Question: 'It's used as a plea in court to justify the defendant's use of physical force against an attacker'

Answer: Self-defense


Question: 'Alfred Lovell's Jodrell Bank radio telescope was finished in 1957 just in time to track this 1st artificial satellite'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: 'Hey bud, it's "My way or" this'

Answer: The highway


Question: '"Blackboard Jungle" author Evan Hunter writes the 87th Precinct mysteries under this name'

Answer: Ed McBain


Question: 'She was stripper Erin Grant in the 1996 classic "Striptease"'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'This exploded about 70 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral Jan. 28, 1986'

Answer: Space Shuttle Challenger


Question: 'A positive sense of this represents how valuable you think you are'

Answer: Self-esteem/worth


Question: 'A ring road surrounding an urban area; on a diet you may have to tighten it a notch'

Answer: Belt


Question: 'Seen here, his film roles include a Scottish slacker & a Jedi knight'

Answer: Ewan McGregor


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kari Wuhrer.) In "The Crossing Guard" I had to do a (very procative) striptease in front of this actor; that role wasn't one of my five easy pieces'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'On Feb. 3, 1998 a low-flying jet clipped a ski lift cable, killing 20 in the Dolomite Mountains in this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'In 1980 Spain granted the Basques this, though it was limited'

Answer: Self-rule


Question: 'To make his barometer, Evangelista Torricelli inverted a glass tube in a dish of this'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Spanish for "road"; for Tennessee Williams it was the "real" thing'

Answer: Camino


Question: 'This WWF head coined the phrase "sports entertainment" to suggest pro wrestling isn't pure athletics'

Answer: Vince McMahon


Question: 'In this Altman film, singer Sueleen strips before a rowdy crowd at a fund-raiser'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'This captain was killed in a skirmish with natives at Kealakekua Bay on Feb. 14, 1779'

Answer: Captain James Cook


Question: 'This prophecy comes about through a tendency to make events confirm to a predicted outcome'

Answer: Self-fulfilling


Question: 'No. 5 Domgasse, known as the Figarohaus, was this man's home in 1785'

Answer: W.A. Mozart


Question: 'Timon, Pumbaa & Simba are all characters in this musical'

Answer: "The Lion King"


Question: 'The sayings in this book include "When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom"'

Answer: Proverbs


Question: 'Some species of this eel have teeth that are modified for crushing hard-shelled animals'

Answer: Moray eels


Question: 'Reliable security seen here'

Answer: Rottweiler


Question: 'From 1880 to 1892, this patriotic composer directed the U.S. Marine Corps Band'

Answer: John Philip Sousa


Question: 'Royal apartments in the Hofburg Palace, once home to Maria Theresa, now house the person in this post'

Answer: President of Austria


Question: 'There's trouble in River City when professor Harold Hill comes a-calling in this musical'

Answer: "The Music Man"


Question: 'Leviticus 16 describes the day of this, the holiest & most solemn in the Jewish calendar'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'The name of this small shrimp-like animal that lives on plankton is from the Norwegian for "young of fish"'

Answer: Krill


Question: 'Over a million people clog through this port city of southwestern Holland'

Answer: Rotterdam


Question: 'Flying or not, this Marine Corps nickname refers to a collar once part of the uniform'

Answer: "Leathernecks"


Question: 'More useful in olden wars, they were demolished around 1860 to make room for the Ring Boulevard'

Answer: City walls


Question: 'Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" inspired this musical'

Answer: "Guys and Dolls"


Question: 'In the first book of this man, he anoints Saul as king'

Answer: Samuel


Question: 'In England the dogfish species of this sea creature is often used in preparing fish & chips'

Answer: Shark


Question: 'No one will ever accuse me of serving this cheap, inferior liquor'

Answer: Rotgut


Question: 'One of the Marine Corps main training sites is Parris Island in this state'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'This hotel famous for its torte was founded in 1876, though there might be one born every minute'

Answer: Hotel Sacher


Question: 'Many of the songs associated with Louis Jordan are featured in "Five Guys Named" this'

Answer: Moe


Question: 'Chapter 3 of the "Epistle to" these people explains why Christ is superior to Moses'

Answer: Hebrews


Question: 'The sea urchin is covered with sharp, pointed items called these with which it moves along the seafloor'

Answer: Quills


Question: 'This author created David Alan Kepesh, Nathan Zuckerman & Alexander Portnoy'

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: 'The Marine Corps Hymn was written following the capture of this foreign capital in 1847'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'This Vienna Woods village was the scene of the mysterious 1889 death of Crown Prince Rudolf'

Answer: Mayerling


Question: 'This matrimonial '60s musical! musical! was based on the play "The Fourposter"'

Answer: "I Do!  I Do!"


Question: 'Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem in the first verse of the book of this man'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'The most common species of this commercial fish is red; it doesn't turn orange until it's out of the water'

Answer: Roughy


Question: 'Works by this Russian-born U.S. abstract impressionist include "Brown, Black and Blue"'

Answer: Mark Rothko


Question: 'It's the enlisted Marine rank between private & corporal'

Answer: Lance Corporal


Question: 'In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'In checkers, when a piece reaches the opposite side of the board, this happens'

Answer: it gets kinged (or crowned)


Question: 'Medically speaking, this finger is the minimus, meaning "least"'

Answer: the pinky


Question: 'Not surprisingly, the California State Fair is held in this capital city'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'Tables shaped like this equine footwear were popular in the late 18th century'

Answer: a horseshoe


Question: 'If you can tell me what "gelt" means in Yiddish, you'll earn some right now'

Answer: money


Question: 'Washington & Jefferson convinced him to accept the offer of an admiralty in the Russian navy'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'If you suspect Mrs. Peacock did it in the conservatory with a knife, you're playing this game'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'Phlebitis, an inflammation of veins, usually affects these extremities'

Answer: the legs


Question: 'You can trace the history of blue jeans at this company's museum in San Francisco'

Answer: Levi Strauss


Question: 'A 9 dragon screen carved in bas-relief can be seen in this once-taboo section of Beijing'

Answer: the Forbidden City


Question: 'Benito Mussolini took this title meaning "the leader"'

Answer: Il Duce


Question: 'Arnold Schwarzenegger said this actress injured 12 people while filming "Conan the Destroyer"'

Answer: Grace Jones


Question: 'Unlike regular checkers, Chinese checkers is played on this shape board'

Answer: a (six-pointed) star shape


Question: 'Hyperopia, the opposite of myopia, is commonly called this'

Answer: farsightedness


Question: 'Disney has announced plans to build a WESTCOT Park next to Disneyland in this city'

Answer: Anaheim


Question: 'Alencon is a needlepoint type of this delicate openwork fabric'

Answer: lace


Question: 'French for "false step", it's another way of saying blunder or gaffe'

Answer: faux pas


Question: '"77 Sunset Strip" actor who now manages wife Ann-Margret's career'

Answer: Roger Smith


Question: 'In Monopoly it's the first property after "Go"'

Answer: Mediterranean


Question: 'The stapedius, the smallest of these, controls the stapes, the smallest bone'

Answer: muscle


Question: 'Inglenook, Cakebread Cellars & Stag's Leap Wine Cellars are in this valley famous for wine'

Answer: the Napa Valley


Question: 'This American known for his Art Nouveau lamps developed an iridescent glass which he called "Favrile"'

Answer: (Louis Comfort) Tiffany


Question: 'This 2nd-highest honors distinction at graduation is Latin for "with great praise"'

Answer: magna cum laude


Question: 'He organized USA for Africa with Harry Belafonte & Ken Kragen'

Answer: Quincy Jones


Question: 'In bridge, an attempt to take a trick with a low card while holding on to a higher one is called this'

Answer: a finesse


Question: 'This butterfly-shaped gland straddles the windpipe just behind the Adam's apple'

Answer: the thyroid


Question: 'You can drive your car legally on the beach in this California town famous for its clams'

Answer: Pismo Beach


Question: 'Historically, this was the material most commonly used for tapestries'

Answer: wool


Question: 'Referring to the sacred books of Hinduism, "Veda" means knowledge in this classical language'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'She was a teacher before becoming the first woman to serve in both the House & Senate'

Answer: Margaret Chase Smith


Question: 'In 1014 Brian Boru defeated these seafaring Scandinavians & ended their domination of Ireland'

Answer: the Vikings


Question: 'This novel opens at the wedding of Prizzi's granddaughter'

Answer: Prizzi\'s Honor


Question: 'A quire, or 25 sheets, of paper is 1/20 of this measure'

Answer: a ream


Question: 'Until this peak was scaled in 1953, Annapurna was the highest mountain climbed'

Answer: Everest


Question: 'Laka is the patron deity of this Hawaiian dance'

Answer: the hula


Question: 'In 1833 he was named postmaster of New Salem, Illinois'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'Constantine XI, the last ruler of this empire, died fighting the Turks in 1453'

Answer: the Byzantine Empire


Question: 'Chapter 11 of Anna Lee Waldo's historical novel about this woman is titled "Lewis and Clark"'

Answer: Sacagawea


Question: 'A noisy office registers about 60 of these units'

Answer: decibels


Question: 'The largest state in Venezuela is named for this man, the country's liberator'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question:
'1975 Broadway musical in which dancers sang the following:

"Everyone is beautiful at the ballet /
Every prince has got to have his swan /
Yes, everyone..."'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'After his haberdashery failed in 1922, it took him 3 years to pay back creditors'

Answer: Truman


Question: 'By the end of the Middle Ages, this fermented honey drink was replaced by wine in many regions'

Answer: mead


Question: 'Part I of his book "Christine" is called "Dennis - Teenage Car Songs"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'This is defined as the power needed to lift 550 pounds 1 foot in 1 second'

Answer: a horsepower


Question: 'Israel's northernmost region; Jesus spent most of his life there'

Answer: Galilee


Question: 'The name of this horizontal handrail found in a ballet studio can be spelled with 5 letters or 3'

Answer: the barre (or bar)


Question: 'In 1935 he was appointed director of the National Youth Administration in Texas'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Before becoming the see of the archbishops, this city was capital of the kings of Kent'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'Judith Krantz called her 1986 best seller "I'll Take" this'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'There are not 16 but this many troy ounces in a troy pound'

Answer: 12


Question: '2 of this South American city's most popular beaches are Copacabana & Ipanema'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: '"Fan"s of this Spanish dance know its name is slang for a ball or dance in the American Southwest'

Answer: the fandango


Question: 'While attending Harvard, he was runner-up for the campus lightweight boxing championship'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'The Perpendicular style was the last phase of this architectural style in England'

Answer: Gothic


Question: 'Colleen McCullough's novel "The Ladies of Missalonghi" is set in the Blue Mountains of this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'A metric ton contains 1 million of these metric units'

Answer: grams


Question: 'The world's largest deposit of sodium nitrate is found in the Atacama Desert in this country'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'These Indians do their annual snake dance in August; it's closed to non-Indians'

Answer: the Hopis


Question: 'As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y. he personally sprang the trap on 2 murderers'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'The oldest U.S. food trademark still in use, a red devil, was granted to this company in 1870'

Answer: Underwood


Question: 'Continent where you'd find the teal Amazonetta brasiliensis'

Answer: South America


Question: 'A doctor should check your BP, this vital sign'

Answer: blood pressure


Question: 'In 1964 he won the first of his 3 world heavyweight boxing titles, defeating Sonny Liston by a TKO'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'Camilla Parker Bowles was born Camilla Shand on July 17, 1947 in this world capital'

Answer: London


Question: 'The official rules say that nothing happens on this space in Monopoly -- it is merely a resting place'

Answer: free parking


Question: 'This nursery rhyme guy knew how to party; he called for his pipe, his bowl & 3 fiddlers for some tunes'

Answer: Old King Cole


Question: 'Its Latin name indicates that Egretta alba is this color'

Answer: white


Question: 'A complaint of S.O.B. means shortness of this'

Answer: breath


Question: 'Known for poking fun at his eating habits in TV commercials, he regained his heavyweight crown at age 45 in 1994'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'In an irony to end all ironies, Prince Charles proposed to this woman in 1981 on the grounds of Camilla's estate'

Answer: Lady Diana Spencer


Question: 'A news database search got 609 hits over 2 years with the words "hurricane" & this type of camp that provides utilities'

Answer: trailer park


Question: 'After catching his wife with the mailman, this TV title man bought the Stuckey Bowl bowling alley; wouldn't you?'

