Question: 'This island, 1/3 of which is Turkish-controlled, is often considered part of the Middle East'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'This organization that teaches survival in the wilds began as a program for British seamen'

Answer: Outward Bound


Question: 'This Norwegian was a teenager in 1957 when she made her film debut in "Fjols Til Fjells" -- "Fools in the Mountains"'

Answer: Liv Ullmann


Question: 'To a psychologist:<br />           ADD'

Answer: Attention Deficit Disorder


Question: 'In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first of these devices using a ruby'

Answer: Laser


Question: '"Love Is All Around" was this "Wild Thing" group's only other Top 10 hit'

Answer: The Troggs


Question: 'This country shook off the Ottomans in 1882 & the British in 1952'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This last name of German athlete Joseph is applied to the flexibility-enhancing "method" he developed'

Answer: Pilates


Question: 'David Bowie could tell you the name of this Somali-born supermodel is from the Arabic for "faith"'

Answer: Iman


Question: 'A computer designer's goal:<br />             AI'

Answer: Artificial Intelligence


Question: 'Conde Nast's Feb./Mar. 1999 issue of its magazine for these title people was a Guinness record 1,242 pages'

Answer: Brides (who are planning a June wedding)


Question: 'Many have claimed to see the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still wandering the battlefield in this Penn. town'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'She not only hosted the show, she also won awards for Music Female Artist & TV Actress, Comedy'

Answer: Miley Cyrus


Question:
'Tech stuff:
Windows,
floppy disk,
Powerbook'

Answer: floppy disk, Windows and Powerbook


Question: 'Emerson was a pallbearer for this "Scarlet Letter" author'

Answer: Hawthorne


Question: 'Before his dictionary, he put out 1783's "American Spelling Book", a mainstay of pioneer schooling'

Answer: Webster


Question: 'A long, metal pole used to divert lightning'

Answer: a rod


Question: 'He may have made his last stand at Little Big Horn, but his ghost is said to haunt his old quarters at Fort Leavenworth'

Answer: Custer


Question: 'This Brit has nothing to atone for--she snapped up an award for her role in "Atonement"'

Answer: Keira Knightley


Question:
'European discoveries:
Cape of Good Hope,
Florida,
Bering Strait'

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope, Florida and the Bering Strait


Question: 'He wrote "Carrie" while teaching high school English at Hampden Academy in Maine'

Answer: (Stephen) King


Question: 'Frontiersmen wore trousers of this animal's skin, the leather in the "Leatherstocking Tales"'

Answer: deerskin


Question: '3-letter slang for a pleasing physique'

Answer: a bod


Question: 'Talk about ghosts with a mission--apparently there are plenty at this battle site in San Antonio'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: 'For his role on this series, Chad Michael Murray was chosen favorite TV Actor in a Drama'

Answer: One Tree Hill


Question:
'Universities:
San Diego State,
Purdue,
Brown'

Answer: Brown, Purdue, San Diego State


Question: 'He co-wrote "Sea of Cortez" with marine biologist Edward Ricketts, the model for Doc in "Cannery Row"'

Answer: (John) Steinbeck


Question: 'Chinking was filling the spaces in this typical pioneer home in wooded areas'

Answer: a log cabin


Question: 'Surface layer of ground'

Answer: sod


Question: 'Shove off to this famous ship in Long Beach, Calif.; it's considered one of the most haunted places in the world'

Answer: the Queen Mary


Question: 'Who better to take home the award for "Most Fanatic Fans" than this teen cutie from "American Idol"?'

Answer: David Archuleta


Question:
'Presidential administrations:
Chester A. Arthur, James K. Polk,
Millard Fillmore'

Answer: Polk, Fillmore, Arthur


Question: 'This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 books using the pseudonym John Sedges'

Answer: Pearl Buck


Question: 'This 3-word phrase for what groups of pioneer travelers did when under attack is still an idiom today'

Answer: circle the wagons


Question: 'To walk heavily & wearily'

Answer: plod


Question: 'An old forest farmhouse in Salt Lake City is supposedly haunted by Ann Eliza Webb, this man's 19th wife'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'This skater boy was honored as Choice Action Sports Male'

Answer: Ryan Sheckler


Question:
'Geological periods:
Cambrian,
Cretaceous,
Triassic'

Answer: Cambrian, Triassic, Cretaceous


Question: 'In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature'

Answer: Sinclair Lewis


Question: 'Pioneer moms whose kids had chills & sweats knew sassafras was also called the ague tree, ague meaning this'

Answer: fever


Question: 'Land to which Cain fled in the Bible'

Answer: Nod


Question: 'No one could claim the earth was flat after this man's expedition circumnavigated the globe in 1522'

Answer: Magellan


Question: 'It describes a fatal disease, or where a train stops'

Answer: terminal


Question: '"90210" is set in this ritzy city, ZIP code 90210'

Answer: Beverly Hills


Question: 'Annin & co. makes these in materials like solar-max nylon & cotton/polyester; Betsy Ross would be amazed'

Answer: flags


Question: 'She imprisoned Walter Raleigh in the Tower of London after he secretly married one of her maids of honor'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'David Caruso heads up the the crime scene investigation unit in this city'

Answer: Miami


Question: 'In addition to his study of gravity, he proved that light contains many colors'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'In the video for "Here It Goes Again" the band OK Go gets nowhere fast on these exercise machines'

Answer: treadmills


Question: 'Col. William Prescott was one of the leaders of this battle on June 17, 1775'

Answer: the Battle of Bunker Hill


Question: 'Building with bales of this is sturdy, unlike in "The 3 Little Pigs", & fire-resistant when packed to keep out oxygen'

Answer: hay (or straw)


Question: 'Sharpshooter Frank Butler abandoned his career to manage this even sharper-shooting gal'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'A late-night sketch comedy show is based on this magazine & even featured a Spy vs. Spy segment'

Answer: Mad


Question: 'This pea brain coined the hereditary terms recessive & dominant'

Answer: Mendel


Question: 'It's the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe'

Answer: temporal


Question: 'Cleeve Cloud is the highest point in the Cotswolds, the hills in the western part of this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'The bull's eye in darts is also called this, the tree material from which it's made'

Answer: the cork


Question: 'In 1632 Shah Jahan began building this Mausoleum for his favorite wife'

Answer: the Taj Mahal


Question: 'Players try to figure out who the saboteur is on this ABC show'

Answer: The Mole


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew stands on a ladder and drops two items.)  An object's weight does not affect the speed at which it falls, so the shoe & the paper hit the ground at the same time, as this Italian first predicted'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Time to throw in this garden tool seen here--we dig it'

Answer: a trowel


Question: 'The Sand Hills Region is mostly in this state, north of the Platte River'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Natural rubber is sticky, as in rubber cement; with this process patented in 1844, it can be used for hockey pucks'

Answer: vulcanization


Question: 'There was a certain glow in the air when Maria Sklodowska caught the eye of this French physicist in 1894'

Answer: Pierre Curie


Question: 'This Patricia Arquette show is somewhere between well done & rare'

Answer: Medium


Question: 'Edwin Hubble confirmed this German's view that the universe is expanding, not static'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'A threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often in spiral form'

Answer: a tendril


Question: 'Mills in the Gas Hills of Wyoming refine & press this element into the yellowcake form'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'In the 2008 movie, Iron Man's suit is an alloy of gold & this metal'

Answer: titanium


Question: 'Longfellow wrote that Captain Miles Standish gave his blessing to this man who married his crush, Priscilla Mullens'

Answer: John Alden


Question: 'Seen here is this wannabe opera singer turned creative director for "America's Next Top Model"'

Answer: Jay Manuel


Question: 'On July 21, 1944 she wrote, "I'm finally getting optimistic... an assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life"'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: 'No. 1 in circulation: this retirees' organization's bulletin'

Answer: AARP


Question: 'In this 1983 film Tom Cruise's dad's Porsche ends up in Lake Michigan'

Answer: Risky Business


Question: 'These drums are held between the knees & played with the fingers'

Answer: the bongos


Question: '180 minutes after noon'

Answer: 3 PM


Question: 'Jake Barnes, Lady Brett & friends go to Spain; Lady Brett has an affair with a bullfighter, then returns to her fiance'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: 'If I'd been there in 1862, I'd have given a drink to this general who beat the rebels at Shiloh'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'No. 15:<br />For the athletically inclined or those who dig chicks in thongs'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'Burt Reynolds drives a Trans Am from Georgia to Texas & back in this 1977 romp'

Answer: Smokey and the Bandit


Question: 'These are lit in celebration on Guy Fawkes night'

Answer: bonfires


Question: '360 seconds before 2:00 am'

Answer: 1:54 AM


Question: 'Genius architect Howard Roark struggles to maintain his integrity in the face of mediocrity for some 700 pages'

Answer: The Fountainhead


Question: 'I'm all for youth, but can you believe this guy led an army to victory over the Thracians in 340 B.C. at age 16'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'No. 20: this one lets you know when to tune in to Johnny & me'

Answer: TV Guide


Question: 'Marty McFly went "Back to the Future" in this make of car'

Answer: a DeLorean


Question: 'This Latin phrase literally means "with good faith"'

Answer: bona fides


Question: '13 half hours after 6:30 PM'

Answer: 1 AM


Question: 'Stephen Dedalus' childhood, school days & early manhood, when he decides to leave Dublin for Paris to become a writer'

Answer: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Question: 'This Mexican general let himself be surprised at the battle of San Jacinto, ensuring Texas independence'

Answer: Santa Anna


Question: 'No. 4: helping people improve dwellings & yards'

Answer: Better Homes and Gardens


Question: 'These salt flats are in Tooele county, Utah'

Answer: Bonneville Salt Flats


Question: '4 dozen minutes after 3:15 PM'

Answer: 4:03 PM


Question: 'Lucy Honeychurch & her chaperon get the wrong room in Florence; Lucy falls for George, gets engaged to Cecil, weds George'

Answer: A Room with a View


Question: 'I gotta hand it to Gen. Gebhard von Blucher, 72 years old, commanding the Prussian troops at this June 1815 battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question: 'No. 10: this driving & travelers' club's Westways'

Answer: AAA


Question: 'This distinctive predator is seen here.'

