Question: 'In 404 B.C. a starving Athens was forced to give up its long fight in this war'

Answer: the Peloponnesian War


Question: 'This uppermost part of a capital has the same name as an ancient calculator'

Answer: an abacus


Question: 'Russian "Eugene Onegin" composer whose brother Modest wrote the libretto for his last opera, "Iolanta"'

Answer: Tchaikovsky


Question: 'This northern sea was named for a British admiral who was famous for a wind scale'

Answer: Beaufort


Question: 'A national park in California is named for this yucca plant that grows there'

Answer: the Joshua tree


Question: 'From 1917 to 1919 this poet from Maine was an actress & playwright with the Provincetown Players'

Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay


Question: '1 of the 3 things "we mutually pledge to each other" at the end of the Declaration'

Answer: (1 of) our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honor


Question: 'Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" examines this president's administration & private life'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'In an ever-popular musical, Mr. Mushnik's flower shop becomes this title place'

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors


Question: 'The scorpion'

Answer: arachnid


Question: '"My Golden Bengal" is this country's national anthem'

Answer: Bangladesh


Question: 'A malihini is a newcomer to this state'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it'

Answer: thou


Question: 'This radio personality bared all in his 1993 book "Private Parts"'

Answer: Howard Stern


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Broadway set of Cabaret.)  Life is a cabaret on the set of "Cabaret" at the Kit Kat Club, a tawdry nightclub in this city'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'The daddy longlegs'

Answer: arachnid


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a boxing ring at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, NY.)  This term for small chickens and boxers between 112 and 118 pounds is believed to have come from a town on the island of Java'

Answer: bantamweight


Question: 'In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work'

Answer: Don Quixote


Question: 'A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr.'

Answer: Mr.


Question: 'No question about it, after 30 years this "Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" is still flying high'

Answer: What Color Is Your Parachute?


Question: 'In this show's first scene, "It's a typical day in Dogpatch, U.S.A."'

Answer: Li\'l Abner


Question: 'The aphid'

Answer: insect


Question: 'Including Zulu & Xhosa, it's an African language group of over 500 languages'

Answer: Bantu


Question: 'Experts say the smell in a new one of these is from the phthalate plasticizers used in PVC, not leather'

Answer: car


Question: 'Miss came from the first syllable of this word & mrs. is a shortened form of it'

Answer: mistress


Question: '2003's "I Am a Soldier, Too" tells her story, including that of her capture & rescue'

Answer: Jessica Lynch


Question: 'What a drag! This Jerry Herman musical is set in part at the St. Tropez nightclub of the same name'

Answer: La Cage aux Folles


Question: 'The earwig'

Answer: insect


Question: 'In Shakespeare, this close friend of Macbeth's is with him when he encounters the 3 witches'

Answer: Banquo


Question: 'Developed in Australia, the Sugarbaby & the Crimson Glow are new breeds of this shortcake fruit'

Answer: strawberry


Question: 'From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village'

Answer: sheik


Question: 'In 1957 E.B. White was called in to edit this professor's "The Elements of Style"'

Answer: William Strunk (Jr.)


Question: 'At the beginning of this show, it's 6 a.m. in the Brooklyn Navy Yard'

Answer: On the Town


Question: 'The limpet'

Answer: gastropod


Question: 'The name of this mythical female spirit comes from the old Irish for "woman of the fairy realm"'

Answer: Banshee


Question: 'This Smithsonian museum has new digs at Dulles International Airport'

Answer: the Air & Space Museum


Question: 'As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms'

Answer: comrade


Question: 'World War I German troops are seen here in one of these structures'

Answer: a trench


Question: 'Sure to be "way up high" among the 100 songs is this Judy Garland standard from "The Wizard of Oz"'

Answer: "Over The Rainbow"


Question: 'In 1855 Heinrich Barth compiled African vocabularies while crossing this 3.5 million-square-mile area'

Answer: the Sahara


Question: 'Fiorinal with codeine (& aspirin, & caffeine) is mainly prescribed for the tension type of this'

Answer: a headache


Question: 'It's the avuncular nickname of the man seen here'

Answer: "Uncle Milty"


Question: 'Big number represented at the 1945 Yalta Conference'

Answer: three


Question: 'The image seen here is from this conflict'

Answer: the Korean War


Question: '(Hi, I'm Clay Aiken.)  One song I really hope made the list is "Unchained Melody", a favorite of mine, which was used as the love theme in this Demi Moore film'

Answer: Ghost


Question: 'This brand is the nasal-spray version of Fluticasone for those with allergies'

Answer: Flonase


Question: 'Based on his 1992 testimony against John Gotti, he could have been Sammy the Canary, not the Bull'

Answer: Sammy Gravano


Question: 'It's the number of basic questions in journalism (don't forget the "H")'

Answer: six


Question: 'Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 shot of its aftermath is titled "A Harvest of Death"'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'In terms of recent songs, perhaps this movie's "My Heart Will Go On" will go on the list'

Answer: Titanic


Question: 'Ibadan, Abuja & Ogbomosho are all cities in this African nation of over 125 million'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'Nadolol is this class of drug; it fights hypertension by keeping neurotransmitters from binding with receptors'

Answer: a beta blocker


Question: '(I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.)  My clothing style got me this nickname after a '30s gangster featured in a 1967 movie'

Answer: "Clyde"


Question: 'When "General Hospital" began in 1963 it was set on this floor of the hospital, also the dial position of ABC in L.A. & NYC'

Answer: seven


Question: 'Seen here is a photo from the Battle of this, which lasted from about June 1940 to April 1941'

Answer: Britain


Question: 'The world will always welcome great movie tunes like the one heard here, from this 1942 classic'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: 'The country of Namibia was once known as this, & that's also where it is on the map'

Answer: South West Africa


Question: 'This term for a popular type of cholesterol-lowering drug sounds like a New York island'

Answer: statin


Question: 'For his brilliant but minority Supreme Court opinions, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was "The Great" this'

Answer: Dissenter


Question: 'If you are the very model of a U.S. Major General, you wear this many stars'

Answer: two


Question: 'Bridge seen here in 1775; an Emerson hymn called it "the rude bridge that arched the flood"'

Answer: Concord Bridge


Question: 'The movie "Bright Eyes" gave us this sweet little song that mentions bon bons & a chocolate bar'

Answer: "The Good Ship Lollipop"


Question: 'Nairobi's tallest building is the conference center named for this first Prime Minister & President of Kenya'

Answer: Jomo Kenyatta


Question: '"I feel that others would be better off if I were dead" is part of a self-test on this Eli Lilly drug's website'

Answer: Prozac


Question: 'Richard Nixon's aides Haldeman & Erlichman were sometimes called these comic-strip "Kids"'

Answer: Katzenjammer


Question: 'The Red Cross says you should wait this many weeks between whole blood donations'

Answer: eight


Question: 'Josephine Cochrane's 1886 version of this consisted of a copper boiler, wire baskets & a pump'

Answer: a dishwasher


Question: 'Prime Minister Eamon de Valera'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Edward Mahoney "cashed" in under this name'

Answer: Eddie Money


Question: 'Of the Gabbro, the goldendoodle, or the gadroon, the one that's a real breed of dog'

Answer: the goldendoodle


Question: 'Arnold graduated from this state university at Superior, not Madison, with a degree in business & international economics'

Answer: the University of Wisconsin


Question: 'He won the U. S. presidential election that had the top voter turnout of the 1960s, 62.8%'

Answer: (John F.) Kennedy


Question: 'They're words with opposite meanings'

Answer: antonyms


Question: 'President Alberto Fujimori'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'A member of the Monkees, this lanky gent is the one whose real first name is Robert'

Answer: Nesmith


Question: 'In a mental puzzle dating from the 9th century, a farmer, a goat, some cabbages & a wolf all have to do this'

Answer: cross a river


Question: 'This ex-governor of Minnesota rumbled in the jungle with Arnie in "Predator"'

Answer: Jesse Ventura


Question: 'In February 1983 this TV show about the 4077th got a 77% rating'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'John le Carre is one, for David Cornwell'

Answer: pseudonym


Question: 'Prime Minister Jan Chistiaan Smuts'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Jamesetta Hawkins rearranged part of her real name to get this stage name'

Answer: Etta James


Question: 'The burrowing wolf variety of this arthropod uses its fangs to poison insects that it ambushes'

Answer: a spider


Question: 'Mr. S was the 1st private citizen in the U.S. to own one of these, aka the high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle'

Answer: a Hummer (or Humvee)


Question: 'To reduce a quantity by 25%, multiply the quantity by this'

Answer: 0.75


Question: 'An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of a series of words'

Answer: acronym


Question: 'Pasha Muhammad Ali'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This hip-hop crooner whose first hit was "Think Of You" does have a last name--it's Raymond'

Answer: Usher


Question: 'Some female lobsters do it only once a year, male lobsters more often, & its name is from the Latin for "change"'

Answer: molt


Question: 'In 1990 Arnold became chairman of "The President's Council on" this'

Answer: Physical Fitness


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a chalkboard.)  For the quantities represented here, it's the ratio of imports to exports expressed as a percentage'

Answer: 125%


Question: 'Guillotine & sandwich are examples of these'

Answer: eponyms


Question: 'Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins'

Answer: Chile


Question: '"Don't Go Breaking My Heart": tell me that Pauline Matthews changed her name to this'

Answer: Kiki Dee


Question: 'To blacken by burning, or a light-colored spotted trout'

Answer: char


Question: 'The Governator's father-in-law is this man from a pre-Revolutionary Maryland family'

Answer: Sargent Shriver


Question: 'Up from about 6% in 1980, this ethnicity now makes up about 12.5% of the U.S.'

Answer: Hispanic


Question: 'Words that have the same spelling but different pronunciations & meanings'

Answer: heteronyms


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the seashore in Greece.)  A favorite description of the sea for Homer, as in book two of "The Odyssey", is to call it "dark as" this liquid'

Answer: wine


Question: '2000:<br />Maximus Decimus Meridius'

Answer: Russell Crowe


Question: 'The USA's largest national park in area is Wrangell-St. Elias in this state'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'He co-wrote the musicals "South Pacific" & "The King and I"'

Answer: Oscar Hammerstein


Question: '"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides", warns this woman in Act I of "King Lear"'

Answer: Cordelia


Question: 'Founded in 1938, it was a Ford Motor Company brand name of semi-luxury models'

Answer: Mercury


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.)  In 1810, here in Athens, this British author wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh, give me back my heart!"'

Answer: Byron


Question: '1979:<br />Ted Kramer'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'The 1 million gallons of water that bubbles up each day in this Arkansas park is a warm 140 degrees'

Answer: Hot Springs


Question: 'He was Lucky Luciano's right-hand man & the financial mastermind behind the mob'

Answer: Meyer Lansky


Question: 'He calls Gertude "Our sometime sister, now our Queen"'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'In 2000 Sports Illustrated for Women named her Sportswoman of the Year'

Answer: Venus Williams


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santorini, Greece.)  He wrote in 1941's "The Colossus of Maroussi" that, "In Greece, light penetrates to the soul, opens the doors and windows of the heart"'

Answer: Henry Miller


Question: '1996:<br />Football player Rod Tidwell'

Answer: Cuba Gooding, Jr.


