Question: 'Tokyo was hit by a terrorist nerve gas attack & Kobe was hit by a major one of these, measuring 7.2'

Answer: Earthquake


Question: 'Keri Russell plays a 17-year-old who's a college freshman on this WB drama'

Answer: Felicity


Question: 'This state's senator Alfonse D'Amato was defeated in 1998 by Democratic congressman Chuck Schumer'

Answer: New York


Question: 'This Great Lake has the same name as a Canadian province'

Answer: Lake Ontario


Question: 'Bobby Leach was the 2nd person to go over this in a barrel & survive'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question:
'Cotton candy,
a spider web,
a top'

Answer: Things that are spun


Question: 'On February 7, 1995 Pres. Clinton announced he "struck out" in trying to end this controversial strike'

Answer: Baseball strike


Question: 'James Van Der Beek & Katie Holmes play residents of Capeside on this drama filled with teen angst'

Answer: Dawson\'s Creek


Question: 'This House Judiciary chairman has represented his district near Chicago for 24 years'

Answer: Henry Hyde


Question: 'Regular steamship service is available on this river from Cairo to Aswan'

Answer: Nile


Question: 'It's the country with the 2nd-largest Jewish population'

Answer: Israel


Question:
'Key,
circus,
wedding'

Answer: Rings


Question: 'Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers, was sworn in as its chairwoman in 1995'

Answer: NAACP


Question: 'Glenn Close was the voice of Marge's long-lost mother-in-law on this show'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: 'This Senate majority leader was a Democrat until filing for the GOP primary in a Mississippi House race in 1972'

Answer: Trent Lott


Question: 'It's the river mentioned in the title of the following'

Answer: Danube  ("Blue Danube Waltz")


Question: 'Santa knows the 2nd tallest one of these in the world was built for a nickel co. in Sudbury, my home town'

Answer: Smokestack


Question:
'Ideas,
tents,
horseshoes'

Answer: Things that are pitched


Question: 'After 18 games he defeated Viswanathan Anand 10 1/2 to 7 1/2 to keep his world chess title'

Answer: Garry Kasparov


Question: 'David Boreanaz plays this sensitive & tormented vampire who's in love with a vampire slayer'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'Current biography calls this Missouri congressman "well-groomed with razor-cut red hair"'

Answer: Richard Gephardt


Question: 'Hindus believe that dying in this most sacred of rivers ensures passage to paradise'

Answer: Ganges


Question: 'The 2nd most-used letter in written English, it begins the most-written word'

Answer: T (for the word the)


Question:
'Icebergs,
torpedoes,
loose lips'

Answer: Things that sink ships


Question: 'In February the U.N. voted to send 7,000 peacekeepers to this southern African nation'

Answer: Angola


Question: 'As Cory Matthews, Ben Savage is smitten with Topanga Lawrence on this show'

Answer: Boy Meets World


Question: 'This new California governor is one of the USA's highest paid, with a yearly salary of $156,075'

Answer: Gray Davis


Question: 'Fed by the Kissimmee River, it's the largest freshwater lake in the southern United States'

Answer: Lake Okeechobee


Question: 'It's the 2nd most common element in the moon's, as well as the Earth's crust'

Answer: Silicon


Question:
'An accordion,
a tube of toothpaste,
someone's hand'

Answer: Things that are squeezed


Question: 'Composed of all member nations, this organ of the U.N. has been called the "Town Meeting of the World"'

Answer: General Assembly


Question: 'The movie "Hoosiers" is based on tiny Milan High's 1954 victory over Muncie Central in this sport'

Answer: Basketball


Question: '"Wannabe"'

Answer: the Spice Girls


Question: 'XXX 0000<br />(with the Rockies outlined)'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'In the U.S., one of these units is equal to 3.785 liters, so fill'er up'

Answer: Gallon


Question: 'Sticks of this used by artists for sketching are often made from willow wood'

Answer: Charcoal


Question: 'This foreword to the U.N.charter is similar to the one in our Constitution; it begins, "We the peoples"'

Answer: Preamble


Question: 'In 1989 students at a Cambridge, Mass. school boycotted Coca-Cola to protest its ties to this formerly racist country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: '"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"'

Answer: Paula Cole


Question: 'SAMPLE<br />Vacationland'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'The lowest possible temperature is designated by zero K, or by this phrase'

Answer: Absolute zero


Question: 'Second century playwright Terence wrote the Latin equivalent of the phrase this "begins at home"'

Answer: Charity


Question: 'The elimination of malaria is one of the projects sponsored by this Geneva-based arm of the U.N.'

Answer: WHO (World Health Organization)


Question: 'In 1998 a San Antonio, Texas school was named in honor of this first woman on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor


Question: '"I Believe I Can Fly"'

Answer: R. Kelly


Question: '0 0000<br />(with a drawing of a cowboy)'

Answer: Wyoming


Question: 'This common measure was originally the area a yoke of oxen could plow in a day'

Answer: Acre


Question: 'It's said this term for a cramp of an arm or leg muscle originated in baseball in the 1880s'

Answer: Charley horse


Question: 'The U.N. flag features a map of the world surrounded by a wreath of these'

Answer: Olive leaves/branches


Question: 'Students at a real high school, Aviation High in Queens, fix planes at this "presidential" airport'

Answer: JFK


Question: '"Take a Bow",<br />"The Power of Good-Bye"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: '301-JRJ<br />Evergreen State'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Run this metric distance & it's the same as 6.214 miles'

Answer: 10 kilometers


Question: 'This largest city in the 2 Carolinas is one of the nation's leading textile production centers'

Answer: Charlotte


Question: 'Vatican City, Moldova & this country are the only European states which do not belong to the U.N.'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'You can join junior ROTC at Kemper, the oldest school of this type west of the Mississippi'

Answer: Military school


Question: '"Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)"'

Answer: Green Day


Question: 'EPL 024<br />Sportsman's Paradise'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'This unit of radiation is named for the physicist who discovered X-rays'

Answer: Roentgen


Question: 'It's a clear light green color with a yellowish tinge'

Answer: Chartreuse


Question: 'In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Spores are often scattered by these windblown plants: as the song says, they're "drifting along with the tumbling"...'

Answer: tumbleweeds


Question: 'Roger Goodell'

Answer: the NFL


Question: 'Nixon made the second Monday of October a national holiday & called it this'

Answer: Columbus Day


Question: 'When dropped onto a granite block from 100 inches, this sport's white & yellow balls must bounce between 53" & 58"'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'It's the second-largest member of the violin family'

Answer: the cello


Question: 'Mongolia's annual Naadam festival includes archery, wrestling & the racing of   these animals'

Answer: horses


Question: 'Spores are produced by green plants, bacteria & these, including yeasts, smuts & molds'

Answer: fungi


Question: 'Bud Selig'

Answer: Major League Baseball


Question: 'Celebrating the 1862 Batalla de Puebla, this day is sometimes confused with Mexican Independence Day'

Answer: Cinco de Mayo


Question: 'In August 1812 a U.S. frigate got this nickname when British cannonballs were seen to bounce off its thick oak hull'

Answer: the Ironsides (Old Ironsides)


Question: 'A deep shout or roar'

Answer: a bellow


Question: 'Navigable but carrying little traffic, the Selenge River forms part of Mongolia's border with this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Unlike gametes, spores can do this all by themselves". Hubba hubba!'

Answer: reproduce


Question: 'David Stern'

Answer: the NBA


Question: 'In the U.S. September 17 is this day that celebrates a certain signing'

Answer: the Constitution (Day)


Question: 'George Nissen & Larry Griswold made the first modern one of these in 1935 using an iron frame & a piece of canvas'

Answer: a trampoline


Question: 'In a lyric from "The King and I", it precedes "young lovers, whoever you are"'

Answer: hello


Question: 'The name of the leading Mongolian newspaper Unen, just like Pravda, translates as this'

Answer: truth


Question: 'In trees of this cone-bearing order such as the Douglas fir, males carry micro-spores: females, megaspores'

Answer: conifers


Question: 'Gary Bettman'

Answer: the NHL


Question: 'Formerly Dominion Day, it recognizes the July 1 date of the first British colony to become a dominion'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Radio signals were bounced off this object for the first time during Project Diana on January 10, 1946'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'He played a pizzeria owner in "Do the Right Thing"'

Answer: Danny Aiello


Question: 'The only international airport in Mongolia bears the name of this 13th century Mongol'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'In this type of nonflowering plant, such as the staghorn, spores function much like seeds'

Answer: ferns


Question: 'Bart Giamatti (once)'

Answer: Major League Baseball


Question: 'For this Asian holiday, firecrackers are thought to scare away the arrival of the murderous beast Nien'

Answer: Chinese New Year


Question: 'In 1907 the Gabriel Company received the first U.S. patent for this type of device that dampens a car's bounce'

Answer: shock absorbers


Question: 'A peer, or a member of a college's governing board'

Answer: a fellow


Question: 'With more than 400 monks, Mongolia's Gandan Monastery is a leading national center of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'In 1513, while returning to Puerto Rico from Florida, he discovered the Dry Tortugas'

Answer: Ponce de Leon


Question: '"Frasier"'

Answer: Seattle


Question: 'In 1936 a Robert Frost collection sold 50,000 copies as a selection of this club'

Answer: the Book of the Month Club


Question: 'It's a derogatory term meaning a foreign trip taken by members of Congress at the public expense'

Answer: a junket


Question: 'This longtime maestro of the Boston Pops Orchestra is honored with an oversized bust on the Esplanade'

Answer: Arthur Fiedler


Question: 'An Eskimo house'

Answer: an igloo


Question: 'On Sunday, September 25, 1513 he climbed a peak accompanied only by his dog & saw the Pacific Ocean'

Answer: Balboa


Question: '"The Drew Carey Show"'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'As Shakespeare was the Sweet this bird of Avon, Anna "Elegy on Captain Cook" Seward was this bird of Lichfield'

Answer: Swan


Question: 'This passageway refers to the space dividing the majority party from the minority'

Answer: the (center) aisle


Question: 'A 2002 book about this Italian-born conductor was subtitled "The NBC Years"'

Answer: Arturo Toscanini


Question: 'A low volume expression of pain'

Answer: a moan


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  In 1792,  when George Vancouver sailed up the west coast of North America & surveyed & named the Puget Sound for a shipmate, he named this mountain on the mainland for a rear admiral friend'

Answer: Mt. Rainier


Question: '"Laverne and Shirley" (the first 5 seasons)'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'In 2002, this company came out with a product line featuring 2-line Maya Angelou poems'

Answer: Hallmark Cards


Question: 'This synonym for "room" is used for the assembly room where senators gather on the floor to debate & vote'

Answer: the Senate Chamber


Question: 'Associated with the New York Philharmonic for 40 years, he wrote the score to the film "On the Waterfront"'

Answer: Leonard Bernstein


Question: 'A temporary provision of money (usually at interest)'

Answer: a loan


Question: 'In 1596 Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the Book "Discoverie of Guiana", Guiana being the area between the Amazon & this river'

Answer: the Orinoco


Question: '"The Office"'

Answer: Scranton


Question: 'Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'This son of a Polish cabinetmaker is probably best known as the conductor in Disney's "Fantasia"'

Answer: Leopold Stokowski


Question: 'A soccer scooooooore!'