Answer: bonnethead shark


Question: '1,800 seconds before 8:11 AM'

Answer: 7:41 AM


Question: 'Clyde Griffiths gets Roberta pregnant, falls in love with rich girl Sondra, lets Roberta drown, is executed'

Answer: An American Tragedy


Question: 'This field marshal wasn't so bloody hot; his Operation Market Garden in 1944 resulted in a British disaster'

Answer: Bernard Law Montgomery


Question: 'Greece joined this military alliance in 1952, Bulgaria in 2004, though they're far from the body of water in its name'

Answer: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)


Question: 'An interconnected group of TV stations that broadcast the same programming'

Answer: a network


Question: 'In a TV special, the Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus awaits a visit from this mythic figure'

Answer: the Great Pumpkin


Question:
'7 letters:
Phil Collins,
Mike Rutherford,
Tony Banks'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'Most everybody was invited to join this post-WWI club founded in 1919, but the U.S. turned down a membership'

Answer: the League of Nations


Question: 'An estimate based on little or no information'

Answer: guesswork


Question: '2010 marks the 60th anniversary of this UNICEF program that collects donations in the box seen here for kids worldwide'

Answer: Trick or Treat


Question:
'4 letters:
Of a drama,
of contrition,
of mercy'

Answer: Acts


Question: 'Members of this club formed in 1993 include Latvia, Lithuania & Luxembourg--sorry, Libya, you're not invited'

Answer: the European Union


Question: 'In 2010 this country won its 17th Swaythling Cup in men's team table tennis'

Answer: China


Question: 'Timepiece mechanism that's a synonym for efficiency'

Answer: clockwork


Question: 'In the Hercule Poirot mystery "Halloween Party", a girl is drowned in a tub of water meant for this Halloween activity'

Answer: bobbing for apples


Question: '10 letters: OMG!  We learned Amy was Fabio's long-lost sister!  & that's the only item we uncovered!  The sole singular one!'

Answer: Revelation


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Juilliard School in New York.)  His "American Quartet" was written in a Czech community in Iowa soon after his "New World Symphony"; some hear black spirituals in the melodies'

Answer: (Antonin) Dvorak


Question: 'This not-very-exclusive club founded in 1995 has 153 members (& they weren't too welcome in Seattle)'

Answer: the World Trade Organization


Question: 'This international team tennis trophy is also called "Dwight's Pot"'

Answer: the Davis Cup


Question: '2-word phrase for a set of values based on diligence; it often follows "Protestant"'

Answer: a work ethic


Question: '"Halloween" is short for "All Hallows' Eve" as it's the night before this holiday once called All Hallows' Day'

Answer: (All) Saint\'s Day


Question: '12 letters: Why?!  Why didn't I buy Microsoft when it hit the market in 1986?!  & wearing that Speedo?!  What was I thinking?!'

Answer: Lamentations


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.)  One of Beethoven's best-known works would be the "Bridgetower Sonata" if Ludwig and violinist Bridgetower hadn't quarreled over a girl.  Instead, it's "this" Sonata'

Answer: the Kreutzer Sonata


Question: 'The 8-member club formed by this treaty shutskied its doors in 1991'

Answer: the Warsaw Pact


Question: 'The Calcutta Cup, given to rugby teams since 1879, has an elephant on top & is made from melted coins of this currency'

Answer: rupees


Question: 'An embankment constructed as a fortification'

Answer: an earthwork


Question: 'Halloween's origins are in Samhain, a festival celebrated by these people of ancient Britain & Ireland'

Answer: the Celts


Question: '6 letters:<br />Learned Hand, Joseph Crater (once "the most missingest man in America")'

Answer: Judges


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.) At Toscanini's request, this composer transcribed part of his "Opus 11 Quartet," and it became his most famous work, the "Adagio For Strings"'

Answer: (Samuel) Barber


Question: 'Topping the charts on Oct. 20, 1962, this novelty song is the only No. 1 hit to have the word "electrodes" in the lyrics'

Answer: The Monster Mash


Question: 'Put on your sunscreen & head to Waikiki Beach, a popular tourist spot in this capital city'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'If you have a cat, make sure to clean out this box regularly'

Answer: litterbox


Question: 'There are 3 teaspoons in this unit of measure'

Answer: tablespoon


Question: 'He's the lovable elephant who "Hatches the Egg" & "Hears a Who!"'

Answer: Horton


Question: 'Count yourself lucky to know that one of these monsters drinks your blood & can turn into a bat'

Answer: vampire


Question: 'He's the famous TV personality seen here'

Answer: Kermit the Frog


Question: 'It was the site of a famous "Tea Party", December 16, 1773'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Devil's food & angel food are types of this dessert'

Answer: cake


Question: '37 degrees Celsius equals 98.6 degrees on this scale'

Answer: Fahrenheit


Question: 'Bah Humbug!  He's the character seen here'

Answer: the Grinch


Question: 'A full moon gets this type of monster in a hairy situation'

Answer: werewolf


Question: '[video clue]'

Answer: lime


Question: 'During the Civil War, Union troops led by Sherman captured & burned much of this Georgia capital'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'Double-dribbling & shooting air balls are undesirable activities in this sport'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'Equal to 1,000 grams, this metric standard is abbreviated KG'

Answer: kilogram


Question: 'Book which contains the lines "Would you? Could you?  In a car?  Eat them!  Eat them!  Here they are."'

Answer: "Green Eggs and Ham"


Question: 'In a Mary Shelley work, he's the doctor who used electricity to charge his constructed monster to life'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: 'From the Irish for "small clover", it's the national emblem seen here'

Answer: shamrock


Question: 'The capital of Mississippi was named for this man, even before he became president'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'Financially, you want to avoid this color ink -- that means a deficit'

Answer: red


Question: 'Of 6 miles, 16 miles or 60 miles, the one closest to the length in miles of a 10-kilometer run'

Answer: 6 miles


Question: 'In this tale the Once-ler tells of how his greed destroyed a beautiful forest of truffula trees'

Answer: "The Lorax"


Question: 'St. George fought & killed one of these mythical, fire-breathing monsters'

Answer: dragon


Question: 'Popular in Asian sculpture, it's the precious & ornamental mineral seen here'

Answer: jade


Question: 'It's the capital of the most populous U.S. state'

Answer: Sacramento (California)


Question: 'From the Latin for "put in place of", it's the kind of teacher who may get a hard time from your class'

Answer: substitute


Question: 'This unit can be 1/60 of a degree or 1/60 of an hour'

Answer: minute


Question: 'Dr. Seuss' first book for kids was called "And to Think That I Saw It on" this street'

Answer: Mulberry Street


Question: 'This monster is a giant, one-eyed creature from Greek mythology'

Answer: cyclops


Question: 'He's the monetary green guy seen here in the newest version'

Answer: Ben Franklin


Question: '2 days before his more famous ride of April 18, 1775, he galloped to Concord to warn patriots to move military supplies'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'In May 2000 Philadelphia's school board voted to require all its students to wear these'

Answer: uniforms


Question: 'It's a formation of calcium carbonate built up on the floor of a cave, formerly water dripping from a stalactite'

Answer: stalagmite


Question: 'You can charge the neighbors 3 bucks simply to do this or $30 if you add detailing, light waxing & Armor-Alling'

Answer: wash the car


Question: 'Lois Lane is the heroine of the musical "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's" this guy'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'A shack for your almond'

Answer: nut hut


Question: 'During the winter of 1777-78 at this site, Washington lost 1/4 of his men to malnutrition, exposure & disease'

Answer: Valley Forge


Question: 'Some schools frown on this headwear made popular by Deion Sanders'

Answer: bandana


Question: 'Animals exhale this gas during respiration'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'From Middle English for "business" or "message", you can pick up some cash "running" these for busy people'

Answer: errands


Question: 'The song heard here is a highlight of this high-flying Broadway musical'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'A hopeful desire for an aquatic creature'

Answer: fish wish


Question: 'By March 1781 all 13 states had approved these articles'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: 'These parts of a stylish tank top bear the name of a pasta'

Answer: spaghetti straps


Question: 'By definition, a phototropic plant moves in response to this'

Answer: light


Question: 'This occupation consists of perambulating with basenjis & schnauzers'

Answer: walking the dogs


Question: 'Big cats abound in this Tony-winning show that's set in part at Pride Rock'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'Not fast frozen precipitation'

Answer: slow snow


Question: 'In his "American Crisis" pamphlet, he wrote, "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered"'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'Prints of these insects were big in '99, whether swallowtails or monarchs we don't know'

Answer: butterflies


Question: 'Neutrophils, monocytes & lymphocytes are the 3 main types of these blood cells that fight infections'

Answer: white blood cells


Question: 'When she was 11, Courtney Darwin was one of these for the San Francisco Giants, not the Gotham City Superheroes'

Answer: bat girl


Question: 'Jim Henson's Creature Shop created a dancing pushmi-pullyu for the musical about this doctor who talks to animals'

Answer: Doctor Dolittle


Question: 'A map of your blood-pumping organ'

Answer: heart chart


Question: 'After his defeat at Yorktown this British commander refused to deliver his sword to Washington, feigning illness'

Answer: Lord Cornwallis


Question: '2-word name for a popular athletic shoe, or a person who's jogging off-road'

Answer: trail runner


Question: 'Oddly, this property is lower in solid than in liquid water, so ice floats'

Answer: density


Question: 'Medieval job choices for kids were limited, but there was this one of trainee & servant of a knight'

Answer: page


Question: 'The 1997 TV production of this fairy tale musical featured Brandy in the title role'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'This ursine likes to eat seals as well as fish'

Answer: a polar bear


Question: 'Latin for “before noon”, it’s what A.M. stands for'

Answer: antemeridian


Question: 'Cher sings “The Shoop Shoop Song” over this 1990 film’s closing credits'

Answer: Mermaids


Question: 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh of this country was 1 of the most innovative Art Nouveau architects'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'One of his patents that year was for a motion-picture projector, the kinetoscope'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'Poet & editor Wm. C. Bryant is known for his 1870-71 translations of these 2 Homeric works'

Answer: the Iliad & the Odyssey


Question: 'The emperor is the largest variety of this bird'

Answer: a penguin


Question: 'Spoken or sung at the end of Latin masses, Deo gratias means this'

Answer: thanks to God


Question: 'In 1968 Hugo Montenegro took this title tune to No. 2 on the pop charts:'

Answer: "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly"


Question: 'Not surprisingly, the French town of Chantilly is known for this type of fabric'

Answer: lace


Question: '900,000 acres of land in this state were opened for settlement on Sept. 22 though some went sooner'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'The bellow of this tusked sea animal can be heard from half a mile away'

Answer: a walrus


Question: 'Seneca said “Ars longa, vita brevis", which means this'

Answer: art is long, life is short


Question: '“Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley, Ding, ding, ding, went the bell, Zing, zing, zing, went” these'

Answer: my heartstrings


Question: 'The “slipper” type of this lustrous fabric can be used to make slippers or draperies'

Answer: satin


Question: 'An attack on American sailors in Valparaiso brought the U.S. to the brink of war with this country'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'This ox, one of the northernmost hoofed animals, is named for the odor it emits'

Answer: a musk ox


Question: 'Someone who is primus inter pares is first among these people'

Answer: equals


Question: 'Pat Boone sang that this “is for the very young, Ev’ry star’s a wishing star that shines for you”'

Answer: "April Love"


Question: 'Edward Kemeys designed the lions that guard the entrance to the Art Institute of this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'George Hale’s spectroheliograph made it possible to photograph this using one w.l. of light'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'When these rodents drown during their migrations, it’s an accident, not suicide'

Answer: lemmings


Question: 'The abbreviation q.v. which stands for quod vide, literally means this'

Answer: which see


Question: 'Pop songstress who won an Oscar in 1989 for “Let The River Run” from “Working Girl”'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'The back of a Salem rocker is usually lower than the back of this other rocker named for a Mass. city'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'James Naismith invented basketball in this Massachusetts town in December'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'Merged island countries include Sao Tome & Principe and Trinidad & this'

