Question: 'The actress seen here, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name'

Answer: Q.


Question: 'Vivaldi composed some 39 concertos for this woodwind instrument'

Answer: the bassoon


Question: 'Like the ones seen here, it's a maintained wetland used for farming, especially where rice is grown'

Answer: a paddy


Question: 'Their monster '60s hits included "She's Not There" & "Time Of The Season"'

Answer: The Zombies


Question: 'From 1900 to 1909 Sir Robert Bond was prime minister of this British colony, now the newest Canadian province'

Answer: Newfoundland


Question: 'The U.S. Naval War College & Naval Undersea Warfare Center is in this city on Narragansett Bay'

Answer: Newport


Question: 'It's a rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship'

Answer: a crew


Question: 'Appraise a piece of property for taxation purposes, or evaluate the situation'

Answer: assess


Question: 'These 4 letters precede "tiller" to indicate it has spinning blades attached for cultivating soil'

Answer: roto


Question: 'This 1973 Edgar Winter Group No. 1 got its title from all the cutting & splicing done to it in the editing process'

Answer: "Frankenstein"


Question: 'At the 1968 Democratic Convention, this future NAACP chairman was briefly considered for vice president'

Answer: Julian Bond


Question: 'Somewhat ironically, this Connecticut city was attacked, captured & burned by the British in 1781'

Answer: New London


Question: 'Royal Botanical Gardens of southwest London'

Answer: the Kew Gardens


Question: 'In 1903 Sherlock Holmes retired to Sussex to take up this "busy" hobby'

Answer: beekeeping


Question: 'Ted Koppel, <br />1980-2005'

Answer: Nightline


Question: 'Adjective for school activities that aren't class'

Answer: extracurricular


Question: 'In 1848, the year he turned 13, he became a printer's apprentice for Joseph Ament's Missouri Courier'

Answer: (Mark) Twain


Question: 'The Kingston Fossil Power Plant in Tennessee burns 14,000 tons of this a day'

Answer: coal


Question: 'If you separate out these rhyming candies, you'll get about half orange ones, 1/4 brown & 1/4 yellow'

Answer: Reese\'s Pieces


Question: 'Around 274 B.C. this republic, which later went full-blown empire, gained dominance over Italy with the defeat of Pyrrhus'

Answer: the Roman Empire


Question: 'Peter Marshall, <br />1966-1982'

Answer: Hollywood Squares


Question: 'It's a noun meaning anything that can't happen'

Answer: impossibility


Question: 'The Belwind Offshore Wind Farm, Bel for Belgium, is in this sea'

Answer: the North Sea


Question: 'A Kraft favorite debuted in 1937 containing this food in orange powder form'

Answer: cheese


Question: 'After the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs fell under the hegemony of this empire of nomadic Turks'

Answer: the Ottomans


Question: 'Chris Harrison, <br />2002-present'

Answer: The Bachelor


Question: 'Heidegger espoused this philosophy that stresses individual choice'

Answer: existentialism


Question: 'She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon"'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center has over 90,000 solar these--aiieee!  Turn it away!  I'm going blind!'

Answer: panels


Question: 'Orange chicken is the most popular item at this restaurant founded by Andrew Cherng'

Answer: Panda Express


Question: 'In 386 B.C. Persia ratified this city-state's hegemony, about 100 years too late for Leonidas & his 300'

Answer: Sparta


Question: 'Jim McKay, <br />1961-1998'

Answer: ABC\'s Wide World of Sports


Question: 'To have an insufficient amount of startup cash for a business enterprise'

Answer: undercapitalize


Question: 'In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe'

Answer: Joseph Heller


Question: '(Alex reports from aboard the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.)  The huge hydroelectric potential of the falls led to a war of inventors; it was only settled when Westinghouse was given the right to build the A.C. generators that were designed & patented by this man'

Answer: Tesla


Question: 'The country tune "Song Of The South" mentions pie made from this tuber'

Answer: sweet potato


Question: 'In October 1919 he reorganized his political party, the Kuomintang, & was communism's rival for power in China'

Answer: Sun Yat-sen


Question: 'Ed McMahon, <br />1983-1995'

Answer: Star Search


Question: 'When a man sees a woman only as a thing serving his needs, not as a person, that's this process'

Answer: objectification


Question: 'In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory'

Answer: Dickens


Question: 'One of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place in 2011 at this Japanese plant No. 1'

Answer: Fukushima


Question: 'In Yiddish tsorres (trouble) should not be confused with tsimmes, a stew containing mern, these veggies'

Answer: carrots


Question: 'In the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., this 2-letter city established its hegemony over the rest of Sumer'

Answer: Ur


Question: 'Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product'

Answer: the Edsel


Question: 'An oil called urushiol causes skin irritation when you brush up against this 3-leafed plant, Rhus radicans'

Answer: poison ivy


Question: '"Fit for a King" is full of his favorite recipes, including the chicken served at his wedding to Priscilla'

Answer: Elvis


Question: 'Cheer is owned by Procter & Gamble; Cheerios is owned by this company'

Answer: General Mills


Question: 'This nickname for the Hirshhorn Museum lets you know it's round & has a hole in the middle, like a fried treat'

Answer: "The Doughnut"


Question: '...a dandelion, your florets are this color'

Answer: yellow


Question: '"Jack be" this, "Jack be quick" in a popular nursery rhyme'

Answer: nimble


Question: 'The western sword species of this spore-bearing plant is found in the redwood forests of the Pacific coast'

Answer: a fern


Question: 'This daughter of Maybelle Carter honored her mom by wrting "Mother Maybelle's Cookbook"'

Answer: June Carter (Cash)


Question: 'Like Banana Republic, Old Navy is owned by this company'

Answer: the Gap


Question: 'Pope Pius IX donated a stone for this imposing obelisk, but some masked fiends dumped it into the Potomac in 1854'

Answer: the Washington Monument


Question: '...an osprey, you feed mainly on live these'

Answer: fish


Question: 'This company introduced its Game Boy handheld device in 1989'

Answer: Nintendo


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a magnifying glass to the underside of a large mushroom in the Jeopardy! lab.)  Like fish, mushrooms have these, but in the mushroom they're where the spores are produced'

Answer: gills


Question: 'You'll find Goober's banana pudding in this Mayberry auntie's book of "Delightful Desserts"'

Answer: Aunt Bee


Question: 'This company is king of Fisher-Price'

Answer: Mattel


Question: 'Ronald Reagan was the first pres. sworn in on the west front of this bldg., facing the moving vista of the Natl. Mall'

Answer: the U.S. Capitol


Question: '...a boy from Syracuse, you're either from New York or this Italian island'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'A mercenary in feudal Japan trained in martial arts'

Answer: a ninja


Question: 'The northern fur species of this migrates from its breeding grounds in Alaska's Pribilof Islands to California'

Answer: a seal


Question: '"The Little House Cookbook" features Frontier foods from this woman's classic stories'

Answer: (Laura Ingalls) Wilder


Question: 'Ore-Ida is one of its many varieties'

Answer: Heinz


Question: 'World famous as "the president's guesthouse", it's actually 4 interconnected townhouses with 110 rooms'

Answer: Blair House


Question: '...using a call sign like K8RX, you're engaged in this hobby'

Answer: amateur radio


Question: 'The core of the Earth is primarily iron & this'

Answer: nickel


Question: '(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Zhelin Lake in China.)  Called the most primal invertebrate in the world, the freshwater peach blossom type of this coelenterate is making a comeback in China's Zhelin Lake'

Answer: a jellyfish


Question: 'There's a recipe for Butcher Holler possum in "You're Cookin' It Country" by this country music queen'

Answer: Loretta Lynn


Question: 'Prego pasta sauce is some of the "good food" made by this company'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'Ironically, the statue of this president astride Cincinnatus looks toward the former home of Robert E. Lee'

Answer: Grant


Question: '...the Bundesrat, you're the upper house of parliament in Germany; this is the lower house'

Answer: the Bundestag


Question: 'He's the doomed 20th century notable seen  here'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'As this 1931 novel begins, Wang Lung travels to the house of Hwang to fetch his bride'

Answer: The Good Earth


Question: 'Also known as Smeagol, this character tries to steal the ring from Sam & Frodo'

Answer: Gollum


Question: 'In the late 1800s, the Kitty & Jennie Gang (consisting only of Kitty & Jennie) menaced men in this Illinois city'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Back in school, Mr. Pitt might have used this type of slender wire nail to bind his papers'

Answer: a brad


Question: 'In 1764 the Royal & Ancient Club at St. Andrews reduced the number of these from 22 to 18, now the standard'

Answer: golf holes


Question:
'19 letters:
A book full of facts
plus
a doctor for kids'

Answer: encyclopediatrician


Question: 'Washington Irving based this character on his friend Jesse Merwin, a schoolteacher'

Answer: Ichabod Crane


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a mockup of a speeder bike.)  The speeder bike is controlled by these steering vanes, so when this character cuts them with his lightsaber in Endor's woods, it loses control'

Answer: Luke Skywalker


Question: 'Born in 1838, this Marylander was famous for playing Romeo--offstage as well as on'

Answer: John Wilkes Booth


Question: 'To dwindle or fizzle out, as Mr. O'Toole could tell you'

Answer: peter


Question: 'Title given the person who presides over the governing bodies of the City of London (the job's mainly ceremonial)'

Answer: Lord Mayor


Question:
'9 letters:
Afghan Muslim fundamentalist group
plus
stringed instrument'

Answer: Talibanjo


Question: 'Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!" was based on this presidential scandal of a few years earlier'

Answer: Teapot Dome


Question: 'In 1978's "Superman", Marlon Brando played this character, Superman's dad'

Answer: Jor-El


Question: 'Scandalized by the affairs of his daughter Julia & his granddaughter Julia, this Roman emperor banished them to islands'

Answer: Augustus


Question: 'This favorite deli sandwich combines corned beef, Swiss cheese & sauerkraut'

Answer: a Reuben


Question: '"Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing!" is one of the thousands of hymns by Charles, this Methodist founder's brother'

Answer: (John) Wesley


Question:
'7 letters:
Okra stew
plus
Dutch South African'

Answer: gumboer


Question: 'In this title "incident", vigilantes hang 3 men falsely accused of cattle rustling'

Answer: Oxbow


Question: '(Hi, my name is Drew Barrymore, and) My character Dylan Sanders kicked serious butt in this 2000 movie & its "Full Throttle" sequel'

Answer: Charlie\'s Angels


Question: 'In a 1938 ballet, a symbolic character known as Alias is killed again & again by this title Outlaw'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'A short crowbar that's big with burglars, or to force open a window using one'

Answer: jimmy


Question: 'When at home, the Welsh National Opera performs in this city'

Answer: Cardiff


Question:
'9 letters:
Arabica or robusta
plus
weak'

Answer: coffeeble


Question: 'The title of this Steinbeck novel refers to a district above Monterey inhabited by Paisanos'

Answer: Tortilla Flat


Question: 'In a 2007 film, Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is trying to get outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) on this title train'

Answer: the 3:10 to Yuma


Question: 'Mary Frith, a notorious British thief, was nicknamed Moll this, an old word for "pickpocket"'

Answer: Cutpurse


Question: 'A coil of hair, or a bundle of yarn or cotton'

Answer: a hank


Question: 'This surgeon at St. George's hospital drew on his experience & published his book on anatomy in 1858'

Answer: (Henry) Gray


Question:
'13 letters:
A sudden fancy
plus
moving to live in a new country'

Answer: whimmigration


Question: 'He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'The World Health Organization was established in 1948 by this international body'

Answer: the U.N.