Answer: Ed


Question: 'Apteryx australis, it's actually confined to New Zealand'

Answer: kiwi


Question: 'If you have a GSW, you have this type of wound (& get to a hospital, quick!)'

Answer: gunshot wound


Question: 'Between 1937 & 1942, he successfully defended his heavyweight title 21 times'

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: 'What Prince Charles is to Camilla's first-born son, or the title of a 1969 novel about Don Corleone'

Answer: "The Godfather"


Question: 'She's the civil rights pioneer seen here'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'This columnist who wrote "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" died in 1996'

Answer: Erma Bombeck


Question: 'Merops apiaster is an "eater" of these insects'

Answer: bees


Question: 'It's the C in a C-section'

Answer: Caesarean


Question: 'This former heavyweight champ failed to regain his title against Gene Tunney in 1927's "Battle of the Long Count"'

Answer: Jack Dempsey


Question: 'At Prince Charles' 50th birthday party, he & Camilla danced (perhaps prophetically?) to this "regal" 1977 hit by ABBA'

Answer: "Dancing Queen"


Question: 'Also known as shaking palsy, it was first described in 1817'

Answer: Parkinson\'s disease


Question: '"The Grapes of Wrath" showed the plight of Oklahoma migrants from this 1930s Midwest region'

Answer: the Dust Bowl


Question: 'AMA can mean "against" this'

Answer: medical advice


Question: 'Ingemar Johansson won the heavyweight title from him in 1959, but lost 2 rematches'

Answer: Floyd Patterson


Question: 'Camilla's great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was a mistress of this early 20th century king, seen here'

Answer: Edward VII


Question: 'This "moony" name of several amusement areas began when the founder of one named it after his sister'

Answer: Luna Park


Question: '"The Golden Bowl" was the last novel by this "Daisy Miller" author'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'In his war address to Congress, President Wilson said, "The world must be made safe for" this'

Answer: democracy


Question: 'He went from waterboy to football star in 1998's "The Waterboy"'

Answer: Adam Sandler


Question: 'Tea party adjective<br />(3)'

Answer: mad


Question: 'This actor's film credits include "The Hustler", "Dr. Strangelove" & "Patton"'

Answer: George C. Scott


Question: 'The Turkish capital city known as this was once known as Angora'

Answer: Ankara


Question: 'Don't & can't are these; time how long between them to know whether you're in labor'

Answer: contractions


Question: 'In the 2nd battle of Ypres, the Germans used chlorine gas; at the 3rd battle, they introduced this gas'

Answer: mustard gas


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York)  The Plaza Hotel was featured in this 1959 Hitchcock movie that starred Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint'

Answer: North by Northwest


Question: 'Crimes "in the Rue Morgue"<br />(7)'

Answer: Murders


Question: 'He's the only man to have served as U.S. president & U.S. ambassador to the U.N.'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'Now the largest city in Sicily, this metropolis was founded in the 8th C. B.C. by the Phoenicians'

Answer: Palermo


Question: 'From the Latin nominare, "to name", it's an inaccurate designation'

Answer: misnomer


Question: 'In September 1916 the British rolled out this new secret weapon on the Somme front'

Answer: the tank


Question: 'Marilyn Monroe's toe gets caught in a bathroom faucet in this 1955 classic'

Answer: The Seven Year Itch


Question: 'Maugham paired it with "Sixpence"<br />(4)'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'He's the former presidential candidate seen here'

Answer: George Wallace


Question: 'The westernmost mainland country in Africa, its capital is Dakar'

Answer: Senegal


Question: 'The verb "to typewrite" from "typewriter" is an example of this type of "formation"'

Answer: back formation


Question: 'During a "Welcome U.S. Soldiers" celebration in Paris July 4, 1917 Col. C.E. Stanton made this famous 4-word statement'

Answer: "Lafayette, we are here!"


Question: '(Alex: Ah, let's hear from Sofia again)  In this 1990 film, Patrick Swayze jumped from subway train to subway train'

Answer: Ghost


Question: 'What the "Little Women" called their mother<br />(6)'

Answer: Marmee


Question: 'Yes sir, he received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the European recovery plan'

Answer: George Marshall


Question: 'Mandalay, one of the largest cities & inland river ports of this country, lies on the Irrawaddy River'

Answer: Myanmar (formerly Burma)


Question: 'A line from "Citizen Kane" might be an RKO-ism; this similar-sounding term refers to an outdated word'

Answer: archaism


Question: 'WWI's first declaration of war was July 28, 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on this country'

Answer: Serbia


Question: 'Elmer Bernstein did the classic music for this movie in which Steve McQueen flees Nazis on a motorcycle'

Answer: The Great Escape


Question: 'Lady Chatterley's lover<br />(7)'

Answer: Mellors


Question: 'It's the country where you'll find the cities of Granma, Cienfuegos & Camaguey'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'On the same page as "epitaph" in the dictionary, it can be a characterizing word or an abusive one'

Answer: epithet


Question: 'Engineers Jerry Yang & David Filo chose this name for their company in 1994; it's what each considered himself'

Answer: Yahoo!


Question: 'Some tourists save money by staying at the Bangkok YMCA in this country'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'Time flies!  This "Reds" actor-director & wife Annette Bening now have 3 kids'

Answer: Warren Beatty


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tim Russ.)  On Voyager I play Tuvok, the first "Star Trek" series regular from this race since Spock'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'A gentleman caller breaks Laura's unicorn figurine in this Tennessee Williams play'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: 'Nitrogen oxides combined with hydrocarbons in sunlight cause ground-level ozone, AKA this urban pollution'

Answer: smog


Question: 'Even if you're not a lumberjack, things can be as easy as falling off one of these'

Answer: a log


Question: 'When visiting this island country, you might buy some of its famous "shorts" in Hamilton, the capital'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: 'Ed Asner & Ted Knight co-starred, but it was this actress' "Show" from 1970 to 1977'

Answer: Mary Tyler Moore


Question: 'Voyager in the Delta Quadrant is trying to get back to this quadrant, its home'

Answer: the Alpha Quadrant


Question: 'Southern inhospitality drives her 1939 play "The Little Foxes"'

Answer: Lillian Hellman


Question: 'It's what the sign seen here is asking you to do (don't throw away those soda cans)'

Answer: recycle


Question: 'If your wits don't "dessert" you, this clue will be "as easy as pie", or "a piece of" this'

Answer: cake


Question: 'Retiro Park in this capital was once a private playground for the Spanish royal family'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Born in 1931, this Australian-born owner of Fox Broadcasting is now a U.S. citizen'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: '(Hi, I'm Ethan Phillips.)  Neelix was given this job so that we could save the power the food replicators required'

Answer: chef


Question: 'Discovering water pollution makes Dr. Stockmann "An Enemy of the People" in this Norwegian's play'

Answer: Henrik Ibsen


Question: '"Save the Planet" is a motto of this chain of musical "cafes" that once kept a tally of the shrinking rain forest'

Answer: the Hard Rock Cafe


Question: 'On the Beaufort scale, any wind with a speed of 4 to 31 mph is designated this'

Answer: a breeze


Question: 'Westernland, not Frontierland, is the Old West-themed area of this Asian city's Disneyland'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'This Arizona senator & presidential candidate was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam War'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'The 100th episode was directed by this man, Geordi La Forge on "The Next Generation"'

Answer: LeVar Burton


Question: 'Some time passes before Jerry tells what happened at the zoo in this playwright's "The Zoo Story"'

Answer: Edward Albee


Question: '"Ecology and the Human Spirit" is the subtitle of this man's book "Earth in the Balance"'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'You can make a simple "soup" with something "like water off" this bird's "back"'

Answer: duck


Question: 'Some travelers hike the Inca Trail to get to Machu Picchu in this country'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien, the 18th of 19 children, was born in this province in 1934'

Answer: Quebec


Question: '(Hello, I'm Robert Picardo.)  With my mobile emitter, I can now go anywhere, but initially I was limited to this area on Voyager'

Answer: sick bay


Question: 'A woman wants to bury her brother against the king's wishes in this tragedy by Sophocles'

Answer: Antigone


Question: 'Sulfur & nitrogen compounds mix with water, lowering the pH level, & produce this kind of precipitation'

Answer: acid rain


Question: 'Alphabetically, you'll find things as easy as this tune, the Jackson 5's second No. 1 hit'

Answer: "ABC"


Question: 'He lived to see his son become president as well, but died during his son's term in office'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'Dasher, Dancer, Prancer & 5 other tiny pullers'

Answer: Santa\'s reindeer


Question: 'The Mesozoic era is known as the Age of these, such as snakes & iguanas today'

Answer: Reptiles


Question: 'This actor was "Missing in Action" & feeling "Silent Rage" before he became TV's "Walker, Texas Ranger"'

Answer: Chuck Norris


Question: 'Terrytop & Whuppity Stoorie are variant names of this gold-spinning gnome'

Answer: Rumpelstiltskin


Question: 'It's the present tense of the sentence "I have lain."'

Answer: I lie


Question: 'For his work in founding the League of Nations, he received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Isaac, Taylor & Zac on drums'

Answer: Hanson


Question: 'In 1942 scientists got a much higher yield of this antibiotic from a moldy cantaloupe than with previous ways'

Answer: Penicillin


Question: 'Randy Quaid & Will Smith help save the Earth in this 1996 action thriller'

Answer: Independence Day


Question: 'In different versions, this one-shoed girl is named Rashin Coatie, Aschenputtel & Zezolla'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'Of "hurt", "spurt" or "blurt", the one that stays the same in the past tense'

Answer: Hurt


Question: 'He's the hero seen here with his famous regiment before taking charge of the White House'

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt


Question: 'Gawain, Lancelot, Tristram & many other knights, named because they sat as equals'

Answer: Knights of the Round Table


Question: 'The life of these in your body ranges from 3 days in your intestine to a lifetime in your brain'

Answer: Cells


Question: 'Jeff Goldblum starred in this 1997 sequel about Jurassic predators'

Answer: The Lost World


Question: 'Blunderbore, Thundel & Galligantus are all bested by this giant-killer'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'This letter hides when "hide" is conjugated in the past tense'

Answer: E


Question: 'This president's grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution'

Answer: James Knox Polk


Question: 'Gummo, Zeppo, Harpo, Chico & Groucho'

Answer: the Marx Brothers


Question: 'Your baroreceptors are sensory devices that keep this steady'

Answer: Blood pressure


Question: 'With films like "Rush Hour", this Chinese action hero's star is rising in the U.S.'

