its tuna fresh for 18 months if stored properly'

Answer: StarKist


Question: 'Her first Top 40 hit:<br />"We're gonna have a celebration all across the world"'

Answer: Holiday


Question: 'What was once chiropody, the health field dealing with the feet, is now more commonly called this'

Answer: podiatry


Question: 'The Tenrikyo sect associated with this religion puts Japan at the center of the universe'

Answer: Shintoism


Question:
'Bracco,
Hansberry,
Adams'

Answer: Lorraine


Question: 'This poet recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Bumble Bee sells 14.75-ounce cans of this pink fish from Alaska'

Answer: salmon


Question: 'An obvious title:<br />"Hey Mister D.J., put a record on, I wanna dance with my baby"'

Answer: Music


Question: 'Sennight is an old term for this period of time'

Answer: a week


Question: '1 of the 5 symbols worn by members of this Punjab-centered religion is the kirpan, a sword'

Answer: Sikhism


Question:
'Bates,
Baker,
Najimy'

Answer: Kathy


Question: 'On May 5, 1961 he is launched from Cape Canaveral'

Answer: Alan Shepard


Question: 'Known for her fish sticks, in 2001 her name went on new shrimp bowls'

Answer: Mrs. Paul\'s


Question: 'A song with controversial subject matter:<br />"But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby"'

Answer: Papa Don\'t Preach


Question: 'Fred of Limp Bizkit might know it's an outdated past tense of dare'

Answer: durst


Question: 'LOX, the one used in rockets, not in bagels, is liquid this'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'You can almost hear the rushing waters with the motion lamp depicting this North American sight'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'Attributed to Disraeli, among others, is "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and" these'

Answer: statistics


Question: 'Its source is in southern Burundi; from there it flows a long, long way north'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'It's a 4-channel sound system; double stereo'

Answer: quadraphonic


Question: 'The doll seen here was inspired by the classic "Job Switching" episode of this TV series'

Answer: I Love Lucy


Question: 'Magnesium & this element can help prevent muscle cramps, so eat plenty of bananas'

Answer: potassium


Question: 'I snagged a "Speed Racer" & a "Kung Fu" one of these -- sorry, no thermos'

Answer: lunchbox


Question: 'In "Bartlett's", Daniel Webster's "I still live" is listed as these'

Answer: his last words


Question: 'Steubenville was laid out on this river in 1797'

Answer: the Ohio


Question: 'It's a significant change for a physicist or for Scott Bakula'

Answer: a quantum leap


Question: 'Gemmy Industries' Abbott & Costello figures actually perform this routine'

Answer: "Who\'s on First?"


Question: 'In 1991 Zachary Taylor's body was exhumed to determine if he'd been poisoned by this element'

Answer: arsenic


Question: 'The style of Jim Beam bottle seen here inspired the one on this TV show'

Answer: I Dream of Jeannie


Question: 'In a Kipling ballad "East is east, and west is west, and never" these 4 words'

Answer: the twain shall meet


Question: 'The Czechs call this 720-mile-long river the Labe'

Answer: the Elbe


Question: 'You can still buy this character's cereal online'

Answer: Quisp


Question: 'The Black Knight plush figure from this British comedy film has detachable limbs'

Answer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail


Question: 'This smelly element, atomic number 16, can be spelled with an "F" or a "PH"'

Answer: sulfur/sulphur


Question: 'I found Brad Pitt's leather jacket from this 1999 film; I beat myself up when I found out it was a replica'

Answer: Fight Club


Question: 'Samuel Johnson called remarriage after an unhappy first marriage "The triumph of hope over" this'

Answer: experience


Question: 'This Russian river rises at the south end of the mountain range of the same name'

Answer: the Ural


Question: 'He's the villainous moneylender in "The Old Curiosity Shop"'

Answer: Daniel Quilp


Question: 'This yarn-haired lass created by Johnny Gruelle back in 1915 is still around'

