Question: 'Keats line preceding "Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"'

Answer: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"


Question: 'Zulu, Sesotho & Xhosa are among this country's 11 official languages'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'This priest won his island's presidency in 1959:'

Answer: Archbishop Makarios (of Cyprus)


Question: 'This dark, hoppy type of beer has been the classic Guinness product for more than 2 centuries'

Answer: Stout


Question: 'Jimmy Page has claimed that he, not Dave Davies, played the solo on this, the Kinks' first big U.S. hit'

Answer: "You Really Got Me"


Question: 'This series was set at 165 Eaton Place, 6 floors, basement to attic'

Answer: Upstairs, Downstairs


Question: 'The DMZ between these 2 Asian nations extends 1.2 miles on each side of the 38th parallel'

Answer: North & South Korea


Question: '2 snuggly, cute characters in "Avenue Q" aren't called the "Bad News" these but the "Bad Idea" these'

Answer: Bears


Question: 'Of Constellation, Consternation or Constitution, the one that has never been the name of a U.S. Navy ship'

Answer: Consternation


Question: 'In 1921 coal miners in this "Mountain State" took up arms & tried to force unionization in its southwest part'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'In 1904 C.H. Lang of Chicago opened the first dealership devoted to this Milwaukee-based motorcycle co.'

Answer: Harley-Davidson


Question: 'A fixed, benchlike seat in a church'

Answer: a pew


Question: 'The world's largest blue coral reef is one of the natural treasures of this country's Ishigaki Island'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'Many of this Jonathan Larson musical's famous fans have gone backstage to add their names to a long graffiti wall'

Answer: Rent


Question: 'Of a bird, a nerd or an herb, it's what a larkspur is'

Answer: an herb


Question: 'In 1831 this Messianic preacher led a slave revolt that cut a bloody swath across Virginia'

Answer: Nat Turner


Question: 'The Baltimore clippers of the late 18th & early 19th centuries were first built at shipyards on this bay'

Answer: Chesapeake Bay


Question: '"Meaty" actor who chews the scenery'

Answer: a ham


Question: 'In November 1976 the U.S. vetoed this reunited country's admission to the U.N.'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'In 2007 Fantasia of "American Idol" took over the role of Celie in the musical based on this Alice Walker novel'

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: 'Of France, Italy or Russia, the one whose national anthem begins, "Arise children of the fatherland"'

Answer: France


Question: 'In the 1790s Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave revolt that led to this Caribbean nation's independence'

Answer: Haiti


Question: '7-letter term for a place to plunk down your whirlybird, as on the top of an office building'

Answer: a helipad


Question: 'Large deer of northern Europe & America'

Answer: an elk


Question: 'Its natives call it Zhongguo, "central country"'

Answer: China


Question: '"Spring Awakening" is an alt-rock musical based on an 1891 play that Frank Wedekind originally wrote in this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'Of Gunga Din, Paladin or Aladdin, the one who was a nobleman in Charlemagne's court'

Answer: Paladin


Question: 'This 1794 insurrection in Western Penn. was caused by farmers who refused to pay the taxes on their corn liquor'

Answer: the Whiskey Rebellion


Question: 'In 1956, using a lawn-mower engine & metal tubing, Art Ingels built the first one of these'

Answer: a go-kart


Question: 'To cry uncontrollably'

Answer: to sob


Question: 'The former Asian monarch seen here reigned in this country until 2004, when he turned the throne over to his son'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Huey Lewis, Harry Hamlin & George Hamilton have all been tapped to play tap-dancing lawyer Billy Flynn in this musical'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Of the U.S., Tonga or Canada, the one that never signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty'

Answer: Tonga


Question: 'In 1839 this Italian soldier joined the failed revolt in southern Brazil in what was called the "War of Tatters"'

Answer: Garibaldi


Question: '296 feet long to climb 189 feet, the USA's shortest & steepest of these still operates in Dubuque'

Answer: a funicular


Question: 'To rob in a public place'

Answer: to mug


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew blows a trombone.)  Performing the same function as the valves on modern brass instruments, this moveable part of the trombone dates back to the 15th century'

Answer: the slide


Question: 'Fred MacMurray's title "Sons" minus Paul Reiser's title "Dads"'

Answer: 1


Question: 'Number One:<br />This former pilot in the Royal Navy'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: '"There's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood" is said of this title character'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'This hotel & casino in Las Vegas is built in the style of the ancient pyramids'

Answer: the Luxor


Question: 'Baseball referee'

Answer: an umpire


Question: 'If you're a master with a glock, you could be an assassin or a player of this percussion instrument'

Answer: the glockenspiel


Question: 'Col. Steve Austin's title worth plus the amount of title days "at a time" for Bonnie Franklin'

Answer: 6,000,001


Question: 'Number 2:<br />This 2005 graduate of the University of St. Andrews'

Answer: William


Question: 'Friar John gets quarantined, so he never delivers that really important letter that this Friar wrote to Romeo'

Answer: Friar Lawrence


Question: 'With loans from British investors, this 363-mile-long U.S. project was built from 1817 to 1825'

Answer: the Erie Canal


Question: 'Your navel was attached to it'

Answer: your umbilical cord


Question: 'This part of a bagpipe that substitutes for your lungs shares its name with a device to force air onto a fire'

Answer: a bellows


Question: 'John Ritter's sitcom "Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" times John Ritter's sitcom "Company"'

Answer: 24


Question: 'Number 13:<br />The Hon. Charles Armstrong-Jones, grandson of this princess'

Answer: Princess Margaret


Question: 'She's in Troy when she tells Pandarus, "Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!"'

Answer: Cressida


Question: 'Exodus 25 recounts that God told the Hebrews to build this holy receptacle'

Answer: the Ark (of the Covenant)


Question: 'If someone is rude to you, you might "take" this feeling of displeasure'

Answer: umbrage


Question: 'Often played tilted, this instrument has a "harmonic curve" as the strings lengthen with each octave'

Answer: the harp


Question: 'Careful:<br />Tina Fey's title "Rock" minus Charlie Sheen's title "Men"'

Answer: 27 1/2


Question: 'Number 5:<br />This princess, Fergie's first-born'

Answer: Beatrice


Question: 'This man boasts, "he that knows better how to tame a shrew, now let him speak"'

Answer: Petruchio


Question: 'From Italian for "round", it's a large & high circular hall in a building, usually surmounted by a dome'

Answer: a rotunda


Question: 'The Tiber runs through this hilly Italian region'

Answer: Umbria


Question: 'A short sonata is a sonatina; a keyboardless accordionis this'

Answer: a concertina


Question: 'Hawkeye's unit number in "M*A*S*H" plus John Lithgow's title rock "from the Sun"'

Answer: 4080


Question: 'Number 18:<br />The Duke of this (a title once held by Richard III)'

Answer: Gloucester


Question: 'The appropriately named Servilius is a servant to this title guy "of Athens"'

Answer: Timon


Question: 'This Canadian who built steamboats is even more famous for the brewery he built in Montreal in 1786'

Answer: Molson


Question: 'The name of this diacritical symbol is from the German for "sound change"'

Answer: an umlaut


Question: '2 of the 4 states whose names were those of independent republics before they entered the Union'

Answer: (2 of) Hawaii, Texas, California, & Vermont


Question: 'On Valentine's Day 2000, the Near spacecraft is due to begin orbiting this asteroid named for the Greek god of love'

Answer: Eros


Question: 'This fox from "Melrose Place" has joined Michael J. on "Spin City"'

Answer: Heather Locklear


Question: 'Located on the Thames River, it's been Europe's largest city since around 1700'

Answer: London


Question: 'This lovely letter-turner got her turn at playing Venus in the 1988 TV movie "Goddess of Love"'

Answer: Vanna White


Question: 'This actor's dad James Broderick played the dad on TV's "Family"'

Answer: Matthew Broderick


Question: 'In this 1987 film, Cher is engaged to marry an older man, Danny Aiello, but falls in love with Nicolas Cage'

Answer: Moonstruck


Question: 'One of the more impressive meteor showers comes in December from this constellation of the twins'

Answer: Gemini


Question: 'Now in her second year as "Jesse", she was Kelly Bundy for 11 seasons'

Answer: Christina Applegate


Question: 'According to tradition, tossing a coin into this city's Trevi Fountain ensures a return visit'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'In 1999 she & her sister Serena aced the women's doubles final at the French Open'

Answer: Venus Williams


Question: 'Former president Bush must be proud -- his sons George W. & Jeb govern these 2 states'

Answer: Texas & Florida


Question: 'This Jackie Gleason series began as a sketch on Dumont's "Cavalcade of Stars" in the '50s'

Answer: The Honeymooners


Question: 'In 1994 fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck this planet, creating a plume over 1,000 miles high'

Answer: Jupiter


Question: 'Albert Brooks cast her as "The Muse"'

Answer: Sharon Stone


Question: 'This Costa Rican capital's international airport is named for 19th century hero Juan Santamaria'

Answer: San Jose


Question: 'In 1986 this female trio put "Venus" on top of the music charts'

Answer: Bananarama


Question: 'His disappearance made headlines March 2, 1932'

Answer: The Lindbergh baby


Question: 'In the card game Hearts, taking all 13 hearts & the queen of spades is known as this'

Answer: shooting the moon


Question: 'The solar observatory at Kitt Peak in this Southwestern state focuses on spectroscopy'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'She was the first VJ to appear on both MTV & MTV Latino'

Answer: Daisy Fuentes


Question: 'In the 1980s Nicolae Ceausescu built this city's Palace of the People'

Answer: Bucharest, Romania


Question: 'Before residing at the Louvre, this famous Greek statue belonged to Louis XVIII'

Answer: Venus de Milo


Question: 'This famous son gave his name to a Dearborn, Michigan high school & a car flop of the 1950s'

Answer: Edsel Ford


Question: 'In 1971 this Who drummer appeared as a nun in Frank Zappa's film "200 Motels"'

Answer: Keith Moon


Question: 'According to one of this German's laws of motion, planets travel faster when they are closer to the sun'

Answer: Johannes Kepler


Question: 'A TV Guide "You Sexy Thing!" poll pitted Jeri Ryan of "Star Trek: Voyager" against this show's Peta Wilson'

Answer: La Femme Nikita


Question: 'Sucre is Bolivia's judicial capital; this is the administrative capital'

Answer: La Paz


Question: 'It's John Gray's 1992 megaseller on relationships & the differences between the sexes'

Answer: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus


Question: 'In 2 Samuel David laments for him, "My son, my son...would God I had died for thee"'

Answer: Absalom


Question: 'The French title of this 1865 Jules Verne classic is "De la Terre a la Lune"'

Answer: From the Earth to the Moon


Question: 'In the deal of the century, the U.S. made this $15 million purchase & doubled the size of the U.S.'

Answer: Louisiana Purchase


Question: 'As a rule, rose stems should be cut above a group of 5 of these'

Answer: leaves


Question: 'They thrived in the scorching heat of the California desert that bears their name'

Answer: Mojave


Question: 'Utah lake seasoning<br />(4)'

Answer: salt


Question: 'This 1972 Woody Allen film included clips & music from "Casablanca", sweetheart'

Answer: Play It Again, Sam


Question: 'This leader rebounded from his Gallipoli disaster in WWI to have his "finest hour" in WWII'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'In 1891 this sport got off to a bouncing start in Springfield, Massachusetts'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'A verb meaning to remove withered roses, or a noun meaning a fan of a Jerry Garcia band'

Answer: Deadhead


Question: 'Add 1 letter to "Iowa" to get the name of this tribe who lived south of the Iowa'

Answer: Kiowa


Question: 'Dear Sir, for example<br />(10)'

Answer: salutation


Question: 'Suzanne Somers cruised around in a white T-Bird in this 1973 film'

Answer: American Graffiti


Question: 'He turned the experience of being booed at Madison Square Garden into the hit "Garden Party"'

Answer: Ricky Nelson


Question: 'The Ferris wheel made its first rounds in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in this city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'On a rose, it's not the side of the pelvis but the berrylike fruit'

Answer: hips


Question: 'The French gave an Idaho tribe this name meaning "heart like an awl"'

Answer: Coeur d\'Alene


Question: 'A birdie, in badminton<br />(11)'

Answer: shuttlecock


Question: '(Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of "7th Heaven")  I began my film career playing Hugh Sloan, Richard Nixon's campaign treasurer, in this 1976 classic'

Answer: All The President\'s Men


Question: 'He & his men were driven from the Aztec capital one night in 1520, but returned to capture it a year later'

Answer: Hernando Cortes


Question: 'During the 1850s, these 2 inventors were on opposite sides of the "Sewing Machine War"'

Answer: Elias Howe & Isaac Singer


Question: 'One rose is named for this Louisiana "port", the headquarters of the American Rose Society'

Answer: Shreveport


Question: 'These peaceable mesa dwellers became the westernmost of the Pueblo peoples'

Answer: Hopi


Question: 'It precedes straps, squash or Western<br />(9)'

Answer: spaghetti


Question: 'Jane Fonda played playwright Lillian Hellman in this 1977 drama'

Answer: Julia


Question: 'Out of football & cutting kitchen marble, he returned to glory as the Vikings' quarterback in 1998'

Answer: Randall Cunningham


Question: 'William Rufus King, elected to this post in 1852, died before he could fulfill his duties'

Answer: vice president


Question: 'From a word meaning "perfumed", it's a liquid obtained by distilling rose petals'

Answer: attar


Question: 'The Stinkards were the common class of these Mississippi Indians of whom hardly a "trace" remains'

Answer: Natchez


Question: 'Sullen, like a one-horse carriage<br />(5)'

Answer: sulky


Question: 'In 1975 John Huston co-starred with Sean Connery in "The Wind and the Lion" & directed him in this film'

Answer: The Man Who Would Be King


Question: 'He published perhaps his most famous volume, "Tales of a Wayside Inn", 2 years after his wife's death'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Question: 'He was named after Japanese beef'

Answer: Kobe Bryant


Question: 'The beak of this flightless bird of Antarctica can be black, red, orange or bright purple'

Answer: penguin


Question: '"Life on the Street" in Baltimore included Richard Belzer as Det. John Munch on this gritty drama'

Answer: Homicide


Question: 'Texas:<br />1,600,000'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'Of port, starboard, fore or aft, the one usually yelled by a golfer'

Answer: fore


Question: 'Donald Duck could tell you it's the occupational hat seen here:'

Answer: sailor


Question: 'Wet, sticky substance campaigners "sling"'

Answer: mud


Question: 'Buckskin was originally made from the mule & white-tailed species of this ungulate'

Answer: deer


Question: '(Hi, I'm Brook Kerr from the soap opera Passions.)  With elements of the supernatural, "Passions" has been described as "'Peyton Place' meets" this Fox series'

Answer: The X-Files


Question: 'Iowa:<br />193,000'

Answer: Des Moines


Question: 'Of Jungle Jim, Slim Jim, Lord Jim or Home Gym, the one made by Goodmark Foods'

Answer: Slim Jim


Question: 'From the Latin for "device", it's the traditional occupation of this hat's wearer:'

Answer: train engineer


Question: 'A thesaurus lists among this 2-letter word's synonyms: "Over one's dead body" & "Not for all the tea in China"'

Answer: no


Question: 'A species of this insect, Apidae bumbus, ranges from above the Arctic Circle to as far south as Tierra del Fuego'

Answer: bumblebee


Question: 'Stu & Didi Pickles are Tommy's parents on this Nickelodeon cartoon'

Answer: Rugrats


Question: 'New Mexico:<br />385,000'

Answer: Albuquerque


Question: 'Of Alpha, Bravo, Charlie or Delta, the national cable TV network'

Answer: Bravo


Question: 'The hat seen here is worn by police in this European nation of almost 60 million:'

Answer: France


Question: 'Insult a Finn & he may just turn his other poski, this'

Answer: cheek


Question: 'In a boon to lab research, in 1956 it was found that this "golden" rodent could be infected with the common cold'

Answer: hamster


Question: 'Barnabas Collins was a 200-year-old vampire on this serial that premiered in 1966'

Answer: Dark Shadows


Question: 'Kansas:<br />305,000'

Answer: Wichita


Question: 'Of dipthong, Haiphong, souchong or Howie Long, the tea'

Answer: Souchong


Question: 'Hats like the one seen here are worn by this group that was named for a Mennonite elder:'

Answer: Amish


Question: 'The name of this cookie made from sugar, egg whites & almond paste comes from the same root as the name of a pasta'

Answer: macaroon (macaroni)


Question: 'This flightless South American bird often associates with guanacos, forming mixed herds'

Answer: rhea


Question: 'In 1999 stockade humor made a short-lived comeback in "Thanks", a sitcom set in 1621 in this colony'

Answer: Plymouth Colony


Question: 'New Jersey:<br />275,000'

Answer: Newark


Question: 'Of Tic Tac, knickknack, bric-a-brac or Micmac, the one that definitely won't fit in your pocket'

Answer: Micmac (an Indian)


Question: 'It's the "exhausting" style of hat seen here:'

Answer: stovepipe


Question: 'As a noun, it's a short whip; as a verb, to trim a photo'

Answer: Crop


Question: 'This trailblazer held a series of political offices in Kentucky including sheriff & deputy surveyor'

Answer: Daniel Boone


Question: 'Type of flag seen here<br />[Amherst College]'

Answer: Pennant


Question:
'"Let It Bleed",
"Tattoo You",
"Beggars Banquet"'

Answer: The Rolling Stones


Question: 'Geometrically speaking, to travel 360 degrees, returning to an earlier position'

Answer: Come full circle


Question: 'Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in this section of Brooklyn that shares its name with an amusement park'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'In December 1999 her tomb at the foot of the Mount of Olives flooded, ruining many icons'

Answer: Virgin Mary


Question: 'He was off Flamborough Head, England on September 23, 1779 when he said, "I have not yet begun to fight"'

Answer: John Paul Jones


Question: 'A flagpole is also called a staff or this nautical term'

Answer: Mast


Question:
'"Shake it Up",
"Panorama",
"Heartbeat City"'

Answer: The Cars


Question: 'When someone "gets" this, it's regarded as a just punishment'

Answer: Comeuppance


Question: 'What Heller did in the Army Air Forces during WWII, or in his play title, what "We" did "In New Haven"'

Answer: Bombed


Question: 'A December 1999 storm in this city flooded the basement of the State Hermitage Museum'

Answer: St. Petersburg, Russia


Question: 'He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the colonies from 1753 to 1774'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'It can be a flag flown from a naval ship, or the lowest rank of commissioned officer on it'

Answer: Ensign


Question:
'"Murmur",
"Monster",
"Automatic for the People"'

Answer: R.E.M.


Question: 'Plan ahead as your "chickens" might make this undesirable return'

Answer: Come home to roost


Question: 'In the '60s Heller wrote for this Ernest Borgnine sitcom under the name Max Orange'

Answer: McHale\'s Navy


Question: 'In September & October 1999 much of this country's city of Villahermosa was under water'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Despite victories in the Northwest Territory, this general & his men received no pay for their services in the revolution'

Answer: George Rogers Clark


Question: 'This word for the upper left part of a flag is a place name on maps of China & Ohio'

Answer: Canton


Question:
'"On the Border",
"Hell Freezes Over",
"Hotel California"'

Answer: The Eagles


Question: 'Heller was one of the uncredited contributors to the screenplay of this 1967 James Bond comedy'

Answer: Casino Royale


Question: 'Flooding in this country's Quang Ngai province in late 1999 destroyed hundreds of homes'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'On September 27, 1779 this ex-chief justice of New York was named minister plenipotentiary to Spain'

Answer: John Jay


Question: 'A tapering flag that ends in 2 points is named for its resemblance to this bird's "tail"'

Answer: Swallow


Question:
'"Dreamboat Annie",
"Little Queen",
"Bad Animals"'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'Heller was going to number "Catch-22" this, but Leon Uris had already used it with "Mila"'

Answer: 18


Question: '"Built From Scratch" is a book on how Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank remodeled this chain founded in 1978'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'The words of the anthem were written late in this war'

Answer: War of 1812


Question: 'In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes'

Answer: Marathon


Question: 'A bypass operation may bypass the carotid or coronary one of these'

Answer: Artery


Question: 'One of the ska anthems of the '80s was the Specials' plea to "free" this South African'

Answer: Nelson Mandela


Question: 'It's a shoe-free dance held in the school gymnasium'

Answer: Sock hop


Question: 'It's played like baseball, only you bat with your feet'

Answer: Kickball


Question: '3 of the 4 full sentences in the first verse end in this punctuation mark'

Answer: Question mark


Question: 'He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'An instrument called a reamer is used in the replacement of this joint at the top of the femur'

Answer: Hip


Question: 'Years before hooking up with Dawn, he recorded the demo for the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"'

Answer: Tony Orlando


Question: 'It's the useful meteorological instrument seen here:'

Answer: Windsock


Question: 'A basic unit of mass, it's equal to 2.2046 pounds'

Answer: Kilogram


Question: 'In 1912 Eben Appleton of New York donated the banner in the song to this, on the condition it always stay there'

Answer: Smithsonian


Question: 'His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'The technical term for the common operation to remove the uterus'

Answer: Hysterectomy


Question: 'In January 1969 the Beatles recorded "Get Back" on the roof of this record company's Savile Row Studio in London'

Answer: Apple Records


Question: '(Alex speaking in "Scottish" accent)  Look, man!  It's the classic sock pattern seen here:'

Answer: Argyle


Question: 'It's the Native American ceremonial item seen here:'

Answer: Kachina doll


Question: 'This word means a fortification on an embankment with a parapet on top'

Answer: Rampart


Question: 'In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years'

Answer: February


Question: 'If someone's reconnecting your bile ducts, you've just had this transplant first performed by Dr. Thomas Starzl'

Answer: Liver transplant


Question: 'He wrote several earlier hits for others, but didn't have his own Top 10 hit until "Like A Rolling Stone" in 1965'

Answer: Bob Dylan


Question: 'At one time you could get a guided tour from Socks the Cat on this building's official website'

Answer: White House


Question: 'He directed "The Hidden Fortress", "Rashomon" & "Throne of Blood"'

Answer: Akira Kurosawa


Question: 'The first Olympics at which the song could be played as our official national anthem were held in 1932 in this country'

Answer: USA (Lake Placid)


Question: 'Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these'

Answer: Jamborees


Question: 'The acronymic word "laser" is represented in this acronym for a popular sight-improvement surgery'

Answer: LASIK


Question: 'His group, The Union Gap. took its name from the town of Union Gap, Washington'

Answer: Gary Puckett


Question: 'These socks with a "digital" name seen here can be very cozy:'

Answer: Toe socks


Question: 'It's the first name used by the Lebanese-American poet who wrote "The Prophet" & "Sand and Foam"'

Answer: Khalil (Gibran)


Question: 'Until Yale gave the USA's first of these in 1861, the M.A. degree was the peak of scholarly achievement'

Answer: Ph D.


Question: '1984:<br />"...and the Temple of Doom"'

Answer: Indiana Jones


Question: 'The town of Fossil once held annual "Days" of these departed reptiles, but the event is now extinct'

Answer: Dinosaurs


Question: 'Wallace Stevens' "Farewell to" this state says, "Key West sank downward under massive clouds"'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Perseverance wasn't the middle name of this man who climbed Everest in 1953, it was Percival'

Answer: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary


Question: 'The phrase "Animal, vegetable or mineral" is associated with this game of yes-or-no responses'

Answer: Twenty Questions


Question: 'Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type'

Answer: Comedy


Question: '1971:<br />"...and Broomsticks"'

Answer: Bedknobs


Question: 'A grand hotel on what's now this city's Pioneer Courthouse Square became a parking lot in the '50s'

Answer: Portland


Question: 'Sara Teasdale wrote about these plants' "wet, sleepy fragrance"; Monet would understand'

Answer: Water lilies


Question: 'As prime minister of this country, Percival J. Patterson makes his home in Kingston'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: 'An expression meaning "Open All Hours", or the score of the Jan. 2, 2000 Jaguars-Bengals game'

Answer: 24-7


Question: '(Hi, I'm Peter Krause)  The 1st live game on this network that's like mine on "Sports Night" was the Bourbons vs. the Schlitzes in softball'

Answer: ESPN


Question: '1975:<br />"...and His Dog"'

Answer: A Boy


Question: 'In 1948 the town of Vanport was so devastated by one of these disasters, it had to be sold for salvage'

Answer: Flood


Question: 'In Tennyson's poem about "The Lady of" this place, he rhymes it with "Camelot" & "Lancelot"'

Answer: Shalott


Question: 'Sir Percival joined this knight's quest for the holy grail'

Answer: Sir Galahad


Question: 'Henry Flipper, the first black graduate of this academy, was assigned to mosquito control'

Answer: West Point/USMA/Army


Question: '1997:<br />"...& Out"'

Answer: In


Question: 'In 1995 Bob Packwood resigned & this other veteran Oregon senator announced his retirement'

Answer: Mark Hatfield


Question: 'This Edwin Arlington Robinson poem about a wealthy suicide was set to music by Simon & Garfunkel'

Answer: "Richard Cory"


Question: 'In 1894 he founded his observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona'

Answer: Percival Lowell


Question: 'Appropriately, this Hartford company was the first insurer of automobiles'

Answer: Travelers


Question: '1982:<br />"...and Treacle"'

Answer: Brimstone


Question: 'In this city named for a fur-trading mogul, a park sits on the site of the 1811 fort'

Answer: Astoria


Question: 'In the following, Johnny Gilbert portrays Marlowe's "Passionate" one of these men "to his love":<br />"Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves, hills and fields, woods are sleepy mountain yields"'

Answer: Shepherd


Question: 'Percival Christopher Wren wrote this classic 1924 tale of the French Foreign Legion'

Answer: "Beau Geste"


Question: 'The 3-letter code for this airport came from what was on the site before it -- Orchard Place'

Answer: O\'Hare Airport, Chicago - ORD


Question: 'Albert Fall was the 1st man guilty of this type of crime done as a Cabinet secy.--we don't know about misdemeanors'

Answer: a felony


Question: 'Nirvana:<br />"Smells Like ____ Spirit "'

Answer: Teen


Question: 'Before fat-free or 2% horned in, all milk sold was what we now call this type'

Answer: whole


Question: 'An acoustics prize went to a study of why people hate the sound of fingernails interacting with this'

Answer: a chalkboard


Question: 'Prime aged beef is the specialty of Mitchell's Steakhouse, just steps from the Capitol in this Ohio city'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'On Oct. 31, 2007 liberal Spaniards got a treat as a law banned public commemorations of this Fascist's rule'

Answer: Franco


Question: '(I'm U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.)  From 1901 to 1907 Ethan Hitchcock helped this president institute his forest-preserving policies'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'Wild Cherry:<br />"Play That ____ Music"'

Answer: Funky


Question: 'A company called Bumkins makes this baby product, a retronym created by the disposable kind'

Answer: cloth diapers


Question: 'A physics prize went to Robert Matthews for demonstrating why buttered toast usually does this when you drop it'

Answer: falls on the butter side


Question: 'You'll really "dig" the Seattle seafood house called Ivar's Acres of these shellfish'

Answer: Clams


Question: '(I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.)  It was a treat for us all on Halloween 2006 when NASA decided to go ahead & repair this & give it new instruments to probe the depths of the universe'

Answer: the Hubble Telescope


Question: 'At age 65 this New Deal Interior Secretary had a son, also Harold, who became a Clinton advisor'

Answer: Ickes


Question: 'The Verve:<br />"____ ____ Symphony"'

Answer: Bitter Sweet


Question: 'As of June 2008 the International Air Transport Association has eliminated these, maybe saving a tree or 2'

Answer: paper tickets


Question: '"Viva" this "love" drug! An aviation prize was awarded for discovering it aided in jetlag recovery in hamsters'

Answer: Viagra


Question: 'If you can't get enough cocoa, head for North Damen Ave. in Chicago, to the restaurant called "Hot" this'

Answer: Chocolate


Question: 'On Oct. 31, 1776 M.P.s might have felt tricked as this monarch told them it was not going too well over in America'

Answer: George III


Question: '(U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne delivers the clue.)  The Interior Department is the steward for about 1/5 of the USA, including 262 million acres under the supervision of this bureau'

Answer: the Bureau of Land Management


Question: 'Sheryl Crow:<br />"My ____ Mistake"'

Answer: Favorite


Question: 'This retronym for a type of computer also means a screen with icons on it'

Answer: a desktop


Question: 'An Aussie woman's study of this 3-letter word & the alphabetical order problems it creates won a literature award'

Answer: "the"


Question: 'The Caucus Room on 9th St. NW in this city is truly bipartisan; it's owned by Democrats & Republicans'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'The great sleuth gets tricked in the first story in these "of Sherlock Holmes", published on Halloween 1892'

Answer: The Adventures


Question: 'Gale Norton ran the department using the 4 C's: communication, consultation & cooperation, to further this 4th C'

Answer: conservation


Question: 'Depeche Mode:<br />"____ Jesus"'

Answer: Personal


Question: 'The emergence of neoconservatives led to this longer retronym for real traditionalists like Pat Buchanan'

Answer: a paleoconservative


Question: 'A medical award went to a "penetrating... report" on this alliterative sideshow act "& its side effects"'

Answer: sword swallowing


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a restaurant courtyard lit for nighttime dining in Central Park, New York.)  Originally built to house sheep, it's come a long way and is now a lavish cafe overlooking Central Park'

Answer: Tavern on the Green


Question: 'On Oct. 31, 1938 this Wall Street institution treated investors to a 15-point protection plan'

Answer: the New York Stock Exchange


Question: 'In 2007 Philippines justice secretary Raul Gonzalez had a transplant of this paired organ'

Answer: kidneys


Question: 'She almost got the role of Scarlett's sister Carreen in "GWTW" --fate intervened & she went to Oz instead'

Answer: (Judy) Garland


Question: 'Pip Pip hooray for this novel in which Pip learns that honest work is more rewarding than shallow dreams'

Answer: Great Expectations


Question: 'Upon Stonewall Jackson's injury by friendly fire in 1863, this man remarked "I have lost my right arm"'

Answer: Robert E. Lee


Question: 'Menes (not Elvis) made it his capital<br />(7)'

Answer: Memphis


Question: '...collect money for this U.N. agency whose national day coincides with Halloween'

Answer: UNICEF


Question: 'As one of these pieces of furniture, a "secretary" may have pigeonholes inside'

Answer: a desk


Question:
'(Film critic Leonard maltin delivers the clue.)
"Three Little Pigs", a Disney Silly Symphony of 1933, introduced this song that became an anti-Depression anthem'

Answer: "Who\'s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"


Question: 'Chapter 1 of this novel is "I am born"; but (uh-oh!) by chapter 4, "I fall into disgrace"'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'In place settings, the fork named for these shellfish is the only one ever placed to the right of the plate'

Answer: the oyster fork


Question: 'Congress put it in a "Compromise"-ing position<br />(8)'

Answer: Missouri


Question: '...show your regional pride by saluting the 144th anniversary of this "Silver State" joining the Union'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'The scientific name Sagittarius serpentarius tells you that inside the secretary bird you may find this, its main food'

Answer: a snake


Question: 'Elsa Lanchester played 2 roles in this 1935 sequel: the title mate, &, in an amusing prologue, Mary Shelley'

Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein


Question: 'It's a "Mystery" who killed this title character, but Charles Dickens Jr. said his father told him it was Jasper'

Answer: (Edwin) Drood


Question: '9-letter word for the right side of a clipper or a brigantine'

Answer: starboard


Question: 'Phoebe Fillmore's bouncing baby boy<br />(7)'

Answer: Millard


Question: '...head over to the frightful fun at Knott's Scary Farm, known as this for most of the year'

Answer: Knott\'s Berry Farm


Question: 'On Dec. 30, 1968 in Norway, a heart attack ended the life of this first U.N. secretary-general'

Answer: Trygve Lie


Question: 'Brian Aherne was doomed to play this emperor in the 1939 film "Juarez"'

Answer: Maximilian


Question: 'When Nell works for Jarley's Wax-Work in this novel, she sleeps in a creepy room with the wax-work figures'

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop


Question: 'It's a right-hand page of a book; the verso is a left-hand page'

Answer: the recto


Question: 'Italian edict city, in 313 A.D.<br />(5)'

Answer: Milan


Question: '...check out FEARnet.com & download scary movies like 1978's "Halloween" starring this woman as Laurie'

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


Question: 'You'll warm the interior of your secretary with a gift during this, formerly National Secretaries Week'

Answer: Administrative Professionals Week


Question: 'Cecil Kellaway played the impresario in "Intermezzo" & Mr. Earnshaw (Cathy's father) in this 1939 classic'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'Dickens called his younger brother "Moses"; nasally, that became "Boses", inspiring this Dickens pen name'

Answer: Boz


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows an animated anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The heart's right ventricle pumps directly into this artery that carries blood into the lungs'

Answer: the pulmonary


Question: '"Mess"ed-up wife of Emperor Claudius<br />(9)'

Answer: Messalina


Question: '...prepare yourself for this Catholic holy day, the day after Halloween'

Answer: All Saints Day


Question: 'A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake'

Answer: an ear


Question: 'The title of this William Styron novel refers to a devastating ultimatum given by a Nazi soldier'

Answer: Sophie\'s Choice


Question: 'Huey Lewis & Celine Dion both extolled love's potency with No. 1s titled this'

Answer: "The Power Of Love"


Question: 'It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves"'

Answer: a Snuggie


Question: 'The "SS" in ISS: Skylab & Russia's Salyut were early ones'

Answer: a space station


Question: 'New Orleans bartender Henry Ramos invented the Ramos Fizz, made with cream, egg whites, lime juice & this liquor'

Answer: gin


Question: 'A pad of writing paper, or a pill'

Answer: a tablet


Question: 'The Captain & Tennille took this hopeful declaration to No. 1 in 1975'

Answer: "Love Will Keep Us Together"


Question: 'The trademarked version of "skinny" these are "classic denim but with a high nylon/elastane content"'

Answer: jeans


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows parallel lines on the monitor.)  These two lines are identical in length, but when opposing arrowheads are added, the bottom line appears to be longer in a classic example of this type of eye trick'

Answer: an optical illusion


Question: 'This Kilmarnock grocer founded his eponymous red, black & blue label Scotch whisky brand in 1820'

Answer: Johnnie Walker


Question: 'A run-down apartment house'

Answer: a tenement


Question: 'Sayuri tells of how she became a celebrated performer & courtesan in Japan in this tale by Arthur Golden'

Answer: Memoirs of a Geisha


Question: 'Diana Ross & the Supremes hit No. 1 in 1968 with this song about a girl who was "never meant to be"'

Answer: "Love Child"


Question: 'Many universities still hold charity versions of these endurance contests, a fad in the 1920s'

Answer: a dance marathon


Question: 'This can build up after a good hair brushing, & when you remove a wool hat, it can make your hair stand on end'

Answer: static electricity


Question: 'The James who gave his nickname to this Kentucky bourbon brand was actually the founder's great-grandson'

Answer: Jim Beam


Question: 'A doodad, or a small piece of jewelry'

Answer: a trinket


Question: 'This veteran spy author delves into the war on terror in "A Most Wanted Man"'

Answer: John le Carré


Question: 'The O'Jays asked the whole world to join in & board this in 1973'

Answer: "Love Train"


Question: 'Jade, Yasmin, Cloe & Sasha are these dollz'

Answer: Bratz


Question: 'It occurs around June 21 when the sun is at its northernmost position'

Answer: summer solstice


Question: 'The real first name of the maker of this Tenn. whiskey was Jasper, but a "Jasper & Coke" just doesn't sound right'

Answer: Jack Daniels


Question: 'A great stream, as of water or lava'

Answer: a torrent


Question: 'Murdered by her neighbor, Susie Salmon tells her story from heaven in this Alice Sebold bestseller'

Answer: The Lovely Bones


Question: '1970 No. 1 public service announcement from the Jackson 5: "Stop!" this "may be your own"'

Answer: "The Love You Save May Be Your Own"


Question: 'This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s'

Answer: Tamagotchi


Question: 'Easily seen below the equator, the constellation Crux is popularly known by this name'

Answer: the Southern Cross


Question: 'This popular spiced rum is named for a buccaneer who terrorized the Caribbean & ended up a governor of Jamaica'

Answer: Captain Morgan


Question: 'In a right triangle, it's the ratio of the side opposite an acute angle to the side adjacent to the angle'

Answer: the tangent


Question: 'On June 29, 1994 no one was laughin' in Laughlin in this state; 1250 temps had everyone rollin' snake eyes'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Pasiphae was the mom of this Greek creature of myth, & that's half-bull'

Answer: the minotaur


Question: '"HOMES" is a mnemonic for these, which border the U.S. & Canada'

Answer: the Great Lakes


Question: 'Hey, hey we're the Naxalites, a Maoist rebel group with origins in the Bengal region of this country'

Answer: India


Question:
'Kim Carnes would know
we've got this actress's eyes'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'Thanks to George, he had plenty of off time between his 5 stints as manager of the New York Yankees'

Answer: Billy Martin


Question: 'On Aug. 2, 1975 it was wicked hot in New Bedford in this state--1070! I nearly keeled ovah in the yahd!'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'Here's a riddle: what in Egyptian myth has the head of a man (or a ram or falcon) & the body of a lion? This'

Answer: the sphinx


Question: 'Remember this out-of-this-world group with "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles"'

Answer: the planets


Question: 'Da! As separatists fighting a rebel war in this Russian region, we've often fought in its capital, Grozny'

Answer: Chechnya


Question: 'The eyes of this "Ugly Betty" co-star are seen here'

Answer: (Vanessa) Williams


Question: 'He's been idle ever since his July 14, 1881 run-in with Pat Garrett'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'If it's July, "by the time you get to" this state capital founded in 1870, you'll be sweatin'; it averages 930'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'A man/horse is this, of course, of course; Hercules shot one with a poisoned arrow'

Answer: a centaur


Question: 'Biology has "Kind Pigs Care Only For Good Slop", standing for kingdom, phylum, class, then this'

Answer: order


Question: 'Si, gringo! It was me, Sandino who led the fight against American troops in this Central American nation in 1927'

Answer: Nicaragua


Question: 'We'd have breakfast at Tiffany's with her anytime'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'This evangelist retired from public life following a last crusade in 2005'

Answer: Billy Graham


Question: 'It was a balmy 1230 in this California desert resort city in 1995; 40 years earlier, Lucy Ricardo met Rock Hudson there'

Answer: Palm Springs


Question: 'It helps to remember the notation for this system: "Lucy Can't Drink Milk"'

Answer: Roman numerals


Question: 'It's Zapatista time! We formed our peasants' rebel group of that name in this southernmost Mexican state'

Answer: Chiapas


Question: 'Yo! He's the actor seen here'

Answer: (Sylvester) Stallone


Question: 'He stayed busy in the late '70s, but he didn't get up to much after his brother left office'

Answer: Billy Carter


Question: 'We're not sure it was a happy 4th of July in 1911 in Nashua in this state; 1060 tempers a celebration'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: '"Seems Like Mata Hari Picked Her Targets Carefully" gets you to this list that Antipater of Sidon came up with'

Answer: the Seven Wonders of the World


Question: 'Aye! The rebellion I led in the colonies in 1676 at one time took over the House of Burgesses'

Answer: Nathaniel Bacon


Question: 'Seen here, this actress had me at "Chicago"'

Answer: Renée Zellweger


Question: 'This army aviator & air power advocate resigned from the service after his 1925 court-martial'

Answer: Billy Mitchell


Question: 'A line in this 1863 poem mentions "The eighteenth of April, in seventy-five"'

Answer: \"Paul Revere\'s Ride\"


Question: 'In "Advice to a Young Tradesman", this Pennsylvanian wrote, "Remember that time is money"'

Answer: Franklin


Question: 'Though this band's 2008 album is titled "Viva la Vida", they're actually British'

Answer: Coldplay


Question: 'Titian or Vivaldi, heritage-wise'

Answer: Venetian


Question: 'Barkeep, if you've never heard of a Moscow mule you can probably still guess this is its primary liquor'

Answer: vodka


Question: 'Richard Burton claimed John Speke didn't follow this river in full from its source, so he was a big faker'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'Any forebear or progenitor'

Answer: an ancestor


Question: 'This Defoe title gal is... busy, yes, that's the word... what with her pickpocketing, seduction & 5 marriages & all'

Answer: Moll Flanders


Question: 'This "good girl gone bad" was discovered when a music producer heard her while on vacation in Barbados'

Answer: Rihanna


Question: 'The scientific name of one type of this bird is Phoenicopterus ruber roseus'

Answer: the flamingo


Question: 'My good man, make me an Indian summer, & don't skimp on the schnapps & cider, both this fruit flavor'

Answer: apple


Question: 'The Inuit in Greenland called this African-American explorer Maripaluk, or "Kind Matthew"'

Answer: (Matthew) Henson


Question: 'It's the Latin name for fishes as a class of vertebrates'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'A chief source of transcendentalist ideas was Immanuel Kant's 1781 "Critique of" this'

Answer: Pure Reason


Question: '"It's a Love Thing", "Your Everything" & "Rollercoaster" were country hits for this Down Under singer'

Answer: Keith Urban


Question: 'Result of Midas embracing a member of Denver's NBA team'

Answer: the golden nugget


Question: 'Yo, mixologist... my grandfather wants a Rickey made with the Beefeater brand of this liquor'

Answer: gin


Question: 'Without his partner Jacques Marquette, he mapped the coastline of Labrador in 1694'

Answer: Joliet


Question: 'A bishop's bailiwick can be a bishopric or this synonym'

Answer: a diocese


Question: 'The satirical 1724-25 pamphlet "Drapier's Letters" increased this English author's fame; a "modest" essay followed'

Answer: (Jonathan) Swift


Question: 'Singing in English, Portuguese & Hindi, this Canadian knows how to "Say It Right"'

Answer: Nelly Furtado


Question: 'It extends upwards from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the Earth'

Answer: the stratosphere


Question: 'Don't move slow as a zombie when mixing me a zombie, made with this main liquor'

Answer: rum


Question: 'In 1488, before da Gama, this Portuguese sailor became the first to round the Cape of Good Hope'

Answer: (Bartholomeu) Dias


Question: 'This element is atomic number 55'

Answer: cesium


Question: 'Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" is this type of novel, written in the form of letters'

Answer: epistolary


Question: 'This French first lady outraged many with a song that spoke of a love that was stronger than drugs'

Answer: (Carla) Bruni


Question: 'A couple of owls'

Answer: hooters


Question: 'Gimme this drink with blue curacao & lemonade; hey, it's Christopher Atkins, who starred in the movie'

Answer: a blue lagoon


Question: 'In 1643 this Dutch navigator became the first European to reach the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga'

Answer: Abel Tasman


Question: 'It's the basket fitted onto a wooden handle that's used to throw & catch the ball in jai alai'

Answer: a cesta


Question: 'In place from 1948 until the 1990s, it was the South African government's official policy of segregation'

Answer: apartheid


Question: 'Jack may be the brawn, but Chloe O'Brian is the brains as the CTU senior analyst on this show'

Answer: 24


Question: 'Protons in a helium nucleus'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Damocloids aren't astronaut curse words; they're an unusual type of these with elliptical orbits'

Answer: asteroids


Question: 'Power-hungry Scot plus a type of alcohol used as auto fuel'

Answer: Macbethanol


Question: 'The World Court sprang from an 1899 initiative of this czar, who didn't get the benefit of a court himself'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'In 1967 this South African surgeon performed the world's first human heart transplant'

Answer: Christiaan Barnard


Question: 'Alyson Hannigan was nerd-hot as a geek-turned-witch on this series'

Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Question: 'Musical notes in the chromatic scale'

Answer: 12


Question: 'It's the official language of Kiribati'

Answer: English


Question: 'Soliloquy-lovin' title guy plus BLT ingredient'

Answer: Hamlettuce


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Hague in the Netherlands.)  This Serb's trial for war crimes began in the Hague in 2002, but he died before it ended; prosecutors hope that Radovan Karadzic's case will move faster'

Answer: Milosevic


Question: 'South Africa completely surrounds this country once known as Basutoland'

Answer: Lesotho


Question: 'Saying "Star Trek" & geek is redundant, but Wesley Crusher might have even outnerded Geordi on this series'

Answer: Star Trek: TNG (The Next Generation)


Question: 'Musical notes in Schoenberg's atonal scale'

Answer: 12


Question: 'The Mikimoto system for grading these rates the highest quality as AAA'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'Mega-jealous guy plus a "prefrontal" type of brain surgery'

Answer: Othellobotomy


Question: 'The court's deliberations are secret, or "in" this--not "on" this, which would mean very un-secret'

Answer: camera


Question: 'Government buildings & the nearby Cullinan Mine are tourist highlights of this administrative capital'

Answer: Pretoria


Question: 'On "The Office", he'll tell you farming beets for juice with his family begins with tasting the soil, literally'

Answer: Dwight Schrute


Question: 'Millard Fillmore's, as U.S. President'

Answer: 13


Question: 'His first trial for taking the Pentagon Papers ended in a mistrial; in the second, charges were dismissed'

Answer: Daniel Ellsberg


Question: 'Bitter Trojan comedy plus Marcel Duchamp's art movement'

Answer: Troilus and Cressidada


Question: 'The International Criminal Court replaces ad hoc U.N. tribunals like this one for the 1994 events in this African country'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'This "colorful" body of water is South Africa's longest river'

Answer: the Orange River


Question: 'On a "Worst Geeks Ever" list would be this rotund graphic novel store proprietor on "The Simpsons"'

Answer: Comic Book Guy


Question: 'Articles in the U.S. Constitution'

Answer: 7


Question: '"The Seven" is a hip-hop musical based on Aeschylus' "Seven Against" this city'

Answer: Thebes


Question: 'One-handed Roman plus a large receptacle for chewing tobacco expectoration'

Answer: Titus Andronicuspidor


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Hague in the Netherlands.)  Though there were versions of the World Court in the early 20th century, the present body  began work in 1946 as the ICJ, short for this'

Answer: the International Court of Justice


Question: 'Though Elvis was known as the King of Rock & Roll, the only 3 Grammy Awards he ever won were in this Grammy genre'

Answer: gospel music


Question: 'In Proverbs Agur says, "Surely the churning of" this "bringeth forth butter"'

Answer: Milk


Question: 'In 1976 this service school in Annapolis admitted its first women'

Answer: U.S. Naval Academy


Question: '$10 million worth of this was dug out of Canada's Klondike region'

Answer: Gold


Question: '("Over the Rainbow")'

Answer: The Wizard of Oz


Question: 'Richard Josephson got 6 months for joking he had these while on a USAir flight, forcing it to land'

Answer: Bombs


Question: 'Pains'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'According to Luke 15, the meat of choice for a special occasion came from a "fatted" one of these'

Answer: Calf


Question: 'Not surprisingly, more undergrads at the University of Puget Sound are from this state than any other'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'On January 25, 1898, this U.S. battleship arrived in Havana for a friendly visit'

Answer: Maine


Question: '("Tale as old as time...")'

Answer: Beauty and the Beast


Question: 'In February 1998 the Pentagon said its computers had been invaded by these, the title of a 1995 film'

Answer: Hackers


Question: 'Rain'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'These nuts are mentioned only once in the Bible: Genesis 43, Verse 11:'

Answer: Pistachios


Question: 'In 1756 this school moved from Newark, New Jersey to its present home'

Answer: Princeton


Question: 'This pair found radium wanted to be alone, so they isolated it'

Answer: Pierre & Marie Curie


Question: '("What a Feeling")'

Answer: Flashdance


Question: 'A man released as many as 50 guinea pigs into this New York City area March 11, 1998'

Answer: Central Park


Question: 'Marked N'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'The only day it didn't fall from the sky was on the Sabbath'

Answer: Manna


Question: 'Several of its football songs were written by alumnus Cole Porter'

Answer: Yale


Question: 'In 1898, he turned in "The Turn of the Screw" to his publisher'

Answer: Henry James


Question: '("Colors of the Wind")'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'The owner of Crystal Glass of Brooklyn was doing this around New York City to increase business'

Answer: Breaking windows


Question: 'Panel'

Answer: Nepal


Question: 'The name Gethsemane comes from gath-shemen, Hebrew for oil press, probably one for this fruit'

Answer: Olive


Question: 'A college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is named for Benjamin Franklin & this great chief justice'

Answer: John Marshall


Question: 'This Russian actor-producer founded the Moscow Art Theater for method actors'

Answer: Constantin Stanislavsky


Question: '("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head")'

Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Question: 'It made news that a London burglar was caught by using these prints he left while listening at doors & windows'

Answer: Earprints


Question: 'Nuke Air'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'In "The Tempest", he presents a spirit-drama for his daughter & her fiance'

Answer: Prospero


Question: 'In 1982, he was in "Tootsie" & on the first "Late Night"; in 1993, in "Groundhog Day" & on the first "Late Show"'

Answer: Bill Murray


Question: 'This flagship of Columbus appears at the center of the Bahamas' coat of arms'

Answer: Santa Maria


Question: 'Thoreau & Francis Bacon said they feared fear itself long before this man said it in 1933'

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question: 'This animal term can refer to a tight high collar, or to the pullover sweater it's attached to'

Answer: Turtleneck


Question: 'In the '50s, Vegas became a center for these events; Reno is traditionally associated with their opposite'

Answer: Weddings


Question: '"The Murder of Gonzago" was the thing he used to "Catch the conscience of the king"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Having the singing Hansons as ball boys is one of Dave's Top 10 ways to make this sport more exciting'

Answer: Tennis


Question: 'This Andean vulture tops the coats of arms of Ecuador, Colombia & Bolivia'

Answer: Condor


Question: 'Among the fears of this Oz character are kalidahs, who have tiger heads & bear bodies'

Answer: Cowardly Lion


Question: 'Henry Winkler wanted his Fonzie character to be allowed to wear this instead of a cloth coat'

Answer: Leather jacket


Question: 'This facility, serving 30 million people a year, is named for Nevada senator Patrick McCarran'

Answer: McCarran International Airport


Question: 'In this play, Nick Bottom, a weaver, performs the tragic role of Pyramus, opposite Flute's Thisby'

Answer: "A Midsummer Night\'s Dream"


Question: 'In 1995 this young actress from an acting dynasty flashed Dave on his birthday'

Answer: Drew Barrymore


Question: 'The scroll at the base of Kenya's coat of arms reads "Harambee", or "Together" in this language'

Answer: Swahili


Question: 'The term agoraphobia, fear of crowds, comes from Greek agora, this place'

Answer: Market


Question: 'This term for part of a brassiere also means a reinforced athletic supporter'

Answer: Cup


Question: '"When you're alone & life is making you lonely", leave the Strip for this area featuring "Glitter Gulch"'

Answer: Downtown


Question: 'While disguised as a boy, this heroine of "As You Like It" improvises a scene'

Answer: Rosalind


Question: 'NYC souvenir sellers Mujibur & this man became semi-regulars on Dave's CBS show'

Answer: Sirajul


Question: 'A white apostolic cross representing Saint Stephen I adorns the coat of arms of this European nation'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'The Bible says Job feared him, meaning Job was pious & "eschewed evil"'

Answer: God


Question: ''90s designers rediscovered this item that Clark Gable nearly killed off in "It Happened One Night"'

Answer: Undershirt


Question: 'The Luxor boasts a meticulous reproduction of this king's tomb'

Answer: King Tutankhamun


Question: 'In "The Taming of the Shrew", they are the lead couple in the play performed for Mr. Sly'

Answer: Kate & Petruchio


Question: 'Featured Letterman performer seen here:'

Answer: Larry "Bud" Melman/Calvert DeForest


Question: 'The 3 blue lions on this country's coat of arms also appear on the city arms of Tallinn, its capital'

Answer: Estonia


Question: 'This phrase for giving in to sudden fear is said to have originated with alarm switches on WWII bombers'

Answer: Pushing the panic button


Question: 'The name of this peasant dress with a tight bodice & full skirt comes from German for "young woman"'

Answer: Dirndl


Question: 'This casino was a fatal flop for Bugsy Siegel when he launched it in 1946'

Answer: Flamingo


Question: 'The southernmost city ever to host the Winter Olympics'

Answer: Nagano, Japan (this past winter)


Question: '"Parting is such sweet sorrow"'

Answer: Romeo and Juliet


Question: 'Yoko Ono'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: '"Use the floss, Luke"; & don't whine about it--the ADA says you only have to do it this many times a day'

Answer: once


Question: 'A coffin's destination, or an adjective meaning momentous & serious'

Answer: grave


Question: 'It can mean a hairpiece, a precipitous descent of water or a season of the year'

Answer: fall


Question: 'These "curiously strong" mints are perfect to freshen my breath after that onion sandwich I had for lunch'

Answer: Altoids


Question: '"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy"'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Linda Eastman'

Answer: Paul McCartney


Question: 'Referring to the sticky film that turns into tartar, Dr. Vader's practice is called "The Empire Strikes" this'

Answer: Plaque


Question: 'Unfortunate crystalline mandible for a prize fighter'

Answer: glass jaw


Question: 'Often worn in pairs, this popular hairstyle for little girls is named for a porcine feature'

Answer: pig tails


Question: 'A sailing ship is featured in the logo for this men's aftershave'

Answer: Old Spice


Question: '"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'Barbara Bach'

Answer: Ringo Starr


Question: 'Vader jokes that D.D.S. is "Dictator of the Dark Side" as well as "Doctor of Dental" this'

Answer: Science (or Surgery)


Question: 'Teutophobia, a fear of these people, could be a real problem if you're traveling in central Europe'

Answer: Germans


Question: 'A docked horse's tail, or a short haircut for women popular in the 1920s'

Answer: a bob


Question: 'Fee fi fo fum, it's what the giant smells in a popular fairy tale'

Answer: the blood of an Englishman


Question: '"He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt"'

Answer: Antony & Cleopatra


Question: 'Pattie Boyd'

Answer: George Harrison


Question: 'I wanted these "royal" tooth-shaped caps on my teeth; instead he gave me a mouth full of tiny black helmets'

Answer: crowns


Question: '"Saucy" word for more reward or benefit than was expected'

Answer: gravy


Question: 'This very closely cropped haircut worn by sailors gets its name from oarsmen who wore it'

Answer: a crew cut


Question: 'A fragrant mixture of flower petals & spices, it's from the French for "rotten pot"'

Answer: potpourri


Question: '"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'Cynthia Powell'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'The force is strong with this one--the hard, outermost layer of the tooth'

Answer: enamel


Question: 'Missionary Albert Schweitzer lived for many years in this West African country'

Answer: Gabon


Question: 'It's the distinctive shaving of the head by priests or monks'

Answer: a tonsure


Question: 'The 2 nice-smelling gifts traditionally brought by the 3 wise men to the baby Jesus'

Answer: frankincense and myrrh


Question: 'One of the largest conflicts in U.S. history, the Korean War started in this even-numbered year'

Answer: 1950


Question: '1990: "...the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders..."'

Answer: Law & Order


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.)  The colonnaded entranceway is called the porch or this related longer word'

Answer: a portico


Question: 'It's the only country in the world with Latin as an official language'

Answer: Vatican City


Question: 'Ukrainian rivers that flow into this sea include the Bug, the Dnieper & the Dniester'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'Usually worn by infants, it goes back to the Greek for "White"'

Answer: a diaper


Question: 'This U.S. president agreed to the ceasefire that ended the conflict & that remains in effect to this day'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: '2005: "...I made a list of everything bad I've ever done, and one by one I'm going to make up for all my mistakes..."'

Answer: My Name is Earl


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.)  At the top of the column, you'll find this from the Latin for head; it's the most important element in distinguishing the orders of Greek architecture'

Answer: a capital


Question: 'Ladino, a language of the Sephardic branch of this group, uses many elements of medieval Castilian'

Answer: the Jews


Question: 'Solway Firth & Cardigan Bay are inlets of this sea'

Answer: the Irish Sea


Question: 'An oblique line'

Answer: a diagonal


Question: 'The wartime leader of North Korea, he remained in power until his death in 1994'

Answer: Kim Il-sung


Question: '1983: "...if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire..."'

Answer: The A-Team


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.)  The ring at the bottom of a column is called a torus; in math, a torus now refers to any donut-shaped figure for which the formula 4π2Rr determines this'

Answer: area


Question: 'There are 33 letters in this alphabet seen here'

Answer: Cyrillic


Question: 'This sea sits between Oman & India'

Answer: the Arabian Sea


Question: 'This Major League Baseball team debuted in 1998'

Answer: the Diamondbacks


Question: 'Initially the Allies repulsed the North Korean advance & crossed this parallel into enemy territory'

Answer: the 38th parallel


Question: '2007: "...your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite"'

Answer: Gossip Girl


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.)  In Greek temples, this type of offering was left at the back; in churches today, the candles with the same name are often toward the front'

Answer: votive


Question: 'This dialect of Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'Of North, South, East & West, the 2 that most frequently precede "China Sea"'

Answer: South & East


Question: 'To take money out of your holdings; institutions are often urged to do it'

Answer: divest


Question: 'Until replaced by General Matthew Ridgway, he was the commander of American forces in Korea'

Answer: (Doug) MacArthur


Question: '2003: "...a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together..."'

Answer: Arrested Development


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.)  The triangular face of the pediment has this Latin name that's also a medical term for the eardrum'

Answer: the tympanum


Question: 'The founder of a school for the deaf, he developed American sign language from a French version'

Answer: (Thomas) Gallaudet


Question: 'Sydney, Australia is on an inlet of this sea'

Answer: the Tasman Sea


Question: 'This queen of Carthage welcomes Aeneas hospitably, but then commits suicide when he has to leave'

Answer: Dido


Question: 'The 3 richest U.S. counties, by median household income, are not in N.Y. or Calif. but are suburbs of this city'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'With "Ev'ry breath you take, every move you make...," Sting said he'd be doing this'

Answer: I\'ll Be Watching You


Question: 'Weighing over 400,000 pounds, the Czar Kolokol in this capital is the world's largest bell'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'It was made by cutting the pith of a plant into strips & beating them together into sheets'

Answer: Papyrus


Question: 'In British politics an M.P. is a member of Parliament & the P.M. is this'

Answer: Prime minister


Question: 'In computerese, a "vaccine" is a program that seeks out & destroys these'

Answer: Computer viruses


Question: 'One was bought at the market & brought "home again, home again, jiggety-jig!"'

Answer: Pig


Question: 'Though "Fame" won the 1980 Oscar, this song beat it on the pop charts:<br />[audio clue]'

Answer: 9 To 5


Question: 'Im, a black rat snake in a Knoxville, Tn. university lab, fights itself for food since it has 2 of these'

Answer: Heads


Question: 'Excerpts from this book were often inscribed on the outside of a coffin lid'

Answer: Book of the Dead


Question: 'Chas. is short for Charles;<br />Jas., for this'

Answer: James


Question: 'A compass points toward this north pole'

Answer: Magnetic North Pole


Question: 'Jack jumped over a measly candelstick; one of these jumped over the moon'

Answer: Cow


Question: 'In a 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit, it follows "If you're lost, you can look & you will find me..."'

Answer: Time After Time


Question: 'It's the colorful middle name of Cher's son'

Answer: (Elijah) Blue (Allman)


Question: 'Capital during the old kingdom, almost none of it has survived'

Answer: Memphis


Question: 'An antonym of "caps.", "lc" stands for this'

Answer: lowercase


Question: 'Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green'

Answer: Algae


Question: 'Simple Simon went a-fishing in a pail for to catch one'

Answer: Whale


Question: 'Eddy Grant sang, "We're gonna rock down to" this "avenue, and then we'll take it higher"'

Answer: Electric Avenue


Question: 'Their emblem is a 3-leaf clover representing the 3 parts of their promise'

Answer: The Girl Scouts


Question: 'Deir El-Medina was the company town for workers building tombs here'

Answer: Valley of the Kings


Question: '"atm",<br />you won't find it in a vacuum or in a restaurant on the moon'

Answer: Atmosphere


Question: 'Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist'

Answer: Ivan Pavlov


Question: '1 of 2 animals mentioned in "Hush, Little Baby"'

Answer: Billy goat or mockingbird


Question: 'Duran Duran hit that begins "Darken the city, night is a wire, steam in the subway, Earth is afire"'

Answer: Hungry Like The Wolf


Question: 'This Republican was the last president who had no sons -- but he did have daughters'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'When Alexander died, this man, one of his generals, gained control of Egypt'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'Technically speaking no. doesn't stand for "number" but for this Latin word'

Answer: Numero


Question: 'The most abundant metal on Earth, when it was discovered in 1820 it was worth more than gold'

Answer: Aluminum


Question: 'Someone fleeced them good, their tails were found "All hung on a tree to dry"'

Answer: Little Bo Peep\'s sheep


Question: 'The tomb of this civil rights leader lies next to the Ebenezer Baptist churchyard on Auburn Ave.'

Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: '2 of the more than 800 languages spoken on this continent are Kimbundu & Kikuyu'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'The 2 "Hamlet" characters with the longest names are Rosencrantz & this friend'

Answer: Guildenstern


Question: 'Uzbekistan & Tadzhikistan are predominantly Muslim republics of this country'

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: 'Major Robert Anderson was in command of this S.C. fort when it was attacked in April 1861'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'In French the name of this ballet with a Biblical theme is "Le Fils Prodigue"'

Answer: The Prodigal Son


Question: 'This telegraph pioneer was also an artist who served as the first president of the Nat'l Academy of Design'

Answer: Samuel Morse


Question: 'The words "ersatz" & "hinterland" come directly from this language'

Answer: German


Question: 'His mother died of grief after he was banished from Verona'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'Until 1939 this was Thailand's official name'

Answer: Siam


Question: 'Congress revived the rank of lieutenant general & made him the first one in March 1864'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'A classical production of "Les Sylphides" features tutus of this color'

Answer: White


Question: 'After college, this future U.S. president taught debating & public speaking at Sam Houston High School'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson


Question: 'Classical languages include ancient Greek, Latin & this language of ancient India'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'Of Othello, Iago or Cassio, the one whose first name is Michael'

Answer: Cassio


Question: 'The world's largest mountain glaciers are in these mountains between Assam & Kashmir'

Answer: Himalayas


Question: 'On Nov. 9, 1863 Lincoln went to the theater & saw "The Marble Heart" starring this man'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'The ballet based on his "Unfinished Symphony" is a romantic pas de deux'

Answer: Franz Schubert


Question: 'In 1954 this chief justice wrote the opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case'

Answer: Earl Warren


Question: 'Languages derived from French that are spoken in Haiti & Louisiana are both called this'

Answer: Creole


Question: 'This title king says, "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning"'

Answer: King Lear


Question: 'On July 2, 1976 this country's national assembly proclaimed its own reunification'

Answer: Vietnam


Question: 'In this 1863 battle the Union forces were on Cemetery Ridge'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'The title character of this Stravinsky ballet is part musical bird & part beautiful woman'

Answer: The Firebird


Question: 'New Englander who concluded an 1830 Senate speech, "Liberty & union, now & forever, one & inseparable"'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'Some of the aboriginal people of the northernmost islands of this country speak Ainu'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'In "Macbeth", Malcolm & Donalbain are sons of this king of Scotland'

Answer: Duncan


Question: 'In "Mandalay" Kipling called this country a "cleaner, greener land"'

Answer: Burma (now Myanmar)


Question: 'After this general took his own sweet time to cross the Potomac, Lincoln replaced him with Burnside'

Answer: George McClellan


Question: 'A roper & a wrangler compete for the love of a cowgirl in this Agnes de Mille ballet'

Answer: Rodeo


Question: 'This country's national anthem was written on the night of April 24, 1792'

Answer: France (\"La Marseillaise\")


Question: 'After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change'

Answer: Coretta Scott King


Question: 'Yeah, baby! Mike Myers has played this groovy secret agent in 3 films'

Answer: Austin Powers


Question: 'You can take the Powell-Mason line of these to a museum of them in San Francisco'

Answer: cable cars


Question: 'Britt Reid was the secret identity of this comic book hero'

Answer: the Green Hornet


Question: 'He was officially presented to the Welsh people on July 1'

Answer: Prince Charles


Question: 'A 3-minute egg'

Answer: a soft-boiled egg


Question: 'Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman'

Answer: Oprah Winfrey


Question: 'In a 2003 movie he played the bitter, foul-mouthed "Bad Santa"'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton


Question: 'The National Civil Rights Museum has an exhibit about the enrollment of James Meredith at this school in 1962'

Answer: (the University of) Mississippi


Question: 'This company began issuing the first green stamps in the 1890s'

Answer: S&H


Question: 'This supersonic airliner took off March 2, 1969'

Answer: the Concorde


Question: 'Its 2 main types are slow pitch & fast pitch'

Answer: softball


Question: 'While Shirley Chisholm represented N.Y. in Congress, Barbara Jordan represented this state'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Robin Williams danced with a vacuum cleaner to the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" in this 1993 comedy'

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire


Question: 'A museum in Springer, New Mexico bears the name of this Old West trail that opened in 1821'

Answer: the Santa Fe Trail


Question: 'The green variety of this sticky-footed creature is seen here'

Answer: a tree frog


Question: 'She became Prime Minister of Israel'

Answer: Golda Meir


Question: 'Applications & programs for computers'

Answer: software


Question: 'Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, she served 6 years as provost of Stanford Univ.'

Answer: Condoleezza Rice


Question: 'It's the film in which Audrey Hepburn played Holly Golightly'

Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany\'s


Question: 'This 16th century English king is honored at the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame in St. Louis'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'For decades the Green Line was the buffer zone between the Greek & Turkish forces on this island'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'He resigned as President of France'

Answer: Charles De Gaulle


Question: 'It was pioneered around 1910 by dancer George Primrose when he kicked off his clogs'

Answer: soft shoe


Question: 'Arturo Toscanini once praised this contralto, saying she had a voice that comes "once in a hundred years"'

Answer: Marian Anderson


Question: 'Susan Sarandon as a would-be casino dealer befriended Burt Lancaster in this 1981 movie'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'Museo de Frida Kahlo is located in this world capital city'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'The flag seen here is the national banner of this north African nation'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'On July 3, 1969 this British guitarist was found drowned in his swimming pool'

Answer: Brian Jones


Question: 'Your uvula hangs down from this upper back part of the mouth'

Answer: the soft palate


Question: 'This 3-letter prefix to Scottish names means "son of"'

Answer: Mac


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.)  The 9-show Cirque du Soleil empire began with a bunch of street performers on stilts in Bay St. Paul in this province'

Answer: Quebec


Question: 'About this city Pindar wrote, "O bright & violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece"'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'In 2004 this Kiefer Sutherland show won the Golden Globe Award for TV Drama Series'

Answer: 24


Question: 'When dining on red beans & rice, the beans are traditionally this variety'

Answer: kidney beans


Question: 'The daughter of a Duke or Earl puts this word before her name'

Answer: Lady


Question: 'In Scotland lochs are lakes & these are wide bays into which most of Scotland's rivers flow'

Answer: firths


Question: 'The Cirque got Thierry Mugler to design these for the new show "Zumanity"'

Answer: costumes


Question: 'Hippocrates called this "the most distinguished of all the arts" but "by far the least esteemed"'

Answer: medicine


Question: 'The pilot for this sitcom was titled "Those Were the Days", just like the theme song'

Answer: All in the Family


Question: 'For dessert how about a slice of pie -- maybe buttermilk or one made with this orange tuber'

Answer: a sweet potato


Question: 'You're in a famous paradox if a Cretan tells you "All Cretans are these"'

Answer: liars


Question: 'In March 1328, in the Treaty of Northampton, the English finally recognized him as King of the Scots'

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.)  Cirque du Soleil performs in a theater here at Treasure Island. Touring shows are under the grand chapiteau, or this'

Answer: the big top


Question: 'Archimedes' line "Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the Earth" referred to this simple machine'

Answer: lever


Question: 'His show on Showtime is described as "Single male rock star seeks normal life"'

Answer: Chris Isaak


Question: 'These greens with the same botanical name as kale are often boiled with a chunk of pork'

Answer: collard greens


Question: 'Zeiss' wide-angle Biogon, whose name indicates it captures life all around us, is one of these'

Answer: lens


Question: 'This island group is the UK's northernmost part; most inhabitants are of Scandinavian ancestry'

Answer: the Shetlands


Question: 'Cirque du Soleil first made bungee an art form in this show whose name is from Italian for "jump on the bench"'

Answer: Saltimbanco


Question: 'In this work Plato wrote, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"'

Answer: The Republic


Question: 'Following the "Late Show" with David Letterman is the "Late Late Show" with this man'

Answer: Craig Kilborn


Question: 'It's the common 8-letter term for a hog's innards, popularly fried or boiled'

Answer: chitlins


Question: 'This word for sutures used on blood vessels is from the Latin for "tie"'

Answer: ligature


Question: 'In the first century A.D. the Romans invaded the area that is now Scotland & called it this'

Answer: Caledonia


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.)  The aerial cube is featured in this big show with an enigmatic title'

Answer: Mystere


Question: 'He said he was "looking for an honest man"'

Answer: Diogenes


Question: 'Sort of documentary versions of "CSI" include A&E's "Cold Case Files" & Court TV's show These "Files"'

Answer: forensic


Question: 'When coated in cornmeal & fried, these green gumbo pods lose much of their sliminess'

Answer: okra


Question: 'Autumn, seen here, is a popular china pattern from this company'

Answer: Lenox


Question: 'In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this'

Answer: Tiny Tim


Question: 'Specific term for an investigator of insurance claims'

Answer: Claims adjuster


Question: 'Samuel Clemens first used this pseudonym on February 3, 1863 in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'In 1990 York reinstated this age-old job of calling the local news through the city'

Answer: Town crier


Question: 'Grip which often seals a verbal agreement'

Answer: Handshake


Question: 'Beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go", this group has 12 No. 1 hits, more than any act on the Motown label'

Answer: the Supremes


Question: 'Pizza cheese'

Answer: Mozzarella


Question: 'In L.A. County jails, "inmate worker" has replaced this term that's a synonym for "reliable"'

Answer: trusty


Question: 'His "Tropic of Capricorn" was first published in France in 1939; its U.S. release came 23 years later'

Answer: Henry Miller


Question: 'You can't miss York Minster, England's largest church in this style named for a Germanic tribe'

Answer: Gothic


Question: 'Found on the edge of a workbench, it grips items to hold them in place'

Answer: a vice


Question: '"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" was the first of his 19 Grammys, a record for rock performers'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question: 'Perry Mason's secretary, or "Touched by an Angel"'s Reese'

Answer: Della


Question: 'A carnival worker whom customers try to dunk, or a Larry Harmon clown'

Answer: Bozo


Question: 'The town of Red Cloud, Nebraska has a historical center devoted to this author'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'York is a hub of this type of transportation & has a national museum dedicated to it'

Answer: Railroad


Question: 'The part of a tire that gives it the power to grip a road in wet weather'

Answer: Tread


Question: 'This lead singer of the Miracles wrote "My Guy" for Mary Wells & "My Girl" for the Temptations'

Answer: Smokey Robinson


Question: 'Bacteria often found in contaminated food, not just a certain fish'

Answer: Salmonella


Question: 'Type of 'banker" who buys issues of stock & resells them to the public'

Answer: Investment banker


Question: 'This author's 1943 novel "The Human Comedy" was largely autobiographical'

Answer: William Saroyan


Question: 'Alas, poor York!  It was burned by this new ruler of England in the 11th century'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'The 3 main grips used on your mashie in this sport are the baseball, the interlocking & the overlapping'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'Martha Reeves & the Vandellas provided backing vocals on this singer's 1963 hit heard here:'

Answer: Marvin Gaye


Question: 'Name shouted in the conclusion of the film "A Streetcar Named Desire"'

Answer: "Stella!"


Question: 'Business of the Loizeaux family, known for their work on the Pruitt-Igoe housing project & the Sands Hotel'

Answer: Demolition


Question: 'The Gibbsville of many of his novels & short stories is based on his own hometown of Pottsville, Penn.'

Answer: John O\'Hara


Question: 'These medieval plays, none by Agatha Christie, are performed in a cycle at York every 4 years'

Answer: Mystery plays


Question: 'Spock once claimed that he used this to "kill" Kirk'

Answer: Vulcan death grip


Question: 'Renaldo Benson, Abdul Fakir, Levi Stubbs & Lawrence Payton performed under this name, starting in 1956'

Answer: the Four Tops


Question: 'Although located near the femur & the fibula, it's not directly connected to either bone'

Answer: Patella


Question: 'Some people raise baby foxes, called these; some build model cars from sets of parts, also called these'

Answer: Kits


Question: 'This ruler rarely, if ever, leaves his domain, the underworld'

Answer: Hades


Question: 'In "Part VIII" of this horror series, "Jason Takes Manhattan"'

Answer: Friday the 13th


Question: 'Middle name of baseball pitcher Lynn Ryan Jr.'

Answer: Nolan


Question: 'Glenn Seaborg, a discoverer of this deadly element, said it was given the symbol Pu "as a joke"'

Answer: Plutonium


Question: 'If he'd kept his family name, he would have printed the Gensfleisch Bible'

Answer: Johannes Gutenberg


Question: 'Type of hobbyist who keeps a "life list" that may include vireos & tanagers'

Answer: Birdwatcher


Question: 'Perseus proved this Gorgon wasn't immortal'

Answer: Medusa


Question: 'The French film "Les Comperes" was turned into this 1997 film with Robin Williams & Billy Crystal'

Answer: Fathers\' Day


Question: 'Middle name of songwriter James McCartney'

Answer: Paul


Question: 'Gasoline is made up of hundreds of these, the simplest organic compounds'

Answer: Hydrocarbons


Question: 'It didn't make French rolls, it made French heads roll'

Answer: Guillotine


Question: 'If you haven't tried this hobby whose name includes "working", you may be a lathe bloomer'

Answer: Woodworking


Question: 'As goddess of this, Eos had a palace in the East'

Answer: Dawn


Question: '(Hi, I'm Vanessa Marcil)  In a "break out" role for me, I played Nicolas Cage's girlfriend in this 1996 film'

Answer: The Rock


Question: 'Middle name of director Ernst Bergman'

Answer: Ingmar


Question: 'It's defined as the chemistry of substances that lack carbon bonds'

Answer: Inorganic chemistry


Question: 'The 1992 Tony for Best Revival went to this musical, heard here:'

Answer: Guys and Dolls


Question: 'This type of fishing requires a "tip-up" device to signal a bite; mittens are also useful'

Answer: Ice fishing


Question: 'Add one more letter to Eos & you'll get this god of love'

Answer: Eros


Question: 'In titles, 4-letter word that precedes "for Life", "in the Dust" & "for a Vampire"'

Answer: Lust


Question: 'Middle name of civil rights leader Leroy Cleaver'

Answer: Eldridge


Question: 'This colorless gas is the VC in PVC'

Answer: Vinyl chloride


Question: 'In this dextrous hobby, a "cascade" moves balls or plates in a figure 8; a "shower" moves them in a circle'

Answer: Juggling


Question: 'King of Ephrya who was the first rock & roll star'

Answer: Sisyphus


Question: 'With 14 Oscar nominations, "Titanic" tied the record of this 1950 Bette Davis film'

Answer: All About Eve


Question: 'Middle name of Canadian educator Herbert McLuhan'

Answer: Marshall


Question: 'The Greek prefix meaning "equal" is used in this term for 2 forms of the same element'

Answer: Isotope


Question: 'The name of this thick soup is akin to the Tshiluba word for "okra"'

Answer: Gumbo


Question: 'In 1634 a Spanish royal decree recognized it as the "Key to the New World and the Bulwark of the West Indies"'

Answer: Havana, Cuba


Question: 'About the respectability of whaling, this 1851 novel claims, "Whaling is imperial!"'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'In 1979 a record 35,000 guests attended his 89th birthday party, & you can bet the food was finger-lickin' good'

Answer: Col. Harland Sanders


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Oahu)  This rock and roll legend came here to the Polynesian Cultural Center to film his 1966 movie "Paradise, Hawaiian Style"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'This pet doesn't want a cracker -- she wants Kaytee's Perfect Choice, a mixture of seeds & grain'

Answer: parrot


Question: 'Figaro is the title character of this 1816 Rossini opera'

Answer: The Barber of Seville


Question: 'A playing card that has 2 spots'

Answer: deuce


Question: 'In this novel, Jo grumbles, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"'

Answer: "Little Women"


Question: 'No doubt the most valuable object ever stolen, it vanished from the Louvre in 1911, but was recovered'

Answer: the "Mona Lisa"


Question: 'Set in Tahiti but filmed in Hawaii, 1950's "Pagan Love Song" featured this star doing one of her famous water ballets'

Answer: Esther Williams


Question: 'My dog Rover says not to boil the knuckle type of these before giving them to him -- it may cause splintering'

Answer: bones


Question: 'Mimi in "La boheme" suffers & dies from this disease'

Answer: consumption


Question: 'Without funds or means of subsistence'

Answer: destitute


Question: '"The Cat in the Hat" told the brother & sister, "You will see something new.  Two things.  And I call them" this'

Answer: Thing One and Thing Two


Question: 'Found in California, the largest living tree is the "General Sherman", a giant one of these'

Answer: sequoia


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Kauai)  Steven Spielberg was shooting this film here on the island of Kauai when Hurricane Iniki struck the island in 1992'

Answer: Jurassic Park


Question: 'Until they were spayed & neutered your Angora pair of these were looking forward to proverbially breeding like them'

Answer: rabbits


Question: 'This title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod in an opera by Richard Strauss'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'Among its 10 events are the 100-meter dash & the pole vault'

Answer: decathlon


Question: 'In "Lost Horizon", "Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose"'

Answer: Shangri-La


Question: 'Solero de Jerez holds the Guinness record of 16 heel taps per second in this dance'

Answer: Flamenco


Question: 'Kamokila Village on Kauai became an African village for this Dustin Hoffman film about a deadly virus'

Answer: Outbreak


Question: 'Fido knows this skin disease caused by mites was bad, but was the lime-sulphur dip necessary?'

Answer: mange


Question: '"Esmeralda", an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this "Miserable" author'

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: 'To make into a god'

Answer: deify


Question: 'Emma vows in this novel, "I never will desert Mr. Micawber"'

Answer: "David Copperfield"


Question: 'If you want to hit the longest drivable road, Jack, that would be this highway which runs from Alaska to Chile'

Answer: Pan-American Highway


Question: '(Jimmy in Kauai)  George C. Scott came to Hawaii to film "Islands in the Stream", which was based on a novel by this author'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'Muffin's mad that you won't let him out to fight this type of cat, from the Latin for "wild" -- Muffin could take him!'

Answer: feral


Question: 'This Russian composer's "The Love for Three Oranges" is an opera within an opera about a melancholy prince'

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev


Question: 'Originally, this term for a tyrant or absolute ruler referred to an honorary title applied to a Byzantine emperor'

Answer: despot


Question: 'The Black Hand, a Serbian secret society, trained Gavrilo Princip to kill an Austrian archduke, igniting this war'

Answer: World War I


Question: '(1985)<br />"Rich, Famous, and Married to Sean Penn"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'People in this city in New York can shuffle off to its suburb of Tonawanda'

Answer: Buffalo


Question: 'This symbol was created in 1991 by the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in New York'

Answer: red ribbon


Question: 'Parts of these bones form a "cage" that protects the heart & lungs'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'Now retired, he was a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins & the Dallas Cowboys'

Answer: Troy Aikman


Question: 'During most of his reign in Spain only the Falangist Party was allowed'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: '(1990)<br />"The World's Lone, Defiant Communist"'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'To fight the Spanish Armada in 1588, the British fleet made its pilgrimage out of this port city'

Answer: Plymouth


Question: 'Universal Ribbon Company's TY1BS is a spool with a 2-color ribbon for this device'

Answer: typewriter


Question: 'A sharp blow or even a fall can cause this bone, also called the kneecap, to become dislocated'

Answer: patella


Question: 'The New Orleans International Airport is now named for this trumpeting legend, a New Orleans native'

Answer: Louis Armstrong


Question: 'The Carthusian monks invented this liqueur & still hold its secret recipe'

Answer: Chartreuse


Question: '(1991)<br />"Will Altar Trip No. 8 Be Her Last?"'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: 'In 1998 Mesquite, Nevada imitated the Running of the Bulls in this Spanish city'

Answer: Pamplona


Question: 'The Model 44 one of these seen here is a classic ribbon one'

Answer: microphone


Question: 'This longest bone in your body accounts for about a quarter of your height'

Answer: femur (thighbone)


Question: '2-word term for a signal sounded, maybe by siren, to denote "the danger has passed"'

Answer: all clear


Question: 'France's Tricolor consists of the red & blue of Paris & the white from the emblem of this royal family'

Answer: Bourbons


Question: '(1975)<br />"Was She a Terrorist or a Victim?"'

Answer: Patricia Hearst


Question: 'Known as Little Paris in the 18th century, this German city's name comes from the Slavic Lypsk, "lime tree"'

Answer: Leipzig


Question: 'It looks as if a cord or ribbon runs between the tails of the 2 creatures in this constellation'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'They're the more descriptive names for the tiny malleus, incus & stapes bones of the ear'

Answer: hammer, anvil & stirrup


Question: 'His troops captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775'

Answer: Ethan Allen


Question: 'The 16th century Spanish Alumbrados predated this similar secret society of 18th century Germany'

Answer: the Illuminati


Question: '(1980)<br />"Was the Death of Scarsdale Diet's Dr. Tarnower an Accident?  Only She Knows"'

Answer: Jean Harris


Question: 'Canadian territorial capital a lady in Banbury Cross might like to ride'

Answer: Whitehorse


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew holding a large ribbon)  It became an Olympic medal event in 1984 & includes movements like these'

Answer: rhythmic gymnastics


Question: 'St. Paul's birthplace, or the collective name for the bones of the ankle'

Answer: Tarsus


Question: 'Abbreviated avdp., it's a standard of weight'

Answer: avoirdupois


Question: 'Edward Lorenz' idea of linking this creature to changes in the weather became the basis of chaos theory'

Answer: the butterfly


Question: '"USSR" is short for this'

Answer: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics


Question: 'On "Two and a Half Men" he plays bachelor & ladies' man Charlie Harper'

Answer: Charlie Sheen


Question: 'Surely you remember that of all the mammals, it has the largest ears'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'Atomic number 28; if you don't know 1 lb. of pure this can be drawn into a wire 80 mi. long, you're not worth a plugged one'

Answer: nickel


Question: 'An old cliche describes a difficult situation as a "fine kettle of" these'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Inspired by this "30-Minute" chef, compaines are now using cooking classes as a management team building exercise'

Answer: Rachael Ray


Question: 'The return to Earth for this 1st man in space was jeopardized when his capsule was sent spinning by its braking rocket'

Answer: (Yuri) Gagarin


Question: '(I'm Susan Lucci.) In 1999 I finally won that Emmy for playing this role on "All My Children"'

Answer: Erica Kane


Question: 'Cervantes & Tennyson both warned that these "have ears"'

Answer: the walls


Question: 'Listen, this reddish-orange metal first used about 5000 B.C., you'll never take me alive, see?!'

Answer: copper


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Hoover Museum.) The Hoover Museum celebrates the man who fed millions worldwide; however, it was the G.O.P., not Hoover, who promised one of these in every pot'

Answer: a chicken


Question: 'U.S. Airways is now selling advertising space on these "bags"; let's hope there are no cutout coupons'

Answer: barf bags (or airsickness bags)


Question: 'In 1971 the other shoe dropped on this ex-leader, a year after the publication of his memoirs'

Answer: Khrushchev


Question: 'This veteran actress played the opinionated Maxine Gray on "Judging Amy"'

Answer: Tyne Daly


Question: 'As a friend of Walt Disney, Roy Williams was the first to put these on a hat'

Answer: (Mickey) Mouse ears


Question: 'Fly high with this colorless, odorless & tasteless gas, atomic no. 2'

Answer: helium


Question: 'The theme song to "The Jeffersons" ends, "we finally got a" this 4-word treat'

Answer: a "piece of the pie"


Question: 'Recycled paper became billions of dollars for "The Queen of Trash", Zhang Yin, from this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'Gorbachev promoted both perestroika, "restructuring", & "openness", this Russian term'

Answer: glastnost


Question: 'In 1969 Robert Young came out of a 7-year retirement to play this TV doctor'

Answer: Marcus Welby


Question: 'He threatened Gauguin with a razor the same night he cut off part of his own ear'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: 'Albertus Magnus is often credited with isolating this element around 1250; it's since been used as a poison'

Answer: arsenic


Question: 'Told the people had no bread, Marie Antoinette allegedly said this (didn't really happen)'

Answer: "Let them eat cake"


Question: 'This auto company will be the first foreign brand to compete in stock car racing's top series since Jaguar in the '50s'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Once Lenin's heir apparent, in 1925 he was removed as Commissar of War; by 1929 he was banished from the country'

Answer: (Leon) Trotsky


Question: 'It's the hilarious title role played by America Ferrera, as pictured here'

Answer: "Ugly Betty" Suarez


Question: 'In 1731 this man's ear was cut off, later sparking a war between Spain & England'

Answer: Captain Jenkins


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Princeton University.) The hull thruster, a plasma-based propulsion system for space, burns this element that glows in some luxury cars' headlights'

Answer: xenon


Question: 'Exodus 3:8 mentions "a land flowing with" these 2 things'

Answer: milk and honey


Question: 'Her book imprint is being closed after the debacle & cancellation of O.J.'s "If I Did It" book'

Answer: Judith Regan


Question: 'Appropriately, Leander's beloved lass, Hero, was a high priestess for this Greek goddess of love'

Answer: Aphrodite


Question: 'Guns N' Roses aptly covered this Rolling Stones tune for "Interview with the Vampire"'

Answer: "Sympathy for the Devil"


Question: 'Rumor had it that he started Rome's 64 A.D. fire so he could build his Golden House palace in the ruins'

Answer: Nero


Question: 'Spending days all alone might help you learn that "hermit" comes from a Greek word for one of these arid regions'

Answer: a desert


Question:
'It's  tops in cards

R _ _ _ L
_ L _ S _'

Answer: a royal flush


Question: 'Heavenly bodies are the Star, the Sun & this, card XVIII'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'Priestesses in this Haitian religion are called "mambos" & can lead ceremonies invoking the dead'

Answer: Voodoo


Question: 'Not only did William Peter Blatty write the second sequel to this film, he directed it as well'

Answer: The Exorcist


Question: 'In the Battle of Germantown in this war, drunk U.S. General Adam Stephen had his men fire on Anthony Wayne's'

Answer: the Revolutionary War


Question: 'Take pride in your hermitting choice; St. Celestine left this high-powered job to return to being a hermit & never looked back'

Answer: Pope


Question:
'Bivalve concretions prefacing hogs

P E _ _ L S
_ E _ O _ E
S _ _ _ E'

Answer: Pearls Before Swine


Question: 'Card XVI, this tall building can signal ruin, like the bankruptcy of a record store'

Answer: the Tower


Question: 'Kagura, one of the oldest forms of Japanese theater, had priestesses dancing at this religion's shrines'

Answer: Shintoism


Question: 'After making a deal with the Devil in this 1968 film, John Cassavetes gets a Broadway role'

Answer: Rosemary\'s Baby


Question: 'One of the 2 wives of Henry VIII who married the man thinking (mistakenly) he'd never execute me for adultery!'

Answer: (One of) Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard


Question: 'You might want to plant trees, in imitation of this hermit-like 19th c. planter & wanderer born John Chapman'

Answer: Johnny Appleseed


Question:
'Fred Hoyle's spaced-out name for how we all ended up here

B _ _
B _ _ _
_ H _ O R _'

Answer: the Big Bang Theory


Question: 'This card showing an execution foretells a sacrifice'

Answer: the Hanged Man


Question: 'These priestesses vowed 30 years of service, & if they broke the chastity vow, they were buried alive'

Answer: Vestal virgins


Question: 'As Satanic lawyer John Milton, Al Pacino tries to corrupt Keanu Reeves in this movie'

Answer: Devil\'s Advocate


Question: 'In 1519 this Aztec welcomed Cortes with gold, perhaps thinking the explorer was a god; he died in 1520'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: 'Considered by some the first Christian hermit, this saint shares his name with a saintly finder of lost items'

Answer: St. Anthony


Question:
'Elgar's exaltation

P _ _ P
_ N _
C _ _ C U _ _ _ _ N C _'

Answer: Pomp And Circumstance


Question: 'Card VI, it features a pair who stand for attraction or concord'

Answer: the Lovers


Question: 'The priestess Rhea Silvia had these male twins & set them adrift on the Tiber'

Answer: Romulus & Remus


Question: 'Robert De Niro chews the scenery & some eggs as Louis Cyphre (get it?) in this New Orleans-set film'

Answer: Angel Heart


Question: 'Around 1911 Tsar Nicholas II had this "mystic" expelled, but Alexandra soon had him returned; worked out well'

Answer: Rasputin