Question: 'Reaching No. 13 in 1963, "Danke Schoen" was this man's first Top 40 hit'

Answer: Wayne Newton


Question: 'A serving of the butternut variety of this vegetable supplies over 100 percent of the RDA of beta carotene'

Answer: Squash


Question: 'The Funky Bunch'

Answer: Marky Mark


Question: 'No lie, it was the Soviet Union's Communist Party newspaper'

Answer: Pravda


Question: 'In English, a recorder can make a racket; in French "recorder" means to do this to a racquet'

Answer: Restring


Question: 'This Southern state has the lowest high point of any state, 345 feet'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'This Chinese-American film director's credits include "Eat A Bowl of Tea" & "The Joy Luck Club"'

Answer: Wayne Wang


Question: 'Varieties of this tuber include red pontiac, Katahdin & Finnish yellow wax'

Answer: Potatoes


Question: 'The Pharaohs'

Answer: Sam the Sham


Question: 'This Boston-based newspaper was founded by a religious group in 1908'

Answer: The Christian Science Monitor


Question: 'It's what's taken over during a piraterie aerienne'

Answer: Airplane (hijacking)


Question: 'This state has the highest low point of any state, 3,350 feet'

Answer: Colorado


Question: 'This "crazy" Revolutionary War general later defeated an Indian army at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794'

Answer: Mad Anthony Wayne


Question: 'This tropical fruit contains an enzyme called papain which is used to tenderize meat'

Answer: Papaya


Question: 'The Belmonts'

Answer: Dion


Question: 'One of Ernest Hemingway's first newspaper jobs was on this Missouri newspaper'

Answer: Kansas City Star


Question: 'While the coup d'essai is the first attempt, this is a "stroke of mercy" or finishing stroke'

Answer: Coup de grace


Question: 'Arturo Perez-Reverte's "The Club" of this author debates the authenticity of a "Musketeers" manuscript'

Answer: Alexandre Dumas


Question: 'It goes with "bright-eyed" to describe an eager young person'

Answer: Bushy-tailed


Question: 'Martin Milner & DeForest Kelley played James & Morgan Earp in 1957's "Gunfight at" this place'

Answer: The OK Corral


Question: 'In an opera based on a Polidori story, Lord Ruthven is really one of these bloodsuckers'

Answer: Vampire


Question: 'A pilot who shoots down 5 enemy planes becomes one of these'

Answer: Ace


Question: 'President of the Philippines 1965-1986'

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos


Question: 'Virginia Woolf's "Flush" is about the pet spaniel of this 19th century female British poet'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'A document headed for this "file" is being thrown away'

Answer: Circular file


Question: 'Hal Holbrook played the head of a sinister group of lawyers in this 1993 film based on a novel'

Answer: The Firm


Question: 'The prince looks for a matching bracelet, not a glass slipper, in "La Cenerentola", based on this fairy tale'

Answer: "Cinderella"


Question: 'President of Panama 1983-1989'

Answer: Manuel Noriega


Question: 'This author of "Gai-Jin" was no flash in the "Tai-Pan"'

Answer: James Clavell


Question: 'From a phenomenon on the back of the hand, it's used of a tense person on a plane or a roller coaster'

Answer: White-knuckle


Question: 'John Ritter was acclaimed for his portrayal of a small-town gay man in this 1996 Billy Bob Thornton film'

Answer: Sling Blade


Question: 'Chou En-lai & Chiang Ch'ing are characters in an opera about this man "in China"'

Answer: Nixon


Question: 'Caudillo of Spain 1939-1975'

Answer: Francisco Franco


Question: 'It's not known who inspired this term for needing or craving, but it wasn't Tommy Lee or John Paul'

Answer: Jonesing


Question: 'Minoru Chiaki, the last surviving member of this Kurosawa film septet, passed away in November 1999'

Answer: Seven Samurai


Question: 'A town called Roulettenburg is the setting for "The Gambler" by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer'

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev


Question: 'The highest international title in chess, it's earned by proving yourself against the world's best'

Answer: Grandmaster


Question: 'Roman governor of Judea 26-37 A.D.'

Answer: Pontius Pilate


Question: 'A stable owner who always rented out the horse nearest the door lent his name to this type of "choice"'

Answer: Hobson\'s choice


Question: 'In the 1944 classic "Gaslight", Terry Moore played the teenage Paula & this actress played the gaslit adult Paula'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'Even folks who think they don't like opera enjoy the Soldiers' Chorus from this Gounod opera, heard here:'

Answer: "Faust"


Question: 'Get "back" to this term for an experienced sailor or just one who's crossed the equator'

Answer: Shellback


Question: 'Later speaker, he replaced JFK in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1953'

Answer: Thomas \"Tip\" O\'Neill


Question: 'Located in the Highlands, Loch Lomond is this country's largest lake'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Musician David Crosby had a bit role as a pirate in this 1991 version of "Peter Pan"'

Answer: Hook


Question: 'The annual Fiesta de las Golondrinas celebrates the return of the swallows to this California city'

Answer: San Juan Capistrano


Question: 'He was born October 2, 1869 to a merchant caste family in Porbandar, India & died January 30, 1948 in New Delhi'

Answer: Mohandas Gandhi


Question: 'In a dictionary, the abbreviations pref. & suff. stand for these'

Answer: Prefix & suffix


Question: 'Skippy, hide!  As of July 22, 1993 it was legal to sell this meat in Australia'

Answer: Kangaroo meat


Question: 'Winston Churchill reportedly called this strait "The world's best tank trap"'

Answer: Strait of Dover


Question: 'James Stewart film in which he said, "I suppose it had been better if I'd never been born at all"'

Answer: It\'s A Wonderful Life


Question: 'Like mukluks, kamiks are these, worn by Eskimos'

Answer: Shoes/boots


Question: 'Born September 9, 1754 in Cornwall, England he led a "bountiful" life, then died in London December 7, 1817'

Answer: Captain William Bligh


Question: 'As a courtesy title, M. before the name of a Frenchman stands for this'

Answer: Monsieur


Question: 'It's the relative of the woodpecker featured on Froot Loops'

Answer: Toucan


Question: 'Associated with a beautiful siren, the Lorelei is a famous rock in this river'

Answer: Rhine


Question: 'Robert Redford played a gambler in Batista's Cuba in this 1990 film'

Answer: Havana


Question: 'Pierre L'Enfant could have told you this famous hill was once known as Jenkins Hill'

Answer: Capitol Hill


Question: 'He was born August 17, 1786 in Tennessee & died March 6, 1836 in San Antonio, Texas'

Answer: Davy Crockett


Question: 'In printing, u.c. stands for this'

Answer: upper case


Question: 'Monopoly board street on which you'd find Merv Griffin's Resorts Casino Hotel'

Answer: Boardwalk


Question: 'It's China's longest river, after the Yangtze'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'In the 1970s he played Joe Valachi, Vince Majestyk & an Apache named Chato'

Answer: Charles Bronson


Question: 'Many men died searching for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in this southwest state's Superstition Mountains'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'He was born December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio & died in Montana, June 25, 1876'

Answer: George Custer


Question: 'It's the book of the Bible abbreviated Lam.'

Answer: Lamentations


Question: 'The first manned free balloon flight was over this city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'The maximum depth of this bay off the coast of France & Spain is 15,525 feet'

Answer: Bay of Biscay


Question: 'This 1986 Rob Reiner film starring River Phoenix & Corey Feldman was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss'

Answer: Stand By Me


Question: 'In Douglas, Wyoming there's a 10-foot statue of this legendary animal that looks like a jackrabbit with antlers'

Answer: Jackalope


Question: 'Born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879, he died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'When seen at the bottom of a page, PTO stands for this'

Answer: Please Turn Over


Question: 'Guinness says the largest of these told the story of the Kwakiutl tribe & took 36 man-weeks to carve'

Answer: Totem pole


Question: 'In 1712 this Russian czar moved his capital to St. Petersburg'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Dallapiccola's opera "Ulisse" concerns Ulysses' return to Ithaca after this war'

Answer: Trojan War


Question: 'A high of 120 degrees or more has been recorded on every continent but this one; it's barely broken 60'

Answer: Antarctica


Question: 'The republics of Armenia, Moldova & Kyrgyzstan still use this unit of currency'

Answer: Ruble


Question: 'The Inca Sun Festival is a major tourist attraction in this country'

Answer: Peru


Question: 'After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist'

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle


Question: 'When Austria's Francis II abdicated August 6, 1806, this empire perished'

Answer: Holy Roman Empire


Question: 'Henry Purcell's 17th century opera about Dido & this Virgil hero may be his masterpiece'

Answer: Aeneas


Question: 'Twister is an informal term for this type of windstorm'

Answer: Tornado


Question: 'In ancient Greece, it took 6 obols to equal one of these'

Answer: Drachma


Question: 'Letzburgish is considered the national language of this small European country'

Answer: Luxembourg


Question: 'The Martian invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are destroyed by earthly bacteria'

Answer: War of the Worlds


Question: 'Using a herring boat, this Norwegian became the first to navigate the Northwest Passage in 1906'

Answer: Roald Amundsen


Question: 'This hero of "Gotterdammerung" is the son of incestous twins'

Answer: Siegfried


Question: 'Planes flying east use this high-velocity wind to gain speed & save fuel'

Answer: Jet Stream


Question: 'When in Kinshasa, use this monetary unit that has the same name as the country'

Answer: Zaire


Question: 'Cozumel is the largest island off the coast of this peninsula'

Answer: Yucatan Peninsula


Question: 'In "The Call of the Wild", Judge Miller's gardener kidnaps this dog & sells him for $50'

Answer: Buck


Question: 'A 1928 treaty outlawing war was formulated by Frank Kellogg & this French foreign minister'

Answer: Aristide Briand


Question: 'Jean Cocteau wrote the libretto for an opera about this Sophoclean heroine, Ismene's sister'

Answer: Antigone


Question: 'To produce rain, clouds are often seeded with crystals of this compound, formula Agl'

Answer: Silver iodide


Question: 'This South American country uses the guilder as its basic monetary unit'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'Natives of this "saintly" Caribbean island call it Leamiga; it's located near Nevis'

Answer: St. Kitts


Question: 'Peachy Carnahan & Daniel Dravitt plan to make themselves kings of Kafiristan in this Kipling story'

Answer: The Man Who Would Be King


Question: 'During the second half of the French Revolution, 1795-99, this five-man board ruled France'

Answer: The Directory


Question: 'This king & his wife Clytemnestra appear in Gluck's opera "Iphigeneia in Aulis"'

Answer: Agamemnon


Question: 'The numbers on this standard wind scale originally referred to a wind's effect on a ship's sails'

Answer: Beaufort Scale


Question: 'When Washington was inaugurated, the French ecu, featuring this ruling monarch, was circulating in the U.S.'

Answer: Louis XVI


Question: 'In 1982 the people of this Asian country celebrated the bicentennial of the Chakri dynasty'

Answer: Thailand


Question: 'The Plain of Ease, the Valley of Humiliation & the Country of Conceit appear in this John Bunyan work'

Answer: Pilgrim\'s Progress


Question: 'Lord Byron wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this, "a palace and a prison on each hand"'

Answer: the Bridge of Sighs


Question: 'The Grunewald Forest covers much of the southwestern part of this German capital'

Answer: Berlin


Question: '1990 sequel to his 1982 "48HRS."'

Answer: Another 48HRS.


