Question: '(I'm Campbell Brown.)  The Democrats have adopted a 50-state strategy at the instigation of this DNC chairman & former presidential contender'

Answer: Howard Dean


Question: 'Show on which 2 clans compete to guess the top responses to survey questions'

Answer: Family Feud


Question: 'More than 1,000 islands make up the Alexander Archipelago in this U.S. state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'James Baldwin gained fame with this semi-autobiographical work that includes a peak in the title'

Answer: Go Tell It on the Mountain


Question: 'Macaroons are often made with the shredded meat of this palm fruit'

Answer: coconut


Question: 'Word for the large size of shot used for deer hunting'

Answer: buckshot


Question: 'The Australian War Memorial is in this city'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'It's always "the Age of Aquarius" in this musical that lets the sun shine in again in 2009'

Answer: Hair


Question: 'Microsoft made a tool to recognize this annoyance & found it could also help find the fast-mutating HIV virus'

Answer: spam


Question: 'An ocean dweller:<br />POISE PRO'

Answer: porpoise


Question: 'As part of a 3-book deal, she'll soon write a memoir about her years as Secretary of State'

Answer: (Condoleezza) Rice


Question: 'It links the scapula & the sternum'

Answer: the collarbone


Question: 'This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'The original ran for 2 years, but the revival of this Illinois-set musical had a 12th anniversary party in 2008'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'This device at the government's NIST lab neither gains nor loses a second in 99 million years'

Answer: the atomic clock


Question: 'A real softy:<br />CHAIN CHILL'

Answer: chinchilla


Question: 'In 1962 he said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law"'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'A settlement far from a home country'

Answer: a colony


Question: 'In 1823 Costa Rica moved its capital from Cartago to this city where coffee plantations were prospering'

Answer: San José


Question: 'This classic Rodgers & Hammerstein show set in WWII Polynesia came back to Broadway in 2008'

Answer: South Pacific


Question: 'Astronomy using these, discovered in the 1890s, has to be done from space as these can't penetrate our atmosphere'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'It's under heavy cover:<br />IDOL ALARM'

Answer: armadillo


Question: 'Currently, he's the only African American on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Clarence Thomas


Question: 'California venue that has hosted 2 Olympic games'

Answer: the L.A. Coliseum


Question: 'This capital city is on a railway line between Fez & Casablanca'

Answer: Rabat


Question: 'In April 2009 Bill Irwin & Nathan Lane began "Waiting for" him (P.S. They're still waiting)'

Answer: Godot


Question: 'This word came to be used in telecom when the coverage area was divided into honeycomb shapes'

Answer: cellular


Question: 'A little monkey:<br />MORE MAST'

Answer: marmoset


Question: 'In 1872 Victoria Woodhull chose this orator & former slave to be her running mate'

Answer: Frederick Douglass


Question: 'From the Latin for "partner in office", it's an associate with whom one works'

Answer: a colleague


Question: 'One way to see the sights on New Providence Island in the Bahamas is to get on a bus called a jitney in this port'

Answer: Nassau


Question: 'Hey, genius, it's the genus of your pony--also a play revived on Broadway in 2008'

Answer: Equus


Question: 'In 1971 Intel introduced these integrated circuits that perform all the functions of a CPU'

Answer: microprocessor


Question: 'Large hog-like mammal:<br />I TRAP'

Answer: tapir


Question: 'Ernest Just, who received the first Spingarn Medal in 1915, was a biologist & professor at this D.C. university'

Answer: Howard


Question: 'Arches supported by a row of evenly spaced columns'

Answer: a colonnade


Question: 'Before its use in journalism, it meant a boundary beyond which straying prisoners would be shot'

Answer: deadline


Question: 'In the Peasant's War, fought mainly in this country, Martin Luther wanted the rebels treated "like mad dogs"'

Answer: Germany


Question: '...of chess pieces'

Answer: a bishop


Question: 'In 1825 Joshua purdy brown erected the first of these portable circus structures in Wilmington, Del.'

Answer: a big-top (or tent)


Question: 'Bouillon is a thin, clear this'

Answer: broth (or soup)


Question: 'The right to hit first goes to the person who's this 4-letter word, meaning his ball is farthest from the hole'

Answer: away


Question: 'A group of people appointed for a specific function, like the Senate Judiciary one'

Answer: committee


Question: 'Benito Juarez emerged from the War of Reform as a principal influence in this country's politics'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '...of the New England states'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'Not until 1982 did a performer publicly do this many somersaults from bar to catcher on the trapeze'

Answer: four


Question: 'Polenta is a dish of cooked, ground this'

Answer: corn


Question: 'A courteous golfer replaces & repairs this loose piece of turf dug out of a fairway by a swing'

Answer: a divot


Question: 'Artist Marcel Duchamp added one to the Mona Lisa'

Answer: a goatee


Question: 'This country's civil war, lasting from 1936 to 1939, began in Morocco'

Answer: Spain


Question: '...in the Baseball Hall of Fame'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'In 1907 these siblings purchased the Barnum & Bailey circus'

Answer: the Ringling Brothers


Question: 'En croute means wrapped in this & baked'

Answer: pastry


Question: 'Exhibiting Bernoulli's Principle, these indentations on a golf ball cause it to lift & stabilize it in flight'

Answer: a dimple


Question: 'A promise of a refund if a purchased product is unsatisfactory'

Answer: a guarantee


Question: 'Henry IV converted from protestantism to Roman Catholicism at the end of this country's Wars of Religion'

Answer: France


Question: '...among the state capitals'

Answer: Albany, New York


Question: 'Many circus historians credit Isaac van Amburgh with being the first to put his head in this dangerous place'

Answer: the lion\'s mouth


Question: 'Pumpernickel refers to a dark type of this bread'

Answer: rye


Question: 'In golfing slang, to use a "Texas wedge" is to use this club when not on the green'

Answer: a putter


Question: 'It's a person who holds the title to a property for the benefit of another person'

Answer: a trustee


Question: 'A 1921 treaty dividing the island demanded a fidelity oath that brought about a civil war in this country'

Answer: Ireland


Question: '...of the Old Testament prophets'

Answer: Amos


Question: 'In 1947 this "flying" family perfected the 7-man pyramid on the high wire'

Answer: the Wallendas


Question: 'Mascarpone is a soft Italian this'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'For 2009-10 this Georgia golf course was rated No. 1 by golf digest'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'This aquatic mammal can grow up to Io feet long & can weigh up to 2,000 pounds: some mermaid!'

Answer: a manatee


HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL

Question: 'Ban Ki-moon'

Answer: South Korea


Question: '1977: Certain folks can't get a Wyoming landmark out of their heads & go there to meet new friends'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question: 'A 2010 exhibit at the Rijksmuseum Schiphol Airport in this country was called "Sunny Skies"'

Answer: the Netherlands


Question: 'In the text of a play, dramatis personae is a list of these'

Answer: the characters


Question: 'Completes Cyndi Lauper's line, "if you're lost you can look and you will find me..."'

Answer: "time after time"


Question:
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew is holding a bone.)   Early humans lived
 a perilous existence.  This 1.8-million-year-old
 ankle joint found in Tanzania bears teeth marks,
probably made by one of these dangerous reptiles
 that still haunt African waters'

Answer: crocodiles


HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL

Question: 'Kurt Waldheim'

Answer: Austria


Question: '1968: Early hominids fashion a weapon, then a trip to Jupiter goes awry'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'An outline of the main points of a work is called this, from the Latin for "see together"'

Answer: a synopsis


Question: 'Hyphenated type of sportscaster who gives a detailed description of a sporting event'

Answer: play-by-play man


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates the morphing station.)  The hall's morphing station allows visitors to see what they'd look like, had they been born into a different human species; here, I'm morphing from a Homo sapiens into one of these long-extinct cousins'

Answer: a Neanderthal


HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL

Question: 'Boutros Boutros-Ghali'

Answer: Egypt


Question: '1982: It's rainy all day in future L.A. as a cop looks for murderers & doubts his girl's humanity'

Answer: Blade Runner


Question: 'Husband to Georgia O'Keeffe, this 291 Gallery founder had a show in gallery 321 of the St. Louis art museum'

Answer: Alfred Stieglitz


Question: 'A poetic lament for the dead; Milton's "Lycidas" was a pastoral one'

Answer: an elegy


Question: 'Completes Yogi Berra's declaration "it ain't over till..."'

Answer: "it\'s over"


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew is is in front of a skeleton.)  A diet heavy in plants requires
 a long digestive tract, so a broad torso and ample gut are visible in the reconstruction
 of the famous
 3.2-million-year-old
 human fossil  discovered in Ethiopia in 1974
 and known by this female name'

Answer: Lucy


HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL

Question: 'Kofi Annan'

Answer: Ghana


Question: '1979: aAfter discovering that certain pods didn't contain peas, a gal & her cat are the last survivors of the Nostromo'

Answer: Alien


Question: 'Otto Dix & max Beckmann were part of a 2006 show on German this -ism at Vienna's Leopold Museum'

Answer: expressionism


Question: 'Please "stop" repeating these recurring lines at the ends of the stanzas'

Answer: the refrains


Question: 'In the world of delivery, it means sent directly from point of pickup to point of drop-off'

Answer: door-to-door


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew is standing near a trail of footprints.)   3.6 million years ago,
 in Africa, an early human left a trail of fossil footprints
 with a stride much shorter than ours.
Mary Leakey found the prints, which were likely made  by this type of human, whose name means
 "southern ape"'

Answer: australopithecus


HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL

Question: 'Trygve Lie'

Answer: Norway


Question: '1981:Hi-ho, hi-ho, miners are dying on Io; bad drugs are the problem & a former James Bond is the solution'

Answer: Outland


Question: 'In 2010 MoMA put on this French artist: "Radical Invention, 1913-1917", including "The Moroccans"'

Answer: Henri Matisse


Question: 'The Italian sonnet is sometimes named for this Tuscan'

Answer: Petrarch


Question: 'First mentioned in Exodus, this form of reciprocal justice can lead to optometrist bills'

Answer: an eye for an eye


Question:
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew is holding a skull.)  Fossil skulls from different human species show changes in facial
 and cranial features.  The skull with the large brain case and  prominent brow ridge belong to a species named for this city in  southwest Germany, where
 the first specimen was found'

Answer: Heidelberg


Question: 'In May 1964 this New Orleans native was 62 years old when he bumped the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" from the No. 1 spot'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: 'In 1965 the Mariner 4 spacecraft made the first flyby of this fourth planet from the sun'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'When she skates, this ice princess wears a Chinese good luck charm given to her by her grandmother'

Answer: Michelle Kwan


Question: 'In 1993 he got an honorary degree from Harvard & retired from the U.S. military; today he's a secretary'

Answer: Colin Powell


Question: 'In September 2002 this Texan won Fox' "American Idol"'

Answer: Kelly Clarkson


Question: 'It's the traditional gift for a fifth wedding anniversary, so don't "knock" it'

Answer: wood


Question: 'Entomb a tomahawk'

Answer: bury the hatchet


Question: 'At about 100 times the mass of the sun, the most massive one of these known is Eta Carinae'

Answer: star


Question: 'Rocky Aoki founded this chain of Japanese restaurants where the chef puts on a show at the table'