Answer: Raggedy Ann


Question: 'The silver fillings used by dentists are about 50% this toxic metallic element'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'The chip seen here is from this resort lodge on Lake Tahoe, near the California-Nevada border'

Answer: the Cal Neva Lodge


Question: 'This treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau says, "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"'

Answer: The Social Contract


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from New Haven, Connecticut)  This river that Eli Whitney used to power his machinery got its name from powering machines'

Answer: the Mill River


Question: 'The Populus tremuloides is this 2-word tree'

Answer: Quaking aspen


Question: 'Action figures of famous Dorfmans include the one from this film'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit"'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'A national memorial in this city commemorates the site of the April 19, 1995 bombing that killed 168'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'This weatherman turned vowel seller got to sit in'

Answer: Pat Sajak


Question: 'The only "s" in the name of this "Flying Nun" is in her first name; her last name is very, very singular'

Answer: Sally Field


Question: 'This large, hairy type of spider takes its name from an Italian town'

Answer: a tarantula


Question: 'Do it "before you leap"'

Answer: look


Question: 'By 1912 this merchant's company owned more than 500 stores bearing his name across the U.S.'

Answer: (Frank Winfield) Woolworth


Question: 'The Philadelphia home where he wrote "The Tell-tale Heart" is now a national historic site'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'Regis has said, "Gelman is grooming" this "Survivor" guy "for the day I say adios amigos"'

Answer: Jeff Probst


Question: 'The "'s" comes after the 3rd word, not the 2nd, in the title of this Shakespeare play featuring Hermia'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'At least 2 types of poison are known to be injected by its tail stinger: hemotoxin & neurotoxin'

Answer: a scorpion


Question: '"Home is where" this "is"'

Answer: the heart


Question: 'In "The Prelude", this poet wrote that at age 10 he "held unconscious intercourse with beauty old as creation"'

Answer: (William) Wordsworth


Question: 'Fort Necessity, the site of the first battle of this war on July 3, 1754, was designated a nat'l battlefield in 1961'

Answer: the French & Indian War


Question: 'We're offering $600 if you know this ex-TV doc has subbed for Reg--"Deal or No Deal"?'

Answer: Howie Mandel


Question: 'It may have 22 chapters, but this last book of the Bible doesn't have an "s" at the end of its name, so don't add one'

Answer: Revelation


Question: 'Texas cattle fever is one of many diseases transmitted by the bite of this type of bloodsucking arachnid'

Answer: a tick


Question: 'One of these "sweeps clean"'

Answer: a new broom


Question: 'She's the--sigh--goddess of love seen here'

Answer: Rita Hayworth


Question: 'Christiansted National Historic Site on this largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands commemorates its Danish heritage'

Answer: St. Croix


Question: 'This CNN newsman did a 360 (or is it more a 180?) when he guest-hosted the show'

Answer: Anderson Cooper


Question: 'The title of an 1891 Wilde novel is "The Picture of" his, not "The Portrait of" him'

Answer: Dorian Gray


Question: 'Arachnids are a major class of this phylum that includes insects & crustaceans'

Answer: arthropods


Question: '"Spare the rod" & you'll do this'

Answer: spoil the child


Question: 'The Buffalo Soldiers Monument is on the grounds of this Kansas fort that's near a penitentiary'

Answer: Fort Leavenworth


Question: 'Lying in both Tennessee & North Carolina, it has more annual visitors than any other national park'

Answer: Great Smoky Mountains National Park


Question: 'The 1993 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, this driver of the 24 car has zoomed into Regis' chair a few times'

Answer: Jeff Gordon


Question: 'Please, please, please put the "y" before the "n" when we ask for this site of your vocal cords'

Answer: the larynx


Question: 'The smallest arachnid at .0003 inches in length, its name is synonymous with a tiny amount'

Answer: a mite


Question: '"Virtue is its own" this'

Answer: reward


Question: 'TV inventor Philo'

Answer: Farnsworth


Question: 'As a part of its 19th Century territorial expansions, this nation colonized the Nigerian port of Lagos in 1861'

Answer: the U.K.


