Question: 'In sacrifice to God Cain offered the "fruit of the ground"; Abel offered these animals'

Answer: sheep


Question: 'After meeting her future husband in Sunday school, she enrolled in a Kansas City, Missouri finishing school'

Answer: Bess Truman


Question: 'The final round in the NCAA Division III women's golf championships May 13, 2011--due to this'

Answer: lightning


Question: 'It's a type of bean or horse'

Answer: pinto


Question: 'The Aleutian Islands & the Commander Islands mark this sea's southern border'

Answer: the Bering Sea


Question: 'Once part of a notorious brawl, this star defender now a Laker tells his side on the "My World" CD'

Answer: Ron Artest


Question: 'This other brother of Cain & Abel was born after the murder'

Answer: Seth


Question: 'Appropriately, this First Lady was "full of grace"'

Answer: Grace Coolidge


Question: 'Culprit in the cancellation of the Blue Angels' San Francisco show Oct. 10, 2009'

Answer: fog


Question: 'It's another word fer cuspidor (fer yer tobaccy, ya low-down varmint!)'

Answer: a spittoon


Question: 'This company with green bottles of mineral water asked us to "Decouvrez l'histoire de la main la plus sexy"'

Answer: Perrier


Question: 'The Communist newspaper Granma was named for the yacht sailed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 by rebels led by him'

Answer: Castro


Question: 'This French title character duels with a nobleman who has insulted his enormous nose'

Answer: Cyrano


Question: 'Elgar named this musical march, often heard at graduation, after a phrase in "Othello"'

Answer: "Pomp And Circumstance"


Question: '2004:<br />"Ray"'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'This flightless bird is related to the cassowary'

Answer: the emu


Question: 'This 5-letter brand from the French Alps also offers a facial spray boasting "unique mineral balance and neutral pH"'

Answer: Evian


Question: 'Founded in 1831, this city's Morning Herald is Australia's oldest continuously published newspaper'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'It's the noble title of Aleksei Vronsky, who has an affair to remember with Anna Karenina'

Answer: count


Question: 'Beethoven wrote a sonata & Tchaikovsky a symphony with this pity-evoking title'

Answer: Pathétique


Question: '1942:<br />"The Pride of the Yankees"'

Answer: Lou Gehrig


Question: 'The name of this site of ruins in the Andes means "old peak"'

Answer: Machu Picchu


Question: 'Calistoga Water calls itself the original mineral water of this California valley better known for wine'

Answer: Napa


Question: 'In July 1996 this organ of Communist thought in Russia ceased publication after 84 years of "truth"'

Answer: Pravda


Question: 'Mr. Woodhouse, eternally preoccupied with health & food, is the father of this Austen title character'

Answer: Emma


Question: 'Mozart wrote this evening serenade in 1787 while working on "Don Giovanni"'

Answer: Eine kleine Nachtmusik


Question: '1989:<br />"Great Balls of Fire!"'

Answer: Jerry Lee Lewis


Question: 'This orange-flavored liqueur is often an ingredient in a cosmopolitan'

Answer: Cointreau


Question: 'In 1988 "S." this was the first Italian mineral water to be exported to France'

Answer: Pellegrino


Question: 'Translate the name of Tulsa's leading newspaper into French & you have this Paris daily'

Answer: Le Monde


Question: 'Playful Nora Helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "Doll's House"'

Answer: Ibsen


Question: 'He based the tone poem "Pohjola's Daughter" on the Finnish saga "Kalevala"'

Answer: Sibelius


Question: '2004:<br />"Finding Neverland"'

Answer: James Barrie


Question: 'Malcolm Guthrie wrote a 4-volume reference, now the standard, on this group of African languages'

Answer: Bantu


Question: 'Introduced in Wichita in '94 & as a national brand 3 years later, this brand from Pepsi believes its water fine'

Answer: Aquafina


Question: 'Considered the first global newspaper, it was rescued by The New York Times, which took full ownership in 2003'

Answer: The International Herald Tribune


Question: 'The besotted Hindley Earnshaw appears in this classic novel'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'This French composer of "Danse Macabre" was writing music by the time he was 5'

Answer: Camille Saint-Saëns


Question: '1981:<br />"Reds"'

Answer: John Reed


Question: 'Specially trained chefs prepare this puffer fish in Japan, where it is a delicacy'

Answer: fugu


Question: 'The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914'

Answer: First World War


Question: 'At the same time Joan of Arc led the French, Itzcoatl was leading this group in Mexico'

Answer: Aztecs


Question: 'T. Tusser's 16th C. book "A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry" says, "Sweet April showers do spring" these'

Answer: May flowers


Question: 'The lac insect secretes a substance used to make this varnish'

Answer: Shellac/lacquer


Question: 'Originally 43, this was reduced to 32 by the Soviet government in 1918 to increase literacy'

Answer: Number of characters in the alphabet


Question: 'They were once called "Saratoga Chips" after the town in New York where they were first made'

Answer: Potato chips


Question: 'Traditionally he is the last "celebrity" to appear in the parade'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: 'People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'According to Lincoln, you can't do this to "all of the people all the time"'

Answer: Fool them


Question: 'The largest one of these in the world is the Queen Alexandria birdwing, not the monarch'

Answer: Butterfly


Question: 'In subtraction the difference is found by subtracting the subtrahend from this'

Answer: Minuend


Question: 'These red "berries" grown on the ground aren't true berries because the seeds are on the outside'

Answer: Strawberries


Question: 'A band from Jupiter led off the 1989 parade, & this guy from Melmac served as a TV host'

Answer: ALF


Question: '4 treaties to mitigate the horrors of war were signed in this city in August 1949'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'It's not clear who said "Don't...fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at this 1775 battle'

Answer: Bunker Hill/Breed\'s Hill


Question: 'To distinguish termites from ants, look at this feature: an ant has a slim one, like a wasp'

Answer: Waist


Question: 'The Romans gave us this letter by adding a small stroke to the letter C'

Answer: G


Question: 'Of jams, jelly or preserves, the one that contains no fruit, only fruit juice'

Answer: Jelly


Question: 'Though 1989 was his 50th year in show biz, his new balloon wasn't in the parade, Doc; it broke'

Answer: Bugs Bunny


Question: 'The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England's official religion'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'Vocation of the man of whom Longfellow said, "The muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands"'

Answer: Blacksmith


Question: 'Some insects have 3 of these sense organs, called ocelli, arranged in a triangle on the head'

Answer: Eyes


Question: 'The symbol "y" was once used in place of these 2 letters; hence the word "ye" as in "ye olde pub"'

Answer: TH


Question: 'Thos. Jefferson is credited with introducing this vegetable, named for its ovoid shape, to the U.S.'

Answer: Eggplant


Question: 'Other than humans, most live animals in the parade nowadays are these'

Answer: Horses


Question: 'This cardinal helped establish the Academie Francaise in the 1630s'

Answer: Cardinal Richelieu


Question: 'Juvenal wrote a Roman's longings are limited to 2 things, "panem et circenses", meaning this'

Answer: Bread & circus games


Question: 'Of the 5 senses, it's the 1 a honeybee doesn't have'

Answer: Hearing


Question: 'The invention of the 1st mechanical adding machine is credited to this French mathematician in 1642'

Answer: Blaise Pascal


Question: 'Supreme Court said this salad ingredient could be classified as a vegetable (but it's botanically a fruit)'

Answer: Tomato


Question: 'The Snoopy balloon travels with this companion balloon'

Answer: Woodstock


Question: 'Pierre Laclede named this Missouri city after not 1 but 2 French kings'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'This student of Plato's wrote treatises on metaphysics, physics, poetics & rhetoric'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'Piece of peripheral hardware whose name comes from "Modulator Demodulator"'

Answer: Modem


Question: 'Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves played these title characters who had an "excellent adventure"'

Answer: Bill & Ted


Question: 'Slang for someone doomed to failure, or an expired mallard'

Answer: Dead duck


Question: 'Prime Minister<br />Brian Mulroney'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'Though Nashville is the capital, this is Tennessee's largest city'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'Scheherazade told her husband stories for this many nights before he decided to let her live'

Answer: 1,001


Question: 'Like spouses who don't get along, computers that use different operating systems are said to be this'

Answer: Incompatible


Question: 'Chas. Fleischer provided the voice of Benny the Cab & the title character in this 1988 blockbuster'

Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Question:
'A type of crane,
or
a type of cough'

Answer: Whooping


Question: 'Chancellor<br />Helmut Kohl'

Answer: West Germany


Question: 'Sherman's famous march to the sea ended 18 miles inland at this city'

Answer: Savannah


Question: 'Upton Sinclair's story of a Lithuanian immigrant family employed in the meat-packing industry'

Answer: The Jungle


Question: 'Term describing materials like silicon, halfway between an insulator & a conductor'

Answer: Semiconductor


Question: 'Her recent roles include an alien named Celeste & a photographer named Vicky'

Answer: Kim Basinger


Question: 'A speleologist specializes in the scientific study or systematic exploration of these'

Answer: Caves


Question: 'President<br />Hashemi Rafsanjani'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'This is the largest U.S. city with "Fort" in its name'

Answer: Fort Worth


Question: 'Aeschylus' dramatic account of the Titan who was condemned for giving fire to mere mortals'

Answer: "Prometheus Bound"


Question: 'The simple operating system permanently written into main storage, it's what "ROM" stands for'

Answer: Read-Only Memory


Question: 'In August 1989 he was in 3 films: "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Parenthood" & "Ghostbusters II"'

Answer: Rick Moranis


Question: 'By definition, an ungulate is an animal which has these'

Answer: Hoofs


Question: 'Prime Minister<br />Robert Hawke'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'This Alaskan city was named after a senator from Indiana who became vice president'

Answer: Fairbanks


Question: 'In the era of colonialism, this British author wrote, "Take Up the White Man's Burden"'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'The digits 0-9 & the letters A-Z are collectively known as this type of characters'

Answer: Alphanumeric


Question: 'In the 1989 film it was a sure thing he'd "Say Anything" to get Ione Skye'

Answer: John Cusack


Question: 'This adjective that describes an eagle-like nose comes from the Latin word for eagle'

Answer: Aquiline


Question: 'Marshal<br />Kim Il-sung'

Answer: North Korea


Question: 'The largest island in the Tuscan Archipelago, its most famous resident left in 1815'

Answer: Elba (former home of Napoleon)


Question: 'A 5-Kleenex film'

Answer: a tearjerker


Question: 'Her maiden name was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'At the 1996 Olympics, Italy won 2 gold & 2 silver medals in these boats originated by Eskimos'

Answer: kayaks


Question: 'This snake-like fish can often be found in sushi'

Answer: Eel


Question: 'It's what she does down by the sea shore'

Answer: Sells seashells


Question: 'The number of words in this clue'

Answer: 7


Question: 'A person behind the counter who prepared ice cream treats for your grandmother'

Answer: Soda jerk


Question: 'In 1613, when she was visiting the Potomac Indians, she was captured by the English & taken to Jamestown'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'Don't try this at home, or at all -- base jumping is done off high bridges, antennas & buildings, using these'

Answer: Parachutes


Question: 'The cheeks of this animal can be smoked, as its belly is smoked for bacon'

Answer: Pig


Question: 'Completes the tongue twister "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear; Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair; Fuzzy Wuzzy..."'

