Question: 'This element, atomic No. 8, is responsible for the respiration of living things & the combustion of fuels'

Answer: oxygen


Question: 'A big one of these letters appears next to the words "under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian"'

Answer: R


Question: 'She was around 16 when she led the French troops that raised the Siege of Orleans'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Steve Zahn plays Frank Heffley, the dad in this 2010 film'

Answer: Diary of a Wimpy Kid


Question: 'Montparnasse is one of this capital city's Left Bank districts'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'I'm the lifeguard at the Arlington, Texas Hurricane Harbor water park run by this "numerical" theme park chain'

Answer: Six Flags


Question: 'More than 1/4 of the Earth's crust is this element, symbol Si'

Answer: silicon


Question: 'The cardinal points on a compass are designated by these 4 letters'

Answer: N, E, W & S


Question: 'At 14, this future "Old Hickory" was captured & wounded by the British during the Revolution'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'In 2007, soon after his mother's death, this rapper struggled to get through "Hey Mama" on stage'

Answer: Kanye West


Question: 'The Ginza is this Asian capital's shopping & entertainment center'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'I bus tables at Twin City Grill, one of the 50 restaurants in this Twin Cities shopping destination'

Answer: the Mall of America


Question: 'The name of this element, atomic number 27, can precede "blue" & "green"'

Answer: cobalt


Question: 'Speakers of Cockney are known for dropping this letter from the beginning of words'

Answer: H


Question: 'Mary Shelley was just 19 when she wrote this horror classic'

Answer: Frankenstein


Question: 'Lauren Graham had a mouthy teen daughter on "Gilmore Girls"; she has another (Mae Whitman) on this current show'

Answer: Parenthood


Question: 'This port city became the capital of Jamaica in 1872, succeeding Port Royal'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'I deliver this "All the News That's Fit to Print" newspaper on my Greenwich Village route'

Answer: The New York Times


Question: 'Alkali metals include sodium & this one, the least dense of all metals'

Answer: lithium


Question: 'It was the middle initial of James Garfield & his successor, Chester Arthur'

Answer: A


Question: 'A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'This "crazy" state bird is also called the Great Northern Diver'

Answer: a loon


Question: '2005:<br />Date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens'

Answer: Will Smith


Question: 'He was born in 1786 in Eastern Tennessee & died in 1836 at the Alamo'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'In 1983 Ronald Reagan signed the law making the third Monday of January this man's "day"'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'The 1857 decision named for this plaintiff ruled that slaves did not have the right to sue in federal courts'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'It's how you play certain instruments, like a guitar'

Answer: strum (in instruments)


Question: 'Home to a famous clinic, this city was named for a city in New York'

Answer: Rochester


Question: '2003:<br />Katherine Watson, an art history instructor at Wellesley in 1953'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'This "Lonesome Dove" author was born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas'

Answer: McMurtry


Question: 'Kanchenjunga, the world's third-tallest peak, is found in this mountain range'

Answer: the Himalayas


Question: 'In 1979 this future justice was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals'

Answer: (Sandra Day) O\'Connor


Question: 'In ligament you'll find this slang term for a woman's shapely leg'

Answer: a gam (in ligament)


Question: 'Minnesota leads the country in producing ore of this metal, most of it from taconite in the Mesabi Range'

Answer: Iron


Question: '2001:<br />Wedding planner Mary Fiore'

Answer: Jennifer Lopez


Question: 'Born May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland, he'd find fame in the theater for 2 very different reasons'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'The third "Amityville Horror" & the third "Jaws" films were both filmed in this special process'

Answer: 3-D


Question: 'Justice Potter Stewart famously said of it, "I know it when I see it"'

Answer: pornography (or obscenity)


Question: 'What she felt when she wasn't hired'

Answer: ire (in hired)


Question: 'The bank the James-Younger Gang tried to rob on Sept. 7, 1876 now houses this city's Historical Society Museum'

Answer: Northfield Minnesota Raid


Question: '2000:<br />Benjamin Martin, a patriot in 1776'

Answer: Mel Gibson


Question: 'You don't get more all-American than this illustrator born Feb. 3, 1894 in NYC'

Answer: (Norman) Rockwell


Question: 'He's third in line to the British throne, after his father & brother'

Answer: Prince Harry


Question: 'A Rhodes scholar, he joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 & is the only current justice who has never married'

Answer: David Souter


Question: 'Hidden in the chandelier is the name of this famous composer'

Answer: Handel (in chandelier)


Question: 'The northernmost point in the contiguous 48 states lies on the northwest angle in this U.S.-Canadian lake'

Answer: Lake of the Woods


Question: '1992:<br />Griffin Mill, a Hollywood "player"'

Answer: Tim Robbins


Question: 'North Carolina-born on Nov. 2, 1795, he was the 11th U.S. president'

Answer: Polk


Question: 'In geometry, one way to prove 2 lines are this is to show they are both perpendicular to a third line'

Answer: parallel


Question: 'In 1938 this future Supreme Court justice was the first-round draft choice of the football Pittsburgh Pirates'

Answer: Whizzer White


Question: 'Take your medicine & tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy'

Answer: Medici (in medicine)


Question: 'April 24: <br />Nearly 100 years old, this legend of  cosmetics born Josephine Ester Mentzer'

Answer: Estée Lauder


Question: 'The first year of this decade saw the first human gene therapy treatment, for a rare immune disorder'

Answer: the 1990s


Question: 'Bebop trumpeter John Birks Gillespie earned this nickname for his clowning & horseplay'

Answer: Dizzy


Question: 'Color of Hudson's "Mansions" or Williams' "Corn"<br />(5)'

Answer: green


Question: 'In 2004 she published the novel "The Amateur Marriage"'

Answer: Anne Tyler


Question: 'Lipton describes its teas with this 5-letter adjective'

Answer: brisk


Question: 'March 30:<br />This urbane "Masterpiece Theatre" host, age 95'

Answer: Alistair Cooke


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a Punnett square on a chalkboard.)  Shown here, this would be the expected ratio of offspring exhibiting the upper case dominant trait to those exhibiting the lower case recessive trait'

Answer: 3:1


Question: 'The 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert featuring this clarinetist's band is one of the great live recordings in jazz'

Answer: (Benny) Goodman


Question: '"Tuesday's child is full of" it<br />(5)'

Answer: grace


Question: 'He led the first great popular rebellion in English history'

Answer: Wat Tyler


Question: 'Best is this form of good, also an adjective meaning "excellent"'

Answer: superlative


Question: 'August 7:<br />This "colorful" oil field firefighter who inspired John Wayne's "Hellfighters"'

Answer: Red Adair


Question: 'The origin of the Human Genome Project lies in Alfred Sturtevant's 1913 map of the genes on one of these'

Answer: a chromosome


Question: 'On his dad Duke's death in 1974, he took over the orchestra'

Answer: Mercer Ellington


Question: 'Nokomis lived "by the shores of" it<br />(6, 5)'

Answer: Gitchy Goomy


Question: 'He died July 9, 1850 in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'They're the 2 common English words ending in -gry: despite what you may see online, there is no third one'

Answer: angry & hungry


Question: 'Sept. 18:<br />This alliteratively named lawyer who pioneered "palimony"'

Answer: (Marvin) Mitchelson


Question: 'The enzyme reverse transcriptase is vital to this "backward" group of organisms including HIV'

Answer: a retrovirus


Question: 'This great tenor saxophonist was nicknamed "The Hawk"'

Answer: Coleman Hawkins


Question: 'He foisted "Faust" upon us in 1808<br />(6)'

Answer: Goethe


Question: 'In 1994 he was named Womenswear Designer of the Year for his own clothing line'

Answer: Richard Tyler


Question: 'Adjective for the blissful smile of one declared by the church to be among the blessed'

Answer: beatific


Question: 'August 3:<br />This hyphenated 95-year-old photographer died at his home in Provence, France'

Answer: Cartier-Bresson


Question: 'This type of "pair", such as guanine-cytosine, forms a rung on the DNA ladder'

Answer: a base pair


Question: 'Louis Armstrong's mentor, this jazz "King" was ruined by dental trouble & died while working as a poolroom marker'

Answer: "King" Oliver


Question: 'Danish historian Saxo<br />(11)'

Answer: Grammaticus


Question: 'He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1964'

Answer: Maxwell Taylor


Question: '"Cervine" means like this ruminant'

Answer: a deer


Question: 'He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'Cheilitis is the cracking & dryness of these; Chap Stick may give you relief'

Answer: lips


Question: 'In early 2001 Prince Charles broke a shoulder bone in an accident in this controversial sport'

Answer: foxhunting


Question: 'Born in 1927, late congressman Joe Moakley was among many who lied about their ages to do this'

Answer: enlist in the military


Question: 'The answer to this cliffhanger question of 1980:<br />Kristin Shepard (played by Mary Crosby)'

Answer: "Who Shot J.R.?"


Question: 'It's the title occupation shared by opera characters "of Baghdad" & "of Seville"'

Answer: barber


Question: '"Mona Lisa's" home<br />(6)'

Answer: Louvre


Question: 'The parotid glands, the largest glands you have that produce this, are what swell when you have mumps'

Answer: saliva


Question: 'This candy maker added character heads to its dispensers in 1952'

Answer: Pez


Question: 'At one point this actress & future first lady took 2 years off her age'

Answer: Nancy Reagan


Question: 'Harry Anderson played Judge Harry T. Stone, who presided over this title place'

Answer: Night Court


Question: 'In 1991 Ron Howard brought this dangerous job to the big screen with "Backdraft"'

Answer: firefighting


Question: 'St. Petersburg, until 1991<br />(9)'

Answer: Leningrad


Question: 'Pertussis & tuberculosis are caused by bacteria; measles & rubella are caused by these'

Answer: viruses


Question: 'Seeing these new guests at the National Zoo, Clinton said he could be like them: sleep 20 hrs. a day & eat 4 hrs.'

