Question: '(Hi, I'm Arianna Huffington)  Al Franken & I did a "Point-Counterpoint" segment called "Strange Bedfellows" for this Bill Maher show'

Answer: Politically Incorrect


Question: 'Surfers on the internet can check out the "Earth's Biggest" one at www.amazon.com'

Answer: Bookstore


Question: 'In a criminal trial, it's this lawyer's job to try & prove the defendant guilty'

Answer: Prosecutor


Question: 'This country's Cathedral of Leon is named for its soaring spires & stained glass windows'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'He wrote, "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'Drummer Frank Beard is the only member of this band seen here who doesn't have a beard'

Answer: ZZ Top


Question: 'Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series'

Answer: Northern Exposure


Question: 'Though it no longer sails, this luxury liner moored in Long Beach, Calif. does offer hotel accommodations'

Answer: Queen Mary


Question: 'It's equal to .0394 inches'

Answer: Millimeter


Question: 'The Canterbury Plains, this country's largest flatland area, lies on South Island'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'He's the regimental bhisti, or water carrier, that Rudyard Kipling made famous'

Answer: Gunga Din


Question: 'Grace Bedell, age 11, thought this man would win an election by more than a hair if he grew whiskers; he agreed'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'The quirky drama "Picket Fences" was set in this town in Wisconsin, not in Italy'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'A Michigander might know that glutton is another name for this member of the weasel family'

Answer: Wolverine


Question: 'It's the pigment that makes red blood cells red'

Answer: Hemoglobin


Question: 'This unit of currency of the Cayman Islands is divided into 100 cents; makes sense to us'

Answer: Cayman Islands Dollar


Question: 'Robert Frost wondered, "Why do they make good neighbors?"'

Answer: Fences


Question: 'For this Austrian psychoanalyst, sometimes a beard is just a beard'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: '"Twin Peaks" was the first TV venture for this avant-garde filmmaker'

Answer: David Lynch


Question: 'Oddly, this reddish brown color derives its name from albus, the Latin word for white'

Answer: Auburn


Question: 'A creature that eats both animals & plants is described by this adjective'

Answer: Omnivorous


Question: 'This "dripper", who painted on the floor, was a student of Missouri muralist Thomas Hart Benton'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'Chinese immigrants began to arrive in California just before this 1849 "rush"'

Answer: Gold Rush


Question: 'According to Australian myth, this phenomenon seen in the sky is a giant snake arching its body'

Answer: Rainbow


Question: 'He was king of the Franks, emperor of the Romans, & son of Pepin the Short'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Tim appeared with Sandra Bullock in this 1997 sequel, but he didn't replace Keanu Reeves'

Answer: Speed 2


Question: 'Shields' chefs'

Answer: Brooke\'s cooks


Question: 'At age 4 in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was already drawing on the walls'

Answer: Diego Rivera


Question: 'In 1634 Catholics could find refuge in this colony founded by Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Huitzilopochtli, a god of these people, was so fierce he killed several relatives as soon as he was born'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: 'David's son by Bathsheba; he was also his successor'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'In 2 1960s movies based on this series, Tim reprised his TV role of Ensign Parker'

Answer: McHale\'s Navy


Question: 'Midler's planes'

Answer: Bette\'s jets


Question: 'In 1892 the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago hired this woman impressionist to paint a mural'

Answer: Mary Cassatt


Question: 'Europeans who came to America as this kind of servant promised to work for years to pay their passage'

Answer: Indentured servant


Question: 'Gullinkambi is the golden cock who arouses the Einherjar in this "Hall of the Slain"'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'His dad commanded the 3rd Army in France; he commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam'

Answer: George Patton


Question: 'Tim teamed up with this fellow TV comedian in several films including 1980's "The Private Eyes"'

Answer: Don Knotts


Question: 'Brad's blockbusters'

Answer: Pitt\'s hits


Question: 'This "Third of May" artist covered the walls of his country house in grotesque paintings'

Answer: Francisco Goya


Question: 'People who emigrate to America from this country are known as Issei back home'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The Egyptian goddess Neith is often depicted holding a scepter & this symbol of life'

Answer: Ankh


Question: 'His grandfather was prime minister of India, & so was his mother'

Answer: Rajiv Gandhi


Question: 'Tim helps a shape-shifting Dean Jones run for office in this sequel to "The Shaggy Dog"'

Answer: The Shaggy D.A.


Question: 'Mia's missiles'

Answer: Farrow\'s arrows


Question: 'Stuart Davis' mural for this room in Rockefeller Center was titled "Mural (Men Without Women)"'

Answer: The men\'s room (bathroom)


Question: 'Few of the Penn. Dutch came from Holland; the majority came from this present-day country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The Chinese goddess Ch'ang-O was turned into a toad, & her shadow may be seen on this heavenly body'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'His father was in "Lost Angels"; he was in "The Lost Boys"'

Answer: Kiefer Sutherland


Question: 'In a 1975 film, Tim played Amos, a bumbling bank robber, who joins this title gang named for a dessert'

Answer: The Apple Dumpling Gang


Question: 'Twyla's stringed instruments'

Answer: Tharp\'s harps


Question: '2 of the 3 NBA teams whose names don't end with the letter S'

Answer: Miami Heat, Orlando Magic &/or Utah Jazz


Question: 'Strains of the Norway species of this animal are the ones used in labs'

Answer: rats


Question: 'Nickname of Glenn Warner, who coached such All-Americans as Jim Thorpe & Ernie Nevers'

Answer: Pop


Question: 'Diddy's real first name, it's on his clothing line'

Answer: Sean


Question: 'Not surprisingly, this magician claims as his favorite book the Charles Dickens novel that bears his name'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'It's the 2-word title for the head of a parliamentary government'

Answer: prime minister


Question: 'A hatchet is a small one'

Answer: an axe


Question: 'The turkey type of this bird has an exceptional sense of smell for detecting carrion on the ground'

Answer: the vulture


Question: 'This longtime Alabama coach won 328 games in his 38-year career'

Answer: Paul "Bear" Bryant


Question: 'Barack, related to the Hebrew Baruch, means this'

Answer: blessed


Question: 'High on Eva Marie Saint's list is a biography of this man who directed her in "On The Waterfront"'

Answer: Elia Kazan


Question: 'Going down the ranks of teh Royal Navy, remember your 3 C's: Commodore, Captain, this'

Answer: Commander


Question: 'Cenozoic, for example'

Answer: era


Question: 'The fact that this lizard's name is from the Greek for "ground lion" never changes'

Answer: chameleon


Question: 'Don Shula & this Dallas Cowboys coach both coached a record 36 postseason games in the NFL'

Answer: Tom Landry


Question: 'Chancellor Dollfuss & composer Humperdinck shared this name'

Answer: Engelbert


Question: 'Lauren Bacall said his "All The Pretty Horses" was "the most beautiful writing I have read in years"'

Answer: Cormac McCarthy


Question: 'These high-ranking counselors to the Pope must also be bishops'

Answer: cardinals


Question: 'French visorless cap'

Answer: a beret


Question: 'The common type of this marsupial has coarse, thick fur, while that of the hairy-nosed is short & silky'

Answer: a wombat


Question: 'This Nebraska coach averaged more than 10 victories a season for 25 years'

Answer: Tom Osborne


Question: 'This name means "illustrious", as lawyer Darrow was'

Answer: Clarence


Question: 'Author Sandra Brown says the book that had the most impact on her was this author's "Mila 18"'

Answer: Leon Uris


Question: 'As one of these enlisted ranks in the army, your grade is E-1 or E-2; as a first class one, it's E-3'

Answer: private


Question: 'The shaft around which a wheel rotates'

Answer: an axle


Question: 'Indians prized the eulachon, also called this kind of "fish", because it was so oily it could be burned like one'

Answer: a candlefish


Question: 'This team's Marv Levy is the only coach to lead his team to 4 straight Super Bowl appearances'

Answer: the Buffalo Bills


Question: '19th century English illustrator Greenaway, or 19th century American author Chopin'

Answer: Kate


Question: 'R.L. Stine said the works of this author, including "Dandelion Wine", changed his life'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'It's a member of the lowest rank of the French Legion of Honor: Just ask Maurice'

Answer: Chevalier


Question: 'Bird bill'

Answer: beak


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks by a fighter jet in Las Vegas, Nevada.) The Thunderbirds are the elite demonstration team of this armed service, and were created just 6 years after the service came into being'

Answer: the Air Force


Question: 'About this 2008 release, Roger Ebert wrote, "Godzilla meets the Queasy-cam"'

Answer: Cloverfield


Question: 'The world-leading population density of 43,000 people per square mile in this tiny country includes Prince Albert II'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'He's given eulogies for Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks & Lou Rawls'

Answer: Jesse Jackson


Question: 'On Nov. 2, 1997 Prince Maurits & his future wife ran in this famed Manhattan race'

Answer: the New York Marathon


Question: 'This ancient people's territory included the cities of Ekron & Gath'

Answer: the Philistines


Question: '(Sarah reports from the rear seat of a jet.) We won't go there today, but the Thunderbirds can reach ceilings of about 50,000 feet & fly 1500 miles per hour, roughly 2 on this scale'

Answer: Mach


Question: 'In this Disney comedy, an animated princess played by Amy Adams is banished to a place far, far away...reality'

Answer: Enchanted


Question: 'The Indian city of 10,000,000 now known as Mumbai was once known as this'

Answer: Bombay


Question: 'She belted out "Ball and Chain" at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival & was launched to stardom'

Answer: Janis Joplin


Question: 'The wife of young Prince Bernhard shares this first name with one of the original Mousketeers'

Answer: Annette


Question: 'Usually, this 5-inch body part is open to allow passage of air to & from the lungs'

Answer: the pharynx


Question: '(Sarah and the squadron perform precision maneuvers.) Not as easy as it sounds, while making a complete rotation on our longitudinal axis, Colonel Skelton & I are executing this type of roll'

Answer: a barrel roll


Question: 'This actor made his debut as a director with "Gone Baby Gone" which starred his brother Casey'

Answer: Ben Affleck


Question: 'The line of latitude with this number of degrees lies halfway between the Equator & the North Pole'

Answer: 45


Question: 'In the '50s, he became friends with another innovative alliterative artist, Robert Rauschenberg'

Answer: Jasper Johns


Question: 'Since 1984, the Queen's place of work has been Noordeinde Palace in this city'

Answer: The Hague


Question: 'In gas station names, Union is 76; this is 66'

Answer: Phillips


Question: '(Sarah sits in the cockpit of a grounded fighter.) Abbreviated HUD, this type of display projects vital avionics information at eye-level in front of the pilot of an F-16 for easy viewing'

Answer: a head-up display


Question: '"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" climaxes at this national monument, under which is a fabled city of gold'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'In January 2008 it was checkmate for this former chess champ who passed away in Iceland, his adopted country'

Answer: Bobby Fischer


Question: 'In 2001 his change of political affiliation tipped the balance of power in the Senate'

Answer: Jim Jeffords


Question: 'Don't cry for Princess Maxima, wife of the heir to the Dutch throne; she was born in this South American country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Artificial female ones of these are used to bait traps to capture male beetles'