Question: 'In 1980 the name of Mount McKinley National Park was changed to this'

Answer: Denali


Question: 'He quipped, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'In "Troilus and Cressida", King Priam says that this daughter of his "doth foresee" (yes, but does anyone listen?)'

Answer: Cassandra


Question: 'In 1911 in Tacoma, this confectioner founded what is today one of the USA's largest privately-owned corporations'

Answer: (Frank) Mars


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a shore in Greece.)  He wrote about the beauty of the Greek landscape in "The Magus", set on an island like the one  where he had lived'

Answer: John Fowles


Question: '2002:<br />Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman'

Answer: Adrien Brody


Question: 'This national park in Florida consists of 27 low coral islands, none of which has fresh water, thus its "parched" name'

Answer: Dry Tortugas National Park


Question: 'This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum'

Answer: Meyer Guggenheim


Question: 'A rather confused Macbeth says, "The Thane of" this place "lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"'

Answer: Cawdor


Question: 'Reportedly, Mozart wrote it in the space of a few weeks in 1788'

Answer: "The Jupiter Symphony"


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Greece: "I'm at the Temple of Demeter on Naxos.")  In the "Works and Days", this ancient poet wrote of the importance of praying to Demeter if you want crops to flourish'

Answer: Hesiod


Question: '1999:<br />Lester Burnham'

Answer: Kevin Spacey


Question: 'This park covers much of Maine's Mount Desert Island'

Answer: Acadia


Question: 'Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14'

Answer: Norbert Wiener


Question: 'In "Richard III", Richard's brother George is the doomed duke of this'

Answer: Clarence


Question: 'An important fuel project by the Allies during WWII, its goal was to build "pipe-lines under the oceans"'

Answer: the Pluto Project


Question: 'From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God'

Answer: Gnosticism


Question: 'For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this'

Answer: The drawing board


Question: 'This star seen here broke the Las Vegas color line in 1954:'

Answer: Sammy Davis, Jr.


Question: 'The shells of these nuts were dyed red to make them distinctive to consumers & to disguise blemishes'

Answer: Pistachios


Question: 'A cold-blooded vertebrate'

Answer: Reptile


Question: 'Francisco Franco died Nov. 20, 1975  in this capital city'

Answer: Madrid


Question: 'Located on the borders of Arizona & Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 & got "presidential" in 1947'

Answer: Hoover Dam


Question: 'To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this'

Answer: Scratch


Question: '"The Birdman of Alcatraz" is one of the classic roles of this star, seen here:'

Answer: Burt Lancaster


Question: 'These kidney-shaped nuts grow from the bottom of a tropical "apple"'

Answer: Cashews


Question: 'A device permitting passage of one paying customer at a time'

Answer: Turnstile


Question: 'Sometime after Nov. 20, 1975 this "SNL" "Weekend Update" anchor reassured us that the Generalissimo "is still dead"'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: 'The Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, Roosevelt Lake in this state stretches 150 mi. toward Canada's border'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling'

Answer: Start the ball rolling


Question: 'The man seen here died in 1996, 7 weeks after celebrating this birthday:'

Answer: 100th (George Burns)


Question: 'The paste of these nuts is an ingredient in marzipan'

Answer: Almonds


Question: 'A non-Mormon or a non-Jew'

Answer: Gentile


Question: 'In the spring of 1939 Franco won unconditional victory in this war begun in 1936'

Answer: Spanish Civil War


Question: 'Construction of the Aswan High Dam, which holds back Lake Nasser in this country, cost $1 billion'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years'

Answer: Raise the curtain (Curtin)


Question: 'His smash songs include the 1948 million-seller "Nature Boy":'

Answer: Nat King Cole


Question: 'This nut contains more fat & calories than any other nut'

Answer: Macadamia


Question: 'It describes an unsuccessful endeavor'

Answer: Futile


Question: 'Franco wanted a piece of the rock when he demanded the return of this U.K. territory to Spain in the '60s'

Answer: Gibraltar


Question: 'First proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the Three Gorges Dam in this nation will be the world's largest when finished'

Answer: the People\'s Republic of China


Question: 'In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this'

Answer: New York Stock Exchange


Question: 'On her long-running TV show, she was the matriarch of the Stone family of Hilldale:'

Answer: Donna Reed


Question: 'The New England Journal of Medicine reports this nut, including the English or Persian type, can help your heart'

Answer: Walnut


Question: 'Relating to trade or commerce'

Answer: Mercantile


Question: 'Franco's regime was ostracized for its Fascist policies by this organization formed in October 1945'

Answer: United Nations


Question: 'Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first major dam built by this New Deal agency'

Answer: TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)


Question: 'Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for this book'

Answer: The Good Earth


Question: 'The young orphan boys of the workhouse sing "Food, Glorious Food" in Act 1 of this '60s musical'

Answer: Oliver!


Question: 'It's the more common name for frozen carbon dioxide'

Answer: Dry ice


Question: 'To convince New Yorkers it was safe, this impresario led 21 elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883'

Answer: P.T. Barnum


Question: 'He was the one & only U.S. president to take the oath of office aboard an airplane'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'Some stories tug at my heartstrings, & I also feel them lower down, here'

Answer: Gut (tug)


Question: 'Clement Hurd illustrated this children's classic seen here:'

Answer: Goodnight Moon


Question: 'In Act I of this musical, Curly asks Laurey to the Box Social'

Answer: Oklahoma!


Question: 'From words meaning "against life", this class of drugs often derived from fungi is used against bacteria'

Answer: Antibiotics


Question: 'This "diabolical" area of Manhattan stretches from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River'

Answer: Hell\'s Kitchen


Question: 'It was the only prime-time TV series to be No. 1 in the ratings in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s'

Answer: 60 Minutes


Question: 'I emit a snort when I peruse this publication'

Answer: Time (emit)


Question: 'It's James Hilton's sentimental 1934 novel about an English schoolmaster'

Answer: Goodbye, Mr. Chips


Question: 'This 1959 Broadway musical ends with the title character being elected mayor of NYC in 1933'

Answer: Fiorello! (named for Fiorello LaGuardia)


Question: 'Panphobia is fear of this'

Answer: Everything


Question: 'In 1997 an expressway between Queens & Brooklyn was renamed to honor this pioneering baseball player'

Answer: Jackie Robinson


Question: 'On October 8, 1956 this Yankee became the first & only player to pitch a perfect game in the World Series'

Answer: Don Larsen


Question: 'This Joseph Heller novel treats Jewish family life & the Washington political scene'

Answer: Good As Gold


Question: 'The song heard here is from the 30th anniversary production of this 1964 musical:<br />[audio clue: "I have always been a woman who arranges things..."]'

Answer: Hello, Dolly!


Question: 'The name of this type of medical examination comes from the Greek for "seeing with one's own eyes"'

Answer: Autopsy


Question: 'This island houses the inmates & staff of the New York City jail'

Answer: Rikers Island


Question: 'This U.S. chemist is the only person to win 2 unshared Nobel Prizes (which he won in 2 different categories)'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'This Nietzsche work was published in 1886 as "Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose"'

Answer: Beyond Good And Evil


Question: 'This 1968 musical was a biography of the composer of "Over There" & "Give My Regards To Broadway"'

Answer: George M!


Question: 'Named for an Italian scientist, it's the scientific "number" of molecules in 1 gram mole of any substance'

Answer: Avogadro\'s Number


Question: 'A statue of this Italian national hero of the 19th century is in NYC's Washington Square Park'

Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi


Question: 'Subtitled "Conjugal Love", it was Beethoven's one & only opera'

Answer: Fidelio


Question: 'Bluelight.com is the internet shopping site of this retail chain'

Answer: Kmart


Question: 'Not surprisingly, this Polish director's "The Ninth Gate" was filmed in Europe, even the New York scenes'

Answer: (Roman) Polanski


Question: 'The fourth installment of this horror movie series was subtitled "The Return of Michael Myers"'

Answer: Halloween


Question: 'Matt Damon hails from this education-oriented Boston-area city'

Answer: Cambridge


Question: 'Opened in 2000, the world's longest higway tunnel at 15.2 miles links Oslo and Bergen in this country'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall"'

Answer: sat


Question: 'He played the title role in the movie "Being John Malkovich"'

Answer: John Malkovich


Question: 'Born around 1595, her real name was Mantoaka'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'In this 1975 Jack Nicholson film, a feisty misfit enters an insane asylum & inspires his fellow patients'

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest


Question: '(Hey. I'm Wayne Brady.) I started my performing career in this Florida city sometimes called O-Town'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'In 1785 Congress began mail service using this horse-drawn carriage'

Answer: stagecoach


Question: 'Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God..."'

Answer: wrought


Question: 'It's the band whose farewell concert was chronicled in the documentary "The Last Waltz"'

Answer: The Band


Question: 'When she died in 1960, Life Magazine said, "The world has lost its best known arbiter of good conduct"'

Answer: Emily Post


Question: 'With $106 million, this "menacing" 1999 sci-fi film had the biggest 5-day opening in cinema history'

Answer: The Phantom Menace


Question: 'Though born in Washington, D.C., this "Kiss of the Spider Woman" Oscar winner was raised in the South Pacific'

Answer: William Hurt


Question: 'The Eclipse and Galant are 2 of the cars driving up business for this Japanese automaker'

Answer: Mitsubishi


Question: 'If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card'

Answer: belated


Question: 'Physician Robert Graves first identified this disease in 1835'

Answer: Graves\' Disease


Question: 'He was U.S. President during the "Fabulous '40s" (the 1840s, that is)'

Answer: Polk


Question: '24 years before his Best Actor nomination, this actor-writer appeared in the 1973 yearbook photo seen here'

Answer: Billy Bob Thornton


Question: 'Wynton & Branford Marsalis were both born in this southern "Crescent City"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'An SST can travel at over 1,300 mph; SS stands for this'

Answer: supersonic


Question: 'On pepper boxes, it means "milled"'

Answer: cracked


Question: 'Carvings of a bell and a star are found on her gravestone in Porum, Oklahoma'

Answer: Belle Starr


Question: 'He gave us the line "A little learning is a dangerous thing"'

Answer: (Alexander) Pope


Question: 'A pregnant Billy Crystal's got a bun in the oven in this 1978 film directed by Joan Rivers'

Answer: Rabbit Test


Question: 'This sitcom star says Massapequa, N.Y., where he grew up, has an Indian name that means "by the mall"'

Answer: (Jerry) Seinfeld


Question: 'One of these in Wuppertal, Germany has been operating since 1901, the year Walt Disney was born'

Answer: monorail


Question: 'This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon'

Answer: drawn


Question: 'He's the illustrator whose work appears on the flag stamp seen here'

Answer: (James Montgomery) Flagg


Question: 'This British physician and novelist based his Holmes character on one of his university professors'

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle


Question: 'Harry Blackmun retired from this in 1994 joking that he didn't want his senility to reach unacceptable levels'

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: 'In 1979 the USSR invaded this country to help support the government against the Mujahideen'

Answer: Afghanistan


Question: 'Roger Staubach<br />(1969-1979)'

Answer: the Dallas Cowboys


Question: 'This quantity symbolized by an x or y, can also mean someone inexperienced on untested'

Answer: unknown


Question: 'This ancient device performs mathematical processes by beads moving along parallel rods'

Answer: an abacus


Question: '"The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion" & "The Marioka Sisters" are classics from this Asian country'

Answer: Japan


Question:
'Man whose retirement speech is seen here:

"...an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."'