Answer: giant pandas


Question: 'In 2001 a Bronx team was stripped of its third-place finish in this event for using an overage pitcher'

Answer: Little League World Series


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Chicago)  We're at Buckingham Fountain, seen in the opening of this Fox sitcom'

Answer: Married...With Children


Question: 'Jay Leno's job, or the circular wafer used in Roman Catholic masses'

Answer: host


Question: 'Ancestry<br />(7)'

Answer: lineage


Question: 'Hail, Hail, the basal ganglia are here in this organ'

Answer: brain


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew)  I've chosen just the right words to complete this numerical type of poetic stanza'

Answer: quatrain


Question: 'A 32-year-old actress pretending to be 19 got a job writing for this WB TV show about a college girl'

Answer: Felicity


Question: 'Peter Scolari & Tom Hanks passed themselves off as Hildegarde & Buffy to live in a hotel for women on this sitcom'

Answer: Bosom Buddies


Question: '6-letter word for a treasurer, especially at a university'

Answer: bursar


Question: 'Table extender<br />(4)'

Answer: leaf


Question: 'During a CABG operation, to bypass these arteries, incisions are made in a leg to get at a vein'

Answer: coronary arteries


Question: 'Nationality of the men who invented the barometer & electric battery'

Answer: Italian (Torricelli & Volta)


Question: 'Research found Aug. 4, 2001 to be Louis Armstrong's centennial, though he said he was born on this big day in 1900'

Answer: Independence Day/Fourth of July


Question: 'At first, Hope Murdoch & Michael Steadman seemed like the ideal couple on this yuppie dramedy'

Answer: Thirtysomething


Question: 'A worker on a film knows P.A. usually stands for this, not Pennsylvania'

Answer: production assistant


Question: 'Camel back-breaker<br />(4,5)'

Answer: last straw


Question: 'Chapters in this novel include "Hester at Her Needle" & "Hester and Pearl"'

Answer: "The Scarlet Letter"


Question: '(Judge Hatchett)  Magistrate, pro se & justice of the peace are other names for courts that handle these "claims"'

Answer: small claims


Question: 'The Toot Uncommons were listed as the back-up group on this Steve Martin hit'

Answer: "King Tut"


Question: 'In 1924 he became director of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation'

Answer: J. Edgar Hoover


Question: '3-word term used to describe a child born to unmarried parents'

Answer: out of wedlock


Question: 'This country of western Africa bears the name of a product produced by the elephants found there'

Answer: Ivory Coast


Question: '"Twenty Years After" was a sequel to this French novel that was published only the year before'

Answer: "The Three Musketeers"


Question: 'His name followed the v. in a 1974 Supreme Court case on executive privilege'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'Toni Basil turned down the demo of "Walk Like an Egyptian"; it then went to this group who took it to No. 1'

Answer: the Bangles


Question: 'The Literary Guild began as a competitor to this company abbreviated BOMC'

Answer: Book of the Month Club


Question: 'It can be a type of criminal or an anti-Nashville country music movement led by Waylon Jennings'

Answer: outlaw


Question: 'In 1815 James Madison had Congress declare war on this Algerian capital city'

Answer: Algiers


Question: 'His 1842 novel "Dead Souls" is considered one of the greatest novels in the Russian language'

Answer: Nikolai Gogol


Question: '(Judge Hatchett)  A crucial principle in this field of law is the mutuality of obligations'

Answer: contract law


Question: 'Maria Muldaur's title time & place to "send your camel to bed"'

Answer: "Midnight at the Oasis"


Question: '"American Decades" notes that in 1925 for the first time more men wore attached ones than detached'

Answer: collars


Question: 'Joseph Stefano updated his "Feasibility Study" script from this '60s sci-fi anthology for the new '90s version'

Answer: The Outer Limits


Question: 'The city of Massawa is a major Red Sea port in this now independent country once part of Ethiopia'

Answer: Eritrea


Question: 'This author established his reputation with the 1868 story "The Luck of Roaring Camp"'

Answer: Bret Harte


Question: 'For a product, it must mention the parts covered, what to do if something goes wrong, & any expenses'

Answer: warranty


Question:
'Ballad that begins with the following
See the Pyramids along the Nile, watch the sunrise on a tropic isle...'

Answer: "You Belong to Me"


Question: 'After his death in 1923, it was revealed that he trysted with his mistress in the White House'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'This 4-word arboreal phrase means "in a precarious position"'

Answer: out on a limb


Question: 'Mozambique is the mainland country closest to this African island nation'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'The title of this Dickens novel refers to John Harmon, an associate of both the Boffins & the Wilfers'

Answer: "Our Mutual Friend"


Question: '(Judge Hatchett)  In 1995 I received from an NAACP branch in Atlanta an award named for this jurist'

Answer: Thurgood Marshall


Question: 'This '90s British girl group who were "Comin' Atcha" released the CD "Queen of the Nile" in 2000'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'In November 1920 pioneering radio station KDKA went on the air in this city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'This award is given every year to the nation's best college football interior lineman'

Answer: Outland Trophy


Question: 'This Horn of Africa country once known as French Somaliland took the name of its capital in 1977 upon independence'

Answer: Djibouti


Question: 'It's the westernmost state to border any of the Great Lakes'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'Architecture's Pritzker Prize medal is based on designs by Louis Sullivan, "father of" this type of soaring building'

Answer: the skyscraper


Question: 'Moose Goheen, Moose Johnson, Moose Watson & Bobby Hull are all in this sport's hall of fame'

Answer: ice hockey


Question: 'Walk across the Ha'penny Bridge at Liffey Street to get the trendy Temple Bar area of this capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'Back up, turning toward the curb; when your front door reaches the bumper of the car beside you, turn the other way'

Answer: parallel parking


Question: 'Egg drink<br />(3)'

Answer: nog


Question: '(Queen Rania delivers the clue.) In May 2007 I issued UNICEF's worldwide call to action to aid the 2 million children in this Mideast country who have been displaced from their homes in the last 4 years'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'The replacement for this complex is set to include the Freedom Tower, which will rise to a height of 1,776 feet'

Answer: the World Trade Center


Question: 'In 1954, Alabama's Tommy Lewis left the bench mid-play to tackle a runner in this New Year's Day bowl game in Dallas'

Answer: the Cotton Bowl


Question: 'Purchase some port at the Mercearia Liberdade in this city'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'Ovulate, add albumen, then shell, & pass from body-- or tell a bad joke'

Answer: to lay an egg


Question: 'Fraction's top half<br />(9)'

Answer: the numerator


Question: '(Her Majesty delivers the clue again.) In 2007 UNICEF Canada supplied 33,000 insecticide-treated bednets to help children & pregnant women in Liberia to fight this disease'

Answer: malaria


Question: 'Brutalism is a style originated by Le Corbusier that mainly uses big chunks of this material'

Answer: cement (or concrete)


Question: 'This pitcher known for his postgame jigs was on the mound to close out the Red Sox' 2007 World Series victory'

Answer: Jonathan Papelbon


Question: 'Thrill to the history of Zamek Krolewski, this city's royal castle'

Answer: Warsaw


Question: 'With your right hand, touch your forehead, base of the sternum, left & right shoulder; think of the Trinity'

Answer: to make the sign of the Cross


Question: 'Buddhist freedom, perhaps for rock drummer Dave Grohl<br />(7)'

Answer: nirvana


Question: '(Queen Rania delivers the clue again.) My 2007 visit to a community health center in the Chaoyang district in this world capital emphasized the continuing need for better migrant health care'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'According to one grisly legend, this czar blinded the architects of Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: 'This 7'1" NBAer's L.A. home, once adorned with a "love/don't love" traffic light, sold in 2002 for close to $3 million'

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain


Question: 'Czech in for a luxurious weekend at the Grand Hotel Bohemia in this city'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'Note the dial numbers, left to right; subtract the previous figure to get kilowatt-hours used'

Answer: to read your electric meter


Question: 'The lowest point<br />(5)'

Answer: the nadir


Question: '(Queen Rania delivers the final clue.) As UNICEF's first Eminent Advocate for Children, I visited a school in Fez, in this country, that offers one-time child laborers a formal education'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'This low wall around the edge of a castle roof was designed to protect soldiers from falling off'

Answer: a parapet


Question: 'In 1988 it took all of 91 seconds for him to K.O. Michael Spinks to remain the undisputed heavywight champ'

Answer: Mike Tyson


Question: 'Chill out at the world's first permanent icebar, the Absolut Icebar in this city'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'Pile up garbage & lawn clippings at least 3' x 3'; let sit a few months, turning every 4-6 weeks, before using'

Answer: composting


Question: 'Amiable French port city<br />(4)'

Answer: Nice


Question: '(The Queen reads once more.) To help generate international support, in 2005 I brought relief supplies to Muzaffarabad after a devastating earthquake in this country'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Later to help start the Chinese Communist Party, he once worked as a library assistant at Peking University'

Answer: Mao


Question: '"O.T.R."<br />by Jack Kerouac'

Answer: On The Road


Question: 'The John F. Kennedy School of Government, on John F. Kennedy Street, is a graduate school of this university'

Answer: Harvard


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a radar image of a storm.) On August 23, 2005, Katrina had winds of 35 miles per hour and was considered one of these gloomy storms; 2 days later, it was a hurricane'

Answer: a tropical depression


Question: 'You've never been mellow if you don't know this Australian played Sandy in the 1978 film "Grease"'

Answer: Olivia Newton-John


Question: 'At a luau, you might finish off your meal with haupia, a pudding made with the milk of this fruit'

Answer: a coconut


Question: 'In 1949 advancing Communist forces trapped the British naval vessel H.M.S. Amethyst in this river'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: '"A.R.W.A.V."<br />by E.M. Forster'

Answer: A Room With A View


Question: 'Former President Cleveland was one of the trustees of this New Jersey university that elected Woodrow Wilson its head'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'Nytol sleeping aid tablets carry the precautionary label "Warning: May Cause" this'

Answer: drowsiness


Question: 'Some consider Dame Joan Sutherland the 20th century's best opera singer in this vocal class'

Answer: (coloratura) soprano


Question: 'Try one of my blondies; it's like a brownie but made with this flavoring instead of chocolate'

Answer: vanilla (or butterscotch)


Question: 'This brewery city in Shantung province was primarily built by the Germans starting in 1898'

Answer: Tsingtao


Question: '"T.H.O.T.S.G."<br />by Nathaniel Hawthorne'

Answer: The House Of The Seven Gables


Question: 'Creighton University, founded in 1878, is a Jesuit school in this Midwest city'

Answer: Omaha


Question: '(Cheryl indicates a Greek word on the monitor.) Naturally, there's an accent mark in the Greek word that gave us this English adjective for accents & other marks'

Answer: diacritical


Question: 'Evonne Goolagong won this premier tournament twice, the first time in July 1971'

Answer: Wimbledon


Question: 'Nothing could be simpler to whip up than a plate of these classic cookies from Pepperidge Farm'

Answer: a Milano


Question: '(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Zhelin Lake.) Zhelin Lake is near Nanchang, where in 1927 the Communists fought this man's Nationalist forces'

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek


Question: '"T.E.W.W.G."<br />by Zora Neale Hurston'

Answer: Their Eyes Were Watching God


Question: 'The website for Bucknell, a college in this state, includes a section on life in the Susquehanna Valley'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'Much of the softwood in the U.S. comes from this fir, the state tree of Oregon'

Answer: a Douglas


Question: 'Aussie actress Toni Collette put on 40 pounds to play the title role in this "bridal" movie'

Answer: Muriel\'s Wedding


Question: 'One baking sheet can hold 32 of these French dessert treats whose name in part means "little"'

Answer: petits fours


Question: 'Big newsmakers in 1954, Quemoy & this island off of Red China are still held by Taiwan today'

Answer: Matsu


Question: '"A.S.P."<br />by John Knowles'

Answer: A Separate Peace


Question: 'Part of the Sun Belt Athletic Conference, Western Kentucky University is in this "colorful" 2-word city'

