Question: 'Spiro T. Agnew'

Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'In a car, do it at the speed of freeway traffic; in word processing, use it with form letters & labels'

Answer: Merge


Question: 'In 1204 the Crusaders took this Byzantine city; in 1453 the Turks did'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'This type of monkey is a loudmouth'

Answer: Howler monkey


Question: 'He wrote the poetic line "Then he climbed to the tower of the Old North Church"'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Question: 'Electronic music master Moby is a descendant of this creator of Moby Dick'

Answer: Herman Melville


Question: 'Harry Truman'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Times Roman is a typeface, Italic is a style, 12-point is a size & Times Roman Italic 12-point is this'

Answer: Font


Question: 'After Judah refused to pay taxes in 602 B.C., this Babylonian king took over the kingdom'

Answer: Nebuchadnezzar


Question: 'This monkey is named after an order of hooded Catholic monks'

Answer: Capuchin


Question: 'This "Mending Wall" poet & his wife, Elinor, were co-valedictorians at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Ace remixers Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons were the Dust Brothers before becoming these "Brothers"'

Answer: Chemical Brothers


Question: 'Henry A. Wallace'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'From Latin for "to run", it runs blinking around the screen to show where the next character goes'

Answer: Cursor


Question: 'The city of Palenque flourished from 600 to 900 during this North American civilization's classic era'

Answer: Mayans


Question: 'The coast is clear for this ape that's really a monkey'

Answer: Barbary ape


Question: 'This Percy Shelley work begins with the title character bound to a precipice'

Answer: "Prometheus Unbound"


Question: '"Firestarter" & "Breathe" are hit singles by this band that emerged from the British rave scene'

Answer: Prodigy


Question: 'John Nance Garner'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Term for the printer or margins your computer is set for unless you tell it otherwise'

Answer: Default


Question: 'In 1480 Ivan III announced Russia's independence from these peoples'

Answer: Mongols/Tartars/Golden Horde


Question: 'Pick up the pieces with this research species'

Answer: Rhesus monkey


Question: 'In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords & began 2 years of travel in Portugal, Spain & Greece'

Answer: Lord Byron


Question: 'In the '90s, this British band heard here got into the "head" of U.S. audiences'

Answer: Portishead


Question: 'Alben W. Barkley'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: '5-letter term for any single keystroke that carries out a series of commands'

Answer: Macro


Question: 'Renamed in the 1830s, this city of 28,000 & its river were both originally called Little Thames'

Answer: Stratford, Ontario


Question: '(Hi, I'm Christiane Amanpour of CNN.)  Millions of people have come here to Vatican City to this basilica to present their final respects to Pope John Paul II'

Answer: St. Peter\'s


Question: 'Popular pilgrimage place:<br />ERRANCY TUB'

Answer: Canterbury


Question: 'This evangelist known for his "crusades" said he believed there is life on other planets & that the Bible hints at it'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'The collarbone, more technically known as this, is part of the pectoral girdle'

Answer: the clavicle


Question: 'The last Medici gave this city the family's art collection "to attract the curiosity of foreigners"'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'A refined woman &<br />a Charlie Chaplin character'

Answer: Lady & the Tramp


Question: 'The man seen here was largely responsible for this hotly anticipated film, the top box office hit of 1999'

Answer: Star Wars: Episode I


Question: 'Shire to a shifty sheriff:<br />HANG NOT TIM'

Answer: Nottingham


Question: 'Yum!  The peanut version of these letter-perfect candies debuted in 1954'

Answer: M&M\'s


Question: 'Visible bruising begins with the rupture of these vessels'

Answer: capillaries


Question: 'Proposed by historian Edouard de Laboulaye, it was presented to the U.S. for its centennial'

Answer: the Statue of Liberty


Question: 'Mr. Bede &<br />the night before'

Answer: Adam & Eve


Question: 'The activist seen here testified before the Senate in favor of research using the embryonic type of these'

Answer: stem cells


Question: 'Where Gerry & The Pacemakers were from:<br />PLOVER OIL'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'What's in a name?  The Corsair, Citation Ranger & Pacer were all models of this Ford flop of the '50s'

Answer: the Edsel


Question: 'This part, seen here, is often transplanted'

Answer: the cornea


Question: 'The Mass. Bay Colony named this college for a man who gifted half his 1,600-pound estate & 400 books'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'Scalds &<br />footballer Marcus'

Answer: Burns & Allen


Question: 'She made news in 1988 when she became the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation'

Answer: Benazir Bhutto


Question: 'A united place:<br />NECTAR MESH'

Answer: Manchester


Question: 'In 1954, she became the first recipient of the literary award named for her; perhaps she kept it in a "Little House"'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'It's Latin for "neck" & can mean the neck as well as the outer end of the uterus'

Answer: cervix


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a globe almost as big as he is in the FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.)  George Marshall gave FDR this globe to trace troop movements; he also gave an identical one to this man'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'A screwdriver &<br />a numbered game cube'

Answer: tool & die


Question: 'The measure at issue here was ratified by 35 states, this many short of the number it needed'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Pushoff port:<br />HOT LUMPY'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'This actor who'd wanted to be an aviator since he was a lad was lucky enough to play Lindbergh in a 1957 film'

Answer: Jimmy Stewart


Question: 'If your left brain hemisphere needs to "cc" your right, It's a good thing they're connected by this "C.C."'

Answer: the corpus callosum


Question: 'Born in Hungary, he's used his success with the Quantum Fund to finance programs in democracy & public health'

Answer: (George) Soros


Question: 'Skullcap &<br />Mr. Rhodes'

Answer: Beany & Cecil


Question: 'The vast majority of the U.S. government's 2.7 million civil servants are employed in this branch of govt.'

Answer: the executive branch


Question: 'The subject of the stamp seen here is a major artist of this nation'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'On this popular TV show that premiered in 1959, Ben's 3 sons were born of 3 different mothers'

Answer: Bonanza


Question: 'John Ratzenberger, Cliff Clavin on "Cheers", did British ads for this golden U.S. beer company'

Answer: Coors


Question: 'A sheath for a dagger or a sword'

Answer: a scabbard


Question: 'Being walled up alive was the penalty if these Roman flame-tenders broke their vows of celibacy'

Answer: the Vestal Virgins


Question: 'Today the U.S Civil Service Commission is known as the OPM, or "Office of" this'

Answer: Personnel Management


Question: 'It's the ancient religious complex depicted on the stamp seen here'

Answer: Angkor Wat


Question: 'In a classic Hitchcock film, Virginia Gregg gave voice to this character's dead mother'

Answer: Norman Bates


Question: 'Heineken markets Buckler, this type of beer for the designated driver'

Answer: non-alcoholic


Question: 'Popular pie plant pictured here'

Answer: rhubarb


Question: 'This adjective for one celibate type of life comes from the Greek for "alone"'

Answer: monastic


Question: 'Based on merit, the Civil Service replaced this "system" of job appointment that Andrew Jackson favored'

Answer: the spoils system


Question: 'It's the year the commemorative stamp seen here was issued'

Answer: 1981


Question: 'Though only separated by one year in real life, she played mother to son Colin Farrell in "Alexander"'

Answer: Angelina Jolie


Question: 'Of relatively light color, IPA is short for "India" this rhyming term'

Answer: pale ale


Question: 'Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1,000 of these units'

Answer: a millibar


Question: 'The singer for The Smiths, his claims of social maladjustment & celibacy endeared him to his audience'

Answer: Morrissey


Question: 'The UK's civil service is based on the bureaucracy of this company that existed from 1600 until 1858'

Answer: the British East India Company


Question: 'Mais oui, the work of this painter is featured on the stamp seen here'

Answer: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: 'This 1988 film in which a teenage boy kidnaps Elvis for his mother bears the name of Elvis' first big hit'

Answer: Heartbreak Hotel


Question: 'From 1940 to 1965 New York City was caught up in the annual contest to find "Miss" this brewer'

Answer: Rheingold


Question: 'It's the island indicated here'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'This 20th c. leader wrote, "For me the observance of... Brahmacharya has been full of difficulties"'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established as a result of this would-be civil servant shooting President Garfield'

Answer: (Charles) Guiteau


Question: 'He's the nationalist statesman seen here'

Answer: Sun Yat-sen


Question: 'This actor's mother, Mitzi, owns the legendary Los Angeles club The Comedy Store'

Answer: Pauly Shore


Question: 'Lambic beer, fermented by wild yeasts, is mainly made in this Low Country'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'One of the brightest stars in the sky, it's actually a double star in the constellation Taurus'

Answer: Aldebaran


Question: 'These 12th c. councils named for a Roman palace declared priestly marriages invalid'

Answer: the Lateran Councils


Question: 'Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time'

Answer: Roald Dahl


Question: '"In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: '2008:<br />Sister Aloysius, who has doubt'

Answer: Meryl Streep


Question: 'The U.K. was treated to "Bohemian Raspberry", a flavor in honor of this band'

Answer: Queen


Question: 'Schubert's symphony No. 8 in B minor is called this because only 2 movements were composed'

Answer: the "Unfinished Symphony"


Question: 'You may be "set" this way, lacking direction or floating without control'

Answer: adrift


Question: 'The logo of this Twinkie maker includes a heart--maybe representing the love with which Twinkies are made'

Answer: Hostess


Question: '"Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday"'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: '2008:<br />Walt Kowalski, owner of a '72 Gran Torino'

Answer: Clint Eastwood


Question: 'The caffeinated "From Russia with Buzz" mixed liqueur & ice cream both flavored like this (with espresso fudge chips!)'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'It wasn't until 9 years after Beethoven's death that his piano sonata in C-sharp minor got this nickname'

Answer: the "Moonlight Sonata"


Question: 'Bull Shannon was this type of officer on '80s TV's "Night Court"'

Answer: a bailiff


Question: 'In March 2003 this religious leader published a book of poetry called "Roman Triptych" that was released in Italian & Polish'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: '"If you prick us, do we not bleed?  If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: '2009:<br />Rebecca Bloomwood, a real shopaholic'

Answer: Isla Fisher


Question: 'The acronymic flavor SNAFU stands for this fruity flavor "Naturally All Fudged Up"'

Answer: strawberry


Question: 'Schumann wrote his Symphony No. 1 in B flat, better known as this, in the winter, not the season of its nickname'

Answer: the "Spring Symphony"


Question: 'Any building, especially a large or imposing one'

Answer: an edifice


Question: 'The Middle English for "knife" gives us the name of this activity, a form of woodcarving'

Answer: whittling


Question: '"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: '2008:<br />The wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson'

Answer: Mickey Rourke


Question: 'In a syrupy nod to Ben & Jerry's home state, "The Full Vermonty" was this flavor ice cream with caramel & pecans'

Answer: maple


Question: 'It's the planetary nickname of Mozart's last symphony, No. 41 in C major'

Answer: the "Jupiter Symphony"


Question: 'To make a god of'

Answer: deify


Question: 'For a spot on Oprah, Crayola made a special crayon of her favorite hue & called it this, also a movie title'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: '"I am that merry wanderer of the night, I jest to Oberon, and make him smile"'

Answer: A Midsummer Night\'s Dream


Question: '2008:<br />Weapons manufacturer Tony Stark'

Answer: Robert Downey, Jr.


