Question: 'At the 1851 World's Fair in London, he won a medal for his "American Daguerreotypes"'

Answer: Mathew Brady


Question: '"Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" starred Johnny Whitaker, who had played Jody on this sitcom'

Answer: Family Affair


Question: 'This wealthy future Senate candidate wed Arianna Stassinopoulos in 1986'

Answer: Michael Huffington


Question: 'This blonde actress' hotel-casino & movie museum were sold in 1998 to the World Wrestling Federation'

Answer: Debbie Reynolds


Question: 'Its area equals half of the product of the base times the height'

Answer: Triangle


Question: 'Cole Porter's "Shakespearean" musical starring the actress who played "Star Trek" captain Janeway'

Answer: Kiss Me, Kate Mulgrew


Question: 'His ballad "Beautiful Dreamer" wasn't published until after his death'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'This author introduced the first episode of the epic 1978 miniseries "Centennial"'

Answer: James Michener


Question: 'In 1914 she married her cousin Bror'

Answer: Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)


Question: 'The El Rancho Hotel demolished in 2000 was originally known as this "bird", like a Ford model'

Answer: Thunderbird


Question: 'Seen here, its area equals the product of the base times the height'

Answer: Parallelogram


Question: 'Famous phrase attributed to Horace Greeley that's a musical about Don Quixote'

Answer: Go West Young Man of La Mancha


Question: 'His 1830 poem "Old Ironsides" helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from destruction'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Question: 'Teresa Graves starred as a sexy black policewoman on the '70s series called "Get" her!'

Answer: Christie Love


Question: 'The Club Bingo went bye-bye back in '52 when this desert-named hotel replaced it'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'Seen here, its area equals half the sum of the parallel sides multiplied by the height'

Answer: Trapezoid


Question: 'First U.S. woman to win 3 golds in Olympic track who "had a very shiny nose"'

Answer: Wilma Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


Question: 'These title characters of a classic operatic work are a bunch of mythical dwarves'

Answer: The Nibelung


Question: '"Cooties"; the lousiest insects of all'

Answer: lice


Question: 'Colors that blend to make chartreuse'

Answer: green and yellow


Question: 'Where the crooked man, the crooked cat, & the crooked mouse all lived'

Answer: in a little crooked house


Question: 'Length of a full count'

Answer: ten


Question: 'Time when the raven came rapping'

Answer: midnight


Question: 'What MTV plays 24 hours a day'

Answer: music videos


Question: 'These insects flash yellow lights to find mates'

Answer: fireflies (or lightning bugs or glowworms)


Question: 'When you're blooming with health, you're "in" it'

Answer: in the pink


Question: 'He killed Cock Robin'

Answer: the sparrow


Question: 'Term for tossing the terrycloth'

Answer: throwing in the towel


Question: 'Cable channel where you'd find "Mouseterpiece Theatre"'

Answer: the Disney Channel


Question: 'Gatherings of this type of grasshopper have covered 2,000 square miles at a time'

Answer: locust swarms


Question: 'Ring Lardner, Dalton Trumbo, & Will Geer were on one in the 50s'

Answer: a blacklist


Question: 'His kisses drove girls to tears'

Answer: Georgie Porgie


Question: 'Meaning of TKO'

Answer: technical knockout


Question: 'Comedy group which went from CBC to NBC to Cinemax'

Answer: SCTV


Question: 'Its name comes from its worshipful appearance, not its voracious appetite'

Answer: a praying mantis


Question: 'Colorful causeway Elton John bids adieu to in '73 hit'

Answer: the Yellow Brick Road


Question: 'At the count of 7, all good children go there'

Answer: heaven


Question: 'In '81, he got $12 mil. for beating welterweight Thomas Hearns'

Answer: Sugar Ray Leonard


Question: 'His flagship station is WTBA, Atlanta'

Answer: Ted Turner


Question: 'The Bible says a sluggard should consider this industrious insect'

Answer: an ant


Question: 'It was said rajahs gave their rivals these animals to create financial burden'

Answer: white elephants


Question: 'Mother Goose's mode of transportation'

Answer: a goose (or gander)


Question: 'In '65, it took Muhammad Ali less than 2 min. to beat him'

Answer: Sonny Liston


Question: 'Actress who started the "Faerie Tale Theatre"'

Answer: Shelley Duvall


Question: 'The Star of India is this type of precious stone'

Answer: a sapphire


Question: 'Though it's been moved, it's still revered as Pilgrims' landing spot'

Answer: Plymouth Rock


Question: 'Collective name for poisonous mushrooms'

Answer: toadstools


Question: 'The larger Kansas City is in this state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Prison people'

Answer: inmates


Question: 'The mouth of the Mississippi or a Helen Reddy "Dawn"'

Answer: a delta


Question: 'Favorite movie munch, introduced to the Pilgrims by the Indians'

Answer: popcorn


Question: 'Because like an eye, they close at night, the English first called these flowers "day's eyes"'

Answer: daisies


Question: 'The Alamo is in the downtown of this city'

Answer: San Antonio


Question: 'Something you can't do without'

Answer: indispensable


Question: 'Pliny the Elder, Roman geologist, died while observing this volcano erupting'

Answer: Vesuvius


Question: 'Though not a Pilgrim, he organized their militia & was written up by Longfellow'

Answer: Miles Standish


Question: 'This film's "Evergreen" earned Barbra a composing Oscar'

Answer: A Star Is Born


Question: 'Type of plant the British call a "creeper"'

Answer: a vine


Question: 'Via St. Lawrence Seaway, ships from Europe can reach this largest Minnesota port'

Answer: Duluth


Question: 'Extreme economic expansion'

Answer: inflation


Question: 'Earth's atmosphere layer which lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere'

Answer: the stratosphere


Question: 'The kumquat is in this fruit family'

Answer: citrus


Question: 'It's California's 2nd largest in population'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'What some do before they diet'

Answer: indulge


Question: 'Rainwash, wind action & differential weathering formed this S. Dakota area'

Answer: the Badlands


Question: 'The Cuyahoga River has been known to catch fire in this industrial city:'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'Delaware, Iowa, or Dakota'

Answer: Indians


Question: 'In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'In 2010 Nevada went all in for this Senate majority leader in his race against Sharron Angle'

Answer: Harry Reid


Question: '"Springtime for Hitler, and Germany, Deutschland is happy and gay"'

Answer: The Producers


Question: 'This cookie brand was marketed as a sandwich in 1921 to emphasize it could come apart & be eaten icing first'

Answer: Oreo


Question: 'In medieval England it equaled the length of 3 grains of barley'

Answer: an inch


Question: 'In a 1901 sci fi romance, Wells told a tale of "the first men in" this heavenly body, where they meet the Selenites'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'A toy for a child, or a person used capriciously & selfishly by another'

Answer: a plaything


Question: 'In early 2010 Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley to win the seat held by this man for 47 years'

Answer: Edward Kennedy


Question: '"Big bottom drive me out of my mind, how could I leave this behind?"'

Answer: This Is Spinal Tap


Question: 'Baked Alaska is sponge cake topped with a slab of ice cream, all of which is blanketed by this froth & then browned'

Answer: meringue


Question: 'It comes from an old Roman unit & Jim Ryun got famous by running it'

Answer: a mile


Question: 'Tripod-borne aliens attack & destroy London in this scary 1898 novel'

Answer: The War of the Worlds


Question: '3-word term for increasing a bet so that you'll either owe twice as much money or zero'

Answer: double or nothing


Question: 'This senator from Minnesota has mayoral experience: he was the voice of Mayor McCheese on TV in "Clerks"'

Answer: Al Franken


Question: '"I gave my love a chicken, that had no bones, I gave my love a story, that had no end, I gave..." (Bluto smashes guitar)'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'Ben & Jerry's has an ice cream called this flavor Dynamite, a play on the name of a Jon Heder film'

Answer: Neopolitan


Question: 'In 1959, due to "minor but troublesome discrepancies", the U.S. redefined this unit as .3048 meters'

Answer: a foot


Question: 'Rod Taylor starred in a film version of this Wells novel in which a scientist cruises the centuries'

Answer: The Time Machine


Question: 'A gummable circlet for an infant's improved dentition'

Answer: a teething ring


Question: 'In 1981 Bernie Sanders, now a senator from this state, won the mayorship of Burlington by 10 votes'

Answer: Vermont


Question: '1979:<br />"Always look on the bright side of life... for life is quite absurd, and death's the final word"'

Answer: Monty Python\'s Life of Brian


Question: 'Introduced in 1932, this candy bar was named for its original design of separate pieces in vanilla, chocolate & strawberry'

Answer: 3 Musketeers


Question: 'A unit of measure for horses at the shoulder is based on the width of this'

Answer: the hand


Question: 'In an 1897 work a man discovers his "refractive index" can be changed to that of air, making him this type of "man"'

Answer: Invisible


Question: 'This Shakespeare comedy is set in Messina'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'In Wisconsin the 2010 Republican wave brought in Ron Johnson, sweeping out this Liberal Democrat'

Answer: Russ Feingold


Question: '"Blame Canada, blame Canada, it seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along"'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'This brand known for its cake mixes is named for a Kentucky-born restaurant & hotel critic'

Answer: Duncan Hines


Question: 'A huge glass of ale with a bulb at one end is named for this measure'

Answer: a yard


Question: 'It's the unicameral parliament of Iceland'

Answer: the Althing


Question: 'In 1871 telegraph operators honored him with a bronze statue in Central Park'

Answer: (Samuel) Morse


Question: 'In October 2010 these 2 sisters ranked first & third in women's tennis'

Answer: Venus & Serena Williams


Question: 'The Spanish claimed this Aztec emperor was stoned to death by his own people'

Answer: Moctezuma


Question: 'Of presidential surnames'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'A place to get your feet wet:<br />Der Strand'

Answer: the beach


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The Argonne Lab grew out of World War II fission research in nearby Chicago; the first one of these was built by Fermi on a squash court, & today Argonne is continuing that heritage with new, fast types that destroy their own waste'

Answer: a nuclear reactor


Question: 'A wing at the Maine Medical Center bears the name of this Freeport retailer & outdoorsman'

Answer: L.L. Bean


Question: 'These quarterbacks have only faced off twice in the NFL, but both times big bro sent the Giants packing'

Answer: Peyton & Eli Manning


Question: 'In Greek myth, the clever Palamedes is stoned to death after he's framed by this sly epic hero'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'Of the -stan countries'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'A musical instrument:<br />Das Klavier'

Answer: the piano


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) Scientists studying the life cycle of stars have used the Argonne National Labs' supercomputer to investigate the nuclear flame bubble that builds up inside a white dwarf just before one of these spectacular events'

Answer: a supernova


Question: 'Sadly, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys didn't live to see Vermont enter the Union; he died 2 years before'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'It was said of these brothers, "Joe was the best hitter, Dom the best fielder, Vince the best singer"'

Answer: the DiMaggios


Question: 'In Exodus 19 God warns the Israelites to keep away from this mountain while he's up there or they'll get stoned'

Answer: Sinai


Question: 'Of the layers of earth's atmosphere'

Answer: the trophosphere


Question: 'It's grown in a garden:<br />Die Sonnenblume'