Question: 'It's a luxurious chaffeur-driven auto, whether regular or "stretch"'

Answer: Limousine


Question: 'This amendment was 3 states short of ratification when its deadline elapsed June 30, 1982'

Answer: the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)


Question: 'A bean & an Ohio city are named for, but pronounced unlike, this capital of Peru'

Answer: Lima


Question: 'You probably ran home at lunch to watch this game show that debuted March 30, 1964 with host Art Fleming'

Answer: Jeopardy!


Question: 'The fossilized trees in this Arizona site date back to the Triassic period'

Answer: Petrified Forest


Question: 'He played the man with whom Eddie Murphy traded places in "Trading Places"'

Answer: Dan Aykroyd


Question: 'Built in 1802, the Charlotte Dundas was the first of these small harbor ships used to maneuver larger ships'

Answer: a tugboat


Question: 'In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March'

Answer: Alaska


Question: 'The last name of the Green Bay Packers' QB Brett is spelled F-A-V-R-E but it's pronounced this way'

Answer: Farve


Question: 'Theodore, Simon & he formed a famous musical trio'

Answer: Alvin (and the Chipmunks)


Question: 'In Colorado a national forest & a peak are named for this early 19th c. general & explorer'

Answer: Zebulon Pike


Question: '"A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Wes Craven directed Eddie in this 1995 comedy-horror film'

Answer: Vampire in Brooklyn


Question: 'One of America's busiest airports, its 3-letter designation is ORD'

Answer: O\'Hare Airport (Chicago)


Question: 'In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state's first governor'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'The double L common in this Celtic language is roughly pronounced "HL", as in Llewelyn'

Answer: Welsh


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />It's the make your own drink product seen here: (Alex: Take a look at me (drops tablet into glass of water))'

Answer: Fizzies


Question: 'Mississippi's De Soto National Forest covers over 500,000 acres from Laurel to this Gulf port city'

Answer: Biloxi


Question: 'Axel Foley was a cop on this midwestern city's payroll'

Answer: Detroit


Question: 'This 2-wheeled, 2-passenger 19th century London cab had an elevated driver's seat in the rear'

Answer: Hansom cab


Question: 'Because of his deist beliefs, this "Age of Reason" author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question:
'A proposed spelling for this word is G-H-O-T-I:
GH as in cough,
O as in women,
TI as in nation'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Introduced to American backyards in 1961, this 25' long sheet of plastic was attached to a hose'

Answer: Slip \'n Slide


Question: 'This state's largest national forest, Talladega, covers 2 different areas of the state'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'Art Buchwald was awarded original story credit for this film in which Eddie played an African prince'

Answer: Coming to America


Question: 'Bridgeport, Conn.'s airport is named for this helicopter pioneer whose aircraft plant was in the city'

Answer: Igor Sikorsky


Question: 'He was promoted to captain for burning the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'In a mock-epic poem by Byron, the name of this legendary Spanish rake rhymes with "new one"'

Answer: Don Juan


Question: 'Some 1969 Huffys, a brand of these, featured banana seats'

Answer: Bicycles


Question: 'The safety lamp was invented for workers in these'

Answer: Mines


Question: 'There's a Spanish variety of this spice as well as the Hungarian'

Answer: Paprika


Question: 'Diane Sawyer was a staff assistant to this president in the White House & after his resignation, in San Clemente'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'An animal that's described as heterodont has different kinds of these'

Answer: Teeth


Question: 'During July's Feast of the Redeemer, musicians play in lighted boats along this Italian city's canals'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'More than once, Thornton Wilder played the stage manager in a presentation of this, his most popular drama'

Answer: "Our Town"


Question: 'In the late 1700s Sir Richard Arkwright's cotton mills ran on this type of power'

Answer: Water power


Question: 'This gravy is made from the innards of the turkey'

Answer: Giblet gravy


Question: 'Regis Philbin is a proud graduate of this Indiana university, where he majored in sociology'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'The pollex, the first digit on the forelimbs of tetrapods, is known as this body part on you'

Answer: Thumb


Question: 'Every March a Phoenix garden show is devoted to this desert plant & other succulents'

Answer: Cactus


Question: 'In 1985 this playwright's "Requiem For A Heavyweight" came to Broadway starring John Lithgow'

Answer: Rod Serling


Question: 'Sealed with solder, they were used to preserve meat & soup for British soldiers during the War of 1812'

Answer: Tins/tin cans


Question: 'Resembling white asparagus without tips, hearts of this come from Florida's state tree'

Answer: Palm


Question: 'In 1996 Fatuma Roba became the first woman from this continent to win an Olympic marathon'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Birds, reptiles & some mammals have a nectitating membrane, also called a third one of these'

Answer: Eyelid


Question: 'On or about April 19, Maine & this other New England state celebrate Patriot's Day'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'In "A Streetcar Named Desire", she's Stanley Kowalski's sister-in-law'

Answer: Blanche DuBois


Question: 'George Stephenson's 1829 Rocket was one of these vehicles'

Answer: Locomotive


Question: 'For this "Ukranian" coated breast of chicken dish, chill the herbed butter before rolling it in'

Answer: Chicken Kiev


Question: 'In 1991 this billionaire publisher's body was found in the ocean hours after he vanished from his yacht'

Answer: Robert Maxwell


Question: 'Its 2 coiled polynucleotide chains have opposite polarities'

Answer: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)


Question: 'In the fall Oklahoma City hosts a Grand National horse show for this breed named for a man'

Answer: The Morgan Horse (Justin Morgan)


Question: 'In 1948 he had 3 plays on Broadway:  "John Bull's Other Island", "You Never Can Tell" & "Man & Superman"'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: 'By 1812 there were 11,000 of this Frenchman's looms in use in France alone'

Answer: Joseph-Marie Jacquard


Question: 'Best boiled or baked, the Hubbard type of this vegetable is rich in vitamin A'

Answer: Squash


Question: 'This director of "The Big Chill" broke into films as co-author of the screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back"'

Answer: Lawrence Kasdan


Question: 'During this process the blood's fibrinogen is converted into insoluble fibrin'

Answer: Clotting


Question: 'Spivey's Corner near Fayetteville in this state is the site of the National Hollerin' Contest each June'

Answer: North Carolina


Question: 'Frank Langella starred in a 1996 revival of this Swedish playwright's 1887 drama "The Father"'

Answer: August Strindberg


Question: 'The boyhood home of this church founder still stands on Stafford Road in Palmyra, New York'

Answer: Joseph Smith (founder of the Mormon Church)


Question: 'In 1969 she graduated from Wellesley College where she was president of the student government'

Answer: Hillary Clinton


Question: 'In bridge, if east is the dummy that means the declarer is this position'

Answer: West (opposites)


Question: 'Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: 'No one made malice funnier than this second-oldest Stooge:'

Answer: Moe Howard


Question: '"Eight Cousins" is a later work by this author who wrote about four "Little Women"'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'In the late 1930s, she taught typing & shorthand at Whittier High School in California'

Answer: Pat Nixon


Question: 'It's the lowest total that makes you go bust in blackjack'

Answer: 22


Question: 'A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed'

Answer: Cheddar


Question: 'Many appreciate the subtle hilarity of this Philly-born Stooge seen here:'

Answer: Larry Fine


Question: 'As this novel begins, Jonathan Harker writes of visiting the British Museum in search of books on Transylvania'

Answer: "Dracula"


Question: 'It means to sound a bell'

Answer: Peal


Question: 'She's buried in Abilene, Kansas beside her husband'

Answer: Mamie Eisenhower


Question: 'In the "Black Lady" version of this game, the queen of spades is to be dreaded also'

Answer: Hearts


Question: 'The name of this California village near Monterey goes back to a group of monks, not a candy'

Answer: Carmel (Carmelite monks)


Question: 'Born Samuel Horowitz, this Stooge's gruff & mindless persona earned him his own core of fans:'

Answer: Shemp Howard


Question: 'She's the title character of an 1822 novel by Thomas Love Peacock (Robin Hood's in it, too)'

Answer: Maid Marian


Question: 'This slang term for a jail shares its name with Gumby's buddy'

Answer: Pokey


Question: 'In November 1800 she wrote to her daughter that "The principal stairs are not up" in the White House'

Answer: Abigail Adams


Question: 'In the poker variation Spit in the Ocean, each player is initially dealt this many cards'

Answer: 4


Question: 'Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga'

Answer: Montreal (Mount Royal)


Question: 'This Stooge seen here was often "A victim of soicumstance":'

Answer: Curly Howard


Question: 'Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" may be a fictional portrait of this reclusive poet, her friend'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'From the Latin for "boxer", it's a synonym for boxing'

Answer: Pugilism


Question: 'In 1992 she became the 1st first lady to deliver a major address at a national political convention'

Answer: Barbara Bush


Question: 'Back in the 1850s this card was added to the deck to be the highest trump in the game of euchre'

Answer: Joker


Question: 'At the start of the play, Macbeth is the thane of this Scottish village & lives in its castle'

Answer: Glams & Cawdor


Question: 'This final new Stooge had made his own series of comedy shorts for Columbia in the 1940s:'

Answer: "Curly Joe" DeRita


Question: 'This Kafka novel was published posthumously under the German title "Das Schloss"'

Answer: "The Castle"


Question: 'Denis Papin's 1679 steam digester developed into this quick "cooker" that prepares custards & vegetables'

Answer: Pressure cooker


Question: 'After this British quintet's October 1964 appearance, Ed Sullivan announced they'd never be back on his show'

Answer: Rolling Stones


Question: 'In 1953 the CIA helped expel Mohammad Mossadegh & restore this Iranian leader'

Answer: Shah of Iran


Question: 'As a lord, you'll exercise jus primae noctis & spend this night with the brides of your serfs'

Answer: The serfs\' wedding night


Question: 'On the Nevada-Arizona border:<br />233 square miles'

Answer: Lake Mead


Question: 'William Safire writes that this suffix for a female poet or priest "has come to be thought of as an insult"'

Answer: -ess


Question: 'Joseph Bramah invented one of these in 1784 that no one was able to pick until 1851'

Answer: Lock


Question: '(I'm James McDaniel)  Before "NYPD Blue", I appeared in this Steven Bochco series in which policemen burst into song'

Answer: Cop Rock


Question: 'In 1976 soccer's Diego Maradona joined this country's national team when he was only 16 years old'

Answer: Argentina


Question: 'Like a king, you'll get to put your own picture on these wax impressions'

Answer: Seals


Question: 'On the Israel-Jordan border:<br />394 square miles'

Answer: Dead Sea


Question: 'It's the usual suffix that forms the present participle of verbs'

Answer: -ing


Question: 'John Fleming invented this in 1904 & fought in court with Lee de Forest, who invented the triode in 1906'

Answer: Diode


Question: 'Bryan Adams & the Wallflowers have recently gone acoustic for this MTV concert series'

Answer: MTV Unplugged


Question: 'In June Bulgaria holds an annual harvest festival of these blossoms, the month's traditional flower'

Answer: Rose


Question: 'You'll hear a lecture at Germany's oldest of these institutions, founded in 1386 in Heidelberg'

Answer: University


Question: 'Southern Florida:<br />663 square miles'

Answer: Lake Okeechobee


Question: 'This suffix denoting direction, found after back- & up-, could end with or without an "S"'

Answer: -ward


Question: 'Charles Wheatstone invented the stereoscope & this accordion-like musical instrument'

Answer: Concertina


Question: 'One of the 7 Vondas of the world is this singer featured on "Ally McBeal"'

Answer: Vonda Shepard


Question: 'Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes'

Answer: Chutneys


Question: 'You'll hand out gold to mendicant friars, mendicant referring to this activity'

Answer: Begging


Question: 'Southern Egypt:<br />1,550 square miles'

Answer: Lake Nasser


Question: 'You add this suffix to denote multiplying by the stem word, like two-, ten- or mani-'

Answer: -fold


Question: 'In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer developed a wet-plate process, the first practical way to produce copies of these'

Answer: Photographs


Question: 'In a '70s series, PBS was "In Performance At" this Virginia site'

Answer: Wolf Trap


Question: 'The "Mabinogian" is a collection of Celtic lore from this United Kingdom division'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'It's the spiced ale you'll raise at an English Christmas feast, or the toast that accompanies it'

Answer: Wassail


Question: 'Southern Siberia:<br />about 12,200 square miles'

Answer: Lake Baikal


Question: 'This 5-letter suffix follows "Roman" or "Arab" to indicate style or resemblance'

Answer: -esque


Question: 'The one-word title of this 1985 film refers to Samuel Lapp, a Penn. farm boy who makes his first visit to a city'

Answer: Witness


Question: 'This pun on the word "History" is the title of a 1995 book about women who changed the world'

Answer: Herstory


Question: 'Acapulco & Cancun'

Answer: Mexico


Question: '[instrumental]'

Answer: The Simpsons


Question: '"Like a rock"'

Answer: Chevrolet


Question: 'Number of the psalm that begins "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"'

Answer: 23rd


Question: 'He's Japan's current emperor'

Answer: Akihito


Question: 'Title IX of a 1972 education law led to greater female participation in this activity in schools'

Answer: sports


Question: 'Basra & Baghdad'

Answer: Iraq


Question: '[instrumental]'

Answer: Wheel of Fortune


Question: '"Where's your mustache?"'