Answer: Jackie Chan


Question: 'During his adventures, this tiny "digital" favorite is swallowed by a cow, a giant & a fish'

Answer: Tom Thumb


Question: 'If you used "brung" in one of your essays, replace it with this word'

Answer: Brought


Question: 'His tenure as president from 1817 to 1825 is often referred to as the "Era of Good Feeling"'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe & Kelly Garrett'

Answer: the original Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'The highest level of activity in this organ of your body is in the Fovea Centralis'

Answer: Eye


Question: 'These 2 actors play detectives Riggs & Murtaugh in the "Lethal Weapon" movies'

Answer: Mel Gibson & Danny Glover


Question: 'After receiving footwear, this clever kitty helps its owner get rich'

Answer: Puss \'n Boots


Question: 'This verb is so irregular, it has 8 different verb forms (one form is in this clue, twice)'

Answer: To be


Question: 'Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system"'

Answer: Mouse


Question: 'At the Museum of these in Bristol, it gets very, very noisy on the hour, every hour'

Answer: Clocks


Question: 'The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible'

Answer: the deaf


Question: 'Him, her, him, him, her...doesn't matter who'

Answer: anyone


Question: 'This company's "No More Tears" baby shampoo comes in bottles ranging in size from 1.5 to 40 fl. oz.'

Answer: Johnson\'s


Question: 'Light brown, like a file folder; it's traced back to a Philippine seaport'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'For his "Redux" of this war film, Francis Ford Coppola added 49 minutes of footage not in the original cut'

Answer: Apocalypse Now


Question: 'Product that was the specialty of the bakery Harry Lender opened in 1927 in Connecticut'

Answer: bagels


Question: 'The only time he was knocked out (TKO) was on October 2, 1980 against Larry Holmes'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'It's also called a postmortem'

Answer: autopsy


Question: 'This 1/4 moisturizer lotion soap now has a shampoo line with weightless moisturizers'

Answer: Dove


Question: 'Damson, a shade of purple (& a heck of a plum), refers to this Syrian cty'

Answer: Damascus


Question: 'The trailer for this Hugh Grant-Sandra Bullock film included the "You love him." "I love him?" scene; the film didn't'

Answer: Two Weeks Notice


Question: 'Miss Porter's School in Farmington was the alma mater of this Long Island-born first lady'

Answer: Jackie Kennedy


Question: 'Many fled their homes as a result of this May 18, 1980 event seen here'

Answer: the eruption of Mount St. Helens


Question: 'Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is described as this, as it's partially based on incidents in her own life'

Answer: autobiography


Question: 'Dr. Ruth has shown up in commercials for this shampoo line from Clairol'

Answer: Herbal Essences


Question: 'Earth of this Tuscany town, raw or burnt, is used to make brown pigments'

Answer: Siena


Question: 'The musical number "Human Again", originally cut from this Disney fairy tale, was used in the stage version'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'In the 19th century the ivory imported from Africa into Ivoryton, Connecticut was exported mainly as these'

Answer: piano keys


Question: 'In a race for the governorship of Arkansas Frank D. White beat this incumbent'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'Get mad, get really mad -- it's alphabetically the first of the 7 Deadly Sins'

Answer: anger


Question: 'Its Pro-V line is enriched with pro-vitamin complexes'

Answer: Pantene


Question: 'The royal family of the Netherlands is the House of this, a small principality now part of Vaueluse in France'

Answer: Orange


Question: 'For the "Bootleg" director's cut he added 35 more minutes to his "Almost Famous"'

Answer: Cameron Crowe


Question: 'It's about 40 miles from SoHo in Manhattan to SoNo, a commercial district in this Connecticut town'

Answer: Norwalk


Question: 'Due to their unpopularity the U.S. Mint stopped making them, temporarily, less than a year after their introduction'

Answer: the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins


Question: 'Bartolomeo Eustachio is considered a founder of the modern version of this science'

Answer: anatomy


Question: 'This brand's "Plus" is a "2-in-1" formula that combines shampoo & conditioner'

Answer: Pert


Question: 'Gamboge is a yellow pigment that got its name from its origin in this southeast Asian country'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Her "You Are My Lucky Star" number was cut from "Singin' in the Rain", but it's back on the DVD'

Answer: Debbie Reynolds


Question: 'Psalm 3 is "A psalm of" him, "when he fled from Absalom with his son"'

Answer: David


Question: 'The 20th century's top song in U.S. airplay, this one by the Righteous Brothers has been heard over 8 million times'

Answer: "You\'ve Lost That Lovin\' Feelin\'"


Question: 'This "Bandstand" & "Pyramid" host didn't help build the pyramids'; the almanac only carbon-dates him back to 1929'

Answer: Dick Clark


Question: 'According to J.R.R. Tolkien, "In a hole in the ground there lived" one of these'

Answer: a hobbit


Question: 'One of the practices the "Kama Sutra" says men should master is training these birds to speak'

Answer: parrots


Question: 'When it comes to cars, ragtop is slang for this'

Answer: convertible


Question: 'These silver & gold objects that some worship "have mouths, but they speak not: eyes...but they see not"'

Answer: idols


Question: 'In 1984 L.A.'s KDAY became the USA's first station devoted to this genre of music'

Answer: rap


Question: 'Though considered a co-captain with his partner Meriwether Lewis, he was actually a lieutenant'

Answer: William Clark


Question: 'You put your Dixon Ticonderoga into a hole called a "Chuck" in this device'

Answer: pencil sharpener


Question: 'Whooping cranes whoop it up mainly on this continent'

Answer: North America


Question: 'Cortes & Balboa were 2 of the most famous of these Spanish military adventurers'

Answer: conquistadors


Question: 'Like Psalm 23, Psalm 80 begins by comparing God to this worker'

Answer: shepherd


Question: 'Terry Gross' interview show from WHYY in Philadelphia is a breath of this, its title'

Answer: Fresh Air


Question: 'In 1987 she became president of the Mystery Writers of America'

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark


Question: 'It was the Indian dungeon in which over 100 British soldiers reputedly perished in June 1756'

Answer: the Black Hole of Calcutta


Question: 'In 1993 a flock of these followed an ultralight plane from Ontario to Virginia'

Answer: Canadian geese


Question: 'He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'In Hebrew Psalm 34 is one of these: its verses begin with the letters Alef, Bet, Gimel...'

Answer: acrostic


Question: 'It airs each Saturday: June 21, 2003's topic was Iraq, June 28's Medicare'

Answer: the presidential address


Question: 'A director of London's National Gallery, he introduced the world to art in his TV series "Civilization"'

Answer: Kenneth Clark


Question: 'This famous hideout used by Butch Cassidy lent its name to his outlaw gang'

Answer: the Hole in the Wall


Question: 'Once moving in flocks of over a billion, enough to darken the skies, they've sadly been extinct since 1914'

Answer: passenger pigeons


Question: 'It's the point where 2 or more rivers join to flow as one'

Answer: confluence


Question: 'Psalm 37 includes this point about humble people, also made by Jesus on the mount'

Answer: the meek shall inherit the Earth


Question: 'Starting in 1940, the longest continuous sponsorship in broadcast history is this co.'s of the Met on radio'

Answer: Texaco


Question: 'In 1967 he replaced Nicholas Katzenbach as LBJ's attorney general'

Answer: Ramsey Clark


Question: 'In children's tales, Winnie the Pooh got stuck in one & Alice fell through one'

Answer: rabbit hole


Question: 'Named for a prominent feature, it's the bird seen here'

Answer: the Roseate Spoonbill


Question: 'Seen here, this one at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas is exquisite'

Answer: conservatory


Question: 'This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent'

Answer: Somalia


Question: 'The Viennese version of this dance was so fast it made dancers dizzy'

Answer: the waltz


Question: 'The turtle is the only reptile that has this obvious feature'

Answer: a shell


Question: 'It's the French region synonymous with sparkling wine'

Answer: Champagne


Question: 'A tent with a diagonal line over it means this is prohibited'

Answer: camping


Question: '"People meters" were put into use measuring the popularity of these'

Answer: television programs


Question: 'In their 1st musical number together, Ginger sang, he played the accordion & neither 1 of them danced'

Answer: Fred Astaire


Question: 'It's the group heard here:'

Answer: the Vienna Boys\' Choir


Question: 'Though all species have bony plates on both jaws, no living turtle has these'

Answer: teeth


Question: 'Kirin is a beer from this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'An asterisk on a weather map doesn't refer you to the bottom, but indicates this condition'

Answer: snowfall


Question: 'Gloomy yet "colorful" phrase that describes October 19, 1987'

Answer: Black Monday


Question: 'This comic actor produced a singing cowboy Western without his partner Ollie'

Answer: (Stan) Laurel


Question: 'We tell you no "tales" --"Wienerwald" is the German word for these'

Answer: the Vienna Woods


Question: 'The snapping turtle snaps, not just to be mean, but because it can't do this for protection'

Answer: draw its head inside its shell


Question: 'Taxes on this liquor are reported to provide 17% of the U.S. Virgin Islands gov't budget'

Answer: rum


Question: 'Number of people pictured in the standard "school crossing" sign'

Answer: 2


Question: '1 of the 1st headline stories of 1987 was the tragic fire at the DuPont Plaza Hotel on this island'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Charles Black was dropped from the Social Register for marrying this ex-child star in 1950'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: 'Bred since the 1500s, they're famous for performing airs above the ground'

Answer: the Lipizzan Stallions


Question: 'Some of the largest land turtles are found on these islands off the coast of Ecuador'

Answer: the Galápagos Islands


Question: 'In the song, "American Pie", it's what "them good ole boys were drinkin'"'

Answer: whiskey & rye


Question: 'Usual number of dots in an ellipsis'

Answer: 3


Question: 'With infrared gear, U.S. Army crews were able to prove that the vessel "Iran Ajr" was engaged in this'

Answer: mine laying


Question: 'The poster for this controversial 1956 film showed Carroll Baker sucking her thumb like an infant'

Answer: Baby Doll


Question: 'This giant ride, the "Riesenrad", was featured in the film "The Third Man"'

Answer: a Ferris wheel (in the Prater)


Question: 'The FDA bans sale of most pet turtles since they often carry this gastrointestinal disease bacteria'

Answer: Salmonella


Question: 'A district in Tuscany lent its name to this wine which comes in a straw-covered flask'

Answer: chianti


Question: 'From the Latin "radix", meaning root, it's the name of the root symbol in mathematics'

Answer: radical


Question: 'A 1200 lb. man set out to lose 1000 lbs. with help of this comedian who runs a Bahamian nutrition clinic'

Answer: Dick Gregory


Question: 'The 2 husbands of Elizabeth Taylor who starred opposite her in films for which she won Oscars'

Answer: Richard Burton & Eddie Fisher


Question: '1st name of the Maugham title character "Miss Thompson"'

Answer: Sadie


Question: 'The 1st parks. called "preserves", were set aside for royalty as grounds for this pastime'

Answer: hunting


Question: 'From ancient times, the Chinese have used this method of preventing smallpox'

Answer: vaccination


Question: 'John Rolfe, who married Pocahontas, was 1st to grow this crop commercially in Virginia'

Answer: tobacco


Question: 'The song that says, "Turn around & you're 2, turn around & you're 4" opens with this question'

Answer: Where are you going (my little one)?