Answer: a goal


Question: 'This founder of Quebec, not the Pilgrims, was the first to give a detailed account of the Cape Cod area'

Answer: Samuel de Champlain


Question: '"The Big Bang Theory"'

Answer: Pasadena


Question: 'This poet laureate's "Enoch Arden" sold 17,000 copies on its publication day in 1864'

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Question: 'Senate Rule 22 governs this procedure used to end filibusters that requires 60 votes to succeed'

Answer: a cloture


Question: 'In 2009 this young Venezuelan became the 11th music director in the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic'

Answer: Gustavo Dudamel


Question: 'A body of water cut off from a larger body of water by a reef of sand'

Answer: a lagoon


Question: 'Britain's oldest known scrap of material called this, sometimes identified as shepherd's plaid, dates from 250 A.D.'

Answer: tartan


Question: 'Chapter I is called this, though it technically should have been "The Tornado"'

Answer: "The Cyclone"


Question: '1987:<br />"Appetite For Destruction"'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: 'The U.S. Steel Tower towers 841 feet above this steel-making city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Supermodel Macpherson'

Answer: Elle


Question: 'It's the Latin name for a female sex cell'

Answer: ovum (or ova)


Question: 'Sinai or Yucatan, for example'

Answer: a peninsula


Question: 'Chapter II is "The Council with" these people, who are about as tall as Dorothy'

Answer: the Munchkins


Question: '1962:<br />"Surfin' Safari"'

Answer: The Beach Boys


Question: 'In the center of the picture is the Transamerica Pyramid, a real high point of this West Coast city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'A man's name, or a float on a fishing line'

Answer: Bob


Question: 'In 1982 scientists manipulated this rodent's sex cells to create a "mighty" version twice the normal size'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'Flipping pancakes is one of the many uses of this kitchen tool with a broad, flat blade'

Answer: a spatula


Question: 'Shades of Scrooge?  Chapter XVI is "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word for "impostor"'

Answer: humbug


Question: '1967:<br />"Are You Experienced"'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'The tallest building in a state capital is the Bank of America Plaza on Peachtree St. in this city'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'Mrs. Leonowens, a governess to the Siamese court in the 1860s'

Answer: Anna


Question: 'The male sex cells of flowering plants are carried to the female cells via this dusty stuff'

Answer: pollen


Question:
'At almost a foot in leg span, the largest variety of this arachnid is the Goliath bird-eater
of South America'

Answer: a tarantula


Question: 'Chapter XIV is named for these flying creatures'

Answer: (winged) monkeys


Question: '2002:<br />"Come Away With Me"'

Answer: Norah Jones


Question: 'Tall buildings in this city include One Federal St. & One Beacon St.'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'First name of the actress who married Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw & Frank Sinatra'

Answer: Ava


Question: 'From the Greek name of 2 gods, it's an organism that produces both male & female sex cells'

Answer: a hermaphrodite


Question: 'It runs alongside your tibia'

Answer: the fibula


Question: '"How" this "Was Launched" is the title of chapter XVII'

Answer: the balloon


Question: '2000:<br />"Parachutes"'

Answer: Coldplay


Question: 'A historic New York skyscraper was completed in 1913 to house the headquarters of this five-and-dime store'

Answer: Woolworth


Question: 'In the 10th century 3 Holy Roman Emperors sported this palindromic name'

Answer: Otto


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a cell dividing on the monitor.)  Human sex cells are created via this genetic process, in which one parent cell splits into four daughter cells'

Answer: meiosis


Question: 'The Horsehead one of these is seen here'

Answer: a nebula


Question: 'His brother Buck Barrow was released from a Texas prison in 1933; he was killed by Iowa police later that year'

Answer: Clyde Barrow


Question: 'As Mars bought this company for $23 billion in 2008, we await the introduction of Snickers gum'

Answer: Wrigley


Question: 'Costing $17 million & making back... less, "Shanghai Surprise" starred the then-husband & wife team of Madonna & him'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'This Yankee shortstop's turn 2 foundation motivates kids to turn away from drugs & alcohol'

Answer: (Derek) Jeter


Question: 'Ja, Dusseldorf is an important port on this river'

Answer: the Rhine


Question: 'The surveillance of a location by the police who are "on" one'

Answer: a stakeout


Question: 'Nickname of would-be assassin Lynette Fromme, released from a Fort Worth prison hospital in 2009'

Answer: "Squeaky"


Question: 'This firm that tabulates Oscar balloting has had Coopers on the end of its name since a 1998 merger'

Answer: Price Waterhouse


Question: '2006's "Zyzzyx Road" cost $2 million, earned $30 (yes, $30) in the U.S. & starred her, Izzie on "Grey's Anatomy"'

Answer: Katherine Heigl


Question: 'It's the numerical term for the car maneuver seen here'

Answer: the 3-point turn


Question: 'The Chira River forms part of Ecuador's southern border with this country'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'If I were to end the show now, I'd say to our director, hey Kevin, use this effect'

Answer: a fade-out


Question: 'A story says that the gov. of Texas freed Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed this, after Huddie sang him a song'

Answer: "Leadbelly"


Question: 'In a 2009 alliance, this Italian company got 20% of Chrysler'

Answer: Fiat


Question: 'Her "Catwoman" was a box office disappointment, but still she gallantly showed up to accept a Razzie'

Answer: Halle Berry


Question: '8-letter "clothing" term describing one who disloyally changes sides'

Answer: a turncoat


Question: 'Have some pizza in Pisa, Italy as you sail down this river with a 4-letter name'

Answer: the Arno


Question: 'Very offensive, or the word Hamlet uses to describe "Fortune"'

Answer: outrageous


Question: 'Rushed from his Texas prison cell, he died of cancer in 1967 in the same hospital as the man he killed in 1963'

Answer: Jack Ruby


Question: 'In 2009 Merck & Schering-Plough, which already co-marketed Zetia & Vytorin to fight this, announced a $41 billion merger'

Answer: cholesterol


Question: 'This 1986 George Lucas film was fowl, costing a then-whopping $37 million & making back less than half domestically'

Answer: Howard the Duck


Question: 'This service from GM is a "turn-by-turn navigation system" that gives "directions at the touch of a button"'

Answer: OnStar


Question: 'It's the appropriate "colorful" name of the river that runs through Hanoi'

Answer: the Red River


Question: 'It's the transport seen here'

Answer: an outrigger canoe


Question: 'In 1986 this member of The Byrds spent 5 months in Huntsville on drug charges & worked with the rodeo band'

Answer: David Crosby


Question: 'In 2004 this Armenian-American dealmaker sold MGM for the third time'

Answer: Kirk Kerkorian


Question: 'It cost $44 million to make this 1980 Michael Cimino pic, said to have earned around $5 million'

Answer: Heaven\'s Gate


Question: 'It's a rhyming-named barrel organ played by turning a crank, man'

Answer: a hurdy-gurdy


Question: 'With its tributaries, this eastern Canadian river is navigable for more than 1,900 miles'

Answer: the Saint Lawrence


Question: 'A computer device, or a tool that hollows or furrows items'

Answer: a router


Question: 'The basis of this show that won a Best Musical Tony & a Pulitzer was a collection of stories that won the Pulitzer in 1948'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'He launched his Polo sport line in 1993 -- what a sport!'

Answer: Ralph Lauren


Question: 'It's party time in New Orleans when you hear "If Ever I Cease to Love You", the official song of this festival'

Answer: Mardi Gras


Question: 'This supermodel can be seen wearing an Omega wristwatch in the magazine whose name is her first name'

Answer: Elle Macpherson


Question: 'It's where Fats Domino found his thrill in 1956'

Answer: "Blueberry Hill"


Question: 'Stars in front of this famous theater include Basil Rathbone's, William Shatner's & Billy Graham's'

Answer: Grauman\'s/Mann\'s Chinese Theater


Question: 'She's the DK in DKNY'

Answer: Donna Karan


Question: 'Sports fans love this kind of picnic, often held in a parking lot & named for part of a car'

Answer: tailgate


Question: 'The famous black shirt of this country singer who walked the line hangs on the line in Arrow ads'

Answer: Johnny Cash


Question: 'Pick me up some spices if you're going to this Simon & Garfunkel "Fair"'

Answer: "Scarborough Fair"


Question: 'Marilyn Monroe's "McStar" shines in front of this Hollywood Boulevard eatery'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'This designer of Tommy jeans opened his flagship store in Beverly Hills in 1997'

Answer: Tommy Hifiger


Question: 'This word for a festive dance party may be an alteration of shindy, a synonym for an uproar'

Answer: shindig


Question: 'Exuberant Fox football analyst & ex-coach who's the spokesman for Ace Hardware'

Answer: John Madden


Question: 'City mentioned in the title of the TV show whose theme is heard here:'

Answer: Beverly Hills, 90210


Question: 'The stars run east & west on Hollywood Boulevard, & north & south on this street'

Answer: Vine Street


Question: 'In July 1997 Carla Bruni & Eva Herzigova were among the models paying final respects to this designer in Milan'

Answer: Gianni Versace


Question: 'At 22,205 feet, Guinness says the highest dinner party was in Peru, atop Mt. Huascaran in these mountains'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'For all one's shopping needs, Rosie O'Donnell & Penny Marshall sing the praises of this national retailer'

Answer: K-Mart


Question: '"Start spreading the news", Ol' Blue Eyes made it here'

Answer: New York


Question: 'He's the only U.S. president you can step on'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'In 1980s TV ads nothing got between Brooke Shields & this designer's jeans'

Answer: Calvin Klein


Question: 'Schussboomers know the name of this after-schussing party contains the French word for "after"'

Answer: Apres-ski


Question: 'Kurt Vonnegut drew a self-portrait for this Swedish vodka's ubiquitous campaign'

Answer: Absolut


Question: 'This "house in New Orleans" has "been the ruin of many a poor boy"'

Answer: The House of the Rising Sun


Question: 'You don't have to "Imagine" that this musician's star is in front of Capitol Records...that's where it is'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'The pups of the harp species of these are known as whitecoats'

Answer: seals


Question: 'With this feature your phone beeps to let you talk to someone you may like more than the person on the line'

Answer: call waiting


Question: 'Famous blonde of the '30s who said, "When women go wrong, men go right after them"'

Answer: Mae West


Question: 'Recent commercials for this restaurant chain feature founder Dave Thomas answering his mail'

Answer: Wendy\'s


Question: 'He reportedly said he would've paid the studio for the chance to direct his first film, "Play Misty for Me"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'First aid books say if this happens, you should "stop, drop & roll"'

Answer: if you get on fire


Question: 'Aw, wook at the doggy; this breed has been around China for over 2,000 years:'

Answer: chow


Question: 'Woodrow Wilson was the first U.S. president to hold one of these open audiences with reporters'

Answer: press conference


Question: 'This Round Table wit required "Only 3 things of a man.  He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid"'

Answer: Dorothy Parker


Question: 'He was in his 60s when he put on a white suit & traveled the country to franchise his chicken recipe'