Answer: Tobago


Question: 'Shortly after promoting him, Darius had him cast into a lion’s den'

Answer: Daniel


Question: 'The manzanillo is the most widely grown type in Calif.; almost all are eaten, not pressed for oil'

Answer: olives


Question: 'Cobweb is a fairy, not a spider, in this comedy'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: 'A column of “Hints” has been written under this name shared by a mother & the daughter who succeeded her'

Answer: Heloise


Question: 'In March, Congress passed an excise tax on this, provoking a rebellion in 1794'

Answer: whiskey


Question: 'Its capital, largest city & chief port is Palermo'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'According to II Chronicles 2, over 153,000 people worked on its construction in Jerusalem'

Answer: the First Temple (Solomon\'s Temple)


Question: 'Hawkeye Pierce could tell you that kimchi is pickled vegetables common in this country'

Answer: Korea


Question: 'Hamlet gives his “Alas, poor Yorick!” soliloquy in this location'

Answer: a graveyard


Question: 'Columnist whose 1922 “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage” sold over half a million copies'

Answer: Emily Post


Question: 'His opera “Die Zauberflote” premiered in Vienna on Sept. 30'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'Capital of French Guiana & the name of the island it’s on, it gave its name to a kind of pepper'

Answer: Cayenne


Question: 'The Lord told Satan, “There is none like him in the Earth, a perfect and an upright man”'

Answer: Job


Question: 'Lactobacillus bulgaricus is added to milk to make this thick semi-solid dairy product'

Answer: yogurt


Question: 'After Emilia is stabbed in this tragedy, she says, “I will play the swan” & sings before she dies'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Last name of brothers Stuart & Joseph who together wrote the “Matter of Fact” column'

Answer: Alsop


Question: 'He published the first part of “The Rights of Man” in England & was later charged with treason'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'Tanzania’s capital was founded by the sultan of this island that’s now part of the country'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'Ahasuerus liked her better than all the other virgins so he made her queen in place of Vashti'

Answer: Esther


Question: '“The Joy of Cooking” says these liquor-soaked cakes have been enjoyed 25 years after baking'

Answer: fruitcakes


Question: 'Shakespeare wrote, “When in disgrace with” this “and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”'

Answer: Fortune


Question: 'As financial reporter for the N.Y. Post she used initials for her byline to pass for a man'

Answer: Sylvia Porter


Question: 'Born in Cove Gap, Penn. on April 23, he later became the 15th U.S. president'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'Though they sound Egyptian, these islands in the N. Atlantic are part of Denmark'

Answer: the Faroe Islands


Question: 'Korah was killed for rebelling against Moses but his descendants wrote some of the 150 of these'

Answer: Psalms


Question: 'The name of these little snacks is Cantonese for “heart’s delight”'

Answer: dim sum


Question: 'This young woman lives on an island with her father, a magician'

Answer: Miranda


Question: 'Columnist for N.Y.’s Newsday who wrote the novel “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight”'

Answer: Jimmy Breslin


Question: 'This Italian announced that electricity applied to frogs’ legs caused them to twitch'

Answer: (Luigi) Galvani


Question: 'Connecticut was the last of the original 13 states to ratify this & didn’t do it until 1939'

Answer: the Bill of Rights


Question: 'An author:<br />"Big Brother is watching you"'

Answer: Orwell


Question: 'His real name was John Chapman & his claim to fame was planting a series of nurseries from the Alleghenies to the Midwest'

Answer: Johnny Appleseed


Question: 'A member of the Grand Old Party'

Answer: Republican


Question: 'Scott, can you tell me of this English city whence the Mayflower set sail to reach the New World?'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'In 2010 it was Saints vs. Colts for the championship of this league'

Answer: the National Football League


Question: 'Honolulu County is on this island'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'An ancient fabulist:<br />"Don't count your chickens before they hatch"'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'Febold Feboldson, in an attempt to end one of these in Nebraska, built huge bonfires around lakes to make clouds'

Answer: a drought


Question: 'This type of "theory" explains how an event results from a plot by a covert group'

Answer: conspiracy


Question: 'Scott, wasn't it nice of the Wampanoag tribe to teach us how to make this dish of beans & corn?'

Answer: succotash


Question: 'You might see Magic vs. Wizards or Grizzlies vs. Timberwolves at one of this league's games'

Answer: the NBA


Question: 'This mountain, a symbol of Japan, is known for its 5 lakes & 8 mini-peaks'

Answer: Mt. Fuji


Question: 'A female poet:<br />"How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways"'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'It took 5 giant storks to deliver this folk hero to his parents in Maine; later he moved to Minnesota'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'When speaking about matters of faith, "ex cathedra", the Pope is said to be this, meaning he can't be wrong'

Answer: infallible


Question: 'Hey Scott, it's Nov. 11, 1620; it's time to sign the document called "the Mayflower" this'

Answer: Compact


Question: 'From 2003 to 2009 the men's final in this British tournament was somebody vs. Roger Federer'

Answer: Wimbledon


Question: 'The trail named for these people led from Cuzco to Intipunku, "the gateway of the sun", & on to Machu Picchu'

Answer: the Incans


Question: 'A Revolutionary pamphleteer:<br />"These are the times that try men's souls"'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'Legend says he died trying to clear Big Bend tunnel in West Virginia; no word on that big hammer'

Answer: John Henry


Question: '"Wise fool" is an example of this 8-letter figure of speech'

Answer: oxymoron


Question: 'Scott, as a Pilgrim, you must adhere to this stern Protestant movement, an offshoot of Calvinism'

Answer: Puritanism


Question: 'If you're watching Harvard vs. Yale, you're watching a competition in this 8-school group'

Answer: the Ivy League


Question: 'I see this city, the capital of Uruguay'

Answer: Montevideo


Question: 'A 19th century German philosopher:<br />"God is dead"'

Answer: Nietzsche


Question: 'Don't tell Sasquatch, but Texas folk hero William Wallace had this nickname'

Answer: Bigfoot


Question: 'Essential or basic; a literacy organization says "Reading Is" it'

Answer: fundamental


Question: 'Scott, did you hear Gov. Bradford made this Indian, aka Tisquantum, an emissary; his English is remarkable!'

Answer: Squanto


Question: 'It was Topalov vs. Anand for the 2010 world title in this board game'

Answer: chess


Question: 'These nomadic people of southern Kenya build huts in a circle to create a boma, or village'

Answer: Masai


Question: 'Issued in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878, the first one of these listed about 50 names & businesses'

Answer: a phone book


Question: 'Reach for the sky!  In 2010 Tom Hanks returned for a third time to provide the voice of this sheriff'

Answer: Woody


Question: 'U.S. Regionalism produced the work seen here; this title object in the center was also a subject for Monet'

Answer: a haystack


Question: 'This smooth-skinned variety of peach can sometimes be found on the same tree as its fuzzy brethren'

Answer: a nectarine


Question: 'These sacred scrolls found at Qumran in 1947 have yielded many insights into early Christianity & Rabbinic Judaism'

Answer: the Dead Sea scrolls


Question: 'This word describing the numbers 3 & 15 can also mean "eccentric"'

Answer: odd


Question: 'Opened in Houston in 1965, it was the first fully enclosed sports stadium; today, it bears the Reliant name as well'

Answer: the Astrodome


Question: 'No jokering around!  Gary Oldman's James Gordon got a promotion to commissioner in this 2008 film'

Answer: The Dark Knight


Question: 'Abstract expressionism has been called the first movement to develop independently in this country'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'They are the individual parts of a flower's corolla'

Answer: petals


Question: 'In 1882 Robert Koch discovered the microbe that causes this lung disease, TB for short'

Answer: tuberculosis


Question: 'Someone from Helsinki'

Answer: a Finn


Question: 'Seen here, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman was the first person to be given this beauty title'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'Let's Segway to this Kevin James title guy, a New Jersey "Mall Cop"'

Answer: Paul Blart


Question: 'The French movement Fauvism relied on bold use of these, such as jaune & pourpre'

Answer: colors


Question: 'Bracken, a species of this green nonflowering plant, has large triangular fronds & is found worldwide'

Answer: a fern


Question: 'James Marshall, whose discovery began this 1849 frenzy, died poor in Kelsey, California'

Answer: the California Gold Rush


Question: 'This sudden indulgence in an activity may follow "spending"'

Answer: spree


Question: 'In 1731 the USA's first circulating library was founded in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Mais oui!  In 2006 Monsieur Steve Martin played zis--I mean, this--bumbling detective'

Answer: Inspector Clouseau


Question: 'In the 19th century Aestheticism said art exists to provide this, with no relation to society or morality'

Answer: beauty


Question: 'Varieties of this flower  include Leen Van Der Mark, Orange Emperor & Apeldoorn'

Answer: the tulip


Question: 'A 35,000-year-old flute discovered in a cave is made from the ivory of this animal, extinct for thousands of years'

Answer: a woolly mammoth


Question: 'Goodbye!'

Answer: toodle-oo (or farewell)


Question: 'Not surprisingly, the first architecture dept. at a college was established at this Boston-area school in 1865'

Answer: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Question: 'He did a "Hitch" as Del Spooner, a robot-hating Chicago cop investigating a murder in 2004's "I, Robot"'

Answer: (Will) Smith


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Seurat's painting of the "Circus Sideshow" uses this new Impressionist technique, featuring small dots & brush strokes that, from a distance, create blended color'

Answer: pointillism


Question: 'This orange pigment first isolated in carrots in 1881 is also found in pumpkins & sweet potatoes'

Answer: carotene


Question: 'Only weeks after this planet was discovered in 1846, William Lassell discovered its largest moon, Triton'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'A marsh or bog, or any muddled situation'

Answer: a morass


Question: 'Completed in 1869, it has also been known by its nickname "the Highway to India"'

Answer: the Suez Canal


Question: '2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'He "hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season...Please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason"'

Answer: the Grinch


Question: 'It's the world's tallest animal whose young is known as a calf'

Answer: a giraffe


Question:
'Luke,
Bo,
Daisy,
Boss Hogg'

Answer: The Dukes of Hazzard


Question: 'On Sept. 12, 1953 Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing conducted the marriage between this famous pair'

Answer: JFK and Jackie


Question: 'The White House was once officially called this "Mansion"'

Answer: Executive


Question: 'Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land'

Answer: Norway


Question: '"He was doing jumping jacks yesterday", said George W. Bush, downplaying this man's heart problems'

Answer: Dick Cheney


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Zoo Atlanta.) The two panda species are the 6- to 12-pound red panda and this 200- to 250-pound species'

Answer: the giant panda


Question:
'Herman,
Lily,
Grandpa,
Eddie'

Answer: The Munsters


Question: 'About his mother's remarriage, Hamlet disdainfully remarks, "Frailty thy name is" this'

Answer: woman


Question: 'Named shared by a Leon Uris novel, a Bob Marley album & a book of the Bible'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" & "The Conquest of" this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Daffy Duck, a fox from Disney in 1973 & Kevin Costner have all played this role from folklore'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'Not tabbies or flabbies, but these house cats are known as abys'