Answer: pheromones


Question: '(Sarah reports from the air one more time.) Pulling up to 7.5 Gs, a popular solo move by the Thunderbirds is a reversed one of these terms, named for a German WWI flying ace'

Answer: the Immelmann turn


Question: 'In 2007 Tom Hanks played this Texas congressman who secretly helped supply the Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s'

Answer: Charlie Wilson


Question: 'Greece's first national park is this one named for a massif'

Answer: Mount Olympus


Question: '"Down By Law" & "Broken Flowers" are features by this independent-minded movie director'

Answer: Jim Jarmusch


Question: 'The Queen's official birthday is still celebrated on April 30, the birthday of this predecessor of Queen Beatrix'

Answer: Queen Juliana


Question: 'To Wittgenstein, the problems of this field for which he is best known are largely confusions of language'

Answer: philosophy


Question: 'He said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'It was from the Hopi that the Spanish first learned of this over 200-mile-long landmark in Arizona'

Answer: Grand Canyon


Question: 'John Ritter stars in a series based on the book this many "Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter"'

Answer: 8


Question: 'Secretary of State Colin Powell'

Answer: Army


Question: 'Mental illness or just too much coffee may cause this, the inability to sleep naturally'

Answer: insomnia


Question: 'Walt Disney won a record 14 of these statuettes now given out in March'

Answer: Oscars


Question: 'There are lots of eaters of chocolate bunnies on this holiday'

Answer: Easter/eaters


Question: 'This Chinese defensive barrier is built mostly of rubble, though some sections are of tamped earth, brick or masonry'

Answer: The Great Wall of China


Question: 'Aaron, this title person, picked Helene, a school psychologist'

Answer: The Bachelor


Question: 'Future president John F. Kennedy'

Answer: Navy


Question: 'Full date mentioned in the first sentence of the article on the Millennium Bug'

Answer: January 1, 2000


Question: 'In the category Best Rock Album, The Rolling Stones' "Voodoo Lounge" won this award for 1994'

Answer: Grammy


Question: 'I swore things couldn't get sadder, but they went "from bad to" this'

Answer: worse/swore


Question: 'Fazlur Khan designed this 110-story Chicago landmark'

Answer: The Sears Tower


Question: 'This '60s series was revived with Forest Whitaker doing the Rod Serling intros'

Answer: The Twilight Zone


Question: '"The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947'

Answer: Air Force


Question: 'As C is in 2 volumes, but J & K are in 1, volume 13 still covers this one letter'

Answer: M


Question: 'On October 11, 2002, the man seen here [former president Carter] won this prestigious award'

Answer: Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'You can put one of these on after your hose'

Answer: shoe/hose


Question: 'This landmark was founded in the 12th century as a fortress within Moscow'

Answer: The Kremlin


Question: 'This '60s series was revived with Gary Cole as Uncle Bill & Tim Curry as Mr. French'

Answer: Family Affair


Question: 'The Civil War's David Glasgow Farragut'

Answer: Navy


Question: 'These "have one advantage over most other pets.  They can be left alone for a day or two without food"'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Known as the "One Man Team", Jay Berwanger in 1935 became the first man to win this college football trophy'

Answer: Heisman Trophy


Question: 'Sam claps when Sarah shows how she can open this fastener on Mom's necklace'

Answer: clasp/claps


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London)  The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is modeled on the dome of this Roman temple that's dedicated to all the gods'

Answer: The Pantheon


Question: 'On "Birds of Prey", Helena Kyle is the daughter of Batman & this master criminal'

Answer: Catwoman


Question: 'Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald'

Answer: Marines


Question: 'The World Book illustration for this occupation has a man with a cutlass, daggers, a pistol & a boarding ax'

Answer: pirate


Question: 'The Boy Scouts of America's highest award for service is "The Silver" one of these Plains animals'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'Trust me on this one, this means to stroll with a proud gait'

Answer: strut/trust


Question: 'Mercutio declares "A plague o' both your houses" in this play'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'Played in more than 150 countries, it's the world's most popular sport'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'This famous 18th century seamstress was a flagmaker for the Pennsylvania navy'

Answer: Betsy Ross


Question: 'This brand's Ultimate G4 could be called the G5, since almost 5 G's is what it originally sold for'

Answer: Apple Macintosh


Question: 'In 1787 Patrick Henry refused to go to this convention; it's said that he "smelt a rat"'

Answer: the Constitutional Convention


Question: 'The name of this vehicle dates back to the time of Napoleon when it meant "walking hospital"'

Answer: ambulance


Question: '"Beware the ides of March" is a line from this play'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In tennis when a serve does this before landing in the proper service court, it's called a let'

Answer: hits the net


Question: 'Before she became Princess of Wales in 1981, she was a kindergarten teacher'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: 'Hi-fi is for playing records; this rhyming term is a standard for network technology'

Answer: wi-fi (wireless fidelity)


Question: 'In 1864, not a hurricane, but this general caused a path of destruction almost 300 miles long & 60 wide'

Answer: William T. Sherman


Question: 'This nickname for potatoes comes from the spade used to dig them up'

Answer: spuds


Question: 'The basic situation of this play resembles the Elizabethan ballad "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife"'

Answer: Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'It's a deep knee bend; a weightlifter does it with a barbell on his shoulders'

Answer: squat


Question: 'As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'Common alliterative term for technology that lets your computer install a device without messy configuring'

Answer: plug and play


Question: 'Looking for a good reelection issue in 1950, this Wisconsin senator took up anti-Communism on the advice of friends'

Answer: Joseph McCarthy


Question: 'From the Greek for "small sound", it's a device used to intensify the voice'

Answer: microphone


Question: '"A Midsummer Night's Dream" says, "The course of true love never did" this'

Answer: run smooth


Question: 'Appropriately, red, white & blue are the team colors of this NFL team based in Massachusetts'

Answer: New England Patriots


Question: 'She answered an ad in her college paper looking for astronauts, & in 1983 became the first American woman in space'

Answer: Sally Ride


Question: '3-letter (sounding like 3-word) name of an instant messaging program introduced in November 1996'

Answer: ICQ


Question: 'This 1862 act gave American citizens 160 acres of land if they'd live on it for at least 5 years & improve it'

Answer: The Homestead Act


Question: 'Derived from the Spanish word for "let's go", it means to leave hurriedly'

Answer: vamoose (vamonos)


Question: 'This "tale" was acted at court in November 1611, a bit early for its title'

Answer: The Winter\'s Tale


Question: 'An Olympic gold medalist in 1992, in 2002 she was named the most influential person in figure skating'

Answer: Kristi Yamaguchi


Question: 'A street in Montgomery, Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus'

Answer: Rosa Parks


Question: 'It's an HTML command that formats a web page; the "meta" type gives general information about the page'

Answer: tag


Question: 'An ink used in a newspaper cartoon in the 1890s gave us this term for sensationalist reporting'

Answer: yellow journalism


Question: 'The name of these "fishy" bacteria that cause food poisoning comes from the pathologist who identified them'

Answer: salmonella


Question: 'By size, it's the largest country that borders only one other country'

Answer: Canada (borders only the United States)


Question: 'On Ben's 1st walk though this city, he carried "three great puffy rolls" making a "most ridiculous appearance"'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music'

Answer: Buck Owens


Question: 'To annoy, perhaps with an insect<br />(3)'

Answer: bug


Question: 'Check out the gilt onion  domes at the palace near St. Petersburg named for the first empress named this'

Answer: Catherine


Question: 'This scary South American critter could even give a dentist nightmares'

Answer: a piranha


Question: 'This "League" has sponsored many political debates, including the Mondale/Reagan fisticuffs in 1984'

Answer: the League of Women Voters


Question: 'At 16 Ben read a book by Thomas Tryon & accordingly adopted this type of diet'

Answer: vegetarian


Question: 'Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate'

Answer: Al Lewis


Question: 'Witches' concoction, or a beer<br />(4)'

Answer: brew


Question: '18 million pieces of gold & glass cover the walls of the Golden Hall in this city's Stadshus, home to the Nobel Banquet'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'The world-record catch for the largemouth type of this freshwater fish logs in at 22 lbs., 4 oz.'

Answer: a bass


Question: 'In 1858 Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas had a series of debates over who should be senator from this state'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Franklin noted that the complaint called "dry-gripes" resulted from exposure to this toxic metal'

Answer: lead


Question: '"The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R&B legend in January 2006'

Answer: Wilson Pickett


Question: 'A nice word for "cowlike"<br />(6)'

Answer: bovine


Question: 'In 1994 the roof of this Jerusalem shrine was regilded with 24 carat gold'

Answer: the Dome of the Rock


Question: 'Holy this important food fish seen here'

Answer: a mackerel


Question: 'In 1993 Vice President Al Gore & Ross Perot appeared on Larry King to debate this trade pact'

Answer: NAFTA


Question: '1751's "Experiments and Observations on" this helped make Ben's name; the book was translated into French in 1752'

Answer: electricity


Question: 'Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird & the horrific'

Answer: Darren McGavin


Question: 'Oleo is its understudy<br />(6)'

Answer: butter


Question: 'This Venetian basilica is known as the "Chiesa d'Oro"'

Answer: St. Mark\'s


Question: 'The name of this fierce ocean fish may come from the Spanish word barraco, meaning "overlapping teeth"'

Answer: a barracuda


Question: 'In the late 1970s conservative columnist James Kilpatrick debated liberal journalist Shana Alexander on this TV show'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'Ben appropriately described his youthful mistakes as "errata", a term from this profession'

Answer: printing


Question: 'The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman"'

Answer: Curt Gowdy


Question: 'Beau & Jeff, or Brooklyn & Mackinac<br />(7)'

Answer: Bridges


Question: 'Harimandir is the name of the center of Sikh faith seen here. It's called this in English'

Answer: the Golden Temple


Question: 'This fish takes its name from its unique defensive behavior'

Answer: a puffer fish


Question: '"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a quip from the famous debate between these two men'

Answer: Quayle and Bentsen


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a Dublin museum.) I'm holding this novelist's cane in an Irish museum dedicated to him.  He wrote passionately of Dublin but died in exile'

Answer: (James) Joyce


Question: 'In 1968, while still in the army, this future hall of fame tennis player became the first Black male to win the U.S. Open'

Answer: (Arthur) Ashe


Question: 'This famous water bearer fired cannon during the Battle of Monmouth'

Answer: Molly Pitcher


Question: 'It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones'

Answer: theorem


Question: 'Johnny Cash song lyric that gives the power to nix individual items in tax bills'

Answer: Walk The Line Item Veto


Question: 'A larch'

Answer: tree


Question: 'Soren Kierkegaard is buried in the Assistens Kirkegard, or cemetery, in this city'

Answer: Copenhagen


Question: 'Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname'

Answer: Pop


Question: 'In 1429 she led Charles VII & his military escort through enemy territory so that he could be crowned at Reims'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math'

Answer: calculus


Question: 'Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution'

Answer: Buffalo Bill of Rights


Question: 'Gloatingly jubilant joy'

Answer: glee


Question: 'If John Keats had sent a postcard from his last home, it would have been postmarked this city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds'

Answer: Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'In 1983 she returned to Manila to arrange her husband's funeral; 3 years later, she was president'