Question: 'Ben & Jerry's calls this rhymer "our flavorful flashback to the 1960s"; groovy, man'

Answer: Wavy Gravy


Question: 'Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major is better known by this name, the city under Nazi siege while he wrote it'

Answer: the "Leningrad Symphony"


Question: 'It's the only U.S. state that fits the category'

Answer: California


Question: 'Not iron but this reddish-brown element catalyzes the formation of hemoglobin in humans'

Answer: copper


Question: '...some parts of this country, & you'll be in Canada'

Answer: the United States


Question: 'The 1953 awards were the first to feature Best Situation Comedy; the Academy really liked this show that year'

Answer: I Love Lucy


Question: 'Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, posited that an insect's flapping wings could alter this, far away'

Answer: air currents (or the wind or the weather)


Question: 'Around 841 the Vikings established a settlement at this Irish city on the River Liffey'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'The only compass point in a Steinbeck novel title'

Answer: east


Question: 'Cruises along the Mexican Riviera frequently include a stop in this resort city 150 miles from Acapulco'

Answer: Ixtapa


Question: '...this 16,000-square-mile country & it's hello, Belgium'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'She was nominated for an Emmy every year from 1985 to 1996 for "Murder, She Wrote" but never won'

Answer: Angela Lansbury


Question: 'In a 1926 letter this physicist wrote that he was convinced God "does not throw dice"'

Answer: Einstein


Question: 'This English king known as "the Great" succeeded his brother Ethelred in 871 & ruled for 28 years'

Answer: Alfred


Question: 'This airline's specialty craft include the Shamu, Lone Star One & Arizona One'

Answer: Southwest


Question: 'According to Malory, the name of this legendary sword means "cut-steel"'

Answer: Excalibur


Question: '...this country & you may enter Jordan or Iraq'

Answer: Syria


Question: 'A toast to Woody Harrelson, who won for Best Supporting Actor in 1989 for his work on this show'

Answer: Cheers


Question: 'Researchers at UCLA used chaos theory to help predict one of these that struck Central California in 2003'

Answer: an earthquake


Question: 'In 813 this aged Holy Roman Emperor crowned his son Louis the Pious co-emperor'

Answer: Charlemagne


Question: 'Hebron is a city in this territory named for its location on the Jordan River'

Answer: the West Bank


Question: 'It's a universally accepted principle or rule'

Answer: an axiom


Question: '...this country to enter Croatia, Serbia or Romania'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'Hug it out!  In 2006 Jeremy Piven won Best Supporting Actor for this HBO comedy'

Answer: Entourage


Question: 'What Bush accused Gore of using, it's an actual branch of mathematics that acknowledges imprecision'

Answer: fuzzy math


Question: 'The University of al-Karaouine in this Moroccan city known for its hats was founded in 859 & is the world's oldest'

Answer: Fez


Question: 'Henry Hudson died looking for it'

Answer: the Northwest Passage


Question: 'In 1972 the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey became this corporation'

Answer: Exxon


Question: '...this country & you might find yourself in Paraguay, Argentina or Chile'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'Bradley Whitford & Stockard Channing won acting Emmys for this drama'

Answer: The West Wing


Question: 'Frank Knight introduced the idea of this into economics in 1921; Heisenberg did it in physics a few years later'

Answer: uncertainty


Question: 'Wat a city!  In the late 9th century Yasovarman I made this the capital of the Khmer Empire'

Answer: Angkor


Question: 'Its nickname is the "Peace Garden State"'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a winding river on the monitor.)  Due to erosion, large river bends called meanders loop together & are eventually cut off from the rest of the river, becoming this type of U-shaped lake'

Answer: an oxbow


Question: 'Now referring to a scapegoat, this term originated as someone designated as a "proxy for correction"'

Answer: a whipping boy


Question: 'Its legs are 6 feet long & its neck can be even longer'

Answer: a giraffe


Question: '...one of these machines complete with music & lyrics, so I can be the singer'

Answer: a karaoke machine


Question: '"Aim high" & get a job in this branch of the military & you might have to memorize their slogan "Aim High"'

Answer: the Air Force


Question: 'The "Animal Ark" series focuses on Mandy & her parents, both of whom are these, doctors who treat animals'

Answer: veterinarians


Question: '400, 200, 100, 50, __'

Answer: 25


Question: 'It was hard to escape from this island prison located in San Francisco Bay'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'Bactrian & dromedary are the 2 main types of this desert creature'

Answer: a camel


Question: '...a 12-foot one of these for the backyard, with a netting enclosure, & I'll be jumping (on it) for joy!'

Answer: a trampoline


Question: 'Maybe you wanna be like Pat Sajak, Wink Martindale or Bob Barker & get this gig (hey, not so fast, kid!)'

Answer: a game show host


Question: 'In "the First Four Years", the last book in the "Little House" series, she begins married life with Almanzo'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: '5, 8, 11, 14, 17, __'

Answer: 20


Question: 'Okay, we're at $400 for the clue, $400, do I hear 6...?  No, still at $400 & I'm talking like a guy at this event... sold, for $400'

Answer: an auction


Question: 'The percheron  & the palomino are types of this'

Answer: a horse


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates from Times Square.)  If I were a kid, I'd want a pair of these goggles for Christmas, so I can pretend I'm this hero'

Answer: Spider-Man


Question: 'An occupation where you make or mend clothes might be this-made for you'

Answer: tailor


Question: '"The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe" & "The Magician's Nephew" are books in this series by C.S. Lewis'

Answer: The Chronicles of Narnia


Question: '12, 34, 56, 78, ___'

Answer: 100


Question: 'It's a type of ant or a large mythical female warrior'

Answer: an Amazon


Question: 'The rabbit seen here has this name after one of its features'

Answer: cottontail


Question: '...the E100 electric one of these from Razor'

Answer: a scooter


Question: 'You may file a writ of habeas corpus for your client if you decide to go into this profession'

Answer: law


Question: '"Two of a Kind" is a book series featuring these real-life siblings'

Answer: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen


Question: 'Astronomically, this first Greek letter precedes "Centauri"'

Answer: Alpha


Question: 'Pythons are oviparous, meaning they do this'

Answer: lay eggs


Question: '...one of these dolls, with a passion for fashion, like Jade and Chloe seen here'

Answer: a Bratz doll


Question: 'You'll either be a sturdy fixer of leaky pipes or, maybe, a fixer of a company's news leaks if you wade into this job'

Answer: a plumber


Question: 'Junior High, High School & University are included in this Francine Pascal series known as "SV"'

Answer: Sweet Valley


Question: 'You could say we sent this Greek god to the moon in 1969'

Answer: Apollo


Question: 'During a storm in the summer of 1752, he attached a key to a kite string & proved that lightning was electricity'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew announces, "I'm here on the Broadway set of The Lion King.")  It's a memorable moment in "The Lion King" when this baby lion cub is presented to the world atop Pride Rock'

Answer: Simba


Question: 'Campers know oak & maple produce little of this when used as firewood; pine & fir, lots (cough! cough!)'

Answer: smoke


Question: 'On a map of a country, a star inside a circle indicates this'

Answer: the national capital


Question: 'Hannah is in this state that is the center, or keystone, of the original 13 colonies'

Answer: Pennsylvania


Question: 'It's the continent that fits the category'

Answer: Europe


Question: 'On Feb. 12, 1733 James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, the first settlement in this new colony'

Answer: Georgia


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the set of The Lion King.)  Many of the costumes and sets in "The Lion King" were inspired by the art of this continent, where the show is set'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Gardeners use this tined tool to level soil; Dad also might hand it to you & mention all the leaves on the lawn'

Answer: a rake


Question: 'Yoko Ono was not born in Ono, though they're both of this Asian island nation'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'In a nursery rhyme, he was one of the "three men in a tub"'

Answer: the butcher


Question: 'In 1790 printing began on Dobson's Encyclopedia, an 18-volume American edition of this British reference work'

Answer: Encyclopaedia Britannica


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the set of The Lion King.)  The title of this famous song from "The Lion King" means "no worries" and it's Timon and Pumbaa's motto'

Answer: "Hakuna Matata"


Question: 'Rafters rate these speedy parts of rivers from 1 (small waves) to 6 (don't even think about it)'

Answer: rapids


Question: 'Iaracarai Waterfall flows in the Amazonas state of this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'It's in the top 3 among foreign languages most studied by Americans in college today'

Answer: French


Question: 'In 1765 the British Parliament passed this act taxing newspapers, legal documents, & other printed materials'

Answer: the Stamp Act


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew converses with a puppet on the set of The Lion King.)  In the stage version of "The Lion King", Zazu is no birdbrain--he's the aide-de-camp to this lion, Simba's father (Zazu squawks "Aide-de-camp!")'

Answer: Mufasa


Question: 'Plaster Rock, New Brunswick hosts the championships of the pond version of this sport--a frozen pond'

Answer: ice hockey


Question: 'Keep a lookout for the village of Eye in Peterborough in this country'

Answer: England


Question: 'It's a basic operation in arithmetic'

Answer: division


Question: 'In 1775 he told the Virginia Convention, "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace!  But there is no peace"'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the set of The Lion King.)  This "Lion King" song tells us "the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky keeps great and small on the endless round"'

Answer: "The Circle Of Life"


Question: 'To earn a Girl Scout Horse Rider Badge, you have to learn to use this, which includes the bit & reins'

Answer: the bridle


Question: 'If you want a pup, there's a place called that near Kirov in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'An officer's rank in the U.S. Army'

Answer: colonel


Question: 'In 1876 this man became the first person not to get a busy signal on the other end of a phone line'

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


Question: '"The Princes of Ireland" is vol. 1 of Edward Rutherfurd's "Saga" named for this capital'

Answer: Dublin


Question: 'This center fielder who hit 660 homers & won 2 NL MVP awards started his pro career in the Negro Leagues'

Answer: Mays


Question: 'This philosopher & partner of Engels took up residence in London after being expelled from Prussia in 1849'

Answer: Marx


Question: 'Benjamin Eisenstadt introduced this pink-packeted product in 1957'

Answer: Sweet\'N Low


Question: 'The "Virginia" variety of this country dance starts with partners facing each other in 2 lines'

Answer: the reel


Question: 'I'm somehow sensing you'll know this word for a medium, from the Greek for "of the soul"'

Answer: psychic


Question: 'A song provided the title of this Michael Walsh novel featuring Isla Lund & Victor Laszlo'

Answer: As Time Goes By


Question: 'He was the first Japanese player in nearly 30 years to play in the majors when he pitched for the Dodgers in 1995'

Answer: Nomo


Question: 'Seen here, the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by  Jacques-Louis David in 1787'

Answer: Socrates


Question: '1 1997 song by The Verve says life is this type of symphony'

Answer: a bittersweet symphony


Question: 'A star was born when Rudolph Valentino did this Latin-American dance in "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"'