Answer: milk


Question: 'The Wise Men, sent to Bethlehem by this king, were warned by God not to return to him'

Answer: Herod


Question: 'Though best known for his bird drawings, his last project was a multivolume work on mammals'

Answer: John J. Audubon


Question: 'Reformer Lucy Stone is perhaps best remembered for refusing to do this when she got married in 1855'

Answer: changing her last name to her husband\'s


Question: 'Tampere & Helsinki'

Answer: Finland


Question: '[instrumental]'

Answer: Roseanne


Question: '"Bo knows"'

Answer: Nike


Question: 'It's the book in which Pharaoh says, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river"'

Answer: Exodus


Question: 'Both he & son Michael are among the top 20 money earners on the Indy Car circuit'

Answer: Mario Andretti


Question: 'It passed Congress in the 1970s by a combined 438-31 but was never ratified by 3/4 of the states'

Answer: Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)


Question: 'Marrakesh & Rabat'

Answer: Morocco


Question: '[instrumental]'

Answer: Mystery!


Question: '"Don't leave home without it"'

Answer: American Express


Question: 'The book of Acts is also known by the longer title "The Acts of" these men'

Answer: The Apostles


Question: 'In 1994 "Three Tall Women" earned this "Seascape" playwright his third Pulitzer Prize'

Answer: Edward Albee


Question: 'A heralded 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" ended 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in her favor'

Answer: Billie Jean King


Question: 'Riga & Jelgava'

Answer: Latvia


Question: '[instrumental]'

Answer: Law & Order


Question: '"Mom's other little helper"'

Answer: Shake \'n Bake


Question: 'This photographer known for his celebrity portraits learned his craft while in the Merchant Marine'

Answer: Richard Avedon


Question: 'Liquid substance that's the Bureau of Reclamation's main concern'

Answer: Water


Question: 'Originally, it was called the DAC Trophy, for Downtown Athletic Club'

Answer: Heisman Trophy


Question: 'Percival Lowell built an observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. to study this planet's "canals"'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'They say that "great" ones "from little acorns grow"'

Answer: Oaks


Question: 'Monticello, in Virginia'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Pierre, not his tante, used this, a plume, when he invited you to the house'

Answer: Pen


Question: 'Clinton thought this former Arizona governor superior; he made him Secretary of the Interior'

Answer: Bruce Babbitt


Question: 'This trophy was donated by the governor-general of Canada & first presented in 1893'

Answer: The Stanley Cup


Question: 'One of the first literary tributes to this president is in an 1865 ode by James Russell Lowell'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Thor Heyerdahl used the lightweight wood of this tree to build his Kon-Tiki raft'

Answer: Balsa


Question: 'A rose garden in Hyde Park, New York'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'If you fail to compliment the view, Pierre just might throw you out of the fenetre, this'

Answer: Window


Question: 'In 1946 the Grazing Service was combined with another office to form the BLM, this'

Answer: Bureau of Land Management


Question: 'A regulation size sterling silver football adorns the top of this Super Bowl trophy'

Answer: Lombardi Trophy


Question: 'Created from money left by John Lowell, the Lowell Institute founded this Boston PBS station'

Answer: WGBH


Question: 'Saint-John's Bread is another name for this tree that yields a chocolate substitute'

Answer: Carob


Question: 'Riverside Park, New York City'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Pierre lets Mimi run around the house without any clothes on, because Mimi is a chienne, this'

Answer: Dog


Question: 'This service runs Yellowstone & Yosemite'

Answer: National Park Service


Question: 'An NBA trophy is named for this commissioner & DNC chairman whose office was the Watergate burglars' target'

Answer: Lawrence O\'Brien


Question: 'Among the works translated by Robert Lowell was Aeschylus' tale of this hero "bound"'

Answer: Prometheus


Question: 'These "bald" trees are especially plentiful in the Everglades'

Answer: Cypress


Question: 'Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'If you sample too much from Pierre's well-stocked wine cellar; you might end up on the plancher, this'

Answer: Floor


Question: 'Originally part of the Department of War, this bureau is concerned with the how & where of Native Americans'

Answer: Bureau of Indian Affairs


Question: 'Originally called the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy, it weighs an incredible 436 pounds'

Answer: The Davis Cup


Question: 'Her "What's O'Clock" collection of verses won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926'

Answer: Amy Lowell


Question: 'This nutty tree of the South is the largest of the hickories'

Answer: Pecan


Question: 'The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'As you're leaving, you're relieved that Pierre offers you this, his main & not the back of it'

Answer: Hand


Question: 'At the end of this 1997 film, the dedication "For Carl" appears onscreen'

Answer: \"Contact\"


Question: 'This boy was "lawless, and vulgar and bad" & Tom Sawyer "was under strict orders not to play with him"'

Answer: Huckleberry Finn


Question: 'It's Big Bird's boulevard'

Answer: Sesame Street


Question: 'Above-average balsa or oak'

Answer: good wood


Question: 'Man's first job was as a gardener, as God told him to dress & keep the garden of Eden'

Answer: Adam


Question: 'This U.S. composer was born July 4, 1826 to William Barclay Foster, a Pennsylvania merchant'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'Charles Dickens considered calling this title character Spankle or Copperboy'

Answer: David Copperfield


Question: 'Robert Blake had a pet cockatoo named Fred on this detective series'

Answer: Baretta


Question: 'A heavy & unbroken slumber'

Answer: a deep sleep


Question: 'The last word in the King James Version Old Testament is "curse" & this is the first word'

Answer: "In"


Question: 'The "peace", introduced in 1945, is one of the most famous hybrid tea varieties of this flower'

Answer: a rose


Question: 'This Bronte heroine uses the pseudonym Jane Elliott after she flees from Mr. Rochester'

Answer: Jane Eyre


Question: 'The Pigeon sisters were Oscar & Felix' nutty English neighbors on this classic sitcom'

Answer: The Odd Couple


Question: 'The principal pickpocket'

Answer: the chief thief


Question: 'In the New Testament order, Paul's first epistle goes to this group, not friends or countrymen'

Answer: the Romans


Question: 'Founded in 1862, this government department that deals with farmers was given cabinet status in 1889'

Answer: The Department of Agriculture


Question: 'This detective was modeled in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers'

Answer: Sherlock Holmes


Question: 'Burgess Meredith said he developed the "Quack, Quack" noise this "bird" brain made to cover a cough'

Answer: the Penguin


Question: 'Exaggerated tale about a farm structure'

Answer: barn yarn


Question: 'During the second plague these amphibians came out of the water'

Answer: frogs


Question: 'This D.H. Lawrence "lady" plays around with a playwright before she gambols with a gamekeeper'

Answer: Lady Chatterley


Question: 'In 1981 creator Earl Hamner uncorked this series about a winery whose symbol was a bird of prey'

Answer: Falcon Crest


Question: 'An all-important bet'

Answer: a major wager


Question: 'Jesus said "Among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than" this man of the wilderness'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'The main traffic artery of this Italian city's historic section is the Grand Canal'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'On March 23, 1994 he scored his 802nd NHL goal, breaking Gordie Howe's career record'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'In a famous fairy tale ballet, a ragged beggarwoman is really this heroine's fairy godmother'

Answer: Cinderella


Question: 'On July 4, 1798 he became the only former president named commander-in-chief of American forces'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'A rack of this meat usually contains 6-8 ribs & is served with mint jelly'

Answer: lamb


Question: 'Deoxyribonucleic acid, the genetic material of all cells is better known by this abbreviation'

Answer: DNA


Question: 'The old part of this Quebec city borders the St. Lawrence River between Berri & McGill streets'

Answer: Montreal


Question: 'In 1987 this 31-year-old Swede was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame'

Answer: Bjorn Borg


Question: 'The swan maidens in this 1877 ballet are actually young girls under the spell of an evil magician'

Answer: Swan Lake


Question: 'This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey'

Answer: Grover Cleveland


Question: 'This sauce that tops Eggs Benedict is also good on artichokes'

Answer: Hollandaise sauce


Question: 'It's the term for molten rock flowing from a volcano or other fissure in the Earth's surface'

Answer: lava


Question: 'The most picturesque part of this Portuguese capital is the Alfama along the Tagus River'

Answer: Lisbon


Question: 'In 1956 this late Yankee hit 52 home runs, the highest single-season total of the 1950s'

Answer: Mickey Mantle


Question: 'Quasimodo is a leading character in "La Esmeralda", a ballet based on this classic novel'

Answer: the Hunchback of Notre Dame


Question: 'During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased'

Answer: Thomas Jefferson


Question: 'Order fried calamari in a restaurant & you'll get this seafood'

Answer: squid


Question: 'The name of this violent tropical cyclone of the Western Pacific comes from Cantonese for "Big Wind"'

Answer: typhoon


Question: 'The name of this Iraqi capital is Persian for "God-given"'

Answer: Baghdad


Question: 'In 1979 & 1980 Terry Bradshaw, this team's quarterback, was named Super Bowl MVP'

Answer: the Pittsburgh Steelers


Question: 'In 1992, this niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed her last ballet "The Other"'

Answer: Agnes De Mille


Question: 'In 1971 he published "The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969"'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'This heavy, dark rye bread is also known as Schwarzbrot, or black bread'

Answer: pumpernickel


Question: 'Sweeter than sucrose or glucose, this fruit sugar is also called levulose'

Answer: fructose


Question: 'On Aug. 7, 1995 Jonathan Edwards became the first man to leap further than 60 feet in this event'

Answer: the Triple Jump


Question: '"Double Exposure" is a Joe Layton ballet based on this author's 1891 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray"'

Answer: Oscar Wilde


Question: 'With Republicans split between Taft & Teddy Roosevelt, this Democrat was elected president in 1912'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'Traditionally, this Scottish tea treat is split in two & eaten with butter, preserves & clotted cream'

Answer: a scone


Question: 'This word can mean unable to produce offspring or free from living microorganisms'