Answer: Abyssinians


Question: 'Doug & Carrie Heffernan,<br />Arthur Spooner'

Answer: The King of Queens


Question: 'In the section on marriage in "The Prophet", he wrote "Let there be spaces in your togetherness"'

Answer: Khalil Gibran


Question: 'A third mate unlicensed to pilot this ship through Prince William Sound ran it aground'

Answer: the Exxon Valdez


Question: '6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- & Ostro- halves'

Answer: the Goths


Question: 'In August of 1971 David Scott dropped a feather & a hammer here; they landed at the same time'

Answer: the moon


Question: 'Unlike a human, a shark's skeleton is made of this elastic tissue, not bone'

Answer: cartilage


Question:
'Carlos Ramirez,
Reverend Mother,
Sister Bertrille'

Answer: The Flying Nun


Question: 'The first 2 acts of this 1938 play are titled "The Daily Life" & "Love and Marriage"'

Answer: Our Town


Question: 'This early 20th century German art movement tried to show subjective emotions'

Answer: Expressionism


Question: 'This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735'

Answer: the Venerable Bede


Question: 'This chess term for an opening in which pieces are sacrificed has come to mean any ploy or strategem'

Answer: a gambit


Question: 'Hey, Dean!  8 species make up this group of weasel-like mammals including the fisher & sable'

Answer: the marten family


Question:
'Joyce Davenport,
Andy Renko,
Frank Furillo'

Answer: Hill Street Blues


Question: 'He must have liked the family; Thomas Seymour married this English king's widow & later tried to marry his daughter'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'By tradition, No. 11 Downing Street is the residence of this chancellor'

Answer: Chancellor of the Exchequer


Question: 'In the next hour, Sir William Walton's concerto for this instrument, featuring Yo-Yo Ma'

Answer: the cello


Question: 'It's home to over a dozen golden arches of McDonald's & a 630-foot high single stainless steel arch'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'If this character is coming, have a nice Chianti & some fava beans, though maybe it's best not to invite Ray Liotta'

Answer: Hannibal Lecter


Question: 'This meat is also called kid & when curried is a Jamaican specialty'

Answer: goat


Question: 'Poet Robert who wrote "The Ruling Passion", or prose writer Tom, who kept his "Common Sense"'

Answer: Paine


Question: 'In the military: AWOL'

Answer: absent without leave


Question: 'Now we'll hear a beloved aria by this Italian composer'

Answer: Rossini


Question: 'Located on the Gulf of Finland, it was capital of Russia for 2 centuries'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'In "Animal House" this actor who played Bluto calls for a "food fight!"'

Answer: John Belushi


Question: 'In the film comedy "Love and Death", Napoleon says the Napoleon pastry must be developed before this British meat dish'

Answer: Beef Wellington


Question: 'Nathalia wrote "The Sunken Garden"; Stephen stayed above ground with "The Red Badge of Courage"'

Answer: Crane


Question: 'If your car breaks down: AAA'

Answer: the American Automobile Association


Question: 'Time now for the KJPY clue of the day: born in 1770, he called himself Bacchus, pressing out the wine of musical revelation'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'This California city was named for the bay, which was named for an Assisi saint'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Julia Roberts finds snails are "slippery little suckers" at dinner with Richard Gere and Ralph Bellamy in this film'

Answer: Pretty Woman


Question: 'From a Cree word, this Native American food was made from cranberries, dried deer meat & melted fat'

Answer: pemmican


Question: 'Last name of Edward, who wrote "A Venetian Lover", & of the better-known author of "Firestarter"'

Answer: King


Question: 'On an invitation: RSVP'

Answer: répondez s\'il vous plaît


Question: 'Call & win tickets to this "talky" type of voice & piano performance, of songs by Hugo Wolf'

Answer: a recital


Question: 'Jesse James was terminated in this city, once home to a terminus of the Pony Express'

Answer: St. Joseph


Question: '(Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) At the end of the deli scene, director Rob Reiner's mother has this romantic comedy's funniest line'

Answer: When Harry Met Sally...


Question: 'From the French for "to crunch", it's meat combined with a thick white sauce & deep-fried'

Answer: croquettes


Question: 'The 1874 novel "His Natural Life" by this Aussie author named Marcus was still a good read in 2001'

Answer: Clarke


Question: 'To a swimmer, SCUBA'

Answer: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus


Question: 'Tomorrow KJPY presents a tribute to this "Fiddler on the Roof" who died in 2001'

Answer: Isaac Stern


Question: 'The stars on its flag seen here stand for hope and liberty, not it and Nevis'

Answer: St. Kitts


Question: 'Though Wallace Shawn worked with "The Giant" wrestler elsewhere, this '81 food film was not about the big man'

Answer: My Dinner with Andre


Question: 'These "meats", including the kidneys, heart & brain, must be "the spice of life"'

Answer: variety meats


Question: 'Travel writer Robert; he could have had Childe Harold take a pilgrimage on his "Road to Oxiana"'

Answer: Byron


Question: 'NAFTA, the treaty'

Answer: North American Free Trade Agreement


Question: 'He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series'

Answer: Deion Sanders


Question: 'Dickens' mother was probably the inspiration for Mrs. Micawber in this very autobiographical novel'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'In "Casino" he played Ace Rothstein, the mobster who ran The Tangiers'

Answer: (Robert) De Niro


Question: 'You might start off with the peel-&-eat these; the cocktail sauce is on the left'

Answer: shrimp


Question: 'Grout & a special saw are tools for installing this type of floor'

Answer: tile


Question: 'Both Shays' Rebellion & the Whiskey Rebellion were protests against these'

Answer: taxes


Question: 'E'er is a poetic form of this adverb'

Answer: ever


Question: 'Up, up & away with Jules Verne's classic adventure "Five Weeks in" one of these'

Answer: a Balloon


Question: 'He directed the 2001 Vegas caper film "Ocean's Eleven"'

Answer: (Steven) Soderbergh


Question: 'I noticed the Lorraine type of this eggy dish, but I didn't see any real men eating it'

Answer: quiche


Question: 'Also the surface of bulletin boards, this material makes warm, sound-insulating flooring'

Answer: cork


Question: 'Shays' Rebellion in this state in 1786-87 included an attack on the Springfield armory'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'E'en is a poetic form of this adverb'

Answer: even


Question: 'If you love stories with surprise endings, pick up his 1906 collection "The Four Million"'

Answer: O. Henry


Question: 'The title of this 2008 Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher film was inspired by a Sin City slogan'

Answer: What Happens in Vegas


Question:
'There's an outstanding
pasta salad made with these stuffed rings seen here'

Answer: tortellini


Question: 'This durable material almost synonymous with mid-20th c. flooring was patented in 1863'

Answer: linoleum


Question: 'This Treasury Sec. helped form, & then tagged along with, the army sent to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion'

Answer: Hamilton


Question: 'In "To Celia", this possessive case of thou precedes the word "eyes"'

Answer: thine


Question: 'A.A. Milne wrote a book of verse called "Now We Are" this age--a bit younger than you'

Answer: Six


Question: 'One review said this 1995 Elizabeth Berkley film was "'42nd Street' meets 'All About Eve' meets soft-core porn"'

Answer: Showgirls


Question: 'I can't stay away from these appetizers: bacon wrapped around a water chestnut & a piece of liver'

Answer: rumaki


Question: 'In forestry, it's a synonym for "dicot"; in real estate ads, it makes mouths water when seen before "floors"'

Answer: hardwood


Question: 'Though put down swiftly, Shays' Rebellion exposed the military weakness of this 1781 document'

Answer: the Articles of Confederation


Question: '"L'allegro" by Milton uses this 4-letter word for a deep shade of black, a shortening of the name of a wood'

Answer: ebon


Question: 'Prosper Merimee was just 19 when he wrote his first play, about this Lord Protector of England'

Answer: Cromwell


Question: 'In a 2003 film he played "The Cooler", a Vegas casino's gambling jinx'

Answer: William H. Macy


Question: 'Get your fill of this British-sounding "steak", a seasoned ground beef patty with onions & gravy'

Answer: Salisbury steak


Question: '1 letter off from "flat stones", they make good flooring for your castle'

Answer: flagstones


Question: 'Thousands of Whiskey Rebels marched to "The Point" in this Penn. city, but were persuaded not to burn the town'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'A poem by Robert Burns taught us that "gang aft" this means "often go wrong"'

Answer: agley


Question: 'One of the "Stan"s:<br />Tashkent'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'He hit the first home run in All-Star game history (take a wild guess)'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'In 2006 in Berlin, Italy won this sports tourney by beating France, 1-1 (technically, that was the final score)'

Answer: the World Cup


Question: '"Beadle", meaning a minor official, comes from Middle English for one of these old-time announcer guys--hark!'

Answer: a herald


Question: 'Your bold, audacious bets could be called this, perhaps from a blend of "bold" & "audacious"'

Answer: bodacious


A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from outside Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York.)  Work done at Brookhaven, which is run by this Cabinet department, has produced six Nobel Prizes, including one for work on solar neutrinos'

Answer: Energy


Question: 'Island country in the Indian ocean:<br />Port Louis'

Answer: Mauritius


Question: 'Their home parks have included the Union Grounds, Crosley Field & Riverfront Stadium'

Answer: the (Cincinnati) Reds


Question: 'As world champ of this Parker Bros. game, Antonio Fernandez won $15,140, the total amount of "cash" in the game'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'In hunting season, Beadle County, South Dakota is a bad place to be a ring-necked one of these, the state bird'

Answer: a pheasant


Question: 'I expect to be treated like a VIP, so remember that the "I" stands for this adjective'

Answer: important


A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.)  Conditions milliseconds after this event are replicated on a microscopic scale by creating a superhot fireball in this 3-D camera'

Answer: the Big Bang


Question: 'A former Soviet republic: Chisinau'

Answer: Moldova


Question: 'The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles; these N.L. birds are a distant second, with 10'

Answer: the Cardinals


Question: 'In 2007 Nigel Richards took home $15,000 as the letter-perfect world champ of this Hasbro game'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'In this Sondheim musical, Beadle Bamford gets sliced up for pie filling (don't worry, he wasn't a good guy)'

Answer: Sweeney Todd


Question: 'Also a type of fabric, this synonym for lavish describes my suite (& it rhymes with lush)'

Answer: plush


A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the clean room at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.)  The etcher used in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials' clean room uses this highly ionized state of matter to work on tiny circuits'

Answer: plasma


Question: 'In western Africa:<br />Yamoussoukro'

Answer: Cote d\'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)


Question: 'Researchers have knocked a point off his record lifetime batting average, reducing it to .366'

Answer: (Ty) Cobb


Question: 'In 2007 16-year-old Ayan Tariq bested 31 others to win $100,000 playing this title ex-coach's football video game'

Answer: (John) Madden


Question: 'George Beadle won a Nobel Prize for studying the genetics of a bread type of this fuzzy fungus'