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA.)  This early Millennium Falcon model was nixed because it looked like a Space 1999 craft; in the end, it became the first ship seen in "Star Wars" carrying this female character'

Answer: Princess Leia


Question:
'(Either of 2 presidents):
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk [in the Cabinet]'

Answer: Kennedy (or LBJ)


Question: 'The notation on a letter or e-mail to note other recipients has this numerical equivalent'

Answer: 200


Question: 'This "dogged" Sherlock Holmes novel was published in 1902'

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles


Question: 'A group of 3, musically'

Answer: a trio


Question: 'Known for his satire, Wole Soyinka became the first Black African winner of this prize for literature in 1986'

Answer: the Nobel Prize


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA.) Luke's X-Wing from Star Wars gets its name from the arrangement of its double-layered wings, & in the back is an astromech socket for this character'

Answer: R2-D2


Question:
'Secretary of Labor
George Shultz,
Attorney General
John Mitchell'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'In Roman numerals the Minnesota company with brands like Post-it, Scotch & Filtrete gets this big value'

Answer: 3000


Question: 'This oft-quoted 4 word phrase mentioning Holmes' pal never actually appeared in Conan Doyle's writings'

Answer: Elementary, my dear Watson!


Question: 'A violent public crowd disorder'

Answer: riot


Question: 'Following ethnic clashes in 1966, the Eastern part of Nigeria declared itself the Republic of this in 1967'

Answer: Biafra


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA.)  "Star Wars" costumes include the wedding dress made from an Italian bedspread worn by this actress in "Episode II"'

Answer: Natalie Portman


Question: 'Secretary of Education William Bennett,<br />Secretary of State George Shultz'

Answer: Reagan


Question: 'The last name of Tom, the cowboy seen here, has this value'

Answer: 1009


Question: 'It's the great detective's London address'

Answer: 221B Baker St.


Question: 'Hector's home in mythology'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'About a third of Nigeria's states, in this heavily Muslim North, follow this Islamic law system'

Answer: sharia


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA.)  Jabba the Hutt has gone through many stages in the creation process.  In one, he wore a fez, as he was modeled after this actor from Casablanca'

Answer: Sydney Greenstreet


Question: 'The Norwegian angel Ms. Ullmann, numerically'

Answer: 54


Question: 'The "Napoleon of Crime", he interrupts a coded communication to Holmes in "The Valley of Fear"'

Answer: Moriarty


Question: 'It means to raise something mechanically, like a flag'

Answer: hoist


Question: 'Nigeria's first planned city, it was built in the 1980s & officially dedicated as the nation's new capital in 1991'

Answer: Abuja


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA.)  In the real world, this compound is an explosive.  In the "Star Wars" world, it was what Han Solo was frozen in'

Answer: carbonite


Question: 'Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield,<br />Secretary of War William Howard Taft'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'The postal abbreviation of the state seen here equals this quantity in Roman numerals'

Answer: 1500


Question: 'It's a member of the British Conservative Party, m'lord'

Answer: a Tory


Question: 'The English received this teenager from the Burgundians in 1431 for the sum of 10,000 francs'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Idaho's license plates logically carry the slogan "Famous" these'

Answer: Potatoes


Question: 'A 1972 experiment set this more precisely at 186,282 miles per second'

Answer: the speed of light


Question: 'In cloud names, "nimbus" means this, so get out your umbrella'

Answer: rain


Question: 'In 321 Constantine declared this to be the official day of rest & worship'

Answer: Sunday


Question: 'On this TV show President Bartlet got betaseron injections from his wife for his MS'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'In 1995 Keanu was chosen one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by this magazine'

Answer: People magazine


Question: 'In the 1860s this precious metal was discovered at Owyhee, & today Idaho leads the U.S. in its production'