Answer: a tango


Question: 'An extinct flying reptile from the Cretaceous Period, it had a wingspan of about 25 feet'

Answer: a pteranodon


Question: 'This term for a lawyer who pulls in profits provided the title of a John Grisham book'

Answer: The Rainmaker


Question: 'This pitcher was Rookie of the Year in 1967; he won the Cy Young & a World Series ring in 1969'

Answer: Seaver


Question: 'This philosopher & Sartre convened an intl. war crimes tribunal to publicize U.S. atrocities in Vietnam'

Answer: Bertrand Russell


Question: 'They're the climbers seen here'

Answer: sweet peas


Question: 'An 18th century dance & a social ball are both called this, from a French word for "petticoat"'

Answer: a cotillion


Question: '11-letter term describing the era of Jimi Hendrix & Timothy Leary'

Answer: psychedelic (psychedelia accepted)


Question: '"Empire" is nonfiction by Niall Ferguson; this is Richard Russo's novel about small town man Miles Roby'

Answer: Empire Falls


Question: '1956's Rookie of the Year with Cincinnati, he was the first player to be MVP in both the AL & NL'

Answer: Frank Robinson


Question: 'In 1937 this U.S. educator headed an inquiry to hear Trotsky's rebuttal of the Moscow charges against him'

Answer: John Dewey


Question: 'This Texas city is the seat of Nolan County'

Answer: Sweetwater


Question: 'Wham's hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" mentions this American dance of the 1930s & '40s'

Answer: the jitterbug


Question: 'Any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, having feathered feet'

Answer: a ptarmigan


Question: 'In a series set in Africa, a woman named Precious Ramotswe runs this crime-solving outfit'

Answer: The No. 1 Ladies\' Detective Agency


Question: 'Playing for the New York Mets, he was named the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year'

Answer: Darryl Strawberry


Question: 'This intellectual known for his concept of the absurd classifies rebels into world deniers and world affirmers'

Answer: Albert Camus


Question: '"Albertine Disparue", a volume in this epic work, is sometimes translated as "The Sweet Cheat Gone"'

Answer: Remembrance of Things Past


Question: 'This ballroom dance may have been named for vaudeville comedian Harry'

Answer: the foxtrot


Question: 'Also called parrot fever, it can be contracted by handling sick parrots, pigeons or poultry'

Answer: psittacosis


Question: 'He succeeded Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General & used a single letter before his name'

Answer: U Thant


Question: '"Great Balls of Fire!"'

Answer: Jerry Lee Lewis


Question: 'This character described himself as having "more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty"'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'The first brewery in the New World was opened in 1612 in the city that then had this "Dutch" name'

Answer: New Amsterdam


Question: 'Even the Duchess of Windsor is included on Royalty Row at the Royal London Wax Museum in this B.C. capital'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'You can't dip them in milk, but these bits of information sent from web servers to browsers sure are sweet'

Answer: cookies


Question: 'Born in Ghana in 1938, this U.N. Secretary-General won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001'

Answer: Kofi Annan


Question: '"Your Cheatin' Heart"'

Answer: Hank Williams, Sr.


Question: 'About 230 years B.S. (before Shakespeare), Chaucer wrote an 8,000-line poem about this title Homeric pair'

Answer: Troilus and Criseyde


Question: 'His establishment of the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. in 1878 enabled his beer to be distributed on a large-scale basis'

Answer: Anheuser-Busch


Question: 'Visit the graves of Mozart's wife & father at this city's St. Sebastian cemetery--but you won't find Mozart with them'

Answer: Salzburg


Question: '42.53.508.454 is an example of one of the numbers known by these 2 initials, which are basically web addresses'

Answer: IP


Question: 'Serving from 1946 to 1952, this Oslo University graduate was the first U.N. Secretary-General'

Answer: Trygve Lie


Question: '"Bananas Is My Business"'

Answer: (Carmen) Miranda


Question: 'After being a 16th C. version of "The Terminator", the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will's 1st tragedy'

Answer: Titus Andronicus


Question: 'Cheers to Congress for adopting this number amendment in 1933 to deal with a drier former one'

Answer: 21st


Question: 'Since 1981 Queen Beatrix has lived at Huis Ten Bosch palace in this "court"ly city'

Answer: The Hague


Question: 'This adjective that precedes "server" refers to a server that is an intermediary between a user & a client'

Answer: proxy


Question: 'After his term as U.N. Secretary-General he became president of Austria in 1986'

Answer: (Kurt) Waldheim


Question: '"Man of a Thousand Faces"'

Answer: Lon Chaney, Sr.


Question: 'In this comedy featuring a "fantastical Spaniard", 4 guys take a 3-year vow of celibacy & wackiness ensues'

Answer: Love\'s Labour\'s Lost


Question: 'In the 1890's William Painter invented the top, seen here, whose projections got it this "regal" name'

Answer: the crown bottlecap


Question: 'The name of this capital of Senegal comes from a Wolof word for the tamarind tree'

Answer: Dakar


Question: 'First developed by Xerox, this local access network technology sounds like a device to catch an anesthetic'

Answer: an ethernet cable


Question: 'This Secretary-General accompanied Anwar Sadat on his historic trip to Israel in 1977'

Answer: (Boutros) Boutros-Ghali


Question: '"Monster"'

Answer: Aileen Wuornos


Question: 'The last of the tragedies, this play deals with the conflict between Rome's patrician & plebeian classes'

Answer: Coriolanus


Question: 'Inspired by a glass of beer, Donald Glaser made this device in 1952 to track cosmic rays'

Answer: the bubble chamber


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands with a mariachi band in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.)  Add 3 letters to "guitar" to get the name of this bass guitar used in Mexican music'

Answer: guitarron


Question: 'Measured in bits per second, it's how much data can be sent through a connection (or the size of a ring)'

Answer: bandwidth


Question: 'She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947'

Answer: Frances Folsom Cleveland


Question: 'Common name of pertussis'

Answer: Whooping cough


Question: 'U.S. city noted for its cream cheese & cheese steaks'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Portugal's peninsula'

Answer: Iberian


Question: 'Babe Ruth hit the first home run in this stadium when it opened April 18, 1923'

Answer: Yankee Stadium


Question: 'People's Sexiest Man for 1997, he dates nurse Hathaway on TV & Celine Balitran in real life'

Answer: George Clooney


Question: 'This Kentucky fort includes the Patton Museum of Cavalry & Armor in addition to all that gold'

Answer: Fort Knox


Question: 'We're name dropping & cough dropping; last name of the men seen here'

Answer: Smith (Smith Brothers)


Question: 'Elmer Doolin bought the recipe for these fried corn meal chips for $100 & built an empire'

Answer: Fritos


Question: 'Bart Simpson's foreign catch phrase'

Answer: "Ay Caramba!"


Question: 'This poet & author's last home was a cottage in the Bronx; you can "quoth" me on that'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


Question: 'At first Teri Hatcher's Lois Lane ignored Clark Kent & pined for Superman, both played by this actor'

Answer: Dean Cain


Question: 'This Indiana city reconstructed its namesake log stockade in the 1970s'

Answer: Fort Wayne


Question: 'A short, dry cough or a trite writer for hire'

Answer: Hack


Question: 'This former talent agent founded his cookie empire in 1975, 2 years before Mrs. Fields'

Answer: Wally "Famous" Amos


Question: 'Mr. Merchant's movie partner'

Answer: James Ivory


Question: 'It's where you can explore Jungle World & the Himalayan Highlands without ever leaving New York'

Answer: Bronx Zoo


Question: 'Lara Flynn Boyle likes Dylan McDermott's legal briefs on this ABC legal drama'

Answer: The Practice


Question: 'This aptly-named fort in Pittsburgh was built in 1758 over the ruins of the French Fort Duquesne'

Answer: Fort Pitt


Question: 'The men's malady a doctor is usually checking for after he asks the patient to "turn your head and cough"'

Answer: Hernia


Question: 'In 1989 this company introduced its Symphony bar'

Answer: Hershey\'s


Question: 'On the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dean Rusk said "We're" this "and the other fellow just blinked"'

Answer: Eyeball to eyeball


Question: 'It's a small, but "Grand Old Flag" that adorns his mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx'

Answer: George M. Cohan


Question: 'Actress seen here with Scott Wolf:'

Answer: Neve Campbell


Question: 'Home of the XVIII Airbone Corps, this N.C. fort can boast it was named for a Confederate general'

Answer: Fort Bragg


Question: 'This cough suppressant is an opium derivative'

Answer: Codeine


Question: '1948 saw the introduction of this brand, the first major U.S. aerosol food product'

Answer: Reddi-wip


Question: 'Title for a scholar in Islamic law & religion; he may be a young up & "Khomeini"'

Answer: Ayatollah


Question: 'In 1935 the convicts of Welfare Island were moved to this Bronx island & its new penitentiary'

Answer: Rikers Island


Question: 'Salma Hayek & this Spaniard were muy caliente in 1995's "Desperado"'

Answer: Antonio Banderas


Question: 'Fort Necessity was built by this future general & was the site of his only surrender'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'In the 1570s this British circumnavigator attacked many Spanish ships as a pirate in the Caribbean'

Answer: Sir Francis Drake


Question: 'The term "con man" is short for this'

Answer: Confidence man


Question: 'Scent these by adding pieces of mint or a few drops of essential oil to the melted wax before molding'

Answer: Candles


Question: 'Burnt at the stake in 1431, she was probably a pin-up girl for 11-year-old Torquemada'

Answer: Joan of Arc


Question: 'A 1993 film about chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin is titled "Searching for" this man'

Answer: Bobby Fischer


Question: 'She shared "Muskrat Love" with the Captain'

Answer: Toni Tennille


Question: 'This naval commander discovered a mountain range in Antarctica while aboard the plane (Stars and Stripes) seen here:'

Answer: Richard Byrd


Question: 'It's not AU, it's FeS'

Answer: Fool\'s gold (iron pyrite)


Question: 'A mixture of fragrant flowers & leaves in a bowl, its name is French for "rotten pot"'

Answer: Potpourri


Question: 'While James Watt was getting steamed up in Scotland, she was heating up the throne in Russia'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Paul Benedict is credited as "not Guffman" in this mockumentary about small-town theater'

Answer: Waiting for Guffman


Question: 'An athlete with this inflammation that affects a certain arm joint may make quite a "racket"'

Answer: Tennis elbow/tendonitis


Question: 'This man who sought the source of the Nile was knighted in 1886'

Answer: Sir Richard Burton


Question: 'Posing as Arabs with lots of cash, the FBI caught 7 members of Congress in this 1970s sting operation'

Answer: Abscam


Question: 'SC Johnson Wax, who makes Raid, also makes this rhyming air freshener'

Answer: Glade


Question: 'While Copernicus was staring up at the stars, this emperor was staring down Cortez'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: 'Unseen for most of the film, he's the title character of a 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie'

Answer: Harvey


Question: 'Title shared by a Jazz Age novel & the Jackson Browne song heard here:'

Answer: "Tender is the Night"


Question: 'This priest first met Louis Joliet when Joliet arrived at his mission at St. Ignace in December 1672'