Answer: (Douglas) MacArthur


Question: 'This country's 4 provinces are Baluchistan, the Northwest Frontier, Sindh, & Punjab'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Bill Bradley<br />(1967-1977)'

Answer: the New York Knicks


Question: 'Sometimes preceded by poly-, it means "able to dissolve more of a substance"'

Answer: unsaturated


Question: 'This word describes an anchor that is free of the bottom so that a ship can sail'

Answer: aweigh


Question: 'Credited to Luo Guanzhong, "All Men Are Brothers" is a famous tale about an outlaw gang of this country'

Answer: China


Question: 'She retired from the screen in 1934 but was ready for her close-up again in 1950's "Sunset Boulevard"'

Answer: Gloria Swanson


Question: 'Ut follows Uruguay on an alphabetical list of the world's independent countries'

Answer: Uzbekistan


Question: 'Gordie Howe<br />(1946-1971)'

Answer: the Detroit Red Wings


Question: 'Term for any substance that destroys leaves, like those used in Vietnam to expose the enemy in the jungle'

Answer: defoliator


Question: 'To speak evasively, or a light crisp battercake baked in a specific appliance'

Answer: waffle


Question: 'In its original Italian, this Umberto Eco work is "Il Pendolo Di Foucault"'

Answer: Foucault\'s Pendulum


Question: 'In 1955 this former GOP president completed a government commission and retired from public service'

Answer: Hoover


Question: 'Ankara is the capital of Turkey and Ashgabat is the capital of this country'

Answer: Turkmenistan


Question: 'Paul Hornung<br />(1957-1966)'

Answer: the Green Bay Packers


Question: 'The opposite of what's done to vegetable oil, it means to remove the element with atomic no. 1'

Answer: dehydrogenate


Question: 'Salesmen have long known that you "don't sell the steak", you "sell" this'

Answer: the sizzle


Question: 'Tant pis, the crucial expanison of existential thought by this French author was cut all too short'

Answer: (Albert) Camus


Question: 'Born in Australia in 1926, this Soprano retired from the stage in 1990'

Answer: Joan Sutherland


Question: 'This area partly in Iraq is name for an ethnic group treated brutally by Saddam Hussein'

Answer: Kurdistan


Question: 'Bob Cousy<br />(1950-1963)'

Answer: the Boston Celtics


Question: 'One-word synonym for a blood thinner'

Answer: anticoagulant


Question: 'A sulking, petulant child, or a long-legged pigeon'

Answer: a pouter


Question: 'Organ whose workings were the subject of a 1604 work by Johannes Kepler'

Answer: the eye


Question: 'It was the big event in London September 2-5, 1666'

Answer: the Great Fire


Question: 'Please, no mumbling when I tell you it's an abnormal sound in a person's heartbeat'

Answer: a murmur


Question: 'This variety of collie is named for its origin near the region between England & Scotland'

Answer: border collie


Question: 'It wasn't the barber who took a little off the top of this English king'

Answer: Charles I


Question: 'On Sept. 14, 1812 French troops occupied this capital city & found it almost deserted'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'The first VP ever to succeed a resigning president & the actor who piloted the Millennium Falcon'

Answer: Gerald & Harrison Ford


Question: 'Here's your "Q": This Mesoam. god created a tornado that wiped out man, except for those he changed into monkeys'

Answer: Quetzalcoatl


Question: 'Using a hot sauce called harissa, Tunisians spice up this steamed semolina dish'

Answer: couscous


Question: 'These 2 hounds whose names begin with the same letter are said by the AKC to have the keenest sense of smell'

Answer: bloodhound & basset hound


Question: 'Once more, this Lancastrian breached his greatest success around 1415'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'In September 1988 this city hosted the Summer Olympics'

Answer: Seoul


Question: 'He Tippecanoed into the White House in 1841; she won our hearts in "Lord of the Rings"'

Answer: John & Liv Tyler


Question: 'In Norse mythology, the Norns are 3 sisters who made one of these for every life'

Answer: a thread


Question: 'Many parts of Africa are uninhabitable due to this fly that spreads African sleeping sickness'

Answer: the tsetse fly


Question: 'This name of a popular hunting dog means "swift" in Russian'

Answer: borzoi


Question: 'This English king is seen here with his Prime Minister'

Answer: George VI


Question: 'As Prime Minister of Israel, he signed the Camp David accords in September 1978'

Answer: Begin


Question: 'The "Plains" folk governor & the long-imprisoned boxer'

Answer: Jimmy & Rubin Carter


Question: 'This mythical king of Sparta was Agamemnon's brother & Helen of Troy's husband'

Answer: Meneleus


Question: 'Traitorous WWII broadcaster William Joyce was better known as Lord this'

Answer: Lord Haw-Haw


Question: 'Nicknamed the "coach dog", it probably earned its name during the Balkan wars of 1912 & 1913 in Croatia'

Answer: a dalmatian


Question: 'Sadly, this Tudor king didn't live to be much older than he looks in the depiction seen here'

Answer: Edward VI


Question: 'In February 1991 he formed Haiti's first democratic government; in September he was ousted by a coup'

Answer: Aristide


Question: 'Reconstruction ends in the South during his term & he constructs the voice of Chef Jerome McElroy for "South Park"'

Answer: Rutherford & Isaac Hayes


Question: 'The son of the sun god, Cuchulain was a great hero of the myths & legends of this country'

Answer: Ireland


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.)  Just like the word "gong", the word for this gong of Chinese origin is derived from the sound it makes'

Answer: a tam-tam


Question: 'Similar to but larger than a beagle, this breed shares its name with a type of hawk & a type of British jet fighter'

Answer: the harrier


Question: 'In 1714, the Brits told this king to "come on over"'

Answer: George I


Question: 'Like a teenager or the Moon, matter may go through one of these states, such as liquid or gas'

Answer: phases


Question: 'Things don't end well for Faye Dunaway as this 1967 title character'

Answer: Bonnie (Parker)


Question: 'We wonder if trolls guard the Saab design center in Trollhattan in this country'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Eggs, diced ham, green pepper & onion'

Answer: a Western Omelet


Question: 'The extract of this spice is made by percolating alcohol & water through the chopped, cured orchid beans'

Answer: vanilla


Question: 'Sir Richard Burton translated this Hindu love manual into English around 1883'

Answer: the Kama Sutra


Question: 'Pure water's density is approximately 1 gram per cubic centimeter, & its "specific" this is also 1'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Glenn Close chillingly warned Michael Douglas "I'm not gonna be ignored" in this 1987 film'

Answer: Fatal Attraction


Question: '(Survivor's Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Palau.) Palau has a lake named for these gelatinous creatures which, believe me, do not taste good spread on toast'

Answer: jellyfish


Question: 'One of the original 11 companies listed when the New York Stock Exchange was created in 1884'

Answer: Western Union


Question: 'This spice, Zingiber officinale, was used during the Middle Ages against the plague because it caused sweating'

Answer: ginger


Question: 'This former talk show host helped us all out by writing "Sex for Dummies"'

Answer: Dr. Ruth


Question: 'A machine developed by Sidney James measures slippery surfaces' COF, coefficient of this'

Answer: friction


Question: 'Cloris Leachman brought the fearsome Frau Blucher to life in this 1974 comedy'

Answer: Young Frankenstein


Question: 'Guys in armor must feel at home in this section of London that's home to Harrods'

Answer: Knightsbridge


Question: 'Its capital is Perth'

Answer: Western Australia


Question: 'In the 16th century the Sinhalese king in Ceylon paid the Portuguese annual tributes of 240,000 lb. of this quill spice'

Answer: cinnamon


Question: 'Pauline Reage is credited as the once-anonymous author of this steamy "Story"'

Answer: Story of O


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the science lab.)  Of the three colors I have here, it's the one with the highest degree of saturation'

Answer: blue


Question: 'As Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates sets podiatry back about 1,000 years in this 1990 film'

Answer: Misery


Question: 'When in Vienna, sample some of this torte that's so famous it was the subject of a 1965 lawsuit'

Answer: Sachertorte


Question: 'It's directly below the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem'

Answer: the Western Wall


Question: 'Hungarian chemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was the first to isolate vitamin C from the pods of this spice'

Answer: paprika


Question: 'She penned the racy bestsellers "Delta of Venus" & "Henry and June"'

Answer: (Anais) Nin


Question: 'We wash our hands of this Scotswoman, played on film by Jeanette Nolan in 1948 & on TV by Judi Dench in 1978'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'The tallest bridge in the Caribbean is the Queen Juliana Bridge in this capital of Curacao'

Answer: Willemstad


Question: 'It's the state bird of Kansas & Nebraska'

Answer: Western Meadowlark


Question: 'This spice gives American-style mustard its bright yellow color'

Answer: turmeric


Question: 'Perhaps due in part to the amoral rakishness of his advice book "The Art of Love", he was banned from ancient Rome'

Answer: Ovid


Question: 'A group chaired by her produced a system that President Bush says now needs "wise and effective reform"'

Answer: Frances Perkins


Question: 'In 1875 British swimmer Matthew Webb made the first crossing of this, in 21 hours, 45 minutes'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'Perhaps tiring of all that sand in "Lawrence of Arabia", David Lean was "Russian" to photograph snow in this 1965 epic'

Answer: Doctor Zhivago


Question: 'A 1972 song said "put the lime in" this & "drink them both up"'

Answer: the coconut


Question: 'Hog home'

Answer: sty


Question: 'In Act I, Scene i he won't shut up about his love for the fair Rosaline; in Act I, Scene v, he falls for another girl'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'Wear flame-retardant mitts to touch the grill; these French-named charcoal blocks can reach 1000 degrees F.'