Answer: the sunflower


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The reactor is doing a green chemistry trick invented at Argonne--it's using plastic bags to create these, cylinders 50,000 times thinner than a hair, to increase the surface area & the power of batteries'

Answer: a nanotube


Question: 'This president's father, Prescott, represented Connecticut in the Senate from 1952 to 1963'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'In February 2010, on their home track in Las Vegas, these brothers finished 15th & 35th in NASCAR's Shelby American race'

Answer: Kyle & Kurt Busch


Question: 'This Islamic law system prescribes stoning as punishment for adultery'

Answer: Sharia law


Question: 'Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Answer: Raphael


Question: 'A country:<br />Die Schweiz'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) This machine assembles high-efficiency lithium ion batteries, alternately stacking positive electrodes called cathodes together with negative electrodes called these'

Answer: anodes


Question: 'During a canoe ride in 1839, he realized rather than teach, he wanted to be a poet of nature'

Answer: (Henry David) Thoreau


Question: 'Though Tiki retired from the NFL after the 2006 season, this twin brother, a cornerback, still plays for Tampa Bay'

Answer: Ronde Barber


Question: 'After his trial by the Sanhedrin, this first Christian martyr was stoned to death'

Answer: (Saint) Stephen


Question: 'Of the original murder weapons in Clue'

Answer: the wrench


Question: 'An animal:<br />Die Fledermaus'

Answer: the bat


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.)  The hard X-ray nanoprobe helps in the design of solar cells by allowing subatomic examination of these materials, such as silicon, which act sometimes like metal & sometimes like insulators'

Answer: semiconductors


Question: 'The last time the Democratic & Republican nominees had once been governor of the same state, this was the state'

Answer: New York


Question: '"The Universe in a Nutshell" is his bestselling follow-up to "A Brief History of Time"'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'The international airport in New Delhi bears her name'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'In 1985 Portugal's Carlos Lopes, at age 38, set a record in one of these: 2 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds'

Answer: a marathon


Question: 'This predatory creature is classified as Carcharodon carcharias'

Answer: the great white shark


Question: 'Kolyibo is a Serbian Thanksgiving food whose basic ingredients are wheat & this insect sweet'

Answer: honey


Question: 'Twain said this type of book is one "which people praise and don't read"'

Answer: a classic


Question: 'This sequel by Alexandria Ripley, published 55 years after the original novel, entered the list at No. 1 in 1991'

Answer: Scarlett


Question: 'As the first prime minister of independent India, he served from 1947 to 1964'

Answer: Nehru


Question: 'In 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was named the amateur athlete of the year; this sister-in-law won in 1988'

Answer: Florence Griffith Joyner


Question: 'The name of this disease comes from Greek words for "white" & "blood"'

Answer: leukemia


Question: 'Dunkelweizen & Kristall Weizen are refreshing wheat types of these'

Answer: beer


Question: 'Completes Groucho's saying "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make..."'

Answer: an exception


Question: 'If you know that this was Herman Wouk's first No. 1 novel, back in 1951, we salute you!'

Answer: The Caine Mutiny


Question: 'This musician's album "In Celebration" was co-produced by George Harrison'

Answer: Ravi Shankar


Question: 'On May 25, 1935 he tied or set 6 track & field records--the most ever in one day'

Answer: Jesse Owens


Question: 'It's the seven-letter term for the white of an egg'

Answer: albumen


Question: 'Nabisco makes these crispy crackers; red oval farms makes them "stoned"'

Answer: Wheat Thins


Question: 'Oscar Wilde wrote, "Experience is the name everyone gives to" these'

Answer: their mistakes


Question: 'A best seller in 1980, this Jeffrey Archer novel sounds like the saga of biblical siblings'

Answer: Cain and Abel


Question: 'In the 1950s he directed the landmark "Apu" triology of films'

Answer: Satyajit Ray


Question: 'In 1978 5'8" Franklin Jacobs exceeded his height by 23 1/4" in this event--the greatest differential ever'

Answer: the high jump


Question: 'Vases can be made from this gypsum mineral whose name has come to mean "smooth & white"'

Answer: alabaster


Question: '1-word name of a cooked cereal introduced in 1879 as an alternative to oatmeal'

Answer: Wheatina


Question: 'H.L. Mencken said, "No one... has ever lost money by" doing this to "the intelligence of the... plain people"'

Answer: underestimating


Question: 'This seductive novel landed John Fowles on the best-seller list in 1969'

Answer: The French Lieutenant\'s Woman


Question: 'Born Prince Khurram in 1596, he built the Taj Mahal & ruled under this name'

Answer: Shah Jahan


Question: 'This son of a dutch immigrant had the first 15' pole vault--in fact, he had the first 43 15' pole vaults'

Answer: "Dutch" Warmerdam


Question: 'Don't fire until you see this, the white of the eye'

Answer: sclera


Question: 'Best known as part of tabbouleh, it's also an ingredient in many meatless burgers'

Answer: bulgur


Question: 'The epitaph she suggested for herself: "Excuse my dust"'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: 'In 1536 King Christian III established this protestant denomination as Denmark's state religion'

Answer: Lutheranism


Question: 'Michigan detective Axel Foley, California detective Billy Rosewood'

Answer: Beverly Hills Cop


Question: 'Britannica suggests that the out-of-wedlock children fathered by this "Good Gray Poet" were imaginary'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'It was Otto von Guericke who theorized that these "return" & Halley ursurped, er... jumped on the idea'

Answer: comets


Question: 'Italian for "half", this prefix often precedes forte & soprano'

Answer: mezzo


Question: 'Yours right now is approximately 74 degrees west'

Answer: longitude


Question: 'When this country gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece objected to its name & flag'

Answer: Macedonia


Question: 'Jeanne & Paul (who don't know each other's names) & a French apartment'

Answer: Last Tango in Paris


Question: 'The 2001 biography "Savage Beauty" details the lustful life of this "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" poet'

Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay


Question: 'In 1800, Humphry Davy wrote that this gas "appears capable of destroying... pain" & could be used in operations'

Answer: nitrous oxide (laughing gas)


Question: 'The name of this old French dance follows "Ascot" in the title of a song from "My Fair Lady"'

Answer: gavotte


Question: 'In 1994 the A in SAT was changed from this to "assessment"'

Answer: aptitude


Question: 'In WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria & the Ottoman Empire were  known in the West as these "Powers"'

Answer: the Central


Question: 'In a 1959 film, Altair, Aldebaran, Antares & Rigel (total legs: 16)'

Answer: Ben Hur


Question: 'A rural legend says he wrote a nasty ballad about Sir Thomas Lucy after being caught poaching on Lucy's land'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Linus Pauling rightly predicted that this blood disease producing strangely-shaped hemoglobin was genetic'

Answer: sickle-cell anemia


Question: 'He composed "Karelia" as a tribute to the Finnish province of the same name'

Answer: Sibelius


Question: 'The state of being alone or isolated'

Answer: solitude


Question: 'In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar established a colony on the Arno River which later became this Italian city'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'Defendants Ernst Janning & Friedrich Hofstetter'

Answer: Judgment at Nuremberg


Question: 'One week after a secret wedding at St. Marylebone Church, she ran off to Italy, escaping Wimpole Street forever'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'In 1846 Joseph Leidy discovered that the worm Trichina is found in this animal'

Answer: the pig


Question: 'The name of this small harpsichord may come from the Latin for "rod" or the Latin for "maiden"'

Answer: virginal


Question: 'King Lear speaks of "filial" this, which caused him grief'

Answer: ingratitude


Question: 'In 1589 Henry of this kingdom became Henry IV of France & began the Royal Bourbon dynasty'

Answer: Navarre


Question: 'Lyle, Tector & Pike, who says, "If they move... kill 'em"'

Answer: The Wild Bunch


Question: 'Leigh Hunt was imprisoned in 1823 for literary attacks against the prince regent, who later became this king'

Answer: George IV


Question: 'Studying refraction in 1627, this French mathematician made a rainbow connection'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'The film "Gosford Park" features several songs by this British actor & composer who's a character in the movie'

Answer: Ivor Novello


Question: 'From the Latin for "vile", this term often follows "moral"'

Answer: turpitude


Question: 'Founded in 1758, it's named for a British prime minister who was a noted defender of the American Colonists'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'This holiday is also known as Discovery Day'

Answer: Columbus Day


Question: 'Quebec is the only province whose civil law is based on the Code Civile of this European country'

Answer: France


Question: 'This song from "The Sound of Music" ends with "Bless my homeland forever"'

Answer: "Edelweiss"


Question: 'If you want to be a wizard on this machine, use a lot of body English & be careful not to tilt'

Answer: Pinball


Question: 'At the Council of Clermont in 1095 Urban II proclaimed the 1st Crusade against this group of infidels'

Answer: Saracens//Muslims


Question: 'The ornithologist who wrote "Birds of the West Indies", or the character Ian Fleming named after him'

Answer: James Bond


Question: 'December 21st, Forefathers' Day, commemorates the 1620 landing here'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'You can see Canadian soldiers in British uniforms march to French music in this city's Citadel'

Answer: Quebec City


Question: '"Holding one note was" his "ace"'

Answer: Johnny One Note


Question: 'Board game with 225 spaces & 100 tiles'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'This king of England was a leader of the Third Crusade'

Answer: Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted)


Question: 'The actor who starred in "Rear Window", or the real name of actor Stewart Granger'

Answer: James Stewart


Question: 'The only 2 months in which Ash Wednesday can occur'

Answer: February & March


Question: '2-week event held in February that includes costume balls, dog-sled & ice-canoe races & parades'

Answer: Winter Carnival


Question: '"The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear are still inside" this part of me'

Answer: Head


Question: 'At the start of a game of checkers, each player has this many pieces'

Answer: 12


Question: 'The deadly rivals of the Hospitalers, these knights lent their name to a fictional "saint"'

Answer: Knights Templar


Question: 'Latin American pop music style, or a sauce used in Mexican cuisine'

Answer: Salsa


Question: 'National Hospital Week honors the birthday of this founder of modern nursing'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'Unlike most provinces, Quebec has a separate one of these, La Surete Provinciale Du Quebec'

Answer: Provincial/State Police


Question: '"How are things in" this place?  "Is that willow tree still weeping there?"'