Question: 'The Hardy-Rand-Rittler & Ishihara tests are to determine degrees of this'

Answer: colorblindness


Question: 'Brom Bones dressed up as this to scare the schoolmaster away from Katrina'

Answer: the Headless Horseman


Question: 'Covering some 26,000 acres, the largest U.S. municipal park system belongs to this U.S. city'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'Although arthroscopic surgery can be performed on many joints, it is most often done on this one'

Answer: the knee


Question: 'Following in his father's footsteps, Paul Revere practiced this occupation'

Answer: silversmith


Question: 'It follows "I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man..."'

Answer: who could ask for anything more?


Question: 'Term for the ceremonial escort accompanying the flag bearer'

Answer: the color guard


Question: 'Daniel Defoe title character who was a tart, a wife, a thief, a convict, then grew rich & lived honest'

Answer: Moll Flanders


Question: 'New England's only national park, it shares its name with homeland of Longfellow's Evangeline'

Answer: Acadia


Question: 'In the 1760s, 80,000 pairs of shoes per year were manufactured in the town of Lynn in this colony'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Song which eventually asks, "Where have all the graveyards gone?"'

Answer: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"


Question: 'Technical name for a photographic slide'

Answer: a color transparency


Question: '"Requiem for a Nun" was his sequel to "Sanctuary"'

Answer: Faulkner


Question: 'Studies conducted at these gardens in Greater London helped to start the rubber industry'

Answer: Kew Gardens


Question: 'Gigantism & acromegaly are anterior lobe disorders of this gland'

Answer: the pituitary


Question: 'Rather than towns & villages, early Maryland settlers built these medieval estates'

Answer: manors


Question: '1st question asked in "The End Of The World" is this astronomical one'

Answer: Why does the sun go on shining? (Why does the sun keep on shining? accepted)


Question: 'Equine idiom that means another matter completely'

Answer: a horse of a different color


Question: 'In his 1940 classic Western novel, Walter Van Tilburg Clark sets his "Incident" in this valley'

Answer: the Ox-Bow


Question: '1st used by Aztec emperors, this park, largest in Mexico City, contains "Los Pinos", the president's home'

Answer: Chapultepec


Question: 'The initials HMO, which have stood for heart minute output, now also stand for this'

Answer: health maintenance organization


Question: 'Not actually one of the Pilgrims, he went with them to serve as their military leader'

Answer: Miles Standish


Question: 'The song "Shrimp Boats" asks this question'

Answer: Why don\'t you hurry, hurry, hurry home?


Question: 'Though it's not technically a musical instrument, a clavilux is called this'

Answer: a color organ


Question: 'This island of 5 million has 3 million fewer people now than it had 150 years ago'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'On June 26, 1945 delegates of 50 countries signed a charter in San Francisco establishing this body'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'A fitted twin one of these measures 39" x 75"'

Answer: Bedsheet


Question: 'It takes up an entire continent'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'James Coburn shot to fame in 1960 as part of this title film septet'

Answer: The Magnificent Seven


Question: 'It advertises itself as "Helping Consumers and Businesses to Maintain an Ethical Marketplace"'

Answer: Better Business Bureau


Question: 'To improvise a speech or performance on the spot'

Answer: Ad-lib


Question: 'This "Good Earth" author was put on the good earth on June 26, 1892'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'Computer users today usually use the 3.5" types of these, but probably still remember the old 5.25" type'

Answer: Floppy disk


Question: 'In 1998 Pope John Paul II concluded his visit to this country with a mass at the Plaza de la Revolucion'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'TV's Sergeant Bilko, he cavorted on film in "Cover Girl" (but not in the title role)'

Answer: Phil Silvers


Question: 'Devotees of this pungent member of the lily family have their own organization, Lovers of the Stinking Rose'

Answer: Garlic


Question: 'It's the "instrument" being "played" here:'

Answer: Air guitar


Question: 'In Germany on June 26, 1963 JFK said, "As a free man, I take pride in" this 4-word phrase'

Answer: "Ich bin ein Berliner"


Question: 'A mercury type of this weather instrument is reliable to within 0.03 inches'

Answer: Barometer


Question: 'Its national anthem, "San-Min-Chu-I", was co-written by Dr. Sun Yat-sen'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'Ricki Lake appeared as a bridesmaid in this film that starred Melanie Griffith as an ambitious secretary'

Answer: Working Girl


Question: 'The Greenport, New York-based National Association for this board game develops its official dictionary'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'Hound variety seen here:'

Answer: Afghan


Question: 'He became King of England on June 26, 1483; just over 2 years later he was killed at Bosworth Field'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'Men's sizes of these are based on the diameter of the sweatband if formed in a perfect circle'

Answer: Hats


Question: '"Please, Sir, I want" this Polynesian island that dropped "Western" from its name in 1997'

Answer: Samoa


Question: 'A child slave on film in "The Ten Commandments", Kathy Garver also played Buffy & Jody's sister on this sitcom'

Answer: Family Affair


Question: 'Once known as the National Society for Crippled Children, it began issuing these fund-raising stamps in 1934'

Answer: Easter Seals


Question: 'Hey, Bud!  He's the head monk'

Answer: Abbot


Question: 'This Spanish conqueror was murdered in Lima on June 26, 1541'

Answer: Francisco Pizarro


Question: 'Alvan Clark made a 36" one of these for the Lick & a 40" one for the Yerkes'

Answer: Telescope


Question: 'The Mozambique Channel separates this island nation from the African mainland'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'Ian McKellen was crowned with a Golden Globe Award in 1997 for playing this czar in the HBO film "Rasputin"'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'In 1923 this service club adopted its emblem, a gear wheel with 24 cogs & 6 spokes'

Answer: Rotary Club


Question: 'It means designed to reduce air resistance'

Answer: Aerodynamic


Question: 'Angelina Jolie was No. 2 on this channel's "100 Hottest Hotties"; probably won't see her on "Flavor of Love", though'

Answer: VH1


Question: 'This movement that included Shelley & Byron was based on the personal & the emotional'

Answer: Romanticism


Question: 'Not surprisingly, Arm & Hammer's roll-on one of these contains baking soda'

Answer: deodorant


Question: 'I brought 37 elephants on my 218 B.C. crossing of the Alps, but only 1 survived; I feel bad about that'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'The Kansas Statehood stamp from 1961 featured what else but this state flower'

Answer: a sunflower


Question: 'It precedes "easy" when referring to an illegal barroom'

Answer: speak


Question: 'Her 2008 marriage to Jay-Z made millions of single men sad (like you guys really had a chance!)'

Answer: Beyoncé


Question: 'This philosophic movement concerned with "being" included people like Simone de Beauvoir & Kierkegaard'

Answer: Existentialism


Question: 'Sure, it's the "No. 1 denture cleaner in America", but it also works great on toothbrushes'

Answer: Polident


Question: 'Do you think I sent my forces to win the 1798 Battle of the Pyramids because of my self-named complex?'

Answer: Napoléon


Question: 'In 2008, a new stamp honored this Hollywood legend who would have turned 100'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'In song, do this "Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues"'

Answer: roll over


Question: 'This Chinese-American was one of "Charlie's Angels" as Alex Munday'

Answer: Lucy Liu


Question: 'Thoreau & Emerson were members of this literary movement that believed in the innate goodness of man'

Answer: Transcendentalism


Question: 'Breathe easier during a cold with Vicks' Cool Mist Ultrasonic one of these; it's "whisper quiet"'

Answer: humidifier


Question: 'I called Rommel a "magnificent bastard" on film; that may have hurt his feelings, but I did say I read his book'

Answer: (George) Patton


Question: 'An American Folklore stamp in 1974 honored this tale & featured the Headless Horseman & Ichabod Crane'

Answer: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"


Question: 'To pose for an artist painting your portrait'

Answer: sit


Question: 'In 2009 this Mexican-born beauty played a sexy nurse on "30 Rock"'

Answer: Salma Hayek


Question: 'Alejo Carpentier used this term for Latin American literature that has elements of the fantastic & the mundane'

Answer: Magical Realism


Question: 'If you're committed to doing this, you might try the lozenge called Commit'

Answer: stopping smoking


Question: 'I was relieved as Supreme Gen. of the Union Army in March 1862; I may be paranoid, but I think Burnside's after my job'

Answer: McClellan


Question: 'The Classic Movie Monsters stamps from 1997 included Bela Lugosi as him'

Answer: Dracula


Question: '4-letter term for "hold it, I don't want any more blackjack cards"'

Answer: stay


Question: 'Hail "The Queen", indeed!  In 2008 this 63-year-old actress was an Internet sensation with bikini pics of her in Italy'

Answer: Helen Mirren


Question: 'It's not ridiculous--Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" is an example of the Theater of this'

Answer: the Absurd


Question: 'For allergies your doctor might prescribe this drug, from the Italian for "lively" or "joyous"'

Answer: Allegra


Question: 'My victories for Epirus over the Romans left me with a hollow, empty feeling; the price was too high'

Answer: Pyrrhus


Question: 'In 1998 this magazine publisher who died in 1967 appeared on a 32-cent stamp; it was about "Time"'

Answer: (Henry) Luce


Question: 'Sorry I ducked out on your party; I feel like this, a contemptible person'

Answer: heel


Question: 'His 1974 knockout of supposedly invincible George Foreman in Zaire shocked the world'

Answer: (Muhammad) Ali


Question: 'The Nazarenes of 19th c. Germany wore biblical clothes & hairstyles & aimed to revive this wall painting method'

Answer: fresco


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  For more than 100 years, this northern neighbor was a grand duchy ruled by Russia'

Answer: Finland


Question: 'It's what "CD-ROM" stands for'

Answer: compact disc read-only memory


Question: 'This "Andromeda Strain" author died in Los Angeles at 66'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question: 'Straight up & down<br />(8)'

Answer: vertical


Question: 'In 1937 he became the first African-Amer. heavyweight champ since Jack Johnson, with a K.O. of James J. Braddock'

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: 'In the language of its creator, this sculpture is "Le Penseur"'

Answer: The Thinker


Question: 'A 1966 treaty entitles this nation bordering China to Russian military help if it's ever invaded'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'This programming language isn't a little worse than "B minus"; it's a 1980s improvement of a language called "Combined"'

Answer: C++


Question: 'House Peters Jr., the original portrayer of this imposing P&G advertising icon, passed away at 92; call him Mr. this'

Answer: Mr. Clean


Question: 'A super-strict vegetarian<br />(5)'

Answer: vegan


Question: 'On June 16, 1949 this "Raging Bull" TKOed Marcel Cerdan to take the middleweight title'

Answer: Jake LaMotta


Question: 'In a 2006 film Stellan Skarsgard played this Spanish painter, with Randy Quaid as King Carlos IV'

Answer: Goya


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  This country contains a strategic peninsula whose ownership is disputed between it & Russia'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: '6-letter term for a program to be executed from within an application'

Answer: applet


Question: 'Forest Ackerman, who coined this short term for a genre after hearing a radio announcer say "hi fi", died at 92'

Answer: sci fi


Question: 'Short, pointed beard<br />(7)'

Answer: Vandyke


Question: 'In 1981, behind on all 3 scorecards, this welterweight came back with a TKO over Thomas Hearns in the 14th; sweet!'