Answer: Benihana of Tokyo


Question: 'This Bostonian's name was on an honorary degree in 1792; today it's on a beer'

Answer: Samuel Adams


Question: '2001's No. 1 album of the year was this 1960s quartet's "1"; amazingly, it was their 1st ever No. 1 album of the year'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: 'This South American nation is the world's fifth-largest country in both area & population'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'One Panthera pardus will never be able to modify the markings he has'

Answer: a leopard can\'t change his spots


Question: 'On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong took "one small step" onto this "peaceful" lunar sea'

Answer: Sea of Tranquility


Question: 'She followed her bestseller "The Joy Luck Club" with "The Kitchen God's Wife"'

Answer: Amy Tan


Question: '1982 recipients included Mother Teresa & this "Big Daddy" of Southern playwrights'

Answer: Tennessee Williams


Question: 'Just one month after her "A New Day has Come" CD was released, it was certified multi-platinum'

Answer: Celine Dion


Question: 'This former governor of Virginia seen here was also our fifth U.S. president'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'To flip within one's crypt'

Answer: to turn over in one\'s grave


Question: 'It's the "breezy" name for the flow of high-speed ionized particles from the sun into interplanetary space'

Answer: solar winds


Question: 'This politician seen here is a native of Honolulu'

Answer: Sen. Daniel Inouye


Question: 'One of the special singularities in this British physicist's life is an honorary degree from Harvard in 1990'

Answer: Stephen Hawking


Question: 'In July 2002 this group's "By the Way" CD debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart'

Answer: Red Hot Chili Peppers


Question: 'Corresponding to our letter "E", it's the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet'

Answer: epsilon


Question: 'Cinch up thy mid-body drawstring'

Answer: tighten your belt


Question: 'Abbreviated the VAB, this Cape Canaveral structure is where the space shuttle & rocket are put together'

Answer: Vehicle Assembly Building


Question: 'In 2002 this maestro ended his 29-year tenure as director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra'

Answer: Seiji Ozawa


Question: 'In 1968 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, better known by this title, received an honorary doctorate'

Answer: Shah of Iran


Question: 'In 2001 Alicia Keys won an MTV Award for Best New Artist in a Video with this song'

Answer: "Fallin\'"


Question: 'Well, fiddle-dee-dee!  He was the fifth emperor of Rome'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'Refrain from enumerating poultry until each is postnatal'

Answer: don\'t count your chickens before they\'re hatched


Question: 'Grover was known to some as "Uncle" this, a size for jets & elephants'

Answer: Jumbo


Question: 'You can eat ice cream from a dull, ordinary cone, or from one named for this breakfast food'

Answer: waffle cone


Question: 'She's Luke Skywalker's twin sister'

Answer: Princess Leia


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London)  The oldest part of the Tower of London, the White Tower, was begun more than 900 years ago by this conqueror'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'About German cinema:<br />1930's "The Blue Angel" is considered the country's first film using this innovation'

Answer: sound


Question: 'From the Greek for "wise" & "foolish", it's the term for a second year college student'

Answer: sophomore


Question: 'Cleveland began his second term as president this many years after his first term ended'

Answer: 4


Question: 'It's cooking food by immersing it in hot oil; it's a Scottish practice to do it to Mars bars'

Answer: deep-fat frying


Question: 'These 2 droids were the only witnesses when Anakin Skywalker & Padme Amidala were married'

Answer: R2-D2 & C-3PO


Question: 'These black birds who traditionally live at the Tower each get one egg a week as a treat'

Answer: ravens


Question: 'About the Talmud:<br />It was written in Aramaic & this language'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'This machine takes its name from the Greek for "earthquake writer"'

Answer: seismograph


Question: 'Cleveland put a stop to the Senate's efforts to annex this island group & tried to get its queen restored'

Answer: Hawaiian Islands


Question: 'Sweet & sour sauce is a popular dip for these fried Chinese dumplings for which a soup is also named'

Answer: won tons


Question: 'This wookiee's voice is a blend of animal sounds, including bears, badgers, walruses & camels'

Answer: Chewbacca


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London)  This future queen narrowly escaped execution when she was sent to the Tower by her half-sister Mary in 1554'

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I


Question: 'About your lymphatic system:<br />Small roundish tissue masses called these filter out bacteria'

Answer: nodes


Question: 'This prefix that often comes before "science" or "Intellectual" is from the Greek for "false"'

Answer: pseudo


Question: 'The fact that the 1894 Pullman rail strike was interferring with this allowed Cleveland to send in federal troops'

Answer: mail delivery (they used to deliver mail by rail)


Question: 'It can be an apparatus to make a popular movie snack, or a jalapeno & cheese concoction'

Answer: popper


Question: 'Ahmed Best was the voice of this bumbling Gungan from Naboo'

Answer: Jar Jar Binks


Question: 'The yeoman warriors guarding the Tower once got hefty rations of meat, which may be why they're nicknamed this'

Answer: Beefeaters


Question: 'About the Republic of Zambia:<br />This cataract is its best-known tourist attraction'

Answer: Victoria Falls


Question: 'This term for the science of setting off fireworks is from the Greek for "fire craft"'

Answer: pyrotechnics


Question: 'In the popular vote of the 1884 election, Cleveland beat this man from Maine by fewer than 30,000 votes'

Answer: James G. Blaine


Question: 'Popular in Cajun cooking, this sausage with a French name is full of tripey goodness'

Answer: Andouille


Question: 'This bounty hunter, seen as a child in Episode II, is actually a clone of his father, Jango'

Answer: Boba Fett


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London)  The ghosts of these two boys who died in 1483 haunt the bloody Tower; they stand silently, hand-in-hand, & fade into the stone'

Answer: the Little Princes


Question: 'About cheesemaking:<br />This final stage is technically calld affinage'

Answer: aging


Question: 'From the Greek for "five scrolls", it's the term used for the first 5 books of the Bible'

Answer: Pentateuch


Question: 'In 2002, at age 104, Gregorio Fuentes, an inspiration for this tale, died in the Cuban fishing village of Cojimar'

Answer: \"The Old Man and the Sea\"


Question: 'Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was also an accomplished author'

Answer: Mary Shelley


Question: 'It's funeral home sweet home for the Fishers on this HBO series'

Answer: Six Feet Under


Question: 'For many years cover girl Macpherson graced the pages of this magazine which shares her name'

Answer: Elle


Question: 'In the 1880's these recent inventions sometimes bore signs saying, "Do not attempt to light with a match"'

Answer: light bulbs


Question: 'It's the potent potable in a traditional mint julep'

Answer: bourbon


Question:
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew gives all the clues in this category.)
I.M. Pei,
Maya Lin,
Le Corbusier'

Answer: famous architects


Question: 'Minnie Schoenberg was mom to these famous boys & even performed with them for awhile'

Answer: The Marx Brothers


Question: 'The title mom & daughter of this WB show live in the idyllic Connecticut town of Stars Hollow'

Answer: the Gilmore Girls


Question: 'Called BHG for short, it's big on accents, accessories & landscaping'

Answer: Better Homes & Gardens


Question: 'In 1900 only about 1 U.S. home in 13 had this device granted patent No. 174,465 24 years earlier'

Answer: telephone


Question: 'Mumm is the word & it's also a brand of this that's been around since 1827'

Answer: champagne


Question:
'Overcooked meals,
feminist bras,
"the midnight oil"'

Answer: things that are burned


Question: 'Though she bore Henry VIII 6 children, only 1, Mary I, survived infancy'

Answer: Catherine of Aragon


Question: 'Richard Moll was a regular as Bull the bald bailiff on this '80s show'

Answer: Night Court


Question: 'American Turf Monthly has been following & promoting this sport since 1946'

Answer: horse racing


Question: 'George Clemens prevented untold chafing when he invented this device found in restaurant bathrooms'

Answer: the hand dryer


Question: '"It's another" one of these orange juice cocktails that's mentioned in the title of an Eagles hit'

Answer: Tequila Sunrise


Question:
'Jason Seahorn,
Goliath,
Neil Armstrong's "leap"'

Answer: Giants


Question: 'In the Bible there was a heck of a generation gap between her & her son Isaac; she was 91 when she bore him'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'He plays Monk, the obsessive compulsive detective'

Answer: Tony Shalhoub


Question: '"Natural Healing", "Food & Nutrition" & "Fitness" are regular features of this leading health magazine founded in 1950'

Answer: Prevention


Question: 'Robert Watson-Watt's development of this use for radio waves in 1935 helped win the Battle of Britain'

Answer: radar


Question: 'At Trafalgar Horatio Nelson's body was preserved in a cask of this, probably not the Napoleon kind'

Answer: brandy


Question:
'A well,
a jack-in-the-box,
a hurdy-gurdy'

Answer: things that have a crank


Question: 'In mythology her daughter Persephone was carried off by Hades'

Answer: Demeter


Question: 'This TV angel was born in Derry City, Northern Ireland'

Answer: Roma Downey


Question: 'It's Johnson Publishing Co.'s pocket-size weekly with an African-American perspective'

Answer: Jet


Question: 'A British inventor gave his name tot his type of road surface that spread across Europe in the 19th century'

Answer: macadam


Question: 'This premium hazelnut liqueur from Italy is made from a 300-year-old recipe'

Answer: Frangelico


Question:
'Muscles,
baby food,
relations'

Answer: things that are strained


Question: 'It wasn't "The Plague" that killed this French author but, sadly, a 1960 car accident'

Answer: Camus


Question: 'This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name'

Answer: 42nd Street


Question: 'Ironically, President Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment but this state was the first former Confederate state to pass it'

Answer: Tennessee


Question: 'This type of multiple birth occurs about once every 7,700 births'

Answer: triplets


Question: 'The French national anthem was named for its popularity with volunteer army units from this seaport'

Answer: Marseille


Question: 'This term for a fake comes from someone who has only 4 cards of the same suit in poker'

Answer: four flusher


Question: 'His "Siddhartha" was inspired by a trip he made to Asia in 1911'

Answer: Hesse


Question: 'Tony Curtis took the Joe E. Brown role, not the Tony Curtis part, in a new musical based on this Billy Wilder film'

Answer: Some Like It Hot


Question: 'Andrew Johnson's impeachment was a result of his attempt to fire this Secretary of War'

Answer: Stanton


Question: 'Jimmy Carter became one of these Aug. 7, 1975 & signed a bill creating a day for them in 1978'

Answer: a grandfather


Question: 'A plaid fabric is made from this Indian seaport'

Answer: Madras


Question: 'To be extremely nervous or agitated is to be like this title of a Tennessee Williams play'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'A tower at Sandycove, in County Dublin, houses a museum honoring this author'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'You could say John C. Reilly butchered the role in the 2002 musical based on this Ernest Borgnine film'

Answer: Marty


Question: 'Created in 1866 it's name evolved from the Greek word for "circle"'

Answer: the Ku Klux Klan


Question: 'In birth order these, like Bill Gates & Catharine Zeta-Jones, are noted for their independence'

Answer: middle children


Question: 'The 4 largest islands of Spain's Balearic Group are Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera & this one'

Answer: Majorca


Question: 'Meaning the whole of something, this phrase comes from the 3 main parts of a gun'

Answer: lock, stock & barrel


Question: 'Published in 1969, "Setting Free the Bears" was the first novel by this author'

Answer: John Irving


Question: 'It had to happen: this 1962 classic in which Bette Davis tormented Joan Crawford became a musical in 2002'

Answer: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?