Answer: Marquette


Question: 'He served time for fraud after writing a fake Howard Hughes biography'

Answer: Clifford Irving


Question: 'From French for "little bag", rose petals may fill this in your lingerie drawer'

Answer: Sachet


Question: 'While Leif Ericsson had his first look at the New World, this man was sitting as first king of Hungary'

Answer: St. Stephen


Question: 'This movie star never comes back to the 5 & dime'

Answer: Jimmy Dean


Question: 'Notable Nepalese Norgay'

Answer: Tenzing Norgay


Question: 'In 1497 this Venetian sailing for England became the first European since the Vikings to reach N. America'

Answer: John Cabot


Question: 'Dummkopfs!  This German newsmagazine paid millions for forged diaries of Adolf Hitler in 1983'

Answer: Stern


Question: 'To make one of these, begin by pressing cloves into the skin of an orange'

Answer: Pomander


Question: 'In 1850, Hawthorne wrote of Hester Prynne's crime, & this Scot opened his Chicago detective agency'

Answer: Allan Pinkerton


Question: 'In a 1940 film, this deceased title character haunts Joan Fontaine'

Answer: Rebecca


Question: 'If you want to peek at Spain's highest peak, look for El Teide on this Canary Island'

Answer: Tenerife


Question: 'This 1973 book & subsequent TV movie popularized the study of multiple personality disorder'

Answer: Sybil


Question: 'In "Earth Movers", the prototype of this modern machine is described here'

Answer: bulldozer


Question: 'A long-running campaign shows fabulous places that "Don't Take" this credit card'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'Ernie's roommate, he collects paper clips'

Answer: Bert


Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Though Michigan had a single-sex dorm known as "The Virgin Vault", this "Material Girl" lived in East Quad'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'In a guessing game you might ask "Is it bigger or smaller than" this kitchen item'

Answer: a breadbox


Question: 'On "Power Tools", this comedian muses, "There isn't a guy I know that doesn't say more horsepower would be better"'

Answer: Tim Allen


Question: 'A Sports Illustrated subscription drive popularized the phrase "The Gift That" does this'

Answer: Keeps on Giving


Question: 'Originally a backstage worker on "The Muppet Show", Rizzo is one of these animals'

Answer: rat


Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Before intoning "This is CNN", it was U of M for this man who overcame a childhood stutter'

Answer: James Earl Jones


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the L.A. County Museum of Natural History)  I'm standing between two dueling dinosaurs: a triceratops & this carnivore'

Answer: tyrannosaurus rex


Question: 'The episode seen here is devoted to this development'

Answer: the assembly line


Question: 'The following clip dramatizes a famous cartoon ad for this man's products'

Answer: Charles Atlas


Question: 'We're not sure what the creature seen here is, but we do know his girlfriend Camilla is one of these birds'

Answer: chicken


Answer: Richard M. Nixon


Question: 'The "salesman" he created wouldn't die until 11 years after this author's senior year in 1938'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'It's the state capital whose flag is seen here'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'It's the item described here, as improved by blacksmith William Dimmit'

Answer: drill bit


Question: 'This company took us for a ride with "It's Such a Comfort to Take the Bus and Leave the Driving to Us"'

Answer: Greyhound


Question: 'Dr. Teeth & Rowlf play this instrument'

Answer: piano


Answer: William McKinley


Question: 'It'd take more than "60 Minutes" to honor this anchor/alum, also a character in "The Insider"'

Answer: Mike Wallace


Question: 'In Monopoly, if you land on this space that has a diamond ring on it, you'll have to pay $75'

Answer: Luxury Tax


Question: 'Ridley Scott directed the "Share the Fantasy" ads for this tony perfume'

Answer: Chanel No. 5


Question: 'One of the two phrases that begin with "Hi" associated with the Muppets seen here'

Answer: "Hi-Ho" or "Hi-Yah!"


Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Lawrence Kasdan wrote this Kevin Kline/Glenn Close ensemble film partially based on his years at Michigan'

Answer: The Big Chill


Question: 'Agate with bands of white & brown, black or red is often referred to by this name'

Answer: onyx


Question: 'Sonnet 30, line 2 by Proust'

Answer: Remembrance of Things Past


Question: 'Richard Dreyfuss can be spotted (if you're attentive) in the 1967 version of this Jacqueline Susann book'

Answer: Valley of the Dolls


Question: 'Tree-mendous seat of Pitkin County, Colorado'

Answer: Aspen


Question: 'Part of the body on which you would normally wear a kappie'

Answer: head


Question: 'Altdorf, Switzerland boasts a statue of this archer with his son, the "apple" of his eye'

Answer: William Tell


Question: 'Zapata's Plan of Ayala called for redistribution of land to indigenous people in this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '"The Tempest", act V, scene 1, line 183 by Huxley'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'In California, Marysville is the seat of Yuba & Yuba City is the seat of this county named for a mill owner'

Answer: Sutter County


Question: 'To an Afrikaaner, a klipspringer, like a reebok, is one of these'

Answer: antelope


Question: 'The Telecom Tower on Black Mountain in this Aussie capital boasts a revolving restaurant'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'In December 1946 this country rejected the USA's Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: '"Macbeth", act V, scene v, line 26 by Faulkner'

Answer: The Sound and the Fury


Question: 'To an Afrikaaner, this city is Kaapstad'

Answer: Cape Town


Question: 'Disney has announced plans to build a theme park in this former crown colony on China's southern coast'

Answer: Hong Kong


Question: 'Favoring moderate terms for reconstruction, he vetoed the Wade-Davis Plan in 1864'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: '"Richard III", act 1, scene 1, line 1 by Steinbeck'

Answer: The Winter of our Discontent


Question: 'Mel Gibson makes a punked-out cameo in this 1997 Robin Williams-Billy Crystal comedy'

Answer: Fathers\' Day


Question: 'This one should be easy to field: this grassland's name is from the Dutch for "field"'

Answer: veld


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Sea World in San Diego)  This spiny sea creature that I'm holding is on a lot of menus in Martinique, where it's known as oursin'

Answer: sea urchin


Question: 'The plan of colonial union named for this city in New York called for a grand council & a president general'

Answer: Albany Plan


Question: 'When this future TV angel appeared in 1974's "Evil in the Deep" she was billed as Cheryl Stoppelmoor'

Answer: Cheryl Ladd


Question: 'This 11-letter term for a South African pioneer refers back to the Boers who made that long walk'

Answer: Voortrekker


Question: 'It's fun to ride the aerial tramway from Manhattan to this East River island; catch it at 2nd Avenue & 59th Street'

Answer: Roosevelt Island


Question: 'The Marshall Plan is more formally known as the ERP or this "program"'

Answer: European Recovery Program


Question: 'It's the reason that airlines altered many of their transpacific flight plans on March 23, 2001'

Answer: the Mir space station crashing down to Earth


Question: 'Haiti'

Answer: the Dominican Republic


Question: 'This leader of the Miracles co-wrote "The Tears Of A Clown" with Henry Cosby & Stevie Wonder'

Answer: Smokey Robinson


Question: '"Born with" one of these "in one's mouth" is a reference to a high-end christening gift'

Answer: a silver spoon


Question: 'Technically, it's the only country in the world that you can't be from to enlist in the French Foreign Legion'

Answer: France


Question: 'It's the only letter of the alphabet not used in the names of the 50 states'

Answer: Q


Question: 'Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'Cambodia'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'His solo in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" has been called the greatest guitar solo ever'

Answer: Jimmy Page


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a one-room schoolhouse in Old World Wisconsin.)  If you want to make a fresh start of things, you need this 2-word expression, like students not too long ago'

Answer: a clean slate


Question: 'Louis Philippe formed the Foreign Legion in 1831 in support of the conquest of this North African nation'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'In Genesis 6, it's described as being 50 cubits wide'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: 'Practice, practice, practice & you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th & 7th'

Answer: Carnegie Hall


Question: 'Brunei'

Answer: Malaysia


Question: 'This "brotherly" blue-eyed soul act returned to the Top 10 in 1974 with "Rock And Roll Heaven"'

Answer: The Righteous Brothers


Question: 'The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'During this 1870s war, the Legion attempted to lift the siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines'

Answer: the Franco-Prussian War


Question: 'Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs & Muslim men'

Answer: a turban


Question: 'On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'Lesotho'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'He was as famous for his "duckwalk" as for the songs "Johnny B. Goode" & "Maybellene"'

Answer: Chuck Berry


Question: 'The area to the side of a stage gives us this 2-word phrase for performing without preparation'

Answer: wing it


Question: 'Life in the Legion was portrayed most notably by this 1924 Percival Wren novel that's been made into a film many times'

Answer: Beau Geste


Question: 'In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts & began a riot'

Answer: The Rite of Spring


Question: 'Honduras'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'This group made its Top 40 debut in 1968 with "Suzie Q"'

Answer: Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)


Question: 'Shakespeare's Cleopatra used this expression for her youth, "When I was green in judgment"'

Answer: salad days


Question: 'While most Legion units are based in mainland France, 1 unit is based in Calvi on this Mediterranean Island'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'In some versions, this Hellenic hellhound has as many as 50 heads'

Answer: Cerberus


Question: 'The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J.'

Answer: (George) Gallup


Question: 'Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order"'

Answer: Lewis Carroll


Question: '1972:<br />"Sounder"'

Answer: a dog


Question: 'Give your garden solar power with richly colored varieties of this, like the type called the giant single'

Answer: the sunflower


Question: 'In Boy Scouting, rise 5 ranks from Tenderfoot & you're one of these'

Answer: an Eagle Scout


Question: 'This humorist's California ranch house has a stuffed calf given by his friends so he'd lasso it, not them'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'In college it's any optional course that a student chooses to take'

Answer: an elective


Question: 'Sir Calidore pursues the Blatant Beast in Book VI of this Spenser work'

Answer: The Faerie Queene


Question: '1994:<br />Timon'

Answer: a meerkat


Question: 'The showy torch lily seen here is also called the red-hot this fireplace instrument'

Answer: the poker


Question: 'In 1893 the U.S. got a new diplomatic rank: Thomas Bayard, our first official one of these, was off to Great Britain'

Answer: ambassador (to the Court of St. James)


Question: 'This frontiersman died in 1820 at his family's limestone mansion near Defiance, Missouri'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'Medically speaking it's the obstruction of a blood vessel by a moving blood clot or air bubble'

Answer: an embolism


Question: 'After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: '1983:<br />"Phar Lap"'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'When made from the ilima flower, these garlands were traditionally associated with royalty'

Answer: (Hawaiian) leis


Question: 'Pepsi's Harvey Russell was the first black exec to reach this high rank (though not highest) in a Fortune 500 co.'