Answer: briquettes


Question: 'Several rivers in England are named this, including one that flows by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre'

Answer: Avon


Question: 'Jack Lemmon has his ups & downs with elevator operator Shirley MacLaine in this Billy Wilder classic'

Answer: The Apartment


Question: 'The shell of this kidney-shaped nut is highly toxic'

Answer: cashew


Question: 'A card game, or the colorless liquor you might drink while playing it'

Answer: gin


Question: 'The name of this 18th c. Italian adventurer whose racy memoir ran 12 volumes became a synonym for a promiscuous lover'

Answer: Casanova


Question: 'A metal tube, this "starter" named for an item found on a house concentrates heat & gets coals lit evenly'

Answer: chimney


Question: 'The ferry service across this river linking Birkenhead & Liverpool dates back to 1330'

Answer: Mersey


Question: 'George Hamilton (yes, George Hamilton) played Hank Williams in this 1964 film whose title "will tell on you"'

Answer: Your Cheatin\' Heart


Question: 'This semitropical citrus fruit looks like a large, bumpy lemon'

Answer: citron


Question: 'To add a soundtrack in a different language'

Answer: dub


Question: 'George Wickham seduces young Lydia Bennet in this novel; Mr. Darcy intercedes & brings about their marriage'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'George Stephen created this company's backyard grill by putting a rounded lid on half a metal buoy'

Answer: Weber


Question: 'This estuary of Scotland's Forth River extends 48 miles inland from the North Sea'

Answer: Firth of Forth


Question: 'Angela Lansbury & Ginger Rogers each played Mama Jean in competing movie bios about this 1930s sex symbol'

Answer: Jean Harlow


Question: 'This cinnamon-coated treat is sort of a Mexican cruller'

Answer: churro


Question: 'Biblical holder of critters or commandments'

Answer: ark


Question: 'This Byron poem says, "What men call gallantry, & gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry"'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'This host of "Boy Meets Grill" says charcoal is a lot of work but it gives food a smokiness that gas can't imitate'

Answer: Bobby Flay


Question: 'The Minch is a channel separating northwest Scotland & this "outer" island group'

Answer: Hebrides


Question: 'This freckle-faced blonde singer gets stalked by an eerie voice in the 1960 thriller "Midnight Lace"'

Answer: Doris Day


Question: 'Often lemon, these cookies are finished with powdered sugar & are as refreshing as their name suggests'

Answer: coolers


Question: 'Towering timber seen here'

Answer: fir


Question: 'A young man's overindulgence in wine & women lands him in an insane asylum in this series by William Hogarth'

Answer: The Rake\'s Progress


Question: 'This "regal" brand of charcoal is named for one of Henry Ford's relatives'

Answer: Kingsford


Question: 'The appropriate site of the first modern Olympics'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'Chlorine plus oxygen plus Utah gives this synonym for influence'

Answer: clout  (Cl+O+UT)


Question: 'The first sheet music to sell 1 million copies was this man's "Maple Leaf Rag"'

Answer: Scott Joplin


Question: '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-11-23_DJ_21.mp3" target="_blank">Here </a> Mahler takes this normally cheery song & turns it into a funeral march'

Answer: "Frère Jacques"


Question: 'A light meter is also called this type of "meter", the total amount of light that reaches the film'

Answer: exposure meter


Question: 'Olympic city where Jesse Owens became a legend in 1936'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'Sodium plus North Carolina plus yttrium yields this first name of Ms. Walker or Ms. Drew'

Answer: Nancy  (Na+NC+Y)


Question: '2 days after James Buchanan's Inauguration, the Supreme Court announced its decision regarding this man'

Answer: Dred Scott


Question: 'Gabriel Faure wrote music to this "moony" poem by Verlaine that also inspired Debussy'

Answer: "Clair De Lune"


Question: 'A tax on the use of a commodity or service within a country'

Answer: excise tax


Question: 'In Jan. 1778 George Washington found out about plans for invading this land & called the plot "the child of folly"'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'The U.S. Olympic team did not compete in the 1980 Summer Olympics hosted by this city'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Cubans do it occasionally: Delaware plus iron plus Connecticut'

Answer: defect  (DE+Fe+CT)


Question: 'In 1803 he finished writing "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'With no lyrics by Gilbert, "The Lost Chord" is a melancholy song by this Victorian composer'

Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan


Question: 'In the presidential oath of office, the word that fits the category'

Answer: execute


Question: 'It's estimated only about 60% of the German mercenaries known as these returned home'

Answer: Hessians


Question: 'Si! Si! The Summer Olympics were held in this city in 1992'

Answer: Barcelona


Question: 'Bromine plus Arizona plus Illinois gets you here in South America'

Answer: Brazil  (Br+AZ+IL)


Question: 'On March 29, 1912 this explorer made his last diary entry'

Answer: Robert Scott


Question: 'Vaughan Williams' Shakespeare songs include "Full Fathom Five" from this play'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew next to a pie chart on a TV monitor.) A pie chart with one piece pulled out for emphasis is called this'

Answer: exploded


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from West Point.) These links were part of the great chain across the Hudson used in 1778 to block the naval forces of this British Commander'

Answer: Henry Clinton


Question: 'In 1952 Oslo held the Winter Games & this other northern European capital hosted the Summer Games'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'A spice for chili: copper plus Michigan plus nitrogen'

Answer: cumin  (Cu+MI+N)


Question: 'Nicknamed "Old Fuss & Feathers", he was general-in-chief of the Army from 1841 to 1861'

Answer: Winfield Scott


Question: '"None but" Tchaikovsky could have written this song heard here in an instrumental version'

Answer: "None But The Lonely Heart"


Question: 'The Brits like this 5-letter short form of a word for someone in self-imposed exile'

Answer: expat


Question: 'Bruce Peterson, a NASA test pilot, helped inspire this series; the crash he survived was seen in the show's opening credits'

Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man


Question: 'The King had 18 No. 1 hits, including this one that he's performing in the following'

Answer: "Hound Dog"


Question: 'Major varieties of these circus performers include harlequin, tramp & whiteface'

Answer: clowns


Question: 'This Colorado capital was the first city to use the Community Chest to finance its charitable agencies'

Answer: Denver


Question: 'On TV, when a bad guy's car goes off the road & down a cliff, this tank usually explodes'

Answer: gas tank


Question: 'A giant moose & some Mounties will greet us at the casino named for this country, my birthplace'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'It's the 6-letter "V" word for what Lance's bird, seen here, is about to do'

Answer: vanish


Question: 'A sandwich that was fit for the King included peanut butter & this fruit, mashed'

Answer: banana


Question: 'Type of circus sideshow denizen seen here'

Answer: the bearded lady


Question: 'This state capital is located about 2,500 miles west of Los Angeles'

Answer: Honolulu


Question: 'As its name suggests, the explosion of this substance propels bullets'

Answer: gunpowder


Question: 'We'll eat Gouda cheese as we tiptoe through the tulip-shaped casino named for this country'

Answer: Holland/the Netherlands


Question: 'This song heard here stayed on the Top 100 chart for 27 weeks'

Answer: "Heartbreak Hotel"


Question: 'Last name of the circus man P.T. Barnum teamed up with in 1881'

Answer: Bailey


Question: 'You'll find the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in this state capital'

Answer: Boston


Question: 'This "candle", a type of firework, splits up its charge to produce separate groups of sparks'

Answer: Roman candle


Question: 'This U.K. country's casino will have kilt-wearing croupiers & an all-you-can-eat haggis buffet'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'It's the title of a 1964 movie & the 1964 hit heard here'

Answer: Viva Las Vegas


Question: 'Midge & Madge, who star in the Acme Miniature Circus, are 2 of these performing insects'

Answer: fleas


Question: 'This state capital's metropolitan area includes the cities of Glendale, Scottsdale & Sun City'

Answer: Phoenix


Question: 'A WWII type of this small hand-thrown weapon was called a "pineapple"'

Answer: hand grenade


Question: 'Once he became Elvis' manager (for up to a 50% fee), he never took on another client'

Answer: Col. Tom Parker


Question: 'This 1952 Cecil B. DeMille production was the "Greatest" of circus movies'

Answer: The Greatest Show on Earth


Question: 'This capital is the headquarters for UPS, the Turner Broadcasting System & Delta Air Lines'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'In a supernova, one of these collapses & explodes, releasing lots of energy'

Answer: star


Question: 'King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain sent this explorer on his 1492 voyage'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Vegans prefer to let these hatch; they cook with flax seed or lecithin instead'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Chapter 83 of this Herman Melville novel is entitled "Jonah Historically Regarded"'

Answer: "Moby Dick"


Question: 'Grey Goose is a French brand of this colorless liquor more associated with Russia'

Answer: vodka


Question: 'Of 3,000, 3,000,000 or 30,000,000, the one closest to the Sahara Desert's total square miles'

Answer: 3,000,000


Question: 'To degenerate quickly is to go "to Hell in" one of these'

Answer: handbasket


Question: 'The funeral mask of this "Boy King" is seen here'

Answer: King Tut


Question: 'Donald Watson coined the word vegan when he got tired of writing out "total" this'

Answer: vegetarian


Question: 'Apricot brandy & gin go into a cocktail named for this tall pink bird'

Answer: flamingo


Question: 'The word Sahara means "desert" in this language of north Africa & the Middle East'

Answer: Arabic


Question: '"He who pays" this musician "calls the tune"'

Answer: the piper


Question: 'A translation of the Bible is named for this king of England & Scotland'

Answer: James (I)


Question: 'It's not surprising that the first U.S. vegan society was started in this state'

Answer: California


Question: 'One variety of Haagen-Dazs ice cream soaks raisins in this potent potable'

Answer: rum


Question: 'One who endures a severe & prolonged hardship has "the patience of" this Old Testament guy'

Answer: Job


Question: 'This king divorced the Church of England from the Catholic Church so that he could divorce the first of 6 wives'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'Once TV's "Bionic Woman", she co-wrote a cookbook for vegans called "The High Road to Health"'

Answer: Lindsay Wagner


Question: 'Traditionally served at the Kentucky Derby, it's bourbon over crushed ice, garnished with mint'

Answer: mint julep


Question: '"Abandon" this, "all ye who enter here"'

Answer: hope


Question: 'France's King Louis XVI was married to this woman who supposedly said, "Let them eat cake"'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Vegans shun dairy foods, so the American Dietetic Assoc. wants to make sure they get enough of this element'

Answer: calcium


Question: 'A margarita made with brandy & sugar instead of tequila & salt, or a motorcycle attachment'

Answer: sidecar


Question: 'To eat crow is "to eat" this type of "pie"'

Answer: humble pie


Question: 'A current U.S. governor, he hosted the game show "Grudge Match" in 1991'

Answer: Jesse Ventura


Question: 'The knicknacks seen here were part of the Benmania resulting from his arrival in this city [audio]'

Answer: Paris


Question:
'Tom Mix,
Will Rogers &
Gene Autry'

Answer: the Cowboys


Question: 'It's the descriptive shape of an egg timer & a curvaceous woman'

Answer: hourglass


Question: 'Zero divided by 6 yields this quotient'

Answer: zero


Question: '"Dial down the middle" is this vegetative comedian's mantra for making collect calls'

Answer: Carrot Top


Question: 'A popular revolt, like the one in Hungary in 1956'

Answer: an uprising


Question: '"A house without a woman and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite" is from this Ben Franklin annual'

Answer: Poor Richard\'s Almanack


Question:
'Murphy,
Encyclopedia or
Jackie'

Answer: the Browns


Question: 'It's a musical instrument, or a shape whose interior angles add up to 180 degrees'

Answer: a triangle


Question: 'Of I'm, they've, you're or won't, the contraction that lost the most letters'

Answer: won\'t


Question: 'It's the color of the middle stripe on the U.S. flag'

Answer: red


Question: 'It's a musical term for 2 performers singing the same part at once'

Answer: unison


Question: 'This job Ben got in 1753 helped his business, as described here'

Answer: Postmaster


Question: 'Crous, Reha, Phoebe, Oceanus & Hyperion among others'

Answer: the Titans


Question: 'This shape found in a deck of cards could also be called a lozenge'

Answer: a diamond


Question: 'The predicate of a sentence tells what this part is or does'

Answer: the subject


Question: 'Better-known middle name of media mogul Keith Murdoch'

Answer: Rupert


Question: 'In 1997 this country was the world's largest tea importer at 150,538 tons'

Answer: United Kingdom


Question: 'Among Franklin's science and astronomy instruments is an orrery, an early model of this system'

Answer: the solar system


Question: 'By his nickname the late Andre Roussimoff'

Answer: the Giants


Question: 'Shapely two-word location of the people seen here, May 5th, 1973'