Answer: "Sugar" Ray Leonard


Question: '"Madonna of the Long Neck" was painted in 1534 but could have been the title for this Italian's works of the 19-teens'

Answer: Modigliani


Question: 'Russia's longest border is its 4,250-mile one with this "stan"'

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: 'This type of local area network was named for the medium through which light waves were once thought to move'

Answer: Ethernet


Question: 'Hang down your head: Nick Reynolds, a founding member of this clean-cut trio, sang his last harmony at 75'

Answer: The Kingston Trio


Question: 'Orchid with a tasty bean<br />(7)'

Answer: vanilla


Question: 'In 1972 this Panamanian's "Hands of Stone" stopped Ken Buchanan to win the lightweight crown'

Answer: Roberto Duran


Question: 'Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, was a patron of this mid-17th century view painter'

Answer: Canaletto


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  The small Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, home to one of Russia's ice-free European ports, borders this Baltic state to the east'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'A Russian nobelist, he shuffled off this mortal gulag at age 89'

Answer: Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'To ad lib, as a musician<br />(4)'

Answer: vamp


Question: 'The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s'

Answer: Idylls of the King


Question: 'Concerning the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this Soviet leader said that "Human reason won. Mankind won"'

Answer: Khrushchev


Question: 'It's what HBO stands for'

Answer: Home Box Office


Question: 'Different types of this footwear include clogs, thongs & gladiators'

Answer: sandals


Question: 'Shaanxi & Jiangsu'

Answer: China


Question: 'As a verb, it can mean "to give shape to"; as a noun, it can mean "that fuzzy green stuff on the bread"'

Answer: mold


Question: 'In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer


Question: 'In a 1965 message to Congress, he said, "poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance"'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'This cable channel gets its name from a Utah film festival'

Answer: Sundance


Question: 'Before you saddle up, put on these riding pants: it's said that some folks git "too big for" them'

Answer: britches


Question: 'Bataan & Quezon'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'It's the comfortable-sounding name for the fuzzy item seen here on the teapot'

Answer: a cozy


Question: 'In Julius Caesar's time, this standard Roman military unit comprised about 6,000 men'

Answer: a legion


Question: 'In 1968 this mayor said, "The police are not here to create disorder.  The police are here to preserve disorder"'

Answer: (Richard) Daley


Question: 'The Kids' Choice Awards is a slimy annual event on this channel'

Answer: Nickelodeon


Question: 'In 1997, he launched his Tommy Jeans line for men'

Answer: Tommy Hilfiger


Question: 'Leon & Segovia'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This word for factual information is a Latin plural, but most English speakers treat it as singular'

Answer: data


Question: 'In 1815 he sold his collection of more than 6,000 books to the Library of Congress for $23,950'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'This Defense Sec. told reporters in 1966, "the draft is the largest educational institution in the world"'

Answer: (Robert) McNamara


Question: 'This cable channel launched on Feb. 2, 2000--appropriately, that's 02/02'

Answer: the Oxygen Channel


Question: 'Inspired by WWII parachutists, this 1-piece garment combines shirt & pants, usually with a very long front zipper'

Answer: a jumpsuit


Question: 'Leinster & Munster'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'French for "flea", this 4-letter color is a dark brownish purple'

Answer: puce


Question: 'In 1991 a 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library'

Answer: the Berlin Wall


Question: 'This British PM from a publishing family wrote, "I had ... no idea of the strange underworld" of the Profumo affair'

Answer: Harold MacMillan


Question: 'You can "escape to chimp Eden" on this channel'

Answer: Animal Planet


Question: 'These leather shorts with a bib top, originally in a Tyrolean style, were popular for U.S. children in the late 1960s'

Answer: Lederhosen


Question: 'Limpopo & Northern Cape'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'A small boat with a flat bottom: when it follows "John", it's a kind of fish'

Answer: a dory


Question: 'In the 1930s the Chinese Communist First Front Army staged the 6,000-mile retreat known as this'

Answer: the Long March


Question: 'Pluto is another name for this god, whose name is now a term for Hell'

Answer: Hades


Question: 'One of his many South African-themed songs from 1986's "Graceland" was "Under African Skies"'

Answer: Paul Simon


Question: 'The best-known residents at the National Zoo are Tian Tian & Mei Xiang, a pair of these'

Answer: pandas


Question: 'The meter of Shakespeare's sonnets, it's 10 syllables, unstressed-stressed-unstressed-etc.'

Answer: iambic pentameter


Question: 'Chicken panang & chicken satay are signature dishes from this mostly Buddhist nation'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'Challenges someone to a demonstration of courage'

Answer: dares


Question: 'He invented the syrinx or shepherd's flute & had a musical contest with Apollo'

Answer: Pan


Question: 'Yes, Dorothy, this band had a No. 1 hit in 1983 singing "I bless the rains down in Africa"'

Answer: Toto


Question: 'A highlight of the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland is the afternoon parade of these black & white birds'

Answer: penguins


Question: 'Coleridge said, "God came up with a shout: our lord with the sound of a trumpet" was an ideal hexameter, this many feet'

Answer: 6


Question: 'Oy!  I'm feeling verklempt; get me some chicken soup, popularly referred to as "Jewish" this cure-all'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'A phrase from the Old Testament mentions beating "swords into" these'

Answer: plowshares


Question: 'Zeus' herald, he's the god of roads, travel & athletic contests'

Answer: Hermes


Question: 'Kanye West took on the issue of blood diamonds in "Diamonds From" this African country'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'One of the largest metropolitan zoos in the U.S., it opened in a New York City borough in 1899'

Answer: the Bronx Zoo


Question: 'An example of dactylic meter is this poet's "Forward, the light brigade!  Was there a man dismayed?"'

Answer: Tennyson


Question: 'The French call this part of a chicken a "pilon" from this resemblance to a grinding pestle'

Answer: the drumstick (leg accepted)


Question: 'Entangles by ropes or lies, probably not drums'

Answer: ensnares


Question: 'This goddess was wise indeed to aid Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'Crosby, Stills & Nash were "Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies" on this title locomotive'

Answer: the Marrakesh Express


Question: 'Until his untimely death from a stingray's barb, he was director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland'

Answer: Steve Irwin


Question: 'Anapestic meter, using a weak-weak-strong pattern, is heard in these opening words of a Clement Clarke Moore poem'

Answer: \'Twas The Night Before Christmas


Question: 'Open the door to the dandoor, one of these, & remove the tandoori chicken, a favorite of India'

Answer: an oven


Question: 'Turns an angry eye'

Answer: glares


Question: 'Hercules had to catch a gold-horned stag that was sacred to this goddess of the hunt'

Answer: Artemis


Question: 'A Peter Gabriel song is named for this activist whose 1977 death in a Pretoria jail turned him into a martyr'

Answer: Stephen Biko


Question: 'Founded in 1752, the zoo at Schonbrunn Palace in this European capital calls itself the world's oldest zoo'

Answer: Vienna, Austria


Question: 'Classical verse included metrical feet like this one of 2 unstressed syllables; it's also a type of costly victory'

Answer: pyrrhic


Question: 'Wrap some of this around a water chestnut & a piece of chicken liver & you've got the Japanese appetizer rumaki'

Answer: bacon


Question: 'Despite their name, these 10-letter horses don't sulk--they're used for breeding'

Answer: broodmares


Question: 'He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title & is known as "Little Lord" this'

Answer: Fauntleroy


Question: 'In this 2007 movie, Eddie Murphy finds himself agonizingly married to Eddie Murphy'

Answer: Norbit


Question: 'Columbus reaches South America for the first time'

Answer: the 15th century


Question: 'Each state has its own version of this test, & in most cases, you have to pass it to practice law'

Answer: the bar exam


Question: 'It's the city where this civil rights march took place in August of 1963'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'We can thank A.C. promoter George Westinghouse when we use this type of electricity, "A.C." for short'

Answer: an alternating current


Question: 'This classic is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet'

Answer: A Wrinkle in Time


Question: 'You might think the skits on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" must be rehearsed, but it's real improv, short for this'

Answer: improvisation


Question: 'John Smith comes to Virginia to help found the Jamestown colony'

Answer: the 17th century


Question: 'The A.C.T. college entrance exam includes a set of 4 multiple-choice tests covering English, science, reading & this'

Answer: mathematics


Question: 'The promenade seen here was appropriate for the January 1st, 2007 Rose Parade with this director as Grand Marshall'

Answer: George Lucas


Question: 'In the old days, a young male who assisted the priest at a Mass'

Answer: an altar boy


Question: 'This story begins, "All children, except one, grow up"'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Tune in this Comedy Central show to watch puppets make prank phone calls'

Answer: Crank Yankers


Question: 'The U.S. invades Cuba as part of the Spanish-American War'

Answer: the 19th century


Question: 'To join this organization, you have to score in the upper 2% of the general population on an IQ test'

Answer: Mensa


Question: 'On June 17th the men seen here promenaded for this gal who turned 80 in 2006'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: 'An angry or heated dispute'

Answer: an altercation


Question: 'Completes the title of a classic about an African-American family "Roll of Thunder..."'

Answer: ...Hear My Cry


Question: 'In "Code Name: The Cleaner", this "entertainer" isn't sure if he's a janitor or a secret agent'

Answer: Cedric the Entertainer


Question: 'The last emperor of China is forced to abdicate at the age of 6'

Answer: the 20th century


Question: 'The psychological test named for this Swiss man involves looking at pictures similar to the one seen here'

Answer: a Rorschach test


Question: 'Cavalry promenade through this Eastern European capital in the photo from 1941 seen here'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Spider-Man is this type of second self to Peter Parker'

Answer: an alter ego


Question: '"The Black Pearl" & "The Island of the Blue Dolphins" are 2 classics by him'

Answer: Scott O\'Dell


Question: '"From two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'" comes this parody of Willy Wonka, Narnia, etc.'