Answer: Wasn\'t fuzzy, was he?


Question: 'The value of pi to 2 decimal places'

Answer: 3.14


Question: 'Rhyming name for dried pieces of poultry cut into strips'

Answer: Turkey jerky


Question: 'This Hull House founder was valedictorian of Rockford Seminary's class of 1881'

Answer: Jane Addams


Question: 'Like its land counterpart, this sport has a slalom event, which involves weaving between buoys'

Answer: Water skiing


Question: 'Mold gives this type of colorful cheese, like Roquefort, its flavor'

Answer: Blue cheese


Question: 'It's what the baby buggy bumper is made out of'

Answer: Rubber


Question: 'According to Exodus, it's the sixth commandment; somebody should have told Cain'

Answer: "Thou shalt not kill"


Question: 'It's an unthinking reaction, like when the doctor hits you with a mallet'

Answer: Knee-jerk


Question: 'Famous 15th century heroine depicted in the statue seen here:'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'Lisa Andersen, winner of the 1997 U.S. Open at Huntington Beach, Calif., is perhaps the top woman in this sport'

Answer: Surfing


Question: 'McDonald's introduced this "grown-up" hamburger in 1996'

Answer: Arch Deluxe


Question: 'In "Singin' In The Rain", Donald O' Connor tells us that Moses erroneously supposes his toeses are these'

Answer: Roses


Question: 'Alphabetically, he's Snow White's first dwarf'

Answer: Bashful


Question: 'John G. Brennan & Kamal Ahmed, "Two Low-Lifes From Queens", are better known as this crank-calling duo'

Answer: Jerky Boys


Question: 'Born a slave around 1797, she became famous as a preacher, abolitionist & women's rights activist'

Answer: Sojourner Truth


Question: 'Street luge & aggressive in-line skating are part of these games seen annually on ESPN'

Answer: X-(Extreme) Games


Question: 'Tripe is the lining of this digestive organ of cattle'

Answer: Stomach


Question: 'Betty Botter bought some of this, but was worried it would make her batter bitter'

Answer: Butter


Question: 'The second U.S. president to serve only one term'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'Cooked sheep's head is eaten there; it gets really cold; Reykjavik is the capital'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Hopefully, you don't have one of these that "would stop a clock"'

Answer: a face


Question: 'A dance called the Lindy Hop was associated with this aviation hero of the 1920s'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'In this comedy named for a holiday, Charlie Hofheimer is the son of Robin Williams... or Billy Crystal'

Answer: Father\'s Day


Question: 'One of these can travel at more than 100 miles per hour; Gesundheit!'

Answer: a sneeze


Question: 'Mary had a little one'

Answer: a lamb


Question: 'It produces a lot of steel; it's only 998 square miles in area; it's the "lux" of the Benelux countries'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'To shelve a project for a while is to "put it" on this part of the stove'

Answer: the back burner


Question: 'This late actor, who played American heroes like Mr. Smith, piloted bombers during WWII'

Answer: Jimmy Stewart


Question: 'Actor who's smitten with older women Laura Dern in "Rambling Rose" & Winona Ryder in "Boys"'

Answer: Lukas Haas


Question: 'Also called cuspids, these teeth flank the incisors, sort of like guard dogs'

Answer: canines


Question: 'A klutz or bungler is said to be "all" these'

Answer: thumbs


Question: 'It's in north Africa; it's hot & dry in the summer; its largest city is Tunis'

Answer: Tunisia


Question: 'If you're grouchy now it may be because you "got up on" this in the morning'

Answer: the wrong side of the bed


Question:
'Musical instrument in common to the heartthrobs seen here:

[Harry Connick, Jr. & Franz Liszt]'

Answer: piano


Question: 'Title of a 1996 film about unusual teenage girls, seen here:'

Answer: The Craft


Question: 'This hollow chamber of the upper end of the trachea contains the vocal cords'

Answer: the larynx


Question: 'He'll fix your pipes or stop a news leak'

Answer: a plumber


Question: 'Soccer is really popular there; almost everyone speaks Spanish; the capital building is in Caracas'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: '"All is fair in" these 2 things'

Answer: love & war


Question: 'Pop band Ugly Kid Joe took its name in contrast to a band named for this 1930s gangster'

Answer: Pretty Boy Floyd


Question: 'Matthew Broderick eludes principal Jeffrey Jones  to play hooky in this 1986 opus'

Answer: Ferris Bueller\'s Day Off


Question: 'Though it has no known function, this vermiform projection may become inflamed & even burst'

Answer: the appendix


Question: 'In a Tennessee cemetery, one of these is inscribed, "He was a simple man who died of complications"'

Answer: a tombstone


Question: 'Sisal is grown there; its monetary unit is called a gourde; voodoo is really big there'

Answer: Haiti


Question: '"When all else fails, read" these'

Answer: the instructions


Question: 'This lord's 1812 poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made him a star in London at age 24'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'In a 1993 film, these title "kids" try to keep jazz alive in Nazi Germany'

Answer: Swing Kids


Question: 'The body's temperature is controlled by this small structure at the base of the brain'

Answer: the hypothalamus


Question: 'It's a small elevator used to move items between floors of an apartment building'

Answer: dumbwaiter


Question: 'The U.S. stamp for this December holiday used the work of "Waiting to Exhale" cover artist Synthia Saint James'

Answer: Kwanzaa


Question: 'This "cheesy" Dutch city chartered in 1272 is also known for its clay pipes'

Answer: Gouda


Question: 'A popular '90s sitcom: "Jerry"'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'The prophet Jeremiah rhetorically queries, can this animal change his spots?'

Answer: leopard


Question: 'You're on these final appendages when you're about to expire'

Answer: last legs


Question: 'This bean that shares the name of a South American capital is a great source of protein'

Answer: lima


Question: 'This type of small, 2-man tent sounds like it's designed for your young dog'

Answer: pup tent


Question: 'Now figureheads, Andorra's co-princes are Bishop Joan Enric Vives & this leader'

Answer: Jacques Chirac


Question: 'A "Snow White" dwarf: Healer'

Answer: Doc


Question: 'Ebenezer is a stone Samuel put between Mizpeh & Shen after the Israelites smote these people'

Answer: Philistines


Question: 'Billionaire nemesis of Superman'

Answer: Lex Luthor


Question: 'This bean takes its name from the internal organ whose shape it resembles'

Answer: kidney


Question: 'These soft feathers from geese or ducks are a lightweight insulating material for camping clothes'

Answer: down


Question: 'This is the largest & southernmost of the Baltic republics'

Answer: Lithuania


Question: 'An Elton John hit song: "Reptilian Stone"'

Answer: "Crocodile Rock"


Question: 'In the 1953 film version of this Biblical dancer's life, Rita Hayworth tries to save John the Baptist's life, not take it'

Answer: Salome


Question: '"League" founded in 1956 by a group of mothers to promote breastfeeding'

Answer: La Leche League


Question: 'In the Aztec empire, you had some buying power with a handful of these beans used to make chocolate'

Answer: cocoa bean


Question: 'Be careful hiking through the woods & avoid brushing up against this itchy 3-leafed plant, <i>Rhus radicans</i>'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: 'This island group off France was once a part of the dukedom of Normandy'

Answer: Channel Islands


Question: 'A fiction Pulitzer Prize winner for 1983: "A Lavender Pigment"'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'In Matthew 26:72 he denies his friendship with Jesus & claims, "I  do not know the man"'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'Legend has it that Judge Roy Bean had a thing for this actress aka the "Jersey Lily"'

Answer: Lily Langtree


Question: 'A moth larva is responsible for the activity of this bean from south of the border'

Answer: Mexican jumping bean


Question: 'The mummy variety of this camping equipment is perfect for cold weather'

Answer: sleeping bag


Question: 'Vincent Jackson, who heads the government of Dublin, carries this 2-word title'

Answer: Lord Mayor


Question: 'A proverb: Shortness in speech equals ingenuity's spirit'

Answer: Brevity is the soul of wit


Question: 'In Genesis he has an all-night wrestling match & ends up getting blessed'

Answer: Jacob


Question: 'Name in Spanish for the popular sport that might feature a mask seen here'

Answer: lucha libre


Question: 'They're also called broad beans, & we've heard they go well with a nice chianti'

Answer: fava bean


Question: 'Small cans of this trademarked flammable hydrocarbon jelly are used as a heat source for camp cooking'

Answer: Sterno


Question: 'During the war, these German airships named for a count bombed London frequently'

Answer: Zeppelins


Question: 'The tagline for this 1995 film was "A little pig goes a long way"'

Answer: Babe: Pig in the City


Question: 'To us, it's brighter than any other planet or any star (except the Sun)'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'A type of puzzle bears the name of this tool whose blade can cut curves'

Answer: jigsaw


Question: '"T.M.O.V."'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'Arthritic inflammation reducer in shot form from Ms. Aquino'

Answer: Corazón cortisone


Question: 'Ferdinand Foch's WWI message was "My center gives, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am" doing this'

Answer: attacking


Question: 'Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film waddled away with the 2005 Oscar for Best Documentary'

Answer: March of the Penguins


Question: 'As you can guess, a satellite named Nereid, a sea nymph, circles this planet'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'This basic turning machine that shapes materials includes a rotating spindle'

Answer: a lathe


Question: '"L.L.L."'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'One who rules over specific pages & sites on the Internet & has the same name as lexicographer Noah'

Answer: webmaster Webster


Question: 'With this A.E.F. leader arrived in France, he laid a wreath at the tomb of the Marquis de Lafayette'

Answer: Pershing


Question: 'In a 1965 movie set in Africa, Clarence was a "cross-eyed" one of these'

Answer: lion


Question: 'The USA's Gamma Ray Observatory orbited this planet from 1991 until 2000, when it deorbited and safely crashed'

Answer: Earth


Question: 'It's the tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar'

Answer: pestle


Question: '"A.Y.L.I."'

Answer: As You Like It


Question: 'Stephen King heroine Claiborne in a miserable state from the Latin for "pain"'

Answer: dolorous Dolores


Question: 'On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded the fort city of Liege despite this country's neutrality; the city soon fell'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'The title role in this heartwarming 1993 movie was played by Keiko, a killer whale'

Answer: Free Willy


Question: 'It travels about 30 miles per second, moving around the sun faster than any other planet'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'It can mean a coarse file or a coarse sound'

Answer: rasp


Question: '"T.M.W.O.W."'

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor


Question: 'Tearfully sentimental former Secretary of State Albright'

Answer: maudlin Madeleine


Question: 'There were more than 200,000 British casualties in the attempt to take this peninsula along the Dardanelles'

Answer: Gallipoli


Question: 'Rats! In 2003, Crispin Glover starred in a creepy remake of this 1971 thriller'

Answer: Willard


Question: 'A Greek God inspired the name of this planet, the farthest that can be seen without a telescope'

Answer: Uranus


Question: 'A sharp tool used for boring holes, or a vodka & lime drink that will dull your senses'

Answer: gimlet


Question: '"M.A.A.N."'