Answer: Glockamora


Question: 'In the Fourth Crusade the crusaders plundered this Byzantine capital, a Christian city'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'Actor who played opposite many lovelies in the silents, or actor who has played solo -- Han Solo, that is'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'This explorer landed on what is now the Gaspe Peninsula in 1534 & claimed it for the French king'

Answer: Jacques Cartier


Question: '"It's surely not his brain that makes me thrill, I love him because he's just" this man'

Answer: My Bill


Question: 'Walter the Penniless & this Peter led early groups of poor peasants into the fray'

Answer: Peter the Hermit


Question: 'The third largest city in Missouri & Massachusetts'

Answer: Springfield


Question: 'His Symphony in B Minor wasn't his only unfinished composition -- just the most famous'

Answer: Franz Schubert


Question: 'The pointed upper teeth near the front of the mouth that are also called "eyeteeth"'

Answer: Canines


Question: 'Ole E. Rolvaag wrote a "Saga Of" it & Laura Ingalls Wilder set a "Little House" on it'

Answer: The Prairie


Question: 'Simon Bolivar is buried in the National Pantheon in this capital of Venezuela'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'She was the first woman president of this organization which gives out the Oscars'

Answer: AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)


Question: 'In 1928 Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to write a ballet, so he created "Bolero"'

Answer: Maurice Ravel


Question: '"Gray matter" refers to the brain's nerve cells while its nerve fibers are called "matter" of this color'

Answer: White


Question: 'He wrote about the auto industry in "Wheels" & the airline industry in "Airport"'

Answer: Arthur Hailey


Question: 'Almost 1/3 of New Zealand's population lives within 100 miles of this city, the nation's first capital'

Answer: Auckland


Question: 'In "Jezebel", Davis shocked New Orleans society by wearing a dress of this color to a ball'

Answer: Red


Question: 'On Jan. 23, 1960 the bathyscaphe Trieste made a record dive to the bottom of this trench'

Answer: the Marianas Trench


Question: 'Early in his career he was the musical director of La Scala; he later led the NBC Symphony'

Answer: Arturo Toscanini


Question: 'The smallest human muscle is found in these organs'

Answer: Ears


Question: '"Dubliners" is a collection of short stories by this Irish author'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'This Central American capital was destroyed by earthquakes in 1931 & 1972'

Answer: Managua, Nicaragua


Question: '"All About Eve" was the film in which Davis warned, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be" one of these'

Answer: "A Bumpy Night"


Question: 'For the 2nd year in a row, Mrs. Aileen Saunders won this trans-continental air race for women'

Answer: Powder Puff Derby


Question: 'Modern composer who was called the world's outstanding specialist on Hungarian folk music'

Answer: Bela Bartok


Question: 'A natural pain-killer, this "oxygenous morphine" is released by the brain during body stress'

Answer: Endorphin


Question: 'In an 1854 poem Tennyson asked her to "Come Into The Garden"'

Answer: Maud


Question: 'This suburb of Manila was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948-1976'

Answer: Quezon City


Question: 'The scary 1962 film in which Davis sang, "I've written a letter to Daddy"'

Answer: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?


Question: 'Naturalist John C. Lilly said in June 1960 that this mammal may have a higher IQ than man'

Answer: Dolphin


Question: 'The Vale Giulia, The Tritone, The Trevi & one at the Villa Medici were his "Fountains of Rome"'

Answer: Otto Resphighi


Question: 'From the Latin word for "fat", it's the technical term for fat tissue'

Answer: Adipose Tissue


Question: 'This Mississippian, known for her love of the South, won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Optomist's Daughter"'

Answer: Eudora Welty


Question: 'This troubled capital lies 5,890 feet above sea level in the Hindu Kush mountains'

Answer: Kabul, Afghanistan


Question: 'The 14th Earl of this was prime minister in 1852; the 12th Earl of this had a race named for him'

Answer: Earl of Derby


Question: 'In 48 B.C., while pursuing Pompey into Egypt, this Roman dictator met Cleopatra'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'Situated at the outside corner of each eye, these glands secrete a salty solution for lubrication'

Answer: Lacrimal glands


Question: 'This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird & Luci Baines'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'About 220 miles at its widest point & 10,000' at its deepest, it's a wonder how the Israelites crossed it'

Answer: Red Sea


Question: 'Found in meteorites, ores of this metal include siderite, goethite & magnetite'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'The ever-popular salad made from this elbow-shaped pasta often contains celery, olives & chopped pimiento'

Answer: Macaroni salad


Question: 'This most powerful government body of Ancient Rome passed decrees & handled foreign policy'

Answer: Senate


Question: 'A 1996 story line on "Another World" involved the transplanting of these'

Answer: Corneas


Question: 'The People Almanac reports this supermodel from Dusseldorf tripped during her runway debut in 1990'

Answer: Claudia Schiffer


Question: 'It's the sea surrounding Jamaica'

Answer: Caribbean Sea


Question: 'The red, sometimes transparent crystals of cuprite are an ore of this metal'

Answer: Copper


Question: 'Raisins & nuts are traditional ingredients in the salad made from these grated orange veggies'

Answer: Carrots


Question: 'With a population of about 750,000, this Egyptian city was the second largest in the Roman Empire'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: 'The irises of an albino look pink because the blood vessels in this part of the eye are visible'

Answer: Retina


Question: 'Lacey Chabert plays Claudia Salinger on this FOX series'

Answer: "Party of Five"


Question: 'One reason it's much saltier than the Atlantic is its narrow outlet at the Strait of Gibraltar'

Answer: Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'Incorporated in 1875, Carson City served as a processing center primarily for this metal's ore'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'Tabbouleh, a Middle Eastern salad, combines parsley, mint & lemon juice with the bulgur type of this'

Answer: Wheat


Question: 'Sicily became the first Roman province after it was conquered in the first of these wars against Carthage'

Answer: Punic Wars


Question: 'To see objects close up, this part of the eye thickens'

Answer: Lens


Question: 'It's reporter Claudia Cohen's specialty'

Answer: Gossip columnist


Question: 'During WWI the Russian fleet battled the Ottoman Turks in this sea'

Answer: Black Sea


Question: 'About 6% of the ore mined for this mineral contains usable fibers'

Answer: Asbestos


Question: 'Diced raw vegetables may be added to the tomato type of this molded gelatin salad'

Answer: Aspic


Question: 'The Roman home was built around this spacious hall that had an opening in the roof to let in air & light'

Answer: Atrium


Question: 'Causing abnormal pressure in the eye, it accounts for about 1/8 of the cases of blindness in the U.S.'

Answer: Glaucoma


Question: 'In 1993's "Son of the Pink Panther", she played the mother of Clouseau's son'

Answer: Claudia Cardinale


Question: 'Its arms are the Gulfs of Oman & Aden & its chief ports are Karachi & Bombay'

Answer: Arabian Sea


Question: 'Until WWII this ore was used only as a source for radium; then it became a source of uranium, too'

Answer: Pitchblende


Question: 'Tomatoes, black olives & anchovies are featured in this salad prepared "In the style of Nice"'

Answer: Salade Nicoise


Question: 'In 1961 he became the first brother of a president appointed to a cabinet position'

Answer: Robert F. Kennedy (Attorney General)


Question: 'The Mandarin dialect of this language has 4 tones:  high-level, rising, low-dipping & falling'

Answer: Chinese


Question: '19th century female star Giuditta Grisi created this role in "I Capuleti E I Montecchi"; surprise!'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'In 1910 Madame La Baronne de Laroche of this country became the 1st certitifed woman pilot'

Answer: France


Question: '1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis"'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'Chill Wills provided the voice of this talking mule in 6 films'

Answer: Francis


Question: 'On January 21, 1977 this president pardoned several thousand Vietnam War draft evaders'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'This language has over 12 million speakers in the Netherlands & about 5 million in Belgium'

Answer: Dutch


Question: 'In Act II of this Bizet opera, Escamillo sings the "Toreador's Song"'

Answer: "Carmen"


Question: '6 years after Chuck Yeager, Jacqueline Cochran became the 1st woman to do this'

Answer: Break the sound barrier


Question: 'Marquis James won for 1930 with "The Raven", a biography of this Texas freedom fighter'

Answer: Sam Houston


Question: 'Rita Hayworth & this famous dancing partner of Fred Astaire were related by marriage'

Answer: Ginger Rogers


Question: 'In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom'

Answer: Jane Addams


Question: 'The prose of this ancient language was developed mainly in Ionia'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'Composer who turned Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'Amuse" into "Rigoletto"'

Answer: Giuseppe Verdi


Question: '"For Better or for Worse", Lynn Johnston was the 1st woman to win this profession's Reuben Award'

Answer: Cartooning


Question: 'Walter Jackson Bate, not James Boswell, won in 1978 for a biography on this man'

Answer: Samuel Johnson


Question: 'A West Hollywood nightclub called The Viper Room is co-owned by this star of "Edward Scissorhands"'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: 'On June 21, 1982 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Reagan'

Answer: John Hinckley


Question: 'In its earliest form, this Old Testament language was probably identical to Phoenician'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi's "The Fable Of" this man who went to hell & back for her'

Answer: Orpheus


Question: 'She's the 1st U.S. astronaut, man or woman, to spend 6 months in space'

Answer: Shannon Lucid


Question: 'In 1944 Carleton Mabee won for "The American Leonardo:  The Life Of" this artist & inventor'

Answer: Samuel FB Morse


Question: 'Aaron Spelling's first wife was this actress who played Morticia Addams on TV'

Answer: Carolyn Jones


Question: 'In searching for the 7 Cities of Cibola, he & his men traveled as far north as present-day Lyons, Kansas'

Answer: Francisco Vazquez de Coronado


Question: 'Tallinn is the northern dialect of this European language'

Answer: Estonian


Question: 'The 1983 premiere of Olivier Messiaen's "St. Francis of Assisi" was led by this Japanese conductor'

Answer: Seiji Ozawa


Question: 'Hazel O' Leary, the 1st woman to head this cabinet department, succeeded James Watkins in 1993'

Answer: Department of Energy


Question: 'The 1995 HBO film "Truman" was based on this man's 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning book'

Answer: David McCullough


Question: 'Anne Bauchens edited films for this director of "The Ten Commandments" from 1918 until his death in 1959'

Answer: Cecil B. DeMille


Question: 'The Spaniards named it for the Virgin of the Fair Winds for bringing them safely across the Atlantic'

Answer: Buenos Aires


Question: '20 years ago Santa brought me an instant camera from this company; now I want their Pogo Instant Mobile Printer'

Answer: Polaroid


Question: 'The Cylons were robotic soldiers out to wipe out the humans on this TV series that debuted in 1978'

Answer: Battlestar Galactica


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.)  A workman is putting a weathercock on the roof of this London church; its consecration on Dec. 28, 1065 is symbolized by the hand of God above the nave'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'Surprisingly these dogs are born pure white; the spots don't begin to appear for a few weeks'

Answer: dalmatians


Question: 'Million-selling record status; also a shade of blonde'

Answer: platinum


Question: 'It's been estimated there's a 63% chance of a 6.7 or greater one of these in the Bay Area by 2037'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'Let 2009 be a no-frizz year with a T3 negative ion one of these appliances'

Answer: a hairdryer


Question: 'Jean Vander Pyl, TV"s Wilma Flintstone, was also the voice of Rosie the Robot, the maid on this cartoon series'

Answer: The Jetsons


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.)  This duke is about to mount his charger; he is the only figure to wear armored leggings & shirt; the ribbons at his neck also identify him'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'Pictured here, this largest living fish has spots all over its upper body'

Answer: a whale shark


Question: 'It may be whipped or clotted'

Answer: cream


Question: '"Sons" and "A House Divided" were sequels to this Asia-set novel'

Answer: The Good Earth


Question: 'From the Toys "R" Us Xmas 2008 Hot Toys list, I wanna trike from this "soaring" co. known for its classic red wagon'

Answer: Radio Flyer


Question: 'Data & his evil twin Lore were brilliant androids on this show'