Answer: Colonel Sanders


Question: 'Rap star & underwear model who played porn star Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights"'

Answer: Mark Wahlberg


Question: 'It's what's rolled out in the following:'

Answer: the barrel


Question: 'Once ensconced in a eucalyptus tree, these marsupials, whose name means "no drink", may stay for days'

Answer: koala bears


Question: 'To transmit signals, these vehicles usually maintain orbits above a fixed point on the globe'

Answer: satellites


Question: 'She once said, "The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people"'

Answer: Dian Fossey


Question: 'In 1962 Glen Bell opened the first of these fast food restaurants in Downey, California'

Answer: Taco Bell


Question: '(Hi, I'm Traci Bingham)  This "Baywatch" star was once a centerfold...a centerfold in the May 1990 issue of Cosmopolitan'

Answer: David Hasselhoff


Question: 'The Virginia or white-tailed species of this is found as far south as South America'

Answer: deer


Question: 'Samuel Goldwyn was quoted as saying movies "are entertainment", these "should be delivered by Western Union"'

Answer: messages


Question: 'This "All I Wanna Do" singer said, "To turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion"'

Answer: Sheryl Crow


Question: 'On Labor Day weekend 1997, this "royal" chain introduced a 2 patty burger to compete with the Big Mac'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'She was once the talk of the town, the town of Braselton, Georgia; she owned it for a while'

Answer: Kim Basinger


Question: 'In Japanese restaurants hosomaki are thin rolls of this; futomaki, thick ones'

Answer: sushi


Question: 'Beatrix Potter found this rodent "Nutkin" special'

Answer: squirrel


Question: 'This man, whose speeches inspired the Russian Revolution, lost his speech after a series of strokes'

Answer: Lenin


Question: 'In "Out on a Limb" this actress mused, "Perhaps our belief in death was the gravest unreality of all"'

Answer: Shirley MacLaine


Question: 'This chain of seafood shoppes is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, a long way from "Treasure Island"'

Answer: Long John Silver\'s


Question: 'Marcel Marceau wrote a tribute to this late red-haired comedian for the Oct. 11, 1997 TV Guide'

Answer: Red Skelton


Question: 'For your information, this series that premiered in 1988 is TV's longest-running sitcom still on the air'

Answer: Murphy Brown


Question: '2 of the 3 nations where most Kurds live today'

Answer: (2 of) Iraq, Iran, & Turkey


Question: 'Poor Jack Bauer--he always seems to be having a really bad day on this Fox drama'

Answer: 24


Question: 'A general aviation airport 12 miles south of Dayton, Ohio is named for these 2 men'

Answer: the Wright Brothers


Question: 'A male turkey'

Answer: a tom


Question: '2-word term for a written notice that you've been fired'

Answer: pink slip


Question: '1 reason sharks are successful predators is that large bulbs in their brains are used for this sense'

Answer: smell


Question: 'In the 1940s some Kurds formed the short-lived Mahabad Republic with this Communist country's help'

Answer: the Soviet Union


Question: 'The title of this sitcom refers to characters played by Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer & Angus T. Jones'

Answer: Two and a Half Men


Question: 'The airport in Pisa, Italy is named for this scientist who performed a few experiments from the city's famous leaning tower'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'Marry someone much younger & you do this to "the cradle"'

Answer: rob


Question: 'Colonies of this pink wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae have been obvserved high in the Andes'

Answer: flamingoes


Question: 'This Milne character is described as a bear of very little brain'

Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh


Question: 'Encouraged by the U.S. following the first Gulf War, the Kurds rose up against this dictator in 1991'

Answer: Saddam Hussein


Question: 'Despite having a series finale, this show about the Camden family was resurrected for an 11th season; it must've been in...'

Answer: 7th Heaven


Question: 'Kalamazoo, Michigan shares its airport with this "Cereal City"'

Answer: Battle Creek


Question: 'Literally a knockout of a drink'

Answer: a mickey


Question: 'The little pink packets of this sugar substitute are the product of Brooklyn-based Cumberland Packing Corp.'

Answer: Sweet\'N Low


Question: 'In 1978 New Jersey Monthly reporter Steven Levy famously found this man's brain'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'The Kurds almost got their own homeland following this war, but the Treaty of Sevres was abrogated'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'Tina Fey is the head writer of the sketch-comedy show within this NBC sitcom'

Answer: 30 Rock


Question: 'CDG, the international code for this Paris airport, stands for the name of a former French president'

Answer: Charles de Gaulle


Question: 'For tuning many guitars, each string is attached to this'

Answer: a peg


Question: 'This itchy inflammation is medically known as conjunctivitis'

Answer: pinkeye


Question: 'Greek scientist Herophilus distinguished the cerebellum, the small part of the brain, from this larger part'

Answer: the cerebrum


Question: 'This important political party, the KDP, was founded in 1946'

Answer: the Kurdish Democratic Party


Question: 'Matthew Perry & Bradley Whitford star in this behind-the-scenes look at a late-night sketch-comedy show'

Answer: Studio 60


Question: 'Poland's largest airport is located in Warsaw & named for this composer'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'In sociology, it's behavior that's expected or standard'

Answer: norm


Question: 'For years at the Huntington Gallery, Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie" appropriately faced this painting by Gainsborough'

Answer: The Blue Boy


Question: 'Brains are actually good brain food, as they're rich in proteins, vitamins & this element, symbol P'

Answer: phosphorus


Question: 'The person employed to clean & maintain a building'

Answer: the janitor


Question: '( Jimmy of the Clue Crew goes to the mat at the University of Iowa.)  Single leg or double leg, this type of wrestling takedown shares its name with the act of bringing down a football player'

Answer: a tackle


Question: 'The Austrian area of these mountains peaks at 12,457-foot Grossglockner'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'It's traditional to top ham with glazed rings of this tropical fruit'

Answer: pineapple


Question: 'This duo famous for their late 19th century operettas were both Freemasons'

Answer: Gilbert & Sullivan


Question: 'First staged in 1913, this play was the basis for "My Fair Lady"'

Answer: Pygmalion


Question: 'Hadrian's predecessor as Roman emperor, his column in Rome commemorates his victories'

Answer: Trajan


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue  from the University of Iowa.)  In one starting position the wrestler in the bottom is said to be in "par terre", French for on this'

Answer: on the ground (on the earth accepted)


Question: 'Puntarenas & Limon are coastal cities in this country whose name includes the Spanish word for "coast"'

Answer: Costa Rica


Question: 'Beurre d'Anjou, a variety of this fruit, is thought to have originated in France; it was introduced into the U.S. in 1842'

Answer: a pear


Question: 'Country music legend & Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff was a member of Lodge No. 560 in this city'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'In an Ibsen play, this title character is married to Jorgen Tesman'

Answer: Hedda Gabler


Question: 'Evans or Reno'

Answer: Janet


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew grapples with another clue from the University of Iowa.)  To get one of these--& win the match--the shoulders have to be pinned to the mat for 1 second--2 seconds in high school'

Answer: a fall


Question: 'The Libyan desert strays from Libya into these 2 eastern neighbors'

Answer: Egypt & The Sudan


Question: 'In the 1970s the sugar snap variety of this veggie was created when snow & green varieties were crossed'

Answer: peas


Question: 'This Austrian's final opera in 1791 had a Masonic theme & a libretto by fellow Mason Emanuel Schikaneder'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'This Neil Simon play takes place in 1937 at the Booklyn home of Jack & Kate Jerome'

Answer: Brighton Beach Memoirs


Question: 'This god's principal temple in the forum had a 2-faced statue of him, near doors facing east & west'

Answer: Janus


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew is back in the gym at the University of Iowa.)  Olympic wrestling consists of two styles: freestyle & this, in which the legs can't be used in attack or defense'

Answer: Greco-Roman


Question: 'You'll find Livorno & Firenze in this region, once a Grand Duchy & now a grand place to vacation'

Answer: Tuscany


Question: 'Although this cruciferous vegetable is usually seen with white florets, green & purple are also available'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: 'This composer & Freemason belonged to Suomi Lodge No. 1 in Helsinki'

Answer: Sibelius


Question: 'Samuel Beckett wrote "Waiting for Godot"; Clifford Odets wrote "Waiting for" this man'

Answer: Lefty


Question: '"AZ" is the international road vehicle symbol of this nation to the north of Iran'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the final blow from the University of Iowa.)  This takedown is named for the way an injured person might be taken out of a burning building'

Answer: a fireman\'s carry


Question: 'The St. Lawrence River leaves this lake at Kingson'

Answer: Lake Ontario


Question: 'Unlike most varieties of this fruit, the calimyrna is pollinated by wasps; it's not self-pollinating'

Answer: a fig


Question: 'He invented an instrument named for him & was a member of the Belgian Lodge Les Vrais Amis de l'Union'

Answer: Adolphe Sax


Question: 'In this David Henry Hwang drama a French diplomat has a love affair with an opera diva who turns out to be a he'

Answer: M. Butterfly


Question: 'General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'It joins Yokohama in a Metro area home to more than 30 million people'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'In "The Wizard of Oz", the Wicked Witch of the West watches these disappear & then finds them on Dorothy'

Answer: ruby slippers


Question: 'Make room for guacamole & head to Fallbrook, California for its festival of this fruit'

Answer: avocado


Question: 'Like mice, chipmunks belong to this order of mammals'

Answer: rodentia


Question: 'With the familiar 4-note opener, his Fifth Symphony has been called "the most popular orchestral work ever written"'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'The cost to ride a bus or subway'

Answer: fare


Question: 'The Maly & Bolshoi theaters are on its Teatralnaya Square'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'In this holiday classic, Ralphie's dad's "leg lamp" causes quite a stir'

Answer: A Christmas Story


Question: 'Bridge City, Louisiana is famous for this festival where a lot of stewing goes on--seafood or chicken?'