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing


Question: 'The submerging, perhaps into Walden Pond, of a "self-reliant" transcendental poet'

Answer: Emerson immersion


Question: 'In a famous speech he said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..."'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'In 1871 the federal government arrested this Mormon leader for polygamy'

Answer: Brigham Young


Question: 'Jung or Sandburg'

Answer: Carl


Question: 'Before the use of insulin as a treatment, the Type 1 form of this disease was usually fatal'

Answer: diabetes


Question: '(With the clue here's Yankee manager Joe Torre)  The White Construction Company put up Yankee Stadium, but it's called "The House That" this man "Built"'

Answer: (Babe) Ruth


Question: 'A kite-eating tree is often the nemesis of this comic strip boy'

Answer: Charlie Brown


Question: 'The soda fountain used to be a common feature in this type of commercial establishment'

Answer: drugstore


Question: 'In 1870, a year after he wrote "The Innocents Abroad", he married Olivia Langdon'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'Faulk or McLuhan'

Answer: Marshall


Question: 'Hypertension is the medical term for this common 3-word phrase'

Answer: high blood pressure


Question: 'In 1973 he said he wouldn't interfere with the Yankees' management & he'd stick to building ships -- uh-huh'

Answer: George Steinbrenner


Question: 'The song "Let's Go Fly a Kite" is featured in this movie about a flying nanny'

Answer: Mary Poppins


Question: 'If you don't think Laurel & Hardy co-star James Finlayson was a master of this reaction, look again'

Answer: doubletake


Question: 'The focus of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in this city was Machinery Hall, which displayed American inventions'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Glitter or Hart'

Answer: Gary


Question: 'Characterized by chills & swollen lymph glands, this illness earned Ted Nugent his only Top 40 hit'

Answer: "Cat Scratch Fever"


Question: '(Joe Torre)  As seen in a well-known clip, July 4, 1939 was appreciation day for this ailing man at Yankee Stadium'

Answer: Lou Gehrig


Question: 'Brothers in this family invented a man-lifting kite & also founded the Boy Scouts'

Answer: Baden-Powell


Question: 'This current slang term for something excellent can also mean illegal substances or a stupid person'

Answer: dope


Question: 'On March 15, 1875 archbishop John McCloskey became America's first cardinal; he was invested at this NYC church'

Answer: St. Patrick\'s Cathedral


Question: 'Boulle or Salinger'

Answer: Pierre


Question: 'More accurate than a tine test, the Mantoux skin test is used for screening & diagnosing this infectious disease'

Answer: tuberculosis


Question: 'When robbed by Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in 1947, this Yankee went crazy -- he actually kicked the dirt'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'The box kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave in the 1890s, is so stable that it doesn't need this usual kite feature'

Answer: tail


Question: 'This word meaning "to make insane" sounds like where a warped cowboy might be "home on"'

Answer: derange


Question: 'In October 1879 he discovered that a thread of carbonized cotton will burn for 13 hours in a vacuum'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'McGillicuddy or Vanderbilt'

Answer: Cornelius


Question: 'The FDA advises pregnant women not to eat shark & swordfish; they contain high levels of this element'

Answer: mercury


Question: '(Joe Torre) In my first World Series in 1996, I managed the Yankees to victory against this team I once played for'

Answer: Atlanta Braves


Question: 'He used a kite to raise an antenna when he sent his first transatlantic wireless message in 1901'

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam)  In the early 1600s, one tulip bulb could pay for a house or be given by a bride's family as this'

Answer: dowry


Question: 'An odd subject for an opera, but composer John Adams wrote one about this president's 1972 trip to China'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Of Bangla, Glad, or Ladesh, the official language of Bangladesh'

Answer: Bangla


Question: 'This 1980s submarine classic starred Jurgen Prochnow as the captain'

Answer: Das Boot


Question: 'The term "atom" comes from the Greek "atomos", meaning this, the word that follows "One Nation, Under God"'

Answer: indivisible


Question: 'Ancient Romans founded this English city as Aquae Sulis, named for its mineral hot springs'

Answer: Bath


Question: 'A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in this futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley'

Answer: "Brave New World"


Question: 'On the soundtrack to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he plays the cello solos'

Answer: Yo-Yo Ma


Question: 'Official language in common to the Central African Republic & Canada'

Answer: French


Question: 'Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is partly dedicated to this man who directed Clint in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"'

Answer: Sergio Leone


Question: 'From the Greek peda, "leader", it's the helmsman on a ship or the operator of a plane'

Answer: pilot


Question: 'This song says, "Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us"'

Answer: "God Save the Queen"


Question: 'This thriller by Michael Crichton is a follow-up to "Jurassic Park"'

Answer: "The Lost World"


Question: 'Franz Schubert was probably the best-known composer of these German songs'

Answer: lieder


Question: 'Khmer is this country's official language'

Answer: Cambodia (Kampuchea)


Question: 'A Foreign Language Oscar went to Menshov's 1979 film called this city "Does Not Believe in Tears"'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'This powerful pain reliever & sedative derives its name from the Greek god of dreams'

Answer: morphine (from Morpheus)


Question: 'Cambridge University dates back to this century; so does the Magna Carta'

Answer: the 13th century


Question: 'Published serially in Le Temps in 1872, this globetrotting work made a novel debut in 1873'

Answer: "Around the World in Eighty Days"


Question: 'Many a wedding procession has featured the following canon by this composer'

Answer: Johann Pachelbel


Question: 'It's the official language of Antigua, as well as Barbuda'

Answer: English


Question: 'Truffaut's musician's tale "Tirez sur le pianiste" is known as this in English'

Answer: Shoot the Piano Player


Question: 'Originally a shopkeeper, this older term for a pharmacist is from the Greek for "to put away"'

Answer: apothecary


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in London)  After St. Paul's was destroyed by fire in 1666, this man was commissioned to design a new building'

Answer: Sir Christopher Wren


Question: 'John Irving established his reputation with this 1978 book about the life of a novelist'

Answer: "The World According to Garp"


Question: 'This instrument is Latin America's equivalent of the xylophone'

Answer: marimba


Question: 'Turkish is an official language of this island whose highest peak is called Mount Olympus'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'Ingmar Bergman announced his retirement from moviemaking after the early '80s film about these 2 title characters'

Answer: Fanny and Alexander


Question: 'From the Greek for "a point in time", Eocene & Paleocene were 2 of these periods of geologic time'

Answer: epochs


Question: 'Running from Charing Cross to Parliament, this street has lent its name to the British civil service'

Answer: Whitehall


Question: 'Sixth grader Karen Newman deals with her parents' divorce in this novel by Judy Blume'

Answer: "It\'s Not the End of the World"


Question: 'Starting in the 1860s, this cartoonist gave us the modern image of Santa Claus'

Answer: Thomas Nast


Question: '"I like Ike"'

Answer: 1952


Question: 'The Royal Ann cherry is most commonly used to make this specially treated cherry that is dyed red or green'

Answer: a maraschino


Question: 'Don't you love him madly?  Appearing tonight & for all eternity in the cemetery, let's hear it for this Doors singer'

Answer: Jim Morrison


Question: 'The telenovela is the Latin-American version of this U.S. form'

Answer: a soap opera


Question: 'It's this man's 1632 anatomical work seen here'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: 'Dodger shortstop Harold Reese was more popularly known by this rhyming nickname'

Answer: Pee Wee


Question: '"All the way with LBJ"'

Answer: 1964


Question: 'A fan suggested this name for a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, said to be the first named for a rock legend'

Answer: Cherry Garcia


Question: 'Let's welcome back to the stage this French actress who made her exit in 1923--The "Incredible", the "Devine"...'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew rides a camel in Giza, Egypt.)  This camel nickname may come from its gait--lifting both feet on the same side, producing a swaying motion'

Answer: ship of the desert


Question: 'In 1926 this surrealist was expelled from art school for refusing to allow his professors to critique his work'

Answer: (Salvador) Dalí


Question: 'In 1962 this ex-Dodger became the first African American elected to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: '"We're madly for Adlai"'

Answer: 1952 (or 1956)


Question: 'This flaming cherry sauce, often served with Charlotte Russe, makes a dessert an event'

Answer: cherries jubilee


Question: 'What could be more appropriate than this author reading selections from his own "Remembrance of Things Past"'

Answer: (Marcel) Proust


Question: 'The exhibits of the Jewish Museum in Prague are divided among 6 sites, including the Klausen & Pinkas these'

Answer: synagogues


Question: 'The leisurely life of this island is depicted in the masterwork seen here from about 1894'

Answer: Tahiti


Question: 'This slugger hit home run No. 715 off Dodger pitcher Al Downing in Atlanta'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: '"In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted"'

Answer: 1932


Question: 'This cherry with a 4-letter name is the most common variety in North America'

Answer: Bing


Question: 'Let's turn the lights down low as this "Little Sparrow" takes wing again, singing her classic "La Vie En Rose"'

Answer: (Edith) Piaf


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays some hand-sized robots at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.)  These millibots have three basic sections--wheel base, processor and this board that receives signals and stimuli'

Answer: the sensor


Question: 'This artist who painted many revealing self-potraits was portrayed on film by Salma Hayek in 2002'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: 'In 1981 this Dodger pitcher nicknamed "El Toro" won the Rookie of the Year & Cy Young awards'

Answer: (Fernando) Valenzuela


Question: '"Help hustle Harry home"'

Answer: 1948


Question: 'The name of this clear brandy is from German for "cherry"'

Answer: kirsch


Question: 'Finally finishing his performance in "The Imaginary Invalid", it's this great 17th century playwright'

Answer: (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Molière


Question: 'Theodore Olson, who argued Bush v. Gore, got this job of handling high court litigation'

Answer: Solicitor General


Question: 'Luis Tristan was a student of this artist, studying in his Toledo studio from 1603 to 1608'

Answer: El Greco


Question: 'In 1976 he replaced Walter Alston as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers'

Answer: Tommy Lasorda


Question: 'Every graduate should know he speaks of the "pomp and circumstance" of war to Iago'

Answer: Othello


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.)  People noticed in the '90s when I directed this title hero in a tight rubber suit (on him, not me)'

Answer: Batman


Question:
'Greece,
Lebanon,
Italy'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'This Irish town prodcued fine crystal from 1783 to 1851; after a 96-year gap, production resumed in 1947'

Answer: Waterford


Question: 'Students can swim, play sports & work out at this university's Rockne Memorial Recreational Facility'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'A sacred song or poem of the Bible'

Answer: a psalm


Question: 'In "Henry IV, Part II", a hostess complains that this knight has "eaten me out of house and home"'

Answer: (Sir John) Falstaff


Question: '(Schumacher reads his clue.)  This 1925 Lon Chaney movie was slient; the 2004 movie I directed wth the same title is definitely not'

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera


Question:
'Turkmenistan,
Japan,
Mongolia'

Answer: Turkmenistan


Question: 'In 1674 England's George Ravenscroft patented glass that used an oxide of this heavy element, Pb'

Answer: lead


Question: 'This university in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1867 to educate newly freed slaves & their descendants'

Answer: Howard University


Question: 'A pen name used by an author'

Answer: a pseudonym


Question: 'Trinculo & Caliban makde "strange bedfellows" in this romance'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: '(Schumacher reads his clue.)  I took just 12 days to shoot the movie with Colin Farrell trapped in one of these--hey, it was basically one location'

Answer: Phone Booth


Question:
'Ecuador,
Chile,
Uruguay'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'In 1880 he obtained a patent for glass that changed colors when viewed from different angles'

Answer: Tiffany


Question: 'Named for the Indian tribe, this university was chartered in Oxford, Ohio, not in Florida, in 1809'

Answer: Miami (University of Ohio)


Question: '23rd letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: psi


Question: 'Antonio claims he saved Sebastian from "the jaws of death" in this holiday-based comedy'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: '(Schumacher reads his clue.)  In my life I've done a few things in excess, & one of them was directing the INXS video for this "satanic" song'

Answer: "The Devil Inside"


Question:
'The Dominican Republic,
Jamaica,
Haiti'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'The name of millefiori, a decorative glass often used for paperweights, means "glass of a thousand" these'

Answer: flowers


Question: 'What was once the Church College of Hawaii now operates as a branch of this mainland university'

Answer: Brigham Young (University)


Question: 'A general in Alexander's army, he became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'In this comedy Duke Senior laments to Orlando that they have "seen better days"'

Answer: As You Like It


Question: '(Schumacher reads his clue.)  The tagline of this movie I directed was "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old.  Never die.  It's fun to be a vampire."'