Answer: Bowling Green


Question: 'Seen here is the most famous work by this great Romantic painter, who has his own Paris museum'

Answer: Eugene Delacroix


Question: 'Tragedy struck this Australian band in 1997 with the death of lead singer Michael Hutchence'

Answer: INXS


Question: '"Joy Of Cooking" calls it "the best known of all phyllo pastries"'

Answer: baklava


Question: 'The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor'

Answer: Rex Harrison


Question: 'There was gold in the hills of this host city as the Times noted the start of the Winter Olympics there on Feb. 10'

Answer: Turin


Question: 'Not only "Jeopardy!" but this game show based on a letters-&-words board game debuted in 1984'

Answer: Scrabble


Question: 'A recorder has 8, a fife 6'

Answer: finger holes


Question: 'Eruptions in 512 were so violent that Theodoric the Goth of Italy suspended taxes for those living on its slopes'

Answer: Vesuvius


Question: 'Don't worry--Cricket Cola isn't flavored with crickets but with this "colorful" tea'

Answer: green tea


Question: 'The Bethesda Fountain overlooks the lake in this New York City park'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'On Feb. 13, the Times reported Dick Cheney shot a man hunting, the first shooting by a sitting veep since this man'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'The Huxtables began their 8-year dominance of the Nielsen ratings on this sitcom'

Answer: The Cosby Show


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew opens a large reference book.)  This feature you'll find in some dictionaries helps you get quickly to the letter you want'

Answer: a thumb index


Question: 'Lassen Peak in the southernmost part of this range was believed extinct until it erupted on May 30, 1914'

Answer: the Cascades


Question: 'In November 2003 the Jones Soda Company introduced an unusual soda flavored with this bird & gravy'

Answer: turkey


Question: 'It's said that Goethe's granddaughter posed for the statue that tops this capital city's Austria Fountain'

Answer: Vienna


Question: '"G.O.P. UNREST OVER PORTS" read a headline when this emirate's control of some U.S. ports was opposed by Congress in March'

Answer: Dubai


Question: 'Penelope was the real first name of this title Soleil Moon Frye character who had her own show in 1984'

Answer: Punky Brewster


Question: 'This forward section of a rocket or guided missile contains the payload'

Answer: the nose cone


Question: 'This volcano on the southeast slope of Mauna Loa has had a hotel on its rim since 1866'

Answer: Kilauea


Question: 'This "paternal" brand of root beer has been a family favorite since 1937'

Answer: Dad\'s


Question: 'King Matyas Corvinus & his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace'

Answer: Budapest


Question: 'Riots in this Ugandan capital city were reported in the Times on Feb. 26 following presidential elections there'

Answer: Kampala


Question: 'Fred Dryer was on the beat in 1984 tracking down bad guys as this title LAPD homicide detective'

Answer: Hunter


Question: 'Raymond Moley was part of the group of smarties called this who advised FDR'

Answer: the Brain Trust


Question: 'Figurative name of the volcanic belt that nearly encircles the Pacific Ocean'

Answer: the Ring of Fire


Question: 'A famous 1967 ad campaign told folks that this was actually "the Uncola"'

Answer: 7 Up


Question: 'Unveiled in 2004, the Hyde Park Fountain that memorializes her is a deceptively simple-looking oval granite ring'

Answer: Princess Diana


Question: '"A DRAMA STRAIGHT FROM THE TABLOIDS" blared the Times in a story on her appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in March'

Answer: Anna Nicole Smith


Question: 'A probationary angel & an ex-cop helped people solve problems on this Michael Landon starrer'

Answer: Highway to Heaven


Question: 'It's what the "AR" stands for in "START I", a strategic treaty signed by Bush & Gorbachev'

Answer: arms reduction


Question: 'This Philippine volcano's 1991 eruption was one of the largest of the 20th century'

Answer: Pinatubo


Question: 'With "twice the caffeine", it calls itself "The Espresso of Colas"'

Answer: Jolt


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark.)  The famous bubble fountain here at Tivoli was co-designed by this Danish physicist who won a 1922 Nobel Prize'

Answer: (Niels) Bohr


Question: 'This capital, population 280,000, is one half of the "Twin Cities"'

Answer: St. Paul


Question: 'She is the British baroness seen here as she looked in the 1980s'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'This wartime thriller about a German sub inspired a classic 1981 foreign movie'

Answer: Das Boot


Question: 'In the 1600s mustard makers in this French city organized a guild to control the quality of their product'

Answer: Dijon


Question: '1965:<br />Charlton Heston'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: 'This & behold: it means "see" & is frequently used in Biblical expressions'

Answer: lo


Question: 'The Golden North Salmon Derby is one of the annual events celebrated in this state capital'

Answer: Juneau (Alaska)


Question: 'She's the widow at Windsor seen here in 1897'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'A young lawyer defends a black Vietnam hero who murdered white rapists in this first John Grisham legal thriller'

Answer: A Time to Kill


Question: 'This spice is also known as black sugar & sweetroot'

Answer: licorice


Question: '1956:<br />Kirk Douglas'

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: 'You can call your pop this, used in Italian personal names, originally to indicate place of origin'

Answer: da


Question: 'Montana's largest city, it was founded in 1882 & named for a president of the Northern Pacific Railway'

Answer: Billings, Montana


Question: 'Early 19th-century bestselling author depicted here'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: '2005's "Marker" is the 25th medical thriller from this bestselling physician/author'

Answer: Robin Cook


Question: 'Also known as Jamaica pepper, it sounds like a hodgepodge of other flavorings'

Answer: allspice


Question: '2001:<br />John Leguizamo (in a musical)'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'It's the first-person singular present indicative of be'

Answer: am


Question: 'Named for an Army chaplain, this city near Phoenix boasts more than 300 sunny days per year'

Answer: Scottsdale


Question: '15th-century plucky Plantagenet plotter pictured here'

Answer: Richard III


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.)  A 1981 thriller by this author opens with the discovery of 3 faceless corpses here in the title setting, Moscow's Gorky Park'

Answer: Martin Cruz Smith


Question: 'This red-hot, pungent powder made from various tropical chiles originated in French Guiana'

Answer: Cayenne


Question: '2000:<br />Ed Harris'

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: 'The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, it's also a math term'

Answer: pi


Question: 'In 1802 a French chemist built gunpowder mills near this Delaware city; they became DuPont, now based there'

Answer: Wilmington


Question: 'This general & war hero slowed down long enough to be captured (on film) around 1945'

Answer: Montgomery


Question: 'FBI agent Alex Cross tangles with villains known as the Wolf & the Weasel in his "London Bridges"'

Answer: James Patterson


Question: 'Plants producing this spice in England came from a crocus bulb smuggled from the Holy Land in the 14th century'

Answer: saffron


Question: '1996:<br />Anthony Hopkins'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'A small hawk, or a moon of Jupiter'

Answer: Io


Question: 'In 2005, as the shuttle Discovery prepared for landing, NASA played a Dexys Midnight Runners song in her honor'

Answer: Eileen Collins


Question: 'In October 1994 she became the first British sovereign to make a state visit to Russia'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: 'A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this'

Answer: Tobacco


Question: 'When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he & this partner played themselves'

Answer: Cher


Question: 'A heart with an arrow through it is often used to symbolize this holiday'

Answer: Valentine\'s Day


Question: 'This city is home to the Pabst Theater, Pabst Mansion & Pabst Brewery'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Something that displays eutexia does this easily, like ice cream'

Answer: Melt


Question: 'Princess Grace's youngest child, she was born in Monaco's Palais Princier on Feb. 1, 1965'

Answer: Princess Stephanie


Question: 'The first practical machine powered by this was used in 1698 to pump water out of mines'

Answer: Steam


Question: 'She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" & an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy"'

Answer: Bette Midler


Question: 'The C that represents this number in Roman numerals may stand for centum'

Answer: 100


Question: 'This capital city is the state's second most populous'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'Sometimes experienced on a boat or plane, kinetosis is another term for this'

Answer: Motion Sickness


Question: 'Her illegitimate half-brother James served as regent of Scotland during her imprisonment'

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots


Question: 'These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring'

Answer: Clocks


Question: 'Reba McEntire hit her marks as this markswoman in the 1995 TV miniseries "Buffalo Girls"'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'Associated with an organization, it's the sign seen on many first aid kits'

Answer: Red Cross


Question: 'New Glarus was settled by emigrants from this country's canton of Glarus'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'It's the often ball-shaped striking end of a hammer, opposite the face'

Answer: Peen


Question: 'In 1993 King Hussein celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of this country'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'In mid-century Otto Von Guericke was the first to use this device to predict the weather'

Answer: Barometer


Question: 'Sinead O'Connor appeared briefly as this author in a TV version of "Wuthering Heights"'

Answer: Emily Bronte


Question: 'It's the national symbol of Canada'

Answer: Maple Leaf


Question: 'This state nickname was first used for Wisconsin lead miners who dug their homes in hillsides'

Answer: "The Badger State"


Question: 'Pinto horses are usually described as piebald, black & white, or this, white & another color'

Answer: Skewbald


Question: 'When this Medici died in 1589, it was said, "It is not a woman who has just expired, it is royalty itself"'

Answer: Catherine de\' Medici


Question: 'While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply'

Answer: Calculator


Question: 'This ever-hip singer played Hymie Kelly in the 1966 film "The Oscar" years before he got "Unplugged"'

Answer: Tony Bennett


Question: 'It's the term for the "and" sign used in typing & printing'

Answer: Ampersand


Question: 'These 2 Great Lakes lap the shores of Wisconsin'

Answer: Michigan & Superior


Question: 'Stipple means to draw or paint with these instead of lines; Seurat was a master'

Answer: Points (Pointilism)


Question: 'As a goddess of this heavenly body, Artemis was sometimes called Phoebe'

Answer: Moon


Question: 'Howtowdie is a Scottish dish of boiled chicken served with spinach & a poached one of these'

Answer: Egg


Question: 'In 1908 this British liner crossed the Atlantic in a record 4.6 days; the Germans sank it in 1915'

Answer: Lusitania


Question: 'This actress' grandfather, Ed Close, was Marjorie Merriweather Post's first husband'

Answer: Glenn Close


Question: 'In December 1993 the Catholic Church agreed to establish diplomatic ties with this state founded in 1948'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself "A Yankee of the Yankees....and nearly barren of sentiment"'

Answer: "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court"


Question: 'This winged horse carried thunderbolts for Zeus'

Answer: Pegasus


Question: 'This April 18, 1906 natural disaster destroyed 25,000 buildings & left 225,000 homeless'

Answer: San Francisco Earthquake


Question: 'This partner of David Brinkley was a descendant of John Adams & John Quincy Adams'

Answer: Chet Huntley


Question: 'In December 1994 Russia sent 40,000 troops into this breakaway republic'

Answer: Chechnya


Question: 'In his 1913 novel "Sons And Lovers", Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie Chambers'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'While the oldest oracle was at Dodona, the most famous one was Apollo's, located here'