Answer: gumbo


Question: 'Down Under, a male one of these is called a buck, Boomer or jack'

Answer: a kangaroo


Question: 'Our fifth president, he moved into a renovated post-torching White House'

Answer: Monroe


Question: 'Extremely uncommon, or how I like my steak'

Answer: rare


Question: 'It fell to British troops in 1917 & to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert'

Answer: airplanes


Question: 'You'll find deep dish pizza & more at the "Taste of" this city, in Grant Park'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Our domesticated hogs are descended from these "wild" mammals of Europe'

Answer: wild boars


Question: 'This fifth book of the Bible ends with the death of Moses'

Answer: Deuteronomy


Question: 'Exercise rail used by ballet dancers'

Answer: barre


Question: 'Once the capital of Spain's New World empire, this South American city was founded by Pizarro in 1535'

Answer: Lima


Question: 'This shiny title object from a 2007 fantasy film is actually an alethiometer, which cryptically answers questions'

Answer: The Golden Compass


Question: 'The largest ethnic festival in Arkansas highlights foods from this country, like gyros & souvlaki'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'The daily diet for this toothless mammal is some 30,000 termites & the insect in its name'

Answer: an anteater


Question: 'The first American in space, he would later become the fifth man on the Moon'

Answer: (Alan) Shepard


Question: 'Grain for sandwich bread'

Answer: rye


Question: 'The Rideau canal separates this North American capital into upper & lower regions'

Answer: Ottawa


Question: 'When Jimmy Stewart finds these items from his daughter Zuzu in his pocket in "It's a Wonderful Life", all is well'

Answer: the flower petals


Question: 'The Valparaiso Popcorn Festival in Indiana has a parade named for this man, America's popcorn king'

Answer: Orville Redenbacher


Question: 'One of 2 living water mammals, also called sea cows, that belong to the order sirenia'

Answer: manatees (or dugongs)


Question: 'You get a B if you know it's the fifth element on the periodic table'

Answer: boron


Question: 'For Mercury it's only 88 days long'

Answer: a year


Question: 'In books 1 through 4 of his "Elements", he covered the rudiments of plane geometry'

Answer: Euclid


Question: 'Though the show has ended, Joss Whedon still writes graphic novels about Angel & this title character'

Answer: Buffy


Question: 'Elementary classroom culture & management is an offering from Stanford's school of this'

Answer: Education


Question: 'United States Military Academy (class of 1843)'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'A 17th-century holder of this holy office in a 20th-century portrait'

Answer: the Pope


Question: 'This "pleased" company is known for its drawstring trash bags'

Answer: Glad


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)  Two or more circles that have the same center point are said to be this, from the Latin for "together center"'

Answer: concentric


Question: '"The Photographer" Chronicles a trip to Afghanistan with this medical humanitarian organization'

Answer: Doctors Without Borders


Question: 'In the name of a Penn department, Earth Studies is paired with these earth-friendly studies'

Answer: Environmental Studies


Question: 'William & Mary College (class of 1762)'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'This English king in his coronation robes, a 1760 work by Allan Ramsay'

Answer: Geroge III


Question: 'Rapture, or the first name of Ms. Behar of "The View"... so what? who cares?'

Answer: Joy


Question: 'You deserve straight As if you know that a straight angle has this many degrees'

Answer: 180


Question: 'A graphic novel by Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele was the basis for this Bruce Willis film about androids that live for users'

Answer: Surrogates


Question: 'Don't bug me!  I'm doing my reading for this class in which we study insects'

Answer: entomology


Question: 'University of Michigan (class of 1935)'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'This person seen here by Rembrandt, not Whistler'

Answer: the artist\'s mother


Question: 'In titles, it precedes "Adventures of Robin Hood" & "Wives of Windsor"'

Answer: Merry


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)  Because the angle here is more than 90 degrees, both the angle & the triangle are classified as this'

Answer: obtuse


Question: 'Tim Hamilton illustrated the authorized adaptation of this dystopian classic by Ray Bradbury'

Answer: Fahrenheit 451


Question: 'At Harvard, Introduction to Game Theory is a course on this'

Answer: economics


Question: 'Yale University (class of 1948)'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'This super-impressionist, by fellow painter Renoir, 1875'

Answer: Monet


Question: 'Greatly pleased, you're said to be this verb "pink" but to me, that sounds awful!'

Answer: tickled


Question: 'When carried out to 5 decimal places, pi equals this'

Answer: 3.14159


Question: 'Art Spiegelman tackled the holocaust in this graphic novel that portrayed Germans as cats'

Answer: Maus


Question: 'Often paired with public health, it's the branch of medicine that deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases'

Answer: epidemiology


Question: 'Whittier College (class of 1934)'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'Seen here, Giovanni, a younger member of this Tuscan family'

Answer: the de\' Medicis


Question: 'Ron Burgundy sang--but I won't--"a-uh-aa-aa-aa... afternoon" this'

Answer: delight


Question: 'At above 7,000 feet, this western hemisphere city had the highest altitude ever of a Summer Olympics host city'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'Future major leaguer Casey Kotchman hit .456 to help lead Seminole High in this state to the 2001 national title'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456 ...'

Answer: (Edmund) Halley


Question: 'This 10-letter word refers to one's partner in crime, perhaps as an accessory'

Answer: an accomplice


Question: 'DNA is a double one of these'

Answer: a helix


Question: 'In 1900, the population of this capital was about 6,000; by 1960, it had exploded to 34,000'

Answer: Boise


Question: 'A simile is a comparison usually including the word "like" or this'

Answer: as


Question: 'He made the Hall of Fame as a Yankees manager, but he also batted .284 in 14 big-league seasons'

Answer: Casey Stengel


Question: 'Dutchamn Willem Schouten, who rounded this dangerous tip of South America in 1616, named it for his birthplace'

Answer: Cape Horn


Question: 'This unit of measure also means to move by small degrees'

Answer: inch


Question: 'Something deltoid resembles this basic geometric shape'

Answer: a triangle


Question: 'Resburg has an Idaho branch of this man's university; you may be more familiar with the one in Provo, Utah'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'They combine to make an "F" sound'

Answer: "G" and "H"


Question: 'From 1999 to 2005, Sean Casey batted .300 or better 5 times in 7 seasons for this Ohio team'

Answer: (Cincinnati Reds)


Question: 'For nearly 40 years, until 1679, New Hampshire was part of this colony'

Answer: Massachusetts Bay Colony


Question: 'One who makes a brief but intense effort & enjoys short-lived success is this "in the pan"'

Answer: a flash


Question: 'In Spanish it's nosotros'

Answer: we


Question: 'Casey Candaele played 9 seasons in the majors; his mom Helen played ball too, & helped inspire this 1992 film'

Answer: A League of Their Own


Question: 'The oldest opera for which complete music still exists is Jacopo Peri's 1600 work about this lover of Orpheus'

Answer: Euridice


Question: 'This 2-word term can refer to a spicy sausage or a piece of highlighted text on a web page'

Answer: hot link


Question: 'Something pinnate is shaped like this (it's what "pinna" means in Latin)'

Answer: feather


Question: 'In Caesar's time it was 90'

Answer: XC


Question: 'Joe Casey batted .152 for the 1911 Detroit Tigers; this Georgia-born teammate batted .420'

Answer: Ty Cobb


Question: 'After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611'

Answer: Henry Hudson


Question: 'This 4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the Vulgate Bible or to any documents of doubtful origin'

Answer: apocryphal


Question: 'The Earth is this type of spheroid, meaning flattened at the poles'

Answer: oblate


Question: 'The bottom right pair of letters, it's a U.S. state postal abbreviation'

Answer: NM


Question: 'Give this man a "prize"!  He used his newspaper, the World, to help raise funds for the Statue's pedestal'

Answer: Pulitzer


Question: 'Wrestler Steve Williams adopted this surname in tribute to Lee Majors' superhuman TV character'

Answer: Austin


Question: 'Cirrhosis'

Answer: the liver


Question: 'Entitled to free copies of all books printed in Britain, the Bodleian Library is the main library of this university'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Many a manly man sports a "five o'clock" one of these'

Answer: a shadow


Question: 'Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi constructed the Statue out of this, hammering sheets of it in a technique called repousse'

Answer: copper


Question: 'In 1936 Prokofiev wrote this musical piece & its narration for a children's theater in Moscow'

Answer: Peter & The Wolf


Question: 'This Mindfreak-y performer changed his name from Christopher Sarantakos'

Answer: Criss Angel


Question: 'Rhinitis'

Answer: the nose


Question: 'This city's first public library opened in 1873 in a circular water tank that had survived the Great Fire'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'From the name of a British Army officer, they're fragments from an exploded artillery shell'

Answer: shrapnel


Question: 'Her poem about the Statue of Liberty says, "Her mild eyes command / the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame"'

Answer: Emma Lazarus


Question: 'Focus on the middle name of Richard Melville Hall to figure out he's better known as this techno musician'

Answer: Moby


Question: 'Silicosis'

Answer: the lungs


Question: 'Both he and Bess are buried in the courtyard of his Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: '2 to 4 feet long, the spiny dogfish is probably the most abundant species of this fish on the U.S. Atlantic Coast'

Answer: shark


Question: 'A "magician of iron", this French engineer designed Lady Liberty's skeletal framework'

Answer: Eiffel


Question: 'In 1856, at age 12, this "Flight Of The Bumblebee" composer entered a naval academy & remained in the navy for 17 years'

Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


Question: 'Louis Lindley is known as this to movie lovers because he was told he wouldn't make much money in the rodeo'

Answer: Slim Pickens


Question: 'Glossitis'

Answer: the tongue


Question: 'Robert Frost & Daniel Webster collections are housed at a special collections library at this Ivy League school'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'Some Native Americans believe these medicine men have contact with the spirit world'

Answer: shamen


Question: 'The Statue's full proper title is "Liberty" doing this to "The World"'

Answer: enlightening


Question: 'Donald Lytle's choice of this stage name made extra sense when "Take This Job And Shove It" became his biggest hit'

Answer: (Johnny) Paycheck


Question: 'Meniere disease'

Answer: the inner ear


Question: 'A library at the U.N. serves as a memorial to this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash'

Answer: Dag Hammarskjold


Question: 'Add Asian flair to a room by partitioning it off or accenting it with one of these rice paper screens'

Answer: shoji


Question: 'In 1823 this Scot obtained a patent for a process that made silk, paper & "other substances impervious to water and air"'

Answer: (Charles) Macintosh


Question: 'On Sept. 17, 1787 George Washington & James Madison became the only presidents to sign this document'

Answer: The Constitution


Question: 'One of the first contests open to women was this discontinued lawn game that uses a mallet'

Answer: Croquet


Question: 'It's a prototype layout of a graphic work, or one of the positions in bridge'

Answer: Dummy


Question: 'In 1916 a Virginia schoolgirl won $5 in a contest for drawing what became this Planters trademark'

Answer: Mr. Peanut


Question:
'Dead blow,
soft face,
claw,
ball peen'

Answer: Hammers


Question: 'A massive floating body broken away from a glacier'

Answer: Iceberg


Question: 'Washington's first cabinet appointments were Randolph, Knox, Jefferson & this treasury secretary'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: '1936 was the last year this team sport on horseback was included'

Answer: Polo


Question: 'During papermaking a dandy roll presses these into the paper & you can see them by holding the paper up to a light'

Answer: Watermark


Question: 'Seen here, he makes bathtime fun:'

Answer: Mr. Bubble


Question:
'Bent nose,
duckbill,
channel lock,
needle nose'

Answer: Pliers


Question: 'An erroneous perception of reality, perhaps a "grand" one'

Answer: Illusion


Question: 'Washington received his surveyor's commission from this Virginia college in 1749'

Answer: William & Mary


Question: 'Last won by Great Britain in 1920, this team sport required moving the opposing team 6 feet forward'

Answer: Tug-of-War


Question: 'This is not all good; in fact, it's colored aluminum: <br />[video clue]'

Answer: Glitter


Question: 'Pity the fool who doesn't know that he played Clubber Lang in "Rocky III"'

Answer: Mr. T


Question:
'Dovetail,
dry wall,
pull,
hack'

Answer: Saws


Question: 'One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity'

Answer: Imposter


Question: 'Despite his wealth, Washington had to borrow 600 pounds to get to this city for his inauguration'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'Early gymnastic events included club swinging & the speed climbing of one of these'

Answer: Rope


Question: 'Kerning is the adjustment of the spaces between these; ours, as you can see, is just perfect'