Question: 'Reconstruction ended when this President removed the last of the Federal troops from Louisiana on April 24, 1877'

Answer: Hayes


Question: '"Of unknown origin" is Debra Levi Holtz' memoir of her search for Helen Dunne, this woman'

Answer: her birth mother


Question: '(Hi. I'm Jeff Probst.) Off Thailand's southwest coast Tarutao National Park is in this strait, leading out to the Indian Ocean'

Answer: the Malacca Strait


Question: 'To do this is to make an irrevocable decision, like the action that touched off the Roman Civil War'

Answer: to cross the Rubicon


Question: 'Lula Carson Smith was the original name of this "Reflections in a Golden Eye" author'

Answer: Carson McCullers


Question: '"Illya Darling" was based on this foreign film about a woman who worked only Monday through Saturday'

Answer: Never On Sunday


Question: 'This bureau, among others, built over 4,000 schools for African-Americans, including Howard University'

Answer: the Freedman\'s Bureau


Question: '4-word phrase for your relationship to your father's brother's son's daughter'

Answer: first cousin once removed


Question: '(Alex gives the clue from Africa.) An early morning balloon ride for all of us here in Kenya has taken us along this very important river'

Answer: Mara


Question: 'An old Scottish prayer ask for deliverance from ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties & these'

Answer: things that go bump in the night


Question: 'Emperor Constantine commissioned several of these buildings, named from the Greek for "royal house"'

Answer: basilicas


Question: 'This strongman's last prayer was that God give him the strength to collapse the temple of his Philistine captors'

Answer: Samson


Question: '2007:<br />James McAvoy is trying to get evacuated at Dunkirk & return to Keira Knightley'

Answer: Atonement


Question:
'Copper,
zinc,
brass'

Answer: zinc


Question: 'In 2007 this island reverted back to its pre-WWII name of Iwo To'

Answer: Iwo Jima


Question: '"The sparrow" is the answer to the nursery rhyme murder query "Who killed..."'

Answer: Cock Robin


Question: 'It's a title Sherlockian dog'

Answer: the Hound of the Baskervilles


Question: 'After the golden calf was destroyed, Moses was directed to make this; it was later set up in the tabernacle'

Answer: the Ark of the Covenant


Question: '1930:<br />World War I trench warfare seen from the German perspective'

Answer: All Quiet On The Western Front


Question:
'Fake,
cake,
bake'

Answer: fake


Question: 'When Myanmar won its independence from the U.K. in 1948, it was still known by this name'

Answer: Burma


Question: 'Try this opening line on a girl in China & she may say "ox" or "rat"; in the U.S. she may say "Libra" or "Taurus"'

Answer: What\'s your sign?


Question: 'Here's the 411: "FAQ" typically stands for this'

Answer: frequently asked questions


Question: 'In Leviticus, Israelite woman Shelomith had a son with a man of this North African people'

Answer: the Egyptians


Question: '1962:<br />A young British officer leads the revolt against the Ottoman Empire'

Answer: Lawrence of Arabia


Question:
'Pickle,
lettuce,
onion'

Answer: pickle


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  Most of the territory of the republic of New Granada became this modern-day country from which an isthmus became independent in 1903'

Answer: Colombia


Question: 'Clara Peller's classic query in a Wendy's ad'

Answer: Where\'s the beef?


Question: 'Johnny, hand me this, my small flat glass bottle that holds my "medicine"'

Answer: my flask


Question: 'When this wicked Phoenician princess married King Ahab, Ahab adopted her worship of Baal'

Answer: Jezebel


Question: '1970:<br />Rod Steiger plays Rod Steiger playing Napoleon in his most famous & last battle'

Answer: Waterloo


Question:
'Abdomen,
foot,
jaw'

Answer: jaw


Question: 'Europeans once referred to China as this, still seen in the name of an airline'

Answer: Cathay


Question: 'Henry Stanley's famous interrogative in 1871 Africa'

Answer: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?


Question: 'The 2 U.S. states that fit the category'

Answer: Alaska & Nebraska


Question: 'The book of this farmer-turned-prophet is the first alphabetically in the Old Testament'

Answer: Amos


Question: '1981:<br />Misfits take over & complete their own basic training; "That's the fact, Jack!"'

Answer: Stripes


Question:
'Economics,
chemistry,
physics'

Answer: chemistry


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  What were formerly Northern & Southern Rhodesia are today these two countries'

Answer: Zimbabwe & Zambia


Question: 'George & Martha are the boozy twosome in this Albee play'

Answer: Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Question: 'Gordie Howe got his first pair of skates growing up in this Canadian city'

Answer: Saskatoon


Question: 'Many of these subterranean Christian cemeteries in Rome have been found using written ancient guides'

Answer: catacombs


Question: 'On Sept. 29, 1947 the sax of this "Bird" sang in his Carnegie Hall debut'

Answer: (Charlie) Parker


Question: 'May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts'

Answer: JFK


Question: 'This Down Under city is home to more than 20% of its continent's population'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'In a sonnet Wordsworth told this "Paradise Lost" poet "Thou should'st be living at this hour"'

Answer: (John) Milton


Question: 'Annual keepsake containing photos of the students & faculty; will you sign mine?'

Answer: a yearbook


Question: 'In 1947 2 shepherd boys found these in 8 large clay jars in a cave 7 miles south of Jericho'

Answer: the Dead Sea Scrolls


Question: 'From 1967 to 1992 this Doc was in & trumpeting himself as the bandleader of "The Tonight Show"'

Answer: Doc Severinsen


Question: 'October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'Of 25 million, 100 million or 200 million, the one closest to Mexico's population'

Answer: 100 million


Question: 'In 1922 Virginia Woolf wrote of his "Ulysses", "Never have I read such tosh"'

Answer: (James) Joyce


Question: 'The capital of Jiangsu province is located on a bend in this river'

Answer: the Yangtze


Question: 'This Egyptologist first became associated with Lord Carnarvon in 1906 while excavating the Theban necropolis'

Answer: (Howard) Carter


Question: 'In 1997 this trumpeter became the first jazz composer to win a Pulitzer in music; Branford must've been proud'

Answer: Wynton Marsalis


Question: 'March 15, 1767 in either North Carolina or South Carolina--no one knows for sure'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'As a result of this calamity, the population of Ireland decreased by 25%, or 2 million people, in the 1840s'

Answer: the Potato Famine


Question: 'Herman Melville wrote that this "is a sweet flower; may it flourish in every hedge"'

Answer: the Hawthorne


Question: 'Popular branches include raja, kriya & hatha'

Answer: yoga


Question: 'In the 1940s chemist Willard Libby discovered this method of dating ancient artifacts'

Answer: carbon-14 dating


Question: 'This trumpeter seen here sure could get cheeky'

Answer: Dizzy Gillespie


Question: 'June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts'

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush


Question: 'This Eastern European city first mentioned around 1147 is the most populous in Europe, with over 10 million people'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'E.M. Forster said "Most of human life has to disappear" from the work of this "Portrait of a Lady" author'

Answer: (Henry) James


Question: 'The end of a spar perpendicular to a sailing ship's mast, it was a convenient place to hang your mutineers'

Answer: the yardarm


Question: 'In the 1869 work "Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja", he announced his theory that Troy was at Hissarlik'

Answer: (Heinrich) Schliemann


Question: 'Gorelick is the last name of this guy who brings the sax-y back; he also has a UW accounting degree'

Answer: Kenny G


Question: 'November 2, 1865 in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'Of cities in titles of Shakespeare's plays, this Mediterranean capital has the highest population'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'This author was also a friend of Shakespeare but called his pal Donne "the first poet in the world in some things"'

Answer: Ben Jonson


Question: 'If you're munching kebabs in Armenia's capital, you're in this city'

Answer: Yerevan


Question: 'His "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" from 1744 was one of the 1st books published specifically for children'

Answer: John Newbery


Question: 'In 1965 Hal Fryar played Ringo in "The Outlaws Is Coming" & this man played Ringo in "Help!"'

Answer: Ringo Starr


Question: 'An Ontario man was hospitalized with a collapsed lung & sliced throat after he tried to "swallow" one of these'

Answer: Sword


Question: 'The hard type of these can correct keratoconus & astigmatism'

Answer: Contact lenses


Question: 'When males take on females, it's called "The Battle of" these'

Answer: S-E-X-E-S


Question: 'This movement led by Bishop Valancius ran into opposition from vodka lovers'

Answer: Prohibition/temperance


Question: 'Lewis Carroll's White Queen said of this girl's age, she "believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast"'

Answer: Alice


Question: 'Construction was completed on this Boston landmark in 1742, a year before its builder Peter Faneuil died'

Answer: Faneuil Hall


Question: 'In May 1998 while rehearsing in Ohio, an opera conductor accidentally stabbed himself with this'

Answer: His baton


Question: 'Among this president's last words on December 14, 1799 were "I die hard, but I am not afraid to go"'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'Air traffic controllers check this screen to get the dish on the flight path of a plane'

Answer: R-A-D-A-R


Question: 'Even without a proclamation from Lincoln, many Lithuanian serfs were given this around 1861'

Answer: Emancipation


Question: 'Jesus said, "If you have" this, "nothing will be impossible unto you"'

Answer: Faith


Question: 'The bean of the Sebastiana pavoniana, a Mexican plant, is famous for doing this'

Answer: Jumping


Question: 'Paying for this new pill for active duty troops & retirees has put a $50 million strain on the U.S. military budget'

Answer: Viagra


Question: 'Extremely hard types of these, like pecorino, are mostly used for grating'

Answer: Cheeses


Question: 'Carpenter's tool, or the type of "head" a sensible person has'

Answer: L-E-V-E-L


Question: 'In the 1860s a Russification progam meant Lithuanian books had to use this alphabet'

Answer: Cyrillic


Question: '"When you have excluded the impossible" Holmes said, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be" this'

Answer: The truth


Question: 'In baseball, it's the outfield position between left & right field'

Answer: Center field


Question: 'A German driver landed in the Havel River after his electronic navigator failed to say: wait for one of these'

Answer: Ferry


Question: 'Construction worker wear, or a type of diving in which the air is supplied via a tube from the surface'

Answer: Hard hat


Question: 'Heard here, it was written in the 19th century by Vincas Kudirka'

Answer: National anthem


Question: 'The quote: "In two words: Im-possible" is attributed to this legendary Hollywood mogul'

Answer: Samuel Goldwyn


Question: 'The Old West cattle brand seen here was given the name of this piece of furniture'

Answer: Rocking chair


Question: '(Read by Bozo the Clown)  Ohhh!  Running for governor of New York in 1998, he wanted "Grandpa" on the ballot with his name; the court said no'

Answer: Al Lewis


Question: 'In the early 1800s this German mineralogist invented his scale of hardness'

Answer: Friedrich Mohs


Question: 'Punctures grounded the Garfield one of these in the 1998 Macy's parade'

Answer: N-O-O-L-L-A-B


Question: 'An "early" Nationalist newspaper was called Ausra, meaning this time of day'

Answer: Sunrise/dawn


Question: 'This suave Brit played a psychiatrist with a nubile young daughter in the 1968 farce "The Impossible Years"'