Answer: the winner\'s circle


Question: 'The size of this body part changes, depending on the light'

Answer: the pupil


Question: 'The oval window is a membranous opening between the middle & the inner parts of this'

Answer: the ear


Question: 'Adjective for an oily substance or an insincere, affected person'

Answer: unctuous


Question: 'Shown here, a musical instrument Ben invented is called the "glass" one of these'

Answer: harmonica


Question: 'Germany's Joseph Ratzinger,<br />The USA's Roger Mahony'

Answer: a Cardinal


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by a blackboard showing connected hexagons.)  The conjecture that hexagons use the least total perimeter to cover a surface is named for this animal structure'

Answer: a honeycomb


Question: 'The 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th & 26th ones of these are specifically concerned with voting'

Answer: constitutional amendments


Question: 'Linus Pauling discovered there's a middle ground between the distinct ionic & covalent types of these'

Answer: chemical bonds


Question: 'With a population of more than 47 million, its flag is seen here'

Answer: the Ukraine


Question: 'In a November 3, 1969 speech, he used the phrase "The great silent majority"'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Adam Smith thought these were conspiracies against the consumer, but don't tell that to Parker Brothers'

Answer: monopolies


Question: '1521:<br />With help from smallpox, Cortez & a few hundred men crush this empire of 30 million'

Answer: the Aztec


Question: 'This school's Bruins play their home football games at the Rose Bowl'

Answer: UCLA


Question:
'Anne,
Helen,
Captain Keller'

Answer: The Miracle Worker


Question: 'These flat, narrow noodles are popularly served "alfredo"'

Answer: fettuccini


Question: 'In a 1914 speech at Guildhall, Churchill said, "The maxim of the British people is" this "as usual"'

Answer: business


Question: 'In economics, it's the actual using of a good or service; in medicine, it's tuberculosis'

Answer: consumption


Question: '1975:<br />Beginning an infamous & murderous 4-year period of rule, this group takes power in Cambodia'

Answer: the Khmer Rouge


Question: '(Hi, I'm Joshua Molina of The West Wing.)  My fellow graduates of this Ivy League school include Jodie Foster & Jennifer Beals'

Answer: Yale


Question:
'Joseph II,
Salieri,
Mozart'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'Discovered in 1928, it was the first successful antibiotic'

Answer: penicillin


Question: 'On September 12, 1864, this general wrote the Mayor of Atlanta, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it"'

Answer: (William Tecumseh) Sherman


Question: 'On a specified day of its financial year, a firm issues this "sheet" of its assets & liabilities'

Answer: balance sheet


Question: '1206-1227:<br />Under this man, the Mongols kill millions seizing an empire from the Black Sea to the Pacific'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'For the last 16 years, its school of Engineering grad program has been ranked number 1 by U.S. News & World Report'

Answer: M.I.T.


Question:
'Gremio,
Petruchio,
Katharina'

Answer: The Taming of the Shrew


Question: 'Entranced, or a 1945 Hitchcock film'

Answer: spellbound


Question: 'W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of" this "line"'

Answer: the color


Question: 'Articles of trade like coffee or wheat are termed these on exchange listings'

Answer: commodities


Question: 'The 580s B.C.:<br />These people capture, loot & destroy Jerusalem, taking thousands of Jews as captives'

Answer: the Babylonians


Question: 'Women weren't admitted to this school, VMI for short, until 1997'

Answer: Virginia Military Institute


Question:
'Prologus,
Senex,
Pseudolus'

Answer: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum


Question: 'It's a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward'

Answer: palindrome


Question: 'On March 22, 1820, 5 years after saying, "Our country, right or wrong", he was killed by a fellow Naval officer'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'The Laffer, the Phillips & the Lorenz are examples of these lines used by economists'

Answer: curves


Question: '1204:<br />Supposedly on their way to Jerusalem, Crusader knights sack this richest Christian city'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'Reportedly acting upon God's command, he founded a university in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963'

Answer: Oral Roberts


Question:
'Vladimir,
Estragon,
Lucky,
Pozzo'

Answer: Waiting for Godot


Question: 'From the Latin for "delay", it's an authorized delay of payment or of a specified activity'

Answer: moratorium


Question: 'This adjective for scholars & "Jeopardy!" champs is from the Latin ex, "out or away" & rudis, "rudeness"'

Answer: erudite


Question: 'While studying at Boston University, Martin met this woman who became his wife'

Answer: Coretta Scott


Question: 'In 1941, after the National Labor Relations Act, Henry Ford had to accept these groups in his factories'

Answer: Unions


Question: 'One might urge her intended "to tie" one of these'

Answer: The knot


Question: 'Funnyman Cornelius Chase'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: 'Hero speaking here:<br />"Nine days I drifted on the teeming sea...upon the tenth we came to the coastline of the lotus eaters....mmmm, lotus!"'

Answer: Odysseus


Question: 'King is seen here at his March, 1964 meeting with this civil rights leader'

Answer: Malcolm X


Question: 'On Oct. 20, 1997 the Justice Dept. filed a petition accusing this high-tech company of anticompetitive acts'

Answer: Microsoft


Question: 'If one plans a church wedding, one may invite his intended to "walk down" this'

Answer: The aisle


Question: 'Movie star Walter Matuschanskayasky'

Answer: Walter Matthau


Question: 'He's the god hitting the hay here:<br />"Going up to the bed he slept and Hera of the gold throne beside him"'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'In 1968 King was planning a second march on this city, to unite poor people'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'Approved in the 1950s, this compound has been added to the drinking water of about half of the U.S. population'

Answer: Fluoride


Question: 'One might ask for this body part (assuming the rest will come with it)'

Answer: Hand


Question: 'Mr. "Impossible" Peter Aurness'

Answer: Peter Graves


Question: 'She's the subject of the following:<br />"Surely there is no blame on Trojans...if for long time they suffer hardship for a woman like this one - va va va voom!"'

Answer: Helen


Question: 'At age 15, Martin graduated from a high school named for this first head of Tuskegee Institute'

Answer: Booker T. Washington


Question:
'1976:
"You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?..."'

Answer: Taxi Driver


Question: 'In 1971 the Senate turned over a new leaf & got its first females in this job, including Ellen McConnell'

Answer: Pages


Question: 'One might "plight one's" this, but one's intended might not get one's meaning'

Answer: Troth


Question: 'The Mighty "Quinn", Joyce Frankenberg'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question:
'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
Monster speaking here:
"Can you be grieving over your master's eye?  That carrion rogue and his accurst companions burnt it out."'

Answer: Cyclops


Question: 'The night before his death King said he had gone up to the mountain, looked over & seen this'

Answer: the Promised Land


Question: '1951:<br />"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above"'

Answer: The African Queen


Question: 'These towns, like the one seen here, were named for a 1950s builder'

Answer: Levittowns


Question: '1970s action hero Lee Yuen Kam'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'Sorceress working her magic here:<br />"Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick, and shut them in a pigsty."'

Answer: Circe


Question: 'Home to no Fortune 500 companies, its name is Aleut for "mainland"'

Answer: Alaska


Question: '"The Great One", indeed, this Canadian is the only hockey player to score over 200 points in one season'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'The author of "The Color Purple" takes on a Chuck Norris TV role'

Answer: "Alice Walker, Texas Ranger"


Question: 'Unlike most cats, a cheetah can't completely retract these, so be careful when shaking its paw'

Answer: Claws


Question: 'Even if your insurance is the no-this type, never admit it at the scene of an accident'

Answer: Fault


Question: 'Prospero is the hero of the play "The Tempest", possibly the last by this playwright'

Answer: William Shakespeare


Question: 'In this state whose name means "Gem of the Mountain", Boiseans will be Boiseans'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'This Nigerian-born athlete who rocketed to fame playing center for the Rockets became a U.S. citizen in 1993'

Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon


Question: 'Hawthorne used one of these when unsealing fan mail about his Hester Prynne novel'

Answer: "The Scarlet Letter Opener"


Question: 'In an African fable, Cheetah's facial lines are stains from these, caused when a mother found her cubs missing'

Answer: Tears


Question: 'Never write your PIN, which stands for this "number", on the back of your ATM card'

Answer: Personal Identification Number


Question: 'In act IV, Prospero tells us "We are such stuff as" these "are made on"'

Answer: Dreams


Question: 'Person for whom the Evergreen State was named'

Answer: George Washington


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />"(Hi, I'm Martina Navratilova)  Before coming to America, I was co-ranked No. 2 in 1972 in this country"'

Answer: Czechoslovakia


Question: 'She wrote "Interview With The Creamy Grain Dessert"'

Answer: "Anne Rice Pudding"


Question: 'Of 35, 70 or 140 MPH, it's a cheetah's top speed in bursts of a few hundred yards'

Answer: 70


Question: 'If you have this kind of "bite" on your fingers, you can warm the hand under your arm, but never rub it'

Answer: Frostbite


Question: 'As a magician Prospero was lucky to have this airy sprite as a lovely assistant'

Answer: Ariel


Question: 'The name of this state & its "Big Muddy" river, may mean "owners of big canoes"'

Answer: Missouri


Question: 'This "Shark" from Australia is the all-time leading money winner on the PGA Tour'

Answer: Greg Norman


Question: 'Play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial that inspires Bette Midler to "fly higher than an eagle"'

Answer: "Inherit The Wind Beneath My Wings"


Question: 'These deerlike animals, such as duikers & impalas, often can't lope fast enough to escape cheetahs'

Answer: Antelopes


Question: 'In removing stains, do not mix chlorine bleach with this substance, NH3; the mix can create these fumes'

Answer: Ammonia


Question: 'This king commanded a performance of "The Tempest" to celebrate the 1613 wedding of his daughter'

Answer: James I


Question: 'This state's name was first used for what's now called the Columbia River'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'In 1998 this beautiful German figure skater played the mistress of a Russian mobster in the movie "Ronin"'

Answer: Katarina Witt


Question: '"Cantos" poet's Saturday morning cartoon series based on stuffed dog toys'

Answer: "Ezra Pound Puppies"


Question: 'The imperiled cheetah has a refuge in this 5,700-square-mile park in northern Tanzania'

Answer: Serengeti


Question: 'In "plain" language, Benjamin Disraeli used to say, "Never complain and never" do this'

Answer: Explain


Question: 'Not everyone liked Prospero; Trinculo, Stephano & this island native plotted to kill him'

Answer: Caliban


Question: 'Lauren Bacall coined this name for a carousing group including Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland & Frank Sinatra'

Answer: \"The Rat Pack\"


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks by an exhibit in the Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria.)  In 1896, Freud created this word for the technique we associate with couches'

Answer: psychoanalysis


Question: 'Kentucky's flag shows 2 friends embracing, exemplifying the state motto "United we stand," followed by this'

Answer: divided we fall


Question: 'A famous trademark of Winston Churchill was his flashing of this triumphant sign'

Answer: V


Question: 'There was a prescription for war in 1839 when Britain & China went toe-to-toe over this drug's trade'

Answer: opium


Question: 'On June 30, 1982 ratification for this Constitutional amendment was defeated'

Answer: the ERA


Question: 'In 2005 the Princeton Review rated this Big 10 member in Madison the No. 1 party school'