Answer: mold


Question: 'I must see the "O" show--it boasts this type of swimming, also an artistic Olympic event'

Answer: synchronized


A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.)  Cooled magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facilitate this super phenomenon; current shows no resistance, & gold ions travel at nearly light speed'

Answer: superconductivity


Question: 'In the Pacific:<br />Honiara'

Answer: the Solomon Islands


Question: '"Avian" nickname of 1960s reliever Phil Regan, notorious for "stealing" wins from starting pitchers'

Answer: "The Vulture"


Question: 'In 1972 "Amarillo Slim" won this annual event'

Answer: the World Series of Poker


Question: 'In this author's "Night", Moshe the Beadle warns the Jews of Sighet about the looming holocaust, but they don't listen'

Answer: (Elie) Wiesel


Question: 'From the Latin for "great-souled", it will describe your immense generosity after you win big bucks'

Answer: magnanimous


A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a supercomputer room at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY)  NY Blue is an 18-rack supercomputer at Brookhaven that processes in terms of this speed--one trillion floating operations per second'

Answer: a teraflop


Question: 'Born in 1683, the second British king of this name was the last one not born in the British Isles'

Answer: George


Question: 'The Freedom Support Act of 1992 allocated about $16 billion to aid the nations formed when this entity collapsed'

Answer: the Soviet Union


Question: 'Harry Connick, Jr. wrote the songs for the musical "Thou Shalt Not", set in this southern city, his hometown'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Proverbially 2 is this & 3's a crowd'

Answer: a company


Question: 'With uncanny similarities to a 2005 Wallace & Gromit film, a giant one of these plagued Brit gardens in 2006'

Answer: a rabbit


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew  tours a warehouse.)  There's a vast array of props and costumes at this 2,300 acre facility named for a hero of the Star Wars saga'

Answer: Skywalker Ranch


Question: 'In 1996 Harry Winston cleaned & restored this blue gem'

Answer: the Hope Diamond


Question: 'Until a law was passed June 20, 1922, a woman could lose this if she married a foreigner'

Answer: citizenship


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".)  In 1997 I played Stella Kowalski in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 50th anniversary production of this great American play'

Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire


Question: 'One of the 4 fundamental operations in arithmetic'

Answer: division


Question: 'National Geographic called the circumstances of his death over Batt Reef off Queensland "extremely rare"'

Answer: Steve Irwin


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Marin County, California.)  This is a less terrifying Lucite version of this weapon, whose second version is being built during Return of the Jedi'

Answer: the Death Star


Question: 'It's the trunk in which a young woman collected linens & things for her marriage'

Answer: a hope chest


Question: 'There being no VP, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 made Joseph Martin, who held this job, first in line to succeed'

Answer: Speaker of the House


Question: 'Alec Guiness portrayed this pub-crawling poet in 1964 play set in America & Wales'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'Best Picture Oscar winner for 1986'

Answer: Platoon


Question: 'A partnership between the U.N. & this Oregon Co. created uniforms that allowed Muslim women to compete in sports'

Answer: Nike


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out a prototype.)  When George Lucas saw a preliminary version of what would become this Star Wars ship, he said, "Make it look like a hamburger"'

Answer: the Millennium Falcon


Question: 'In a ballad from "Grease", it's the way in which Olivia Newton-John was "Devoted to You"'

Answer: "Hopelessly"


Question: 'In 1893 the anti-mangling activism of Lorenzo Coffin got Congress to mandate the air type of these on railroad cars'

Answer: brakes


Question: 'Founded in 1966, the Repertory Theatre at this Ivy League Univ. has presented over 100 world & U.S. premieres'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'An infamous group of Italian urban terrorists called themselves "the Red" these'

Answer: Brigade


Question: 'Mentioned in Genesis, this was thought to be found in Iran's Elburz mountain range'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows creature samples.)Though he didn't look like this in the film, you don't need to use the force to know that these are early models of this good-natured Gungan'

Answer: Jar Jar Binks


Question: 'The discovery of this promontory was thought a favorable sign that India could be reached by sea from Europe'

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope


Question: 'An act passed March 3, 1863 established this, the subject of riots in New York that July'

Answer: drafts


Question: '"The Teapot Scandals" is a rollicking new musical funfest inspired by the life & loves of this U.S. president'

Answer: Warren Harding


Question: 'Homonym for the center of a Granny Smith or a Jonathan'

Answer: corps


Question: 'Hidden for 1,700 years, the lost gospel of this man states that he was acting on Jesus' orders'

Answer: Judas (Iscariot)


Question: 'Located just outside of L.A., this research & treatment center was founded in 1913'

Answer: the City of Hope


Question: 'First, I'd replace meat with bamboo on the menu; these 2-toned Chinese beasts could serve the whole venue'

Answer: pandas


Question: 'Ask anyone on Waikiki & he'll tell you this island is known as "The Gathering Place"'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'David Zinczenko, editor of Men's Health Magazine, wrote a diet book named for these not always washboard muscles'

Answer: abs


Question: 'The guy seen here, William Van Allen designed this in New York from 1928-1930'

Answer: The Chrysler Building


Question: 'Give us just one of the names of this hip-hop impresario, ASCAP's Rhythm & Soul Songwriter of the Year in 1996'

Answer: P. Diddy


Question: 'Seuss classic that includes the line "I would not, could not, in a car"'

Answer: Green Eggs and Ham


Question: 'Instead of a ticket taker who's a big grouch; I'd hire this little kangaroo pal in his pouch'

Answer: a joey


Question: 'In 1989, part of this city's Nimitz Freeway collapsed as the result of an earthquake'

Answer: Oakland


Question: 'The title of Dr. Peter Gott's 2006 book says "No" to these 2 powdery white baking substances'

Answer: sugar & flour


Question: 'He's the only cat with a hat in the photo seen here'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'From this "M.D.": "It's like this & like that & like this & uh, it's like that & like this & like that & uh"'

Answer: Dr. Dre


Question: 'Dr. Seuss grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, near this street found in the title of his first book'

Answer: Mulberry Street


Question: 'We'd have to get someone to talk up the crowd; this bovine 3-letter Tibeter grunts loud'

Answer: a yak


Question: '...Like my hometown of Sudbury that's in this second-largest & southernmost Canadian province'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'This NBC show which overweight people compete is also a book "To Transform Your Body, Health, and Life"'

Answer: The Biggest Loser


Question: 'Hats off to this man who sang a lot in "Evita"'

Answer: Che (Guevara)


Question: 'In 1987 this "cool" guy has his major label debut with "Rhyme Pays"; now he's all about "Law & Order" (SVU to be precise)'

Answer: Ice-T


Question: '"The Cat in the Hat" was written in response to the literacy problem discussed in the 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read"'

Answer: Johnny


Question: 'I'd do away with the use of all money; for payment we could use this invertebrate to be funny'

Answer: the sand dollar


Question: 'It's the Mexican state that lies between Chiapas & Guerrero'

Answer: Oaxaca


Question: 'Coronary bypass survivor Joseph Piscatella wrote "The Road to a Healthy" this "Runs Through the Kitchen"'

Answer: heart


Question: '"Viva" this early 20th century revolutionary'

Answer: (Emiliano) Zapata


Question: 'This rapper starred in "Crash" as Anthony & is singer Monica's cousin; it's not preposterous or ridiculous, it's...'

Answer: Ludacris


Question: 'While stealing a Christmas tree, the Grinch sees this little Who, "who was not more than two"'

Answer: Cindy Lou Who


Question: 'I'd have a band of just animals as my mates; singing lead, bonobo, called a pygmy one of these primates'

Answer: a chimpanzee


Question: 'Collective term for the islands of the South Pacific, like Polynesia & Micronesia'

Answer: Oceania


Question: 'Butter is not among Dr. Stephen Pratt's 14 "Foods That Will Change Your Life"; tea, blueberries, & this fish are'

Answer: salmon


Question: 'The cat on the left is this detective who started the Army's Secret Service'

Answer: Pinkerton


Question: 'In "Country Grammar", this "Hot In Herre" guy rapped "Playa my style's raw, I'm born to mack like Todd Shaw"'

Answer: Nelly


Question: 'Oddly, this boy went through 500 hats; he'd take one off only to find another in its place'

Answer: Bartholomew Cubbins


Question: 'On Jan. 4, 2007, she said, "For our daughters & our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling"'

Answer: Nancy Pelosi


Question: 'In 1959 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild; 10 years later he was governor of California'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Born on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan in 1863, he repaired steam engines before building cars'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'Liv Tyler co-starred in "Armageddon", which featured this Boston band, her dad's, on the soundtrack'

Answer: Aerosmith


Question: 'Footage from Iceland & Switzerland was used on "Nova"'s show about this title natural disaster'

Answer: Avalanche!


Question: '"Sponsor" is another term for this; Don Vito Corleone was Johnny Fontane's sponsor'

Answer: Godfather


Question: 'Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of this fruit's Cavendish species'

Answer: Banana


Question: 'In 1910 there were 46 U.S. states; 10 years later there were this many'

Answer: 48


Question: 'In 1998 "Profiles In History" offered for sale this Wild West doc's dental kit, seen here'

Answer: Doc Holliday


Question: 'The Mighty Mighty Bosstones gained mighty good exposure after appearing in this Alicia Silverstone film'

Answer: Clueless


Question: 'This dinosaur's skeleton was discovered in Montana'

Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex


Question: 'Georgia & Alabama are among states recognizing this type of marriage without ceremony, based on cohabitation'

Answer: Common law marriage


Question: '"Hats Off" to this country's president Ernesto Perez Balladares'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'In the '82-'83 season, "60 Minutes" was the No. 1 rated TV show in the U.S.; 10 years later, this was No. 1'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'John C. Fremont, who hadn't heard of this scout before hiring him, later wrote tales of his exploits'

Answer: Kit Carson


Question: 'The younger brother of New Kid Donnie, he had "Good Vibrations" with the Funky Bunch'

Answer: Marky Mark


Question: 'In 1998 "Nova" trekked up this mountain to study the effects of oxygen deprivation'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'This married couple, seen here, became a symbol of the idealized family of the 1950s'

Answer: Ozzie & Harriet Nelson


Question: 'From Spanish for hut, it's a little shelter that opens onto a swimming pool'

Answer: Cabana


Question: 'In 1978 Bob Griese was the starting quarterback for the Dolphins; 10 years later it was this man'

Answer: Dan Marino


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />He was called Armstrong, or "Offie", as a child'

Answer: General George A. Custer


Question: 'Peter Wolf was a DJ for Boston's WBCN before joining this "Freeze-Frame" band as its singer'

Answer: The J. Geils Band


Question: 'Mission Control played the song "I Can See Clearly Now" for the astronauts who fixed this object'

Answer: Hubble Space Telescope


Question: 'These kits were introduced for home use in the '70s; they didn't come with a rabbit'

Answer: Pregnancy tests


Question: 'Among Cendant Corporation's hotel chains are Days Inn, Howard Johnson & this inn'

Answer: Ramada


Question: 'In 1810 Napoleon was at the height of his power; 10 years later he was on this island'