Answer: Delphi


Question: 'In 1910 this future president was elected to the New York senate'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'In this kind of monarchy, a king's or queen's rule is unrestricted'

Answer: Absolute Monarchy


Question: 'John Updike called this author's "The Metamorphosis" "An indubitable masterpiece"'

Answer: Franz Kafka


Question: 'Each of these daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne represented a branch of the arts & sciences'

Answer: Muses


Question: 'Leyden cheese, produced in this country, is flavored with cumin & caraway seeds'

Answer: Netherlands


Question: 'On Nov. 3, 1903 this country rebelled against Colombian rule & proclaimed its independence'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'Orson Bean's great-grandmother & this "silent" president's mother were sisters'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'Term for a government that another nation controls, pulling its strings, as it were'

Answer: Puppet Government


Question: 'Written in 1900, "In the Ravine" is one of this Russian playwright's finest stories'

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Question: 'Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire & metalworking, was identified with this Roman god'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'The confection Tocino de Cielo, or "Heavenly Bacon" is a specialty of this European country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'On Sept. 1, 1909 Frederick Cook claimed to have beaten him to the North Pole by a year'

Answer: Robert Peary


Question: 'This great female modern dancer & choreographer who died in 1991 was a direct descendant of Miles Standish'

Answer: Martha Graham


Question: 'Named for a European peninsula, it's the process of one country separating into hostile units'

Answer: Balkanization


Question: 'Wamba is a brave jester who risks his life to save his master Cedric in this Sir Walter Scott novel'

Answer: "Ivanhoe"


Question: 'In Spanish-speaking countries, this Disney film is known as "La Sirenita"'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'In 1585 Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin first converted fractions to this format'

Answer: decimals


Question: 'The American Egg Board has declared Egg Salad Week for the week after this holiday'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'In a 14-line poem Wordsworth wrote "Scorn not" this form of poetry'

Answer: sonnet


Question: 'Punchy is the mascot of this "island" beverage'

Answer: Hawaiian Punch


Question: 'In 1951 he gave the first of over 4,500 performances as the King of Siam'

Answer: Yul Brynner


Question: 'Favre's monetary obligations'

Answer: Brett\'s debts


Question: 'In 1582 much of Europe switched to this calendar after dropping 10 days from October'

Answer: Gregorian Calendar


Question: 'On March 3, Girls' Day in Japan, girls set up elaborate displays of these toys in their homes'

Answer: (royal) dolls


Question: '3-word title of the poem about "that sailor's friend"; it's where Ralph wanted to send Alice'

Answer: "To The Moon"


Question: 'Voltaire drank over 30 cups of this a day, preferring it mocha, flavored with chocolate'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'Bald in the third installment, this actress has starred in all the "Alien" movies'

Answer: Sigourney Weaver


Question: 'The Babe's enclosed restaurant areas'

Answer: Ruth\'s booths


Question: 'In 1569 this Flemish geographer developed a map of the world in which Greenland looks bigger than Africa'

Answer: Gerardus Mercator


Question: 'USA Today reported New Yorkers have a tough time getting cabs during this month-long observance'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'Like Shelley, Wordsworth wrote a poem to this (the bird, not the Buick)'

Answer: skylark


Question: 'This brand of liqueur is made from bourbon & peach juice'

Answer: Southern Comfort


Question: 'On the silver screen he's been bald as Ike, Othello & Morpheus'

Answer: Laurence Fishburne


Question: 'A hockey disk that's glued down'

Answer: stuck puck


Question: 'This tube connecting the ear and the throat was named for the scientist who illustrated it in 1552'

Answer: Eustachian tube


Question: 'Some churches gave special dispensation for Catholics to eat meat when this fell on a Friday in Lent during 2000'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Day


Question: 'An 1820 ode on this king's death included "Dread shadow of a king!  Whose realm had dwindled to one stately room"'

Answer: George III


Question: 'This brand of root beer "Has Bite", according to its slogan'

Answer: Barq\'s


Question: 'This Emmy-winning talk show host, seen here, has also been seen in dramatic roles'

Answer: Montel Williams


Question: 'A small parcel containing a stringed tennis tool'

Answer: racket packet


Question: 'He died on May 24, 1543, just after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"'

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus


Question: 'The Virginias celebrate this on the second Friday in April; many other states wait until the last Friday'

Answer: Arbor Day


Question: 'This abbey on the Wye River in Wales was immortalized in a poem by Wordsworth'

Answer: Tintern Abbey


Question: 'Peach mango is a highlight of this brand of fruit smoothie from Snapple'

Answer: Whipper Snapple


Question: 'This bald man's early rock band The Marked didn't go far, but his Smashing Pumpkins took over the world'

Answer: Billy Corgan


Question: 'A speedy billiards cue'

Answer: quick stick


Question: 'Omri & Julie Rotblatt-Amrany sculpted this superstar athlete in bronze for Chicago's United Center'

Answer: Michael Jordan


Question: 'Born Jewish, as a born-again Christian he recorded "Saved" & "Slow Train Coming"'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'Prince Norodom Sihanouk'

Answer: Cambodia (Kampuchea)


Question: 'Term for the collapsing waves that hit the beach; they may be spilling or plunging'

Answer: breakers


Question: 'Joan Rivers had her first booking on this show in 1965; in 1983 she became its permanent guest host'

Answer: The Tonight Show


Question: 'If we've got your number, odds are the number we have is either ordinal or this'

Answer: cardinal


Question: 'This "American Gothic" creator was a leading regionalist, his region being Iowa'

Answer: Grant Wood


Question: 'This wife of Vince Gill has had many Christian rock hits, including "Find A Way"'

Answer: Amy Grant


Question: 'King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'The height of a wave is measured from trough to this topmost point'

Answer: Crest


Question: 'On this soap's September 28, 1999 episode Erica & David went to New York & ran into Joan'

Answer: All My Children


Question: 'Meaning to desire, it turns up in the Ten Commandments'

Answer: covet


Question: 'Edgar Leeteg, who painted Tahitian maidens on velvet, is known as "The American" equivalent of this French painter'

Answer: Paul Gauguin


Question: 'In a 1973 Top 40 hit, "Jesus is Just Alright" for these musical "brothers"'

Answer: Doobie Brothers


Question: 'Queen Beatrix'

Answer: the Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'The 2 oceans whose names don't begin with "A"'

Answer: Indian & Pacific Oceans


Question: 'In 1986 Joan filled this position on a TV game show board; today it's filled by Whoopi'

Answer: center square (on "The Hollywood Squares")


Question: 'It's a greenhouse to nurture plants, or a school to nurture your musical ability'

Answer: conservatory


Question: 'Robert Motherwell is best known for his "Elegy to" this European "republic" of the 1930s'

Answer: Spanish Republic


Question: 'Mark Farner of this rockin' "railroad" has released numerous solo Christian rock albums'

Answer: Grand Funk Railroad


Question: 'King Carl XVI Gustaf'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'These marine habitats are called the "rainforests of the oceans"'

Answer: coral reefs


Question: 'You can take a peek at this pooch who has his own page on Joan's website'

Answer: Spike


Question: 'Ah yes...this little bird, parus atricapillus, is of the titmouse family'

Answer: chickadee


Question: 'Notable artists named Cindy include this woman known for her self-portraits in modern & Renaissance garb'

Answer: Cindy Sherman


Question: 'This gum resin, a gift of the Magi, is also a record label that released "Jesus Saves" & "Strong Medicine"'

Answer: myrrh


Question: 'Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah'

Answer: Brunei


Question: 'This surface current is mentioned in the chorus of "This Land is Your Land"'

Answer: Gulfstream (waters)


Question: 'Come in & tell us this 2-word title of Joan's 1986 autobiography'

Answer: "Enter Talking"


Question: 'That big division in Saturn's ring system? -- named for him'

Answer: Giovanni Cassini


Question: 'The 2 states that named their capitals for Christopher Columbus'

Answer: Ohio (Columbus) & South Carolina (Columbia)


Question: 'This largest planet spins the most rapidly; its day is just 10 hours long'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'This 1995 Disney film won Oscars for its musical score & for best song, "Colors Of The Wind"'

Answer: "Pocahontas"


Question: 'This street that runs from the White House to the Capitol is used for ceremonial parades'

Answer: Pennsylvania Avenue


Question: 'Mirin is a sweet Japanese wine made from the glutinous type of this grain'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'After waking up & going back to the village, Rip is astonished to find it "Had grown a foot long!"'

Answer: His beard


Question: 'Its signs include Taurus, Gemini & Leo'

Answer: Zodiac


Question: 'At its closest this planet is just 28.6 million miles from the sun; at its most distant, 43.4 million'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Once a backup singer for David Bowie, he released 2 early albums with his own band, Luther'

Answer: Luther Vandross


Question: 'Each November a parade starts at the Guildhall in this city when a new lord mayor takes office'

Answer: London


Question: 'Many visitors to Rotorua in this country enjoy a hangi, a traditional Maori feast of steamed meat & vegetables'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Rip's grown & married daughter Judith Gardenier tells him she hasn't seen her father for this many years'

Answer: 20


Question: 'It means to move back & forth at sharp angles'

Answer: Zig-Zag


Question: 'Layers of sulfuric acid clouds completely obscure the surface of this neighboring planet'

Answer: Venus


Question: '"Valotte" was this first Top 10 hit for this son of a Beatle'

Answer: Julian Lennon


Question: 'Van Cliburn & the Iran hostages were among those to receive this type of parade on Broadway'

Answer: Ticker Tape Parade


Question: 'Marsala is a fortified wine named for a seaport on this large Mediterranean island'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'The tale begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up" this river "must remeber the Kaatskill Mountains"'

Answer: Hudson River


Question: 'Like pumpkin, this Italian squash makes an excellent bread'

Answer: Zucchini


Question: 'This smallest planet always keeps the same face toward Charon, its moon'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'Karen & Richard Carpenter won their 1st Grammys in 1970 & this Carpenter won her 1st Grammy in 1992'

Answer: Mary Chapin Carpenter


Question: 'Grand Marshal of the 1996 Rose Parade, he was a balloon in the 1977 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade'

Answer: Kermit The Frog


Question: 'French dishes described as A L'Allemande are inspired by the cuisine of this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'Wolf, as henpecked as Rip, is one of these creatures'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'Israel, as a symbol of the Jewish people, is sometimes referred to by this name'

Answer: Zion


Question: 'This planet's moon Triton orbits in a direction opposite the planet's rotation'

Answer: Neptune


Question:
'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
Steven Spielberg film that inspired the 1982 hit heard here:
"Turn on your heart light, let it shine wherever you go..."'