Answer: David Niven


Question: 'Many residents of this sprawling valley that includes North Hollywood want to secede from Los Angeles'

Answer: San Fernando Valley


Question: 'A 1927 book of short stories by Ernest Hemingway was titled "Men Without" these'

Answer: Women


Question: 'Piltdown Man, a hoax played on scientists, had a human skull & the jaw of this reddish ape'

Answer: Orangutan


Question: 'This art practiced by William Blake precedes "Printing" in the name of a U.S. bureau'

Answer: Engraving


Question: 'Rosie Ruiz reportedly rode the subway to reach the finish line of this 1979 NYC race'

Answer: New York City Marathon


Question: 'This preserve was originally made from quince; Seville oranges are now normally used'

Answer: Marmalade


Question: 'Most of the residents of this small island city-state off the Malay Peninsula are Chinese'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Poet who wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out"'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'A whole lot of shakin' goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes'

Answer: Seismology


Question: 'To film Jackson Pollock at work, you'd say, "Lights!  Camera!" this type of painting'

Answer: Action


Question: 'UCLA's football team has vanquished this crosstown rival in their last 8 matchups'

Answer: USC (University of Southern California)


Question: 'A traditional accompaniment for fried catfish, these cornmeal dumplings are flavored with chopped scallions'

Answer: Hushpuppies


Question: 'This country's capital is Wellington'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'In James Fenimore Cooper's "The Pioneers" Oliver Edwards is this frontiersman's companion'

Answer: Natty Bumppo


Question: 'Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom's nucleus'

Answer: Protons


Question: 'In the 1880s this artist with "noir" in his name broke with impressionism & began using more black'

Answer: Pierre Auguste Renoir


Question: 'The logo of this city's NHL team is a winged car tire'

Answer: Detroit Red Wings


Question: 'This ground beef patty flavored with minced onion & seasonings was named for a 19th century physician'

Answer: Salisbury steak


Question: 'This "Stan" is wedged in among Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'The father of this "Good-Bye, Mr. Chips" author was a schoolteacher, not a hotelier'

Answer: James Hilton


Question: 'From the Latin for "smoke hole", it's a vent in a volcanic area from which smoke & gases escape'

Answer: Fumeral


Question: 'Your initial impression might be that he was England's greatest seascape painter'

Answer: J.M.W. Turner


Question: 'Nicknamed "The Big O", he was the NBA's Rookie of the Year for the 1960-61 season'

Answer: Oscar Robertson


Question: 'Served as a side dish at Hanukkah, they're made from grated potatoes mixed with eggs, onions, matzo meal & seasonings'

Answer: Latkes/potato pancakes


Question: 'You'll find the Shrine of Fatima, seen here, in this country's city of Qom'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Balzac wrote "La Comedie Humaine" in the 1840s & this American wrote "The Human Comedy" in the 1940s'

Answer: William Saroyan


Question: 'In contrast to the hydrosphere, it's the term for the rocky part of the Earth, or its crust'

Answer: Lithosphere


Question: 'Last name of former husband & wife Walter & Margaret, known for painting large-eyed waifs'

Answer: Keane


Question: 'This South African was leading in points when Mike Tyson knocked him out in the fifth round of their Jan. 1999 bout'

Answer: Frans Botha


Question: 'It's the Whitman, Massachusetts inn where the chocolate chip cookie was created in the 1930s'

Answer: Toll House Inn


Question: 'In 1956 Johnson Wax introduced Raid & this brand that got a Potpourri Country Garden version in 1989'

Answer: Glade


Question: 'The world's earliest steam locomotives pulled cars full of this product out of mines in Wales'

Answer: coal


Question: 'The sugar variety of this is preferred for pies, the Connecticut field variety for jack-o'-lanterns'

Answer: pumpkin


Question: 'He was the author of "Profiles in Courage"'

Answer: (John F.) Kennedy


Question: 'Lyric that completes the line "We're drinkin' my friend, to the end of a brief episode, make it one for my baby..."'

Answer: and one for the road


Question: 'America's second-largest daily newspaper, it's published in New York City & 4 regional editions'

Answer: The Wall Street Journal


Question: 'Feeble, or 7 days'

Answer: weak/week


Question: 'The residents of this country noted for its Grand Prix are almost all foreigners'

Answer: Monaco


Question: 'The scientific name of this veggie -- or is it a fruit? -- is Lycopersicon esculentum'

Answer: tomato


Question: 'He was a matinee idol'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: '"Gonna meet the boys on floor number two" for this title activity of a 1985 Motley Crue hit'

Answer: "Smokin in the Boys Room"


Question: 'Elvis could have told you it's the location of "Heartbreak Hotel"'

Answer: down at the end of lonely street


Question: 'Your lips say "No, no, no," but these say "Yes, yes, yes"'

Answer: eyes/ayes


Question: 'City seen here during a lazy summer day'

Answer: Pamplona


Question: 'Unlike the green variety of this vegetable, the string on sugar snaps runs around both sides of the pod'

Answer: peas


Question: 'He was postmaster of New Salem, Illinois'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: '"Some get a kick from" this, a Cole Porter song says, "I'm sure that if I had even one sniff it would bore me terrific'ly too"'

Answer: cocaine


Question: 'It's the shrewd awareness & resourcefulness needed to survive a hostile urban environment'

Answer: street smarts


Question: 'Very sage, or a pair of the letter after X'

Answer: wise/Y\'s


Question: 'Bulgaria is a leading producer of attar, an oil from these flowers'

Answer: roses


Question: 'In Italian cabbage is cavolo & this vegetable is cavolfiore'

Answer: cauliflower


Question: 'He owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: '"She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now...and she'll have fun, fun, fun til" this happens'

Answer: til Daddy takes the T-Bird away


Question: 'In "O Little Town of Bethlehem", it's where "the everlasting light" shineth'

Answer: in thy dark street


Question: 'To find & dig out this metal containing material with this boating implement would be a stroke of luck'

Answer: ore/oar


Question: 'In 1997 this eastern European country restored the citizenship of its exiled King Michael'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'Although this juice orange may have originated in Portugal, it bears the name of a Spanish city & region'

Answer: Valencia


Question: 'He was Thomas Jefferson's secretary of state'

Answer: (James) Madison


Question: 'This song by Sheila E. begins, "She wears a long fur coat of mink, even in the summer time"'

Answer: "The Glamorous Life"


Question: 'One of the world's top marketers of business information, its NYSE symbol is DNB'

Answer: Dun & Bradstreet


Question: 'Reasonable, or a payment for travel'

Answer: fair/fare


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Waikiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii.)  Around 1830 these conservative religious workers made hula dancers wear long dresses instead of skirts'

Answer: missionaries


Question: 'Gertrude, or her beer mug<br />(5)'

Answer: stein


Question: '"Scorecard Report" & "Peter Jacobsen Plugged In" are seen on the sports channel devoted to this'

Answer: golf


Question: 'Hank Hill knows it's the most common U.S. residential liquefied petroleum gas'

Answer: propane


Question: 'An energetic person is full of these, maybe the fava type'

Answer: beans


Question: 'If you're looking at a long time in Tempe, try Studio 6, the extended-stay version of this chain'

Answer: Motel 6


Question: 'St. Augustine's mother was a Christian, but his father was one of these, from the Latin for "country dweller"'

Answer: pagan


Question: 'It's paired with "Sense"<br />(11)'

Answer: Sensibility


Question: 'One of the most popular shows on the Food Network is "The Essence of" him'

Answer: Emeril


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Goodyear Blimp's home base.)  Having learned from the Hindenburg, modern non-rigid airships use helium in place of this explosive gas'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'Government money that a congressman steers toward his home district'

Answer: pork


Question: 'What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or "The World's Largest Hotel Chain", with more than 4,000 hotels'

Answer: Best Western


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from in front of Westminster Abbey in London.)  The statues over the west front door are all of these, people who died for their Christian faith'

Answer: martyrs


Question: 'Caldecott Medalist Maurice<br />(6)'

Answer: Sendak


Question: '"The Eulogy" is HBO's e-mail newsletter devoted to this series'

Answer: Six Feet Under


Question: 'Used in WWI & against Iraq's Kurds, it's named for its smell'

Answer: mustard gas


Question: 'To mean a quarrel, vegetarians can use "rhubarb" & carnivores can use this'

Answer: beef


Question: 'Spelled the same way as a type of regular payment, it's a small European hotel or boarding house'

Answer: pension


Question: 'Pedilavium is this ceremony, part of the Maundy Thursday observance'

Answer: the washing of the feet


Question: 'Miserly Marner<br />(5)'

Answer: Silas


Question: '(Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus.)  In 2001 I began practicing medicine in the Big Apple on this Pax TV drama'

Answer: Doc


Question: 'The atmosphere of Venus, the heaviest of any planet, is mainly this common gas 1.5 times heavier than air'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'Diana Prince occasionally has to take her hair out of this to become Wonder Woman'

Answer: a bun


Question: 'In 1912 King Alfonso inaugurated this -- not his own home, but the Madrid hotel'

Answer: the Palace


Question: 'An apostle spreads his belief; this word with the same beginning means one who abandons it'

Answer: apostate


Question: 'Hesse-ian Buddhist saga<br />(10)'

Answer: Siddhartha


Question: 'What Sonya Fitzpatrick is, or the Animal Planet series on which she communicates with animals telepathically'

Answer: The Pet Psychic


Question: 'A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often'

Answer: a chestnut


Question: 'Escoffier was once the chef of this elegant French-named hotel at Fifth Avenue & 61st Street'

Answer: the Pierre Hotel


Question: 'On the AFI's 2003 lists of favorite movie heroes & villains of all time, this character appears on both lists'

Answer: the Terminator


Question: 'The first 3 articles deal with forming the 3 branches of government, with this branch last in Article 3'

Answer: judiciary


Question: '1968:<br />Starring Barbra Streisand'

Answer: Funny Girl


Question: 'About this city's 1906 earthquake, Jack London wrote, "Day was trying to dawn through the smoke pall"'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'The rim or edge of a crater, cup or golf hole'

Answer: lip


Question: 'Ben Franklin invented these kinds of optical lenses for distance & reading'

Answer: bifocals


Question: 'Schoolteacher Justin Morgan lent his name to a breed of this animal developed in the U.S. in the 1800s'

Answer: horse


Question: 'It's interesting (or is it?) that at 12 letters, it's the longest word in the original document's preamble'

Answer: constitution


Question: '1977:<br />With Marsha Mason'

Answer: The Goodbye Girl


Question: 'This state capital lies on both banks of the Mississippi River at the confluence of the Minnesota River'

Answer: St. Paul


Question: 'If you don't finish all the assignments due in a course, you might see this letter on your transcript'

Answer: I (incomplete)


Question: 'In the '60s Robert Moog became a household name for the invention of one of these instruments that bears his name'

Answer: synthesizer


Question: 'Justin Henry earned an Oscar nomination as Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep's son in this film'

Answer: Kramer vs. Kramer


Question: 'When the Constitutional Convention met in May 1787, this man was chosen its presiding officer'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '1966:<br />Starring Lynn Redgrave'

Answer: Georgy Girl


Question: 'This city on Lake Michigan is "The Beer Capital of America"'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'Name of the dynasty that ruled China from 265 to 420 A.D.'