Answer: St. Helena


Question: 'After the Civil War this vice president of the Confederacy served in the U.S. Congress'

Answer: Alexander Stephens


Question: 'Aimee Mann of this "Voices Carry" band attended the Berklee School of Music'

Answer: \'Til Tuesday


Question: 'The actions of this type of ant show how it got its name'

Answer: Leafcutter


Question: 'Samuel Johnson described this type of event as "The triumph of hope over experience"'

Answer: A second marriage


Question: 'Holy Land fortress seen here'

Answer: Masada


Question: 'Gore Vidal's play about this president opened & closed a few weeks before the Watergate break-in'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'By 1965 this teenage Austrian was so muscular he was named Junior Mr. Europe'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'This former senator & Conservative icon from Arizona passed away in 1998 at age 89'

Answer: Barry Goldwater


Question: 'His theory of evolution is widely accepted; his son George's theory of the moon's origin isn't'

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: 'Patricio Guzman chronicled Salvador Allende's overthrow in "The Battle Of" this country'

Answer: Chile


Question: '"Bullitt" star McQueen & Uganda's Amin'

Answer: Steve & Idi


Question: 'He had a play on Broadway called "The Traitor" in 1949, 2 years before his novel "The Caine Mutiny" appeared'

Answer: Herman Wouk


Question: 'This star of "A Time To Kill" was voted the handsomest guy at Longview High; you might want to "Contact" him'

Answer: Matthew McConaghey


Question: 'Alaska's second most populous city is named for this man who was vice president under Teddy Roosevelt'

Answer: Charles Fairbanks


Question: 'Karen Horney critiqued the biologically-based theory of this founder of psychoanalysis'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'Heavyweight champ Larry & golfing champ Tom'

Answer: Holmes & Watson


Question: 'In 1908 this "Of Human Bondage" author had 4 of his plays running in London at the same time'

Answer: Somerset Maugham


Question: 'Meryl Streep played Laurey in her high school production of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'Between 1811 & 1852 this Kentuckian served in the House, the Senate & as Secretary of State'

Answer: Henry Clay


Question: 'Jekyll's dark half & a worshipper at the Golden Temple in the Punjab'

Answer: Hyde & Sikh


Question: 'His first play, "The Silver Box", premiered in 1906, the same year he published Book I of "The Forsyte Saga"'

Answer: John Galsworthy


Question: 'Seen here as a youth, this son of a senator was captain of the football team at St. Alban's in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'In 1996 he published a very personal account of his daughter Terry's "Life And Death Struggle With Alcoholism"'

Answer: Senator George McGovern


Question: 'Type of graveyard that's the subject of the documentary "Gates Of Heaven" & of a Stephen King book'

Answer: Pet Cemetery


Question: 'A WWII German defensive line & Judge Bean'

Answer: Siegfried & Roy


Question: 'This play by Agatha Christie that opened in 1952 is still running; they'll never build a better one'

Answer: The Mousetrap


Question: 'In the '40s this Supreme Court justice was a cute cheerleader at her high school in Brooklyn'

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Question: 'This Texan served in the house for 25 consecutive terms & was Speaker of the House 3 times'

Answer: Sam Rayburn


Question: 'Jean Rouch's 1961 "Chronicle Of A Summer" originated this style, French for "film truth"'

Answer: Cinema Verite


Question: '"The Magic Mountain" author & a 1978 Christopher Reeve role'

Answer: Mann & Superman


Question: 'Plans are for steel cables to temporarily replace the over 800 tons of lead that counterbalance it'

Answer: The Leaning Tower of Pisa


Question: 'In the Amazon one species of this flying mammal hangs out (literally) in a tent that it makes out of a big leaf'

Answer: a bat


Question: 'On Nov. 1, 2007, after a 12-year run in the Bronx, this Yankees manager became the manager of the Dodgers'

Answer: (Joe) Torre


Question: 'A beret'

Answer: a cap


Question: 'At age 25, he won the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for the first solo flight between New York & Paris'

Answer: Lindbergh


Question: 'A House of Representatives vote of 323-89 helped make Hawaii the 50th state in this year'

Answer: 1959


Question: 'We made our debut in September of 1984, & so did this spare heir seen here'

Answer: Prince Harry


Question: 'Until adulthood this "paternal" spiderlike arachnid molts, a process that takes about 20 minutes'

Answer: daddy longlegs


Question: 'In the 1960s only 3 men exceeded 50 home runs in a season: Maris & Mantle in 1961 & this S.F. Giant in 1965'

Answer: (Willie) Mays


Question: 'Sugar maples contain it'

Answer: sap


Question: 'From 1937 to 1949, he successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title a record 25 times'

Answer: (Joe) Louis


Question: 'Gerald Ford moved out of the White House in this year'

Answer: 1977


Question: '1989 saw our first college tournament, & in this country, student protests that began the Velvet Revolution'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'Many fish use camouflage as protection, like the sargassum fish, which has evolved to resemble this'

Answer: seaweed


Question: 'This current Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher has led the major leagues in strikeouts 9 times'

Answer: Randy Johnson


Question: 'Proverbial place "of luxury"'

Answer: a lap


Question: 'Chapter 25 of this biblical book begins, "Then again Abraham took a wife. and her name was Keturah"'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'There was no ice-scape for more than 1,500 in April of this year when the Titanic sank'

Answer: 1912


Question: 'For our tenth anniversary, there was no joy in Mudville as he declared the World Series canceled due to a labor dispute'

Answer: (Bud) Selig


Question: 'The hair of this Arctic ruminant may reach a length of 4 feet'

Answer: a musk ox


Question: 'This Seattle Mariner's 2004 batting average of .372 is the highest of the 21st century'

Answer: Ichiro Suzuki


Question: 'Ann Miller's dance specialty'

Answer: tap


Question: 'In 1919 this beverage company was sold to Atlanta banker Ernest Woodruff for $25 million'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" has also been published as "August" this fateful year'

Answer: 1914


Question: 'Things unveiled in 1999 included my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame & this London structure'

Answer: the Millennium Dome


Question: 'The collared species of this rodent known for its migrations has dark fur except in the winter, when it's totally white'

Answer: a lemming


Question: 'This reliever with an intimidating fastball & mustache entered Cooperstown in 2008'

Answer: (Rich "Goose") Gossage


Question: 'A globe is a round one'

Answer: a map


Question: 'It averages a height of 25 feet for its length of more than 1,500 miles'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: 'Mary Lou Retton won Olympic gymnastic gold in Los Angeles in this year'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'In 2004, we put out a 20th anniversary book, & after handing sovereignty back to Iraq's government, he started his memoirs'

Answer: (Paul) Bremer


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke of Gloucester St. in Colonial Williamsburg.)  I'm on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, which this U.S. president called "the most historic avenue in all America" when he visited in 1934'

Answer: FDR


Question: '2004:<br />Jamie Foxx as this musical marvel'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'This country vs.<br />Chechen rebels'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Thoreau said, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different" this'

Answer: drummer


Question: 'Containing "1/4 moisturizing lotion", this brand of cleansing bars "won't dry your face like soap can"'

Answer: Dove


Question: 'Our judges estimate the degree of this 10-letter word meaning "trouble" to be 2.5'

Answer: difficulty


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates piece of women's apparel.) 18th century women didn't mind looking hippy; they extended their skirts with panniers, known in English as these'

Answer: hoops


Question: '1988:<br />Sigourney Weaver as this battlesome zoologist'

Answer: Dian Fossey


Question: 'This country vs.<br />rebel groups in Darfur'

Answer: Sudan


Question: 'A "sop to" this mythic canine is a conciliatory bribe; so you'd better bring 3'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: 'Metamucil, a product designed to add this to the diet, also helps lower cholesterol'

Answer: fiber


Question: 'Sink your teeth into this word or its synonym premolar'

Answer: bicuspid


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew tends bar in Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, VA.)  Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern is the place where, in 1776, students from William & Mary met to form this Greek letter society, an emblem of high achievement'

Answer: Phi Beta Kappa


Question: '2002:<br />Salma Hayek as this Mexican artist'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'This Asian country vs.<br />Tamil separatists'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: 'Philip Roth titled his 1973 work this, synonymous with the U.S. concept of a mythical magnum opus'

Answer: Great American Novel


Question: 'Originally making honey & candles, this brand now focuses on "Earth friendly, natural personal care" products'

Answer: Burt\'s Bees


Question: 'Here we go 'round the mulberry family for this tree, vine & shrub genus'

Answer: Ficus


Question: '(Kelly and Jon of the Clue Crew are both a bit stuck in Williamsburg, VA.)  In Colonial times, pig stealers were exposed to public derision at the pillory & those, a term that reminds us of Wall Street'

Answer: stocks


Question: '1952:<br />Marlon Brando as this south-of-the-border soldier'

Answer: Zapata


Question: 'This South American country vs.<br />the ELN, AUC & FARC'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'In "The Second Coming", Yeats wrote that this "cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"'

Answer: the center


Question: 'Good news for allergy sufferers: like Claritin, this rival brand from McNeil is now available over-the-counter'

Answer: Zyrtec


Question: 'On Jan. 28, 2008 Ed Schafer was sworn in as the 29th head of this cabinet department'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from inside the Capitol Building in Williamsburg, VA.)  Founded in Jamestown in 1619, this group that met here in Williamsburg's capitol in the 1700s was the first representative legislative body in America'

Answer: the House of Burgesses


Question: '1994:<br />Jennifer Jason Leigh as this Round Table wit'

Answer: (Dorothy) Parker


Question: 'This country vs.<br />Lashkar-e-Taiba & other Kashmiri separatists'

Answer: India


Question: 'Adam Smith wrote of one of these hard-to-see body parts when describing laissez-faire'

Answer: an invisible hand


Question: 'This compound used in combination with chondroitin may ease arthritis pain & stimulate new cartilage growth'

Answer: glucosamine


Question: 'From the Latin for "visible", it means obvious & easily seen'

Answer: conspicuous


Question: 'A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'A drawing of a school chum of Julian Lennon inspired this song about a "girl with kaleidoscope eyes"'

Answer: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"


Question: 'Found from Mexico to South America, varieties of this mammal include white-winged & hairy-legged'

Answer: vampire bats


Question: 'It's the North American counterpart of the yeti'

Answer: Bigfoot


Question: 'In D.C. for the 2009 inauguration, he was told he couldn't check in early at Blair House; an ex-Aussie P.M. had it'

Answer: (Barack) Obama


Question: 'Sarah goes gaga over Maurice in Graham Greene's novel "The End of" this'

Answer: The End of the Affair


Question: 'Aboard ship in a storm, the men "cast" these items of chance; Jonah's came up, but he'd rather it didn't'

Answer: lots


Question: 'Their last hit was 1971's "Riders On The Storm"'

Answer: The Doors


Question: 'He's the Muppet vampire on "Sesame Street"'

Answer: the Count


Question: 'These were first offered in 1939 to low-income families to help them buy groceries'

Answer: food stamps


Question: 'This mustachioed Fox News reporter was kicked out of Iraq in '03; some may have been miffed he gave out troop positions'