Answer: sterile (sterility accepted)


Question: 'On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust'

Answer: Tiffany\'s


Answer: four bits


Question: 'Woody Allen's first line in this film is "Chapter 1.  He adored New York City.  He idolized it..."'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'A fifth equals about 1/5 of this'

Answer: a U.S. gallon


Question: 'After he moves out of his office on Pennsylvania Avenue, he rents an office in Los Angeles'

Answer: Ronald Reagan


Question: 'A statue in New York of this leader was toppled and later made into American bullets'

Answer: King George III


Question: 'As a dessert, it can add weight to your body; as a styling product, it can add body to your hair'

Answer: mousse


Question: 'King, king, king, king, or three, three, three, three, for example'

Answer: four of a kind


Question: 'In "The Wizard of Oz", she was the first character to wear the ruby slippers'

Answer: the Wicked Witch of the East


Question: 'Claiming U.S. creation of this "Gaelic" drink, San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe sells some 2,200 cups daily'

Answer: Irish coffee


Question: 'Yuri Churbanov, son-in-law of this Soviet leader, was tried for taking bribes'

Answer: Leonid Brezhnev


Question: 'Washington attempted to kidnap this man and have him returned to U.S. forces for execution'

Answer: Benedict Arnold


Question: 'Style in which hair is rolled under at shoulder length, or a young male attendant at a hotel'

Answer: page boy


Question: 'An auto worker on the night shift might install this shift'

Answer: four-on-the-floor (or four-speed)


Question: 'The names of these two movie elephants differ by just one letter'

Answer: Dumbo & Jumbo


Question: 'This strong, dark type of beer takes its name from Einbeck, Germany, where it was first made'

Answer: bock beer


Question: 'This leader of the yippies in the 1960s recently debuted as a comedian in a New York club'

Answer: Abbie Hoffman


Question: 'The first page of this 1776 pamphlet reads, "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil"'

Answer: "Common Sense"


Question: 'In dollars, America's biggest-selling shampoo is this one for controlling dandruff'

Answer: Head & Shoulders


Question: '"Sweet Adeline", sung by a barbershop quartet, features a blend of melody lines described as this'

Answer: four-part harmony


Question: 'Though he was best known for directing musicals, the last film he directed was a drama, "Star 80"'

Answer: Bob Fosse


Question: 'It's usually made with bourbon, sugar, mint, and crushed ice'

Answer: a mint julep


Question: 'Larry Doyle and Neal Sternecky are reviving this comic strip that Walt Kelly created'

Answer: Pogo


Question: 'This March 1770 event began with a group of rowdies hurling insults and snowballs at British soldiers'

Answer: Boston Massacre


Question:
'Hair care item that's mentioned in the following song:

"Won't you come home Bill Bailey /
Won't you come home /
She moans the whole day long..."'

Answer: a fine-tooth comb


Question: 'A necktie tied a certain way, or a horse-drawn vehicle driven by one person'

Answer: four-in-hand


Question: 'Marlon Brando and his motorcycle pals ganged up on a small town in this 1954 film'

Answer: The Wild One


Question: 'Whiskey sours and daiquiris are similar except that daiquiris contain this instead of whiskey'

Answer: rum


Question: 'In September 1988 a storm forced his plane to land at Johannesburg, though it wasn't on his itinerary'

Answer: Pope John Paul II


Question: 'This Philadelphia building hosted the first Continental Congress, though delegates didn't carry hammers'

Answer: Carpenter\'s Hall


Question: 'He was flown from London to Hollywood just to cut Mia Farrow's hair for the film "Rosemary's Baby"'

Answer: Vidal Sassoon


Question: 'If we ever did a "Starts with 'Rw' " category, this is the only country you'd find in it'

Answer: Rwanda


Question: 'He was the missionary credited with converting Ireland to Christianity'

Answer: St. Patrick


Question: 'This force is so strong in a black hole that it doesn't even allow light to escape'

Answer: Gravity


Question: 'In Clement Moore's most famous poem, they "were hung by the chimney with care"'

Answer: "The Stockings"


Question: 'Your friendly family physician, or his state postal abbreviation, if he lives in Maryland'

Answer: MD


Question: 'In the 1880s Roseanna McCoy added fuel to her family's feud by falling in love with a man named this'

Answer: Hatfield


Question: 'Ocean on the Ivory Coast's coast'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: 'In the sixth century B.C. he sent monks to spread his teachings throughout India'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'Every second the sun converts about 4 million tons of this into helium'

Answer: Hydrogen


Question: 'He kept his wife in a pumpkin shell'

Answer: Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater


Question: 'This postal abbreviation identifies Idaho'

Answer: ID


Question: 'Iva Toguri d'Aquino, a California-born UCLA graduate, was known by this nickname during WWII'

Answer: "Tokyo Rose"


Question: 'Despite its name, the Equator does not run through this African country'

Answer: Equatorial Guinea


Question: 'After the queen of this South Seas island expelled French missionaries, France took over the island'

Answer: Tahiti


Question: 'No kidding, this star has been described as the nose of the constellation Canis Major'

Answer: Sirius


Question: 'Ward Greene's story of the same name inspired this 1955 Disney doggie romance'

Answer: "Lady And The Tramp"


Question: 'This state's postal abbreviation is alphabetically first'

Answer: Alaska (AK)


Question: 'She became U.S. ambassador to Italy 18 years after marrying the publisher of "Time"'

Answer: Claire Boothe Luce


Question: 'The two African countries that share land borders with Egypt'

Answer: Libya and Sudan


Question: 'in the 1890s, the Missionary party, led by Sanford Dole, forced this queen to abdicate'

Answer: Liliuokalani


Question: 'Term for a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits radio waves'

Answer: Pulsar


Question: 'Near the end of "Through the Looking Glass", this queen disappears in a bowl of soup'

Answer: White Queen


Question: 'They're the two states whose postal abbreviations end with the letter "C"'

Answer: North & South Carolina


Question: 'This Roman emperor's third wife, Messalina, was messing around, so he had her killed'

Answer: Claudius


Question: 'It has not one, not two, but three capital cities'

Answer: South Africa


Question: 'Junipero Serra, who founded all those missions in California, was a member of this order'

Answer: Franciscans


Question: 'This closely spaced group of stars is named after a group of seven sisters'

Answer: Pleiades


Question: 'This German studied law but was more famous for his "Tales", which inspired an 1881 Offenbach opera'

Answer: Hoffmann


Question: 'It's the only state whose postal abbreviation is a pronoun'

Answer: Maine (ME)


Question: 'This American-born saint was a widow with five children when she converted to Catholicism'

Answer: Mother Seton


Question: 'The Greek expression meaning "philosophy (is) the guide of life" is abbreviated by these three Greek letters'

Answer: phi beta kappa


Question: 'This sea was home base for all those Barbary pirates'

Answer: Mediterranean Sea


Question: 'She's the rock & roll legend who died at L.A.'s Landmark Hotel October 4, 1970'

Answer: Janis Joplin


Question:
'"Leave it to Beaver",
"The Honeymooners",
"Taxi"'

Answer: The Honeymooners, Leave it to Beaver, Taxi


Question: 'Rank shared by Kirk, Kidd & Kangaroo'

Answer: Captain


Question: 'Montana's schnozz'

Answer: Joe\'s nose


Question: 'A gutbucket is a bass fiddle consisting of a stick on an inverted tub with this many strings'

Answer: 1


Question: 'After the pasha of Tripoli cut this down outside the U.S. consulate, Congress authorized the use of force'

Answer: American flag/flagpole


Question: 'Vincent Price rap-narrates the now classic video to this Michael Jackson song'

Answer: "Thriller"


Question:
'The Hustle,
the Charleston,
the Funky Chicken'

Answer: Charleston, Funky Chicken, Hustle


Question: 'His "New Clothes" were no clothes'

Answer: The emperor


Question: 'A gymnastic celebrity of the parallel or horizontal'

Answer: Bar star


Question: 'A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them'

Answer: Tin cans


Question: 'This branch of the U.S. armed forces mentions the war's setting in its hymn'

Answer: Marine Corps


Question: '(Hi, I'm George Clinton)  Funk music traces its beginnings to songs like "Out of Sight" & "Cold Sweat" by this legend'

Answer: James Brown


Question:
'Rauschenberg,
Rossetti,
Rubens'

Answer: Rubens, Rosetti, Rauschenberg


Question: 'This army rank's name can be extended with "issimo"'

Answer: General


Question: 'A saintly protector of your hockey team's net'

Answer: Holy goalie


Question: 'From the French for "Little Mary", it's another name for a string puppet'

Answer: Marionette


Question: 'Tripoli pasha Yusuf Karamanli managed to keep his throne until 1835, when this empire again took over'

Answer: Ottoman Empire


Question: 'This man's hit song "Superstition" was originally written for guitarist Jeff Beck'

Answer: Stevie Wonder


Question:
'The Bonhomme Richard,
the Mayflower,
the Beagle'

Answer: Mayflower, Bonhomme Richard, Beagle


Question: 'Title for the sovereign prince of Austria's royal family; Francis Ferdinand was one'

Answer: Archduke


Question: 'A notebook in which to record your slow & steady running workouts'

Answer: Jog log


Question: 'This toy is a rudimentary airfoil whose height is controlled by playing out the string'

Answer: Kite


Question: 'This "Our Country, Right or Wrong" seaman led a U.S. mission to destroy the Philadelphia, a ship captured by Tripoli'

Answer: Stephen Decatur


Question: 'This man with a 1961 No. 1 hit had a father with a 1935 No. 1 & 2 sons who teamed up for a 1990 No. 1'

Answer: Ricky Nelson


Question:
'"Uncle Tom's Cabin",
"Ivanhoe",
"Little Women"'

Answer: "Ivanhoe", "Uncle Tom\'s Cabin", "Little Women"


Question: 'The daughter of an English monarch is a princess; of a Spanish monarch, this'

Answer: Infanta


Question: 'One part of a meal for Seattle Slew or Man O' War'

Answer: Horse course


Question: '1726 character who awoke after a shipwreck to find himself tied down with string'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: 'Part of this nursery rhyme reads, "This is the dog, that worried the cat, that killed the rat..."'