Answer: vice president


Question: 'Born a slave around 1818, he bought a home in Washington, D.C. in 1877 & expanded it to 21 rooms'

Answer: Frederick Douglass


Question: 'This word from Greek describes a person who has discriminating taste for fine foods & wine, like myself'

Answer: an epicurean


Question: 'She described her 1840s poem "A Vision of Poets" as "philosophical, allegorical, anything but popular"'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: '1997:<br />Mr. Bigglesworth'

Answer: a cat


Question: 'Several species of goldenrod with white flowers are, reasonably enough, called by this other precious name'

Answer: silverrods


Question:
'It's the rank of the character singing here

"I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical /
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical"'

Answer: major general


Question: 'New England's Inn on Covered Bridge Green was once this artist's home, & it would fit into his work'

Answer: Norman Rockwell


Question: 'This language was introduced in the 1887 book "Lingvo Internacia"'

Answer: Esperanto


Question: 'He wrote his poem "To the Cuckoo" in an orchard in Grasmere'

Answer: Wordsworth


Question: '2001:<br />Hedwig & Errol'

Answer: owls


Question: 'Seen here, this flower known by its genus name is popular as a climbing plant'

Answer: a Clematis


Question: 'In Catholic ministry, priest is right below bishop & this rank is right below priest'

Answer: deacon


Question: 'If he could have gone home again, it might have been to his mother's Asheville, N.C. boarding house, now a landmark'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe


Question: 'Oui!  It's the 10-letter French word Americans sometimes use for a writing desk'

Answer: escritoire


Question: 'In 2003, 120 years after it made headlines, a book on this was subtitled "The Day the World Exploded"'

Answer: the eruption of Krakatoa


Question: 'This custom is not observed in Japan; if you leave change behind, it may be returned to you'

Answer: Tipping


Question: 'In 1960, the year of his Army discharge, he had 3 No. 1 hits including "It's Now Or Never"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar on display'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Because not even 10 good people could be found in this wicked city, the Lord destroyed it'

Answer: Sodom


Question: 'This is a game of guessing words or phrases acted out, sometimes syllable by syllable'

Answer: Charades


Question: 'This author of "The Color Purple" won a 1986 O. Henry Prize for her story "Kindred Spirits"'

Answer: Alice Walker


Question: 'The name of this monetary unit comes from the word for "round"; earlier coins were often oval'

Answer: Yen


Question: 'His 1983 hit "Beat It" featured Eddie Van Halen on gutiar'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'Fantastic figureheads are on display in the Mariners' Museum in Newport News in this state'

Answer: Virginia


Question: 'This Philistine asked David, "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?"'

Answer: Goliath


Question: 'Of boccie, bagatelle, & baccarat, the one that doesn't use balls'

Answer: Baccarat


Question: 'His sci-fi novel, "The Invisible Man" is sometimes subtitled "a fantastic sensation"'

Answer: H.G. Wells


Question: 'Tokyo is served by two of these:  Narita & Haneda'

Answer: Airports


Question: 'This band adapted its name from Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who loathed their long hair'

Answer: Lynyrd Skynyrd


Question: 'There's a small museum devoted to Father Damien in this state capital'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'The cover, or mercy seat, of this box represented the throne of God'

Answer: Ark of the Covenant


Question: 'You take an opponent's checker after you do this to it'

Answer: Jump It


Question: 'She wrote of the Chinese people, "They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break"'

Answer: Pearl S. Buck


Question: 'After being rebuilt in 1855, the Imperial Palace in this former capital was home to just 2 emperors'

Answer: Kyoto


Question: 'Her 1985 hit "Crazy For You" reached the top 5 in the U.K., as did its 1991 remixed version'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'The Enid A. Haupt garden sits atop this institution's underground museum, education, & research complex'

Answer: Smithsonian Institution


Question: 'The Old Testament refers to it as Mount Horeb & the mountain of God'

Answer: Mount Sinai


Question: 'In this game a person whose eyes are covered must determine a person's identity by feeling the face'

Answer: Blind Man\'s Bluff


Question: '"August 1914" is a novel about the first days of WWI by this author of "The Gulag Archipelago"'

Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Question: 'The custom of using these seabirds to catch fish has been practiced for over a millennium'

Answer: cormorants


Question: 'While touring with The Beach Boys, she was cast in a major role in "To Sir With Love"'

Answer: Lulu


Question: 'Edward Kemeys designed the bronze lions guarding the main entrance to the art institute of this Midwest city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This biblical patriarch was the son of Lamech & the grandson of Methuselah'

Answer: Noah


Question: 'In gin rummy, a hand ends when one player calls "Gin" or does this'

Answer: Knock


Question: 'This Voltaire title character is thrown out of the baron's castle with several kicks to his backside'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'This bell was first hung in 1753 in the Pennsylvania state house'

Answer: Liberty Bell


Question: 'From 1899-1904 Claude Monet created a series of paintings of this English river'

Answer: Thames


Question: 'The Gibson desert lies between the Great Sandy & Great Victoria deserts on this continent'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Lavender is often included in herbes de Provence, an herb mixture from the south of this country'

Answer: France


Question: 'Recent DNA studies indicate that cockroaches & these wood eaters evolved from a common ancestor'

Answer: Termites


Question: 'Warren Beatty portrayed John Reed, author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" in this 1981 epic'

Answer: "Reds"


Question: 'In 1755, at age 23, he was appointed Commander-In-Chief of all the Virginia forces'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Samuel Morse's 1825 painting of this marquis is one of the finest American romantic portraits'

Answer: Lafayette


Question: 'The central part of this desert is crossed by the Jining-Ulan Bator Railway'

Answer: Gobi


Question: 'A wax bean is a variety of green bean that's this color'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'The firefly is not a true fly but one of these insects like a junebug'

Answer: Beetle


Question: 'Mel Gibson charges into battle as Scottish avenger William Wallace in this 1995 epic'

Answer: "Braveheart"


Question: 'Great Britain & its colonies adapted this calendar in 1752'

Answer: Gregorian Calendar


Question: 'Manfredi, Saraceni, & other followers of this artist were known as the Caravaggisti'

Answer: Caravaggio


Question: 'This Calif. desert extends from the San Jacinto & San Bernardino mountains east to the Colorado river'

Answer: Mojave


Question: 'This ham is made from pigs fed the whey left over from making parmigiano cheese'

Answer: Prosciutto


Question: 'The Oriental & Mediterranean types of this insect are serious agricultural pests'

Answer: Fruit Flies


Question: 'Cecil B. De Mille directed this biblical epic twice, once as a silent, the other in 1956 as a talkie'

Answer: "The Ten Commandments"


Question: 'In 1756 this Prussian leader invaded neighboring Saxony, sparking the Seven Years War'

Answer: Frederick the Great


Question: 'In 1482 Leonardo Da Vinci moved to this city to become its court artist to Ludovico Sforza'

Answer: Milan


Question: 'The southern part of this desert extends into South Africa's Cape province'

Answer: Kalahari


Question: 'This starchy variety of banana is also called the cooking banana'

Answer: Plantain


Question: 'Introduced circa 1868 in New England, this destructive moth has been found in the western U.S.'

Answer: Gypsy Moth


Question: 'James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, & Henry Fonda were among the stars of this 1962 epic about a pioneer family'

Answer: "How the West Was Won"


Question: 'Robert Clive recaptured this city from the Nawab of Bengal in 1757'

Answer: Calcutta


Question: 'This Italian painted a characteristically elongated self-portrait in 1919, shortly before his death'

Answer: Modigliani


Question: 'This Chilean desert's main source of revenue is copper mining'

Answer: Atacama


Question: 'Legend says this ice cream treat was created as a "dry" ice cream soda for consumption on the Sabbath'

Answer: (Ice Cream) Sundae


Question: 'Leaf cutter ants cut this, which they grow on masticated green leaves'

Answer: Fungi


Question: 'In a 1961 film, Charlton Heston portrayed this legendary Spanish hero'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'James Wilson of Iowa, who headed this department for 16 years, served longer than any other cabinet officer'

Answer: Department of Agriculture


Question: 'Jimmy Carter liked to grab his flies & do some of this in Hunting Creek, near Camp David'

Answer: fishing


Question: 'After she was jilted by "The Bachelor", Melissa Rycroft waltzed her way into the finals on this show'

Answer: Dancing with the Stars


Question: 'In 1946 author & chef James Beard became the first to do cooking instruction using this medium'

Answer: television


Question: 'Darcy thought, dodged a bullet! That Bennet family was nuts! Elizabeth was cute, but I've got money, single life's not so bad!'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'You'll hear it after a coach signals for a timeout in water polo'

Answer: a whistle


Question: 'To plant seed, or a female hog'

Answer: sow


Question: 'John Quincy Adams loved to "rack 'em up" after buying the first one of these for the White House'

Answer: a pool table


Question: 'In 2009 Danny Cahill dropped 239 lbs. to claim this title & win the show's $250,000 grand prize'

Answer: The Biggest Loser


Question: 'You can have a great meal at James' townhouse on W. 12th St. in this NYC area; James won't be there, though'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: '"Y'know, Arthur", Hester said, "Roger's gonna be home soon. & I think having an affair in this town is a bad, bad idea"'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Heard in battle in the 1860s, it has been variously transcribed as seen here'

Answer: a rebel yell


Question: 'A metallic element, or to guide the way'

Answer: lead


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the gardens at Monticello, Virginia.)  For Thomas Jefferson, gardening was a welcome retreat from political life, and never more so than in 1807 when he suffered from migraines & stress due to this former vice president's treason trial'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'Ashton Kutcher co-created this series that paired up hotties & nerds'

Answer: Beauty and the Geek


Question: 'James Beard foundation scholarships send budding chefs to this type of school, from the Latin for "kitchen"'

Answer: a culinary school


Question: 'Holden couldn't wait to tell Phoebe he'd passed all his school exams with honors, his faith in humanity was never stronger!'

Answer: Catcher in the Rye


Question: 'This this this went the trolley in "Meet Me In St. Louis"'

Answer: "clang clang clang"


Question: 'A task, or to show a movie on a screen'

Answer: project


Question: 'President Clinton not only enjoyed listening to music but playing this instrument as well, even on TV'

Answer: the saxophone


Question: 'Their TV show bios call Kim the bomb-shell, Kourtney the unassuming firecracker & Khloe the voice of reason'

Answer: the Kardashians


Question: 'The foundation's celebrity chef tour also brings along a master this, so you don't get too thirsty'

Answer: a sommelier


Question: '"With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select...Lennie!" George beamed. Now they could buy 200 rabbit farms!'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'The name of this Southwest Airlines computer application represents the seatbelt-sign-is-off sound'

Answer: ding!