Answer: Epic Movie


Question: 'The Magna Carta is signed, establishing a standard for the rule of law'

Answer: the 13th century


Question: 'For the U.S. citizenship test, you should know things like the Constitution was written in this year'

Answer: 1787


Question: 'Seen here are men in Times Square celebrating V.J. Day in August of this year'

Answer: 1945


Question: 'This is the unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others'

Answer: altruism


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Regent's Park.)  Regent's Park was a hunting ground for this 16th century king, who it was said never hunted without tiring 8 or 10 horses'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'He was 18 in 1994 when he won the first of his 3 U.S. Amateur Golf Championships'

Answer: Tiger Woods


Question: 'In the wild in Mexico, this Christmas plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, may grow to a height of 15 feet'

Answer: poinsettia


Question: 'The song "Oh Susanna" says, "I come from Alabama" with this "on my knee"'

Answer: a banjo


Question: 'Charles Schumer is New York's senior senator; she's the state's junior senator'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'This adjective precedes "grace" in the name of a hymn'

Answer: amazing


Question: 'You can visit several of these historic structures like Kensington, where Princess Diana lived'

Answer: a palace


Question: 'In 1980 at age 19 this "Great One" of the NHL won the first of his 9 MVP awards'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'The ponderosa is one of the most widely distributed American species of this conifer'

Answer: a pine


Question: 'Kamaka Hawaii is a well-known maker of this instrument that looks like a small guitar'

Answer: a ukelele


Question: 'The bipartisan campaign reform act of 2001 was co-sponsored by Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold & this Arizonan'

Answer: John McCain


Question: 'This adjective, from the Latin for "flowing", means "able to speak or write smoothly", as a foreign language'

Answer: fluent


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Hyde Park.)  Famous men who orated here at Hyde Park's Speaker's Corner include Friedrich Engels & this 1848 Engels co-author'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: 'A 9-time U.S. figure skating champ, this Asian-American was an alternate to the 1994 Olympics as a 13-year-old'

Answer: Michelle Kwan


Question: 'Horses, cattle, & sheep can be poisoned by eating this weed whose name comes from the Spanish for "crazy"'

Answer: locoweed


Question: 'When Viola uses her viola, she's playing this many strings'

Answer: 4


Question: 'In January 2007 this democrat from Nevada became the new Senate Majority Leader'

Answer: Harry Reid


Question: 'This 10-letter adjective meaning "extraordinarily great in size" comes from the Latin for "to shake"'

Answer: tremendous


Question: 'Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of this, was known as a soldier but had an eye for art, as you can see at Apsley House'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'Born in San Diego in 1986, this redheaded snowboarder was the 2003 U.S. Open Slopestyle champ'

Answer: Shaun White


Question: 'To keep them from drying out, orchids & other rare plants are potted in this moss found in bogs'

Answer: peat


Question: 'In 1934 Laurens Hammond invented an electric one of these musical instruments without pipes'

Answer: an organ


Question: 'In 2000 this Connecticut senator became the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket'

Answer: (Joe) Lieberman


Question: 'This adjective is used to describe a tree that sheds its leaves annually'

Answer: deciduous


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Temple Gardens.)  According to Shakespeare, these conflicts began with the plucking of 2 flowers here in the Temple Gardens'

Answer: the Wars of the Roses


Question: 'He's the teen sensation Major League Soccer star seen here; we bid you...'

Answer: Freddy Adu


Question: 'A variety of this state tree of Mississippi is the cucumber tree, which gets its name from the shape of its fruits'

Answer: the magnolia


Question: 'Around 1709 Cristofori became a key player in this new instrument's history'

Answer: piano


Question: 'Former Homeland Security Committee Chairperson Susan Collins represents this New England state'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'This adjective that means weirdly frightening comes from Old English for "cowardly"'

Answer: eerie


Question: 'It was written for American schoolkids to recite on the dedication day of the Chicago World's Fair'

Answer: The Pledge of Allegiance


Question: 'For a few years in the 1890s, this future prime minister was heir presumptive to the Dukedom of Marlborough'

Answer: (Winston) Churchill


Question: 'In an animated 1987 TV special, this Space Age family traveled back in time to meet the Flintstones'

Answer: The Jetsons


Question: 'Most recipes for this candy end with: spread into thin layer; let cool; snap into pieces'

Answer: peanut brittle


Question:
'Mongolia,
Malta,
Malawi'

Answer: Malawi


Question: 'JFK was awarded one of these for wounds he received near the Solomon Islands during WWII'

Answer: a Purple Heart


Question: 'Bench presses build up the pecs, short for these'

Answer: pectorals


Question: 'This Ohio city was called the "Queen of the West" even before a Longfellow poem popularized the nickname'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'According to his theme song, this quadruped "will never speak unless he has something to say"'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'With 500 of these units in one serving, a peanut paste called Plumpy'nut can put 2 lbs. a week on a malnourished kid'

Answer: calories


Question:
'Nepal,
Nicaragua,
Norway'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'In 1984 "Baby Fae" received a heart transplant from one of these animals'

Answer: a baboon


Question: 'The "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang" has an 1896 citation of "diff" as short for this'

Answer: difference


Question: 'The fabled emerald mines named for this ancient queen were rediscovered around 1818'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In the pilot for this '60s sitcom, Jed & Jethro first meet Mr. Drysdale when he comes to get them out of jail'

Answer: The Beverly Hillbillies


Question: 'In China & India, peanuts are processed mainly for this cooking ingredient'

Answer: peanut oil


Question:
'Portugal,
Papua New Guinea,
Pakistan'

Answer: Papua New Guinea


Question: 'Shirley Temple appears multiple times on the cover of this Beatles album'

Answer: Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band


Question: '"Rad", meaning "excellent", was truncated from this'

Answer: radical


Question: 'In 1614 explorer Adriaen Block claimed what is now this U.S. state for the Dutch'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'In the '50s this movie Tarzan was still hanging out with a chimp, but he wore more than a loincloth as TV's "Jungle Jim"'

Answer: Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'The Virginia type of peanuts is what's sold at these events, as mentioned in a song written in 1908'

Answer: baseball games


Question:
'Syria,
Suriname,
Sweden'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'When measuring someone's pulse rate, take it on "t.s.", for this "side" of the wrist'

Answer: the thumb side


Question: 'The Cosmo girl doesn't just look good; she can have a convo, short for this'

Answer: a conversation


Question: 'Legends of riches led a set of Zuni villages to be dubbed the Seven Cities of this'

Answer: Cibola


Question: 'The 1973 TV season gave us Richard Roundtree as this supercool private eye he'd played on film'

Answer: (John) Shaft


Question: 'Immigrants Amedeo Obici & Mario Peruzzi founded this company in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. in 1906'

Answer: Planters


Question:
'India,
Indonesia,
Iran'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'In this story a guy dismembers an old man & still hears him under the floor (lub-dub, lub-dub)'

Answer: "The Tell-Tale Heart"


Question: 'One of the perks of my job is knowing that "perk" is short for this'

Answer: perquisite


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands outside a shrine.) Gates called torii represent the boundary between sacred & ordinary space at the thousands of shrines of this religion all over Japan'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'Tom Cruise was a "Top" one in '86<br />(3)'

Answer: Gun


Question: 'In a story by Mini Grey, this pair from "Hey Diddle Diddle" run off to NYC & find fame & fortune in vaudeville'

Answer: the dish & the spoon


Question: 'World Series & playoff heroics earned Reggie Jackson this nickname'

Answer: "Mr. October"


Question: 'The final act of this opera takes place outside a bullring, where the heroine is stabbed to death'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'When Nigel heard his wife was preggers, he broke out the champers, this celebratory beverage'

Answer: champagne


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands between two women.)  Unique to Kyoto is the culture of maiko, who replace the  embroidered collar with a white one upon becoming one of these'

Answer: a geisha


Question: 'Will Ferrell wore "Blades of" it<br />(5)'

Answer: Glory


Question: 'Garth Williams illustrated this title character seen here'

Answer: Stuart Little


Question: 'Known as "Mr. Civil Rights", he served as chief counsel of the NAACP prior to taking a seat on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'In 1939 she made her operatic debut in "Cavalleria Rusticana" in Athens at age 15'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'It's the British word for a merry-go-round or a traffic cricle'

Answer: roundabout


Question: '(Kelly stands between two actors.) The kumadori makeup used in this form of Asian theater features red lines on the hero's  face and blue on the villain's'

Answer: kabuki


Question: '1950s Tokyo-threatening titan<br />(8)'

Answer: Godzilla


Question: 'Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are the title creatures in her "Tale of Two Bad Mice"'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'In TV's early days, this comedian known as "Mr. Television" was responsible for the explosion in sales of TV sets'

Answer: (Milton) Berle


Question: 'This "Cricket on the Hearth" author wrote the libretto for John Hullah's "The Village Coquettes"'

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: 'An all-male school wouldn't have an alumni reunion but a gathering of these, part of the "network" of them'

Answer: old boys


Question: '(Kelly stands near an amateur florist.) Traditionally in Japan in preparation for marriage, women were trained in the tea ceremony, calligraphy & this art of flower arranging'

Answer: ikebana


Question: '"Great" guy played by Ladd & Redford<br />(6)'

Answer: Gatsby


Question: 'The Once-ler tells about the endangered truffula trees in this ecological Seuss story'

Answer: The Lorax


Question: 'He conducted the Boston Pops orchestra for an amazing 49 years, earning him the nickname "Mr. Pops"'

Answer: (Arthur) Fiedler


Question: 'The 3 basic vocal classifications for women opera singers are soprano, mezzo-soprano & this lowest range'

Answer: alto (or contralto)


Question: 'It can mean having a healthy, rosy color, or be a British intensifier like "bloody"'

Answer: ruddy


Question: '(Kelly stands outside a shrine.) We'll end our category with this Japanese word whose literal meaning is "If it must be so"'

Answer: sayonara


Question: 'An Ed Wood opus: "Glen or" her<br />(6)'

Answer: Glenda


Question: 'While in his 40s, this Edinburgh-born author wed Elspeth Thomson & wrote "The Wind in the Willows" for their son'

Answer: Kenneth Grahame


Question: 'This U.S. Senator from Ohio, the son of a president, was known in the media as "Mr. Republican"'

Answer: Robert Taft


Question: 'Italian opera of the early 1700s developed into 2 basic types: opera seria, or serious opera, & this, comic opera'

Answer: opera buffa


Question: 'Perspex is a British name for this trademarked acrylic plastic used to make the container seen here'

Answer: Lucite


Question: 'A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s'

Answer: Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay)


Question: 'In 1984 this wife of the Governor was named Arkansas' "Young Mother of the Year"'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'Geoffrey was the butler & Jazz was a pal on this '90s NBC sitcom'

Answer: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air


Question: 'Seen here in a satellite photo, an iceberg almost twice the size of Delaware broke off this continent in 2000'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Junipers and Japanese maples are especially suited for this tree-dwarfing technique'

Answer: bonsai


Question: 'Attention, Kmart shoppers: This '70s "Charlie's Angel" has her own line of designer jeans'

Answer: Jaclyn Smith


Question: 'It can be corporal or capital'

Answer: punishment


Question: 'On Feb. 11, 1984 the Challenger made the first space shuttle landing at this location'

Answer: Kennedy Space Center


Question: 'In "Free Fallin'", Tom Petty sang, "All the vampires, walkin' through the valley, move west down" this "Boulevard"'

Answer: Ventura Boulevard


Question: 'Here are before & after images of this U.S. city in 2000 & 2005'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'These little red beetles will help guard your garden from aphids, scales & spider mites'