Answer: "The House that Jack Built"


Question: 'Ding dong!  In 1999 Andrea Jung came calling as this company's first woman CEO'

Answer: Avon


Question: 'Among these, nitric & hydrochloric are "strong", meaning they ionize readily in water'

Answer: acids


Question: 'In 1996 Elijah Wood played Sandy, a pal to this title dolphin'

Answer: Flipper


Question: 'Many tourists like to shop in this Mexican city just south of San Diego'

Answer: Tijuana


Question: 'OLE!'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'The legend of a family curse permeates this Hawthorne work published in 1851'

Answer: The House of the Seven Gables


Question: 'After C. Everett flew the koop, Antonia Novello became the first woman to hold this post'

Answer: Surgeon General


Question: 'Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail uses bursts of light from this device to study chemical reactions'

Answer: a laser


Question: 'In "Dragon" Lauren Holly played this martial artist's wife, Linda'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'A real gated community, its old city contains the gates of Herod, Zion & Jaffa'

Answer: Jerusalem


Question: 'Tigger makes his first appearance in this sequel to "Winnie-the-Pooh"'

Answer: The House at Pooh Corner


Question: 'In 1937 Gale Sondergaard became the first woman to win an Oscar in this category'

Answer: Best Supporting Actress


Question: 'In the "dynamic" type of this state, 2 reactions are taking place, but at equal speed'

Answer: equilibrium


Question: '(Hi, I'm Kevin Spirtas from Days of Our Lives.)  In 1994 I played Hollywood agent Tim Burke in a TV mini-series based on this Jacqueline Susann bestseller'

Answer: Valley of the Dolls


Question: 'Present name of the largest city on the Saigon River'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh City


Question: 'Considered by some to be Dickens' best, this novel tells the story of a family waiting in vain to inherit a fortune'

Answer: Bleak House


Question: 'Cokie Roberts' mom, Lindy Boggs, was the first woman elected to Congress from this state; she served 9 terms'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'This word means to remove 2 hydrogen atoms from a compound for each oxygen atom removed'

Answer: dehydrate


Question: 'He could have played himself in "Man on the Moon", but he played Andy's manager George Shapiro'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'Emperor Menelik II founded this African capital in 1887'

Answer: Addis Ababa


Question: 'ELM CENT'

Answer: Clement


Question: 'First produced in 1920, this Shaw comedy takes place in the unconventional home of elderly Capt. Shotover'

Answer: Heartbreak House


Question: 'In 1933 she became America's first woman cabinet member when FDR appointed her labor secretary'

Answer: Frances Perkins


Question: 'It's the passage of water through a cell membrane; the "reverse" type is a desalination process'

Answer: osmosis


Question: 'This Cambodian-born doctor won an Oscar for his portrayal of Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields"'

Answer: Haing S. Ngor


Question: 'This chief city of South Australia was named for the wife of Britain's King William IV'

Answer: Adelaide


Question: 'FOE IN CAB'

Answer: Boniface


Question: 'Jean Moulin was one of the chief organizers & martyrs of this movement'

Answer: French Resistance (Maquis)


Question: 'This 19th century woman nee Sklodowska coined the word "radioactivity", of which she got a bit too much'

Answer: (Marie) Curie


Question: 'Magic & Kareem led these guys to 5 titles in the 1980s'

Answer: the Los Angeles Lakers


Question: 'Chipmunks don't pack on much body fat for winter; hence the storage pouches in these, helping them put away food'

Answer: their mouth (their cheeks)


Question: 'Composed around 1808, his Fifth Symphony was one of the first symphonic works to use the trombone'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'All Nippon Airways'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'The Office of Surface Mining is part of this U.S. government department'

Answer: the Department of the Interior


Question: 'In 1999 the intl. criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted this then-Serbian pres. for crimes against humanity'

Answer: Milošević


Question: 'They won 3 in a row from 1991 to 1993 & again from 1996 to 1998'

Answer: the (Chicago) Bulls


Question: 'In the barn & other species of this bird, one ear is higher so the time lag in hearing helps locate the source'

Answer: the owl


Question: 'The most common trombone bears the name of this male singing voice'

Answer: tenor


Question: 'Lufthansa'

Answer: Germany


Question: '2 answers please: the smallest & the largest of the Great Lakes'

Answer: Ontario & Superior


Question: 'In 1980 he became the leader of Solidarity, an organization of more than 30 polish trade unions'

Answer: Walesa


Question: 'Bill Walton helped these guys pioneer their first title in 1977'

Answer: the (Portland) Trail Blazers


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.)  Dogs' eyes seem to glow in the dark because light is reflected by a special layer of crystals called the tapetum lucidum that acts like a mirror; it's found between the sclera and this 6-letter eye part'

Answer: the retina


Question: 'The song "Seventy-six Trombones" is a rousing crowd pleaser from this musical'

Answer: The Music Man


Question: 'El Al'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'It's an old war transport pulled by horses'

Answer: a chariot


Question: 'This "Cherry Orchard" playwright was a med school graduate; that's "Dr. Depressing", tovarisch'

Answer: Chekhov


Question: 'In 2008 they captured their first title in 22 years'

Answer: the Celtics


Question: 'This monkey from Borneo is named for its nose, which can be 1/4 its body length'

Answer: the proboscis monkey


Question: 'The the swinging trombone player & big-band leader of the 1930s seen here, daddy-o'

Answer: Tommy Dorsey


Question: 'Iberia Airlines'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'English author & critic Samuel Johnson once quipped that this "is the last refuge of a scoundrel"'

Answer: patriotism


Question: 'This short story writer got his law degree from the Univ. of Prague in 1906; that's "Mr. Depressing, Esq.", my doomed friend'

Answer: (Franz) Kafka


Question: 'They must like the odds: behind Tim Duncan, they won in 2003, 2005 & 2007'

Answer: the San Antonio Spurs


Question: 'Used in sonar, a fatty area on a dolphin's forehead is called this, like a large vine fruit or a whole human head'

Answer: a melon


Question: 'The French call these office supplies trombones, because of their similar shape'

Answer: paper clips


Question: 'SAS'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'As opposed to a posteriori, it's the term for knowledge not based on experience'

Answer: a priori


Question: 'Amanda, Tom & the fragile Laura Wingfield are all characters in this Tennessee Williams play'

Answer: The Glass Menagerie


Question: '1995:<br />An orbiting drama that really gets off the ground'

Answer: Apollo 13


Question: 'Lending its name to the climactic battle, it's what the Little Bighorn is'

Answer: a river


Question: 'Quaker poet & abolitionist John Whittier'

Answer: Greenleaf


Question: 'If you were a Philistine in biblical times, it means you hailed from what's now called this place'

Answer: Palestine


Question: 'The "S" in the bacterium S. typhosa, it enters the digestive tract in contaminated food'

Answer: salmonella


Question: 'After Macbeth has this general killed, his ghost shows up at a dinner party to haunt him'

Answer: Banquo


Question: '1997:<br />A British tale & a tease of burly burlesque'

Answer: The Full Monty


Question: 'About 200 soldiers & Custer faced off against about 2,000 Indians of many tribes including Cheyenne & this largest group'

Answer: the Sioux


Question: '1950s Secretary of State John Dulles'

Answer: Foster


Question: 'The Iranian region of Fars was part of this historical area'

Answer: Persia


Question: 'A large drinking cup with a handle & hinged cover'

Answer: a tankard


Question: 'In "Six Degrees of Separation", a young man named Paul claims to be this actor's son'

Answer: (Sidney) Poitier


Question: '2008:<br />A story of game showmanship on the subcontinent'

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire


Question: 'This supreme Native American leader at the battle was more of a spiritual guru, uniting the tribes, than a military strategist'

Answer: Sitting Bull


Question: 'American economist John Galbraith'

Answer: Kenneth


Question: 'The Bible calls Canaan this "land", a name you won't find on any map'

Answer: the Promised Land


Question: 'Watery word for Steve Zissou's "Life" in a movie title'

Answer: Aquatic


Question: '2000:<br />A multi-arc drug-fueled trilogy'

Answer: Traffic


Question: 'At the battle of the Little Bighorn, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led this cavalry unit into history'

Answer: the Seventh Cavalry


Question: 'British economist John Keynes'

Answer: Maynard


Question: 'Carthage was a colony of these ancient seafarers'

Answer: the Phoenicians


Question: 'Apple seeds contain a compound of this poison'

Answer: cyanide


Question: '2005:<br />A multi-arc L.A. collision'

Answer: Crash


Question: 'This major who shares his name with a Nevada city was nearby & controversially didn't counter-attack in time'

Answer: Marcus Reno


Question: 'Vice President John Garner'

Answer: Nance


Question: 'The Roman-created Decapolis had 10 cities, including this one that shares its name with one of the largest in the U.S.'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Salvation from sin, or the return of an investor's principal'

Answer: redemption


Question: 'After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'It includes the line "I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it"'

Answer: Silence of the Lambs


Question: 'Steve Austin's one-time fiancee, she got her own spin-off'

Answer: the Bionic Woman (Jaime Sommers)


Question: 'It was the total length in years of the Thirty Years' War'

Answer: 30 years


Question:
'Anzio,
Tobruk,
Bataan'

Answer: World War II


Question: 'This computer device slowly takes you online'

Answer: a modem


Question: 'Perhaps the Line Islands of Kiribati are so-named because they straddle this'

Answer: the Equator


Question: 'This auto executive's autobiography was the No. 1 nonfiction book of 1984 & 1985'

Answer: (Lee) Iacocca


Question: 'In 2004 we met Drea de Matteo as Gina, the sister of this title character'

Answer: Joey (Tribbiani)


Question: 'If you're running in a race & overtake the person in second place, you're now in this position'

Answer: second place


Question:
'Khe Sanh,
Hue,
the Ia Drang Valley'

Answer: the Vietnam War


Question: 'In 1859 Robert Fouls invented a steam-powered one of these to singal imperiled ships'

Answer: a foghorn


Question: 'The value of a piece of property over and above any mortgage or liabilities'

Answer: equity


Question: 'Stephen King fans found it hard to rest in peace after reading this bestseller about an animal graveyard'

Answer: Pet Sematary


Question: 'Wayne Rogers played this doctor in the 4077th M*A*S*H unit; Pernell Roberts played him post-Korea'

Answer: Trapper John


Question: 'Some say David Atchison was President of the U.S.; his "term" lasted this long'

Answer: 1 day


Question:
'Ypres,
Verdun,
Cambrai'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'I'll bet Christmas 1996 was the last time you thought you'd hear this toy's sound'

Answer: Tickle Me Elmo


Question: 'Situated at the same range from 2 places or points'

Answer: equidistant


Question: 'The bestselling biography of 1989 was "A Woman Named" this'

Answer: Jackie


Question: 'In the '80s William Shatner was back in uniform as this title police sergeant'

Answer: T.J. Hooker


Question: 'Total number of Henry VIII's legitimate grandkids'

Answer: 0


Question:
'Santiago,
El Caney,
Manila Bay'

Answer: the Spanish-American War


Question: 'This phone company's walkie talkie service sounds promising'

Answer: Nextel


Question: 'To deliberately speak ambiguously in order to mislead'

Answer: equivocate


Question: 'In 1980 his "Rage of Angels" was all the rage'

Answer: Sidney Sheldon


Question: 'Laura Innes plays this "ER" doc who's physically challenged & always challenging the other docs'

Answer: Dr. Kerry Weaver


Question: 'Of current U.N. member countries with 4-letter names, the one that is first alphabetically'

Answer: Chad


Question:
'Buena Vista,
Palo Alto,
Contreras'

Answer: the Mexican-American War


Question: 'You'll hear it when making a season pass on this company's genius TV device'

Answer: TiVo


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers a corker from the top secret Jeopardy! science lab.)  A bottle under pressure is in this state--opening it breaks that state, and the CO2 forms bubbles'

Answer: equilibrium


Question: 'Persephone's hubby, he isn't always counted as an Olympian god, since he didn't live on Mount Olympus'

Answer: Hades


Question:
'She's the threshold lassie being crooned over by Nat King Cole here

"Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep, they just lie there..."'

Answer: "Mona Lisa"


Question: 'Jabal Katrinah, this country's highest point, rises 8,668 feet over the Sinai Peninsula'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This bodybuilder became world famous marketing a technique he conceived while watching a lion in a zoo'

Answer: Charles Atlas


Question: '"Brighter than a Thousand Suns" is a 1956 book about the men who built the first one of these'

Answer: the atomic bomb


Question: 'All the unknown senoritas were interested in this desirable bachelor whose name can also mean "qualified"'

Answer: El Igible


Question: 'Also the god of horses & earthquakes, this guy was a real "Adventure"'

Answer: Poseidon


Question:
'Five-word song title the precedes the lyric line heard here

"It will be forever..."'