Question: 'To allow, or a document allowing something'

Answer: permit


Question: 'He enjoyed gambling on the ponies; he also bred racehorses at his Hermitage home'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'This "American Idoler" enjoyed another 15 minutes of fame as a contestant on "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"'

Answer: Sanjaya


Question: 'The national advisory board includes this Austrian-born chef, involved with the foundation from early days'

Answer: Wolfgang Puck


Question: '"We're saved!" Piggy exclaimed to Ralph. "Looking back", Simon said, "We probably shouldn't have eaten Jack"'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: 'Term for the sound you'll hear if you use gas with too low an octane number'

Answer: a ping


Question: 'An early schoolbook, or a preparatory coat of paint'

Answer: primer


Question: 'The 46 chorales in his "Little Organ Book" were written for various feast days of the church year'

Answer: (Johann Sebastian) Bach


Question: 'In this film Marty tells George McFly that he is Darth Vader, "an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan"'

Answer: Back to the Future


Question: 'If you're in this Roman town Aug. 24, 79 A.D.'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'This Irish-born actor returns for a fourth season as top Tudor Henry VIII'

Answer: Jonathan Rhys Meyers


Question: '"Feeding your Baby and Child" was the 1955 follow-up to his more famous 1946 book'

Answer: (Benjamin) Spock


Question: 'Comfy informal "chair" you might find in a dorm room'

Answer: a beanbag chair


Question: 'While with George Sand on Majorca, he began showing symptoms of what is believed to be tuberculosis'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'The beginning of this 1984 movie finds the title character poisoned at club Obi Wan in 1935 Shanghai'

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom


Question: 'If it's March 1, 1910 in Wellington, Washington, high in the Cascades; one of these is on its way & it's a doozy'

Answer: an avalanche


Question: 'Henry VIII is told this son of his is "a strong and healthy boy"; he became king & died at 15'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: 'Before his rivalry with Jonas Salk, he developed a vaccine for dengue fever while in the army during WWII'

Answer: (Albert) Sabin


Question: 'Dover or Waikiki'

Answer: beaches


Question: 'Many of this 19th c. composer's great works were written in a small cabin on the edge of a fjord at Lofthus'

Answer: Edvard Grieg


Question: 'Pizza the Hutt is a character in this Mel Brooks "Star Wars" parody'

Answer: Spaceballs


Question: 'If you're in this capital of Nova Scotia Dec. 6, 1917; that ship full of ammo in the harbor is about to go boom'

Answer: Halifax


Question: 'The king is quite smitten with this fifth Mrs. Henry VIII, but dark times are in store'

Answer: (Catherine) Howard


Question: 'He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned"'

Answer: Christiaan Barnard


Question: 'Shining brightly, like a big smile'

Answer: beaming


Question: 'This French composer's "The Carnival of the Animals" was writfen to make fun of some friends'

Answer: Saint-Saëns


Question: 'Kevin Smith's movie "Jay and Silent Bob" do this features a lightsaber battle with Mark Hamill'

Answer: Strike Back


Question: 'If you're in this Pennsylvania town May 31, 1889; that dam's not gonna hold'

Answer: Johnstown


Question: 'We're out of wives as Katherine Parr is played by her, acting royalty, the younger daughter of Vanessa Redgrave'

Answer: Joely Richardson


Question: 'In 1616 he began lecturing on the circulation of blood; his book on the subject didn't come out until 1628'

Answer: (William) Harvey


Question: 'A signal fire'

Answer: a beacon


Question: 'This composer of Armenian heritage won a 1959 Lenin prize for his ballet "Spartacus"'

Answer: Khachaturian


Question: 'Kitchen appliances are starships in this '70s parody short with characters like Ham Salad & Fluke Starbucker'

Answer: Hardware Wars


Question: 'If you're in this Phoenician city in 146 B.C.; the Romans are coming, & they say it must be destroyed'

Answer: Carthage


Question: 'That's the earl of this putting the moves on a fine lady; note his collar with the fringe on top'

Answer: Surrey


Question: 'Last name of clinic founders Karl & William, whose writings helped mold attitudes toward mental illness'

Answer: Menninger


Question: 'Glass vessel used in science experiments'

Answer: a beaker


Question: 'One of Goya's few portraits of a foreigner was of this Englishman painted in 1812'

Answer: the Duke of Wellington


Question: 'Early 1800s:<br />Catastrophism says big events, like the one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life'

Answer: the Flood


Question: 'Gottfried Silbermann pulled out all the stops building this for Dresden's Katholische Hofkirche'

Answer: organ


Question: 'On September 17, 1962 the parents of this first moonwalker appeared on an episode of "I've Got A Secret"'

Answer: Neil Armstrong


Question: 'Name of the famous home that's depicted on the back of our current 5-cent coin'

Answer: Monticello


Question: 'It's the "Prairie State"'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'This seat of Jackson County, Missouri was the home of Harry Truman'

Answer: Independence


Question: '1751:<br />Axel Cronstedt discovers this -- the element, in a mineral, not the coin in his pants pocket'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'Antonio de Torres of 19th century Granada is responsible for the modern version of this instrument'

Answer: guitar


Question: 'Game show on which you heard Richard Dawson say, "Our survey said..."'

Answer: Family Feud


Question: 'His "Body lies a-mouldering in the grave" near his farmhouse in Lake Placid, New York'

Answer: John Brown


Question: 'The rate of this in Gambia is about 60 percent'

Answer: illiteracy


Question: 'Before moving to Missouri, this pro football team was known as the Dallas Texans'

Answer: Kansas City Chiefs


Question: '2001:<br />Researchers produce pulses of this that last 650 billionths of a billionth of a second'

Answer: light


Question: 'The instrument (violin) that's seen here, just before it was auctioned off for $1.3 million, was made by him'

Answer: Stradivarius


Question: 'In 1978 Billy Crystal cleared all 6 categories in a record 26 sec. on the $20,000 version of this Dick Clark show'

Answer: Pyramid


Question: 'Beauvoir, his last home in Biloxi, is now operated by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'Spock knows it means something that makes no rational sense'

Answer: illogical


Question: 'The only national monument in Missouri is the birthplace of this botanist, seen here'

Answer: George Washington Carver


Question: '4th century B.C.:<br />Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one'

Answer: cube


Question: 'Theobald Boehm, a player of this instrument, enlarged its finger holes & made it metal instead of wood'

Answer: flute


Question: 'Once contestants reached $8,000 on this '50s show, they answered questions from the Revlon isolation booth'

Answer: The $64,000 Question


Question: 'After Frederick Pabst's death, his 37-room mansion became home to the archbishops of this city'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Almost impossible to read'

Answer: illegible


Question: 'You're barking up the right tree if you know this is Missouri's state tree'

Answer: dogwood


Question: '1855:<br />Matthew Maury publishes the first textbook of this science, "Physical Geography of the Sea"'

Answer: oceanography


Question: 'In 1950 music stand maker Katsumi Yanagisawa started making these instruments under the Pearl brand name'

Answer: drums


Question: 'Future playwright Neil Simon was a stunt writer & James Dean a stunt tester for this Bud Collyer game show'

Answer: Beat The Clock


Question: 'A window of The Old Manse in Concord, Mass. still bears the diamond-engraved signatures of this author & his wife'

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Question: 'Another name for a magician'

Answer: illusionist


Question: 'The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union with this status'

Answer: slave state


Question: 'Almost all of the poetry of this "New England Mystic" was first published after her death in 1886'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  The equipment (film splicer) here was once used in this job that's had its own Academy Award since 1934'

Answer: editing


Question: 'In the theme song for "George of the Jungle", George is warned to do this'

Answer: watch out for that tree


Question: 'The Swedes founded Fort Christina in 1638 & this group founded Schenectady in 1661'

Answer: Dutch


Question: '2000:<br />Ralph Nader'

Answer: Green


Question: 'Planter's, fish house & champagne are 3 types of this festive drink'

Answer: punch


Question: 'Poem that contains the line "All in the valley of death rode the six hundred"'

Answer: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"


Question: 'The genre of "Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor", or what the director says once camera & sound are running'

Answer: action


Question: 'This fictional character lives in a tree that has the name "Sanders" above the door in gold letters'

Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh


Question: 'These ended in 1692 with a total of 30 convictions & 20 executions'

Answer: Salem Witch Trials


Question: '1844:<br />Henry Clay'

Answer: Whig


Question: 'This board can decide whether to release you from prison before your full sentence has been served'

Answer: parole board


Question: '"Mending Wall" is one of the best-known poems in his collection "North of Boston"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew skiing, but not giving the clue)  From the French, it's a sequence consisting of a succession of shots used to present an idea'

Answer: montage


Question: 'This 1987 U2 album contained 2 No. 1 hits: "With or Without You" & "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"'

Answer: "The Joshua Tree"


Question: 'Debuting in 1690, Boston's Publick Occurrences, the first one of these in America, was quickly suppressed'

Answer: newspaper (it only lasted one issue)


Question: '1904:<br />Eugene V. Debs'

Answer: Socialist


Question: 'Lemurs & humans both belong to this animal order'

Answer: primates


Question: 'A famous line in a James Weldon Johnson poem says, "Young man -- young man -- your arm's too short to" do this'

Answer: box with God


Question: 'A type of adhesive tape is named for this job, the chief electrician on the set'

Answer: gaffer


Question: 'In Greek mythology, she was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to protect her from Apollo's advances'

Answer: Daphne


Question: 'In 1692 this father of Cotton received Harvard's first doctor of sacred theology degree'

Answer: Increase Mather


Question: '1996:<br />Ross Perot'

Answer: Reform


Question: 'It's the city where you'll find the main campus of the University of South Africa'

Answer: Pretoria


Question: 'T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" to this poet & critic who helped revise it'

Answer: Ezra Pound


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  As opposed to backlight or fill light, the main spotlight in a scene is usually called this light'

Answer: key light


Question: 'This 1943 Betty Smith novel told the story of Francie Nolan, a child living in NYC's slums'

Answer: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"


Question: 'In 1619 this representative body in Virginia met for the very first time'

Answer: House of Burgesses


Question: '1948:<br />Henry Wallace'

Answer: Progressive


Question: 'Clowns attempt rape, cheat on each other & eventually commit murder in this Leoncavallo opera'

Answer: Pagliacci


Question: 'It's the largest U.S. city in population that's named for an American individual'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'This European adventurer reported that coal was widely used in the 13th century Far East'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: '1965: Omar Sharif as this sensitive-yet-philandering Russian doctor'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: '"Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste"'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'A 2004 contest saw "Brain Freeze" beat out "Growling Stomach" & "Tennis Elbow" to be added to this electric game'

Answer: Operation


Question: '...In a screwdriver'

Answer: vodka


Question: '"The straw that broke" this creature's "back"'

Answer: the camel


Question: 'Coal mining was made safer by the 19th c. invention of the safety this, which wouldn't ignite methane'

Answer: a lantern (or lamp)


Question: '2004: Alfred Molina as this heavily armed enemy of Spider-Man'

Answer: Doctor Octopus


Question: '"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake"'

Answer: Revelation


Question: 'Raise a glass to Angela Mount, who had her olfactory system insured for 10 million pounds while working evaluating this'

Answer: wine


Question: '...In a boilermaker, along with beer (rye works fine)'

Answer: whiskey


Question: '"A fine kettle of" these'

Answer: fish


Question: 'In the 13th century a duty of one farthing was assessed on coal unloaded at Billingsgate in this city'

Answer: London


Question: '1964: Peter Sellers as this German scientist who helped us love the bomb'

Answer: Dr. Strangelove


Question: '"Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne" (in First this)'

Answer: Kings


Question: 'In 1986 a judge told the Library of Congress to resume producing pictureless Braille editions of this magazine'

Answer: Playboy


Question: '...In a Tom Collins: the dry type of this'