Answer: ladybugs


Question: 'Some of the new Disney Princess bridal gowns were inspired by this 1937 heroine (also an appropriate bridal color)'

Answer: Snow White


Question: 'By tradition, no pope ever chooses this name'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'An IRA bomb at Brighton's Grand Hotel failed to take out this British P.M. who was there'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'Billy Joel wanted to "Say Goodbye To" this storied L.A. area'

Answer: Hollywood


Question: 'You can see a lava dome forming in this volcano that blew its top in 1980'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'It's a mixture of decaying organic substances, such as dead leaves, used to fertilize soil'

Answer: compost


Question: 'Vogue showed a 1978 photo of the Sex Pistols to illustrate this fashion movement (not one of Vogue's favorites)'

Answer: punk


Question: 'To beat or strike repeatedly, or the skin of a fur-bearing animal'

Answer: pelt


Question: 'This pair lost to Reagan & Bush in the 1984 U.S. presidential election'

Answer: Mondale & Ferraro


Question: 'Black smoke rises from oil fires in this country in a photo taken from space in 1991'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: 'After they bloom & drop their petals, some roses form these seedpods rich in vitamin C'

Answer: rose hips


Question: 'Anne Moore designs chapeaux inspired by & named for this crazed Lewis Carroll character'

Answer: the Mad Hatter


Question: 'Angola & Mozambique both use this Romance language as an official one'

Answer: Portuguese


Question: 'On this woman's orders, Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar to oust Sikh fighters holed up there'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'Ivy League Ph.D.er Stu Bailey & the law-degreed Jeff Spencer, both judo experts, had an office at "77" this title place'

Answer: Sunset Strip


Question: 'You can see the tsunami pulling back out to sea after it struck at Kalutara, south of Colombo on this island'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'Ladies' slippers, ladies' tresses & dragon's mouth are examples of this exotic flower'

Answer: an orchid


Question: 'The shoes known as "Manolos" aren't named for Barry Manilow but for this designer'

Answer: Manolo Blahnik


Question: '(Kelly  of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.) The fossils in Carlsbad Caverns include sponges, snails & trilobites, all from the Permian period, the tail end of this era whose name means "ancient life"'

Answer: Paleozoic


Question: 'The "large" leader in the novel who must be obeyed'

Answer: Big Brother


Question: 'The 4 members in the band CSNY'

Answer: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young


Question: 'Brioche, popular for continental breakfasts, is a type of this staple'

Answer: bread


Question: 'Distance runners know that 42.2 kilometers is closest to this many miles'

Answer: 26


Question: 'In April 1836 his troops captured Santa Anna, who then recognized Texas' independence'

Answer: Sam Houston


Question: 'A slot machine'

Answer: a one-armed bandit


Question: 'George Orwell wrote "1984" in this year & reportedly rearranged 2 of the digits to give it its title'

Answer: 1948


Question: 'This Athens, Georgia band's first single was "Radio Free Europe" in 1981'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'Antonin Careme created Charlotte Russe & this sour-creamed meat dish for Czar Alexander I'

Answer: beef stroganoff


Question: 'In the equation y=2x+3, 2 & 3 are called constants & the x & y are called this because they can change'

Answer: variables


Question: 'This brewer headed the demonstrations that led to the Boston massacre'

Answer: Sam Adams


Question: 'Lying face down, or having a tendency'

Answer: prone


Question: 'These "police" are the dreaded enforcement agents of the government in "1984"'

Answer: the Thought Police


Question: 'The name of this grunge band with hits like "Interstate Love Song" is sometimes shortened to STP'

Answer: Stone Temple Pilots


Question: 'A famous meat sauce is named for this Italian "sausage" city'

Answer: Bologna


Question: 'Number of inches in half a yard'

Answer: 18


Question: 'In 1969 this Irishman won the Nobel Prize for literature'

Answer: Beckett


Question: 'From the Latin for "burden", this adjective means troublesome or oppressive'

Answer: onerous


Question: 'This main character of "1984" works at the Ministry of Truth'

Answer: Winston Smith


Question: 'Maybe more cowbell will help you remember this band whose acronym is B.O.C.'

Answer: Blue Öyster Cult


Question: 'In Jewish cooking, potato pancakes, commonly enjoyed during Hanukkah, are known as these'

Answer: latkes


Question: 'This angle is larger than an acute angle & smaller than an obtuse one'

Answer: a right angle


Question: 'In 1985 he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General; in 2006 he was an associate justice'

Answer: (Samuel) Alito


Question: '8-letter word for your tibia'

Answer: shinbone


Question: 'George Orwell was a pseudonym; his real name was this'

Answer: Eric (Arthur) Blair


Question: 'BTO is for this band that's best known for a song whose acronym is "TCOB"'

Answer: Bachman-Turner Overdrive


Question: 'Creme d'ananas is a liqueur flavored with this fruit'

Answer: pineapple


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates a monitor.)  Unlike an equilateral triangle with 3 equal sides, this type of triangle has 3 sides of different lengths'

Answer: a scalene triangle


Question: 'One of his rimes, "Dejection: An Ode" ends, "Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice"'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Question: 'Ring, ring--it's the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech'

Answer: phonetics


Question: 'She's the only performer to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner'

Answer: Cate Blanchett


Question: 'On January 2, 1959, exactly 120 years after Daguerre took the first photo of it, Russia launched a probe to it'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'This author's "Storm of the Century" rained over the airwaves in February 1999'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'John Philip Sousa was born in this city & his first published work was "Moonlight on the Potomac Waltzes"'

Answer: Washington


Question: '…take the Orange Line to get from Midway to the downtown loop "L" station in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) You wanna go in for the kill?  Go in for this type of street performer'

Answer: juggling


Question: 'The current seventh month is named in honor of this man'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'The Treaty of this place, imposing reparations on Germany, took effect January 10, 1920'

Answer: Versailles


Question: 'In 1998 these ran from February 7 to February 22 & TV Guide's preview issue featured Michelle Kwan on the cover'

Answer: the Winter Olympics


Question: 'Sousa was instrumental in the design of the Sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell'

Answer: a tuba


Question: '…like to try one of these Italian potato dumplings'

Answer: gnocchi


Question: 'This derby day mint drink is best served in a silver cup'

Answer: a mint julep


Question: 'The calendar of Romulus began in March & had this as its seventh month (not its ninth)'

Answer: September


Question: 'On Jan. 30, 2000, at age 63, this Ram leader became the oldest coach to win the Super Bowl'

Answer: (Dick) Vermeil


Question: 'In the February 7, 1993 special "I Yabba-Dabba Do!" these 2 characters wed'

Answer: Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm


Question: 'In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march'

Answer: "Stars and Stripes Forever"


Question: '…want to compete in dressage, so she'll have to take these lessons'

Answer: riding lessons


Question: 'Alliterative nickname of the 747'

Answer: jumbo jet


Question: 'Months in the Islamic calendar have 29 days or, like Rajab, the seventh, this many'

Answer: thirty


Question: 'On January 17, 1977 he faced a Utah firing squad for his crimes'

Answer: Gary Gilmore


Question: 'In stunt casting, on the Feb. 13, 1997 episode of "Diagnosis Murder" Mike Connors played this detective'

Answer: (Joe) Mannix


Question: 'In September 2001 soprano Renee Sousa appeared at this L.A. landmark in "The Magic of Sousa"'

Answer: the Hollywood Bowl


Question: '…like to take a spin in this automaker's 8 cilindri 360 Spider'

Answer: a Ferrari


Question: 'The 3 branches of the U.S. government are executive, legislative & this'

Answer: judicial


Question: 'If Pop is the first month, Yaxkin is the seventh in the calendar of these ancient Central Americans'

Answer: the Mayans


Question: 'The U.S. slapped down $25 mil to buy this island group from Denmark January 17, 1917'

Answer: the U.S. Virgin Islands


Question: 'It was Judy, Judy in February 2001 as Judy Davis played this screen legend'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'A Colosseum occupation, it's also the title of the Sousa march heard here'

Answer: "The Gladiator March"


Question: '…buy some sea shells in the Seychelles, an archipelago in this ocean'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'First name of the only Confederate lieutenant general who always got up early'

Answer: Jubal Early


Question: 'This holiday of freedom begans in the middle of Nisan, the seventh month on the Jewish civil calendar'

Answer: Pesach (or Passover)


Question: 'He led the Titans into battle against the gods & had to shoulder the responsibility'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'Hank Azaria & this actress split up after less than a year of marriage; maybe they weren't so mad about each other'

Answer: Helen Hunt


Question: 'The Virgo cluster is a cluster of these, some of them spiral'

Answer: galaxies


Question: 'In June 1982 NOW conceded defeat in getting this Constitutional amendment ratified'

Answer: the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)


Question: 'That's the north shore of this island in the opening of "Hawaii Five-O"'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'Sepia & mahogany are tones of this color'

Answer: brown


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  The blue morpho's name comes from "morpho", meaning "shapely", one of the epithets of this Greek goddess of love'

Answer: Aphrodite


Question: 'He & Angelina Jolie are bound by blood; they've worn amulets with each other's blood around their necks'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton


Question: 'It's the astrological sign of a New Year's Day baby'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'NOW's policy on this 1991 scandal says, "Whereas" Navy aviators cornered women & "passed them down a gauntlet…"'

Answer: the Tailhook Scandal


Question: 'Jiddah & Al Qunfudhah are Saudi cities on this sea's shore'

Answer: the Red Sea


Question: 'A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return'

Answer: backwards


Question: 'Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus'

Answer: Dionysus


Question: 'Linda Hamilton was the fourth of 5 women he's directed down the aisle'

Answer: (James) Cameron


Question: 'NASA says the next best windows for man to visit this planet & keep the trip short occur in 2003, 2018 & 2020'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'NOW's first presidential endorsement was of this Democratic nominee; makes sense…'

Answer: Walter Mondale


Question: 'The shores of Sandusky Bay are in this state'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool'

Answer: a buffoon


Question: 'Robert Graves says the Greek equivalents of the Vedic male trinity of Mitra, Varuna & Indra are Zeus, Hades & him'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'In 1951 Frank Sinatra married this glamorous star, the ex-wife of both Artie Shaw & Mickey Rooney'

Answer: Ava Gardner


Question: 'King Richard could tell you Regulus is the star that marks the heart of this constellation'

Answer: Leo (the lion)


Question: 'NOW hailed the approval of this "abortion pill", calling it a promising breast cancer treatment, too'

Answer: RU-486


Question: 'This country has 2,600 miles on the Pacific & Punta Catalina on the Atlantic'

Answer: Chile


Question: '"To jump" this household item means to get married'

Answer: the broom


Question: 'Ares had a twin sister named Eris who helped cause the Trojan War with her golden "apple of" this'

Answer: discord


Question: 'For much of the '80s, Cicely Tyson was married to this jazz trumpeter'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question: 'This L.A. landmark will be closed for renovation from 2002 to late 2004, leaving stargazers out in the cold'

Answer: the Griffith Obervatory


Question: 'This "national" figure, who retired in 2001 as NOW's president, says, "The right to safety should be fundamental"'