Answer: the University of Wisconsin


Question: 'Freud claimed to unlock the case of "The Wolf Man" through the white wolves the patient saw in one of these'

Answer: a dream


Question: 'This bird of prey is on the state flags of Illinois & Iowa'

Answer: the (bald) eagle


Question: 'It precedes -bone, -ball, -bar & -bill'

Answer: T


Question: 'Talk about an elephant in the room; in 215 Macedonia's Philip V allied with this Carthaginian against Rome'

Answer: Hannibal


Question: 'A capitation tax is the same as a poll tax, which used to keep you from exercising this right if it was unpaid'

Answer: voting


Question: 'A Guinness record for the longest dance party--52 hours, 3 mins.--was set in 2003, at this Cleveland hot spot'

Answer: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in the library of the Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria.)  I'm holding a first edition of Freud's 1923 classic work, "Das Ich und das Es", translated in 1927 as these 2 words'

Answer: id & ego


Question: 'The white circle with the red center on this state's flag, seen here, represents the letter "O"'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'In 1990, NC-17 replaced this movie rating'

Answer: X


Question: 'In 1982 Prince Andrew flew helicopters for England in an undeclared war with this country'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this state's "right to die" law'

Answer: Oregon


Question: 'In 2003 this rapper & entrepreneur had Absolut sponsor the "White Party" in his East Hampton home'

Answer: P. Diddy


Question: 'Freud worked & lived at Berggasse 19, Vienna, from 1891 to 1938, when he fled from the Nazis to this world capital'

Answer: London


Question: 'Its flag bears the arms of the Calvert & Crossland families'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Ascorbic acid is another name for this vitamin'

Answer: C


Question: 'Uruguay was a member of the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance against this country'

Answer: Paraguay


Question: 'Venceremos, a rebel radio station in El Salvador, translates to this title of a '60s civil rights anthem'

Answer: "We Shall Overcome"


Question: 'Sponsored by Cadillac, an island mansion was filled with movie sets for this Miami Heat's center's 34th B-day'

Answer: Shaquille O\'Neal


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew appears in the Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria.)  In his case history of 18-year-old Dora, who came here around 1900, Freud admits he failed to deal with this process, the patient's attachment to him'

Answer: transference


Question: 'It's the only U.S. state whose flag includes the Union Jack'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'When it comes to grades, it indicates an unfinished assignment'

Answer: I


Question: 'The 421 B.C. Peace of Nicias provided a 6-year break for Athens & Sparta in this war, which then lasted another 11 years'

Answer: the Peloponnesian War


Question: 'A commission on it chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt led to Dec. 10 becoming this 2-word "Day"'

Answer: Human Rights


Question: 'He "was dreamin' when I wrote this, so sue me if I go 2 fast, but life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last"'

Answer: Prince


Question: 'The "Renaissance" Countee Cullen helped lead, or the area where he married W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter in 1928'

Answer: the Harlem Renaissance


Question: 'This NL team won back-to-back Series titles in 1907 & '08 but hasn't won since; anyone can have an off-century'

Answer: the Chicago Cubs


Question:
'Helsinki,
Brussels,
Berlin'

Answer: Helsinki


Question: 'This company added its name to Jim Schindler's golden arches logo in 1968'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'There's a regular & a pygmy type of this primate that makes sponges of leaves and termite "fishing rods" of sticks'

Answer: the chimpanzee


Question: 'It's a letter to a soldier from his girlfriend telling him when talking about her to start using "ex" or "former"'

Answer: a Dear John letter


Question: 'The author of the 1st entirely self-written slave narrative was named Gustavus Vassa, for a king of this country'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Truly "Mr. October", this outfielder hit 10 home runs in 98 World Series at-bats'

Answer: Reggie Jackson


Question:
'Brasilia,
Santiago,
Caracas'

Answer: Caracas


Question: 'The bite taken out of the right side of its corporate logo refers to the story of Adam & Eve & the tree of knowledge'

Answer: Apple (Computer)


Question: 'I'm as surefooted as this, Oreamnos americanus'

Answer: a Rocky Mountain goat


Question: 'Today it describes any newcomer; it may be from a name British sailors gave new, inexperienced hands'

Answer: a Johnny-come-lately


Question: 'At age 12 this "Beloved" author became a Catholic & chose her baptismal name to honor St. Anthony'

Answer: (Toni) Morrison


Question: 'In the 1919 World Series, this "Black Sox" player hit .375 & did not commit an error, footwear & all'

Answer: "Shoeless Joe" Jackson


Question:
'Hanoi,
Pyongyang,
Seoul'

Answer: Pyongyang


Question: 'In 1966, Raymond Loewy came up with its name &, after 76 rough pencil sketches, arrived at its double-X logo'

Answer: Exxon


Question: 'In 1930, Noel Burnet opened a sanctuary for these eucalyptus-loving animals in Sydney, Australia'

Answer: koalas


Question: 'Thomas Ady's bedtime rhyme from the 17th century begins by naming this famous New Testament quartet'

Answer: Matthew, Mark, Luke & John


Question: 'In 1948, fed up with the U.S., James Baldwin moved to this city for good'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'His .87 ERA is third on the all-time World Series list (min. 25 innings); his 15 home runs are second'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question:
'Prague,
Budapest,
Vienna'

Answer: Prague


Question: 'The blue & white colors on this automaker's logo represent the colors of Bavaria'

Answer: BMW


Question: 'Because of its defensive posture, the lizard seen here is named for this creature'

Answer: armadillo


Question: '4-word hyphenated term for someone who's right there with you & eager to help'

Answer: Johnny-on-the-spot


Question: 'Completes Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1899 lines "A plea, that upward to heaven he flings / I know why..."'

Answer: the caged bird sings


Question: 'It ain't over 'til it's over, but this Yankee is the all-time World Series leader in games played, at-bats & hits'

Answer: Yogi Berra


Question:
'Riyadh,
Sanaa,
Muscat'

Answer: Riyadh


Question: 'In 1961 Paul Rand redesigned this company's logo, simplifying its shield & adding a rectangular package above it'

Answer: UPS


Question: 'Du du this animal that you du so well'

Answer: kudu


Question: 'This term for a signature came from cowboy slang & has no connection to the Black folk hero of the same name'

Answer: John Henry


Question: 'In Latin the name of this math field meant a pebble used in counting, & the word also has the medical meaning "stone"'

Answer: calculus


Question: '"Life is like riding" one of these; "to keep your balance you must keep moving"'

Answer: a bicycle


Question: 'Billboard ranked him the No. 1 artist of the '50s, No. 2 for the '60s & No. 11 for the '70s'

Answer: Elvis


Question: 'Sailing is a popular Estonian sport; for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, races were held off the coast in this sea'

Answer: the Baltic


Question: 'If a server yells, "put out the lights & cry", someone's ordered liver & these'

Answer: onions


Question: 'A soft song for a child going to sleep'

Answer: a lullaby


Question: '(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.)  As a reporter, I joined numerous heads of state & as many as 2 million people in Rome in 2005 for this man's funeral'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'This "is more important than knowledge"'

Answer: imagination


Question: 'They were tops for the '60s, by a fab margin'

Answer: The Beatles


Question: 'Once ruled by Germans, Danes, Swedes & Russians, it first gained independence the year this war ended'

Answer: World War I


Question: '"Bossy in a bowl" is this hearty dish containing chunks of meat & vegetables'

Answer: beef stew


Question: 'It's another name for a mongrel dog, Jeff'

Answer: a mutt


Question: '(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.)  In 2008 I moderated a Republican debate appropriately held at the presidential library of the man whose political heir the candidates claimed to be'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: '"I never think of" this period of time.  "It comes soon enough"'

Answer: the future


Question: 'This flamboyant sir was the top artist of the '70s by a single point'

Answer: Elton John


Question: 'In the 1550s this awful Russian invaded & devastated much of Estonia'

Answer: Ivan the Terrible


Question: '"Hold the hail" means you'll get a soft drink without this'

Answer: ice


Question: 'It's found in the sky between Scorpio & Capricorn'

Answer: Sagittarius


Question: '(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.)  On election night 2008, I did my first ever interview with this type of 3D image; I was in Washington & will.i.am was beamed in from Chicago'

Answer: a hologram


Question: 'This "cannot be kept by force.  It can only be achieved by understanding"'

Answer: peace


Question: 'The competition was stiff but he "Beat It" to claim top artist of the '80s'

Answer: Michael Jackson


Question: 'It's Estonia's capital & largest city'

Answer: Tallinn


Question: 'Order a "crowd" & you'll get this many of whatever you ordered'

Answer: three


Question: 'Proverbially, to perform a futile act is to do this to the deck chairs on the Titanic'

Answer: rearrange


Question: '(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.)  For CNN's "Planet in Peril" series, I reported from Africa on the spread of viruses that could be the next of these, a word literally meaning a disease affecting everyone'

Answer: a pandemic


Question: '"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable"'

Answer: war


Question: 'The 1999 Billboard Music Awards were "One Sweet Day" for her; she was named top artist of the '90s'

Answer: Mariah Carey


Question: 'Ethnically about 25% of Estonians are Russian; about 2% trace heritage to this 2nd-most populous ex-Soviet republic'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'Oh, look, Little Johnny is chowing down on a "bow wow with red lead", this favorite'

Answer: a hot dog with ketchup


Question: 'A 1992 film was titled "Dr." these small laughs'

Answer: giggles


Question: '(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.)  In 2005 I reported on the anti-Syrian demonstrations that came to be known as the Cedar Revolution in this country'

Answer: Lebanon


Question: 'This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922'

Answer: Chagall


Question: '1961:<br />Holly Golightly'

Answer: Audrey Hepburn


Question: 'The symbol for this nasty gas is Cl'

Answer: chlorine


Question: 'Its what you get when you multiply the number of Rhode Island's senators by the number of California's'

Answer: 4


Question: 'The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division'

Answer: the Berlin Wall


Question: 'Enthusiastic applause by an audience on its feet'

Answer: a standing ovation


Question: 'In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu"'

Answer: René Magritte


Question: '2008:<br />Harvey Milk'

Answer: Sean Penn


Question: 'It makes up about 80% of the Earth's atmosphere'

Answer: nitrogen


Question: 'A soldier's "about face" involves a turn of this many degrees'

Answer: 180


Question: '62,000 crowded L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 for the first of these'

Answer: Super Bowl


Question: 'The permanent professional infantry force of a nation'

Answer: a standing army


Question: 'In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union'

Answer: LeRoy Neiman


Question: '1984:<br />Antonio Salieri'

Answer: F. Murray Abraham


Question: 'Alphabetically, it's right after radium'

Answer: radon


Question: 'Number of days in Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play about Anne Boleyn'

Answer: 1,000


Question: 'In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: 'A permanent legislative group in Congress that meets regularly'

Answer: a standing committee


Question: 'His only figure portrait accepted for the salon was of his mistress Camille Doncieux, who in 1870 became his wife'

Answer: Monet


Question: '1967:<br />Luke Jackson'

Answer: Paul Newman


Question: 'This synthetic element created in 1976 was named for a Danish pioneer of quantum physics'

Answer: bohrium


Question: 'We just got a call from the authorities to evacuate, in the system known as "reverse" this'