Answer: silver


Question: 'Of 500, 1,000 or 10,000 mph, the approximate speed of a spot on the equator while the Earth spins'

Answer: 1,000 mph


Question: 'It's the 2-word "agricultural" term for the causing of precipitation by humans'

Answer: cloud seeding


Question: 'Sufferin' succotash! This pope reportedly cured Constantine of leprosy & converted him to Christianity'

Answer: Sylvester


Question: 'A "Brief History" of this physicist includes the fact that he married his nurse after leaving his wife in 1990'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'On Jan. 31, 2005 Keanu was recognized with a star on the Walk of Fame on this street'

Answer: Hollywood Boulevard


Question: 'The Idaho section of U.S. Highway 12 bears the name of these 2 men who passed through the area in the early 1800s'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: 'In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months'

Answer: computer chips


Question: 'From the type of cloud it indicates, a horizontal line is this type of "symbol" (sounds like a big house or car)'

Answer: stratus


Question: 'Constantine's mother, St. Helena, is most famous for supposedly discovering this holy relic'

Answer: the True Cross


Question: 'In the "Iliad" this goddess anoints herself with "ambrosial sweet" olive oil to seduce her husband Zeus'

Answer: Hera


Question: 'Keanu maintains his passport & citizenship from this country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Idaho's Kamiah Valley is rich in the heritage & legends of this "nosy" Native American tribe'

Answer: Nez Perce


Question: 'The 2nd-largest living bird, this flightless Australian can run at nearly 30 mph; faster than you!'

Answer: an emu


Question: 'Found in Southeast Asia, the clouded type of this large cat is named for the cloud-shaped patterns on its coat'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'In 330, Constantine moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to this ancient Greek city, which he renamed Constantinople'

Answer: Byzantium


Question: 'After this Sioux chief tried to take his sick wife for help in 1877, he was killed by soldiers'

Answer: Crazy Horse


Question: 'Keanu's first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in this language'

Answer: Hawaiian


Question: 'Calling itself the birthplace of television, Rigby, Idaho was the boyhood home of this technology pioneer'

Answer: Philo Farnsworth


Question: 'Any object said to be traveling at hypersonic velocity has a speed over 5 on this scale named for an Austrian'

Answer: Mach


Question: 'The 2 galaxies closest to the Milky Way are the "clouds" named for this Portuguese explorer'

Answer: Magellan


Question: 'Now Iznik, Turkey, this city hosted an important Christian council called by Constantine in 325'

Answer: Nicaea


Question: 'It was once rumored that this president's wife "Flossie" poisoned him in order to avoid corruption charges'

Answer: Harding


Question: 'Keanu's first professional theater work was in this c.1610 play about the rightful Duke of Milan'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'In 1830 the French captured this city, Casbah & all, & made it the military HQ for their colonial empire in N. Africa'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'Houston Rocket Steve Francis said of this teammate, "He's just like me, except he's 7'6" & Chinese"'

Answer: Yao Ming


Question: 'He pondered weak & weary over many a curious volume at 230 N. Amity Street in Baltimore'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'In 1985 scientist Neri Vela became the first Mexican to venture here'

Answer: space


Question: 'In 1935 on the big screen, she was "The Little Colonel"'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: 'Used to relieve faintness, they're made up of ammonium carbonate & some fragrant scent'

Answer: smelling salts


Question: 'In 1812 the Earl of Selkirk established the Red River Colony in this Canadian province to begin settling the West'

Answer: Manitoba


Question: 'Asked if he'd earned a Clemson U. degree in this state, NBAer Elden Campbell said, "No, but they gave me one anyway"'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'Last name of the literary sisters who wrote their novels at the parsonage in Haworth, now a museum to them'

Answer: Bronte


Question: 'Mexican star Alma Delfina is in the cast of "Te Amare en Silencio", the first original telenovela from this network'

Answer: Univision


Question: 'The Las Vegas Hilton was the setting for this Elvis manager's memorial service'