Answer: gin


Question: '"Mad as a wet" this bird'

Answer: a hen


Question: 'Britannica says coal "was the basic energy source that fueled the" this "of the 18th and 19th centuries"'

Answer: the Industrial Revolution


Question: '1974: Gene Wilder as this doctor trying to live down the family name'

Answer: Dr. Frankenstein


Question: '"They bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him"'

Answer: Job


Question: 'Its nose is missing, but part of the beard of this ancient statue is in the British Museum'

Answer: the Sphinx


Question: '...In a Gauguin'

Answer: rum


Question: '"A" this "of a different color"'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'In the 1300s the southwest Indian tribes named for these dwellings used coal in pottery making'

Answer: pueblos


Question: '2005 & 2007: Julian McMahon as this comic book doctor who was struck by cosmic waves'

Answer: Doctor Doom


Question: '"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction"'

Answer: Proverbs


Question: 'From 2007 to 2011 the president, V.P. & prime minister all had the same family name in this country of Indochina'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: '...In a Rob Roy; vermouth's along for the ride, too'

Answer: scotch


Question: '"Killing the fatted" one'

Answer: a calf


Question: 'He & Paul Simon had their first hit under the names Tom & Jerry'

Answer: (Art) Garfunkel


Question: 'It wasn't "The Devil and" him repping Massachusetts in the House from 1823 to 1827--it was just him'

Answer: (Daniel) Webster


Question: 'During adolescence, you might feel these in your limbs, also the title of an '80s sitcom'

Answer: growing pains


Question: 'Koror & Guadalcanal'

Answer: the Pacific Ocean


Question: 'Doug Arbittier's collection of medical antiques in York, Pa. includes colorful jars that held these bloodsuckers'

Answer: leeches


Question: 'You don't have to be self-absorbed to do the endless crunches needed to develop these'

Answer: abs (in self-absorbed)


Question: 'Hey, hey, Ralphie boy--he was up to his knees in the sewers as Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners"'

Answer: (Art) Carney


Question: 'No debate--this Illinois man, "The Little Giant", was elected to the House in 1843 & the Senate in 1847'

Answer: (Stephen) Douglas


Question: 'These trousers are modeled after those worn by South American cowboys'

Answer: gaucho pants


Question: 'Majorca & Malta'

Answer: the Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'This talk show host's car collection ranges from a 1906 Stanley Steamer to a 2006 Corvette'

Answer: Leno


Question: 'When you dealt that card I acted as if this type of muscle, one of the body's 3 main types, had stopped working'

Answer: cardiac (in card I acted)


Question: 'This big band leader was married 8 times, including nuptials with hotties Lana Turner & Ava Gardner'

Answer: Artie Shaw


Question: 'In his diary, he wrote "My election as president...was not half so gratifying" as his later election to Congress in 1830'

Answer: John Quincy Adams


Question: 'Horripilation is the medical term for this skin condition'

Answer: goose bumps (goose pimples accepted)


Question: 'Mahe & Sri Lanka'

Answer: the Indian Ocean


Question: 'A chrome pop-up one from the 1950s was the first in Jens Veerbeck's collection of about 600 of these kitchen appliances'

Answer: toasters


Question: 'Her boyfriend is a NYC lawyer--a Gotham stringbean who never stretches out this leg muscle'

Answer: hamstring (in Gotham stringbean)


Question: 'This "holy" Washington Redskins wide receiver was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008'

Answer: (Art) Monk


Question: 'This navigational device continuously indicates true north'

Answer: a gyrocompass


Question: 'Gotland & Bornholm'

Answer: the Baltic Sea


Question: 'Ralph Isham was more interested in his mss. than his Mrs.--his passion was collecting these, including James Boswell's'

Answer: manuscripts


Question: 'The anatomy prof brought in a human model to identify this shoulder muscle'

Answer: the deltoid (in model to identify)


Question: 'This stop-motion animator created Gumby & Pokey'

Answer: (Art) Clokey


Question: 'Oceanography & volcanology are part of this branch of geology'

Answer: geophysics


Question: 'New York State's Grand Island & Three Sisters Islands'

Answer: the Niagara River


Question: 'This editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland turned his L.A. mansion into a museum of sci-fi memorabilia'

Answer: Forrest Ackerman


Question: 'An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic'

Answer: Johnny Got His Gun


Question: 'In 1980, this Cascade mountain peak was reduced from 9677' to about 8300''

Answer: Mt. St. Helens


Question: 'Of 30,000 known species, only Argyroneta aquatica truly lives in this type of environment'

Answer: water


Question: 'Jim Stafford had a novelty song about "My Girl Bill" while Johnny Cash's biggest hit was about him'

Answer: "A Boy Named Sue"


Question: 'To find a tape of his 1st Tonight Show, a Museum of Broadcasting ad asked "Whhheeere's" this man'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'Ex-Miss New Orleans who went down the "Road" with Bing & Bob'

Answer: Dorothy Lamourr


Question: 'Only Johnny Longden has ridden, then trained a winner of this legendary May race'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'Complete with big toe projection into the Gulf of Mexico, this state resembles a boot'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: '1 of the world's most dangerous spiders is this country's Sydney funnel web'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'While The Silhouettes were urged to "Get A Job", Johnny Paycheck told his employer this'

Answer: "Take This Job And Shove It"


Question: 'A popular attraction in this city is the Fort Pitt Museum'

Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Question: 'He was involved with 1972's Miss Tennessee, Linda Thompson, while he & Priscilla were divorcing'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Of about 8, 11, or 16%, the % of U.S. land area that Alaska represents'

Answer: 16%


Question: '2 of the 3 colors found in names of the "widow" spiders found in the U.S.'

Answer: (2 of) black, brown & red(-legged)


Question: 'Tho The Platters preferred "Twilight Time", The 4 Seasons sang of a girl named for this time'

Answer: "Dawn"


Question: 'Type of instrument Niccolo Paganini left to the city of Genoa, where it's kept in a museum'

Answer: a violin


Question: 'A scandal involving her lover lost this ex-Miss America her job with Mayor Koch's office'

Answer: Bess Myerson


Question: 'This island is the only U.S. commonwealth outside the continental U.S.'

Answer: Puerto Rico


Question: 'Spiders are among the earliest island colonists after these create a new environment, as at Krakatoa'

Answer: volcanoes


Question: 'While Starbuck said, "Moonlight Feels Right", John Denver preferred this'

Answer: "Sunshine On My Shoulder"


Question: 'Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson on TV's "Superman", donated this part of Jimmy's outfit to the Smithsonian'

Answer: his bow tie


Question: 'She won Miss World-USA in '73 --but the headband, bracelets & red, white & blue costume came later'

Answer: Lynda Carter


Question: 'Though most of Yellowstone National Park lies in Wyoming, it spreads out into these other 2 states'

Answer: Montana & Idaho


Question: 'Scientists separate these hairy cousins from the "true spiders"'

Answer: tarantulas


Question: 'While The Fleetwoods pleaded, "Come Softly To Me", in his biggest hit, S. Lawrence made this plea'

Answer: "Go Away, Little Girl"


Question: 'This Midwest city's Museum of Science & Industry has a coal mine & a submarine'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita"'

Answer: Anita Ekberg


Question: 'The first thing he says is his wife's name, "Calpurnia!"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'Some 20 million Americans are sufferers of this, called the most common allergy in the U.S.'

Answer: hayfever


Question: 'In 1956, this Pennsylvanian became a princess'

Answer: Grace Kelly


Question: 'Though it takes place at Christmastime, this 1947 Edmund Gwenn film was released in June'

Answer: Miracle on 34th Street


Question: 'Of Coca, Cola or Pepsi, the 1 that's a castle in Spain'

Answer: Coca


Question: 'A heptarchy is a government ruled by this many people'

Answer: 7


Question: 'Neither of these 2 developers of polio vaccines ever won the Nobel Prize'

Answer: Salk & Sabin


Question:
'Philadelphian who had his last Top 10 hit with the following:

"Every limbo boy and girl /
All around the limbo world /
Gonna do the limbo rock /
All around the limbo block /
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick..."'

Answer: Chubby Checker


Question: 'In 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation", Joseph Henabery played this president'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'With 74 stairways, Chambord is the largest Chateau in this river valley famed for chateaux'

Answer: the Loire


Question: 'A gerontocracy is a government by these'

Answer: old people


Question: 'Used by primitives for blood letting, surgeons now use this worm to reattach severed body parts'

Answer: a leech


Question: 'His biographer Carl Van Doren said, "After a century and a half he remains Philadelphia's 1st citizen"'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'In '40s films, the "Portrait of Jennie" was of Jennifer Jones & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was of him'

Answer: Hurd Hatfield


Question: 'In 1847, schoolboys fought American troops defending this capital city's Chapultepec Castle'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'In the U.S. in the 1890s, a popocracy might have been possible, since this party was at its height'

Answer: the Populist Party


Question: 'A DPT shot protects against diptheria, tetanus & pertussis, which is better known as this'

Answer: whooping cough


Question: 'Philadelphia's planetarium is named for benefactor Joseph Fels who really cleaned up making this'

Answer: soap


Question: 'Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" was based in part on this 1939 film, Ingrid Bergman's 1st Amer. vehicle'

Answer: Intermezzo


Question: 'While a dulocracy is government run by slaves, a slavocracy is a government ruled by these'

Answer: masters (or slaveowners)


Question: 'Her book "The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry" was followed up by "Tish" & then "More Tish"'

Answer: Mary Roberts Rinehart


Question: 'Object in title of a late 1940's DeSica film, it's stolen from a poor Italian'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'A gynocracy is government by women; this, from Greek for "man", is government by men'

Answer: an androcracy


Question: 'On Jan. 1, 1977, in Indianapolis, Mrs. J. Means became 1st woman legally ordained a priest by this church'

Answer: the Episcopal Church


Question: 'The male platypus has a spur on its heel connected to a gland that delivers a type of this'

Answer: poison


Question: 'For 2000-2001:<br />James Gandolfini'

Answer: Tony Soprano


Question: '"Forget your troubles, come on get" this fragance from Clinique with a hint of citrus & a wealth of flowers'

Answer: Happy


Question: 'This "Simple Life"r's "Confessions of an Heiress" made the list'

Answer: Paris Hilton


Question: 'In both area & population, this continent is the largest'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'It can precede  "of contract", "of faith", "of promise" or "of trust"'

Answer: breach


Question: 'Brought to Australia c. 3000 B.C., this canine is the continent's largest hunting mammal, besides man'

Answer: the dingo


Question: 'For 1976-77:<br />Lindsay Wagner'

Answer: the Bionic Woman (Jaime Sommers)


Question: 'Hats off, cowboys, to Coty, which makes both "Lady" and manly versions of this cologne'

Answer: Stetson


Question: 'Lots of people forked over $35 to read this autobiography of Bill Clinton'

Answer: My Life


Question: 'The Earth's population hit this landmark figure around 1800'

Answer: one billion


Question: 'Try to convince someone who's already on yours side & you're doing this "to the choir"'

Answer: preach


Question: 'This furry cutie spends most of its daylight hours sleeping in the fork of a eucalyptus tree'