Answer: 9-1-1


Question: 'Over 42 days in early 2007, an estimated 70 million gathered for the Ardh Kumbh festival in this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'Performing ostentatiously in order to impress or gain attention'

Answer: grandstanding


Question: 'Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of this great Florentine sculptor & a teacher of Michelangelo'

Answer: Donatello


Question: '2001:<br />Iris Murdoch (1 of the 2)'

Answer: Judi Dench (or Kate Winslet)


Question: 'Its symbol is the same 2 letters as Minnesota's postal abbreviation'

Answer: manganese


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew uses an abacus.)  On an abacus, beads above the bar represent units of 5; each bead below has a value of 1; only the beads touching the bar are counted, so the configuration here stands for this 3-digit number'

Answer: 828


Question: 'On Feb. 4, 2008 1 million gathered in this South American capital to protest against the FARC terrorist group & its actions'

Answer: Bogotá


Question: 'When the British want you to rise, as for a judge, they say, "be" this, also referring to an honorable citizen'

Answer: upstanding


Question: 'When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas


Question: 'The Grand Hotel in Stockholm is famous for its traditional one of these buffets'

Answer: a smorgasbord


Question: 'Eric McCormack &<br />Debra Messing'

Answer: Will & Grace


Question: 'He was the first pope to make an official visit to a synagogue or a mosque'

Answer: John Paul II


Question: 'Pines, firs & spruces stay a certain color all year, as they are this type of tree'

Answer: an evergreen


Question: 'Any woody, perennial bushy plant'

Answer: a shrub


Question: '(Kelly and Sarah of the Clue Crew hold a deflated weather balloon; Kelly reads the clue.) Weather balloons are released twice a day at the National Weather Service; they can rise up to 100,000 feet, where a decrease in this will make the 6-foot balloon expand to 20 feet in diameter'

Answer: air pressure


Question: 'In a 1946 book, this title girl of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren "Goes On Board"; 1948 found her "In The South Seas"'

Answer: Pippi Longstocking


Question:
'Jenna Elfman &
Thomas Gibson,
a yoga instructor
& a lawyer'

Answer: Dharma & Greg


Question: 'In a popular children's song, "his name is my name too"'

Answer: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt


Question: 'This colonial observed, "Fish and visitors stink after three days"'

Answer: Benjamin Franklin


Question: 'Barataria Bay is a longtime center of this industry in Louisiana'

Answer: shrimping


Question: '(Sarah indicates a weather map on a monitor.) Colors on the screen reflect different echo intensities; steps are taken so this precipitation, balls of ice more than 1/5 inch in diameter, don't skew rain estimates'

Answer: hail


Question: 'In its native language, Lydveldid Island is the official name of this country independent since 1944'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Dylan & Cole Sprouse, living the Suite Life on the Disney Channel'

Answer: The Suite Life of Zack and Cody


Question: 'In 1614 this colonist & adventurer made the first English maps of New England'

Answer: John Smith


Question: 'This catastrophe that killed millions had recurrences in 1361, 1369, 1374, 1390 & 1400'

Answer: the plague


Question: 'The Malaysian variety of this insectivore is seen here'

Answer: a shrew


Question: '(Sarah holds a weather balloon transmitter.) Pre-transmitters, scientists went up in weather balloons themselves; the AMS, this society, gives the Meisinger Award in memory of one killed by lightning'

Answer: the American Meteorological Society


Question: 'In 1965 UNICEF won this honor bestowed by a committee elected by the Norwegian parliament'

Answer: the Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul as a couple of police detectives'

Answer: Starsky & Hutch


Question: 'In the '90s this future attorney general teamed with Larry Craig & 2 others as "The Singing Senators"'

Answer: John Ashcroft


Question: 'This element's isotope 235 has a half-life of about 700 million years'

Answer: uranium


Question: 'This relic sits in an urn in a chapel in Turin'

Answer: the Shroud of Turin


Question: '(Sarah indicates another monitor.) Watching Doppler the National Weather Service is fascinating--the expanding ring of blue is millions of these mammals that emerge in Texas only to tangle with a huge storm'

Answer: bats


Question: 'In 1957 this Danish physicist famous for his model of the atom won the first Atoms for Peace award'

Answer: (Niels) Bohr


Question: 'Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly as a couple of police detectives'

Answer: Cagney & Lacey


Question: 'A barracks at West Point bears the name of this graduate who led the American Expeditionary Force during WWI'

Answer: John Pershing


Question: 'Though this world leader left his country on Jan. 16, 1979, he did not abdicate; Sadat would later grant him asylum'

Answer: the Shah of Iran


Question: 'Last name shared by the founder & the chairman of the Special Olympics'

Answer: Shriver


Question: '(Kelly reads the clue.) Many tornadoes develop from a special kind of thunderstorm called this, with a deep rotating updraft'

Answer: a supercell


Question: '"I do, I do, I do, I do, I do" know this Swedish band hit No. 15 in 1976 with that song; I won't repeat the title, though'

Answer: ABBA


Question: 'Sewell:<br />"The Autobiography of a Horse "'

Answer: Black Beauty


Question: 'Providing access to government files, 1966's FOIA stands for this act'

Answer: the Freedom of Information Act


Question: 'Sister Wendy calls "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", his depiction of prostitutes, a "masterpiece of the ugly"'

Answer: Picasso


Question: 'One example of this solid has 4 triangular faces & a square base'

Answer: a pyramid


Question: 'Each morning, Catholic monks dutifully perform their matins, which are these'

Answer: prayers


Question: 'This Icelandic pop star & ex-Sugarcube sang "It's Oh So Quiet" in 1995'

Answer: Bjork


Question: 'Haley:<br />"The Saga of an American Family"'

Answer: Roots


Question: 'In FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech, one of the 2 things that one should be free from'

Answer: want or fear


Question: 'Sadly, the young girl in this colorfully named painting died just months after the picture's completion'

Answer: "Pinkie"


Question: 'The name of this solid comes from a Greek word meaning "ball"'

Answer: a sphere


Question: 'A claimant to a throne; in the 18th century James Edward was "the old" one'

Answer: pretender


Question: 'Sweaters that open in the front, or this band from Malmo that hit Billboard in 1996 with "Lovefool"'

Answer: The Cardigans


Question: 'Shakespeare:<br />"What You Will"'

Answer: Twelfth Night


Question: 'After the 2008 Chengdu quake, another of these was allowed to qualifying Chinese, exempting them from a 1979 policy'

Answer: a child


Question: 'In "The Daughter of Herodias", she's carrying the head of John the Baptist on a platter'

Answer: Salome


Question: 'President's Park South, just south of the White House, is also called this for its shape, a flattened hoop'

Answer: the Ellipse


Question: 'Springtime, in Paris'

Answer: printemps


Question: 'A 3-letter exclamation of surprise, or the band from Norway that hit No. 1 with "Take On Me" in 1985'

Answer: a-ha


Question: 'Hardy:<br />"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"'

Answer: Tess of the d\'Urbervilles


Question: 'Seen here is this patriotic lass, the first P.O.W./M.I.A. rescued during Operation Iraqi Freedom'

Answer: (Jessica) Lynch


Question: 'Two women share a cup of tea in this woman's 1880 painting seen here'

Answer: (Mary) Cassatt


Question: 'The Star of David, consisting of 2 equilateral triangles, forms this plane figure in its interior'

Answer: a hexagon


Question: 'One of the earliest flowering spring shrubs, the fuchsia is a member of this "first" family of plants'

Answer: primrose


Question: 'OK , we cheated; this band isn't Danish, but drummer Lars Ulrich, who played on "Enter Sandman", is'

Answer: Metallica


Question: 'Wallace:<br />"A Tale of the Christ"'

Answer: Ben-Hur


Question: 'Walt Whitman supported the political party known as "Free-" this, which opposed slavery's expansion'

Answer: Soil


Question: 'This lovely Vermeer painting is sometimes referred to as the Dutch "Mona Lisa"'

Answer: "Girl with a Pearl Earring"


Question: 'The longtime personal guard of the Roman emperors, they were disbanded by Constantine in 312'

Answer: the Praetorians


Question: 'In 1954 Swift chose this word that means "a chubby person" as its new brand's name to convey plumpness & tenderness'

Answer: Butterball


Question: 'wives of Napoleon'

Answer: Josephine


Question: 'The scarlet carnation is the state flower; the buckeye is its tree'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'He became the first African American to win Best Song when his "Theme From Shaft" won the 1971 Oscar'

Answer: Isaac Hayes


Question: 'NKE:<br />This company sent the competition running with its Air & Shox products'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'Steinbeck shows sadness in Salinas:<br />"____ of Eden"'

Answer: East


Question: 'This outbreak prevention agency & broadcaster wows 'em with the "Late Show with David Letterman"'

Answer: CDCBS


Question: 'states that joined the Union in 1912'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Tree cheers for the Black Hills spruce, this state's choice'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'At the 1998 Golden Globes, it was "As Good As It Gets" when he won the Best Actor award'

Answer: Jack Nicholson


Question: 'JNJ:<br />You'll have no more tears with this company'

Answer: Johnson & Johnson


Question: '1948 Pulitzer winner for Michener:<br />"Tales of the _____ Pacific"'

Answer: South


Question: 'End-of-the-work-week acronym who won an Oscar as Salieri'

Answer: TGIF. Murray Abraham


Question: 'cities that the NBA's Hornets called home in the 2005-06 season'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Pennsylvania's tree is the Eastern this; run, Socrates, run!'

Answer: hemlock


Question: '(Hi, I'm Bebe Neuwirth.)  I won 2 Emmy Awards for playing this wife of Frasier Crane on "Cheers" & later played his then ex-wife on "Frasier" receiving another nomination'

Answer: Lilith


Question: 'ERTS:<br />The game is on for this company if you're "Madden" got the "Need for Speed"'

Answer: Electronic Arts


Question: 'Percy Bysshe Shelley:<br />"Ode to the ____ Wind"'

Answer: West


Question: 'This cadet academy in the Shenandoah Valley produced the architect who made the Louvre's glass pyramid'

Answer: VMI.M. Pei


Question: 'cities destroyed by Mount Vesuvius along with Stabiae'

Answer: Pompeii


Question: 'The candlenut tree, or kukui, is this state's pick'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'Named Best New Artist at the 1988 Grammys, she also won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Fast Car"'

Answer: Tracy Chapman


Question: 'MVL:<br />This company may be full of comics, but the X-Men are no joke'

Answer: Marvel


Question: 'Shared title of 2 tales, one by John Jakes & one by Elizabeth Gaskell:<br />"_____ and _____"'

Answer: North and South


Question: 'Ergot mold '60s hallucinogen that authored "Sons and Lovers" & "The Rainbow"'

Answer: LSD.H. Lawrence


Question: 'movies in which Clark Gable starred that won consecutive Best Picture Oscars in the mid-1930s'

Answer: It Happened One Night


Question: 'Montana's tree is this type of pine; "Bonanza" men called it home'

Answer: ponderosa


Question: 'This NBC sitcom starring Jason Lee was named Best New TV Comedy at the 2006 People's Choice Awards'

Answer: My Name Is Earl


Question: 'WFMI:<br />If you want to go organic, go to this supermarket'

Answer: Whole Foods


Question: 'Robert Frost's 1914 collection:<br />"_____ of Boston"'