Answer: (Corazon) Aquino


Question: 'This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec'

Answer: secant


Question: 'Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level'

Answer: Leaves of Grassroots


Question: 'The side of a ship away from the wind'

Answer: lee


Question: 'You can visit the Moscow house where this author & some of his 13--"count" 'em--kids spent time from 1882 to 1901'

Answer: Leo Tolstoy


Question: 'Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics'

Answer: (Wilma) Rudolph


Question: 'She was twice widowed prior to marrying Henry VIII & was then widowed again when Henry died in 1547'

Answer: (Catherine) Parr


Question: 'In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor'

Answer: numerical coefficient


Question: 'Spending for a congressman's local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container game'

Answer: Pork Barrel of Monkeys


Question: 'An archaic form of "you", as used in "Sonnets from the Portuguese"'

Answer: thee


Question: 'Stood up at the bar of Paris' Hotel de Crillon? Oh well, so was Jake Barnes in this Hemingway novel'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: 'In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record'

Answer: (Maury) Wills


Question: 'On June 16, 1963 she became the first person to achieve Earth orbit who had never been a test pilot'

Answer: (Valentina) Tereshkova


Question: 'This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry'

Answer: hyperbolic


Question: 'Media consultant ensuring that speeches by Pasternak's physician get the best possible play in the press'

Answer: Spin Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'The largest Indian tribe of Canada'

Answer: Cree


Question: 'Along with Communist China and North Korea, one of the 2 formerly Communist nations bordering Asian Russia'

Answer: (1 of) Kazakhstan & Mongolia


Question: 'You should know from the get-go that a gecko can regenerate this body part'

Answer: Tail


Question: 'The man seen here helped add this hairy term to the English language (General Ambrose Burnside)'

Answer: Sideburns


Question: 'This series' Det. Chin Ho Kelly was killed off in 1978, vainly waiting to hear "Book 'em, Chin Ho!"'

Answer: Hawaii Five-O


Question: 'This type of creature supplies the title of a 1937 Tolkien work; Frodo Baggins is one'

Answer: Hobbit


Question: 'Hungary's main mineral resource is bauxite, the ore that yields this easily "foil"ed metal'

Answer: Aluminum


Question: 'I'm taking this, the usual basis of green salads, braising it & serving it au gratin'

Answer: Lettuce


Question: 'There are over 100 species of the poison arrow type of these amphibians'

Answer: Frogs


Question: 'An animal lends its name to this slick "tail" style popular in the 1950s'

Answer: Ducktail


Question: 'In a 1980 revamping, the sands ran through the hourglass for 3 characters on this soap'

Answer: "Days Of Our Lives"


Question: 'Frodo has to destroy one of these to stop Sauron from becoming "Lord Of" them'

Answer: Ring


Question: 'It's red on top, white in the middle & green on the bottom -- no, it's not goulash'

Answer: Hungarian flag


Question: 'Beef pounded thin, dipped in batter & cooked in a skillet; it includes the name of another meat'

Answer: Chicken-fried steak


Question: 'It's found foraging on the forest floor'

Answer: Tapir


Question: 'Louis XV might have been attracted to you if you wore this style'

Answer: Pompadour


Question: 'Sitcom character whose fiancee Susan died from licking toxic envelope glue'

Answer: George Costanza ("Seinfeld")


Question: 'Smaug, a dreaded creature of this type, breathed not mere smog, but fire'

Answer: Dragon


Question: 'The 1956 Olympics featured a bloody water polo match between Hungary & this invader'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'Yes, we have no bananas, so we'll saute these starchier "cooking bananas"'

Answer: Plantains


Question: 'The coat of the clouded species of this cat provides it with excellent camouflage in India's forests'

Answer: Leopard


Question: 'It's the "court"ly cut seen here'

Answer: Page boy


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Dan Cortese) As Jess Hanson on this series, I fell to my death in a scuffle with my brother, Grant Show"'

Answer: "Melrose Place"


Question: 'Like Camelot's Excalibur, Middle-Earth's Sting is one of these'

Answer: Sword


Question: 'Be sure to hear music by this ethnic group called Czigany, real strolling musicians'

Answer: Gypsies


Question: 'This is how I'll cook the cod; I hope it's not the way it was caught'

Answer: Poaching


Question: 'The "black" variety of this snake is the largest venomous snake in Africa'

Answer: the mamba


Question: 'Your "honey" might enjoy this style'

Answer: Beehive


Question: 'This McLean Stevenson character perished in the last "M*A*S*H" of the 1974-75 season'

Answer: Henry Blake


Question: 'Meaning "famous ruler", it's the first name of cinematographer Kovacs & painter Moholy-Nagy'

Answer: Laszlo


Question: 'I hope you're starving because I bought enough cornmeal to make a vat of this Italian porridge'

Answer: Polenta


Question: 'Feroze, the man whom this future prime minister married in 1942, was not related to the Mahatma'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'On "Friends" Jennifer Aniston's Rachel was involved with Ross, played by this actor'

Answer: David Schwimmer


Question: '5-letter term for a compound of the NO2 group; with "glycerine", it's an explosive'

Answer: nitro


Question: 'A vote was held to pick which version of this singer, younger or older, would be on the stamp'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Scorsese was one of this actor's fares in the movie "Taxi Driver"'

Answer: Robert De Niro


Question: 'King Arthur's wife, she was known as Guanhumara in "Historia Regum Britanniae"'

Answer: Guinevere


Question: 'Berenice IV, this woman's sister, ruled Egypt from 58-55 B.C., until her father executed her'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In a 1994 film David Gow was round table wit Donald Ogden Stewart; she was Dorothy Parker'

Answer: Jennifer Jason Leigh


Question: 'K is a symbol; a designation like K2CO3 is one of these'

Answer: a formula


Question: 'He was sittin' on a 29-cent stamp as well as on "The Dock Of The Bay"'

Answer: Otis Redding


Question: 'Scorsese played a sponsor of "Twenty-One" in this 1994 movie about a TV scandal'

Answer: Quiz Show


Question: 'In 1808 & 1809 this silversmith made copper plates for Robert Fulton's steamship boilers'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'As her nation's last monarch, she championed the Oni Pa'a or "Stand Firm" movement'

Answer: Queen Lili\'uokalani (of Hawaii)


Question: 'In "Labyrinth" the goblin king who kidnaps Jennifer Connelly's brother is played by this singer'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'The table of elements is "punctuated" by these horizontal rows'

Answer: periods


Question: 'This stamp star was born Richard Valenzuela in Pacoima, California'

Answer: Ritchie Valens


Question: 'In "Guilty By Suspicion" Scorsese played a director blacklisted for refusing to help this committee'

Answer: the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)


Question: 'Its surface area can be determined by using 4 pi r2'

Answer: a sphere


Question: 'In 1997 Texas family physician Nancy Dickey became the first woman elected to head this organization'

Answer: the American Medical Association (AMA)


Question: 'David Geffen's record company released this "Dreamgirl"'s 1983 record "Feel My Soul"'

Answer: Jennifer Holliday


Question: 'Good news!  Ilya Prigogine showed that the 2nd law of this doesn't doom the universe to a slow "heat death"'

Answer: thermodynamics


Question: 'Asked if he was alone on his stamp, this '50s "R-O-C-K" star would have "no comet"'

Answer: Bill Haley


Question: 'Scorsese played Van Gogh in a segment of this Japanese director's "Dreams"'

Answer: Akira Kurosawa


Question: 'Cape Columbia on this large island is Canada's northernmost point'

Answer: Ellesmere Island


Question: 'In 1923 this woman known for novels of high society became the first to get an honorary degree from Yale'

Answer: Edith Wharton


Question: '"Boxing Helena" was directed by this avant-garde director's daughter Jennifer'

Answer: David Lynch


Question: 'If you split this word for a solution with a pH over 7, you get a great Detroit Tigers outfielder'

Answer: Alkaline/Al Kaline


Question: 'There was nothin' finer than this "queen" of the blues who partnered with Brook Benton'

Answer: Dinah Washington


Question: 'Scorsese joined Ethan Hawke & this "Easy Rider" star in the cast of 1995's "Search And Destroy"'

Answer: Dennis Hopper


Question: 'French physicist who first showed that current in 2 parallel wires causes magnetic forces between the wires'

Answer: Andre-Marie Ampere


Question: 'Among the poems this British novelist wrote in the 1920s were "Men In New Mexico" & "Autumn At Taos"'

Answer: DH Lawrence


Question: '1956:<br />Grace Kelly'

Answer: Prince Ranier


Question: 'Danny & the Juniors'

Answer: the \'50s


Question: 'Perhaps too much eggnog threw off this character's equilibrium when he had a great fall off a wall'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'This dish, fried squid, is delish dipped in a simple tomato sauce'

Answer: calamari


Question: 'His thesis No. 77 says it's blasphemy that the cross on the papal arms is of equal power to Jesus' cross'

Answer: Martin Luther


Question: '...in the title of the TV show you're on right now'

Answer: Y


Question: '1942:<br />Indira Nehru'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'The Moody Blues'

Answer: the \'60s


Question: 'An old woman living here gave her innumerable kids "broth without any bread"; hold her without bail'

Answer: a shoe


Question: 'Migas, a Spanish dish, is bits of stale bread with this ground pork sausage with a Spanish name'

Answer: chorizo


Question: 'Protesters at the Toronto film festival asked god to forgive the blasphemy of this man's film "Religulous"'

Answer: Bill Maher


Question: '...in the last name of the current U.S. president'

Answer: O


Question: '1986:<br />Sarah Ferguson (but divorced in '96)'

Answer: Prince Andrew


Question: 'The Sex Pistols'

Answer: the \'70s


Question: 'He kissed the girls & made them cry (I smell a lawsuit)'

Answer: Georgie Porgie


Question: 'It's been called "nothing but cabbage with a college education"'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: 'He went into hiding in 1989 when the Ayatollah called for his execution for blaspheming Islam'

Answer: (Salman) Rushdie


Question: '...in the name of your home planet'

Answer: T


Question: '1954<br /> Imelda Romualdez, after she won a national beauty contest'

Answer: (Ferdinand) Marcos


Question: 'Linkin Park'

Answer: the \'90s


Question: 'I suspect steroids were involved when the cow jumped over the moon in this nursery rhyme'

Answer: "Hey Diddle Diddle"


Question: 'This herb is also called coriander & Chinese parsley'

Answer: cilantro


Question: 'Established by Pope Gregory IX in 1231, it fought blasphemy, alchemy & sorcery as well as heresy'

Answer: the Inquisition


Question: '...in the name of the third month of the year'

Answer: R


Question: '2005:<br />Melania Knauss'

Answer: Donald Trump


Question: 'The Killers'

Answer: the 2000s


Question: 'Rub-a-dub-dub, these 3 men are in a tub; aw, make up your own joke'

Answer: a butcher, a baker & a candlestick maker


Question: 'This hot chili is actually a dried, smoked jalapeno'

Answer: chipotle


Question: 'This Swedish dramatist drew charges of blasphemy for his 1884 collection of short stories "Married"'

Answer: Strindberg


Question: '...in the name of that opposable digit used for hitchhiking'

Answer: U


Question: 'Russia, 1762-1796'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Annie Sullivan in "The Miracle Worker"'

Answer: Anne Bancroft


Question: 'Cecil B. Demille was the first director to be seen on set with this device, whose prefix means "million"'

Answer: a megaphone


Question: 'On the 1976 campaign trail, these 2 were called "Grits & Fritz"'

Answer: Carter & Mondale


Question: 'You can see close to 300 resort art deco buildings in this state's South Beach'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'In a 2007 festival, 3 million people of this religion immersed themselves in the waters of Allahabad'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'The Roman empire, 324-337 A.D.'