Answer: The Lost Boys


Question:
'The Philippines,
Australia,
Indonesia'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'In the late 13th century this island became Venice's center of glassmaking'

Answer: Murano


Question: 'On May 4, classes at this Midwestern school recess from noon until 2:00 p.m. as part of an official day of remembrance'

Answer: Kent State


Question: 'The supposed ability to use mental powers to move objects, it's often abbreviated PK'

Answer: psychokinesis


Question: 'Robert Jackson, the only justice to take a formal leave of absence, went to be a prosecutor in this foreign city'

Answer: Nuremberg


Question: 'It's the Japanese city seen here in September 1945'

Answer: Hiroshima


Question: 'Gotham City'

Answer: Batman


Question: 'There's something about this vodka, salt, tomato juice, tobasco, pepper, lemon juice & Worcestershire elixir'

Answer: a Bloody Mary


Question: 'According to his book, 42:16, this "patient" man lived 140 years after his troubles'

Answer: Job


Question: 'The combo that totals one shy of "boxcars"'

Answer: 5 & 6


Question: 'Even back in 1578, they knew "Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with" these'

Answer: fleas


Question: 'This London landmark, seen here, was repeatedly subjected to Nazi bombing during the war'

Answer: St. Paul\'s


Question: 'Dogpatch'

Answer: Li\'l Abner


Question: 'Hold on... ginger ale, grenadine & a cherry... there's no alcohol in this child star's drink!'

Answer: a Shirley Temple


Question: 'John 11 details the big comeback of this man, dead for 4 days'

Answer: Lazarus


Question: 'Craps roll known as "ace-deuce"'

Answer: 1 & 2


Question: '"Dogs" do this "by custom" & one doing it "seldom bites"'

Answer: bark


Question: 'Infamous WWII radio broadcaster seen here'

Answer: Tokyo Rose


Question: 'Riverdale'

Answer: Archie Andrews


Question: 'Hold on... ginger ale or cola, grenadine & a cherry... there's no alcohol in this "Cowboy King"'s drink!'

Answer: Roy Rogers


Question: 'Long before Joe Namath, this leader guaranteed a victory by holding up a hand in Exodus 17:11'

Answer: Moses


Question: '4, easy'

Answer: 3 & 1


Question: '"A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always" this'

Answer: cold


Question: 'This band leader's plane disappeared on a trip to Paris in December 1944'

Answer: Glenn Miller


Question: 'Camp Swampy'

Answer: Beetle Bailey


Question: 'Mr. Keitel could appreciate this vodka, O.J. & Galiano concoction'

Answer: a Harvey Wallbanger


Question: 'He "sent forth a raven, which went forth... until the waters were dried up from off the earth" in Genesis 8:7'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'Hard 8'

Answer: 4 & 4


Question: 'A variation of this proverb adds "and every man his hour"'

Answer: Every dog has its day


Question: 'The gathering seen here took place in this city'

Answer: Nuremberg


Question: 'Okefenokee Swamp'

Answer: Pogo


Question: '"Tom" will pick up the check for this combo of gin, lemon juice, sugar, club soda, an orange slice & a cherry'

Answer: a Tom Collins


Question: 'In John 6:70, Jesus says of him, "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?"'

Answer: Judas Iscariot


Question: '10, easy'

Answer: 4 & 6


Question: '"Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of" this majestic animal'

Answer: a lion


Question: 'This sea cave on Capri is named for the color of the light produced when the sun shines through its waters'

Answer: the Blue Grotto


Question: 'Jenna Elfman &<br />Thomas Gibson'

Answer: Dharma & Greg


Question: 'It was 4 years ago (not today) that this musician was knighted'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'A beautiful young Trojan, Ganymede was whisked away to this home of the gods to be their cupbearer'

Answer: Mount Olympus


Question: 'A former Soviet republic, its capital is Tashkent'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'He's the feline who describes Frosted Flakes by saying "They're grrreat!"'

Answer: Tony the Tiger


Question: 'This historic wine-producing region of France has been a kingdom, a duchy, a county & a province'

Answer: Burgundy


Question: 'Robin Williams &<br />Pam Dawber'

Answer: Mork & Mindy


Question: 'You may remember this '50s senator from Wisconsin from such witch-hunts as "The Red Scare"'

Answer: (Joseph) McCarthy


Question: 'This fire-stealer wasn't chained to a rock forever; Hercules eventually rescued him'

Answer: Prometheus


Question: 'It's the weird throat flap seen here'

Answer: uvula


Question: 'Scientifically this feline treat is known as Nepeta cataria'

Answer: catnip


Question: '"Of the North" usually follows the name of this river that forms the border between Minnesota and North Dakota'

Answer: the Red River


Question: 'Penny Marshall &<br />Cindy Williams'

Answer: Laverne & Shirley


Question: 'This legendary lefty might say "Are you blind?!  I won Wimbledon in '84 & you don't know who I am?!"'

Answer: (John) McEnroe


Question: 'In some accounts Zeus' head had to be split with an ax to facilitate her birth in full armor'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'The final arrow of an archery contest or the end result of something'

Answer: the upshot


Question: 'First known to the West in the 1870s, it's the popular cat variety seen here'

Answer: Siamese


Question: 'Wyoming's largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park'

Answer: Yellowstone Lake


Question: 'Sharon Gless &<br />Tyne Daly'

Answer: Cagney & Lacey


Question: 'Don't find it "Strange" we'd ask about him, JFK & LBJ's Secretary of Defense'

Answer: (Robert Strange) McNamara


Question: 'After Achilles was killed, his armor was awarded to this journey man'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'This historic university town of the Central Netherlands has a population of 250,000'

Answer: Utrecht


Question: 'The only lions still living wild in Asia are found in the Gir Forest in this country of the subcontinent'

Answer: India


Question: 'Ben Vereen &<br />Jeff Goldblum'

Answer: Tenspeed & Brownshoe


Question: 'He penned "Understanding Media" in 1964; we got the "message"'

Answer: Marshall McLuhan


Question: 'On one adventure, the Argonauts encountered these fierce female winged monsters'

Answer: harpies


Question: 'Philosophy that holds the highest good is the happiness of the greatest number'

Answer: utilitarianism


Question: 'This swift feline of Africa is the only cat that cannot retract its claws'

Answer: a cheetah


Question: 'In his 1929 film "Die Frau im Mond", or "Woman in the Moon", he originated the rocket countdown'

Answer: Fritz Lang


Question: 'April 11, 1951:<br />Truman relieves this man of his commands in the Far East'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'Beach Boys Brian, Carl & Dennis'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'In 2009 Miep Gies, who, with her husband, hid this girl & her family during WWII, celebrated her 100th birthday'

Answer: Anne Frank


Question: 'This Central American country is "a shortcut with its own national anthem"'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'In "Crystal Skull" Indiana Jones gets stuck in this, which can't really pull you under to your death'

Answer: quicksand


Question: 'To kidnap'

Answer: to abduct


Question: 'Sept. 26, 1971:<br />This man meets with President Nixon, the first meeting of a Japanese emperor & a U.S. president'

Answer: Hirohito


Question: 'Actor Samuel L. & country singer Alan'

Answer: Jackson


Question: 'This comedian celebrated his 100th birthday in 2003; his widow Dolores blew out 100 candles in 2009'

Answer: Bob Hope


Question: 'The official language of this country is "English (kind of)" & crime-wise, there are "rising incidents of monslaughter"'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'If you're "in" this, like Little Jack Horner, there's no place you can go'

Answer: the corner


Question: 'This type of government is mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance'

Answer: a republic


Question: 'May 6, 1981:<br />She wins a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Maya Lin


Question: 'Pitcher Randy & actor Dwayne'

Answer: Johnson


Question: 'In 1995 this matriarch died in Hyannis Port at the age of 104'

Answer: Rose Kennedy


Question: 'This country represents 25% of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young & it boasts "a warm, cold people"'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'To deal with this clothing problem, try rubbing a pencil lead on the teeth'

Answer: a stuck zipper


Question: 'Headaches & nausea may accompany this injury to the brain, often caused by a jarring blow to the head'

Answer: a concussion


Question:
'May 24, 1941:
HMS Hood is sunk by this German battleship;
May 27, 1941:
This German battleship is torpedoed & sunk'

Answer: the Bismarck


Question: 'Actress Brooke & writer Alice'

Answer: Adams


Question: 'In December 2002 this senator celebrated his 100th birthday with a party on Capitol Hill'

Answer: Strom Thurmond


Question: '"Nearly 15 feet wide", this nation's been "preventing Argentina from enjoying the Pacific Ocean since 1818"'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Running this on a stuck jar lid may help: the metal lid will expand while the glass jar won't'

Answer: hot water


Question: 'It can mean ability, the powers of the mind, or a school's teaching staff'

Answer: faculty


Question: 'January 10, 1931:<br />The Prince of Wales meets this American woman; they get married some 6 years later'

Answer: Wallis Simpson


Question: 'Singer Rita & "Valley Girl" director Martha'

Answer: Coolidge


Question: 'New York socialite & philanthropist Brooke, whose husband Vincent was an heir to this family's fortune, died in 2007 at 105'

Answer: Astor


Question: 'It "came under control of its lemur population in 1965, when the... prosimians gained a majority... in the national senate"'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'A frustrated driver stuck in snow does this 3-word phrase; it means to expend effort with no result'

Answer: spinning your wheels


Question: 'This device is used in an internal-combustion engine to produce an explosive mixture of vaporized fuel & air'

Answer: a carburetor


Question: 'Time magazine's 1939 review of this novel was titled "Oakies"'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'Voters "Let The Sunshine In" on this Broadway show, which won for Best Musical Revival'

Answer: Hair


Question: 'This science & math titan moved to 35 St. Martin's Street in London in 1710, 44 years after his "Annus Mirabilis"'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'People from this land were barred from immigrating to the U.S. in 1882; in 1943, as a WWII ally, it got a quota of 105'