Answer: Geraldo Rivera


Question: 'Tolstoy wrote that this heroine "tried in vain to find some imperfection" in her lover Vronsky'

Answer: Anna Karenina


Question: 'Jonah places a high priority on accuracy; he is not swallowed by a whale but rather a "great" this'

Answer: a fish


Question: 'At the 2009 Grammys, her "Still Unforgettable" won the award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album'

Answer: Natalie Cole


Question: 'Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula, was a prince in what's now this country'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'One of the oldest manufacturers of this type of table game is a Swiss company called Kicker'

Answer: foosball


Question: 'This "Clerks" director said, "I'm way fat... but I'm just not there yet" after Southwest de-planed him for being overweight'

Answer: Kevin Smith


Question: 'On holiday in Jamaica, this Terry McMillan title heroine goes gaga over a much younger man'

Answer: Stella


Question: 'Like Hosea & Malachi, Jonah is delighted to be considered a "minor" one of these Biblical speakers'

Answer: a prophet


Question: 'This Coldplay hit includes the lines "I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing"'

Answer: "Viva La Vida"


Question: 'Legend says that vampires can't cross a threshold unless this has occurred'

Answer: being invited in


Question: 'Slang for a cop or someone whose arches are flush with the ground'

Answer: a flatfoot


Question: 'Some "general" info--this military man died in London on June 14, 1801, unpopular in 2 countries'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'The title "lady" in this Henry James novel makes the disastrous choice of the egoistical Gilbert Osmond'

Answer: The Portrait of a Lady


Question: 'After having preached, Jonah is oddly irked that the city's people do this, from the Latin for "feel sorrow again"'

Answer: repent


Question: 'Their 1979 album "Breakfast in America" featured a feast of hits like "Take The Long Way Home"'

Answer: Supertramp


Question: 'Bram Stoker wrote in "Dracula", "Further and further back he cowered as we...advanced", holding these'

Answer: crosses


Question: 'Old-timey 10 letter term for the silly behavior exhibited by Mr. Brokaw perhaps'

Answer: tomfoolery


Question: 'In June 2009 this U.S. car company lost its place on the Dow Jones Industrial Average'

Answer: GM


Question: 'Sienna Miller starred in a 2009 stage reworking on Strindberg called "After Miss" this'

Answer: Julie


Question: 'Though God asks him to go to this Assyrian city & speak to the people, Jonah shuns the command'

Answer: Ninevah


Question: 'Phytology is another name for this, the study of plants'

Answer: botany


Question: 'Best Actress for "Mary Poppins" (1964)'

Answer: Julie Andrews


Question: 'The Nine O' Clock Gun, which booms every evening to let Vancouver's citizens set their watches'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: 'An oometer is used to measure the size of these ova'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'In 1915 Adolphe Pegoud became one of the first to be called this after shooting down 5 aircraft'

Answer: a flying ace


Question: 'It's the color of malachite, a mineral from which copper is obtained'

Answer: green


Question: 'Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon" (1973)'

Answer: Tatum O\'Neal


Question: 'The TD Centre & its 21,000 office workers'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'Used to measure length, mass & time, the fundamental units of the MKS system are the meter, the kilogram & this'

Answer: the second


Question: 'In July 1957 this marine made the 1st supersonic transcontinental flight; less than 5 years later, he went into orbit'

Answer: (John) Glenn


Question: 'The Bessemer process, developed in the 1850s, was a cheap way to convert pig iron to this'

Answer: steel


Question: 'Best Supporting Actress for "The Piano" (1993)'

Answer: Anna Paquin


Question: 'Inverness on Cape Breton island'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: 'Sailors can use a basic sextant to measure this at local noon, then check navigation tables to calculate latitude'

Answer: the altitude of the sun


Question: 'Animal-named planes developed by this British aviation pioneer include the Pup, the Dolphin & the Camel'

Answer: Sopwith


Question:
'Scrabble player, you've gotta have this flashy idea
IMKICGM'

Answer: gimmick


Question: 'Heat travels by 3 main methods: conduction, convection & this'

Answer: radiation


Question: 'Best Actress for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986)'

Answer: Marlee Matlin


Question: 'Banff National Park'

Answer: Alberta


Question: '8-letter word for the level of NaCl in your solution'

Answer: salinity


Question: 'In 1919, 3 years after founding his Seattle-based company, he flew the first intl. mail delivery, Canada to the United States'

Answer: (William E.) Boeing


Question:
'To keep within boundaries, as with a prisoner, or to limit your remarks
NIFNCOE'

Answer: confine


Question: 'Mosquitoes of this genus are the only ones that carry malaria'

Answer: the Anopheles mosquito


Question: 'Best Supporting Actress for "On the Waterfront" (1954)'

Answer: Eva Marie Saint


Question: 'The Leacock Building at McGill University'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'It's not a pig cranium, it's a unit of measure equal to 63 gallons'

Answer: a hogshead


Question: 'The Black Sheep squadron just called him "gramps"; the "pappy" nickname came from the press'

Answer: Pappy Boyington


Question: 'Sweet plant that can be used to make molasses UOSHGRM'

Answer: sorghum


Question: 'Tradition says the author of this work was the sage Vatsyayana; surprisingly, he was celibate'

Answer: the Kama Sutra


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads with a lemur from the Duke U. Primate Center in Durham, NC.)  The Duke University Primate Center is part of a project to return captive-bred lemurs to Betampona Reserve on this island, their native habitat'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'Now in his fifth term, Richard M. Daley has the daily duty of running this metropolis'

Answer: Chicago


Question:
'Suspension,
cantilever,
cable-stayed'

Answer: bridges


Question: 'Roy Jenkins, a leader in the UK's Labour Party, wrote a bio of this great wartime Conservative leader'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'In grade school he was nicknamed "Prince", as in Prince Charming; later he added "Fresh" to that moniker'

Answer: Will Smith


Question: 'Broadcast on the Dumont Network in 1946, "Faraway Hill" is considered the first TV show in this daytime genre'

Answer: a soap opera


Question: 'Like the giant panda, the gray gentle lemur is known for eating the shoots of this plant'

Answer: bamboo


Question: 'In 2005 he was re-elected mayor of New York City by an almost 20 percent margin'

Answer: (Michael) Bloomberg


Question:
'Basie,
Dracula,
Monte Cristo'

Answer: Counts


Question: 'Ibn Ishaq scored in the 8th century with his biography of this Muslim leader'

Answer: Mohammed


Question: 'She's been bringing down the house in films like "Bringing Down the House" & "Chicago"'

Answer: Queen Latifah


Question: 'Important newspapers published in this country include Diario de Cadiz & Diario de Mallorca'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This unusual primate with a "double talk" name is the only surviving member of its family'

Answer: the aye-aye


Question: 'The most populous U.S. city with an elected female mayor is this 2nd-largest Texas city, with Laura Miller'

Answer: Dallas


Question:
'Baseball cap features,
Buffalo athletes,
credit-card mailings'

Answer: bills


Question: '"An American Rhapsody" is a biography of this American composer'

Answer: George Gershwin


Question: 'This singer who died in 2006 began his Parade of Stars telethon in 1980; it has raised over $200 million for the UNCF'

Answer: Lou Rawls


Question: 'The dog Laika, the first living creature in space, rode there aboard this Russian spacecraft'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: 'The sifaka gets its name from this, which it does while moving through the forest by vertical clinging & leaping'

Answer: its warning call


Question: 'Former state governor Jerry Brown reigns as the mayor of this California city'

Answer: Oakland


Question:
'Feet,
eyebrows,
McDonald's'

Answer: arches


Question: 'It's the 2-word title of Hillary Clinton's bestselling 2003 autobiography'

Answer: Living History


Question: 'In 1968 she received a special Tony Award for her starring role in "Hello, Dolly!"'

Answer: Pearl Bailey


Question: 'In the Bible that traitorous hussy Delilah had this man's pride & joy shaved, & then turned him over to the enemy'

Answer: Samson


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads with two primates from the Duke U. Primate Center in Durham, NC.)  The Duke University Primate Center studies primates often neglected by evolution research: they evolved before monkeys & apes, so they aren't called simians, but these'

Answer: prosimians


Question: 'Sworn in as this city's 97th mayor in 2000, John F. Street is a graduate of its Temple University'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question:
'A starched shirt,
a week-old cadaver,
a strong drink'

Answer: things that are stiff


Question: 'A co-biography of these two men tells of "The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It"'

Answer: Napoleon & the Duke of Wellington


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads beside the pipe organ in the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.)  Singers who have given recitals in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church include this African-American contralto, a famous victim of prejudice'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'The daughter of the Titans Hyperion & Theia, she was the goddess of the Moon'

Answer: Selene


Question: 'Coney Island was once an actual island, but since a creek silted up, it's part of this one'

Answer: Long Island


Question: '"A Clockwork ___"'

Answer: Orange


Question: 'In 1845 seven Catholic cantons in this country formed a league known as the Sonderbund'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Automotive News, a weekly from Crain's, is based in this city'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Perhaps this poet could see all the "Leaves of Grass" with his last pair of spectacles, now at Yale'

Answer: (Walt) Whitman


Question: 'Sometimes found with a hinged lid, it's a large beer mug'

Answer: a tankard


Question: 'This country's Rottnest Island got its name because the quokka, a type of wallaby, looked like a rat'

Answer: Australia


Question: '"Little ___ Book"'

Answer: Black


Question: 'On January 18, 1871 this Prussian was crowned the first kaiser of the German Empire'

Answer: Wilhelm (I)


Question: 'Mad magazine has left its digs on this appropriate avenue for Broadway'

Answer: Madison


Question: '"Pond"er this: Yale is the proud owner of 2 pieces of wood from his cabin at Walden'

Answer: Thoreau


Question: 'On a PBS kids' show, Thomas is a title one of these'

Answer: a tank engine


Question: 'Guernsey is one of Britain's islands called these; Santa Catalina is one of California's'

Answer: Channel Islands


Question: '"Soylent ___"'

Answer: Green


Question: 'On October 15, 1839 she proposed to a prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha'

Answer: (Queen) Victoria


Question: 'If you loved that National Geographic piece on porpoises, write to them in this city'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'In 2003 Yale displayed the private photo albums of this imperial family that met its doom in July 1918'

Answer: the Romanovs (of Russia)


Question: 'According to an Erma Bombeck book title, "The Grass Is Always Greener Over" this'

Answer: the septic tank


Question: '"Foxy ___"'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'As of 1825 Spain had lost all of its possessions in the New World except these 2 islands'

Answer: Cuba & Puerto Rico


Question: 'In 2005 it was announced that the Atlantic Monthly would leave this city where it was founded in 1857'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Yale has Gertrude Stein's miniature chairs, needlepointed by this companion of hers from designs by Picasso'

Answer: Alice Toklas


Question: 'Egyptian Pharaoh of the XVIII Dynasty whose tomb was opened in 1922'

Answer: Tutankhamen


Question: '"___ Sonja"'

Answer: Red


Question: 'Those wild office parties at The Economist take place in this city'