Answer: Star Trek: (The) Next Generation


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.)  Despite taking an oath to assure another succession, Harold is crowned King of England; the tapestry indicated it was Stigant, this archbishop, who performed the ceremony'

Answer: the Archbishop of Canterbury


Question: 'The northern spotted variety of this wise old bird has been on the threatened list since 1990'

Answer: owl


Question: 'A list of candidates for an election'

Answer: a slate


Question: 'Their hit songs include "Boogie Wonderland"'

Answer: Earth, Wind & Fire


Question: 'I won't be using the Broil King Sovereign XLS 80 one of these until summer, but I can't wait to get it anyway'

Answer: a grill (or barbecue)


Question: 'The dulcet tones of this TV show's robot often intoned the line "Danger, Will Robinson"'

Answer: Lost in Space


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.)  The Norman army has archers, giving it the advantage in this battle that spanned 8 hours on Oct. 14, 1066; the artists
conveyed the gathering momentum of the battle'

Answer: Hastings


Question: 'A popular pet, the leopard type of this lizard can be spotted in the picture seen here'

Answer: a gecko


Question: 'Brittle exterior covering for a yolk & albumen'

Answer: an eggshell


Question: 'One of Jules Verne's 2 "terre"ible classics, from 1864 & 1865'

Answer: From (the) Earth to the Moon (or Journey to the Center of the Earth)


Question: 'I distinctly asked for a Patek Philippe aquanaut one of these, & I'll know if it's a knockoff'

Answer: a watch


Question: 'Crow T. Robot was a B-movie commentator on this cult TV show'

Answer: Mystery Science Theater 3000


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.)  "Istimirant Stella", meaning "these men wonder at the star", refers to this, visible in  England in April 1066 & regarded as an ill omen'

Answer: Halley\'s Comet


Question: 'Looking like a cross between a cat & a possum, the spotted quoll of Australia belongs to this order of mammals'

Answer: a marsupial


Question: 'Substance for which President Gbagbo's "coastal" country is named'

Answer: Ivory Coast


Question: 'Title of the 16th century garden seen here'

Answer: the Garden of Earthly Delights


Question: 'One of the 2 "Santa" campuses in the University of California system'

Answer: Santa Barbara (or Santa Cruz)


Question: 'Joseph Fiennes struggles with writing the play "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" in this film'

Answer: Shakespeare in Love


Question: 'She poetiized, "Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say"; Jane Eyre could have used those thoughts'

Answer: Charlotte Brontë


Question: 'Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren & this actress were collectively known as the 3 Ms'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'In a recent operatic work, this Ohioan & talk show host & his sidekick Steve descend to hell'

Answer: Jerry Springer


Question: 'Dried strips of beef in Ankara'

Answer: Turkey jerky


Question: 'This state capital is a lovely place to visit, though not for Zebulon Pike, imprisoned there in 1807'

Answer: Santa Fe


Question: 'At the end of this movie, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan meet at the top of the Empire State Building'

Answer: Sleepless in Seattle


Question: 'A specialist in action-packed young people's novels, in 1885 he put out the quiet "A Child's Garden of Verses"'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: 'in 1984 Congress established a wilderness area near Yosemite named for this photographer'

Answer: (Ansel) Adams


Question: 'It was a "Brave New World" for this Brit when his "The Devils of Loudun" was turned into an opera in 1969'

Answer: Huxley


Question: 'A Baghdad paper bag'

Answer: an Iraq sack


Question: 'Bounded by Point Dume & the Palos Verdes Peninsula it's the bay in TV's "Baywatch"'

Answer: Santa Monica Bay


Question: 'Emile Hirsch plays a college grad who journeys to Alaska (with dire consequences) in this 2007 film'

Answer: Into the Wild


Question: 'Esther attempts suicide in this, the only novel by its poet author'

Answer: The Bell Jar


Question: 'He recalled his childhood & later his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in "Up from Slavery"'

Answer: (Booker T.) Washington


Question: 'It was a "New World" for this Czech after his comic opera "The Devil and Kate" opened in Prague in 1899'

Answer: Dvorak


Question: 'Barcelona or Toledo gray matter'

Answer: Spain brain


Question: 'Simon Bolivar was born in Venezuela & died in Santa Marta, in this country on Venezuela's west border'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Bill Murray hangs out with Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo in this 2003 treat'

Answer: Lost in Translation


Question: 'In 1899 this "Steppenwolf" author published his first book, the poetry collection "Romantic Songs"'

Answer: (Herman) Hesse


Question: 'This archaeologist opened the fabulous tomb of King Tut in 1922'

Answer: (Howard) Carter


Question: 'In an Offenbach work, this title character must venture to the underworld to deal with his dead wife, Eurydice'

Answer: Orpheus


Question: 'A southwest African shinbone'

Answer: a Namibia tibia


Question: 'This song heard here celebrates the area of the same name on the Bay of Naples'

Answer: Santa Lucia


Question: 'Crusty Secret Service agent Clint Eastwood protects the president from John Malkovich in this 1993 thriller'

Answer: In the Line of Fire


Question: '"So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, there never was a knight like" this Sir Walter Scott poetic hero'

Answer: Lochinvar


Question: 'Jesse James' assassin'

Answer: (Robert) Ford


Question: 'If this title Wagner sailor can find a gal who will promise to love him forever, the Devil's curse will be broken'

Answer: the Flying Dutchman


Question: 'A citrus fruit from Sanaa'

Answer: a Yemen lemon


Question: 'On April 29, 1861 he said, "We seek no conquest…all we ask is to be let alone"'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'He negotiated the Teamsters' first national contract before he mysteriously disappeared in 1975'

Answer: (Jimmy) Hoffa


Question:
'Football by the Erie Canal:
President Clinton,
software guy Gates'

Answer: the Buffalo Bills


Question: 'Carnegie Mellon University'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'These backless beach sandals have a hyphenated name'

Answer: flip-flops


Question: 'The name of this range may be a corruption of a 1700s French trading post spelled "A-U-X A-R-C"'

Answer: the Ozarks


Question: 'A star is the logo of this popular athletic shoe company'

Answer: Converse


Question: 'This "Birth of the Cool" trumpeter got a scholarship from Juilliard, where he studied classical music'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question:
'The NBA in a state that meets at Four Corners:
Dixieland, bebop
or swing'

Answer: the Jazz


Question: 'University of Florida'

Answer: Gainesville


Question: 'It's easy to use one of these small grills whose name is from the Japanese for "bowl of fire"'

Answer: a hibachi


Question: 'This mountain range is the 2nd-longest in North America'

Answer: the Appalachians


Question: 'According to Mark Twain, these "make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"'

Answer: clothes


Question: 'This English poet met Galileo, & he refers to Galileo's telescope in "Paradise Lost"'

Answer: (John) Milton


Question:
'Women's basketball, Texas style:
Shoemaker-Levy,
Halley's'

Answer: the Comets


Question: 'University of Colorado'

Answer: Boulder


Question: 'With a diameter of almost 90,000 miles, this planet is equal in size to about 1,300 Earths'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'The Tasman & Hooker Glaciers radiate from Mt. Cook, the highest mountain of the Southern Alps in this country'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Wealthy patrons of a store are called this kind of "trade", from what they used to drive up in'

Answer: carriage (trade)


Question: 'This Pilgrim signed the Mayflower Compact & married Priscilla Mullins'

Answer: John Alden


Question:
'Major League Soccer in the sun:
The Milky Way or
Andromeda'

Answer: the Los Angeles Galaxy


Question: 'Pepperdine University'

Answer: Malibu


Question: 'On Feb. 16, 1804, in a daring act, this U.S. naval officer destroyed a frigate that Tripoli pirates had captured'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'The first survey of this Russian mountain range wasn't undertaken until the 18th century'

Answer: the Urals


Question: 'The 12 points of the Boy Scout law say to be courteous, kind & this, looking at the bright side of things'

Answer: cheerful


Question: 'In 1842 he expanded his 1835 short story "Taras Bulba" into a full-length novel'

Answer: Gogol


Question:
'Baseball in Missouri:
Henry VIII,
Richard III'

Answer: the Kansas City Royals


Question: 'The Citadel'

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina


Question: 'The brown hairstreak is one of these insects of the superfamily Papilionoidea'

Answer: a butterfly


Question: 'This mountain range is divided into 3 regions, the Atlantic, the Central & the Mediterranean'

Answer: the Pyrenees


Question: 'The finishing "stone" at the top of a pyramid'

Answer: the capstone


Question: 'On this scale, the temperature of the human body is normally 37 degrees'

Answer: Celsius


Question: 'Black Sabbath'

Answer: England


Question: 'Before his life sentence for Nazi collaboration, Philippe Petain of this country got a parade in N.Y. for heroism in WWI'

Answer: France


Question: 'In 1978 she became the first African-American woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp'

Answer: Harriet Tubman


Question: 'A visit to India inspired his novel "Siddhartha", published in German in 1922'

Answer: Hermann Hesse


Question: 'Don't get trapped in this, which usually forms on the bottom of streams & on flats along seacoasts'

Answer: quicksand


Question: 'It's said that a light whisper is 10 of these units; the loud "Jeopardy!" office is about 60'

Answer: decibels


Question: 'Styx'

Answer: the U.S.


Question: 'A reporter was jailed for writing that this general should suspend martial law after his Battle of New Orleans victory'

Answer: (Andrew) Jackson


Question: 'She worked as George W. Bush's personal lawyer in Texas & as White House legal counsel during his presidency'

Answer: Harriet Miers


Question: 'He first found fame with his 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal"'

Answer: (Frederick) Forsyth


Question: 'This baking product from General Mills was introduced in 1931'

Answer: Bisquick


Question: 'This container made of staves is a standard dry measure for most produce but is smaller for cranberries'

Answer: a barrel


Question: 'AC/DC'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'The political wrath of God came down upon this veep over fundraising at a Buddhist temple in California'

Answer: Al Gore


Question: 'In 1912 Harriet Quimby became the first female pilot to fly over this approximately 21-mile-wide body of water'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'This Western author grew up listening to tales of his great-grandfather, who was scalped by the Sioux'

Answer: Louis L\'Amour


Question: 'A media player, or a march rate of 120 paces per minute'

Answer: QuickTime


Question: '1.5 ounces is equal to a jigger or one of these units--but Bartender, a little extra is always OK'

Answer: a shot


Question: 'Rush'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'This world leader graduated from law school before planning the attack on the Moncada Barracks'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'Since he was unmarried, his niece Harriet Lane acted as his First Lady'

Answer: Buchanan


Question: 'Published in 1724, his last major work of fiction was "Roxana", about a courtesan, not a castaway'

Answer: Daniel Defoe


Question: 'Rhyming play used on 2nd or 3rd down to help improve field position, though you do lose possession'

Answer: quick kick


Question: 'A song from "Guys and Dolls" begins, "I love you a bushel and a peck", which would be a total of this many pecks'

Answer: 5


Question: 'The Scorpions'

Answer: West Germany


Question: 'When this U.S. president suspended habeas corpus, some critical reporters went to jail'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Harriet Taylor Mill helped this man, her husband, write "On Liberty"'