Answer: China


Question: 'Passerines are perching types of these animals'

Answer: birds


Question: 'Exoteric, meaning "simple" or "commonplace", is the opposite of this word, one letter different'

Answer: esoteric


Question: 'It was the nickname of the sadistic Sergeant James R. Judson in "From Here to Eternity"'

Answer: "Fatso" Judson


Question: 'Yes sir--this British composer's adaptation of "Billy Elliot" won 10 Tonys, including Best Musical'

Answer: Elton John


Question: 'His Key West home at 907 Whitehead Street is now a museum'

Answer: Hemingway


Question: 'Pilgrimage to this city is run on a quota system; 3,000 people a year from the Gaza Strip get to go'

Answer: Mecca


Question: 'The "colossal" type of this creature is the largest invertebrate & has the largest eyes of any animal'

Answer: a squid


Question: 'As this 1943 Ayn Rand novel begins, Howard Roark has just been expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology'

Answer: The Fountainhead


Question: 'Liza Minnelli beat out this funnyman's show "You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush"'

Answer: Will Ferrell


Question: 'In 1935 he bought a house at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'A leech is a segmented type of this creature'

Answer: an annelid (worm also acceptable)


Question: 'By definition, ungulates are mammals with these'

Answer: hooves


Question: 'The title of this Ayckbourn trilogy, winner for Best Revival, refers to events of 1066'

Answer: The Norman Conquests


Question: 'The house where he & his wife lived from 1882 to 1901 is at 21 Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo in Moscow'

Answer: (Leo) Tolstoy


Question: 'Impossibly high grain production quotas led to the deaths of around 7 million in this then-SSR in 1932-33'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'Also known as St. Hubert's hound, this dog's more familiar name comes from its purebred ancestry'

Answer: a bloodhound


Question: '"Agitprop" combines agitation & this, especially in the cause of Communism'

Answer: propaganda


Question: 'Geoffrey Rush won a Tony for his work in the revival of this French absurdist's "Exit the King"'

Answer: Eugene Ionesco


Question: 'Son Christopher inherited this noted conservative's elegant co-op at 778 Park Avenue in 2008'

Answer: William F. Buckley


Question: 'A dispute dating to 1947 concerns Europe's quotas & tariffs on this fruit, which Latin America says are discriminatory'

Answer: bananas


Question: 'The sable type of this fast African animal has a black coat & long, curved horns'

Answer: an antelope


Question: 'Vaccine also means "pertaining to or derived from" these animals'

Answer: cows


Question: 'Begun in 1174, it was finally stabilized in May 2008, after more than 700 years of slow movement'

Answer: The Leaning Tower Of Pisa


Question: 'KCK's Fairfax auto plant manufactures the Chevy Malibu & the Saturn Aura for this auto company'

Answer: General Motors


Question:
'Famous intern

_ _ _ I C _
_ E W I _ _ K Y'

Answer: Monica Lewinsky


Question: 'In 1870 Congress granted her an annual pension of $3,000; call her sugar-mama or simply your wife, here's...'

Answer: Mary Lincoln


Question: 'For the past 8 years, the Tony Awards ceremony has been held at this nearly 6,000-seat hall'

Answer: Radio City Music Hall


Question: 'Tony the Tiger is the gr-r-reat spokescat for this company's Frosted Flakes'

Answer: Kellogg\'s


Question: '2-word title of this guy, who we hope doesn't make a house call for a very long time'

Answer: the Grim Reaper


Question: 'The Kansas 400 at KCK's Kansas Speedway is part of this auto racing organization's Nextel Cup'

Answer: NASCAR


Question:
'Medical reformer

_ L O _ _ _ _ E
_ I G _ _ I N G _ _ E'

Answer: Florence Nightingale


Question: 'You said of this general, "I can't spare this man--he fights"; he sure seems to be enjoying the green room, it's...'

Answer: (Ulysses) Grant


Question: 'Don't cry for Mandy Patinkin; he won a 1980 Tony Award for this musical'

Answer: Evita


Question: 'On the South China tiger these are spaced far apart, & on each individual tiger they're unique, like fingerprints'

Answer: the stripes


Question: 'Thin oatmeal cereal in water; please, sir, may I have some more?'

Answer: gruel


Question: 'KCK's sister cities are Linz, Austria; Karlovac, Croatia & Uruapan in this country's state of Michoacan'

Answer: Mexico


Question:
'Barely an equestrian

_ A D _
G O _ _ _ _'

Answer: Lady Godiva


Question: 'In 1860 he got 12 electoral votes but you got the job; feel free to debate...'

Answer: (Stephen) Douglas


Question: 'Ian McKellen won a Tony in 1981 for playing this rival of Mozart in "Amadeus"'

Answer: Salieri


Question: 'Tiger is the second rank in this organization for young boys'

Answer: the Cub Scounts


Question: 'It's the mythological creature of earth and sky seen here'

Answer: the griffin


Question: 'The Wall Street Journal reports that KCK is undergoing this, also a type of medieval festival held there each fall'

Answer: a renaissance


Question:
'Had an axe to grind

_ _ Z Z _ _
B _ _ _ _ N'

Answer: Lizzie Borden


Question: 'You said if this general "is not using the army, I should like to borrow it for a while"; say hello to...'

Answer: General George McClellan


Question: 'The front of the Tony Award depicts these ancient twin symbols of theatre'

Answer: comedy and tragedy


Question: 'The largest population of wild tigers is found in this Asian country on about 30 wildlife reserves'

Answer: India


Question: 'A small cavern often used for meditation or as a shrine'

Answer: a grotto


Question: 'Kansas City is the county seat of this county, commonly referred to as "the Dotte" by its residents'

Answer: Wyandotte


Question:
'Philanthropist, art patron & collector

_ _ G G _
G _ G G _ _ _ _ _ _'

Answer: Peggy Guggenheim


Question: 'Sec. of War for Franklin Pierce , some called him Mr. President (though certainly not you!); say hello to...'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'She's the dynamic actress/producer for whom the Tony Awards were named'

Answer: Antoinette Perry


Question: 'Tigers are the largest cats, & this tiger named for a Russian region is the largest tiger'

Answer: the Siberian Tiger


Question: 'Famous work designed by this German is seen here'

Answer: (Walter) Gropius


Question: 'In humans, this sex chromosome is present only in males'

Answer: the Y chromosome


Question: 'The title of this film is what a guard shouts as he leads Sean Penn to be executed'

Answer: Dead Man Walking


Question: 'Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work'

Answer: La Boheme


Question: 'After Barry Goldwater retired in 1987, this man took over his Senate seat'

Answer: John McCain


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

Answer: feather


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads as a monkey assists its master at Helping Hands in Boston, MA.) Monkeys are suited to work because they are smart & nimble, & their hands have this feature that lets them pick up objects easily'

Answer: an opposing thumb


Question: 'Gustatory receptors are special cells that give you your sense of this'

Answer: taste


Question: 'Bubba tells this Tom Hanks character about fried shrimp, shrimp gumbo & boiled shrimp, among others'

Answer: Forrest Gump


Question: 'Handel's "Berenice, Queen of Egypt" took a hiatus from the stage from the first part of this century to 1985'

Answer: the 18th century


Question: 'From the '20s to the '60s, Sean O'Feeney directed Hollywood Westerns under this name'

Answer: John Ford


Question: 'Alexander Hamilton could sing, "It's my party"<br />(10)'

Answer: Federalist


Question: 'A non-profit since 1979, Helping Hands used to teach monkeys to play these 12-inch objects; now they play CDs instead'

Answer: records


Question: 'In plants, they're reproductive structures; in humans, light-sensitive structures along with the rods'

Answer: cones


Question: '(Hi, I'm Rob Morrow.) I played the real-life character Dick Goodwin, who exposes hanky-panky on the TV program "Twenty-one" in this film'

Answer: Quiz Show


Question: 'Poignant, given Pagliaccio's profession, the line "Ridi Pagliaccio" means do this, Pagliaccio'

Answer: laugh


Question: '"Speak for yourself" if you know he was the last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact'

Answer: John Alden


Question: 'Flora's counterpart<br />(5)'

Answer: fauna


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Helping Hands in Boston, MA as a monkey gets some water from a fridge.) The wide variety of tasks the monkeys learn makes life much easier for those with mobility impairments, such as this condition of paralysis of all four limbs'

Answer: quadraplegia


Question: 'The hypothalamus at the base of the brain controls the release of hormones by this "master gland"'

Answer: the pituitary gland


Question: 'We had to mention this movie in which Ashley Judd turns being framed for murder to her advantage'

Answer: Double Jeopardy


Question: 'This Paisiello opera about a Spaniard was "snipped" out of the repertoire by Rossini's more popular version'

Answer: The Barber of Seville


Question: 'This 17th century poet believed that studying until midnight each night is what first injured his eyes'

Answer: John Milton


Question: 'Matisse's "wild" art movement<br />(7)'

Answer: Fauvism


Question: 'Early on, Helping Hands got important help from the VA, what's now this cabinet department'

Answer: the Department of Veterans Affairs


Question: 'One of the subdivisions of biology is this science dealing with the naming & classification of organisms'

Answer: taxonomy


Question: 'As second-rate singer Sadie in "Georgia", she does an excruciating version of a Van Morrison song'

Answer: Jennifer Jason Leigh


Question: 'It's the "mirthful" opera house that premiered "Carmen", or the French term for the type of opera "Carmen" is'

Answer: Opera comique


Question: 'A conservative society is named for this U.S. Army captain killed by communist Chinese forces 10 days after WWII ended'

Answer: John Birch


Question: 'Atomically speaking, it's No. 100<br />(7)'

Answer: Fermium


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew helps with monkey training at Helping Hands in Boston, MA.) The monkeys learn via positive reinforcement, part of "operant conditioning", a term coined by this American behaviorist'

Answer: (B.F.) Skinner


Question: 'In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface'

Answer: Harry Houdini


Question: 'Veronese's & Tintoretto's versions of this Biblical meal each depict a dog'

Answer: "The Last Supper"


Question: 'Amcal has a wall calendar featuring ads & slogans from this Atlanta-based soft drink company'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'The name of this dark green, elongated squash is from the Italian for "gourd"'

Answer: Zucchini


Question: 'In the late 1700s a French doctor proposed a mechanical device for lopping off heads & voila -- this was named for him'

Answer: Guillotine


Question: 'Boston bar owned by Sam Malone'

Answer: Cheers


Question: '"Clam Toe"'

Answer: Camelot


Question: 'This term for a painting of inanimate objects is from the Dutch "stilleven"'

Answer: Still life


Question: 'This building's bicentennial is being celebrated in a series of calendars that include the art seen here'

Answer: The White House


Question: 'This red-stalked vegetable is also called a pieplant because it's often used as a pie filling'

Answer: Rhubarb


Question: 'Normally, as part of one of these, only 4 of the 5 executioners have a live round'

Answer: Firing squad


Question: 'Paolo is the new bar manager on this title TV ship; Isaac was its bartender in the '70s'

Answer: The Love Boat


Question: '"Pay Joel"'

Answer: Pal Joey


Question: 'Antonio Canova's nude "Mars the Peacemaker" statue wasn't liked by its subject, this French emperor'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'The cover of Landmark's Norman Rockwell calendar shows one of the covers from this magazine'