Answer: Constantine the Great


Question: 'Leo Bloom in "The Producers "'

Answer: Matthew Broderick


Question: '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-14_DJ_14.wmv">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows his two forearms, each with a question mark written on it in highlighter.</a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-14_DJ_14.wmv">)  Highlighter ink glows under black light, but cover it with sunscreen & it no longer glows, because sunscreen absorbs this spectrum of light'

Answer: ultraviolet light


Question: 'Delegates at the 2004 Republican National Convention waved this hyphenated footwear to mock John Kerry'

Answer: flip-flops


Question: 'At its opening, this NYC building was the largest marble structure in the U.S. & contained 75 miles of shelves'

Answer: the public library


Question: '3 million people in this city celebrated like it was 1918 after they won the World Series in 2004'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'Hawaii, c. 1790-1819'

Answer: Kamehameha the Great


Question: 'The master of ceremonies in "Cabaret"'

Answer: Joel Grey


Question: 'This word isn't about wall paintings but the sports of students within a school'

Answer: intramural


Question: 'On October 1, 1992 he reactivated his third party presidential campaign, having withdrawn in July'

Answer: (Ross) Perot


Question: 'With 15 bedrooms, Pickfair in this L.A.-area city began the trend of building large celebrity-owned homes there'

Answer: Beverly Hills


Question: 'In April 1990 about a million people gathered in Central Park to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this observance'

Answer: Earth Day


Question: 'Prussia, 1740-1786'

Answer: Frederick the Great


Question: 'Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon"'

Answer: (Frank) Langella


Question: 'London built the first of these in 1863 &, despite sulfurous fumes from the steam locomotives, it was a success'

Answer: a subway


Question: 'The 1992 campaign button of this U.S. senator is seen here'

Answer: Feinstein


Question: 'Built on Aztec ruins with pyramid & temple pieces, this city's Metropolitan Cathedral defines its skyline'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'In 2005 dozens of Heads of State & millions of pilgrims went to his funeral'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: 'Wessex, 871-899'

Answer: Alfred the Great


Question: 'Sir Thomas More in "A Man For All Seasons"'

Answer: Paul Scofield


Question: 'When you break apart petroleum, you get this hydrocarbon that has 8 carbons chained together'

Answer: octane


Question: 'In 1880 Lawnfield, his Ohio home, was the site of the first successful "front porch" campaign'

Answer: James Garfield


Question: 'Completed in 2007, the water cube is one of the newer buildings in this city'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'Each year celebs, policymakers & other VIPs come to the world economic forum in this Swiss town'

Answer: Davos


Question: 'This 2-word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935'

Answer: Ivy League


Question: 'The title of this Ibsen play describes the home of Torvald & Nora Helmer'

Answer: "A Doll\'s House"


Question: 'Ambrose Bierce was known for his short stories & defined this longer form as " A short story padded"'

Answer: Novel


Question: 'Howard Staunton organized this board game's 1st international tournament in 1851 & Adolf Anderssen won'

Answer: Chess


Question: 'Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this'

Answer: Deafness


Question: 'Talk "turkey", or wolf down a lot of turkey'

Answer: Gobble


Question: 'Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey'

Answer: Nectar


Question: '"Important" Oscar Wilde play that begins in a London flat & ends in a country manor house'

Answer: "The Importance of Being Earnest"


Question: 'Wife Mollie may have agreed with Bierce that this emotion is "A temporary insanity curable by marriage"'

Answer: Love


Question: 'In 1989 Arantxa Sanchez won the French Open & began using this, her mother's name'

Answer: Vicario


Question: 'Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following:'

Answer: Brahms


Question: 'Don't wolf down your turkey, but take these small quick bites'

Answer: Nibbles


Question: 'Bees are found on every continent but this one'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'Part of this Thornton Wilder play is set at the Gibbs' house, but it takes imagination to see it'

Answer: "Our Town"


Question: 'Bierce defined this event as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842'

Answer: Birth


Question: 'In 1996 the Cornhuskers of this school, better known as a football power, won basketball's NIT'

Answer: Nebraska


Question: 'Bach's 1721 "Concerts a Plusieurs Instruments" are popularly known as these "Concertos"'

Answer: "The Brandenburg Concertos"


Question: 'A crusty old bootmaker, or a crusty old fruit dessert'

Answer: Cobbler


Question: 'Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey & this plant product'

Answer: Pollen


Question: 'Y'all can find Jeeter Lester's shack on this street in the play based on an Erskine Caldwell novel'

Answer: "Tobacco Road"


Question: 'Bierce saw this, "An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment" in Mexico while following Villa's army'

Answer: Revolution


Question: 'In 1996, Sri Lanka, a 66-1 underdog, batted down Australia in the World Cup of this sport'

Answer: Cricket


Question: 'The 2 who called Vienna home'

Answer: Beethoven & Brahms


Question: 'A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people'

Answer: Rabble


Question: 'On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound & 3 simple'

Answer: Eyes


Question: 'The Youngers move out of their cramped apartment as this Lorraine Hansberry play ends'

Answer: "A Raisin in the Sun"


Question: 'Some Greek philosophers, or men like Bierce "Whose faulty vision sees things as they are"'

Answer: Cynics


Question: 'A Polish team's victory over 4 Americans in a 1987 tournament in this game was "trump"eted as historic'

Answer: Bridge


Question: 'Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805'

Answer: "Fidelio"


Question: 'How ya gonna keep 'em down on this farm after they've seen Tel Aviv'

Answer: Kibbutz


Question: 'Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling & wagging types of this form of bee communication'

Answer: Dancing


Question: 'The snows of this African peak cover it year-round, although it's just 3 degrees south of the equator'

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro


Question: 'It's the value of the playing card just below a knave'

Answer: 10


Question: 'In 1997 Elton John reworked this Marilyn Monroe tribute as a farewell to Princess Diana'

Answer: "Candle In The Wind"


Question: '8 members of this team threw the 1919 World Series'

Answer: the Chicago White Sox


Question: '"Am I my brother's keeper?"'

Answer: Cain


Question: 'Superfluous 3 words sometimes heard after the phrase "10 A.M."'

Answer: in the morning


Question: 'Also known as Mount Tacoma, this peak in Washington state last erupted about 150 years ago'

Answer: Mount Ranier


Question: 'Term for the time between the laying of an egg & its hatching, or for an infection & the showing of symptoms'

Answer: incubation


Question:
'Title of the 1964 hit heard here:

"Whether he heard, I'll never know... Look out!  Look out!  Look out!  Look out!"'

Answer: "Leader Of The Pack"


Question: 'In 1997 Autumn Jackson was convicted of shaking down this comedian she claims is her father'

Answer: Bill Cosby


Question: '"Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh?"'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Putting this word before "handed" isn't redundant; putting it before "naked" is'

Answer: bare


Question: 'This European mountain chain is populated by Catalans, Bearnais & Andorrans'

Answer: the Pyrenees


Question: 'Of a haiku, a sonnet, or an ode, the one without a set length'

Answer: an ode


Question: 'Mark Dinning sang about a "Teen" one; Peter Stampfel, about a "Surfer" one'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'With Michael Caine, he played the other con man in 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"'

Answer: Steve Martin


Question: '"Shall I go and smite these Philistines?"'

Answer: David


Question: 'People talk about this type of "proximity"; it's not very different from regular proximity'

Answer: close proximity


Question: 'This mountain system forms a 750-mile arc from the Gulf of Genoa to the Danube River'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'O gauge is a term in the hobby dealing with these'

Answer: model trains


Question: 'In 1976 Blue Oyster Cult advised us, "Don't Fear" him'

Answer: the reaper


Question: 'Not only did he kill Washington's treasury secretary, he plotted to start his own country in the west'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: '"What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?"'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'Redundant 2-word phrase for a present offered to entice customers to a product or service'

Answer: free gift


Question: 'Mount Vesuvius belongs to this chain that runs the length of Italy'

Answer: the Apennines


Question: 'A quindecagon is a polygon with this many sides'

Answer: 15


Question: '"Hang the D.J." is the refrain of "Panic" by this defunct English band led by Morrissey'

Answer: The Smiths


Question: 'In 1837 Gen. Jesup promised this Seminole leader a truce, then locked him up when he came to negotiate'

Answer: Osceola


Question: '"Who is able to judge... thy so great a people?"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'From Latin for "to turn back", this word meaning to regress needn't be followed by "back"'

Answer: revert


Question: 'In population, it's the largest country that's not a member of the United Nations'

Answer: Taiwan (Republic of China)


Question: 'Astride this steed the Lone Ranger led the fight for law & order in the early western United States'

Answer: Silver


Question: 'It's where an industrious person keeps his nose'

Answer: To the grindstone


Question: 'This name means a follower of Dionysus; appropriate in the case of Mr. Rodman'

Answer: Dennis


Question: 'This green plant pigment is also found in algae & in some bacteria'

Answer: Chlorophyll


Question: 'This red gem, July's birthstone, is the traditional gift for a 40th wedding anniversary'

Answer: Ruby


Question: 'As Jonathan on "Highway To Heaven", Michael Landon was one of these beings on probation'

Answer: Angel


Question: 'Film cowboy who was "Trigger" happy'

Answer: Roy Rogers


Question: 'The form of physical comedy associated with Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Kops & The Three Stooges'

Answer: Slapstick


Question: 'Ironically, this first name of a famous blind woman born in 1880 means "light"'

Answer: Helen (Keller)


Question: 'In 1875 this plant breeder moved to California using profits earned on his potato'

Answer: Luther Burbank


Question: 'In a business, this abbreviation should precede a woman's name when her marital status is unknown'

Answer: Ms.