Answer: John Stuart Mill


Question: 'In 1964's "From Doon with Death", she introduced Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford'

Answer: Ruth Rendell


Question: 'It's another name for the metallic element mercury'

Answer: quicksilver


Question: 'Beginning in 1932 all this country's kings have been the country's founder or his sons'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Under a 1977 treaty, this zone reverted to Panama in 1979'

Answer: Canal Zone


Question: 'The school in the movie "High School High" is named for this ex-mayor of Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Marion Barry


Question: 'It's the divisor or, less technically, the bottom part of a fraction'

Answer: Denominator


Question: 'J'ai casse mes lunettes'

Answer: French


Question: 'When a beekeeper orders a new one of these, she comes in a small cage with a few worker attendants'

Answer: Queen bee


Question: 'It's no use doing this "over spilt milk"; just go get some paper towels'

Answer: Crying


Question: 'This ex-British PM announced in 1963 he wouldn't run again for Parliament, to which he was first elected in 1900'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'TV's Felicity doesn't attend New York University, but this fictional institution'

Answer: The University of New York


Question: 'In our number system, it's 10; in a triangle, it's the lowest side'

Answer: Base


Question: 'Lassen sie meine schuhe putzen'

Answer: German


Question: '4-letter word for a plant like quack grass or dandelion, which make gardeners use other 4-letter words'

Answer: Weed


Question: 'To bay or bark at this is an exercise in futility'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'TMI can stand for "too much information" or for this, the site of the USA's worst commercial nuclear accident'

Answer: Three Mile Island


Question: 'The PC in "PCU" stands for Port Chester & also for this attitude upheld by the film's "womyn"'

Answer: Politically correct


Question: 'An algorithm is a problem-solving procedure & this anagram is a number used as an exponent'

Answer: Logarithm


Question: 'No corte nada de arriba'

Answer: Spanish


Question: 'This hobby gets its name from the knotting of areas of fabric during the process'

Answer: Tie-dyeing


Question: 'To flog or beat one of these will get you nowhere; neither will riding one'

Answer: Dead horse


Question: 'A 1978 secession from India's Congress Party formed the Congress (I), with the I standing for her'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'Tracey Gold & Kirk Cameron attended Dewey High on this sitcom of the '80s & '90s'

Answer: Growing Pains


Question: 'Mi occorre una padella'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'Some hobbyists collect these office supply items, also a 2-word term for routine approval'

Answer: Rubber stamps


Question: 'If your dream is truly impossible, you're just beating this against the wall'

Answer: Your head


Question: 'In 1998 this former Chilean leader was arrested in London in connection with human rights abuses'

Answer: Augusto Pinochet


Question: 'This director based Mission College in "School Daze" on his alma mater, Morehouse College'

Answer: Spike Lee


Question: 'Sleevnoy bachok eesportosa'

Answer: Russian


Question: 'Potters do it to make vases; ventriloquists do it to their voices'

Answer: Throw


Question: 'Any "birdbrain" knows this kind of chase is a futile quest'

Answer: Wild goose chase


Question: 'The greenish color in ponds is often caused by organisms called euglena which contain this green pigment'

Answer: Chlorophyll


Question: 'They've proclaimed themselves the "Official Spokescandies of the New Millennium"'

Answer: M&M\'s


Question: 'In the last scene of "Othello", this villain stabs his wife Emilia, who sings a little & then dies'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'For decades Mario Zacchini was a real "big shot" in the circus world with this type of act'

Answer: Human cannonball


Question: 'Humans have 46 of these, bullfrogs have 26 & fruit flies have 8; how unique!'

Answer: Chromosomes


Question: 'Don't let it slip, but this "Crispy Crunchety Peanut Butter Candy Bar" from Nestle is a favorite of the Simpsons'

Answer: Butterfinger


Question: 'Baby Elvis Presley was still a resident when a tornado hit this Mississippi city in 1936'

Answer: Tupelo


Question: '"Othello" opens in this Italian city that appears in the title of another Shakespeare play'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Dick Fosbury of Oregon State University was the first to use the Fosbury Flop in this track & field event'

Answer: High jump


Question: 'Garth Brooks, Mr. T & John Goodman worked as these in clubs before becoming stars'

Answer: Bouncers


Question: 'Occuring in birds & reptiles as well as mammals, it's the fluid-filled sac that surrounds an embryo'

Answer: Amniotic sac


Question: 'Charlie says this licorice-flavored candy, around since 1893, is probably the oldest candy brand in the U.S.'

Answer: Good & Plenty


Question: 'In 1994 Alabama's Goshen Church was struck by a twister on this holy day 7 days before Easter'

Answer: Palm Sunday


Question: 'First name shared by Cassio's mistress in "Othello" & Mick Jagger's first wife'

Answer: Bianca


Question: 'This film helped "David Helfgott Plays Rachmaninov" become the No. 1 classical album of 1997'

Answer: Shine


Question: 'Occupational names of senators in the 106th Congress include 2 Smiths & one of these pugilists'

Answer: (Barbara) Boxer


Question: 'The simplest multicellular animals, they make up the phylum Porifera, meaning "pore bearing"'

Answer: Sponges


Question: 'In the 1990s this candy brand introduced crunchy cookie cups, sticks & bits for baking'

Answer: Reese\'s


Question: 'This Texas city, the home of Baylor University, still remembers the tornado of 1953'

Answer: Waco


Question: 'Othello describes this, perhaps the play's most famous prop, as "an antique token my father gave my mother"'

Answer: Handkerchief


Question: 'This Tennessee quarterback was the No. 1 pick in the 1998 NFL Draft'

Answer: Peyton Manning


Question: 'A LAN administrator is in charge of LANs, short for these'

Answer: Local area networks


Question: 'From Greek for "born", it's any foreign substance or organism that causes the body to produce antibodies'

Answer: Antigen


Question: 'This brand debuted in 1976 in 8 different flavors including very cherry, cream soda, green apple & root beer'

Answer: Jelly Belly jelly beans


Question: 'In 1996 a tornado flattened 80 villages in this country that forms most of Bengal'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'Othello tells how he delighted Desdemona with tales of the Anthropophagi -- people named for this dreaded habit'

Answer: Cannibalism


Question: 'A war described in this 1726 novel began over an argument about how to crack open an egg'

Answer: \"Gulliver\'s Travels\"


Question: 'Solar flares are associated with these dark areas that peak about every 11 years'

Answer: Sunspots


Question: '"Shakespeare In Love" snaps this at someone who stammers, "The show must, you know..."'

Answer: Go on


Question: 'Dawn Special Care is a type of this that's good for hands'

Answer: Dishwashing liquid


Question: 'Born in Spain in 1485, she bore Henry VIII 6 children but only 1 survived'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'There's something about Amelia Driver, who acts under this first name'

Answer: Minnie


Question: 'It's another name for a pancake'

Answer: Flapjack


Question: 'In general terms, as opposed to carnivore, it's defined as an animal that eats mostly plants'

Answer: Herbivore


Question: 'Spencer Tracy's acting advice was remember these & don't bump into the furniture'

Answer: Your lines


Question: 'This film with Patrick Swayze & Jennifer Grey was about a Communist invasion'

Answer: Red Dawn


Question: 'In the tennis-playing Sanchez family, Emilio & Javier get a Vicario-us thrill from the success of this sister'

Answer: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario


Question: 'Current show that stars Edward Bridge Danson III'

Answer: Becker


Question: 'It's the proud banner seen here'

Answer: Union Jack


Question: 'These gene-carrying structures are distinguished by haploid & diploid numbers'

Answer: Chromosomes


Question: 'Proverbially, it "adds 10 pounds"'

Answer: Camera


Question: 'In 1969 the Fifth Dimension sang about "The Dawning Of" this & hit No. 1'

Answer: "The Age Of Aquarius"


Question: 'Carmen Maura's roles in Pedro Almodovar films include one of these in "Dark Habits"'

Answer: Nun


Question: 'Steven Williams wrestles under this name worth at least $6 million'

Answer: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin


Question: 'Paul Bunyan's day job'

Answer: Lumberjack


Question: 'Argentite is an ore of this metal'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'Completes the saying "There are no small parts...."'

Answer: There are just small actors


Question: 'On the Medici tomb he designed, he had nudes representing dawn & dusk under the seated Lorenzo'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, born in Camaguey on this island, gained fame in Spain as a romantic author'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Middle name (or is it core name?) of singer Fiona McAfee'

Answer: Apple


Question: 'This prairie native, seen here, is found throughout western North America'

Answer: Jackrabbit


Question: 'John Abel, who produced insulin in a crystalline form in 1926, felt a rush when he isolated this hormone in 1897'

Answer: Adrenaline


Question: 'An old adage tells actors never to work with either of these 2 adorable groups'

Answer: Children or animals


Question: '"Dusk Of Dawn" was a 1940 autobiography of this first black American to get a doctoral degree from Harvard'

Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois


Question: 'This 16th century Spanish saint was the subject of a 1995 Joan Osborne song'

Answer: St. Teresa of Avila


Question: 'Tim Dick improved his home & professional life under this name'

Answer: Tim Allen


Question: 'Restraining device often used by escape artists seen here'

Answer: Straitjacket


Question: 'The Gateway Arch is part of this city's Jefferson National Expansion Memorial'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'Joan Alexander played this role on "The Adventures of Superman"'

Answer: Lois Lane


Question: 'Lewis & Clark began their trip by heading up this river May 14, 1804'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'A blondie is basically one of these small chewy desserts, but made without chocolate'

Answer: Brownie


Question: 'Joseph Conrad's "____ of Darkness"'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'Lucy wouldn't let Charlie Brown do this to the football'

Answer: Kick


Question: 'This capital of South Dakota is named for a French fur trader'

Answer: Pierre


Question: 'He not only played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films, he starred in the "Radio Adventures", too'

Answer: Basil Rathbone


Question: 'T.E. Lawrence wrote the intro to Charles Montagu Doughty's book on exploring this area'

Answer: Arabia


Question: 'These small "scalding" cinnamon candies can be used as buttons on gingerbread people'

Answer: Red hots


Question: 'Oliver Sacks' "A ___ to Stand On"'

Answer: Leg


Question: 'The British say "Touch wood"; we say this "wood"'

Answer: Knock


Question: 'Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is located near this Ohio city that was home to the Wright brothers'

Answer: Dayton


Question: 'When "The Adventures of" this pair first appeared on radio, actors played their sons David & Ricky'

Answer: Ozzie & Harriet


Question: 'Raise a glass of vodka to Vladimir Atlasov, who explored & claimed this peninsula for Russia'

Answer: Kamchatka Peninsula


Question: 'In "The Godfather" Richard Castellano says, "Leave the gun, take" these tubular pastries'

Answer: The cannoli


Question: 'Daniel J. Boorstin's "Cleopatra's  ____"'

Answer: Nose


Question: 'This TV cop wasn't played by a Teletubby, but by a Telly Savalas'

Answer: Kojak


Question: 'A gateway to Yellowstone, it's Montana's most populous city'

Answer: Billings


Question: '"The Adventures of" this "Maltese Falcon" detective debuted in 1946, 5 years after the Bogart film'

Answer: Sam Spade


Question: 'On his ship La Dauphine, this Florentine captain became the first European to sail into New York Harbor'

Answer: Giovanni Da Verrazzano


Question: 'Liquor brand that's integral to the sweet potato pudding at Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House in Lynchburg, Tenn.'