Answer: Letters


Question: '"From Rags to Bitches" is the autobiography of this man known for his worst-dressed lists'

Answer: Mr. Blackwell


Question:
'Drum,
corner,
random orbit,
belt'

Answer: Sanders


Question: 'The inward collapse of a building that is being demolished'

Answer: Implosion


Question: 'When Washington crossed the Delaware to attack British forces, it was to reach this New Jersey city'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'Surprisingly, this internationally popular sport similar to football hasn't been played in the Olympics since 1924'

Answer: Rugby


Question: 'Logo is short for this'

Answer: Logotype


Question: 'Counting Crows made their name with this song'

Answer: Mr. Jones


Question:
'Bench,
block,
shaping,
smooth'

Answer: Planes


Question: 'To sacrifice, especially by fire'

Answer: Immolate


Question: 'Filmmaker Frank Capra'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'It consists of a story-telling contest to pass the time on a trip to the shrine of St. Thomas A Becket'

Answer: The Canterbury Tales


Question: 'In 1982 her workout video was the bestselling video to that date'

Answer: Jane Fonda


Question: 'This Jim Carrey film & "Mission: Impossible 2" were the only 2 films to top $200 million at the box office in 2000'

Answer: How the Grinch Stole Christmas


Question: 'Once Moses' aide, he led the Israelites into the promised land'

Answer: Joshua


Question: 'This word for stylish or elegant can describe an outfit or a restaurant'

Answer: chic


Question: 'Don Quixote gave this name to Aldonza Lorenzo, a peasant girl who was his ideal lady'

Answer: Dulcinea


Question: 'Tennis star Anna Kournikova did ads for this product with the slogan "Only The Ball Should Bounce"'

Answer: Absorber Sports Bra


Question: 'Those who had cameos in 1984's "Gremlins" include Steven Spielberg, animator Chuck Jones & this 1950s movie robot'

Answer: Robby the Robot


Question: 'This man was imprisoned after denouncing Herod Antipas for marrying Herodias, his brother's wife'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'In addition to co-anchoring "Today", she's also a contributing anchor for "Dateline NBC"'

Answer: Katie Couric


Question: 'Actor Andy Garcia'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'This 1532 work is dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, son of Piero de Medici'

Answer: The Prince


Question: 'The association for this sport played by women in schools & colleges was founded in 1922'

Answer: Field hockey


Question: '"Shadow of the Vampire" starring Willem Dafoe as actor Max Schreck was inspired by this 1922 German film'

Answer: Nosferatu


Question: 'The Philistines made sport of him "and they set him between the pillars"'

Answer: Samson


Question: 'You probably avoid elevators if you're this type of person who fears being in a closed place'

Answer: claustrophobic


Question: 'Writer Carl Sandburg'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'In "1984" Winston Smith works for the Ministry of this'

Answer: Truth


Question: '"Mother And Child" was a constant theme in the art of this American woman in 1890s Paris'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'The trial of Esmeralda in the silent "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was directed by this star & makeup genius'

Answer: Lon Chaney


Question: 'When David said, "How the mighty have fallen!", he was referring to the deaths of this king & his son Jonathan'

Answer: Saul


Question: 'This geologic "era" is sometimes called the age of mammals'

Answer: the Cenozoic


Question: 'Politician Ralph Nader'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: '14 of the books in the "Odyssey" are set on this rocky homeland of Odysseus'

Answer: Ithaca


Question: 'This dancer, once the mistress of Bavaria's Ludwig I, died in obscurity in 1861'

Answer: Lola Montez


Question: 'For this 1983 film, Horton Foote won an Oscar for his screenplay & Robert Duvall won for his performance'

Answer: Tender Mercies


Question: 'Hagar was this woman's maidservant'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'He was twice prime minister of France before he was elected president in 1995'

Answer: Jacques Chirac


Question: 'In 1933 what was known as The Militia Bureau was officially renamed this'

Answer: The National Guard


Question: 'The shortest of the four gospels (4)'

Answer: Mark


Question: 'Anastasia & Ilsa Lund Laszlo'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'In 1909 Henry Ford produced over 10,000 of this car, saying customers could get it in "any color...so long as it is black"'

Answer: the Model T


Question: 'In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices'

Answer: read


Question: 'She'll always be DKNY to us: Donna ____'

Answer: Karan


Question: 'It's the nominative singular pronoun'

Answer: I


Question: 'Food from heaven (5)'

Answer: manna


Question: 'Billy Flynn & Clifford Irving'

Answer: Richard Gere


Question: 'On July 2, 1903 the U.S. signed a treaty with Cuba to lease this 45-square-mile section of land'

Answer: Guantanamo


Question: 'Although best known for his 1828 dictionary, he wrote textbooks on science, grammar & history'

Answer: Noah Webster


Question: 'No relation but same last name: maker of bridge apparel Anne ____ & designer Calvin ____'

Answer: Klein


Question: 'In 1977 Carly Simon sang this pronoun "Does It Better"'

Answer: Nobody


Question: 'Water turned to wine (7)'

Answer: a miracle


Question: 'Lon Chaney & George M. Cohan'

Answer: Jimmy Cagney


Question: 'On Jan. 1, 1902 the first postseason college football game was played in this city; Michigan beat Stanford, 49-0'

Answer: Pasadena


Question: 'It was originally called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 & provided free education for vets'

Answer: the G.I. Bill


Question: 'No relation but same last name: shoe designer Kenneth ____ & swimwear designer Anne ____'

Answer: Cole


Question: 'It's the objective case of they, used as a direct or indirect object'

Answer: them


Question: 'Jesus as the "anointed one" (7)'

Answer: Messiah


Question: 'Frances Farmer & Patsy Cline'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'Literature of 1902 included this Owen Wister novel of life in Wyoming'

Answer: The Virginian


Question: 'In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled doing this to integrate "the dual school systems" of the South was constitutional'

Answer: busing


Question: 'A fashion footwear mogul: ____ Madden'

Answer: Steve


Question: 'A sovereign may use the "royal" this pronoun in formal speech; are you not amused?'

Answer: we


Question: 'Noah's long-lived granddad (10)'

Answer: Methuselah


Question: 'Polly Perkins & Pepper Potts'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'Phenol formaldehyde was introduced as this material named for its inventor; it became popular as cookware'

Answer: Bakelite


Question: 'In 2009 the Dept. of Education announced a $4.35 billion fund for state grants called "Race to" this'

Answer: the Top


Question:
'Seen here, her logo includes her first initial:
____ Burch'

Answer: Tory


Question: 'Use the first 4 letters of a 1980s British prime minister's name to get this demonstrative pronoun'

Answer: that


Question: 'In 1690 this comet discoverer designed the forerunner of the modern diving bell'

Answer: (Edmund) Halley


Question: 'From 1961 to 1966 Allan "Rocky" Lane provided the voice of this talkative TV Palomino, of course, of course'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'He jazzed up one of his stories, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", with "The Desperate Housewife of Bath's Revenge!"'

Answer: Chaucer


Question: 'Temple Square & the Joseph Smith Memorial Building'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'It's where you go back to if you're starting over, especially in playing hopscotch'

Answer: square one


Question: 'Go, one of the world's oldest games, is thought to have originated c. 2000 B.C. in this Asian mainland country'

Answer: China


Question: 'This Polish astronomer has craters on the moon & Mars named for him'

Answer: Copernicus


Question: 'This minister's show appeared in Canada in a 15-minute format before premiering on PBS in 1968'

Answer: Mister Rogers


Question: 'Aronnax rethinks his decision to leave the ship in "Finding Nemo!", our sequel to this 1870 Jules Verne novel'

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Question: 'Red Stick Farmers Market & The Blue Bayou Water Park'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker, collectively'

Answer: Three Men in a Tub


Question: 'In Go, 2 players take turns placing stones of 2 different colors on a board; unlike in chess, this color goes first'

Answer: black


Question: 'In 1609, using a weak 9-power telescope, he discovered that Venus has phases just like our moon'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'On "Rocky and his Friends", this genius dog & his pet boy, Sherman, traveled back in time in the dog's way back machine'

Answer: Mr. Peabody


Question: 'Florentino Ariza's nephew falls for a young woman in this Marquez novel's sequel, "Love in the Time of the Sniffles"'

Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera


Question: 'The World of Coca-Cola & Centennial Olympic Park'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'In 1978, for a Texas high school football team, Geral Fauss made the 1st big hands representing this 3-word phrase'

Answer: We\'re Number One


Question: 'Go simulates territorial war; the modern game emerged in Japan along with the rise of this warrior class'

Answer: the samurai


Question: 'In 1980 this Cornell astronomer co-founded the planetary society & served as its first president'

Answer: (Carl) Sagan


Question: 'Oh noooo! his "Disasterpiece Theater" DVD celebrated "30 Years of Sluggo's Greatest Hits"'

Answer: Mr. Bill


Question: 'This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt"'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'Benefit Street & the Roger Williams Park Zoo'

Answer: Providence (Rhode Island)


Question: 'In online slang .02 means this--another way of saying, "my opinion, though you didn't ask"'

Answer: my two cents


Question: 'A stone that is threatened with capture is said to be "in" this; the makers of Pong chose it for their company name'

Answer: Atari


Question: 'His "belt" about 4.65 billion miles from the sun may contain more than 70,000 objects'

Answer: Gerard Kuiper


Question: 'In a 1960s cartoon series , Jim Backus voiced this bald, irritable & dangerously myopic man'

Answer: Mr. Magoo


Question: '"Findlay, Ohio", "Sandusky, Ohio" & "Zanesville, Ohio" didn't go as well for Sherwood Anderson as this 1919 book'

Answer: Winesburg, Ohio


Question: 'Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks & Green Mount Cemetery'

Answer: Montpelier


Question: 'It means colored in a pair of hues; it's also a British music movement featuring The Specials'

Answer: Two Tone


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a go board.) In go, a stone that's surrounded by the opponent's color is captured & removed; it's said to have lost its last this, also an unalienable right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence'

Answer: liberty


Question: 'In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair'

Answer: Niger/Nigeria


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a table with architectural drawings on it in the Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park.)  A colleague said Wright maneuvered his T-square with beautiful dexterity in this activity for which this room is named'

Answer: drafting


Question: 'This team's Ichiro Suzuki was named 2001 American League Rookie of the Year & MVP'

Answer: Seattle Mariners


Question: '"On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when" this happened'

Answer: somebody sneezed


Question: 'Exuma Cays land & sea park lies just south of Nassau in this country in the West Indies'

Answer: the Bahamas


Question: 'In October 1999 Fortune Magazine reported that this auction website's stock value had soared to $18 billion'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'Pennsylvania must be all aglow with this state insect, also called a firefly'

Answer: a lightning bug


Question: 'The Taliesin West Center is located in Arizona; Taliesin is in this Midwest state where Wright was born'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'In 2003 this Fijian-born golfer displaced Tiger Woods as No. 1'

Answer: Vijay Singh


Question: 'Things concocted in 1915 include Corning's Pyrex & this company's processed cheese'

Answer: Kraft


Question: 'This 4,000-acre Los Angeles park is named for a mining tycoon, not for film director D.W.'