Answer: Patricia Ireland


Question: 'Corfu & Ithaca are 2 of this smallish sea's "I"slands'

Answer: the Ionian


Question: 'Last name of Edwin, C. Harold Smith's cousin & partner in the Crayola biz'

Answer: Binney


Question: 'In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence"'

Answer: Jim Jeffords


Question: 'Footage of Raymond Burr was added to this 1954 Japanese classic, maybe to make it scarier'

Answer: "Godzilla"


Question: 'Deer flesh, commonly known by this term, is so lean that experts advise inserting fat before cooking'

Answer: Venison


Question: 'Rhea Perlman fell for him when she saw him play a demented stableboy in a play called "The Shrinking Bride"'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'In what may be a forensic first, Paul Revere used these records to help identify Joseph Warren's body'

Answer: Dental records


Question: 'Dreaded by students, it follows the order, "Books under your desk, take out a pencil & paper"'

Answer: Pop Quiz


Question: 'A documentary film crew in the Amazon encounters a giant snake in this 1997 film'

Answer: "Anaconda"


Question: 'When a deer ruminates, it's not thinking but chewing this mass of food'

Answer: Cud


Question: 'Rent "Psycho II" & you'll see Dennis Franz as Toomey, who runs this infamous establishment as an "adult" motel'

Answer: The Bates Motel


Question: 'Col. Lewis Nicola led a movement to make this man king of America'

Answer: George Washington


Question:
'(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):
Song associated with the following object:
(Jack-in-the-box)'

Answer: "Pop Goes The Weasel"


Question: 'Some say it's best after it's been aged in a pot for 9 days'

Answer: pease porridge


Question: 'Improbably, in 1958 Steve McQueen played a teenager being chased by this improbable giant amoeba-like mass'

Answer: The Blob


Question: 'Term for a female red deer, or for 2 of her legs'

Answer: Hind


Question: 'While a student at Oxford, Hugh Grant tried out for this role in the film "Greystoke"'

Answer: Tarzan


Question: 'In 1832 he became the last American general of the war to die; a Civil War fort was named for him'

Answer: Thomas Sumter


Question: 'Mr. Owl says it's "3"; a study done at Swarthmore claims it's an average of 142.18'

Answer: The number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop


Question: 'In 1935 Elsa Lanchester played this doctor's hair-raising second creation & was meant to wed the first'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: 'Deer range in shoulder height from 1' in the pudu to 6' 6" in this, the largest'

Answer: Moose


Question: 'George Cukor directed Meg Ryan's 1981 film debut & this actress' 1932 debut, "A Bill of Divorcement"'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'A June 14, 1777 Congressional resolution determined what should be on this, but didn't set the design'

Answer: The American Flag


Question: 'It's the Pillsbury Doughboy's given name'

Answer: "Poppin\' Fresh"


Question: 'Not a chicken, but this lay in the house that Jack built'

Answer: Malt


Question: 'George Clooney & Quentin Tarantino wound up in a bar full of these creatures in 1996's "From Dusk Till Dawn"'

Answer: Vampires


Question: 'This name for the male of a small, nimble Eurasian deer has appeared on many catalogs, after "Sears"'

Answer: Roebuck


Question: 'Alan Ladd appeared as a reporter in this 1941 Orson Welles masterpiece'

Answer: "Citizen Kane"


Question: 'It's unclear whether Israel Putnam or William Prescott commanded this June 17, 1775 battle'

Answer: Bunker Hill


Question: 'This cartoon trio was named for what milk makes Rice Krispies do'

Answer: "Snap! Crackle! Pop!"


Question: 'This Hoosier, elected to Congress at age 29, was put on the vice-presidential ticket in 1988'

Answer: Dan Quayle


Question: 'Danish writer Peter Hoeg had a bestseller about her "Sense of Snow"'

Answer: Smilla


Question: 'We heard it through the grapevine that it's the largest island in Massachusetts'

Answer: Martha\'s Vineyard


Question: 'Bob Mackie sewed up a Costume Design Emmy for her variety special "Men, Movies and Carol"'

Answer: Carol Burnett


Question: 'Like a rock this dependency voted to remain solidly under British control'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: '"There is nothin' like" one<br />(4)'

Answer: a dame


Question: 'These 2 unelected vice presidents follow each other in the sequence of vice presidents'

Answer: Gerald Ford & Nelson Rockefeller


Question: 'Active as a lawyer from age 21, he used a dictating machine to write his Perry Mason novels'

Answer: Erle Stanley Gardner


Question: 'Formerly known as St. Thomas, this capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands had a sex change'

Answer: Charlotte Amalie


Question: 'The Christopher Lloyd who won for writing "Frasier" is not the man who won for playing Jim on this sitcom'

Answer: Taxi


Question:
'In September they reached the Top 40 with the song heard here:

"I dig rock & roll music and I love to get the chance to play..."'

Answer: Peter, Paul & Mary


Question: 'Oven or uncle preceder<br />(5)'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'He was the last vice president to act as president of the Senate over 4 congresses:  97, 98, 99 & 100'

Answer: George Bush


Question: 'In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montag doesn't put out fires, he starts them'

Answer: Fahrenheit 451


Question: 'Famous for its large parks & lush landscapes, it's Canada's "Garden City"'

Answer: Victoria, British Columbia


Question: 'Kathy Bates & Ray Walston picked up Emmys in 1996 for their work on this series cancelled in 1996'

Answer: Picket Fences


Question: 'On Sept. 6 this French president arrived in Poland on one of his first visits to an east European communist nation'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'Wealthy widow<br />(7)'

Answer: dowager


Question: 'Prior to becoming a Republican in the 1850s, Schuyler Colfax belonged to this party'

Answer: Whigs


Question: 'This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer & Nobel Prizes in 1976'

Answer: Saul Bellow


Question: 'Andrea Martin & Martin Short were among winners in 1983 for writing for this comic "network"'

Answer: SCTV


Question: 'On September 10 the White House announced the engagement of Lynda Bird Johnson & this future senator'

Answer: Charles Robb


Question: 'Off with their heads!<br />(10)'

Answer: decapitate


Question: 'He was the only vice president between Millard Fillmore & Chester Arthur to become president'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'The British born & bred Evelyn Waugh set this satirical 1948 novel in California'

Answer: The Loved One


Question: 'Michael Lembeck won a 1996 Directing Emmy for this sitcom's "The One After the Superbowl" episode'

Answer: Friends


Question: 'Michigan governor George Romney charged that during a trip to this country he was brainwashed by officials'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'German's Germany<br />(11)'

Answer: Deutschland


Question: 'This police force developed from bands of Indian fighters who protected American settlers in Mexico'

Answer: the Texas Rangers


Question: 'Proverbially, it's where "all roads lead"'

Answer: to Rome


Question: 'In 1998 at age 15 she became the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for ladies' figure skating'

Answer: Tara Lipinski


Question: 'This term for stories about larger-than-life characters is most appropriate for the towering Paul Bunyan'

Answer: tall tales


Question: 'Have a cigar & a Cuba Libre: a drink of rum, ice, lime wedges & this'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'Somehow a pulp & paper concern begun by Finn Frederik Idestam in 1865 evolved into this cell phone giant'

Answer: Nokia


Question: 'You have 7 true pairs of these & 5 false pairs (2 of which are floating)'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'It's where the government of India meets'

Answer: New Delhi


Question: 'When this U.S. speedskater raced at the 2002 Olympics, his fans sported fake whiskers under their bottom lips'

Answer: Apolo Anton Ohno


Question: 'A Robinsonade, an adventure that's often about a marooned person, is named for a character created by this author'

Answer: Daniel Defoe


Question: 'After one of these cocktails using 3 different kinds of rum, you might feel like the voodoo victim it's named for'

Answer: Zombie


Question: 'Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon in 1980; this Swedish man won it in 1990'

Answer: Stefan Edberg


Question: 'The true morel variety of these is okay to eat; the false morels are poisonous'

Answer: mushrooms


Question: 'After the Khmer Rouge came to power, this city's population dropped from about 2 million to 20,000'

Answer: Phnom Penh


Question: 'In 1988 he won a gold medal boxing for Canada; 5 years later he won the pro heavyweight title'

Answer: Lennox Lewis


Question: 'Don't call Gertrude Stein a "block"head, though she played with the literary form of this Braque art style'

Answer: Cubism


Question: 'The logo seen here, for this brand, was based on a suggestion by Dona Amalia, the founder's wife'

Answer: Bacardi


Question: 'In 2000 this seventysomething Swede became head of the U.N.'s weapons inspectors for Iraq'

Answer: Hans Blix


Question: 'In digital logic circuits, 1 is true & this number is false'

Answer: 0


Question: 'Physicist Niels Bohr was born in this capital in 1885'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Through 2000, Jenny Thompson has won 8 gold medals in this sport, the most by any U.S. woman in any sport'

Answer: swimming


Question: 'This adjective referring to the works of GBS is derived from the Latinized form of his surname'

Answer: Shavian


Question: 'It's the Jamaican coffee-flavored rum liqueur whose name means "Aunt Mary"'

Answer: Tia Maria


Question: 'We wouldn't call ourselves Homo sapiens without the work of this 18th C. Swedish naturalist'

Answer: Carl Linnaeus


Question: '"True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor" is by this "Speed-the-Plow" playwright'

Answer: David Mamet


Question: 'The name of this South African capital means "fountain of flowers"'

Answer: Bloemfontein


Question: 'In 1968 this Frenchman became only the second man in history to win 3 skiing events in the same Olympics'

Answer: Jean-Claude Killy


Question: 'Real people & events are thinly disguised in this type of work, French for "novel with a key"'

Answer: roman a clef


Question: 'Mount Gay Rum has been made in this West Indies island nation off northeastern South America for 300 years'

Answer: Barbados


Question: 'Amundsen was a pup in 1888 when this Norwegian explorer schlepped across the Greenland ice cap'

Answer: Fridtjof Nansen


Question: 'Folk song writer who gave us "False from True" & "Turn, Turn, Turn"'

Answer: Pete Seeger


Question: 'While this spiny-skinned sea creature can have 40 arms or more, most have 5'

Answer: starfish


Question: 'Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'In 1929 engineer George Gillette remarked, "By 1940" this physics theory "will be considered a joke"'

Answer: Theory of relativity


Question: 'Logically, this occupation (not postal clerk) is exposed to the highest incidence of workplace violent crime'

Answer: police officer


Question: 'His wife is often called the first woman president because many believed she called all the shots after his stroke'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Female spot remover:<br />chat me badly'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'A Fred Astaire movie, or the spider relative seen here'

Answer: daddy long legs


Question: 'Meryl Streep played this author of "Shadows on the Grass" in 1985's "Out of Africa"'

Answer: Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)


Question: 'In 1911 the New York Times reported, "Vast Engineering Works Accomplished by Our Planetary Neighbors" here'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'In game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, Red Wing Steve Duchesne lost 6 of these, 2 of them original'

Answer: his teeth


Question: 'This president showed off his gall bladder surgery scar in the photo seen here'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: '"Hamlet" site:<br />Nile rose'

Answer: Elsinore