Answer: "E.T." (song by Neil Diamond)


Question: 'Krewes cruise by in the annual parades celebrating this'

Answer: Mardi Gras


Question: 'This gumbo ingredient is popular in the Middle East, where it's known as bamia'

Answer: Okra


Question: 'Rip's tale appears in "The Sketch Book" written by this man'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'Popular with the Japanese, it's a flat sandal with thongs, usually made of straw or leather'

Answer: Zori


Question: 'The name of the Montagnards, a Vietnamese minority, means "highlander" or "mountain man" in this language'

Answer: French


Question: 'Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius' house'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'This Alabama institute was the major training facility for black airmen during World War II'

Answer: Tuskegee Institute


Question: 'In 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, he landed in what is now Honduras'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'She starred in the high-seas thriller "Dead Calm" before she married Tom Cruise'

Answer: Nicole Kidman


Question: 'Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG'

Answer: the heart


Question: 'The Nubians live along the Nile in the southern part of this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls'

Answer: the Montagues & the Capulets


Question: 'The universities of Mandalay & Rangoon are the chief universities of this country'

Answer: Burma (or Myanmar)


Question: 'In 1581, a year after circumnavigating the Earth, this explorer became mayor of Plymouth, England'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'Chinese-born actress Joan Chen played Pu Yi's wife in this Oscar-winning 1987 epic'

Answer: The Last Emperor


Question: 'In 1032 this Venetian official gave up most of his authority but remained commander of the army & navy'

Answer: The Doge


Question: 'Albanians form the largest minority group in this Balkan republic whose capital is Belgrade'

Answer: Yugoslavia (or Serbia)


Question: 'Name shared by the heroine of "The Merchant of Venice" & Brutus' wife in "Julius Caesar"'

Answer: Portia


Question: 'The library at this Hanover, New Hampshire school has a special collection on Robert Frost'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'On Nov. 29, 1929 this American flew over the South Pole in his trimotor aircraft, the Floyd Bennett'

Answer: Admiral Richard Byrd


Question: 'This Norwegian known for her enigmatic "Persona" directed her 1st film, "Sofie", in 1992'

Answer: Liv Ullmann


Question: 'This is Mississippi's state tree -- its flower is the state flower'

Answer: Magnolia


Question: 'A small German-speaking minority lives on the eastern edge of this country's region of Walllonia'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending'

Answer: All\'s Well That Ends Well


Question: 'In the 1850s this Massachusetts educator founded Antioch College & became its first president'

Answer: Horace Mann


Question: 'In 1481 this sailor landed in present-day Ghana; 6 years later he rounded the Cape of Good Hope'

Answer: Bartolomeo Diaz


Question: 'When Liam Neeson married Natasha Richardson, he became this British actress' son-in-law'

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave


Question: 'A thin sheet of fine wood applied over cheaper material for decoration'

Answer: Veneer


Question: 'In 1988 thousands of Kurds were killed by the armed forces of this country -- some by poison gas'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'Play containing the line "There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax"'

Answer: Troilus & Cressida


Question: 'In 1898 DePaul University was founded in this city & named for St. Vincent De Paul'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This French discoverer of the St. Lawrence River may have been with Verrazano on his 1524 trip to North America'

Answer: Jacques Cartier


Question: 'Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: 'Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning'

Answer: The Salem Witch Trials


Question: 'On this spooky day in 1861, Buffy didn't fight demons but joined a skirmish at Morgantown, Kentucky'

Answer: Halloween (October 31)


Question: 'Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird'

Answer: Ostrich


Question: 'Aretha's spelled it out: "Find out what it means to me"'

Answer: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"


Question: 'A knot used to secure a line to a spar, or a term of sevice in the Navy'

Answer: Hitch


Question: 'Legend says Capt. Hanson Gregory invented this hole when he had his mom remove the soggy center from her fried cake'

Answer: Doughnut hole


Question: 'A shortened form of a word or phrase'

Answer: Abbreviation


Question: 'At Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, Buffy joined the soldiers in this type of manual "combat"'

Answer: Hand-to-hand


Question: 'The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet'

Answer: Penguin


Question: 'Aretha played the owner of a soul food cafe in this 1980 movie that starred Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi'

Answer: The Blues Brothers


Question: 'Of stem, bow, aft or prow, the one that's not in the front of the ship'

Answer: Aft


Question: 'Whales & dolphins have them, & so do harmonicas'

Answer: Blowholes


Question: 'The formal forgiveness of sins'

Answer: Absolution


Question: 'Like Buffy in Sunnydale, men in a Civil War poem fought "where the bullets fastest fell...at the very mouth of" here'

Answer: Hell


Question: 'This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second'

Answer: Hummingbird


Question: 'The title track of a 1986 Whoopi Goldberg flick was Aretha's version of this Stones hit'

Answer: "Jumpin\' Jack Flash"


Question: '2-word phrase for the entire ship's personnel; it's cried to get them "on deck"'

Answer: "All Hands"


Question: 'The Aubrey Holes are a circle of 56 pits found at this monumental site on Salisbury Plain'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: 'An often-banned liqueur derived from wormwood, aniseed & herbs'

Answer: Absinthe


Question: 'The only angel Civil War Buffy met was this "Angel of the Battlefield" with whom she tended the wounded'

Answer: Clara Barton


Question: 'The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap'

Answer: Woodpeckers


Question: 'In 1987 Aretha topped the charts duetting with this man heard here:'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'An island in the Pacific, or the trail of water churned up behind a ship'

Answer: Wake


Question: 'In September 2000 it was disclosed that the hole in this had spread to about 11 million square miles'

Answer: Ozone layer


Question: 'From the Latin for "to go astray", it's a departure from what is normal or desirable'

Answer: Aberration


Question: 'On May 12, 1864 Buffy saw vampires gather for a feast at the battle site known as this "angle"'

Answer: Bloody Angle


Question: 'The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion"'

Answer: Mynah bird


Question: 'Ironically, Aretha's 1967 hit that says, "You Made Me Feel Like" this was used in TV ads for Clairol hair color'

Answer: "A Natural Woman"


Question: 'A convoy is a fleet of merchant ships & this is a fleet of warships; Spain had a famous one'

Answer: Armada


Question: 'Jackson Hole, a valley in this national park, was once a separate national monument'

Answer: Grand Teton National Park


Question: 'The official end of the practice of slavery'

Answer: Abolition


Question: 'On April 23, 1616 Shakespeare died in England & this great writer died in Spain'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'This herb in the parsley family gives its name to a type of pickle'

Answer: Dill


Question: 'The London grave of this Communist thinker is seen here'

Answer: Karl Marx


Question: '1939 & 1955:<br />Bette Davis'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'In the 1800s this island off the east coast of Africa was an Omani sultanate'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'A word meaning "proper" or "kind", or when you knock on a bedroom door, "dressed"'

Answer: Decent


Question: 'The name of this pizza herb, also known as wild marjoram, is from the Greek for "joy of the mountain"'

Answer: Oregano


Question: 'Some call this Paris-born man one of the leading minds of the last century'

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre


Question: '1999:<br />Chow Yun-Fat'

Answer: King of Siam (in "Anna and the King")


Question: 'Its oldest state university was founded in 1955 as the University College of Rhodesia'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'Dressing room in a store where you tell yourself these jeans will be perfect after you diet'

Answer: Fitting room


Question: 'Henry Porter's "Two Angry Women of Abingdon" may have influenced this "merry" Shakespeare play'

Answer: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"


Question: 'The bay leaf comes from this type of evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean'

Answer: Laurel


Question: '1 of the 2 philosophers seen here in a painting by Raphael'

Answer: Aristotle or Plato


Question: '1968:<br />Katharine Hepburn'

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine


Question: 'Points of interest in this city include the Reitburg Museum & the Grossmunster Church where Zwingli preached'

Answer: Zurich


Question: 'This synonym for "proper" comes from the Latin for "to take possession of"'

Answer: Appropriate


Question: 'Liptauer cheese, which is named after a province in Hungary, gets its red color from this spice'

Answer: Paprika


Question: 'He's the transcendental meditator seen here'

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Question: '1975:<br />Graham Chapman'

Answer: King Arthur (in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail")


Question: 'At Victoria Falls this river is a mile wide & then drops deeply into a narrow chasm'

Answer: Zambezi River


Question: 'It can mean "flattering", like a dress, or "any process of change"'

Answer: Becoming


Question: 'This spice that is sold in stick & powder forms comes in 2 varieties: Ceylon & Cassia'

Answer: Cinnamon


Question: 'This Italian is well-remembered for his political procedure manual'

Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli


Question: '1994:<br />Nigel Hawthorne'

Answer: King George III (in "The Madness of King George")


Question: 'This Ohio city was named for the ancestor of a famed western novelist born there in 1875'

Answer: Zanesville (Zane Grey)


Question: 'Adjective for a modest young lady; with the last E removed, it's what she'll do if immodesty is suggested'

Answer: Demure (demur)


Question: 'In June 2000 descendants of these 2 families met in Pikeville, KY & in Matewan, WV for their first-ever joint reunion'

Answer: The Hatfields & the McCoys


Question: 'The Tournament of Roses Parade & the Rose Bowl are held in this city on New Year's Day'

Answer: Pasadena


Question: 'Victoria is the capital of this Canadian province'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: '"Quoth the raven nevermore"'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'In 1802, after he'd been in office for a year, the first article on his involvement with Sally Hemings was published'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'In 1999 she was dishing with Regis in the daytime & "Putting It Together" on Broadway at night'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'A noisy cumulonimbus'

Answer: Loud cloud


Question: 'Also called the Feast of Trumpets, this holiday, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated on the first 2 days of Tishri'

Answer: Rosh Hashanah


Question: 'In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10s & Olympic gold for this country'

Answer: Romania


Question: '"Everybody loves somebody sometime"'

Answer: Dean Martin


Question: 'Incorporated as a town in 1802; made capital of the Michigan Territory in 1805; burned down the same year'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'Robert Goulet debuted as Lancelot in this 1960 show; in 1993 he brought it back to B'way & played King Arthur'

Answer: "Camelot"


Question: 'A grizzly that isn't hip'

Answer: Square bear


Question: 'It's the palindromic name for the Vietnamese New Year'

Answer: Tet


Question: 'George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city'

Answer: Alexandria


Question: '"Faithful to the cause of Prohibition -- she hath done what she could"'

Answer: Carrie Nation


Question: 'In his "Heiligenstadt Tastament", Beethoven lamented over his loss of this'

Answer: Hearing


Question: 'The sexy 1969 musical "Canterbury Tales" marked the Broadway debut of this perky star seen here'

Answer: Sandy Duncan


Question: 'An adorable wind instrument'

Answer: Cute flute


Question: 'In the Middle Ages New Year's Day was observed on March 25, this feast day that celebrates Mary's visit from Gabriel'

Answer: Annunciation


Question: 'Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru & this country'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: '"That's all folks"'

Answer: Mel Blanc


Question: 'French mining engineer Albert Matieu-Favier suggested building a tunnel under this'

Answer: English Channel


Question: 'Keith Carradine was a teenager when he was cast in this "American Tribal Love-Rock" musical in 1968'

Answer: "Hair"


Question: 'A hilarious little rabbit'

Answer: Funny bunny


Question: 'The Mummers New Year's Day Parade in this city started officially in 1901'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This country is moving its capital to Dodoma from Dar es Salaam'