Answer: North


Question: 'American Federation of Labor partner & short story writer whose real name is William Sydney Porter'

Answer: CIO. Henry


Question: 'wife of Napoleon'

Answer: Marie-Louise


Question: 'A document establishing an organization, or a type of specialized flight'

Answer: a charter


Question: 'In October 1870 French minister Leon Gambetta made a daring escape from besieged Paris in one of these'

Answer: a balloon


Question: 'Your desktop or laptop'

Answer: PC


Question: 'You might be a redneck if you know this comic worked at IBM for 5 years; yeah, those are better when he tells 'em'

Answer: (Jeff) Foxworthy


Question: '(Jeff Probst reads from a Fiji Islands beach.)  A traditional Fijian art is making tapa, a cloth that's produced by pounding this tree part'

Answer: bark


Question: 'state that joined the Union in 1912'

Answer: New Mexico


Question: 'The company called Jennifer these doesn't sell sports cars but sofa beds'

Answer: Convertibles


Question: 'France got this territory back in 1800 & turned around & sold it to the U.S. a few years later'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'It's someone who presides over an event or who acts as host of a performance'

Answer: an MC


Question: 'This Jeff & his brother played brothers in "The Fabulous Baker Boys"'

Answer: Bridges


Question: '(Jeff Probst reads again.)  In 1774 this British explorer visited Totoya, one of Fiji's southern islands'

Answer: Cook


Question: 'city that the NBA's Hornets called home in the 2005-06 season'

Answer: Oklahoma City


Question: 'A parliamentary motion to test support for the government is a vote of this; if the gov't loses, a vote of "no" this'

Answer: confidence


Question: 'Rudolf, heir to this dual throne, died in a suicide pact at Mayerling in 1889'

Answer: Austria-Hungary


Question: 'High school students can earn college credit by taking this type of course & passing the exam'

Answer: AP


Question: 'Jeff Townes was known as this when he & Will Smith had a hit with "Summertime"'

Answer: DJ Jazzy Jeff


Question: '(Jeff reads yet again.)  Fiji's flag includes a depiction of this other national flag; makes sense--Fiji was a Crown colony from 1874 to 1970'

Answer: the Union Jack (the UK accepted)


Question: 'city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius along with Stabiae'

Answer: Herculaneum


Question: 'Ian Fleming wrote, "Once is happenstance, twice is" this. "The third time it's enemy action"'

Answer: coincidence


Question: 'In 1882 Lawyer Samuel Dodd found that to control companies in several states, Standard Oil could form these'

Answer: monopolies (or trusts)


Question: 'This "timely" abbreviation is from the Latin for "Year of the Lord"'

Answer: A.D.


Question: 'Political pundit and author of "The People's Choice" seen here'

Answer: Jeff Greenfield


Question: '(Jeff reads yet one more time.)  While we've been here in Fiji the government has not survived & has been overthrown in a coup in this capital city'

Answer: Suva


Question: 'movie in which Clark Gable starred that won consecutive Best Picture Oscars in the mid-1930s'

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty


Question: 'A barrow is a pig that's had certain involuntary surgery; a gelding is the equivalent horse, & this is the rooster'

Answer: a capon


Question: 'Formed in the 1820s amidst fears of a secretive order, it was the first major third political party in U.S. history'

Answer: the Anti-Masonic Party


Question: 'In 1944 Congress passed the first one of these bills to provide education for war veterans'

Answer: G.I.


Question: 'In 1817 Francis Jeffrey coined this geographic term that refers to Southey, Coleridge & Wordsworth'

Answer: the Lake Poets


Question: '(Jeff reads one last time.)  Culturally, Fiji is part of this island group, whose name is partly from the Greek for "black"'

Answer: Melanesia


Question: 'Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'This speedy bird of the American Southwest is also known as a ground cuckoo'

Answer: Roadrunner


Question: 'On meeting this man, Paul asked to join his band, the Quarrymen'

Answer: John Lennon


Question: 'The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia & this country on its east remained in force for 170 years'

Answer: China


Question: 'A big deal since the 1840s:<br />         All sad'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'Of its own accord, in 1976 this motorcycle manufacturer introduced the Accord to the U.S.'

Answer: Honda


Question: '20 years after his death, this singer was portrayed by Val Kilmer on the silver screen'

Answer: Jim Morrison


Question: 'The tracks of this desert rattlesnake consist of parallel diagonal imprints of its body'

Answer: Sidewinder


Question: 'Paul McCartney's "other band", they were the "Band on the Run"'

Answer: Wings


Question: 'In 1682 La Salle said, "Laissez les bon temps rouler" as he claimed this North American territory for France'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'An island city:<br />         No vet gals'

Answer: Galveston


Question: 'Reappearing in recent years, cars powered by this energy source reached their first production peak in 1912'

Answer: Electricity


Question: '2 of this innovator's early puppets were named Wilkins & Wontkins'

Answer: Jim Henson


Question: 'This stinging arachnid is fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light'

Answer: Scorpion


Question: 'In January 1980 Paul was arrested for drug possession in this Asian capital'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'Last name of father & son Cotton & Increase, co-ministers at Boston's North Chruch starting in 1685'

Answer: Mather


Question: 'Near the river of the same name:<br />         Scope'

Answer: Pecos


Question: 'This TV canine & his human friends sought out the unknown in their van, The Mystery Machine'

Answer: Scooby-Doo


Question: 'When this man, seen here, died in 1836, he was a colonel in the Texas army'

Answer: Jim Bowie


Question: 'This pocket mouse that sounds like a marsupial drinks little; water is produced from its food & oxygen'

Answer: Kangaroo rat


Question: 'Of John, James, Elvis or Ringo, Paul McCartney's real first name'

Answer: James


Question: 'Around 1683 Jules Hardouin-Mansart completed this narcissistic Versailles feature, Galerie des Glaces in France'

Answer: Hall of Mirrors


Question: 'We have a problem:<br />         Ooh nuts!'

Answer: Houston


Question: 'A Ford subcompact, or a type of Latin American celebration'

Answer: Fiesta


Question: 'A popular big band became this man's alone after his brother walked offstage during a 1935 performance'

Answer: Jimmy Dorsey


Question: 'A rare animal indeed is ursus gobiensis, the Gobi this'

Answer: Bear


Question: 'Paul McCartney wears this on his left foot on the cover of "Abbey Road"'

Answer: Nothing


Question: 'On his deathbed, speaking of his mistress Nell Gwyn, King Charles II said, "Let not poor Nelly" do this'

Answer: Starve


Question: 'Established in 1755:<br />          Old ear'

Answer: Laredo


Question: 'This Cadillac model shares its name with the Spanish city where Amerigo Vespucci died in 1512'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'In 1825 this fur trader & scout explored the Great Salt Lake area'

Answer: Jim Bridger


Question: 'In chapter 1 Alice discusses this game with a cat'

Answer: Chess


Question: 'A blight has almost wiped out this "spreading" American tree, castanea dentata'

Answer: Chestnut


Question: 'Spain'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'To be the Berra of news, this is the term for a practitioner of yoga'

Answer: Yogi


Question: 'Mr. Jingles is a mouse on death row in this Stephen King tale'

Answer: "The Green Mile"


Question: 'Work hard, but don't "work your fingers to" this'

Answer: The bone


Question: 'He stated, "It's very provoking to be called an egg -- very!"'

Answer: Humpty Dumpty


Question: 'In April 1999 a family of 3 of these rodents was "arrested" for attacking cherry trees in Washington, D.C.'

Answer: Beavers


Question: 'Dominican Republic'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'It follows "yoga" in the title of an ancient work by Patanjali; it follows "kama" in another title'

Answer: Sutra


Question: 'He must have some connections -- his segment in "Fantasia 2000" is the only one from the original film'

Answer: Mickey Mouse


Question: 'You may start working hard in a project when you "sink" these body parts "into it"'

Answer: Your teeth


Question: 'Alice considered the whole adventure one of these, even without seeing Patrick Duffy in the shower'

Answer: Dream


Question: 'One of the earliest conservation leagues in the U.S. was set up to "save" these California trees'

Answer: Redwoods


Question: 'Egypt'

Answer: Libya


Question: 'Though you won't see Rover in it, the position seen here is called "downward facing" this'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'His Looney Tunes dialogue included lines like "Arriba, Arriba Andale! Andale!"'

Answer: Speedy Gonzales


Question: 'It's where you put your shoulder, especially if your wagon is stuck in mud'

Answer: To the wheel


Question: 'At a fork in the road the 2 finger-posts pointing the way to this pair's houses point the same way'

Answer: Tweedledum & Tweedledee


Question: 'The U.S. Forest Service is an agency of this cabinet department, not the Interior'

Answer: Agriculture


Question: 'Papua New Guinea'

Answer: Irian Jaya


Question: 'Yoga is praised in this Hindu treatise whose name means "Song of the Lord"'

Answer: "Bhagavad gita"


Question: 'In a 1986 film, this hero's father tells him "In America there are no cats"'

Answer: Fievel ("An American Tail")


Question: 'To really apply yourself to a task, you can "buckle" or "knuckle" this way'

Answer: Down


Question: 'Alice found this poem hard to understand even after she figured out that she had to hold it up to a mirror'

Answer: "Jabberwocky"


Question: 'Change one letter in elder, a shrub that may reach 20

Answer: Alder


Question: 'Bosnia-Herzegovina'

Answer: Croatia


Question: 'Meaning "coiled one", this type of yoga concentrates on energy vortexes called chakras'

Answer: Kundalini


Question: 'A Greek chorus of mice sang & read the title cards of this 1995 classic'

Answer: Babe


Question: 'If you're a dromedary camel, you can "bust" this; if you're a bactrian camel, you can bust 2 of them'

Answer: Humps


Question: '2 of the 4 flags flown on Mount Everest on May 29, 1953; strangely, New Zealand's wasn't one of them'

Answer: (2 of) Great Britain, India, Nepal & the United Nations flag


Question: 'The Jubilee Diamond was named in honor of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question:
'Ray's album "Genius Loves Company" features the smooth tenor of this singer

"Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high..."'

Answer: Johnny Mathis


Question: 'In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these'

Answer: cans


Question: 'A Hemingway short story:<br />"The Snows of" this mountain'

Answer: Kilimanjaro


Question: '"Aren't you glad" Alan Shepard took this deodorant soap into space?  Now it's in the Smithsonian'

Answer: Dial


Question: 'Uncle Joe is movin' kind of slow at the junction, as he's wearing this full, ruffled underskirt'

Answer: a petticoat


Question: 'A plump, bearded Dutchman who took him by sleigh on December 24, 1822 inspired him to write a famous poem'

Answer: Clement Clark Moore


Question: 'Natalie Cole teamed up with Ray Charles for this classic long associated with Peggy Lee'

Answer: "Fever"


Question: 'Whether AA jumbo ones of these remain AA jumbo may depend on the strength of their polystyrene cartons'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Isak Dinesen's life on a coffee plantation:<br />"Out of" here'

Answer: Africa


Question: ''60s kids bought kits to send Mr. Potato Head to this heavenly body, with a cucumber as his spaceship'

Answer: the Moon


Question: 'Conventional requirements as to social behavior, from the French for "ticket"'

Answer: etiquette