Question: 'As Jeannie she could blink you back to Baghdad in, well, the blink of an eye'

Answer: Barbara Eden


Question: 'Marengo & Copenhagen were their mounts at Waterloo'

Answer: Duke of Wellington & Napoleon


Question: 'These springy stilts with pedals will have you moving in leaps & bounds'

Answer: Pogo sticks


Question: 'A comedian's son, actor-director Albert Brooks was born with this "scientific" name'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'It's defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge'

Answer: Ion


Question: '"Emily Post's Etiquette" says this should never be viselike, nor should it feel like a jellyfish'

Answer: Handshake


Question: 'Jamie Sommers' bionic dog was Max, short for this, from the cost of 4 new bionic legs & a jaw'

Answer: Maximillion


Question: 'After this hero of Spain died in 1099 no one was allowed to ride his horse Babieca'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'Paired with "fire", it "rained" upon Sodom & Gomorrah'

Answer: Brimstone


Question: 'He named a character in a 1951 novel for 1940s movie star Joan Caulfield'

Answer: J.D. Salinger


Question: 'A 1991 photo of Gaspra taken by the Galileo probe was the first close-up of one of these minor planets'

Answer: Asteroid


Question: 'At a formal dinner, this object is often made of damask & placed on the guest's plate, not beside it'

Answer: Napkin


Question: 'Lisa is the computer-generated woman in the USA series based on this John Hughes film'

Answer: "Weird Science"


Question: 'White Surrey was the favorite horse of this king once quoted as saying he'd trade his kingdom for one'

Answer: Richard III


Question: '3' 9" high, 2' 4 1/2" across & nearly 1' thick, it was key to deciphering hieroglyphics'

Answer: The Rosetta Stone


Question: 'Nintendo immortalized this first name of one of the company's landlords'

Answer: Mario


Question: 'In the 1940s this Nobel Prize winner & vitamin C advocate studied the structure of antibodies'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'A Catholic archbishop is addressed as "Your Excellency" while a cardinal is "Your" this'

Answer: Eminence


Question: 'Like Lysette Anthony on 1991's "Dark Shadows", Corinne Bohrer on 1989's "Free Spirit" was one of these'

Answer: Witch


Question: 'You can take it for granite that this South Dakota landmark has four 60' heads carved into it'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'To make red-eye gravy, you need a well-cured one of these meats'

Answer: Ham


Question: 'As a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, this Middle East canal remained closed until 1975'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'In the 1975 Morris Albert hit this 2-letter word is repeated 3 times after "Feelings"'

Answer: "Wo....wo"


Question: 'Quick & shrewd, like the messenger of the Roman gods'

Answer: Mercurial


Question: 'He was baptized in the parish church of Stratford-On-Avon April 26, 1564'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Between 1823 & 1831 the artist Hokusai created a series of 36 views of this'

Answer: Mount Fuji


Question: 'They're the 2 main vegetables in succotash'

Answer: Corn & lima beans


Question: 'It was the last Indian empire in Mexico & Central America'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: 'Breaker, Breaker, Good Buddy!  This song by C.W. McCall topped the charts in 1976'

Answer: "Convoy"


Question: 'The passionate type of love favored by the Greek god of love'

Answer: Erotic


Question: '"A Rose For Emily" is a well-known short story by this author of "The Sound And The Fury"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Noah was probably the first to climb down this mount without first climbing up it'

Answer: Mount Ararat


Question: 'Served in a Mexican soup, albondigas are spicy ones'

Answer: Meatballs


Question: 'England's first encounter with this fleet occurred off Plymouth July 31, 1588'

Answer: The Spanish Armada


Question: 'Before reaching No. 1 with "Eve of Destruction", he sang lead on the New Christy Minstrels' "Green, Green"'

Answer: Barry McGuire


Question: 'It describes a task that takes a lot of effort, like the labors of a demigod strongman'

Answer: Herculean


Question: 'In 1996 this "Exorcist" author published "Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing:  A Fable"'

Answer: William Peter Blatty


Question: 'George Vancouver named this NW peak after a British rear admiral, not for the local weather'

Answer: Mount Ranier


Question: 'In 1863 Prince William of Denmark ascended this country's throne as King George I'

Answer: Greece


Question:
'No. 1 for 6 weeks, the song heard here was this duo's only Top 40 hit:

"In the year 2525, if man is still alive..."'

Answer: Zager & Evans


Question: 'Jovial means jolly, like those under the astrological influence of this planet'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'His newspaper column "On Language" is syndicated around the world'

Answer: William Safire


Question: 'Until June 1991 this Philippine landmark had been inactive for about 600 years'

Answer: Mount Pinatubo


Question: 'This treaty that created the European Union is named for the Dutch city where it was drawn up in 1991'

Answer: Maastricht


Question: '1955's "Earth Angel" was the only earthly hit for this ornithological quartet'

Answer: The Penguins


Question: 'As virginal as the followers of the Roman goddess of the hearth'

Answer: Vestal


Question: 'In 1990's "Darkness Visible", this "Sophie's Choice" author wrote of his struggle with depression'

Answer: William Styron


Question: 'Thomas Morton of Merry Mount was arrested in 1628 by this neighbor & pilgrim he called "Captaine Shrimp"'

Answer: Miles Standish


Question: 'You might need a learner's permit to watch Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize play "How I Learned to" do this'

Answer: Drive


Question: 'Elvis Costello & Sean Penn guested on the "Back Off, Mary Poppins" episode of this Charlie Sheen show'

Answer: Two and a Half Men


Question: 'Arthur Wynne created the first modern one of these puzzles, published in the New York World in Dec. 1913'

Answer: a crossword puzzle


Question: 'Named for a sea god who could change shape at will, Proteus is a moon of this planet'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Vancouver, British Columbia'

Answer: Pacific


Question: 'Technically it's known as the patella'

Answer: the kneecap


Question: '"Moonlight and Magnolias" depicts the epic struggle to turn this novel into a 1939 film'

Answer: Gone With The Wind


Question: 'Season 4 episodes of this show included "The Handicap Spot", "The Junior Mint" & "The Bubble Boy"'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'This game to build words from lettered tiles began as "Lexico" in 1931'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'Phobos, a moon of this planet, was named for a son of Ares in Greek mythology'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'Omaha, Nebraska'

Answer: Central


Question: 'The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: kappa


Question: 'The play "Spinning into Butter" explores political correctness at a small college in this "Green Mountain State"'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'Eric McCormack starred in "A Will of Their Own" in 1998, the same year he started Messing around on this show'

Answer: Will & Grace


Question: 'There are 43 quintillion possible wrong solutions & 1 correct one for this cube'

Answer: a Rubik\'s Cube


Question: 'Saturn's largest moon was fittingly named this, also a term for a Greek mythological giant god'

Answer: Titan


Question: 'Santa Fe, New Mexico'

Answer: Mountain


Question: 'After criminal activities by this secret society, Oklahoma was placed under martial law in September 1923'

Answer: Ku Klux Klan


Question: 'Matthew Burnett turned this "Our Town" playwright's novel "Theophilus North" into a play that premiered in 2003'

Answer: Thornton Wilder


Question: 'Peter Scolari doubled as Henry & Hildegarde while some guy named Hanks played Kip & Buffy on this '80s series'

Answer: Bosom Buddies


Question: 'In the 1760s mapmaker John Spilsbury invented this, which must be fit together'

Answer: a jigsaw puzzle


Question: 'The most volcanically active satellite in the solar system is this 2-letter moon of Jupiter'

Answer: Io


Question: 'Reno, Nevada'

Answer: Pacific


Question: 'Mack Sennett's bumbling police squad'

Answer: the Keystone Kops


Question: 'In 2006 New Yorkers awoke to find his 1935 play "Awake and Sing!" back on Broadway'

Answer: Clifford Odets


Question: 'In 1991 he experienced "Growing Pains" as Luke Brower; 6 years later, he was king of the (movie) world'

Answer: (Leonardo) DiCaprio


Question: 'An early version of this game in India was called Chaturanga & used elephants, horses, chariots & foot soldiers'

Answer: chess


Question: 'On its trip out of our solar system, this spacecraft discovered Puck, a moon of Uranus'

Answer: Voyager (2)


Question: 'Akron, Ohio'

Answer: Eastern Time


Question: 'Born in 1862, he founded the Vienna Secession school of painting & also created vibrant portraits of women'

Answer: Gustav Klimt


Question: 'Opposition led by Santa Anna limited the reign of this country's Agustin I to 10 months'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'His "What A Wonderful World", recorded in 1967, wasn't a U.S. hit until used in the 1987 film "Good Morning, Vietnam"'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: '2 below par on a hole of golf'

Answer: an eagle


Question: 'He became Britain's prime minister on June 27, 2007'

Answer: Gordon Brown


Question: 'Edward Teach could teach you a thing or 2 about his buccaneering days as this "dark" pirate of the Caribbean'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'The online acronym "MEGO" means "I'm bored" & stands for this'

Answer: My eyes glaze over


Question: 'Byzantine Emperor John V Palaeologus so drained the Treasury with was he was arrested in Venice for this'

Answer: debt


Question: 'When Tommy Dorsey died in 1956, this older brother assumed leadership of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra'

Answer: Jimmy Dorsey


Question: 'To boast over something'

Answer: crow


Question: 'On Dec. 2, 1859 this militant abolitionist was hanged for treason'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'Cheerful 2-word name for the flag seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-10-17_DJ_20.jpg" target="_blank">here'

Answer: the Jolly Roger


Question: 'The center of a dartboard'

Answer: bullseye


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Imperial Palace in Vienna.)  The first man to live in the palace as Emperor of Austria was also the last man to hold this other title, as that empire was dissolved in 1806'

Answer: Holy Roman Emperor


Question: 'His quartet's 1959 LP "Time Out" featured the classic hit "Take Five"'

Answer: (Dave) Brubeck


Question: 'Numbers like 2 & 3, as opposed to second & third'

Answer: cardinal


Question: 'With his 12,313th rushing yard, Walter Payton passed him on the all-time rushing list'

Answer: Jim Brown


Question: 'The name of this Chinese city became a verb describing how some pirate ships gained their sailors'

Answer: Shanghai


Question: 'In the 1920s this man formed what became part of General Foods to sell his frozen foods'

Answer: (Clarence) Birdseye


Question: 'Alfonso VI, who died in 1109, called himself "Emperor of 2 Religions"-- these 2'

Answer: Christianity & Islam


Question: 'Ray Brown, Percy Heath & Charles Mingus were "stand-up" guys as masters of this instrument'

Answer: the double bass


Question: 'To grumble or complain'

Answer: grouse


Question: 'This crime-solving clerical character was created by G.K. Chesterton'

Answer: Father Brown


Question: '"Coastal" name for the Mediterranean pirates of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia & Morocco'

Answer: Barbary pirates


Question: 'Referring to animals you shouldn't challenge, scientists use the abbreviation NEC, for "No" this'

Answer: Eye Contact


Question: 'Last name of Louis, brother & father of French emperors'

Answer: Bonaparte


Question: 'Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke, a legendary cornet player of the 1920s, was known by this 3-letter nickname'

Answer: Bix


Question: 'To shoot from a hidden position'

Answer: to snipe


Question: 'Harold Brown was this president's Secretary of Defense'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: '16th century pirate Francois le Clerc was known as "Jambe de Bois", as he had one these appendages'

Answer: a pegleg (or wooden leg)


Question: 'Ian Fleming's Jamaican holiday home, or the title of a 1995 James Bond film'

Answer: GoldenEye


Question: 'As Earth wobbles slowly on its axis, this moves in a "Chandler Circle" with a diameter of about 1 to 70 feet'

Answer: the North Pole


Question: 'In the 1520s this conquistador founded a hospital in Mexico City, perhaps for the Aztecs he wounded'

Answer: Hernando Cortes


Question: 'Its National Museum of American History has General Washington's field tent'

Answer: Smithsonian


Question: 'You can't call snakes spineless: they may have over 300 of these bones, compared to humans'

Answer: Vertebrae


Question: 'While in this city's famous rocker you may enjoy its famous baked beans'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'It's the 1990 story of an 8-year-old boy accidentally abandoned at Christmas'