Answer: Jack Daniel\'s


Question: 'Toni Morrison's "The Bluest ____"'

Answer: Eye


Question: 'Mark Twain once worked as a printer in this Iowa town'

Answer: Keokuk


Question: 'Nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it served as Alabama's capital in 1819'

Answer: Huntsville


Question: '"The Adventures Of" this "Farewell, My Lovely" detective debuted in 1947, long before the Mitchum film'

Answer: Philip Marlowe


Question: 'Father Hennepin, chaplain to this French explorer, was the first to publish an account of seeing Niagara Falls'

Answer: La Salle


Question: 'Term for the structure of the crust atop the pie seen here'

Answer: Lattice


Question: 'Alan Brown's "Audrey Hepburn's ____"'

Answer: Neck


Question: 'Noted Czech astronomer...okay, we'll give you more; the comet named for him was sort of visible in 1973'

Answer: Lubos Kohoutek


Question: 'During Absalom's rebellion, David took refuge in this region that's east of the Jordan & known for its balm'

Answer: Gilead


Question: 'From July 1845 to September 1847, he communed with nature at Walden Pond'

Answer: Thoreau


Question: 'No big shock--he's the radio personality seen here in his senior year'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: '"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a" this "kid, they got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid"'

Answer: Toys"R"Us


Question: 'Acting under Chapter VII of their charter, the U.N. voted to institute one of these over Libya, grounding Qaddafi's aircraft'

Answer: a no-fly zone


Question: 'This Canadian federal police force moved its headquarters to Ottawa in 1920'

Answer: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police


Question: '"There's an exception to every" one'

Answer: rule


Question: 'In 1849 this Cabinet department was created, assuming control of the General Land Office & the Indian Affairs Office'

Answer: Interior


Question: 'She's the future Oscar winner seen here in her senior year'

Answer: Meryl Streep


Question: '"My bologna has a first name, it's" this; "my bologna has a second name, it's" this; just say 'em, don't spell 'em'

Answer: Oscar Mayer


Question: 'This homeless man from Ohio stepped into the batter's box of fame thanks to his golden voice'

Answer: Ted Williams


Question: 'In 1857 she picked out Ottawa to be the capital of Canada'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Stubborn offspring of a female horse & a male donkey'

Answer: a mule


Question: 'In May 1846 the Senate voted 40-2 to declare war on this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Had he bragged to fellow students that he was going to be an American rock idol, they might have said "Dream On"'

Answer: (Steven) Tyler


Question: '"I am stuck on" this brand, 'cause this brand's "stuck on me"'

Answer: Band-Aid


Question: 'Democratic state senators fled this state to stall Gov. Walker's union-busting budget bill'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'You'll find Ottawa in the southeastern part of this province, on the Quebec border'

Answer: Ontario


Question: 'If you're superstitious, I guess I'm supposed to do this'

Answer: kiss a fool


Question: 'On July 12, 1843 he announced that a divine revelation legitimized polygamy'

Answer: (Joseph) Smith


Question: 'This actor, whose earliest ambition was to become President, still entertains thoughts of a political run'

Answer: Alec Baldwin


Question: '"Call" this service company, "that's the name, and away go troubles, down the drain"'

Answer: Roto-Rooter


Question: 'This orbiter that got the Shuttle program back aloft after 2 disasters made its 39th & final flight'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'A gift from Dutch royalty led to the world's largest festival of this flower, held each May in Ottawa'

Answer: tulips


Question: 'A bobbin or reel'

Answer: a spool


Question: 'At his death in March 1848, he left a fortune estimated at $20 million, acquired in the fur trade & real estate'

Answer: (John Jacob) Astor


Question: 'We're happy to "report" that this young pundit, seen here, was voted wittiest student'

Answer: Stephen Colbert


Question: '"I want my baby back baby back baby back... baby back ribs" from this place'

Answer: Chili\'s


Question: 'This European country with 2 distinct ethnic groups broke a record by marking 249 days without a government'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'It's Ottawa's team in the National Hockey League'

Answer: the Senators


Question: 'He wrote "A Confederacy of Dunces"'

Answer: John Kennedy Toole


Question: '"O, thereby hangs a tail", says the clown shortly before this villain's entrance in Act 3 of "Othello"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'This supernatural TV series was full of mean girls: Cordelia, the insane vampire Drusilla & Glory (a sort of evil god)'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'Images received by each eye are transposed to a hypothetical single eye named for this mythical character'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: 'At Dr. Clark's school we applaud the young man's almost military discipline, but he can't go slapping other boys'

Answer: Patton


Question: 'A clock tower built in 1530 is a landmark in this Swiss capital city'

Answer: Bern


Question: 'I'm grateful: <br />CRIME'

Answer: merci


Question: '"Henry VI, Part II" describes an animal that "clapp'd his tail between" these'

Answer: his legs


Question: 'Nobody could do mean like this actress as Alexis Carrington on "Dynasty"'

Answer: Joan Collins


Question: 'If you have heterochromia, one of these may be blue & the other brown'

Answer: iris


Question: 'Mr. Clay, your son won't raise his own hand; he gets a classmate here at Louisville Central High to raise it for him'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'I'm asking nicely: <br />VIOLA'S TULIPS'

Answer: s\'il vous plait


Question: '"Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail", says Petruchio in this play'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Alison Arngrim was delightfully nasty as Nellie Oleson, who plagued Laura Ingalls on this '70s series'

Answer: Little House on the Prairie


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) To allow your eyes to see clearly at varying distances, fibers called the zonules of Zinn change the shape of this eye part that focuses light onto the retina'

Answer: the lens


Question: 'His schoolmaster Mr. Chauvet called him incorrigible & he replied, "Irredeemable, incurable, inveterate..."'

Answer: (Peter) Roget


Question: 'An 1855 earthquake in this Kiwi city raised the harbor bed by over a yard, allowing land to be drained & reclaimed'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'I'm complimenting you: <br />BERET SIN'

Answer: tres bien


Question: 'In "Henry VI, Part I" , Joan of Arc says, "Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while and like" this bird "sweep along his tail"'

Answer: the peacock


Question: 'Marcia Cross did many mean things--like stealing babies--as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on this '90s drama'

Answer: Melrose Place


Question: 'The eyes have these 2 types of receptor cells; one gives color vision, the other black & white vision in dim light'

Answer: rods & cones


Question: 'Your Francois is the worst bully in the Port-au-Prince schools, though his ambition to be a doctor is commendable'

Answer: ("Papa Doc") Duvalier


Question: 'It lies on the shore of its same-named bay, at the mouth of the Pasig River in Luzon'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'A season: <br />TEE'

Answer: été


Question: '"My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail", laments Gloucester's son in this play'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'Leighton Meester tells tales out of school as Blair Waldorf on this soapy series'

Answer: Gossip Girl


Question: 'It's no laughing matter: your eyes are filled with a clear gel called the vitreous this'

Answer: humor


Question: 'Madame & Monsieur, young Antoine sits all day playing with toy planes & drawing little princes'

Answer: Saint-Exupéry


Question: 'The name of this Romanian capital first appears in a document of Vlad the Impaler'

Answer: Bucharest


Question: 'How many are there?: <br />NICE MOB'

Answer: combien


Question: '"A Girl from a Different World" & "Train to the Urals" are chapters in this 1957 work'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'In the 1890s tourists took a 2-day ride from Flagstaff to its south rim'

Answer: Grand Canyon


Question: 'This CBS private eye series starred Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney'

Answer: Simon & Simon


Question: 'Ague is an outdated term for this tropical disease spread by mosquitos'

Answer: Malaria


Question: 'You get it off a certain duck's breast'

Answer: Eiderdown


Question: 'In Feb. 1999 his "The Testament" was London's top hardback & his "The Street Lawyer" was top paperback'

Answer: John Grisham


Question: 'Brit Reid was related to this masked crimefighter of the Old West'

Answer: Lone Ranger


Question: 'As a captain in this fabled law enforcement group, Jack Hays was assigned to protect San Antonio'

Answer: Texas Rangers


Question: 'simonsays.com is the web address of this publishing company founded in 1924'

Answer: Simon and Schuster


Question: 'This name for tuberculosis referred to the wasting away of the patient'

Answer: Consumption


Question: 'This "judicious" actor fantasized about Phoebe Cates in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"'

Answer: Judge Reinhold


Question: 'Her "Story" by Andrew Morton was released in March 1999'

Answer: Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'The Green Hornet's car, it shares its name with an Anna Sewell horse'

Answer: Black Beauty


Question: 'The one Kansas opened in 1867 was basically copied from the one in Joliet, Illinois'

Answer: Prison


Question: 'Starring Ben Kingsley, "Murderers Among Us" was a TV biography of this Nazi hunter'

Answer: Simon Wiesenthal


Question: 'Julius Caesar probably suffered from attacks of this, which Shakespeare calls "falling-sickness"'

Answer: Epilepsy


Question: 'An unmarried lady in a German house'

Answer: Fraulein


Question: 'In "Glamorama", this "American Psycho" author takes on the world of supermodels'

Answer: Bret Easton Ellis


Question: 'In the 1960s he played Kato on TV'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'Along with Chief Joseph, Looking Glass was a leader of this Indian tribe'

Answer: Nez Perce


Question: 'Her first Top Ten hit was "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" in 1971'

Answer: Carly Simon


Question: 'Grippe refers to a contagious disease characterized by feverishness, especially this one'

Answer: Influenza


Question: 'It can mean simply to exalt, or more often, to make a god of'

Answer: Deify


Question: 'He tinkered & tailored with "Single and Single" & made it a bestseller'

Answer: John le Carre


Question: 'Buzz in & tell us that this Rimsky-Korsakov piece was the Green Hornet's theme'

Answer: "Flight of the Bumblebee"


Question: 'This legendary marshal joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1873, but only stayed a short time'

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok


Question: 'Roger Moore & Ian Ogilvy have both played this character, also called the Saint, on British TV'

Answer: Simon Templar


Question: 'Visible exhalations of gas or steam, or an old term for depression or hypochondria'

Answer: Vapors


Question: 'He's the Greek god of horses & earthquakes, as well as waters'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'This author of 1970's "The Female Eunuch" is back with "The Whole Woman"'

Answer: Germaine Greer


Question: 'In the 1940 movie serial, Kato was played by Keye Luke, who alsp played this movie detective's number one son'

Answer: Charlie Chan


Question: 'In 1909 Roald Amundsen set his hopes on being here first, then found out Peary had beaten him to it'

Answer: North Pole


Question: 'A nightmare for opposing teams, the Rockets' Hakeem Olajuwon sports this nickname'

Answer: "The Dream"


Question: 'In February 1988, after confessing on live TV to be a sinner, this preacher stepped down from the pulpit'

Answer: Jimmy Swaggart


Question: 'George Cruikshank did classic illustrations of these brothers' fairy tales when they appeared in English'

Answer: Grimm brothers


Question: 'Yugoslavia:<br />1945-1980'