Answer: Chin


Question: 'This amusement park claims the invention of the hot dog & the roller coaster'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'Justin Huish was right on target winning a gold medal in this sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics'

Answer: archery


Question: 'Rhode Island never ratified this amendment even after it went into effect on January 16, 1920'

Answer: Prohibition


Question: '1994:<br />With Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell & Madeleine Stowe'

Answer: Bad Girls


Question: 'This city near Disney World was given its present name in 1857 to honor a soldier killed in the Seminole Wars'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'It precedes "beat" in a word meaning to bully or intimidate'

Answer: brow


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in a laboratory)  He substituted mercury for alcohol in a tube around 1714, creating the modern thermometer'

Answer: Daniel Fahrenheit


Question: 'With a score of 272, Justin Leonard won this major golf championship in 1997 at Troon, Scotland'

Answer: British Open


Question: 'It ratified the Constitution in 1791, 2 months before it became the 14th state'

Answer: Vermont


Question: '2001:<br />Featuring Nicole Kidman'

Answer: Birthday Girl


Question: 'Juarez, Mexico & this Texas city make up the largest metropolitan center on the U.S.-Mexico border'

Answer: El Paso


Question: 'The ancient city of Paestrum has a well-preserved one dedicated to Poseidon'

Answer: temple


Question: 'In the 1830s Samuel Colt got cocky with the invention of this type of pistol'

Answer: revolver


Question: 'In 1998 Justin Dart, Jr. was awarded this presidential medal for his work on behalf of the disabled'

Answer: Presidential Medal of Freedom


Question: 'Loaded with juicy chemicals including phenols, it's the solid residue of burning tobacco'

Answer: tar


Question: '"La Femme Peta" calls itself this type of "biography" of actress Peta Wilson'

Answer: unauthorized


Question: 'His psychoanalytic method of free association & his daughter Anna first saw the light in 1895'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'In 1970 Benny Binion started his World Series of this game'

Answer: poker


Question: 'This group featuring sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson asked "What About Love?" in a 1985 hit'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'A Fodor's, or a Frommer's'

Answer: guidebook


Question: 'This synonym for "turned on" refers to charcoal treated so that gases will settle on it'

Answer: activated


Question: 'Title of Sylvia Nasar's tale of "The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash"'

Answer: "A Beautiful Mind"


Question: 'This school-oriented organization was founded in 1897 by Alice Birney & Phoebe Hearst'

Answer: PTA (Parent-Teacher Association)


Question: 'To get married in Vegas, one requirement is that there be at least this many people in the room'

Answer: 4  (the bride, the groom, the person officiating & one witness)


Question: 'His 1986 No. 1 hit "Kiss" says, "Act your age, Mama, not your shoe size -- maybe we could do the twirl"'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'In contrast to the red types, the uvarovite form of this gemstone is a fine green'

Answer: garnet


Question: 'The Greek word zyme, "leaven", gave us this term for proteins that are catalysts for reactions in the body'

Answer: enzymes


Question: 'This pioneer was a man, yes, a big man, & his bio won a Newbery Medal for James Daugherty'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'In 1898, when this battleship blew up, Llewellyn Powers was governing the state of the same name'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'You'll find the Coyote Ugly Bar in this hotel (think of where the movie was set)'

Answer: New York New York


Question: 'He topped the R&B charts in 1981 with "Give It To Me Baby"'

Answer: Rick James


Question: 'Hume Cronyn played cards with Jessica Tandy in this play that won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize'

Answer: The Gin Game


Question: 'Until the 1950s most motion picture film was made of this highly flammable material sometimes called celluloid'

Answer: cellulose nitrate


Question: 'Virginia Spencer Carr's "The Lonely Hunter" chronicles the life of this author'

Answer: Carson McCullers


Question: 'Created in 1891, Colorado's fir- & spruce-filled White River region was the first of the U.S. areas now called these'

Answer: national forests


Question: 'You'll find Sinbad's Palace inside this hotel with a 1001 Nights theme that opened anew in 2000'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'In 1982 this group hit the Top 10 with the song heard here<br />["Tainted Love"]'

Answer: Soft Cell


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida)  The Flagler Museum exemplifies the style of this golden era, found in the title of a book by Charles D. Warner & Mark Twain'

Answer: "The Gilded Age"


Question: 'The antidepressant Zoloft works by blocking reabsorption of this happy brain chemical'

Answer: serotonin


Question: 'This "Lady"like biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots came out with "Marie Antoinette: The Journey" in 2001'

Answer: Antonia Fraser


Question: 'In 1893, 9 years after Massenet's "Manon", this Italian composer told a similar story in "Manon Lescaut"'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'The Golden Nugget is downtown on this street, famous for its "experience"'

Answer: Fremont Street


Question: 'Raspy women singers of the '80s include Kim Carnes & this singer who gave us a "Total Eclipse of the Heart"'

Answer: Bonnie Tyler


Question: 'We rarely mention the Ghibellines without referring to these people, their historic rivals'

Answer: Guelphs


Question: 'Used one way, this word is one of the official titles of the Pope; used another, it's an order of mammals'

Answer: primate


Question: 'In 1924 England's John Harwood patented a watch that could do this to itself thanks to an internal swinging weight'

Answer: wind itself


Question: 'Julie Chen hosts this reality show in which strangers live together & the cameras record every moment'

Answer: Big Brother


Question: 'Come on, champ, you have to be brave & "keep a stiff" this'

Answer: an upper lip


Question: 'All rise & name this national anthem heard here'

Answer: O Canada


Question: 'The Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover, AIBO & R2-D2 are inductees in the hall of fame for these'

Answer: robots


Question: 'According to World Book, France's Louis XVI "often relied on her poor advice"'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'NASA engineer Peter Petroff designed the 1971 Pulsar, the first watch of this type'

Answer: a digital watch


Question: 'Phil Keoghan hosts this show in which teams of 2 travel the globe to compete for cash'

Answer: The Amazing Race


Question: 'It's an honest & sincere talk between 2 people (& their cardiac muscles)'

Answer: a heart to heart


Question: 'Christmas comes early when this tune comes whistling in'

Answer: Greensleeves


Question: 'Stephen F. Austin, John H. Rogers & John Coffee Hayes are Lone Star lawmen in this group's hall'

Answer: the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame


Question: 'In 1978 this Spaniard became the first crowned monarch to make an official visit to China'

Answer: Juan Carlos


Question: '(Hi, I'm Tom Bergeron) Bob Saget was the original host & I'm the current host of this comedy TV show that made its debut in 1989'

Answer: America\'s Funniest Home Videos


Question: 'Someone as naive or innocent as a newborn baby is said to be this "moist" phrase'

Answer: still wet behind the ears


Question: 'The show's not over, but here's this tune anyway'

Answer: Taps


Question: 'In 2006 Cesar Chavez, John Muir & the Hearst family were among the inaugural inductees in this state's H.O.F.'

Answer: California


Question: 'On May 26, 1896 he was crowned czar in Moscow: for him it was prettv much downhill from there'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'In 1908 Hans Wilsdorf coined this name for his brand of Swiss luxury watches; no one knows what it means'

Answer: Rolex


Question: 'The third & newest host of NBC's "Late Night", this "SNL" alum sang Springsteen as host of the Emmys in 2010'

Answer: Jimmy Fallon


Question: 'When vou're idle or just plain bored, you do this with your pollex digits, literally or figuratively'

Answer: twiddle your thumbs


Question: '"Colonel Bogey March", heard here, was popularized by this 1957 war movie'

Answer: Bridge on the River Kwai


Question: 'Anatoly Karpov, Emanuel Lasker & Boris Spassky are members of the world this hall of fame'

Answer: the chess hall of fame


Question: 'He walked out on his country's production of Oliver (Cromwell) but came back to be proclaimed king in May 1660'

Answer: Charles II


Question: 'This "redneck" comic hosts "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?"'

Answer: (Jeff) Foxworthy


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a diagram of a human skeleton) To attack where someone is most vulnerable is to go for one of these large veins here or here'

Answer: go for the jugular


Question: 'We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here'

Answer: (Vivaldi\'s) The Four Seasons


Question: '"Car Talk", "The Romance of Helen Trent" & "All Things Considered" are programs in the Nat. this H.O.F.'

Answer: radio


Question: 'Known for victory costing more than its worth, he was king of Macedonia, lost the throne, got it back, then got killed'

Answer: Pyrrhus


Question: 'In 1779 he took command of the Bonhomme Richard'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'Oliver Reed stopped at the bar as Athos in this 1973 film; 20 years later Kiefer Sutherland made the cut'

Answer: The Three Musketeers


Question: 'It's sandwiched between Mississippi & Georgia'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Resembling the pit of a peach, this nut contains more calcium than any other nut'

Answer: almonds


Question: '"L.H.O.T.P"<br />by Laura Ingalls Wilder'

Answer: Little House on the Prairie


Question: 'It's 12 inches'

Answer: a foot


Question: 'The first luxury liner with this name was scrapped in 1972 after it burned & sank in a Hong Kong harbor'

Answer: the Queen Elizabeth


Question: 'You're on a "roll" if you can tell us that Bill Murray told Dustin Hoffman, "don't play hard to get" in this movie'

Answer: Tootsie


Question: 'It's sandwiched between California & Utah'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'These fish named for an island in the Mediterranean are high in calcium --if you eat their tiny bones'

Answer: sardines


Question: '"T.A.O.H."<br />by Barack Obama'

Answer: The Audacity of Hope


Question: 'In the song "a tisket a tasket", it was green & yellow'

Answer: a basket


Question: 'The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was the SS this, named for the Georgia port city from which it set sail'

Answer: Savannah


Question: 'Jack Nicholson plays the president in this Tim Burton tale with a candy bar in its title'

Answer: Mars Attacks


Question: 'It's the cheesy filling between Illinois & Michigan's Upper Peninsula'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Integral to many Creole dishes, this green pod is related to cotton & is high in calcium'

Answer: okra


Question: '"S.C."<br />by William Styron'

Answer: Sophie\'s Choice


Question: 'A simultaneous discharge of rifles'

Answer: a volley


Question: 'Captured here in National Geographic footage is this sunken German battleship, located in 1989'

Answer: the Bismarck


Question: 'This title conflict of a 1988 film takes place at St. Trinity's school'

Answer: The Chocolate War


Question: 'It's sandwiched between Oregon & Wyoming'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'This tart vegetable that looks like pink celery is often used in pies, which is why it's also called pieplant'

Answer: rhubarb


Question: '"N.N."<br />by Charles Dickens'

Answer: Nicholas Nickleby


Question: 'As in ammonia, this type of compound reacts with an acid to form a salt'

Answer: a base


Question: 'In 1839 Joseph Cinque led the revolt against Spaniards aboard this slave ship'

Answer: the Amistad


Question: 'Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler were these title guys in a 1994 movie, just like a colorful candy'

Answer: Airheads


Question: 'It's sandwiched between Minnesota & Missouri'

Answer: Iowa


Question: 'When cooked, this 8-letter cauliflower cousin can have as much Vitamin C as an orange & as much calcium as milk'

Answer: broccoli


Question: '"T.T.O.T.S."<br />by Henry James'

Answer: The Turn of the Screw


Question: 'Pebble, Long or Myrtle, individually'

Answer: beach


Question: 'John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..."'