Answer: Tanzania


Question: 'Died 1789:<br />"His spirit is in Vermont now"'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'Napoleon established this "Legion" as an Order of Merit in 1802'

Answer: Legion of Honor (Legion d\'honneur)


Question: 'My cousin Vinny saw her in the 1998 revival of "Wait Until Dark", with Quentin Tarantino as her stalker'

Answer: Marisa Tomei


Question: 'A fake foot covering'

Answer: a mock sock


Question: 'This Nobel Prize winner dedicated "The Waste Land" to fellow poet Ezra Pound'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: 'He said about his romance with Soon-Yi, "The heart wants what it wants"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'In the U.S., the total of this type of debt has "charged" ahead to around $585 billion'

Answer: Credit card debt


Question: 'Transonic speed is about 741 MPH at sea level; supersonic is faster & this is the term for slower'

Answer: Subsonic


Question: 'Black's Law Dictionary defines it as a violation of the public tranquility & order'

Answer: Disturbing/breach of the peace


Question: 'Both men who held this post under James Madison, George Clinton & Elbridge Gerry, died in office'

Answer: Vice president


Question: 'His "Dr. Zhivago" aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said "Nyet" to the Nobel Prize in 1958'

Answer: Boris Pasternak


Question: 'Joe Lieberman's beloved, or the Women's Zionist Organization of America'

Answer: Hadassah


Question: 'The CPI is the Consumer Price Index & the PPI is this'

Answer: Producer Price Index


Question: 'With wavelengths between those of visible light & microwaves, they come from the sun & heat the Earth'

Answer: Infrared waves


Question: 'George Clooney & Nicole Kidman team up against terrorists in this 1997 movie'

Answer: The Peacemaker


Question: 'Neurons don't weigh much; why, there are billions of them in this roughly 3-pound organ'

Answer: Brain


Question: 'In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'She had high school chemistry with Peter Jacobson, whom she married in 1978 & later helped create "The Nanny"'

Answer: Fran Drescher


Question: 'Rude term for the unfair trade practice of selling goods below cost in a foreign market'

Answer: Dumping


Question: '5-letter word that precedes "isotope" in a term for isotopes like strontium-90 & cobalt-60'

Answer: Radio


Question: 'Leviticus 7 discusses these "unto the Lord", saying they may include unleavened cakes'

Answer: Peace offerings


Question: 'Madison pooh-poohed that he was "The Father of" this; he said it was "The work of many heads and many hands"'

Answer: The Constitution


Question: 'He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: 'Hearts were broken when Sarah Michelle Gellar took up with this "She's All That" star'

Answer: Freddie Prinze, Jr.


Question: 'Seen here, it's what's moving the chess piece, & also the name of an economics term'

Answer: "Invisible Hand"


Question: 'It's the tendency of an object to float, or the upward pressure of fluid in an object'

Answer: Buoyancy


Question: 'In Handel's "Messiah", his name shall be called "The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father", this'

Answer: "Prince of Peace"


Question: 'After leaving the presidency Madison returned to his estate named this'

Answer: Montpelier


Question: 'A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here:<br />("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made")'

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: 'In 2000 she married David Bale, father of actor Christian, but we assume she's still "Ms.", not Mrs.'

Answer: Gloria Steinem


Question: '5-letter word for temporary paper money issued in economic emergencies'

Answer: Scrip


Question: 'Found after "de" in a term meaning to demagnetize, it's the last name of German mathematician Karl'

Answer: Gauss


Question: 'In 1963 it was Khrushchev's professed policy of tolerance in his dealings with the West'

Answer: Peaceful coexistence


Question: 'She said, "The reason I'm not a nun is...you can't take your own name...I have the most holy name a woman can have"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969'

Answer: Hurricanes


Question: 'Clarence Clemons & Max Weinberg were part of this longtime Bruce Springsteen backup band'

Answer: The E Street Band


Question: 'A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this'

Answer: "The wall"


Question: 'While the U.S. has many territories in Oceania, it has only one state there:  this one'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'His "Little Red Book" calls reactionaries "Paper tigers, dead tigers, bean-curd tigers"'

Answer: Mao Tse-tung


Question: 'Larousse says the eggs of this African alligator relative "Apparently make excellent omelettes"'

Answer: Crocodile


Question: 'In the winter of 1997, the Great Lakes' lake effect dumped over 90" of this on Montague, New York'

Answer: Snow


Question: '"....And Justice For All" was the first Top 10 album by this heavy metal band with "metal" in its name'

Answer: Metallica


Question: 'Term for weights, like barbells & dumbbells, not attached to a machine'

Answer: Free weights


Question: 'The high islands like Viti Levu in the Fiji group & Kao in the Tonga group were formed by these'

Answer: Volcanoes


Question: 'To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me"'

Answer: Poetry


Question: 'Some romantics really lose their heads on the day named for this saint who was probably beheaded'

Answer: St. Valentine


Question: 'As seen in Los Angeles, a thermal inversion of warm air covering cool air can cause a buildup of this'

Answer: Smog/pollution


Question: 'This outspoken rap group led by Chuck D. took its name from a song title that ended "Number One"'

Answer: Public Enemy


Question: 'These machines mimic the action of running up stadium bleachers, with much more convenience'

Answer: Stair machines


Question: 'When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was'

Answer: Tahiti


Question: 'It follows Jesus' words, "For many are called"'

Answer: "But few are chosen"


Question: 'Some speculate that he may have been poisoned on St. Helena by arsenic in his wallpaper'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'This phenomenon begins with an invisible electric discharge called a stepped leader'

Answer: Lightning


Question: 'Brotherly British band known for its attitude & for the album "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?"'

Answer: Oasis


Question: 'Crunches are performed to strengthen these midsection muslces'

Answer: Abdominals


Question: 'Adamstown on Pitcairn Island sits on a bay named for this ship'

Answer: H.M.S. Bounty


Question: 'In 1994 he said his countrymen were as attached to the land as "The famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria"'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'Queen Matilda, the wife of this Norman conqueror, was just 4' 2" tall'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'In early 1997 floodwaters trapped 2,200 visitors in this California national park'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'Soon-to-depart members David Crosby & Gene Clark co-wrote this group's 1966 hit "Eight Miles High"'

Answer: The Byrds


Question: 'Judi Sheppard Missett developed & popularized this combination of aerobics & jazz dance'

Answer: Jazzercise


Question: 'These 3 terms meaning "Small Islands", "Black Islands" & "Many Islands" make up Oceania'

Answer: Micronesia, Melanesia & Polynesia


Question: '"Music has" these "to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak"'

Answer: Charms


Question: 'It's said this silent pres. liked to eat breakfast in bed while having Vaseline rubbed on his head'

Answer: Calvin Coolidge


Question: 'The Federalists called it "Mr. Madison's War"'

Answer: War of 1812


Question: 'For one of his works, Marcel Duchamp added a beard & mustache to a print of this da Vinci lady'

Answer: Mona Lisa


Question: 'This "Naked Gun" star played agent WD-40 in the 1996 spoof "Spy Hard"'

Answer: Leslie Nielsen


Question: 'This state capital was originally called Fort Nashborough, for General Francis Nash'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'In 1997 she filled the post of Secretary of State vacated by Warren Christopher'

Answer: Madeleine Albright


Question: 'He shocks Watson when he poses as a plumber & romances a housemaid for the purpose of burglary'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'In the 1570s Tintoretto painted this Biblical figure "Striking The Rock"'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Michael Caine adopted his stage name in part from the title of this Humphrey Bogart film'

Answer: "The Caine Mutiny"


Question: 'The metropolitan area of this Missouri city extends into Illinois'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'In 1959 Haydee Santamaria helped overthrow this country's gov't & subsequently set up the Communist regime'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'When he returns to his Ithacan palace disguised as a beggar, his dog recognizes him & drops dead'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party'

Answer: Republican


Question: 'Picasso described this art movement as "An art dealing primarily with forms"'

Answer: Cubism


Question: 'In 1996 fans around the world bid arrivederci to this "La Dolce Vita" star who passed away at 72'

Answer: Marcello Mastroianni


Question: 'Petroglyph National Monument near this largest New Mexico city features Indian carvings on lava'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'Canada's first woman defense minister, she was also its first woman prime minister'

Answer: Kim Campbell


Question: 'In an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, she becomes a "Yeshiva Boy"'

Answer: Yentl


Question: 'In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate'

Answer: Daniel Inouye


Question: 'This impressionist's depiction of a nude picnicker in "Luncheon On The Grass" created a scandal in 1863'

Answer: Edouard Manet


Question: 'This late Puerto Rican actor played Gomez Addams in the 2 Addams Family films'

Answer: Raul Julia


Question: 'You can see the oldest continuously used Mormon chapel in a "Trip To" this Utah city'

Answer: Bountiful


Question: 'In 1972 Margrethe II became this country's first queen to inherit the throne on her own right'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Shakespeare's male-disguised heroines, like Rosalind in this play, were originally played by boys'

Answer: "As You Like It"


Question: 'Nixon's running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969'

Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge


Question: 'You can see his most famous work, "Nighthawks", at the Art Institute of Chicago'

Answer: Edward Hopper


Question: 'Sir Laurence Olivier dubbed this star of "Tom Jones" & "The Dresser" the best actor of his generation'

Answer: Albert Finney


Question: 'This New Hampshire city is New England's largest north of Boston'

Answer: Manchester


Question: 'Petra Kelly, who helped found this party, was elected to the West German parliament in 1983'

Answer: Green Party


Question: 'John Howard Griffin chemically darkened his skin to research this 1961 bestseller'

Answer: "Black Like Me"


Question: 'In the 1740s he published "Flora Suecica" & "Fauna Suecica", 2 volumes of his observations'

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus


Question: 'The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there'

Answer: Cameroon


Question: 'In 2006 this Daniel Powter hit was used as the exit theme for contestants voted off "American Idol"'

Answer: "Bad Day"


Question: 'The wallaby'

Answer: marsupial


Question:
'336 B.C.:
dad ded in rgicd!
i'm 20 & macedonia kng?!
omg!'