Answer: Griffith Park


Question: 'The Hang Seng Index is a measure of this city's stock exchange'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'It's 186,000 miles per second'

Answer: the speed of light


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of Wright's Robie House in Chicago, IL.)  Wright's Robie House is from this school of architecture whose horizontal lines imitate Midwestern terrain'

Answer: the Prairie School


Question: 'In 2004 this British-born heavyweight champ retired with a career record of 41 wins, 2 losses & 1 tie'

Answer: Lennox Lewis


Question: 'Bearing the name of a Belgian province, it's a cheese with a really strong aroma'

Answer: Limburger


Question: 'This Philadelphia national historical park contains the site of Benjamin Franklin's home'

Answer: Independence Park


Question: 'BGG is the stock symbol of this big name in small gas engines'

Answer: Briggs & Stratton


Question: 'In 1879 the government officially named Ida Lewis of Rhode Island to this lonely job'

Answer: lighthouse keeper


Question: 'Wright's interiors show his aim to eliminate what he called "the room as" this 3-letter word'

Answer: a box


Question: 'Nicknamed "The Rocket" in 1945 he became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season'

Answer: (Maurice) Richard


Question: 'It's wonderful to do this to cheese, reducing it to fragments by rubbing it against an abrasive surface'

Answer: grating (shredding later accepted)


Question: 'Whipsnade Park is the country branch of this great urban zoo'

Answer: the London Zoo


Question: '2-word term for an automatic trading halt during selling frenzies, or for an electrical safety device'

Answer: a circuit breaker


Question: 'This Tennyson Poem contains the line, "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die"'

Answer: The Charge of the Light Brigade


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands outside the Robie House in Chicago, IL with a view featuring a broad roof overhang.)  Steel beams let Wright build a daring example of this type of roof that extends beyond its supporting wall'

Answer: a cantilever


Question: 'In 2004 this Siberian-born 17-year-old defeated Serena Williams to take the women's title at Wimbledon'

Answer: (Maria) Sharapova


Question: 'Salata is the dense processed form of this "recooked" Italian cheese'

Answer: ricotta


Question: 'The USA's largest military park is Chickamauga & Chattanooga, which covers over 9,000 acres in these 2 states'

Answer: Tennessee & Georgia


Question: 'In 1958 this "I Love Lucy" production company went public & its stock rose from $10 to $29 a share'

Answer: Desilu


Question: 'Popular through the Middle East, this candy is called rahat loukoum ("rest for the throat")'

Answer: Turkish delight


Question: 'This "Apostle to the Gentiles" was a special guest at the Council of Jerusalem around 49 A.D.'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'Bing Crosby (with the Andrews Sisters) & Bruce Springsteen have recorded popular versions of this favorite'

Answer: "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"


Question: 'Major Major Major is a major character in this book'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'This language with 175 million speakers developed in the ancient Galician region in northwest Spain'

Answer: Portuguese


Question:
'Giant pandas;
the movie "Citizen Kane";
a clear-cut issue'

Answer: things that are black and white


Question: 'Parsifal sought it'

Answer: the Holy Grail


Question: 'Aristotle said this man's "Oedipus Rex" was the greatest play ever; lucky it was one of his few to survive in full'

Answer: Sophocles


Question: '"Suds" lovers might know this song's original title was "Unrequited Love"'

Answer: "The Beer Barrel Polka" ("Roll Out The Barrel" also accepted)


Question: 'Floral first name of Henry James' Miller & F. Scott Fitzgerald's Buchanan'

Answer: Daisy


Question: '"The Barber of Seville" premiered in this language February 20, 1816'

Answer: Italian


Question:
'A bride's rock;
the core of a pencil;
briquets'

Answer: things that are made from carbon


Question: 'It's another name for the Eucharist ceremony'

Answer: Holy Communion


Question: 'This ancient city was also known as Ilium'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'Classic song heard here that Sir Isaac Newton might have liked '

Answer: "Don\'t Sit Under The Apple Tree"


Question: 'Benjamin Suddlechop & Sweeney Todd operated barber shops on this street'

Answer: Fleet (Street)


Question: '"Ransack" comes from Rannsaka, in the language called "Old" this, also a group known for ransacking'

Answer: Norse


Question:
'"The queen";
"the brave";
"for thee"'

Answer: last words of national anthems


Question: 'The name of this Central American people who predated the Mayans means "The Rubber People"'

Answer: the Olmecs


Question: 'It's the patriotic march heard here'

Answer: "The Liberty Bell March"


Question: 'This title James Hilton character taught classics at Brookfield School'

Answer: Mr. Chips


Question: 'The dialects of Dutch spoken in Belgium are usually called this language'

Answer: Flemish


Question:
'David's stone;
hash;
a hammock'

Answer: things that are slung


Question: 'Cicero dubbed this man the "Father of History"'

Answer: Herodotus


Question: 'The title of the following is an alternation of a French word meaning this'

Answer: wake up


Question: 'Zenobia Pierce is the wife & cousin of this Edith Wharton title character'

Answer: Ethan Frome


Question: 'Part of the Baltic group is Lettish, which is also called this'

Answer: Latvian


Question:
'A dagger;
South America;
a rambling speaker (at last)'

Answer: things that come to a point


Question: 'Last names of the 2 famous families in which 3 generations have won Oscars'

Answer: Huston and Coppola


Question: 'Stabbed the king & made him drink poison -- something is rotten in the state of Denmark... & it's him'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: '1970: "(They Long To Be) Close To You"'

Answer: The Carpenters


Question: 'Made of lace and ribbons over a framework, a commode was worn on top of this in the late 1600s'

Answer: head


Question: 'Each defender guards a section of the playing area in this system of sports defense'

Answer: zone


Question: 'It reigns as West Virginia's official state butterfly'

Answer: monarch


Question: 'The song ends by rhyming this word with "brave"'

Answer: wave


Question: 'Witness says he "does murder sleep" & the guy okayed the hit on Banquo, but what we have here, Frank... is regicide'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: '1975: "Have You Never Been Mellow"'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John


Question: 'A housedress was named for this nursery rhyme character, who was not the mom of Scientology's founder'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'This Italian squash can be eaten raw, steamed or grilled, or baked in a sweet bread'

Answer: zucchini


Question: 'The syringa, also known as the mock orange, is Idaho's official state this'

Answer: flower


Question: 'It's the color mentioned in the song that's also one of the colors in the U.S. flag'

Answer: red


Question: 'Blood spatter says the guy killed Paris, then himself. The girl stabbed herself... ain't love grand'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'Lord Spencer may have invented the Spencer style of this by burning off one of his tails, then cutting off the other'

Answer: jacket


Question: '2-word term for the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in orbit'

Answer: zero gravity


Question: 'When Virginia got a state one of these animals, the gov.'s office released a poem that mentioned Adam West'

Answer: bat


Question: 'They're the type of elevated fortifications o'er which "we watched"'

Answer: ramparts


Question: '3 dead daughters, by poison, hanging & suicide; I wouldn't want to write the family Christmas card... this year'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'A sack dress with box pleats in the back was named for Antoine Watteau, a famous 18th c. one of these'

Answer: painter


Question: 'The Lozi people move to higher ground during the annual flooding of this African river'

Answer: the Zambezi


Question: 'Appropriately, the official state cantata of Connecticut has this spicy 6-letter name'

Answer: nutmeg


Question: 'The punctuation mark that ends the first verse, the one that's usually sung'

Answer: question mark


Question: 'The Duke's been stabbed, then drowned in a barrel of wine; looks like ( Alex dons glasses... ) the drinks... are on him'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'It's a French name for a Polish dance, as well as a fitted top & overskirt ensemble of the 1700s'

Answer: polonaise


Question: '( Sarah of the Clue Crew reports in front of a video monitor. ) This is the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position'

Answer: zenith


Question: 'Sounds scary, but Colorado's official state fish is the greenback cutthroat type of this'

Answer: trout


Question: 'The 2 times of day mentioned in the first 2 lines'

Answer: dawn and twilight


Question: 'In late 1864 this Union General said, "I can make Georgia howl"'

Answer: Sherman


Question: 'Albert Brooks as Marlin'

Answer: Finding Nemo


Question: 'A dialysis machine is also called an artificial one of these organs'

Answer: kidney


Question: 'There's a drawing of the first manned balloon flight as seen from Ben Franklin's place in this foreign city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Counties in this U.S. state include Jones, Jasper & Jefferson Davis'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'A "park" was originally an enclosed place; this related word still means an enclosure for race horses'

Answer: paddock


Question: 'Both General John Hunt Morgan & Captain William Quantrill led groups of men who carried this nickname'

Answer: Raiders


Question: 'Jason Lee as Buddy Pine aka Syndrome'

Answer: The Incredibles


Question: 'Alveoli are tiny sacs clustered like grapes in these organs'

Answer: lungs


Question: 'In Nov. 2003 a nosecone from one of these fabled planes sold for $490,000 at an auction in France'

Answer: Concord


Question: 'This city of about 3 million is Rupert Murdoch's birthplace'

Answer: Melbourne


Question: '"Fabricate" is related to this verb that can mean to write something fraudulent, like a signature'

Answer: forge


Question: 'Prior to the war, this bewhiskered Union general manufactured firearms in Rhode Island'

Answer: Burnside


Question: 'Sacha Baron Cohen as Julien, self-proclaimed king of the lemurs'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'Though this organ has no known use, it can harm you if it ruptures, creating the risk of peritonitis'

Answer: the appendix


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew presents in a tunnel.)  Wind tunnel experiments at Texas A&M are used to minimize the effects of this phenomenon that occur when airplanes pass Mach 1'

Answer: sonic boom


Question: 'There's a Shatner Building at McGill University in this city where William Shatner was born'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'As "score" can mean "to cut", it makes sense that it's from the same root as this word for big scissors'

Answer: shears


Question: 'Louis Prima as King Louie'

Answer: The Jungle Book


Question: 'The hepatic duct carries bile from the liver to this organ for storage'

Answer: gall bladder


Question: 'When he flew the X-1 over Mach 1 on Oct. 14, 1947 he was suffering from 2 broken ribs'

Answer: Chuck Yeager


Question: 'This former Soviet republic lies between the Prut & Dniester Rivers'

Answer: Moldova


Question: '"Culprit", meaning the guilty party, evolved from this adjective meaning "guilty"'

Answer: culpable


Question: 'Rachel Weisz as the high-flying Saphira'

Answer: Eragon


Question: 'The Islets of Langerhans aren't a vacation spot but a group of cells in this organ'

Answer: pancreas


Question: 'This craft left California Dec. 14, 1986 & landed back there with 18 gallons of gas left after circling the world'

Answer: Voyager


Question: 'According to the New Testament, a battle of good versus evil will take place on a hill in this town Joshua captured'

Answer: Makkedah


Question: 'To do this to something is to make it "holy", a word from the same root'

Answer: hallow


Question: 'In 2007 this university became the 1st to hold national titles in both football & basketball in the same year'

Answer: the University of Florida


Question: '(Alex: To start us off in this category, here's a "caller" from Saxony)  If Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II keeps trying to impose this religion on everyone, there'll be hell to pay'