Answer: software


Question:
'The Inn at the Opera,
The Nob Hill Lambourne,
The Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Its hump or humps, composed mainly of fat, may weigh 80 pounds or more'

Answer: Camels


Question: 'A race of these vehicles was the most prestigious event of the ancient Olympics'

Answer: Chariots


Question: '"Go directly to jail"'

Answer: Monopoly


Question: 'It's the U.S. state where you'll find the native skirts seen here (grass skirts)'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'He told Frank Gorshin, "I never said...'mmm you dirty rat!'"'

Answer: James Cagney


Question:
'The Peery Hotel,
The Inn at Temple Square,
The Brigham Street Inn'

Answer: Salt Lake City


Question: 'At birth this mammal is over 6 feet tall, about 30% of its full adult height'

Answer: Giraffe


Question: 'Altima & Sentra are 2 popular models from this automaker'

Answer: Nissan


Question: '"King me!"'

Answer: Checkers


Question: 'The pipers seen here are sporting some of the native plaids of this country'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Bartlett's list "Stop da music!" & "Dese are de conditions dat prevail" under this man's name'

Answer: Jimmy Durante


Question:
'The Gaslight Inn,
The Ansley Inn,
The Westin Peachtree Plaza'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'The pygmy species of this "river horse" spends less time in the water & more time in the forest'

Answer: Hippopotamus


Question: 'In 1987 one of these vessels sank in the North Sea when the vehicle deck doors were left open'

Answer: Ferry


Question: '"Miss Scarlet in the library with the wrench"'

Answer: Clue


Question: 'Neck rings like these are all the rage for women living north of Bangkok in this country'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'Abraham Lincoln said, "The ballot is stronger than" this'

Answer: The bullet


Question:
'The Regal Maxwell House,
The Sheraton Music City,
The Opryland Hotel'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'Between 1850 & 1889, their number on the American plains decreased from 20,000,000 to 541'

Answer: Buffalo/bison


Question: 'This airport is the busiest in the northeastern United States'

Answer: JFK International Airport - New York City


Question: '"You sank my aircraft carrier!"'

Answer: Battleship


Question: 'Proud Masai warriors like these live in either of these two east African countries'

Answer: Kenya or Tanzania


Question: 'The most famous line from this author's "Sacred Emily" is "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question:
'The Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel,
Penn's View Inn,
The Penn Tower Hotel'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Sometimes called the ugliest animal in the world, this African pig has bumps below each eye'

Answer: Warthog


Question: 'In December 1783 chemist J.A.C. Charles made the first balloon ascent using this gas'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: '"My wink is nearest the pot.  I've won the squidge-off!"'

Answer: tiddlywinks


Question: 'Bedouin costumes like these abound in this country that's east of Israel & west of Saudi Arabia'

Answer: Jordan


Question: 'Heraclitus noticed, "You cannot step twice into the same" one of these'

Answer: River


Question: 'Passed during Nixon's presidency, the 26th Amendment set this at 18'

Answer: Minimum voting age


Question: 'This violet-eyed beauty was 12 years old when she starred in "National Velvet" in 1944'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'This important drug was the first antibiotic exrracted from fungal molds'

Answer: Penicllin


Question: 'Bring along a Monopoly "Get Out of Jail Free" card in France on July 14; it's this holiday'

Answer: Bastille Day


Question: 'What was once the province of Westphalia is now part of 3 states in this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'It is easier to eat with these wooden utensils after you split them apart'

Answer: Chopsticks


Question: 'In 1952 this six-year-old gave Nixon's dog Checkers its name'

Answer: Tricia Nixon


Question: 'Oops!  When she won a Golden Globe for "Chicago Hope", she was in the ladies' room'

Answer: Christine Lahti


Question: 'Fruiting fungal bodies like mushrooms produce these cells which develop into new organisms'

Answer: Spores


Question: 'After 4 days of samba-driven revelry during Carnaval, Rio is quiet on this day'

Answer: Ash Wednesday


Question: 'This Protestant movement named for reformer John got the same status as Lutheranism'

Answer: Calvinism


Question: 'You'll find these body parts on a kleptomaniac'

Answer: Sticky fingers


Question: 'One of the 2 Nixon appointees to the Supreme Court who have been chief justice'

Answer: Warren Burger or William Rehnquist


Question: '(Hi, I'm Jerry Orbach) I had the time of my life playing Jennifer Grey's father in this 1987 film'

Answer: Dirty Dancing


Question: 'Lacking this pigment, fungi can't produce their own food the way many plants can'

Answer: Chlorophyll


Question: 'Mexico celebrates this holiday, Dia del Trabajo, on May 1; we do it in September'

Answer: Labor Day


Question: 'A grand alliance was formed in 1689 against this sun king to enforce the treaty's provisions'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'A policeman would carry one of these billy clubs on the graveyard shift'

Answer: Nightstick


Question: 'Nixon accepted this on September 8, 1974 expressing his regrets for the mistakes he made'

Answer: Presidential pardon


Question: 'This star of "Hard Rain" did some hard time in 1998'

Answer: Christian Slater


Question: 'This fungal plant disease characterized by reddish spots shares its name with a product of oxidation'

Answer: Rust


Question: 'An April 25 holiday in Australia honors this military group'

Answer: ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps)


Question: 'All the states in this empire were recognized as independent, making its emperor powerless'

Answer: Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'The former name of San Francisco's 3-Com Park'

Answer: Candlestick Park


Question: 'This man, Nixon's chief of staff, called him "Inexplicable, strange, hard to understand"'

Answer: H.R. Haldeman


Question: 'Sam Elliott co-starred with this "Butch Cassidy" actress in "The Legacy" before he became her husband'

Answer: Katherine Ross


Question: 'It's not a dirty magazine, it's the type of parasitic fungi that grows on corn'

Answer: Smut


Question: 'It celebrates its independence from Colombia on November 3'

Answer: Panama


Question: '2 new republics were established; the Netherlands & this one that was neutral during the war'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Violin bows, or a word used to express impatience'

Answer: Fiddlesticks


Question: 'This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns'

Answer: Madeline


Question: 'A 1992 law introduced by Sen. Cranston aimed to reduce the use of paint containing too much of this element'

Answer: lead


Question: 'Matthew 26:15:<br />"What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?  And they covenanted with him for" this'

Answer: 30 pieces of silver


Question: 'Long, low sound of pain from a nonworker male bee'

Answer: a drone moan


Question: 'Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'Today, most placekickers use the instep rather than the toe in a kicking style adapted from this sport'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'The company founded by Henry Sherwin & this man wanted to use the halftime to demonstrate how paint dried'

Answer: Williams


Question: 'An effort lasting from 1985 to 1991 eliminated this paralytic illness from Latin America'

Answer: polio


Question: 'Loss of coolant around 4 A.M. led to a rough March 28, 1979 at this Pennsylvania facility near Harrisburg'

Answer: Three Mile Island


Question: 'Butterfly-like insect that listens to gloomy rock music'

Answer: a goth moth


Question: 'In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" & appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded"'

Answer: Tim Robbins


Question: '(I'm Kurt Warner of the NFL.)  From 1995 to 1997 I played for the Iowa Barnstormers in this league that plays its games indoors'

Answer: the Arena Football League


Question: 'Rosewood school wanted to play this game where if you're tagged as a female swimming bird, you're it'

Answer: duck-duck-goose


Question: '(Hi!  I'm CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.)  I joined CNN in 2001 & reported on the biological attacks of this bacillus in the news that October'

Answer: anthrax


Question:
'Start your counting please/
It's this many syllables/
In standard haiku'

Answer: 17


Question: 'A London apartment for a small biting fly'

Answer: a gnat flat


Question: 'This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him'

Answer: Lynn Redgrave


Question: 'As his name suggests, the Bears' Willie Thrower was the first black player at this position in the NFL, 10/18/53'

Answer: quarterback


Question: 'HHS wanted to explain how to use its prescription drug card for this program'

Answer: Medicare


Question: 'Stanford's med school has a division of this, the study & control of disease in populations'

Answer: epidemiology


Question: 'A reduction of arms & independence for Turkey were 2 items in this Jan. 8, 1918 pronouncement'

Answer: the Fourteen Points


Question: 'A loud & threatening speech from a colony-based insect'

Answer: an ant rant


Question: 'Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy "Down the Garden Paths"'

Answer: Anne Meara


Question: 'This ex-Cowboy joined Keith Jackson & Howard Cosell on the first "Monday Night Football" telecast'

Answer: Don Meredith


Question: 'This ex-FCC chairman, Colin's son, wanted to hold a town hall meeting to discuss obscenity on TV'

Answer: Michael Powell


Question: 'Also a type of mathematical quantity, it's a term for disease-carrying critters like ticks'

Answer: a vector


Question: 'This section was added to the tax code in 1974; it's now the name (or number) for many political advocacy groups'

Answer: 527


Question: 'Acting instructor for an aspiring household pest'

Answer: a roach coach


Question: 'In 2004 this author of "True West" returned to the stage, acting in "A Number", a play about human cloning'

Answer: Sam Shepard


Question: 'Now a running back for the Rams, he scored a career record 12.1 points per game playing for San Diego State'

Answer: Marshall Faulk


Question: 'Writer Ted Kooser, given this title by the Library of Congress, was going to read his work "Delights and Shadows"'

Answer: poet laureate


Question: 'Born in Cologne, this "Tales of Hoffman" composer became a French citizen in 1860'

Answer: Offenbach


Question: 'This 1941 film is "everyone's default choice for the world's greatest movie"'

Answer: Citizen Kane


Question: 'This Connecticut newspaper has been reporting the news since 1764'

Answer: The Hartford Courant


Question: 'St. Nick smoked a long pipe & wore a broad-brimmed hat in his 1809 "Knickerbocker's History of New York"'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the WW II Memorial in Westerplatte, Germany.)  I'm in Westerplatte, where early on September 1, 1939, a German battleship opened fire on this country's forces & began World War II'

Answer: Poland


Question: '& then there's this actress, truly a "Golden Girl" when she won an Emmy in 1988'

Answer: Bea Arthur


Question: 'This composer's daughter Cosima married Hans von Bulow in 1857 & Richard Wagner in 1870'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: '"72 years after he emerged from his jungle lair, this remains one of the movies' immortal tales of unrequited love"'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'This 1934 song about the imminent arrival of an omniscient Santa was written by J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie'

Answer: "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"


Question: '2 days before D-Day, Allied troops entered this formerly fascist capital city'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'This admiral led a third Antarctic expedition, discovering Thurston island in 1939'

Answer: Richard Byrd


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew walks up the nave of the Marienkirche in Lubeck, Germany.)  In 1705 this 20-year-old composer walked 200 miles to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play organ at Lubeck's Marienkirche'

Answer: J(ohann) S(ebastian) Bach


Question: '"Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski made this" 1974 film'

Answer: Chinatown


Question: 'Not a horror movie slasher, the Weihnachtsmann visits this country bordered to the north by Denmark'

Answer: Germany


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Helsinki, Finland.)  On November 30, 1939, the U.S.S.R. attacked Finland in what became known as this alliterative conflict--& got quite a fight'

Answer: the Winter War


Question: 'Jesus uttered 9 of these, from the Latin for "blessedness", in the sermon on the mount'

Answer: the beatitudes


Question: 'In 1726 this German composer became a naturalized British subject'