Answer: The Saturday Evening Post


Question: 'Some researchers believe a half head of this cole slaw vegetable a day can prevent certain forms of cancer'

Answer: Cabbage


Question: 'One of Washington State's modes of execution; Nathan Hale & John Brown died that way'

Answer: Hanging


Question: 'As Joe the Bartender on TV, he was pals with Crazy Guggenheim'

Answer: Jackie Gleason


Question: '"A Lid May Fry"'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'A Canaletto view of this square shows the Doge's palace & the Loggia of Sansovino'

Answer: Saint Mark\'s Square


Question: 'The "Woodies" featured in a calendar by Brown Trout are classic cars of this type'

Answer: (Ford) Stationwagons


Question: 'The name of this immature onion is from Ascalon, a port in Palestine'

Answer: Scallion


Question: 'From 1977 to 1996 128 inmates in the U.S. were executed by this method; almost twice as many got a lethal injection'

Answer: Electrocution


Question: '[Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano]  Known as my TV dad, in 1999 he tackled the role of Rocky the bartender in "The Iceman Cometh"'

Answer: Tony Danza


Question: '"Stew Rides Toys"'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: '"The Spinners" by Diego Velazquez is based on this mythical spinner'

Answer: Arachne


Question: 'Universe celebrates the centenary of this author's birth with a "Little Prince" calendar'

Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Question: 'You'll often see a red variety of this vegetable used as a garnish & carved into "roses"'

Answer: Radish


Question: 'The Romans were stuck on the X & T forms of this execution method'

Answer: Crucifixion


Question: 'In "Blues Brothers 2000" he plays Mighty Mack, a strip-club bartender'

Answer: John Goodman


Question: '"O Cute Fish Mounds"'

Answer: The Sound of Music


Question: 'In 424 B.C. this fatally wounded Athenian general could have used the physician of the same name'

Answer: Hippocrates


Question: '"Great" Scott Fitzgerald guy<br />              (6)'

Answer: Gatsby


Question: 'In 1942 he revived his silent classic "The Gold Rush" & added a musical score & his own narration'

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: 'After the reading from one of the gospels, one of these, meaning speech, is delivered'

Answer: Homily/sermon


Question: 'On May 31, 1999 in Rio, Greenpeace launched a new global campaign to halt its destruction'

Answer: Amazon rainforest


Question: 'This French minister of war died in 1932, too soon to see his "line" outflanked in World War II'

Answer: Andre Maginot


Question: '"Howl"ing beat poet<br />              (8)'

Answer: (Allen) Ginsberg


Question: 'Called the "Great Profile", he transformed himself onscreen from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde without the aid of makeup'

Answer: John Barrymore


Question: 'During offertory, they're the usual 2 things offered to God by the celebrant'

Answer: Bread & wine


Question: 'They're what are destroyed in the PlayStation game "Destruction Derby"'

Answer: Cars


Question: 'He advocated a "Search & Destroy" policy as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968'

Answer: William Westmoreland


Question: 'Writer Maxim, or Cruz Smith's "Park"<br />              (5)'

Answer: Gorky


Question: 'Future director Raoul Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in this 1915 D.W. Griffith film'

Answer: Birth of a Nation


Question: 'It was a red letter day when this author was born in Salem July 4, 1804'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'The Communion opens with this prayer from the Sermon on the Mount'

Answer: "The Lord\'s Prayer"


Question: 'In June 1999 European Union officials said it would take over $3 billion to rebuild this region'

Answer: Kosovo


Question: 'As German president, this field marshal seen here made a bad choice in appointing a chancellor'

Answer: Paul von Hindenburg


Question: 'Pantagruel's papa<br />             (9)'

Answer: Gargantua


Question: 'In this 1924 film, Ernest Torrence played Captain Hook & Betty Bronson the title role'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Salem-born man whom Alexander Graham Bell "wanted" in 1876'

Answer: Thomas A. Watson


Question: 'It's a mass for the dead; Verdi is among the composers who set it to music'

Answer: Requiem


Question: 'This book of the Old Testament consists of 5 poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem'

Answer: Lamentations


Question: 'Military strategists salute the book "On War" by this 19th Century Prussian general'

Answer: Carl von Clausewitz


Question: 'Nobel novelist Nadine<br />            (8)'

Answer: Gordimer


Question: 'This swashbuckler was Zorro, Robin Hood & "The Thief of Baghdad"'

Answer: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.


Question: 'The Salem Athenaeum is one of these & a membership that includes borrowing rights is $45 a year'

Answer: Library


Question: 'Pope from 590 to 604, he collected many of the chants used in the mass'

Answer: Pope Gregory I


Question: 'Kali, the wife of this Hindu deity, is the goddess of destruction'

Answer: Shiva


Question: 'In 1958 this country's army overthrew its govt. & set up a council with a Kurd, a Shiite & a Sunni Arab'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'As a child, he was known as "Little Ike"; he later dropped the "Little"'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'In 1863 it was admitted to the Union as the 35th state'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'As its name suggests, Mrs. United States calls itself "The Premier Pageant For" women of this status'

Answer: Married


Question: 'It sets sail in Genesis 7'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: 'The 4-H Club uses one of these in its symbol'

Answer: 4-leaf clover


Question: 'A 1982 playoff reception by Dwight Clark from this quarterback is simply known as "The Catch"'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'He was so big that a bathtub large enough to hold 4 men was installed in the White House for him'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'He founded the electric company bearing his name in 1886'

Answer: George Westinghouse


Question: '2001 is the 50th anniversary of this grandiose title currently held by Lara Dutta of India'

Answer: Miss Universe


Question: 'He is slain in Genesis 4'

Answer: Abel


Question: 'This team won its first Stanley Cup in 1932'

Answer: Toronto Maple Leafs


Question: 'Hugh McElhenny, who once averaged 8 yards a carry for a season, had this nickname, like Elvis'

Answer: "The King"


Question: 'To some, he was "Tippecanoe"; to others, "Old Tip"'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'During the 2000 election, this winter resort city of southeast Florida gained unexpected notoriety'

Answer: West Palm Beach


Question: 'In 1947 Barbara Walker was the last Miss America to be crowned wearing one of these'

Answer: Bathing suit


Question: 'These metropolises are destroyed in Genesis 19'

Answer: Sodom and Gomorrah


Question: 'A myth has it that the best ones are made from leaves rolled on the legs of Cuban women'

Answer: Cigars


Question: 'This 49er seen here, one of the Bay's most eligible bachelors, finally wed in 2000'

Answer: Steve Young


Question: 'This word became forever linked with Warren Harding when he mispronounced the word "normality" in a 1920 speech'

Answer: Normalcy


Question: 'These islands separate the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean'

Answer: West Indies


Question: 'Seen here, Marjon Brady was a "sweetheart" as "Miss" this "USA 2000"'

Answer: Rodeo


Question:
'The
start
of
this
structure
is found in
Genesis 11'

Answer: Tower of Babel


Question: 'In 1874 the dome of the state house in Boston was carved in this, replacing Revere's copper sheathing'

Answer: Gold leaf


Question: 'Coach Red Hickey pioneered this formation, with the quarterback standing well behind the line to take the snap'

Answer: Shotgun


Question: 'In a tragic coincidence, his mother & his first wife, Alice, both died on Valentine's Day in 1884'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'Her films include 1933's "I'm No Angel"'

Answer: Mae West


Question: 'Women representing this South American country have won 5 Miss World titles'

Answer: Venezuela


Question: 'In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'The American leaf-nosed species of this mammal mainly eats insects, but may chow down on an occasional frog'

Answer: Bats


Question: 'This defensive back known for hard hitting entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000'

Answer: Ronnie Lott


Question: 'San Jose, San Juan & Concepcion are missions in this city, though we left out the most famous one'

Answer: San Antonio (the Alamo)


Question: 'Popeye's power source<br />            (7)'

Answer: Spinach


Question: 'Andy Warhol made an 8-hour-film of one facade of this New York City landmark'

Answer: Empire State Building


Question: 'In Hong Kong, this film was "Special Unit in Black Sunglasses"; in Taiwan, "Interstellar Fighting Police"'

Answer: Men In Black


Question: 'On January 10, 1845 he wrote, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"'

Answer: Robert Browning


Question: 'In 1949 the Bridges family produced Jeff & this acting dynasty brought forth Keith'

Answer: Carradine


Question: 'Fredericksburg, hometown of Chester W. Nimitz, has a garden of peace given by this country Nimitz fought'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Peachy relative<br />            (9)'

Answer: Nectarine


Question: 'The Nobel Prize Dinner is held each December in the Blue Hall of this city's Stadshuset, seen here'

Answer: Stockholm


Question: 'Bill Murray may have played Bosley but we think fans in Taiwan showed up to see these title "Hot Babes"'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman that this book was a "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom"'

Answer: "Leaves of Grass"


Question: 'Born in 1949, he graduated Harvard law in '78 & published the novel "The Burden of Proof" in '90'

Answer: Scott Turow


Question: 'You'll find the main store of Neiman-Marcus on Main Street in this big city'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'In July 2000 a production of "Oedipus Rex" was the 1st spectacle staged in this Roman arena in 1,500 years'

Answer: The Colosseum


Question: 'In Hungary they know Jack Nicholson won a '97 Oscar for "It Might Not Get Any Better"; we know it as this'

Answer: As Good As It Gets


Question: 'His famous love letter began, "Though still in bed my thoughts go out to you, my immortal beloved"'

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven


Question: 'Bruce Springsteen was born in '49 1 month after this rocker & "General Hospital" star'

Answer: Rick Springfield


Question: 'This national park is named for its location on the Rio Grande, seen here'

Answer: Big Bend National Park


Question: 'The Winter Palace is one of the 4 buildings that make up this Russian museum complex'

Answer: The Hermitage


Question: 'Latin America saw right through this 2000 Kevin Bacon thriller, known there as "The Man Without Shadow"'

Answer: The Hollow Man


Question: 'In 1610 he described the moon as seen in his telescope as having a "rough and unequal" surface'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'These 2 younger brothers of Barry Gibb were born Dec. 22, 1949'

Answer: Maurice & Robin


Question: 'This city southwest of Midland got its name from homesick Russian railroad workers'

Answer: Odessa


Question: 'Crooner Crosby's fruit?<br />           (4,6)'

Answer: Bing cherry


Question: 'On Aug. 25, 1995 about 35,000 couples were married at the Olympic Stadium in this world city'

Answer: Seoul


Question: 'Jennifer Love Hewitt fans got hooked in Oslo watching "Summer Of Fear", known here as this'

Answer: I Know What You Did Last Summer


Question: 'In 1912 Robert Scott wrote to this creator of "Peter Pan", asking him to take care of "my widow and my boy..."'