Answer: Colonel Tom Parker


Question: 'FD&C Green No. 8 is one of the ingredients listed in this famous shampoo introduced in 1946'

Answer: Prell


Question: 'In 1873 these 2 cities united with Obuda & Margaret Island to form the capital of Hungary'

Answer: Buda & Pest


Question: 'Asked about this West Central Florida NFL team's execution, then-coach John McKay said, "I'm for it"'

Answer: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls in Washington Square, New York.)  As a boy he lived right here in the area & later wrote "Washington Square", whose heroine prefers it to  any other habitation'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'Known as J.C., this boxing champion won titles in 3 weight divisions & more than 100 pro fights'

Answer: Julio Cesar Chavez


Question: 'In 1874 this colonel led a "scientific" expedition into the Black Hills where he said it found gold'

Answer: Custer


Question: 'Each Labor Day weekend, this Colorado village popular with skiers hosts its annual film festival'

Answer: Telluride


Question: 'Pow!  Kaboom!  Russian explosive shells destroyed this empire's ships in Crimea in 1853'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'In '91 Vin Scully said, "Andre Dawson has a bruised knee & is listed as" this 3-word term... "aren't we all?"'

Answer: day-to-day


Question: 'He spent summer holidays from 1907 to 1914 remembering things past at a seaside resort in Normandy'

Answer: Proust


Question: 'This beloved film comedian got his name from a nightclub heckler who once yelled, "In the cantina you talk big!"'

Answer: Cantinflas


Question: 'He's the musical man in the title of the following'

Answer: Colonel Bogey


Question: 'He was Archibishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967'

Answer: Francis Cardinal Spellman


Question: 'In 1825 patriots crossed the Rio de la Plata from Argentina to fight for this country's freedom from Brazil'

Answer: Uruguay


Question: 'Asked how he was putting in 1991 compared with '82, when he won the Masters, this "Walrus" said, "More"'

Answer: Craig Stadler


Question: 'This Norwegian wrote his play "An Enemy of the People" while living in Rome'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'Seen here, in 1988 he was President of Mexico; 10 years later he was living in exile in Ireland'

Answer: Carlos Salinas de Gortari


Question: 'After Jim Bowie fell ill, this colonel took command at the Alamo'

Answer: Travis


Question: 'In 2002 he published "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers"'

Answer: Daniel Ellsberg


Question: 'Of nations entirely within Europe, it was the largest in area in 1571 & 1771, not on the map in 1871, & No. 6 in 1971'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'Guillotine victim, 1793'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'It sounds like a bath for your pig, but it means utter nonsense'

Answer: hogwash


Question: 'This member of a prominent family was married to actor Peter Lawford from 1954 to 1966'

Answer: Pat Kennedy


Question: 'The Bunyip &<br />The Alice Springs News'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'The inmates at this county's juvenile hall near USC Med. Center wrote the essays in Mark Salzman's "True Notebooks"'

Answer: Los Angeles County


Question: 'In "The Lord of the Rings", he gives his cousin Frodo the magical sword Sting'

Answer: Bilbo Baggins


Question: 'A president, 1861-1865'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'Biblical term for one of Jesus' original 12 followers'

Answer: apostle


Question: 'A book called "Honky Tonk Angel" offers intimate details about her life & tragic death at age 30'

Answer: Patsy Cline


Question: 'Przewodnik Katolicki &<br />Glos Koszalinski'

Answer: Poland


Question: 'His self-titled book includes passages written in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island'

Answer: (Nelson) Mandela


Question: 'Uma Thurman is a master of the Hattori Hanzo katana in these films'

Answer: Kill Bill


Question: 'A Victorian novelist'

Answer: Dickens


Question: 'Usually, to do this is to lose a game without playing it'

Answer: forfeit


Question: 'In 1960 he formed the Christian Broadcasting Network, which would eventually air his "700 Club"'