Answer: (George Frideric) Handel


Question: '"This (1994) multipart crime epic... still has the impact of an adrenalin shot to the heart"'

Answer: Pulp Fiction


Question: 'The elf-like Jultomten in this country has kids breathless in anticipation from Malmo to Sveg'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'A lull in WWII in 1939 was dubbed this, punning on the word "Blitzkrieg"'

Answer: Sitzkrieg


Question: 'This West Virginian has cast more votes in the Senate than any other senator in history'

Answer: Robert Byrd


Question: 'In 1931 this "Pomp"ous English composer was made a baronet'

Answer: (Sir Edward) Elgar


Question: 'This 1927 Fritz Lang "epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future"'

Answer: Metropolis


Question: 'In the 1860s this cartoonist first drew Santa with the soft furry hat we know & love'

Answer: (Thomas) Nast


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Riga, Latvia.)  In 2005 here in Riga, President Bush honored the end of World War II, but also regretted this February 1945 pact that lead to the Iron Curtain'

Answer: the Yalta Pact


Question: 'Called "The Mama of Dada", this ceramicist's relationship with Roche & Duchamp inspired the novel "Jules et Jim"'

Answer: Beatrice Wood


Question: 'Though it's not accurate, this meaning of the word "Mississippi" appears in one of Lincoln's most famous lines'

Answer: father of waters


Question: 'Poseidon had new adventures under this name'

Answer: Neptune


Question: '2-word name for the mysterious food item often used to bribe Scooby-Doo & Shaggy'

Answer: Scooby Snack


Question: 'Number for Amanda's birthday; it's how many of the lower 48 states border the Pacific Ocean'

Answer: 3


Question: 'He & Jim catch a catfish that "was as big a fish as was ever catched in the Mississipp!"'

Answer: Huck Finn


Question: 'Hello, this capital of Ontario!... Halifax said you couldn't rock, let's prove them wrong tonight!'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'William Howard Taft got stuck in one'

Answer: bathtub


Question: 'The Romans loved Eros as this god'

Answer: Cupid


Question: 'Cram is a biscuit-like food made by the men of Esgaroth in this author's fantasy world'

Answer: Tolkien


Question: 'Grandma took this number thinking of grandson Brian's birthday; it's the number of gunshots in the national salute'

Answer: 21


Question: 'The title guy of this Hemingway work "fished alone in a skiff in the gulf stream"'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: 'I hope you saw me flying over this lowest balcony, from Latin for "middle"; that harness was killing me'

Answer: mezzanine


Question: 'An amorphous globule'

Answer: blob


Question: 'Hephaestus lived long & prospered as him'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: 'Everlasting Gobstoppers first appeared in this 1964 Roald Dahl work'

Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Question: 'This number for young Jennifer's birthday; it's the square root of 121'

Answer: 11


Question: '"The angler and the little fish" is one of his fables'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'When I do this "hang ten"-inspired term where people pass me over their heads, please be gentle with the merchandise'

Answer: crowd surfing


Question: 'Place to enjoy a pint of the local'

Answer: brewpub


Question: 'Demeter wowed the studio execs & got her own one of these'

Answer: Ceres


Question: 'This British TV show once featured candy selections known as crunchy frog & anthrax ripple'

Answer: Monty Python\'s Flying Circus


Question: 'Gram's 2-digit number for Antoine's July birthday, which falls on Bastille day'

Answer: 14


Question: 'This Defoe character says he "was most dextrous to catch fish"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Throwing under-garments on stage is fine; I just wish they weren't men's briefs like this Michael Jordan-endorsed brand'

Answer: Hanes


Question: 'Prospective tulip'

Answer: bulb


Question: 'Cronus, son of Uranus, became this other planet'

Answer: Saturn


Question: 'Chocolate Salty Balls were a fictional candy made by Chef on this animated series'

Answer: South Park


Question: 'For Kristi's birthday, Gram chose this (Dr. Pepper is a "unique blend of" this many "flavors")'

Answer: 23


Question: 'Mark Kurlansky's book about this food fish says in 1895 a 211-lb. one was caught off the coast of Massachusetts'

Answer: cod


Question: 'I'll now slow things down with this No. 1 hit from Debby Boone; why is everyone leaving?'

Answer: "You Light Up My Life"


Question: 'Prince of the devils'

Answer: Beelzebub


Question: 'In 1898 McClure's magazine published Two Moons' account of this June 1876 event'

Answer: the Battle of Little Big Horn


Question: '"My Best Friend's Wedding", "Runaway Bride"'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'Organic chemistry focuses specifically on this element's compounds & their reactions'

Answer: carbon


Question: 'Couscous'

Answer: eat it


Question: '1875: Escamillo, a matador'

Answer: Carmen


Question: 'Give me a "C" for this spectator-leading job at a pep rally! actually, give me the whole word!'

Answer: cheerleader


Question: 'In 1894 this Apache leader was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he farmed & joined the Dutch Reformed Church'

Answer: Geronimo


Question: '"Rio Bravo", "Rio Lobo"'

Answer: John Wayne


Question: 'If you're a steak & veggies creature, you're an omnivore, a combination of these other 2 basic "-vores"'

Answer: carnivore and herbivore


Question: 'ague'

Answer: treat it


Question: '1871: Ramfis, the high priest of Isis'

Answer: Aida


Question: 'A jumbling of radio signals, or the act of illegally hindering a footballer from catching a pass'

Answer: interference


Question: 'In the mid-1830s Osceola, a leader in this tribe, waged guerrilla warfare against U.S. troops in the Everglades'

Answer: Seminole


Question: '"Seven Years in Tibet",<br />"Seven"'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: 'In humans this collection of nerves extends from the base of the skull to the second lumbar vertebra'

Answer: spinal cord


Question: 'Tabor'

Answer: beat it


Question: '1904: Suzuki, a geisha's servant'

Answer: Madame Butterfly


Question: 'Describes the title "Rabbit" William Nicholson illustrated for writer Margery Williams'

Answer: velveteen


Question: 'In 1833 this leader of the Sac & Fox tribes for whom a war is named dictated his autobiography to Antoine LeClaire'

Answer: Black Hawk


Question: '"Rachel Getting Married" , "Bride Wars"'

Answer: Anne Hathaway


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gets in his workout.)  Physical activity increases both body temperature & this process in which food is converted to protein, carbs & fat & then used for energy'

Answer: metabolism


Question: 'Yaws'

Answer: treat it


Question: '1905: Herod & Jokanaan (aka John the Baptist)'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'A ship that drags a body of water for ordnance, or a time-killing computer game'

Answer: minesweeper


Question: 'This name the Pilgrims used for a great Wampanoag chief means "great chief"'

Answer: Massasoit


Question: '"Three Amigos!", "Three Fugitives"'

Answer: Martin Short


Question: 'Alimentary, my dear! waves of contractions moving swallowed food through the esophagus are called this'

Answer: peristalsis


Question: 'Quinoa'

Answer: eat it


Question: '1892: Tonio & Beppe, a couple of clowns'

Answer: Pagliacci


Question: 'It describes an event without previous instance'

Answer: unprecedented


Question: 'Chapters in an 1831 work by this author include "Maitre Jacques Coppenole" & "A Tear for a Drop of Water"'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'A huge monolith featuring 121 carved figures adorns Vigeland Sculpture Park in this Norwegian capital'

Answer: Oslo


Question: 'Mallory Tarcher has had a hand in continuing Lamb Chop, created by this woman, her mother'

Answer: Shari Lewis


Question: 'February 29 baby Karl von Baer established that babies develop from these female reproductive cells'

Answer: ova


Question: 'What preach you practice'

Answer: Practice what you preach


Question: 'Performed to make you part of the Mormon Church, it needs a body of water large enough for total immersion'

Answer: baptism


Question: 'After being made with a new metal in 1883, the U.S. coin known as the half dime became known as this'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'Sir Francis Chantrey's statue of King George IV stands in a corner of this famous London square'

Answer: Trafalgar Square


Question: 'Known as the Foster Imposters, a puppet pair of these animals want to be Foster Farms products'

Answer: chickens


Question: 'Morarji Desai, former prime minister of this country, died in 1995 aged 99 (or just 24)'

Answer: India


Question: 'Iron while is the strike hot'

Answer: Strike while the iron is hot


Question: 'They're the first 2 words in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 ed.) wedding service'

Answer: Dearly beloved


Question: 'Nickname of Melissa Gilbert's character on "Little House on the Prairie"'

Answer: Half Pint


Question: 'Devon House, built in 1881 by one of the Caribbean's 1st black millionaires, is a major attraction in this Jamaican capital'

Answer: Kingston


Question: 'In 1989 NBC had this alien help host the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade'

Answer: ALF


Question: 'This Italian celebrated his 6th birthday in 1816, days after his opera "The Barber of Seville" premiered'

Answer: Gioachino Rossini


Question: 'Lead roads all Rome to'

Answer: All roads lead to Rome


Question: 'As used during the Last Supper they're the food & drink blessed during the eucharist'

Answer: bread & wine


Question: 'According to Tennyson, the Light Brigade moved into the Valley of Death by these increments'

Answer: half-leagues


Question: 'Te Papa Tongarewa, Maori for "repository of things precious", is the name of the waterfront museum in this city'

Answer: Wellington


Question: 'Humans on this 2002 Fox puppet series include Sarah Silverman & Seth Green'

Answer: Greg the Bunny


Question: 'This actor & jeans model seen here really is in the "junior league"; he's only had 7 birthdays'

Answer: Antonio Sabato, Jr.


Question: 'Better one are heads than two'

Answer: Two heads are better than one


Question: 'Kol Nidre, which negates vows made between humans & God, is recited on the eve of this Jewish holiday'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: 'A "half" this is a dive that includes a half backward somersault & ends facing the board'

Answer: kick


Question: 'A hill known as El Panecillo -- "The Bread Roll" -- provides fine views of this Ecuadorian city'

Answer: Quito


Question: 'On "Unhappily Ever After", he supplied the voice of Mr. Floppy'

Answer: Bobcat Goldthwait


Question: 'In 1896 Herman Hollerith, born on Leap Day 1860, organized the Tabulating Machine Co., which evolved into this giant'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'Pen mightier is than the the sword'

Answer: The pen is mightier than the sword


Question: 'This kind of mass has included a "Dies Irae"; Mozart wrote one late in his life'

Answer: requiem mass


Question: 'For thorium-234 it's about 25 days; for thorium-232, about 14 billion years'

Answer: half-life


Question: 'Taft was criticized for not doing more to reduce the power of Joe Cannon, holder of this post in Congress'

Answer: Speaker of the House


Question: 'A steenbok is a grassland antelope; this is the man who wrote "Tortilla Flat"'

Answer: John Steinbeck


Question: 'Richard Bachman'

Answer: Stephen King


Question: 'This Motown group's many '60s hits include "Stop! In the Name of Love"'

Answer: the Supremes


Question: 'In the Hawaiian language, kane is a man & this is a woman'

Answer: wahine


Question: 'In 1998 this largest automaker of South Korea acquired a major stake in Kia Motors'

Answer: Hyundai


Question: 'With Taft & Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote, this Democrat easily won the 1912 election'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Elder is a species of tree; eider is a species of this'

Answer: duck


Question: 'Diedrich Knickerbocker'