Answer: James M. Barrie


Question: 'The second U.S. woman in space, she flew on the Discovery & perished with the Challenger'

Answer: Judith Resnick


Question: 'Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest"'

Answer: Ariel


Question: 'The street depicted on its seal is Fremont Street, not the Strip'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: '"Imagine" 9 different actors playing this man & singing his songs & you've got the 2005 musical named for him'

Answer: (John) Lennon


Question: 'In 2004 it was high "time" Delaware's Winterhur Museum paid $1.65 million for a 9-foot-tall one of these'

Answer: a grandfather clock


Question: 'Accurate to 750 yards, the M21 was used in Vietnam by this type of concealed, sharpshooting soldier'

Answer: a sniper


Question: 'In 1954 the U.S.S. Nautilus became the first of these vessels powered by nuclear energy'

Answer: submarine


Question: 'Cancel long periods praciticing with this string instrument or your fingers will get tired'

Answer: cello (in Cancel long)


Question: 'Diamond Head adorns the left side of its seal'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'This "Frasier" co-star is appearing knight-ly as Sir Robin in "Monty Python's Spamalot"'

Answer: David Hyde Pierce


Question: 'In 2002 McTear's, founded in this country in 1842, sold a bottle of 62-year-old Dalmore whiskey for over $40,000'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'In 1934, as the rat-at-at of these filled the streets, Congress passed a law whose full title specifically restricted them'

Answer: machine guns


Question: 'This protest technique became common in 1960 when black students wouldn't leave a N.C. lunch counter'

Answer: sit-in


Question: 'When told he'd be playing these drums with the band, Tim panicked'

Answer: timpani (in Tim panicked)


Question: 'The portrait on this state capital's seal resembles the one on the penny'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: '"The Light in the Piazza" features a Tony-winning score by Adam Guettel, grandson of this "Carousel" composer'

Answer: Richard Rogers


Question: 'Hawthorne burned the manuscript, but a set of proofs of this work was auctioned in 2004 for $545,000'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Shotgun pellets are generally divided into 2 animal terms: buckshot for big ones & this for small ones'

Answer: birdshot


Question: 'Roh Moo-hyun is its president'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'Barabas soon learned this Western instrument  was like nothing he had ever seen before'

Answer: bassoon (in barabas soon)


Question: 'Menlo Park is part of this New Jersey township whose seal features a tower with a light bulb at the top'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'Albin sings "A Little More Mascara" while transforming himself into Zaza in this Jerry Herman musical'

Answer: La Cage aux Folles


Question: 'In May 2002 a Brancusi brought $18 million, then a record auction price for one of these'

Answer: a sculpture


Question: 'In the 1880s a windmill company started giving promotional BB guns to farmers; it's now this airgun company'

Answer: the Daisy Company


Question: 'This city-state is found a mere 85 miles north of the equator'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Carefully replace the strings on this ancient instrument'

Answer: lyre (in carefully replace)


Question: 'New York City's seal features an American eagle, a sailor & an Indian representing this tribe'

Answer: the Manhattan Indians


Question: '(Hi.  I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.)  My new musical is called "The Woman in White" and it's based on a 19th century novel by this author of "The Moonstone"'

Answer: (Wilkie) Collins


Question: '"The Inverted Jenny", a stamp that shows an upside-down one of these, recently sold for over $500,000'

Answer: an airplane


Question: 'Napoleon was the first to mass artillery in a "Grande" or "Big" one of these; we're positive it was a negative for the enemy'

Answer: a battery


Question: 'This semimetallic element is the second-most common element on Earth after oxygen'

Answer: silicon


Question: 'Neither Bilbo nor Gandalf knew any cool tunes on this'

Answer: organ (in nor gandalf)


Question: 'In 1945 Grand Rapids, Mich. & Newburgh, N.Y. became the first 2 cities to add this chemical to the water supply'

Answer: fluoride


Question: '2003:<br />"The Barbarian Invasions"'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The war between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians is described in this character's "Travels"'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'One of the largest contemp. art orgs., N.Y.'s P.S. 1, uses a building that began as this type of institution'

Answer: a (public) school


Question: 'Some scientists include this stinger in the family Apidae, others in its own family, Bombidae'

Answer: a bumblebee


Question: 'French term for a documentary film style that avoids directorial control over its subject'

Answer: cinéma vérité


Question: '"I have a terrific headache" were reportedly his final words, spoken on April 12'

Answer: FDR


Question: '1949:<br />"The Bicycle Thief"'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'The battle of Helm's Deep figures in this second book of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy'

Answer: The Two Towers


Question: 'Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibited this woman's art, including her Bed-In for Peace photos'

Answer: (Yoko) Ono


Question: 'This arachnid is responsible for 1,000 deaths a year in Mexico'

Answer: scorpion


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tightens a horse saddle in a stable.)  The strap I'm tightening is called latigo, Spanish for "gird", or this word that means it's easily done'

Answer: a cinch


Question: 'Les Brown earned some renown for  this tune  popularized in 1945'

Answer: "Sentimental Journey"


Question: '2000:<br />"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'The Battle of the Cowshed & the Battle of the Windmill are waged in this 1945 work'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'This museum's ducts are color coded, blue for air, green for fluids, yellow for electrical, & red for movement'

Answer: Le Centre Pompidou


Question: 'The potter, a solitary species of this insect, hunts only caterpillars'

Answer: wasp


Question: 'This is a mixture of ashes & slag'

Answer: cinders


Question: 'In October this man who had declared himself "Norway's Martyr" died by firing squad'

Answer: Quisling


Question: '1981:<br />"Mephisto"'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Juan Rico joins the mobile infantry to fight in the war against the invading alien "bugs" in this Heinlein novel'

Answer: Starship Troopers


Question: 'This influential artist said of some Aboriginal art in Sydney's museum, "This is what I have been trying to achieve"'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'The scientific name of this venomous arthropod is Loxosceles reclusa'

Answer: the brown recluse


Question: 'It's a tragedy that this 17th century French author is known for "Britannicus" & "Berenice"'

Answer: Jean Racine


Question: 'Arrested near Genoa in May, this American poet would be declared insane & mentally unfit in December'

Answer: (Ezra) Pound


Question: '1996:<br />"Kolya"'

Answer: the Czech Republic


Question: 'A battle for this planet between Paul Atreides' forces & those of the Emperor is at the heart of the "Dune" books'

Answer: Arrakis


Question: 'Founded in 1939, this city's Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'The blister species of this secretes an irritating substance called cantharidin that was once used in love potions'

Answer: beetle


Question: 'A synthetic hormone preparation that stimulates contractions during childbirth'

Answer: pitocin


Question: 'In 1994, after a 20-year absence, this country's delegation was allowed to be seated in the U.N. General Assembly'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Air Force photos from 1949 show what some believe are the ruins of Noah's Ark on this Turkish mountain'

Answer: Mount Ararat


Question: 'In June 1967 the Beatles released this album about an "act you've known for all these years"'

Answer: "Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band"


Question: 'Golding:<br />"El Senor de las Moscas"'

Answer: "Lord of the Flies"


Question: 'You're on this "wing" if you support traditional values & the conservative party line'

Answer: right-wing


Question: 'First name of director Marshall, Garry's sister'

Answer: Penny


Question: 'A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand'

Answer: gin


Question: 'Seen here is one of Hokusai's famous wood-block prints of this mountain'

Answer: Mount Fuji


Question: 'His 1989 album "The End of the Innocence" won him a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal'

Answer: Don Henley


Question: 'Hemingway: <br />"El Viejo y el Mar"'

Answer: "The Old Man and the Sea"


Question: 'A fellow traveler sympathizes with this party'

Answer: Communist Party


Question: 'Edison proposed using sheets of this metal, used with cadmium in a battery, as a substitute for paper in books'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'It's the opposite of starboard'

Answer: port


Question: 'The Pindus Mountains of this country separate Thessaly from Epirus'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'This New Wave group's album "Shake It Up" begins with the lachrymose "Since You're Gone"'

Answer: The Cars


Question: 'Stephen King:<br />"Corazones en la Atlantida"'

Answer: "Hearts in Atlantis"


Question: 'Before a U.S. general election, these elections are held to determine the party candidates'

Answer: primaries


Question: 'Things that are commonplace are a this "a dozen"'

Answer: dime


Question: 'The band Looking Glass found her "a fine girl"'

Answer: "Brandy"


Question: 'One of Frederick Cook's unproven claims was that he was first to reach the summit of this highest U.S. mountain'

Answer: Mount McKinley


Question: 'The soundtrack of this 1988 U2 film included "Angel of Harlem", recorded at Memphis' famed Sun Studios'

Answer: Rattle and Hum


Question: 'Vonnegut:<br />"Matadero Cinco"'

Answer: "Slaughterhouse Five"


Question: 'Vote a straight one & it's all for one party; vote a split one & you pick from multiple parties'

Answer: ticket


Question: 'This "master" takes care of clothing & providing sustenance for a body of troops'

Answer: quartermaster


Question: 'To strike with a fist or make a hole in a ticket'

Answer: punch


Question: '(Alex T. in Africa)  Coffee beans are still widely grown on the slopes of this mountain, Africa's second-highest'

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: 'In 2001 their "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" CD was certified 9 times platinum'

Answer: Smashing Pumpkins


Question: 'Saint-Exupery:<br />"El Principito"'

Answer: "The Little Prince"


Question: 'A contraction of "procuracy", it's a person you authorize to vote in your place'

Answer: proxy


Question: 'Founded in L.A. in 1965, this rent-a-car agency was acquired by Chrysler in 1990'

Answer: Dollar Rent-a-Car


Question: 'It's the residue coal leaves after destructive distillation'

Answer: coke


Question: 'He's interred at his former home at 18354 Ventura Blvd. in Encino, not Tarzana, California'

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs


Question: 'The Japanese call this "ballistic" train the Shinkansen'

Answer: bullet train


Question: '1999:<br />Adam Sandler takes on fatherhood'

Answer: Big Daddy


Question: 'Little men & women might enjoy reading her other children's books, including "An Old-Fashioned Girl"'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'The abnormal branch of this field studies mental disorders, deviance & just plain weirdness'

Answer: psychology


Question: 'The final ceremony:<br />Real fun?'

Answer: funeral


Question: 'Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: 'The 20th Century Limited took you from New York to this city where you could catch the Super Chief to Los Angeles'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '1970:<br />Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb, aged 121'

Answer: Little Big Man


Question: 'At her death in 1901 she had 37 great-grandchildren, including the future George VI & the czar's daughter Olga'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Branch of biology defined as the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye'

Answer: microbiology


Question: 'People complain there's too much of it in the movies:<br />Nice love?'

Answer: violence


Question: 'In Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery, you can visit John J. Audubon as well as this "Visit From St. Nick" poet'

Answer: Clement Clarke Moore


Question: 'This country's Central Railway takes you up 13,000 feet going from La Oroya to Cuzco'

Answer: Peru


Question: '1987:<br />Dennis Quaid & Ellen Barkin have a steamy romance in New Orleans'

Answer: The Big Easy


Question: 'In 1801 Lady Emma Hamilton bore this naval hero a daughter while both were married to other people'

Answer: Admiral Nelson


Question: 'Sovietology is also sometmes called this, after a structure in Moscow'

Answer: Kremlinology


Question: 'Elmer Gantry, for example:<br />Evil's agent?'