Answer: Marshal Tito


Question: 'From the French for "promise" or "trust", it's one's bride-to-be'

Answer: Fiancee


Question: 'It was John C. Fremont who gave the entrance to San Francisco's bay this name'

Answer: Golden Gate


Question: 'Better-known name of mammoth billiards master Rudolf Wanderone'

Answer: Minnesota Fats


Question: 'Asgard was home to the Norse gods & this most famous palace'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'Best known for her images of the Southwest, she was born in Wisconsin in November 1887'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'India:<br />1947-1964'

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru


Question: 'Derived from Japanese, it's a cotton-filled mattress used on the floor or on a frame; it also makes a nice sofa'

Answer: Futon


Question: 'After serving as governor of Puerto Rico, he was given permission to look for a certain fountain'

Answer: Ponce de Leon


Question: 'One of the rhyming nicknames of the 2-sport Mr. Sanders'

Answer: "Prime Time" or "Neon Deion"


Question: 'After riots by his opponents, St. Paul was arrested & taken to this city where he's believed to have been executed'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Fragonard was an 18th C. exponent of this style whose name is related to barocco, Italian for "Baroque"'

Answer: Rococo


Question: 'Egypt:<br />1970-1981'

Answer: Anwar Sadat


Question: 'In 1957 Strom Thurmond engaged in one for 24 hours & 18 minutes, speaking against a civil rights bill'

Answer: Filibuster


Question: 'When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circle the globe for Spain, he had renounced his citizenship of this country'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'Houston Oiler Billy Johnson's colorful nickname'

Answer: "White Shoes"


Question: 'In voodoo ritual, a houngan is a male one of these; a mambo, female'

Answer: Priest/priestess


Question: 'This "elder" painter whose work is seen here only lived into his 40s'

Answer: Pieter Bruegel


Question: 'West Germany:<br />1949-1963'

Answer: Konrad Adenauer


Question: 'It's the body of an airplane minus the wings, the tail & the engines'

Answer: Fuselage


Question: 'The first Japanese possession the U.S. took in WWII was Kwajalein, an island in the group named for this explorer'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'Golf's Craig Stadler has been tagged with this marine mammal nickname'

Answer: "The Walrus"


Question: 'This man who began his gospel with Jesus & John the Baptist in the wilderness is symbolized by a lion'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'Change one letter in van Dyck to get the name of this master of 15th century Flemish art'

Answer: Jan van Eyck


Question: 'Zaire:<br />1965-1997'

Answer: Mobutu Sese Seko


Question: 'It's the proper term for a tightrope walker in a circus'

Answer: Funambulist


Question: 'Its original name, Wai Momi, & its current name both come from the valuable mollusks once found there'

Answer: Pearl Harbor


Question: 'Names for types of these, including cirrus & nimbus were coined in 1803 by British meteorologist Luke Howard'

Answer: clouds


Question: '"Friday Night Sniffles" could have been a prequel to this 1977 film'

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Question: 'It's how Miller spells "light" in the name of its beer introduced in 1975'

Answer: L-I-T-E


Question:
'British Hanoverian kings:
4. George IV
3. George III
2. This king'

Answer: George II


Question: 'Word that begins the Gettysburg Address'

Answer: 4


Question: 'You might be as "naked as" one of these, Garrulus glandarius'

Answer: a jaybird


Question: 'Physician Robert <br />Graves described exophthalmic goiter, a condition now named for him, which affects this gland'

Answer: the thyroid


Question: '"The Somewhat Impressive Six"--to this 1960 tale'

Answer: The Magnificent Seven


Question: 'It's produced at all 12 of Annheuser-Busch's U.S.-based breweries'

Answer: Bud Light


Question:
'The Presidents:
5. Monroe
4. Madison
3. This guy'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In cricket scoring, it's a duck's egg'

Answer: 0


Question: 'A convict'

Answer: a jailbird


Question: 'In 1881 he immunized farm animals from anthrax in Pouilly-le-Fort, on the outskirts of Paris'

Answer: Pasteur


Question: '"Conceived on the Fourth of October"--to this 1989 biopic'

Answer: Born on the Fourth of July


Question: 'This mile-high product bills itself as "The world's most refreshing beer"'

Answer: Coors Light


Question:
'The periodic table:
4. Beryllium
3. Lithium
2. This element'

Answer: helium


Question: 'Points in a perfect aircraft landing'

Answer: 3


Question: '"Cerebral" word for a foolish or flighty person'

Answer: a birdbrain


Question: 'By 1880 both Edison & British physicist Joseph Wilson Swan had applied for patents on this type of electric lamp'

Answer: an incandescent light bulb


Question: '"Mr. Negative Goes to Med School"--to this 1962 adventure'

Answer: Dr. No


Question: 'Its makers call this Dutch import "One dam good bier"'

Answer: Amstel Light


Question:
'"The 12 Days Of Christmas" gifts:
7. Swans a-swimming
6. Geese a-laying
5. These'

Answer: golden rings


Question: 'The number of legs on a daddy longlegs, aka the harvestman'

Answer: 8


Question: 'Ammunition used to hunt flying game'

Answer: birdshot


Question: 'Georg Grotefend bet some drinking companions that he could decipher this wedge-shaped system of writing, & did in 1802'

Answer: cuneiform


Question: '"Add Primer to Your Conestoga"--to this 1969 musical'

Answer: Paint Your Wagon


Question: '"We have to eat our words.  We swore we'd never make a light beer", the Boston Beer Company says of this light'

Answer: Samuel Adams Light


Question:
'The states:
49. Alaska
48. Arizona
47. This'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy, after the Tuscarora tribe joined'

Answer: 6


Question: 'A horse racing enthusiast, so called for his trackside perch'

Answer: a railbird


Question: '"Voyage in the Dark" author Jean Rhys was born in Dominica; her father was from this U.K. country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'Billy Corgan of this band wasn't Melon Collie when its third album sold over 4 million copies'

Answer: The Smashing Pumpkins


Question: 'It's noted for the size & color of its autumnal flowers'

Answer: a chrysanthemum


Question: 'Cutting taxes is one way to try to keep this downturn from taking the next step into depression'

Answer: a recession


Question: 'The first NASA operations on this Florida promontory were in 1958'

Answer: Cape Canaveral


Question: 'Before it re-ran (& re-ran & re-ran), it ran on CBS beginning in 1951'

Answer: I Love Lucy


Question: 'A prize named for this country's Jacobus van Looy is given every 5 years for one who has excelled as a writer & a painter'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'The Roxy Music song "Pyjamarama" inspired the name of this British girl group'

Answer: Bananarama


Question: 'The nasturtium is so named because of its effect on this sensory organ'

Answer: the nose


Question: 'Today this shortfall is around 10% of GDP, which is scary enough, but in 1943 it was 30% of GDP'

Answer: the budget deficit


Question: 'In 1964 one of these named Cleo caused over $100 million in damage'

Answer: a hurricane


Question: 'Several small items worn on a necklace by hippies'

Answer: love beads


Question: 'Oleg in the 1968 novel "Cancer Ward" is a recent inmate of Soviet labor camps, like this author of the book'

Answer: Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'We hear Shrek is really big on this gal's songs, like "Criminal" & "Shadowboxer"'

Answer: Fiona Apple


Question: 'Oh, the vanity-- these flowers represent egotism, as their mythological name indicates'

Answer: Narcissus flowers


Question: 'In June 2010 President Obama marked the 10,000th roadway project begun with money from this $787 billion infusion'

Answer: the stimulus


Question: 'A monument to this ill-fated 1961 venture stands in the Cuban Memorial Plaza in Miami'

Answer: the Bay of Pigs


Question: 'This environmental disaster area near Niagara Falls is now known as Black Creek Village'

Answer: Love Canal


Question: '"A Sport of Nature" is the story of a black activist's white wife in this, author Nadine Gordimer's homeland'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'This "citrus" electronica band did music for 30 films in the '80s, including "Risky Business" & "Legend"'

Answer: Tangerine Dream


Question: 'The moccasin flower is also known by this other shoe name'

Answer: the lady\'s slipper


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a chart on the monitor.)  The Phillips curve shows that when unemployment is reduced, as by expansionary fiscal policy, the level of this economic threat rises correspondingly'

Answer: inflation


Question: 'In 1947 President Truman dedicated this large South Florida national park'

Answer: the Everglades


Question: 'This Shakespeare play was published in quarto form in 1598'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'This Romanian-born "Rhinoceros" author turned from playwriting to painting in his later years'

Answer: Eugène Ionesco


Question: '"Incense & Peppermints" was the lone hit for this rock aggregate'

Answer: Strawberry Alarm Clock


Question: 'Rise & shine & sing out the name of this flower that often blooms early in the day'

Answer: morning glory


Question: 'In 1954 France became the first large-scale adopter of the VAT, short for this'

Answer: the value-added tax


Question: 'Ending the third of the wars named for them, Billy Bowlegs of this tribe surrendered with his warriors in 1858'

Answer: the Seminole tribe


Question: 'The French call this medieval code that prescribed lovers' behavior amour courtois (& don't say "Courtney")'

Answer: courtly love


Question: 'The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling'

Answer: the burqa


Question: 'His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona'

Answer: Iago


Question: '2-word term for the edible tuber of the genus Ipomoea that's very similar to a yam'

Answer: sweet potato


Question: 'Reptoid, seen here, is this type of vehicle; the fangs might be a clue'

Answer: monster truck


Question: 'She married her boyfriend, cameraman Danny Moder, in a secret midnight ceremony on July 4, 2002'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'I hope to train at Guy's Hospital in this world capital to become a better doctor -- & it's near some good pubs'

Answer: London


Question: 'To scribble drawings aimlessly, usually while doing something else'

Answer: doodle


Question: 'Cicero & Publius are senators in this tragedy'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'Columbus native Buster Douglas was a 1990s champion in this sport dubbed "The Sweet Science"'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'As a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during WWI Ernest Hemingway drove one of these vehicles'

Answer: ambulance


Question: 'This TV "Friend" won critical raves for her role as "The Good Girl" in a 2002 film'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: 'I'm considering this Connecticut med school founded in 1810, but they make you write a thesis'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'Seen here, this popular (comic) strip began in 1970'

Answer: Doonesbury


Question: 'It's the name of Romeo's family'

Answer: Montague


Question: 'Suckle, moon & dew are often preceded by this sweet word'

Answer: honey


Question: 'Most commercial freight on the Mississippi travels in barges pushed by this type of boat'

Answer: tugboat


Question: 'In a 2002 blockbuster, he played both Peter Parker & your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man'

Answer: Tobey Maguire


Question: 'When I was 12 I saved my brother by diagnosing the anaphylactic type of this when he got stung by a bee'

Answer: shock


Question: 'In the song "Camptown Races", it immediately follows "Camptown ladies sing this song..."'

Answer: Doo-dah!