Question: 'After a good feed, it's time to settle down with a cup of arbuckle, or this'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'Released in 1968 it starred Keir Dullea as an astronaut out to solve a cosmic mystery'

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey


Question: 'If you're visiting the Cannes Film Festival, you're on this sea'

Answer: the Mediterranean


Question: 'In 1888 Nikola Tesla came up with the first practical system for generating & transmitting this type of current'

Answer: A.C.


Question: 'In the children's song, it's the line that follows "twinkle, twinkle, little star"'

Answer: how I wonder what you are


Question: '"3 by 5" is a program to provide, by 2005, anti-retroviral therapy to 3 million suffering from this'

Answer: AIDS


Question: 'If you know what kind of wagon it was served in, you'll know this old west word for food, chow, grub'

Answer: a chuckwagon


Question: 'Richard Burton's last film role was as the torturer O'Brien in this cautionary George Orwell tale'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'The Jura Mountains straddle the border between France & this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Hiram Percy Maxim invented the muffler for a car & this for a gun'

Answer: a silencer


Question: 'The 5 words that begin the 43rd of the "Sonnets from the Portuguese"'

Answer: How do I love thee


Question: 'The W.H.O.'s administrative HQ is located in this Swiss city on the Rhone River'

Answer: Geneva


Question: 'From genus prosopis, this western wood that started a cooking craze gives off a tangy smoke'

Answer: mesquite


Question: 'Songs in this revolutionary musical include "Sit Down, John" & "The Lees of Old Virginia"'

Answer: 1776


Question: 'This region of NW France derives its name from Celts fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England'

Answer: Brittany


Question: 'Andrew Beard invented an improvement for the device that coupled 2 of these when they bumped together'

Answer: train cars


Question: '"Smokestack Lightnin'" was the biggest hit for this bluesman born Chester Burnett'

Answer: Howlin\' Wolf


Question: 'On March 15, 2003 the W.H.O issued a rare emergency travel advisory in response to this outbreak'

Answer: SARS


Question: 'The bone-in type of this steak with a double anatomical name is also called a cowboy steak'

Answer: ribeye


Question: 'John Belushi starred as Capt. Wild Bill Kelso in this romp about hysteria gripping America after Pearl Harbor'

Answer: 1941


Question: 'This region of France between the Seine & Marne Valleys is famous for its soft white cheese'

Answer: Brie


Question: 'This invention began in 1951 as a bottle of white tempera waterbase paint & a small brush'

Answer: Wite-Out (or Liquid Paper)


Question: 'Dale Carnegie convinced us all with this 1936 work'

Answer: How to Win Friends and Influence People


Question: 'The eradication of this paralyzing viral disease mainly affecting children is a W.H.O goal for 2004'

Answer: polio


Question: 'Trail cooks couldn't carry eggs & milk, so they used starter to make this type of biscuit called a "hot rock"'

Answer: sourdough


Question: 'Gary Grimes starred as Hermie in this "seasonal" film about 3 teenagers coming of age during World War II'

Answer: Summer of \'42


Question: 'A northern member of the Windward Islands, this volcanic isle has been a possession of France since 1635'

Answer: Martinique


Question: 'Garrett Morgan's "safety hood" was one of these used by World War I soldiers'

Answer: a gas mask


Question: 'Erica Jong's bestselling 1977 follow-up to "Fear of Flying"'

Answer: How to Save Your Own Life


Question: 'Indianan who created such radio and TV charcters as Freddie the Freeloader & Clem Kadiddlehopper'

Answer: Red Skelton


Question: 'An amateur pianist, this President often entertained White House guests in the 1940s'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: '1666: A great fire destroys much of this capital city'

Answer: London


Question: 'Writing on corruption in McClure's, Lincoln Steffens said this little state is for sale, & cheap'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This island had its own Norman conquest and Roman conquest and Vandal and Saracen'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'The event in the Olympic decathlon in which the contestant gets the farthest off the ground'

Answer: pole vault


Question: 'Indianan who composed such standards as "Night And Day" & "Begin The Beguine"'

Answer: Cole Porter


Question: 'He co-wrote the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'" & performed it in the film "Stormy Weather"'

Answer: Fats Waller


Question: '1687: Munitions stored by the Ottoman Turks explode & wreck this Athens landmark'

Answer: the Parthenon


Question: 'The postage stamp "Flappers do" this dance was based on an illustration in McClure's'

Answer: the Charleston


Question: 'Governor Granholm, not shown works in this city'

Answer: Lansing


Question: 'It's a large Marine corps training camp near San Diego'

Answer: Camp Pendleton


Question: 'Indianan writer who appears in the photo seen here'

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: 'A promotional pianist for the piano maker Erard, this Hungarian's compositions included 1857's "A Faust Symphony"'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: '1906: 3,000 people die when a major earthquake hits this metropolis'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'McClure's sent William Glackens to this island in 1898 to provide illustrations of the battles'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'It's the name of this state, mate'

Answer: Victoria


Question: 'While exploring the Arkansas River in 1806, he discovered the Colorado Peak named for him'

Answer: Zebulon Pike


Question: 'Indianan who switched from Democrat to Republican in the 1930s & ran against FDR in 1940'

Answer: Wendell Wilkie


Question: 'The nickname of this innovative Jazz pianist was "Fatha"'

Answer: Earl Hines


Question: '1281: A "divine wind" saves this nation from a Mongol invasion'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'She resigned as editor of McClure's in 1912 to become a novelist, mainly with tales of Nebraska'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Until 1966, it was Basutoland'

Answer: Lesotho


Question: 'Though she was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, this seedy young lady only spent part of the year with them'

Answer: Persephone


Question: 'Indianan who formed the American Railway Union in 1893 & was a candidate for President 5 times'

Answer: Eugene Debs


Question: 'In 1958 this pianist was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City'

Answer: Van Cliburn


Question: 'The early 1800s: This "colorful" disease kills tens of thousands in southern Spain'

Answer: yellow fever


Question: 'In 1899 McClure's published this Brit's "The White Man's burden"'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'County of cliffs and Celts seen here'

Answer: Cornwall


Question: 'Through the house of York, Richard I was the last king of this dynasty'

Answer: Plantagenet


Question: 'More than 600 people, 200 horses, 40 ships, Edward the Confessor & Halley's Comet are depicted on it'

Answer: the Bayeux Tapestry


Question: 'The 2 founders of Yahoo! & the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school'

Answer: Stanford


Question: 'On Nov. 18, 1928 this American icon made his film debut at NYC's Colony Theatre'

Answer: Mickey Mouse


Question: 'John Guare's<br />"Six Degrees of..."'

Answer: Separation


Question: 'Byron wrote, "Let us have" this "and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after"'

Answer: wine


Question: 'Unlike other marine mammals, the sea otter does not have this layer of fat to keep it warm'

Answer: blubber


Question: 'This folklore hero was so big, as a child he rocked in his cradle & caused a 75-foot tide in the Bay of Fundy'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'Texas Lutheran University is in Seguin; this school founded in 1873 is in Fort Worth'

Answer: Texas Christian University


Question: 'This red-caped Terrytoons rodent has been saving the day on TV since 1955, with operatic flair'

Answer: Mighty Mouse


Question: 'Eugene O'Neill's<br />"Strange..."'

Answer: Interlude


Question: 'Whether autumn leaves turn fiery amber, vivid gold or dull brown depends on the composition of this thick liquid'

Answer: sap


Question: 'As seen here, the sea otter wraps itself in this "marine" material to anchor itself while it rests'

Answer: seaweed (or kelp)


Question: 'A con game, or the police squad that breaks it up'

Answer: bunko


Question: 'Recovering from Katrina, it scheduled a makeup "lagniappe semester" starting in May 2006'

Answer: Tulane


Question: 'This "fastest mouse in all Mexico" has a cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez'

Answer: Speedy Gonzales


Question: 'Neil Simon's<br />"The Prisoner of..."'

Answer: Second Avenue


Question: 'The Quaker State Company was founded in 1931 in a Pennsylvania city named for this liquid'

Answer: oil


Question: 'There are about 2,500 Southern sea otters off the California coast & 50,000 Northern sea otters off this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'In this early American courting custom, a couple lay fully clothed on a bed & exchanged endearments'

Answer: bundling


Question: 'The North Carolina university founded in this town in 1834 is now in Winston-Salem'

Answer: Wake Forest


Question: 'In 1975 Grape Ape & Mumbly teamed with this Hanna-Barbera cat & mouse duo but by December, the ape was out'

Answer: Tom & Jerry


Question: 'Beth Henley's<br />"Crimes of the..."'

Answer: Heart


Question: 'The rounded area of a ship's hull, dividing bottom from sides, or the yucky water that collects there'

Answer: bilge


Question: '4-letter term for an otter's skin, the demand for which once almost made them extinct'

Answer: pelt


Question: '2-word term for the 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs used to destroy underground command centers'

Answer: bunker busters


Question: 'It's the northernmost Ivy League School'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'First name of young Mr. Mousekewitz, voiced by Phillip Glasser in "An American Tail"'

Answer: Fievel


Question: 'Oscar Wilde's<br />"A Woman of No..."'

Answer: Importance


Question: 'The cholesterol doctors measure is called this "cholesterol", for the fluid part of whole blood'

Answer: serum


Question: 'Sea otters feed on clams, crabs, abalone & these creatures seen here'

Answer: sea urchins


Question: 'Born Edward Z.C. Judson, he was the originator of the 19th century dime novels, many featuring Buffalo Bill Cody'

Answer: Ned Buntline


Question: '(Kelly and Jon of the Clue  Crew play with water in a laboratory; Kelly reads.)  Run a comb through your hair & hold it here--the water is drawn to the comb because of this accumulation of electrical charge'

Answer: static electricity


Question: 'The instrument seen here was played by this swingin' bandleader who was at home with classical too'

Answer: Benny Goodman


Question: 'During the 1968 Democratic Convention in this city, antiwar protesters clashed violently with police'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'To fight this, from the Latin for "stain", after surgery, John Charnley devised air tents to keep things sterile'

Answer: infection


Question: 'Victories by Garibaldi in 1860 led to this largest Mediterranean island being joined to Italy'

Answer: Sicily


Question: 'The quality of being able to take in liquids'

Answer: absorbent


Question: 'Phosphorescence is defined as giving off light with little or none of this'

Answer: heat


Question: 'Charlie Christian, 1916-1942, was one of the first to electrically amplify this instrument'

Answer: a guitar


Question: 'In 2004 the 2 major U.S. political parties held their conventions in these 2 cities'

Answer: New York & Boston


Question: 'In 1887 Johnson & Johnson was incorporated in part to improve upon this man's study of antisepsis'

Answer: (Joseph) Lister


Question: 'It was declared a protectorate February 1, 1893; a treaty to annex it to the U.S. came 2 weeks later'

Answer: Hawaii


Question:
'He's the moody crooner heard here

"You can bet that I've been crying..."'