Answer: Pat Robertson


Question: 'Dimokratiki &<br />Peloponnisos'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In "Prison Writings", Leonard Peltier claims his innocence of killing FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Res. in this state'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'In this film Inigo Montoya searches for the man with the 6-fingered sword who killed his father'

Answer: The Princess Bride


Question: 'Long-serving French solar monarch'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'The strip of material around your fedora'

Answer: your hatband


Question: 'This Oregon Transplant represented Colorado in Congress from 1973 to 1996'

Answer: Pat Schroeder


Question: 'The Deccan Herald<br />& The Bihar Times'

Answer: India


Question: 'In jail, this special counsel to Nixon wrote notes that became "Born Again"'

Answer: Charles Colson


Question: 'Mel Gibson hurled his broadsword in the air & cried, "Freedom" in this epic'

Answer: Braveheart


Question: 'Colorful 19th-century member of nobili-"tea"'

Answer: Earl Grey


Question: 'This adjective can mean "pertaining to languages" or "pertaining to the tongue"'

Answer: lingual


Question: 'She introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, in her 1990 novel "Postmortem"'

Answer: Patricia Cornwell


Question: 'El Cronista &<br />El Patagonico'

Answer: Argentina


Question: '"One Day in My Life" was surreptitiously written on toilet paper by this Irish hunger striker'

Answer: Bobby Sands


Question: 'Wesley Snipes slices his sword through vampires in this film trilogy'

Answer: Blade


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) More than 2,000 years after this Aristophanes comedy debuted here in Athens, A musical version hopped onto Broadway'

Answer: The Frogs


Question: '"Hearts and Bones",<br />"Graceland"'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'Immigrants from this country named a South Dakota county Haakon, in honor of King Haakon VII'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Count Andrenyi, Mrs. Hubbard & Col. Arbuthnot are among the suspects in this 1934 train-set novel'

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express


Question: 'Hepatic cells are found in the tissue of this organ; "bile secretion is our business"'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'A luminous larva ("glimmer, glimmer")<br />(8)'

Answer: glowworm


Question: 'A genre of plays takes its name form these lusty creatures, shown as half-man & half-goat, whose antics it depicted'

Answer: satyrs


Question: 'This man "At San Quentin",<br />"More of Old Golden Throat"'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'This Los Angeles suburb was named for a New Hampshire-born dentist, not the potato guy'

Answer: Burbank


Question: 'In 2004 CNN said a winning bidder for a toilet cubicle from this retired British Airways plane might use it as an outhouse'

Answer: the Concorde


Question: 'Divided into the cardia, body region & pylorus; "Come see what's cookin'!" here'

Answer: the stomach


Question: 'It precedes schnauzer & sequoia<br />(5)'

Answer: giant


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) When this man introduced his play "Medea" in a contest held here at the Theater of Dionysus in 431 B.C., he came in last'

Answer: Euripides


Question: 'This group "Sell Out",<br />this group "by Numbers"'

Answer: The Who


Question: 'George Vancouver named this volcano for the baronial title of Alleyne Fitzherbert, a British diplomat'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'This car exec seen here put his name on an innovative automobile'

Answer: DeLorean


Question: '"You want glucagon? We got glucagon! Come back to the islets of Langerhans" in this gland'

Answer: the pancreas


Question: '"Reptilian" thirst quencher<br />(8)'

Answer: Gatorade


Question: 'Ancient Greek actors wore white lead paint on their faces before switching to this innovation'

Answer: masks


Question: '"One of These Nights",<br />"Hell Freezes Over"'

Answer: The Eagles


Question: 'This city's name is from the French for "strait"; it lies on a strait between Lake Erie & Lake St. Clair'

Answer: Detroit


Question: '1948's "car of tomorrow" was designed by this Ypsilanti, Mich. man; 51 were built, 47 are still around'

Answer: (Preston) Tucker


Question: '9 to 11 inches long, it's the first part of the small intestine; "Now with 30% more peptic ulcers!"'