Answer: evangelist


Question: 'Henrik Ibsen is with his family in the Cemetery of Our Savior in this world capital'

Answer: Oslo, Norway


Question: 'The name of this Paris-to-Istanbul service that began in 1873 is now on a London-to-Venice train service'

Answer: Orient Express


Question: '2002:<br />Frankie Muniz' stolen school essay becomes a big Hollywood movie'

Answer: Big Fat Liar


Question: 'This woman famous for her pantaloons became president of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Society in 1871'

Answer: Amelia Bloomer


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Science Museum of Minnesota)  This device was once used in this discredited science of determining personality by reading the bumps on the skull'

Answer: phrenology


Question: 'A Tennessee municipality:<br />Hen villas?'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'He's buried in Oxfordshire under a headstone that says "Here Lies Eric Arthur Blair"'

Answer: George Orwell


Question: 'The 2,461-mile-long Indian Pacific line connects the east & west coasts of this country'

Answer: Australia (goes from Perth to Sydney)


Question: '1998:<br />Jeff Bridges is an L.A. slacker who bowls'

Answer: The Big Lebowski


Question: 'Cornell's medical website calls this study of the functions of living organisms the oldest basic medical science'

Answer: physiology


Question: 'Sister in a famous family of singers:<br />Am I so modern?'

Answer: Marie Osmond


Question: 'Of the Central American countries, it has the highest percentage of people of African descent'

Answer: Belize


Question: 'Arriving in 1947, Edith Ronne & Jennie Darlington were the 1st U.S. women to spend a year on this continent'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'This state's largest cities lie within its Bluegrass Region'

Answer: Kentucky


Question: 'Kerri Strug & the rest of the women from this 1996 Olympic team appeared on boxes of Wheaties cereal'

Answer: gymnastics


Question: 'The crack, chisel & sledge types of these tools are useful in the field'

Answer: hammers


Question: 'In 1942 the Selective Service Act was changed to make this the minimum draft age'

Answer: 18


Question: 'This part of an egg contains the cholesterol'

Answer: yolk


Question: 'Introduced in 1832, the John Mason, New York City's first street car, was powered by these'

Answer: horses


Question: 'This state's Upper Peninsula has 2 land regions:  the Superior Upland & the Central Lowland'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Some know her as "Flo Jo", others call her Dee Dee; her real name is Delorez'

Answer: Florence Griffith-Joyner


Question: 'It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist'

Answer: rockhound


Question: 'Its New York City headquarters was dedicated October 24, 1949'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Tradition says an Indian monk named Bodhidharma introduced this form of Buddhism into China'

Answer: Zen


Question: 'In 1907 Anna Jarvis proposed wearing a carnation on the second Sunday in May to honor these people'

Answer: mothers


Question: 'Some ocean-going vessels can sail up the Connecticut River as far north as this capital'

Answer: Hartford


Question: 'In 1988 Golf Magazine named this Mexican-American "Woman Golfer of the Decade"'

Answer: Nancy Lopez


Question: 'Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens'

Answer: hydrochloric acid


Question: 'A believer in Gandhi's nonviolence philosophy, A.J. Muste helped found C.O.R.E., this group'

Answer: Congress of Racial Equality


Question: 'Its students are nicknamed Elis, after the school's benefactor'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'He introduced his Grape-Nuts in 1897 & followed that with "Elijah's Manna", which became Toasties'

Answer: Charles William Post


Question: 'The parishes in this state's East Gulf Coastal Plain are called the "Florida Parishes"'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'A top-ranked tennis star, this Argentine player called it quits at 26 in October 1996'

Answer: Gabriela Sabatini


Question: 'This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine'

Answer: polishing


Question: 'This PM was Time Magazine's Man of the Year for the first & last years of the 1940s, 1940 & 1949'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'In Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre", this instrument is made to sound like bones rattling'

Answer: xylophone


Question: 'The first continuous one of these in the Senate ran for over a week in March 1841'

Answer: fillibuster


Question: 'Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park'

Answer: Acadia National Park


Question: 'In 1993 she became the first woman jockey to win the Belmont Stakes or any of the U.S. Triple Crown races'

Answer: Julie Krone


Question: 'A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light'

Answer: fluorescence


Question: 'On August 3, 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified before this committee'

Answer: HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)


Question: 'About 60 miles below this river's confluence with the Linyanti River, it forms Victoria Falls'

Answer: Zambezi River


Question: 'After finding this man, Henry Morton Stanley spent the next 4 months traveling with him'

Answer: Dr. David Livingstone


Question: 'The name of this wild horse is from the Spanish word for a stray animal, "mesteno"'

Answer: mustang


Question: 'Vassar Quarterly & Trojan Family are university news magazines for these people'

Answer: Alumni


Question: 'This extremely venomous snake, the largest of the mambas, is green when young'

Answer: black mamba


Question: 'It's the Mideastern river whose west bank is the famous West Bank region'

Answer: Jordan River


Question: '"The Bible", with George C. Scott as Abraham, restricts itself to this Biblical book'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'Around 1240 this mongol's grandson Batu founded the Golden Horde'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'From the Greek for "treasure", this type of book contains a trove of synonyms'

Answer: thesaurus


Question: 'Founded in 1912, the magazine named for this literary genre has published Wallace Stevens & T.S. Eliot'

Answer: poetry


Question: 'The Beluga type of this fish may weigh over 2,800 pounds'

Answer: Sturgeon


Question: 'The region once known as Alsace-Lorraine is part of these 2 countries'

Answer: France & Germany


Question: 'Book 9, chapter 5 of this Fielding novel became a famous erotic eating scene in the movie'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'The famous regional defensive alliance treaty creating this organization was signed April 4, 1949'

Answer: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)


Question: 'These photographers take their name from a character in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"'

Answer: paparazzi


Question: 'This short form of the word "magazine" refers to personal & electronic publications'

Answer: zine


Question: 'Tiny crustaceans are a favorite food of this wading bird with an eating utensil in its name'

Answer: spoonbill


Question: 'Mexicali & La Paz are capitals of states on this peninsula'

Answer: Baja California


Question: 'This Lorenzo Carcaterra book that became a 1996 movie was published as a true story; some doubted it'

Answer: Sleepers


Question: 'Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later'

Answer: the Hanseatic League


Question: 'In the late 1880s Americans borrowed this title for powerful businessmen from Japanese shoguns'

Answer: tycoons


Question: 'National Review advocates this political attitude; Commentary Magazine stands for the "neo" type'

Answer: conservatism


Question: 'This lapdog associated with a Mediterranean island was highly prized by ladies of the Elizabethan court'

Answer: Maltese


Question: 'Liguria is a resort area on this country's Riviera'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film'

Answer: Fast Times at Ridgemont High


Question: 'While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown'

Answer: John ("John Lackland", "Poor John")


Question: 'The word for this legal defense comes from the Latin for "elsewhere"'

Answer: alibi


Question: 'Flashy journal of cyberspace that shares its name with a biography of John Belushi'

Answer: Wired


Question: 'Native to Asia Minor, the "golden" type of this chubby-cheeked rodent is a popular pet'

Answer: hamster


Question: 'The Qing dynasty which ruled China until the late 19th century forbade development of this region'

Answer: Manchuria


Question: 'Francois Truffaut based 2 films on Henri-Pierre Roche love triangle tales:  "Two English Girls" & this one'

Answer: Jules et Jim


Question: 'Characters in this 1942 ballet include the head wrangler & the champion roper'

Answer: Rodeo


Question: 'Kaolin, a pure type of this potter's material, is formed when feldspar decomposes'

Answer: clay


Question: '1971:<br />"Untamed Equines"'

Answer: "Wild Horses"


Question: 'November 19 is Prince Rainier day in this principality'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the factory is staffed by these pygmies'

Answer: Oompa Loompas


Question: 'The original "Drew Carey Show" theme song was "Moon Over Parma", a suburb of this city'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'This synonym for "interred" is what the Dogs did to the Bones, 119-30'

Answer: buried


Question: 'Of basalt, schist & obsidian, the one not an igneous rock'

Answer: schist


Question: '1969:<br />"Cheap Nightclub Babes"'

Answer: "Honky Tonk Women"


Question: 'This nationalist & nonviolent leader's October 2 birthday is a revered holiday in India'

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi


Question: 'He illustrated Else Minarik's "Little Bear" books as well as his own "Where the Wild Things Are"'

Answer: Maurice Sendak


Question: 'Long a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, it shares its name with a suburb of Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Arlington


Question: '"Tool" term for the way the Mallets beat the Pegs, 49-8'

Answer: hammered


Question: 'Also called white mica, its name sounds like an inhabitant of the Russian capital'

Answer: muscovite


Question: '1965:<br />"Remove Yourself From The Water Vapor Mass That Belongs To Me"'

Answer: "Get Off Of My Cloud"


Question: 'Liberation Day in Cuba, January 1, celebrates independence from this country in 1899'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This fairy tale was published in 1697 under the French title "La belle au bois dormant"'

Answer: "Sleeping Beauty"


Question: 'Whitefish Bay, on Lake Michigan, is a suburb of this Wisconsin city'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Meaning "equalized" or "made flat & even", it's what the Rollers did to the Driveways, 31-5'

Answer: levelled


Question: 'When scratched against a surface, hematite leaves this color streak'

Answer: red


Question: '1968:<br />"Leapin' Knave Lightburst"'

Answer: "Jumpin\' Jack Flash"


Question: 'This French holiday falls on July 14'

Answer: Bastille Day


Question: 'In 1939 she published "The World Is Round" about a child named Rose... is a rose... is a rose...'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'As in an album title, a lotta rap came "Straight Outta" this L.A. suburb'

Answer: Compton


Question: 'This type of varnishing is what the Restorers did to the Cabinets, 11-2'

Answer: shellacked


Question: 'You may be "board" to know that this natural abrasive is second only to diamonds in hardness'

Answer: emery


Question: '1978:<br />"Load Bearing Animal"'

Answer: "Beast Of Burden"


Question: 'Iran's Revolution Day, February 11, celebrates his 1979 overthrow'

Answer: the Shah


Question: 'Popular books by this author include "Ramona the Pest" & "The Mouse and the Motorcycle"'

Answer: (Beverly) Cleary


Question: 'In 1814 steam ferry service made these NYC "Heights" the world's first commuter suburb'

Answer: Brooklyn Heights


Question: 'From the Latin for "dust", it's what the Jackhammers did to the Boulders, 16-0'

Answer: pulverized


Question: 'Nice, Cannes & St. Tropez are in this French resort area'

Answer: the Riviera


Question: 'The war began during Thomas Gage's tenure as the last British governor of this colony'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'A pessimist says we're in the worst universe & we're all doomed; this antonymic person believes just the opposite'

Answer: optimist


Question: 'Department store merchant James Cash...'

Answer: J.C. Penney


Question: '"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'This country's states of Chiapas & Tabasco are connected to Oaxaca & Veracruz by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from FBI Headquarters in Washington.)  Known as this, the grooves cut into the barrel help investigators match a bullet to a gun'

Answer: the rifling


Question: 'John Glover & his marines, using borrowed boats rowed troops across this river on Christmas, 1776'

Answer: the Delaware


Question: 'Pantheists say the universe & this are identical; by definition, atheists don't believe in it at all'

Answer: God


Question: 'Financier John Pierpont...'

Answer: J.P. Morgan


Question: '"Nobody gets the best of Fred C. Dobbs!"'

Answer: Treasure of the Sierra Madre