Answer: (Roy) Orbison


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew explains the diagrams on the monitor.)  For 5 out of 10 carbon-11 atoms to decay into boron-11, it takes 20 minutes, which is this measure for the carbon-11 isotope'

Answer: the half-life


Question: 'This bandleader from D.C. traveled with an electric piano, now in the Smithsonian, so he wouldn't wake hotel guests'

Answer: Duke Ellington


Question: 'George H.W. Bush electrified the Republican Convention in this year when he declared "No new taxes"'

Answer: 1988


Question: 'To be a cleaner of this, you may need to put on a HAZMAT suit & hope the criminal doesn't return to it'

Answer: a crime scene


Question: 'Israel formally annexed this strategic upland region in 1981'

Answer: the Golan Heights


Question: 'Scurvy is caused by a lack of this "acid" found in citrus'

Answer: ascorbic acid


Question: 'In 1911 a physicist first observed superconductivity when he found no resistance in this slippery element at 4.2 kelvin'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'This giant of the jazz vibraphone passed away in his 90s in 2002'

Answer: Lionel Hampton


Question: 'He gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'In 1898 Caleb Johnson sold this soap named for 2 types of oil used to make it; later the co. merged with Colgate'

Answer: Palmolive


Question: 'Bolivia became landlocked when this country took over its only coastal territory after a 19th c. war'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'In December 1991 he gave Yeltsin the nuclear codes'

Answer: Gorbachev


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew swirls water in a bottle.)  I'm creating a small version of this, a mass of fluid in a swirling motion; whirlpools, tornadoes & sunspots are bigger versions'

Answer: a vortex


Question: 'There's a distinctive left-hand pattern in this style of piano playing, also a word meaning "walk"'

Answer: stride


Question: 'This bespectacled NBC newsman was forcibly removed from the floor of the 1964 GOP Convention in San Francisco'

Answer: John Chancellor


Question: 'Because of a clean-up effort, Bernard Rayner became the last to sell pigeon food in this British plaza'

Answer: Trafalgar Square


Question: 'Under the 1792 Treaty of Jassy, the Ottoman Empire agreed to Russia's taking over control of this peninsula'

Answer: the Crimean Peninsula


Question: 'From Turkish for "cool drink", it's a frozen dessert made from fruit syrup'

Answer: sorbet


Question: 'In January 2006 this country swore in Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'Intimate & perhaps lurid details are disclosed in this genre, such as those "of an English Opium Eater"'

Answer: confessions


Question: 'Barney Rubble'

Answer: The Flintstones


Question: 'Herbert Hoover in 1929 was the first president to have one of these on his desk, not in a booth outside his office'

Answer: a telephone


Question: 'In 1989, one lone protestor halted a column of tanks as it advanced on this square'

Answer: Tiananmen Square


Question: 'To pass a bill over a presidential veto, Congress must approve it by this fraction of those members present'

Answer: two-thirds


Question: 'I made a loop around this in Marc's backyard'

Answer: a pool (loop)


Question: 'Aramis was a musketeer; a composer of certain 14-line poems is one of these'

Answer: sonneteer


Question: 'A local orphanage & the North Korean Army'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'In the 1680s William Dockwra set up a system of hourly collections of letters within London at a cost of this much'

Answer: a penny


Question: '(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.)  In 2002 I reported from this capital that U.S. allies had liberated the previous November'

Answer: Kabul


Question: 'To keep them independent, Article III of the Constitution says Congress can't cut their pay once they're in'

Answer: judges


Question: 'Liam likes to sort this'

Answer: mail (Liam)


Question: 'Also called a saint's play, this type of medieval drama sounds like it should be in Smokey Robinson's singing group'

Answer: a miracle play


Question: '"Hello, Newman"'

Answer: Seinfeld


Question: 'The 2-way field radio developed by Don Hings for bush pilots in 1937 soon got this snappier name'

Answer: walkie-talkies


Question: 'In 1997, we said "hello" to this sheep as CNN reported on her cloning by Scottish scientists'

Answer: Dolly


Question: 'Established in 1913, it's the independent agency that oversees the nation's banking system'

Answer: the Federal Reserve


Question: 'All monsters are frightening; ergo this type of monster is frightening'

Answer: an ogre (ergo)


Question: 'The name of this type of heroic epic comes from the Old Norse for "story" or "saying"'

Answer: a saga


Question: 'Mr. & Mrs. Roper'

Answer: Three\'s Company


Question: 'In the pyralis species of this, females respond to a male flash with a flash of their own 2 seconds later'

Answer: fireflies


Question: 'Held hostage in Lebanon, this AP correspondant was finally freed in 1991, ending his 7-year ordeal'

Answer: Terry Anderson


Question: 'Robert Zoellick & Mickey Kantor have held this Cabinet-level job that negotiates agreements on world commerce'

Answer: the (U.S.) Trade Representative


Question: 'We traveled a yard in this type of cart'

Answer: a dray (yard)


Question: 'The name of this type of heroic epic is akin to an Old Norse word for "great-grandmother"'

Answer: an edda


Question: 'Nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz'

Answer: Bewitched


Question: 'After WWII, the Navy formed this rating, abbreviated SM, for those who use flags during radio silence'

Answer: a signalman


Question: 'Tragically in 1995, more than 200 people died in the country then called this during an outbreak of the Ebola virus'

Answer: Zaire


Question: 'He's Masachusetts' governor; his father served as the governor of Michigan in the '60s'

Answer: Mitt Romney


Question: 'We hear that T.S. Eliot was a fan of this printed cotton fabric'

Answer: toile (Eliot)


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.)  When shown near Yulin & Hanzhong, the symbol seen here indicates this world landmark'

Answer: the Great Wall of China


Question: '"____ Only Just Begun"'

Answer: We\'ve


Question: 'Imogen Cunningham shocked people with nude photos of her husband on this dormant Cascade Range volcano'

Answer: Mount Rainier


Question: 'Washington Hilton,<br />7 P.M., Jan. 20, 2005'

Answer: the Inaugural Ball


Question:
'David Bowie's astronaut Tom;
psychology or journalism;
a person of legal age'

Answer: major


Question: 'These masses of fibrocartilage between vertebrae serve as shock absorbers'

Answer: discs


Question: 'Mercator's 1569 map projection makes this island (840,000 sq. mi.) look bigger than Africa (11-1/2 million sq. mi.)'

Answer: Greenland


Question: '"____ Stop The Rain"'

Answer: Who\'ll


Question: 'She was hired by the government to photograph displaced Oklahoma farmers during the Depression'

Answer: Dorothea Lange


Question: 'Grauman's Chinese,<br />Dec. 1, 2004--Leo was there (Cate wasn't)'

Answer: the premiere of The Aviator


Question:
'Clement Moore's reindeer,
the Supreme Court's associate justices,
Elizabeth Taylor's marriages'

Answer: eight


Question: 'L1 through L5 refers to 5 vertebrae in the lower back, with the "L" standing for this'

Answer: lumbar


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from behind a globe.)  From the Greek for "beside each other", it's the geographic term for the line seen here'

Answer: a parallel (of latitude)


Question: '"____ Too Proud To Beg"'

Answer: Ain\'t


Question: 'Early morphing technology, as in a 1982 photo by Nancy Burson, combined this U.S. & this Soviet leader'

Answer: Reagan & Brezhnev


Question: 'Westminster Abbey,<br />Nov. 20, 1947'

Answer: the wedding of Elizabeth II & Prince Philip


Question:
'Games like 20 questions,
a body recently dead,
a hair dryer on a stand'

Answer: things in parlors


Question: 'As its name implies, this type of anesthesia that eases labor pains is injected into a space outside the spinal cord'

Answer: epidural


Question: 'On a map of the U.S., 1 of the 2 states that each border 8 other states'

Answer: Missouri (or Tennessee)


Question: '"____ Be The Day"'

Answer: That\'ll


Question: 'Though she failed her college intro to photography course, her untitled film stills made the grade at MoMA'

Answer: Cindy Sherman


Question: 'Seen here, New York City, May 24, 1883'

Answer: the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge


Question:
'A potent drink,
a powerful rifle,
a runner finishing with a burst'

Answer: a kick


Question: 'This triangular bone lies directly above the coccyx & joins with the hip bones to form the rear of the pelvis'

Answer: the sacrum


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.)  On a map of the Pacific, the symbol seen here indicates this feature that shares its name with nearby islands'

Answer: the Marianas Trench


Question: '"____ Got Time For The Pain"'

Answer: Haven\'t


Question: 'Berenice Abbott assisted Man Ray before opening her own portrait studio, where she photographed this "Orphée" writer'

Answer: Jean Cocteau


Question: 'July 2004:<br />Herbert Allen's media power pow-wow at this resort'

Answer: Sun Valley, Idaho


Question:
'Modem,
quasar,
Gestapo'

Answer: acronyms


Question: 'These muscles of the upper back are named for their particular quadrilateral shape'

Answer: the rhomboid muscles (trapezius accepted)


Question: 'Songs in this 1956 show include "Oh, Happy We", "You Were Dead, You Know" & "The Best Of All Possible Worlds"'

Answer: Candide


Question: 'Ted Danson played this surly doctor whose practice was in the Bronx'

Answer: Becker


Question: 'A silent butler is used to collect these during or after a meal'

Answer: crumbs


Question: 'Tom Wolfe's award-winning book about our first astronauts, or what he proved he had by penning it'

Answer: The Right Stuff


Question: 'Working with Dixon to set up a famous boundary, he could have built a stone fence on it'

Answer: (Charles) Mason


Question: 'A state park near Little Falls, Minnesota honors this aviator whose boyhood home is now a museum there'

Answer: Charles Lindbergh


Question: 'Items at an auction are "sold to the highest" one'

Answer: bidder


Question: '(Hi, I'm CCH Pounder from "The Shield")  I received an Emmy nomination for my role of Dr. Angela Hicks on this show set at CCH (Cook County Hospital)'

Answer: ER


Question: 'Bathtub ones are bad; napkin ones, good'

Answer: rings


Question: 'This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water"'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: 'In addition to playing a sewer worker on TV, he could have been a midway barker'

Answer: Art Carney


Question: 'This over 340-acre London park is perhaps best known for one small corner, Speakers' Corner'

Answer: Hyde Park


Question: 'A "hasty" dessert, or perhaps you'd prefer the tapioca'

Answer: pudding


Question: 'Richard Kind played a gynecologist named Mark, one of Paul & Jamie's friends, on this show'

Answer: Mad About You


Question: 'Tray, parsons & coffee are types of these'

Answer: tables


Question: 'It's the English title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Cien Anos de Soledad"'

Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude


Question: 'Movie Mr. Deeds who  begins to make a new barrel each day at "High Noon"'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'Many of the caves in this New Mexico national park still have not been fully explored'

Answer: Carlsbad Caverns


Question: 'A toy bear all alone on a store shelf inspired this character seen here'

Answer: Paddington Bear


Question: 'In 1975 he joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" as B.J. Hunnicut, a gifted surgeon & practical joker'

Answer: Mike Farrell


Question: 'Room in which you'd most likely use a duvet'

Answer: the bedroom


Question: 'Sue Grafton began her letter-perfect alphabet mysteries with this book'

Answer: A is for Alibi


Question: 'We wonder whether, before voicing Jane in Disney's "Tarzan", she chauffeured Mickey's girlfriend'

Answer: Minnie Driver


Question: 'Roger Williams Park is the largest park in this Rhode Island city founded by Williams in 1636'

Answer: Providence


Question: 'Newborn babies were wrapped in these clothes that kept their arms & legs still'

Answer: swaddling


Question: 'John C. McGinley plays Dr. Cox, the reluctant mentor to the rookie doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital on this NBC sitcom'

Answer: Scrubs


Question: 'If you want Tabriz through your decorating, get a Tabriz, a fancy one of these'

Answer: carpet


Question: 'His Alex Cross thrillers include "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue"'

Answer: James Patterson


Question: 'We imagine that before writing "Dracula" he worked way below deck on a steamer'

Answer: Bram Stoker


Question: 'The International Peace Garden is a park on the border of Manitoba & this U.S. state'

Answer: North Dakota


Question: 'Name given to either of 2 old Icelandic literary works detailing early Scandinavian mythology'

Answer: Edda


Question: 'In 1998 Britain's RSPCA helped foil crooks trying to sell this animal's horn, thought in Asia to be an aphrodisiac'

Answer: rhinoceros


Question: 'The name of this dance in 3/4 time is from the German for "to revolve"'

Answer: waltz


Question: 'A whale breathes through one of these, equivalent to a nose, at the top of its head'

Answer: a blowhole


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain)  Last name of the man who ruled from this royal palace until Wellington chased him out in 1812'

Answer: Bonaparte


Question: 'In 1975 this hard rock group made its Top 40 debut with "Rock and Roll All Nite"'

Answer: Kiss


Question: 'In ancient Rome the noble Patricians wore red ones (we hope not with socks)'

Answer: sandals


Question: 'This agency's "Operation Pretense" nabbed 57 corrupt county supervisors in Mississippi'

Answer: the FBI


Question: 'The Fox Trot is an example of this type of social dance named for the place where it's danced'

Answer: ballroom dancing


Question: 'It's the "infantile" name for the tiny white flowers of the genus Gypsophila that florists often add to bouquets'

Answer: Baby\'s Breath


Question: 'Philip IV of Spain was also king of this country until it broke away in 1640'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'You're under pressure to name this man who recorded "Under Pressure" with Queen'

Answer: David Bowie


Question: 'New York City's Department of this has 5,700 vehicles, including 2,000 collection trucks'

Answer: Sanitation


Question: 'The sting in the movie "The Sting" involves Robert Shaw placing a half-million-dollar bet on this sport'

Answer: horse racing


Question: 'The ballet "The Bitter Weird" is based on the dances Agnes De Mille created for this musical about a Scottish town'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: 'This 2nd-lightest gas is used in breathing mixtures for deep-sea divers to help them work at extreme depths'

Answer: helium


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew)  The royal palace was begun by Philip V, the first king of Spain from this French ruling family'

Answer: the Bourbons


Question: 'This "sweet" song by Guns N' Roses was a 1988 No. 1 hit'

Answer: "Sweet Child O\' Mine"


Question: 'It's the party beverage seen here'

Answer: sangria


Question: 'Operation Casablanca targeted Mexican banks suspected of this activity that doesn't use Tide or Cheer'

Answer: money laundering


Question: 'Popular in the 1940s, this Brazilian dance was based on the African Batuque'

Answer: the Samba


Question: 'It's the emergency procedure of cutting into the windpipe to open a breathing passage'

Answer: a tracheotomy


Question: 'Goya painted Charles III in costume for this sport, to which Britannica says he had a fanatical addiction'

Answer: hunting


Question: 'In a 1986 anti-war song, Sting hoped that these people "Love Their Children Too"'

Answer: the Russians


Question: 'From the Latin for "holy", it means feigning great righteousness & piety'

Answer: sanctimonious


Question: 'In 1984 this automotive visionary beat the rap after a drug sting'

Answer: (John) DeLorean


Question: 'Geographic name of the dance often done to a bagpipe classic like the "Balmoral Castle"'

Answer: the Highland Fling


Question: 'The play "Breath" by this author of "Waiting for Godot" has no dialogue, no actors & lasts only 35 seconds'

Answer: Samuel Beckett


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew)  Number of Alfonso, the last king to reside in the royal palace; he had the bad luck to be forced to step down'

Answer: 13


Question: 'R.E.M. may have had millennial fears in this song that begins, "That's great it starts with an earthquake"'

Answer: "It\'s the End of the World as We Know It"


Question: 'This seat of Erie County, Ohio was an Underground Railroad stopping point'

Answer: Sandusky


Question: 'On USA Today's list of magical numbers in sports, each had an explanation except 61, which only had this symbol'

Answer: an asterisk


Question: 'The Red Cross' "Top 10 reasons to give blood" run from "It's the right thing to do" to "Free juice and" these'

Answer: cookies


Question: 'This former wide receiver took over for John Madden on "Sunday Night Football"'

Answer: (Cris) Collinsworth


Question: 'Plato was the first to mention this legendary island'

Answer: Atlantis


Question: 'The authorship of Ecclesiastes is attributed to this "son of David, king in Jerusalem"'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'He was Rick Deckard in "Blade Runner"'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'Theater term meaning to draw attention away from someone else'

Answer: upstage


Question: 'The Red Cross blood donation hotline is at 1-800-GIVE-this'

Answer: LIFE


Question: 'Maybe this team's new, fiercer logo helped it break its 0-19 streak'

Answer: the (Detroit) Lions


Question: 'This river runs along the boundary between Washington & Oregon'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'The Book of Ecclesiastes was written in this language but included 2 words from Persian'

Answer: Hebrew


Question: 'In 1915 this industrialist headed the American Peace Ship delegation'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'The American flag should be hung this way only as a distress signal'

Answer: upside down


Question: 'Per a rule in place since 1996, you can't donate if you've lived since 1977 in certain countries on this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'In beating Miami, Peyton Manning broke the Colts team record for victories he had shared with this quarterback'

Answer: (Johnny) Unitas


Question: 'The boxer who fights the champ for the title'

Answer: Challenger


Question: 'Chapter 3 begins, "To every thing there is" this, "and a time to every purpose under the heaven"'

Answer: a season


Question: 'This lefty is the all-time leading pitcher in World Series wins'

Answer: Whitey Ford


Question: 'Happy & expectant of a positive outcome, or a final unaccented musical note'

Answer: upbeat


Question: 'The nurse will take 1 of this unit; your body will replace the fluids in 24 hours'

Answer: a pint


Question: 'This ex-Chief who holds the record for catches by a tight end began the 2009 season with the Falcons'

Answer: (Tony) Gonzalez


Question: 'A strenuous effort'

Answer: Endeavour


Question: '"That which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing" here'

Answer: under the sun


Question: 'Writer who used the same first & last names & was the subject of a poem by William Carlos Williams'

Answer: Ford Madox Ford


Question: '6-letter word for a disturbance, especially a noisy one'

Answer: uproar


Question: 'Apheresis, in which you get your blood back, lets you donate these clotting blood cells to help those in need'

Answer: platelets


Question: 'This former USC QB is a Jet all the way & the team's glad it traded up to draft him'

Answer: (Mark) Sanchez


Question: 'In law, the compulsory disclosure of facts or documents'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'Ecclesiastes is traditionally read during this Jewish harvest festival to remind one that life is fleeting'

Answer: Sukkoth


Question: 'He earned everlasting infamy by killing Jesse James'

Answer: Robert Ford


Question: 'It can be a lifting of the earth's crust or a sudden change in political or social conditions'

Answer: an upheaval


Question: '1972:<br />Loretta Swit as Major Margaret Houlihan'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'Kenya's Nyanza province includes 1,400 miles of this lake'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'Ghanaian ex-U.N. Secretary-General:<br />Long O in the first name, not like the drink'

Answer: Kofi Annan


Question: 'He & 5 accomplices ambushed Lincoln, N.M. sheriff William Brady in 1878, 3 years before Pat Garrett caught up with him'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'This actor's memoir "Always Looking Up" recounts his optimism in the face of his struggles with Parkinson's disease'

Answer: Michael J. Fox


Question: 'In Greek myth Eris was the goddess of this, meaning "heart apart"'

Answer: discord


Question: '1981:<br />Eileen Brennan as Captain Doreen Lewis'

Answer: Private Benjamin


Question: 'Punjab & Sindh are 2 of its 4 provinces'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Welsh name, as of author Richard:<br />Kind of aspirate the first "L" sound around both sides of your tongue--try it if you can!'

Answer: Llewellyn


Question: 'Dodge City marshal Ed Masterson, brother of this sheriff, was shot to death by Jack Wagner in 1878'

Answer: Bat Masterson


Question: 'Seth Grahame-Smith rewrote this beloved Jane Austen novel, adding ultraviolent zombie mayhem'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'This medical type of "arrest" is sudden loss of heart function'

Answer: cardiac


Question: '2007:<br />Kim Delaney as Claudia Joy Holden (spouse of Colonel Michael Holden)'

Answer: Army Wives


Question: 'Also a gulf, it's Panama's largest province in area (silence, Mr. Keats)'

Answer: Darien


Question: 'Mexican state bordering Chiapas:<br />The "X" sounds like "H"'

Answer: Oaxaca


Question: 'In 1876 Jack McCall shot this former Abilene marshal in the back of the head during a poker game in Deadwood'

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok


Question: 'Curtis Sittenfeld based "American Wife" on her, about to be a former First Lady when the novel came out in 2008'

Answer: Laura Bush


Question: 'As an adjective, this word means "friendly"; as a noun, it's a strong drink'

Answer: cordial


Question: '1962:<br />Tim Conway as Ensign Charles Parker'

Answer: McHale\'s Navy


Question: 'This former province at the southern tip of Africa took up half the area of South Africa'

Answer: Cape Province


Question: 'Vietnamese imperial city:<br />A homophone of curds' partner'

Answer: Huế


Question: 'Billy Clanton shot & wounded these 2 lawmen, Wyatt's brothers, during a pretty famous fight--but they got him'

Answer: Virgil & Morgan


Question: 'A 2009 book by David Cullen looks at the myths surrounding the April 1999 shootings at this high school'

Answer: Columbine


Question: 'This word refers to an alphabetical index of words in a book, like the Bible'

Answer: concordance


Question: '1976:<br />Robert Conrad as Major Gregory Boyington'

Answer: Baa Baa Black Sheep


Question: 'In 2008 a devastating earthquake was centered near this capital of China's Sichuan Province'

Answer: Chengdu


Question: 'Last name of Iran's controversial president:<br />Just like it looks'

Answer: Ahmadinejad


Question: 'On his 21st birthday, this 3-named gunman shot & killed Deputy Charles Webb in Brown County, Texas'

Answer: John Wesley Hardin


Question: 'A 2009 bio called this Labor Secretary "The Woman Behind the New Deal"'

Answer: Frances Perkins


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some leaves on the monitor.)  Leaves that are shaped like hearts are referred to by this 7-letter term, a homophone for a word describing a true vertebrate'

Answer: cordate


Question: '6-word title of the song that says, "For the house fell on her head & the coroner pronounced her dead"'

Answer: \"Ding-Dong!  The Witch Is Dead\"


Question: 'In 1989, aboard Discovery, Frederick D. Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions'

Answer: a Space Shuttle mission


Question: 'This word, which we sometimes use for TV, is Brit speak for the subway'

Answer: the tube


Question: 'This city has been a port since the Roman period'

Answer: London


Question: 'His "Top Ten Rejected Batman Villains" included "The Ticketmaster", "Lactose Intolerant Man" & "Incontinento"'

Answer: David Letterman


Question: 'Unlike the live births of other mammals, the platypus reproduces by laying these'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'In a '90s NBC series title, this crime preceded "Life on the Streets"'

Answer: Homicide


Question: 'For his role in "Lilies of the Field", he was the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar'

Answer: Sidney Poitier


Question: 'In England, it covers a car's engine; in America, it cover's a baby's head'

Answer: a bonnet


Question: 'This city has one of the world's largest single-span bridges across its harbor'

Answer: Sydney, Australia


Question: 'A listing for a '95 Pontiac "loaded with feathers" was among this late night host's "Headlines"'

Answer: Jay Leno


Question: 'The country that's home to the earliest dated monotreme fossils, it's also home to the platypus'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'A jury is the group you're tried before; this is lying under oath to them'

Answer: perjury


Question: '"On My Honor" from 1975 to 1978 Gloria Randle Scott served as the first black president of this organization'

Answer: Girl Scouts of America


Question: 'To do some repairs around your house, you might hire a sparky, one of these people'

Answer: an electrician


Question: 'This city was nearly destroyed twice in the 20th century by an earthquake & then by bombing'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: '"In the Year 2000", according to this host, Kathie Lee will convert & "annoy the world with her annual Ramadan special"'

Answer: Conan O\'Brien


Question: 'Facial feature mentioned in the longer version of the platypus' name'

Answer: a duck bill


Question: 'This taking of a human life may be classified as "voluntary" or "involuntary"'

Answer: manslaughter


Question: 'Robert Weaver, the first black Cabinet member, made himself at "home" in this department in 1966'

Answer: Housing and Urban Development (HUD)


Question: 'The British don't normally eat these with gravy; they're cookies'

Answer: biscuits


Question: 'The first mayor of this city led a rebellion against the Canadian governor after being unseated in Parliament'

Answer: Toronto


Question: 'This deadpan comic asked, "If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?"'

Answer: Steven Wright


Question: 'The name platypus comes from the Greek for "broad" this body part'

Answer: a foot


Question: 'It's extortion by threat--like you'll send the photos to the newspaper if you don't receive $2 million'

Answer: blackmail


Question: 'In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize'

Answer: Dr. Ralph Bunche


Question: 'Common term for a doctor's office; it's where he "operates" from'

Answer: a surgery


Question: 'This South American city's name comes from early explorers who thought the bay was a river'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: '"If a bouncer gets drunk, who throws him out?" he wrote in his book "Brain Droppings"'

Answer: George Carlin


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a zoo.)  The platypus has a big old beaver-like tail, as opposed to this virtually tailless monotreme'

Answer: an echidna


Question: 'Peculation is taking funds entrusted to you bit by bit through this fraudulent process'

Answer: embezzlement


Question: 'The famous Gustave Caillebotte painting seen here depicts this city on a rainy day'

Answer: Paris


Question: '"Glinda of Oz"<br />(1920)'

Answer: L. Frank Baum


Question: 'Strings on a standard guitar times the Oscars won by Pauly Shore'

Answer: 0


Question: 'Kicked off by the Russians in October 1957, it's also an adjective meaning "shiny & modern"'

Answer: the Space Age


Question: 'Stephen has been called "the greatest theoretical physicist since" this physicist born in 1879'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'Egyptian boy pharaoh's innards'

Answer: Tut\'s guts


Question: 'Seen here in a self-portrait, Madame Vigee Lebrun was painter to this queen before fleeing France in 1789'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: '"Finnegans Wake"<br />(1939)'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus'

Answer: 8 (5 + 3)


Question: 'An era in American movies is named for these, like Paramount & MGM, when they controlled the theaters'

Answer: the studios


Question: 'Stephen received his Ph.D. from this prestigious British university in 1966'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: '"Fiddling" Roman emperor's admired people'

Answer: Nero\'s heroes


Question: '(The entire Clue Crew lounges about on the grass, picnic-style, with Cheryl reading.)  It's what we're having right now, or the title of a scandalous 1863 Manet painting'

Answer: Luncheon on the Grass


Question: '"The Thin Man"<br />(1934)'

Answer: Dashiell Hammett


Question: 'Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner'

Answer: 300 (366 - 66)


Question: 'The Durant's "Story of Civilization" includes "The Age of" this longest-reigning French king'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: 'Carthaginian general's man-eaters'

Answer: Hannibal\'s cannibals


Question: 'His 1888 portrait of Ellen Barre, seen here, is much more subdued than his nightlife paintings'

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec


Question: '"Persuasion"<br />(1818)'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner'

Answer: 1 (12/Adam 12)


Question: 'Mark Twain wrote for the journal The Golden Era before co-writing the 1873 novel titled this "Age"'

Answer: The Gilded Age


Question: 'First Israelite king's gun-totin' girlfriends'

Answer: Saul\'s molls


Question: 'This impressionist painted his wife Camille in a kimono in the 1870s portrait seen here'

Answer: Monet


Question: '"Ice Palace"<br />(1958)'

Answer: Edna Ferber


Question: 'No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner'

Answer: 1,013


Question: 'An age of Roman literature is named for this emperor, formerly Octavian'

Answer: Augustus


Question: '"Great" Persian king's parasitic microscopic organisms'

Answer: Cyrus\'s viruses


Question: 'Ushers at her 2001 funeral included Bill Gates, Barbara Walters, Jim Lehrer & Bob Woodward'

Answer: Katharine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post)


Question: 'Most U.S.-produced olive oil comes from this state-- so watch out, you dancing raisins!'

Answer: California


Question: 'He penned the immortal line "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'Gene Fowler's biography of John Barrymore is called "Good Night, Sweet" this'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'The moral of this man's fable of the fawn & his mother is "No arguments will give courage to the coward"'

Answer: Aesop


Question: 'After years of skeptical reports this largest U.S. oil co. recently agreed emissions may contribute to global warming'

Answer: Exxon(Mobil)


Question: 'This Funky Bunch captain got some "Good Vibrations" when he was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for "The Departed"'

Answer: Mark Wahlberg


Question: 'It's pure & delicious! The oil that's the cold-pressed result of the 1st pressing of olives is extra this'

Answer: virgin


Question: 'In this 13th century work, Brutus is described as suffering in the lowest pit of hell'

Answer: Dante\'s Inferno


Question: 'Carnations & Sweet Williams belong to this "colorful" family of flowering plants'

Answer: pinks


Question: 'In a 1900 book, he joins 3 others (& a dog) after noting his "life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage"'

Answer: the Cowardly Lion


Question: 'This largest U.S. cigarette maker spent $115 million on charity & $150 million advertising that it gave to charity'

Answer: Philip Morris


Question: 'He met future ex Julia Roberts while playing a detective in Robert Altman's "The Player"'

Answer: Lyle Lovett


Question: 'Here's a pH test-- all olive oils are graded in accordance with the degree of this they contain (lower is better)'

Answer: acidity


Question: 'This Greek biographer of "Parallel Lives" suggested Brutus was Julius Caesar's illegitimate son'

Answer: Plutarch


Question: 'Nicknamed "Sweetness", this Hall of Fame NFL running back died in 1999'

Answer: Walter Payton


Question: 'In this 1961 war novel, you'll find a captain who doesn't want to fly & a major who hides from his men'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'To counter bad press this retailer claims 90% of its employees have health insurance; only 47% get it from the company'

Answer: Wal-Mart


Question: 'This actor "moonlighted" in 1987: he won an Emmy for playing a P.I. & his "The Return of Bruno" yielded a top 5 hit'

Answer: Bruce Willis


Question: 'This Greek dish of lamb marinated in olive oil & spices, grilled & skewered gets its name from Greek for "skewer"'

Answer: souvlaki


Question: 'Brutus joined a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar that was led by this man'

Answer: Cassius


Question: 'If you're served sweetbreads in a restaurant, you're eating either thymus or this part of an animal'

Answer: the pancreas


Question: 'In "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", he wrote, "Each man kills the thing he loves... the coward does it with a kiss"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'Utah's A.G. got letters to drop an antitrust case against this software company, but the mail was from dead people'

Answer: Microsoft


Question: 'This "Jessie's Girl" singer played the title detective/vampire in the failed TV pilot "Nick Knight"'

Answer: Rick Springfield


Question: 'This L.A.-area institute's famed Olive Walk is now being harvested for olive oil named for the school'

Answer: Caltech


Question: 'During the Roman Civil War, Brutus sided with this man but was later pardoned by Julius Caesar--Oops!'

Answer: Pompey


Question: 'Perhaps an alteration of the word "potato", this word follows "sweet" in a slang term for a pretty girl'

Answer: patootie


Question: 'The Pentagon later admitted this system named for a film worked because a guide beacon was put on the target'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'This singer played a detective in 3 straight 60's films: "Tony Rome", "The Detective" & "Lady in Cement"'

Answer: Frank Sinatra


Question: '"The Trouble with" these creatures'

Answer: Tribbles


Question: 'A colossal ancient wonder collapsed following an earthquake in the 3rd century B.C.'

Answer: Rhodes


Question: 'The finest singers among species of this insect are the tree type, not the house or field type'

Answer: crickets


Question: 'Her first husband was the Hittite Uriah; David was second'

Answer: Bathsheba


Question: 'Also known as a cathode, it's the car battery terminal with a plus sign'

Answer: positive


Question: '"Where No Man Has" done this'

Answer: "Gone Before"


Question: 'Daedalus was imprisoned'

Answer: Crete


Question: 'This snout beetle reached Texas from Mexico around 1890 & spread into most cotton-growing areas of the U.S.'

Answer: the boll weevil


Question: 'The chief god of the Canaanites'

Answer: Baal


Question: 'Marvin Hagler was Marvelous Marvin; Tom Seaver was nicknamed Tom this'

Answer: Terrific


Question: 'This crew member's "Brain"'

Answer: Spock


Question: 'Sappho styled her stanzas'

Answer: Lesbos


Question: 'Like 1990, 2007 was a year when these noisy insects famously swarmed the Midwest'

Answer: a cicada


Question: 'The youngest son of Jacob & Rachel'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'It can mean "far better than average" or "not yet settled", like an unpaid debt'

Answer: outstanding


Question: '"The City on the Edge Of" this'

Answer: "Forever"


Question: 'Penelope waited for Ulysses to return'

Answer: Ithaca


Question: 'Stone flies belong to the order Plecoptera, which means "pleated" this'

Answer: wing


Question: 'He traveled with Paul to spread Jesus' teachings until they disagreed & separated'

Answer: Barnabus


Question: 'The bird Ardea herodias isn't just any blue heron, it's this blue heron'

Answer: great


Question: '"For the World Is Hollow, and I Have Touched" this'

Answer: "the Sky"


Question: 'The Knights Hospitaller reigned until 1798'

Answer: Malta


Question: '2 common short-horned species of this in North America are the lubber & the Eastern lubber'

Answer: grasshoppers


Question: 'It's at his feast that Daniel interprets the writing on the wall'

Answer: Belshazzar


Question: 'As an adjective it means "very impressive"; as a noun, it's a lavish production"'

Answer: spectacular


Question: 'In 1997 the Alabama Bar Association erected a monument to this lawyer at the Old Courthouse in Monroeville'

Answer: Atticus Finch


Question: 'Also known for his TV work, he's seen here as Mark Antony in 1953's "Serpent of the Nile"'

Answer: Raymond Burr


Question: 'John Adams had to settle for this opponent as his veep in 1796 because the 12th Amendment hadn't been passed yet'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'It can be Chesapeake Bay, Golden or Labrador'

Answer: retriever


Question: 'In 1984 the shuttle Discovery dramatically captured 2 of these in space & brought them back to Earth'

Answer: satellites


Question: 'In "The Magician's Nephew" in this C.S. Lewis series, Polly is tricked into touching rings made from Atlantis' dust'

Answer: The Chronicles of Narnia


Question: 'In a 2005 release Will Smith as this "date doctor" helped out the romantically helpless Kevin James'

Answer: Hitch


Question: 'He put many of his Republican rivals for the Pres. nomination in his cabinet, including Salmon Chase & William Seward'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Peggy Lee could tell you it's also known as pyrexia (take 2 aspirin & call me in the morning)'

Answer: fever


Question: 'Discovery is named for 2 ships, one sailed by Henry Hudson & one sailed by this man when he discovered Hawaii'

Answer: Captain James Cook


Question: 'Meg Tilly is seen here in her award-winning performance in this film'

Answer: Agnes of God


Question: 'In 1976 Ford won primaries in Ohio, Oregon & Florida; this challenger won Texas, Indiana &, of course, California'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'Pitcher Goose Gossage was famous as one of these'

Answer: reliever


Question: 'In 2005 a crucial part of Discovery's mission was to deliver supplies here'

Answer: International Space Station


Question: 'Columbia made the original Segal-Fonda version of this couple caper & the Carrey-Leoni remake'

Answer: Fun with Dick & Jane


Question: 'Born in Athens, she's written for "Politically Incorrect" & was 5th in California's '03 gubernatorial recall election'

Answer: Arianna Huffington


Question: 'Adroit, shrewd adjective'

Answer: clever


Question: 'From 1979 to 1983 the assembly of the shuttle Discovery took place at this Palmdale, Calif. military facility'

Answer: Edwards Air Force Base


Question: 'You can take one of these vessels to view the submarine gardens; it was also a Doris Day movie'

Answer: a glass bottom boat


Question: 'Here comes Claude Rains as this heavenly being trying to fix a mistake'

Answer: Mr. Jordan


Question: 'In 1832 Andrew Jackson, a member of this society, was challenged by William Wirt, who was "anti" it'

Answer: Masons


Question: 'This Pulitzer winner's "Oh What A Paradise It Seems" was published in 1982, the same year he died'

Answer: John Cheever


Question: 'After assembly, Discovery was delivered to Kennedy Space Center on the back of one of these jets'

Answer: Boeing 747


Question: 'Nassau's main hospital is named for this royal sister, seen here in the islands in 1955'

Answer: Princess Margaret


Question: 'Of 14, 24 or 34, Mozart's age when he commissioned his first opera, "Mitridate Re di Ponto", premiered in 1770'

Answer: 14


Question: 'Born the same year as Brian Jones, this Brian wrote "Help Me, Rhonda"'

Answer: Brian Wilson


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the monkey house.) For extra resonance, howler monkeys have an enlarged structure at the top of this, also known as the trachea'

Answer: windpipe


Question: 'His reign from 1978 to 2005 was one of the longest in history'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: 'His museum in Dearborn, Michigan was once known as "Henry's Attic"'

Answer: Henry Ford


Question: 'Timid'

Answer: shy


Question: 'A toast to Mozart's "Don Giovanni", which features an aria nicknamed for this bubbly beverage'

Answer: champagne


Question: 'Not Watts but this Charlie started the Bebop Revolution with his alto sax playing'

Answer: Charlie Parker


Question:
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with a kitten.)
It's the two-word term for these animals that reflects their natural cold habitat in the mountains of Asia'

Answer: snow leopard


Question: 'Beloved Pope from 1958 to 1963'

Answer: John XXIII


Question: 'The Paris museum devoted to this cubist has 200 of his paintings & many pieces from his personal art collection'

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: 'A gift to Jesus when he was a child, this resin is also "mingled" with his wine while he's on the cross in Mark 15'

Answer: myrrh


Question: 'Appropriately, this Roman goddess oversees the love life of her grandson in Mozart's opera "Ascanio in Alba"'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'Mick Jagger formed the Stones in 1962; this Mick, a drummer, formed his band in '67'

Answer: Mick Fleetwood


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the shark tank.) Unlike most other fish, sharks don't have bones; their skeleton is made up of this tough, flexible tissue.'

Answer: cartilage


Question: 'Sadly, his only papal date is 1978'

Answer: John Paul I


Question: 'You can see Sue, the largest, most complete & best-preserved T. Rex at this Chicago Museum of National History'

Answer: Field Museum


Question: 'A people got this name, now also used for a type of taxicab, from the mistaken belief that they came from Egypt'

Answer: gypsy


Question: 'Ilia, the daughter of King Priam, is a captive princess in "Idomeneo", set just after this war'

Answer: Trojan War


Question: 'On vocals, this Bill (not Wyman) is credited with inventing bluegrass music'

Answer: Bill Monroe


Question:
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the penguin habitat.)
The smallest of all penguins, the little blue is the only one native to this continent where it is sometimes called the fairy penguin'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'His 19-year tenure included the troubled World War II years'

Answer: Pius XII


Question: 'The Turner Prize, named for British painter J.M.W., was founded by a group trying to buy art for this London gallery'

Answer: Tate


Question: 'An appointed to meet made by lovers'

Answer: tryst


Question: 'This 1791 work is considered the greatest example in music history of the Zauberoper, or "magic opera"'

Answer: The Magic Flute


Question: 'This Keith's role in the film "Nashville" led to a couple of '70s solo albums'

Answer: Keith Carradine


Question:
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.)
Inside zoos, the aim is to increase the population; outside the zoos, the declining number of orangutans are found only on these two Indonesian islands'

Answer: Borneo and Sumatra


Question: 'Check the calendar for the 13th pope with this name, who served from 1572 to 1585'

Answer: Gregory


Question: 'The museum devoted to this Belgian painter is in the Brussels house where he lived & worked for 24 years'

Answer: René Magritte


Question: 'Originally a Greek unit of length, Homer used this word to describe a race of small folk dwelling in a <br />southern land'

Answer: pygmy


Question: 'He is based partly on a philologist who wrote "A History of English Sounds" & "A Handbook of Phonetics"'

Answer: Henry Higgins


Question: 'In May 1977 Kenya limited the shooting on safaris to people using these'

Answer: cameras


Question: 'In March 2009 this ex of Kid Rock & Tommy Lee blogged on her views about stem cell research'

Answer: Pam Anderson


Question: 'Tennis, anyone?  How about golf, football, baseball...:<br />SI'

Answer: Sports Illustrated


Question: 'An old proverb says not to do this "until you come to it"'

Answer: cross a bridge


Question: 'If you hit an HR in MLB, you're going to have to run this many feet to get home'

Answer: 360


Question: 'Alexander II's Edict of Emancipation freed these workers whose status was similar to slaves'

Answer: serfs


Question: 'When he reached the North Pole in May 1989, Robert Swan became the first to reach both poles in this manner'

Answer: on foot


Question: 'He may have rapped "U Can't Touch This" but U can read his blog on blogspot.com'

Answer: M.C. Hammer


Question: 'It's been around since 1883:<br />LHJ'

Answer: Ladies\' Home Journal


Question: 'In sewing & embroidery, it forms an "X"'

Answer: a cross-stitch


Question: 'Hr. corresponds to this German title of respect'

Answer: Herr


Question: 'This Moscow landmark has served as the official residence of the president since 1991'

Answer: the Kremlin


Question: 'This broke 10,000 for the first time March 29, 1999, making some brokers richer'

Answer: the Dow Jones Industrial Average


Question: 'His bloggings included "The 3 D's of real estate" & "Why I selected Dennis Rodman" for his TV show'

Answer: (Donald) Trump


Question: 'Covering movies, TV, books...:<br />EW'

Answer: Entertainment Weekly


Question: 'The Vasa race in Sweden, an event in this winter sport, takes place over a 56-mile course'

Answer: cross-country skiing


Question: 'This business services & tax prep company also operates under the brand RSM McGladrey'

Answer: H&R Block


Question: 'In 1908 this Siberian mystic brought some comfort to Alexis, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne'

Answer: Rasputin


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew trains with the Navy SEALs of Boat Team 12 in an inflatable boat at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.)  Naval special warfare boat teams trace their origins back to the "Brown Water" Navy that patrolled rivers during this war'

Answer: the Vietnam War


Question: 'This actress' ex, Paul Simon, "would sing me to sleep, which was... sweet or... annoying, depending on the album"'

Answer: Carrie Fisher


Question: 'For science, technology, automotive & more:<br />PM'

Answer: Popular Mechanics


Question: 'This weapon was outlawed by the Lateran council of 1139'

Answer: the crossbow


Question: 'The American recovery & reinvestment act of 2009 was H.R. 1; the "H.R." stood for this'

Answer: House of Representatives


Question: 'It's how you say "goodbye" in Russian'

Answer: do svidaniya


Question: 'In May 1938 the League of Nations recognized this country as absolutely neutral'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Go to huffingtonpost.com for the blogging of this "30 Rock" Emmy winner'

Answer: Alec Baldwin


Question: 'You could profit from this magazine:<br />BW'

Answer: BusinessWeek


Question: 'At the 1896 DNC, William Jennings Bryan told delegates, "You shall not crucify mankind on" one of these'

Answer: a cross of gold


Question: 'Hertzsprung-Russell, or HR, diagrams are used in, & named for 2 men in, this scientific field'

Answer: astronomy


Question: 'The basin of this river that empties into the Caspian Sea contains almost half of the Russian Republic's population'

Answer: the Volga


Question: 'The first woman to teach at the Sorbonne, she published a treatise on radioactivity in 1910'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Starscream, Frenzy & Bumblebee are but a few of the metalheads in this 2007 Michael Bay movie'

Answer: Transformers


Question: 'His "All My Sons" centers on Joe Keller, whose shoddy plane parts led to the death of his son & other pilots in WWII'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'In the U.S. one of these cotton units is almost 500 pounds'

Answer: a bale


Question: '"V" is for this Italian term, a technique or effect created by a violinist's shaking arm'

Answer: vibrato


Question:
'You might want to slow things down

_AST_
MA__S
WAST_'

Answer: Haste makes waste


Question: 'Einstein said this 17th & 18th c. physicist "stands before us, strong, certain and alone"'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'Keanu gets upstaged by Gort, a silent, expressionless mechanical giant, in this 2008 remake'

Answer: The Day the Earth Stood Still


Question: 'The title character of this Ibsen play is revolted to discover she's pregnant & commits suicide with her father's pistol'

Answer: Hedda Gabler


Question: '28.35 grams equals one of these units of weight'

Answer: an ounce


Question: '"O" is for this interval between a note & its first overtone'

Answer: an octave


Question:
'Come join us--it'll be fun

T__ M_R_
T__
M_RR__R'

Answer: The more the merrier


Question: 'The Dept. of the Interior has an annual lecture named for this biologist; she worked for the Dept. in the 1940s'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'At the beginning of a 1999 sequel, this title hero discovers that his new wife Vanessa is actually a fembot'

Answer: Austin Powers


Question: 'The Pollitts get together to celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday in this play; family drama ensues'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'It was made of gopher wood & measured 50 cubits wide'

Answer: the Ark


Question: '"U" is for one of these, with which a conductor may begin a piece'

Answer: an upbeat


Question:
'Don't be a hypocrite, do this

PR_CT_C_
___T ___
PR__C_H'

Answer: Practice what you preach


Question: 'The surname of this 16th century Polish astronomer means "one who works with copper"'

Answer: Copernicus


Question: 'Introduced in 1977, this robot got his name from the map coordinates of a post office'

Answer: C-3PO


Question: 'This Lorraine Hansberry play focuses on the Younger family & the drama of buying a new house'

Answer: A Raisin in the Sun


Question: 'Cosmic, dude!  A parsec is equal to 3.26 of these enormous lengths'

Answer: a light year


Question: '"C" is for this musical passage added at the end of a movement for a fitting conclusion or climax'

Answer: a coda


Question:
'We learn by doing

E__ERIE_CE
I_ T_E
_E_T
TE_C_ER'

Answer: Experience is the best teacher


Question: 'In WWII this Danish physicist worked on the Manhattan Project under the assumed name Nicholas Baker for security reasons'

Answer: Niels Bohr


Question: 'At the end of this 1927 film, Maria & her robot twin are stalked by mobs as disaster strikes the title city'

Answer: Metropolis


Question: 'In an August Wilson play, Troy Maxson builds these title structures around the family home'

Answer: Fences


Question: '"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", he wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"'

Answer: T.S. Eliot


Question: '"F" is for this polyphonic composition sung by several voices in turn'

Answer: a fugue


Question:
'It's better to know what's coming

F_R_W_R__D
__
F_R__RM_D'

Answer: Forewarned is forearmed


Question: 'The Roman name for this city was Aquae Sulis'

Answer: Bath


Question: 'She is the first woman to head a British political party'

Answer: Margaret Thatcher


Question: 'In his playing days, this St. Louis Cardinal outfielder & Hall of Famer was known as "Stan the Man"'

Answer: Stan Musial


Question: 'An now, "Heeere's" his line of suits'

Answer: Johnny Carson


Question: 'In 1985 he was run down and "killed"; in 1986 he was alive & lathering up in Pam's shower'

Answer: Bobby Ewing


Question: 'In 1972 adman Harve Chapman coined the term "Metroplex" for the area shared by these 2 cities'

Answer: Dallas & Fort Worth


Question: 'Despite the outcry over his indictment for drug trafficking, he's still in power in Panama'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'A major pitching award is named for this hurler who won a record 511 games'

Answer: Cy Young


Question: 'Dorothy Lamour popularized this Indonesian skirt in her films'

Answer: sarong


Question: 'Her maiden name was Southworth, not Southfork'

Answer: Miss Ellie


Question: 'David G. Burnet, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Anson Jones & Sam Houston were the only ones to hold this office'

Answer: president of the Republic of Texas


Question: 'In the 1920s this N. Vietnamese leader worked as an assistant chef under the great Escoffier'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, is identified with this Greek god'

Answer: Poseidon


Question: 'In 1985 this former president arbitrated the Major League umpire labor dispute'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'These short pants were named for the fictitious author of W. Irving's "History of New York"'

Answer: knickerbockers


Question: 'Seen by the largest U.S. audience to that date, the 11/21/80 episode answered this question'

Answer: Who shot J.R.?


Question: 'It was said they "can ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian... & fight like a very devil"'

Answer: the Texas Rangers


Question: 'This political "strongman" was heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-60'

Answer: Idi Amin


Question: 'A "colorful" name for serrated scissors'

Answer: pinking shears


Question: 'This manager won fewer games than Leo Durocher or Walt Alston but was in the most World Series --10'

Answer: Casey Stengel (of the Yankees)


Question: 'This overcoat with a removable cape got its name from a city in Scotland'

Answer: an Inverness


Question: 'This island off Corpus Christi is the largest in Texas, Dad'

Answer: Padre Island


Question: 'Between 1816 & 1830 he was at various times ruler of present-day Venezuela, Peru & Colombia'

Answer: Simón Bolívar


Question: 'It's a "hand"y synonym for chiromancy'

Answer: palmistry or palm reading


Question: 'This club that no longer exists was called "1st in war, 1st in peace & last in the A.L."'

Answer: the Washington Senators


Question: 'In the 1960s this former head designer for Dior introduced the pant suit to high fashion'

Answer: Yves Saint Laurent


Question: 'Now a Republican, he began his career as an aide to freshman Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson'

Answer: John Connolly


Question: 'Among the books set on this river were "Mike FInk", "Tammy Out of Time" & "Huckleberry Finn"'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'The Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 ended Spain's war with this neighbor'

Answer: France


Question: 'Victor Mature & Hedy Lamarr played the title roles in this 1949 Cecil B. DeMille epic'

Answer: Samson & Delilah


Question: 'Because it thrives near salt water, the Romans called it "rosmarinus", dew of the sea'

Answer: rosemary


Question: 'Sally ride told Mission Control that being in space was like being on an "E" ticket ride at this park'

Answer: Disneyland


Question: 'The full title of his 1947 book was "Tales of the South Pacific"'

Answer: James Michner


Question: 'In 1492 Granada, the last city in Spain held by these people, was captured by Ferdinand & Isabella's army'

Answer: the Moors


Question: 'As Drake McHugh in 1942's "Kings Row", he uttered the line "Where's the rest of me?"'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'The hottest variety of this blend of Indian spices originated in Madras'

Answer: curry


Question: 'All 6 of the 1st class of women astronauts hold a doctorate, but only 2 are this kind of doctor'

Answer: a medical doctor


Question: 'Truman Capote's nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood" was written in an event that took place in this state'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'This "noble" jazzman wrote "Sophisticated Lady" & "Mood Indigo"'

Answer: Duke Ellington


Question: 'Dynasty restored to the throne in 1874 & again in 1975 when Juan Carlos I became king of Spain'

Answer: the Bourbon dynasty


Question: 'She was "Mrs. Miniver", "Madame Curie" & "Mrs. Parkington"'

Answer: Greer Garson


Question: 'Called "estragon" by the French, it can be stored in or added as a flavoring to vinegar'

Answer: tarragon


Question: 'The Soviets honored her in 1983 by putting her image, in space suit & helmet, on a 1-ruble coin'

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova


Question: 'After a stint as a Hollywood screenwriter, Nathanael West wrote this Hollywood novel, his last'

Answer: The Day of the Locust


Question: '"Till the Clouds Roll By", the film biography of this composer, includes scenes from "Show Boat"'

Answer: Jerome Kern


Question: 'In 1819 Spain agreed to turn this territory over to the U.S.'

Answer: Florida


Question: '1 of 3 1940s films starring Roddy McDowall that had the name of his animal co-star in the title'

Answer: My Friend Flicka (or Lassie Come Home or Thunderhead, Son of Flicka)


Question: 'A classic addition to rye bread, these seeds are also used to flavor schnapps & aquavit'

Answer: caraway


Question: 'The 2nd U.S. woman in space, her 1st flight was on the shuttle Discovery in 1984'

Answer: Judith Resnik


Question: 'Carson McCullers novel about a motherless 12-year-old & her thoughts on her brother's marriage'

Answer: Member of the Wedding


Question: 'This "Firebird" composer was the son of an opera singer'

Answer: Stravinsky


Question: 'This brother of Napoleon was named king of Spain in 1808 after Napoleon conquered the country'

Answer: Joseph Bonaparte


Question: 'Anthony Quinn, Dana Andrews & Francis Ford were mistakenly handed by a lynch mob in this 1943 film'

Answer: The Ox-Bow Incident


Question: 'Peter Rabbit'smother made him this herbal tea after his adventures in Mr. McGregor's garden'

Answer: chamomile tea


Question: 'In 1984 Kathryn Sullivan became the 1st American woman to perform this feat'

Answer: take a walk in space


Question: 'It's the largest country in Europe that is not a member of the United Nations'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: 'Sulfur compounds in polluted air cause silver to do this'

Answer: tarnish


Question: 'At the Oscars, he lost out as actor & director for "Kane" but shared Best Original Screenplay'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: 'A vote in the affirmative'

Answer: aye (I)


Question: 'Jeff Davis, a horse he acquired during the Civil War, later accompanied him to the White House'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Ralph, nicknamed "Bottles", was the brother of this gangster, nicknamed "Scarface"'

Answer: Al Capone


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at a jousting tourney)  King Arthur set up the Diamond Jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments, all won by this knight'

Answer: Sir Lancelot


Question: 'It sounds like a thousand million, but it's an overall term for gold considered in mass rather than in value'

Answer: bullion


Question: 'This actress whose career is caricatured in "Kane" was played by Kirsten Dunst in 2002's "The Cat's Meow"'

Answer: Marion Davies


Question: 'A lunar mare, Tranquility is one'

Answer: sea (C)


Question: 'The Lincolns' menagerie included rabbits, horses & 2 of these named Nanko & Nanny'

Answer: goats


Question: 'Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile"'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'This synonym for jousting that sounds like a pinball term refers to the barrier between the opponents'

Answer: tilting


Question: 'The world's largest gold field is in the Witwatersrand region of this country'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'The film opens at this vast, gloomy Kane estate'

Answer: Xanadu


Question: 'A football is placed on it in preparation for the kickoff'

Answer: tee (T)


Question: 'Barney, George W. Bush's Scottish terrier, was a gift from this New Jersey governor, now head of the EPA'

Answer: Christine Todd Whitman


Question: 'In 1868 the Reno Brothers robbed one of these in Indiana, years before the James Gang did it out west'

Answer: train


Question: 'In this 2001 film Heath Ledger is a peasant who vows to become a knight by jousting his way to the top'

Answer: A Knight\'s Tale


Question: 'Some newborns' eyes are treated with a mild solution of this chemical to prevent blindness'

Answer: silver nitrate


Question: 'Not Hearst but this MGM mogul offered to pay $800,000, the cost of the film, to have it destroyed'

Answer: Louis B. Mayer


Question: 'At this social gathering people combine amusement & competition while making such things as quilts'

Answer: bee (B)


Question: 'Charlie, one of the Kennedys' dogs, was a distant offspring of the dog that played this role in "The Thin Man"'

Answer: Asta


Question: 'The Queen Anne's Revenge was a ship of this pirate, whose whole known career lasted from 1716 to 1718'

Answer: Blackbeard


Question: 'Today, joust fans, a bloody treat!  Sir Harry has challenged Sir Gary to battle "a outrance", which means this'

Answer: to the death


Question: 'On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this Yukon Territory river'

Answer: Klondike


Question: 'It's Kane's full name'

Answer: Charles Foster Kane


Question: 'In the names of birds, it follows Steller's, pinyon, gray & blue'

Answer: jay (J)


Question: 'He kept some of his favorite racing fillies at the White House, including Emily & Lady Nashville'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: '2 months after Bonnie & Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago'

Answer: John Dillinger


Question: 'Most jousting was unregulated & illegal until given official sanction for the first time by this English king in 1194 A.D.'

Answer: Richard I


Question: 'In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie?  'Tis but" this "in masquerade"'

Answer: the truth


Question: 'Before she struck out on her own in 1992, she had 14 No. 1 hits with her mother Naomi'

Answer: Wynonna Judd


Question: 'In one of this apostle's epistles, he uses the additional name Simon'

Answer: Peter


Question: 'This major soft drink brand was created in Waco, Texas in 1885 & named for a Virginia physician'

Answer: Dr. Pepper


Question: 'Mountain streams in Peru are the source of this river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean'

Answer: Amazon


Question: 'To imprison'

Answer: incarcerate


Question: 'In a Tennyson poem, "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode" this number'

Answer: 600


Question: 'In 1985 he won the CMA's first Music Video of the Year Award for "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight"'

Answer: Hank Williams, Jr.


Question: 'Ephron the Hittite sold this patriarch the field where he buried his wife Sarah'

Answer: Abraham


Question: 'The bunny who advertises this chocolate milk mix from Nestle "Can't Drink It Slow"'

Answer: Quik


Question: 'After considerable slaughter, this conquistador founded the city of Lima, Peru in January 1535'

Answer: Francisco Pizarro


Question: 'A spoken magic spell'

Answer: incantation


Question: 'This "Faerie Queene" poet is also famous for his 1595 work "Amoretti", a series of 89 love sonnets'

Answer: Edmund Spenser


Question: 'It's the country-rock "railroad" that gave us "Queen of Memphis" in 1992'

Answer: Confederate Railroad


Question: 'In Luke 8, Jesus is followed by Joanna, Susanna & this devoted woman out of whom devils were cast'

Answer: Mary Magdalene


Question: 'Lars Olson Smith's "Purified Tenfold" distilling system produced a vodka named this for its complete purity'

Answer: Absolut


Question: 'Puno, Peru & La Paz, Bolivia are at opposite ends of this 3,200-square-mile lake'

Answer: Lake Titicaca


Question: 'Too great to measure'

Answer: incalculable


Question: 'In his "Ode on" this Keats wrote, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"'

Answer: A Grecian Urn


Question: 'Named for a steamboat captain, this "Mother Church of Country Music" was home to the Opry for 31 years'

Answer: Ryman Auditorium


Question: '"The Prayer of" this obscure Biblical person topped bestseller lists in 2001'

Answer: Jabez


Question: 'San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe is credited with inventing this hot drink popular on St. Patrick's Day'

Answer: Irish coffee


Question: 'This fast creature seen here can be widely found in the grasslands of southern Peru'

Answer: rhea


Question: 'Glowing brightly'

Answer: incandescent/incandescence


Question: 'He knew a lot about "Stone Walls": he was imprisoned in 1642 & 1648 & wrote famous poems both times'

Answer: Richard Lovelace


Question: 'During his career, this "Tennessee Plowboy" spent a record 145 weeks at the No. 1 position on the country charts'

Answer: Eddy Arnold


Question: 'Nebraskan Edwin Perkins created a fruit drink he named this, a nod to its summertime appeal'

Answer: Kool-Aid


Question: 'In the 19th century Peru fought a war with Bolivia against Chile over this mineral-rich desert'

Answer: Atacama Desert


Question: 'To deprive of effectiveness'

Answer: incapacitate


Question: 'Phrase associated with very dissimilar events of April 19, 1775 & October 3, 1951'

Answer: the \"Shot Heard \'Round the World\"


Question: 'In Rochester in this state, you might expect to find fans of the Fighting Irish, as it's just south of South Bend'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'In the 1700s Jacques Daviel performed the first modern surgery on this clouding of the eye's lens'

Answer: cataract


Question: 'This L.A. Laker shot 39 free throws in a single game in the 2000 NBA Finals'

Answer: Shaquille O\'Neal


Question: 'In 1908 Jack Johnson became the first black boxing champ in this weight division when he KO'd Tommy Burns'

Answer: heavyweight


Question: 'In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Each child brings something to school & informs the other kids about it in this activity'

Answer: show and tell


Question: 'Rochester in Plymouth County in this state is home to Witch Rock where witches were said to rise skyward'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'This "imperial" surgical procedure can be used to deliver babies in distress at the time of birth'

Answer: Caesarean section


Question: 'Jack Benny turned 39 for real in this year, the year FDR first took office'

Answer: 1933


Question: 'At Karachi National Stadium, you can cheer on heroes of this sport, including Hanif Mohammad & Shahid Khan Afridi'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president'

Answer: Benjamin Harrison


Question: 'A judicial proceeding with a predetermined outcome held for propaganda purposes'

Answer: show trial


Question: '9 miles east of Pontiac, the city of Rochester in this state is home to Oakland University'

Answer: Michigan


Question: 'In a controversial procedure in 1984, Baby Fae received a heart from one of these monkeys'

Answer: baboon


Question: 'While working on the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer was 39 & living in this New Mexico town'

Answer: Los Alamos


Question: 'Mike Eruzione led the U.S. men's ice hockey team to the Olympic gold medal in this year, the last time the U.S. team won'

Answer: 1980


Question: 'In addition to his "Baby and Child Care" book, he wrote "Caring for Your Disabled Child"'

Answer: Dr. Benjamin Spock


Question: 'A part of a performance receiving so much prolonged applause it interrupts the program'

Answer: show stopper


Question: 'A port on the New York state barge canal, Rochester, New York is closest to this Great Lake'

Answer: Lake Ontario


Question: 'In the 1950s it became the first internal organ successfully transplanted in humans'

Answer: kidney


Question: 'This British monarch outlived her husband by 39 years'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: '(I'm NFL wide receiver Ed McCaffrey)  In the 1999 Super Bowl, I caught 5 passes from this quarterback who was playing his final game'

Answer: John Elway


Question: 'In the 1790s astronomer & mathematician Benjamin Banneker compiled an annual one of these'

Answer: almanac


Question: 'A producer of a TV show who supervises most of the aspects of production'

Answer: show runner


Question: 'Just up the turnpike from Portsmouth is the "Lilac City" of Rochester in this "New" state'

Answer: New Hampshire


Question: 'From the Latin for "to look at a joint", this type of surgery removes & repairs torn knee cartilage'

Answer: arthroscopic surgery


Question: 'Chapter 39 of this religious text is entitled "Az-Zumar" or "The Troops"'

Answer: The Koran


Question: 'An old superstition of rodeo riders was never wear this color, until Dan Mortensen did & won big'

Answer: yellow


Question: 'In 1954 he turned Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" into an opera'

Answer: Benjamin Britten


Question: 'Official nickname of the entity that joined the United States on August 10, 1821'

Answer: "Show-Me State" (Missouri)


Question: 'In a kids' song "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas...where hydrogen is built into" this'

Answer: helium


Question: 'I want a vodka cocktail whenever I hear the name of this "South Pacific" character who's Liat's mother'

Answer: Bloody Mary


Question: 'In the 300s Candra Gupta ruled this country as Maharajadhiraja, or king of kings'

Answer: India


Question: 'It's waved to indicate surrender or truce'

Answer: white flag


Question: 'They're "The Flickertail State" & "The Mount Rushmore State"; together, they're called "The Twin Sisters"'

Answer: North Dakota & South Dakota


Question: 'This term for an object carried to give a person a sense of safety was popularized in the comic strip "Peanuts"'

Answer: security blanket


Question: 'John Mayer sings, "She's always buzzing just like" this noble gas'

Answer: neon


Question: 'When this musical begins, Irene Molloy plans to marry Horace Vandergelder, but Mrs. Levi may have other ideas'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'In 527 Theodora, daughter of a bearkeeper, rose to empress of this empire based in Constantinople'

Answer: Byzantine Empire


Question: 'This medium was originally called "wireless telegraohy"'

Answer: radio


Question: 'It's sometimes called "The Land of the Saints", because lots of Latter-Day Saints live there'

Answer: Utah


Question: 'Our word for this long, narrow runnerless type of sled comes from Canada's Micmac Indians'

Answer: toboggan


Question: 'This other 5-letter name for the noble gases refers to their reluctance to form compounds'

Answer: inert


Question: 'Magaldi is a famous tango singer who gets involved with this title character'

Answer: Evita


Question: 'In the early 100s Juvenal was writing in this genre, mocking & ridiculing Roman corruption'

Answer: satire


Question: 'The use of this Indian language as a secret code during WWII is covered in the film "Windtalkers"'

Answer: Navajo


Question: 'Fir sure!  Firs, pines & hemlocks helped give Washington state this nickname'

Answer: "The Evergreen State"


Question: 'Now meaning a confused & turbulent situation, it's a notorious ocean whirlpool off northern Norway'

Answer: maelstrom


Question: 'Recently, the noble gases have been forced into compounds, like this one in HArF, created in 2000'

Answer: argon


Question: 'A lovely lass named Fiona MacLaren is the heroine of this Lerner & Loewe show'

Answer: Brigadoon


Question: 'This Frankish ruler didn't come up short with his 754 donation of lands to the pope'

Answer: Pepin


Question: 'One of these clear cables can carry 65,000 times more info than a regular copper wire'

Answer: fiber optic cable


Question: 'Though nicknamed "The Constitution State", it was actually the fifth state to ratify the Constitution'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'The Spanish gave the indigenous Peruvians this name that came from the native word for "king"'

Answer: Inca


Question: 'Building on the Curies' work, Friedrich Dorn found this gas & first called it "emanation"'

Answer: radon


Question: 'Once a teenaged muleteer in a San Diego production, Brian Stokes Mitchell now has the lead in this show on Broadway'

Answer: Man of La Mancha


Question: 'A Thomas Cahill book says this island people "saved civilization" by preserving writings'

Answer: Irish (Ireland)


Question: 'It's the "warm" term for the operation that links your Palm & PC for an exchange of data'

Answer: HotSync


Question: 'So much wild sage grows there that it's the "Sage State" (as well as the "Sagebrush State")'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'The name of this cold, treeless region where reindeer thrive comes from a Russian word for "flat-topped hill"'

Answer: tundra


Question: 'She was fined 20,000 francs for "inciting racial hatred" by denouncing a religious practice of killing sheep'

Answer: Brigitte Bardot


Question: 'A decree by this man in 1806 dissolved the 1,000-year-old Holy Roman Empire'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the manufacturing facilities of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.)  At Ping, the first step of making golf irons is injecting hot wax into a mold of this malleable, silver-white metallic element'

Answer: aluminum


Question: 'Hugh Hefner moved full time to the Playboy Mansion West in 1975 after years of living in this hometown'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number"'

Answer: Hawthorne


Question: 'Chevy says its Avalanche can convert "from a full-size SUV to" this type of truck "in less than a minute"'

Answer: a pickup truck


Question: 'Also a preposition, the abbreviation for this Midwestern state can mean "popular" or "fashionable"'

Answer: Indiana, IN


Question: 'In 1806 this man published his first American English dictionary'

Answer: Webster


Question: '(Sarah reads from the foundry of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.)  About 10% of clubs that are cast for Ping are for this type of golfer, like Phil Mickelson or Mike Weir'

Answer: a left-handed golfer


Question: 'Behind the Playboy Mansion's grotto is a pond for these bright Japanese carp'

Answer: koi


Question: 'Guy Montag is back, & those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78"'

Answer: Ray Bradbury


Question: 'In 426 A.D. the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church; around 1460 it was converted into one of these'

Answer: a mosque


Question: 'Put "17" with the abbreviation for this state & you get an MPAA movie rating'

Answer: North Carolina, NC


Question: 'This future president shot Charles Dickinson dead in an 1806 duel & took a bullet for his trouble'

Answer: Jackson