Answer: Home Alone


Question: 'People with a hidden agenda often have this "to grind"'

Answer: Ax


Question: 'In 1816 French physician Rene Laennec invented this device used to listen to the heart & lungs'

Answer: Stethoscope


Question: 'A WWI troop train is at Fort Benning's National Infantry Museum in this state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'This type of catfish can generate a 450-volt shock, less than the "eel" of the same name'

Answer: Electric catfish


Question: 'President credited with inventing the swivel chair'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Title character who says, "This is my ninth sick day this semester...so I better make this one count"'

Answer: Ferris Bueller


Question: '"Collect $200" if you can name this Japanese game played with black & white counters on a checkered board'

Answer: Go


Question: 'In 1895 this scientist could see right through his wife; he took X-rays of her hand'

Answer: Wilhelm Roentgen


Question: 'Fort McClellan has a museum devoted to this distaff branch of the Army, disestablished in 1978'

Answer: WACs (Women\'s Army Corps)


Question: 'The scientific name of the "mute" type is Cygnus olor'

Answer: Swan


Question: '(Hi, I'm Catherine Crier)  Chairs I've filled include one as a judge on the bench & one as a substitute for this man on "Nightline"'

Answer: Ted Koppel


Question: 'Hughes co-wrote the screenplay for this 1992 movie about a slobbering St. Bernard'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'As a prefix, it can mean "not including"; by itself, it means "former", like a former spouse'

Answer: Ex


Question: 'Still associated with doctors today, its text is seen here in a 12th century version:'

Answer: The Hippocratic Oath


Question: 'Cadets can visit its artillery museum that dates back to 1854, with a collection that began about 1779'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'An endangered north African deer is called this, like an ape found on Gibraltar'

Answer: Barbary deer


Question: 'Popular in the Victorian era was outdoor furiniture made of the cast type of this'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'Steve Martin & John Candy use these title modes of transportation to try to get home for Thanksgiving'

Answer: Planes, Trains and Automobiles


Question: 'Yes, it's Russian for yes'

Answer: Da


Question: 'This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine'

Answer: Caduceus


Question: 'The U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum in Oklahoma has mementoes of this Apache chief who is buried nearby'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: 'The river, not the sea type of this critter, is seen here:'

Answer: Otter


Question: 'From 1594 to 1600 Johannes Kepler held the chair of this & mathematics at the University of Graz'

Answer: Astronomy


Question: 'Molly Ringwald's family forgets her birthday while preparing for her sister's wedding in this 1984 film'

Answer: Sixteen Candles


Question: 'It's used to mean very, or what's your point?'

Answer: So


Question: 'Under this name, Charles Dodgson imagined traveling down the rabbit hole with Alice'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: 'In this 1997 Dustin Hoffman film, the U.S. wages a fictional war with Albania'

Answer: Wag the Dog


Question: 'The Columbus Quest & the Seattle Reign are teams of the ABL, a new women's league in this sport'

Answer: Basketball


Question: 'Appropriately, a musical about this composer is presented every summer in My Old Kentucky Home State Park'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'To the nearest 100, number of years the United States of America has been an independent nation'

Answer: 200


Question: 'Flirting by using one's tootsies is called "playing" this'

Answer: Footsie


Question: 'Don't tell his big brother, but Eric Blair was his real name'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'Albania is located on the eastern shores of the Ionian Sea & this sea'

Answer: Adriatic


Question: 'Group who recorded the 1982 Top 10 hit heard here:<br />("Vacation")'

Answer: The Go-Go\'s


Question: 'Alabama's official outdoor drama is this play, enacted in the summer at Helen Keller's birthplace'

Answer: "The Miracle Worker"


Question: 'To the nearest foot, the height of Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain'

Answer: 7


Question: 'It's a humorous term for comic strips, or the section in which you find them'

Answer: Funnies


Question: 'Look in the dark recesses of your heart & tell me Jozef Korzeniowski's pen name'

Answer: Joseph Conrad


Question: 'Albania's capital, it centers on Skanderbeg Square'

Answer: Tirana


Question: 'All 3 of these monster sisters had snaky hair, not just Medusa'

Answer: Gorgons


Question: 'He's the former resident in the title of the Nauvoo, Illinois pageant "City of Joseph"'

Answer: Joseph Smith


Question: 'To the nearest hour, flight time of the Concorde from London to New York'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Shark part that's slang for a 5-dollar bill'

Answer: Fin


Question: 'Mystery writer Nicholas Blake, in reality a "My Left Foot" star's father'

Answer: Cecil Day-Lewis


Question: 'After Albania broke with the USSR, it turned to this country which gave it billions until a tiff in 1978'

Answer: (People\'s Republic of) China


Question: 'They go for their ride at the beginning of act III in this Wagner opera named for them'

Answer: "(Ride of the) Valkyries"


Question: 'As a young man, Andy Griffith spent several seasons playing this Elizabethan courtier in "The Lost Colony"'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'To the nearest billion, number of Cokes you'd need to buy to give one to everyone in the world'

Answer: 6 billion


Question: 'Thomas Gray wrote, "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis" this "to be wise"'

Answer: Folly


Question: 'Francois Marie Arouet chose this best of all possible pseudonyms'

Answer: Voltaire


Question: 'King Zog I ruled from 1928 until 1939, when this country annexed Albania'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Formed in 1920 this group grew out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association'

Answer: League of Women Voters


Question: 'Featuring a cast of hundreds, the "Ramona" Pageant has been an annual event in Hemet in this state since 1923'

Answer: California


Question: 'To the nearest light year, the distance between Earth & Alpha Centauri'

Answer: 4 light years


Question: 'Some folks call this island country the "Crossroads of the South Pacific"'

Answer: Fiji


Question: 'It can refer to the host used in the Eucharist, or a city southwest of Houston'

Answer: Corpus Christi, Texas


Question: 'Play-Doh, Playskool Toys, Parker Bros. games'

Answer: Hasbro


Question: 'For this soccer free kick, place the ball 12 yards in front of the opponent's goal'

Answer: a penalty kick


Question: 'His "Nocturne, Black and Gold--The Falling Rocket" isn't quite as well known as that painting of his mother'

Answer: Whistler


Question: 'We bet you know it's another name for a bookie'

Answer: an oddsmaker


Question: 'He presided over Bill Clinton's impeachment trial'

Answer: Rehnquist


Question: 'Queen Elizabeth made Bono an honorary one of these in 2006 (he's Irish, though, so you don't have to call him "Sir")'

Answer: a knight


Question: 'Cheez Whiz'

Answer: Kraft


Question: 'For a business letter, if you don't have one of these preprinted name & address displays, type that info 4-6 lines from the top'

Answer: a letterhead


Question: '"Deer's Horns, Near Cameron" was the original title of her 1937 painting "From the Faraway, Nearby"'

Answer: Georgia O\'Keeffe


Question: 'Spicy potent potable served hot'

Answer: a toddy


Question: 'This Ohioan was the president of the ABA (& something else as well) before becoming Chief'

Answer: (William) Taft


Question: 'He hasn't won, but U2 frontman Bono has received 3 nominations for the Nobel Prize for this'

Answer: Peace


Question: 'Maytag & Kitchenaid appliances'

Answer: Whirlpool


Question: 'To make this type of margarita, muddle your limes, pour fine tequila & use Grand Marnier instead of triple sec'

Answer: a Cadillac margarita


Question: 'In 1814 Goya painted "The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of" this city'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Doyle or McDowall'

Answer: Roddy


Question: 'This Chief led a commission before which 552 witnesses testified'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'At a 2007 ceremony at the National Constitutional Center, Bono received this U.S. city's Liberty Medal'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Sierra Mist & Doritos chips'

Answer: Pepsi


Question: 'To achieve this national style divide the hair into 3 different sections and remember to slice, twist and chip'

Answer: a french braid


Question: 'His 1866 painting of "The Fifer" was less scandalous than his nude "Olympia"'

Answer: Manet


Question: 'This salad dressing is named for a 1920s play about a group that believes in a female deity'

Answer: green goddess


Question: 'Dred Scott's nemesis, he was rejected as an associate in 1835 but a new Senate confirmed him as chief the next year'

Answer: Roger B. Taney


Question: 'Republican Senator Rick Santorum once said, "Bono understands his issues better than 99% of members of" this'

Answer: Congress


Question: 'HBO & People Magazine'

Answer: Time-Warner


Question: 'Interested in blocking your number from caller ID?  Just pick up your touch tone phone & dial * then these 2 numbers'

Answer: 67


Question: 'The Cubists were influenced by this great post-impressionist whose water color landscape is seen here'

Answer: Paul Cezanne


Question: 'This 6-letter adjective describes inferior workmanship'

Answer: shoddy


Question: 'Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1953 to 1956, he later won the Medal of Freedom; how delicious!'

Answer: Warren Burger


Question: 'French President Jacques Chirac made Bono a Chevalier of this "Legion" in 2003'

Answer: of Honor


Question: 'This outspoken title girl of a Henry James novel travels Europe and flouts social convention'

Answer: Daisy Miller


Question: '"Have you ever seen so many gulls?  What do you suppose it is?"'

Answer: The Birds


Question: 'Part of Asia separated from Australia & Antarctica in the Middle Jurassic, causing this ocean to begin to form'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'Smenkare of the 18th Dynasty'

Answer: King Tut


Question: 'The Times reports that with their bright color, "Oriental" these & "American antiques go together like peas & carrots"'

Answer: rugs


Question: 'Walk like a duck'

Answer: waddle


Question: 'It's James Ellroy's crime novel about a real unsolved 1947 L.A. murder case'

Answer: The Black Dahlia


Question: '"She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother"'

Answer: Psycho


Question: 'The Iapetus Ocean once separated Scandinavian & north-central Europe from most of what's now this continent'

Answer: North America


Question: 'Tigranes III of Armenia (Don't overthink this one)'

Answer: Tigranes IV


Question: 'A report from Hong Kong covered a wealthy widow's $3 billion bequest to her adviser on this study of placing objects'

Answer: feng shui


Question: 'This river cannonballs from Darke County in Ohio to hit the Ohio River between Illinois and Indiana'

Answer: the Wabash


Question: 'A play by Paul Zindel is titled "The Effect of Gamma Rays on" these flowers'

Answer: Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds


Question: '"You thought you could be Mrs. De Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers"'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'A sea once covered most of the Midwest; aquatic dinosaur fossils abound in this Sunflower State's Smoky Hills'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'Pepin the Short -- his brother Carloman's death sealed the deal'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'A Times piece told readers about dogs trained to sniff out these insect infesters of the boudoir'

Answer: bedbugs


Question: 'This Hawaiian word means both female & wife'

Answer: wahine


Question: 'This medieval whodunnit centers on Brother William of Baskerville, sent to investigate a murder in a monastery'

Answer: The Name of the Rose


Question: '"As for now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim"'

Answer: Lifeboat


Question: 'The ancient oceans were a scary place, populated by giant sharks & lizards like this long-necked one'

Answer: a plesiosaur


Question: 'Edward VII, in 1910'

Answer: George V


Question: 'A story on this type of garden defined as growing food for the home had a link to an org. that can help with yours'