Answer: "When I Fall In Love"


Question: 'The closest European country to Greenland is this country only 200 miles to the east'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'Colorful nickname of Charles E. Bolton, the robber & poet who held up 27 stagecoaches from 1875 to 1883'

Answer: Black Bart


Question: '"The sun's coming up"?  No, this character says, "Envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east"'

Answer: Romeo


Question: 'He was named for his sub-high school level of formal education'

Answer: El Ementary


Question: 'A noted thief, this messenger of the gods probably wouldn't be welcome at a certain B.H. silk tie store'

Answer: Hermes


Question:
'The two things required of you in the title of this song

"A brother took a monkey for a ride in the air /
The monkey thought that everything was on the square /
The brother tried to throw the monkey off his back /
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said, 'Now listen, Jack...'"'

Answer: "Straighten Up And Fly Right"


Question: 'Famed cube-ist Erno Rubik was born in this country'

Answer: Hungary


Question: 'The National Museum of Health & Medicine performed the autopsies on James Garfield & this assassin'

Answer: Charles Guiteau


Question: 'This phrase, meaning the prospect of relief after struggle, is reported as part of near-death experiences'

Answer: the light at the end of the tunnel


Question: 'Elvis Costello (another unknown Spaniard) sang, "Don't get smart or sarcastic, he snaps back just like" this'

Answer: El Astic


Question: 'This goddess was "mighty" fertile, bearing Harmonia, Aeneas & Eros, among others'

Answer: Aphrodite


Question:
'It's the travelin' lyric line that follows Nat singing here

"If you ever plan to motor west..."'

Answer: "Get Your Kicks On Route 66"


Question: 'This African country's name is from the Spanish for "Lion Mountains"'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'No myth, this Boston-born architect & father of "Age of Fable"'s Thomas helped design the U.S. Capitol'

Answer: Charles Bulfinch


Question: '"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light" is sung in this opus at Christmastime'

Answer: (Handel\'s) Messiah


Question: 'He was named for the quality that let him convince you of just about anything when he got up to make a speech'

Answer: El Oquent


Question: 'This Greek god's smoky workshop was supposed to be located beneath Mt. Etna'

Answer: Hephaestus


Question:
'6-word suggestion in the title of this hit

"There may be trouble ahead..."'

Answer: "Let\'s Face The Music And Dance"


Question: 'Now its own country, this former Yugoslav republic borders Italy near the city of Trieste'

Answer: Slovenia


Question: 'Caril Ann Fugate was the girlfriend of this Nebraska-born killer of the 1950s'

Answer: Charles Starkweather


Question: 'The Psalmist sayeth, "Thy word is" this (also an old CBS religious show) "and a light unto my path"'

Answer: "a lamp unto my feet"


Question: 'It was futile to try to capture or pin down the man with this name'

Answer: El Usive


Question: 'The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953'

Answer: James Bond


Question: 'Guinness says the oldest living one of these animals is 25-year-old Wil Cwac Cwac, not Daffy'

Answer: Duck


Question: 'A popular pet of the '90s, the name of this type of pig comes from its anatomy'

Answer: Pot-bellied pig


Question: 'Some prefer this side dish as a patty, others like the link'

Answer: Sausage


Question: 'In a 1985 video she was dressed like Marilyn Monroe; in a 1996 video, like Eva Peron'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'An oft-quoted cure for this is imagining your audience in their underwear'

Answer: Stage fright


Question: 'Over 86,535 feet long, the longest sculpture made out of this substance was created at Myrtle Beach'

Answer: Sand


Question: 'Don't be koi, it's the continent where these fish originated'

Answer: Asia


Question: 'A traditional Southern dish features these small quick breads smothered in redeye gravy'

Answer: Biscuits


Question: 'It's absolutely certain that this group seen here won a 1997 MTV Video Award'

Answer: No Doubt


Question: 'If you're showing no sign of emotion, you're keeping one of these'

Answer: Straight face


Question: 'Since 1900, Johann Hurlinger has held the record for most miles walked on these body parts: 870 miles'

Answer: Hands


Question: 'Like his buddy the Siberian husky, this Alaskan dog breed was bred to pull sleds'

Answer: Malamute


Question: 'For a few bucks at IHOP, you can get a plate full of these "coin-sized" pancakes'

Answer: Silver dollar pancakes


Question: 'She plays 4 different women in one car in her "Ironic" video'

Answer: Alanis Morissette


Question: 'This liquid's on tap, but only your doctor has backbone enough to get it'

Answer: Spinal fluid


Question: 'This word, used with "theory" & "mechanics", is from the Latin for "how much"'

Answer: Quantum


Question: 'At 1,290 feet below sea level, the world's lowest road lies along the shores of this sea'

Answer: Dead Sea


Question: 'Yum!  An Australian name for this pet bird is from an Aborigine word meaning "good eating"'

Answer: Budgerigar


Question: 'For a healthy breakfast, add some granola to this fermented dairy product made by Dannon & Knudsen'

Answer: Yogurt


Question: 'The video of the song heard here won this group 4 MTV Video Awards in 1997:<br />("Virtual Insanity")'

Answer: Jamiroquai


Question: 'This songwriter wrote the original version of the following:<br />("O Susanna")'

Answer: Stephen Foster


Question: 'It's the tendency of a body to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force'

Answer: Inertia


Question: 'The largest cut one of these green gems is a whopping 86,136 carats -- too big for a class ring'

Answer: Emerald


Question: 'Don't try to iron the coat of this Chinese dog breed; it's supposed to be wrinkled'

Answer: Shar Pei


Question: 'It's the 2-word Spanish name for tortillas topped with fried eggs & a layer of salsa'

Answer: Huevos rancheros


Question: 'Called the first video band, this group burst onto MTV with "Rio" & "Hungry Like the Wolf"'

Answer: Duran Duran


Question: 'It's in the either of the following:<br />(people in a line, or a lone folder)'

Answer: Single file


Question: 'This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction'

Answer: "The Color Purple"


Question: 'This "Supercop" actor is notorious for performing his own death-defying stunts'

Answer: Jackie Chan


Question: '"Das Rheingold", a one-act opera, serves as the prologue to this composer's "Ring" cycle'

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: 'The traditional home address of the British prime minister'

Answer: No. 10 Downing Street


Question:
'Spanish-American War,
French & Indian War,
U.S. Civil War'

Answer: French & Indian, U.S. Civil, Spanish-American


Question: 'Haiku have only / 17, but the older / tanka, 31'

Answer: Syllables


Question: '"You Can't Go Home Again" until you name this author who wrote it'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe


Question: 'This "Face/Off" director started the craze for Hong Kong gangster films with 1986's "A Better Tomorrow"'

Answer: John Woo


Question: 'Traditionally, a woman plays this mythological "heel" in Handel's opera "Deidamia"'

Answer: Achilles


Question: 'The Avenue of the Animals will lead you to the tombs of the Chinese emperors of this dynasty, 1368-1644'

Answer: Ming


Question:
'Telephone,
telegraph,
telescope'

Answer: Telescope, telegraph, telephone


Question: 'Shiki wrote that this / "enlightened one" does not blink / "as the hailstones fall"'

Answer: Buddha


Question: 'In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this'

Answer: Motorcycle Maintenance


Question: 'Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express" was imported to the U.S. by this "Jackie Brown" director'

Answer: Quentin Tarantino


Question: 'In a Russian opera, the city of Kitezh has this magical quality, like some ink & an H.G. Wells man'

Answer: Invisibility


Question: 'In Boston, the Prudential Tower is 52 stories & this insurance company's is 60'

Answer: John Hancock


Question:
'Taft,
Tyler,
Taylor'

Answer: Tyler, Taylor, Taft


Question: 'In a Japanese / haiku, a "blossom" almost / always is this tree's'

Answer: Cherry


Question: 'In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes "Run", "is Rich" & "at Rest"'

Answer: Rabbit


Question: 'She's credited as Michelle Khan on her Hong Kong films, but used this name for "Tomorrow Never Dies"'

Answer: Michelle Yeoh


Question: 'You have to be a baritone to play Cortez in Roger Sessions' opera about this emperor of the Aztecs'

Answer: Montezuma


Question: 'Haakon's Hall in Bergen is a relic of this country's medieval past'

Answer: Norway


Question:
'da Vinci,
Rembrandt,
Van Gogh'

Answer: da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh


Question: 'Warrior class that / brought haiku into flower / 4 centuries back'

Answer: Samurai


Question: 'Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a follow-up to his "Black Boy"'

Answer: Richard Wright


Question: 'A familiar face in Hong Kong, this actor made his U.S. debut in the film seen here<br />("The Replacement Killers")'

Answer: Chow Yun-fat


Question: '1935 American opera whose final scene features the following'

Answer: Porgy and Bess


Question: 'Paradise Bay, seen here, is on this continent that got its first ATM in 1997'

Answer: Antarctica


Question:
'Richard the Lion-Hearted,
Alfred the Great,
Henry VIII'

Answer: Alfred, Richard, Henry


Question: 'In a great haiku / by Basho, a poor boy grinds / this grain by moonlight'

Answer: Rice


Question: 'Pytho, the site of Apollo's oracle, was renamed this after Apollo appeared disguised as a sea creature'

Answer: Delphi


Question: 'Edmund Randolph helped draft & ratify the Constitution before becoming this man's Attorney General'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series in 4 straight games, finally exorcising this man's "curse"'

Answer: The Bambino (The Babe accepted)


Question: 'Also a Lone Star State lottery game, it's a numerical country dance'

Answer: the Texas Two-Step


Question: 'Eskimo boat'

Answer: kayak


Question: 'Born on Oct. 31, 1887 in the Zhejiang Province, he'd Taiwan-on in 1949'

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek


Question: 'A Louisiana man put $20 on a Circle-K counter, asked for change, then robbed the place for $15; he forgot about this'

Answer: the $20 he had put in


Question: 'A relative of Napoleon, Charles Bonaparte served as Navy Secretary in 1905 & later as Attorney General for this president'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: '"Say Hey"!  This Giants outfielder's catch of a Vic Wertz drive was a highlight of the 1954 World Series'

Answer: Willie Mays


Question: 'About 250 of these 2-named Western U.S. vultures survive in the world, most in captivity'

Answer: California condors


Question: 'A failed munition'

Answer: dud


Question: 'Born on March 18, 1869 in Birmingham, England, he appeased away 71 years later'

Answer: Neville Chamberlain


Question: 'A teen involved in a previous fireworks mishap tried to light gunpowder with this 9-letter metalworking aid'

Answer: a blowtorch


Question: 'This man appointed Harry Daugherty, who'd helped him become lt. gov. of Ohio & a U.S. senator as well as president'

Answer: Warren G. Harding


Question: 'In game one of the 1968 Series, this Cardinals pitcher struck out a record 17 Tigers'

Answer: Bob Gibson


Question: 'An American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers & producing brown eggs'

Answer: a Rhode Island red


Question: 'A title for an important Islamic leader; Khan you dig it?'