Question: 'King Claudius commissions these 2 minor characters, Hamlet's schoolmates, to spy on Hamlet'

Answer: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern


Question: 'According to the spiritual, one of these is "comin' for to carry me home"'

Answer: sweet chariot


Question: 'This space shuttle that made its maiden voyage in 1992 was built to replace Challenger'

Answer: Endeavour


Question: 'He played Will Freeman in "About a Boy", based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby'

Answer: Hugh Grant


Question: 'As a kid I thought this was a disease, instead of cell division that produces identical daughter cells'

Answer: mitosis


Question: 'Last name of Eliza, the Cockney girl in "My Fair Lady" whom Professor Higgins tries to turn into a lady'

Answer: Doolittle


Question: 'Completes Dick the Butcher's "The first thing we do, let's..."'

Answer: kill all the lawyers


Question: 'Seen here, this insect is eagerly prized by ants for the sweet liquid it produces'

Answer: aphid


Question: 'The railroad known by this hyphenated name runs over 5,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok'

Answer: Trans-Siberian Railroad


Question: 'This star of "XXX" was also the voice of the title character in 1999's "The Iron Giant"'

Answer: Vin Diesel


Question: 'Organic chem is easy once you get this concept of an atom's combining capacity, also applied to some electrons'

Answer: valence


Question: 'Popular 20th century vocal style heard here'

Answer: Doo-wop


Question: 'Buckeye Archie Griffin, B.S. '76, is the only 2-time winner of this college football trophy'

Answer: Heisman Trophy


Question: 'In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland'

Answer: Shetland Islands


Question: 'This site's mission is "to help practically anyone trade practically anything on Earth"'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'He wrote "The Fifth Quarter" under the name John Swithen, a musician at the prom in his novel "Carrie"'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'Preceding "as thieves", it may come from thieves sticking together, or pickpockets sticking close to victims'

Answer: thick


Question: 'The jig is up when this instrument stops playing'

Answer: fiddle


Question: 'For his theory of element generation in nuclear reactions, William Fowler '33 won the Nobel Prize for this'

Answer: physics


Question: 'The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain'

Answer: Moors


Question: 'Since 1998 you can "name your own price" for plane tickets, hotel rooms & more on this website'

Answer: Priceline.com


Question: 'Lady Chatterley knows that Lawrence H. Davison was a pen name of his'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'It follows "heads I win" in an expression meaning the game is fixed'

Answer: tails you lose


Question: 'It's the heavy metal instrument of Caribbean origin heard here'

Answer: steel drums


Question: 'He's sold over 200 million "Goosebumps" books & over 80 million "Fear Street"s'

Answer: R.L. Stine


Question: 'Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue'

Answer: Industrial Revolution


Question: 'Looking for old high school friends?  Try this site, "The World's Best Place to Reunite"'

Answer: Classmates.com


Question: 'In her youth, this Bronte sister wrote under the masculine alias Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley'

Answer: Charlotte Bronte


Question: 'This expression got reversed from its original version, which meant that once you consume dessert, it's gone'

Answer: you can\'t have your cake and eat it too


Question: 'This double reed woodwind can be 4 feet long'

Answer: bassoon


Question: 'The name aside, this clothing company founded by alum Leslie Wexner grew to own brands like Victoria's Secret'

Answer: The Limited


Question: 'This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911'

Answer: Sun Yat-sen


Question: 'You can read some of the classics online at this site named for a Melville short story character'

Answer: Bartleby.com


Question: 'He contributed to the Columbia Review under the name Jean-Louis Incogniteau, perhaps while he was "On the Road"'

Answer: Jack Kerouac


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports)  As a horse gets older, its gums recede, so an elderly one literally is this expression'

Answer: long in the tooth


Question: 'From Spanish for a region of Africa, they're the percussion instruments heard here'

Answer: conga drums


Question: 'Ohio-born realist painter whose best-known work, "Stag at Sharkey's", is seen here'

Answer: George Bellows


Question: '4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'For information on health, beauty, diet, work & even pets, "it takes" this, "the women's network" of websites'

Answer: iVillage.com


Question: '"The Prophet" was a pseudonym used by this "Sister Carrie" author on articles & columns'

Answer: Theodore Dreiser


Question: 'This expression meaning "those in ultimate control" appears in Romans 13:1'

Answer: the powers that be


Question: 'Also called a cembalo, it's the keyboard instrument heard here'

Answer: harpsichord


Question: 'He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'This decoration's origins may go back to Medieval Europe, where it was the main prop in a play about Adam & Eve'

Answer: a Christmas tree


Question: 'This "Star Trek" spin-off that took off in 1995 docked in 2001'

Answer: Star Trek: Voyager


Question: 'San Francisco & New York'

Answer: the Giants


Question: 'The children on his hit TV show were Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa & Rudy'

Answer: Bill Cosby (The Cosby Show accepted)


Question: 'A small lozenge to treat hoarseness'

Answer: a cough drop


Question:
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  The Christmas tune I'm about to sing is based on this song that may have been written by Henry VIII:

"What child is this, who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?"'

Answer: "Greensleeves"


Question: 'The Nobel prize went to 3 men for their studies on the depletion of this layer of the atmosphere'

Answer: the ozone


Question: 'Texas & New York'

Answer: the Rangers


Question: 'Hotels in this Asian capital city include the Children's Castle & Okubo House'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  This is the spicy treat that fits the category'

Answer: a chili dog


Question: 'This kind of calendar used to count the days until Christmas often has a treat behind each window'

Answer: an Advent calendar


Question: 'In a fairy tale wedding, this country's Princess Stephanie married her bodyguard'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'Sacramento & Los Angeles'

Answer: the Kings


Question: 'This river & its branches drain the entire state except for a portion in the northeast'

Answer: the Missouri


Question: 'It's the avian term for the stage in a family's cycle when the children have grown up & left home'

Answer: an empty nest


Question: 'Rodney Ansell, Australia's barefoot bushman, inspired this movie character'

Answer: Crocodile Dundee


Question:
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  It's the familiar Latin title of the following song:

"O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant / O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem"'

Answer: "Adeste Fideles"


Question: 'Over 200 people from around the world made speeches for this organization's 50th anniversary'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'Edmonton & a former Houston team'

Answer: the Oilers


Question: 'In 1973 this village was seized by 200 armed Indians to protest federal Indian policies'

Answer: Wounded Knee


Question: 'He's the former heavyweight champ who named all his sons  after himself'

Answer: George Foreman


Question: 'The leader of the free world traditionally spends some free time at this Maryland retreat'

Answer: Camp David


Question: 'This "Our Town" playwright wrote the libretto for the opera "The Long Christmas Dinner", based on his own play'

Answer: (Thornton) Wilder


Question: 'This Wisconsin city's 2 major papers, the Journal & the Sentinel, brewed up a merger'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Ottawa & a former Washington, D.C. team'

Answer: the Senators


Question: 'In the Bible, his sons gave their names to the tribes of Israel'

Answer: Jacob


Question: 'In the 1920s & '30s the legendary Stanley Walker ran this department of the Herald Tribune'

Answer: the City Desk


Question: 'In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate'

Answer: Gerald Ford


Question: 'Shakespeare's synonyms for this body part include sconce, noll, poll, pash & pate'

Answer: head


Question: 'Worms in this country has a famous cathedral; so does Ulm (but we'd never start a sentence with Ulm)'

Answer: Germany


Question:
'Boston,
Bibb,
iceberg'

Answer: lettuce


Question: 'This "Politically Incorrect" host once described his show as "The McLaughlin Group on acid"'

Answer: Bill Maher


Question: 'Crazy as it sounds, technically an acorn is one of these, a one-seeded fruit with hard walls'

Answer: a nut


Question: 'In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president'

Answer: Hoover


Question: 'Looking for a title for your mystery novel?  Lift this play's "murder most foul" or "not a mouse stirring"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was begun in this architectural style, like Chartres'

Answer: Gothic


Question:
'Vampire,
Masterson,
Louisville Slugger'

Answer: bats


Question: 'He was a writer & supervising producer for "The Simpsons" before hosting his own late-night talk show'

Answer: Conan O\'Brien


Question: 'Among the duties of these hard-working insects is dispersing the seeds of plants like bloodroot'

Answer: an ant


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Waldorf Astoria.)  A circle of five stars marks the doorway of the suite that this U.S. president once lived in'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'In a 1936 production Orson Welles moved the setting of this play from the heath to Haiti'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'This cathedral is the seat of the archbishop of New York City'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s


Question:
'Dessert,
tuning,
pitch'

Answer: forks


Question: 'She's the co-host of "The View" seen here'

Answer: Star Jones


Question: 'The rare production of a seed without this process taking place is called apomixis'

Answer: pollination (or fertilization)


Question: 'At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'Her Uncle Pandarus encourages her affair with Troilus'

Answer: Cressida


Question: 'Construction of this D.C. cathedral began in 1907 & was still going on in the 1990s'

Answer: the National Cathedral


Question:
'An angel,
an airplane,
many large museums'

Answer: winged


Question: 'This singer who hosted a variety series in the '50s had her own talk  show from 1974 to 1980'

Answer: Dinah Shore


Question: 'From the liquid they produce, the sesame & sunflower are known as this type of "seed"'

Answer: oil seeds


Question: 'Before becoming president, he was a professor at Harvard'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: '"As You Like It" is partially set in the forest of this'

Answer: Arden


Question: 'He's the blessed saint honored by that big cathedral in Moscow'

Answer: Basil


Question:
'Thunder,
the tide,
a bowling ball'

Answer: rolling


Question: 'In 1967 his Philadelphia-based show became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy'

Answer: Mike Douglas


Question: 'Unlike seeds of gymnosperms like conifers, the seeds of the flowering plants, also called these, are enclosed'

Answer: angiosperms


Question: 'This 2000 film was the first drama to have an authorized Led Zeppelin tune on its soundtrack'

Answer: Almost Famous


Question: 'Manuel de Falla wrote a suite called "Nights in the Gardens of" this Iberian country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'The wildflower called bloodroot oozes a poisonous sap of this color'

Answer: red


Question: 'This city's Circus Maximus hippodrome could hold 250,000 people, about 1/4 of its population'

Answer: Rome


Question: '("Canadian Mountie")'

Answer: Dudley Do-Right


Question: 'Now semi-retired, this odd cartoonist got his start at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1979'

Answer: Gary Larson


Question: 'Proverbially speaking, "birds of a feather" do this'

Answer: flock together


Question: 'This master of Baroque music composed his 6 "French Suites" for clavichord in the 1720s'

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach


Question: 'As director John Waters could tell you, it's a common hue for flamingos'

Answer: pink


Question: 'From 434 to 445 Bleda ruled the Huns jointly with this man, his brother'

Answer: Attila


Question: '(alliterative Hanna-Barbera pooch)'

Answer: Huckleberry Hound


Question: 'He appeared with Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" & "Apollo 13", & with Nicolas Cage in "Snake Eyes"'

Answer: Gary Sinise


Question: 'In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this'

Answer: kill a mockingbird


Question: 'This composer who took us to Seville in "Carmen" evoked Italy in the suite "Roma"'

Answer: Georges Bizet


Question: 'As far as we know, this heron of the genus Ardea isn't a "people eater"'

Answer: purple


Question: 'Early Lydian coins were made from electrum, an alloy of silver & this'

Answer: gold


Question: '("Have no fear...")'

Answer: Underdog