Answer: a kitchen garden


Question: 'This principality united with Moldavia to form Romania'

Answer: Wallachia


Question: 'Larceny among flower collectors led to the title of this Susan Orlean book'

Answer: The Orchid Thief


Question: '"Everyone has someone they want to put out of the way"'

Answer: Strangers on a Train


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  During the Mesozoic, the Tethys Sea separated the northern supercontinent of Laurasia from this continent that contained what are now Africa & South America'

Answer: Gondwana


Question: 'Umberto I of Italy, assassinated by Bresci'

Answer: Victor Emmanuel


Question: 'One Q&A column says that hand-shredded leaf mold is the Cadillac of this stuff added to flower beds; top with compost'

Answer: mulch


Question: 'Arabic gives us this word for a ravine that becomes a watercourse during the rainy season'

Answer: a wadi


Question: 'In Genesis 2:24 these 2 words are what a man shall do to his parents & then to his wife; add a letter to 1 to get the other'

Answer: leave & cleave


Question: '54-68 A.D.:<br />Presided during a big barbecue'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'Sabbath, Sanguinary Sabbath'

Answer: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"


Question: 'In American slang, to get rid of something by throwing it overboard is to give it this kind of six'

Answer: deep-six


Question: 'A "College" for these silly circus performers opened in 1968 (& no, I am not a graduate)'

Answer: clowns


Question: 'This company's first podcast talked about its new Cadillacs at the Chicago Auto Show'

Answer: General Motors


Question: 'Pluma can be either a pen or one of these, as from a swan'

Answer: a feather


Question: '117-138 A.D.:<br />Had his own "wall" of fame'

Answer: Hadrian


Question: 'Dizziness, Hitchcock style'

Answer: "Vertigo"


Question: 'His Sixth Symphony was termed the "Pastoral"'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'Located in Saskatoon, the University of this Canadian province is set for its centennial in 2007'

Answer: Saskatchewan


Question: 'A morning stock report is podcast by this Dow Jones-owned national newspaper'

Answer: The Wall Street Journal


Question: '4-letter English translation of the Spanish un laberinto'

Answer: maze


Question: '37-41 A.D.:<br />Nutty guy who once "declared war" against the ocean'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'How a Brit & a Yank might each try to spell labor, humor, valor...'

Answer: "With Or Without You"


Question: 'This group was originally made up of 6 members; in 1869 Congress changed its total to 9'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'On an alphabetical list of the colleges known as the Seven Sisters, this Manhattan school comes first'

Answer: Barnard


Question: 'We aren't sure if the podcasts for this Sci Fi Channel show are created by humans or Cylons'

Answer: Battlestar Galactica


Question: 'To a Spaniard or a Spanish-speaking Eskimo, this creature is an oso blanco'

Answer: a polar bear


Question: '306-337 A.D.:<br />Converted to a non-Roman religion & moved the capital city'

Answer: Constantine


Question: 'It describes the location seen here'

Answer: "Where The Streets Have No Name"


Question: 'It's the horticultural name for the sixth Sunday in Lent'

Answer: Palm Sunday


Question: 'This Vermont school chartered in 1925 boasts that its graduates have resumes as well as diplomas'

Answer: Bennington


Question: 'The podcast by this company discussed the promise of "on demand" with its new mainframes'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'From the Spanish for "village", it's a collective name for Indian tribes like the Hopi & Zuni'

Answer: Pueblo


Question: '27 B.C.-14 A.D.:<br />His sister married Mark Antony & he defeated Mark Antony'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'Rosh Hashanah, for one; cheers!'

Answer: "New Year\'s Day"


Question: 'Any solid figure having 6 faces; a cube, for example'

Answer: a hexahedron


Question: 'The second "S" in LSUS stands for this city'

Answer: Shreveport


Question: 'No joke, this satellite radio company signed former MTV-VJ Adam Curry as its exclusive PJ'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'The name of this line dance comes from Spanish & refers to a country in Africa'

Answer: the conga


Question: 'In 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh was tried & convicted of this for plotting to dethrone the king'

Answer: treason


Question: 'Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn are divorce mediators in this film'

Answer: Wedding Crashers


Question: 'Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel'

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird


Question: 'Wolf Blitzer was born in this New York city that's home to some Bills, Sabres & Wings'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'Mercury flights had 1 astronaut, Apollo had 3; this intermediate program had 2-man flights'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'A common type of pet turtle, or the type of structure you might keep it in'

Answer: box


Question: 'Raleigh introduced this tuber into Ireland; seemed like a good idea at the time'

Answer: the potato


Question: 'It's Jessica Biel's occupation in "Stealth"'

Answer: pilot


Question: 'His 5 "Leather-Stocking Tales" include "The Deerslayer" & "The Pathfinder"'

Answer: James Fenimore Cooper


Question: 'Prior to the 2000 elections, Wolf hosted a town hall meeting with this First Lady & Senate hopeful'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'William Hale's 1844 military rocket, using curved vanes, stayed stable by doing this in flight'

Answer: spinning


Question: 'At Parris Island, Marines learn techniques for using this rifle blade'

Answer: a bayonet


Question: 'In 1569 Raleigh fought in France on the side of these French Protestants'

Answer: the Huguenots


Question: 'This 2004 film is about photographer Julia Roberts & bedmates'

Answer: Closer


Question: 'The title of this novel refers to "a small log building, close adjoining to 'The House'... his master's dwelling"'

Answer: Uncle Tom\'s Cabin


Question: 'Blitzer started his career in 1972 with this huge news service named for the German who started it in 1851'

Answer: Reuters


Question: 'In Dec. 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to command one of these vehicles known as the LM'

Answer: the lunar module


Question: 'A ring-shaped cake pan with fluted sides'

Answer: a Bundt


Question: 'A poet himself, Raleigh encouraged this man to publish "The Faerie Queene"'

Answer: Edmund Spenser


Question: 'At the end of "Collateral", Tom Cruise says, "I do this for a living"'

Answer: kill people


Question: 'Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005'

Answer: Light in August


Question: 'In 2003 Wolf won an award named for this reporter slain in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002'

Answer: Daniel Pearl


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew releases a balloon.)  Thrust comes from the sudden inequality of this, sometimes measured in atmospheres, inside & outside a rocket'

Answer: pressure


Question: 'A strong, coarsely woven cloth made from jute or hemp'

Answer: burlap


Question: 'In 1600 Raleigh was appointed governor of Jersey, part of this island group'

Answer: the Channel Islands


Question: 'Nicole Kidman speaks fluent Ku as this 2005 title character'

Answer: The Interpreter


Question: 'This Chicago-set Richard Wright novel centers on Bigger Thomas, who ends up killing his own sweetheart'

Answer: Native Son


Question: 'In 1991 Wolf returned to Moscow to cover this new Russian president'

Answer: Boris Yeltsin


Question: 'To leave Earth's orbit, a rocket must accelerate to 25,000 mph to achieve this, EV for short'

Answer: escape velocity


Question: 'This Slovak capital was also known by the German name of Pressburg'

Answer: Bratislava


Question: '5 state capitals, all of them on or west of the Mississippi, begin with these 2 letters'

Answer: S-A


Question: 'The 2001 World Almanac lists this "agricultural" rival at No. 3 among bestselling almanacs'

Answer: The Old Farmer\'s Almanac


Question: 'In 47 B.C. she gave birth to Caesarion whom she claimed was the son of Julius Caesar'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Follow the bouncing ball: Madonna dated Rodman, who wed Electra, who once got cozy with this "purple" rocker'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'This mag that could be called "Hunt & Fish" has an essay contest on "How Hunting/Fishing has Influenced my Life"'

Answer: Field & Stream


Question: 'Pokey's buddy'

Answer: Gumby


Question: '(Alex: We'll first have Sofia at the Plaza Hotel)  This cocktail popular with a certain fictional spy can be shaken or stirred'

Answer: martini


Question: 'David McCullough planned a joint bio of Thomas Jefferson & this man, but dropped Jefferson along the way'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'The name of this king, who reigned from age 9 to his death at 18, means "gracious of life is Amon"'

Answer: Tutankhamun


Question: 'Paparazzi learned to duck when trying to snap a picture of this actor/then-husband of Madonna's'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'Yeah, I'll take a quart of milk, 2 packs of gum, a Lotto ticket &, uh, this magazine that has a "Pet of the Month"'

Answer: Penthouse


Question: 'Thickened stew of fish or poultry'

Answer: gumbo


Question: '(Sofia) Don't operate heavy machinery after having one of these'

Answer: screwdriver


Question: 'John Gray's books include this planetary pair "Starting Over" & "in the Bedroom"'

Answer: Mars & Venus


Question: 'Little is known of his life because the Great Pyramid was looted in ancient times'

Answer: Cheops/Khufu


Question: 'Schwing!  Mike Myers made out with Madonna when he played this master of air guitar'

Answer: Wayne Campbell


Question: 'In 2001 you could take aim at the special 500th issue of "Guns &" this'

Answer: Ammo


Question: 'Brother to Harpo & Chico'

Answer: Gummo Marx


Question: '[video clue]'

Answer: the head (on top of a pint of Guinness)


Question: 'His "Report" to the House of Representatives was flying off the shelves in 1998'

Answer: Kenneth Starr


Question: 'In his work "Mathematike Syntaxis", this astronomer wrongly claimed that the Earth was stationary'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'Madonna sang "Sooner or later, I always get my man" in this film & she did: Warren Beatty'

Answer: Dick Tracy


Question: 'The devil is in this magazine where racy columnist Anka Radakovich gained fame'

Answer: Details


Question: 'The courage to act'

Answer: gumption


Question: '(Sofia) The addition of a condiment seen here gives this bourbon drink its distinctive name'

Answer: mint julep


Question: 'It's the type of type referred to in Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's "Eat Right 4 Your Type"'

Answer: blood type


Question: 'This queen & wife of Akhenaton was the subject of numerous sculptures during her life, many of which survive'

Answer: Nefertiti


Question: 'This Madonna pal came out with "I'm Your Woman" in '85 but she's better known for "Without You I'm Nothing"'

Answer: Sandra Bernhard


Question: 'Launched in 1997, it calls itself "The Best Thing to Happen to Men Since Women"'

Answer: Maxim


Question: 'A private detective, sweetheart'

Answer: gumshoe


Question: '(Sofia) This "sanguine" cocktail shares its name with a 16th century English queen's nickname'

Answer: Bloody Mary


Question: 'As this character, Peter Sellers gave unique inflections to words like "room", "phone" & "monkey"'

Answer: Inspector Clouseau


Question: 'Tragically in 1999 this favorite son, his wife & her sister perished in a plane off Martha's Vineyard'

Answer: John F. Kennedy, Jr.