Answer: aga


Question: 'No truth to the rumor this Soviet leader's eyebrows added 5 lbs. to his Dec. 19, 1906 birth'

Answer: (Leonid) Brezhnev


Question: 'A man from this "Nutmeg State" ended a chase by ducking into a high-security prison, thinking it was a mall'

Answer: Connecticut


Question: 'A.G. Roger Taney wrote this president's speech announcing the veto of the bill renewing the Bank of the U.S.'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'This outfielder was named World Series MVP twice: with the Oakland A's in 1973 & with the Yankees in 1977'

Answer: Reggie Jackson


Question: '"Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing" this beautiful state song'

Answer: the "Tennessee Waltz"


Question: 'Muscle "cuff" that permits free shoulder movement'

Answer: rotator


Question: 'He made his very first exploration into the cold world on July 16, 1872 in Borge, near Oslo, Norway'

Answer: Amundsen


Question: 'Explosive habit!  A W.V. man lit a cigarette in an outhouse but forgot about the presence of this, aka marsh gas'

Answer: methane


Question: 'This Yankee catcher hit the 1st pinch-hit home run in Series history in '47; he hit 11 more homers in his Series career'

Answer: Yogi Berra


Question: '1854's Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this'

Answer: the Missouri Compromise


Question: 'Enemy of God in Ezekiel & Revelation'

Answer: Gog


Question: 'This painter was nude descending into the world on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, France'

Answer: (Marcel) Duchamp


Question: 'In '02 a boy in this westernmost cont. European country refused his soup until Mom let him play with a gun; yes, she survived'

Answer: Portugal


Question: 'A tear in this light-receptive layer at the back of the eye can cause it to detach from the underlying tissue'

Answer: the retina


Question:
'1997:
Agent J,
Agent K,
Chief Zed'

Answer: Men in Black


Question: 'In Act I her nurse & mother discuss her upcoming 14th birthday'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'This funny man & movie Santa Claus titled one of his books of musings "Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man"'

Answer: Tim Allen


Question: 'This mountain has additional named peaks that exceed 24,000 feet, including Lhotse & Changtse'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'In 1891 African-American jockey Isaac Murphy became the first man to win this horse race 3 times'

Answer: the Kentucky Derby


Question: 'A lack of iodine in the diet can cause a goiter, which is an enlargement of this gland that's just below the larynx'

Answer: a thyroid


Question:
'1978:
Bluto,
Otter,
Flounder,
D-Day'

Answer: Animal House


Question: 'She says of her husband, "His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love" (She was right)'

Answer: Desdemona


Question: 'Flash back to this event in 1974 where the famous photo seen here was taken'

Answer: the Oscars


Question: 'The name of Mexico's Popocatepetl means "smoking mountain" in the language of this people'

Answer: the Aztecs


Question: 'From a Chinese word meaning "skill", it's an ancient style of weaponless combat'

Answer: kung fu


Question: 'An angiogram may reveal one of these bulges in the wall of a blood vessel'

Answer: an aneurysm


Question:
'2005:
Paul Crewe,
Warden Hazen,
Cheeseburger'

Answer: The Longest Yard


Question: 'The Duke of Albany & the Duke of Cornwall are the husbands of these 2 sisters'

Answer: Goneril & Regan


Question: 'When Adam & Eve realized they were naked, they sewed these together to make aprons'

Answer: fig leaves


Question: 'The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for "fire"'

Answer: Mount Fuji


Question: 'For more than 1,000 years, this city served as the seat of Japan's imperial court'

Answer: Kyoto


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secret Jeopardy! science lab.)  It's the 11-letter adjective for  this type of medical application; the first approved use was for motion sickness'

Answer: transdermal


Question:
'1974:
The Waco Kid,
Hedley Lamarr,
Mongo'

Answer: Blazing Saddles


Question: 'Hurry up & name this character who makes bawdy puns during a Latin lesson in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"'

Answer: Mistress Quickly


Question: 'Taken by this woman, the last portrait of John Lennon shows him nude on a bed with a fully clothed Yoko Ono'

Answer: Annie Leibovitz


Question: 'Canada's 10 highest mountains lie totally or partly in this territory'

Answer: the Yukon Territory


Question: 'This melancholic philosopher & author of "Fear & Trembling" was a frail hunchback born in Denmark in 1813'

Answer: Kierkegaard


Question: 'In a severe case, this lateral curvature of the spine can cause a 90-degree displacement of the pelvis'

Answer: scoliosis


Question:
'1989:
Ray
& Annie Kinsella,
Moonlight Graham'

Answer: Field of Dreams


Question: 'She's the younger sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"'

Answer: Bianca


Question: 'Many speculate that the model for Goya's "The Naked Maja" was the duchess of this'

Answer: Alba


Question: 'Although it stands almost on the equator, this second-highest African peak is capped by 12 glaciers'

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: 'A famous book of medieval illuminated manuscripts bears the name of this town in Ireland's County Meath'

Answer: Kells


Question: 'His great-granddad wrote the best-seller "White Rose of Memphis", a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'It's the one-word title of Wyoming's state song'

Answer: "Wyoming"


Question: 'Verna Felton was the voice of the nice fairy godmother in "Cinderella" & the mean Queen of Hearts in this film'

Answer: Alice in Wonderland


Question: 'It's how the 1995 film with Alicia Silverstone as a girl named Cher should leave you'

Answer: Clueless


Question: 'University of Oklahoma'

Answer: Sooners


Question: 'Try washing these paired items, the most notorious for vanishing on laundry day, in mesh bags'

Answer: Socks


Question: 'Look up the name of this Dickens character, & you'll find it can mean any miserly person'

Answer: Scrooge


Question: 'This Calif. city's Transamerica Pyramid stands on the site of the Exchange Saloon where Mark Twain once imbibed'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'This aunt of George Clooney divorced Jose Ferrer the same day Dinah Shore divorced George Montgomery'

Answer: Rosemary Clooney


Question: 'Common translation of the Latin graecum est (to which is added non potest legi, "It cannot be read")'

Answer: "It\'s Greek to me"


Question: 'Texas A&M'

Answer: Aggies


Question: 'The symbol seen here tells you not to use whitening agents containing this:<br />(Cl)'

Answer: Bleach/chlorine


Question: 'Used in medical terms, the prefix derma- refers to this part of the body'

Answer: Skin


Question: 'When it's October, it's time for the World Dairy Expo in this state capital'

Answer: Madison, Wisconsin


Question: 'Kenneth Branagh was born in this capital of Northern Ireland in 1960'

Answer: Belfast


Question: '"Reply hazy try again" seems to be this globular future predictor's way of saying "I don't know"'

Answer: Magic 8-Ball


Question: 'Georgia Tech'

Answer: Yellow Jackets/Ramblin\' Wreck/Engineers


Question: 'You can do this to flowers; or to the flesh; or to laundry, with an iron'

Answer: Press


Question: 'Rubricate means to write or paint in this color'

Answer: Red (ruby)


Question: 'Confusingly, this state has a Charles Town & a Charleston (Charleston is the state capital)'

Answer: West Virginia


Question: 'This Roy Rogers co-star once stunned his fans by entering a NYC hotel lobby & signing the register himself'

Answer: Trigger


Question: 'If something is puzzling you & you can't "make" this out "of it", maybe it's a pushmi-pullyu'

Answer: Heads or tails


Question: 'Florida State'

Answer: Seminoles


Question: 'It can store dirty laundry or picnic food (the same word, perhaps not the same article)'

Answer: Hamper


Question: 'It's the 3-letter word for a sphere, the globe or an eyeball'

Answer: Orb


Question: 'This Alabama city is nicknamed the "Football Capital of the South"'

Answer: Birmingham


Question: 'No wonder Kiri Te Kanawa became an opera singer; she's a descendant of this noted partner of W.S. Gilbert'

Answer: Arthur Sullivan


Question: 'It's that French "I don't know what" expression for an indescribable quality'

Answer: Je ne sais quoi


Question: 'Michigan State'

Answer: Spartans


Question: '5 decades of design "waves" haven't much changed this detergent's box, with orange & yellow circles'

Answer: Tide


Question: 'I'm especially "partial" to this word for a line cut diagonally across the grain of a cloth'

Answer: Bias


Question: 'In 70-degree air, a plane traveling at about 1,130 feet per second breaks it'

Answer: Sound barrier


Question: 'Willie laid down the law as legendary marshal Elias Burch on episodes of this frontier medical series'

Answer: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman


Question: 'The young man seen here is one of many portraits by this Dutchman:'

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: '"The Mardi Gras City"'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'It's the play where you'll find the line "Alas, poor Yorick!  I knew him, Horatio"'

Answer: "Hamlet"


Question: 'This brand of frozen concentrate orange juice was introduced in the 1940s'

Answer: Minute Maid


Question: 'Scientists say the Earth has warmed about 9 degrees since the last of these frigid ages'

Answer: Ice Age


Question: 'Willie played a convict on furlough to help catch a crook on a 1997 episode of this Don Johnson series'

Answer: Nash Bridges


Question: 'An example of this 16th & 17th century master's distinctive distortion of figures is seen here:'

Answer: El Greco


Question: '"The City Without Clocks" & "The Gambler's Mecca"'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'This character asks, "Do you believe in fairies?...if you believe, clap your hands!"'

Answer: "Peter Pan"


Question: 'In 1992 k.d. lang had a Top 40 hit with this song'

Answer: "Constant Craving"


Question: 'In 1987 the Smithsonian celebrated the 300th anniversary of this scientist's "Principia"'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'It wasn't a stretch for Willie to be the voice of Willie Nelson on an episode of this cartoon about a Texas family'

Answer: King of the Hill


Question: 'It's his neck-bending depiction of the prophet Jeremiah seen here:'

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: '"Georgia's Second Oldest City" & "The Golf Capital of America"'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'She says, "I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road"'

Answer: Eliza Doolittle


Question: '(Hi, I'm Robin Roberts)  In a basketball game, bouncing the ball with both hands simultaneously is this violation'

Answer: Double dribbling


Question: 'It was this part of his wife's body that Wilhelm Roentgen X-rayed first'

Answer: Hand


Question: 'As country music star Buck Bonham, Willie is torn between Dyan Cannon & Amy Irving in this 1980 movie'

Answer: Honeysuckle Rose


Question: 'This artist's Virgin seen here is similar to a more famous painting by him:'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: '"The Marine Metropolis of Virginia" & "Vacationland, U.S.A."'

Answer: Norfolk


Question: 'He's the playwright who wrote, "I am not a dime a dozen!  I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!"'

Answer: Arthur Miller


Question: 'Sisters Marianne & Elinor Dashwood get married at the end of this novel by Jane Austen'

Answer: "Sense and Sensibility"


Question: 'In 1995 scientists in Switzerland created atoms of this substance that may not exist naturally in our universe'

Answer: Antimatter


Question: 'Willie Nelson made his movie debut as Robert Redford's manager in this 1979 movie'

Answer: The Electric Horseman


Question: '"Arresting" 19th century landscape master whose work is seen here:'

Answer: John Constable


Question: '"The Home of 'Ole Miss'"'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'Experimental play containing the line "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"'

Answer: "Waiting for Godot"


Question: 'E.M. Forster got the title "A Passage to India" from one of his poems'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: 'This country's leaders have included Yusof Bin Ishak, Benjamin Sheares & Lee Kuan Yew'

Answer: Singapore


Question: 'Opochtli was a left-handed god of tools in the religion of this people aka the Mexica'

Answer: the Aztecs


Question: '1992: As the voice of the genie'

Answer: Aladdin


Question: 'The dried leaves of the Raffia palm are often used to make these traditional hula garments'

Answer: skirts


Question: 'Locomotives built for the Panama Canal were called these; they took jobs from hybrid animals that towed barges elsewhere'

Answer: mules


Question: 'In the Harry Potter novels, they're your average non-magical humans'

Answer: muggles


Question: 'The website incorporated a double helix into its logo on the 50th anniversary of understanding DNA'

Answer: Google


Question: 'The Celtic god Ogmios, who carried a bow & a club, is identified with this similarly armed Roman muscleman'

Answer: Hercules


Question: '2006: Robin as Teddy Roosevelt, who comes to the aid of a security guard'

Answer: Night at the Museum


Question: '"Stubbies" is Aussie slang for this type of pants'

Answer: shorts


Question: 'In 1922 Warren Harding said that this "gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down simple living"'

Answer: the automobile


Question: 'This style of music has been described as fusing "Motown soul to Caribbean rhythm & political sensibilities"'

Answer: reggae


Question: 'Yodel Anecdotal is the name of this website's corporate blog'

Answer: Yahoo!