Answer: Washington Irving


Question: 'Giant of the '70s airwaves seen here'

Answer: John Denver


Question: 'In the 1790s, cattle were brought to Hawaii by George Vancouver who served under this discoverer of the islands'

Answer: Captain James Cook


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates)  It's the method I'm using to type a memo...I was never very good'

Answer: hunt-and-peck


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cincinnati)  Before ascending to the presidency, the only job Taft was voted into was as one of these in Ohio'

Answer: Superior Court judge


Question: 'Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection; this was the '80s TV show hosted by Deney Terrio'

Answer: Dance Fever


Question: 'Elron'

Answer: L. Ron Hubbard


Question: 'A bestselling album of 1945 was from this bandleader who'd died the previous year'

Answer: Glenn Miller


Question: 'Known as the "Napoleon of the Pacific", he united the islands by 1810 & forged them into a kingdom'

Answer: King Kamehameha


Question: 'It's another name for a filbert'

Answer: hazelnut


Question: 'Taft set up this bureau in the Interior Dept. to reduce underground explosions, that sort of thing'

Answer: Bureau of Mines


Question: 'Baskin-Robbins creates fancy ice cream treats; he created the ballet "Fancy Free"'

Answer: Jerome Robbins


Question: 'O. Henry'

Answer: William Sydney Porter


Question: '"Shake It" is the last song on his 1983 album "Let's Dance"'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'This island's Kalaupapa National Historical Park preserves the Kalaupapa leper settlement'

Answer: Molokai


Question: 'Despite a clubfoot, Lord Byron played cricket for this London school in its rivalry match against Eton'

Answer: Harrow


Question: 'Alliterative term for Taft's foreign policy, which emphasized monetary investment'

Answer: "Dollar Diplomacy"


Question: 'Topaz is a yellow stone; this is the U.S. national park with the highest waterfall'

Answer: Yosemite


Question: 'A.A. Fair'

Answer: Erle Stanley Gardner


Question:
'In 1959 she had a hit with the following
[What A Difference A Day Makes]'

Answer: Dinah Washington


Question: 'Volcanic craters on Oahu include Diamond Head, Koko Head & this "bowl" in the heart of Honolulu'

Answer: Punchbowl


Question: 'Largely through the efforts of Clive Cussler, this Confederate sub that sank with its crew in 1864 has been recovered'

Answer: C.S.S. Hunley


Question: 'This venture was financed by the sale of souvenir stamps & medals & a large donation from businessman Georgios Averoff'

Answer: the Olympic Games (first of the modern era)


Question: 'Demonstrators were kicked out of this city's Lincoln Park August 27, 1968'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'As Dr. Doolittle, Rex Harrison sang this 1967 Oscar-winner to people too'

Answer: Talk To The Animals


Question: 'The 999 ghosts at the mansion in this Anaheim landmark tell visitors “There's always room for 1 more”'

Answer: Disneyland


Question: 'Achilles died because his wound here would not do this'

Answer: heel/heal


Question: 'Both North Carolina's capital & a brand of cigarettes are named for him'

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh


Question: 'A strikebreaker, or a blood clot on surface of one's skin'

Answer: scab


Question: 'Though he left the service after WWII as a captain, today he holds the highest rank possible'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: '1942 Irving Berlin classic that's sold more records than any other'

Answer: White Christmas


Question: 'Creators of “Casper” say this film's logo plagiarized 1 of their characters'

Answer: Ghostbusters


Question: 'Only a few of these in the Pennsylvania coal fields are under 18 years old'

Answer: miners/minors


Question: 'Our country has plenty of good 5¢ cigars, but they charge 15¢ for them, said this “cowboy philosopher”'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'Of blood type, dental work, & tattoos, the subject not queried of Red Cross blood donors'

Answer: blood type


Question: 'Country to which the U.S. began beaming Radio Marti in May 1985'

Answer: Cuba


Question: '1 of 2 Oscar winners sung in the films by Doris Day'

Answer: Que Sera Sera or (Secret Love)


Question: 'Silver City, Idaho & Bodie, California for example'

Answer: ghost towns


Question: 'A big kiss upon parting, or the Greyhound that carries you away'

Answer: buss/bus


Question: 'General Cigar Company brand & national poet of Scotland'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: 'When routinely measuring systolic blood pressure, a stethoscope is used to listen for this'

Answer: pulse


Question: 'Though popular in early 1800s this Tennessee congressman was even more popular in the 1950s'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'In “Going My Way”, Bing Crosby asks “Would you rather” be doing this title task or be a fish'

Answer: Swinging On A Star


Question: 'In the Superman TV series, editor Perry White frequently invoked this spirit'

Answer: great Caesar\'s ghost


Question: 'Vacationing on a ship, or people that staff them'

Answer: cruise/crews


Question: ''50s brand that advertised with 2 leggy cigarette boxes dancing'

Answer: Old Gold


Question: 'This president vetoed more legislation than any other'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'This 1st winner, from “Gay Divorcee”, is also a luxury car'

Answer: The Continental


Question: 'In Shakespeare's play, ghost who sat in Macbeth's place at the banquet table'

Answer: Banquo


Question: 'Emotional state of a cow who bellowed'

Answer: mood/mooed


Question: 'A cigarmaker by trade, he founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)'

Answer: Samuel Gompers


Question: 'Septicema & saprema are 2 types of it'

Answer: blood poisoning


Question: 'A.E. Housman “heard a wise man say , give crowns & pounds & guineas but not” this away'

Answer: your heart


Question: '100 years ago the now-dead philosopher Nietzsche claimed this being was dead'

Answer: God


Question: 'It connects the 3 boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, & The Bronx'

Answer: Triborough Bridge


Question: '“Bring 'em Back Alive” guy, played by Bruce Boxleitner on TV but by himself on radio'

Answer: Frank Buck


Question: 'Daily newspaper illustration that shows isobars & temperatures'

Answer: weather map


Question: 'Name for street urchin, probably derived from where they are said to live'

Answer: guttersnipe


Question: 'Poet who relived his boyhood in “A Child's Christmas in Wales”'

Answer: Dylan Thomas


Question: '[Audio DD] Name of bridge mentioned in the following song: <i>Bobbie Gentry:  It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty... </i>'

Answer: Tallahatchie Bridge


Question: 'This all-American boy's theme began “Wave the flag for Hudson High, boys”'

Answer: Jack Armstrong


Question: 'The 2 main types are polar-orbiting & geostationary'

Answer: weather satellites


Question: 'Adjective describing sounds of German, & to non-English speakers, English'

Answer: guttural


Question: 'William Golding novel in which English school boys stranded on an island turn savage'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: 'Peruvian bridge which collapsed Friday July 20, 1714 in Thornton Wilder novel of the same name'

Answer: bridge of San Luis Rey


Question: '12 beats of a gong & an airplane swooping down signaled his arrival on radio'

Answer: Captain Midnight


Question: 'Name of wind which flows down eastern slopes of Rocky mtns. raising temp. as much as 40° in 3 hours'

Answer: Chinook


Question: 'U.S. naval officer famous for saying “Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead”'

Answer: Farragut


Question: 'Family name of Laurence Sterne's characters Walter, Toby, & Tristram'

Answer: Shandy


Question: 'Baby Fae heart transplant occurred in a hospital run by this denomination'

Answer: Seventh-Day Adventists


Question: 'Named not for lovers but sorrowful prisoners crossing it to Venetian prison'

Answer: Bridge of Sighs


Question: 'He usually drove the Black Beauty'

Answer: Kato


Question: 'The average weather conditions of a region over a long period of time'

Answer: climate


Question: 'He, along with Joel Cairo & Brigid O'Shaughnessy, sought the Maltese Falcon'

Answer: Casper Gutman


Question: '1 of the 2 18th century periodicals in which Addison & Steele published their essays'

Answer: The Tatler and the Spectator


Question: 'Though Shi'ites have been getting the headlines, most Muslims belong to this sect'

Answer: Sunnis


Question: 'From Latin “way”, it's a bridge that crosses mainly over dry land instead of water'

Answer: viaduct


Question: 'Later a foil for Lucy as Harry Carter, he foiled Ming on radio as Flash Gordon'

Answer: Gale Gordon


Question: 'Name for temperature at which water vapor in the atmosphere begins to condense'

Answer: dew point


Question: 'Botanical name for “plant sweat”, from Latin word for “droplet”'

Answer: guttation


Question: 'Aside from the Dakotas & Carolinas, # of states with 2 words in their names as commonly used'

Answer: 6


Question: 'It's the "nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine"'

Answer: NyQuil


Question: 'Royal mom of Alice, Alfred, Arthur & 6 others: QV'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'In 2001 Canada's parliament officially added "and Labrador" to this province's name'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'Spoiler alert:<br />This March sister dies in "Little Women"'

Answer: Beth


Question: 'Czech, please! A divorce from her cost $14 mil., plus a Conn. estate & $350K a year until she remarried'

Answer: Ivana


Question: 'This MPAA rating "requires accompanying parent or adult guardian" for those under 17'

Answer: R


Question: 'For stomach pain, this brand now comes in cherry flavor & says, "pink tastes better than you think!"'

Answer: Pepto-Bismol


Question: 'Mother to Lourdes & Rocco: M'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'A valley formed by the Cuyahoga River divides this city into East & West sides'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'This E.B. White character slept in a tiny bed made of "four clothespins and a cigarette box"'

Answer: Stuart Little


Question: '"Here, let me get out my wallet..." A divorce from this alliteratively named lady cost a mere $2 million'

Answer: Marla Maples


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew holds a guitar.) As a letter before "string" it's kind of racy; as this guitar chord [strums], it's just beautiful'

Answer: G


Question: 'This mouthwash company says there are "millions of reasons to rinse"'

Answer: Listerine


Question: 'Mother to Anna, James, Elliott, John & Franklin: ER'

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt


Question: 'The Saami live in this 7-letter region that includes parts of Norway, Sweden, Russia & Finland'

Answer: Lapland


Question: 'In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy lived with Aunt Em & this uncle, a farmer'

Answer: Uncle Henry


Question: 'In 2004 the Donald paid $41 mil. for a house (which he gutted) in this Florida co., site of a few election problems in 2000'

Answer: Palm Beach County


Question: 'It's the Roman numeral for 500'

Answer: D


Question: 'For athlete's foot, boom! John Madden recommends "tough actin'" this; boom!'

Answer: Tinactin


Question: 'Mom to Yolanda, born in Montgomery in 1955, & 3 others: CSK'

Answer: Coretta Scott King


Question: 'Australia's second-largest state in area, it's nearly 5 times the size of Japan'

Answer: Queensland


Question: 'On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days'

Answer: Phileas Fogg


Question: 'In 1985 Trump signed Doug Flutie to a 5-year, $7 million deal to play for the N.J. Generals of this league'

Answer: USFL (the United States Football League)


Question: 'In 1901 the first wireless message sent overseas was just this one letter'

Answer: S


Question: 'OK, picture the sailor walking around...now, hear that whistling in the ads for this men's scent?'

Answer: Old Spice


Question: 'Mother to Eve & the Nobel Prize-winning Irene: MC'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'In 1982 King Sobhuza of this southern African country died after a 61-year reign'

Answer: Swaziland


Question: 'Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert's rival for the love of this girl'

Answer: Lolita