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: 'Get your aces up top 7 try to unlock the deck in the Klondike version of this single-player game'

Answer: Solitaire


Question: 'Type of final effort that might be required to finish a trench'

Answer: last-ditch


Question: 'Of Sudan, Somalia or Sierra Leone, the one that's the largest in area'

Answer: Sudan


Question: 'In Oct. 2005 this "girl"y hit by Gwen Stefani became the first single to exceed 1 million digital downloads'

Answer: "Hollaback Girl"


Question: 'The hamster'

Answer: rodent


Question:
'1893:
blt my 1st wking gas engn.
mdl-t wl b kewl!
ttyl'

Answer: (Henry) Ford


Question: 'In this card game named after a suit, if you get stuck with the queen of spades, it's 13 penalty points'

Answer: hearts


Question: 'My patience is at an end! You've utilized this ultimate twig'

Answer: the last straw


Question: 'Only about 8 miles from Spain, it's the closest African country to Europe'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'Usher topped the 2004 Hot 100 chart for an amazing 12 weeks with "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon & this rapper'

Answer: Ludacris


Question: 'The gecko'

Answer: reptile


Question:
'2004:
edwrds & i lost 2 w?!
bk 2 senate 4 me.
btw, i lv heinz (ktchp, 2)'

Answer: (John) Kerry


Question: 'This game has the same name as a Spanish number, which you must yell once you get down to one card left'

Answer: Uno


Question: 'Administered by a Catholic priest to the very ill or dying'

Answer: last rites


Question: 'In 1993 Eritrea declared independence & broke from this larger country'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: '"Soulful", the debut album by this "American Idol" winner, reached No. 1 in December 2003'

Answer: (Ruben) Studdard


Question: 'The beaver'

Answer: rodent


Question:
'1787:
81 yrs old & penn. snds me 2 cnst cnv.
im gttng 2 old fr ths...stf.
lol'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'A dramatic piece of reportage on this card game said, "South could cash his last trump, pitching a club from dummy..."'

Answer: bridge


Question: 'Cooper classic from 1826'

Answer: Last of the Mohicans


Question: 'Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe are on this country's northern border'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Her "Feels Like Home" CD sold 1 million copies its first week & featured a duet with Dolly Parton titled "Creepin' In"'

Answer: Norah Jones


Question: 'The caiman'

Answer: reptile


Question:
'1535:
prty 2nite!
founded peru's cptl!!!
c u @ 8!'

Answer: (Francisco) Pizzaro


Question: 'Also a nickname for our ex-Secretary of Defense, this card game comes in tonk & gin varieties'

Answer: rummy


Question: 'Tom Cruise had to learn how to handle a sword & speak Japanese for his role in this movie'

Answer: The Last Samurai


Question: 'This state's first paper was the Du Buque Visitor, which began publishing in 1836'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'Ed Speleers plays the title farm boy-turned-dragon rider in this 2006 fantasy film'

Answer: Eragon


Question: 'Of 10%, 50% or 80%, the portion of an iceberg that floats above the water'

Answer: 10%


Question: 'Laertes is Ophelia's brother in this end-all, be-all of Shakespeare's plays'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'The first jazz record was made by a lame-o white band from this city where black musicians had created jazz'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'The landmark bell in a London clock tower that marries Jennifer Garner & hangs with Matt Damon'

Answer: Big Ben Affleck


Question: 'It's the southernmost state with "South" in its name'

Answer: South Carolina


Question: 'He played Jack Frost, who's trying to take over Christmas in "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause"'

Answer: Martin Short


Question: 'Ruffles chips have these & so do ocean floors, but they're underwater mountain ranges'

Answer: ridges


Question: 'Desdemona is the wife of the title character of this tragedy'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'This great Alabama educator also founded the National Negro Business League in 1900'

Answer: (Booker T.) Washington


Question: 'Informal nickname for Santa that becomes the ex-Mr. Jessica Simpson'

Answer: St. Nick Lachey


Question: 'As you might expect, it's the state that's home to Rocky Mountain National Park'

Answer: Colorado


Question: '5 kids traveling by themselves are stranded at a Chicago airport at Christmas in this 2006 film'

Answer: Unaccompanied Minors


Question: 'The eruption of this Indonesian volcano in 1883 was heard more than 2,000 miles away'

Answer: Krakatau


Question: 'Shylock gives the "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" speech in this play'

Answer: The Merchant Of Venice


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith,  the first black student at the university of this state in Oxford.  In 1964, he graduated'

Answer: Mississippi


Question: 'A "Wheel of Fortune" star turns into a banner of surrender'

Answer: Vanna White flag


Question: '13-year-old Benny Benson's winning design for this state's flag included the Big Dipper'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Working the graveyard shift, security guard Ben Stiller sees natural history exhibits come to life in this film'

Answer: Night at the Museum


Question: 'Because it passes through a London borough, the Prime Meridian at 0 degrees longitude has this other name'

Answer: Greenwich (Meridian)


Question: 'Proteus & Valentine are "the two gentlemen of" this place, also the setting of "Romeo And Juliet"'

Answer: Verona


Question: 'As slavery wasn't yet legal in Virginia, the 20 black arrivals at Jamestown in 1619 were considered these'

Answer: indentured servants


Question: 'CBS forensics drama with Gil Grissom that has some 'splainin' to do when it turns into a Desi Arnaz sitcom'

Answer: CSI Love Lucy


Question: 'This state's Padre Island has been called the world's longest barrier island'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Will Smith is struggling single father Chris Gardner in this film based on a true story'

Answer: The Pursuit of Happyness


Question: 'From the Greek for "middle life", it's the era on Earth that ended with the demise of the dinosaurs'

Answer: the Mesozoic


Question: 'Malcolm gets the last word (literally) in this play'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.) At a recreation of a famous march, Bill Clinton said that the Voting Rights Act was signed in ink in Washington, but signed in blood in this Alabama city'

Answer: Selma


Question: 'The star of "Nacho Libre" becomes a form of extortion'

Answer: Jack Blackmail


Question: 'The 2 leading foreign destination countries for U.S. tourists'

Answer: Canada & Mexico


Question: 'She left the ball so fast she lost one of her glass slippers'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'Before "Men in Black", Barry Sonnenfeld directed 2 movies about this altogether ooky family'

Answer: The Addams Family


Question: '"Georgia Peach" didn't describe his personality -- he once charged into the stands & attacked a handicapped fan'

Answer: Ty Cobb


Question: 'Before marrying Bill, Hillary worked with the congrssional team that investigated this '70s scandal'

Answer: Watergate


Question: 'Guinness says Mary Jane Sorgel can twirl one of these majorette items while her dog Muffy sits on her head'

Answer: a baton


Question: 'Antoine Doinel is the hero of this late French director's autobiographical film "The 400 Blows"'

Answer: Francois Truffaut


Question: 'From 1917 to 1932 he & his sister Adele were a famous dancing team on Broadway'

Answer: Fred Astaire


Question: 'Her incredible track record includes her long, successful marriage to her coach Bob Kersee'

Answer: Jackie Joyner-Kersee


Question: 'The recent film from Mira Nair, the director of "Salaam Bombay!", takes its title from this Hindu love manual'

Answer: the "Kama Sutra"


Question: 'Rhyming nickname of this man's teams of investigating lawyers, students & consumer specialists:'

Answer: "Nader\'s Raiders"


Question: 'This phrase could mean indecisive, or it might mean wimpy, or perhaps even namby-pamby'

Answer: wishy-washy


Question: 'A competitive speed skater since the tender age of 4, she won her first Olympic gold medal in 1988'

Answer: Bonnie Blair


Question: 'Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'Saskatchewan's third-largest city, it sounds like it was named for Bullwinkle's mandible'

Answer: Moose Jaw


Question: 'This team of surveyors really knew where to draw the line -- between Maryland & Pennsylvania'

Answer: Mason & Dixon


Question: 'People who constantly put themselves in life-threatening situations are said to have them'

Answer: death wishes


Question: 'She did her own skating when she played roller derby star "K.C." Carr in "Kansas City Bomber"'

Answer: Raquel Welch


Question: 'This Japanese crime organization attacked Juzo Itami after he made a 1992 film satirizing them'

Answer: the Yakuza


Question: 'In 1918 Hal Chase was suspended for allegedly paying pitcher Jimmy Ring, a teammate, to do this'

Answer: throw a game


Question: 'A peak in Colorado is named for these bunny features that resemble the antennae on your old TV set'

Answer: rabbit ears


Question: 'On May 14, 1804 their team of soldiers, French boatmen & a servant started up the Missouri'

Answer: Lewis & Clark


Question: 'Nothing but net'

Answer: swish


Question: 'His guitar-burning act was a highlight of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival'

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: 'Though listed as Joe or Blondie, this character is the "Man with No Name" in "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question:
'Dr. Niles,
Dr. Frasier,
whooping'

Answer: Cranes


Question: 'Specialists say it's the joint most likely to suffer a major sports injury'

Answer: knee


Question: 'Proverbial cost of things that are very common or in a surplus'

Answer: a dime a dozen


Question: 'In a 1966 hit this group wanted you to "Paint It, Black"'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'When Patty Duke won her Oscar for this 1962 role, she was the youngest person to win a regular Oscar'

Answer: Helen Keller


Question: 'In "Worse Than He Says He Is", ex-wife Anicka writes of her life with this "Worm"'

Answer: Dennis Rodman


Question:
'Horseshoe,
fiddler,
hermit'

Answer: crabs


Question: 'C21 H28 O5 isn't a football play but the formula for this hormone injected to treat inflammation'

Answer: cortisone


Question: 'The book "All in Color for a Dime" covers the early history of these publications'

Answer: comic books


Question: 'Group heard here in their very first hit:'

Answer: The Mamas & the Papas


Question: '1964 film that included the characters seen here:'

Answer: Dr. Strangelove


Question: 'This author who gave us the giant reptiles of "Jurassic Park" stands 6'9"'

Answer: Michael Crichton


Question:
'Buffalo,
micro,
potato'

Answer: chips


Question: 'An abrasion for scraping a hard surface is also called by the name of this fruit'

Answer: strawberry


Question: 'Title of the E.Y. Harburg song that includes the line "Once I built a railroad, now it's done"'

Answer: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"


Question: 'Gladys Knight & the Pips had a hit with "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" before he took it to No. 1'

Answer: Marvin Gaye


Question: 'Nickname of Dustin Hoffman's Enrico Rizzo'

Answer: Ratso


Question: 'Before playing "Patriot Games", all his military experience was in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore'

Answer: Tom Clancy


Question:
'Punch,
cue,
trading'

Answer: cards


Question: 'A contusion of the iliac crest, AKA a "hip", one of these, is treated with ice &, above all, rest'

Answer: pointer


Question: 'Cher starred in it on Broadway & in film'

Answer: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean


Question: 'Their "Age of Aquarius" album featured a medley from "Hair" as well as "Wedding Bell Blues"'

Answer: The 5th Dimension


Question: 'Title profession of Rod Steiger's 1965 character Sol Nazerman'

Answer: The Pawnbroker


Question: 'Reviewers might have said "Someday all this will be" this author of "Exodus" & "Mila 18"'

Answer: Leon Uris


Question:
'Ice,
cold,
Devonshire'

Answer: cream


Question: 'In 1974 torn tissue in pitcher Tommy John's left arm was replaced with a tendon from this part of his body'

Answer: his right arm


Question: 'Ned Buntline, Edward S. Ellis & Ann S. Stephens were famous authors of this genre'

Answer: dime novels


Question: 'The millionth visitor to this library received a signed copy of "My Turn", some jelly beans & a weekend getaway'

Answer: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library


Question: 'What's done to a pesky mosquito or an acronym for a police special weapons team'

Answer: swat


Question: '“The regulars are out!” he warned Hancock & Adams on April 18, 1775'

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: 'The Sands, Frontier, Desert Inn, & Landmark Hotels were once owned by this mysterious billionaire'

Answer: Howard Hughes


Question: 'Since the face wasn't shown, a stand-in stood in for John Travolta in famous opening shot of this film'

Answer: Saturday Night Fever


Question: 'For wines, it never means the opposite of wet'

Answer: dry


Question: 'Financiers literally made a big impact on this street in October 1929'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'Completes a Ben Franklin phrase, “Here skugg lies snug...”'