Answer: the duodenum


Question: 'A glutton, or a male turkey<br />(7)'

Answer: a gobbler


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) Legend tells us that here on stage at the Theater of Dionysus, this man became known as the world's first actor'

Answer: Thespis


Question: '"OU812",<br />"Balance"'

Answer: Van Halen


Question: 'This Penn. city was named for 2 members of the British parliament who were sympathetic to the American Colonies'

Answer: Wilkes-Barre


Question: 'Although built at his urging, Alexander III didn't live to see the completion of this, the world's longest railway'

Answer: the Trans-Siberian Railway


Question: 'For this lymphoid organ on the abdominal cavity's left side under the diaphragm; "It's red & white pulp-eriffic!"'

Answer: the spleen


Question: 'Florentine artist Di Bondone<br />(6)'

Answer: Giotto


Question: 'During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang"'

Answer: Major John André


Question: 'Among the biggest media events of the '90s was the televised trial of this American football star'

Answer: O.J. Simpson


Question: 'Lizards & these creatures, like pythons & cobras, make up the largest group of reptiles'

Answer: Snakes


Question: 'He's starred in one series of action-adventure movies as Han Solo & in another as Indiana Jones'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'Marlon Brando played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by this American playwright'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'Only 7 prisoners were inside this fortress when it was stormed by French citizens July 14, 1789'

Answer: The Bastille


Question: 'After 11 1/2 years in office, she resigned as British prime minister in 1990'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Acacia leaves are the favorite food of this tallest mammal'

Answer: Giraffe


Question: '"I'll be back!" was one of this Austrian-American's few lines in 1984's "The Terminator"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'This 19th c. Norwegian wrote his famous play "Peer Gynt" in verse'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: 'In 1923 it replaced Constantinople as the capital of Turkey'

Answer: Ankara


Question: 'After a long struggle, Estonia, Latvia & this Baltic republic gained their independence September 6, 1991'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'Found chiefly in Australia, the wallaby is a smaller type of this marsupial'

Answer: Kangaroo


Question: 'He earned Oscar nominations for writing & acting in "Rocky"'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'This Russian playwright died in July, 1904, less than 6 months after his "The Cherry Orchard" premiered'

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Question: 'It's estimated that as many as 300,000 Ugandans were killed during his 1970s regime'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: 'The world lost 2 of its greatest dancers:  Margot Fonteyn in 1991 & this man, her partner, in 1993'

Answer: Rudolf Nureyev


Question: 'A white whale & a large white sturgeon prized for its caviar share this name'

Answer: Beluga


Question: 'Believe it or not, she's appeared as Ripley in 3 "Alien" films'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: 'This man anointed the 1st king of Israel was the son of Kish, a wealthy Benjaminite'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'The Abbey Theatre in this city is regarded as Ireland's national theatre'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'In 1975, the Himalayan country of Sikkim was absorbed by this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'President of Czechoslovakia from 1989-1992, he was elected president of the Czech Republic in 1993'

Answer: Vaclav Havel


Question: 'These performing horses trained at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna are bred elsewhere for farmwork'

Answer: Lipizzaner Stallions


Question: 'Star of films like "Kickboxer" & "Bloodsport", this karate champ is nicknamed "The Muscles from Brussels"'

Answer: Jean Claude Van Damme


Question: 'This wealthy man in whose tomb Jesus was placed may have been a member of the Sanhedrin'

Answer: Joseph of Arimathea


Question: 'German playwright who wrote "Mother Courage and Her Children" & "The Good Woman of Szechuan"'

Answer: Bertolt Brecht


Question: 'In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In 1995 Juan Carlos I celebrated his 20th year as the king of this country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Nadolal is a drug used to treat certain types of arrythmia, a condition where this is irregular'

Answer: Heartbeat


Question: 'This famous stone discovered in 1799 allowed Young & Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics'

Answer: The Rosetta Stone


Question: '"Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'Brocken is the highest peak in this German mountain range known for its canaries'

Answer: Hartz Mountains