Answer: London


Question: 'Romantics swoon over the rose once kissed by this composer of the "Hungarian Rhapsodies"'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'Meaning ill-tempered & quarrelsome, it may come from Middle English meaning "dissension"'

Answer: cantankerous


Question: 'To honor a Cherokee leader who died in 1843, a European botanist proposed this name for a tree'

Answer: Sequoia


Question: 'In the Middle Ages this city's main street, Via del Corso, was used as a horse-racing course'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Ray Nitschke,<br />Bart Starr'

Answer: the Packers


Question: 'Attention, fashion victims: shoes that are too tight may lead to ingrown these'

Answer: toenails


Question: 'Debbie Reynolds & Kathy Bates both played this "unsinkable" woman on film'

Answer: Molly Brown


Question: 'This cold-induced condition can progress dangerously from tingling to gangrene'

Answer: frostbite


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is served a potent potable from a special glassware at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.)  Vintage port served at a dinner party should stand upright for 24 hours before uncorking, & it's imperative that once service starts, this container doesn't touch the table'

Answer: a decanter


Question: 'In 1381 Wat Tyler led a failed peasants' revolt in England protesting this tax on voters'

Answer: the poll tax


Question: 'Julius Erving,<br />Charles Barkley'

Answer: the 76ers


Question: 'Golfer's elbow is similar to this other "sporty" affliction, but golfer's elbow occurs on the inside of the joint'

Answer: tennis elbow


Question: 'In December 2006 thousands of fans & friends gathered at the Apollo Theater to pay their final respects to him'

Answer: James Brown


Question: 'Hirsute arachnid of the Theraphosidae family'

Answer: a tarantula


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew sits at a place setting at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.)  Spoon handles for this course should all face to the right, forks to the left, & they are always positioned above the place setting'

Answer: dessert


Question: 'According to legend, a Norseman named Rurik settled in Novgorod in 862 & founded this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Reggie White,<br />Chuck Bednarik'

Answer: the (Phialdelphia) Eagles


Question: 'If you have a deep cut or dirty wound, get a booster shot for this if you haven't had one in the last 5 yrs,'

Answer: tetanus


Question: 'His 1998 techno-thriller "Digital Fortress" focuses on NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher'

Answer: Dan Brown


Question: 'A synonym for "ludicrous parody", it's also the bawdy type of entertainment seen here'

Answer: burlesque


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew keeps the shirt on his back at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.)  The long staple or the long fiber of the cotton produced in this African country is the reason why the International Butler Academy considers it the best'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'Trial by fire & by water were part of this medieval procedure, now meaning any painful experience to be endured'

Answer: trial by ordeal


Question: 'Bobby Hull,<br />Tony Esposito'

Answer: Chicago Blackhawks


Question: 'Mozart wrote about eating pork cutlets before his final illness, which led to a 2001 theory that he died of this'

Answer: trichinosis


Question: 'A branch of science, or a sympathetic rapport between 2 people'

Answer: chemistry


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew eats expensive fish eggs at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.)  The academy teaches the proper serving of caviar--always use a nonmetallic spoon, perhaps one made of this material, from the interior of mollusks'

Answer: morther of pearl


Question: 'In 1096 this French monk & a knight known as Walter the Penniless set out for the holy land in the People's Crusade'

Answer: Peter the Hermit


Question: 'Mike Scott,<br />Nolan Ryan'

Answer: Houston Astros


Question: 'Swelling of the ankles may be an indication of DVT, or deep-vein this'

Answer: thrombosis


Question: 'Starry navigational instrument seen here'

Answer: an astrolabe


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew watches a butler fold napkins at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.) Good butlers have at their disposal an arsenal of different napkin folds; this one involving several pleats has the same name as an Oscar Wilde play'

Answer: Lady Windermere\'s fan


Question: 'Before Europeans named Mt. Cook in this country, the Maori called it Aorangi, or "cloud piercer"'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Sam & Diane, bar-toilers both / Sometimes, thou wishest to travel where ev'ryone knows thy name'

Answer: Cheers


Question: '1953:<br />This British politician'

Answer: (Winston) Churchill


Question: 'In 1967 this future labor leader became an electrician at the shipyards in Gdansk'

Answer: Lech Walesa


Question: 'HT'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'A CONTROL secret agent is good at operating these weapons that are precisely guided to a target'

Answer: Get Smart missile


Question: 'Soc Trang & Can Tho are in the south of this Asian nation'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'Verily, Ross & Rachel walked love's true path but yea! / 'Twas a perilous road for Joey / Filled with cancellation'

Answer: Friends


Question: '1995:<br />This non-heat-packing seamus from Ireland'

Answer: Seamus Heaney


Question: 'In August 1981 more than 11,000 of these federal workers were fired for participating in an illegal strike'

Answer: air traffic controllers


Question: 'ND'

Answer: India


Question: 'Dynastic "Everyday People" singing group that subdivides into paleolithic, mesolithic & neolithic periods'

Answer: Sly & the Family Stone Age


Question: 'Krk Island, the northernmost island in the Mediterranean, lies in this arm of the sea next to the Balkans'

Answer: the Adriatic


Question: 'War & blood, blood & war / Hot Lips near cold corpses/ Comedy amidst pathos, thy name is Hawkeye'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: '1957:<br />This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague"'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: 'The term for those responsible for harnessing up the mules each morning lives on in the name of this labor union'

Answer: the Teamsters


Question: 'BNN'

Answer: Benin


Question: 'A trend-setting sports network with new hosts JC Chasez, Joey Fatone & Lance Bass'

Answer: ESPN SYNC


Question: 'This emirate NW of the United Arab Emirates is on a peninsula jutting 100 miles northward into the Persian Gulf'

Answer: Qatar


Question: 'Toby...sad sad sad sad Toby! / Your heart sang for Pam but Jim hath won the day / Yet move not to Costa Rica in shame!'

Answer: The Office


Question: '1969:<br />This playwright: did they keep him waiting?'

Answer: Beckett


Question: 'This board, established by the Wagner Act in 1935, allows workers to belong to the union of their choosing'

Answer: the National Labor Relations Board


Question: 'CRT'

Answer: Croatia


Question: 'Bobby McFerrin song to a McDonald's kids' offering'

Answer: "Don\'t Worry, Be Happy Meal"


Question: 'At the beginning of World War I, this was the only independent nation in West Africa'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'Oh, Liz Lemon, persevere! / Though Tracy maketh films like "Honky Grandma Be trippin"' / Persevere!'

Answer: 30 Rock


Question: '1978:<br />This Yiddish tale-teller'

Answer: Isaac Basehevis Singer


Question: 'Chicago's Haymarket riot began during a rally for strikers at this agricultural equipment maker'

Answer: McCormick


Question: 'STN'

Answer: Estonia


Question: 'Fleegle & Bingo are about to unthinkingly make a controversial grammatical decision'

Answer: a Banana Split infinitive


Question: 'The first & middle names of this breakfast cereal "spokesman" are Horatio Magellan'

Answer: Cap\'n Crunch


Question:
'London,
Paris,
Lisbon'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'In books, she does her sleuthing with the help of pals Bess & George'

Answer: Nancy Drew


Question: 'Alone it's a James Caan flick; it's also found before "Of Hearts" & "Of Baghdad"'

Answer: Thief


Question: 'Oscar Wilde wrote in "Lady Windermere's Fan", "I can resist anything except" this'

Answer: Temptation


Question: 'We were not amused by his role as Genghis Khan, but for Rooster Cogburn, we honor this "Duke"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others'

Answer: Busybody


Question:
'Sydney,
Wellington,
Jakarta'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'This famous daughter & singer made her national TV debut with dad & Elvis in 1959'

Answer: Nancy Sinatra


Question: 'Andrew Kevin Walker wrote & played a dead man in this movie about a killer using the deadly sins as his M.O.'

Answer: Se7en


Question: 'In a 1789 letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, this American said, "But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'For exploits superior as a N.Y. Knicks guard, we ennoble this man, also known as "The Pearl"'

Answer: Earl Monroe


Question: 'The process of developing human musculature especially for competitive exhibition'

Answer: Bodybuilding


Question:
'Khartoum,
Tripoli,
Cairo'

Answer: Khartoum


Question: 'Seen here, he's Nancy's sidekick'

Answer: Sluggo


Question: 'Julie London copes with a jealous husband in 1959's "A Question of" this Biblical sin'

Answer: Adultery


Question: 'Fred Allen quipped that this doctor "Is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself"'

Answer: Psychiatrist


Question: 'For playing a Hawaiian cop for 12 years & keeping his hair in perfect form the entire time, we dub thee...'

Answer: Jack Lord


Question: 'To ride the waves to shore without a board'

Answer: Bodysurfing


Question:
'Taipei,
Hanoi,
Manila'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'She played Tony's mom, Livia Soprano'

Answer: Nancy Marchand


Question: 'The Bob Hope film "Nothing But the Truth" has the same premise as this Jim Carrey vehicle with a repetitive name'

Answer: Liar Liar


Question: 'In "To A Louse" he wrote, "O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see our sels as ithers see us!"'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: 'We were moved by Diana Ross in Billie Holiday's film bio & reaffirm this nickname of Billie's'

Answer: "Lady Day"


Question: 'One whose interests center on his dwelling place'

Answer: Homebody


Question:
'Kingston,
Havana,
Nassau'

Answer: KIngston


Question: 'Nancy Travis was the mom of the title tot in this 1987 film in which a trio of bachelors take on fatherhood'

Answer: Three Men and a Baby


Question: '1990's "Henry: Portrait of" one of these was loosely based on the notorious Henry Lee Lucas'

Answer: A serial killer


Question: 'Longfellow line that precedes "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"'

Answer: "One if by land, two if by sea"


Question: 'Governor of California from 1949 to 1953 & a Supreme Court Chief Justice, we confer on him the title of....'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'A substance produced in the blood in response to a specific toxin'

Answer: Antibody


Question: 'In 1850 this religious leader became the first governor of the Utah territory'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'In titles of TV series, it followed "Grandpa Goes to..." & "Mr. Smith Goes to..."'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'In 1947 future feminist firebrand Betty Goldstein married a man named this'

Answer: Carl Friedan


Question: 'I long for the days when this pyramid-shaped hotel featured a Nile River cruise through its lobby'

Answer: Luxor


Question: 'Its area equals pi r (squared)'

Answer: Circle


Question: 'Former Van Halen lead singer who became a comic strip Viking'

Answer: Sammy Hagar the Horrible


Question: 'He began selling his first gum brands, Lotta & Vassar in 1892; Juicy Fruit came a year later'

Answer: William Wrigley


Question: 'This movie cowboy's '50s TV series was so popular that his horse Champion got his own series, too'

Answer: Gene Autry


Question: 'Vegas said "Adios" to the Hacienda Casino in 1996, imploding it on this holiday eve'

Answer: New Year\'s Eve


Question: 'Its area equals one of its sides times itself'

Answer: Square


Question: 'Proverbial Biblical skeptic who invented many things as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"'

Answer: Doubting Thomas Edison