Answer: a koala bear


Question: 'For 1960-61:<br />Raymond Burr'

Answer: Perry Mason


Question: 'This classic men's cologne shares its name with a musketeer'

Answer: Aramis


Question: 'In book 10, "The Slippery Slope", this author's Baudelaire siblings are at it again'

Answer: Lemony Snicket


Question: 'This New England state has the smallest population of any state east of the Mississippi River'

Answer: Vermont


Question: 'To challenge the credibility of a witness, or to accuse a public official of misconduct in office'

Answer: impeach


Question: 'North Australia is a habitat of the saltwater species of this reptile that has reached 30 feet in length'

Answer: a crocodile


Question: 'For 1983-84:<br />John Ritter'

Answer: Jack Tripper


Question: 'In 1973 Revlon launched this top-selling perfume reportedly named for one of the company's founders'

Answer: Charlie


Question: '"Today" we'll tell you this in "Skywriting" this TV personality told of her struggle with bipolar disorder'

Answer: Jane Pauley


Question: 'About 1/3 of this Himalayan monarchy's population is Nepalese; most of the rest is of Tibetan ancestry'

Answer: Bhutan


Question: 'A person who lives by gathering saleable articles of jetsam, refuse & the like from the seashore'

Answer: beachcomber


Question: 'The long-beaked species of this monotreme lives in New Guinea; the short-beaked lives in Australia'

Answer: an echidna


Question: 'For 1967-68:<br />Werner Klemperer'

Answer: Colonel Klink


Question: 'This earthy scent from Demeter is decribed as "a nice potting soil mixed with the citrus smell of fresh grass"'

Answer: Dirt


Question: 'This former presidential candidate & TV commentator made the list with "Where the Right Went Wrong"'

Answer: Patrick Buchanan


Question: 'The population of Saudi Arabia is about 90 percent this branch of Islam'

Answer: Sunni


Question: 'This 11-letter adjective can mean untrustworthy or hazardous'

Answer: treacherous


Question: 'March 29, 1792:<br />King Gustav III of this nation is assassinated at a masquerade ball'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'The verdict is in: a dozen unnamed & notably indignant jurors gave this drama its title'

Answer: Twelve Angry Men


Question: 'An inlet or cove, or to equip with weapons'

Answer: arm


Question: 'Shania Twain was born on Aug. 28, 1965 in Windsor, Canada; Mark Twain, on Nov. 30, 1835 in this state'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'Of first, second or third degree, murder by poison usually falls under this designation'

Answer: first degree


Question: 'It's what you do when casually offering "a hint" or "a name", hoping someone picks it up'

Answer: drop


Question: 'March 5, 1770:<br />British troops gun down 5 American colonists in the event that would become known as this'

Answer: the Boston Massacre


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the set of the Majestic Theatre, New York.) The Phantom of the Opera calls Christine a little viper when she does this to him here in his underground lair'

Answer: unmasks him


Question: 'One of the stretches in a relay race'

Answer: a leg


Question: 'Shania's given name is Eilleen Regina Edwards; Mark's was this (including his middle name)'

Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens


Question: 'Since 1993, rape by this person has been a crime in all 50 states; it isn't one in most other countries'

Answer: a husband (or spouse)


Question: 'Powerful people may be surrounded by these "men" named for the syllable they often utter'

Answer: yes men


Question: 'March 16, 1935:<br />Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of this treaty'

Answer: the Treaty of Versailles


Question: 'Yikes!  A flame device that uses liquid butane is part of this "Beauty and the Beast" character's costume'

Answer: Lumiere


Question: 'A card game participant, as in "Sir Nigel, we need a fourth" one "at whist"'

Answer: hand


Question: 'Mark first visited this city in 1872; in 1999 Shania played the Prince's Trust concert in Hyde Park there'

Answer: London


Question: 'Two-word name for the crime seen here in a Goya painting, or an informal term for overcharging'

Answer: highway robbery


Question: 'It's a 5-letter archaic word for "the truth"; a "sayer" of it speaks truth about the future'

Answer: sooth


Question: 'March 28, 1854:<br />The U.K. & France declare war on Russia, beginning this war'

Answer: the Crimean War


Question: 'This musical features vaudeville cutie Baby June, who, in real life, grew up to be actress June Havoc'

Answer: Gypsy


Question: '10 penny, 16 penny or 20 penny, for example'

Answer: a nail


Question: 'In 1870 Mark married the lovely Olivia Langdon; in 1993 Shania wed this adorable "mutt"'

Answer: Robert Mutt Lange


Question: 'In 2004 the U.S. government announced the first capital prosecution in a case involving smuggling these'

Answer: immigrants (into the U.S.)


Question: '"Make a clean breast" & "go to pot" are in the "American Heritage Dictionary of" these, which give ESL students fits'

Answer: idioms


Question: 'March 1967:<br />She, Joseph Stalin's last surviving child, asks for asylum at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi'

Answer: Svetlana Stalin


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the set of the Gerswhin Theatre, New York.)  The name "Elphaba", the leading character in "Wicked", is derived from the initials of this famous author'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: 'To tease, or a primary vein of a leaf'

Answer: a rib


Question: 'Shania's self-titled debut went gold in 1996; in 1873 Mark's first novel had this "golden"-sounding title'

Answer: The Gilded Age


Question: 'It's a form of extortion or blackmail under the guise of keeping you or your business safe'

Answer: protection


Question: 'Solipsism says that the self is the only reality; this -ism is a general term for a verbal impropriety'

Answer: solecism


Question: 'The first name of this man born February 15, 1564 was derived from his parents' surname, a common Tuscan habit at that time'

Answer: Galileo Galilei


Question: 'In its last chapter, the hero tells his father, "Love means never having to say you're sorry"'

Answer: "Love Story"


Question: 'Close proverbially counts in this sport, but a ringer counts the most'

Answer: Horseshoes


Question: 'In '06 these events devastated San Francisco in April & Valparaiso, Chile in August'

Answer: Earthquakes


Question: 'Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice'

Answer: 8  (24/3)


Question: 'The U.S. uses the Swiss embassy in Iran to conduct business & the Polish embassy in this neighboring country'

Answer: Iraq


Question: 'This form of billiards uses 15 red balls & 6 colored balls'

Answer: Snooker


Question: 'Ralph survives on the island but Piggy is less lucky in this William Golding classic'

Answer: "Lord of the Flies"


Question: 'Justin Huish of the U.S. took a bow when he won a gold in this sport at the 1996 Olympics'

Answer: Archery


Question: 'Blind in one eye, Frank McGee scored 14 goals in one game to win this trophy for Ottawa in '05'

Answer: The Stanley Cup (hockey)


Question: 'Number of ounces in a standard avoirdupois pound divided by number of cups in a gallon'

Answer: 1 (16/16)


Question: 'Say so long to Sarajevo; the U.S. has been warning people about visiting this country since 1992'

Answer: Bosnia


Question: 'Oscar-nominated film in which Dustin Hoffman played both Michael Dorsey & Dorothy Michaels'

Answer: "Tootsie"


Question: 'Albert Camus' French work "L' Etranger" has been translated as "The Outsider", but more commonly as this'

Answer: "The Stranger"


Question: 'Now a sport that can include a 10,000 foot free fall to a target, the equipment dates back to 1797'

Answer: Skydiving


Question: 'This barbershop favorite was a campaign song for "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald'

Answer: "Sweet Adeline"


Question: 'It's the square root of the square root of 81'

Answer: 3 (square root of 9)


Question: 'In June 1997 the U.S. closed its embassy in Brazzaville in this country & advises you not to visit'

Answer: The Congo


Question: 'In 1967 the Rascals were doing this "Down a crowded avenue, doin' anything we'd like to do"'

Answer: "Groovin\'"


Question: 'Norman Mailer was just 25 when this 1948 bestseller, his first novel, was published'

Answer: "The Naked And The Dead"


Question: 'Its center should be 5 feet, 8 inches off the tavern floor & you can stand 7 feet, 9 1/4 inches away from it'

Answer: Dartboard


Question: 'It began in '01 & the train of the same name began running from NYC to Chicago in '02'

Answer: The 20th Century


Question: 'Total number of U.S. representatives times total number of U.S. senators'

Answer: 43,500 (435 X 100)


Question: 'If you decide to go to this country (against U.S. wishes), really avoid the city of Cali'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Meaning the lot, pack or crowd, it's often paired with kit'

Answer: Kaboodle


Question: 'Saul Bellow's title characters include Herzog, Humboldt & this man, "The Rain King"'

Answer: Henderson


Question: 'The target in this Italian sport, also known as lawn bowls, is called the jack'

Answer: Bocce


Question: 'It's the number you get when you raise 10 to the fifth power'

Answer: 100,000


Question: 'With tensions between Ethiopia & this country mounting, the State Dept. warned Americans to get out'

Answer: Eritrea


Question: 'From the Tamil language for "curl", it's a cigar with square-cut ends'

Answer: Cheroot


Question: 'Composer baptized with the given names Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus'

Answer: Wolfgang A. Mozart


Question: 'This man shared a Nobel Prize with his wife Marie'

Answer: Pierre Curie


Question: 'Mizen Head, this country's southernmost mainland point, lies in County Cork & that's no blarney'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Born in Norway, he coached the Fighting Irish'

Answer: Knute Rockne


Question: 'Al Pacino, for "Scent of a Woman"; Robert Downey Jr., for "Chaplin"; Denzel Washington, for "Malcolm X"'

Answer: Al Pacino (1992)


Question: 'He pushed for a New Deal in 1932 & appealed to the "forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid"'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'Shakespeare mentioned this folk tune attributed to Henry VIII in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"'

Answer: "Greensleeves"


Question: 'He was one of the early card-carrying members (of the Communist Party) before "getting the axe"'

Answer: Leon Trotsky


Question: 'Seixas Point, the easternmost point on the mainland of the Americas, lies in this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'You might be ticked off if you catch this disease caused by the microorganism rickettsia rickettii'

Answer: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever


Question: 'Tom Cruise, for "Jerry Maguire"; Geoffrey Rush, for "Shine"; Ralph Fiennes, for "The English Patient"'

Answer: Geoffrey Rush


Question: 'Jack Dempsey in 1926 & Ronald Reagan in 1981 quipped they "forgot to" do this'

Answer: Duck


Question: 'The stringed instrument played sitting cross-legged on the floor, sometimes with a tabla, an Indian drum'

Answer: Sitar


Question: 'Born in Scotland, this author spent time in the United States & the South Seas'

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson


Question: 'Only 4 nations lie south of 40 degrees south latitude:  Australia, New Zealand, Argentina & this one'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'The Stray Cats revived this kind of rock in 1982'

Answer: rockabilly


Question: 'Brad Pitt, for "12 Monkeys"; James Cromwell, for "Babe"; Kevin Spacey, for "The Usual Suspects"'

Answer: Kevin Spacey


Question: 'In this Eagles song, "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"'

Answer: "Hotel California"


Question: 'The 3 clef signs in current use are C, F & this, also known as treble'

Answer: G