Answer: Catholicism


Question: 'The ocelot'

Answer: feline


Question: 'Mamala Bay lies at the entrance to this city's Keehi Lagoon & Pearl Harbor'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'In March 2002 it was reported that B-22, one of these the size of Delaware, broke free from Antarctica'

Answer: iceberg


Question: 'When this actress sings "I Have Confidence" in the film, the real Maria von Trapp can be glimpsed in the background'

Answer: Julie Andrews


Question: 'One of these "critters" is a hidden electronic listening device used in spying on others'

Answer: bug


Question: '(Alex: Ah, some strange news from Turin now)  It's crazy -- the Citadel is under this, similar to a blockade, from an army that's also under this from another army'

Answer: siege


Question: 'The cassowary'

Answer: bird


Question: 'The Ganges Fan, a massive layer of sediment, extends hundreds of miles into this bay'

Answer: Bay of Bengal


Question: 'Certain thyroid conditions are treated with a radioactive form of this element'

Answer: iodine


Question: 'This handsome Canadian ensnared a lot of female hearts as Captain von Trapp'

Answer: Christopher Plummer


Question: 'Often heard in war movies, it's the type of "raid" being warned about here'

Answer: air raid


Question: '(Alex: Well, on the line right now is General Albrecht von Wallenstein)  Hey, King Christian IV of this Scandinavian country give me your best shot, pal.  You got nothing!'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'The caiman'

Answer: reptile


Question: 'Wales' Cardigan Bay is a semicircular inlet of St. George's Channel in this sea'

Answer: Irish Sea


Question: 'It's what the "I" stands for in ROY G. BIV'

Answer: indigo


Question: 'This future "Jaws" actor auditioned to be a von Trapp kid but it was just a "Close Encounter": he couldn't dance'

Answer: Richard Dreyfuss


Question: 'To give it an "S" sound, the French add a cedilla to this letter'

Answer: C


Question: '(Alex: Ah, a prediction from Antwerp.)  I say the Dutch are going to stick it to this country's fleet just like England did back in 1588'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'The kestrel'

Answer: bird


Question: 'Treasure Island & Yerba Buena Island lie in this U.S. bay'

Answer: San Francisco Bay


Question: 'This Latin abbreviation meaning "in the same place" sounds like something you do on eBay'

Answer: ibid


Question: 'Soon after "The Sound of Music" premiered, this actress who played Brigitta von Trapp got "Lost in Space"'

Answer: Angela Cartwright


Question: 'A confused mixture of sounds & noises, perhaps a "tower" of them'

Answer: babble


Question: '(Alex: For our last clue, we have a caller from Italy.)  If you think this French cardinal really cares for Mantua's welfare, I have some land in Picardy to sell you'

Answer: Cardinal Richelieu


Question: 'The basilisk'

Answer: reptile


Question: 'In 1984 a hydroelectric generator was installed in Nova Scotia to harness this bay's tides'

Answer: Bay of Fundy


Question: '2-word term for the laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 to punish dissidents in Massachusetts'

Answer: Intolerable Acts


Question: '(Cheryl in Edison's Lab at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit)  The first sound ever recorded & played was Edison's recesitation of this familiar nursery rhyme'

Answer: "Mary Had a Little Lamb"


Question: 'This American Red Cross founder personally directed the relief effort at the Johnstown Flood in 1889'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'Despite a widespread belief, these heads don't go on all over the building just because of fire in one room'

Answer: sprinkler heads


Question: 'Though minor keys often suggest sadness, this work in D minor contains an ode to joy'

Answer: "Beethoven\'s Ninth Symphony"


Question: 'He played Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a character based on neurologist Oliver Sacks, in the film "Awakenings"'

Answer: Robin Williams


Question: 'Kafka's changing work "Die Verwandlung"'

Answer: "The Metamorphosis"


Question: '"Tiny Bubbles" singer who began serving as president of North Vietnam in 1945'

Answer: Don Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'Her book "The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult" contains notes on filming "The Color Purple"'

Answer: Alice Walker


Question: 'This "room" is named for the group that meets there, like one of directors or trustees'

Answer: boardroom


Question: 'This minor-key rock classic concerns "A lady who's sure all that glitters is gold"'

Answer: "Stairway to Heaven"


Question: 'Actor Malcolm Jamal-Warner was named for this other famous Malcolm'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'Sartre's hellish torture "Huis Clos"'

Answer: "No Exit"


Question: '"All in the Family" producer used by business executives to fly from city to city'

Answer: Norman Lear Jet


Question: 'Her book "The Sea Around Us" was published in 1951 while she was chief biologist for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'If you get in on the ground floor, then go half a story up, you're on the floor called this'

Answer: mezzanine


Question: 'A Haydn symphony in E minor is named for this sad homophone of a time of day'

Answer: "Mourning" (morning)


Question: 'This publisher was the 1st person to fly successfully from coast to coast in the U.S. in a single hot-air balloon'

Answer: Malcolm Forbes


Question: 'The searching "Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore"'

Answer: "Six Characters in Search of an Author"


Question: '"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" author & psychologist who came to fame on "The $64,000 Question"'

Answer: James Joyce Brothers


Question: 'This wife of Rutherford B. Hayes originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn'

Answer: Lucy Hayes


Question: '"Woman" whose job is to clean an office building, not burn it; Carol Burnett used to dress up as one'

Answer: charwoman


Question: 'When Chopin was laid to rest, this famous piece from his B flat minor piano sonata was played'

Answer: "The Funeral March"


Question: 'Malcolm McLaren owned a clothing store called Sex before forming this punk rock group'

Answer: The Sex Pistols


Question: 'Turgenev's filial novel "Ottsy i deti"'

Answer: "Fathers and Sons"


Question: 'Daffy's brother who played for the Cardinals & served as secretary of state in the early 1960s'

Answer: Dizzy Dean Rusk


Question: 'The wife of Richard Byrd, she has an Antarctic "Land" named for her'

Answer: Marie Byrd


Question: 'This type of office area is the title of a 1954 William Holden-Barbara Stanwyck movie'

Answer: Executive Suite


Question: 'A minor-key work, this Viennese composer's 1904 Symphony No. 6 is known as the "Tragic"'

Answer: Gustav Mahler


Question: 'Just like "clockwork", he played H.G. Wells in the film "Time After Time"'

Answer: Malcolm McDowell


Question: 'R&B singer of "Ain't Got No Home" who was Nixon's running mate in 1960'

Answer: Clarence "Frogman" Henry Cabot Lodge


Question: 'By virtue of the great quantity eaten, this vegetable is the leading source of vitamin C in the American diet'

Answer: potato


Question: 'The villagers come when the boy cries "Wolf!" because they think these animals are in danger'

Answer: Sheep


Question: 'In 1860 L.O. Colvin invented one of the first machines that performed this farm chore, but it annoyed the cows'

Answer: Milking machine


Question: 'Citizen Kane's last word; the object it refers to isn't revealed until the end of the film'

Answer: "Rosebud"


Question: 'In Santeria, which combines Catholicism & African ritual, this apostle once named Simon is called Oggun'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'Vibrissae are the short stiff hairs that line this organ of smell'

Answer: Nose


Question: 'Scarlett O'Hara's favorite Butler'

Answer: Rhett


Question: 'The children in this 1981 Chris Von Allsburg book play a jungle board game that turns real'

Answer: "Jumanji"


Question: 'In 1870 Mattie Knight patented a machine that folded flat bottoms on these grocery carriers'

Answer: Paper/shopping bags


Question: 'In 1978's "Superman", Lex Luthor obtains a glowing chunk of this mineral, Superman's weakness'

Answer: Kryptonite


Question: 'Quaker gatherings for either business or worship are called these'

Answer: Meetings


Question: 'When a woman is born, these reproductive organs contain about 2 million potential eggs'

Answer: Ovaries


Question: 'While the reddish stalks of this plant  may be eaten, the leaves are highly poisonous'

Answer: Rhubarb


Question: 'The illustrator of 1902's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: 'Murray Spangler invented the modern type of this device & his relative William Hoover sold them'

Answer: Vacuum cleaner


Question: 'This director called objects that drive the plot "MacGuffins", like the engine plans in "The 39 Steps"'

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


Question: 'In the 1500s this German movement claimed all people, not just Catholic priests, had access to divinity'

Answer: Protestant Reformation


Question: 'Melatonin is secreted by this gland named for its resemblance to a pine cone'

Answer: Pineal gland


Question: 'These 2 important European rivers differ by only one letter'

Answer: Rhine & Rhone


Question: 'While living on a Maine farm, he wrote "Charlotte's Web", which is set on a farm'

Answer: E.B. White


Question: 'After his sweetheart's ice cream melted as he rowed it to her, Ole Evinrude invented this type of engine'

Answer: Outboard motor


Question: 'In "A Very Brady Sequel", Tim Matheson struggles to steal the Bradys' statue of one of these animals'

Answer: Horse


Question: 'In the 500s B.C. this religion claimed all people, not just Brahman priests, had access to divinity'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Hypoglycemia occurs when this organ secretes too much insulin'

Answer: Pancreas


Question: 'This parallelogram with 4 equal sides resembles a slanted square'

Answer: Rhombus


Question: 'Alice couldn't tell if this ovoid "Looking Glass" character was wearing a cravat or a belt'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'It took Dr. Wilson Greatbatch 2 years to develop this heart regulator first implemented in 1960'

Answer: Pacemaker


Question: 'In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is put on a chain gang for vandalizing these mechanical devices'

Answer: Parking meters


Question: 'This term for the Christian belief that denies the trinity lent its name to a denomination'

Answer: Unitarianism


Question: 'Prone to inflammation, this clear membrane covers the front of the eyeball & lines the eyelids'

Answer: Conjunctive eye


Question: 'In mythology she's the wife of Cronus & the mother of Zeus'

Answer: Rhea


Question: 'Billy Graham presided over his funeral services April 27, 1994 in Yorba Linda, California'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Completed in 1931, it rises over 1,400 feet at 350 Fifth Avenue in New York City'

Answer: The Empire State Building


Question: 'He began his Sistine Chapel work with the Noah scenes over the entrance door'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'Tennis balls & pool tables are covered by this material made from wet woolen fibers'

Answer: Felt


Question: 'Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won a Pulitzer Prize for their adaptation of this girl's diary'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: 'It's the German equivalent of a motor expressway'

Answer: Autobahn


Question: 'During WWII this future president was supreme commander of the Allies in Europe'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'This state's Hilton Head Island offers golf & other recreational activities year round'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'In 1921, after 10 years of self-imposed exile, this muralist returned to Mexico'

Answer: Diego Rivera


Question: 'Mummies were wrapped in this fabric for which your house may have a "closet"'

Answer: Linen


Question: 'His "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues" are autobiographical'

Answer: Neil Simon


Question: 'Used to mean "To your health", it's most often said after someone sneezes'

Answer: Gesundheit


Question: 'For his work in establishing the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Built in 1672, Vincent House in Edgartown is the oldest known house on this Massachusetts resort island'

Answer: Martha\'s Vineyard


Question: 'While still in his teens, this artist, for whom a trim pointed beard is named, was Rubens' chief assistant'