Question: 'Early TV star "Miltie"'

Answer: Uncle


Question: 'This Arlington, Virginia building covers 29 acres, employs 23,000 workers & houses its own shopping center'

Answer: The Pentagon


Question: 'In "Gone with the Wind" she wrote of "the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain"'

Answer: Margaret Mitchell


Question: 'In Rome a castello might be encircled by a fosso, one of these'

Answer: moat


Question: 'Perhaps not one of Sellers' best, "The Bobo" co-starred this Swedish-born actress to whom he was married'

Answer: Britt Ekland


Question: 'His daughter Anna accompanied him when he went to Yalta in 1945'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Patrick Dennis' "Mame"'

Answer: Auntie


Question: 'If Superman needs leaping practice, he could try this city's Wacker Drive, with several buildings 500 feet or higher'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Drama whose original alternate title was "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'At the Barcelona Olympics Mark McCoy won the 110-meter vallas, these'

Answer: hurdles


Question: 'Besides blankly watching TV, it's the original occupation of Chance, Sellers' character in "Being There"'

Answer: gardener


Question: 'These twins born November 25, 1981 were named for their grandmothers'

Answer: Barbara & Jenna Bush


Question: 'Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny'

Answer: Sister


Question: 'Until 1976 the stairwell of this building housed the Liberty Bell'

Answer: Independence Hall


Question: 'Right after "Oliver Twist", Dickens wrote a novel about this hero with a sense of "N"-titlement'

Answer: Nicholas Nickleby


Question: 'It's also called Wanli Changcheng, meaning it's 10,000 li long'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: 'Woody Allen wrote this '60s film featuring Sellers as a lecherous psychoanalyst'

Answer: What\'s New Pussycat?


Question: 'Both of his sons graduated from Stanford University during the 1920s & both became engineers'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'Labor leader Mary Jones'

Answer: Mother


Question: 'This NYC museum features a large glass skylight above a 6-floor spiral'

Answer: the Guggenheim


Question: 'Eiserner vorhang is German for this metaphorical barrier that used to divide Germany & Europe'

Answer: the Iron Curtain


Question: 'John Lennon was among the fans of this influential radio show starring Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan'

Answer: The Goon Show


Question: 'The eldest son of a president, this Ohio senator of the 1940s was known as "Mr. Republican"'

Answer: Robert Taft


Question: 'American Revolutionary statesman Jonathan Trumbull'

Answer: Brother


Question: 'Built in Boston in the 1740s by the merchant for whom it's named, it's still used as a market & meeting place'

Answer: Faneuil Hall


Question: 'In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution'

Answer: impediment


Question: 'Interviewed on "60 Minutes" in 2001, he said, "It's been one of my lifelong jobs...to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler"'

Answer: Mel Brooks


Question: 'To hit hard, or a snail cousin'

Answer: slug


Question: 'In 1995 the British actor Anthony Hopkins brought this American president to life on the big screen'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question:
'A ball,
a fish,
a cold'

Answer: things you catch


Question: 'Her 2000 book "Life So Far" includes how she wrote "The Feminine Mystique"'

Answer: Betty Friedan


Question: 'The Bancroft Library in Berkeley has issued a new edition of his "Huckleberry Finn" with all 174 orig. illustrations'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'From 1789 to 1797 he cast only 2 vetoes, an average of 1 per presidential tern'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Now used for a bright but socially inept person, this term was popularized by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo"'

Answer: nerd


Question: 'Part 4 of this movie series recounts "The Beginning" of the Norman Bates saga'

Answer: Psycho


Question:
'Black,
Bering,
Sargasso'

Answer: seas


Question: 'His "SNL" "Deep Thoughts" include "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man"'

Answer: Jack Handey


Question: 'In the 1520s Pope Clement VII commissioned him to build the Laurentian Library in Florence'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'On April 14, 1865 this Union general turned down a theater date with the Lincolns'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'An essay by Virginia Woolf is called "A" this "of One's Own"'

Answer: Room


Question: 'A scene in the opening credits of this 2000 Cameron Diaz blockbuster took place at a "Jeopardy!" podium'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question:
'Nets,
Nuggets,
Mavericks'

Answer: NBA basketball teams


Question: 'In the 9th century Al-Kindi, the "Philosopher of the Arabs", was influenced by Plato & this student of his'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'In 1836 the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland began as this army official's library'

Answer: Surgeon General of the United States


Question: 'The National Endowment for the Arts & the Truth in Packaging Act were part of LBJ's plan for a "Great" this'

Answer: Society


Question: 'It's a raised platform for a lectern'

Answer: dais


Question: 'Rick gives Ilsa up to Victor in this 1942 film masterpiece'

Answer: Casablanca


Question:
'Fafnir,
Puff,
Cassie & Quetzal'

Answer: dragons


Question: 'This former used car salesman was the "E" in EST, a group therapy program of the '70s'

Answer: Werner Erhard


Question: 'This inventor's historical site library includes his Oscar for his work in motion picture technology'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'In August 1900 in Chicago, this group, the GAR, held its 34th annual encampment'

Answer: Grand Army of the Republic


Question: '"Eye" this Greek goddess of the rainbow'

Answer: Iris


Question: 'French director Francois Truffaut's first film in English, it was based on a Ray Bradbury sci-fi novel'

Answer: Fahrenheit 451


Question:
'Mount Kenya's volcano,
the elephant bird,
dinosaurs'

Answer: extinct things


Question: 'Supporting laissez-faire policies, this American economist & his wife wrote "Free to Choose" in 1980'

Answer: Milton Friedman


Question: 'This Malaysian capital's Rubber Research Institute Library has a comprehensive collection on rubber growing'

Answer: Kuala Lumpur


Question: 'Though the Supreme Court said in the 1830s this tribe was its own "nation" within Georgia, it didn't happen'

Answer: Cherokee


Question: 'Some of the best woods for making these billiard items are ebony, ash & rosewood'

Answer: cue sticks


Question: 'Not only was Friday saved from death by the hero in this novel, so was his father'

Answer: "Robinson Crusoe"


Question: 'If you know this legendary boxer's first name is Arabic for "greatly praised", you're the greatest!'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'Make sure the address shows through this part of the envelope'

Answer: window


Question: 'It precedes "Forks" in a North Dakota city name & "Junction" in a Colorado city name'

Answer: Grand


Question: 'Jack Horner's depressed pie filling'

Answer: glum plum


Question: 'Prehistoric people made arrowheads & knives out of this rock which was also used to make fires'

Answer: flint


Question: 'This Voltaire title character is shipwrecked off Lisbon & swims to shore just in time to experience the 1755 earthquake'

Answer: "Candide"


Question: 'This first name of author/illustrator Sendak is Latin for "dark-skinned" or "Moorish"'

Answer: Maurice


Question: 'In 1962 the first practical fiber-tip pen was invented in this country where writing used ink-brush strokes'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This district of Switzerland's Fribourg Canyon is famous for the cheese it originated'

Answer: Gruyere


Question: '2-wheeled vehicle the Knave of Hearts used to move his stolen goods'

Answer: tart cart


Question: 'This forked stick used to locate water dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptians & Romans'

Answer: divining rod


Question: 'Oliver Goldsmith described the vicar of this place as "a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family"'

Answer: Wakefield


Question: 'This young skating champ was named after Scarlett's plantation in "Gone with the Wind"'

Answer: Tara Lipinski


Question: 'Additional troops, or the supplies seen here'

Answer: reinforcements


Question: 'Nazareth is the main city of the "lower" part of this Israeli region'

Answer: Galilee


Question: 'After smashing her frightener, Miss Muffet made this drink from the pressings'

Answer: spider cider


Question: 'Devils Tower in Wyoming consists primarily of this common volcanic rock'

Answer: basalt


Question: 'This foundling marries Sophia Western at the end of a 1749 Henry Fielding novel'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'Aussie actor Heath Ledger was named for the brooding Heathcliff in this novel'

Answer: "Wuthering Heights"


Question: 'The card seen here is designed for use with this name brand'

Answer: Rolodex


Question: 'Part of this Pacific island became "Bloody Ridge" after fierce fighting in September 1942'

Answer: Guadalcanal


Question: 'Hey diddle diddle, it's the spoon's desire for something to run away with'

Answer: dish wish


Question: 'This Irish cudgel was originally used as a defense against muggers & thieves'

Answer: shillelagh


Question: 'This French philosopher's 1762 novel "Emile" said that education should emphasize expression, not repression'

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Question: 'This country diva adopted a first name that means "on my way" in Ojibwa'

Answer: Shania Twain


Question: 'Now used for letterhead, this type of paper got its name from its original use for government documents'

Answer: bond paper


Question: 'FDR is among the famous alumni of the prep school in this Massachusetts town'

Answer: Groton


Question: 'Bucket Little Bo Peep used to collect her missing lamb parts'

Answer: tail pail


Question: 'The inspiration for this 1964 hit posed alone for the Brazil edition of Playboy in 1987 & with her daughter in 2003'

Answer: \"The Girl from Ipanema\"


Question: 'His words "The people's heroes are immortal" are engraved on a monument in Tiananmen Square'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'In Style's first issue, in 1994, visited Barbra Streisand's pad in this wealthy California coastal community'

Answer: Malibu


Question: 'In the 2005 Orange Bowl, this university's Trojans trampled the Sooners, 55-19'

Answer: Southern California


Question: 'The Incas munched on charque (what we call jerky) from the dried meat of this 5-letter pack animal'

Answer: the llama


Question: 'On January 3, 1990 he surrendered to U.S. troops surrounding the Vatican Embassy'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'In the old song standard, it's the line that precedes "all the livelong day"'

Answer: "I\'ve been working on the railroad"


Question: 'Vasco da Gama is among those depicted on this capital city's Monument to the Discoveries'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'In Style's 10th anniversary cover girl was this South African actress in gold sequins'

Answer: Charlize Theron


Question: 'Of the Ivy League colleges, this one is alphabetically first'

Answer: Brown


Question: '2 of the 5 different nuts in a jar of Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts'

Answer: cashews & pecans (also, hazelnuts, brazils, & almonds)


Question: 'Longtime congressman Manuel Lujan was appointed Secretary of the Interior by this man in 1989'

Answer: George H.W. Bush


Question: 'This play is set in Tuscumbia, Alabama & at the Perkins Institute for the blind'

Answer: The Miracle Worker


Question: 'Though Mumtaz died in 1631, this tomb of hers (& it was some tomb) wasn't completed until about 1643'

Answer: the Taj Mahal


Question: 'In Style often features these places that feature massage & pampering, named for a town in Belgium'

Answer: spa


Question: 'Seton Hill University is in Greensburg, Penn.; Seton Hall University is in South Orange in this state'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'In 2003 these frozen waffles let go with a 50th anniversary party'

Answer: Eggos


Question: 'In this novel, Judge Miller's gardener's helper Manuel kidnaps the dog Buck & sells him to pay his gambling debts'

Answer: The Call of the Wild


Question: '2-word term for insurance required of businesses for employees injured on the job'

Answer: workman\'s compensation


Question: '(Jimmy from the clue crew reports from Parris Island, SC.)  The Iwo Jima monument on Parris Island represents the famous raising of the flag on this mountain'

Answer: Mount Suribachi


Question: 'The TV special "In Style Celebrity Weddings" included the nuptials of Danielle Spencer to this actor'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'Wheaton College in Illinois recently ranked No. 1 in college food, followed by this school in Brunswick, Maine'

Answer: Bowdoin College


Question: 'Though it sounds like the most terrible food, it's really just German for sausage'

Answer: wurst


Question: 'In 1962 Cesar Chavez founded the union that is today known as this'

Answer: the United Farm Workers of America