Question: 'Ogoun is the god of fire in this Haitian religion derived from an African word meaning "deity"'

Answer: Voodoo


Question: '1997: As absent-minded professor Philip Brainard, who invents a rubber-like substance'

Answer: Flubber


Question: 'These men's shoes that share their name with a British university are also known as Balmorals'

Answer: Oxfords


Question: '(Cheryl of the clue crew gives the clue from a raft in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador) Am in the Galapagos coming to the shore in a Zodiac raft; the Zodiac gained popularity when this French oceanographer used it to go where the Calypso couldn't'

Answer: (Jacques) Cousteau


Question: 'Not just a tangible lump of gold or such, it can also be a small bit of wisdom or information'

Answer: a nugget


Question: 'You can keep up with the "Jeopardy!" clue crew on this social networking site'

Answer: Facebook


Question: 'Omoikane is the god of wisdom in this indigenous Japanese religion'

Answer: Shinto


Question: '1993: Robin was Daniel Hillard, who disguised himself as a housekeeper'

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire


Question: 'Shakespeare used this term derived from the German to speak to a man's stockings, not a garden device'

Answer: hose


Question: 'The Precedent is a model of this small sporting vehicle that also moves people around retirement villages'

Answer: a golf cart


Question: 'A cluster of people, or more commonly, a flock of geese'

Answer: a gaggle


Question: 'There's Craigslist & her list named for Ms. Hicks, who was frustrated when trying to find a good contractor'

Answer: Angie\'s List


Question: 'His steed Sleipnir had 8 legs & could really gallop across the sky'

Answer: Odin


Question: '2009: Robin & John Travolta have to take care of 7-year old twins'

Answer: Old Dogs


Question: 'Houdini had an easy time getting out of these pants parts the Brits call "turn-ups"'

Answer: cuffs


Question: 'The typing one of these fast 19th century ships is seen here'

Answer: a clipper


Question: 'In 2009 this NYC landmark celebrated its 50th anniv. with an exhibition on its designer, Frank Lloyd Wright'

Answer: the Guggenheim museum


Question: 'It's name sounds like a sharp cry, but this website offers reviews by real people of local businesses & restaurants'

Answer: Yelp


Question: 'In 1962 he "return"ed to West Point to give an emotional speech on "Duty, Honor, Country"'

Answer: Douglas MacArthur


Question: '(Jane Curtin gives the clue) I'm never "Kind of Blue" when my iPOD's playing the album of that title by this great trumpeter, also featuring John Coltrane'

Answer: Miles Davis


Question: 'Appropriately, James Patterson followed up "Roses are Red" with this next Alex Cross mystery'

Answer: Violets are Blue


Question: 'Houston (also San Francisco)'

Answer: The Chronicle


Question: 'From the Greek for "fear" or "panic", it's an irrational fear of some particular object or situation'

Answer: a phobia


Question: 'This deadly spider is found in most parts of the world, including Australia, where it is called the Redback'

Answer: the Black Widow


Question: 'In 2010 this class of '74 man was named Commander of U.S. & NATO forces in Afghanistan'

Answer: (David) Petraeus


Question: '(Cheech Marin gives the clue) It sound weird and then it sounded great when this Led Zeppelin legend teamed up with bluegrass star Alison Krauss on the album "Raising Sand"'

Answer: Robert Plant


Question: 'In a classic children's book, a girl lives for years by herself on this title island'

Answer: Island of the Blue Dolphins


Question: 'Cleveland, Ohio'

Answer: The Plain Dealer


Question: 'This 10-letter term used by doctors for any number of skin inflammations is from the Greek word for "skin"'

Answer: dermatitis


Question: 'Common in the U.S., this venomous Brown Spider is named for its habit of living in undisturbed locales, like attics'

Answer: the brown recluse


Question: 'This Virginian graduated second in his class in 1829 but quit the U.S. Army in 1861'

Answer: (Robert E.) Lee


Question: '(Pat Sajak gives the clue) I enjoy the music & the message of this electropop band that got its name from a French fashion magazine -- because, you know, people are people'

Answer: Depeche Mode


Question: 'This astronomer penned "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space"'

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: 'Charlotte, North Carolina'

Answer: The Observer


Question: 'Hold on to your shorts -- this building for exercises & playing sports is from the Greek for "to train naked"'

Answer: a gymnasium


Question: 'Named for a predatory mammal, these spiders of the family Lycosidae are found north of the Arctic Circle'

Answer: the Wolf spider


Question: '(Charles Shaughnessy gives the clue) If you want to know why I love this "Homicidal" Vegas rock band, look on "Mr. Brightside"'

Answer: The Killers


Question: 'This gun-loving rocker has a "manifesto" called "Ted, White, and Blue"'

Answer: Ted Nugent


Question: 'Indianapolis'

Answer: The Star


Question: 'This pardon, especially for political offenses against government, is from a Greek word for "forgetting"'

Answer: an amnesty


Question: 'Common in tropical regions, this spider constructs burrows lined with silk & spins a hinged barrier at the entrance'

Answer: the Trapdoor spider


Question: '(Doug Savant gives the clue) If my voice sounds smokier than usual, I've been listening to the music of this troubadour, also an actor in movies like "Down by Law"'

Answer: Tom Waits


Question: '"A Pair of Blue Eyes" is one of this author's "Wessex novels"'

Answer: Thomas Hardy


Question: 'Portland (the one in Multnomah County)'

Answer: The Oregonian


Question: 'The name of this month may derive from that of the Greek goddess of love'

Answer: April


Question: 'Found in North and South America, this spider is named for the shape of the web seen here'

Answer: the funnel-web spider (funnel spider accepted)


Question: 'In 1790 the USA's 1st law governing this protection gave it a term of 14 years; today it can extend well over a century'

Answer: copyright


Question: 'This symbol perverted by the Nazis is seen on ancient Greek coins'

Answer: Swastika


Question: 'The Clampetts, formerly of the Ozarks'

Answer: The Beverly Hillbillies


Question: 'The Gulf War was triggered by the occupation of this country'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: 'Rhode Island College was renamed this in 1804 after a colorful grad of the Class of 1786'

Answer: Brown University


Question: 'Measuring volume, not weight, Gay-Lussac & Humboldt found the proportions in this formula for water'

Answer: H2O


Question: 'Porpoises don't need diplomas to swim in groups called these (neither do fish)'

Answer: Schools


Question: '"Athletic" name of this 5th century B.C. sculpture by Myron:'

Answer: "The Discus Thrower"


Question: 'The Keatons of Columbus, Ohio'

Answer: Family Ties


Question: 'In May 1995 Dow Corning declared bankruptcy, saying suits over these were making it go bust'

Answer: Breast implants


Question: 'This Boston college was named for preacher Charles Wesley, not poet Ralph Waldo'

Answer: Emerson


Question: 'Common adjective for water whose dissolved salts make it difficult to lather'

Answer: Hard water


Question: 'Lions must have a lot of self-esteem because this is the term for a group of them'

Answer: Pride


Question: 'This alloy was the favorite of sculptors in the Classical period, but few original examples survive'

Answer: Bronze


Question: 'The Carringtons of Denver, Colorado'

Answer: Dynasty


Question: 'Introduced in 1990, it's the bestselling SUV of the decade'

Answer: Ford Explorer


Question: 'In 1967 Mellon Institute merged with the college founded by this industrialist'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'From the Latin for "water", it's the type of structure seen here:'

Answer: Aqueduct


Question: 'Of a winter, a spring or a summer, the correct term for a group of teals'

Answer: Spring


Question: 'The Temple of Zeus at Olympia included a 12-part series depicting these mythical efforts'

Answer: Labors of Hercules


Question: 'The Taylors of Mayberry & the Taylors of Detroit'

Answer: The Andy Griffith Show & Home Improvement


Question: 'In September 1995 the Washington Post published the manifesto of the terrorist nicknamed this'

Answer: "The Unabomber"


Question: 'You can study everything from theater to theology, but not dentistry, at the Tulsa university he founded in 1963'

Answer: Oral Roberts


Question: 'The "radiation" type of this condensed water vapor is formed by cooling of the earth & burns off quickly'

Answer: Fog


Question: 'Every Capricorn should know a group of these ruminants is called a tribe'

Answer: Goats


Question: 'The Parthenon was a major source for the marble works this lord brought back to England'

Answer: Lord Elgin


Question: 'The Robinsons of the Jupiter II'

Answer: Lost in Space


Question: 'ESPN's X Games debuted in 1995 under this slightly longer title'

Answer: Extreme Games


Question: 'In 1982 this former U.S. president founded his own center at Emory University'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'From Dutch for "salt", it's a term used of standing water with a salty, unpleasant taste'

Answer: Brackish


Question: 'It's the "homicidal" term for a flock of crows'

Answer: Murder


Question: 'Standing 630 feet high, it's the tallest structure in St. Louis'

Answer: Gateway Arch


Question:
'1995:
"The Virginia Company",
"Colors of the Wind"'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'Elwyn Brooks...'

Answer: E.B. White


Question: 'Launched in 1974, this tasty spirit combines fresh dairy cream with triple-distilled Irish whiskey'

Answer: Bailey\'s Irish Cream


Question: 'It's the traditional "rock" for an engagement ring'

Answer: Diamond


Question: 'It was the Selective Service System classification for a person who was unfit for active duty'

Answer: 4-F


Question: 'The attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 Americans, almost half of them on this ship that's now a memorial'

Answer: U.S.S. Arizona


Question:
'1965:
"You're Gonna Lose That Girl",
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"'

Answer: Help!


Question: 'Alfred Edward...'

Answer: A.E. Housman


Question: 'Traditionally, they're the 2 sauces that spice up a Bloody Mary'

Answer: Tabasco & Worcestershire


Question: 'This rock seen here makes for a nice set of beads:'

Answer: Turquoise


Question: 'The spice he added to the role of Salieri won him an Oscar'

Answer: F. Murray Abraham


Question: 'John Wilkes Booth's diary is on display at this Washington, D.C. theatre'

Answer: Ford\'s Theatre


Question:
'1992:
"I'm Every Woman",
"I Will Always Love You"'

Answer: The Bodyguard


Question: 'Edgar Laurence...'

Answer: E.L. Doctorow


Question: 'This cognac-based "Grand" liqueur is flavored with bitter orange peel'

Answer: Grand Marnier


Question: 'It's shiny & black & the hardest of all coals'

Answer: Anthracite


Question: 'Just one of these aerosol or refrigerant molecules can destroy up to 100,000 ozone molecules'

Answer: CFCs


Question: 'Family memorabilia can be found at this author's parents' "Little House" in De Smet, South Dakota'

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder


Question:
'1983:
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine",
"Good Lovin'",
"Joy to the World"'

Answer: The Big Chill


Question: 'Edward Morgan...'

Answer: E.M. Forster


Question: 'Mix vodka & Kahlua & you'll have this colorful classic'

Answer: Black Russian


Question: 'Lazurite is the chief mineral of this decorative blue rock used since ancient times'

Answer: Lapis lazuli