Answer: Anthony VanDyck


Question: 'Generic tradenames for this synthetic include Comfort Fiber, Hollofil & Fortrel'

Answer: Polyester


Question: '"The Gladiator", an 1831 play by Robert Montgomery Bird, was based on the life of this Roman slave'

Answer: Spartacus


Question: 'In a 1963 address, John F. Kennedy took pride in uttering this 4-word phrase'

Answer: "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"


Question: 'They're the 2 presidents born in Braintree, Massachusetts'

Answer: John Adams & John Quincy Adams


Question: 'Like a fairy tale come true, Solvang, California mirrors a quaint town in this Scandinavian country'

Answer: Denmark


Question: '"The Supreme Poster Artist of the 19th Century", he was famous for his Parisian nightlife scenes'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'Term for the process of mechanically taking the seeds out of a boll of cotton'

Answer: Ginning


Question: 'Nora Helmer is the heroine of this Ibsen play'

Answer: "A Doll\'s House"


Question: 'The name of this psychology movement is German for "form" or "shape"'

Answer: Gestalt


Question: 'He had 8 children, the oldest named Birchard'

Answer: Rutherford Birchard Hayes


Question: 'You can visit D.H. Lawrence's ranch & shrine in this New Mexico town, home to many writers & artists'

Answer: Taos


Question: 'He signed one of his earliest works, the Modena Triptych, "Master Domenikos"'

Answer: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)


Question: 'Sailcloth, canvas, rope & twine are made from this fiber plant grown in warm regions'

Answer: Hemp


Question: 'An eccentric young man takes up with a woman nearing 80 in this off-beat comedy based on a film'

Answer: "Harold & Maude"


Question: 'It's the ghostly double of a living person, or a literary device used to reflect good & evil'

Answer: Doppelganger


Question: 'Henck Arron was prime minister of this country when it gained its independence in 1975'

Answer: Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)


Question: 'On Jan. 1, 1973 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark formally joined this'

Answer: Common Market


Question: 'Vesta is the only one of these minor planets between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter visible to the naked eye'

Answer: asteroid


Question: 'God's sending him up Sinai & Nebo made quite a mountain climber out of this sheepherder'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Caramel is added to make the darker varieties of this liquor made from molasses'

Answer: rum


Question: 'After gold, this is the most common metal used in jewelry'

Answer: silver


Question: 'In Spanish, it's the letter over which you may see a tilde'

Answer: N


Question: 'L. Patrick Gray resigned this post after it became known that he had destroyed Watergate evidence'

Answer: (Head of) The F.B.I.


Question: 'Term for an earthquake that follows a larger one, originating at or near the same focus'

Answer: aftershock


Question: 'He said, “Divide the living child in two & give half to the one (mother) & half to the other”'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'Type of white wine  that comes in Alsatian & Johannisberg varieties'

Answer: Riesling


Question: 'The Kashmir variety of this gemstone is a cornflower blue; the Burmese a deeper blue'

Answer: sapphires


Question: 'On a report card it can mean outstanding work habits; on a baseball scorecard, a mistake'

Answer: E


Question: 'On March 1, she became the 1st woman jockey to win a major stakes race & later married Fred Astaire'

Answer: Robyn Smith


Question: 'The bacillus of this cattle disease was the 1st germ known to cause infectious disease'

Answer: anthrax


Question: 'Joel calls for them to be made into swords & Isaiah calls for swords to be made into them'

Answer: plowshares


Question: 'Named for a Portuguese island, this fortified wine traveled well & was popular in colonial America'

Answer: Madeira


Question: 'This most popular cut for diamonds uses a total of 58 facets'

Answer: brilliant


Question: 'This letter is formed by drawing the letter before it twice'

Answer: W


Question: 'This John Godey tale of the hijacking of a New York City subway train was published in 1973'

Answer: The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three


Question: 'Air consists of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen & about 1% this noble gas'

Answer: argon


Question: 'Boaz gave this daughter-in-law of Naomi 6 measures of barley after she slept at his feet'

Answer: Ruth


Question: 'Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide says don't use bottled lime juice unless you're making this drink'

Answer: gimlet


Question: 'Ancient Egyptian jewelry made frequent use of the scarab which is this'

Answer: beetle


Question: 'In the new British currency system p stands for pence; in the old system, this stood for penny'

Answer: d


Question: 'PBS offered an inside look at American life in this documentary series about the Loud Family'

Answer: An American Family


Question: 'Used in cooking, this gelatinous product is prepared from algae'

Answer: agar


Question: 'According to Exodus 20:17, 3 of the 6 specific things of your neighbor's you're not supposed to covet'

Answer: wife, house, ass (man servant, maid servant, ox)


Question: 'In 1915 the French outlawed this wormwood-flavored liqueur 1st made commercially by Pernod in 1797'

Answer: absinthe


Question: 'When her emerald ring was auctioned in 1987, it brought a record price of $2,126,646'

Answer: Duchess of Windsor


Question: 'These 3 letters when said in sequence mean “perfect”'

Answer: A O K


Question: 'This city that straddles the Bosporus Strait is located in Europe & Asia'

Answer: Istanbul


Question: 'Teenagers were already doing this dance on “American Bandstand” when Chubby Checker recorded his hit'

Answer: The Twist


Question: 'Douglas MacArthur told Congress “In war there is no substitute” for this'

Answer: victory


Question: 'Jonathan Harker goes to the British Museum to do research on Transylvania at the beginning of this novel'

Answer: Dracula


Question: 'The places where bones meet, including the thin hairlines on the skull, are called this'

Answer: joints


Question: 'In 1670 Hudson's Bay Co. was chartered in this country & given rights to land draining into the bay'

Answer: England


Question: 'Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887'

Answer: Addis Ababa


Question: 'The Morisca, a popular dance of the 15th century, originated with this group in Spain'

Answer: Moors


Question: 'Of the RAF he said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”'

Answer: Chuchill


Question: 'An 1895 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, or Latin for “where are you going”'

Answer: Quo Vadis


Question: 'A membrane called the conjunctiva covers parts of these organs'

Answer: eyes


Question: 'French Canadians didn't like the Union Jack on the old flag, so in 1965 this new design was unfurled'

Answer: maple leaf


Question: 'This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'This jitterbug dance that began in Harlem was probably named for a famous aviator'

Answer: Lindy Hop


Question: '“J'Accuse” was the title of the open letter Emile Zola sent the French president about this man'

Answer: Dreyfuss


Question: 'Massachusetts author whose last completed novel, “The Marbel Faun”, is set in Italy'

Answer: (Nathaniel) Hawthorne


Question: 'If your ears block when you change altitudes, swallowing may open this tube to equalize pressure'

Answer: eustachian


Question: 'This newest province didn't become part of Canada unti 1949'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island'

Answer: Greenland


Question: 'In a 1951 film Rhonda Fleming portrayed this famous belly dancer of the 1890s'

Answer: Little Egypt


Question: 'In his 1944 campaign he used the phrase “It's time for a change”'

Answer: (Thomas) Dewey


Question: 'He parodied Samuel Richardson's novel “Pamela” in his satirical book “Joseph Andrews”'

Answer: Henry Fielding


Question: 'Special channels carry the bile produced by the liver in this storage facility'

Answer: gallbladder


Question: 'The last spike of this transcontinental railroad was driven on November 7, 1885'

Answer: Canadian Pacific


Question: 'This geographical feature is defined as a bend or curve of a shoreline, like the Great Australian one'

Answer: Bight


Question: 'This court dance in triple time, not the polka, is the national dance of Poland'

Answer: Polonaise


Question: 'This financier & advisor to presidents coined the expression “cold war” in 1947'

Answer: Bernard Baruch


Question: 'At the beginning of this 1900 novel, the title character, Caroline Meeber, has left home'

Answer: Sister Carrie


Question: 'The 2 large bones that meet just behind your kneecap'

Answer: femur & tibia


Question: 'A provincial capital was named for George Monteau Dunk, 2nd Earl of this'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'Only Pulitzer Prize-winning novels to become Oscar-winning “Best Pictures” are “All The King's Men” & this one'

Answer: Gone with the Wind


Question: 'God told Adam, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  but of" this one'

Answer: Tree of the knowledge of good & evil


Question: 'This former mayor of Carmel, California played 3 songs on the piano in "In The Line Of Fire"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'This device reads 234-240 degrees F. when your candy reaches the soft ball stage'

Answer: Thermometer


Question: 'The metropolitan area of this Michigan capital occupies parts of 3 counties'

Answer: Lansing


Question: 'The origins of this company can be traced back to the production of a car called the Dat in 1911'

Answer: Nissan/Datsun


Question: 'It's a wine glass with a base & a stem'

Answer: Goblet


Question: 'It was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the Earth'

Answer: Rainbow


Question: 'This current James Bond was a fire eater while with the London Street Theatre Group'

Answer: Pierce Brosnan


Question: 'Before baking the peanut butter type of these, Heloise flattens them with a potato masher'

Answer: Cookies


Question: 'The area of this Wyoming capital was first occupied by the Native American tribe for which it's named'

Answer: Cheyenne


Question: 'Ash Wednesday is a movable feast falling this many days, excluding Sundays, before Easter'

Answer: 40


Question: 'The insane emperor Commodus fought in the arena as one of these combatants'

Answer: Gladiator


Question: 'In Joshua the Israelites made a miraculous crossing of this river, much as they did at the Red Sea'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'This female star of "Splash" sung backup vocals on Jackson Browne's hit "You're A Friend of Mine"'

Answer: Daryl Hannah


Question: 'The "bulb" type of this utensil moistens meat while it's cooking'

Answer: Baster


Question: 'This city is the center of Alabama's fertile "Black Belt" agricultural area'

Answer: Montgomery


Question: 'In 1950 this former first lady won the second Four Freedoms Award'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'During WWII this island was the site of the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific'

Answer: Guadalcanal


Question: 'This collection of sayings is sometimes referred to as the "Book of Wisdom"'

Answer: Proverbs


Question: 'In 1972 this future wife of Alec Baldwin & her mother posed together as models for Breck shampoo'

Answer: Kim Basinger


Question: 'As a verb, it means to insert strips of fat into meat; as a noun, it's rendered pork fat itself'

Answer: Lard


Question: 'Lincoln University in this Missouri capital was founded by black Civil War veterans'

Answer: Jefferson City


Question: 'The National Air & Space Museum's planetarium is named for this German-American physicist'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'Grammatically speaking, it's a verbal noun ending in "ing"'

Answer: Gerund


Question: 'While living in Midian, he married Zipporah'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'To play the role of Nazi Amon Goeth in "Schindler's List", this actor gained about 25 pounds'

Answer: Ralph Fiennes


Question: 'These onion relatives found in vichyssoise must be washed carefully to remove dirt from the leaves'

Answer: Leeks


Question: 'This capital's 1970 merger with the town of Douglas made it the nation's largest state capital in area'

Answer: Juneau, Alaska


Question: 'Snaketown on the Gila River in this state is the best-studied village of the Hohokam culture'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'The Soviet Union's chief administration of corrective labor camps was known by this Russian acronym'

Answer: GULAG (Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps)