Question: 'Pieces he scribbled for magazines like Scribner's were collected in his "Flappers and Philosophers"'

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Question: 'Castle Clinton National Monument was originally a fort renamed in 1815 for this New York City mayor'

Answer: DeWitt Clinton


Question:
'1988:
"Don't Worry Be Happy",
"Kokomo"'

Answer: Cocktail


Question: 'Vidiadhar Surajprasad...'

Answer: V.S. Naipaul


Question: 'The rhyming name of this tropical cocktail means "out of this world" in Tahitian'

Answer: Mai Tai


Question: 'This rock formed from hardened lava formed the Hawaiian Islands'

Answer: Basalt


Question: 'As president of South Africa, he ended the ban on the African National Congress'

Answer: F.W. de Klerk


Question: 'This National Hockey League team regularly practices for fans at the world's largest mall'

Answer: Edmonton Oilers


Question: 'In 1845 & again in 1846 this crop failed in Ireland'

Answer: the potato crop


Question: 'When Balanchine staged "Orpheus and Eurydice" at this U.S. opera house, he kept the singers in the pit'

Answer: the Met(ropolitan Opera House)


Question: 'Trying to find similarities between New York & L.A. is like comparing these'

Answer: apples & oranges


Question: 'A bodkin is a large blunt one of these used to draw cord or elastic through a string'

Answer: a needle


Question: 'William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas Bibb, Bibb Graves, & George Wallace all held this office'

Answer: governor


Question: 'Song that says, "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun," is named for this type of barrel'

Answer: a beer barrel


Question: 'Besides farm machines he invented the first practical rapid-fire machine gun in the U.S.'

Answer: Richard Gatling


Question: 'This modern dancer created over 170 works; her career spanned the century'

Answer: Martha Graham


Question: 'The biblical phrase "give up the ghost" means this'

Answer: die


Question: 'Finishing this, which should be invisible, is usually the last step in making a dress'

Answer: the hem (or the seam)


Question: 'He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles but was best known under this "unforgettable" nickname'

Answer: Nat "King" Cole


Question: 'Two of the animals you're urged not to be like in "Swinging On A Star"'

Answer: mule, pig, fish, monkey


Question: 'In 1880 this state became the first whose population exceeded 5 million'

Answer: New York


Question: 'In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933"'

Answer: Busby Berkeley


Question: '"He has more money than you can" do this "at"'

Answer: shake a stick (or poke a stick)


Question: 'A twill fabric with a zigzag pattern, or what can stick in your throat when you eat a certain fish'

Answer: herringbone


Question: 'Though he was born near Lafayette, Alabama, the arena named after this boxer is in Detroit'

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: '"It's the only thing that I could do half right, and it's turnin' out all wrong, Ma"'

Answer: "(What Have They Done To) My Song (Ma)"


Question: 'Austrian archduke who became emperor of Mexico in 1863'

Answer: Maximillian


Question:
'He conceived, directed & choreographed the musical which included the following:

"Tonight, tonight, the world is wild and bright..."'

Answer: Jerome Robbins


Question: 'From the tradition of men fighting topless came this saying urging calm'

Answer: keep your shirt on


Question: 'These are folds of fabric pressed to resemble the bellows of a squeezebox'

Answer: accordion pleats (or folds)


Question: 'Gawl-ee!   This man, born in Sylacauga, has had two Top 40 albums'

Answer: Jim Nabors


Question: '1950s hit that begins, "Life could be a dream, if I could take you up to paradise up above"'

Answer: "Sh-Boom"


Question: 'In the early 19th century they collected tales from the people around Kassel, Germany'

Answer: the Brothers Grimm


Question: 'In the original 1942 production of "Rodeo", she danced the role of the cowgirl'

Answer: Agnes de Mille


Question: 'Originally a caption in silent Westerns, it returned your attention to the main house'

Answer: meanwhile, back at the ranch


Question: 'It's fabric that gives body & shape to a collar, not two computers talking'

Answer: interfacing


Question: 'In his last major opinion, this "colorful" justice upheld the New York Times' right to publish the Pentagon Papers'

Answer: Hugo Black


Question: 'Song whose chorus goes, "Valderi, valdera, valderi, valdera ha ha ha ha ha ha..."'

Answer: "The Happy Wanderer"


Question: 'This fairy king's first line is "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"'

Answer: Oberon


Question: 'This classic 1939 John Wayne Western was partly based on the short story "Stage to Lordsburg"'

Answer: "Stagecoach"


Question: 'This "Maja" artist said he recognized only three masters:  Velazquez, Rembrandt, and nature'

Answer: (Francisco) Goya


Question: 'All of the present District of Columbia is on land originally donated by this state'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Ironically, this Chicago airport was named for a naval hero'

Answer: O\' Hare International


Question: 'His last words, spoken in Warm Springs, Georgia, were "I have a terrific headache"'

Answer: FDR


Question: 'Famous "tamer" who enters saying, "Verona for a while I take my leave"'

Answer: Petruchio


Question: 'Marlene Dietrich played Shanghai Lily in this 1932 film named for a Chinese train'

Answer: "Shanghai Express"


Question: 'In 1922 Marc Chagall left this country, his native land'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'As the insurance company commercials remind us, Wausau isn't in Poland but in this state'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'On July 21, 1959, the first cargo ship powered by this was launched at Camden, New Jersey'

Answer: Nuclear Power


Question: '"I've always loved my wife, my children and grandchildren, and I've always loved my country," he said in 1969'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'Warrior who says, "Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again; why should I war without the walls of Troy...."'

Answer: Troilus


Question: 'Jimmy Stewart killed a Mountie in this 1936 musical, so singing Mountie Nelson Eddy chased him'

Answer: "Rose Marie"


Question: 'He painted one of his most famous pictures, "Christina's World", 40 years ago'

Answer: Andrew Wyeth


Question: 'A city is named for the great falls of the Missouri River in this state'

Answer: Montana


Question: 'In 1957 an Air Force doctor stayed a record 32 hours in the stratosphere in one of these'

Answer: Balloon


Question: '"Thomas Jefferson survives"'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'His first line consists of just one word, "Calphurnia!"'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: 'In the last scene of "Casablanca", Claude Rains tells one of his officers to "Round up" these'

Answer: "The Usual Suspects"


Question: 'This Iowan was a leader of regionalism, a movement that dominated U.S. art in the 1930s'

Answer: Grant Wood


Question: 'This state's capital lies on Cook Inlet, west of the Chugach Mountains'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In the Old West, this railroad, named for three cities, was said to have "started nowhere and went nowhere"'

Answer: Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe


Question: 'Though noted for his drinking, the last thing he said was "Water"'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'King of Denmark who begins, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green..."'

Answer: (King) Claudius


Question: 'Bob Hope sang this Oscar-winning song with Jane Russell in "The Paleface"'

Answer: "Buttons and Bows"


Question: 'In 1485 this Italian painted "Madonna of the Rocks", his earliest major work that survives in complete form'

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci


Question: 'Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of sheriff Pat Garrett, wrote the state song of this 47th state'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'With over 200,000 miles of railroad tracks, this country has more than any other'

Answer: United States


Question: '"I know that I'm going where Lucy is," Lemonade Lucy that is'

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes


Question: 'Only member of the current court who has been elected to a public office'

Answer: Sandra Day O\'Connor (state senator from Arizona)


Question: 'Part of this 3,000-mile long mountain system covers the middle third of Colorado'

Answer: the Rocky Mountains


Question: 'This "Pretty Woman" fell for Dylan McDermott when she played his wife in "Steel Magnolias"'

Answer: Julia Roberts


Question: 'On Jan. 14, 1963 he said, "The mere absence of war is not peace"'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'Ann Landers said women's complaints about sex fall into 2 categories: not enough & this'

Answer: too much


Question: 'Lord Nelson had one of these nailed to the mast of his flagship for good luck'

Answer: a horseshoe


Question: 'Salisbury steak contains these items that Hansel dropped in the forest'

Answer: bread crumbs


Question: 'Texas County in this state's panhandle borders the state of Texas'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Laura Dern & this "Tall Guy" were linked romantically when they co-starred in "Jurassic Park"'

Answer: Jeff Goldblum


Question: 'He told America, "To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'In 1972 this French star called herself "The most important sex symbol of all time"'

Answer: Brigitte Bardot


Question:
'This TV series whose theme is heard here once featured the title character horsing around with Mae West:

"A horse is a horse, of course, of course..."'

Answer: Mr. Ed


Question: 'It means to separate & remove solids to make "clear"; it's often done to butter'

Answer: clarify


Question: 'This Washington volcano erupted on November 22, 1842; it blew its top again in 1980'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'Dennis Quaid found inner peace when he married this co-star of "Innerspace" in 1991'

Answer: Meg Ryan


Question: 'He once said, "I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'According to Cole Porter they're the type of "fleas" that "do it"'

Answer: educated


Question: 'Some cowboys wear these seatless leather trousers to protect their legs when they ride horses'

Answer: chaps


Question: 'To make angel parfaits, you need egg whites, salt, sugar, vanilla & the heavy type of this'

Answer: cream


Question: 'This Midwestern state's "Northwest Angle" is the northernmost point in the continental U.S.'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'Brad Pitt's break-up with this "Se7en" co-star made the June 30, 1997 cover of People'

Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow


Question: 'He asked us to join him "And march along the road... that leads to the Great Society"'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: '"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time", said this pop artist, perhaps preferring soup'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'Many thoroughbreds trace their ancestry back to the Byerley Turk, a stallion of this breed'

Answer: Arabian


Question: 'Recipes for cocktail sauce often call for the "prepared" type of this pungent root'

Answer: horseradish


Question: 'The Calendar Islands of this "Pine Tree State" are so named because there are 365 of them'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Yves Montand & this blond sex symbol took the title of their 1960 film "Let's Make Love" literally'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question:
'President heard here:

"Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office..."'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: '"Golden Boy" playwright who defined sex as "The Poor Man's Polo"'

Answer: Clifford Odets


Question: 'Some prehistoric horses had this many toes on each foot, like rhinos, which are distant relatives of the horse'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Chilies, garlic & chocolate go into this Mexican sauce served on chicken or turkey'

Answer: mole sauce


Question: 'Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question: 'It's no laughing matter:  farmers in Africa have killed thousands of the brown species of this scavenger'

Answer: the hyena


Question: 'A little birdy told us this first name shared by actress Oberon & singer Haggard means "blackbird"'

Answer: Merle


Question: 'In 1987 the Grateful Dead's "Touch Of" this peaked at No. 9 becoming the group's only Top 40 hit'

Answer: "Gray"


Question: 'In 1995 7-time PM Giulio Andreotti was tried for association with this criminal organization'

Answer: the mafia


Question: 'It describes a tune you can't stop humming'

Answer: catchy


Question: '"Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'These "whoopers" breed in marshy areas of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada'

Answer: whooping cranes


Question: 'Cecil B.'s niece could tell you that Inez is the Spanish form of this feminine name'

Answer: Agnes


Question: 'This rocker's last Top Ten hit was "Burning Love", which hit No. 2 in 1972'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'This American gathered his forces to liberate Europe in WWII; his "plan" then supplied it with $13 billion'

Answer: George Marshall


Question: 'A trancelike state in which a person doesn't talk or move'

Answer: catatonia


Question: 'This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine"'

Answer: Joel Chandler Harris


Question: 'The Peregrine species of this bird is sometimes called the duck hawk in the U.S.'

Answer: the falcon


Question: 'From the Latin for "fifth", this name was traditionally given to a fifth son'

Answer: Quentin


Question: 'Then husband & wife, they recorded the 1974 duet "Mockingbird"'

Answer: Carly Simon & James Taylor


Question: '16th & 17th c. changes in the Catholic church are often called the counter-this'

Answer: Reformation


Question: 'To deny something this way is to allow for no exceptions or conditions'

Answer: categorical (or categorically)


Question: '"The Twits" is the tale of a perfectly dreadful couple by this author of "James and the Giant Peach"'

Answer: Roald Dahl


Question: 'Florida may have the largest surviving population of this animal seen here:'

Answer: the manatee


Question: 'A good detective can deduce this masculine name means "fair-haired" in old English'

Answer: Sherlock


Question: 'In 1991 this French-Canadian's first U.S. hit asked "Where Does My Heart Beat Now"'

Answer: Celine Dion


Question: 'A political or social system; an "ancien" one governed France until 1789'

Answer: a regime


Question: 'The instruction of a pupil by means of questions & answers, the reverse of what we're doing now'

Answer: catechism


Question: 'He called his fifth Narnia novel "The Horse and His Boy"'

Answer: C.S. Lewis


Question: 'A Sumatran species of this ape is endangered due to habitat destruction & overcollection for zoos'

Answer: orangutan


Question: 'We don't "doubt" you know that this Biblical name is Aramaic for "twin"'

Answer: Thomas


Question: 'In the rock era this jazz singer heard here had 3 Top 10 pop hits:'

Answer: Sarah Vaughan


Question: 'Reigning from 1243 to 1254, the 4th Pope of this name was "guilty" of authorizing torture for heretics'

Answer: Pope Innocent IV


Question: 'An Indian tribe of the Carolinas, their language, or a grape first grown in the region'

Answer: catawba


Question: 'On this day you can hear "Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return" ritually repeated'

Answer: Ash Wednesday


Question: 'It stipulates that the terms of Senators & Representatives shall end at noon on the third of January'

Answer: the 20th Amendment


Question: 'In the U.S., Halloween & Thanksgiving Day are celebrated in this season'

Answer: the fall


Question: 'Frida Kahlo, born to a Spanish-Native American mother & a Jewish father, hailed from this country'

Answer: Mexico


Question: 'Newsweek called this 1999 film "This generation's 'Porky's'"'

Answer: American Pie


Question: 'Its name also refers to the range of colors an artist uses'

Answer: a palette


Question: 'Term for an item, like paper towels, consisting of a double layer'

Answer: 2-ply


Question: 'A nation shares its name with this traditional 20th wedding anniversary present'

Answer: China


Question: 'These 2 seasons begin with an equinox'

Answer: spring and fall


Question: 'In 1863 Edvard Munch was born in Loten, near what is now this capital'

Answer: Oslo


Question: 'Michael Caine & Brendan Fraser starred in this 2002 remake based on a Graham Greene novel'

Answer: The Quiet American


Question: 'Greaves are sort of your equivalent of shinpads if you wear a suit of this'

Answer: armor


Question: 'It opens every one of a given set of locks'

Answer: master key


Question: 'He was the 20th president of the U.S. but sadly served only in 1881'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'In 1936 they were held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany from February 6 to 16'

Answer: the Winter Olympics


Question: 'This city was the birthplace of the Renaissance & of Renaissance painter Botticelli'

Answer: Florence


Question: 'A Russian immigrant mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz is the hero of this 1986 animated film'

Answer: An American Tail


Question: 'This piece of carpentry equipment comes to life in one of the "Oz" books'

Answer: a sawhorse


Question: 'One of these covers the South Pole & some nervous folks worry about it melting'

Answer: an ice cap


Question: 'In 1985 this Australian's News Corporation bought 20th Century Fox'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'In a 1958 Eddie Cochran hit, "There ain't no cure for" these'

Answer: the summertime blues


Question: 'He was born Pablo Ruiz in Malaga, Spain in 1881'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'Alan Ball won an Original Screenplay Oscar for this 1999 film'

Answer: American Beauty


Question: 'The pointy rubbery thingy at the bottom of this implement is called a stimulator tip'

Answer: a toothbrush


Question: 'It's a nickname of the Missouri River'

Answer: Big Muddy


Question: 'In use until 1971, this British coin was equal to one-twentieth of a pound'

Answer: a shilling


Question: 'This seasonal play by William Shakespeare is set in Sicilia & Bohemia'

Answer: The Winter\'s Tale


Question: 'Perhaps this will "jar" your memory: Rembrandt was born in this Dutch city in 1606'

Answer: Leyden


Question: 'Marlon Brando is the U.S. Ambassador to an Asian country in this 1963 drama'

Answer: The Ugly American


Question:
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew displays the long,
wand-like part of
a phonograph that
holds the stylus.)  Fittingly, this part of a phonograph has sort of a musical name'

Answer: a tone arm


Question: 'Abbreviation for the sandwich that might be made with Peter Pan & Welch's'

Answer: PB&J


Question:
'"Unsolved History" reconstructs what this Texas site once looked like

"Today, you find a row of tourist shops, but in 1836, the west wall ran 530 feet with a row of barracks for the troops."'

Answer: the Alamo


Question: 'Barry Manilow's 1998 tribute album to this singer included the songs "All The Way" & "My Kind Of Town"'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: '"He says again, 'Good fences make'" these'

Answer: good neighbors


Question: '...this small animal in a Shakespeare title'

Answer: shrew


Question: 'This island nation off the coast of Florida consists of almost 700 islands & islets & about 2,400 cays & rocks'

Answer: the Bahamas


Question: 'A clever fellow is "sharp as" this nail with a broad, flat head'

Answer: a tack


Question:
'Discovery Channel found a witness to this man's demise

"I felt no pity for him at all."
"Smout is the last living eyewitness to the events of April 21st, 1918."'

Answer: the Red Baron


Question: 'Receiving the 2002 Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award she might have thought, "If I could turn back time..."'

Answer: Cher


Question: '"Some say the world will end in" this, "some say in ice"'

Answer: fire


Question: '...this name, like character Grant, Mary Richards' TV boss'

Answer: Lou


Question: 'The name of this archipelago belonging to the Philippines sounds like George Takei's "Star Trek" role'

Answer: Sulu


Question: 'The expression this "as a judge" dates back to around 1700'

Answer: sober


Question:
'It's the vessel whose fate is investigated here

"The century-old debate still raged between two possibilities: an exterior mine or a tragic accident."'

Answer: the Maine


Question: 'Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the part of Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" for this soprano, his then wife'

Answer: Sarah Brightman


Question: 'This "is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"'

Answer: home


Question: '...this name, like actor Grant, Bridget Jones' movie boss'

Answer: Hugh


Question: '"Hot" common simile of attraction about the insects that make up most of the Lepidoptera'

Answer: drawn like a moth to the flame


Question:
'The show seen here investigates the failure of this effort made in the afternoon of July 3, 1863

"The fences along the Emmitsburg Road created a hazard not anticipated by the field commanders, which proved to be a fatal mistake."'

Answer: Pickett\'s charge at Gettysburg


Question: 'In a 2000 TV movie Chad Lowe portrayed this singer & Kristin Davis played his wife Annie'

Answer: John Denver


Question: '"Two roads" did this "in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by"'

Answer: diverged


Question: '...the name of this Sunoco founding family that established charitable trusts'

Answer: Pew


Question: 'Dubbed "the New Boy Wonder of Voice", this young singing sensation has taken the world by storm'

Answer: Josh Groban


Question: '"The woods are" these 3 things, "but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"'

Answer: lovely, dark & deep


Question: '...the name of this African-American surgeon & pioneer in blood preservation'

Answer: (Charles) Drew


Question: 'When this American company incorporated in 1902, its first products were grinding abrasives & sandpaper'

Answer: 3M


Question: 'Julia Ward Howe's visit to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 inspired this famous hymn'

Answer: "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"


Question: '2 "ens" in printing or Dorothy's Auntie'

Answer: em


Question: 'At the 1988 Olympics the USSR won the gold for team foil in this sport'

Answer: fencing


Question: 'A full-time student usually earns an associate degree at a junior college in this many years'

Answer: 2


Question: 'Brazil abolished this in 1888, 23 years after the United States'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg'

Answer: the white


Question: 'Irving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet's teachers at Harvard'

Answer: Eliot


Question: 'This word combines with "Art" to mean the abstract style of creating optical illusions'

Answer: op


Question: 'The Old Norse "Skjota", to shoot, gave us this word for a type of trapshooting'

Answer: skeet


Question: '1 of 2 lengths of time that can constitute a diamond anniversary'

Answer: 75 (or 60)


Question: 'Colombia is second while Brazil is the world's largest exporter of this commodity'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'Light & dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for'

Answer: marble cake


Question: 'In Eugene Field's "Dutch Lullabye", the names of the 3 wooden shoe sailors'

Answer: Wynken, Blynken, & Nod


Question: '"Eeny, meeny, miny mo" are the words children use to choose who will be this'

Answer: "It"


Question: 'Among college football coaches, Paul Bryant was nickanmed Bear & G. Warner was nicknamed this'

Answer: "Pop"


Question:
'Age in years of the man being interviewed in the following:

"By the way, sir, uh, are you married?"
"I have been married several hundred times."
"I'm afraid to ask the next question.  You've had many hundreds of wives."
"Hundreds and hundreds of wives."
"How many children do you have?"
"I have over forty-two thousand children.  And not one comes to visit!"'

Answer: 2000


Question: 'The cruzado replaced the cruzeiro as this in 1986'

Answer: the monetary unit


Question: 'This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam'

Answer: Sachertorte


Question: 'Carroll wrote about the Jabberwock & he wrote of the Jumblies'

Answer: (Edward) Lear


Question: 'This river begins near Monte Viso in the Cottian Alps & flows to the Adriatic Sea'

Answer: the Po


Question: 'According to Forbes Magazine, the 3 highest-paid athletes for 1990 compete in this sport'

Answer: boxing


Question: 'Length of Rip Van Winkle's Catskill nap'

Answer: 20 years


Question: 'Between 1960 & 1980 the population of this city went from under 150,000 to more than 1,000,000'

Answer: Brasilia


Question: 'Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it'

Answer: a Bundt


Question: 'One of two Elizabethans famous for "Come live with me and be my love"'

Answer: Marlowe (or John Donne)


Question: 'In 1978 Barnard Hughes won a Tony as this title patriarch'

Answer: Da


Question: 'In 1990 this Reds outfielder set a world series record with hits in 7 straight at-bats'

Answer: Billy Hatcher


Question: 'The French & Indian War was known by this name in Europe'

Answer: the 7 Years War


Question: 'This famous beach is just northeast of Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro'

Answer: Copacabana


Question: 'A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable'

Answer: rum


Question: 'The largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was named "Santa Cruz" by Columbus'

Answer: St. Croix


Question: 'Nicolas Appert, who invented canned food, also came up with these cubes used to make instant soup'

Answer: bullion


Question: 'His seventh & final voyage took him to the Land of Serendib'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: 'It's a ceiling built in stone, brick or concrete, or a big bank safe'

Answer: a vault


Question: 'P.T. Barnum purchased this pachyderm, billed as the world's largest, from the London zoo in 1882'

Answer: Jumbo


Question: 'It's said that a Japanese sword dropping from Gilbert's library wall inspired this 1885 opera'

Answer: Mikado


Question: 'This Florida city was named for a city in Russia'

Answer: St. Petersburg


Question: 'He invented champagne by devising the corking system necessary to make it'

Answer: Dom Perignon


Question: 'Its inhabitants include the Duchess, the Gryphon & the Dormouse'

Answer: Wonderland


Question: 'The armlike beams connecting a high wall to outside supports in Gothic churches'

Answer: flying buttresses


Question: 'The National Republicans & Anti-Masons formed the nucleus of this party founded in the 1830s'

Answer: the Whigs


Question: 'Sullivan wrote the music to the hymn about them "marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before"'

Answer: Christian Soldiers


Question: 'A steamboat on this U.S. city's seal symbolizes its growth'

Answer: St. Louis


Question: 'In the 1890s he tried coal dust as a power source for his engine before trying crude fuel oil'

Answer: Diesel


Question: 'It's the largest palace in Asgard'

Answer: Valhalla


Question: 'By using pendentives the Byzantines managed to set these on square bases'

Answer: domes


Question: 'After his defeat for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1835, this frontiersman left for Texas'

Answer: (Davy) Crockett


Question: 'It's set in a ruined chapel & on a rocky seashore on the coast of Cornwall, not on the open sea'

Answer: The Pirates of Penzance


Question: 'A small nation in the Caribbean is comprised of the Grenadines & this island'

Answer: St. Vincent


Question: 'In '53 Dr. J. Gibbon invented this machine that permitted cardiac surgery longer than 10 minutes'

Answer: the heart-lung machine


Question: 'Thrushcross Grange is the estate rented to Mr. Lockwood in this novel'

Answer: Wuthering Heights


Question: 'The director of Germany's Bauhaus school from 1919-1928, he took the chair of architecture at Harvard in 1937'

Answer: Gropius


Question: 'Lincoln, Grant & Jefferson Davis served in the military under this general who became president'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'This opera is subtitled "The Lass that Loved a Sailor"'

Answer: The H.M.S. Pinafore


Question: 'Only 1 person survived the destruction of this city on Martinique when Mt. Pelee erupted in 1902'

Answer: St. Pierre


Question: 'Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchhoff developed this device to see the wavelengths of light'

Answer: spectroscope


Question: 'In Aristophanes' "The Birds", a couple of Athenians convince the birds to found a city called this'

Answer: Cloud-Cuckoo Land


Question: 'Term for the iron grating that slides up & down in front of the door in a fortified building'

Answer: a portcullis


Question: 'This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared a law of Congress unconstitutional'

Answer: Marbury v. Madison


Question: 'In 1881 producer d'Oyly Carte built this London theatre for Gilbert & Sullivan'

Answer: the Savoy Theatre


Question: 'This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other'

Answer: Chicago


Question: '"Anne of Avonlea" is a 1909 sequel to this 1908 classic'

Answer: "Anne of Green Gables"


Question:
'In the Catholic Church:
bishop,
archbishop,
cardinal...'

Answer: Pope


Question: 'Taipei is this island's capital city'

Answer: Taiwan


Question: 'In this film high school teacher Matthew Broderick gets involved with the campaign for student council'

Answer: Election


Question: 'This word can mean to weaken a solution by adding water, or can describe a solution that's been weakened'

Answer: Dilute


Question: 'The theme to the TV show "Cops" asks them "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?"'

Answer: Bad boys


Question: 'Thorny problems beset this Bronte heroine when she's hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall'

Answer: Jane Eyre


Question:
'At the White House:
Betty Ford,
Rosalynn Carter,
Nancy Reagan...'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'Now 73, the woman seen here at age 17 calls this island nation home:<br />(Queen Elizabeth II)'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'A jazz guitarist is the subject of this director's "Sweet and Lowdown"'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'Because he wrote his books in Latin, Swedish botanist Carl von Linne was better known by this Latinized name'

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus


Question: 'Proverbially, one of these malicious fruits "spoils the whole barrel"'

Answer: Bad apple


Question: 'Countess Olenska is the not-so-innocent heroine of this Edith Wharton novel'

Answer: "The Age of Innocence"


Question:
'In the history of France:
Henry III,
Henry IV,
Louis XIII...'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'It's the island where you'll find the arena seen here:<br />(Madison Square Garden)'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'What part did this Irishman play in "End of Days"?  Could it be...Satan?'

Answer: Gabriel Byrne


Question: 'The symbol of this element stands for stannum, which originally denoted an alloy of lead & silver'

Answer: Tin


Question: 'It can be a stroke of misfortune, or an unfortunate start to a game of pool'

Answer: Bad break


Question: 'Maggie, the daughter of a miller, falls for her cousin's fiance in this George Eliot novel'

Answer: "The Mill on the Floss"


Question:
'Beef:
USDA standard,
USDA select,
USDA choice,
USDA...'

Answer: Prime


Question: 'Jaffna & Trincomalee are cities of this island nation near India that was formerly known as Ceylon'

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: '"Music of the Heart" was directed by this man, more known for his nightmares'

Answer: Wes Craven


Question: 'The uvea in the eye consists of 3 parts: the choroid, the ciliary body & this colored part lying behind the cornea'

Answer: Iris


Question: 'Don't tell this animal "Neither a burrower, nor a lender be":'

Answer: Badger


Question: 'Temple Drake is a college student in this Southerner's controversial 1931 novel "Sanctuary"'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'In Roman numerals:<br />I, V, X, L...'

Answer: C (100)


Question: 'The world's fourth-largest island, it lies off the southeast coast of Africa'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'Once Mighty Joe Young's girlfriend, she played the wife in "The Astronaut's Wife"'

Answer: Charlize Theron


Question: 'There are about 20,000 species of this organism that consists of an alga & a fungus living as a single unit'

Answer: Lichen


Question: 'This sailor recounts his 7 voyages to a poor porter named Hindbad'

Answer: Sinbad


Question: 'An 1879 mass movement of Southern blacks to the West was known by this Biblical name'

Answer: The Exodus


Question: 'Masked man haunts a Paris theater, kidnaps rising prima donna, writes music for her'

Answer: "Phantom of the Opera"


Question: 'The Shi'ite branch of this religion believes that its leadership was willed to Muhammad by his son-in-law Ali'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'In the 1840s it succeeded Detroit as Michigan's capital'

Answer: Lansing


Question: 'Next time you send a fax, remember "fax" comes from this longer word'

Answer: Facsimile


Question: 'You can't beat its pulmonary valve, opening & closing over 60 times a minute'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'Common name of the historic 1963 event seen here:'

Answer: March on Washington, D.C.


Question: 'Teapot, clock & candlestick sing & encourage romance between pretty girl & enchanted prince'

Answer: "Beauty and the Beast"


Question: 'Its most sacred books are Kojiki, or "Record of Ancient Events", & Nihongi, or "Chronicle of Japan"'

Answer: Shinto


Question: 'This capital city's metro region includes Tempe & Mesa'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'Spelled one way it's a hinged entryway; spelled another, it's a horse's stride'

Answer: Gate/gait


Question: 'The Achilles one joins the calf muscles to the heel bone'

Answer: Tendon


Question: 'This organization was founded in 1944 after Tuskegee's president suggested pooling schools' money'

Answer: United Negro College Fund


Question: 'HIV-positive artists & musicians sing in a Lower East Side loft'

Answer: "Rent"


Question: 'Unlike Luke, Acts specifies that this event took place 40 days after Jesus' resurrection'

Answer: Ascension


Question: 'It's nicknamed "The Green Mountain City"'

Answer: Montpelier, Vermont


Question: 'Piscatology refers to the art or science of this sport'

Answer: Fishing


Question: 'A microdiskectomy fixes a damaged disk in this chain of 33 bones'

Answer: Spine


Question: 'Believed to be part black & part Native American, he was a leader & fatality in the 1770 Boston Massacre'

Answer: Crispus Attucks


Question: 'Diplomat has affair with Chinese opera diva who turns out to be a man; diplomat's career is ruined'

Answer: "M. Butterfly"


Question: 'In this Chinese religion, the Jade Emperor rules the Earth & the Empress of Heaven rules heaven'

Answer: Taoism


Question: 'It lies at the head of Narragansett Bay'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'From the Latin for "to suffer with", they're the expressions of sympathy you "send" to someone who's grieving'

Answer: Condolences


Question: 'Descartes called this gland "the seat of the rational soul"; scientists still aren't sure what it does'

Answer: Pineal gland


Question: 'This important black church was formally organized in 1816 with Richard Allen as its first bishop'

Answer: African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)


Question: 'Arms-maker's daughter joins Salvation Army to defy dad; he donates money to her cause; she quits in protest'

Answer: "Major Barbara"


Question: 'In the classic Hindu trinity, this divinity is the creator of the universe'

Answer: Brahma


Question: 'Once called Edwinton, it was renamed for a German chancellor'

Answer: Bismarck, North Dakota


Question: 'People do it when they ponder something; cows do it when they chew their cud'

Answer: Ruminate


Question: 'These are also called your pharyngeal tonsils'

Answer: Adenoids


Question: 'In response to anti-tobacco protests, this toy gave up its attachable pipe in 1987'

Answer: Mr. Potato Head


Question: 'Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called "the Venice of Asia"'

Answer: Bangkok


Question: 'Another version has him asleep under a haycock'

Answer: Little Boy Blue


Question: '"She ain't what she used to be"'

Answer: the Old Gray Mare


Question: 'It's the "rock" in Prudential's ads'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'Bob Hope says one of his favorites is the 16th at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach'

Answer: a golf hole


Question: 'Since 1578, this city has been the home to the Shroud of Turin'

Answer: Turin


Question: 'Fabled city of Arabian Nights' caliph Harun-al-Rashid where Israelis bombed nuclear reactor in 1981'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'While the rhyme doesn't mention summer, winter, or spring, it does say he "had a great fall"'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'Gore Vidal adapted this military-school novel for TV, 1st screenplay he's taken credit for since 1964'

Answer: Dress Gray


Question: 'A high recognition factor prompted Lever Bros. to bring back the "Ta-ta-ta-da" ad for this'

Answer: Imperial Margarine


Question: 'Spanish sport revived in China in 1986 with opening of a ring in the Zhejiang Province'

Answer: bullfighting


Question: 'In "The Dictionary of the Old West" it's defined as raw hide'

Answer: rawhide


Question: 'Long noted for its universities, this Colombian capital is called "the Athens of South America"'

Answer: Bogotá


Question: 'His career "Bud"ded as Princess & Kitten's brother "Father Knows Best"'

Answer: Bill Gray


Question: 'TV rights to it in 1980 cost $87 million; in 1984, $225 million; & for 1988, $300 million'

Answer: the Olympics


Question: 'A machine called the Cyclops is now used for line calls in this sport'

Answer: tennis


Question: 'In 1986, this Procter & Gamble cleansing powder offered a free Halley's Comet guide'

Answer: Comet cleanser


Question: 'Encyclopedia Americana implies this Swiss city is boring, but Birnbaum's Guide mentions topless sunbathers'

Answer: Bern


Question: 'Though still alive at the time, Confederate raider John S. Mosby earned this nickname'

Answer: the "Gray Ghost"


Question: 'In March 1986, a Pittsburgh car dealer gave Cadillac buyers these Eastern European cars, free'

Answer: the Yugo


Question: 'Sport in which you might leave a bucket, Christmas tree or picket fence'

Answer: bowling


Question: 'Town in S.D. that put up 9' statue of Fr. Pierre Jean de Smet, who died in 1873 & never visited the town'

Answer: De Smet


Question: 'Excluding East Berlin, 2 of 3 capitals of East European Communist countries that begin with "B"'

Answer: (2 of) Bucharest, Budapest & Belgrade


Question: '"Elegy..." poet who said he would no more accept the title of poet laureate than royal rat-catcher'

Answer: Thomas Gray


Question: 'For the past 3 years her cosmetic co. has topped the Savvy magazine list of businesses run by women'

Answer: Estée Lauder


Question: 'Jack Broughton, inventor of the modern boxing glove, is buried in this British landmark'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'It initially got its name from being the second Karakoram peak to be measured'

Answer: K2


Question: '"King Philip", who led bloody Indian war, was son of Massasoit who, in 1621, met these people in friendship'

Answer: the Pilgrims


Question: 'Rarely seen to die of old age in the wild, it's mistakenly thought they have a secret graveyard'

Answer: elephants


Question: 'Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, & Betty Smith's "tree" all grew up in this borough'

Answer: Brooklyn


Question: 'Dante was the first major writer to write in this modern language'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'Showing clips of past episodes of this cop show, NBC asked viewers to choose which to rerun'

Answer: Hill Street Blues


Question: 'Ironically, in 1641, Massachusetts became 1st colony to legalize this practice'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'The biggest marsupials'

Answer: kangaroos


Question: 'Tho he "looked homeward" to North Carolina, he lived in NYC because "You Can't Go Home Again"'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe


Question: 'Along with English & Spanish, its other official language is a form of Tagalog'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'Born John Cheese, he was the big cheese on "Fawlty Towers"'

Answer: John Cleese


Question: 'In 1754, the French built Fort Duquesne on the present-day site of this city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Heaviest of all poisonous snakes is this North American rattlesnake'

Answer: the diamondback rattler


Question: 'James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway'

Answer: Harlem


Question: 'Israel's official languages are Hebrew & this'

Answer: Arabic


Question: 'In 1976, this former conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra was made an honorary knight'

Answer: Eugene Ormandy


Question: 'This TV Western's episode titled "3 Queens Full" was a "Bonanza" spoof featuring the dumb Wheelwright clan'

Answer: Maverick


Question: 'During Colonial period, present-day Tennessee was part of this colony'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'In Argentina, rheas are rounded up in order to get these'

Answer: tailfeathers


Question: 'Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas & Arthur Miller all lived in this famed hotel named for a London district'

Answer: The Chelsea


Question: 'Official language of both the People's Republic & Taiwan, it's the most common Chinese dialect'

Answer: Mandarin


Question: 'Born in Bombay, at 26 this former medical student was youngest musical director of Los Angeles Philharmonic'

Answer: Zubin Mehta


Question: 'She played the mothers of 2 of TV's independent women, Ann Romano & Mary Richards'

Answer: Nanette Fabray


Question: 'The "Great Awakening" of the 1740s refers to this'

Answer: the great (religious) revivals of the 1740s


Question: 'Ironically, in 1907 the Bronx Zoo donated 15 of these to the people of Oklahoma'

Answer: buffalo (or bison)


Question: 'The Algonquin Hotel apparently threw this "Borstal Boy" out when he chased the maids thru the halls'

Answer: Brendan Behan


Question: 'Language of ancient India that's related to Greek & Latin'

Answer: Sanskrit


Question: 'The following was early '60s pop hit for this 3-time Oscar winner, now a renowned conductor:'

Answer: André Previn


Question: 'A model of adult humor, this series had one episode about a thumbless alien & 1700 pounds of walnuts'

Answer: The Dick Van Dyke Show


Question: 'It's the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'After it gained its independence, Belarus adopted its own version of this basic currency'

Answer: the ruble


Question: 'Richard Burton played this king in "Camelot"; Tim Curry has played him in "Spamalot"'

Answer: King Arthur


Question: 'This organization was formally born Oct. 24, 1945 with Soviet ratification of the charter'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'A work from George Gershwin:<br />"___ In Blue"'

Answer: Rhapsody


Question: 'Helium is OK, but this gas that filled the Hindenburg isn't; no containers of it in your room'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'Exist/<br />unwanted "bonnet" intruder'

Answer: be/bee


Question: 'Hey mon!  Blue Mountain Peak is the highest point in this island country'

Answer: Jamaica


Question: '"It's alive!"  This Mel Brooks film, a "monster" hit in 1974, has been galvanized into a musical'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'It's not Hillary, it's Rebecca Latimer Felton, who on Nov. 21, 1922 became the first woman to serve in this body'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'Attributed to Lincoln:<br />"The ___ is stronger than the bullet"'

Answer: ballot


Question: 'Hey, chem majors!  This alliterative heater seen here is not to be used at Herringbone Hall'

Answer: a Bunsen burner


Question: 'Nominative plural of "I"/<br />"Willie Winkie" preceder'

Answer: we/wee


Question: 'Paris Opera House architect Charles Garnier also designed the world-famous casino in this town'

Answer: Monte Carlo


Question: 'The website for "A Catered Affair" features this kind of album; fans share photos & memories of their own ceremonies'

Answer: a wedding album


Question: 'An act passed by Parliament July 2, 1767 allowed duty-free exports of this to America--Party!!'

Answer: tea


Question: 'Where the Bishop of Rome lives:<br />The Holy ___'

Answer: See


Question: 'No re-creations in your room of this yearly event conceived by Larry Harvey & held many times in Black Rock Desert'

Answer: Burning Man


Question: 'Conjunction/<br />mineral'

Answer: or/ore


Question: 'Thredbo & Perisher Blue are popular ski resorts in these aptly named Australian mountains'

Answer: the Snowy Mountains


Question: 'Now a one-act musical on its own, "The Lorax" was originally part of this show based on Dr. Seuss books'

Answer: Seussical


Question: 'The April 17, 1722 inoculation of 2 daughters of the Prince of Wales against this made the practice widely accepted'

Answer: smallpox


Question: 'A Beatles tune:<br />"___ singing in the dead of night"'

Answer: Blackbird


Question: 'This item seen here is definitely not a university-approved dorm fixture'

Answer: a flamethrower


Question: 'Gardening tool/<br />interjection following "Westward" or "Land"'

Answer: hoe/ho


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a map on the monitor.)  The waterway that separates South America from Antarctica is known as this passage, for an explorer who may have navigated it in 1578'

Answer: the Drake Passage


Question: 'Like "Hairspray", the new musical "Cry-Baby" is based on a film by this highly unconventional director'

Answer: John Waters


Question: 'On Jan. 1, 1993 this republic came into being, & some of its people sought citizenship in the neighboring Czech Republic'

Answer: Slovakia


Question: 'A poem from Keats:<br />"The Eve of St. ___"'

Answer: Agnes


Question: 'No oily rag heaps; poor air circulation plus oxidation leads to this 2-word term, as Spinal Tap's drummer learned'

Answer: spontaneous combustion


Question: 'Next to/<br />automatic advance to second round without having to play'

Answer: by/bye


Question: 'At the end of this Henry Fielding novel, the title character marries Squire Western's daughter Sophia'

Answer: Tom Jones


Question: 'This "Sicko" director's prescription is to give free health care to every American for life'

Answer: Michael Moore


Question: 'This quadrangular Kellogg toaster pastry originally came in 4 flavors & wasn't frosted'

Answer: Pop-Tarts


Question: 'This almost 27,000-square-mile African lake is named for a queen'

Answer: (Lake) Victoria


Question: 'Thanksgiving sleep inducer'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'The Sony Open golf tournament takes place in January at the Waialae Country Club in this state capital'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'This non-James Bond book by Ian Fleming was subtitled "The Magical Car"'

Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang


Question: 'He went from directing the Aaron Burr "got milk" ad to a little film called "Transformers"'

Answer: Michael Bay


Question: 'This rectangular thick-crust pizza is not popular on the Italian island from which it gets its name'

Answer: Sicilian


Question: 'This Swiss-French lake is also called Lac Leman'

Answer: Lake Geneva


Question: 'Any porcelain ware'

Answer: China


Question: 'September was the month chosen for the holiday honoring these relatives because it signified their autumn years'

Answer: grandparents


Question: 'Book I of this Edmund Spenser work relates the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight of Holiness'

Answer: The Faerie Queene


Question: 'After directing "Thank You for Smoking", Jason Reitman didn't suffer from a sophomore jinx with this feature'

Answer: Juno


Question: '"What would you do" for this ice cream bar whose name refers to the Canadian area of an 1890s gold rush'

Answer: a Klondike


Question: 'Just past Astrakhan, the Volga flows into this inland "sea" that is actually a lake'

Answer: the Caspian


Question: 'Ms. O'Keeffe or Ms. Frontiere'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'Since becoming a federal holiday in 1983, the holiday honoring him has occurred on his birthday, Jan. 15, only 4 times'

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: 'Squire Trelawney outfits the schooner Hispaniola & hires its crew in this 1883 tale'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'These brothers escaped "The Matrix" & raced to release their new movie "Speed Racer"'

Answer: the Wachowski Brothers


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson brought this type of "iron" back from Europe & served the treats in the White House'

Answer: a waffle maker


Question: 'The Catatumbo River flows into this lake, an extension of the Gulf of Venezuela'

Answer: Lake Maracaibo


Question: 'Pungent tapering pepper'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'Symbols of spring, a lamb shank & an egg are part of the traditional plate used during this Jewish holiday'

Answer: Passover


Question: 'Chapter 1 of this 1932 novel begins at the Central London Hatching & Conditioning Centre'

Answer: Brave New World


Question: 'His first try at a "King Kong" remake was stopped, as "Mighty Joe Young" & "Godzilla" were being produced'

Answer: Peter Jackson


Question: 'Birdseye invented this product that was originally sold as "herring savouries"'

Answer: fish sticks


Question: 'Grande Isle & Isle La Motte are in this, the fourth-largest freshwater lake entirely in the U.S.'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question: 'Pachyderm dentin seaside land'

Answer: Ivory Coast


Question: 'This corp. is the engine behind the first National Train Day, May 10, 2008, remembering the golden spike of May 10, 1869'

Answer: Amtrak


Question: '"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work'

Answer: Henry David Thoreau


Question: 'In 1985 he said that freedom was "The universal right of all God's children"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'This conservative icon describes himself as having "talent on loan from God"'

Answer: Rush Limbaugh


Question: 'Pu'u Wekiu on Mauna Kea'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'It's a dickory dock, whether or not a mouse runs up it'

Answer: Clock


Question: 'He's quoted as saying, "They've hung everything on me but the Chicago Fire"'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: 'Get your comeuppance & you get your "just" these, not ice cream & cake'

Answer: Desserts


Question: 'His grandfather Kindred was the first of his family to settle in Georgia'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'He took over from Red Barber & has been the voice of the Dodgers for almost 50 years'

Answer: Vin Scully


Question: 'Mount McKinley'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'Ask a Cockney barber for a dig in the grave & he should give you one of these'

Answer: Shave


Question: 'Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was accused of masterminding the big fix of this in 1919; it wasn't proved'

Answer: World Series


Question: 'In "Hanky Panky" Madonna sings "I don't want you to thank me, you can just" do this'

Answer: Spank me


Question: 'In 1965 he became the first sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Kyle Cantrell, operations manager at Nashville's WSM-AM, is the Saturday night announcer for this show'

Answer: Grand Ole Opry


Question: 'Mount Whitney'

Answer: California


Question: 'It's what a Mother Hubbard is; hers was bare by the way'

Answer: cupboard


Question: 'His brother Buck was part of his gang, as was his moll Bonnie'

Answer: Clyde Barrow


Question: 'A caustic verbal attack when done with a tongue or a more painful one done with a whip'

Answer: Lashing


Question: 'On July 9, 1850 this president died in office; Millard Fillmore was sworn in the following day'

Answer: Zachary Taylor


Question: 'Heard here, he's been the voice of the U.S. heartland for decades<br />("Now you know the rest of the story")'

Answer: Paul Harvey


Question: 'Mount Hood'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'We bet Camus knew this kind of person is a Glasgow Ranger'

Answer: Stranger


Question: 'His fateful July 22, 1934 night at Chicago's Biograph Theater might be featured on "Biography"'

Answer: John Dillinger


Question: 'A verb meaning to give permission, or a penalty, economic or otherwise'

Answer: Sanction


Question: 'Teddy Roosevelt quipped that this successor "meant well but meant well feebly"'

Answer: William Howard Taft


Question: 'This shock jock rival of Howard Stern is heard "in the Morning" on about 100 stations'

Answer: Don Imus


Question: 'Mount Elbert'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'Cockneys use the name of this Dickens title character as rhyming slang for a judge'

Answer: Barnaby Rudge


Question: 'Bribes from Big Bill Dwyer turned members of this armed service into rum-runners'

Answer: Coast Guard


Question: 'Literally, it means drawing a person under a ship from side to side or from bow to stern'

Answer: Keelhaul


Question: 'At the age of 9 Proust had his first wheezing attack of this disease that plagued him the rest of his life'

Answer: Asthma


Question: 'The 1976 Winter Games' mascot was Olympiamandl, one of these frosty guys'

Answer: Snowman


Question: 'The leader of rock & roll's Family Stone'

Answer: Sly


Question: 'His writing career began with the short novel "Detstvo" in 1852; the much longer pieces came later'

Answer: Leo Tolstoy


Question: 'This song from "The Music Man" is Harold Hill's paean to the glory of a marching band'

Answer: "Seventy-six Trombones"


Question:
'A 1961 home run king,
5 letters:
M---s'

Answer: (Roger) Maris


Question: 'One of Marcel's chums at the Lycee Condorcet was Jacques, son of this "Carmen" composer'

Answer: Georges Bizet


Question: 'The 1988 Winter Games in Calgary & the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow had species of these as mascots'

Answer: Bears


Question: 'The collective big screen name of brothers Arthur, Herbert, Julius & Leonard'

Answer: The Marx Brothers


Question: 'The taiga is the forest land of Russia & this is its nearly treeless northern belt'

Answer: Tundra


Question: 'I hear "Do I Hear A Waltz?" had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim & music by this Hammerstein collaborator'

Answer: Richard Rodgers


Question:
'A "Snow White" dwarf,
7 letters:
B-----l'

Answer: Bashful


Question: 'One of the first critiques in English of Proust's work was by this "Godot" playwright in 1931'

Answer: Samuel Beckett


Question: 'Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus & Millie the Echidna will represent the games held in this year'

Answer: 2000 (Summer Games in Sydney, Australia)


Question: 'This man was in the news in 1978<br />(Guyana)'

Answer: Rev. Jim Jones


Question: 'In 1919 he & Lenin founded the Third International to bring together comrades from around the world'

Answer: Leon Trotsky


Question: 'It featured the songs "Sunrise, Sunset" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker"'

Answer: Fiddler on the Roof


Question:
'A constellation,
9 letters:
A-------a'

Answer: Andromeda


Question: 'In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain'

Answer: Alfred Dreyfus


Question: 'One of the symbols used at the 1968 games in this city was a red jaguar'

Answer: Mexico City


Question: 'This 11-year-old girl won an Oscar for a 1993 film'

Answer: Anna Paquin


Question: 'A group of 3 in power, or a vehicle drawn by 3 horses abreast'

Answer: Troika


Question: 'Bessie Smith's music is heard in the sultry revue of this style "in the Night"'

Answer: Blues


Question:
'A world capital,
10 letters:
M--------o'

Answer: Montevideo (Uruguay)


Question: 'In "Remembrance of Things Past", Proust immortalized this shell-shaped cake that prompted a flood of memories'

Answer: Madeleines


Question: 'The computer-generated "Whatizit" that symbolized the '96 games in Atlanta was called this for short'

Answer: Izzy


Question: 'This former head of the Urban League & of Bill Clinton's transition team testified on tape Feb. 2, 1999'

Answer: Vernon Jordan


Question: 'In 1992 this news agency added ITAR to its name, for the Information-Telegraph Agency of Russia'

Answer: TASS


Question: 'The title of this '50s show refers to the phone calls taken by Sue Summers' answering service'

Answer: Bells Are Ringing


Question:
'An 1881 assassin,
7 letters:
G-----u'

Answer: (Charles) Guiteau


Question: 'In use from January 1, 1999, it's represented by the symbol seen here'

Answer: the Euro


Question: '"Don't hate" her because the maiden Psyche was just too this, or so the myth says'

Answer: beautiful


Question: '1985:<br />The national finals in this 5-letter cowboy competition are held in Vegas for the first time'

Answer: rodeo


Question: 'In a quote attributed to Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, it's where "nice guys finish"'

Answer: last


Question: 'They're also known as lightning bugs'

Answer: fireflies


Question: 'A queen ant of one species coats these with a pheromone that stops other ants from destroying them'

Answer: the eggs


Question: 'The word "prawn" is used loosely for a large one of these shellfish'

Answer: a shrimp


Question: 'This man who taught music to Hercules shares his name with a character in "Peanuts"'

Answer: Linus


Question: '1967:<br />This magical duo make their Las Vegas debut at the Tropicana'

Answer: Siegfried & Roy


Question: 'In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is" this'

Answer: fear itself


Question: 'Where you'll find a hearth'

Answer: a fireplace


Question: '"Warm" 4-letter word for a period of sexual receptiveness'

Answer: heat


Question: 'The Muppet known as Pepe the Prawn did commercials for a restaurant chain named for this "Long" character'

Answer: Long John Silver


Question: 'This Greek god put a curse on Cassandra after she spurned him; she should have seen that coming'

Answer: Apollo


Question: '1969:<br />His 57-show engagement at the International Hotel breaks existing Vegas attendance records'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'This Surrealist once quipped that "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"'

Answer: (Salvador) Dalí


Question: 'Deadly double that rained down on Gomorrah'

Answer: fire & brimstone


Question: 'In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'Like many insects, prawns also feature pairs of these long, thin sensory organs on their heads'

Answer: antennae


Question: 'Also the name of a Tennessee city, this ancient capital was a center of worship of Ptah, father of the Egyptian gods'

Answer: Memphis


Question: '1968:<br />This double-named place opens as the first major "family-friendly" casino'

Answer: Circus Circus


Question: 'He once said, "You have deliberately tasted two whole worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain"'

Answer: Reverend Spooner


Question: 'Resort & national seashore east of NYC'

Answer: Fire Island


Question: 'Muskrat love includes the formation of these monogamous "bonds" for the duration of breeding season'

Answer: pair bonds


Question: 'Prawns go through as many as 11 different metamorphoses during this stage of immaturity'

Answer: the larval stage


Question: 'This creature whose name means "round eye" may be inspired by workers with concentric circle forehead tattoos'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: '1967:<br />Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts a jump over this casino's fountains'

Answer: Caesars Palace


Question: 'It's the year Martin Luther King declared at the Lincoln Memorial, "I have a dream"'

Answer: 1963


Question: 'Stravinsky ballet from 1910'

Answer: The Firebird


Question: 'Vajrayana is another name for this type of Buddhism that's associated with sexuality'

Answer: Tantric


Question: 'From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong'

Answer: crustacean


Question: 'In 1608 Captain John Smith was elected council president of this settlement'

Answer: Jamestown


Question: 'In 2000 she returned to Broadway to again "Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"'

Answer: Lily Tomlin


Question: 'It was admitted to the Union in 1896 under the condition it ban polygamy'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'This eclectic British rocker's 1989 hit "Veronica" was co-written with Paul McCartney'

Answer: Elvis Costello


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the JFK Library and Museum wearing a metal ring.)  Hemingway wore this ring for luck; it's made with shrapnel from the injuries he suffered during this war'

Answer: the First World War


Question: 'German denial that's a homophone of an English number'

Answer: nein (nine)


Question: 'In 1676 New Jersey was divided in 2, the western part controlled by members of this "friendly" religious group'

Answer: the Quakers


Question: 'Lorna Luft's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" is a tribute to this late entertainer'

Answer: Judy Garland


Question: 'In 1801 Ireland became part of this'

Answer: the United Kingdom


Question: 'The Cluny Museum in this world capital was once the town residence of the Abbots of Cluny'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Descendants of Hemingway's beloved 6-toed cat abound in his home on Whitehead Street in this Florida city'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'Spanish article that's a homophone of an English letter'

Answer: el (L)


Question: 'In 1673 these 2 French explorers left the Lake Michigan area & traveled as far south as the Arkansas River'

Answer: Marquette & Joliet


Question: 'In 2002 this "Golden Girl" kicked off her shoes & cozied up to the stage for "Just Between Friends"'

Answer: Bea Arthur


Question: 'In 1997 Rwanda & this republic led by Yoweri Museveni helped Zaire unseat Mobutu Sese Seko'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'When Lucky Luciano was deported in 1946, this closest aide of his took control of his crime syndicate'

Answer: Frank Costello


Question: 'The first section of this Hemingway book is appropriately called "Bimini"'

Answer: Islands in the Stream


Question: 'A Scottish Highlander, or a wind that might blow him down'

Answer: Gael (gale)


Question: 'In 1626 this Dutchman arrived in New York Harbor aboard the ship Sea-Mew & settled on Manhattan'

Answer: Peter Minuit


Question: 'Julie Harris made Emily Dickinson come alive in this show, also Dickinson's nickname'

Answer: The Belle of Amherst


Question: 'In 1713 the Treaty ending the War of Spanish Succession was signed in this city in what is now the Netherlands'

Answer: Utrecht


Question: 'This founder of the Abbey of Clairvaux is not to be confused with the saint who founded Alpine hospices'

Answer: Bernard


Question: 'A letter of introduction from this "Winesburg, Ohio" author helped Hemingway meet the literary lights of Europe'

Answer: Sherwood Anderson


Question: 'It can be a small particle of something or any cleverly comical fellow'

Answer: whit (wit)


Question: 'This planter had a great year in 1614: he married Pocahontas & exported the first cargo of tobacco to England'

Answer: John Rolfe


Question: 'Broadway didn't enjoy her company too much in 2005; "The Blonde in the Thunderbird" closed after 8 performances'

Answer: Suzanne Somers


Question: 'With a population of more than 2 million, its capital, Tashkent, is the largest city in Central Asia'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'Head Abbots of the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet are given this title, once second to the Dalai Lama in authority'

Answer: Panchen Lama


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the JFK Library & Museum holding a composition book.)  I'm holding Ernest Hemingway's first draft of this novel; you can see that his working title for it was "Fiesta"'

Answer: The Sun Also Rises


Question: 'A homophone of a tennis term, it rumbles along the low end in pop songs'

Answer: the bassline (baseline)


Question: 'The Academie Francaise has officially translated it as "toile d'araignee mondiale"'

Answer: world wide web


Question: 'The world's largest known almond processing center as well as the governor's mansion are in this city'

Answer: Sacramento


Question: 'Prior to Sawyer & Donaldson, Sam & Diane referred to characters played by Ted Danson & her'

Answer: Shelley Long


Question: 'As a free-lance reporter, Seymour M. Hersh broke the story in 1969 about the massacre in this village'

Answer: My Lai


Question: 'J. Edgar Hoover said RFK authorized the FBI to tap this black leader's phone'

Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Question: '1-word title of the following, David & Jonathan were the only group to have a Top 40 hit with it:'

Answer: "Michelle"


Question: 'Of fife, flute, or flugelhorn, the one not listed under "woodwind" in Funk & Wagnalls'

Answer: flugelhorn


Question: 'The oldest city in California that was founded by the Spanish; it's named for St. Joseph'

Answer: San Jose


Question: 'FYI, Faith Ford plays ex-beauty queen turned reporter Corky Sherwood on this series'

Answer: Murphy Brown


Question: 'In 1990 the American press celebrates this anniversary of the 1st newspaper in the colonies'

Answer: the 300th


Question: 'Riots that followed games in this sport set off a war between El Salvador & Honduras'

Answer: soccer/football


Question: 'When it was "Song of the Year" in 1966, these 2 people received Grammys'

Answer: John Lennon & Paul McCartney


Question: 'Honus Wagner signed a contract Sept. 1, 1905 making him the 1st to have his signature etched into these'

Answer: baseball bats


Question: 'This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world'

Answer: San Diego


Question: 'On this show Bud might say anywhere his blonde sister Kelly sits is an easy chair'

Answer: Married... with Children


Question: 'For most of his career in journalism, H.L. Mencken wrote for this city's Sun'

Answer: Baltimore


Question: 'The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months'

Answer: Cyprus


Question: 'These "words that go together well" with the title aren't referring to the phone company'

Answer: "Ma Belle"


Question: 'The state gemstone of Washington: it's no longer wood but a stony replica'

Answer: petrified wood


Question: 'Its name comes from the Santa Ana River & the German word for home'

Answer: Anaheim


Question: 'As Jamie, young blonde Nicole Eggert has Scott Baio governing her life on this sitcom'

Answer: Charles In Charge


Question: '1 of the 2 books Woodward & Bernstein wrote on the Watergate scandal'

Answer: All The President\'s Men & The Final Days


Question: 'Nixon became the 1st president to address the Supreme Court when this chief justice was sworn in'

Answer: Warren Burger


Question: 'This singer known for his stylish rendition of the "Love Boat" theme has the song on his "Best Of" album'

Answer: Jack Jones


Question: 'Listed under "wood" in Collier's Ency. index, early ones of these were called "Lucifers"'

Answer: matches


Question: 'This town got its name from the pointed peaks seen 15 miles away in Arizona'

Answer: Needles


Question: 'She's gone from Partridge to prosecutor'

Answer: Susan Dey


Question: 'Time, Inc. produced this monthly series of movie shorts that ran from 1935-51'

Answer: The March of Time


Question: 'This president emeritus of the United Mine Workers "kicked the coal bucket"'

Answer: John L. Lewis


Question: 'The song made its debut on this album whose title sounds "bouncy" & metaphysical'

Answer: "Rubber Soul"


Question: 'Research center for marine science on Cape Cod; you could also list it under water'

Answer: Wood\'s Hole Oceanographic Institute


Question: 'Chronologically, the 1st of the 8 presidents whose last name ends in "son"'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Yo!  He directed "Staying Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever"'

Answer: Sylvester Stallone


Question: 'It's a baby's bedroom, not an R.N.'s'

Answer: nursery


Question: 'When a tadpole becomes an adult frog this anatomical feature is absorbed by its body'

Answer: tail


Question: 'Dostoevski novel in which Raskolnikov, a young student, kills an old woman pawnbroker'

Answer: Crime And Punishment


Question: 'This Latin term for "confidentially" literally means "under the rose"'

Answer: sub rosa


Question: 'In 1872 Grant signed a bill creating this 1st national park'

Answer: Yellowstone


Question: 'John Ford said he played one of the Ku Klux Klan members in this D.W. Griffith film'

Answer: Birth of a Nation


Question: 'This word for a group of people traveling with pack animals is derived from Persian'

Answer: caravan


Question: '2 of the 3 families in the order Crocodylia'

Answer: Crocodiles, Alligators, & Gavials


Question: 'After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory'

Answer: Daniel Defoe


Question: 'An overly optimistic person is said to view life through these'

Answer: rose-colored glasses


Question: 'The only president who never married, he was also the only president born in Pennsylvania'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: 'First name shared by French directors Chabrol & Lelouch'

Answer: Claude


Question: 'A person born within the sound of bow bells is said to be a true one of these'

Answer: Cockney


Question: 'Most of these sold as pets, until banned by the FDA in 1975, were of the slider or cooter varieties'

Answer: turtles


Question: 'In 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez became world famous in publication of his "One Hundred Years of" this'

Answer: Solitude


Question: 'This Greek island was named for either the roses or the snakes that proliferated there in ancient times'

Answer: Rhodes


Question: 'The last president whose public inaugural was held on Monday, January 21'

Answer: Ronald Reagan (1985)


Question: 'This bald director played the cold-blooded camp commandant in "Stalag 17"'

Answer: Otto Preminger


Question: 'When you stick this "sweet potato" in your mouth, you should play it, not eat it'

Answer: ocarina


Question: 'Harmless king snakes, such as the one seen here, are often mistaken for this venomous snake:'

Answer: (red) coral snake


Question: 'Irish-born Samuel Beckett & Romanian-born Eugene Ionesco both wrote absurdist plays in this language'

Answer: French


Question: 'In 1955 Mitch Miller knocked out "Rock Around the Clock" from the No. 1 spot with this song'

Answer: "Yellow Rose of Texas"


Question: 'George Bush's father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was a U.S. senator from this state'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'This comedienne directed the 1978 film "Rabbit Test" about the world's 1st pregnant man'

Answer: Joan Rivers


Question: 'This adjective meaning rustic or pastoral comes from the Greek word for cowherd'

Answer: bucolic


Question: 'The mud puppy, or water dog, is a large American variety of this amphibian'

Answer: salamander


Question: 'The Polish-born author of "The Painted Bird", set in Europe & "Being There", set in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Jerzy Kozinski


Question: 'The "centifolia", or hundred petals rose, is better known by this "vegetable" name'

Answer: cabbage rose


Question: 'The Welch's Company has its corporate headquarters in this Mass. town'

Answer: Concord


Question: 'If they'd decided to call this town Shawmut, the native name for the area, we'd have Shawmut baked beans'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'The Beatles: "___ Fields Forever"'

Answer: Strawberry


Question: 'A backless beach sandal, or changing your mind on an issue'

Answer: flip-flop


Question: 'Playing for this MLB team, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire & Walt Weiss all won the Rookie of the Year award'

Answer: the (Oakland) A\'s


Question: 'This Japanese company known for its musical instruments launched a new company to make its motorcycles'

Answer: Yamaha


Question: 'Pinkie rinser at the table'

Answer: a finger bowl


Question: 'The Salt Lake Valley was once a part of the basin of this ancient lake'

Answer: Lake Bonneville


Question: 'Fats Domino: "____ Hill"'

Answer: Blueberry


Question: 'File clerks would be lost without Pendaflex hanging file these'

Answer: folders


Question: 'A 3-time U.S. champion, Michael Weiss is the first American to land a quad toe loop in competition in this sport'

Answer: figure skating


Question: 'A popular song that year was this movie theme heard here'

Answer: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"


Question: 'A type of pitch where the ball drops sharply near home plate'

Answer: a split-finger


Question: 'In 1942, people from the Manhattan Project set up shop at a boys' ranch school in this N.M. community'

Answer: Los Alamos


Question: 'Harry Belafonte: "____ Boat Song (Day-O)"'

Answer: Banana


Question: 'Made of copper-plated zinc, they cost the government 80 percent of their worth to produce'

Answer: pennies


Question: 'George Weiss produced "Chained Girls

Answer: Glen or Glenda?


Question: 'Under the leadership of George Meany, these 2 bodies merged in 1955'

Answer: the AFL & CIO


Question: 'Tiny trout'

Answer: fingerlings


Question: 'Wisconsin is bordered by these 2 of the 5 Great Lakes'

Answer: Michigan & Superior


Question: 'Elton John: "____ Wine"'

Answer: Elderberry


Question: 'Businessmen in London's "The City" carry rolled-up black ones of these, also called bumbershoots'

Answer: umbrellas


Question: 'It's the state capital where on September 8, 1935 Dr. Carl Weiss shot Senator Huey P. Long'

Answer: Baton Rouge


Question: 'Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer began having her say in the Chicago Sun-Times under this name'

Answer: Ann Landers


Question: 'Alphabetic sign language'

Answer: finger spelling


Question: 'Though Delaware is the Diamond State, the Crater of Diamonds is in this state'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Jimmy Buffett: "Last ____ In Paris"'

Answer: Mango


Question: 'In ice fishing, this type of "seat" refers to an overturned 5-gallon one'

Answer: a bucket


Question: '"Marat/Sade" is the most famous play by this German author'

Answer: Peter Weiss


Question: 'In Israel, it was shalom & welcome back to this first prime minister who took up that post for a second time'

Answer: Ben-Gurion


Question: 'Numerical slang for shoplifting'

Answer: 5-finger discount


Question: 'Truman celebrated by purchasing two 1941 Chryslers when he was re-elected to this body in 1940'

Answer: the Senate


Question: 'Proverbially, it's a crowd'

Answer: three


Question: 'This flower, seen here, was named for a mythical youth whom Apollo loved'

Answer: hyacinth


Question: 'After this man's troops conquered the city in 1806, the Polish state existed as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'After downing a bottle of aspirin & a bottle of vodka, Winona Ryder is committed to a mental ward in this 1999 film'

Answer: Girl, Interrupted


Question: '"Your mother is in your bones" was the New York Times' headline for its review of this novel'

Answer: The Joy Luck Club


Question: 'Truman may have been joking when he said there was no period after this middle initial of his; he often added one himself'

Answer: S


Question: 'Children's stories, like the Childcraft version of "Rapunzel", often end with this word'

Answer: after


Question: 'The Spanish called this flower, seen here, copa de oro, "cup of gold"'

Answer: a California poppy


Question: 'A heroic uprising of April 1943 is named for this Jewish section of Warsaw'

Answer: the Ghetto


Question: 'In "Mommie Dearest", she played a dead-on Joan Crawford as an abusive mom who's lost control'

Answer: Faye Dunaway


Question: 'Alex Comfort's work about being comfortable in the bedroom'

Answer: Joy of Sex


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the  Truman Library in Independence, MO.)  This is the actual champagne bottle that gave this woman so much trouble when she was christening a plane with it in '45'

Answer: Bess Truman


Question: 'A simple structure for transport on water'

Answer: a raft


Question: 'The name of this flower, seen here, comes from the Greek for "star", referring to the flower's shape'

Answer: aster


Question: 'In 1989 this organization set up the first post-Communist Polish government in Warsaw'

Answer: Solidarity


Question: 'After killing a man in self-defense, Barbra Streisand fights to stay out of a mental hospital in this 1987 film'

Answer: NUTS


Question: 'It was first printed privately & distributed from Irma Rombauer's home'

Answer: The Joy of Cooking


Question: 'In 1919 Truman opened this kind of business, whose name may come from the Anglo-Norman for "petty wares"'

Answer: a haberdashery


Question: 'A famous 19th century poem asks this man to "come home with me now"'

Answer: father


Question: 'Pink tulips & this flower, whose name indicates it's the first of its kind, line the path seen here--how fitting!'

Answer: the primrose


Question: 'Among the many Baroque churches in Warsaw is the Church of the Holy Cross that contains this composer's heart'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'In 1982's "Frances", she portrayed the title actress in her struggling film career & eventual mental breakdown'

Answer: Jessica Lange


Question: 'Sound off for this 1989 Newbery Medal winner from Paul Fleischman'

Answer: Joyful Noise


Question: 'Margaret Truman gave her first public Washington, D.C. concert at this famed hall built in 1929'

Answer: Constitution Hall


Question: 'This important compound is prepared by mixing a type of alcohol with sulfuric acid'

Answer: ether


Question: 'The name of this garden flower, seen here, comes from Greek words for "water" & "vessel"'

Answer: hydrangeas


Question: 'Warsaw lies on this river, about 240 miles inland from the Baltic Sea'

Answer: the Vistula


Question: 'In this 2003 thriller, Halle Berry plays a psychologist who wakes up as a patient in a mental institution'

Answer: Gothika


Question: 'The main character of one his major works is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..."'

Answer: Paradise Regained


Question: '1 of the 2 landlocked countries of South America, its judicial capital is Sucre'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: 'This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964'

Answer: A Hard Day\'s Night


Question: 'What's now its South Lawn was purchased in the 1790s from tobacco planter Davy Burns'

Answer: the White House


Question: 'Often paired with a grilled cheese sandwich, it was the most popular of Campbell's original 21 soups in 1897'

Answer: tomato


Question: 'An accomplished young man, like Batman's Robin'

Answer: a boy wonder


Question: 'The women's version of this magazine also has a swimsuit edition'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'This nation is composed of 4 provinces: Sind, Baluchistan, the NW Frontier province & Punjab'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'When this 1995 film premiered in Scotland, director Mel Gibson wore a kilt & danced the Highland Fling'

Answer: Braveheart


Question: 'This U.S. city is home to the Flemish Renaissance revival mansion of beer baron Capt. Frederick Pabst'

Answer: Milwaukee


Question: 'This "dirty" Cajun grain specialty is so-named because chopped poultry livers & gizzards are added for flavor'

Answer: dirty rice


Question: 'To refuse to buy a company's products as a means of coercion'

Answer: boycott


Question: 'In the 1980s a well-publicized ban on Playboy occured when this convenience store chain removed it'

Answer: 7-Eleven


Question: 'This Northeast Asian country came into being in 1948 & 2 years later the U.S. helped fight for its survival'

Answer: South Korea


Question: 'On Dec. 14, 1961 this Spencer Tracy courtroom drama had its world premiere in Berlin'

Answer: Judgement at Nuremberg


Question: '"Fair Lane" was the magnificent Dearborn estate of this tycoon & his family until the 1950s'

Answer: (Henry) Ford


Question: 'From the French for "jump", it means to cook food quickly & lightly in a little butter or oil'

Answer: sauté


Question: 'Still being published today, this adventure magazine for Boy Scouts debuted in 1911'

Answer: Boys\' Life


Question: 'Founded in 1846, this magazine with an urban/rural title covers tastes in fashion, travel & antiques'

Answer: Town & Country


Question: 'This Western Hemisphere nation of about 31 million has 10 provinces'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'When this 1974 comedy premiered at a California drive-in, all the guests had to ride in on horseback'

Answer: Blazing Saddles


Question: 'In 1947 he retired to a Beverly Hills mansion with longtime mistress Marion Davies'

Answer: (William) Randolph Hearst


Question: 'Don't be insulted when you're served this type of Jamaican grilled meat, a blend of chiles and other spices'

Answer: jerk


Question: 'Botanical bramble pictured here'

Answer: boysenberry


Question: 'Eric Johnson's '57 Fender Strat made the cover of the September 2005 issue of this magazine'

Answer: Guitar Player


Question: 'This West African country is semi-arid except for areas near its namesake river in the southwest'

Answer: Niger


Question: 'Later to win multiple Oscars, this film premiered in November 1982 in New Delhi'

Answer: Gandhi


Question: 'The former home of Speaker of the House James G. Blaine is now this state's governor's mansion'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'When making your special fruitcake for the holidays, be sure to add the Muscat or Thompson variety of these'

Answer: raisins


Question: 'A class of the old Russian nobility ranking below the princes'

Answer: the boyars


Question: 'Ray Bradbury & Ogden Nash were among the non-food writers featured in this magazine founded in 1941'

Answer: Gourmet


Question: 'His experiments in the mid-1660s showed that the colors produced by a prism were due to different refraction rates'

Answer: Newton


Question: 'In Season 1 of this series, Tony's mom Livia put a hit out on him; nice, huh?'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'Stevenson had a dream about this character being pressed in a cabinet, drinking a drug & becoming another person'

Answer: Dr. Jekyll


Question: 'This small 4-stringed instrument comes from the machete, a guitar immigrants brought to Hawaii'

Answer: the ukulele


Question:
'Churchill,
Chandler,
Chamberlain'

Answer: Chandler


Question: '"Boss" Tweed's politically corrupt society that had a No. 1 hit with "Kiss on my List"'

Answer: Tammany Hall & Oates


Question: 'Often occurring in oily rags or hay, it's the self-burning of materials due to chemical changes'

Answer: spontaneous combustion


Question: 'This actress balances the duties of mom, wife & U.S. president on "Commander in Chief"'

Answer: Geena Davis


Question: 'Stevenson wrote that one of these should "always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to"'

Answer: a child


Question: 'Before taking up the trumpet, Louis Armstrong specialized in this trumpet relative'

Answer: the cornet


Question:
'Heath,
Buckingham,
Eden'

Answer: Buckingham


Question: 'Choreographer of "Appalachian Spring" who teamed up with Crosby & Stills'

Answer: Martha Graham Nash


Question: 'The photosphere, the visible surface of this, is actually the innermost layer of its atmosphere'

Answer: the Sun


Question: 'When Stevenson wrote this tale in 1881, it was called "The Sea-Cook"'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a stringed musical instrument with a triangular body in Russia.)  In a Russian marketplace, you can get a good deal on this item that's mentioned in "Back In The U.S.S.R."'

Answer: a balalaika


Question:
'Balmoral,
Bentinck,
Baldwin'

Answer: Balmoral


Question: '"Bronco Buster" sculptor who was a TV detective played by Pierce Brosnan'

Answer: Frederic Remington Steele


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a % sign on a video monitor as it changes to have one more 0 in the denominator.)  You know percent, but how about this similar term that indicates parts in 1,000'

Answer: per mil


Question: 'Stevenson gave an address to the chiefs on the opening of the Road of Gratitude in what's now this island country'

Answer: Samoa


Question: 'This instrument of tuned wooden bars is a Central American xylophone that originated in Africa'

Answer: a marimba


Question:
'Peal,
Palmerston,
Pecket'

Answer: Pecket


Question: 'Noted designer of bridal elegance who hit the pop charts with "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"'

Answer: Vera Wang Chung


Question: 'The name of this force that can compel an object to move in a circular path is from the Latin for "seek the center"'

Answer: centripetal force


Question: 'Stevenson's mother's maiden name, Balfour, was also the last name of the young hero of this novel'

Answer: Kidnapped


Question: 'This type of accordion has hexagonal or octagonal ends & button keys'

Answer: a concertina


Question:
'MacMillan,
MacDonald,
McHenry'

Answer: McHenry


Question: 'Wild-haired boxing promoter who's the world's largest venomous snake'

Answer: Don King Cobra


Question: 'He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest'

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev


Question: 'Found near the Orange River in 1867, these gems started a rush to southern Africa'

Answer: Diamonds


Question: 'If you're in a coed school, you should know coed is short for this 13-letter word'

Answer: Coeducational


Question: 'Downhill is the most popular form of this sport, but many prefer cross-country'

Answer: Skiing


Question: 'The safflower is widely cultivated for its dye, & for this product obtained from its seeds'

Answer: Oil


Question: 'Truthful, like Abe Lincoln'

Answer: Honest


Question: 'This animal "Jumps Over Moon; Scientists Amazed; Dog Laughs"'

Answer: Cow


Question: 'This American composer was known for his plantation melodies like "My Old Kentucky Home"'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: '"Familial" term for the septet of schools also called the Seven Colleges Conference'

Answer: The Seven Sisters


Question: 'Mike Piazza's new $15 million contract with this L.A. team makes him the highest-paid baseball catcher'

Answer: Los Angeles Dodgers


Question: 'Rather than by birds or bees, coniferous trees are dependent on this for pollination'

Answer: Wind


Question: 'This adjective turns a "shave" into a narrow escape'

Answer: Close


Question: '"School Invaded By Lamb"; this "Student Held Responsible"'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'In August 1807 this steamboat made the NYC to Albany round trip on the Hudson in 62 hours'

Answer: Clermont


Question: 'Collective term for all the pupils enrolled at a college -- not just the one with the best pecs'

Answer: Student body


Question: 'In 1997 this Greek-American won his second Australian Open title'

Answer: Pete Sampras


Question: 'Instead of bones, a shark's skeleton is made up of this material'

Answer: Cartilage


Question: 'It's the adjective in the title of Letterman's TV show'

Answer: Late


Question: '"Fiddlers Three Now Appearing In" his "Court"'

Answer: Old King Cole


Question: 'Stirred by the French Revolution, the Belgians declared their independence from this country'

Answer: The Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'The Key Reporter is a magazine published for members of this academic honor society'

Answer: Phi Beta Kappa


Question: 'In 1997 this commentator & former Bears coach was named head coach of the New Orleans Saints'

Answer: Mike Ditka


Question: 'The heaviest rainfall comes from this type of cloud, also called a thunderhead'

Answer: Cumulonimbus


Question: 'It describes a feature found on the back of an animal, like the fin on a dolphin'

Answer: Dorsal


Question: 'He "Breaks Crown In Tumble Down Hill"'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'He offered his Red Shirts no pay; just "Hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death"'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'From the Latin for "racecourse", it's the entire aggregate of courses offered by a college'

Answer: Curriculum


Question: 'This American cyclist who retired in 1994 was the first non-European to win the Tour de France'

Answer: Greg LeMond


Question: 'Whelks & periwinkles are marine varieties of this gastropod'

Answer: Snails


Question: 'Something Mauritanian comes from Mauritania & something Mauritian is from this island country'

Answer: Mauritius


Question: 'This girl "Missing After Arachnid Scare"'

Answer: Little Miss Muffet


Question: 'The Tatar Strait separates Sakhalin Island & Siberia in this country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'In 1977 Quebec passed a law forcing immigrants to educate their children in this language'

Answer: French


Question: 'Around 1914 the Gulf Oil Company became the first to give away these free guides to travelers'

Answer: Road maps


Question: 'In the 1970s this oceanographer produced 40 one-hour TV shows while traveling the world aboard the Calypso'

Answer: Jacques Cousteau


Question: 'In this practice, heat or electricity may be applied to the skin in addition to needles'

Answer: Acupuncture


Question: '"I'm Not Really Here" really is the title of this "Home Improvement" star's new book'

Answer: Tim Allen


Question: 'In Korean this South Korean capital's name means "capital"'

Answer: Seoul


Question: 'In 1996 this country's new rulers, the Taliban, forced Kabul's women to cover up from head to toe'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Construction & maintenance costs of this New York waterway were defrayed by tolls until 1882'

Answer: Erie Canal


Question: 'This Spaniard who conquered Mexico previously had been mayor of Santiago, Cuba'

Answer: Hernando Cortez


Question: 'In 1975 Herbert Benson described the "relaxation response" evoked by TM, which stands for this'

Answer: Transcendental Meditation


Question: 'It's the title of Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider's book on capturing Mr. Right'

Answer: The Rules


Question: 'The base of this Sicilian volcano is about 100 miles in circumference'

Answer: Mount Etna


Question: 'The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 extended this 1947 act's restrictions on unions'

Answer: Taft-Hartley


Question: 'In the south Pacific an outrigger type of this craft has a framework for stability'

Answer: Canoe


Question: 'In 1005 this Norseman's brother Thorvald was killed by Indians, perhaps in what is now Labrador'

Answer: Leif Ericson


Question: 'D.D. Palmer, the inventor of this therapy, performed his first adjustment in 1895'

Answer: Chiropractic


Question: 'Born in 1920, this outspoken ABC newsman made the bestseller lists with "Everyone Is Entitled To My Opinion"'

Answer: David Brinkley


Question: 'This river is only navigable for about 80 miles, from Lisbon to Abrantes, Portugal'

Answer: Tagus


Question: 'In 1996 Clinton & Dole argued about the 1993 act with these 2 types of "leave" in its name'

Answer: Family & Medical Leave


Question: 'In Japan this high-speed train shuttles passengers between cities at over 150 miles per hour'

Answer: Bullet train


Question: 'Some say it was Daytona Beach where, in April 1513, he first claimed land for Spain on the U.S. mainland'

Answer: Ponce de Leon


Question: 'Panax, the genus name of this Chinese root, is derived from the word "panacea"'

Answer: Ginseng


Question: 'Novelist Barbara Kingsolver's new book of essays is entitled "High Tide In" this second-largest Arizona city'

Answer: Tucson


Question: 'The Neman River, Lithuania's longest, begins in Belarus & empties into this sea'

Answer: Baltic Sea


Question: 'A law requiring disclosure of sex offenders' whereabouts is called this, after a murdered girl'

Answer: Megan\'s Law


Question: 'This trade union includes chauffeurs, warehousemen & helpers'

Answer: Teamsters


Question: 'In 1904 this Norwegian discovered that the magnetic poles were not fixed positions'

Answer: Roald Amundsen


Question: 'This holistic approach to stress reduction involves monitoring involuntary body functions'

Answer: Biofeedback


Question: 'This "Circle Of Friends" author had a Christmas 1996 bestseller with "This Year It Will Be Different"'

Answer: Maeve Binchy


Question: 'Like his grandmother, Mary, Queen of Scots, this king was beheaded'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'Digging in Jerusalem, Eilat Mazar believes she has found the palace of this 10th century B.C. king'

Answer: David


Question:
'Alice & Aloysius Snuffleupagus,
Count von Count,
Bob'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'Things are "O.K." in this Arizona town, where you'll enter its Boot Hill graveyard through a gift shop'

Answer: Tombstone


Question: 'Sarah Weddington was the attorney who successfully argued this landmark Supreme Court case in 1973'

Answer: Roe v. Wade


Question: 'Cassius & this other Roman betrayer/assassin are in the mouth of Satan'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'It's about time this double-talk term for flashy & expensive jewelry was added'

Answer: bling-bling


Question: 'The first ship completely excavated on the sea bed dates from 1200 B.C., this age; the metal was much of its cargo'

Answer: bronze


Question:
'Michael Scott,
Dwight Schrute,
Pam Beesly'

Answer: The Office


Question: 'In Glen Echo, Maryland, tour the former headquarters of the American branch of this, housed in Clara Barton's home'

Answer: The Red Cross


Question: 'The eminent British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was the first female professor at this British university'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'Referred to by Dante as the Scourge of Earth, he attacked the Roman Empire throughout the 5th century'

Answer: Attila the Hun


Question: 'New in medical terms is this 2-word surgical procedure sometimes called stomach stapling'

Answer: a gastric bypass


Question: 'The Acheulian (Bless me!) tradition of Paleolithic times had as its main tool a "hand" one of these'

Answer: an ax


Question:
'Richard Kimble,
Philip Gerard,
Fred Johnson'

Answer: The Fugitive


Question: 'Sew up your trip to Tennessee by visiting this President's home & tailor shop in Greeneville'

Answer: Andrew Johnson


Question: 'After earning a law degree from Trinity College, Mary Robinson became the first woman president of this nation'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Considering herself the daughter of the sun god Re, this queen can be found with the sexual sinners'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'It can be music or a sound effect, but it lets you know you have an incoming cell-phone call'

Answer: a ringtone


Question: 'The 1930s find of huge stone heads brought to light this Mesoamerican people, not to be confused with the Toltecs'

Answer: the Olmecs


Question:
'Detective Lennie Briscoe,
Lt. Anita Van Buren,
Dr. Emil Skoda'

Answer: Law & Order


Question: 'In 2006 this battle site celebrated the 225th anniversary of a famous surrender'

Answer: Yorktown


Question: 'In 1999 Nancy Mace became the first female graduate of this South Carolina Military Academy'

Answer: The Citadel


Question: 'He tells Dante that instead of staying home with Penelope, he went off to sea again--glub, glub'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'This word can mean to increase the amount or extent of anything, not just your McDonald's fries'

Answer: supersize


Question: 'The Zhoukoudian excavations in China led to debate to whether this homo erectus knew how to use fire'

Answer: Peking Man


Question:
'Ted,
Robin,
Barney'

Answer: How I Met Your Mother


Question: 'Learn about Ethan Allen at his last home, a short drive from the University of Vermont in this city'

Answer: Burlington


Question: 'A former actress & prostitute, Theodora was a 6th century co-ruler of this empire with her husband Justinian'

Answer: The Byzantine Empire


Question: 'Feast on this Greek philosopher who espoused pleasure & physics rather than fear of deities & death'

Answer: Epicurus


Question: 'Under "B" you'll find this 9-letter word for a renewable fuel made from vegetable sources like soybean oil'

Answer: biodiesel


Question: 'During his Rose Period, he often painted Harlequins & Saltimbanques'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'In 1988, this FedEx rival got its own airline, now among the USA's 10 largest'

Answer: UPS


Question: 'Wranglers, or the basic units of heredity'

Answer: jeans or genes


Question: 'Frank Sinatra said this man born Anthony Benedetto was "the best singer in the business"'

Answer: Tony Bennett


Question: 'The Po is the longest river in this country'

Answer: Italy


Question: 'Monster, Rockstar & Red Bull are examples of this'

Answer: energy drinks


Question: 'The play "Lobster Alice" imagines this surrealist showing up at Disney to work on an animated film'

Answer: (Salvador) Dali


Question: 'In 1947 this tinfoil brand was Reynolds Aluminum's first consumer product'

Answer: Reynolds Wrap


Question: 'A temporary stop, or doggie feet'

Answer: pause or paws


Question: 'This bandleader got his name from a radio announcer who thought he was a jazz aristocrat like Duke Ellington'

Answer: Count Basie


Question: 'The Po River winds past this 21st century Winter Olympic Games site'

Answer: Turin


Question: 'The brew cycle for this strong coffee is very short, ideally under 30 seconds, so the grind should be very fine'

Answer: espresso


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.) The Hemitage's only work by this Englishman is his "Portrait of a Lady in Blue"; he really liked the color blue'

Answer: Gainsborough


Question: 'In 1983 this company introduced its 1-2-3 program for managing business spreadsheets'

Answer: Lotus


Question: 'Having a beak, or to construct'

Answer: billed or build


Question: '"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" was the first hit for this woman honored by the NEA as the first vocal jazz master'

Answer: Ella Fitzgerald


Question: 'Silt is enlarging the delta at the mouth of the Po River 200 acres a year into this arm of the Mediterranean'

Answer: the Adriatic


Question: 'Named for a lord, this is an amalgamation of Sri Lankan & Indian teas that came from a Mandarin recipe'

Answer: Earl Grey


Question: 'Henry VIII sent him to paint portraits of prospective brides; only 2 of the paintings survive'

Answer: Hans Holbein


Question: 'This company's first retail store opened on February 2, 1925 at Homan Avenue & Arthington Street in Chicago'

Answer: Sears


Question: 'A part of the whole, or a state of harmony'

Answer: piece or peace


Question: 'This bebop trumpeter got his nickname because of his zany stage antics'

Answer: Dizzy Gillespie


Question: 'This English Romantic poet is a "slave again of love" in his Stanzas to the Po'

Answer: Byron


Question: 'This New York fountain drink derived its name from the frothy top of the mixture of milk & seltzer'

Answer: an egg cream


Question: 'This Spaniard's "Las Meninas" shows the Infanta Margareta Teresa with her retinue of ladies & dwarfs'

Answer: Velasquez


Question: 'In 1995 Kimberly-Clark purchased this company known for its Viva paper towels, among other products'

Answer: Scott


Question: 'Fish eggs, or the 17th letter in the Greek alphabet'

Answer: roe or rho


Question: 'People called her "Sassy" because of her personality & "The Divine One" because of her voice'

Answer: Sarah Vaughan


Question: 'Darn them! This most powerful pre-Roman people of Italy built embankments to control Po River flooding'

Answer: the Etruscans


Question: 'Framboise & kirsch are the most popular types of this colorless spirit, French for "water of life"'

Answer: eau de vie