Answer: as a bug in a rug


Question: 'General Howe faced him in Brandywine, Germantown, & Long Island battles'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Appropriately, you'll find “The Appian Way” at this hotel casino on The Strip'

Answer: Caesar\'s Palace


Question: 'In his 1st feature film, he played The Scarecrow in “The Wiz”'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'Bacardi, America's single best-selling brand of liquor, is this type'

Answer: rum


Question: 'London street where in the '60s, you'd find the mods & the miniskirts'

Answer: Carnaby Street


Question: 'It's the shortest route taken back to the hive'

Answer: beeline


Question: 'Now site of a military academy, Benedict Arnold plotted to turn over its fort to the British'

Answer: West Point


Question: 'The smallest denomination of coin that can be played in Las Vegas slots'

Answer: penny


Question: 'The queen Glenda Jackson played in “Mary Queen of Scots” & PBS mini-series'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'This series built around wine currently makes your TV a potent portable'

Answer: Falcon Crest


Question: '[Audio DD] In 1978, Gerry Rafferty found his way down this street:'

Answer: Baker Street


Question: 'The actual title of “Jimmy Crack Corn”'

Answer: The Blue Tail Fly


Question: 'Helping us fight bankrupted this country & sent it into internal revolution'

Answer: France


Question: '“Sparkling” nickname for Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas'

Answer: Glitter Gulch


Question: 'Both Susan Blakely & Jessica Lange played this tragic Hollywood actress in 1980s films'

Answer: Frances Farmer


Question: 'Brooklynite Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, created this whiskey & vermouth cocktail'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: '1973 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro about hoodlums in NYC's Little Italy'

Answer: Mean Streets


Question: 'Of its varieties, the atlas is 1 of the largest & the death's head hawk chirps by blowing its nose'

Answer: moths


Question: 'This building marked by a grasshopper weather vane, gained nickname “The cradle of liberty”'

Answer: Faneuil Hall


Question: 'Pastoral meaning of “Las Vegas” in English inappropriate to its desert locale'

Answer: the meadows


Question: 'Slivovitz is a brandy made from this fruit'

Answer: plum


Question: 'The band that made Asbury Park, N.J. & Bruce Springsteen famous'

Answer: the E Street Band


Question: 'According to Ohio's, “All things are possible” with him'

Answer: God


Question: 'They say “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him” this'

Answer: much


Question: '“The Ugly Duckling” was autobiographical for this shy author'

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen


Question: 'Wrinkled or furrowed, as cardboard or iron'

Answer: corrugated


Question: 'Country which had the 1st woman to walk in space'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'A triangular-shaped nut grown in North America & Europe, or a brand of baby food'

Answer: Beech Nut


Question: 'In 1956, Congress adopted this 4-word Florida motto to be our national motto'

Answer: In God We Trust


Question: 'Pentecostal revivalist turned Methodist, in 1965 he founded a Tulsa, Oklahoma university'

Answer: Oral Roberts


Question: 'When Rapunzel did this, it wasn't her way of being informal'

Answer: let down her hair


Question: 'Mercy killing'

Answer: euthanasia


Question: 'On Sept. 29, 1985 this film director activated “META”, a radio to contact extra-terrestrials'

Answer: Steven Spielberg


Question: 'America's leading pecan-growing state'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Virginia's state motto, which John Wilkes Booth yelled as he shot Lincoln'

Answer: Sic Semper Tyrannis


Question: 'This D.C. university is America's oldest Roman Catholic-sponsored college'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: '“Not I” said the duck & the cat & the dog when she asked them, “Who will thresh the wheat?”'

Answer: The Little Red Hen


Question: 'At record companies, it's what the “R” in “A & R” stands for'

Answer: repertoire


Question: 'Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin each also flew in this program'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'This variety of nut is grown only in the country it's named for & adjacent lands'

Answer: Brazil nut


Question: '“If you seek a pleasant peninsula look around you”, which is apt since this state consists of 2'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'South Carolina military college whose name sound like a fortress'

Answer: The Citadel


Question: 'To become the “Sleeping Beauty”, the princess pricked her hand on this part of the spinning wheel'

Answer: spindle


Question: 'In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example'

Answer: declension


Question: 'Called “Drogues”, they open during a capsule's descent'

Answer: parachutes


Question: 'In order to produce this green-kerneled nut, male & female trees must be near each other'

Answer: pistachio


Question: 'His words became North Dakota motto, “Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable”'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000'

Answer: (Nicholas) Brown


Question: 'It lay in the house that Jack built'

Answer: malt


Question: 'From German for “rear”, it's the region behind a coast or remote from other cities'

Answer: hinterland


Question: 'In February, 1984, the Soviets reactivated this space station'

Answer: Salyut 7


Question: 'In the musical “South Pacific”, Bloody Mary was said to chew these nuts which blacken the teeth'

Answer: betel nuts


Question: 'Individual receiving 2nd-highest U.S. gov't salary -- $104,700 per year excluding expenses'

Answer: chief justice


Question: 'He represented Mississippi in the Senate for 8 years before becoming president of the Confederacy'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'These 2 vegetables were crossed to produce the broccoflower'

Answer: Broccoli & cauliflower


Question: '"Hasta la vista, baby" is a memorable line uttered by this actor in "Terminator 2 - Judgment Day"'

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger


Question: 'Knute Rockne urged his team to win one for the Gipper at this "House That Ruth Built"'

Answer: Yankee Stadium


Question: '1997 is the tenth anniversary of the opening of this Egyptian capital's subway'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'One Granny Smith within one 24-hour period prevents a medic's arrival'

Answer: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"


Question: 'In Fort Wayne, Indiana you can visit the grave of this legendary fruit planter'

Answer: Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman)


Question: 'To make provolone, use milk from this animal'

Answer: Cow


Question: 'In "Batman Returns" Paul Reubens played the father of this Danny DeVito character'

Answer: The Penguin


Question: 'A game was rained out at this enclosed Houston ballpark in 1976 because 10" of rain flooded the nearby area'

Answer: The Astrodome


Question: 'It's 50 years since he became the first black player in the modern major leagues'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'That man's pumping organ has a correct location'

Answer: "His heart\'s in the right place"


Question: 'During her crusades against liquor, this saloon smasher was arrested at least 30 times'

Answer: Carry Nation


Question: 'To test if an egg is fresh, put it in a bowl of cold water; if it does this, it's old'

Answer: Float


Question: 'Kurt Russell & William Baldwin played bickering firefighting brothers in this 1991 Ron Howard film'

Answer: "Backdraft"


Question: 'Scenes for Disney's "D2: The Mighty Ducks" were filmed at this Anaheim arena'

Answer: Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim


Question: '1997 marks the 75th anniversary of Sir Frederick Banting & Charles Best's discovery of this pancreatic hormone'

Answer: Insulin


Question: 'A single grasping appendage bathes your alternate grasping appendage'

Answer: "One hand washes the other"


Question: 'Brother of Naval hero Oliver, he commanded the Navy's first steamship, the Fulton, in 1837'

Answer: Matthew Perry


Question: 'From a Nahuatl word meaning "chili sauce", it contains chocolate & is often served over chicken'

Answer: Mole


Question: 'Michelle Pfeiffer film based on "My Posse Don't Do Homework" by ex-Marine Louanne Johnson'

Answer: "Dangerous Minds"


Question: '1997 marks the 25th anniversary of this American's defeat of Boris Spassky in chess'

Answer: Bobby Fischer


Question: 'Inspect using one closely-spaced men's hair arranger'

Answer: "Examine with a fine-toothed comb"


Question: 'This "Battle Hymn of the Republic" author was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters'

Answer: Julia Ward Howe


Question: 'Boil cane sugar to get light molasses; boil it again to get dark molasses; a third boil yields this'

Answer: Blackstrap molasses


Question: 'Although set in England, this 1996 Robin Wright film based on a Daniel Defoe novel was filmed in Ireland'

Answer: "Moll Flanders"


Question: '1997 is the millennium of this saint's becoming the supreme Magyar prince of Hungary'

Answer: Stephen


Question: 'Inter one's skull among grains of quartz'

Answer: "Bury your head in the sand"


Question: 'The Sopwith F1 was nicknamed this from the hump-shaped cover over the breeches of its twin machine guns'

Answer: "The Camel"


Question: 'The Egyptians called this great goddess Eset; we know her by this, the Greek form of her name'

Answer: Isis


Question: 'He wrote "William Tell" for the Paris Opera'

Answer: Gioacchino Rossini


Question: 'Known in Arabic as Halab, Aleppo is this country's second-largest city, Damascus is first'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'William Manchester's 1983 book about this president is titled "One Brief Shining Moment"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'This weapon used for hacking through the jungle growth is also called a panga'

Answer: Machete


Question: 'The Germans tried out this new weapon they called a "flammenwerfer"'

Answer: Flamethrower


Question: 'The name of this gruesome Gorgon means "queen" or "ruler"'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'The flute plays an important role in this composer's "Prelude A L' Apres-Midi D' Un Faune"'

Answer: Claude Debussy


Question: 'The name of this capital city found in the Andes means "the peace"'

Answer: La Paz


Question: 'He was living in Italy when he wrote "Lady Chatterley's Lover"'

Answer: D.H. Lawrence


Question: 'This comic "Lion King" pair have their own CD-ROM called "Jungle Games"'

Answer: Timon & Pumbaa


Question: 'According to the Treaty of Versailles, all German colonies would become mandates of this organization'

Answer: League of Nations


Question: 'Name shared by the mother of the Harpies & Clytemnestra's "complex" daughter'

Answer: Elektra


Question: 'The first symphonies of Prokofiev & Rachmaninoff premiered in this city 21 years apart'

Answer: St. Petersburg/Leningrad


Question: 'This Taj Mahal city on the Yamuna River is also home to the beautiful marble tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah'

Answer: Agra


Question: 'The hero of this prime minister's 1846 novel "Coningsby" is the orphaned grandson of a lord'

Answer: Benjamin Disraeli


Question: 'In addition to starring as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, he also played Jungle Jim'

Answer: Johnny Weissmuller


Question: 'Later a marshal, on April 14, 1918 he was named commander of all Allied forces in France'

Answer: Marshal Ferdinand Foch


Question: '1 of the 2 Muses with "terp" in their names'

Answer: Euterpe & Terpsichore


Question: 'This German composer of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" overture was a child prodigy'

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn


Question: 'Explorer James Clark Ross named 2 of this continent's volcanoes Erebus & Terror, for his ships'

Answer: Antarctica